
Episode 5224: Massive Throw Down In Senate Over SAVE ACT ...
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Senator Eric Schmitt
one of those moments what is before us today is a test a test of whether the senate still understands what it's for a test of whether article one of the constitution still means what it says that congress possesses the power to write the rules of the road a test of whether this body still exists to defend the american people strengthen the republic and use constitutional authority for the common good that is why i rise in support of my substitute amendment to the save america act and it comes before us at a fitting hour in our nation's life america is approaching her two hundred fiftieth birthday we're taught in schools to think of the american founding as though it were unimaginably far away sealed off behind glass but two hundred and fifty years is smaller than it seems president john tyler was born during the first congress in seventeen ninety he was born in the very infancy of this republic president tyler's last living grandson died only last year that is how near the founding still is and how recent this great experiment in self government remains and if the founding is that near then our duty is that much clearer we're not the curators of a dead tradition we are the stewards of a living republic our republic was founded on a daring claim that free people could govern itself not that a free people could drift forever not that a free people could live off inherited greatness while its leaders refuse every hard question not that a free people could dissolve every boundary mock every limit and still expect to remain free no the american founding rested on a harder truth liberty is fragile and so it requires structure man has fallen and so self government requires virtue a republic requires citizens truth and the courage to defend both that's why this bill matters some may say this bill will say these titles some will say that this bill and all of its titles don't belong together that five pronged three titled amendment is just a package or a wish list or a collection of unrelated priorities but that only proves they do not understand what time it is and they don't understand what our republic is the five prong and three titles of this amendment are united by one central question will american law still defend the basic conditions of self government title one save american voter says the franchise belongs to its citizens and voting should be secure title two save american sports says that women sports exist for women and girls acknowledging biological reality over illegal fiction imposed by elite ideology title three save american children says that children should be protected from irreversible harm not handed over to the appetites fashions and confusions of the age citizenship reality responsibility those are the basic truths a nation must defend if it intends to remain a nation let me begin with title one a republic has the right to distinguish citizens from non citizens that should not be controversial that should not even be difficult the vote is not a global entitlement the vote is not a participation trophy for anyone who happens to cross our borders it is one of the central privileges and duties of political membership if citizenship means anything it must mean something here first that is why requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections is foundational it is a minimum requirement it is so common sense in a self governing nation because a people that cannot say who belongs to the polity cannot remain a polity at all the same is true for voter identification we're told endlessly that asking a voter to identify himself before casting a ballot is somehow oppressive somehow unreasonable somehow outside the bounds of democrat democrats democratic decency the american people know better that's why over eighty percent of american voters support voter id identity verification is ordinarily in every is ordinary i should say in every serious sphere of life we require it for small things for lesser things for trivial things there's nothing wrong with requiring lawful voters to identify themselves before before participating in the elections of those who will govern the united states of america honest elections require lawful voters lawful ballots and lawful verification and then there's the question of mail voting for too long this country has been told to accept a system of mass mail in voting as though it were the settled inheritance of the american republic it is not in its current form mass mail in voting is a modern phenomenon and in many places it is a direct holdover from the COVID era covid is over the emergency has passed the extraordinary accommodations of that period should not become the permanent architecture of american elections for most of our history the presumption was simple if you could vote in person you voted in person you appeared before lawful election officials your identity could be verified your ballot could be secured the chain of custody could be protected the people could trust what they were seeing that is not cruelty that is not oppression that is what republican government looks like now of course there are those who are unable to vote in person and they should be helped military voters should be helped individuals with disabilities should be helped individual those who are sick should be helped caregivers with real burdens should be helped those with genuine genuine i should say qualifying hardships should be helped but accommodation should remain the exception not the organizing principle of the whole system because voting is not a consumer transaction the highest values in election administration should be on legitimacy public confidence and trust not so long ago even democrats shared these values the carter baker commission formed by former democrat president jimmy carter and former republican secretary of state james baker iii made many of the recommendations that my amendment promotes voter id proof of citizenship and limiting mail in balloting democrat senators may not support these provisions but their voters do seventy one percent of self identified democrats support voter id a free people should want its elections to be visible accountable and resistant to bad actors that is what title one is trying to restore not the denial of lawful voting but the integrity of lawful voting not confusion but confidence not looseness but but legitimacy i know this issue because