Bannon's War Room - Episode 2426： Kevin McCarthy Survives Reelection

00:00:00.000 What that tells me is that they were expecting a third present vote, and that did not materialize.

00:00:08.140 So one of the other four should be the focus here, because one of the other four clearly

00:00:13.040 had indicated to the McCarthy team that they were willing to vote present, which would

00:00:17.480 have handed him the gavel.

00:00:18.800 All right, Erin, we have a game of clue here.

00:00:21.120 Was it Congressman Rosendale in the House chamber with a false promise?

00:00:25.460 Back to you.

00:00:28.380 A night of treachery.

00:00:30.000 And an image of what happened.

00:00:32.200 All right, just to give some context to this, that moment on the floor, I want to show everybody

00:00:36.160 the video, when you saw Mike Rogers of Alabama appearing to have to be physically restrained.

00:00:42.140 There's a pull back.

00:00:43.120 Oh, right on the face.

00:00:44.660 Somebody grabbed him.

00:00:46.260 Physically restrained.

00:00:47.120 Watch the face.

00:00:47.760 Watch his face.

00:00:49.480 Yep.

00:00:50.060 Wow.

00:00:51.500 As Kevin McCarthy is stonily walking away.

00:00:55.840 Just to Scott, you said this is treachery.

00:00:58.260 Absolute treachery.

00:00:58.900 Well, first of all, I'd like to thank all of our viewers for watching CNN's exclusive

00:01:02.560 screening of Snakes on a Plane Part 2.

00:01:04.840 I've never seen the amount of treachery.

00:01:09.780 Not since 1856, when Preston Brooks came to Charles Sumner, have we seen this kind of

00:01:14.960 treachery under the Capitol Dome.

00:01:16.460 This is...

00:01:16.820 Was that on C-SPAN?

00:01:17.740 This is crazy.

00:01:18.440 And they hadn't passed a rules package.

00:01:19.780 So we're looking at the camera angles.

00:01:21.800 This is absolutely high drama, crazy stuff.

00:01:25.180 I can't imagine how McCarthy and McHenry, who I was heaping praise upon earlier for their,

00:01:29.440 you know, skills today.

00:01:30.900 How must they be feeling?

00:01:31.740 But as you were saying, somebody lied to them.

00:01:34.120 Somebody lied.

00:01:34.440 Somebody lied.

00:01:34.900 Somebody lied.

00:01:35.620 I want to make a point about this.

00:01:36.780 I want to make a point about this.

00:01:37.000 Right when it happened, people were telling me it was Rosendale, who committed the first

00:01:41.520 act of treachery.

00:01:42.280 But now...

00:01:42.760 Because he was supposed to vote president.

00:01:44.000 It looks like maybe they were all in it together.

00:01:45.600 But I also want to make clear that we will never compromise our principles.

00:01:55.080 House Democrats will always put American values over autocracy, benevolence over bigotry,

00:02:04.840 the Constitution over the cult, democracy over demagogues, economic opportunity over extremism,

00:02:14.180 freedom over fascism, governing over gaslighting, hopefulness over hatred, inclusion over isolation,

00:02:25.140 justice over judicial overreach, knowledge over kangaroo courts, liberty over limitation,

00:02:32.900 maturity over Mar-a-Lago, normalcy over negativity, opportunity over obstruction, people over politics,

00:02:43.600 quality of life issues over QAnon, reason over racism, substance over slander, triumph over

00:02:52.240 tyranny, understanding over ugliness, voting rights over voter suppression, working families 0.95

00:02:59.100 over the well-connected, xenial over xenophobia, yes we can over you can't do it, and zealous representation

00:03:08.940 That you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion,

00:03:20.320 and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you're about

00:03:26.640 to enter, so help you God.

00:03:28.760 Yes I do.

00:03:29.380 Congratulations, and Godspeed.

00:03:32.220 Thank you.

00:03:49.860 I know the night is late, but when we come back,

00:03:57.860 our very first bill will repeal the funding for $87,000 a year.

00:04:17.820 You see, we believe government should be to help you, not go after you.

00:04:23.320 We're going to pass bills to fix the nation's urgent challenges, from wide open southern

00:04:30.160 borders, to American last energy policies, to woke indoctrination in our schools.

00:04:36.700 We'll also address America's long-term challenges, the debt, and the rise of the Chinese Communist 1.00

00:04:56.360 Party.

00:04:56.780 Congress must speak with one voice on both of these issues.

00:05:05.440 There is nothing more important than making it possible for American families to live and

00:05:11.720 enjoy the lives they deserve.

00:05:13.920 That is why we commit to stop wasteful Washington spending, to lower the price of groceries, gas,

00:05:21.060 cars, housing, and stop the rising national debt.

00:05:29.120 But I do want to especially thank President Trump.

00:05:33.320 I don't think anybody should doubt his influence.

00:05:36.960 He was with me from the beginning.

00:05:39.000 Somebody wrote the doubt of whether he was there, and he was all in.

00:05:42.660 He would call me, and he would call others.

00:05:44.360 And he really was, I was just talking to him tonight, helping get those final votes.

00:05:51.420 What he's really saying, really, for the party in the country, that we have to come together.

00:05:56.720 We have to focus on the economy.

00:05:58.660 We've got to focus, make our borders secure.

00:06:01.700 We've got to do so much work to do, and he was a great influence to make that all happen.

00:06:06.080 So thank you, President Trump.

00:06:07.820 It was a victory.

00:06:08.520 It was a hard-fought one.

00:06:09.380 It was a contentious one at moments, Charlie.

00:06:13.120 A source did tell CNN that Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, he told Matt Gaetz that Gaetz was going to be finished

00:06:19.480 for continuing to wreck the Speaker's vote and really forcing it to go so many rounds.

00:06:25.040 Now, McCarthy has tried to spin this division that we saw on full display.

