00:00:00.000this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
00:00:11.300these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
00:00:17.900had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do everything
00:00:21.660the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and where do people
00:00:25.240like that go to share the big line? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people
00:00:33.060had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save
00:00:40.720my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:00:48.120saturday 21 march year of alert 2026 first day of spring was it the vernal equinox do i have it
00:00:59.520right first day of spring uh really want to thank eric bowling and i want to thank captain finnell
00:01:05.240particularly for giving us a great update situation report the best situation reports
00:01:09.880on this war and the complexity of it and make sure we stay focused on
00:01:13.900through the fog of war of what's important we'll get back more of that later in the show also
00:01:19.400tomorrow uh for the duration of this conflict we'll be doing a sunday show at the same time
00:01:27.200we do our beloved saturday show 10 a.m to 12 noon eastern daylight time uh to get updates on
00:01:33.360everything that's going on tomorrow we are going to do a little bit on day or garcia as you remember
00:01:37.080we made that a a big deal as eventually starmer and the british realized it was a big deal and
00:01:43.420Now, with this war going on, it's a very big deal, and it took a—the Iranians were trying to take it out with a ballistic missile last night.
00:01:49.820Cleo Pascal would join us, Ben Harnwell from Rome.
00:01:52.720We're going to have a tremendous show tomorrow morning already, I can tell you.
00:01:56.780Domestic politics in Texas, huge issue with the school choice situation.
00:02:03.520We're going to get more into that the first couple of days this week with people from Texas talking about it.
00:02:10.480Also, at CPAC, I'm going to carve out some time.
00:02:12.600We've got to get our hands around this exactly because so many people in the conservative movement and MAGA have been so pro-school choice.
00:02:19.300We've got to really think this thing through, particularly given this court ruling yesterday.
00:02:24.520But Ken Paxton, now two polls in Texas.
00:02:27.040Ken Paxton's up 16 against Cornyn in one, 18 against Cornyn in the other.
00:02:31.260as i predicted that there's just no way the more cornyn puts out this money for these negative ads
00:02:37.580uh really uh trying to destroy ken paxton the more the grassroots base and the mega base turns
00:02:43.180against him it's just a uh it's pretty ugly and pathetic but i told you the math would turn here
00:02:49.000and the math is now turning and we'll have more on that on monday and tuesday south carolina we
00:02:54.120had no frisch a friend that showed national file no also besides run a national file which are a
00:03:00.980great little news operation is also advising uh the candidate lynch mark lynch down in south
00:03:07.240carolina but and they commissioned this poll with uh mark mitchell and the great team of rasmus and
00:03:12.400it was a thousand respondents of likely voters i mean this is a real poll uh and as we told you
00:03:17.720over time it's just the law of political physics was going to catch up with lindsey graham there's
00:03:22.880just too much over the top you know he and um and levin and this guy is just too over the top
00:03:28.180and lindsey's actually a graham is just uh you know beclown himself going on tv
00:03:33.480talking about perpetuity defense deals with the saudis but they got to get in the fight i mean
00:03:39.100it's just it's very scary to have especially when the world is watching all of this
00:03:46.140vish burr joins us fish a former producer of the war room one of our original producers back in the
00:03:52.160old days also the producer i think i can say this as much as matt gates is a star and we love matt
00:03:58.000gates vish burrow made the matt gate show as producer the original launching producer a big
00:04:03.700hit uh vish you certainly know how to produce you're actually you're working for paul dans of
00:04:09.560project 2025 a great friend of the show paul's also in the race down there you're working with
00:04:14.820him i don't want to really get into the candidates who really didn't get into mark lynch yesterday
00:04:18.880too much when noel was here it's just that this this poll was done i realize you guys didn't
00:04:23.920commissioned it but rasmus has known and this thing is now out it's pretty shocking that lindsey
00:04:28.840graham with the senate leadership fund in back of him and president trump's already he's already
00:04:32.940endorsed him unlike the cornyn situation he's already endorsed lindsey and and look the reality
00:04:38.320is president trump's close to lindsey he likes him um and he takes his advice for both good and
00:04:43.600bad i happen to think it's bad but there's other people around the president think it's good
00:04:47.380But Lindsey Graham's below 50%. You guys are hurtling towards, I think it's April primary. And I believe the rules in South Carolina, he's got to get over 50%. He'd go to a runoff. How, I mean, these numbers shocked me, but you do this for a living. Walk us through just the math in this poll.