i have experienced these fights myself when i served as missouri's attorney general i fought in court and defended our state's election integrity laws against a coordinated assault from the left in twenty twenty the left's dark money funded election super lawyers did not merely challenge one rule here or there they challenged the very idea that we can get serious rules to protect the ballot deter fraud preserve order and sustained public confidence in the vote they came for the safeguards that made elections credible they came for the principle that absentee and mail voting must be governed by rules they came for the simple proposition that the people are entitled not only to cast a ballot but to trust the system by which ballots are cast handled counted and certified and missouri won we defended the truth that election law is the framework by which free people govern itself election law isn't the architecture isn't election law isn't the arcane inconvenience to be brushed aside whenever the left sees a tactical advantage we defended the proposition that deadlines matter because finality matters we defended ballot security because legitimacy matters we defended verification requirements because public trust matters we defended the authority of the people acting through their laws to insist that elections be honest orderly and worthy of confidence and missouri won that fight has taught me something i've never forgotten the fight over election integrity is about more than mechanics or procedure rather it's about whether we still have the moral confidence to defend the elementary conditions of self government because once every safeguard is treated as suspect once every verification measure is denounced as oppression once every effort to secure the ballot is caricatured as hostility to democracy what is really under attack is the public's faith that elections are fair lawful and real so when i speak today about voter id proof of citizenship and limits on mass male voting i do so from experience i've fought these battles before i've seen the pressure campaign to dissolve the rules that protect the vote i've seen how quickly common sense is denounced when it stands in the way of ideological ambition i've seen when the public officials are willing to stand firm and when you do that you can win that is what title i and saving american voters is all about it's not extreme it's not novel it's the restoration of an old and necessary principle that in a republic the vote must be lawful secure and worthy of confidence of the american people now let me turn to title two if the law cannot defend women from men acting as women it cannot defend reality women's sports exist because men and women are not the same that is biological reality it is moral reality it's the plain reality on which fair competition depends and when the law refuses to recognize that reality the category of women's sports becomes fraudulent girls are told to surrender fairness they're told to surrender privacy they're told to surrender safety they're told to surrender recognition and they're told to do all of this so the ruling class can flatter itself for its own moral sophistication the state has no right to impose that sacrifice i have two daughters they both love sports but this is more than just about sports it's about whether the law is still going to reflect reality or whether it will be conscripted into enforcing a falsehood it is about whether a civilization still possesses enough moral confidence to say what is the truth and that's not cruelty it's about whether we still believe that girls deserve a realm of fair competition that is actually their own a serious republic does not ask girls to bear the cost of elite confusion a serious republic tells the truth about the world and builds laws on that truth that is what title ii does now let me turn to title three against a decent nation protects children children are not ideological property children are not experimental material children are not raw material for the ambitions of activists for the cowardice of institutions or for the self indulgence of adults who've forgotten the law exists first to defend those who need protection there are lines that a humane society does not cross irreversible medical interventions on minors for ideological ends are one of those lines a child in distress needs guidance protection patience love stability truth a child in distress does not need a civilization so morally exhausted that it answers confusion with scalpels sterilization and permanent medicalization the burden of uncertainty should favor preserving the child not fundamentally remaking the child too often our ruling class have preferred euphemism to honesty here we're told this is compassion we're told this is care we're told that the enlightened position is to ratify distress with irreversible harm it is not compassion to mutilate what cannot be restored it is not compassion to medicalize what may pass it is not compassion to turn children into lifelong patients before they're old enough to understand what is being taken from them permanently that is not mercy it is cruelty masked in liberation a republic worthy of the name protects children from adult passions from ideological capture and from the fashionable madness of the age that is what title ii is trying to do and that's why these three titles belong together because this amendment is more than a list of eighty twenty issues that the american people are demanding the save america act is the defense of the elementary truths on which republican life small r still depends america belongs to its citizens men and women are real children should be protected from permanent harm if a nation will not defend these truths it will not defend truth for very long if a nation will not defend these boundaries it will not keep any boundary for long and that brings me to this chamber itself americans still love mister smith goes to washington for a reason they love it because they still want to believe something about this institution they want to believe that the senate a uniquely american invention can be used for the common good they still want to believe that conviction can defeat cynicism they want to believe that a man can come here and fight for his country rather than merely manage its decline well here's our chance to prove that hope is not foolish the senate is not a museum it is not a visiting angel's retirement village for proceduralism it is not here merely to confirm nominees pass omnibuses