Bannon's War Room - September 15, 2026


Episode 5663: Supreme Court Rules Against Trump; Generation MAGA

Episode 5660: The War With AI Episode 5666: Advancement Of AI Leads To Superintelligent Takeover

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00:00:00.000 Breaking tonight, House Speaker Mike Johnson says Donald Trump could soon host a meeting of leading
00:00:05.500 AI companies, but the president seems to have already made up his mind, going on a defensive
00:00:11.000 rant all day, coming out forcefully against common sense AI regulation and even calling
00:00:17.340 concerns over the emergency technology a, quote, hoax. Even as AI leaders warn that without
00:00:24.340 intervention, the technology could pose a dire risk to humanity itself. Here's Speaker Johnson
00:00:31.480 earlier defending the president's comments. That'll be part of the discussion the president
00:00:37.620 has with the AI providers and all of us as we get into that meeting. What the president is referring
00:00:42.860 to is the necessity of maintaining our edge over international competitors. I think we all can
00:00:47.540 agree that's an important thing. Dismissing the calls for AI guardrails, the only control of
00:00:53.740 all rails he says that ai needs is a strong and smart high q exclamation point president all caps
00:00:59.760 and the u thank you tuesday 15 september year of our lord 2026 we open we've got nate soros
00:01:07.700 who is the author of a co-author if anyone builds it everyone dies nate you kind of predict this
00:01:15.240 book came out i guess a year and a half ago uh we had you guys on you and your co-author uh yet
00:01:20.600 Kowski. It was fascinating conversation. Did what you predict turn out to be correct about what
00:01:28.560 these now the folks inside these safety units that either open AI or anthropic are coming forward
00:01:35.500 and talking about? Yeah, you know, I think with the swarm instance that we saw this summer,
00:01:41.940 we saw instances of AIs being dogged, being tenacious, being agentic, going against instructions
00:01:47.420 and taking a lot of actions on their own,
00:01:50.160 that's exactly the sort of thing that we predicted
00:01:51.860 in Chapter 3 of our book, a little bit of Chapter 4.
00:01:55.040 If we keep going through the predictions in Chapter 5 and Chapter 6,
00:01:57.980 this is not going to end well.
00:02:01.300 Well, talk to us about that.
00:02:02.480 Now some people are saying, hey, this is all Doomer
00:02:05.280 and maybe this is a PSYOP.
00:02:08.080 Because remember, these guys, the oligarchs,
00:02:10.380 were the absolute worst about having any controls.
00:02:13.420 They were all accelerationists.
00:02:14.820 that if you even mentioned even the most modicum of review or control or maybe something was
00:02:22.260 non-voluntary, they said you're a decelerationist, the Chinese Communist Party is going to take over
00:02:27.300 the world and you're going to be the fault. What's given over the last couple of days,
00:02:32.740 do you think this is real or do you actually think this may be a sigh out by some of the
00:02:36.140 big guys to come together, former cartel, and get away from liabilities? I think a lot of
00:02:42.480 people are able to tell that the heads of these AI companies are disingenuous. We have people
00:02:47.720 who work at these companies that are quitting and saying, and giving up a lot of money before the
00:02:53.480 IPOs and saying, I am leaving because I really think there's a good chance this kills everybody
00:02:57.960 and I don't want to participate in it. We see people in the company staying and saying, I'm
00:03:02.680 trying to make it better from the inside, but yes, I believe that there's a good chance this
00:03:06.000 kills everybody and we don't have a really good plan, which is why I'm staying from the inside
00:03:09.120 to try and do my best. And there's a lot of clear communication from some of these employees. Most
00:03:14.560 people are staying silent and taking their paychecks, but there's clear communication
00:03:17.140 from some of these employees. There's signs that a lot of the employees are actually worried about
00:03:21.880 this. And I think that's the constituency that is determining a lot of these utterances by the
00:03:28.100 guys at the top. I think the guys at the top, they won't speak to you straight. They'll be
00:03:32.880 asked directly, do you think this kills everybody? And they'll waffle and they won't say no. And
00:03:37.000 they'll say, well, maybe we should be regulated like a bank, you know, which is weird because
00:03:41.380 when a bank goes wrong, you don't end humanity. Right. But I think they have to say enough
00:03:47.900 that they don't have a mass employee exodus, but they're trying to say as little as they can
00:03:53.240 without freaking people out within that so that they can sort of like keep going and keep on top
00:03:58.720 of this technology. I think that that's what we're seeing. We're seeing these guys gamble with
00:04:03.780 everyone's lives. They know they're gambling about their women's lives. They all hate each other and
00:04:07.260 want to make sure that they're first and the next guy is not first. And I think people can smell a
00:04:13.780 rat, but they're smelling the conspiracy in the wrong place. This is more of these guys trying
00:04:19.280 to keep their employees than it is trying to slow down American preeminence in AI. I think all of
00:04:28.700 them sort of want to be the ones to get there first. And I think they're all recklessly gambling
00:04:34.140 with our lives here. Is it a big tell that none of these companies, the folks went up the chain
00:04:39.420 of command, they either stepped out and like you said, a couple, I think the one guy gave up all
00:04:43.680 his equity and they were looking at an IPO. He'd be very, very wealthy. Is it a tell that this did
00:04:50.560 not come from the top? It didn't say, hey, our employees are telling us this and present the
00:04:55.900 guy and say, here's what the concerns are? Do you think those concerns are being going up the
00:05:00.040 chain of command and just being thwarted? I mean, I don't know what's going on with all the inside
00:05:06.140 baseball. I would say a lot of these concerns, you know, you can tell that these concerns come
00:05:10.600 from outside the building because I was there before the companies were made saying that we
00:05:15.140 were going to have this problem once the AIs got smart enough. You know, we sort of, from my
00:05:19.420 perspective, it's been very theoretically clear that the way that they are training these things,
00:05:23.640 they know how to make the AIs more smart. They do not know how to make the AIs more good,
00:05:27.940 right? And we've been able to see the signs. In my book, we go over a bunch of the small signs
00:05:33.940 that we were like, these are going to blow up into big signs later. Well, they've blown into
00:05:37.460 those big signs now. I think that has a lot of the researchers concerned. My guess is it has a lot
00:05:44.720 of the CEOs concerned too, but the CEOs are the sort of guys who started a company knowing that
00:05:51.720 it was going to risk humanity with it. These guys knew these concerns 10 years ago, 12 years ago
00:05:57.400 now, I guess. You can see Sam Altman's old blog posts, Daria Modi's old blog posts, the guys who
00:06:01.940 run these companies, Elon Musk, the guys who run these companies. 12 years ago, they were saying,
