Bannon's War Room - Episode 5120： The Storms Have Arrived; Reclaiming American Sovereignty From The CCP

00:00:00.000 That's great. A lot of bravery.

00:00:04.080 No administration in modern history has done more to confront the plight of persecuted Christians

00:00:09.920 around the world than we have with us. It's a mission. It's actually a mission.

00:00:15.160 On Christmas Day, in close coordination with the government of Nigeria, we worked with

00:00:20.960 them, but they got to get tougher. I ordered powerful airstrikes to decimate the ISIS terrorists

00:00:27.120 who have been slaughtering Christians in that country by the thousands. It's not even

00:00:32.160 believable. We hit them so hard, they still don't know what the hell happened.

00:00:38.620 And we were going to do it on a different day. I said, no, do it on Christmas. So they understand

00:00:43.780 it. Remember, Christmas was when I ran in 2015, when I announced, I said, we're going to bring

00:00:51.040 back Christmas because the word Christmas was almost gone. And we did. People use Christmas

00:00:55.740 Christmas anymore. We we brought back the word Christmas. They didn't want to use it.

00:01:00.240 And we're using it again. But I specifically told Pete, I said, hit him on Christmas Day,

00:01:09.140 not earlier and not later. Right, Pete? And man, did he hit him. So then we hit him again

00:01:17.180 recently. We hit him again pretty hard. But we're honored to be joined today by the first

00:01:23.440 lady of Nigeria, who also happens to serve as a Christian pastor at the largest church

00:01:31.040 in Nigeria. A very respected woman. First lady, please, where are you?

00:01:36.440 Thank you very much. It's a great honor. Thank you very much. Very respected person, too.

00:01:48.440 Thank you. I'm also working tirelessly to end dangerous conflicts and help move past ancient 0.97

00:01:55.440 hatreds. In October, I ended the war in Gaza, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. It's

00:02:01.440 amazing. We have peace in the Middle East, by the way. First time in 3000 years. We have

00:02:07.440 peace. They're a little little embers, but it's nothing much. You know, we got back the last hostage,

00:02:13.440 dead hostage. We got back all the hostages now, all of them. We got the 20. But we got

00:02:19.440 many. You know, we got hundreds back before that. But we got back the last hostage, dead

00:02:25.440 hostage. And Hamas helped us get it back. It was a big, big statement. Now they have to 0.93

00:02:30.440 disarm. Some people say they won't, but they will. And if they don't, they're going to not

00:02:35.440 be around any longer. But they agreed to disarm. As the Bible tells us, blessed are the peacemakers.

00:02:44.440 That's true. The peacemakers are very important. But you can only have peace, I find, through

00:02:51.440 strength. If you don't have strength, peace is very hard. And we have strength. In one year,

00:02:58.440 I've ended eight raging wars such as Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Pakistan and

00:03:07.440 India, Israel and Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan. These are all wars that were 0.89

00:03:14.440 President Putin called me up on Azerbaijan and Armenia. He said, I've been working

00:03:20.440 10 years to get that war. How did you do it? And I got it done. I got it done. Two really

00:03:25.440 good leaders. All they knew was fighting each other. They were fighting each other

00:03:29.440 for many years. That's all they knew. And we got it worked out pretty quickly.

00:03:36.440 A few months ago, right here in Washington, we signed a historic peace agreement

00:03:40.440 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, which provides the first

00:03:47.440 ever pathway to peace to end a 30-year unbelievably violent conflict. And we're joined today by a very,

00:03:56.440 very brave and wonderful man, the President of the Congo. President.

00:04:05.440 President, would you stand up, please? You are so. President, thank you.

00:04:16.440 And, yeah, you really are. You're brave. You're a brave man. I know what you've been through.

00:04:27.440 I know that one very well. That was a hard one. That was many, many years. And it's working out okay.

00:04:32.440 Nothing's easy. Every once in a while, I have to call them both back and — but it's working out okay.

00:04:37.440 It's going to work out good. But you are brave, and we appreciate you being here. Great honor. Great honor.

00:04:42.440 Good guy. Together, he and I have also signed the largest minerals deal in U.S.

00:04:48.440 Africa history. And, you know, Congo has magnificent land. It's incredible land.

00:04:54.440 And he's going to — he's doing very well with it. So we appreciate it.

00:04:59.440 But we've signed the largest deal with some of our big companies, and they're going in.

00:05:03.440 So thank you very much, Mr. President. And you call me for anything, right? Thank you.

00:05:13.440 And just in closing, scriptures always tell us that blessed are the pure in heart.

00:05:20.440 I don't know if that applies to me, necessarily. I'm not so sure.

00:05:24.440 I don't know, Paula. Does that apply to me? I'm not sure. I try.

00:05:30.440 But we're joined this morning by two incredible young American patriots

00:05:34.440 and believers who show that, you know, that's so true.

00:05:38.440 Last summer, Emma False and London Smith were both camp counselors at Camp Mystic,

00:05:44.440 the Christian girls' camp in Central Texas. One of the worst things I've ever seen. 1.00

00:05:49.440 On that fateful night, 20 inches of rain fell in a matter of minutes.

00:05:56.440 Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And the river rose 20 feet in literally 30 minutes,

00:06:04.440 leaving utter devastation and destruction. Emma Bravely helped lead 14 precious little girls to safety.

00:06:14.440 And London, seeing the water rise, gathered with other girls at the top of their building and prayed.

00:06:21.440 They just prayed and prayed. And as they prayed, the water miraculously stopped rising.

00:06:28.440 Just a few inches from their feet, it was going to overwhelm them.

00:06:33.440 Anybody in the cabins, the cabins were gone. Anybody in the cabins were gone.

00:06:39.440 Who would have known? They thought the cabins were the safe place to be. It wasn't.

00:06:45.440 Then the water began to retreat. Many hours later, they were finally rescued.

00:06:51.440 As you know, many young people died that night.

00:06:55.440 When asked what she hopes others to take away from her story, London said this life is not promised.

00:07:03.440 Our breath every minute is not guaranteed. Because of that, we shouldn't take life for granted.

00:07:09.440 And we should just live it well. I mean, it was an amazing statement.

00:07:13.440 I saw her make the statement. Young girl making that statement. 0.99

00:07:18.440 Incredible, actually. Very complex statement. Smart, but true.

00:07:23.440 London, I know exactly what you mean. And I want to thank you both for being here and your remarkable, incredible courage.

