WarRoom Battleground EP 383： Impeachment Recap And The Next Steps
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Summary
As the sun begins to set in on sunday, the government is rapidly approaching the midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown, and there's a growing sense of panic in Washington, D.C. as to whether or not the government will be forced to shut down at midnight.
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this is what you're fighting for i mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
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people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the
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authoritarians get total control and total power because this is just like in arizona this is just
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like in georgia it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and
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misrepresentations is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is
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the fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's
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your host stephen k bannon two hours or so before the government shuts down is there anything else
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happening that we're not currently watching on television no not really there's a couple things
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that are worth noting katie number one the senate is trying its best to cobble together a border
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security package to ride alongside their short-term stopgap bill now uh why are they doing that they're
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doing that because house republicans say they need border security in a stopgap measure uh they this is
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going to be a herculean task katie absolutely herculean to find something that could pass the
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senate and that could pass the house because we're not only talking about border money we're talking
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about reworking border policy that's very difficult uh to do in such a short period of time so that's
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what's happening right now in the senate the house is voting on four spending bills tonight all of all
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of them might go down they might not be able to pass any of these bills and then speaker kevin mccarthy
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will move to pass his own short-term bill tomorrow night or tomorrow rather that bill might not pass on
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its own so we are in uh an incredibly perilous position just ahead of a government shutdown which
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by the way starts saturday night at midnight so this is not far off this is incredibly close and uh
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i don't see at this point listen it's a fast-moving story anything could change i don't see at this point
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any way that congress is going to avert a government shutdown tell us about the meeting this morning with
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mccarthy what he's telling his his conference and what he's getting into with someone like matt gates
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yeah he's getting he's quite frankly he's trying to tell them there's two things happening number one
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he's trying to tell them to pass these spending bills so they have some leverage that is again
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going to be difficult they don't really want to give him much leverage for a host of reasons both
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politically and uh policy wise then he got into a fight with matt gates matt gates uh suggested that
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mccarthy was paying people to post nasty comments about him on the internet mccarthy said matt i'm
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not even you know i don't even think about you or pay attention to you um and said i'm trying to i've
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given five million dollars to republicans to protect the majority what have you done now listen we expect
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gates will try to boot mccarthy in the next couple of weeks and i think that is going to be a very high
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drama and high wire situation but the tensions katie in the house republican conference right now
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are incredibly incredibly high i think that was a very good overview it is a thursday 28 september
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year of our lord 2023 i think jake uh sherman at the uh at punch bowl remember their specialty is
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capitol hill and i think they've done a really terrific job of updating of what at least on the
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overview a couple of notes here uh number one there is a uh just coming across the wire right now a new
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and i want to have the war and posse make sure i said there's a lot of good news a sobering and i
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quote a sobering reality is setting in on capitol hill as of this moment there remains no viable
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clear path to passing any more aid to ukraine gop senator tom tillis from north carolina who wants a
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multi-year ukraine commitment remember the commitment just for this year is 80 billion dollars that's the
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number 80 billion they're starting with the the 24 the six anyway they can slide in there tillis who
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wants a multi-year ukraine commitment and i quote senator tillis this whole debate i mean it's bs end quote
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uh we've jammed up the uh the funneling of money over to the ukraine oligarchs and uh this is also
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going to get quite nasty they're going to have a separate but in fact i think they're having the vote
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even as we speak on the 300 million just to make sure it's a little complicated we're up there right
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now on votes on these four bills i don't think the appropriations bills as we've talked about i'm not
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sure they even pass why might they not pass they've been either uh too many uh too many cuts are not
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enough cuts too much uh de-woke uh and de-weaponized and defanged are not enough the house itself now has
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a huge fight and these things may not pass but it's the very process of going through it that is exposed
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where we are we lost on an amendment we lost the vote on the funding taking your tax dollars through
