Bannon's War Room - Episode 5230： The Enemy Is Within The Gates

00:00:00.000 How many days before we invaded Iran, did you know we were going to launch an invasion?

00:00:07.020 We can get into those details in a classified setting, but I work with my colleagues across the spectrum here to give me advanced warnings so that we can reinforce.

00:00:14.300 Was it two days, three days, a month?

00:00:16.560 It was sometime before that, sir.

00:00:18.400 Sometime before that.

00:00:19.180 With that knowledge, why did you fire at least a dozen agents in Counterintelligence Unit 12 that specializes in Iran counterintelligence, which makes us much less secure and safe with this war going on from Iranian attacks potentially against our country?

00:00:37.040 As I said earlier, Congressman, I don't work on timelines when these terminations occur.

00:00:40.700 There are internal investigations conducted by the careers at the FBI that highlight unethical or inappropriate conduct, and it's up to me to make the decision.

00:00:48.240 But our Iran Threats Mission Center has never been more resourced, as I've highlighted, a 43% increase in counterespionage arrests from Iran alone and 360 ongoing terrorism investigations with Iran-affiliated individuals.

00:00:59.520 And the people you fired, those 12 people, they were experts on Iran, were they not?

00:01:03.480 I don't believe so.

00:01:05.240 They worked in counterintelligence, are they not?

00:01:08.140 I'm taking you at your word, sir. I'm not familiar with every single word.

00:01:09.880 You're the chief director. I'm not. You should know the answer. You fired the people. Where did they work?

00:01:16.120 People were terminated for violating their ethical obligations and the high standards.

00:01:20.300 Was the ethical violations that they dealt with the case of the classified documents that were found at the bathroom in Mar-a-Lago, was that the ethical issue?

00:01:30.140 As I said earlier, all those matters are pending litigation, so I'm not going to comment on them.

00:01:34.040 Of course, no, Japan and the U.S. are very good friends.

00:01:38.680 But one question, why didn't you tell U.S. allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran?

00:01:48.680 So we are very confused about Japanese.

00:01:52.240 Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much.

00:01:55.120 You know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.

00:02:02.180 Who knows better about surprise than Japan?

00:02:05.700 Okay, why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?

00:02:08.920 Okay, right?

00:02:12.020 He's asking me, you believe in surprise, I think, much more so than us.

00:02:18.220 And we had a surprise, and we did.

00:02:21.540 And because of that surprise, we knocked out, the first two days, we probably knocked out 50% of what we, and much more than we anticipated doing.

00:02:30.400 So if I go and tell everybody about it, there's no longer a surprise.

00:02:34.620 Have you talked to Prime Minister Meneniaf about attacking the oil and gas fields?

00:02:38.760 Yeah, I did. I did. I told him, don't do that. And he won't do that. We didn't discuss.

00:02:43.780 You know, we do. We're independent. We get along great. It's coordinated.

00:02:49.680 But on occasion, he'll do something. And if I don't like it. And so we're not doing that anymore.

00:02:54.860 I think that what has to be done is to have alternative routes instead of going through the choke points of the Hormuz Straits and the Bab el-Mandeb Straits in order to have the flow of oil, just have oil pipelines, gas pipelines going west through the Arabian Peninsula, right up to Israel, right up to our Mediterranean ports.

00:03:22.280 and you've just done away with the choke points for forever.

00:03:26.240 That is definitely possible.

00:03:28.240 I see that as a real change that will follow this war.

00:03:36.320 But I also see this war ending a lot faster than people think.

00:03:40.700 And the fact that we're working together, America is not fighting for Israel.

00:03:45.280 America is fighting with Israel.

00:03:47.580 I can tell you that we're working to create the conditions for it to collapse.

00:03:52.280 But it may survive, it may not.

00:03:55.620 If it survives, it'll be a lot weaker.

00:03:58.200 There's no comparison.

00:03:59.200 It'll be at its weakest point,

00:04:01.180 shorn of industries that it built over decades,

00:04:04.620 death industries,

00:04:05.740 shorn of many other capabilities that they have,

00:04:08.860 and equipped with the experience, with the knowledge,

00:04:12.320 that if they try it again, they'll be hit again even harder.

00:04:15.480 Did IC brief the president on who would succeed the Supreme Leader

00:04:18.200 if he was killed,

00:04:19.240 and the likelihood that a replacement would be a hardliner?

00:04:22.280 Did the IC brief the president on who would succeed the Supreme Leader if he was killed

00:04:28.880 and the likelihood that a replacement would be a hardliner or could be a hardliner?

00:04:33.800 So to be clear, the president's objectives with respect to Operation Epic Fury did not

00:04:39.740 include regime change.

00:04:41.040 That may be different from what Israel's objectives were, but you can, but yes, the

00:04:45.680 president was briefed in the event that Supreme Leader.

00:04:49.200 That's great.

00:04:49.700 Thank you so much.

00:04:50.480 I'm sorry to cut you off.

00:04:51.280 I just have 20 seconds.

00:04:52.280 Fact number one, Israel acted alone against the Slavia gas compound.

00:04:58.140 Fact number two, President Trump asked us to hold off on future attacks, and we're holding out.

00:05:04.220 Prime Minister, given the escalation of attacks on U.S. allies across the Gulf,

00:05:08.920 given the spiraling energy costs, the high costs in general that the U.S. service personnel killed in this war,

00:05:15.780 many Americans are asking that question, whether you misled their government into starting this war

00:05:21.940 And for how long should Americans keep paying the price?

00:05:25.920 Well, I misled no one.

00:05:27.540 And I didn't have to convince President Trump about the need to prevent Iran from developing its nuclear program,

00:05:34.960 putting it underground and being able to launch nuclear-tipped missiles at the United States.

00:05:40.400 He understood that.

00:05:41.740 He explained it to me.

00:05:42.760 I didn't explain it to him.

00:05:44.660 And I think that our partnership is the only way to avoid this catastrophic development.

00:05:51.200 Whether you would or could continue the war without...

00:05:54.380 Just one question, Jeremy. Thank you.

00:05:56.200 Could you, without the United States, without the refueling capabilities, for example?

00:05:59.340 We're going to close. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister.

00:06:02.460 You exhausted your questions.

00:06:03.480 Thank you, everyone, for your questions today.

00:06:07.180 War, he said that they were weeks away.

00:06:11.260 I just want to kind of get a sense of, were they weeks away of achieving a nuclear weapon? Yes or no?

