00:08:51.340the background of it, how the media behaved, and what are we actually doing here?
00:08:58.640Good morning, Steve. The media had a conniption when the deputy press secretary and the press
00:09:05.680team, you know, announced that everyone has to be on their best behavior in the media room,
00:09:12.440in the briefing room at the Pentagon. And of course, they don't like that because they like
00:09:16.580to shout out because, you know, Hegseth doesn't always call on them. So they have to interrupt
00:09:21.620and be rude. But they were grumbling the whole time about how unfair life was. But I think all
00:09:30.280they were asking was for some decorum among the mainstream media, which we always give the
00:09:36.000secretary of war, whether, you know, you agree or not. But yeah, doubled down today, Pete Hegseth
00:09:44.240And was very resolute that the orders that he gave, along with President Trump, both with the Houthi Iranian proxy attacks to defend our fleet in the Red Sea and other, as well as Iran and the narco traffickers getting struck in the Pacific Ocean, that they were lawful orders and no Secretary of War has ever been impeached for that type of situation.
00:10:14.240Yeah, I think the only one we had was Belknap after the, I think it was about a contract for a fort, Fort Sill.
00:10:21.440In fact, I think he actually stepped down and that was during the Grant administration.
00:10:31.120You've got Pete who gave an impassioned defense today and did kind of address the charges and very much focused on those in so many words.
00:10:41.240I mean, it was an impassioned defense.
00:10:44.240But Massey and those guys are going forward. I think Jordan Conradson from the Gateway Pundit asked a very good question there that, hey, you know, whatever happens today, they're coming back when they have overwhelming majorities in January.
00:11:00.580So how do you see this playing out? You're very close to the Pentagon, the Department of War, Pete, et cetera.
00:11:06.060How do you see this playing out? And what is their thinking about how they combat this to set up as a bridge to fight it later?
00:11:15.980I think they're counting on the fact that Congress can't say that these were not lawful orders given.
00:11:22.860And Pete Hegseth, you know, has not minced words about it.
00:11:27.680And I feel like he's gotten better in his response to the media, doesn't get distracted or go off on tangents.
00:11:35.480And listen, you know, I'm afraid that things are going to get reversed in this next congressional session.
00:11:45.780I think what Massey is doing is putting accelerant on something that shouldn't be, especially when, like I asked Pete Hegseth, you know, a year after these boat strikes, countries are still joining.
00:11:57.66019 of the 26 countries in Latin America have joined us, and many of them a year after the boat strike.
00:12:27.440You know, you have a secretary of war that's clearly been the president's right hand man or one of the right hand, one of the inner circle on the civilian oversight of the military in this kinetic part of this activity, which is still on the table.
00:12:41.380And President Trump said it's not going to happen.
00:12:51.080In fact, Admiral Kruper, I think, made a presentation about massive kinetic strikes.
00:12:55.860How is that impacting our allies in this fight or others that are either supposedly or on our side of the football and the opposition here, particularly the Mullahs and the Revolutionary Guard, sir?
00:13:10.880I was at the U.N. with President Trump when the Gulf Cooperation Council welcomed Trump with open arms.0.90
00:13:17.820And I know the Arab states are hard to trust, but, you know, they want to see their exports continue at higher rates than before the war started right now,0.60
00:13:26.140going through the Strait of Hormuz, as long as those exports happen.0.93
00:13:29.380And if anything interferes with that, those kinetic strikes will resume.
00:13:33.200And I guess the argument can be that, you know, they're looking for the free flow of oil and that this is, you know, was not a U.S.-provoked action if we do, you know, counter anything the IRGC wants to pull off, especially our shipping in the Red Sea as well with Houthi proxies and other.
00:13:55.200Listen, it's trepidatious ground for the administration going forward in a highly charged leftist political atmosphere and even among some of those who are Republicans, you know, who don't support the war going forward.
00:14:11.000But we're not going to leave our ships in danger.
00:14:13.500We're not going to leave civilians in the maritime trade in danger over there.
00:14:18.020And I think that President Trump is going to do what he has to do.
00:14:20.540And I also think Pete Hegseth has demonstrated, especially today, that he would go down with that ship if it came down to it.
00:14:27.820He would not change any of the decisions and the orders that he gave.
00:14:38.600You were there today, asked a great question.
00:14:41.100Your thoughts and observations before we move on, sir?
