Bannon's War Room - Episode 5365： Manning The Polling Stations In 2026; Showdown In South Carolina

00:00:00.080 Donald Trump is using debunked claims about, quote, unquote, unfair elections as a pretext to send what he's now calling a large, quote, election integrity army to every state for the 2026 midterms.

00:00:14.640 Trump made that announcement in response to Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer's new effort to push back against potential election interference from Trump and Republicans.

00:00:22.800 Now, Trump didn't give specifics on who actually would be the so-called army, but his comments echo a strategy from Republican operatives to install trained recruits as poll workers to monitor the 2024 election.

00:00:38.720 First of all, based on what we have seen since January 20th of last year, he will leverage every single body carrying a badge and a gun to serve whatever purposes he thinks he can get away with.

00:00:52.800 We have had the attorney general, in spite of a direct federal law contravening his assertions, say that he has no problem with ICE at polling places.

00:01:05.580 Again, Congress passed a law that was signed by a president which forbids armed federal agents from being at polling places. 0.62

00:01:15.220 And we have a really shameful history from the Jim Crow and Reconstruction eras as to why that is necessary. 0.59

00:01:24.400 Secondly, we know from his first failed coup attempt in 2020 that he is willing to rile up a crowd like we saw on January 6th, 0.95

00:01:36.220 who are willing to destroy federal property, assault police officers, and generally make a

00:01:44.000 mockery of every single thing that this country is supposed to stand for. And it's important to note,

00:01:51.780 he doesn't need to take over a polling place. He doesn't need to start another insurrection.

00:01:58.860 all he needs to do is use leisure domain and lies to cast doubt on a few swing states and throw the

00:02:09.020 country into chaos and we have seen to get back to what we were talking about earlier time and

00:02:16.900 time again that it is unfortunately easy for him whether by his skill or other people's

00:02:24.860 gullibility to hoodwink those who want to support him i mean this was the scene inside the louisiana

00:02:31.120 statehouse last week as republicans worked to jam through the new maps protesters packing the halls

00:02:36.840 demanding to be heard frankly some of the same in alabama where republicans are trying to take

00:02:42.640 away at least one of the two congressional districts in alabama represented by a black

00:02:46.980 lawmaker protesters saying we shall overcome outside the house chamber some of them dragged

00:02:52.680 away by security guards. Same thing in Tennessee, where Republicans have passed new maps that break

00:03:00.040 up majority black Memphis. So Republicans can run the table for the whole state. Protesters 0.96

00:03:05.600 blew whistles and booed and shouted shame as Republican lawmakers walked in to cast their

00:03:10.560 votes. I should tell you, in Tennessee, a big slice of black residents in Memphis will now

00:03:15.360 have their votes folded into a white county called Williamson County. Williamson County 0.69

00:03:20.740 literally still has a Confederate flag on their county seal, but they'll have just the right size 0.99

00:03:27.940 of a slice of black voters from Memphis to make sure they can never, with our other Memphis 0.87

00:03:32.660 residents, elect a member of Congress of their choosing. There's a reason why people are calling 1.00

00:03:39.360 this Jim Crow 2.0. This really is plainly an effort to drag us back to the post-Reconstruction 0.77

00:03:45.760 era after the Civil War, right? The so-called redemption of the old Confederacy where the

00:03:49.920 Slave states reverted to giving black Americans zero say in their own democracy. 1.00

00:03:56.420 And the federal government let them do it. 1.00

00:03:58.420 The Supreme Court has gotten it wrong generation after generation.

00:04:03.380 The rights we enjoy right now are not because of nine people on the Supreme Court.

00:04:07.640 It's because people fought for them.

00:04:09.460 And where the Supreme Court usually gets it wrong is when they're taking away rights,

00:04:12.900 whether it's Korematsu with the internment of Japanese,

00:04:15.680 whether it's Plessy versus Ferguson, denying rights to African-Americans, whether it's Dobbs,

00:04:21.680 they got it wrong, taking away rights for women to control what happens to their bodies.

00:04:26.560 And here we have, again, the Supreme Court taking away rights, equality, fair representation and fair voting,

00:04:36.140 doing in result the exact same thing happened when Reconstruction fell in the 1870s.

00:04:42.440 And exactly what happened then is state legislators moved to take away rights and access and fairness and representation from black people.

00:04:54.560 The Supreme Court is effectively sending us back to an era where legislators in many of these states can effectively wipe black voter power off.

00:05:03.040 This is not about left or right. 0.65

00:05:04.400 So the question is, is not what the Supreme Court did, because they've done it in past generations.

00:05:10.080 It's what are we going to do as a result?

00:05:12.440 And they may have issued a decision. It's time for us to again make history.

00:05:17.260 And we can't. Every American should see this as no longer about left or right, about right or wrong.

00:05:23.260 This race now we're having with all of these maps since the the the Rucho versus common cause decision where the Supreme Court says, hey, yeah, partisan gerrymandering is anti-democratic, but we're not going to do anything about it.

00:05:36.260 And now they're allowing this race. Well, this election has to be about those fundamental rights, not right or wrong.

00:05:44.380 But will Americans have basic fundamental rights like the right to vote and the right to fair representation? 0.52

00:05:49.340 Because this race at the bottom we're on is wrong. 0.84

00:05:51.800 And the desecration of the sacrifices and struggles of so many people from different races, Goodman, Cheney, Schwerner, dying in Mississippi for voting rights.

00:06:04.160 This has got to be about more than just a political election.

00:06:07.900 It's got to be about us affirming our rights as past generations did when the Supreme Court tried to set us back.

00:06:14.060 Right now, the South is exhibit A for how far we still need to go as a country. 0.93

00:06:21.020 It is not surprising or shocking that the South is the one racing forward at lightning speed to strip black people of their voice. 0.99

00:06:29.820 And they're doing so without hesitation or shame. 0.99

00:06:33.420 The Voting Rights Act was always what nudged us in the right direction, and that nudge was needed most greatly in the South, in the deep South states, the former Confederacy that is not even blinking as they shamelessly strip away districts represented by honorable Black public servants. 0.71

00:06:55.540 So as we have done throughout our nation's history, the NAACP will continue to march forward in the wake of the animus and the hostility. 0.60

00:07:06.200 We will turn out in the streets and use our votes, our voices.

00:07:10.900 We will turn out in the courts, Constitution in hand, standing up for the rights outlined in the Reconstruction Amendments.

