Bannon's War Room - October 17, 2025


Episode 4860： So Goes Texas So Goes The Country


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Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton has been charged with one count of conspiracy to provide classified information to Iran. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 in fines.

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00:00:00.000 Tomahawks to Ukraine, what's going to happen if the United States is in a conflict and we need the tomahawks?
00:00:08.620 Well, that's that's the problem. We need tomahawks and we need a lot of other things that we've been sending over the last four years to Ukraine.
00:00:17.440 We've been, you know, we gave we gave them a lot. Now we have a different situation.
00:00:21.080 We send it to the European Union. They pay for it and all that. And they have plenty of money.
00:00:25.260 We need tomahawks and we need a lot of other things that we've been sending over the last four years to Ukraine.
00:00:31.460 We've been you know, we gave we gave them a lot. Now we have a different situation.
00:00:35.100 We send it to the European Union. They pay for it. One thing I have to say, we want tomahawks also.
00:00:40.800 We don't want to be giving away things that we need to protect our country.
00:00:46.620 We have a very strong country right now. We have a strong military. We have the greatest military in the world.
00:00:52.000 We have the greatest weapons in the world. I want to get this war over.
00:00:56.320 One of the issues that the indictment raises is that not only was this information exposed to his wife and daughter,
00:01:01.580 it was exposed to the Iranians because one of his email accounts was hacked. 0.73
00:01:05.920 And what I've learned is that that is one way that the United States discovered that there was this classified information on Fulton's AOL account
00:01:14.220 is because they had a penetration. The U.S. intelligence community had a penetration of an Iranian system.
00:01:19.040 And they came across these emails. And that sort of fueled this investigation.
00:01:23.900 And there was a debate in the Biden administration about whether they could even move forward with this case
00:01:27.840 because it would require essentially disclosing to the Iranians that the U.S. had that penetration.
00:01:32.920 That's a big deal. That's not often done.
00:01:35.280 But the Trump Justice Department decided that it was worth it to pursue this case against John Bolton.
00:01:40.780 And likely knew that this information should not have been spread further,
00:01:44.240 that there was sort of an attempt to say, don't share this.
00:01:46.580 And then there was a sort of tongue-in-cheek in the response.
00:01:50.260 But explain to us why that could or could not factor in here.
00:01:53.360 So the power of a document like that or evidence like that is really the government's ability to get it into evidence at trial.
00:02:00.820 And that is, as we all know at this table, going to be a function of the witnesses that are able to authenticate that document.
00:02:07.180 In plain English, what it means is that if I'm having a conversation with another individual
00:02:11.280 and that conversation is private, either of us has to be able to take the stand to say,
00:02:16.860 I had this conversation with this person or I received this communication from this person.
00:02:22.460 You cannot compel John Bolton to testify because he has a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
00:02:27.440 And with respect to his family, it's possible that they could be compelled to testify, but it's very unlikely.
00:02:33.160 So the question becomes, with a communication like that, who is the witness that you're going to use to authenticate it?
00:02:38.380 And certainly you could use the FBI, perhaps, to say that they got it through the investigation.
00:02:42.960 But if you're not hearing from either of the individuals who are participating in the conversation,
00:02:47.780 it loses its emphasis and the jury has to sort of take it at the four corners of the document,
00:02:52.740 which could be good or bad, depending on who you're talking about.
00:02:55.900 But certainly what you will not have happen is John Bolton get on the stand, see this,
00:03:01.140 and as Susan said, say, oh, I only told them to shush because I didn't want it known,
00:03:05.540 but at the same time, I didn't know that these weren't things that they were supposed to talk about.
00:03:09.620 So that's absolutely not going to happen.
00:03:12.260 This indictment of Bolton accuses him of sharing emails with information, national defense information,
00:03:18.980 with two family members.
00:03:20.900 They don't say who the family members are, but they're presumed to be his wife and his daughter.
00:03:24.920 How significant is it that a former national security advisor was sharing information with his family?
00:03:30.340 I think on one hand, Ariel, it's very significant because John Bolton, like most people in that position,
00:03:37.880 has shown us that he understands what the rules of the road are.
00:03:41.400 In fact, the indictment itself shows us that John Bolton fully understands that
00:03:45.220 because he's done a series of interviews both before his time as the national security advisor
00:03:49.140 and after where he criticizes other people for their handling and discussion.
00:03:53.880 On the other hand, almost everyone who serves in this kind of capacity writes a book at some point in time, right?
00:04:03.940 Our bookshelves are legion upstairs in our headquarters with these kinds of books.
00:04:08.480 And you have to ask yourself, how do people do that if they don't hold on to classified or national security information
00:04:14.520 at some point in time in some venue?
00:04:16.600 I think what complicates this here is obviously Bolton was using an intermediary.
00:04:19.880 He was using his wife and daughter basically as a transcription and secretarial service as his ghostwriters or editors.
00:04:27.000 It's not exactly clear what function they fulfilled, but he was handwriting notes along his journey as the NSA.
00:04:33.480 Then he was converting them into a Word document and sending them to his wife and daughter
00:04:37.320 either over an instant message platform that's non-governmental or a commercial email application.
00:04:42.780 And that's the complicating factor.
00:04:44.260 And if I could just throw in a quick one on 100% tariff on things like the movies,
00:04:49.040 obviously our movie industry is already the best in the world,
00:04:52.860 and I don't understand the competitive issue there.
00:04:56.400 Thank you.
00:04:58.800 Well, let's take the movie thing first.
00:05:01.840 If you know Hollywood, and I used to live about 60 miles from there,
00:05:12.620 it became almost impossible to produce a medium to low-budget film in Hollywood.
00:05:22.900 And so it was off to Czechoslovakia and Canada, the industry went.
00:05:29.560 And it was drawn by heavy government subsidies from countries around the world who wanted to cash in on the Hollywood cow.
00:05:41.720 So, yeah, it's a significant, that's a significant issue.
00:05:48.480 It has been reported that Maduro offered everything in his country, all the natural resources.
00:05:55.060 He even recorded a message to you in English recently offering mediation.
00:05:59.560 What should we do in order to stop that?
00:06:01.420 He has offered everything.
00:06:03.320 He's offered everything.
00:06:04.480 You're right.
00:06:05.180 You know why?
00:06:06.300 Because he doesn't want to f*** around with the United States.
00:06:09.740 Thank you, everybody.
00:06:10.500 Thank you.
00:06:12.080 It's Friday, 17 October, the year of our Lord, 2025, joined by my co-host this afternoon, Lee Lomsberg.
00:06:20.120 Now, you're running right now.
00:06:22.380 We know you as the Patriot Mobile Political Action Person.
00:06:25.620 You're actually running for the state senate in the state of Texas?
00:06:29.260 Yes, I'm running for Senate District 9.
00:06:32.200 And in the state of Texas, we have 31 senators.