00:06:19.420 Congressman, this is a serious matter, and you've made some very serious mischaracterizations

00:06:25.920 here.

00:06:26.920 Yes or no?

00:06:27.920 Were they weeks away?

00:06:28.920 Yes or no?

00:06:29.920 And so it would be a disservice to you and the American people to answer this question

00:06:30.920 with Amir, yes or no?

00:06:31.920 Reclaiming my time.

00:06:32.920 Reclaiming my time.

00:06:33.920 Were they weeks away or not?

00:06:35.320 The American people need to know if this was an imminent threat or not.

00:06:38.980 If they're weeks away or not.

00:06:41.180 If they're months away or not.

00:06:43.100 None of this dodging.

00:06:45.040 Were they an imminent threat?

00:06:49.420 Thursday, 19 March, year of our Lord, 2026.

00:06:52.440 On the Senate, there are, I guess, debating.

00:06:56.800 Moving forward with the Save America Act,

00:06:58.960 we've got Senator Tuberville here.

00:07:00.620 Tons of action in the war.

00:07:02.620 Another night of heaviest bombing.

00:07:04.980 Going to be another one tonight, we are told.

00:07:07.480 But this thing's broadening out now.

00:07:09.760 Qatar has put people on notice.

00:07:11.520 They may call for force majeure for up to five-year contracts

00:07:17.300 on delivery of gas to, um, to the Middle East. We'll get into all that. Senator Tuberville

00:07:22.780 has joined us and Senator Tuberville, before I get to the SAVE Act and before I get to the war,

00:07:27.640 because we always want your ideas and opinions about kinetic activity and kind of the strategy.

00:07:35.840 I want to go back. You put out a, uh, I think a tweet where you said controversial people's

00:07:41.220 heads blew up about the enemies inside the gate. You had a picture, if we can put that up, you had

00:07:45.780 a picture of the twin towers which you almost never see uh anymore 25 years after it on fire

00:07:51.720 being attacked and then mandami in city hall under a portrait of general washington on a you know on

00:07:58.460 the prayer rugs uh having a staff meeting we're fighting a major war now in the middle east uh

00:08:05.620 about topics related to radical islamic theology we're down in texas we've been in texas and other

00:08:12.600 places in the west working on this situation with the muslim invasion of the united states of

00:08:16.920 america when you say the enemy's inside the gate what do you mean by that well we're at war here

00:08:22.640 now steve they're here we've got over five million muslims here that go by sharia law us worship the

00:08:30.420 quran we all like immigrants we're all immigrants to some form or fashion and i've got some muslim

00:08:37.240 friends but they don't study and teach uh the sharia law they don't go by the koran

00:08:44.280 they go by something else they're here to make our country better but we have got

00:08:48.920 millions that are here that are here to take our country down and somebody better start speaking up

00:08:55.640 i was today speaking with some people from europe that were in my office and they say it's over

00:09:02.760 and they're going to have to fight in the streets and you and I have talked about that to get their

00:09:08.060 country back we don't want to have to do that here so it's time to speak up call it like it is

00:09:13.300 and we got a lot of problems and my dummy is the enemy he is a guy that is going to destroy New

00:09:19.980 York ever which way he can and you know it's just it's just unfortunate we're at this point but

00:09:26.060 we've got to start speaking up and talking about it if we don't we're going to end up just like

00:09:30.080 europe and 10 years from now we're going to be fighting in the streets trying to get this country

00:09:34.460 back senator you've been one of the strongest uh allies proponents of president trump and his

00:09:43.060 policies and particularly this issue about closing the border and then figuring out and going through

00:09:48.400 this deportation effort the the principal topic besides closing the board of president trump one

00:09:53.680 of 2024 mark wayne mullins was before the senate yesterday on dhs and said hey his policy is going

00:09:59.420 to be judicial warrants uh and to go into any business or any home where they're not actually

00:10:05.160 in the full pursuit of a bad guy a bad hombre uh how does that link back to your hey we're at war

00:10:12.180 here we and now we got 20 or 25 million illegals just on biden's watch which was done on purpose

00:10:17.220 this whole shutdown of dhs the whole problem we got with the budget the whole uh polarization in

00:10:23.220 the imperial capital is about this at the same time that and you've been one of the biggest

00:10:28.560 deficit hawks, the Pentagon Department of War, Pete Hex, that's who we're a big supporter of

00:10:32.880 Pete and love Pete, sends over a $200 billion bill for Tommy Tuberville and other people's

00:10:38.480 to suck on.

00:10:39.780 Is somehow this thing like not focused on what we should be focused on?

00:10:45.900 Well, Steve, there's so many things out there that makes everybody's head spin up here.

00:10:51.180 I mean, we're talking about, we've got these goofballs on the Democrat side that they can't

00:10:56.020 do simple things like fund the government.

00:10:57.840 They can't fund DHS or FEMA or the Coast Guard.

00:11:02.360 It's just absolutely amazing.

00:11:03.940 We should get all these block and tackling things out of the way, the fundamentals, and really work on the problems in this country, which is enemy with inside the gate, the wars we're having in Iran, the terrorism, the things that are going on there.

00:11:18.700 But it's hard to do that up here.

00:11:20.580 And now, you know, I was with the president all day yesterday.

00:11:23.040 I went to Delaware.

00:11:23.660 We had a kid that was in that crash of the 135 over in Iraq, and so they brought the bodies home.

00:11:32.440 Yesterday I went with him, and we talked a lot, but Pete Heska was there.

00:11:36.280 General Cain, first time I'd really been able to sit down other than classify, I didn't just talk to him.

00:11:41.400 And, you know, they feel good about everything going on.

00:11:44.160 I'm just glad that people like the Secretary of War and General Cain can get away from this nonsense that the Democrats are putting us through.

00:11:53.480 and focus on their job.

00:11:55.580 And that's been awesome, I think,

00:11:57.300 that they actually can focus on whether it's Venezuela, Cuba, or Iran,

00:12:02.700 and they're doing a great job.

00:12:04.080 And they got to just listen to their plan.

00:12:06.000 They have a hell of a plan.

00:12:08.160 And it's a total changeover than what we had during Joe Biden.

00:12:13.420 I mean, these people actually have been planning for months,

00:12:16.580 doing things and making tremendous progress.

00:12:18.960 So, again, I don't I don't up here. We don't get a lot done.

00:12:24.600 We talk a lot and we speak loud. We bark loud.

00:12:27.660 But we don't do a lot for the American people, unfortunately.

00:12:32.320 One thing you guys could do is the Save America Act.

