Bannon's War Room - August 09, 2024


Episode 3820： Radical Walz Looking To Reform America


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In this episode of the War Room, I sit down with my good friend E.J. Antony from the Heritage Foundation to discuss the current state of the economy and what it means for the future of our country.

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00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:07.000 Pray for our enemies.
00:00:09.000 Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:12.000 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:16.000 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:18.000 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:20.000 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:22.000 but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:23.000 It's going to happen.
00:00:24.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:27.000 Mega Media.
00:00:28.000 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:33.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.000 War Room.
00:00:45.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:52.000 Good morning, everybody.
00:00:53.000 Chip Roy here temporarily sitting in the chair occupied by Steve Bannon.
00:00:56.000 We look forward to his return soon after his exile in which he is standing up for you and for me,
00:01:02.000 standing up for our children and our grandchildren against tyranny.
00:01:05.000 We thank him for it.
00:01:06.000 We're blessed for it.
00:01:07.000 And I know one of the things that you all want to listen to is some deeper understanding of the state of our economy,
00:01:16.000 the state of the assault on your ability to live the American dream by the Biden-Harris regime.
00:01:23.000 That's what we're actually seeing right now.
00:01:25.000 We talked the first hour about this, what we're calling the worldview election,
00:01:29.000 or at least what I'm referring to as this worldview election.
00:01:31.000 Decidedly different view of the world, right?
00:01:33.000 National security, open borders, but importantly about the economy and our government's role in the economy.
00:01:41.000 And what we are seeing right now is a missing President Biden.
00:01:45.000 Where is Joe Biden?
00:01:47.000 What is he doing?
00:01:48.000 He's sitting in the basement.
00:01:49.000 And meanwhile, Kamala Harris is scrambling, trying to come up with a message on the economy, 0.97
00:01:54.000 because there isn't one, and they know it.
00:01:56.000 She keeps talking about what she's going to do.
00:01:58.000 Well, she is in the office of the Vice President right now.
00:02:01.000 In fact, she is effectively, might as well be the President, right?
00:02:06.000 Because Joe's missing.
00:02:07.000 So she can't hide behind what you're feeling as an average American out there.
00:02:11.000 And I talked about earlier about the price of an automobile,
00:02:13.000 and the average price of an automobile being $48,000,
00:02:16.000 but a third of American families make less than $50,000.
00:02:19.000 We all know that the national debt cracked this last month $35 trillion for the first time in our history.
00:02:25.000 A trillion dollars of interest every year.
00:02:28.000 We are now spending more in interest than we are on the national defense.
00:02:32.000 Prices have increased over 20% under the Biden-Harris regime,
00:02:37.000 the biggest increase in inflation since the 1970s stagflation.
00:02:41.000 And importantly, this is being driven by a lot of the regulatory compliance by this administration
00:02:48.000 with all the radical, progressive, Democrat climate change policies,
00:02:53.000 adding $10,000 worth of costs per American household according to a study by the University of Chicago.
00:02:59.000 Think about that.
00:03:00.000 I just glossed over that.
00:03:02.000 $10,000 of additional costs.
00:03:04.000 That's why you're feeling it.
00:03:05.000 Your health insurance is up.
00:03:07.000 Your cars cost more.
00:03:09.000 Your ability to own a home is going down because mortgage rates are high.
00:03:13.000 But now, what's happening with that?
00:03:16.000 What's the Fed going to do?
00:03:17.000 Is the Fed going to play games because it's an electoral season?
00:03:20.000 Yes.
00:03:21.000 You can bet they are.
00:03:22.000 And I've got my good friend E.J.
00:03:24.000 Antony from the Heritage Foundation, who is an expert on the economy,
00:03:29.000 an expert on these kinds of policies.
00:03:31.000 And it's great to have you on the show, E.J.
00:03:33.000 How are you?
00:03:34.000 Congressman, doing well.
00:03:35.000 Thank you so much for having me.
00:03:38.000 No, honored to have you on the show.
00:03:40.000 And I just wondered if you could address that issue, specifically what you think the Fed's doing and whether they're going to play some political games as we head into the election season to try to make up for the mess that they've created out of the economy, making it nearly impossible for the average American family to be able to survive and to be able to get by.
00:03:59.000 And I wonder if you could expand on that.
00:04:02.000 Absolutely.
00:04:03.000 At this point, the Fed and the Treasury are really working hand in glove, I think, to try to get this administration, this failed administration, across the finish line.
00:04:13.000 Whether you're talking about yield curve control or whether you're talking about manipulating the bond market, whatever the case may be, they are effectively trying to make things look better than they are.
00:04:25.000 One very good example of that is how they are shifting away from long term debt to short term debt.
00:04:32.000 There's a couple of reasons for that, one of which is they're trying to artificially push down the interest rate on mortgages so that it makes it look like homes are more affordable,
00:04:42.000 even though we know that we're facing a home ownership affordability crisis right now.
00:04:47.000 But the other thing is that because Treasury bills have such a short duration.
00:04:52.000 In other words, you're lending money to the Treasury and you get it back within a matter of weeks, at most a year.
00:04:58.000 They are very oftentimes treated and traded like a cash asset, like a very liquid asset.
00:05:04.000 In other words, that makes it look like there is more cash in the financial system than there really is.
00:05:10.000 That can help boost asset prices like stocks, for example.
00:05:14.000 And so it can provide a temporary but strictly temporary stimulus to money markets.
00:05:20.000 Once again, this is all part of trying to make things look better than they are.
00:05:25.000 At this point, I think the best way, Congressman, to describe what the Fed and Treasury are doing is putting lipstick on a pig at every level you can possibly imagine throughout the financial system.
00:05:37.000 So unpack for me a little bit and for the listener what you think, your observation, the sort of core problem is at the moment, right?
00:05:44.000 I mean, I've got my own observations as a member of Congress.
00:05:48.000 I'm not an economist.
00:05:51.000 But, you know, if you go back and you look at the 1970s and stagflation and you saw a lot of the driving forces of some of that, you had some like union wage pressure increases, you had regulatory issues.
00:06:01.000 You also had very high marginal tax rates, right?
00:06:04.000 You had 70 percent top marginal tax rate under Carter, which then Ronald Reagan dropped.
00:06:09.000 You know, there's the famous Laffer curve and all the changes in the early 80s dropped to a top marginal rate of closer to 30 percent.
00:06:15.000 And so that was part of spurring economic growth along with other tax changes.
