Bannon's War Room - March 04, 2026


Episode 5186： Game Day In Texas


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Katie and Vanessa talk about the massive turnout in the Texas primary and the impact it could have on the outcome of the race for the U.S. Senate race between Republican John Cornyn and Democratic challenger Kayla Crockett.

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00:00:00.000 You heard it here first. Actually, you probably didn't, but we will repeat it.
00:00:03.960 It is Election Day in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas, or new congressional maps are now in place that were designed to keep a Republican majority in the House.
00:00:12.260 But it is the Senate primary in Texas that could determine the balance of power back in Washington. Surprise.
00:00:21.400 You know, that's the big news, Katie, here. The turnout is massive.
00:00:24.860 I was crunching the numbers just yesterday. More than two point five million people have voted here in the primaries here in the state of Texas.
00:00:31.280 And I've got to say the enthusiasm is on the Democratic side, because I looked at the past primaries for the past few years.
00:00:38.860 And normally more Republicans vote than Democrats. Not this year.
00:00:43.760 This year, more than 50 percent of the votes are on the Democratic side, really showing enthusiasm.
00:00:49.040 I asked a political scientist about this, Katie, because I was like, I'm really curious what's driving this.
00:00:53.500 He said two things. The U.S. Senate race between Tallarico and Crockett and also opposition to Trump's policies.
00:01:03.340 They told me I was at the wrong place where I live is far away, and I just wanted to vote here and get back to work.
00:01:08.160 And she told me she wouldn't let me. I was hoping she would just let me go in.
00:01:12.300 She said I'm at the wrong place. I can't vote here.
00:01:14.040 I've always voted here, say, eight years in a row now.
00:01:18.400 I've come to this location. But now they're telling me that I need to go to another location to vote.
00:01:23.200 Did they explain why?
00:01:24.620 No, they didn't explain why. And when I went online yesterday, because I knew they were going to try to do this,
00:01:31.280 I went yesterday online to register and everything like that to find out what my poll, where my poll is.
00:01:36.860 And it got me nowhere.
00:01:42.800 And Katie, I think that was some sound, but we jumped the gun a little bit because that's actually sound related to some of the confusion
00:01:48.580 and the high emotions that we have seen here in the polling places that you see behind me.
00:01:53.100 And let me explain why.
00:01:55.040 Very early this morning, we talked to the election judge on the Democratic side,
00:01:58.680 and he said that more people had been turned away from this polling place than had actually voted.
00:02:05.960 It was very frustrating for these voters showing up, wanting to vote, and being told that they had to go to another precinct.
00:02:12.500 Well, I talked to the Democratic, excuse me, I talked to the election department for the county here where I am in Dallas,
00:02:22.480 and they said that since 2019, people here have been able to vote at any polling place, at any voter place in the county,
00:02:31.140 and it was that way for early voting.
00:02:34.260 But today, people had to go vote to their designated precinct.
00:02:39.440 Why?
00:02:40.180 Well, he said that the parties are the ones who decide that the Democrats wanted to keep it the same.
00:02:44.940 People could vote everywhere.
00:02:46.300 People could decide where to vote.
00:02:47.760 The Republicans wanted to make sure that people voted in their particular precinct, so they pointed the finger at Republicans.
00:02:55.780 I asked the county Republicans for comment, and I had not heard back.
00:02:59.820 Give me the lowdown for the GOP, Tony.
00:03:04.620 Well, it is also a very fascinating race because you have, of course, longtime Senator John Cornyn on the ballot,
00:03:14.120 but he could possibly lose his seat to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who, Katie, as you know, has a long history of issues, legal issues, moral issues, ethical issues.
00:03:27.700 And so the big question on the Republican race is whether or not he is going to make it alone tonight with no runoff,
00:03:36.540 or whether or not he could possibly face a runoff against John Cornyn.
00:03:40.680 Of course, most of the people following that race very closely think that if it becomes a runoff,
00:03:45.960 that that increases the likelihood that John Cornyn could possibly lose his longtime seat in the U.S. Senate.
00:03:53.820 2.5 million people voted early.
00:03:56.800 More of them, and this is what's unusual, more of them are Democrats than Republicans.
00:04:02.760 If you are a Republican in the Senate, in Congress right now, who are you rooting for?
00:04:11.220 So Republicans on the Hill in the Senate absolutely want John Cornyn, the incumbent Republican, very powerful Texas senator, to win this election.
00:04:22.740 Of course, there's a three-way race with Ken Paxton and Wesley Hunt, which means that it's most likely, Katie, going to go to a runoff.
00:04:32.280 But what Republicans on the Hill really worry about is that if Ken Paxton were to win, to be the Republican nominee,
00:04:40.860 he is the current attorney general of Texas.
00:04:43.100 He's very controversial.
00:04:44.520 He's plagued with scandal.
00:04:46.300 But he is a favorite of the MAGA right.
00:04:48.780 If he were to win, Republicans think that Texas could actually be lost for the party and that a Democrat could win.
00:04:57.360 So we'll see how this all plays out.
00:05:00.660 The primary matters, but the Democratic primary matters just as much.
00:05:04.780 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:05:12.080 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:05:17.300 Here's the reason I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:05:21.580 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:05:23.480 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:05:24.920 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:05:27.620 It's going to happen.
00:05:28.660 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:05:32.200 MAGA Media.
00:05:33.620 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:05:39.080 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:05:42.820 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:05:49.160 War Room.
00:05:50.040 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:05:52.360 It's Tuesday, 3 March, Year of Our Lord, 2026.
00:06:01.920 It's game day in Texas.
00:06:03.600 And so this whole effort we've had down here to make sure that folks knew about Proposition 10
00:06:09.220 and the proposition to prohibit Sharia law in the state of Texas got a full hearing on the Republican side.
00:06:17.700 It's on the Republican ballot today, along with some other propositions,
00:06:20.560 but also to cover the Agricultural Commission, Railroad Commission, the Attorney General.
00:06:27.160 Attorney General and the Senate primary are obviously getting national attention,
00:06:33.780 and the Senate is getting international attention.
00:06:35.600 It is, I believe, the most, just through this first round,
00:06:40.560 is the most expensive primary, I think, in the history of the Republican Party.
00:06:45.080 Caroline Wren is going to be on in our second hour.
00:06:47.940 Our second hour, we're going to do a War Room Texas.
00:06:50.580 She's going to be on to break down some of the spending of John Cornyn.
00:06:54.400 Richard Barris last night, I thought, broke news in some of the analyses he's doing.