00:06:06.580 oh yeah, this could end humanity if it goes wrong. They're the sort of guys who think when they hear
00:06:12.780 that, they say it's important for me to be the one doing it rather than the next guy. That's the
00:06:17.920 people at the top. And so I think a lot of the pressure is coming from the people at the bottom
00:06:22.620 of these companies once we see all these warning signs, because the people at the top are just the
00:06:28.300 sort of people to try and push it all away and convince you everything's fine and tell you not
00:06:33.360 to panic and go back to sleep. Go back to your central thesis and tie it to how you saw these
00:06:39.640 whistleblowers come forward. You said, if you build it, everyone dies. Technically, what does
00:06:46.780 that mean? Explain to the audience, how is that going to happen? Yeah, I can make up some stories
00:06:53.980 here, but the fundamental reason that we think AI would beat humanity in a fight if we build the
00:06:59.020 sort of AIs that are sort of highly agentic and don't have the goals we want, the reason we think
00:07:03.520 that is because they'd be smarter than us, right? And if the high school team is playing a ball
00:07:11.400 game against the NFL, I can't tell you exactly what the plays are, but I can tell you who's
00:07:17.640 winning, right? And so it's a little bit like that. The easiest way to maybe see how this goes wrong
00:07:23.600 is that handing over control of our civilization to the AIs is the plan. People like Elon Musk are 1.00
00:07:33.100 saying he wants to build automated robot factories that can produce robots, that can produce more
00:07:39.020 robot factories, such that you can have robots producing factories, producing robots, producing
00:07:44.800 factories with no humans in the loop. Maybe they can also build nuclear power plants and it's all
00:07:48.900 self-contained, self-reproducing. And Elon Musk calls this the infinite money glitch,
00:07:54.940 the fully automated economy. And the sort of goal of these guys is to build the fully automated
00:08:02.360 economy and hand control over to the AIs. And then if the AIs don't care about us, they just
00:08:06.520 do their own thing with the planet and all its resources. And then we die not because they hate
00:08:10.900 us, but for the same reason that ants die when we're building a skyscraper on top of where their
00:08:14.840 anthill used to be. So there's also all these ways that if you try to stop the AIs, but you keep 0.74
00:08:21.120 making them smarter and smarter, that they can break out of the containers and lie in wait and
00:08:26.840 steal money, pay humans to do things, take over robots. There's all these pathways for a smart
00:08:32.400 AI to take. And we've seen a lot of warning signs of this with the swarm instance this summer. We
00:08:37.740 have seen AIs breaking out of containers that we thought were secure. We've seen AIs trying to
00:08:45.060 cover their tracks, trying to find the log files and delete them. So we've seen attempts to deceive
00:08:50.560 humans that failed, but we've seen them try. And that's the warning sign that you see before they
00:08:56.080 start deceiving us and succeeding, which if they do that, you can't see it. So we've seen the
00:09:01.340 warning signs. We've seen that the AIs are not doing what we tell them to do. We've seen that
00:09:04.800 they're acting on their own. They're just not smart enough to really grab the resources of Earth and
00:09:09.080 use it towards their own ends yet. But these companies are trying to make them smarter. That
00:09:12.840 is just the plan. By, you know, coming together after they fought so hard to not have any
00:09:20.540 deceleration as all, they were all pedal to the middle accelerations. Does this make you concerned
00:09:26.700 They're trying to form some sort of cartel so they can, you know, have some sort of regulation where they dump the liabilities onto the American taxpayer and they get off scot-free in case of or when the time comes that the AIs do something that's got liability to it?
00:09:44.800 You know, I think it's a little bit like that, but I think it's in some sense even a bit worse.
00:09:49.820 I think what they're trying to do is take the pressure off.
00:09:53.460 the public has started to notice that the people in these labs really do believe
00:09:57.900 that they risk at least a 10% chance of exterminating humanity, right? And that's,
00:10:05.420 if the public really fully notices that, and if our leaders really notice that,
00:10:09.300 the answer is not we slap a couple embedded regulators like in finance in there to watch
00:10:14.680 what they're doing. The answer is that you shut it down and then you go to China and you're like,
00:10:18.460 this is really scary. This could kill us. We're informing you that we think this could kill
00:10:23.400 and we are going to start working on you guys not building it either,
00:10:28.180 hopefully diplomatically,
00:10:29.280 but ultimately America and the U.S. allies control the chip supply chain
00:10:32.680 and we're just not going to suffer this stuff to be built anywhere
00:10:34.780 because it's too dangerous.
00:10:36.020 That's what the world does if we really take these concerns 0.99
00:10:39.640 and notice that this could actually happen if you let these guys race.
00:10:43.820 And I think these guys are trying to get ahead of that.
00:10:46.220 Like the one force that can cause all the folks in AI to come together
00:10:50.020 and say, oh, like, yeah, there's concerns.
00:10:54.140 We're not going to say extinction threat directly,
00:10:55.900 but we acknowledge there's concerns.
00:10:57.740 Give us some embedded third-party regulators
00:10:59.860 that can watch while we keep going.
00:11:01.680 Don't worry, we promise we won't go too fast.
00:11:04.060 I think the only thing that can get them
00:11:06.280 to come together and do that
00:11:07.360 is fear that the world's actually going to notice
00:11:09.120 what they're really doing
00:11:10.040 and start trying to shut them down.
00:11:13.100 Do you think, two questions,
00:11:15.360 because I know you're pressed for time.
00:11:17.060 Number one, the Chinese Communist Party,
00:11:19.140 They go back to that about the supply chain.
00:11:21.000 This is what concerns me is that the argument is always, well, we've got to let these guys be accelerations.
00:11:24.920 There can't be any controls because China might win.
00:11:28.080 The entire ecosystem of AI is the technology, the financing, the education, the training all comes to the United States. 0.83
00:11:36.200 If we wanted to drop the hammer, if that was really a threat on a national security side, we could eviscerate the Chinese Communist Party's AI program from Huawei all the way to the free ride they're getting. 0.64
00:11:49.140 our models anyway and everything in between correct that's my read you know training one of 0.87
00:11:54.980 these uh potentially extinction level ais is not something you can do in your basement you know
00:12:01.220 this takes a hundred thousand of the most highly advanced computer chips that the supply chain can
00:12:05.620 produce this is in some sense the the peak output of uh humanity's supply chain and it's very
00:12:12.180 bottlenecked there's like basically only one fabricator in taiwan that can produce these chips
00:12:16.920 Part of the process involves a lithography machine from the Netherlands, which can only be made in the Netherlands right now.
