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President John F. Kennedy (archival audio)
My obligation under the Constitution and the statutes of the United States was and is to implement the orders of the court with whatever means are necessary and with as little force and civil disorder as the circumstances permit. It was for this reason that I federalized the Mississippi National Guard as the most appropriate instrument should any be needed to preserve law and order by United States marshals, carried out the orders of the court and prepared to back them up with whatever other civil or military enforcement might have been required. I deeply regret the fact that any action by the executive branch was necessary in this case, but all other avenues and alternatives, including persuasion and conciliation, had been tried and exhausted. Had the police powers of Mississippi been used to support the orders of the court instead of deliberately and unlawfully blocking them, had the University of Mississippi fulfilled its standard of excellence by quietly admitting this applicant in conformity with what so many other Southern state universities have done for so many years, a peaceable and sensible solution would have been possible without any federal intervention.
Katie Tura
Good to be back with you. I'm Katie Tura. That was President John F. Kennedy In 1962, ten days after the governor of Mississippi refused to allow James Meredith, an African American student, to desegregate the University of Michigan. At the time, Governor Ross Barnett said he would not conform to any court order requiring him to enroll Meredith. A day before that Kennedy's speech, Governor Barnett rallied thousands of Mississippians during halftime of a football game to stand firm against desegregation as they waved hundreds of Confederate flags. When Meredith did enroll, a riot ensued, with thousands of protesters throwing bottles and rocks. He was moved into his dorm with the help of Mississippi highway patrol and 500 federal marshals. The Oxford riots, as it's now known, killed two people and injured more than 300. In order to quell the violence and ensure James Meredith's safety, President Kennedy activated the National Guard with thousands of troops sent to Ole Miss, a decision President Kennedy said he deeply regretted but had no choice but to make. It was one of the most significant invocations of the Insurrection act. And it came at a critical moment in the civil rights movement as states across the south refused to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling to desegregate public schools. And the country was gripped by violence. Freedom Riders who were challenging Southern states to desegregate bus terminals were beaten by angry white mobs, as were nonviolent protesters conducting sit ins in places like North Carolina. The images of the brutality broadcast around the world led to both national and international outrage. As it showed a United States inflamed by racial conflict.
Dave Brat
You call the legal ruling legal insurrection. Are you recommending the President take action.
Brian Harrison
Against judges and rulings and disagreements?
Steve Bannon
No.
Brian Harrison
It's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge assumes for him or herself the powers that have been relegated or delegated by the Constitution to the President, that that is a form of a legal insurrection. And we have seen insurrection legal weight. So are you recommending to legal we have seen over the last nine months an ongoing legal insurrection in which district court judges as a class in many cases have issue is why they've been overturned so much, have issued rulings that are flagrantly unlawful and unconstitutional and it is an insurrection against the laws and Constitution of the United and we need to have district courts in this country that see themselves as being under the laws and Constitution and not being able to take for themselves powers that are reserved solely for the President.
Chicago Official or Activist (unnamed)
There was never an insurrection or an invasion on the ground that justified the deployment of the military to our American city. We stood out there on a beautiful day at River Point park to make that point. Donald Trump's deranged depiction of Chicago as a hellhole war zone and the worst and most dangerous city in the world was just complete bs. He clearly has decided to declare war on a great American city that has the lowest homicide rate in 60 years in a state that has record employment and near record tourism. And he's done it for some unspoken reason. There's been zero accountability or transparency from ICE or the administration. Last week, federal agents dressed in camouflage gear conducted a military style raid on an apartment building in South Shore, a neighborhood of Chicago. They brought Black Hawk military helicopters and more than 100 agents in full tactical gear. Even though it was supposedly a very dangerous and important mission. They brought dozens of cameras and set them up so that they could film their attack on the building in HD for social media. I refuse to let Donald Trump, Kristi Noem and Gregory Bevino continue on this march toward autocracy. Their plan all along has been to cause chaos that and then they can use that chaos to consolidate Donald Trump's power. They think they can fool us all into thinking that the way to get out of this crisis that they created is to give them free rein. Well, that plan will only work if we let it. The state of Illinois is going to use every lever at our disposal to resist this power grab and get gnomes, thugs the hell out of Chicago. I'm not afraid. I am not afraid and I won't Back down.
Steve Bannon
Okay, gnomes, thugs. It is Monday 6 October, year of our alert 20, 25 or so slam. This afternoon we came and do our long open. We did a cold open there. Senator Tuberville from the great state Alabama joins us. Sir, you understand what the south went through. The Insurrection Act, I think was first called by President Eisenhower when he sent, I think it was 101st Airborne down to Little Rock. And then later, University of Mississippi, others right now, the judges. Gavin Newsom suing. Pritzker just announced he's suing. He says there's nothing going. Nothing going on here. Stephen Miller, the top domestic policy adviser of the president, saying there's a legal insurrection going on. What say you, sir?
