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Episode 4608: WarRoom July 4th Special Cont.
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John Adams
Very well. The Congress will now vote on Virginia's resolution on independence. Thank you for coming, Caesar. God bless you, sir. The secretary will call the roll. And I'd remind you, gentlemen, that a single nay vote will defeat the motion. Mr. Thompson. New Hampshire? New Hampshire says yay. New Hampshire says yay. Massachusetts?
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Thomas Jefferson
Massachusetts says yay.
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John Adams
Massachusetts says yay. Rhode Island? Rhode island says yay. Rhode Island. San Diego. Connecticut. Connecticut says yay. Connecticut says yay. New York.
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Secretary
The secretary.
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John Adams
New York abstained.
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Secretary
Is courteous ready?
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John Adams
New York abstained. New Jersey? New Jersey says yay. New Jersey says Yay. Pennsylvania.
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John Dickinson
Mr. Secretary, Pennsylvania is not ready. Please come back to us later.
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John Adams
Pennsylvania passes.
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Thomas Jefferson
Continue.
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John Dickinson
Just a moment.
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John Adams
Delaware. Delaware, by majority vote.
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Secretary
Aye.
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John Adams
Says yay. Delaware says yay. Maryland. Maryland says yay. Maryland says yay. Virginia. Virginia says yay. Virginia says yay. North Carolina. North Carolina yields to South Carolina. South Carolina. Well, Mr. Adams.
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Thomas Jefferson
Well, Mr. Rutledge.
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John Adams
Mr. Adams, you must believe that I will do what I promise to do.
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Thomas Jefferson
What is it you want, Rutledge?
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John Adams
Remove the offending passage from your declaration.
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Thomas Jefferson
If we did that, we would be guilty of what we ourselves rebelling against.
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John Adams
Nevertheless, remove it. Or South Carolina will bury now and forever your dream of independence.
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John Dickinson
Sean, I beg you, Consider what you're doing.
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Thomas Jefferson
Mark me, Franklin. If we give in on this issue, posterity will never forgive us.
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John Dickinson
That's probably true, but we won't hear a thing. We'll be long gone. Besides, what will posterity think we were? Demigods? We're men no more, no less. Trying to get a nation started against greater odds than a more generous God would have allowed. First things first, John. Independence. America. If we don't secure that, what difference will the rest make?
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Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson, say something.
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John Adams
What else is there to do?
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Thomas Jefferson
Well, man, you're the one that wrote it.
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John Adams
I wrote all of it, Mr. Adams.
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Thomas Jefferson
There.
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John Adams
There it is.
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Thomas Jefferson
Rudland, you have your slavery. Little good may it do you now vote, damn you.
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John Adams
Mr. President. The fair colony of South Carolina says yay. South Carolina says yay. North Carolina says yay. North Carolina says yay. Georgia. Georgia says yay. Georgia says yay. Pennsylvania, second call. Mr. President. Pennsylvania regrets all of the inconvenience that such distinguished men as Adams, Franklin and Jefferson were put to just now. They might have kept their document intact for all the difference it will make. Mr. President, Pennsylvania says.
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John Dickinson
Just a moment. I ask the delegation be polled.
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John Adams
Dr. Franklin, don't be absurd.
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John Dickinson
A poll, Mr. President. It's a proper request.
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Patrick K. O'Donnell
Yes, it is.
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John Adams
Call the delegation. Mr. Thompson. Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Yea Mr. John Dickinson. Nay. Mr. James Wilson. Judge Wilson.
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Thomas Jefferson
There it is.
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John Dickinson
Mr. Wilson. It's all up to you now. The whole question of American independence rests squarely on your shoulders. An entirely new nation, ready to be born or to die at birth. All on your say so. Which will it be, Mr. Wilson? Every map maker in the world is waiting for your decision.
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John Adams
Come now, James. Nothing has changed. We mustn't let Dr. Franklin create one of his confusions. The question is clear.
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John Dickinson
Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide.
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Thomas Jefferson
It would be a pity for a man who's handed down hundreds of wise decisions from the bench to be remembered only for the one unwise decision he made in Congress.
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John Adams
James, you're keeping everybody waiting. The secretary has called for your vote.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Please.
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Thomas Jefferson
Don't push me, John. I know what you want me to do. But Mr. Adams is correct about one thing. I'm the one who'll be remembered for it.
