Bannon's War Room - Episode 3426： Victory For MAGA： McConnell Memorial

00:00:00.000 The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election.

00:00:04.880 That's a brutal fact we have to face.

00:00:06.560 The Republican establishment?

00:00:07.560 The Republican establishment.

00:00:08.560 Wants to nullify the 2016 election?

00:00:10.880 Trying to nullify the 2016 election.

00:00:12.880 Absolutely.

00:00:13.880 Who?

00:00:14.880 I think Mitch McConnell, to a degree, Paul Ryan.

00:00:17.680 They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic, nationalist agenda to be implemented.

00:00:24.640 It's very obvious.

00:00:25.640 It's obvious as night follows day.

00:00:29.760 Give me a story that illustrates that.

00:00:31.400 Well, Mitch McConnell, when we first met him, he said, I think, in one of the first meetings

00:00:37.440 in Trump Tower with the president, as we're wrapping up, he basically says, I don't want

00:00:41.640 to hear any more of this drain the swamp talk, flat out.

00:00:46.240 He goes, a guy up on Capitol Hill can't buy a Coke unless it's got to be reported.

00:00:50.700 He says, I can't hire any smart people because everybody's all over him for reporting requirements

00:00:55.300 and the pay, et cetera, and the scrutiny.

00:00:58.620 You've got to back off that.

00:00:59.820 The drain the swamp thing was Mitch McConnell was day one.

00:01:03.040 Did not want to go there, wanted us to back off.

00:01:06.300 You are attacking on many fronts people who you need to help you to get things done.

00:01:13.260 They're not going to help you unless they're put on notice.

00:01:15.480 They're going to be held accountable if they do not support the president of the United States.

00:01:19.400 Right now, there's no accountability.

00:01:21.220 They have totally, they do not support the president's program.

00:01:24.180 It's an open secret in Capitol Hill.

00:01:25.640 Everybody in the city knows it.

00:01:26.900 And so, therefore, now that you're out of the White House, you go into war with him.

00:01:30.280 Absolutely.

00:01:31.280 So I stand before you today, Mr. President, and my colleagues to say this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.

00:01:50.400 I'm not going anywhere anytime soon, however, I'll complete my job my colleagues are giving me until we select a new leader in November, and they take the helm next January.

00:02:07.960 I'll finish the job the people of Kentucky hired me to do as well, albeit from a different seat, and I'm actually looking forward to that.

00:02:23.940 So let me go back to you, Garrett Haake.

00:02:26.620 Tell me what your view is of the short term now and what we just heard, frankly, from Mitch McConnell.

00:02:32.940 Obviously, a very emotional day for him.

00:02:36.240 Yeah, I'm sure it is.

00:02:37.480 I mean, he's been in this body almost half of his life.

00:02:40.840 Like I said, longer than I've been alive, he's been a United States senator.

00:02:44.580 We have seen it time and time again over the last several years, really, over the history of the Senate, how difficult it is for lawmakers to understand when it is time to step away from this chamber.

00:02:54.560 It's particularly hard for members in leadership.

00:02:56.360 Mitch McConnell probably hasn't driven a car in decades, all right?

00:03:00.060 I mean, these are people with security details.

00:03:01.880 They get flown around the country.

00:03:03.000 They are absolutely critical to the political infrastructure of the party they support and basically are treated as such every single day.

00:03:12.060 And to step back from that, even to become just a regular rank-and-file member of your own party again, is a big step.

00:03:18.340 As I mentioned earlier, he also recently suffered a loss in his family, which is the kind of thing that gets anybody thinking about their own mortality and about their own future.

00:03:26.800 And I want to just add something to the question that Michael raised rhetorically, the idea of what does a Mitch McConnell endorsement give Donald Trump?

00:03:34.860 It gives him a trophy.

00:03:36.140 It gives him proof of the complete dominance that he has over the Republican Party if he were able to essentially subjugate the last remaining elected leader anywhere who has opposed him,

00:03:47.760 who has been mocked by Trump, whose wife has been mocked by Trump in racist terms on social media for months, if not years.

00:03:56.020 I'm thinking about the dates going back in time here.

00:03:58.780 To have someone like McConnell, after all of that history, then turn around and endorse Donald Trump is kind of, to me, the one final signal, if anybody needs any more, that the Republican Party in 2024 is Donald Trump's.

00:04:11.600 He talked about the party and the body of the Senate that he came into in the mid-80s and the idea of kind of a Reaganite view of the world and of America that he has tried to uphold.

00:04:22.400 He talked a little bit about his view of the Senate.

00:04:24.600 This is a guy whose book is titled The Long Game.

00:04:27.060 He has been focused on the Senate and senatorial power.

00:04:30.440 When so many of his colleagues, past and present, came into this office, looked in the mirror, and saw themselves as president, not as a senator,

00:04:37.640 that was never a goal of his, and it showed in the way that he controlled this body, even from his current job as minority leader.

00:04:44.460 The Senate affords you that ability.

00:04:46.220 He did not talk about Donald Trump, although he did allude to the fact that he understands, as well as anyone, the politics within his own party.

00:04:52.860 Remember, as I said, they've not spoken since 2020.

00:04:56.400 McConnell was reported to have considered voting for a conviction of Donald Trump in the second impeachment trial, the one related to January 6th,

00:05:03.340 but ultimately voted to acquit and then blistered the former president on the floor.

00:05:08.280 Their relationship has never recovered.

00:05:10.120 And even as other senators, including his current number two, John Foon, who is equally perhaps Trump skeptical,

00:05:17.160 have come back into the fold and endorsed the former president as he seeks the office for a second time, which McConnell never has.

00:05:24.040 Now, he's engaged in conversations or his aides have engaged in conversations about that possibility.

00:05:28.360 But I think it's also entirely reasonable to assume that he, who understands the politics of the moment so well in this country,

00:05:36.200 looked around and saw a future Republican Party, perhaps in the majority again in Washington, perhaps not,

00:05:41.440 as not necessarily something he wanted to dive in with both feet as an 82-year-old, Chris.

00:05:46.200 Broke out a Capitol Hill, and that is one Mitch McConnell, who ended his tenure today as the longest serving Senate leader in history.

