THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON, (EP.# 4820)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The War Room with Stephen K. Bannon (EP.# 4820)

Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode centers around escalating unrest in American cities, the response from the Trump administration, a rare and forceful federal intervention in Memphis, live field reports from Portland and Paris, critique of Catholic Church leadership, and commentary on the ongoing U.S. government shutdown. The main theme intertwines law and order, the perceived abandonment by local officials, the assertion of federal authority, and concerns about cultural integrity, immigration, and institutional corruption.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Portland Unrest and the Federal Response

Reporting from the Ground

• Savannah Hernandez (Turning Point USA), recently reporting from both Portland, Oregon, and Paris, France, joins to discuss the "war zone" conditions in Portland.
• Citizens feel abandoned by local government; lawlessness led by groups characterized as Antifa has persisted nightly for over 100 days. (04:33)
• Hernandez recounts assaults on reporters and describes police retreating from engagement, citing instructions from city officials to avoid cooperation with ICE or federal authorities. (05:58, 07:44)
• Arrest cycle described: Protesters receive citations, not real deterrents; only repeat offenders face federal charges, leading to a sense of impunity among agitators. (07:44)

Savannah Hernandez [04:33]:
“When I came out here, what I saw was residents that were exhausted, tired, abandoned by their government and just tired of this lawlessness. …Antifa has been out there terrorizing these streets. …I would argue to say it’s 10 times, 15 times worse in real life because this is going on for multiple hours every single night.”

Local Police Dynamics

• Local police express their "hands are tied" due to political directives and the threat of job loss if cooperating with federal agencies. (09:10)
• The defund the police movement is directly blamed for police inaction and increasing boldness among lawbreakers.

Savannah Hernandez [09:10]:
“Police themselves are saying that if they assist ICE, if they assist with the chaos, that they're going to potentially lose their jobs. …Meanwhile, you have anarchists that are running around the streets threatening journalists, threatening residents. …Portland needs federal help because the city is out of control.”

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2. Comparative Reporting: The Migration Crisis in Paris

• Hernandez shares observations of Europe's migration crisis, noting significant cultural transformation and increased street crime, paralleling developments in U.S. cities. (10:14–12:59)
• French authorities and media accused of downplaying migrant-related crime and sanitizing reporting language.

Savannah Hernandez [11:08]:
“As you are walking around various suburbs of Paris …every single street, you are seeing African migrants… There are various parts of Paris in which the French people and the French culture is absolutely nowhere to be seen.”

• The segment establishes a narrative connection between European and American internal issues regarding migration, social cohesion, and governance.

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3. Memphis Federal Intervention Briefing

Live Task Force Briefing

• Brian Glenn provides live updates as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and senior federal officials assemble in Memphis to launch a federal law enforcement task force, invoking unprecedented involvement of federal agencies due to escalating crime. (16:02–25:16)
• Praise for President Trump’s priority on public safety and direct federal support for Memphis law enforcement.
• Zero tolerance and “broken windows, to the next level” approach against all criminal activity. (21:30–25:16)
• Assurances that the federal task force will provide resources to "bulldoze the criminal element" and "liberate law-abiding citizens." (22:45)

Federal Official [24:23]:
“Every resource we have, federal, state, and local, we are going to use to dismantle their networks without apology and without mercy. …We're going to bulldoze the criminal element in this city and thereby liberate all the law abiding citizens.”

On-the-Ground Rally

• Speeches emphasize support for law enforcement, promise of immediate federal prosecution, and a new era for Memphis. (47:57–54:38)
• Reference to previous success in D.C., intention to replicate strategy in other major U.S. cities (Portland, Chicago, L.A.).

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4. Institutional Critique: The Catholic Church and the Vatican

• The episode sharply criticizes a Vatican ritual involving the blessing of a block of ice (a climate change symbol), framing it as pagan and symptomatic of institutional rot. (32:33–41:32)
• The current Pope and American church leadership are accused of aligning with globalist, leftist agendas and undermining genuine Catholic tradition.
• Calls for grassroots pushback, exposure of Vatican/globalist deals, and renewal of orthodox practice.

Steve Bannon [36:20]:
“This is a pagan ritual to the religion of Gaia, the religion of climate change… The Pope is sitting there blessing a block of ice.”

Elizabeth Your [40:15]:
“The Catholic Church has been infiltrated by the UN, the globalists… We better pay attention. This guy is going to carry on and, I think, accelerate the work of the globalists using the Catholic Church.”

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5. Government Shutdown & Political Strategy

• Discussion on the ongoing government shutdown, referencing past shutdowns (2013 under Ted Cruz/Mike Lee), the logic of using continuing resolutions (CRs), and the dangers of omnibus spending. (42:12–47:10)
• Russ Vought (OMB), praised for aggressive spending cuts and resistance to "K Street" interests.
• Rep. Chip Roy expresses confidence in conservative strategy, warns of establishment sabotage, pledges no return to massive, unwieldy spending bills.

