Bannon's War Room - August 12, 2025


Episode 4699： Mainstream Agrees With Trump Securing DC; Abbott's Weakness In Texas


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

174.51492

Word Count

9,480

Sentence Count

713

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

In the wake of a carjacking involving a former White House employee, the White House has a new scapegoat: Washington, D.C. and their police department. The problem is, they're not even in the top 10 of the most crime-ridden cities in the country.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 not merit what is in the law, the D.C. Home Rule Act, and it does not merit what's in his own
00:00:04.680 executive order. He is trying to take the rhetoric further. He's trying to bully the
00:00:09.440 District of Columbia and their police department into submitting to him, because if he can do it
00:00:13.860 on this, just like on immigration, right? If he can do it on this, he can replicate this in many
00:00:19.320 other cities. What do you think, Lisa Rubin? I think this is a particularly pernicious situation
00:00:24.900 in a couple of ways. Let's start with the fact that, as you noted, this is a president who's
00:00:29.180 governing almost by anecdote rather than by empirical data, right? We know that he's not
00:00:34.600 just using juvenile crime as a pretext. He's using a particular incident of juvenile crime involving a
00:00:40.180 former Doge staffer who was involved in a carjacking in a particularly violent way. But that seems to
00:00:46.960 be what has led the president into this moment, a single incident of juvenile crime rather than a
00:00:53.020 pattern of it. Because as we know, as Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, a 34-year veteran of Congress
00:01:01.360 said today, crime is at an all-time low in D.C. or at least a 30-year low. That can't be refuted by
00:01:07.200 this White House. Instead, what they want to say is D.C. has one of the highest crime rates in the
00:01:11.520 country. Well, that is perhaps true. There are 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Somebody is
00:01:17.720 going to be at the top of the list. President Trump has nominated E.J. and Tony to be the new
00:01:22.360 commissioner for the agency, which is in charge of reporting out all sorts of important government
00:01:27.040 data from jobs numbers to inflation numbers. The president made waves a couple of weeks ago when
00:01:32.060 he suddenly fired the previous boss there after a dismal July jobs report. Trump accused her of
00:01:38.260 rigging the data without any evidence to back that up. But in firing her, raising new doubt and concern
00:01:44.840 about how the administration will handle future releases of economic data. The July CPI report will
00:01:50.680 be released this morning. And Tony currently works at the conservative think tank, the Heritage
00:01:55.940 Foundation, is a frequent critic of the workforce that he may soon lead. His nomination needs to now be
00:02:01.760 confirmed by the Senate. But D.C. is not even in the top 10. Right. He is just lying. D.C. is, it is, it's
00:02:08.580 animating because he'll just say these things. Right. And if you say it enough times, it becomes truth to
00:02:13.460 some people. And what he is doing is not going to fix the issue of juvenile crime. The issue will
00:02:18.560 be fixed by policy. No, it's not going to fix juvenile crime. And he's sort of having this
00:02:23.320 bifurcated strategy here that is legally novel in two ways. Right. One is to ignore D.C. home rule
00:02:30.260 and to federalize the MPD, the Metropolitan Police Department. The second is using the National Guard
00:02:37.560 and then farming them out to D.C. where they are not wanted or needed right now, sort of on a rotating
00:02:44.780 basis, 100 to 200 at a time. But in both cases, he's relying on statutory contacts that haven't been
00:02:51.340 used and other situations in the same way that he has sort of relied on arcane statutes and other
00:02:57.260 places that we can think of. The Alien Enemies Act or, for example, in Los Angeles, where he used
00:03:02.780 National Guard subject to a different statutory authority. It's like somebody made a book for him
00:03:08.240 of all of these little used statutes and said, Mr. President, these are the elastic laws. Stretch
00:03:14.000 them as you will and as you see fit, because there isn't case law in many of these circumstances
00:03:20.120 to constrain you. So let's see how far we can stretch this republic before it breaks.
00:03:26.480 It's embarrassing, to be frank. I mean, Mikov, after his first meeting with Putin in March,
00:03:32.780 then went on Tucker Carlson's show. And he couldn't name, he could only name one of the five
00:03:38.680 oblasts, provinces that Putin wants. He could name Crimea. The other four, Donetsk, Luhansk,
00:03:45.420 Kirsten and Zaporizhia, he got wrong. That's his brief. That's his job. And he's still,
00:03:53.520 five months, four months later, in early August, having seen Putin again last week, he's still
00:04:00.000 unable to figure out which bits of the map Putin was suggesting Ukraine withdraw from and which bits
00:04:08.820 of those disputed oblasts they freeze the conflict. I don't think even with a negotiator who is really
00:04:18.840 clued up and who has the history of Yorta and Munich and all the other sort of shoddy grand
00:04:25.600 bargains of the 20th century in his head. I don't think they're going to be able to persuade Putin
00:04:32.760 to, with anything other than land in the negotiating chamber, that he failed to win by force of arms.
00:04:41.660 That's what Putin is about.
00:04:43.020 Though it may be Project 2025 and the Orban playbook, because you put them all together
00:04:48.220 and you have a perfect map for what we're watching right now.
00:04:50.960 Absolutely. And I would say, I've been talking on this show often about the idea of a self-coup,
00:04:57.280 that he's trying to usurp the power of Congress, that he's trying to usurp the judiciary.
00:05:01.860 But now we're seeing the trappings of a more traditional coup, because the military is coming out.
00:05:06.660 And that is something that we associate, not with what sometimes political scientists call soft coups,
00:05:11.340 but hard coups. And he's facing pushback in California.
00:05:14.960 There, the governor rightly and heroically is saying the federal government is limited in its power.
00:05:20.980 There's no statutory authority, as you just heard, to bring out the military to shut down free speech
00:05:26.400 or to even act as a police force. That the tradition of our country has a 10th Amendment,
00:05:31.320 which has local control over the police.
00:05:33.580 And there's a long tradition that Newsom is acting in of citizens fighting back using the states.
