Episode 4699: Mainstream Agrees With Trump Securing DC; Abbott's Weakness In Texas

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bannon's War Room - Episode 4699: Mainstream Agrees With Trump Securing DC; Abbott's Weakness In Texas

Release Date: August 12, 2025

In Episode 4699 of Bannon's War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves deep into President Donald Trump's ongoing strategies to assert control over Washington D.C., the political landscape in Texas, and broader geopolitical maneuvers affecting the United States. Featuring insightful discussions with medical experts, politicians, and business leaders, this episode provides a comprehensive analysis of current events shaping the nation.

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1. President Trump's Efforts to Secure Washington D.C.

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Steve Bannon opens the discussion by criticizing President Trump's attempts to override the D.C. Home Rule Act through his executive orders. He argues that Trump is using isolated incidents of juvenile crime, such as a violent carjacking involving a former staffer, to justify his actions.

Steve Bannon: "He is trying to take the rhetoric further. He's trying to bully the District of Columbia and their police department into submitting to him." ([00:00])

Timestamp [03:26]:
Lisa Rubin counters Trump's arguments by highlighting statements from Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who points out that crime rates in D.C. are at a 30-year low—contrary to the White House's claims.

Lisa Rubin: "I think this is a particularly pernicious situation... crime is at an all-time low in D.C. that can't be refuted by this White House." ([03:26])

Bannon further critiques the administration's handling of economic data, emphasizing concerns over the nomination of EJ and Tony to lead critical agencies without sufficient qualifications or bipartisan support.

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2. Economic Indicators and Inflation Concerns

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E.J. Antony from the Heritage Foundation discusses the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, indicating that inflation remains under control despite anticipated tariff impacts.

E.J. Antony: "The July CPI report shows virtually no tariff effect whatsoever. It’s truly remarkable. President Trump's right again." ([17:57])

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Charlie Kirk probes further into whether the positive economic indicators are reawakening "animal spirits" in the market.

Charlie Kirk: "Joe, is that unlocking the animal spirits?" ([18:41])

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Joe Lavornier elaborates on the strong economic growth driven by increased capital expenditure (capex) and robust hiring, attributing the positive trends to Trump's policies.

Joe Lavornier: "Real wages now are running up around 14-15% year on year... thanks to President Trump's policies." ([20:50])

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3. Political Power Dynamics: Soft vs. Hard Coups

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Lisa Rubin introduces the concept of a "self-coup," where Trump is perceived as usurping Congressional and judicial powers. She differentiates between "soft coups" and "hard coups," suggesting that the current situation in D.C. resembles a more traditional hard coup due to the military's involvement.

Lisa Rubin: "We’re seeing the trappings of a more traditional coup because the military is coming out." ([04:43])

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Rubin emphasizes the need for D.C. statehood to provide democratic representation and prevent federal overreach, drawing parallels to historical resistance by figures like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

Lisa Rubin: "We need to have statehood for Washington... to ensure this hard coup is stopped." ([06:16])

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4. Redistricting and Republican Strategy in Texas

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Charlie Kirk engages with Beau French, the GOP leader in Tarrant County, Texas, discussing the disarray within the Texas Republican establishment. French criticizes Governor Greg Abbott's perceived inaction and highlights grassroots efforts to redistrict and unseat Democrats.

Beau French: "Texans deserve better... no action, no results. Texans are a bold, strong people, and they want bold, strong action coming out of their government." ([36:28])

Timestamp [38:45]:
Lisa Rubin explains the longstanding issue of a "small rhino group" within the Texas House that has historically collaborated with Democrats to hinder Republican agendas, particularly in redistricting efforts.

Lisa Rubin: "The Texas House speaker allowed the Democrats to leave, knowing they were going to leave... our rhino Speaker is just as bad as the previous speakers we've had since 2009." ([38:45])

Rubin advocates for aggressive redistricting to eliminate Democrat seats, emphasizing the need for tactical and authoritative leadership modeled after Trump's approach in D.C.

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5. Geopolitical Strategies: Trump’s Engagement with Putin and BRICS

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John Solomon analyzes President Trump's historic meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, assessing its implications for U.S.-Russia relations and the broader geopolitical landscape, including the BRICS summit aimed at challenging the dominance of the U.S. dollar.

John Solomon: "The agenda for this summit is far broader than the war in Ukraine... they are looking at security guarantees for all of Europe and a new framework involving Russia as a full partner." ([43:30])

Timestamp [46:08]:
Solomon discusses the potential alignment of Russia with other nations such as Turkey and Iran, outlining how these relationships could form a new Eurasian bloc that poses strategic challenges to the United States.

John Solomon: "Russia and Turkey have been in a love-hate relationship for centuries... there's probably no better natural trading relationship than those two countries." ([46:08])

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6. Internal Republican Challenges and Leadership in Texas

Timestamp [27:31]:
Lisa Rubin sheds light on the internal conflicts within the Texas Republican Party, criticizing the current leadership for being ineffective and too closely aligned with Democratic interests.

Lisa Rubin: "The Republican leadership in the state of Texas is weak, embraced by the Party of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama... they are shackling old-school Republicans." ([27:31])

Timestamp [33:43]:
Charlie Kirk and Rubin discuss the lack of action from the Texas Senate regarding redistricting, with Rubin outlining the missed opportunities to capitalize on Republican strengths against Democratic opposition.

Lisa Rubin: "We could easily get up to nine seats without endangering any Republicans. We have to push for that now." ([33:43])

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7. Democratic Weaknesses and Accountability

Timestamp [39:00]:
Lisa Rubin criticizes Democratic representatives for issues related to residency and allegiance, highlighting instances where Democrats claim to represent districts while maintaining residences elsewhere, thereby questioning their eligibility and loyalty.

Lisa Rubin: "We discovered last week that a Democrat we thought resided in Euless actually lives in a $3.2 million mansion in South Lake, Texas... he's not eligible to be elected to the House district he represents." ([39:00])

Rubin calls for legislative changes to prevent foreign-born individuals from holding elected office, underscoring concerns over national allegiance and eligibility.

