Andrew Breitbart was a man of many talents. He was a brilliant journalist, a loving father, a husband, a friend, and a husband. But he also had a heart attack and passed away at the age of 76.
00:02:19.980Bigs. And did you have a heart attack?
00:02:22.860I did. I had a heart attack. Yeah. Right here in Washington.
00:02:25.560Right over the old, where we used to do CPAC before we went to National Harbor.
00:02:29.960Yeah, I wound up in GW Hospital and my life was saved by Dr. John Reiner at GW Medical Center.
00:02:36.680Unbelievable. Did that start, did you actually feel pain in your chest and just knew something was going to go on as CPAC's about to start?
00:02:43.040It was in the middle of the night, that first night at CPAC, yeah. And then you feel it. It's a very distinctive feeling. And if you live through it, you'll never forget it unless it kills you.
00:03:01.860That's what Andrew had later. That's when he went.
00:03:03.700Well, I know he did. And I hate when people, listen, Andrew and I talked about this constantly. And he came to see me in the hospital like the next morning.
00:03:11.360And I said, Andrew, now look at me. I'm 20 years older than you are. I'm a voice from the future. You've got to be careful. And that next summer, he said, I was just at UCLA Medical Center. I had all those procedures done. I've got some heart conditions. And then he died. And so.
00:03:27.340Well, but it happened because he called us. You know, he lived right around the corner from Geffen and from the medical center of UCLA. He lived right there on Veterans Avenue.
00:03:45.960He didn't really know who his parents were. I mean, he knew who his parents were, but they didn't have the, you know, the studies about what his parents had gone through.
00:03:53.980And, and this was a congenital heart disease that he had. And he spent 10 back in, as you know, to keep a guy in the hospital a week is, is extraordinary.
00:04:03.740And they did every test in the world. And they came out with a punch list that said, Andrew, this, you have to change your life. You have to change your lifestyle.
00:04:18.120You know, you and I have both known him since for years and years and years. But that's why I don't like to hear people say, well, was he murdered?
00:04:23.520No, he was, he died of a heart attack. It's, it's, that's, that's simple.
00:04:27.580And it shows you that you've got to take those lessons like you did when you, when you had the heart attack, you pretty much changed your lifestyle.
00:04:34.120I changed a lot. Um, I'm still, uh, I have to go under, undergo surgery again in, uh, again, yes. In about a month or so. I need a bypass.
00:04:43.940Okay. You're going to do it here. And I think I'll probably do it here.
00:04:46.820So you split your time now. And that's where we had the footage at the beginning is Ireland's on fire right now because of, I guess, a rape of a young girl.
00:04:54.280But there's all this issue about unlimited immigration and no mass deportations, all that. I want to get to a second.
00:05:00.380You split your time now between Ireland and rural New England.
00:05:04.540And rural New England. So talk to me about Ireland. You're one of the great observers of political movements.
00:05:10.260I think it particularly for Irish Americans like myself here, I was like, we're kind of shocked because there's so many Irish Americans, you know, us dumb mix in the MAGA movement, you know, big foundation of the MAGA movement is, is basically people I would call Irish revolutionaries or Irish Republicans.
00:05:29.100Yet our, our, our home country, it just seems like it's this political class there has sold them out so badly and they're so progressive and they just don't care what the people have to say.
00:05:39.940And these elections seem like, I can't understand why more nationalistic candidates can't get traction.
00:05:46.500There aren't any. Uh, I would say this, it's very broad strokes, but I'm at the position of my life where I get to do broad strokes.
00:05:52.44076, you can say whatever you want, actually. And I like when people call me sir. Now this is nice.
00:05:57.780I appreciate that. Uh, one of the jokes is that all the best people, all the best Irishmen got on a boat and came here. Uh, and as a result, they don't like us at all. Steve, the diaspora, they don't like us. Oh, it's just, we think they were too dumb to get on the boat. They think we sold them out and ran and cut and ran and then, Oh, look at you.
00:06:22.120You big fat mix. Now you're in America and you rich and famous and you blah, blah, blah. And we're Patty still pulling a plow. Yeah. So there's a huge resentment. Uh, and I'm trying to bridge that.