00:06:29.460 As he said, now we've learned how to govern.

00:06:32.780 But, Charlie, what do you think this means for passing legislation, actually getting stuff done?

00:06:36.860 Why the American people sent these people to Congress when Republicans have such a tiny majority?

00:06:43.400 Oh, my.

00:06:44.740 Governing.

00:06:45.260 It's going to get much harder now.

00:06:47.120 The Speaker's vote is usually the easiest vote of the Congress.

00:06:51.260 It really is.

00:06:52.280 And we just saw what happened.

00:06:53.640 This turned into being one of the hardest votes of the Congress.

00:06:56.100 But the legislature, it's going to become even more difficult.

00:06:58.460 Because some of the concessions that Speaker McCarthy had to make to get the job, such as adding a few Freedom Caucus members to the Rules Committee,

00:07:07.680 well, good luck getting those bills to the floor.

00:07:09.860 That's a key committee.

00:07:10.820 Most of the public doesn't understand what goes on in that committee.

00:07:13.180 But that's essential.

00:07:14.460 Gave those folks a seat at that table.

00:07:16.920 That's a big mistake.

00:07:17.880 There are other mistakes that they've made here, too.

00:07:20.820 As Alice pointed out, the motion to vacate the chair.

00:07:24.220 It just empowered these guys.

00:07:26.580 For example, OK, I love the idea of passing appropriations bills individually.

00:07:31.620 And the House should do that.

00:07:33.820 The problem you have is the United States Senate.

00:07:36.160 They don't pass bills individually.

00:07:38.260 And you will end up with yet another omnibus.

00:07:41.040 So while Speaker McCarthy made those concessions, it's almost as if they pretended the United States Senate doesn't exist.

00:07:46.860 I have heard suggestions that they were going to cap defense spending.

00:07:50.720 Well, hello, you know, the Armed Services Committee, the Appropriations Committee, the Senate, they're all going to have a say on this matter.

00:07:57.960 How can those types of concessions be made to a group of this chaos caucus?

00:08:05.380 I mean, it's almost as if it's easier.

00:08:07.560 It's almost better to be an opponent to the Speaker than to be an ally, because look what these guys have extracted out of him.

00:08:14.160 And I mean, I really think this is this is going to get much harder to govern.

00:08:18.680 And then there's the debt ceiling.

00:08:20.220 We even talked about wait till that comes around.

00:08:23.660 How are they going to be able to pass a debt ceiling?

00:08:26.000 They said there have to be spending cuts tied to it.

00:08:28.260 Well, again, hello, the Senate's going to be involved.

00:08:31.280 The president's going to be involved.

00:08:32.520 And they're going to have to renege on that that that that concession.

00:08:38.900 They're going to have to renege on that concession.

00:08:40.880 They're already taking stuff back.

00:08:41.980 It's Saturday, 7 January in the year of our Lord, 2023, a night.

00:08:46.860 If you didn't stay up for it, I want to thank Grace Chung and Captain Bannon for running the live stream last night.

00:08:52.240 I was working on the side to make sure that that we could try to take a last stand and try to stop this, the cartel.

00:09:01.840 But a huge audience last night on our live stream and get a really want to thank her.

00:09:05.580 I think 25,000 people a night of high drama and low comedy.

00:09:10.480 Right. We had it right there.

00:09:12.160 It was going to go motion to adjourn.

00:09:14.900 It's going to take it to Monday, be able to work on the 14 because the package is not completely done yet.

00:09:21.000 But then, you know, you had fistfights or quasi fistfights and broke out and a little bit of chaos on the floor, but organized chaos.

00:09:30.820 And then a reversal and everybody voted president McCarthy is the speaker.

00:09:37.540 I want to bring in Mike Davis, but right there, even and we want to do that cold open.

00:09:41.860 You see kind of the arc of the evening.

00:09:43.680 In particular, two things is I want to make sure everybody.

00:09:47.240 And if you had not, we'll put up Hakeem Jeffries.

00:09:49.620 I don't even know, you know, Nancy Pelosi turned the gavel over to him so she didn't have to have the photo op.

00:09:55.720 But I don't even understand why they let him have a 10 or 12 minute speech.

00:09:59.620 Seemed like it went on forever.

00:10:01.080 As radical as you could possibly get.

00:10:03.480 So you see what we're up against.

00:10:06.240 And that doesn't even talk about the cartel on our side of the football.

00:10:08.920 But a ton of extractions, historical in nature, on a short lease.

00:10:15.020 Now it has to be executed.

00:10:16.960 Mike Davis, I know that you were one that said, hey, you got to take McCarthy out because he represents the worst of, you know, and I want to stop calling it the swamp, the cartel. 0.93

00:10:27.000 So, right, the cartel head.

00:10:29.280 But you saw right there, he gave thanks to President Trump at the end.

00:10:32.980 President Trump definitely whipped the vote at the very end when things got the nastiest, I would think, right after the 14th vote.

00:10:40.520 I mean, they took the 14th vote.

00:10:41.840 We won again.

00:10:43.020 We were going to go, a motion to adjourn, put up by them, by the Republicans, by McHenry.

00:10:48.920 We were going to win that vote and adjourn until noon on Monday.

00:10:51.660 And then all of a sudden it got reversed.

00:10:53.780 We came back and everybody voted present and on the 15th ballot.

00:10:57.980 Mike, how do you make this work?

00:10:59.320 You've been one of the most adamant in terms of it because you deal with these guys.

00:11:02.720 You particularly, you focused on something that's to the heart of it.

00:11:06.380 It's the heart of the investigations, but it's the heart of what has to change because it is the, it's the operational arm of the oligarch.

00:11:14.260 It's the, it's the cartels and the apparatuses functioning operating arm in a high-tech society.

00:11:20.240 And that's big tech.

00:11:21.300 So first off, you send out something on Getter I thought was amazing.

