Bannon's War Room - May 21, 2026


Episode 5388： Creating Tech Freedom From The CCP; Stopping The RINO Coup


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In this episode, Sarah Abdurrahmanejoins us to discuss the latest in the Iran-U.S. relations, including a new report from CNN's Peter Bergen and his reporting on Iran's military capabilities.

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00:00:00.000 This is some of your reporting on Iran's military capabilities now.
00:00:04.840 What did you learn? What can you tell us this morning?
00:00:08.540 Yes, Sarah, we're learning that Iran is working to actively rebuild its production facilities
00:00:13.040 and replenish its weapons inventories after taking on significant damage in those initial U.S.-Israeli strikes.
00:00:21.760 And look, one example of this that sources said is reflected in the U.S. intelligence assessments
00:00:26.100 is that Iran is already producing some of its drones and trying to restore its drone attack
00:00:32.880 capability, which was among those degraded in those combat operations that we saw previously
00:00:38.580 play out. And as you mentioned, a U.S. official telling us that Iran could restore its drone
00:00:44.240 attack capability in a matter of six months, which, of course, is a very accelerated timeline,
00:00:49.840 especially compared to what the U.S. intelligence community had initially estimated. And that's
00:00:54.400 true for a variety of weapons components. We're told that while the timelines do vary from weapon
00:00:59.720 component to weapon component, that more broadly, the Iranians are proving that they can rebuild
00:01:06.200 more quickly than anybody really thought. And so this is a little bit different than the messaging
00:01:11.720 we're hearing from top Pentagon officials, including Admiral Brad Cooper, the sitcom
00:01:16.520 commander who testified just this week that Iran, 90 percent of Iran's defense industrial base had
00:01:22.140 destroyed, and that has set them back years before they could reconstitute their military
00:01:26.420 capability. Take a listen to what Cooper told the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
00:01:34.040 Operation Epic Fury significantly degraded Iran's ballistic missiles and drones
00:01:38.120 while destroying 90 percent of their defense industrial base, 0.91
00:01:41.960 ensuring that Iran cannot reconstitute for years.
00:01:46.620 So we're also told that Iran still maintains significant ballistic missile capability and
00:01:51.600 thousands of drones that it could use if combat operations resume. We know Donald Trump is
00:01:57.600 currently weighing whether or not to restart this war as these negotiations play out. But
00:02:02.100 ultimately, the top line here, Sarah, is that Iran remains a threat at the moment with its 0.86
00:02:06.120 remaining missile and drone capability and its ability to reconstitute more quickly than the
00:02:10.800 U.S. initially anticipated means that it could continue to be a threat for the long term.
00:02:15.080 Look, CNN is also reporting on some really tense conversations between
00:02:19.000 President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu wanting Trump
00:02:23.840 to do more kinetic strikes, Trump pushing back, and at one point saying that Netanyahu will do
00:02:28.400 whatever he wants him to do. What does this divide tell you? That the war objectives of the
00:02:36.900 two countries are close, but not in 100 percent perfect alignment, which is always the case. Look 0.99
00:02:44.800 at World War II and the way in which the United Kingdom, for example, wanted to reconstitute the
00:02:51.640 British Empire, the United States wanted freedom and democracy around the world, yet we stood
00:02:57.600 together and fought against totalitarianism in Germany and Japan at the time. So yeah, you can
00:03:04.780 be an ally with someone and have pretty, pretty brisk disagreements. I think that's a case of
00:03:10.740 what you're seeing here, Sarah. The Israelis truly and understandably want to destroy and take away 1.00
00:03:18.160 the nuclear capability. That makes perfect sense for them as 100 percent objective. That's very 0.98
00:03:24.620 high on the U.S. list also. But at the moment, what President Trump is trying to do is get to
00:03:31.200 a diplomatic solution. Israel will continue to press for more kinetic activity. In the end,
00:03:37.420 I suspect Israel will fall in line with what President Trump desires.
00:03:42.640 There's a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group that's just arrived in the Caribbean as the tensions are escalating with Cuba.
00:03:50.140 Do you see this as the potential of what happens here playing out similar to the capture of Maduro in Venezuela?
00:04:01.620 I do, and I suspect that is exactly what the administration is hoping.
00:04:06.380 You know, if you put this on a spectrum that kind of runs from Venezuela playbook over to what's happening in Iran, clearly what you would prefer is that Venezuela playbook.
00:04:19.440 To do that, you've got to get through those upper levels of the Cuban government the way in which you saw the administration do by taking Maduro off the chessboard.
00:04:30.360 So I think that the indictment of Raul Castro decades after this quite horrific incident, and I fully support indicting him and bringing him to justice, Raul Castro.
00:04:43.660 Having said that, it also plays into using that Venezuela playbook. 0.59
00:04:49.240 And boy, the potential of Cuba, if you can pull a Venezuela there, change the top level, get investment going.
00:04:58.460 It's Venezuela plus Cuban-American diaspora, smart, well-educated, ready to go.
00:05:07.200 Could be a win for the administration.
00:05:09.980 They want to avoid military action here.
00:05:13.080 I think they will.
00:05:16.960 It is Thursday, 21 May, year of our Lord, 2026. 0.62
00:05:21.880 Welcome to the war.
00:05:22.640 We're going to go to Arlington National Assembly.
00:05:24.240 Mike Davis and Caroline Renner are on deck.
00:05:26.300 talk about everything that's going on in politics and also some geopolitics down in the Caribbean.
00:05:31.880 Let me go to Neil McCabe, who's at Arlington National Cemetery.
00:05:36.340 Neil, talk to me about what happens today at the cemetery.
00:05:41.540 Yeah, today, Steve, is one of those really solemn events.
00:05:45.020 And for soldiers, it's really almost personal because you're going to have the soldiers of the Old Guard,
00:05:51.500 the 3rd Infantry Regiment that run Fort Myers and Arlington.
00:05:55.720 They are going to be planting flags on 250,000 graves.
00:06:01.100 They've already started.
00:06:02.700 The flags arrived this morning at 5 a.m., and they're doing it right now.
