The Great America Show - December 30, 2023


Best Of Lou Dobbs: BANNON - FIRE RONNA, HIRE DON JR


Episode Stats

Length

26 minutes

Words per Minute

188.14813

Word Count

5,062

Sentence Count

365

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

The Great Steve Bannon joins the Great America Show on The Lou Dobbs Show on January 9th, 2020. Steve is a conservative firebrand with a long history in the conservative media and politics. He is a former White House Strategist, Strategist and Strategist. Steve has been a long time member of the House of Representatives and served as Chief Strategist for both the conservative and liberal wing of the Republican Party. He has been in Congress for over 20 years and is a regular contributor to conservative media outlets such as CNN and Fox News.


Transcript

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00:01:14.940 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show. Great to have you with us and
00:01:23.120 happy, happy new year. Well, America is a mess right now, obviously. And the Biden regime and
00:01:31.580 the Marxist Dem Party, well, they're all combining and colluding to destroy this country. We have a
00:01:38.480 new Speaker of the House who seems to be cut from the same cloth as the last one. And we have a
00:01:43.460 president who doesn't even know where he is. It's a real mess, folks. Our guest today to take up these
00:01:49.920 political issues, cultural issues in this country right now, the great Steve Bannon. Steve, good to
00:01:55.200 have you with us here on The Great America Show. Thank you. Love the show. Love the audience.
00:02:00.720 Well, thank you very much. And same back at you. Let's start with 702, a confused House of Representatives
00:02:09.320 that is confusing the rest of us. Your thoughts about 702 and why this shouldn't be a straight no
00:02:18.540 immediately from the Republicans.
00:02:21.660 It should. It's disgusting. You know, remember, Lou, for us being fascist and Trump won't be a
00:02:26.340 dictator. We're the one people that are sitting there throwing down the sand, hey, maybe we shouldn't
00:02:31.460 let the FBI surveil more American citizens. This thing's outrageous. And I think it shows,
00:02:37.260 you know, I love Mike Johnson. I love the biblical worldview. But on this, another example, I think,
00:02:42.860 where he gets the intelligence community around him, he sees some classified reports. The next thing
00:02:46.520 he's going, he's, he's, you know, petrified and allowing this to be still slipped into this awful
00:02:52.220 NDAA, which I might add, has all the woke and weaponized stuff we fought so hard in the committee
00:02:57.860 to get out that when it's passed in July, it's all back in. And now you're going to have slipped
00:03:02.460 into the couple of thousand pages, you're going to have slipped in an authorization or
00:03:07.000 at least a kick down the can to April. But people realize if it goes to April with the
00:03:12.560 FISA, the 702 goes for another year. So it's in the, it's in the 2025, it's into the Trump's
00:03:19.140 return. So I think this thing, it just shows you, even with guys like Jim Jordan, some solid
00:03:23.920 guys that there's just not a sense of urgency. I don't think of a house to be fighters on this
00:03:28.280 thing. And look at the Senate, all the, the BS coming out of the Senate about why we, why we need
00:03:33.080 this. It's, it's just, it's, to me, it's pathetic. I couldn't agree with you more. I have never
00:03:39.200 seen a Congress in my career that is so blatantly, obviously just confounded and in, and completely
00:03:50.140 without any way to find their way forward to, to supporting their values, their purported values
00:03:57.060 and philosophy of the Republican party.
00:03:59.580 Lou, the war room audience is most of everything you just listed out, what they're all furious
00:04:03.860 about. The thing that most serious about is these guys are leaving on Friday. They're going to leave
00:04:10.060 on, on December 15th. They're not coming back to January 9th. We're 10 days away from the first CR
00:04:17.500 kicking in. Now I'm a person and I was raised and trained in just how I am that if I have important
