Bannon's War Room - April 17, 2024


Episode 3545: Johnson Caves To Democrats


Episode Stats

Length

56 minutes

Words per Minute

177.40797

Word Count

9,975

Sentence Count

629

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

On today's show, we have a special guest on The War Room, Manu Rajan Bharti, who joins us to talk about the House of Representatives and the ongoing drama surrounding Speaker Mike Johnson's leadership of the House. We also hear from CNN's Manu Pinnamaneni, who explains why it's time for the House to impeach Speaker Johnson and why he should be removed from office. Finally, we hear from NPR's Peter Bergen, who is in Ukraine and talks about his experience there.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I proposed different paths for the speaker that would have avoided the abject surrender represented by his strategic choice here.
00:00:08.640 There's no other way to describe it. It's surrender. It's disappointing. I won't support it.
00:00:13.460 It's disappointing. It's completely detached from what our base wants, what our voters want.
00:00:19.440 The strategy is not to try. I think the strategy is to fall on a sword.
00:00:24.720 So when I asked Congressman Chip Roy about whether or not it was time for him to oust Mike Johnson from the speakership,
00:00:34.180 he said that he went right up to the line, Dana, and didn't go across that line,
00:00:39.820 perhaps because he needs to talk with the speaker, which is happening right now.
00:00:43.700 Now, the question is, will the numbers add up to oust him from the speakership?
00:00:47.360 Because Democrats, as you mentioned, could step in to save him because of what he's doing here on Ukraine.
00:00:53.920 So this is a different situation than the fall when McCarthy was ousted from the speakership.
00:00:58.500 But no doubt about it, Mike Johnson opening up a revolt on the far right with his conference, with his move here.
00:01:04.820 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we just saw it just right there, what you played for us.
00:01:08.600 Manu, thanks so much. Always great to have you on.
00:01:11.480 OK, we'll watch that. We see Senator Schumer at the podium right now, still silence in the room.
00:01:16.720 Patty Murray is being handed some documents.
00:01:19.100 A moment ago, you saw a bald gentleman go back and forth in the well.
00:01:24.120 I don't believe it's not this guy. Maybe it is.
00:01:26.940 That is the secretary for the majority, Gary Myrick, talking to the majority leader.
00:01:31.600 Let me listen to, let us listen to Patty Murray.
00:01:34.080 The point of order is well taken and the article false.
00:01:36.960 Madam President.
00:01:38.200 Majority leader is recognized.
00:01:39.560 I raise a point of order that impeachment article two does not allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor as required under article two, section four of the United States Constitution and is therefore unconstitutional.
00:01:56.540 Madam President.
00:01:57.220 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:02:05.880 Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.
00:02:11.100 I got a free shot.
00:02:12.360 All these networks lying about the people.
00:02:15.360 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:02:17.360 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:02:18.780 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:02:21.400 It's going to happen.
00:02:22.680 And where do people like that go to share the big line?
00:02:25.360 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:02:32.860 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:02:36.600 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:02:42.960 War Room.
00:02:43.800 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:02:52.520 Welcome to the War Room.
00:02:53.660 It's Natalie G. Winter's hosting, filling in for Stephen K. Bannon today, Wednesday, April 17th.
00:02:59.840 In the year of our Lord, 2024, in the words of CNN, House in Revolt.
00:03:05.560 If only, if only we could actually have a revolution and overthrow Speaker Johnson.
00:03:10.920 I don't know.
00:03:11.300 Sign me up.
00:03:12.020 Sign Steve up.
00:03:12.720 Sign the War Room Posse up for that.
00:03:14.580 The best we can get is just, what is it, another $100 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific.
00:03:19.660 And, oh, by the way, just to make sure, in case you didn't think your elites, your so-called betters hate you,
00:03:25.980 they made sure to throw in $300 million for border patrol in Ukraine, not in the United States.
00:03:33.820 I think that's just to rub salt in the wound, to stick it to you, to stick it to the families, people like Lake and Riley,
00:03:40.280 and all of these Americans who have been killed at the hands of illegal aliens.
00:03:44.000 Frankly, when Chuck Schumer stands up there and says he doesn't think it's a high crime and misdemeanor what Mayorkas has done at the southern border,
00:03:51.600 I think that right there is the quiet part out loud.
00:03:54.380 They don't think he's done anything wrong because they don't believe in the sovereignty of this country,
00:03:58.360 and frankly, they don't believe in borders or walls.
00:04:00.280 They don't even think walls work.
00:04:01.460 So it's no wonder why they don't want to have a trial in the Senate.
00:04:04.180 They also probably don't want to have all the millions of taxpayer dollars,
00:04:07.220 hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that have been flowing to NGOs, shady government organizations,
00:04:11.860 probably the Mexican government, and probably the cartels in the Chinese Communist Party
00:04:15.360 that are helping this wide-open southern border have a massive invasion and influx,
00:04:19.740 not just of military fighting-age men, but fentanyl, too, while you're at it, right?
00:04:24.320 Well, I believe we have Kurt Mills to join us to break this all down.
00:04:28.780 I know we had had you scheduled, and as the hours got closer and closer to the show,
00:04:32.640 there just became more and more things that we had to cover, of course,
00:04:36.440 the, I think, latest or biggest news that we have since this morning's show.
00:04:40.380 So we've got a new aid package.
00:04:42.220 Speaker Johnson is really doubling down on it.
00:04:44.600 Of course, this has caused a bit of a rift.
00:04:46.980 In the conference, if you want to sort of walk us through just the asinine nature
00:04:50.940 of this new $100 billion, like I said in the beginning,
00:04:54.820 for Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, that's how they're couching it.
00:04:59.520 Look, at court, this is the most important function of the federal government.
00:05:04.040 This is something that the U.S. government can do.
00:05:06.440 As a military, it can wield it or it can choose not to wield it.
00:05:09.560 And from my perspective as editor of a conservative magazine,
00:05:13.800 our position has been it's just really no point in having a conservative speaker of the House
00:05:17.940 if you're going to pass out this massive aid package for a war that is lost in Eurasia,
00:05:25.000 a war that is clearly being won in the Middle East,
00:05:29.080 and for a potential coalition partner in the Indo-Pacific that is not being as military applications.
00:05:35.640 This makes no sense.
00:05:36.660 It's very clear that the American people should have a referendum on this subject in the November
00:05:41.980 elections, and Speaker Johnson should call Congress closed for business on the matter.
