Episode 5222: Battle Over The SAVE ACT Begins

0:00This is the primal scream of a dying regime, prey for our enemies, because we're going to meddle evil on these people. Here's how I got a free shot on 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 line? Maga media, I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War rule. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. It's Tuesday, 17 March, February, 2026 at St. Patrick's Day. We are very packed today. We're going to be covering some live events that we're going to have to cut into.

1:04John Thune, the leader of the Senate, is supposed to take the floor in the Senate in a moment and lay out the process of which we're going to get to a vote on the Save America Act, whether that is through a standing filibuster or not, we'll see. They're going to walk through the process where reporters down there. I think Thune is stepping up right now. Okay, as soon as we're going to do the cold open right now, we'll jump into it. If Senator Thune steps in and takes the mic also, the Irish Prime Minister is going to be at the White House for a bilate at 11 o'clock. We'll be covering that. We've also got a jam pack show. So let's go and play the cold open. We'll cut in if Senator Thune, if and when Senator Thune takes the floor this morning. Two weeks in operation, Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove. The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan around retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. The US Senators have called it a blunder, cable news has telling the crises, commentators

2:08have warned of a long war. The course is loud in some respects understandable. But this narrative is wrong, not because the costs are imaginary, but because the critics are measuring the wrong things, they are cataloging the price of the campaign while ignoring the strategic ledger. When you look at what's actually happened to Iran's principal instruments of power, it's ballistic missile arsenal, it's nuclear infrastructure, it's air defenses, it's Navy and proxy command architecture. The picture is not one of US failure, it is one of systematic phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades. Why do I wind up with that very long pitch? Because everything he says is right. Militarially, there's been extraordinary success, but as with Vietnam, as with Iraq, and now, but well, as with Afghanistan, here we are in Iran, and again, militarily, nearly

3:13perfect, it's extraordinary what our men and women in uniform are doing and what their leaders are doing, and yet here we find ourselves again in a situation where we could actually win every single battle and still lose the war. And that, Jonathan, is what the White House is grappling with. If Iran, as you said, totally obliterated, got the missiles, got the first two rounds of leadership, Air Force gun, Navy gun, can we wrap this war up this week? Yeah, sure. Good. Well, I don't think so, but it will be said, won't be alone, and we're going to have a much safer world when it's wrapped up. It will be wrapped up soon. Well, as he was saying this, evening in the Oval Office, Iran continued to strike its neighbors. That's an oil field in southern Iraq, one of the world's biggest coming under fire,

4:17also struck today one of the world's biggest gas fields in the UAE. The Iranian drones this morning also had an oil tank farm near Dubai airport, and right now the UAE's defense ministry says air defenses are currently responding to incoming missile and drone threats from Iran. The Reuters News Service is also reporting explosions tonight in Baghdad, in the heavily fortified green zone where the U.S. Embassy is located. The leader, John Thune, is set to kick off debate on the voter reform bill known as the Save America Act as soon as today, as soon as expected to begin the process with a vote that requires a simple majority just to open the debate. At least one Republican, though, Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina is planning to oppose even this move, but soon will likely have the votes to go forward. The bill will likely fail due to bipartisan opposition and the GOP's desire to protect the filibuster. But that's not stopping President Trump's allies who say they're bracing for long hours to build momentum for the bill. The Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah tells the Hill the president wants to see Republicans

5:21go all out and is envisioning an epic floor fight, similar to the two-month battle that preceded the Senate's passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The process is projected to last some seven to ten days, though it could extend further due to amendment disputes and procedural delays. I was just with a fantastic person who's Cuban and made a fortune in sugar, you know, find a whole family, right? And this family wants to go back to Cuba to visit it. They wanted to have been back in like 50 years or something, they could come from largely come from Cuba. And we'll see what happens, they were asking me about that. They want to go back. Not only fun wool, a lot of Cubans have said, oh boy, where they look, you know, bad. I think Cuba is in its own way if it, you know, tourism and everything else, it's a beautiful island, great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know.

