00:00:00.160This country just needs to feel a genuine leader. I think, I don't care if it's two women, I don't care if it's a woman, man, the mix does not matter.
00:00:08.600It's just genuine, authentic leadership, somebody who buys into policy and being able to defend and explain their policies, being able to be empathetic and understand the other side.
00:00:16.720That's a huge issue, being empathetic, Democrats to Republicans or Republicans to Democrats.
00:00:21.160And use a tone that actually sounds like the President of the United States instead of, to use your word earlier, a punk.
00:00:26.820Talk, right? Just be proud, whether you're on Twitter or giving a speech or talking to a foreign dignitary. Act like a president.
00:00:33.280So look, I do not think, I agree, I think, I like to, in The Nation I wrote about how, speaking of children, my mother, when I was thinking about having children, I went to my mother and I was like, mom, I'm not ready to have kids.
00:00:47.380And she basically told me, well, praise science, you got nine months to get ready, right? Like, that's what you got, right?
00:00:54.220And so this question, like, America's going to have six months to get ready for whoever that ticket is.
00:00:59.500And I think that America will get there by then.
00:01:01.500I do not believe in a country where there is a person out there that is like, well, I wouldn't vote for two women.
00:01:07.000One woman, all right. Two women, that's too much estrogen.
00:01:10.500Like, I don't think, that's not a person, that's like Brett Stevens.
00:01:13.680What about a gay man in Pete Buttigieg who a lot of Democrats believe is one of their best messengers out there?
00:01:21.540Some people, he's already being attacked for being gay.
00:01:24.160One of the best messengers the Democrats have.
00:01:26.140He is very, very good at speaking to exactly the 10% of voters that you've been talking about, Jeff.
00:01:31.240And for me, he is one of the strongest reformers that we have in our party when it comes to the Supreme Court, which we didn't get to talk about this in the last segment.
00:01:39.920But when we look at a Buttigieg or when we look at a Whitmer, what's the most important issue in this election for a lot of those 150,000 women that are on that call right now?
00:01:48.740And who is going to make that case the most, not just from the top of the ticket, but also from the second number two spot, Whitmer and Buttigieg in different ways can make that case very effective.
00:02:17.380We call to say Michelle and I couldn't be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office.
00:02:29.340I was texting with two members of Congress two days ago and they were and they felt the same way.
00:02:35.500It's like we were hoping for the best, but this was beyond what we thought, how quickly the party coalesced and rallied around her.
00:02:42.540But also, look, when you look at the level of energy and sort of the stuff that's happening on social media organically, right, at the grassroots, Michael, I haven't seen anything like this.
00:03:50.460And I think the vice president, I hope that, you know, her campaign is getting ready.
00:03:56.540I hope they listen to my friend and fellow in the All-Indian, Donna Brazile, who actually, I think, has the same kind of view of politics that I do.
00:05:38.760You heard what they were saying, that the Democrats are empathic, that they express empathy, and that they have a candidate they feel that looks like a president, suggesting, of course, that Donald Trump looks like a punk.
00:05:53.040I just want to say, we'll break this down if it's necessary.
00:05:57.120I don't think anyone on this show is going to be remotely deceived by the shtick there.
00:08:38.140On the subject of Kamala Harris and Democrat compassion, what's so amazing is that the American people are the most tolerant, colorblind people on planet Earth.
00:08:54.620The American working class are deeply, deeply tolerant.
00:08:58.020They will vote for anybody, white, black, gay, straight, Jewish, woman, man, who doesn't insult them, make them poorer, and sell out their children's future, right?
00:09:11.340They could not care less what somebody's identity is.
00:09:17.260The Democrats who don't believe in the American dream, who do believe in selling out the future of the working class and making them poorer, what do they do?
00:09:24.960They take someone who checks the box on multiple identity fronts, who offers the American working class nothing but more insult and more injury, and elevate this person and then say, if you don't like her, you're racist and you're sexist, right?
00:09:40.560You see how there's a trick there, right?
00:09:42.520If they would pick anybody who had an America first agenda, who had a policy proposal for how to bring back the thriving American working class and the American dream, American working class voters would run and vote for that person.
00:09:59.900And instead, what they do is they go back to, you know, the sort of factory settings Democrat, right, who offers people nothing but furthers the kind of immiseration of working class people that started under Bill Clinton, proceeded under Barack Obama, and then really reached its apex under Joe Biden.
00:10:21.020So to me, that's what I see, you look at that call between the Obama's and Kamala Harris and President Obama and Michelle Obama congratulating Vice President Kamala Harris on being effectively anointed through a coup, right?
00:10:35.100In part orchestrated by the Obama's, fine, let's put that aside.
00:10:38.220They called to congratulate her on this.
00:11:14.500You know, I understand that a lot of people on the far right or on the right, a lot of conservatives who care a lot about abortion, were upset that pro-life was left out of the GOP 2024 agenda.
00:11:25.780I really hope that people understand now the genius that Donald Trump brought to that agenda in saying, you know what, let's take this out of the quiver of the Democrats.