00:05:53.820 He'll be gone in a few months, but we're going to live with his legacy for a very long time.

00:05:59.520 So if there's anything that sums up McConnell's relationship with Donald Trump and that MAGA movement and how it defines our politics today,

00:06:06.480 it would be the moment he pinned the blame for the deadly insurrection on Donald Trump,

00:06:10.540 while in the same nanosecond voting to acquit him during that second impeachment trial.

00:06:14.660 When you, Melissa, see McConnell try to put some distance between himself and the MAGA movement,

00:06:21.700 which now is, you can't separate it from the Republican Party.

00:06:25.340 The MAGA movement is today's GOP. 0.55

00:06:28.700 It's so rich with irony for the reasons you're articulating.

00:06:32.060 I mean, the MAGA movement only gets as far as it gets in terms of stripping women of a right they've had for 50 years

00:06:38.980 because McConnell made sure that Trump's picks, who didn't come from any of Trump's long-held admiration for any of these three people.

00:06:47.920 I'm pretty sure he didn't know who any of them were.

00:06:51.140 It's all a piece.

00:06:52.580 So I find McConnell today separating himself from MAGA rich at best.

00:06:57.980 Well, there's this amazing clip on C-SPAN, and it's also in Don Porter's documentary about the Supreme Court deadlock,

00:07:03.660 that has Mitch McConnell in 1989, just after the Robert Bork failed confirmation hearing,

00:07:08.780 where McConnell says,

00:07:10.060 they didn't confirm my guy, I'm never going to confirm their people.

00:07:14.100 And it is that same sense of grievance and agreement that characterizes the MAGA movement.

00:07:20.040 Like, you guys have done this, and we're going to do this, we're going to be obstructed.

00:07:23.540 It's the politics of obstruction.

00:07:26.140 And Mitch McConnell is the key player in all of this.

00:07:29.200 He coined the term, he made it happen.

00:07:30.920 And although he may be distancing himself from the MAGA movement now, he was essentially its midwife.

00:07:39.180 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:07:44.060 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:07:49.300 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:07:53.560 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:07:55.480 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:07:56.900 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:07:59.520 It's going to happen.

00:08:00.920 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:08:04.280 MAGA media.

00:08:05.620 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:08:11.040 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:08:14.800 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:08:21.120 War Room.

00:08:22.020 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:08:23.980 Wednesday, 28th February, year of our Lord, 2024.

00:08:33.360 A historic day just got even more historic.

00:08:36.080 I want to read to you who had just come across the wire.

00:08:41.240 Breaking news, SCOTUS, to hear, that's the Supreme Court of these United States.

00:08:47.460 To hear Trump criminal immunity appeal in case stemming from his failed bid to cling to power in 2020.

00:08:55.180 This is one of these lefties putting this up on Twitter.

00:08:57.720 Wait for it.

00:08:59.360 To be argued in late April.

00:09:05.500 I cannot wait.

00:09:07.320 My team's going to monitor Ari at MSMC.

00:09:14.360 They'll be in full meltdown.

00:09:16.280 Katya, Neil Katya, Weissman imploding.

00:09:20.980 Because, folks, let me do some math for you here.

00:09:25.080 If they're going to argue it in late April, it won't get decided, minimum, I don't think, until they leave in June.

00:09:32.480 But let's say they get back in May.

00:09:33.720 You're not.

00:09:34.640 This means, I think, there's no way you have a distrial of J6 prior to the election.

00:09:43.120 You heard it here first.

00:09:46.020 There's going to be a lot of meltdown tonight.

00:09:47.760 A lot about the McConnell, Trump.

00:09:52.080 It's full Trump.

00:09:54.660 So, the immunity, the Jack Smith, the deranged Jack Smith on the immunity.

00:10:01.500 And remember, you don't even have the obstruction of government preceding that bogus charge.

00:10:06.720 That's going to be in the normal course of business with the court.

00:10:08.980 I don't think you're going to get back until June on that.

00:10:11.100 But all this means, the immunity, and I think this is in your grill, not to be argued until late April, at the Supreme Court.

00:10:20.720 It's election interference you try to jam this thing in.

00:10:23.540 Because what they say, oh, no, no, no, no.

00:10:25.500 You could still go.

00:10:26.320 If you double rush and double quick everything, you could start, you know, September 15th and get it done, get a jury back, you know, with a verdict on the day before the election, November 4th.

00:10:38.020 This is how insane they are.

00:10:40.400 This is how, the lawfare, you do understand, as Mike Davis said, and you had a huge part in this, by digging in hard and having President Trump's back, all the lawfare is cratering around us.

00:10:51.240 The 14th Amendment charge is cratering.

00:10:53.580 Fannie Willis is probably going to end up going to jail for perjury. 1.00

00:10:56.560 That's cratering.

00:10:57.680 Here, this is cratering.

00:10:59.940 This means the media circus that's going to, and now I've been bragging these guys are not ready at all to, that's circus time up there.

00:11:08.000 But, and this was so big, it jumped our, not celebration, commemoration of Mitch McConnell.

00:11:16.660 That very first clip you saw, I think was September 15th.

00:11:23.800 They took that, they recorded that like a week before, a couple days before.

00:11:28.020 That was 60 Minutes.

00:11:29.720 I gave an interview that I told them, hey, you can interview me as long as you want, you can, because I'd never given an interview.

00:11:36.280 You can talk to me as long as you want, but all of it has to go up.

00:11:40.280 You can edit it for 60 Minutes, obviously, but all of it has to go online.

00:11:44.480 And I think they put three nights in a row on Charlie Rose's show on Bloomberg.

00:11:50.380 All three hours of it went up.

00:11:52.020 That was from the interview where I said, hey, I'm going to war with Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.

00:12:02.180 And eventually we got them.

00:12:04.700 Today, MAGA got the trifecta.

00:12:08.860 McCarthy, McDaniel, and McConnell.

00:12:12.480 You got them.

00:12:13.300 This was 100% this audience.

00:12:15.820 You just saw all the analysis.

00:12:16.980 He doesn't want to tangle with MAGA anymore.