00:07:18.540 amendments. But most importantly, this election season, you will see turnout like you have never

00:07:25.600 seen before. It is at the ballot box where we will use our voice in the most determined fashion

00:07:31.240 during this dark season. Michael, as we know, DOJ trying to get everybody's voter rolls. You have

00:07:37.020 references to this army that they want to put out there. And then on top of that, Michael,

00:07:41.840 you now have The Washington Post drawing our attention to the fact you have a bunch of

00:07:45.440 republicans who denied the 2020 election results who could be governors next year political figures

00:07:50.800 took leading roles in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election appear on track to win the

00:07:55.440 republican party's nomination for governor in several of the country's biggest battleground

00:07:59.040 states including arizona pennsylvania and wisconsin what could possibly go wrong i remember being in

00:08:04.560 arizona and nevada in 2022 michael when there were big senate races and one of the big dividing lines

00:08:10.900 between the Democratic and Republican candidate in those races where the Republican candidates

00:08:15.140 were election deniers. And yes, that may not have been the reason that voters went to the

00:08:20.480 polls, but it was in the ether. It was part of the choice that they were making. And we're

00:08:24.640 watching that choice play out again. At the end of the day, a year from now, folks will

00:08:31.440 be sitting back and listening to conversations like this and go, why didn't anybody pay attention

00:08:35.460 We tried to tell what they said. Yeah, they were laying out the cornerstones of what was about to happen.

00:08:43.140 Donald Trump is going to steal this election. I don't know why that's hard for folks to understand in the grass.

00:08:49.420 He's put in place. I early iterations of our being together.

00:08:54.780 I was talking about in the last political cycle what Donald Trump was going to do in this political cycle because it was in his best interest to do so, Michael.

00:09:04.060 So it's not just that it's in his best interests. And I slightly disagree with everybody. I don't think this is in response to incentives. I don't think this is in response to any facts on the ground. I'm going to be the simplistic knuckle dragging ex-FBI agent.

00:09:21.060 I think this is because they are bad people who don't care about their country in iota as much as they care about themselves.

00:09:28.680 And they are willing to burn down every institution we have built since the generation of the founders solely in the name of personal power.

00:09:38.880 And until everybody in America recognizes that, we're not going to stop it.

00:09:44.880 Rule of law is fundamentally under attack.

00:09:47.000 and I know a lot of people who have to win elections or have appointed positions will

00:09:51.800 disagree with me but arguing right now about anything other than the rule of law is like

00:09:59.680 worrying about your window treatments when your house is burning down there are bigger problems

00:10:05.800 if we don't save our institutions if we don't save our democratic processes issues like

00:10:14.140 affordability, climate change, international relations. They're not going to matter at all.

00:10:20.760 We have to rebuild our foundations. Tuesday, 12 May, Year of Our Lord, 2026. Right there,

00:10:26.880 you see the unbridgeable gap, right? A mouthpiece for the FBI, one of the most corrupt

00:10:32.120 institutions in this country, the deep state, really starting to get quite worried about the

00:10:39.320 army we're putting together of grassroots people that, yes, will be guarding the ballot boxes this

00:10:45.260 November. Sorry if you don't like that, Michael Steele, Tim Miller, all you Nicole Wallace

00:10:53.120 Republicans. Think about that. They ran the Republican Party. That's what a joke the

00:10:58.000 Republican Party is. Chip Roy joins us now. Chip, defense of the Constitution. This is what I failed

00:11:04.360 to get. The Supreme Court 6-3 upheld the constitutional order. This is clearly these

00:11:10.640 DEI districts are rabidly unconstitutional. You're running for the Attorney General

00:11:15.620 of Texas. You're a constitutional expert. You're one of the consciences in the House right now on

00:11:22.040 the Constitution. What doesn't the left get about we have to defend the constitutional order and

00:11:28.340 that these districts are totally and completely unconstitutional? Well, good morning, Steve.

00:11:33.920 The truth is, what they don't get is they don't get that the Constitution is what controls

00:11:38.940 because all they care about is power.

00:11:41.000 They say things like the rule of law, like in that last clip.

00:11:44.240 The fact of the matter is, the rule of law here would actually suggest that having race-based

00:11:49.480 gerrymandering is the problem.

00:11:51.040 In fact, Clarence Thomas said it better than any of the other justices, as usual, when

00:11:55.260 he said Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act should have nothing to do with districting. 0.53

00:11:59.000 We've been living under that for 60 years, and we've been creating race-based districts

00:12:05.280 contrary to the Constitution of the United States.

00:12:08.260 And, you know, heard the complaints about Tennessee, that, oh my gosh, what's happening?

00:12:12.780 A white guy, an old white guy, Steve Cohen, is the representative for that supposedly

00:12:18.820 black center district out of Memphis. 0.81

00:12:22.820 They don't care about anything but power. 0.99

00:12:25.180 The fact is, if you go back 20 years ago, you'll remember this. Some of us, a very small group of

00:12:31.360 us, were instrumental in stopping the Bush nomination of Harriet Myers. Now, I wish her

00:12:36.560 well. She's a nice lady, but she was not prepared to be a Supreme Court justice. It took some of us

00:12:41.800 throwing down, freezing the Senate Judiciary Committee when I was a lawyer on the Judiciary

00:12:47.120 Committee, and then giving it time. And a few days later, Harriet was removed and we got Sam Alito.

00:12:54.000 Now, imagine how things would be different over the last 20 years if we hadn't done that.

00:12:58.180 Leadership matters.

00:12:59.500 In the Voting Rights Act, I was filing minority views, laying out the unconstitutionality of

00:13:05.420 the Voting Rights Act 20 years ago.

00:13:07.540 We knew Section 5 was unconstitutional, which bore out in 2012 in the Supreme Court opinion,

00:13:12.860 saying you can't use 50-year-old data to make states have to go pre-clear with the

00:13:17.680 Department of Justice.

00:13:18.980 Now, finally, the court has taken race-based gerrymandering out of our maps.

00:13:23.780 Now Democrats are flipping out because we added five seats in Texas.

00:13:29.260 DeSantis added four in Florida.

00:13:30.980 Now we got one in Tennessee.

00:13:32.340 We're hopefully going to get a few more from other states.

00:13:34.960 Virginia's Supreme Court did the right thing and struck down that absurd map.

00:13:38.680 The rule of law is actually governing.

00:13:40.380 The people should be able to choose their representatives in a Republican form of government.