00:12:35.220 Are you confident? Where do we stand?

00:12:36.920 We're going to cut that. We're staying here live till seven a night like we've done every night this week to cut into live coverage of what's happening on the floor.

00:12:43.900 Give us your assessment of where we are.

00:12:46.660 A lot of talk, no action.

00:12:50.120 We'll have a couple amendments.

00:12:51.580 I have an amendment that we'll vote on Saturday.

00:12:54.000 We'll be here Saturday, Sunday.

00:12:55.400 We're not going to go home until we get all this matter put to bed, so to speak.

00:13:00.280 My amendment is, as President Trump wanted, was this is the fourth time I put it on the floor.

00:13:05.860 No men and women's sports.

00:13:07.420 Should never have been a problem to begin with.

00:13:09.940 But obviously, as I will tell the Democrats when I'm talking about this before we vote, this helped beat you last time.

00:13:16.520 Keep voting against it because we'll beat you with it again if you think men should play in women's sports.

00:13:21.680 But the thing about this whole weekend is we don't have the votes, Steve.

00:13:25.500 We don't have the votes even on the Republican side.

00:13:27.800 We couldn't get a 51 vote if we needed to.

00:13:31.100 We'll be three or four votes short.

00:13:33.280 And then if you needed 60 votes, if you're counting on the Democrats to vote for anything for the American people to make this country better, you're living a dream.

00:13:45.820 I tell you what, Senator, I know you're busy.

00:13:47.940 I just want to hold you through a quick commercial break because I do have some questions on Save America Act because people this this audience will be here through the weekend as we do wall to wall coverage on this and to make sure that that people can understand it.

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00:16:22.820 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:16:27.720 Okay, welcome back.

00:16:28.680 We're going to be on the Senate floor, maybe for some of this hour, definitely for the 6 o'clock hour as this debate goes on on the Save America Act.

00:16:37.720 Senator Tuberville, you said on Saturday you're going to get a chance to put your amendment up.

00:16:42.580 That President Trump once added to this about men and women's sports.

00:16:46.800 And then you said Sunday again.

00:16:48.000 We're going to be covering it just to give our audience head up.

00:16:50.200 we now do a Sunday show, so we'll be covering all this. Is this when we finally flip to

00:16:57.160 seize the floor and go to some sort of talking filibuster? I mean, you kind of shocked the

00:17:02.980 audience by saying, hey, guys, pay attention. We don't have 51 votes. The Democrats turned to us

00:17:08.100 right now and said, OK, no filibuster, go and vote. You're saying we don't have 51 right now

00:17:12.760 on the Republican side to carry this, sir?

00:17:16.660 Yeah, if we had a straight vote today

00:17:19.360 and the Democrats said,

00:17:23.600 see if you can get a simple majority,

00:17:25.120 we'll let you try that.

00:17:26.520 We don't have the votes.

00:17:28.420 We got four or five people

00:17:29.660 that's not gonna vote for it.

00:17:31.240 And they don't believe in federalizing elections.

00:17:34.400 And as I say, this is a different world.

00:17:37.460 I mean, we got 15 states in this country

00:17:39.300 that they're absolutely gonna allow illegals to vote.

00:17:42.760 And there's no way an American Republican can ever win in that state again.

00:17:47.200 I don't care if it's a school board meeting or the president of the United States, you can't win.

00:17:51.640 And so we cannot allow non-citizens to vote.

00:17:55.560 And people in Alabama, Steve, biggest thing to me, they come to me and say,

00:17:59.060 Coach, is my vote going to be canceled by an illegal?

00:18:02.180 Is that what's going to happen?

00:18:03.340 Are y'all not going to change something?

00:18:05.280 And a lot of my colleagues, you know, they can't understand it.

00:18:09.820 They want to stay with tradition, and it's going to get us.

00:18:16.020 Do you believe as we work through this late on Sunday afternoon or Monday

00:18:20.260 that you think this just kind of works itself out?

00:18:23.980 I mean, it just peters out, it fizzles out,

00:18:26.000 and there will be no forcing what they call seize the floor

00:18:29.040 to try to force a standing filibuster?

00:18:33.120 Well, I'd like to try it.

00:18:35.300 Yeah, I'd like to try anything.

00:18:37.180 Mike Lee has been adamant.

00:18:38.960 He said, let's take the floor.

00:18:40.540 Let's make them stay here.

00:18:42.420 Let's make them debate, you know, day in and day out.

00:18:46.580 And if that's what it takes, I think that would be our only chance

00:18:49.120 where we could just wear them down.

00:18:50.920 Now, again, we've got to start with our Republican colleagues the same way.

00:18:54.440 We've got to get some of them on our side before we even can start,

00:18:58.400 you know, with any Democrats at all.

00:19:02.080 And, of course, Chuck Schumer has gotten them all, you know,

00:19:04.640 standing in line and saying you're not going to get any campaign money if you vote for this.

00:19:10.680 I mean, it's a scheme that the Democrats have going.

00:19:14.060 It's just unfortunate.

00:19:17.180 Senator, I think it was in 2024 you went over for the first time to the commemoration of the Normandy landings.

00:19:24.380 I believe your father was a tank commander.

00:19:26.860 I think he was there D-Day plus a couple of days and then was with Patton and the other armies that went across Europe.

00:19:32.780 But that experience you had to go back for the first time and see actually the scale of what your father and others had accomplished,

00:19:39.920 how is that informing your view now about what is going on and what are we asking of young men and women in Iran?

00:19:49.480 Well, it's mind-boggling.

00:19:51.300 Of course, you've been to Normandy.

00:19:53.280 You've seen Utah Beach, which is not near as an incline as the other beaches.

00:19:59.880 And that's the reason my dad was a tank driver and they came in on the Utah beach because they could make it up the slopes.

00:20:06.140 But, you know, we lost what, 50,000 young men and women during that couple, two or three, three day battle.

00:20:14.540 Just it just brings tears to your eyes.

00:20:16.900 It really does.

00:20:17.540 And, you know, that's the reason I really dread anything if we get into any ground war, because I think we can handle what we need to handle with what we're doing right now.

00:20:28.540 And President Trump believes that, too.

00:20:30.080 He doesn't he doesn't want any form or fashion of boots on the ground.

00:20:33.880 But at the end of the day, you know, we all got to be in on whatever it takes to put these people back in their place because they are as dangerous right now as the Nazis were back in 1940s.

00:20:47.100 You stay pretty close to the folks in Alabama.

