00:01:17.760Why not just do we say yes, just sail those destroyers through the strait a couple of times, hold it, map it, GPS it out.
00:01:25.380Make sure we hold it down with with with Intel. And you've opened the straight without having to cut a deal with the Iranians.0.99
00:01:33.220I love it. Anyway, this is a it's a it's a it's a movable feast right now.0.98
00:01:38.640The president's working nonstop on it. The fleet's still out there.
00:01:41.200He hasn't called off the Navy. And last night he delivered, I think, 49 Tomahawk hits.
00:01:47.360So he says he's doing it again tonight. They got the document.
00:01:50.760And as as he as he said, you know, he's not going to back off this.
00:01:59.700So I think it's not there's plenty of time to point the finger and figure out how we got in this.
00:02:05.620I think this announcement today on D&I, we're going to get into it during the war room.
00:02:09.820It's President Trump's trying to get his arms around that in the deep state.
00:02:13.940But I think it's most incumbent upon him now to figure out exactly who we're dealing with, what we can get done.
00:02:19.780what's the limits and framework of that and then let's get on with it and uh and and pull it out
00:02:24.320pull out and come home i want i want to i'm going to call politico and say is that is one of those
00:02:29.040senior advisor outside advisors mr stephen k bannon because i think i'm a simple i'm a simple
00:02:33.960tv just might be just simple i'm a simple tv host thank you eric i know you guys go do a
00:02:40.700pre-record right now let's go back to work have a great show thank you brother now are we at
00:02:45.860heritage live do we have it there haven't started yet okay our guests from this morning the acting
00:02:53.600or the shadow they have these things the shadow home secretary that means reforms got a guy that
00:02:58.340sits in the kind of the home secretary's seat and take shots at the government as what their
00:03:04.620counter counter argument would be if they had if they were in power this is Nigel Farage's right
00:03:10.000hand man Zia Yusuf is speaking at the Heritage Foundation the Institute and we're going to pick
00:03:15.600it up at least part of it when he goes we've got a cold open let's hit that i got neil mccabe at
00:03:21.020the white house eric metaxa is going to join us we're packed on a thursday afternoon here in the
00:03:25.880world let's go to the cold open a great settlement of the war with the red and we're going to be uh
00:03:33.920subject to finalization of documents we should get done over the next few days probably have a
00:03:40.860signing maybe in Europe, and it's a great thing. Stock market's up 1,000 points. That means they
00:03:48.480like the deal. See, that means if the market goes down, that means they don't like the deal.
00:03:53.080But it's been up. Oil's dropped. Oil will start coming down to, I think, even lower than it was
00:03:58.220before. What do you think about this nomination of U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to be the permanent
00:04:04.740DNI? Well, Jay Clayton certainly has more national security expertise than Bill Pulte,
00:04:11.140but still not a lot in the grand scheme of things. Now, Jay Clayton, as you said,
00:04:15.180is the U.S. attorney right now for the Southern District of New York, my former office. But before
00:04:19.720that, the 30 years of his legal career were primarily spent either as an associate or a
00:04:25.380partner at a big Manhattan law firm where he was doing primarily corporate deals and that type of
00:04:31.020thing. And in 2017, he became the chair of the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission,
00:04:35.980where he was involved with regulating the markets and financial transactions. So his only real
00:04:41.940experience in the national security area comes over the last year when he was U.S. attorney at
00:04:47.140the Southern District of New York. Now, that said, if you're going to get experience in terrorism
00:04:52.220cases and national security cases, the SDNY is probably the single best U.S. attorney's office
00:04:57.520in the country to do that because the SDNY specializes in those areas, has long brought
00:05:02.980cases involving terrorist attacks, international and domestic terrorist organizations. And indeed,
00:05:10.080Jay Clayton has overseen some investigations and prosecutions of that nature during his time as
00:05:14.700U.S. attorney over the past year. Pleased to announce the nomination of very highly respected
00:05:19.160Jay Clayton, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the former head of
00:05:23.500Sullivan and Cromwell, one of the most prominent and successful law firms anywhere in the world,
00:05:28.560and the current United States attorney for the Southern District of New York to be the next
00:05:32.120director of national intelligence and, importantly, to serve in my cabinet. I'll leave the rest for
00:05:37.660the viewers to read. But, Catherine, speak to who this person is. Who is Jay Clayton?
