00:02:15.820Well, of course, to put it in context, Putin has murdered or imprisoned his opponents for decades now in the clumsiest possible manner.
00:02:33.020You know, people that are allegedly in hospitals that sail out of a high window in a wheelchair, poisoning people in the U.K., murdering people within eyesight of the Kremlin.
00:02:45.120So I think Prigozhin's ultimate crime was not just marching on Moscow to take on the central government.
00:02:55.400It was saying to the Russian people on social media, this war was a fraud.
00:03:23.920And it also appears that probably the GRU will take over the Africa criminal enterprises.
00:03:32.020But hopefully, if Prigozhin was killed, not that that materially will affect the only thing we should care about, which is the ability of Ukraine to defend himself against Russian criminal aggression.
00:04:08.980We do know that Russian media, the Messenger newspaper is reporting Russian media saying they have actually pulled Prigozhin's body from the wreckage.
00:04:20.580And BBC is reporting that it was taken down.
00:04:33.820Well, Steve, if you remember two months ago to the day, I came on War Room and said that Prigozhin is headed for Moscow and he's going to get a missile aimed right in his direction.
00:04:46.240And that is what we're hearing at this time, that an anti-aircraft missile, you've got people on the ground that are reporting photos of this, looking at the shrapnel patterns and some of the wreckage that seem to be telltale signs of an anti-aircraft missile.
00:05:01.960Western media also reporting that an anti-aircraft missile.
00:05:05.160This is Prigozhin's jet had just taken off out of the airport in Moscow.
00:05:09.720We're not sure exactly where it was headed.
00:05:11.260It was two planes were taking off together.
00:05:13.900One included the entire high command, essentially, of the Wagner group.
00:05:21.320It included all the lieutenants, as well as Dmitry Utkin, who was one of the military commanders of Wagner.
00:05:27.940The second jet then returned back to Moscow and landed Putin at the same time now was presiding over actually an award ceremony down in Kursk, not only to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, but also to award.
00:05:48.740If you remember, there was that footage that came out, very rare footage that came out a few weeks ago of a lone Russian tank taking out an entire Ukrainian column.
00:06:01.340That tank crew was given an award, the heroes of Russia, by Putin directly tonight at the very same time that Prigozhin's plane was taken out of the sky.
00:06:12.880By the way, the irony is that's the largest tank battle in mankind's history, where the Red Army was able to defeat the Wehrmacht, which I guess was the best tank corps in the world.
00:06:27.300And we've seen the failure there of the Ukrainian trained forces under American training to penetrate the Russians.
00:06:35.120You know, you've got Durban going on, although Putin's been in absentia.
00:06:43.980It's a de-dollarization conference of how to put together a new world economic order to get off the American dollar and to get away from the West and the Federal Reserve.
00:06:54.960The timing of this, is this to send a message on the world stage where everybody's focused on Putin and what they're doing in Durban, to send a message that you don't mess with him?
00:07:06.960If anybody remembers Act 3 of The Godfather, when Michael Corleone is going to the baptism of his nephew, and while he's attending that event, every single one of the people who betrayed him was assassinated.
00:07:22.100That's exactly what's going on here right now.
00:07:51.020Only, of course, this time the music is being played by Wagner.
00:07:53.520Do you think that – do you think Zelensky – I've got a snarky quote up there on Getter on top of the Daily Mail story that Zelensky's wife should put him on a no-fly list.
00:08:06.460Because it has not been 1,000 percent ascertained this is Putin.
00:08:12.220The money is – over and under the money is on Putin right now.
00:08:35.880It's certainly possible that Ukraine or even Western intelligence agencies, some intelligence agencies took this out.
00:08:42.160Though I do think the most likely scenario is that this was a Russian anti-missile defense missile.
00:08:48.100That being that close to Moscow as it was, I just don't know that anyone else would have been able to do that unless you get into some, you know, Mission Impossible type scenarios.
00:08:57.180But that being said, it also goes to show you that Russia more than likely could have taken Zelensky out at any point in this.
00:09:05.620And it really goes back to what Naftali Bennett had said, the former prime minister of Israel, that Putin had promised him that he would not assassinate Zelensky.
00:09:14.960And then Zelensky goes and starts making his videos on the street.
00:09:18.020So that being said, when people are looking at early retirement plans, when they're starting to come on the board, when things seem like they're winding down or at least moving into another phase with the rise of BRICS, with the failure of the counteroffensive, I do think that President Zelensky would probably be wise to catch the train rather than go for a ride in a private jet.
00:09:40.500But, uh, Poso, you've, uh, by the way, the buzz out, we've been checking with Caroline, Randy, Carrie Lake, the team out there all day.
00:09:55.580It's all C team media covering Milwaukee, covering, uh, the Keebler elves, all the A team from MSNBC, CNN, all folks.
