In this special edition of the War Room, host Stephen K.K. Bannon is joined by the Daily Signal's Elizabeth Troutman-Mitchell to discuss President Trump's speech on Iran, the aftermath of that speech, and the possibility of a deal with Iran.
00:00:29.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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00:00:44.680War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
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00:01:00.060I am going to have, to make sure you've got a broad range of analysis, Dr. Thayer, who vehemently disagrees that President Trump has walked into an escalatory trap, he's going to be on the evening show probably at 6.
00:01:16.640We're going to work this too with Dr. Thayer and others to kind of counter the arguments of Brandon Weikert and Kurt Mills.
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00:01:28.340Join now from the Daily Signal, Rob Louis, great news site with Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell.
00:01:36.500You cover the White House. Walk us through their thinking, the speech, the outcome of the speech, the tee up, because I think the markets did not react.
00:01:45.360it's pretty obvious and in a big way did not react the way that the president felt they were
00:01:51.240because i believe he felt hey i'm giving people as specific as i can get to give since we're in
00:01:56.720war i can't say hey it's definitely going to be two weeks but he believes i think that he teed
00:02:02.100up an off ramp liz your thoughts yeah i think going into this speech the american people expected
00:02:09.120to see that he was one going to announce that we were about to withdraw from the war that's what
00:02:15.280Politico reported in advance was that the president was going to announce the war was
00:02:18.800winding down. Of course, that did not happen. I think people expected either that or they expected
00:02:23.300to hear that he was going to send ground troops or escalate the war in a major way. Instead,
00:02:28.100we got kind of similar to what we've heard before, which is that the president said there would be
00:02:32.400two to three weeks left that he was going to destroy Iran's nuclear capacity once again,
00:02:38.240and that the families of the 13 soldiers whose lives have been lost want him to finish the job
00:02:43.900in Iran. I thought this was particularly interesting because I traveled with the
00:02:47.600president this weekend and was able to get an update from him on Iran while we were on Air
00:02:52.680Force One flying back to D.C. And he told us that Iran was allowing the passage of 20 oil ships,
00:02:58.080that he was very optimistic about negotiations, that they were finally talking to the right people,
00:03:02.600and that he could see a war ending soon. And so I asked him, could you see a deal coming this very
00:03:07.500week? And he said yes, that he could see that. That could happen. But of course, we're nearing
00:03:12.120the end of this week. We haven't heard a deal yet. And I think I was somewhat expecting that
00:03:16.320maybe that deal would be announced last night that he previewed Sunday night, but instead we
00:03:20.860are sticking with that original four to six weeks. Sounds like maybe even a little bit longer
00:03:24.760timeline for the operation. When they talk about a deal, it looks like the Israelis may have taken
00:03:33.940out the one person that's somehow in contact to, I guess, the Pakistanis with the vice president's
00:03:40.580office but to date in your reporting are we actually even in communications directly with
00:03:48.320any of the what's left of the regime or the different aspects of the regime because my
00:03:52.260understanding there's a couple of three power centers vying to trying to control this thing
00:03:57.380as they've dispersed do you have any sense that the united states is in any direct communication
00:04:02.440with someone of authority that could actually not just make a deal but actually enforce a deal with
00:04:08.920the United States? The president has repeatedly said, he's told the press many times, that regime
00:04:15.240change has occurred, that they've knocked out the original regime, the one after that, maybe even the
00:04:20.280one after that, and that they're finally negotiating with the right people. He has not specifically
00:04:24.420clarified who those right people are. He has said a lot about how the Ayatollah's son, they say he's
00:04:29.960in charge, but no one knows if he's alive. He likely is dead or incapacitated. And so it sounds
00:04:35.360like whoever they're negotiating with, they feel like they're able to move forward with,
00:04:39.200but the president said on the plane to us that you just never know with Iran, things could
00:04:43.080change rapidly, even if things are looking good, maybe they don't stay that way.
00:04:49.580Brandon Weikert brings up the point that as much as the president talks about a two or three week
00:04:56.260off ramp, as much as he continues to say, hey, look, our military objectives are bang, bang,
00:05:01.660bang and we're very close we've completed most of them there's a few others we haven't completed
00:05:06.900that we continue to pour resources in military hardware more operational capabilities uh we
00:05:16.060continue to pour it into the region uh your thoughts on that is the president just doing
00:05:20.660that so he's got a hammer particularly this thing that he said at the end that if the iranians don't
00:05:25.740come to some sort of agreement uh we're gonna we're definitely going to escalate and take out
00:05:31.000and take out their power grid and maybe even their oil and gas production capability?
