Bannon's War Room - Episode 4730： Filling Paxton's Seat With A Fully Vetted MAGA Attorney; The Fight Against Newsom

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. Band.

00:00:53.000 Breaking news from Real America's Voice.

00:00:58.000 Three, two, one.

00:01:01.000 Okay, welcome.

00:01:02.000 It's Monday, 25 August.

00:01:03.000 You're over at 20, 25.

00:01:05.000 Wow.

00:01:07.000 Is that...

00:01:08.000 It's not James Earl Jones right there in that voice, but...

00:01:11.000 Very impressive.

00:01:12.000 I may call for that again.

00:01:13.000 Breaking news here in...

00:01:15.000 Big breaking news.

00:01:17.000 In the morning edition of the War Room to kick off a week.

00:01:20.000 We're going to be going to the Oval Office pretty quickly.

00:01:22.000 It's Maximalist Monday as President Trump is dropping the hammer in every different vertical

00:01:28.000 on maximizing everything we can possibly do right now because we're burning daylight.

00:01:33.000 President Trump understands that we signed some executive orders making people's heads blow up.

00:01:37.000 We have huge news coming out of the Lone Star State.

00:01:42.000 Ken Paxton, the beloved and revered Attorney General in the state of Texas, has just published

00:01:50.000 an incredible endorsement for our first guest, Aaron Reitz.

00:01:54.000 Aaron, thank you so much for joining us here in the War Room.

00:01:57.000 Talk about your relationship first with Ken because this...

00:02:01.000 He put out an amazing...

00:02:03.000 And if we...

00:02:04.000 Denver, we can put it up.

00:02:05.000 He put out an amazing endorsement of you, and then he came over the top of it just a

00:02:09.000 second ago with another tweet that really takes it to the next level.

00:02:13.000 So talk to us about your background, your relationship with Ken Paxton, all of it, sir.

00:02:20.000 Yeah, definitely.

00:02:21.000 Well, thanks for having me on, Steve.

00:02:23.000 I have been a loyal War Room listener for years, and I'm proud to address the War Room

00:02:28.000 posse here this morning.

00:02:30.000 So I most recently served in the presidentially appointed Senate confirmed role as the head

00:02:36.000 of the Office of Legal Policy.

00:02:38.000 Just most recently in the Justice Department, I resigned from office to deploy back to Texas

00:02:44.000 to run to succeed Ken Paxton as Texas Attorney General.

00:02:47.000 And when President Trump nominated me back in December, he said that Aaron Reitz is a true

00:02:52.000 MAGA attorney and a warrior for the Constitution.

00:02:55.000 And the reason why he said that about me is primarily because he looked at my three years

00:03:01.000 serving as Ken Paxton's deputy in Texas from 2020 to 2023.

00:03:07.000 I was Ken Paxton's offensive coordinator, as he likes to call me.

00:03:11.000 He was our head coach of our lawfare operations against the left and against the Biden administration.

00:03:16.000 And I was the offensive coordinator.

00:03:18.000 Paxton and I have been in the trenches for years.

00:03:21.000 We have fought many battles together.

00:03:23.000 We have sustained many battle scars together.

00:03:25.000 And so everybody in Texas is thrilled about Ken running for the Senate and representing

00:03:31.000 Texas in the United States Senate.

00:03:33.000 But a question that a lot of grassroots conservatives are worried about is, gosh, who's going to succeed

00:03:39.000 Ken Paxton?

00:03:40.000 And that question has once and for all been answered.

00:03:44.000 Ken Paxton has said that Aaron Reitz, me, his former deputy, is the only candidate in this race to succeed him,

00:03:51.000 to keep his foot on the gas, to keep this high horsepower vehicle continuing to fight and take action against the left.

00:03:58.000 I'm proud to have his endorsement.

00:04:00.000 I'm proud that now Texans can finally rest easy and know that they've got a true MAGA attorney who has fought the fights that they care about to succeed.

00:04:09.000 Ken Paxton is aging.

00:04:11.000 Aaron, give me a minute on this, because we're momentarily as soon as the president comes to Oval Officer and cut to that.

00:04:17.000 Given the fact, and you know this better than anybody, what a basically just rudimentary hold we have on the Justice Department.

00:04:25.000 You know, as Pam and Pam Bondi and Todd, now with Emil Bovey going to the federal courts, losing a guy like you.

00:04:33.000 Compare and contrast the importance of us getting things done at the federal level, which were just strapped for people.

00:04:40.000 I mean, I think Cash and everybody, Dan Bongini would tell you the FBI, hey, we're short of great attorneys, we're short of prosecutors.

00:04:47.000 You had this situation with Haba, where she just got bruseliped by Republicans that concurred with it.

00:04:54.000 What is it about Texas, what is it about Texas in this moment that takes a Senate confirmed, I mean, you're like rare platinum right now.

