Bannon's War Room - Episode 5134： Airspace Shut Down Over El Paso; Making Sure The 2026 Election Is Safe

00:00:00.000 Morning about the FBI's raid of a Fulton County, Georgia election facility last month.

00:00:05.400 Newly unsealed court documents reveal the search and seizure of 2020 presidential election data

00:00:12.560 was prompted by a referral from Kurt Olson, a former campaign lawyer for President Trump.

00:00:20.680 Olson played a key role in the aftermath of the election as the president sought to get the results overturned.

00:00:28.640 He was a major proponent of the disproven conspiracy theories pushed by the president and his allies.

00:00:36.720 The unsealed affidavit repeats many of those same claims, including that Fulton County

00:00:41.760 mishandled enough ballots to change the result.

00:00:45.500 Several legal cases and audits of the election have confirmed Joe Biden won.

00:00:51.480 The public release of the records follows a request by Fulton officials for more information on the raid.

00:00:58.640 Last month, FBI agents took hundreds of boxes of election ballots and data from the 2020 election.

00:01:06.360 The Justice Department has not said what it has done with those documents or where they are being stored.

00:01:14.240 Meanwhile, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department to obtain Michigan's unredacted voter rolls.

00:01:23.080 Michigan's Secretary of State argued the DOJ's request violated state and federal privacy laws.

00:01:30.080 In its argument, the Justice Department cited several federal laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1960

00:01:36.900 and the National Voter Registration Act.

00:01:39.800 But the judge, a Trump appointee, ruled those laws, quote, do not allow the United States to obtain the records at issue.

00:01:48.640 And so amid Trump's recent call to, quote, nationalize elections,

00:01:54.880 several top state election officials say the federal government has become hostile to them and their work,

00:02:01.040 with one secretary of state declaring, quote, we can't trust the federal government and they are now adversaries of the state.

00:02:08.820 Donald Trump came in in 2020.

00:02:11.580 He knew he was going to lose and he had to attack the one way that people could vote in the middle of a pandemic

00:02:16.240 so that he could call it fraud when it wasn't fraud.

00:02:19.240 And you're right.

00:02:19.860 I've been sounding this alarm going all the way back to 2020 and have been sounding it ever since.

00:02:25.220 But the fact is that what we all need to do is to call it out for what it is.

00:02:30.240 It is not just voter suppression.

00:02:31.840 It is them trying to make it so hard for you to vote so that they can cheat on the outcome,

00:02:37.200 because they know that notwithstanding their failed effort to gerrymander,

00:02:40.940 notwithstanding their failed efforts to spread election lies,

00:02:44.260 they are still going to be on the losing end of these midterm elections.

00:02:47.500 So the only thing they have left is to try to radically restrict the ability of people to cast ballots

00:02:54.380 and then set themselves up if they don't like the results to execute raids

00:02:58.980 and to take over vote counting and to falsely certify election results.

00:03:03.640 They are trying to nationalize the elections.

00:03:05.900 They're trampling on our constitutional rights and we have to safeguard against them.

00:03:09.840 It's a huge deal, John.

00:03:11.280 You know, it was a mystery, now a little bit less so.

00:03:13.960 And the new reporting from me, a source familiar,

00:03:16.380 briefed by the Federal Aviation Administration on this really unprecedented 10-day airspace shutdown

00:03:22.800 over El Paso, Texas, right on the border there with Mexico,

00:03:26.360 says this is all linked to military activity at nearby Fort Bliss,

00:03:32.560 specifically Biggs Army Airfield.

00:03:34.540 You can see it on the map there, just north of the El Paso International Airport.

00:03:39.400 That is significant because it seems that the Defense Department

00:03:43.960 was carrying out some sort of operation there, still sort of unspecified,

00:03:48.680 which caused the FAA to think that they could not assure the safety of flights

00:03:54.300 going in and out of El Paso International Airport.

00:03:57.620 Therefore, that led to this blanket-sweeping airspace shutdown without modern precedent.

00:04:04.140 A lot of people online have been pointing to 9-11 as a similar incident causing something like this.

00:04:09.720 That was a nationwide emergency airspace shutdown.

00:04:13.260 The situation was fluid, but it was pretty obvious why that shutdown went into place.

00:04:18.040 This really broke overnight, and it wasn't very clear why this went into place.

00:04:22.800 There has never, ever in the history of the Federal Aviation Administration,

00:04:26.840 and I can say that with some authority as a pilot and a flight instructor,

00:04:30.060 been a large-scale shutdown of airspace over a large metropolitan area.

00:04:37.380 We're talking about a city of about a million people,

00:04:39.760 about a thousand flights operating in that 10-day period in and out of El Paso, Texas.

00:04:45.360 We're getting a statement just shortly now from Southwest Airlines in which they will say

00:04:50.200 they're trying to work with the FAA on this.

00:04:52.600 This is going to have a pretty big ripple effect because this is not a small airport,

00:04:57.380 really billed as the gateway to Mexico, this airport.

00:05:01.000 So this is going to have a big trickle down here.

00:05:03.520 I want to also point out the things in this notice to airmen or temporary flight restriction

00:05:10.360 that make this so different than other temporary restrictions on flights that we see for things

00:05:16.200 like VIP movements or presidential movements.

00:05:20.080 This includes all flights up to 18,000 feet.

00:05:23.020 The emphasis there on all flights.

00:05:25.340 That's commercial flights, also police helicopters, and medevac helicopters.

00:05:30.900 Usually those things are exempted from a large ban on airspace of about 10 miles here.

00:05:39.300 So this is really significant, John, and the new details are just coming in.

00:05:42.680 We now have a better idea of why this was put in place,

00:05:45.900 a bit of an impasse between the Department of Defense and the Federal Aviation Administration.

00:05:52.360 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:05:56.320 Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.

00:06:02.740 Here's the reason I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:06:07.000 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:06:08.960 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:06:10.380 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,

00:06:12.100 but you're not going to stop it.

00:06:13.020 It's going to happen.

00:06:14.300 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:06:17.700 Mega media.

00:06:18.600 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:06:24.520 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:06:28.220 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:06:34.620 War Room.

00:06:35.440 Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.

00:06:37.860 It's Wednesday, 11 February in the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:06:47.340 We're trying to get up.

00:06:48.300 We're having a little technical issue because he happens to be out of the country.

00:06:51.520 Eric Prince is going to join us momentarily.

00:06:54.040 Of course, this massive breaking news about El Paso.

00:06:58.000 Fortunately, we've had Eric up here really talk about what's happening today at the White House.