00:05:38.680Well, I think we've heard from administration, many different officials have said that we are
00:05:43.660well ahead of schedule. They've been saying that really since the early days. And then we're also
00:05:48.200hearing this two to three week suggestion, which would have us be there even longer than originally
00:05:53.800anticipated. So I think people are wondering, are we really ahead of schedule considering
00:05:58.300that kind of inconsistency there. But I think what's going on here is the president wants to
00:06:02.400keep all his options on the table. He doesn't want to back himself into a corner. And anything
00:06:06.440that he shares with the American people, with the media, is something that the enemy in Iran will
00:06:11.260hear as well. And so I think that it's possible that there will be this kind of escalation. And
00:06:16.220we've seen reports about the 82nd Division being sent over there, which would, of course, be a
00:06:21.020major escalation. But I think no matter what happens, no matter what these reports say,
00:06:25.500I take it with a grain of salt because we know the president is not going to want to show all of his cards to the enemy and put himself into a situation he can't get out of.
00:06:37.260Talk to us about what do you anticipate?
00:06:39.920You've got the you've got the Easter holidays.
00:06:42.260I think the president is going back to Mar-a-Lago.
00:06:44.280What do you anticipate we could look forward to over these next four or five days?
00:06:49.060I think when the president goes down to Mar-a-Lago, we can expect that he is going to be spending his weekend continuing these negotiations.
00:06:56.540The first thing he told us on the plane after his last weekend in Palm Beach was that he had spent the weekend having very productive negotiations with Iran and that a lot of progress had been made.
00:07:07.040And so I think we can all hope that progress will be made again.
00:07:10.440I know he'll be working on this from Palm Beach during the Easter weekend.
00:07:14.160as a reporter that covers the white house last question because there's a difference of opinion
00:07:21.020i i thought it was pretty clear about staying with the program he's got to to degrade and
00:07:28.760destroy much of the uh the iranian military but uh both kurt mills and brennan wikert who who you
00:07:35.660know people understand they come from one side of this uh they thought that he opened up and
00:07:40.620implied that it could be open for ground troops. In listening to that speech and covering the
00:07:46.940White House, do you take anything away from last night that actually said that we could in the two
00:07:53.840or three-week period or beyond insert ground troops there? Well, as someone who closely
00:07:59.720follows the president, I noticed that the majority of the things that he said in his speech last
00:08:03.900night are things that we've heard before, talking about bringing Iran back to the Stone Age,
00:08:09.080talking about that two to three week timeline,
00:08:11.380how important it is to destroy their nuclear capacity,
00:08:13.760reopen the Strait of Hormuz, all that.
00:08:15.620And so I really didn't hear anything super different
00:08:33.640But I didn't see him particularly opening the door for that
00:08:36.940in a new way in his speech last night.
00:08:39.080he's pretty tough on uh he's pretty tough on uh nato the last couple days on true social and
00:08:45.640comments he made in fact i think even as we speak starmer is collecting 24 nations to at least
00:08:53.240begin a starting conversation about what they would do to replace america if we weren't if
00:09:00.260our navy didn't have the uh in military didn't have the responsibility keeping the open the
00:09:05.260straight or her moves, or at least maybe getting more aggressive with that against the Iranians.
00:09:10.420Did that strike you as odd last night? He was quite, I thought, gentle on NATO and the other
00:09:15.320allies that haven't pitched in here. He just told me, he says, hey, you've got to cherish it.
00:09:18.660For those of you that take the oil out and drive your economy, you've got to cherish this,
00:09:24.720you know, almost like you've got to hug it. Did you think he was pretty light on NATO?
00:09:30.020Absolutely. I think reports leading up to the speech, everyone expected that he was going to
00:09:34.000once again, as you said, he's done many times, go hard on NATO and talk about how they have not
00:09:38.760supported the United States, about how Starmer isn't helping, Macron isn't helping, really very
00:09:43.640little support from our European allies for this operation in Iran. But surprisingly, he did not
00:09:49.400say much about NATO at all. But I did see that he had a follow-up conversation with a reporter
00:09:54.420clarifying why he didn't talk about NATO. And he said that the United States doesn't need NATO,
00:09:59.300we'll be fine without it, but that, of course, he would like to see a lot more involvement.
00:10:03.260And we've, of course, heard him say many times that the United States has been there for NATO, but NATO has not been there for the United States for many years, and it's time for that to end.
00:10:14.620Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, where do we get your reporting?
00:10:17.280The audience loves following you, love your hits here on the show.
00:10:57.820Your assessment right now of this geostrategic situation we're in in Iran, how it plays into Ukraine, and particularly Bloomberg's out with a huge story that I promised to get you about the 2027 budget is coming forward.
00:11:14.020It looks like this budget has a has a large deficit in it.