00:07:33.440 It's been really amazing. And if you could at least stand, you know?

00:07:37.440 I said, would you like to speak? And they said, well, we're a little shy.

00:07:41.440 But you know what? You may be shy, but you're very brave.

00:07:43.440 Would you please stand?

00:08:07.440 I went to the camp a few days after the flood. It's with First Lady.

00:08:19.440 And it was devastating. I met parents. It could be nothing worse than that.

00:08:26.440 It was a horrible, horrible moment. Almost 250 years after our founding fathers took one of the greatest leaps,

00:08:36.440 one of the greatest leaps of faith in human history.

00:08:38.440 The story of Emma and London shows us that faith of the American people remains unbroken,

00:08:46.440 actually became stronger than ever. And it reminds us that prayers strengthen.

00:08:52.440 Prayers heal. Prayer empowers. And prayer saves. Quite simply, prayer is America's superpower.

00:09:01.440 It really is a superpower. And it always has been. And it always will be.

00:09:06.440 And I have no doubt that with the love, devotion and patriotism of the people in this room and our friends from all over the world,

00:09:20.440 some great ones right here, we can make our country and the world a safer, stronger, more peaceful and more faithful place than ever before.

00:09:29.440 And it's all happening right before your very eyes. And I want to, again, thank you.

00:09:34.440 God bless you. And God bless America. Thank you, everybody, very much.

00:09:38.440 Thank you.

00:09:39.440 Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President.

00:09:44.440 Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very much.

00:09:46.440 Will we pray for you more shortly? Okay, good.

00:09:48.440 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:10:03.440 Would you all please join me in a prayer for the President?

00:10:07.440 Heavenly Father, we come before you with humble and grateful hearts, mindful that every authority on earth is ultimately under your sovereign care.

00:10:16.440 Today we lift up President Donald J. Trump, and we ask for your wisdom and your guidance as he carries the mantle of leadership for this nation and around the world.

00:10:24.440 We know that you have placed him in this position for this season in our nation's glorious 250-year history.

00:10:31.440 And so we ask that whatever storm comes his way, he would weather with grace, favor, and clarity.

00:10:37.440 Lord, strengthen him in moments of great responsibility and give him peace in moments of great weight.

00:10:43.440 Surround him with advisors who speak honestly, serve faithfully, and place the good of the nation first.

00:10:49.440 When decisions are difficult and the path forward is uncertain, may he be guided by your spirit of wisdom and understanding.

00:10:57.440 Grant him discernment rooted not in human understanding but in your eternal wisdom.

00:11:02.440 Remind him where the root of his joy lies and of the plans you have in store for him, for his family, and for this nation.

00:11:09.440 Remind him how very deeply he is loved by you and that you hold him in the palm of your hand.

00:11:15.440 May he not doubt the things you have spoken to him in the quiet place.

00:11:19.440 Instead, Lord, guide his steps and guard his heart.

00:11:22.440 May his ear always be turned to you when he is faced with difficult decisions.

00:11:26.440 And may he seek your will to be done through him.

00:11:29.440 Continue to surround him with counselors who love truth, speak boldly, and walk humbly before you.

00:11:35.440 Where there is weariness, bring renewal.

00:11:37.440 Where there is pride, bring humility.

00:11:39.440 Where there is uncertainty, bring clarity through your spirit.

00:11:43.440 Father, we ask for your divine protection over the president and his family.

00:11:47.440 Draw him closer to you and may his leadership reflect the fruits of your spirit.

00:11:52.440 We bring these things to you in your precious and holy name.

00:11:55.440 Amen.

00:11:56.440 Amen.

00:11:58.440 Thank you.

00:12:07.440 In the Latin, Imago Dei, that we always be reminded we are made in the image of God.

00:12:16.440 In the Latin, Verben Dei, that we also be reminded that we ask for the word of God.

00:12:22.440 Our good and gracious God, we pray for the health and deliberations of the President of the United States.

00:12:28.440 And we pray that you would be the final arbiter of whatever decisions he endeavors to make.

00:12:34.440 That you would increase the stature of his wisdom because without you, none of us can adjudicate the overwhelming details of leadership and life.

00:12:43.440 Today, we pray for America and we pray for all parliamentarians around the world.

00:12:49.440 The book of Timothy teaches us that you have been entrusted with leadership.

00:12:54.440 Today, we pray for the future of this nation and that you would lead this president into greater levels of compassion for your namesake.

00:13:01.440 We pray that you would protect him from the iniquities of evil and that you would give him greater clarity, greater courage, and greater capacity to do what is right in the forever challenges.

00:13:14.440 Today, we remind him that the lives of millions of people are in his hands and that he has the power to turn mourning into dancing or to reduce the country into cosmic elegy of chaos and suffering.

00:13:27.440 And it is because of this that we pray that the best of this president would rise among us for the sake of this nation, for the sake of this world.

00:13:36.440 We pray that goodness and mercy would announce themselves in his life in new and powerful ways.

00:13:42.440 We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the elevation, the alleviation of suffering happening on farms in the Midwest,

00:13:52.440 in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis.

00:13:57.440 Remind him that we are all Americans, all made in the image of God, and that none of us are free unless all of us have our freedoms protected.

00:14:05.440 Many people are not lazy. Many people are simply tired.

00:14:09.440 Many people simply are not OK.

00:14:13.440 Matthew 25 teaches us that faith that our gifts are given from God and that we should show them with compassion towards others.

00:14:23.440 But most of all, we pray that you would work out your will in his life.

00:14:28.440 May we all do more for the greater glory of God, because when it's all said and done, we pray as Jesus taught us to pray.

00:14:36.440 We ask that we surrender our all to Jesus.

00:14:39.440 To all hope, I give him freely.

00:14:42.440 I will ever love and trust him and in his life and presence live daily.

00:14:48.440 Thy kingdom come.

00:14:50.440 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

00:14:53.440 Amen.

00:14:54.440 You may ask me how I know my Lord is real, my Lord is real.

00:15:23.440 You may doubt the things I say, and doubt the way I feel, the way I feel.

00:15:38.440 But I know he's real today. He'll always be. He'll always be.

00:15:51.440 I can feel his hand in mine, and that's enough for me.

00:16:00.440 The 47th. The 47th. Let's continue with the music, guys. You can continue to play it.

00:16:06.440 There we go. Let's do what we said we were going to do.

