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this is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Reasons I got a free shot all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
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Okay. Monday 16th March, year of alert 2026. President United States has notified us on Truth Social that he is preparing to have a impromptu press conference or press briefing prior to the lunch he's going to have with the Trump Kennedy center board in the, I guess over at the White House. Imagine they're going to have the lunch in the state Dining Room, but this is going to take place in the East Room. Of course, Real America's Voice are covered all live. So we're going to juggle some of what's going on the show include we got Jenny, Beth Martin and Cleta going to join us about what's going to take place.
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Now, I understand the Save America is going to be Wednesday instead of Tuesday, and there's some controversy about whether this is to protect Cornyn or not. We'll get into all of that. The I want to go back to Eric Bolling. Eric, I want to be. You're not talking your book. You're doing an analysis of why you're saying the way the market is structured in the forward pricing. You see, remember these prices are both speculators and companies that have legitimate reasons to hedge out. You're actually not just a big supporter President Trump. You've always wanted lower prices. But one more time, just as it indicates today in the briefing that CENTCOM gave, added with additional analysis by two former naval intelligence officers, Jack Posopic and Captain Fennell. Your thoughts before he let you go.
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So, Steve, 100%. I've been doing this for 36 years. The oil markets, I've been watching the Middle east play games with us for 36 years, whether it's OPEC, the Iranians, whomever. I want to fix it. I want to, I want a solution that solves it. If you don't like the solution that we've come up with on the show, there's another one as well. There's a pipeline that started in Saudi Arabia. You bring the pipeline through where you can actually get Saudi oil, Bahrain oil, UAE oil, oil through it. So you can tell the Iranians to pound sand for good. My point is what we're hanging right now.
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Hang on, but hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, but hang on. That just dumps it back. That puts the, the Houthis and the Houthis, I think are coming into this war. I mean, there's a bigger choke point. I'll get to final second, the bigger choke point out by the Red Sea that leads up past Aqaba to the Suez Canal and really supplies Europe. The Houthis are a big, a bigger threat probably than the Iranians right now and shutting that down. So the pipeline takes you out of one problem, but puts you into another, does it not?
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Yes. And again, the solution we came up with takes us out of all the problems, but you want to talk about taking us out of a prop. What we're doing right now is, is effective to get shipping lanes open. We haven't solved the problem of Iranian fanaticism. It'll just pop up again. Whether it's three years from now or seven months from now. They, they will. We need to fix this so we don't ever are never beholden by another barrel of Middle Eastern oil. Nuclear is one way. A pipeline is a way. A fix. This is the shortest term. Fix is what Trump and they're doing right now. I love President Trump. I want him to win. I want us to win midterms. But at 4 or 4, 50 or $5 a gallon of gasoline, we're going to get smoked in the midterms. So the fix should be pound the Iranians into the sand. All of not just their military capabilities or their infrastructure. Go to telecom, go to media, go to other industries, pound them into submission to. They finally say, fine, give us what, what you want. What do you want, Steve? They produce 3 million barrels of oil today. They can produce 7 or 8. There, there is so much room for, for us to participate in those additional barrels and the only way to do is get them to their knees, not this surgical strikes that we're doing right now. You have to take out if unfortunately a lot of innocent people will probably die. But the only way to solve the problem going forward is again getting the Iranians in a position where they, they have no options.
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Where your social media, your new show and then you're back here at 4 o' clock on Real America's Voice leading into our afternoon show. Where do people go get you?
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There it is. The producers Just put it up. That's the edge for, for on YouTube. It's a, it's a great show. Thank you for that. Every time we talk about it, we get a bunch of your, your fans and I, I lead into you at 4:00 and real America's Voice, which is always, always a great place. Or Eric at Eric bowling across all social media platforms as well. Steve, thank a important topic.
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Thank you, brother. And thank you for getting up and, and joining us this morning. Appreciate you, Captain Fennell. As you know, my philosophy is pox on all their houses. Let's just start drilling in Guyana. I could care less. The Middle east is a sideshow. Israel is a sideshow to a sideshow. But that doesn't address the problem we have today. We're in it. And if you're in it, you've got to win. And we, obviously we're going to define victory some way here, but before you bounce, given what you've seen of Admiral Cooper and centcom, your analysis, sir.
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Well, Steve, just one comment about the Red Sea and the Houthis right now. And for the last week and a half or more, the USS Gerald R. Ford has been operating in the Red Sea precisely to protect overhead that pipeline that Eric was just talking about. So we are covering down on that threat while still being able to launch strikes into Iran from the Red Sea. Secondly, the overall.
