Bannon's War Room - Episode 2839： Supreme Court Turns Against MAGA; The Failure Of Solar In Texas

00:00:01.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:00:06.000 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:00:11.000 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:00:15.000 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:00:17.000 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:00:18.000 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,

00:00:20.000 but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

00:00:22.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:00:25.000 MAGA Media.

00:00:27.000 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:00:32.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:00:36.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:00:43.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:00:51.000 Good evening from New York, I'm Chris Sayes.

00:00:53.000 It is not often the case these days.

00:00:55.000 But today, the Supreme Court issued a long-anticipated, monumental ruling

00:01:00.000 that actually bolsters America's democratic strength.

00:01:04.000 Now, the case before the court today contained at its core

00:01:07.000 an idea that was central to the Donald Trump scheme

00:01:11.000 to overturn the 2020 elections.

00:01:14.000 The question of whether state legislatures can do whatever they want in elections

00:01:18.000 up to and including simply appointing electors to their preferred candidate,

00:01:23.000 even when the citizens of their state vote the other way.

00:01:27.000 Trump's lawyers pushed the idea that Republican legislators in all kinds of states

00:01:31.000 could simply ignore the will of the people in states that voted for Joe Biden

00:01:36.000 and opt instead to send their own fake electors, Trump electors to Congress.

00:01:41.000 It was fake electors in seven swing states, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Nevada,

00:01:48.000 that in coordination with the Trump campaign, sought to overthrow the election results.

00:01:53.000 Trump and his lawyer John Eastman, along with others, actively lobbied for

00:01:57.000 and pushed this idea across multiple states, trying in fact to get state legislatures

00:02:02.000 to abandon their core democratic duty and choose instead a path to essentially crown Trump king.

00:02:09.000 The court has rejected a controversial legal theory

00:02:12.000 that would have transformed election laws across this country.

00:02:15.000 The case involved a disputed congressional district map in North Carolina

00:02:19.000 that was drawn by Republicans.

00:02:22.000 Now, the state argued that the Constitution gives legislators nearly unlimited power

00:02:26.000 to make rules for presidential and congressional elections in their states.

00:02:30.000 On a six to three vote, the justices dismissed the independent state legislature theory.

00:02:35.000 That's what it's called.

00:02:36.000 The decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts maintains this,

00:02:39.000 that state courts can decide disputes over election law.

00:02:43.000 Major ruling yesterday from the Supreme Court,

00:02:46.000 which made it more difficult for the big lie to repeat itself in 2024.

00:02:51.000 The case Moore versus Harper, based out of North Carolina,

00:02:55.000 centered on a radical theory known as the independent state legislature theory.

00:03:00.000 It would have given state legislatures virtually unchecked power over federal elections

00:03:06.000 based on an extreme interpretation of the Constitution's elections clause.

00:03:12.000 In a six to three ruling, the Supreme Court rejected that anti-democratic theory

00:03:17.000 with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett

00:03:24.000 siding with the liberals in his opinion.

00:03:26.000 The Chief Justice writes,

00:03:28.000 The elections clause does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review,

00:03:35.000 adding that the legislatures, the framers recognized, are the mere creatures of the state constitutions

00:03:43.000 and cannot be greater than their creators.

00:03:47.000 John Eastman, a legal advisor to Donald Trump, embraced this fringe theory as a way to overturn the 2020 election,

00:03:55.000 arguing that then Vice President Mike Pence had the power to refuse to certify the results.

00:04:02.000 In an email exchange with NBC News, Eastman claimed the ruling would prevent legislatures

00:04:08.000 from addressing illegality and fraud in a timely manner.

00:04:12.000 When asked if the ruling invalidates the arguments he made in 2020, Eastman wrote,

00:04:17.000 quote, no, but it will be murkier than it was previously.

00:04:21.000 Joining us now to delve deeper into this ruling, senior legal affairs reporter at Politico, Josh Gerstein.

00:04:28.000 Josh, talk about if you could, what was at stake?

00:04:33.000 Well, this is pretty significant, Mika, on two different fronts.

00:04:36.000 One, the one you just mentioned involving the 2024 presidential race and the possibility that you could have seen Republicans,

00:04:45.000 specifically former President Trump, put forward this kind of effort to put state legislatures on steroids, you might say,

00:04:53.000 to say that they could be the ultimate arbiter of who won an election in their state.

00:04:58.000 And that obviously could have led to post election chaos.

00:05:04.000 That that is the plan that the Trump team tried to start to run in 2020,

00:05:09.000 but basically got cut off at the pass.

00:05:11.000 And the Supreme Court, through the reasoning of its ruling, makes it seem like that's a lot less likely here.

00:05:16.000 The second front, of course, is the issue of control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

00:05:22.000 And this decision seemed to shift the ground in favor of Democrats.

00:05:27.000 Let me let me let me let me jump in here because we've got a lot of work today to do today.

00:05:34.000 So strap in Tuesday, 27 June.

00:05:37.000 Excuse me.

00:05:39.000 It's Wednesday, the 28th of June.

00:05:41.000 I'm going to catch up with the catch up with the day today.

00:05:43.000 We're a little you know, we're got our head down here at the war room.

00:05:47.000 John Eastman is going to join us in a minute.

00:05:50.000 I want to make sure everyone understands the.

00:05:54.000 As we said yesterday in the show, when it first came out, the blockbuster nature of this of this ruling yesterday,

00:06:02.000 think also what it means for where we spend our time and who you back, because now it's becoming clearer and clearer that the Bush kind of, you know,

00:06:15.000 the Chevy Chase Republicans are not going to be, you know, following the Constitution.

00:06:24.000 This is just an outrageous decision.

00:06:27.000 It's really outrageous that, you know, Kavanaugh and Roberts in particular, the Chevy Chase crowd went against this.

00:06:37.000 And you saw where the rocks of Gibraltar, Justice Alito, Justice Thomas and Justice Gorsuch.

00:06:44.000 And you ought to read their dissenting opinion is quite powerful.

00:06:47.000 So we got two things we're going to do.

00:06:49.000 Eastman is going to come over and explain what what actually took place and why this is so against the Constitution and taking powers away from the state legislatures,

00:06:57.000 which is what the framers and the founders wanted and really consolidating power into the apparatus.

