WarRoom Battleground EP 975: Victory For Parents Against META; The Left Is Recruiting Homeless To Commit Voter Fraud In LA
Stephen K. Bannon and Neil McCabe dissect the "Save America Act" and DHS funding battles, noting President Trump's refusal to compromise on ICE operations amidst TSA sick-outs and Senator John Thune's reconciliation strategy. The report highlights James O'Keefe's evidence of homeless individuals forging signatures for LA ballot petitions, a scheme acknowledged by Governor Gavin Newsom as a federal felony. Finally, George Papadopoulos argues Ukraine has become a foreign policy liability by blocking Russian oil exports and criticizing NATO's lack of Red Sea support, suggesting current alliances harm European economies. [Automatically generated summary]
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Neil McCabe, you're at the White House today.
So many developments on this war.
But also the president took some questions and kind of pointed a direction, you know, to Capitol Hill, Save America.
This whole DHS funding bill, Mark Wayne Mullins was not just confirmed president, welcoming the board's new DHS director.
Our next guest, Elizabeth Troutman-Mitchell, actually asked a question about the Save America.
We're going to get to her in a moment from the Daily Signal.
Neil, your thoughts, Save America, what's going to be happening tonight?
It hasn't quite had the urgency, although Mike Lee and a couple have dug in there and the president's digging it.
He's saying, hey, no deals.
That's going to save America.
And you're not going to tell me what I'm going to do with ICE to try to get some deal on DHS.
And in fact, and I'll play this later, it's melted down people.
He sent ICE to these airports.
And let's just be blunt, the lines are a lot shorter.
They're moving a lot quicker.
Part of that, I'm sure, is the ICE folks have really acted as an auxiliary to TSA.
Also, I think maybe word got out and a couple three folks maybe not going to the airport because they're afraid, hey, can you step out of line for a second?
Can we see your ID?
Because the president said, hey, if you're an illegal alien, you go to the airport and ICE pulls you out.
Well, I think another component of that, just to follow up on the ICE at the airports, is that the TSA agents are now saying, well, wait a minute, we might be replaced.
And so there are sick outs all over the country.
Atlanta is at 40%.
JFK is at 25.
LaGuardia is 16.
There's 20 airports that have no sick outs because they're run by contract screeners.
And these are mostly, you know, Yellowstone Airport and Sarasota Airport, but also San Francisco International has contract screeners.
So there's no sick outs.
And those 20 airports are just cruising along like nothing's wrong.
And I think TSA, those agents, may find themselves out of a job if they continue to play the sick out.
But going back to Save Act, John Thun said today that they are continuing to push on the Save Act.
And I've been talking to people who say that Lisa Murkowski, the Republican from Alaska, who has been seen as a no, may become a yes.
And they're talking to her.
The lead people are talking to her.
And she has some concerns about the verification if people have to fly or go great distances to say go to Anchorage to get their documentation.
Maybe she wants an exemption for older voters, say over 65.
And people might take those because over time, those voters are going to age out and eventually everyone will be certified as it comes.
So if Murkowski comes on board, that's actually a huge plus because that shows momentum on the SAVAC side.
You are going to see some sort of shuttling around.
It's almost like a two-card Monty with the Homeland Funding Bill because Thune is filing a bill.
I don't know if he's filed it yet, but he said today at his press gaggle that he was going to be filing a bill that would basically fund, fully fund Homeland Security, except for the deportation and law enforcement operations of ICE.
And they'll just put that to the side.
And they're willing to compromise on body cams, but there'll be no compromise on masks or any kind of identification or name tags on the ICE agents.
And so that's where Thun is right now.
And he's trying to get something done because he's getting pressure from the president.
But if they don't move something, if they don't move something on ICE or without ICE, they could go to what's called the reconciliation.
And that's a simple majority bill that you can use once every fiscal year.
They may just use reconciliation to get Homeland Security done.
And if they go that route, because you only get one bite at the apple, they may load in the Epic Fury supplemental and a bunch of other supplementals.
And so you'll see a lot of projects piling on if they do go to reconciliation, Steve.
