Steve Bannon and guests dissect the Middle East conflict, alleging a domestic "enemy within" of 5 million Muslims following Sharia law while debating Iran's imminent nuclear threat. The conversation shifts to Senate maneuvers under the Save America Act, where Ted Stutesman separates voter ID provisions for a critical vote against Democrats, whom Bannon labels the "Warren Posse." Simultaneously, Natalie Winters argues for a 20-year immigration moratorium based on claims that H-1B visas depress wages and facilitate corporate exploitation. Ultimately, the episode frames these domestic political battles as essential defenses against perceived external and internal subversion. [Automatically generated summary]
We can get into those details on a classify setting, but I work with my colleagues across the spectrum here to give me advance warnings so that we can reinforce them.
With that knowledge, why did you fire at least a dozen agents in Counterintelligence Unit 12 that specializes in Iran counterintelligence, which makes us much less secure and safe with this war going on from Iranian attacks potentially against our country?
As I said earlier, Congressman, I don't work on timelines when these terminations occur.
There are internal investigations conducted by the careers at the FBI that highlight unethical or inappropriate conduct, and it's up to me to make the decision.
But our Iran threats mission center has never been more resourced, as I've highlighted a 43% increase in counter-espionage arrests from Iran alone and 360 ongoing terrorism investigations with Iran-affiliated.
People were terminated for violating their ethical obligations and the high standards of the U.S. Was the ethical violations that they dealt with the case of the classified documents that were found at the bathroom in Mar-a-Lago.
Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much, you know, when we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.
I think that what has to be done is to have alternative routes.
Instead of going through the choke points of the Hormuz Straits and the Babil Mandib Straits, in order to have the flow of oil, just have oil pipelines, gas pipelines, going west through the Arabian Peninsula, right up to Israel, right up to our Mediterranean ports, and you've just done away with the choke points forever.
That is definitely possible, Sud.
I see that as a real change that will follow this war.
But I also see this war ending a lot faster than people think.
And the fact that we're working together, America is not fighting for Israel.
America is fighting with Israel.
I could tell you that we're working to create the conditions for it to collapse.
But it may survive.
It may not.
If it survives, it'll be a lot weaker.
There's no comparison.
Will be at its weakest point, shorn of industries that it built over decades, death industries, shorn of many other capabilities that they have, and equipped with the experience, with the knowledge that if they try it again, they'll be hit again even harder.
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Did I see brief the president on who would succeed the Supreme Leader if he was killed and the likelihood that our placement would be a hardliner?
Was the president did the IC brief the president on who would succeed the Supreme Leader if he was killed and the likelihood that our placement would be a hardliner or could be a hardliner?
Fact number one: Israel acted alone against the Slawia gas compound.
Fact number two: President Trump asks us to hold off on future attacks, and we're holding out.
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Prime Minister, given the escalation of attacks on U.S. allies across the Gulf, given the spiraling energy costs, the high costs in general that the U.S. service personnel killed in this war, many Americans are asking that question: whether you misled their government into starting this war, and for how long should Americans keep paying the price?
Well, I misled no one, and I didn't have to convince President Trump about the need to prevent Iran from developing its nuclear program, putting it underground, and being able to launch nuclear-tipped missiles at the United States.
He understood that.
He explained it to me.
I didn't explain it to him.
And I think that our partnership is the only way to avoid this catastrophic development.
On the Senate, there are, I guess, debating moving forward with the Save America Act.
We've got Senator Tuberville here, tons of action in the war.
Another night of the heaviest bombing, going to be another one tonight, we are told.
But this thing's broadening out now.
Qatar has put people on notice.
They may implement, they may call for force majeure for up to five-year contracts on delivery of gas to the Middle East.
We're getting all that.
Senator Tuberville has joined us.
And Senator Tuberville, before I get to the SAVE Act and before I get to the war, because we always want your ideas and opinions about kinetic activity and kind of the strategy, I want to go back.
You put out a, I think, a tweet where you said controversial people's heads blew up about the enemies inside the gate.