00:11:17.440Part of that's because of increasing military spending.
00:11:21.160Your thoughts on that in the economy, sir, before we turn to your documentary.
00:11:24.080Yeah, the fiscal aspect of all this is very key, Steve, because, you know, look, we are fundamentally anti-interventionism. We believe in an America first philosophy of realism and restraint. But even if you are pro-intervention, even if you think this war is justified, if you're in that Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, John Bolton world and you want ground troops and you want regime change, well, we also have to be realists about our financial ability to pay for it because we are doing this with borrowed money.
00:12:16.140That's the budget of major states for an entire year in the United States.
00:12:20.700So it's about New York State, to be specific. So this is a serious financial issue. And I think the onus is on the people who are pro-prolonged war, who are pro-intervention, whether it's in the Black Sea or the Persian Gulf. Why should we be so intricately involved across the oceans in places that I would argue are not strategically important to the United States?
00:12:41.680They're important to other people, maybe important to our allies, but not important to the United States, and that it's worth borrowing the money, and that it's worth risking a fiscal nightmare scenario.
00:12:53.080You know, right now, as we speak, 10-year yield is up to 4.3%.
00:12:56.020It's sustaining well above 4% now since the war started.
00:13:21.640So the reality is, we have to be grown-ups here.
00:13:24.260We can't do everything we want because we don't have the money.
00:13:27.300So if this is worth doing for a prolonged period of time and if this is worth boots on the ground, not only do we have to make the case, not only do the war folks, pro-war folks have to make the case why it's strategically important, but also is it worth borrowing this much money to pay for?
00:13:42.300And is it worth taking an already tough economy for regular Americans, working class people before the war, very deeply, deeply unhappy with the economy?
00:13:51.740Is it worth risking making that economy far, far worse for risking for working class Americans?
00:13:59.660Just before I'm going to hold you through the break, I want to talk about this documentary.
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00:16:24.480Gerard and Gorman in this regard, she joins a long line of Americans who have been killed, ruthlessly killed by illegal aliens in totally preventable crimes.
00:16:36.300It's a tragic sorority of sorts of women who became victimized at the hands of assailants who never belonged in our country and wouldn't be here if it weren't for radical Democrats.
00:16:47.280I'm talking about people like Kate Steinle, Lakin Riley, Sandra Duran, and now Sheridan Gorman.
00:17:02.340There seems to be a disconnect in the country, Cortez.
00:17:09.800I mean, they not only support this, they push it every day.
00:17:14.380And you can see this, that we did for the entire two hours yesterday without interruption, commercial interruption or anybody coming in because I thought it was so powerful, did the 14th Amendment.
00:17:25.200And I was shocked at the lawyer from the ACLU and also some of the judges, some of the questions.
00:17:32.280But talk to me about this new doc, because this is the thing that I think people, people with common sense and love of this country are just going to say we've had too much of this, enough of this.
00:17:43.000and we have to get so much more aggressive you know the mass deportation coalition
00:17:46.760formed about a month ago put out their action plans 100 pages folks and we're going to have
00:17:53.120people from the coalition on here to break that down for you but i believe the american people
00:17:57.980are getting more and more fed up with this particularly as you see the dangers to our
00:18:01.640economy the dangers to our community and particularly the personal safety so tell me
00:18:05.480about the doc right yeah so uh sheridan gorman 18 year old freshman loyola university in chicago
00:18:11.820She's from New York State, beautiful young American woman with her entire life ahead of her.
00:18:17.700She's very involved in her campus ministry group there at Loyola, by all indications, just a fantastic young person.
00:18:24.680She and her friends were hanging out on what is seemingly a very safe beach and pier next to Loyola University,
00:18:30.780a pier out in the Lake Michigan trying to look at the northern lights at nighttime.
00:18:34.580and Jose Medina, an illegal alien who was arrested at the border and then sent internally into this
00:18:41.160country by Joe Biden, ends up in Chicago. He commits more crimes, is arrested by the Chicago
00:18:46.060Police Department, and the cops, and I don't blame the cops, the cops in Chicago, unable to cooperate
00:18:51.000because of the Dem political leadership of that city and state, unable to cooperate, hand him over
00:18:55.880for deportation. He should have been out of this country. Steve, Jose Medina also has tuberculosis,
00:19:01.580came in with it. We are paying to treat him. We are also paying for his apartment. He has a lakefront
00:19:07.420apartment very near that beach. So this cretin that we are paying for, who doesn't belong in
00:19:12.580our country, gets his hands on a gun and totally unprovoked kills in an absolute horrific tragedy,
00:19:19.840kills Sheridan Gorman. This story has been almost completely ignored by legacy media.