00:06:18.000 But there was also regulatory changes and other things to undo the burdens being caused by the radical progressive Democrat regime of the day under the Carter administration in the late 70s.
00:06:28.000 Can you unpack where we are today in 2024 and what a President Trump administration will be staring at on January 20th?
00:06:36.000 And what do we do? Like, let's let's kind of lay out for the American people.
00:06:40.000 Hey, this is going to be how we're going to aggressively get economic growth back and restore the American dream.
00:06:46.000 Well, not only did the Trump tax cuts help spur at least some economic growth, but even more so what they did during the Trump administration was regulatory reform.
00:06:56.000 This is an area where, frankly, I don't think the Trump admin gets anywhere near enough credit.
00:07:01.000 I'm so glad you brought up regulation, Congressman, because under under the Trump administration, again, through reform, they were able to reduce regulatory costs, something that hadn't been done essentially in a generation.
00:07:14.000 They were able to reduce regulatory costs in average of two thousand dollars per household per year of that administration.
00:07:22.000 But we've seen exactly the opposite under this administration, under the Biden Harris team, where you have seen an increase of five thousand dollars per household per year in regulatory costs.
00:07:34.000 And so, yes, it's true. People are earning more today.
00:07:37.000 But between inflation from the Fed printing money and regulatory costs pushing prices up even further, all of those wage gains have been completely wiped out.
00:07:47.000 And that's despite the fact that we have actually seen some increases in productivity recently.
00:07:52.000 In other words, families today are working harder than ever before.
00:07:56.000 They're working more than ever before.
00:07:58.000 And yet they're able to buy less than they could just four years ago.
00:08:02.000 And that shows you just how much the government has grown.
00:08:05.000 And I guess that that's a long winded way of going back to the original question you had, Congressman, which is what is our primary problem today?
00:08:12.000 Too much government, too much government spending.
00:08:16.000 People need to realize every dime of government spending is paid for.
00:08:20.000 You may pay for it through taxes.
00:08:22.000 You may pay for it through inflation.
00:08:24.000 But whatever the case, you will pay for it.
00:08:27.000 And every time the federal budget increases, the family budget decreases.
00:08:31.000 That's a zero sum game.
00:08:33.000 Government can't spend a dime unless it takes it from you first.
00:08:37.000 And so you have to remember, again, every time someone tries to sell you a government program or a new government spending package saying we're going to give X, Y and Z goodies to these different people, maybe even yourself.
00:08:51.000 Remember, you're paying for that at the end of the day.
00:08:56.000 E.J., I appreciate that very much because I think that's lost for a lot of Americans.
00:09:00.000 They hear, you know, what we're debating in policy up here.
00:09:03.000 Going back to what the Trump administration do and deregulating and dropping down the cost of regulations.
00:09:08.000 We now just have the important Chevron ruling by the Supreme Court now gives us greater tools in Congress.
00:09:13.000 And frankly, in the executive branch, we're able to go push back now and be able to say, look, Congress is going to control some of this.
00:09:19.000 But we have more power to be able to head in in January and deconstruct this regulatory state.
00:09:24.000 My next guest after you is going to be my good friend Alex Epstein.
00:09:27.000 But I wondered if you might kind of help set the stage, right, for what we're talking about in terms of all of that regulatory cost.
00:09:34.000 The issue with respect to energy policy, right, the issue with respect to the Inflation Reduction Act, so-called Inflation Reduction Act, and all of the subsidies that have gone into funding China and funding, you know, wind projects and solar projects, which are actually more costly energy.
00:09:50.280 The fact that our cars are more expensive, the tailpipe rule that's going to make EVs be two-thirds of the average of the American fleet by 2032, which will drive up the cost of automobiles because EVs are more expensive, more expensive to repair, and less efficient for the average family, the average family of four that's struggling.
00:10:08.100 Can you set the stage for what we're facing and how aggressive we need to be?
00:10:12.420 And then one final point on the spending point.
00:10:15.620 We're $35 trillion in debt.
00:10:17.320 We're bleeding out $2 trillion a year.
00:10:20.060 How important is it for us when we come in, especially if we're going to do a tax relief, if we're going to extend some portions or all of some of the tax breaks from President Trump in 2017, how important and critical is it for us to restrain spending in order to drive inflation down?
00:10:35.780 How important is it for us to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act in full, which would save us about $800 billion so we can use that to offset some of the tax relief for economic growth?
00:10:46.840 Well, Congressman, it's so key that when we reduce government revenue that we also reduce government spending.
00:10:53.240 The last time we really did this was back in the 1920s, actually, and that was a key ingredient to the boom of the 1920s was the fact that you were shrinking government, but you were also shrinking government, again, not just in terms of how much they were taking from you, but how much they were spending.
00:11:10.760 If you don't do that, then you create those massive deficits and you provide this huge incentive for the Federal Reserve to create the money that the Treasury needs to borrow.
00:11:20.620 And that's how we get 40-year high inflation like we've been dealing with for the last several years.
00:11:25.440 That's how you get a cost-of-living crisis.
00:11:27.540 That's how you get these violent swings in interest rates where you enticed families with low interest rates to go into mountains of debt, and now with high interest rates, they're basically trapped there forever.
00:11:37.220 They can never afford a home.
00:11:38.600 They can never get out of credit card debt, et cetera.
00:11:40.900 So in terms of how important it is that we claw back some of this unspent revenue, that's going to be a key ingredient to try to dig us out of this massive hole that the Biden-Harris administration and, frankly, Congress as well has gotten us into over the last several years.
00:11:57.280 You said earlier we're spending over a trillion dollars a year just in interest on the debt.
00:12:02.580 That's not paying a dime towards principal.
00:12:04.560 You're not paying off the debt.
00:12:05.840 You're just servicing it.
00:12:07.100 I mean, this is absolutely extraordinary, and it is going to be a choke collar around the economic neck of this country if we don't get it under control.
00:12:15.900 Now, regarding energy, one of the reasons why it's so important to deregulate that, unlike the rest of the world where they use oil for a lot of their chemical blend stocks, we use natural gas because it's so incredibly cheap for us to get it out of the ground, especially in places like Pennsylvania where Kamala Harris now wants to kill the natural gas industry in that state entirely.
00:12:36.240 But with natural gas, you get all kinds of chemicals that you can use for everything from making polyester fibers for clothing to the plastics that surround your cell phone or your laptop computer, whatever the case may be, pharmaceuticals, you name it.