00:06:58.480 And this would anecdotally back up what I've seen here.
00:07:02.360 I think there are not an insignificant number of MAGA voters, of grassroots here.
00:07:09.600 And the grassroots is very strong, that is so repulsed.
00:07:13.600 First off, they know who Cornyn is, and they've known who he is for a long time.
00:07:21.020 They're adamantly opposed to what he stands for, and really stands for,
00:07:24.860 because he's part of the problem in Washington.
00:07:26.400 But I think they're so turned off by the negative nature of this campaign and the ads
00:07:31.680 and the scale and what I call the gross tonnage of the ads,
00:07:35.940 that Barris said 30% of the grassroots would not vote for Cornyn.
00:07:40.100 And I agree with that.
00:07:42.560 I think if he was to pull this out and at least finish second and go into a runoff,
00:07:46.720 if Ken Paxton can't get to 50% plus one vote,
00:07:50.360 all these pundits will say, well, he's just going to put money in.
00:07:52.760 And I think it's very difficult.
00:07:54.920 You're going to see tonight with his results what I believe it's $80 or $90 million.
00:08:01.080 I saw something yesterday, $122 million already spent in this permit.
00:08:04.580 I mean, the numbers, this is from every group.
00:08:06.980 Of course, he's got Senate Leadership Fund plus all these outside groups that are all over it.
00:08:11.640 Ben Burquam joins us.
00:08:13.760 Ben, you're going to be at Ken Paxton's headquarters tonight.
00:08:17.200 So we'll see how that goes.
00:08:18.220 But you have stopped on your journey, and as only Ben Burquam could do,
00:08:22.580 you're in Plano, Texas, sir.
00:08:24.920 Correct me if I'm wrong.
00:08:26.200 Are you in front of the original Epic City?
00:08:30.180 Is that a mosque in the background?
00:08:33.980 Yeah, that's right, Steve.
00:08:35.100 This is, so some of the audience knows about Josephine, Texas,
00:08:39.120 the big controversy where they called it the Epic City.
00:08:41.720 Well, that's actually Epic City 2.
00:08:43.900 Plano, Texas is Epic City 1.
00:08:46.220 And this is part of that.
00:08:47.140 This is East Plano Islamic Center.
00:08:49.540 You can see behind me, it's 30,000 square feet.
00:08:51.640 Basically, what you do is you start coming in and taking over the community,
00:08:55.060 creating all the businesses in the background there as Islamic businesses.
00:08:58.560 And you basically create a separatist town within a town.
00:09:02.520 If you go over to the Collin County Islamic Center on the other side of town,
00:09:06.780 that thing is massive, almost 50,000 square feet.
00:09:09.880 And that's what you're talking about.
00:09:11.220 Basically, a separatist movement within America.
00:09:14.300 You see this all over happening in states across America, but in particularly in Texas.
00:09:19.020 And what starts off as benign, then becomes what you see in England and other places like in Dearborn, Michigan,
00:09:25.300 that become no-go zones.
00:09:27.100 And that's the concern.
00:09:28.320 It never starts off that way.
00:09:30.080 But once you hit about 25% of the population, that's where it always leads.
00:09:34.020 And that's what Texans have an opportunity to vote on today.
00:09:37.180 If you're a Republican and you haven't voted yet, you have to get out to the polls and vote.
00:09:42.280 Yeah, I think polls are open until 7 p.m. Central time, local time.
00:09:47.640 So you've still got a couple hours to get out and get it done.
00:09:50.860 Make sure you vote today.
00:09:52.320 If you're anywhere, if you're listening to this or watching it for the next two hours,
00:09:57.180 put us on your phone or whatever.
00:10:00.580 But most importantly, get out there and vote.
00:10:02.780 I saw analysis today.
00:10:04.340 There's over, I think, 2.5 million Muslims already in the country.
00:10:12.260 Excuse me.
00:10:12.940 There's more Muslims.
00:10:14.120 There are more than 24 states in the Union.
00:10:16.900 You've seen this from the beginning, Ben.
00:10:19.000 In fact, we sent you an assignment to Europe.
00:10:22.800 And you're saying we get to 25%.
00:10:24.340 That's when it's over.
00:10:25.320 I mean, London, I think, today is close to 20%.
00:10:27.640 Once you get to 20%, you can't turn it back.
00:10:30.120 Tell folks, you went to Europe and saw this up close and personal,
00:10:34.380 the invasion that's going on there.
00:10:36.080 What did you see?
00:10:38.520 Well, it's the cancer of woke leftism.
00:10:42.220 In communism, they call them useful idiots.
00:10:44.500 But it's the same thing here where you have jihadists masquerading as a peaceful religion
00:10:49.620 that use stupid people to invite them in as the Trojan horse, if you will.
00:10:55.320 And then they metastasize into the cancer you see in Europe.
00:10:58.720 And what I saw in England, England is gone.
00:11:01.460 France is gone.
00:11:02.260 Paris is gone.
00:11:03.360 In Paris, you have no-go zones where the cops don't even go into them.
00:11:06.460 We were there.
00:11:07.080 We were threatened.
00:11:07.640 Our lives were threatened.
00:11:08.720 In England, my life was threatened.
00:11:10.420 I went on to the university, London University.
00:11:12.720 I got threatened to get shanked in the neck by a pro-Palestinian illegal migrant that had come over.
00:11:17.460 I saw me out there just recording, asking questions, threatened to shank me in the neck.
00:11:22.200 This is what's happening every single day.
00:11:24.020 And in Europe, it's worse because you have that direct access across the Mediterranean to North Africa and the Middle East.
00:11:29.300 You have huge numbers.
00:11:30.740 I mean, what we think of as an invasion, we had a massive invasion under Joe Biden.
00:11:34.580 But what you have in Europe is almost exclusively Islamic, and that's the big difference. 0.92
00:11:41.220 You've also been on the border.
00:11:44.300 You went to Darien Gap.
00:11:46.980 You saw the different—you would be down and see the prayer rugs, all of that.
00:11:51.020 This invasion here, you know, Natalie's going to be on. 1.00
00:11:53.340 And she's written a piece on Substack of one of the dangers in this world right now.
00:11:57.720 And in Qatar, Qatar just announced that they broke up two terror rings in Qatar of Iranian terrorists.
00:12:09.020 You've seen it from the beginning.
00:12:10.380 This is part of the reason that the 25 million—you're right.
00:12:12.680 The bulk of those are not jihadists, but—
00:12:15.540 Yeah, yeah.