00:20:50.560 In fact, you're you're leaving the Senate to run for governor.

00:20:53.060 What is your constituents right now?

00:20:55.220 Take their temperature.

00:20:56.800 Where do they stand on this war?

00:20:57.980 yeah they're they're pretty good i mean you you hear some talk uh you know about you know why

00:21:04.900 why are we doing this because most people aren't really informed they don't understand all the

00:21:08.240 attacks that we've had this is accumulation as you well know steve of many many years of

00:21:12.860 of all the different uh terrorist groups around the world that are funded by iran and in china

00:21:19.420 and some of these people behind the scenes and we've got to cut the head of the snake and you're

00:21:23.920 in my lifetime, this will be the only chance we have to do that. A lot of people saying it's

00:21:27.940 because of Israel. It's probably some about Israel, but it's more about peace in the world

00:21:33.640 because President Trump started in the Western Hemisphere with Venezuela. Obviously, Cuba is

00:21:39.140 working on Mexico. But what's going on in Iran, these people are absolutely looney tunes.

00:21:48.040 And if they ever got a nuclear weapon, whether they were working on one or got close to one,

00:21:53.320 I don't care. I just want to make sure. And the people of this country and the world need to make

00:21:58.420 sure that these crazies do not have any kind of access to a dirty bomb or a nuclear weapon. If

00:22:05.340 they do, they will damn sure use it. I mean, they're not like North Koreans. They're not

00:22:10.320 like the Russians. They are crazy because they love death and they preach death to America every

00:22:16.520 day. Senator Tuberville, where do people follow you, your campaign for governor and where they

00:22:23.060 follow your social media. It always comes in a little hot, telling folks what's going on in the

00:22:27.980 U.S. Senate. At Senator Tuberville, and then at Coach for Gov, Steve. Thank you very much.

00:22:36.180 We'll follow you through the weekend and maybe reach out, so good luck.

00:22:39.480 Yeah, reach out. We'll be here. We'll be here twilling her thumb, Steve.

00:22:46.000 Thank you, sir. Always appreciate your straightforwardness and honesty.

00:22:49.400 natalie winters we started with coach uh tuberville talking about he put up a uh a tweet

00:22:57.580 the other day about the enemies inside the gate right about he had the twin towers and he had

00:23:02.680 mandami on a prayer rug in front of i think the portrait of george washington uh at the new york

00:23:08.500 city hall wasn't it wasn't gracie mansion city hall uh you've had some people come after you

00:23:13.680 pretty hard recently about some of the positions some of the analysis because you're not a pundit

00:23:18.920 some of the analyses you've been doing on exactly the situation in the United States of America with

00:23:23.260 illegal aliens and legal immigration, ma'am. Am I correct in that assumption?

00:23:29.200 Well, they've been coming after you, too. So I guess we'll both take the arrows. But look,

00:23:34.440 I think you can really connect all of this, right? Whether it's this idea that we have to combat

00:23:39.560 Islamophobia, that seems to be the new woke obsession by just pointing out, I don't know,

00:23:44.380 the simple fact that Islam is not a religion of peace. And even if it were, it's antithetical to

00:23:49.540 Western values. But you compound that with, I'm sure we'll play the clip of the way the legacy

00:23:54.200 media is already churning the propaganda machine, trying to make Americans feel sympathetic for,

00:23:59.580 you know, Afghan refugees who are now caught up in the Iran war, who now need to suddenly come

00:24:04.380 to the United States, because I'm sure an Afghan soldier never lied once to get refugee or

00:24:11.400 citizenship status here in the United States in the asylum process. And then you link it,

00:24:17.220 I think, to what's going on in Iran, the lively discussions that the MAGA movement is having

00:24:21.860 about what it means to use American state power and battlefields abroad. And I love Senator

00:24:27.780 Tuberville, but I would respectfully say that I think it does matter the calculus of why we went

00:24:34.440 into Iran if it is somewhat, even just somewhat related to Israel's actions. I think that that's

00:24:41.320 something that merits further discussion and a question into, not because I'm conspiratorially

00:24:47.720 anti-Israel, but because America first means America first. And I think that that chain of

00:24:52.840 command, that order of decision making is something that merits more analysis. And frankly, I do care

00:24:58.700 whether it's, you know, Iran had a bomb or was really close to a bomb or they were, was it going

00:25:03.020 to be a dirty bomb? Now all of a sudden it's not a nuclear bomb. You know, I think there's a lot

00:25:07.520 of questions that people are allowed to ask. And it's kind of an interesting pushback when you just

00:25:12.460 want more clarity. But I think the H-1B visa issue, which is what will also play a clip on a

00:25:18.880 rather funny segment from a pretty awful comedian trying to suggest that MAGA should support H-1B

00:25:25.820 visas and attacking this show is leading the kind of fight to say that actually H-1Bs, it's really

00:25:31.300 not even immigration policy, it's shareholder policy to help boost the bottom line of companies

00:25:36.900 that hate this country unless, I guess, they can quadruple the contracts from the Pentagon

00:25:42.260 in light of a new war.

00:25:44.760 But all of this stuff flows together.

00:25:46.920 And obviously, our audience stays frosty.

00:25:49.220 They see through it.

00:25:50.580 But there's a lot of, I think, propaganda right now between the Islam stuff, the refugee

00:25:56.020 appeal to all the emotions.

00:25:59.860 Obviously, this audience isn't going to fall for it.

00:26:02.260 But very valid questions, I think, about America's role in the world.

00:26:04.920 And I will say interesting polling coming out today about how more allies want to rely on China than the United States.

00:26:12.060 I want to I want to play. I'm going to wait to after the break to play on.

00:26:15.300 I was going to play one of them here, but I want to hold for it.

00:26:18.020 You born very early in this when I say very early, early.

00:26:20.960 And I think we're coming up on the third week of it that you can't discount the refugee replacement and how this could be a total fiasco.

00:26:29.420 Do you feel, as someone that does investigative reporting states on top of this, do you feel, given the scale of what this war could have, you've got the situation with the potentially canceling of five-year gas contracts, you've got the situation with refugees, now they're talking about, I think Bibi today at his press conference talked about potential ground troops.

