Bannon's War Room - September 03, 2026


Episode 5638: Federal Welfare Must Report Illegals On Their System


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00:00:00.000 this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
00:00:10.860 these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
00:00:17.460 had a belly full of it I know you don't like hearing that I know you try to do everything
00:00:21.240 the world to stop that but you're not gonna stop it it's going to happen and where do people like
00:00:24.960 that go to share the big line? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people
00:00:32.620 had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save
00:00:40.280 my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:00:47.720 it's thursday three september year of our lord 2026 we are absolutely jammed for the next two
00:00:58.560 hours so um strap in first we're going to do we got an amazing cold open with neil mccabe who's
00:01:04.680 at the white house right now about yesterday's hearing let's play that john salman's going to
00:01:08.340 join us uh mike davis uh we're trying to get the um person running against josh shapiro uh stacy
00:01:16.440 Garrity in Pennsylvania. All coming. All going to be bang, bang, bang. Let's go to the cold open
00:01:21.840 of Neal McCabe. Today, we will discuss a question foundational to the identity of our nation.
00:01:27.880 Who is an American citizen? While the Supreme Court has attempted to remove it entirely from
00:01:33.720 our elected branches, I believe such a fundamental question must be answered by the people's elected
00:01:38.840 representatives. In Trump versus Barbara, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Roberts
00:01:43.860 failed the american people the constitution and the rule of law and put at risk the national
00:01:48.020 sovereignty and security of the united states the majority invented out of whole cloth a radically
00:01:52.980 new understanding not only of the 14th amendment but what it means to be an american according to
00:01:57.540 the court american citizenship is nothing more than a function of where you are born the supreme
00:02:03.460 court's decision in barbara overturned an executive order it did not strip congress of its
00:02:09.860 constitutional plenary power over immigration and naturalization. In fact, I
00:02:14.960 would argue that the ruling actually invites Congress to step into the breach
00:02:18.980 that the court has created. Prior to 1966, the federal government required
00:02:24.400 parental status information on passport applications. It was a 1966 bureaucratic
00:02:31.320 revision by the State Department, unaccompanied by any new legal or
00:02:35.740 constitutional developments that dropped the parental status questions and began treating
00:02:41.340 birthplace as solely dispositive. Congress should begin to address this problem first by codifying
00:02:49.580 President Trump's border security policies by passing Chairman Roy's Permanent Trump Secure
00:02:54.760 Border Act, which has already been approved by the Judiciary Committee. If illegal aliens cannot
00:02:59.960 enter the United States, they cannot give birth here. Thomas' opinion looks at slaughterhouse in
00:03:04.580 1873, Elk v. Wilkins in 1884, and Plessy v. Ferguson's dissent in 1896. Majority opinion
00:03:11.160 all but ignores those. Instead, the majority opinion rests on this feudal notion that you
00:03:16.060 are attached to the lord of the soil and ignores the normal hallmarks of determining original
00:03:22.280 intent of a constitutional provision. It is truly bizarre that they do so. In fact, I very much
00:03:28.160 appreciate the fact that Professor Weinberg just admitted that the Supreme Court's decision
00:03:32.980 would cover the children of members of the terrorist organization Hamas,
00:03:38.720 and that alone should be sufficient for the folks on the other side of the aisle
00:03:44.220 to want to work with us to fix this horrific mistake from the United States Supreme Court.
00:03:50.860 While there are many arguments that can be made...
00:03:54.140 Actually, you did say that, Professor Weinberg.
00:03:56.040 No, Professor Weinberg, I didn't ask you any question.
00:03:58.760 You made that comment a moment ago that a child of Hamas would be covered by the Supreme Court decision.
00:04:04.740 You stated that.
00:04:05.840 That's right.
00:04:06.320 You did.
00:04:07.320 Last month, the Trump administration was reported to have detained the largest number in the administration,
00:04:15.280 and it still hasn't crossed 50,000.
00:04:17.620 I don't think the Biden administration ever had a month that got anywhere near 50,000 only crossing the border illegally,
00:04:26.760 illegally and they were welcome to stay because of the catch and release so this is a one-way
00:04:31.960 ratchet yeah attorney general kobach you you agree that this is a plan i don't know how systematic
00:04:37.480 it is but i agree that many people uh think that lacks or no enforcement should be the rule for
00:04:43.220 political reasons and i think let me let me just say one thing i think it was in 2006 the the late
00:04:48.760 representative barney frank said this in a speech uh to a labor organization that that's why we need
00:04:53.940 and amnesty. That's why we need to have less enforcement of our laws is to change the political
00:04:58.460 composition of the country. You have people like Stephanie Mentor next door in Fairfax County where
00:05:03.140 Descano lets out a guy who'd been arrested 40 times, illegal migrant, lets him out. There's even
00:05:07.500 an email from law enforcement saying, this guy's going to do bad things. And sure enough, he did.
00:05:11.600 He killed Stephanie Mentor. That's the consequences. This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And yet
00:05:16.300 these guys all defended. They all defended. They'd say, no, no, we got to do this. Makes no sense to
00:05:22.040 me attorney general kobach would you agree that's the dumbest idea ever it is a horrible idea and
00:05:28.000 the having these jurisdictions and you know you mentioned one case but the total number of cases
00:05:32.440 is well over 100 now of people who have been murdered and were in the possession or rather
00:05:37.260 were in the custody temporarily of law enforcement in sanctuary jurisdictions and then were let go
00:05:41.560 yeah finally i would say this and you know we all know here's how we know this is dumb
00:05:47.080 because county, we had one yesterday testify.
00:05:51.200 County sheriffs are actually suing their own state.
00:05:54.680 I asked the sheriff yesterday from Maryland,
00:05:56.620 why are you suing your own state?
00:05:58.040 He said, because I am elected
00:06:00.060 to protect the citizens in my county.
00:06:03.580 And it's not just happened in Maryland.
00:06:04.880 We got sheriffs up in New York are doing the same thing.
00:06:07.000 My guess is in most of these sanctuary jurisdictions,
00:06:09.040 you got law enforcement people
00:06:10.720 who want to do the same thing.