Yeah, I'm not so sure that reconciliation is that easy.
Caroline Wren just blew up Kennedy on Twitter a moment ago.
I'll read that when Elizabeth Mitchell joins us.
Here's the thing.
Murkowski, I would say no deals.
I don't want to hear over 65.
Hey, look, over 65, people 65 years old to me are kids, okay?
Kids.
You can get your documentation and prove you're a citizen.
If you've been around this long voting, it should be simple.
We shouldn't be watering this down.
And I don't like carving ice out of this on the deportations because what they're going to try to do is ICE is our hammer.
ICE is what put fear into them.
And hey, you're going to have to put fear.
You have 20 to 25 million illegal aliens in this country, and they ain't leaving.
You're not leaving.
This is why Bovino, Jack Pesobic and I used to talk about Bovino, I loved him because we used to say, Pesobicana used to talk and said, that's the type of guy that pacified Gaul under Julius Caesar.
We need folks like that because that's what you need to do.
And they should have had his back in Minneapolis.
What he did in Minneapolis was magnificent in trying to get that crowd down there.
Marxist jihadist scum, the same that's running New York City right now.
And they can't trade them out.
I'd like to know in those compromises, I don't like the fact that they've taken the mask off of the ICE agents in the airports because what they're trying to do is dox them so they can get to their families and intimidate them.
We have to have the back of these ICE agents.
Also, in addition, have we worked out Mark Wayne Mullins, Kung Fu Fighter, was signed in today.
He's DHS.
Do we have any clarification about judicial warrants?
Because this is a massive issue.
You know, if we go along what Mark Wayne Mullins wants to do and have to get a judicial warrant to go into any business or any home, if you're not actually chasing in pursuit of a bad ombre, it's going to take us 100,000 years to remove the 20 million illegal alien invaders here.
And we don't have 100,000 years.
We have to do it now, now, now.
This is why I'm so supportive of what Mike Hallenda team has pulled together on the mass deportation coalition.
And if you look at the who's who, that's, you know, the Rosemary Jenks, everybody's in back of that.
It's people that have been at the forefront of this fight for decades.
So do you have any sense with either Mark Wayne Mullins or what Thune?
Because Thune is weak.
He's just weak.
You see this.
The only time he has any urgency, Neil, is when the President of the United States gets on the phone with him and said, look, man, you're supposed to be a leader.
Where are the votes?
And then it's a little bit of energy, but it's all performative just to get President Trump off his back.
You know why?
Because like Tommy Tuberville told us, and you said the other day, they don't actually want this.
They don't really want the SAVAC.
They don't think Trump, the election was stolen in 2020.
Or if it was, they just want to, you know, let's move on.
It's too hard to go, you know, go back and do.
This is the Kemp, Thune, McConnell, Republican-controlled opposition that got us in the mess we're in by just letting the radical Democrats run roughshide over.
So do we know?
Look, I think it's terrible to carve ICE out because once they carve ICE out, they're going to have us, right?
It's going to be tough.
But do you know where Mark Wayne Mullins right now is standard policy over at DHS where we stand with mass deportations, which the political side of the White House does not?
Those are the words that cannot be spoken.
Mass deportations, and particularly judicial warrants, sir?
Well, even Tupperville is saying he doesn't know if he gets to 51.
So let's, and by the way, I think Stitz, the governor of Oklahoma, I think his replacement is going to take Mark 1 because we're at 52, I think we go back to 53 because he made a recommendation.
This brother gave money to Kinzinger after Kinzinger's J6 activities.
I'm not a fan of that.
Oklahoma's got the most MAGA and is the reddest state in the union.
And man, they got some political class down there.
I still can't figure out, like the governor who says, what are you making a big deal on these illegal aliens, man?
We can't ship them all back.
Yeah, you can ship them all back.
And that has to be your position.
And then he puts up a guy, I'm not so sure of the due diligence, but I understand that he gave money to Kinzinger, who's the worst.
He's right next to Liz Cheney.
He's right below Liz Cheney.