00:12:51.540 And so if you can reduce the price of so ubiquitous an input as natural gas through reducing regulation, you end up reducing cost pressures throughout the entire economy.
00:13:02.320 So we should remember that a lot of these energy sources aren't just used for energy.
00:13:07.060 They're used for almost everything in our lives, and that's why it's so important that we get those costs down.
00:13:12.940 In addition to driving down the cost by making sure we put in the right kind of policy with respect to energy to get energy prices down, just one closing kind of question and thought for you, which is when we're dealing with those kinds of impacts on the average American family, expand just real quick on, you know, you talked about driving down the regulatory costs, what President Trump was able to do.
00:13:38.640 How critical is that component in terms of economic growth, okay?
00:13:43.520 Because that's one of the things that's going to get lost in this.
00:13:45.080 Everybody's going to be talking about a tax bill in January.
00:13:47.320 And look, I'm for whatever tax relief we can provide for the hardworking family out there, okay?
00:13:52.360 Not necessarily interested in it for every corporation that's advancing their, you know, ESG agenda and all their garbage on the American people.
00:13:59.420 But I want to make sure there's economic growth potential.
00:14:01.680 But the regulatory issue, how much of a factor is that in driving down our ability to have economic growth?
00:14:10.300 We have to remember, Congressman, this is a really good question.
00:14:13.160 We have to remember that when you're talking about, let's say, a trillion dollars in regulatory costs versus a trillion dollars in taxes, the regulatory costs are infinitely more harmful.
00:14:22.660 The reason is is because that's just simply lost economic activity.
00:14:26.120 If the government is going to take a trillion dollars from you, they are ultimately going to spend it.
00:14:30.900 Now, they're going to spend it inefficiently, right?
00:14:32.540 They're not going to spend it in an efficient manner.
00:14:34.840 There will be wasted resources in that process.
00:14:37.380 But they're never going to waste 100 percent of it, even if they waste 90 percent of it, let's say, which does happen sometimes.
00:14:43.660 Don't get me wrong.
00:14:44.840 It's still not as bad as wasting all of it.
00:14:47.440 But that's what happens with this regulation.
00:14:49.740 Those regulatory costs represent economic activity that just vanishes.
00:14:56.120 Thank you, brother.
00:14:56.600 I appreciate it.
00:14:57.180 We're going to have Alex Epsom on in just one minute to talk.
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00:16:27.400 War Room.
00:16:28.380 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:16:30.720 Good morning, everybody.
00:16:36.440 Great to be sitting here in the War Room, temporarily holding the chair, held by Steve Bannon, who's out there fighting for you and me.
00:16:42.640 And we're deeply appreciative for it.
00:16:44.160 I am deeply appreciative to have my friend Alex Epstein on the line to talk about what I refer to as energy freedom.
00:16:51.500 There is probably no better voice out there for explaining human flourishing and the extent to which the average American,
00:17:00.100 particularly now, benefits from expansive energy freedom and the ability to afford energy and get the products that come from it.
00:17:11.440 Alex has been doing this for a long time.
00:17:13.060 He and I have been working together for, I don't know, almost a decade, I think.
00:17:16.660 And I'm deeply appreciative to have him on.
00:17:18.600 How are you, brother?
00:17:20.320 Doing great.
00:17:21.300 Looking forward to the discussion.
00:17:24.560 Well, great to have you here.
00:17:25.780 Congratulations.
00:17:26.320 You're a new dad, right?
00:17:27.380 A couple months ago, I think.
00:17:28.820 Yeah, seven and a half weeks in.
00:17:31.740 Yeah, yeah, great.
00:17:32.720 It's a lot of fun.
00:17:34.480 Well, that's great.
00:17:36.040 Well, look, let's just jump right in.
00:17:37.240 We just had EJ in talking about the extent to which the sort of regulatory environment is crushing the American economy. 0.73
00:17:44.040 And I want to get in zero in on what we've been seeing out of the Biden-Harris administration
00:17:49.600 and what we're seeing currently in terms of the regulatory impact of all of the stuff going on on energy, right?
00:17:55.020 We're talking about the tailpipe rule, which is going to mandate EVs by 2032.
00:17:59.680 We're talking about the Inflation Production Act where you've got subsidies.
00:18:03.380 And one of the things I want the audience to hear from you is, like, you're not coming at this from a particular political agenda necessarily as much as just speaking truth
00:18:11.260 and speaking truth about what it means for the average human being, right, that humans flourish when we have abundant available energy.
00:18:18.780 This administration has been restricting the availability of abundant, reliable energy.
00:18:23.880 And rather than allowing us to flourish with available gas, available – I know you're big on nuclear.
00:18:30.180 Can you talk a little bit about that, about what that means for the average American family,
00:18:33.800 how the American dream is getting restricted by pursuit of this – what is in fact a political agenda
00:18:40.140 and rather what we could do instead with true energy freedom?
00:18:44.600 Sure. I mean, I think a key aspect of the American dream is just having a certain level of prosperity.
00:18:52.780 So the idea that, well, if, you know, you work hard, you do the right things, you can sort of fairly easily support a family.
00:19:01.520 You can do work that you like, but you can also have recreational time.
00:19:06.100 You know, you can do all sorts of different things with your social network and community.
00:19:10.040 And what people need to realize is this kind of life – there's a lot of problems, there's a lot of things undercutting it right now,
00:19:17.780 but you have to realize this is a fairly new thing.
00:19:20.140 And it comes from prosperity, and fundamentally prosperity comes from freedom,
00:19:25.300 because freedom allows us to use our ideas to figure out how to become more productive and prosperous.
00:19:30.720 But to be a little more specific, prosperity comes from energy freedom,
00:19:34.280 because energy freedom is the ability to innovate and create in the realm of energy.
00:19:39.060 And energy is machine food or machine calories.
00:19:42.160 So energy is what we feed our machines that make us productive and prosperous.
00:19:46.900 Without machines, life is terrible, because the world is a pretty inhospitable place.
00:19:51.540 Human beings aren't very productive.
00:19:53.580 And so we just have manual labor. 0.86
00:19:55.120 So the key division between a poor society and a prosperous society, besides freedom versus non-freedom,
00:20:01.280 is having machines that are producing a lot of value for us.
00:20:05.500 So you can think of it when energy is cheaper, everything that we produce with machines, which means everything, is cheaper.
00:20:12.320 When energy is more expensive, everything is more expensive.