Senator Tommy Tuberville
Steve, thanks for having me on. And by the way, the guy's either stupid or criminal or mentally ill, what he's talking about. But my dad was in the National Guard in Arkansas. Back during the Little Rock Central event, he was called out. He stood on the steps of Little Rock Central one day working for the state. The next day he was federalized by Senator Kennedy. And so he went through all that and the whole state of Arkansas went through it. We've gone through it in Alabama. But at the end of the day, these judges, these governors, they will not let Donald Trump do his job. And they're trying to get into his way, they're trying to stop him, slow him down, anything they possibly can. It's not going to work. President Trump's going to do what he knows is best for the American people.
Steve Bannon
You know, Pritzker said something today, and I'll pull in a minute, that was factually wrong. He says there's been no authorization. There's been no money authorized for this, the big beautiful bill. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think there's 170 billion. The House had 90. I think the Senate had $170 billion to go to Homeland Security for actually not just sealing the border, but for the mass deportations of returning everybody that was here, all the illegal aliens. So this has been funded. ICE is now going to the phase of not just the criminals, they are starting. The part of the. The mass deportations isn't that President Trump ran on that. President Trump won on that. You guys had a huge debate about the big beautiful bill. Money's been allocated because Biden had spent all the money on letting people in the country. What is Pritzker talking about? That there's no authorization and he has its thugs and criminal activity and he's really ginning people up against federal authority. Sir?
Senator Tommy Tuberville
Yeah, well, it was authorized. It was authorized by the House and the Senate, and President Trump signed it. As you said, there's been over $100 billion that's appropriated for deportation. A lot of that money goes to more border, Border Patrol, goes to more judges on the border or wherever needed in terms of giving due process to illegals that for some reason they get. I don't understand that. But at the end of the day, all this was in the process of the one big, beautiful bill. It was all put together the right way, and it's being used the right way. We're trying to get out of this monstrous debt that the Biden administration put us through in terms of spending money, whether it's with Social Security, whether it's Medicare, Medicaid, health care, anything that goes towards illegals. We're trying to save the American people. And President Trump is leading that charge. And he is not going to rest until we get people out of this country that doesn't cost the taxpayers an arm and a leg.
Steve Bannon
I notice. First off, what would be your advice if you were in the Oval right now for President Trump regarding the Insurrection act and his movement to federalize the National Guard and send them into Portland and to send him into Chicago?
Senator Tommy Tuberville
Sir, do what you think is right. Use common sense. And President Trump has got a lot of that. And he is going to take care of the American people. Whether you're a Democrat, whether you're Republican, whether you're Communist, if you're in this country as a citizen, he's going to take care of you. He's going to protect you. That is his job. He has said that time and time again and again. We've got cities all over this country that he's going to send troops to. We had a big problem last this past weekend with two killed and 14 injured in Montgomery, Alabama, with a shooting. We have problems ourselves. And so he. If he sees that law enforcement can't handle the problem and he's going to give them more help through the National Guard, that's his prerogative and he has the ability to do it.
Steve Bannon
I notice there's been. It's kind of crickets up in the Senate. And I realize you guys are debating about opening up and the shutdown and all that, but where do you think your colleagues on the Republican side stand about this issue? There's already been some grumbling we're hearing. Where do they stand this issue of President Trump invoking the Insurrection act and starting to drop the hammer on these antifa terrorists and people trying to stop the ICE agents.
Senator Tommy Tuberville
Well, we need to stay out of it. And we've had that talk in our caucus meetings. This is President Trump. He's. We can't have, you know, 100 chiefs and no Indians. We should be sitting back giving our opinion. But he needs to do whatever's right and whatever he thinks is right. And he's made all the correct calls so far. He's, again, as long as you're trying to care of the American people in this country, you're exactly spot on. Again, nobody's done that in many, many years. He did it his first four years and he's going to do it these four years. And again, we just need to stay out of his way and let him do his work. And hopefully these judges get out of the way. And sooner or later, the Supreme Court steps up and makes a decision of letting the CEO of this country, Donald Trump, run this country and not a bunch of people behind the scenes.
Steve Bannon
There's, I think it's. The Hill newspaper today said that there's rumblings on the Democratic side about trying to bring forward a proposal on activating the War Powers act about what President Trump's doing in Venezuela. Do you have any updates on that? Is that true or just more Democratic rumor?
Senator Tommy Tuberville
Oh, they're just, they're screaming at the top of their lungs. You know, they're not worried about the hundred thousand people that lose their lives every year, Steve, in this country of overdose. They're worried about those, what 17 people now that have been blown out of a boat that were carrying hundreds and hundreds pounds of drugs bring into our country. They're worried more about them than they are about the American people. But that's on everything that they do.
Steve Bannon
Last thing, Senator, we got about a minute. Any update on the Schumer shutdown from the Senate?
Dave Brat
Now?
Senator Tommy Tuberville
Schumer shutdowns in full speed, full mode. I don't know if you just saw. We just, I was just briefed that myself and seven other senators had their phones tapped by Jack Smith. Senators now think about that, Steve. We were just brief. It just hit the wire. It's going to be a big deal again. I would have always thought it would have been North Korea or China or Russia, not our own government. And Joe Biden was tapping the phones from through the FBI of senators in this country. That's a damn shame.
