Bannon's War Room - May 26, 2023


Episode 2763： Accountability for the Failing Administrative State


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Former White House chief of staff David Bernhardt joins me to discuss his new book, You Report to Me: How I Moved Mountains in the Trump White House, a memoir about his time in the George W. Bush administration.

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00:00:00.640 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:05.500 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:10.760 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:15.020 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:16.980 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:18.400 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:20.120 but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
00:00:22.320 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:25.700 MAGA Media.
00:00:26.620 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:32.540 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:36.240 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:42.640 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:50.820 Peter K. Navarro in for the Admiral today.
00:00:53.920 Friday before Memorial Day, right here in the belly of the beast.
00:00:59.460 I can't tell you how pleased I am to have a guest with me today who was my top bureaucrat.
00:01:08.420 I use the term in all the best sense of the word.
00:01:11.300 And in the Trump White House, he's written a book called You Report to Me.
00:01:20.500 And what it should say here, based on his conversation with the president himself,
00:01:25.440 the cover should have said, you report to me with a quote, Donald Trump,
00:01:29.260 because that's the story behind the story that I'm going to have him tell, not me.
00:01:33.560 But the story I want to tell quickly about David Bernhardt, he was the Secretary of Interior.
00:01:39.100 And the way I met David was one day it came to my attention that there were Chinese Communist drones 0.81
00:01:49.020 that the Interior Department was buying and deploying for interior use.
00:01:56.200 And I knew full well that the data that would fly through those drones could likely wind up in Communist Chinese hands. 0.99
00:02:03.220 So they're basically mapping our territory.
00:02:06.000 And so I called up the Secretary of Interior from the White House and said, hey, here's what's going on.
00:02:13.120 Can we bring those down?
00:02:14.720 And eight hours later, eight hours later, and so when I talk about my expression in Trump time,
00:02:23.540 which was the title of my first White House memoir, get it done as quickly as possible.
00:02:29.600 I always use David Bernhardt.
00:02:31.920 So you report to me, David Bernhardt.
00:02:36.160 Welcome to the war room, sir.
00:02:38.460 Steve Bannon was actually trying to get you for over a month
00:02:41.580 because he actually paid for you to report to me.
00:02:44.960 You didn't get a free one, but somehow your publicist, you know, whatever.
00:02:49.820 But you called me.
00:02:51.760 We were here with me.
00:02:53.220 Tell us about the book, David.
00:02:54.600 Well, thank you so much for having me.
00:02:56.220 I really appreciate it, and I'm thrilled to be here.
00:02:58.400 That was a heck of an introduction.
00:03:01.120 And bottom line of this book is it highlights the reality that with a little leadership
00:03:07.460 and clear direction, consistent direction from a president, you can get a lot done.
00:03:13.460 And the fact of the matter is that it takes a lot of effort to move these agencies,
00:03:20.140 and it's work.
00:03:22.600 But at the end of the day, we can get people to understand that every one of us
00:03:28.540 that has ever worked in government ultimately reports to the American people.
00:03:33.460 And this could have been called moving the deep state.
00:03:36.240 I mean, you speak from vast experience because you actually served with President George W. Bush
00:03:43.400 for many years.
00:03:46.020 You love Donald Trump, not just as a man for the person he is,
00:03:51.820 but for how he moved mountains in agencies.
00:03:55.600 Can you give us a little contrast between the Bush bureaucracy below the president
00:04:01.520 and what you encountered in Trumpland?
00:04:04.320 Yeah, absolutely.
00:04:04.980 And I really go into that in the book.
00:04:09.040 And the fact of the matter is that in the, and this will be a particularly enlightening example,
00:04:17.140 in the George W. Bush administration, you had some folks who didn't want,
00:04:24.440 weren't interested in helping with the agenda.
00:04:26.600 And what that meant is that they would delay things.
00:04:30.840 Maybe they wouldn't be involved.
00:04:32.660 But you could go around them, and you could find sufficient folks to always get the job done.
00:04:39.060 There was never a question about ultimately driving forward with the mission.
00:04:43.800 In the Trump administration, my experience was really right from the day after the election.
00:04:50.860 What you saw was a series of articles, announcements of, quote, resistance, efforts to resist from day one.
00:05:03.340 And I think it became socially acceptable within the civil service for a much larger percentage of folks
00:05:13.660 to be willing to actually affirmatively resist the policies of the new president.
00:05:20.760 And they did that through a whole host of mechanisms that we lay out in the book.
00:05:27.060 Now, the vast majority of civil servants, they just want to do their job and move forward.
00:05:31.740 But the number...
00:05:33.540 Do you think that's true?
00:05:34.880 Well, I think a lot of...
00:05:35.760 Are you being kind?
00:05:37.080 Because that certainly wasn't my experience.
00:05:39.680 I think...
00:05:40.280 Well, my experience was these people, they get in there, they work their way up the chain,
00:05:45.560 they feel entitled, and they figure that they're smarter than whoever sits there
00:05:49.780 and that they're going to make the decisions and shape policy.
00:05:52.600 That was my experience.
00:05:53.600 Well, I think that the experience that you just laid out is the experience of the folks
00:05:58.920 at the most senior levels of the civil service.
00:06:02.100 There's a lot of folks every day, particularly in an agency like the Department of the Interior,
00:06:08.460 where you do stuff on the ground.
00:06:10.700 You're cutting trees, you're managing roads.
00:06:16.420 I mean, you're doing stuff that really requires effort and productivity and outcome.
00:06:23.620 The higher you go, it's interesting, and we lay this out and you report to me,
00:06:27.460 the higher you go in the administration, the more in government, the more and more partisan
00:06:33.700 it becomes.
00:06:36.140 Generally, the civil service is about two Democrats to every Republican.
00:06:42.100 As you get to the senior executive service, it's three to one.
00:06:47.120 And so you have an even higher degree of policy proclivity at those highest levels.
00:06:53.800 And those were the people, you know, when you're in the White House, those are the levels of
00:06:57.820 government you're working with.
00:06:58.740 The biggest deep stater, I think, that afflicted us in the Trump administration, hands down,
00:07:05.440 at least in the last year, was Fauci.