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the pentagon and funding i think drag shows with drag queen story hour on military basis
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that lost once you embrace it that lost by 18 votes wasn't really that close 18 18 excuse me 18
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also in other news uh ran paul and i want to and ran paul came out yesterday and said no way he's
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even letting a cr come for a vote i think because ukraine and i want to quote senator ran paul to
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avoid a government shutdown i will consent to an expedited vote on a clean cr without any ukraine aid in
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if leadership insists on funding another country's government at the expense of our own government
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all blame rests with their intransigence senator ran paul things are heating up is getting quite nasty
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there was a uh a verbal confrontation this morning in the conference between uh matt gates one of the
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architects of this i don't want to say insurgent movement but really the movement to set our
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nation's finances right and kevin mccarthy uh we've got a lot of other news report there there are a lot
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of votes coming in they're also going to work well into the night i think whether these appropriations
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bills pass or not kevin mccarthy is going to bring a continued resolution a stopgap measure
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to fund the government my understanding is as of right now in the crack team in memphis in our
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production team here are feeding me tweets as we go that um mccarthy as latest is not going to bring
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up the uh senate bill because the senate bill doesn't address any cuts whatsoever and even in
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the interim period and their period is 47 days and i told you there's 47 days of the senate is mcconnell
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and the big money donors exactly linked to uh yunkin's uh bid to uh flip the senate in the
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commonwealth of virginia of which they would turn immediately and say he is the with all the money
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will line up and bash him they'll dump de santis they'll dump nicky hale they'll dump all the
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keebler elves line up against him and it's yunkin versus trump for the primary so a lot going on uh
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the knives are out your voice is heard i just want to make sure that a 202-225-3121 is the house
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202-2224-3121 is the senate also make sure uh please get the uh go to uh birchgold.com
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slash war room the end of the dollar empire go back and get the third installment this was an
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installment we put out before the debt ceiling in the uh in the debt ceiling uh crisis the debt ceiling
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deal but make sure you're totally up to speed on that on the debt uh and uh and then um make sure
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you read the fourth one these were establishment republic couldn't get any more establishment than
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author burns and others that were nixon's cabinets i would think george schultz the whole cast of
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characters and as you read it the one thing that will strike you is very similar to today is i want
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to say the cavalier attitude in which they went about one of the most important moments in american
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economic history this was taking off convertibility of the federal reserve note into gold and closing
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the gold window for all the other currencies in the world and they had some great thoughts and some
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great theories but you never really got the fact that they're walking through financial models they
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actually looked at the math and what could go wrong this is what happened here do you see garrett
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graves a cosmo man do you see cosmo man or uh mchenry with the little bow tie do you see any of those
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guys talking about the debt deal what they call it the some recovery acts you see any of them bragging
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about oh everything that went great in the in the deal do you see them talking about uh how it was going
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to be less than a trillion dollars you had historic cuts you were going to have historic permitting
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you're going to have this you're going to have that you're going to have the other thing oh by the
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way we're going to have an appropriations process they lied to your face why they lie to your face
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they lied to your face because this work was done as it was supposed to be done
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as matt rosendale said in this very room this morning all the work at the subcommittee level
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was done by one july but we waited for july and they waited through august and they waited to all
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the way they got back to september and the first thing he did he goes oh we can't shut down the
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government we need a cr that can get us to the holidays and then we'll do an omnibus so you won't
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see individually why because uh we're going to impeach biden oh biden's going to get impeached
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all you yahoos all the all the people in bib oliverals all the maga extremist can't you see
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that you know biden biden talks he talks bad about you he calls you uh extruity say today i got to
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clip your extremists i'm up against the mega republicans you're the worst people in the world
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you can go get him we can go impeach him but we got to keep the government that's called a shiny toy
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that is a shiny toy move that's a move for idiots and natalie winters has had a tremendous education
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went to one of the top prep schools in the country out in los angeles she then went to the university