and fund the legislative achievements of long dead men while the living nation loses confidence in its own government the united states senate is here to legislate in defense of the american people the senate is here to draw lines the senate is here to make judgments the senate is here to govern so the question for this chamber is really are we here to govern or merely preside are we here to act for the people or simply explain why action is impossible are we here to use power rightly or merely to congratulate ourselves for the restraint while the country pays the price because the stakes here are plain we see distrust in elections we see the collapse of more clarity we're seeing girls told to accept injustices as progress we're seeing children offered up to the altar of extreme ideology we're seeing a governing class that refuses to draw any line until the line has already been erased and republics don't usually fall in one dramatic stroke they weaken when truth is no longer defended they weaken when citizenship is deluded they weaken when institutions lose the will to govern they weaken when elites ask ordinary people to live under conditions they themselves know are disordered they weaken when men without chests hold positions requiring virtue and enterprise that is what this debate is really about it's about whether the country still defends first principles it's about whether the senate understands what time it is it's about whether constitutional power can still be used for the common good and as america approaches her two hundred fiftieth birthday two hundred fiftieth birthday that question becomes even more urgent a republic approaching its quarter millennium should not be content merely to to remember greatness it should show that it stills know how to govern it still knows how to govern itself it should show that it still has the strength to defend citizenship it should show that it still has the courage to defend women it should show that it still has the decency to defend children article one is supported is supposed to be the branch of action this body exists to do more than simply fund legislative achievements of of long dead men the legislative power exists to make judgments draw lines and defend our country the senate should prove that it still understands that duty so pass this bill to restore integrity to federal elections pass this bill to defend women and girls pass this bill to protect kids pass this bill to show the american people that we can still act in the defense of the american people pass this bill to because these are common sense reforms pass this bill because americans are tired of being told that their most basic moral instincts are somehow beyond the pale pass this bill because a nation serious about the future doesn't apologize for governing itself pass this bill because america at two hundred fifty should be more than some commemoration it should be a renewal the age of excuses should end the era of drift should end the senate should act and the save america act should pass mister president yield the floor
Steve Bannon
schmidt from missouri fantastic speech they're gonna continue they did five in the first hour senator schmidt was first in the second hour i'm gonna slip mike davis in here got cleta mitchell also on deck mike davis walk us through tell the audience describe what's happening right now
Mike Davis
this is historic and i want to commend senators like senator eric schmidt from missouri senator mike lee from utah many other good republican senators even mitch mcconnell who joined his colleagues to vote to proceed they voted to get past that first senate procedure to begin debates on the save act the save act ensures what will ensure that non citizens are not voting in our elections it requires proof of citizenship to register to vote it helps keep our voting rules clean to make sure that noncitizens are not on our voting rolls it requires voter id these are measures that have support with over eighty percent of americans including a super majority of democrats and even a super majority of minorities these democrat senators are pretending that this is somehow sexist and racist to require voter id like married women somehow can't get a voter id because their name has changed or that black americans don't have the wherewithal to get a voter id like all other americans well if that's the case why do a super majority of black americans support voter id what do they support the save act it's very clear what the democrats are doing here they want to make it easier for illegal immigrants to illegally vote and rig and steal our elections and the save acts will helped help prevent that this is within congress's power under the elections clause of the constitution congress can set the rules for federal elections along with the states and so this is clearly within congress's power there is no excuse not to pass the save act when it has overwhelming bipartisan support among americans there's no excuse for this and so the democrats think that they're going to try to stop this with what they call the silence filibuster meaning you have to have sixty votes in the senate to end debates and vote on bills and i call that the lazy filibuster because if you just threaten a filibuster in the senate it usually makes these senators say okay we don't have the courage we don't have the energy to fight this so we're going to move on to the next bill this bill this save act can pass without sixty votes in the senate that that is it is simply not true that you need sixty votes in the senate to pass the save act you need you just need to wear out the democrats you need to make them debate you make you need to make them stand up on the floor and follow the strict rules rule nineteen of the senate rules follow that strictly where senators can only generally debate two times a day in one legislative day on any given topic and the debates must be germane remaining they have to be about the save act and not about anything else and if you strictly enforce those rules if you make senate democrats stand up and debate and argue against eighty percent of of the american people including a super majority of democrats and even a super majority of minorities the democrats are going to they're going to lose steam on this debate they're not going to win this debate and so the key is republicans just need to continue to fight to make sure this passes this bill's already passed the house it simply needs to pass the senate after we wear out the senate democrats