00:05:06.000Well, what you're seeing, Steve, right now is the dissatisfaction of South Carolina voters
00:05:12.740with Lindsey Graham. The first thing that most of these voters, when we approach them
00:05:18.660on the ground, the question they ask is, where the hell is Lindsey? So a lot of the extenuating
00:05:26.300circumstances on the ground are working against Lindsey Graham. As the war continues in Iran,
00:05:34.000and god forbid the death toll goes up of u.s soldiers that's going to work against lindsey's
00:05:40.340numbers as the gas prices tick up at the rate that we're seeing now that's going to work against
00:05:46.580lindsey's numbers and i've traveled all over the state with paul we're doing hundreds of events
00:05:53.300the number one thing that uh people will say about lindsey is bless his heart but it's time
00:05:59.740for him to go the guy is saying all sorts of crazy things on tv and so what you're seeing in these
00:06:06.180numbers is that the primary runoff that's going to happen on june 9th is inevitable the same thing
00:06:14.460that you saw in texas uh with paxton and cornyn is exactly what's going to happen here in south
00:06:22.200Carolina, the reason being that voters here are tired of the Senate, the lack of productivity
00:06:30.000out of the Senate, the lack of prioritization of the people's needs here in America out
00:06:37.400of the Senate, and they're attaching that to folks like Lindsey Graham, to folks like
00:06:42.600John Cornyn and these guys who run buddy-buddy around the retirement home that we call the
00:06:47.500senate and so no lindsey's numbers are going to dwindle no matter what there is everything is
00:06:55.080working against him this is a fight for second so and so we have there so paul dan's his his
00:07:01.420momentum is rising we haven't even spent any money uh in this campaign as of yet we're actually
00:07:07.340dropping a big digital buy as of tomorrow that's going to uh work on basically uh increasing his
00:07:15.580name ID across the state. You're going to see his numbers surge there. Lynch is running his campaign,
00:07:20.580but this is a fight to set to the second place because the June 9th primary runoff in South
00:07:26.740Carolina is inevitable. Which is, by the way, really quick, really relatively quick after the
00:07:35.300after the first round, unlike Texas. But you're just before you bounce, your theory of the case
00:07:40.820is that cornyn as another 24 year old in a 24 year incumbent couldn't couldn't get it done in
00:07:47.820the first round in a in a in a runoff the grassroots the separation becomes real the
00:07:53.680grassroots has one person to focus on they can get around it they see everything that these old
00:07:58.880these senators have been doing to block really the mega movement and really block president trump
00:08:03.560and that comes to the that comes to the forefront in the case of lindsey graham isn't he just going
00:08:09.000to say hey look the reason i wasn't here and going around to these small town halls and maybe
00:08:12.860things i should have done i'm helping president trump win the war in the middle east uh what's
00:08:18.420going to be that what's going to what do you think the not the response to the candidates what do you
00:08:21.940think the general response of these great patriots in south carolina because you know south carolina
00:08:26.860has got a very strong uh participation in the military sir well the the questions that these
00:08:34.540folks are going to ask is i get it that you you haven't been around uh in these town halls at
00:08:40.640these little meetings and everything you haven't shown up here but not only do you go to show up
00:08:45.740bi-weekly to israel or you go and you're buddy buddy with uh the sheikhs in saudi arabia but
00:08:52.800you're going there with checks they complain about the 200 billion and the billions we send to
00:08:57.960ukraine wait until the 200 billion on the iran supplemental hits the waves that's going to also
00:10:07.680It's overwhelmingly popular with the American people.
00:10:10.560They agree you need to show a photo ID in order to vote.
00:10:15.300You know, the Save America Act, as we're talking about here,
00:10:19.480and have been through the week on the floor of the United States Senate,
00:10:22.240it is the only way that we can make sure we have safe and secure elections
00:10:27.420that reflect the viewpoints of the american people but what the democrats are doing they
00:10:32.940are standing with the extreme minority who say you shouldn't have to show a photo id they're also
00:10:40.300standing with the extreme minority that don't believe we need a department of homeland security
00:10:45.760because they continue to vote to keep it closed every one of them is now on the record the
00:10:51.720Democrats in the United States Senate are standing on the side of open borders
00:10:56.360and illegal voters. Senator Lankford. So this is the challenge that we face today.
00:11:04.500We have Department of Homeland Security closed right now because apparently my
00:11:08.480Democratic colleagues are more afraid of ICE than they are of Iran. And the
00:11:12.240challenges that we face now in the conflict internationally that we know
00:11:15.600that we have threats back in the homeland, but my Democratic colleagues in
00:11:18.940Senate just refused to even pay attention to that at all. Stacked on top of that is
00:11:23.800the issue we've been talking about for weeks and we're still working through
00:11:26.500this weekend to be able to negotiate and that is the most basic thing in
00:11:29.860American life, voting. The 1965 Voting Rights Act begins with all citizens. This
00:11:38.120should not be controversial. It is already federal law that requires only
00:11:41.980citizens vote in the United States. They're gonna give us an update momentarily.