00:05:03.000 Why we take a Senate confirmed warrior, MAGA warrior, and take them back to Texas. 0.92

00:05:10.000 What is happening in Texas and what's going to happen that makes it that important?

00:05:14.000 Yeah, look, it's a great question, and figuring out whether it made sense for me to stay at Maine Justice, what we'll call sort of HQ, where all the biggest brass was,

00:05:25.000 or to go out into the front lines to redeploy back to Texas and to wage war against the left there.

00:05:33.000 And so, look, that's why when Ken announced for Senate in early April, I didn't announce until mid-June, because it took me and my colleagues and my superiors, both in the West Wing and at Maine Justice,

00:05:45.000 to figure out how important is this to get a fully vetted MAGA attorney to succeed Ken Paxton.

00:05:54.000 Look, the Texas Attorney General leads 600 politically appointed attorneys to wage war on all of the various fronts that we care about.

00:06:04.000 And so it's not as though I'm leaving a MAGA Justice Department.

00:06:08.000 It's not as though I just departed and I'm no longer an asset to the America First law and order movement.

00:06:16.000 Now, I'm pursuing an office that can actually be more effective, and I look forward to partnering with the Trump administration,

00:06:24.000 to partnering with Trump's Justice Department and all of my former colleagues to deploy those 600 lawyers.

00:06:30.000 It's the largest conservative Republican state law firm in the country.

00:06:35.000 And so this is a massive infusion of troops that we can project directly at the enemy.

00:06:41.000 And when I was considering, OK, do I stay at DOJ? Do I go back? The answer was clear.

00:06:47.000 The America First movement, our law and order and justice movement cannot afford to have some squish or some flip flopper 0.99

00:06:56.000 or somebody who has not been fully vetted and tested by President Trump and his administration.

00:07:01.000 That's why I'm going back home to Texas.

00:07:03.000 I'm seeking the keys to this office so that I can fully integrate with the Trump administration

00:07:08.000 and deliver the America First agenda right in the low start, right in the low start state.

00:07:14.000 Aaron, on the afternoon of 20 January 2021, our first guest on the five o'clock edition of the war was Ken Paxton.

00:07:22.000 And we talked about being attorney general under a bite, illegitimate Biden regime.

00:07:28.000 And he walked in and said, hey, where they abide by the Constitution, we'll work with them.

00:07:31.000 Where they're against the Constitution, we're going to fight them.

00:07:34.000 And that started the journey of this show in this audience over the last, you know, four or five years of this fight down in Texas,

00:07:42.000 from from from the impeachment now to the redistricting, all of it.

00:07:46.000 What is your punch list since you're leaving and going to the front lines as you talk to the president and made justice?

00:07:52.000 What is your top two or three on your punch list of what needs to be done down in Texas?

00:07:57.000 Yeah, I love that you go all the way back to January of 2021, the day after Joe Biden got inaugurated.

00:08:05.000 And so I was with Paxton in the fall of 2020.

00:08:08.000 We went through that sham election.

00:08:10.000 We filed Texas v. Pennsylvania to challenge the constitutionality of four states management of that fraud election.

00:08:19.000 And so while one of my main opponents in this race was out there defending Mike Pence and saying that the election was great.

00:08:26.000 Ken Paxton and I were in the Oval Office in December of 2020 to stand up for the righteousness and integrity and confidence of what should have been a good election.

00:08:37.000 We challenged that on January 21 of 2021.

00:08:41.000 That date that you just cited when Attorney General Paxton came on your show.

00:08:45.000 My colleagues and I were in the office of the Attorney General in federal court via Zoom during the still at the height of the COVID era,

00:08:54.000 already dropping our first lawsuit against the Biden administration, specifically on border security and Alexandra Mayorkas's refusal to deport illegal aliens.

00:09:05.000 I was the offensive coordinator responsible for the Texas v. Biden docket.

00:09:09.000 That was my docket to lead the Texas v. Biden fight under Paxton.

00:09:14.000 And so even going all the way back then, it brings back such good memories of the times that we were in the trenches fighting against the lawless Biden administration.

00:09:21.000 And in fact, when President Trump nominated me for my DOJ post back in December, he specifically cited all of the dozens and dozens and dozens of lawsuits that I brought against the Biden administration under Attorney General Paxton's leadership.

00:09:35.000 So what I would say is moving forward, my tenure, it's a four year term as Texas AG, I'm going to have two chapters as AG.

00:09:42.000 Chapter number one is going to be deep integration with the Trump administration to advance the ball on the America first law and order agenda.

00:09:51.000 This administration and this attorney general and all of my legal colleagues in this administration know that they need a fully vetted and tested true MAGA attorney, as President Trump said is me.

00:10:03.000 So it's going to be that deep integration with the Trump administration.

00:10:06.000 In the middle of my term, there's going to be a presidential election. God forbid a Democrat wins.

00:10:12.000 I hope that a Republican does and we're going to get more integration with the Republican administration.

