00:00:29.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.380Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.140If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.340War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
00:00:52.980It's Monday, 17 August, Year of Our Lord, 2026.
00:00:57.820Momentarily, we're going to go to McKinney, Texas with breaking news, but I'm going to start with the intrepid John Solomon, who joins us by phone.
00:01:05.380John, on just the news this morning on the site, pretty big bombshell story about one of our favorite congressmen, Swalwell.
00:01:15.720Well, it's another reminder of just how intrusive China's efforts to infiltrate our political system are.
00:01:21.040We've talked over the last few weeks, thanks to the president's decision to declassify documents, and we know that China has taken more than 220 million of our voter files, which puts them in a position to interfere in our elections going forward.
00:01:35.820We know of the things they've done, the birthright citizenship scam, the marriage scam that was unfolded by the Justice Department a couple of weeks ago.
00:01:45.420They are relentless in their effort to influence politics, influence elections, and co-opt our country.
00:01:52.180And today we have another example, and one that we were never really given the full truth on.
00:01:57.200We've known for years about Eric Swalwell and this alleged Chinese spy, Fang Fang, Christine Fang.
00:02:04.300But we were told it wasn't a big deal.
00:02:06.500As they got it in the House, it wasn't a big deal.
00:02:08.460The FBI decided to give Eric Swalwell a defensive briefing.
00:03:26.240with Swalwell and eventually moving to a position to make conduit or straw donations to his campaign.
00:03:33.100She's a foreign national. She can't contribute. She provides money to other people, allegedly,
00:03:38.560to give checks to Swalwell's campaign. And so all of a sudden, the FBI realizes the person we're
00:03:45.160trying to recruit is actually engaged in criminal behavior. They shut down the confidential human
00:03:49.840source relationship with her, double-blind as it was, and then they moved to a criminal case.
00:03:54.720And they had originally, the criminal case was looking at Swalwell in a conspiracy or in a bribery effort with Fang Fang, that he was receiving money in return for placing her in the case and focus on Fang.
00:04:51.540But it shows you the deep state and guys like Swalwell and this radical Democratic Party, and people knew about this at the time, and nobody put a lid on Swalwell.
00:05:01.780So John Solomon is actually out on the road, and we're going to get him booted up and back up in a moment.
00:06:02.580In general, there's a sense, and particularly McKinney,
00:06:06.880that our elected officials no longer represent us.
00:06:10.340Uh, they no longer listen to us. Uh, and in fact, they just carry on their will as needed. Um, and
00:06:18.120there's, there's plenty of examples in McKinney. Um, and, uh, and so the residents and the citizens
00:06:23.480have had enough. And so we're using our, uh, our civil power to say, we don't believe that we have
00:06:29.500confidence in you, similar to how you relieve a military commander. Um, once they've lost your
00:06:35.620trust, once you feel like you're not confident that they're going to be a good fiduciary for
00:06:39.940the citizens. That's it. And so we're enacting the civic process of doing the recall and sending
00:06:47.360a message that we do not feel that you faithfully can leave the people of McKinney and we're going
00:06:52.980to do something about it. So when you say leave and breach of fiduciary responsibility and all
00:07:01.220that, what are the issues? What did they do to show you that they're not living up to their
00:07:07.180fiduciary responsibility or not representing the people in McKinney. I mean, this is a pretty
00:07:11.060dramatic move. You don't often have recalls to try to recall mayors and essentially all the
00:07:17.580city council that is not up for reelection this year. So what is the, what is the cause of this?
00:07:25.320It's, it's a, it's a referendum on, uh, on many issues. It's, uh, the cultural subversion of
00:07:31.700McKinney. It's the financial dealings with large infrastructure projects, real estate.
00:07:40.060We rejected two airport bonds as citizens, and the city decided to move forward with them. And then
00:07:46.540in response to the citizens continuing to outcry, hey, we voted twice against these bonds,
00:07:54.040The city turned around and sued us in Austin, Texas, about 200 miles away.
00:08:00.100Every citizen in McKinney was sued by the city to make sure that this thing goes through.
00:08:07.480Ultimately, at the end of the day, you look around in McKinney and people just know, they feel it in their gut that things are wrong.