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John Adams
What do you mean?
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Thomas Jefferson
I'm different from you, John. I'm different from most of the men here. I don't want to be remembered. I just don't want the responsibility.
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John Adams
Yes, well, whether you want it or not, James, there's no way of avoiding it.
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Thomas Jefferson
Not necessarily, John. If I go with them, I'll just be one among dozens. No one will ever remember the name of James Wilson. But if I vote with you, I'll be the man who prevented American independence. I'm sorry, John. I just didn't bargain for that.
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John Adams
And is that how new nations are formed? By a non entity trying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves?
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John Dickinson
Revolutions come into this world like bastard children, Mr. Dickinson. Half improvised and half compromised. Our side has provided a compromise. Now Judge Wilson is supplying the rest of the.
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John Adams
James.
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Thomas Jefferson
I'm sorry, John. My vote is yay.
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John Dickinson
Mr. Secretary. Pennsylvania says yay.
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John Adams
The count being 12 to none. With one abstention, the resolution on independence is adopted.
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Thomas Jefferson
It's done. It's done.
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John Adams
Mr. Thompson, is the declaration ready to be signed? It is. Then I suggest we do so. And the chair further proposes, for our mutual security and protection, that no man be allowed to sit in this Congress without attaching his name to it. I'm sorry, Mr. President. I cannot, in good conscience, sign such a document. I will never stop hoping for our eventual reconciliation with England. But because in my own way, I regard America no less than does Mr. Adams, I will join the army and fight in her defense, even though I believe that fight to be hopeless. Goodbye, gentlemen.
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Thomas Jefferson
Gentlemen of the Congress, I say ye. John Dickinson.
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Secretary
From 1776 A dramatic recreation of the, of the event itself. Patrick K. O' Donnell is with me. It is the 249th commemoration of the birth of this nation on the 4th of July, 1776. Patrick K. O' donnell dickinson there volunteered, went to the Army. How tough, brother, was this fight that they were about to get engaged in? The storm clouds were there in Staten island in New York harbor and they had basically a list of the signers of the Declaration they were going to round up. How tough was this fight to get? Sir.
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Patrick K. O'Donnell
The. One of my favorite accounts is from a rifleman named McCurtain who's in an outhouse as all of a sudden he looks up and he says, all of London seemed to float. The mass of the Royal Navy suddenly shows up in New York Harbor. Hundreds of ships, and it's just this awe inspiring sight where they're there to destroy the early United States. And you know, this is where they have the fight of their lives on their hand. You know, right before the landing at Long island, there's a portentous, ominous sort of beginning to, you know, there's lightning everywhere. Literally hits one of the, one of the Americans and it literally fries his sword. It melts coins. And you know, the, the Royal Navy then begins landing at Gravesend Bay on August 22, 1776. You know, the, the waters are emerald green and blue, but there's a massive invasion coming. And they literally have, in some cases, landing craft like barges that the, the front door opens and allows Canada come out as well as men. And this is the beginning of a massive invasion.
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Secretary
No, it's absolutely incred. They sent an expeditionary force. I, I also tell people you saw that in that dramatic recreation, by the way, that's from 1776. It is a musical, but it's quite stunning kind of dramatic presentation of the drafting of the, of the Declaration of Independence and its promulgation. And it will be on Turner Classic Movies TCM tonight at 10:30 Eastern Daylight Time. If you have not seen it or particularly haven't seen it with the kids, I strongly recommend it. It's a very, it's a quite brilliant presentation of what happened in a, in a musical format. And I've had the opportunity to see it live on Broadway a couple of times and, and also just obviously a big fan of the film, so make sure you see it tonight. We always take clips of that on Independence Day. And of course, if you haven't watched the, the miniseries or the series, John Adams, I think that's now 15 years old or such is absolutely stunning about the revolutionary generation and it takes the life of really John Adams and Jefferson all the way through. And it's amazing. Just absolute classic. We're gonna have some we have out music here which we always do the we always do our Revolutionary War music during the during our fourth of July special. Very pleased to do this. We love the we. In fact, we'll put this up on online Grace if you push it out, get the music you can get John Adams. Watch that. You can see 1776 tonight free on Turner Classic Music. You get that on your cable. Tons of great content out there about the revolution and about the Revolutionary War. I think Ken Burns, I realize some people's not their cup of tea, although even as a Southerner I think the Civil War is an objective work of art. His documentary series, he's coming out a new one on the American Revolution that I think they're going to tease it over the weekend and I think it comes out in the fall. Short commercial break Our finest combat historian who wrote two books on combat of the American Revolution, Patrick Kodan joins a short commercial break Back in the war room on the 4th of July.