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of chicago i believe she graduated in three years she's very analytical and very rational
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and she's no conspiracy theorist she's the one who got the receipts on fauci and uh in in all those
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phony groups that you could see at the time hey this kind of feels like an intel operation hello
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she didn't say that she built the case brick by brick by brick by brick on evidence and what does
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natalie say today you know steven watching this it kind of seemed like uh it was set up
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to kind of fail right set up to diversionary tactics set up that um you know you you got
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to have the government open to kind of get this ring right it's got to be it's got to be focused on
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so we have so much to do there i'm going to pivot to that we got more breaking news about this fight
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remember midnight we're going to be up all weekend we're obviously doing all the four hours tomorrow
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we're going to do two hours my favorite show of the week the saturday morning show we will be i will
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be up on rumble and getter and all of it will be putting up information i think we're trying to
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work it out that maybe even able to have some guests we'll figure this out the crack war room
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production teams already rolling their eyes assuming that they i used to do this in the navy we sit
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there you know when i was an a gang officer and you would you would you would sit there and the guys
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they worked all week and i said okay everybody's got the weekend for it's take one everybody's got the
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weekend off take one step forward not so fast we gotta we gotta get this
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done it sounded better at the time sounded funnier we got a lot of work to do and this could be a
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historic moment why is the historic moment he got in july why did they slow walk it why did they tuck
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it why they why did they not address it when they had two months to address this we didn't need to do
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it in the middle of the night you didn't need to stay up till two and three in the morning see
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andy biggs going after cissa and and and it's natalie knows cissa but anybody and going after jen
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easterly and want to take jen easterly's salary and all of jen easterly's team and to talk about
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defunding cissa you didn't just stay up till two in the morning to do that you didn't need to stay
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stay up see mtg going after general austin yesterday and the wokeness in the pentagon you
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didn't see bobert bobert you didn't need to stay up to see rosendale this all could have been done
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in regular order all could have been done during the work day why didn't they want it it's obvious why
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they didn't want it they treat you like idiots and like morons they don't want you to see it
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and they don't want to have these individual bills and they don't want to have the detail and the
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amendments remember there there were 400 amendments just to the bills we had the other day 400 amendments
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we're not going to win all those but they were all enlightening
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in the debate that went on around them it very enlightening
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i now start to undersee any republican that sits there and uses the word limited government
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that's not on our side of the football here now is a liar not that they're too dumb they know exactly
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what they're doing don't lecture me on limited government don't lecture me on being a constitutional
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conservative and we're the you know danford we're the the grubby sharp elbowed divisive angry nasty
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populist right we're not conservative populist we're fighters and we've done more for limited
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government in the last couple of days and quite frankly this audience of driving this
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then you have done forever and rolling over because since 97 you've rolled over every time
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and what do we do we pass a cr because it's not ready then it's one omnibus bill
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and what are you talking about the omnibus bill all the broken weaponized you think we arrived here
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overnight you think this just all magically happened and what the destruction of our country this has
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been decades and decades and decades in process on people that you rang doorbells for that you gave
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your 50 bucks to that you work phone banks for that you went to rallies for that's how we got here
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you think we'd have gotten here if you had this kind of fight 20 years ago or 25 years ago
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no you would not but that's what remember you're you're you're the problem it's not just what
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biden's saying is is nothing you want to see what the same behind closed doors you're the agents of
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chaos what what it what it what it garrett graves cosmo man cosmo man who gave never had a job in his
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life been vitter's body man cosmo man trying and i don't want to say he's you know trying to be
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steve bannon but hey who knows walking around in his work shirt and his ball cap and not shaving
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on a saturday he is he's a he's a working man from louisiana and he is he is with you brother
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he walks around garrett graves and calls you arsonist he said these are arsonists they're
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trying to burn it down and then when they finally put it up but they're going to want the credit
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no no no no garrett the original sin is with you and with mccarthy and with mchenry and you