00:04:25.220 work that needs to be done, I can't take off and go enjoy myself and do something else. I've got to
00:04:29.780 get that done. I've got to focus on that and get it done. Once that's done, then I feel like maybe we
00:04:35.500 take some time off. Maybe we, you know, can go do something. I don't understand these guys. There is
00:04:41.320 no sense of urgency. And this is not like they're small issues. You just, you just named a couple of
00:04:45.980 Republican, you know, the Republic ending thing, the invasion of the Southern border, nine million
00:04:51.920 illegals here costing us a half a trillion dollars a year, which I don't even know is
00:04:56.260 budgeted for. I think it just continues to run up the tab. This whole debacle in Ukraine, the Ukraine
00:05:02.320 war is over. Everybody in Europe knows it. They allowed him to come over and true to, and talk to
00:05:07.400 our military directly, address our military, and then, and then meet with the arms manufacturers and
00:05:13.020 then, you know, wander around Congress with a tin cup and then had the beggars bowl out at the
00:05:18.680 Oval Office, another embarrassment for another $100 billion we don't have. There's so many huge
00:05:23.620 issues and they haven't even addressed with the spending. Remember, the House is still short for
00:05:28.460 appropriations bills, including justice and the FBI, which is going to be one that's a real fight.
00:05:34.240 The Senate, I'm not sure, has passed four or five of them. They're six or seven short. So there's no,
00:05:39.960 when we get back in the ninth, there's going to be another fire drill. There's, there's no chances
00:05:43.960 this thing get solved by the 19th of January or when the second one comes on the 2nd of February.
00:05:49.040 So they're going to talk about another CR or another January, you know, omnibus. And this is all now
00:05:55.080 the fault of leadership. Mike Johnson, who everybody backed when he got in there, it just seems to not
00:06:02.200 understand what this moment's about. And this moment's about a crisis of the American Republic.
00:06:07.720 It can only be addressed with hard work. And I mean hard work that is, you know, six and seven days
00:06:13.760 a week, 18 to 20 hours a day. And our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, would not be offended if you
00:06:21.580 took a couple hours, had a little ceremony in the Capitol on the morning, on Christmas morning,
00:06:28.800 and went back to work, which I think is what has to happen.
00:06:31.500 And I, what do you think the odds are that'll happen?
00:06:35.860 Less than zero, Mr. Doff. Hey, bro, they're leaving. You know, don't, don't get over at Reagan.
00:06:42.300 Don't get in the way of any of these guys leaving town on, on Friday. Cause they're, they'll run over
00:06:46.000 you. Right. They're leaving. They booked the tickets. It's all done. And they're not back.
00:06:50.060 And they're not back to the night. Lou, are you taking, do you take three weeks off for Christmas?
00:06:55.380 Do you take, are we a couple of guys in like Switzerland, the Davos crowd skiing in the Swiss
00:07:02.860 Alps? I've never heard people take three weeks off. Yeah. Only when Klaus Schwab has a sweet book
00:07:08.980 for me and with plenty of advance notice, which hasn't happened for decades. So it's a, it is
00:07:17.660 stunning to me that we are in 2023 in America, and it feels nothing like the country that I have
00:07:27.040 lived in for my entire life. It feels nothing like the Capitol that I've been in and out of,
00:07:35.500 and the, and the officials that are inhabiting it. I see a country that is truly, truly caught in some
00:07:44.380 sort of centrifugal force. And I want to take that up with you. When we come back, we're talking with
00:07:50.000 Steve Bannon, Steve Bannon's war room. We'll be right back. We're back with Steve Bannon and Steve,
00:08:02.360 there seems to be something going on here. Forces at work that I can't identify, but which I feel,
00:08:10.260 which I, and I trust my instincts and my intuition, there are great, great forces at work here that
00:08:19.180 are somehow beyond our vision and somehow beyond our senses to identify. Your thoughts about what is a
00:08:29.100 turbulent, turbulent period of time in our history? We know I've been a big advocate of this concept of