Chip Roy [43:28]:
“We were fighting to try to stop the implementation of a disastrous health care plan that has now turned out to be a total train wreck for the average hardworking American family… What are Democrats doing? They’re shutting down the government …because they want to give $40 billion more to the insurance companies.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Savannah Hernandez [04:33]:
  “I mean, Antifa has been out there terrorizing these streets. … It’s 10 times, 15 times worse in real life… all the chaos and lawlessness that you’re seeing online.”
• Federal Official in Memphis [24:23]:
  “We are going to bulldoze the criminal element in this city and thereby liberate all the law abiding citizens… without apology and without mercy.”
• Steve Bannon [36:20]:
  “This is a pagan ritual to the religion of Gaia, the religion of climate change, the Pope is sitting there blessing a block of ice.”
• Elizabeth Your [40:15]:
  “The Catholic Church has been infiltrated by the UN, the globalists. … We better pay attention.”
• Chip Roy [43:28]:
  “We were fighting to make DC listen… And now Democrats are shutting down the government because they want to give $40 billion a year more to the insurance companies rather than helping hardworking families.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Savannah Hernandez reporting from Portland: 04:33–10:05
• Savannah Hernandez report from Paris: 10:14–13:09
• Live: Launch of Memphis Federal Task Force (briefing): 16:02–25:16
• Vatican Block of Ice Ritual / Catholic Church Critique: 32:33–41:32
• Discussion of government shutdown, Rep. Chip Roy: 42:12–47:10
• Federal Task Force Rallies Memphis Law Enforcement: 47:57–54:38

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Additional Highlights

• Federal officials repeatedly frame Democrat-run cities as lawless, anarchic, and abandoned by their elected officials, offering today’s actions in Memphis as a template for nationwide intervention.
• Climate change activism is characterized as religious, with the Vatican accused of promoting a "pagan" agenda at the expense of traditional Catholicism.
• President Trump’s leadership is exalted for bold, uncompromising action (“dropping the hammer”)—his team positions all major policy as urgent and maximalist.
• Constant calls for community engagement and following field reporters are made (e.g., following Savannah Hernandez and the latest on social media).

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Tone and Style

The tone throughout is urgent, martial, and unapologetically confrontational—full of battle-language, culture war framing, and repeated calls to "bulldoze," "liberate," "unleash," and "tear out" institutional rot. Interviews and coverage are interspersed with host commentary, reinforcing the "war room" motif and a siege mentality.

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Transcript

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[D]

Lawlessness out here and that the residents feel that the local government, the mayor, the governor, the congressman, the senators of Oregon have completely abandoned the citizens. When I came out here, what I saw was residents that were exhausted, tired, abandoned by their government and just tired of this lawlessness. I mean, antifa has been out there terrorizing these streets. This is not the first time that I've been out here. Keep in mind this has been going on since June 4th. And since that time frame, we've seen arson, we've seen violence. The last time I was here, the entire ICE building was covered in threats reading kill ice shoot ice pigs, kill Trump. That has since been Cleaned up. But again, you know, all of the chaos and lawlessness that you're seeing online, I would argue to say is 10 times, 15 times worse in real life because this is going on for multiple hours every single night and has been for the last 100 days.

[B]

Savannah, they're clearly intruding and, and trying to terrorize the ICE agents and people coming for that, that center where they're supposed to bring the illegal aliens for holding. Why is local. Why are the local authorities not taking action? Why does it take President Trump to sign a declaration executive order declaring Antifa a terrorist organization to now Deploy, I think, 200 National Guard to Portland? Why are local authorities not taking action on this?

[D]

Well, what I'm hearing from residents on the ground is that the local police have their hands tied. But, I mean, I witnessed this last night. You had Post Millennial reporter Katie Davisport, who was violently assaulted by an Antifa member. She had to go and chase that person down. She pointed them out to the police and the police said it was too dangerous for them to go and arrest this person. So they let them go. Local stating that they have made so many pleas to the police to help. And I guess local police saying that they have their hands tied and they're being told that they could lose their jobs if they work with federal ICE officials in assisting the chaos and lawlessness that's going on out here. So again, Steve, this truly does seem like a third world city, if you will, that's been completely abandoned by any law and order. And it truly is the anarchists and Antifa members who are extremely happy about what is going on now. They're trying to right now state that Donald Trump is militarizing the US that they're bringing in the fascists, that the Nazis to come in and arrest these innocent and peaceful protesters. But again, what I've seen is residents that have been terrorized every single night and Donald Trump needing to bring in the National Guard because ICE agents as well have been docked. Let's not forget that this has been going on since June 4th. ICE agents, docs threatened, they have tried to burn down this building. Very reminiscent of what we've seen in 2020 as well during BLM. We're seeing this happen again. And we know time and time again that the Portland officials refused to enact law and order.

[B]

Everything I've seen of your footage in Berquam's is local police retreating the entire time Antifa moves, they retreat. They never, they never stand, they never arrest anybody. They're retreating. Are they telling you when you talk to the police that they're under orders from the elected officials to basically not arrest anybody, to not stand their ground, to actually continue to back up?

[D]

So it's been difficult to talk to local police on the ground just because it has been so chaotic, you know, throughout the night. But what I have been hearing from other reporters and local journalists on the ground is that the way that things are working outside of this facility is they're doing it by a citation basis, right? So basically these criminals will come out, they'll commit a crime, they'll impede an officer, they'll get a citation, they're brought into the facility, given that citation, and then they can get one more citation. It isn't until the third citation that they are actually potentially given jail time or a federal offense. Keep in mind, you've had over 100 people that have been arrested and given those citations. Only 27 of those people has have been federally charged by the doj. So again, I just feel like this is a broken system in which criminals are not being held accountable. So they keep coming back again and again. And then you also have an Antifa safe house that is right next to this area. So when the ANTIFA members who are coming under some heat, like the antifa member that attacked Katie Davisport last night, essentially what Antifa does is they come in with their umbrellas, they shield that person's identity, they take them into like the apartment that's right here and they shield them from any type of accountability or law enforcement.

[B]

Now, Ben Bergkrom interviewed one of the ICE officials today and I just want to know if you can reconfirm it is that they said the local police are not assisting them at all. There's absolutely no assistance at all from the local authorities. Is that what you're seeing also?

