Breitbart senior political editor Matt Boyle joins Stephen K. to discuss his journey to becoming one of the best political reporters in Washington, D.C., and how he became the first person of any significance to be mentored by three of the most influential men in American politics.
00:01:23.460Matt, thank you so much for joining us.
00:01:25.160Matt, I want to start, though, at the beginning.
00:01:26.680I think some of your background, correct me if I'm wrong.
00:01:29.900I think you're the only person to be directly mentored by Tucker Carlson when he came out of the box, then Andrew Breitbart, and then yours truly, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:01:40.460Is that the fact you're the only living individual that had mentorship directly by those three guys?
00:02:38.320And I was like, all right, let's do it.
00:02:40.440So and then I've been at Breitbart ever since.
00:02:43.400So I've been at Breitbart for a little over 11 years now.
00:02:46.200So, yeah, I think I'm the only person that worked for worked with and for all three of you guys.
00:02:54.760Matt, you saw something and you came and I think you had gone to American University.
00:02:58.580I think you got in a fight over there with some of the faculty or remember you it was pretty contentious.
00:03:03.160But when you came to D.C. and I think the power of your reporting, because I would say you're the first reporter of any significance to understand this kind of populist nationalist movement.
00:03:25.040Walk us through because I don't know if you came predisposed.
00:03:28.500I know your parents are hardworking conservatives, but you were more, I think, in a traditional as many people are, this kind of traditional mindset, which is really a neoliberal neocon mindset.
00:03:38.740But you came here and saw something quite different.
00:03:41.060It's one of the reasons that you were, I think, the first person of any significance on to President Trump and what was happening.
00:03:48.280Yeah, look, so when I graduated my undergrad degree in 2010, it was the height of the Tea Party movement.
00:03:55.640I was originally moving to Washington, D.C. for a master's degree program at American University.
00:04:02.240It's amazing to watch all this happening right now with all the colleges and universities and going to the hard left and all the political discrimination we see against conservatives and like the Charlie Kirk groups and the turning point folks on campuses around the country.
00:04:18.220Because I kind of went through it before any of that ever existed, right?
00:04:22.500So when I showed up at American University, I'd been freelancing for Daily Caller, again, for Tucker Carlson's publication.
00:04:31.600I was writing some stuff about the oil spill in Florida and covering a couple of Tea Party rallies and some campaigns and stuff.
00:04:52.960And I was like, well, I disagree with you, right?
00:04:54.800Like, I was like, I don't think so, right?
00:04:56.840Like, they wanted us to go to Michelle Obama's vegetable garden at the White House and do a bunch of puff pieces.
00:05:01.620So I started digging into the fact that Bill Clinton, when he was the president, put all sorts of lead chemicals in the soil.
00:05:09.420And apparently the first family, Michelle Obama, despite all this pressure she got for the vegetable garden, didn't even eat the vegetables.
00:05:15.780They literally canceled the entire school trip because I was asking some tough questions.
00:05:20.300And I refused to back down from asking the then White House chef, Sam Cass, who is still apparently in the Obama orbit and, you know, followed him up.
00:05:31.160Apparently he was there at Martha's Vineyard and stuff.
00:05:35.240Does the first family eat these vegetables that come out of this garden that has lead poisoning in it?
00:05:39.460So apparently they donate them to the homeless shelter down the street.
00:05:42.700They don't actually eat what they were doing.
00:05:44.860But anyway, the point is that there were all these lefty things that they were doing.
00:05:47.620So I got into major fights with the university and I ended up, Tucker Carlson convinced me to leave the master's degree program.
00:05:55.480I did in the middle of the master's degree program, which would have been unthinkable, right?
00:05:58.840Like the people around in the rest of my class, they all work at places like CNN and The Washington Post and USA Today and all sorts of places like that.
00:06:07.640It would have been unthinkable for your career path.
00:06:10.460But I decided, I was like, you know what, these people are all wrong.
00:06:14.100And I went and worked for Daily Caller for the next two and a half years before I ended up coming over here to Breitbart and broke a whole ton of stories, right?
00:06:24.920Like, and then that kind of laid the groundwork for, then we started seeing what the establishment Republicans were screwing up on.
00:06:31.400One of the big storylines that I did right when I first started at Breitbart was, of course, with John Boehner.