00:06:33.420And with some Irish patriots who you and I will talk about, uh, off the air and, and try to get the movement started there because Ireland is run by a racket, two parties that are the same party.
00:06:45.660They used to be separate, but now they're identical. Uh, it's run by beta males and women. Mostly some gay men to Leo Varadkar of the first gay T shock, for example, uh, beta men and beta men and alpha women and alpha women. Yeah.
00:07:02.920And now we have two bag ladies running for president. That's what they look like to me, bag ladies. There's no choice of candidates. And the biggest thing in Ireland right now, which is the presidential election coming up in a day or two, spoil your vote. Don't vote for either one of them.
00:07:16.920Uh, that this is the way to show protest. Uh, it's being organized by, uh, Declan Ganley, who, you know, and who I know, uh, and Declan is a very, very, uh, persuasive, uh, advocate of just mark your ballot, whatever you want, but don't vote for either of the two female approved candidates. The racket is selling and it's run us a three-legged racket. You know, one thing the Irish are good at, we run rackets.
00:07:42.600It's see Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall. I was going to say James Michael Curley. Oh my God. In St. Louis, in Kansas City, in New York, everywhere. And so Ireland is run as a racket. It's got these two parties that are the same party. And then it has a bunch of splinter parties that they deliberately keep, you know, powerless and impotent. Uh, then it has the media. It, it owns the state media. So the state media will not report anything.
00:08:11.160If they've had a word about these riots, about the little girl that was raped by what we are told is a North African or African Arabic speaking immigrant who has already been issued a deported order, a deportation order, but wasn't.
00:08:25.460But it's still in the country. Yeah, but they're all still in the country because they're not, they're not serious about this. And the third leg of the racket is the NGOs, which act as big money laundering operations for setting government policy.
00:08:36.940The government can't technically set. So you're up against this huge machine. And it's very difficult for patriots and nationalists and populists and people who love Ireland to do anything about it.
00:08:49.780And what I've been, the point I've been making is the Irish nation, that's you and me and all the other patties that we know here in America and around the world is bigger than the Irish state.
00:09:01.680And that the people who run the Irish state do not have the right to ruin the Irish nation.
00:09:10.020They do not have it. And we will stop them because it's, there's 40 million of us here in America, for God's sakes.
00:09:17.020There's only 5 million Irish and there was 4 million five minutes ago until they opened up the floodgates of immigration.
00:09:22.300So we're, we aim to stop this. And, and, and I will do, as I move into this latter part of my life here, I will try to be an advocate for the old, the old country.
00:09:33.840You're going to dedicate a big part of it. Coming out of England this week, but kind of towards what we're trying to fight for, the new thing that they're saying in England with, as Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson and others try to fight back and take political control, that this is all about,
00:09:49.640and they're starting to arrest people, you know, on various charges in England for what they call cultural nationalism.
00:10:46.540The St. George's flag is now flying everywhere. And this is a way of the, the only way that they fly the Union Jack sometime, but the real nationalists are starting to fly the flag of English flag.
00:10:56.620Exactly right. So I am a great advocate of reconstituting the Irish state. I think we should just take the six counties and tell the British they're now ours. What are you going to do about it?
00:11:11.840That's it. Northern Ireland is now part of the entire country. And if you don't like it, what are you going to do? Send all the troops the Pope has to stop us. They won't do it because they don't care. Two is to get a new constitution with a strong.
00:11:28.200I think they wouldn't have any choice. They're on the same island. You know, there's no physical barrier anymore. And only two of the six counties have prostituting the Irish.
00:11:36.660It's one of the issues with Brexit, right? Because they would use that, the whole thing between Ireland and the northern counties.
00:11:42.320It's one of the reasons we have an immigration problem, too, because the immigrants will go to England first and then to Belfast, and then they just come right over the border. And then they say, here we are. Give us free stuff. I'll give you an example.
00:11:53.460Right at the beginning of the Ukrainian war, we decided to take in Ukrainians. So my little village of Lisdor and Varna has 600 people in it. We now have 600.
00:12:53.260Well, people are, but there's no way to express it.