00:20:15.440 This is why you've seen a lot of the inflation be energy-driven.
00:20:19.640 And don't think of energy just in terms of what you pay for gasoline, what you pay for your power bill, what you pay for your heating bill.
00:20:26.540 So those are very significant.
00:20:28.120 But think of it as this literally affects the cost of every single thing you do.
00:20:33.020 So when you see your food prices go up, you should ask yourself, well, is it more expensive to feed tractors?
00:20:39.620 Is it more expensive to feed trucks?
00:20:41.900 Is it more expensive to grow the actual feed for livestock? 0.70
00:20:46.480 Is it more expensive to refrigerate things?
00:20:48.940 And if you start to see the whole world in terms of machines that our productivity and prosperity depend on,
00:20:54.760 and then energy is the input that makes those machines cheaper and more expensive,
00:20:58.560 you start to see the price of energy determines the price of everything.
00:21:02.900 And when you experience economic struggle, you can bet that bad energy policy,
00:21:07.720 and particularly restrictions on the freedom to produce and consume energy,
00:21:11.500 you can be sure that that's a big cause of your problems.
00:21:16.380 So, Alex, on that point, let's just be kind of blunt here.
00:21:19.280 I'm not asking you to be political per se, but is it advisable, understanding what you just said,
00:21:24.280 is it advisable for us to have the government come in and pick winners and losers
00:21:28.400 and provide, in the case of the Inflation Reduction Act,
00:21:31.740 a trillion dollars of subsidies massively distorting the market in favor of wind and solar,
00:21:37.200 which are more inefficient and unreliable,
00:21:39.200 and distorting the price point that doesn't allow for the context of reliable natural gas or reliable nuclear,
00:21:47.580 and similarly, the tailpipe rule, which will distort the market to say that,
00:21:51.480 well, you're going to go do assembly lines to produce nothing but EVs.
00:21:54.960 Would you agree that those two policies are particularly damaging
00:21:58.500 when it comes to the ability to drive prices down and have prosperity, economic growth,
00:22:02.920 and be able to have the American dream be achieved?
00:22:05.420 Definitely those policies are really bad.
00:22:09.280 I'd say one thing about not being political in terms of not having a party affiliation
00:22:13.500 or supporting particular candidates or anything like that is I can say that the policies that are being pursued
00:22:20.740 under the current administration are just totally beyond the pale and should never be considered.
00:22:26.420 My criticism is in general that both parties are woefully inadequate when it comes to energy.
00:22:32.420 Now, I think E.J. mentioned the previous Trump administration did a lot of good on energy,
00:22:37.960 and that is they did do a lot of good on energy, probably on that issue more than any president in many, many decades,
00:22:45.080 maybe even generations.
00:22:46.840 And one of the key things that they did was, which needs to be done much more,
00:22:51.520 is they were particularly focused on regulation, but what I would call restrictions or shackling.
00:22:57.160 So you mentioned in particular the IRA and the subsidy.
00:23:00.900 So I think of it as the government intervenes and ruins our economy in two basic ways.
00:23:05.180 It can subsidize things, so it takes our money to pay for things that are not cost effective,
00:23:09.500 but it can shackle them.
00:23:11.040 It restricts our freedom to produce things, period.
00:23:13.980 And the shackles are the most destructive thing.
00:23:16.760 So, for example, in the 70s, we had this huge opportunity with oil in Alaska,
00:23:20.620 but a Republican, actually, Richard Nixon, among doing many bad things to the economy,
00:23:26.060 after the Santa Barbara oil spill, panicked and shut down the pipeline that was going to be built to Alaska
00:23:31.880 that, by the way, would have brought as much oil on the market as Saudi Arabia took off the market during the embargoes.
00:23:39.400 So it's like when you shackle the economy, that is the worst possible thing.
00:23:44.700 You mentioned nuclear.
00:23:45.720 Nuclear, we used to have a prosperous, cheap nuclear industry.
00:23:49.780 We destroyed it, not by subsidies, but by making it basically impossible to build nuclear
00:23:55.940 because of a bunch of pseudoscientific ideas that basically say any amount of radiation is dangerous,
00:24:01.080 so we basically can't allow nuclear to exist without impossibly expensive restrictions.
00:24:05.980 So I would think of it as the number one thing is to unshackle energy and then to desubsidize energy.
00:24:14.120 So I said these recent things are just beyond the pale
00:24:17.040 because what a proper administration should have done following the Trump administration would say,
00:24:21.460 great, we made some progress, but we need radically more progress to use the current term, which I like, unleash American energy.
00:24:29.040 There's so much more that we can do in terms of removing irrational regulations.
00:24:33.000 There's so much more we can do in terms of unleashing American oil and natural gas.
00:24:37.200 There's so much more we can do in terms of having affordable, reliable electricity.
00:24:41.400 There's so much more that we can do in terms of nuclear.
00:24:43.760 But instead, what they'd said is, I guarantee you we're going to end fossil fuel.
00:24:48.520 That was one of Biden's campaign slogans.
00:24:51.200 He ran with somebody who pledged to ban fracking, who was one of the co-sponsors of the Green New Deal.
00:24:55.620 And what you see with this administration is an administration that does not value energy.
00:25:02.520 That's the key.
00:25:03.360 Some people hate energy.
00:25:04.460 A lot of the people who influence them actually hate energy.
00:25:06.860 We could talk about that.
00:25:08.080 I don't think Biden or Harris hates energy.
00:25:10.700 They just don't really care.
00:25:12.720 What they care about is the side effects of using energy, particularly what they'll call climate change.
00:25:17.820 So the climate impacts of putting more CO2 in the atmosphere.
00:25:21.100 And fundamentally, their focus is, let's protect the Earth from human industry versus, let's use human industry to benefit human life.
00:25:30.820 And that's a very big philosophical difference, and it's a very important one.
00:25:35.880 We need our elected officials to recognize that industry is a crucial force for human life, including human health.
00:25:43.160 And the idea that you're going to shackle industry and you're going to claim that it benefits human health,
00:25:48.320 that's just as logical as if you shackled the caveman from using fire and say, hey, it's for your health because you won't have any smoke.
00:25:55.320 Yeah, you won't have as much smoke because you won't live.
00:25:58.060 You won't be able to cook your food.
00:25:59.120 You won't be able to heat your life.
00:26:00.120 So we need a fundamental philosophical change from anti-industry to pro-industry, which ultimately leads to anti-human to pro-human.
