Stephen K. Bannon and Alex Blumberg break down the latest on the race to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives. They talk about who will replace him, why he dropped out of the race, and what it means for the future of the leadership race.
00:06:17.380So I don't think really, I don't know if anybody can get there.
00:06:20.240I've even said that the Lord Jesus couldn't get to 217.
00:06:23.040So if Jim, the second most popular Republican, why don't we bring in our first?
00:06:28.120Why don't we bring in our all-star, the leader of our party, and put him in here for 100 days?
00:06:34.680Let him come in here and fix this place, clean this place up, unite our conference, and make sure that we do everything possible to ensure that he gets into the White House in 2024.
00:06:49.040Congressman, if you look at the critical path, because we had advocated the 100 days, too.
00:06:53.120If you look at your critical path of the next 100 days, a lot of this is not just uniting the conference, but some very tough negotiations.
00:07:00.580Tough negotiations on a CR, tough negotiations on getting all the appropriations done, the conference with the Senate, appropriators, then with the White House, make sure we don't get an omnibus.
00:07:11.540Everything is going on geopolitically, the invasion on the southern border, even leave the investigation aside.
00:07:18.180I can't think of someone in the conservative movement or in MAGA that has a better skill set than Donald J. Trump for the next 100 days.
00:07:43.420He can make sure that the 100 days he's here, they are successful.
00:07:47.440I think having him walk into our conference and talk to the members there and even those that have some reservation about him, whether it's my colleagues, my friends from New York, I'm telling you, you're stronger with Donald Trump in the primary and the general election.
00:08:32.560Congress, also, one of the things that's happening, you tell that some people, the Byron Donalds, they're trying to do this on the fly.
00:08:42.920In your plan, because I think your plan actually has, because they want to put McHenry up as a compromise to the Democrats.
00:08:48.160I think Trump as an interim makes sense, because wouldn't it give Donalds and Hearn and Johnson and whoever else is out there in the conference, it would give them 100 days to socialize, to talk to the five families, to put their plan forward, to be able to think it through.
00:09:03.620It would give them time to actually get a plan that can unite the conference on a go-forward basis, couldn't it?
00:09:11.440What a hell of a team that would make.
00:09:13.020When you've got Donald Trump as the speaker and you have strong leadership, whether it's Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, Byron Donalds, and all these other guys, I think that you put those bright minds in the same room that we will make the right decisions in the House of Representatives.
00:09:29.760And again, it's temporary. It's 100 days. You know, people said he's running for president. We can't have him. He's got to be running for president.
00:09:37.960Folks, let's be clear. The primary's over. The primary's over. Donald Trump is our candidate. He's going to be our nominee.
00:09:45.380I think he could handle being up here for 100 days. And he would do it. I believe he would do it because he loves this country.
00:09:52.020He loves the Republican Party. And he wants us to get back on track. He's watching television. He sees what's happening in Israel.
00:10:00.280He knows what's been happening in Ukraine. None of this would have happened. None of it would have happened if he would be in the White House right now.
00:10:06.760So I think we've got a proven leader in Donald Trump. And let's get to work and bring him in here for 100 days.
00:10:11.900Congressman, what's your social media, your website, the office? Because I know a lot of this audience is going to want to try to make contact or figure out how to help you do this, because this has a brilliant internal logic to it that makes total sense.
00:10:27.340It's just somebody just has to step up and make it happen. So how do people get more access to you that they can come to your aid?
00:10:33.380This is the same group that just beat up Emmer. So this is and they beat up Emmer because he was never Trump.
00:10:41.280How do these people reach out to you? How do they make contact?
00:10:44.940It's at Rep Troy Nails at Rep Troy Nails. Pretty easy to find me.
00:10:49.520Listen, I'm an America first patriot. I'm a supporter of Donald A. Trump.
00:10:53.080Let's make sure that he gets the White House in 2024. And that's what we should be doing in Congress, helping him get there. God bless.
