On today's show, Steve and his co-host, Ben Harnell, are joined by Mike Lindell to discuss the latest in the Vaxxing scandal, the collapse of the Murdoch empire, and the return of Fox News to the fold.
00:04:24.000Fox News, blaring headline, Wall Street Journal.
00:04:27.000It takes its own hit for taking hundreds of millions of dollars from Mike Lindell and will cancel him because they hate Trump and they hate MAGA.
00:04:36.000And so, hey, you're free men and women.
00:04:40.000You make your decision whether you kick it or click it on or not.
00:04:43.000OK, I know it's white noise for most of you, but you've got to make your decision whether you're going to do it or not.
00:04:58.000He's giving them 500, and it's not like, listen, it's not like, it's not like, by the way, I love the MyPillow commercial because Mike's over the top and such an endearing figure, particularly for the conservatives.
00:05:09.000It's not like they got Amex and General Motors all over the thing.
00:05:33.000And you know it's a profitable business is you're taking hundreds of millions of dollars when every other media company is letting guys go.
00:06:14.000Certainly, I'm not the guy that can make sense for this for you.
00:06:18.000I'm the guy that can give you my perspective.
00:06:20.000And like many people that watch your show every day, I'm pretty disappointed.
00:06:25.000There just doesn't seem to be a sense of urgency up here on Capitol Hill.
00:06:30.000I sat in a meeting yesterday with Speaker Johnson and several members of our conference that would be classified as Warhawks.
00:06:39.000Some of us from the House Freedom Caucus were talking about why we need to attach the border security to this this funding deal.
00:06:50.000And many of the Warhawk types were talking more about hypersonic missiles and, you know, contracts, ship contracts that that was there.
00:07:01.000That that was there. That was their focus. And I can't tell you I can make sense of it.
00:07:06.000But, you know, that's some of the detachment from, you know, why we can't get our borders secured and the detachment from what the American people are asking for and begging for.
00:07:16.000It's also, you know, his new pitch is, oh, we're going to get some policy wins, which we're not going to get.
00:07:24.000But his policy wins because he wants to get away from just the overall debacle on the finances.
00:07:29.000We just had reported out last night half a trillion dollars in the first three months of the fiscal year.
00:07:34.000This starts October 1st, half a trillion dollars projected now to be two trillion dollar deficit.
00:07:40.000But is there any when you're in these meetings, is there any discussion about, hey, guys, how do we I know we cut 16 billion dollars, which is about six days of interest, save 16 billion dollars.
00:07:50.760But is any discussion about you're running now trillion dollar deficits every year and it looks like you're going to run them in perpetuity?
00:07:57.780Does that ever get brought up in these in these closed door meetings?
00:08:01.960No, what gets brought up in these closed door meetings is why you can't do it.
00:08:06.580You know, why why we can't do it, all the bad things, the boogeymen that, you know, are going to come out and destroy the conference, cause us to lose the majority.
00:08:21.200You know the deal, Steve, in this party, we don't we never play to win.
00:08:24.760We play to lose by less. And that's really the best way I can put it to the American people.
00:08:29.760You know, some it's a very frustrating place to be.
00:08:34.440I'm hoping, though, that with some of the fights, the historic fights that we've got in this year, I'm hoping that some of the candidates out there, you know, that are coming up here to replace individuals that don't want to represent the American people.
00:08:46.860I'm hoping that they see that you don't have to come here.
00:08:50.080You don't have to fall in line. You don't have to make the speaker of the House, whichever side it is, your new commander in chief, where you just ask, OK, you know, sir, sir, what's my marching orders?
00:09:02.160No, you're here to represent the American people.
00:09:04.180They're screaming as loud as they possibly can on both sides of the aisle, to be honest with you.
00:09:09.760Hey, shut down this border or shut down the government.
00:09:13.160And unfortunately, once again, most of the representation in the House are not listening.
00:09:20.960Do they understand the it just I want to make sure here the scale of the financial crisis we have and the scale of the invasion of this on the border,
00:09:30.100that you have nine or 10 million here that come across as three to five hundred thousand a month.
00:09:35.500And this is, you know, 10,000 of combat divisions.
00:09:37.880So you have division combat divisions of PLA, CCP, you know, fighting age males from everywhere.