00:10:16.000 However, if a Democrat wins and captures the White House, you can guarantee that I is the next Texas attorney general and going to wage blitz creed against a lawless left wing liberal administration.

00:10:29.000 We are going to throw sand in the gears. We are going to block them in court and we are going to protect law, order, liberty and justice and Texans constitutional rights.

00:10:37.000 And we're going to lead the way for the whole country. That's what happens when Texas leads. All of these other states follow.

00:10:44.000 And the reason why this role is so mission essential is because as goes Texas, so goes the nation.

00:10:50.000 This is where the battle lines are being drawn. It's why the establishment, the anti-MAGA, the anti-Trump, the never Trumpers, the people who have wanted to undermine the president.

00:11:01.000 It's why they picked their candidate in this race. It's not me. And so even though I'm the war room posse is a national audience. OK.

00:11:08.000 And so most of the time, folks aren't paying attention to, you know, a sort of second tier state level offices.

00:11:14.000 No, the battle lines in this fight for Texas attorney general are now national. It's MAGA versus anti-MAGA.

00:11:21.000 It's a Trump guy versus a never Trumper. And so the war room posse around the country has got to be paying attention to this race because either Texas is going to go the way of America first or it's going to go right back into the hands of the rhinos and the establishment. 0.56

00:11:35.000 And I'm going to stop it. Before we get to 2028, we've got to get through 2026.

00:11:42.000 There's a firestorm right now in Texas about adding these five additional seats. Walk us through, because the source guys who blew $300 million trying to turn Texas blue got to a light shade of purple.

00:11:54.160 Then we reverse it. President Trump won by 14 points. They have not given up. The sun has targeted Texas. And we're talking about 2026. What are your thoughts there, sir?

00:12:02.560 Yeah, look, I was. It's fun to watch the liberal tears drop off their faces when they went on their little stunt to leave the state.

00:12:14.320 And lo and behold, just like I was saying on various media appearances and on the campaign trail at the end of the day, Texas passed the new maps and we're getting five new seats.

00:12:23.880 Those five new seats are consistent with Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals legal holdings and it's consistent with Supreme Court holdings on the same subject.

00:12:34.500 And look, Texas is now more Republican than ever. As you rightly pointed out, Trump swept Texas in overwhelming numbers.

00:12:43.300 And those congressional lines ought to best reflect the political leanings of the state.

00:12:48.220 That is how political lines are drawn. And so these far left liberal Democrats are out of state, seething, going on their little press conferences, getting clicks on their little social medias, trying to get fundraising.

00:13:00.160 And we drag their butts back to Texas and we cram the new maps down their throat and they're going to go cry about it.

00:13:06.520 Well, they can cry harder because at the end of the day, what's going to happen is Texas is going to be better represented in the United States Congress.

00:13:14.120 And I, as the next attorney general, I'm going to have to fight them in court for years to come.

00:13:19.820 I know this because last time we did redistricting in Texas, it was in 2021.

00:13:24.400 We got the 2020 census, 2021 redistricting happened. All the lines were drawn.

00:13:28.720 I was still Paxson's deputy and offensive coordinator at the time.

00:13:31.720 And I had to coordinate litigation troops against a barrage of Soros-funded, hardcore left-wing, fancy law firm, Democratic-aligned nonprofits suing Texas, bringing constitutional claims, Voting Rights Act claims, Civil Rights Act claims.

00:13:48.040 And they're going to do exactly that. In fact, lawsuits are already dropping.

00:13:51.720 This litigation doesn't go away quickly. It's a years-long process.

00:13:55.400 So your next AG not only has to have the balls and the courage to be able to block what the left is trying to do,

00:14:03.720 but he's got to be able to walk into the beautifully appointed armory of state and federal law weapons to repel the left-wing enemy that wants to turn Texas into something that it's not.

00:14:15.560 And the only AG candidate that is equipped to do that, who knows what he's doing, and who's ready to fight the fight in this lawfare environment that we're in, it's me.

00:14:24.280 And so those maps are great, number one. And number two, when I'm AG, those maps are going to stick.

00:14:32.480 Aaron, we've got 30 seconds. Where do people go to find out more about you and more about your campaign, sir?

00:14:37.980 They can go to my website, AaronWrites.com, A-A-R-O-N-R-E-I-T-Z.com, and they can follow me on X, Aaron underscore Writes, A-A-R-O-N underscore R-E-I-T-Z.

00:14:49.980 Thanks, Steve.

00:14:52.500 Thank you, brother.

00:14:53.280 The battle is engaged in the Lone Star State. Short break. California next.

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00:16:58.420 And I'm so proud to be here at the Won't Back Down Tour because now we have our eyes fixed on 2026, the midterms.

00:17:06.620 And let me tell you something you already know.

00:17:09.820 Donald Trump knows if the election were held today, they would lose.

00:17:14.140 Donald Trump knows that when the election is held in November next year, they will lose.