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Okay, but hang on, but hang, but hang on, hang on, hang on. Before, hang on before we go to centcom, the president said it in kind of a throwaway line last night on Air Force One when he's coming back from Mar a Lago to the imperial capital. He said, look, it's not really, you could make an argument that it's not really our fight in these other nations. I mean, this is what gets me 47 years ago, I was over there in the 80s. My kid brother was on one of those frigates you tell us we don't have anymore. My daughter was there at the 101st in Iraq. We're over there all the time. And to be brutally frank, it ain't our fight. You know, keeping the Red Sea open with a thing is fine. But this is what I argued with when last summer when we were there taking incoming from the Houthis. Captain, where is the Royal Navy? Where are the French? Where are our NATO partners? Because we're keeping Suez Canal open. And I think, correct me if I'm wrong, 90% of what goes through the Suez Canal is into Europe. And I realize we have as Fareed Zakara said who kind of channeled Captain Fennell about the main thing being the main thing. The United States has been the anchor of this economic and national security world order. But this is one of the problems America first has with this is that it's all the burden. All those kids out there on the Gerald R. Ford and all the combatants around them and the fast attack submarines around them and all the air wings and all that are American kids. And I don't see French kids, I don't see British kids. I just don't see it. And the question people are going to ask, particularly when the $2 billion a day cost is really accounted for, they're going to sit there and go, what are we doing again? I mean, don't we have Venezuela? Don't we have Guyana? Don't we have the Gulf of America? We have Texas. We have all the. We have 10x oil resources here. In the hemispheric defense of President Trump's new strategy, shouldn't we be focused on the Arctic and Greenland and Latin America and sweeping the Chinese Communist Party out of the Caribbean and not wasting our blood and our treasure over in another Middle Eastern war? Sir.
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Steve, I agree with you 100%. You're preaching to the choir. I spent four and a half months in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 1994, I deployed to the Gulf. But the second half of my career was in the Pacific for almost 20 years. And I was the guy that was banging the drums, saying, how come we're stuck over there? So I want us to get out of there. But right now we are in the middle of this fight. And Eric said we have to pound them into the dirt. I think we can do it in a way that we don't kill innocent civilians and violate the law of armed conflict. That's not what we're about as Americans, but we can do what he said. I think that's the president's plan. We have to stay steady on the wheel. I know there's flak coming at us from the press every day on every special thing, but we have to keep doing what we said we're going to do. We have a targeting plan. We have a strategy. Those guys that do targeting work, I was a targeteer. They have good intelligence, mistakes happen. But they know how to rheostat this to make sure that we declaw and defang the Iranian regime and put max pressure onto them to where they're either going to collapse or their people are going to throw them out. I think that's the president's plan. It's a gamble. I got it. But we're in it. We got to keep going. Then we can get out and not go back. That's the goal.
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If you're, if you're in it, you got to have victory. And unfortunately, we're in it for every reason we argue about how we got here. Later, Captain Fanell and also Scott Besson, I think, told us, which we've been arguing for. I don't think there's going to be a state visit in April to China. I think that's logistic reasons, or as you've recommended, call them out because they're actually giving intelligence to our enemies in, in Iran. So, Captain Fennell, look forward to talking to you after the show, seeing you back here tomorrow, the next day. Captain James Fernell, thank you. There's another fight. Do I have Luke? Okay. There's another fight going on against the concentration of economic power in this country. The company is Live Nation. Luke Goldstein from the Lever joins us. Luke, thank you very much. Can you explain? Because I've been very upset. I think this is one of the most rapacious companies out there in the entertainment industry. It is a conglomerate that should be broken up. I don't think there's any question about this. There was this kind of comp. It was in TR then the government, the DoJ, I think, came to some settlement with them that didn't seem like much of a settlement, but the state attorney generals are so outraged, some of them, that they continue on. And I think a judge on Friday said, hey, the trial's gonna get back up on Monday and we're gonna roll. Is that the can you walk through all of it, sir?
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Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me on. I'm gonna try to channel my inner Kid Rock here as much as I as I can. So, yeah, the state AGs are continuing this case and they're in court right now actually restarting the trial. But I think just to walk us back a few steps here, you know, the place to start, I think, really, is this trove of court documents that were released last week. And what those court documents showed, which Live Nation tried really hard to keep under seal and the judge ordered to be released their private chat logs of Ticketmaster Live Nation executives who are talking amongst themselves about the way that they set prices and fees on fans for live entertainment shows at their venues. And the language they use, I think here is pretty revealing. They say these are direct quotes that we gouge them on prices. We're robbing them blind, baby. That's what we do. These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them. I mean, this is them in their own words describing their business. And that's really the core of this case here. The Justice Department was suing Live Nation for holding an illegal monopoly, rooting out competition and then raising prices on consumer.
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But hang, but hang on, hang on, hang on a second, hang on a second. We're going to hold you through the break. We're going to get everything in Solomon, Cleta, Jenny, Beth, all of it. But Luke, over years, these guys had a plan. And that plan was to take venues and roll up all these little venues that on their couldn't really make it and con conglomerate that and make sure you had economies of scale and hopefully pass that on to the, to the consumer. And then they bought, I guess, all the ticketing services and they had a fully vertically integrated company, right. Soup to nuts that they then could have performers, performers have one stop shop and get tickets. I had all these efficiencies of scale which Wall street talks about all the time. What's the problem with that? Live Nation had a plan and they went about it over a decade, maybe more than a decade, just to hammer this home, to get to economies of scale. What's your problem with that?