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were taking orders from the wealthy let's go back to what happened you made a deal that will destroy
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the country because it will lock this in in perpetuity and that deal you gave a two-year
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deal to spend 15 trillion dollars in unlimited you spend more are there lower tax revenues it's
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unlimited what they can spend the deficits they can run up that was you and we now know from the
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people at the white house they said hey we were looking at the one-year deal we weren't happy with
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they're taking it they walked in the first thing mccarthy offered was the second deal to go past the
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2024 election now why would he do that why would he do that let me think the donors got to him and said
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hey if all of a sudden this deal comes up in in in next spring it's a one-year deal and it comes up
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and you've got a 1.5 cap and you blow through the cap which they're smart enough to know you're going
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to do because guess what the cat it's going to be two trillion now what's it going to be by next spring
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that eventually eventually we're going to have to have an adult conversation say hey look we got all
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these cuts but people are not going to be in housing and you're not going to have this and
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and and the working class not going to be have babies as all these cuts have got to come out of
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health and human services and labor and and this we got cut defense and we got to do all this and
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the cuts have to be made and these are tough cuts and there's going to be tension and fights and
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you're terrible and you're terrible and you've got to go bing bang bum but you got to get there
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but you can't do enough cuts you can't cut your way to uh fiscal sanity you can't do it not right
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now not the way the structure is particularly we're not going to cut touch social security and
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medicare and you can't touch social security and medicare right now when chris christie and mike
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pence are on that freaking stage talking about that that's the coax talking that's a coax because
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you know what drives them crazy that you after working your entire life in back-breaking labor
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get a thousand bucks a month out of social security or you get some a little bit of medicare it drives
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them crazy and so no we got to get into the it's the entitlements we got to get into do you honestly
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think the american people are going to back anybody on looking at any type of restructuring or entitlement
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for whatever you want to call it when they haven't been truthful about the discretionary part and they've
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lied and misrepresented why would you trust these people why they're not worthy of trust until through
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their action not their rhetoric they're their action they show that they're adults and we have
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a possibility of actually starting to cut the spending and maybe then you have to look at the
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other part of the equation the revenue side the revenue side and this is what the donors told them
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you cannot have this thing expire in in april or may that's the beginning of the general election season
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you're you're going to let these people all sudden this gap and eventually they're going to sit
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there and go hang on hang on i do the cuts i got a cuts but i don't have enough cuts and i can't do
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them quick enough so what else do revenue oh well i get revenue by keeping the same tax structure but i
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got the economy's got to grow if i get three percent or four percent or five percent i can do the math
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guess what more revenues come in we're saved hello but the economy can't grow why we're crowding out in
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the capital markets because we're borrowing too much freaking money and paying the interest on that
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that's the refinancing of the eight trillion that was almost at zero interest rates the original sins
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of 2008 and the bailouts of 2008 have now come the hungry ghosts of 2008 are here and they're eating
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your lunch so it's not you can't put the things of growth because they're nowhere at one one percent
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one and a half percent two percent that doesn't that doesn't make it that doesn't grow tax revenues
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enough so then what do you have to do well maybe i have to look at the tax structure and maybe the tax
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structure's not right and maybe we start in wall street and maybe we talk and carried interest
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maybe we maybe we talk about these things that have been in your face for decades and decades and
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decades that have allowed the wealthy to accumulate and i'm not talking about you making a couple hundred
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thousand bucks for i'm talking about people that control this country i'm talking about the
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billionaires and the oligarchs that control this nation until you're prepared to have that
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conversation oh my gosh all the tax guys they're they're up seeing trump the other day and leaking
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to jeff stein at the washington post as soon as we're out of the meeting we had a presentation
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talking to president trump we're going to cut corporate taxes to 15 and and grover norquist said
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no we're going to cut to 14 percent isn't that a great idea that the most woke part the most woke part
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of our economy the c-suite gutless woke managerial class that's what let's let's let's cut their taxes