00:13:44.440 South Carolina elected Tim Scott.

00:13:46.320 they are they are worried about leftist marxist power not blacks being discriminated against

00:13:53.540 that's the actual truth uh chip can you hang on for one second i know you've got a new uh

00:14:00.500 legislative initiative you're talking about our crime i want to ask you about the texas race

00:14:05.180 also uh the radicals they want to dissolve the commonwealth virginia supreme court restock it

00:14:12.280 with people under 54 that are left-wing and retry this.

00:14:15.840 They want to pack the Supreme Court of the United States.

00:14:18.680 They're out of control.

00:14:19.940 This is why these cold opens now are so great.

00:14:22.080 Yes, an army of trained volunteers will be at the ballot boxes this November.

00:14:28.920 Take that to the bank.

00:14:30.860 That's a dead certainty.

00:14:32.580 You're not going to steal any more elections in the United States of America.

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00:16:27.700 So, Chip, I want to go back to the Alito because, folks, think about that for a second.

00:16:35.300 Justice Alito, who's been really such a savior and just an amazing, amazing, amazing man, what he's done, it would have been Harriet Myers.

00:16:43.660 George F. Will, who I'm no fan of, but had the greatest quote when that first happened.

00:16:47.520 He said, Chip, if you took the top 1,000 constitutional lawyers in the country and had them put together individually their top 1,000 choices, in that mass list, Harriet Meyer's name would not be on it of what a joke it was.

00:17:04.360 How big a fight was it to get a lead on the court? 0.57

00:17:07.340 It was a huge fight.

00:17:08.480 Remember, we had just had the Chief Justice Roberts.

00:17:10.960 We had two openings.

00:17:12.260 It was kind of chaos.

00:17:13.280 and some of us just said, look, we spent our whole legal careers trying to fight for this moment to

00:17:18.620 have a Supreme Court that will actually do the right thing. And now you're going to roll the

00:17:22.580 dice with someone who's unproven and that we believe wouldn't be that solid. So we had to go

00:17:27.280 freeze out the Judiciary Committee members. We as staffers, as lawyers say, guys, stop, wait and go

00:17:33.100 sit down and look at a record. Do not pledge your vote. Do not put it out publicly. And we basically

00:17:38.440 ran a secret campaign for about a week. Actually, it became not so secret, so much so that the

00:17:43.120 Bush team had to come down and have a meeting with just us as staffers trying to convince us.

00:17:48.280 And we just lit into him. So what Supreme Court case has she ever been a part of?

00:17:52.460 What would give us anything to believe that she would be a rock star like Scalia or Thomas?

00:17:57.580 And the answer was nothing. So at the end of the day, President Bush thankfully pulled her name

00:18:02.340 because, again, I'm not trying to disparage her. She's a really, really fantastic human being,

00:18:07.400 but just did not have any business to be on the Supreme Court. Sam Alito was the right choice.

00:18:11.420 We've gotten numerous great opinions because of Sam Alito, a great guy on law enforcement, a great guy on Fourth Amendment and on our rights, a great guy on obviously getting the right opinion on Roe versus Wade, and now this opinion on the ridiculousness of the Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and it should not be race-based, and the court and the country is better off for having Sam Alito.

00:18:33.300 So it's one of the things I'm most proud of.

00:18:35.160 Leadership matters when you have to set the stage

00:18:37.440 and look down the table.

00:18:39.400 You know, whether it was the speaker's fight,

00:18:42.280 remember three and a half years ago, Steve,

00:18:44.180 we wouldn't have gotten the big, beautiful bill.

00:18:45.980 We wouldn't have gotten a lot of the reforms.

00:18:48.040 We wouldn't be standing alongside President Trump

00:18:50.040 the same way if we hadn't picked that fight

00:18:52.180 three and a half years ago in the 20

00:18:54.180 and the Freedom Caucus who led.

00:18:55.880 It matters if you lead.

00:18:58.140 Let me talk, you know, you got the left,

00:18:59.820 they're trying to dissolve the Virginia Supreme Court,

00:19:02.480 the commonwealth they're trying to pack the supreme court you're running for ag and i realize

00:19:07.720 you're putting up something now on fentanyl while you're still in the house but in this fight for ag

00:19:11.700 this is why it's so important ken paxton stood in the breach against these radicals on the first day

00:19:17.400 of the biden regime that's why these state ags and particularly texas because texas is the jewel in

00:19:23.120 the crown of the union are so important sir yeah that's right steven yeah i'm introducing

00:19:28.740 legislation. I'm still doing my day job in Congress, burning both ends of the candle.

00:19:32.820 The Deal Death Face Death Act now would make sure that if you're a drug dealer pushing fentanyl and

00:19:37.400 killing our kids, you can face the death penalty under federal law. We need to be stronger. We need

00:19:42.060 to be much more forceful on these. We need, by the way, to codify what the president is doing at the

00:19:46.960 border, and we haven't done that yet. There are a lot of things we need to do. We need to get rid

00:19:50.660 of the kill switch. We need to stop the central bank digital currency. We need to reform FISA to

00:19:56.140 secure our rights. Look, I'm doing everything I can in Congress to push Congress to the right to

00:20:00.420 back up what the president ran on, defend the president of the United States and get things

00:20:04.040 done right. But in Texas, we've got to have an attorney general who, no matter who's in the

00:20:08.280 White House, will stand up and defend the greatest state and the greatest country in the history of

00:20:12.000 the world. If we lose Texas, we lose it all. Look, my family came here in 1853. The people who came

00:20:18.080 here and built Texas, they built Texas for freedom. They built Texas so that we could come here,

00:20:23.460 live free, act out our faith in God, and carry out and live our lives according to the dictates

00:20:29.040 of our conscience. And now Texas is often too often for sale, for sale to the highest bidder,

00:20:35.800 for sale to big corporations coming in and putting data centers wherever they want without regard to

00:20:40.660 water or without regard to electricity and what's happening on our grid. Too often for sale to the

00:20:46.880 highest bidder who wants to come in and use their powerful lobby interest in the Austin swamp,

00:20:51.740 which is every bit as bad as the D.C. swamp. The Austin swamp fears Chip Roy. The leftists and the

00:20:58.140 Marxists fear Chip Roy, so much so that there's a California PAC running a million dollars of ads

00:21:04.620 against me, not my opponent, because I delivered repeal of the Green News scam subsidies alongside

00:21:10.400 President Trump in the big, beautiful bill. There's a lot of lies being told by my opponent

00:21:15.080 who has unlimited funds and resources. Those lies are because he has nothing else to run on.