00:06:34.880 They're huge districts, larger than congressional districts.
00:06:37.500 There's only 31 senators in all of Texas?
00:06:39.840 Yeah.
00:06:40.000 Texas Senate?
00:06:40.720 About a million per person.
00:06:42.600 So it's a huge district.
00:06:44.120 Our races are more expensive than congressional races.
00:06:46.560 Wow.
00:06:47.280 Unbelievable.
00:06:47.780 Hang around, Lee.
00:06:48.740 We've got a lot to get to.
00:06:50.040 Let's go to Peter Navarez on Pebble Beach.
00:06:52.260 Zelensky just left the White House a few minutes ago.
00:06:54.240 The president left.
00:06:55.480 No gaggle.
00:06:56.440 No discussion.
00:06:57.340 Heading to Palm Beach.
00:06:58.260 Peter, today, your speech really touched the heart.
00:07:02.440 We started the show down here in Texas with your speech.
00:07:04.820 I got to tell you, the audience reaction was amazing because you talked about populism and economic nationalism from the heart.
00:07:11.060 And you really were – it almost felt like you were addressing the good folks in Texas, the farmers, the ranchers, the entrepreneurs, the people that really are the backbone of this country, sir.
00:07:20.980 The Council on Foreign Relations is kind of the Davos of Washington, D.C.
00:07:31.200 It's the center of gravity for all of the policy guys who are going to be in Democrat administrations.
00:07:40.540 I went right at them today.
00:07:43.800 I was happy to get the invite.
00:07:46.900 But, look, they're responsible for everything you and I have fought for, what, the better part of three decades now.
00:07:55.440 NAFTA, they were behind.
00:07:57.820 China's entry into the WTO.
00:07:59.660 The ill-fated Trans-Pacific Partnership, which President Trump skewered on his first day in office in the first term.
00:08:09.880 And this drumbeat, Steve, of propaganda.
00:08:14.660 Tariffs are bad.
00:08:16.180 Tariffs are going to cause inflation.
00:08:18.080 Tariffs are going to cause recession.
00:08:19.900 Don't do tariffs.
00:08:21.260 It will upset our allies.
00:08:22.680 They're always so quick.
00:08:23.740 But, Steve, one of the themes of the speech was you can't trade our economic security for national security.
00:08:31.260 Economic security is national security.
00:08:33.680 If you don't have a manufacturing base, you can't defend anybody, including yourself.
00:08:39.700 So, it was a very interesting day.
00:08:45.120 And I hope the Council on Foreign Relations got a little religion today because I was preaching, brother.
00:08:52.820 I was preaching the gospel of MAGA.
00:08:54.780 And I was preaching it the way they didn't like because I gave them the data, the facts, sir.
00:09:01.920 However, we brought the facts.
00:09:04.080 And it was fun.
00:09:05.800 Okay, let me ask you.
00:09:06.580 You went to kind of the high church of the globalists.
00:09:09.560 And it's one of the most elite groups in the world.
00:09:11.120 You've got to be invited to be part of the Council on Foreign Relations.
00:09:13.440 Really headquartered in New York, but with a massive state-of-the-art office in D.C. right near the White House.
00:09:19.760 You also had Anna Swanson.
00:09:21.260 And I would say Anna's probably one of the smartest people in the country about trade. 0.99
00:09:25.320 She does a great job of the New York Times, although she's a globalist.
00:09:29.380 She's not a nationalist.
00:09:30.260 But then you had a live audience, invitation only, of the Council.
00:09:35.640 And then you had, I don't know, 5,000, 10,000 people just on their Zoom call.
00:09:39.960 And we had, you know, hundreds of thousands watching live.
00:09:43.340 You actually got up in their grill like I've never seen before.
00:09:47.300 How did they respond to your kind of reading?
00:09:50.360 Are they empathetic at all with the populist nationalists and the good folks in Texas?
00:09:55.320 Are they trying to fight for?
00:09:56.680 Or is it just this elitist globalist sneering?
00:10:00.560 Well, first of all, guest hosting on the War Room is good training to go get in the grill of the globalists.
00:10:08.840 I thought that the reception in the room was surprisingly warm.
00:10:15.640 I think they get it.
00:10:18.000 You know, you've got the leadership.
00:10:19.280 The problem is the leadership and the fellows who take the checks and write the articles and things like foreign policy.
00:10:26.060 But these are smart people.
00:10:27.820 They have eyes and ears.
00:10:29.660 And they can see over time that Donald Trump's trade policies have certainly been very effective.
00:10:36.260 They can certainly see that it's Donald Trump creating peace, not war.
00:10:41.820 But this is the kind of constructive dialogue we need.
00:10:46.960 I mean, look, Steve, I think we've broken the back of the resistance on tariffs and trade as it is now.
00:10:53.980 Because Donald Trump has succeeded beyond anybody's wildest dreams in terms of getting deals with virtually the rest of the world that are very favorable to the United States, all without creating inflation or recession.
00:11:10.380 And everybody's kind of grudgingly admitting, who hasn't yet, that, yeah, it's working pretty damn good.
00:11:17.140 And, oh, by the way, as I said in the speech today, we're able to pay down our national debt in ways which could actually get us a balanced budget and keep our bond yields down and mortgage rates down and consumer credit down.
00:11:32.560 So, look, Council on Foreign Relations is the last holdout.
00:11:38.600 But we went to them today, and they heard the message, and hopefully they'll come home to us as well.
00:11:46.780 I know I don't want any, obviously, classified information inside baseball.
00:11:50.880 But today you have both the kinetic part of the war President Trump is trying to solve with this slaughter in Ukraine.
00:11:57.660 And President Trump comes on once again with the empathetic.
00:11:59.700 There's just too many dead.
00:12:00.520 And he's trying to work on, you know, Tomahawk's offensive knot with Putin.
00:12:04.360 Marco's going over next week to start the negotiation with Lavrov.
00:12:07.220 President Trump will follow to Budapest.
00:12:09.440 You've also, you, Jameson, Ambassador Greer, Scott Besson, are dealing with the Chinese Communist Party on what looks like open warfare about rare earths. 0.53
00:12:18.760 Where, just overall, directionally, where do we stand with this?
00:12:21.760 Because I will tell you, not just markets, but as I'm down here in Texas, people are paying attention to this big time.
00:12:27.220 Well, as the boss says, let's see what happens.
00:12:32.220 We'll know by November 1st, after President Trump meets with President Xi Jinping.
00:12:38.660 My favorite question of the day in the forum today was about kind of the rare earths and what's the weaponization of our China's supply chains against this.
00:12:54.360 You know, Steve, you and I know it's unrestricted warfare.
00:12:57.500 And what I explained to the crowd there is simply that, you know, my job at the White House, Steve, is not only to bring things home in the supply chain, but the ones where there's vulnerabilities.