00:05:39.140 So when John Adams shut down free speech using the Sedition Act, Jefferson and Madison used the power of Virginia
00:05:45.600 and Kentucky and the resolutions to say, no, we're not going to cooperate with the federal government.
00:05:50.420 Here's the problem, that Washington, D.C., he knows he has more control and he's facing less pushback from the mayor there.
00:05:56.940 There isn't a state. And it starts to raise the question, don't we need statehood for Washington, D.C.?
00:06:02.560 Of course we do. We need to have that democratic representation,
00:06:05.820 because what we have to do is make sure that this pattern of this not just soft coup,
00:06:12.040 but now increasingly hard coup, that it's it's stopped. And the states are our best option.
00:06:16.740 No comparison between the Washington, D.C. of today and the Washington, D.C. that I came to in the year 1980.
00:06:27.100 That Washington, D.C. was a genuinely dangerous place.
00:06:31.500 It was a place where you not only felt that you were in peril in some neighborhoods,
00:06:39.920 but in fact, you were in peril in some neighborhoods.
00:06:44.640 And there were all the overlapping pathologies, the sort of open air drug markets that were that were everywhere.
00:06:53.680 I think the police department was probably larger at that time.
00:06:58.500 But there were there were these overlapping pathologies that made Washington a pretty rough place,
00:07:06.540 comparable to a lot of cities.
00:07:09.020 I mean, I had also lived around Detroit, you know, and that was that was no picnic.
00:07:14.760 Now, today, again, it's not like Manhattan, where there are people walking any time of the day or night.
00:07:23.600 Manhattan four in the morning. There's people out.
00:07:28.240 You kind of feel that protection that comes from a crowd in Washington, D.C.
00:07:35.780 That's not the case.
00:07:38.740 Downtowns have been hollowed out across the nation.
00:07:41.580 And that has kind of happened here as well.
00:07:44.560 So and and there's one word that David Drucker used, which we should come back to maybe in a later segment, which was truancy.
00:07:53.940 There's a huge truancy problem in the in the D.C. schools, especially the high schools.
00:07:59.780 And that's where a lot of those kids are coming from, who, again, gather in numbers and create public disruptions and some measure of danger occasionally that people are reacting to.
00:08:17.320 So there are lots of deeper things that need to be worked, worked with, worked on.
00:08:23.460 Yeah. But is it a bad thing if there's more of a police presence?
00:08:28.560 I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily.
00:08:32.000 And we'll see. You know, I hope it works out well.
00:08:35.180 This one, he's making more radical changes to the country and to the White House that will live well beyond his presidency.
00:08:42.240 Right. And I think part of it is because he now knows how government works.
00:08:45.880 I think one of the things that really is the key difference between the first term and the second term is that he had a whole host of characters in the government that were trying to stymie his efforts to radically change the country.
00:08:57.500 He's now surrounded by people that are fully supportive of his agenda and helping him do it.
00:09:01.380 He's way more effective at accomplishing his agenda with having that time out of office because those a lot of his a's, Russ Vo, those sorts of officials spent their time out of government planning for this term.
00:09:13.020 And so what they've done is an onslaught of executive orders in the first six months that accomplished a lot of their goals very quickly because he knew what they wanted to do.
00:09:21.100 Does that mean that you foresee U.S. troops in Mexico in some way, shape or form?
00:09:27.180 Or are you thinking drone attacks, air attacks? What do you think?
00:09:31.900 I can't reveal anything, but I'm not tipping my hand that there will be U.S. troops in Mexico. That's not what I'm saying.
00:09:37.860 But are you worried that now the cartels are just moving everything around, that they know that there's a target on their back?
00:09:43.200 They're just like hiding everything, however they do that?
00:09:45.120 We're watching. We probably we know a little bit more than they think they we might know about them.
00:09:50.260 We spent a lot of attention watching them. We're focused on this. It's a presidential priority.
00:09:54.880 It's our priority. We're working with federal partners to identify that all across the Western hemisphere.
00:10:00.680 This is something we're not taking lying down anymore. If you're trafficking in drugs, you're trafficking in people, you're trafficking in violence that affect the American people.
00:10:07.280 That's unacceptable. And the Defense Department is going to be a part of solving.
00:10:10.320 I mean, should we not talk about the Democrats and when and I think that what Trump 2.0 is teaching us a lot.
00:10:18.100 One of the lessons I feel like from Trump 2.0 is that all of these excuses the Democrats had when they had control, total control of government,
00:10:25.460 when they were in charge about the filibuster and like, oh, I need the public support.
00:10:30.100 No, I can't do this. And oh, I don't have the votes.
00:10:32.320 And oh, Joe Manchin, perhaps had had Democrats just at least given D.C. the ability to control the National Guard.
00:10:41.340 There was a bill that could have done that, that Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema didn't help vote for.
00:10:45.160 Perhaps they could have given D.C. statehood. Does this example not teach that if there is another opportunity?
00:10:51.220 Because I'm saying if there's not a guarantee that Donald Trump is going to leave.
00:10:55.600 And I'm just going off what happened last time.
00:10:58.440 If there is another opportunity of a Democratic president, let alone a Democratic House and Senate, perhaps Democrats need to think more expansively.
00:11:07.920 OK, Tuesday, 12 August, year of our Lord, 2025.
00:11:10.960 The cold open was so great. And my producers and the team in Denver did such a great job.
00:11:16.320 We don't have time even for the long open. So I'll just jump right in here.
00:11:19.860 Of course, I hope that you see the pattern recognition here.
00:11:23.540 President Trump doing big things, doing them rapidly, taking control, seizing control of the imperial capital because it's out of control with what did Eugene Robinson, who supports President Trump's move.
00:11:35.760 Shockingly enough, he called it overlapping pathologies.
00:11:39.400 Of course, many of the big cities in the United States have the same overlapping pathologies, Los Angeles, Chicago and, of course, New York City.
00:11:48.880 And I think you're seeing a template right now of things come.
00:11:53.000 And you've got Pete Hegseth right there talking about taking the war to the cartels in northern Mexico.