00:17:22.560 That's why he came out and he said blatantly, Texas, I want you to redraw your lines to get me four to five new seats. 0.88

00:17:35.280 That's why he's telling other states that are run by Republicans, we need you to redistrict so we can get more seats.

00:17:46.500 Because he knows they can't win, so he wants to cheat.

00:17:50.420 The same thing he's done his entire life.

00:17:52.520 But I'll tell you, something else I feel really good about is what California is doing.

00:18:04.040 They're saying, we're not going to let you do this without a fight.

00:18:08.200 And even when, think about this, even when, Democrats, when we have to do something we're not necessarily fully proud of, but we know we have to do to protect democracy, even then we do it differently.

00:18:20.120 Because California is putting it on the ballot to put it to the people.

00:18:26.680 And that will make the victory even more sweeter when that ballot proposal passes in November.

00:18:32.980 Okay, the show's a little different than we had planned.

00:18:40.620 The reason is the president's going to be coming in momentarily, we think, to the Oval Office on executive orders.

00:18:45.140 These executive orders, ladies and gentlemen, I think many of them are tying to tie back to the maximalist strategy we've been advocating now for, I don't know, a month, over a month.

00:18:57.560 Some very important executive orders.

00:18:59.080 I believe some of this is tied to the fact that President Trump's, what he's done in Washington, D.C., is extraordinary about law and order and safety.

00:19:08.200 And he's taken that show on the road to Chicago and I think New York City and maybe even Los Angeles.

00:19:12.820 That's the three that we recommend.

00:19:14.020 But Chicago is definitely in the works, maybe Baltimore.

00:19:16.060 Anyway, more about that.

00:19:18.720 I want to bring on Elaine Kalati from Los Angeles, an activist, someone that's talked about home rule and this horrible situation with the fires and the Palisades and the governor.

00:19:29.080 And everybody's focused down there, Elaine, on the governor's race next year.

00:19:33.340 But right now we have a bigger race, and that is a throwdown by Gavin Newsom.

00:19:37.560 Gavin Newsom is rolling the dice on a presidential run in 2028 to basically take five seats from the Republicans.

00:19:45.640 These are folks who get 40 percent of the vote or 42 percent of the vote in California.

00:19:49.740 He wants to take them down to four seats in a 52-seat delegation.

00:19:53.840 Gavin Newsom, you have been known to have a pretty strong opinion of things.

00:19:59.380 Walk us through your sense of what Gavin Newsom is doing, and is there going to be a fight back from the MAGA base, from the GOP, from the right in California to thwart this in November, ma'am?

00:20:11.600 Hi. Thanks for having me on.

00:20:16.140 Okay, so the first thing I want to say is that Gavin Newsom was losing.

00:20:21.080 He was losing ground, losing his position, losing everywhere.

00:20:25.400 You know that. You've watched it.

00:20:27.020 And the fires came, and it sealed the deal.

00:20:30.420 It sealed the deal.

00:20:31.880 It got rid of Gavin Newsom.

00:20:33.480 It was the worst political disaster in history in California.

00:20:36.860 He was done, and when he couldn't extract any more money from the federal government, $1.1 billion, he turned his sights to this redistricting thing, which is essentially a land grab.

00:20:47.880 People don't understand redistricting, de-annexing, moving maps is what it is, and it's a land grab.

00:20:53.820 Once you grab the land, you grab the people.

00:20:56.220 They imported 15 million immigrants into the California region, and they put them in all different towns, and then they redistrict.

00:21:03.760 They count those heads, and then they get more seats.

00:21:06.140 It's just a scam.

00:21:07.640 We're in the middle of a scam.

00:21:12.640 So the Republican Party, there's been a lot of structural things that's made the Republican Party weak, and they got this – you have the – you don't really have primaries anymore.

00:21:22.560 So consistently, the Republicans, although I think it's 38 to 42 percent of the state, has been grossly underrepresented in the assembly, in the congressional districts, and statewide offices.

00:21:35.680 Just how you're an activist that's now coming to it and firing people up.

00:21:39.320 How do people anticipate you're going to fire – because I understand all that about Newsom, and I know he's not going to run on his policies as governor of California for the presidency.

00:21:48.480 What he's done is gone to the playbook of their leaderless, and they don't think their leaders are fighting for them.

00:21:56.040 What he's done is try to mimic President Trump with the memes and with the smack talk, and he's using this 26th, the redistricting, to basically propel himself to the front of the Democratic primary as a fighter.

00:22:10.440 So how do you anticipate people in California, given that we don't have a great track record of – you have more MAGA in California than any state in the union, but just structural issues and the fact that you haven't had leaders who really want to go to the mat, we haven't won a lot.

00:22:27.120 So how are the grassroots – how are people like you going to turn this around when – do not underestimate Gavin Newsom.

00:22:33.540 He's a very cunning, a very sly individual who now has the entire media in back of him because they are looking for something to stop President Trump.