00:08:37.640 called turnings, you know, the, the, the, the, um, cyclical nature of American history. And, uh,
00:08:43.780 it was personified in the book, the fourth turning. I made a movie about it. I don't know,
00:08:48.240 in 2009, so it was 14 years ago called generation zero. You were nice enough to have me on the show
00:08:55.420 when I came out with the film, you and Sean. Um, you know, I just had Tucker on the show for the
00:09:00.880 launch of his new site. And I went back to Tucker's cause I've known Tucker a long time and he's kind of a
00:09:05.880 happy warrior like Andrew Breitbart. They're in the fight, but these guys are very optimistic glass,
00:09:10.840 you know, half full, all that. And he's taken a very darker turn the last six months. So I,
00:09:16.140 his heritage speech, his speech, he's given, and I asked him, I said, look, you've always been a
00:09:20.000 upbeat guy. We're in the subject uplands and you've gotten, you've gotten almost as dark as I've
00:09:24.860 gotten. And he said, he says, listen, he said, the country I knew and loved is now gone and,
00:09:31.000 and fastly receding. I don't know if we can get it back. We probably can't,
00:09:34.280 it's going to be a hard fight. He says, I sense a sense of darkness. He says, I've noticed this
00:09:38.760 even with my friends, the friends that even I've lost in, in being such a, a member of the MAGA
00:09:43.740 movement and, uh, you know, the American firster. And he goes on about this darkness. And I think
00:09:49.600 you're right. There's something out there. And I think this is just the cyclical nature of history,
00:09:53.980 like in Ecclesiastes. We're in a season of darkness and it's upon, it's upon us patriots
00:10:00.680 to now bind together and to kind of make a blood oath and fight our way through here and try to
00:10:06.620 save this Republic. Because if we don't do it and we don't do it now, uh, we're going to lose it
00:10:11.240 forever. What was bequeathed to us from 12 or 13, 14 generations, uh, is going to be lost. And this
00:10:18.000 is the new Jerusalem. It's the most unique country in the history of man. It's done, it freed more
00:10:23.420 people, created more wealth, done more for humanity than any, uh, country in the history of
00:10:28.780 the earth. And we're in a fight for it right now. And I, but I agree with Tucker. There's a,
00:10:32.660 there's a certain darkness out there that is a kind of a brooding specter over us. And it's for us
00:10:39.120 patriots to, uh, to punch through this. I think it's very clear. I don't see the darkness that,
00:10:45.080 that you or Tucker's see what I see is, uh, uh, fearful hearts, uh, on uncertain minds and,
00:10:54.740 and opponents, enemies who are obviously clear.
00:10:59.760 I think, but see, I think you've described it. I think you described that the, the uniparty
00:11:05.500 globalist, um, progressive left is so vicious and so outside the bounds of what has been traditional
00:11:12.700 Americanism that it's that fear. And I think it's in Congress. I think it's a two play. You
00:11:18.480 worked at two of the greatest, you worked at CNN at the top of its game and you worked at Fox at the
00:11:24.140 top of its game and you're seeing it there. And it's one of the things Tucker and I talked about.
00:11:27.180 They're good people. There are many good people in Congress. A lot of them are just flatly afraid.
00:11:33.220 They're afraid of stepping up. They're afraid of having a sense of urgency. They're afraid of being a
00:11:38.000 fighter because they see what happens when you step up at Fox and CNN and other media companies.
00:11:42.700 They're good people there, but they're afraid they're afraid they'll be terminated. They're
00:11:45.580 afraid their career will be run. And when people get into their thirties and forties that they've
00:11:49.600 spent 20 or 30 years getting to these positions, it's, it's, you know, easier said than done.
00:11:55.260 There's not a lot of, you know, Lou Dobbs is a Steve band Tucker crosses says, Hey, screw it.
00:12:00.440 I'll go to some, I'll start a podcast. It'll be just as big. I'm not saying we're particularly brave,
00:12:05.620 but you know, we, I think understand risk and how you try to mitigate it. A lot of people don't