00:11:24.120 How would Mike Davis, given that we, and I keep telling people, this is round one because every day, every day, every day McCarthy, because of the concessions.

00:11:33.140 And now, and that's why I put these stories up in Getter on the Hill.

00:11:35.980 People are just now understanding, particularly professionals, of what actually was given up last night so he could secure the speakership.

00:11:43.240 Mike Davis.

00:11:44.260 Yeah, I mean, Kevin McCarthy is Matt Gaetz's steer.

00:11:50.620 Gaetz castrated McCarthy and Gaetz can send McCarthy, the butcher, anytime.

00:11:58.800 So that's where we are.

00:12:00.860 Explain, explain, explain that to people because I don't understand that people fully understand the heroic nature of what Gaetz and what I would call the, the, the, the six for America at the end.

00:12:09.780 The other 14 also because they, they stood for a while and then went and cut a package that's quite revolutionary.

00:12:15.400 But the six, the hardcore six, when you say that, because walk us through what that means from a technical point of view, I get, I get the analogy.

00:12:23.960 But what does that mean that he got him and now he can, he can basically, he and the others can drive this agenda?

00:12:32.020 Yeah, I mean, everyone assumes that Kevin McCarthy would have a glide path to the speakership.

00:12:39.440 But the establishment Republicans just do not understand how much conservatives do not trust Kevin McCarthy.

00:12:49.700 We will never trust him.

00:12:51.240 He has never earned our trust.

00:12:53.340 He never will earn our trust.

00:12:55.160 His guiding principle is Kevin McCarthy.

00:12:57.180 So these 20 conservatives knew that they had to try to stop Kevin McCarthy at all costs.

00:13:05.220 And if they couldn't stop him, if they were just overwhelmed with the House Republican conference and physical threats of force,

00:13:13.380 they knew that they had to get a rules package that essentially took away all of his powers and made it where he's a figurehead speaker.

00:13:23.180 The speaker, the speakership is a, is a very, very powerful position.

00:13:29.500 I learned that early on.

00:13:30.580 I interned for Newt Gingrich when he was the speaker, when he went down as speaker under these similar circumstances.

00:13:36.560 And so these 20 people are very brave, very courageous, very fearless members of the House because the retributions that they could face are just astronomical.

00:13:48.020 But they, they forced, they forced Kevin McCarthy to put Freedom Caucus people.

00:13:54.080 I think it's three Freedom Caucus people on the, on the House Rules Committee.

00:14:00.520 The House Rules Committee decides, I mean, it's a very, very, very powerful gatekeeping committee that's almost always, it is always controlled by the speaker.

00:14:09.360 Now it's, it's, there is a, a good amount of control for the House Freedom Caucus on the steering committee where they get to decide what rules are, are on each piece of legislation.

00:14:20.140 If it's an open rule or a closed rule, meaning can people offer amendments or not?

00:14:24.680 Is it going to be shoved down their throats or it's going to be amendments?

00:14:27.900 Congressman Rosendale, can you, the folks in Montana too, in fact, the folks in the entire state of Montana, I don't think there's any doubt they know that you're going to be all over supportive and getting on with the investigations into the Biden administration, Biden regime and, and, and others, right?

00:14:51.200 Get Fauci, the whole thing.

00:14:53.180 Is there any debt is, is the, is the couple of days we need or the week we need or so to work this through, is that going to really hold anything back?

00:15:00.780 Is Scott Jennings correct in that, sir?

00:15:03.900 No, no.

00:15:04.800 I mean, a little bit more time to plan this process that they're going to, eventually is going to take place.

00:15:12.480 It's not hurting those investigations.

00:15:14.800 One single solitary bed.

00:15:16.420 I think we've got the highest likelihood of having some kind of success on the Fauci investigations.

00:15:23.120 I mean, my personal opinion, I'm not an attorney and I don't even sit on judiciary, but the Fauci investigations and the Mayorkas investigations, Mayorkas, I do not think it's going to be too much of a stretch to demonstrate that he intentionally has compromised our national security by ignoring policies that would have helped us secure our southern border.

00:15:44.780 And we're not talking about just the number of people that have come into our country, Steve.

00:15:49.360 We are under a chemical attack from China via the, the, the drug facilities in Mexico.

00:15:55.760 All the components come from China, go to Mexico, they make the fentanyl, it comes into our country, close to 200,000 people have actually died from drug overdoses in our country over the last couple of years.

00:16:06.960 And that's a direct result of, of most of it from fentanyl from Mexico.

00:16:11.860 And, and then when you start factoring in the additional human trafficking and the rising crime rates, we know that, that poor prosecution and prosecutorial measures have, have contributed to those problems.

00:16:26.500 But I thought the law enforcement all across the state of Montana and they attribute the increase in crime directly to the poor southern border, the fentanyl, and it has actually reached into the state of Montana.

00:16:38.540 So I believe Mayorkas, we have the highest likelihood of having some kind of legal outcome against him.

00:16:46.460 And I think that the Fauci investigations must be done so that we can, at the same time, tie in the suppression of facts by big tech from, from being able to be shared with the general public.

00:17:00.840 And, and all of that sort of culminates together.

00:17:03.520 And then those will take place and an additional couple of days for us to have this debate and to make sure that we have the best leadership in place for every public is worth it.

00:17:14.560 Um, did they, this package is, you know, you got Daniel Horowitz, you got other people I really respect putting up that this historic package where Chip Roy and people, uh, have negotiated.

00:17:25.560 We, you got the three buckets on the debt ceiling and the spending, you've got the rules and regular order.

00:17:30.780 Um, and you've got the investigations, particularly the church committee or whatever, this weaponization of government to really go after the FBI, DOJ and others, national security, DHS.

00:17:39.100 Do, is it your belief that because we were going to see something, you know, McCarthy put out something right.

00:17:48.240 That was not acceptable.

00:17:49.120 It was too, you know, happy talk.