00:26:52.180 do you think the information's coming out enough that people can make judgments and the war and

00:26:58.000 posse can sit there and weigh and measure we got about a minute can weigh and measure exactly what's

00:27:02.620 going to see if they were answered asked by a pollster that they would actually have enough

00:27:06.660 information to answer um definitely not i mean i think if you just single out the refugee issue

00:27:12.700 the only agency that i've seen even giving us numbers is the united nations very very rarely

00:27:18.520 do i uncritically or unironically quote the united nations but unfortunately they're the only people

00:27:23.720 on the ground even doing the analysis and even the numbers that they're putting forward

00:27:27.560 are to the tune of millions of people even hundreds of thousands and you know the small

00:27:31.960 country of lebanon alone and i think the point is the reason why there's such an opposition to

00:27:36.340 forever wars i'm aware this is not a forever war it's been a few weeks but it's the second third

00:27:40.660 and fourth order effects of getting involved in you know muslim majority regions they fight to

00:27:46.560 the death. They hate this country. That also means you can't have unconditional surrender

00:27:50.500 from an Islamic country, let alone with the evolution in drone warfare. But from a crazy

00:27:55.680 radicalized Muslim state, we're going to be dealing with these sleeper cells and refugee

00:27:59.560 replacement for decades to come. Hang on for a second, Natalie. We're going to take a short

00:28:05.620 commercial break. We've got some clips. We're going to have some observations and some analysis

00:28:10.840 of all of it. You're in the war room on a Thursday afternoon. Short break.

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00:31:12.540 Ramadan draws to a close. Muslims around the world reaffirm values that also form the

00:31:20.160 foundation of the UN Charter. Empathy for the vulnerable, generosity towards neighbors,

00:31:26.300 and the responsibility towards the wider community.

00:31:31.340 These universal principles must guide our global response to hatred and division.

00:31:37.160 On this International Day to Combat Islamophobia,

00:31:41.700 let us recommit to the equality, human rights and dignity of every person, everywhere.

00:31:48.840 Let us reject the narratives of fear and exclusion.

00:31:51.920 And let us work together to eradicate the rising tide of anti-Muslim hatred and bigotry and build a world rooted in respect, inclusion, justice and peace.

00:32:08.180 Natalie Winters, your observations, ma'am.

00:32:12.480 so that's the leader of united nations speaking on the i guess international day to combat

00:32:19.920 islamophobia which in of itself is an oxymoron i think is a totally justified fear it's not a

00:32:25.960 phobia but i think you're seeing a sort of resurgence of what are very 2016 era talking

00:32:31.320 points sort of in response frankly to what this audience has been doing which is calling out the

00:32:35.720 threat of sharia supremacy the metastasization of islam through this country so to sort of quell

00:32:42.100 or suppress that discourse, what do they do, right?

00:32:44.840 It's the Ad Hominments Act.

00:32:46.080 They say you're Islamophobic.

00:32:48.060 And I think that that's actually really quite a dangerous development

00:32:51.840 when you look at the national security implications,

00:32:54.520 particularly when it comes to things like, you know,

00:32:56.480 oh, it's racial profiling, right?

00:32:57.980 All these euphemistic, or I guess the opposite, the inverse of that terms,

00:33:01.160 to describe what is just protecting the national security of the United States.

00:33:05.080 I think we can spare a little bit of diversity to make sure that,

00:33:07.740 you know, young American children aren't blown up in the name of Allah.

00:33:11.540 But it's quite interesting when you look at what the UN is doing, which I think you can

00:33:15.720 always sort of look to them as a figurehead for what the globalists are seeking to do

00:33:19.200 in all of these countries.

00:33:20.740 They are launching or getting ready to launch a new UN action plan to combat Islamophobia.

00:33:25.700 And one of their special envoy was talking about what exactly that would entail.

00:33:30.260 And even for the UN, it's pretty radical, including but not limited to what they describe

00:33:35.720 as addressing the, quote, root causes of hatred and using, quote, education of the

00:33:40.280 schools, media, and full public, also using legislative issues, legislation, to try to,

00:33:46.900 I don't know, root out not just Islamophobia, but the attitude of Islamophobia, which when you

00:33:53.060 really unpack that, that's pretty wild. They're already talking and in talks with the tech

00:33:57.960 platform, civil society, to sort of put out this censorship regime to, again, suppress Islamophobic

00:34:04.340 content, which we've all seen, you can't even really define that. That's basically anything

00:34:08.840 that's not like let's open our borders to a bunch of third world invaders and watch the United States

00:34:13.460 turn into an Islamic country. But they even talk about how they can monitor better the rise of

00:34:19.080 Islamophobia by using, quote, databases to follow up with more concrete steps. So I think this

00:34:25.660 happening congruently with what's going on in the Middle East, when you could potentially see a huge

00:34:30.320 refugee wave incoming, you're already going to start seeing the argument that, you know,

00:34:34.820 It's Islamophobic to not let in the millions of refugees from Muslim-majority countries.

00:34:42.340 Yeah, you're going to see it.

00:34:43.640 You nailed it.

00:34:44.240 You're going to see this.

00:34:45.540 This is a longer clip, H-1B visas.

00:34:47.920 I want the audience to focus on this, and Natalie and I will be on the other side.

00:34:53.800 Now, the Republican battle over H-1Bs has two sides.

00:34:56.180 On one side is the corporate tech MAGA, the ones who all lined up at Trump's inauguration

00:35:01.500 and funneled money into his slush fund.

00:35:03.940 They argue that H-1B visas are critical to allow them to hire the kind of top-tier talent

00:35:09.440 that they need to make sure America remains a world leader in innovation.

00:35:14.860 They have a strong case.

00:35:16.060 Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.

00:35:21.340 And a recent report found that over half of U.S. startups valued at a billion dollars or more

00:35:25.080 had at least one immigrant founder.

00:35:28.240 Now, on the other side are the opponents to the H-1B, the nativist wing of MAGA.

00:35:33.020 Now, when most people think of this group, they think of Steve Bannon,

00:35:35.840 the guy who did for all of canvas jackets what Hillary Clinton did for the pantsuit.

00:35:40.400 Bannon has been on one about H-1Bs for a long time.

00:35:44.400 The H-1B visa program is a total and complete scam from its top to the bottom.

00:35:51.920 The H-1Bs is a total and complete scam.

00:35:54.220 This is all about paying one group a third of what you pay the other group with no benefits

00:36:00.240 and they live in 10 to a condo in Silicon Valley.

00:36:04.080 Now, since Kirk's death,

00:36:05.040 there has been no shortage of young, ambitious H-1B haters

00:36:07.920 auditioning to take his place.

00:36:09.760 But I want to focus on a few very promising young upstarts.

00:36:13.960 First, we have Natalie Winters,

00:36:16.420 the 24-year-old protege of Steve Bannon

00:36:18.400 and the White House correspondent for his War Room podcast.

