Bannon's War Room - February 19, 2025


WarRoom Battleground EP 710： Transgender Violence Spiking Across The Country


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

175.06403

Word Count

9,752

Sentence Count

831

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

On this episode of War Room: A Year of Our Lord Podcast, Brandon Shorewood and Michael Patrick Leahy join us to share a mind-twisting story coming out of Nashville that we ve been hearing for a while. Mike Lindell shares the story of how he went from crack addict to CEO.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:13.880 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:19.100 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:23.400 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:25.300 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:26.740 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:29.340 It's going to happen.
00:00:30.720 And where do people like that go to share the big line?
00:00:34.100 MAGA Media.
00:00:35.440 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:40.880 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:44.640 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:51.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:00:54.160 Tuesday, 18th February, Year of Our Lord 2025.
00:01:01.400 We've got Leahy and Brandon Shorewood are going to join us.
00:01:06.180 Michael Patrick Leahy has a mind-twisting story coming out of Nashville that we followed now for a while.
00:01:11.380 We're going to get to that in a second.
00:01:12.280 Mike Lindell.
00:01:13.720 Mike, a big day for you.
00:01:15.500 I want you to share with the audience.
00:01:17.040 Eight years ago today, what happened, sir?
00:01:19.320 I gave a full surrender to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
00:01:24.340 You guys always see me wearing my cross on TV for years.
00:01:27.760 I wanted to be that person.
00:01:29.900 And I said it this morning on the show.
00:01:32.480 Like when I wrote my book, What Are the Odds?
00:01:34.980 From crack addict to CEO, I look at mathematics to prove God exists.
00:01:40.520 And all through my life, I'd see a one in a million happen or a one in a billion or something that was impossible.
00:01:46.680 And I would say to myself, when do you call it a miracle and call it for what it is?
00:01:51.060 Well, then things started happening to me starting in 2015.
00:01:55.060 Leading up to 2017, I remember being at the White House.
00:02:00.020 Here's this ex-crack addict from Minnesota sitting with the president.
00:02:03.560 And we went live to the nation and my friends at home are going, what is this crack addict doing next to the president?
00:02:09.780 Jesus is real because this would be impossible.
00:02:13.500 And on February 18th of 2017, I did a full surrender.
00:02:18.920 And it was like a burden lifted off me.
00:02:21.640 People say to me all the time, how do you get through with all the attacks and everything?
00:02:25.140 I give it to the Lord.
00:02:26.480 I can be proactive in prayer.
00:02:28.880 I can stay in the word.
00:02:30.340 And I was able to forgive myself like Jesus forgave me and for things that happened back in the 80s and 90s that I couldn't let go of.
00:02:40.540 And I was able to, and I said this to, you know, believe it or not, everybody, I had a fear of speaking in public.
00:02:46.600 I couldn't talk to more than two people.
00:02:48.880 It was like a fear of rejection that overtook me.
00:02:52.140 Well, you don't get rejected if you don't talk.
00:02:54.640 Well, after I got saved, I was at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
00:02:58.380 It was a big Christian event.
00:03:02.140 And they picked me to pray in front of 60,000 people.
00:03:06.140 And I'm going, this would be impossible if it wouldn't have been for getting saved.
00:03:10.860 And so it's a very important day, the most important day.
00:03:15.060 And I'm going to be giving away a CPAC at the door, everybody.
00:03:18.920 Everybody gets their free book.
00:03:20.420 It tells that story in there of how the miracles that happened in my life that led up to me being saved.
00:03:26.000 And it's free.
00:03:27.440 It's free when you get through the door.
00:03:28.920 So everybody get to CPAC.
00:03:30.720 And I'm looking forward to seeing you all there.
00:03:33.880 And I'm going to be there the whole week.
00:03:37.620 And it's going to be amazing.
00:03:41.880 Mike, talk to us about the cross and talk to us about the specials we still got going.
00:03:46.880 Yeah, and we're going to do, everybody, we're going to do a special a day at CPAC.
00:03:51.340 Every single day, a different special.
00:03:53.560 Today, though, is the last day we brought back where it all started for me with MyPillow, the classic collection.
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00:04:56.660 Unbelievable.
00:04:57.560 Mike, thank you so much.
00:04:59.420 Appreciate you.
00:05:00.220 We'll see you tomorrow at CPAC.
00:05:01.400 Yep, we'll see you then.
00:05:03.060 Thanks, Steve.
00:05:05.140 Mike Lindell, we're going to make him part of the Force Multiplier event, as we can.
00:05:09.020 Go to CPAC.org.
00:05:10.100 Still get your ticket, $76, CPAC.org, slash WARWROOM.
00:05:14.380 $76.
00:05:15.040 We want to see everybody there.
00:05:16.100 It's going to be incredible.
00:05:17.780 We've got a huge space.
00:05:18.880 They made the space even bigger for this year.
00:05:20.800 We've got a big stage.
00:05:21.940 We're going to do the show on live.
00:05:24.040 Poso's going to do the show there.
00:05:25.460 So it's going to be very exciting.
00:05:26.580 Let me get to Leahy and to Brandon, because I didn't want to play.
00:05:31.660 President Trump, before we came on, Real America's Voice was covering it live.
00:05:36.940 Boy, dropped a couple of bombs on Ukraine in this negotiation going to react.
00:05:42.120 As we said and predicted he would do, President Trump's kind of moving on and wants to cut a deal here, wants to make a deal,
00:05:49.280 and not going to spend a lot of time and not going to wring a lot of hands about Ukraine and Zelensky and Europe and all that.
00:05:56.020 They've got to step up.
00:05:57.660 And the Europeans got to know, and they're over in Paris, hey, if you want to continue on, continue on.
00:06:01.800 Go back to your citizens and ask them for some dough.
00:06:04.460 American taxpayers are tired of paying for this crap.
00:06:08.520 Michael Patrick Leahy.
00:06:10.560 Help me out here, brother.
00:06:11.580 When this thing went down with this Christian school and had that amazing, awful video of that young woman who came in and shot up the school and the kids and the teachers,
00:06:22.200 and you've been on this like a dog with a bone, it came out that there was a manifesto when they went to the house.
00:06:28.280 Now, it was implied or said because of some things about notes she left, but notes, and then there was a manifesto.
00:06:35.340 So it was implied like it was a page or two, like some of these manifestos are.
00:06:40.680 They're written on the back of a piece of paper and left at the house or whatever.
00:06:44.520 Your reporting, the manifesto is nine.