[D]

Yes, absolutely. And like I said, to police themselves are saying that if they assist ice, if they assist with the chaos, that they're going to potentially lose their jobs. So this is just another example of the repercussions of the defund the police movement of a lawless and Democrat run city in which police have their hands tied and they're made out to be the villains in this situation. Meanwhile, you have anarchists that are running around the streets threatening journalists, threatening residents. And again, Steve, it's just such a heartbreaking scene because as you're here at night, it is 11pm, it is midnight and you have residents that are on the ground screaming, crying like, please be quiet. I have a job, I have Work. I have kids. Can you please stop? These people do not care. They are so happy to be out here enacting this lawlessness, and they have no plans of stopping anytime soon. Let's hope that potentially the National Guard can come and help clean it up. But as of now, again, we're seeing that citation situation in which people are brought, they're given a citation, and then they're let back out.

[B]

Savannah, hang on one second. We play the clip of Savannah's reporting from Paris, France. Let's play this, and then I'm gonna bring you back in.

[C]

This is Savannah Hernandez in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, because I've been covering the illegal immigration crisis in the United States over the last four years. But I wanted to come to Europe to check out how the crisis is going over here. Now, a lot of people will take you in front of the Eiffel Tower to highlight the migration crisis. But we actually have been through various parts of Paris, and to be quite honest with you guys, this crisis is a lot worse than I even expected, expected it to be. Now, I was looking at some of the numbers, and you have about 400,000 to 500,000, both legal and illegal migrants coming into France every single year. And as you are walking around various suburbs of Paris, you very much see that. Now, first impressions of Paris. There is graffiti on every single beautiful building as you are driving from both north Paris into the heart of the city. On top of the that the city isn't the cleanest.

[D]

I'll be quite honest with you guys.

[C]

It's pretty stinky, lots of trash. You are very much seeing the results of the migrant crisis on every single street corner. I mean, everywhere we've gone, every single street, you are seeing African migrants. There are also various parts of Paris in which the French people and the French culture is absolutely nowhere to be seen. We are talking entire neighborhoods, entire cultural enclaves in which you are not seeing the French or their culture represented at all. And again, I wanted to come here because we are seeing the exact same thing mirrored in the United States of America. And similar to the United States, the media is absolutely covering up what is going on over here. The government is watering down a lot of those numbers. Now, I've been talking to a lot of local journalists, and similar to the U.S. they state that, of course, the media is completely watering down what is going on over here, going so far as to change the name of migrants when crimes are committed. So that way there isn't any bad sentiment in the public view towards migrants. You also have, of course, a large uptick in stabbings, in sexual assaults related to migrants. And the French women and the French men who try to bring light to this are told that they are racist, that they are fascist for trying to highlight these issues. So, again, wanted to come on the street and not only show you the front of the Eiffel Tower, because a lot of people always come to this location. What else is going on throughout Paris? What else is going on throughout France? Because this issue is way more pervasive than anything that I was expecting to see. And it was, to be quite honest with you, pretty shocking. So we're going to be reporting frontlines TPUSA on the ground in Europe, highlighting the illegal and legal immigration crisis and showing the. The impacts to the culture, to the people, and what is really going on here. What's being hidden from the world and how French culture is being impacted.

[B]

Savannah, I'm kind of gobsmacked by your report because Paris, one of the most beautiful cities in Christendom, looks like a third world country, ma'. Am.

[D]

Oh, absolutely, Steve. Now, I had covered the US Illegal immigration crisis for the last six years. I was completely shocked. And I go to New York quite a bit, and we have some similarities to Paris in terms of the African migrants that had made their way to the US I have never seen a migrant crisis so severe as I had in Paris. And I also have never felt so uncomfortable as I did walking down the streets of Paris. And one of the first things that I saw as we were making our way into the city was a woman in a hijab. And it only got progressively worse the closer we made to the heart of the city. So, you know, Charlie really wanted us to focus at Turning Point USA on the impacts of both the illegal and legal immigration in the US and he sent us over to Europe to kind of highlight just how bad the United States would get if we do not get our own legal immigration system under control. And of course, if we do not get mass deportations happening here in the United States of America. This actually followed a report that I did out of Minnesota with the Somali population, because various parts of America very much mirror Paris in the sense of. In the sense that we have entire neighborhoods that are a void of American culture, of American people, of the American language, values, morals. I mean, this is how an entire country degrades. And so that was why we went over there. And like I said, I truly was shocked. It's so crazy to see in the life.

[B]

But you see what happens when we try to. This is President Trump trying to basically start the beginning. Tom Homan and Stephen Miller start the beginning of the mass deportation program. And look at the resistance. It's come not just from Antifa, but the biggest problem out there is gutless progressive politicians that will not back the police up and let the police do the job. This is why President Trump's having to federalize the National Guard and sending them in. If you go out tonight, you've got to be safe because that's quite. That's a very dangerous situation in Portland, ma'. Am.

[D]

Absolutely, Steve. We will. Lucky for me, there are a lot of really great reporters out here that are on the ground that had been documenting this. And, you know, we'll continue to show you guys what is going on because unlike the entirety of the Portland government over here, who is pretending that Portland is not a war zone, it very much is. I will have some other reporting as well coming out about just what it looks like to walk around downtown Portland because it is terrifying. And at the very least, from the homeless crisis to the drug crisis to what is going on with the ICE facility and Antifa, Portland needs federal help because the city is out of control.

[B]

Savannah, where do people go to social media to follow you? Frontline, the Turning Point investigative reporter. Where do people go to get your content, Ma', Am, Go follow me on.

[D]

X at Underscore says and then go follow Frontlines Keep USA for all of my reporting. And thank you so much for having me, Steve, and for bringing light to everything that we're doing for Charlie and for Turning Point usa.

[B]

Thank you, ma'.

[D]

Am.

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Hope to have you on tomorrow. Be safe tonight.

[D]

Thanks, Steve.