00:07:03.380 So two things are going on we're going to try to juggle because we've got an absolute packed show.

00:07:08.180 Pam Bondi, I believe, is in front of the Judiciary Committee.

00:07:11.060 That ought to be – they will probably light her up on a number of topics.

00:07:15.640 We're going to cut in and out of that, particularly opening statements if we can do it.

00:07:19.820 Real America's Voice, we may go to no commercial breaks if we have to.

00:07:23.680 Also, the most important thing that was supposed to happen today is Bibi Netanyahu is coming to the White House.

00:07:30.160 Now, we just found out, as you normally know, as we do these evolutions, the flags come out.

00:07:38.340 There's some sort of even mini official arrival onto the West Wing, kind of the working side of the White House.

00:07:45.360 It's not the South Lawn, but the West Wing side.

00:07:48.660 As you know, many times we see this for these bilats. 1.00

00:07:51.560 The meeting is supposed to take place in the Oval Office, but we just notified moments ago.

00:07:57.260 And Brian Glenn's – we're going to get Brian Glenn up in a moment from the White House that it's closed press right now.

00:08:02.520 And we're not even sure that there's going to be an honor guard or any type of flags, et cetera.

00:08:07.180 In fact, Brian's saying he may actually come in through the working side of the White House, which is down by the – across from EOB where the staff comes in, down by the National Security Council.

00:08:17.220 Maybe the meeting's going to be held there.

00:08:19.300 Maybe that's why they're doing it.

00:08:20.500 But the news is that President Trump has ordered – President Trump has ordered to put pressure on Tehran.

00:08:29.080 There's comments coming out – or at least leaks coming out of the Department of War and the White House that President Trump has authorized a second carrier strike group to the North Arabian Sea.

00:08:41.520 He's already got a carrier strike group there to make sure that the Iranians know, the Ayatollah and the Mullahs know that President Trump means business here.

00:08:51.260 Part of the reason Netanyahu is there is to make two cases.

00:08:55.780 Number one, his case is that he's concerned that I guess Whitcoff and Jared Kushner have narrowed these discussions around Iran's nuclear program, its ballistic missile program, to make sure President Trump totally obliterated it to end the 12-day war.

00:09:12.700 But there's some discussion about – do they still have some remnant left or are they still getting the nuclear – what you have to do to actually do weapons-grade nuclear material?

00:09:25.180 Is that still going?

00:09:26.040 President Trump has said that has to all be eradicated.

00:09:29.600 The Mullahs and the Ayatollahs negotiators have said, well, that's not going to happen.

00:09:34.540 And Bibi's role – what he says is that those negotiations have to be broadened out to a whole host of other things, which would tantamount to setting up for regime change, at least through negotiations.

00:09:48.280 He is going to make the case, as you've heard Mark Levin and Senator Graham and others relentlessly over the last couple of weeks make the case that if you don't strike now, you're not going to have – you're not going to have opportunity to strike later.

00:10:02.540 They'll never be this week.

00:10:03.760 And so there's a whole huge amount of tension about this.

00:10:07.520 Bibi's actually moved it forward.

00:10:09.180 He moved it forward.

00:10:10.020 He wants to press the case for a military strike.

00:10:12.840 I will tell you, given everything on the president's plate right now, including what we're seeing down in Texas – and this doesn't have to do with El Paso, which I'll get to in a second – his plate is quite full.

00:10:24.880 And I just would think – we've got Eric.

00:10:26.840 His plate's quite full and so many other things going on.

00:10:29.760 Okay, we're going to get to all of this this morning.

00:10:31.260 I want to start.

00:10:31.680 Eric Prince, thank you for joining us.

00:10:34.640 I know you're overseas.

00:10:35.600 First off, I've had a number of people come to me.

00:10:39.260 They just want to make sure you're safe and secure.

00:10:41.400 We know you've been traveling throughout the world, particularly in some places with a lot of bad hombres.

00:10:47.880 Are you okay?

00:10:51.220 I am alive and free and enjoying life, Steve. 0.84

00:10:54.560 So, yes, the fake news coming out of the clowns in Rwanda about capturing me were completely false. 0.76

00:11:01.900 And they have taken some battlefield setbacks of late. 0.98

00:11:06.480 I think they have resorted to just making up nonsense.

00:11:11.100 Just give me a minute on that because you mentioned it.

00:11:14.520 A lot of people have contacted me and said, hey, they were putting out actual information that you had been captured and were being held hostage.

00:11:21.780 There were all types of nefarious things going on.

00:11:24.820 We can put that rumor to bed?

00:11:26.240 Yes, you can put that rumor to bed.

00:11:31.320 And I've not been back on the continent of Africa in at least 30 days.

00:11:36.080 But the fact is, Paul Kagame comes to a peace signing ceremony with President Trump on December 4 with the president of DRC.

00:11:46.760 And while he's there, he's launching a further invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo while sitting in the White House.

00:11:54.240 And the White House was rightly upset about that because President Trump's been trying to be the president of peace and bringing parties together, trying to, you know, end wars.

00:12:05.360 And Kagame launches an offensive.

00:12:07.620 And so our primary job in the Congo right now is to do tax collection from the mines.

00:12:15.340 And so some of that capability had to pivot to help stop another invasion by Rwanda of the Congo.

00:12:25.120 Eric, I had you on here today.

00:12:26.880 You want to talk about Bibi and the situation in Toronto, potentially a second carrier battle group going.

00:12:32.400 We've got a couple of minutes this break.

00:12:33.660 I want to hold you through.

00:12:34.840 You have been the guy for now a decade that has thought through what Venezuela, but particularly you've been at the tip of the spear and talking about the cartels, military interdiction, what's going to have to happen with these corrupt, the corrupt government in Mexico.

00:12:49.960 Peter Schweitzer's book, New York Times, number one bestseller, says the Mexican government's actively involved in the invasion of our country.

00:12:58.500 They shut down El Paso airspace.

00:13:02.300 The Department of War just announced it because it's about militarized drones flown by the cartels.

00:13:07.680 And I think they've taken care of or take care of the situation.

00:13:09.940 Give me a minute on that before we go to break.

00:13:13.840 So, for example, Colombia has had hundreds of drone attacks against Colombian security forces, armed drone attacks.

00:13:21.060 They've had helicopters shot down, troops killed by very well-armed cartels.

00:13:26.540 I'm not surprised that that kind of cartel capability comes up to the southern border of the United States.

00:13:32.000 I'm sure that NOTAM, that Notice to Airmen, Terminal Fright Restriction, basically it's like when you're going to fire live weapons on a firing range, you clear the area.