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Yeah, that's right. I mean, so this all starts a decade plus ago when, when Live Nation, which was on the promotion, music venue, artist management side, merged with Ticketmaster, both of which were already monopolies in their respective markets. And that deal was cleared through by the Obama administration. That gave him a green light with a pretty weak consent decree, imposed some modest restrictions that Live Nation, Ticketmaster combined, then ran roughshod over for the next decade. And you know, I think really sort of the core here of the, of the issue is when you have a vertical, vertically integrated entity like this, they sit in the middle between fans and the artists, you know, at these, at the venues that they, you know, go to see shows at. Right. And the cornerstone of that monopoly are these exclusive contracts that Live Nation really sort of forces onto venues. And this is a key site of coercion by the company. So they're raising prices through these exclusive contracts on consumers. Those are all those servicing fees, processing fees that you see at the end of your ticket. Sometimes they can jack up prices as much as 80%. They are taking money away from the venues as well, and the promoters are putting on the shows and then they can dictate to artists as well what their tour schedule looks like and what their pay is. If you're a venue, okay, and you want to go against Live Nation, they cut you out from the artist. You're an artist, you want to use ticketing, they cut you out from their venues.
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Luke, hang on one second. I'm going hold you through the break. Luke Goldstein joins us on a issue that cuts to the heart of monopolistic power in the United States of America today. Shortbreak.
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Okay, why you, you might ask, in a time of war when we have American sailors, airmen, marines, army personnel in harm's way in a very dangerous part of the world that I would argue maybe we shouldn't be over. But that's the topic for a different day. Why are we worried about music, concerts and entertainment? Here's the reason this is emblematic of monopolistic power in this country. As I've said many, many times during the Obama administration, that's when the oligarchs of really social media and the tech bros you see today were really created and was supposed to be the most progressive administration in history. What they allowed to happen. And we are supposed to be in the business of deconstructing that monopolistic power. And guess what? It's maybe not going totally as planned. That's why Live Nation is so important. Live Nation cuts to the heart of what monopolistic power entails. Now their original plan was to have vertical integration. Then they had a merger with Ticketmaster and they really had vertical integration. Soup to nuts. So Luke, you did a good job explaining how we got here, but the Justice Department did come up. They went to trial. The Justice Department, which happens in the trial came back and said, hey, look, we reached a settlement. Is that settlement not good enough for people that are neo Brandisians like myself that believe this connection of private and state power is kind of a takeoff on the Chinese Communist Party's business model and not the entrepreneurial finance and capitalism of the United States, Sir?
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Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think there's a really strong case here that the settlement was not nearly strong enough. And that also is why a whole collection of state attorney generals from California to Texas, Ken Paxton, are continuing this case in court right now. So here's what happened last week. As you mentioned, the trial had already started. It was ongoing for a week, and at the very end of that week is when the reporting indicates there was a settlement that was reached. And I was actually in court on Monday when the news broke about this, and it was kind of pandemonium in the courthouse. I usually try to stay away from the courts, but I was there that day. Right. And so the DOJ and Live Nation come into court, and they hand in the settlement terms to the judge, and the judge looks at the date, and the date on those settlement terms had been on the Friday of the prior week, when they were still in court arguing their case and had had meetings with a judge. And there was no settlement deal that had been mentioned at the time. And the judge is irate. He reprimands both sides. And he asked the DOJ counsel how this happened. And the DOJ counsel says to the judge, has to say in open court, I'm seeing these settlement terms for the first time, as you are. So what does that tell us? This is the counsel who knows the case intimately, the best. He was not part of putting together that settlement package. It was done by the higher ups at doj, and it was also done by members of the White House, as reporting has indicated. And, you know, I think this is one aspect that would kind of undermine the case that this is really the best settlement deal. It's $280 million in damages that Live Nation has to pay. That may sound like a lot of money. That's equivalent to the amount of revenue that the company brings in in less than a week. Okay. So, I mean, a drop in the bucket might be generous as a way of describing it. There's a whole set of other kinds of restrictions. They're called behavioral remedies and antitrust speak that the company has to follow pretty much as a condition for being able to keep on and maintain this monopoly that they hold. And it's.
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But the target has been. The target has been for the target. The target has been from the beginning to disaggregate Ticketmaster from the venues. Correct. I mean, let's just be open. This is about breaking up Live Nation. Take. Undo what Biden administration DOJ approved and break these things up. Take Ticketmasters should be independent and the venues should be totally independent. Correct?