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Mike Lindell
Some future day shall crown us the masters of the main. Our fleet shall speak in thunder to England, France and Spain. Nations o' er the ocean spread shall tremble and obey the prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America decay.
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Secretary
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Stephen K. Bannon
Well, we do know where we've been. And that can, I think, guide us or at least give us some sense of what's ahead. History is not a gps. You can't just type in coordinates and take a turn here and there and you know where you're going to be. But you do have a sense, I think, that the country has a deficit of trust, a rising distrust in democracy. The question is, what do they think of when they say democracy? What I think of is the rule of law, the Constitution, and that you can't be for the system. You can't have faith in the system only when you prevail. And what I fear is that there is too many of us who are supporters of President Trump are inclined to defer to one man, one party, one interest at the. To the exclusion of using something that was so vital to the American Revolution and which informed the document that we're commemorating tomorrow, the signing of the document, which is that reason is supposed to at least have a fighting chance with passion in the public arena. And so what we're facing is a test of citizenship. Are we willing to call balls and strikes as we see them, or are we going to only call them balls or strikes, depending on who's pitching?
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Secretary
I know you can make an argument of why would we soil our commemoration of the, the birth of this nation with someone like John Mesham and msnbc, But I think it's very important to see the mindset of the elites in this country right there. Patrick, Donald, come in. It was the very unreason. This is why you have to. And they don't teach you like this. And they don't teach it like this for a reason. They don't teach that the war was not just inextricably linked to the war was upon them. They understood this. It took a lot of time for that expeditionary force to get from, I think, Halifax up in Canada down. They knew it was coming when this document was drafted, when this document was debated, when this document was then read, and as final, when the document was signed, the revolutionary generation understood they were putting it all online because the British were already here and they weren't going to give it up. And they knew they weren't going to give up, not just the British crown, but you had the monopolistic power of the British East India Company. And other powerful economic forces which they also don't teach. It was here they landed on the 2nd of July. This great fight for America, I think, started in mid August. And it was a route at first, a absolute route, as the British envisioned it would be. They would put this thing down in the first 90 days and hold that up for the world to see you part of the British Empire. You want to break off? This is what's going to happen to you. And they would have hung them all. They would have hung them all. And John Meech was sitting there pontificating, oh, the reason, no, as we know from history, only about a third of the people backed up that document, one third of which Dickinson was one of the best. But a third were hardcore Tories. They were Englishmen. This is what Dickinson kept arguing. We're Englishmen. What are we doing here? The Tories, who. A lot of it, not all of it, but a lot of it was the wealthy class fought with the British. There were. They were tremendous, particularly down south, actually conscripted in and volunteered for the British army to put down the rebellion. One third were in the middle. That's always human nature. This is what you have here in the United States. You have maga. You have the hardest core opposition to maga, and you have a lot of people kind of in the middle, seeing which way the full. The buffoon. Elmo the Mooc, formerly known as Elon Musk. Elmo the Mooc, he's today in another smear, and this. Only a foreigner could do this. Think about it. He's got up on. He's got up on. On Twitter right now, a poll about starting an America party, A non American starting an America party. No, brother, you're not an American. You're a South African. And if we take enough time and prove the facts of that, you should be deported because it's a crime of what you did. Among many. But the audacity today with President Trump on a roll, using democratic procedures as messy as they are, and they're messy. And the compromises you have to make, because you have to make compromises. I know which many in the audience here don't like, including myself, but, hey, that's the way it is. Let's push forward what we got and we'll get more later. And President Trump dropped a bomb. I'm not going to discuss it today. I'll discuss it tomorrow. About his friends on the radical right. Thank you, President Trump, for acknowledging the War room and the war room posse. Yes, we are your friends and colleagues and we are the radical right. If that means standing up for this country and the deportation of, in repelling the illegal alien