00:13:42.720 That's what happened.

00:13:44.060 The Department of War probably had a lot of indications of drones coming, and so they used some higher-end capabilities, whether they're kinetic or EMPs or lasers, to shoot all those threats out of the sky.

00:13:58.600 Eric, hang on for one second.

00:14:00.280 We've had a little technical problem, but you're coming in through loud and clear right now, so we're going to take a short commercial break.

00:14:04.820 Okay, we've got Pam Bondi testifying. 0.99

00:14:07.080 We've got Bibi Netanyahu about to show up.

00:14:09.180 We've got a packed show today, including a massacre last night up in British Columbia.

00:14:16.420 They said someone in a dress, a gun person in a dress will get down to all of that. 1.00

00:14:21.440 Also, the other investigations going on Capitol Hill, they're melting down because I believe Kurt Olsen, a frequent guest on the War Room over the years, is now President Trump's right-hand man on looking at the machines.

00:14:33.560 It looks like the CIA and DNI have turned over material to him about the 2020 election and they're melting down.

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00:16:22.020 ...closure of airspace over El Paso.

00:16:24.340 It's now been lifted.

00:16:26.240 The agency said there is no threat to commercial aviation.

00:16:29.280 All fights will soon resume as normal.

00:16:31.400 This comes hours after fights in and out of El Paso International Airport were closed,

00:16:36.600 with officials citing special security reasons.

00:16:39.580 So this is good news, but the mystery remains.

00:16:42.120 For those people who are heading home from El Paso, maybe you want to turn around and call your local airline.

00:16:48.560 Eric Prince joins us.

00:16:50.440 Eric, remember, those of a certain age remember the film Seven Days in May with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.

00:16:59.920 It was centered around an airbase near El Paso, Texas.

00:17:05.960 The FAA has just said that these drones, these militarized drones, did come into American airspace.

00:17:12.820 Your thoughts, sir?

00:17:14.160 The Department of War acted immediately, but your thoughts about this?

00:17:16.680 They could have even been heavy-lift agricultural drones flown from Mexico carrying 10, 20, 50 kilos of narcotics to a predetermined drop location.

00:17:29.160 So whether they're carrying weapons or drugs, it is part of an ongoing mechanized invasion enabled by the Mexican government's inability to clamp down on the criminal activity.

00:17:41.640 And so at some point, there has to be consequences.

00:17:45.620 I'm not sure that the Mexican presidency is the fully witting and able counterparty, although I think she's better off than the predecessor. 0.99

00:17:56.000 This will continue to be a problem.

00:17:58.240 When you have to shut down airspace for a million-person city in America so that you can clear the skies with kinetic capability from the military,

00:18:08.280 that is by definition an invasion and must be dealt with.

00:18:13.620 This is, to me, this is far worse than those weather balloons or whatever, the surveillance balloons that the Chinese were flying across U.S. airspace and Biden didn't dare shoot them down. 0.69

00:18:22.800 I'm glad the War Department shot these things down.

00:18:25.680 The question is, how do they go after the sources?

00:18:27.580 Now, there's some very good tech available learned from the Ukraine war to originate, to locate the controller, the person, the pilot that's controlling those drones at its origin.

00:18:41.000 The question is, is the Department of War going to shoot back and either put a warhead or another drone back at that pilot location to kill whoever's doing it?

00:18:51.580 Well, Schweitzer's book shows that the Mexican government is, first off, they're in business with the cartels.

00:18:56.960 The cartels kind of control them, and they also use the cartels as their muscle.

00:19:01.760 They're innustrically linked with this.

00:19:03.300 Book shows that the Mexican government, the seven families that control Mexico, are up to their neck in this. 0.55

00:19:08.560 With the cartels, they control the government.

00:19:11.440 They're an enemy of the United States.

00:19:13.080 They're not a friendly power.

00:19:14.900 We don't have – correct me if I'm wrong.

00:19:16.960 You're the military expert.

00:19:17.880 Don't we have combat air patrol up all the time and particularly on the southern border just for situations like this?

00:19:23.820 And you've advocated for years we've got to start doing deep interdiction strikes into the cartels' bases in northern Mexico?

00:19:34.440 When Israel started tangling with Hezbollah back in 2000 – well, after October 7,

00:19:41.900 50% of the FPVs, first-person viewer drones, attack drones that were flown by Hezbollah made it into Israel and hit their targets.

00:19:54.340 So combat air patrol is flying at thousands and thousands of feet looking for another aircraft with a very high-capable radar.

00:20:01.380 It does not have the visibility to spot a tiny 4 or 10 or even 50 kg payload drone flying 100 meters from the surface.

00:20:12.000 So I think the solution to the cartels is to kind of unleash almost a public-private partnership,

00:20:19.360 almost like the founding fathers knew what they were doing when they talked about the letter of Mark and reprisal.

00:20:23.400 Lots of ways to go after those seven families, the cartel families that are enabling this criminality,

00:20:30.020 is to first go after their money, go after their money that's been laundered into legitimate businesses,

00:20:34.680 and freeze that and start to squeeze like an octopus, and you will get them to comply without even having to kill a whole lot of people.

00:20:45.120 But if you squeeze their money hard, it will unequivocally get their attention.

00:20:49.840 Okay, we're using that strategy.

00:20:51.780 Let's shift now to Tehran because that's a strategy we've advocated. 0.89

00:20:54.940 In President Trump, economic warfare, Scott Bessent, you're squeezing the mullahs.

00:20:58.220 You've got more sanctions on them. 0.97

00:20:59.760 We haven't interdicted the oil going out straight to Hormuz to China, which is their big payday.

00:21:05.160 Right now there's talk about a second carrier battle group heading over there.

00:21:09.960 Beebe's there today to argue two things.

00:21:12.240 Number one, the negotiations we're having right now is too narrow-cast just on their nuclear capability.

00:21:16.660 You've got to broaden it out to really work through regime change.

00:21:20.620 And if that doesn't work, if you can't get there, you have to go in and strike.

00:21:25.160 And by the way, from Mark Levin to Senator Graham to Ted Cruz, I mean, there's a firestorm up on Capitol Hill.

00:21:31.440 So the point that Beebe's going to be in the Oval Office in about 30 minutes, 35 minutes,

00:21:36.520 not open to the press right now, but to make this case to the president.

00:21:39.680 What would be your advice?

00:21:41.100 Where are we?

00:21:42.560 Do a sit rep.

00:21:43.380 Where are we?

00:21:44.060 And what is your advice to the president?

00:21:45.480 Okay.