[B]

Charlie Kirk. People don't realize Charlie Kirk had a vision globally about particularly the issues, the global issues that are driving so much discontent in the United States and quite frankly, trying to destroy our republic. And he had a great reporting team, Savannah being one of many. And we had her on the time from the border. Just a very intrepid young woman. We have our own Brian Glenn on right now. Brian, you're out with the secretary. Why is the Secretary of War in the Attorney General of the United States in Memphis, Tennessee, sir, with a contingent of the best White House reporters. Well, I tell you back, back on September 15th, President Trump created this Memphis Safe Task force. And we just landed here moments ago. You've got a live look at the area where they're both going to come up and address the officials in this room. Now, due to security issues, I'm not allowed to really show anything other than what you're looking at on the screen. But they are here to really help fight this crime that Memphis is, you know, experiencing right now. And we've seen the reduction of what it's done, Steve, in D.C. with the collaboration with local police and also the National Guard. The crime going down, robbing's going to. It looks like they're coming in right now. Let me go ahead and turn it over to the podium. Steve, we are live here. Okay. We're gonna go live to the briefing, and we're gonna do this without commercial interruption. The Attorney General and Secretary war live from Memphis 10. We have different agencies representing from the task force represented in this room. These are the posts we go to when we. When we need something from TBI or the FBI or any other agency. Something occurs in order that. So they're all represented here. This is 24 7.

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For those of you I've not met. I'm the governor of Tennessee, and I am as grateful a person as there is in this room for you, for your leadership, for your role that you play. I'm grateful that President Trump has decided to make a priority of making great cities like Memphis safe cities from impious. This is a great American city that needs. That needs you and needs the efforts.

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That you are going to be able.

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To put into this city. And I'm very grateful for General Bondi.

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For Secretary Nixeb, Mr. Miller, for the.

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Entire resources of the federal government to be focused on our great city. We in Memphis are in a position that no other city in America is in. We have at our disposal the resources of every federal agency determined to clean the crime off of these streets so that Memphians can live and work and worship and raise their kids and enjoy.

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The great things that Memphis has to.

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Offer without worrying about the things they've had to worry about for decades, and.

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That is whether or not their families are going to be safe.

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We are grateful to be a willing partner with these federal agencies, with the local agencies. It's a great opportunity.

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How excited about it. But you all are the ones that are going to have to do the hard work. There's a long way between here and there.

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And thank you for your commitment to do this work.

[A]

Thank you, Governor. Thank you for being a great partner with us in this. And, you know, President Trump knows Memphis is such an iconic city, and he was so excited about us coming here and working hand in hand with you to make Memphis safe again. And that's what we did in D.C. and Gaddy said you're 24 7. Well, so are we. When people play politics and show shut down the federal government, we don't shut down because President Trump knows crime doesn't stop and you don't stop. So we're here to back you up, to be your partner. Be safe. Thank you for what you do. There's no higher calling than being a police officer, especially in a violent world in which we live. And, you know, we all know Memphis has the highest violent crime rate in the country. And when we're all finished working hand in hand with you no longer, and we want cops to be cops again, you can go out there and you can do your job. And our U.S. attorney is here, and we are going to charge anyone federally, and we're going to go tell all the officers, if you touch a police officer, you will be arrested. If you touch a federal police officer, it will be assaulting a federal officer. We're going to do everything we can to protect you so you can protect the citizens of Memphis. Thank you for what you do. Thank you for wearing a badge. We all care deeply about what you do, and we're here to help you and have your backs like you always have ours. Secretary Hershey.

[B]

Amen.

[E]

Governor, thank you. And I, you know, Pam and Stephen and myself have a great privilege of having a chance to hear the President of the United States talk about his love for great American cities and his love for citizens of all backgrounds and all stripes, his love of law enforcement, his love of our military. And that all comes together in this room, in this place, at this time, with this task force. And I couldn't be more proud for the Department of War, for the Tennessee National Guard to be a part of this effort. From whether it's the Southwest border, whether it was Los Angeles, whether it's Washington, D.C. our department is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder right next to law enforcement while you do your job. Yesterday, I talked a little bit about liberating our war fighters on the battlefield. Our job here is to help liberate all of you law enforcement, to provide National Guardsmen who can secure facilities and secure law enforcement stand alongside you so you're freed up to go out and provide safety and freedom to the citizens of Memphis, a great American city. So we're really proud to be here. It's a core effort of what we're doing. We're in all of these meetings.

[B]

We're monitoring the statistics.

[E]

So is the President of the United States. Rest assured, from the top to right here, he's paying attention to the data and the information that's coming out, because he cares about this city and its citizens. And I just want to thank all the law enforcement. What, what you do every day, what you do every night, what you do away from your families is incredible. And I am beyond grateful. Our department is grateful, and we're thankful to be standing right here with you. Thank you. Thank you, Gatti. Governor Pete thanks to all of you. So our mission here is very simple. Zero tolerance for crime in the city of Memphis. We are taking broken windows to the next. Love every criminal fraction that we can enforce against the element in this city that has been causing all of the heartache, pain, suffering and death. You're going to enforce everyone who's been out on the streets. You know who the bad guys are, you know who the villains are, you know who the gang bangers are, you know who the drug dealers are, you know who is causing all the bloodshed and misery in this city. Every resource we have, federal, state and local, we are going to use to dismantle their networks without apology and without mercy. Everything we have. We are going to bulldoze the criminal element in this city and thereby liberate all the law abiding citizens in this city. We're going to send the message, this city belongs to people who follow the law and obey the rules. And we're not going to live one more day in fear of criminals. No one should have to change their life half path, change their routine, change when they go out, where they go out, what they do for fear of criminals. The idea that any person living in a city would say, I can't walk down this block by myself, or I can't leave my house at this time of night, or I can't let my kids go to that store or that corner. Are you kidding me? We're going to tell our own families and children where they can and can't go because what a criminal is going to do over our dead bodies are going to live that way anymore. It's not happening. I see the guns and bags in this room. You are unleashed. The handcuffs that you're carrying, they don't want you anymore. They're other criminals. And whatever you need to get it done, we're going to get it done. State, local, federal, on President Trump's promise, we are going to get it done. Thank you.