00:12:10.340 know that it is definitely fear, but it's not a, it's not an irrational fear. Look,
00:12:16.640 look what they're going to Trump. Trump, dude, if I told you, if I'd been on your show in 2020
00:12:23.020 and I said, Hey Lou, they're going to steal this thing. We're going to get, Hey Lou,
00:12:27.460 we're going to get 74 million votes. You know, I thought I did a great job. We got 63 and 16.
00:12:32.200 We're going to get 74 million votes, Lou. And we're still going to lose between a combination
00:12:36.440 of the machines or the mail-in ballots. You pick them, but that in a couple of years,
00:12:41.980 Trump's going to be indicted four times on 91 counts, 700 years in prison on criminal charges.
00:12:47.740 They're going to have a show trial, like the Moscow show trials in 1935 in New York and strip him of
00:12:53.300 all the business his family's worked on for generations. And Oh, by the way, they're going
00:12:57.940 to be in nine swing States trying to take him off the ballot. Cause Oh yes, with all this,
00:13:02.480 he's still leading in the polls. You would have said, I've lost my mind that that's not America.
00:13:06.780 It can't happen. It's impossible to happen that that could not happen. That the justice department
00:13:10.780 judges, uh, the States, particularly the Stephen States like Georgia, uh, would never allow that
00:13:16.560 to happen. And yet here we are. And so when people look at that and people look at Mike Lindell
00:13:21.120 and they're trying to put Mike Lindell in banks, you know, Mike Lindell went through a very tough
00:13:25.680 time about a hundred days ago. I mean, to, you know, he came on the show today and said, Hey,
00:13:29.280 he wanted to thank the warden, the Warren posse who really kind of put our shoulder to the wheel.
00:13:32.760 He says, he didn't think he'd be able to pay Christmas bonuses. They're trying to destroy
00:13:36.500 Lindell. They're trying to destroy Trump. If you step out of line ever, ever, uh, at one of these
00:13:43.740 big media companies, you're out and your career is over. If you step out in a corporate, in one
00:13:48.580 of these corporate fortune 500, you're out and gone. You'd be 35 or 40 years old. James O'Keefe gave
00:13:54.220 this speech tonight about this, about fear. And there was an audience, I think it was at the
00:13:59.120 university of, um, I think it was Northwestern or someplace like University of Chicago. There was
00:14:04.080 a young minister. There was about 35, an Episcopalian minister. And he said, look, he says, look, it's
00:14:10.440 easy for you to say, but he says, I am afraid. He says, I'm 42 years old. I got two kids, a wife
00:14:15.120 and a mortgage. If I get fired here, the reason they fire me will be on my record forever. I won't be
00:14:22.120 able to get a job. I won't feed my kids. People have fear and they have fear because our enemies,
00:14:27.680 and that's what they are, have no bounds. They, they're, they are out for the politics of personal
00:14:32.920 destruction. And, uh, and people are fearful. And that's why it's incumbent upon us and others
00:14:37.900 to say, Hey, look, and that's why in Congress, you have a few, you don't have many, you have a few,
00:14:42.800 and that's all we need. We need a few more to say, look, uh, this is Republic ending what they're
00:14:47.800 doing. If we don't stand up now, if we don't fight, we don't stand to breach every day,
00:14:52.540 this is going to be over. And the Republic, this country will still be something.
00:14:57.120 It will still be wealthy. It'll still be powerful, but it will not be the constitutional Republic
00:15:01.200 that was handed down to us and bequeathed to us. And that's why this moment is everything right now.
00:15:06.860 We're going to talk with Steve Bannon about how we've squandered a legacy in this country,
00:15:11.680 which is part of this, uh, this calculus and what has created our current reality. We're also,
00:15:19.720 I want to remind everyone, uh, that there is, uh, that expression, uh, the, uh, politics of personal
00:15:27.260 discretion. We thought it was just a, uh, a relic of the past from Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton,