He's like her deputy during the darkest days of J6.
Okay, I'm not talking in March 2026.
It looks very different.
You go back to those dark days in 21 and 22, and this audience remembers guys like Kinzinger was turfed out of the House of Representatives.
Liz Cheney was humiliated by MAGA.
This was our vengeance, and I don't know why we got a guy in there that's writing checks for Kinzinger when Kinziger could not be more up in President Trump's grill about how President Trump was guilty for all this.
Neil, where do people go?
I know you got a lot of people double and triple duty.
If you don't catch that, it's from Tale of Two Cities.
And if you've ever had the opportunity to see the film, Black and White Film, I think from 1935, and I think Norma Scherer, I think she played Marie Antoinette and Marie Antoinette.
Anyway, in the Tale of Two Cities, Madame Dufarge was mesmerizing.
She was a revolutionary, but she was basically worked in a wine shop with her husband and was, at the end, was the one that was like singling him out to go cut this head off at the guillotine.
Incredibly powerful.
Great analogy right there.
We got a cold open for Elizabeth Mitchell, who joins us.
Lindsey Graham, the chairman where the reconciliation will funnel through, he is committed to making sure we get reconciliation through.
If that is in some form with funding ICE, possibly backfilling from the one big beautiful bill, but also more importantly, the Save American Act.
There's a framework that we can do through reconciliation, pay in for it, put some of the policies that cost money in, because there's nothing more important than the Save American Act.
I mean, that's what the American people want.
There's 80% of the population say they want only Americans voting, citizens that are registered to vote, citizens that have done it the right way.
And I believe that everybody wants an election integrity.
So fortunately, Lindsey Graham has said through reconciliation, he's willing to put the framework out for that.
Give me a Save Act reconciliation DHS because it's kind of a ones that inside baseball in DC, it gets so complicated.
And the grassroots just wants to kind of say, like, what is going on here?
We don't really see the energy in the Save the Act, Save America Act, except for the Mike Lees and Eric Schmidt and a handful of others that are pushing and try to get to a legislative process.
The others are kind of like kabuki theater.
Then you've got this whole situation with the funding bill.
And now we're hearing that they may, to get a deal, may pull ICE out, which, as you know, ICE is the beloved entity of the war room and the war imposse because they're the guys, they're the people that actually send people home, which is kind of the purpose of the exercise is to somehow deport, I don't know, 10, 15, 20 million people somehow.
So there's two kind of big things going on right now.
Congress, one needs to pass a funding bill to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security so that the airport lines aren't so long, TSA gets paid, et cetera.
Secondly, they need to pass the Save America Act, which President Trump has said is his number one priority.
And so a plan has been put together to actually combine these two things.
So what this plan is, is Democrats do not want to fund ICE at all.
So the plan that's going around is that the Senate would vote to fund DHS, but separate ICE funding from that.
ICE would continue to remain funded because it was funded by the one big beautiful bill.
And then later on, a reconciliation bill, which requires 50 votes instead of 60 to pass the Senate, making it a lot easier to pass because it doesn't require any Democrat support.
Reconciliation bill would then fund ICE later on for the next year.
But what the proposal is, is adding the Save America Act onto that reconciliation bill because it would help to only require those 50 votes because Democrats are not going to vote once again to pass the Save America Act.
So I asked President Trump today after he swore in Mark Wayne Mullen to lead the Department of Homeland Security if he wants to see Reconciliation 2.0 and if he wants to see that being the vessel to pass the Save America Act.
And he said he's looking at reconciliation and then passed the mic over to Mullen, who said that this is in fact the plan that Lindsey Graham is going to lead the way on passing the Save America Act through reconciliation.
However, there are some potential issues that could arise with this, which we can break down as well.
Yeah, so the issue here is that the parliamentarian, like you said, is very likely to strike down any provision of reconciliation, which doesn't directly relate to the budget.
Save America Act does not relate to the budget very directly at all.
So she will likely strike this down immediately before it even goes to a vote.
So while this strategy will get everyone, every Republican and every Democrat on the record about voter ID, which of course is extremely popular with Americans, it's unlikely that this could actually succeed in passing the bill.
