00:00:37.580I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:43.000Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:46.800If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:52.980War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:58.620it's it's monday 24 august year of our lord 2026 we spent the first hour going through the
00:01:08.660geopolitics and the geoeconomics of our debt deficit uh the economic war that uh secretary
00:01:15.460treasury scott best is bringing against the persians we're not going to shift focus
00:01:19.220to the jewel of the crown of our union that would be the great state of texas brian harrison joins
00:01:26.080Brian, let me lay it out, and I want to, for some reason, Governor Abbott decided to do a big interview with Jonathan Carley yesterday.
00:01:35.520I want to get into that with you, but I just got to ask you, because I'm getting calls all day long.
00:01:39.640We're having meetings, talking to people.
00:01:41.680It's this issue about urgency in the state of Texas about this November and kind of holding what we've got,
00:01:50.640this this great congressional delegation of course the governor's race that i think cook
00:01:55.480has helped kind of put into play said it's in play and of course ken paxton the great
00:02:01.000general paxton in this uh in in the race against a guy that you've really i think described to the
00:02:07.180war and posse and to the conservative right in this country as a guy that's a much bigger freak
00:02:12.760than people think uh abbott has you know reverse course on um on on data centers dramatically now
00:02:21.020says he wants a moratorium there's all these issues coming i think sydney powell had this
00:02:25.500thing yesterday about h-1b visas uh foreigners out india from south asia taking over like the
00:02:31.500id department the it department of the state of texas uh there's uh school teachers that have
00:02:38.840been hired by h1b visas in like the dallas fort worth area what is going on because right now
00:02:46.000people it does not seem like they're galvanizing i mean they're galvanizing a handful of candidates
00:02:50.860but there's not a mass wave in texas to look to beat back uh which the left has has targeted texas
00:02:58.880as target number one to reverse the mega movement and basically to essentially be their platform to
00:03:05.960take over the nation, sir? No, look, you're exactly right. I mean, Texas is not often talked about as
00:03:12.380a battleground state, but make no mistake about it. I mean, Texas is and has long been, as I've
00:03:17.900maintained, the crown jewel in the left's plan to take over and ultimately destroy everything that
00:03:23.260made these United States the dominant world superpower, the freest and most prosperous nation
00:03:29.660on earth. And this year, this election year, is no exception. They are going to throw everything
00:03:33.660they can at the state of texas in the hopes of turning texas blue and i do want to make sure
00:03:37.460that everybody listening like um especially if you're in texas like people do need to wake up
00:03:42.120and realize that just because texas has had you know republicans have had total control of the
00:03:46.880state for going on three decades now we can't take this for granted and um look the people need to
00:03:52.820accept this the polling is tight it's a lot tighter than than it should be in my opinion
00:03:56.880the betting markets even recently had uh james tallarico up on ken paxton for the first time0.97
00:04:02.240Look, and I'm not one of these people, and I don't think it's wise or prudent to say, well, every black man I agree with must be fake.0.98
00:04:08.720You know, I think we need to be better than that.0.95
00:04:10.740And I think we need to be fighting as hard and as aggressively to make sure that Republicans maintain control of the great state of Texas as I know the Democrats are.
00:04:18.220And listen, I have been saying this as I travel around the state of Texas.
00:04:21.420People don't want to just – they don't want to just hear about how bad the Democrats are.