[B]

Okay. What you saw there, and I believe the briefing is going to be private. If the briefing's public, we're going to take it. And we apologize for the, for the audio, but the Government shut down. So they didn't have the audio technician. Just kidding, just kidding. Stephen Miller, who's essentially the head of the Domestic Policy Council and in charge of everything related to, in coordination with Tom Homan of the deportation, the mass deportations. And I will tell you, one of President Trump's closest advisors. I've known Stevens since he's a young guy on Michele Bachmann's staff and very close to President Trump, very close to President Trump on policy and really was considered kind of the execution guy of executing, not just being the architect of a lot of these policies, but executing on the policies. Then you had the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, saying they're to tell the. And it's Miller's sitting there going, hey, we're unleashing you to go after the bad guys. The lawlessness in this town is going to stop Pete Hegsen, the Secretary of War, saying, hey, I'm going to deputize, federalize, National Guard to come in here and to have your back, just like in Washington, D.C. and of course, the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, sitting there saying, hey, when these guys are rolled up, we're going to prosecute them immediately. No, you know, no cash bail, none of that. We're going to prosecute that. Of course, they had the governor of Tennessee there. So this is about as big a deal as you possibly get. I want to put this in historic perspective. The old time, the Secretary of Defense or Secretary of War does not go to domestic cities. You didn't see Donald Rumsfeld going and talking about the situation in that city. They might go around and give a speech to a local Detroit Economic Club or to some gathering of the World Policy Council. All these cities have some sort of council so people can keep up with foreign affairs. They may go and give a talk or a luncheon. They're never there on business about the War Department. So this is as serious as you can get. You see, between the escalating violence of the political left in Antifa and the terrorists, coupled with just the lawlessness of some of these cities, President Trump's just had it. This is not 2020. He's not going to sit there and blink. He's not going to let guys like Bill Barr or Esper around. You got Pam Bondi instead of Bill Barr, and you've got Pete Hegseth instead of Esper. And as I said yesterday, the buried lead, the Commander in chief went down there and talked for 70 minutes. The buried lead in that speech is what we put up is that he said, hey, I know we're all over the world and we got, you know, I'm going to give you weapons. There's trillion dollar budgets, you're going to have the best, you're going to have the best recruits, we're going to get everybody in shape. We know we can beat anybody. However, our country has been invaded and our number one priority in our country is to stop this invasion. We've done it by putting troops on the border. We've totally sealed it off. You know, very few, if any people are coming in at all, not the hundreds of thousands that were coming in monthly on Biden's watch. But he said, hey, now's the time both to stop these terrorists and to start the mass deportations. That's where we want to start. In Portland, you can see the problems you have when you have these radical terrorist groups like Antifa that are trying to get in the way of law enforcement. A huge day, I believe what they're going to do now is basically a classified briefing for law enforcement about exactly what this proclamation that President Trump signed, I think in the middle of or in September, a couple weeks ago, of how they're going to execute and how they're going to implement this is kind of, I think, a model of what they're going to do in Chicago eventually, what they're going to do in Los Angeles. So we're going to cover this nonstop, of course. Our own Ben Berkwam will be out tonight with the ICE officials in Portland. He'll have a report for us tomorrow. And of course, the brave and intrepid Savannah Hernandez. Also, she noticed gold coming up against all time highs, like every day and then back off a bit and then the next day going up. Why is that happening? Well, the central banks of the world are buying more gold than they've ever bought. Why they're changing the asset mix of their own reserves. They want to hold fewer euros and fewer United States dollars and more physical gold. You ought to understand that the way you can is go to birchgold.com promo code Bannon. You get the end of the dollar empire. It teaches you or gives you access to information that you start to understand why gold has been a hedge against times of financial turbulence for 5000 years of man's recorded history. Do it today and start to build a relationship with Philip Patrick and the team. I think there's still a lot of squeeze in that Lemon Short. Commercial break the government shutdown is down its 17th hour here in the war room. Kill America's Voice family. Are you on Getter yet?

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Download the Getter app now. Sign up for free and be part of the movement. Okay, welcome back. As soon as anything breaks with with Miller or Hegseth or Pam Bondi in Memphis, we're going to go right back to it. Brian Glenn's on the scene. Like I said, I think some of the stuff is classified right now. Bottom line is President Trump is dropping the hammer in places like Portland, Oregon, Memphis, Tennessee, Chicago, D.C. tonight, I guarantee you one of the big blocks on MSNBC and CNN is the escalatory ladder on authoritarianism. And now this is an authoritarian breakout. Right, Where Trump is actually calling the military in. These cities are lawless. These Democrats are anarchist, Marxist. Right. And it's time. It's got to stop. And you can see with Stephen Miller right there, it's going to stop. Those three up there aren't going to back down. So I think we're in for some quite exciting times over the next 2448 hours. Let's see the next one. I've asked Liz, your, of course, Liz does the six o' Clock show with Ben Harnwell. I've asked Liz to jump in here. At first I was going to play this as a cold open and just bring you into it right after the Getter spot. But then I realized as I looked at it that you would actually think the audience would be lost and say, why is Steve playing a Saturday Night Lights, a Saturday Night Live skit on a Wednesday evening? Well, it's actually not a skit. It's not a parody. This actually happened. Let's go ahead and play it. This is you're. I'm going to go to something that just occurred at the Vatican. Let's go ahead and play it.

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Wow.

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Lord of life, bless this water.