00:26:09.280 And that needs to be manifested in a whole bunch of specific unshackling, which we could talk about because my group has been working on a blueprint for that.
00:26:16.840 Alex, I appreciate you very much.
00:26:20.540 How can people hear more about you at energytalkingpoints.com?
00:26:23.940 I encourage people to go back and look at that website.
00:26:26.460 Alex, where are you on social media?
00:26:28.900 Yeah, at Alex Epstein on Twitter, at Alex Epstein Energy on Instagram.
00:26:33.660 And yeah, that website, energytalkingpoints.com.
00:26:35.380 Make sure to sign up for the free weekly newsletter there.
00:26:38.520 You know, we're just putting out summer talking points on things like gasoline prices, electricity prices, summer heat, et cetera.
00:26:45.600 And our blueprint, which is called the Energy Freedom Platform, we're going to be rolling that out.
00:26:49.460 So just follow along at energytalkingpoints.com.
00:26:51.880 Sign up for the newsletter and you'll be good to go.
00:26:55.560 Alex, thanks for all you do.
00:26:56.700 Thanks for standing up for Energy Freedom.
00:26:58.080 Thanks for joining us today, brother.
00:26:59.220 Talk to you soon.
00:26:59.900 Thanks, Jeff.
00:27:00.460 Talk to you soon.
00:27:01.160 Bye.
00:27:01.280 Well, one of the things that I want to talk about when we're talking about this like radical ideology out of the Biden-Harris regime is I want to make sure that people understand what we got when we were having her choose Tim Waltz as the vice president nominee and what that means.
00:27:17.420 And we're going to have Julio Rosas, who's going to be able to talk to us about the Minneapolis burning in 2020.
00:27:24.840 And do we have Julio on the line?
00:27:31.280 Well, Julio's been doing a lot of reporting, did a lot of great reporting throughout all of the BLM riots in 2020.
00:27:38.480 He's going to talk about specifically what we addressed and what we dealt with there in Minneapolis and the extent to which it was the radical progressive Democrat policies that encouraged it, that allowed it to foment, that allowed all of those continued burnings.
00:27:52.840 You have that important picture that we have, the graphic where we see where we have the police department sitting there.
00:27:57.060 It was literally on fire, and you have the Minnesota governor and the leadership of that city allowing it to occur.
00:28:05.240 You had Kamala Harris, who was out saying, please give money.
00:28:07.860 She was encouraging it.
00:28:08.960 We'll be talking about that when we get back.
00:28:10.840 We'll be talking about that when we get back.
00:28:10.900 We'll be talking about that when we get back.
00:28:14.840 We'll be talking about that when we get back.
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00:29:33.880 War Room.
00:29:34.320 Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:29:36.760 Bannon.
00:29:40.940 Great to be with you this morning.
00:29:42.260 Great to be sitting here in War Room.
00:29:43.560 Again, temporarily sitting in Steve Bannon's chair, looking forward to his return, praying for him, making sure that we keep him at the forefront of your thoughts.
00:29:51.260 And we're blessed to have with us a good friend, someone who has been out there focusing hard and was out there throughout all of 2020.
00:29:59.240 He's written a book about it, Julio Rosas, who has focused on the extent to which our cities were allowed to burn, particularly Minneapolis, notably important right now, given the extent to which one of Kamala Harris's first decisions as the Democrat nominee is to choose Governor Walz for her vice presidential running mate, who was in Minnesota when it was burning to the ground.
00:30:24.780 And Julio had firsthand experience in terms of what happened.
00:30:28.500 Julio, thanks for being on the show.
00:30:30.220 We've been talking in this show about the different worldviews that are at stake in this election, whether it's the border, whether it's our presence around the globe, whether it's the economy, the extent to which the average American is hurting, the American dream is unretainable.
00:30:42.320 We've got dangers on our streets.
00:30:43.740 People have been released into our country.
00:30:46.180 They're on the terrorist watch list.
00:30:47.460 But importantly, people don't feel safe in their own communities.
00:30:49.800 And what we saw in the summer of 2020, I think, is as emblematic of that as anything.
00:30:54.440 Could you explain a little bit and walk through what you know about Governor Walz and about what happened in Minneapolis and be very blunt about what you observed?
00:31:04.900 Well, yeah, Congressman, I mean, all that started in 2020 in Minneapolis under Walz's watch.
00:31:11.220 The mayor also has many faults when it comes to how the riots were handled.
00:31:17.260 But Walz is at the top when it comes to when it comes to the state of Minnesota.
00:31:21.800 And so, I mean, I was outside the third precinct the night it had to be evacuated and it was set on fire.
00:31:30.240 And one thing that I remember in the hours leading up to that, because I was posting updates on the crazy things that were happening even before that, and so many people, I still remember so many people asking me, where was the National Guard?
00:31:43.040 Where was the Minnesota National Guard?
00:31:44.240 We heard that they're deploying.
00:31:46.980 Do you see them?
00:31:47.940 And they weren't out there that day.
00:31:50.240 And I have spoken to members of the Minneapolis Police Department who defended for days the third precinct until that Thursday.
00:31:59.880 And they were frustrated because the defense plans were not great.
00:32:05.140 They were constrained in their ability to adequately defend the third precinct.
00:32:09.980 But they did say that they could have held that position if they just had more personnel.
00:32:16.980 And obviously, the Minneapolis Police Department was stretched really thin, so there wasn't a lot of reinforcements available to them through that agency.
00:32:25.260 And if they had the National Guard to back them up, the police station wouldn't have been set on fire.
00:32:31.640 And it wouldn't have, most importantly, set the tone for the rest of the country, for the rest of the far leftists, Antifa and BLM.
00:32:40.260 Because after that police station was evacuated, people across the country saw, oh, we can do that in our own cities.
00:32:50.920 And that almost happened a few times after that.
00:32:53.400 And with Seattle, a couple days later, with the infamous Chas Chop experiment, was kind of, was created as a, almost as a direct result of what happened in Minneapolis.
00:33:05.200 And so it is kind of like a sick irony or sick twist of fate that, you know, walls allow this to happen.
00:33:13.240 And, you know, Vice President Kamala Harris did her best to try to bail people out who, who partook in that. 1.00
00:33:18.740 So it's, it's very interesting that four years later, we're still dealing and we're still seeing the effects of what happened four years ago.
00:33:27.380 Julio, real quick, I think I've got my friend Corey Mills on the line.
