00:00:53.520Good on her. And that could be just the beginning.
00:01:00.720This week, newly confirmed attorney general and former Trump criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanche said the next federal election observers could be armed ICE agents.
00:01:10.940Now, when it comes to ICE officers, you recently expressed some support to deploy them to polling locations, armed federal officers.
00:01:18.660Now, how do you reconcile that with, obviously, the federal law that prohibits federal law enforcement to be armed at these locations?
00:01:24.960If you're here illegally, you are not allowed to vote.
00:01:27.760So I also am not sure of the uproar of the risk of having a Border Patrol or an ICE agent at a polling location or looking into whether somebody is voting that shouldn't be.
00:01:37.900If you are here illegally, you cannot vote.
00:01:58.760That polling place worker knew what to do.
00:02:00.740Are you confident that election workers, administrators throughout the country understand
00:02:04.580that they don't have to participate in this?
00:02:07.560So, look, this is where, you know, I depart from some of the happy talk that you sometimes get.
00:02:12.880You know, there there is a tendency for everyone to want to say, well, don't worry, the poll workers will take care of it.
00:02:18.040Well, here's two problems for you. The first is that it's a lot to ask poll workers to stand up to the federal government.
00:02:23.960It's one thing if it's a bunch of guys in polo shirts like that, you know, who are jokers looking to, you know, maybe cause a little bit of a disruption, but but otherwise fine.
00:02:31.760But let's imagine it's not that let's imagine it's ICE agents with guns. Right.
00:02:35.720Let's imagine it is it is people with much more aggressive tactics. Right. It's a lot to put on the poll workers.
00:02:41.020But here's the second problem, and I need everyone to pay attention to this.
00:02:45.800There are a lot of really good election officials, but Tina Peters was an election official.
00:02:51.340Republicans have been putting in key positions in key states and counties around this country election deniers.
00:02:59.160The election deniers are not just running for statewide offices.
00:03:01.860They're not just running for secretary of state.
00:03:03.380They're running or being placed in these local election officials as well.
00:03:07.140So do I think that in Minneapolis we are in good shape?
00:03:10.560Yes. But what happens when you are in a state like Texas or in a state like Florida, where, you know, the Republican Party sort of runs the state government, but also has infiltrated at a MAGA level into a lot of these local county positions?
00:03:25.860And that is where I worry that it isn't going to just be election officials standing up to the federal government. Remember, I mentioned we have won 21 cases. Department of Justice sued 30 states.
00:03:37.120There were 20 states that turned it over voluntarily. And those are the places I am in some ways more worried.
00:03:42.940Yeah, that is terrifying. And then you have candidates like Mike Lindell, who, you know, it is it is bonkers.
00:03:48.800They're coming at this, Mark, from all all directions.
00:03:51.400And today, the Trump administration lawyers, they filed this request asking the Supreme Court to lift a second injunction against this executive order that was targeting vote by mail.
00:04:00.420What can you explain to us what the outlook is there? What are the stakes for voters in this case?
00:04:03.700Yeah. So Donald Trump put in place an executive order, tried to put in place an executive order last year to take over voting.
00:04:12.160We sued. Others sued. We won. And that was blocked.
00:04:14.940Then this year he put it forward in other executive order.
00:04:18.540And in some ways it's much more audacious because what it seeks to do is to commandeer the U.S. Postal Service to require states to provide that voter data that we're beating them in court on when they're trying to go to the states.
00:04:29.740try to get the state staff to turn it over to the Postal Service, or else the Postal Service,
00:04:34.120wait for it, won't deliver you a mail-in ballot. So that has now been challenged in court.
00:04:39.680And the first of those cases to get to the Supreme Court was a case brought by Democratic
00:04:44.320attorneys general. And they wanted the trial court. They wanted the Court of Appeals. And
00:04:48.560the administration is asking the Supreme Court to set that aside. We are all waiting now to hear
00:04:53.820what the Supreme Court says. But here is my message. If you look at what the Trump administration is
00:04:58.380saying they are not saying that the Supreme Court should rule their way because Donald Trump was
00:05:02.980right. They are not saying that the Supreme Court should rule their way because this was
00:05:05.900constitutional. Oh, no, no. They're arguing it's not right. That, you know, like maybe the Postal
00:05:11.880Service will just tell to Donald Trump, no, we're not going to do what you want. Maybe Todd Blanche
00:05:16.120will say, oh, you know what, Mr. President, on this voting thing, we're not going along with you.