00:06:12.880 Some are already doing it.
00:06:13.960 That's how stupid this policy is. And yet this is a fundamental principle of today's left, which unfortunately now controls the Democrat Party.
00:06:26.620 On fire yesterday up at the House, Jim Jordan, of course, you had an all star team, Rosemary Jenks, a regular Chris Kobach, one of the smartest guys in the country, Chip Roy, many others.
00:06:37.540 It was outstanding. Solomon's going to join us in a second.
00:06:42.480 We got a lot to go through with John. Neil McCabe. Also, I want to talk about the present executive order. Yesterday was on fire. But what are we going to do about it? What action are we going to take? And how is President Trump being thwarted by the courts, sir?
00:06:57.920 before the ruling doj argued in its filings before judge deborah boardman who suspended or
00:07:07.480 blocked the federal government from wrecking from the the executive order said that the federal
00:07:13.360 government agencies cannot recognize as citizens the children of non-citizens just because they're
00:07:20.500 born here so that was blocked yesterday doj and its argument said this was unright because we
00:07:26.760 hadn't even written the regulations yet but there's been no official response from DOJ or the
00:07:33.380 White House yet but I think it's pretty clear that this will be appealed and it'll go all the way up
00:07:38.580 the line again because even during the oral arguments for birthright citizenship it was
00:07:44.820 acknowledged that it's already against the law to come to this country for the purposes of birthright
00:07:51.340 citizenship. And so we'll see how it plays out. The purpose, meaning and purpose of the hearing
00:07:59.360 yesterday was what, sir? Well, the purpose was to basically highlight that birthright citizenship
00:08:08.140 is still an active issue. And Chip Roy has a bill to further clarify jurisdiction thereof
00:08:15.320 in the 14th Amendment to make it clear that you actually have to be subject to the jurisdiction
00:08:22.420 of the United States for your children to be citizens if they're born here. And that means,
00:08:28.420 you know, can you file suit? Can you be drafted into the army? Can you vote? All of the things
00:08:34.660 that are expected of a citizen, can you do? And that was left sort of basically just blown off
00:08:41.100 by the Roberts decision, Chip Roy made the point yesterday that the door is open for legislative
00:08:48.160 action, just like there was legislative action after Roe v. Wade or other Supreme Court decisions.
00:08:54.020 Amen. So it's like every, every other time, even Dobbs, people were trying to pass laws
00:08:59.220 to undermine Dobbs. And so they can do it. We can do it too.
00:09:05.820 Absolutely. And executors. Neil, stay right there at the White House. I'm going to go to
00:09:09.520 john solomon and then uh mike davis i'll bring them into the conversation john solomon joins us
00:09:15.220 from the rav studios john i want to start with jim jordan was busy yesterday but he's got he's
00:09:21.040 got a lot on his plate you've got reporting talk to me about jim jordan well first you know he's a
00:09:27.020 great storyteller he uses these hearings in his letters to tell a story that everyday americans
00:09:31.680 can understand that's one of his great gifts and so yesterday he tells the story of how much harm
00:09:36.440 is done when we have sanctuary cities and we have prosecutors who let a dangerous criminal back on
00:09:42.640 the street over and over again. Yesterday, he also told a story about the documents that the
00:09:47.880 president declassified a few weeks ago involving Round River. This is the investigation that
00:09:53.680 follows, or actually the counterintelligence operation, it's not an investigation, it's an
00:09:57.780 operation that follows after Russia collusion. Russia collusion was let's hang a fake scandal
00:10:02.300 on Donald Trump called Russia collusion, then Round River becomes, let's neutralize a real
00:10:08.080 scandal involving Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and a corrupt company, or a company that the State
00:10:12.880 Department considered corrupt in Ukraine, Burisma, and we'll pretend that that's Russian
00:10:16.920 disinformation. And what Jim Jordan is asking for the Justice Department to do is provide all
00:10:21.800 documents of that, including the 14 confidential human sources, the informants that we talked
00:10:28.180 about on your show a couple weeks ago, that were providing derogatory information about Joe Biden.
00:10:32.700 There was a steady stream of information coming in to the FBI during the 2020 election about Biden
00:10:37.760 corruption, and we were being told it was Russian disinformation. It was a Russian op. It wasn't.