00:06:48.240 And by the way, the FBI just went out of the way to shut this down.
00:06:51.260 I think you went to court.
00:06:52.980 One of the judges, I believe, was all over you to tell you to butt out.
00:06:56.480 You were getting a lot of grief.
00:06:57.700 And I know – I've known Leahy – well, I've known him for a long time, but eight years ago he started the Tennessee Star when he had this idea of doing these independent kind of papers around the country.
00:07:11.600 So, Leahy, last night I get a thing for you.
00:07:15.240 The manifesto is 900 pages.
00:07:18.640 It's like the size of War and Peace times two.
00:07:21.820 Is that what you're telling me, brother?
00:07:23.100 And the FBI has refused to release this?
00:07:25.320 Yeah, the manifesto is the writings of Audrey Elizabeth Hale that cover a period of time of about 20 years.
00:07:34.360 Remember, she was 28 when she killed all those people at Covenant School here in Nashville on March 27, 2023.
00:07:42.220 We, as you know, obtained 90 pages of the last three months of her life from sources legally, and we ended up publishing those 90 pages.
00:07:51.100 But we have been litigating against the FBI on this since May of 2023.
00:08:00.120 A federal judge is still looking at that.
00:08:02.320 We want to get all 900 pages of this manifesto.
00:08:06.620 Now, what's interesting about this, Steve, which we found out a year and a half, just a week and a half ago, we were approached by a source familiar with the investigation who told us that on the day that the Metro Nashville Police Department and the FBI went to the house of the killer to obtain a bunch of documents and to obtain evidence,
00:08:30.140 that they were told by a national police captain not to log all of the inventory that they obtained, and some of that inventory was taken and squirreled away by the FBI.
00:08:41.540 This is what we were told by a source, and Metro Nashville Police has not confirmed anything related to that.
00:08:49.240 So the other part about this is interesting, Steve.
00:08:53.640 The Metro Nashville Police Chief said that the transgender killer, Audrey Elizabeth Hale, legally purchased seven guns.
00:09:03.860 Well, we can account for five.
00:09:05.440 Two are missing.
00:09:06.420 Where are they?
00:09:07.500 We don't know.
00:09:08.260 Our source says that they believe those guns that are missing were in plain sight on the day of the murders, March 27, 2023, when the police went into her bedroom that afternoon, and they have not been seen since, and they were not entered into the inventory log.
00:09:30.600 So what does that tell us?
00:09:32.160 I mean, isn't that kind of odd that they can't locate a couple of the guns?
00:09:36.220 Well, what it tells us is that this investigation has now been going on for almost two years.
00:09:43.620 Metro Nashville Police Department has said they're not going to close it.
00:09:46.440 Remember, in May of 2023, the Behavioral Assessment Unit of the FBI in Quantico sent to the Metro Nashville Police Chief a memo, three-page memo, on protection of legacy tokens.
00:10:01.000 What is a legacy token is a document or materials left behind by a mass murderer.
00:10:06.780 And in that memo, they said that they should not never release these because it might have a bad influence on certain vulnerable communities.
00:10:15.940 And, oh, by the way, they said there's a precedent for destroying these documents.
00:10:19.580 Now, we put that aside for a while, but with this new claim, which has not really been refuted by Metro Nashville Police Department, other than to say they know nothing about it, we think there's a possibility that some of this evidence may have been taken by the FBI.
00:10:37.360 And so when I think we have the new FBI director, which should be, you know, tomorrow night, we're going to ask to have all of these documents released, and we're going to request an audit of all the inventory found at the Behavioral Assessment Unit of the FBI in Quantico, Virginia.
00:10:56.960 Okay.
00:11:01.000 Okay.
00:11:03.980 There's no speaking on the floor.
00:11:05.980 I'm told that Durbin is going out of his way to trash our own Cash Patel.
00:11:10.060 Let's find out.
00:11:12.320 Why is – make the case – I'm going to go to Sherwood in a second.
00:11:17.280 Why is this important?
00:11:20.720 Besides, there's freaks out there that want to get in and look at all this stuff.
00:11:23.920 But for the citizens of the community and the community and the nation as a whole, why is it important to review and to make public the 900 pages of this young girl's inner thoughts, sir?
00:11:38.180 Well, you know, Steve, there may be some possible connection between the recent arrest of this Zizian cult guy, right, to transgender killers allegedly connected to six murders, possibly including the murder on the afternoon of January 20th in the Vermont area of a border guard.
00:12:03.300 And there were rumors here in Nashville that there was a TRANTIFA connection to Audrey Elizabeth Hale.
00:12:13.240 We never really got to the bottom of those, but we suspect that there may be some kind of connection there.
00:12:18.240 That's why this is important.
00:12:19.680 And I think the FBI may well have been withholding a lot of this evidence from the public.
00:12:25.120 Okay, hang on for a second.
00:12:28.280 You just mentioned something I want to get into because we reported – and Laura Loomer was all over this – the shooting of the Border Patrol guy and Border Patrol officer in Vermont by H-1B visa overstay from Germany.
00:12:43.520 It turns out the story is much more complicated.
00:12:45.840 It turns out – correct me if I'm wrong – they're part of a transgender cult that has been killing people on a murder spree across the country.
00:12:56.740 Am I – is that – do I have this correct, Michael Patrick Leahy?
00:13:00.740 It's the weirdest story, Steve.
00:13:02.500 They've – they just arrested the purported leader of this group, 34-year-old, I think his name is Jack Lasota, in Maryland on sort of unrelated charges.
00:13:13.840 But those sort of in the general sphere, the influence area of this group called the Zizians – this guy apparently, transgender person, had been blogging about the use of violence.
00:13:29.080 Many – six murders are connected to this group in ways that police are very interested in.
00:13:37.320 So it seems what we have here, I think, is the possibility of a very, very violent transgender group that has been on kind of a murder spree and that may have influenced a number of other kids around the country who thought they were transgender.
00:13:58.040 And that's perhaps maybe one of the reasons why we've seen this growth of transgender kid violence at schools.
00:14:07.320 I want to go to Brandon Showalter.
00:14:09.880 Brandon, you're the – and the reason – look, this is a classic type of story we don't cover unless it has major political implications.
00:14:17.140 You were the first years ago on the show to say, hey, look, one of the reasons I'm doing this is not just for the individual issues with families and breaking up families, but this – there's something darker here.
00:14:29.500 We know in the 2024, this is one of the major issues that resonate with the American people to say, hey, look, I don't know what's going on here.
00:14:37.580 It's more than just men and women's sports.