00:05:20.740Maybe Mark Wayne Mullins at DHS will say, ah, I don't care what the executive order is. I'm going
00:05:25.860to do the right thing by the American people. And so because of that possibility, the Department
00:05:30.640of Justice is telling the Supreme Court, you know what, Your Honor, there's nothing to rule on yet.
00:05:34.060Are no heroes. There's proud MAGA and scared MAGA. And they all are MAGA in the end. And so
00:05:39.360they will all try to subvert the outcome of free and fair elections. They are all on board with
00:05:44.280what Donald Trump is saying and lying about every single day. And we cannot give any of them the
00:05:50.160benefit of the doubt. New Fox News poll shows the U.S. Senate race in Maine is competitive,
00:05:56.900even after a major change on the Democratic side, right? Democrats are doing five points better
00:06:02.360this month with Jackson. Troy Jackson. With Graham Platt. Who knew? Troy Jackson, who replaced
00:06:08.540Graham Plattner in July, leads Republican Senator Susan Collins by two points within the poll's
00:06:14.920margin of error. Other recent Fox News polling has shown Democrats leading in several key
00:06:20.100Senate races in Georgia. Senator John Ossoff leads Republican Congressman Mike Collins
00:06:25.540by 13 points. In North Carolina, former Governor Roy Cooper is ahead of Michael Watley by nine
00:06:32.320points. In Ohio, former Senator Sherrod Brown leaves Senator John Husted by eight points.
00:06:39.280In Iowa, State Representative Josh Turek is ahead of Congresswoman Ashley Hinson by four points.
00:06:47.740And in Texas, State Representative James Tallarico leads Attorney General Ken Paxton by three points.
00:06:56.360And then Troy Jackson might do, of course.
00:06:58.780And you never know how things are going to go.
00:07:00.360There's also another race out there in Alaska where you have a very strong Democratic candidate there
00:07:06.920that may be far more competitive than Alaska usually is.
00:07:45.540These are two states that, you know, 12, 16 years ago were the definition of battlegrounds.
00:07:51.540You know, Joe, but they've really trended red in recent cycles.
00:07:55.680Trump has won them handily, particularly Ohio.
00:07:58.280Some Democrats thought like, well, we can't even play there anymore.
00:08:00.760But there is one Democrat who does win statewide there.
00:08:04.080That's Senator Sherrod Brown. He, you know, and he's he lost. But now he's back and up eight again, all the caveats.
00:08:12.180But that's that's very interesting. And in Iowa, too, when Democrats had the shot to win back the Senate and the governor's mansion in that state,
00:08:21.080another one that really had been going red in recent years. To me, those are huge warning signs for the GOP.
00:08:28.240Well, you're right. I mean, I don't trust any polls right now.
00:08:31.000you look at these poll numbers, though, the ones that really jump out at me are the two that you
00:08:36.320talked about. Ohio seems to be gone. And listen, if anybody can win that race, Democrats have the
00:08:44.020candidate that can win that race there in 2026. He's a populist. And Brown, again, has built a
00:08:53.900really good rapport with working class people in Ohio. But plus eight, nah, it's not plus eight.
00:09:02.660I mean, I think if you look at Ohio and Iowa, if Democrats do happen to win those states because
00:09:11.040it's a wave, I'd be surprised if it was outside two points. I mean, those are really those two
00:09:17.040states over the past 10 years have turned really red. Thursday, 13, August in the year of your
00:09:25.480Lord, 2026. Right there. It is Fox News. Their polling is not the best, but it is Fox News.