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May it awaken our hearts, cleanse our.

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Indifference, soothe our grief and renew our.

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Hope through Christ our Lord. Okay, that goes on for another couple of minutes and we could play it. And maybe I will play when we have more time. But Liz, your. And there Is a tradition of blessings, of like, blessings of the beginning of the, the season for the, that the grain will grow. And there's these types of things that the church has historically done and there's, there are blessings of the waters, particularly in North America. There was, you know, they would come out and bless the waters as kind of a saying, you know, God in heaven, you know, we offer up our best work. That's not what this is, right? If that was that, if that was it a blessing of the waters, hey, I think all of us would be cool with it. This is a pagan ritual to the religion of Gaia, the religion of climate change, the religion, It's a natural. I don't know what in the hell. The Pope is sitting there blessing a block of ice. Blessing a block of ice. And this is not a blessing of the waters. That's a tradition of the church and they call it that. But this is putting that kind of paganism of climate change, which, as I said, climate change became religion. Talk to these, talk to the climate change people. Talk to the group. Greta and the crowd are down. And now they've shifted to the Palestinian situation. But the climate radicals, it's a religion to them. And the Pope is playing into this by blessing a block of ice. Ma'. Am.

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Yeah, Steve, you predicted this with the election of Prevost. You knew he was a Marxist, you knew he was Francis 2.0. But I don't even think you expected this. I mean, for the last 24 hours, the woke Pope Leo is trending on X more than the government shutdown even. I can't believe what I'm seeing. And this Vatican produced video shows the melting ice from this artificial block of ice, I guess to suggest that we're in the position of global warming. But when you don't have the facts, you have to use memes and images. But, you know, so what's happening is this has gone absolutely crazy on the Internet and timing is everything. As ice, our ice, is sweeping across the American big cities. Leo is blessing a big block of artificial ice at the Raising Hope for Climate Change justice conference in the Vatican with none other than the famous great climatologist Arnold Schwarzenegger. I mean, this is not only embarrassing, it's moronic and it is. There's nothing short of a weird pagan earth worshipping hippie ritual in some kind of, you know, communist freak event. And, you know, this is really actually worse than blessing the, the pagan Pachamama idol because it is promoting the UN radical climate hoax. You know, that's what, that's what Trump called it. I mean, I would encourage people to read again Trump's speech at the UN where he called the global warming hoax and con job. Absolutely right. And so blessing a melting piece of ice to symbolize global warming is a desperate act. And you know, the, the Internet, Internet memes are hysterical. Maybe Leo is blessing Tom Holman from ice.

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There's not.

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No, but I mean, I know, but.

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It'S, you know, it's, it's, it's. But here's, here's the thing. This is what have I been preaching on the show now that we're in the execution stage. Remember I said after the first hundred days, second hundred days, you have the convergence of all of this and it's going to feel like it's spinning out of control. So the three, we have to have a three part strategy. Number one, maximalist what we're doing, you have to do. You have to go to the absolute end because you're not going to have another shot. Number two, you have to do it with urgency. And number three, we have to seize the institutions. My point, Pete Hexth brings all the flag officers from the world around and President Trump gives a commander in chief speech. Why on DEI and this other woke. Just changing out some personnel just doesn't do it. Ask Pete. You've got to go on a. It's embedded into these institutions now and just changing a couple people are not going to change it. You have to get to the substrate of the institution. You have to rip it out and you have to put in traditional values. You have to rip it out and you have to, you have to burn it alive in front of them and then you have to bury it. The same thing is with the church. You can't. This is why I kept saying with Prevost, he's just a, he's just a happy American face on for the donors and for the wealthy American donors of Francis, where Francis was kind of, you know, was not the warmest guy in the world, not the most articulate guy in the world, not the, didn't give him the warm fuzzies. And even the American, you know, all that crowd that sits there and they're kind of trad Catholic Inc. Right sit there. And the establishment, the conservative establishment in the church, particularly the lay, they had to put an American in there to shake them down for money. I said at the time, this guy is not only no better than Francis, he's going to be worse. But one of the points is he's not going to get into the institutional rot. Talk about the patriot. Remember the young guy that went in, they had a pagan ritual in the Vatican with the Amazon religion brought by Barbara Francis. And hey, Prevost is down there in Latin America. So the young man had to take it out of the creche and go throw it in the Tiber. And remember, they want to arrest him. But he was there as a young man to say, hey, this is institutional. This is just not a couple of bad people. This is what he's showing you. Today they're having a climate conference, which is Gaia. It's a pagan religion. It's like the worship of Mother Nature, the worship of the Earth. And now you saw today they actually take a block of ice and they have the representative of Jesus Christ on earth will go over and bless it as it kind of slowly melts. And then say the prayers over. And no. And they can say, oh, this is the blessing of the headwaters. And it's not what was done traditionally about the rivers and the streams. And, you know, years ago and centuries ago when we did that. This is totally different. This is to support paganism. That's what you have. And I told everybody and all some of these trad Catholic guys all fall in love and swooning on Prevost because he wore the right vestments and he made, you know, he gave, maybe held his hands in the right way. That's all. It doesn't matter. This is what matters. The institutions of the church have been corrupted and we have to get in there. We have to change that. It's not going to be easy. You're not going to be invited to some of these big conferences where you get to sit and the Pope. And the Pope's going to bless your marriage. You're not going to get the plaque on the wall that says your 25th anniversary is blessed. If you want to save the church and people better realize this is reality. This is reality. Not wearing the right vestments, not wearing the vestments that make you feel comfortable. You have to. If you want to save the Catholic Church, you need to roll your sleeves up. And this is why all the great young priests have been terminated and thrown out of the church. This is why everybody in the trad Catholics are demonized by these demons. This is why, Kubrich, they just gave an award, a lifetime achievement award to one of the biggest abortionists in the country, Durban, who supports abortion. This is how. This is how institutionally has not changed. Liz, your. The floor is yours, ma'. Am.