00:12:55.680This is my problem with Patty who stayed at home. Patty who stays at home will grumble about it, but he won't do anything about it because he's not troublemakers like you and me.
00:13:09.420So you're saying the entire Irish culture, not just what we know of immigrants from North Africa or Syria, but also from places like Ukraine, have just flooded the country.
00:13:22.000And although the people feel aggrieved, they don't think there's any, there's a permission structure they still feel they have to get approval from so nothing happens.
00:13:28.900To object is to be a racist, and no Irishman wants to be called a racist. It is the dirtiest, deadliest, career-ending slur in the country.
00:13:49.140You just have to, if you can't blow past that, you shouldn't be in this business.
00:13:52.640It's, it's, you know, we just have to stand up, but it's, it's, it's going to be a process, and fighting the media is really part of it.
00:13:59.380Because there is no media. They're all the media state-owned.
00:14:01.380They're all state-owned. They're all, they all sing from the same hymnal.
00:14:04.660We only got limited amount of time. I'll hold you behind the break, but I have two other things.
00:14:08.020So now that you're 76 and you're getting involved in Irish politics, and obviously you're very big, you're in the MAGA movement, your writings, you're going to do less day-to-day reportage and more overview or big pieces?
00:14:20.180Well, yeah, I, I, I, one of the things that we've done is that we've reinstituted our company called the Imprimatur Group, which we had up and running a bit during the first Trump administration.
00:14:34.300So that is going to be basically the view from 35,000 feet. It's going to be working directly with candidates to improve their presentations and, and make them smarter.
00:14:47.320Their media skills. Yes, indeed. And the third thing is to look to the future. I mean, we're in the Trump era now, but the Trump era will stop. And after that, what comes out?
00:14:58.420And while the deluge, basically. So is it going to be, we want that we want the Trump age to continue at least to 28, the, I'm the head of the Trump 28 campaign.
00:15:07.820I'd like to continue to the last day, my last day on earth. Exactly. But, uh, uh, uh, together, if people would like to, uh, find out more, they can write to, uh, us at imprimatur.co.
00:15:22.600Okay, fine. Imprimatur.co right now. .co. Yeah. They can go to that right now. Yeah. And find out more about that.
00:15:29.820The website, everyone who's involved in it is there and it, it will be, uh, it may be under construction for a bit, but it's under renewal.
00:15:37.260Fine. And just tell me, we'll give back up. Okay. I got 10 minutes and I got to talk about the books.
00:15:41.960Yeah. You have the war room is a huge supporter of your writing endeavors. Absolutely.
00:15:47.200Talk about the last couple of books and are you continuing on and kind of that, it seems like an arc of an overall story you're trying to tell us.
00:15:54.280Well, it is Steve. You know, it's when you get to a certain age, now you're still a young whipper.
00:15:58.200I'm a young whipper. So you're still wet behind the years, but let me, let me listen to the old man. Talk to him. Uh, yes, sir.
00:16:04.100You begin, sir. Good. I like that. Uh, I talked to the army Navy club the other night and I had all those admirals and generals in the audience, which was great.
00:16:12.680Uh, you, you, you begin to realize you, you can't be a Roman legionary your whole life. Even the legionaries only did it for 20 years and then they retired and they got land in Italy somewhere and, you know, Caesar conquered enough people to pay them and, and off you went.
00:16:27.420But that was the deal you made. If you, if you joined the legionary legions, if you live for 20 years and did your duty,
00:16:33.300you would get, you would be a farmer retired in Portugal, Spain, or somewhere Tuscany, Tuscany, somewhere nice.
00:16:40.980Sounds nice. Yeah. So, uh, I'm kind of retiring to Tuscany in a way, but what I can do is to put the pieces together.
00:16:48.240So you've been kind enough with last stands that really helped make that a surprise bestseller for St. Martin's press.
