Stephen K. Maan and Mark Milley join host Alex Blumberg in the War Room to discuss the rise of the far-right wing of the Republican Party and the potential for a fascist victory on November 4th.
00:12:01.640I have a piece out just over the weekend in The Washington Times about how Kamala Harris's energy policies are costing and will cost Americans time and money.
00:12:13.300My mother, her wash machine, it broke down and the repairman came and she goes, well, I'll just get a new one.
00:12:24.320They take a really long time and they don't clean the clothes.
00:12:28.220So that's kind of where we're at because of their overreach and their attempt to have totalitarian policies.
00:12:37.120They're actually the fascists trying to decide for everyone how things are going to go and what they can buy, whether it's stoves or gas-powered cars with their goals to have everybody in an EV.
00:12:48.500It's all about the war on American energy and attempting to take us to some utopia that will put the average American, a car for the average American out of reach.
00:13:01.960But I would also just, if I could, Dave, I'd like to just mention to everybody watching, today at midnight is the last day to register to vote in Pennsylvania.
00:13:13.160If you're in Pennsylvania or you have a friend here and they've been hesitant to vote, they haven't voted, this is the year they can't sit on the sidelines.
00:13:21.640This is, like Dave was talking about, a binary choice.
00:13:25.780And so do we want to live in a free constitutional republic protecting the First Amendment, all of our constitutional rights?
00:13:34.140President Trump has promised that he and J.D. Vance are going to do that.
00:13:38.520Kamala Harris has said she's going to pack the court.
00:13:40.800She's going to do away with the filibuster so that she can install in a kind of a force-it kind of way every one of her policies that are going to bankrupt our country.
00:14:30.880And then there was bad weather and they couldn't get out of their houses.
00:14:33.460Or think about Maricopa County or the crowd strike event that happened right after the RNC convention when the CEO a few days later, you know, no planes were flying.
00:14:44.260The CEO a few days later said, oh, we're really sorry.
00:16:21.180Back in the war room, Dave Bratt sitting in with Ambassador Carla Sands and our co-host, Ben Harnwell.
00:16:28.740Ben is going to come and join the show right now and drill down a little bit more on some of these energy issues that the ambassador just brought up.
00:16:41.220Ambassador Sands, I was particularly interested in what you were saying at the top of the show, how your mother had been advised by a technical expert here.
00:16:51.440This is what you said in the Washington Times article.
00:16:54.560We'll put that out on our social media because everybody should click on this, read it.
00:17:01.020But to quote you precisely, you say these regulations with regards to energy efficiency mean that consumers will often face pricier appliances that don't work as well.
00:17:12.980Could you just dig down a little on that and draw out for the war in posse the fact that government regulations driven by the environmental lobby,
00:17:20.900because obviously what's done in the name of the environment is simply about shifting more product on behalf of producers.
00:17:26.980It's not about consumers or consumer choice.
00:17:29.280Could you just break down a little bit that relationship between regulations and lack of choice?
00:17:34.600Are you aware of any empirical, formal evidence undertaken by a think tank or something like that to drive down on this relationship between the regulations and the inferiority of produce?
00:17:52.620Because anyone who buys anything these days will be aware of precisely this.
00:17:57.220Things are getting more expensive and they need replacing sooner rather than later.
00:18:02.820I'm glad to hear that government is at the bottom of this.
00:19:17.120You know, I think I don't know about America, but here in occupied Europe, including to the reaches of Great Britain,
00:19:25.460they passed a law saying you had to have a minimum amount of quantity in the flush when you flushed the toilet.
00:19:31.860So the obvious consequence of this is that you now need to flush the toilet two or three times to do what could have been done in one single flush before.
00:19:40.340I think the argument you're saying here is exactly the same, right, with electric vehicles.
00:19:45.120The whole shtick here, you indicate how this is a great boon for Chinese manufacturing.
00:19:50.320But the shtick here is to pass a law and to make everybody effectively at some point in the next 5, 10 years buy a new car that's EV,
00:20:00.020whether they needed to buy a new car or whether they didn't.
00:20:03.540It's great for manufacturers, including domestic manufacturers, I might add.
00:20:08.280This is a case that the lobbyist congressional complex forces consumers to buy things that they don't do not need,
00:20:19.120that they have less money to spend on the things that they do want to spend that money on so that their quality of life goes down.
00:20:41.080There will be people that can't afford an electric vehicle.
00:20:43.800So I'm really hoping that every listener goes out and votes and votes early so that we can win and we can have common sense regulations come in.
