On today's show, Stephen K. Bannon and his guests E.J. Antony and Jeff Clark and former Navy Commander Andrew Clyde discuss the failure to get the bill back on the House calendar and get it on the floor.
00:12:57.320Steve, there's certainly a few good things that are going to come from this piece of legislation.
00:13:02.200But I don't think it's so much a question of did we get anything good out of the deal?
00:13:06.940I think it's at you have to ask at what cost?
00:13:09.640And when you look at the astonishing cost of this, it was certainly not worth cutting a small amount of red tape for a small amount of oil drilling, for instance.
00:13:19.560That was not worth giving away the entire House, for example, like we did in this piece of legislation.
00:13:25.640I don't think almost anything could have been worth giving the Biden administration a removal of the debt ceiling, as we talked about previously.
00:13:33.940And like you said in that conversation, Steve, and as a couple of Republicans pointed out when they were debating this for a short period in the Congress, you know, if the Biden administration had any intent, any intent at all of spending as little as they said, then they would not have needed a removal of the debt ceiling.
00:13:54.000They would have been perfectly fine with capping it and having an increase of only one or two trillion dollars.
00:13:59.380But that was just yet another example of McCarthy's staff getting out Fox to you.
00:14:05.380If they had believed in any of these cuts, they would have codified that in the deal.
00:14:09.200OK, EJ, if I can have you hang for a second and Jeff hang for a second.
00:14:12.720Congressman Clyde is going to join us.
00:14:58.780Well, Congress once again allowed itself to be pushed into appeasing the administration and raising the debt ceiling for the 79th time, paving the way for continued reckless spending and further devaluation of the U.S. dollar.
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00:16:30.280Okay, as we said, I think in a pretty prominent publication on the right, this thing will break in the next day or two.
00:16:37.920EJ, on the work permits, the work requirements are supposed to be Medicaid, all this, given that we were, you know, we were outsmarted and then people weren't courageous enough to come forward and say we made a mistake and try to get a change.
00:16:53.400Now that it's in this, is anything to be done, sir?
00:16:57.400Well, Steve, unfortunately, a lot is baked into the cake right now.
00:17:00.520But the only hope that we do have right now is that it's going to be a very, very vicious appropriations fight coming up later this year and into next year.
00:17:09.560In other words, when Congress is actually voting on how much money to allocate to these different programs and to these different government agencies, and that's going to be an even more vicious fight than normal.
00:17:22.540And unfortunately, we gave up our biggest piece of leverage, right, which was the debt ceiling.
00:17:27.060But we still have the opportunity there to, you know, essentially draw a line in the sand and try to defund some of these things by simply just not giving them enough federal money to fulfill all of their promises.
00:17:40.100The problem is, is that the Senate is not going to back us on that, that they have, we have 19 collaborations in the Senate.
00:18:04.920And trust me, folks, when they come back from the, if they take an August, if they come back from the August recess sometime after Labor Day, around the 10th of September, there's going to be a firestorm on this appropriations.
00:18:17.500Supposedly the 12 independent bills are going to come up, regular order in the House, going to have what EJ's talking about.
00:18:23.000Others are going to have these cuts, and the Senate's going to go, quite interesting, not interested, right?
00:19:07.080Look, you know, my phone line was open.
00:19:09.620If they were going to talk about amending the NEPA statute significantly for the first time in 53 years, they could have called me and said, what are the top reforms we need?
00:19:18.760But that never happened, again, because I suspect they just took the off-the-shelf proposal of, oh, this will be good for you coming from the Biden administration.
00:19:29.620You know, there is one small silver lining, Steve, which is that because of the loan, the way they wrote the loan guarantee program, you know, provisions, probably farmers who get loan guarantees can now argue that they don't have to go through NEPA.
00:19:47.080So if you're a farmer, take note of that.
00:19:50.060You know, you kind of got a side benefit.
00:19:53.340And then the last thing I would say is, look, Steve, you know, if Republicans make a comeback to the White House in 2025, right, and I'm called on or something to, you know, hey, you've fixed this once before, you know, go fix it again, right?
00:20:07.880You know, now we would have had to have written around the Biden and through the Biden regulations that reverse the Trump reforms.
00:20:17.840But now there's a statute and there are a whole bunch of provisions.