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Yep. Yeah, that's absolutely right. And, you know, there's cosmetically some attempts in this settlement to try to do that. There's sort of a cap on some of the fees they can charge. You know, they have to know that has to sell off some of the venues they control. There's efforts to try to open up competition. But again, I think the reason to one kind of argue that this is not adequate and that it may not even be followed is that it is basically identical in many ways to the aims of previous consent decrees that the government has imposed on Live Nation and allowed it to keep this monopoly, and they have not been adequate at all. Live Nation keeps completely violating these as the government has tried to update these consent decrees that go back to the Obama administration. And, you know, I think you have to look here at the political influence operation that Live Nation has run for the past year, and it culminated in the ousting of Gail Slater, who was the previous antitrust chief at the Department of Justice. And she was much more keen on either continuing this case or it seems at least pushing for a stronger settlement. And she was pushed aside. And I think the fact that this Justice Department has now settled this case really kind of vindicates many of the critics of this department administration that they are amenable to outside corporate influence.
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But, but, but, but the state AGs, led by PACs in California, get both blue states and red states. The judges said, okay, we're going to go forward with this trial. The trial is not off. The state AGs are basically going to be at the tip of this. Not. Not the Justice Department.
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Yep. Yeah, that's absolutely right. Now, I mean, I'm not going to lie here. You know, there's definitely downsides of this. The state AGs have hired, you know, someone who's described as one of the top antitrust litigators. Right. But the drawback of state AGs is they're, you know, they don't have quite as much staff to really beef up the case as, you know, the Department of Justice does, which is really well financed, but they're continuing the case as was planned. During the whole first week, we heard from a number of owners of venues about the ways that Live Nation tried to retaliate against them if they ever tried to get a better deal with a competitor ticket company. Live Nation said, you don't want to do this. Okay. Our artists, you know, Billie Eilish, whoever they represent, they're not going to your venues anymore. Okay? It's a total shakedown.
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No, I think, I think it's. I think it's well known that the Live Nation are gangsters. Right the way they do. They wait. Their enforcement techniques are not subtle. Look, we got to bounce. Where do people. I want people to follow your reporting on this and we'll have you back on because strong interest in this. My interest in this is that we ought to be doing this across many, many industries. And let's just start with this part of the entertainment industry and break these companies up. What they've done is. And what Obama's DOJ in approving many of the social media oligarchs and this was outrageous. So where do they go, Luke, to follow you?
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Yeah, you can find me on X lukew Goldstein and my reporting is at Lever Independent news outlet. We do investigative reporting. Thanks for having me on.
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Thank you, sir. Look forward to following you on this case. Ken Paxton and a host of other state attorney generals and I'll take it on the shoulders. John Solomon. Where, where are we on the most important, most important thing? Of course Politico had a huge story this morning that they're worried from the Republican establishment that anybody is going back to 2020 is just distracted. This is from the Republicans, not the Democrats is a total destruction distraction in the Solomon Cleta Mitchell war room group. Just the news is going to lead us to a path of destruction. Your thoughts, sir?
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Listen, there are. People are very nervous on the Republican and the Democratic side and, and I think the reason why is that when we had similar revelations in 2024 in Great Britain that Great Britain's voter registration databases had been hacked by China, it created a national scandal, an outrage. There were special blue ribbon commissions. There were serious matters. The United States has known of similar problems of China infiltrations of our voter data going back to 2020. And they've done nothing about it. They have kept it a secret. And I think that that is what the goal here is to come up with any narrative to diminish what we're going to show. Now I've yet to get the documents from the Trump White House or the Trump intelligence agencies, but remarkably I've been able to get good documents from Biden era Intelligence officials, they've been more cooperative in trying to get the truth out about China's infiltrations of our voter databases. And tomorrow, I suspect part of the reason the intel agencies don't want this out is they don't want to have to talk about it tomorrow at the oversight hearings that begin for the national security apparatus. I don't think we're going to be able to let them do that. I think tomorrow we're going to put out our first story from documents we got from Biden era officials that will show that there were infiltrations of the Voter data in 2020 by China and we've all been kept in the dark. And by the way, we're going to show people quotes from our own intelligence officials saying how dangerous it would be if Russia had gotten into voter data. Apparently, if Russia does it, it's a bad thing. If China does it, apparently we just keep mum about it. Tomorrow we're going to let people see what we've gathered to date. Sadly, we don't have a significant amount of transparency from the Trump intel agencies or the Trump White House yet. I hope that changes before we go tomorrow. But we hit the go button tomorrow and people will get to see exactly what our government has been sitting on for nearly six years. Six years ago they first detected it.
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You've got a scoop here. I just want to make sure people understand it. Are you telling me that all the work everybody's done to get to the place of hitting the button tomorrow, there's still resistance inside? Intelligence committee still fighting you guys about the release tomorrow.