00:05:48.380 I'm curious.
00:05:49.440 I think you probably saw, and I'm sure the Warren posse has their heads, their pants,
00:05:53.780 everything on fire over the nerve of Mike McCall.
00:05:57.320 I would say the swamp epitomized someone who, what was it, peddled the Russia collusion hoax,
00:06:01.940 but sure, lecture us on a foreign interference.
00:06:04.940 He went after Senator J.D. Vance for daring to criticize the, what is it, the Repo Act,
00:06:11.380 basically saying that we shouldn't tie President Trump's hands over what he can do in Ukraine
00:06:16.580 and more broadly Europe by pushing deals that basically do just that, right,
00:06:22.220 that sort of neuter and nullify his power.
00:06:25.000 However, as the president, of course, the policies, as you were saying, the ideologies behind them,
00:06:29.820 they don't work.
00:06:30.480 This is a war that they're never going to win.
00:06:31.920 We're just sending Ukrainian men who, what is it, average age, like 45, to die in Russian fire.
00:06:39.040 But what are your thoughts on the voices like Mike McCall, who are just like a beating drum,
00:06:46.960 will not let it go, will not stop with this incessant Ukraine?
00:06:50.920 Is it defense contracting?
00:06:53.200 Is it the lobbyists?
00:06:54.300 What is the issue that is propelling these people to not give up on the Ukraine fight?
00:07:00.440 I think the critical, without going into the motivations particularly,
00:07:03.540 I think the critical element here is essentially attention.
00:07:06.180 I understand that the presidential race and even some of these big Senate races get all the attention,
00:07:10.860 and this is something that I would urge your viewers, the war room posse,
00:07:14.740 to take a little bit more of a look at.
00:07:17.960 Beneath the speakership, beneath the presidency, beneath the marquee Senate races,
00:07:23.140 there are all these committee chairmen that you've never heard of.
00:07:26.040 And I would challenge most people in the country have not heard of Mr. McCall.
00:07:31.200 But this is one of the most influential people in the country as chairman of this committee.
00:07:36.180 And the reality is, until there is a grander, more fights like this, a grander question,
00:07:43.600 a grander narrative about why people like this can't wield authority,
00:07:46.860 you're going to see a default to the type of thinking that has triumphed in this city since 2003,
00:07:52.320 at minimum, if not longer.
00:07:53.480 And it has only ruination and an appreciation of American power,
00:08:00.160 the depreciation of American power to show for it.
00:08:03.680 And can you sort of extrapolate this on the Israeli front and even the Indo-Pacific front,
00:08:08.360 of course, they put this in.
00:08:09.420 And I believe they also concurrently introduced a border security measure.
00:08:13.900 But just how they're sort of playing games with these priorities,
00:08:17.120 kind of, I always call it red meat for the base,
00:08:19.920 but trying to string us along with these little shiny toys, as Steve always says.
00:08:23.800 But walk us through the Israel side of this package as well.
00:08:27.940 Yeah, I mean, the Israel thing is very confusing.
00:08:29.640 And I think even among the ranks of conservatives, there's this agreement.
00:08:33.940 Conservative skepticals of foreign wars are divided on the Israel quotient to it.
00:08:39.320 From my perspective, I think it's pretty simple.
00:08:42.700 Why do we need a military aid package for a war that's not going to change out in Eastern Europe?
00:08:49.320 And why do we need a military aid package for a war that the Israelis are already winning?
00:08:53.940 The controversy over the war in the Middle East is not whether or not Israel is going to deal with Hamas.
00:09:00.200 It's whether or not they're dealing with them too brutally.
00:09:03.300 And so at the same time that that's the question,
00:09:05.140 our solution is to throw them military technology that they don't need.
00:09:08.940 I mean, actually, the Ukrainians do need it.
00:09:11.840 It's just that our perpetration of the war is going to be bad for the Ukrainian people and for humanity, quite frankly.
00:09:19.660 And on Taiwan, since you asked specifically,
00:09:23.180 if Taiwan is not willing to meet its own defense needs,
00:09:27.480 it's not clear why the U.S. should throw an expenditure this way
00:09:32.200 that is merely provocative to the Chinese and invites this invasion sooner.
00:09:36.340 If the Taiwanese meet the defense needs, I think we can have a conversation then.
00:09:43.860 Well, sorry, I was having some audio difficulties.
00:09:47.020 But when you say, you know, you don't want to necessarily get into
00:09:51.240 what is the driving factors behind a lot of these politicians,
00:09:54.780 I mean, I think the war room posse is fairly familiar with people like Mike McCaul.
00:09:57.860 I know Steve is always lighting them up.
00:10:01.440 But I'm just curious in the sense that, you know, whether it's Israel, whether it's Taiwan,
00:10:07.380 whether it's, you know, insert the country,
00:10:09.980 the ability to put America first is just lost on members of Congress.
00:10:14.520 And, of course, you have the rank and file members.
00:10:16.560 You have a few people, right, like the Matt Gaetzes of the world,
00:10:18.860 who are willing to actually do that.
00:10:20.140 They've said they will challenge and primary those who vote for additional Ukraine spending.
00:10:25.240 But you run American Conservative.
00:10:27.320 I'm just curious, could you drill down a little bit on what you think
00:10:30.500 are sort of the motivating factors behind why these people just refuse to put America first?
00:10:35.840 I know that's sort of a cliché, dumbed-down way of saying it.
00:10:39.260 But what creates Mike McCaul?
00:10:42.740 Is he a feature of the system?
00:10:44.180 Is he a bug of the system?
00:10:45.480 Why are there so many people like him?
00:10:46.900 And why does it seem so hard to find actual America first conservatives
00:10:50.660 who are willing to fight for the issues
00:10:52.600 and do the things they were actually elected to do?
00:10:55.240 Yeah, sure.
00:10:56.420 I'm happy to comment on the structural things.
00:10:58.200 I didn't mean to dodge your question, Natalie.
00:10:59.560 I just think the reality—
00:11:01.180 Now you're good.
00:11:02.560 Take someone more famous, Mr. Johnson.
00:11:05.340 The reality is if he dies, if he falls on his sword, so to speak here,
00:11:10.260 if his speakership dies, and he will have done it on the Ukraine issue,
00:11:14.500 the likelihood of corporate board seats in Fortune 500 companies
00:11:18.180 and defense contractors that ring Northern Virginia,
00:11:20.320 offering him slots, i.e. the Nikki Haley option, is just way higher.