00:20:20.480A lot of them don't do anything except to kind of add, ironically, more red tape.
00:20:59.800E.J., for you, before I let you go real quickly, the Saudis simultaneously with the passing of this bill announced a one million barrel a day cut.
00:21:09.140They want $80 minimum per barrel of oil up to $100.
00:21:15.460Of course, they're selling to the Chinese at $40 and no worse than 30 percent discount to what they sell to us.
00:21:20.560Plus, it's got to be in yuan, so they're going to break the U.S. dollar.
00:21:23.800Any sense, your sense of other bad things are going to happen to us because of this, sir?
00:21:31.440Well, I think increasingly countries are seeing what the Biden administration has done to the U.S. dollar and they're trying to run from it.
00:21:37.900You know, Biden promised the Saudis, for example, that he was going to start refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:21:44.720So instead of decreasing the global supply, he is helping to increase it.
00:21:50.280And now the Saudis are having to make production cuts and they're trying to put in a price floor, as you just detailed.
00:21:55.420So he has essentially betrayed the Saudis in terms of what we said we were going to do for a commodity priced in dollars.
00:22:02.540Look at what we did when we confiscated dollars that were owned by the Russian people, for example, as a result of the war in the Ukraine.
00:22:09.500That was another betrayal of the sanctity of the United States dollar.
00:22:13.900And now Biden is threatening sanctions against countries in Africa for having anti-sodomy laws.
00:22:19.720So once again, and by the way, that was actually something that you and I discussed months ago, that Biden was going to start using the dollar as a weapon, not just against countries that go to war, but against countries that don't agree with his woke agenda.
00:22:32.340And so as this increasingly happens, people around the world are looking at the dollar and realizing it's not a safe bet anymore.
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00:23:36.600A profile in courage is Congressman Andrew Clyde.
00:23:40.580The pistol brace bill, they came to him and said, you vote for the rule that gets this monstrosity to the floor.
00:23:48.160We will take this bill off of the schedule and jeopardize a minimum of three main American gun owners with 10 years in a federal prison, a substantial fine, and loss of their gun rights for the remainder of their earthly life.
00:24:06.820Congressman Clyde, since we broke that story with you last week, it's been like a firestorm.
00:24:11.320Can you get us up to speed on what's happening?
00:24:12.600Sir, we have demanded all weekend up on the getter with posters, talks, everything, that your bill with your name on it be put back on this week, like today, be put back on so it could be addressed by the House.
00:24:29.980Well, Steve, thanks again for having me on.
00:24:32.240I will tell you that what you have been doing and what the response from the 2A community has been very effective to date.
00:24:39.780We're not quite there yet, but it has definitely had a significant impact.
00:24:44.880I had quite a number of calls from leadership, but just had a meeting with leadership a couple of hours ago.
00:24:50.220And it seems that this bill, H.J. Res. 44, which takes down the pistol brace rule of the ATF, there's a possibility that it will come to the floor this coming week now, but that's not for certain.
00:25:19.720I think that's a really bad idea, and I expressed that to leadership because the Senate doesn't have the votes right now, and they know it.
00:25:27.660If the Senate, if all the Republicans in the Senate aren't confirmed to be voting for this, how do they expect any Democrats to vote for it?
00:25:35.580But here in the House, I know that we actually have a Democrat, potentially maybe two or three or four, that are committed to voting for this, that could potentially vote for this.
00:25:47.100I know we've got one committed to voting for it, and so if we can pass it on the Republican side with a Democrat or two, then it would be bipartisan.
00:25:57.680It would give tremendous support to the Senate for them to pass it.
00:26:01.860That's the way it should be done, and that's any other way I think really is a recipe for failure.
00:26:42.720I know you've had numerous calls and you had a meeting today.
00:26:46.340This is something that must get brought to the floor of the House, must be voted on.
00:26:50.560This is outrageous what it exposes, particularly vulnerable people, people with handicaps, injured veterans, women who are just coming to firearms for self-defense.
00:27:02.180Some of our most vulnerable people have these pistol braces, and it's exposed them to just these heinous charges, 10 years in a federal prison, substantial fine, and loss of their gun rights for the rest of their life.