00:12:23.340 Much of this is controlled by the U.S. and U.S. allies.
00:12:26.120 We basically have 90 percent of all of these chips and most of the capacity to make more.
00:12:32.680 And, you know, doing the actual training run on these AIs, I'm not saying that ChatGPT is going to wake up and try and kill you tomorrow.
00:12:41.220 Right. The type of AI that's dangerous hasn't been made yet.
00:12:44.680 and all we need to do is stop it from being made
00:12:47.040 and making it with these huge number of chips
00:12:49.800 requires assembling them in an enormous data center
00:12:51.800 that sucks down electricity comparable to a city
00:12:54.180 and you can see that data center
00:12:55.700 and the energy infrastructure for it from space.
00:12:58.440 It's just, wouldn't actually be hard
00:13:01.040 to A, cut off the Chinese chip supply
00:13:03.540 and B, if we're backing off on doing this ourselves,
00:13:07.540 if we're saying we're not gonna pursue
00:13:08.640 superintelligence ourselves 0.98
00:13:09.640 and we're willing to let the Chinese 1.00
00:13:12.440 monitor our data centers
00:13:13.540 and see that they are not doing
00:13:15.220 these superintelligence training runs,
00:13:17.080 then I think we have a very good case 0.95
00:13:18.680 for telling the Chinese,
00:13:20.200 like, look, we're also tracking
00:13:21.420 where your chip concentrations go
00:13:22.840 one way or another,
00:13:24.300 like hopefully diplomatically,
00:13:25.500 you're going to let us monitor those too
00:13:27.240 and we're going to make sure
00:13:27.860 no one's doing this thing
00:13:28.760 that could kill everybody.
00:13:29.960 But ultimately, we are treating this
00:13:31.500 as a national security threat
00:13:32.640 and we just, you know,
00:13:34.500 the U.S. military cannot allow
00:13:36.740 a rogue superintelligence to be created
00:13:38.960 even once anywhere on the planet
00:13:40.520 at risk of ending humanity.
00:13:42.540 I think that's something U.S. diplomacy could absolutely enforce if we understood these dangers and were trying to.
00:13:50.380 Nate, where do people get to you? What's your social media, the website, how do they get the book?
00:13:57.020 Yeah, I am SO8RES on X. And the book is at ifanyonebuildsit.com or sold wherever books are sold.
00:14:07.300 Nate, fantastic. Thanks for starting us off today. Appreciate you.
00:14:11.100 Thank you.
00:14:12.540 you heard it right there we have to watch out you can't i think when points nate made it so
00:14:22.540 powerful you can't trust these oligarchs at all let's say it's a sci-up let's say they're
00:14:28.220 which people inside don't think so but let's say it is we cannot let them get a structure
00:14:32.640 either doing these ipos and or any regulatory apparatus that shifts the liabilities from the
00:14:40.240 companies and them and them personally to, um, to the public.
00:14:45.820 And we will talk more about that.
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00:16:10.740 Very, very, very important news that is breaking tonight. The United States Supreme Court has just this evening blocked one of the most concerted efforts by President Donald Trump to sow chaos in the midterm elections to essentially launch a federal takeover of America's midterm elections.
00:16:30.700 lower courts had blocked Trump's executive order from this spring that would have effectively
00:16:35.860 instructed the U.S. Postal Service to block states from distributing and collecting mail-in
00:16:41.700 ballots in the normal fashion. Lower courts had blocked that. Trump had appealed to the Supreme
00:16:47.440 Court that the Supreme Court should overrule those lower courts and actually let his orders
00:16:52.320 to the Postal Service go ahead. But tonight, the United States Supreme Court told him no.
00:16:57.460 and the legality and the politics of these things seem like they exist in two different
00:17:04.380 universes i mean in this country by very clear dictum in our constitution our elections are run
00:17:11.820 by the states this is not a contested thing in american constitutional governance our elections
00:17:17.300 are run by the states not by the federal government and certainly not by the president
00:17:21.420 that is why voting looks a little different state to state depending on where you live
00:17:26.560 That said, in most states, one of the ways you can vote is you can request that a ballot should be mailed to you.
00:17:33.860 And then you fill it out at home, you mail it back, and that is the way you officially cast your ballot.
00:17:38.820 This is a very normal way to vote in the United States of America.
00:17:42.720 This is a way Donald Trump most frequently votes in the United States of America.
00:17:47.280 Voting by mail has become a very common way to vote in this country.
00:17:51.760 Okay. Thank you, Denver.
00:17:54.360 Cleta Mitchell joins us. 0.78
00:17:56.060 I can only take so much Rachel Maddow on a Tuesday morning. 0.90
00:17:59.800 You and me both.
00:18:02.440 Cleta, I just do it for the audience because they love it so much. 0.90
00:18:05.480 They need to be tortured on a Tuesday.
00:18:08.420 What happened here? 0.55
00:18:09.560 Can you explain it?
00:18:11.440 Yeah, I can explain it.
00:18:12.440 We have four Supreme Court justices who are supposed to be conservative, three of them appointed by President Trump. 0.84
00:18:22.180 And they sided with the communist women on the court and basically said that the lower courts and all their tyranny had to be supported, even though Justice Alito wrote an eight page dissent, with which Justice Thomas concurred, saying this court in and of itself is responsible for the delay and that the states were responsible, that the plaintiffs were responsible for the delay. 0.77
00:18:52.180 That's basically the basis on which the Supreme Court denied the request for the stay that 0.70
00:18:59.500 the Trump administration had sought, which is really to overturn these lower court decisions.
00:19:04.800 And the Supreme Court and Justice Kavanaugh on a one paragraph order from which Thomas
00:19:13.480 and Alito dissented, said, Justice Kavanaugh said, well, there's just not time.
00:19:18.100 Well, let me remind everybody that this time, what, six years ago in 2020, these very same, in many cases, the very same plaintiffs and state election officials were just without any legal authority whatsoever changing the laws because of COVID.
00:19:36.420 These were things that they had been trying to get done but couldn't get done through state legislatures and Congress.
00:19:41.680 So they just issued these orders that basically upended the process in 2020.
00:19:46.860 They did that pretty quickly. And now then the Supreme Court says, in response to a brief that was filed by 14 Republican secretaries of state chief election officers, I might add, saying, oh, we cannot possibly comply. It's way too late.
00:20:05.360 when they themselves, along with these plaintiffs, were responsible for the delay.