00:11:26.640 So, yes, I think there have to be renumerative considerations.
00:11:30.520 Now, I'm not arguing that money is exchanging hands now,
00:11:33.780 but there's no effective legislation or controls on people making policy decisions
00:11:39.860 based on things in the future.
00:11:41.660 And I don't really know what the check on it would be.
00:11:45.240 You could create a five-year lobbying ban, a one-year lobbying ban, a 10-year lobbying ban.
00:11:49.720 I think you always find loopholes here, and that's why it's important for a democracy
00:11:53.780 for people to hold the leaders to account.
00:11:57.040 That's the swiftest failsafe.
00:11:58.720 But in terms of, you know, foreign theaters and certain members, frankly,
00:12:03.780 lost to get involved in them, I do think there's something almost psychological going on
00:12:08.440 where they get to have these sort of nationalist impulses for a foreign country
00:12:13.480 where they're afraid to show that, you know, impulse here at home,
00:12:19.820 which is a shame considering, I mean, the country is actually suffering
00:12:23.320 what could be termed an invasion on the southern border.
00:12:25.560 So in your estimation, obviously, you follow this stuff quite closely.
00:12:30.560 The American conservative is always ahead of the curve.
00:12:34.040 How do you think this is going to shake out, particularly on the Speaker Johnson front?
00:12:37.520 Do you think we're going to see the motion to vacate?
00:12:39.600 We know Tom Emmer's already sort of potentially putting his hat in the ring.
00:12:43.000 Just again, hypothetically, how do you think it'll shake out?
00:12:47.360 Yeah, I mean, I don't see how this passes and Speaker Johnson survives
00:12:52.700 without at least a few Democratic votes.
00:12:55.040 And if he takes Democratic votes, then his speakership will be terminal after the election.
00:13:00.620 I think it would be a sad statement, a sad coda, frankly, on his career
00:13:06.740 as a conservative and Republican lawmaker and activist
00:13:08.980 to accept Democratic support to maintain his speakership.
00:13:12.820 So it's possible he resigns.
00:13:15.340 I mean, it does feel like everyone's sort of fatigued and wants to have this election,
00:13:19.700 and so potentially his chances of survival are higher than McCarthy's were in autumn.
00:13:25.280 But I don't think they're certain by any stretch of the imagination.
00:13:29.120 And I don't think—I mean, there are 220-odd Republican lawmakers,
00:13:35.420 and the speakership itself is famously not closed to almost any American.
00:13:40.960 I mean, we can't find somebody who can keep this conference together.
00:13:44.380 It would be quite pathetic.
00:13:47.320 And, Kurt, we've got to let you go.
00:13:49.420 But if people want to follow you and get American Conservative,
00:13:52.700 where can they go to do all that and support the magazine?
00:13:55.920 Sure.
00:13:56.640 www.theamericanconservative.com.
00:13:58.840 You can read my tweets at Kurt Mills, C-U-R-T-M-I-L-L-S.
00:14:02.540 We have a new issue out all about Ohio, some of the names, Vivek Ramaswamy, J.D. Vance,
00:14:08.840 people at the leading edge of opposing this stuff.
00:14:11.420 So please give us your consideration.
00:14:14.820 You guys do great work.
00:14:16.260 Kurt, thank you so much for joining us.
00:14:20.900 Warren Posse, we've got a packed show.
00:14:23.400 We're going to open the next block with, I guess, what your future could look like
00:14:27.440 if Joe Biden wins again, if they're—sorry, steals it again.
00:14:31.580 It's an audio recording that John Eastman received from Bank of America
00:14:36.060 in live, I guess, real time, getting debanked by Bank of America
00:14:41.420 for, you guessed it, daring to support President Donald J. Trump,
00:14:45.480 daring to put America first.
00:14:47.080 You've seen the fate that similar patriots have suffered.
00:14:49.580 I don't need to look too far just to Miami.
00:14:52.120 Peter Navarro, a good example.
00:14:53.960 Warren Posse, we'll be playing that right after this short 90-second break.
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00:16:43.920 If you have recently received a letter stating your account or accounts are being closed,
00:16:49.760 the reason for this is that Bank of America made a business decision to close the account
00:16:54.940 and or we have determined you're operating in a business type we have chosen not to service
00:17:00.200 at Bank of America.
00:17:02.080 It is a Bank of America policy that we do not provide any additional information regarding
00:17:07.320 our decision to close an account and the decision to close the account will not be reconsidered.
00:17:12.600 That should be a campaign ad maybe for Joe Biden or any of the World Economic Forum, UN, WHO,
00:17:20.680 global elites who want to use social credit scores styled after, of course, the Biden family
00:17:26.520 business partner, the Chinese Communist Party.
00:17:29.120 I actually think it was Hunter Biden who was invested in one of the companies who was involved
00:17:33.540 in that space because, of course.
00:17:35.700 Joining me now to break down that call and so much more is the reporter from The Daily
00:17:41.220 Call who actually broke it, Reagan Reese.
00:17:44.260 Reagan, thank you for joining us.
00:17:45.460 If you want to walk the audience through what they just heard, why it's so scary and, frankly,
00:17:50.960 why it might happen to them soon enough.
00:17:55.660 Yeah.
00:17:56.060 I mean, Natalie, this debanking trend, this appears to be the new front of Democratic law
00:18:01.580 fair.
00:18:01.940 So to break it down, John Eastman was first notified in September 2023 that his Bank of
00:18:09.140 America account was going to be closed and that they could not provide him any details
00:18:15.560 on why they were choosing to do so.
00:18:17.900 They said, if you want more details, feel free to give us a call.
00:18:21.860 When he goes to give them a call, there's that audio.
00:18:25.360 They say, actually, it's our policy that we can't tell you anything else.
00:18:29.520 And this was after he had been in business with Bank of America for about 40 years.
00:18:36.780 Well, two months later, USAA, you know, that company that's famously known for banking
00:18:43.200 with military families and insuring military families, also moves to close his accounts
00:18:49.220 without any details provided.
00:18:52.700 We went to Bank of America and USAA after we had attained the letters from John Eastman
00:18:58.700 confirming that his accounts had been closed without warning.
00:19:02.700 Bank of America, you know, initially said, hey, we're going to give you a comment by your
00:19:07.000 deadline.