6:25They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. But I think Cubans see in the end, you know, all my life, I've been hearing about the United States and Cuba, and when will the United States do it? I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba to be good on, it's a big honor. Taking Cuba. Taking Cuba in some form, you know, taking Cuba, I mean, whether I free it, take it, I think I could do anything I want with it. You want another trip, a very weak intonation right now. They work for a long time, very violent, very violent leaders, Castro is a very violent leader, his brothers are very violent leader, extremely violent. That's how they governed, they governed with violence, but a lot of people would like to go back. We defend all these countries, and then get any mind, swippers, and they say, well, we'd be possible for us not to get involved.

7:27We spend trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO to defend other countries. I always said, but if it ever comes time to defend us, they're not going to be there. Many of them would not be there, and we're going to have to start thinking more wisely in this country. Tonya, quote, it's a bit rich, Australia. We won't be sending a ship to the Strait of Ormuz, Germany. It is not NATO's war. Diplomacy needs to prevail that from Italy. Can you talk about the way they have responded, especially since the perception was, due to the leverage with tariffs, Trump had a lot of control and leverage? Well, a lot of that has gone away, first and foremost, but the biggest part is, I mean, you don't ask for help after the fact. I mean, the biggest difference between the coalition of the willing is that, yes, there wasn't a attack, obviously, but President Bush and the Bush administration built this coalition, and really for more than a year. Now this is something that the Trump administration did with Israel's help, and then after the

8:29fact, now we're three weeks on, is suddenly asking for help. Ron, the president is moving about 2,500 Marines to the region. Are you okay with putting those troops on the ground? I actually spoke to some media last night, and I indicated that I believe that what these 2,500 Marines of the Marine Expeditionary Force would be, would be to probably secure the island. The island is not, in my opinion, boots on the ground in combat, it is a territory, it is Iran. Well, I'm not going to argue that point, it's my effect, you're right, but what I would say is the president has chosen not to obliterate the ability to get oil, and I think he wants to go secure that, to make sure the Iranians don't do themself then.

9:29So I think it's probably wisdom. Is that boots on the ground? No, not like inside Iran where they're in the cities, where we go through circumstances that we've had in the past. Of large areas of population, combatants against us, and it is a mess. I am against what I call the mess, moving people, Marines, snipers into population areas. But now many on the left, some on the right, are in full panic mode over what is a historic miracle unfolding before our eyes known as Operation Epic Fury, which brings us to another fundamental question. Are these trump haters really willing to risk a nuclear-armed Iran? Stop, freeze frame. That is the defining question, not really a debatable question. You either want a nuclear-armed Iran, you're comfortable leaving your children and grandchildren with such, or you're not. Are they comfortable with the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism, that says

10:33death to Israel, death to America, that according to them, telling Steve Wickoff, or in possession of 460 kilograms of enriched uranium, right now that's 60 percent enrichment, seven to ten days. Guess what? That's enough for 11 nuclear bombs in a very short period of time. So are these trumped arrangements, syndrome patients really willing to put their lives in their children and their grandchildren in a hostage position and let a regime that chance death to America have these weapons that could kill millions when America now has the chance to avoid what happened in the last century, a potential modern day holocaust. Have we learned nothing from history? Make no mistake. Isolationists, leftists, want to treat America as we can live in a little bubble. They are living in a fantasy world and are actively smearing a president that even in some cases they claim to have one supported intermittently.

11:36In reality, they are just isolating themselves politically, while the real world has moved on without them. Thankfully, this has been the most successful military campaign in history. This is not about voter ID, it is about voter suppression. What they have done is to say every registered voter is going to have to go in person to re-register with either a passport or passport card or a certified birth certificate, all of which, if people don't have them, cost significant amounts of money. That is a textbook definition of a poll tax that was outlawed by the Constitution, the 24th Amendment in 1964 and for state and local by the Supreme Court two years later. Not even worse than that is they would require every state to give its sensitive voter data to the Department of Homeland Security, which would use it to require states to purge voters from a program created by Doge using the Social Security data that they stole, which happens

12:41to be inaccurate and biased. This is not a voter ID bill, this is a voter suppression bill. They are going to try and reframe it anyway they can. They shouldn't work. Okay, we are waiting for Senator Thune to take the floor, we're going to take our normal commercial breaks unless he takes it and then we'll jump out of the commercial break. John Solomon is broke a huge story this morning or last night, we're going to have John Solomon on, but the Chinese Communist Party, yes, the Chinese Communist Party, involved in our election system, the intelligence is out there, John Solomon is going to break it down. All fours will have John on. Jenny Beth Martin is with us this morning, clear this afternoon, it's going to break down exactly what we can anticipate for John Thune and really micely taking over the floor of the Senate, taking control of it and putting us into a historic debate about what President Trump says the most important piece of legislation that's come up in his second term and he will