00:16:10.440 The 47th part of the United States at the 74th National Prayer Breakfast.

00:16:15.440 President Trump had remarks over an hour.

00:16:19.440 Talked about a wide range of issues, including his belief and his faith.

00:16:24.440 This is one of the most important events kind of in the – well, definitely in the spiritual calendar of Washington, D.C.

00:16:33.440 Okay. Here's what we're going to do.

00:16:34.440 We're starting to warm a little late because we want to have complete coverage of the president and the National Prayer Breakfast.

00:16:40.440 We have a lot to go through this morning. We're very jammed.

00:16:44.440 Scott Besant, our former contributor and colleague and dear friend, got into a total throwdown yesterday in front – I think it was the House Banking Committee.

00:16:54.440 It was basically a shouting match for hours.

00:16:57.440 He is in front of the Senate Banking Committee.

00:17:00.440 I believe that Elizabeth Warren is the ranking member on the Democrat side.

00:17:05.440 She's kind of an opening statement. We're trying to go to that.

00:17:07.440 The narco-terrorism conference, the hearing, is also playing.

00:17:11.440 So we're going to kind of juggle things this morning.

00:17:13.440 Real America's Voice is good.

00:17:14.440 They showed the National Prayer Breakfast without commercial interruption.

00:17:18.440 And we're going to skip a break here.

00:17:19.440 I want to play – have a very special cold open because, folks, a lot has gone on since we left you yesterday at, what, 6 p.m.

00:17:27.440 Eastern Standard Time.

00:17:28.440 Let's go ahead and play our cold open.

00:17:30.440 And I will return in just a moment.

00:17:32.440 Let's go ahead and let it rip.

00:17:33.440 The fight to stop Donald Trump from rigging the midterm elections in his favor.

00:17:37.440 Today, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican effort to block California's new congressional map.

00:17:42.440 The state drew new districts to favor Democrats after Trump demanded Texas redraw their map to help his party maintain control of the House.

00:17:52.440 Governor Gavin Newsom responded, quote,

00:17:54.440 Trump said he was entitled to five more congressional seats in Texas.

00:17:58.440 He started this redistricting war.

00:18:00.440 He lost.

00:18:01.440 And he'll lose again in November.

00:18:03.440 In Georgia today, Fulton County filed a court motion demanding the return of 2020 ballots seized by Trump's FBI last week.

00:18:11.440 The county's top commissioner said he views the FBI raid as a first step to suppress the voter turnout this year.

00:18:18.440 Trump is putting the building blocks in place, folks.

00:18:21.440 Don't be mistaken here.

00:18:22.440 These are the building blocks he's putting in place for an unconstitutional federal takeover of our elections.

00:18:28.440 Listen to the cities he wants to target next.

00:18:31.440 Take a look at Detroit.

00:18:34.440 Take a look at Pennsylvania.

00:18:35.440 Take a look at Philadelphia.

00:18:37.440 You go take a look at Atlanta.

00:18:39.440 Look at some of the places that horrible corruption on elections.

00:18:43.440 And the federal government should not allow that.

00:18:46.440 The federal government should get involved.

00:18:48.440 The federal government should get involved.

00:18:52.440 Fulton County might be the first block, but it won't be the last, my friend.

00:18:55.440 Donald Trump is already calling to nationalize elections to essentially illegitimately take control of states election systems down to like how the votes are counted.

00:19:05.440 And he and his allies are now straight up telling us they plan to try everything they can to interfere in the midterms, including using ICE agents.

00:19:12.440 Steve Bannon, who had a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, wears three shirts and likes to speak as if he's still in the White House, has been leading the charge.

00:19:21.440 We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November.

00:19:25.440 We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again.

00:19:28.440 And you can you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want.

00:19:33.440 But we will never again allow an election to be stolen.

00:19:37.440 But let's put you on notice again.

00:19:39.440 ICE is going to be around the polls in the 2026 midterm elections.

00:19:45.440 It's a political operation.

00:19:46.440 This is all this is.

00:19:48.440 This isn't about the fact that some states have decided to go rogue in their voting and in their process of voting and in the idea that citizens can trust the ballots in that state and the federal government, which would then have a legitimate question about, OK, so what are you doing?

00:20:05.440 What are you doing?

00:20:07.440 But they're the problem.

00:20:08.440 And, Commissioner, that's that's the rub that you're going to run into if you're successful in becoming the one who's in charge of and looking after the vote in the state of Georgia and understanding exactly what what's required.

00:20:27.440 When you have the president of the United States tell us that we should lock down and control Republicans should control 15 states, all Democratic states democratically run with Democratic leadership across the state.

00:20:43.440 When you have Steve Bannon saying that, oh, we're going to just we're going to surround the polls with ICE agents.

00:20:50.440 My question is, what polls are you talking about, Stevie?

00:20:54.440 Are you talking about, oh, I don't know, polls in your backyard?

00:20:58.440 Are you talking about polls in black and brown communities?

00:21:01.440 Are you talking about polls here in Maryland and Prince George's County, largest black county in the state of Maryland?

00:21:07.440 Are you talking about putting polls there or are you talking about putting polls in Mike Johnson's district where he has to go?

00:21:14.440 Mr. Johnson, Speaker Johnson, are you ready to have ICE agents at your polls?

00:21:17.440 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:21:18.440 Oh, my bad.

00:21:19.440 Your district is majority white.

00:21:21.440 Not those polls, Michael Steele.

00:21:23.440 Oh, that's right.

00:21:24.440 You won't have that problem now, will you, sir?

00:21:26.440 But you oversee the House and can do something about it.

00:21:29.440 But you won't because you're scared.

00:21:31.440 You're scared of Steve Bannon.

00:21:33.440 You're scared of Donald Trump.

00:21:35.440 And I've heard you over the last few days, hubby the hubby the hubby the hubby lying through your teeth.

00:21:39.440 That's the problem that you're going to have, commissioner.

00:21:42.440 When you take control of federal government that doesn't give a damn about your sovereignty as a state, doesn't give a damn about your process.

00:21:50.440 So how do you what are you saying to the people that you're hoping to let you elect you that you're going to go and be able to protect their most precious asset?

00:22:02.440 And that is the vote on January 21st, 2029.

00:22:06.440 Do you see any scenario where you are still president?

00:22:10.440 I don't know.

00:22:12.440 It would be interesting.

00:22:14.440 But wouldn't it be terrible if I agreed with, you know, if I gave you the answer that you're looking for?