00:07:05.000 But we're also going to talk about what we have to do to fight back, particularly redistricting.

00:07:08.000 The reason I want to start the show with this today, this audience was absolutely central to the redistricting fights that took place in in twenty one and twenty two to make sure that these are fair.

00:07:20.000 These are not about partisan maps. These are not about Republican maps. These are not about MAGA maps.

00:07:25.000 These are about having fair redistricting efforts in these states that reflect the states themselves in both Missouri and in Florida, particularly because DeSantis at the time was asleep at the switch.

00:07:40.000 I realized a lot of his fanboys saying, oh, no, no, no, he was he was not on it. OK, we know we were there.

00:07:45.000 So he got his mind right and did did the right thing at the end. But at the beginning, he was not there.

00:07:52.000 And the folks in the Tennessee legislature were really the ones that showed the way that led the way on this.

00:07:57.000 I want to bring in Alex DeGrasse. Alex, so talk to us. I'm going to get Eastman on in a minute to talk about the theory and the and the and the practicality of the state legislature.

00:08:07.000 But talk to me about the work ahead. What do we have to do to make sure we are fighting?

00:08:12.000 And as we always fought for fair redistricting that reflects the population of the state and the population of these areas.

00:08:21.000 Walk me through what we have to do.

00:08:23.000 So I think what this unfortunate court decision puts it in front of us is the state Supreme Courts now are probably the most important seat, you know, seat of power in our country, other than probably the presidency, of course.

00:08:36.000 But they'll determine election integrity issues and they're going to determine, obviously, the redistricting.

00:08:41.000 And so you have a couple of things at play here. We just lost Wisconsin for the first time, I think, in a decade or two, which is a disaster.

00:08:48.000 And I know this show and Scott Pesler and folks were really trying to force the issue to get people involved and get out to vote.

00:08:54.000 And we lost it. We were able to flip Ohio, flip North Carolina.

00:08:59.000 So that's critical. So those maps will be revisited, of course.

00:09:02.000 In some states, it's a sort of a status quo situation in New York, where, unfortunately, even the liberal court is better than the state legislator.

00:09:11.000 We're looking at our maps being tossed and we should have, you know, we should have the result of that court case within a month.

00:09:19.000 So what's at play, Stephen, the short term is eight seats, I think, at Delta.

00:09:23.000 So we could pick up seats depending on if people hold the line and we get aggressive and push things through in North Carolina, Ohio.

00:09:31.000 If we could hold the line in Alabama, we've got a court case up to the Supreme Court in South Carolina on racial gerrymandering that Mark Elias is bringing.

00:09:39.000 So obviously, you know, it's a scam. And then obviously, New York with the Delta, four seats there.

00:09:44.000 So Wisconsin, I think it's going to go down one or two against us.

00:09:48.000 So a lot at play here. But the key is state Supreme Court races are now, I think, the most important election other than the presidency.

00:09:59.000 What these redistricting is in North Carolina and Ohio.

00:10:03.000 Just walk me through the simple math, as you say, what a fair map is and what are we actually fighting for?

00:10:08.000 Because with this situation in Alabama and Louisiana, they could change these districts.

00:10:14.000 I mean, we could be back to an even house right at the gate.

00:10:18.000 Talk about Ohio and North Carolina.

00:10:21.000 And are there other opportunities out there like Ohio and North Carolina?

00:10:25.000 Right now, the states that are sort of up in play, you have New York, where it's sort of against us.

00:10:31.000 We have Wisconsin, which is against us.

00:10:33.000 Collectively, that could be about six seats swung against us.

00:10:36.000 So that's net negative six seats.

00:10:38.000 North Carolina, there could be two, three seats where if there were fair lines, you could have either more Republican leading seats or a few more safe Republican seats.

00:10:47.000 Ohio is the same thing.

00:10:49.000 So that's one or two there.

00:10:50.000 So that gets us almost to kind of a net break even across the board, maybe down one or two.

00:10:56.000 South Carolina, that's next fall.

00:10:59.000 They're going to be revisiting that.

00:11:00.000 And then Alabama and Louisiana, I believe, don't quote me, but I think they're going to try to put seats up that would reflect somewhat of the same partisan demographics while having to change race.

00:11:13.000 It's it's it's that's going to be net one out of each Alabama.

00:11:17.000 And so, I mean, best case, it's your best case.

00:11:22.000 You're saying it's a break even if we deliver Ohio and North Carolina.

00:11:25.000 It's a break even right right now.

00:11:27.000 What is a five seat majority?

00:11:29.000 And you're saying this could be net down to to break even at best and maybe much worse.

00:11:36.000 It could be much worse if we hold New York.

00:11:39.000 New York is going to be key because that's where the biggest delta is.

00:11:42.000 And, you know, we have a great argument that we think that Mark Elias's case is an unmitigated fraud and probably one of the most blatant attempts to steal the election right in front of us.

00:11:53.000 So we don't have much faith in a way that it is a Democrat court.

00:11:57.000 And this thing goes all the way to the top.

00:11:59.000 They actually swapped out a judge and I believe blackmailed a former Republican then appointed by Cuomo head of the appeals court to get her out of the way just to jam through this court case.

00:12:09.000 So this thing goes all the way to the top.

00:12:11.000 You see, as you saw the lead of the show, all the mainstream media talking about it.

00:12:15.000 You've got Obama weighing in, Holder, every Democrat person.

00:12:19.000 They've all got the talking points, fringe legal theory.

00:12:22.000 You know what I mean?

00:12:23.000 This whole thing, it's all centralized, all a massive power grab.

00:12:27.000 But, I mean, there's a small chance we pick up seats here if everything holds the line and we win that New York court case.

00:12:32.000 If we lose the New York court case, it gets very tough because we could lose one or two down south, Wisconsin one or two, hold New York and then pick up, you know, three, four in North Carolina, Ohio.

00:12:44.000 Yeah.

00:12:45.000 Okay, Alex, what's your social media?

00:12:48.000 How do you get to it?

00:12:49.000 Because this is another, obviously the war on posse was on this and we're going to have to give in this blockbuster decision.

00:12:56.000 And you got, when you say Mark Elias and, you know, illegal, bad character, you know, thing.

00:13:05.000 That's all true.

00:13:07.000 But he wins and he could win here in New York.

00:13:09.000 People got to savvy up to that.