Steve Bannon
Unbelievable. We'll get more into it. Hope to have you back, Senator. Where do people go to keep up with you, sir?
Senator Tommy Tuberville
At Senator Tuberville. That's it.
Steve Bannon
Unbelievable. Senator, thank you so much. Appreciate you.
Senator Tommy Tuberville
Thank you.
Steve Bannon
The level of depravity you're going to see in this FBI, and this is why everybody's On Thursday, I think Comey's gonna be arraigned. Ray Comey, all of them.
President John F. Kennedy (archival audio)
Remember what?
Steve Bannon
It's just an appetizer. What Comey's getting for the. For lying to Congress in obstruction of justice. That's just an appetizer. So much more to come. Okay, from cra, Wade Miller, our own Dave Bratt is with us. Jackie Tobaroff a little later. Brian Harrison, all of it today in the war room. Stick around.
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Steve Bannon
Okay. Wade Miller's with us from a CRA center for Renewing America, Russ Voats organization. Wade was his wingman. He's holding the fort down.
Senator Tommy Tuberville
Why?
Steve Bannon
A bunch of the leadership over there is in the government, in the federal government, assisting President Trump. So Wade and I got Dave, Brad, who's got a bunch of observations on this situation. First off, Wade, you guys came up with a plan about this. And I think with Paoletta and Clark and all that team you had over there, you checked the legality. Walk me through exactly what we're talking about when we say, invoke the Insurrection act of 1807, sir.
Wade Miller
Sure. So there's. We knew that the left would resort to violence to stop the political will of the American people if they reelected Donald Trump. So we, you know, several years ago put out a very large legal memo that outlines the legal ability of a president to counteract mass lawlessness, mass violence in the streets in ways that we saw glimpses of in the first administration through BLM riots and other types of antifa precursors and things like that. So basically you have the Insurrection act, but you also have Title 10, Section 124 06, which allows the United States military, the National Guard, to be called up and used to make sure that federal agents can actually enforce the law. But there's other provisions under that that look very similar to Insurrection act, like authorities, if there's a rebellion in place, if there's other authorities, so there are authorities outside. It's not just the Insurrection Act. There's a lot of legal authority for the President of the United States to use the military, to call up the National Guard, to call in the United States military to reestablish law and order, protect federal law enforcement officers, and also to protect the civil rights of the American people in their own streets. And we see in Portland where cops are threatening to arrest Americans if they walk down the wrong street because Antifa's down there. And it's not because they're currently arresting Antifa, they're just protecting Antifa and they're allowing mass violence to go forward right before their eyes. When you have that type of mass unrest and a lack of actual law enforcement, where the civil rights of the American people are being openly violated on a mass scale, the President of the United States absolutely has the authority to send the troops in to reestablish law and order and make sure that the civil rights and basic safety of the American people is actually being secured. And so, you know, the Insurrection act is kind of the trump card in all of this and that that's the ultimate authority. But the reality is, is that there's a lot of very strong authority shy of the Insurrection act, which would fix most of these problems. Now, I think that in Portland, the Insurrection act might be the appropriate argument, but it's not necessary. There's all sorts of authorities below that that are long standing precedent. And I have no idea why this judge out there said that Trump can't do this. It's just absolute nonsense. It's clear, clear authority in statute for especially under Title 10, Section 12, 406.
Steve Bannon
Do you agree with what we've talked about here with Mike Davis, the Viceroy and others, Stephen Miller's comment that there's essentially a legal insurrection going on in the country by the judiciary, sir, 100%.
Wade Miller
I cannot look at that decision and come away with the argument that that judge is obeying their oath to the Constitution. A very plain, clear reading of statutory authority and long standing precedent allows the President to do this. He's done it in California, he's done it elsewhere. You know, you mentioned Little Rock, you mentioned Mississippi before, that there's a long history of presidents calling in the military to ensure that basic civil rights are being protected and that law and order is being established and that federal law enforcement officers are being protected while they try to execute duly enacted laws of the United States of America. That's longstanding precedent.
Steve Bannon
Dave Brat. Presidents have used this. I thought Katie Turner's presentation was pretty insightful. General Eisenhower did it. President Kennedy did it. It's been done a lot. Your thoughts, sir?
Dave Brat
Yeah, I think do it is is the key phrase. The great thing about Wade and Ross Vogt in their center is they're doing stuff right. The rhinos and the weak Republicans over the past decades did nothing. And so I think it's important to start at the top of the page with the argument here. Right. In the past, we get hung up on legal terms and to debate and all that kind of thing. What's President Trump responding to? What's the media talking about? This crisis, the crisis that put all of this into play, is the 20 million illegal immigration war at the border.
Steve Bannon
Amen.