00:05:43.760Well, the president is right. He is a very highly respected attorney. He was chair of the SEC. He
00:05:49.700was a partner at Sullivan Cromwell. I don't know. It was the best law firm in the world,
00:05:52.880but is a highly respected law firm, and he's the current United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
00:05:59.160But federal law requires that this position be given to some of the extensive national security experience,
00:06:07.280and it doesn't appear that Jay Clayton has that.
00:06:10.100Clearly, he is a very competent, highly qualified attorney and qualified to be the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
00:06:18.040It's not clear about that requirement of extensive national security experience.
00:06:24.480Do you intend to have Bill Pulte continue to serve as the acting director of national intelligence?
00:06:31.220And do you think it's unreasonable that some Republicans have concerns that he has no intelligence experience, even if he's serving in this acting role?
00:06:37.500But he's intelligent, unlike a lot of other people.
00:08:32.440Why are you so convinced that this time is different?
00:08:36.680they've taken a pounding they've taken a pounding like very few people could take
00:08:41.720and they want to make the deal a lot more than i do and uh we could have had it done the other way
00:08:47.560i guess but it would have taken longer they uh they got hit very hard recently as you know
00:08:54.200and i don't like to have to do things that way but i felt it was necessary
00:08:58.360it's a great deal for the united states and for the middle east and i think ultimately great for
00:09:02.520run because they'll be able to build up their country and other country i really believe it's
00:09:07.560a regime change because i find these people to be much more rational than the people that are
00:09:13.480no longer with us we knocked out the first team of leadership the second team of leadership is
00:09:19.320a different group is a different level and i think it's a frankly a smarter level and it's a level
00:09:24.040that has reason and they've all approved the deal everybody's approved the deal now we'll get it
00:09:31.480finished up and hopefully that'll be done iran will in no way shape or form have a nuclear weapon
00:09:38.840or purchase a nuclear weapon when it comes to nuclear you said this was just the concept of
00:09:44.680that agreement so is this just essentially setting the stage for deeper talks it's a very strong
00:09:49.880memorandum of understanding that is a little conceptual but it's something that's going to
00:09:54.600get done and if it doesn't get done for any reason which i can't imagine that not happening they want
00:09:59.480to sign it as much as i do or more i would say they want to sign it more maybe a lot more but
00:10:05.240it's a very detailed a memorandum of understanding also agreed to by many other countries that have
00:10:10.920great influence over them and everybody wants it done so it's going to get the amount of time
00:10:16.840that has to pass between this memorandum of understanding and a final deal being done well
00:10:21.560we hope it's going to go relatively quickly but it's 16 or 9 the straits are going to open
00:10:26.360immediately this is fun signing maybe it'll be saturday or monday is there a deadline though to
00:10:31.160get from this to a final deal uh we think it's going to go pretty quickly i don't want to say
00:10:37.680a deadline because if i say a deadline you'll say oh he didn't meet the deadline you know this is
00:10:42.520like it's not going to matter much because uh it's going to get signed and the strait is open
00:10:49.700the straits have been open for a number of months already and you just didn't know about it you know
00:10:55.260You, as reporters, weren't able to get it.
00:10:57.940I just announced yesterday that we brought a lot of ships through and nobody knew about it.
00:11:01.920I guess we did a pretty good job, Peter, right?
00:11:04.040But we brought many, many ships across and millions, hundreds of millions of barrels of oil were brought across.
00:11:12.700And there wasn't a thing that anybody could have done about that.
00:11:16.160I think with his law background and his experience, I think he certainly will be much more, I think, less reckless than a Bill Pulte will be.
00:11:26.920And the question is whether he can stave off any type of pressure that he feels from the White House to actually give up the goods that they want on this.
00:11:35.640Because like you, I do not believe Donald Trump is going to relent at all as far as continuing to pursue this, you know, these arguments that the elections are rigged whenever anybody that he doesn't like is elected.
00:11:48.460So but again, I think Jay Clayton's background experience tells us that he's not going to be a Bill Pult.