00:13:10.000 We don't have a Mark Elias.

00:13:11.000 And I know people say you can't say they can't build him up.

00:13:13.000 Hey, I'm just dealing with facts.

00:13:15.000 I'm dealing with facts.

00:13:16.000 He's a bad guy.

00:13:17.000 He's an evil guy, but he's an effective guy.

00:13:20.000 And they're winning on this topic right now.

00:13:23.000 They're winning.

00:13:24.000 I'm going to get, I got Eastman here in a minute.

00:13:25.000 Where, where are they going to your social media to, to, to, to get you in practice?

00:13:30.000 So the most important thing, I think if people go to GOP battleground fund.com, that talks

00:13:35.000 about some of our efforts in New York, GOP battleground fund.com.

00:13:40.000 That's critical.

00:13:41.000 But I'm on social at the grass at the grass, 81 truth getter, all of it.

00:13:46.000 Um, you know, political just did the big, big headline, millions of dollars going to be pouring

00:13:51.000 into these state Supreme court races.

00:13:53.000 So it's a big fight up ahead.

00:13:54.000 So thank you.

00:13:57.000 Lead story in political this morning about how, you know, and we talked yesterday about

00:14:01.000 the litigation.

00:14:02.000 This, this decision is the full employment program for Mark Elias and his type.

00:14:07.000 And it's going to, you're going to pour the fights for these Supreme courts.

00:14:11.000 And we told people about Wisconsin.

00:14:12.000 I mean, we didn't really know the guy they put in Wisconsin, but he didn't seem like

00:14:17.000 was on top of things.

00:14:18.000 And the people in Wisconsin, the establishment up there and others just kind of let it go.

00:14:22.000 Let it go.

00:14:23.000 Okay.

00:14:24.000 Uh, Alex.

00:14:25.000 Great.

00:14:26.000 Thank you very much for kicking us off this morning.

00:14:29.000 John Eastman.

00:14:30.000 Next.

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00:14:44.000 Dave Walsh is here to tell you the truth.

00:14:47.000 Also the front page of the wall street journal is the article about Sequoia capital.

00:14:53.000 There's a lot more to expose there.

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00:16:28.000 It is not often the case these days.

00:16:31.000 But today, the Supreme Court issued a long-anticipated, monumental ruling

00:16:36.000 that actually bolsters America's democratic strength.

00:16:39.000 Now, the case before the court today contained at its core an idea that was central

00:16:45.000 central to the Donald Trump scheme to overturn the 2020 elections.

00:16:49.000 The question of whether state legislatures can do whatever they want in elections,

00:16:54.000 up to and including simply appointing electors to their preferred candidate,

00:16:58.000 even when the citizens of their state vote the other way.

00:17:02.000 Trump's lawyers pushed the idea that Republican legislators in all kinds of states could simply ignore the will of the people in states that voted for Joe Biden

00:17:12.000 and opt instead to send their own fake electors, Trump electors, to Congress.

00:17:17.000 It was fake electors in seven swing states, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Nevada,

00:17:23.000 that in coordination with the Trump campaign, sought to overthrow the election results.

00:17:28.000 Trump and his lawyer John Eastman, along with others, actively lobbied for and pushed this idea across multiple states,

00:17:35.000 trying, in fact, to get state legislatures to abandon their core democratic duty and choose instead a path to essentially crown Trump king.

00:17:45.000 The court has rejected a controversial legal theory that would have transformed election laws across this country.

00:17:51.000 The case involved a disputed congressional district map in North Carolina that was drawn by Republicans.

00:17:57.000 Now, the state argued that the Constitution gives legislators nearly unlimited power to make rules for presidential and congressional elections in their states.

00:18:06.000 On a six to three vote, the justices dismissed the independent state legislature theory.

00:18:10.000 That's what it's called.

00:18:11.000 The decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts maintains this, that state courts can decide disputes over election law.

00:18:19.000 Major ruling yesterday from the Supreme Court, which made it more difficult for the big lie to repeat itself in 2024.

00:18:26.000 The case Moore versus Harper, based out of North Carolina, centered on a radical theory known as the independent state legislature theory.

00:18:36.000 It would have given state legislatures virtually unchecked power over federal elections based on an extreme interpretation of the Constitution's elections clause.

00:18:47.000 In a six to three ruling, the Supreme Court rejected that anti-democratic theory with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett siding with the liberals in his opinion.

00:19:02.000 The chief justice writes, the elections clause does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review, adding that the legislatures, the framers recognized, are the mere creatures of the state constitutions and cannot be greater than their creators.

00:19:22.000 John Eastman, a legal advisor to Donald Trump, embraced this fringe theory as a way to overturn the 2020 election, arguing that then vice president.

00:19:32.000 Okay.

00:19:33.000 Okay.

00:19:34.000 Okay.

00:19:35.000 John Eastman joins us now.

00:19:37.000 John Eastman.

00:19:38.000 Is this a fringe theory?

00:19:40.000 I want you to walk through the theory of the case here, why this was such a radical decision yesterday.

00:19:44.000 And I want to tell people this is signal, not noise.

00:19:48.000 This is going to change the battlefield and you're going to have to, I realize you're the hardest working people in the MAGA movement, but you got to man up here because this is going to be ugly.

00:19:59.000 It's going to be a grind.

00:20:00.000 John Eastman, was this a radical fringe theory, sir?

00:20:03.000 Well, for the first half century of our nation's history, the state legislature simply chose the electors themselves.

00:20:09.000 That's because unambiguously the Constitution assigns the power to direct the manner of choosing presidential electors to the legislature.

00:20:17.000 Unambiguous.

00:20:18.000 There's no dispute about that.

00:20:20.000 Anybody can pick up Article II of their Constitution and look at it.

00:20:23.000 It's right there.

00:20:24.000 And if it's such a fringe theory, it's a little odd that I got several justices agreeing with me.

00:20:29.000 That typically doesn't happen on fringe theories.

00:20:33.000 But more importantly, and I want to go after this theme that, you know, all of those news accounts said that this is going to bolster democracy.

00:20:40.000 What we're doing here is taking the power to direct the manner of choosing electors from the most democratic branch, the legislature, and handing it over to the state courts, the least democratic branch.