You had a picture, if we can put that up, you had a picture of the Twin Towers, which you almost never see anymore, 25 years after it on fire being attacked.
And then Mondame in City Hall under a portrait of General Washington On the prayer rugs, uh, having a staff meeting.
We're fighting a major war now in the Middle East about topics related to radical Islamic theology.
We're down in Texas.
We've been in Texas and other places in the West working on this situation with the Muslim invasion of the United States of America.
When you say the enemy's inside the gate, what do you mean by that?
Senator, you've been one of the strongest allies, proponents of President Trump and his policies, and particularly this issue about closing the border and then figuring out and going through this deportation effort.
The principal topic besides closing the board of President Trump won in 2024.
Mark Wayne Mullins was before the Senate yesterday on DHS and said, hey, his policy is going to be judicial warrants to go into any business or any home where they're not actually in the full pursuit of a bad guy, a bad ombre.
How does that link back to your, hey, we're at war here.
And we got 20 or 25 million illegals just on Biden's watch, which was done on purpose.
This whole shutdown of DHS, the whole problem we got with the budget, the whole polarization in the imperial capital is about this.
At the same time, that, and you've been one of the biggest deficit hawks.
The Penny Department of War, Pete Hicks, who we're a big supporter of Pete and love Pete, sends over a $200 billion bill for Tommy Tupperville and other peoples to suck on.
Is somehow this thing like not focus on what we should be focused on?
Well, Steve, there's so many things out there that makes everybody's head spin up here.
I mean, we're talking about, we've got these gookballs on the Democrat side that they can't do simple things like fund the government.
They can't fund DHS or FEMA or the Coast Guard.
It's just absolutely amazing.
We should get all these block and tackling things out of the way, the fundamentals, and really work on the problems in this country, which is enemy within the gate, the wars we're having in Iran, the terrorism, the things that are going on there.
But it's hard to do that up here.
And now, you know, I was with the president all day yesterday.
I went to Delaware.
We had a kid that was in that crash of the 135 over in Iraq.
And so they brought the bodies home yesterday.
I went with him and we talked a lot.
But Pete Hesker was there.
General Kane, first time I'd really been able to sit down other than classified, and just talk to him.
And, you know, they feel good about everything going on.
I'm just glad that people like the Secretary of War and General Kane can get away from this nonsense that the Democrats are putting us through and focus on their job.
And that's been awesome, I think, that their action can focus on whether it's Venezuela, Cuba, or Iran.
And they're doing a great job.
And they got, just listen to their plan.
They have a hell of a plan.
And it's a total changeover than what we had during Joe Biden.
I mean, these people actually have been planning for months, doing things and making tremendous progress.
So again, I don't, up here, we don't get a lot done.
We talk a lot and we speak loud.
We bark loud, but we don't do a lot for the American people, unfortunately.
One thing you guys could do is the Save America Act.
Are you confident?
Where do we stand?
We're going to cut, we're staying here live till seven tonight, like we've done every night this week, to cut into live coverage of what's happening on the floor.
We're not going to go home until we get all this matter put to bed, so to speak.
My amendment is, as President Trump wanted, was this is the fourth time I put it on the floor.
No men and women's sports should never have been a problem to begin with.
But obviously, as I will tell the Democrats when I'm talking about this before we vote, this helped beat you last time.
Keep voting against it because we'll beat you with it again if you think men should play in women's sports.
But the thing about this whole weekend is we don't have the vote, Steve.
We don't have the votes even on the Republican side.
We couldn't get a 51 vote if we needed to.
We'll be three or four votes short.
And then if you needed 60 votes, if you're counting on the Democrats to vote for anything for the American people to make this country better, you're living a dream.
I just want to hold you to a quick commercial break because I do have some questions on the Save America Act.
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And folks, we're in our fourth turning.
Plenty of turbulence.
Senator Tommy Tubberville from the great state of Alabama on the other side.
We're going to be on the Senate floor, maybe for some of this hour, definitely for the six o'clock hour as this debate goes on on the Save America Act.