invasion, then so be was unreason that won the revolution. Reasonable men, reasonable people. People are compromised and said, hey, we're part of the. The greatest empire on earth that they're building. They're our kindred spirit. They're our mother country. Look at what they're doing in India. They got all of North America. If Canada, we're going to be the ground floor. We're going to make so much Elon Musk. We're going to be taking something, right? We're going to be making money. We're going to have. We're going to be the exalted hell. If they have a parliament, we'll run it. If they let us in commons, we'll be the delegation. If not, we'll figure out something. Reasonable men have said, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me. Unreasonable men said, hey, screw you. We're out. We're going to fight. And if, hey, if, if we, if we lose, you hang big deal with spit in your eye before the, before you drop, before the gallows fall. It's unreason, Meacham. That's why we're free. That's what MAGA is and that's what you hate about it. We're not reasonable. We're not going to be reasonable. We're going to fight for this country. The same country that the revolutionary generation created has been passed down to us through every patriot's grave. It'd be so easy. This audience, the precinct strategy, all the work you've done, going door to door, texting congressman, and all the times when you see last week, you know, the no cuts, the frustration. I can't do it anymore, Steve. I go to the precinct strategy. I got a bunch of rhinos there, and all they're doing is backstabbing us. The easiest thing in the world, the reasonable thing to do is just say, let's go play golf. Let's go play tennis. Let me get on a yacht. Let's just go do something. Let's hang with the kids. Let's just go enjoy ourselves. What it was the Roman philosopher, just give him bread and circuses. Was it juvenile? It said, just give them bread and circuses and they'll never rebel. That's what the whole 20th century is. That's where they're trying to lull you to sleep. They're trying to lull you to sleep. The easiest thing to do is stay asleep to not awake. You've awakened. And in that awakening you have a responsibility that you were going to be weighed and measured by future generations. But more important, God himself, Divine providence himself, because this is a providential movement. Trump's not particularly churchy. He sees that. He feels that you. Can you see it now? Not for. Not for his aggrandizement, anger, indictment. The most reasonable thing in the world is when Trump had the election stolen, went back to Mar? A Lago, when Murdoch's trying to make him a non person and McConnell, all these guys are going to impeach him and be rid of him. Never hear from him again. We got the simp and we got Nikki Haley. We got them all. What's to say, let me just go make some money. Let me restore my wealth that they've stolen from me. Let me spend time with the family. Let me. My bed. Mr. Will be back at the PGA. They'll get in the PGA tournament. Tournament. They'll let Turnberry be in the Open rota of the Open Championship. Everything will be fine. All I got to do is be reasonable. He wasn't reasonable. No reasonable man would do what he did to come back. That's why he's in the pantheon of Washington and Lincoln and Trump. To the reclamation of the nation. What has happened over the last couple of weeks would have never happened. It wasn't just Biden. They were going to pass it down, just like stopping Clinton. This is the whole deep state and what they represent, the globalists that have sucked the blood and the vitality out of this republic. And look at Mondami, just watch his campaign. Look. They hate the United States of America. They are anti American. And this has come from the finest institutions and the finest schools. This is not some revolution that was among the poor, came out of, you know, some traveling group of gypsies in some camp. It came from the finest institutions in this republic. No, we're totally unreasonable. We're totally unreasonable and we have not yet begun to fight. We will never, ever, ever quit. That's why I told the Financial Times interview day said Trump is going to be in the minds of, of the elites and the opposition to them until the end of time. Because we are never going to quit. Are we going to have speed bumps? Yes. Are we going to have defeats? Yes. Are we ever going to be beaten? No. Is that not the lesson of the revolution? They had many losses. They had many, many defeats. Patrick K. O' Donnell can walk you through. In the first 90 days, a fiasco of defeat and retreat. Defeat and retreat. But they were never beaten. That's the Maga movement. That's our place in American history. Today, today, today preserve. We'll go out with some beautiful music from Dion Diane Taraz please get her album. And we will return in the war room in just a moment.
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Mike Lindell
The world shall own we're free and here and such will ever be a zaza for free American. Some future day shall crown us the masters of the main. Our fleet shall speak in thunder to England, France and Spain. Nations o' er the ocean spread shall tremble and obey the prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America.
