Bannon's War Room·May 8, 2026·Episode 5358: Huge Victory In Virginia, Judge Strikes Down Dems Redistricting Efforts Cont. Stopping The AI Oligarchs From Stealing Humanity·
Stephen K. Bannon celebrates Virginia's Supreme Court striking down Democratic redistricting, a historic MAGA grassroots victory alongside wins in Tennessee and upcoming successes in the South. Guest Brian Glenn reports on President Trump's schedule and restricted press access during Lula's visit, while Deloitte Stallman explains the court's legal reasoning regarding early voting. The episode shifts to AI safety, noting a White House pivot from accelerationism to urgent vetting measures amid cyber fears, with Bannon condemning tech leaders for alleged collusion with China. Ultimately, the discussion frames these political and technological battles as essential steps toward preserving American sovereignty against oligarchic threats. [Automatically generated summary]
And I haven't got any confirmation from the Trump team here exactly the nature of this 12 o'clock President Trump Rose Garden event.
But I will say this I was outside of the White House at Starbucks earlier with some colleagues, and I was approached by two angel moms that wanted to thank me for being on the network.
Thank you for being out for the rallies and all.
It was a fan of Rav and a fan of yours, too.
And she said, We're here.
For an event at the White House were angel moms.
So I'm just making the assumption that the event at noon is circles around kind of a Mother's Day event, if you will, for angels moms.
Just speculation on that.
And then earlier, a cart of kind of containers went by here down Pebble Beach, went down to the back door.
I was told those were flowers.
So I would imagine the angel moms are going to get a special flower today from the president.
Yeah, Steve, it actually, for me, it started a little bit before that when I walked by the Blair House and there was no Brazilian national flag on the Blair House.
And I come to find out later that the visit yesterday was not an official state visit.
So therefore, I guess the The protocol was not to stay at the Blair House.
So that's number one.
Number two, there was not any kind of color guard greeting here along Pebble Beach in front of the West Wing.
That was flag number two.
And then when we're standing outside the briefing room doors, we were on standby at about 11 15.
We were, you know, kind of, we got ready to go in.
And then we stood there for probably an hour and a half.
Finally, a message went out that said, Hey, there's no need to gather right now.
We'll let you know when you're going to.
We're going to call for you.
We went back in the briefing room, and then probably, I don't know, Steve, maybe two and a half hours later, I'm watching the Brazilian press just pack up.
They've all got this synchronized email, they're all looking at their phones, and we were wondering what's going on.
We asked one of them, they said, Meeting's over, he's leaving.
No press, no press.
And they packed up and left.
Now, what I was told was that Lula had somehow negotiated, or maybe it was part of the deal.
To do the meet with the press towards the end of his visit, not necessarily off the top.
Like, if you remember, Zelensky entered the doors behind me, went through the West Wing, went into the Oval Office, and then probably about eight to 10 minutes later is when they usher in the foreign press and the White House poll press.
And then we do the spray.
We do the questions.
We do the QA.
We do the whole typical two chairs set up in between the fireplace and in between.
That did not happen.
That was negotiated towards the end of the visit.
So by the time, Steve, they go meet and eat, there's no time for the press.
And Lula said, I'm out.
And that was it.
And from what I've been told, he did do a press conference at the embassy.
We have so many people that are so fractured on one side of the party, the other side of the party.
We're arguing about percentages and debt ceilings and all this stuff.
We're not our enemy.
The left, the radical left, the person who shot Charlie Kirk, that's our enemy.
This is a time, at least for me, to try to step back from the noise of the world and just really reflect on what you have your health, your family, your friends, your opportunities, and that you live in.
In the greatest country in the world.
I'm very thankful for Real America's Voice.
I'm thankful for this network and its commitment to not only supporting the White House and supporting President Trump, but also supporting faith and freedom and family.
That's what this network is all about.
This past Sunday, sitting at home in Georgia, I decided that it's time to, and I'll use an MMA reference, it's time to leave the gloves in the ring and walk away.
The people of Real America's Voice, they are just not the owners of a conservative news outlet that love this country.
They genuinely love their employees.
They are one of the best companies.
They are the best company that I've ever worked for.
I think I may have the record for the most Trump rallies to cover.
But, you know, Steve, this is kind of an inspiration to anybody watching this that works in corporate television.
I was fired.
For basically speaking out against COVID and the lockdowns and the mass mandates and the vaccine mandates.