00:15:34.560 uh, and the Clinton East is, uh, they're the ones who brought that to, to the fore and is a,
00:15:40.260 is a vicious weapon in American politics. Guess what? It's even meaner and nastier and more
00:15:48.200 effective than ever. We're coming right back. Stay with us.
00:15:51.060 We're back with Steve Bannon and Steve, you, you've been, uh, podcasting much longer than me.
00:16:03.080 You've been immensely successful. I can't. Yeah. I'm an old vet. I'm a, I'm an old vet.
00:16:08.660 Lou, you've been doing this. You're 40 years into this. You're the, you're the Dean. Everybody knows
00:16:14.520 it's Trump and I've watched Trump's watching you back in the eighties. I was watching you back when
00:16:18.200 I was a Naval officer. You're, you're the Dean. You're, you're the, you're the mentor when it comes
00:16:22.240 to this. Well, you're very kind. And, and I learned from, uh, from you and, uh, Mr. Trump all the time,
00:16:29.160 but here we go. I feel like I can function to, to be bright and, uh, at times airy and positive
00:16:39.060 is I'm trying to also inform my audience and to give them the, my perspective of what is going on in
00:16:47.040 this country. And there are days I have to say, I don't pull a punch, but maybe I'll just kind of
00:16:52.920 try to land it, uh, a little softer than otherwise. But we are right now I'm running out of ways to
00:16:59.740 avoid the reality, uh, that is, is in point of fact, a reality that is confused, that is often
00:17:07.840 inexplicable. And I think even the best minds, uh, in this country right now are not devoted to solving
00:17:15.740 the problems that are so obvious, uh, whether it is our relationship with, uh, with the people's
00:17:21.800 Republic of China, uh, whether it is Russia, whether it is the middle East, uh, we have people
00:17:28.600 like, uh, Anthony Blinken, uh, Joe Biden, uh, Jake Sullivan. I mean, we have some of the worst talent
00:17:37.200 in the world working on the, the biggest problems. I think that the country has ever faced short of war.
00:17:43.380 I agree with you. I mean, if you look at the team, that's why it's so important. I think for
00:17:47.340 this politics is for the Congress to start getting on top of things and start having extensive urgency
00:17:52.180 and start defunding things. And also for all of us to get our shoulder to the wheel and make sure
00:17:57.220 not only we win 2024, but that we can close the deal. We won last time. It didn't close.
00:18:02.880 We don't have that option now we have to, we have to close the deal. And so I think that that's why
00:18:06.700 all the chips are the table. And I think, and I strongly believe that that's why, you know,
00:18:11.460 from Tucker to, to you, to what we're doing on real America's voice on Lindale TV, all these
00:18:17.320 podcasts, they're, they're, they're so important because you're not getting that information
00:18:22.460 at Fox. You're not getting that information clearly at MSNBC or CNN and even most of the
00:18:27.920 conservative media. So we have a lot of uncertainty. One thing I feel quite comfortable, what I feel
00:18:32.920 good about is that I like who's on our side of the football. Uh, at the end of the day,
00:18:37.960 just like in any sport, it's about not just your plan, your strategy, because that only
00:18:42.180 goes to the first time you get punched in the mouth. As Mike Tyson used to say, you have
00:18:46.880 to have a team. And I like our team. I like the way we're adding to our team. I like when
00:18:50.980 I were doing interviews in the streets of Chicago and you have young African American men that
00:18:55.580 said they've had enough of these illegal alien invaders being dumped into their city to destroy
00:19:00.120 it. Uh, when you have people in the rear grand Valley, uh, Hispanic Americans who said
00:19:05.100 they've had enough of this, this invasion of our country. I like who we have. I think
00:19:09.960 we're growing every day. Uh, not only these podcasts getting bigger, but the movement's
00:19:14.800 getting bigger. It's getting more energized and people want action and they're able to
00:19:17.800 call out, uh, even guys that we like and support like Mike Johnson, who's a good man and a Christian
00:19:22.980 man with a great biblical worldview, but you need to get urgent. And, uh, so I like where