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8. Call to Action and Grassroots Mobilization

Throughout the episode, Bannon and his guests emphasize the importance of grassroots movements and active participation in political processes to combat Democratic dominance and restore Republican control. They advocate for strategic redistricting, increased law enforcement presence in key areas, and leveraging executive powers to implement their agendas effectively.

Timestamp [30:40]:
Charlie Kirk and Lisa Rubin discuss the mathematical advantages of redistricting in Republican-majority states to increase their congressional representation.

Charlie Kirk: "If we engage in this war, ensuring each state draws their lines effectively, Republicans could pick up as many as 25 seats." ([30:40])

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Conclusion

Episode 4699 of Bannon's War Room presents a fervent analysis of President Trump's strategies to consolidate power in Washington D.C., the internal struggles within the Texas Republican establishment, and the broader geopolitical shifts challenging U.S. supremacy. Through detailed discussions and expert insights, the episode underscores the necessity for bold, authoritative actions to counteract Democratic influences and secure Republican dominance both domestically and internationally.

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Transcript

[Steve Bannon]

Not mirror what is in the law, the D.C. home Rule act, and it does not mirror what's in his own executive order. He is trying to take the rhetoric further. He's trying to bully the District of Columbia and their police department into submitting to him. Because if he can do it on this, just like on immigration. Right. If he can do it on this, he can, he can replicate this in many other cities. What do you think, Lisa Rubin? I think this is a particularly pernicious situation in a couple of ways. Let's start with the fact that as you noted, this is a president who's governing almost by anecdote rather than by empirical data. Right. We know that he's not just using juvenile crime as a pretext. He's using a particular incident of juvenile crime involving a former Doge staffer who was involved in a carjacking in a particularly violent way. But that seems to be what has led the president into this moment, a single incident of juvenile crime rather than a pattern of it. Because as we know, as Congresswoman Eleanor holmes Norton, a 34 year veteran of Congress, said today, crime is at an all time low in D.C. or at least a 30 year low that can't be refuted by this White House. Instead, what they want to say is D.C. has one of the highest crime rates in the country. Well, that is perhaps true. There are 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Somebody is going to be at the top of the list. President Trump has nominated EJ and Tony to be the new commissioner for the agency which is in charge of reporting out all sorts of important government data from jobs numbers to inflation numbers. The president made way a couple of weeks ago when he suddenly fired the previous boss there after a dismal July jobs report. Trump accused her of rigging the data without any evidence to back that up. But in firing her, raising new doubt and concern about how the administration will handle handle future releases of economic data. The July CPI report will be released this morning. And Tony currently works at the conservative think tank the Heritage foundation, is a frequent critic of the workforce that he may soon lead. His nomination needs to now be confirmed by the sen. Somebody's not even the bottom DC's not even in the top 10. He is just lying. DC is, it is. It's animating because he'll just say these things right? And if you say it enough times, it becomes true to some people. And what he is doing is not going to fix the issue of juvenile crime. The issue will be fixed by policy. No, it's not going to fix juvenile crime. And he's sort of having this bifurcated strategy here that is legally novel in two ways, right. One is to ignore D.C. home rule and, and to federalize the MPD, the Metropolitan Police Department. The second is using the National Guard and then farming them out to D.C. where they are not wanted or needed right now, sort of on a rotating basis, 100 to 200 at a time. But in both cases, he's relying on statutory contacts that haven't been used and other situations in the same way that he has sort of relied on arcane statutes and other places that we can think of, the Alien Enemies act or for example, in Los Angeles where he used National Guard subject to a different statutory authority. It's like somebody made a book for him of all these little used statutes and said, Mr. President, these are the elastic laws. Stretch them as you will and as you see fit, because there isn't case law in many of these circumstances to constrain you. So let's see how far we can stretch this republic before it breaks.

[Lisa Rubin]

It's embarrassing, to be frank. I mean, lit coughs after his first meeting with Putin in March, then went on Tucker Carlson's show and he couldn't namehe could only name one of the five oblast provinces that Putin wants. He could name Crimea, the other four, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. He got wrong. That's his brief, that's his job. And he's still five months, four months later, in early August, having seen Putin again last week, he's still unable to figure out which bits of the map Putin was suggesting Ukraine withdraw from and which bits of those disputed oblasts they freeze the conflict. I don't think even with a negotiator who is really clued up and who has the history of Yalta and Munich and all the other sort of shoddy grand bargains of the 20th century in his head. I don't think they're going to be able to persuade Putin with anything other than land in the negotiating chamber that he failed to win by force of arms. That's what Putin's about here, though it.

[Steve Bannon]

May be Project 2025 and the Orban playbook, because you put them all together and you have a perfect map for what we're watching right now.

[Lisa Rubin]

Absolutely. And I would say I've been talking on this show often about the idea of a self coup, that he's trying to usurp the power of Congress, that he's trying to usurp the judiciary. But now we're seeing the trappings of a more traditional coup because the military is coming out. And that is something that we associate not with what sometimes political scientists call soft coups, but hard coups. And he's facing pushback in California. There the governor rightly and heroically is saying the federal government is limited in its power. There's no statutory authority, as you just heard, to bring out the military, to shut down free speech or to even act as a police force. That the tradition of our country has a 10th amendment which has local control over the police. And there's a long tradition that Newsom is acting in of citizens fighting back, using the state. So when John Adams shut down free speech using the Sedition Act, Jefferson and Madison used the power of Virginia and Kentucky and the resolutions to say, no, we're not going to cooperate with the federal government. Here's the problem that Washington D.C. he knows he has more control and he's facing less pushback from the mayor there. There isn't a state. And it starts to raise the question, don't we need statehood for washing? Of course we do. We need to have that democratic representation. Because what we have to do is make sure that this pattern of this not just soft coup, but now increasingly hard coup, that it's, it's stopped and the states are our best option.

