The War Room reacts to the speech by Ayatollah Mamdani at the 9/11 memorial service in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night. Steve and Yusuf discuss what went wrong with the speech, and whether or not it was a wasted opportunity.
00:01:57.700I think the Mamdani that we saw on the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech.
00:02:09.920And I think that Mamdani is the one you need to hear from tonight.
00:02:13.720There are a lot of people trying to figure out, can I get on this train with him or not?
00:02:18.160Is he going to include me? Is he going to be more of a class warrior even in office?
00:02:24.620I think he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the tent.
00:02:33.720I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling.
00:02:38.480And that's not the Mamdani that we've seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that.
00:02:41.840So I felt like there's a little bit of a character switch here where the warm, open, embracing guy that's close to working people was not on stage tonight.
00:02:51.620And there was some other voice on stage.
00:02:53.780That said, he's very young and he just pulled off something that's very, very difficult.
00:02:58.680And I wouldn't write him off, but I think he missed an opportunity to open himself up tonight.
00:03:03.960And I think that that will probably cost him going.
00:05:11.820What you're seeing right there, and Bill Ackman sent out a tweet, the billionaire, to grovel in front of him.
00:05:17.340Hey, I'm so glad you won, and is there anything I can do to help you, you know, DM me here?
00:05:23.280This was as brutal a throwdown as you could ever have, and I appreciate the guy for not hiding it.
00:05:30.160He hid it so long with the TikTok videos, but this is a direct challenge, not just to the president, but to the entire MAGA movement, sir.
00:05:38.280Yeah, I agree with that, and I think the answer, or the question rather is, what are we going to do about it?
00:05:42.940What are populists who actually believe in this country, who believe in the history of this country, who believe in our culture and our civilization?
00:05:48.360Are we going to have an answer, or are we just going to capitulate?
00:06:46.020Well, I think here's the big message that the president sent, which is that the Senate better be prepared to do something here and reopen the government and do it on our terms that protects working people, that doesn't give health care to illegals, as you said, that doesn't turn over control of this government to illegals and the radical left.
00:07:01.660And if that means eliminating or changing the filibuster, then the Senate should be prepared to do that.
00:07:06.000And, Steve, I have to tell you, I think he's right about that.
00:07:08.960I mean, I've been saying to these Democrats, if you think that you can just shut down the government, deny Donald Trump any ability to govern, he's the duly elected president of the United States.
00:07:18.640If you think you can take away food from 40 million Americans, take away the pay of our great military, take away the pay of our border patrol.
00:07:25.880If you think you can do that and then you come to me, Democrats, and say, well, you just have to live with it.
00:08:31.380You know, in my state, they are holding hostage thousands of military men and women, thousands of agents, law enforcement agents and thousands of people, needy people, needing working, needy working people who cannot eat.
00:09:31.420Everything is goes back to how they really have how they really have a party.
00:09:37.440And if they look at the math last night from New York City to New Jersey, the big urban areas of New Jersey to the Commonwealth of Virginia, particularly the northern Virginia and the California on the redistricting.
00:09:49.000They're going to sit there and go, we can't give up the illegal aliens.
00:09:57.940Why would they do that to open up the government?
00:09:59.960They have no incentive to do that unless we really take this messaging and go up about nine levels.
00:10:05.540I just I think from their perspective, they're going to say, hey, we just won.
00:10:08.980We won on illegal aliens and we won on in particularly in these in these eastern states and in New York City with all these visa scams that have been around forever.
00:10:18.820Hell, man, Dami is here illegitimately.
00:10:21.260He's only been here six years, a citizen of Uganda.
00:10:24.080Why would they why would they why would they work with you guys at all?
00:10:33.600And he said, I think unless we get serious and show that we are serious about reopening this government and not just that, but passing legislation like voter I.D., like voter integrity laws nationwide.
00:10:47.340You know, we ought to ban ballot harvesting nationwide.
00:10:59.900Unless we get serious about passing some of this legislation, Steve, I think you're absolutely right.