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down to 14 and i'll tell you what let's they can use the money anywhere they can they can do stock
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buybacks and play all their financial gains to jack up their warrants and their options boom the stock
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price they cash out fare thee well i that's brilliant that is not going to happen president trump's
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original tax cuts which i can make the argue argument that actually are gave us the five
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training revenue but even in the first years you got to be able to bite the bullet until they kick in
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until you get the growth until you get the additional revenues on his tax and i didn't love everything
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about it but generally the architectonics of it worked they are up for renewal guess what
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in the first 30 days that he's back in office in 2025 he's not going to have the playing field he's
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not going to have the option he's not going to have the alternative guess why because we're going
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to be at 35 or 36 or 37 trillion dollars and we're going to be refinancing not issuing government
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bonds at 0.1 percent but at five percent or higher and that structural refinancing you don't even need
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the fed to kick it up anymore i kind of explain all this if you go to birch gold you get the
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debt trap you get that okay and there's a lot going on here we're going to get to all about i want to
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get to now can i play the cold open i've got a couple of minutes i'm gonna play a cold open i'm
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gonna bring natalie winters in and then natalie's going to hang through the natalie is going to stick
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with us through the break we're going to bring her back but let's play that let's play the highlight
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reel or the low light reel from today's circus that is supposed to be the impeachment of a sitting
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president biden has no specific corporate governance expertise and we don't believe he speaks ukrainian
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or russian we don't believe he moved there so he's getting this gigantic paycheck for for what
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the washington post wrote at the time of biden's appointment to burisma's board
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that it looked nepotistic at best and the washington post said the washington post nefarious
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at worst according to the wall street journal anti-corruption activists in ukraine also raised
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concerns that the former vp's son received money from zochevsky and worried that that would mean
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zochevsky would be protected and not prosecuted
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witnesses in the impeachment inquiry noted hunter biden's role on the board and how it presented
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at minimum a conflict of interest lieutenant colonel vindman testified that hunter biden did not appear
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qualified to serve on burisma's board witnesses testified that hunter biden's role on the board
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was a legitimate concern to raise in fact george kent explained that in 2015 he raised a concern
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to the office of former vice president by last week the attorney general told us that weiss had the
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authority because i promised him he would have the authority if he asked it that seems to me to be
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something different it's what he said to the senate he's got full authority no problem last week he told
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the house judiciary committee he had authority because i promised if he come talk to me i would
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give him the authority that i already told the senate he had do you see a concern there with false
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statements coming from the biden justice department well there is a concern you don't have to prejudge
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the evidence to say that obviously this is part of the inquiry and what i don't understand is the
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opposition to the inquiry itself it seems to me the test is would the alleged conduct if proven
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established impeachable offenses and is there a credible basis for those allegations i think the
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answer is clearly yes that there is a basis uh to look at the president's conduct without prejudging
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whether that it qualifies at the beginning of that inquiry as an article of impeachment and let's be
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clear you don't need a full vote of the house to proceed in an impeachment inquiry phase of our
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constitutional duty to do oversight in fact the democrats did it four years ago i was in an impeachment
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deposition run by adam schiff in the bunker in the basement of the capitol and i went to the floor
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so i'm in an impeachment deposition and i went to the floor to vote to vote on opening an impeachment
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inquiry they did the same darn thing because you have that authority as a congressman the speaker of
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the house makes that designation nancy the speaker nancy pelosi did in fact initiate the impeachment in
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some cases then you have a later vote i've said in my testimony i consider that the best practice to
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have a vote of the house but the court that was referenced earlier looked at this and said that
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the constitution does not require resolution actually said if you look at all the impeachments
00:25:38.600
often there wasn't a resolution that doesn't mean it's not a good practice but the constitution itself
00:25:44.120
does not require such a resolution we are having here isn't it right i mean listen i as a former director
00:25:52.840
of emergency management i know a disaster when i see one i mean by the way you don't don't you don't believe
00:25:59.280
me just just ask steve bannon steve bannon that your guy just went on and said you know perhaps
00:26:05.720
whose guy steve bannon yeah well you you know who steve bannon is uh perhaps steve bannon just went on