00:22:19.440 It would make life so much less exciting, right?

00:22:22.440 It would be so much less exciting.

00:22:24.440 But I only do this for one reason.

00:22:27.440 Make America great again.

00:22:29.440 And that's what we're doing.

00:22:30.440 We're making America great again.

00:22:32.440 Greater than ever before.

00:22:33.440 Our country is greater than ever before.

00:22:35.440 To pause and heighten the scrutiny of any bank charter or licensing application at the OCC connected to the World Liberty Financial until all of these conflicts of interest and foreign influence reviews are completed and shared with the United States Congress.

00:23:01.440 All I need to know is will you halt it and do a complete investigation and scrutiny of this licensing application?

00:23:14.440 All you have to ask is yes or no?

00:23:16.440 All you have to ask is yes or no?

00:23:18.440 The OCC is an independent entity.

00:23:20.440 And I would know, Congressman, in 2006, you traveled to Venezuela to lobby Hugo Chavez.

00:23:25.440 I take that as a no.

00:23:27.440 On behalf of your donors.

00:23:28.440 I take that as a no.

00:23:29.440 You do not want to answer that question.

00:23:32.440 I take that as a no.

00:23:34.440 For a $7 billion, I'm asking you to do your responsibility as Secretary of the Treasury.

00:23:42.440 You do not.

00:23:43.440 Mr. Makes.

00:23:44.440 The time has expired.

00:23:45.440 You cannot erase what you did in 2006.

00:23:48.440 He's the one that went past your time, Mr. Chairman.

00:23:50.440 No.

00:23:51.440 He did not answer my question.

00:23:52.440 And he wouldn't pass the time.

00:23:53.440 The order was made.

00:23:54.440 He had six seconds left to try to answer your question.

00:23:57.440 And the time has expired.

00:23:58.440 It was a yes or no.

00:23:59.440 It was a yes or no answer.

00:24:00.440 I asked him, will he?

00:24:01.440 No.

00:24:02.440 Yes or no.

00:24:03.440 The chairman of the OCC is an independent entity.

00:24:05.440 Stop covering for the president.

00:24:07.440 Yeah.

00:24:08.440 Well.

00:24:09.440 Stop being his flunky.

00:24:10.440 Okay.

00:24:11.440 Gentlemen.

00:24:12.440 Gentlemen.

00:24:13.440 He's talking to me.

00:24:14.440 I'm responding.

00:24:15.440 Your 2006 trip to Venezuela.

00:24:17.440 Why don't you tell your secretary about that?

00:24:20.440 Don't be a flunky.

00:24:21.440 Work for the American people. 0.55

00:24:22.440 Mr. Secretary.

00:24:23.440 Mr. Meeks.

00:24:24.440 Don't stop talking to Venezuela.

00:24:25.440 Work for the American people. 0.55

00:24:27.440 Don't be a cover up for a mob.

00:24:30.440 Maybe you're going to see your friend, Nicholas Mabira.

00:24:32.440 I will.

00:24:33.440 The gentleman is not recognized.

00:24:35.440 Mr. Besant, please.

00:24:37.440 I recognize the gentleman from Texas.

00:24:39.440 We're a swing state.

00:24:40.440 And right now our state legislature is controlled by Republicans.

00:24:44.440 And our state elections board is controlled by MAGA.

00:24:47.440 And so we are in danger right now in this current year,

00:24:51.440 before I even get a chance to be elected into that job,

00:24:54.440 of the state elections board taking over our elections.

00:24:58.440 So they may back off from this nationalization thing and say,

00:25:01.440 okay, okay, you're right.

00:25:02.440 We can't go against the constitution,

00:25:04.440 but go ahead, state of Georgia elections board,

00:25:06.440 take over the elections.

00:25:08.440 And that will have the same effect.

00:25:10.440 If the state elections board in Georgia takes over,

00:25:13.440 then, you know, there go the voters of Fulton County's votes,

00:25:17.440 and there go the state of Georgia votes from all Democrats,

00:25:19.440 and potentially there goes some of our major elections here.

00:25:23.440 And, you know, if that continues into 2028,

00:25:25.440 there goes the presidential, right?

00:25:27.440 So we have to have a secretary of state who is defending our rights,

00:25:31.440 not only as to allow a state takeover,

00:25:34.440 but to allow the counties to run their elections the way they were intended to,

00:25:38.440 and to not allow these changes to state law that are going to infringe on voters.

00:25:43.440 And I'm sure there are similar things happening all across the country in states like ours.

00:25:48.440 to come in the right way.

00:25:49.440 The American people might not want that,

00:25:51.440 but Republicans haven't done anything to help us get there.

00:25:53.440 Republicans need this issue because their only option is to scare the hell out of people

00:25:58.440 because they're fundamentally incapable of leading the economy in a responsible way here.

00:26:05.440 There's only one point you made, though, that I disagree with, my new friend.

00:26:09.440 And that is that they have a quota system.

00:26:13.440 What they actually have is self-deportation goals.

00:26:16.440 And so they will never want to do this quietly, even if they met these quotas.

00:26:22.440 What they actually want to do is publicly scare the hell out of people with brutish, inhumane tactics

00:26:28.440 that will up the number of people who just flee the country because they're so afraid.

00:26:34.440 And that's the inherent immorality of this administration's policy and strategy.

00:26:39.440 And that's why the mask is so important.

00:26:41.440 They can't do that.

00:26:42.440 Exactly what you're saying.

00:26:43.440 They cannot do that if they're not wearing masks.

00:26:45.440 And I mean, it's extremely concerning because you look at how those sorts of voter roll checks are enforced,

00:26:52.440 how the sort of driver license ID, even sort of simpler ID requirements are enforced.

00:26:57.440 It's always disproportionately affects minority groups because you often have bluntly white poll workers,

00:27:03.440 white poll workers being more suspicious of minority voters.

00:27:06.440 And so that's always the effect here.

00:27:08.440 I will say, you know, it doesn't seem like there's a ton of momentum for the SAVE Act in Congress,

00:27:12.440 but I am extremely concerned about this, you know, potential ICE deployment that Steve Bannon is talking about.

00:27:18.440 Now, obviously, Steve Bannon is a podcaster.

00:27:21.440 He is trying to get attention so that he can get ad revenue.

00:27:23.440 I always want to take that with a little bit of a grain of salt.

00:27:26.440 But it does seem like this is what they are.