00:12:19.820 He understands that after Michigan last night, even though she's getting donors, she still has donors and they still want to force their way into the administration.

00:12:27.680 They still want to force their way in to try to tamp down what President Trump wants to do.

00:12:31.940 That on Super Tuesday, next week, it's all over.

00:12:38.700 Trump will win all the states, blow it away.

00:12:41.620 She'll just be, I mean, they're still going to try to hang around, but he, this is also this pressure that, about getting his endorsement.

00:12:48.640 We don't, I said, we don't need his endorsement.

00:12:50.100 It's irrelevant.

00:12:50.640 Go away, old man. 1.00

00:12:51.760 Don't need it.

00:12:53.000 Let's get out.

00:12:53.620 Scoot.

00:12:54.060 Get out of here.

00:12:54.980 You've done enough damage.

00:12:56.660 And that's what he had done.

00:12:58.580 Just, just unbelievable damage.

00:13:01.360 Right?

00:13:01.940 Unbelievable damage.

00:13:03.560 Damage to the Trump agenda.

00:13:04.840 The reason you don't have a wall, it's Paul Ryan, but Mitch McConnell was behind it.

00:13:09.440 The reason he didn't have all the policies on what Trump wanted to do on national security and NATO was Mitch McConnell.

00:13:17.040 We broke, he broke his pick a couple weeks ago.

00:13:20.640 They kept saying it was, it was the Ukraine fight.

00:13:23.140 It was the Ukraine fight.

00:13:26.300 Understanding that they just sit there and say they think they can deem it.

00:13:30.840 And if you deem it, it's going, it's going to happen.

00:13:34.700 This was the great, this is the great analysis of our own Ben Harnwell, that they're so upset is that Mitch McConnell, these guys, in the old days, they could just deem it.

00:13:42.820 Go on Fox, give you a couple of talking points, pat you on the head and say, okay, scoot.

00:13:48.040 We're going to do what we're going to do.

00:13:49.160 You can't do that anymore.

00:13:50.140 Everything's a fight.

00:13:52.220 Everything's a fight because you're in the game.

00:13:54.160 President Trump empowered you.

00:13:55.520 President Trump gave you a place at the table.

00:13:57.900 And you've taken it.

00:13:59.000 If you don't think you have power, just look at today.

00:14:02.380 Mitch McConnell stepped down because of you.

00:14:07.040 They couldn't fight.

00:14:07.700 At 82, he couldn't fight anymore.

00:14:09.740 Didn't have the energy.

00:14:10.640 To every day have to face this, that we're going to be up in his grill to defend this country.

00:14:18.360 This evil old man, and he is pure evil, this evil old man took months and months and months and months to put forward a fake, a totally fake and phony bill, supposedly to save our country, shut down this invasion.

00:14:34.960 That would only exacerbate and make it worse and then allow the media to use it as a bludgeon of us.

00:14:39.600 Oh, you had the best bill ever in history.

00:14:42.180 And we know it was totally fake, totally phony because they threw it away immediately.

00:14:47.620 When we saw through it and Rosemary Jenks and Rosemary Jenks get that leak, they immediately, they pivoted right to Ukraine. 0.82

00:14:56.300 Short break.

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00:16:18.700 The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election.

00:16:23.840 That's a brutal fact we have to face.

00:16:25.620 The Republican establishment.

00:16:26.480 The Republican establishment.

00:16:27.560 Wants to nullify the 2016 election.

00:16:30.000 Trying to nullify the 2016 election.

00:16:31.880 Absolutely.

00:16:32.800 Who?

00:16:34.080 I think Mitch McConnell, to a degree, Paul Ryan.

00:16:36.560 They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic, nationalist agenda to be implemented.

00:16:43.640 It's very obvious.

00:16:44.840 It's obvious as night follows day.

00:16:48.400 Give me a story that illustrates that.

00:16:50.480 Well, Mitch McConnell, when we first met him, he said, I think, in one of the first meetings in Trump Tower with the president, as we're wrapping up,

00:16:59.860 he basically says, I don't want to hear any more of this drain the swamp talk.

00:17:04.140 Flat out.

00:17:05.180 He goes, a guy up on Capitol Hill can't buy a Coke unless it's got to be reported.

00:17:09.620 He says, I can't hire any smart people because everybody's all over him for reporting requirements and the pay, et cetera, and the scrutiny.

00:17:17.360 You know, you've got to back off that.

00:17:18.520 The drain the swamp thing was Mitch McConnell was day one.

00:17:22.000 Did not want to go there.

00:17:23.540 Want us to back off.

00:17:24.340 You are attacking, on many fronts, people who you need to help you to get things done.

00:17:32.560 They're not going to help you unless they're put on notice.

00:17:34.760 They're going to be held accountable if they do not support the president of the United States.

00:17:38.300 Right now, there's no accountability.

00:17:40.240 They have totally, they do not support the president's program.

00:17:43.180 It's an open secret on Capitol Hill.

00:17:44.720 Everybody in this city knows it.

00:17:45.800 And so, therefore, now that you're out of the White House, you're going to war with him.

00:17:49.340 Absolutely.

00:17:49.740 So, if there's anything that sums up McConnell's relationship with Donald Trump and that MAGA movement and how it defines our politics today,

00:17:57.240 it would be the moment he pinned the blame for the deadly insurrection on Donald Trump while in the same nanosecond voting to acquit him during that second impeachment trial.

00:18:06.820 Former President Trump's actions preceded the riot for a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.

00:18:18.600 The House accused the former president of, quote, incitement.

00:18:25.600 That is a specific term from the criminal law.

00:18:30.880 Let me just put that aside for a moment and reiterate something I said weeks ago.

00:18:36.460 So, there's no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.

00:18:52.160 No question about it.

00:18:53.620 He says, but I've never understood your virulent hatred for Mitch McConnell until I saw Rosemary Jenks and saw Todd Benzman and saw what was in this bill.

00:19:05.440 He clearly hates the MAGA philosophy, the America First philosophy.

00:19:10.840 And anybody associated with it, any of the running dogs and messengers of Mitch McConnell are enemies of President Trump, enemies of the MAGA movement, enemies of America First, enemies of the war room posse.

