In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill providing more than $60 billion in aid to Ukraine and Israel, despite President Donald Trump's opposition. The vote marks a temporary break in congressional dysfunction, and marks a glimmer of hope for the future.
00:02:43.520It's Natalie G. Winters hosting, filling in for Stephen K. Bannon today, Friday, April 19th, in the year of our Lord, 2024.
00:02:52.460Now, you know it's bad when MSNBC is wheeling out Charlie Sykes and a couple of those other intellectuals to be basically praising Speaker Mike Johnson.
00:03:02.860I thought he was supposed to be the MAGA speaker, though.
00:03:05.400I'd say when you have Joe Biden co-signing on the foreign aid packages that you're supporting, not necessarily the endorsement that I would be touting since this morning's show.
00:03:17.800They've had, I believe, a rules vote on it, progressing into two separate votes on these foreign aid packages tomorrow.
00:03:24.680But I think there's an interesting moment from that MSNBC clip I just tortured you guys and made you watch when Andrea Mitchell goes.
00:03:37.240We're going back to the old ways, not the America first.
00:03:40.280Trump-inspired MAGA way of doing things in the House where we don't just jam through, frankly, useless foreign aid packages to just continue.
00:03:52.940They've actually authorized federal government spending.
00:03:57.120You can look at it on the usaspending.gov website.
00:04:00.420Ukraine contracts for ammunition, other forms of military defense supplies for Ukrainian forces coming from American companies through the year 2030.
00:04:12.480Actually, the end of 2030, almost 2031.
00:04:14.680They're trying to make Ukraine the next forever war.
00:04:17.420We have a small cohort of Republicans in Congress who are trying to stop it.
00:04:20.940I believe one of them joins me now, Congressman Tim Burchett, the one and only emphasis.
00:04:28.360I say that a lot, but you truly are the one and only.
00:04:32.040Congressman, if you want to give us an update on where we stand on these foreign aid packages, and then we'll drill down on Mike Johnson, where he stands.
00:04:39.940Yeah, I have no doubt when CNN comes out for something that I'm against, that I'm on the right side of history.
00:07:04.040And this is because 20 million so-called conservatives decided to stay home on Election Day.
00:07:10.040It's insulting to MAGA's intelligence when they do, just like you were talking about, those tricks where they vote basically with hardline Democrats, but then they just use the red meat talking points and they think if they say – or even frankly, it's what they're doing with the southern border right now, right?
00:07:26.160It's shiny toys, they try to use it as distractions, but I'm just curious to get your thoughts on this, not to trigger you too much, but it always strikes me that it was late last year that the White House, when they noticed that decline for what was going on in Ukraine, was starting to really plummet here at home among American voters, that they switched the messaging and they reached out to local newspapers,
00:07:52.580the mainstream media, and they tried to say that the Ukraine war is actually good for American manufacturing jobs, it's good for America's industrial base, I would argue, it's probably really only good for the CEO of Boeing and Raytheon and Lockheed Martin and that swampy, sewer-y class, but put the war room posse in the room.
00:08:10.740When they give you guys flack for not voting with them, if there's back and forth exchanges, even if it's being duked out on cable, is the only line of defense,
00:08:20.300the only argument that they make is that Ukraine is just imperative for democracy, what is their argument as to why you guys are so crazy?
00:08:29.580It is, and I've got some notes, if I can find them, but just the GDP, oh here they are, excuse me, the GDP of Russia, sorry,
00:08:38.760the state of California has a greater GDP than Russia, Russia is a threat, and Canada and France are right there with Russia,
00:08:54.320so you're not talking about a mega power that's going to dominate the world, and I, you know, today, this week,
00:09:02.760they said in one of the committee meetings that, you know, if we don't do this, I'll be sending my kids and grandkids to defend Poland.
00:09:11.080Well, again, why are we getting in the middle of Europe's war? This is not World War II. I hate when they draw,
00:09:18.680but they try to draw some similarities to it. There aren't any. Putin is a thug, but so is Xi Jinping.
00:09:24.660What are these, you know, these war pimps going to do when China moves on Taiwan, which they probably will do under this weak White House?
00:09:33.480What will they do? Are they going to clamor for more war? You know, are we going to go further in debt?
00:09:38.460We won't have a country when this is over. We've got enough money to do all this stuff.
00:09:44.220We could have built Trump's wall 12 dadgum times for this amount of money that we're putting in Ukraine,
00:09:51.460and yet they won't let us do it. I say we send them a vote every week on the wall and make them vote on it.
00:09:58.760Let the American public know they don't care about the wall or keeping this country whole.
00:10:05.820All they care about is getting reelected and soundbites and raising money.