Senator Tubberville, you said on Saturday you're going to get a chance to put your amendment up that President Trump once added to this about men and women's sports.
And then you said Sunday again, we're going to be covering it just to give our audience head up.
We now do a Sunday show, so we'll be covering all this.
Is this when we finally flip to seize the floor and go to some sort of talking filibuster?
I mean, you kind of shocked the audience by saying, hey, guys, pay attention.
We don't have 51 votes.
If the Democrats turned to us right now and said, okay, no filibuster, go ahead and vote.
You're saying we don't have 51 right now on the Republican side to carry this, sir?
I think he was there D-Day Plus a couple of days, and then it was with Patton and the other armies that went across Europe.
That experience you had to go back for the first time and see actually the scale of what your father and others had accomplished, how is that informing your view now about what is going on and what are we asking of young men and women in Iran?
You've seen Utah Beach, which is not near as an incline as the other beaches.
And that's the reason my dad was a tank driver and they came on to Utah Beach because they could make it up the slopes.
But, you know, we lost, what, 50,000 young men and women during that couple, two or three, three-day battle.
It just brings tears to your eyes.
It really does.
And, you know, that's the reason I really dread, if anything, if we get into any ground war, because I think we can handle what we need to handle with what we're doing right now.
And President Trump believes that too.
He doesn't want any form or fashion of boots on the ground.
But at the end of the day, we all got to be in on whatever it takes to put these people back in their place because they are as dangerous right now as the Nazis were back in 1940s.
I mean, you hear some talk about why, why are we doing this?
Because most people aren't really informed.
They don't understand all the attacks that we've had.
This is accumulation, as you well know, Steve, of many, many years of all the different terrorist groups around the world that are funded by Iran and China and some of these people behind the scenes.
And we've got to cut the head of the snake.
And you're in my lifetime.
This will be the only chance we have to do that.
A lot of people saying it's because of Israel.
It's probably some about Israel, but it's more about peace in the world because President Trump started in the Western Hemisphere with Venezuela.
Obviously, Cuba is working on Mexico.
But what's going on in Iran, these people are absolutely loonytoons.
And if they ever got a nuclear weapon, whether they were working on one or got closer to one, I don't care.
I just want to make sure, and the people of this country and the world need to make sure that these crazies do not have any kind of access to a dirty bomb or a nuclear weapon.
If they do, they will damn sure use it.
I mean, they're not like North Koreans.
They're not like the Russians.
They are crazy because they love death and they preach death to America every day.
Always appreciate your straightforwardness and honesty.
Natalie Winters.
We started with Coach Tuberville talking about he put up a tweet the other day about the enemy's inside the gate, right?
About he had the twin towers and he had Mamdani on a prayer rug in front of, I think, the portrait of George Washington at the New York City Hall, wasn't Gracie Mansion City Hall.
You've had some people come after you pretty hard recently about some of the positions, some of the analysis, because you're not a pundit, some of the analyses you've been doing on exactly the situation in the United States of America with illegal aliens and legal immigration, ma'am.
But look, I think you can really connect all of this, right?
Whether it's this idea that we have to combat Islamophobia, that seems to be the new woke obsession by just pointing out, I don't know, the simple fact that Islam is not a religion of peace.
And even if it were, it's antithetical to Western values.
But you compound that with, I'm sure, we'll play the clip of the way the legacy media is already churning the propaganda machine, trying to make Americans feel sympathetic for, you know, Afghan refugees who are now caught up in the Iran war, who now need to suddenly come to the United States.
Because I'm sure an Afghan soldier never lied once to get refugee or citizenship status here in the United States in the asylum process.
And then you link it, I think, to what's going on in Iran, the lively discussions that the MAGA movement is having about what it means to use American state power and battlefields abroad.
And I love Senator Tuberville, but I would respectfully say that I think it does matter the calculus of why went into Iran.
If it is somewhat, even just somewhat related to Israel's actions, I think that that's something that merits further discussion and a question into, not because I'm conspiratorially anti-Israel, but because America first means America first.