and the president can sign this crucial piece of legislation that makes sure that democrats cannot continue to import tens of millions of illegal aliens so they can rig and steal our elections this is a red line this is where senate republicans must fight and not give up and at the article three projects we make it very easy to encourage our senators to stay in this fight if you go to article three project dot org and take action again the war room posse superpower is lighting up these senate republicans and even senate democrats like we did with ketanji brown jackson's confirmation like we've done with so many others you take action and the most important action item right now is to stop illegal aliens from rigging and stealing our elections get these republicans to find and keep their backbones and pass the save act get it to president trump's desk he's already said he's not going to sign any other legislation until he signs the saved act and so if these senate republican republicans or these senate democrats want appropriations bills signed by the president they better pass the save
Cleta Mitchell
act
Steve Bannon
mike we started about an hour ago we had ted cruz we've had marsha blackburn of tennessee rick scott of florida we had senator daines amountana we had senator marshall of kansas that was basically the first hour the second hour started with eric schmidt which i thought was one of the best speeches we've heard so far and now we've got this i believe this is the first democrat i may have missed somebody beginning does this mean the democrats are just now engaged in this i mean what
Amy Klobuchar
we've done here is called seize the
Steve Bannon
floor we're on this bill in a very non traditional way but we have to continue to drive this until they wear out correct i mean this is not about political nuance right now this is pure political muscle of who can stand here because as soon as they fade for any reason we can bring it to an immediate vote and we already know murkowski said she's a no tillis didn't even show up for the rule so we're at fifty one votes right now but that would pass it is this just a display in good old fashioned political hardball we need to
Mike Davis
make sure that senate republicans keep their backbones here this is the most crucial piece of legislation remember what senate democrats are doing they are filibustering a bill with eighty percent plus support among americans including a super majority of democrats and a super majority of minorities if we can't get the save acts passed in the senate if senator john thune cannot get the save act passed in the senate he may need to find a different line of work if you can't pass legislation with eighty percent support including a super majority of democrats and a super majority of minorities you're not doing your job so force these democrats to get up there and argue like this patty murray has just done with washington from washington that married women can't figure out how to change their voter id so they can vote like they're too stupid you know maybe they're just pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen and they don't know how to get to the dmv and change their id like every other woman in america or like the democrats try to argue that black americans don't have the wherewithal to get a voter id like everyone else even though a super majority of black voters support voter id these are crazy arguments by these democrats let them make them wear them out and then get this to president trump's desk with fifty one votes fifty two votes fifty votes who cares we'll bring in the vice president to break the tie but this save act must pass
Steve Bannon
mike before i let you go and thank you for doing this whenever i go to article three you you know we've been the leader in pushing the bobby kennedy and tulsi gabbard and you know pete hex all of them their confirmations mike you're a man of the senate you worked for grassley forever and then you were the lead sled dog on getting these very tough confirmations of supreme court justice done in the first term how big a deal is this institutionally for the united states
Mike Davis
senate right now well it's massive because generally if you just threaten a filibuster then the majority caves they say we don't have sixty votes we don't have the time we don't have the energy we're not going to do this and that may work with legislation that is not this monumental but when you're dealing with the save act this is about saving america democrats are mass importing foreigners to replace american voters the replacement theory that the democrats think is a conspiracy theory is happening and you're seeing it's happening because democrats are filibustering a bill that has eighty percent support among americans including a super majority of democrats a super majority of minorities why are they doing this because today's democrat party is so beholden to illegal aliens it's so beholden to foreigners and not american citizens the democrat party of today caters to foreigners and not americans we see this in new york city in new york city mandami would not have won if we just had american citizens voting but because we had noncitizens voting we have this islamist running new york city this is going to happen all across america it's happening all across europe we have to pass the save act this is existential to the future of america mike
Steve Bannon
davis one more time article three where do people go and where they go for your social media it's article three
Mike Davis
project dot org article number three project dot org follow us on social media donate but only what you can afford but again the most crucial thing the war room posse does is action action action click on that take action and light up both of your home state send senators even if they're democrats take their confidence on the democrat side and tell them they must stop illegals from illegally stealing american elections pass the save
President Donald Trump
act
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Senator Patty Murray
your order and stand up for the fundamental right to vote that always used to be bipartisan and the idea that you're going to make all these people re register or register with a expensive passport or birth certificate that they can no longer use their driver's license that they are their private voter data is sent to homeland security to go through some elon musk design computer system is not what people want in this country right now thank you mister president i yield the floor