00:19:25.040Even in Chicago, Steve, when I went there, I found people in Chicago didn't know the story,
00:19:29.640Or they just knew vaguely, oh, a girl was killed at Loyola.
00:19:32.380They had no idea that it was an illegal alien killer who had been picked up by the Chicago Police Department.
00:19:38.320So I think it's crucial to shine a light on this.
00:19:46.220I interviewed a longtime Chicago policeman, a fantastic guy, 32 years on the force, John Garrido, who talked about how frustrating it is for law enforcement.
00:19:55.880And if you look at that sad lineup of young American women, beautiful young American citizens killed in the prime of their life, some of them young mothers, all of them with bright futures ahead of them, this list has to stop.
00:20:09.740Sheridan Gorman has to be the last one. But she's not going to be if we don't expose what happened to her, if we don't talk about who she was, who Jose Medina is, and why he was allowed to perpetrate this heinous crime in the United States and who his collaborators were.
00:20:27.440and there's a lot of them. It's Biden, Harris, Mayorkas, Mayor Johnson, Governor Pritzker,
00:20:33.720Governor Newsom. Unfortunately, I can go on and on. And Steve, you're right. Not only are the
00:20:37.740Dems not backing down, not only are they not trying to find a more reasonable place on these
00:20:43.100issues, as a matter of fact, they're doubling down on the migrants. Governor Pritzker went so far as
00:20:48.940to try to blame this tragedy on Donald Trump. Is he now claiming that Trump's not deporting
00:20:55.020enough people? I mean, is that legitimately what he's going to try to say to us now?
00:20:58.780So we have to expose this. That's why I did this documentary. It's at cortesinvestigates.com.
00:21:04.520Cortez with an S at the end. If you go to the documentary section, this is the newest one.
00:21:08.400It's only 11 minutes long. It's free, of course, everywhere. No paywalls. Please watch it and
00:21:13.880share it because the regular media is ignoring this. And this can't be something that only
00:21:17.600right-wingers who are really politically engaged know about. We need every American to know about
00:21:21.440this. And I also want to talk to the parents out there, because I think this is critical.
00:21:26.080Parents or grandparents, when you're sending your kids or your grandkids off to school,
00:21:30.320consider where you are sending them. Do you want to send them to a so-called sanctuary city
00:21:34.940or a sanctuary state? Is it a good idea to send them to California or Illinois or New York right
00:21:40.880now, given this environment, because these kinds of tragedies keep happening? I think that needs
00:21:46.240to at least be part of your calculus in terms of where you send your children, where you send
00:21:49.860your money. But this story needs to be amplified, Steve. So that's and I thank you for doing it,
00:21:55.060of course. And I need the help. I need the help with the posse and patriotic Americans everywhere
00:21:59.260to share this story so that people know this shouldn't even be that political, Steve. I will
00:22:02.680tell you this to Rogers Park, that neighborhood is the most radical left wing neighborhood in all
00:22:07.520of Chicago. You couldn't believe how much grief I got while I was filming from the locals there
00:22:12.460telling me to get lost, giving me the finger, telling me migrants welcome, not caring that
00:22:18.460days before at that very beach, an 18-year-old American woman was killed in cold blood, more
00:22:23.520concerned with their leftist politics. So recognize that's the political opponent that we're up
00:22:28.520against here, not just at the elective level, but even at some of the activist sort of voter level
00:22:33.280as well. Real quickly, how come he's not being deported right now, even with tuberculosis? Why
00:22:40.920has DHS not just shipped this guy back to wherever he came from? Well, because we'll fully adjudicate
00:22:47.060of course i mean in terms of the murder so he'll be you know he'll be tried first uh but thankfully
00:22:51.600he is at least now in custody no no no no no no no no but but but before before that how did he
00:22:57.820have a lakefront apartment how why would he have a list to get these guys out because the chicago
00:23:04.600police department is not allowed to cooperate with federal law enforcement on immigration so
00:23:08.540even though they knew that he had a detainer they they are not allowed by the political leadership
00:23:12.940of Chicago and the state of Illinois. They are not allowed to cooperate with ICE. So he was not
00:23:18.100deported. And because it's a no-cash bail state on top of it, Steve, he's released on his own
00:23:22.980recognizance. I mean, literally just released, OK, from prison. Not only not deported, but just
00:23:27.840sent back out in the community and sent back to his apartment that an NGO, a non-governmental
00:23:32.780organization funded by the taxpayers, is paying for. You know, Steve, by the way, lakefront
00:23:38.740addresses, as you might imagine, in Chicago are very sought after. You know, you know how many
00:23:42.920folks, how many Americans who live on the west side of Chicago in some crummy apartment would
00:23:47.340love to live right near the lakefront? They're not. But Jose Medina is. And he decided to kill
00:23:52.860an American in cold blood after being arrested, not just at the border, but then being arrested
00:23:57.600again in the city of Chicago for shoplifting. Is it true that the school paper apologized for
00:24:07.240calling him an illegal migrant or illegal alien and said he was a written and said that the so
00:24:12.740the college paper of a catholic college apologized for hurting his feelings by saying that is that
00:24:17.880true that's exactly right because they called him uh an illegal migrant which of course is exactly
00:24:22.720correct that's what he is he's an illegal migrant they apologized and said that they should have
00:24:26.280called him undocumented and loyal university which was once a great catholic university once
00:24:31.900a great institution key part of the city of chicago over 150 years old magnificent piece of
00:24:36.540real estate right on the lake. It has been disgraceful through this whole episode. It's
00:24:41.000done everything it can to not even talk about this story, to not honor its student, its own
00:24:46.060student. You would think there would be such a sign, such signals from the University of Remorse.