And I think that that chain of command, that order of decision making is something that merits more analysis.
And frankly, I do care whether it's, you know, Iran had a bomb or was really close to a bomb or they were going to be a dirty bomb.
Now all of a sudden it's not a nuclear bomb.
You know, I think there's a lot of questions that people are allowed to ask, and it's kind of an interesting pushback when you just want more clarity.
But I think the H-1B visa issue, which is what will also play a clip on a rather funny segment from a pretty awful comedian trying to suggest that MAGA should support H-1B visas and attacking this show as leading the kind of fight to say that actually H-1B is really not even immigration policy,
it's shareholder policy to help boost the bottom line of companies that hate this country, unless I guess they can get, you know, quadruple the contracts from the Pentagon in light of a new war.
But all of this stuff flows together.
And obviously, our audience stays frosty, they see through it.
But there's a lot of, I think, propaganda right now between the Islam stuff, the refugee appeal to all the emotions.
Obviously, this audience isn't going to fall for it.
But very valid questions, I think, about America's role in the world.
And I will say, interesting polling coming out today about how more allies want to rely on China than the United States.
I want to play, I'm going to wait after the break to play all.
I was going to play one of them here, but I want to hold for it.
You born very early in this, when I say very early, and I think we're coming up on the third week of it, that you can't discount the refugee replacement and how this could be a total fiasco.
Do you feel, as someone that does investigative reporting, stays on top of this, do you feel given the scale of what this war could have?
You've got the situation with the canceling, potentially canceling of five-year gas contracts.
You've got the situation with refugees.
Now they're talking about, I think Bibi today at his press conference talked about potential ground troops.
Do you think the information's coming out enough that people can make judgments and the war impossibly can sit there and weigh and measure?
We got about a minute.
Can weigh and measure exactly what's going to see if they were answered, asked by a pollster that they would actually have enough information to answer?
I mean, I think if you just single out the refugee issue, the only agency that I've seen even giving us numbers is the United Nations.
Very rarely do I uncritically or unironically quote the United Nations, but unfortunately, they're the only people on the ground even doing the analysis.
And even the numbers that they're putting forward are to the tune of millions of people, even hundreds of thousands, and the small country of Lebanon alone.
And I think the point is the reason why there's such an opposition to forever wars, I'm aware this is not a forever war, it's been a few weeks, but it's the second, third, and fourth order effects of getting involved in Muslim-majority regions.
They fight to the death.
They hate this country.
That also means you can't have unconditional surrender from an Islamic country, let alone with the evolution and drone warfare.
But from a crazy, radicalized Muslim state, we're going to be dealing with these sleeper cells and refugee replacement for decades to come.
Muslims around the world reaffirm values that also form the foundation of UN Charter.
Empathy for the vulnerable, generosity towards neighbors, and responsibility towards the wider community.
These universal principles must guide our global response to hatred and division.
On this international day to combat Islamophobia, let us recommit to the equality, human rights, and dignity of every person everywhere.
Let us reject the narratives of fear and exclusion.
And let us work together to eradicate the rising tide of anti-Muslim hatred and bigotry and build a world rooted in respect, inclusion, justice, and peace.
So that's the leader of United Nations speaking on the, I guess, International Day to Combat Islamophobia, which in and of itself is an oxymoron.
I think it's a totally justified fear.
It's not a phobia.
But I think you're seeing a sort of resurgence of what are very 2016 era talking points, sort of in response, frankly, to what this audience has been doing, which is calling out the threat of Sharia supremacy, the metastasization of Islam through this country.
So to sort of quell or suppress that discourse, what do they do?
And I think that that's actually really quite a dangerous development when you look at the national security implications, particularly when it comes to things like, you know, oh, it's racial profiling, right?
All these euphemistic, or I guess the opposite, the inverse of that terms to describe what is just protecting the national security of the United States.
I think we can spare a little bit of diversity to make sure that, you know, young American children aren't blown up in the name of Allah.