Steve Bannon
lindell for the governor of minnesota she's still in the senate we've had two democrats back to back patty murray murray of washington that's a beauty and amy klobuchar so right now they're going to select either be a republican or democrat obviously they're going to pick cleta mitchell you're with us before we may have to go bounce to the white house for the ceremony with the irish on saint patrick's day so far cleta frame it for us where
Amy Klobuchar
are we and where are we going
Cleta Mitchell
we are steve is that today is an historic day in the us senate because this is the first time and maybe decades that the senate is actually going to bring a bill to the floor and start to proceed on a bill when they don't know in advance what the outcome is going to be and that's called legislating and it's about damn time that they started doing that because what has happened over the last couple of decades is that they've created this monstrosity process where they just say oh we don't have sixty votes so we can't do anything well that's ridiculous there's a lot of law that's been enacted over the course of this two hundred fifty years of the nation's history that did not have a sixty vote margin so i think that this is historic i'm cutting look i'm a pretty good bomb thrower as the posse knows and i was throwing some pretty heavy bombs and grenade hand grenades at the senate republican leadership and in particular john thune a week ago but i will tell you that i think that they responded because of what the posse has done because of what people have been doing over the last three weeks and between last tuesday and last wednesday the people melted down the us senate phone lines email systems district and state offices and so they had the grassroots coming for him and we had president trump saying i'm not signing anything until you put this bill on the floor and pass it and they finally said uncle now they don't exactly know what's going to happen step by step but here's what i think is important for everybody keep making those phone calls it's now time to listen to the democrats and listen to what they say and just listening to amy klobuchar it reminds me of something steve i was the lawyer the national lawyer for the term limits movement for term limits for members of congress and i'll never forget in nineteen ninety one in washington state home of patty murray we had there was a referendum on term limits for members of congress on the ballot in washington state the polling showed that ninety percent of the people republicans democrats et cetera supported term limits so do you know what the democrats did they changed the subject and said if there were term limits you're going to lose your social security i want you to and that is what they're doing right now when they're talking about the save act save america act when they're talking about women won't be able to vote i'm listening to amy klobuchar she has clearly not read the bill nobody has to go re
Steve Bannon
register they're not gonna read hang on cleta hang on for one second andy kim of new jersey's up there now so this is three democrats in a row at first i think they were a little hesitant and kind of rope a dope and now they're fully engaged i think we're gonna have a quite interesting evening remember you gotta go nonstop
Amy Klobuchar
as soon as you get off i think yes you gotta this is called
Steve Bannon
seizing the floor cleta john solomon broke
Amy Klobuchar
today and glenn beck did an amazing
Steve Bannon
couple of minutes on it if i'll try to play that in the six o' clock hour that today with everything
Amy Klobuchar
going on in georgia with everything going
Steve Bannon
on in maricopa county just the first two of what of what solomon's told us is five entities okay with a big election fraud issues fulton county and
Amy Klobuchar
maricopa county and now huge fights they're in court fighting us you know the
Steve Bannon
mediation in georgia breaking news has ended doj took a tough stance and now we're going to be back into lawsuits about this but they don't want us to get the hands on the ballot solomon comes out today and glenn beck did a perfect thing on april twentieth
Amy Klobuchar
in april twenty twenty the chinese communist party came in and and intrude it not into ballots but into voter information at the beginning of the pandemic knowing that mail in ballots were going to become a big deal right they did it how can these democrats sit here and they're using every excuse in the
Steve Bannon
world you don't have a passport you
Amy Klobuchar
don't have this i mean if patty murray and amy klobuchar are the best that they've got to start this thing off i think the american people are
Steve Bannon
going to get a real education over the couple of days particularly when solomon tells us there's more information coming out about the chinese communist party active involvement in voter rolls and voter information social security numbers all of it ma' am
Cleta Mitchell
it's absolutely true steve i mean that why do you think they have not wanted us to talk about this for five years why do you think they have gaslighted us for five years why do you think they have called us names for five years election deniers cost people their jobs cost people their law firm partnerships like me like people that worked with me in georgia and all across the country why do you think they've done that because they they thought they were going to silence us they were going to shut us all up and and now they're saying why are you looking trying to look at all these ballots from fulton county why do you want these records from maricopa county that's all been litigated nothing to see here no none of it has been litigated none of it has been looked at and if they think that they're going to shut us down by continuing sending to call us names and say we're you know we're just conspiracy theorists well you know what there was a conspiracy and here's let me just give you one example in georgia in georgia the secretary of state the republican brad ravensburger there's no authority for him to have done what he did he sent an absentee ballot application to everyone on the voter rolls in georgia in the spring of twenty twenty because of the pandemic because of COVID there's no authority for him to have done that and then he said here check this box if you want automatic absentee ballot for the general election that is a specific violation of georgia state law but he did that and