00:21:19.860 those lies are because he's not a real lawyer. He's never been in court. He's never stood up

00:21:24.280 and prosecuted a criminal. I've done all of those things. And look, I know some of your audience

00:21:29.500 and some people have disagreed with me along the line. That's okay. You know, I'm going to fight 0.95

00:21:34.640 and stand up for you, that I'm going to fight and stand up for the constitution. You know what

00:21:39.020 you're going to get. Someone who's fearlessly going to go into the Austin swamp and say,

00:21:43.280 Texas is not for sale. Steve, if we lose Texas, where else do we get to go? We cannot turn

00:21:49.580 Texas over to open borders, to criminals, to Marxists, and importantly, to the Islamists 1.00

00:21:54.580 who are attacking our state and building mosques. I was standing up and saying this publicly long 1.00

00:21:59.620 before anyone else was. Two years ago, I took to the floor. Charlie Kirk called me and said,

00:22:04.520 thank you. I called him to thank him for his speech in Oxford. And the last conversation I

00:22:09.360 had with Charlie was that we don't get it. And if we don't stop Islam, there is no Texas. There is 1.00

00:22:13.980 no America. We've got to stop the March of Islam. We've got to stop the Marxists. We've got to stop 1.00

00:22:18.700 the corporatists. We've got to stand up for the hardworking middle-class family getting screwed

00:22:22.860 over by the powerful interests. And that's what you want an attorney general. What do you think 0.88

00:22:29.100 the defining issue, this issue about Mays Middleton's lack of experience as a lawyer in

00:22:35.700 courts, managing lawyers, is it issues that define it? Because, you know, these state AGs are so

00:22:42.620 important. Paxton has raised the profile of Texas and the Texas attorney general to be one of the

00:22:49.140 most important elective offices in the country because of Ken Paxton's leadership. And this is

00:22:53.380 why it's such a huge fight between the grassroots for Paxton and Cornyn right now, trying to replace

00:22:59.140 a sitting U.S. senator. Because this is because of Ken's actions over the last, you know,

00:23:04.640 longer than that, but definitely since January of 2021, when he really stood in the breach

00:23:09.620 when no one else would.

00:23:11.100 What do you think is the defining issue

00:23:12.680 that people really got to think about

00:23:14.200 as now I guess early voting starts Monday

00:23:16.780 and then I think the 26th is when actually we vote in Texas.

00:23:22.740 When people go to the polls on election day,

00:23:25.380 what do you think the defining issues are?

00:23:27.860 Well, you named one of them.

00:23:29.040 First of all, you want someone who's a real lawyer,

00:23:31.280 who's been in court, who stood before a judge,

00:23:33.020 who has run complex litigation.

00:23:35.200 I was Ken Paxton's first assistant attorney general.

00:23:38.200 We ran complex litigation.

00:23:39.440 we wanted. We built a great team. We set up an office for success and a structure that would

00:23:44.580 deliver. And look, my opponent, he literally spent hundreds of thousands of dollars as he had trying

00:23:50.640 to buy people across the state of Texas. He's been funding groups. He's trying to buy people

00:23:55.260 to put them on slates. He spent $300,000 backing an opponent to Ken Paxton in the last primary,

00:24:02.620 literally well over half a million dollars across multiple candidates trying to take down Ken

00:24:07.720 Paxton. The fact is, my opponent is a swamp creature. The swamp creatures in Austin are 0.81

00:24:13.140 rallying around him. And the defining issue really is, who do you trust to be your lawyer as a

00:24:19.340 Texan? Who do you trust to be your lawyer to fight the key issues? The Islamification of Texas,

00:24:25.100 the Marxists and the radicals putting criminals on our streets and trying to, you know, put DAs 0.97

00:24:30.340 and judges in place that will endanger our people. Somebody who will stand up to secure the border

00:24:35.040 if we have, God forbid, a Democrat, a Biden, Mallorca situation again, who will declare an

00:24:39.160 invasion and stand up and fight. And the last and important one, as I mentioned before,

00:24:43.780 stand up to the corporations and the boardrooms coming in, buying up our local hospitals,

00:24:49.300 putting data centers wherever they want without regard to Texans' interests,

00:24:54.020 buying up our ranches and our meat processing facilities, buying up all of our great lands,

00:24:59.760 farmlands, and selling them to the highest bidder, buying up housing stock. I know that's something

00:25:03.560 of interest to President Trump. There's been a lot of attacks against me, Steve. You and I haven't

00:25:08.180 always agreed. I understand. But when you put yourself in the cauldron and you stand up and

00:25:13.080 fight for what you believe in in the Constitution, then you're going to take some arrows. But I'm the

00:25:17.920 guy that you can trust to put in front of a freight train. And that freight train are a bunch

00:25:22.120 of Marxists and Islamists who want to take Texas away from us. Who do you want there? Mays Middleton, 1.00

00:25:27.260 who inherited hundreds of millions of dollars and is spending it to buy the election so he can be

00:25:31.220 governor or a guy who wants to be the attorney general who's been in court and has taken arrows

00:25:36.840 to fight for this country and the state of texas that's what i think the election is going to be

00:25:41.180 about over the next two weeks uh last thing before you go uh given your understanding the constitution

00:25:46.660 being in the house running for ag and you know running to replace a guy like ken paxton that

00:25:52.420 always put the constitution first what recommendation would have some of these uh some of the ags or

00:25:57.120 someone like in South Carolina or Alabama, Carolina is going to get here. We're going to

00:26:01.520 go to the South Carolina Senate. What would be your recommendation to those folks in the AG

00:26:06.440 position about this issue of these unconstitutional congressional districts? Well, look, I think they

00:26:13.280 just need to stand up directly behind what the Supreme Court laid out. I don't think it's

00:26:17.520 actually that vague. It was a strong six to three opinion. I think they need to create maps that

00:26:22.420 reflect the values of the people of Texas, make sure, I mean, well, in my case, Texas,

00:26:26.760 the people of their home state and say, we're going to have maps here that reflect the people

00:26:31.640 and we're going to elect the best people. If you're in South Carolina, you stand up on the

00:26:35.700 rooftops and you say, whether you support him or not, Tim Scott is a black candidate who has won

00:26:42.100 statewide in South Carolina. You're telling me we have to go draw specific maps? That doesn't

00:26:48.500 make any sense. Wesley Hunt has been talking about this. Other Black members of the Republican

00:26:53.560 Conference, Byron Donalds has been good on this, talking about the fact that they ran as conservatives,

00:26:58.500 people who support the America First agenda, and that they don't need some special lines

00:27:03.020 to represent the people. And what we've been doing is destroying, destroying the greatness

00:27:08.420 of Black American culture by allowing the radical left to co-op it. That's why President Trump is 0.94

00:27:14.380 doing so well with Black Americans and with Hispanic Americans, they're tired of the crowd.