But it's quite interesting when you look at what the UN is doing, which I think you can always sort of look to them as a figurehead for what the globalists are seeking to do in all of these countries.
They are launching or getting ready to launch a new UN action plan to combat Islamophobia.
And one of their special envoy was talking about what exactly that would entail.
And even for the UN, it's pretty radical, including, but not limited to what they describe as addressing the quote root causes of hatred and using quote education of the schools, media, and full public.
Also using legislative issues, legislation to try to, I don't know, root out not just Islamophobia, but the attitude of Islamophobia, which when you really unpack that, that's pretty wild.
They're already talking and in talks with the tech platform, civil society, to sort of put out this censorship regime to, again, suppress Islamophobic content, which we've all seen.
You can't even really define that.
That's basically anything that's not like, let's open our borders to a bunch of third world invaders and watch the United States turn into an Islamic country.
But they even talk about how they can monitor better the rise of Islamophobia by using quote databases to follow up with more concrete steps.
So I think this happening congruently with what's going on in the Middle East, when you could potentially see a huge refugee wave incoming, you're already going to start seeing the argument that, you know, it's Islamophobic to not let in the millions of refugees from Muslim-majority countries.
Now, the Republican battle over H-1Bs has two sides.
On one side is the corporate tech MAGA, the ones who all lined up at Trump's inauguration and funneled money into his slush fund.
They argue that H-1B visas are critical to allow them to hire the kind of top-tier talent that they need to make sure America remains a world leader in innovation.
They have a strong case.
Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
And a recent report found that over half of U.S. startups valued at a billion dollars or more had at least one immigrant founder.
Now, on the other side are the opponents to the H-1B, the nativist wing of MAGA.
Now, when most people think of this group, they think of Steve Bannon, the guy who did for all of Canvas Jackets what Hillary Clinton did for the pantsuit.
Bannon has been on one about H-1Bs for a long time.
Immigration is both an economic issue, but also a cultural issue, right?
We want to deport these people, not just because they're depriving Americans of their wages, of their jobs, but also what they're doing to the cultural fabric, what they're doing to these neighborhoods.
So instead of appealing to a sense of solidarity and fighting for economic security and dignity for all Americans, MAGA is appealing to a zero-sum mentality and saying, if we kick out the boat Browns and the airport Browns, well, guess what?
We'll have more to ourselves.
And this reveals what MAGA really means when it says merit.
Yeah, you earn it through hard work and education, but if you're born here and your parents were born here, you get extra merit points for being a heritage American.
It's basically Kendall Roy at the end of succession screaming, I'm the eldest boy.
You can call this racial entitlement, you can call it white nationalism, but I call it white valedictorianism.
We all know this.
The valedictorian in every school, if you go on grades alone, is the Chinese kid.
It's always the Chinese kid.
It will always be the Chinese kid.
But MAGA's like, no!
Just keep going down the list.
Go through the Chinese kid, the Vietnamese kid, the Korean kid, the Indian kid, the Pakistani kid, the Bengali kid, back to the Chinese kid.
Just keep going until you get to the white one.
The 13th place guy, that's the valedictorian.
As much as MAGA and Republicans claim they want merit, they don't.
As much as they claim they just want to hire the best, most hardworking immigrants, they don't.
What they really want is a preferential treatment for being heritage Americans.
They're not enforcing meritocracy.
They're enforcing hierarchy, almost like a caste system, which is the most Indian thing they could be doing.
By the way, I was the follow-on speaker to Vivek's Heritage American speech back in December at Turning Point.
I might mention Vivek, who was on quite a roll with, you know, you got to stop sleepovers because you got to study 24-7, which really kind of misses the point of what's made this country great.
Vivek, I think, is down 10 points in the last poll I saw and is dragging down the Senate candidates of Sherry Brown, a populist economic populist looks like he's going to win.
Natalie, they've singled you out.
I think they've singled you out because your career is totally about merit.
You've grinded through one of the toughest prep schools in the country, went to University of Chicago three years.