00:10:09.920Now, you mentioned the war defense contractors. They're going to get $23 billion out of this.
00:10:18.380And so, but there's also money in there. Get this. There's money in there for Ukrainian legal aid for refugees when they enter the U.S.
00:10:31.360What the heck is that about? And we know when this war is over that we're going to be the ones,
00:10:36.580the American taxpayers are going to be the ones that rebuild that country.
00:10:39.500I just, I just don't buy it all. There's more to this than we're being told.
00:10:46.020And we may never know the full story, but it's ridiculous. It is ridiculous.
00:10:50.600And we don't have the guts to do the right thing about it.
00:10:53.400And we ought to just say, no border, no budget, shut the thing down, shut this country down until we can fix our border situation.
00:11:03.400And that lame bill that came over from the Senate, if you had, you had to have 5,000 encounters in one day.
00:11:10.580So 5,000 illegals would have to cross our border before it was enacted.
00:11:15.620That's just ridiculous. 5,000? So 4,999 is okay? And then they say, well, it is bipartisan.
00:11:24.020They always say that when one Republican gets on a Democrat bill. It just drives me crazy.
00:11:29.680So don't buy what they're selling. Get people registered to vote. Get their butts to the polls.
00:11:35.300And let's get some guts. And let's take our dadgum country back, top to bottom, from the county commissions, the school boards, the county mayors, the dog catcher.
00:11:47.480I don't care. You know, we have got to get control of this country.
00:11:51.640We've got to get control of runaway spending.
00:11:54.280It's out of every hundred days we add another trillion dollars on.
00:11:57.900Another trillion dollars, if you can imagine that, every hundred days.
00:12:01.520And it's such a disgrace that, you know, we can't even have meaningful discussions about sovereignty and border security without them just inherently linking it to Ukraine aid.
00:12:11.960You know, I know it's cliche, but they do care more about the borders of Ukraine than they do our own, I think, epitomized by the fact that they gave them a cutout of, what, $300 million for Ukraine's border services?
00:12:22.860How about that for a slap in the face to MAGA?
00:12:24.960I've got a few minutes. I'd like to hold you through the break, but I do have a question.
00:12:29.040It seems like an audit, some meaningful kind of explanation to the American people where these funds are going.
00:12:37.300Of course, they're never going to do it because we know it's subsidizing yacht purchases and new vacation homes for Boeing executives.
00:12:43.960But is there any discussion of trying to actually make a substantive appeal to the American people, why Ukrainian aid is worth giving?
00:12:53.000Or is it just this old cycle that they think they can lie to us and get away with it?
00:12:59.040Uh, line's much easier. And you're right. They've done, they sold it to the local newscasters and, and things.
00:13:07.540And, you know, it's, we just sat here with our hands folded, the conservatives do, and we just take it every dadgum time.
00:13:14.760It was so predictable what they were going to do. They're going to show the horrible scenes on television and all the, uh, things, but, you know, look what's going on in our own cities.
00:13:25.180They're big cities are burning down and people are, you know, they're getting in trouble doing things that you would, you would think almost medieval.
00:13:34.260And, um, and we've allowed these people to come into our country that are, that are doing these things.
00:13:39.160So, you know, I, I don't know. I get crazy frustrated over it. It just seems so obvious to me what's going on.
00:13:45.260But the bottom line is, look, these anarchists, they want to destroy this country and they're going to take it and they're, and they're succeeding right now.
00:13:54.900And they know, they know Donald Trump is winning this election except for one demographic.
00:14:00.920And that is the radical Marxist who don't think Biden's done enough. If you can believe that.
00:14:06.400So that's why you're seeing Biden doing things like transgender day on Easter Sunday. That's a slap in the face to conservatives everywhere.
00:14:14.560Everybody knows that. And, um, and so he's got to get that base to the polls. He knows he cannot, he's losing every other major demographic and that's the one where he's, he's losing ground actually to be more accurate.
00:14:28.260So I think that's the bottom line with this bunch. And, and we've got a bunch of willing folks to go along with it.
00:14:37.200Useful idiots who are aiding and abetting the destruction of America from within Congress.
00:14:42.020And if you can hang with us through the short break, I would appreciate that. Warren Posse, we will be back.
00:14:47.200We got a packed show. We got Colonel John Mills joining us to walk through Chinese cyber security attacks too.
00:14:54.700Never a dull day under Joe Biden. We'll be right back after this break.
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00:21:42.460We got Bradley Devlin from the American Conservative joining us to give us some more refined, I would say, analysis of what is going on when it comes to Speaker Johnson's fate.
00:21:56.460But Bradley, before we get into the wonderful piece you wrote for American Conservative, I'd love to just get your thoughts on what Congressman Birchett said in terms of Hakeem.