00:11:45.520and we're going to go back to i want to thank real america's voice we're going to blow we're
00:11:48.980going to blow this break we're going to go back to the senate in a moment they're they're going
00:11:52.720to kick off a weekend debate on this senator tuberville and we're going to cover a stream
00:11:58.740it real america's voice is going to be in it i'll be dipping in and out during the day um
00:12:02.960tuberville senator tuberville friend of the show is going to put up his uh amendment they're going
00:12:08.940to vote on that for um uh for no men and women's sports and then transgender surgery i think
00:12:15.200tomorrow afternoon they're going to debate this throughout the day um and so we're going to get
00:12:19.880marching orders what people what i'm hearing is that this is going to be a grind through the
00:12:25.000weekend this is not performative it's just not a messaging bill uh but we'll understand all that
00:12:30.480here momentarily and may take it'll be into next week i think i think there may be some votes called
00:12:35.720but my understanding from jenny beth and clita and other people working on this um neil mccabe
00:12:41.560is that behind the scenes, Mike Lee and these say, hey, look, this hasn't been done in 50, 60, 70 years.
00:12:49.420We're doing it now, and you're going to get a chance to actually see legislation that they are committing.
00:12:55.940They're going to get to the standing filibuster, and then from there they will actually get victory.
00:13:00.820Although Tuberville is pretty up front, he doesn't think we've even got the 51 votes on the Republican side.
00:13:06.140Even if you didn't have the filibuster, even if you didn't have the 60 vote to get cloture, even if you didn't have a standing filibuster where they eventually collapsed.
00:13:15.480He's saying he doesn't think he got 51.
00:13:17.560And you heard Murkowski yesterday kind of come out against it.
00:13:20.420So we're going to cover all that on the Save America Act.
00:15:31.260That's how 99.9% of the industry works.
00:15:33.820And that's really what we're trying to fight against.
00:15:37.820And so how do you guys, and by the way, the feedback we've gotten from the testimonials
00:15:42.920from people, I mean, what's been your, in the companies from the time you came on with
00:15:48.440War Room Posse members, what's your general assessment of what people had to say?
00:15:52.840Because they've come to us directly. And I mean, it's like, seriously, the besieged homesteaders had the cavalry finally arrive.
00:16:02.520Yeah, I mean, it's been an amazing launch. Just in the past couple of days, I think we've already helped 100 or more people save hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:16:10.880It is quite remarkable. And it's been a really bright spot for the company over the past few days.
00:16:15.840So it's been a pleasure. Our Medicare advisors are telling me that we're saving people so much money.
00:16:23.680Lee from Missouri said that Lee saved a tremendous amount of money and that their anxiety is now gone from dealing with the Medicare industry.
00:16:34.000Gloria from Florida saved $2,100 just on her prescriptions.
00:16:39.900So these are just a couple of the many, many testimonials we're getting.
00:16:43.660But everyone in the company is excited.
00:16:45.620We're getting so many calls from people because so many people are on the wrong Medicare plan.
00:16:50.140And it's really a shame because as a society, I think it's really our responsibility to support our elders.
00:16:58.680And we, as a society, have largely let them down when it comes to their health care and their Medicare.
00:21:12.100here uh do i have thune can i cut back to thune john thune are we going to wait for that for a
00:21:16.660second okay let's go ahead let john thune's back at the sticks at some point why considering the
00:21:23.220pressure of the president and the right why would you eventually move to end debate on this if this
00:21:28.420is so important especially to the president yeah well we haven't made any final decisions about how
00:21:32.340to how to conclude this uh chat well at some point that's a that's a possibility but at the moment
00:21:40.180What we are trying to do is ensure that we are having a fulsome debate on an issue that is overwhelmingly supported by the American people and one that puts everybody on the record one way or the other.
00:21:52.860And so today, obviously, we're going to have a vote later this afternoon on whether or not biological males ought to be able to vote or ought to be able to compete and play in women's sports.
00:22:02.320But then we will move to something that Senator Husted addressed, and that was the piece of legislation he tried to get brought up and passed on the floor and objected to by the Democrats the other night.
00:22:17.560And we will move to that, put that every Democrat on the record.
00:22:21.420So the photo ID amendment will be the next amendment.