00:10:43.920 So now Jim Jordan, who has all the authorities, judiciary committee chairman, demanding those
00:10:48.840 documents, all the evidence, including what was coming in on Joe Biden. I think that will be an
00:10:53.260 eye-opener to a lot of people, as will be the conduct of the FBI analysts who are trying to
00:10:58.800 portray any Republican or conservative asking questions about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and
00:11:04.960 Burisma to neutralize them and to make them look like they were Russian stooges. So really important
00:11:10.820 moment. I expect the documents to start moving to Congress in the next few weeks, based on my
00:11:15.500 conversations with folks in the Justice Department. Meanwhile, the Justice Department-
00:11:21.380 hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on i gotta okay so i got i got biden on
00:11:28.500 bill maher biden's i think on tucker biden's uh hunters i think he's prepping a 2028 run
00:11:35.760 now we're letting john salman's letting him have free shots on goal is that because you want to
00:11:40.240 get the hard evidence out there before you start doing a uh beating him about the head and shoulders
00:11:45.300 metaphorically because he said it's all a lie it's all made up it's all russian different different
00:11:50.680 disinformation and here's my here's how i'm going to run the country after i'm elected president in
00:11:55.900 2028 your thoughts sir i'm not sure the president of the country is ready for another biden after
00:12:01.860 the last biden i'm not sure they're ready for someone who uh has two convictions in his background
00:12:07.760 albeit pardoned away by his father uh and i think uh he would not be able to survive the scrutiny
00:12:13.640 of the truth that congress elicited and listen i think in the next few months we're going to learn
00:12:20.140 more about Ukraine impeachment. We already learned about the whistleblower, the fact that he had
00:12:24.220 misled investigators that didn't get disclosed to the president's attorneys or to the jurors in the
00:12:30.120 trial, the impeachment trial. I think there's more to be add on the witnesses and the fake story that
00:12:35.580 was crafted in 2019 and 20 about Ukraine impeachment to protect Joe Biden. And that's
00:12:40.820 what Jim Jordan is talking about, that the effort by the FBI was to not put a thumb on the scale of
00:12:45.900 election like they did in 2016 with crossfire hurricane and Russia collusion, but to put their
00:12:51.260 entire body on the 2020 election to protect Joe Biden from the scrutiny that he deserved. We now
00:12:57.260 know from Comer's investigation, Johnson's investigation, these questions about Ukraine
00:13:02.140 were real. Hunter Biden did get money from China. He did get money from Ukraine. His partners admitted
00:13:08.060 that they were trading on Joe Biden's name and Hunter Biden himself admitted. I don't think I
00:13:12.380 get the job if I wasn't uh Joe Biden's son he admitted that on television if that's the sort
00:13:17.860 of guy that wants to be president I'm pretty sure the American people can separate uh their wants
00:13:22.360 and their concerns with him pretty easily John hang on I'm gonna hold you through the break
00:13:28.040 Mike Davis is also going through it's just one thing before we go to break we got about a minute
00:13:31.720 uh when I look at this round river I look at the human informants I mean this was a big deal inside
00:13:37.440 the government in front the intelligence agency this wasn't like some something that people just
00:13:42.080 saw one piece of information i mean this is pretty thorough pretty deep and a lot of people even even
00:13:48.020 deep state democrats had a lot of problems with this at the time they said this thing's going to
00:13:52.260 blow up in our face this kid the biden's are essentially out of control yeah they this was a
00:13:59.400 dirt a dirty dark secret that went all the way back to the obama years people knew what joe
00:14:03.260 biden and his son were up to it was always a matter of concern and at the end of the day they
00:14:07.840 tried to wash it away just like they tried to wash away joe biden's cognitive decline but we
00:14:13.900 all know the truth now the facts are out there and i think harder truths are about to come out
00:14:17.420 wow john solomon is with us we're gonna take a short commercial break mike davis is also
00:14:24.040 going to join us we've got caroline sunshine later cortez and joe allen both on data centers all of
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00:16:14.260 Your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:16:19.360 John, tell me what's going on with the Justice Department, because I want people to know there's a ton of great work that is going on with Todd Blanchett and other folks in the administration.
00:16:30.260 I just want to make sure it gets platformed because you guys do a great coverage at Just the News, but it's just it gets overlooked.
00:16:37.720 And this is the kind of thing that we need to drive forward and have people's back on.
00:16:42.160 Walk me through what's happening at DOJ.
00:16:44.260 main justice? Yeah. Well, first off, the Justice Department has worked with the FBI to create
00:16:49.240 one of the biggest drops in crime in American history. We may end up with the lowest murder
00:16:54.160 rate and lowest violent crime rate in the century. That is the first and foremost job of the
00:16:59.480 department. The second is to focus on some of the weaponization and campaign and election abuses
00:17:04.060 that conservatives have long been concerned about. And you've got two prosecutors that are
00:17:09.460 at the helm of that, down in Fort Pierce, Florida, out of the Miami district. Joe DeGeneva is looking
00:17:15.820 at the weaponization of the government. People are now getting hauled before the grand jury.
00:17:19.920 Daniel Richman, I think, James Comey's longtime private assistant who is a special government
00:17:25.300 employee, he's going before the grand jury as early as next week, I think I've heard in the
00:17:29.720 legal circles. So they're ramping up looking at the decade of a crossfire hurricane,
00:17:35.900 Round River, the Jack Smith investigations as one ongoing criminal conspiracy to
00:17:41.880 mislead the American public, violate the civil liberties of Trump and his followers.
00:17:46.580 So that's one case. The second prosecutor who's working hard and people don't see a lot of the
00:17:50.940 activity, it's out of North Carolina, but former Congressman Dan Bishop is looking at all the
00:17:55.380 election stuff, whether it was the items taken out of Arizona or Georgia or some of the campaign
00:18:01.580 Finance and Act Blue cases. He's got a team looking at that. Those are working. And I think
00:18:07.380 if there's going to be any significant accountability to the things that conservatives
00:18:11.320 have long been concerned about, those two prosecutors are going to be the vanguard,
00:18:15.400 the tip of the spear for prosecution and accountability. Meanwhile, because of the
00:18:22.000 work we're doing with the White House Transparency, Government Transparency Task Force,
00:18:26.020 the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, the DNI, the NSA have all been producing incredible
00:18:32.360 documents, things that have long been secret, truths we've been long denied. And from those
00:18:37.920 truths, we're seeing solutions. All the things that we've exposed in the last six weeks about
00:18:42.100 elections are resulting in action. Just last week, Mark Wayne Mullen announced that there's going to
00:18:48.280 be a 5% paper ballot review in all states to make sure that there's no funny business machines.
00:18:53.700 That's never happened before.
00:18:54.840 That's a big deal.
00:18:56.180 I think there'll be some other announcements that could come out in the next couple of weeks that will further get into that.
00:19:00.460 So you're getting transparency and solutions, and then a prosecution team is trying to deliver that accountability.
00:19:06.840 And that machinery has really sped up since Todd Blanche got into being the permanent attorney general.
00:19:13.360 You can see his hand is on the flight stick, and big things are working through the system right now.
00:19:18.460 uh talk to me didn't they just also rule there's something about illegal aliens now we're finally
00:19:25.420 going to doj is going to get involved and we're going to broom all this so there's not going to
00:19:28.820 be any chance for payments or any chance for them to use uh use the the the kind of the virtues of
00:19:36.040 citizenship that this is finally going to be able to be stopped legally and done and main justice
00:19:41.340 is going to be all over it this is a big deal it's a historic shift uh for 30 years since the
00:19:48.100 Clinton era, the Congress's intent has been that states report illegal aliens. It was limited to
00:19:54.640 two programs, the assistance for needy families, TNF, and then supplemental security income,
00:20:02.920 helping people short-term with, I think, the two big welfare programs. In the past, all states were
00:20:09.460 required to do it from the Clinton years forward, is if someone who was a legal alien tried to get
00:20:13.740 those benefits, they'd have to be reported. What the Justice Department said yesterday, no, no, no,
00:20:17.700 So because you get that money, any illegal alien you are aware of anywhere in your state or jurisdiction must be reported.