00:12:15.960 Got you.
00:12:16.740 Sorry, Steve.
00:12:17.580 I'm getting interrupted here real quick by some security.
00:12:20.160 Go ahead.
00:12:20.440 Keep going.
00:12:20.720 Okay, you've been—you've been—I just want to make sure you're squared away on the security, Ben.
00:12:27.800 They'll give you a look in a second.
00:12:30.160 You've been—Ben, you've seen it from the beginning of going all the way down to the Darien Gap, people coming up.
00:12:36.420 You used to see the prayer rugs, all of it.
00:12:38.900 I mean, how dangerous is it now?
00:12:40.020 Now it's actually on the ballot.
00:12:41.660 These people are getting more political power every day.
00:12:44.960 Your observations.
00:12:46.520 It's a death sentence for any nation, and all you have to do—it's so ridiculous that we even have to talk about this.
00:12:54.480 Look at every nation in—Islamic nation in North Africa, in the Middle East, anywhere that Sharia law spreads, you've got mass misery and death. 1.00
00:13:03.160 And that's even going Islam to Islam. 0.90
00:13:05.100 You've got Sharia versus Sunni. 0.99
00:13:06.640 You've got this attack you see, obviously, with Iran and their enemies in the Middle East. 0.99
00:13:12.540 It's a death sentence, and it is incompatible with Western ideology.
00:13:17.000 That's the biggest difference.
00:13:18.180 You know, you go to a place—Islam is incompatible with Islam, but it's extremely incompatible with anything else. 1.00
00:13:23.740 And that's what we're talking about.
00:13:24.880 In a nation that believes in freedom and liberty, if you even allow the seed of Islam, Sharia, into your community, it destroys—they cannot coexist. 1.00
00:13:35.540 They are oil and water.
00:13:36.940 And that's what we're talking about.
00:13:38.320 When you look—I mean, shoot, look at what we're hearing about today in Austin, Texas.
00:13:42.260 We take out the Ayatollah, the supreme leader, the Satan on earth that wants to exterminate America, and immediately you have terrorist attacks in places across America and around the world, including in Austin, Texas. 0.96
00:13:55.980 And rather than celebrating the cops that killed this jihadist, now these three cops are going to be put on trial, are going to stand in front of a grand jury because the BLM movement in America. 0.71
00:14:06.300 It's all connected.
00:14:07.580 Woke leftism is a death sentence for this nation, and it's what's invited in Sharia law to America. 0.99
00:14:13.540 Hang on one second.
00:14:14.500 I know you've got to bounce.
00:14:15.580 You've got security there, but I want you to hold through.
00:14:17.160 I want to talk about tonight's coverage.
00:14:18.760 You're going to be at Ken Paxson's headquarters.
00:14:20.920 Ben Burkwam, the best field reporter and investigative reporter ever that has specialized in the border and what happened on this invasion.
00:14:30.260 Every town a border town.
00:14:31.700 Every state a border state.
00:14:33.260 Today is election day.
00:14:34.740 In the great state of Texas.
00:14:38.220 And they were correct.
00:14:38.980 Two and a half million votes.
00:14:40.240 Two and a half million people already voted in early voting.
00:14:43.660 I think the Democrats were ahead in early voting.
00:14:47.060 People requested Democratic ballots by, I think, almost 250,000.
00:14:52.120 Big turnout for the Democrats.
00:14:53.820 Republicans, not bad, but it's like a midterm election.
00:14:57.060 They're like a presidential cycle.
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00:16:21.120 War Room.
00:16:23.040 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
00:16:27.260 Folks, you see Ben Burkwam standing there.
00:16:30.100 There are over 200 mosques in the North Texas area.
00:16:33.680 Ben's standing in front of them.
00:16:34.420 I know it's absolutely mind-blowing.
00:16:37.260 Ben, real quickly, I know you're taking off right now.
00:16:40.420 There's the mosque right in there.
00:16:41.300 You're great reporting.
00:16:42.640 We're going to have you on this show tonight.
00:16:44.020 Grant Stinchfield and myself be co-hosting the RAV War Room Stinchfield Show election coverage in Texas.
00:16:51.780 You're going to be at the Paxson headquarters.
00:16:53.540 What's your social media, sir?
00:16:54.680 At Real AM Voice on all social and my personal at Ben Burkwam, FrontlineAmerica.com,
00:17:03.240 and our foundation to support ICE and Border Patrol, FrontlineAmericaFoundation.org or FrontlineAF.org.
00:17:09.620 Ben, we'll see you on the show later tonight.
00:17:12.060 Thank you.
00:17:12.760 Let's go.
00:17:13.440 Godspeed getting down there.
00:17:16.040 Ben Burkwam, always a cutting edge.
00:17:17.480 Okay, Natalie's going to join us. 0.56
00:17:18.560 We've got a cold open about what happened in the war this afternoon.
00:17:21.120 Let's play it.
00:17:21.620 We're going to bring in Natalie G. Winters.
00:17:24.100 So why did we go to war?
00:17:25.600 Yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave yet another justification.
00:17:29.260 You just heard it, that Israel was going to attack.
00:17:31.500 So we had to attack to protect ourselves.
00:17:34.660 Today, though, the president said it was actually the other way around.
00:17:38.460 No, I might have forced their hand.
00:17:40.800 You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics,
00:17:45.960 and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first.
00:17:48.740 They were going to attack.
00:17:49.860 If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first.
00:17:53.480 I felt strongly about that.
00:17:54.920 And we have great negotiators, great people,
00:17:58.260 people that do this very successfully
00:17:59.900 and have done it all their lives very successfully.
00:18:02.680 And based on the way the negotiation was going,
00:18:05.840 I think they were going to attack first.
00:18:07.420 And I didn't want that to happen.
00:18:11.060 So if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand. 0.81
00:18:14.240 So what's the goal here?
00:18:15.220 The goal is to make sure that when this is over,
00:18:18.380 this regime cannot build ballistic missiles to hit America or terrorize the region.
00:18:22.900 That when this conflict is over,
00:18:25.440 they cannot continue to support Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, the terrorist network, 0.92
00:18:31.340 and they can never go back in the nuclear business.
00:18:34.460 One of the things that really got President Trump going the most was after Midnight Hammer,
00:18:39.980 we found that they were trying to regenerate their nuclear program.
00:18:44.360 After basically months of negotiation,
00:18:47.200 it was pretty clear that they're wedded to the capability they need to inflict terror,
00:18:52.080 that the regime's goal is always to inflict terror
00:18:56.900 and to push their religious agenda through force.