00:21:46.660 No, no, and no is a complete answer.

00:21:53.320 Ultimately, Iran is not the problem of the United States.

00:21:58.480 It would be an unnecessary war. 0.80

00:22:01.120 I'm all in favor of the Iranian people having their freedom.

00:22:04.020 They have to sort this out on their own.

00:22:06.640 If people want to give them the tools to go after the mullahs, fine. 1.00

00:22:09.900 But it does not require U.S. air power.

00:22:13.300 And in no time in history ever has air power alone changed a regime.

00:22:18.480 None.

00:22:19.300 With the exception, we've got compliance when we dropped two nukes into Japan.

00:22:23.900 That at least made them stop.

00:22:25.400 But otherwise, air power alone is not going to move the nukes here.

00:22:31.780 Yeah, we firebombed Tokyo and Osaka for six months, worse than we firebombed Dresden. 0.66

00:22:39.440 And they weren't prepared to surrender until the second nuke.

00:22:42.080 And that's because they had a threat of a, what, a four million man invasion of an American army and Marine Corps with America taking a million casualties.

00:22:50.740 So you're right on air power.

00:22:52.640 So what would be your advice to the president of the United States?

00:22:54.740 I know he looks to you.

00:22:56.460 This is why when they had this problem in sub-Saharan Africa or Haiti, you're a guy that they talked to.

00:23:02.600 Mexico, Venezuela, you can see your handprints over everywhere of your thinking and ideas.

00:23:09.080 So what's your thinking in Tehran?

00:23:11.420 Because, dude, when they sent, they got so many assets in there now.

00:23:15.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:23:16.340 I think it's a bigger buildup except for ground troops than even the Gulf War when you talk about air power and naval power.

00:23:22.560 And they're sending another carrier strike group, a rumor to send it over now.

00:23:25.600 So what is your recommendation to the president?

00:23:30.740 The problem is air power alone is not going to do this.

00:23:33.740 You're not going to kill the tens of thousands of IRGC, Quds Force, Hezbollah personnel.

00:23:39.560 Hell, they've even contracted, the Iranians have, with Shia, Afghan ex-soldiers to try to beat up on Iranian protesters. 0.96

00:23:52.620 The problem is the regime will kill their way to success.

00:23:56.140 And until you take away the inevitability of the regime and have enough force to displace them,

00:24:02.820 the air power alone is not going to get that done.

00:24:05.340 So, again, not our problem.

00:24:09.020 Iran does not have an Independence Day because they don't get invaded.

00:24:13.060 They've not been colonized.

00:24:14.880 The terrain of Iran absolutely lends itself towards the defensive perimeter, the mountain ring in the south, the Zagros Mountains, the rough interior.

00:24:28.760 This is not a place that air power alone is going to change the regime.

00:24:32.140 If it works, I'll eat my hat.

00:24:36.400 But I just don't think that's the way to go here.

00:24:39.700 That is not America first.

00:24:41.440 It is not our problem.

00:24:43.520 If we want to help the Iranian people defeat them, their neighbors are. 1.00

00:24:48.360 If the Iranians, if the Persian Empire returns, even if you got rid of the mullahs, you have a lot of layers of governance there.

00:24:57.660 And if Iran does return to a historic role, they've had a role of generally bullying their neighbors. 0.98

00:25:05.380 So their behavior is not unhistorical. 0.98

00:25:08.180 It's just that it's in the hands of some really crazy mullahs right now. 1.00

00:25:12.200 But, again, it is not the responsibility of the United States government and the taxpayers and American fighting personnel that are 8,000 miles away to solve that problem.

00:25:24.020 Hard no. 1.00

00:25:24.560 Eric, before I let you go, we're in Texas and we're here through the primary.

00:25:30.780 We've got one of the top pollsters, James Johnson, is going to come on right after you.

00:25:34.560 The New York Times put up a story last night how this anti-Sharia law and this whole issue about an Islamic invasion of Texas has become the top political issue down here.

00:25:44.600 I know in northern Virginia, you've talked about this for a while, these, you know, school choice have built all these schools.

00:25:53.940 In the New York Times, they had a quote by somebody here and they said one of the mullahs or one of the imams said, well, look, we look at Texas as the new Medina.

00:26:03.760 How would you interpret that?

00:26:04.980 We've got about a minute and a half.

00:26:06.420 How would you interpret that and how important it is to ban Sharia law in this country?

00:26:09.600 Uh, ban Sharia law.

00:26:13.360 If this, again, Steve, if this doesn't get solved in the ballot box, this will get solved in a very kinetic way because I don't think Americans are going to accept being colonized by Islamic, by an Islamic paradigm. 0.98

00:26:29.000 Um, that's happened before.

00:26:31.420 The Reconquista happened in Spain.

00:26:33.020 It took a couple hundred years.

00:26:34.240 It will not take a couple hundred years this time to change it back.

00:26:39.600 Eric Prince, where do people go?

00:26:41.300 I think you've got a podcast, although I know you're traveling all over the world.

00:26:43.900 How do people, are you putting up any content?

00:26:46.240 And if you are, where can people go to get it?

00:26:50.580 Uh, I'm on, uh, X at Real Eric D. Prince.

00:26:54.100 I've been kind of quiet because we're busy solving some, some other countries' problems.

00:26:59.660 And, uh, I'll be noisier about that in the coming months.

00:27:02.900 But until then, we got work to do.

00:27:04.340 Well, uh, it's, uh, good to know you've got many, uh, friends and allies that were quite concerned by the rumors that were coming out.

00:27:12.300 But it's good to know that you're in one piece and, uh, and have really thought through these issues.

00:27:16.540 Appreciate you, sir, as always.

00:27:19.720 All right, Steve.

00:27:20.600 Take care.

00:27:20.940 If you look at problems that get fixed, eventually Eric Prince's, uh, ideas, I think, get manifested.

00:27:28.300 Okay, we're gonna take a short commercial break.

00:27:30.700 Uh, we've, uh, shifted the flag down here to Texas for one reason.

00:27:35.300 Uh, there is a massive issue about, uh, Sharia law.

00:27:38.900 There's also a massive issue about H-1B visas.

00:27:41.260 Uh, that is right.

00:27:42.780 A permission structure was granted to talk about Sharia law.

00:27:45.560 I think a permission structure is going to come very quick on, uh, on H-1B visas.

00:27:50.980 A pollster, this is going to be, I think, the most expensive Republican primary in history.

00:27:56.880 It's a three-way horse race.

00:27:58.900 One of the top pollsters who put out a poll last week that blew people's heads up is going to join us.

