00:00:42.660The problem with Washington politicians is they have no skin in the game.
00:00:49.740Well, I'm not a self-serving politician.
00:00:52.100My whole life has been about service, family, and community.
00:00:55.840After 9-11, I served as a Navy SEAL in the Middle East.
00:00:59.180Now I'm ready to secure our border, stand up for law enforcement, and protect the integrity of our elections.
00:01:05.400It's time for we, the people, to take our country back.
00:01:09.480I'm Eli Crane, and I approve this message.
00:01:14.320Okay, welcome. It's War Room Battleground, Monday, 17 October, in the year of our Lord, 2022.
00:01:20.400We are three weeks and one day away from the most important midterm election since 1862.
00:01:26.220And since that midterm election really pivoted around in the hinge was the Battle of Antietam that took place in September before the election.
00:01:36.220We thought it was very important to make sure we're always talking to our veterans about particularly the veterans at the tip of the spearhead.
00:01:42.540We got three of the best Eli Crane from Arizona, Joe Kent from Washington.
00:01:46.320And then we go to Florida to Anna Paulina Luna, New York Times, huge story on the Sunday Times right hand column.
00:01:53.060so you know it's important the paper of record of our country and our first guest they start with
00:01:57.540eli crane 42 running in a republican leaning house district in arizona saw five wartime deployments
00:02:03.680with seal team three over 13 let me turn to page 26 by the way massive story something like 5 000
00:02:10.280pages long or 5 000 words long uh and as a sniper machine gun turret operator and running killer
00:02:17.920capture missions with the delta forcing against high value targets some in fallujah mr crane
00:02:23.500presses the false case that the 2020 election was stolen of course all of this is about being
00:02:30.280election deniers or part of you know j6 insurrection it's all nonsense and that's
00:02:35.440we got three of the best crane luna in kent i want to start with you eli out in arizona first
00:02:41.820First off, they're kind of shocked when they talk to the young MAGA warriors, when you guys express skepticism and kind of the neoliberal neocon order that has people going on battlefields all over the world, giving up their lives, serving their country.
00:02:58.860But the incredible just waste of money that has been and they're kind of shocked when you guys push back, whether this is Ukraine or just ever increasing defense budgets, given that all three of you served your country when you were young and in the highest method possible.
00:03:16.200Eli Crane, what do you got to say about that?
00:03:19.360Well, Steve, it's an honor to be here.
00:03:21.820You know, anytime you're doing a piece with The New York Times, you never know how it's going to turn out.
00:03:26.320I do feel for the most part that, you know, shockingly, they seem to cover us pretty fairly in that one.
00:03:32.800But, yeah, it was interesting, you know, to be, you know, it's interesting when they ask you questions and push you on, you know, the election.
00:03:40.300You know, they're kind of surprised to hear that you don't back down, you know, from the positions that you've had, you know, the entire time.
00:03:46.620And then when it comes to they're also surprised that veterans, you know, don't support all of this massive spending, you know, with with our military all the time and also, you know, sending, you know, billions of dollars around the world to Ukraine to a place that most Americans can't even point to on a map that we all know is extremely corrupt.
00:04:07.060And that's the thing with this America First movement, Steve. I know that you've been one of the architects of it. I'm grateful for guys like you, President Trump, that came in and just made all of us, forced every single one of us to ask serious questions.
00:04:21.600Is this the best thing for Americans? Is this the best thing for America? How much is this going to cost? Who's going to pay for it? And it's so common sense, Steve, but it's like that's the direction we have to go or we're going to lose this damn country.
00:04:36.020And I know that there's so many of us that wore those uniforms that lost friends overseas and recognize how much has been paid and sacrificed so that we can be here today.
00:04:46.000But we realize that the country cannot continue to withstand this amount of corruption, this amount of debt, and we have to start putting America first.
00:04:55.380And so I think they are surprised that, you know, we've got a new crop of candidates who aren't, you know, we're not singing off the same old sheet of, you know, Republican music.
00:05:06.020your district first off arizona is one of the most uh beautiful states uh in the country and
00:05:15.020one of the most beautiful places in the world it was the last of the states that really organized
00:05:19.640from our territory made a state uh in the lower 48 your district is one of the most stunning
00:05:26.600districts in this country it's huge it's bigger than many many many states when you go throughout
00:05:32.760your district, which is principally rural. It's got some towns and cities in it, but principally
00:05:36.980rural. When you go throughout your district and talk to folks and they hear about America First
00:05:42.960and the logic that you put forward as a combat veteran, what is their response?