00:09:34.960And it manifests something the war was talked about for months and months and months. If the
00:09:41.680senate does nothing and they treat president trump as a lame duck this is what you're going to get
00:09:49.440if they put that uh that graphic up for a moment look at that graphic uh we cut that as we warn
00:09:56.380ossoff up 13 in georgia how's that working out for you uh how's that working out for you uh
00:10:03.060kemp and the georgia establishment how's that working out for you cooper how's whatley working
00:10:08.820out north carolina i think i said a couple of times no name recognition no energy and the
00:10:13.260grassroots where he does have name recognition the grassroots hating he's down nine sherrod brown
00:10:19.860what's the word they're populist populist vivek the governor's disastrous governor's candidate
00:10:26.180um you know vivek uh heritage americans suck uh ramaswamy uh he's pulling the whole thing down
00:10:33.940Sherrod Brown, a populace up eight. Iowa up four. Tallarico up three. And Texas, Troy Jackson
00:10:42.500up two. Of course, everything we do in the Senate is protect. You got to protect Collins in Maine.
00:10:49.380You have to protect Collins. That's why you can't do anything. So how's that working out for you,
00:10:53.600Thune? Right here's the disaster. This is what I've said. If you want to save completely a
00:10:59.980absolute debacle focus on these house districts because i don't care how much stephen law and
00:11:05.900mitch mcconnell and how much the donors have poured money into here if you treat president
00:11:10.500trump as a lame duck you don't do anything people are not going to show up there's zero enthusiasm
00:11:15.860for any of these candidates except for paxton we're getting to that in a second i've got uh
00:11:20.740todd bensman's going to join us also natalie is going to be with us this afternoon the five
00:11:26.080o'clock hour natalie's got all kind of breaking stories including she's turned her now investigative
00:11:30.560eyes and apparatus onto this situation with the out of control uh marxist jihadist and we focus
00:11:39.260on the jihadist in the five o'clock hour to go through all these disastrous uh moves by uh these
00:11:46.260radical muslims in this country to take political power and of course the radical left goading him
00:11:52.460on in the republican party being unable to stop them daily mail it's a big story up today natalie
00:11:57.640kind of broke it yesterday in research she was doing about uh i don't know foot washing in in
00:12:02.640dallas fort worth airport a uh setting aside a special a little side side off a side uh deal
00:12:10.640for muslims to make sure i guess their feet are clean some sort of religious ceremony before they
00:12:16.120get on planes uh we're going to go into that in detail and also the radicalness of the candidate
00:12:22.700in michigan but you notice michigan ain't up there i mean peter's maybe uh you know the peter's
00:12:29.340replacement with mike rogers and abdul could be the race that saves it but as of now by fox news
00:12:36.880by fox news down big in six senate seats and we warned about this and all the money in the world
00:12:43.740They sit back and say, oh, well, we have a billion dollars.
00:12:53.740Let's get back to populist nationalism.
00:12:56.140Let's get back to populist economic policies, conservative social policies, and nationalistic foreign policy, national security policy, and, wait for it, economic nationalism.
00:13:08.700If you do this, you're not going to have those poll numbers.
00:13:11.480and guess what you don't have to spend a billion dollars trying to convince people because you
00:13:14.480ain't going to convince them people are smart enough to understand this is why the uh lower
00:13:20.800propensity trump voters that don't normally vote in midterms they're not going to show up
00:13:25.780they're certainly not going to show up in these senate races and this is a disgrace
00:13:30.920the top two put that can you put that chart back up there people don't need to see me
00:13:36.700yelling and screaming can we get my chart that okay i got my chart the first two are from my
00:13:43.520beloved south 13 points you wonder why they're talking about ossoff as a presidential candidate
00:13:50.300to replace uh newsom he's up 13 points in a fox poll against kemp's uh this is what the uh this
00:14:00.040is what the rhinos get you a 13 point ass kicking not going to end up like this but how how obscene
00:14:10.000is that north carolina good on you we got a rnc chair that nobody knows the people know
00:14:18.020knowing don't like him down nine to cooper another total phony okay todd bensman's with us uh tyler
00:14:25.900O'Neill on the arrest yesterday of the Southern Poverty Law Center, I think CFO. We've got Dr.