00:20:53.000 And yet this is somehow bolstering democracy to let courts, you know, pick a phrase in their state constitution that says, you know, you have to have free elections and use that to impose its own election code contrary to what the state legislature does.

00:21:08.000 If they decide, well, we've got to have no excuse mail-in voting and the legislature disagrees, well, we think it's necessary for fair elections.

00:21:15.000 So we're going to order it a signature verification in order to eliminate the risk of fraud or reduce the risk of fraud.

00:21:22.000 Well, we don't like that.

00:21:23.000 So we're going to get rid of that because we don't think that's fair.

00:21:26.000 You and these are oftentimes unelected judges or at the very least certainly less accountable than the state legislators are.

00:21:33.000 The notion that this is undermining democracy by letting the power stay where the Constitution vests it is rather bizarre.

00:21:42.000 And the other thing I want to point out, they all say, well, we were using this to overturn the election and undermine the will of the people.

00:21:49.000 No, we weren't, as you know well.

00:21:51.000 We were trying to understand who the true winner was in order to bolster or enhance the will of the people.

00:21:58.000 If there were illegal votes that were cast because of decisions by county clerks or state Supreme Court judges or secretaries of state, illegal votes that determine the outcome of the election.

00:22:10.000 And if you count only the legal votes, Trump would have won.

00:22:13.000 That's upholding the will of the people, not undermining it.

00:22:16.000 So this narrative, this big lie narrative that they keep fostering.

00:22:20.000 Hang on.

00:22:21.000 Hang on.

00:22:22.000 Hang on.

00:22:23.000 But hang on.

00:22:24.000 Isn't that for the state legislatures?

00:22:25.000 This whole thing was not about new electors or anything like that.

00:22:28.000 It's about the certification by the state legislatures of their election process.

00:22:33.000 And you're absolutely correct.

00:22:34.000 The all votes versus the certifiable chain of custody legal votes.

00:22:39.000 I just want to go back because you had Roberts and Kavanaugh.

00:22:44.000 What does the Constitution say?

00:22:46.000 Just what does the Constitution say?

00:22:48.000 And where did the framers and the founders of this nation put this power about the whole systems of electors?

00:22:57.000 Yeah.

00:22:58.000 It says the states in the manner chosen by the shall direct the manner of choosing electors.

00:23:05.000 The states by the legislature thereof shall choose the manner or direct the manner of choosing presidential electors.

00:23:11.000 It parallels the clause that was at issue.

00:23:14.000 Yeah.

00:23:15.000 Yeah.

00:23:16.000 Okay.

00:23:17.000 And was that not reinforced?

00:23:19.000 Isn't this why they changed the Electoral Count Act of 1887 in the middle of the night and jammed it into an omnibus bill?

00:23:26.000 Right?

00:23:27.000 I mean this is as clear as you can get.

00:23:28.000 It's certainly part of it.

00:23:29.000 Yeah.

00:23:30.000 No, exactly.

00:23:31.000 This is part of it.

00:23:32.000 So here's my point just because I'm not a constitutional scholar like you.

00:23:37.000 If that is in the Constitution, what does Roberts argue that this should shift and the courts and others should get involved in this process?

00:23:48.000 How can they reinterpret the Constitution like that?

00:23:51.000 Well, their argument is that, well, back at the time of the founding, it was customary for state courts to have judicial review over things their legislature did.

00:24:01.000 But that was when the legislature is acting pursuant to the state constitution.

00:24:05.000 When they're acting pursuant to the federal constitution, their power comes directly from the federal constitution.

00:24:11.000 And, of course, they're bound by constraints in the federal constitution.

00:24:15.000 But to say that they are also bound by constraints or limitations in their state constitution is to that extent to take the power the federal constitution gives to them away.

00:24:25.000 And I'll give you one example.

00:24:27.000 And Chief Justice Roberts knew this well a decade ago.

00:24:30.000 He writes a dissent in the Arizona Redistricting Commission case that's very powerful and very persuasive.

00:24:37.000 He said there are nine or ten places where the Constitution gives power not to the state but to the state legislature.

00:24:45.000 Like when they decide whether to ratify a constitutional amendment.

00:24:50.000 And we've now opened the door to say, well, if they ratify a constitutional amendment and there's some provision in their state constitution that says they can only ratify fair amendments, then the state court is going to decide whether it can be ratified or not.

00:25:03.000 This is a radical departure from the federal constitution.

00:25:09.000 And, you know, from decades, half a century, like I said, states were choosing their own electors in many instances, all the way up to 1860 for South Carolina, choosing their own electors.

00:25:20.000 The election for state legislatures leading up to the presidential election year would often turn on who you were supporting for president, who you're going to cast a vote for in your state legislature.

00:25:30.000 But but that's clear. And the Supreme Court over a century ago called that power plenary, meaning it knows it knows it doesn't answer to anybody else because they wanted the power in the branch of government most directly accountable to the people.

00:25:45.000 Not in not in an unelected judiciary or or even when the judiciary is elected, they're not kind of elected routinely and frequently like the state legislature is.

00:25:55.000 So going forward, according to this ruling, going forward, the state legislature, like we saw in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and all these rule changes they had and some are unconstitutional, you know, the two signature verification of the mail and ballots, all of this in 2024.

00:26:13.000 Walk me through. Walk me through. How does this work in 2024?

00:26:17.000 Well, it's going to be a lawfare bonanza.

00:26:21.000 So, you know, there's a line in there. Justice Thomas, in his dissent, points out points this out.

00:26:28.000 It says that the legislature is subject to the ordinary judicial review.

00:26:34.000 But then it says I want to get the language here.

00:26:40.000 So judicial review, but only as long as it doesn't, quote, transgress the ordinary bounds of judicial review, such that the courts aggregate to themselves the power vested in the state legislatures to regulate federal elections.

00:26:53.000 So when is a court decision striking down an aspect of state election law in the ordinary power of judicial review or is it transgressing those ordinary bounds?

00:27:08.000 And, you know, there's no answer to that.

00:27:12.000 There's no answer to that. It's just going to be a raw exercise of power by the courts. 0.77

00:27:16.000 And then the question is, how often will the Supreme Court step in to limit what the state courts are doing?

00:27:23.000 We saw this in 2000 in Florida.

00:27:25.000 The state court was simply changing the rules of the election after the fact with a partisan bent.