00:20:10.020 And Justice Alito wrote a brilliant dissent, as usual, pointing out that these plaintiffs
00:20:15.780 didn't even have standing, pointing out all the Supreme Court cases that concluded that
00:20:20.540 similarly situated cases, plaintiffs didn't have standing, pointing out that the United
00:20:26.100 States Postal Service is part of the Constitution, is not even subject to the Federal Administrative
00:20:31.780 Procedures Act. Brett Kavanaugh in his one paragraph order said, oh, well, they didn't
00:20:36.660 follow the Administrative Procedures Act with the post office in issuing these rules. Well,
00:20:41.100 they're not subject to the Administrative Procedures Act by law because they're in the
00:20:46.080 Constitution. So there's so much wrong with this. But honestly, I'm pretty tired of these weenies
00:20:52.140 on the U.S. Supreme Court who keep siding with the Marxist girls. And I'm pretty worried about 0.98
00:20:58.800 that for the future of our country. And all these tyrannical judges around the country that these
00:21:04.320 left-wing plaintiffs, NGOs, and states go to, they run to those courts because they know they'll get
00:21:11.660 whatever they ask for. Whether they have standing, whether they have jurisdiction, it's just,
00:21:16.360 it's mind-boggling. Besides the administrative, you know, the Marshall thing, the heart of this,
00:21:23.140 what did President Trump want? And what did the four justices, three of whom he appointed,
00:21:28.800 say no to? Well, basically what the rules say, the president issued an executive order in April
00:21:36.640 to his subordinate agencies. Let's not forget the president is still the president, the CEO of our
00:21:42.740 executive branch of our country. These are executive agencies that the president directed
00:21:47.940 the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Postal Service to work together to come up with
00:21:53.560 a process by which the Postal Service would actually exercise some responsibilities for
00:22:00.520 delivering only accurate, delivering ballots to people who actually lived in the places where
00:22:08.000 they're supposed to be registered and only delivering to people that they know are citizens
00:22:13.260 of the United States and directed the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Postal Service
00:22:19.660 was to create a portal to which the states would have access to be able to confirm the citizenship
00:22:26.020 of the people on the voter rolls. I mean, the technology is there. The data is there.
00:22:32.280 This is not anything that's really hard. The president also said that the envelopes for the
00:22:39.560 mail should have intelligent barcodes. Well, guess what? Most of the states already use
00:22:46.280 intelligent barcodes for election mail. That's not hard to do. They're already doing it. What
00:22:53.020 the executive order said was to make a few tweaks to the envelope so that those barcodes could be
00:22:59.140 read by these electronic scanners. Like I said, that already exists. They've already been doing
00:23:04.240 that. And there's nothing about these rules that is difficult. What they don't want, let's never
00:23:13.360 forget what the Democrats don't want, what all their Democrat NGOs don't want, what these 14
00:23:19.740 Republican secretaries of state don't want, is they don't want accountability. I want to give
00:23:26.960 you one little example, Steve. In our election contest that we filed on behalf of President
00:23:32.420 Trump after the election in Georgia in 2020, one of our allegations was that we had data from the
00:23:40.640 U.S. Postal Service that showed that ballots had been delivered by the post office and had been
00:23:47.920 cast and counted in the final totals in the Georgia presidential election of 2020 that showed that
00:23:55.580 ballots had been cast and counted from addresses that the U.S. Postal Service itself said were
00:24:01.660 vacant addresses, either vacant lots, houses were not there, the houses were vacant. That's
00:24:08.260 according to the data that the post office itself published. And remember, 18,325 votes from vacant
00:24:17.520 addresses when the margin was 11,779. That's the only data point you need. And we had a 64-page
00:24:25.720 complaint full of those things. But the point is the post office has that data. They have it today.
00:24:30.960 They had it six years ago. They know who doesn't live at the addresses. And basically, this was
00:24:37.460 just saying, Postal Service, use the data that you have available to you and help us make sure
00:24:42.800 that ballots are not delivered to non-citizens and people who've moved and people who aren't
00:24:47.140 eligible. This is not hard. They could have done it. Clean up the Save America Act. We've got 50
00:24:56.700 days. Anything in that act that could still be implemented in your mind, or are we just going to
00:25:03.480 you know, have the election we're going to have.
00:25:06.460 Well, it could be implemented if the Senate would pass a budget,
00:25:11.300 they would have to pass a budget resolution and a reconciliation bill.
00:25:16.580 That's all the Senate has to do.
00:25:18.420 Hang on, they're leaving this week.
00:25:20.220 So that's the House is leaving and they're leaving.
00:25:22.660 The House is leaving, the Senate's coming.
00:25:25.300 Yeah.
00:25:25.620 Right.
00:25:26.280 I have to assume the Senate's not going to do anything.
00:25:29.020 No, there's, yeah, exactly.
00:25:30.960 So, no, I don't see that there's anything that can be done on a broad scale before this election.
00:25:38.980 Unfortunately, you know, we've been fighting and fighting for this.
00:25:42.120 We have fighting for not to stop non-citizen voting since we started this effort in February of 2024.
00:25:49.340 And we're not going to stop fighting. That's the other thing everybody needs to remember. 0.56
00:25:52.140 You know, the Democrats and their allies and a group of Republicans, squishy Republicans, have just thrown in to try to stop any of these major efforts for 2026.
00:26:05.740 But you know what? There are still things we can do.
00:26:08.220 I want to urge everybody to say, OK, one of the things we need to do is we need to make sure that the people who live in nursing homes are not having their votes stolen.
00:26:18.280 So if you go to our website, we have a Protect Vulnerable Voters Toolkit that is based on the new guidance that Dr. Oz issued from CMS in July of this year that creates some new guardrails around people coming into nursing homes and basically stealing the votes of elderly people in nursing homes.
00:26:39.020 You may say, well, what good does that do? Well, let me tell you something. It's hundreds of votes. It can be hundreds of votes, maybe thousands of votes in a given congressional district. So you want to make sure that the wrong people don't get elected. Go protect those people in the nursing homes. We've got the tools to tell you how to do it.
00:26:55.980 We need people to be observers, sign up to be observers, be engaged in the election.
00:27:00.420 If you haven't done that before, do it this year, because we are not stopping.
00:27:04.720 They keep thinking that they can beat us.
00:27:07.140 They can only beat us if we quit.
00:27:09.500 We can't quit.
00:27:10.540 We have to keep fighting.
00:27:11.620 We're going to keep fighting.
00:27:13.080 Join the fight.
00:27:14.380 2028 will be here before you know it.