00:16:55.240It's a fabulous book. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, and then the new one is called a rage to conquer. Yes. Uh,
00:17:01.680and that is a little more dense. It's a little thicker. It gets more deeply into the peripheral
00:17:07.020issues around each battle. And now I'm working on the wrath of God, which is a history of religious
00:17:12.720warfare from the opening of the Bible to the present day. So it actually will come full, full circle in
00:17:19.520the Middle East. So the arc of this story is last stands, which you talk about the famous last stands
00:17:26.420in history. And you do it in a way that's so vivid and brings them to life. Then you got rage to conquer,
00:17:30.340which is talk about these major battles, but maybe some of the issues that people,
00:17:34.520if you've ever read about them before, you're bringing aspects of them people don't know about.
00:17:39.400And now the story continues with the wrath of God and wrath of God is particularly looking at
00:17:45.040religious battles around religious. Yes. Religious warfare. So I take, I'm going to, I'm going to get
00:17:49.580Vienna. I'm going to get some of the famous Roland on the retreat from, from Spain. Well, we did,
00:17:55.080we did Roland did the last dance. Yes. He got his, he got his innings, but we're going to do,
00:18:00.400oh, the Albigensian crusade, for example, which was Christians against heretical Christians. Yes.
00:18:06.460Where the phrase, kill them all, let God sort them out. This is the Cathars. The Cathars. Yes.
00:18:12.600Yeah. Quite interesting Christian cult. Yes. And they, they, they felt they had to wipe them out
00:18:18.440literally to the last man, to the last man. Yeah. Which they did at busy and other places. Obviously,
00:18:24.440we're going to start with the Israelites and the Canaanites in which God says, take the land,
00:18:28.600slaughter every man, woman, child, and donkey in the place. And it's yours. It is the promised land
00:18:33.240to you. And I'm developing the list of battles now and we'll go forward from there. But I think
00:18:39.720what drove, what drove this idea? Why pick the battles? Cause you're very good. And this one,
00:18:45.580like you take battles, particularly the people, even people that love history and military history
00:18:51.280think they know, but you put a different aspect on it. Like last stands, you read every one of those
00:18:57.500and they jump out. It was like, gosh, I didn't know that. Same with rage to conquer. What was it
00:19:02.560about the religious, uh, battles that you felt hadn't been told before? I'll tell, I'll tell you,
00:19:08.600because it's something you learn as a writer, as you go. Uh, most writing is being surprised by what
00:19:14.360you suddenly realize you need to know, and then you go find it. In so many of these battles that
00:19:20.100we've talked about in both last stands and rage, the side, this, each side felt that God was on its
00:19:27.840side. And if it lost, it attributed its loss, not to military ineptitude or bad luck, but to
00:19:35.540insufficient fidelity to their God. So that when the Christians lost, they, we weren't faithful enough
00:19:42.920to Jesus. We had to march around them. We have to sing hymns. We have to find the Holy Lance at
00:19:46.660Antioch. When the Muslims lost, they said, we have, we have let Allah down. We are not worthy of him.
00:19:53.020We're, we're, we're horrible people. And so we have to try harder. And I start the new book by saying,
00:19:59.920uh, religion is not, as some people say, the cause of all wars. Wars are the cause of all religions.
00:20:06.900They spring from warfare. Example one, the Iliad. Suddenly it's, it's a war between gods and among
00:20:14.920gods that humans participate in. So the need for a deity seems to go hand in hand with the need for
00:20:22.800military ability. Are you doing also, are you going to do the Gita? Are you going to do the,
00:20:27.840the famous battles of other religions? No, I don't think so.
00:20:31.580The Judeo-Christian was? Mostly, except that I'm doing the, the, uh, Taiping rebellion in China.
00:20:36.460It's one of my favorites. Well, because it tells us so much about the Chinese. So much. Uh, I have
00:20:41.400a lot to say about Chinese, the Chinese. And you're going to have, uh, you're going to have, um, uh, the,
00:20:47.360uh, ever victorious army led by general Gordon and general Gordon. And they had the great American,
00:20:52.520uh, mercenary that came over from failed at a West point. Oh yeah. Well, who was that? I
00:20:57.560forgotten his name on top of him. Ward Townsend. Ward Townsend. Yeah. Just an incredible story.