00:20:24.900 You can't have a sanctuary city where you're hiding us from it.
00:20:27.860 And that is a significant, significant change in the interpretation.
00:20:32.760 It's much more consistent to what the Congress originally said when they passed these laws.
00:20:37.420 Clinton kind of tinkered with it to make it more narrow.
00:20:40.080 And for any blue state that is a sanctuary state, they can't afford to lose these two major welfare programs.
00:20:46.120 So they're either going to have to sue, which they almost certainly will, or comply in long term.
00:20:51.160 That's going to speed up the detection and removal of illegal aliens all across this country.
00:20:56.260 One of the persons I talked to this morning said it could add another 1.5 to 2 million people on the radar screen that we currently don't see very well.
00:21:06.180 Unbelievable. Illegal aliens here and taxpayers are giving them benefits.
00:21:10.340 It's an obscenity. It's so bizarre.
00:21:13.060 John, you and the task force are doing incredible work.
00:21:16.260 Where do people go for your social media, for Just the News, for all of it?
00:21:19.720 Because you're wearing two hats and working 20 hours a day.
00:21:22.720 We want to make sure we take advantage of all of it, sir.
00:21:26.140 Thank you.
00:21:26.780 Well, first, all the government documents always get released at WhiteHouse.gov.
00:21:30.540 Go to the Election Integrity tab.
00:21:31.720 It's all there.
00:21:32.340 We've got about 12 or 15 releases, more to come.
00:21:35.980 Social media, Jay Solomon reports on all platforms.
00:21:38.820 And Just the News.com is the website where we do our reporting.
00:21:41.560 And I'm lucky enough to follow you every day on this great Real America's Voice channel,
00:21:45.900 six o'clock, the Just the News, No Noise television show with Amanda Head.
00:21:49.300 So that's all of our coordinates.
00:21:53.580 Sir, thank you so much.
00:21:54.700 And thank you from the audience for all the great work you're doing leading the task force
00:21:58.220 for the president.
00:21:58.540 Back at you, Steve.
00:21:59.380 Thanks so much.
00:22:00.100 Historic.
00:22:01.700 Thank you, brother.
00:22:03.460 Mike Davis, the Viceroy, joins us.
00:22:05.300 Okay, Viceroy, you and Rachel Bovard set up the Internet Accountability Group.
00:22:10.680 you guys were amazing um but i gotta tell you uh davis unless you convince me in the next five
00:22:17.040 minutes that we're on top of this over at the justice department other places i'm gonna pick
00:22:22.060 the phone up and start calling say hey davis has got to go into main justice what the hell's
00:22:26.200 happening with google and meta we had all these guys you guys worked for years we had them cornered
00:22:31.580 like rats in the spring of 2025 are they escaping i mean what's going on here why are we not breaking
00:22:38.000 these guys up we had it we had we were right on the precipice of getting great work done that you
00:22:43.260 and rachel had labored in the vineyards for years what's going on sir yeah rachel bovard and i were
00:22:49.720 the pioneers and we have the arrows in our back uh to show that we were pioneers in the big tech
00:22:56.820 fight taking on google amazon facebook and apple from the right on antitrust section 230 data
00:23:06.220 privacy and we have shifted the over 10 window dramatically when we started this thing we were
00:23:11.680 lapped out of most republican lawmakers and law enforcers rooms now it's pretty cool to take on
00:23:18.600 big tech it's uh it's pretty well established that you want to go after big tech i think big tech
00:23:24.260 really did it to themselves when they started censoring silencing de-platforming canceling
00:23:30.420 demonetizing conservatives. And that's what we use, Rachel Bovard and I used to get the right
00:23:37.060 to go after big tech on the antitrust section 230 data privacy. We've had some major wins,
00:23:44.720 but we've had some setbacks. With Google, we had two major wins in the last year. We had
00:23:51.780 two judges, Judge Mehta in D.C. and then Judge Brinkema in the D.C. suburb of the Eastern
00:23:59.720 District of Virginia and Alexandria, hold that Google is a monopolist, meaning not only do they
00:24:07.020 have market power, a monopoly, but they use that market power to harm competition and consumers,
00:24:12.640 which makes them a monopolist. It's not illegal to be a monopoly. It's illegal to be a monopolist.
00:24:17.320 it's illegal to use your market power it's both civilly illegal and criminally illegal uh this is
00:24:23.740 a bipartisan effort to the biden justice department and the biden ftc's credit with with meta another
00:24:30.360 case uh they they brought these well actually trump brought these cases in the first term they
00:24:35.480 continued these cases under the biden administration it's about the only thing they did right we got
00:24:41.800 these good rulings on Google that they're a monopolist with search. Obviously, they're a
00:24:47.900 monopolist when they have 95% market share, and then they use that market power to exclude
00:24:56.220 competition. I would just say, if you think there's a competitor to Google, look at Microsoft.
00:25:02.360 Microsoft spent $5 billion to try to compete against Google with a product called Bing.
00:25:08.740 you don't know what bing is google it right and that's that proves the point that they're a
00:25:14.020 monopolist and then google is also that was the the medic uh judge meta case in dc then google's
00:25:22.340 also a monopolist with their online advertising right they control the online advertising market
00:25:27.840 all sides of it and they use that money they make off of that advertising that billions and billions
00:25:33.920 and billions of dollars to funds. Google uses it to fund their evil, their censorship,
00:25:40.940 their demonetizing conservatives, all the bad things that they're doing. They use their profits
00:25:48.160 to do that. Well, they were a monopolist in both of those, but not only do you have to have a
00:25:54.900 finding that you're a monopolist, then you have to have a remedy. The remedy that the government
00:25:59.740 called for in those cases was breakup divestiture to break up their uh their search monopoly to
00:26:06.820 break up their online advertising monopoly and even though these judges judge meta in the search
00:26:12.740 case and judge brinkema in the online advertising case found that google is a monopolist they didn't
00:26:20.140 they they let the the rats escape the corner they didn't shoot the rat they didn't divest google
00:26:27.260 And it's a big prop, right? And it's now Google is going to continue on. There are some remedies these judges ordered, but not structural remedies that are needed, like divestiture, breakup, that would end these monopolies.