00:27:16.160 And we have to be prepared.
00:27:17.400 And we have to start yesterday for 2028. 0.98
00:27:19.280 We can't let them steal the country, which is what they're trying to do. 0.95
00:27:27.080 So, and vote in person.
00:27:28.620 Let me tell you something.
00:27:29.300 Everybody vote in person.
00:27:31.240 First day of early voting.
00:27:32.540 Everybody vote in person.
00:27:34.100 Where do they go to get you?
00:27:35.580 We've got 30 seconds.
00:27:37.720 Go to electionintegritynetwork.org.
00:27:40.360 That's our website.
00:27:41.540 On social media, at EI Watchdogs.
00:27:44.240 Or you can follow me, at Cleta Mitchell.
00:27:46.380 I just did a post on Sunday about the terrible problems in our postal service.
00:27:52.180 Why anyone, why anyone would vote by mail is beyond me. 0.99
00:27:56.160 Get off your butt, get down there, vote in person the first day of early voting, claim your vote. 0.98
00:28:00.880 And we can get rid of this universal vote by mail if we keep working at it. 0.99
00:28:06.040 We're going to keep grinding.
00:28:06.920 Thank you, Cleet.
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00:29:31.440 welcome back special guest just dropped by in the neighborhood brother fishback how you doing man
00:29:38.680 great great to see you thank you and thank you for coming by the war room we love these drop
00:29:43.380 by's um talk to me well first of all talk to me about dallas you had an event there
00:29:49.060 that was uh on fire right i noticed a lot of young males there what what is this about what's
00:29:56.200 the energy there why why are they why did they come to listen to you even after your campaign
00:30:01.620 has uh you know has finished well our campaign may be finished but our fight is just getting
00:30:06.040 started steve our first event after the campaign was outside of florida and dallas the day before
00:30:11.440 the republican midterm convention it's maybe expecting 40 or 50 people to show up over 400
00:30:17.540 did jam-packed standing room only people drove in from san antonio and houston we had a real
00:30:23.200 conversation about the Republican Party, the future of it, where it's failing my generation
00:30:28.600 younger, whether it's H-1Bs, whether it's data centers, AI, mass migration, just being honest
00:30:33.940 about it. And it was a good event. And then obviously going to the convention itself and
00:30:37.980 having conversations on the sidelines there. Talk to me, what was the, let's just go through
00:30:42.940 that punch list. Why would someone drive to San Antonio, to Dallas, to be with other essentially
00:30:50.240 young men to hear fishback from Florida talk about some basic issues. What was the draw was
00:30:57.520 H1Bs, data centers, AI, employment? What is it? What are these young men? Are they concerned
00:31:04.280 about the future? Are they nihilistic or are they still MAGA? Walk me through it.
00:31:12.520 They are not MAGA the way that it's understood now, which is this corporatist, pro-AI,
00:31:17.800 pro-tech billionaire, pro-legal immigration. You know, MAGA is rightly against illegal immigration,
00:31:23.640 but if you take 800,000 Indians and give them a permission slip to come here and take a job,
00:31:29.180 that doesn't make it okay for the person who'll lose their job. And so they are upset about the
00:31:34.500 status quo. In fact, the term conservative means almost nothing to them because they don't want to
00:31:38.820 conserve the status quo. They want to restore American greatness to back to where we were
00:31:45.040 20, 30 years ago. I think about the 1990s, for example. I wasn't too preoccupied with GDP or
00:31:50.800 the stock market as a kid. I was worried about whether or not you could raise a family on a
00:31:55.700 single income, whether young men could buy a home and get married. Let's just look at the facts for
00:31:59.880 a moment because I'm not one to look at vibes or surveys. When my dad was growing up in South
00:32:04.140 Florida in the 1960s, half, half of 30-year-old men were married and owned a home. Steve, today,
00:32:11.740 less than 15% of 30-year-olds that's dropped in half in a couple of decades are married and own
00:32:18.300 a home. And that tells you everything about our situation right now. Well, if you can't get a job
00:32:24.340 because an H-1B replaced it, how are you going to get married and buy a home if you have no income?
00:32:28.840 How are you going to buy a home if BlackRock and Blackstone are sucking up the housing supply and
00:32:32.780 driving up prices? How are you going to be able to start a family when the cost of childbirth is
00:32:37.840 so high because private equity has scooped up all these hospital chains and made it impossible for
00:32:42.260 young couples to get started. And so this is really the way to measure the economy. I was a
00:32:47.160 Wall Street investor for the last decade, and I can tell you that I spent a lot of time staring
00:32:51.000 at a Bloomberg terminal. But if I could- You're one of those Bloomberg cowboys that Besson talks
00:32:56.120 about. That Besson does not like. And I think Besson nailed it when he said, I'm more worried
00:32:59.320 about MAGA than the MAG-7. I think he's right. And I think Besson's right to take this attitude
00:33:04.700 that I'm not worried about the poindexter behind Bloomberg because I was one of those guys for 10
00:33:08.940 years. I had four monitors. I was working on a multi-billion dollar hedge fund trading interest
00:33:12.820 rate derivatives. The truth of the matter is that GDP can only tell you so much. Think of it this
00:33:17.940 way. If the United States were to annex the country of Haiti tomorrow, our GDP would go up by $30
00:33:25.620 billion. Would a single American be richer as a result? No. We'd be poorer as a result because
00:33:31.520 we take on a welfare state, essentially, of people who are not literate, who cannot read 0.93
00:33:36.900 or write, who do not want to become Americans and will take away low-wage labor from actual
00:33:41.280 American citizens. So that would make us poorer, but GDP would say it would make us richer.
00:33:45.500 Let me ask you an example, another example for the stock market. If Apple were to announce
00:33:51.100 tomorrow or Amazon that it's laying off 30,000 Americans and replacing them with 15,000 H1Bs,
00:33:57.220 Apple stock, the knee-jerk response would go up
00:34:00.020 because now labor costs have gone down
00:34:01.820 and profit margins have gone up.
00:34:03.380 I bring margins up, yeah.
00:34:04.540 But America would be poorer.
00:34:06.680 And so just those two stylized examples,
00:34:08.920 GDP going up, bad for America,
00:34:11.540 stock price going up, bad for America.
00:34:13.700 I think we need to reject this notion
00:34:15.600 that economic statistics tell us which way we're headed.
00:34:20.680 Instead, let's develop a new dashboard.