13:43not let anything else go forward until it is fully debated by the Senate. And he's had passed, so we'll see about that. That needs the talking filibuster, we're going to see if this is going to be performative for 24 or 48 hours or it's going to be the real deal. All of that is to come plus breaking news on the federal judge rule against what Bobby Kennedy's been doing with the vaccines, although we are starting to get rid of because of President Trump and other people taking a hard line, 200,000 illegal alien drivers or foreign drivers, having their licenses revoked. All of that, diswiring of the war and plus, the Prime Minister of Ireland is going to be in the Oval Office for a By-Lat, we're juggling a lot of live breaking news today plus the war and everything else. We'll get to all of it. Sure, come or should break back to the war and there's no other way. Think about this, in 2006, $20,000 equaled roughly $33 ounces of vaccine, and $20,000

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19:13order. Time now. Democrats stop the Senate from proceeding to consideration of this legislation. Ms. President, for weeks, Democrats have spoken about the urgent need for reforms to immigration enforcement. But it's been Democrats who have been the biggest obstacle to getting those reforms enacted. The Trump administration took a number of steps on its own. I might add to reform immigration enforcement. And on top of that, the White House made two substantial and serious offers to Democrats to legislate reforms, the most recent of which was sent more than two weeks ago. The Democrats couldn't even be bothered to respond to the White House's latest offer until late last night. 18 days, Mr. President, 18 days for Democrats to even bother replying.

20:15And that offer, Democrats' third was basically the same as their first two offers. They'll compromise and still filled with a number of non-starters that would make it more dangerous for law enforcement officers to do their jobs. Any while on the Senate floor, the best Democrats have been able to offer is funding some DHS agencies and leaving others unfunded. It's really pretty remarkable, Mr. President. Last summer, Democrats threw a fit over Republicans' recisions package that cut just $9 billion in federal spending, a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the entire federal budget. Now to hear Democrats talk, they seem to think that entire agencies, especially the agencies that secure a border and force immigration laws, are dispensable. The Democrat leader had the audacity to call this a moderate plan last week.

21:19Mr. President, when did defunding law enforcement become a mainstream position in this country? This might be considered moderate for Democrats, but I think the average American would view it as extreme. Mr. President, we are now a month into Democrats' second shutdown since October. And like their record-long shutdown in the fall, the victims of this shutdown are beginning to pile up. TSA agents are working without pay. A significant number of agents are calling out sick, leading to long wait times and lines stretching into airport parking garages. CBS reports that 300 TSA agents have quit since this shutdown began. And that's on top of the 1100 agents who quit after Democrats shut down in the fall. And it's pretty darn understandable, if you think about it. What do you do when for two out of the last six months, you have to work without pay?

22:22Well, that's what Democrats have put these people through. So it's more than understandable that they might be thinking that there's got to be an easier way to earn a living. I heard from one TSA agent, South Dakota, who was at the end of her rope. She writes, and I quote, it is very hard to live without getting paid. I do not know how long I can keep doing this, end quote. Well, that's what happens, Mr. President, in the shutdown. Real people get hurt. But if you ask the senior senator from Democrat, a member of the Democrat leadership, he says, and I quote, we are very serene with what is going on, end quote. Very serene, Mr. President. I suppose that's not a surprising statement, considering the Democrat leader characterized Democrats last shutdown in the fall by saying, and I quote, every day gets better for us, end quote. Very serene, every day gets better for us.