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The most cooperative people have been Biden era intelligence officials who were amused that this data was never put out by the Trump administration. One in 2020, so the first Trump administration and who understand how important the issue is because they were concerned when Great Britain's voter data was pierced in 2024. They've always been amused by it. So, yeah, I got more help from the Biden folks than the Trump folks right now. That's not the president. The president clearly dedicated to wanting to get this information out. By the way, he ordered some of this information be declassified. It never did. And so we'll see what happens. I'm hoping that sometime in the next 24 hours, the Trump intel people will come along for the ride. If not, they'll get to read what we have and then the pressure will grow on them to tell the American people what they've known for six years. It's really quite remarkable. This has stayed a secret for six years.
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John, I know you got to bounce, but I just want to if you can hold through the break for a couple of minutes, there's a couple Maricopa in Georgia and we got Cleta and Jenny Beth in a press conference coming to the president. A lot going on. Birch Gold.com promo code Bannon End of the Dollar Empire maybe it's time that you got it. You study it. It's now in a hard copy book, the Patriots edition. You can get that. It's taught now in graduate schools for its accessibility to the complexity of global capital markets and why gold has been a hedge for thousands of years. Check it out today.
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War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
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John, thanks for sticking with us through the break. Any update? Maricopa, I know you've got a story about just the news. Maricopa, Georgia, Any updates? People should know.
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Yeah. Today, this morning we put out the video that backs up what the congressional observers said they saw in November 2024, by the way, a time when Donald Trump actually won the election. Donald Trump's still worried about election integrity even when he wins a state. That's why the FBI is looking at it. What you see is it looks, according to the video, to have live ballots being processed off site away from the Maricopa County Election center where the normal observers are. And there appears to be blank ballots. That's certainly what the congressional observers are saying. In the videotape, the Democrat comes out saying, boy, that was scary. Even the Democrat who's an observer could not believe what they witnessed here. That video is now up. People can see it. It's part of the reason why they went and asked for the beginning of what's going to be several requests for Maricopa county election records, 2020 to 2024. So FBI is working on that. Georgia the FBI got its data. It's done its own analysis. Remember what the FBI is looking at there, whether Fulton county officials intentionally did not follow state law, which would become a violation of federal law when it comes to administering elections. They believe they have the evidence to make a determination on that. Now, that doesn't mean there aren't other issues that need to be litigated there. There's plenty of good reasons to keep looking at that. But the FBI believes it has the evidence it needs to make a good determination about whether Fulton county intentionally didn't follow election law. And we should see some resolution in that in the next few weeks.
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John Solomon, where do people keep up with all your reporting? Every night you're breaking News stories about the most vital topics to the war and posse. Where do folks go?
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Yeah.
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Tonight will be important1justthenews.com that's the website JSoloman reports on all social media and again, I'm lucky enough to follow you every day on this great network. Six o', clock, just the news, no noise with the amazing Amanda Head. So those are all the coordinates.
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Thank you, sir. Look forward to seeing you tonight. Cleta and Jenny Beth, join me. Jenny Beth, amazing hit the other day. Before I get there, Cleta, I I'm hearing reports from Georgia and I know you can't give too much inside baseball, but that there are still 55 boxes. Is this true? 55 boxes that the FBI are saying they don't have in their possession. That should be evidence. Is can you give us any clarity on that or is that too much? Is that too behind closed doors still right now?
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No. I mean, I just know that there have been, there have been public filings because the clerk said that they there were so many exact here, the exact number of boxes. But when they went to get the boxes and when they retrieved the box, seized all of the boxes that they are missing about a little over, I think over 50 boxes of records that are supposed to be there. And now they're trying to sort out were they ever there. Was it a miscount? I mean, you never know with Fulton County. It's just a colossal nightmare because they don't do things the way are we.
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How close, how close is Rothenberger agreed. He's been subpoenaed. Just I think for the audience. How soon are we going to have the Georgia Board of Elections, which we essentially control, take over Fulton County? Could you give us any clarity on that?
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Oh, gosh, we're so far away from that, Steve. The state Board of Elections taking over Fulton County. You know, one of the things that has happened is that the, you know, the, the judge did order in December that the State Board of Elections was entitled to receive all the ballots and all the materials. And then the FBI came in and subpoenaed with the search warrant and seized all of them. So the State Board of Elections still hasn't gotten any of the records that the judge said the board was entitled to receive. So I think we're pretty far away from a moment when there would be any kind of resolution that would put Fulton county under the supervision of State Board of Elections. That's pretty far down the road. We still remember we're now in mediation, if you can believe that, between Fulton county, the court clerk and the Department of Justice as to this, Fulton county and the commissioners and now the court clerk have filed suit. That's the suit with Abby Lowell and Norm Isen and all of them demanding that all of the things that were all the materials and ballots that were seized in January be returned. And they're in mediation. A former retired Georgia Supreme Court justice has been named the mediator. And now there's us to be mediating whether or not anything's going to be returned and if so, whether or not the Department of Justice can retain copies. The one big thing that we have to worry about is we want all of the originals of the absentee ballots. That's a big concern because there are that's the only way we're going to know about the pristine ballots that were supposedly absentee ballots, but were which were never folded. Jenny Beth and I kept hearing those complaints during 2020 following the election. And if it's not been folded, it's not an it's not an absentee ballot under the law in Georgia. And there are many thousands.