00:07:08.460 But I think the second most damaging person in the health care bureaucracy was this woman 1.00
00:07:14.300 named Deborah Birx, who was in the West Wing. 0.98
00:07:16.300 And you use her kind of as the poster girl for how the deep state works around. 0.85
00:07:25.900 Can you tell that story for us?
00:07:27.580 Absolutely.
00:07:28.180 And this was stunning to me, Peter.
00:07:30.040 It's absolutely stunning.
00:07:31.760 This gal wrote a book after she left government.
00:07:36.880 And in her book, she describes what she calls a workaround.
00:07:40.440 And what she called a workaround was essentially she would write a document that was going to
00:07:47.200 go out to the public related to the stuff that she was working on.
00:07:51.360 She would send it up to be reviewed through various levels, just like anyone else would
00:07:55.840 do.
00:07:56.740 And she would get comments back.
00:08:00.320 And those comments back were things that maybe she liked, maybe she didn't.
00:08:04.960 And she would make the changes in some places, but then reinsert her views in other places
00:08:13.700 and send it back through the process as, quote, a workaround.
00:08:18.000 Now, in the real world, where most people work, that would be blatant insubordination.
00:08:24.660 It wasn't caught, which is on the folks that were reviewing, to be fair.
00:08:28.720 But more importantly, she wrote a book explaining how awesome it was she did it.
00:08:35.460 And that, to me, epitomizes just how far we've gotten from an understanding that, hey,
00:08:42.220 policymakers are there because a person was elected to the presidency.
00:08:48.520 And the policymakers define what the policy is.
00:08:53.980 They don't define what the law is, and they don't define what the facts are.
00:08:59.180 But to the extent there's policy discretion, that discretion rests with the representatives
00:09:04.760 of the elected official.
00:09:06.160 And you're just the political appointee, and you'll be gone in a few years, and they'll
00:09:12.140 have their friendlies back in.
00:09:13.980 This is the worst side of the deep state.
00:09:17.580 Tell a story, I love this story, about, hey, buy this book, you report to me.
00:09:25.120 Bannon loves this book.
00:09:26.840 The fact that he actually shelled out his own money for you tells it.
00:09:30.360 But what does this mean?
00:09:32.100 Why is this title so important, both to what you experienced and also to 2024 in the presidential race?
00:09:41.440 So I used, I came up with this title for two reasons.
00:09:45.720 First off, obviously, everybody in government reports to the American people, so they all
00:09:50.820 report to you and me.
00:09:51.920 But more importantly, for the specific title, it comes from my first conversation about serving
00:10:00.440 as secretary.
00:10:02.260 You were, to set the stage, you were solicitor, you were the deputy, second in command at interior
00:10:08.700 to the secretary, Ryan Zinke, who got in trouble for various indiscretions, and what happens
00:10:18.940 next?
00:10:19.680 So there's a question.
00:10:22.220 Ryan's resigning, and I, secretary Zinke's resigning, and I'm asked to come over to the
00:10:27.740 Oval Office.
00:10:28.680 And to be very fair, I'm very nervous about this meeting, because it's the first time I've
00:10:34.320 ever been summoned to the Oval Office individually.
00:10:37.440 You worked at the White House, so that's a daily occurrence for you.
00:10:40.780 For the deputy secretary of interior, that's a big deal.
00:10:43.580 So I walk over there, and I don't know what's going to happen.
00:10:46.760 I have no idea if this is going to be a good meeting or a bad meeting.
00:10:50.620 I'm not very comfortable with the situation.
00:10:53.300 And I walk into the Oval Office, and you go through this threshold, and you walk over
00:11:00.360 to the resolute desk, and the president's sitting at this big desk.
00:11:03.480 And man, I must have been sweating bullets.
00:11:07.100 So I sit down, and here's what's amazing about President Trump, one of many things.
00:11:12.400 I sit down, and it's clear, I think, to him that I'm not very comfortable.
00:11:16.240 And here's the president of the United States, and he spends five or ten minutes just talking
00:11:22.360 to me getting my blood pressure down before we have a conversation, which said a lot to
00:11:29.160 me about the man, the individual, just how nice that was to an employee that was very
00:11:39.880 uncomfortable.
00:11:40.360 And we talk about the job, we talk a little bit about the situation, we talk about his
00:11:45.980 priorities in interior, and he basically tells me, look, you're going to be running this
00:11:51.400 place for a while, this department in the interior.
00:11:54.660 And so I say to him, well, sir, can you tell me who I report to?
00:11:59.660 And he looks at me and says, what do you mean?
00:12:03.720 You report to me.
00:12:05.200 And I'm sitting there thinking, well, the Constitution, sir, I understand what the Constitution
00:12:10.780 says, but who do I really report to?
00:12:13.500 Like, I've got to get my work done.
00:12:15.040 You report to me.
00:12:15.980 And I thought that was unlikely, because I served in the Bush administration, and it
00:12:24.420 had taken, I had seen examples where it literally took months to have a conversation between
00:12:30.200 the secretary and the president because of the processes of the White House staff.
00:12:36.600 And so I left the department, or sorry, I left the White House, went back to the department,
00:12:41.040 and a few days later, I had to make a decision that I knew was going to be controversial,
00:12:46.460 and the White House would read about it, and I couldn't surprise them.
00:12:50.200 So I didn't know what to do.
00:12:52.500 I picked up the phone and called the president's secretary, because I figured she could bail me
00:12:57.220 out, like she would know the right person to talk to.
00:13:00.780 And I called her, her name was Molly.
00:13:03.060 I said, hey, Molly, this is the junior varsity quarterback in interior.
00:13:06.800 I'm the temp.
00:13:08.380 I'm going to make a decision.
00:13:09.860 It's going to make some news.
00:13:11.260 I need to talk to somebody.
00:13:12.620 Who do I talk to?
00:13:13.740 And she laughed and said, the president will call you right back.
00:13:17.480 And I thought, sure.
00:13:19.740 And I hung up the phone.
00:13:21.220 In about 20 minutes, the president calls, and I explain this in the book.
00:13:25.320 And here's the amazing thing about President Trump.
00:13:27.680 This just blew my mind.
00:13:29.880 I pick up the phone.
00:13:30.860 I tell him, number one, what I'm doing.