00:11:59.240 Can we put up the Drudge? Do we have the Drudge McDaddy?
00:12:01.840 Drudge McDaddy today kind of lays it all out.
00:12:03.800 They've got a special reaction force.
00:12:05.680 They're working at the Pentagon to be able to surge in in case any of these cities get out of control.
00:12:11.400 And, of course, the central part of all this is the mass deportations.
00:12:15.140 I think that will be top priority.
00:12:17.040 In addition to crime and making sure we have law and order to start the mass deportations out of the nation's capital and then maybe to Los Angeles, Chicago and, of course, New York City.
00:12:29.820 Shocking news today.
00:12:31.000 Let's bring in Joe LaVornia from Treasury.
00:12:33.380 Joe, shocking news.
00:12:35.380 Wall Street's in shock.
00:12:36.580 The global is in shock.
00:12:38.440 Inflation looks like, meh, no big deal right now, sir.
00:12:47.920 We just froze.
00:12:49.200 Okay, on Joe.
00:12:50.160 Okay.
00:12:50.600 Can we try to get Joe up over Treasury?
00:12:52.700 We got Joe LaVornia.
00:12:54.080 There was an inflation report, CPI, today.
00:12:57.600 And Wall Street is kind of in shock.
00:12:59.820 Wall Street's in shock by the fact that it wasn't on fire because of tariffs.
00:13:05.740 We told you this is all about bringing manufacturing jobs back.
00:13:09.260 Or if people don't want to bring manufacturing jobs to the United States of America, you're going to have to pay a toll to get through the golden door.
00:13:16.840 Wall Street had been predicting, and, of course, the haters and the globalists have been predicting there was going to be inflation out of control.
00:13:23.700 It didn't happen today.
00:13:25.640 Of course, in addition, E.J. and Tony, Dr. E.J. and Tony, chief economist over at Heritage, named yesterday afternoon to head up Bureau of Labor Statistics, something he has come on the show for the last four years and talked about what the issues and what the problems are.
00:13:44.540 Well, now, Dr. E.J. and Tony, as soon as he gets Senate confirmed, and by the way, we should do that in a recess appointment, all of them in a recess appointment.
00:13:52.840 It's unacceptable.
00:13:53.860 It's not happening.
00:13:54.880 President Trump is strapped for personnel.
00:13:57.100 Now, you saw yesterday, he had his team up there in the press briefing to say we're going to bring good order and discipline into Washington, D.C., a capital out of control.
00:14:09.460 And President Trump said, hey, I'm going to go see Putin this week, and it's kind of embarrassing that we have a capital city that is out of control, but I'm going to take care of it.
00:14:18.420 What is going on in Texas?
00:14:20.020 I hope you see the plan coming together right now is to strip the Democrats of any power.
00:14:25.520 Why? Because the only way they have power is either stealing elections, number one, and or having false counts with illegal aliens to give them actually more representation.
00:14:35.740 All of that's going by the wayside.
00:14:37.580 The tip of the spear is Texas, but it's spreading throughout the country, just like the template of good order and discipline in Washington, D.C.
00:14:44.800 is going to spread throughout the country also as we take down the cartels in northern Mexico.
00:14:51.400 That is called America first national security.
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00:17:00.120 Okay, right there, the Drudge Mac Daddy.
00:17:03.020 Also at the bottom, you can see the new beginning of this reaction force to make sure we don't have disturbances in major cities.
00:17:10.320 And I also think in these neo-confederate sanctuary cities is to assist in the mass deportations of illegal alien invaders.
00:17:20.260 You've got the census that the Commerce Department is working on that's going to make sure we don't count illegal alien invaders in any of our elections.
00:17:33.220 Also, you've got now good order and discipline in the cities.
00:17:36.740 You're going to spend a lot more time in that.
00:17:38.000 Also, Russia going to Texas.
00:17:39.380 I want to start.
00:17:39.940 Do I have Joe?
00:17:41.140 Joe Lavernier, we finally figured out the technology.
00:17:44.440 Wall Street was all set, and particularly the globalists were all set, to dance on our graves this morning, sir, about tariffs and about President Trump's trade deals via inflation.
00:17:54.560 It didn't quite work out like that, did it, Joe?
00:17:57.880 No, Steve.
00:17:58.580 Actually, I want to preface my remarks or the inflation discussion with the fact that the small business survey had a huge increase with a reacceleration of optimism and expected economic growth,
00:18:11.860 which is the result of the one big beautiful bill being passed and much of the tariff uncertainty, as the president said, would happen and which Secretary Besson echoed as that got cleared up.
00:18:23.300 So the small business outlook is great.
00:18:25.780 Companies are not raising prices.
00:18:27.540 And then, lo and behold, the CPI data we had for July shows virtually, if any, tariff effect whatsoever.
00:18:35.220 I mean, it's truly remarkable.
00:18:36.460 President Trump's right again.
00:18:41.000 Joe, is this unlocking the animal spirits?
00:18:47.340 Yes, Steve, it is.
00:18:48.820 I mean, we saw the big CapEx come back in the first half of the year because the bill was written so that the spending would be retroactive to Inauguration Day.
00:19:00.820 So you saw the big increase in CapEx.
00:19:03.140 Now that the bill is law, that acceleration in CapEx will lead to a big pickup in hiring.
00:19:09.660 The great news with today's CPI data and last week's employment report, which did show very strong wages, is that real wages now are running up around $1.4, $1.5 year on year.
00:19:20.700 The year-to-date increase is the second fastest to start a new administration on record, eclipsed only by Trump 1.0 and barely so.
00:19:30.840 So, yes, the animal spirits are alive and well thanks to President Trump's policies.
00:19:34.420 Now, what about the tariffs, all that?
00:19:39.260 Wall Street was all anticipating that, hey, because of its tariffs, inflation's out of control.
00:19:44.540 That did not happen, correct?
00:19:46.360 No, it didn't happen, Stephen.
00:19:48.100 You know, you talk about animal spirits.
00:19:50.280 You're seeing that in the equity market.