00:06:07.220 And so, you know, obviously there's going to be a parade and there's going to be the president will be here Monday.
00:06:14.600 But for the Army and for Arlington National Cemetery, this is really the kickoff of Memorial Day, Steve.
00:06:21.140 uh neil um this is going to be an all-day evolution into the evening uh you're going to
00:06:27.680 be there we're going to come back to you so just stick around uh this is kicks off our coverage
00:06:31.680 all weekend as you guys know for our honored dead this is and i want to make sure because people
00:06:36.760 particularly people i haven't served or civilians you know want to thank our veterans this is not
00:06:41.700 veterans day this is not veterans weekend this is about the honored dead that gave their lives
00:06:47.300 in defense of their country.
00:06:48.620 Please keep that in mind.
00:06:50.220 This is not, so no need to thank a veteran,
00:06:53.200 although maybe you thank veterans every day.
00:06:55.280 Veterans don't need to be thanks,
00:06:56.580 but appreciate you guys doing it.
00:06:58.920 Let's focus on what is important.
00:07:00.640 This is on the honored dead
00:07:01.920 that have died in the defense of this republic.
00:07:06.880 Neil McCabe, stick around.
00:07:08.500 We're going to come right back to you.
00:07:10.460 Mike Davis, there's so much going on.
00:07:12.740 I want to start with,
00:07:13.840 You're very close to the U.S. attorney in South Florida.
00:07:19.040 They're organizing so much down there.
00:07:20.760 Talk to me about that.
00:07:21.660 And they've got special prosecutors.
00:07:23.180 They've got other elements they're bringing in, Joe DiGenova and others, to really have a—the first time I think we've really had an organized effort to go after so many things.
00:07:33.380 Talk to me about this indictment of Castro.
00:07:37.200 Why is this a game change?
00:07:38.240 Is this a reach for us?
00:07:39.220 Are we trying to do this just so we can get—set up another Maduro situation?
00:07:43.460 Or is there something here? Weren't the murders 30 years ago? Or do you understand fully how we're going about this?
00:07:51.380 Jason Redding-Quinones is the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
00:07:58.660 He has an outstanding team helping him. Yara Klukas is his first assistant U.S. attorney.
00:08:06.000 These are two Cuban Americans whose families escaped Cuba, the Cuban regime, the Castro regime.
00:08:16.520 Raul Castro, according to this indictment, murdered American citizens.
00:08:23.120 He shot down planes over international waters, and he's finally going to be held accountable for murdering American citizens.
00:08:36.140 You can't murder American citizens and get away with it.
00:08:39.540 If you allow people to murder American citizens and get away with it, even 30 years later, it's going to cause more murders of American citizens.
00:08:50.160 So this is a powerful message from President Trump and his Justice Department, led by Todd Blanche, by President Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, that if you come after Americans, we're going to come after you.
00:09:05.540 So I say cheers to Todd and Jason and Yara and the team down in the Southern District of Florida for pursuing this.
00:09:14.180 Jason also has Joe DiGenova and his wife, Victoria, and a whole team building up in the Fort Pierce office.
00:09:23.020 You see that from a public post on X.
00:09:27.080 So I can talk about what's public, what's on X, what's in public news reporting.
00:09:33.340 According to news reporting, they are moving forward with an investigation of a grand conspiracy against President Trump.
00:09:43.220 his top aides and his allies, where they politicized and weaponized law enforcement
00:09:48.900 and intel agencies to take out a political opponent, Donald Trump, and help a presidential
00:09:58.180 campaign, Hillary Clinton. And this is an ongoing criminal conspiracy. We've been talking about this
00:10:03.980 on your show, Steve, for almost four years since the Mar-a-Lago raid. We have very publicly called
00:10:10.780 for this very investigation in Fort Pierce, Florida. It looks like they're even starting to
00:10:18.120 go after the federal prosecutors. There was a federal prosecutor who used to be the managing
00:10:24.840 assistant U.S. attorney for the Fort Pierce, Florida U.S. Attorney's Office, who just got
00:10:30.700 indicted on four separate charges for trying to steal volume two of Jack Smith's reports.
00:10:39.140 The district court, Judge Cannon, sealed that and said that that cannot be released because those charges were not brought.
00:10:46.840 And this managing assistant U.S. attorney, according to this indictment, tried to change the name of that volume two to a cake recipe and then email it to herself in February 2025, according to the indictment.
00:11:01.080 What was she trying to do with this thing?
00:11:03.440 Why was she trying to get this out the door?
00:11:05.780 It seems like she was trying to violate Judge Cannon's court order so she could embarrass President Trump with unsubstantiated one-sided evidence that would have been in this volume, too, not subject to cross-examination, not subject to rebuttal evidence.
00:11:21.920 So she is facing prosecution.
00:11:24.500 They brought in prosecutors from a different office, from the Northern District of Florida, because of a potential conflict with the Southern District of Florida, prosecutors prosecuting one of their former colleagues.
00:11:35.100 And I think this is a pretty good sign that the Southern District of Florida is off to the races between this Raul Castro indictments that seems to be rallying all the troops down there.
00:11:47.460 And then they're moving in on this managing assistant U.S. attorney.
00:11:50.860 You're seeing news reports of subpoenas going out of Miami and Fort Pierce.
00:11:56.000 You're seeing news reports that you could start seeing witnesses, lawfare Democrats, coming into Fort Pierce to explain their role in the greatest scandal in American history,
00:12:09.340 using law enforcement and intel agencies to take out a presidential candidate and to help another presidential candidate.
00:12:16.600 And when they failed to continue to weaponize law enforcement and intel agencies to take out a sitting president to subvert the will of American people and then to try to take out a former president when he was going to expose a crossfire hurricane.
00:12:31.760 So buckle up. It's going to be a wild ride for the next many months.
00:12:37.140 I don't think that the latter is getting the coverage it needs, particularly in the conservative media, because this is I have said for years, there is so much corruption inside of DOJ that's never brought to light and never prosecuted.
00:12:51.520 Just give me a hit that one more time. This was a, I guess, an administrator or managing U.S. attorney, I guess, on the administrative side.