00:13:35.080 And I'd taken over during the government shutdown.
00:13:37.480 I was going to reopen some of the federal national parks.
00:13:42.420 And in doing this, his first statement to me was, the shutdown's been going on a while.
00:13:48.280 Why did you take so long to do this?
00:13:51.840 And I said, well, and I explained it.
00:13:54.800 And then I said, this is going to be controversial.
00:13:59.400 And I said, yes, sir.
00:14:01.140 And here's the amazing thing about President Trump.
00:14:03.740 He says, David, if it's going to be controversial and you're the new guy, maybe you should say that I directed you to do it.
00:14:13.460 Which is exactly the opposite any politician in America would want to do.
00:14:19.640 And then he said, and this was really important to me, he says, David, you're running the Department of the Interior.
00:14:27.900 Make decisions you need to make and get going with them.
00:14:31.380 He hit his mark.
00:14:32.800 Isn't that cool?
00:14:33.820 We got 27 seconds to the break.
00:14:35.900 He hit his mark.
00:14:37.100 That is another reason why I love David Bernhardt, former Secretary of Interior.
00:14:42.820 In my book, literally, I wrote future Secretary of Interior under Trump.
00:14:46.960 You report to me.
00:14:47.780 We'll be right back.
00:14:49.020 He's going to tell us what to do in terms of cleaning up the deep state.
00:14:53.500 No one knows better than David Bernhardt.
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00:14:57.620 We'll see you in a second.
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00:17:03.820 Hey, Peter Navarro in for the Admiral.
00:17:13.680 I'm with David Bernhardt, former Secretary of the Interior.
00:17:18.280 Wrote a wonderful book, You Report to Me.
00:17:20.960 We're going to go right back to him.
00:17:22.640 I just want to, I buried the lead yesterday when Steve and I were talking and I mentioned my Substack.
00:17:28.940 It's peternavarro.substack.com, peternavarro.substack.com.
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00:17:40.800 But everyone who is a paid subscriber gets an autographed copy of my Taking Back Trump's America book.
00:17:47.200 And, by the way, in the chapter on cabinet appointees who I recommend for Trump come January 2025,
00:17:56.520 this guy is one of the few survivors that I recommended highly.
00:18:01.580 So, David, you report to me, you know, I looked at this and I said, you know, this is a great title, but the cover sucks.
00:18:11.140 I thought it sucked just because they didn't have any graphics or colors or anything like that.
00:18:15.320 But the President Trump had a very different take.
00:18:18.280 Tell us a little bit about your trip to Mar-a-Lago to give him this book.
00:18:23.380 And then the page 115 on, which is what the posse is here today for, to listen to,
00:18:32.380 because this is your solution to blowing up the deep state.
00:18:35.900 Well, first off, you're absolutely right.
00:18:38.020 I met with the President.
00:18:39.720 I actually think the cover is great, by the way.
00:18:41.880 I'm really excited about the cover.
00:18:43.700 And I think the title you report to me was fantastic.
00:18:47.680 I love the name of it, yes.
00:18:48.960 And the President looked at, President Trump looked at this book, and his first question was, is this my quote?
00:18:56.060 And I said, actually, it could be, it is your quote.
00:18:59.800 And he said, oh, David, you would do so much better with this book if you would put quotations on the book
00:19:08.360 and then put Donald J. Trump.
00:19:11.720 He said, you'd sell a lot more books.
00:19:13.640 And I said, well, you know, sir, I wrote this book for the American people and for you.
00:19:19.500 And if you'll just take and have everybody that you deal with read from page 115 forward,
00:19:26.680 we can have a much better outcome going forward for America.
00:19:31.840 Don't bury the lead.
00:19:32.860 You also told him you didn't care about how many books you sold.
00:19:35.640 And what did he say?
00:19:36.640 He said, he said, selling books is really freaking important.
00:19:39.880 He wanted a picture on there, too, right?
00:19:43.780 He did, absolutely.
00:19:44.920 He said, you know, if you're not going to go with the quote, you ought to go with the picture,
00:19:47.840 and you really ought to change the cover.
00:19:49.740 So 115 on, what's that all about?
00:19:53.660 This is a very serious matter.
00:19:55.600 My experience with the deep state, and I had really extensive experience in the various skiffs
00:20:04.000 where we would meet for these PCC processes, which is like insane.
00:20:11.320 It's like I always thought that before I went into the White House that the purpose of the bureaucracy
00:20:17.460 was to implement policy the way the president wanted.
00:20:21.120 And the PCC process that Bush put in basically turns that upside down,
00:20:26.180 where everything's got to bubble up from the bottom of the bureaucrats.
00:20:29.320 But how do you get rid of the bad seeds here?
00:20:34.120 How do you make sure that these people who are being paid on the taxpayer's dime
00:20:39.940 obey the wishes of the chief executive?
00:20:43.240 Well, I think first off, you have to have a strong chief executive,
00:20:46.220 a chief executive that has a clear and consistent message to his appointees.
00:20:52.200 Number two, which is something you spend a lot of time talking about,
00:20:55.900 is you've got to get the right people in these agencies as your appointees.
00:21:00.040 And the people that you put in need to be the people that have the courage and the competency
00:21:04.560 to make decisions themselves with the assistance of the career civil servants that you need.
00:21:12.800 You were on the transition for the first term.
00:21:15.820 I mean, how hard is it to find those kind of people?
00:21:19.080 And let's be honest, how hard is it going to be to find the next time around?
00:21:22.720 Everybody I know is either a target of the Injustice Department or going to grand jury.
00:21:30.660 I mean, they harass you.
00:21:32.160 How hard it is to find people that are willing to be loyal to the agenda of a president like Donald Trump?
00:21:40.180 Well, so I think first off, the people exist.
00:21:43.620 At Interior, we had a very good team, a core group of team that worked on the transition,
00:21:49.320 worked on the beachhead, worked all the way through.
00:21:51.800 So we were all on the same page, number one.
00:21:54.580 So they're findable.
00:21:56.120 But that was in 2016, early 2017.
00:22:01.480 I think there's an entire core of those people this time around, a much bigger core.
00:22:07.660 You're confident.
00:22:08.180 Because there's a lot of folks that were younger political appointees that served in the Trump administration.