00:33:30.600 Corey, my fellow congressman from Florida.
00:33:33.580 Corey, are you on the line?
00:33:35.160 I'm on here, brother.
00:33:37.660 Hey, great to have you on, brother.
00:33:38.880 I just want to get us kind of a three-way conversation.
00:33:41.000 I know you and I are going to talk a little bit about the assassination attempt, but it's all connected, right?
00:33:44.800 It's all connected to the utter lawlessness, the utter disgrace of this administration and how they're running the show.
00:33:49.900 And now you have the vice president, who is now the Democratic nominee, comes in and picks this avowed socialist, radical progressive Democrat, governor from Minnesota.
00:33:59.200 And we know we've got Julio here, who was there on the streets in Minneapolis, right, watching unfold right in front of him what happened.
00:34:06.520 We've got the police station burning to the ground.
00:34:08.520 We've been talking for the last hour and change about how they're letting the economy burn to the ground.
00:34:13.440 The average American family can't afford to live.
00:34:15.540 They're allowing our national security to burn to the ground.
00:34:17.700 They're allowing our homeland security to burn to the ground.
00:34:20.040 They're importing terrorists into our country. 1.00
00:34:22.460 And Julio saw this in real terms.
00:34:24.900 Now, Julio is a Marine.
00:34:26.780 Corey, you served.
00:34:27.660 You were a sniper.
00:34:28.380 We're going to talk about the assassination attempt in a minute.
00:34:30.800 But can you talk, Corey, real quick?
00:34:32.300 And then I want to go back to you, Julio, to fill in some of the holes.
00:34:35.000 Corey, about what you saw, just because you ran for Congress after this.
00:34:38.320 You were motivated to run to save your country after you served.
00:34:40.640 You wore the uniform.
00:34:41.860 Talk a little bit about what you saw in 2020, BLM, and how Harris Waltz is emblematic of a totally different worldview, a worldview of lawlessness, a worldview of endangering Americans. 0.61
00:34:52.760 And see if you can paint that picture a little bit, why that caused you to run and why you think that's a problem for America.
00:34:59.860 Well, look, like you talked about, Chip, and I know Julio.
00:35:02.340 I've watched some of his stuff that he's done.
00:35:03.960 I've read his book.
00:35:04.720 Look, the guy's been on fire.
00:35:06.100 So good for you, Marine.
00:35:07.660 We're off.
00:35:08.540 But, look, the bottom line is that I, after leaving the military and leaving the State Department and agencies and so on and so forth, went on to create a company that was actually made to help support our military and our law enforcement.
00:35:20.280 And what we saw in the 2020 Summer of Love, what they tried to call it, which was actually a complete lawlessness in Minneapolis, in Seattle, when we had CHOP, in New York, in Baltimore, in all your major blue city metropolitan areas, was this continuation of victimhood, even though they were actually vilifying our law enforcement departments.
00:35:40.280 I looked to our Republican Party and I looked to others to where are we to be able to raise our voice, to be able to try and defend our brave men and women in blue.
00:35:48.320 And when they were reaching out to us, these individual departments, Chip, they were saying, we're out of our less lethal materials.
00:35:54.320 We don't have another emergency budget for this.
00:35:57.020 Is there anything we can do?
00:35:58.160 Our company, at the time, was able to be able to provide almost $500,000 between all of these individual cities and riot control, less lethals, marker rounds, CS canisters, and all the things necessary for riot control and riot gear.
00:36:12.880 And we were like, well, where is the rest of the government?
00:36:15.420 Where is the cities?
00:36:16.440 Where is the mayors?
00:36:17.280 Where is the governors?
00:36:18.280 Well, we knew where they were.
00:36:19.380 You had radical socialist, Waltz, who was actually working with Kamala Harris on a Minnesota bail fund, not to support our law enforcement, to support the criminals who are actually being arrested for committing these crimes.
00:36:30.860 And so when I saw this lawlessness, this defund the police nonsense that they're now trying to cover up, this idea that only lives that matter are the criminals, not the actual innocent civilians.
00:36:41.580 We had businesses being burned down.
00:36:43.240 We had law enforcement officers being killed.
00:36:44.940 We had women who were being sexually assaulted and chopped that have never been released.
00:36:49.680 And so I felt like just that it was my duty no longer just to rely on the everyday politician, but to be a statesman or representative who puts my money where my mouth is, gets into the fight, and makes sure we can save this nation.
00:37:01.960 Because when we take that uniform off ship, and Julio will tell you this, that doesn't mean our oath expires.
00:37:08.480 We will continue to fight to preserve this nation.
00:37:10.520 And I care more about protecting this republic than protecting a title or protecting a seat.
00:37:14.540 So, and Corey, and just so everybody knows, Corey's in a primary, he's got one coming up here in Florida on August 20th.
00:37:21.300 We're all down there and rooting for him, and I know he's going to do well, but you're down in Florida, man, you should get on support, Corey.
00:37:29.140 Yeah, God bless you, my friend.
00:37:30.760 And like Julio, on that point, you know, the story's where there's over $2 billion in damage as a result of the riots and the BLM riots in the summer of 2020.
00:37:39.080 As Corey just said, and as you alluded to, the vice president, our current vice president, Kamala Harris, the Democrat nominee, she was trying to help the rioters.
00:37:46.340 She was out trying to raise money for the rioters.
00:37:48.100 But now you've got the governor of Minnesota.
00:37:51.460 That's who she picked, her first major decision.
00:37:54.220 Would you agree with me that it was the governor of Minnesota who basically kicked off that summer of destruction for the United States by not acting?
00:38:02.520 In other words, had the governor acted, had the governor done what he needed to do, that we could have avoided the chaos that summer or certainly tamped the temperature down?
00:38:11.060 You wrote a book about it, and I just wonder what your thoughts are.
00:38:14.740 Yeah, absolutely.
00:38:16.020 I mean, when this all kicked off, the main thing was COVID, right?
00:38:19.100 I mean, that's what everyone was focused on.
00:38:20.520 That's what I was focused on in my reporting.
00:38:23.120 And so my initial thought was, okay, I'm going to go to Minneapolis.
00:38:26.180 I'm going to cover this.
00:38:26.940 It's going to eventually die down, and then I'll go back to doing what I was doing before.
00:38:30.420 And then obviously that wasn't the case because then we had CHOP.
00:38:33.540 I went to Atlanta.
00:38:34.320 When I got back home to D.C., that's when they tried to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue outside the White House.