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Of course it's not. So, Jenny Beth, first things first, we've got parallel paths. We got Maricopa county, now we've got Fulton County. We're hopefully getting to the to the heart of it. Of course, a huge article in Politico today that says anybody that mentioned this is from Republican establishment, anybody that mentions the 2020 election is just looking backwards and it's going to hurt our chances in the midterms. Nothing could be farther from the truth. But we're coming to a seminal moment of this movement, the direction of the country. That's this fight over the Save America Act. Now, I understand it's been moved to Wednesday now because of logistics reasons, I'm told. Just go through what you did and you and Cleta talked over the weekend. And we get Cleta back here in a second about exactly what we're going to do about making sure that this audience and all grassroots members and all of the Trump MAGA base are making sure their voices is heard as we go through this historic evolution to attempt to pass the Save America act and make it into law and have President Trump sign it.
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Okay.
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So this is important when it comes to calls to action. Sometimes you have to give carrots to the politicians and sometimes you have to give figurative sticks to them. And I learned this from Clita back in 2010. And right now the Senator Thune is doing what we have asked and the Republicans are if they actually all do what we think they're going to do and vote to bring this bill to the floor, to the motion to proceed to bring it to the floor. That's doing what we've been asking for the last several weeks. And so if that happens, and it looks like it's going to, once the debate opens, we've got to make sure that we are thanking the Republican side, thanking them for bringing it to the floor and doing everything we can to keep them talking about the bill and convince them that we want it to pass in final passage. Then the figurative sticks have to change from being focused on Republican side doing what we want, over to the Democrat side and urging the Democrats to do what 65% of Americans want, which is to pass the Save America Act. 84% of Americans want only Americans voting, American citizens voting in American elections. And we've got to make sure that they understand that if they vote against this bill, they are voting against the not just majority, but super majority of the citizens in this country and the super majority of the constituency that they represent. So our figurative sticks have to be focused on the Democrat side and then on the Republican side. We just have to keep them debating the bill and keep them working to, to try to get Democrats on board with us.
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So this, this would not be a standing filibuster right now, but as you see it, this is going to be a several, several week process. And we're going to have to have both urgency and we're going to have to have duration here, ma'. Am.
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That's right. It's. It's urgency and duration and hopefully it lasts that long. That's definitely what we want. I think the longer that it goes on, the better it is for the. If it just happens in a day and it's done, no one will even know that it happened. Especially in this age of viral things happening on TikTok every five seconds. So it takes a while for a sustained debate to permeate the American consciousness, for the media to talk about it, for Americans to understand what's actually happening on Capitol Hill. So it needs to last for a while. Now, it is possible in the middle of this that they could temporarily close it and essentially set it aside if there is a deal that is worked out with DHS funding and bring that up and get DHS funded and then go back to and reopen the Save America Act. So if that happens, people should not be upset. We, we just need to be prepared that that could happen. And then we have to make sure it opens back, which I think that it will, but it's going to be, it should be the rest of this week. It should go into next week and then they hit a recess period. So we'll see how far it goes after, after next week. But how far it goes and how determined the Republicans are depends on how active and vocal we are in calling their offices and thanking them, in making sure that they actually get this bill passed.
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Okay, the president may step out for this press conference and say, give, I'm going to keep you on, but in case we got to jump, give your action center right now. Where do they go to get the script and all the different possibilities of this and more information?
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Jenny Beth, go to Tea Party Patriots.org, tea Party Patriots.org and also you can follow me on all the socials. Janibethm and I'll put the script in my my X feed after I finish with you. Steve.
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Perfect. Okay. Stick around. Cleta there's is blown up on the on Twitter. Twitter about Thune has moved this to Wednesday to ensure that Cornyn, I guess, is locked in for the U.S. senate. Can you just walk us through what's actually happening?
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Well, my understanding going back to Saturday was that they were shooting to have this bill on the floor tomorrow for Thune to take the floor tomorrow with it. One of the things that they've done is that they have gone back to the White House. You know, the president has been pretty insistent upon adding some things to the bill that came over from the House, which creates another set of requirements. It couldn't just pass the Senate and go back and go directly to the president's desk. And so in adding those things the president has wanted, which is to address the problem of universal vote by mail. And also, you know, he wants to get rid of transgender surgeries on minors and he wants to get rid of men and women's sports. So there they've agreed to put those in. And so it's just taking some time. It always takes a little bit longer get all these things drafted than then you think it's going to take. And so I was told on Saturday
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that could take until but hang on for a second. You're breaking some news here. Hang on, you're breaking some news because I've been a guy keeps saying, hey, the president and I love what he wants to put in, but it's not in the House bill. So it's going to make this even more cumbersome. You're saying the White House dug in and the Senate's actually drafting language. So what we will be debating will have restrictions on mail in ballots, which I think is smart, very smart. It has to be done because I'm not a machine guy. I'm a mail in ballot. That's how they stole it. You're also saying he's going to add the no men and women's sports and the transgender surgeries are going to be in the Senate side. The White House told them that they have to have that.