00:19:51.960 The stock market has had a historic recovery off those April lows.
00:19:56.200 And, of course, the stock market can move around a lot, but the clear direction is higher, and it's because the market, which is forward-looking, which anticipates the future, is expecting a big recovery in GDP, strong non-inflationary growth like what we had during President Trump's first term.
00:20:13.660 I mean, all the ingredients are there for a boom, and the investor base is smart.
00:20:17.820 They want to make money, and they know where the direction of things is headed.
00:20:20.340 And President Trump has initiated this background for growth to accelerate, and the great part is Wall Street will do well, but Main Street, as Secretary Besson has highlighted many times, will perhaps and hopefully do even better because it's their turn.
00:20:37.460 Joe, where do people find you on social media?
00:20:40.200 Because I know you're putting up on Twitter analysis all day long.
00:20:43.280 Where do folks go?
00:20:44.660 Yes.
00:20:45.000 Thank you, Steve.
00:20:45.800 They can find me at LaVornianomics.
00:20:50.340 Joe, thank you so much for calling in this morning to give us an update.
00:20:56.720 Great Tuesday.
00:20:57.940 Taking action, taking control, not playing around.
00:21:02.200 You saw the Jonathan Karl.
00:21:03.760 I may play that Pitt speech a little bit later, not speech, but a little segment, where they're sitting around thinking great thoughts, and what do they come up with?
00:21:11.080 What's the conclusion they come up with?
00:21:13.160 President Trump was very focused because the four years in the wilderness, his team had a chance to get policy together,
00:21:18.560 and now he fully understands the levers of government, and also those people that are trying to thwart him, like the U.S. Senate, not giving him recess appointments, which is what we need immediately,
00:21:31.400 or let's get in recessions, pocket recessions, impoundment of money to make sure that we don't run up these deficits.
00:21:38.820 Right now, the economy is on a roll.
00:21:40.620 Let's not have this mass spending get in the way of it.
00:21:45.060 Also, let's get a real census of citizens of the United States of America, where they live, how they live, where the congressional districts ought to be.
00:21:55.500 Let's go to Brian Harrison.
00:21:57.660 Do we have Brian?
00:21:58.340 Brian down in Texas, Brian Harrison.
00:22:02.160 Harrison, here's one thing I've noticed.
00:22:04.800 Greg Abbott is now getting more TV time.
00:22:07.280 His comms team must have gotten quite upset with you.
00:22:10.460 They've got him booked everywhere.
00:22:12.340 This guy's everywhere, but he never says anything.
00:22:16.140 Abbott is the biggest pie I think I've ever met.
00:22:18.740 He's just a complete wimp.
00:22:20.440 He comes up there with all this big talk, but no action.
00:22:23.540 But one thing his comms team is doing is making sure that he gets more airtime than our own Brian Harrison.
00:22:29.760 Can you give us an update today on the lack of action by the Texas Republican establishment, sir?
00:22:36.420 Yeah, I definitely can neither confirm nor deny or certainly should say whether I was or wasn't told by a senior member of the governor's team that his comms staff were screamed at
00:22:45.920 because yours truly was on TV exposing the truth to America more than the governor.
00:22:51.100 And I guess they decided that they couldn't let that stand.
00:22:54.160 So, look, here's the reality.
00:22:55.580 Okay, we're going to cut through the BS and cut through the spin.
00:22:58.840 Democrats have been gone for eight days officially, 12 days really, because our rhino speaker released them last Wednesday.
00:23:04.840 And let's count through the different punishments that have been meted out.
00:23:08.000 Okay, to get even, to show the Democrats we are going to take tough action to punish them.
00:23:12.960 They took away their newsletters and they'll get paid in full when they get back, but it's going to be a paper check, not direct deposit.
00:23:25.840 And that's about it.
00:23:27.820 So, bottom line, no punishments, but enough hot air to fuel a fleet of blimps coming out of the elected Republican leadership in the state of Texas.
00:23:34.360 It's embarrassing.
00:23:35.720 Okay, the state that reelected President Trump with 14 points because they wanted bold Republican leadership.
00:23:41.400 They're sick and tired of the false promises, the hot air, the empty words, the veiled threats, and most importantly, the inaction.
00:23:51.020 Texans are a bold, strong people, and they want bold, strong action coming out of their government.
00:23:56.500 The latest stunt, I mean, we're not even being treated to good kabuki theater.
00:23:59.880 At least pretend, okay, play the part.
00:24:01.960 They're not.
00:24:02.580 Yesterday, the latest stunt was they basically threw law enforcement under the bus.
00:24:06.320 Because remember, it was a week ago last Monday that we were told these Democrats are going to be vacated.
00:24:11.260 They're going to be kicked out of the legislature, and we're going to sign arrest warrants.
00:24:14.660 Okay, this was eight days ago.
00:24:16.440 Zero arrests.
00:24:18.080 Zero seats have been vacated.
00:24:19.540 But what they do yesterday, our Rhino leadership down here, they threw law enforcement under the bus and announced a tip line.
00:24:27.160 Sort of like if you see something, say something, implying that the DPS troopers are unable to find 51 human beings who, best I can tell, are live streaming their location on TikTok and Facebook every waking minute.
00:24:40.520 Let me break something, Steve.
00:24:41.320 Here, I actually have not said this publicly before.
00:24:43.140 I'm going to break something to you right now.
00:24:44.180 I cannot confirm this with metaphysical certitude here, but I have this from so many sources now that what's really going on and why they're throwing law enforcement under the bus is because the leadership in Texas, including law enforcement, knows where multiple of these Democrat members are, including Democrat members that are holed up in Texas, where we have clear jurisdiction to arrest them.
00:25:03.340 But that they have made the decision not to arrest them because of factors like their gender and their race.
00:25:11.260 And that damn well better not be true.
00:25:13.180 And we need to get to the bottom of this.
00:25:14.520 But that is what I'm hearing from multiple sources now is that they have decided intentionally not to arrest these Democrats and just hope they show up for the second special session.