00:19:00.620 And the missile buildup is designed to give them immunity
00:19:04.200 in terms of developing their nuclear program.
00:19:06.920 If we waited much longer, they're doing 100 a month.
00:19:11.360 The idea of imminent threat to me is an odd thing.
00:19:15.540 Who wants to let a homicidal maniac be able to get to the imminent stage of hurting you?
00:19:21.600 If somebody is threatening my family, wants to rape your wife and burn down your house and kill your children,
00:19:28.040 I don't want to wait until they get to the gun store and the gas station.
00:19:31.980 Since 1979, this regime has been dedicated to chaos through their religious agenda. 0.98
00:19:38.940 In 1983, 220 Marines were killed by Hezbollah in Lebanon, 18 sailors, 100 injured.
00:19:47.380 Roadside bombs coming out of Iran has maimed and killed hundreds if not thousands of Americans. 0.98
00:19:53.200 They mean it when they say death to America.
00:19:55.500 America, I'm glad we didn't let it go further.
00:19:58.380 I'm glad we didn't let them build more missiles.
00:20:00.660 I'm glad we didn't let them regenerate after midnight hammer.
00:20:03.920 So the idea that you're going to let a homicidal maniac get to the imminent stage, to me, is misplaced.
00:20:10.300 So I've never felt better about how this ends.
00:20:13.220 It's not if they fall, it's when they fall.
00:20:16.120 It's not us alone, it's us with the region.
00:20:19.660 Europe is now getting into the game.
00:20:21.320 So I want to compliment President Trump for starting something that the world is now gravitating to.
00:20:26.860 We have breaking news into CNN.
00:20:30.160 A source in the Middle East telling CNN that the U.S. consulate in Dubai was struck and now is on fire.
00:20:36.740 CNN national security correspondent Kylie Atwood is with us, along with CNN political and national security analyst David Sanger.
00:20:42.000 Kylie, first to you, what are you learning about this news?
00:20:44.080 Yeah, so what we're learning from a source in the UAE right now on the ground is that the U.S. consulate that is in Dubai, this is more than an hour from the U.S. embassy, which is in the UAE.
00:20:56.660 It is on fire at this moment.
00:20:58.700 There are videos on social media that are coming in of this.
00:21:01.480 This was hit by a suspected drone.
00:21:03.540 This obviously comes after last night we were tracking drones that had hit the U.S. embassy in Riyadh.
00:21:11.080 So this is a very dangerous situation on the ground, of course, for, you know, all the people who are living there, but also the Americans who are at these embassies.
00:21:20.240 As I came in, I also saw the media reports about Dubai's consulate.
00:21:24.960 The last update I had with seconds before getting before these cameras was that a drone, unfortunately, struck a parking lot adjacent to the to the chancellery building and then set off a fire in that place.
00:21:36.840 All personnel are accounted for.
00:21:38.280 As you're aware, we began drawing down personnel from our diplomatic facilities in advance of this.
00:21:44.000 In the cases, for example, of Beirut, we basically drew down to bare bones as well as in Baghdad and in Erbil and in a couple other posts as well.
00:21:56.080 So we've been very fortunate, obviously, but our embassies and our diplomatic facilities are under direct attack from a terroristic regime.
00:22:03.680 With an update, I will obviously refer you to the Department of War.
00:22:06.580 Suffice it to say that our objectives remain as they've been identified from the beginning and by the president laid out clearly yesterday.
00:22:12.320 Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and we will now not allow Iran to hide behind the immunity of a massive short-term ballistic missile inventory or the ability to make them or launch them.
00:22:24.260 And so CENTCOM in a joint operations is carrying out a systematic destruction of their missile belt, destruction of their launchers and destruction of their ability to make these as well as the destruction of their Navy.
00:22:36.760 From what I've been told by the Department of War, everything is on or ahead of schedule and proceeding on these objectives.
00:22:43.220 We have every confidence in the world that these objectives will be achieved.
00:22:46.860 The last point I would make is, and I said this yesterday and I repeat, what's about to, you know, you're about to see, you know, we're going to unleash Chang on these people in the next few hours and days.
00:22:56.040 You're going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and in the intensity of these attacks as, frankly, the two most powerful air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime and defang it and take away its ability to threaten its neighbors or hide behind a zone of immunity that allows them to develop their nuclear ambitions.
00:23:13.780 This terroristic, radical, cleric-led regime cannot be ever allowed to have nuclear weapons.
00:23:22.940 We saw what they were willing to do to their own people.
00:23:25.040 They were willing to slaughter their own people in the streets. 0.98
00:23:28.440 Imagine what they would do to us.
00:23:30.240 Imagine what they would do to others.
00:23:31.820 Under President Trump, that will never, ever happen.
00:23:34.660 This regime is in its death throes.
00:23:37.960 The amount of firepower coming in the next day or two from us is going to be overwhelming.
00:23:43.780 And when you add to the mix the Arab capability, then it's going to be overwhelming. 1.00
00:23:48.740 The demise of this regime is at hand, and the goal is to make sure they can never be a threat like they were before.
00:23:54.600 Yesterday, you told us that Israel was going to strike Iran, and that's why we needed to get involved. 0.98
00:24:00.660 Today, the president said that Iran was going to get...
00:24:03.480 Yeah, your statement is false.
00:24:04.440 So that's not what I was asked very specifically.
00:24:06.400 Were you there yesterday?
00:24:07.240 Yes, I asked the question.
00:24:08.360 No, were you the one that...
00:24:09.540 Because somebody asked me a question yesterday.
00:24:10.740 Did we go in because of Israel?
00:24:12.200 And I said, you asked me, are you from the follow-up?
00:24:14.660 And I said, no.
00:24:15.740 I told you this had to happen anyway.
00:24:17.320 The president made a decision, and the decision he made was that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ballistic missile program, 0.90
00:24:23.720 that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks. 0.85
00:24:27.580 That decision had been made.
00:24:28.800 The president systematically made a decision to systematically destroy this terroristic capability that they had, and we carried that out.
00:24:35.820 I was very clear on that answer.
00:24:36.820 So this was a question of timing, of why this had to happen as a joint operation, not the question of the intent.
00:24:41.980 Once the president made a decision that negotiations were not going to work, that they were playing us on the negotiations,
00:24:47.120 and that this was a threat that was untenable, the decision was made to strike them.
00:24:51.360 That's what I said yesterday, and you guys need to play it.