00:13:08.660 And all I can say is what China's doing is making my job a heck of a lot easier. 1.00
00:13:13.080 I don't have to convince anybody anymore inside the White House that we need to do this and we need to do it in Trump time, which is to say as fast as possible.
00:13:21.440 So let's see what happens.
00:13:23.480 It's always good for the war room to be here.
00:13:25.340 Thanks for carrying that today.
00:13:26.560 Thanks to the Papa Sig, Rob Sig, and Parker for getting it all done.
00:13:31.340 And last thing I'll say, Steve, got to be said, I'm so pissed off that John Bolton, like Comey, got to self-surrender.
00:13:40.500 Chapter one of I went to prison so you won't have to.
00:13:44.220 You can read about my leg irons arrest.
00:13:46.820 You know, I don't want that to be done to them, but it does provide a stark contrast between how those bastards treated you and me and how we're treating them.
00:13:56.100 So 18 counts felony John Bolton walks in.
00:14:00.620 Last thing, Anna Swanson, one of the senior people at the New York Times, did you happen to mention we sold more books than number 10?
00:14:08.240 We should be number eight in the New York Times bestseller list, and we're not.
00:14:11.080 Did you mention it to Anna?
00:14:12.500 We got about 30 seconds, brother.
00:14:13.700 Yeah, I communicated that through email to the publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, through Anna Swanson as well.
00:14:25.540 She's well aware of the problem.
00:14:27.440 Look, don't expect fairness from the New York Times.
00:14:32.540 They're costing us, Steve.
00:14:34.060 They're costing us thousands and thousands of books out there, and it's not about the money.
00:14:38.720 It's about the message, and that's what they do.
00:14:41.820 The New York Times has canceled culture and skewed analysis, and we just got to keep fighting.
00:14:49.340 The good news is there's the war room now, and there's all sorts of alternative ways.
00:14:55.060 Well, we'll talk to you on Monday, brother.
00:14:56.980 Thank you.
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00:16:56.060 So at Real America's Voice and War Room, we are juggling.
00:16:58.800 We're live in Texas right now.
00:17:00.220 Lee's my co-host.
00:17:01.140 Tomorrow morning from 8 a.m. to noon, we're going to be live, and we're going to juggle
00:17:06.320 between Orlando and Moms for Liberty and here in Texas.
00:17:09.620 We've got breaking news, personalities, politics, all of it.
00:17:13.880 And we have a rally tomorrow afternoon.
00:17:15.900 We do.
00:17:16.460 You can learn more about it at LeeForTexas.com.
00:17:19.000 So I'll be there with Lee, and we're going to have a rally.
00:17:21.780 And Gary Jacked Up for this coming election.
00:17:24.980 Simultaneously, in the afternoon, we're going to do live coverage.
00:17:27.820 Real America's Voice is going to do live coverage of Marine Corps 250, very much like the Navy
00:17:33.220 250 we did, I think, a couple of Sundays ago.
00:17:36.760 Our own Amanda Head is going to be there. 1.00
00:17:39.700 She's at Camp Pendleton right now, Oceanside, California.
00:17:44.320 Amanda Head, first off, Amanda, that's not normally a very safe place for a young woman 1.00
00:17:49.120 to be, but you did go to Auburn, so I guess you're tough enough, right?
00:17:54.680 I did, and I actually have two Auburn camera guys, so we have banded together, and we are
00:17:59.640 good.
00:18:00.020 And look, we're right next to the base.
00:18:01.660 We're right outside of it.
00:18:02.640 We actually just had two lovely Marines come out and make sure that we were not actually
00:18:07.380 filming the gate because that's a security risk.
00:18:09.720 But we are just focused here on the sign, but they were lovely, and it does feel quite
00:18:13.640 safe.
00:18:14.180 And, you know, Steve, you consider the demographics of Southern California and what's happening
00:18:18.240 with deportations, and there is maybe a touch less crime in these areas.
00:18:24.360 Amanda, walk us through tomorrow, your broadcast.
00:18:26.520 You're going to anchor.
00:18:27.240 Tell us about Pendleton.
00:18:28.360 My understanding is we're going to see a full Marine amphibious assault and landing right
00:18:34.580 there at Pendleton.
00:18:35.340 Can you give us a heads up of what we can look forward to?
00:18:38.220 I will give you the full breakdown.
00:18:41.440 I had to write it down because there's so much.
00:18:43.800 You've got, it's going to start off with ACV, so those are amphibious combat vehicles.
00:18:48.220 Those are going to be launching from naval vessels and then coming aboard land.
00:18:52.560 You've got C-130s.
00:18:53.860 They're going to have parachute jumpers that are going to be jumping to Red Beach, which
00:18:57.120 is just a little bit north of Camp Pendleton.
00:18:59.620 You've got Navy Special Warfare divers doing a demonstration.
00:19:04.120 F-A-18s, F-35Cs, those are fighter jets.
00:19:07.420 They're going to be executing beach strides, and that's going to be up until about 1 p.m.
00:19:13.740 And then we've got CH-53s. 0.91
00:19:15.440 Those are heavy lift helicopters.
00:19:17.600 And MB-22s, those are a type of Osprey.
00:19:21.220 Those are tilt rotor Ospreys.
00:19:22.600 We've got HIMARS Marine Artillery Units conducting controlled live fire demonstrations.
00:19:29.500 You're going to have a combined United States Marine Corps and United States Navy Air Power
00:19:34.860 finale.
00:19:35.960 C-130 flyover and then H-1 helicopter flyover and flag presentation to close it all out.
00:19:42.720 So this obviously is for the Marine Corps.
00:19:45.120 November 10, 1775 is when they began.
00:19:48.840 But obviously a strong unity between the United States Marines and the Navy.
00:19:52.880 So the Navy is participating as well.
00:19:55.220 It's going to be incredible.
00:19:56.040 Steve, we were over at the site earlier today doing a preset for all of our equipment.
00:20:00.840 And it is a production on par with President Trump's biggest campaign rallies last year.
00:20:07.220 And obviously even more expansive considering all of the vehicles around that were already
00:20:12.380 there.
00:20:12.660 We were just watching a demonstration and a rehearsal of the flyover.
00:20:16.440 I mean, it is American might and patriotism on display.
00:20:20.460 Tomorrow is going to be absolutely spectacular.
00:20:23.060 Everything going on in Taiwan, it couldn't be a more timely effort with the Navy.
00:20:27.460 And of course, what Cleo Pascal calls the men's department of the Navy, the United States
00:20:33.720 Marine Corps.
00:20:34.300 Amanda, you start.
00:20:36.220 We're at Moms for Liberty and Texas from 8 o'clock.
00:20:38.980 Remember, War Room Coverage expands with Real America's Voice 8 a.m. tomorrow to noon.
00:20:44.100 So our normal 10 to noon show.