However, Senator Kennedy, as you mentioned earlier, has said maybe they could get the Congress's smartest lawyers to write this in a way that the parliamentarian wouldn't be able to do the birdbath on and strike down.
No, so we're going to have you back on because this is enormously complicated.
And President Trump, I mean, he's trying to fight a war.
He's got everything in the world on his mind.
The Senate rules are so arcane for a reason.
So only a couple of senators know how it really works.
So we'll follow this closely.
But remember, you've got to fund a war.
He's trying to get the Save America Act.
They're trying to fund DHS and the Democrats sitting there blocking everything.
And as long as the lines are long and President Trump's getting blamed, they'll keep it out forever.
Now, I want to pivot to your, by the way, we just announced that I think out in New Mexico, the jury found Meta guilty, I guess, of child exploitation in this case brought by some parents.
I think we're going to get a clip here in a minute.
And you just wrote this amazing piece on AI, which I'm going to get to in a minute.
But any observations on that?
Because this is one actually I think Zuckerberg had to come and testify.
And this is by a handful of parents.
Some of these, not these exact parents, but other parents like this we've had on the show many times.
This, I think, shows you, Elizabeth, as we get into your AI story about child safety, the country is very attuned now to what social media has done to the children and kind of access, unfettered access they've had to the children.
And so even people who are not that engaged in politics are starting to put this at the top of their agenda.
Yeah, I think that this is absolutely huge, probably the first of many such cases.
It's really being brought to light in a new way that social media has harmed children.
I've spoken to parents, as have you, who have told me about how the addictive algorithms have repeatedly shown their children content about suicide, depression, anxiety, leading to their kids in many cases taking their own lives.
So this is a very serious matter here, and glad to see some justice for these families.
And remember, Ted Cruz kind of led the amnesty side.
But I do think, and this is part of the process, that maybe Senators Cornyn and Cruz and others realize that the base of this party is really up in arms about this topic.
And this AI, I'm telling you folks, behind the scenes, where it is, you don't see a lot of energy in Save America right now.
You see a lot of energy in this massive fight to somehow codify the president's executive order into law.
Do you want to talk to us about this exclusive piece that you've got up over the Daily Signal, ma'am?
So, what we have here is there's a bipartisan group of 20 state senators in Texas that includes Angela Paxton and many others who are saying that they want their U.S. senators, that being John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, to fight for stronger child protections against AI.
So, we're dealing with the House version of the Kids Online Safety Act versus the Senate version.
And the House Energy and Commerce Committee recently passed the Kids Act, which includes a version of the Kids Online Safety Act, which these senators and other child safety advocates say is not as strong as the Senate version, which came from Senator Marsha Blackburn.
So, they're saying that the duty of care, which is something we've talked about before on this show, which means who's responsible for kids' safety?
Is it the parents or is it the tech companies?
These senators are saying that the duty of care is not appropriately on the tech companies in the Kids Online Safety Act, the Senate version, making it too weak to truly protect kids.
And so, they are asking Senator Cruz and Senator Cornyn to fight to make these protections stronger for kids.
I think when we've talked about the White House AI framework that was released Friday, I think we can expect to see Cruz be quite a leader in codifying that in the Senate because he, as you said, has been involved in these kinds of conversations, has been supportive of preemption to some extent.
And so, I think we can expect to see a lot from him.
We know what side he'll take.
But Cornyn's more of an unknown, and so it'll be really interesting to watch where he falls on this really important issue.
One of the things that's so important about your article: preemption was always talked about about going back to the states, and we've seen Ron DeSantis essentially from the red state side kind of take the lead on this.
Of course, Newsome for the blue states in California, but we haven't heard a lot of Texas.
These state senators are showing you that this is a burning hot issue at the state level.
And I'm not quite sure that even the administration understands, particularly after this situation in New Mexico.
And I realize they're not exactly the same things, but they're close enough for government work.
It's going to put even more heat on people at the state and the state representative level.
This is a big deal for people in Texas.