00:22:04.520I mean, that's a pretty out there proposition that Hakeem Jeffries could do less damage to this country than some, you know, swamp, as Birchett says, sewer member type Republicans could do if they were to replace Speaker Johnson.
00:22:17.580I'm just curious your thoughts on that.
00:22:19.040Well, Tim's a tough act to follow, Natalie.
00:22:24.240And sorry, Congressman, I'm going to be stealing the D.C. is an open sewer, not a swamp, because the swamp at least serves an ecological purpose line.
00:22:32.320I'll be stealing that for the American Conservative quite soon.
00:22:35.460But that said, I think it is incorrect to say that Hakeem Jeffries would do less damage.
00:22:43.820The Speaker gets to determine everything that goes on in the inner workings of the House of Representatives.
00:22:50.180And that said, any Republican member that would side with Democrats are basically committing political suicide if they decided that once Speaker Johnson was out, they're going to side with Democrats.
00:23:01.560The Democrats are going to ram through as much of Joe Biden's agenda as possible before November.
00:23:06.180And you are just handing Democrats the keys to the kingdom.
00:23:10.400Even with a so-called conservative speaker, the Democrats have effectively handcuffed the Trump administration's diplomatic options when it comes to Ukraine for not only the first year of his presidency, but even beyond that.
00:23:22.380The CBO scoring shows that, shows how this aid package will affect discretionary outlays for defense all the way up until 2031.
00:23:32.000So, I don't think that it would be, I don't think Hakeem Jeffries would be less damaging than an establishment Republican, though I think it'd be pretty close.
00:23:42.680It's just way too much power to put in Hakeem Jeffries' hands.
00:23:44.920And speaking of House Democrats, your piece sort of walks through that while they have sort of bailed out Mike Johnson, when it comes to the foreign aid packages, the three kind of regions that they're going after, though, for the most part, it's Ukrainian aid.
00:24:00.000The question is, will they be able to save his speakership?
00:24:03.140So, if you want to run the audience through your piece a little bit, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
00:24:06.780Yeah, Democrats have been put in a can't-lose situation with what's going to transpire after these aid packages are likely passed tomorrow.
00:24:16.480If Gosar, who has now joined Massey and Green, if Green decides that she asks for privilege on that motion and they get the three of them to oust the Speaker,
00:24:26.760then we enter a phase where Democrats could once again save Johnson by voting against the motion to vacate.
00:24:34.800So, a few Democrats would join Republicans and increase the threshold that conservatives would need to kick Johnson out.
00:24:41.540The reason they would do that is because Johnson has given every single deliverable that they could possibly want in a GOP-controlled House thus far.
00:24:52.560They got the Ukraine aid that they wanted.
00:24:54.180And they did all of that without having to cape at all on keeping Joe Biden's border open.
00:24:59.700What they fear is that there's enough Republicans ticked off in the course of the appropriations fight, the FISA fight, and this Ukraine aid fight that they would actually end up giving the speakership to someone more conservative, a Jim Jordan type.
00:25:18.620I think the next Republican speaker will probably be in the same ilk as Mike Johnson, right?
00:25:24.880Someone who talks the talk but doesn't really walk the walk when it comes to positions of power.
00:25:31.380Then you enter into the other can't-lose situation, right?
00:25:36.380The other option is they decide to let Johnson fail, and they don't save him, and they end up just making the House Republican Conference look like a bunch of fools for a while, and then maybe they'll come in and save him later.
00:25:51.920But I really think that they might save him since they saved him in the rules committee, and they saved him on the floor today, and they'll probably save him again on the floor tomorrow and actually pass these bills.
00:26:06.660They're getting everything that they want.
00:26:08.540So why rock the vote too much at this point?
00:26:11.320I'm just curious, heading into this weekend, obviously they have the two votes scheduled for, I believe, Saturday evening.
00:26:20.280Not necessarily asking for predictions, so if you want, you can give them.
00:26:24.120But how do you think that those votes are going to shake out?
00:26:27.940Do you think we will see a motion to vacate?
00:26:30.360What do you think is going to, really, his future is going to look like?
00:26:35.400Well, chances are if Marjorie asks for privilege on that motion, you know, leadership will have 48 hours.
00:26:41.440And so they'll kick it until after recess.
00:26:44.980If these bills go through, I think you're going to have a number of conservatives come out of the woodwork and say, hey, I'm supporting this motion to vacate as well.
00:26:53.800Maybe Democrats do save Mike Johnson in exchange for what?
00:26:57.280If they don't, then, of course, Republicans will just look even more in chaos.
00:27:01.200And that is the number one reason why you've seen Mar-a-Lago come out, not fully against Mike Johnson, right?