00:27:31.000 I know one of the reasons you have rules in advance is that when you pass the rules, nobody knows who they're going to benefit.

00:27:37.000 When you allow for rules to be changed in the middle of the game, you know, every single change, you know, you know which side that's going to benefit.

00:27:46.000 If you weaken absentee ballot verification rules and you know that one side is relying much more heavily on absentee ballots than the other, that's a partisan decision to benefit one side.

00:27:58.000 John, can you hang on for one second? We're going to just hold you to the break.

00:28:02.000 Sure.

00:28:03.000 I understand you're very busy out there today. We'll talk about that in a second.

00:28:05.000 John Eastman, Dave Walsh.

00:28:07.000 We've got Mark Mitchell on some polling.

00:28:09.000 All next in the war room.

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00:30:19.000 Okay, welcome back.

00:30:21.000 John Eastman, I just want to revisit this before I ask you how we go forward is,

00:30:26.000 and this shows you the cowardice of John Roberts.

00:30:30.000 And I want everybody in this audience to fully understand this, what Bushies are like. 1.00

00:30:35.000 Go back to that Arizona opinion and how adamant and how strong his dissent was,

00:30:41.000 and specifically what he said about the state legislature,

00:30:43.000 and then compare and contrast that to what he did now that they've protested at his home.

00:30:49.000 I mean, look, these guys cratered to the mob.

00:30:53.000 This is French Revolution stuff.

00:30:56.000 This is they cratered to the mob because they're afraid.

00:30:59.000 They're afraid, and they don't want to go against that.

00:31:01.000 You saw that we started, and by the way, we could have played two hours of just clips like that for our cold open today.

00:31:08.000 Two hours of just, you know, radical theory, French theory, you know, Trump, they want to crown Trump king.

00:31:15.000 There's no discussion ever about crowning President Trump king.

00:31:19.000 The 2020 election will always be a scar on the American electoral process.

00:31:24.000 And I've said from day one that Joe Biden's illegitimate, illegitimate presidency.

00:31:27.000 I'll never back off that.

00:31:29.000 That's my belief in my thinking as a free American citizen.

00:31:36.000 And we can back it up with receipts that they don't want to ever address.

00:31:40.000 John, but I just want to focus on Roberts because this gets the hub of it.

00:31:45.000 This is why people were so, quite frankly, enthusiastic, although this thing shouldn't even have been brought.

00:31:49.000 It should have been taken off given the reversal in North Carolina.

00:31:52.000 But he wanted to do it. He wanted to take it.

00:31:55.000 There was no need to have this actually be argued.

00:31:58.000 He wanted it and he wanted it to show the left that he's a good little boy.

00:32:03.000 He's a good little boy and he's in his place.

00:32:05.000 That's exactly what this is all about.

00:32:07.000 Go back to and don't take it from me.

00:32:09.000 Take it from his written opinions.

00:32:11.000 I want to just highlight Arizona 10 years ago with what he said, you know, that got released yesterday.

00:32:19.000 John Eastman.

00:32:20.000 Well, he goes through every clause in the Constitution that mentions the word state or legislature.

00:32:26.000 And, you know, when it says that there's a power in the state or a reserved power in the state, they mean the whole state apparatus according to the state constitution.

00:32:37.000 But when it says the legislature of the state, that's specific and it's referring to a particular body.

00:32:44.000 And so if you're going to split a part of your state off and form a new state like happened with West Virginia during the Civil War from Virginia, the legislature of the state has to approve.

00:32:59.000 That doesn't mean the legislature of the state subject to judicial review, subject to the governor's signature.

00:33:05.000 If you're going to approve a constitutional amendment, Congress has two routes.

00:33:10.000 They can send it to a constitutional convention in your state or they can send it to the legislature of the state.

00:33:15.000 And there's the Supreme Court case that says even the lieutenant governor presiding over that session doesn't get to cast the deciding vote because that's no longer the legislature of the state.

00:33:27.000 So all of these mechanisms in the state constitution, you want to call yourself into special session to deal with election fraud, you get to do that.

00:33:36.600 You don't have to wait for the governor to call you into special session.

00:33:39.880 That's a constraint on your normal legislative powers that the state constitution provides that doesn't apply, or at least according to Roberts at the time, didn't apply in the context of exercising powers that you have from the federal constitution.

00:33:55.400 So that was all clear and very persuasively argued in Chief Justice Roberts' dissent 10 years ago.

00:34:02.540 And that was a 5-4 decision.

00:34:04.320 One expected that with the change in personnel since then, that Roberts' views then would become the majority views of the court.

00:34:17.920 Where do we go from here on this topic?

00:34:20.680 Well, we got to ramp up.

00:34:22.380 I mean, the Democrats are spending tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars on lawfare.

00:34:28.340 They're doing it in two ways.

00:34:30.280 They're on offense.

00:34:31.980 They're on offense in the state courts trying to alter election laws that they don't like, weakening signature verification to open the door for fraud, getting rid of voter ID requirements, all these things.

00:34:46.180 And if the legislatures don't comply with their demands and their pressure, they will now try and get friendly courts to do so.

00:34:53.000 And in many cases, they will find them.

00:34:55.580 They're also on offense, keeping the rest of us on defense.

00:34:58.740 You know, that's the larger story of my bar trial, the 65 projects seeking to disbar all of the Trump lawyers.

00:35:08.420 Keep us on our heels so we can't be ramped up in time for the 2024 election because we're fighting for our professional lives.

00:35:16.460 And also, and this is important, and the head of the 65 project has admitted as much, our goal is not just to get them all disbarred, but to make them so toxic in their firms and communities that right-wing legal talent will never want to step up and bring these election challenges again.

00:35:35.160 They're trying to clear the field so that they have an unhindered path toward doing it in the election law, whatever they want, and that if the election is wonky or illegal or fraudulent, there won't be anybody willing to put their head above the sand and take on the challenge.

00:35:53.820 If you want to see the cowardice, just look in John Roberts, Exhibit 1 in a Coward, and this is what's going to happen to these law firms.

00:36:02.340 This is lawfare.

00:36:03.120 Hey, this is where Mark Elias and the 65 projects, these are bad people, but they play smash mouth, and this is the lesson that we have to take from this.

00:36:14.860 You're going to have to fight fire with fire.