Dave Brat
Right. It's an invasion of the United States of America. And the rest of this legal mumbo jumbo is a footnote. And Trump is acting like the left. The difference between the right and the left, though, is that the right does legal stuff and the left does illegal stuff. That's it in a nutshell. Biden did a border invasion of 20 million illegal immigrants. That's the chaos. Then you get down into. Look at the front page of the papers. It's real clear on the Everyone marching in the streets and all the radicals. The signs say two things and they're conflating two things. And our side needs to deconflate them. It says no ICE and then no National Guard. They're trying to act like those are the two things. They are related. But no ice. That's federal law enforcement, Right? That's the. Those are our federal ICE agents. They're under attack. They're being spit on, they're being pushed, they're being shoved. They're treated with no respect along with the citizens. The no National Guard part hasn't even kicked in yet. Right. 3, 1500 shooting victims in Chicago this year in 2025. 1500 shooting victims in Chicago in 2025. I'll just let that sit.
Steve Bannon
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Dave Brat
Mayor Johnson, quote, heightens the rhetoric. This is where we don't need to follow. He says you want a rematch of the Civil War. No one on our side saying that. We're just saying there's 20 million illegals here. We want the law number five. What Wade just said. I'm just going to read the section because even I can understand this. I'M just an economist, not a lawyer. But this is on Wikipedia and it's from Cornell law says the insurrection act of 1807. The purpose and content. The act empowers the US President Trump to call into service the US Armed Forces and the National Guard to address domestic violence, which results in deprivation of constitutionally secured rights and where the state is unable, fails or refuses to protect said rights. So even I get that that's what the act states in plain language. So we got to just do what's legal, be like the left, except we do what's legal. Let the left do histrionics. But President Trump is doing the exact right thing. And thank God we got people like Wade Miller and Russ Vogt and their organization who's put this all in place so we know how to take action when the left goes nuts.
Steve Bannon
I want, I want to go back, I want to go back to something very important that you said, that we cannot lose the railhead of this argument. It's the reason that Wade Miller and Ross Fot and the guys a couple of years ago were working on this. In November of 23, I gave a speech down in Pinehurst. I said in the, basically the 200th day, by the end of the 200th day of President Trump's second term, right, you're going to the convergence of budget cuts, they're going to have to cut not just defense, but social welfare system, coupled with President Trump beginning the mass deportations of the 10 to 12 million that just came in on Biden's watch and that. And they're just not going to sit there. The left is just not going to sit there and let that happen. They're going to, they're going to, they're going to get enraged and take to the streets and try to stop this. Give us that point again. The key point is that this is mass deportation. We've had 2.2 million according to CIS, that have self deported. But we got a long way to go. And these ICE agents are the tip of the spear to get it done. And you're seeing in Chicago, in Los Angeles and Portland, it's all about stopping mass deportations of illegal aliens. Why? The Democratic Party doesn't exist unless they have the illegal alien aliens. Dave Brat thoughts?
Dave Brat
Yeah, that's exactly right. The press, you know, conservatives, we still don't have the mainstream media in the print, right? And so we've got, thank God, your show and a bunch of other great conservative podcasts now to make some traction. And so the narrative is what Matters. And the left is truncating the narrative, right? They're saying, look at these riots in the streets. Trump's bringing in this. Well, why is he bringing them in? Because Biden, President Biden, did a 20 million person illegal border invasion on this country. Illegal. All illegal. And a lot of them are criminals. We got all the stats on that. You don't even need to go in the stats. Right. They're removing the most violent offenders first. That is what's causing the chaos. Trump is cleaning up the chaos. And then the second point was in the media. They're not making the distinction, of course, between no ice, which is completely legal. That's all been funded in the, in the big beautiful bill, as you said. But they're trying to conflate and confuse us to go down the track with no ice, no National Guard. Well, even the National Guard part is legal. So it's just a semantics rhetoric thing. We need to ignore it. We just need to do the right thing, do the legal thing.
Steve Bannon
Action, action. Hang here for a second. The 180 Pritzker says today, Wade, that there's no authorization that says no money been allocated for it. Didn't the big beautiful bill have I think $170 billion? I knew that. I think the House was 90, the senators 170. We went with the Senate. There's $170 billion allocated for this process, is it not, sir?
Wade Miller
There is. And if this were somehow not authorized, then Russ vote would be shutting it down in accordance with the law. The reason that these deportations are still continuing is because those activities are considered essential services for the security of the nation. So, you know the game is this. At the core of it is that the left does not want the President to actually enforce the law. And so they are working to stop it. And then when the President constitutionally, because he is constitutionally required to enforce law, when he tries to enforce the law, the law, and uses the statutory powers at his disposal to do so, they then accuse him of being a tyrant. It's just a big game with the left and I think they're going to lose this battle.
Steve Bannon
That's what Brett's right. You just got to take action. Wade, can you hang on for one second? Wade Miller of cra, Russ votes partner over there. Dave Bratt is with us. We're going to be joined by Brian Harrison, Jackie Toboroff. See the railhead of this problem. If you see those protesters in the streets, would you know that they've come from American public schools and some of the best private schools in the country. That's right, because you got terrorists teaching them. Next in the War room.