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See, this is a Serious warning. This is a shot across the bow. Look, the Catholic Church has been infiltrated by the UN the globalists. They used the Catholic Church to push the China agreement, to push the U.N. the Paris treaty. They are continuing to do this. We better pay attention. This guy is going to carry on in, I think, accelerate the work of the globalists using the Catholic Church. It is infiltrating. It is corrupted to the court. Look, the Catholic Church in America, the traditional Catholic church has been suppressed as bad as the underground church in China. And nobody's fighting back. I mean, they have literally closed down every traditional parish mass in America. And where's the pushback? It is time for people. I mean, this guy should resign and we should be demanding his resignation and cleaning out the entire Vatican and demanding that we, we see their agreements with the UN Their agreements with China. This is a warning shot. People better pay attention and not look at the superficial Mazetta that he wears or his kind manners.

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He is as bad as ridiculous. He's bad. He's worse than Berglio. He's worse than Berglio. You're going to be back for the six. Where do you go for your social media, man?

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I'm on Substack. Elizabeth, your. My website, your children and all of your social media. Elizabeth, your.

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Thank you, ma'. Am. Appreciate you.

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You bet.

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Chip Roy. We're chip Roy. We're 18 hours into a government shutdown. You've been. You were one of the architects of 13, as I remember correctly. I think you were working with Ted Cruz at the time. You were one of the architects in a highly successful shutdown. What do you think now? What's your thoughts on this?

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Yeah, right. Great to be on Steve. Yeah. Back with Ted. In 2013, we were fighting for the American people. We were fighting, as you remember, to make D.C. listen. We were fighting to try to stop the implementation of a disastrous health care plan that has now turned out to be a total train wreck for the average hardworking American family, causing them to have to spend $25,000 a year every year to go into the pockets of insurance companies. And so now fast forward today and what are Democrats doing? They're shutting down the government. We're now 18 hours into a shutdown government because they want to give $40 billion a year more to the insurance companies rather than helping hardworking families. God bless President Trump. God bless Russ Bo for having the spine to stand up and do the right thing. And to the credit of the House, right, we work through this. Neither you nor I, Steve. We talk about this all the time are great lovers of continuing resolutions, but we are trying to move the appropriations bills through and Democrats are blocking us. So we passed the CR into November. Democrats are now rejecting that. They're choosing to shut down the government because they don't have anything to run on. So they want to, you know, stand up for health care for illegal aliens. They want to stand up for big fat cat insurance companies. They want to stand up for more fraud.

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Chip.

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Yeah.

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Yep. But Chip, here's the thing. Mike Lee and Ted Cruz were eviscerated for what they did in 13 in August of 2013. And guess what? Mike Lee and Ted Cruz were right. And we had a sweeping victory in the midterm elections after that. And I learned a big lesson then, Right. That if you message this properly and let the cause, the American people start paying attention to shutdown. People are not interested in politics. You have to message. Why is your colleague and dear friend over at omb? Why are we not? Why is Russ Vote not already got a couple of million names that he wants to riff. When are we going to do that, sir?

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Yeah. Russ is actually working on the rifts, as you know. And he obviously took a quick action with $8 billion hitting the green new scam subsidies, $18 billion. He immediately took action, taking money from the infrastructure projects from New York because they're all wrapped in the DEI nonsense. He's working through it methodically. Let's be very clear. He's getting a lot of resistance from the handful of established Republicans over in the Senate who are now squawking about what Russ Vote may be doing when it is Donald Trump and Russ Vote that are doing the work the American people sent them there to do and have a spine to stand up and do it. The good news is a lot of Republicans are right in behind the president here. What we can't do is let the normal establishment folks in the town given to all the K Street demands. And by the way, did you know that the health care lobby, they spend $750 million a year lobbying, which is six times more than than the defense K Street contractors. That's where the money is. And a whole bunch of people in the Senate are trying to give in to the insurance companies who, by the way, are running ads right now in D.C. and across the country because they want their free money and it's not free. Russ is doing a good job. I expect him to keep doing it today. They've taken those quick first two actions and I think they're going to keep moving More with riffs as he talked about earlier on a phone call with Republican conference members on which, you know, I was on that call, he talked about those riffs.

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Chip, we got to go to Memphis for the briefing. But one minute. Give me a minute. On November 21st, even with the CR, what the audience is with you 100% and knows your history in this and we hate CRS. But hey, prepare to do this to get to some appropriation. But what everybody's afraid of is we're going to get a monster omnibus that the same guys in the Senate that don't want to riff anybody and are telling the president in his ear, Russ votes are radical. Russ votes going to lose your states is going to lose your seats in the House in the midterms, which is a lie, detonate, don't let Ross, don't let Russ vote off the chain. Right. They're also cooking up right now a very sophisticated, very sophisticated omnibus package. What can you tell us behind the scenes what's going on there?

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Yeah. Well, first of all, those of us in the Freedom Caucus and conservatives in the House, we've made very clear our position that under no circumstances can we allow an omnibus bill to get to the floor of the House. We need to move appropriations bills according to our levels of spending, which means lower than the current levels of spending, or at worst, do a full year CR&GO empower us vote. But we're not going to allow a big mega omnibus bill. And if the, if the moderates in the Senate want to try to go down that road, they're going to have a fight on their hands. The president and the White House know that they're with us. They know what they need to do to try to make sure that we're strong going into the midterm elections. And that means continue to do what we said we would do, and that is reduce spending, keep spending flat, not give in to all the K Street swamp creatures in Washington. And look, I trust Ross, I trust the president, I trust the Freedom Caucus, and we're going to work with our colleagues to make sure we stop it. But look, I'm with you, Steve, and the rest of the posse. I'm concerned that they're going to try to jam that through. We're going to do everything we can to stop it. We just need to support the president right now and build the strength so that we can stop it in November.

