Nikki Haley is the favorite to win the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday, but the question is whether she can hold on to the nomination if she loses the primary to Donald Trump. Steve Kamb and I talk with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia congresswoman, about the possibility of a Nikki Haley win and why the primary is a referendum on the Republican Party.
00:08:45.780MTG, when you return to Washington, they're about to put forward a bill that's an amnesty bill with Langford.
00:08:52.780And we're going to have Todd Benzman join us in studio for the second hour.
00:08:55.400We're going to go through it brick by brick.
00:08:56.520But you've got a federal government who sued Texas for trying to secure their border.
00:09:01.300And Schumer and Biden are putting this proposal up.
00:09:04.360It's got immediate, virtually amnesty, immediate work permits, 50,000 new green cards.
00:09:10.000We now know we're hearing that's three years full funding for the NGOs that exacerbate the border, the border invasion.
00:09:17.180So you've got an amnesty bill coupled with a full $60 billion plus to Ukraine.
00:09:23.620What are you and your colleagues, you've been at the forefront of this.
00:09:26.380What are you and your colleagues going to do about that when Langford and other Republican senators have, quote unquote, negotiated this in good faith with Biden and with Schumer?
00:09:50.520If we have a Republican Speaker of the House that wants to bring a bill to the floor that continues to fund Ukraine and trades out our border policies for amnesty, for illegal aliens, and that number is going to add up to $1.8 million a year that they're just handing over all these rights and the taxpayers have to pay for it, that is absolutely my red line.
00:10:12.080And I think you'll see a lot of my colleagues join me on that.
00:10:14.480We are sick and tired of being humiliated in Congress.
00:10:19.220I don't care how slim the majority is.
00:10:21.380And it's time for Republicans in Congress to act like it.
00:10:24.240We're sick and tired of carrying around Nancy Pelosi's purse by passing CR after CR, and I have not voted for any of that garbage.
00:10:32.000And I think it's absolute BS that we continue to have to vote on that.
00:10:35.520It's time for Republicans to act like we want to be in power, that we know how to be in power, and it's time for whoever the Speaker is, whether it was Kevin McCarthy or today it's Mike Johnson or whoever we have to put in there next, it's time for them to act like the Republican Speaker and stop carrying water for Joe Biden's presidency.
00:10:54.420You've been one of the leaders of no more CRs and to force Biden to the table over the border, no more money until the border is shut down.
00:11:05.160As you go around, besides the race between President Trump and Nikki Haley, what's the feedback you get from folks in New Hampshire on this topic of the CRs, continual CRs, or forcing Biden to the table if it requires a shutdown of the government?
00:11:24.960So, last week, when Mike Johnson and Republicans and Democrats all held hands together and voted for that CR, do you realize that that continued the funding for Joe Biden and Secretary Mayorkas' open border?
00:11:41.160That continued the funding for the Green New Deal?
00:11:43.740That continued the funding for DEI and all the woke policies?
00:11:47.180That continued funding for the Ukraine war?
00:11:49.580It continued funding for all of the madness and the insanity and the America last policies that we're all tired of.
00:11:57.720But now, let me tell you how bad it is now.
00:12:00.540Because of the Supreme Court ruling that happened that has put the federal government in a war with the state of Texas over the Texas border in Mexico,
00:12:10.660Steve, that CR now funds the federal government's war against Texas.
00:12:15.860So, when we are looking at a deadline coming up at March 1st and March 8th, which I don't even know why there's two deadlines now.
00:12:23.620But we are looking at this government funding deadline.
00:12:26.820It is going to be about, are we going to continue to fund the federal government war against the state of Texas?
00:12:33.580Because that's what another CR will do.
00:12:35.380Are we actually going to make meaningful change and force the government shutdown until Washington, D.C. realizes that their job by the Constitution,
00:12:45.260Article 4, Section 4, says the federal government has to defend the states from invasion.
00:12:51.240Are they actually going to do their constitutional duty?
00:12:53.820And are we actually going to continue funding this Biden administration that is committing treason against the American people?
00:13:01.800That's the real question when it comes down to the next CR in government funding.
00:13:07.680You had 108 of your colleagues with you.
00:13:10.180Do you anticipate in March, when they try to push another one, that you'll have actually a vast majority of a Republican conference on your side?
00:16:29.740Marjorie Taylor Greene is absolutely right.
00:16:31.520The Supreme Court decision yesterday puts the, as Clay Higgins said, kind of a civil war between the federal government and the state of Texas on the defense of the realm,
00:16:40.220on the defense of the United States of America and her sovereignty.