00:24:53.780 And if you're going to play these statements, you need to play the whole statement, not clip it to reach a narrative that you want to do, all right?
00:24:58.540 You know, in World War II, they didn't ask, how long would it take?
00:25:02.920 They said, we're going to go to Berlin, we're going to go to Tokyo, we're going to protect our life.
00:25:08.320 See, what you've got to understand, that the regime in Iran would kill everybody in this room if they could.
00:25:13.780 It's not about Republicans or Democrats, it's about Americans.
00:25:17.880 They're religious fanatics, they want to kill all the Jews, they want to destroy Sunni Islam, they want to come after us.
00:25:23.040 So we need to have the approach to this like we did in World War II. 0.69
00:25:27.100 This is a terrible mothership of terrorism regime that's killed Americans since 1979, terrorized the region, and it's on the verge of collapse.
00:25:36.820 And I want to congratulate Donald Trump and his team for putting together the most impressive military plan I have ever seen.
00:25:45.380 What's coming in the coming days from us is going to be a lot bigger than it's been in the last couple of days.
00:25:54.160 The Arabs are in the fight now, so stay tuned. 1.00
00:25:57.020 What's coming toward the remnants of the regime is going to be overwhelming.
00:26:00.840 The liberation of Iran is at hand.
00:26:03.760 The gateway to peace is about to open.
00:26:06.240 Things that I've been working on with President Biden can now materialize.
00:26:10.120 The biggest prize in the region would be the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1.00
00:26:13.760 That will never happen as long as Iran is around. 1.00
00:26:17.140 October the 7th was designed to stop what President Biden and I were trying to do, build on the Abraham Accords.
00:26:23.040 Iran's worst nightmare is the Arabs and the Israelis make peace because they're not a peace-loving people. 0.99
00:26:28.560 It's a cult of death.
00:26:29.800 We're going to take up where we left off when this regime collapses.
00:26:32.960 And I think the biggest prize of all from taking the regime down is that those who want to make peace in the region will be able to do it without being threatened by the mothership of terrorism.
00:26:44.160 Okay, we only got 90 seconds here.
00:26:47.060 Natalie joins me.
00:26:48.220 Natalie, first off, World War II, the Japanese attacked us, declared war on us. 0.66
00:26:53.140 President Roosevelt the next day went to Congress and got a—I think everybody in the House of Representatives voted for except for one person, believe in Montana.
00:27:01.580 And the Senate voted unanimously in a declaration of war.
00:27:06.160 We didn't even declare war on Hitler that day.
00:27:09.400 Three days later, Hitler declared war on us and we're at World War II.
00:27:13.360 I hope Lady Lindsay's not arguing that.
00:27:15.760 Let me be blunt.
00:27:17.280 The people in South Carolina—Natalie—did he make a Freudian slip?
00:27:21.780 Did he say my family and your wife?
00:27:24.340 I don't want to get too snarky here.
00:27:26.320 Two scripters here in the war room.
00:27:28.720 No conspiracies, no coincidences.
00:27:33.160 Folks, in South Carolina, the fate of the republic is in your hands.
00:27:38.940 There's a primary, I think, in April or May or June sometime.
00:27:43.180 Wow.
00:27:43.600 Natalie G. Winters.
00:27:44.580 Natalie, we're going to have you break all that down.
00:27:46.380 Plus, you've got a couple of amazing investigative pieces up on Substack.
00:27:51.000 Natalie Winters, one of the things she's saying is, hey, as the Cutter guys found a couple of terror cells,
00:27:57.180 after years of having open border and an invasion, how tough does it make to secure your country?
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00:30:04.820 So, Natalie, first, I'd like to get your response.
00:30:07.200 Maybe Rubio will deal with tomorrow.
00:30:09.320 That sounds like he was trained by the Jesuits.
00:30:11.020 But Lindsey Graham and the rest of it, your thoughts and observations first on your cold
00:30:17.580 open, and then we'll get into all your amazing analysis and investigative reporting, ma'am.
00:30:23.320 I'm going to start logging on after you play the cold opens because I think I share the audience's
00:30:28.800 frustration with that one.
00:30:30.600 In particular, I think you're trying to set me off.
00:30:34.120 But look, I mean, I don't think you can come away with any other conclusion than that the
00:30:38.980 messaging is all over the place.
00:30:41.240 And look, I'm as MAGA as it gets.
00:30:43.060 We love President Trump.
00:30:44.160 But there's nothing wrong, I think, with wanting more clarity about why we're standing in a
00:30:50.240 position where I'm not saying we've already, you know, put ourselves in a forever war position.
00:30:55.040 But we're certainly, I think, on the brink.
00:30:58.040 I think history will tell us in the next coming days if we're going to look back on this week
00:31:02.620 as something that was decisive and stunningly successful or if it was the start of something
00:31:08.600 that we know all too well, which is sort of this dragged out, kinetic-style conflict.
00:31:13.660 In the Middle East, which I think we can all say in a very open and very clear way, that's
00:31:19.460 not what we voted for.
00:31:21.100 Regime change, a forever war, certainly not in the Middle East. 0.96
00:31:25.120 And I think that some of the frustration, which is totally okay to ask for more clarity,
00:31:29.940 comes from these sort of shifting goalposts, right?
00:31:32.960 First, it was the nukes.
00:31:34.320 Then it was the missiles.
00:31:36.380 Then it was the Navy.
00:31:38.080 Then it was the Ayatollah.
00:31:39.820 Then it was the entire IRGC.
00:31:41.820 And again, putting the actual kinetic efficacy aside, the actual strikes, I just think President
00:31:48.320 Trump's kind of unique ability, comparative advantage from the second he came down the
00:31:53.020 escalator was speaking directly to the American people, not to the Iranian people.
00:31:59.240 And I'm sort of struggling, I think, to understand the calculus for this.
00:32:02.920 And the other variable that I would put in there is the Chinese Communist Party is the
00:32:09.720 existential threat that the United States faces of paramount significance.
00:32:14.920 And that is a phrase, a word, not just that we hear, I think, concerningly less day by
00:32:19.160 day, at least in the existential threat framework that it should exist in.
00:32:22.500 But when you're talking about Iran and their missile buildup or whatnot, the weapons, the
00:32:27.660 ammo, all that, China plays a very large part in that, of course, the economic development
00:32:32.600 too.