00:21:03.300So we have lots of those. He actually died with the ever victorious army. Did he? Yeah. He died
00:21:07.540before, when Gordon had taken command, he was one of the field commanders. But what people don't know
00:21:12.400about that, they think it's a Chinese civil war. No, the, the, the, the guy that started the war
00:21:17.920said he was the brother of Jesus Christ. Well, he, he would, in Canton, he had taken the examination
00:21:25.980to get into the civil service. It was all confusion and that, and the family was very poor
00:21:31.800and they put it up. And of course he, when he failed the first time, you just, you're finished.
00:21:35.820The mother was so insistent and said, no, no, no, my son's very special. We got to do it again.
00:21:40.220They did it again, put all their money in and then he failed the second time. So now it's like
00:21:44.020they're in a dilemma and the mother says, no, we're going to try one more time on the way. I think
00:21:48.120to take the test, a Baptist missionary gives him a tract of what Baptist missionaries are all
00:21:55.520over Canton at the time. And after he took the test that night, he, I think he realized he wasn't
00:22:01.020going to pass. And so that's when he had the vision that, that Jesus came to him in his vision
00:22:06.260and said, and said, you're my brother. And so he, this shows you the power of evangelical
00:22:12.140Christianity in China. And it is why the Chinese Communist Party will put, you know, there's a
00:22:18.020hundred million Christians in China right now, church, underground Christians, house Christians,
00:22:22.480and Catholics. And the reason is they saw it catch a prior for folks. You have to understand
00:22:27.620there were, there were, there were Baptist missionaries, Methodist missionaries, Episcopal
00:22:32.020members, a handful of priests, but Christianity and Catholicism had not caught fire. This guy
00:22:36.800starts preaching the word of God as he interpreted, you had, he had a, he had a 25 man, million
00:22:43.220army didn't in a couple of years. It's the scale of Taiping rebellion.
00:28:23.600You know, I didn't know this until the guys at Field of Greens, the doctors and the experts, told me about it and then gave me information.
00:33:14.66025, 30 years ago, they designed it to get to where we are right now, to bankrupt it, to make sure it goes to a single-payer socialized medicine program.
00:33:25.980And that's what this has always been about.
00:33:28.340That's what the left has always wanted.
00:33:30.560And that's why they're fighting, kicking, screaming over this government shutdown.
00:33:35.560That's why they want this $1.5 trillion additional dollars that we don't have as a country to be able to afford for illegals and for this continued propping up of Obamacare.
00:33:49.980The first big prop-up came during the pandemic, correct?
00:33:56.480And then afterwards, they just want to extend this.
00:33:59.620But here's the question, because we're going to go to Idaho next.
00:34:02.800If you look throughout the country, in some of the most MAGA districts, people are needing, I don't know what, Medicaid and or Obamacare, some part of it, to actually have babies, have basic health.
00:35:52.920And I'm a free market guy, and I think that if we get back to the choice discussion about giving people options within their health care, that's going to be what really brings costs down and will give people better access to better medical care.
00:36:14.300But this is a conversation that has to begin now.
00:36:19.180Now, I say we – this is what my position is.
00:36:22.000Let's flip the script on Chuck Schumer.
00:36:24.160Let's not talk about this $1.5, $1.6 trillion for illegals and for propping up this increased rates that we have to pay on Obamacare.
00:36:34.420Let's strip Obamacare down and make it so that we get back to a free market system, not a socialized medicine system.
00:36:43.400That will – you talk about being a disruptor that Donald Trump is.
00:36:49.080You're – this is written, I believe, as I read it.
00:36:56.000I said, Bossy's sending a message to the weak rhinos who right now want to go negotiate.
00:37:02.900But they're even prepared to have a conversation with the illegal – the way the backdoor illegal alien payment for their medical costs are.
00:37:12.400Well, we're trying to do mass deportations.
00:37:14.120This is one of the key things you have to take away.
00:37:16.740Do you think there's anything as you see right now to negotiate – as long as the Democrats even have that in there and have all this phony language to have a backdoor into here?
00:37:25.920Do you see any need at all even to have a negotiation with Schumer until they come off that point?
00:37:32.060There should be absolutely no negotiation on this point, Steve.
00:37:59.840We must gain control of our financial health and future as a country.
00:38:06.420And, Steve, you and I have been spouting these things for many, many years now, decades even.