there were hundreds of thousands of mail ballots there was no signature verification none of that has been litigated because our election contest filed for president trump was never heard in court and all the things the complaints that people have filed with the state election board for the last five years in georgia have either been tossed aside attorney general chris carr who's an i don't even know if he's breathing but you know he has done nothing to investigate brad raffensperger investigated himself and found no no problems and now we have a good state election board but look none of these things have been investigated none of these things have been litigated and we just have to keep making noise but these democrats here's a question that i have ron wyden made a big speech on the floor of the us senate in july of twenty nineteen saying he and his congressional colleagues had been briefed by intelligence authorities about intrusion into and plans to interfere with the twenty twenty election ron wyden gave a floor speech on the senate saying this is very scary we need to pay attention to this he introduced a bill he had sixteen democrats who co sponsored it i went and looked it up a few months ago and said i like this bill i want to put it in the same america act let's put it in there so that we can protect our all the things that we talk about the democrats used to worry about so amy klobuchar is right voting used to be and voting support and election integrity that used to be bipartisan not anymore the democrats want to get rid of everything what eric senator smith said was exactly right they want to get rid of any safeguard whatsoever just because the law says you can't rob a bank doesn't mean that banks sit around and don't put bars on the windows and put the money in the vault at night and that's exactly the situation the democrats have done to our elections and we have to undo it and we have to listen to them and we need the republicans to keep this bill on the floor for two to three weeks in time for the americans attention to focus on it's the democrats they're the ones that should be scaring everybody by the stupid lies they're telling about the bill
President Donald Trump
well if to
Steve Bannon
do that i believe they're going to have to stay up there totally so we're going to see that by the way the number for the republicans are a number for the senate excuse me two zero two two two four three thousand one hundred and twenty one and make sure if one of if you're both your senators and one of them a democrat call give them the old what for about supporting this bill call them and and let's use some positive reinforcement to the to the republicans you got to stick with this we already know murkowski said she's a no and thom tillis didn't even show up for i think the rules vote so he's signaling to you he's a no he's told people
Cleta Mitchell
i'm just glad he didn't show up but we need to work on him from north carolina you know but he's not running again lisa murkowski has rewritten has gotten election laws rewritten in alaska that the only way she can win is by manipulating the process but but you know what people ranked choice voting repealing ranked choice voting which is what she helped put in that got her reelected last time it's going to be on the ballot again to repeal it and man if if she if we can get rid of ranked choice voting in alaska we can get rid of lisa murkowski
Steve Bannon
if you remember when you keep hearing all these people run around this is maga that's not maga this is your maga you're not maga one of the central tenets of maga i can tell you being here from the very beginning and particularly in the firestorm of twenty twenty twenty twenty one twenty twenty two is election integrity some of the hardest toughest people we have who stood in the breach over the last several years risking jail bankruptcy throwing out of their law firms throwing out of their companies having their families disown them have been the patriots that have stood in there for voter integrity and right now folks you gotta understand we have a massive national debate taking place on the senate floor on this very issue of stealing elections and particularly stealing the twenty twenty election and how we're gonna get around it we've also got explosive news coming out of now the intelligence agencies they can't hold back anymore you heard john solomon today saying the white house the white house not maybe maybe after president trump goes to china with xi it's not going to wait we got to get it out there and it's getting out there now so and you've got the and you've got these lawsuits in georgia and the and the situation in maricopa county we have the convergence of three major elements if we're ever going to get voter integrity if we're ever going to get elections that are fair and uncompromised and not stolen we have to do it we we have to do it we have to do it now cleta why don't you why don't you give us where you're going to go we'll get you back later and tomorrow we're going to go to the white house in a moment what do you tell us where to get your ma' am at
Cleta Mitchell
cleta mitchell which is on x and at i watchdogs and that's where you can find we're going to be posting things that's the election integrity network dot org website electionetwork dot org website and then our social media is at eiwatchdogs so come find us and we'll keep
Steve Bannon
you we'll get it up there thank you we're going to cut right to the white house the president united states
President Donald Trump