00:13:01.260 What exactly did she do? Because I think this this thing is much bigger than it's coming across.
00:13:06.880 Am I wrong on that? No, you're not.
00:13:09.680 So according to the indictment, this managing assistant U.S. attorney for the Fort Pierce U.S. Attorney's Office took a sealed court document that the Southern District of Florida U.S. District Court sealed in the Jack Smith case, Volume 2, that contained one-sided evidence from the Mar-a-Lago raid, the hit on President Trump by Biden to get back cross by a hurricane.
00:13:38.920 That was part of this grand conspiracy. This managing assistant, U.S. attorney, while she did not work directly for Jack Smith, she provided administrative support to Jack Smith's team in Fort Pierce.
00:13:54.100 They were colleagues. They were buddies. They were allies.
00:13:58.140 She violated this court order, and her intent is crystal clear according to this indictment.
00:14:03.720 She didn't just take the documents, volume two of Jack Smith's report, and email it to herself.
00:14:09.880 She changed the names of the files to cake recipes and then emailed it to herself.
00:14:17.580 That shows her criminal intent, if you believe this indictment, because it shows she's trying to hide what she's not doing.
00:14:24.800 She knows that she's not supposed to take this volume two.
00:14:28.440 She knows it's going to violate a court order, and she does it anyway.
00:14:33.220 And the intent is obvious that she was going to leak this volume two to the world.
00:14:38.420 Wow. Hang on for one second, Mike.
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00:16:46.300 A lot to get to. Mike Davis, I know you've got to bounce.
00:16:48.720 I want to thank you for framing this about what's happening against the particularly on this grand conspiracy against the president that's now being worked on down at Fort Pierce with Jason and his team.
00:17:01.740 And you're 100 percent correct when you called it last year when he was selected.
00:17:05.620 All you're seeing down there is action.
00:17:07.000 I think it's great.
00:17:08.440 Last thing, Mike, we've got this issue now with President Trump in the Senate.
00:17:14.020 You have a very active program over there of blocking.
00:17:17.000 I mean, they're treating President Trump as a lame duck.
00:17:18.840 You know, no recess appointments.
00:17:20.480 There's no Save America Act.
00:17:23.600 Thune says, I'm not going to do the ballroom.
00:17:25.900 I'm not going to do the weaponization.
00:17:29.160 I can just give the Senate a heads up.
00:17:31.100 This is not going to end well.
00:17:32.280 OK, President Trump's president of these United States, and he wants his agenda executed upon.
00:17:38.220 And you have these radical Democrats, the first thing they're going to do.
00:17:40.660 And I realize there's custom and tradition dealing with the filibuster.
00:17:44.180 But we already know these guys have said they're going to pack the court.
00:17:47.060 They're going to make D.C. a state. They're going to make Puerto Rico a state.
00:17:50.480 They're going to do so many things to basically change the structure, political structure of the country.
00:17:55.480 Mike Davis, what, therefore, should we do, sir?
00:17:58.860 Yeah, I was looking at some posts by James Blair, who's President Trump's top political lieutenant. I think James said that President Trump went like 21-0 on these primary challenges of these Republicans who did not want to get on the Trump train.
00:18:20.540 So it's a pretty compelling record so far. John Cornyn may also get run over by the Trump train.
00:18:30.440 So I would say to these senators, and I used to work in the Senate, on the Senate Judiciary Committee, so I saw not exactly profiles of courage when I was there then and nothing's changed.
00:18:42.080 I would say to them that the Save America Act has 80% of support of Americans, people to show that they're American citizens and to show an ID when they vote.
00:18:55.660 That also has support of a supermajority of Democrats, including a supermajority of Black Americans. These Black Americans who Democrats pretend do not have the wherewithal to get an ID like all the rest of us when the Democrats' real intent is they want illegal aliens to vote. 0.60
00:19:16.400 So they're going to blame black people that they can't get their act together to get an ID. 0.99
00:19:21.600 That's how racist the Democrats are. 0.98
00:19:23.800 If the Senate cannot pass legislation with 80 percent support of Americans, including a super majority of Democrats and a super majority of minorities, what the hell are they doing?
00:19:36.500 What is John Thune doing as the Senate majority leader?
00:19:40.100 I get that herding cats is a very difficult task.
00:19:44.320 I helped do that during the Kavanaugh confirmation.
00:19:48.580 It was the hardest task imaginable, but we got the job done.
00:19:52.060 I think that the Senate needs to get the job done.
00:19:55.820 They need to stay in session.
00:19:57.560 We have an August recess coming up, that high holy month of August recess.
00:20:02.840 And you work for Grassley.
00:20:04.940 I got it.
00:20:05.360 I got it.
00:20:05.700 But that's not going to – we've got to cut to the chase.
00:20:08.260 That's not going to happen.
00:20:09.420 Thune is supposed to be a leader.
00:20:10.900 He's worse than Mitch McConnell because he puts a nicer face on it.
00:20:13.980 I understand they don't have 60 votes. I get it. They didn't have 51 votes.
00:20:17.620 And maybe now with Cassidy and these others, you've got a bigger problem.
00:20:20.260 However, there are 27 votes out there.
00:20:22.840 Are we actually going to make any progress at all until we remove John Thune as leader, Mike Davis?
00:20:28.780 This is a big task for John Thune.
00:20:30.840 If he cannot get the Save America Act onto President Trump's desk for signature,
00:20:39.240 he should just go back to South Dakota and be a farmer or whatever the hell he's doing.
00:20:43.760 He told President Trump, why do you think President Trump did the impromptu ballroom one-hour presentation of which we're the only people to cover all of it?
00:20:53.540 Because Thune that day said no weaponization, no ballroom, and he said specifically no Save America Act attached to any must-pass piece of legislation like FISA.
00:21:05.280 Hasn't Thune already given us an answer to that?
00:21:07.300 Look, we're the only network and channel that covered the whole performative.
00:21:10.820 And God bless Mike Lee and Senator Schmidt of Missouri and these guys that every night Tuberville Tuberville is going to be on here in a while.