00:08:17.060Unfortunately, because we've had so many years of, you know, basically feeling like we have no agency over what's going on in our city, a lot of people have become passive.
00:08:30.040And so, you know, this recall initiative is to wake them up and say, no, you are not powerless.
00:08:37.060You don't have to accept the status quo.
00:08:42.740It's a referendum on public officials saying, you know, you can't ignore us.
00:08:48.400You can't continue to do things that, you know, that we go in and publicly even going to city council meetings, planning and zoning meetings.
00:08:56.700You're hearing us complain about these things and ask for, you know, to just be hurt.
00:09:02.760And and ultimately, when they don't do that, that's why you get a recall.
00:09:07.080And that's why you get a recall that's this significant where, you know, we're recalling effectively the four that are not up on the vote.
00:09:13.960The three are up on the vote. Everybody is going to be held accountable on the next election.
00:09:21.680But I take it as the mayor, they've been pretty up in your face when you talk about cultural subversion.
00:09:27.240I mean, that's a little different than a difference over a bond issue where I can understand that a difference over bond issue, particularly where citizens and say, hey, look, we don't want to lever up.
00:09:36.540We don't want to take the debt for this.
00:09:48.520When you say cultural subversion, what has the mayor and the four city council members that you're recalling, what have they done to basically enact cultural subversion and have not been responsive to the voters?
00:10:02.980Well, there's quite a lot of new development in McKinney. We have a former mayor, George Fuller, who was mayor for eight years. There was a referendum on the ballot previously for him to be able to serve three terms.
00:10:22.260it was rejected. The current mayor is Bill Cox. He's basically, you know, Fuller's proxy in so
00:10:31.320many ways. And so, you know, the residents of McKinney have endured significant changes
00:10:37.920with Fuller specifically, you know, COVID. We had a citizen in McKinney, Sue Fuller,
00:10:46.600over COVID restrictions. And then on top of that, BLM was in McKinney. We had significant
00:10:53.620cultural erosion with mass migration and then corporate relocations, people coming from
00:11:00.400California out of state. All of these were great economic growth developments. It's great for the
00:11:06.820workforce. It's great for real estate development and growth. But at the end of the day, McKinney
00:11:14.220is your prototypical, it's an exurb suburban area of a major metro, which is Dallas. People
00:11:21.700move to play golf, to have families for the great schools and things like that. The McKinney motto
00:11:28.940is unique by nature, and there's a giant oak tree on the motto. And our sentiment today in the city
00:11:38.220is you need to replace the tree with an apartment complex. And it's not unique by nature. It's
00:11:44.740unique by color of concrete. And so you're getting to the point where you're seeing
00:11:49.660mass development. You're seeing the erosion of the small town feel. You go to Costco,
00:11:56.040you drive on the streets, and it just feels like a totally different area than it was even last
00:12:03.400year, let alone five, 10 years ago. And so all of this is culminating to a head where we're
00:12:11.300looking around and we're saying, okay, it's not something that we as residents have done.
00:12:17.060Who's ultimately responsible for this? It's the city council. It's the mayor. It's the people
00:12:23.880that we elected to listen to us and be good fiduciaries. And that's kind of where we're
00:12:30.160going there so much of this is driven by h1b visas and or the federal and the state government's
00:12:38.680policy on uh on basically this islamic uh rollout in texas how is the mayor and the city council's
00:12:47.320cultural subversion how are they responsible for stopping that if that's what the issue is
00:12:52.720it's h1b visas that's a total scam but it's the elon musk of the world it's the amazons of the
00:12:58.300world. They're the ones that keep pushing it. The federal government, even the Trump administration
00:13:01.840has, you know, done some marginal things like on charge of more, but the H-1B visa scam is out of
00:13:06.820control. You've had passing a Prop 10 to prohibit Sharia law in Texas. That's now going to be put
00:13:13.860on the ballot into law. You've had CARE and the Muslim Brotherhood designated as terrorist
00:13:18.720organizations by the governor, but there's a lot of work. You know, you need a special session
00:13:22.640to actually put some teeth into that. We got a minute on this side. I'm going to hold you through.