00:36:16.980 If you want to defeat these guys, they control the law schools. 0.98

00:36:20.280 They control these big law firms, and they're coming at you, and guys like Roberts are what most lawyers are, gutless cowards. 0.71

00:36:27.800 That's why we need heroes to step up here, and we need to do it now. 0.81

00:36:31.180 This is like you've got to break the glass on this.

00:36:34.440 Go to general quarters.

00:36:35.560 You've got to get some legal talent.

00:36:36.760 We've got to fight this.

00:36:37.560 I call it the Mark Elias Full Employment Program.

00:36:40.640 This is going to be a range war like you've never seen before, and John Eastman is exactly correct. 0.56

00:36:47.100 It's going to be 10 times worse in 2020, and it's here now.

00:36:52.200 And this was not close.

00:36:54.460 It was a 6-3 decision.

00:36:56.020 You had Kavanaugh and Barrett.

00:36:57.820 Who knows?

00:36:59.000 But Kavanaugh and Roberts with a Chevy Chase.

00:37:00.940 You can see they got the mob, and you have to give them credit.

00:37:06.640 They have to give them credit.

00:37:07.860 They unleashed the mob on these guys who went to their homes, and everybody stood around.

00:37:10.960 We covered it every second of every day.

00:37:12.700 Mike Davis on here.

00:37:14.400 It worked.

00:37:15.100 Let's face reality.

00:37:18.400 Let's not try to sugarcoat this.

00:37:19.720 It worked.

00:37:21.000 The mob went to their homes.

00:37:22.260 Think about it for a second.

00:37:23.040 In the United States of America, we had an attorney general.

00:37:27.360 We had the apparatus of your government, and even the states.

00:37:31.540 Where was Yunkin?

00:37:32.480 And, of course, Maryland's a bunch of commies. 0.98

00:37:34.340 They all looked.

00:37:37.640 In fact, I think it was Hogan at the time.

00:37:39.040 Talk about a commie. 0.98

00:37:39.960 They all looked the other way.

00:37:41.640 In the suburbs around Virginia, they let him go.

00:37:43.640 And remember, Kavanaugh had an assassination attempt on him.

00:37:47.460 Nobody said anything.

00:37:48.200 Nobody did anything.

00:37:48.820 He had war on other people.

00:37:49.960 And finally, but they went out.

00:37:51.440 The mob, the French Revolution mob, the Red Guard, went out and they have a struggle session with them.

00:38:00.060 And they won.

00:38:01.780 Just remember that.

00:38:02.780 They won.

00:38:04.340 They won.

00:38:05.300 And it was personified yesterday, which should have never happened.

00:38:08.940 Absolutely against the Constitution.

00:38:10.500 And more as importantly, against what Justice Roberts argued so tightly.

00:38:18.060 That's why this was like coming out of a thunderclap from a clear blue summer sky.

00:38:24.140 Absolutely went against everything he believed with this mumbo jumbo.

00:38:28.280 And I think you got three pretty smart guys that dissented.

00:38:31.860 I'll take the intellect.

00:38:33.660 You give me the combined intellect or you give me the intellect of any one of Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch against the collective intellect of the other six.

00:38:44.320 You give me that, I'll take any one of those guys.

00:38:49.280 And read what they had to say.

00:38:50.660 Anyway, this is outrageous.

00:38:53.660 And I'm telling you, it's the Mark Elias Full Employment Program.

00:38:57.340 And we need, I've said this, we needed a Mark Elias on our side and we ain't got it.

00:39:01.640 We ain't got close to it.

00:39:02.720 And you're actually right.

00:39:04.420 The project, the 65, these people, these are very smart, very tough, very cunning people.

00:39:12.800 Now, in the project, in the 65 project, it's not just to keelhaul John Eastman on global television, right, and give him a struggle session for days and days and days.

00:39:27.360 But it's the following question, it's to make it so toxic, the topic so toxic that any kid that's in a top law school can't even talk about it in law school.

00:39:35.680 And if you can't go to a real firm, if you go to a firm and bring it up, you're out or you'll never get hired by a firm.

00:39:40.360 And none of the firms with the heavyweight, the heavyweight lawyers will ever touch it, will ever touch it.

00:39:47.160 That's the way the system works.

00:39:48.640 These people know the system and they're going to leverage points in the system.

00:39:52.720 They know how to use leverage. 0.98

00:39:53.800 Look at this hapless group of clowns, McCarthy. 0.99

00:39:57.480 Look at all the information that has come out. 0.95

00:39:59.460 And by the way, Tom Elliott, if Grayson Moe can put that up, Tom Elliott has got an amazing thing just going through the 2020 election, not on the electoral side, but the FBI.

00:40:06.840 It's just amazing.

00:40:07.420 It's like a tweet that's got 10 items on it.

00:40:10.920 McCarthy and these guys have all this and they're running around.

00:40:13.820 The investigation up there, all performative.

00:40:16.700 God bless them.

00:40:17.360 It's all performative.

00:40:18.320 They're not getting to the heart of it.

00:40:20.660 The radical Democrats get to the heart of the matter.

00:40:23.600 They get to the leverage point in a system and they choke that leverage point and they win.

00:40:29.220 And they win.

00:40:31.080 There is no substitute for victory.

00:40:33.120 John Eastman, tell us about your struggle session and how can this audience help and assist you, sir?

00:40:39.140 Well, we're in week two, although we've been down the last two days because of illness of one of my key lawyers.

00:40:46.200 But we'll be back on tomorrow.

00:40:48.000 It's being live streamed.

00:40:49.520 The press accused me of whining about it being live streamed.

00:40:53.800 It was the other side that actually asked for it not to be live streamed.

00:40:56.900 I wanted it live streamed.

00:40:58.040 So people would see for a fact what's happening rather than have it distorted through the lens of the LA Times or NBC News.

00:41:05.480 And so – but we're now going to continue – we're not going to finish this week.

00:41:10.000 They're not even going to finish with their witnesses, much less our case.

00:41:13.220 So we're continuing in the end of August, at least another week there, maybe two.

00:41:19.780 But it's expensive.

00:41:21.940 I mean you've got a full team of lawyers and courtroom techs and all that stuff.

00:41:26.080 This is a full-blown trial that I'm defending on the validity of the entire election because on your show I said there's lots of evidence of fraud and illegality.