Senator Tommy Tuberville
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Wade Miller
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Steve Bannon
So, Wade, the president is going through various alternatives with Miller and everybody about the Insurrection act and also the title 10, everything you laid out. I know there's been pondering different alternatives, but President Trump's going to take action of that. There's no doubt. Also on the deconstruction administrative state with the Russ Rif or whatever, I know they're going through various alternatives there. This, at the end of the day, requires because Russ can't take it, this is a call for the commander in chief in one regard about enforcing the law and the chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer, which President Trump is. And on the other, as chief executive officer of the United States government. This is the whole Article 2 fight that we've had from the very beginning, quite frankly, was the kind of architecture of the plan, the structure for when President Trump got back in office, given that. And I know there's a lot of pressure on Rush because people, a lot of, you know, RINOs and senators and businessmen don't want to do it. Do you have any, do you have any idea how rapidly when Russ gets to go ahead? He could actually do. I know it's triage in different plans, but execute on one of the plans?
Wade Miller
Well, happy to answer that. The president's goal is to get the Democrats to cave. And what I don't know is what's the strategy to that. And that could be a multitude of different angles that they're coming at it from. Ultimately, that's where they want to get. And so it's possible that one of those strategies is to kind of phase in these next steps, or it could be one lump sum. And I just don't know yet. And I don't know what position they're going to be comfortable with saying, okay, the Democrats don't want to fund the government. We've tried. It's now time to move on. And so if that authority is given, my guess is that Trump, President Trump and Russ vote already have very large plans in place. The question will be, you know, which parts of them do they execute, which parts do they put in play? And we're just going to have to wait and see. I know that President Trump has been looking into this for years, weaponized wasteful spending. I know that Russ, for a fact, has been looking into these contingency plans for years. So I assume that they have a lot of options on their table that are fairly robust. The question is what strategies do they want to use and how fast will they implement them if it looks like Democrats just refuse to agree to a clean cr?
Steve Bannon
Wade, can you put up this report that you guys have done? And particularly I want people to focus not just on the Insurrection act, but you bring up all the alternatives the President have under Title 10. I think this is going to drive the conversation over the next couple days because Pritzker and Newsom. Newsom's going to court. Pritzker's going to court. This is going to drive everything, I think, for the next 48 to 72 hours because the President of the United States is not going to back down on this one. So where do people go, Wade, on social media and to get over to CRA and read this report memo?
Wade Miller
Yeah, thanks. You can find me at wademillerusmc on X. I just quote, posted a post we did on it from I think center for Renewing America. And then I also reposted another post. And then Benjamin Osborne has written another paper on this in the last week detailing the latest moves in regards to Portland and Chicago.
Steve Bannon
We appreciate you, sir. If Grace and Mo can push that out, I want everybody in the war room posse not just to read it, but I also want you to share it. So let's be force multipliers. This is a huge, huge, huge issue. Wade, thank you for all the work and for coming on today. The problem, when you see these people in the streets, you got to understand something. Some of these folks have come from. I think most of them come from some of the best schools in country, private schools, some of the top public schools. There's something going on here that is seriously wrong because these people hate the United States of America. If you see what they have to say, you see the way they treat the police. I mean, this is a deep, burning hatred. Brian Harrison, if we put up, if Denver could put up. There was a post earlier about the school intent, the school supervisor in, in Omaha. And it turns out he's selected by a consultant. The guys in Omaha saying, hey, it's not us. We didn't have anything to do with it. We don't know this guy. And they retained a consultant. I think it's down in Texas. And he's the one that recommended this guy. And in addition, it looks like that he's worked on a bunch of Texas schools to recommend supervisors there. Once again, brother, what in the hell is going on? The Lone Star State is the railhead of maga. Okay, well, how could a State that's the railhead of maga. Got so many patriots get an institution down there. They're so woke and weaponized, sir.
Brian Harrison
No, I actually think it's one of the biggest forms of voter fraud in American history. The voters of Texas are conservative. They support President Trump, reelected him at a 14 point landslide. The voters of Texas are red, as you say, the railhead of the MAGA movement. But the reality is the Texas government is blue. I mean it's one of the biggest forms of voter fraud ever because the voters want bold conservative Republican leadership. But they are being given basically funding the taxed out of their homes to fund the far left liberal progressive Marxist agenda. And that includes on things like. And this is going to shock people to hear the Texas government might be the biggest funder of DEI in America. I think we may be the biggest funder of the transgender movement and ideology in America where all this woke progressive nonsense. I mean how do people think it ends up in the classroom? Well, because we're indoctrinated education students in our English departments, in our education programs here in Texas and our gender studies programs and in our transgender studies programs that are just about every public university. And this guy, this placement firm it looks like and my staff's looking into this, he's placed superintendence in Austin, some of those schools in the Dallas area, perhaps all across the state of Texas. And yeah, this fugitive illegal alien in one of the biggest school districts in another state. So we're exporting now DEI out of the Lone Star State. I'm doing everything I can to defund it, but the Texas government is all in on promoting DEI and this nonsense has got to end.