00:04:25.240And listen, I could go on for an hour talking about how radical left-wing extreme James Tallarico and Gina Hinojosa and all the –
00:04:31.640this is the most radical left-wing progressive Marxist slate of candidates that have ever been
00:04:36.860put up for a statewide ballot in the state of Texas. I mean, James Tallarico has nothing in
00:04:41.380common, okay, with the average Texan's values. He doesn't even use the term, you know, woman. He
00:04:45.700talks about my neighbors with uteruses. He believes there are six genders. He proudly
00:04:50.140proclaimed that our immigration policy should literally be to roll out the red carpet, you know,0.95
00:04:54.860for, you know, as many illegal aliens as possible. You know, James Tallarico believes the biblical0.93
00:05:00.140narrative of Joseph and Mary is put in there to justify elective abortions. Okay, it will be
00:05:05.600really, really clear on who James Tallarico is and why he's got to be defeated. Okay, this guy is
00:05:09.460to the left of Bernie Sanders. He's weirder than Tim Walz, and I actually think he's more radical
00:05:14.420than Jasmine Crockett, who he defeated. I never saw Jasmine Crockett go on TV and say God is
00:05:19.540non-binary. So yes, the Democrats are out of control. They have nothing in common with the
00:05:25.300voters of Texas, but to the elected Republican leadership in the state of Texas, guys, it's not
00:05:30.780just good enough to expose how radical left the Democrats are. To my colleagues and to the elected
00:05:35.380Republicans and wherever you are, we have got to do a better job inspiring the voters to be excited
00:05:41.640to get out and go to the polls and vote for us. And I believe that conventional wisdom is totally
00:05:46.340wrong. As we head into election year, the mainstream media wants you to moderate your message and don't
00:05:50.660offend anybody. This is ridiculous. I think Texans are starving to have the most bold pro-liberty0.97
00:05:57.260conservative leadership anywhere in the country. And that's why for almost a year now, I've been
00:06:02.240calling for a special session because it's not good enough to just say the Democrats are bad on
00:06:05.400taxes. Well, property tax bills are going up. Why don't we have a special session? I'm telling you,
00:06:10.600there's nothing that would get our voters more excited of all parties, by the way, not just
00:06:14.020Republicans, to get up and reelect the Republican ticket than to go have a special session to cut
00:06:17.880property tax is 30, 40, 50% right now, something I've been saying for a year we could do. Let's
00:06:23.140deal with the, not just in rhetoric, the growing threat from Sharia. Let's have a special session
00:06:27.880right now. If the Muslim Brotherhood and CARE are terror organizations, as our governor has
00:06:33.180designated, let's legislatively codify that. Let's cut off their funding. If we're going to say H-1Bs0.73
00:06:38.440are a problem, why do we still have our public universities and our state agencies renewing H-1B
00:06:43.640applications i'm not making this up i saw just last week for public relations managers at 70
00:06:48.660to 80 000 a year we couldn't find one texan to do that we should take the opportunity and contrast
00:06:53.980with our actions that it's the republican party in the state of texas that can lead to a more
00:06:59.340brighter more prosperous more free texas as opposed to the radical left-wing progressive agenda
00:07:05.580of the left which is going to guarantee more poverty and more destruction for the next
00:07:10.800generation so yeah people have got to be taking these races in texas if i'm honest a lot more0.80
00:07:14.620seriously than than i think enough of them are is is it a possibility we could have a special
00:07:21.460session because it seems like that's the type of galvanizing event look president trump's coming
00:07:26.800it's going to be a convention or a rally whatever i know that's going to be great but that's going
00:07:31.080to be more great talk rhetoric aren't people looking for actions isn't that what a special
00:07:36.680session would do oh it's absolutely what would want i think nothing would galvanize people to
00:07:44.040go and not we should do things because of the right thing right that's the motivating force
00:07:47.580do it because it's right but in this instance two months after an election let's it would also help
00:07:52.620reinsure or give people a reason to get not just themselves to the polls but to call their aunt
00:07:57.840their neighbor their sister and say come to the polls re-elect the republicans nothing would get
00:08:01.420our voters more excited than if we got to Austin slash property taxes, like right now. Deal with
00:08:08.360the H-1B. Let's pass Texas first employment policy in the state of Texas. Let's combat the threat0.93
00:08:15.420from Sharia. And yeah, we got two functioning Sharia tribunals right in my backyard in the1.00
00:08:20.280Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex that are functioning right now. Why are we tolerating that? Let's go0.79
00:08:24.980fight back against that. And then, you know, on the whole issue, we've talked about property
00:08:30.100taxes, Sharia H-1B. Let's also do a birth tourism. The Supreme Court had their ridiculous, you know,0.97
00:08:35.880birthright citizenship case. Let's make birth tourism a felony. Let's show the voters that1.00
00:08:42.080we can lead. And yes, we can do it. I've been parts of special sessions. They don't even have
00:08:45.780to last a full week. We can pass bills filed, pass it through both chambers, signed into law
00:08:50.140in less than a week if the elected leadership wanted to do it. Oh, and by the way, if we're
00:08:54.860saying James Tallarico is so bad, people are getting mixed messages, especially out of the
00:08:58.680so-called Republican leadership in the Texas House, where we have a supposedly Republican
00:09:02.600speaker who, as we speak, is allowing James Tallarico to continue holding his House leadership
00:09:08.080positions. And yes, the fake Republican leadership in the Texas House put James Tallarico in House
00:09:13.760leadership. And the fact that James Tallarico can go on CBS News or whatever it was, National TV,
00:09:18.260a week or two ago and brag that he's got a legislative record to run on, unfortunately he
00:09:22.420does because of the fake Republican speaker in the Texas House, who apparently has allowed him to pass
00:09:27.14060 bills. Strip James Tallarico of his leadership positions. Fire the Barack Obama
00:09:33.940White House lawyer who's the parliamentarian. Let's lead with actions, boldly. Let's not just
00:09:39.800lead with rhetoric. Let's give people a reason to see that their future is in better hands,
00:09:44.220as I firmly believe it is, with Republicans in charge of Texas and not radical leftist
00:09:49.380progressive Marxist Democrats like James Tallarico. You know, Tom Tiffany, a friend of the
00:09:55.140show went down the to the darien gap and we interviewed him there many times he's running
00:10:00.940in wisconsin he's got a lead right now because of his anti-data center position uh explain to me
00:10:09.460governor abbott's he was at one time the biggest cheerleader in the country for data centers and
00:10:15.860then we reversed course and we don't mind if people do it but it's been kind of confusing
00:10:20.380what happened is he for a moratorium now is that more political because it's become a hot issue
00:10:25.720or has he really become become a convert to that you got to really take your time and think this
00:10:31.280through uh with these tech oligarchs sir well i wish the answer were more satisfying but i have
00:10:39.320to tell people the truth it's actually confusing for a lot of people um for a decade um greg abbott
00:10:43.700was one of if not the biggest cheerleader for data centers uh in the country and in fact just
00:10:47.980Last year, he was at a ribbon cutting in my district just down the road minutes from where I'm talking to you right now.