00:25:24.500 But that's the latest from here.
00:25:26.220 Just a bunch of empty words, hot air, bad theater, no action, no results, and Texans deserve better.
00:25:33.340 And even with calls, and we're going to do it again today, no action in the Senate.
00:25:40.480 The Senate can actually pass this immediately within this session and not have to wait to the next special session.
00:25:46.940 Correct, sir?
00:25:48.040 That's right.
00:25:48.480 No, we're like five, six days out from the end of this special.
00:25:51.260 And people need to remember this.
00:25:52.160 We're only five or six days out.
00:25:53.280 So whatever the theater is going on right now, it's going to restart in a week.
00:25:57.940 And so the Senate, which has not had a quorum break, why the hell haven't they passed the redistricting maps?
00:26:03.460 I mean, they had time to ban the hemp products that President Trump legalized six years ago.
00:26:07.580 They had time to ban hemp.
00:26:09.380 But why have they not taken any action to what arguably one of the most important issues we get done, not just for Texas, not just for America, but for the world?
00:26:17.940 I think the Texas Senate may vote on it today, but, like, why are we waiting until week four of a four-week special session?
00:26:24.780 It's just, look, the silver lining to this dumpster fire is that it's doing more, perhaps, than anything I've seen since the sham impeachment of Ken Paxton two years ago,
00:26:34.500 to open the eyes of people, not just in Texas, but across the country and the world, to how weak, purple, soft, ineffective, establishment, rhino, liberal, progressive the Republican government is in the state of Texas.
00:26:50.280 People have no idea that progressives have infiltrated our state government for well over a decade.
00:26:54.840 And it's actually the party of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Joe Biden and AOC that actually call the shots in many ways here in the government of the state of Texas.
00:27:04.680 And I can't forget, I mean, your audience knows this.
00:27:06.960 You're one of the few audiences that knows this.
00:27:09.060 It's not that the Democrats thwarted our plans to redistricting by making some bold midnight escape.
00:27:14.000 No, the Republican leadership in the state of Texas allowed them to leave.
00:27:17.500 Our liberal speaker literally adjourned them so they could get a four-day head start after they went and huddled up with Hakeem Jeffries.
00:27:23.480 So Republicans could have ended this.
00:27:25.520 Republicans could end at any time they want.
00:27:27.780 And Texas deserve better.
00:27:31.680 It's a great piece I'll put up about, I think this is in the Washington Post, about how this is going to end with the five seats in Texas.
00:27:38.800 It's just a matter of how and when it ends.
00:27:41.660 Brian Harrison, your Twitter account, it's on fire.
00:27:45.360 Where do people go to get it?
00:27:46.400 The most hated Twitter account in all of Austin is at Brian E. Harrison, at Brian E. Harrison, at Brian E. Harrison.
00:27:55.100 If you want to do just one thing today to make the rhinos screaming angry, go there, follow, like, and share the content we're putting out.
00:28:02.060 And again, thank you, Steve.
00:28:03.780 Thank you, the posse.
00:28:05.180 I promise you, the rhetoric that's coming out of the elected Republican leadership, they're copying our plan to add more Republican seats to the Mac the longer the Democrats.
00:28:13.840 That was started right here.
00:28:15.220 That was birthed here on social media, on the posse.
00:28:18.660 You're making a difference because now the liberal weak establishment, the Uniparty in Austin, they're copying our talking points.
00:28:26.020 Pressure up.
00:28:26.620 We'll be right back.
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00:29:39.480 A cluster by Democrat governors is nothing more than weak sauce because the fact of the matter is they are bringing a gun to a gunfight, but they have no bullets because they lost their bullets when they engaged in redistricting and gerrymandering over the past decade.
00:29:58.480 They have, because if you look at what the way lines are drawn in California and New York and Illinois, Massachusetts, where there are no Republicans whatsoever, they've run out of Republicans that they can move out of office.
00:30:09.260 If Texas had drawn our lines mathematically the same way that California had, we would be not adding five more seats.
00:30:18.220 We would be adding 10 more seats.
00:30:20.080 And if you look at all the Republican states across the entire country, if we engage in this war of making sure that each state is going to draw their lines the way that the Democrat states have, Republicans are going to be able to pick up maybe as many as 25 seats.
00:30:35.400 And then I'll add on top of that, with each passing census, it's the red states that are getting the population, the blue states that are losing population.
00:30:44.120 We know mathematically that New York and California, they lost seats this last census.
00:30:49.420 They're going to be losing more seats in the coming censuses because people are –
00:30:52.960 Okay, this is why people – this is why people hate politicians and they particularly hate soft rhinos.
00:31:00.480 Until this audience got in back of Brian Harrison and Brian Harrison and Glenn's story and the team of grassroots folks that we had this meeting with a couple of weeks ago, Abbott was nowhere to be seen.
00:31:13.900 You had to light – we had to create a prairie fire down there in order for him – now he's got it out in front and he said, dude, if you got 10 seats, how come you're not taking them?
00:31:23.960 Why are we not doing it?
00:31:24.940 25 seats?
00:31:25.800 Then where are the 25 seats?
00:31:26.900 Let's roll.
00:31:27.360 This is why people lose faith and confidence in you.
00:31:31.120 This is about the rise of Trump.
00:31:33.320 You see Trump take action in Washington, D.C.
00:31:35.660 He's going to use that as a template in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City.
00:31:39.880 You see Pete Hegseth in the open talking about taking the fight down to the cartels in Mexico.
00:31:46.260 It's game on.
00:31:48.140 We're in a fight for our country and some feckless incompetent like Abbott, just like he was on the border for years and years and years, all performance art.
00:31:57.360 Oh, we get another 10 seats.
00:31:58.700 We'll take it, dude.
00:32:01.000 Brian Harrison had to come up with the idea.
00:32:02.680 Every week they're out, add another seat.
00:32:04.520 Now you're actually admitting there's 10 seats total.
00:32:06.820 Why is that not in the map?
00:32:11.320 Now he's on TV as much as Brian Harrison.