00:36:21.200 Last year, Natalie got a splashy girl boss profile

00:36:24.280 in the New York Times, Yas Queen,

00:36:26.680 and she regularly says this stuff about Indian people.

00:36:29.080 They're not the best and brightest. They're the worst and they're the most attached to the culture that they're coming from and they have nothing American about them.

00:36:36.080 And frankly, they have a fake diploma from a fake Indian University where the person sitting next to them is probably a robocaller scamming you.

00:36:44.080 Come on, Natalie. We have fake diplomas here in America, too. They're called poli-sci degrees and we both have them. Welcome to the grift.

00:36:51.080 But if America is all about letting the best rise to the top, how do you justify shutting down legal immigration? I mean, that's anti-competitive.

00:36:58.080 competitive. And that's when I started listening more closely to Natalie Winters.

00:37:03.040 Immigration is both an economic issue, but also a cultural issue, right? We want to deport these

00:37:08.740 people, not just because they're depriving Americans of their wages, of their jobs,

00:37:13.220 but also what they're doing to the cultural fabric, what they're doing to these neighborhoods.

00:37:17.600 Got it. So there's something about foreign cultures that is bad for America.

00:37:23.060 Now, what exactly is it about those cultures that Natalie finds so offensive?

00:37:26.880 And should we be studying, you know, 25 hours a day, eight days, you know, increase the length

00:37:32.740 of the day so all we can do is study? That's not what this country was founded on if you look at

00:37:36.920 the history of us. Got it. So you don't like lazy immigrants. Totally get that. But you also don't

00:37:45.320 like immigrants who work hard. So here's what I'm saying. Gen Z conservatives like the rest of Gen Z

00:37:53.080 are struggling economically.

00:37:55.020 They feel like they deserve a decent job with a decent wage

00:37:57.740 and to still have time to live a life.

00:38:00.260 The problem is, if they said that,

00:38:01.720 they'd start to sound like these f***ing losers.

00:38:03.620 Workers throughout the country are seeing their family life fall apart

00:38:07.160 as they are forced to spend more and more time at work.

00:38:10.160 My vision is not limited to the homes that we live in

00:38:14.180 or the childcare that we're making universal.

00:38:17.140 It's also a vision where we make it possible

00:38:18.760 for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.

00:38:24.600 We don't have to live like this anymore.

00:38:27.860 We can make a new world, a better country, where we can fight for the dignity of all people.

00:38:35.800 So instead of appealing to a sense of solidarity and fighting for economic security and dignity

00:38:40.000 for all Americans, MAGA is appealing to a zero-sum mentality and saying,

00:38:44.480 if we kick out the boat browns and the airport browns,

00:38:48.180 well, guess what?

00:38:49.880 We'll have more to ourselves.

00:38:51.780 And this reveals what MAGA really means

00:38:53.480 when it says merit.

00:38:56.080 Yeah, you earn it through hard work and education,

00:38:58.580 but if you're born here,

00:39:00.380 and your parents were born here,

00:39:02.660 you get extra merit points for being a heritage American.

00:39:07.120 It's basically Kendall Roy at the end of Succession

00:39:08.840 screaming, I'm the eldest boy!

00:39:10.980 You can call this racial entitlement,

00:39:12.380 you can call it white nationalism,

00:39:14.260 But I call it white valedictorianism.

00:39:18.200 We all know this.

00:39:19.300 The valedictorian in every school,

00:39:20.800 if you go on grades alone, is the Chinese kid.

00:39:23.260 It's always the Chinese kid.

00:39:24.440 It will always be the Chinese kid.

00:39:26.100 But MAGA's like, no!

00:39:28.080 Just keep going down the list.

00:39:29.920 Go through the Chinese kid, the Vietnamese kid,

00:39:31.700 the Korean kid, the Indian kid, the Pakistani kid,

00:39:33.560 the Bengali kid, back to the Chinese kid.

00:39:34.900 Just keep going until you get to the white one.

00:39:39.080 The 13th place guy, that's the valedictorian.

00:39:41.880 As much as MAGA and Republicans claim

00:39:43.560 They want merit, they don't.

00:39:46.380 As much as they claim they just want to hire

00:39:47.940 the best, most hardworking immigrants, they don't.

00:39:50.900 What they really want is a preferential treatment

00:39:53.020 for being heritage Americans.

00:39:55.760 They're not enforcing meritocracy.

00:39:58.040 They're enforcing hierarchy,

00:40:02.320 almost like a caste system,

00:40:06.960 which is the most Indian thing they could be doing.

00:40:09.460 uh natalie winters thank you thank you for that quite interesting by the way i might

00:40:18.140 i was the follow-on speaker to vivek's heritage american speech at uh back in december at

00:40:25.960 turning point i might i might mention vivek who was on quite a roll with you know you you got to

00:40:31.660 stop uh sleepovers because you got to study 24 7 which really kind of misses the point of what's

00:40:37.560 made this country great um vivek i think is down 10 points in the last uh poll i saw and suck is

00:40:43.800 dragging down the senate candidates are sure brown a populist economic populist look looks like he's

00:40:49.780 going to win natalie uh they've singled you out i think they've singled you out because uh your

00:40:55.100 your career is totally uh about merit you've uh you've grinded through some of the one of the

00:41:00.680 toughest prep schools in country went to university of chicago with three years you graduate at the

00:41:04.360 same time you held down being an investigative reporter for us and and really i think being the

00:41:09.820 most serious investigative reporter about the uh the um warfare of the chinese communist party

00:41:17.220 against the united states of america your overall observations as now you are singled out ma'am

00:41:23.160 as uh somebody that's and i want to say it's not just h1b visas i i'm all for a 10-year i believe

00:41:29.040 we need a 10-year moratorium in this country immediately on all immigration all of it the

00:41:34.280 whole thing's a scam it's all rotten to the core of it we take in a million a year uh officially

00:41:40.060 but it's got with all the with all the different rules and regulations you're really taking in

00:41:44.320 millions a year right if not tens of millions a year and we got 25 million illegal alien invaders

00:41:50.460 here off of biden of course our new you know kung fu fighter dhs says he only wants a judicial

00:41:58.180 warrants until we go into any business. Didn't talk about E-Verify. Talk about a judicial warrant

00:42:03.240 for you going into business. No, bro, that's not the way it's going to work. We'll never agree to

00:42:08.140 that. No one will ever agree to that. So, Natalie, I think our position here is much harder than the

00:42:13.020 H-1B. And the H-1B, everybody knows it's completely corrupt. And the people that know it the most are

00:42:17.340 the people in India that run the corrupt system. Ma'am. Well, Steve, I think you're going a little

00:42:22.840 woke. If you only want a moratorium for 10 years, I think we've got to do at least 20.