00:11:01.180Congressman, thank you so much. Great idea.
00:11:03.840Let me bring in another one of the warriors, Alex Brusil, which listen, Alex, let me let me get the the unpleasant part of the way for us.
00:11:12.280You and Price in this in that in that group of yours are some of the most effective influencers, hardest workers, people that have a sense of what's going on.
00:11:21.760President Trump came in with this true social and it was brutal and it was needed.
00:11:27.040I think that I think that definitely got people's attention because there's a lot of rumors running in particular.
00:11:32.600I think it waves some people off who are who are strong Trump supporters who might been, you know, thinking about thinking about going with Emmer.
00:11:40.320So it was very powerful and came in at the perfect time.
00:11:43.820However, we should have never been in this situation.
00:11:46.620You need a political operation that is on top of things.
00:12:01.680He's up in a courtroom right now where they're trying to liquidate his company.
00:12:04.860He's running he's 60 points ahead and running in a presidential primary where he's got every wealthy billionaire that's trying to come up with every different idea how to defeat him.
00:12:28.040What do we got to do here about like getting a real political operation where you've got killers like yourselves, Price and others that are actually on Capitol Hill and getting things done and putting forward Trump's agenda?
00:12:42.120Well, look, I think from the campaign perspective, the campaign is crushing it.
00:12:46.880President Trump is up by 50, 60 points in the polls on that end.
00:12:51.220I think the campaign team has been phenomenal.
00:12:52.980Well, you know, if President Trump picked up the phone and called and asked me to come on board and join his political team, I absolutely do that in a heartbeat.
00:13:01.460But I don't know if I have to necessarily be on the official team to be making a difference.
00:13:06.240I was working with a lot of the 26 holdouts during this time period.
00:13:43.480And God bless people like Jim Banks, Troy Nels, Corey Mills, Max Miller, Marjorie Taylor Greene that held the line and said, hey, we're not with you because you're not with us.
00:13:53.260And so that they deserve a lot of respect for that.
00:13:56.620And some people that voted to oust McCarthy and then voted for Emmer, they don't look like they did the first thing in principle.
00:14:23.900We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:14:25.080What I want to do when we get back is actually go through and how did this happen, because this is the self-organizing principle that's making the MAGA movement just a such a massive political force, the force that's in back of President Trump.
00:14:39.560He's got a 50 or 60 point lead in this primary, as Alex just said, and he's going to destroy Joe Biden.
00:17:10.780I'll go in a sec when I finish with Alex to Ben Burkwam.
00:17:14.280Ben has made it from the courtroom in New York City.
00:17:17.020He's made it down to the Delmarva Peninsula.
00:17:19.580We'll go there in a moment to talk to one of the brave law enforcement officers that are trying to stem the tide of lawlessness and anarchy.
00:17:25.800He brought about this invasion, the two most critical issues facing the nation.
00:17:30.380Alex, just for the audience's sake, this is important because you're one of the main drivers of this.
00:17:34.460You and the D.C. Dranos and Price, all that.
00:17:36.820You've got – when we left the air today, they had just finished the fourth or getting close to the fifth vote where he was becoming the speaker designee as the never-Trumper.
00:17:47.520And then we come back on at five, and he's already said no mas.
00:18:12.160They are sick of watching our country go to hell.
00:18:14.040They're sick of watching the Democrats use the Department of Justice to target people like you, target President Trump, and just attack our movement, and nobody's fighting back against it.
00:18:24.720And so we aren't going to settle for a speaker that is not prepared to fight.
00:18:29.460If Speaker McCarthy all of a sudden says, I'm going to do all these different things, I think they'll welcome Speaker McCarthy back into the fold.
00:18:35.980But we aren't going to just sit back and let Republicans in Washington, let the Democrats get away with this.
00:19:32.900And so, you know, if we can't get one of a Byron Donaldson or if we can't get a Jim Jordan in, I look at somebody like Elise Stefanik that is able to build a coalition that can unite MAGA and bring some of the moderates into the fold.