00:21:18.000 That coach that every night you remember, you watch it, you would come on and give commentary every night from like seven to midnight.
00:21:24.800 They'd be there trying to do the Save America and trying to get to a filibuster.
00:21:28.340 It was all performative. John Thune never had. They sent him on two weeks vacation after that.
00:21:33.440 We're burning daylight. And I tell people right now, the reason we're so on this because of the act, you know,
00:21:39.140 the work of degrasse and wren and davis and and sean spicer and the grassroots out there we now
00:21:44.820 have a fighting chance on the house i think we hold serve on the house and we get our act together
00:21:49.800 because i think we're within the ability to hold it and maybe even still have a seat or two over
00:21:54.680 it the senate i think's gone ossepp's going to win in georgia uh whatley's going to get beaten
00:22:00.300 in north carolina collins is going to get beaten this is another pollock collins going to get
00:22:04.160 beaten in May. Husted's going to get beaten in Ohio, right? We're going to lose the Senate.
00:22:09.580 We're going to lose it big, unless the grassroots know and get fired up that there's a purpose for
00:22:13.960 doing this. The only way we can do that is get Save America. And John Thune, hasn't he shown
00:22:18.640 you, Mike, enough that he has no interest in doing this? I just look, I would just say this
00:22:24.380 to John Thune, the Senate majority leader. Just let the Democrats debate, let the debate run out
00:22:32.240 and hold a vote you say you don't have the votes among senate republicans i guarantee you that the
00:22:38.720 article three project teaming up with the war room posse can deliver the votes for republicans they
00:22:45.560 also said that there was going to be 60 plus votes for katanji brown jackson for the supreme court
00:22:52.440 she was going to be a big political win for joe biden and the democrats we changed that with the 0.98
00:22:58.280 article three project of the war room post they barely voted for her uh the democrats barely
00:23:02.980 voted for her and then ran out i agree in the middle of the night the same thing with uh several
00:23:08.360 other bills like the kavanaugh confirmation they remember this with the kavanaugh confirmation when
00:23:12.680 the base got fired up uh that when when the democrats won the house of representatives
00:23:17.620 the senate uh senate republicans we knocked out they were they were democrat and you know this
00:23:23.840 You know this. I was in I was in I was in Italy working and working with Bill Burke and you were the lead guy.
00:23:32.600 They were within three minutes of punting on Kavanaugh. Were they not, sir?
00:23:37.260 Three minutes. And that's that's the issue.
00:23:40.040 Because because it was so tough because Democrats were fired up because the Republican Senate are a bunch of wusses.
00:23:46.920 They almost punted on Kavanaugh. They came within three minutes.
00:23:49.840 And hey, you wouldn't have gotten even people think Kavanaugh is not perfect.
00:23:53.840 The backup you would have gotten would have been a lot, lot, lot worse.
00:23:57.460 They wanted to cave, did they not?
00:23:58.880 The Senate, McConnell and these guys wanted to cave, did they not, Mike Davis?
00:24:02.820 McConnell, I will defend McConnell on this.
00:24:05.200 I was in the room.
00:24:05.820 McConnell and Grassley were rock solids.
00:24:08.220 And everyone else, not so much.
00:24:11.040 But I would say this.
00:24:12.280 If we would have lost that Kavanaugh confirmation, that was six weeks before the midterm election in 2018.
00:24:17.820 We would have lost the midterm election.
00:24:20.340 We would have lost the Senate.
00:24:21.900 Trump loses re-election.
00:24:22.980 we lose the court, we lose the country. That was how big it was. Kavanaugh was too big to fail.
00:24:28.860 I would say this to Senate Republicans, motivate your base. This is going to be a base
00:24:34.700 turnout election. The Democrats were fired up. Give Republicans a reason to come out and vote
00:24:41.140 for you. And the Save America Act is that reason. Yeah. Mike Davis, Article 3, thank you for staying
00:24:48.500 so long. Thank you for making this Ralph Castro thing make sense. Where do people go to get your
00:24:52.600 Your social media is on fire, and the website is not too shabby either.
00:24:57.180 Where do people go?
00:24:59.380 Article3project.org, article3project.org.
00:25:03.380 Donate, follow us on social media.
00:25:05.320 But again, the War Room Posse superpower is action, action, action.
00:25:10.080 Light up the Senate on the Save America Act.
00:25:14.240 Thank you, brother.
00:25:15.160 Appreciate you.
00:25:16.420 Thank you.
00:25:17.020 We may be changing that slightly about a leadership fight, but hey, we'll get to that.
00:25:21.520 Caroline, so I'm going to hold you through the break, and I know you've got to rush.
00:25:24.120 You've got a big speech, a talk you've given over in Capitol Hill with the CPAC folks.
00:25:28.900 Let's deal South Carolina first.
00:25:30.940 You've done such a magnificent—and Governor McMaster and the people in the House have stepped up here big league.
00:25:37.400 Where do we stand with this going 7-0 in the Gamecock State, ma'am?
00:25:45.700 Yes, Governor McMaster's been great, and then the lieutenant governor, Pamela Ebbett,
00:25:48.960 I think has been the real star in pushing this through. So the redistricting bill passed the
00:25:54.280 Senate Judiciary Committee last night, and now it heads to the Senate floor. And to pass it in time,
00:25:59.660 the Senate must expedite the process and work around the filibuster. I'm hearing there's going
00:26:03.880 to be a war on the floor today. The deadline when early voting begins is this Tuesday, May 26. They
00:26:10.480 have to get this done by Monday because the bill does two things. It passes a new congressional
00:26:16.580 map, but it also moves the primaries for the new congressional seats to August.
00:26:22.420 And so that's why there's a hard stop on Tuesday, May 26th to get this done.
00:26:26.800 And so I am still hopeful, but there's going to be a lot of maneuvering today.
00:26:30.840 I'm going to be watching this very closely.
00:26:32.440 They're going to fight today, fight tomorrow.
00:26:35.320 They can stay through the weekend.
00:26:37.740 And then we've got to get this done and on the governor's desk by Monday.