00:27:27.440 Still Steve Bannon.

00:27:28.440 Yeah, he's still Steve Bannon.

00:27:30.440 It does seem like that's what they are trying to build up towards.

00:27:33.440 And I think it's really important for people that support democracy, Republicans or Democrats, to get ahead of this

00:27:40.440 and make very clear, it's not just that ICE deployments are unconstitutional, violate the First Amendment, 14th Amendment.

00:27:47.440 Military deployments at polling places is a federal crime.

00:27:52.440 18 U.S.C. 592.

00:27:54.440 Democrats need to be extremely clear.

00:27:56.440 If this happens, they will be criminally prosecuted by a future administration.

00:28:00.440 That is the only way this stops.

00:28:03.440 They at the at the prayer breakfast, the the person that came on right after the president, the commander in chief, spoke to the prayer breakfast, said, gave a prayer and said, asked almighty God to buffet the president against any storms.

00:28:20.440 I think that would be would come in his administration or to his life.

00:28:24.440 The storm has arrived.

00:28:26.440 Well, this is an inflection point in American history, this entire fourth turning.

00:28:31.440 But now, as you know, the urgency and momentum builds up.

00:28:34.440 Let's just make sure the Democrats understand something.

00:28:37.440 Never again with all your lies, we are never going to allow an election to be stolen.

00:28:43.440 Look what you've done to this country.

00:28:46.440 You have 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country leeching off this country. 0.99

00:28:53.440 Bankrupting it with all these scams and all this fraud.

00:28:58.440 And all you have to do is look up in Minneapolis to the Somalians. 0.87

00:29:02.440 And that's all over the country in every state in the union.

00:29:04.440 We're not going to allow our country to be destroyed because you can't get legitimate citizens to vote for you.

00:29:12.440 Not going to happen.

00:29:13.440 Not going to happen.

00:29:14.440 And like I said, you can cry and whine and throw your toys out of the pram and throw a hissy fit. 0.99

00:29:20.440 Ice.

00:29:21.440 And if it has to call the Insurrection Act, then the 82nd and 101st Airborne are going to be around the polls.

00:29:28.440 And they should be around every poll.

00:29:31.440 Because we don't want any.

00:29:33.440 I don't care about the district.

00:29:34.440 We don't want any and we will not allow any illegal aliens to vote. 1.00

00:29:39.440 They have to have an ID.

00:29:40.440 They have to be on a voter roll.

00:29:42.440 That must be purged.

00:29:44.440 And the mail-in ballots must be checked and signature verified.

00:29:49.440 We're going to take a short commercial break.

00:29:51.440 The storm has arrived.

00:29:53.440 And we're going to ride it out next in the war room.

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00:32:38.440 Fulton County absentee ballots.

00:32:40.440 There were 74,000 absentee ballots that had come into Fulton County by the time the polls closed, the legal deadline by the time the polls closed on November the 3rd.

00:32:51.440 But somehow, four days later, instead of those 74,000, there were 148,000, plus just a little over 148,000 absentee ballots that were now suddenly in the mix.

00:33:08.440 Now, where did those come from?

00:33:11.440 Fulton County election officials ordered, ordered on October the 16th, over 1 million new absentee ballots.

00:33:22.440 They were ordered without envelopes, even though in order to cast an absentee ballot in Georgia, you have to mail it.

00:33:30.440 You have to put it in an envelope.

00:33:32.440 It has to be sealed in an envelope.

00:33:34.440 And we saw in one of our pants in our lawsuit, our election contest, that was never heard by a judge because no judge was appointed.

00:33:43.440 But our volunteers saw all of these pristine ballots, no folds.

00:33:50.440 Those cannot be absentee ballots.

00:33:53.440 If Moe and Grace and Elizabeth, that's Cleta, can push it. 0.99

00:33:58.440 I just want the PDF and I need people to get into not just the summary, but I think it's a 264-page report.

00:34:06.440 Raffensperger came on the Today Show.

00:34:10.440 Because remember, go back, particularly those of you who have been with us for a while.

00:34:15.440 We covered live, as we always do, the election.

00:34:18.440 I think it was Raheem and myself, Bill McGinley, remember that?

00:34:22.440 Jason Miller, I think, was at the White House for coming in and out.

00:34:25.440 Raffensperger went on the Today Show the next morning, and this is Cleta's, the opening of that.

00:34:31.440 There had been 4.7 million ballots, which I think was a record, in Georgia.

00:34:36.440 He says this, there were, Trump was up at that time, this is the morning after, by 103,000 ballots.

00:34:49.440 We had Richard Barris and others coming on that had done precinct by precinct analysis.

00:34:54.440 And they said, it's only 100, Trump's up by 103, and there are only 94,000 ballots uncounted.

00:35:01.440 And it is impossible, mathematically impossible, for Biden to win.

00:35:10.440 And what happened?

00:35:12.440 All of a sudden, miraculously, these mail-in ballots, by the way, mail-in ballots had to be there by the close of the polls.

00:35:18.440 I think it's 7 Eastern Standard Time on the 3rd, or they didn't count.

00:35:23.440 And all of a sudden, miraculously, like the loaves and the fishes, these ballots start showing up, 300,000.

00:35:30.440 It turns a total fiasco.

00:35:32.440 Cleta Mitchell and a team put, walked through this thing in excruciating detail.

00:35:38.440 In fact, one of the young men on the team was on Steve Stern's call yesterday.

00:35:44.440 And so when they say, oh, it's been checked 10 times, there are only nine people.

00:35:47.440 No, no, that is a bald-faced lie.

00:35:49.440 We're talking about the mail-in ballots, they know exactly what we're talking about.

00:35:51.440 We haven't even gotten to the machines yet, with the tapes and all that.

00:35:55.440 That's why Tulsi Gabbard was down there when the stuff was seized.

00:35:58.440 And we already know that the tapes, many of the tapes have been fouled.

00:36:04.440 The left has to understand, if your voters are U.S. citizens that are registered to vote legitimately and have an ID, what's your worry?

00:36:18.440 Why are you going crazy?

00:36:20.440 I tell you why you're going crazy.

00:36:22.440 We caught you in stealing the 2020 election and we're never going to allow it to happen again.

00:36:26.440 Look what's happened to the nation.

00:36:28.440 Look where we're having to spend your time. 0.97

00:36:31.440 This whole concept of opportunity cost, that you can't focus on this because you have to focus on this.