00:20:53.360President Trump talks about how regulations are actually more important to everybody, less regulations than lower taxes.
00:21:00.700The overreach is so big that under President Biden, he's put in five times more regulations than President Obama did.
00:21:20.840At the end, seven regulations went away for every new one.
00:21:24.660So, for instance, I'll give you an example.
00:21:28.320Governor Gavin Newsom, it was some time ago, but during this administration, he said, listen, we're going to go to all EVs by I think it was 2035 or around that time.
00:21:41.440And so we're not going to be able to buy gas powered cars.
00:21:45.100Later that same week, he goes, oh, by the way, you can't charge your electric car because it's straining the grid.
00:21:51.540No charging allowed. So can you imagine he's literally kneecapping every Californian?
00:22:06.120But we need America first policies again so that, you know, governments around the world take care of their people.
00:22:12.800Our government looks like the only government in the world that really doesn't care about the well-being and prosperity and security of our people.
00:22:21.900So I'm really hoping that President Trump and J.D. Vance are elected.
00:22:26.500They have great people coming on board like RFK Jr., Elon Musk, like people who really care about the people, whether it's their health or government efficiency.
00:22:36.520Everybody who worked for President Trump knows there's a lot of waste.
00:22:40.860There's a lot that can be done to save every taxpayer, I would say, trillions of dollars a year.
00:22:49.420Ambassador, can you also I think we got a couple of minutes to go.
00:22:53.940And so also, can you expand on the international linkages that our domestic energy policy is being driven by international forces?
00:24:07.180And then the third piece of the puzzle, I think, of the Biden-Harris administration was when Joe Biden stood at the podium and said, look, if there's a minor Russian incursion into Ukraine, we're not going to do anything.
00:24:17.920And I believe that that opened the door.
00:24:20.800Those three pieces opened the door to Putin invading Russia would never have happened under strong Trump administration leadership because he led with peace through strength.
00:24:30.520But we also had the invasion by Hamas into Israel.
00:24:33.920They could have never afforded to go in under President Trump because he was bankrupting Iran.
00:24:40.480He was starving them with maximum pressure, not starving literally, but starving their funding of their Quds Force, of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels.
00:24:53.740President Biden gave them billions of dollars for a handful of hostages released.
00:24:59.800And then he said, we're not going to sanction your energy sales to China, allowing them to have hundreds of billions of dollars to play with.
00:25:11.500In fact, they're funding the people on our campuses and in our cities, they're funding that anti-Israeli, those protests, along with leftist groups.
00:25:23.240They're actually fomenting to try to destabilize our country.
00:25:26.840So we have to, have to put maximum pressure back on Iran.
00:25:32.040And Israel is doing a great job, but they need us to have their back.
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00:29:03.200I'm also seeing Democrat senators and Senate candidates in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, literally all using you in their ads, right?
00:29:15.200So these are the same people that voted to impeach you and convict you in the U.S. Senate and in the U.S. House during your presidency in your first term in office.
00:29:25.820And now they're running ads about how much they got along with you during their time in office.
00:29:35.580They have senators that voted to impeach the Democrats, and they're Democrats, and now they're bragging about my policies, and they have to use that because their policies were radical left and not good.
00:29:50.400So they're now taking ads, saying that I was in favor of tariffs like President Trump, I was in favor of this and that, and nobody's ever seen anything quite like it.
00:30:14.720Look, I think you're the journalist who's interviewed President Trump more times than anybody else.
00:30:19.180That point that you were just talking to him about there, I'd like to ask you, by the way, how you found him in terms of momentum and spirit about sort of 18 days before this election.
00:30:29.940But before we do that, that point you flagged up here that we just played, and we pushed the whole interview out on our own social media, that's really important, right?
00:30:38.100Because it sort of illustrates yet again this point that the Democrats actually, Kamala Harris, she doesn't have a record worth standing on to stand on.
00:30:47.320So all she and the Democrat candidates have is Donald Trump.
00:30:52.520Yeah, and importantly here, you've got down-ticket Democrats, Senate candidates in the case of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, incumbent Democrat senators, and in the case of Michigan and Arizona, House members who are the Democrat nominees for Senate, who are literally running ads as their major closing message.
00:31:11.780And we've done an analysis of particularly Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, this is the bulk of their spending statewide in the closing weeks of the campaign, that are running ads saying that they stand with the Republican candidate for president on major issues like trade and immigration, not with their own party's nominee.
00:31:34.980That is a sign that they think that the Republican candidate is going to win the White House in those states, and that they are hoping for split-ticket votes, down-ticket, to survive and win their own elections.