00:14:40.740 There's something not right about this.
00:14:43.160 Last night I saw a political analyst that just said, hey, simply, these look like the party – or it was Reince Priebus was on ABC that Sunday morning.
00:14:50.840 Reince – with Jonathan Carlton, Reince goes, hey, look, people looked at the TV screen and said, hey, this looks like normal and this looks weird, right?
00:14:56.900 And I think I'm going back normal.
00:14:58.940 Brandon, you alerted us to these dark issues, possibilities, and now it looks like stuff's happening all over the country.
00:15:08.380 You've got cults doing it.
00:15:10.080 You have somebody with a 900-page manifesto or these writings are not being released.
00:15:15.100 What is going on?
00:15:16.000 Is this something at a public policy level that has to be addressed, sir?
00:15:20.240 I absolutely think it needs to be addressed, and I'm glad to see the federal actions that are being taken.
00:15:27.740 But one of the things that I know you like to say a lot, Steve, is that this is not my line of country, but you recognize that this is demonic.
00:15:34.700 I've heard you use that word.
00:15:35.960 And I can attest to what Mr. Leahy is saying about the Zizians terrorizing.
00:15:41.040 I've got friends up in Vermont who have told me these stories about how horrified they are about what's happening there.
00:15:46.920 I like, and I wrote this in a column recently, Steve, that with these executive actions, the federal executive orders that President Trump has signed, not only with the women's sports ordeal, but also declaring, you know, gender, there are only two sexes, and that throughout the administrative state, only science is going to rule two sexes, male and female.
00:16:09.480 And then the ending of the child medicalization one, where, you know, they're asking Pam Bondi to do investigations, and they're asking that WPATS guidelines, which is the activist group that's been transing the kids, it's been co-opting all the major medical associations.
00:16:24.860 I liken it to cutting down Asherah poles and destroying altars to Baal, because when you see the government taking its authority against these, I believe, diabolical strongholds and doing righteous things, I think that affects things in the realm of the Spirit.
00:16:44.000 Obviously, we need to keep praying.
00:16:46.240 I would say to people, you know, celebrate the developments, have one glass of champagne, but not two.
00:16:51.940 Now is the time to stay alert and vigilant, because trans activists do not take no for an answer.
00:16:58.460 It's a death cult, and now is the time when you watch even harder, because a wounded animal goes down fighting when they're cornered.
00:17:08.920 And so, finally, we have some leverage from a meaningful institution that's going to address this scourge head-on, and that needs to continue.
00:17:16.580 I just want to take a, kind of get a sit-rep.
00:17:19.700 Given everything you warn people about, everything about the medical community, all that, where do you think President Trump stands, both with the executive orders, his executive actions, what DOJ is doing, what they're doing in the court, they're being hung up in the courts.
00:17:34.340 But where do you think we stand, and how intense and fierce is this pushback from that community and broader from the progressive movement, sir?
00:17:42.620 It's a great start.
00:17:46.020 I think the executive order, especially the one calling the mutilation and the surgical mutilation and chemical castration of children a stain on our nation's history was unequivocal.
00:17:57.300 That's going to be where the most fierce pushback is.
00:18:00.280 That's where we really need to direct our prayers.
00:18:02.060 Of course, gender ideology ruins everything it touches, and I care about sports and other things.
00:18:07.400 But when it comes to, you know, giving these drugs to children that I believe do confuse them and make, you know, drive people mad, I don't want to make the correlation causation fallacy and say that taking testosterone caused Audrey Hale to shoot up that Nashville school.
00:18:23.980 But I believe what is going on is demonic, and I have no qualms saying so.
00:18:29.520 And so now, Steve, is the time when the saints of God, like Mr. Mike Lindell and everyone else who knows the Lord, to pray, pray, pray, because this battle has to be won in the realm of the Spirit.
00:18:41.000 But the executive actions are very much a step in the right direction.
00:18:45.180 And I hope that as the Justice Department investigates and other agencies take their actions, that we will see just a great unveiling of the atrocities that have been happening nationwide.
00:18:58.740 We need more action.
00:18:59.540 Brandon, before I let you bounce, understand this is a war and this is a spirit war.
00:19:05.440 However, the medical community that was making a ton of money off this and some people there, I don't think, believed in it, but knew is a way, a new path to make money.
00:19:15.660 Is the medical community standing down, understanding where President Trump and the MAGA movement and the people won the election are and how controversial it was?
00:19:24.740 Are they pushing back as hard as they've always pushed back on this topic?
00:19:30.320 They're being very stealthy, Steve.
00:19:32.200 I believe some hospitals, even prominent ones like Children's Hospital LA, has said that they're pausing these transitions, quote-unquote transitions on children.
00:19:40.720 Others are going to fight back.
00:19:42.520 That's why I say we need to be very alert because I think they're being very sneaky and stealthy.
00:19:46.900 Trans activists don't hate no for an answer even when you pass laws with teeth.
00:19:51.060 These people are ruthlessly committed to their cause.
00:19:54.760 And so I think there's going to be kind of a mixed bag.
00:19:57.720 And so that's why I'm emphasizing that people really need to watch because this is going to be a bitter, brutal fight.
00:20:04.140 They are making money off of them, but I think they are finally, some of them are at least on their back foot.
00:20:09.120 But again, I would watch very closely because they don't take no for an answer.
00:20:13.620 This is a cult dogma.
00:20:14.700 It's a cult of death.
00:20:17.540 Brandon, social media, your writings, Christian Post, all of it.
00:20:21.100 Where do people go?
00:20:21.740 Your documentaries, all of it.
00:20:23.320 Thank you, Steve.
00:20:25.780 At Brandon M. Show on X, ChristianPost.com is where you get our print reporting.
00:20:32.120 GenerationIndoctrination.com is our documentary podcast on the issue.
00:20:36.480 Deadnamedocumentary.com is about the indie film that I was a part of that explores how families are shattered by this.
00:20:44.460 And I have exciting news on that front.
00:20:46.320 It's now on Amazon Prime and Roku and Apple TV.
00:20:49.440 A couple of years ago, Vimeo tried to censor it, and now thanks to its distributor, we've got it on the major platforms.
00:20:54.820 So the censors have lost, so you can go see Deadname on those platforms now, too.
00:21:01.000 That's amazing.
00:21:02.200 Brandon.
00:21:02.480 It is amazing.
00:21:03.340 God bless you.
00:21:04.040 Great work.
00:21:04.740 Thank you, Steve.
00:21:05.480 Thank you.