00:14:45.120I would just hate to see the extraordinary successes of the Hegseth leadership as Secwar and Trump reforming our military, getting recruitment up ahead of schedule and partnering with private industry and academia to get stuff into the hands of our warfighters at speed and scale, the Golden Dome and all of these incredible things that we are reshaping the axis of the world, getting NATO to cough up and getting the Latin American order in a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
00:25:50.020Well, that's what we have to worry about. And I'm sure the defense today will set a template for that. Very good. You're going to be around. We're going to be back. We'll be here, obviously, for the procedural vote today. Everything tomorrow, particularly if they go to floor and start making speeches about Pete in both defense and in opposition. Neil, where do people go and follow you throughout the day, sir?
00:26:13.960they can follow me on all the socials at reporter mccabe and my columns at the south shore press
00:26:21.380can be found at the south shore press.com sir thank you neil look forward to getting back to you
00:26:28.860okay mike david is going to walk us through what these charges really mean and what it means
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00:29:56.660Mike, this is one of the things they're trying to do with the administration.
00:29:58.900It's going to get so much worse as we go forward.
00:30:01.240They're going to try to wrap them up in investigations and impeachments and all of this.
00:30:05.420This is how they divert President Trump and the team from getting anything accomplished in the years we've got remaining.
00:30:11.840So walk me through this Pete Hegseth situation just from a constitutional perspective.
00:30:17.240What are Massey and these guys trying to do?
00:30:19.880And is this a total waste of time or is there anything here?0.98
00:30:25.300No, this is completely and totally garbage under a constitutional analysis.
00:30:32.480Under Article I of the Constitution, Congress has the power to declare war.0.90
00:30:40.400That's been done like 11 times since our founding.
00:30:44.320The last time there was a declaration of war was World War II.
00:30:48.920Under Article 2 of the Constitution, the president is the commander in chief and the chief executive officer, and he has the constitutional right and the constitutional duty to protect all Americans, right?
00:31:06.960And so as part of that, the president can make war.
00:31:30.700The declaring power is different from the making power because the declaring power has – there are legal ramifications if there is a declaration of war that relates to Americans' civil rights and civil liberties, which can be curtailed during a declaration of war.
00:31:48.800It is not a good thing to have a declaration of war if you're a libertarian like that goofball Massey because that means that you can curtail Americans' civil rights and civil liberties.
00:31:59.120I want to say to these Democrats, including Tom Massey, who's basically just a Democrat pretending to be a Republican, where were these articles of impeachment against Biden's secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, when he had the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and killed what?
00:32:21.160how many American soldiers left, how many billions of dollars in American assets and
00:32:27.880terrorist hands. This is a political hit by Democrats and Massey. And here's the problem
00:32:34.300with Massey and these Democrats. If they have a problem with Iran, I get that there is a legitimate0.98
00:32:39.540policy dispute over Iran. There are people who are for the war. There are people who are against0.96
00:32:44.640the war. That is perfectly legitimate, right? Here is the problem. They are going after the1.00
00:32:49.900wrong guy with Pete Hexed. They do not have the balls to actually take on President Trump, the0.99
00:32:55.300guy who made the decision to go after Iran here to make sure that they did not get a nuclear weapon0.99
00:33:01.960to make sure that Iran has stopped killing Americans like they've been doing for the last0.52
00:33:06.14047 years before President Trump largely took him out. And I get it. These wars are messy. But0.98
00:33:12.200these Democrats, including Messi, don't have the balls to go after Trump. And so they're trying to0.99
00:33:16.600go after Hexeth. What did they expect Hexeth to do as the Secretary of War? Say, sorry,
00:33:22.440Mr. President, I know no president has got a declaration of war since World War II,
00:33:28.400but I'm not going to carry out your order to strike Iran, even though every president almost,
00:33:35.680just about every president since World War II has ordered overseas strikes. But I'm not going
00:33:40.320to carry this out as the Secretary of War because Tom Massey told me that this violates the
00:33:46.420Constitution. I mean, give me a break. This is insane. If Tom Massey and Democrats have a problem
00:33:51.600with the war, take it up with President Trump. What about the War Powers Act argument here?