00:32:33.420 And I would think that if you were making the MAGA case for wanting to go into Iran, that
00:32:38.100 China is at least something that you would hear occasionally, which is why I think with
00:32:42.240 some of the reporting that you've seen, not just from the New York Times, but even from
00:32:46.480 Secretary Rubio himself, right, all of this objection that we have to bearing the brunt,
00:32:52.720 this rejection of burden sharing, right, it's why we want NATO to pay up to 5%, it's because
00:32:57.620 the United States gets to do what the United States wants to do and is not going to be
00:33:01.400 told, certainly by countries, that we foot their defense bill, you know, what kind of
00:33:05.840 activities we're going to engage in, when and where.
00:33:09.360 And I think that perhaps that might be why some of this messaging is a little bit all over
00:33:14.600 the place, because I think the truth of it, that, you know, Israel, and I'm not saying
00:33:18.800 this in a conspiratorial way, but again, in the words of Secretary Marco Rubio, they were
00:33:23.660 going to roll and the United States got on board.
00:33:25.920 But enough of my analysis, because I think that the best way that we can sort of understand
00:33:30.580 this is by looking at the administration's own documents, right, which is the National
00:33:35.420 Defense Strategy and the National Security Strategy, which came out just a few months ago,
00:33:40.780 so post-Midnight Hammer, and, you know, the National Security Strategy.
00:33:43.880 So let's just lay it out for people, you know, you put the National Security Strategy out
00:33:47.920 first, it's about a 32-page document, it's unclassified, so the whole country can kind
00:33:52.680 of see in a general sense the framework for how you think of National Security, then the
00:33:56.420 Secretary of War is obligated a couple of months later to come out and basically put a defense
00:34:02.720 strategy that matches the National Security Strategy.
00:34:05.160 So these are official documents that, by law, the administration, every administration, whether
00:34:10.000 it's Obama, Biden, or Trump, have to put out within some sort of close period of each
00:34:15.520 other on an annual basis, correct?
00:34:18.600 Correct.
00:34:19.240 And, you know, the Trump administration hailed these documents, rightfully so, is really,
00:34:23.720 I think, you know, showing a new age era in American foreign policy, certainly through
00:34:30.100 the domestic policy lens, by focusing on the homeland.
00:34:33.920 But even if you take that macro perspective out, sure, you can turn any threat into a homeland
00:34:39.320 threat, though I don't necessarily think that the reason why Iran is a threat to the homeland
00:34:42.860 is because of, you know, hostages that were taken 22 years before I was born.
00:34:47.660 I'm not discounting that.
00:34:49.260 But if that's the primary messaging point that we've been hearing from the administration,
00:34:53.580 then we should have done something like we did, you know, sanctions and all that stuff.
00:34:56.920 But then why didn't, you know, Trump won?
00:34:58.760 Why didn't they go after Iran in a kinetic way then? 0.97
00:35:01.860 But that aside, you know, my opinions on everything, we obviously don't have all the intel reports.
00:35:06.800 I'm not pretending to be an armchair expert.
00:35:08.540 But if you read these documents, Steve, I think it leaves one more perplexed as to why,
00:35:15.060 again, not saying we're in a forever war, but why we are standing on the precipice of
00:35:19.400 one, frankly, because of the depiction that they portray Iran.
00:35:24.060 First of all, we're hearing that, you know, Iran was such a threat that they were going to 1.00
00:35:28.100 preemptively attack us and they have all these capabilities, the list goes on.
00:35:32.000 Well, the national defense strategy was quite clear, quote,
00:35:34.960 now Iran's regime is weaker and more vulnerable than it has been in decades, end quote.
00:35:41.080 The national security strategy is also very clear, saying that conflict remains the Middle
00:35:46.400 East's most troublesome dynamic, but there is today less to this problem than headlines
00:35:50.360 might lead one to believe.
00:35:51.360 Iran, the region's chief destabilizing force, has been greatly weakened by Israeli action since
00:35:56.420 October 7th, and President Trump's Operation Midnight Hammer, which significantly degraded
00:36:01.380 Iran's nuclear program, which, of course, you know, they use the word obliterated, and
00:36:05.880 other press releases.
00:36:07.180 And if you continue to read this national security strategy, it really depicts a whole different
00:36:12.160 and, frankly, better future for the Middle East, which I think is just very different from,
00:36:17.220 like I say, the precipice of another quagmire.
00:36:19.800 You read this quote, as this administration rescinds or eases restrictive energy policies and
00:36:24.340 American energy production ramps up, America's historic reason for focusing on the Middle 1.00
00:36:28.240 East will recede.
00:36:30.180 Instead, the region will increasingly become a source and destination of international
00:36:33.740 investment and in industries well beyond oil and gas, including nuclear energy, AI, and
00:36:39.120 defense technologies.
00:36:40.380 And then when you get to the regime change component of this, again, it leaves you scratching
00:36:46.060 your head.
00:36:46.480 Quote, but doing so will require dropping America's misguided experiment with hectoring
00:36:50.720 these nascent nations, especially the Gulf monarchies, into abandoning their traditions
00:36:54.580 and historic forms of government.
00:36:56.420 We should encourage and applaud reform when and where it emerges organically without trying
00:37:00.780 to impose it from without.
00:37:02.820 The key to successful relations with the Middle East is accepting the regions, its leaders,
00:37:06.700 and its nations as they are while working together on areas of common interest.
00:37:10.820 We can and must address this right ideologically and militarily without decades of fruitless nation
00:37:15.320 building wars.
00:37:16.700 And the other key point here, Steve, and that's coming from the national security strategy,
00:37:21.560 but from the national defense strategy, and this is the Iran section, is this idea, which
00:37:27.860 I think is sort of the Middle East counterpart to this idea of Europe and NATO, but is empowering
00:37:34.000 our allies and partners in the region to do what we just saw go down, that went down at the
00:37:40.620 hands of the United States.
00:37:41.740 Quote, this creates even more opportunities for us to enable individual partners to do that
00:37:45.320 to do more for their defense.
00:37:46.460 It will also enable us to foster integration between regional partners so that they can
00:37:51.680 do even more together.
00:37:53.560 Now, I'm not saying that, you know, shut the history books, we're in another forever war,
00:37:58.240 but this type of rhetoric that you're hearing described, this idea that we're not focusing
00:38:03.420 so much on the Middle East, is just very different from the rhetoric that we're hearing now that
00:38:09.260 apparently Iran is like the greatest existential threat to the United States for decades. 0.99
00:38:13.760 Hang on, hang on.
00:38:15.800 This is what, let's go back to this, because the national security strategy memo and the
00:38:21.680 national defense memo were totally coherent and actually fit in with each other perfectly.