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00:17:19.200eventually get here think about it world's largest margin call is coming todd bensman uh brilliant
00:17:26.600so so if you lose i just go back it's fox news folks fox news polls they're not the best pollsters
00:17:35.080but these are outside margin if you lose maine north carolina and ohio right as states we have
00:17:42.580then you're down to the that if you just lose those you hold everything else uh the vice
00:17:47.920president breaks the tie but that makes iowa kansas alaska nebraska and texas all important
00:17:56.580uh bensman you've got a great piece up in uh and it people have to connect dots here but this is
00:18:04.260what we do at the war room and thank god there's the federalists and people like todd bensman and
00:18:08.000heritage all that todd you spent years you've dedicated your professional life either at texas
00:18:13.620with law enforcement the federal government or as an independent analyst and uh and and uh
00:18:19.880expert subject matter expert about the southern border about the invasion about migrants asylum
00:18:27.060policy uh you wrote you wrote the definitive book on jihadists coming across the border
00:18:32.280uh you've written uh that amazing book with that awesome cover about biden's policy you really
00:18:38.040changed the direction of the nation of getting people awakened to this uh and i think this is
00:18:42.860a brilliant piece and nobody's talking about it and we have to talk about it they talk about
00:18:47.260Tallarico is kind of a twerp and, you know, he's weird and he's like from another planet and all
00:18:52.740that. Yes, that's all true. And that's going to play big in Texas. But most importantly,
00:18:58.280he is an absolute radical. People have to understand what he's going to be pushing and
00:19:03.180voting for. And your piece in the Sean Davis's Federalist Today lays it out. Talk to me about
00:19:09.280the invasion of our southern border, the 20 million illegal aliens we have here on Biden's
00:19:15.040watch and how Tallarico is really an apostle of that, sir. Under the Biden administration,
00:19:22.960we had 10 plus million people hit that border because they allowed them in. They were just
00:19:32.780allowing them in to make asylum claims. Trump shut the whole thing down in one day by denying
00:19:39.560them the opportunity to abuse the asylum system. That's the basic thing. And then expelling
00:19:45.820everybody. So the border is quieter than it's ever been in recorded history, because no asylum
00:19:54.900and everybody gets expelled that we can lay hands on. Tallarico comes in with this weird idea. I
00:20:03.600call it weird because it's so contradictory on its face. He says, we're going to put a welcome mat
00:20:09.040out, and we're going to lock the door. Welcome, Matt, lock door. So I decided to dig into what
00:20:17.400does he mean by that, and there's plenty of material out there that he provides the public
00:20:22.960with what he means. He wants to bring back asylum claims at the border. That is an absolute
00:20:30.920guaranteed mad rush on the border. The second you start doing that, you invite the entire world
00:20:38.940over that border. That's what the Biden administration did. So he says the locked
00:20:45.060door, if you dig down, you drill in, but his locked door, what he means by that is we're going to very
00:20:51.140quickly do a fast track asylum determination on everybody that we let in. But there's no mention
00:21:01.500at all glaring gap about deporting them if they're denied. And in fact, his policy calls
00:21:10.260for pretty much letting everybody in and never deporting anybody, leaving alone anybody who's
00:21:19.280not a hardened convicted criminal or something, which is like most of the people that are coming
00:21:24.300across, which is basically an open border. It's Biden's open border. And I found that
00:21:31.440in his speeches, he's using the same terminology that the Mayorkas, DHS used to use, that Biden
00:21:39.360used to use, safe, orderly asylum processes, the safe, orderly, and humane. I don't know how many
00:21:46.780times I brought that up on the war room to the posse during those four years, but it was nonstop.
00:21:54.060That was their stock and trade. We're going to have safe, orderly processing at the border, which basically means everybody gets in. We're going to have more border patrol to just process everybody in.
00:22:07.100And so when you really dig down into what he means by locked door, he doesn't provide for any deportation about people who were denied asylum, and that's an open border.
00:22:20.100And that's my whole point here is that Tallarico and people like him on the far left are using tough sounding terminology in order to lure in maybe Trump defectors, Trump voter defectors and independents that might swing the election here in Texas.
00:22:42.280I'm in Austin. Just enough. He's looking for independence. Look, it's a midterm election.
00:23:05.440And this is what, you know, Senator, Lieutenant General Paxton, the attorney general, has got to start ripping on this.