00:19:28.820 we are, although I think it's dark and it's going to get a lot darker because I will tell,
00:19:33.600 I tell people, I don't see the deep state in the administrative state welcoming the Trump
00:19:40.360 and the mega movement back to power in January, 2025 with open arms. I just want to be blunt
00:19:46.440 about that. And I think we got to really be prepared for a very, uh, uncertain and crazy
00:19:52.960 2024 the entire year. So let's batten down the hatches.
00:19:57.460 I'm batting down the hatches and full speed ahead. I, I want to talk to you though, as we
00:20:03.520 are wrapping up here, you were part of, uh, you're a big part of the reason that president
00:20:09.480 Trump won the white house in 26, uh, 2016. Uh, you were a big part of, uh, establishing
00:20:17.320 the administration and, and counseling the president. I believe chief strategist was your,
00:20:23.240 uh, your title there. Uh, and, and I, I have to ask you, do you see a way forward in terms
00:20:31.920 of the organization that president Trump has right now? Do you see a way forward,
00:20:36.920 uh, in, in the way the RNC is organized?
00:20:40.300 Well, I think there's two, number one, I think to prepare to take over the administration
00:20:44.120 is you've got the heritage guys with project 2025. You've got Russell, you have other groups
00:20:49.220 that are looking to train up both policy wise and personnel, people that already, not people
00:20:55.420 that we know Trump's got to pick, but people that are the bend of the draft pool that he
00:21:00.200 could pick, uh, for the 3000, uh, political appointees that we can get day one. We have
00:21:06.660 4,000 overall 1000 of Senate confirmed, roughly 3000 can hit the beach right away. That's the
00:21:11.940 control of federal apparatus. It has about 2 million civilian employees, about 2.5 million
00:21:17.560 military, but it also has contractors that, you know, 16 to 18 million. So it's roughly 20 million
00:21:23.220 people in the apparatus. Um, and that I think is going very well. And I think these guys are
00:21:28.520 doing a terrific job. We spent a lot of time with them and I couldn't be more pleased about
00:21:32.800 the depth of quality and thoughtfulness in these programs and new people are coming on
00:21:38.220 every day. We promoted a lot on the show and a lot of people are volunteering and coming
00:21:42.480 forward. The campaign I think right now for a primary is perfectly structured. I think they've
00:21:46.580 done a really good job. It's a very tight group. Uh, president Trump knows his policies.
00:21:51.900 He's doing a lot of policy himself in these speeches, but if you look at the organization
00:21:55.860 in, uh, Iowa and in New Hampshire and in South Carolina, these early States, it's, it looks
00:22:01.260 like it's very well organized. I think even more organized than Corey had in 16. Corey
00:22:05.720 did a terrific job. Um, the over the general campaign are probably going to have to power
00:22:11.000 up. I think president Trump will make that decision at the time when to power up. Now we
00:22:14.960 talk that's outside packs and RNC, the RNC is a disaster. President Trump should call
00:22:20.140 before we had Charlie Kirk on the show today. We're adamant. President Trump's, it's only
00:22:24.100 president Trump can do it. He's got a call for a runner to step down. We have to revamp
00:22:28.180 the RNC immediately. The state parties of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, these
00:22:33.480 places, these people have very little money, very little organization. They're central, also
00:22:37.860 Georgia, Nevada. We need the, we need the big six to be hitting on all cylinders. That's
00:22:43.140 not happening. They're not raising money. She's got to go. That's a debacle. Um, as far
00:22:47.680 as the packs go, I, I, I'm not feeling it right now. Uh, I think president Trump's a lot
00:22:53.280 of his time and attention is diverted. Like the, the, like the left wing wanted on this
00:22:58.040 on legal. They're really sucking up his time and his focus. I think we'll power up. I think
00:23:03.580 the right packs will come. I think the donors will finally understand it's going to be Trump.