00:38:26.900 It had about hemispheric defense, it had about the civilizational ratio.
00:38:31.260 NATO and Europe were, on the strategy memo, came on page 29 of 32.
00:38:36.220 I told the folks in Europe when I talked to them, I said, that should be a tell about where
00:38:40.700 that stands, this whole thing was, it all hung together around hemispheric defense and
00:38:47.200 gettings out, particularly wars in the Middle East.
00:38:49.220 In fact, as you remember, Natalie, I spoke at the National Conservative Conference, whatever
00:38:54.800 that was, and I said, look, the Middle East is a sideshow. 1.00
00:38:58.680 In the Israel situation, it's a sideshow to a sideshow. 0.99
00:39:01.940 It's just not, when you talk about the existential threat of the Chinese Communist Party and what
00:39:06.780 we have to do, and particularly what they've done in this hemisphere and the 25 million
00:39:10.140 invaders we've had in this country, those are existential threats.
00:39:14.580 And as Peter Schweitzer has said in his book, they're kind of inextricably linked, right?
00:39:19.320 That's the problem.
00:39:20.460 And as you document all the time, the color revolution, that is what's taking that.
00:39:26.240 This is why we're in Texas, right?
00:39:28.240 We're not here.
00:39:28.820 All of that is of a piece.
00:39:30.340 This and what we've done, particularly, and I understand that, you know, and suppose in
00:39:36.060 the next 48 hours, we're going to get a massive wave that's going to make everything clear
00:39:39.540 because now our Arab allies that are getting attacked by the Iranians and others, I think 0.98
00:39:45.340 are going to join together for a major assault, and maybe that'll make it clear.
00:39:49.460 But it kind of came out of nowhere, correct?
00:39:51.760 Because these memos that really set the policy were coherent and actually fit each other, ma'am.
00:40:00.340 Well, yeah, I'll read you the concluding line on the Middle East section.
00:40:04.620 But the days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long-term
00:40:08.720 planning and day-to-day execution are thankfully over, not because the Middle East no longer 1.00
00:40:14.840 matters, but because it is no longer the constant irritant and potential source of imminent
00:40:19.480 catastrophe that it once was.
00:40:22.840 And look, Steve, I mean, I think you hit the nail on the head, too.
00:40:26.220 I mean, another sort of thing we've heard here is, and I think this links to Texas,
00:40:30.020 right, is this idea that this is the Venezuela template.
00:40:32.720 This is some, like, new, you know, non-quasi-regime change, regime change.
00:40:37.120 Well, I'll say the elephant in the room, besides all the geographic dissimilarities between the
00:40:42.700 two countries, Iran is also a radical Islamic theocracy, a religion, an ideology that hates 0.84
00:40:49.720 the West, chants death to the West, and prides, celebrates people who kill and murder
00:40:55.500 Westerners and Americans.
00:40:56.700 So it's a little different from Venezuela starting, and that's, of course, the sleeper 1.00
00:41:00.160 cell threat that we're talking about.
00:41:02.440 But, you know, we're not anti-forever war, I think, just because of the forever qualifier
00:41:07.640 on it.
00:41:08.180 It's the war.
00:41:09.120 It's the sustained just degradement.
00:41:12.820 This idea that American people, our dollars and our best and brightest, our young men have
00:41:18.020 to be, you know, human and venture capital for this kind of foreign adventurism that it seems
00:41:22.960 like is not even being spearheaded by the United States, or junior partners to a country that
00:41:28.800 were subsidizing a lot of their defense bill for it.
00:41:32.080 Just, it's a little mind-boggling.
00:41:34.240 And I think when you compound that with two, like you said about the China threat, I mean, 0.66
00:41:38.980 you want to talk about how you actually reassert American hegemony, global hegemony?
00:41:44.080 You fix the problem that is the military-industrial complex.
00:41:47.080 You fix our missile shortages, which are years long.
00:41:50.940 You fix the FMS delays.
00:41:52.400 You fix the fact that every country that buys weapons from us, even in the Middle East, can't 0.98
00:41:56.940 even get the jets that they're buying, so they have to go buy the Chinese counterparts because,
00:42:00.800 you know, RTX, I know the new Raytheon rebrand, maybe people won't know that it's actually
00:42:05.080 Raytheon.
00:42:05.840 They're so far behind on creating any of these actual defensive or offensive capabilities that
00:42:11.180 if I were the Chinese Communist Party, frankly, I would be going around country by country
00:42:15.640 and trying to, like, spread bad intel that all these nuclear programs are popping up because
00:42:20.240 apparently you're going to get the United States to, you know, decline and destroy and decimate
00:42:25.320 their weapons and missile reserves to the tune of, even after Midnight Hammer, what we did
00:42:30.260 in Qatar was, like, upwards of 20, we only have 25 percent, I think, what was it, of the
00:42:34.800 Patriot interceptors?
00:42:36.800 I mean, it takes us at this rate, it's like three years to build any of the THAAD missile
00:42:41.840 systems.
00:42:42.640 That delay, fixing that delay would do more for securing American national security, global
00:42:49.920 hegemony and supremacy than taking out the Ayatollah.
00:42:53.160 And I know that might be a very wild statement to say, but it's absolutely true, not just from
00:43:00.260 the lens of confronting the Chinese Communist Party, but from the lens of us being able to
00:43:04.980 actually have the operational capability, durability to actually engage in conflict in a meaningful
00:43:11.300 way and not be so tapped out by the time we're done by engaging with Iran, which pales in
00:43:16.820 comparison to the threat of the Chinese Communist Party, that if they were to roll on Taiwan or
00:43:21.020 even against the United States, we wouldn't even have the option to really decide to meaningfully
00:43:25.660 engage because all of these defense primes and these military defense industrial-based
00:43:30.840 contractors are so delayed, they don't even have competition.
00:43:34.980 We should be focusing on fixing that instead of standing on the brink of another forever
00:43:40.600 war.
00:43:41.600 Amazing.
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00:43:49.960 And remember, the Korean situation is a little dicey to begin with.
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00:45:06.680 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:45:12.220 Welcome back.
00:45:13.120 Uh, Natalie, some closing thoughts here.
00:45:15.540 That was magnificent.
00:45:16.440 We'll make sure we push that out because I think that's a message people have to listen
00:45:20.700 to and take it on board, ma'am. 0.98
00:45:24.240 Well, I think the point is, obviously, there's a lot of back and forth.
00:45:28.580 I see the chat.
00:45:29.600 There are a lot of strong opinions.