00:33:59.980Is this all about forcing? Because they're going to come back in January, correct me if I'm wrong,
00:34:04.180in the first couple of days and have a War Powers vote and try to jam President Trump
00:34:08.780up that way. Now, I happen to think the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, but it's never
00:34:12.580been tested. Is this about the War Powers Act? Are they setting up, are they teeing up what they
00:34:17.580really want, which is to constrain President Trump from having any latitude, whether you agree with
00:34:23.700the war in Iran, whether you agree with the Israel position or not, the ability to handcuff
00:34:29.520a commander in chief. Is that what this is really about? And that's why Pete just happens to be in
00:34:34.200the middle of it? I think that's part of it. That's the strategy. What this is really about
00:34:39.620is just sour grapes, right? He's sour grapes that he doesn't get along with Trump. He's sour
00:34:46.940grapes that Pete Hegseth endorsed his opponents. I mean, there's a lot of sour grapes here. But
00:34:52.860the War Powers Act of 1973 is clearly unconstitutional. No president, Democrat or
00:35:00.500Republican, has acknowledged that it's constitutional. No president has followed the War Powers Act
00:35:06.660since it was passed and enacted into law over President Nixon's veto.
00:35:12.640The reason they don't follow it, it's unconstitutional.
00:35:15.220It creates essentially an unconstitutional legislative veto
00:35:20.200over the commander-in-chief's ability to move troops
00:35:24.100and protect American assets, American people, American allies.
00:35:29.060And so, look, I learned about the War Powers Act in college.
00:35:33.240I wrote a big paper on the War Powers Act.
00:35:35.600I would encourage goofballs like Tom Massey to go read my paper when I was 19 years old that shows that the War Powers Act is clearly unconstitutional.
00:35:46.040No president, Democrat, or Republican has or will follow it.
00:35:54.360Is there any way for Johnson to somehow table this, to shelve it, or Thune?
00:35:58.820Or is this thing just going to go through the House and they'll have some floor debate and then they'll vote tomorrow, procedural vote today to get it rolling and then they'll actually vote tomorrow and Pete will be impeached.
00:36:09.040He'll send it over to the Senate. Is any any structural process that that Johnson can do?
00:36:15.080I mean, he sent people home earlier because he didn't have a he didn't have a trick up his sleeve.
00:36:19.340Does he have anything more now? You know what? I actually welcome this fight.
00:36:25.060I welcome this fight because this shows Democrat overreach right after the midterm elections when Democrats pretended that they care about the price of fuel and the price of groceries in America.
00:36:39.860It's very obvious they don't. Tom Massey's just a Democrat. He's bitter, and he's going to join his fellow Democrats as their fake Republican and pretend like they're doing something legitimate here.
00:36:51.560this is entirely illegitimate. And like Democrats always do, they are the fat kids at the all-you-can-eat0.98
00:36:58.940buffet. They can't stop eating. They're going to keep going and going and going. And this is going0.99
00:37:04.320to blow back. Look, I thought after the midterm elections, Republicans were in the deepest hole
00:37:09.560imaginable. And it was going to take many, many, many years to get out of this deep hole. But
00:37:14.860But after watching like how the incoming House oversight, Chairman Garcia, this Peruvian1.00
00:37:21.440put out this weird clown meme that he's that he's going after people.0.99
00:37:25.520He's telling people to lawyer up, but he doesn't know why.
00:37:28.460And you have Democrats and Tom Massey trying to impeach Hex Seth.
00:37:33.040We're going to the Republicans are going to dig out of this hole a lot faster than I expected.
00:37:37.800And we're going to turn lemons into lemonade like we did with the lawfare against President
00:40:22.560Maybe they should put people in these jobs
00:40:24.860who actually are effective and have brains instead of their DEI picks.
00:40:30.160Mike Davis, where do they go for Article 3?
00:40:32.660Where do they go for your always hot Twitter feed, sir?
00:40:36.580Well, I would say after this hit, I expect a subpoena, and I look forward to it.0.90
00:40:40.580I look forward to testifying in front of Congress, in front of Garcia, the biggest clown in the House.0.88
00:40:46.720You can go to Article3Project.org, Article3Project.org.
00:40:51.560I will raise so much money for Article 3 Project if they call me to testify.
00:40:55.500So please, House Democrats, please do it.
00:40:58.420And I will embarrass the hell out of you if you do it.
00:41:00.920Go to article3project.org, article3project.org, donate, follow us on social media.
00:41:06.760And the war world posse's superpower, the one we have up today, is Pete Hexath.
00:41:11.660We need to call both of your home state senators, call your U.S. House representative and tell them to oppose this bogus impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hexhaf.