00:27:35.400This is about the 3 million to potentially 40 million Americans who own pistol braces, who are law-abiding gun owners, who have pistol braces, stabilizing braces, in order to better enjoy their larger caliber pistols.
00:27:49.320And many of them, as you mentioned, are service-disabled veterans, are Americans with disabilities, and they need these braces in order to be able to properly use the pistols that they currently own.
00:28:01.660And if we don't, if we don't pass this in the House, then we're going to have a serious, serious problem.
00:28:08.100Because the Senate, you know, the courage is not there in the Senate.
00:28:13.340And not only that, but you've got plenty of folks that they're going to be denied their rights totally if we don't pass this in the House and send that message to the courts.
00:28:21.500Congressman, if you can just hold on for one second, short break, Andrew Clyde.
00:28:27.740Friends, I can't believe the dire headlines we're facing in the world today.
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00:30:01.640It's time to man the ramparts again, folks.
00:30:03.600I hope your blood is boiling on this deal.
00:30:07.240We're not going to give it up because this was the most important vote of the 118th Congress, not the vote for speakers.
00:30:14.800This vote in the pregame on that vote was Congressman Clyde and 29 other patriots.
00:30:21.520The 20 is now the 29 that said voted against the rule, said, no, this thing shouldn't – as a closed rule, it should not come to the floor.
00:30:38.840And some of the elements, which weren't great to begin with, when they got outmaneuvered and outnegotiated by Biden in the White House and the Hakeem Jeffries team, who are all hammers, they were too embarrassed and humiliated.
00:30:54.860When other Hill staffers came up and said, no, no, no, no, you don't understand what they've done here, they tried to hide it and tried to hide it through a series of talking points and spin and gaslighting you.
00:31:09.280I want you to absorb what's happened here.
00:31:11.700I also – when you're going to Branson, Missouri, or you're going to the Iowa State Fair, or you're going out to the – was it the Six Flags of America in Ohio?
00:31:19.400You're going to, you know, down to New Orleans or out in Disney World, or you're going up to Yellowstone National Park, wherever you're going this summer, throwing the kids in the car, trying to have a family trip, time of inflation, save a few bucks.
00:31:34.860And you look at those gas prices, remember, the Saudis voted what they thought was happening to the U.S. dollar and what they thought about this deal.
00:31:43.920They cut a million barrels of oil a day, and they're looking to get an $80 price minimum and maybe $100.
00:32:25.700They have to stand on a debate stage when the primary season, and they have to justify what they did with the knowledge they had at the time of what went on and then what the impact is.
00:32:36.080Because the impact during primary season is going to be a lot worse than it is today.
00:32:39.880And now you hear the other side of it, they go to a decent and good man like Commander Congressman Andrew Clyde from Georgia, who's trying to do something to help the American people and make sure that the American people aren't unwittingly with this overreaching leviathan of a federal government in these left-wing courts and these judges trying to put decent, hardworking people,
00:33:05.540people, particularly disabled veterans, maybe people with affirmities, females, whatever, on pistol braces in a federal prison for 10 years and take your gun rights away and on top of it hit you with a big fine.
00:33:52.140We're not giving up and that's for sure.
00:33:53.880What they need to communicate to the leadership of the Republican Party here in Washington is that these are our God-given constitutional rights, our natural rights, their Second Amendment rights.
00:34:09.740Republican leadership has no right to use them as a bargaining chip because that's wrong.
00:34:16.180You know, government is there to protect and defend our rights, not to bargain them away in some deal that they want to create.
00:34:25.140So, no, they need to tell the folks that H.J. Res. 44, which protects our constitutional rights against an overbearing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, that that bill needs to come to the floor and every Republican needs to be on notice and needs to have their vote recorded as to where they stand on our constitutional rights, on our Second Amendment rights.
00:34:47.660Congressman, how do people get to you?
00:34:52.580We're on social media, particularly your site.
00:34:54.460I can tell you, over the weekend, a lot of people – you're now – and you did this on the D.C. crime bill, which was brilliant.
00:35:00.900You've really taken the national stage here and, quite frankly, the international stage because this is, as you said, much deeper even than this bill.
00:35:08.620This is about – people in this country's constitutional rights are looked at as a bargaining chip.
00:35:14.320And you looked at it can be used against people who stand up for them as their representatives.