00:22:16.780 And here's what they learned, things that I didn't learn in the George W. Bush administration.
00:22:21.820 They learned how to get stuff done.
00:22:23.660 They learned how to work for a leader that was consistent.
00:22:26.500 And they learned how to go.
00:22:28.120 And so I think you have this entire cadre of folks that served as Schedule Cs, 0.88
00:22:34.700 which is the more junior political appointee that I initially was,
00:22:40.480 that served as like deputy assistant secretaries.
00:22:42.960 You have a whole group of people that can go back on day one and hit the ship.
00:22:47.320 So number one, that's fantastic.
00:22:49.980 And the next administration is better positioned because of it.
00:22:54.060 So you got the strong executive, you got find the right people.
00:22:57.840 What's next?
00:22:58.380 And then really what you have to do is I believe you have to move forward with some of the initiatives
00:23:03.480 the president drove to rein in unions and do some creative things with the civil service
00:23:11.040 in terms of like Schedule F was something that was very...
00:23:14.980 What does that mean?
00:23:15.700 It basically was going to recategorize some of the positions within the civil service.
00:23:22.660 I mean, you can't fire these people or move them very easily, right?
00:23:26.560 Depending on their position.
00:23:28.220 Yeah.
00:23:28.580 The other thing is a lot of the you can't hold people accountable is self-inflicted within the agencies.
00:23:36.440 It's the agency's own guidance and directives have made it harder than it really is.
00:23:42.440 And that underbrush needs to be cleared out.
00:23:44.960 Can you do that?
00:23:45.740 You can do some accountability.
00:23:46.920 Firing involves a series of appeals and we need to look at farther reforms like moving to a more at-will environment.
00:23:57.120 What I highlight in the book is employees, except for veterans, were at will until the 60s.
00:24:04.480 Until the 60s.
00:24:05.240 So is this a legislative thing that you have to do?
00:24:07.420 That would be a legislative thing.
00:24:09.820 You can't do it by executive order.
00:24:10.800 But 90% of it can be done administratively and should be done administratively.
00:24:16.520 So like what?
00:24:17.040 If I'm writing an executive order, should Trump do it by executive order?
00:24:20.640 What would that be?
00:24:21.300 I absolutely think he should basically ask every secretary to maximize their utilization of accountability factors and that they should go through their own agency and get rid of their own self-inflicted policies that they've put in place that add unnecessary process.
00:24:41.680 There's a lot of unnecessary process that has burdened these agencies from accountability.
00:24:46.980 But more importantly, if policymakers will just say, I'm the one making the decision, I'm the one making significant decisions, I'm going to own the decision, I'm going to be held accountable for it, and I want your input, civil servant, I want your input, I want to know the facts and the law, but I'm going to own the decision.
00:25:08.100 You can move things much, much, much more quickly, and you need to, you know, as a leader, you have to be willing to be held accountable.
00:25:18.100 Much of the inertia in the bureaucracy is because the senior leaders in the government don't actually want to be accountable for anything, and so they basically hope that somebody else will make the decision.
00:25:31.460 If you look at the law, if you look at the law, for the law that established the duties of the secretary of the interior, it uses the term, the secretary shall supervise all functions of the department of the interior.
00:25:45.200 I've always thought that that was a wonderful term because supervise is active.
00:25:50.820 It's not just, I'm going to go show up at a ribbon cutting, but I need to be active, and it's an element of accountability.
00:25:58.320 And that accountability is what people need to be respectful of and be responsible.
00:26:06.540 Governing is serious.
00:26:07.980 We need serious people to go into these jobs, and we need them to say, hey, give me the ball.
00:26:13.680 I'll make the decision.
00:26:15.060 What about this PCC process that just drove me nuts?
00:26:19.000 Again, for the posse here, it's like if you wanted to do like an executive order,
00:26:25.060 it had to go out to low-level bureaucrats across the relevant agencies for comment, work its way up the chain to the secretary level, and then back to the president.
00:26:36.000 And my view was, screw that.
00:26:37.660 It's like, no, the boss wants this done.
00:26:40.160 It goes to the agencies.
00:26:42.040 You tell us how to do it.
00:26:44.300 You don't mess with the policy.
00:26:45.800 But that's not the way that the lame chiefs of staff we had – do you have to do that process?
00:26:55.780 Of course not.
00:26:56.600 Not.
00:26:56.780 You don't, right?
00:26:57.520 That is all – at the end of the day, that's the leaders of these agencies and OMB saying, here's the level of review we want.
00:27:05.700 And it really is about everybody's authority.
00:27:08.340 All of the authority and law for the Department of the Interior rests with the secretary, and then the secretary has delegated it down.
00:27:16.200 And in the book, you report to me, I highlight that the delegations down have caused a lot of challenges because it moves things farther and farther down.
00:27:25.980 And there's no – ultimately, when I was solicitor, I would have assistant secretaries and policymakers, they were desperate for me to tell them they didn't have authority because if I said you only have one choice, they wouldn't have to choose.
00:27:46.000 And they wanted to be able to tell their – they wanted to be able to tell a constituency, look, my hands were tied.
00:27:51.840 I had no choice.
00:27:53.020 Instead of I wanted to make this decision or that one.
00:27:55.980 Strong leadership.
00:27:57.000 All right, Posse, let's move the needle today on Amazon. 0.98
00:28:02.220 You report to me, this is the best book you will read about cleaning up the deep state. 0.99
00:28:09.980 So honored to be with former secretary and future secretary of the interior, David Pernard, although he doesn't want to jinx anything.
00:28:18.520 Do you have any social media or anything like that?
00:28:20.460 I'm on Truth.
00:28:21.680 I'm on all of those great things.
00:28:23.800 What's your handle, brother?
00:28:24.960 At David Bernhardt.
00:28:26.640 At David Bernhardt.
00:28:27.820 All right, last words, anything?
00:28:29.540 Thanks for having me.
00:28:30.460 I'm thrilled to be here.
00:28:31.800 Steve Bannon did more for moving the ball than anybody can imagine.
00:28:36.660 It's true.
00:28:37.620 When he got in there, he was a tornado.
00:28:40.140 Action, action, action.