00:22:43.140 And the only way they can stop President Trump is to win the House of Representatives in 26th and begin to impeach him, ma'am. 0.90

00:22:50.720 Okay, first of all, I want to say Trump is like a mean dog to people here. 0.83

00:22:54.740 They're scared of him. 0.65

00:22:55.400 And if he's not here, he can't be friendly.

00:22:59.720 We can't be around him, and we can't see the evidence of how amazing it is to have conservative policy.

00:23:05.340 And we're out of the conversation.

00:23:07.020 I mean, I think you know we're out of the conversation completely.

00:23:09.280 There's never a minute that we are involved in anything federally in California.

00:23:13.020 We're completely blocked because of Gavin Newsom's relationship with Donald Trump.

00:23:17.060 And President Trump and President Trump's home rule idea would save California.

00:23:21.040 I haven't had a close eye on that for a long time, but that's intimidating to the Democrats.

00:23:25.360 They're scared to have any kind of what they want to call martial law when all it is is a tough-on-the-crime act.

00:23:30.540 We have no police office.

00:23:31.880 We have 8,500 police for like 15 million people.

00:23:34.380 It's insane.

00:23:35.640 You're on hold on 9-1-1, and they're like, what is your emergency?

00:23:39.160 We're like, you're our emergency.

00:23:40.560 They don't answer the phone.

00:23:42.020 If Donald Trump was here, if there was some sort of containment of our crime, look, every crime bill that's passed, including Prop 36, they kick it out when it gets to the top level.

00:23:51.380 We have smash and grab here.

00:23:53.000 You're allowed to steal $1,000 worth of stuff with absolutely zero repercussion.

00:23:56.780 And with our burned downtowns, we have people just squatting and sleeping everywhere, and they want to say, no, don't look over here.

00:24:02.180 But it's 100% true. 0.83

00:24:03.520 We have people here that can manage that.

00:24:06.400 We turn the state.

00:24:07.540 But we have to be in the conversation before November.

00:24:10.800 We can't wait until after November.

00:24:12.340 And you know and I know there's no support for GOP here.

00:24:15.280 I'm going to the GOP convention over the 4th, 5th, 5th, and 6th.

00:24:18.820 There's no money.

00:24:20.120 I'm talking to people that want to run.

00:24:21.840 They don't have any money.

00:24:22.520 They don't have any support because there's no GOP support in California.

00:24:26.180 We need money here in California to support conservative policy.

00:24:30.440 Without backing, they can't do it.

00:24:32.220 And I am one person.

00:24:33.380 I am one person backing conservative policy.

00:24:36.140 I'm not interested in backing deals with lobbyists so that I can buy land.

00:24:40.100 That's the backing that we get here.

00:24:42.120 Land developers and people that are looking to game the system.

00:24:45.140 We need real policymakers and backing for real policymakers in California to turn the state.

00:24:51.080 And we don't have it because we're out of the conversation.

00:24:53.600 If Trump's here now walking through the streets and saying hi, people would shake hands and

00:24:57.460 be so happy.

00:24:58.660 And the conservatives would come out from their homes.

00:25:01.040 Right now, they're hiding in their homes.

00:25:02.740 If I wear a MAGA hat, I don't have any friends in California.

00:25:05.660 Needless to say, I see this is what costs all of this.

00:25:08.120 Look around you.

00:25:08.960 There's nothing left to lose.

00:25:10.280 All your houses are gone.

00:25:11.480 All your money is gone.

00:25:12.700 You have no representation.

00:25:14.420 Gavin's not here.

00:25:15.540 Karen's not here.

00:25:16.820 None of them are around.

00:25:17.880 Altadena, it's 19 percent black. 0.97

00:25:19.980 It's wiped out.

00:25:20.940 Two generations, three generations, middle class Americans lost their homes.

00:25:24.740 They're not talking about that.

00:25:26.160 They're downtown wiping graffiti off of the wall from the people that they brought into

00:25:31.660 the state and saying, oh, look, we're cleaning up L.A.

00:25:34.920 I should leave.

00:25:36.160 That's what they're doing.

00:25:36.820 Are you an advocate?

00:25:41.000 President Trump, you know, Washington, D.C., he's completely changed Washington, D.C.

00:25:44.620 in, I think, 10 or 12 days.

00:25:46.140 Now they're, and it's just been reported this morning that folks are talking to governors.

00:25:53.000 They're really working through a quite detailed plan for Chicago.

00:25:56.320 But that L.A. and New York are on the list.

00:26:01.300 Are you an advocate of President Trump doing in Los Angeles what he's done in Washington, D.C.,

00:26:08.280 of actual federalizing the National Guard and sending them in to not simply augment local

00:26:14.180 police but actually to take over some of the policing activities, ma'am?

00:26:17.360 Okay, so yes, Steve, and this is, this is a very important subject.