00:26:41.220 um and uh where do people for this specifically i want to put up your twitter because you're
00:26:48.780 bomber command you're sending out instructions all day long but where specifically for this
00:26:53.060 south carolina situation uh should they focus on well i think calling calling your different
00:27:00.060 if you live in the state calling or emailing your senators you should do that and i just put up a um
00:27:05.180 an x post of all the emails and phone numbers of every south carolina senator and so continue to
00:27:10.160 really be pushing them and saying we have got to get this done because it is it's so important we
00:27:13.900 need to pick up this other seat okay if you can hang on one second i got to talk to you about the
00:27:19.040 student situation because i know you're at the tip of the spear of this also senator tommy
00:27:23.120 the coach is going to be here and former senator sam brownbeck is also going to join us so we're
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00:27:53.840 U.S. government. That's the only part of the contingent, I think, goes to 100 or 200 trillion,
00:27:57.760 depending on how you calculate it. They're blaming Murdoch and the neoliberals over at Fox News and
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00:29:44.340 and do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:29:48.640 Van.
00:29:51.980 Caroline, first off, you're up, you're leaving. You've got to go to the CPAC
00:29:55.660 Women's Leadership Conference. Give me a second on that, on the 0.99
00:29:59.960 women. You've been with these people for a couple of days. What's the 1.00
00:30:04.240 big issue? Because we have a signing of an executive order
00:30:07.840 at 3.30 this afternoon that, as you know, the war room has fought 0.76
00:30:12.160 You know, the first amnesty for A.I., the second amnesty for A.I., we won.
00:30:17.040 They came up with another EO. They sent the framework out. We defeated that.
00:30:20.680 We're going to keep defeating them until they get it right.
00:30:23.620 And they're giving the president bad information, bad information, particularly where folks in the United States stand and specifically the MAGA movement and conservatives.
00:30:33.180 Your thoughts?
00:30:34.100 yeah i had dinner last night with about uh 30 women from across the country and they're all
00:30:39.580 leaders in different industries and um we were with uh some different organizations and white
00:30:45.140 house officials and they asked them to go around and talk about what are they hearing on the ground
00:30:49.360 as far as the biggest concerns not only for other women but just coming up to this midterms one by
00:30:55.040 one each person said data centers and ai and this is what you've been talking about steve i've been
00:31:00.660 talking about it a lot too. They feel like this is being shoved down their throats. There was a
00:31:05.540 number of different concerns. Someone who is from North Dakota was talking about water rights and
00:31:11.560 water access and what these data centers are going to use with their water. You had farmers
00:31:15.620 and ranchers talking about eminent domain issues and that they're just coming in and seizing their
00:31:20.000 land, putting power grids and power lines through it. And they're not going to produce any value for
00:31:26.740 their communities this is i think going to be a huge issue for the midterms and then a defining
00:31:31.840 issue in 2028 people want to be leveled with we understand the data centers and and ai is coming
00:31:38.200 but you have to talk people through it and talk about what the changes are you know one person
00:31:43.260 brought up hang on hang on when you say it's coming you want to say it's coming it's how
00:31:47.860 it's coming you can't talk to these tech bro oligarchs are the let me be let me say it again
00:31:52.320 the worst people on earth the worst people on earth so you can't trust them on anything uh
00:31:59.900 continue on caroline but people their lives are going to have to change and they're going to have
00:32:05.100 to shift and we should talk to them about it for example someone talked about how their daughter
00:32:08.440 just graduated from college and is twenty thousand dollars in debt and she got an education degree
00:32:13.240 and so when she saw you know melania do the uh event with a robot teacher she was terrified of
00:32:20.280 that because she's sitting there thinking oh my god i'm not going to have a job and and frankly
00:32:24.360 she might be right maybe that is where we are all moving but that means we've got to start to talk
00:32:28.980 to people about different industries that they need to be looking at that's why young people
00:32:32.740 you heard them with these graduation ceremonies if someone mentioned ai they were booed on the
00:32:37.520 stages and if we're going to be really you know 30 of lawyers we got to don't tell people don't
00:32:42.880 go to law school but energy and infrastructure are going to be booming we played a we played
00:32:48.300 a mashup yesterday for five minutes of
00:32:50.100 guys getting booed off the stage. Okay, John
00:32:52.400 Thune, we're going to get on top of that. Joe
00:32:54.260 Allen's going to be in the second hour. We're also going to have the
00:32:56.200 Daily Signal polling that shows
00:32:58.260 oh, I don't know, 90%
00:33:00.120 of MAGA and conservatives
00:33:02.280 and the American people hate this.
00:33:04.880 Caroline Wren, John Thune,
00:33:06.400 what are we then to do, ma'am?
00:33:08.340 Because we're just kidding ourselves. We're burning daylight.
00:33:10.420 We're going to lose the Senate.
00:33:12.220 Ossoff's going to win in Georgia.
00:33:14.480 Watley's going to get crushed in North Carolina.
00:33:17.260 Sherrod Brown's going to be in the Senate from Ohio.
00:33:19.920 We're going to lose – Kansas is in play.
00:33:22.360 Alaska's in play.
00:33:23.600 Maine, we're going to lose Maine.
00:33:25.040 The reason is the grassroots are not fired up at all because the Senate hasn't done anything. 0.53
00:33:29.700 And now they're treating President Trump like a lame duck. 0.55
00:33:32.260 He ain't a lame duck, Caroline Wren. 0.96
00:33:35.440 I like John Thune.
00:33:36.580 I think he's a nice guy.
00:33:37.700 I was rooting for him.
00:33:38.620 But it is clear now that his – he has lost control of his own caucus.
00:33:42.800 and then his relationship with President Trump is greatly strained. And so I think it is time that
00:33:48.640 we have to make a change. And so I was thinking about this all night. And what I think we need
00:33:52.960 to do is I think that they need to make J.D. Vance the Senate Majority Leader. John Adams
00:33:57.400 served as the Senate Majority Leader while he was the vice president for George Washington.
00:34:02.500 There is president here. The Constitution designates the vice president as the president
00:34:06.420 of the Senate, making the VP the highest ranking constitutional officer in that chamber.