00:31:50.940So it's every man or woman for themselves on the Democrat side, and on the Republican side, there's great unity.
00:31:58.600It is also, frankly, extremely ironic.
00:32:01.820You have Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket claiming that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy itself, yet her own party's Senate candidates are across the board universally talking about how well they got along with Donald Trump.
00:32:19.400So which is it? Is he a threat to democracy, or is he someone who effectuated great policy changes that helped the American worker in the battleground states?
00:32:31.200And it seems to be the latter is the truth, and they're admitting that, and they're saying the quiet part out loud.
00:32:38.140But the Kamala Harris campaign is in complete collapse.
00:32:41.240And I think that that moment was probably the most newsworthy of our interview with President Trump this weekend.
00:32:49.240We spent about 30 minutes with him over the phone.
00:32:52.260He joined us on our SiriusXM platform on radio, and we've published several stories on Breitbart about it.
00:33:00.400People can go to SiriusXM Patriot Channel On Demand in the app and go listen to the interview.
00:33:06.180We've aired it multiple times on the Patriot Channel.
00:33:10.340But there's a lot of other stuff we talked about in the interview, too.
00:33:13.600But I think that that moment illuminates where we are in this campaign, which is that Donald Trump has all the energy, and Kamala Harris has none of it.
00:33:22.960Let's talk about this energy thing, because Kamala Harris has actually been tweeting over the weekend that President Trump is starting to flag, drawing allusions indirectly to his age.
00:33:32.940Now, as I said in the beginning, you've interviewed him more times than anybody else, so you know the guy.
00:33:40.020Your 25-minute exclusive interview with him didn't sound to me like he's flagging or winning active energy.
00:34:21.160He went to the Steelers game last night in Pittsburgh.
00:34:24.280But right before he taped this interview with us, he had done a tele-rally for half an hour to an hour or so.
00:34:33.080And then right afterwards, he did a town hall in Pennsylvania.
00:34:36.460In between his appearance at McDonald's and his appearance at the Steelers game yesterday, he was at—he did another town hall in Pennsylvania.
00:34:49.480He's got town hall events, appearances in the battleground states.
00:34:52.240Kamala Harris, meanwhile, is scaling back her appearances on the campaign trail.
00:34:58.600Her public schedule just announced last night shows that two out of the five business days of this week, she's hanging out in Washington, D.C.
00:35:07.660She's not even campaigning in the battleground states.
00:35:10.140On Tuesday and Friday this week, Kamala Harris will not be in battleground states.
00:35:14.720She will be at the vice president's residence in Washington, D.C.
00:35:18.080So it's nonsensical by the Kamala Harris campaign to claim that Donald Trump is exhausted, which is the word they keep using.
00:35:27.120And then this gets to another big point that we really hit in the interview with President Trump, but I encourage people to listen to the full thing and hear him talk about it in his words.
00:35:36.020But the—is that in one breath, they're claiming Trump's exhausted and can't do the job as president.
00:35:42.980But in the next breath, they're claiming that if Trump wins the election, he's going to weaponize government against Democrats and his political opponents.
00:35:51.400And Trump kind of found the whole thing comical, like that the—you know, which is it?
00:35:56.820Again, is he going to weaponize government or is he too exhausted to even run the government, right?
00:36:01.800Like, so—and we talked in particular about how the hypocrisy here, in particular about the left, we mentioned—you know, one of the things we talked about specifically was Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, right?
00:36:16.620Like, I mean, again, the Biden-Harris administration sent both of them to federal prison.
00:36:24.900Like, because of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, right?
00:36:28.320Like, they could release him today, and they refused to do so.
00:36:32.320He's only there because Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States.
00:36:37.080And obviously, that also doesn't even get into all the things that Donald Trump has faced with weaponization of government by the Biden-Harris administration.
00:36:47.000I mean, Kamala's best friend, Jack Smith, has been coming after President Trump for some time now, and he continues to do so all the way up until the election, right?
00:36:55.240Like, they dropped more stuff this week.
00:36:57.460And so the fact is, is that there's a lot of inconsistencies, logically speaking, from the Democrats, and that's why I think you're seeing the energy behind Trump in the final days of this campaign and why Kamala Harris is sliding.
00:37:16.600Yeah, hey, Matt, Dave Bratt in here as well.
00:37:21.080I want to call, ask Denver, please show, I think we've got a one-minute cold-open clip of a contrast that's central.
00:45:49.120How closely do you see, moving forward, this growth of Christian nationalism, this idea of MAGA becoming ever more explicitly pro-Christian, defense of Christian values, in defense of Jesus Christ, and the Democrats moving in the opposite direction?