Do you think it's this letter and your article that's finally going to get through and say, hey, look, we just can't shine on these states?
We've really got to work this out together because there's massive political pressure here.
There's definitely a lot of pressure mounting on child safety from around the country.
Yesterday was the launch of a pro-family coalition called the Alliance for a Better Future, and they launched with some powerful new polling showing that 83%, I believe, of Americans support guardrails to protect kids on AI.
We know that this is a wildly popular issue.
The vast majority of Americans do want state laws which protect kids from potential AI abuses to remain on the books.
And so, I think that pressure will definitely play a role in this upcoming fight to pass this national framework on AI.
What you just watched, it's a 12-minute video, is I don't think anyone's ever captured this on video before.
Maybe your audience can correct me if I'm wrong, but they're actually giving cash to homeless people tens of thousands of times.
You see a couple dozen instances of it in this video.
And they're telling the homeless to vote in the names of other registered voters.
And it appears to be a coordinated conspiracy.
We're trying to figure out who's behind this, but these are petitions, California ballot petitions.
And you watch them give what are two, three, five dollars cash to the homeless on Skid Row.
That's in downtown LA, worst area of Los Angeles.
And they're taking advantage of the homeless who have no idea what it is that they're signing for petitions like tax the rich and petitions on Uber and other propositions in the state of California.
So, this is the first time I think if anyone's ever done this where you actually prove non-circumstantial evidence of a felony caught on camera in this video.
This is the second installment.
We're calling it the Justice League because it's not just me, it's Cam Higbee, Savannah Hernandez, Anthony Rubin.
There's a number of brand new citizen journalists working alongside me, not working for me, Steve.
And we're going to be releasing a tape every single day until somebody gets arrested.
James, there was an altercation, I think Higby and yourself.
Here's my point: it's quite dangerous what you're doing.
People should understand there are thousands of homeless down there.
This is very dangerous.
This is a very dangerous thing.
They've made downtown LA and parts around Santa Monica, Santa Monica Free, all over Los Angeles with these folks that are down and out, but there's some bad ombres mixed in there and some dangerous people just psychologically on drugs, alcohol.
Some people don't know what they're actually doing.
What shocked me is how brazen the people signing them up and giving the money.
It's like there's no fear of being caught.
But I think weren't you guys in the other day that it got a little bit.
That got into the eyes of my other colleague, and I had to run out of there.
We had security, but there was a security lapse.
And then Anthony Rubin, my colleague, was assaulted by one of these petitioners.
So there's been two batteries against my team.
It's a remarkable piece of video.
There it is.
It's playing right there for you.
There it is.
He's getting clocked in the neck.
That's Andrew, my producer, on the street in L.A.
This is extremely dangerous.
And you're right.
It's happening in broad daylight.
There's petitioners behind this.
We have recently there's gangs behind this.
This is elections.
By the way, just so your audience knows, it's a federal felony.
The Department of Justice has jurisdiction.
If you're paying someone to register to vote in the federal election, it's a federal felony.
All the other crimes you see are state felonies.
Voter impersonation on California petitions.
Now, there has been a development, Steve.
We've heard back from everybody.
We've heard back from Gavin Newsome.
He did not attack us.
He said they should arrest the people in the tape.
We've heard back from the Los Angeles County District Attorney.
They've opened up an inquiry.
The California Secretary of State's office is working with me.
They want to arrest someone.
And the Los Angeles Police Department, we filed a police report.
We've also heard back from the United States Attorney in California, a federal prosecutor named Bill Asalia, who works for Pam Bondi.
There needs to be arrests.
They need to arrest people.
There needs to be accountability in this country.
And my solution is I'm going to put a public pressure campaign so intense every day, each day, with an army of citizen journalists until somebody is arrested.
Well, we're here to be a platform to help you do that.
James, I think also I've heard as your first tapes came out the other day.
People got to remember, although we sometimes are not competitive in elections out there, and President Trump's going on and on and on about how he's won the popular vote there.
He thinks they're stolen.
And as really, we can prove they've been stolen over the country.