[David Drucker]

No comparison between the Washington DC of today and the Washington DC that I came to in the year 1980, that Washington DC was a genuinely dangerous place. It was a place where you not only felt that you were in peril in some neighborhoods, but in fact you were in peril in some neighborhoods. And there were, you know, all the overlapping pathologies, the sort of open air drug markets that were, that were everywhere. There was, I think the police department was probably larger at that time, but there were these overlapping pathologies that made Washington a pretty rough place, comparable to a lot of cities. I mean, I had also lived around Detroit, you know, and that was no picnic. Now today, again, it's not like Manhattan where there are people walking any time of the day or night. Manhattan, four in the morning, there's people out. You kind of feel that protection that comes from a crowd. In Washington D.C. that's not the case. Downtowns have been hollowed out across the nation. That has kind of happened here as well. And there's one word that David Drucker used, which we should come back to maybe in a later segment, which was truant. There's a huge truancy problem in the D.C. schools, especially the high schools. And that's where a lot of those kids are coming from, who, again, gather in numbers and create public disruptions and some measure of danger occasionally that people are reacting to. So there are lots of deeper things that need to be worked, worked with, worked on. But is it a bad thing if there's more of a police presence? I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily. And we'll see. You know, I hope it works out well, this one.

[E.J. Antony]

He's making more radical changes to the country and to the White House that'll.

[Charlie Kirk]

Live well beyond his presidency.

[John Solomon]

Right.

[George Beebe]

And I think part of it is because he now knows how government works. I think one of the things that really is the key difference between the first term and the second term is that he had a whole host of characters in the government that were trying to stymie his efforts to radically change the country. He's now surrounded by people that are fully supportive of his agenda and helping him do it. He's way more effective at accomplishing his agenda with having that time out of office because those. A lot of his aides, Russ vo those sorts of officials spent their time out of government planning for this term. And so what they've done is an onslaught of executive orders in the first six months that accomplished a lot of their goals very quickly because he knew what they wanted to do.

[Charlie Kirk]

Does that mean that you foresee troops.

[E.J. Antony]

In Mexico in some way, shape or form? Or are you thinking drone attacks, air attacks?

[Charlie Kirk]

What do you think? I can't reveal anything, but I'm not tipping my hand that there will be US Troops in Mexico. That's not what I'm saying.

[E.J. Antony]

But are you worried that now the.

[Charlie Kirk]

Cartels are just moving everything around, that they know that there's a target on their back?

[Steve Bannon]

They're just, like, hiding everything.

[Charlie Kirk]

However they do that we're watching, we probably.

[E.J. Antony]

We know a little bit more than.

[Lisa Rubin]

They think we might know about them.

[Charlie Kirk]

We've spent a lot of attention watching them.

[E.J. Antony]

We're focused on this.

[George Beebe]

It's a presidential priority priority.

[Charlie Kirk]

We're working with federal partners to identify that all across the Western hemisphere, this is something we're not taking lying down anymore.

[Lisa Rubin]

If you're trafficking in drugs, you're trafficking.

[George Beebe]

In people, you're trafficking in violence that.

[E.J. Antony]

Affect the American people, that's unacceptable. And the Defense Department's going to be.

[Charlie Kirk]

A part of solving that.

[Steve Bannon]

I mean, should we not talk about the Democrats and win? And I think that what Trump 2.0 is teaching us a lot. One of the lessons I feel like from Trump 2.0. Is that all of these excuses the Democrats had when they had control, total control of government, when they were in charge about the filibuster and like, oh, I need the public support. No, I can't do this. And, oh, I don't have the votes. And oh, Joe Manchin, perhaps had Democrats just at least given D.C. the ability to control the National Guard. There was a bill that could have done that, that Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema didn't help vote for. Perhaps they could have given D.C. statehood. Does this example not teach that if there is another opportunity? Because I'm saying if there's not a guarantee that Donald Trump is going to leave and, and I'm just going off what happened last time. If there is another opportunity of a Democratic president, let alone a Democratic House and Senate, perhaps Democrats need to think more expansively.

[Charlie Kirk]

Okay, Tuesday, the 12th of August, year of our Lord 2025. The cold open was so great, and my producers and the team at Denver did such a great job. We don't have time even for the long open. So I'll just jump right in here. Of course, I hope that you see the pattern recognition here. President Trump doing big things, doing them rapidly taking control, seizing control of the imperial capital because it's out of control. With what did Eugene Robinson, who supports President Trump's move, shockingly enough, he called it overlapping pathologies. Of course, many of the big cities in the United States have the same overlapping pathologies. Los Angeles, Chicago, and of course, New York City. And I think you're seeing a template right now of things come. And you've got Pete Hegseth right there talking about taking the war to the cartels in Northern Mexico. Can we put up the drudge? Do we have the drudge? MacDaddy. Drudge. MacDaddy. Today kind of lays it all out. They got a special reaction force, they're working at the Pentagon to be able to surge in in case any of these cities get out of control. And of course, the central part of all this is the mass deportations. I think that'll be top priority in addition to crime and making sure we have law and order to start the mass deportations out of the nation's capital and then maybe to Los Angeles, Chicago, and, of course, New York City. Shocking news today. Let's bring in Joe Lavarnier from Treasury. Joe, shocking news. Wall Street's in shock. The globalists in shock. Inflation looks like, meh, no big deal right now, sir. We just froze okay on Joe. Okay. Can we try to get Joe up over Treasury. We got Joe Lavaron. Yeah, there was an inflation report CPI today and Wall street is kind of in shock. Wall Street's in shock by the fact that it wasn't on fire because of tariffs. We told you this is all about bringing manufacturing jobs back or if people don't want to bring manufacturing jobs to the United States of America, you're going to have to told to get through the golden door. Wall street had been predicting and of course the haters and the globalists have been predicting there was going to be inflation out of control. It didn't happen today, of course. In addition, E.J. and Tony, Dr. E.J. and Tony, Chief economist over at Heritage Name yesterday afternoon to head up Bureau of Labor Statistics, something he has come on the show for the last four years and talked about what the issues and what the problems are. Well now Dr. E.J. antony as soon as he gets Senate confirmed. And by the way, we should do that in a recess appointment. All of them in a recess appointment. It's unacceptable. It's not happening. President Trump is strapped for personnel. You saw yesterday he had his team up there in the press briefing to say we're going to bring good order and discipline into Washington D.C. a Capitol out of control. And President Trump said, hey, I'm going to go see Putin this week. And it's kind of embarrassing that we have a capital city that is out of control, but I'm going to take care of it. What is going on in Texas? I hope you see the plan coming together right now is to strip the Democrats of any power. Why? Because the only way they have power is either stealing elections, number one and or having false counts with illegal aliens to give them actually more representation. All of that's going by the wayside. The tip of the spear is Texas, but it's spreading throughout the country. Just like the template of good order and discipline in Washington, D.C. is going to spread throughout the country also as we take down the cartels in North America. In northern Mexico, that is called America First National Security Short Commercial break Back in the Worm in a moment. This July, there is a global summit of BRICS nations. In Rio de Janeiro, the block of emerging superpowers including China, Russia, India and Persia are meeting with the goal of displacing the United States dollar as the global currency. They're calling this the Rio Reset. As BRICS nations push forward with their plans, global demand for US Dollars will decrease, bringing down the value of the dollar in your savings. While this transition won't not happen overnight. But trust me, it's going to start in Rio. The Rio reset in July marks a pivotal moment when brics objectives move decisively from a theoretical possibility towards inevitable reality. Learn if diversifying your savings into gold is right for you. Birch Gold Group can help you move your hard earned savings into a tax sheltered IRA and precious metals claim your free info kit on gold by texting my name Bannon. That's B A N N O N to 989-898 with an A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau and tens of thousands of happy customers led birchgold army with a free no obligation info kit on owning gold before July and the Rio reset. Text Bannon B A N N O N to 989-898 do it today. That's the Rio reset. Text Bannon at 989-898 and do it today.