00:11:39.460Because they, that is the one thing that she is going to be able to say, look, I'm a woman, I've always promoted this cause.
00:11:46.920It's the one issue she hasn't flip-flopped on.
00:11:49.140It's the one issue that she's been consistent on.
00:11:51.180And now they simply do not have that arrow in their bow because Donald Trump understands where the American people are at.
00:11:58.920And he deserves a lot of credit for that.
00:12:00.920Bhatia, that's basically a confirmation then that your underlying thesis of your book, Second Class, I can sit over your shoulder, Second Class, How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.
00:12:16.920The basic thesis there, I think it remains intact into the forthcoming period under Kamala Harris of her leadership of the Democratic Party.
00:12:28.600I want to read out something that Joe Biden said back in May.
00:12:34.900And this is, I have to thank Matt Boyle from Breitbart for the hatchet there.
00:12:40.800But what Biden said, the values of diversity, equality, inclusion, the famous DEI, are literally, and this is not kidding, the core strengths of America.
00:12:53.760That's why I'm proud to have the most diverse administration in history that taps into the full talents of our country.
00:13:01.480And it starts at the top with the vice president.
00:13:04.600So three months ago, less than three months ago, President Magoo in Philadelphia explicitly refers to his vice president as a DEI hire.
00:13:18.280When the Democrats say that, it's OK, it's fine.
00:13:22.280When Republicans say exactly the same thing, they're racist and misogynist.
00:13:28.600What do you think about it? You've got a minute now before we go to the break.
00:13:32.460What do you think about that difference in standards and how the mainstream media gives always a free pass to the Democrats on these issues?
00:13:43.960I hope that your audience will forgive me for saying this.
00:13:47.320This is the one issue where I think it's best not to say the truth.
00:13:52.560Of course, she's a DEI hire. Joe Biden explicitly said he wanted to hire a black woman.
00:13:57.280Republicans, conservatives, don't talk about it.
00:14:01.140President Trump is polling at 40% of black men.
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00:16:04.780Welcome back to Steve Bannon's War Room, and this is Hanwell here at the helm,
00:16:15.060talking to Bhatia Ungarsagan, the opinion editor of Newsweek.
00:16:19.740Bhatia, I think the response to what you were saying before the break is why the Republicans...
00:16:23.780Now, I think Speaker Mike Nojohnson would very much agree with you, because he has put out the order to his caucus not to refer to Kamala as...
00:16:44.240If we don't say this on the war room, it's not going to be said.
00:16:46.360No, he has put out a notice to his caucus saying that they shouldn't call Kamala a DEI hire,
00:16:56.820which I don't think is sustainable, looking back now at what President Biden,
00:17:02.040President Biden himself said just three months ago.
00:17:06.500I think that, you know, you might have been able to have made the argument that you were making before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
00:17:16.440Once you saw how badly that went down, and that's because the Secret Service is riven now with woke political correctness,
00:17:23.140I think it's a national security issue.
00:17:26.080I don't think the GOP... Personally, I don't think the GOP should be shying away from this issue.
00:17:32.020So, Kamala... You know, there are plenty of... There are plenty of women that the Democrats could have tapped to be their nominee,
00:17:41.160plenty of women of colour as well, candidates of colour of either sex.
00:17:46.980The fact is that Kamala Harris herself is woefully incapable of fulfilling...
00:17:53.020Fulfilling the duties, the responsibilities of a competent commander-in-chief.
00:18:02.400That is the issue. And she's there for all the wrong reasons.
00:18:05.240And I don't see how we can go into an election that's going to be as tense and as contested as the one in November
00:18:13.420and hold back from a significant, legitimate argument against her candidacy.
00:18:21.980Well, I don't disagree with anything you just said.
00:18:24.200I agree with you that she's not a good choice for president.
00:18:28.600You know, she's... For the simple reason that, like many of the Democrats at that top tier, top echelon,
00:18:34.980she believes in nothing and has no convictions and no plan for, you know,
00:18:39.440helping the American working class achieve the American dream.
00:18:41.800So I agree with you that she would not... She's not a great pick for president.
00:18:46.720But why not just say that? Why give any ammunition?
00:18:52.160Why say it in a way that a person who's not steeped in the news and in the terminology
00:18:57.040might hear it as a racial attack, even though I know, God forbid, nobody is meaning it in that way.
00:19:04.860We're relying on people to be very keyed in and it's super online to understand that the point that's being made is
00:19:11.360she was chosen because of that and she was unqualified irrespective of her race, right?
00:19:17.740What if somebody, what if a bunch of people who are just getting this third hand are gonna hear it
00:19:23.220as she is unqualified because of that, God forbid?
00:19:27.980You know, we shouldn't rely on people who are working so hard.
00:19:31.320I mean, the whole point of Donald Trump's pitch is the American working class works unbelievably hard
00:19:37.060and cannot achieve the most modest version of the American dream that the elites in Hollywood,
00:19:41.980that the elites in Washington, and that the elites in the media take for granted.
00:19:45.940You know, these ghouls who spend their lives lying to the American people are all rich.
00:19:51.040And the people who work really hard cannot afford a home, right?