00:38:39.100 Then we had Kenosha.
00:38:40.140 We had Wauwatosa.
00:38:40.940 I mean, it just kept going on and on and on.
00:38:43.080 And so it came to the part where I started to think, is this ever going to stop?
00:38:47.380 And it finally did the following year, but the damage was done.
00:38:51.640 And so that's why I wrote my book.
00:38:52.820 And as you can see, it's right here.
00:38:53.780 Because not only was it important to document all my experiences because I was one of the few people who went out there consistently.
00:39:03.260 But it was also because the media coverage was absolutely atrocious.
00:39:07.440 I mean, that's the entire book, right?
00:39:09.020 It came from that CNN, Chiron, Fire of the Mostly Peaceful in Kenosha, which was, I mean, anything but.
00:39:13.420 But and so, again, that's why it's so important to highlight just how disastrous Wald's was because that was the start.
00:39:23.220 That was what kicked things off.
00:39:24.960 And he, yes, he did call the National Guard.
00:39:27.180 But the entire time he kept saying, oh, well, the rioters and all these people that are doing all this stuff, their anger is justified because X, Y, and Z.
00:39:33.900 And I can tell you because I've interviewed, I interviewed small business owners in Minneapolis after the fact for the book.
00:39:41.020 They had to take up arms to defend their livelihoods.
00:39:44.220 There were Latino business owners who held down an intersection on Lake Street, which was the main street that got hit the hardest because there was nothing.
00:39:50.900 There was nobody to protect them.
00:39:52.220 They had to use AR-15 shotguns and handguns to protect themselves.
00:39:56.660 They were essentially the rooftop Latinos, like the rooftop Koreans in the Los Angeles riots in 92. 0.99
00:40:02.280 So it's very frustrating to see basically someone get rewarded with this potential new high-profile position after on just this one issue, because obviously there's many other issues he's been terrible on.
00:40:15.940 But he's basically being rewarded for his handling of this when he should be fired.
00:40:22.440 Well, thanks, Julio.
00:40:23.520 And, you know, I will say that probably an entire War Room show needs to be dedicated to the Second Amendment being the only bulwark that's out there against the tyranny that's flying around this planet.
00:40:32.280 And how much we need to defend it.
00:40:33.920 But I do want to say one thing, and if you can answer quickly, and I want to go to Corey, this issue of stolen valor, this issue of, because you wore the uniform, Corey wore the uniform.
00:40:43.580 Without getting into the weeds, you won't have to, like, litigate it to death.
00:40:46.280 Are you troubled?
00:40:47.140 Just, you know, are you troubled by the governor and his, I'm just going to say looseness with the facts.
00:40:52.660 I'll let you guys who wore the uniform be more specific.
00:40:54.860 But are you troubled by the way he's characterized his service?
00:40:59.240 And then I want to go to Corey, have you answer that, and then talk a little bit about assassination.
00:41:02.740 But, Julio, are you bothered by that?
00:41:05.320 Absolutely.
00:41:06.340 So for me personally, I was in the reserves, kind of like him, in the Marine Corps.
00:41:09.720 I never deployed.
00:41:10.800 I did six years, and then I got out on the discharge.
00:41:13.700 And the reason why, I hate people who commit stolen valor for obvious reasons, but I have a particular disgust for service members who commit that.
00:41:21.300 Because civilians who commit stolen valor, they don't really get it.
00:41:24.440 That's kind of why they do it in the first place, because they think, oh, it's cool, and we need to do this.
00:41:27.760 But service members who commit stolen valor or who embellish their records, similar to how Waltz did, they know better.
00:41:34.220 They at least have some idea of the sacrifices and the commitment that is to be made and paid for the claims that they're making.
00:41:43.060 And yet they still go out and do it.
00:41:44.800 So for him and people like him to do that is just absolutely disgusting.
00:41:49.380 And for me, like I said, I never really did anything.
00:41:52.560 I'm still proud of my service.
00:41:53.600 I'm still proud of being a Marine.
00:41:54.900 But I don't call myself a global war on terrorism veteran because I didn't deploy it and fight in that campaign.
00:42:01.300 Well, thank you, Julio.
00:42:03.120 Thank you for your service.
00:42:04.000 Thank you for what you've done going out there on the streets and exposing all of this.
00:42:06.860 If you don't have it, get his book fiery.
00:42:09.300 Corey, what about you?
00:42:10.240 Can you talk a little bit about your concerns about stolen valor and the governor of Minnesota?
00:42:14.900 Well, look, at the end of the day, I appreciate that Waltz had served 24 years.
00:42:18.480 I'm not taking anything away from that.
00:42:20.260 But he knows better than any, having actually served that long, that you cannot maintain the rank of command sergeant major without having attended the sergeant major's academy.
00:42:29.980 And so even if he would have said, I held the sergeant major billet, but I was demoted back to master sergeant.
00:42:36.660 OK, I can accept that.
00:42:37.980 Yeah, you held that role.
00:42:39.040 My bigger issue in this is that he didn't try to correct the record and even went on to try and deny that he abandoned his actual troop or his battalion whenever they were getting ready to deploy to Iraq after he found out.
00:42:50.240 Look, he continues to say, well, I dropped my retirement paperwork way before this.
00:42:54.100 Let me give you a quick history lesson.
00:42:55.600 I actually was at the end of my terminal service and I didn't have enough time to be qualified to deploy to Iraq.
00:43:02.320 I had to go to my brigade commander and plead with him to do a one time six month extension that allowed me to have enough time to deploy to where once you're in wartime, it's declared your stop loss.
00:43:13.060 And I could then fight with my unit.
00:43:15.000 If he truly wanted to have stood by his unit, if he truly wanted to go to war to protect his guys, he as a command sergeant major billet or a master sergeant after demoted could have easily have done this.
00:43:26.260 I've done it.
00:43:27.080 Many others have done it.
00:43:28.160 I don't want to hear him talk about anything, but he's abandoned me.
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00:44:38.040 War Room.
00:44:39.780 Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:44:41.880 Bannon.
00:44:47.020 Well, good morning, everybody.
00:44:48.180 It's Chip Roy again.
00:44:49.220 Honored to be sitting in Steve Bannon's chair, but only temporarily while we wait for him to return after he's in exile up standing up for all of us and standing against tyranny.
00:44:57.240 But I'm also honored to have my good friend Corey Mills on the line.