Right in 2019, I got fired from that job, switched over, and got picked up by Right Side Broadcasting, came across them on Facebook streaming the rallies.
And it was a great company, toured all across the country doing that.
After the 2020 election, Steve, do you remember how many people just were so afraid to talk about election integrity and all the discrepancies?
Doug Mastriano, At the time, I was running for governor, invited me to Harrisburg, I think, to basically sit on one of these public Senate hearings on election integrity.
That was Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona.
We went to all of them.
And of course, Georgia, too.
So I was involved with all of that.
And then that course went into the midterms, the Kerry Lake running for governor.
We were all over Arizona for that.
But it's really, Steve, and I'm telling you this, and I don't think I've ever told you this in person.
You're open to War Room about if you want this country to be saved, then this country will be saved.
If you think it's possible to do it, just a mustard seed of hope, then it can happen.
I used to tear up, Steve, every single time I heard that open.
If I was home alone, or if I'm on the road, or I'm watching it on my phone on a plane, I would get a tear in my eye every single time that War Room Open would play.
I mean that.
And I was kind of tearing up and open before we came on here.
What you have done to MAGA, this America First movement, right after COVID, you led the way to just step aside and take the fight head on, whether it was politically against the vaccine mandates, all that stuff.
I sit in front of a mic, but it's guys like you, Brian.
This is why I would go back to Right Side Brook, his interrav.
Brian Glenn has been a road worker.
Brother, you have been, first off, you've dominated the White House.
But the years leading up to that, those were what, from 2019, those are five or six hard years of on the road reporting and really showing the power of this movement.
The power of the movement was those rallies.
The power of the movement were those people.
You would do those interviews.
You would go down.
What I loved about it, you weren't there just for the big shots.
You were there to go into the lines and talk to the folks out there and let MAGA.
We've got a news crew here that's been kind of documenting my last day, and they asked me, Why do people come up to you so much?
And I said, Because we're relatable.
We're not like the guys that maybe sit up and down.
No offense to people that sit on Legacy News, but they don't have a true connection to the people like the people at Real America's Voice, all the personalities, Amanda Head, all of them, Ben Burkham, all of them.
I can't even mention.
They're the ones that made the connection.
Rob Sig, Parker Sig, amazing.
God bless the entire Rav family for taking a guy like me on the staff and letting me do what I do.
And thank you to all the viewers for allowing me to come in your homes.
We're going to talk about artificial intelligence in a moment.
Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is going to join us from the Daily Signal.
There's an executive order, I think, banging around in the White House.
You've heard Scott Besant talk about, you know, we need to have safety.
You've heard, I think, Susie Wilst.
Uh, tweeted out something the other day about safety.
Those are important words.
Those words won't be spoken when, uh, when, um, David Sachs, the czar, was around.
It was all accelerationist, accelerationist, accelerationist.
Maybe next week we're there in Beijing.
We can notify Xi hey, guess what?
No more chips.
No more 350,000 students here, uh, studying engineering and computer science and, you know, double E.
No more, um, No more people in our labs, no more people in our companies, nobody, no ecosystem, no debt, no equity, zero, nada, you get nothing.
Let's do that.
Let's shut down the Chinese Communist Party about AI.
Then we can also worry about safety here.
We don't have to be decelerationist, although I am proud to say that I am a decelerationist when you compare it to the alternative, the accelerationist, which is nothing but the burlavers.
Anyway, couldn't be more important where I get her up and go through that.
Now, with artificial intelligence and cyber, the combo, that's what this mythos is about from Anthropic.
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Deloitte Stallman, and you represent the best of the best of the grassroots movement throughout this country, the MAGA movement, and particularly in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
What you folks did was awe inspiring.
Coming out of Texas, where it was awe inspiring there, I said, man, if we could light the match we've seen in Texas throughout the country.
And you guys, it was actually worse to a degree because you were so buried in negative publicity.
They're going to win by 20 points.
They got unlimited money.
They're going to spend $50 million.
They got this governor who ran as a moderate, the CAA operative, that now shows she's a radical.
The odds were against you.
Plus, you had had a total complete collapse of Youngkin and the establishment Republican Party in the Commonwealth of Virginia in November, total disarray.
But you guys, in a self organizing manner, really came and gave the fight of really this year.
And I think inspired Judge Hurley and others to say, we really got to take a hard look at this.
And today, the Commonwealth Supreme Court stood up and gave a historic decision.
And that decision.