You graduate at the same time you held down being an investigative reporter for us and really, I think, being the most serious investigative reporter about the warfare of the Chinese Communist Party against the United States of America.
Your overall observations as now you are singled out, ma'am, as somebody that's, and I want to say it's not just H-1B visas.
I'm all for a 10-year.
I believe we need a 10-year moratorium in this country immediately on all immigration, all of it.
The whole thing's a scam.
It's all rotten to the core of it.
We take in a million a year officially, but it's got with all the different rules and regulations, you're really taking in millions a year, right?
If not tens of millions a year.
And we've got 25 million illegal alien invaders here off of Biden.
Of course, our new kung fu fighter, DHS, says he only wants judicial warrants until we can go into any business.
Didn't talk about E-Verify, talk about a judicial warrant for you going to business.
No, bro, that's not the way it's going to work.
We'll never agree to that.
No one will ever agree to that.
So, Natalie, I think our position here is much harder than the H-1B.
And the H-1B, everybody knows it's completely corrupt.
And the people that know it the most are the people in India that run the corrupt system, ma'am.
Well, Steve, I think you're going a little woke if you only want a moratorium for 10 years.
I think we got to do at least 20.
But I will say, I love that video with the false pretense, the predicate being that the American people, i.e. MAGA, have ever had a say in what this country's immigration policy is.
Anytime there's actually been the chance to have a referendum on immigration when you put the donors to the side like Trump in 2016, overwhelmingly they want to build the wall and get mass deportations, right?
Those are the most popular slogans.
But this idea of merit is just so astronomically false.
I always love sort of talking about the actual numbers because there's this idea, right?
The best and the brightest, as he kept saying, well, when you actually look at the numbers and like they play this sort of shell game with the numbers, so the American people don't understand how quickly they're being replaced.
But about 87% of the H-1B people who are coming in, the data going back to around 2015, they're at the bottom two percentiles, the 17th percentile wage and then the 34th percentile wage of people in this country.
So you're not importing the best and the brightest when you're paying them the least salary that could possibly exist.
And when you look at the levels that they're importing, so it's not just obviously corporations, you know, scamming these people, paying them, you know, basically slave labor wages, 52% were at level one, 30% were at level two, just 12% were at level three, and just 6% We're at the highest level, right?
And that's the government accountability office.
So that's not, you know, crazy right-wing data.
And when you look at what the share of foreign versus native-born workers are in the IT sector now, over half of all STEM and IT jobs are going to people who are born outside of the country.
And when you look at this, I mean, these corporations save on average, you know, around $20,000 per employee when they're outsourcing.
And you see these CEOs taking, you know, $1.3 million in the case of, I believe, the company, it's an energy company, Northeast Utilities, after they're laying off 200 Americans.
And when you look at what the statute was right in the 1990s, right, it was under 100 words.
That was what created this program.
Now it's up to 7,000 words, 20 pages.
That's how you get the alphabet soup of visa categories, right?
Like the OPT program.
And when you look at the numbers, it's quite staggering.
OPT, right, which is this kind of weird pseudo-student to job pipeline, it was 24,000 in 2007.
It's now 194,000 in 2024, with 48% of those people coming from India.
And if you start really looking into the future, if you take the same relative rate of growth of foreign-born workers versus native-born workers, which is 3.2% annual growth in the share itself, using that compounding assumption, if you project that into the future, in only 30 years, 50% of the entire workforce will be foreigners.
In 42 years, it'll be 70%.
Obviously, these aren't hyperrealistic domestic, native-born Americans are always going to have jobs.
But at this rate, it would only take 52 years for the workplace to be 100% foreign-born.
And like I said, the original cap was 65,000 people a year.
You look at by 2015, we already passed into the 200,000s of people.
And that's not even including overstays.
That's newly added.
And when you look at 2024, for example, there were 780,884 H-1B petitions granted.
That is a 1,100% increase over what the American people were allegedly sold, even using fake data.
And I think the point is why I find that clip so funny.
It's not just the typical argument that we make here, which is that it's not an immigration policy.