00:28:03.400 We're also going to go to the White House.

00:28:04.840 We've got Brian Glenn and also Dr. Peter Navarro has got the, uh, argument for President Trump and the facts about manufacturing.

00:28:12.340 So, back to the White House, Capitol Hill, all of it, stick around.

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00:30:01.400 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:30:08.020 James Johnson about Texas is going to join us in a second.

00:30:11.740 I want to go live to the White House.

00:30:13.880 We're going to be going live to the White House twice today.

00:30:16.360 One Brian Glenn is with us, and Peter Navarro is going to join us in the second hour.

00:30:20.920 Brian, okay, so right now I get no honor guard.

00:30:26.580 It's going to be closed to the press.

00:30:28.380 It will be an Oval Office meeting, it looks like, with BB and the President of the United States.

00:30:31.840 I think this is his sixth trip or seventh trip.

00:30:34.620 I say it's a wellness check right now, but maybe I'm too cynical.

00:30:39.380 White House sources are telling you about exactly what this meeting is about, sir.

00:30:43.480 Yeah, there's three topics mainly on the table here.

00:30:48.820 First of all would be the Board of Peace and kind of where we're at in regards to that structure,

00:30:54.600 you know, President Trump heading up the Board of Peace.

00:30:57.140 Second would be the second phase in the Gaza development and what countries are involved

00:31:02.960 and what's the state of that right now.

00:31:06.240 Then lastly, the situation with Iran, particularly in not only the nuclear talks,

00:31:13.480 but also the long-range ballistic missiles as well.

00:31:16.860 And from what I understand, the Iranian president just said recently that any talk about that is excessive,

00:31:24.000 and they're not necessarily agreeing to a deal that eliminates that off the table.

00:31:29.540 Now, you said in the open, traditionally, we have been lined up out front of the West Wing.

00:31:35.040 You've got the traditional color guard.

00:31:36.760 But behind me is the Eisenhower Building.

00:31:39.380 And between the Eisenhower Building and the West Wing is where the prime minister will make his arrival.

00:31:45.140 That happens in about 20, 25 minutes, and we'll have that live as it happens.

00:31:49.580 You're breaking a big scoop.

00:31:51.040 So BBs traditionally come not through the South Lawn, but through the West,

00:31:54.420 and they've had the flags, and we set it up a half hour beforehand.

00:31:57.960 We see the color guard come up.

00:31:59.420 They pull up, and this is, you know, every president essentially comes from an official bilat.

00:32:03.960 Then, I don't know, a couple of months ago, we did the, he came,

00:32:08.380 and he just came to the West Wing with no color guard, came in,

00:32:10.840 and I said it was like a pizza delivery.

00:32:14.220 Our hit with you, I think, did five or six million hits, right, on social media because it's so shocking.

00:32:21.600 You're actually breaking big news.

00:32:23.040 And I say, this is not pulling up to that kind of West Wing thing where you walk right past the Roosevelt Room and the Oval.

00:32:30.400 This is, if you're correct, he's coming in basically where the staff comes in,

00:32:35.180 down where the awning is by the National Security Council, and then goes a back route up to the Oval Office.

00:32:41.020 Is that what you're telling me you think is going to happen today?

00:32:43.200 Yes, sir.

00:32:46.000 I can confirm that's what's going to happen today.

00:32:48.500 I was told that by a Trump official.

00:32:51.000 So all the activity you see, and if we could flip the camera around, which we won't,

00:32:54.700 it's where the Israeli foreign press is set up, they can stay there because guess what?

00:32:58.960 He's not coming through here.

00:33:00.200 He's coming up behind us.

00:33:01.640 For the most part, Steve, that is out of camera sight for the most part.

00:33:06.460 So I think that these camera folks will probably shift over here to where I'm at in order to – you're not going to be able to see his arrival,

00:33:13.200 but you'll see the black car coming behind me, but you're not going to see him get out and meet the president.

00:33:17.740 That's not going to happen.

00:33:19.000 Audience, you see that if you go – and let's go full screen on to Brian McKinn.

00:33:23.520 That is the executive office building.

00:33:24.980 That's what they call the Eisenhower.

00:33:26.300 That is on the White House compound.

00:33:28.060 In fact, the vast majority of the staff that we talk about work over there.

00:33:32.100 In fact, Dr. Devar has his staff.

00:33:33.600 That's what the majority – and they walk back and forth with a pass.

00:33:36.140 Only a certain pass gets you in.

00:33:37.960 Now, the only time I remember a major head of state coming through that working pass is when I believe in the Obama administration.

00:33:46.560 I think it was when the Dalai Lama showed up, and Obama and those guys did not want to upset the Chinese Communist Party.

00:33:53.740 They slipped the Dalai Lama in through the side door.

00:33:56.380 But that is pretty extraordinary, sir, is it not?

00:34:01.620 It is.

00:34:02.340 Jonah, if you could, move that light.

00:34:03.740 I'm going to whip the camera around.

00:34:04.820 I want to show our viewers exactly what you're talking about, Steve, and I appreciate you bringing that up.

00:34:08.440 Let's whip this around, and I'll show you.

00:34:10.520 Right now, there is not – we don't have a Marine outside of the West Wing here, which indicates President Trump is not in the Oval Office.

00:34:19.400 Now, let's whip the camera back around here.

00:34:21.140 Here's a massive amount of foreign press.

00:34:24.200 I'd say 90 percent of the folks over there are foreign press.

00:34:27.880 And, of course, if you whip the camera back around here a little bit more, there is Pebble Beach.

00:34:32.840 There is no color guard.

00:34:34.140 There is no official greeting for the prime minister.

00:34:37.340 Now, I will say this, Steve.

00:34:38.640 The J6 – I call it the January 6th out fencing.

00:34:41.440 That is up around this area.

00:34:43.780 So the security protocols are in place.

00:34:46.540 But if you're looking for a welcoming flag, Steve, it's not here.

00:34:50.200 He'll be entering the building behind me.

00:34:52.720 Behind you.

00:34:53.340 But I got to tell you, from the side into the White House right there below it.

00:34:56.200 But I got to tell you, I'm sure they're going to negotiate.

00:34:58.340 If they've got the international media right there and the Israeli media, there's no way they want to come through that very side door.

00:35:04.320 You watched.

00:35:05.680 I'm sure there's some intense negotiation.

00:35:07.660 And if I will take the over that he won't arrive at 11 o'clock, that I'll take the over right now where I'm sure there's some negotiation because at least he's going to show up like he did last time with the international media but with no official greeting.

00:35:21.760 But at least it's not through the side door, correct?