Is in large measure because of the great grassroots efforts of you and these other self organizing MAGA grassroots leaders.
And I just can't speak highly enough.
Give us your thoughts today on something you guys fought so long and hard to get, and the odds were long, and there were a lot of nights you were looking over the abyss.
I got to tell you, in, you know, just in getting the news immediately, which everybody's.
You know, the refresh button is worn out for the last several days, just like incessantly refreshing that Supreme Court opinion page.
But yeah, you're right.
I mean, really everything was against us.
And, you know, I know that in bringing Jeff onto the war room, a lot of people don't understand that the Republican Party last year was also in a bit of disarray.
We had four different chairmen in a span of 10 months.
And what Jeff was able to do in an empowerment, Position of really giving the grassroots a lot of access to data and assistance.
We went from meeting once every three months to having weekly strategy calls.
So I applaud Jeff for leading the charge absolutely on that, which trickled down to the unit chairman, like myself and other people, to feel like somebody did have our back.
And I was just texting with Jeff about the war room, just to underscore also what Brian said about you.
You really heard from Virginians like myself when nobody else wanted to hear that we even had a chance.
And you took an opportunity to come here and you believed in what we were doing and you got behind us and you gave us a platform.
So, for that, I am especially grateful.
The momentum that came out of that really did light the match in the grassroots for people to deliver on the plan that came out of the RPB.
I did read the opinion.
It is beautiful in true Virginia legal fashion.
It goes back to George Wythe and Madison.
And I don't know if you want me to get into the opinion at all, but the requirements for amending the Constitution, it's a high bar for a reason.
There is a divorce between legislators and the voters, and there ought to be.
And so that deliberative process has a lot of hurdles that.
The Commonwealth did not meet.
The opinion goes and talks about the word election as a noun and electing as a verb.
It was rich for the Commonwealth to come in on oral arguments and to argue that election day is a single day when these dirtballs have created a nightmare in Virginia of a 45 day early voting process.
So there was discussion in the arguments about.
Election as a noun and election as a verb.
And they did take a lot of time in this opinion to sort of shove it in the face of the Commonwealth that you can't argue it both ways.
And that historically, Virginia did canvass by sheriff throughout the countryside.
They canvassed votes, it took multiple days.
And that electing is a process in which the citizen chooses things.
And so, for 45 days, 1.3 million ballots had already been cast in Virginia.
And the requirement to amend the Constitution to conduct an intervening election was not met at all.
And it was insulting for the Commonwealth to come in and argue that to the Supreme Court.
The people who had already cast ballots in early voting had somehow forfeited their opportunity to weigh in on a constitutional amendment.
That was one of the highlights of the opinion.
And yeah, I think that's probably the most powerful argument that was in this case just that the election was not, there was no intervening election.
The Sharia law, the two million votes to prohibit that.
It put a fire under Paxton.
My understanding now is President Trump's still wrestling with that.
There's a poll out that shows Paxton, there's one poll that shows him up three to five.
There's another poll that shows him up 11.
The grassroots on fire.
The Commonwealth of Virginia, what you folks did, totally self organizing.
Now in Tennessee, as the U.S. Supreme Court's come out, you've seen in Tennessee, the grassroots are now all over in Louisiana and in South Carolina because we're at 212 right now with Florida and the reversal.
Of Virginia, so within striking distance of holding the House.
What lessons would you tell grassroots around the country you can derive from the experience of these victories of the grassroots?
Every one of them was beyond long odds.
Paxton was written off, the Sharia law thing was considered a joke.
We didn't have a shot on reversing any of these.
Everybody said, oh, it's too late.
The Supreme Court justice slow walked it enough.
Virginia's going to be a 20 point blowout.
What would you tell the grassroots in the country looking at the momentum we have of where their focus should be?
Well, I mean, one thing is that people really just have to get involved.
You have to understand what the apparatus is in your immediate area, and you have to jump into that because whether you like how it operates or not, they do have certain power levers.
So, you know, get involved in your local committee if you have a Tea Party group or whatever you might have where people do go and.
Create a group of influence.
So I would say that's probably the primary goal just to make yourself useful in this fight.
You would be surprised at how quickly you can navigate a system, especially a system of people who maybe are in the party or in those groups not to work, but maybe for a social reason you can get in there very quickly.
I mean, personally, I went from not involved at all to, you know, on the state board of directors and a committee chairman.
Very short order.
So if I can do it, you can do it, number one.