00:45:32.020 But time will tell.
00:45:33.360 I've never said we're in a forever war yet.
00:45:35.900 But I don't think, I think we can all be honest.
00:45:37.900 I don't think we voted to be standing on the brink of one.
00:45:41.000 And frankly, the rhetoric that we're hearing from the administration does not give me a
00:45:44.740 lot of confidence that this doesn't have the potential to turn in to something much
00:45:49.300 worse.
00:45:49.800 We've already said we're not ruling out boots on the ground.
00:45:52.580 And I would just say, I don't think we dismantled, you know, USAID's color revolution regime 0.84
00:45:58.480 change playbook just so we could replace that with, you know, missiles instead of NGOs,
00:46:04.920 NGOs, right? 0.95
00:46:05.720 I think the point was that we're focusing here on the homeland and that we voted for
00:46:11.020 regime change here in the United States, a regime change against the kind of people that,
00:46:17.000 you know, have no remorse for sending young Americans to die in foreign battlefields, systemic
00:46:22.800 change, whether it's, you know, Maha, mass immigration.
00:46:26.140 And I would just say, if we're going to now all of a sudden be okay with taking the risk
00:46:31.220 to do things that are edgy, politically, you know, unsafe, a little untoward, a little
00:46:37.580 out there, I just wish that we would use that, I think, gusto is maybe how I would say it,
00:46:45.900 on the American people for the purposes of mass deportations, as opposed to the, you know,
00:46:52.540 freedom of foreigners. And sure, call me myopic and short-sighted. I think that that's what the 1.00
00:46:58.440 legacy media used to say when they would have meltdowns over using the phrase America first.
00:47:03.960 I think that it's, we are allowed to point out that we have not seen what we want on the mass
00:47:09.300 deportation front. And I would put a little more, maybe forever deportations is something that I
00:47:14.960 would pursue and a little less, you know, regime change abroad, all through the lens of there are
00:47:21.360 systemic problems that Doge and, you know, those similar entities, that mindset was supposed to
00:47:26.760 fix at the Pentagon, right, which was fixing these, these missile shortages, making it so we didn't
00:47:32.040 have to get involved kinetically. Like I said, it's too soon to tell. But I voted for regime change
00:47:39.140 here in the United States. I did not vote to be on the same side as Lindsey Graham or John Bolton.
00:47:45.860 Mm hmm. Natalie, your sub stacks on fire. I want to get to a couple of these pieces in the next few
00:47:51.420 days. Also, there's been a bunch of Steve Mosher, who's going to join us tomorrow, wrote a big piece
00:47:56.420 exclusive in the New York Post about about how Trump was is aiming at Iran, but his real target
00:48:04.340 is China. So I want you to break all that down. We'll get back to you. Where do people go in the 0.98
00:48:08.920 interim, ma'am? Well, I'd like to hear the word China. That may be said in the rationale that Natalie,
00:48:14.860 gwinters.substack.com. Just read it. Take a look at the NDS quotes. You'll find it interesting. And
00:48:20.440 Steve, thank you for having me. No, this is important because this, this national security
00:48:25.100 strategy of which I think we're the only show to go through in detail a couple of times and the
00:48:29.800 defense strategy was fantastic. And it was really, they should be very, very, very proud of that.
00:48:34.860 Because it hung together about hemispheric defense. Mike Lindell, there's already been some
00:48:41.480 issues on voting throughout Texas. I don't know how big these are, but one of the reasons
00:48:46.280 the MAGA base does not come out for early voting, although the numbers here for a midterm election
00:48:53.640 were up. It's just the Democrats put a presidential year numbers. There's been some issues. We'll talk
00:48:59.640 about those in Worm, Texas throughout the night. Worm, Texas is going to be next. Then at eight
00:49:05.940 o'clock Eastern time, when the polls close in Texas at seven o'clock, Grant Stinchfield and myself will
00:49:13.540 pick up coverage. We'll take it to the evening till we know how this thing plays out. Mike Lindell,
00:49:19.100 you're running for governor now. Your first, your first thing you're going to do as governor of
00:49:22.920 Minnesota is ban Sharia law. But talk to me, give me a minute about election systems, everything 0.99
00:49:27.540 you've done, all the years of your life that you've dedicated. Of course, your guy, Kurt Olson's in the
00:49:32.560 White House. Give me a minute on that before we talk about deals. You know, in five years,
00:49:37.200 everybody, I put in upwards of $80 million now, everything I had in the light, my life savings
00:49:42.380 into securing our election platforms, i.e. getting the paper ballots, hand counting. I built the
00:49:49.140 election crime bureau, which you can check out at lindellplan.com. We built the cause of America,
00:49:54.500 over 300,000 people strong in all 50 states. In the second year, in the year 2020, late 2021,
00:50:02.260 and early 2022, I flew around this country, put on 750 hours on an airplane by myself,
00:50:08.800 wearing out the pilots, meeting with secretary of state, attorney generals, everyone to get to what
00:50:14.460 other countries have. 132 countries have banned electronic voting machines, and over 100 countries
00:50:21.420 have banned early voting and mail-in voting. We have the worst election platforms in the world.
00:50:27.060 So I've been fighting for this. This is why I've been attacked relentlessly. And this is breaking
00:50:33.340 news, you guys. I just got this from my attorney. It says, Mike, I just learned that Keith Ellison's
00:50:39.440 political targeting of your charities is preventing charitable brokers, donation brokers, from allowing
00:50:46.140 donations to the Lindell Recovery Network. Steve, it doesn't end. They keep attacking me because
00:50:51.780 they know I want to secure our elections and get to paper ballots, hand counted. And I'm not going to
00:50:57.700 stop. And I'm running for governor, you guys, of Minnesota. They say, well, Mike doesn't, he carries
00:51:03.080 too much baggage. That baggage is the receipts. I know where things are, the corruption in Minnesota,
00:51:08.560 and starts with the elections there and all over this country. So, Steve, that's one of the,
00:51:14.100 it's the tip of the spear there, too, with that. So, everybody, if you guys can help my campaign there,
00:51:20.500 it's going to help the country. That's MikeLindellGov.com, MikeLindellGov.com. Also, if you want to check out
00:51:28.260 the LindellRecoveryNetwork.org, that's a C3. This is what Keith Ellison is attacking. And you guys can
00:51:35.960 help out there. I need to fight this guy off. He wants to shut it down because I'm a conservative
00:51:40.640 Christian and running for governor. I believe it's a combination of all three now, Steve. But I will tell
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