00:17:51.200 And then they came back with something, the letter that came, Scott Perry sent with nine signatures was much, uh, was much sharper, but they said there's going to be another, actually a deal they're working on.

00:18:01.300 It's going to have language to exactly your point that if you vote, then rules have got to be set up and things have to happen.

00:18:08.280 You're not going to get the bait and switch.

00:18:10.320 Do you believe that, uh, Scott Perry and others that voted today to, to, to, to support, uh, McCarthy are giving up their leverage in this, in this historic package that they're trying to remember.

00:18:24.060 They're comfortable with McCarthy.

00:18:25.560 So that's a big difference than the hard six are, uh, do you believe they're giving up their leverage in, in, in going down the path they're going down right now?

00:18:36.480 Yes.

00:18:36.860 I mean, the simple answer is yes.

00:18:38.240 Have you ever taken a signed contract to an attorney and they asked him to review it?

00:18:42.100 He says, why?

00:18:43.360 I can't change it.

00:18:44.220 You've already, you've already entered into this agreement.

00:18:46.360 They've already entered into the agreement and they have taken an incredible leap of faith that I said I wasn't able to do, wasn't willing to do.

00:18:53.680 I am very pleased that, uh, Chip Roy is still a part of that, uh, process.

00:18:59.800 I will tell you, because he's an incredibly intelligent individual that I have an immense amount of, of trust for.

00:19:05.420 And, and, and I, I hope that they are able to conclude this, but they have just taken an incredible leap of faith.

00:19:11.320 And, uh, we are going to be completely reliant on the, um, on the goodwill and the honor of, uh, of Kevin McCarthy.

00:19:20.240 If he in fact becomes the speaker to, to pass and to uphold, uh, this rules package.

00:19:27.720 So they're depending upon the tender mercies of essentially the cartel, because their thing is they make changes.

00:19:32.880 And these are historic changes.

00:19:34.240 People have been talking about for 20 years.

00:19:36.020 They are historic and Daniel Horowitz and others will back that up, but it's, it's far from a done deal.

00:19:40.960 You agree with that?

00:19:42.560 Oh, I absolutely think it is far from a done deal.

00:19:45.560 There's, there's a lot of, there's a lot of things that must take place in order for those rules to be passed and implemented.

00:19:55.260 Um, you know, I, I, I, Commander Zinke is a, is a friend of mine and, you know, I've known him, got to help him get to, to come into the Trump administration.

00:20:04.340 Think very highly of him.

00:20:05.660 Uh, but he said some things here recently that, that, you know, are not exactly, I don't totally agree with, but here's one thing that's interesting.

00:20:15.000 I just want to make sure I got, got this right.

00:20:16.480 Cause the Commander Zinke was very much for, let's, let's, let's just get Kevin McCarthy from the beginning.

00:20:22.240 If we had not gone through this process and particularly your brilliant speech on the house floor yesterday in this four or five days, that's been painful, but, but had to happen.

00:20:30.960 Would we be close to having a reform package that people have talked about for 20 or 30 years, but have not done it?

00:20:38.780 If, if, if McCarthy had been just signed off on immediately, would any of this in your mind have happened, sir?

00:20:47.120 None, none of it.

00:20:48.820 I mean, that's, that's the fact it's not, it's just not my opinion.

00:20:51.580 It just simply would not have happened.

00:20:53.180 And we saw that as we try to engage in these conversations back in the summer when it would not have taken, uh, this public display of the Republic.

00:21:02.880 And I personally think that this is, has turned out to be a good thing so that the public can see, uh, what is going on?

00:21:10.140 Well, what is it?

00:21:10.800 Uh, daylight is the best disinfectant and, and there has been a lot of daylight shed on how the house actually operates and how people across this country think it operates.

00:21:21.680 And I can assure you that had it not been for, uh, the 20 of us standing forward and, and forcing these votes that we would not be proposing and listening to and discussing the dramatic restoration of the, uh, house rules that we are right now.

00:21:43.100 So where you stand right now is that unless there's a change in leadership, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're one of the hard six.

00:21:50.300 You're, you're not really interested.

00:21:51.660 You need to see the change at the top of the cartel.

00:21:54.300 I do.

00:21:55.860 That is correct, Steve.

00:21:57.420 I mean, we have to, we have, you can't just change the rules because at the end of the day, we have to have confidence in the leadership that's going to be implementing those rules.

00:22:05.880 And sooner or later, that individual is going to have to go back over to the Senate and, or to the white house, uh, to negotiate, uh, in good faith for the Republican conference of the house of representatives.

00:22:19.940 And, and that is the, you know, that's the person that we have to have that faith.

00:22:24.220 And it's going to say the same thing in that room and, uh, uh, on the other side of the building or the other side of the city that they're saying to us in the conference room.

00:22:35.220 How do you think this plays out tonight before I let you go?

00:22:37.820 Hey, I think it's adjourned till 10 o'clock.

00:22:40.780 Um, you know, that's normally one of the best star chambers take places late at night.

00:22:44.840 They say they're going to go all night tonight.

00:22:46.340 Uh, what can our audience and the folks out in Montana to expect?

00:22:50.880 Uh, you know, I am not sure.

00:22:52.340 I know that there's two Republicans that are returning.

00:22:54.500 They have been out of the chamber and I don't know if all the, uh, Democrats, if any of them are going to be flying out tonight.

00:23:01.180 They have, have eliminated the proxy voting.

00:23:03.840 So you're going to have to be there to be able to vote.

00:23:07.740 So I, I'm not a hundred percent sure exactly how this is going to shake out tonight.

00:23:13.020 I'm, you know, I'm not, we've been doing a lot of calls on, on the floor.

00:23:17.500 We really have Steve.

00:23:18.520 I've heard Omaha yelled several times.

00:23:20.360 I thought Peyton Manning was down there voting one day. 1.00

00:23:24.200 A lot of audibles, uh, Congressman Rosendale, how do people follow you?