00:05:48.660Steve, they're all about it out here. I mean, last night, for instance, we were up in Yavapai
00:05:53.820County. We were in Prescott. We had Jim Jordan out. We had Congressman Paul Gosar out. We had a
00:06:01.300packed room, I think it was about 550 people showed up. They love this country, Steve. They
00:06:07.840love hearing that there are candidates who don't shy away from their faith, don't shy away from
00:06:13.720talking about how we need to turn back to God as a country. They love hearing that we have
00:06:20.960candidates that actually are America first, who want to secure the border, who want energy
00:06:26.780independents who want fiscal responsibility on Capitol Hill, want our politicians to quit
00:06:33.440printing and spending money that we don't have. They're common sense, hardworking American,
00:06:39.000Steve. And the thing about Arizona is they come from all over the place. We've got a bunch of
00:06:43.420people leaving California that come here. We've got people that just want to be a part of warmer
00:06:48.360weather. Some of the beautiful regions you talked about, we've got Sedona here, where, as you know,
00:06:53.160a lot of the Westerns in our country's movie history were filmed here just because it's so
00:07:00.500beautiful. We've got Flagstaff. We've got the Grand Canyon. It's a big, beautiful district,
00:07:06.380Steve. But at the end of the day, these people are just Americans. They want to put America first.
00:07:11.500They want to go back to the same ingredients that made this country great in the first place.
00:07:17.440And that's why they're willing to look outside, think outside the box when it comes to candidates.
00:07:22.080They don't want the same, you know, the same Mark one motto, Republican wearing the, you know, the blue suit, you know, the American flag, you know, pin on his, you know, collar regurgitating the same old Republican talking points that have got us here in the first place.
00:07:39.440No, they'd like to have a guy that was on a machine gun turret and went into Fallujah and can speak the truth.
00:07:45.480We're going to go to Anna Luna in a second, Napoleon Luna second, then Joe Kemp.
00:07:48.660but i want to there's been a bunch of press nationally by the way you're 100 correct everybody
00:07:53.240i posted this new york times story when it came out given it was the new york times it was incredibly
00:07:58.680incredibly even-handed about about the veterans although they do refer to you guys as some white
00:08:04.480nationalists insurrectionists but hey it's the new york times when you're the guy you run against
00:08:11.140put out a call for help nationally about 10 days ago to say hey you know i've paid my dues to the
00:08:19.320dncc i i've got this district i'm an incumbent i can win here this young guy is all over me but
00:08:26.460you got to give me some money or he's going to win uh what was that that was a cry for help
00:08:31.400from your opponent where do we stand right now and by the way he wasn't shy about putting up on
00:08:36.000twitter and talking to people about it saying hey i need help i need help immediately or eli crane's
00:08:41.120going to be a congressman. Where does it stand right now, sir? Steve, I think we're in a great
00:08:46.540spot, brother. We have the demographic advantage out here. This is ranked at a Republican plus
00:08:53.6207.5 district. If our people, Steve, show up and actually vote the party line, and that's what
00:09:01.320everybody in this district needs to do, I can't imagine a time and place where it was more
00:09:07.640prevalent that we show up and vote Republicans straight down the ballot. But if our people show
00:09:14.160up and do that, Tom O'Halloran is going to be retired. He knows it. This guy's been a politician
00:09:21.400for 20 years. He supported the Inflation Reduction Act when he was asked Steve why he supported 87,000
00:09:28.400new IRS agents. You know what he said? He said, because we need more revenue streams. That is not
00:09:33.720what the people of this district believe. They do not think that the government needs more revenue
00:09:38.060streams, Steve. If anything, they know that this government needs fiscal responsibility and to pull
00:09:43.200its head out because this is an America last administration and Tom O'Halloran has supported
00:09:49.500it 100%. So if we get the support we need, Steve, Tom O'Halloran is going to get retired and it's
00:09:55.500going to send one more message across Arizona and across this country that the old ways of doing
00:10:01.400business have got to be over and done. Eli, where do people go to find out more about you,
00:10:09.220more about this campaign? We've got the New York Times story up on Getter right now. Where do people
00:10:14.420go to find out more about you and your campaign? Thank you, Steve. EliForArizona.com. And I'm
00:10:21.400really easy to find on social media as well. Eli Crane, CEO. Eli for Arizona as well. So
00:10:28.620Those are my coordinates. Thank you, Steve, for all that you do, brother. We're praying for you. We've got your back, brother.