It's a shareholder policy.
It's for these corporations that hate this country.
It's not about talent.
It's about replacing Americans.
But to say that our opposition to H-1B visas, which demonstrably depress the wages of Americans, is rooted in white nationalism is patently absurd.
America does not have a white nationalism problem.
If anything, we have an Indian nationalism problem because upwards of 70% of all H-1B visas are going to people from India.
We have a Mexican nationalism problem when it comes to illegal immigration because they're all coming from Mexico.
And we have a, I don't know, I guess a Chinese nationalism problem in our universities because the majority of those visas are going to Chinese people.
So to say that our opposition, the idea of defending American workers, is rooted in some obsession with white identity, it's not.
But on the other hand, if America turns in to being filled by 100% Indians, then it's not exactly America.
And you know what makes I think MAGA really upset is being lectured by someone whose parents were immigrants to this country, which that's fine.
I'm sure they did it the right way.
They probably came on an H-1B visa.
But I don't want to be told what being an American is by someone who has barely been an American for more than, I don't know, a few decades.
And it's that that puts a bad taste in my mouth, being told that I'm not allowed to raise my voice and say, actually, we should make sure that our government isn't screwing over American workers by replacing them with people who, yeah, get diplomas and degrees from fake universities.
It's all a scam.
They're paid slave wages and they're not the best and brightest.
Okay, you can point me to one person who started a company.
Good for you.
There's a lot of Americans.
And Steve, I think the most upsetting thing, which I think the audience probably shares with that clip, which they should watch the whole thing, it's this idea of betting against Americans, betting against white kids, betting certainly against white men.
You know what?
You don't need to go down the list past every ethnicity to hit a white person.
There are a lot of white people who are capable of being valedictorians too.
And you know what, Hassan Minhash?
Look at President Trump's victory in 2024.
He made massive strides winning over the minority, whatever words you want to call it, vote with people who were drawn to economic nationalism.
And I just find that interview, that segment, first of all, so reductive and so low IQ, but so weirdly racist by saying that I'm the racist for not being an Indian supremacist and saying that I think a visa program that's exploiting American workers and turning this country into a hollowed out shell of its culture is something that's wrong and that should not be continued.
And that we should, I don't know, put American workers first, American defined as people who, yeah, maybe have a little bit of heritage or legacy in this country and didn't just arrive 15 minutes ago.
Just about any of the things that she said, I'd be concerned too.
Fortunately, for all of us, the things that she's saying about this bill are either in some instances incomplete, leaving out material information to complete the picture, resulting in a much different impact than has been suggested, or in other cases, they're completely wrong.
Let's go back to a few first principles about what the bill actually does.
There are two basic precepts of the bill.
The fundamental purpose of it is to make it easier.
Yes, we just remember that we wanted this on the floor.
We wanted the Democrats to have to talk about it.
Remember, that's what, and we were begging, hummeling John Thomas, the Republican leadership, said, just put it on the floor.
They said, what's going to happen?
We said, we don't know, but put it on the floor and find out.
It's not legislating.
So that's happened.
And people have started paying attention.
And they started looking at the Democrats and listening to their lies.
And, you know, the Democrats have been lying about voter ID for 20 years, 20 years they've been lying about voter ID.
And it has not moved the needle one bit in terms of public opinion.
So yesterday, now, remember, they started talking about this bill on Tuesday.
So 48 hours into it, Gassy, yesterday was 24 hours into it.
Schumer said, Democrats aren't opposed to voter ID.
We're not opposed to vote ID.
We're opposed to all these other things.
So there's a process in the Senate.
I'm learning all these little things about the Senate rules called hotlining a bill.
And so Senator Eusted from Ohio has taken the section on photo ID out of the Save America Act, copied it into a separate bill, and that's going to be put on the floor about 6:30.
And he's going to ask for unanimous consent of all the senators to just adopt this bill and send it to the House.
So we'll see.
We'll see what they do.
Let's see how many Democrats have the wherewithal to stand up and vote against that.