00:41:23.960He is a bold and fearless warrior for the Constitution.
00:41:28.160He's highly effective and he is doing his job.
00:41:31.520If Democrats have a problem with Iran, take it up with President Trump and stop being cowards and going after Pete.
00:41:36.920okay i'll track you down after the show about getting you up tonight after this procedural
00:41:41.900vote goes down thank you so much mike davis looking for guidance and all this thank you
00:41:46.920thank you brother isaac glaster i'm holding through break i want to get into the young
00:41:52.540republicans of texas but just we got about a minute or so the fight for texas is upon us now
00:41:58.640i mean we told people this was coming it's happening what is going on in texas right now
00:42:04.120How are they trying to change Texas immediately into a sanctuary state with 20 big sanctuary cities, sir?
00:42:12.120Yeah, I mean, you've already seen just the all the insane things that the Democrats have brought forth.
00:42:17.860I think this was kind of to be expected. I didn't know if we were going to see them overplay their hand in such a strong way.
00:42:24.160But I'm encouraged to see the response from this has been, you know, an enormous level of energy of people signing on to our organization and getting involved locally.
00:42:32.720and starting to, you know, lay that groundwork to actually be a true opposition to this.
00:42:39.400Isaac, hang on. I'm holding you through the break.
00:42:41.840We know today some of the biggest grassroots organizations in Texas
00:42:47.940are signing up for Brian Harrison's movement to have a special session called immediately.
00:42:54.480His issue is to talk about the emergency powers of the governor of Texas,
00:42:59.140which he believes, and he tried to do this four years ago.
00:49:18.120And as you saw in that last slide, there's 23 clubs across the state right now.
00:49:23.880And I just want to let people know that over the last several days, we have had 23 new charters for clubs get started and 500 plus signups, thousands of followers across all of our social media platforms.
00:49:36.360So we are set to maybe double or triple the scale of our operation over the next year.
00:49:42.700And that's why we want people to get involved and get invested right now.
00:49:57.860And if you'd like to donate, go to YRTGIVE.com.
00:50:02.780That is the donation link for our organization.
00:50:05.380And I just want to drive this point home. So YRT, we have an enormous amount of people power. We are all over the state. We are growing rapidly. We have the right ideas, the right messaging. We want to work with the RPT to have a viable party going forward for the coming years, especially in 2028.
00:50:22.040And I think this cycle, more than any other, proved that ultimately we need people who are willing to invest in long-term strategies, producing slates of candidates, benches of candidates with the right messaging, as opposed to throwing in hundreds of millions of dollars towards the end of a cycle.
00:50:40.640I think we've learned that that's not sufficient.
00:50:41.840So if you want the long-term strategy, if you want to invest in something that's going to produce a viable party in Texas for 2028, please go to yrtgive.com or yrtx.gov.
00:51:46.160I think actually the property count is at 16 now and not 14, but the more we see these reports coming out, we're seeing that he actually started creating LLCs under the names of other previously established businesses, and he was able to create one from prison using someone on the outside.
00:52:06.640so this guy is literally doing this in public he's getting charged he's going to prison and
00:52:12.560he's still continuing to try to work through these schemes from the outside and steve i want you to
00:52:18.660guess based on everything that we've talked about in the past guess what this man is being charged
00:52:23.100with in prison or what what he's he's pled guilty to now you think it's title illegal illegal use of
00:52:31.720the computer is that it yeah conspiracy this man it's him he's a co-conspirator there's a bunch of
00:52:38.300family members involved so i would say it's kind of like a little ring i think that's going if i
00:52:42.040were to identify this this man is being charged with conspiracy not grand theft not grand larceny
00:52:48.260not identity fraud or anything like that conspiracy so this is and it's a 250 000 fine couple years in
00:52:54.160prison he'll be right back out on the street after this he's doing this from jail with people on the
00:53:00.100outside creating fake LLCs. And they're just doing it over and over. This is going to be one
00:53:04.860of those crimes. Like I live in California where people that go to prison for stealing things and
00:53:09.860for pretty much doing everything outside of like murder, just get out of jail within like a day or
00:53:15.040two. That's what this is going to be. And the crazy thing is $250,000 fine. Yeah. Hang on a
00:53:21.860second. We'll hold you through the break. And it doesn't talk about the wreckage of your life,
00:53:26.540The wreckage in your life. Short break.
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