00:26:24.640 When the fires happened, we had National Guard.

00:26:27.600 National Guard was here.

00:26:28.820 They stayed for four months.

00:26:30.380 They closed the Palisades.

00:26:32.020 They had checkpoints.

00:26:32.920 And a lot of people in the beginning were upset.

00:26:34.900 But by the time they left, I cannot tell you how much we missed them.

00:26:39.180 It wasn't just the presence.

00:26:41.960 It was the organization.

00:26:43.660 It was the politeness.

00:26:45.320 They were so gracious and so polite.

00:26:48.580 They didn't operate like our police department.

00:26:51.820 Our police department is terrified.

00:26:54.140 We have not supported our police department.

00:26:56.260 And they have been stripped of any of their rights to govern the thing that they've been

00:27:00.580 hired to do.

00:27:01.500 The police, these people that sign up to be police care about their communities.

00:27:05.940 And when you strip them of the right to do their job, they're in danger every day.

00:27:11.300 And what happened when National Guard came here, and everybody knows it, no one's going

00:27:14.900 to deny it, it sorted it out right away.

00:27:18.120 It made everybody stop.

00:27:20.220 Crime ceased.

00:27:21.640 It was the presence of it all.

00:27:23.660 So if anyone wants to tell me they don't want National Guard here, that's not true.

00:27:27.460 That's not true.

00:27:28.280 They might not want to say it out loud.

00:27:29.560 I'm not afraid to.

00:27:30.840 We need them here.

00:27:32.460 This whole thing is run amok.

00:27:34.540 Okay?

00:27:35.340 Amok.

00:27:36.400 You know how they deal with it?

00:27:38.220 They say, don't go outside with jewelry on.

00:27:40.480 That's their idea of how to handle it.

00:27:43.020 Maybe you shouldn't go outside with jewelry on.

00:27:45.000 Do this.

00:27:45.940 Park your cars with your windows open and don't leave anything in them so they don't

00:27:50.440 smash your windows.

00:27:52.240 That's our crime.

00:27:53.180 That's our policing.

00:27:53.740 Elaine, hang on for one second.

00:27:57.260 Quite powerful.

00:27:57.880 We're also going to bring some others in to join the conversation.

00:28:01.940 Like I said, we will have to cut to the Oval Office as soon as the President of the United

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00:28:06.920 He's going to be signing the executive orders.

00:28:08.660 What is it about?

00:28:09.820 Exactly what Elaine is talking about.

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00:30:54.700 Elaine, I just want to go back because the audience is very interested in this.

00:30:58.380 Your thing about – it's pretty shocking because particularly in certain areas of California,

00:31:04.540 it's some of the most prosperous and really been the backbone of a lot of what goes on in the nation as far as our economy.

00:31:09.740 Are you telling me citizens are so intimidated that they're told not to wear their jewelry out,

00:31:15.000 that they leave their windows down and their cars unlocked so they're not destroyed?

00:31:20.500 A guy's breaking in and the carjackings are out of control.

00:31:23.240 Is that modern Los Angeles?

00:31:25.340 It's not just Los Angeles, Steve.

00:31:29.140 Our state is under attack.

00:31:32.560 And the reason that people don't talk about it is because so much crime is unreported.

00:31:36.240 And the reason that it's unreported is because you can't get the police to show up.

00:31:38.860 So it's really – there's no – the math is in.

00:31:42.640 I mean, you cannot walk around Beverly Hills.

00:31:45.180 The little Santa Monica promenade, which was probably the new Beverly Hills mall, is closed.

00:31:49.720 I mean, let me just tell you, everyone is gone.

00:31:52.600 There's no Nordstrom's.

00:31:53.580 There's no Tiffany's.

00:31:54.580 There's no YSL.

00:31:55.780 There's no Burberry.

00:31:57.120 There's no – any large retailer has left California.

00:31:59.800 I mean, at least in the Palisades, they left because of a fire.

00:32:03.480 The rest of it, they left because it's smash and grab and they can't make a living.

00:32:07.060 And then there's no patrons to go down there and shop.

00:32:09.540 You know, their cure for the Santa Monica promenade was to have open container at night.

00:32:15.280 So people just walk around drunk.

00:32:17.580 Everything – Nordstrom's is leaving.

00:32:19.640 And never mind then.

00:32:20.780 Let's just get to the CVS.

00:32:23.200 All the stores closed.

00:32:25.040 What's the other little – you know, all the little stores are closed.

00:32:29.420 They can't stay open.

00:32:31.040 If you go into a drugstore to try to buy, I don't know, makeup, you have to stand in front of a glass thing with a lock and wait for someone to help you.

00:32:39.380 The business is gone.

00:32:40.980 There's no retail.

00:32:42.980 COVID took away retail and service.

00:32:45.520 And then the criminals came in and insured that.

00:32:48.260 It's gone.

00:32:49.720 We can't live like that.

00:32:50.940 Without a total overhaul, it will never repair itself.