He wants to prove in California.
Remember, on an absolute basis, there's more MAGA voters in California probably than any other state, maybe even Texas and Florida, because it's such a massive state with over 40 million people.
I've heard so many people say, this is what we need.
We need people not to forget about California.
Sheriff out there, I think, just he just took 650,000 ballots from the 25 election that he's saying there's something wrong with it.
It seems like California, since it's kind of fallen off the map of MAGA being so intense, although there's so many MAGA voters, that this stuff is just kind of brazen.
Is this why you're now making of all the other things you could do?
You're making such a big show of force from O'Keefe Media Group in California?
We're calling it the Justice League, which is the Knights of the Round Table, the Citizen Journalist Justice League.
What's so special about this, and I was talking to Benny Johnson about this, is that these other citizen journalists don't work for me.
Cam Higby doesn't work for me.
He's got his own platform, his own YouTube channel, Savannah Hernandez, Anthony Rubin, MuckRaker.com.
I think the future is in individuals, not institutions, because institutions can be corrupted and they can be co-opted and profit can become a problem.
And this sort of investigative journalism is extremely dangerous.
You mentioned the physical risks.
There's that.
There's the legal risks.
There's how expensive it is.
So, but to address your point about California, I read the New York Times Sunday.
I always read the New York Times, by the way.
I read all the different newspapers, whether I agree with it or not.
And the New York Times wrote, and this is, I'm quoting the New York Times, quote, in-person voter fraud is virtually non-existent.
It simply doesn't happen.
So, I mean, this may be the first video in American history that shows, and not circumstantial evidence, because I know you're going to say, well, we know there's voter fraud, but you never actually see it, do you?
You don't really see the cash changing hands.
You don't see the bribes.
Well, this is the first video ever where you see dozens and dozens and dozens of cash exchanges from gangsters, petitioners, and coordinators working alongside the California Homeless Industrial Complex, NGOs like the Weingard Center, which receive hundreds of millions of dollars of state money.
And they're encouraging to give money and to tell them to vote in other people's names.
So we have divergent realities in this country.
People are saying that in-person voter fraud doesn't happen.
Well, this video shows it happening.
And the good news is, and I do think this is good news, that even Governor Newsom of California has come out now and said this is a felony.
We have to arrest these people.
Now, I have to put pressure on law enforcement locally by keeping putting more evidence, more and more and more evidence until they do something.
Before, you know, one part I want to say that's so great is when you go up to the homes of the people's names are actually ripping off and they're sitting there going, what?
I can't believe this is happening.
The one guy at the end behind the door said, hey, this is criminal fraud.
This shouldn't happen.
It reminds me of the great case you broke a couple of years ago with the donations, particularly the small money.
You go up to people's houses and some person sitting there of pretty limited means, you could tell older person, and you're sitting there going, you know, you've actually donated $5,000 in 50 different times to ActBlue.
And they're sitting there going, what are you talking about?
It's the punchline to O'Keefe videos is when they go up to the innocent victims and show them what's going on and people's heads blow up.
But that's, James, what you've been doing for years.
You really, you bring the, you bring the good, you bring the receipts, as we say in the war room.
How do people, if they want to fall, yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
James O'Keeffe, the Justice League, citizen journalism.
Folks, what they do is very dangerous.
Okay, I've got a couple of things.
I got George Papadopoulos.
I have a couple of things.
One, we had that clip from the White House we can play in a moment.
But George, you just got, but you were in Russia a couple of weeks ago.
I want people to understand over St. Petersburg, I think on, I want to say on Saturday or Sunday night, there were 70 to 100 of these drones that were identified by the Russian military as they weren't theirs.
And so they shot them down.
Now we've got footage, I think, in Ukraine where they're hitting, that they're coming back and hitting Ukraine.
I want people, and then McMaster said today, we play in the morning show, that the Israelis have taken, not sunk, but hit two Russian cargo ships bringing drones to the Iranians.
He said that.
This kinetic war in the Middle East, I mean, people should understand this thing in the Ukraine is not over by a long shot.