00:20:45.780 But we're going to have two hours in the morning.
00:20:47.760 Lee's going to be with me.
00:20:48.800 Brian Harrison's going to be with me.
00:20:50.000 Many other people from Texas are going to be.
00:20:51.520 We're going to cut back and forth between this amazing conference of Moms for Liberty in 1.00
00:20:56.400 Orlando.
00:20:57.240 Then we're going to toss it to Amanda and the team out in California at Camp Pendleton.
00:21:01.160 They're going to let it rip. 0.77
00:21:02.280 Amanda, what's your social media?
00:21:03.460 I'm sure people have tons of questions all day, all night.
00:21:06.420 Where do they go?
00:21:08.940 At Amanda Head everywhere.
00:21:11.260 Amanda Head.
00:21:11.940 Thank you so much, ma'am.
00:21:12.940 Good luck tomorrow.
00:21:14.860 Bravo Zulu.
00:21:17.860 Okay.
00:21:18.340 Lee, here's what I don't get.
00:21:19.700 Okay.
00:21:20.600 We've known Patriot Mobile, been a sponsor for years.
00:21:22.800 I've known you in that.
00:21:23.820 You've got a great company.
00:21:25.440 You've got a great family.
00:21:27.340 You're kind of revered down here with the grassroots.
00:21:29.640 You're kind of legendary in the grassroots and what you guys have done.
00:21:32.200 Patriot Mobile has done as outreach on so many different things, right?
00:21:35.760 The schools, the Bibles, the Bible for all of it.
00:21:38.680 Just amazing.
00:21:39.900 Why would somebody who's got a life like that want to get into cutthroat policies?
00:21:45.440 Folks, you've got to understand, as we've covered on the trial of Ken Pax, all of it, the Texas Senate only has 31 people.
00:21:51.140 So each one of them is targeted, particularly with the business interest, with the radical left, with everything.
00:21:57.220 You've got all these other issues that are coming forward.
00:21:59.220 It's one of the reasons I came to Texas.
00:22:00.540 I said, something's going on down in Texas.
00:22:02.080 I got to start spending more time there.
00:22:03.880 Why would you leave that nice life to go into the cockpit of what modern politics is, particularly in a state like Texas, which, as goes Texas, so goes the country, ma'am?
00:22:15.620 The bottom line is, if good people don't get in the game, who's running the show?
00:22:21.420 Right?
00:22:21.720 Bad people.
00:22:22.400 I have no desire to be an elected official.
00:22:24.420 I have no desire to have a title.
00:22:28.200 This is a duty, right?
00:22:30.980 I'm needed at this time.
00:22:32.420 I'm not going to allow a Democrat to win the seat or a rhino to win the seat because Texas matters. 1.00
00:22:39.640 If Texas goes, so goes the country.
00:22:41.520 And you're right.
00:22:41.960 My life is really great.
00:22:43.820 It's a lot better without this.
00:22:45.080 But if good people don't self-sacrifice and get involved, you have the other type of candidate who is in it for themselves, and that never works out well for the people.
00:22:56.160 Your district is huge and includes, I think, part of one of the best cities in this country, Fort Worth, Texas.
00:23:02.220 Just extraordinary.
00:23:03.180 I've spent so much time in Fort Worth over the last 30 years.
00:23:06.780 And you've got the great part that's north of Fort Worth.
00:23:09.480 The reason your case is pretty interesting is that when you announce, and given how people know you from grassroots, you had a fairly big lead against the Democrat.
00:23:22.580 And then all of a sudden, the establishment Republican business community drops in a guy with, I don't know, $4 million or whatever he had and just starts carpet bombing.
00:23:32.300 I mean, they're sending a signal they don't want MAGA, they don't want a grassroots person, they want somebody that's very malleable to the business community.
00:23:41.020 How do you handle that?
00:23:42.360 Well, to understand the dynamics of that statement, that this is a special election and there is no primary.
00:23:49.840 So there was already a Democrat in, and then I got in the election.
00:23:53.760 So the next Republican that got in was willing to split the vote.
00:23:57.280 The next Republican that got in didn't care at the possibility of splitting the vote and perhaps giving the seat to a Democrat.
00:24:05.140 That alone should be enough to know who to vote for.
00:24:08.520 But in addition to that, now that we know since the finance reports have come out that over 93% of all of his money has come from out of state.
00:24:16.560 93% of that big amount of money was out of state?
00:24:19.560 I've never seen that in the history.
00:24:21.260 You know, I've been in politics a long time.
00:24:23.080 I've never seen that with another Texas candidate.
00:24:25.420 It's really phenomenal.
00:24:27.880 We are working really hard at the grassroots.
00:24:30.960 We have a good campaign.
00:24:34.120 We're strong on our messaging.
00:24:35.920 We know what the people want.
00:24:37.580 You know, this district has over 20 cities.
00:24:39.860 It has 13 school districts.
00:24:41.820 So, and I've been in every one of them talking to the voters.
00:24:44.660 And this is kind of an explosive growth area of Texas, correct?
00:24:47.320 It is.
00:24:47.600 One of the most explosive growth states in the union.
00:24:49.740 It is.
00:24:50.180 And our area is one of the most explosive growth Senate districts in the state of Texas.
00:24:54.580 So, we're out there working hard.
00:24:57.040 We know what the people want.
00:24:59.420 We have the grassroots machine, volunteers, moms and dads who love this state and love this country and want to keep Senate District 9 red.
00:25:08.240 So, you're doing the President Trump precinct strategy, turning point, Charlie Kirk.
00:25:12.960 You're knocking on doors and voter engagement.
00:25:15.860 What are your team and you hearing from the voters when you knock on the doors?
00:25:19.800 In their mind right now, nine months into President Trump's administration and with all the madness that just went through the redistricting fight in Texas, what are voters telling you is top of their mind?
00:25:30.260 So, no matter where I go in all of these cities, there's two top issues, property tax and security and policing.
00:25:38.460 So, that includes your local police.
00:25:41.020 That includes border security.
00:25:43.040 And something that I have been really sort of screaming from the mountaintops is this is what President Trump has done to our southern border is amazing.
00:25:52.860 He's closing it, you know, before.
00:25:54.780 Does that show up now?
00:25:55.840 I actually just talked to the sheriff earlier today and he said we are seeing crime rates go down since President Trump lowered, I mean, lowered the amount of people coming over.
00:26:05.500 You know, prior to this, you know, Tarrant County is the reddest county in the nation. 0.97
00:26:08.420 Our sheriff testified in Washington, D.C. that in this red county, he was doing a bust of a stash house and he found women in cages here in Tarrant County.
00:26:18.020 And that's cartel.
00:26:19.080 That's cartel, the drug lords and the drug traffickers.
00:26:22.720 So, that has truly helped that.
00:26:24.640 However, Texas has to be prepared for a life after President Trump.