00:19:26.180 I'm not saying kind of against, but they're enemies.

00:19:29.620 They don't believe what you believe.

00:19:31.560 They do not support what you support.

00:19:33.320 And they do everything 24-7.

00:19:35.480 I see it up here in this cesspool on Capitol Hill all the time.

00:19:39.620 Behind the scenes, always knifing President Trump.

00:19:42.200 And that's why President Trump had to come in and bigfoot it the other day about, hey, this thing's not happening.

00:19:46.580 And Mitch McConnell's finally been broken.

00:19:48.000 Okay, CBS is from six and a half years ago.

00:19:54.740 Is that correct?

00:19:55.300 Six and a half years ago?

00:19:57.300 We finally got him because we're relentless.

00:19:59.860 We're never going to give up.

00:20:02.240 Got Mike Davis on deck.

00:20:03.680 Matt Gaetz is going to join us.

00:20:05.220 Massive day.

00:20:06.180 Also, guess what?

00:20:08.220 Johnson just cut a deal.

00:20:09.760 Is my guy up?

00:20:11.220 Okay.

00:20:12.840 Let me, I got Mike Davis.

00:20:15.120 I'm going to get to him in a second on McConnell.

00:20:17.340 Let me go to Matt Gaetz.

00:20:19.420 Matt, I want to talk about McConnell, but just came across the wire that Johnson has agreed to a short-term CR in order to agree to funding bills that do not shut down the border and don't really have any policy wins.

00:20:31.980 I know I must be reading this incorrectly, sir, correct?

00:20:34.880 No, I have said frequently that I believe that we're now going to have a series of minibuses that don't meet our needs on the border, that don't achieve any meaningful policy wins for conservatives, but that allow members of the Appropriations Committee to still tuck away the non-defense discretionary spending that they want.

00:20:55.160 It gives the folks who want to see bigger budgets at the Pentagon, I think, all the elasticity that they're seeking, and that'll be the coalition.

00:21:03.680 It'll be a coalition that includes more Democrats than members of the Freedom Caucus or Freedom Caucus-aligned members.

00:21:09.660 Does Mike Johnson just think we're bluffing?

00:21:13.720 Is he just not – or he doesn't care?

00:21:16.320 He says he cares about the border.

00:21:18.200 He cares about security.

00:21:19.200 He makes commitments about the border.

00:21:21.020 So here we are now in another situation.

00:21:23.140 He's going to give the swamp.

00:21:24.640 He's going to give the cartel everything and not use the leverage he has to force a shutdown of this government to get meaningful action, executive orders from Biden that even Biden admits he has, sir?

00:21:35.200 I believe that with the right vision and the right leadership, even this House Republican majority would be willing to fight on the border.

00:21:44.640 Maybe not fight on all the things that I want to fight on, right, on Jack Smith and Planned Parenthood and getting all of the woke and weaponized features out of our government.

00:21:53.520 You know, maybe they wouldn't go there.

00:21:54.900 But I think from our most liberal member to our most conservative member, there is unity of purpose on the border.

00:21:59.960 And I think any deal that does not achieve wins there, that does not force Biden's hand there is one that really leaves a lot to be desired.

00:22:09.200 I don't know that it's Mike Johnson thinking that you're bluffing so much as it's a path of least resistance for a lot of the members in our conference who don't want to face down the evil that is this Biden administration.

00:22:23.260 Look, if this is a game of chicken, like we're veering off the road before the other side even gets their engine fired up.

00:22:30.700 You've got to be willing at this stage of the game to get done what we have to get done.

00:22:34.700 There's going to be some pain.

00:22:36.240 We're going to have to be willing to endure political pain as members of Congress.

00:22:39.940 Now, we don't want that pain to be felt by our constituents, but look at the path we're on right now.

00:22:44.260 We're going to be a country 50 trillion in debt.

00:22:47.080 And I'm going to come back and mark this segment with you, Steve, when I said it, because there's no plan to curtail this out-of-control spending, and we just keep kicking the can down the road.

00:22:55.720 Now, I'm not read into the details of this particular agreement because I've spent the last eight hours behind closed doors asking questions to Hunter Biden.

00:23:03.860 And so I'll have to meet with the speaker and see if he sees this in a more favorable light than I do.

00:23:10.500 Hang on, we're going to get to that, and Jack Smith, the Supreme Court rule, all that here in a moment.

00:23:14.780 I've got to go back to this, but, brother, we were promised.

00:23:17.860 Remember, they told us at first, and you told me, hey, Steve, they're not going to be cutting a nickel out of this thing.

00:23:21.280 It's just the way the town works.

00:23:22.860 But he said they are going to get some policy wins, and votes said the same thing.

00:23:26.900 There's not one penny cut.

00:23:28.360 There's no policy wins at all, right?

00:23:31.400 And they didn't.

00:23:32.020 He sat there and said, we've got to shut down the – well, I mean, they're on the margin.

00:23:36.680 There'll be some goofy – there'll be some shiny toys there.

00:23:39.140 I'm talking about real policy wins.

00:23:41.520 With an open border, how can you count anything else as a policy win, right?

00:23:46.280 Like, well, we're going to claim that we put a work requirement on some entitlement program when you just let 10 million people into the country illegally and you're blowing out the eligibility for all these things. 0.88

00:23:56.000 You're going to tell me that while we are spending billions of dollars on illegal aliens and people who live in Yuma, Arizona right now can't get their own babies into the neonatal intensive care unit because they're full up with illegals, you're telling me that, like, we're supposed to sell regulatory reform to those folks? 1.00

00:24:14.940 It's nonsense.

00:24:16.380 This border is central to how America is thinking right now about our country.

00:24:20.700 And I think that we ought to take the majority out for a spin.

00:24:24.140 Otherwise, we risk creating a class of voter that does not exist now.

00:24:28.680 Right now, Trump voters, you know what they do?

00:24:31.220 They go all the way down the ballot and they vote Republican.

00:24:33.420 And that drug a lot of people over the finish line in 2016 and 2020 who are probably undeserving.

00:24:40.140 Let's not go and create a new class of Trump voter that votes for Trump and then just puts their ballot in because we haven't given them enough of a reason to believe in us and what we're doing to fight their battles and win a few along the way.