00:42:28.420 But I will say, I love that video with the false pretense, the predicate being that the American

00:42:33.620 people, i.e. MAGA, have ever had a say in what this country's immigration policy is.

00:42:39.840 Anytime there's actually been the chance to have a referendum on immigration when you put the

00:42:44.300 donors to the side like Trump in 2016, overwhelmingly, they want to build the wall

00:42:48.680 and get mass deportations, right?

00:42:50.180 Those are the most popular slogans.

00:42:52.260 But this idea of merit is just so astronomically false.

00:42:56.560 I always love sort of talking about the actual numbers

00:42:59.480 because there's this idea, right?

00:43:00.840 The best and the brightest, as he kept saying.

00:43:03.420 Well, when you actually look at the numbers

00:43:04.780 and like they play this sort of shell game with the numbers

00:43:07.160 so the American people don't understand

00:43:08.740 how quickly they're being replaced.

00:43:10.940 But about 87% of the H-1B people who are coming in,

00:43:15.080 the data going back to around 2015,

00:43:16.820 they're at the bottom two percentiles the 17th percentile wage and then the 34th percentile wage

00:43:24.540 of people in this country so you're not importing the best and the brightest when you're paying them

00:43:29.280 the least salary that could possibly exist and when you look at the levels that they're importing

00:43:34.840 so it's not just obviously corporations you know scamming these people paying them you know basically

00:43:39.560 slave labor wages, 52% were at level one, 30% were at level two, just 12% were at level three,

00:43:47.200 and just 6% were at the highest level, right? And that's the government accountability office. So

00:43:53.500 that's not, you know, crazy right wing data. And when you look at what the share of foreign

00:43:59.160 versus native born workers are in the IT sector now, over half of all STEM and IT jobs are going

00:44:05.260 to people who are born outside of the country. And when you look at this, I mean, these corporations

00:44:09.920 save on average, you know, around $20,000 per employee when they're outsourcing. And you see

00:44:15.160 these CEOs taking, you know, $1.3 million in the case of, I believe, the company, some energy

00:44:21.520 company, Northeast Utilities, after they're laying off 200 Americans. And when you look at what the

00:44:27.120 statute was right in the 1990s, right, it was under 100 words. That was what created this program.

00:44:33.620 Now it's up to 7,000 words, 20 pages.

00:44:37.580 That's how you get the alphabet soup of visa categories, right?

00:44:40.740 Like the OPT program.

00:44:42.620 And when you look at the numbers, it's quite staggering.

00:44:46.000 OPT, right, which is this kind of weird pseudo student to job pipeline, it was 24,000 in

00:44:51.740 2007.

00:44:53.060 It's now 194,000 in 2024, with 48% of those people coming from India.

00:44:59.480 And if you start really looking into the future, if you take the same relative rate of growth of foreign-born workers versus Native-born workers, which is 3.2% annual growth in the share itself, using that compounding assumption, if you project that into the future, in only 30 years, 50% of the entire workforce will be foreigners.

00:45:22.300 In 42 years, it'll be 70%.

00:45:24.660 Obviously, these aren't hyper-realistic domestic.

00:45:26.960 Native-born Americans are always going to have jobs.

00:45:28.900 But at this rate, it would only take 52 years for the workplace to be 100% foreign-born.

00:45:35.560 And like I said, the original cap was 65,000 people a year.

00:45:40.380 You look at, by 2015, we already passed into the 200,000s of people.

00:45:46.880 And that's not even including overstays.

00:45:48.720 That's newly added.

00:45:50.320 And when you look at 2024, for example, there was 780,884 H-1B petitions granted.

00:45:59.540 That is a 1,100% increase over what the American people were allegedly sold, even using fake

00:46:06.320 data.

00:46:07.100 And I think the point is why I find that clip so funny.

00:46:10.340 It's not just the typical argument that we make here, which is that it's not an immigration

00:46:14.640 policy.

00:46:15.100 It's a shareholder policy.

00:46:16.300 It's for these corporations that hate this country.

00:46:18.740 It's not about talent.

00:46:19.740 It's about replacing Americans. But to say that our opposition to H-1B visas, which demonstrably

00:46:25.580 depress the wages of Americans, is rooted in white nationalism is patently absurd. America does not

00:46:31.900 have a white nationalism problem. If anything, we have an Indian nationalism problem because

00:46:36.720 upwards of 70% of all H-1B visas are going to people from India. We have a Mexican nationalism

00:46:42.680 problem when it comes to illegal immigration because they're all coming from Mexico.

00:46:46.300 and we have a, I don't know, I guess a Chinese nationalism problem in our universities because

00:46:51.020 the majority of those visas are going to Chinese people. So to say that our opposition, the idea

00:46:55.780 of defending American workers is rooted in some obsession with white identity, it's not. But on

00:47:01.260 the other hand, if America turns in to being filled by 100% Indians, then it's not exactly

00:47:07.040 America. And you know what makes, I think, MAGA really upset is being lectured by someone whose

00:47:13.420 parents were immigrants to this country, which that's fine. I'm sure they did it the right way.

00:47:17.360 They probably came on an H-1B visa, but I don't want to be told what being an American is by

00:47:22.000 someone who like has barely been an American for more than, I don't know, a few decades.

00:47:26.320 And it's that that puts a bad taste in my mouth, being told that I'm not allowed to raise my voice

00:47:31.640 and say, actually, we should make sure that our government isn't screwing over American workers

00:47:35.940 by replacing them with people who, yeah, get diplomas and degrees from fake universities.

00:47:40.720 it's all a scam they're paid slave wages and they're not the best and brightest okay you can

00:47:45.160 point me to one person who started a company good for you there's a lot of Americans and Steve I

00:47:49.500 think the most upsetting thing which is I think the audience probably shares in that clip which

00:47:53.400 they should watch the whole thing it's this idea of betting against Americans betting against white

00:47:58.500 kids betting certainly against white men you know what you don't need to go down the list past every

00:48:03.520 ethnicity to hit a white person there are a lot of white people who are capable of being

00:48:07.180 valedictorians too. And you know what, Hassan Minhaj, look at President Trump's victory in

00:48:11.960 2024. He made massive strides winning over the minority, whatever word you want to call it,

00:48:17.160 vote with people who were drawn to economic nationalism. And I just find that interview,

00:48:21.940 that segment, first of all, so reductive and so low IQ, but so weirdly racist by saying that I'm

00:48:28.600 the racist for not being an Indian supremacist and saying that I think a visa program that's

00:48:33.200 exploiting American workers and turning this country into a hollowed out shell of its culture

00:48:38.000 is something that's wrong and that should not be continued and that we should, I don't know,

00:48:41.900 put American workers first, American defined as people who, yeah, maybe have a little bit

00:48:46.260 of heritage or legacy in this country and didn't just arrive 15 minutes ago.