00:36:36.440 And here's what we're focused on.

00:36:37.440 We're going to get every illegal alien out of this country with mass deportations or self-deportations. 1.00

00:36:44.440 It has to happen or we don't, we're not a sovereign nation.

00:36:49.440 And we're not going to allow the games that you guys have played to continue to be played.

00:36:53.440 We're drawing a line in the sand and it's not going to happen.

00:36:58.440 Now, Tom Holman's as good a guy as you can get.

00:37:03.440 One of the best of the best that we have.

00:37:05.440 But his thing of unprecedented cooperation.

00:37:07.440 Just in the last 48 hours, Hochul in New York has signed a decree, I think an executive order.

00:37:13.440 There will be no cooperation, none, between law enforcement at the city or state level with ICE agents.

00:37:21.440 It's a sanctuary state and she's throwing down hard.

00:37:24.440 Spanberger, in her drive to be Newsom's VP, has done the same thing in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

00:37:32.440 After she swore on the campaign trail she would not do that, she signed an executive order to do it.

00:37:37.440 So the Democrat, and Fry and Waltz, I think you heard President Trump in the, in the, both at the prayer breakfast and I think in the NBC interview, have not been cooperative at all.

00:37:48.440 Maybe a couple of sheriffs have taken Tom Holman's phone call.

00:37:51.440 That's not unprecedented.

00:37:53.440 Unprecedented cooperation sends a signal to the other side.

00:37:57.440 And let me tell you where we are right now.

00:37:59.440 We're in a jam.

00:38:00.440 Eric Schmidt's going to, Senator Schmidt's going to be here.

00:38:02.440 I think help us think through how we're going to do this.

00:38:05.440 John Solomon, who's going to tee up the show with his great reporting over just the news of like how, you know, we got the save act and the save America act.

00:38:15.440 The make America great again act and they kind of all in combination get to the problem.

00:38:20.440 But right now, I think, and I realize some people disagree with me.

00:38:24.440 I think they've got the cards because we've walked into this trap that we've carved out DHS.

00:38:30.440 And you saw last night, they came and gave us their demands.

00:38:33.440 Their demands is essentially to shut down ice, no mask, you know, body cameras, right?

00:38:40.440 Body cameras not to track people, these illegal aliens, but to show vulnerabilities of what the ICE agents are doing.

00:38:50.440 Also, they don't have immunity.

00:38:51.440 You need a federal warrant.

00:38:53.440 You need a judicial warrant on every time you got to get 15 million people will be 15 million years before we get them.

00:38:59.440 None of that, none of that is negotiable.

00:39:02.440 It's non-negotiable.

00:39:03.440 Every item they sent, they know that.

00:39:05.440 Because now they say, well, good, shut down, shut down DHS.

00:39:09.440 We don't care because they don't care.

00:39:11.440 They don't care for terrorists coming into the country.

00:39:13.440 They're for mass immigration. 0.95

00:39:16.440 They're for open borders.

00:39:17.440 They're consistent.

00:39:19.440 Because their business model is predicated upon it.

00:39:22.440 Totally predicated upon it.

00:39:24.440 They probably, Jesse Kelly said it.

00:39:25.440 I think he's right.

00:39:26.440 They probably got 20, 25% of the vote in this country.

00:39:29.440 They can't win unless they cheat.

00:39:32.440 Why do you think they're going crazy over saying, hey, we're just putting ICE agents around.

00:39:37.440 There's not going to, there's going to be zero illegitimate foreigners in this country voting for the midterm elections.

00:39:46.440 They're basically what they want to do to shut President Trump down.

00:39:49.440 This is not even a question. 0.99

00:39:50.440 And they can get as, they can throw the toys at the pram and throw a hissy fit and whine and bitch and moan every day. 1.00

00:39:58.440 It's not going to happen. 0.92

00:39:59.440 And we need the, we need the, the Republicans to take a tough stand.

00:40:05.440 I know that's an oxymoron, but they're going to have to do it.

00:40:08.440 I heard today at some of these meetings, they've got these Senate meetings going and house meetings.

00:40:12.440 Donors are back there.

00:40:13.440 People are talking about these voucher program.

00:40:15.440 Hey, if a guy's been here for five years ago, no, you're not giving any vouchers.

00:40:18.440 We're not doing that.

00:40:19.440 Particularly the people that are involved in allowing the Somalians to come here.

00:40:23.440 And now it's sitting there going, I know nothing about it.

00:40:25.440 Tom Emmer, you started the Somalian caucus in, in the house of representatives.

00:40:31.440 You have, you're just as guilty of doing this as a Democrat.

00:40:36.440 Okay.

00:40:37.440 And you may be the whip and you may be a big guy and you may be a hockey player and you're going to high stick everybody.

00:40:42.440 Hey, I don't care.

00:40:43.440 You're part of the problem.

00:40:45.440 And now that, now it's been exposed of what a scam it is and what a crime against the nation.

00:40:50.440 All of a sudden you're missed.

00:40:51.440 Oh, we got to get the Somalians out. 1.00

00:40:52.440 Well, where the hell were you when it first happened?

00:40:54.440 Everybody knew this was going to happen.

00:40:56.440 This is not shocking news to anybody.

00:40:59.440 So we're in it now and the next couple of weeks are going to define.

00:41:04.440 And anybody, if you give them, if you put body cameras, you're just giving the opposition.

00:41:10.440 So you're just taking a knee.

00:41:12.440 They're going to look at anything as weakness.

00:41:17.440 And right now, unprecedented cooperation.

00:41:20.440 A couple of calls from sheriffs in upstate Minnesota is not unprecedented cooperation.

00:41:26.440 That's some guys pleading for help.

00:41:28.440 I got it.

00:41:29.440 When Fry goes on national TV and says, yes, we're going to allow, we're going to allow ICE to come in to the jails and start getting these, these bad hombres out in an organized fashion.

00:41:40.440 I'm going to get them the hell out of the country.

00:41:42.440 And when Wal says, we're going to do it through the rest of the state.

00:41:45.440 And we're going to welcome ICE to do this as step one.

00:41:48.440 Then to me, that is cooperation.

00:41:51.440 We haven't seen that.

00:41:52.440 We haven't seen the numbers.

00:41:53.440 And I can tell you the rest of the states in Illinois, in California, in New York, and now the Commonwealth of Virginia, they're throwing down harder than ever.