00:13:27.200What is the mayor's responsibility in the city council in stopping things that are at the state and federal level?
00:13:34.440Well, the big one there is, you know, we've seen that with corporate relocations, we've seen the labor arbitrage, you know, we've had very high incomes.
00:13:45.300So the median income in McKinney, Texas is very high relative to the rest of the country.
00:13:51.280And with the large corporations that are moving in, they're not hiring locally.
00:13:56.160In fact, many members of my church, many members of my community are being laid off in favor of the foreign labor, and everybody knows why.
00:14:06.840But, you know, ultimately what you're seeing is, you know, the American dream that was McKinney, Texas, goes away when you have mass adoption and outright abuse of these legal migration vectors.
00:14:21.100And ultimately, you know, the mayor and the city council, you know, when they do a, when they have a corporation that comes in, you know, they can be good stewards of the community and implore those companies to employ residents, to employ citizens, to give back to the community, be good corporate sponsors.
00:14:43.360Hey, John, John, John, hang on for one second. We're just taking a commercial break. We're live from McKinney, Texas.
00:14:51.100John Asselton, leading a recall effort of the mayor and four of the city council members.
00:17:58.240It's basically a communist tactic to say, I'm targeting you as the enemy and I'm going
00:18:04.460to be indemnified from any violence or any harmful or hateful actions that come against
00:18:10.600you and let my useful cohorts go ahead and do that. We've already received threats. We've
00:18:19.260received, I personally have received death threats about this, all stemming from this Facebook post
00:18:27.300from the former mayor. But to go back to your other question or your other statement, you know,
00:18:32.120this is a blueprint for America. If you are unhappy with your elected officials, you feel
00:18:38.900like they don't represent you. You are not powerless. You have the agency. There is a
00:18:44.100city charter. There is an ordinance. There is something that you can go and find that you can
00:18:48.900leverage to make it so that you're sending a message. We need to be heard. And if you're not
00:18:54.600heard, we're going to use these procedures and we're going to make sure that we do something about it.
00:19:01.620John, you're a Naval Academy grad, correct? Correct.
00:19:04.780and my wife your your family has a social wife that's a twofer the uh you've got your your family
00:19:14.860have a long history of serving this country in times of war and in combat correct correct
00:19:21.500yeah my brother's a west point grad both my parents were army officers um we go back uh
00:19:27.480heritage americans before even the founding um so it's it's something that uh you know in
00:19:33.140in terms of what's going on, we're not going to flee. We're not going to become passive. We're
00:19:37.720going to stake our flag and then defend our values, defend our freedom. And as a Christian
00:19:43.160man, I feel a calling that whatever comes, it's God's will. And I'm going to do it without fear
00:19:50.240of retribution. George Fuller, say whatever you want, put my name up everywhere. I'm holding
00:19:55.120signatures and signature drives at my home. John, there's already been some intimidation.
00:20:04.220I've gotten some Facebook things of people overall and kind of implied threats to Christian
00:20:08.960churches. Do you anticipate that's going to ramp up, sir? I would absolutely anticipate that that's
00:20:17.160going to increase, particularly with my recall committee. And to give a little bit of context,
00:20:23.460every one of the recall committee is someone that goes to my church. We all have the same values.
00:20:32.120We've all been talking that we need to do something. We came together relatively recently
00:20:37.980to start this committee to send a message. Our names are now out there. Fuller named all of us,
00:20:47.520all five of us personally. And so we had a meeting last night to say, you know, hey,
00:20:54.340what's the status? How are you guys doing? You know, what's been the messaging that you've
00:21:00.520received? And not one of us has been, you know, immune from that Facebook post and those threats.
00:21:08.040But, you know, ultimately, because we all are Christians and we all do attend the same church,
00:21:13.720You know, I feel that I feel pretty safe in saying that there's no way that you can disclaim, you know, the Christian element to these hateful attacks.
00:21:25.860John Asselton, are you going to back down on this fight?