00:26:11.640
and said perhaps the republicans shouldn't have started with a witness that he was talking about
00:26:16.160
professor turley who was gonna say right off the bat that there wasn't an impeachable offense he's
00:26:21.680
i quote he says perhaps we should have put him on the maybe list for one of our witnesses
00:26:26.520
so your other witness miss o'connor gave a complete recitation of the last nine
00:26:33.400
okay there's more to that we're gonna take a short break we got more to show and natalie here for her
00:26:39.760
observations and commentary short commercial break we're gonna be back in the war room just a moment
00:26:45.020
today we're going to bring the facts today we are going to bring the evidence in 2017 the joe biden
00:27:03.560
family teamed up with chinese company cefc to make millions off of granting access to joe biden
00:27:09.680
hunter even arranged for joe biden to share office space with the ccp aligned company cefc
00:27:14.940
my democrat colleagues say none of this is relevant because joe biden wasn't vice president
00:27:20.060
while his family did these shady deals turns out that's complete and total bullshit it's a lie
00:27:26.220
hunter biden referred to access to his father as the keys to his family's only asset those words are
00:27:33.140
going to come back and haunt hunter biden and his family forever yesterday the ways and means committee
00:27:39.860
released an fbi memo on the interview they have with tony babulinski a former biden partner in crime
00:27:45.900
i'll read a bit of that right now the work conducted by cefc gilyar walker hunter biden james biden and
00:27:52.500
yi over the preceding two years was discussed in detail in particular cefc was closing significant
00:27:58.580
investment deals in poland kazakhstan romania oman and the middle east during this period of time
00:28:04.340
period of time is in reference to the years 2015 and 2016 when guess what joe biden was vice president
00:28:13.180
as an aside rob walker in previous testimony also confirmed that joe biden attended a meeting with
00:28:19.840
the head of cefc so now we know cefc was working with the biden family while joe biden was vice
00:28:25.600
president and i'll continue reading from tony babulinski's report which says and i quote babulinski
00:28:31.920
hunter biden and james biden did not receive compensation because joe biden was still vice
00:28:36.580
president during this time period there is a concern it would be improper for payments to be
00:28:41.640
made to hunter biden and james biden biden by cefc due to its close affiliation with the chinese
00:28:48.160
government hunter biden and james biden both wanted to be compensated for the assistance they had
00:28:53.600
provided to cefc's ventures in particular they believe cefc owed them money for the benefits that
00:29:00.200
accrued to cefc through its use of the biden family name to advance their business dealings
00:29:05.420
the bidens coincidentally were paid over a million dollars by ccp affiliated chinese company cefc shortly
00:29:14.240
after joe biden left office as vice president now we know why because it was back pay i'm going to show
00:29:23.380
another image this is a text message between hunter biden and gangwen dong an agent of cefc hunter says
00:29:31.460
my uncle will be here with his brother in all caps who would like to say hello to the chairman he goes
00:29:38.960
on jim's brother if he's coming wants to say hello his uncle's brother hmm i wonder who that could be i
00:29:46.600
can't quite figure it out hunter puts brother in all caps and it doesn't take a genius to figure this out
00:29:52.640
but since i'm not always dealing with geniuses in washington dc has has been illustrated today
00:29:58.120
i'll spell it out the brother of hunter hunter's uncle jim is joe biden why was hunter so secretive
00:30:09.120
about his father i'm going to tell you why it's because joe biden didn't want the american people to know
00:30:14.240
he and his family were getting paid millions and millions of dollars from a company closely tied
00:30:19.480
to the chinese communist party cefc knew paying biden family members was bad
00:30:25.740
so they covered it up hunter knew joe biden hanging out with ccp businessmen would be a bad look
00:30:31.920
so he tried to pull a genius move on us with this whole my uncle's brother bullshit
00:30:36.460
okay uh welcome back uh i'm gonna bring in um natalie natalie uh just tell us who that was
00:30:44.680
that was the one of the best parts of the whole day but why that even is not good enough as as kind
00:30:50.880
of sharpened his focus is that natalie winters yeah that's nancy may say i think she probably had
00:30:56.180
the best line of questioning of the 47 or so people um who were asking those four witnesses a variety of
00:31:04.280
questions today but like you said steve you know even that didn't really cut it in other words it's just
00:31:10.860
sort of old news and i just don't really think um that this method of conveying information
00:31:16.980
really made a concise or even coherent case right even having to jump back and forth between
00:31:23.920
democrats and republicans and i think if you sort of take a step back and you look at this through
00:31:29.820
the lens of narrative building which we we know republicans are not good at whereas democrats because
00:31:34.760
they control the media and all these institutions and frankly half of the republican party they're very good
00:31:40.360
at creating these narratives but i think in this instance you've sort of seen the democrats play
00:31:45.480
the same game that they have whether it's you know election fraud or the origins of covid where they
00:31:50.920
sort of withhold a lot of information that we would need to really have some of those smoking gun
00:31:56.740
moments those true bombshells but then they you know play the game oh well you don't have
00:32:01.660
any evidence and it's like well yeah because you're withholding it from us but in this case obviously
00:32:06.540
there are some true i would say you know smoking gun pieces of evidence but i just think there's
00:32:12.040
this sort of whether it's whiplash or deja vu i don't know how exactly to categorize it but there's
00:32:18.700
just so many competing timelines here um not only because this information has been publicly available
00:32:24.460
for so long through the hunter biden hard drive but you know as you said in your opening um you know
00:32:30.320
i'm a very analytical person i always pay attention to syntax and diction um and if you really listen
00:32:36.460
to a lot of the statements from republicans today when they're talking about you know evidence and
00:32:41.980
and turning it over to the american people they didn't say the words you know we just obtained this
00:32:48.920
evidence um last night they said we just released we just revealed this evidence to the american
00:32:56.680
people last night and i think this sort of speaks to what you know congressman tim birchett has always
00:33:01.880
come on this show and said which is it seems that you know every two weeks there's a new drop of
00:33:07.360
information from oversight that has to do with hunter biden text messages or emails but i sort of think
00:33:13.560
we've hit the point where they just need to lay it all out there and stop with this sort of piecemeal
00:33:19.140
dropping of of information where it's not the whole picture and then frankly steve the weirdest
00:33:25.880
part of the whole hearing is it then concludes with comer saying well i'm gonna subpoena hunter
00:33:32.860
biden's bank records well you should have done that before you held the hearing you know what i mean