So I would say get involved.
Can I say one more thing about the election, though?
When I was on the war room before, I know we put up a graphic that showed how the 2020 constitutional amendment to create a nonpartisan redistrict commission had passed overwhelmingly, I think 67%.
The first round of maps were conducted with that.
Redistricting Commission to a stalemate.
And ultimately, the remedy for that was to take it to the Supreme Court, this Supreme Court, in fact.
And part of the meat of the opinion was to remind the Commonwealth that this Supreme Court created nonpartisan districts at the will of the people in the process in 2020 that was conducted constitutionally to amend the Constitution because that was the will of the voters.
It was odd for the Commonwealth to think that they could go back to this very Supreme Court and ask them to overturn themselves and their maps.
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Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell.
There's been a lot of, you know, we just had one of the guys, Mark Beale, from the Internet, or excuse me, the Artificial Intelligence AI Policy Network on.
He said, Hey, look, I think all the efforts that these oligarchs have made to try to get an amnesty bill, a preemption, you know, bill that they can't be held up by state governments, that's probably dead in the water right now.
They've broken their pick on a couple of times.
They put it, they had a They were lost twice.
Then they had an executive order from the White House.
Then they came in with the framework.
The framework got shattered because they're still trying to jam it on parents and they're trying to jam it on no controls whatsoever.
Since that time, you've had this anthropic bombshell about what mythos preview.
You've also had now discussions, and Axios is kind of the lead leaking from the Frontier Labs.
About this recursive, where a vast majority of these advanced systems now are writing themselves with very little human input on the actual design of the model.
And so people are getting more and more nervous.
Now, the White House, you've seen a shift in rhetoric.
Scott Besant, who has been implied as one of the guys after David Sachs got turfed out, is now being more involved.
And he says one of the reasons he's more involved, they talked to all the money center banks and the guys, they told these guys, hey, according to this mythos, you could evaporate a bank in like 35 seconds.
And the bankers are very concerned about that.
So all of a sudden, safety, you've heard Scott Besant say safety.
Susie Wiles put out a tweet that said safety.
That's a different nomenclature.
What does your reporting tell you?
Because you have an exclusive about, I guess they're working on yet another executive order, ma'am?
So, this is going to be a different kind of executive order than what we've seen before.
So, the New York Times first reported that there was an executive order in the works on vetting all AI models before they're deployed.
But my sources told me that there is a lot of division, a lot of disagreement in the administration about what exactly this executive order should do.
That's likely that we'll have not just one, maybe multiple executive orders.
And sources tell me that this will likely come in the next two weeks, but the substance is currently in flux and is the subject of live debate.
So, some people, instead of wanting to vet all AI models pre deployment, it sounds like what some people want is to vet, to have that vetting for some AI models be a condition for government contracts.
So, if you want to work with the government, you have to let the Center for AI Safety.
Within the Commerce Department, review your model is what that would look like.
So that's one option.
Of course, there's people who want more of a lighter touch.
We have people who have that big tech background, venture capitalists like Shrim Krishnan, David Sachs, who of course has lost some of that influence that he previously had.
They'd want the lighter touch.
And so it's unclear what exactly people are going to land on.
But I think when we saw Kevin Hassett go on Fox yesterday or the day before and say that he's considering, the White House is considering executive order with an FDA like approval.
Regime.
I think that, of course, caused a lot of negative reaction from the tech industry, saying this would slow tech innovation down and prevent the U.S. from beating China.
And I think the reaction to that has showed that this is unlikely to happen with a tweet from Susie Wiles saying that the White House doesn't want to pick winners and losers.
I think that indicates that it's unlikely we're going to get this FDA style approval, but some sort of approval, perhaps with an incentive, does seem to be on the table.
But here's the If you take the conversations that you're reporting on today in the New York Times, that is a massive shift.
Once again, folks, we have shifted the conversation to our side.
This is how you win.
You're not going to get it.
I keep telling people, particularly when you have power and money like the oligarchs, you just can't snap your fingers.
The podcast thinking, just all get done.
It's a process.
Part of the process is to make sure you drag it over until you're talking on your side of the football.
Now we're actually going from.
An FDA that Kevin Hass is talking about, and Hassett is head of the President's Economic Council, wouldn't have mentioned that unless it's been discussed.
All the way to my idea of some sort of atomic regulatory commission like we had on nuclear weapons, all the way to Bessett and even Susie talking about safety, have to be vetted, all the way to you're going to have to have maybe Commerce Department vetting.