00:28:42.120 When we come back, we're going to get an update on the weaponization of government out in the great state of Texas, which isn't looking so great today.
00:28:52.500 David Bernhardt from the War Room.
00:28:54.760 You are the man.
00:28:55.800 We'll be right back, Posse.
00:28:56.860 We rejoice when there's no more.
00:28:59.120 Let's take down the CCP.
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00:30:28.480 Stephen K. Baff.
00:30:36.680 Good afternoon.
00:30:37.820 Thank you all for coming.
00:30:38.820 It's great to have you here in our office.
00:30:40.320 By proceeding with this illegal impeachment scheme to overturn a decision made by Texas voters just a few short months ago,
00:30:50.980 the corrupt politicians in the Texas House are demonstrating that blind loyalty to Speaker Dade Phelan is more important than upholding their oath of office.
00:31:00.940 They are determined to ignore the law.
00:31:05.920 They have denied me the opportunity to present the evidence which contradicts their politically motivated narrative,
00:31:12.080 and they are showcasing their absolute contempt for the electoral process.
00:31:18.440 Every politician who supports this deceitful impeachment attempt will inflict lasting damage on the credibility of the Texas House,
00:31:30.160 which I served in.
00:31:31.940 The House is poised to do exactly what Joe Biden has been hoping to accomplish since his first day in office,
00:31:38.820 to sabotage our work, my work, as Attorney General of Texas.
00:31:45.880 Their plot imperils critical litigation in my office has brought against the Biden administration
00:31:51.540 to end the federal government's attacks on our constitutional rights and the rule of law.
00:31:58.080 There is no other state in this country with so much influence over the fate of our nation,
00:32:05.420 and this is solely because of the relentless challenges I bring against Biden's unconstitutional policy agenda.
00:32:16.180 Under my leadership, our state has sued Biden nearly 50 times to end his unlawful, tyrannical policies.
00:32:22.960 In fact, this week, while the Texas House was killing essential bills on crime and illegal immigration
00:32:31.000 and plotting their illegal impeachment scheme in secret, it was business as usual for me.
00:32:39.200 I was launching lawsuits against the Biden administration and predatory corporations.
00:32:43.700 On Tuesday, I sued the Biden Department's Homeland Security to end his illegal use of CBP-1 app
00:32:55.900 that brings more aliens into the country.
00:32:58.780 On Wednesday, I announced a lawsuit against global hotel chain Hilton
00:33:03.400 for violating Texas consumer protection laws.
00:33:06.880 On Thursday, I sued Biden's IRS over his devastating new policy
00:33:12.100 that will impair child support services in our state and across the nation,
00:33:17.440 putting millions of children at risk.
00:33:20.640 Then, I announced an $85 million settlement that we secured with Volkswagen and Audi
00:33:27.000 over their violations of Texas environmental laws.
00:33:30.520 For us, it's pretty routine.
00:33:33.100 As Attorney General, I'm leading dozens of urgent challenges against Biden's unlawful policies.
00:33:38.200 My lawsuits threaten his destructive attempts to open the borders,
00:33:45.220 obliterate our Second Amendment rights,
00:33:47.260 and destroy our country with extremist, tyrannical regulations.
00:33:52.920 In addition to defending Texas from illegal federal policy,
00:33:56.880 my office works night and day to solve cold cases,
00:34:01.300 fight human trafficking,
00:34:03.220 prosecute Medicaid fraud,
00:34:05.220 and hold predatory corporations accountable when they harm the public.
00:34:10.360 For this crucial work to continue,
00:34:13.360 the political theater must come to an end.
00:34:16.120 I'm grateful for the outpouring of support I've received from so many Texans
00:34:20.720 who understand this process is unjust and unethical.
00:34:25.340 The fact that I was prohibited from presenting evidence to defend myself
00:34:29.260 reveals that this shameful process was curated from the start
00:34:33.920 as an act of political retribution.
00:34:36.180 This vote is expected to take place Saturday at 1 p.m.
00:34:41.820 And I want to invite my fellow citizens and friends
00:34:44.540 to peacefully come let their voices be heard at the Capitol tomorrow.
00:34:49.920 Exercise your right to petition your government.
00:34:53.300 Let's restore the power of this great state to the people
00:34:56.220 instead of to the politicians.
00:34:59.280 I hope the House makes the right decision, but if not,
00:35:02.260 I look forward to a quick resolution to the Texas Senate
00:35:04.720 where I truly believe the process will be fair and just.
00:35:11.740 Oh, my, my. Here we go again.
00:35:14.140 Peter K. Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon.
00:35:17.380 You are here in the war room.
00:35:20.020 And, yeah, here we go again.
00:35:21.480 Like, let's think about this now.
00:35:23.040 We've got a Republican in Texas
00:35:28.540 who wants to secure the border down there
00:35:32.860 and is fighting hard.
00:35:35.720 You've got a lot of Texas interests down there,
00:35:38.480 corporate interests, who loves to have cheap labor coming across.
00:35:41.480 And you've got the Biden regime.
00:35:44.140 So there's that.
00:35:45.060 I remember Ken Paxson was one of the few attorneys general in the country
00:35:52.120 when the November of 2020 fraud,
00:35:56.280 otherwise known as an election,
00:35:58.060 rolled around,
00:35:59.920 actually sued
00:36:01.740 at the Supreme Court level
00:36:05.580 to get a legal counting of the vote.
00:36:08.340 So he had the chutzpah to do that.
00:36:11.640 He's fighting for Second Amendment rights.
00:36:15.600 And here's what this just frosts me.
00:36:18.520 This guy literally got elected,
00:36:23.780 just got elected,
00:36:25.000 and he won by 12% over his nearest rival.
00:36:30.340 And all of this allegations were out there for the voters to sift through.
00:36:38.760 They're baseless as far as I can see.
00:36:41.660 And yet you've got the uniparty in the Texas legislature
00:36:49.300 wanting to impeach this guy.
00:36:53.220 And like, okay,
00:36:54.500 who else do I know that they tried to impeach?
00:36:57.720 You wanted to secure our borders 0.93
00:36:59.420 and stood up for the American people
00:37:02.060 rather than the corporate industry.
00:37:03.160 Oh, yeah, Donald Trump.