00:24:55.380 This is what I understand about the border.

00:24:57.160 The polling is coming out again today.

00:24:58.720 Eric Adams is unwinding the sanctuary city in New York because everybody understands that this is the number one issue in the country.

00:25:07.400 How can Johnson look at you guys after making all these commitments that if the border was not shut down, nothing would go forward?

00:25:14.480 That's just a bald-faced lie.

00:25:15.980 It's a bald-faced lie, sir.

00:25:17.460 Well, right now he is maintaining that position vis-a-vis the supplemental.

00:25:20.980 And I sincerely hope that holds, right?

00:25:23.760 We should not be sending money to Ukraine or any other country for that matter while we have not dealt with our border.

00:25:28.500 But I am where you are.

00:25:30.140 I think that we should not be funding this government if it is not at least willing to meet the basic need of securing the U.S.-Mexico border.

00:25:38.100 And it's not like this requires some exquisite or novel solution set.

00:25:42.620 It's the reinstitution of the Trump policies that Joe Biden got rid of on his first day in the White House.

00:25:47.920 And now all Americans are paying the price for it.

00:25:50.600 And so the pitch that some leaders have made to me is, well, Matt, you know, OK, we serve up our border demands.

00:25:58.200 We go into a shutdown.

00:25:59.740 Then all of a sudden we get a bunch of weak-kneed Republicans that are hand-wringing and bed-wetting that are willing to do anything to get out of the shutdown.

00:26:07.160 That then flips the leverage substantially to Hakeem Jeffries.

00:26:11.380 He then gets to name his price.

00:26:13.040 Now you're not just looking at some minibuses, which is better than an omnibus marginally.

00:26:17.640 You're looking at a situation where it's Ukraine, Israel, unpaid for, an expansion of the Green New Deal tax credits.

00:26:25.140 And you'll have Republicans clawing each other's eyes out to make that deal to get out of a shutdown. 0.69

00:26:30.280 Not Mike Johnson Republicans, not Matt Gaetz Republicans, but a few of the ones who like to take shots at us.

00:26:37.660 Can we hold you through the break?

00:26:39.900 Otherwise, I'll let you wrap up.

00:26:41.040 I've got to tell you about the last eight hours I've spent with Hunter Biden.

00:26:44.200 You're going to talk budget with me and no Biden?

00:26:47.760 No, no, I'm going to get to Biden right now.

00:26:49.360 I just want to make sure I've got time to get to you.

00:26:51.740 Tell me about Hunter.

00:26:53.520 They're just saying, hey, they were just dealing with Chinese companies.

00:26:56.380 What's your beef?

00:26:57.020 So I can distill the full eight hours of Hunter's testimony like this.

00:27:03.020 Hunter says, if I was getting paid, that's because I am a highly skilled lawyer.

00:27:09.500 I'm an experienced international businessman.

00:27:12.280 I was worthy of every dollar for the sound advice.

00:27:16.220 And if instead of getting paid, he was demanding payment, which always had a certain kind of

00:27:21.460 shakedown, pay me a bribe energy to it. 0.99

00:27:23.900 Then he was just a drug addled fool and he's very embarrassed for that and he's very sorry 0.99

00:27:28.480 and he's on his road to recovery. 0.97

00:27:30.500 And he wants all of us to be in his corner as he fights the daily anxiety of the tough

00:27:37.320 questions that people like Matt Gaetz have for him.

00:27:40.760 So, I mean, it's quite something, right?

00:27:44.060 I mean, it's quite something.

00:27:44.820 We're like, hey, you're trying to shake down this Chinese businessman. 1.00

00:27:47.300 I was totally on drugs.

00:27:48.720 Well, hey, you're getting this money from this Ukrainian oil company.

00:27:51.080 That's because I was totally qualified and deserving.

00:27:55.820 Short commercial break.

00:27:57.020 Congressman Gaetz on the other side.

00:27:58.480 Mike Davis is with us.

00:28:00.260 We've got the Supreme Court.

00:28:01.820 We have Mitch McConnell.

00:28:03.500 And of course, where's Hunter?

00:28:05.360 Short commercial break.

00:28:06.260 Back in the warm in just a moment.

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00:30:26.620 I want to bring back Matt Gaetz.

00:30:28.120 So, Congressman Gaetz, your assessment of going through and, you know, you know how to really

00:30:36.660 lay the wood to people on this.

00:30:38.960 We know you were tough, tough but fair.

00:30:41.340 What is your assessment coming out of this sworn behind the closed doors deposition day?

00:30:47.600 My assessment is that Hunter Biden was essentially managing a money laundering operation from

00:30:53.600 foreign entities into the Biden family.

00:30:56.360 And they had this veneer of a business.

00:30:59.000 But if you pull back about a layer or two of the onion, there's no actual business.

00:31:03.260 It's just the movement of money to facilitate influence.

00:31:06.340 And when that's done, you know, with Joe Biden creating government deliverables for the Chinese

00:31:13.760 and the Ukrainians in particular, it starts to paint a really dark picture of what's going 0.99

00:31:18.160 on there.

00:31:18.880 That said, what this is really going to come down to-

00:31:22.100 Hang on.

00:31:22.380 Hold, hold, hold it.

00:31:23.380 Hang on one second.

00:31:24.440 I want to play this clip.

00:31:25.220 Let's play the clip of Matt Gaetz walking through the Capitol coming to the sticks.

00:31:28.060 I believe that you can actually bribe someone by paying their family members.

00:31:34.360 Like, I don't get this construct that unless Joe Biden himself received cash, that he somehow

00:31:39.980 wasn't involved in the bribery operation.

00:31:42.180 Joe Biden was doing the bidding of Burisma.

00:31:45.400 He was doing the bidding of Chinese communists. 0.95

00:31:47.740 And his family was getting enriched as a consequence.

00:31:50.200 To me, that's a pretty strong case for bribery.

00:31:52.060 So if you read between the lines there, you know, for a long time, Republicans have tried

00:31:57.360 to convince us that Joe Biden himself was being personally enriched by his son's business

00:32:02.540 dealings and his brother's business dealings.