Steve Bannon
I thought you because of your work and with some assist from the Warren posse, I think you removed the president of Texas A and M when Abbott and these guys want to cover our fort. But this is down in the in the school system. How are you going to dig this out? Because this is as bad as a cows are. And I realize they teach the education folks are going and act as terrorists to form this but man, we got to get this out of the schools down there. What in the hell's happening on that?
Brian Harrison
Well actually we may need the posse again. I'll keep you posted on this. So Texas A and M, with the assistance of the posse we did get rid of one of the biggest the president of one of the biggest universities in America. Something that nobody thought possible. We got the president of Texas A and M can but the chairman of the board of regents. These are All Greg Abbott appointees. He went on an unhinged rant the other day saying that if you oppose trans taxpayer funded transgender ideology and DEI indoctrination, you are, quote, a moron. And it was just announced a couple days ago that the finalist to be the new president of Texas A and M, not in College Station, but one of their satellite schools down in Victoria is another progressive leftist DEI advocate who on her official government transcript brags about the fact that she staffed a 54 person office when 39% of the candidates she filled the position with were based on gender ethnicity. And I'm not making this up. Transgender immigrants literally giving preferential hiring treatment to transgenders and immigrants over non transgender American citizens. And Greg Abbott's regents at Texas A and M are like, you know what? You should be the president of Texas A and M Victoria. So I'm raising hell about that now, trying to stop that from going through, but it is just, it's just whack a mole down here. And I have no idea why Greg Abbott's appointees have been allowing DEI woke leftist Marxist transgender indoctrination to proliferate almost unchecked. Because you know what, Steve? The voters of Texas reject this. They do not want their hard earned tax dollars being weaponized against them, their values and their children. And that's why I'm calling on Governor Abbott to do the right thing. Call a special session. Let us finally pass a bill to stop taxpayer funding of DEI transgender indoctrination. Oh, and by the way, let us finally do something on property taxes that are taxing Texans out of their home. Even though people think we're a low tax, low regulation state, the exact opposite is true. And as you, you pointed out the top, we're basically exporting now DEI all across the country and Texans are sick of it. They're fed up. They deserve a lot better than what they're being given by the liberal Austin uniparty folks.
Steve Bannon
That's where I say you have to act with a sense of urgency. We have to have maximalist strategies and we have to seize the institutions. You're not always going to be able to rely on President Trump. I mean, like I said, third time in American history got him. And so, you know, we're going to have some folks on the 6 o' clock hour talk about we got to have action, action, action. Brian, when you're ready to get the posse to work, they're ready to go to work because we got to take a trenching tool and dig this one out. We're just not going to have some. It's not about just one individual. This is a systemic problem. It's got to be dealt with as a systemic problem or nothing's going to change. Because they got the kids and they're going to mold these kids. Look at the kids in the streets in Portland. Look what's happening. These people hate the United States of America. Questions got to be asked. How'd that happen? Harrison, where's your, your Twitter feed is the Associated Press of Texas. So where do folks go?
Brian Harrison
Do it, do it. As Rush used to say, doing the work the mainstream media used to do. I mean, yeah, there is no real media down here in Texas. Go to. Go to, you know, do your civic duty today. Go to my Twitter feed at Brian Eharris Piss off a liberal. Piss off a rino. Follow me like Share Ryan E. Harrison because here's the deal, like you said, we're not always going to have President Trump, he's doing a better job ending woke indoctrination in Texas than the Texas government has. But it should be the red states with the conservative voters. You say maximalist. We should be leading the fight against woke leftist, liberal, Marxist indoctrination. But for far too long, Texas has just been coasting on our conservative reputation. We need to change that because as goes Texas, so goes America. As goes America, so goes the world. We're in a battle for the future of Western civilization. And I need the posse to stay in the battle with us down here. And I'm so grateful for you and all your viewers, Steve, and how you've helped us so far deliver big victories just this year already.
Steve Bannon
It's the posse. They do the work. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.
Brian Harrison
God bless y'.
Senator Tommy Tuberville
All.
Steve Bannon
Jackie Torberov that, that battle, I don't think there's a bigger clash of that battle politically than in New York City coming up in the first week of of November when Mondami Polymark is has ZORHAN now at 90%. How did this come about? And there's this is a direct. All these people are direct manifestations of an education system. And New York City is supposed to be the smartest folks in the world. That's what they tell us all the time. These private schools. How in the hell did this happen and what do we have to do to break it? Because tell me when Zorin and these guys take it. I don't want to hear the conservatives. Oh, it's great. They're socialists, they're Marxist jihadists, and they're not going to Give up control. It's like Sadiq Khan on testosterone. They're going to turn New York City into London by a factor of 10. So how do we, how was this caused? Why is everybody just kind of bending the knee to it? And how in the hell are we going to solve this? Ma'. Am?