00:19:07.660 We provided them two days to do so and to get back to us.
00:19:11.660 And then about an hour before my deadline, they got back to me and said, you know, actually,
00:19:16.500 we don't comment on client matters.
00:19:20.440 USAA never responded to me.
00:19:22.540 I followed up three times and, you know, I even followed up once more after my deadline
00:19:27.900 had passed to be like, hey, this is the last time I'm going to follow up.
00:19:31.140 Are you sure you don't want to provide any sort of comment?
00:19:34.040 And so that's where it stands.
00:19:35.600 John Eastman was about, you know, when I talked to him, 99 percent confident that this was political
00:19:41.840 retaliation after everything he's been through, after he, you know, provided legal advice to
00:19:47.860 President Trump in wake of the 2020 election, this was just another bump in the road for him
00:19:53.500 that he just saw as another way for the left to attack him.
00:19:59.040 I want to take a step back because I think you're right to make this story bigger, right,
00:20:03.200 than just John Eastman in the sense that this is what they want to do to the entire MAGA
00:20:07.920 movement, right?
00:20:08.440 They're not just going after President Trump.
00:20:09.920 They're going after, frankly, everyone.
00:20:11.900 But can you give us maybe some other high-profile stories of similar kind of debanking attacks,
00:20:17.800 lawfare attacks, as you have said, against other high-profile kind of MAGA movement members?
00:20:25.100 Yeah.
00:20:25.760 So I spoke to the Foundation of Government Accountability, and they told me that they have
00:20:31.040 seen this with a lot of Christian groups, actually, and Christian nonprofits who have been debanked
00:20:39.180 and haven't been given a reason. Bank of America, they pointed to, is actually known for kind of
00:20:44.980 doing this to Americans. They could just consistently pointed to Christian groups who this has happened
00:20:51.000 to. You know, it's dangerous because when Americans' bank accounts are closed without any reason,
00:20:59.180 and they lose access to their finances, and they're not able to feed their families or pay their bills,
00:21:05.960 and there might be just even the slightest indication, even if the bank maybe doesn't
00:21:10.540 provide a reason, but there's that thought in their mind that maybe this is political,
00:21:14.980 that has such a chilling effect, Natalie. Americans will become concerned that maybe they shouldn't
00:21:21.440 speak out about their beliefs, their faith, and who they are, out of risk that they might,
00:21:27.300 you know, lose their relationship with the bank.
00:21:29.800 And a lot of people don't have much of a choice to switch banks.
00:21:33.600 It might just be the bank that's the closest down the road. That might be Bank of America,
00:21:37.720 and you might be at risk.
00:21:41.120 Reagan, if people want to listen to the audio again, read more of your wonderful reporting,
00:21:46.680 I think we had you on the show. Most recently, you exposed the, I believe it was the NRCC,
00:21:52.200 with the same tenacity that you went after USAA and Bank of America. If people want to follow you
00:21:58.200 and stay up to date with your reporting, where can they go to do all that?
00:22:02.480 Well, Natalie, let me tell you, there's more reporting coming that I think you guys are going
00:22:06.200 to enjoy, but ReaganReese underscore at Twitter, and it's the same thing on Instagram,
00:22:12.240 and I'm the White House correspondent for the Daily Caller, dailycaller.com. We're doing some
00:22:17.260 great reporting, you know, giving you all the details on the political landscape today.
00:22:23.880 Reagan, thank you so much for joining us.
00:22:25.800 Thank you.
00:22:28.480 Now, you guys have heard a tale of two presidents when we juxtaposed President Trump meeting with
00:22:33.160 the family of the slain officer. Meanwhile, you got Joe Biden holding some hoity-toity fundraiser
00:22:39.280 in Wall Street with a bunch of, frankly, presidents who actually should be sitting and rotting in jail,
00:22:45.100 if not just for treason, but for a host of other crimes that we'll do a war room special on
00:22:49.480 one day. But I just want to draw a tale of two cities, or maybe another juxtaposition,
00:22:54.480 a tale of two leaders, President Trump and Zelensky. Now, Zelensky's not much of a leader,
00:23:00.160 but when you think about what is going on in the city of New York when it comes to the fine-toothed
00:23:05.280 comb and then some that they are going through President Trump's finances with, what they
00:23:09.460 could only really find was a marginal, what was it, tax accounting error, one little thing maybe.
00:23:15.000 Meanwhile, Zelensky's getting, what is it, hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars,
00:23:19.780 and they can't even conduct a meaningful audit of any of those dollars, any of those pennies,
00:23:25.780 one single cent? Remember, it was the White House just last year, I believe it was in October,
00:23:31.180 when they were fretting because Americans were daring to actually push back on their bogus
00:23:35.880 narratives about supporting the Ukraine war. Instead of doubling down and saying,
00:23:40.640 hey, we want to convince the American people that investing in what is going on in Ukraine
00:23:44.380 is worth it, democracy actually matters. You know what they did? The new spin was it wasn't
00:23:49.420 let's conduct meaningful audits. It was let's lie to the American people that the Ukraine war
00:23:55.100 is good for manufacturing jobs here at home, that it's good for made in America policies,
00:24:01.280 and that it's good for strengthening our industrial base. You know what's good for strengthening our
00:24:06.400 industrial base, Joe Biden? Banning the Chinese Communist Party from owning land and farmland here in
00:24:11.580 the United States. They speak out of both sides of their mouth to the point that even Speaker Mike
00:24:16.260 Johnson put out a tweet, what was it, two hours ago, slamming Senate Democrats for refusing to hold
00:24:22.720 a trial against Mayorkas. They said, you are supporting, you are co-signing Joe Biden's border
00:24:28.680 crisis. Well, newsflash, Mike Johnson, Joe Biden just signed off on your Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel aid
00:24:36.460 bill. So the same president who's comfortable destroying this country by allowing an invasion
00:24:41.920 at the southern border, if he's supporting your foreign policy, something tells me something is not
00:24:47.600 right there. That's not America first. That's not putting American citizens first. It's certainly not
00:24:52.580 putting America first, and it's certainly not putting American interests first. So Joe Biden endorsing
00:24:58.160 your Ukraine aid bill. Yeah, that means absolutely nothing. Steve told me I had to give Speaker Johnson
00:25:05.560 some fire since he couldn't be hosting today. So I try my best. Someone who, of course, is always
00:25:11.920 bringing the fire over an American moment is, of course, Saurabh Sharma. Although, from what I
00:25:17.700 understand, you guys are trying to bring the fire over there in Brussels, but the police forces don't
00:25:23.880 want you to, if I'm not mistaken. Can you watch? Actually, you know what? I believe we have a clip.