00:10:36.080Thank you, man. Same, same. You like praying out in Arizona, too. Let's go. Do we have Anna Polina's ad? Let's play the ad and we're going to bring in the great Anna Polina Leno.
00:10:45.020After decades in Washington, career insider Eric Lynn wants to go back. Lynn supports Biden's reckless spending that's causing higher inflation.
00:10:55.220Eric Lynn, after decades in Washington, it's time for him to go.
00:11:00.460Ana Paulina Luna will stop the radical spending.
00:11:04.280I think these spending bills are destructive.
00:11:06.360If we continue down the path that we're going, there will be no more middle class.
00:11:39.060Yeah, actually, I think you saw the polling from last time.
00:11:42.140I was running in a D2 and they said I was going to lose by 17 points.
00:11:46.000I was outspent three to one and I lost by five.
00:11:49.320So with redistricting, I think he'd rather lose against DeSantis than me.
00:11:52.780he's not going to win either. No, I just want to go on the record. He'd rather take on Ron De
00:11:57.620Santos in a statewide race than take on Anna Polina in his own district. Anna Polina Luna,
00:12:02.200that says something. Talk to me about how your service, particularly as a woman, tell me about
00:12:07.520how your service to your country informs not just your campaign, but what you see yourself
00:12:14.340as a sitting congressman. You know, I think it provides a different level of perspective.
00:12:21.440It really says something that after World War II, a majority of Congress was actually service members, both men and women.
00:12:28.600And now I think it's less than five percent.
00:12:31.740You know, when you're looking at bills, for example, we'll take the PAC Act, for example, and you see that the Democrats will say, well, if you don't vote for this bill, you're anti-vet.
00:12:40.320And then you look at the billions of dollars in spending, for example, in the PAC Act, over 400 billion did not go to veterans.
00:12:45.600And yet they used veterans to get that whole pork spending bill through.
00:12:49.400I think it really provides a level of perspective. Obviously, you have skin in the game, but then also, too, you're not going to be for the war machine. Like many of these establishment, both Democrat and Republicans are. And I think that with what we're seeing now, especially with Russia, you see that there's a machine that exists in Washington that's thirsty. They're thirsty for more spending, for more war, and we don't want that. So it's a different perspective that I think more representatives should have.
00:13:15.780that's that's one of the things of of you veterans this young generation it's it's you're intensely
00:13:22.800patriotic in fact you really came to volunteer for the military in one of the toughest times
00:13:28.600to volunteer for the military you see how tough it is today when when people talk to you about
00:13:33.460these spending bills they talk about sending troops all over the the the the world and they
00:13:38.620talk about you know the types of money we're shoveling into ukraine but also in other places
00:13:42.820what are the constituents in florida 13 what because this is a super patriotic tons of veterans
00:13:48.220tons of retirees i don't know if there's a state more patriotic than florida what are the people
00:13:55.520in the district what's the feedback you're getting from them i think right now people are really
00:14:00.780really impacted by the economy and when they're sending literally millions and millions and
00:14:05.920millions of dollars overseas to places like ukraine and then you it came out recently that
00:14:10.860the U.S. Air Force had to cut some of these special duty pay for our service members because
00:14:15.500they miscalculated the budget while we're essentially funding literally the bureaucrats
00:14:20.080in Ukraine. I think that that really puts it in perspective. You know, people are hard hit with
00:14:24.100the economy right now. You can look at everything from airline fees to gas to the price of eggs.