Jackie Toboroff
Yeah. So how did we get here? We got here because of greedy Americans selling us out to people with anti American ideologies like Arab oil nations and the ccp. And there are really two sides to this. On one side you have the true believers, the CCP and the Arab oil nations. These are like the suicide bombers. And then the other side are the people who have sold us out for greed and money. And people who sell you out for greed and money will always lose out to a suicide bomber or a true believer. That is how we got here.
Steve Bannon
So tell me, this guy right now is going to beat Cuomo by. And you've had Adams drop out. I think he's still going to beat Cuomo by 20 some points. Is he going to get a majority, get a majority vote? He's going to get over 50% of the vote in New York City.
Jackie Toboroff
I don't know if he's going to get over 50%. I mean, that's what it looks like right now. It looks like he is going to be our next. And he is a democratic socialist and we know next to nothing about his 28 year old wife, born in Houston to Syrian origin parents who spent 10 years living in Arab oil states. We don't know anything about her, which is pretty incredible considering the two of these people have zero executive experience. He is from Uganda, 33 years old, and they're going to be this, what power couple in charge of the nation's largest municipal budget. By the way, speaking of schools, then his mother.
Steve Bannon
Yep, sorry, go ahead, go ahead.
Jackie Toboroff
Well, he is floating. Zoran Mandani has floated around the idea of having Jamel Bowman, another DSA member, Democratic Socialist of America, as the New York City Schools Chancellor. And the uft, which is one of the most important school unions here in New York City, has endorsed Zoram Mandani. So things are not looking good. But what I would say is how we got here is there is a splintering of patriotism here and the.
Steve Bannon
Hang on one second. Hang on a second. I want, I want to go to the. I want to take a short commercial break. Come back, Jackie to BRO from Manhattan, Dave Bratz with me. Short commercial break.
Mike Lindell
We rejoice when there's no more.
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Jackie Toboroff
Yeah, so one thing about that, if Zoram Mandani wins, they are going to have a super majority in the city council. Dsa, the Democratic Socialists of America, will be in charge. So this is what is coming not only to New York City, this is coming to Georgia. This is spreading. It's metastasizing. And how we get here is patriotism has been completely splintered. If you look at a Palestinian suicide bomber. He is aligned with Palestine. When you look at the board of trustees and American teachers, who are they aligned with? Are they aligned with America and American causes and advancing American students and our industry, it doesn't seem like that that is how we get here. So hat tip to Noor Bin Laden, I think she coined it on your show when she called these people ainos. Americans in name only. That is what they are. They've sold us upriver and they've sold us out.
Steve Bannon
Wow. And the elites are bending the knee now. Jackie, you're on fire on social media. Where do people go?
Jackie Toboroff
Please come to my Instagram. Jacqueline for nyc. Jacqui N E F O R N Y C Also one other thing. 41% of New Yorkers now favor socialism over capitalism. If that number is even accurate, it's probably a lot higher. This is where we're going. It's thanks to Big Ed. It will only get worse with the ZO run.
Steve Bannon
And the schools they taught. They formed these kids. Jackie, thank you so much. Looking forward to having you back on here.
Jackie Toboroff
Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Telling a man there's a big one coming. Dsa. These guys are radical. Working Families Party and they're all over the country winning mayorships down in Houston, Texas. Got a huge problem down there, folks. Huge problem. Dave Bratt, your thoughts. Insurrection Act, Title 10. When are we going to get rolling, sir?
Dave Brat
Yeah, well, Brian Harrison and Toboroff there are full energy and that's what we need in Virginia right now on the education front. Just like folks know Harrison brought up Texas. They all need a state Freedom Caucus. That network is full of hard charging Freedom caucus Tea Party type people. That's one answer that will help to correct the systematic abuse. Right? If you go after a UVA system here in Virginia, the UVA university system. No way. It's 100,000 people. Supply chains, board of trustees, rich wine and cheese folks trying to win a popularity contest. You go after them, the delegates and senators quake in their boots. They're scared stiff. In Virginia right now, we have an Attorney general with a tech stream saying he wanted to shoot one of the other delegates and his wife and his kids. The governor spammed.
Steve Bannon
I got all that. I got all that. And I got all that because your wimpy governor that MAGA put in office, the wimpy government, you're going to lose by 15 points. The disastrous candidate you've got is going to lose by 15. And they're saying all the time the Youngkin crowd brought this on themselves. Why was that? It was Donald Trump and MAGA that got him into office with massive turnout. Understanding he was a wimp. A massive turnout and he hasn't accomplished anything in the process. And now he's going to get blown out. The anti Trump never Trump governor candidate. Right. Can't get out of her own way. The rest of it's a complete disaster. You're basically turning Virginia over permanently as a blue state. Virginia's gonna be a blue state after this. Cause you're gonna get buried. I realized the guy for lieutenant governor, the attorney general, they're all radicals. Spanberger, she's part of the deep state. Man, these are radicals. This is radicals.