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Chip, we gotta go to Memphis to the briefing. What's your social media. I understand, I understand. Against my recommendation, you're Running for a new office because we need you here in Washington to fight the fights. You're one of the smartest strategists we got. What's the site? What's the site for your. You're running for AG down in Texas. Where do people go and what's your social media?

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Yeah. Chiproy.com and my Twitter X handle is chiproy tx c h I P R O Y T X. Steve, you're a great man. And I'm gonna still be in the fight for another 15 months. And as Attorney General of Texas, I'm going to be standing up to fight those criminals, fight to secure the border, fight to stop Sharia law. Let's talk about sharia law when this news settles down. We got to go combat that and make sure we stop the source. Go to Memphis. God bless Pete Hegseth and the President.

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Thank you, brother. Let's go to Memphis live. Attorney General, Secretary of War, state and local officers.

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Let's see what your DA does because he better prosecute crimes against you because we have have your back. We know there is no ordinary day in the life of a police officer and thank you for what you do and thank your families. You are out here night and day. God bless you. We are here for you and we will always be here for you. We are going to this is long term. We are going to work hand in hand to make the most violent crime city in the country have no crime. Thank you all. God bless you and God bless America.

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I'll just say what a privilege it is to be here. We see you up front. We see you in the back. I see green, blue, black, tan, camouflage, all together, one cause, one city. It's really cool to have a privilege and we all do. Steven, Pam, myself, so many others to see how much President Trump loves Americans, American cities and American citizens, and how he puts America first. And at the Department of War, we are proud to be part of that effort to ensure we're defending the homeland and defending those who defend the homeland. Whether it's our southwest border or we brought it to zero, folks crossing illegally, whether it's in Los Angeles, where we stand by our partners in ICE who need to be able to have the ability to do their job anywhere in any American city, whether it's Washington, D.C. ensuring our nation's capital is safe for citizens and visitors who come to visit that beautiful place are right here in Memphis where your families, every family deserves to live safe and free. So I had a chance yesterday to talk a little bit how we're changing the environment at the Department of War. I see some great beards out here. They're just not allowed in the infantry anymore. Undercover. That's right. I just cannot thank you enough for what you do. What you do in difficult places, in dark places, in dangerous places, where politicians spend a lot of time second guessing you, Second guessing the impossible decisions that you have to make that they will never understand. It's part of what we're trying to do at the department for our troops overseas or in combat and elsewhere, is we're not here to second guess you. We're here to have your back, to unleash you, to do your job so you come home safely. Our department is here to enable you both enforcement to do your job, to help protect your facilities, help protect your people, so that you. Your hands can be untied, to secure your city. So our department's proud to be here. It's a priority for us. The Tennessee National Guard is going to be right here having your back. Godspeed. God bless. Thank you for everything you do. Thank you, Pete, Gaddy, Pam, and of course your governor, for not only being here today, but for the invitation to your state to bring the full resources of federal government to making Memphis safer than any of you could ever possibly imagine. To the Memphis Police Department, the officers that I see sitting in of front of me, we are about to provide you with a level of support you cannot even imagine. This isn't just a task force. This is a all of government, unlimited support operation. Atf, dea, FBI, ice, Department of War, every resource we have. And they're not going to be sitting behind a desk at a keyboard. We are sending in real cops with guns and badges to go out with you on the street every single night making arrests. These are people who have taken down drug cartels, kingpins, the worst criminal offenders in the United States, standing with you shoulder to shoulder to shoulder. All we ask from you is to show up at roll call every single night with your brothers, sisters and. And sisters in the federal government and to go out and get the criminals off the street. And if you do that, I pledge to you, we will liberate this city from the criminal element that has plagued it for generations. This is not just a strategy shift. This is an attitude shift. We are not going to live in an environment anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal, where there is a neighborhood that. That belongs to a gang, where there is any physical space anywhere that belongs to anyone other than the law abiding citizens and families of Memphis. The Idea that there is a square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable. This is Memphis. This is the United States of America. And all that bull is done. It's over. It's finished. The gang bangers that you deal with, they think that they're ruthless. They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough. They have no idea how tough we are. They think that they're hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are. And we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are going to win. They are going to lose. We are going to rescue Memphis. And it will not only be safer than ever before, but businesses and investment are going to pour in and Memphis will be richer than ever before because President Trump has decided this is a priority. And when President Trump makes a decision, this team behind me today executes. Thank you and God bless. Okay, so now we're going to try.

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And disseminate this Chick Fil? A in an orderly fashion.

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We got Chick Fil A for you tonight. Elon Musk got Chick Fil A for you tomorrow night. And Joe Javier, who founded Airbnb, is here with us and he is helping, too, with all of this and all of our efforts. You're out there.

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Okay.

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Okay. Is Brian Glenn ready? If not. If not, we'll toss it to John Solomon. We're going to continue on with our six o' clock show, Real America's Voice of continue with just the news with Amanda Head and John Solomon. You have, you have the Secretary of War, you have the Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to the President United States, and Stephen Miller, and you have. And of course you have the Attorney General of the United States. They're going to give a briefing now. But let's say this. The hammer is getting dropped even as we speak in Memphis, Tennessee, and in Portland, Oregon. More cities to come. We're going to stick around. We got a very special show at 6 o'. Clock. We're going to turn you over to John Solomon. Amanda Head here in Real America's Voice. We're going to continue on all of our distribution platforms. We're going to leave you with the right stuff. See you in a minute, Sam. This is an I Heart podcast.