00:35:25.520 Yeah, I would agree with you.

00:35:27.320 And I have been told that it is closed as of right now.

00:35:30.980 But you know how President Trump is.

00:35:32.820 Whatever the outcome of that meeting with the prime minister, if he feels like there is some messaging that came out of that meeting that he wants to get in front of these foreign media and the American outlets, they'll open it up.

00:35:44.660 So stay tuned.

00:35:46.400 We could break in with some live coverage in there.

00:35:49.560 Yeah, we'll take that.

00:35:50.800 By the way, big news will be if there's not a strike.

00:35:53.220 If it looks like there's going to be a strike or the second carrier battle group's going, people better be ready because I've never seen more hardware into a region at all.

00:36:02.300 No update so far.

00:36:03.800 Before I let you go, no update so far on the interdiction of the Mexican, the militarized drones sent up by supposedly the cartels into violated American airspace down in El Paso, sir?

00:36:16.640 No, sir.

00:36:17.340 I have not gotten any official word from the White House.

00:36:19.660 I did have a colleague share a message that did confirm that they did shoot down Mexican cartel drones in that area.

00:36:28.600 And I was telling a colleague earlier, if we can strike boats off the coast of Venezuela to have drugs, so why not shoot those drones out of the air as well, especially in U.S. airspace?

00:36:38.820 They were able to get into U.S. airspace, which is very concerning.

00:36:43.340 That is a violation of our sovereignty.

00:36:44.840 Brian Glenn, social media.

00:36:46.260 We'll come back.

00:36:46.720 Correct.

00:36:46.940 As soon as you've got anything to break with, BB, we'll come right back to you.

00:36:49.500 Where do people go get you?

00:36:52.980 Yes, sir.

00:36:53.560 Thanks, Steve.

00:36:54.140 You can follow me at BrianGlennTV, across the board, at Brian on Truth Social.

00:36:57.860 We'll have it here for you live as it develops, Steve.

00:37:00.480 Thank you.

00:37:00.940 Okay, we're streaming Pam Bondi.

00:37:04.400 She's going to get lit up today.

00:37:05.480 Jamie Raskin's already lightened into her, so we're going to go back to that as we can get clips.

00:37:10.100 We're streaming it on our other side, so you can watch the whole thing in its entirety.

00:37:15.420 James Johnson joins us.

00:37:17.360 James, first off, talk to me because, you know, we've known you for a long time.

00:37:23.480 The Worm's known you for a long time.

00:37:24.960 Many of the people we're close to know that you're one of the top, smartest pollsters around.

00:37:29.120 You put out a poll last week in this Texas race, and it really upended the race and kind

00:37:34.540 of caused a lot of consternation, particularly among the Cornyn camp, and you were immediately

00:37:39.220 accused of foreign interference into an American election.

00:37:44.500 Talk to me first about your company, who you are, and was that poll foreign interference

00:37:51.220 in a Senate election in the great state of Texas?

00:37:54.340 Well, Steve, we've got a ridiculous moment now where I start speaking and everybody hears

00:37:59.260 my British accent, but my company, JL Partners, is not a British company.

00:38:05.980 We are an American company registered in Virginia.

00:38:08.520 I'm a permanent resident here.

00:38:10.140 The accent is usually a helpful thing, Steve, but it's not on this occasion.

00:38:13.900 Look, we put out this poll last week.

00:38:17.020 We are not affiliated with any campaign, any outside group.

00:38:21.040 I've never spoken to any of these campaigns or affiliated groups from them, let alone being

00:38:26.760 paid by them.

00:38:27.820 But we put it out there as a poll that we self-funded to try and shine the truth on this race because

00:38:33.460 there are loads of these polls sponsored by various campaigns or PACs, and we wanted to

00:38:38.580 get at the truth.

00:38:39.260 And we found that Ken Paxton is the sort of leading Conservative candidate.

00:38:45.420 He's ahead by one point.

00:38:47.420 And then behind him, tied for second place, is Wesley Hunt and John Cornyn.

00:38:53.180 So we're basically saying, as pollsters say, it's all within the margin of error, and it's

00:38:58.720 effectively a three-way tie.

00:39:01.240 This is one of the most important Republican primaries in the history of this country, and

00:39:06.540 it may end up being the one that's the most money spent.

00:39:09.300 I think the shock was, and correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to disparage guys, but

00:39:12.140 I think the Cornyn camp was saying that this was a Wesley Hunt, this was Wesley Hunt trying

00:39:17.420 to show he's competitive and that Cornyn is not going to finish in a runoff.

00:39:21.220 Because right now, the law in Texas is you have to get 50% of the vote plus one.

00:39:26.460 And if you don't, you go to another massive runoff.

00:39:29.700 Everybody, I think right now, the consensus is it would be very difficult for any of the

00:39:33.140 candidates, including Paxton, to get to 50% plus one vote.

00:39:36.740 So we're going to go to a runoff, and there's, in Capitol Hill, they're absolutely apoplectic

00:39:41.740 in the Senate Leadership Fund that Cornyn could finish third.

00:39:44.880 I mean, what shocked people about your poll was how well Hunt was doing vis-a-vis Cornyn.

00:39:49.740 Because Cornyn, since we moved the show to Texas a couple of weeks ago, we curate not

00:39:55.200 just MSN, we curate the local news.

00:39:57.540 I've never seen, the gross tonnage of Cornyn ads is unbelievable.

00:40:02.140 And the president has not endorsed here, but if you watch these Cornyn ads, you literally

00:40:06.500 think he's sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom in the White House.

00:40:09.500 It's so close, he's walking on the border, he's with President Trump.

00:40:13.660 It's, he gives the impression he's Trump's candidate, but it's just their ad after ad

00:40:19.680 after ad over Super Bowl Sunday, all of it.

00:40:22.260 What are your thoughts about this race?

00:40:25.000 Yeah, look, the amount of money poured in is obviously huge.

00:40:28.000 It is the big primary race of this, of this cycle of this year.

00:40:32.800 I think that if Wesley Hunt wasn't in this race, you know, John Cornyn would be in a

00:40:36.640 much better position.

00:40:37.340 But clearly this new sort of person has come through and has, you know, potentially will

00:40:42.740 push him into third.

00:40:43.720 And as you say, that would be a massive turn up for the books.

00:40:47.340 Look, I think that, I think that what we've seen in the last couple of days in that Senate

00:40:51.580 race is actually both campaigns start to now point their guns at Wesley Hunt.

00:40:55.720 Um, because he's sort of so close to, uh, to, to, to pushing Cornyn off that second space

00:41:01.480 spot if he hasn't already.