00:35:22.800And this is our – this is the party that people work for and ring doorbells for and give money to.
00:35:27.540This is not radical Democrats, although the radical Democrats control this deal.
00:35:31.680How do people get to you on your website and through social media, sir?
00:35:34.520Well, they can go to Clyde.House.gov on our website, and they can follow me on RepClyde at Twitter or on Facebook or on Instagram and Getter.
00:35:46.540So that's how you can reach out to my office.
00:36:12.260I know you've got a bunch of stuff to go to, and we've got limited time.
00:36:14.280We've got Liz Uris going to join us and Krom.
00:36:18.760The Nikki Haley – and I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but I watched the whole Nikki Haley thing last night, plus the hour and a half postgame on CNN.
00:36:26.560CNN – hey, let me just give you – it's not working.
00:38:50.400We are not at a – you know, some old school, you know, roast.
00:38:55.980We here are now fighting for the survival of this country.
00:38:59.580And if anybody thinks that a Sunday night CNN town hall or towing their poor kids around Iowa pretending to be this beautiful, wonderful, you know, a picture of America is what the American people want.
00:39:44.760But no, I think this is a moment that with these institutions that are not only not serving the nation but now in various stages of corruption and collapse, people have to – this is an urgent moment.
00:39:59.060All of these kind of – all this stuff that's done in traditional politics doesn't quite get to the heart of it.
00:40:48.200Using lawfare, using weaponized law enforcement, targeted illegal channels to persecute a – not just a political opponent, but the political opponent – is literally out of the third world playbook.
00:41:13.880Because keep in mind, a lot of this decay of law enforcement is attributed to Comey, is attributed even to Mueller, is attributed to Rosen – is attributed to those who permeated the Justice Department and law enforcement over the last 10 years and have landed us where we are, which is a lawless country, which is a country where police departments are burned.
00:41:37.120Courthouses are burned, courthouses are burned, stores are looted, and those who are responsible are not prosecuted.
00:41:43.700But the most significant leader in modern American history, the strongest president in modern American history, is persecuted.
00:43:00.200Because the American people are not just MAGA, not just the war room posse, but you better believe the blue dog Democrats and, Steve, a group you're pretty familiar with, the old school ACLU liberals, the old school honest liberals who were very suspicious, very suspicious of overreach.
00:43:15.960I'm going to look at this and say, no way, we're with President Trump.
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00:48:25.500And if you compare it to some of the other polling, from YouGov to political warning consult, in reality, if you add in the Keebler elves, as you call them, President Trump is in the 60s.
00:48:40.640And then vitally on the economy, President Trump leads in the battleground states and nationwide by 50 points on the economy.
00:48:49.620And all these polls, Stephen, this is vital, all these polls are taken after that Hindenburg of a launch that the Florida governor attempted on Twitter spaces.
00:50:32.840What is going on here at these police stations, ma'am?
00:50:35.520Well, Steve, you said every town is a border town.
00:50:38.000Well, it's come to Chicago and it's really a dystopian scene.
00:50:42.180They've had over 10,000 aliens into the city of Chicago.
00:50:47.760200 illegal aliens arrive every day in Chicago.
00:50:51.420And the city of Chicago has run out of shelters and money.
00:50:55.400And so the new socialist mayor of Chicago has decided to place these illegal aliens in the lobbies of 25 police precincts around the city of Chicago.
00:51:09.460So picture this, the desk sergeant in charge of all these illegal aliens on mattresses, screaming babies, overflowing toilets, trying to find food for these people.
00:51:21.720And instead of dealing with the crime, which has gone sword in Chicago, in fact, last week we had 49 shot at, 10 killed.
00:51:34.600This weekend, same numbers, exact same numbers.
00:51:37.940So, you know, remember when the left was saying, oh, we have to make police officers, social workers?
00:51:43.620Well, in Chicago, they've skipped over that.
00:51:45.780We have policemen who are now sanitation workers and babysitters.
00:51:50.140It is, and now what has happened, of course, which Michael Yan has warned us about, there's a sign on one of the police precincts where it says, number 25 says, enter at your own risk, measles outbreak.
00:52:05.880And, you know, I've been following the story.
00:52:07.480Policemen are saying, oh, it's much more than measles.
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