00:27:19.120 They want to live free. They want to live secure. They want to live according to their values.

00:27:23.480 They don't like the March of Islam either. Speak to people where they are. We're standing up for

00:27:28.660 hardworking Americans, not the ruling class. We're not standing up for what the radical leftists want.

00:27:33.700 We're trying to defend them. If I'm attorney general, I'm going straight to the people.

00:27:37.380 I'm standing behind the Supreme Court. I'm talking about Clarence Thomas growing up in Savannah,

00:27:42.220 in the poorest of poor areas.

00:27:45.640 I'm quoting his great book

00:27:47.140 about what it took to grow up in that area

00:27:49.440 and love this country and stand up

00:27:51.480 and now be the greatest Supreme Court justice

00:27:53.620 in the history of this country.

00:27:54.920 A proud American who happens to be black.

00:27:59.600 Where do people go for your campaign,

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00:28:02.020 Give it 30 seconds.

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00:28:10.300 Steve, thanks for what you're doing.

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00:29:50.480 Congressman Barrymore getting ready to fly back to D.C.

00:29:52.540 You know, I was a member of Congress in Alabama that lost his seat because they drew districts based on race.

00:29:57.840 And the Livingston map was the map that got thrown out.

00:30:02.260 So last week, in light of what happened in Louisiana, our legislature went into a special session and adopted a map they had already drawn.

00:30:12.340 It was my understanding that that was the only map we had time to get together.

00:30:16.880 But with the Supreme Court lifting the injunction yesterday and talking to some people that I know,

00:30:21.020 there might be an opportunity for time to go in and draw have another special session

00:30:25.980 and go in and draw a 7-0 map and if that's the case I'd encourage Governor Ivey and the legislature

00:30:30.440 to do that when they were in session last week I was talking to some of my friends I'm like if we

00:30:34.720 can get to 7-0 let's get to 7-0 but with the Supreme Court lifting the injunction as soon as

00:30:39.380 they did as quick as they did on the hills of our legislature drawing those maps there might be

00:30:44.740 enough time so I would encourage my guys my friends in Montgomery Kay Ivey the governor and the

00:30:49.960 members. If we can get a seven and a map, let's do it. God bless you guys. I have a great day.

00:30:56.080 This is how that's brother Barry Moore. He's running for the United States Senate now

00:31:00.020 down the gray state of Alabama. Uh, earlier in the day, how do we say this ran earlier in the day?

00:31:06.640 He was putting up, he was six one, but I think the war of posse, Caroline Wren, bomber command

00:31:12.580 others. I put a, I put a getter up, got his attention and got him, got the brother focused.

00:31:19.280 and now he's seven oh this is what it takes folks these are good people we're not getting on they're

00:31:24.200 good people but they're confused people so this is an exercise in clarity caroline wren

00:31:30.520 yeah i think it was around like 10 p.m 10 30 people last night i saw he puts up a post that

00:31:37.220 just said you know this is great news about screen court we'll get a 6-1 map and maybe someday down

00:31:42.260 the road we'll get a 7-0 and i just lost it i'm like someday down the road is now that's today

00:31:47.260 not someday down the road not 2028 not 2030 not 2032 we want the 7-0 map right now and so then

00:31:55.400 woke up this morning and he had put up that video clarifying which i'm glad because barry moore is

00:31:59.420 you know a congressman a pretty good modern congressman he has the endorsement of president

00:32:03.700 trump um in this senate race and so i was like wait wait a minute you're the trumped horse

00:32:09.300 candidate calling for a 6-1 map uh no no no uh hang over a second we got another clip let's play

00:32:15.300 the other clip right now for bring caroline back let's go and play it and at the ballot box the

00:32:20.620 era has ended the supreme court has shut down these unconstitutional power grabs and is now

00:32:27.300 time for republican states to act president trump has made his expectations unmistakable

00:32:34.300 there is no more time for hesitation or half measures south carolina must move with speed

00:32:41.340 and determination to draw maps rooted in the Constitution, not on identity politics or left-wing

00:32:49.300 social engineering. We have both the duty and the opportunity to maximize our conservative

00:32:55.900 stronghold and ensure our people receive the representation they deserve, grounded in faith,

00:33:02.820 freedom, family values, safe communities, and economic prosperity. This fight is a straight

00:33:10.460 forward, fair election

00:33:12.740 versus Democrat manipulation.

00:33:15.160 It is the same battle

00:33:16.500 President Trump has led

00:33:17.740 from the beginning.

00:33:19.200 No more delays.

00:33:20.860 No more excuses.

00:33:22.660 No more indifference

00:33:23.680 to activist courts.

00:33:25.540 We must finish this redistricting work now

00:33:28.060 by any means necessary.

00:33:30.160 The integrity of our elections

00:33:31.700 and the future of our state

00:33:34.120 demands nothing less.

00:33:36.200 I look forward to continuing our work

00:33:38.220 to getting this done,

00:33:39.560 and I thank you for your time.

00:33:43.860 Caroline, walk us through.

00:33:45.000 Who was that?

00:33:45.400 That was the most succinct

00:33:47.460 and perfect explanation

00:33:48.860 of what we're trying to accomplish, ma'am.

00:33:50.860 Yep.

00:33:51.920 That was Pamela Evatt, who I love. 1.00

00:33:54.280 She's the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. 1.00

00:33:56.800 That was her. 0.99

00:33:57.360 She showed up unexpected

00:33:58.540 at the judiciary hearing this morning.

00:34:01.460 And she was one of the people

00:34:02.260 I was on the phone with late last night.

00:34:03.860 She's been calling state senators,

00:34:06.760 everyone in her state saying,

00:34:07.940 get on board.