00:19:47.240She's become a more talented politician and significantly more conservative over the years.
00:19:53.680And she's a name that I'm hearing a lot of chatter about at the moment.
00:19:58.940Yeah, I think what's going to be important, we need – and particularly, Alex, you know when we went in 24, what we have to do to really deconstruct this government, to start to take the American empire, which has dragged this country down, and start to get real alliances, not protectorates.
00:20:15.080What we have to do to make America first, particularly shut down the border and start the mass deportations.
00:20:22.700We need the House to be totally aligned because we're going to have the McConnell problem.
00:20:41.060And if we can't get President Trump for 100 days because he's got a couple other things going on, then we have to get a team that's completely in line with him, can speak his language, and can work with his team.
00:20:51.220Then you've got DeGrasse or others or if it's Byron Donald.
00:20:53.820We just have to make sure whoever's doing this is totally in line with what President Trump's doing.
00:20:59.960Alex, how do people get you on social media?
00:21:01.800You were absolutely main battery, as we say, in the surface warfare business.
00:22:23.220So it's no time to rest, even while they're over there thinking about what's the next steps in the speaker battle.
00:22:29.440The most important thing facing this country is the invasion of the southern border.
00:22:33.520Ben Berquam, who's been from the Darien Gap to Midtown Manhattan to focus on the story, which is absolutely amazing, is now in Delmarva.
00:22:40.880He was, as you know, this morning, he was in Midtown, and even with covering President Trump's, the liquidation of his company by the out-of-control New York, you know, the New York Attorney General, he really had, Alex, Ben, your story was really more about the invasion of the southern border.
00:23:01.320And tell me what's happening down on the beautiful Delmarva Peninsula about the invasion of our country.
00:23:06.980Well, Steve, as you mentioned, we started with President Trump, but we're down here in Salisbury, Maryland, Wicomico County, Maryland, with Sheriff Mike Lewis, and I just have to have Mike tell you this.
00:23:21.240You were just telling me about this, what the Democrats have done in the state of Maryland with your jail, with crime, and this all connects back, Steve, and then what's going on on our southern border.
00:23:31.400As you have guys like Gavin Newsom coming out saying that crime is down in America, talk to us about what has happened here.
00:23:38.940Well, first of all, there's a big difference in crime statistics versus arrest statistics.
00:23:43.460The crime statistics have gone through the roof.
00:23:45.620Our arrest statistics have gone down dramatically because we can't arrest people anymore.
00:23:49.940They've changed laws dramatically here in Maryland.
00:23:51.700They've passed unprecedented legislation that enables criminals, specifically juveniles, to commit unprecedented levels of crime.
00:23:59.140We can't arrest a juvenile for hardly anything right now.
00:24:01.800Just over my right shoulder, we have a 12-year-old that is incarcerated in the juvenile detention facility for the murder of his 2-year-old brother, wrapped a cord around his neck, and hung him from a bedpost.
00:24:11.900When sheriff's deputies arrived on the scene, that's what they found on a Saturday afternoon.
00:24:15.760Quite frankly, I was shocked they held the 12-year-old in the death of his 2-year-old brother.
00:24:19.400But in most cases, we're apprehending juveniles every single day, in many cases with guns, loaded firearms with extended magazines like we had Sunday, with a 34-round extended magazine in any gun, and most of the time, they are releasing them back to the custody of their parents.
00:24:32.880We're finding kids in automobiles that are valued at $100,000 each.
00:24:37.420Following a brief pursuit, we take them into custody.
00:24:41.020Instead, we drive them home to mom and dad and cut them loose because of laws that have been passed here in the state of Maryland, most recently as last year, that virtually allowed criminals to conduct criminal activity undetected, unmolested, unabated.
00:24:53.720We can apprehend them all day long, but they're not allowing us to do anything with them and drive them home for the most part unless it's a crime of violence.