00:41:34.880 So now they're putting on all the government people trotting out saying, oh, no, our election was perfect.

00:41:41.200 And anybody that says otherwise, well, how dare they question the government?

00:41:44.800 That's basically the theme.

00:41:46.560 People need to help because I'm punching back and I need their help.

00:41:49.640 They can go to my legal defense fund, givesendgo.com slash Eastman.

00:41:56.000 We post updates there.

00:41:57.660 You can make donations there.

00:41:59.120 And as importantly, you can send prayers there.

00:42:01.680 My wife and I read them.

00:42:02.880 They're heartwarming and they help.

00:42:04.780 So please do what you can.

00:42:08.200 This is just like Mal and the Red Guard. 0.74

00:42:10.200 This is a struggle session.

00:42:12.000 They're using Eastman as an example to every young lawyer out there.

00:42:17.580 If you come here, if you go there, if you question authority, if you question the government, if you question the government, this is what will happen to you.

00:42:27.020 You will be destroyed.

00:42:28.440 You won't be able to make a living.

00:42:29.720 You won't be able to feed your family.

00:42:31.180 Everything you've worked for, destroyed.

00:42:33.380 Done.

00:42:33.920 That's your lesson.

00:42:35.360 So tell me what people in the modern world are supposed to do.

00:42:38.780 Was that the revolutionary generation?

00:42:40.540 Was that Patrick Henry?

00:42:41.540 Was that Thomas Paine?

00:42:42.460 Was that Sam Adams?

00:42:43.380 Was that John Hancock?

00:42:44.520 Was that Jefferson?

00:42:45.160 This is what we're going to talk about in our specials leading up to the 4th of July.

00:42:49.080 These are the times that try men's souls.

00:42:51.480 And these are the times that try men's souls.

00:42:54.200 And you need to stand up as patriots and not be summer soldiers or sunshine patriots.

00:42:58.760 It's exactly the same.

00:43:00.480 And people need to stand up.

00:43:01.680 They need to first realize what's going on.

00:43:03.600 And they need to not cower in the face of it.

00:43:06.100 There are things more important than a nice, comfortable life.

00:43:10.260 We're talking about the future of freedom for the generations to come.

00:43:14.040 And if you're not willing to stand up, you will have handed your grandkids a despotism that they will suffer through in a way that you didn't inherit from your ancestors.

00:43:25.380 So stand up and fight.

00:43:27.000 Stand up and help those that are standing up and fighting.

00:43:31.240 By the way, you won't see any more protesters, I assure you, outside of Kavanaugh and Robert's home.

00:43:37.080 They've kowtowed.

00:43:38.680 Yep.

00:43:39.860 Cucked, as we say.

00:43:41.520 John Eastman, thank you very much, brother.

00:43:43.000 Thank you for being here.

00:43:44.260 Thank you, Mr. Bannon.

00:43:45.220 Take care.

00:43:45.520 Short break.

00:43:45.920 We're going to get to the grid in Texas.

00:43:47.680 Thank you, sir.

00:43:48.280 We're going to get to the grid in Texas with our own Dave Walsh next.

00:43:52.120 It's all started.

00:43:54.980 Everything's begun.

00:43:56.820 And you are over.

00:43:59.460 Because we're taking down the CCP.

00:44:03.500 Spread the word all through Hong Kong.

00:44:05.800 We will fight till they're all gone.

00:44:08.520 We rejoice when there's no more. 0.95

00:44:10.240 Let's take down the CCP.

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00:45:40.020 Bannon.

00:45:43.820 Okay.

00:45:45.980 So the world's newspapers are, I don't say confronting is too hard a word, but they're addressing the

00:45:54.780 issues and what we talk about every day here.

00:45:57.160 I want to go to the first is the Guardian newspaper, their lead story this morning.

00:46:00.520 And remember, the Guardian is the most progressive paper in the world.

00:46:04.040 It's kind of the railhead.

00:46:05.700 It's even more progressive than the New York Times.

00:46:08.340 I know that's hard to believe.

00:46:09.240 And it's really a feeder system to MSNBC.

00:46:11.980 So one connects with the other.

00:46:13.380 Obviously, the New York Times.

00:46:14.460 But the Guardian is kind of the, because remember, the Americans still always defer to the British 0.68

00:46:19.020 how they think, right?

00:46:20.560 The Financial Times of London, the Times of London, the Guardian.

00:46:24.960 Dave Walsh.

00:46:25.640 The lead story in the Guardian, Dave Walsh, effectively says you're either dead wrong or 0.67

00:46:31.220 liar.

00:46:31.700 You can take your pick. 0.98

00:46:33.140 Because the blazing headline is that, and we just had Dave on yesterday, that with this

00:46:38.080 heat wave in Texas, thank God they've got solar.

00:46:43.860 Because solar is going to actually see the Texans in the grid through this.

00:46:47.140 Now, that is 180 out from the theory of the case of Dave Walsh in the war room.

00:46:53.860 So Dave, according to their article, the way they wrote it, who's right and who's wrong

00:46:57.840 here?

00:46:59.360 Well, of course, in times like these, when we're worried about peak day power, any source that

00:47:05.500 runs is a good thing.

00:47:07.240 Anyone.

00:47:07.860 But here's the deal with this.

00:47:09.400 This is irresponsible, massively irresponsible.

00:47:12.600 We're talking about another, in terms of what Texas needs, this is a yet another intermittent

00:47:18.460 resource that runs, it operates in Texas about 27% of the time.

00:47:23.840 Solar is used for electrical energy.

00:47:26.000 I have a map of the U.S.

00:47:27.200 that shows the solar concentration by part of the country that Denver has.

00:47:31.440 If they want to throw that up, we can show that.

00:47:33.240 But anyhow, solar is effective in Texas about six and a half hours a day, leaving the other

00:47:38.540 17 and a half hours it doesn't operate.

00:47:40.600 Wind, the trouble with wind is it operates 36% of the time and not 64% of the time.

00:47:46.620 And you can't just add these two together and pretend that one compensates for the other

00:47:50.560 because, frankly, they overlap about five-eighths.

00:47:53.380 Here's the wind variability daily in the U.S. for electric power generation.

00:47:58.420 You can see that it varies by day.