00:32:13.500 Why?
00:32:13.980 Because he saw he was getting lit up and exposed, just like we exposed him on his feckless defense of the Texas border.
00:32:23.500 Then he's finally sent the National Guard down, total performative.
00:32:26.720 Remember that?
00:32:28.120 They were cutting the wire.
00:32:29.260 This is the problem in the state of Texas.
00:32:34.020 You have a bunch of soft rhinos, a bunch of soft Bush establishment politicians in bed with the Chamber of Commerce and the Democrats are running the deal.
00:32:43.560 In a state where the rising power of the grassroots is the railhead of the MAGA movement, Beau French joins us, head of the GOP in Tarrant County, a controversial figure for all the right reasons.
00:32:56.080 Sir, you've got a matter.
00:32:57.180 What is going on with the leadership down there?
00:32:59.260 I'm hearing all these big plans behind the scenes.
00:33:01.360 They got this.
00:33:01.980 They got this.
00:33:02.420 The only reason they got anything is because the grassroots has ripped the mask off their incompetence on this very topic.
00:33:09.840 And it's humiliating.
00:33:11.160 And now we're hearing let's get the number up there.
00:33:13.240 Can we put the numbers up?
00:33:14.740 Folks, blow up these phone lines.
00:33:17.340 If these Democrats are back in the state and they refuse to arrest them, this is going to expose the Republicans for how feckless they are.
00:33:25.080 There's a number right there for the governor's office, the lieutenant governor's office.
00:33:28.360 Tell the lieutenant governor, call him.
00:33:29.620 Hey, why has the Texas Senate not passed this?
00:33:33.800 You got a quorum.
00:33:35.020 What are you doing?
00:33:36.960 And throwing a call to the Speaker of the House.
00:33:38.780 I don't know how much that will help you.
00:33:41.300 Beau French, your thoughts, sir?
00:33:43.720 Well, two things I would say.
00:33:45.780 Well, let's remember how we got here in the Texas House for the last 15 years.
00:33:50.940 A small rhino group of Republicans has courted the votes from the Democrat caucus to gain the speakership.
00:33:59.200 So this has been going on since 2009.
00:34:01.560 It's the same group of people that keep recycling.
00:34:03.660 They have thwarted the will of the Texas people by not electing a speaker out of the Republican caucus.
00:34:11.820 So they are beholden to the Democrats to begin with.
00:34:14.580 And as Brian Harrison pointed out a minute ago, the Texas House speaker allowed the Democrats to leave knowing they were going to leave.
00:34:22.200 And behind the scenes, he was telling everyone, well, they promised me they weren't going to leave.
00:34:26.180 But, I mean, when you have your position because you were elected by Democrats, you know, you're not going to be strong on Democrats, which is the case with our rhino speaker, Dustin Burroughs from Lubbock, Texas.
00:34:37.340 He is just as bad as the previous speakers we've had since 2009, all empowered by Democrats.
00:34:43.760 So that's one problem.
00:34:45.020 The other problem is, I would argue that because of people like this audience, because of the audience, the growing audience on X that has really pushed the Overton window to the right,
00:34:57.520 our leaders here in Texas, Governor Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, they've all been forced, and I think some willingly, some not willingly, but they've all been forced to move to the right on all of these issues.
00:35:10.520 And now we are, you know, on the second week of the Democrats' breaking quorum.
00:35:14.560 We have emergencies here in Texas, like the flood relief and other things.
00:35:18.040 But more importantly, Donald Trump has shown the Republican Party how to lead, right?
00:35:24.660 Republicans did not lead, have not led forever.
00:35:27.520 Donald Trump is leading, and our leaders in Texas better take note because the American people, the Texans are watching,
00:35:34.400 we understand now that the Republican Party, the new Republican Party, is shirking these old-school Bush rhinos
00:35:41.380 and embracing this idea that we have to lead with authority and we have to wield our power the way that Democrats have wielded their power every time they're in charge.
00:35:51.460 I mean, Beto O'Rourke was just here in Fort Worth, Texas, where I live the other day, talking about how when they have power again, they're going to just ram it down our throats.
00:36:01.700 And so where are the Republicans?
00:36:03.860 Why are we not doing the same thing?
00:36:06.700 You know, the five-seat pickup in Texas is easily doable, but on my X account I posted, we could easily get up to nine seats without endangering any Republicans.
00:36:17.300 That would only leave three Democrats elected to Congress in Texas, and I say we do it.
00:36:23.660 We go for that right now, and I'm actually in favor of—
00:36:27.960 Hang on, Bo. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, Bo, because you're a man of action.
00:36:31.780 Can we get that map up?
00:36:33.320 I want to see Bo French's map.
00:36:35.340 See, Bo, this is what I think makes the audience so frustrated.
00:36:37.620 Until Harrison—and we start creating a firestorm, and Harrison goes, we should take a new seat every week they're out, and then Bo French, the controversial Bo French puts up a map that shows nine, and you say it could be easily doable and fair.
00:36:53.420 People would sit there and go, what are we doing?
00:36:55.220 Why do we even have to force the five out?
00:36:57.220 Because remember, they didn't even want to do that.
00:36:59.860 They wanted to do the flood relief, which they absolutely have to do, and I think the property tax have to be addressed.
00:37:04.900 But they just want to get through—they didn't do it in the regular session.
00:37:07.560 They want to get through the special session and say, oh, the Democrats blocked us, move on.
00:37:10.880 They did not want to do the five, and yet you're sitting there saying, hey, there's nine easily, and even Abbott last night was saying, hey, there could be ten.
00:37:20.740 So I think the people's frustration is that it takes a populist uprising to say, no, we've got to be as tough and as focused as the Democrats when the Democrats are in power to do this, sir.
00:37:33.140 Now, you're hearing behind the scenes there is some action going on, I take it?
00:37:37.500 Yeah, look, there is discussion about what happens once the Democrats are brought back, and there's lots of criticism on why they actually haven't been arrested.