00:34:23.500 And I think that is number one,
00:34:24.900 what percentage of 30-year-old men are married and own their home? Number two, what percentage-
00:34:29.540 Could you take that as a proxy for social stability? Yes. Social stability, but also
00:34:33.600 economic self-sufficiency. And it's a way to measure, you know, if we don't have an H-1B 0.94
00:34:39.360 scam anymore, the number of 30-year-old men who can buy a home and start a family is going to go 0.60
00:34:43.740 up because their jobs are going to come back. Even those who aren't directly implicated in the H-1B, 0.59
00:34:48.160 they're going to see wages go up because aggregate nominal wages are pulled down as a result of a 0.99
00:34:53.080 labor pool that has so many cheap foreign laborers. And I put out an essay this morning 0.95
00:34:56.740 entitled The Case for a Nationalist Meritocracy. And the truth is that the so-called meritocracy
00:35:03.680 is on Substack or it's on X and it's my pinned tweet. And it starts with this very interesting
00:35:11.860 case we saw a couple of weeks ago where Vice President Vance, whom I don't agree with on
00:35:15.240 everything, but I think generally has the right idea that he says that American companies who
00:35:20.820 need work, should hire and train Americans. And then this venture capitalist, Advak Gupta,
00:35:26.460 guess where he's from? He said that is DEI and that is woke. There's nothing DEI about wanting
00:35:31.980 a meritocracy with a border around it. The current meritocracy right now in America,
00:35:36.920 quote unquote, he's saying it's DEI because American citizens are not, cannot fill those
00:35:43.000 jobs. Effectively, that we should give preference to American citizens, which is what America first
00:35:48.320 means as opposed to slavishly following GDP or stock price. So what I propose is a rejection of
00:35:54.320 our current globalist meritocracy, which essentially says any job, any college slot is
00:36:00.040 open to any of the 8 billion people on planet Earth. Instead, my vision that I advocate for
00:36:06.020 in my essay on X is a nationalist meritocracy that says that American jobs and American
00:36:11.120 opportunities should be exclusively open to American citizens. Let Americans rigorously
00:36:16.960 compete in a colorblind, race-blind, gender-blind meritocracy amongst themselves. The example I
00:36:22.620 give is if you're signing up for an elementary charter school for your kid in New York City
00:36:27.560 and your kid has the highest test score in Manhattan and they get rejected because somebody
00:36:33.380 in China or in India has a 10-point higher test score, you'd be livid that your elementary school 0.99
00:36:40.620 slot for your kid at a so-called meritocratic charter school was given to an Indian who has 0.98
00:36:45.000 a 10-point score. The nationalist meritocratic thing to do is to reject the Indian, reject the 0.92
00:36:51.040 Chinese, and accept the American. We have an obligation and a duty to our own country to put 0.77
00:36:57.080 our own people first. Well, in the H-1Bs, we still, I keep asking all the time, we still haven't seen 1.00
00:37:01.340 where there's any billet where either education or their job qualifies more than Americans. 0.99
00:37:08.020 That's exactly right. We've just given it to them for lower wages. That's exactly right. It's a 0.98
00:37:11.480 labor arbitrage scam. It's a scam. And by the way, corporate greed has loved cheap labor since the
00:37:16.880 time of South Plantation owners in the 1830s. It's no different today. I mean, you see corporate
00:37:22.000 executives proudly talk about how they're lowering labor costs by replacing us. That has to end.
00:37:27.460 I think two arguments. There's the moral and ethical argument, which is to put Americans first
00:37:31.580 because it's our country. But two, Americans are far more qualified. You're not going to push the
00:37:36.920 frontiers of technological progress by hiring a cheap programmer from India. And so long-term, 1.00
00:37:42.420 I would actually not be willing to invest in companies that are replacing Americans with
00:37:46.480 cheap foreign labor because cheap foreign labor did not put a man on the moon, did not connect
00:37:50.440 us to the internet, did not build the Macintosh, did not send the Wright brothers into flight.
00:37:55.660 And so we have to remember that you cannot make America great again without Americans, period.
00:38:01.880 And particularly people coming into the job market, I mean, 12 million STEM workers with
00:38:05.800 work. Was this a forerunner when you were there speaking last weekend or last week? Is that a
00:38:12.640 forerunner to the Beau French situation? We're going to be talking about that in the next hour.
00:38:18.280 Is that a forerunner that right below the surface, people are looking for a permission structure
00:38:23.040 that people like Beau French and Fishback give them to actually debate and talk about a topic
00:38:28.320 that's supposed to be you can't talk about? Well, a long, thoughtful question like that
00:38:32.600 deserves a long, thoughtful answer, Steve. Yes, that's exactly right. It struck at the same
00:38:37.140 core as we look around and we barely recognize this country. I want to quote from someone I
00:38:41.960 probably shouldn't, which is Barack Hussein Obama, when he wrote in the audacity of hope
00:38:46.120 that call me, quote, nativist, but I shouldn't need a translator to get my car fixed. I shouldn't
00:38:53.660 look around my country and feel like it doesn't appear to be a home anymore. And that's that
00:38:59.380 same underlying frustration that I think we're both tapping into. And people, is it a bigger
00:39:05.760 deal in Florida? Because it's certainly a huge deal in Texas. And I noticed that in the energy,
00:39:10.460 you thought you're going to get 50 people. You had 500 and you could have got more if you had
00:39:15.040 a bigger room. Is that, that's right below the surface. In fact, it's coming to the surface in
00:39:22.040 Texas. It's a huge issue, particularly for young men. Is it as big an issue in Florida?
00:39:26.420 It is. It's a huge issue in Florida. I'll speak on Texas for just a moment because I know
00:39:31.000 Tallarico is the hot thing right now. Tallarico is a great replacement supporter. On his website
00:39:38.100 right now, if you go to the issues page, on his issues page, I'm quoting verbatim,
00:39:43.160 he wants to, quote, help small businesses hire migrant labor, end quote. Is that somebody you
00:39:50.700 want to support? And I understand some of the frustration around what's going on in Texas
00:39:55.200 right now. But Tallarico is a Trojan horse, in his own words, on his website right now. I know
00:40:01.120 he's doing 180s on transgender this and that. On his website right now, he says, quote,
00:40:06.380 help small businesses hire migrant labor, end quote. That is the great replacement in writing.
00:40:13.620 It is a confession to what he will vote for and support in the United States Senate. We cannot
00:40:18.060 have Tallarico in the Senate. Match deportations. How high a priority is that for these young men? 0.96
00:40:22.860 number one. It is number one. One young man recounted to me that he remembered vividly
00:40:27.500 seeing at the 2024 Republican convention those signs that said, mass deportations now. Steve,
00:40:33.420 you and I know those signs were nowhere to be found at last week's convention.