00:22:06.960where do people go uh to sign the petition if they're residents of mckinney number one and
00:22:13.760number two where do people go if they want to support you from around the nation if they want
00:22:18.460to support you or get more information or talk to you so give me first off where they go to sign
00:22:22.740the petition how they do that and then i want to have the second because i can already tell you
00:22:26.800the audience is quite jacked up on this uh this is great uh mckinney recall.com is where you go
00:22:35.420to get our information. You can find signing locations. You can subscribe for updates.
00:22:42.440And then in terms of support, we started a SPAC, so we're collecting donations for that.
00:22:48.820So if you're called to support us and you're not a resident of McKinney, that's the best way to do
00:22:53.360that. And then also, because we've got this great media campaign organized, a lot of people,
00:23:03.440You know, they're they're ostriches with their heads in their sands, you know, just getting the word out about what's going on for us.
00:23:10.900My hope is that it will empower other people in other Texas towns, in other Texas cities and then around the country to say, take what we're what we're doing.
00:23:21.360Use it as a blueprint. And if you're unhappy at all, gather, you know, organize, take a look at your charters and do what we're doing.
00:23:29.840And by you helping us be successful, we will in turn help you be successful.
00:23:38.400John, you and your wife, Mrs. Asselton, make the Naval Academy proud in the Navy.
00:29:57.520You don't have medical freedom totally until you get access to someone that you can have a licensed professional or pharmacist deal with you about the prescriptions that you need.
00:30:11.780I think they have over 600 now medications and drugs.
00:33:50.420But his Seneca partners and his other investments and joint ventures, they were more deeply embedded with the Chinese than they were in Ukraine and getting a lot more money out of it, including Joe Biden.
00:34:02.240But, of course, Hunter Biden and Big Jim Biden, they were the conduits to all these cutout companies.
00:34:09.020So the combination of the Chinese, were we compromised?
00:34:11.600Yes, but we were compromised by the Chinese spy, but the White House was compromised by the Communist Party of China.
00:34:20.840And so they didn't they couldn't really do very much of the Chinese would just release the evidence on the Bidens.
00:34:28.260It beggars belief that we're going to find out as this thing's peeled back.
00:34:33.460And this is why I think there needs a special prosecutor on this, because you're going to get Pelosi.
00:34:39.300It beggars belief that other people in the chain of command did not know about this.
00:34:44.660I just I can't wait to see the document said this was close.
00:34:47.980So people had to know about they allowed Swalwell for years to have access to the most sensitive intelligence our government has.
00:34:56.100They let him be a a basically prosecutor to prosecute President Trump consistently every night on MSNBC,
00:35:03.880who now won't touch him with a barge pole, given all the problems he's got with being a sexual predator and all these issues.
00:35:10.900But the information was out there then about about some of that, but definitely about being compromised.
00:35:16.460So it's unbelievable. Jim, I've got you here for other reasons today. Let me pivot to it.
00:35:22.360Economic warfare, the situation of the of our carrier strike forces and now the situation in Korea, it seems like this is starting to metastasize and starting to impact the entire which is the existential threat that is the Chinese Communist Party, which today we're today basically at the five o'clock and six o'clock hour.
00:35:43.940I've asked Garland Favarito and that great team down in Georgia has amazing presentation about the stolen election of 2020.
00:35:51.380We've asked them. We're basically going to take most of the two hours and I'll tee it up.
00:35:56.400But in a lot of this is about the CCP. The CCP created a bioweapon in in the in the pandemic and covid-19.
00:36:04.820They tried to steal the 2020 election away from President Trump.
00:36:07.940I mean, these people not just hate Trump and the MAGA movement, they hate the American people, and they hate their own people, Lao Bajing.
00:36:16.040What is your sense of this Korean situation?
00:36:18.940How does it tie back into our readiness with the fleet and the economic warfare that Scott Besson has just been deemed by the president to be the chief warlord of the economic war against the Persians, sir?
00:36:31.460So in three parts, let's start with Korea.
00:36:33.920What's going on with Korea is pure Trump, which is to say South Korea was not as supportive of U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz as Trump wanted.
00:36:44.580They didn't really make any resources available.
00:38:01.220That being said, part two started on February 27th. Let's just be blunt about it. This was bad information, bad intelligence fed by the Mossad and Netanyahu that said, and you had Lindsey Graham skipping around on video, that, hey, if you hit them with five or six days of strategic bombing, it's going to collapse.