00:34:08.480 the president gave us a mandate. Let's get this done. It's good for the state. Then she woke up

00:34:12.260 early this morning, showed up at the House Judiciary hearing and got in line to speak. And I

00:34:16.580 thought gave a very articulate, smart, strong speech that laid out exactly what is at state

00:34:22.880 and why South Carolina should not delay and they need to move forward now. And so I'm very proud

00:34:28.240 of Pamela Ebbett for that. And right now that judiciary hearing is still going on. And then

00:34:33.040 we'll move over to the Senate, who is kind of where we think there's some more problematic actors.

00:34:38.480 Walk me through the order of battle. I think now we're down to five people, either our no's or in the middle. We don't know where they vote. And we can only have, is it only have two no's or three no's for this to pass?

00:34:52.160 Sure. We can have, I believe, actually four no's that we can have. And so, but then you've had some of these Democrat state senators out there saying, this is great. We're going to vote for this. I'm like, okay, great. Are you? Because we probably need your vote, so we'd love to have it.

00:35:06.560 But I think that they're bluffing.

00:35:08.000 That's why I've been calling out their bluff.

00:35:10.340 So I will say of those five holdouts right now, you know, that list, again, was 10 yesterday.

00:35:16.580 We've made tremendous movement.

00:35:17.960 I'll give a lot of credit.

00:35:18.860 You've got all types of people making phone calls.

00:35:21.860 These people, the White House political office has been absolutely amazing.

00:35:25.740 You know, President Trump has been amazing.

00:35:27.440 He called the Speaker of the House.

00:35:29.420 He called the Senate president there, which to me is frustrating.

00:35:32.960 I mean, President Trump is busy enough.

00:35:34.440 You shouldn't have to be cold calling state senators and state House members in South

00:35:38.400 Carolina to say, do what everyone obviously knows and what your state wants you to do

00:35:42.480 and your constituents, however he is, because President Trump plays to win.

00:35:46.440 And that's why, you know, I felt incumbent upon myself and so many others to, you know,

00:35:50.460 drop what I'm doing and help get this passed, because this is a priority of the president's

00:35:54.100 and anything we can do to help the president pass his agenda, count me in.

00:35:58.260 so just um and we can get uh i think we've got the numbers uh that we can put up for people to

00:36:04.740 call but we have to get out of the we have to get a senate judiciary today is that committee going

00:36:10.720 to meet and have a vote and then it goes to the entire uh south carolina senate yes and there are

00:36:17.020 two different votes that are taking place and debates that are happening today one has to do

00:36:20.760 with the actual moving of the primary there were some discussions about moving in south carolina

00:36:25.280 You have the governor's race on the ballot, attorney general's race.

00:36:29.620 You've got also, you know, the congressional races.

00:36:33.260 So you have a mix of state.

00:36:34.560 You've got the Senate race, mix of statewide.

00:36:37.260 And so I think what they, they were going to move all of them to August if they proceeded

00:36:41.220 with this.

00:36:41.720 Now, I believe that the decision that is more likely is that they'll proceed in June with

00:36:46.780 the statewide elections and others, and they will only move the primaries for the congressional

00:36:50.600 races, and that would be moved to a date in mid-August.

00:36:53.700 So that's one debate that the Senate is having right now. The House is debating the actual merits of the map, and then both of them will have to come into conference, pass both, and you have to have two-thirds vote. So that's also why the bar is quite high.

00:37:07.240 And so in South Carolina, in the House, we have that, I think, pretty firmly.

00:37:12.820 We're good.

00:37:13.900 The state Senate, there's 34 Republican state senators.

00:37:17.440 We need 30 of them, and we're pretty close.

00:37:19.960 But there's a few.

00:37:20.920 I will say these holdouts, I've lived in South Carolina for a long time.

00:37:25.060 I've done a lot of politics there.

00:37:26.780 You know, just sending really mean or nasty tweets or emails or calls is not the way to move these guys.

00:37:32.540 I would encourage you, if you live in South Carolina, then you should call them.

00:37:37.020 when we put these numbers up, or email them and detail why you want your representative to do

00:37:42.460 this. That is the type of outreach, I believe, that really will work with these last few holdouts.

00:37:49.920 What about this issue about they have to vote? Are they still going to have to vote

00:37:53.480 in the next couple of days to have the ability to have a special session? Because doesn't the

00:37:57.860 regular session of the South Carolina legislature end this Friday?

00:38:01.980 It does. And so there's a signed die agreement that has to come in. And this is why some people got mad at Governor McMaster. I'm like, hey, McMaster is like the most MAGA governor. Again, he was the first statewide elected official to endorse Donald Trump all the way back in 2015.

00:38:18.120 The governor has the ability to call a special session.

00:38:20.900 He does not have the ability to set the agenda of that special session,

00:38:24.480 which is why they are trying to put into the agenda of the Sinai to do redistricting and moving the primaries.

00:38:30.980 Because as soon as that passes, that's what they're doing now.

00:38:33.760 Then the governor can call a special session, and then that will already be put in as to what they have to address in the special session.

00:38:41.520 So it's very technical. It's a little bit confusing.

00:38:43.620 But that's why you haven't seen McMaster, you know, to out there and just yelling about this.

00:38:48.140 There's limits to the power that the governor has in South Carolina.

00:38:51.240 And so he is calling for them to get this done.

00:38:54.100 And then he will call that special session as long as they set the agenda that includes redistricting.

00:39:00.740 Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, any other updates there?

00:39:05.260 No, I mean, Louisiana, it's still, you know, Louisiana, Alabama are going back and forth on if they're going to go for a clean sweep of all Republican seats.

00:39:12.820 or leave one of each.

00:39:14.220 I'm doing everything I can to encourage those folks there.

00:39:17.860 So really, there's one, two, three, four,

00:39:19.620 but there's six seats still on the table,

00:39:21.500 two in Alabama, two in Louisiana,

00:39:23.840 and then one in South Carolina, one in Mississippi.

00:39:26.920 Mississippi is also tricky.

00:39:28.480 Now, there was a good ruling yesterday

00:39:30.400 that allowed, that has now allowed Mississippi to redistrict.

00:39:34.500 Their special session is on May 20th.

00:39:37.360 Their complicating factors,

00:39:38.520 their primaries already happened in March.