00:24:51.140How could this happen under our care when you're supposed to be in loco parentis to some degree?
00:24:55.400You are the parent now of this young lady. You utterly failed to protect her. But they are more
00:25:01.400concerned with political narrative than they are with protecting their own students. And sadly,
00:25:06.900Loyola, like most Catholic universities in America, long ago has forsaken its mission
00:25:13.820to be an institution of true higher learning and an institution that spreads the faith and instead
00:25:19.020is committed to leftist narrative. And it's really, it's despicable. And that's why I thought
00:25:23.820it was important. To my knowledge, I haven't seen any media go on the scene and produce content
00:25:28.840there and tape there and show the pier and show some of the memorials to her. And her life deserves
00:25:34.740to be honored, Sheridan Gorman. It was too brief, of course, but it deserves to be honored. And the
00:25:40.420reason we need to expose this heinous crime is to prevent it from happening again. There should not
00:25:46.600be another family like the Gormans who has to suffer this horror of having to bury a child,
00:25:52.200the worst thing imaginable for any parent anywhere. And this was 100% preventable. This
00:25:59.040did not have to happen, and it keeps happening. That's why I wanted to put it in context,
00:26:04.300in historical context. Unfortunately, this isn't rare. It's not rare at all. And these illegals
00:26:10.040are abusing us in all kinds of ways, right? We know economically, for example, they're abusing
00:26:14.020us so much in the labor market. So the everyday abuses, those are not okay, of course. But these
00:26:19.980kinds of horrific violent abuses are the worst of all and need to be highlighted. And so I hope
00:26:26.160people will know this story. I hope they will reconsider where they send their children or
00:26:30.540grandchildren away to school. And I hope there will be increasing public pressure on local and
00:26:35.800state officials who are more interested in a narrative and protecting illegal alien criminals
00:26:41.160than they are in guarding the safety and well-being of Americans, including precious young women.
00:26:47.020where do people go to share this i want everybody to see it's 11 minutes long no paywall where do
00:26:53.680they go steve to take it and share it uh with their colleagues and friends yes thank you steve
00:26:58.300go to cortez investigates.com cortez with an s at the end investigates.com click on the
00:27:02.980documentaries it's also pinned to the top of my social media it's the top of my twitter
00:27:07.000which is at cortez steve please see this and share it it's super super important thank you steve
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00:29:57.080today here's your host stephen k man okay we're gonna have the tina peters team on i'll try to
00:30:05.660get them and some of the lawyers on safran it looks like the appeals court has said this felony
00:30:10.740stand but they've remanded it back to the trial court the district court for resentencing we'll
00:30:16.080find out what all that means um and we'll have the team on this afternoon to talk about obviously
00:30:21.640tina peter's a top priority i think the appeals court did reject president trump's pardon
00:30:26.180so peter ticked him in the team i'm sure we're going to go back to work on that uh for the
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00:31:00.820compare and contrast it most people are not happy with their plan or they're confused about it that's
00:31:05.580why 845 war room go check it out today mary holland make america healthy again it's a central
00:31:12.500part of our coalition. I'm not so sure we're tying the coalition together, although at CPAC,
00:31:19.120we had so many of the Maha folks, particularly on Sunday, and it really came off well. You saw
00:31:24.740the MAGA support of it. How are we doing, ma'am? Well, there were some wins I want to talk about,
00:31:31.320Steve, in terms of free speech. So there was a consent decree that was just reached in Missouri
00:31:36.280v. Biden, and it gives a consent decree for 10 years that the government cannot collude and
00:31:43.760pressure and coerce the big social media platforms, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, X,
00:31:51.400to force the content on them. That's an important win. It's over 10 years. You know, some of the
00:31:59.000plaintiffs went on to be in the government, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, but that's an
00:32:04.820important win. We had a lawsuit at Children's Health Defense, Kennedy v. Biden, that was
00:32:09.920consolidated with that case, and we settled with the government. And they acknowledged,
00:32:14.340President Trump, as soon as he came into office, acknowledged in an executive order that the
00:32:19.600Biden administration had been in violation of the First Amendment censoring speech. There was also