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Secretary
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Stephen K. Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
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Secretary
All the writing right now is what a role President Trump's on. He is on quite a role. We're going to break down a lot of that tomorrow where actually we stand and we're going to talk about the implementation of the big, beautiful bill across the board of many different aspects of it. Also, Philip Patrick is going to join us. Philip's going to join us from Rio. He's there with the Global south in the BRICS conference. We're going to talk. He's been talking to central bankers. He's been talking to finance ministers. So we're getting caught up with the team at Birchgold really proud of the fact that they went down to Rio cause such a big deal on the de dollarization movement throughout the world. And folks it's a big movement because they back it up by controlling the resources in the world. So they got some stroke particularly as they unite together and many of them are quite anti right we have a few friends in the BRICS movement, particularly India but you've got, you've got the kgb, Russia, you've got China, the ccp, the head gangsters and of course you got the mullahs in Iran. And President Trump's pretty adamant. He didn't. That was not a good call yesterday with Putin. Putin essentially said yeah, we don't really need your involvement in the, in this working out of a deal with Ukraine. That's between us. It's a bilateral between us and them. And of course I think last night Russia unleashed a brutal attack upon Kyiv, upon the capital. President Trump I'm sure is not too happy about that. Might want to talk about programming today. The war room will be back live. I don't know if at 4 o' clock or 5 o'. Clock as soon as we find out has it been my crack staff it was up in the air whether President Trump's going to sign at 4 or 5 the big beautiful bill. But it's going to be a big deal. President Trump's going to sign the big beautiful bill. We will be back live for commentary and observations. Also to show it, I think David Zier will be anchoring our our coverage from the White House today. We have our camera crew there and I just want to give a hat tip to the coverage yesterday of from Iowa from the state fair Ambassador Monica Crowley put on with America 250. It was an absolutely unbelievable just event and just packed the crowd, was incredible people into the weather was great. President Trump's speech for the most part was great. If you had a few speed bumps, we'll talk about that. Let's talk about that tomorrow or Monday. But incredible speech. He was, he was on a roll. His administration's on a roll. Things are coming together and it just I don't think anybody's ever had a more successful first six months of an administration than what President Trump is doing in the, in the reclamation of our nation and returning her to her, her greatness. So we'll be back here live on the 4th of July. Normally we don't do an afternoon show. We're just doing this Rob Sig and Parker Sig are making available because I think everybody realizes very important to cover the live signing. I'm sure President Trump, as he is wont to do, may have a couple of three comments. Right. And he disintermediates the mainstream media and talks right to the people. So we'll try to catch all of that. If in this. I don't know if it's locked in for four or five. My crack staff is going to tell me here in a minute or two. Patrick K. O' Donnell I don't want to because I don't have you tomorrow. Normally we do a couple days of coverage on this, but you wrote two amazing books in the combat history of the Revolution, both the indispensables about the guys from Marblehead that were actually the kind of the crew for both the American Dunkirk and of course crossing the. Crossing the Delaware. And they were there for so many other key elements. Also Washington's Immortals, which you really get the American Thermopylae right there in Brooklyn. Why don't you tell me about that? Because American Americans don't understand. There were some. Because it's not taught. There were some epic battles in the first, I don't know, 90 days of the formation of the Republic after the 4th of July. They're among the most important battles in American history and just have not gotten the coverage until guys like you. In fact. The American Thermopylae. The American Thermopylae is the heroes of it are buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Brooklyn. Sir.
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John Adams
Yeah.