00:26:43.700 We're going to be back to these courtrooms in short order when these judges allowed the Google rat to escape.
00:26:51.580 so i hear i'm gonna hold you through the break i know you gotta bounce but i'll be quick on the
00:26:57.720 other side here's what i understand how do we go through all this effort and they're declared
00:27:01.480 monopolist but when it comes to the remedy there's no remedy that is that is kind of fitting for what
00:27:09.080 a monopolist did there's no breakup there's no look on google ads search all of it how did give
00:27:14.660 me 30 seconds after we go to break how did that happen because there's clinton judge with brent
00:27:19.860 and this obama judge with mayda they blinked right and i maybe they realized that google does
00:27:26.900 the bidding of democrats and so they didn't want to break them up right so it's it's a big problem
00:27:31.700 and so now what re is required is legislation we need legislation passed by congress in a
00:27:38.500 bipartisan manner to to break up google's market power they are gatekeepers over information
00:27:45.220 and commerce they have too much power and they abuse their power but you brought up the ugly
00:27:50.820 part of the politics here the democrats just go to google they suppress they still suppress
00:27:54.900 conservatives and they particularly suppress maga president trump all it ain't mike davis
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00:29:47.800 okay not to give a humble brag i'm just state a fact front page of wall street journal days big
00:29:55.640 story about uh bernie sanders yours truly the war room uh you know beating uh the big tech guys
00:30:03.040 about the head and shoulders on these data centers okay we're gonna have scott besant on a tape of a
00:30:08.260 talk he made yesterday and cortez is gonna be here with polling joe allen's gonna be here joe
00:30:13.140 allen's gonna debate lonsdale next week in texas we're gonna get to all that in the second hour
00:30:17.040 what what bestin says is the key point he said hey look i don't want to hear these tech ceos
00:30:24.140 bitching and moaning about the data centers it's not the president of the united states job to sell
00:30:28.780 the data centers it's your jobs as ceos and you came in here and you bully people and part of
00:30:34.380 that mike davis goes back we've got 10 or 15 years now you got the lawsuits against meta for
00:30:40.280 everything they're doing to the kids and the algorithm and in court the reason they settled
00:30:44.280 because the documents are so awful these companies are just awful and they run by awful people that
00:30:50.040 unless you put the screws to them right and when you and rachel bovard and and she is so amazing
00:30:55.400 when you guys first went this is what i said who are these guys these guys are wild people i love
00:30:59.700 them you went in the conservative circles people go oh my god it's a corporation you can't possibly
00:31:04.420 talk about it's a company this is capitalism you go hang on for a second this ain't capitalism
00:31:08.860 These people are oligarchs, and they run this thing like you'd run a city-state out of medieval Italy.
00:31:15.620 And their track record is awful on everything.
00:31:19.580 And so now it's come to data centers.
00:31:21.180 We're going to get to that in the second hour.
00:31:22.580 But we were on the cusp of some big wins.
00:31:26.020 Are you telling me you think we've got those wins?
00:31:28.300 You've got Democratic judges?
00:31:29.480 And the reason we're not going to get legislation like the Democratic judges wave off is the big tech oligarchs are far-left progressives,
00:31:37.800 And they're going to abandon President Trump at the first sign of trouble.
00:31:41.300 The first sign of trouble in the midterms, they're going to be the rats off the ship going down the rat line, sir.
00:31:48.560 No, I don't think Google, unlike the ballroom, I don't think Google is going to be paying for the Trump presidential library.
00:31:54.920 So they are definitely going to scurry off the ship like they did last time.
00:31:59.180 Remember, it was Facebook, for example, that spent $400 million chasing President Trump out of office in 2020 and subjecting him to unprecedented, relentless lawfare for many years, where they tried to bankrupt him, take him off the ballot, throw him in prison for the rest of his life four times, take off his head.
00:32:20.280 I mean, it's just that these tech bros are not our friends.
00:32:23.900 They're like having a pet rattlesnake, right?
00:32:26.100 Eventually, they're going to bite us and kill us, right?
00:32:29.180 I would say this about the, to wrap this up on the Google cases, Google avoided the death penalty
00:32:37.240 in those cases, but they were certainly bruised and battered for many years on those cases. So
00:32:43.720 all is not lost. The next fight, as you said, is AI. All these big tech platforms are shifting
00:32:50.040 to AI. And what we've been saying at the Article 3 project with the War Room Posse is, no, we're
00:32:56.980 not going to do what we did 15 years ago with big tech we're not going to give them section 230
00:33:03.600 a mutiny and antitrust amnesty because we saw what happened we saw that we got the four trillion
00:33:11.540 dollar big tech monopolist google amazon facebook and apple that's crushed competition uh hey
00:33:19.200 silence aren't they stealing aren't they stealing aren't they stealing all the content right now
00:33:23.860 and they're sitting there because they don't want to pay for the content of content providers
00:33:26.840 aren't they trying to steal it because i understand it makes their margins high if you
00:33:30.640 get it for free it makes your margins higher i can do the math i mean these guys are voracious
00:33:35.960 and they're monopolist that you can't get out of that's that's the core of their being this
00:33:41.160 has got to be beaten out of them sir well steve i mean they're just poor little startup companies
00:33:46.560 trillion dollar startup companies like google amazon facebook and apple i mean we we obviously
00:33:52.220 we need to we need to give them a handout we need we need to let them steal like china so they can
00:33:57.960 compete against china because they act like they're they're being pro-america when they actually
00:34:03.140 have a record of being anti-america and uh supporting china like google did for example
00:34:09.440 when they cut off project maven the cia drone program at the same time they were doing the ccp's
00:34:16.540 Project Dragonfly, where they were doing mass surveillance and persecution for the CCP. That's
00:34:24.040 Google, you know, as American as apple pie, Google, as they pretend. Look, I would say this,
00:34:29.940 and we've said this, we have a framework. We're not anti-AI, we're not anti-advancement,
00:34:36.040 we're not anti-technology, but you're not going to run over real Americans in real America when
00:34:41.680 you do it. We have the four Cs that we've got the Trump administration agreeing to that framework.