00:14:29.220It's all gone up. And, you know, while Democrats are trying to push Republicans to talk on social
00:14:34.880issues that we really have nothing to do with at the congressional level, I think that they're
00:14:39.580missing how the american people are actually impacted you know here in my district it is one
00:14:45.280of the biggest veteran districts in the entire country and i recently had my opponent that said
00:14:50.280that i was anti-vet because of the fact that i want to hold congress accountable for the spending
00:14:55.300that they are using veterans for and so i think that bringing that approach to dc is definitely
00:15:00.880gonna you know put some heat at my back but i don't really care i'm frankly sick and tired of
00:15:05.460these people that have no skin in the game, have never served their countries, using us as political
00:15:10.480talking points. Let's talk about that for a second. Tell me where the race is, because your opponent
00:15:15.960is pulling out every trick in the book. Walk me through where this race stands today and how it's
00:15:20.660going to develop, how you see it developing over the next three weeks. So we are at a statistical
00:15:26.640tie, but what we're finding is Republicans across the country are actually not taking polls. So to
00:15:32.220put it in perspective, I was also at a statistical tie in my primary, and I won by 11 points. And
00:15:38.340that's because there are people that are genuinely afraid of the weaponization of the FBI and the DOJ
00:15:43.660people are frankly uncomfortable right now to voice their political opinions. Now, it does go
00:15:49.720to show that they know that I'm going to win because of the fact that you are literally seeing
00:15:53.820outside spending, they just dropped $4.8 million in attack ads into my race, in addition to my
00:15:59.900opponent having $2 million. So this is effectively one of the most expensive races in the state of
00:16:04.920Florida. I'm not just stopping there, though. They are literally silencing everything about
00:16:09.340our race with local politics. The Tampa Bay Times isn't talking about us. Neither is Florida
00:16:13.860politics. We are outside every single day knocking doors and pounding that pavement. And as you know,
00:16:19.320Steve, that is how you win elections. So I'm seeing the forward momentum. I feel it. I feel
00:16:24.040that we are going to be winning. But I can also tell you that the leftist media doesn't quite know
00:16:28.900how to interact with me yet. I had the Washington Post and the New York Times misquote a lot of
00:16:33.800stuff that I said. Obviously, it's to be expected. They're left-leaning outlets, but we're bringing
00:16:38.100the heat. And I think that this incoming class, especially those candidates that were endorsed
00:16:42.200and vetted by President Trump, we're going to be bringing some change to Washington, D.C.,
00:16:47.140that's for sure. I just want our nationwide audience to understand. I want to go back just
00:16:52.400for a minute. We're pressed for time, but I want to go back. The outside groups are putting how
00:16:56.280much money on you? $4.8 million is what they just dropped a negative attack at. So I'm effectively
00:17:03.560up against $6 million plus. And that is not including what they spent against me in the
00:17:09.620primary election, of which I also think there were Democrat operatives that were actually
00:17:13.240spending on behalf of the Republicans that were running against me. So if you are a true America
00:17:18.380first candidate, if you are anti-globalist, they are going to try to spend what it takes. And as
00:17:22.620you know steve that's quite a hefty spend especially for a house seat that's an r7 and so
00:17:28.900we anticipate this is this is one of the historical real quickly what is it about
00:17:35.860anna paulina luna that national democrats at the national level would spend 4.8 million dollars
00:17:42.240in a tv market in florida what what what is it that you do that triggers them what do they fear
00:17:48.980I am. I am capable of targeting the largest voting minority in the country. I worked in national grassroots outreach and I'm effective at it. So I am effectively going to help shift politics into culture to target the Hispanic voting bloc. And I think that they know that and they are afraid of it. And I'm an anti-globalist. I'm a populist. I'm for the people and they don't want that.
00:18:10.100anna polina luna how do people find out more about you and specifically this campaign this
00:18:16.500is one i'm telling you this is one of the most important campaigns in the nation how do they
00:18:20.500how does our entire posse find out more about you you can head over to vote apl.com that's vote
00:18:27.680alpha papa lima.com and if you guys can please consider donating 10 20 bucks it all goes to the
00:18:32.900campaign i'm not ilhan omar i'm not paying my husband but we do ask that you go and donate and
00:18:38.640And if you want to volunteer, you can head to at Real Anna Paulina.
00:18:43.760Captain Bannon can assure you it's quite a Spartan operation with Anna Paulina Luna.
00:18:50.540Everything, a close run thing, as we say in the military.
00:19:04.240Before we do the cold open, Joe, they had to come back for another bite at the apple.
00:19:08.440they couldn't help themselves after having a huge spread after having a huge spread a huge spread
00:19:14.740already with you and your opponent they had to come back and say how do we get another vertical
00:19:18.760oh yeah joe kent's a combat veteran let's do that let's play i want to play uh is it mont
00:19:23.700sure let's go ahead and play mont shearer from uh from ghetto he did a combination a combination
00:19:28.720on your uh debate let's play it i'm marie glusen camp perez i run an auto repair and a machine
00:19:33.840shop with my husband i work in the trades and i fix things for a living you can vote for me
00:19:38.260a small business owner or you can vote for joe kent an extreme politician judge for yourself how
00:19:42.980extreme joe kent is he supports a national ban on abortion with no exceptions he wants to defund
00:19:48.260the fbi he wants to abolish mail-in voting and that's the last thing we can afford you know a
00:19:53.540green job is not just somebody running a recycling plant it is a electrician wiring in a heat pump
00:19:58.980and i think that it's important that we have a middle of the road but understanding but i i do
00:20:04.180think it's the right to federally decriminalize simple possession of marijuana. Joe Kent's plan
00:20:09.300to end all legal immigration for 20 years is morally bankrupt and an economic sabotage.