00:47:59.980 This is EIA, Energy Information Agency data, for 2001, showing 2020, day by day by day,

00:48:08.000 a 75% variability in wind power for electricity creation.

00:48:12.900 Texas is actually worse than this.

00:48:14.720 This is a U.S. map, more data points.

00:48:17.280 Texas, a more condensed geographic region, subject to the same weather conditions.

00:48:21.760 Sameness of that is 87% daily variability.

00:48:24.880 This is the problem with their dependence on wind.

00:48:27.060 So we go to the next chart was the map of the U.S. on solar.

00:48:30.500 But if we don't have that, there you go.

00:48:33.100 This shows solar values by region of the country.

00:48:36.720 And you can see if one could read the legend in the bottom right-hand corner,

00:48:40.160 it's published by the National Renewable Electricity Labs.

00:48:43.400 This isn't a conservative group.

00:48:45.100 This is a front for renewables.

00:48:47.100 The publisher of this data, it's good data, it shows that Texas, on average,

00:48:51.620 is about a six-and-a-half-hour solar day.

00:48:54.180 The rest of the time, the other 17-and-a-half hours, it produces nothing.

00:48:58.340 Here's the problem with this.

00:49:00.000 In Irving, for example, last night, tonight, at 10 p.m., it's going to be 93.

00:49:05.100 At 11 p.m., it's going to be 91.

00:49:07.380 At midnight, it's going to be 90.

00:49:09.080 At 1 a.m., it's going to be 88 degrees.

00:49:10.940 In Dallas, in the Metroplex today, solar stops operating at 5 o'clock, 5 p.m.

00:49:17.440 So all of those hours beyond 5 p.m., it does nothing for you.

00:49:21.400 So here again, and the point, then if you go to the cost of this,

00:49:25.000 the cost of Texas legislature and Senate has just passed a bill to incentivize

00:49:29.860 building 10,000 megawatts of gas plants to back up this problem of intermittency

00:49:35.440 that both of these resources have.

00:49:38.040 It's going to provide them 96 million megawatt hours per year of electricity.

00:49:42.080 That amount of annual electricity capacity in megawatt hours if solar would cost $48 billion

00:49:49.140 passed to the rate payers.

00:49:51.900 The 10,000 or 96,000 megawatt, 96 million megawatt hours of gas-fired power will cost

00:49:58.140 the rate payers about $13 billion.

00:49:59.820 $48 billion of solar, $13 billion if conventional gas.

00:50:05.280 And by the way, the solar still only gets you six and a half hours a day and massively overlaps

00:50:11.180 with the same 36% of the time that wind operates.

00:50:14.800 This is not the solution.

00:50:16.160 Yes.

00:50:16.480 Yes.

00:50:17.700 Yesterday, 18,000 people, I think, had a brownout.

00:50:20.640 I think they're going to start blackouts here shortly, or maybe had blackouts.

00:50:23.500 That's two combat divisions.

00:50:24.960 How did Texas get into the situation where an advanced industrial power like Texas with 0.98

00:50:29.680 all the new stuff in Austin, everything they're doing, the chip manufacturing, how do we get

00:50:33.340 in a situation it's like a third-world country?

00:50:35.580 How did that happen?

00:50:37.260 Well, national policy, the policy on incentivizing buildings, kinds of generation, tend to be

00:50:44.120 national through the tax codes.

00:50:46.160 The tax codes have given a 35% incentive to renewable wind and solar.

00:50:50.780 Developers in Texas have jumped on that.

00:50:52.640 There is no regulated power generation in Texas.

00:50:56.180 You have to get to the statehouse to mandate, and the governor, mandate regulations.

00:51:01.540 They don't have an energy department in Texas.

00:51:03.700 And what's wound up happening is developers have built out for them.

00:51:07.080 With the support of the state, 37% of their energy resource for electricity is renewable

00:51:12.220 that is available only a very part-time.

00:51:15.160 Again, 36%, 37% of the time, because most of it right now, is wind, that renewable resource

00:51:20.700 that's been built.

00:51:21.320 So the state has a massive, continuous electricity shortage.

00:51:25.800 And the worst problem with this is actually winter.

00:51:28.780 Most everybody commenting on this recognizes and understands what Texas saw in January of

00:51:34.100 21 is a far worse problem.

00:51:36.400 It's exactly the same thing.

00:51:38.420 Down here in the south, in winter mornings, is the utter peak.

00:51:41.780 And you have a massive shortfall.

00:51:44.100 You have no solar capacity in the morning between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m.

00:51:48.800 When you have massive demand or peak demand in the winter due to heat pumps coming on, when

00:51:53.680 it's 20 degrees periodically in Texas, that's a bigger problem.

00:51:56.980 Solar isn't there for you then.

00:51:58.360 It doesn't work at that time of the day.

00:51:59.880 We've got about a minute.

00:52:02.400 What do you forecast what's going to happen in Texas in the next couple of days, next week?

00:52:08.900 We're not looking for weather relief until around the 4th of July.

00:52:12.380 So we're going to be bumping up against, they have 81,000 megawatts of total capacity.

00:52:16.560 We've hit 78,800 and 80,000, respectively, two of the last four days.

00:52:21.540 So we're going to have continued announcements of voluntary power containment across ERCOT.

00:52:27.840 We'll see how that works.

00:52:29.840 If the temperatures don't abate, we may have rolling brownouts covering four-hour day periods,

00:52:35.520 mainly between 4 and 8 p.m. up through 10 p.m.

00:52:39.620 that the state is massively exposed to because it's probably, because of the shortage of power

00:52:46.220 overall, about 15 times more exposed to an electricity shortage brownout than the rest of the country

00:52:52.820 because reserve margins there are so, so low due to this massive over-absorption of wind.

00:53:01.580 Real quickly, Dave, where do people go on social media to get you?

00:53:06.240 Once again, intermittent solar doubles down on the problem, doesn't solve it.

00:53:12.600 Dave Walsh Energy at the Getter and True Social.

00:53:17.220 For a great state like Texas, one of the most important states in the Union,

00:53:21.300 to be in this situation is absolutely, completely and totally outrageous.

00:53:26.100 Short break, Kirk Cameron will join us next.

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Bannon's War Room - June 28, 2023

Episode 2839： Supreme Court Turns Against MAGA; The Failure Of Solar In Texas

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