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[E.J. Antony]

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[Lisa Rubin]

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[Charlie Kirk]

Of the new thing. Okay? Right there, the Drudge MacDaddy. Also at the bottom you can see the new beginning of this reaction force to make sure we don't have disturbances in major cities. And I also think in these neo Confederate cities where our sanctuary cities is to assist in the mass deportations of illegal alien invaders. You've got the census that the Commerce Department is working on that's going to make sure we don't count illegal alien invaders into, into, in, in any of our elections. Also, you've got now good order and discipline. The city's going to spend a lot more time in that. Also Russia going to Texas. I want to start. Do I have Joe? Joe lavarnier we finally figured out the technology. Wall street was all set and particularly the globalists were all set to dance on our graves this morning, sir, about tariffs and about President Trump's trade deals via inflation. It didn't quite work out like that, did it Joe?

[Joe Lavornier]

No, Steve, actually I want to preface my remarks or the inflation discussion with the fact that the small business survey had a huge increase With a re acceleration of optimism and expected economic growth which is the result of the one big beautiful bill being passed and much of the tariff uncertainty as the President said would happen and which Secretary Besson echoed as that got cleared up. So the small business outlook is great. Companies are not raising prices. And then lo and behold, the CPI data we had for July shows virtually if any tariff effect whatsoever. I mean it's truly remarkable. President Trump's right again.

[Charlie Kirk]

Joe, is that, is this unlocking, is this unlocking the animal spirits?

[Joe Lavornier]

Yes Steve, it is. I mean that we saw the big capex come back in the first half of the year because the bill was written so that the, the, the spending would be retroactive to inauguration day. So you saw the big increase in capex. Now that the bill is his law, that acceleration in capex will lead to a big pickup in hiring. The great news with today's CPI data and last week's employment report which did show very strong wages, is that real wages now are running up around 1415 year on year. The year to date increase is the second fastest to start a new administration on record, eclipsed only by Trump 1.0 and barely. So. So yes, the animal spirits are alive and well thanks to President Trump's policies.

[Charlie Kirk]

Now what about the tariffs, all that Wall street was all anticipating that, hey, because of his tariffs, inflation's out of control. That did not happen, correct?

[Joe Lavornier]

No, it didn't happen, Stephen. You know, you talk about animal spirits, you're seeing that in the equity market. The stock market has had a historic recovery off those April lows. And of course, you know, the stock market can move around a lot, but the clear direction is higher. And it's because the market, which is forward looking, which anticipates the future, is expect seeing a big recovery in gdp, strong non inflationary growth like what we had during President Trump's first term. I mean all the ingredients are there for a boom and the investor base is smart, they want to make money and they know where the direction of things is headed. And President Trump has initiated this, this background for growth to accelerate. And the great part is Wall street will do well, but Main street as Secretary Besson has highlighted many times, will perhaps and hopefully do even better because it's their turn.

[Charlie Kirk]

Joe, where do people find you on social media? Because I know you're putting up on Twitter analysis all day long. Where do folks go?

[Joe Lavornier]

Yes, thank you Steve. They can find me at Lavorianomics.

[Charlie Kirk]

Joe, thank you so much for calling in this morning to give us an Update. Great Tuesday. Taking, taking action, taking control, not playing around. You saw the Jonathan Karl. I may play that pit speech a little bit later. Not speech, but a little segment where they're sitting around thinking great thoughts and what do they come up with? What's the conclusion they come up with? President Trump was very focused because the four years in the wilderness, his team had chance to get policy together and now he fully understands the levers of government and also those people that are trying to thwart him, like the US Senate not giving him recess appointments, which is what we need immediately, or getting rescissions, pocket rescissions, impoundment of money to make sure that we don't run up these deficits. Right now the economy is on a roll. Let's not have this mass spending get in the way of it. Also, let's get a real census of citizens of the United States of America, where they live, how they live, where the congressional districts ought to be. Let's go to Brian Harrison. We have Brian. Brian down in Texas. Brian Harrison. Harrison, here's one thing I've noticed. Greg Abbott is now getting more TV time. His comms team must have gotten quite upset with you. They've got him booked everywhere. This guy's everywhere, but he never says anything. Abbott is the biggest pie I think I've ever met. He's just a complete wimp. He comes up there with all this big talk but no action. But one thing his comms team is doing is making sure that he gets more airtime than our own Brian Harrison. Can you give us an update today on the lack of action by the Texas Republican establishment, sir?