00:23:28.340 What's the social media?

00:23:30.200 At Rep Rosendale, at Rep Rosendale.

00:23:34.060 Uh, sir, you've, uh, you've really been a patriot in the, uh, in a true leader here over the last couple of days.

00:23:39.620 It's been amazing.

00:23:40.220 So thank you very much.

00:23:41.240 Honor for you to take away the time tonight to come and join us.

00:23:43.820 It's an honor to represent, uh, Montana and, and this country is worth it.

00:23:47.600 That's why I do it.

00:23:49.000 Well, I gotta tell you, they gotta be very proud of you out there.

00:23:51.360 This, you, you've changed the arc of this country, sir.

00:23:54.940 Scott, Scott Jennings probably shouldn't do any consulting in Montana.

00:23:58.780 Maybe that's why, you know, he's led them to the minority. 0.54

00:24:01.260 Thank you, sir.

00:24:04.640 Couldn't agree more.

00:24:05.940 Shouldn't do any consulting anywhere, but that's okay.

00:24:07.900 Thank you, sir.

00:24:10.180 I got, uh, John Fredericks.

00:24:11.760 I got, uh, Mike Davis.

00:24:13.000 Also, we're trying to, other people are calling and blowing this up.

00:24:15.480 So we're going to try to figure this out.

00:24:16.480 Let's go to Mike Davis.

00:24:17.460 I got a long call open for Fredericks and Davis, but I want to wait to play that on the other side.

00:24:22.680 Uh, Mike Davis, uh, give me your assessment of today.

00:24:26.360 Particularly, you're a pretty tough lawyer.

00:24:27.940 Uh, what about folks that are agreeing to things that sound good?

00:24:32.820 Do you think it's any chance you get, you get bait and switch by this crowd that they're negotiating with, sir?

00:24:38.600 I think that these 21 house Republicans are being, uh, played by Kevin McCarthy.

00:24:45.200 And, uh, what's going to happen is when, when he, they elect him speaker, he's not going to whip the votes necessary for this, for this negotiated rules package.

00:24:54.720 To, uh, to, uh, to become the house rules.

00:24:57.540 And you're going to see the, maybe some moderate Democrats working with, uh, or excuse me, moderate Republicans working with Democrats.

00:25:05.000 Uh, and I don't think this rules package is going to go through.

00:25:07.780 Uh, this is like the congressman just said before us, this is about, uh, trusting Kevin McCarthy.

00:25:14.240 And the reason we are here today after what, 12, 13 rounds of voting is because they do not trust Kevin McCarthy.

00:25:21.440 They do not trust Kevin McCarthy.

00:25:23.160 They want to strip the speaker of all of these powers because they don't trust him.

00:25:27.780 Right?

00:25:28.020 And so this is what's so, uh, puzzling to me is, is why are we insisting that the speaker be Kevin McCarthy if he can't get the trust of 218 of his members?

00:25:38.900 Why, why is it Kevin McCarthy?

00:25:40.920 It's, it's like, he's, he's on, like, he's, it's like, he's on parole.

00:25:45.260 Like we don't trust him.

00:25:46.100 He has an ankle bracelet, uh, from, from the house Republican conference.

00:25:49.760 It's just bizarre to me.

00:25:51.360 You're going to have, you're going to have a speaker who is so weakened here because they don't trust Kevin McCarthy.

00:25:56.000 How is he going to do when he goes into the white house and he's sitting across the table from white house, chief of staff, Ron Klain and Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, they're going to take his pants down.

00:26:05.460 Hang on one second.

00:26:06.320 We're taking a short break.

00:26:07.140 We got Fredericks, we got Mike Davis, I'm going to get to the point.

00:26:09.900 They obviously don't trust him.

00:26:11.080 That's where this whole package is and the motion vacate yet.

00:26:15.200 They're trusting him enough not to close that deal before they give him his vote or do they?

00:26:20.920 Will there be any switching short commercial break back with Fredericks and Davis next war room.

00:26:28.780 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:26:30.840 Mann.

00:26:31.220 Here's the state of play.

00:26:33.900 By the way, we've got Darren Beattie that, uh, is on deck.

00:26:37.500 I'll get to him in a minute.

00:26:38.460 We've got Kerry Lake. 0.84

00:26:39.540 I have Frank Gaffney.

00:26:40.880 State of play is that last night they had the 14th vote.

00:26:46.900 They came back at 10 o'clock at night.

00:26:48.240 They had the 14th vote.

00:26:49.340 And, uh, and what happened is that, um, we actually stood tall.

00:26:53.620 We had a couple of guys that went, uh, that, you know, Gates and Boebert, um, voted present,

00:26:59.120 but the four hardcore crane and good, um, and, uh, and Andy Biggs and Rosendale hung tough.

00:27:07.120 And, uh, and so we're going to go to another round.

00:27:09.400 Then a fracas broke out, started with McCarthy and Gates back in his row.

00:27:16.020 And then went to, um, and then, uh, uh, uh, Mike Rogers in Alabama got involved in almost a fight

00:27:21.760 broke out or fight did kind of break out.

00:27:23.980 Uh, we called for an adjournment.

00:27:25.780 We're going to adjourn till Monday.

00:27:26.980 I think the thought was a couple of the 14 could be peeled off.

00:27:30.100 Uh, and what happened is that they called to adjourn.

00:27:32.760 We were going to have to Monday at noon and be able to work on the 14.

00:27:35.560 If they didn't love the package, peel them off and start this thing over again next week.

00:27:39.540 But, you know, there was some phone calls made, some whipping next thing, you know,

00:27:44.580 we're going to 15, all six voted present.

00:27:47.280 McCarthy is a McCarthy speaker real quickly.