00:34:11.040 I think it is time we send in J.D. Vance and really tell him we need you to focus on corralling your former colleagues and use the constitutional powers that were given to you.
00:34:21.300 And J.D. Vance, I would love to see play a larger role in helping us get through President Trump's agenda in this Senate.
00:34:30.900 Where do people go on this topic?
00:34:32.880 I want to go to your Twitter account because we're getting fired up on this thing today.
00:34:36.820 We don't have 60 votes.
00:34:38.480 The leaders told us we ain't got 60.
00:34:39.940 he said we don't even have 51 i think we got 27 and 27 is the number you need to remove him so
00:34:45.800 where do people go to follow this caroline wren that is true but the senate majority leader
00:34:50.820 sets the rules and the filibuster is ultimately a rules question so i think jd vance and the
00:34:55.620 white house should look at vance have the power for the constitution to override thune and change
00:35:00.800 the rules and nuke the filibuster and bring that to a floor vote and force these senators to actually
00:35:05.560 be on record as to i want to know which senators are opposed to this they won't tell us that that's 0.95
00:35:10.260 why they won't bring it to a vote jd vance may have the constitutional power to bring that to
00:35:13.840 the floor uh but you can follow me at caroline wren on x truth social and getter thank you ma'am
00:35:20.340 have a good uh we'll find out if they're live streaming cpac we're going to pick it up at uh
00:35:24.860 at 11 or 11 o'clock 11 30 when we get there come back to us we want to stream all of that
00:35:28.760 women in leadership 300 people it's already packed the cpac team
00:35:35.360 Senator Tommy Tuberville, now I fully understand, sir, why you are.
00:35:40.320 I couldn't understand with my good friend Ken Paxson why he want to leave the AG in Texas and go to the Senate.
00:35:46.280 But then you're leaving the Senate to go run for governor of the great state of Alabama.
00:35:52.120 Why is the Senate treating why is Senate leadership treating President Trump as a lame duck, sir?
00:35:58.940 Thank you, Steve. It's good to be here. I love Caroline.
00:36:02.820 She and I have been friends for a while.
00:36:05.360 She's right on target.
00:36:06.320 The problem is you've got to be inside the Senate to see what's going on. 0.99
00:36:10.580 We have a huge divide in the Republican side.
00:36:13.240 I'm not talking about just between Republican and Democrat.
00:36:15.900 I'm talking about Republican side.
00:36:17.720 It's going to be hard to get anything done for President Trump,
00:36:20.060 other than maybe a few nominations between now and the end of this term after the election.
00:36:27.320 We may get the NDAA done.
00:36:29.220 That's going to be hard to do.
00:36:30.300 But we, President Trump just set the, he set the scale.
00:36:34.740 He said, listen, I'm tired of this.
00:36:36.260 Well, hang on, hang on, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:36:37.740 NDAA is must pass.
00:36:39.840 I have a big problem with spending as a veteran $1.5 trillion on defense.
00:36:44.520 But the NDAA, when you say it's hard, isn't that a must pass piece of legislation, sir? 0.97
00:36:51.040 Damn, Steve, I've been up here, this is my sixth year. 0.97
00:36:54.580 And we've always gotten it passed in the middle of the night in December when we should. 0.99
00:36:59.700 We'll have a markup here in a couple of weeks.
00:37:02.460 We could do it within a couple of months, but there's no appetite for it,
00:37:07.740 and you have to beg people to vote for it.
00:37:09.880 It's just absolutely amazing.
00:37:11.640 I'm not talking about just Democrats.
00:37:13.300 I'm talking about Republicans.
00:37:14.820 And so it all starts with leadership.
00:37:20.340 And John Thune's a nice guy.
00:37:23.160 But sooner or later, you've got to make either changes.
00:37:26.680 You've got to see how the ball's rolling here.
00:37:28.900 parliamentarian should have been gone a long
00:37:31.180 time ago. That was a decision he
00:37:33.060 made. It's backfiring
00:37:35.120 on him now. We've got
00:37:37.200 President Trump that's the leader
00:37:39.020 of our party and he said
00:37:40.600 Bill Cassidy's out. He voted against me.
00:37:43.340 If he didn't know that was coming
00:37:44.760 you've been
00:37:46.640 in another world. John Cornyn
00:37:49.520 has made some votes that President
00:37:51.100 Trump didn't like. He came out for Paxton.
00:37:53.560 Now we've got a huge divide.
00:37:55.140 We've got four or five people in the Republican
00:37:56.900 Party saying that, hey, he's going after members. Hey, this is a team sport here. President Trump
00:38:04.320 is the head coach. Let's get on board with him. But you have so many personal priorities here.
00:38:11.720 I'm talking about people that take things personally from President Trump. I mean,
00:38:15.500 it has gotten to their brain and they just refuse to do anything that's going to help him. And it's
00:38:20.960 a shame because the American people have a great opportunity here, but that opportunity is going
00:38:26.120 by the wayside because of their personal agenda.
00:38:29.600 President Trump has said over and over again,
00:38:33.180 the Save America Act is his number one priority.
00:38:35.900 As you see it right now, will that get attached to NDAA?
00:38:40.160 Did that get attached to Pfizer?
00:38:41.660 Is there a must-pass piece of legislation that you attach it to?
00:38:44.680 Because it seems like Thune is saying that's not an option either.
00:38:49.460 Yeah, the Save America Act is probably the most important thing
00:38:52.620 for Republicans and Democrats.
00:38:55.020 And all citizens across the country, because if you don't have fair elections, then you're not going to have a government that's going to represent each and every one of us within the law.
00:39:06.080 But, Steve, it's not going to pass.
00:39:08.040 I mean, we got no chance.
00:39:09.480 You know, no chance to put it on the floor to get passed.
00:39:12.860 There's no chance to bust the filibuster.
00:39:15.200 First of all, we could never bust it because we might could get 43, 44 votes in the Republican side and you need 51 to bust it.
00:39:25.020 I mean, the Dems came close at 49 because, or whatever it was,
00:39:30.420 when Manchin and Sinema said, no, we don't think that's the right time to do it.