00:32:55.120 And that's what they want.

00:32:56.260 They don't want you in the street.

00:32:57.480 They want you in your house.

00:32:58.600 It's a completely different mentality.

00:33:00.320 That is not California.

00:33:01.780 We are outside people.

00:33:02.980 We drive our car.

00:33:03.760 We go in the ocean.

00:33:04.600 We have dogs.

00:33:05.580 We do not stay home.

00:33:07.180 And we like to shop and go to the mall.

00:33:09.160 No, I want to go to the mall.

00:33:10.820 I can't go to the mall.

00:33:12.300 It's not safe.

00:33:13.860 They need gun things at the front of the mall. 1.00

00:33:16.400 You can't go in there.

00:33:17.240 There's people just in gangs.

00:33:18.880 And they do it in parking lots.

00:33:20.940 They take over streets. 0.94

00:33:22.020 Takeover street crime in California is at an all-time high.

00:33:25.660 They just take over the whole street.

00:33:27.320 They race, shoot things up.

00:33:29.080 They take all your stuff.

00:33:30.620 I mean, it's terrible. 0.53

00:33:31.480 They roll you and beat you and leave you for dead.

00:33:33.920 And the cops do not come because they cannot come because there's too many people and not enough cops.

00:33:39.060 We need – if we don't get this under control, the place is unlivable.

00:33:42.420 Thank you.

00:33:43.420 Thank you.

00:33:44.420 Thank you.

00:33:45.420 Thank you.

00:33:46.420 Wow.

00:33:46.580 Let me bring in Ali Mercado.

00:33:49.500 Ali, you're actually in the state assembly.

00:33:51.880 You've been with this whole fight against Gavin Newsom.

00:33:54.420 I mean, the state's in tatters, economically, financially, law and order.

00:33:58.240 yet he's springboarding a presidential run quite smartly off of just taking on donald trump and

00:34:05.020 doing what we look looks it looks to us as an illegal redistricting uh to take votes away from

00:34:10.440 the republicans i think the state's like 38 to 40 42 percent republican you have a 52 seat

00:34:16.060 delegation the largest in the union it's going to go down to only four republicans and 48 democrats

00:34:22.320 tell us about it you see it up close and personal in the assembly every day what's going on there

00:34:27.380 well the democrats are very scared because what do we know we know that californians have fled blue

00:34:34.640 states large in part because of things like what elaine is talking about it the cost of living here

00:34:40.280 is unbelievably high the quality of life goes down by the second that gavin newsom is in office

00:34:46.160 and then in the state legislature you have democrats who want to gaslight us into believing that it's

00:34:52.220 not happening well the truth is when the census comes in 2030 we are going to lose seats in

00:34:57.980 california simply because we've lost population so how can they prepare for that they can make it

00:35:03.440 donald trump's fault rather than our own fault and make this sham of a special election that i'm glad

00:35:10.320 you are talking about retail crime elaine because prop 36 that was out in california on the ballot

00:35:17.660 passed in every single county and passed by 70 overwhelmingly with democrats independents and

00:35:25.820 republicans what was prop 36 prop 36 was voters cleaning up the mess that the legislature couldn't

00:35:33.140 and it ensured that retail crime and homelessness and drugs were going to be illegal again in california

00:35:40.160 how did we get there prop 47 which was also on the ballot years ago was labeled the safe schools and

00:35:48.620 communities so guess what people didn't read what it was people only saw the title and what that did is

00:35:56.480 it basically said you can steal up to 950 worth of worth of merchandise on any given time and not go to

00:36:03.740 jail you can refuse resources as a homeless person and not have any type of repercussions or can law

00:36:11.240 enforcement do anything for you and you can be caught with drugs but as long as it's not that much or it's not

00:36:16.160 that bad we're just going to slap you on the wrist and let you go for goodness sakes i was on the floor 0.84

00:36:21.600 battling earlier this year if buying a 16 or 17 year old child for sex should be a felony that was a real 0.98

00:36:28.420 conversation that we had to have and fight for on the floor and it wasn't until the public got involved

00:36:35.520 and absolutely exposed the disgustingness that we were even discussing this that then gavin newsom got

00:36:41.660 involved and said yeah we need to do something about this we aren't funding that prop 36 that i just told

00:36:49.260 you about why because we have a 20 billion dollar deficit and gavin newsom said the voters wanting this

00:36:54.720 isn't enough but now he's going to spend 250 million dollars on a special election which is a 250

00:37:03.740 million dollar contribution to his 2028 presidential campaign from the california taxpayers it's ridiculous

00:37:11.120 it's a slap in the face to voters in california let's give you another history lesson let's go all

00:37:17.260 the way back to 2010 when voters overwhelmingly once again supported an independent redistricting

00:37:24.860 commission this independent redistricting commission had republicans democrats and independents it allowed

00:37:31.160 voters to pick their politicians not politicians to pick their voters these people on this commission