00:23:14.740They got to expose Tallarico for what he really is.
00:23:17.180he goes back to what's helped destroy texas this open borders policy todd and i think that there's
00:23:22.840and there's others the situation michigan is the exact same you notice michigan's not on that chart
00:23:27.980they're just starting to pull it now uh i'm hearing pretty good news out of it not great news but
00:23:32.940pretty good news but people got to start putting like the jihadist up in michigan on notice they
00:23:38.560we have to field strip these people in front of of the nation and particularly for other states
00:23:43.260You've got to start telling exactly how they are because they've got all the happy talk to kind of divert, particularly people that just don't follow politics that closely, Todd Bensman.
00:23:53.860Right. And, you know, he's running for Senate, U.S. Senate.
00:23:57.200He's not the president. He won't have charge for two years of that policy.
00:24:37.940And so if that's the case, raising the question about what does he really mean by locked door welcome mat is a completely fair question to deconstruct.
00:39:23.500who are likely to be indicted directly as the case continues. So more to come. I think we can expect
00:39:31.920a lot more fireworks in this case. And there's a real question as to whether the trial actually
00:39:38.020happens when it is currently scheduled for October 5th. Watch, she's going to be cutting a deal.
00:39:46.720She doesn't want to go to federal prison. Tyler, where did they get the book? I know you're
00:39:50.240updating it. Tell us about the timing of that is. And Daily Signal, where do we get your pieces,
00:39:57.260social media coordinates, all of it, sir? Thanks. Yeah, I am glad to announce that I was able to
00:40:03.000update the book by my May 20th testimony before Congress. So if you buy Making Hate Pay,
00:40:12.300The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center on Amazon today, you will be getting an updated
00:40:16.960edition that includes a short recap of everything that happened since I originally published the
00:40:23.160book in 2020 and that mentions this indictment and how it ties in to the overall story. But the key
00:40:30.740fact here, and this is the main point of the book, is that the SPLC is a morally bankrupt smear
00:40:37.280factory that routinely demonizes and defames conservative Christian organizations, putting
00:40:44.020them on a map with the Klan. They should not be trusted. I think it is very important that
00:40:48.960corporate America, big tech, government, even Democrats take seriously the fact that this is a
00:40:56.160really horrible organization that should not be cited as the authority on anything. You can follow
00:41:01.900my work at dailysignal.com and on Axe at Tyler2O'Neal. And I also have a sub stack called the
00:41:09.900woke to bus uh tyler thank you so much great reporting look forward to having you back on
00:41:16.700you've been all over this case and nailing it as it goes or actually before it goes which is even
00:41:21.180better thank you sir appreciate you thanks again for having me and appreciate rob bluey and the
00:41:27.200whole team over daily signal great job uh dr jeffrey tucker brownstone so dr tucker i got
00:41:32.760two things i want to get this covet thing can we get the tweet up and do a split screen with dr
00:41:37.000tucker walk me through this when this published yesterday and then i i actually last night late
00:41:42.740last night i watched your your your interview uh walk me through this is this you're telling me
00:41:48.820that there's evidence now they slowed down everything uh because um this wild conspiracy
00:41:56.220theory the real reason for all this is to delay the onset of natural immunity during the covet
00:42:01.440Christ. We've got a minute here. We'll continue on. But is that, should I put my tinfoil hat on?
00:42:07.400Or brother, you usually come with the facts. Are you just messing with me on a Thursday?
00:42:13.080Steve, you actually know this. You know this if you think about it. You remember the hysteria
00:42:17.980that was met with Jay Bhattacharya's study in April and May of 2020 when he showed that
00:42:24.840sewer prevalence levels were 10 times what they were saying? So why was there such panic?
00:42:30.980The reason for the panic is that they did not want intimacy to arrive before the shot was here.
00:42:37.840So the whole purpose was to delay and delay and delay and prolong the pandemic, prolong the suffering, so that the vaccine would get all the credit.
00:42:49.320I find this to be shocking and scandals.
00:42:52.380And when I've confronted officials who were there at the time, the FDA and NIH and HHS, they've all confirmed it.