00:34:46.540 We're going to protect children.
00:34:49.100 We're going to protect conservatives from censorship.
00:34:52.560 We're going to protect communities from putting AI data centers in the middle of communities
00:34:58.460 that drive up your energy costs, your water bills.
00:35:02.520 And we're going to protect creators.
00:35:03.940 We're not going to steal like China to compete against China.
00:35:07.280 We're going to do it the American way.
00:35:08.700 And if you want to use someone's creative content like Steve Bannon's War Room to so-called
00:35:14.860 train your AI machines, which is total nonsense, but let's just play their game. If you're going
00:35:19.960 to do that, you're going to pay for it. Like, like, like we do, we're not going to let Steve
00:35:24.260 Bannon work to build his war room for many, many years and let, let Google come along and just
00:35:30.300 steal his war room clips and make money off of it, not pay for the Bannon war room. That's how
00:35:35.340 you kill creators. You're so, you're so good. I'm going to retain you. Uh, look, we'll get back to
00:35:40.840 this in the next couple days i gotta bounce i know you do real quickly let's just give a shout
00:35:46.080 out to the guys and the team men and women down in south florida they're doing heroic work on going
00:35:51.220 after the deep state it's laborious it's tedious but you got to do it right sir i'm very happy you
00:35:57.140 had john solomon come on and explain what's going on because there's a lot happening i want the
00:36:01.240 war room posse don't get disheartened and demoralized justice is definitely definitely
00:36:06.440 coming. And that's in large parts of people like Cash Patel, Todd Blanche at Maine Justice. But
00:36:12.880 down in the Southern District of Florida, Jason Redding Quinones, my friend, who's the bold and
00:36:18.920 fearless U.S. attorney, Yara Klukas, who's his number two. You have Joe DiGenova, who's the
00:36:24.740 counselor to the attorney general. They are, as they say down in Cuban country, they are cooking
00:36:32.840 in the Southern District of Florida.
00:36:36.780 You are on fire, sir.
00:36:38.260 I want everybody to go to Article 3
00:36:39.820 and your social media right now.
00:36:41.420 Everything about big tech is up there.
00:36:43.300 You guys, you and Rachel,
00:36:44.320 have been the tip of the spear for years,
00:36:46.080 and we're not relenting
00:36:47.300 as the battlefield kind of changes
00:36:49.000 to different battles,
00:36:50.020 different pitch battles.
00:36:51.460 But the good news is,
00:36:52.400 not only do we shift the Overton window,
00:36:53.920 we are winning in this.
00:36:55.860 If you didn't have Mike Davis,
00:36:57.520 you didn't have War Room,
00:36:58.520 you didn't have others on the right,
00:37:00.180 these people would have steamrolled everything.
00:37:01.720 Davis, where do they go for Article 3 Project?
00:37:03.840 Where do they go for your social media?
00:37:05.800 Yeah, I would just say this.
00:37:06.720 We're honey badgers at the Article 3 Project.
00:37:09.560 Even when we get punched and knocked down, we get right back up and viciously fight again.
00:37:14.880 You can go to article3project.org, article3project.org.
00:37:21.080 Donate, follow us on social media.
00:37:23.420 The War Room Posse superpower, action, action, action.
00:37:25.800 I would say to the big tech oligarchs, we're going to come at you.
00:37:28.860 we catch your asses three times over the last year with ai amnesty we're going to do it again
00:37:36.000 you you snuck through your brief at the justice department your statement of interest ain't gonna
00:37:41.360 fly we're coming at you harder not gonna fly big time thank you sir appreciate you thank you i'm
00:37:48.040 gonna play that clip from besan in the in the next hour the secretary treasury former contributor here
00:37:52.880 at the at the war room you guys know him well doing an amazing job on this bond market scott
00:37:58.220 Besson lays it out says hey it's not the president of the United States job to sell the data centers
00:38:03.800 and make the economic argument it's the CEOs and nobody trusts them that's the problem that gets
00:38:10.040 and you know why I don't trust them because they're not trustworthy Stacey Garrity now joins us from
00:38:15.520 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania she's running against Josh Shapiro ma'am can you please explain
00:38:19.400 this audience what in the hell the governor of Pennsylvania one of the greatest states in the
00:38:25.820 union is doing about this measles situation i mean is he trying to platform this to run for
00:38:30.260 president in 2028 or is he trying to take care of the folks in the commonwealth ma'am oh steve so
00:38:37.680 basically without even gathering the facts uh he rushed like his first inclination is always to do
00:38:44.220 and hold a press conference and try to gaslight pennsylvanians and um you know he does this time
00:38:50.100 after time after time and really turning just a tragedy. And as a leader, what he should have
00:38:56.680 been doing is you first you go comfort the community and then you get boots on the ground.
00:39:01.700 You get your Department of Health there and work with the local officials, work with the federal
00:39:05.740 officials and get the facts. We still don't even have the facts. And so, again, this is just
00:39:11.620 another instance of I don't know if he's using it, you know, as a prop for his new Department
00:39:18.340 health regulations, which make COVID-19 draconian lockdowns look like a routine checkup with what
00:39:26.440 they have in that 502 pages. Or if he's just trying to pick a fight with the feds, who knows?
00:39:31.720 You know, he's already sued the Trump administration 28 times since being governor when
00:39:36.180 we rank 47th economically, 47th out of 50 states. So.
00:39:42.940 How can the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, one of the greatest, greatest states in the
00:39:47.740 Union, been a backbone of the American economy for 250 years, beyond 250 years, since really
00:39:53.160 even before we were a country.