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I think the president has been very adamant and very vocal and very public about that. So, you know, and he's not deviated from that. So I think that they're, they're realizing that he's got the, he's got the microphone and the megaphone and that they need to try to do that. So my understanding is that that's what they're working on is negotiating all of that with the White House. And I thought that it might cost us some yes votes on the bill, but I'm told that that's not true. So we'll see that. I think. And this will just.
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Okay.
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I think in this case, it is the logistics of trying to finalize all of that and get that agreed to, you know, because then you start having to agree to specific language. So my understanding is that that was going to take a little time.
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He, Thune has promised a vote. He has not promised a victory. He has not promised an outcome. As he keeps saying, that means we are not yet to what we call the talking filibuster. Just tell the audience as you best see it, and I'll get Jenny Beth back in here in a second. As you best see it, what is actually going to be the process that Thune and with Mike Lee's guidance, we're going to start off with on Wednesday.
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My understanding is that Senator Thune will recognize Senator Lee, Senator Lee will describe the bill. Senator Thune will then offer a series of motions that honestly, they're just indecipherable to me as a non. I'm not a Senate rules guru. Lord, I don't, I hope I don't have. I already have learned too much about the Senate rules to planning. Any sane person would want to know, but that then Senator Thune will offer a series of procedural motions that will put the bill on the floor of the Senate with a simple majority vote to proceed and that then they will be on the bill. They will. There will be amendments offered, there will be debate, there will be discussion. And as Jenny Best said, they may have to go off the bill and then come Back to it. Why they don't want to call that a filibuster, I don't know. But apparently this is something that they really are now looking to Senator Lee and his legislative director, who's quite terrific, and looking to them for guidance. I have to tell everybody, one of the things that's really important to remember is that this is a sea change from where Jonathan was last Tuesday. Last Tuesday, he announced to the conference and he told the press he was just kind of done with this. We were all paid influencers, and he wasn't paying any attention. And honestly, what happened over the ensuing 24 hours was beautiful to behold because people all over the country hammered the United States Senate. They called, they wrote emails, they called their state offices. People just organically were outraged, absolutely outraged. And within 24 hours, they were saying, oh, well, maybe we better pay attention to this. And the problem. Here's the problem. They've never used the filibuster in this way, not in decades, not since 1964, when the Civil Rights act passed. So they're not used to legislating. I want to say that again, the United States Senate is not used to legislating. Nothing ever goes to the floor unless there's an agreement in advance. They know exactly what's going to happen. And so this is uncharted territory for anyone who's currently serving in the United States Senate. So, you know, if I had been in the Senate, I would have started making some changes to the. Overcome some rulings of the parliamentarian that exists. These, these rulings make it impossible to actually have the filibuster and have it end. That's what they couldn't figure out, is if you start, how do you end it? So without, how do you get to the. At the end of the filibuster? So I think that that's what they're trying to do, is avoid getting into a circumstance where they. That they can't get out of without 60 votes. And that's what they're trying to do. It's not easy, but, you know, these people should have done something about these rules a long time ago,
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but they didn't want to, because this is how they keep control. Jenny, Beth, is this just because you've been at this a while, and I know a lot of the audience members are ready to go man the ramparts and have, you know, and have President Trump's back and say, hey, this absolutely got to get done. President Trump has said over and over and over again, we're not going to win the midterms. Unless you pass this. Is this performative, or do you, in your professional opinion, see a way that this is more than just getting the Cornyns and the Thunes off the hook of President Trump's wrath? And that we could actually get the SAVE Act, President Trump's version of it, passed in the Senate and sent back to the House for. For passage, and then eventually, at some point in time, get it on President Trump's desk for signing and then let all the lawsuits take place that there will be lawsuits. This will be. If this passes, Trump signs it will be in the Supreme Court on this one sometime before their session ends at the end of June. Ma', am,
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let's talk about those lawsuits really quickly. Remember, in 2020, I know the establishment doesn't want us talking about 2020, but remember in 2020, everything just changed right on a dime because of COVID and they expanded all the ballots and we're mailing them out to everyone on the voter rolls. And they did that just completely, just so quickly. If they can do that quickly, they can certainly work to make sure that only American citizens are voting and that we have voter ID quickly. And it shouldn't be unconstitutional, because we just saw five, six years ago that you could change elections in the middle of voting. In 2020, during the. During the presidential preference primary, I had already voted, and then they closed that and they reopened it during the regular primary in Georgia, and I wound up not having that again on my ballot because I had already voted. But if they can do that in the middle of an election, they certainly can make sure only American citizens are voting. Do I think it is performative? I think it depends on how this process ends. And no one can answer exactly how it ends. So here's the way that I keep thinking of it. Remember back when we were challenging McCarthy to become speaker, and then ultimately also we changed speakers, and we have Speaker Mike Johnson now during the middle of all of that debate In January of 2022, we didn't know exactly how that was going to end. We knew it would end. We didn't know exactly how it would end. And when they removed McCarthy and we wound up with Speaker Johnson, we also didn't know how that was going to end, but we knew it would end. What we're doing right now is unchartered for most, for the senators who are in the Senate right now, not in terms of American history, but for the ones who are in there right now. And so it's a little bit different than what we've seen before. If it requires 60 votes to end the, to end the debate, then we have to get Democrats on our side. Can we do that? It depends on this audience and other people around the country calling their Democrat senators and saying, you need to vote for this. This is not partisan. It's working to get our Democrat friends who agree with us on this issue to say put aside everything else we disagree on, we can disagree on.