00:39:40.500 so you know you just you have to weigh that i think they should push forward i think this is

00:39:44.880 unbelievably important there is nothing more important than our sacred vote and uh but it's

00:39:49.700 um i just don't have tons i think it's a 30 chance maybe mississippi is able to do that

00:39:54.360 your point is though of the six seats it looks like as many as three or even four we might not

00:40:01.380 get you could get three maybe four but you can leave those three in november late in the evening

00:40:08.180 that night could be massively important, correct? Yeah, that's the difference between having a

00:40:15.480 Speaker Hakeem Jeffries or not. And if there's a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, it's the difference

00:40:19.340 of President Trump and his family and his allies being tied up in House oversight investigations

00:40:24.640 for two years, a complete stalling and derailing of his agenda, passing it through the House.

00:40:30.120 It is a massive difference. That's where I'm like, I don't understand just the passiveness

00:40:35.180 of like oh we'll go get it next time no the time again is now what the time like we need these

00:40:40.680 seats right now we should fight for every single seat the national republicans have no problem

00:40:46.160 spending 10 20 30 million dollars on these house seats and here i am staring at this being like

00:40:50.860 this cost you nothing and right now it just costs having the will determination and you know uh

00:40:58.000 fight in you to get this done and so that has been what the earlier challenge was that's why i think

00:41:03.260 the war room posse, everyone, we started to get so loud of this. Two weeks, as soon as that ruling

00:41:07.680 came out, we were the first ones out. And that really, really, really is mad at around. So I

00:41:11.920 think a lot of states would have done what Georgia did, which was just take the easy road out and

00:41:16.580 say, oh, we'll deal with this next cycle. No, it's for the constitutional order,

00:41:21.040 but you can also see, I mean, let's be blunt. You can see where the anti-Trump forces are there.

00:41:26.300 They just don't want to do this and they don't want to do it because they hate President Trump

00:41:30.160 and they detest MAGA.

00:41:31.840 Before I let you go,

00:41:32.880 and I'm going to send everybody

00:41:33.560 to Bomber Command today,

00:41:35.820 to your Twitter feed,

00:41:37.800 just a big announcement.

00:41:39.320 I think Adam Wren, no relation,

00:41:41.860 just pointed it out.

00:41:43.340 In Politico today,

00:41:44.920 Cornyn raised, was it $7 million?

00:41:47.320 I mean, give us an update.

00:41:49.540 We've got about a minute. 0.52

00:41:50.300 Give us an update on this Texas race, 0.95

00:41:52.460 which everybody is maniacal.

00:41:53.880 All the grassroots are maniacally focused on.

00:41:57.380 Yeah, they said that he raised $7 million

00:41:59.140 between April 1st and May 7th.

00:42:01.940 He probably did.

00:42:02.660 I don't know.

00:42:03.100 I'm not convinced.

00:42:03.720 I mean, he already spent $100 million

00:42:05.180 to tie Ken Paxton as a four-term incumbent.

00:42:09.500 So another $7 million, okay.

00:42:12.040 His spending has started to tick up, though.

00:42:14.020 It was pretty bizarre.

00:42:14.660 I expected him to spend $25 million in this runoff.

00:42:16.960 He spent basically nothing for the first five weeks.

00:42:20.680 And then now, I think,

00:42:22.160 he's getting up into around $10 million, $15 million.

00:42:24.800 But I think this is going to be

00:42:25.820 a grassroots turnout thing.

00:42:27.160 it's May 26th is this runoff. If you're in Texas, you have to be calling, texting, door knocking,

00:42:34.500 everything you can to get Ken Paxton to get these people out to vote for them. The polling shows

00:42:38.020 that people who are planning to vote for Ken Paxton are much more motivated to turn out and

00:42:42.780 vote for John Cornyn. So John Cornyn wasting another $7 million on TV ads. I'm not overly

00:42:47.900 worried about, but the low turnout in these runoffs, we just need every patriotic Texan.

00:42:52.960 May 26 vote for Ken Paxton and bring five friends to do the same early vote starts Monday we're

00:43:00.620 going to be shifting the war room down there that's how important this is uh Ken Paxton

00:43:04.580 has stood in the breach for the grassroots and for the constitutional order so many times

00:43:09.320 Caroline Wren your bomber command today where do people go on your Twitter feed they're going to

00:43:13.300 be looking to you for numbers and and guidance and where to go and where to put the pressure on

00:43:17.560 so far it's been magnificent but we still got six to go where do people get you ma'am

00:43:22.540 it's at caroline wren on x truth social and getter thank you ma'am appreciate you thanks

00:43:30.040 great effort great fight what a fighter folks they're hearing you we still got a couple of

00:43:36.560 three on the table we gotta close the maximalist strategy here in the war room short break back in

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00:45:01.320 the world read and you should too price index hitting the wires up six tenths is the headline

00:45:08.560 number that's exactly what we were expecting it follows up nine tenths up to this point still

00:45:14.700 unrevised that up nine tenths was the warmest inflation on a month over month headline basis

00:45:20.100 since june of 22 now the six tenths backtracks it a bit brings us to feb when it was up three

00:45:27.380 If we strip out the all-important food and energy, a little warmer than expected, up four-tenths, double the rearview mirror, and that would equal where we were in Jan of 25.

00:45:38.200 To find a hotter number, you're going to April of 23.

00:45:42.800 Now, if we look at a year-over-year perspective, 3.8 percent, a little warmer than expected, half a percent.

00:45:49.960 Let me have it.

00:45:50.880 Eric Bolling, you had the great Rick Santelli there.

00:45:53.800 Make it make sense.

00:45:54.760 What happened?

00:45:55.220 um well there's good news and there's bad news the bad news is that the year over year the number

00:46:01.800 is 3.8 they're expecting 3.7 it's on an upward trajectory steve as we expected because energy

00:46:07.860 prices are going higher and they continue to drag everything up with it food everything goes with

00:46:12.780 energy prices um not a horrible number but let's put in perspective that the fed targets two percent

00:46:18.940 inflation is where they would like the economy to grow and still be inflated so you don't want

00:46:23.760 no growth and no inflation. You want good growth and some inflation. It helps prop up the growth

00:46:29.440 side of the equation. The bad news is wrong trajectory. And I would say there's something

00:46:35.480 interesting playing out here at 3.8% year over year. Look, everyone can play this game of let's

00:46:40.900 strip out food and energy, but that's insane. Everyone eats every day and uses energy every

00:46:45.360 day. So you have to look at the main number, the headline number, CPI, 3A. The Fed will be in a

00:46:52.520 They're in a bond, in a corner, so to speak.

00:46:55.340 Warsh cannot lower rates with rates rising and at 3.8% over a year.

00:47:00.800 Tell the audience why.