00:27:50.220 I know you got to bounce the Patriot act should get the Gaffney later. 0.70

00:27:55.360 Cause I know he has probably a different section on this, but Tom Massey's a guy that voted.

00:27:59.000 I think he's one of the few guys that voted against.

00:28:00.480 Well, I don't think he was around, but he's been very anti-Patriot act.

00:28:03.000 They milked the original war on terror for all it's worth. 0.61

00:28:07.260 They've gotten the Patriot act and much, much more.

00:28:10.160 And that drift is over.

00:28:12.100 And so they're repurposing the national security state against American citizens and Trump supporters.

00:28:19.160 We're effectively the new Islamic radicals from their point of view. 1.00

00:28:23.100 And so that's really the thing that I think the church style committee should address most aggressively.

00:28:32.660 Going forward, what would be your one or two priorities?

00:28:35.680 Now, now you got this new, we got the ability if executed upon to keep McCarthy and these guys on a short leash.

00:28:43.480 What is your, cause you're more on the investigation side.

00:28:47.020 What has to happen?

00:28:48.440 One of the one or two things that it's going to show you that progress is being made and we're not getting played.

00:28:54.840 Well, they would love to sweep the January 6th stuff under the rug because that's some really explosive stuff.

00:29:00.540 And I have a very easy and simple ask.

00:29:02.880 I want the FBI to hand over the chain of custody of the DNC surveillance tapes and the full, raw, unedited footage of those tapes.

00:29:11.120 And let's start from there and see where it leads.

00:29:13.380 Very simple ask.

00:29:14.300 You don't need to say the feds were involved.

00:29:16.480 All you need to say is it's been two years.

00:29:18.440 We haven't caught the pipe bomber.

00:29:19.940 It's time to release the full footage of the DNC surveillance site.

00:29:25.920 Okay, perfect.

00:29:27.300 Darren, how do people get to your particular social media and how they get to Revolver through that?

00:29:33.380 Revolver.news.

00:29:34.580 We're going to have a lot of reporting coming up on the particulars of how this church committee should look that's informed by an historical understanding of what the church committee was, why it was effective, where it was ineffective, and how we can update it most effectively given our current circumstances.

00:29:51.780 So we're going to cover this very strongly over the coming weeks and months.

00:29:57.000 So Revolver.news, if you missed the Trump interview, we talk about the church committee, the JFK files, and much more.

00:30:04.300 Go to Revolver.news.

00:30:05.320 Check that out.

00:30:06.520 We're on Getter at Revolver.news, and I'm on Twitter at Darren J. Beattie.

00:30:10.620 No, it's one of the best interviews of President Trump ever.

00:30:14.500 So, Darren, thank you so much.

00:30:15.860 Honored to have you on here.

00:30:17.140 Let's go to Kerry Lake.

00:30:18.420 Kerry, one, I want your – you were up watching this last night.

00:30:21.580 I want your thoughts, and particularly I'd like to ask you as one of the leaders of our movement, Hakeem Jeffries, throwdown.

00:30:30.740 I thought inappropriate throwdown.

00:30:32.620 Give us your assessment of what happened last night, particularly from a grassroots perspective, given that we wanted a change of the head of the cartel and we didn't get it.

00:30:41.040 And then Hakeem Jeffries, ma'am.

00:30:43.860 Well, the Hakeem Jeffries – I mean if he thought he was riling up and rallying his troops, it did just the opposite.

00:30:51.580 To sit there and watch – I mean it's opposite day with these guys.

00:30:55.380 Everything he was describing that he says the Democrat Party is about is just the opposite. 0.97

00:31:01.200 You know, they're the fascists.

00:31:02.440 They're the ones pushing this judicial system that is weaponized. 0.94

00:31:06.880 They're the ones who are not for governing.

00:31:09.100 They are the ones who do the gaslighting.

00:31:10.900 And it was just completely opposite.

00:31:12.240 It was almost comical.

00:31:13.780 And I think what he did was actually energize the people on the conservative movement to do more, to stop this insanity.

00:31:21.840 This is about not just stopping the left but the communists left from taking over our country.

00:31:26.980 And I was really proud of that band of 20 that held strong.

00:31:31.180 They knew they didn't have the numbers, but they used the power they did have to the nth degree.

00:31:37.780 And, you know, if you don't think Arizona is America first, MAGA country, look at three of the men on that band of 20.

00:31:45.940 It was Gosar, Biggs, and Eli Crane, a freshman representative representing the people of Arizona who held tight, who held strong under immense pressure.

00:31:55.880 And we're getting an idea how we can use what the people of America want, which is they want America first patriots running the show.

00:32:04.440 They want America first agenda governing their state and community.

00:32:09.240 And we may not have all the numbers that we need, but we can use that power in a way that influences the legislation that comes out and affects change.

00:32:18.660 I'm really proud of those guys.

00:32:20.000 They didn't have the numbers to get what they wanted, but we got a lot out of that.

00:32:24.140 We got a lot out of that negotiation.

00:32:25.880 That's how things should be done in Congress.

00:32:27.600 It shouldn't be just this, you're going to do it our way or no way at all.

00:32:32.800 That's how our Congress should work.

00:32:35.720 Give me a minute on Eli Crane.

00:32:37.620 He campaigned with you.

00:32:38.860 You campaigned with him.

00:32:39.840 One of the reasons he won the seat is because of Cary Lake.

00:32:42.980 What a special guy.

00:32:44.740 I mean, with all the pressure in the world on him, if you've got to understand, behind the scenes, it was absolutely brutal.

00:32:49.760 He stood tall like nobody's business.

00:32:52.120 At the end, he voted president when all four of the hardcores went, quite frankly, after talking to President Trump.

00:32:59.920 Give me a minute on Eli Crane.

00:33:02.440 The man is a warrior.

00:33:04.140 I mean, literally, he is a warrior.

00:33:05.860 He is a former Navy SEAL, a very strong man.