00:27:08.720The truth social post that he had clearly showed that he wasn't in favor of more Ukraine aid.
00:27:14.940But he didn't come out and say, speak your Johnson should be vacated.
00:27:18.280He's played this pretty close to his chest because insiders from Mar-a-Lago have told outlets like Politico that they don't want to sow more division and make Republicans look incapable of governing in the lead up to the November election.
00:27:31.100And I think that's what you want to hope for the most, right, is that you want to put as much pressure on the speaker as possible while letting Democrats capitalize off of the chaos, right?
00:27:41.820Well, we have all these wars going on and the Republicans in Congress just cannot behave.
00:27:45.780So I understand the danger there, but I think Johnson has basically sealed his fate by doing something unprecedented, by having the minority support him in the rules committee, the minority support the rule on the floor.
00:27:56.700I mean, this is John Boehner levels of smacks in the face to conservatives.
00:28:00.560I had a source tell me, Rachel Bovard from the Conservative Partnership Institute, that Mike Johnson is breaking all sorts of House traditions, and he's being more tyrannical, arguably, than Joe Cannon was in the early 19-teens when he was basically in control.
00:28:16.840And, Bradley, we've got to jump to a break.
00:28:17.700If people want to follow you, get more of your analysis, where can they go to get it on Twitter and American Conservative?
00:28:23.360Yeah, check out theamericanconservative.com.
00:28:26.880I'll have a number of pieces come out through the rest of today and tomorrow about this motion to vacate.
00:28:39.660Warren Posse, we'll be right back after this break.
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00:34:56.780Yeah, I'm actually sitting here right now with my with my video editor.
00:35:00.740And we actually have we have video footage of them doing this, too.
00:35:04.360So so we we have we have video exclusive video footage of NYPD confiscating the sign and flipping it over to the side that was talking about Trump.
00:35:14.180It says Trump is with Biden and they're about to fascist to us.
00:35:22.740You know, I'm not I'm not trying to curse on the show.
00:35:24.800I'm just giving you guys the actual name of his of his handle.
00:35:28.060That's his Instagram and his Twitter handle before they try to delete it, because as we've seen, whenever there's some type of politically motivated attack, the social media companies always rush to silence, silence the account by deleting all of the evidence.
00:35:42.460And the media wants to make it seem like this is President Trump's fault.
00:35:48.640He also appears to have been a really big germaphobe.
00:35:52.780He talked a lot about covid and his paranoia with covid on his Instagram account.
00:35:57.860And police said that it wasn't gasoline that he used to light himself on fire with.
00:36:02.220They said during the press conference that it appeared to be rubbing alcohol, some type of accelerant.
00:36:08.540And on his own Instagram account, there's a post about rubbing alcohol and how people should invest in rubbing alcohol.
00:36:15.280I've also seen that last year, nearly one year to the date, he sued the Clinton Foundation and he also sued Hillary Clinton.
00:36:23.900And that lawsuit was filed on April 13th of 2023, nearly one year to the date.
00:36:30.540And so this clearly he clearly was very politically oriented, suing the Clintons, openly supporting Bernie, openly supporting Obama, criticizing President Trump, walking around with an anti-Trump sign.
00:36:41.120And he wrote a manifesto on his sub stack as well.
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00:36:50.780Laura, if people want to follow you, watch that exclusive footage.
00:36:54.620I'm sure you'll be breaking many more stories throughout the day, throughout the weekend.
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00:37:14.620Laura, thank you for always being on the front lines and getting us the truth, getting us the the Loomer version of the truth.
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00:39:31.740Most of this went right over even even the experts went right over their head.
00:39:35.040It called for a tabletop exercise to be run to test the resilience of domestic critical infrastructure in case of war with China over Taiwan.
00:39:48.280This means our power plants, our power grid, water, information, telecommunications, the Internet service providers, air traffic control, cranes, all those all those spike cranes, everything.
00:40:04.820So we knew that what that telegraphed is the the air quote experts knew something was up.
00:40:12.160New things were getting a new thing that things were getting ready for kinetic war with China.
00:40:19.100And so also in January, February, both Chinese carriers were at sea and ran a lot of exercises toward Guam.
00:41:59.560I think in some ways they're being serious.
00:42:01.160But in some ways they're also part of the problem because precious resources that should have been apportioned to dealing with this were doing what they deem more important, like chasing J6ers or parents at school boards.
00:42:15.120And seriously, this is the Intel Collection priority stack.
00:42:19.180They're porting more resource to that than the Chinese cyber.
00:42:22.380But they are screaming with megaphones right now, this is preparation for war.
00:42:28.860They are putting malware on our domestic critical infrastructure so they can turn things off when the bullets start flying.
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