00:38:13.540And this is a fight that we have to have.
00:38:17.200And because of President Trump's courageous leadership, and to be quite honest, Mike Johnson and the leadership in the House that he has given – I mean, to not have these members in is a strategic victory that really Mike Johnson is solely responsible for.
00:38:36.740And we – and I thank him every day for it.
00:38:39.360Because if you had these House members on the floor every day, you would be having capitulation and fights over capitulation to the left because they would feel the pressure.
00:38:53.820And, by the way, this is a shutdown that the country, other than the air traffic controllers, this is a shutdown that America is really not seeing at this point.
00:40:21.760As you know in our coverage, one of the things that's upsetting us to no end is the situation with the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar.
00:40:28.560And obviously they have a big role in the Middle East and have been kind of invited in and they're all over this Gaza situation.
00:40:35.240But something popped up that was quite shocking.
00:40:38.860I think the Article 5 that President Trump gave them, understanding that had a geostrategic reason to it to kind of give them the NATO, you know, attack upon Qatar, attack upon the United States.
00:40:49.700But then right after that was about this, about an Air Force base going to be turned over to Qatar, either going to buy it, take it over.
00:41:17.640When I was in OCS going to the Navy, I think we had 500 Iranians, Persians at Newport, that as soon as they became officers after 90 to 100 days, they went to, I think it was San Antonio, Texas, to learn how to fly.
00:41:32.000We have tons of places around the country.
00:41:33.780I think San Antonio is still the center that teaches foreign pilots to fly.
00:41:38.140Why are we giving them an Air Force base up in northern Idaho, ma'am?
00:41:43.480Well, it's a military training facility, and we're currently training with other countries, and we're training with Singapore, but Singapore isn't funding Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:41:59.640That's where we're just overwhelmed with this news.
00:42:04.220So, I know they're training other Air Forces or other fighter pilots.
00:42:12.380Is this influx supposed to, like, double the capacity?
00:42:17.180I take it they're not actually going to sell them the Air Force base.
00:42:22.320They're just going to bring them in, I guess, as a rework facility from the jets or maintenance and to train the pilots?
00:42:27.920Well, they're bringing in 12 F-15 fighter jets and 300 personnel, and they're going to have to get housing because we're already maxed out with our housing in Mountain Home.
00:42:56.900I mean, we have been discussing this off the air, and we understand that there's injustices in the world, and we know that the president wants global peace.
00:43:08.120But these interventions outside of our country as a global empire, it is literally, we are going to pay the price in Idaho.
00:44:33.220So now we're inviting close to, I think, 300 people we're bringing in to train.
00:44:39.260Plus, I think I read 150 support staff.
00:44:42.920Who knows where they're going to come from?
00:44:45.120I personally think, Steve, we should have listened to Pat Buchanan.
00:44:49.460I was a young lad at the time in 92 when he gave a speech at the convention.
00:44:53.380But, you know, Pat Buchanan warned us of all this.
00:44:56.000He said there's a religious war going on, you know, for the very soul of America that will determine more than the Cold War what America looks like.
00:45:04.180So I think it's just continually piling on.
00:45:08.660You know, we're looking at a spiritual civil war and we should be fighting it.
00:45:13.400We should be fighting against ideologies that hate us, to be frank.
00:45:20.340But instead, we're importing them and we're embedding them into Idaho.
00:45:23.520And this is an executive branch problem.
00:45:27.120You know, we found out about it just about when everyone else did.
00:45:31.280This is something that took place in the executive branch and we just found out about it.
00:45:37.780You know, nobody gave us a heads up, that type of thing.
00:47:01.500The culture hates Christians and we are a Christian state.
00:47:06.140Like you said, we have been pulled out as the American redoubt and people have, I mean, we have had so many people move to our state to escape the leftist policies in these other states.
00:47:20.180We've had year after year of Democrat policies undermining our strongholds here in this state.
00:47:28.700And like we said, with the refugee resettlement, all the illegals being pushed, we have a contingent in our state.
00:47:36.520I think a lot of globalists, they want the cheap labor for our farms.
00:47:40.820And this will all undermine our culture and our sovereignty.