00:32:25.540a really important win that does relate to Maha yesterday from the Supreme Court or two days ago,
00:32:31.600Salazar versus Chiles and that's Chiles versus Salazar sorry and that was an 8-1 decision
00:32:37.280and that was about what's called conversion therapy about talking to young people about
00:32:42.840their sexuality as a case in Colorado and even Justice Kagan wrote in a concurrence that you
00:32:49.560can't suppress one side of the debate and then have the other side be open a therapist can't say
00:32:55.220oh explore your you know sexuality and then say but you can't uh you know try to like overturn
00:33:02.420your own attractions to people the same sex or wanting to be different sex or whatever so that's
00:33:07.460a that's a that's a triumph that we think will lead to really favorable decisions in two cases
00:33:12.940that we have about suppression of medical speech um one in california one in washington space
00:33:18.540so that's sort of uh bright news in the maha coalition right now but i can tell you about
00:33:24.520some of the issues hang on but but hang but but but hang hang on i'm gonna get i want to talk
00:33:30.120about the winds here first on the conversion therapy explain to the audience what's the
00:33:35.100connection uh between allow i guess the judges didn't say they approved of conversion therapy
00:33:41.180but that if you have one set of therapists or having people get in touch with their inner
00:33:46.280feelings about their gender and their sexuality as a free speech you can't cut off another group
00:33:52.280Is that correct? Is that basically they didn't they didn't say they agreed with it, but they said they said you should be able to have the availability of it.
00:34:00.340Right. Exactly. And they said that, you know, therapists, doctors, professionals should be able to exercise free speech.
00:34:07.840They were suppressing this therapist speech. And that's dangerous to all of us, Steve.
00:34:13.000Right. If we can't have open communication with our doctors, with our therapists, like what happened in covid, we're in terrible trouble.
00:34:20.740And so we expect now, based on this Supreme Court decision, that our case in California, where first the state and then the medical board tried to suppress accurate speech around COVID, we're expecting that that case is now going to be decided favorably, probably sent back by the Supreme Court.
00:34:38.260But it's incredibly dangerous when a state says to a professional, particularly a doctor, you can't have this speech with your patient or your client.
00:34:48.620So that's what it's about. Even Justice Kagan, who probably doesn't agree with the outcome, said it's a straightforward First Amendment issue.
00:34:55.940And Justice Sotomayor joined with her. The only dissident there was Justice Jackson, who in Missouri v. Biden had said what I consider to be bizarre things about how, you know, we can't let the First Amendment hamper the government. No, that's the whole point, is that the government doesn't get to take sides because we in this democracy believe in the free marketplace of ideas.
00:35:19.060so talk to me if those are our wins and they're significant talk to me about uh maybe are not
00:35:26.280our non-wins well let me tell you where there's sort of clearly uh you know there there has
00:35:32.160arisen kind of this issue within the maha maga coalition and that is around the use of the
00:35:38.420pesticide glyphosate um glyphosate is a poison it's intended to kill pests bugs um and it's
00:35:47.060really harmful to humans, it's especially harmful to children. Steve, we wrote an amicus brief that
00:35:55.040we filed yesterday with the Supreme Court saying the Environmental Protection Agency is required
00:36:01.080to have a 10 times threshold for dangerous products for children because children are so
00:36:08.600much more sensitive when they're developing than adults are. And they really haven't lived by that.
00:36:13.580And so the administration, the Trump administration has, you know, put a thumb on the scales and the solicitor general is siding with Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, to create federal preemption and to basically disallow lawsuits and state regulations of glyphosate, saying that it is a national security issue.
00:36:35.640And it's complex, Steve, as you can well appreciate. Most of the glyphosate is coming from China. We need to develop our own sources. We can't change farming overnight. But the reality is that this is a poison and we're now really abetting the use of it through this Supreme Court decision potentially or through this executive order.
00:36:58.280So many people in the Maha movement are not happy.
00:37:01.460There is going to be a demonstration when there's oral argument on this case in the Supreme Court on April 29th.
00:37:09.180So April 29th is I'm sure you guys are going to organize something.
00:37:12.500Is there anything before I let you go?
00:38:23.420It means that local communities who know their needs best have no control.