00:37:45.960 And that's a little more nuanced because these are civil arrest warrants, not criminal arrest warrants, so they're very different.
00:37:53.300 I've spoken to my contacts in DPS.
00:37:55.180 They're very different guidelines as to what can actually be done.
00:37:58.060 And so I'm not going to get into that.
00:37:59.660 I mean, they're going to do what they're allowed to do.
00:38:02.920 But the bottom line is all of these Democrats need to be punished.
00:38:07.000 They need to have their seats vacated.
00:38:08.880 They need to have their—constitutionally, we can't take away their pay.
00:38:12.400 But there are other things we can do.
00:38:13.820 We can absolutely strip vice chairmanships, vacate their seats.
00:38:17.660 It's, I think, and I actually hope that the governor is considering calling for a redistricting of our Texas legislature also because we could probably get rid of another, you know, five to ten Democrat seats in the Texas legislature also using the same methodology we're using for the congressional redistricting map.
00:38:36.860 And so I'm a big proponent of that.
00:38:38.740 I've been pushing that on my ex, and that seems to be picking up steam.
00:38:45.120 Bo, I got one thing else I want to address to you before we leave you.
00:38:48.440 I thought most of the Democrats were in Illinois.
00:38:51.900 Maybe some are going to go to California, the new hiding space.
00:38:54.700 Am I correct that one of the Democrats is actually hiding in Pakistan?
00:38:59.660 Is that correct?
00:39:00.260 Well, he claims he was in Pakistan.
00:39:02.780 He's Pakistani-born.
00:39:04.020 He's from Pakistan.
00:39:05.040 He's a radical Muslim leftist, as you can imagine, elected here in Tarrant County, where I'm from, you know, one of our elected representatives here.
00:39:14.040 Yeah, he went to—he fled to Pakistan, you know, which is—I jokingly say that that's also, you know, where Osama bin Laden was hiding.
00:39:21.040 But, you know, here's a guy who is a radical Muslim, foreign-born.
00:39:26.280 In my opinion, we shouldn't even allow foreign-born people like Ilhan Omar or this guy in New York or the guy running for, you know, mayor up in Minnesota.
00:39:35.060 I mean, none of these people.
00:39:36.500 They have allegiance to, you know, countries outside of the United States.
00:39:41.700 You know, America is not their first priority.
00:39:44.980 And so why we even make it legal for them to be elected to office is beyond me, and I'm going to be a big proponent of pushing for legislation to ban that practice.
00:39:56.160 Does he actually live—when you say in Tarrant County, is he actually a registered—does he actually live in the county?
00:40:02.900 Does he actually live where he's elected from?
00:40:06.180 Well, that's an interesting question because we discovered—so he's been claiming his residence to be elected as a $780,000 house in Euless, Texas, which is the district that he represents.
00:40:21.020 But we found out last week, late last week, he actually owns and lives in and claims his homestead exemption in a $3.2 million mansion in Southlake, Texas.
00:40:33.620 And so, obviously, he's not eligible to even be elected to the House district that he's elected to because he doesn't live there.
00:40:41.400 So that's going to be a problem that we're going to have to look into a little further.
00:40:46.540 Bo, where do folks—on your Twitter, I want folks to go and particularly study your nine-seat map because I think it's either nine or ten.
00:40:55.360 We've got to do it.
00:40:56.220 I mean, we've got to up the game here down in Texas.
00:40:59.060 Where do folks go, sir?
00:41:00.080 Yeah, I'm on X, at BeauFrenchTX, at BeauFrenchTX, at BeauFrenchTX.
00:41:08.960 Thank you, sir.
00:41:09.600 Appreciate you.
00:41:10.620 Thank you, Steve.
00:41:11.260 Great to see you again.
00:41:11.820 Can we play the—do we have—do you have the Jonathan Karl?
00:41:14.740 Can I play that clip again?
00:41:17.080 Just tell me when we got it.
00:41:18.560 Let's get Jim Rickards in here.
00:41:20.020 Jim, President Trump's showing you how to lead.
00:41:22.820 You see it all the way from—hang over a second.
00:41:24.740 I want to play this as a lead-in to you.
00:41:26.220 Let's go ahead and play Jonathan Karl in The Grand Poobahs talking about President Trump.
00:41:31.760 This one, he's making more radical changes to the country and to the White House that'll live well beyond his presidency.
00:41:38.820 Right.
00:41:39.240 And I think part of it is because he now knows how government works.
00:41:42.400 I think one of the things that really is the key difference between the first term and the second term is that he had a whole host of characters in the government that were trying to stymie his efforts to radically change the country.
00:41:54.120 He's now surrounded by people that are fully supportive of his agenda and helping him do it.
00:41:58.060 He's way more effective at accomplishing his agenda with having that time out of office because those—a lot of his A's, Russ Vo, those sorts of officials, spent their time out of government planning for this term.
00:42:09.440 And so what they've done is an onslaught of executive orders in the first six months that accomplished a lot of their goals very quickly because he knew what they wanted to do.
00:42:19.960 Rickards, we've got about a minute in this segment before we go to break.
00:42:23.060 Your thoughts about President Trump stepping in and making some big power decisions here, sir?
00:42:27.720 Well, Steve, you've offered this description for a while, but it's interesting to see the Democrats and the progressives come to the same conclusion.
00:42:36.860 It took them a while, but they actually figured it out.
00:42:38.760 And to say that, you know, Trump loyalists, Trump's closest advisors stuck with him over the four years and don't think Trump wasn't, you know, keeping score, so to speak, that's true.
00:42:47.480 But they didn't just hang around and say, you're the best.
00:42:49.620 They planned, and, you know, the Heritage Foundation Project 2025, I think it was called, they had to distance themselves a little bit late in the campaign because it was becoming an issue.
00:42:59.240 But in fact, that was—I mean, I read a lot of it.
00:43:01.940 It was 900 pages.
00:43:02.880 I can't say I read every word, but I read hundreds of pages, you know, in my areas of expertise.
00:43:07.940 Man, was that well thought out.