00:21:05.980 Thank you, brother.
00:21:07.600 You talk about the election in 24, Brandon Showalter.
00:21:10.160 This is a guy that came from nowhere.
00:21:11.560 We platformed him here on the show.
00:21:12.960 Major impact, just like Todd Benzman with Overrun, one of the most important books that's been written recently.
00:21:18.920 It shocked people of what Biden had done.
00:21:21.500 Remember, just like Brandon, these are not random occurrences.
00:21:26.000 This is well thought through and very organized behind the scene.
00:21:29.040 That's what you're saying, both in the transgender ideology and, of course, the invasion of the southern border.
00:21:34.840 Spiritual war, sir?
00:21:36.260 Yeah, Brandon's absolutely right.
00:21:38.920 Spiritual war, but the spiritual war, there's no distinction in the Judeo-Christian West between the spirit and the flesh, right?
00:21:45.620 The Greeks had that disconnect where there's Gnosticism and there's this spirit floating all over.
00:21:51.240 Heaven, it turns out, is going to have cities and countries and everything.
00:21:55.100 And so Brandon had it all right.
00:21:58.040 What's roughly going on is Romans 1, right?
00:22:00.420 That humanity is serving creation and not serving the creator.
00:22:07.060 And then if you look at the greatest command, right, love God and love your neighbor as yourself.
00:22:12.440 And God above all things.
00:22:13.860 God above all.
00:22:15.080 And the hardest and the thing a lot of people miss in there is love your neighbor as you love yourself.
00:22:21.960 And so while we want to judge these folks, and it's demonic, they do not love themselves.
00:22:27.580 And so there is grace to be extended there, but they need to learn how to love themselves.
00:22:34.700 And unfortunately, God back in Genesis 1 is the God of order over chaos.
00:22:40.880 And these folks, a lot of these folks are rejecting order.
00:22:45.680 They prefer the chaos.
00:22:47.100 It's easier.
00:22:47.700 It's much harder to try to love someone and live with someone in community.
00:22:52.000 That's hard.
00:22:52.700 And the Jewish tradition has been great on the material world.
00:22:57.720 If you listen to Jordan Peterson and his new thing on John the Baptist and Jesus going to get baptized the first time,
00:23:03.360 you should see how many links there are to Genesis 1 in the Baptist baptizing Jesus.
00:23:10.020 It's incredible.
00:23:11.320 The linkages.
00:23:11.900 If you haven't seen that, go watch it.
00:23:14.380 And so people are going to think this is a leap.
00:23:17.620 This ties right into our budget conversation we've been having.
00:23:21.640 Brandon just pointed out over the past 12 years, Obama on through Biden, these things have been incentivized.
00:23:28.980 These behaviors have been incentivized through policy.
00:23:32.180 In the past, I never would have made those linkages.
00:23:34.660 I'd be going, no, that's a stretch.
00:23:36.920 It is not a stretch.
00:23:38.740 When you see just the extreme exponential rise of these crazy behaviors,
00:23:44.640 and they're tied to explicit policies.
00:23:48.080 And then in this budget fight, our speaker, who's a Christian guy in Thune and the Senate,
00:23:53.480 most all of them are Presbyterians and Episcopals and whatever.
00:23:56.460 This is all an HHS budget.
00:23:58.040 And they're going to fund.
00:23:59.140 They're going to fund all of this.
00:24:01.900 And you're going to get – it is splitting and killing our culture,
00:24:05.760 and it's ruining our children along with the debt and the interest on the debt.
00:24:10.320 And so, yeah, no, it's spiritual.
00:24:12.180 It's a spiritual war.
00:24:13.160 But there's payments all in there that should have never gone.
00:24:14.800 But it's real.
00:24:15.740 Have you noticed any difference now that President Trump's taken over in any of your interaction?
00:24:20.860 Do you expect action by the FBI?
00:24:22.640 You expect – by the way, cash – I guess they're voting cloture right now.
00:24:26.600 I think they're getting close.
00:24:27.960 Cash, I think the vote's going to – I think it passed.
00:24:30.580 Okay, on Thursday, I think we're going to have cash's confirmation.
00:24:35.340 I'll look at that in the break.
00:24:36.960 Mike, you're Patrick Leahy.
00:24:38.040 You've been on this from the beginning.
00:24:40.420 Do you anticipate any more cooperation from FBI law enforcement to get to the bottom of this
00:24:46.640 and make sure that something like this can't happen again anywhere in the country,
00:24:50.860 but particularly in Nashville?
00:24:52.680 It's all going to change as soon as Cash Patel is confirmed as the director of the FBI.
00:24:58.280 You know, we wrote a letter before the election to the FBI demanding the release of the documents.
00:25:05.100 They said no.
00:25:06.500 Heck no.
00:25:07.440 Then, just a couple weeks ago, after President Trump was inaugurated, we wrote the same letter
00:25:13.740 to them, and they said, we'll think about it.
00:25:16.120 Well, I think after Cash Patel is confirmed, they're going to be thinking real quick.
00:25:22.480 And I think we'll have not just the Covenant Killers manifesto, but I think we're going
00:25:27.660 to have a lot of other information that the FBI has been concealing, and it's not going
00:25:31.940 to be a good look for the Biden administration.
00:25:37.540 Well, and longer than the Biden administration, trust me.
00:25:40.240 I think there's some stuff in there that's going to shock a lot of people.
00:25:43.680 Michael Patrick Leahy, how did they get to your show?
00:25:45.700 How did they get to the Tennessee Star and all your papers and your social media brother?
00:25:49.780 Just go to TennesseeStar.com, TennesseeStar.com, and of course, we've got a number of sites
00:25:55.560 in the Star News Network.
00:25:57.900 And I just have to say, Stephen K.
00:26:00.160 Bannon, it is a delight to listen to you and David Bratt, the great Dave Bratt, talk about
00:26:06.980 the theological implications of all these things.
00:26:10.780 It's an intellectual tour de force that I enjoy.
00:26:14.440 I owe you.
00:26:15.080 I owe you, brother.
00:26:16.080 You're a Christian brother.
00:26:17.180 Dave Bratt's agent, Michael Patrick Leahy here.
00:26:21.140 No, I just, when the theologian starts going, I'm just sitting here applauding.
00:26:26.560 I'm just saying it sounds amazing.
00:26:28.140 Leahy, we love you, brother.
00:26:29.440 Congratulations.
00:26:30.060 Eight years with the stars.
00:26:32.620 Michael was one of the mainstays over at Breitbart for many years.