[E.J. Antony]

Yeah, I definitely can neither confirm nor deny, nor certainly should say whether I was or wasn't told by a senior member of the governor's team that his comm staff were screamed at because yours truly was on TV exposing the truth to America more, more than the governor. And I guess they decided that they couldn't let that stand. So look, here's, here's the reality, okay? We're going to cut through the BS and cut through the spin. Democrats have been gone for eight days, officially 12 days, really, because our Rhino speaker released them last Wednesday. And let's count through the different punishments that have been meted out, okay? To get even, to show the Democrats we are going to take tough action to punish them. They took away their newsletters and they're, they'll get paid in full when they get back. But it's going to be a paper check, not, not, not direct deposit. And that's about it. So, bottom line, no punishments, but enough hot air to fuel a fleet of blimps coming out of the elected Republican leadership in the state of Texas. It's embarrassing, okay? The state that reelected President Trump with 14 points because they wanted bold Republican leadership. They're sick and tired of the false promises, the hot air, the empty words, the veiled threats, and most importantly, the inaction. Texans are a bold, strong people, and they want bold, strong action coming out of their government. The latest stunt, I mean, we're not even being treated to good kabuki theater. At least pretend, okay? Play the part. They're not. Yesterday, the latest stunt was they basically threw law enforcement under the bus because, remember, it was a week ago, last Monday that we were told these Democrats are going to be vacated, they're going to be kicked out of the legislature and we're going to sign arrest warrants, okay? This was eight, eight days ago. Zero arrests, zero seats have been vacated. But what they do yesterday, our rhino leadership down here, they threw law enforcement under the bus and announced a tip line, sort of like if you see something, say something, implying that the DPS troopers are unable to find 51 human beings who, best I can tell, are livestreaming their location on TikTok and Facebook every waking minute. Let me break something, Steve, here. I actually have not said this publicly before. I'm gonna break something to you right now. I cannot confirm this with metaphysical certitude here, but I have this from so many sources now that what's really going on and why they're throwing law enforcement under the bus is because the leadership in Texas, including law enforcement, knows where multiple of these Democrat members are, including Democrat members that are holed up in Texas, where we have clear jurisdiction to arrest them, but that they have made the decision not to arrest them because of factors like their gender and their race. And that damn well better not be true. And we need to get to the bottom of this. But that is what I'm hearing from multiple sources now, is that they have decided intentionally not to arrest these Democrats and just hope they show up for the second special session. But that's the latest from here. Just a bunch of empty words. Hot air, bad theater, no action, no results. And Texans deserve better.

[Charlie Kirk]

And even with calls. And we're going to do it again today. No action in the Senate. The Senate could actually pass this immediately, within this session and not have to wait to the next special session. Correct, sir?

[E.J. Antony]

That's right. No, we're like five, six days out from the end of this Special. And people need to remember this, we're only five or six days out. So whatever the theater is going on right now, it's going to restart in a week. And so the Senate, which has not had a quorum break, why the hell haven't they passed the redistricting maps? I mean, they had time to ban the hemp products that President Trump legalized six years ago. They had time to ban hemp. But why have they not taken any action to get what arguably one of the most important issues we get done not just for Texas, not just for America, but for the world. I think the Texas Senate may vote on it today. But like, why are we waiting for till week four of a four week special session? It just, here's the, it's just. Look, the silver lining to this dumpster fire is that it's, it's doing more perhaps than anything I've seen since the sham impeachment of Ken Paxton two years ago to open the eyes of people not just in Texas, but across the country and the world to how weak, purple, soft, ineffective, establishment, rhino, liberal, progressive the Republican government is in the state of Texas. People have no idea that progressives have infiltrated our state government for well over a decade. And it's actually the party of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Joe Biden and AOC that actually call the shots in many ways here in the government of the state of Texas. And I can't, I can't forget, I mean, your audience knows this. You're one of the few audience that knows this. It's not that the Democrats thwarted our plans to redistricting by making some bold midnight escape. No, the Republican leadership in the state of Texas allowed them to leave. Our liberal speaker literally adjourned them so they could get a four day head start after they went and huddled up with Hakeem Jeffries. So Republicans could have ended this. Republicans could end at any time they want and Texas deserve better.

[Charlie Kirk]

It's a great piece I'll put up about, I think this in the Washington Post about how this is going to end with the, with the five seats in Texas. It's just a matter of how and when it ends. Brian Harrison, your Twitter account, it's on fire. Where do people go to get it?

[E.J. Antony]

The most hated Twitter account in all of Austin is at Brian E. Harrison. RyaneHarrison. RyaneHarrison. If you want to do just one thing today to make the rhinos screaming angry, go there, follow like and share the content we're putting out. And again thank you, Steve. Thank you. The posse. I promise you the rhetoric that's coming out of the elected Republican leadership and said they're copying our plan to add more Republican seats to the Mac. The longer the Democrats that was started right here, that was birthed here on social media, on the pot. You're making a difference because now the liberal, weak establishment unit party in Austin, they're copying our talking points. Pressure up.

[Charlie Kirk]

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[Lisa Rubin]

They are bringing a gun to a.

[Charlie Kirk]

Gunfight, but they have no bullets because they lost their bullets when they engaged in redistricting and gerrymandering over the past decade. They have. Because if you look at the way lines are drawn in California, in New York, in Illinois, Massachusetts, where there are no Republicans whatsoever, they've run out of Republicans that they can move out of office. If Texas had drawn our lines mathematically the same way that California had, we would be not adding five more seats.

[Lisa Rubin]

We would be adding 10 more seats.