00:25:28.840 If Denver has it, let's play that. And then I want you to kind of walk us through what we just watched.
00:25:39.460 NatCon Brussels 2, under siege by Belgian police. We have had our conference going since this morning.
00:25:46.520 The first venue was canceled, was forced to cancel by leftist political pressure. The second venue,
00:25:52.240 20 hours before the event, pull out of a signed contract. Now we're in the third venue. The police
00:25:57.860 showed up with an order saying that we are creating a public disturbance. What we have here
00:26:02.940 is 400 people in a venue holding a conference. People are speaking about topics, political,
00:26:09.280 philosophical, historical. We have 50 of the leading conservative speakers from across Europe here,
00:26:14.860 all of them gathering prime ministers, foreign prime ministers, ministers, a cardinal.
00:26:22.240 Wild times. Talk about debanking, deplatforming. I feel like the progenitor of all that was the,
00:26:35.360 you know, conservatives getting kicked off of college campuses here in the United States,
00:26:39.180 but it sort of reached, I guess, its logical conclusion. Saurabh, can you walk us through
00:26:43.520 this event, what's going on and why they want to shut you down so badly?
00:26:46.340 Absolutely, Natalie. And it's funny you make that analogy. It's exactly what I said as the
00:26:52.620 conference was going on. I thought my days of having speeches and conferences canceled were
00:26:57.480 over because I wasn't on a college campus anymore, but it was a throwback to six, seven years when I
00:27:02.300 was at the University of Texas at Austin. So I'll walk you through it really basically. I'm the
00:27:06.360 executive director of Edmund Burke Foundation, which puts on national conservatism conferences in the
00:27:11.380 United States and Europe, in addition to being president of American Moment. And we were about
00:27:15.240 to host a conference in Brussels. This was going to be our second conference there after a couple
00:27:19.940 of years. And the framework was that Europe is about to go into elections in early June that will
00:27:24.880 determine whether or not it will continue to be a continent of independent nations charting their
00:27:30.060 own history or this totalitarian angiocracy hosted in Brussels. And so that was the framework of
00:27:37.140 the conference. The subtitle was preserving the nation state in Europe. A couple of days ago,
00:27:41.920 we got a notification that the first venue that we had been booked for months to have this conference
00:27:47.060 at, Concert Nobel, right across the street from the European Parliament, was pulling out of the
00:27:51.560 conference. And we were completely shocked by this. We'd hosted a conference there successfully
00:27:56.520 before, completely blindsided us. We eventually, over the course of the weekend, found a second venue,
00:28:02.320 the Sofitel in Europe, to host this conference. And we thought, okay, you know, it'll be a little
00:28:07.800 disruptive, but what we figured it out, everything's going to be fine. Then Monday night, the day before
00:28:12.020 the conference, the Sofitel also pulls out. And then we realized that there's something quite fishy
00:28:17.180 going on here. We've got to cut to a break. So I want to leave the audience hanging on that.
00:28:21.320 It's a very good cliffhanger. It's planned perfectly, like out of a Hollywood, what is it, film room?
00:28:27.740 That's what Steve always says. War Room Posse. We will be back after this break. In the meantime,
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00:30:47.600 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:30:55.880 Welcome back to The War Room. It's still Natalie G. Winter's hosting. We still got Sir Rob Sharma from
00:31:01.460 American Moment and so much more. I believe the Edmund Burke Foundation as well. Joining us,
00:31:06.580 we had to cut because of the break, but you were just getting to the third part of your story. It's
00:31:10.820 sort of like, what is it, Goldilocks? Except instead of it being too hot, too cold, they were just like,
00:31:15.520 oh, you guys are too radical. You're way too radical. But apparently the third venue,
00:31:19.820 it was just right until the police came and stopped a lot of your speakers from coming in.
00:31:25.000 You can pick up where you left off.
00:31:26.500 Sure. So we finally get this very last second venue in Brussels to host a conservative conference
00:31:34.360 about the nation state. And I am on stage chairing a panel Tuesday afternoon. It's right around noon.
00:31:41.740 The conference has only been going on for two or three hours. And my colleagues start texting me
00:31:45.900 that the police are on their way to shut the event down. And that's when we realized what was
00:31:50.540 actually going on. The mayor of Brussels had made it his goal to shut down this event, the socialist
00:31:56.380 mayor. And the police came. They sent three cops. They sort of stood outside and said the event is
00:32:02.160 canceled for a little bit. Then they came in. They saw the big crowd. They saw the cameras. And they got
00:32:07.500 spooked. And they went back outside. And they decided to play a game of attrition with us. They said,
00:32:12.280 OK, we can't actually shut this event down. We're not interested in frog marching 400 nice people in
00:32:19.440 suits and dresses out of this conference. So if you leave, you can't come back in. And so we're
00:32:25.360 basically holding you hostage. I started calling it the Brussels hostage crisis. And the funny thing
00:32:30.120 is, is that we didn't have lunch, but everyone wanted to stay all the way through the event.
00:32:35.960 We were trying to smuggle cardinals and members of European Parliament into the building. They somehow
00:32:42.580 made it in. So I guess they found a way around the police. But, you know, Eric Zemmour, a former
00:32:46.960 presidential candidate in France was prevented from entering the venue. But we continued to have
00:32:51.520 the conference all through the end of the day. And late that night, a Brussels court actually ruled
00:32:56.540 against the mayor of Brussels and said that this was completely unconstitutional and they had to allow
00:33:01.840 the conference to happen. So we just a couple hours ago wrapped up one of the most important
00:33:06.500 conservative conferences Europe has ever had, undeterred by this tyrannical Brussels government,
00:33:11.700 four separate attempts to cancel us. And look, the Streisand effect is real. A lot more eyeballs
00:33:18.520 were on this event than they would have liked. Four prime ministers had to step in and say that this
00:33:24.920 is absurd. So I don't think the Brussels mayor exactly got what he wanted. The message of national
00:33:29.980 conservatism is spreading much further and much wider because of what he did.