23:28For Democrats, a government shutdown is just fine as long as it seems to be working for them politically, no matter whether it's hurting hardworking Americans. No matter if it's jeopardizing public safety and national security. And Mr. President, make no mistake, Democrats shutdown is harming hardworking Americans and putting national security and jeopardy. Our country is facing a heightened threat environment right now. There are a few examples of that. Striker, a medical tech company, was the victim of an Iran-linked cyber attack last week. ISIS inspired individuals attempted to detonate bombs, targeting protesters outside the home of the mayor of New York City last weekend. And on Thursday, we saw two tragic attacks take place. One of those in Virginia was perpetrated by an individual who was arrested in 2016 for attempting to provide material support to ISIS. The other, an attack on a Detroit area

24:33synagogue was perpetrated by an individual who was reported to have had connections to known or suspected his ball of terrorists. Mr. President, this is no time for Democrats' political games. Republicans are at the table and ready to work whenever Democrats are done playing. As President today, we are kicking off an extended debate on the Save America Act. A package of common sense measures united around two themes, protecting our elections and protecting our youth. You're going to hear me use the adjective common sense a lot in this debate, Mr. President, because if there's any word that is suitable to describe the measures we're considering, it's that. Mr. President, if there's anything essential to the integrity of elections, it's ensuring that those who are registered to vote are eligible to vote.

25:34And those who show up to vote at polling places are those who say they who they say they are. And how do you do that? Well, by requiring that Americans show proof of citizenship when they register to vote and that they show photo ID at polling places, that's what the Save America Act would do. It's just common sense. And polls show that the American people overwhelmingly agree. But to hear Democrats talk, you'd think that demonstrating citizenship or showing a photo ID is an intolerable burden. And you have, Mr. President, I haven't heard Democrats complaining about the thousand other circumstances in which we require photo ID in this country. Democrats are aware that Americans have to show photo ID to get on a plane, right? And to start a new job. And when they head to the doctor's office and to rent a car and to stay in a hotel.

26:42Heck, if you want to get a library card, you have to show a photo ID. The Democrats remember their 2024 convention when attendees had to show a photo ID to get in. The senior Democrat, Senator from Georgia, required photo ID to get into his recent rally. This President did Democrats hear themselves? Are they going to start boycotting libraries and airplanes and hotels for requiring a photo ID? Are they going to explain why they're perfectly justified in requiring photo ID for their political rallies? Why it's somehow an intolerable burden to ask people to show their photo ID when they go to vote? I expect they won't. They'll simply continue with their mindless partisan opposition to common sense ID requirements

27:45for federal elections. But let's hit pause on that topic for a minute and go to another issue where common sense and the Democrat party have parted ways. And that's on the subject of transgender ideology. In their haste to embrace medical transgender ideology, Democrats have put themselves in the absurd position of supporting the hijacking of women and girls sports by biological males. Yep, that's right. The party that would portray itself as a defender of women has put itself on the record as willing to sacrifice women's athletic opportunities for the sake of biological males. Now, Mr. President, no one should need an explanation of what the presence of biological males and women sports costs women. At the most basic level, women are losing out on a slot

28:47on the team. Every roster place that goes to a male is a roster place that doesn't go to a female. And for women who are on the roster, well, the presence of a biological male can and frequently does rob them of opportunities to excel. Biologically, men possess physical advantages when it comes to sports, things like greater muscle mass and greater aerobic power, which means that by and large, men are likely to dominate in women's sports, taking wins and middle opportunities away from women. In August 2024, in in August 2024, United Nations report on violence against women and girls. They had this to say about the results of men participating in women's sports. And I quote, according to information received by March 30, 2024, over 600 female athletes and more than 400 competitions had lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports, end quote.

29:51Over 600 female athletes and more than 400 competitions have lost more than 800 medals in 29 different sports. Save America Act would ensure that men are not allowed to hijack women's sporting opportunities. And at once again, we expect my Democrat colleagues to oppose keeping women's sports for women. Ms. President, the idea that a female high school athlete might lose out on a college scholarship because her achievements were overshadowed by those of a biological male on her team is bad enough. But even more dangerous consequence of the embrace of transgender ideology is that children who have become victims of irreversible gender transition procedures. And when I say children, I mean children, Mr. President, young men and women who are not old enough to vote,

30:52who are years away from being able to legally drink, who still need parental permission to take medicine at school. New York Times reports, and I quote, a review of hospital data from 2016 through 2020 identified about 3,600 patients aged 12 to 18 who had received gender-related surgery, end quote. Age 12 to 18. You imagine that, Mr. President? You imagine allowing a child not yet out of middle school to receive a medical procedure that will result in permanent mutilation of part of her body. This madness has to end. Multiple European countries have acted to rein in gender transition procedures for minors and so have a number of U.S. states. The Save America

31:57Act would extend protection from these procedures to all children, whatever state they live in. Common sense measures, Mr. President, require proof of citizenship to register to vote, require a photo ID at the polls, protect women's sports from being hijacked by biological males, and protect teenagers from life altering irreversible gender transition procedures. The measures I might add again, Mr. President, supported by a majority of Americans, and measures we expect my Democrat colleagues to oppose. It's unfortunate that common sense is not very common, anymore in the Democrat Party. As President, I yield the floor, and I suggest the offensive of the court. The clerk will call the roll. Miss Oslo Brooks.