00:41:02.920 Um, so I think that speaks volumes.

00:41:04.780 These guys are seeing him as a serious threat.

00:41:07.100 Um, action speaks louder than words on these things.

00:41:09.140 And I think, you know, he has come through the middle of this race.

00:41:12.460 Um, he has the highest favorability ratings of anyone we polled, um, partly because he's

00:41:16.880 less of a known quantity.

00:41:17.860 Um, and people I think are looking for an alternative to vote for, um, and they feel that he could be

00:41:23.640 that person.

00:41:24.220 Um, plenty of time to run, um, and, uh, obviously, um, whoever gets through has to win that runoff

00:41:29.700 too.

00:41:30.140 But let me just quickly talk about, uh, uh, uh, that, that, those, those, uh, those John

00:41:34.420 Cornyn ads, because a huge number of people in the race have seen it.

00:41:38.540 So we didn't just ask the top line numbers.

00:41:40.300 We also asked people, have you seen, read, or heard anything about the various candidates

00:41:44.260 in the last two weeks?

00:41:45.760 And 59% of Republican primary voters in Texas said that they have seen, read, or heard something

00:41:52.200 about John Cornyn.

00:41:53.020 Now, on the one hand, you think that's great for the campaign that they've got their, you

00:41:57.360 know, view across their, the ads, the ad money's working.

00:42:00.240 People are seeing the ads.

00:42:01.800 However, when we break that down as to whether people feel better or worse, the effect of

00:42:06.380 these ads is actually completely net neutral.

00:42:09.060 The same number of people who say they've got a more favorable response as, as a result

00:42:12.740 of the ads is the same as the number who say they have a less favorable view.

00:42:16.180 And that to me is suggesting that some of this messaging about the closeness to Trump is

00:42:21.480 perhaps backfiring, or maybe even some voters are not buying it.

00:42:25.520 Is that pretty, is that pretty unheard of?

00:42:28.800 It's pretty unusual.

00:42:30.140 It's pretty unusual.

00:42:31.240 Um, uh, I mean, I've got some more info on here and, uh, you know, when we have, here's

00:42:35.740 what they say when we said, what did you see in the last two weeks about John Cornyn?

00:42:40.040 And there are some positives in there.

00:42:41.640 Some people say he stands with Trump.

00:42:43.700 Uh, I saw an ad and it shows that he's securing the border.

00:42:46.640 He seems to stand up for Texans, but then look on the negative side, uh, the same, similar

00:42:51.580 people having seen similar ads, but instead saying, uh, he, he, I don't trust him because

00:42:56.780 of his votes in the past.

00:42:58.400 Um, he does not have conservative values and does not have my support the way he votes.

00:43:01.900 This is real quotes from real voters.

00:43:04.160 Um, uh, he said he was a Trump Republican, but I see him as a rhino.

00:43:07.320 Uh, and, uh, uh, at the end here, um, something you've been talking about a lot, a lot, Steve

00:43:12.120 is, uh, he is too close with Islam, which is also clearly having an impact on views of

00:43:16.700 him in this race.

00:43:18.040 Can you hang on for a second?

00:43:19.300 I want to hold you through the break because this race is so important.

00:43:21.740 What's happening in Texas is so important.

00:43:23.580 What James talked about the New York times had a big story last night.

00:43:26.480 Guess what?

00:43:27.380 About how a new issue down here is, uh, is, uh, the rise of Islam and banning Sharia law.

00:43:33.600 Uh, we've given a permission structure for people to talk about it and they are talking

00:43:37.040 about it.

00:43:37.460 Of course, the New York times calls it a conspiracy theory.

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00:45:30.560 Okay.

00:45:31.120 We are going to get some clips from what's happening over in the House Judiciary.

00:45:34.720 It's, let's say, this little intense.

00:45:37.260 Pam Bondi is over there.

00:45:38.320 You can watch it on a streaming alternative if you want to get the full get bathed in it.

00:45:43.300 BB's supposedly shown up in a few minutes by a side entrance.

00:45:46.400 I think that's pretty symbolic.

00:45:49.560 Pretty tough negotiations going to go on today.

00:45:51.920 Kurt Mills is going to join us.

00:45:53.080 A lot of new information about this.

00:45:55.500 James Johnson, JL Partners, an American company.

00:45:58.480 And just forget the awfully, awfully British accent. 0.73

00:46:02.100 He's an American citizen.

00:46:03.700 James, first off, give me your ideas of the, because I think this is another shocker to people

00:46:09.100 that are not in Texas.

00:46:10.580 It looks like Crockett's, they held up the Christian, the evangelical left-wing Christian

00:46:16.080 as literally the second coming that was going to save the Democratic Party.

00:46:20.680 But his, to me, his campaign being down in Texas is not getting traction.

00:46:24.820 It's Crockett's everywhere.

00:46:26.720 Is Crockett, Jasmine Crockett, do you believe going to win the Democratic primary here to

00:46:31.280 run against whoever, Hunt, Paxton or Cornyn, sir?

00:46:35.740 Yeah, I think she's the favorite.

00:46:39.000 And again, in the unbiased polls in this race, she's leading, sometimes by as much as

00:46:44.460 eight or nine points, sometimes by a bit more narrowly.

00:46:46.860 When you look into the cross tabs, when you look into the data underneath that, it's because

00:46:50.480 of her strength with black voters and Democratic primary voters, African-American Democrat primary 0.96

00:46:56.680 voters do come out and vote at these primaries and they're backing her very heavily.

00:47:01.200 So look, I think we really could be in a scenario where she's the candidate.

00:47:04.980 That's obviously great news for Republicans, almost regardless of who the Republican candidate

00:47:08.580 is because, you know, she's probably going to be pretty easy for the Republicans to paint 0.92

00:47:13.320 as being on the more left extreme side of the Democratic Party.

00:47:17.060 Isn't she, isn't she a, I mean, this is about the rise of the DSA, the Working Family Party,

00:47:23.620 Working Family Party, very strong in the Houston area.

00:47:27.920 DSA, I'm telling you that Senate District 9, the DSA ability to get in and do grassroots,

00:47:34.280 and people should not dismiss this, important, but her policies, I mean, she's from the more 0.86

00:47:39.520 radical, not just progressive, more radical branch of the Democratic Party.

00:47:45.020 Is this just name recognition?

00:47:46.700 Are people in the Democratic Party really siding with her about these policies?

00:47:52.600 Look, I think they increasingly are.