00:33:37.960
they're just fundamentally unserious people like i said um on war room and if i will i will stand
00:33:44.640
corrected because i think if we bring back war room impeachment we need to bring back war room
00:33:49.020
impeachments plural for mayorkas and garland and whoever else is in is in the crosshairs but i i
00:33:55.400
think too steve the other reason why the narrative building was so off today um and like i said it was
00:34:02.000
sort of you know adhd trying to watch and really understand where that where they were going with
00:34:07.020
this is because i think a lot of the focus on this and the ramifications on the joe biden front of
00:34:14.200
things even when you take hunter biden out of it is focusing in the past right it's focusing around
00:34:19.060
the years of 2015 and 2016 and yes that's important particularly on the ukraine front
00:34:25.000
but i think if you really want to make the case that this isn't just political and that it matters
00:34:30.140
to american people you know you really can link and trace this all the way to the gasoline prices that
00:34:36.160
people are seeing to the runaway inflation that we're seeing because so many of the deals that hunter
00:34:41.200
biden struck had to do with energy particularly green energy particularly with the chinese
00:34:47.780
communist party run energy companies that energy secretary granholm uh was on the phone with the
00:34:53.600
former ceos of the companies that were very closely linked to sinopec uh which enjoyed billions of
00:35:00.440
dollars of investment from bhr partners the same firm that the ceo sent the 250 000 wire to joe biden's
00:35:09.120
house too that was just revealed a few days ago so i think that element of the storytelling how it is
00:35:15.920
currently affecting joe biden's policy you know this of course also coming on the heels of leaks that
00:35:22.500
iran was able to basically infiltrate uh the biden regime and affect iranian policy i can tell you this
00:35:28.720
if iran's doing it uh the chinese communist party is doing it because that's probably where
00:35:33.060
they learned it from um and i just think fundamentally steve today it goes back to what i think we we
00:35:40.220
did when we were where what we said when we were doing the pregame on this hearing was that this is
00:35:46.140
just to lend credence to kevin mccarthy's uh point moot point i would say after today um that if we shut
00:35:55.780
down the government we won't be able to impeach joe biden i mean if this if what we saw today was
00:36:02.180
the best case the best you know lineup of hitters that they could put forward to demonstrate why the
00:36:09.400
grassroots by the war room posse should be you know against a government shutdown then i say you know
00:36:16.040
tongue-in-cheek but i say bring it bring on the shutdown because what we saw today was so reprehensible
00:36:20.660
um they would have been better off just playing six hours of hunter biden's you know audio recordings
00:36:26.560
and voicemails instead of doing this weird weaving in and out of narrative building um and just really
00:36:33.320
getting trounced by democrats and not even the best and brightest of the democrats there's some great
00:36:39.040
clips that i'm sure people have seen on twitter of just some curious lines of questioning and
00:36:43.920
interesting fashion choices um but i will i will leave it at that
00:36:47.360
no in uh natalie just took about eight minutes that is a more succinct summary than anything has
00:37:00.360
come out of there today now natalie winters from her teen years in college has been one of the lead
00:37:08.780
investigators on on every different aspect of this so she knows the receipts she knows she knows the
00:37:14.600
details but then she needs to step back and summarize and kind of give everybody a picture
00:37:19.460
of exactly well not just what the stakes are but but really what the the the the important touch
00:37:26.580
points of this that's what when we say they're not serious natalie can tell you years and years
00:37:32.860
years under rahim first and then here at the war room the laborious work of going through the documents
00:37:38.240
of of of actually getting down into the original documentation to get what we call the receipts
00:37:45.540
and when you you have to understand in starting out in a process like this is like starting out in a
00:37:53.180
process with uh what we're trying to do and to change the financial direction of the country you have
00:37:59.700
to have muzzle velocity you have to be united you have to know kind of what your objective is and you have
00:38:05.000
to think two or three moves down range because the establishment is going to be trying to chop block you
00:38:12.500
as as mccarthy's guys are plus the democrats on something like today you're trying to impeach a sitting
00:38:18.560
president of the united states there was no need that we had to have this hearing today on the 28th of
00:38:25.320
september in the year of our lord 2033 only reason we had it the only reason you had to have
00:38:31.000
is because mccarthy is held it as a shiny toy not realizing how important this is for the nation
00:38:40.540
to do this because you can show that a sitting president united states knowingly knowingly and
00:38:47.600
willingly took bribes and changed policy against uh definitely uh with our in favor of our our most
00:38:57.400
existential threat we've ever had x to the country the chinese communist party and then again
00:39:03.340
the the oligarchs in ukraine and everything that's happening in ukraine this incredibly
00:39:08.040
corrupt country in ukraine which today we're talking about another 80 billion dollars which
00:39:12.920
they're going to try to if they possibly can because they don't want to get into a thing of
00:39:16.340
not doing any funding of having any kind of gap even put it in a cr they'd even risk
00:39:21.040
shutting down their own government their own regime the guy get the ukraine money
00:39:27.400
that's why you have to be and they understand that biden's now dropping in the polls the cross tabs
00:39:34.940
are terrible you saw what happened in michigan yesterday with president trump
00:39:37.680
biden's out there were 20 people on a picket line nobody even showed up
00:39:41.600
that they are an extremist and they will do anything because not just this destroyed biden this is the type
00:39:49.880
of thing when we prove biden's crimes that this will impact the democratic party for decades to come
00:39:57.280
for decades to come but that's how you have to be that serious about it natalie given everything else
00:40:04.660
that's going on on capitol hill that you're following and all the other um you know these
00:40:09.920
monumental breaking news of of things that are happening right now this budget fight
00:40:13.560
how do you turn this around if you could go get a cup of coffee with kevin mccarthy and comer and uh
00:40:19.740
and and jordan what would you tell them what would you say hey you know free advice i've worked on
00:40:25.840
this for a couple of years here's my recommendation what would you tell them sure well i feel like i've
00:40:30.800
been uh uncharacteristically pessimistic on today's show so i will give the what i think is a very
00:40:36.800
important signal of of hope and happiness from this hearing which is that the facts are on our side and
00:40:44.100
even as incompetent as we are the only reason that we were able to get to a point today where we can
00:40:49.880
somehow piece together a hearing where there is still you know piecemeal pieces of evidence
00:40:53.920