Brian Harrison
Man.
Steve Bannon
This is not Virginia Sanders and native Virginia. Dave, social media, where do people go? By the way, all of his opinions are his own and have nothing to do with the people that sign his check. I'm just saying that and don't. Where do you go? Where do you go?
Dave Brat
I'm full employment.
Steve Bannon
Where do you go, sir?
Dave Brat
Brad. Economics on getter and on X and I've been posting stuff and I got it. I even got some Navy stuff I'm going to post tomorrow.
Steve Bannon
Fantastic. That's great. By the way, breaking news. Fox has got it. Jack Smith tracked private communications calls of nearly a dozen GOP senators during J6. Wow, bombshell there. Mike Lindell. Got about a minute and a half. It's been a long, tough day. We need a deal. What do you got for us?
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Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Episode: THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON (EP. 4831)
Date: October 6, 2025
Host: Steve Bannon (iHeartPodcasts)
Guests: Senator Tommy Tuberville, Dave Brat, Wade Miller, Brian Harrison, Jackie Toboroff
Theme: Federal authority, the Insurrection Act, mass deportations, and the clash between state and federal powers amid political, cultural, and educational crises.
This episode is heavily focused on the federal response to current unrest and immigration crises, the use of the Insurrection Act, disputes between state and federal governments, and the role of the judiciary. The conversation also explores the culture wars playing out in schools and higher education, with guests warning about the spread of “woke” and Marxist ideologies. The episode combines historical context with current policy debates, offering perspectives from politicians, legal analysts, and conservative activists.
[00:04-03:33]
[03:33-07:25]
Brian Harrison and Steve Bannon discuss the phrase “legal insurrection,” applying it to district courts that, in their view, are usurping presidential powers. Harrison calls it “an ongoing legal insurrection.”
A Chicago activist (unnamed) decries the militarized federal response in Chicago, asserting Trump is using chaos for political consolidation.
[07:25-13:22]
Tuberville shares a personal family connection to Eisenhower’s and Kennedy’s use of federal troops in the civil rights era, drawing parallels to current events.
He decries opposition from state leaders (Pritzker, Newsom) and judges, insisting Trump is acting “for the American people.”
Bannon presses for specifics on federal budgeting for border security and deportations, challenging critics’ claims that funds aren’t authorized.
On the Insurrection Act and National Guard use:
Republican senators are, per Tuberville, broadly supportive but letting Trump lead.
[15:36-19:47]
Wade Miller (Center for Renewing America) explains the legal memorandum on the President’s power to combat mass violence:
Dave Brat sharply frames the debate:
Bannon connects this to budget cuts, mass deportations, and anticipated street unrest from the left.
[25:23-26:34]
[30:33-37:40]
Brian Harrison fiercely critiques “woke” cultural policies in Texas education, blaming state leadership for funding DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) and transgender initiatives.
Tells story of activist efforts to force leadership changes at Texas A&M over DEI, transgender policies, and laments Greg Abbott’s appointments.
Urges legislative action to defund “indoctrination.”
[37:44-44:30]
Jackie Toboroff discusses the rise of socialist and Working Families Party candidates in New York, notably Zoram Mandani, and the transformation of NYC politics.
Points to American education as key to this ideological shift:
[44:30-47:10]
[03:40] Brian Harrison:
“We have seen over the last nine months an ongoing legal insurrection in which district court judges... have issued rulings that are flagrantly unlawful and unconstitutional.”
[07:34] Sen. Tuberville:
“My dad was in the National Guard in Arkansas... called out for Little Rock Central. One day working for the state. The next day he was federalized.”
[10:33] Sen. Tuberville:
“Do what you think is right. Use common sense. President Trump is going to take care of the American people.”
[16:12] Wade Miller:
“The Insurrection Act is kind of the trump card in all of this... but there’s a lot of very strong authority shy of the Insurrection act, which would fix most of these problems.”
[20:34] Dave Brat:
“The right does legal stuff and the left does illegal stuff. That’s it in a nutshell. Biden did a border invasion of 20 million illegal immigrants. That’s the chaos. Then you get down into… the legal mumbo jumbo is a footnote.”
[25:49] Wade Miller:
“If this were somehow not authorized, then Russ Vought would be shutting it down in accordance with the law.”
[32:02] Brian Harrison:
“The Texas government might be the biggest funder of DEI in America… exporting now DEI out of the Lone Star State.”
[38:41] Jackie Toboroff:
“We got here because greedy Americans selling us out to people with anti-American ideologies like Arab oil nations and the CCP.”
The episode is marked by urgent calls to defend “American values” through strong presidential action and resistance to what Bannon and his guests see as unlawful opposition from the judiciary, state leaders, and “radical” educational institutions. Using recent history and legislative detail, the speakers advocate not only for current policies but for a broader cultural and political combat, with insistent warnings about the future if maximalist conservative strategies are not pursued.
This summary captures the essence and critical moments of the episode for listeners who want a thorough understanding without hearing the full recording.