00:10:04.700They're all down in Georgia waiting for the primetime arraignment of president Trump.
00:10:09.100You've written a pretty, uh, brutal piece in a human events, sir.
00:10:14.260And, and Poso doesn't write a lot of opinion pieces.
00:10:17.240Walk me through what you wrote about this.
00:10:19.100Uh, what, what got you so worked up, Jack, that you would actually write essentially an editorial?
00:10:24.460Well, Steve, this, this piece, and, and you're right, you know, I, I typically do more video, obviously I do the, the short form stuff on Twitter.
00:10:32.280But today, when we look at where we are as a country, when you look at the fires of Maui, when you look at the people, the families that were incinerated in their vehicles,
00:10:42.180the children who were burned to ash in their homes because government had sent them back, didn't inform the parents, blockaded the only road out of Lahaina that we're now hearing that's associated press reporting.
00:10:54.780And then you're sitting there watching this absolute sideshow, this absolute sideshow going on there.
00:11:00.900I say, you know what, Steve, we don't have time for all of this.
00:12:02.360I appreciate the question, but I don't think I can answer it because as of tonight, I am no longer a candidate for president of the United States.
00:12:09.900The fact is that so long as the candidate chosen by the American people can be persecuted after his term ends for questioning the bureaucracy by a bureaucracy that sets itself up as judge, jury, and executioner, we the people are no longer sovereign.
00:12:25.400Therefore, being president is meaningless.
00:12:28.100I may not agree with everything President Trump did in office or how he conducted himself, but for the presidency to mean anything, we must prove that the people are in charge, not the bureaucrats.
00:12:38.240For that reason, I am suspending my candidacy.
00:12:56.500Keep in mind, Mitt Romney did actually do something like this in 2008 at CPAC when he endorsed John McCain.
00:13:02.620I was in the room when this happened, so it's not without precedent.
00:13:05.100But at the same time, Steve, we've looked at so many of these campaigns, their exercises in division, because what they're attempting to do is foment a MAGA civil war, split the base, and try to set up the circumstances whereby in Joe Biden can waltz down the middle.
00:13:22.180That's what this has been about all along.
00:13:23.840You've got these mega oligarchs that are throwing money into super PACs, people who can't raise money on their own.
00:13:29.180The single-dollar donors don't even exist.
00:13:31.380You've got a guy like Ramaswamy can come in who has no background whatsoever in politics, and he's beating a vice president, a sitting governor, and multiple other former governors and sitting senators.
00:16:37.860You were trying to do the coordinates between what happened in Moscow today with the, looks like, assassination of the head of the Wagner Group, right?
00:16:50.300The paramilitary arm, or the mercenary arm, I should say, of Putin's, not just his military, but the KGB.
00:16:58.240And they've been down in Africa, in the western part of Africa, of course, all over the battlefield in Ukraine.
00:17:06.460We're going to have updates tomorrow on day two, tomorrow morning on day two.
00:17:10.820One of the ways you can keep the perspective and understand what's going on between Durban and Jackson Hole, where the central bankers, particularly the Fed chief, is going to give his big kind of annual remarks out there with the other central banks.
00:17:29.120Most importantly, we've done a short pricey so that you can get your handle on what de-dollarization means, what this whole situation in Durban, South Africa means.
00:17:38.960All these nations coming together, over 60 nations.
00:17:41.160The BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and now 40 or 50 more.
00:17:48.400They want to either start an alternative currency or at least get off the U.S. dollar.
00:17:52.520Make sure you go to birchgold.com today and ask them.
00:17:55.700Make sure you ask them why the central banks of the world outside the Federal Reserve are buying gold at record rates.
00:18:03.740You know, we have so many issues here we deal with and try to make sure that you have the information so you can come to your own conclusions.
00:18:10.420So many pressing concerns and pressing things.
00:18:13.340Normally, we talk about Texas right now.
00:18:15.140We're down the southern border for the invasion.
00:18:23.500Because Trump is being indicted again.
00:18:25.400So instead of dealing with the country's problems, they're creating problems.
00:18:29.540Now, normally, I would go to Texas and we'd go to the southern border and you'd see some issues.
00:18:34.240In fact, I was on Alex Jones today with Michael Yon and Ann.
00:18:40.080They were co-hosting and they talked about all the things they're doing with Project Burning Edge and the warehouse they found outside of Houston with the children in it.
00:18:52.320So those are the issues down in Texas.
00:19:53.020But Ken Paxton, for really over 10 years now in Texas, has been the tip of the spear for the conservative movement.
00:19:59.960He was really one of the conservative champions that started fighting for conservative values against the Austin Swamp when he ran for speaker back in the House.
00:20:10.320He was loved by Texas voters because he did exactly what he said he was going to do.