That is a massive shift from these accelerationists that said, hey, David Sachs and all these guys walking around, all these big shots walking around last summer.
When they try to jam it into the big, beautiful bill, that they say, hey, you're not going to have any say so on anything.
We're supreme.
We're all powerful.
We're masses of the universe.
So when you just listed those four or five different things that are coming up, that is a massive shift.
The, um, Chris, well, I'll get to that in a moment.
In your reporting, you said there's either going to be an EO in a couple of weeks or maybe multiple EOs.
I notice when I think about the critical path of Elizabeth, what we're doing, that would be post the Beijing visit.
Now, my understanding is that.
AI and Besant is making this is going to be a central part of the discussions with the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.
How do you think that will influence what the White House is working on about these, either the main executive order or these multiple executive orders, ma'am?
This is an extremely interesting point because the reason for AI innovation that we repeatedly hear from these accelerationists is that it's necessary to have as few guardrails as possible so that we can beat China.
Because if we don't beat China, It's a huge national security crisis.
And so I think the prospect of the president actually talking to the Chinese and coming to some sort of agreement on this, having a conversation about this, is an extremely interesting update.
I think you're right that we have seen an absolutely massive shift from tweets from David Sachs calling people who fear AI acceleration doomers and criticizing that sort of mentality to now with people like Scott Besant, Kevin Hassett, Susie Wiles, like you said, talking about the need for AI safety.
And I think there are two things responsible.
For this, according to my sources, one of course is the mythos model is concerning a lot of people because of its extreme hacking abilities.
And this is just the beginning of the story.
Many more models that are more powerful will come that cause even more of a threat.
And I think that people like JD Vance, Scott Besant take this threat very seriously and they do not want a major cyber attack before midterms.
The Trump administration will look like they didn't do anything about it.
So they want to make sure that they're doing something to make sure that this doesn't happen before midterms or any other time.
And I think, secondly, they really are just overall waking up to the dangers of.
This type of advancing emerging technology and the need to have some sort of vetting, some sort of regulation about these things before they come out.
And so I think this is a very interesting sign, very encouraging for a lot of people that this is going to be a topic of conversation in Beijing.
And when you said the awakening, I think the awakening is that David Sachs and was Christianis, the guy in the tech office, and these other people are not masters of the universe.
They came to DC and they looked around DC and they said, hey, you know what?
This is a place of total mediocrity.
We're Silicon Valley.
And don't get me wrong, I can't stand being in DC.
And I agree with them a lot of that.
But there is a process.
And particularly, the process has to have the grassroots.
They were so arrogant, they didn't think they had to bring along the MAGA base at all, which is 85 15 against all of this, 85 15 against data centers, against all of it.
And all they're trying to do from the data centers in the local level to what they tried to do in these two amnesty bills and now three and now four is to ram it down your throat.
Because they just don't think people matter.
They're not, they can give all the hat, they're all transhumanists.
They do not care about the little guy because at the end of the day, humans are just so much problem for them, right?
And you can see it and they're getting bitch slapped.
Let me be, when you talk about what's in your report and you look at, we're here in May of 2026, when they thought all this stuff would be behind them, they thought they'd be fully on an accelerationist path.
And when you mentioned Hassett, Besson, and Wiles, those three individuals don't come from the tech world.
They come from, Susie comes from politics, particularly in Florida, state politics.
And Bessett and Hassett come from the capital markets and from Wall Street and understand, you know, and particularly when banks are going up to having meetings with Bessett and say, you know, the way we look at this, we may be evaporated as a money center bank in about 30 seconds.
That's a problem.
That's a problem that adults like Kevin Hassett and Scott Bessett have to deal with.
Liz, this is, of all the great stuff you're breaking, this is by far, I think, the most important because the future of our species depends upon this.
And so, between now and China, and there's so much in the next couple of weeks.
I don't know if we have the article we can put up.
Maybe we can put it up.
So, Chris Buskirk in the Mini Oligarchs over at American Greatness put up.
A piece the other day on yours truly about how I was going against the president's plan of, you know, about China and making sure that industrially our tech guys had this market, had this market opportunity.
And, you know, I was terrible because I wouldn't support it.
You're damn right I'm not supporting it.
And it's total BS and a lie.
Here's what the facts are Jensen Wong and Buzzkirk and JD Vance and Peter Thiel and Karp and all these guys are in bed with China and the Chinese Communist Party.