00:42:59.960They said, yeah, of course, that was the whole point of flattening the curve, was to delay, to keep seroprevalence levels down.
00:43:08.120And even now, we have lots of evidence that by the end of 2020, the virus was entirely manageable.
00:43:18.580The pandemic conditions were over already.
00:43:22.120But they couldn't tell anybody that because they had a product to sell.
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00:45:32.000dr jeffrey tucker from the brownstone institute joins us i want to put get this tweet back up
00:45:40.920so dr tucker take a moment because to get resolution for this and make sure it never
00:45:47.140happens again we have to have either indictments and trials or a commission we have to do an
00:45:55.480organized effort to put all this out there so people can see exactly what happened and who's
00:46:00.720accountable because i know people are coming up to you now and saying of course that's of course
00:46:04.960i would just walk through once again the 12 all the efforts by fauci and collins and the entire
00:46:11.960deep state apparatus of the health you know the health department of the government all of it
00:46:18.320which is just as deep state as the cia and the fbi and uh and and all the intelligence apparatus
00:46:25.180in fact maybe actually worse you could argue they conspired understanding they had the crisis that
00:46:33.120they wanted uh and they wanted to go back to the to the parlor trick of a vaccine and everything
00:46:40.440they told us was to prolong the actual event the pandemic stretch as long as possible so that
00:46:48.020eventually you could get the vaccine out there and disseminate it and not just have a traditional
00:46:53.700herd immunity is that basically your theory yeah flatten the curve always meant prolong the pain
00:47:00.640until the until the inoculation could arrive that's why you couldn't stand six feet uh next
00:47:07.760to any closer than six feet next to anybody that's why you couldn't go to concerts that's
00:47:11.200why you couldn't go to church that's why they canceled the religious holidays and that's that's
00:47:15.620why they kept the the kids out of the school it was to it was it was it was to preserve what's
00:47:21.020called the immunological naivety of the population because if if seroprevalence levels had had risen
00:47:27.300above 50 or 60 as they probably did by the end of 2020 anyway then there would have been no reason
00:47:34.380for the shot, there would have been no demand for the shot, and no purpose for it in the first
00:47:39.120place. Whereas they wanted universal injections of everybody, even though the gradient of risk
00:47:45.260of this particular virus was overwhelmingly towards the aged and infirm, and everybody else
00:47:50.860could experience mild levels of exposure and have an immune upgrade from it. That's what they did
00:47:57.240not want to have happen. They wanted to try out their pharmaceutical product. So when I fully
00:48:04.800realized this, and also what incredible explanatory power this model has, I mean,
00:48:11.200it's actually really obvious once you say it. I began to confront administration officials in
00:48:17.220private over this, practically screaming in anger, steam coming out of my ears,
00:48:23.040You destroyed the whole of society and economic life and stole half the dollars purchasing power so you could get a product in people's arms?
00:49:02.560How do you, what is the action item here?
00:49:06.620Because we have, as brilliant as this is,
00:49:09.360this has to somehow get into some apparatus
00:49:13.520that can help us correct this, hold people accountable, put people in jail if necessary,
00:49:19.500but make sure it can never happen again.
00:49:21.600What is your recommendation for how we go forward in a plan of action to now present
00:49:27.860this and bring people in and have them testify?
00:49:31.900I don't know if it's Congress, the Senate, if we just go right to the criminal process.
00:49:36.820I'm looking for your thoughts on this.
00:49:39.560Steve, there has to be a reckoning and it has to be a sweepinging kind of reckoning.
00:49:43.060And there has to be absolute transparency and honesty and no more of this weird thing that we have going where everybody is somehow running and hiding or pretending as if they did the best they could with the knowledge they had at the time.
00:49:58.780We need to drop everything, I think, drop everything and focus exclusively on this and get a full reckoning for how it is that we abolished the Bill of Rights for two or three years in this country and destroyed so many lives to protect pharmaceutical industries, its profits, and to try out new tricks at censorship.
00:52:37.980I want to tie the $12 billion price of the Los Angeles Lakers, the $1 billion price of the Queen Music Catalog, all of it, to your personal life.
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