00:43:08.940 You don't have to agree with everything or endorse everything.
00:43:10.700 But the methodology, the rigor, et cetera, that went into that, and so—and you made the point, and you're right.
00:43:18.400 They knew after the 2020 election that they were going to win in 2024 because of the fraud in that election.
00:43:24.280 They said, we don't have to get more votes.
00:43:25.440 We just have to stop the fraud, and Armie Dillon and others did that.
00:43:30.060 Jim, hang on for one second.
00:43:31.820 Brother Rickards, after the break.
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00:45:45.740 How, in the run-up to this historic meeting in Alaska, how important is it that President Trump is asserting his power in his 200th day?
00:45:56.520 And you even got Jonathan Karl and these guys saying they've never seen anything like it.
00:45:59.920 He's doing – he's having an impact greater than FDR.
00:46:02.660 How important is that as a predicate to these negotiations this week, sir?
00:46:08.500 Well, it's important because, you know, he's coming off a very strong political base.
00:46:12.160 I have to say a lot of Trump's accomplishments and successes over the first seven, eight months at this point are in the domestic area, plus tariffs.
00:46:22.400 That's international trade.
00:46:23.600 I think he's still struggling a little bit in foreign policy, but he's working off a very powerful base.
00:46:29.680 There's no question about that.
00:46:30.880 Now, with the meeting in Alaska, former Russian territory, by the way, the meeting in Alaska, he's making a number of statements.
00:46:37.760 Number one, Vladimir Putin is subject to an arrest warrant from the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
00:46:44.900 Well, obviously, he's not – Putin's not going anywhere if he thinks he's getting arrested.
00:46:48.880 So the U.S. is not a member of that, but obviously Trump has offered assurances that, hey, come to Alaska, we'll meet, you're fine.
00:46:56.180 So he's kind of – Trump is poking a stick in the eye of the International Court of Justice saying you're just another left-wing front, but we don't take you seriously.
00:47:06.440 And that's why Putin couldn't go to the BRICS summit in South Africa two years ago because there was some danger that he would get arrested.
00:47:13.240 So he feels safe there.
00:47:14.300 But that's kind of Trump sheltering him in a very good way.
00:47:17.560 The other thing that's not getting quite as much publicity as it should – why is Putin doing this?
00:47:23.160 Putin is not going to agree to an unconditional ceasefire.
00:47:25.820 That's one of the things Trump wants.
00:47:27.640 That's what Zelensky wants.
00:47:28.960 Putin is not going to agree to it.
00:47:30.120 So why do it?
00:47:31.000 The answer is the agenda for this summit is far broader than the war in Ukraine.
00:47:35.520 That's obviously an important issue.
00:47:37.020 But they're looking at security guarantees, security arrangements, I should say, for all of Europe, basically undoing NATO, undoing the post-World War II settlements and institutions, and coming up with a new framework that would involve Russia as a full partner, number one.
00:47:55.660 Number two, a rapprochement between Russia and the United States doesn't mean we're treaty allies or anything of the kind.
00:48:01.800 It doesn't mean we don't still have some adversarial relationships.
00:48:05.400 But, you know, let's work together.
00:48:06.620 I mean, the U.S. is a tech powerhouse.
00:48:08.960 Russia is a natural resource powerhouse.
00:48:11.860 There's probably no better natural trading relationship in the world than those two countries.
00:48:16.680 You know, Germany would be in the same position.
00:48:18.740 So Putin's got a broader vision and a broader agenda.
00:48:21.640 So does Trump.
00:48:22.740 And that's the main reason they're meeting.
00:48:24.260 I think that this summit will fail in terms of the Ukraine ceasefire, but it may be a success on a much broader platform.
00:48:34.820 Do you see there that Putin's designs, you talk about Eurasia and, of course, obviously our existential threat as a Chinese Communist Party.
00:48:41.780 Do you see their design with Persia, Turkey, India as a new kind of Eurasian block?
00:48:49.260 And that's what they hope to get at least the beginning of and hopefully some sort of rapprochement, not with the West, but maybe some alignment with this, sir?
00:48:58.920 Well, you're right.
00:48:59.760 They have some alignment already.
00:49:01.340 I mean, Russia, Turkey has been this love-hate relationship for centuries.
00:49:06.000 And Russia almost got, at the time, Constantinople or Istanbul at the end of World War I.
00:49:11.140 Didn't, you know, the British kind of got there first.
00:49:13.240 But Russia has no warm water access to ports except through the Bosporus.
00:49:19.320 That's one of the critical choke points in the world.
00:49:21.280 So they have to somehow have relations with Turkey, even though, as I say, it runs hot and cold.
00:49:27.820 Iran is very dependent on Russia for security and clout in international forms.
00:49:35.860 Iran's got a lot of problems.
00:49:37.240 I mean, their economy's collapsing.
00:49:38.560 They're running out of water, actually.
00:49:39.700 There's a serious drought there.
00:49:41.820 They're pumping oil, but they're very dependent on China in that respect.
00:49:45.820 And they've been attacked by B-2 bombers in the US and Israel.
00:49:48.960 So Russia has a lot of clout with Iran.
00:49:53.460 And I've said all along, if Trump and Putin could end the war in Ukraine, Putin would very quickly pivot to help Trump solve the problems with Iran.
00:50:03.180 You know, maybe Iran-Israel peace treaties is a bit much at this stage.
00:50:06.540 But at least to get them to agree not to continue uranium enrichment, Russia said, hey, send us—Russia said to Iran, send us your highly enriched uranium, your weapons-grade uranium.
00:50:17.060 We will send you lower enriched uranium that's good for the nuclear power plant.
00:50:22.320 So if you want a power plant, fine.
00:50:23.740 If you want weapons, no.
00:50:25.420 But we'll do uranium swaps that will enable you to pursue that.
00:50:28.940 So there's a lot of good that could come out of the Iranian situation if the Russians were helping us, but they're not because of Ukraine.
00:50:35.560 So I keep making the point that these things are all connected.
00:50:38.920 You've got to look at all the moving parts.
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