00:09:45.440Did they understand that's all got to be deported, that that these two crises, when they converge and they are converging now,
00:09:51.400what you see in New York City, see other places will lead to the absolute destruction of this republic with no comeback.
00:09:57.340I don't think they I think there's a combination, Steve.
00:10:01.660I think some of them get it, but they're not willing to do what's necessary to fix the problem.
00:10:08.220And I think some of them are so inundated up here.
00:10:11.040They become such swamp creatures that, you know, it doesn't affect their daily life.
00:10:15.740And so they they they could care less.
00:10:18.480And it's not it's not about it for for many of these guys up here, Steve.
00:10:22.380It's not about, again, representing and protecting the American people who were supposed to be protecting and serving.
00:10:29.400It's about, you know, making sure that, you know, their big campaign donors, you know,
00:10:34.720have their agendas taken care of and make sure that, you know, their retirement and that lobbying job that they want,
00:10:41.460you know, or that board that they want to be on with a defense contract or whatever it is, is is still is still online.
00:10:49.500So I'm going to go to your constituents.
00:10:54.740You have geographically one of the largest districts in the nation.
00:10:57.760Tell me about the folks in the district.
00:11:00.720Do they do you believe they understand the scale of the financial crisis in the scale of the invasion of the southern border?
00:11:08.320And they understand where this is taking this country?
00:11:10.500Absolutely. They do. Steve, when I know you've you've been in my district, you've heard it from people, the people that I represent.
00:11:21.160They get it. They understand how big of a crisis this is.
00:11:24.500They understand why the America first agenda is so important.
00:11:28.640And it's just common sense. Take care of your own people.
00:11:31.360Take care of your own country before you take care of others and you start shelling, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars all over the country.
00:11:38.340They 100 percent get it. They have children and, you know, family members who are dying of fentanyl.
00:11:46.320They they they go to their emergency room and aren't able to get, you know, seen in in a relatively, you know, understandable amount of time.
00:11:57.300While, you know, illegals are taken care of, you know, often before them, they see in the airport, Steve, when they go to get on a flight, you know, they see, you know, hundreds of illegals walking through the airport with, you know, little plastic baggies.
00:12:12.420You know, get getting on planes that they're paying for sending them to hotels that they end up paying for.
00:12:19.440And they're they're sick of it. And they're sick of the politicians up in Washington, D.C.
00:12:24.920That, you know, don't do anything about it. And even when they understand the problem, they're not willing to take the hard vote.
00:12:30.620Because, as you've said on your show many, many times, the Republican Party, for the most part, all we really do is manage the decline of the country.
00:12:38.580We're not willing to play to win. We're not willing to do what's necessary to turn it around.
00:12:43.320And that's why they support President Trump and so many of us that have shown that we're willing to throw down and fight because they know it's going to it's going to take a fight to get us out of this mess.
00:12:53.140We had a it was Andy Biggs and Matt Gaetz and Raheem Kassami, myself with Eli that had an event at the Cowboy Church in his district outside of Phoenix.
00:13:07.460And this was hardworking, blue collar and middle class Americans.
00:13:12.380The quality of questions we we got is better than if I go talk to a Wall Street crowd and certainly better than anything I hear in D.C.
00:13:20.180That is the Awakened army. The army of the Awakened we have, is it not Eli Crane?
00:13:26.860That's people out here get it now and they're not prepared to back off.
00:13:30.360They just need to be helped with some leadership.
00:13:34.240No, absolutely, Steve. And that's why I appreciate what you guys do on this show every single day.
00:13:39.460You know, the hardworking folks of the country, obviously, they don't you know, they don't have time to follow politics all day long.
00:13:45.760But they do know they do know that this country is headed in the wrong direction.
00:13:49.900They see it at the grocery store. You know, they they see it at airports.
00:13:53.580They see it at emergency rooms like I just like I just mentioned.
00:13:57.120And they want they demand fighters who are willing to go in there, turn this thing around.
00:14:02.720And, you know, I will find out if they send me back up to Washington this next year.
00:14:08.480But, you know, I'm grateful that I'm not alone here, Steve.
00:14:11.600I'm grateful that, you know, there are members of Congress that are willing to put their careers on the line repeatedly, take votes that, you know, are pretty much unheard of up here and historic, you know, just to try and turn this thing around.
00:14:23.540And, you know, we're going to have to break some eggs to, you know, to turn this thing around and we're going to have to piss some people off.