They want to make bigger profits by selling to the Chinese Communist Party.
You can't sit there and whine.
Oh, we have to be, you can't have any safeguards at all.
You can't do anything because we're losing the race to the Chinese Communist Party when you're funding the ability of the Chinese Communist Party to compete with us.
The Chinese Communist Party should have no access to any chips.
They shouldn't have access to any universities.
They shouldn't have access to any companies.
They shouldn't have access to any equity, any debt, any pension fund money, any venture capital, right?
None of it.
We should cut them off and choke them down because they are not a competitor to the United States of America.
They are a mortal enemy to Lao Bai Jing, the Chinese people.
They're a mortal enemy to the American people.
And they're a mortal enemy to our country.
Full stop.
And you damn right, I don't support it.
In fact, I'm the opposite of support it.
I want to tear it down.
Jensen Wong is an agent of influence for the Chinese Communist Party.
And BuzzKirk and everybody supports that aspect of it, you're just as bad.
The reason I'm not, I see the uses of technology and data.
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And because I don't come from a healthcare or an insurance background, my first question was, What's the information?
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And it turns out that the data is very opaque.
It's hard to even get a list of all Medicare plans that are available to each person.
And then once you have that list, it's hard to know what.
Doctors are a network.
What prescriptions cost?
What benefits do you get?
What will a procedure cost if I need a procedure?
All of these questions and all this information really matter.
It matters to what Medicare plan you choose.
It matters to how you think about your budget for the month.
It matters to how you think about the care that you might need.
And no one has been able to create a data model, really, a data set that has all this information and that makes it available to people so that they can get the best health care for the lowest possible cost.
And that's really what we do.
And so I used my data background to really structure the information and make it usable.
Just as a very simple example, if you want to know what a prescription will cost at a given pharmacy on a given Medicare plan, every other Medicare advisor in the country and every Medicare organization is basically guessing because there are tens of billions of permutations of that problem.
We have used a lot of our data expertise to know with precision and accuracy what a prescription will cost you when you go fill it.
At a given pharmacy on a given Medicare plan.
And that matters, as you can imagine, not only so that you can go buy that prescription when you need it, but also because you want to get the Medicare plan that has the lowest prescription cost, given the prescriptions are going to be the same.
So that's just one very small example, but there are all these examples across so many different aspects of people's healthcare that really data can unlock a lot of power and a lot of cost savings for individuals.
The biggest thing is the hurdle of people like, oh my God, I'm so confused, I'm so intimidated.
Just let's start at the beginning.
What do they have to do to get access to your people that then they can be walked through an alternative?
Because the point here is not just direct cost, it's the plan has to fit you.
I think your mom, with her frustration in that first conversation with you, that she realized with her smarts and her due diligence, she had signed up for a bad plan.
She was stuck in a bad plan.
So, how does this audience get in contact with your consultants and advisors that they can actually start to see the whole range of alternatives?
But that's what it takes because it is a really complex system that's been created over time.
But there's a professor of health economics at Stanford University who.
Said that he had a hard time signing up for Medicare.
This is someone whose entire life work is studying the healthcare and healthcare economic system, and he couldn't figure it out.
So it really does take experts, unfortunately, but that's really why we're here.
So we provide free consultations, 845 War Room.
It's not just to know how to sign up initially, but if you're already on a plan and you want to make sure that you're on the right plan or you need to optimize your coverage, we'll walk you through the nuts and bolts from should I even be on Medicare or should I stay on my current employer plan.
Or other Cobra that I have.
If I should be on Medicare, help me sign up.
Tell me what plan to sign up for.
And then, one thing we don't talk that much about, but is actually a huge value add to chapters members into the posse, is that we have a full time dedicated team of what we call member advocates.
And these are people whose entire job is to help you save money and get the care you need.
So, if you want to appeal a bill or a claim, we'll help you with that.
If you need to find a doctor or a specialist who's in network, we'll help you with that.
If you need to Get a prior authorization, and the insurance carrier is giving you a hard time by denying your procedure.
We'll help you appeal it.
And we do all of that for free, just as being a member of the chapter and a member of the posse.
They're going to be at the White House in the Rose Garden, it'll be a special event.
Charlie Kirk next post after that, Gruber after that.
Um, Eric Bowling and I will be at the tail end of the bowling show to do a changeover, a transition, and talk about the Gulf, the war in the Persian Gulf, its impact on our economy.