00:46:09.900This article here in The Guardian, which for the folks in America, the Warren Posse will definitely know this.
00:46:24.340Do you see this trend, Matt Boyle, going forward over the next generation?
00:46:28.140Is it going to widen or is it going to converge back towards the center?
00:46:31.700Well, look, this is what this election's about, right?
00:46:35.700So what you have on the top of the ticket on the Democrat side, we never—look, there used to be minor political disagreements between the two different sides, between the two different parties.
00:46:45.320But you would never really have one party openly undercutting what it means to be a voter of faith, what it means to believe in God, what it means to—beyond the faith situation, what it means to the normal societal norms with regard to family, and what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, right?
00:47:11.120Like, I mean, again, we have one party that has openly declared war on all of these traditions and norms in this country, and that's the Democrat Party, right?
00:47:20.800I mean, just look at the way that they're handling the issue of masculinity right now on the Democrat side, right?
00:47:26.180Like, you have Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz out there, the would-be first gentleman, currently second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, and the would-be vice president, current governor of Minnesota, and Tim Walz.
00:47:39.300I mean, they're trying to re-craft what it means to be a man in society.
00:47:45.720They're also trying to re-craft what it means to be a woman in society, right?
00:47:49.260So, again, my hope here is that—and I think that a lot of voters see this—is that none of this is normal, right?
00:47:57.700Like, none of this is normal by the Democrats.
00:47:59.540And so, if they lose this election, one would hope that the Democrat Party will retool and move back to the center and actually compete to win the hearts and minds of American workers and families in a normal way, rather than in this way where they're trying to radically morph and reshape all of these things in society to fit their twisted agenda.
00:48:26.460And if they do that, they'll probably have better success.
00:48:29.940And, frankly, the American worker and family will do better if there's an actual arms race between both political parties like there used to be back in the Reagan days.
00:48:40.080You know, I mean, again, Reagan and Tip O'Neill, they had their disagreements and they had their differences.
00:48:45.700But they were minor compared to what we're talking about today.
00:48:49.000Matt Boyle, that is an essential point, right?
00:48:53.660My question to you is, how can the Democratic Party, at least on the religion front, at least on the Christian point, ever come back to the center?
00:49:02.000Because who—after statements like what Kamala Harris said, I think it was on Saturday,
00:49:07.440which believing Christians are still going to be in the Democratic Party to bring it back to the center?
00:49:18.000If you are a person of faith, if you believe in Jesus Christ, are you—what possible rationalization can you make to yourself to stay in that party at this point in time?
00:49:27.720Well, again, I would argue that Christianity, one of the biggest themes and tenets of Christianity is redemption, right?
00:49:39.960Like, and so hopefully, again, after they lose the election, they go through a cycle of redemption and forgiveness on their side
00:49:50.460and actually change their ways and move off of this radical agenda that they're pursuing and try to rectify the wrongs that they've made, right?
00:49:58.780Like, so—but again, they cannot be rewarded with power when they're pursuing this extreme radical agenda that they are pursuing, right?
00:50:09.960They genuinely despise voters of faith, Kamala Harris, Gretchen Whitmer, the whole rest of them.
00:50:17.380And again, I'm very confident that the public in the numbers and what we're seeing out there, you know, in the polling data, in the early vote data, et cetera, are rejecting this, which is a good thing.
00:50:32.360But after it's rejected, assuming it is, then hopefully they go through a cycle of redemption and forgiveness on their side and fix these major issues on the Democrat side.
00:50:46.420I hope that they do, because I do think it would be healthy for the country to see both parties actually competing to do some good in the world.
00:50:53.380I'm very happy to forgive anybody who is willing to apologize for their mistakes.
00:51:02.520My question specifically was, if all the Christians, if all the believing Christians have left the Democratic Party,
00:51:09.900who is going to still be in that movement in order to bring it back to the centre whenever they go through their conversion moment?
00:51:15.860I don't see it. I can't see it possibly happening.
00:51:21.820Folks, I think the woman possibly would have seen the fact that she did this appalling blasphemous parody of the mass with a Dorito crisp, a Dorito chip.
00:51:31.500This is what Americans, this is what your Democrat elites, the Democrat elites think of you.
00:51:40.320This is what they think of your religion and they would think of your faith.
00:51:44.600They could not have more contempt for you.
00:51:47.360Matt Boyle, I know you've got to jump. Thanks for coming on the show.
00:51:49.380Quickly, where do people go to download your interview with President Trump?
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