00:37:37.740 couldn't even speak unless they were in a public room using a computer that they could draw the maps

00:37:45.140 publicly and take public input it was hours and hours and hours of public input there were translators

00:37:52.560 that were made available this was spanning throughout the state and although i still don't believe the

00:37:58.240 independent redistricting commission was without flaw it was still a much better option than backroom

00:38:05.080 deals that are happening right now when it comes to the drawing of these lines i'm the vice chair of the

00:38:10.400 elections committee when i had attorneys in front of me i had the authors of these bills i had assembly

00:38:17.540 democrat leadership i had the chair nobody could answer the fundamental question of who drew the maps

00:38:26.260 and guess who was there testifying that this was a great idea it was labor unions it was the teachers

00:38:33.540 association it was planned parenthood so don't tell me that special interests weren't involved in this as well

00:38:39.420 why is this because the california democrat super majority does not care about their voters they care

00:38:47.940 about their political futures and ensuring that they're going to have a job and keeping their friends

00:38:53.460 happy not the disenfranchised communities that they claim to care about not the minority communities

00:38:59.540 not the underserved communities because if they did they would listen to me my district is 65 hispanic and

00:39:06.560 latino the average income in my district is 31 000 a year i love that gavin newsom has been touting on

00:39:15.040 his social media how we are number one for agriculture what he leaves out of that is that he deprives us of

00:39:21.840 water he deprives us of resources he has allowed us to be regulated into the oblivion that the average

00:39:27.980 cost of compliance for a farmer right now is sixteen hundred dollars per acre so anybody who is listening

00:39:35.820 if you are not from california this is your problem too because gavin newsom has his eyes set on the

00:39:41.800 white house and we have to do everything we can to not only stop the disenfranchisement of california

00:39:48.000 republicans and independent voters for the record if you are an independent voter this takes your voice

00:39:54.240 completely away because most of our districts in california that were swing districts were decided

00:40:00.260 by independent voters so not just republicans once again even if you are a democrat you should

00:40:07.400 absolutely hate this because your voice is silenced and don't buy into the nonsense that this is temporary

00:40:13.580 we have proven in california anything that we say is temporary we are hungry to make important

00:40:20.200 make permanent we saw that with covid we've seen that with taxes because i challenge any democrat to

00:40:26.920 tell me the last time that we lowered taxes that were labeled as temporary

00:40:30.700 by the way and what happens in california eventually happens to the nation uh ali we got to bounce right

00:40:38.880 now but i want to make sure there are more mega voters in california than any other state in the union

00:40:43.780 right it's got some of the greatest citizens out there a call to arms what what tell me what you need

00:40:49.120 and where do people go to find out more information because a lot of what you just said is news

00:40:52.740 to a lot of people throughout the country particularly in the mega movement so tell us where do they go

00:40:57.420 where they get more information what do you guys need stopprop50.com uh is a place that i know we are

00:41:05.080 getting the information out uh follow you know your leaders your republican leaders on social media we will

00:41:12.320 let you know what we need but right now we need to raise as many funds as possible because we know

00:41:17.920 that the democrats have the funds out in california that we don't to fight this we have to educate

00:41:23.040 voters so that they can't do things like they did with prop 36 to deceive them that a yes vote is a

00:41:28.660 no vote or a no vote is a yes vote we will we will absolutely defeat this at the ballot box or in a

00:41:34.820 courtroom because they have violated our california constitution as it stands and i will not stand for

00:41:40.460 it but it's truly been an honor to be here we are not backing down i can promise you i'm headed to the

00:41:46.340 floor right now uh for another floor fight and this is far from over the reason we selected you

00:41:53.100 today one of the great young fighters in this country so good on you you're gonna have the

00:41:56.920 backing of the war and posse what's your social media where do people find out more about you

00:42:00.180 uh assemblywoman macedo uh or if you want my spicier version politically underscore brunette 1.00

00:42:07.660 thank you ma'am we'll push it out elaine where do people go

00:42:13.780 great uh elaine where do they go where do people go to find out more about you ma'am

00:42:20.960 best places hashtag lipstick farmer instagram

00:42:25.040 that's me i hope elaine that you i hope you consider uh taking our shot here running for

00:42:34.020 governor because i think people need uh they need fighters like you so take a uh you should

00:42:38.280 take a hard look at that but thank you so much for coming on the war room this morning

00:42:41.060 folks uh they're they're the toughest fighters in california as there are in texas

00:42:49.240 there are actually more maga voters in california as many as in texas this is an opportunity for a

00:42:57.320 throw you want to have a throw down you got it right here you don't have to wait to the midterms

00:43:00.560 you do not have to wait to the 2028 election you want to take on the actual disease that's

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Bannon's War Room - August 25, 2025

Episode 4730： Filling Paxton's Seat With A Fully Vetted MAGA Attorney; The Fight Against Newsom

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