00:20:16.020Our democracy is under threat. You know, we have candidates running up and down the ballot who
00:20:21.060deny our elections unless they like the outcome of it. My opponent supports abolishing mail-in
00:20:26.180voting. Paper ballots are the gold standard in election security. You know, Joe Kent was one of
00:20:31.700of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state of Washington claiming that our elections were
00:20:35.540stolen. It's a charade for gaining followers and points on the internet. These violent rioting
00:20:42.620mobs who attacked our Capitol on January 6th, he calls them political prisoners. I've been
00:20:47.320endorsed by so many. My proudest endorsements are from Republicans. If Ukraine falls, we are in
00:20:54.860danger. If the Ukrainians lose, they die. So, you know, if Canada invaded America, what part of
00:21:03.180Washington state would you all be willing to give up to appease our aggressors? He says that Biden's
00:21:08.240trying to kill off oil and gas. Biden actually issued more permits for oil and gas drilling in
00:21:13.3402021 than Trump did. I'd like to remind the audience. If you cannot be quiet, you'll be
00:21:21.060asked to leave. I want to fix things. Joe Kent wants to break things. Joe Kent is an extreme politician.
00:21:29.360Yeah, hi. I'm Joe Kent. Had the honor of serving this country for a little over 20 years. Did 11
00:21:33.480combat deployments and special operations in the intelligence community. It was the greatest honor
00:21:36.900of my life. I intended to continue to serve in that capacity until my late wife, who was also
00:21:41.040in the military, was tragically killed fighting ISIS in Syria. Her death is a direct result of
00:21:45.680the failings of policy of our corrupt ruling class. The thing is, she is just more of the
00:21:50.340same old Democrat. Look at her policies with inflation, not addressing the energy crisis,
00:21:54.420not addressing the spending, bragging about signing on to omnibus spending packages.
00:21:58.120Look at the crime. She didn't address crime one time. She is endorsing open borders,
00:22:02.080no border wall. She's endorsed by Democrats. They're letting child killers out of prison
00:22:05.760here in the district. She supports the radical mutilation of children and the chemical castration
00:22:11.320of children known as gender affirming care. She not only endorses it, she wants your taxpayer
00:22:15.360dollars to go to fund it. I'm going to Washington, D.C. to provide a strong check against Nancy
00:22:20.740Pelosi, against Joe Biden and against one party rule. I served this country for 20 years. I'd
00:22:25.120be honored to serve you for two more as your representative. Thank you very much.
00:22:31.420OK, welcome back. That is so powerful because we've had obviously the war room tea, Grace Chong.
00:22:39.100We refer to her, our Grace's queen of the trolls and Captain Bannon. They've been following these
00:22:43.420debates and they've been you know posting live and the debates because i said a certain amount
00:22:48.400of time but when you compress it like that joe um she's just not ready for prime time it's kind
00:22:55.360of the junior varsity it's a junior varsity varsity scrimmage and i say that as somebody
00:22:59.760that actually wanted your opponent on the policy side to really be able to have a discussion between
00:23:04.760a center-right populist nationalists and center-left populist nationalists we're not getting
00:23:10.020it she's just not up to the task uh walk me through where this race stands right now particularly
00:23:15.660these debates where i just think you have shined because you just know the facts you know the
00:23:20.860details thank you steve yeah so we have one more debate scheduled the debates are not going well
00:23:26.060for her at all she had less note cards this time but still couldn't make it through without
00:23:29.860referencing the statements made for her by her consultant and the thing is you heard the the
00:23:34.980attack lines that she used there. It's all the same talking points from MSNBC and CNN. When it
00:23:40.920gets down to actually discussing the policy, when she gets put on the spot by a very friendly panel
00:23:46.120of local journalists, actually, they're friendly to her. They asked her just about inflation,
00:23:50.600about our energy crisis. And all she could do was stumble around this answer that Biden's doing.