00:11:53.800He's not going to be a pit bull that goes in there. He may, in fact, try to get down from something.
00:11:58.620And again, I'm just hoping that he's not going to, again, politicize the office and to further alienate, I think, a already demoralized workforce, not just in the ODNI, but also throughout the intelligence community.
00:12:12.080uh that's brennan a crook who should be in prison but because we're moving so slow
00:12:18.420in rounding up uh the guilty um he's not and he can still go on msnbc in a pint oh excuse me it's
00:12:27.180ms now as the president informs us this morning it's because nbc doesn't want their brand tainted
00:12:33.200with it that's why they spun it off he gave it a new name um jay clayton uh so we're gonna go to
00:12:39.740the White House after the commercial break. McCabe is with you. They had a FISA vote. We'll
00:12:44.860also break that down. Jay Clayton was a senior, I think he was a senior partner on the managing
00:12:50.000committee of Sullivan and Cromwell. Sullivan and Cromwell is one of the most prominent law firms
00:12:55.080in the world. It is really the house law firm for Goldman Sachs, all the big transactions,
00:13:01.560including, I'm sure, Sullivan and Cromwell is working on this massive transaction on SpaceX,
00:13:07.000The largest public offering, I think, in history is going to take place on Monday.
00:13:11.580I'm sure that working through the prospectus of the due diligence.
00:20:13.320Like you said, it was really a loss by 80.
00:20:15.440And so I don't know how on God's green earth you bring up a vote not knowing that you're going to lose by 80 like that just seems I can't imagine, you know, Sam Rayburn or Eddie McCormick or Tip O'Neill or Nancy Pelosi bringing something onto the floor knowing you're going to take an 80 vote loss.
00:20:38.260But that's what they did today because they did it under suspension of the rules.
00:20:42.280Normally, you do not use the suspension of the rules on a Thursday.
00:20:46.260So they actually invoked the suspension and held it until today.
00:22:58.500President Trump should announce, if this is going to happen and Jay Clayton, they're going to rush the nomination through, he should name Bill Pulte.
00:23:07.640They hate him and he scares him to death.
00:23:10.100Bill Pulte ought to be named right now senior special assistant or senior deputy DNI.
00:23:15.720Whatever you got to do, you got to put Pulte in there today because I've never seen the apparatus so afraid of any individual in my entire life.
00:23:24.340They are absolutely apoplectic of Bill Pulte stepping over to DNI and kind of, I don't know, maybe look around the files, maybe actually check into the, you know, some of the election files of 2020, which we know that now have the information for your thoughts, McKay.
00:23:41.300well i think one of the great innovations recently in election integrity sort of investigations
00:23:48.780and watchfulness is you know we really didn't get much traction on the criminal justice side
00:23:55.940but now once people realize that there's a foreign component to a lot of this election integrity
00:24:01.700stuff now it comes into the wheelhouse of the intelligence agencies and that's why one of the
00:24:06.680reasons why Tulsi Gabbard was able to grab those Fulton County ballots. And so if, if, if Pulte
00:24:13.160was some incompetent stooge, they would not care, right? They're afraid of him because he's smart,0.90
00:24:20.620he's hardworking, and the president trusts him a hundred percent. Plus he has what the
00:24:25.620Kennedys used to call FU money. Yeah. And he's, uh, actually he has F everybody money. It's
00:24:32.160different. F you money. He's a notch up. F everybody money. I want to go to something
00:24:37.740that this tells you about. When the deep state and the apparatus want to move on somebody,
00:24:43.300they can't have this guy Pulte around. They couldn't have Tulsi around, but Pulte can't
00:24:46.760replace her. They will move heaven and earth. Let me repeat. From being announced a little while ago,0.99
00:24:53.060we have a confirmation hearing. Now, that's not enough time to fill out the voluminous paperwork.
00:30:32.960We've got other stuff we're going to go through, and we're going to go back to Neil.
00:30:35.360So a cultural moment, we're heading down the path to our 250th, the commemoration of our 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
00:30:45.280Remember, that was kind of a declaration of war and kicked off the war of independence that lasted for many, many, many years.
00:30:52.500The lesson from there, if you don't quit, you'll eventually win if you're tough enough and hard enough.