00:32:04.500 The scan amount of evidence that they provided, there has been explanations for $200,000 check

00:32:09.520 that Biden's associates say was just part of an interest-free loan that he eventually paid

00:32:13.640 back.

00:32:14.400 So the idea now that, well, if he's around other people being enriched, that that indicates

00:32:20.720 a bribery scam, well, that would be very difficult to prove in a court of law, Katie.

00:32:25.220 And I do get the sense that there are moderate Republicans who also believe that it doesn't

00:32:29.520 rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, which would warn.

00:32:34.400 OK, OK.

00:32:35.180 That's actually a good analysis, Steve.

00:32:36.200 Congressman Gates.

00:32:37.820 That is Jake Sherman.

00:32:38.660 Let me get into that.

00:32:39.320 Hang on.

00:32:39.780 But hang on.

00:32:41.800 You just said money laundering operation, everything.

00:32:45.100 Baby, I think we can win this.

00:32:46.600 Not just impeach you, but I think you can win the trial in the Senate, sir.

00:32:49.080 It will never get that far, because here's what Ryan Nobles is right about in that report

00:32:54.860 that he gives.

00:32:55.840 For dozens of moderate Republicans, they will only vote to impeach if they see money going

00:33:02.000 directly to Joe, enriching Joe.

00:33:04.760 Now, I believe that a bribe can exist in the absence of a direct payment to a person, but

00:33:11.700 instead to a family member.

00:33:13.100 And that's not something I've pulled out of thin air.

00:33:14.800 If you look at the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, there's literally sections of federal

00:33:19.200 law that deal with the illegality of paying people's family members in order to influence

00:33:25.000 them in foreign positions of government, right?

00:33:27.560 So take, for example, you, Steve.

00:33:29.400 If I wanted to bribe you, you're a 70-year-old man.

00:33:32.240 You have probably as much cash as you need.

00:33:34.480 And so I would go and buy Maureen a new house, a new car, jewelry.

00:33:38.940 I'd give her a fake no-show job. 1.00

00:33:41.700 And if someone did something to enrich your daughter, who you're connected to and love

00:33:45.440 deeply, then they could probably have a greater opportunity to influence you than if they just

00:33:51.680 paid you the cash directly.

00:33:53.680 And so that is how the law is shaped in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

00:33:58.720 And it's how I certainly see the Biden money laundering operation.

00:34:03.040 But I'm glad you played that clip for your audience, because they should know that Nobles 0.97

00:34:07.600 is right.

00:34:07.980 There are dozens of Republicans who will not vote to impeach based on the evidence we currently

00:34:13.040 have.

00:34:13.780 I would, because I still think it's a bribe.

00:34:15.880 But if you believe that some successful impeachment is emerging out of the House and then resulting

00:34:21.320 in a trial in the Senate, then maybe you and Hunter Biden were in the same peyote den.

00:34:28.560 So you're saying right now, even with your correct interpretation of the Foreign Corrupt 1.00

00:34:34.120 Practices Act, you think enough people say a way to slip through their.

00:34:37.980 Say, let's just let this die and let the American people figure it out in November.

00:34:41.660 Is that that your point?

00:34:42.820 We're not going to really have an impeachment?

00:34:43.760 And I draw from the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as persuasive authority. 0.57

00:34:48.140 That, of course, is dealing with US citizens who are bribing people abroad.

00:34:52.100 But if it's the law that you can't pay someone's kid in order to influence them in a foreign

00:34:59.120 government, certainly the contrapositive would apply in our thinking about impeachment, which

00:35:04.640 isn't a criminal trial, right?

00:35:06.340 Which is an assessment as to whether or not someone's been compromised through a bribe or

00:35:10.140 other high crime or misdemeanor.

00:35:11.580 So I believe that threshold's met based on the evidence I saw today, based on the enrichment

00:35:15.540 to James Biden, Hunter Biden, Haley Biden, the whole crew.

00:35:19.780 And I think that Joe Biden is very unlikely to be impeached by the House of Representatives

00:35:26.080 based on these bribes, based on the evidence we currently have.

00:35:29.200 I know you've got to bounce.

00:35:31.760 A couple other quick things you saw with the SCOTUS.

00:35:34.080 The Supreme Court just said they're going to hear the immunity debate late April.

00:35:40.940 Your assessment of that as far as them getting a trial before November 5th?

00:35:46.080 So that's good news for President Trump.

00:35:48.020 Certainly not dispositive.

00:35:49.160 Had the Supreme Court not granted cert, then there would have been no further claim of presidential

00:35:53.300 immunity to resolve.

00:35:54.420 And you'd have had Jack Smith continuing to put our political system through a legal meat 0.70

00:35:58.660 grinder.

00:35:59.500 Now the court's going to hear argument on that.

00:36:02.940 And I don't know if they're going to—my belief is that there's going to be a pretty

00:36:06.880 extensive written opinion because it's a novel question before the court.

00:36:10.900 They're not going to affirm procurium, I don't believe.

00:36:13.540 And so the fact that they've taken up the case actually is a good sign.

00:36:18.880 But we'll see how it impacts the timing.

00:36:20.760 I still think they're going to try to get a ruling out of the court and to get in some

00:36:24.780 sort of evidentiary phase of the trial before the election.

00:36:28.080 That's the whole goal.

00:36:29.100 That's why they're doing this.

00:36:32.360 Exactly.

00:36:32.980 Mitch McConnell today stepping down.

00:36:35.260 Your thoughts?

00:36:36.460 We got the hat trick.

00:36:38.520 McCarthy, McDaniel, McConnell.

00:36:41.860 I told you at CPAC, Steve, I'm the road grader, baby.

00:36:45.140 We got to go and ensure that the obstructions are moved out of the way for the America First

00:36:53.440 movement to get on track and to start achieving our goals for the people who trust us and believe

00:36:58.200 in us.

00:36:58.700 So I think, yeah, hitting the McPhailer hat trick, quite a day on Capitol Hill.

00:37:02.940 I'm excited about it.

00:37:05.720 Congressman, where do people get the podcast, all your writings, your social media, all of

00:37:09.520 it?

00:37:10.720 My podcast is Firebrand.