00:33:34.940 I think there's a lot of metaphorical significance with what went on. Of course,
00:33:39.140 Brussels, what is that? The city of the global elite, right? It's almost as bad as Davos,
00:33:43.640 I would probably say. Although I guess you guys are the counterculture Davos now. I think you
00:33:48.020 solidified that with the police literally trying to shut you down. But I'm just curious. Obviously,
00:33:53.160 they're trying to quash, or at least it seems like at any meaningful substantive discussions of the
00:33:57.640 importance of the, you know, Westphalian nation state. But it seems sort of interesting. Meanwhile,
00:34:02.580 they're pushing day after day after day. Of course, they're not actually supporting it
00:34:06.200 financially, but the importance of Ukraine's borders and Ukraine's sovereignty and their
00:34:10.380 territorial integrity. But when we want to have it for other countries, right, it's sort of a moot
00:34:15.000 point. You aren't allowed to go there. If you want to maybe kind of read the audience in on a little
00:34:20.180 bit of what you guys talked about, you know, who was there in terms of different European countries,
00:34:25.620 the sort of globalist or anti-globalist rather coalition that I know Steve has had an intimate hand
00:34:30.320 and building, but how it's burgeoning and how it really is rising up, so much so that they're
00:34:35.580 having to deploy police forces to put it down. Absolutely. So a couple of months ago,
00:34:43.140 The Economist had as their front cover for the magazine. And I remember Steve texted me at the
00:34:48.360 time and was so pleased with it. It was a MAGA hat. But instead of saying, make America great again,
00:34:53.380 it was a laundry list of countries that have all had these nationalist populist revolutions. So it said
00:34:58.500 Hungary, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, El Salvador. And it was basically all of the places
00:35:05.220 where conservative patriots with nationalist instincts have actually found a foothold in
00:35:10.460 power. And this is what the left is most afraid of. They were always globalists and deeply connected
00:35:16.000 with each other. And I think the mistake that many conservatives made for a few decades is they
00:35:20.100 assumed that you had to be a globalist in order to be connected with fellow conservative patriots
00:35:25.560 across the world. That's obviously not true, as we've realized in the last few years. Steve was a
00:35:29.820 trailblazer on this. National conservatism conferences have been trailblazers in this space.
00:35:34.460 And so when they see conservatives uniting across nations with maybe some minor disagreements between
00:35:40.720 them, but showing a consolidated force against the global left, they get very afraid. Obviously,
00:35:46.320 they have their boogeymen. They really don't like Viktor Orban because he's pro-peace and believes
00:35:51.440 that sending hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians into the meat grinder is not exactly
00:35:56.920 in Europe's best interest. They really don't like Nigel Farage because he is basically the biggest
00:36:01.840 threat to Brussels that's ever existed in one person. They don't like Erickson Moore because he believes
00:36:06.780 in sovereignty and French identity. They really did not like most of these speakers at this conference.
00:36:12.360 So I don't blame them for being upset. It's just more evidence than ever that when European elites
00:36:19.320 preach about liberal democracy and tolerance, liberal democracy means they win and you lose.
00:36:26.000 And so we really shouldn't listen to their bleeding about liberal democracy. And we certainly shouldn't
00:36:30.620 take them seriously when they call us fascists anymore. I want to link this to what is going on
00:36:36.440 here at home, specifically with the Democrat-controlled Senate deciding to not hold a trial against
00:36:43.180 Mayorkas. I believe all Democrats voted it down in the beginning. Murkowski voted present. Then she
00:36:51.020 later switched to a no. So I guess another day, the rhinos in the Senate will live without facing the
00:36:56.460 phone call fury and wrath and fire of the war room posse. But it's the issue of immigration that I've
00:37:02.820 always said the American people are the most gaslit on. It's the issue that I think the elites lie to us
00:37:07.500 the most on. And they get really, really upset about it when you dare to say the word sovereignty,
00:37:12.460 borders, nation state, right? Rejecting the idea of a global government. I never elected a global
00:37:19.180 governor, right? It's ridiculous stuff. But I'm just curious your thoughts more for maybe the American
00:37:25.000 moment perspective on just the Senate's refusal to hold a trial against Mayorkas when they say what
00:37:31.280 he's doing at the southern border. It's not a high crime and misdemeanor. It's utterly absurd. I think
00:37:39.660 that if this level of dereliction of duty is not impeachable and not worthy of a Senate trial, then
00:37:46.280 nothing is. We may as well pack it up. There is no cabinet. We are run by the deep state. Mayorkas'
00:37:51.960 subversion of the American people and their interests is one of the greatest crimes committed against the
00:37:56.720 American people ever. You know, our friend Raheem Kassam, he said for years that if a Democrat won
00:38:02.200 in 2020 that they would bring 10 million migrants across the border and people said he's crazy, that
00:38:07.820 he's absurd. Well, they're on pace for something like that. It's an insane, insane invasion at our
00:38:13.820 southern border. And immigration really is the galvanizing and the uniting issue for conservative
00:38:19.680 patriots across the world. It is the same fight. They're trying to bring millions of people into the
00:38:25.020 United Kingdom. They're trying to bring millions of people into France. They're trying to bring
00:38:28.460 millions of people into Germany. Part of the reason they hate Hungary and Poland so much is
00:38:32.900 because they said no to bringing millions of people in. And now the greatest natural experiment
00:38:37.300 in European history is going to play out. How did the countries that said no to mass migration
00:38:42.440 fare? And how did the ones that said yes fare? And I think the truth is simple. The ones that allowed
00:38:47.900 tens of millions of unvetted Muslim migrants from the third world to come into their nations aren't going to
00:38:53.500 exist as European nations in two, three, four decades. And the ones that chose a different path
00:38:58.100 will continue to exist. And that's why we have to keep fighting on this immigration issue in the
00:39:02.280 United States, because as bad as the situation is in the U.S., it can get a lot worse. Coming
00:39:06.760 through Europe is proof of that. You see how it's unrecognizable. So we can never let up on the
00:39:12.780 rhinos and the left that keep on trying to make compromises on this issue, especially senators.
00:39:18.420 There's something about them, especially Republican senators. You turn your back for 30 seconds on them
00:39:22.700 and they've cooked up a new amnesty proposal. We can't let it happen.
00:39:27.020 Yeah. Spare me the comprehensive immigration reform and root causes talk, right? I've heard
00:39:32.740 that one too many times. Scariest words in the English language.