00:10:53.480And the problem with these things is it's not just we're saying, hey, let the free market work.
00:10:59.120There absolutely is a need for some of these data centers, especially as we have geopolitical adversaries, you know, China and Russia and all these other places.
00:11:07.060I understand that there is some kind of a need for them.
00:11:09.980But the reason we've had the massive explosion of them in Texas isn't because of free market forces.
00:11:15.720It's been because of something that I've been screaming from the rafters for years in Texas to try and end, which is the corporate welfare.
00:11:22.860The state of Texas, the executive branch, has been bribing these massive, rich, international data center companies to move to Texas,
00:11:31.520paying them to relocate with taxpayer dollars through grants administered by the governor's office.
00:11:37.120And then when these big data centers get to Texas, we don't make them pay sales taxes like everybody else.
00:11:41.880We don't make them pay property taxes. And the effect of that has been to increase the property taxes on homeowners who are being taxed out of their homes and small business ma and pa shops that have been servicing their community.
00:11:52.760It has shifted the burden from these rich data centers to the small business owners.
00:11:56.940And so that's the real problem. That's what we need to end.
00:11:59.520And that's what for I think since late last year I've been calling that should be on the special session agenda to stop giving corporate welfare to rich, woke, multinational corporations.
00:12:11.340We should say all corporate data, all corporate welfare in the state of Texas, including to the data centers, the corporate welfare has been the reason we've had these explosions.
00:12:21.060It's not been just a function of free market allocating resources.
00:12:26.300The reason we've had the massive explosion of data centers in Texas is because the Texas government for well over a decade now has been taxing Texans exorbitantly and handing tax dollars, bribing them to relocate here, and then not making them pay property tax and sales tax.
00:12:39.960Let's have a special session right now.
00:12:42.440Let's show the people of Texas that finally we're going to put them first.
00:12:45.060I mean, we just had the governor's office, our secretary of state, open an office, I'm not making this up, in the United Kingdom, in London to bribe foreign companies to come here and foreign workers at taxpayer expense and then give them property tax and sales tax breaks when they get here.
00:12:59.520Voters are seeing that and they're not happy about it.
00:13:01.920So so however we got here, we got here. But let's course correct. Now, let's prove to the voters of Texas that we can earn their continued support.
00:13:10.200Let's have a special session and let's end all corporate welfare, period, but also including for data centers.
00:13:15.280That would do much more to solve the problem than what I hate to see.
00:13:18.980I hate to say we are having a lot of conflicting and confusing messaging coming out on that issue.
00:13:24.440So what you're saying is that there are policy remedies out there.
00:13:27.580If we call special session, you can debate it, all that.
00:13:30.260But there are policy remedies out there for H-1B visas in Texas, you know, hiring Texans.0.96
00:13:36.000There's policy solutions out there for this serial law invasion.0.82
00:13:38.580That one you don't even need a special session for.