00:06:37.240John Boehner was the then Speaker of the House, and he was failing on all of the things that Republicans had promised voters for a long time.
00:06:46.560I think I was the first person to ever write about a motion to vacate.
00:06:50.760Now it's like a household word, right?
00:06:52.360Like everybody knows what a motion to vacate is, right?
00:06:54.580Like, but I think I was the first person to ever figure out what a motion to vacate is.
00:06:59.100And we were on that story with Boehner for years and years, right?
00:07:03.240It was three serious attempts at them, and the third one, they finally got them when Mark Meadows did the motion to vacate in 2015.
00:07:11.280But people had no idea what that word was until Mark Meadows did it and we were covering it.
00:07:18.240Like, so we were tracking all these stories and kind of being ahead of the curve on all of this stuff.
00:07:23.280And the big overarching theme was there's all these regular people out there around the country.
00:07:27.880Folks, you know, like my folks, like regular people out there all around America who don't have a voice in the political process in Washington.
00:07:38.420And the biggest, I guess, middle finger to the political class in Washington was when this guy Donald Trump came along in 2016 and started running for president.
00:07:51.480I first got to know President Trump in, like, 2013, 2014, so it's been about a little over 10 years that I've known the president.
00:07:59.820And so we were regularly talking over the course of all of this time.
00:08:03.760We would do interviews and all sorts of stuff about the issues, and he would speak out.
00:08:08.300I think his election in 2016 was very much a middle finger from the regular guy to Washington, D.C. out of frustration, out of, you know, severe frustration.
00:08:23.480The regular folks know they're not being heard on issues like immigration, like trade policy, like health care, everything, right?
00:08:32.060Like they didn't have a seat at the table.
00:09:30.340There wouldn't have been a Trump presidency coming out of that first debate if, quite frankly,
00:09:35.180because Fox News and Megyn Kelly, this is the Murdochs, decided they were going to take down Trump at the very beginning of that first debate.
00:11:57.380I stayed up, I think, for 38 hours straight or something working on it, right?
00:12:02.540Like writing it and writing it again and, you know, getting into the details of, like, the strategic battle back and forth between them.
00:12:10.920It's interesting because, you know, it's funny.
00:12:13.080You see Megyn Kelly now that she's not working at Fox.
00:12:15.540She's actually kind of a little bit different.
00:12:18.140I mean, I don't know if you saw her tweet last night after what happened with the two—you know, you had Trump doing the Fox town hall.
00:12:24.860And you had the other two knuckleheads, DeSantis and Haley, over on the CNN debate, you know, and she was saying, I think, like, you know, Trump—there's a reason why Trump's going to win.
00:12:38.260She seems to get it now, but the point is that—so at least good for her—but the point is that she was a weapon of Rupert Murdoch in the globalist establishment at Fox News.
00:12:51.900And that globalist class, you know, they use the regular guy.
00:12:56.480They use the regular person out there.
00:12:59.240The Fox News is one of their tools that they use to manipulate people.
00:13:05.860Fox is maybe one of the worst of the establishment media outlets because what they do is they are—their audience is conservative voters around the country,
00:13:16.920and they're manipulating people into backing these establishment Republican candidates.
00:13:23.100And they couldn't let, you know, this guy they couldn't control, Donald Trump, win the Republican nomination in 2016.
00:13:31.960And by the way, you see them trying to do it again this whole election right now.
00:32:52.520But for now, I think I'm needed where I'm at.
00:32:56.100And the movement needs me focused on telling the truth and helping lead our young reporters here at Breitbart heading into this critical election.
00:33:06.620You know, that decision was also – there were certain people, I'll leave their names unmentioned, that really wanted you to come into the White House on Trump's first term.
00:33:16.960But it was determined that given the lack of really reporting we had that understood the MAGA movement that you were much more important on the outside.
00:33:24.420If President Trump asked you after his victory in November to join him in the White House, would you be open to that?
00:33:30.820Again, I would be open to anything like that.
00:34:07.800In fact, Penny Nance, as soon as we free her up, she's going to join us in a second from Concerned Women for America about her endorsement.
00:34:14.000The new governor of Louisiana, endorsement for President Trump.