that indicate and that really do show a corruption on behalf of joe biden um the fact that democrats spent
00:41:01.780
i think most of their time at least in jamie raskin's opening statement talking about trump
00:41:07.580
sort of proves that joe biden wasn't the hill that they wanted to die on right that's the signal not
00:41:13.340
the noise they weren't really out there defending joe biden there were a few members who talked about
00:41:18.660
how joe biden is just a great father but most of them weren't actually engaging with any of the
00:41:24.100
evidence right trying to dispute the sars trying to dispute the bank records uh trying to normalize
00:41:29.980
what would have transpired if you you know take republicans at their word and given that republic
00:41:35.340
or democrats operate under the axiom that you know accuse your enemy of what you're guilty of
00:41:40.460
i think the fact that they're trying to accuse trump of what joe biden did in a roundabout way sort of
00:41:46.820
proves that joe biden is is you know guilty of of what republicans are alleging of course circumstantially
00:41:53.000
um but i think that's sort of the takeaway right it's not like democrats mounted their defense by saying
00:41:57.900
your evidence is not legitimate they just said your evidence is not legitimate because trump
00:42:02.700
bad trump did this um which i think is an interesting tell um but in terms of speaking
00:42:08.360
to comer and mccarthy i mean honestly steve i don't even know if they're salvageable um
00:42:15.640
the way that the status quo is up on capitol hill leadership the you know incestuous circle that that
00:42:24.040
is these people all they care about is keeping their seats all their staff cares about is their
00:42:29.940
member keeping their seat they fundamentally are opposed to any existential threats to the system
00:42:36.740
which is you know metaphorically speaking blowing up the system by exposing the corruption that the
00:42:43.100
biden family personifies and i think the real black pill of this whole situation is that the biden
00:42:48.540
family is not really even unique right all of these families established republicans democrats
00:42:53.620
every side of the aisle have sold out this country for money and profit right managed decline is
00:42:59.440
bipartisan managed decline is omnipresent in washington dc and i think these people know whether
00:43:06.900
it's comer mccarthy their staffers the people who are running these investigations which by the way
00:43:11.660
i'd love to get the identities and the names and just any idea who's actually investigating these
00:43:18.120
you know crimes getting these documents running investigations for comer um as far as i'm aware
00:43:24.060
they're just you know low-level hill staffers but it just goes to fundamentally what washington dc is
00:43:29.660
right just like kevin mccarthy every year or i guess this is your serious speaker but just like house
00:43:34.420
republicans or the uniparty has waited to pass single subject spending bills so they have to ram
00:43:39.940
an omnibus through they have to ram a cr through they're not going to expose the grift that is the
00:43:46.080
biden family because that would be sort of just kneecapping and really i think shutting down what
00:43:53.380
is the institution of washington dc which is all about selling power and selling access selling the
00:43:59.920
brand as hunter biden said so if i were to get coffee with them i don't think i would be invited for
00:44:05.900
a second date because i would probably tell them that they need to get ready for a motion to vacate and
00:44:10.620
that comer should not be allowed anywhere near house oversight um but yeah and lastly you know
00:44:17.900
if you look at the witnesses that they had i mean the only reason jonathan turley mattered in the trump
00:44:23.000
impeachment inquiry was because we were surprised that he was marginally on our side because he was
00:44:28.140
so establishment right so i don't really know why he's the witness not just that we're going to bring
00:44:33.240
in as one of three but the witness that we're going to start off with whoever came up with that
00:44:37.660
decision i mean i don't even know how you say that that is anything better than intentional as
00:44:43.380
opposed to incompetence um but i think the witnesses that they should have had it just shows you even
00:44:49.100
you know i was looking at the rnc research twitter account the other day all they post is clips from
00:44:55.400
fox news they don't post clips from war room they don't post clips from jack vasovic they don't post
00:45:00.600
clips from charlie kirk right it's just fundamentally a different mindset that we're playing with that is the
00:45:06.940
establishment republican party and what you saw today were witnesses that the old republican party
00:45:12.340
chose right these sort of establishment just people who don't who are out of touch when you should have
00:45:19.020
had people like john solomon up there when you should have had actual investigative reporters up there i
00:45:24.260
would argue you should have hunter biden up there but they're just approaching it from the wrong angle
00:45:29.960
with people who i'm sure are good people and love this country but these are the same people who are
00:45:35.440
going to look you in the eyes and say they're fiscal conservatives and they care about you know
00:45:39.880
tax cuts and they think ronald reagan is great while simultaneously telling us that we need a cr and
00:45:45.720
33 trillion dollars in debt is okay and okaying more money and funds to cissa is okay but oh the
00:45:51.800
weaponization of the federal government these people are just fundamentally unserious and it's just
00:45:57.920
it's the old guard so thank god we have donald j trump but what you saw today really was i think
00:46:03.800
you know the republican party sans a donald trump figure sans really the populist mentality to
00:46:10.420
actually fight um and to just sort of roll over and take it and try to get some sound bites but
00:46:16.320
honestly i don't really even think they got many sound bites today uh breaking from cb by the way you
00:46:22.680
can't certainly see the sound bites up there cbs news we're going to leave you with this speaker
00:46:26.520
mccarthy says he'll bring up a republican stop get measure a cr for a vote on friday ahead of the
00:46:33.060
september 30th deadline but it appears to lack enough gop support to pass when asked if a
00:46:39.120
shutdown can be averted representative byron donalds who's the author of the cr from florida
00:46:45.060
tells cbs i can't guarantee that uh you've been fantastic today and i gotta i want to have you back
00:46:52.840
on a mark talk about cissa and janelle uh jen um easley i think it is right um and everything about
00:46:59.860
defunding her that didn't quite go through natalie real quickly what's your social media how do people
00:47:04.280
follow you overnight well until cissa blacklists me overnight you can find me at natalie g winters on
00:47:10.560
all platforms trust me if they had if we're on top of it they would uh we'll be back by the way we're
00:47:18.220
gonna be up all night we've got um we've got a bunch of go to go to grace go to mo's account right
00:47:24.260
now a ton of stuff is going to play throughout night i'll be coming in and out with updates we'll
00:47:28.720
see you back here at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in the warm want to thank memphis my crack production
00:47:33.240
crew here also natalie g winters okay we'll see you tomorrow morning at 10 and i'll be up on getter
00:47:39.700
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