00:14:28.500And, you know, it's not something that I, you know, wake up in the morning, you know, hoping to do.
00:14:33.660But it is absolutely necessary. And so, you know, we're willing to keep doing it.
00:14:37.560Thank you for what you guys do, Steve. And thanks for having me on the show.
00:14:42.920Eli, where do people get to you? Where are they? Where are they? Where's social media? What's the website?
00:14:47.480They can follow us at Rep Eli Crane and Eli Crane, CEO on social media.
00:14:52.720Thanks, brother. Thank you, Congressman Crane. Short break. Back with Captain Fennell in a moment.
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00:18:12.060People around you have to take leadership.
00:18:13.500They step up and tell the American people the truth.
00:18:15.940The truth is we just had a half a trillion dollar deficit in the first quarter of the year of what we told you we're going to have, and nobody else would.
00:18:25.420And if you add it, if you take a half a trillion times four, let me do gazentas, if you do the, oh, $2 trillion deficit.
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00:22:37.500We're on the end of the dollar empire, the four free install, totally free.
00:22:40.880I'm updating the fourth, the debt trap, because we need you guys actually up to date on current numbers as we go into shutdown week, which will be next week.
00:22:49.760Remember, under no circumstances can it be a CR.
00:22:52.260And if Johnson puts forward a CR, then he's got to have the same fate as McCarthy.
00:22:56.460I have no stake in here of any personality.
00:22:58.700I just want to see somebody who's prepared to stand in the breach.
00:23:47.760Now, Captain Fennell, you essentially cashed your career for sounding a warning, and now you've written a book really about the warning to the United States on the eve of the election in Taiwan, where the PLA just came out, I think, yesterday, and said, hey, we don't care.
00:24:02.840You know, if Taiwan and its American partner does anything provocative, we're moving on this, because anything not to unite, it's not reunite, it's unite this province, what they call it, or this nation of free Chinese to the CCP will not happen.
00:24:19.520Sir, tell me about the book, the timing of it, and really what you say about the elites in this country and what they've done.
00:24:26.760Well, Steve, first of all, it was an honor to work on this book with Brad Thayer.
00:24:35.120He's really, I'd say, the driving force behind the book, and so it's my honor to work with him.
00:24:40.780And thank you for your support to help us get this published.
00:24:44.160And the purpose of the book is to really inform the American public and to educate them about how we got to this place where we had a policy of engagement and embracing the PRC, the Chinese Communist Party, over the last 30 to 40 years.
00:25:02.180And we didn't understand the true intentions of the Chinese Communist Party and their global worldview and how they want to take over that world and they want to destroy the United States of America.
00:25:15.660And so in this book, Brad and I go through and talk about various elements of this.
00:25:21.700From my perspective, the thing that I kind of brought to bear was my practitioner's experience of working inside the Navy and inside the intelligence community and giving some examples of how the intelligence community and my own Navy's leaders basically perpetuated this engagement policy
00:25:40.880without really recognizing the threat 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and did anything to change course.
00:25:49.300Your prior guest, the congressman from Arizona, talked about this mindset inside D.C. where people just say it's impossible, you can't change anything.
00:25:57.640And then essentially that's what has happened in the national security arena when it comes to the People's Republic of China.
00:26:03.840We were told that we had to engage and engagement would change them and they would come around.
00:26:07.880And what we've actually seen over the last 40 years is China's gotten more aggressive, more powerful and more threatening.
00:26:15.020And as you mentioned, you know, it's just past midnight in Taiwan right now.
00:26:19.220So 23 million people are going to vote for, you know, their future leader, their future president.
00:26:28.020And if the Democratic Progressive Party candidate wins, which is the current administration, if that same party stays in power, we can expect China to start really ratcheting up the threats even more than they have in the last two years.
00:26:43.220And, you know, we may be looking at an invasion sometime in the next year, year and a half.
00:26:49.460And it could be sooner, it could be later, but it's very serious that what China wants to do.
00:26:54.460And the United States is unprepared and we have not deterred the PRC in any way, shape or form.
00:27:00.780And that's really the thesis of the book is we have not done our job to carry on with the legacy that we had handed to us from the people that won World War II and won the Cold War.
00:27:59.760We're updating the fourth free installment, The Debt Trap, to get you the current numbers as we go into a massive fight this weekend and next week about a shutdown of Biden's illegitimate regime.
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