00:11:04.820Democrats have made a bet and they made it decades ago that they could flood the country with illegal immigrants and they could over time sort of wash those people through and get them registered as voters.
00:11:14.900And now, as you know, in many states, liberal states, you can't even ask for an I.D.
00:11:18.700You can't check citizenship status, including in federal elections.
00:11:21.860That ought to be illegal because this is the Democrats' long-term strategy to never, ever surrender power.
00:11:28.600As one of the president's biggest supporters and you're the fire-breathing populace in the Senate, the pressure, you know, is going to come starting this afternoon by the donors and the moderates and the moderate, you know, conservative media that MAGA's too hard, that MAGA's too tough, that MAGA's too unfeeling, that you've got to ease up.
00:11:54.340How are you going to – someone talks to the president a lot – how are you going to advise the president about the path forward?
00:12:02.060I think the answer to all that is is that what we've got to do is deliver for the working people of this country who put the president in the White House, who put me in the Senate, who gave control of the Senate and the House to Republicans.
00:12:13.160If we don't deliver for these people – and this is what the president was saying this morning – if we don't deliver for these people, we're going to see more mandamis.
00:12:21.700We're going to see more socialists and communists out there taking control because working people in this country need champions, and they need help right now.
00:13:33.460I mean, setting the legal niceties of it aside, if the president can't do this, if the court strikes this down, we're looking at a complete economic 180.
00:13:41.740I mean, he has raised and is on pace to raise like a trillion dollars in new funds for this government that can help us with our deficit, help us with working people.
00:17:50.480You've investigated these people for decades.
00:17:53.060Tell me your thoughts as you had a chance to sleep on it of Mondami, particularly the speech you gave last night,
00:17:58.380which was, I would say, up in the grill of the President of the United States, MAGA, and American citizens, sir.
00:18:04.520Yeah, listen, it was an anti-American speech.
00:18:08.200It was, we are globalists, and the intifada is more important than the American Revolution.
00:18:13.680And you see in very subtle ways the extremist that he really is, that he tried to paint down a little bit in the last few weeks of the election.
00:18:23.220But I think the most important story for everybody to read today is up on justinnews.com.
00:18:28.240It was written by my extraordinary colleague, Jerry Dunleavy, a great investigative reporter.
00:18:32.840He got inside the DSA New York group, which is the group that Mondami belonged to before he started to distance himself.
00:18:41.020And they had a meeting this weekend that they allowed Jerry to attend.
00:18:44.440And you can see what they talked about.
00:18:46.740They are going to force the city of New York to divest from anything that is Jewish.
00:18:52.240They're going to stop the New York Police Department from training and getting certain capabilities that they don't like.
00:19:00.280You may not be able to sell your piece of land in the future to who you want if the mayor doesn't like that.
00:19:06.680And then there is a lot of other agendas that are all in there.
00:19:09.680The purpose of this meeting was to make sure that the group that helped elect Mondami in the primary and last night will have a seat at the table and will pressure Mondami until he delivers what he told them privately he would deliver.
00:19:23.920The wish list looks like something from a Soviet republic, not something from an American capitalist city like New York City.
00:19:30.220That is the Mondami you're going to see from this point forward, not that jovial, cool-looking kid from New York that talked a good game.
00:19:39.980This is a guy that is beholden to the socialists who got him in office, and their values are very different from those that built the Big Apple.
00:19:50.220Your thoughts – I know you're not – you don't deal in the politics of it.
00:19:54.420You're more of an investigative reporter to reporter.
00:19:56.000But the path forward, if you were to advise the president, he's going to give a big economic speech at 1 o'clock, or he met with the Senate about the shutdown.
00:21:16.440They need those extra house seats to make sure that those incredible subsidies that we're sending to enrich fat cats and insurance companies will continue, that the gravy chain continue.
00:21:25.940Now, that was a gift to the Republican Party.
00:21:29.380We wrote about it daily here at Just the News.
00:21:34.520That's how you connect with people who are trying to figure out what's on your dinner table, whether you can afford the next meal, the next mortgage, or the next thing.