00:42:01.440 Cortez, you've got a, you've got a great documentary on this.

00:42:05.440 I do want to go to the house banking thing because, because, you know, right there, Max Rose said in the cold, oh, more the Republicans don't have anything. 0.99

00:42:12.440 Dude, pull your head out of your ass and look at the, look at the growth rates that are happening. 0.99

00:42:17.440 Right? 1.00

00:42:18.440 Look at the growth rates that are happening.

00:42:20.440 Don't give me the mouth that we don't know what we're doing in the economy.

00:42:23.440 Look at what Biden did in the economy.

00:42:25.440 All federal spending that got us into the inflation problem and buried us as far as debt goes because of the ridiculous spending you did on things that don't matter.

00:42:33.440 President Trump, at least the tax cuts are focused on driving capital investment to draw manufacturing back here, provide high value added jobs along with this tariff and trade policy.

00:42:45.440 So don't tell me we don't know anything in the economy.

00:42:48.440 The economy is roaring.

00:42:49.440 In fact, one of the problems is, is Polly Pockets is sitting there. 0.68

00:42:52.440 He's telling people the economy is going to be so on fire.

00:42:55.440 We don't have to worry about anything else.

00:42:57.440 Sir, the economy is going to be on fire.

00:42:59.440 And yes, there's a lot we have to worry about.

00:43:02.440 Steve Cortez, your thoughts about where we are, sir.

00:43:06.440 Yes.

00:43:07.440 So regarding the economy and it's directly related to immigration, real wages are the mother's milk of prosperity for the vast majority of Americans.

00:43:14.440 Who don't own substantial financial assets.

00:43:17.440 So that means their pay adjusted for the goods and services they need in their life.

00:43:21.440 That's real wages.

00:43:22.440 We had a two year stretch under Joe Biden, two years straight for 24 months.

00:43:26.440 Every single month, real wages went down.

00:43:29.440 People were working harder to get poorer.

00:43:31.440 Longest such stretch on record in American history.

00:43:34.440 What we now have with Trump back in office is every single month of the Trump presidency, real wages are leaping higher.

00:43:42.440 That's great news.

00:43:43.440 Why is it connected to immigration?

00:43:45.440 Because we've taken over two million illegal workers out of the labor force where they were competing unjustly, unlawfully against American workers, depressing wages for American citizens.

00:43:57.440 So it's clearly one of the key reasons.

00:43:59.440 There's other reasons, but it might be the foundational reason that particularly for working class Americans, real wages are jumping higher.

00:44:06.440 So at the same time, they're bringing home more money.

00:44:08.440 They're also bringing it literally to a home that is finally getting more affordable.

00:44:13.440 And again, I point to the numbers here, not just sloganeering.

00:44:16.440 Rent just hit a four year low nationally.

00:44:20.440 We've seen rents come down since Trump took office nationally by one point four percent.

00:44:24.440 It's much more than that in other places.

00:44:26.440 Once again, to connect this to immigration, I just wrote an article about this.

00:44:30.440 A national survey of apartment owners, investors and landlords, 40 percent of them say that one of the reasons rents are going down,

00:44:38.440 and I would argue the primary reason they're going down, is because the illegals are leaving.

00:44:43.440 They put an artificial stress on the housing market.

00:44:46.440 Again, not just competing in the job market, but also competing in the housing market against American citizens.

00:44:52.440 So our pay goes up.

00:44:53.440 Our life gets more affordable on top of all the other benefits of a secure border.

00:44:57.440 National security, street safety, reclaiming our culture, social cohesion, a more patriotic, unified society of high trust that we can rebuild.

00:45:06.440 But the economic benefits are tangible.

00:45:08.440 They're tangible.

00:45:09.440 They're clear.

00:45:10.440 And again, this is another compelling reason why we absolutely must keep the foot on the gas regarding immigration enforcement,

00:45:17.440 because immigration enforcement is an affordability driver.

00:45:22.440 It's an affordability accelerant.

00:45:24.440 Joe Biden put us into a terrible bind on both of those macro categories on immigration with an open border and on affordability.

00:45:33.440 President Trump is addressing both at the exact same time.

00:45:38.440 Steve, hang on for one second.

00:45:39.440 I want to talk about you got another documentary talking about more about kowtowing to illegal aliens and also immigrants ahead of American citizens. 0.85

00:45:49.440 It has to stop and it will stop.

00:45:51.440 Steve Cortez is with us.

00:45:53.440 Senator Eric Schmidt is scheduled, trying to get him at the top of the hour.

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00:48:30.440 When you think of central Illinois in the American heartland, you probably conjure up images of abundant fertile farms, windswept plains, hardy Midwestern patriots, and perhaps even the University of Illinois fighting Illini.

00:48:52.440 But unfortunately, you should also picture this.

00:48:57.440 Yes, that's Illini football broadcast in Mandarin Chinese in the middle of America. Why?

00:49:15.440 Is it just insane for us to effectively educate our enemies?

00:49:20.440 That is part of the ecosystem.

00:49:22.440 We're providing an ecosystem for the Chinese Communist Party actually to stay competitive with us.

00:49:27.440 We're providing them access to American equity markets, mass access to American debt markets, to basically pension funds, workers' money in the United States whose jobs are being shipped overseas are essentially paying for that as we're financing that.

00:49:40.440 Also the training.

00:49:41.440 They're in our national labs.

00:49:42.440 They're in companies here in the United States.

00:49:44.440 But particularly, we have 350,000 or more, because I'm not even sure we know the exact number, that we're taking into our best universities and training them in competition to our own people.

00:49:55.440 We need to be a patriotic nation. I mean, we, you know, I'm American. I love the fact that I'm American. I'm blessed that I'm American. On the one hand, I'm proud to be an American, but on the other hand, I am blessed to be an American.

00:50:10.440 And it really hurts my heart when I see teaching institutions or any institution that is denigrating the American or our Western culture.

00:50:25.440 Okay, the Big Ten and the Fighting Illini, Illinois, a great university. How do we get in a situation, Steve, of now, because I keep saying it's the public IVs. It's not the Ivy League that's the problem, and they're all over the Ivy League, but it's the University of Michigan, it's University of Wisconsin, it's Berkeley, it's Illinois, it's University of Virginia, North Carolina.

00:50:50.360 One of these public IVs are where the big problem is, because this is where kids, particularly in-state kids of every demographic, every faith, should be able to go to school if you're an American citizen and your parents have been here for a while.