00:23:55.800Actually, Biden's actually trying to help. He's issued more permits. And you heard the audience
00:23:59.420like come out, almost come out of their seats when he said that, because you can't fool the
00:24:03.760people in the district. They understand what Biden did to our energy independence, that he
00:24:08.100absolutely killed it off. They understand what he's doing to the economy. She tried to attack
00:24:12.160me for saying that I would stop signing off onto these omnibus spending packages, really just
00:24:16.580basically saying that, hey, if I get to Washington, D.C., I'm going to vote exactly how Nancy Pelosi
00:24:21.020and the corporate lobbyists tell me to. So when it boils down to it, she actually gets pressed on
00:24:25.500real policy issues. She has nothing to say except for these petty attacks.
00:24:30.480the thing that was most impressive of what this guy man sure did and and you saw it in there but
00:24:37.440you when she made this statement that was so over the top and outrageous the audience of
00:24:42.620citizens started laughing and the moderator to come in and say hey there'll be no more
00:24:46.140there'll be no more laughing is that what happened that's exactly what happened steve because i had
00:24:51.620been hammering everything with inflation starts with what biden did the energy sector and everyone
00:24:56.740knows that. People fill up their gas tanks every day. You don't need to have a PhD in economics
00:25:01.180to understand that very basic concept. When she got put on the spot, she said, well, actually,
00:25:05.580it's not what Joe Kent just said. It's really that Biden's issuing more permits. She was getting
00:25:11.040ready to say corporate greed, this whole myth that the oil companies are making money and all this
00:25:15.860nonsense. But she couldn't even finish the sentence because the audience, there were some
00:25:19.880laughters, but there was also a lot of boos because that's just insulting to the people in
00:25:24.460the district. It's insulting that she has to read it off her little note cards, but it's also
00:25:28.700insulting that she thinks people are dumb enough to believe that nonsense. Talk to us. Give us a
00:25:35.700minute. I want to hold you through the break. Give us a minute on this New York Times piece
00:25:38.560that kind of in shock that combat veterans who have really been at the cutting edge can sit
00:25:43.720there and go, hey, I think we need to really rethink the Ukraine situation. I'm sure these
00:25:47.120defense budgets are justifiable. They're in shock about this. Talk to me about the New York Times.
00:25:52.100It was a good and fair article that you and Eli pointed out. I mean, look, they profile two Green Berets and two Navy SEALs really heavily in there, myself and General Don Bulldog serving at different levels of the Green Berets, and then Eli and Derek as Navy SEALs.
00:26:09.100And they're in shock that we are questioning the ruling class, that we're questioning, hey, do we need to be going into this new conflict in Ukraine? Should we be taking a broader strategic view to this and really putting our country first?
00:26:22.100And it's crazy to me that these people are shocked because really they're just used to veterans showing up and quite frankly saying exactly what the D.C. war machine wants them to say, like, rah, rah, it's patriotic if you want to go to war all the time.
00:26:33.900But we're saying, hey, our experience over the last 20 years is that our ruling class, our betters, our adults in the room, they got it wrong.
00:26:41.160They got it wrong and our friends died.
00:26:42.900They got it wrong and America didn't benefit nine trillion in the war on terror.
00:26:46.920And you think we're not going to come and demand some accountability for that?
00:26:50.000So I really just think that the legacy media can't wrap their head around the fact that we aren't programmed robots.
00:26:56.080I tell you what, Joe, just hang on one second.
00:33:53.200We are the only chance at saving this republic. Every single Democrat right now is in lockstep with Joe Biden and with Nancy Pelosi, and they are hellbent on destroying our country. So look forward to having everybody on our team, JoeKentForCongress.com.
00:34:05.560warrant kent thank you very much honor to have you on here okay we've got one most important
00:34:11.920cultural thank you brother one of the most important cultural uh events we had the book
00:34:18.320remember with robert kennedy jr we did an incredible two hours with him what was this
00:34:23.140god it's got to be back in 2021 the book the real anthony fauci sold significantly i think a main
00:34:29.700and a half copies a blockbuster hit and let's say this it's not the most easily accessible book
00:34:35.480I've ever read in my life, but man, once you open it up, you cannot put it down. This block versus
00:34:40.240book has now been turned into a blockbuster film. Let's go ahead and play the trailer. I'm going to
00:34:45.680bring the filmmaker in, Jeff Hayes, and then we're going to also bring Tony Lyons, the great
00:34:49.940publisher over at Skyhost. Let's play the clip. This book is a product of my own struggle to
00:34:58.580understand how the idealistic institutions our country built to safeguard both public health
00:35:04.740and democracy suddenly turned against our citizens and our values with such violence.