[Charlie Kirk]

And if you look at all the Republican states across the entire country, if.

[Lisa Rubin]

We engage in this war, making sure.

[Charlie Kirk]

That each state is going to draw their lines the way that the Democrat states have, Republicans are going to be able to pick up maybe as many as 25 seats. And then I'll add on top of.

[Lisa Rubin]

That, with each passing census is the.

[Charlie Kirk]

Red states that are getting the population.

[Lisa Rubin]

The blue states are losing population. We know mathematically that New York and.

[Charlie Kirk]

California, they lost seats this last census. They're going to be losing more seats in the coming censuses because people. Okay, this is why people. This is. This is why. This is why people. This is why people hate politicians and they particularly hate soft rhinos. Until this audience gotten back of Brian Harrison and Brian Harrison and. And Glenn's story and the team of. Of grassroots folks that we had this meeting with a couple of weeks ago, Abbott was nowhere to be seen. You had to light up. We had to create a prairie fire down there in order for him. Now he's going out in front and he said, dude, if you got 10 seats, how come you're not taking them? Why we're not doing it? 25 seats. Then where are the 25 seats? Let's roll. This is why people lose faith and confidence in you. This is about the rise of Trump. You see Trump take action in Washington D.C. and he's going to use that as a template in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City. You see Pete Hegseth in the open talking about taking the fight down to the cartels of Mexico. It's game on. We're in a fight for our country in some feckless incompetent like Abbott. Just like he was on the border for years and years and years. All performance arts. Oh, we get another 10 seats. We'll take it, dude. Brian Harrison had to come with the idea. Every week they're out, add another seat. Now you're actually admitting there's 10 seats total. Why is that not in the map? Now he's on TV as much as Brian Harrison.

[David Drucker]

Why?

[Charlie Kirk]

Because he saw he was getting lit up and exposed just like we exposed him on his feckless defense of the Texas border. Then he's finally sent the National Guard down. Total performative. Remember that? They were cutting the wire. This is the problem in the state of Texas. You have a bunch of soft rhinos, a bunch of soft bush establishment politicians in bed with the Chamber of Commerce. And the Democrats are running the deal in a state where the rising power, the grassroots, is the railhead of the MAGA movement. Beau French joins us. Head the GOP in Tarrant County, A controversial figure for all the right reasons. Sir, you've got a ma. What is going on with the leadership down there? I'm hearing all these big plans behind the scenes. They got this. They got. The only reason they got anything is because the grassroots is ripped the mask off their incompetence on this very topic. And it's humiliating. And now we're hearing. Let's get the number up there. Can we put the numbers up, folks? Blow up these phone lines. If these Democrats are back in the state and they refuse to arrest them, this is going to expose the Republicans for how feckless they are. There's a number right there for the governor's office. The Lieutenant Governor's. I would tell the lieutenant governor, you call him. Hey, why has the Texas Senate not passed this? You got a quorum. What are you doing? And throwing a call to the speaker of the House. I don't know how much that'll help you. Beau French, your thoughts, sir?

[Lisa Rubin]

Well, two things I would say. Well, let's, let's remember how we got here in the Texas House. For the last 15 years, a small rhino group of Republicans has courted the votes from the Democrat caucus to gain the speakership. So this has been going on since 2009. It's the same group of people that keep recycling. They have thwarted the will of the Texas people by not electing a speaker out of the Republican caucus. So they are beholden to the Democrats to begin with. And as Brian Harrison pointed out a minute ago, the Texas House speaker allowed the Democrats to leave, knowing they were going to leave. And behind the scenes he was telling everyone, well, they promised me they weren't going to leave. But I mean, when you have your position because you were elected by Democrats, you know you're not going to be strong on Democrats, which is the case with our rhino Speaker, Dustin Burroughs from Lubbock, Texas. He is just as bad as the previous speakers we've had since 2009, all empowered by Democrats. So that's one problem. The other problem is I would argue that because of people like this audience, because of the audience, the growing audience on X that has really pushed the Overton window to the right, our leaders here in Texas, Governor Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, they've all been forced, I think some willingly, some not willingly, but they've all been forced to move to the right on all of these issues. And now we are on the second week of the Democrats breaking quorum. We have emergencies here in Texas like the flood relief and other things. But more importantly, Donald Trump has shown the Republican Party how to lead, right? Republicans did not lead, have not led forever. Donald Trump is leading. And our leaders in Texas better take note because the American people, the Texans, are watching. We understand now that the Republican Party, the new Republican Party, is shirking these old school Bush Rhinos and embracing this idea that we have to lead with authority and we have to wield our power the way that Democrats have wielded their power every time they're in charge. I mean, Beto o' Rourke was just here in Fort Worth, Texas, where I live the other day, talking about how when they have power again, they're going to just ram it down our throats. And so where are the Republicans? Why are we not doing the same thing? You know, the five seat pickup in Texas is easily doable, but on my X account I posted we could easily get up to nine seats without endangering any Republicans. That would only leave three Democrats elected to Congress in Texas. And I say we do it. We go for that right now. And I'm actually.

[Charlie Kirk]

Hang on, Bo. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Boz, you're a man of action. Can we get that map up? I want to see Beau French's map. See, Bo, this is what I think makes the audience so frustrated until Harrison and we start creating a firestorm. And Harrison goes, we should take a new seat every week. They're out. And then Beau French, the controversial Beau French, puts up a map that shows nine. And you say it could be easily doable and fair. People sit there and go, what are we doing? Why do we even have to force the five out? Because remember, they didn't even want to do that. They want to do the flood relief, which they absolutely have to do. And I think the property tax have to be addressed, but they just want to get through. They didn't do it in the regular session. They want to get through the special session, say, oh, the Democrats blocked us. Move on. They did not want to do the five. And yet you're sitting there saying, hey, there's nine easily. And even Abbott last night was saying, hey, there could be 10. So I think the people's frustration is that it takes a populist uprising to say, no, we gotta be as tough and as focused as the Democrats when the Democrats are in power to do this, sir. Now you're hearing behind the scenes there is some action going on, I take it.