00:26:30.040 We can never again be caught off guard depending upon who's in the White House.
00:26:35.400 We are the eighth largest economy in the world.
00:26:38.420 We have a $2.7 trillion GDP.
00:26:41.520 There is no reason why we can't handle our southern border.
00:26:43.980 And I know that's supposed to be the federal government's responsibility.
00:26:47.980 But Texas is big enough.
00:26:49.520 We need to watch our own border and always, always be prepared.
00:26:53.040 I can tell you from the last couple of days, one of the things that the nationwide audience is shocked about, I'm getting texted a little ago, the property taxes can't be that high there.
00:27:00.760 Talk to me about the property.
00:27:01.520 We've got a minute.
00:27:02.200 The property, I think people say, well, no, this is Texas.
00:27:04.580 These are self-reliance.
00:27:06.360 This is the pioneer frontier spirit.
00:27:08.500 Your property taxes are out of control.
00:27:10.880 So, they're very, very high.
00:27:12.060 Now, keep in mind, we don't have a state income tax, so it offsets with property tax.
00:27:17.140 But what happens is sometimes it does.
00:27:19.520 It absolutely gets out of control.
00:27:21.080 And you've got people being taxed out of their homes, especially senior citizens.
00:27:24.700 We have some important tax amendments on this November 4th election as well.
00:27:30.380 And they will increase our homestead exemption.
00:27:32.240 So, the homestead exemption hires, heightens the amount to where you don't get taxed.
00:27:37.400 So, right now, the first $100,000 of all of our property is not taxed.
00:27:42.580 But this raises it to $140,000.
00:27:45.120 But the way real estate's down here, $100,000 is nothing, right?
00:27:48.720 Right.
00:27:49.000 They're exploding.
00:27:49.780 Okay, Lee, hang on.
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00:29:14.540 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:29:20.560 Welcome back.
00:29:21.820 You just got, as you walked in here on this Friday afternoon, a huge endorsement in this race.
00:29:26.320 Who just endorsed you?
00:29:27.460 It's so exciting.
00:29:28.380 I just got a call from the Fort Worth Firefighters Association.
00:29:31.300 These are the men and women running in a burning building when we're running out of it.
00:29:34.800 And they are really a powerful force in Senate District 9.
00:29:38.620 And I am so blessed and honored to get that call.
00:29:40.820 I'm really excited.
00:29:41.420 So why, given the choices out there, why did they select you?
00:29:44.880 You know, one of the things we talked about in our interview is when I was a news anchor and reporter,
00:29:50.820 I was one of the first reporters to talk about the off-gassing in plastics when they're burning
00:29:55.200 and the carcinogens in those and how firefighters are affected by that.
00:29:58.960 So I really relate to a lot of their issues.
00:30:00.820 And I've always honored our police and fire my entire life.
00:30:05.180 And they just recognize that.
00:30:07.060 And I'm just really...
00:30:07.760 So they know you've got their back.
00:30:09.100 You're not just somebody blowing through town and want an endorsement.
00:30:12.520 You've been...
00:30:12.920 You've had their back for a long time.
00:30:14.500 For decades.
00:30:15.560 Decades.
00:30:16.180 Amazing.
00:30:16.800 And it pays off in a huge...
00:30:17.980 People should know that it's a huge endorsement here in this...
00:30:21.060 In Fort Worth, the Fort Worth area.
00:30:23.220 Tarrant County.
00:30:24.560 Aaron writes,
00:30:25.260 You also, sir, had a great life.
00:30:28.080 Why do you want to be Attorney General of the great state of Texas?
00:30:31.480 And why would you give up your life to get into this part of elective politics, which is just a cockpit?
00:30:37.160 It's going to be...
00:30:37.840 This is going to be such a tough race.
00:30:39.900 Why are you doing it?
00:30:41.400 It's a great race.
00:30:42.400 Look, and we're...
00:30:43.720 This is the great life running for office in this capacity.
00:30:47.040 I love running for Texas AG.
00:30:48.720 I love the fight that we're in.
00:30:50.180 You know, I'm a former Marine, and in an earlier segment, you guys were talking about the 250th birthday that's coming up.
00:30:55.920 I love being in the fight.
00:30:58.160 But the reason why I'm running specifically for Attorney General of Texas is because I have served at Attorney General Ken Paxson's right hand.
00:31:06.920 I was his offensive coordinator during the Biden years, suing the Biden administration.
00:31:11.520 As an Attorney General candidate, I've been endorsed by Ken Paxson to succeed him.
00:31:16.280 And I have seen from a front row seat how important it is to have a battle-tested warrior in this position to operate effectively in a lawfare environment in which we're in right now.
00:31:29.960 My three opponents, they don't have the slightest clue what they're doing.
00:31:33.540 They may be good legislators, but they are not, as President Trump described to me when he brought me to the Justice Department, true MAGA attorneys and warriors for the Constitution.
00:31:43.960 That's what we need in the Texas AG's office.
00:31:47.700 And I think that my background, litigating, investigating, suing, defending, and appealing on all the major issues that your national audience cares about, that's what makes me best suited for this job.
00:31:57.500 We've got to get the warrior in the fight, and I think that that's me.
00:31:59.720 So, Aaron, here's what I'm saying.
00:32:01.900 It was Glenn's story and Lee Wamsgan that kind of came to me and said, hey, I don't think you quite understand how big a deal this impeachment of Ken Paxson is and how it cuts to all the core issues between MAGA and the establishment, between the Trump faction and the Bush faction.
00:32:17.140 And that's when we got engaged.
00:32:18.300 And, man, we did stories every day, had people on, did Saturday specials.
00:32:21.440 And we're kind of the platform that started turning things around in a system that would impeach a guy like Ken Paxson, who's kind of a legendary, you know, individual in as being an attorney general in the MAGA movement.
00:32:36.960 Why would you want that job?
00:32:40.660 Somebody's got to do the fight.
00:32:42.140 Somebody's got to go to war and fight to advance our values through the justice system.
00:32:46.700 I was with Attorney General Ken Paxson as his right-hand man throughout that entire impeachment process from the moment that those liars decided to accuse him of doing a bunch of wrongdoing, to drag him through politically, try to humiliate and destroy him, all the way through the investigations and the impeachment.
00:33:04.600 Which, by the way, I think it's important to note, Steve, for your audience, all three of my opponents were behind the instigation and impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxson, a guy that you had on the show just the other day, Congressman Chip Roy, was the first elected official in America to call for Attorney General Ken Paxson to be removed from office in October of 2020.
00:33:30.580 Then, all the way three years later, in September 2023, he was still lending his name, image, likeness, and updated quotes and on speaking tours, calling for him to be convicted by the state Senate.
00:33:44.660 My two other opponents were involved in whipping support to impeach Ken Paxson.