00:48:53.280 Yeah, like I said, 100% agree. And I am now with you. It's a 20-year moratorium. You convinced me

00:48:59.380 It's a 20 year. I've been too weak. It's 20 year moratorium. And, you know, I had the pleasure of sitting there watching Vivek's just insane speech.

00:49:08.440 And I'm thinking, I'm this guy's running for governor of Ohio. I'm not so sure that's going to work out.

00:49:12.620 Of course, he immediately got off of social media because he was getting ratioed and now he's down 10.

00:49:17.520 And we're going to lose a Senate seat because of him. Natalie, we got to cut to the Senate floor.

00:49:21.720 I think there's big news coming up on Save America. And of course, you and I work every day to save America here in the war room.

00:49:27.880 Natalie, where they go for more of your content and maybe a couple of, you got Substack, but you

00:49:33.500 also maybe have a couple of three rants out there too. Natalie Juinders on Substack,

00:49:39.040 nataliejuinters.substack.com. Always an honor to be in the war room. Thank you for having me, Steve.

00:49:45.340 You know, Grace and I were just talking before your appearance here. I said, gosh, we miss

00:49:49.320 Natalie having, you know, when you were, you were hosting the show when I was in prison,

00:49:52.880 Don't go back to prison, please. We need you.

00:49:58.660 Love you, ma'am. Thank you.

00:50:00.060 I'm now a 20-year person because Natalie convinced me.

00:50:04.140 20-year moratorium on all the scam, all the scam immigration policies.

00:50:09.760 Natalie, thank you. Let's make sure you follow Natalie on social media.

00:50:12.420 Let's go to the Senate floor. Mike Lee, Cleta Mitchell's with me.

00:50:15.200 I think we've got a big break.

00:50:15.940 All the things that she said, just about any of the things that she said, I'd be concerned too.

00:50:20.360 Fortunately, for all of us, the things that she's saying about this bill are either in

00:50:26.520 some instances incomplete, leaving out material information to complete the picture, resulting

00:50:32.560 in a much different impact than has been suggested, or in other cases, they're completely wrong.

00:50:41.420 Go back to a few first principles about what the bill actually does.

00:50:44.760 There are two basic precepts of the bill, and the fundamental purpose of it is to make

00:50:49.960 A couple minutes left in this. We're going to go back to the center of Florida, Mike Lee, but Cleta Mitchell's joining us. Cleta, you got some breaking news of what's going to happen in the next hour, ma'am.

00:51:04.020 It's Cleta off. You got to take your mood off, Cleta.

00:51:10.640 Sorry. Can you hear me now? Sorry.

00:51:14.060 I know how you boomers, I know technology is hard for you boomers to use, but go ahead, Cleta.

00:51:19.320 Well, I'm sorry about that. Yes, we just remember that we wanted this on the floor. We wanted the Democrats to have to talk about it. Remember that? And we were begging, humbling. John, the Republican leadership said, just put it on the floor. They said, what's going to happen? We said, we don't know. Put it on the floor and find out. It's called legislating.

00:51:41.060 So that's happened. And people have started paying attention and they started looking at the Democrats and listening to their lies.

00:51:49.320 And, you know, the Democrats have been lying about voter I.D. for 20 years, 20 years.

00:51:55.240 They've been lying about voter I.D. and it has not moved the needle one bit in terms of public public opinion.

00:52:01.380 So yesterday now, remember, they started talking about this bill on Tuesday.

00:52:05.960 So 48 hours into it, yesterday was 24 hours into it, Schumer said, Democrats aren't opposed to

00:52:14.640 Voto ID. We're not opposed to Voto ID. We're opposed to all these other things. So there's

00:52:19.980 a process in the Senate. I'm learning all these little things about the Senate rules called

00:52:24.260 hotlining a bill. And so Senator Usted from Ohio has taken the section on Voto ID out of the Save

00:52:34.740 America Act, copied it into a separate bill, and that's going to be put on the floor about 630,

00:52:40.840 and he's going to ask for unanimous consent of all the senators to just adopt this bill and

00:52:47.780 send it to the House. So we'll see. We'll see what they do. Let's see how many Democrats

00:52:52.960 have the wherewithal to stand up and vote against that.

00:52:58.000 Hang on, because Schumer started talking yesterday because they knew what they were

00:53:01.480 saying was not sticking and this one the power of the war and posse and others to put out and

00:53:06.620 be a force multiplier in this content schumer schumer came out yesterday and said oh we don't

00:53:11.340 have any problem with voter id you're saying they're doing a put up or at 6 30 they're going

00:53:16.280 to do a put up or shut up they're actually doing just a bill exactly on voter id that's right it's

00:53:21.220 an actual bill it takes that section copies it verbatim puts it on the floor and says okay

00:53:26.440 You want unanimous consent for this?

00:53:28.420 Great.

00:53:29.240 Let's see what happens.

00:53:30.840 Let's see what happens.

00:53:32.480 It doesn't, I mean, it's legislating.

00:53:36.560 Hang on one second.

00:53:38.880 We're going to hold you through the next hour.

00:53:40.280 Clear is going to be up at the top.

00:53:41.420 I want to get to Mike Lindell before we shift over to the 6 p.m. edition of the War Room.

00:53:46.920 We're going to cover this live on the Senate floor.

00:53:49.120 Clear to Mitchell breaking news here.

00:53:50.940 They're going to do a put up or shut up bill on voter ID.

00:53:55.360 Mike Lindell, you've been fighting this one for a long time, sir.

00:53:59.220 People are interested in your opinions here, particularly since you're going to be the next governor of Minnesota.

00:54:03.580 However, in the two minutes we got left, they want to know what deals you got for the Warren Posse.

00:54:09.500 Yeah, and I'm looking forward.

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Bannon's War Room - March 19, 2026

Episode 5230： The Enemy Is Within The Gates

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