It's kind of gone the back burner as we have a shooting war, a bigger shooting war where we're involved.
And so now everybody's focused on that 24 hours a day.
But just give us a couple of minutes on the dangers we have of this thing in Ukraine becoming kind of merged into this.
So Ukraine is literally the most corrupt government on the European continent.
And what they've actually become is a liability to U.S. foreign policy priorities and goals throughout not only Eurasia, but Eastern Europe.
What the U.S. has been attempting to do under President Trump is to project power, promote energy security, and really sustain the cohesiveness of our various alliance structures in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe and in NATO.
And what Ukraine is doing by escalating the conflict and the tension with Russia, it's really affected all three of these priorities.
What the Ukrainians are doing when it comes to energy security is they're trying to block Russian oil exports to Europe, which Hungary and Slovakia are basically begging for.
And they're willing to sanction Ukraine because Ukraine is holding them in an energy hostage type of situation.
That is resulting in rising oil prices and it's affecting the European economies.
You have people like Matteo Salvini in Italy, who's a deputy prime minister, who's saying that we have to drop sanctions and start to buy Russian oil because the European crisis has been caused by this situation with Ukraine is affecting our own livelihoods.
Then you have this escalation in the Middle East now, where you have the Israelis targeting Russian ships in the Caspian Sea, along with Ukrainian drones.
It really shows you that the United States is not really dealing with equal partners who want to de-escalate the situation, but escalate it at a time when the president is trying to prioritize geoeconomics over geopolitics and to slow this thing down.
George, also, while we're on it, in fact, I'm going to have you back tomorrow.
We'll do the other part that we talked about the other day, but I want to get your thoughts on Victor Orban, who is beloved in the global MAGA movement, right, and a real nationalist has saved this country, has been such a hero.
The sprint to this election, which I think is in a couple of weeks in Hungary, he's actually put Zielensky on the ballot.
I mean, he's really turned to the Hungarian people and say, hey, look, this is the most corrupt guy on earth.
He's put our nation in jeopardy, and we're not going to stand for it.
Want me through what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary to really point out that Zelensky is a big, as we've said here in the war room, a big part of the problem, what the United States has to deal with internationally.
Well, that's really exhibit A of the issue than the liability that Zelensky and the Ukrainians have actually become for U.S. foreign policy and really sustaining our alliances in Eastern Europe with conservative governments that really have the same ideological perspectives and movements as MAGA and the United States, like Orban.
What Zielinski has really done here is he's cut off a significant pipeline that linked Russian oil to Eastern Europe through Ukraine into Hungary and Slovakia in order to create an economic crisis and to precipitate an even larger economic crisis in Hungary to affect Victor Orban's election prospects.
Now, this goes diametrically against U.S. interests to have a man or leader like Orban and others in Eastern Europe and in the European Union so that we do have equal partners and a more sustainable and cohesive NATO.
That is really what Orban is talking about here and why this issue in Hungary is so important and people aren't talking about it enough.
The president and others have obviously outright supported Orban as a partner for the United States while Zelensky is doing everything in his power to jeopardize not only Orban, but the U.S. bilateral relationship with Hungary.
And that's something that the United States cannot continue to allow to happen.
George, I think one of the most important things that's happened in this war in Iran when he got to the Hormuz Straits and President Trump said, hey, look, we're going to need some naval support here from our NATO allies.
And nobody stood up.
The British didn't stand up to the Royal Navy.
The French really didn't stand up.
They did a little in the Eastern Med, but not down in the Red Sea as Trader Hormuz.
We said, this shows you that there cannot be an American security guarantee in Ukraine.
There are decades in which nothing happens, and there are weeks in which decades happen.
As I told you, and the Sunday show and then Monday morning, I think we're in one of those weeks.
It's just absolutely incredible.
We only get through 120th of what we want to get through on four hours a day in the war room.
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It's going to be turbulent for a while.
Love to wave a magic wand and said, turbulence is over, but that is not going to happen, folks.
Natasha Owens takes us out, and we will see you at 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow morning when you will be back in the war.