00:16:45.940Gavin, the president of the most dynamic, I guess, Republican club, the New York Young Republicans in New York City, just an incredible group, had this major event a couple of months ago where President Trump gave, I think, the best speech he's given, the best performance he's given of any event in this cycle.
00:17:03.960So, Gavin, you head out momentarily to New Hampshire.
00:17:08.040Why are you heading to New Hampshire, sir?
00:17:09.600I want to celebrate a massive victory that I'm expecting in the Granite State for President Donald J.
00:17:17.240Trump, you know, culminating the end of this primary season, I believe.
00:17:21.800You know, this is the ascendant movement that you talk about regularly, Steve, this emerging populist majority, this giant coalition, this realignment that President Trump ushered in in 2016.
00:17:33.200It is now being revalidated once more this primary season in the state of New Hampshire against the neocon warmonger, Nikki Birdbrain Haley.
00:17:43.840So I'm there to celebrate with my fellow Trump supporters a massive win.
00:17:48.040And hopefully tomorrow we can start focusing on the general election and getting rid of crooked Joe Biden from the White House.
00:17:56.460What are the let's talk about the policy, leave out the personalities.
00:17:59.940What are the fundamental policy differences you see playing out in this primary right now with between neoliberal neocon, neocon Nikki, the donor's favorite donor Barbie?
00:18:11.140And in President Trump's America first populist nationalist movement.
00:18:15.900Yeah, Steve, the dichotomies couldn't be stronger.
00:18:19.020This is a battle pitting nationalism versus globalism, putting the elites against the people, putting America first against America last, putting our own borders ahead of, you know, endless foreign interventions with no clear definition of what victory means.
00:18:34.740Putting the interests of American labor and American workers above those of globalist corporate entities.
00:18:42.140I mean, this is really not just a regular primary fight that we've seen in decades past.
00:18:47.420This is a primary fight for the heart and soul, not just of the Republican Party, but the country as a whole.
00:18:53.120It is the rejection of the decades of stagnation and status quo ism that has really led this country and the broader West in general, frankly, into the gutter.
00:19:05.080President Trump has been calling out these issues of, you know, trade deals and the offshoring of jobs and the endless foreign intervention isms going back.
00:19:14.440I don't know, since the 1970s, you can watch all the old interviews of him.
00:19:17.680And he was saying the same exact thing. And Nikki represents the empty suit, consultant driven politics of yesteryear, where nothing matters.
00:19:28.140Nothing you say is relevant. It's all whatever you're fed moments before you go and take a media hit.
00:19:35.180And it just goes to show that the American people are sick of it. They're looking for real answers.
00:19:39.480They're looking for a pushback. They're looking for an actual champion, a fighter, not just for the donor class,
00:19:45.300but for the middle class and for the working class and for the people that keep this country actually running.
00:19:51.740So this is part of a populist upheaval in American politics.
00:19:55.420And I'm happy to see that it's being vindicated and it's only growing stronger with each passing primary contest.
00:20:02.160And then ultimately going forward into November with the general election, I think it'll be truly vindicated for all to see.
00:20:08.800You and your co-author, Troy Olson, have written a book very much reminiscent of Kevin Phillips, the emerging Republican majority that he wrote decades ago.
00:20:21.720This is about the emerging populist majority. It's out this morning.
00:20:26.660And I want to make sure people go get all the information about this and check it out, because I think it's I believe it's a must read.
00:20:33.360In fact, let me give you the first endorsement on the book. America's elites strangled our country with managed decline, unopposed for close to 40 years.
00:20:41.080The populist nationalist movement galvanized around a former Democrat billionaire from Queens in 2015, hammering through long odds to elect him president.
00:20:49.600That movement, now an emerging majority of the nation, is the subject of an incredible book by two of its leaders.
00:20:56.560The emerging populist majority is the action plan for both electoral victory and effective governance in the decades to come.
00:21:03.860Written by two young firebrands, Gavin Wax and Troy Olson, it is a must read for everyone concerned about the salvation and rejuvenation of our republic.
00:21:14.440And that is Stephen K. Bannon, the host of War Room.
00:21:17.000Tell me about the book. Why is it an important read?
00:21:20.320Why do you have why is the timing of this exquisite, as we say, in the publishing industry?
00:21:25.000No, that that's so true, Steve. The timing could not have been more perfect.
00:21:28.820I don't even think we planned it this way.
00:21:30.180But this book is describing all the political trends and realignments that people have either understood and accepted or refused to understand and refused to accept.
00:21:40.560Starting, you know, since the day President Trump came down the escalator.
00:21:44.600But really, this is a historical book.