00:20:15.520He was promoted to the state Senate and ultimately attorney general where he continued the fight.
00:20:19.920And I believe that Ken Paxton has inflicted pain on the swamp in a way that they have decided they are no longer going to allow him to function.
00:20:28.380So we've got a witch hunt going on here in Texas orchestrated by the globalists, the leftover Bush regime here in Texas.
00:20:39.940And I want to thank you, Steve, for bringing this into a national issue because I think this is a move that they're testing out here in Texas.
00:20:47.200And this is going to be the new play across the state.
00:20:49.900It's just Ken Paxton getting it first.
00:20:54.800Inform our audience, because I believe, and this is why we had Lauren, as soon as we can get Lauren on here the other day, we put her up because we want the entire MAGA movement to understand what's going on in Texas is not just about Texas.
00:21:17.200And they've been doing all this stuff.
00:21:18.740Now they're testing out whether they can completely get around the voters and not even try and take the election at the ballot box, but that a group of elected officials with the help of the Democrats can team up and take out our conservative heroes.
00:21:31.940I don't think people understand that this entire impeachment against Ken Paxton started with the support of 61 Democrats and a certain special interest group that has been funding the establishment and attacking conservatives for over 10 years.
00:22:03.160I believe that if they can take out one of the most popular elected officials in the state of Texas with a record like Ken Paxton has, this is the first of many things.
00:22:13.140They will be doing this across the entire country and state legislators with our heroes if we do not stop them here now.
00:22:42.340Can you just go through those senators names again and just give those names to us that we should be focused on, ma'am?
00:22:48.960Yes, yeah, we should be focused on Kelly Hancock, Charles Schwartner, Brian Hughes, Mays Middleton, Charles Perry, and Drew Springer.
00:23:01.040And these are all people who consider themselves conservative Republicans because we realize that just being a Republican, like I said yesterday, doesn't mean much.
00:23:11.580Are you a constitutional conservative, like Jonathan just said?
00:23:14.160And all of these have a pretty red record, except for Mays Middleton made a large donation, $300,000, to Paxton's primary opponent.
00:23:25.760So that's in question on how he would vote.
00:23:28.500But, you know, we have a situation where people say one thing and do another and, you know, preserving their careers and, you know, listening to consultants who might have vendettas against Ken Paxton, you know, clouds people's judgment.
00:23:45.300So these people claim to be conservative Republicans.
00:23:49.000We just have to ensure that they stay conservative.
00:23:52.360And it's on the grassroots to hold people accountable.
00:23:54.980And I think that's what we have here with these six.
00:23:59.580Lauren, before I turn back to Jonathan, what is their – what's the central beef that they make about Paxton?
00:24:05.360What's their central argument when they're out there talking?
00:24:08.100What is their central concern about a guy – and we can judge this because we've been seeing this since the day Biden took office.
00:24:14.680Paxton – in fact, Paxton, I think, came on the show on the afternoon of the 20th of January, 2021, when Biden is taking the oath of – he says,
00:24:22.760hey, where Biden's by the Constitution, no problem.
00:24:24.980Biden outside the Constitution would be number one.
00:24:27.360And I think Texas has led the way of confronting the Biden regime.
00:24:30.880So what is their principal beef with Ken Paxton?
00:24:34.920Well, I think it's interesting you ask that exact question because their principal beef is their future careers.
00:24:40.280It's less about Paxton and more about them.
00:24:43.400And you see our House divide and our Senate divide over such a controversial issue.
00:24:48.760These are people who have expressed, and it's well known, that they have statewide ambitions.
00:24:53.080Four of them, Hughes, Middleton, Perry, and Springer, all share a former consultant of Ken Paxton.
00:25:00.280And these consultants hold a lot of power in Dallas and sometimes can get the ear of their clients.
00:25:06.960And so it's truly less about Paxton and more about how they maintain power.
00:25:12.660And that's really where the House went wrong and where the Senate could go wrong if the grassroots doesn't hold them accountable.
00:26:25.640This is this is a political witch hunt against Ken Paxton.
00:26:30.220And it's it's really funny watching these guys try and squirm and and make sense of how they came to this conclusion.
00:26:36.420You have to understand that when this investigation went down, there was not one person who got to ask questions to the so-called witnesses.
00:26:44.840None of the witnesses were put under oath.
00:26:47.340We do not have any of that information.
00:26:51.700And and I hate to tell this to you, but this is the absolute truth.
00:26:55.180I was told this was going to happen during the last election by the people who spent over 10 million dollars against Ken Paxton.
00:27:02.800This was a threat that the establishment put out there before voters went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly for Ken Paxton.
00:27:11.480They said that if Ken Paxton wins the next election, the Democrats will lead an impeachment with the help of some rhinos and he will be taken down.