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Patrick K. O'Donnell
This is one of the greatest battles in American history that nobody knows about until I wrote Washington's Immortals, which is about the Maryland 400 or the bayonets of the Revolution. This is the. The Marylanders that make an epic stand that it's an hour in our history more precious than any other, as one contemporary historian at the time said. And the British were about to destroy much of Washington's army. Had it not been for the Marylanders, though that they. They charge near a house that is manned by troops from Earl Cornwallis and the men make a series of charges under the command of Lord Sterling or General Sterling in the American army that they form up into ranks several times. They're one of the few units to actually have bayonets, an American unit to have bayonets, and they charge the house. And as they do this, they open up a gap in the line and allow much of the army to retreat towards the heights of Brooklyn. But in the process they sacrifice themselves. These are the sons of the south, some of the greatest families within Maryland that are, as Walt Whitman would say, were blown to atoms by Cornwallis's cannon that were there and musket fire. But they sacrificed themselves to, you know, for, for the, the good of the army. But in the process they're forgotten. And I came across their sign nearly 20, 15, 20 years ago, 15 years ago or so. And it's, it said, you know, here lie 256 Continental soldiers, Maryland heroes. And I wanted to know the story behind that. You know, what's a sign doing on a, a VFW post, American Legion post, where there's these American heroes and they are buried somewhere in Brooklyn. Many of the men were also captured and were put on prisoner ships in New York harbor. And these were kind of floating concentration camps where the men were not fed, you know, disease ran rampant and most of the men died on the ships and then their bodies were just thrown overboard and the bones would just wash ashore at Gravesend Bay and also other parts of Long Island. And many of them are gathered at a memorial in Brooklyn. Just bones. We don't know many of the names of these individuals, but somewhere near the Stone House park, which is still there, where they've recreated the actual stone house that Cornwallis men were in from the original stones, this is where this, this really, this incredible action takes place by the Marylanders. And I detail this in great, great detail in Washington's Immortals as well as in my other best selling book, the Indispensables. And that hour prevents the combined weight of, you know, 20,000 British soldiers as well as Hessian soldiers from reuniting and crushing the United States. Most of the army, which is in the Heights of Brooklyn. This is why it's so important, because had they been able to unite Washington's army, much of it would have been destroyed and even Washington himself would have been captured probably, and the rebellion or the United States as we know it probably would cease to exist. But it leads up to really the second thing that you mentioned, which is the American Dunkirk, Steve.
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Secretary
And tell me about. So you had Thermopylae and then a few days later they had to make a decision. Remember, the army was virtually shattered and the whole strategy of General Washington, that you had to have an army in being that you had to have to keep intact the American, as small as it was, the Continental army, so that you actually had something, the militias would have something to rally around and you at least have some sort of professional, as stragglers as they were, you have some sort of professional army, you had to keep the army intact. And that's why, when they got backed up to Brooklyn Heights, and those are familiar with New York, Brooklyn Heights, the tip of Brooklyn, looks right across the east river right there to Lower Manhattan. It's where the Brooklyn Bridge is, or just south of where the Brooklyn Bridge is today. They got backed up, they got their backs up there. And Washington there was, I think General Lord Sterling and others wanted to take a stand and just dig in against redoubts and take on the British. But General Washington made a decision that he was going to extract the army and try to get across, which was, as you know, one of the most dangerous things to try to amphibious try to get troops across any body of water is always dangerous, particularly when you have. The Royal Navy is right there in New York harbor, right off the battery with, with warships. So talk us through how, how did we actually extract ourselves out of there and save the army? Sir?
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Patrick K. O'Donnell
This is American Dunkirk and American miracle because you have a massive army of over 20,000 British troops in front of you, along with their Hessian allies. And then behind you is this massive British fleet that could potentially sail up the east river behind the fortifications at Brooklyn Heights and destroy the army. And as Washington decides to evacuate and it falls upon the shoulders of the indispensables or the, the Marblehead mariners, who are the most experienced sailors in the entire Continental Army. And they're only given a few hours to assemble all these small boats that they can find and then begin this operation to transport the wounded, the, the cannon, the horses, everything over. And initially, Steve, it's an absolute disaster because the tides in the river, river is a torrent. It's, it's raining out. There's a, a nor' Easter that's taken place over the last two days that hits the armies and it's a, the, the east river is very swollen. There's lots of currents that are very strong, you know, which prevents in some cases the British fleet from actually moving up behind the Americans. But it's also very challenging to cross. And the Marbleheaders aren't getting anywhere initially. And they try to find Washington to call off the operation and can't be found, thankfully, because they continue to press on and they start to move people off Brooklyn over towards Manhattan. And this is not a one time thing. They have to do this 12 times, crossing the river in the middle of the night and with a massive army in their front and with the British fleet off to their side, and it's a race against time, Steve. There's, there's all of these elements that the Variables that the Continental army has to somehow overcome. In the Maryland, in the Marbleheaders in particular, they're fighting these currents and tides but then suddenly the wind changes and allows them to move more men back and forth. But dawn is coming and with it the, the prying eyes of the British as Well as a 20,000 man or more army that's ready to pounce on the entrenchments which are not manned by only just a small force as the men are evacuating. And it's here really that you know, the hand of God finds America. And a fog sets in at exactly the right time and right place which screens the movement and allows the army to evacuate and the marble herders to move the army across to Manhattan safely. One of the greatest evacuations in military history.