in a different sense we're doing very well i will say we're knocking them for a loop they can't have a nuclear weapon and they now understand that very strongly but we have a great country and we have an unbelievable military we have the most powerful military in the world and people see that i rebuilt it in my first term and i didn't know i'd have to use it so much in my second term but these the men and women of our military i pay them my highest love and compliments thank you very much i'm delighted to welcome everyone to the beautiful white house there's just no place like it right no place like it and we have a beautiful addition that's going to be added on very soon you probably hear about in fact see that beautiful curtain right there that gold curtain that's going to be it's like a knockout panel behind that curtain and you'd be looking into a deep foundation very very deep into the ground right there and next time you come back maybe the next two times okay maybe not four next time but by the second time you going to see one of the most beautiful ballrooms anywhere in the world you know they've always they've always wanted they've always wanted a ballroom at the white house all the presidents for one hundred fifty years they say or more and they never had this is a beautiful room but this is very small for you know when you think about state dinners and the things that we do so they put out a tent on the lawn and if it rained it was a problem it was a it was a nasty problem but it's a lot of work going on i hear the pile drivers going and to me i love the sound of those pile drivers my wife doesn't love it too much in the morning she said will they ever stop i said yeah another few months but it was it's really something that's going on right over there it's going to be a beautiful addition to the white house after one hundred fifty years but on this special day we gather here to celebrate an incredible feat of friendship between ireland and the wonderful place that we call the united states we call it america a lot of good names but it's a great place and it's doing really well we've never done better we took a little bit of a journey a little bit of an excursion over the last two weeks because because we thought we had to do something about very bad people that want to have nuclear weapons we can't allow that they would have had it if we didn't send the b two bombers in they would have had it seven months ago a couple of weeks after that and we can't let that happen so we did a little excursion and we're way ahead of schedule as you probably noticed and we've had there's no we knocked out their navy their air force their anti aircraft equipment their radar and their leaders it's been it's been amazing militarily but it's something that had to be done unfortunately i say we don't do it with glee but we've had a great country that's two hundred fifty we're celebrating our two hundred fiftieth year and continuing the custom that began with president truman we're delighted to host the taoiseach who is a great gentleman of ireland along with someone who's much much more important his wife mary just a lovely woman so thank you very much thank you for being here it's an honor while the taoiseach is far from emerald isle they should feel very much at home here in america because so many things have happened that are irish but it's often said that we have five times as many irish in our beautiful country than you have on on your wonderful island i mean that's that's a pretty that's a pretty big statement but they love they love you and i think i won't say their first love hopefully it's a close second but they do love and saint patrick's day we're here and it's very very special it's always been a special time even for me it's been a special time i feel like i have irish blood i'm not too far i have scottish blood is that good or bad i don't know i don't know i'm not sure but today's celebration we're also joined by deputy first minister of northern ireland emma little pingali and i want to just where's emma thank you very much it's such an honor it's such an honor thank you we met at the capitol and and i said the relationship is very good that's good much better that way right than the old days the old days but it was really an honor to meet with you thank you very much and thanks as well to members of my cabinet including two irish american secretaries sean duffy and linda mcmahon where are they hi sean where's linda but hi linda they've done an incredible job transportation and education and it's sort of they merged because linda is moving everybody back to the states so you have to use the we're moving our education back to the states where they belong and you have been unbelievable both of you thank you very well and another unbelievable person is attorney general pam bondi my friend where are you pam where are you thank you thank you pam secretary of energy that's a big one nowadays chris wright chris thank you thank you chris thank you and secretary of labor lori chavez darimer thank you lori thank you lori us trade representative representative jamison greer jamison we have a forty billion dollars deficit with ireland forty billion we got to do something about where's jamison okay please i'm looking at the little notes and i'm looking you know bob bob bob hearing all of the accomplishments of your great leader but then i saw the deficit is forty two billion dollars so they're going to have to buy a lot of our energy i think okay guy to make up with that and administrator kelly loeffler who is great small business but small business is big business i'll tell you when you add it all up we're also joined with some incredible friends of mine and very very powerful but very great people speaker mike johnson wherever you may be m and senator mark wayne mullen who maybe is going to be moving over to a little bit of a different position soon mark wayne where are you nobody wants to fight he's a tough cookie mark wayne he was a professional fighter he was he's a brutal human being but he's great now everyone loves him and we respect him also representatives steve scalise brian stile andy biggs pat fallon riley moore ronny jackson white house doctor former white house doctor i'll never forget they said who's the healthiest president because he covered obama he covered he covered some others i don't want to say who but and trump he said by far trump there's nobody even close he said by far took a little heat for that but that was okay where's ronnie where are you ronnie doc ronnie whenever i have a hi ronnie whenever i have a problem i call doc ronnie and he works it out you know he's a great guy and he's done a good job mister speaker as a congressman right he's been good and rich mccormick and john mcguire and beth van dyne all friends of mine all warriors and we have a lot of big things coming up the biggest thing coming up is a save america act in the senate that's voter id and proof of citizenship and no mail in ballots you know corrupt mail in ballots we're the only country in the world that does it that way corrupt as hell and then we added two more we're going to be i think they're going to be adding a couple of more one is no men and women sports that seems like an easy one i believe that's ninety nine percent and no transgender mutilization of our children none that's only polling at ninety eight percent speaker so hopefully the senate is going to be able to get that you can't ask for five better things i