00:38:18.520They're going to come out in the street like they did in January, and they're going to overthrow their government.
00:38:22.340this this was a decapitation move okay this because you can go look at the target set
00:38:27.700of his first days that that's a decapitation move and guess what the persians hit back expanded it to
00:38:33.800the to the f the israelis did you know strikes on the oil on the gas fields and in cutter all of it
00:38:41.220the center of gravity of battle shifted to the persian gulf and and now to the strait of hormuz
00:38:45.940the koreans got their hands look the government over there right now is more ccp aligned we don't
00:38:51.040love that government whatsoever but the south korean people have been if you go back to the
00:38:55.320korean war in vietnam i mean they've been a great ally of the united states and stood in the breach
00:39:00.880in some very tough times including in vietnam where they actually sent combat troops and did
00:39:05.340some fighting uh they got their hands full you know japan korea and yes they sent naval vessels
00:39:11.540but i don't know why we're bitching at south korea when the when nato hasn't done anything
00:39:15.580you got the royal navy you got the french navy you got the italian navy wouldn't pay for these
00:39:20.320guys forever they haven't given us anything the straits the strait of uh the the suez canal and
00:39:26.320red sea that ain't korea's problem that's your problem and they got nothing this is why we're
00:39:31.060so stretched out so so to dingham at the very moment that we have up tempo not these are not
00:39:37.320exercises these are preparations for an invasion of taiwan i don't see the strategic logic when we
00:39:43.340have so many deadbeat allies including the israelis america's greatest ally that continue
00:39:48.700to drag us in there i mean kushner had to go over and try to get their attention on gaza the president
00:39:54.000trump's got a plan and he wants to fulfill it and we don't want to go back into a shooting war in
00:39:58.060gaza so i understand that these guys didn't step up and help but that's kind of marginalia given
00:40:04.840that we have an existential threat and we have japan we have south korea we got the philippines
00:40:10.660we got some pretty good allies but they have to know we're committed and one way to sure you
00:40:15.060committed is not to pull the carrier out uh the one carrier battle group you've got in the western
00:40:19.660pacific and send it through malacca back to the to the to the to the north arabian sea somebody's
00:40:25.120got to you know there's got to be some logic to this and right now there's not logic and you can't
00:40:29.680argue it's about their nuclear program their nuclear program was totally obliterate the other
00:40:34.060secondary attacks have done even more maybe now you have some special forces from the israelis
00:42:02.720Iran will take time to build up their drones.
00:42:05.660rehabilitate some of the missile launchers, do repair some of the infrastructure damage we've
00:42:10.480done. The U.S. actually needs to restock the arsenal. We're extremely low on the THAADs,
00:42:16.140Patriot anti-missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles. The White House is saying we've got plenty,
00:42:21.100not really, not if you have a confrontation in China. But that's not like making automobiles
00:42:30.260on assembly line. Those things, yeah, there's a process, but those are really very delicate
00:42:36.320weapons, need a lot of hand tailoring, if you will. There's an assembly line process, but it's
00:42:43.060very intricate. And when you shut it down, which they did, you can't crank it up right away. It's
00:42:48.320going to take a while. So we're rebuilding our arsenals. My expectation is we're going to see,
00:42:53.460there's no formal ceasefire. The ceasefire is over today. No one has talked about renewing.
00:42:58.140We're not going to have another ceasefire, but we're basically going to – the two sides are going to take a timeout probably through the election, and we'll see what happens after that.
00:46:52.280Well, Steve, I mean, I certainly would push back on those comments because the South Koreans have been there for the United States for the entire war on terror.
00:47:00.820They're with us in Iraq or with us in Afghanistan. And now, while we can certainly sit here and say everything we want about the opinions on the strategic decision to engage in those operations the way that we did, but to say that the South Koreans haven't been with us for decades at this point, it's just not true.
00:47:17.720And South Korea has been with us probably more than any other ally in the Middle East when it comes down to it.
00:47:23.960And so at this point, when they're saying, hey, we want to focus on home because we see the CCP, we see the dragon unfurling its coils right next to us.
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