00:21:41.840The Republicans abandoned their economic populist connection to the American people the second they got in power.
00:21:47.740They went back to their PowerPoints and they went back to their foreign policy.
00:21:51.500This country is still not convinced the economy is working for them.
00:22:16.380They were given a socialist, a murderous attorney general candidate, and they couldn't defeat them because they got away from the playbook that just got them elected a year ago.
00:22:25.620The other thing is Donald Trump forgot that he got 4 million people out to the polls in early voting that never voted before.
00:22:33.040That was the Lee Zeldin AFW operation.
00:22:35.760Those were people that were on the sidelines.
00:22:38.300Last night, Momdami got people in Brooklyn who've never voted out because the socialist streetwalkers got them going.
00:22:44.460Republicans didn't run and get out the vote operation, particularly an early vote operation.
00:23:13.840And what won Donald Trump the election in 2024, his political team failed to implement in the April election that gave up the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:23:48.860That's now, what, six months from now, if I'm doing my math correctly.
00:23:52.540Cash Patel opened up a criminal investigation because he found these Comey documents and other documents like them in burn bags about to be destroyed.
00:24:00.700Some of them were not in the digital system.
00:24:03.180So if they had been burned, they would have been lost forever.
00:24:06.200One of those things are the Comey notes that we just saw in the court filing.
00:24:09.780And six months later, even though we know who went in and out of the SCIF, we know who probably put the burn bags in because SCIFs, these storage areas, have cameras, they have access codes so you know who's in.
00:24:20.400Has the Justice Department indicted any of those people for obstruction?
00:25:13.760I discovered that Joe Biden gave up Donald Trump's phone and Mike Pence's phone to Jack Smith.
00:25:19.480That's great, Madam Attorney General, except that story came out in April.
00:25:23.760She wasn't even aware that that wasn't a new development, but an old development that had been discussed by Senators Grassley and Johnson for months.
00:25:31.600If you want to fix the perp walk problem, if you want to fix the opportunity to bring accountability,
00:26:17.640And by the way, that's what many Justice Department members of Congress have been saying to me privately over the last three weeks, four weeks.
00:26:26.480John, to get all these, including that amazing report you've got on the DSA,
00:26:31.240the Working Family Party in the DSA is not to be dismissed.
00:33:37.360These arguments today are pretty intense.
00:33:40.400We will have a summary of all this with experts on it in the 5 p.m. hour, plus an analysis and
00:33:46.200maybe some clips from President Trump's going to give a major economic speech at 1 p.m.
00:33:51.140And I can tell you behind the scenes, there's a lot going on, a lot of pressure on President Trump now.
00:33:56.920And he's trying to put pressure to figure out how to end the government shutdown.
00:33:59.800What we can't do is ever concede with the Democrats.
00:34:04.540Their entire strategy is built around illegal aliens and foreign-born folks.
00:34:13.100That is the lesson last night of New York City.
00:34:16.160You're paying for 40 or 50 years, 40 or 50 years of bad immigration policy and the billionaires and the corporatists in Silicon Valley gaming the system to take away your jobs and to give them to foreigners.
00:35:37.260You're either going to give this country away in this generation right here, or you're going to fight and keep it and return it to its former glory and greatness.
00:35:46.380That's what all this comes down to, one or the other.
00:36:01.120All these people coming from California, I just go, folks, unless you get Trump engaged out there and get the MAGA vote, it's got millions and millions of voters.
00:36:10.020If you do that, you maybe have a shot.
00:36:12.420You don't do that, you've got no shot.
00:36:14.120And I was thinking 20, maybe 25, over 30, I think it's over 30, close to 30 points blowout.
00:40:30.340Money put on Lee Wamskan, who's tough as boot leather and had to go against the Democrats on the left and the phony Republicans on the right.
00:40:41.260That's a warrior and did it with grace and charm and just good old American stick-to-itiveness.
00:40:49.600And if you saw her last night, she looked like she's been through a tough time because they came for her hard.
00:40:56.620But upon that, those are the types of things like in Texas you can build upon.
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