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00:26:37.240 Go to the Tennessee Star and get to all the papers.
00:26:38.920 Michael, appreciate you.
00:26:40.580 Thanks, Steve.
00:26:41.120 Thanks, David.
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00:31:25.260 Yes.
00:31:28.040 We're hearing that Russia wants to force Ukraine to hold new elections in order to sign any kind
00:31:33.460 of a peace deal.
00:31:34.220 Is that something that the U.S. would ever support?
00:31:37.520 Well, we have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial
00:31:44.520 law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine, I mean, I hate to say
00:31:50.780 it, but he's down at 4 percent approval rating, and where our country has been blown to smithereens.
00:31:56.940 You've got most of the cities are laying on their sides.
00:32:01.440 The buildings are collapsed.
00:32:02.440 It looks like a massive demolition site.
00:32:05.940 The whole, I mean, so many of the cities.
00:32:08.100 I mean, they haven't done it in Kiev, because I guess they don't want to shoot too many rockets
00:32:11.960 in there.
00:32:12.360 They've done it 20 percent, but they haven't done it 100 percent.
00:32:15.900 If they wanted to do it 100 percent, it would probably happen very quickly.
00:32:19.020 But you have cities that are absolutely decimated.
00:32:23.360 And, yeah, I would say that, you know, when they want a seat at the table, you could say
00:32:27.180 the people have to, wouldn't the people of Ukraine have to say, like, you know, it's
00:32:31.740 been a long time since we've had an election.
00:32:33.780 That's not a Russia thing.
00:32:35.200 That's something coming from me and coming from many other countries also.
00:32:40.540 You know, Ukraine is being just wiped out.
00:32:44.260 Look at what's happening to the cities.
00:32:46.380 There are cities, there's not even a building standing.
00:32:48.680 It's a massive, it's, you talk about Gaza.
00:32:52.280 I mean, it's, it's literally, these cities look like Gaza.
00:32:55.600 Thank you, Mr. President.
00:32:56.780 Could you tell us a little bit more about the Russia talks, your impression of how they
00:33:01.200 went today, and if you're perhaps more confident or less confident of a deal after what happened
00:33:05.480 today?
00:33:06.080 Well, much more confident.
00:33:07.340 They were very good.
00:33:09.120 Russia wants to do something.
00:33:10.720 They want to stop the savage barbarianism.
00:33:15.020 I mean, what, what's going on over there?
00:33:16.840 They're, it's, soldiers are being killed by the thousands on a weekly basis.
00:33:21.440 It's ridiculous.
00:33:23.180 And they're not American soldiers.
00:33:24.960 They're Russian soldiers.
00:33:26.160 And they're Ukrainian soldiers, largely.
00:33:28.220 Although a lot of Koreans have been killed, as you know.
00:33:32.080 Quite a bit of them have been killed.
00:33:33.880 They came over to fight and a large portion have been wiped out.
00:33:36.980 But we want to, we want to end it.
00:33:39.440 It was, it's a senseless war.
00:33:41.140 It should have never happened, would have never happened if I was president.
00:33:44.660 And it's a shame to see it.
00:33:46.140 And I see pictures that you don't see, but I see pictures of fields that look hard, just
00:33:50.680 horrible.
00:33:51.100 It looks like Gettysburg.
00:33:52.140 If you see the old pictures of Gettysburg, it's soldiers lying all over the field, body
00:33:56.380 parts all over the field.
00:33:57.540 They're all dead.
00:33:59.020 And this is going on on a, on a daily basis.
00:34:01.900 It's a horrible thing.
00:34:03.080 Both Russia and Ukraine, they're losing thousands and thousands of soldiers.
00:34:07.700 And a lot of people have been killed, too.
00:34:09.640 I think that's one of the things that you'll see historically and you'll see later on as
00:34:14.520 it goes along.
00:34:15.480 I think people are going to be surprised at how many people, not only soldiers, have been
00:34:19.600 killed in Ukraine.
00:34:21.460 A lot more people than you think.
00:34:23.460 I want to see peace.
00:34:24.580 Look, you know why I want?
00:34:26.380 Because I don't want all these people killed anymore.
00:34:29.320 I'm looking at people that are being killed.
00:34:32.020 And they're Russian and Ukrainian people, but they're people.
00:34:34.920 It doesn't matter where they're from on the whole planet.
00:34:38.400 And I think I have the power to end this war.
00:34:41.140 And I think it's going very well.
00:34:43.120 But today I heard, oh, well, we weren't invited.
00:34:45.260 Well, you've been there for three years.
00:34:46.580 You should have ended it three years.
00:34:48.340 You should have never started it.
00:34:49.580 You could have made a deal.
00:34:50.900 I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land.
00:34:56.840 Everything, almost all of the land and no people would have been killed and no city
00:35:00.520 would have been demolished and not one dome would have been knocked down.
00:35:04.020 But they chose not to do it that way.
00:35:06.340 And President Biden, in all fairness, he doesn't have a clue what he he was so bad for this.
00:35:11.320 It was so bad, so pathetic, so sad.
00:35:14.040 But with all of that being said, look, it is what it is.
00:35:18.620 When I left, there was no chance that this could have happened.
00:35:20.880 But it happened because we had incompetent leadership at many different levels.
00:35:24.900 But when you see what's taken place in Ukraine with millions of people killed, including the soldiers,
00:35:31.180 millions of people killed, a big percentage of their cities knocked down to the ground.
00:35:36.280 I don't know how anybody even lives there.
00:35:37.740 You know, when they say they took a poll and Zelensky is at four percent, who's living there?
00:35:42.540 You know, I mean, people are it's hard to believe that people live there.
00:35:45.720 Their cities are being knocked down.
00:35:48.420 And this is something that would have never happened.
00:35:50.780 And by the way, for four years, it didn't happen.
00:35:53.920 It was never going to happen.
00:35:54.720 That right there took four minutes, five minutes.
00:36:01.560 That's one of the most powerful.
00:36:03.660 That's right off the top of his head.
00:36:05.420 Let me say a different way.
00:36:06.680 That's right from his heart.
00:36:09.060 Right there.
00:36:10.560 With both barrels.
00:36:12.980 MSNBC and all the warmongers that goaded, just like Mersheimer said, Dave Brett, Mersheimer called it.
00:36:19.620 He said the West is going to lead Ukraine down the primrose path because it wants to take these guys in Western Europe and all the elites want to take on Russia.
00:36:30.160 They're going to lead them down the primrose path to their destruction and they'll fight.