00:34:20.240So Jeff Landry, the newly inaugurated governor of Louisiana, has endorsed President Trump in 2024.
00:34:26.580Obviously, the Iowa caucuses are just days away on Monday.
00:34:29.300So this is yet another huge endorsement for President Trump.
00:34:33.040And it's maybe one of the biggest that he's had at the beginning of this year because Jeff Landry is fresh off a historic shocker victory in Louisiana last year.
00:34:42.280Everybody knew Landry was going to win the governor's race.
00:34:44.700But the fact that he did it without a runoff really shocked the political world.
00:34:50.000I think the left really kicked into high gear in places like Kentucky and Virginia after they were shocked by Landry's victory in October because everybody knew Landry was kind of going to eventually win.
00:35:03.920But they thought they were going to get their Democrat into the runoff and whatever.
00:35:07.740Landry won the jungle primary night, right?
00:35:11.640And so extremely popular new governor of Louisiana and a huge endorsement for President Trump.
00:35:20.600Matt, give us your assessment of last night of the town hall and the debate and your assessment of where this thing stands going into Iowa and particularly now with Chris Christie thrown in the towel.
00:35:32.200I mean, look, I'm shocked Christie lasted as long as he did in the race.
00:35:36.160I guess the field thinned a little bit last night with Christie's exit out of the out of the race.
00:35:42.580But the last night's CNN debate, quote unquote, I mean, I didn't even treat it like it was a debate.
00:35:49.960You know, I'll run all of our debate coverage at Breitbart.
00:35:52.640We didn't bring on the full on team for this.
00:35:56.120We're going to save that for the Iowa caucus night on Monday night just because it's kind of the JV team.
00:36:01.680And look, the only substantive thing I saw come out of the debate, and I was kind of flipping back and forth between the debate and the Trump town hall on Fox News, is that out of the debate between Haley and DeSantis was they were both, you know, to varying degrees talking about wanting to raise the retirement age and cut Social Security and Medicare.
00:36:20.860Whereas Trump over on Fox was saying he's never going to touch that stuff.
00:36:25.300And frankly, the fact that these establishment Republicans, the Paul Ryans of the world and the, you know, this is the Rupert Murdoch, all these types of people, that what they want to do by going after the Social Security and Medicare programs versus Trump wanting to protect those programs is a huge part of the reason why Trump is so popular among Republicans.
00:36:46.920Look, people paid into these their whole lives, right?
00:36:53.680Like and go look at the withdrawals that they take out.
00:36:56.640The government takes out money, every paycheck for Social Security and Medicare withholdings, right?
00:37:02.880That's a promise that the federal government made to you, the American worker that needs to be there at the end when you are ready to retire.
00:37:11.500And the fact that they keep trying to move the goalposts, these DeSantis's and Haley's and Paul Ryan's and Mitch McConnell's and all these people want to move the goalposts on that is a huge part of the working class rejection of the old guard establishment Republicans.
00:37:27.320And a huge part of the reason why people are moving to new Republicans like President Trump, people like Senator J.D. Vance in Ohio and and, you know, these, you know, up and coming great candidates we're seeing around the country.
00:37:41.460The party is changing in a good way, but a reason why they're leaving these failed Republicans in the past is a huge part of that is the so-called entitlement reform that you see these people push.
00:37:56.660And again, all you really kind of heard from the Nikki Haley's and Ron DeSantis's of the world last night was that they were looking for more ways to get us into war.
00:38:05.040Whereas President Trump was on TV last night saying that he's going to keep us out of the wars and he was talking about how he was the first president in modern history to not start a new one.
00:38:14.320Right. Like so the war and these promises that the federal government made to people are a huge part of the reason why.
00:38:22.900And you don't hear people talk about it.
00:38:24.160Right. Like you hear people talk a lot about immigration and trade.
00:38:26.980That gets a lot of the focus and rightfully so.
00:39:03.300Right. Like and if he wins by huge amounts on both of those races, it's going to be hard for anyone to really genuinely consider it, continue their campaigns beyond New Hampshire.
00:39:13.420The question is, you know, and certainly not beyond South Carolina later.
00:39:18.880I mean, it could end all right there on the donor class establishment, old guard Republicans.
00:39:26.500They view her as a vehicle to try to continue to and they want to extract is I don't even think they think they're going to be Trump at this point.