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Secretary
And the hand of Providence which was not lost on General Washington and, and his staff and the troops. That fog, if it, that fog had not come in and if the fog had not been so thick, no chance that the army could have been extracted without massive casualties from the, from the Royal Navy. The hand of God in the early days of the Revolution by the way, those folks that were fighting there on Brooklyn Heights and extracted they were quite unreasonable. The reasonable thing would have been to work with the British and work some deal out. One third of their countrymen were doing that and particularly it was infested in New York and particularly lower Manhattan. That was one of the worst parts of the of Tories. In fact they tried to I think a couple times during the revolution actually try to break off. Short commercial break Independence Day the 249th anniversary. The birth of this the greatest nation in the history of mankind. Next in the world. Enjoy a delicious glass of Dr. Formulated field of greens each day and you're going to feel amazing. Plus your doctor will notice your improved health or your money back. How can a fruit and vegetable drink promise better health? Each fruit and vegetable and field of Greens was doctor selected support vital organs like heart, liver, kidneys, metabolism, immune system and healthy blood cells. Let me get you started with 20% off and free shipping. Visit field of greens.com and use my code Bannon. That's field of greens.com code Bannon. Remember every day you get your the max you need of your fruits and vegetables in this real organic superfood. That's field of greens.com code Bannon for 20% off and free shipping.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
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Secretary
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Patrick K. O'Donnell
Best place to go is Amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com they're at the front of the store at Barnes and Noble in most cases at least Washington's Immortals and in Spencels always covered in the military history section. You can find me at combat historian on getter as well as X or my website, patrickodonnell.com it's always an honor to be on the show, Steve. So it's a great, it's always great to celebrate our, our independence with you.
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Secretary
Well, it always is, particularly the way you bring reality to it. So not just flowery words but the deeds. It was words and deeds and the deeds, as powerful as the words were, the deeds are what got us through evolutionary war.
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Patrick K. O'Donnell
Patrick Cardonald it's about individuals that, that were willing to put it all on the line. Their fortune, family and honor. And it's a small group of individuals that will change history and that is it holds today as much as it did then.
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Secretary
Ordinary men and women doing extraordinary things. Write that down. Take your number two prince. A lot. Does that remind you of yourself? Write it down. Ordinary citizens doing extraordinary acts to really get our freedom and guarantee our freedom and passing on our freedom. Future generations. Thank you very much, Patrick. Honored to have you on here. We're going to be back today, 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time. If that changes. Keep an eye open for mouth breathing imbecile Grace Chung Mbi what a, what a great. That's a brand. She got to start merchandising that brand. Grace, as you know, comes with a little edge. Make sure you follow Grace Today we may Change up at 4th White House. Tell us right now, 5 o'.
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John Adams
Clock.
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Secretary
We're going back at 5 o' clock live to cover the signing of the big beautiful bill. President Trump on a roll. I'm sure he'll have a few observations for the media. We want to be there when he does make America healthy again. Trevor Comstock, what do you got for us on a big fourth of July sale, sir?
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Trevor Comstock
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Secretary
Trevor Comstock, you're doing an amazing job. Make America healthy again. Make sure everybody goes to Sacred Human Health and look at the reviews and then you can contact Trevor and the team individually and and chat about it. Thank you so much, Sir. Appreciate. Happy 4th of July, Independence Day. Become independent from bad health. How about that Mike Lindell? Somehow they let you out of the White House. I thought we had you cornered. Who allowed Mike Lindell the first day? Anybody can make a mistake. Secret Service. Anybody make a mistake the second day. That's when he hit my tripwire. Mike Lindell on this at the White House. Two days. Where Mike, what do you got for me on Independence Day? Sell me some sheets.
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Secretary
Mike Lindell. Happy Independence Day, sir. You are independent and you kept your independence by fighting. Thank you brother. So honored to do this show given the gravity of this day. Right? And what it means not just for American history, for human. Human history. We're back here at 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time in the War Room. See you then.