00:37:12.420 It's available anywhere you listen.

00:37:14.460 Most folks listen on Apple or through our Rumble channel, which is pretty spectacular.

00:37:19.380 That's at rep Matt Gaetz.

00:37:20.920 And you can find me on X at Matt Gaetz.

00:37:25.980 Congressman, thank you very much for joining us.

00:37:27.660 Appreciate it.

00:37:28.720 Thank you, Steve.

00:37:31.200 Mike Davis joins us by phone.

00:37:33.580 Mike, first off, Mike, I got you to talk about Mitch McConnell, the judges, but I got to ask

00:37:38.520 you first, tell me about your thoughts about this Jack Smith.

00:37:42.420 Late April.

00:37:44.180 Is Congressman Gaetz right?

00:37:46.080 You think to still be able to fit this in before the election?

00:37:49.360 I think that's the goal of Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department, but it's going

00:37:54.360 to be very tight.

00:37:55.340 It's going to be very hard for them to do it.

00:37:57.920 And they're going to violate Justice Department regulations about not having a political trial

00:38:03.160 before a presidential election or any election.

00:38:06.540 So what the Supreme Court did today was I decided to hear this case on whether a president of

00:38:13.220 the United States is immune from criminal prosecutions, prosecution for his official

00:38:19.860 acts.

00:38:21.180 Federal judges are immune both civilly and criminally for their official acts.

00:38:26.080 Members of Congress are immune both civilly and criminally for their official acts.

00:38:31.820 The president right now is only immune civilly because there has never been an indictment

00:38:38.160 of a former president before.

00:38:39.940 And so the Supreme Court correctly took this case.

00:38:43.640 And I think that they're going to have to establish that the president, any president of the United

00:38:48.600 States, is immune from criminal prosecution for his official acts.

00:38:52.960 Otherwise, we're going to destroy the presidency.

00:38:54.780 Otherwise, when Trump is back in office, the Trump 47 Justice Department could indict President

00:39:00.240 Obama for capital murder for the ordering the drone strike on two American citizens.

00:39:04.840 And then how big is it?

00:39:07.760 How big a deal is that they're even taking it up and how big a deal is it's not going to

00:39:11.160 be argued until late April?

00:39:13.280 If it's not argued till late April, we're not going to get a ruling on this until what,

00:39:17.200 May or June?

00:39:19.120 Yeah, I mean, I think it's good that they took this case.

00:39:21.960 Remember, Jack Smith back in December filed an extraordinary petition asking the Supreme

00:39:27.360 Court to take this case before the D.C.

00:39:30.240 Circuit ruled because the Jack Smith said that only the Supreme Court could decide this case

00:39:34.600 because he wanted to rush and get a decision.

00:39:37.340 The Supreme Court said no.

00:39:38.920 They sent it back to the D.C.

00:39:40.240 Circuit, the appellate court.

00:39:42.140 And now it's back at the Supreme Court.

00:39:43.840 And then Jack Smith said, oh, no, we don't want the Supreme Court to rule because the D.C.

00:39:47.040 Circuit voted in his favor.

00:39:49.280 So it's good that they took this case.

00:39:51.700 They had to take this case.

00:39:52.800 This is so important.

00:39:54.300 This is so much bigger than Donald Trump.

00:39:57.780 I would say this.

00:39:58.820 I'm actually a little bit concerned that the Supreme Court seems to be playing into the

00:40:03.400 politics by expediting this case.

00:40:06.860 There's no reason for the Supreme Court to expedite this case.

00:40:10.200 They should have just granted Trump's request to stay, allow Trump to go through the normal

00:40:16.160 appellate process, the en bloc process with the D.C.

00:40:19.680 Circuit.

00:40:20.060 This is a novel question that has great impact on the presidency.

00:40:25.460 Every president going forward will be affected by this decision.

00:40:29.620 It hasn't been decided yet because, again, this is the first time that we've had a former

00:40:33.900 president indicted with these four bogus indictments by the Democrats against Trump.

00:40:38.340 So the Supreme Court, I think, have politicized this by expediting this.

00:40:44.000 But the Supreme Court likely will not decide this case until sometime in June, maybe late

00:40:52.440 May, but probably June.

00:40:55.500 It's going to be such a monumental case.

00:40:57.620 There are going to be probably there's probably going to be a majority opinion at the sense in

00:41:02.320 concurring opinion, so I don't see how this can get resolved before the end of June, like

00:41:07.420 the rest of these monumental cases each term.

00:41:10.480 And so that means that this case has stayed in the D.C.

00:41:14.340 District Court with D.C.

00:41:15.380 Obama Judge Tanya Shutkin.

00:41:17.220 Everything stayed.

00:41:18.140 Discovery stayed.

00:41:19.100 Everything stayed.

00:41:20.280 It would take at least three months, two or three months after this decision in June.

00:41:26.320 So we're talking August or September at the absolute earliest that they could start this

00:41:32.400 trial.

00:41:33.120 How do you start a trial right before the presidential election?

00:41:38.500 Why could why would you not wait until after the presidential election?

00:41:42.520 It's not relevant to the election, whether he's convicted or not convicted.

00:41:46.440 He could be convicted and still be president.

00:41:48.200 This is purely election interference by the Biden by the Biden White House, by the Biden

00:41:54.220 Justice Department and Jack Smith.

00:41:56.280 And what the Supreme Court should have done was just follow up the normal appellate process.

00:42:00.820 I'm glad they took this case.

00:42:02.240 They should take this case.

00:42:03.400 Jackson Smith said they should take this case back in December.

00:42:07.220 The fact that they expedited this case shows that they're being weak and they're they're

00:42:12.020 being political.

00:42:14.860 Mike, can you hang on through the break?

00:42:16.440 Because I want to ask you, I got Fonnie Willis, I got I got McConnell, some other things.

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00:45:02.960 Use your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:45:05.360 I wanted to spend the entire hour on Mitch McConnell, but because of all the breaking news and analysis, everything is happening.

00:45:14.400 Mike Davis, real quickly, Fannie Willis, what you saw yesterday, and then Mike Roman's lawyer tomorrow with the cell phone data,

00:45:21.420 your current assessment of that front of the lawfare situation?