00:22:25.780And I think all these things in the Save America Act, as we've all said, are common sense.
00:22:30.560We think they're supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans.
00:22:34.940And in many cases, as Senator Husted also pointed out, he had 36 states that have adopted photo ID laws.
00:22:41.540Why wouldn't we have a nationwide one?
00:22:43.700And to hear the Democrats, hear the leader of the Democrats say in response to a question,
00:22:48.040we're not opposed to photo ID, but then to block even getting it up and considering it,
00:22:53.320And furthermore, to offer an alternative that bans and prohibits specifically photo ID, I think, speaks to where they are.
00:23:02.600But they're all going to have to cast that vote.
00:23:04.680So we're going to continue to debate this, and at some point we'll decide after we have a sufficient number of votes
00:23:11.620and we have had the opportunity to have that fulsome debate on the floor, we'll decide what to do next.
00:34:08.660help me get on one of these uh you know big bestseller list and we blow this issue out of the
00:34:13.320water war room posse putting it on their shoulders love you brother self-effacing humble and a hammer
00:34:21.060you know you're kellick the epoch times okay joe allen the floor is yours joe uh we had this big
00:34:28.280you know the war and posse stood up with your leadership we shut down the big beautiful bill
00:34:32.560and the amnesty bill we shut down in the ndaa a must pass piece of leisure the amnesty bill in
00:34:38.100fact they pulled it out they were so humiliated they promised and they came back with a framework
00:34:42.940now the president of states he's got he's got wars and economy and everything in the world
00:34:48.420on his shoulders this thing came out um in fact i'm gonna let the audience hear from our own joe
00:34:55.940allen joe because joe one thing i think people have learned about you in the last five years
00:35:01.420you're a good man you've got a good heart you're not a political guy you're not part of the dc
00:35:06.280swamp, although now, unfortunately, I think you would say you have to spend a lot of time in D.C.
00:35:10.660What is your frank and blunt assessment of this framework, sir?
00:35:19.080Well, Steve, I got to say, hanging around D.C., I definitely have some high rubber boots to wade
00:35:24.460through the swamp and the other nasty fluids floating around here. Yet the national policy
00:35:30.960framework was just released by the white house and if you are a tech executive or a tech worker
00:35:38.900then this is basically anything you want to do handed to you on a silver platter with the
00:35:46.100possibility that you may get a light slap on the wrist if people notice that you are flooding
00:35:51.500the entire culture with non-human minds that have been created by your data and are used
00:36:00.820intentionally to replace you. If you are a tech worker, you're good until of course your coding
00:36:08.060job is replaced by one of these non-human minds. If you're a CEO, you're great. If you are in
00:36:14.500Congress, at the very least, you don't have to concern yourself too much with what you're going
00:36:19.240to do about it because the national policy framework basically instructs Congress point
00:36:24.720by point by point from child protection to copyright to the preemption clauses, it instructs
00:36:33.920Congress not to do this, not to do that, particularly on child protection.
00:36:41.520Yes, they do say that the Take It Down Act should be enforced.
00:36:44.980and so any image that's created of a child should be pulled down. That's great. Good job.
00:36:52.120They also state that the companies should enforce some kind of age gating, which raises a lot of
00:36:59.500questions about digital identity and rights online, but at least it's an attempt. But it
00:37:05.360also includes the recommendation that Congress not hold these companies liable. Remember,
00:37:11.920These are companies like Meta who had in their own internal standards the use of generative AI to seduce children as young as eight years old.
00:37:23.560Those companies, according to this policy framework, should not be held liable and be embroiled in any sort of undue and burdensome liability liability accusations.
00:37:37.520And then I think maybe the most onerous of the recommendations is that copyright and free speech should be the privilege of AI companies and their systems.
00:37:53.120Meaning that if an AI company uses copyrighted material to train their model, which then goes on to create anything from artwork to literature, whatever, that the companies themselves should be shielded from any kind of copyright litigation.
00:38:12.520It also goes on to say that free speech should be protected, not free speech of human beings, free speech of artificial intelligence systems.
00:38:25.420You know, we've talked a lot about AI personhood, AI being treated as if it were a person.
00:38:32.060What they are talking about is that if an AI reads your book or if an AI watches your movie, then it's that AI's right to create something on the basis of it.
00:38:43.180If an AI is spitting out Hitler slurs or if an AI is spitting out a bunch of woke stuff, it is the AI's right, the free speech right.
00:38:54.620And all of this is wrapped in preemption that the states, with a few exceptions, with law enforcement and education, the states should not be passing laws related to artificial intelligence.
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