33:03Okay, we're going to get back to this as soon as we get some additional action. Let's go ahead. John Solomon's with us is John Stiller. John Solomon joins us. On top of all of this, you've got really blockbuster news coming out of your investigation and the intelligence that you're investigating reporting on the intelligence investigation with the intelligence apparatus knows about foreign interference in our elections. This is hitting, and I think some of the people in the maybe the intelligence agencies are not totally happy about this. Can you walk our audience through exactly what you found? Yeah, it's directly related to what John Thune just talked about. As he talked about the Democratic Party, not having common sense anymore, just not that common Democratic Party. They like to mutilate women. They like to prevent you from having voter ID when you go to the polls. The reason to have voter ID is the foret potential intended, mild intended threats to our elections, such as fake absentee ballots, which is what the FBI ultimately concluded in 2020 that China was likely doing when it sent a bunch of drivers licenses

34:09to the United States of the summer 2020 with the goal that they would become absentee ballots in fake names to help Joe Biden. That is what the FBI documents we made public last June show. We now know that the intelligence can be not only kept that plot from the American people, not only in 2020, but in 2022 and in 2024. Quite frankly, they're keeping it from the 100 senators that'll be debating the Save Act in the next few days. They also kept the fact that China accessed penetrated the voter registration databases of American. I want to remind everybody these are the databases where you have your driver's license, then your social security number, other key personal identifying information that allows you to vote and to be identified as a legitimate voter. It's so sensitive that the Democrats currently say we shouldn't even share it with the Justice Department, but the intelligence community decided to keep secret from the American people from the Congress, the fact that China accessed multiple states voter registration databases

35:15in 2020. I remember people like Chris Grab said no foreign interventions in the election. The FBI director of the Todd Chris Ray said we didn't have any problems. We were on top of everything. It turns out that there were major breaches of the state voter registration data that China directly committed, and it was kept from us. Now, in England, similar revelations came out in 2024. The Biden administration, in fact, was alarmed and said they were angry. They even had died at some Chinese hackers when Great Britain revealed its voter databases were breached and hacked in 2021, and they revealed that in 24, three years later. When the Biden administration, when the US intelligence community expressed outrage at Great Britain, they knew our voter registration data was breached, that it had been accessed by China, that it was being used for public opinion measurement and possibly other malphases. To keep that from the American people from six years to keep it from the senators

36:15who are about to vote on this bill is a real disservice to the American public. So we were able to get these declassified documents, ironically, some of them were declassified by the Biden administration. I got more help from the Biden administration right now than the Trump administration. Now, I hope that changes. It does look like CI Director Ratcliffe, DNI Tulsi Gavart, or in the process of declassifying some documents. There are scores of wrong intelligence reports that show Chinese meddling in the American election, and there's one report raising concern that Ukraine was engaged in a plot to do something bad in the 2024 election to help Joe Biden. I want to repeat that. There is intercepted intelligence that the Trump administration has had for many, many months in which he did a suggested by Ukrainian officials that they're going to try to help Joe Biden win the election using American taxpayer money. We're going to get to that in the next several days. We have been working on that, but in the meantime, the China stuff is irrefutable. The documents

37:19are sitting in the public. The CI Director's Chief spokeswoman confirmed that he is going to release more information just showing how bad these breaches were. If it was bad enough to be outraged in Great Britain, it should be bad enough for Americans to be outraged that it happened in two that we were kept from it for the last six years. John, there's two things. There's one actually what happened, and then two, the whole process of suppressing this cover up, etc. Is this tied some way? We had a federal grand jury that tried to get into this, by certain indictments, and Catherine Angoverbert and Greg Phillips. Isn't this one of the reasons she went to prison or she was put in jail for that summer down in Texas? People have been around this and saying this is happening. The government never, but the government never actually aggressively, I think it was Conrack or whatever, they never really, and they knew that this information was kept on servers back in mainland China