00:45:26.420 Fannie Willis is toast down in Georgia.

00:45:31.000 Her case is toast.

00:45:32.600 She's going to get disqualified from this case. 1.00

00:45:34.760 Nathan Wade is going to get disqualified from this case.

00:45:38.000 Her office, the Fulton County VA's office, is going to get disqualified from this case. 0.83

00:45:42.000 I think the only thing that needs to be decided is whether this judge dismisses the case without prejudice and allows a new prosecutor to decide whether to refile the case.

00:45:55.380 And maybe this new prosecutor will see this dog of a case and realize it's a bogus case and not refile and it goes away.

00:46:01.760 Or if a new prosecutor comes in to the case and then that prosecutor decides to move forward with the case or to dismiss the case.

00:46:11.520 Regardless, I think that this case is done both politically and legally.

00:46:18.680 Talk to me about Mitch McConnell.

00:46:20.980 I know you and people should understand Davis was there.

00:46:24.720 I was there and Davis there, but Davis was in the trenches the entire time driving forward these confirmations.

00:46:30.120 Give me your Mike Davis tough but fair assessment of Mitch McConnell in this situation with the judges that will have impact for decades to come, not just at the Supreme Court, sir.

00:46:41.420 I worked very closely with then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when I was the chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee for then Chairman Chuck Grassley.

00:46:52.640 And McConnell and McConnell and Grassley were the tips of the spear to confirm a record number of President Trump's judges.

00:47:02.380 And they did this masterfully.

00:47:05.360 And McConnell in particular was masterful in how he kept together the Senate Republican conference.

00:47:13.480 They got very, very wobbly.

00:47:15.400 Even a lot of these senators who are on TV pretending like they're warriors, they weren't warriors behind the scenes.

00:47:22.840 And it was McConnell and Grassley who really kept them together.

00:47:26.400 Because if we would have lost that confirmation with Kavanaugh, we would have lost the Senate.

00:47:32.000 Trump would have lost re-election.

00:47:33.900 We would have lost the Supreme Court.

00:47:35.640 We would have lost the country.

00:47:37.000 It was that big.

00:47:38.040 And McConnell kept that together.

00:47:40.600 And then we not only did he keep it together, we picked up two Republican Senate seats to make it easier in the last two years of President Trump's first term to finish the job of the transformation, getting Barrett in and a record number of lower court judges.

00:47:57.120 We went from a five to four left of center court to a five to four Clarence Thomas court.

00:48:03.160 And you can say what you want about Mitch McConnell on a lot of other things, including Ukraine and including the border.

00:48:08.500 And I'm not with him on those issues, believe me.

00:48:11.140 He was very good on judges.

00:48:13.580 That's his most important legacy of his career.

00:48:17.360 And it's the most consequential accomplishment of President Trump's first term.

00:48:22.300 Mike Davis, where do they go to get all your content?

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00:48:41.140 And I'm heading to an Article3project fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida.

00:48:45.100 So I'm going to jump off here soon.

00:48:48.360 Go.

00:48:49.000 Okay, sir.

00:48:49.640 Good luck.

00:48:50.780 Want everybody in Jacksonville to go.

00:48:52.060 And they have the new action center over at Article3 that you can weaponize yourself on this and just go there.

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00:49:26.300 Rickards will be back on the show next week sometime.

00:49:28.780 He came at CPAC and hung out with us and did a live interview.

00:49:31.600 It was fantastic.

00:49:32.220 Mike Lindell, are you in Georgia?

00:49:34.900 Are you down there for the Fonnie Willis hearing?

00:49:36.760 Are you hanging around and going to hang with Mike Roman on Friday?

00:49:39.780 Are you there kicking up dust and causing trouble somewhere else, sir?

00:49:42.920 Yeah, I'm in Shmirna, Georgia, in Cobb County.

00:49:47.180 I'm at Adventure Outdoors here.

00:49:49.420 We're having a big GOP meeting here for Cobb County.

00:49:53.700 And the guy was very gracious enough to use the other side of the building here.

00:49:57.880 We have hundreds of people waiting in there.

00:49:59.360 I'm about ready to go in and do a speech.

00:50:01.200 And we're overlooking their great store.

00:50:03.880 But I'll tell you, Steve, I feel down here we're going to be talking about, remember,

00:50:07.580 we're trying to get every county in the country to pay for ballots, hand counted.

00:50:11.380 By the way, we're up to over 250 now.

00:50:13.880 We have a big crowd here for Cobb County, Georgia.

00:50:16.920 And I want to tell the War Room Posse, you guys make this possible.

00:50:21.460 This morning, I was in the factory.

00:50:23.880 You guys are taking advantage of all of our specials so I can be out here running around

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00:50:30.360 And I know my employee-owned company is being taken care of by the War Room Posse.

00:50:35.420 There's the specials we have, you guys.

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00:51:15.120 Everybody here, Steve, they're talking about the War Room Posse and your show in the other room.

00:51:19.800 I told them I had to go out and do this show, and everybody was giving a big fan.

00:51:23.580 Well, is there any way people can still get there, or is this a smaller gathering?

00:51:30.640 Is there any way people can get down to Cobb County right now?

00:51:33.200 It's going to go on for about three hours, and it's at the Adventure Outdoors in Schmirna, Georgia.

00:51:39.020 Everybody, if you're down here, get here.

00:51:41.280 I'd love to meet you all.

00:51:42.560 I'm going to stay here all night to have a chance to talk to each and every person before and after my speech.

00:51:47.940 So come on down. 0.96

00:51:50.280 Okay.

00:51:51.260 Schmirna, Georgia.

00:51:52.100 Okay, we'll have Grace and Mo grab that and put it up there. 1.00

00:51:55.180 Mike, thank you so much.

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00:51:59.100 Let's keep the factory floor fully engaged because Mike is going around a million miles an hour to local situations like this down in Cobb County.

00:52:07.440 A lot happening in Georgia.

00:52:08.960 Would you not agree?

00:52:10.320 The second hour is going to be on fire.

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Bannon's War Room - February 28, 2024

Episode 3426： Victory For MAGA： McConnell Memorial

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