00:38:28.540And an antenna can go in a schoolyard, it can go in a firehouse,
00:38:31.920and it can cause real harm potentially, especially to children
00:38:36.040because developing children have different bodies, they have different needs.
00:38:39.660And radiation is a serious carcinogen and it has other health effects that are really serious.
00:38:44.560so how can we get more information we'll kick off that debate because i'm sure that's going
00:38:50.340to be quite i would love to where do people go to get more information on that thanks thanks steve
00:38:55.200they go to a website that we curate called 704 704 no more.org 704 is the section of the
00:39:04.480telecommunications act from the 1990s that's totally outdated we need to revamp this in light
00:39:11.380of the, you know, the electromagnetic world that we now live in. It's not protecting our children.
00:39:18.640I have so many family members and friends that are part of the Maha, and they've been waiting
00:39:23.920for this one in a long time. So I can now say the same collection of wingnuts that were against
00:39:28.100vaccines or the same now collection of wingnuts. Yes, sir. Absolutely. Communication. Bring it,
00:39:35.460baby. You guys, hey, you've come a long way, baby, on the vaccine. We'll talk about that.
00:39:41.380that another day too mary let's let's get where people go to get all the information what you
00:39:46.460guys are working on you guys are amazing thank you so much steve so we're on x children's hd
00:39:52.260our website childrenshealthdefense.org you can follow me mary holland nyc
00:39:57.920thank you ma'am appreciate you thank you mike mike davis i i know you're super busy and you
00:40:07.100I've spent so much time with this yesterday going on.
00:40:09.660I hated to do this, but I've got to get your opinion,
00:40:12.480since you were one of the very first people to bring this up.
00:40:15.860The New York Times has an article today, and correct me if I'm wrong,
00:40:20.540I think they're actually saying that ActBlue and what you said,
00:40:25.020this has been a couple of years ago, I think now,
00:40:27.200about taking money from foreign donors and giving it to Democratic candidates
00:40:31.680may actually just not only be a fact, but actually ActBlue may have lied
00:40:36.480and trying to cover up is the New York Times actually got it's hard for them to have a
00:40:41.060favorable article but is this actually kind of start to reveal some truths of what you and James
00:40:47.440O'Keefe and you know Natalie Winters and others Mike Benz have been arguing for a long time is
00:40:52.060just nothing but an organization that funnels foreign money into an American election sir
00:40:56.940this New York Times story is pretty damning for Acts Blue because it shows there's evidence
00:41:04.420including memos between ActBlue and its attorneys at Covington and Burling, a very prestigious
00:41:12.840Democrat, you know, white shoe law firm in Washington, D.C., one of the best firms in the
00:41:19.060world. There's memos in this reporting where Covington's attorneys are advising ActBlue
00:41:27.280that there is potential criminal misconduct with how they are handling these donations into
00:41:36.340Act Blue. And there's also evidence that the leader of Act Blue provided false testimony
00:41:45.520to the House investigation of this in 2023, the House committee that handles election law. So
00:41:56.380So this is very, very bad for Acts Blue, and this is going to turn into – I imagine it will turn into criminal indictments by the Justice Department, by a lot of people, including potentially this former head of Acts Blue.
00:42:14.300no it's kind of a bombshell uh mike um i tell you can you hang on because i i want to get to
00:42:22.900you in the in the next block and talk about covington and and burling um it's eric holder's
00:42:28.860law firm it's one of the most prestigious and powerful law firms in the nation's capital it is
00:42:35.060uh also the a lot of the muscle on back of the democratic party to know that they're involved
00:42:39.580here and warn these guys about it shows you and even for the new york times to report on it and
00:42:44.280And the New York Times tried to tamp it down as much as possible.
00:42:47.360But if you read between the lines, this is about as explosive as you can get.
00:42:51.080And it proves that people that have pushed this and tried to expose this for years who were called conspiracy theorists and wingnuts, it turns out, guess what?
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00:45:22.320out. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Okay, Mike, we got a lot to cover and only a couple
00:45:29.840minutes to cover it. First off, this thing on ActBlue, this is huge. It looks like you're
00:45:34.500right. I think you're seeing criminal indictments in the future. Why is the New York Times right
00:45:38.440this? Covington, that Covington leaked this to them? Because they're the Democratic muscle in
00:45:43.480this town. What's going on here? I think Act Blue made the mistake of firing Covington. And this
00:45:50.980may be, I'm just guessing, this is just pure speculation on my part, but Covington is the
00:45:57.660most connected most powerful democrat law firm in washington dc and act blue fired covington and
00:46:05.200now you're seeing internal memos from covington in the new york times so uh you know paybacks
00:46:12.320you do not cross i'm telling you folks the law firms run this town you don't cross the law it's
00:46:21.340one of the reasons the justice party's got such a problem hiring people from president trump's
00:46:25.920administration the the the powers that be in the republican law firm say you can't work for
00:46:30.580trump so it's sick but covington's a powerhouse we're going to follow this closely we're going
00:46:35.160get o'keefe up on this all the folks like davis and o'keefe uh war room that hammer this for years
00:46:40.540guess what the memos from covington tell you criminal activity or potential criminal activity
00:46:46.140uh mike i'm totally confused because i'm not a lawyer the appeals court kicked it back to the
00:46:53.680sentencing court for the judge to resentence Tina Peters. Is this good news or bad news?