00:30:57.200And that's what happened with the great patriots that are part of what we call the revolutionary generation.
00:31:02.440Revolution is a book from Eric Metaxas, 600 pages long, magnificent color.
00:31:13.460This is what's called a very classy book.
00:31:16.800It is beautifully bound, a huge section on some of the best color paintings
00:31:24.160and portraits of the revolutionary period.
00:31:27.300You get the whole thing, and it's so well written.
00:31:29.640Once you get into it, you can't put it down.
00:31:31.740Now, the cultural moment with all the negativity, and they've got some, you know, Howard Zinn, which is the, you know, the people's history of the United States.
00:31:39.400This is what your kids have been indoctrinated in for, you know, decade after decade after decade.
00:31:46.160This is stolen land, you know, on and on and on of all the faults of the United States, the greatest nation on earth.
00:31:52.640In fact, I know that because the subtitle of revolution is the birth of the greatest nation in the history of the world, the history of the world.
00:32:01.120So therefore, for that book to be number one or two on the New York Times bestseller list,
00:32:06.580which is how the elites in this country keep control of the culture.
00:32:10.760They keep control of the cultural institutes and institutions of the culture.
00:32:15.340Tony Lyons, talk to me about the phoniness of what the New York Times has done here,
00:32:20.700particularly about we talk about book sales and unit sales vis-a-vis revolution,
00:32:58.920So what do they do? And you've got some facts to back it up about just raw unit sales. Talk to us
00:33:05.140about that. Yeah. Let me tell you that the New York Times called Jill Biden's book, you know,
00:33:12.380before they saw any of the numbers, the nonfiction book, everyone in the country will be reading
00:33:17.960this summer. So they decided that beforehand. But, you know, look at what the president said.
00:33:23.140He said, you know, Eric's a great guy, but he said, you know, this is an incredible book.
00:33:29.820He says, Eric honors the faith and wisdom and courage of the great patriots who sacrificed so much to secure our freedom.
00:33:38.660He said, these stories of our shared past inspire us to build a future bigger, greater and stronger than ever before.
00:33:46.000So, you know, look at that. That's the president versus The New York Times.
00:33:49.740And despite censorship from newspapers, from libraries, from Barnes and Noble, from hundreds of bookstores all around the country that stacked up Jill Biden's book everywhere to the rafters, they were desperate for this book to sell well because it's a political statement for them.
00:34:06.620But Eric's book outsold it by more than 25 percent.
00:34:12.340So Jill Biden's book sold just over 20,000 copies in the week.
00:34:17.240And Eric's book, you know, this book sold 25,735 copies in the week.
00:35:22.800And it's listed as it's at number 270, no, excuse me, 217 right now.
00:35:29.300So 217. So when when all of the elites who were desperate for her to have a number one bestseller, when all of them stopped buying in bulk, her book just died cold.
00:35:43.240Yeah. And, you know, if you think about it, you know, the same thing happened with Kamala Harris's book, you know, that nobody wanted it.
00:35:50.880It was Pax buying it. It was groups of people buying it, trying to make a point.
00:35:54.820But it wasn't consumers because consumers want to read books that really have substance that, you know, this is a book, this this book revolution.
00:36:04.820This is a book that you cannot put down when you start reading it and you will never forget it for the rest of your life.
00:36:11.120That's what kind of book this is. This is not just a political game. This is the real thing. And that's what this is all about, that those people are trying to make a political point, to make a sort of historic cultural point that Jill Biden means something.
00:36:30.240But we know that this is an obscure book written by the wife of a failed president, and nobody cares about it.
00:36:39.560They can't get their own people to buy this book.
00:36:42.460But I think Eric's book is going to sell hundreds of thousands of copies because that's what Americans want.
00:36:49.200Yeah, these PACs, they're just buying in bulk.
00:36:51.600And we've kind of ripped the mask off it about the phoniness, and that's why he's two now.
00:37:28.700If you don't hate America, this is the book for you. This is a true accounting of the story of the American Revolution. That's all it is, basically. It's meant to be a history book for every American.
00:37:40.000But I got to tell you one thing, as I heard you guys talking, Publishers Weekly, which is the gold standard in publishing, just listed my book as number one for the week.