00:13:41.700Yeah, on the H-1B thing, I actually believe the governor's got all the authority from—
00:13:53.980did he freeze yeah we'll get back to that in a second um this is the important thing is that
00:14:06.280uh governor abbott you got the h1b visas and what brian is saying that you don't even need uh you
00:14:11.500don't even need a special session on that you could do that through executive power like governor
00:14:16.160de santis has done governor de santis has done in uh in florida you've got the sharia law situation
00:14:22.260particularly putting some teeth not just in proposition 10 which is the prohibiting sharia law
00:14:27.900but more importantly you can put or as importantly right now you can put teeth in the designation
00:14:32.840of care in the muslim brotherhood as terrorist organizations put real teeth into it also this
00:14:40.060situation with the data centers cutting out the corporate welfare for the data centers and actually
00:14:44.920having the moratorium he's got a moratorium right now but in the moratorium let's just do away with
00:14:50.800the corporate uh the corporate welfare and make sure that we don't uh that we don't ruin texas
00:14:56.400particularly the aquifers the water and uh and the power grid uh with more of these uh hyper-scaled
00:15:03.100data centers obviously you need data centers uh in for this modern economy however until we get
00:15:10.800our arms around exactly what these oligarchs want and how they fit into the community there's got to1.00
00:15:15.900be a i think a moratorium and this is what tiffany's calling for a very smartly in wisconsin0.72
00:15:21.480now people sit there and say well hang on hang on you're going to allow the chinese communist party
00:15:26.340to take advantage of it there's no reason at all the chinese communist party should even be
00:15:31.500competitive in artificial intelligence you got the chips which gives them the compute power0.99
00:15:36.800you've got the education what there's 350 400 000 at least i'm talking about going up to 600 000
00:15:43.320chinese national students in our universities you've got chinese nationals in the frontier
00:15:49.260labs themselves and throughout the high-tech industry including in uh in these private
00:15:54.000equity firms you've got the debt financing the lending all of it the five big elements that
00:16:00.300create the ecosystem of artificial intelligence is all provided by the united states yes do they
00:16:06.240have some people that because of our training and education uh are very advanced in artificial
00:16:11.560intelligence there's no doubt about that nobody argues that uh are they do they have are they
00:16:17.200have been very impressive about their chip production they have but almost all of that
00:16:22.080information all that technology all that know-how is stolen from western companies if you drop the0.78
00:16:29.020hammer on the chinese communist party about the ecosystem of artificial intelligence you're going0.91
00:16:33.900to have the uh you're going to be able to say okay we put those guys in a box now we can look
00:16:38.860at what's going on in the united states and this starts with the data centers brian while i've got
00:16:43.800you here's what i want to do i want to play some of the jonathan carl in fact i'll play in its
00:16:47.620entirety i'm gonna jump in for breaks and ask you to make your observations on this but one last
00:16:52.960thing you're saying de santa showed that you don't need legislation you can do this through an
00:16:57.900executive order could that take place in texas also on this on the continual hiring of h1 h1b
00:17:05.140visa applicants, including for PR jobs, which obviously there's plenty of Texans that could
00:17:11.540fill out. Could Governor Abbott actually do that himself right now, just with a stroke of a pen
00:17:16.720like Governor DeSantis did, outlawed in the state of Texas? First, we have handed near total control
00:17:25.240to the regents of all of our public colleges and universities, total operational control. And all
00:17:30.400those regents are all appointed by the governor. So I actually believe it. You know, I think
00:17:35.060If a governor of Texas could have a conference call with every one of his regents and say, hello, regents, congratulations on your appointments.
00:17:41.560If you don't solve this H-1B thing, and by that I mean total moratorium on this, by the end of the week and document to me that you have solved this problem, your appointments are null and void and you're not going to be reappointed.
00:17:51.880I think this problem could be solved within the week and without legislative action.
00:17:56.460You look, Florida did a very similar thing.
00:17:58.160So, yes. And by the way, same thing on birth certificates. I think the governor and his political appointees of the Health and Human Services Commission could just, by executive or administrative action, stop giving birth certificates to illegal aliens in the state of Texas, which is facilitating birth tourism.
00:18:13.940And you talk about doing those two things. I'm telling you, I can think of nothing more that would get our voters excited, especially you throw in a special session for property taxes.
00:18:22.500I think there'd be a conga line to the polls to reelect, you know, the Republican ticket in the state of Texas.
00:18:40.880So how much anger and concern are you hearing out there about data centers?
00:18:45.460So what we've been focused on is responding to concerns that have been raised about data centers
00:18:50.060and making sure that we have created a structure that's going to do more than any state to solve the problem.
00:18:56.880As governor, I have outlined the greatest detail and most comprehensive plan of any governor in the United States of America to respond to the data center challenge.
00:21:09.820Well, there is mass concern about these data centers, and not just that they exist.
00:21:13.780Because, again, I want to lead in tech innovation.