00:37:04.380 Oh, they did it twice.
00:37:07.460 Twice.
00:37:09.060 So we'll follow this one closely.
00:37:14.200 Yeah, who knows?
00:37:14.940 I don't know.
00:37:15.620 Maybe there's evidence,
00:37:17.200 but they didn't allow him
00:37:19.060 to present anything in his defense.
00:37:23.360 And in this modern era of the corporate media,
00:37:27.560 you're guilty
00:37:28.300 until the next election rolls around
00:37:32.840 where they'll try to bury you in mud.
00:37:35.680 So let's see what happens.
00:37:37.560 We're going to try to get a hold of Paxson
00:37:40.280 and get a few words out of him for the posse.
00:37:45.740 But in the meantime,
00:37:47.980 really chalk this one up
00:37:49.640 to the weaponization,
00:37:51.620 yet another weaponization
00:37:53.160 of the judicial system
00:37:56.040 of now the legislative branch in Texas
00:37:58.600 as a way to take out political rivals.
00:38:02.500 It's really kind of shameful
00:38:03.740 the depths we're going to.
00:38:07.120 Let's shift a little gears now.
00:38:09.380 I want to talk debt ceiling
00:38:11.680 and the possible deal
00:38:13.420 that might be coming up.
00:38:14.420 If Cameron can pull up,
00:38:17.440 you've got a couple of clips for us.
00:38:19.980 Denver, let's run those
00:38:21.540 and let's see what we got here
00:38:23.140 and then we'll wax eloquent.
00:38:25.760 Brilliant.
00:38:26.380 He's energetic in any given day.
00:38:28.460 Of course, he can be difficult
00:38:29.520 about any given thing.
00:38:30.580 I think we all acknowledge that.
00:38:33.180 But Kevin McCarthy's stock
00:38:34.500 is trading at a higher level today
00:38:35.900 than it ever has.
00:38:37.320 I think his conference understands
00:38:39.160 that he's made good on his promises
00:38:40.780 to open up the House.
00:38:42.120 And his commitment
00:38:43.860 to not waive the 72-hour rule,
00:38:46.580 making sure the public and members
00:38:47.860 have a chance to review this deal
00:38:49.300 whenever it's done,
00:38:50.480 is an example about how he is changing
00:38:52.260 how the House works for the good.
00:38:54.400 Do you think the White House
00:38:55.180 underestimated him?
00:38:56.060 I do think the White House
00:38:58.600 has underestimated him
00:38:59.820 every step along the way.
00:39:02.160 And it generates a little fatigue,
00:39:05.280 I'll admit, among House Republicans.
00:39:07.120 Oh, Kevin McCarthy will never be speaker.
00:39:08.960 Well, he was.
00:39:09.920 Oh, Kevin McCarthy will never get
00:39:11.040 limits, save, grow, done.
00:39:12.320 Well, he has.
00:39:13.620 Oh, Kevin McCarthy will never be able
00:39:15.160 to pass bills off the floor
00:39:16.380 week in and week out
00:39:17.300 with such a tight margin.
00:39:18.980 Well, we've never lost a single bill yet
00:39:21.260 in five months on the House floor.
00:39:22.840 So, all the White House does
00:39:24.780 to Kevin McCarthy
00:39:25.440 is underestimate him.
00:39:26.720 And all Kevin McCarthy does is win.
00:39:28.740 That's all fine by me.
00:39:29.940 Get rid of this whole process.
00:39:31.500 How do we get rid of it?
00:39:33.000 How do we not have this crisis
00:39:35.280 every two years
00:39:36.520 where the entire country worries
00:39:38.320 about us defaulting
00:39:40.100 and heading and plunging us
00:39:42.180 into a recession
00:39:42.740 and everyone losing their jobs?
00:39:45.340 Yeah, look,
00:39:45.940 after I left the White House,
00:39:47.220 I co-wrote an op-ed
00:39:48.260 with a top staffer,
00:39:50.220 a former top staffer,
00:39:51.480 Senator McConnell.
00:39:52.320 He had been my counterpart
00:39:53.440 in the negotiations.
00:39:54.660 And we said,
00:39:55.200 just end the debt limit.
00:39:56.520 You could just flat out repeal it.
00:39:58.300 You could raise it
00:39:59.020 by four quadrillion dollars.
00:40:01.000 There's bipartisan legislation
00:40:02.700 in the House
00:40:03.460 that would basically
00:40:04.820 make it automatic
00:40:05.860 along with just even
00:40:07.520 having a budget proposal.
00:40:09.020 So there's a lot of
00:40:09.760 different ways to do that.
00:40:10.980 And no other country
00:40:11.940 has anything like this.
00:40:13.220 It really is just downside.
00:40:15.840 There's no upside to this.
00:40:17.100 I think really for ultimately
00:40:18.300 for either party.
00:40:19.120 Yeah, Jason Furman,
00:40:23.280 the old Council of Economic Advisors
00:40:26.520 for the Obama-Biden regime
00:40:29.720 back when wanting to get rid
00:40:31.920 of this debt limit,
00:40:33.500 which gives the only leverage
00:40:35.300 you, the American people,
00:40:36.220 have to stop the reckless spending
00:40:40.280 here in the swamp.
00:40:42.520 About an hour ago,
00:40:43.760 I dropped the sub stack,
00:40:45.980 PeterNorah.substack.com.
00:40:47.800 And the feature basically
00:40:49.740 is looking at what a deal
00:40:53.680 might look like
00:40:54.840 that McCarthy and Biden might cut.
00:40:58.520 And I'm nervous, frankly,
00:41:02.600 about the fact that Kevin's
00:41:04.600 sticking around by himself
00:41:06.160 to negotiate something
00:41:08.460 behind closed doors
00:41:09.780 because the rumors
00:41:11.880 that are coming out
00:41:13.180 are suggestive
00:41:14.540 of the convergence
00:41:16.060 of a deal
00:41:17.020 that the posse won't like
00:41:19.940 and the American people
00:41:21.200 don't need.
00:41:23.460 Here's what they're talking about.