[Lisa Rubin]

Yeah, look, there is discussion about what happens once the Democrats are brought back. And, you know, there's lots of criticism on why they actually haven't been arrested. And, you know, that's a little more nuanced because these are civil arrest warrants, not criminal arrest warrants. So they're, you know, very different. I've spoken to my contacts in dps. They're very different guidelines as to what can actually be done. And so I'm not going to get into that. I mean, they're going to do what, you know, what they're allowed to do. But the bottom line is all of these Democrats need to be punished. They need to have their seats vacated. They need to have their constitutionally, we can't take away their pay. But there are other things we can do. We can absolutely strip vice chairmanships, vacate their seats, I think. And I actually hope that the governor is considering calling for a redistricting of our Texas legislature also, because we could probably get rid of another, you know, five to 10 Democrat seats in the Texas legislature also using the same methodology we're using for the congressional redistricting map. And so I'm a big proponent of that. I've been pushing that on my ex and that seems to be picking up steam.

[Charlie Kirk]

Bo, I got one thing else I want to address to you before we leave you. I thought most of the Democrats were in Illinois. Maybe some are going to go to California. The new hiding spies. Am I correct that one of the Democrats is actually hiding in Pakistan? Is that correct?

[Lisa Rubin]

Well, he claims he was in Pakistan. He's Pakistani born, he's from Pakistan. He's a radical Muslim leftist, as you can imagine, elected here in Tarrant county where I'm from. You know, one of our elected representatives here, yeah, he went to, he fled to Pakistan, which is, I jokingly say that that's also where Osama bin Laden was hiding. But here's a guy who is a radical Muslim, foreign born. In my opinion, we shouldn't even allow foreign born people like Ilhan Omar or this guy in New York or the guy running for mayor up in Minnesota. I mean, none of these people, they have allegiance to, you know, countries outside of the United States. You know, America is not their first priority. And so why we even make it legal for them to be elected to office is beyond me. And I'm gonna be a big proponent of pushing for legislation to ban that practice.

[Charlie Kirk]

Does he actually live, when you say in Tarrant county, is he actually registered? Does he actually live in the county? Does he actually live where he's, where he's elected from?

[Lisa Rubin]

Well, that's an interesting question because we discovered so he's been claiming his residence to be elected as is a 780,000 square foot, $780,000 house in Euless, Texas, which is the district that he represents. But we found out last week, late last week, he actually owns and lives in and claims his homestead exemption in a $3.2 million mansion in South Lake, Texas. And so obviously he's not eligible to even be elected to the House district that he's elected to because he doesn't live there. So that's going to be a problem that we're going to have to look into a little further.

[Charlie Kirk]

Bo where to, folks on your Twitter? I want folks to go and particularly study your nine seat map because I think it's either nine or ten. We got to do it. I mean, we got to, we got to up the game here down in Texas. Where do folks go, sir?

[Lisa Rubin]

Yeah, I'm on X@ BeauFrenchTX. @ BeauFrenchTX Owfringchtx.

[Charlie Kirk]

Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.

[Lisa Rubin]

Thank you. Steve, great to see you again.

[Charlie Kirk]

We play the, do we have, do you have the. Jonathan Carl, can I play that? Can I play that clip again? Just tell me when we got it. Let's get Jim Rickards in here. Jim, President Trump showing you how to lead. You see it all the way from. Hang on for a second. I want to play this as a lead into you. Let's go and play Jonathan Karl in the Grand Poobahs talking about President Trump. This one, he's making more radical changes.

[E.J. Antony]

To the country and to the White.

[Charlie Kirk]

House that will live well beyond his presidency. Right.

[George Beebe]

And I think part of it is because he now knows how government works. I think one of the things that really is the key difference between the first term and the second term is that he had a whole host of characters in the government that were trying to stymie his efforts to radically change the country.

[Lisa Rubin]

Country.

[George Beebe]

He's now surrounded by people that are fully supportive of his agenda and helping him do it. He is way more effective at accomplishing his agenda with having that time out of office because those a lot of his aides, Russ VO those sorts of officials spent their time out of government planning for this term. And so what they've done is an onslaught of executive orders in the first six months that accomplished a lot of their goals very quickly because he knew what they wanted to do.

[Charlie Kirk]

Rickerts, we got about a minute in this segment before we go to break your thoughts about President Trump stepping in and making some big power decisions here, sir.

[John Solomon]

Well, Steve, you've offered this description for a while, but it's interesting to see the Democrats and the progressives come to the same conclusion. It took them a while, but they actually figured it out. And to say that, you know, Trump loyalists, Trump's closest advisors stuck with him over the four years and don't think Trump wasn't you know, keeping scores, so to speak. That's true. But they didn't just hang around and say, you're the best. They planned and, you know, the, the Heritage foundation, you know, Project 2025 I think was called, they had to distance themselves a little bit late in the campaign because it was becoming an issue. But in fact that was, I mean I, I read a lot of it. It was 900 pages. I can't say I read every word, but I read hundreds of pages. You know, in my areas of expertise, man, was that well thought out. You don't have to agree with everything or endorse everything but the, the, the methodology, the rigor, etc that went into that. And so, and you made the point and you're right. They knew after the 2020 election that they were going to win in 2024 because of the fraud in that election. They said we don't have to get more votes, we just have to stop the fraud. And Army Dylan and others did that.