00:35:13.260I am a lifelong Democrat whose family has had 80 years of deep engagement with America's
00:35:19.340public health bureaucracy and long friendships with key federal regulators, including Anthony
00:35:25.660Fauci, Francis Collins, and Robert Gallo.
00:35:29.520Members of my family wrote many of the statutes under which these men governed.
00:35:37.340They nurtured the growth of equitable and effective public health policies
00:35:41.880and defended that regulatory bulwark against ferocious attacks funded by industry.
00:35:48.480I built my own alliances with these individuals and their agencies
00:35:52.500during my years of environmental and public health advocacy.
00:40:54.160When he first showed up, I just was kind of oblivious to his whole world
00:40:59.700during the AIDS crisis and starting in 1984.
00:41:03.620so for me Fauci was this avuncular grandfatherly guy who showed up at Trump's side and seemed to
00:41:12.140be very rational and and I liked him every time I saw him and then I started hearing inconsistencies
00:41:19.640but once I read Bobby's book I realized the impact that this man has had you know the hundreds of
00:41:28.560thousands of lives that I believe are lost directly related to the decisions that he's
00:41:33.640made and the money that he got control of and that he controls.
00:41:37.360So we took the book and really plotted a storyline through the whole book.
00:41:42.840And it was actually easier than most films I make because the research was already done
00:41:48.180and the people were already in the book as the sources.
00:41:51.660And so we were able to go out and interview the people in the book and stay pretty much
00:41:56.340within the confines of the book and and bring that story to life then i gotta tell you you know
00:42:02.300our editors do most of the work after the writers and you know are finished and then we wait for
00:42:09.000them to show it to us and i i watched the first half of this um six weeks ago and i've like i was
00:42:16.980thrilled as a viewer uh it's in there i want to bring in tony lyons now to join jeff tony um
00:42:26.340Tell me about Skyhorse and all the times you've been published, because you've published a couple of three controversial books on the scale of what Skyhorse considers controversial.
00:42:37.060How controversial is the real Anthony Fauci?
00:42:39.820So I don't think that it should be controversial, but I think that viewers have to realize that the most corrupt, the greediest people in this country have taken over the government.
00:42:50.780they're trying to control your ability to see what's going on and this has to be stopped people
00:42:57.760have to watch this movie and understand how this country is run what uh you had a vision for this
00:43:07.340when we first talked about the book and bobby you had a vision for this uh becoming a film how did
00:43:12.380you guys how'd you get jeff and how'd you get it done so quickly because it's bringing a filmmaker
00:43:16.660or myself, given the complexity of the topic, it's kind of stunning to me that you guys are
00:43:21.900finished already at the quality level of the film I've seen, which is absolutely brilliant.
00:43:26.060How did you envision this and how'd you get it going so quickly?
00:43:30.120Well, so, you know, we were desperate to get this movie made because we felt that,
00:43:35.220you know, it's a it's a big, complicated book. And, you know, I think that there are
00:43:41.900tens of millions of people in this country who want to hear this story. Some of them were
00:43:47.200prevented from doing it because there was a censorship campaign that was waged against
00:43:53.220this book that's unprecedented in U.S. history, that on every level it was censored. But even
00:44:00.460people who wanted to read it, in some cases, just couldn't do it. It was just too big a mountain to
00:44:07.180And this is a long, complicated, incredibly exciting, but also shocking book. But I think that, you know, this is the most important movie of the year and we wanted it to come out quickly while it was still so relevant to decisions people make and to politics in this country.
00:44:28.480So we, you know, had a couple of different people who wanted to make it and we heard a presentation from Jeff and he just seemed like the perfect person who was going to get it done, work day and night.
00:44:42.400Jeff, back to you, you know, the Toronto Film Festival, it's a market, but it's also one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world.
00:44:50.160Sundance, clearly for American independent film, the most prestigious.
00:44:53.760I noticed that we're not premiering this in a film festival.
00:50:26.240Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, it's three weeks to the day for the biggest, most important midterm election since 1862.
00:50:34.420We're going to have a couple of special guests on to walk you through the importance of it and where we stand right now in this battle for the United States of America.