00:21:46.180We go back over 100 years in the history of the American body politic to talk about the different election cycles, the different trends, the different movements, the different, you know, undertones and undercurrents that really shaped the electoral, you know, progress of this country cycle over cycle.
00:22:03.920And it's showing that, you know, what we're reaching today, what's culminating today, literally today in New Hampshire, is decades, if not a century, if not a generation or two in the making.
00:22:51.000They're becoming a political voting bloc.
00:22:53.520And the entire, you know, electoral history, all of the, you know, what was taken for granted for many years, everything that was assumed to be, you know, the standard when it came to elections and campaigns and the political process is being thrown out the window.
00:23:08.080And the entire map is being reinvented, redrawn as we speak.
00:23:12.360So it's a very exciting time politically.
00:23:14.500But the next step, of course, is actually, you know, turning this momentum, turning this political sea change into real government policy and action, which is going to be the next generation going forward, which is going to be the next administration of President Donald J. Trump.
00:23:33.500It goes into the nitty-gritty political science, the history of the country, the future of the country, making some bold predictions that, you know, I think are going to be realized.
00:23:42.940And we're happy to have written it over the past year.
00:23:45.280How do you square a Trump victory tonight?
00:23:50.080And John Frederick is going to be able to talk about some numbers here in a second.
00:23:52.320A Trump victory tonight versus when you return, Schumer, McConnell, Langford are going to put forward a proposal.
00:24:01.520This is their proposal after months of negotiation, negotiation in the Senate that would basically give amnesty to six to eight to 10 million illegal alien invaders that come through on Biden's watch and give them work permits immediately, like in New York City.
00:24:16.900And has 50,000 more green cards, but also allows 1.8 million plus full funding for the oligarchs of the money laundering operation in Ukraine.
00:24:25.660How do you square the fact that you're arguing, hey, we got an emerging populist nationalist movement, Trump is the leader of that, he's won the Republican primary nomination against all odds, but they're in your grill with something that will transform the nation, sir.
00:24:42.020Yeah, well, listen, it's a great point.
00:24:43.680First, I'll start by saying that bill and these backroom deals are criminal.
00:24:47.060I mean, this is a criminal bill, massively destructive, a massive insult to the American people.
00:24:51.780But listen, politics is a slow grind. Politics, which the left understands, is not a game about just the next election cycle or the next year or two.
00:25:00.260It's a generational fight. It's moving the needle, moving the Overton window over the period of decades, generations, years.
00:25:07.540They play the long game. And many on the right, many conservatives, many Republicans, we play this very short-term vision.
00:25:13.480You know, we're thinking fundraising cycles. We're thinking just the current election season.
00:25:17.280You know, they're playing Fabian-style takeovers, you know, decades ago, these demoralization campaigns and all the rest.
00:25:23.540But listen, you look at American history like we do in the book.
00:25:26.000The Republican Party was dominated by the Rockefellers and the liberal, you know, waspy wing of the party for decades.
00:25:32.820And it took, you know, a slow, conservative grassroots in the fusionist sense, by the way.
00:25:38.860This was the fusionist kind of conservative movement of yesteryear.
00:25:42.300But if you look to history, that movement, you know, started maybe with Goldwater, maybe even before Goldwater.
00:25:48.560And it didn't really succeed until, you know, the election of Ronald Reagan.
00:25:51.700And that was a change in the Republican Party that took place over decades, you know, changing the local county committees, the state committees, the National Republican Committee, changing the elected officials.
00:26:04.340I mean, even look at the Democrat side with their realignment.
00:26:07.380I mean, you still had Blue Dog Dems, you know, serving in Congress up until the mid-2000s.
00:26:13.220So that was a process that took, in many ways, even longer.
00:26:16.240So this movement, this change, this trend, it's happening, it's here, it's real.
00:26:22.600I believe President Trump is an accelerationist.
00:26:25.480You know, he's a visionary in many ways.
00:26:26.780So he pushed this faster than it had ever been pushed before.
00:26:30.220So the amount of change we've seen just since 2015, 2016, you know, the things that you talk about here on the show, you know, the regular political discourse that happens in conservative circles, it's miles and mountains away from where it was just a few short years ago in 2014.
00:26:46.2402014, 2015, when the party, I would argue, was still very much in this fusionist, libertarian-esque neoliberal, if you will, mold.
00:26:57.500And now the standard bearer for the neocon wing and the, you know, all the other challengers before her are being eviscerated left, right, and center.
00:27:06.760So while the leadership and the establishment and the Senate or wherever else are, you know, gasping their last breaths and are, you know, petulantly striking out against MAGA and this populist movement, I don't think that's reflected at all of where we're heading, Steve.