00:41:27.780 They're talking about,
00:41:29.180 Steve and I talked about this
00:41:30.480 yesterday a little bit,
00:41:31.320 they're talking about
00:41:32.560 extending the clock
00:41:34.200 in a way
00:41:34.800 where the debt discussion
00:41:36.660 won't come up
00:41:38.680 before the presidential race
00:41:41.180 is over.
00:41:43.440 And Steve and I both agree
00:41:45.420 that this would be
00:41:46.060 a really healthy debate
00:41:47.380 to have
00:41:48.080 for this country
00:41:50.000 as part of the presidential race.
00:41:52.580 Steve says
00:41:53.440 they're kicking the can
00:41:54.480 down the road,
00:41:55.140 number one.
00:41:55.900 But number two,
00:41:57.160 I don't think Kevin McCarthy
00:41:59.740 truly understands
00:42:01.180 the bargaining power
00:42:03.460 he has
00:42:04.440 and what really
00:42:05.900 needs to get done.
00:42:07.020 I mean,
00:42:07.180 if you think about it,
00:42:08.980 what the Democrats
00:42:10.120 have done
00:42:11.180 over the last several years
00:42:13.180 of the Biden regime
00:42:14.100 is they passed
00:42:15.040 a series
00:42:16.320 of massive expenditure bills
00:42:18.660 without any,
00:42:20.260 any negotiation,
00:42:22.460 conciliation,
00:42:24.520 mediation
00:42:25.300 from the Republican side.
00:42:27.780 Essentially,
00:42:28.420 they had
00:42:29.200 majorities
00:42:30.680 in the House
00:42:32.220 with Pelosi
00:42:33.060 and in the Senate
00:42:34.820 with Kamala Harris
00:42:37.740 as the VP
00:42:38.340 with the tie-breaking vote.
00:42:40.000 So they didn't have
00:42:41.340 to do anything
00:42:42.380 to accommodate
00:42:43.480 the Republicans.
00:42:45.660 And so
00:42:46.000 the bills
00:42:47.120 that they have passed
00:42:48.680 are not only
00:42:51.020 in terms of scale
00:42:52.560 unprecedented
00:42:53.540 and going to create
00:42:55.940 a massive deficit
00:42:58.440 the likes of
00:42:59.200 which we haven't seen
00:43:00.960 ever in our history.
00:43:03.120 But there's
00:43:04.180 disgusting features.
00:43:06.900 As Chip Roy
00:43:07.620 pointed out
00:43:08.480 in his letter yesterday,
00:43:09.800 for example,
00:43:11.020 American taxpayers
00:43:12.280 are going to be,
00:43:13.260 it's the full,
00:43:14.100 the Biden
00:43:14.940 Green Program
00:43:16.200 is the Full Employment Act
00:43:17.640 for the Chinese
00:43:18.240 Communists
00:43:18.900 basically workers
00:43:21.320 there.
00:43:21.760 We're going to make
00:43:22.200 the EVs
00:43:22.960 and Tesla plants
00:43:24.580 and ship them
00:43:25.140 back to us
00:43:25.860 and we're going
00:43:26.320 to lose our jobs.
00:43:27.220 there's that.
00:43:29.980 There's the IRS
00:43:31.420 doubling in size
00:43:33.780 which is crazy.
00:43:35.840 And when we come back
00:43:37.200 from the break
00:43:37.600 I'm going to explain
00:43:38.500 what things
00:43:39.280 should look like.
00:43:40.120 But the point is that
00:43:41.200 why the hell
00:43:42.420 is Kevin McCarthy
00:43:43.820 negotiating
00:43:44.700 in a way
00:43:46.220 which is significantly
00:43:47.420 weakening
00:43:48.300 their original demands?
00:43:49.380 Hey, they went into it
00:43:50.220 and said,
00:43:50.460 hey, here's our demands.
00:43:51.740 We know we're not
00:43:52.300 going to get this.
00:43:54.380 Why start a negotiation
00:43:56.320 like that?
00:43:58.940 We need spine.
00:44:00.980 We need backbone.
00:44:02.240 We need resolve.
00:44:03.360 And when we come back,
00:44:05.080 Posse,
00:44:06.060 I'll explain
00:44:07.040 kind of what
00:44:07.520 the economic stakes
00:44:08.620 are involved.
00:44:09.660 Peter K. Navarro
00:44:10.600 in for Stephen K. Bannon.
00:44:12.840 You are here
00:44:13.680 in the war room.
00:44:15.540 I'll be back
00:44:16.500 for the home stretch here.
00:44:18.600 Stay with us.
00:44:20.220 Peter Navarro.
00:44:20.820 We rejoice
00:44:22.100 when there's no more
00:44:23.060 Let's take down
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00:46:48.980 In Congress,
00:46:49.700 Ron DeSantis pushed
00:46:50.680 a 23% national sales tax
00:46:52.920 where the middle class
00:46:53.860 pays more.
00:46:55.140 90% of families
00:46:56.260 would get a tax hike
00:46:57.400 if DeSantis replaced
00:46:58.520 the current system.
00:46:59.720 President Trump
00:47:00.540 cut taxes
00:47:01.620 a lot.
00:47:03.040 Lowering tax rates
00:47:04.100 for everyone.
00:47:05.240 Trump cut taxes.
00:47:06.900 DeSantis
00:47:07.400 tried to raise them.
00:47:09.360 Ron DeSantis,
00:47:10.460 wrong on tax hikes,
00:47:11.880 just not ready.
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00:47:26.840 of the war room
00:47:27.820 and our side of the fence.
00:47:31.080 Steve Stern,
00:47:31.900 by the way,
00:47:32.220 I met him down
00:47:33.160 at the Clay Clark
00:47:35.020 Mike Flynn event
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00:47:39.980 When you support
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00:47:55.040 And last but not least,
00:47:56.400 I got to mention
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00:47:59.660 the armor-piercing shell,
00:48:01.160 as Steve likes to call him.
00:48:03.160 See,
00:48:03.500 here's the thing.
00:48:04.280 It's like
00:48:04.740 the deep state,
00:48:07.640 the corporatists,
00:48:10.120 the dark money.
00:48:11.260 Everybody's trying
00:48:12.160 to crush Mike Lindell
00:48:15.400 because he's telling
00:48:16.240 the truth about the election.