00:47:02.740 This makes it very difficult for Warsh, and his confirmation is pushing through.

00:47:08.100 I guess it's June availability.

00:47:10.840 Why do you believe, given your experience in the pits of trading,

00:47:15.500 why it would be highly unlikely that Warsh will be able to have the flexibility to cut rates in June?

00:47:21.300 Twofold. Number one, the Fed is supposed to be an independent agency, independent politics, independent certainly of the White House.

00:47:26.680 What happened with Jerome Powell over the Biden years, the Bidenomics years, he failed to get in front of inflation.

00:47:33.280 He let rates hold during that big, massive rise in inflation.

00:47:38.380 Trump gave Joe Biden 1.4 percent inflation.

00:47:42.240 By the middle of his term, 2022 or so, he had jacked it up to 9.3 percent.

00:47:48.060 And in that period, the Fed never raised rates to slow the economy down, and we took him to the woodshed for that.

00:47:54.700 I believe Powell was playing politics.

00:47:56.400 He was trying to give Joe Biden some wind in the sails to try and maybe look towards a re-election.

00:48:01.480 He was a political Fed chairman.

00:48:04.160 If Wors does the same thing, they will just destroy him.

00:48:07.860 If he wants a job more than 30 months, which is the extent of Trump's term, he should be an independent Fed governor, and not a governor, but chairman.

00:48:16.300 He has the willpower, the power to move rates.

00:48:19.980 He needs to hold.

00:48:21.180 Here's the silver lining is that if it were still Jerome Powell, there's no question in my mind, Stephen K. Bannon, that we would be raising rates immediately because Powell is a politician, not necessarily a monetary policy person.

00:48:33.740 He'll be raising.

00:48:34.780 Now, should he or not?

00:48:36.400 Maybe in a true, really independent manner.

00:48:39.920 Yes, maybe you would raise a quarter a little bit just to ease the inflation.

00:48:44.080 The reality is this isn't price inflation.

00:48:47.300 This isn't things are costing more here in America.

00:48:49.720 This is a geopolitical inflation rise.

00:48:52.780 So maybe just a quarter, but certainly I don't see a rate, I don't see him dropping rates

00:48:58.060 before, likely before the end of the year, or he risks hyperinflation.

00:49:02.580 That would just take Republicans out of it.

00:49:04.500 Are you seeing a structural problem here with the situation in the Gulf?

00:49:10.400 because the president gets on a plane here at about 1.45, 2 o'clock,

00:49:16.180 it's scheduled to head to Alaska and then to Beijing.

00:49:20.540 The war in Iran, the Middle East, is going to be a big topic of conversation.

00:49:24.580 I don't personally believe they've cut the Chinese Communist Party off

00:49:27.280 to force them to the table to have a great power solution here. 0.91

00:49:31.840 But do you risk what, like in Hormuz, the response from the Iranians said, 0.96

00:49:38.620 no, Hormuz is ours, and we've got to be in charge of it. 0.96

00:49:42.620 We've got to make decisions.

00:49:44.320 Netanyahu, the other night on that 60 Minutes interview,

00:49:47.320 essentially said, we really never thought of Hormuz.

00:49:49.980 We never thought they'd get there.

00:49:51.760 Your thoughts about all of this, sir, and how it ties back to inflation?

00:49:56.340 So there's an interesting theory floating around,

00:49:58.980 certainly the oil patch and others,

00:50:00.600 that the reason why oil isn't $140 a barrel right now,

00:50:04.480 and it could be given that we've already taken

00:50:06.260 a billion barrels of oil off the world markets. Granted, we're doing fine here, so to speak,

00:50:11.700 within relative terms to the rest of the world. But a lot of people are now floating this idea

00:50:16.020 that the U.S., as you know, we've been talking about our massive exports in the U.S., we're

00:50:20.380 shipping out about 14 million barrels a day. That's about four or five million barrels higher

00:50:25.440 than normal. And that may be some sort of concerted effort with shipping more barrels to the world

00:50:30.580 market because we have them. And China has somehow reduced their pull on global oil markets by about

00:50:36.920 5 million barrels a day, and they're draining their own SPR. So there are those that think

00:50:41.680 that this meeting may be some sort of confirmation of what the global oil market is doing. We're

00:50:47.420 seeing the United States putting more oil on the market, China pulling less oil off the market.

00:50:52.240 It's kind of regulating. Given this situation, this is the largest draw on global oil in the

00:50:57.380 history of the world, ever, ever, now, a billion barrels. And it hasn't slowed down. The strait

00:51:02.780 is still closed. Three vessels made it through with oil yesterday in the last 24 hours. Six

00:51:08.560 total, three of them had oil. That's not enough to kind of slow down this upward rise in prices.

00:51:15.620 Can the United States and China, maybe China, pull back on their pole, and maybe we push a

00:51:20.020 little bit out there to regulate prices until we get some sort of deal or ceasefire? Trump's right. 0.95

00:51:25.840 Oil prices will drop like a rock when it's over.

00:51:28.840 However, he's not being quite, let's just say, he's being overly optimistic to suggest that gas prices will come down anytime soon.

00:51:38.720 They won't.

00:51:39.660 We're kind of baked in the cake for a really, really crappy summer driving season with the price of gasoline.

00:51:46.340 Probably $450 will be the low end of the price, even if things get all clear in the Middle East.

00:51:51.560 You've got 4 million-plus followers on social media.

00:51:54.380 What's your social media until we get back and hang out with you at 4 o'clock today?

00:51:59.260 At Eric Bolling, just, you know what, Steve, this is really important.

00:52:02.700 Let's just do this. 0.95

00:52:03.340 We'll worry about social media crap later.

00:52:05.020 But I appreciate your time here.

00:52:06.460 We're telling people what they need to know going forward, not look backwards.

00:52:11.100 See you for a changeover late in the 4 o'clock hour, sir.

00:52:14.340 Thank you.

00:52:14.940 Eric Bolling, the Eric Bolling.

00:52:17.780 Okay, folks, strap in.

00:52:18.940 Next hour, Joe Allen, Jack Posobiec, Captain James Fennell, Sam Faddis.

00:52:25.100 Maybe Mary Holland.

00:52:27.320 New York Times is on a jihad.

00:52:28.920 She's absolutely correct.

00:52:29.900 God, do they hate Bobby Kennedy and Maha

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Bannon's War Room - May 12, 2026

Episode 5365： Manning The Polling Stations In 2026; Showdown In South Carolina

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