00:47:00.320This is outstanding notes. The Colorado Court of Appeals, while upholding her conviction,
00:47:07.480and it's a bogus conviction, but at the end of the day, they reversed the sentence and remanded it
00:47:14.160back to Mesa County District Judge Matthew Barrett, who is a horrible human being, who put
00:47:24.560Tina Peters in prison, this 69-year-old woman at the time, in prison for nine years. Nine years
00:47:32.100because this Judge Matthew Barrett did not like Tina Peters' political views on the election.
00:47:39.860That is a clear First Amendment violation, as the Colorado Court of Appeals just said in its order.
00:47:47.680This gets sent back to this piece of garbage judge, this fake Republican rhino garbage human being of a judge who put a 69-year-old woman in prison for nine years because he's garbage.
00:48:01.360And I'm a member of the Colorado Bar, so they can file their marketplace so I can tell them to go F themselves.
00:48:06.340this garbage judge put tina peters in prison for nine years because he didn't like her views on
00:48:13.520the election you can't do that in america we don't live in china and so they're going to give
00:48:18.960this garbage judge the opportunity to fix this um if he doesn't fix it uh that i imagine that
00:48:26.240the governor is going to face tremendous pressure governor jared polis is going to face tremendous
00:48:32.140pressure to commute her sentence um he wanted to do it but but what you're but what you're saying
00:48:38.620what you're saying is polis is going to lean on this judge and say get me off the hook do do what's
00:48:42.900right let's get to let this woman go is that your thesis that your theory of the case here
00:48:47.260i think the court of appeals just did that for governor jared polis governor jared polis wanted
00:48:52.740to commute uh her sentence and he also wanted to drop the income tax in colorado down to zero
00:49:01.180I mean, he's not really a leftist. He's basically just a gay libertarian. But, you know, whatever. That's the best we can do in Colorado. But he gets this is sent back to this garbage judge, Matthew Barrett. Let's let's hope he does the right thing here and freeze Tina Peters immediately.
00:49:20.240then Jarrett Paulus doesn't have to do the dirty work of commuting Tina Peters a sentence
00:49:25.640and take the wrath from his lunatic left-wing base. And so let's just get her out of prison.
00:49:32.060This woman has suffered way too much. She is a political prisoner right now as the Colorado
00:49:38.960Board of Appeals. These Democrat appointees on the Colorado Board of Appeals just made that
00:49:45.120crystal clear. She is a political prisoner. Tina Peters is in prison right now because she was
00:49:51.120politically persecuted because of her First Amendment beliefs, because this garbage judge
00:49:57.260in Mesa County, Colorado, Matthew Barrett, openly, he's stupid enough to openly punish Tina Peters
00:50:04.920because of her First Amendment protective views. This guy is an idiot. He should not be
00:50:10.300on the bench. I hope that Harmeet Dillon opens up a federal civil rights criminal investigation
00:50:17.640on this judge, Matthew Barrett, because he's a garbage human being.
00:50:23.500Mike, where do people go for your social media and Article 3 to find out more about this? You've
00:50:28.660been on this case from the beginning about Tina Peters, as many other people have.
00:50:33.260Thank you, Steve. Article3project.org, article3project.org. Donate, follow us on social
00:50:39.760media. One of the action items go to take action and it's to light up the Colorado people, light up
00:50:46.700Governor Jared Polis and help him find and keep his backbone and keep the pressure on these judges
00:50:53.560like garbage judge Matthew Barrett and get Tina Peters out of prison immediately. She is a
00:50:59.960persecuted political prisoner. A patriot and a saint. Thank you so much, sir. Appreciate you.
00:51:07.000thank you mike lindell give me uh give me a give me a minute on tina peters what's happening and
00:51:13.040then i want to talk about the deals sir as we move into easter yeah it's a shame she's not out yet but
00:51:19.640the biggest political prisoner and by the way this goes back to arctic frost too by our own
00:51:24.640government attacking the people in colorado including tina and so as uh as we pray for her
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