00:24:59.640Now, directly over my left shoulder, what I'm pointing to right now is the Wicomico County Detention Center, which holds 635 people.
00:25:06.320We average now between 180 and 220 inmates because they've abolished bail system in the state of Maryland.
00:25:12.100That was full when I first became sheriff back in 2006.
00:25:15.480I'm in my fifth consecutive term as sheriff, spent 22 years as a Maryland state trooper, and my 40th year law enforcement, and I've never seen it this bad,
00:25:22.580all because of progressive lawmakers in Annapolis, Maryland, who have turned our state upside down.
00:25:27.840Criminals know that they can move to the state of Maryland and commit their crimes now with little or zero accountability.
00:25:33.260They've hamstrung us from day one since they've started this aggressive agenda up in Annapolis,
00:25:38.960and it's affecting my ability to attract and retain sheriff's deputies.
00:25:42.660And that goes with attracting the fentanyl, the cartels, the rest of it.
00:30:37.400And just three weeks ago when I was down in McAllen, Texas, and talked to you, Ben,
00:30:41.300I had just returned from a briefing where my deputies have been violently assaulted on a call involving illegals in the southern part of my county.
00:30:49.920And then on the way back to the sheriff's office from that call, they were nearly struck head-on by a pickup truck that was traveling southbound and northbound lanes of U.S. Route 13,
00:30:58.260right here on the Delmarva Peninsula, when he got turned around and got the truck stopped, another illegal alien operating that truck.
00:31:04.100He was extremely intoxicated, was taken into custody.
00:31:06.660But as you well know, nothing happens to them.
00:33:12.100It's one of the most gentle, nicest, most beautiful parts of the country.
00:33:16.340And you're telling me it's basically a crime hellhole now, principally because of fentanyl and because of the crime coming up from the border?
00:33:23.880Without a doubt, Steve, we're actually having daily meetings right now with my state senator, who is a very conservative state senator, Miss Barry Beth Carroza, and my local state's attorney, Jamie Dykes, to address the massive increase in crime.
00:34:09.740At a cost to taxpayers, we have to hire them to come in and be translators, not just at their initial appearance, but at their suppression hearings, at their trial hearings.
00:34:18.640And it's very costly to the American taxpayer, certainly to the Maryland taxpayers.
00:34:53.680And by the way, I'm going to be a sheriff was just telling me about something where they're the state lawmakers are trying to limit sheriff's ability to speak publicly because they know they have such a big impact.
00:35:06.140I know, Sheriff, you stand with President Trump and all of this.
00:35:09.600But every single sheriff, these guys are the last line of defense when it comes to law enforcement in our states.
00:35:15.400You know, and I want the American people to know this, Steve, and I want you to know this.
00:35:19.100Under the Trump administration, I personally was at the White House countless times under President Trump, as were a number of other sheriffs from across the nation.
00:35:27.260But we weren't just meeting with the president for political purposes.
00:35:30.660We were meeting with the president every single time for a meeting.
00:35:33.840We were addressing serious crime in our nature.
00:35:45.740The president was very much interested in what we were seeing, what trends we were seeing across this country.
00:35:51.060Since President Trump left office, we have not.
00:35:53.960When I say we, I can confidently say every single sheriff that I went to the White House with, not one of us has been invited back to Washington, D.C., specifically the White House.
00:36:41.680Overwhelmed because an invasion on the southern border and the Democrats are in back of it, the elites are in back of it, and nobody will lift a finger to stop it.
00:37:31.140I think it's obvious that the machine is going to make a better decision than the human pilot.
00:37:33.880I think it's obvious that it's in the best interest of both the attacker and the defender and humanity at large if machines are making more of these decisions and not people.
00:37:40.160I think people make terrible decisions in times of war.
00:37:43.320This is that whole thing about, like, does the self-driving car need to be perfect versus does it need to be better than the human driver?