00:37:50.540Just before I came on the show, boom, it's number one.
00:37:53.380Jill Biden's book was a distant second.
00:37:57.260And I thought, why could they be honest?
00:43:59.500Every day we're going to be hammering this.
00:44:00.960This book is a historical moment, about the historical moment, the 250th commemoration of the anniversary of the foundation of the greatest republic in mankind's history, the greatest nation.
00:46:41.600You used to be a fire-breathing nutcase of progressive liberal.
00:46:45.440but we changed you. We got your mind right. You're now about as right-wing as you can get.
00:46:50.580Of course, you've been ostracized from everything you ever knew. But this book,
00:46:54.680because you and I have worked on, talked about this for a long time. We were so excited that
00:46:58.000coming up for the country's 250th, we would have something special. You have gone out of your way
00:47:04.220in working with Eric. I mean, the quality, the paper, the cover, the artwork, the binding,
00:47:10.720the paper it's just it is you sit there and you go this is something i want to give to people to
00:47:15.480share but metaxas delivered on the story it's exciting it's a page turner like i said people
00:47:22.520know i love to read but a lot of times i read for information just flip it going through and
00:47:27.820highlighting marking with my pen this i devoured because of the i knew the story not all of it
00:47:34.220many things he has i didn't know but the quality of the writing and the power of the narrative
00:47:39.780this morning you saw that on the show talk about that about the war and posse's piled into this
00:47:45.200after after we had the interview another huge day on this book because people get it and this is
00:47:50.720what the new york times can't fight they can't fight publishers weekly they can't fight they
00:47:55.680can't fight amazon the whole world's looking at that they can't fight book scan it's going to
00:48:00.520become obvious they've gun decked this to hold it back but we're we're a rising movement here and
00:48:06.360we're a rising power, sir. Oh, yeah. I mean, this is obviously the book that the New York Times
00:48:13.140doesn't want you to read, that the left wing media doesn't want you to read. They don't want
00:48:17.260you to know the truth. They want to sell you fake news, fake science, fake bestsellers. So I say if
00:48:23.500there's one book you read before July 4th, this should be the book. It's the ultimate book about
00:48:30.060that celebrates all that is great about this country. And it's a book, like I said before,
00:48:36.080You cannot put this book down once you've started reading it. And it's a book you'll remember for the rest of your life, and you'll be proud of your country when you're done. So, you know, let's look at what the War Room Posse did for this book. So the book sold 25,000 copies in the first week. About 12,000 of those copies came from the War Room Posse.
00:48:56.320You guys, all of you out there, you went out and you bought this book and you fought back.
00:49:01.880The other book, Jill Biden's book, it was stacked up in bookstores all around the country.
00:49:14.180There were hundreds of thousands of copies out there, but people don't want to read that
00:49:18.540kind of book by the wife of a failed president.
00:49:21.220They want to read about the courage, the endurance, the bravery, the deep faith of Americans that made this incredible country.
00:49:31.840So you see the outcome and you see the power that you guys have, that all of you people watching this show have.
00:49:38.400So I say, you know, go out and buy this book, get it for your friends, share it, give it as gifts.
00:49:44.460This is a book that will impact the rest of your life.
00:49:47.400It's not just some piece of fake news like so many of the other books, like Jill Biden's book, Kamala Harris, and so many others.
00:49:55.840So, you know, make sure that you don't allow them to control what you do, what you think, or what you read.
00:50:04.660The culture institution you see this morning, even because we're now starting the second week, and the people in the war and posse powered into it today had a huge sale today, right, as we did the morning show.
00:50:15.260So, Tony, social media, you're head of the Make America Healthy Again movement.
00:50:19.000I'm going to have you back on to talk about it.
00:50:20.980We want to talk about this amazing candidate out in Iowa.
00:50:24.180A Maha candidate came from nowhere, a big win.
00:50:27.220Where do people go for your social media, sir?
00:50:29.860Yeah, so for the Maha movement, go to mahaaction.org.
00:50:34.240For Skyhorse, go to skyhorsepublishing.com.
00:50:37.400And for me personally, Tony Lyons is uncertain at Instagram.