00:21:16.080I want to lead in R&D. I want to lead in AI.
00:21:18.220I want America to lead in everything, to be very clear about this.
00:21:21.080But again, their concern about the exponential growth of this and to say that, well, we're pumping the brakes or that they didn't do a good enough.
00:21:26.740You can't just really shift the burden like that after the fact because the reality is, like I said a minute ago, and I really can't stress this enough, it wasn't like they just showed up out of free market allocating resources.
00:21:40.300They're here because the Texas government has for probably 10 to 15 years now been giving them massive amounts of my constituents hard earned money.
00:21:51.780It's not only are they going up in rural Texas, are they going up in communities and rural areas where people don't want them?
00:21:57.360It's the fact that Texans understand that their property tax dollars have been being given to these very wealthy data centers to subsidize.
00:22:06.080not only they're moving here, but then to shift the burden and they give them property tax breaks
00:22:10.780and sales tax breaks that they don't get. So if we want to actually deal with this and we could
00:22:15.340deal with this right now in a special session, cut off their corporate welfare, cut off the sales
00:22:19.400tax abatements, cut off the property tax abatements, that would get to the heart of the issue and allow
00:22:25.080Texas to still expand, to still lead in these areas, but not have the artificially in high
00:22:30.700numbers of data centers going all over the state of texas that we wouldn't have if it were not for
00:22:36.400the property tax breaks that these wealthy companies are getting that small mom and pa
00:22:40.300shops are not getting let's solve the issue let's not just talk about it let's do something and by
00:22:44.480the way i haven't seen much polling saying that the legislature is likely to pick up a lot of
00:22:48.300republican seats next year so if we believe we've got a majority right now let's use it while we
00:22:52.960know we have it i promise you the democrats would did anything that the governor just said right
00:22:59.680there i mean it's obviously you know about the aquifers about the power about you got to cut
00:23:04.320electricity uh you got to respect the rural areas but he in his moratorium he really hasn't gotten
00:23:11.040to the heart of it which is the texas citizens underwriting this on their own nickel no yeah he
00:23:16.540doesn't get to that there is something in in some of the things he's talking about now regarding
00:23:21.020you know future sales tax abatements but i mean if you want to get to the heart of the issue
00:23:25.920The heart of the issue is something that we have the power to change right now because Republicans – we don't have to wait until November for Republicans to take control of the Texas government.
00:23:35.480Republicans control every single lever of power in the Texas government, and we control it today.
00:23:40.620And we can have a special session today to deal with this.
00:23:43.680And I think it's also confusing because a lot of the biggest data center companies are applauding the changes.
00:23:48.980So it's actually unclear how much of an impact it's going to have to the largest firms out there.
00:23:53.720And, of course, something I'm always cautious of when I look at things like this, especially with the big ones cheering it on, is like, is there some anti-competitive rent-seeking aspect to this?
00:24:04.800But what I do know is that we have the tools to cut this thing off at the source, which is the root cause, in my opinion, to the exponential growth of these going all over the place is the corporate welfare giving property tax and preferential property tax and preferential sales tax treatment to these wealthy companies that don't need it.
00:24:23.720They wouldn't be hearing these numbers without it, and quite frankly, it's unfair to the Texas taxpayer.
00:24:28.020We should solve this, and we should lead with action, not just rhetoric.
00:24:31.640Texans are tired of just being given empty promises and platitude.
00:24:34.860They want bold leadership that they can see having a tangible effect in their lives.
00:24:40.060Okay, let's continue on with Governor Abbott.
00:24:55.880And that is, they pop up in places that nobody ever heard of before until they started the construction.
00:25:04.640And so they had not been working in collaboration with the state.
00:25:07.540They'd not been working in collaboration with local governments.
00:25:10.560And so they basically dug their own grave for the problem that's been caused for them.
00:25:14.800And that's why they got the backlash they deserve.
00:25:16.940And that's why these new standards are in place to make sure they're not going to be able to operate until they come into compliance with the standards that I have set.
00:25:25.100The approvals here in this state happened with astonishing speed.
00:25:29.100I mean, the New York Times recently went through some of this.
00:25:31.840One massive power plant for a meta data center approved in 20 days, another in just three days, another in two days.
00:25:43.840Well, so the way that it works in Texas, they didn't get approvals from the state of Texas.
00:25:48.420They had to get approvals to build those power plants to power their data centers.
00:25:52.380So to actually begin the data center, they don't need to get approval from the state of Texas, which is the way the law currently works.
00:25:59.400One thing that they would need to do eventually is to get approval to plug into the power grid.