[Charlie Kirk]

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[John Solomon]

Well, it's important because, you know, he's coming off a very strong political base. Not to say a lot of Trump's accomplishments and successes over the first seven, seven, eight months at this point are in the domestic area, plus tariffs. That's international trade. I think he's still struggling a little bit in foreign policy, but he's, he's working off a very powerful base, there's no question about that. Now with the meeting in Alaska, former Russian territory, by the way, the meeting in Alaska, he's, he's making a number of statements. Number one, Vladimir Putin is subject to a, an arrest warrant from the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Well, obviously he's not, Putin's not going anywhere if he thinks he's getting arrested. So the US Is not a member of that. But obviously Trump has offered assurances that, hey, come to Alaska, we'll meet, you're fine. So he's kind of, Trump is poking a stick in the eye of the International Court of Justice, saying you're just another, you know, left wing front, but we don't take you seriously. And that's why Putin couldn't go to the BRICS summit in South Africa two years ago because there was some danger that he would get arrested. So he feels safe there. But that's kind of of Trump sheltering him in a very good way. The other thing, that's not getting quite as, as much publicity as it should. Why is Putin doing this? Putin is not going to agree to an unconditional ceasefire. That's one of the things Trump wants. That's what Zelensky wants. Putin is not going to agree to it. So why, why do it? The answer is the agenda for this summit is far broader than the war in Ukraine. That's obviously an important issue. But they're looking at security guarantees, security arrangements, I should say, for all of Europe, basically undoing, you know, NATO, undoing the, the post World War II settlements and institutions, and coming up with a new framework that would involve Russia as a, as a, as a full partner, number one. Number two, a rapprochement between Russia and the United States doesn't mean we're treaty allies or anything of the kind. Doesn't mean we don't still have some adversarial relationships. But, you know, let's work together. I mean, US is a tech powerhouse, Russia is a natural resource powerhouse. There's probably no better natural trading relationship in the world than those two countries. Germany would be in the same position. So Putin's got a broader vision and a broader agenda. So does Trump, and that's the main reason they're meeting. I think that this summit will fail in terms of the Ukraine ceasefire, but it may be a success on a much broader platform.

[Charlie Kirk]

Do you see there that Putin's designs, you talk about Eurasia and of course, obviously our existential threat is the Chinese Communist Party. Do you see their design with Persia, Turkey, India as a new kind of Eurasian bloc? And that's what they hope to get at least the beginning of, and hopefully some sort of rapprochement, not with the west, but maybe some alignment with this, Sir?

[John Solomon]

Well, you're right, they have some alignment already. I mean, Russia, Turkey has been this love hate relationship for centuries. And Russia almost got, at the time, Constantinople or Istanbul at the end of World War I. The British kind of got there first, but Russia has no warm water access to ports except through the Bosporus. That's one of the critical choke points in the world. So they have to somehow have relations with Turkey, even though, as I say, runs hot and cold. Iran is very dependent on Russia for security and clout, international forms. Iran's got a lot of problems. I mean, their economy is collapsing, they're running out of water. Actually, there's a serious drought there, they're pumping oil, but they're very dependent on China in that respect. And they've been attacked by B2 bombers in the US and Israel. So Russia has a lot of clout with Israel, sorry, with Iran. And I've said all along if Trump and Putin could end the war in Ukraine, Putin would very quickly pivot to help Trump solve the problems with Iran. You know, maybe Iran, Israel peace treaties is a bit much at this stage, but at least to get them to agree not to continue uranium enrichment. Russia said, hey, send us, Russia said to Iran, send us your highly enriched uranium, your weapons grade uranium. We will send you lower enriched uranium. That's good for the nuclear power plant. So if you want a power plant, fine. If you want weapons, no, but we'll do a uranium swaps that'll enable you to pursue that. So there's a lot of good that could come out of the uranium situation if the Russians were helping us, but they're not because of Ukraine. So I keep making the point that these things are all connected. You look at all the moving parts.

[Charlie Kirk]

Can you stick around with us for the second hour? We've got George Beebe, the head of grand strategy. The Quincy Institute is going to join us. We're also John Solomon broke in a massive story last night on the seditious conspiracy about one of the audience's favorite Senator Shifty Schiff. Blockbuster story of what's happening internally over at the FBI about certain documents related to Shift and certain whistleblowers related to Senator Shifty Schiff. We're also launching a new film today on Richard Nixon made by the great Michael Patrick Leahy and Jeff Shepard off of Jeff Shepard's amazing and groundbreaking work on the judicial couple that was against President Nixon. It really looks like a replay, a reprise of that here with President Trump in this radical judiciary. Jim Rickards is going to be with me, my wingman for the second hour. Rickardswarroom.com It's a landing page. You get access to strategic intelligence. It's a C suite. Read rickards war room.com you get access to strategic intelligence. And if you subscribe, he throws in a free book, moneygpt about artificial intelligence and fiat currency. How about that? Jim Rickards, always cutting edge. He's gonna stick around for the second hour. Also, Lula is rubbing up on xi, talking about having another meeting. Why? Because Lula is the head of the de dollarization effort. You know this from the team we sent down to Rio for the Rio reset. Go to birchgold.com right now. Promo code Bannon, the end of the dollar empire. Seven free installments. We're working on the 8th and the 9th simultaneously. We'll roll out. Also, we have a big announcement on a physical copy of the of this book. We're gonna put it together in book form and have it ready for you after Labor Day. Lot going on. Birchgold.com make sure you go check it out today. Promo code bandit. Talk to Philip Patrick and the team about owning physical gold. The right stuff takes us out. We're Back in two minutes. In the second hour, the morning show of the War room. You missed the IRS tax deadline. You think it's just going to go away? Well, think again. The IRS doesn't mess around and they're applying pressure like we haven't seen in years. So if you haven't filed in a while, even if you can't pay, don't wait. And don't face the IRS alone. You need the trusted experts by your side. Tax Network usa. Tax Network USA isn't like other tax relief companies. They have an edge, a preferred direct line to the irs. They know which agents to talk to and which ones to avoid. They use smart, aggressive strategies to settle your tax problems quickly and in your favor. Whether you owe $10,000 or $10 million, Tax Network USA has helped resolve over $1 billion in tax debt. And they can help you, too. Don't wait on this. It's only going to get worse. Call Tax Network USA right now. It's free. Talk with one of their strategists and put your IRS troubles behind you. Put it behind you today. Call Tax Network USA at 1-800-958-1000, that's 800-958-1000 or visit Tax Network USA tnusa.com Bannon do it today. Do not let this thing get ahead of you. Do it today.