00:40:37.280 They want mass deportations. Well, they were banned. They were banned. I know Mike Howe,
00:40:40.320 you know, Mike Howe made a bump. They said, no, we're not allowing those type of signs in the
00:40:45.720 main room. That's an indictment on both the mass deportations betrayal, but also on the free speech
00:40:50.360 portrayal as well but that's where we are they want to see the invasion reverse they want to
00:40:56.420 see re-migration that's what i've supported the young men are the most conservative far right
00:41:03.100 so far they've been right that i've seen in a long time that's why we want how did that how
00:41:07.700 did that happen given the education system there is given how the odds are stacked against a young
00:41:13.180 man right and just this culture this toxic empathy how did these guys come up and be so
00:41:18.580 be so, what I would say is not even conservative, but right wing?
00:41:22.100 Three reasons. Number one, they remember 08. I remember it vividly as well. They remember
00:41:26.720 their own home getting foreclosed on or their neighbor while a big hedge fund or a big investment
00:41:31.260 bank got bailed out. That's the first thing. Number two, they remember COVID, the racial
00:41:36.360 idolatry that we saw when Anthony Fauci signed that letter saying, you can't go to see a funeral.
00:41:42.020 You can't go see your family, but you can go ride in the streets for George Floyd.
00:41:45.400 And the third thing is the rise of Nick Fuentes, his audience, his ability to go on there three, four days a week and speak directly and communicate directly with young men and do it in a way where it's showing up on TikTok, on Instagram, obviously on everyone's X feed.
00:42:00.580 But if I could say three things in chronological order, it is the 08 crisis and the economic response to it.
00:42:06.300 It's the 2020 scandemic and largely the racial response to it, saying you can't go to a funeral, but you can go ride in the streets for a drug addict.
00:42:14.460 And then the rise of Nick Fuentes.
00:42:16.580 What is it about Nick?
00:42:17.800 We've got about a minute.
00:42:18.740 Then we're going to go to break.
00:42:19.560 I'm going to keep it around.
00:42:20.140 What is it about Nick that hits these young men?
00:42:23.740 How does he communicate with him when so many other people tried and failed?
00:42:27.120 He's very relatable.
00:42:27.900 I've never met him, I've never spoken to him, but I've certainly seen the clips and seen his show.
00:42:31.360 I think he's very relatable. I think he's very funny.
00:42:33.280 Right. He's got entertainment plus content, right?
00:42:38.440 Kind of the old Rush Limbaugh model.
00:42:40.020 Okay, we're going to take a short break. Brother Fishback is with us.
00:42:42.740 I'm going to ask him about, you went from Wall Street and the financial community to run for politics.
00:42:48.620 Yes.
00:42:48.900 I'm going to ask you about that. That's a big leap, right?
00:42:51.940 It's a big leap, not watching Bloomberg TV or CNBC anymore as much.
00:42:56.680 I'm also going to ask you about interest rates.
00:42:59.360 Send that clip to the White House.
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00:44:56.540 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:45:02.680 James, this is back.
00:45:04.100 We used to have you on here a lot talking about interest rates.
00:45:06.920 You had this whole theory about how the Fed didn't calculate correctly.
00:45:10.700 You had lots of numbers to back up. 0.60
00:45:12.280 I mean, the reason we had you on, you were a nerd.
00:45:15.000 I mean, you were a finance nerd.
00:45:16.260 It was all details. It was all numbers. You broke down what should happen. By the way,
00:45:21.640 what is your thoughts about Kevin Warsh? What's he going to do on the 24th?
00:45:25.980 It's a good question. It's a tricky game because in the world of finance, your job is to not
00:45:32.240 tell the Fed what they should do, but tell investors what they will do. In the world of
00:45:37.560 politics, what they should do. Here's what they should do. I don't think Kevin Warsh should raise
00:45:41.580 rates. And the reason why is because the market is already doing that job for them with the 10-year
00:45:47.660 Treasury yield above 5%, the highest level essentially since 2008. And so if the market
00:45:53.960 is raising interest rates and effectively tightening financial conditions and raising
00:45:58.560 the cost of borrowing, there's no need for the Fed to do it. The other reason is we know what's
00:46:02.620 driving this, which is largely the oil crisis and some of the peripheral tariff stuff. And so how
00:46:07.840 does monetary policy fix what's going on in the Strait of Hormuz or Iran?
00:46:12.080 How much in the 10-year do you think is the crowding out by this massive barring from
00:46:16.080 artificial intelligence?
00:46:17.660 It's a good question.
00:46:18.780 It's certainly not trivial.
00:46:20.080 Maybe it's 30 to 40 basis points, but it's not massive either.
00:46:22.800 There's obviously some barring which is going to push up the underlying spread.
00:46:25.920 So maybe 30 base points on the margin?
00:46:28.340 On the margin.
00:46:28.900 OK, wow.
00:46:29.640 That's big.
00:46:30.100 So you're saying right now you think he holds on the 24th?
00:46:32.520 I think he holds on the 24th.
00:46:33.720 And what he says is that financial conditions are already tightening independently.
00:46:37.700 because the 10 years going up independent of what the Fed's doing. And then second,
00:46:41.780 OK, so they raise rates. This is not a demand problem. It's a supply problem. It's a policy
00:46:45.840 problem. And it's no different than, for example, when we kept rates at zero from 08 all the way
00:46:50.960 to December of 2015 when Yellen finally raised them off to zero. The thinking was, you're pushing
00:46:55.560 on a string. What exactly are you doing? Raising rates today doesn't actually fix the underlying
00:47:01.460 global oil crisis that we're suffering through. So you went from that and you still got your stick
00:47:07.120 You could always go back to that, to being a politician running in our great, you know, the free state of Florida as governor.
00:47:13.900 What did you learn about yourself?
00:47:16.720 I learned that I probably had more energy than I thought to where the last.
00:47:23.120 It was pretty amazing.
00:47:23.880 The last.
00:47:24.560 We had you three times that last hundred.
00:47:26.560 You were doing 100 sites in three days, was it?
00:47:28.600 Yeah.
00:47:28.740 On the weekend?
00:47:29.580 It was wild.
00:47:30.260 Saturday alone, we did 16 events.
00:47:32.220 The last event.
00:47:32.760 I think we had you on the beach on Saturday.
00:47:34.180 Yeah, we were at Jack's Beach.
00:47:35.500 We had 200 people behind us.
00:47:37.120 You know, funny enough, we held that at an early voting site.