00:39:34.660 But, you know, it's just we're dead up here.
00:39:37.940 We're dead in the water.
00:39:38.960 We can't get anything done.
00:39:41.380 You know, government's not working.
00:39:42.880 We can't fund DHS.
00:39:44.000 But let's get back to, then that's, look,
00:39:48.100 you're one of the most revered coaches in the history of college football.
00:39:51.220 You know about leadership and the leadership of men better than anybody.
00:39:54.880 I mean, he's leader. Understand it's hard. That's why he's the leader. Somehow you've got to go in
00:39:59.480 and figure out, make it work. If you don't make it work, don't you have to change? Don't you have
00:40:04.100 to change the leadership? I mean, we're at a point we've given him enough chance. We support him,
00:40:09.520 say, let's get this done. But if you're sitting there telling me in May of twenty twenty six
00:40:13.680 with this massive midterm election coming up with the 53 vote Senate's in play and you can go around
00:40:20.200 to look at the numbers look in maine look at north carolina look at listen is ossoff wins in
00:40:25.180 georgia and that mess down there with kemp and that crowd ossoff's going to be he's going to
00:40:29.100 replace newsom as the number one guy in their presidential sweepstakes in 28 a a liberal
00:40:34.160 progressive winning a southern state like georgia so this is an emergency in an emergency don't you
00:40:40.820 start making changes coach yeah yeah you got to change the game plan it's got to be changed i'm
00:40:46.740 We're having a big meeting this morning at 11 o'clock of all the senators on the GOP.
00:40:53.340 And, you know, we can change.
00:40:54.820 If you're the leader, okay, it's fine being said, hey, I'm the leader.
00:40:58.900 But sooner or later, you've got to lead.
00:41:00.880 I mean, that goes along with the job.
00:41:02.920 And so we're not getting anything done.
00:41:05.600 What can we do?
00:41:07.600 Trent lied a few years ago when he was a leader.
00:41:09.940 You know what he did during reconciliation?
00:41:11.660 He fired the parliamentarian.
00:41:13.400 You're out.
00:41:14.260 We're bringing somebody else in.
00:41:15.680 You got to put your best foot forward. Now we got people that are saying, well, I might vote for a couple of amendments of the Democrats during this.
00:41:23.140 Well, you can't do that because it go back to the House again. They said we're not going to accept any amendments.
00:41:28.280 And so what do you do? Here's what you to me, what you do. And again, you got to play hardball.
00:41:34.580 We've got several people that it's not going to vote, vote for filibuster or they'll probably vote for some of the Democrat amendments.
00:41:43.060 you say listen you do that you're out as chairman of a committee you're out immediately out we're
00:41:49.860 gonna put somebody else in because that's the reason people stay here is to have power but we
00:41:54.620 do it because of of seniority we don't do it because of merit we don't have the best people
00:42:00.600 in some of these chairmanships so we've got to do the right thing it starts at leadership we're
00:42:05.740 gonna go and i'm gonna listen to it and if we don't make changes we go and try to beg people
00:42:10.480 to do things, it doesn't work.
00:42:12.440 Put their feet to the fire.
00:42:13.740 Let's go to work and let's work with President Trump.
00:42:17.080 Senator Tuberville, what's your social media?
00:42:19.200 Where do people follow this?
00:42:20.240 This 11 o'clock meeting, I think it's going to be a little heated.
00:42:22.100 We'll let you go get ready for it.
00:42:24.000 Yep.
00:42:24.440 Coach for Gov, I won the primary, Steve, the other day.
00:42:27.240 You probably saw that.
00:42:28.040 But I'm looking forward to it.
00:42:30.200 I'm not running against a Democrat.
00:42:31.940 I'm running against a communist.
00:42:33.120 My God, people in Alabama ain't going to vote for people that love open borders and all 0.63
00:42:38.240 that nonsense.
00:42:38.800 love you sir good luck we'll talk to you after the 11 o'clock senator tommy tuberville won the
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00:44:22.540 Okay, I want to welcome former Senator Sam Brownback, one of the great moral leaders in the United States Senate from Kansas, 0.86
00:44:33.040 has dedicated his life now to the persecution of people of faith, specifically Christians.
00:44:39.780 And in that, not taking on the marginal work, going right to the heart of it, the Chinese Communist Party
00:44:45.640 and what the Chinese Communist Party is doing against people of faith in China.
00:44:50.460 Senator, I think, aren't there 100 million Christians, most of them on the ground, either evangelical or traditional Catholics in China, sir?
00:45:01.060 Nobody knows the actual number, but that's the one most people cite, too.
00:45:05.060 And it's been one of the fastest growing Christian populations on the planet the last decade.
00:45:10.700 So this is a big issue for the Chinese Communist Party because Christianity doesn't believe that the Communist Party is the highest moral authority, highest authority, period, and they're often willing to stand against them, like you're seeing Pastor Ezra Jin or the nine Catholic bishops that are currently in jail in China.
00:45:30.600 well the catholic vision i'll get to in a minute because that's that's the problem we got with the
00:45:36.260 i'm a catholic but the catholic church's perilous uh deal secret deal with the chinese congress
00:45:40.920 party last week president trump goes he's trying to be magnanimous he's trying to work out something
00:45:46.020 to balance the global economy of course we pride ourselves on the war room of being the leaders in
00:45:52.560 this anti-ccp movement um and our point the whole time is all they're going to do is lie to you in 0.77
00:45:58.280 misdirection. Just give people, because we had our book, Kill to Order, about organ harvesting,
00:46:03.980 what they're doing there. Talk to us about the specifics of the Chinese Communist Party's
00:46:09.200 persecution of Christians, their war on people of faith. I did the foreword for that book
00:46:16.180 on Kill to Order. This is a horrific issue where you harvest people for their organs. 0.98
00:46:23.400 What they're doing to Christians right now is they're locking up more of the pastors now than they have arguably since any time since Mao.
00:46:31.280 Really, Xi Jinping is a reincarnation of Mao, if I can use that terminology.
00:46:37.460 And they're just going really at them.