00:39:36.640 No, like seriously, they actually are. Sir Rob, let people know a little bit about American Moment
00:39:43.060 before you go and, of course, the show that you co-host. But why, from a personnel perspective,
00:39:48.100 we know personnel is policy, how you guys are really working to make sure that ahead of Trump's
00:39:53.320 impending victory that we have no deep state bureaucrats who are going to speak in, you know,
00:39:58.740 root causes and comprehensive immigration and amnesty speak. They're going to speak in
00:40:02.300 mass deportation. Take that, deep state. Just walk us through a little bit what you guys do at
00:40:07.800 American Moment.
00:40:11.040 Absolutely. So one of my hats is I'm the president of American Moment. We were founded right after
00:40:15.420 the 2020 election and the goal was simple. Make sure what happened to President Trump
00:40:20.100 never happens again. He did not have a cadre of a couple thousand patriots that would go into the
00:40:25.700 administration that were competent and would help enact his agenda. That can never happen again. He
00:40:31.320 needs the people to help implement his agenda. A president only has so many hours in the day.
00:40:36.920 They hire four to five thousand people to help implement their will to manage 2.2 million federal
00:40:41.940 bureaucrats. It's our job to help find those four to five thousand people, highly competent,
00:40:47.240 talented, capable, young and mid-level people. That's what we specialize in. To go work in the
00:40:51.880 future administration, to go work in congressional offices, to go work in public policy organizations
00:40:56.260 in D.C. We ruthlessly select for only a young talent that has an America first worldview and we
00:41:02.420 white glove service them into being as influential, getting them promoted as quickly as humanly
00:41:07.800 possible because we don't have a lot of time and we've had a lot of success in the last three
00:41:10.940 years. If you're a young person or you know a young person that wants to get involved,
00:41:15.040 it's not enough to sit on your couch and watch podcasts and YouTube videos all day. You actually
00:41:18.960 have to get involved. We've had a lot of young people from the War Room Posse come through our
00:41:23.240 program so we're always grateful to get connected with you and find out how we can help. So that's
00:41:27.620 what we do at American Moment. And then National Conservatism Conferences are the convening ground for
00:41:32.820 the thinkers in this movement. We'll be hosting one in the summer in the U.S. So stay tuned for that
00:41:38.900 once we have more details. Saurabh, thank you so much for joining us, for invoking a little bit
00:41:44.980 of Raheem Kassam and triggering me by saying amnesty. You definitely got to come back soon.
00:41:51.560 Thank you so much. Absolutely. Thanks, Natalie.
00:41:53.780 I think we have Michael Seifert from, of course, Public Square joining us. Now, I thought you'd be
00:42:01.860 a perfect person to have on. We had an earlier segment on the show about debanking the plague
00:42:07.060 that seems to be affecting everyone who's just even slightly adjacent to MAGA. Of course,
00:42:11.960 John Eastman, we actually listened to the audio, the phone call of Bank of America telling him that
00:42:17.080 they were no longer going to be servicing him. You obviously lead what I would say is sort of the
00:42:20.920 counterculture movement. To that, I would love to just get your thoughts on that and really how
00:42:26.900 much of a society-wide, you could even almost argue, whole-of-government approach that debanking
00:42:34.100 has become, not just for the left but for the establishment.
00:42:38.620 Well, and I would take it one step farther, Natalie, which is this is a plague that is not
00:42:42.860 only inflicting pain upon American leaders. This is a global problem as well. You see international
00:42:49.720 banks that have stifled proponents of free speech. And in the United States specifically,
00:42:55.100 obviously, it seems like MAGA is sort of the litmus test. If you have at all ever been seen
00:43:00.260 as adjacent to this America First MAGA movement, you are an object of the left and the progressive
00:43:08.080 authoritarians in our financial sectors' desire to debank. In any authoritarian society over the course
00:43:14.860 of the past 150 years, the first thing that the communists have sought to do is strip away your
00:43:22.280 economic access. It is your most important freedom. If you do not have the ability to transact in a free
00:43:27.720 economy, you cannot provide food for your family. You cannot secure your financial future. You cannot make
00:43:33.400 sure that you establish stability under all of the facets of your daily life. And that is the very thing
00:43:38.740 they want to remove from the patriots in this country, like John Eastman, that have had any
00:43:44.240 level of proximity to the former president and the broader MAGA movement or the anti-globalist movement
00:43:49.180 on the international scale. Natalie, I remember last year when Nigel Farage was actually debanked by his
00:43:55.200 bank. The authoritarians have made it clear they do not want you to be able to express your voice if it
00:44:03.360 rebukes the narrative of the regime. The regime has made it clear that they want globalism.
00:44:09.240 They want a stifling of personal expression and individualism on a broad societal basis. And if
00:44:14.760 you dare poke the bear, they will make sure that you have your financial freedom robbed. We obviously
00:44:19.560 exist as a platform to help people find their financial freedom in their consumer purchases and
00:44:24.200 in their banking. This is yet another reminder of why we need to continue fighting.
00:44:29.140 And Michael, I'll hold you through the break because I want to get your thoughts on what's going on
00:44:32.920 when it comes to even more hundreds of billions of dollars going to Ukraine, while most companies,
00:44:38.100 the Chamber of Commerce, are supporting it because they're profiting off of it. Of course,
00:44:41.600 Public Square isn't. We will be right back after this break with Michael Seifert.
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00:47:25.540 Though something tells me Mike Johnson might be feeling a similar fire and fury from the War Room
00:47:30.080 posse soon enough. Before I let you go, Michael, I have a question for you. A lot of my background as
00:47:35.700 an investigative reporter had to do with sort of these kind of funny conflicts of interest that a
00:47:40.180 lot of people who were pushing for more Ukraine aid had with, well, the Ukraine aid packages, whether
00:47:44.840 it was themselves, their spouses, their children working for companies that were really receiving
00:47:49.380 a financial boon when more billions or probably soon enough trillions of dollars were going to
00:47:55.320 Ukraine. In the Chamber of Commerce, they have these special lobbying groups, right, that always
00:47:59.320 push for more Ukraine aid. And you guys, whether the issue is immigration, Ukraine aid, mask mandates,
00:48:04.600 big farmers, if you guys always sort of stand alone and that you never join in on that chorus of
00:48:10.100 corporations who benefit from policies that not just deprive us of our civil liberties, but are
00:48:15.280 actively bad for America, though realistically that's probably why they support it. I'm just curious
00:48:20.840 your thoughts on the latest installment of yet another $100 billion is all the issues we're
00:48:25.880 facing here at home for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, you name it. What your thoughts are on really
00:48:32.460 Congress's just willingness to put America last? Well, honestly, I'm disappointed today. More than
00:48:39.060 anything, I feel frustrated and dejected. It seems like no matter how many times the America First
00:48:44.740 movement, which is the bulk of the conservative base, by the way, petitions our leaders to actually
00:48:50.140 represent our interests, they continue to let us down time and time again. The American people do
00:48:55.380 not want more aid for Ukraine or any other foreign country while we are currently being invaded.