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But what you're saying, but what you're saying, but what you're but hang up. But, but what you're implying in that is that and we got to bounce. What you're implying is that is we can't, we won't get the Senate will not go on this topic to a talking filibuster because a talking filibuster we don't need any Democrats. We don't need.
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I'm not sure if I'm right about how it ends, though. That's what I'm saying. I'm not sure how exactly this ends and I am not getting clarity on that. If it ends from exhausting the debate, which is what a filibuster would do, and that's what Thune is saying, we've got this robust debate happening. If it ends from exhausting the time of the debate, then you don't need 60 to close it.
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Jenny Beth where do people go particularly to get to your action center and read everything, both the carrots and the sticks, ma'.
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Am.
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Tea Party Patriots.org Tea Party Patriots.org and then on social media. Jenny Bethm
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thank you, Ma'.
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Am.
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Cleta Mitchell where do people go to particularly your Twitter feed and all your sites to get up to date on what's happening in Georgia, Maricopa county, and with this monumental issue that's coming before us On Wednesday
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the 1st, if you want to know what's going on on a real time basis, go to iWatchdogs. That's the Twitter X account for Election Integrity Network. We're also posting things. We have a lot of resources that we're putting on the electionintegritynetwork.org website election integrity election integritynetwork.org and then you can follow me on Twitter Aleta Mitchell and I put things up there. I posted an explanation on Sat, I guess yesterday morning, trying to explain to people my understanding of what's going to be happening this week. So the main thing is we need people to be aware, push it out. You might have to pivot on a dime. So watch what's going on and take action accordingly.
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And we'll talk more about our coverage this afternoon about how we're going to cover this wall to wall. Thank you, Cleta. Thank you, Jenny.
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Beth.
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Thank you.
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Thank you Monday morning. Thank you. A lot more to do. And we'll make sure all the Warren posse is in the loop. Mike Lindell, Blizzard kind of chop blocked you guys over the weekend. What are we doing now? What are we doing today? What's my deal for the Warren posse? That's what we care about.
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We'll see this afternoon. Mike. Real America's voice. We skipped a break. I want to thank the team. Real America's voice. We're Actually also going to go right up to the Charlie Kirk Show. So we're going to be on for a couple more minutes in bonus time. And here's the reason. The commander in chief and the President, United States is about to come to the microphones. He's going to have a press conference, folks. I will tell you, I would think it'd be worth hanging around. I expect this to be a little contentious. President Trump really unsheathed the sword on the media over the weekend. And I think he's had enough of some of the reporting and some of the really, the false spin and the false reporting. We're in a time of war. We have young Americans in harm's way. And like I said, as you know, I am not particularly happy how we got here, but we're here. And right now we have to win and get everybody home. And I mean win. And this has got to be defined now. You just can't declare victory because we've blown up and degradated their forces. This situation in the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz, which, you know, if you look at the mathematics of global oil markets, doesn't really directly affect us, although it is affecting the price of oil, particularly in the United States. President Trump, and this is why we had Rob Lockwood about Harold Ham. President Trump had it down to $55 a barrel. President Trump would like it to get to $40 a barrel. That's kind of, I think, always been his target. I believe most people would say 60 is where the oil and gas industry with their lifting costs. But he wants it at $40 a barrel. That's one of the reasons he's got Venezuela. You have now, the biggest, I think, find is in Guyana. You got the Gulf of America, which they've done a very poor job of extracting that Mexico's tons of oil there, if you frack it. Right. And of course, the great state of Texas and other parts of the United States of America. Okay, President, we're about to wrap up here. The Charlie Kirk show is going to be next. President United States is going to be giving a press conference for his lunch with the Trump Kennedy center board. This could be pretty explosive. You should tune in. Make sure you go check out Birch Gold. And when I say explosive, I think there's going to be a lot of turbulence this week, not just in the Senate, but also geopolitically. Birchgold. Com Promo code Worm. Promo code Bannon. Let me do that.