00:47:54.420 I think, I think there is a big chunk of the Democratic Party who, especially the longer

00:47:59.520 they've been out of power.

00:48:00.620 And I think after the Trump election, what I've seen when I've been interviewing Democratic

00:48:04.700 voters and focus groups and in interviews is that they're saying we need more of a fighter.

00:48:09.260 We need somebody to take on Trump and take on the Republicans.

00:48:12.400 And what that often means is somebody on the more liberal, progressive, socialist side.

00:48:17.460 We saw that happen in New York, obviously, in that primary with Mamdani.

00:48:22.380 I think we could see it happen with Crockett.

00:48:24.180 The difference is Texas ain't New York.

00:48:26.240 And although she might win the primary, I can't see a world in which she wins statewide.

00:48:32.320 Let's go back.

00:48:33.320 I want to go back to New York Times broke last night this story about coming out of nowhere

00:48:38.220 that people miss was this was this issue about Sharia law and really what I think people are

00:48:44.420 viewing as an Islamic invasion of Texas, particularly in the Houston area and especially in North Texas

00:48:49.880 in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex that is kind of shock people and people as we've started the show.

00:48:56.160 We're in Texas as one of our our fourth hour during the week.

00:49:00.860 And on Saturday or the second hour on Saturday, we tell people the example we always use is London

00:49:06.260 and New York City and people get it.

00:49:08.200 They're awake.

00:49:08.840 We gave a permission structure, I think, for people to talk about this.

00:49:12.260 This conference we had with Gert Vildes.

00:49:13.940 We brought Gert Vildes over here for a reason.

00:49:16.220 That guy has fought this for 20 years.

00:49:17.800 He saw it happening.

00:49:19.400 Nobody at least didn't do anything, overwhelmed his countries, overwhelmed London, overwhelmed

00:49:23.560 Paris.

00:49:24.720 We also had Glenn Beck, the great Glenn Beckett's been hammering, been banging the drum on this

00:49:29.180 for 20 years.

00:49:30.200 Your thoughts about this?

00:49:31.380 The New York Times has now officially said, OK, this is the thing, although it's a conspiracy

00:49:35.600 theory of the far right wing nuts.

00:49:38.640 Your assessment about this issue and will it be an important issue in this race?

00:49:44.080 I think it could be important in the primary.

00:49:46.060 I think the ads determine this race, right? 0.97

00:49:49.860 The amount of spend from Cornyn, the amount of spend from Paxton and the increasing amount

00:49:56.160 of spend from Hunt, although it'd be interesting to see whether he can pull enough resources

00:49:59.920 together.

00:50:00.700 Look, as I mentioned earlier, Steve, when you ask people what are their hesitations about

00:50:05.240 John Cornyn of the Republican primary voters, this is something that's coming through.

00:50:09.880 People say, now, most prominent in concern is, is he a rhino?

00:50:15.260 Is he pro-Trump enough?

00:50:17.460 But also in there is the words Islamic, is the word Islam.

00:50:22.000 Clearly, some of these attacks are getting through and landing, linking Cornyn to the

00:50:27.400 issue you mentioned.

00:50:29.620 So do I think it's going to be the number one issue?

00:50:31.620 Probably not.

00:50:32.280 But do I think it's important in the primary race?

00:50:34.160 So I think so.

00:50:35.120 And it may explain why amongst MAGA Republicans, when you look at the how they're going to

00:50:41.140 vote, because we asked this in our poll, we asked people, do you consider yourself a MAGA

00:50:44.980 Republican or do you consider yourself a more traditional moderate Republican?

00:50:49.060 And amongst those sort of self-defined MAGA voters, Ken Paxton has 33 percent, Wesley Hunt

00:50:56.240 has 29 percent, and John Cornyn is right down on 14 percent.

00:51:00.200 So, you know, in terms of where the future of MAGA is, in terms of what MAGA means now

00:51:05.620 today in 2026, it's Paxton and Hunt that are leading that charge in Texas, with Cornyn

00:51:11.340 quite far behind.

00:51:13.520 James, I want people to follow you, because you're putting out great information about

00:51:16.620 this race all the time.

00:51:17.760 You're very focused on this because you know the importance of this primary race, not 0.99

00:51:21.700 just for the country, but also for the MAGA movement, the Republican Party in the world.

00:51:26.880 Where do people go to get you, sir?

00:51:28.380 So they can go on X.

00:51:30.600 It's James Johnson 252.

00:51:33.620 And you can also pick up J underscore L underscore partners for the company account.

00:51:38.600 That would be an American company, right?

00:51:40.460 JL partners.

00:51:41.160 That would be an American company.

00:51:43.220 Don't believe the accent. 0.89

00:51:46.280 Thank you, sir.

00:51:47.120 Appreciate you.

00:51:47.980 Look forward to having you back.

00:51:49.480 Thank you.

00:51:49.960 I might add, I might add that John Cornyn has put out a, an ad, a 30 second ad that says

00:51:58.520 that he has been fighting Sharia law and he's been fighting the Muslim Brotherhood and he's

00:52:02.540 been fighting care for his entire career.

00:52:04.760 So that's how much this has elicited interest in this, in this topic that John Cornyn's climbing

00:52:11.420 on board.

00:52:12.400 It's a dogfight.

00:52:13.520 Of course, Ken Paxton is beloved member of the, of the grassroots here.

00:52:18.680 The grassroots intensity in back of Ken Paxton.

00:52:21.460 Ken Paxton has not raised a ton of money.

00:52:23.720 John Cornyn, I think has raised, I don't know, 60, $70 million.

00:52:26.940 Most of that will be spent in this primary.

00:52:30.800 The, the, the amount of spending is beyond belief and it looks like it's going to be a

00:52:36.560 runoff.

00:52:37.240 So this has got a long way to go in Texas.

00:52:39.560 Uh, we're going to take a short commercial break.

00:52:41.440 Kurt Mills is with us to give a broader perspective of exactly what this means today.

00:52:47.560 Uh, in the, uh, in the oval with, uh, BB, uh, we'll cover BB if the camera's allowed to

00:52:52.740 be cut on.

00:52:53.280 We're also going to go back, uh, to, uh, to the hearing, try to get some.

00:52:56.940 And clips from Pam Bondi, Dr.

00:52:59.500 Peter Navarro has got a piece of the Washington times today to rebut the wall street journals.

00:53:06.080 Assertion that president Trump is not bringing manufacturing and manufacturing jobs back to

00:53:10.760 the United States of America, complete bald face misinterpretation of information.

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Episode 5134： Airspace Shut Down Over El Paso; Making Sure The 2026 Election Is Safe

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