00:51:05.780 This is the problem. We're taking these Chinese nationals, and a lot of times it's not this kid's fault, but they've all got to sign up to report back to the CCP intelligence, sir. 1.00

00:51:16.020 That's exactly right. And by the way, yes, the pressure on those young Chinese is intense, and I feel for them. They're victims of the Chinese Communist Party as well.

00:51:24.380 But I'm concerned with the American victims of this entire rotten structure. That last guest we showed there, Tony Robinson, he's a fantastic example of what these universities can do and used to do. 0.97

00:51:35.600 He grew up on the south side of Chicago, young black man with a single mom, was brilliant, studied hard, went to University of Illinois, studied chemistry, and Steve, it changed his life.

00:51:46.480 He became an industrial chemist, and he is now somewhat retired into teaching chemistry. He's now passing that forward to the next generation because that's the kind of patriot and man he is.

00:51:56.340 He says in that full interview, he says, I'm not sure I get that chance. It's going to go, that spot's going to go to a Chinese national now from overseas instead of an American at a flagship university, and it's happening all over the country.

00:52:10.240 Unfortunately, one of the worst cases is University of Illinois. That's why I highlighted it.

00:52:14.320 6,000 Chinese nationals in the middle of the American heartland. By the way, the Chinese government, they're evil, but they're not dumb. 0.99

00:52:21.700 Why do they choose U of I? Because it's so good at STEM. Because people like Marc Andreessen and Larry Ellison came out of University of Illinois. 0.98

00:52:29.160 A lot of amazing companies and amazing technological developments have come out of U of I.

00:52:33.600 We're now going to pass that knowledge on to the Chinese. And by the way, in some cases, it's not pass the knowledge on. 0.98

00:52:40.040 It's have the knowledge stolen from us. You mentioned University of Michigan.

00:52:43.440 Of course, we just had shocking indictments of Chinese students at the University of Michigan who were literally smuggling bioweapons into the United States in an attempt, we believe, to attack American agriculture, to poison our food. 0.99

00:52:57.540 So, you know, in the most benign case, we're taking opportunity from Americans, and we shouldn't be doing that.

00:53:03.540 In the worst case, we are actually inviting spies and saboteurs into the United States.

00:53:09.060 We're incentivizing them to come in, and these universities are at fault, the politicians are at fault, and folks, we're paying for it.

00:53:16.740 Here's the thing. Even if you've never been to college, if you've never sent a kid to college, all of us, every one of us are financing these schools, and not just the state schools.

00:53:25.080 In many ways, we actually finance the private institutions, the Ivy Leagues, even more.

00:53:29.400 Columbia University, for example, the home of Alexander Hamilton, half foreign, gets billions of dollars in foreign aid.

00:53:37.140 So, I'm making the case in this documentary, and Steve, you are a critical part of this documentary.

00:53:42.080 Everybody needs to watch, particularly for the Steve Bannon segment, which is so key.

00:53:45.820 I'm making the case that the number of Chinese nationals at American universities should be zero. 1.00

00:53:53.140 It should be bagel, none.

00:53:55.120 And the number of foreign students overall should be capped at an extremely low level.

00:54:00.180 I'm arguing for 1%, but something reasonable.

00:54:02.780 Not the 25, 30, 40% that we're seeing at these selective universities, again, that we subsidize.

00:54:10.160 No, and make those available to local kids.

00:54:14.940 I know how great University of Illinois is.

00:54:17.420 The great Grace Chong, one of the most brilliant people I've had an opportunity to work with for many decades, came out of the University of Illinois.

00:54:22.560 I think she's a kid from Chicago.

00:54:24.680 Make it available to the kids from Chicago.

00:54:27.540 Make it available to the kids from Illinois.

00:54:29.780 We don't need Chinese Communist Party here taking 6,000 billets.

00:54:33.760 Immediately turn those all over.

00:54:36.500 And here's the reason.

00:54:37.260 They're taking higher tuition from the CCP guys.

00:54:39.860 The people in state pay lower tuition.

00:54:41.880 That arbitrage is what pays the tenure and the retirement for these left-wing professors.

00:54:48.760 This is the jam we've got ourselves in.

00:54:50.800 And particularly when you talk about the more technical programs, both in business and in agriculture and in chemistry and the sciences and particularly technology.

00:54:59.600 You're absolutely correct.

00:55:00.400 Before I lose you, Steve, real quickly, where do people go to get all the content?

00:55:05.760 Because I've got to ask you about Meeks.

00:55:07.000 Where do people go?

00:55:09.460 CortezInvestigates.com.

00:55:10.500 Cortez with an S at the end.

00:55:12.120 CortezInvestigates.com.

00:55:13.000 It's free.

00:55:13.960 Watch it.

00:55:14.560 Share it.

00:55:15.200 We're not monetizing this.

00:55:16.420 We want the world to see this.

00:55:17.660 We want all Americans to get angry, informed, and then take action.

00:55:21.960 Hang on.

00:55:22.240 Senator Schmidt's going to be next.

00:55:23.360 I'm going to ask Steve if you can hang around.

00:55:25.240 Elizabeth Warren is lighting up Scott Besant today.

00:55:29.260 Scott Besant there to walk through the president's economic plan with the banking committee.

00:55:34.240 She's the ranking member.

00:55:35.760 Real quickly, Steve, 30 seconds.

00:55:37.660 Meeks attacked Scott Besant hammer and tong yesterday.

00:55:42.700 Tell me about Meeks.

00:55:44.140 Yeah.

00:55:44.380 So let's look at Meeks.

00:55:45.920 2008, he had to pay $63,000 to the FEC for using campaign funds for personal expenses,

00:55:51.680 including personal trainer and his own personal vehicle.

00:55:55.580 He also took a zero-interest loan from a donor.

00:55:58.200 He bought a home for $170,000 less than it was worth from a donor.

00:56:02.540 He cozied up to Chavez when he was in charge of Venezuela. 0.91

00:56:05.920 Meeks is intrinsically corrupt.

00:56:07.960 He is no one to be lecturing the great Scott Besant. 0.94

00:56:11.920 Short commercial break.

00:56:12.920 We're going to turn to the second hour of the War Room.

00:56:15.240 Senator Schmidt, join us next.

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Bannon's War Room - February 05, 2026

Episode 5120： The Storms Have Arrived; Reclaiming American Sovereignty From The CCP

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