00:39:55.260 How can it be 47th, man?
00:39:56.600 That's impossible.
00:39:57.540 How can that happen?
00:39:59.400 That's what I thought.
00:40:00.140 Well, last year we were 38th, and then U.S. News and World Report updated their rankings,
00:40:04.540 I guess, maybe three weeks ago, and we dropped to 47th.
00:40:07.860 And 38th made me crazy to begin with.
00:40:10.420 But it's bad policy, just squandering the blessings, not taking advantage of natural
00:40:15.500 resources that are the envy of the world. You know, pretending like you're an all-the-above-energy
00:40:21.040 governor, but, well, quietly subverting natural gas. Pennsylvania is the Saudi Arabia
00:40:28.080 of natural gas. Why is he not doing smart development, smart exploitation? The country
00:40:35.700 needs it more than ever right now. Why is the governor so adamantly opposed to it?
00:40:40.220 It is. Well, he continued the moratorium that Governor Wolf had on, you know, new drilling.
00:40:45.500 any new drilling of public lands and there has been no real energy exploration i mean since he
00:40:52.280 and tom wolf have been in office really since the governor corbett days um and that's because he is
00:40:57.160 more interested in pennsylvania avenue than helping pennsylvania families and it shows his eyes off
00:41:01.320 the ball i mean another example is data centers look what he did there so you so you remember he
00:41:07.300 brought in the 20 billion amazon deal without talking to anybody in the communities and gave
00:41:14.000 them sweetheart tax breaks. And then he has taken over $5.7 million in political contributions from
00:41:21.320 data center developers and then saw the polls because he just goes by with the poll show and
00:41:26.060 saw that, you know, he wasn't doing so well and now is spending $2 million a week trying to gaslight
00:41:31.960 Pennsylvanians, rewrite history into believing that he didn't do what he did the last 13 months,
00:41:38.660 basically. In the meantime, back in May, I called for a pause in new data center development because
00:41:44.640 I did five listening sessions around the Commonwealth. I had four tele-town halls,
00:41:49.660 so I have listened to thousands and thousands of Pennsylvanians, and what they say is the same
00:41:54.700 thing, that the township supervisors need some time to update the zoning. A lot of zoning is
00:42:00.060 from the 60s and 70s. Some communities want them, some don't, but they want to make sure that they
00:42:05.460 can protect their rate payers, protect their communities, that they're going on brownfield
00:42:09.940 sites, not on our precious farmland and not in residential areas.
00:42:14.680 And, you know, right now there is no leadership.
00:42:19.480 A real leader would have gotten all the stakeholders around the table and said, what do you need
00:42:24.280 from us?
00:42:25.060 And, you know, at the end, it should be up to these communities.
00:42:30.360 Stacey, hang on one second.
00:42:31.540 I'd like to I know you're busy today.
00:42:33.480 I want to hold you through the break.
00:42:34.440 I just want to close the loop on this situation with the measles because it's pretty outrageous.
00:42:40.380 Also, I want to make sure it's highlighted that he's basically had the taxpayers of Pennsylvania essentially with tax.
00:42:49.600 When you say tax breaks, that means you, the citizen, are underwriting it.
00:42:54.440 What he's done is have the Amazon deal underwritten by taxpayers, then took a $5 million, got contributions from Amazon to help him on his goal of getting to Pennsylvania Avenue.
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00:45:27.960 Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.
00:45:33.080 Stacey Gary joins us.
00:45:34.300 By the way, we're going to have Joe Allen.
00:45:36.060 We're going to announce a big debate
00:45:37.320 Joe Allen's going to be doing next week in Dallas.
00:45:39.100 Also, Cortez has got new polling on data centers.
00:45:41.820 Stacey, I just want to go back
00:45:42.860 and make sure the facts are out there.
00:45:44.800 You did listening sessions
00:45:46.280 When you heard from the people in Pennsylvania, you were adamant to say, hey, this thing's got to be slowed down.
00:45:50.400 We need to kind of a moratorium.
00:45:51.440 We've got to go county by county.
00:45:53.020 He's taking money from Amazon, cutting a huge deal, and it's being underwritten by the taxpayers of the Commonwealth.
00:46:01.260 And then when this guy sees the polling, he does the biggest flip in the country.
00:46:05.760 He goes, oh, no, no, no.
00:46:06.820 We can't.
00:46:07.180 Data centers are bad.
00:46:08.040 We can't do that.
00:46:09.200 This guy's the biggest hypocrite of an elected official in this nation.
00:46:12.640 He took their money.
00:46:13.320 Go ahead.
00:46:13.620 He took their money to run $2 million a week against me saying, I support data centers.
00:46:18.740 I'm the only one that came out with a pause.
00:46:20.540 You can't make this stuff up, Steve.
00:46:24.440 What are people, do people understand that these tax breaks are really go back on them?
00:46:29.820 Because this is what happened down in Texas with Governor Abbott.
00:46:32.320 And he finally stopped it, that you had local sales tax and property tax giving these companies tax breaks.
00:46:37.780 But it came out of property taxes and sales taxes at the community level.
00:46:42.180 So people had to pick up a bigger burden.
00:46:44.040 Do the folks in Pennsylvania understand really what Shapiro did?
00:46:48.980 I don't believe so.
00:46:50.700 You know, he's such a slick politician.
00:46:53.360 You know, they I don't think they do.
00:46:56.640 I mean, not only did he not make sure that they brought their own energy, that they brought their own water.
00:47:01.800 He didn't make sure that they weren't in residential areas, you know, farmland, preserved farmland.
00:47:08.120 And then you have Wall Street law firms that came in and just kind of bullied local solicitors and didn't provide them any guidance.
00:47:15.480 I mean, really just a lack of leadership, just like everything, because, again, his eyes off the ball because he's more interested in Pennsylvania Avenue than our wonderful Pennsylvania families.
00:47:28.920 Talk to me. What's so disturbing about this measles? No official, no coroner, no one's come up on MSMEC every night.