00:26:05.480However, in Meta, for example, out in El Paso, they are outside the Texas power grid there.
00:26:11.860And so they weren't required to be a part of getting the approvals from the power grid.
00:26:17.480So there was no public notice. There was no approval.
00:26:20.800And there was at the local level there in El Paso.
00:26:24.380However, because my guidelines and guardrails that I've set up are so clear, the Meta data center in El Paso, which is outside the Texas power grid area,
00:26:34.620they have announced they will be in full compliance with the guardrails and guidelines that I've set out.
00:26:40.600so this is how hang on okay let's let's let's let's let's take a stop we're gonna take a
00:26:45.400commercial break brian harrison's gonna make it make sense because i'm more corn fused than ever
00:26:51.320governor abbott's interview with jonathan carl brian harrison's with a short commercial break
00:26:56.660just 120 seconds we'll be right back in the war room
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00:32:34.440talk about this more in depth okay brian harrison i'm more corn fused than ever that was like a
00:32:41.120stream of consciousness what did the governor say sir help us out i'm not exactly sure steven um
00:32:48.960what i do know is that people are confused uh the texas government including the governor just a
00:32:53.160matter of fact okay as a matter of fact has been um a massive cheerleader for um exponential data
00:32:59.040center expansion in texas and there can be arguments for how much we need data centers
00:33:02.880Again, I want Texas to lead in everything. I want America to lead in everything. That includes data. It includes AI. But the exponential growth has happened because the Texas government has been doing everything it can to not just encourage, not just allow.
00:33:18.840And there was a lot of discussion there about permitting or regulations or approvals. I mean, these projects have been largely, to the best of my knowledge, appropriately permitted and approved.
00:33:30.040But not just that. I think they've been expedited. And we shouldn't pretend that didn't happen because it did happen.
00:33:34.740If we don't recognize the problem, we're not going to come up with the correct solution.
00:33:38.640And again, I think the biggest solution is not just that they were being cheerled, that they were being encouraged.
00:33:43.400And there can be arguments over that, assuming free market forces are allocating resources and allowing normal property purchases and normal tax treatment, normal regulatory treatment.
00:33:53.340but they the texas government has been going out of its way to approve these things to incentivize
00:33:59.480them and then allowing the local governments the school boards and the cities to give sweetheart
00:34:03.500deals on property tax treatment for the data centers that's what's been happening that's
00:34:09.000what's led to the growth and i'm sorry look look texas voters they deserve a lot of things from
00:34:14.140their government right i mean the number one role of government is to protect our freedoms and
00:34:17.500liberties but the least they can expect from our texas officials and leadership is the truth we
00:34:22.820owe them the truth. And the Texas government has been giving sweetheart deals, property tax
00:34:26.640abatements, sales tax abatements to these large wealthy data center companies. That's why we have
00:34:31.820them. We've got to acknowledge that because that opens the door to a solution, which is to end
00:34:36.760corporate welfare for data. And quite frankly, I think Texas should be leading the fight to end
00:34:40.480all corporate welfare. The data centers would certainly be included in that. And that's why
00:34:44.360I've been calling for a special session since late last year to do it. But there's still time.
00:34:47.940Let's do it this month. Let's end all corporate welfare. Let's end the preferential tax treatment0.89
00:34:52.640for data centers. Let's do it this week. Let's do it now.
00:34:56.560Let's go ahead and continue on with the
00:34:58.540interview. Jonathan Karl and the governor
00:36:30.160They said they could never be happier.
00:36:31.700They're so excited about being in Texas.
00:36:34.540They're excited about the growth, the economic growth that we have in our state.
00:36:38.160They're excited about their community.
00:36:39.520And so I kept pressing to see if there was maybe any soft spot whatsoever.
00:36:43.920Maybe this was a self-chosen crowd that they're coming to see you.
00:36:46.900I mean, you see it, there's anxiety, not just in Texas, but all across the country.
00:36:53.340I mean, concerns about prices, concerns about where the economy is going.
00:36:57.580And I'm just asking, I mean, when you see the president out there talking about all the money he wants spent at the White House to make it more beautiful, I mean, do people want that?
00:37:09.560We have to admit, it's a lot of time that he's, just the other day, 40 minutes he was out there showing off his helipad.
00:37:15.760And let's be clear about something else, and that is, listen, with regard to anxiety by voters, there are two components to that.
00:37:23.120One is, I know for a fact, in Texas, voters are very concerned about this expansion of these socialistic ideas by people like Mondami and all the Mondami acolytes.
00:37:34.060And in Texas, the last thing that we want to have happen is to have a Mondami acolyte get elected to office in the state of Texas.