00:45:01.340 Corey, we were just talking about the governor of Minnesota letting the streets of his city burn, kicking off the summer of destruction and the BLM riots in the summer of 2020. 0.90
00:45:10.540 That's what America would be looking forward to with him as the vice president and Kamala Harris in the White House.
00:45:16.780 That's why we have to get President Trump elected this fall.
00:45:18.860 I know that's why you're out campaigning right now for everybody down there in Florida to make sure you get the nomination and you win in the fall.
00:45:24.640 But I want to have you speak just for a minute about the assassination attempt.
00:45:29.060 You were a sniper.
00:45:30.140 We just had a task force that was created.
00:45:32.020 Now, neither you nor Eli Crane, who I had on the show a week ago, who's also a sniper, were included on that task force.
00:45:39.080 Can you speak a little bit about your concerns that we're not moving fast enough to expose this for the American people so they know the truth?
00:45:44.640 I mean, let's be clear, a former president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the current Republican nominee for president was shot less than a month ago or about a month ago.
00:45:54.480 That happened.
00:45:55.720 Now, what are we doing about it?
00:45:57.120 Can you speak to that, my brother?
00:45:59.020 Yeah, look, let me just go ahead and first start off by saying that, you know, while we are the big tent party, we are also within our own leadership sometimes the party of hypocrisy.
00:46:07.920 Look, we talk about how we hate DEI and this idea that we're supposed to be looking at equity and inclusion.
00:46:12.080 And yet we'll actually make a task force that's selected by what seats are at risk, who voted with leadership, what state are you actually from.
00:46:20.300 That has nothing to do with the meritocracy, because if it was, I can tell you that I talked to Command Sergeant Major Ken Christo, who used to be my team leader.
00:46:27.020 He was a JSOC Sergeant Major, and he actually was the guy who went in to rescue Jessica Lynch in Iraq.
00:46:32.080 I asked him, I said, how many of these advances in counter snipers have we done as far as operations?
00:46:36.200 He said, I will comfortably go on record to say at least a thousand of these.
00:46:40.140 So I've done at least a thousand of these types of advances for foreign dignitaries, for heads of state, all the way through.
00:46:46.740 And meanwhile, that experience and that merit wasn't rewarded to try and get on the task force to find the truth.
00:46:51.620 Same with Eli Crane.
00:46:53.000 You have a sniper who was with the Navy SEALs who wasn't actually brought into this.
00:46:56.780 And why?
00:46:57.180 Because we're not necessarily yes men who just go along and hand our voter card over.
00:47:00.740 You know this all too well, Chip.
00:47:02.020 You fight the battle every day.
00:47:03.200 But the reality is that when they picked the seven members of this team, I had four of them reach out to me and say, one, can you get us your whistleblowers?
00:47:12.000 Two, we hate that you're not on the task force, but can you tell me what questions I would ask?
00:47:15.660 And how would you run this investigation to add insult to injury?
00:47:18.420 And look, I'm all about getting the answers.
00:47:20.020 But the problem is that I find it unserious whenever we released our 18-minute documentary where I laid where Thomas Crooks took the shot on the 20th panel, where we looked at exactly where the two countersniper positions that are being identified had a silhouette or profile and what was that, where we talked to individuals from local law enforcement and from retired FBI agents on the ground.
00:47:41.160 And the bottom line is that this congressional task force, after that documentary was released, I had a member text me and say, great job, keep going.
00:47:50.300 The congressional task force hasn't even had a conference call yet.
00:47:54.800 This is unserious when we talk about the amount of time that's going on.
00:47:58.440 Look, here's my concern now, Chip.
00:48:00.780 The day of the shooting, we should have been bringing people in asking for their security plan, the comms plan, the sniper, counter-sniperers, data book, and range span.
00:48:08.480 We should have been looking at what was the communication strategy with local law enforcement for a single-channel communication for emergency.
00:48:14.840 What was the hard room plan when it came to whether they had a safe haven or they're going to utilize the armored vehicles as their hard room?
00:48:20.680 What was the actual idea for their evacuation strategy?
00:48:23.840 And who actually conducted the overall advanced plan?
00:48:28.220 Now you've actually allowed three, four weeks to go where no doubt there's people who are actually memorializing these types of plans to say 11 July, 10 July, 9 July.
00:48:36.860 But now you've got our local law enforcement who's come forward and said, hey, guess what?
00:48:41.020 They weren't even there on the meeting that morning to try and coordinate and get last-minute plans.
00:48:45.500 You heard on the recently released body cam where a guy from the local law enforcement was saying, why didn't you have guys up there?
00:48:51.780 We told you on Tuesday you should have had guys up there.
00:48:54.860 Now you've got other videos which have showed, which you haven't verified yet, of an individual who looks like they're either on a motorbike or a bicycle who's coming out of this wood line by the water tower.
00:49:04.040 I walked that wood line. I know there's a cut-through path that goes to the intersection where the AGR building goes and where the main road to the actual campaign rally event was.
00:49:14.180 So I know there's an easy access point that avoided law enforcement.
00:49:17.400 So you have all of these facts. You have all of these points.
00:49:20.240 You've had so much time going on, and we couldn't sit by any longer.
00:49:24.020 And Chip, I appreciate you more than ever.
00:49:26.120 You're a part of our new task force.
00:49:27.580 We're going to call it America's Task Force.
00:49:29.180 Of course, you, Andy Biggs, guys like Dan Bongino, guys like Eric Prince, Cash Patel, Eli Crane, myself, we're going to get the answers to this, but we're going to get to a stage.
00:49:39.680 And Benny as well, I can't leave out Benny Johnson, where it's going to be indistinguishable between criminal gross negligence and purposeful intent.
00:49:47.440 We've waited too much time to start getting those answers, and now they've had enough time to start doing CYA and putting the documents together.
00:49:54.860 Corey, I agree with you, brother. Go win. Go fight, win. Go win your race down there in Florida.
00:50:01.360 What is your Twitter handle?
00:50:03.480 Our Twitter handle is CoreyMillsFL, also RepMillsPress for our official.
00:50:09.460 All right. Thank you, brother. We'll meet soon. We'll put that task force together.
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00:50:15.500 He's seen the streets burning at the hands of Governor Waltz.
00:50:19.140 He's a good friend, a good friend of the show. Mike, thank you. The show's yours, brother.
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00:50:31.900 But we all know in Minnesota of who he is, and this is going to help our great real president get back in.
00:50:38.240 I think he's made a comment the other day. Thank you.
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