00:47:35.020 You got the Chiron and CNN. You got the Chiron to measles related deaths.
00:47:39.160 You know, measles caused two deaths in Pennsylvania. Should the CDC step in here?
00:47:44.420 I mean, at some point in time, if his government's not going to do it, we need the facts out there.
00:47:49.280 Does federal authorities need to get involved or because we've got to find out exactly what happened.
00:47:54.680 And right now he's using it as a campaign prop and not really getting information out to folks in the Commonwealth.
00:48:00.640 He is. Well, you know, he's the least transparent governor in modern Pennsylvania history, Steve. And you're right. There are still more questions than answered. And what's lost is that there's a real tragedy. There was a newborn baby that died. And it's terrible using this tragedy for his political benefit and to pick a fight with the feds, of course.
00:48:22.520 So somebody needs to provide information. Now, if the feds now, I will say the CDC is not counting the two.
00:48:29.460 But if the feds did step in, he'll just sue the administration again.
00:48:33.440 And that would be lawsuit number twenty nine. And again, paid for by taxpayer dollars.
00:48:41.060 Last thing, correct me if I'm wrong. President Trump, you know, in 16, we focus on Pennsylvania and wanted President Trump's amazing come from behind victory against Hillary Clinton.
00:48:50.340 then uh president the controversy about stealing pennsylvania 2020 because we won it but it was
00:48:55.880 stolen but then in 2024 were you did president trump actually ended up beating you by a thousand
00:49:02.500 votes in pennsylvania or did you actually top president trump no he ended up beating me which
00:49:09.960 is probably a good thing it's a huge thing but how did you get how did you end up getting so
00:49:16.620 many votes for a state official ma'am you know i think it's because i work with everybody um i
00:49:24.440 don't care if you're a republican democrat independent i will work with anybody that
00:49:28.000 wants to make pennsylvania a better place to work live and raise a family
00:49:30.820 amazing where do people stacy where do people find out more about your campaign social media
00:49:37.600 everything people i can tell you from the interview people josh shapiro is uh considered
00:49:43.020 a very bad guy. And I think this measles situation and the hypocrisy on the data center shows you
00:49:49.400 that he always puts his political career first. He's very focused on becoming president of the
00:49:53.960 United States, not focused on the Commonwealth. So where do people go to find out more about you?
00:49:59.180 That's right. And don't forget about the flip-flop on school choice as well.
00:50:02.820 So just go to garrity4pa.com. That's garrity4pa.com.
00:50:09.820 Ma'am, thank you so much. Look forward to having you back.
00:50:11.920 thank you steve thank you man that's a fight up there shapira is a beauty we'll talk about it
00:50:19.380 more when joe allen comes and cortez got new polling eric metaxas joins us from greece eric
00:50:25.260 what did the revolutionary generation take from what athens told us i mean we had the american
00:50:31.160 thermopoly uh against the british at brooklyn heights uh in the city of brooklyn we we actually
00:50:37.060 We covered the entire 250th commemoration live last week with David Zier and the Real
00:50:43.280 America Voice team.
00:50:44.300 It was very moving.
00:50:45.780 The American Legion post.
00:50:46.820 It was just incredible.
00:50:47.700 These brave, the 400 of 256 still somewhere in an unmarked mass grave.
00:50:53.980 But the revolutionary generation looked to Rome and it looked to Greece.
00:50:57.700 Why was that, sir?
00:50:59.280 Well, it's funny, Steve.
00:51:00.920 First of all, I can't believe I am in Greece.
00:51:03.080 I'm in the town where my dad grew up, Mavrata, on the island of Gephalonia, the Ionian, and I'm here filming a documentary on the discovery of the tomb of Odysseus.
00:51:13.860 Sounds like we're making it up.
00:51:15.520 Believe me, it's insane.
00:51:17.840 But part of the reason I bring that up is that the spirit in Greece, the spirit of liberty, there's something, I mean, frankly, when I'm at the tomb of Odysseus, I feel like, you know what, this is the womb of the West.
00:51:32.000 This is where it came from. You can feel it here, that it comes from this place. And the Greeks have always had this spirit of liberty. I mean, the fact is, of course, we never turned it into a country until 1776.
00:51:48.560 But it's such an amazing thing to me that the Greek spirit, the desire for liberty to defeat the oppressors.
00:51:56.920 I mean, I'm thinking more recently, actually, you know, growing up in the Greek American community, thinking about the Ottoman Empire and how the Muslim Turks subjugated the Greeks for four centuries.
00:52:08.700 I mean, it's a bitter, bitter history. And just to think that there's nothing new under the sun.
00:52:13.460 we're reliving it. But of course, you're right. The revolutionary generation looked back to the
00:52:20.740 city-states of ancient Greece. I mean, it's the beginning of democracy. And again, they weren't
00:52:26.440 able to spin it into like a nation. They weren't able to make it last as we were able to make it
00:52:32.240 last. You know, for that, you need a little more, but they gave it a good shot. Hang on one second.
00:52:39.800 The book is Revolution. I think it's been on the New York Times 11 weeks over the summer.
00:52:45.580 It reads like a novel. Eric was smart enough to use novelistic techniques in a book of nonfiction that is a page turner.
00:52:55.180 What you'll find out, one of the biggest things the revolutionary generation took from the Greeks,
00:52:59.340 the Greeks were not afraid to stand up for their liberty against the longest of odds.
00:53:04.500 The Persians were a killing machine. That was an empire.
00:53:08.780 That was an empire, and they did not mess around.
00:53:11.580 And the Greeks stood tall to defend themselves for liberty and freedom.
00:53:16.600 And this is why, go tell the Spartans, is that great phrase.
00:53:21.040 They would always put their liberty and the freedom first.
00:53:24.640 Eric Metaxas on the other side.
00:53:26.300 It feels like our country finally has momentum again,
00:53:29.540 with our leaders fighting to restore common sense in America first.
00:53:34.820 But we've seen this before.
00:53:35.920 conservatives get comfortable and the left starts taking background inch by inch we cannot let that
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