00:37:41.160And yet, that's exactly what's being offered by the Democrats on the statewide ticket.
00:37:45.680The same ideology of Mondami is on the ballot box in the state of Texas.
00:37:51.180But I'm asking you about what Trump is doing.
00:37:53.060Let me just ask you very specifically on the question of keeping prices down,
00:37:57.220which is obviously a central part of the campaign that we saw last time.
00:38:00.180What grade would you give him on keeping prices down?
00:40:33.280And that's because the kinetic battle with regard to Iran appears to be over as long as there's no missiles flying that threaten the Strait of Hormuz and things like that.
00:40:45.180Okay, so I've heard from Republicans, Texas Republicans, who have real concerns about Ken Paxton, the nominee for Senate here for your party.
00:40:55.720They say he's not working hard enough, he's not raising money, he's got too much baggage.
00:41:02.460The Trump derangement syndrome Jonathan Karl came through.
00:41:07.020I thought Governor Abbott did as good a job as you possibly can of actually focusing on what the issues are in Texas, Brian.
00:41:15.180It is wild. Trump derangement syndrome is very much real. I don't recall the members of the mainstream media demanding people go out and grade Biden when he had record inflation or anything.
00:41:25.200So the hypocrisy is always something to behold. But look, one thing I would say to that, and just going to be really blunt, I don't know any other way to do it.
00:41:32.340I don't have much of a filter here. What voters want when it comes to the affordability crisis, and I'll say this directly, the main driver of affordability being a problem in Texas is government.
00:41:42.440government spending, crowding out the private sector, and in particular in Texas, property
00:41:47.380taxes. We've got the highest effective property tax rate in the country, according to one think
00:41:51.600tank. We need to address that head on. And what I think the issue is for voters right now,
00:41:56.620they're in the mode of, show me, don't tell me. And here's the reality. We have every office from
00:42:03.640the governor, lieutenant governor, every statewide, massive majorities in the Texas House, the Texas
00:42:07.320Senate. Let's use it. You know, when Democrat states have a one seat majority in states around
00:42:13.060the country, their entire agenda gets through. We've got a 20 to 30 seat majority in the Texas
00:42:17.420House. Why can't we get our agenda through? Let's show the voters. They don't have to take our word
00:42:22.500for it. Let's show the voters. If the governor's got this five point plan for property taxes or0.80
00:42:26.920this, that and the other thing on health insurance to get rid of some of those mandates. By the way,
00:42:30.000I support that. Let's do it. Let's vote on it this week. Call a special session. Let's pass it. Let's
00:42:35.740show the voters. Voters are starving for bold leadership in the state of Texas where they can
00:42:41.420see, not just be promised that next year we'll get around and talk about something. That's what
00:42:46.180the Democrats are doing. Let's be better than the Democrats. We control all the instrumentations of
00:42:50.860government power. Let's use them in the state of Texas, slash property taxes. Let's make
00:42:55.400everything more affordable because the root cause of unaffordability in the state of Texas,
00:42:59.720I hate to say this, has been government largesse, government spending. But Republicans control all
00:43:05.020that in texas and we could undo it and there's still time to do it before the election let's do
00:43:10.940it let's get people excited lead boldly okay let's go let's go hear what they have to say about ken
00:43:16.860paxton let's play it that's where ken paxton and ken paxton is in his campaign and that is
00:43:22.220uh he he was in a three-month long runoff uh that demanded capital it demanded campaigning
00:43:29.100demanded his attention uh and so he's just now catching up in the campaign process with tala
00:43:34.380Rico. Listen, I've talked to him and we're working with him and he knows clearly the contrast he's
00:43:39.980going to be able to show with Tallarico. Tallarico got away with something. And that is with Kim
00:43:45.060Paxton campaigning, I guess John Cornyn as opposed to Tallarico. And you're going to go after him
00:43:49.480hard. I have no doubt Paxton's going to go after him hard. But I'm asking about Paxton. I mean,
00:43:53.640in that runoff, John Cornyn said he was the kiss of death for Republicans and for the Republican
00:44:00.400ticket in 2026 it would be an albatross on the party. I said if he's the nominee we could well
00:44:05.760experience a massacre and the first Democrat elected statewide. Elections are about choices
00:44:11.920and when voters go to make a choice on November the 3rd the contrast they will see between Ken
00:44:18.720Paxson and James Tallarico is so extraordinary. That choice is going to be easy and they'll be
00:44:24.880voting for Ken Paxson and they'll be voting against James Tallarico. Let me ask you about
00:44:29.520the future of the party. What happens after Trump? Is there an heir apparent? Is it J.D. Vance?