00:36:34.880 They'll stay there and fight until the last Ukrainian dies.
00:36:37.840 President Trump right there lays it out.
00:36:39.540 This is clarity.
00:36:40.720 This is moral clarity.
00:36:42.540 This is also a man that can step into a decision and bring this horrible thing to an end.
00:36:48.400 And just so you understand history, when people talk about World War II and World War II and World War II, this, World War II, that.
00:36:55.300 From 1939, September 1st, which is kind of the official beginning of the European War.
00:37:01.720 From September 1939 all the way until basically the German army in June of 1941.
00:37:09.700 And in 1941, within six months, the Germans go against the Russians in Operation Barbarossa.
00:37:16.540 And then the Japanese attack us six months later in Pearl Harbor.
00:37:20.360 So 1941 is really when it kicks off.
00:37:22.860 If you take that time, I don't know.
00:37:25.780 You've got a couple of hundred thousand dead at most.
00:37:28.100 The invasion of Poland, the invasion of France, the Blitz of London.
00:37:31.280 There's some other operations going on.
00:37:34.880 There's obviously some stuff with their, you know, their techie in North Africa.
00:37:39.180 There's activity.
00:37:40.560 But there's nothing compared to what happened in Ukraine.
00:37:44.000 You have to understand the scale of this debacle, the scale of this tragedy.
00:37:48.340 For what?
00:37:49.640 For what?
00:37:50.440 But we said that on this show, on the eve of that war, and all day long on CNN and all
00:37:58.460 these experts who all mocked Trump the entire time, because go back, this is when Trump was
00:38:03.880 in the wilderness.
00:38:05.440 Trump had no power and wasn't coming back to power except for this audience who knew you
00:38:11.380 had a leader that had moral clarity.
00:38:13.300 It would have never happened.
00:38:14.300 And they mocked and ridiculed him while they goaded on Biden.
00:38:18.320 And so the people with blood on their hands, Boris Johnson, Joe Biden, the elites in Europe,
00:38:24.600 NATO, Petraeus, all of them, Stavridis, the whole Morning Joe crowd, David Ignatius, MSNBC
00:38:32.140 in primetime, all of you have blood on your hands.
00:38:35.820 And right there, so succinct, in four or five minutes, he lays it right out.
00:38:40.300 Boom.
00:38:40.960 And I'm telling you, he is going to make a deal with Russia that we can finally counterbalance
00:38:46.280 the Chinese Communist Party and bring peace and then have hemispheric defense here.
00:38:50.640 And Europe and Paris, they're going to have to figure it out.
00:38:53.100 We bailed you out in World War I.
00:38:54.520 We bailed you out again in World War II.
00:38:56.240 We bailed you out the third time in the Cold War.
00:38:58.680 No more.
00:38:59.640 You're not a vassal state.
00:39:00.720 We don't want a vassal state.
00:39:03.740 You're all over top of us on tariffs, right?
00:39:06.700 You're always gaming the system.
00:39:08.340 We're done.
00:39:09.680 And not that we're an ally, but an ally is kind of an equal partner.
00:39:13.020 You know, you guys have sucked off the American people, and what they're doing now, the elites
00:39:15.820 are sitting there, and they're in shock that finally Trump has come back and stepped into
00:39:20.080 a decision and go, guys, this is what I think of you, and this is what I think you've done.
00:39:25.380 You're not even in Riyadh as part of the negotiation.
00:39:27.880 And Zelensky lost it, and the Europeans are losing it, because Trump sent them a message.
00:39:32.180 Hey, I'm going to sit down and make an overall geostrategic understanding, I think a rapprochement
00:39:37.380 between the two parties, and the Europeans, and Zelensky particularly, and President Trump
00:39:43.240 gives a shot across the bow, hey, he's at 4%, right?
00:39:47.460 Dave Brat, as a former working politician, how brutal was that shot from President Trump?
00:39:53.720 Well, as a former seminarian, I mean, the left's heads are going to pop off when I say what
00:39:59.000 I'm going to say.
00:40:00.260 But the Atlantic, if you go out to the Atlantic right now, their lead article, death of the
00:40:03.720 government expertise, death of government expertise, what Trump is doing in his genius
00:40:09.520 is just bypassing the expertise.
00:40:11.860 Look who the expert is.
00:40:13.480 Look who ended the war.
00:40:14.820 Look who had no wars.
00:40:16.400 Look who started all the wars.
00:40:18.360 Now let's go over to moral theory, which always trumps everything, no pun intended.
00:40:23.120 But moral theory always trumps everything, and there's only one moral theory I know of.
00:40:26.820 It's the moral theory and the narrative of the Judeo-Christian West.
00:40:30.880 And so there's a nice little story called The Good Samaritan.
00:40:33.720 And so you got all these Atlantic, you know, expert class that say they're apolitical.
00:40:39.460 They say they're apolitical experts.
00:40:41.860 Well, there's three folks that walk by this man on the side of the road who's been beaten
00:40:46.660 up.
00:40:47.200 You might call those the million dead and injured Ukrainian boys.
00:40:51.400 So there's a million dead and injured young boys laying on the side of the road, all bloodied,
00:40:57.880 all missing limbs.
00:40:59.800 And where is the expert class?
00:41:01.880 They just walk right on by those dead boys, right?
00:41:06.100 And where is Trump?
00:41:07.700 There's too many boys being killed.
00:41:09.740 I'm going to end this.
00:41:10.940 I don't like dead boys.
00:41:12.260 We're going to end this.
00:41:13.620 Talk about moral clarity, right?
00:41:15.780 The Good Samaritan.
00:41:17.120 Ask yourself the question that Jesus posed.
00:41:19.620 Who did good?
00:41:21.120 Who glorified God?
00:41:22.680 And the idea for the left to comprehend that, the idea that Trump glorified God more than
00:41:31.160 they have in their actions.
00:41:32.700 He's saving lives and they're killing people.
00:41:35.680 And they roughly did it, right?
00:41:37.500 Mir Shimer and all the great theorists or whatever.
00:41:40.440 I mean, the idea.
00:41:41.340 And we talked about Kennedy this morning, right?
00:41:42.960 And follow great powers.
00:41:43.960 The idea that Ukraine is, and I love the Ukrainian people, by the way.
00:41:48.640 I've been there and I've visited with them, all the religions.
00:41:50.460 The Ukrainian people, I got, I love them.
00:41:52.440 They were, look, the valor and courage they've had on the battlefield is unbelievable.
00:41:56.560 It's unbelievable.
00:41:57.260 But life's thrown away by these people.