think in terms of and it's not politics it's really good for it so good for our nation i mean who would not have voter id who would not have proof of citizenship and the only people who would want not to have that are people that want to cheat it's very very simple we can't let that happen some sixteen hundred years ago the man who would become the patron saint of ireland saint patrick have you ever heard of saint patrick voluntarily returned to ireland after having escaped enslavement there and then spent thirty years carrying the christian gospel the gaelic tribes you know the gaelic tribes everybody here knows about that i don't but that's okay because of is that kelly in the audience do i see kelly oh ho ho ho hi kelly we had good time for lunch today that's the wife of a man who's extremely italian that i thought he was a wasp our speaker of the house is very very italian and i thought i always thought he was a super wasp actually but because of patrick ireland is now known as the land of saints and scholars for thousands of years christians everywhere have honored saint patrick and the legacy of march seventeenth and today we remember his incredible deeds as we celebrate our cherished irish american heritage and it's a great heritage at that from the very beginning america has thrived and prospered and prevailed with the help of incredible people the achievements are amazing the amazing irish american patriots and many of you are in the room you know these are very successful people in the room i know a lot of them they have a lot of cash they've made a lot of money they got a lot of natural business instinct unfortunately it's not easy dealing with the irish is never easy they are really amazing the irish came with william penn to settle in pennsylvania they traveled with daniel boone the great daniel boone to tame kentucky and they in seventeen seventy six was a man from cork cork fighting in the continental army who became the first person ever known as the phrase the united states he came up with the phrase the united states of america that's a pretty good phrase and americans of irish heritage gave us the steamboat the modern submarine the model t automobile and many many other things they designed the white house that i didn't know the empire state building that i didn't know and the new york city subway system which is when it's operated properly the best in the world it's actually quite amazing but people sort of have lost sight of that they gave us the works who really of great geniuses f scott fitzgerald flannery o' connor and the late great william f buckley was a great guy and they gave us heroes like apollo eleven astronaut michael collins really fantastic man i want to thank the taoiseach for all of the things and all of those irish friends that he brought to the room with him a lot of these are your great friends and accords to increase and coordinate our space and all of the space program we have so much involvement together it's you know ireland is sitting in a very good location in terms of the shot so he has a lot to negotiate with but the united states will soon return to the moon we think it's going to be quite soon and then we'll lead the world to mars it's something that i guess a lot of people want some people say it's a lot of money and and other people say it's progress and we should be doing it this is the war room we're going to turn it
Steve Bannon
over now on main real america voice channel to john solomon amanda head adjust the news they're going to take it from here we're going to continue on for the second hour of the war room on the streaming service so stick around we're going to go back we're going to cut between the white house we're going to go back to the senate floor talk to you what's happening on this epic fight to pass the save america act john solomon amanda head
President Donald Trump
next ever to receive three michelin stars in twenty nineteen i was honored to award patrick the national humanities medal and he's here today and he's the proud son of dublin and galloway so where is where are you here let's see good come on come over here i want to i want to see what you're looking at i want to see if you've i want to see to see if you've changed patrick come on
Amy Klobuchar
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Date: March 17, 2026
Key Speakers: Steve Bannon (host), Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Mike Davis (Article III Project), Cleta Mitchell (Election Integrity Network), Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), President Donald Trump
This episode of Bannon’s War Room dives deep into the high-stakes battle on the Senate floor over the SAVE Act—legislation tying major conservative priorities into a single bill. The discussion focuses on the integrity of federal elections, women’s sports, and protections for children, with blow-by-blow analysis, real-time reactions to Senate debates, and activist calls to action as Republicans and Democrats clash over its fate.
[00:00 – 18:49] Senator Eric Schmitt's Remarks
Theme: Framing the SAVE Act as a test of the Senate's purpose, commitment to constitutional governance, and willingness to defend American foundational principles.
SAVE Act’s Structure:
Foundational Quotes:
Call to Senate: “Are we here to govern or merely preside? ...The Save America Act is the defense of the elementary truths on which republican life still depends.” (Schmitt, [16:55])
[18:49 – 27:02] Mike Davis Joins Bannon
[34:15 – 34:51] Senator Patty Murray Remarks
[24:49 – 25:24; 35:17+] Amy Klobuchar Commentary and Tactics
[35:21 – 43:52] Cleta Mitchell’s Analysis
[39:16 – 43:52] Breaking News Context
[45:01+] Bannon and Panel
[46:59 – 60:20] White House St. Patrick’s Day Event
Throughout, the tone is urgent, combative, and combed with appeals to patriotism—reflecting a wartime posture ("throwdown") in defense of what the panel consistently frames as both “common sense reforms” and existential conditions for the nation’s continued self-government.
This episode covers the contours of America’s ongoing dispute over managing elections, defining citizenship, defending children, and preserving women’s sports—woven together in the SAVE Act’s culture-war “omnibus.” The panel and guests lay out arguments, criticisms, and lay down the gauntlet for grassroots mobilization as Senate leaders wage both a procedural and ideological battle with high stakes for the 2026 legislative calendar and general election.
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