00:33:48.820 One of my opponents spent $500,000 of his own money bankrolling primary challengers and House members who were going against Ken Paxson.
00:33:59.360 And so the choices are very clear in this race.
00:34:02.740 If Texans and your national audience stand with Ken Paxson, there is only one person in this race who is suited to be his successor, not only in terms of the loyalty that I've shown, the devotion to our movement, but the fact that I was in the lion's den with Attorney General Paxson.
00:34:20.200 He endorsed me to succeed him, and I am ready to go to war.
00:34:23.260 And Steve, I'll tell you this, I've seen how ugly this lawfare can get.
00:34:28.200 I've seen how nasty it can get.
00:34:30.100 We're not just fighting the demonic left, but we're fighting the squish, rhino, lying, duplicitous, deceptive rhinos on the right as well, both of whom came against Paxson, and both of whom I've been fighting for my entire career. 0.81
00:34:45.580 And it's that experience that makes me uniquely suited to serve as the next chief legal officer of the state of Texas.
00:34:52.800 Aaron, on the 20th of January of 2021, as President Trump's plane left the tarmac to the sound of Frank Sinatra's great song, My Way, we had Boris Epstein calling in.
00:35:08.740 We teed up the 5 o'clock show, the afternoon show, and the first guest we had was Ken Paxson.
00:35:12.800 And we said, Ken, you know, the AG is going to be the front line here.
00:35:17.040 Tell us what you're going to do.
00:35:18.020 He says, hey, with the Biden administration, it was in the bounds of the Constitution, right?
00:35:22.840 And this benefits the folks in Texas.
00:35:24.560 We're going to support it and work with it.
00:35:26.100 Where they're outside the bounds of the Constitution, and this is to the detriment of the citizens of Texas, I'm going to lead the fight.
00:35:32.640 And, of course, it's legendary what Ken Paxson did, leading virtually every fight, including the election, all of it.
00:35:38.600 Now that President Trump is in, what are you going to do as Attorney General regarding the Trump administration?
00:35:46.580 Totally.
00:35:47.040 Well, I'll tell you, I remember January 20th, 2021, vividly, because what we were doing that afternoon is we were preparing our very first lawsuit, which we dropped when I was Ken Paxson's deputy and his offensive coordinator.
00:36:01.140 We dropped our first lawsuit against the Biden administration on January 21st, 2021, on border security-related matters.
00:36:09.580 And we won that case.
00:36:11.080 And since that time, I was responsible for coordinating and executing all of those Texas v. Biden lawsuits.
00:36:17.080 During my tenure as Ken Paxson's deputy, I brought 46 lawsuits against the 46th president.
00:36:22.800 And with Ken Paxson leading the charge, we won 85 percent of those cases.
00:36:27.160 Now, it's a very different operating environment that we're in right now.
00:36:31.340 We don't have an existential enemy in the White House.
00:36:33.940 In fact, we have a very close ally in the White House.
00:36:37.800 And so what I stand uniquely positioned to do, as somebody who just came from the senior-most ranks of the Justice Department in the presidentially appointed Senate-confirmed role as the head of the Office of Legal Policy,
00:36:48.280 is that I am uniquely positioned to partner with the Trump administration, to muster those resources, whether it's the White House staff, domestic policy, or DHS, DOJ,
00:36:59.620 to bring those to bear as somebody who's already been vetted by that team, somebody who's already a friend with all of those key players,
00:37:07.500 to coordinate our efforts, to turn and train our guns on the enemy of liberty that have taken root here in Texas,
00:37:15.460 whether they are the nonprofits, the Soros-funded DAs, the Sharia law entities that are taking root here,
00:37:22.520 the anti-American college campuses that have flourished right here in Texas.
00:37:26.640 So rather than turning our artillery against the feds, we can coordinate and cooperate with the Trump administration,
00:37:32.740 with me as the attorney general, a former senior Trump administration official,
00:37:36.700 to really, really root out leftism, corruption, violence, fraud, waste, abuse, right here at home,
00:37:43.940 on our home soil in the Lone Star State.
00:37:46.260 And that's what makes me uniquely effective as the next attorney general.
00:37:50.440 Aaron, social media coordinates, and where do people go find more about you and your campaign?
00:37:55.440 Well, folks, you can go to my website at AaronWrites.com, A-A-R-O-N-R-E-I-T-Z.com.
00:38:03.220 And I post on all social media platforms if you just search for my name or my X handle,
00:38:08.040 in particular, at Aaron underscore Wrights, A-A-R-O-N underscore R-E-I-T-Z.
00:38:14.260 Vote for Trump's true MAGA attorney and warrior for the Constitution
00:38:17.800 and the Ken Paxton-endorsed successor as the next attorney general in Texas.
00:38:22.960 Aaron, thank you so much for joining us on a Friday.
00:38:24.880 Appreciate you.
00:38:26.520 Thanks, Stephen.
00:38:27.240 Thanks, Lee.
00:38:27.660 Good luck.
00:38:28.140 God bless you.
00:38:29.640 Thank you for being in the Corps.
00:38:32.400 And tomorrow, of course, Marine Corps 250 from Camp Pendleton, Amanda Head,
00:38:36.820 and the entire RAV team will be out there.
00:38:38.800 How do you, I mean, we got up close and personal with the Texas Senate,
00:38:42.900 and I didn't know a whole lot about it beforehand.
00:38:44.760 I said, wow, they went through the Ken Paxton trial, and they were the jury,
00:38:48.560 and how close that whole thing was.
00:38:50.120 How are you prepping yourself as you run and talk to your constituents
00:38:54.300 to actually join that body, which I would respectfully submit is not entirely MAGA?
00:39:00.500 Well, yeah, it absolutely isn't.
00:39:02.220 But the Senate is so much better than the House, right?
00:39:05.660 How do I prepare myself?
00:39:07.220 Why is it?
00:39:07.660 But why is that in Texas?
00:39:08.860 Texas, I said today, we had a conference meeting here.
00:39:11.640 I said, this is the reddest MAGA state for people and for activists and for grassroots.
00:39:19.380 And the political apparatus, the reason Texas is purple is that you have a blue apparatus,
00:39:25.480 but still most of them have Republican next to their name.
00:39:28.240 How could that possibly be?
00:39:29.920 Well, it really comes down to leadership.
00:39:32.280 The leadership in the Senate is significantly more conservative than the leadership in the House.
00:39:37.320 And so we have an unusual thing, you know, with only 31 senators, 20 of them are Republican.
00:39:42.400 Five of them, they're open seats coming up for election.
00:39:45.980 How can that be?
00:39:46.820 Well, why would that many people want to leave at one time?
00:39:49.100 So Republicans, there's 25% of the Republican.
00:39:51.840 Of the Republican Senate.
00:39:52.580 In the Senate, as powerful as that is.
00:39:54.640 Yes, and so several things, one of them, you know, got a great job.