00:33:09.440 And to go in there, can you imagine the pressure of walking into Congress as a freshman congressman and standing up like that? 0.98

00:33:18.600 That takes cojones. 0.96

00:33:20.380 That takes a steel backbone. 0.97

00:33:23.580 But he was on your show, Steve, and he said, I went out before I came to Congress, and I talked to my constituents.

00:33:29.120 I went to all of the main places in my large district, and they said, do not vote for this guy.

00:33:35.400 Do not vote more swamp creatures in.

00:33:38.140 Now, I don't think that McCarthy is going to behave like a swamp creature.

00:33:42.500 I think he knows that this was a hard-fought victory, but it was a victory.

00:33:46.700 And America First Patriots cannot be ignored anymore because he will be embarrassed right out of that seat.

00:33:53.960 So I'm really proud of Eli.

00:33:55.060 He's a fighter, and that shows how he's going to lead for his constituents here in Arizona.

00:34:00.220 I couldn't be more proud of him if he continues to stand up and do what he's been sent to D.C. to do,

00:34:06.180 which is represent his district in Arizona, not represent the establishment,

00:34:11.480 but represent the people in his district, then he's going to be a great congressman.

00:34:16.700 Talk about the swamp.

00:34:19.660 It's in every state, right, not just Washington, D.C.

00:34:22.580 And Arizona's got a massive problem.

00:34:24.880 We know that.

00:34:25.380 You're the legitimate governor of this state, but Katie Hobbs illegitimately took the oath of office. 1.00

00:34:32.340 What's happened in Maricopa County?

00:34:33.800 Now I'm seeing that the former head of the Supreme Court, they're going to have their own investigation.

00:34:37.680 Get people up to speed because it seems odd that this didn't take place in a court.

00:34:42.860 I know you're in an appeals court right now,

00:34:44.240 but I don't understand why Maricopa County now is trying to come and clean their skirts, ma'am.

00:34:49.880 Well, I think when it comes to evidence, they got their butts handed to them in our last court case.

00:34:56.020 Now the ruling went against us, unfortunately.

00:34:58.660 I don't think the judge had the strength to really make a big decision, and it's unfortunate. 0.68

00:35:04.620 But when you look at the evidence and you look what happened to their team of, I don't know, 12, 13, 14 lawyers, our two attorneys handed them their butts.

00:35:14.120 We had all of the evidence.

00:35:15.780 We showed that they were printing a 19-inch image on a 20-inch ballot causing the jam up in the machines at nearly 60% of polling places that were non-functioning.

00:35:26.480 We showed that over 300,000 ballots had no chain of custody.

00:35:30.660 They came out of nowhere.

00:35:31.560 We don't know where they came from.

00:35:33.260 We showed that two days after the election, 25,000 ballots just mysteriously appeared and a bunch of other problems that they had, like chain of custody, like conflict of interest.

00:35:45.040 And we even saw a couple people perjure themselves, and they didn't have an answer for it.

00:35:50.500 So now they're going to put a task force together, and I'm sorry, but any task force that Gates is behind and the Board of Supervisors in Maricopa County, this group of incompetent clowns, any task force they put together and choose who's on it, it gives me pause and makes me concerned that we may not get the full truth coming out of that.

00:36:10.680 I think they need some evidence and information to use in court because they're flat-footed, they've been caught flat-footed, they don't have anything to rebut what we are presenting in court, and they need to look like they're doing something. 0.81

00:36:24.360 Not only that, I think their goons in the media are in a bit of a panic because people are saying, why aren't you Arizona repugnant?

00:36:32.380 Why aren't you covering this election fraud? 0.90

00:36:35.520 What's wrong with you?

00:36:36.660 And so these goons in the media need something to cover that makes it look like they're covering the election.

00:36:43.260 And this task force will be the perfect thing for them to cover and give them some cover.

00:36:50.620 Carrie, can you just hang over one minute, short break, and I just want to hold you for a question or two on the other side.

00:36:55.660 Carrie Lake, we've got Frank Gaffney, Jack Posobiec, all next in the world.

00:36:59.500 We will fight till they're all gone.

00:37:01.780 We rejoice when there's no more. 0.95

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00:37:39.400 Okay, welcome back.

00:37:40.560 We were on Getter last night.

00:37:41.760 We're going to be Getter live all over the weekend.

00:37:43.580 Also, you get all our running immersion, the immersion experience of all the news we're putting up and all the different sites with War Room, myself, and all the Grace Chung, Captain Ben, and all of our contributors.

00:37:53.880 And we've got the Committee on the Present Danger, Carrie Lake, everybody up there.

00:37:58.220 Carrie, here's the question.

00:38:00.460 This is what's confusing.

00:38:02.040 You're going to appeal, and you've got the evidence from the trial, and you're going to make your case that you're the legitimate governor that was stolen, and Katie Hobbs, the Secretary of State.

00:38:15.220 I just want to make sure people – is this move in Arizona and Maricopa County to kind of run air cover for them to kind of block and just say, oh, yeah, we're looking at the – we're going to have a review and investigation of the ballots and try to downplay your appeal?

00:38:31.980 Because here's my point.

00:38:32.640 If they didn't have a problem because they kind of lied about it in court, I think they kind of purged themselves.

00:38:37.000 According to them, it wasn't a problem.

00:38:39.240 And I can't understand now – if it's not a – if it's not a – it's a hiccup.

00:38:42.920 It's a hiccup.

00:38:43.500 If it's a hiccup, then why do you have the former chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court is going to have an investigation in Maricopa County?

00:38:51.440 I'm confused about what's – are they just trying to use this as a misdirection play to take – make sure that in the courts you don't get a full hearing to basically –

00:39:02.620 make sure that either have a new election or you're installed as the governor of Arizona? 0.86

00:39:07.400 It could be one of several things.

00:39:08.900 It could be the media who's been their lapdogs and done all of their work for them is saying we've got to cover something because people are calling us out.