00:41:59.440 And the idea that they're going to beat Russia.
00:42:01.560 It's ridiculous.
00:42:02.040 It's ridiculous.
00:42:02.780 For those territories, and by the way, the blood is not on the hand of those people.
00:42:07.740 The blood's on the hand of the West.
00:42:09.620 Yeah, it is.
00:42:10.300 Mir Shimer said it in 2014.
00:42:12.140 It's on us.
00:42:12.560 The West is going to lead these people down the primrose path with a bunch of false promises
00:42:16.620 and false hopes.
00:42:17.880 Yeah.
00:42:18.420 What we try to do is not give them false hope or false promises.
00:42:22.700 We're not going to be here.
00:42:23.640 We don't want to be here.
00:42:24.460 We shouldn't be here and we won't be here.
00:42:26.160 And that's what happened.
00:42:27.180 And now they've been led down to destruction.
00:42:29.600 President Trump keeps saying a million dead and wounded Ukrainians.
00:42:33.460 And 500,000, 750,000 dead or wounded Russians.
00:42:37.580 And here's how we know something's up.
00:42:40.540 It's the parents of the Ukrainian young men.
00:42:44.480 Men between 18 and 26 that said, you are not going to have this draft go down to 18.
00:42:48.800 You're not going to kill my sons.
00:42:50.340 You're not going to throw them into the churnal house there on that eastern front.
00:42:53.660 We're not going to let Zelensky do it.
00:42:55.440 So Zelensky and his wife can be on the cover of fashion magazines.
00:42:58.520 We're not going to do it.
00:42:59.240 Remember, Hollywood lauded him.
00:43:01.220 Davos lauded him.
00:43:02.300 This was a good, you know, people on the right.
00:43:04.580 I remember all the tweets.
00:43:06.020 This guy's Churchill.
00:43:06.900 I said, this guy's not Churchill.
00:43:08.540 This is absurd.
00:43:09.360 Boris Johnson, that whole crowd led to this point.
00:43:13.000 And President Trump just gave it to you with both barrels right there.
00:43:16.300 And the elites and the experts and the State Department and the CIA will still tell you
00:43:22.220 and they will tell the leadership in the Republican conference.
00:43:24.780 You guys just don't understand.
00:43:25.920 You still got to trust us.
00:43:27.000 What we're doing is we, even though this looks awful and a million are dead, we're diminishing
00:43:33.460 Russia.
00:43:34.320 And what we're really doing is we're fighting for democracy.
00:43:37.160 I mean, that is the only narrative they can spin.
00:43:40.160 Right.
00:43:40.320 We're doing all of this for democracy.
00:43:42.480 And it's just on its face.
00:43:44.880 Zelensky probably can't get elected.
00:43:47.020 He's not elected.
00:43:48.600 He's not the presently sitting president of Ukraine.
00:43:51.920 He doesn't represent the people.
00:43:54.040 Our CIA did a coup d'etat on Ukraine in 14.
00:43:58.060 RFK Jr.
00:43:59.060 has great snippets on that.
00:44:01.020 Going way back to the fall under Gorbachev of the wall, we said, James Begler III said,
00:44:06.180 we will not move an inch to the east.
00:44:08.140 That's what our elite said.
00:44:09.940 That's what our elites.
00:44:10.860 That was the moral promise.
00:44:12.940 We took over all 14 or 15 of them, made them NATO countries.
00:44:17.320 Ukraine was the final buffer.
00:44:20.060 And Russia said, no way.
00:44:21.980 That's the red line.
00:44:23.220 That is the red line.
00:44:25.680 They can get rich.
00:44:26.980 They can be democratic.
00:44:28.120 They can be Christian.
00:44:29.280 But they cannot be NATO.
00:44:31.600 Let's see if we get Paul.
00:44:32.240 And we didn't listen.
00:44:33.440 OK, breaking news coming across from Brazil.
00:44:35.700 Well, President Bolsonaro has been indicted for coup d'etat.
00:44:40.900 And there we go.
00:44:42.060 That message should have been delivered, you know, by our State Department or others that
00:44:47.460 this is a line you do not want to cross.
00:44:49.440 What they're doing to President Bolsonaro is exactly what they try to do to President
00:44:52.600 Trump.
00:44:52.940 It is the exact same gang.
00:44:54.700 OK, it's the deep staters down there.
00:44:57.500 This radical judge.
00:44:58.400 We're going to try to get Paulo Filo on.
00:45:02.240 They're going to join us in at CPAC.
00:45:04.440 But I want to have him on.
00:45:06.220 So I'm breaking news right now.
00:45:09.180 And they were saying it might be Thursday.
00:45:11.500 But it looks like he came tonight on Tuesday.
00:45:14.360 President Bolsonaro of Brazil, and I'm getting this from one of his closest associates.
00:45:19.080 They're telling me right now that it's been that he has been indicted for coup d'etat in
00:45:24.700 Brazil.
00:45:25.380 And we don't know if they indict him or if they're going to let him out of jail, prison,
00:45:30.440 if they think it's so we're going to get into this.
00:45:32.020 This is this is bad.
00:45:33.120 And, you know, he got invited to the inauguration and they wouldn't take his passport right there.
00:45:39.000 I think a lot of people that are close to the Brazil situation said, hey, they're cooking
00:45:42.120 up something.
00:45:42.520 If they don't trust President Bolsonaro to come to the President of the United States
00:45:46.540 inauguration, sums it up.
00:45:49.560 How big a deal is this?
00:45:50.620 Bolsonaro being indicted for coup d'etat.
00:45:53.620 That's South America, right?
00:45:55.120 We're talking about this hemisphere.
00:45:56.480 And we want our friends and where's our State Department and CIA and all the experts and
00:46:01.420 bureaucrats.
00:46:02.140 We keep losing the good guys and we and we lose to the communists and the socialists over
00:46:08.880 and over and over.
00:46:09.700 How is this when the expert class has been in charge for all these decades?
00:46:14.080 And so I think President Trump's probably going to throw some weight around on this and
00:46:20.100 at least we're going to bring some transparency to it.
00:46:24.500 And hopefully at CPAC, they've been doing a good job on some of these international issues.
00:46:28.260 And so people, you stay tuned.
00:46:29.560 Well, tomorrow night, we're actually hosting with Rick Grinnell.
00:46:32.640 We're going to host the international dinner.
00:46:34.060 I think there's right now going to be 60, 70, 80 people there.
00:46:37.080 There's going to be a panel discussion beforehand.