00:48:18.400 And, you know,
00:48:19.160 the big box retailers
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00:48:52.940 and Mike Lindell,
00:48:54.320 you are also supporting
00:48:56.080 Donald John Trump
00:48:57.480 in the 2024 effort here
00:48:59.440 that we really need to do.
00:49:01.360 We got a few minutes left
00:49:02.720 in this week,
00:49:05.320 the week before Memorial Day.
00:49:08.320 Just look,
00:49:09.080 Memorial Day
00:49:09.680 is a very somber day,
00:49:12.720 always been for me
00:49:14.400 and for this country.
00:49:16.460 We basically have to give
00:49:19.380 great thanks
00:49:20.480 to our veterans
00:49:23.140 who stand at the front lines
00:49:26.060 and serve.
00:49:27.920 And it particularly grieves me
00:49:30.680 having served in government
00:49:32.080 and seeing now
00:49:33.260 that the lives
00:49:36.160 that people gave
00:49:37.300 for our country
00:49:38.680 are now juxtaposed
00:49:41.020 against the kind of
00:49:42.680 weaponization
00:49:43.900 of our political institutions
00:49:46.240 against patriots.
00:49:48.540 And that's got to stop.
00:49:50.480 And what I've been doing
00:49:51.880 is really working
00:49:53.080 as hard as possible
00:49:54.860 in support of the Trump 2024 effort
00:49:58.520 to try to get the message out.
00:50:00.260 this debt ceiling debate
00:50:04.020 is going to be
00:50:06.540 the most important thing
00:50:08.040 that Congress does
00:50:09.060 before the November 2020
00:50:10.600 presidential race.
00:50:12.380 And it's going to have
00:50:14.060 consequences
00:50:15.240 for years to come.
00:50:17.120 I'm urging Kevin McCarthy
00:50:21.080 right now
00:50:22.400 to do two things.
00:50:23.440 One,
00:50:23.680 to hold fast,
00:50:25.100 to not give in,
00:50:26.460 not take the first
00:50:27.620 or second deal
00:50:28.540 that's being offered
00:50:29.380 because they're crappy deals.
00:50:31.620 You're holding
00:50:32.740 a strong hand now.
00:50:34.840 You need to play that out
00:50:36.180 on behalf of the American people
00:50:37.660 and the American taxpayers.
00:50:38.780 And the reason
00:50:41.720 you need to do that
00:50:42.840 is not just because
00:50:44.040 a lot of the Biden expenditures
00:50:45.920 on green energy
00:50:47.160 are going to ship jobs
00:50:48.320 to communist China.
00:50:50.600 A lot of the Biden expenditures
00:50:52.760 are going to double the size
00:50:54.320 of the IRS
00:50:54.960 to terrorize
00:50:56.160 middle-class families.
00:50:58.460 A lot of the expenditures
00:51:00.140 that Biden
00:51:01.080 has done
00:51:02.620 are going to force
00:51:03.500 black, brown,
00:51:05.140 and blue-collar Americans
00:51:06.860 to subsidize
00:51:08.040 the luxury EVs,
00:51:09.940 electric vehicles
00:51:10.840 of the upper-income Americans.
00:51:14.240 And to be honest with you,
00:51:15.660 people on our side of the fence
00:51:16.940 who are in upper-income brackets,
00:51:19.800 they don't want these subsidies.
00:51:21.520 Not at the cost
00:51:23.420 that we're going to have.
00:51:25.180 Kevin,
00:51:26.120 if you're listening, brother,
00:51:27.740 argue this on the economics.
00:51:29.240 If you don't
00:51:30.800 get the kind of cutbacks
00:51:33.360 that Russ Vogt
00:51:34.440 has helped you craft,
00:51:36.860 you're going to
00:51:37.860 institutionalize
00:51:39.340 stagflation,
00:51:41.400 simultaneous recession
00:51:42.820 and inflation
00:51:43.720 for a decade.
00:51:45.600 This is what's at stake.
00:51:47.340 So when you argue this case
00:51:48.780 to the American people,
00:51:50.380 you need to argue this
00:51:51.640 not just on all these other issues
00:51:54.000 about jobs to China
00:51:55.480 and IRS terrorism,
00:51:58.240 but most importantly
00:52:00.000 that the Democrats say
00:52:04.240 it's going to be a catastrophe.
00:52:05.160 It's going to be a bigger
00:52:06.880 economic catastrophe
00:52:08.020 if you don't hold the line.
00:52:10.440 So we need to hold the line.
00:52:12.880 Fear not.
00:52:13.840 Hold fast.
00:52:15.300 Summon up the courage
00:52:16.260 of the patriots.
00:52:17.180 We've just begun to fight.
00:52:18.420 You come up with
00:52:18.980 all the cliches we know
00:52:20.460 from the patriots
00:52:21.900 of America
00:52:23.140 and please
00:52:25.820 do not desecrate Memorial Day
00:52:28.320 by coming up
00:52:29.640 with a deal
00:52:30.620 that looks like
00:52:31.940 surrender.
00:52:34.040 Peter Navarro here.
00:52:36.560 Just as we go out,
00:52:38.540 if you get a chance,
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00:52:57.160 in 2024.
00:52:59.300 And every day
00:53:00.620 is just another day
00:53:02.700 where we dig deeper
00:53:04.040 into the morass
00:53:05.300 of the economy problems,
00:53:08.460 the endless wars
00:53:09.780 that we're facing.
00:53:11.940 By the way,
00:53:12.700 Biden,
00:53:13.460 they don't want to cut
00:53:14.720 the budget,
00:53:15.520 the defense budget.
00:53:16.580 Oh, big deal.
00:53:17.240 A lot of that money
00:53:18.000 is going to Ukraine.
00:53:19.100 Okay?
00:53:19.320 That's not to defend America.
00:53:21.420 All right.
00:53:23.620 Bow your head
00:53:24.380 for Memorial Day
00:53:25.260 and have a great weekend,
00:53:26.600 America.
00:53:27.280 You are in the war room.
00:53:29.220 You are the posse.
00:53:30.280 You are the most important folks
00:53:31.600 on the ramparts
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00:53:37.360 Cameron in Denver,
00:53:38.480 great job today.
00:53:40.660 Steve will see you
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00:53:42.980 He loves that Saturday show
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