00:39:59.600 The other one is running for another position, a couple of retired.
00:40:02.860 So, you know, life happens.
00:40:04.720 People retire.
00:40:05.360 You know, we're not meant to stay in government forever.
00:40:08.360 So think about our founding fathers.
00:40:10.100 They risked everything to run.
00:40:11.400 You talk about why would I do it because I have a great life.
00:40:13.760 I don't want to do it.
00:40:14.760 It's a duty to do it.
00:40:16.560 And if more good people don't do it, our country is finished.
00:40:20.260 We have to.
00:40:20.940 We have to step up.
00:40:21.980 What's going to be the top of the agenda?
00:40:23.260 You said your things are property taxes and security.
00:40:26.260 And particularly, you hinted at something quite important.
00:40:28.380 There was a controversy that the board was involved in for years.
00:40:31.640 The duty of Texans, of the Texas government, to secure the border.
00:40:37.300 You just can't wait for the federal government.
00:40:39.320 This during Biden, it was a disaster.
00:40:40.820 You had Project Lone Star.
00:40:41.880 But we had Ben Burraquam, Benzman, many people that are in the government today.
00:40:46.560 Down there, Project Lone Star was a lick and a promise.
00:40:50.000 I mean, they were coming through and it wasn't being done.
00:40:52.080 Is that something you're going to push?
00:40:53.960 Because you're going to say, hey, President Trump, as great as he is, and of course, I'm
00:40:57.420 head of Trump 28.
00:40:58.660 You're saying at some point in time, that's going to come to a conclusion.
00:41:01.760 Texas has to stand up and secure its own border.
00:41:04.860 You're the eighth biggest economy in the world.
00:41:06.920 Right.
00:41:07.080 It's the biggest responsibility of government is to protect our citizens.
00:41:10.240 And you think the state government, too.
00:41:11.600 You think they're going to – they clearly don't want to do that, right?
00:41:14.500 Or they would have done it.
00:41:15.400 There's a lot of people that want to.
00:41:16.940 And if we send reinforcements like Ali Wamskans to Senate, we'll have more strength for that. 1.00
00:41:21.820 You know, Operation Lone Star.
00:41:23.360 Is that big – is the constituents when you're talking to them, that's something they bring up?
00:41:26.840 It's very important.
00:41:27.740 Wow.
00:41:28.120 Very important.
00:41:28.720 We've seen the decrease in crime, which is, you know, why I talked to the sheriff today.
00:41:33.280 He said, yes, it's real.
00:41:34.440 Yes, we're seeing it.
00:41:35.240 Yes, it's tangible.
00:41:35.960 But Republicans are really good when we win in elections to sit back on our couch and eat our bonbons.
00:41:42.580 We have to prepare now to make sure our border is never left wide open again.
00:41:48.480 11 million immigrants who are illegal immigrants were taken off the streets.
00:41:53.620 Enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in America, Canada, and Mexico was seized by law enforcement.
00:42:01.920 We cannot be in that situation again.
00:42:03.880 You've had some Antifa problems here with going after ICE officers, two instances, I think one up in North Texas and then that horrible shooting down here a couple weeks ago.
00:42:15.160 What are your constituents, potential constituents, telling you about that, about the ICE officers and the mass deportations?
00:42:22.460 Well, our constituents are absolutely fully supporting law enforcement, fully supporting ICE, and we think it's un-American.
00:42:29.400 And if you're going to attack our ICE agents, you do not deserve to be in this country.
00:42:34.980 Wow.
00:42:35.540 Lee, hang around.
00:42:37.920 Folks, I talked to Navarro.
00:42:39.740 You could tell about his speech today at the Council of Foreign Relations.
00:42:43.000 President Trump right now is weighing and measuring what to do on the request for Tomahawk missiles to go on offense in Ukraine.
00:42:50.460 Remember, the kinetic part of the Third World War in Ukraine, 2.8 million to 3 million casualties already.
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00:44:24.440 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:44:26.860 Obviously a big audience watching this.
00:44:30.720 A lot of the MAGA folks, Melissa Katz and these fire-breathing populist nationalist Trump followers,
00:44:38.280 they're very focused, particularly in the Dallas area, about security for elections.
00:44:44.300 How big a priority is that for you?
00:44:45.500 It's a big priority, and, you know, we made some progress after the mess of the COVID election.
00:44:52.540 However, that bill took authority away from the attorney general, put it all in the hands of the local district attorneys and those woke district attorneys. 0.66
00:45:00.880 He told me, and Paxton told me that was a killer for him.
00:45:03.180 It was a killer.
00:45:03.840 It was a killer.
00:45:04.600 So, I mean, think about it.
00:45:05.520 Where this stuff happens the most are in these blue counties, and that's where we need to prosecute.
00:45:09.560 And he wasn't allowed to go after them without it being referred to him from the district attorney, and they weren't doing that.
00:45:14.940 So we did fix a lot of that this session, but there's a lot more to go.
00:45:18.300 As people are kind of shocked about a lot of the regulations down here in Texas and how it's really the political class down here is blue,
00:45:26.380 people also assume you're the most gun-owner-friendly state in the union.
00:45:30.980 I take it that would not be correct as I've followed you around for the last couple days?
00:45:34.780 That would not be correct.
00:45:35.860 We've made a lot of progress.
00:45:37.620 How can that happen in Texas?
00:45:39.420 Well, I don't know.
00:45:41.420 I don't know.
00:45:41.820 I've not understood it because everyone I talk to is really on the same page with me with the Second Amendment.
00:45:46.540 I have fought to ban unconstitutional red flag laws that violate due process for decades.
00:45:51.780 I'm the only candidate in this race that was down in Austin this session talking to members, pushing to get this law passed, going door-to-door-to-door.
00:45:59.880 We did get it passed.
00:46:01.080 We finally banned red flag laws in Texas this session.
00:46:04.940 But where we missed the mark is civil liability bills with the Second Amendment.
00:46:09.320 What a lot of people don't realize is you can use your stand-your-ground law.
00:46:13.140 You can legally defend your family.
00:46:15.260 Of course, there will be a court proceeding if you kill an intruder who's trying to harm you.
00:46:19.260 And then you walk out of court totally justified in using that force.
00:46:22.960 But then the leftists across the country, and definitely in Texas, they will fund lawsuits to civilly.
00:46:29.440 No, wait.
00:46:29.820 They hit you after getting off on the criminal side?
00:46:32.540 They come in and hit you with a civil suit?
00:46:35.040 Yes.
00:46:35.260 20 states have made this illegal.
00:46:36.760 Texas still has it, and we missed the mark.
00:46:38.400 And that's one of my Second Amendment priorities if I'm elected, because if you can be sued and lose your livelihood, you do not have a Second Amendment.
00:46:47.500 Brian Harrison was telling me one of the things people are starting to focus on now is concern about the Texas budget, about deficits.