00:46:39.140 Make sure you go to CPAC.org.
00:46:40.600 If you're in the area, 76 bucks.
00:46:43.120 We got a special discounted ticket.
00:46:45.200 They just announced that Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, is going to speak
00:46:48.620 on Friday.
00:46:50.180 I thought he was going to close out.
00:46:50.940 I think somebody just sent out that he might open the day.
00:46:53.660 I'm sure his schedule is jammed, so they're going to figure it out.
00:46:56.500 But there's a bunch more surprises coming at CPAC.
00:46:58.840 Tomorrow, we start Force Multiplier.
00:47:01.200 Dave Bratt will be there.
00:47:03.300 I'm trying to get Mike Davis over.
00:47:04.940 Natalie will be there before she goes over to the White House.
00:47:07.240 We're going to have Grace, Moe, Jane Zirkle.
00:47:10.240 Calamity Jane is going to be with us.
00:47:11.980 It's going to be amazing.
00:47:13.480 I'm really looking forward to this because CPAC is going to be very special this year in
00:47:17.260 the Force Multiplier Academy.
00:47:18.500 I want to finish with budgets and spending.
00:47:23.340 Look, on the two reconciliations, we've argued for two reconciliations for a long time because
00:47:29.980 the tax thing is going to be more complicated.
00:47:33.320 They're now saying that the – I think it's $1.5 trillion over 10 years, I believe it is,
00:47:39.540 for the Social Security, which is about $150 billion.
00:47:42.200 It's a real number.
00:47:42.880 But it has to happen.
00:47:44.740 The way they're spinning it, the think tanks that are on the – employed by the wealthy
00:47:48.420 is that, oh, the wealthy make out too much in the taxes.
00:47:51.060 Fine.
00:47:51.580 Let them – if you look at the assumptions, that's not actually the case because they
00:47:55.560 don't really fill in with what could be filled in.
00:47:58.080 Hey, understand it may be the wealthy going to make out okay, but the middle class and
00:48:02.460 working class need that cut on Social Security.
00:48:05.640 But we've got to address spending.
00:48:08.100 Right now, it's demonstrable.
00:48:09.920 The spending is what is driving inflation.
00:48:12.880 There's no political will, we understand, to do it.
00:48:15.360 So it's going to have to be forced, right?
00:48:17.620 How do you force it?
00:48:18.860 We have a forcing function on midnight on the 14th, but we're going to get a one-year
00:48:24.400 CR.
00:48:25.620 And the Doge guys – and look, I've got a lot of differences with Elon Musk, but not
00:48:29.520 about Doge.
00:48:30.580 On Doge, we need – first off, we need the Doge audit cuts now and then later the structural
00:48:36.200 changes.
00:48:37.640 So obviously, I think OMB and treasuring guys should work together and maybe some of
00:48:42.060 their disclosures should go through those agencies first before they go out.
00:48:45.740 But that's a kind of a side issue.
00:48:47.800 Number one, they're saying $84 billion.
00:48:50.320 If that's in this budget year and they're shutting down, that's got to be in the CR.
00:48:54.360 And I feel very uncomfortable doing the CR for the whole year and then saying afterwards,
00:48:59.900 well, we're going to do rescissions.
00:49:00.960 We're going to do impoundments.
00:49:03.760 That's great, and I'm fully supportive of this theory of impoundments.
00:49:07.320 But the impoundment situation, you're a constitutional scholar.
00:49:10.560 That's going to go to the Supreme Court, is it not?
00:49:12.420 Because that's a tad controversial.
00:49:14.780 Yeah.
00:49:15.140 No, that will go to the Supreme Court, right, along with all this other weaponized Justice
00:49:19.920 Department stuff and the Dems fighting back.
00:49:23.320 But the war room posse, I've been encouraged because I watched the numbers on the war room.
00:49:27.940 And they've – after the election, I thought – and I hope people stay fighting.
00:49:32.400 And the numbers are staying on the war room.
00:49:35.060 And so everyone needs to –
00:49:36.100 Oh, people are in the fight.
00:49:37.200 We're not losing our audiences.
00:49:39.120 And not just that, the intensity and urgency of the engagement.
00:49:41.960 The audience is more engaged than ever.
00:49:43.400 So the people understand that a slight celebration, they're back at work though.
00:49:47.280 And so you look at what Steve's doing.
00:49:49.280 It can be summarized kind of in a word.
00:49:51.080 Accountability.
00:49:51.660 The accountability project, right, for congressmen, senators.
00:49:54.580 The problem is the folks at home keep electing these people that vote for $7 trillion budgets.
00:50:00.980 That's the problem.
00:50:02.380 So what can be done?
00:50:03.700 I mean we can –
00:50:04.340 Well, they go back and dodge it.
00:50:05.700 How do they dodge it?
00:50:06.580 Because people like their congressmen, but these guys go back after – and we don't have –
00:50:11.120 House Freedom Caucus is about 40 people.
00:50:13.320 When you were there, they would single you out as being hardcore.
00:50:16.440 You were an anti-spending guy.
00:50:18.000 Yes.
00:50:18.420 Right?
00:50:18.680 Back when the budget was $4 trillion, $3.5 trillion.
00:50:21.660 That's right.
00:50:22.080 And you were anti-spending then.
00:50:24.200 Right, right.
00:50:24.740 Right?
00:50:25.100 And they went out of their way to make sure that they didn't have Dave Brat to have to worry about.
00:50:29.080 Yeah.
00:50:29.360 No, they force discipline when they want to.
00:50:33.280 Always for the donors, for the giant Excel spreadsheet in the sky, I called it.
00:50:38.320 That's where they're willing to go to the mat and fight.
00:50:41.300 And so what can we do?
00:50:42.880 It's the Federal Reserve, right?
00:50:44.340 John Taylor, on the money, you do rules versus discretion.
00:50:50.560 And so if the leadership cannot do it, they need to admit they failed, right?
00:50:54.440 For decades, they failed.
00:50:56.320 We're at $60 trillion, right, in debt in a decade.
00:50:59.820 $36 plus $20 plus $4 in interest, right?
00:51:02.540 So it's $60 trillion in $10.
00:51:05.380 It's unsustainable.
00:51:06.760 The bond vigilantes.
00:51:07.580 Oh, you're not even 52.
00:51:08.700 You're adding another $8.
00:51:10.120 Oh, yeah.
00:51:10.540 Yeah, yeah.
00:51:11.380 Oh, we'll talk about that tomorrow.
00:51:12.900 Yeah.
00:51:13.020 Okay.
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