00:23:07.420 I hope that all comes together in February, March of this coming year. And it's got to come
00:23:13.040 together quickly. You have to get together and put this drive. Look, we've wasted tons
00:23:17.240 of money. I think we're going to end up wasting six or $700 million on these debates in this
00:23:22.400 bogus primary. Uh, but everybody should have the answers. All the donors should have the
00:23:26.060 answers now. Hey, you gave the Santas a shot. You gave Nikki a shot. You gave Christie a shot.
00:23:30.780 You gave Youngkin a quasi shot. None of them got any, uh, traction. It's time to come together
00:23:36.680 back with president Trump. So I'm optimistic in that regard, but there's a lot of work that has
00:23:40.360 to be done. I can see the pieces, the structural pieces, and I see the personnel. I really liked
00:23:45.640 some of the team members we've got. And it's all about, it's all about grinding every day.
00:23:50.300 You're going to have to grind every day between now and five November, 2024, if you want to win.
00:23:55.780 And I mean, 20 hours a day, seven days a week, those people are prepared to do it,
00:24:00.460 particularly given the debacle the country's had, uh, with Biden and the rest of this radical crew,
00:24:05.520 I think good things will happen and good things have to happen because if we don't win,
00:24:09.160 we'll lose the country. Yeah, we, this is the precipice. There is no doubt about it.
00:24:14.700 And, uh, and you've heard it folks, uh, from the man who knows, uh, this is, uh,
00:24:20.660 let me ask one question in closing. Do you have a perfect candidate in mind or a semi-perfect,
00:24:28.440 I'll take even semi-perfect, uh, person in mind, uh, for, uh, to replace Ronna McDaniel?
00:24:34.900 Yeah. I I've got a perfect person. I would put in there right away. I put Don Jr.
00:24:39.240 I think Don Jr. I think Don Jr. Well, number one has his father's confidence. Number two,
00:24:44.460 knows what his father's thinking is. Number three is a huge popular figure among the grassroots and
00:24:50.160 can raise a ton of money among the grassroots. Uh, three is high energy, uh, knows what the mission
00:24:56.040 is. I would put Don Jr. In, in a, in a second, a Kimberly Guilford could be his wingman. I think
00:25:01.380 we'd be in perfect shape. There's a bunch of others out there, but if you had to ask me,
00:25:05.440 you know, the person I would go to first, I'd ask Don Jr. to do it. Don Jr. would work 24 hours a day,
00:25:12.460 10 days a week to support his father, the love he has for his father and understanding what his
00:25:18.400 father has given up by coming back and doing this again. If Trump had walked away, none of this would
00:25:23.520 have happened. He's now a fight for the family, a fight for the country, uh, and a fight for himself.
00:25:28.900 So I think Don Jr. is my perfect candidate. You know what? Can I sign the petition first? I think
00:25:35.260 it's a great idea. I think you're exactly right. Steve, we appreciate you being with us and, uh,
00:25:41.640 all the very best to you. God bless you and God bless America. I'm your second, I'm your second
00:25:47.880 biggest fan. Your first fan, first biggest fan is president Trump himself. I'm your second biggest.
00:25:52.540 I've watched you for, since the eighties, you're an American institution and we're so lucky to have
00:25:59.480 you still at your age where you could go do anything you want to commit and do the work you do
00:26:05.200 to, uh, to help save this Republic. So thank you. Have a Merry Christmas. Love the show. Um, uh,
00:26:11.280 you and the misses are the best and, um, just, uh, have a great holiday. Great. Well, I want to say
00:26:17.960 first, I'm honored and thank you very much for those kind words. And I wish you a Merry Christmas
00:26:23.200 as well. And, uh, everyone listening to us and all of our fellow patriots, uh, across the country,
00:26:30.280 uh, God bless and Merry Christmas. Thank you, brother.
00:26:34.200 Our guest here tomorrow on the great America show is the CEO of Trump media and technology group,
00:26:39.220 Devin Nunes. Please join us each and every day for the great America show. Follow me on Twitter and
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