00:39:35.880Right. What they want to do is they want to extract as much as they can out of Trump when he's the Republican nominee for president.
00:39:43.740Right. So they think that Trump's going to be the Republican nominee.
00:39:46.620What they want to do is they want to get as much as they can out of him on his way to the general election.
00:39:52.260So, you know, whether that's a running mate, whether that's, you know, top surrogate placement, whether that's promises to to to to the globalists that he won't touch this thing or that thing.
00:40:03.120If he wins the White House back, which I fully expect him to do, by the way, I think that he is way ahead of Joe Biden right now.
00:40:10.920And when he's the Republican nominee, I think that this is way bigger than 2016.
00:40:15.060What's happening right now entering 2024.
00:40:18.080But the fact is, is that what this is about is about a power struggle.
00:40:21.560Right. Like they want to extract as much as they can out of Trump on his way back to the White House versus.
00:40:29.220And that's the story, the way to look at this story.
00:40:31.800Right. So Nikki Haley is a vessel to do that.
00:40:34.120She's running against him for that entire purpose.
00:40:36.560So if they can try to trip Trump up and maybe she stays in the race through Super Tuesday or the next week after that, you know, then the longer she, you know, they get to stay in.
00:40:45.980And the longer it takes for Trump to wrap it up, the more they think they can get out of him later.
00:40:50.540And so that's the question is, is can Trump wrap it up quick?
00:42:19.720I was very grateful to stand with President Trump on the stage at the March for Life.
00:42:24.060He was the first president ever to be willing to walk just down the street and be with hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans on cold and windy January day.
00:42:32.760And then, of course, he gave us 270 constitutionalist judges and three Supreme Court justices, which did, as he pointed out, they terminated Roe v. Wade and gave us a completely different ability to advocate for life and to bring people with us.
00:42:50.700And over half the states now have come toward our side on this issue.
00:42:56.280Some have gone further left, but we're going to continue to work on that.
00:43:00.660The other thing, Steve, that you may not even be aware of is that President Trump was the first candidate to sign the CWA pledge to American women, stating very clearly that there's only two genders.
00:45:22.320Okay, Penny Nance joins us from Concerned Women of America, one of the most prominent voices in this movement.
00:45:29.580Penny, in 16, one of the critical reasons, one of the reasons we won is the life movement came together and support President Trump and had massive turnout.
00:45:45.120The left thinks that this is the weakest part that we have, and they're coming full force to bring the Taylor Swift crowd with them.
00:45:51.880I think one of the biggest concerns people have is, is the leadership in the life movement coming together to make sure that we have an angle of attack on this?
00:46:01.620President Trump, I think, is doing a great job.
00:46:03.920But the question is, at the Penny Nance level and the leadership here, is it coming together in one organized effort, ma'am?
00:46:15.320The day that Donald Trump got on stage and took on Hillary Clinton and told her he was not in favor of ripping a baby out of its mother's womb, he set the stage and people understood that he understood what was happening.
00:46:28.960You have the consultant class that says, don't talk about it, run away from it.
00:46:32.360The truth is, when you do what the president did, you win.
00:46:36.740And Republicans have been hiding behind, I don't know, their mother's skirt tails on this issue.
00:46:43.340We need to make sure that the American people understand what abortion really is and what it looks like.
00:46:49.580They need to understand fetal development.
00:46:52.900They don't have a basic understanding.
00:46:54.840But the truth is, when you teach them, when you tell them at 15 weeks the little baby has all of her major organs, eyebrows and fingernails, can hear and respond to her mother's voice and feels pain, everybody's mind changes.
00:47:09.940In fact, the majority of the American people are with us on the issue of abortion when you at least speak to them at just a limit at some level, 15 weeks.
00:47:19.600So that's where we have, I think, the most ability to get something over the finish line right now.
00:47:26.020But we can do better, certainly, and have done better in many states.
00:47:29.500And so it is our job as the pro-life movement to continue to work, to continue to advocate and educate.
00:52:40.220We'll be live in Iowa in the 5 o'clock hour.
00:52:43.980And I will be here with about 30 guests at 6 o'clock, including live in Taiwan.
00:52:49.400See you back here 5 to 7 in the world.
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