00:46:54.400 You guys had a couple of surpluses, but it seems like it goes overnight.
00:46:57.160 Nobody really knows where this money is being spent.
00:46:59.620 There's all kind of off-balance sheet pockets.
00:47:02.340 The only responsibility of the Senate and the House, I believe, is to pass a budget, correct?
00:47:07.260 What's the story on finances down here, deficits, and the direction of where things are going?
00:47:12.420 So, again, our GDP is $2.7 trillion.
00:47:16.060 Eighth biggest economy in the world.
00:47:17.380 It is.
00:47:17.700 It is.
00:47:18.000 It's huge.
00:47:18.200 We're soon, by the biennial, we're going to be the seventh largest economy in the world.
00:47:23.480 And a biennial budget is just over $350 million.
00:47:27.400 Because you're a biennial legislation.
00:47:29.660 Yeah, we only meet every two years.
00:47:31.000 But you have now special sessions all the time.
00:47:34.200 Well, we do.
00:47:35.160 We only have a special session outside of the regular sessions in an emergency situation.
00:47:39.620 These past special sessions are because it followed regular session.
00:47:43.220 So we are supposed to only meet every two years.
00:47:46.760 But our budget increased dramatically while we gave some property tax relief.
00:47:51.340 Some good things happened.
00:47:52.740 We have to cut spending.
00:47:54.340 The only way to really reduce the property tax burden, step number one.
00:47:57.940 I'm a root cause person.
00:47:59.380 Instead of just putting band-aids on things, step number one, we need to cut spending in
00:48:03.200 the state of Texas and tighten the belt and get rid of some of the lease fraud.
00:48:06.760 What has, like I said, it's come to a shock to people about how progressive some of these
00:48:11.440 things are.
00:48:12.580 What's the problem with cutting spending?
00:48:13.920 You would think with the common sense of the Texas frontier and still this entrepreneurial
00:48:18.600 spirit when you come down, I mean, people in Texas love this state so much.
00:48:23.240 Where's the spending?
00:48:24.180 Why are you having increases in spending?
00:48:25.620 And where is it?
00:48:26.940 Well, our two biggest budget items in the state of Texas are education and health and
00:48:31.240 human services.
00:48:31.800 And there's a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse in both of those categories.
00:48:35.020 And I know the last session, a doge committee was implemented.
00:48:38.060 And we need to double and triple that.
00:48:41.280 We need doge on steroids in the state of Texas. 0.74
00:48:43.580 And that's going to be one of my goals.
00:48:45.480 Education.
00:48:46.140 Brian Harrison has statistics of like only a quarter of what the juniors in high school
00:48:51.140 can read a proficiency or have math proficient.
00:48:54.180 That can't possibly be as much money as Texas puts into education.
00:48:57.820 And quite frankly, education is kind of revered here, given the university system, given Baylor
00:49:05.120 and all the private schools, TCU, SMU, University of Texas, the public, Texas A&M, Texas Tech.
00:49:10.300 How can you have more money spent on education and failure to perform?
00:49:16.120 I'll tell you, it's heartbreaking as a mom who raised two boys.
00:49:20.180 They're in university now.
00:49:21.700 It's really heartbreaking.
00:49:22.780 The state of Texas currently is looking at five school districts.
00:49:25.460 There's 13 in Senate District 9.
00:49:27.060 Out of those five school districts statewide, two of those that are being looked at to being
00:49:32.540 taken over for underperformance.
00:49:34.280 Taken over by the state.
00:49:35.040 Taken over by the state are in Senate District 9.
00:49:37.920 Impossible.
00:49:38.700 With Fort Worth and all the explosive.
00:49:41.040 Fort Worth ISD is one of them.
00:49:42.060 Lake Worth ISD is the other one.
00:49:43.480 Lake Worth.
00:49:44.240 We have a lot of work to do.
00:49:45.840 Those kids deserve better.
00:49:47.460 They deserve good education.
00:49:49.000 That affects everything.
00:49:50.440 It affects their lives.
00:49:51.620 It affects our workforce.
00:49:53.100 People are having a hard time finding good workers.
00:49:55.360 And you haven't gotten rid of DEI or you haven't gotten rid of this radical transgender ideology, 1.00
00:50:01.280 including in Texas, the home of Friday Night Lights.
00:50:03.940 We still have an issue of men in women's sports? 1.00
00:50:07.100 Well, we did.
00:50:08.120 I'll tell you, three sessions ago, they passed a bill that stopped men in women's sports.
00:50:13.700 Only K through 12, though.
00:50:15.340 And so we're like, what?
00:50:16.360 Because transgenders from their states can still come in and take those girls' scholarships that they've worked for their entire scholastic career. 1.00
00:50:23.880 Session before last, we got it bumped up to cover colleges as well.
00:50:27.740 Everyone thought, great, job done.
00:50:29.580 Here's the problem.
00:50:30.680 What was not outlawed.
00:50:32.000 There was a workaround.
00:50:32.980 There was a workaround.
00:50:33.880 The workaround was men and boys were still allowed in private spaces.
00:50:37.380 Women's locker rooms and kids' locker rooms, bathrooms. 0.63
00:50:40.940 This session, again, I'm the only candidate in this race.
00:50:43.480 I was in Austin testifying on behalf of the Women's Privacy Act.
00:50:46.340 And that bill is really incredible because it covers the privacy of girls and women in all government buildings.
00:50:53.520 So that covers schools, K through 12, public universities.
00:50:57.240 It also specifically covered all women's jails. 0.99
00:51:00.340 I gave case study in my testimony about how heterosexual men were using the loopholes, they were predators, to break into women's jails and rape them. 0.79
00:51:08.840 One of them in Riker's prison.
00:51:10.420 He was in jail for raping an infant to death.
00:51:14.080 He put on a skirt, went to the women's jail, raped her, was convicted for it.
00:51:18.640 The third scenario is all women's domestic violence shelters. 0.86
00:51:22.820 So we outlawed that in the state of Texas and protected women and girls because women and girls' privacy, dignity, and safety is worth the fight.
00:51:31.260 Amen.
00:51:31.680 You're with us tomorrow morning.
00:51:33.040 Tell us, where do people go to find out where the rally is, where they go to your website?
00:51:36.500 It's right on the front page of LeeForTexas.com.
00:51:39.780 You see it right there.
00:51:40.660 Okay.
00:51:40.940 We're going to be back tomorrow.
00:51:42.320 We're going to be bouncing across from the great state of Texas and what's going on here with conservatives and grassroots MAGA and, of course, the Moms for Liberty Conference in Orlando, Florida.
00:51:52.560 And we're going to be tossing it in the afternoon to Amanda Head and the Real America's Voice team for Marine Corps 250.
00:51:59.000 So tomorrow, Saturday, it's here starting at 8 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
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