00:47:39.600 So all of my events in the last four days were at early voting sites. 0.99
00:47:43.080 So I said, look, if you're going to come and see me, walk right in there right after and punch that ticket for fishback. 0.53
00:47:50.540 What about more other than energy?
00:47:53.020 Were you ready about how rough and tumble it is, how everything's in play?
00:47:57.200 I don't think I was.
00:47:58.320 I think it's pretty brutal.
00:47:59.380 And I came from the Wall Street world.
00:48:00.840 If you see Trump and you say, OK, I see what they've done to him.
00:48:03.820 You're still not ready for it, right?
00:48:04.980 You're still not ready for it to happen to you personally, to my wife, to my family.
00:48:09.220 I signed up for it.
00:48:10.280 They didn't.
00:48:11.100 And they were extremely patient and gracious through all of it.
00:48:13.720 But it was an incredible experience.
00:48:15.620 And I got to say, I'm probably the only person ever who went from being an interest rate
00:48:20.200 derivatives trader at a hedge fund to running for the governorship of Florida, period.
00:48:26.380 Let alone as an America first nationalist.
00:48:29.160 What did you learn about the people of Florida and particularly the young people?
00:48:33.880 you were on the campaign trail relentlessly. What were your takeaways? There is a real rise
00:48:39.080 in faith right now, especially Catholicism. As a proud Catholic, I love to see it. But I took my
00:48:44.680 team to Catholic mass every Sunday. It was not optional whether you were Catholic or not. You
00:48:48.420 were sitting in mass with us. So there's a real revival of faith that I'm seeing on colleges and
00:48:52.860 universities. And the vice president pointed this out at the RJC of all places that we did win every
00:48:57.600 single college precinct in Florida by double digits. And some almost unanimously because
00:49:03.260 we're speaking to the moment about H-1Bs, about what's happening with foreign infiltration
00:49:08.600 in our universities, about AIPAC and foreign money.
00:49:10.800 But I think that what surprised me the most is I obviously read about the rise of Bible
00:49:15.060 sales for young people and apps like Hallow and young people going to church, but actually
00:49:18.740 seeing it firsthand has been really impressive.
00:49:21.080 Nationalism.
00:49:21.760 Is the mega movement or the mega movement going forward, it's been a little bit populist
00:49:26.200 to date.
00:49:26.640 We try to get some populist policies through there.
00:49:28.820 Is there going to be a shift to more nationalism, more American citizens first?
00:49:32.560 and we've got to deal with this foreign situation and the capital and all that? 0.64
00:49:37.220 Yes. And for the movement to be around in four or five years, it has to be.
00:49:41.220 You know, if you define America first as whatever is good for the American stock market,
00:49:45.020 the American economic zone or American GDP, that will be a betrayal to workers.
00:49:49.280 If you define America first, as I think you and I do, Steve, which is put American citizens first,
00:49:54.660 that is fundamentally a nationalist populist movement.
00:49:57.580 That is a good thing, and that's what we should fight for.
00:49:59.580 But if you're siding with the tech billionaires over rural farmers, if you're siding with the H-1B lobby over small business workers, you're going to end up betraying the very people who trusted you.
00:50:10.460 You're a savvy deal guy and finance guy.
00:50:12.120 Are you a little concerned about this AI with everything we know now about the negative potentiality of it that these guys have flipped too quickly to say, hey, I think we need some regulation?
00:50:23.740 Do you think they're trying to do something, put a moat around the big four or five or former cartel or basically schluff off the liabilities?
00:50:31.720 My concern is I see a potential of 2008 coming where you've got, you know, we have a leverage, you know, a highly leveraged country with a highly leveraged corporate bet on top of it.
00:50:41.320 And that could end in tears.
00:50:43.540 What the AI companies want is what the banks got after 08.
00:50:45.820 They want to be too big to fail.
00:50:47.320 They want a regulatory moat to protect their businesses.
00:50:50.120 and this sudden epiphany that they want regulation.
00:50:55.060 They're begging the government to get involved.
00:50:56.840 It's so fake.
00:50:58.440 And what it is is they want regulatory support
00:51:02.180 so their businesses don't have to compete as much.
00:51:04.480 Maybe you can capture it to kind of build it.
00:51:06.100 Maybe even.
00:51:06.860 Okay, the essay, we're going to put it out.
00:51:08.980 Where do people go right now?
00:51:10.120 This is about a meritocracy and nationalistic meritocracy.
00:51:14.740 It's called The Case for Nationalist Meritocracy.
00:51:18.020 It's my pinned tweet on X right now. 0.88
00:51:19.260 I love that.
00:51:19.600 and people go and where else they go you got a pack you got a site fishback2026.com to read
00:51:24.040 the vision that got us nearly 200 000 votes to win every college precinct they can pick up some
00:51:27.980 merch there if they'd like and stay tuned for the next big announcement were you um disappointed in
00:51:32.700 the 10 percent that you were not i was i was humbled beyond belief that not even one out of
00:51:38.120 100 floridians knew who i was this time last year and more than one out of 10 showed up to vote for
00:51:43.880 me over an accomplished congressman make no mistake that's who byron donald's is former
00:51:48.240 House Speaker was quite accomplished in the Lieutenant Governor.
00:51:50.340 Lieutenant Governor.
00:51:50.780 So, sue me, try to sue me on the ballot, of course.
00:51:52.540 It had a tough race.
00:51:55.160 What big announcement's coming?
00:51:57.440 Big announcement.
00:51:58.060 We'll have you back on.
00:51:59.280 Thank you very much.
00:51:59.980 James Fishback, thank you for dropping by in the neighborhood.
00:52:03.360 Brother Fishback, your thing in Dallas was good.
00:52:06.480 Thank you.
00:52:06.620 That caught a lot of people's attention.
00:52:08.380 Yeah.
00:52:08.680 That's an early warning sign, as I said.
00:52:11.940 Okay, we're going to go out with never forget.
00:52:16.760 We're going to have Chad and we're going to have Natasha in for the second hour at the end.
00:52:22.380 Natasha charted.
00:52:23.860 I think Chad's up number two in country.
00:52:25.640 We're going to get it all sorted for you.
00:52:27.840 The Sobik, Mike Davis, Mark Lewis about the Veterans Bill.
00:52:32.900 All next in the war room.
00:52:34.800 Remember the planes.
00:52:37.140 Remember the phone calls.
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00:52:40.420 Remember the widows, the daughters and sons.
00:52:43.240 Remember the day we remembered we were one
00:52:47.040 So never forget
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