00:44:36.200Well, listen, who knows that there's an heir apparent right now? What I can tell you is this,
00:44:40.740and that is the Republican bench is far stronger than the Democrat bench. And it's going to be a
00:44:46.280massive contrast for the next presidential election where we have all of the DSA candidates,
00:44:50.880the Democrat Socialists of America, who are lining up to try to take over the next helm of
00:44:55.920the future of the democrat party and they are trying to take america down a direction that
00:45:00.240americans will solidly reject versus a a great lineup of potential republican so so you don't
00:45:06.880you don't think vance is the presumptive i don't think anybody anybody should be categorized yeah
00:45:12.480as the presumptive nominee what what i can tell you is jd would be a great candidate rubio would
00:45:18.080be a great candidate there are many governors who would be great candidates listen i'm focused
00:45:23.360singularly on one thing and that is winning my election here representing the state of texas
00:45:28.800i was you know i was no no listen i was born in texas i was raised in texas my daily job is to
00:45:35.600fight for texas it means something to be a texan and my goal is to make sure we live up to that
00:45:42.640standard and keep texas texas you're running for an unprecedented fourth term you're not gonna run
00:45:46.800for a fifth are you if you win this time but you know as trump says this is i may run for a fifth
00:45:52.320term, or sixth term, seventh term. Who knows? You don't have term limits. He does.
00:45:57.920Bottom line is it. Let me have it. Brian, we've got limited time. Governor Abbott there on
00:46:04.020General Paxton and also the future of the Republican Party, particularly in Texas, sir.
00:46:09.720Well, let me be really clear about this. The primaries are over, and every Republican in
00:46:15.480the state of texas and yes john cornyn talking about you every republican needs to endorse
00:46:23.460publicly ken paxton and do everything they can to get ken paxton elected as the next united
00:46:28.240states senator for the state of texas uh however you felt before march doesn't matter anymore it
00:46:33.300is a binary choice you've got a party who is the one party the democrat party has put up the most
00:46:38.020radical liberal extremist progressive marxist sympathizer to ever run for office in the state
00:46:44.680of texas in james tallarico so you have a choice between the party of more tyranny okay and more
00:46:50.760poverty and more regulation and less freedom or you've got ken paxton representing the republican
00:46:56.760vision for the future of our state and our nation that is more freedom that is lower taxes
00:47:02.520lower regulations and more affordability that is the choice period full stop and every republican
00:47:09.300in the state of texas needs to do everything they can to make sure that ken paxton is the next one
00:47:13.600And by the way, that includes the Speaker of the Texas House.
00:47:16.400Strip James Tallarico of the House leadership positions that he never should have been appointed to in the first place.
00:47:29.920I think the one way, because people forget just six years ago, six to eight years ago, I mean, Beta O'Rourke, Ted Cruz, thank God, beat him.
00:47:37.620It's not like Democrats have never gotten close before.
00:47:40.000And I warn people as I travel across the state of Texas, the one way that Democrats could actually succeed in flipping Texas blue is if Republican voters believe that Democrats could never succeed in that.
00:47:54.800Every day is a sprint between now and November, and every Republican has got to do everything they can to make sure that James Tallarico has never got the word senator in front of his name.
00:48:03.580uh brian your twitter feed is the most hated in the state capital of austin uh can you give it
00:48:10.600to people because i think i think people want to hear a lot more of this where do folks go sir
00:48:14.220yeah absolutely uh the most hated twitter feed in the texas capital um at brian e harrison on x
00:48:21.220at brian e harrison on x at brian e harrison on x please go like follow share and i'll echo the
00:48:27.820governor let me tell you what i also was born in the state of texas i am a native texan i love this
00:48:32.080state and what people are starving for is for texas to have the boldest most fearless pro-liberty
00:48:37.680government in the united states of america let's show the voters were capable of that kind of
00:48:41.980leadership let's not just tell them let's get to action brian harrison thank you for spending the
00:48:47.900hour with us sir appreciate you always great to be with you and great uh grateful for the posse
00:48:52.260god bless y'all thank you sir uh brian's right the only thing can beat us is beating ourselves
00:48:59.460particularly down to texas with apathy or thinking they can't do it these democrats are fired up and
00:49:05.100they're throwing money at it all of it so arizona nevada texas georgia pennsylvania michigan wisconsin
00:49:13.660still in play north carolina all of it's in play uh and we're gonna do as much as we possibly can
00:49:19.800to make sure there's no apathy in backing the mega leadership uh and uh and the grassroots
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