00:39:17.320 We're not covering any of this.

00:39:18.320 We keep calling them election deniers, and the people who read our paper actually were disenfranchised.

00:39:25.200 So do something.

00:39:26.300 It could also be, you know, Liddy and companies.

00:39:29.320 Remember Liddy, the one who works for Maricopa County?

00:39:32.620 Oh, yes.

00:39:33.820 The attorney's office, and he's the one who said it's the voters' fault for voting on Election Day.

00:39:38.660 He blamed it on the voters, and he blamed it on people like me for saying, please get out and vote.

00:39:43.680 It's our fault that this happened.

00:39:45.940 So he probably needs something to present in court because they had no rebuttal to our hard evidence.

00:39:53.360 And so they need something to throw out in a court of law because they don't have anything.

00:40:00.680 And so I don't know.

00:40:01.520 I'm going to hold off on making too much judgment on this task force.

00:40:05.580 But initially, thinking that Bill Gates and his team over at the Board of Supervisors is behind this and choosing the people and choosing the investigators.

00:40:15.860 Ruth McGregor is fantastic.

00:40:17.680 She's a wonderful woman.

00:40:19.120 I don't know who the investigators will be.

00:40:20.980 And I don't believe if the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County, they're the problem.

00:40:26.740 If they're the ones who are putting this investigation together, I have my suspicions on how it's going to go.

00:40:34.400 But they're in a world of hurt.

00:40:35.920 This is not going away.

00:40:36.980 They thought that me, being new to politics, that they would steal this in broad daylight, steal the vote of the people of Arizona, and I would just walk away going, it's too big of a hill to climb, of a mountain to climb.

00:40:50.900 I cannot deal with this.

00:40:53.020 And they picked a fight with the wrong person because I didn't lose.

00:40:57.540 I won.

00:40:58.600 They stole this.

00:40:59.780 And they didn't only steal my vote.

00:41:01.780 They stole everybody's vote.

00:41:03.060 When you throw in 300,000 extra ballots and then 25,000 additional after Election Day, and when you don't do proper signature verification on hundreds of thousands of ballots, then you're taking everybody's vote.

00:41:18.020 You're watering it down with invalid, illegal ballots.

00:41:21.100 And they did that to the people of Arizona.

00:41:23.280 And I will not walk away from this fight.

00:41:25.600 I will take it to the bitter end.

00:41:27.260 And we will be victorious.

00:41:28.840 Behind the scenes, people don't know that all the Republican establishment came to Kerry and said, hey, you've got a great future.

00:41:35.940 Just walk away from this.

00:41:37.240 You've got a great future.

00:41:38.160 You'll do this, this, and this.

00:41:39.180 He said, nope, I'm the governor of Arizona, and I'm not going to let the people of Arizona down, so we're going to fight this one to the bitter end.

00:41:46.000 Kerry, how do people find you on social media and your website?

00:41:49.600 They can go to kerrylake.com.

00:41:51.640 They can find me at all of it, Getter, Truth, Twitter, Facebook, Kerry Lake, K-A-R-I-L-A-K-E.

00:41:58.700 If you want to help on our legal fight, we are up against Mark Elias and some of the nastiest, most evil attorneys that want nothing more than to come into Arizona and force these folks who really have the cartels in mind, best interest in mind, not the people in Arizona's best interest in mind.

00:42:17.900 They want to force those people on us, and they're taking money, as you know.

00:42:21.580 You know how the Democrats raise money through Ukraine, and then they ship it back over here.

00:42:27.460 So we could use help with our legal fund.

00:42:29.900 You can go to savearizonafund.com if you want to help out.

00:42:35.880 Otherwise, just your prayers are appreciated and continued support.

00:42:39.460 Thank you so much, Steve.

00:42:41.580 Kerry, thank you for joining us today, changing our schedule.

00:42:43.840 I appreciate it.

00:42:44.400 I'm going to bring in Frank Gaffney.

00:42:47.760 Frank, you've been around a long time fighting this fight.

00:42:51.420 Give us your assessment of what went down last night, and what can we take away positive from that to go forward, sir?

00:43:00.360 A lot of things came out of it, Steve.

00:43:01.960 I think the most important is the fact that you had that core, what I would call the super six, and the terrific 20, of which they were a part, that forced Kevin McCarthy to make concessions, as you've described with Mike Davis.

00:43:20.900 They're important, but the thing that strikes me about them is the sorts of things that Kevin McCarthy should have offered up from the get-go.

00:43:29.400 They were designed to restore a measure of representation in the House of Representatives, not just a speaker that tyrannically rules the place, to create accountability, to have a regular order of hearings in committees, making legislation, having them amending that legislation in committee and then on the floor.

00:43:54.960 I mean, these are the sorts of things that were central to how the place operated until people like Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi took it as a personal fiefdom.

00:44:09.360 And Kevin McCarthy wanted to have it run that way, too.

00:44:11.820 Now, I just want to put down a marker.

00:44:14.860 Unless and until this rules package is passed, we better hold the champagne.

00:44:21.760 I don't know whether games are going to be played.

00:44:23.540 We saw Republicans switching on that vote to adjourn, and I think there's a lot of chafing on the moderate or establishment side.

00:44:33.140 So the pressure needs to stay on, and I think this is really why it's so important that the war room be engaged, continuing on this front.

00:44:41.480 Frank, please hold.

00:44:42.540 We've got a 90-second break.

00:44:43.780 We're going to start the second hour.

00:44:44.720 Frank Gaffney is going to join us.

00:44:45.940 First time ever in the history of this country, a Speaker of the House, from the podium with the gavel, talked about we're going to investigate and thwart the rise of the Chinese Communist Party. 0.69

00:44:57.240 Short commercial break.

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Bannon's War Room - January 07, 2023

Episode 2426： Kevin McCarthy Survives Reelection

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