00:49:01.040 And so when you see our southern border flooded with millions, millions of illegal migrants coming
00:49:08.140 across and taking our jobs, in many cases committing heinous crimes, all while our government turns a blind
00:49:14.920 eye, and then that same government goes and utilizes our hard-earned tax dollars to fund foreign
00:49:19.540 nations in their disputes that have no actual day-to-day impact on our day-to-day lives,
00:49:24.960 it's incredibly infuriating. And then you mention not only are elected officials having problems
00:49:30.400 continually being on the wrong side of this issue, they're not listening to us, but we also have
00:49:34.740 these bureaucratic unelected entities that are doing the same thing. You have entities like the
00:49:40.260 Chamber of Commerce that were designated to support the interests of the American business community
00:49:44.440 backing bills that provide mass amnesty for illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the actual small businesses
00:49:53.140 that they are supposed to be representing are getting harmed by the wage effects that come with
00:49:58.020 mass illegal immigration. Small businesses do not favor illegal immigration because only the mega
00:50:03.900 corporate entities that hire these illegal immigrants and cause really disastrous wage problems
00:50:10.080 and completely stifle the competitive environment for a small business. Those are the only entities that
00:50:14.260 actually profit off of this. So the Chamber of Commerce, Congress, the mega financial institutions that are
00:50:20.720 beholden to an ESG agenda continually side with the globalists instead of the American people and the
00:50:27.720 America First movement more broadly. It's infuriating. My hope, though, Natalie, is that in all of this,
00:50:33.640 with the incredible war room posse, with our millions of consumers and awakened consumers that are
00:50:39.840 recognizing that their vote takes place not only at the ballot box, but also with their wallets,
00:50:44.640 hopefully we can push back against this and support the types of businesses that you can find on
00:50:49.680 Public Square and the sponsors of your show and many others that will vocally protest these types of
00:50:57.460 actions like we're seeing out of Congress today. I hope that this bill fails. I hope that Speaker
00:51:02.380 Johnson hears a loud and clear message that Americans are ready to prioritize Americans,
00:51:07.340 and that not only includes the individuals that make up this beautiful country, the citizens of
00:51:11.500 this country, but also the small businesses that represent the interests of Main Street. We are
00:51:15.720 well past due for that type of action from those that are supposed to represent us.
00:51:21.060 Michael, if people want to follow you or get on the Public Square platform, either as a consumer
00:51:26.040 or a business, hit us one more time where they can go to do all that.
00:51:29.740 Well, if you're a consumer and you want to shop from the largest marketplace of America first
00:51:34.920 businesses in the country, head to publicsquare.com. We have 80,000 business vendors selling millions
00:51:40.720 of products that would love to serve you. They've all agreed with our value statement. They love the
00:51:44.960 country, the constitution, and the values that that wonderful document protects, and they would love
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00:51:53.640 and save Main Street with the power of the parallel economy.
00:51:59.220 Michael, thank you so much for joining us.
00:52:01.880 Great to see you, Natalie. Thank you.
00:52:04.240 It's always important to maintain firm, hold strong on your values. If only Speaker Mike Johnson
00:52:11.340 had an ounce of the courage and tenacity they had over at Public Square. I just want to draw a quick
00:52:16.780 juxtaposition. You have Chuck Schumer in the Senate literally telling the American people amidst a
00:52:23.620 chorus of cries from the left that democracy is the most important thing, telling the American
00:52:28.980 people that the People's House who voted to basically have a trial, or I guess at least to impeach
00:52:34.100 Mayorkas over what he did, his dereliction of duty, though I think that's too nice a term,
00:52:38.460 his intentional destruction of this country through the southern border and the northern border too,
00:52:42.840 while we're at it, and ports of entry, you name it. He had the nerve to look the American people
00:52:47.620 in the eye and at least tell them, oh no, you're not going to get that. You're not going to see
00:52:50.640 all the ways the deep state, the NGOs, we've been giving your taxpayer dollars to facilitate the mass
00:52:55.580 invasion of this country. Mike Johnson still lies to us. I almost find that more insulting to our
00:53:01.460 intelligence because in the same breath that he says, oh, we need to give $100 billion to Ukraine,
00:53:06.560 Israel, and Taiwan. Oh, but we're also here, look over here, look at this shiny toy. We're also going to
00:53:11.040 introduce a bill that maybe has something to do with the border. It says the word border. What they
00:53:15.460 don't tell you is they, what was it, gave $300 million to the Ukrainian border services. Yeah, every
00:53:22.520 single penny of that should be clawed back the second this show ends and given to the United States
00:53:30.140 Border Patrol. And I'd raise that Speaker Mike Johnson, the fact that Joe Biden has co-signed
00:53:36.200 on your foreign aid bill should be a very, very large red flag. So much so that I hope you guys,
00:53:45.200 the Warren Posse, pile in, call him and make sure that a Joe Biden endorsement don't mean much.
00:53:52.140 You know why? Because if Joe Biden's endorsing it, that means the Chinese Communist Party is,
00:53:56.980 the Mexican drug cartels, the human traffickers, the America Last Globalists, probably Klaus Schwab
00:54:02.740 himself. And I don't know about you, but nothing about that to me is MAGA or America First.
00:54:09.500 And with that, Warren Posse, Steve will be back, of course, tomorrow. In the meantime,
00:54:13.260 you can always go to my website, shesoright.co. Maybe show off your support for President Trump.
00:54:19.480 You've got to get the Barbie pink America First t-shirt or the keychain, anything you want,
00:54:24.800 to show off your support for him despite, what is it, 90-some-odd felonies. We don't care. MAGA
00:54:31.520 hat stays on. We still support Trump, Warren Posse. I will see you tomorrow.
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