00:46:39.620 We feature in chapter one in the book, Peter Xu, who is a guy who was arrested five times.
00:46:45.380 He hung him in a cross formation in his jail cell until he nearly killed him and took him down to sign his confession that Jesus was a hoax, God wasn't real.
00:46:55.440 And he just looks at the warden and says, thanks for allowing me to participate in the sufferings of Christ. 0.87
00:47:02.520 That's the character and the nature of these committed Christians that are in China who believe that their calling is actually to carry the gospel on through China
00:47:12.380 and finish the circumnavigation back to Jerusalem.
00:47:15.760 They're a phenomenal group, and that threatens the CCP,
00:47:20.320 and that's why they're arresting them,
00:47:22.240 and that's why we really ought to stand with them,
00:47:24.700 bring them into the White House, recognize them,
00:47:27.820 give them a platform to talk about what's taking place in China
00:47:31.300 and to push back against this CCP and the surveillance state
00:47:35.800 that they are putting in place in China
00:47:37.940 and in a whole lot of other countries around the world.
00:47:40.680 senator you looked at as one of the leaders of this so when we look at it you've got the lords
00:47:46.700 of easy money on wall street you got the venture capital guys out on the west coast you got the
00:47:50.720 oligarchs in silicon valley you got corporate america that you know better than anybody the
00:47:54.880 ceos of the globalist corporations sold us out with all that pressure on president trump and 0.56
00:47:59.340 you saw when he was over there trying to balance and trying to work out some sort of deal to
00:48:03.340 make sure that they're uh inextricably linked that the chinese communist party or chinese
00:48:08.280 is inextricably linked to the global economy
00:48:10.720 in ways that they're not destroying American workers
00:48:13.660 in the American economy, manufacturing.
00:48:16.600 How then, because I keep saying, 0.67
00:48:19.460 I said, look, this group is worse than the Nazis.
00:48:22.960 When you look at the 450 million forced abortions, 0.91
00:48:26.220 if you look at the 250 million people 1.00
00:48:27.960 they've killed, the Beijing of the Chinese, 1.00
00:48:30.340 how are we supposed to accommodate? 1.00
00:48:32.040 How are we supposed to deal with people?
00:48:33.920 And if you read your book on the war against the faith,
00:48:36.440 It's just chapter after chapter after chapter.
00:48:39.620 And you know how murderous they are.
00:48:41.340 You said right there that Xi is like Mao.
00:48:43.360 Mao is one of the great monsters in world history and certainly the 20th century.
00:48:48.180 How are we then supposed to deal with them?
00:48:51.400 First off, we've got to start confronting them.
00:48:53.480 And we've got to realize that whether we think we're at war with them or not,
00:48:56.960 they are at war with us and they want to take us out. 0.53
00:48:59.940 And the Chinese Communist Party has killed more of its own people than any regime in the history 0.72
00:49:05.780 of mankind. That's just its own people that they've killed. So that's who you're dealing 0.96
00:49:11.740 with. And they aren't to be trusted. On Hong Kong, they dealt with the British, said, we'll give
00:49:15.940 two systems, one country for 50 years. On Hong Kong, that lasted 23 years, and it was gone.
00:49:23.040 And they're taking over Hong Kong. This is who we're dealing with. What I argue is that we're
00:49:27.940 going to have to break these economies apart. We need to go back into a Cold War status like we
00:49:33.180 were with the Soviet Union. It'll be important to us. We're going to have to build our own streams 0.97
00:49:38.120 of flow for the rare earth minerals. That's going to take some time. And I think that's really what
00:49:43.300 President Trump is positioning for right now. He's the first president to take on China since
00:49:50.960 Kennedy. So, I mean, he really has gone there, but he's got a tactical point. Hang on. Hang on.
00:49:56.900 I'm feeling better already.
00:49:58.540 My morning is getting better.
00:50:00.380 Are you saying, am I hearing this right?
00:50:02.060 Sam Brownback, a revered member of the U.S. Senate and from the heartland of this country,
00:50:06.200 you're saying, hey, look, we can put all the happy talk we want on this,
00:50:09.740 but you have to come to a point where you decouple these. 1.00
00:50:13.060 Because the Chinese are trying to decouple. 0.98
00:50:15.320 They say this all the time. 1.00
00:50:16.640 They're going to use us for what they use and then decouple.
00:50:19.160 Are you arguing that we have to get to a point where we decouple?
00:50:22.660 It's not more accommodation.
00:50:24.000 It's actually decouple the economies, sir?
00:50:26.500 Absolutely. Absolutely. We never put the two economies together with the Soviet Union.
00:50:32.800 I mean, we exported agricultural commodities. We exported a few things to them. We bought a few
00:50:37.300 things from them. Not much. These economies weren't integrated. You've got these two economies
00:50:41.920 integrated. And the more you break them apart, the more investment you're going to have in the
00:50:46.920 United States. And you can get our supply chains on these key issues, like medicines,
00:50:52.580 like these rare earth minerals, like computer chips and the materials there.
00:50:59.560 You've got to start getting those in safer places for us to have this long-term confrontation
00:51:04.980 with the CCP that we are in, at least they're in it, whether we realize we're in it or not.
00:51:13.040 Sarah, can you hang on a second? I just want to hold you through the top of the hour break.
00:51:17.360 I want to come back because I want to make sure people get your book and get to all your social
00:51:21.180 media this is I think this is great advice and I think it's the advice we
00:51:27.240 need to broaden the circle of people talking to the president about this
00:51:31.180 issue. President Donald Trump is the first president to ever directly
00:51:37.940 confront the Chinese Communist Party. Kennedy and for a little bit remember we
00:51:43.560 did the communists in the State Department tossed China in 1949 to the
00:51:50.500 communists to the to the to the small what they've said were agrarian reformers total lie
00:51:55.900 general marshall the revered general marshall big problem mccarthy nailed it in retreat from
00:52:02.600 victory wrote a book about it after a six hour or seven hour speech on the floor of the united
00:52:08.500 states senate joe mccarthy short break we're packed in the next hour senator brownback's
00:52:14.740 You're going to tee it up.
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