00:37:48.400Does the automated drone need to be perfect or does it need to be better than a human pilot at making decisions under enormous amounts of stress and uncertainty?
00:37:55.660As a leader of a country that is an AI player and could be a big player if we have our way, and I think we will,
00:38:02.800now we want to increase the blessings for not only for ourselves, but for all of humanity.
00:38:07.780So if we were to be so dumb as to create entities that are much more powerful than us that don't share our goals, yeah, that's a really bad idea.
00:38:17.840I mean, in Israel, I think you understand really, really well that if you have a bunch of other beings who are intelligent and don't share your values, you know, it can go really badly, right?
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00:45:35.900He's going to come back tomorrow to talk about what's happened on the factory floor because we've got Congressman Bob Good joins us.
00:45:41.780Congressman, you were one of the, because you're a social conservative, you were one of the mainstays in the fight, you and Jim Banks, to take down Emmer.
00:45:49.080You also, sir, your story on the arc of your story and actually trying to give Kevin McCarthy a shot was probably the most powerful thing that was said during the, right before the vote on McCarthy that removed him as speaker.
00:46:29.920But there were a number of reasons why about 30 of us had let him know that we just couldn't support him for speaker.
00:46:35.480And, you know, there's no point in revisiting that unless you particularly want to.
00:46:39.440But when he realized he didn't have the votes, as he said he would, as he said he would, he said, hey, if I don't have the votes, go to the floor.
00:47:32.780So now we turn the page, and I think there were other candidates who were in the mix who finished sort of second, third, fourth.
00:47:41.560Mike Johnson, as I mentioned, from Louisiana.
00:47:43.540Kevin Hearn from Oklahoma, who leads the Republican Study Committee now.
00:47:46.640He's been an ally of the Freedom Caucus.
00:47:48.900He's a self-made guy, grew up from very humble roots, didn't have anything, and grew to be, I believe, the largest franchise owner in McDonald's and has been in Congress just a short time.
00:48:00.280I think this is in his third or fourth term.
00:48:03.920And then Byron Donald, of course, who you know well from Florida.
00:48:07.520Those three were kind of locked in a tight battle to see who could be the primary challenger to Emmer.
00:48:12.800I don't know if all three are running again now.
00:48:15.480We're going to have another candidate forum.
00:48:17.200It's going to start in just a few minutes here at 6 o'clock p.m.
00:48:19.840And we're going to have another candidate forum where those who were in the mix and those who want to jump in the mix are going to make their case, and then we're going to start voting tonight.
00:48:30.140And my hope is, and I'm cautiously optimistic, that we will be able to select someone in conference.
00:48:35.420I think folks are getting weary of the delay.
00:48:37.520Maybe the resistance for the impurest of reasons are breaking down, the spitefulness, you know, the retaliatory things, I hope, for the majority of the conference.
00:48:45.900And hopefully we can get to 217 and then get it voted on the floor very quickly.
00:48:50.880You know, honestly, it's not going to be the person who might be my top five candidate for speaker.
00:48:55.920It's not going to be, you know, for me, that Andy Biggs, that Chip Roy, that Matt Gaetz kind of a candidate who would be my top kind of five type candidates.
00:49:03.640It's going to be someone who represents the conservative center of the conference, doesn't have a lot of opposition.
00:49:07.640That means they've not been one of those real hardcore fighters that have challenged the status quo and tried to help us sort of drain the swamp from a congressional standpoint.
00:49:17.300But it will be a solid conservative who represents the center of the conference, and it will be a big upgrade from where we were before.
00:49:25.140Two members of Tennessee, Mark Green and Chuck Fleissman, have just announced they're also going to make a presentation at the conference.
00:49:31.520I know Congressman Good is going to have to leave for in a second.
00:49:33.360What about all kind of rumors out there that there may be a package of McCarthy and Jim Jordan as maybe co-speaker or speaker and assistant?
00:49:44.600McCarthy may put up McHenry again for interim.