38:22under the cover of the Chinese Communist Party. Why didn't the government... I was a case brought by Lawson to really get to the bottom of this. Liberal prosecutors and Liberal LA brought this case. It ultimately was dropped under pressure from the Biden administration, but there was concerns that a California company was conspiring with China to do bad things in the 2020 election. What we're talking about is a much larger operation. China penetrating different places where they could get access through cyber intrusion, cyber activity, access to the personally identifying information of American voters and then use it or be in a position to use it to influence the election. Now there is some dispute in the election. There's some dispute in the intelligence committee about how much China did in 2020, but there is zero dispute. It is undisputed from the documents I've been shown that I've seen and from the people I interviewed. I even interviewed a whistleblower on the record yesterday, Christopher

39:23Porter, who talks about exactly what the intelligence committee knew. It was unanimously believed by the US intelligence committee that China hacked into our in-access voter data information just like what created a national crisis in scandal and Great Britain just two years ago. But in America, we've had crickets. We've had crickets from the White House. We've had crickets from the intelligence committee. There are most members of the United States Senate that I interviewed in the last couple days had no idea. These documents existed that these concerns were unanimously understood to be a problem by the US intelligence committee. Everybody's been kept in the dark. I think there's an extraordinary opportunity for President Trump, his intelligence team starting today with the oversight hearings that they're going to have with the intelligence leaders to brief and educate the senators who are in this debate right now about what China did. And by the way, how voter ID and citizenship checks could prevent future use of this data from being misused.

40:26John, I want to get to the whole overall for China in a second. I want to go back, though, but because this is the way people lose faith, even in a Trump administration. Wasn't it Krebs? I mean, over and over and over again, we had our nose rubbed in. This was the safest, most secure election by political appointees of the then president. So how are people so sit here and go? I don't understand how this can happen and Biden in the cover of Biden's bad enough, but you had people sit there and talk about the 2020 election. People in charge of cyber at the highest levels of DHS would go on TV and brief the president and then go on TV and say the most secure and that we our nose has been rubbed in that by Rachel Maddow now for five, six years. How how could that have happened? Are you telling me Krebs and Wolf and the highest people at DNI and CIA and DHS and in FBI knew this happened. Had these facts as they're being

41:27presented today and look people in the eye and lied to the president of the United States and then went on camera and doubled down on that lie. There are great questions to be figured out when each component in the United States intelligence community concluded that China had breached these databases. But by all the reporting I've done it was widely understood by the Homeland Security Department which employed Chris Krebs, the FBI which employed Chris Raid, the CIA which employed Gina Haspel and the DNI which was in transition at that time eventually the future CIA director John Ratcliffe got in charge of that that by April there was consensus in the US intelligence community that China had breached these documents in May of 2020 the United States government learned that Iran another bad actor had hacked into a single state database and stole 100 American voter I get 100,000, excuse me 100,000 American voter identities all of that was kept when they made

42:30those statements in December 2020 that information was known by US federal agencies it was sealed indictments there was multiple briefings scores of raw intelligence supports two or three completed products intelligence products where the community writes a whole report on it confirming that these things happening you have to ask yourself who do what when when they made those comments in December and I think that is a great opportunity for the House of Intelligence to me the Senate Intelligence Committee the President's Intelligence Advisory Board to go back and find out which officials allied to us which officials looked at the camera and knew what they were saying wasn't true but more importantly right now at this moment there are 100 senators still flying behind beyond what I put into the public domain in the last 24 hours which are reports declassified they clearly state trying to gain access to this voter data most senators don't know most members of Congress don't know most former cabinet secretaries from Trump one don't know and tomorrow

43:32we're going to put some pretty explosive documents out again Steven what we're going to show people is what the intelligence ombudsman the the person who's supposed to watch the intelligence committee on behalf of the American public what that person concluded why China intelligence intelligence about China doing bad things in the 2020 election why it was suppressed from the American people when you see what he concluded you're going to be angry the people around Donald Trump the people were supposed to serve that president the man the American people elected were trying to keep from him information he could potentially use to raise concerns about China they kept a president in the dark and they kept an American public and a Congress in the dark because they had a political agenda of not letting Donald Trump score points on China that's what you're going to see tomorrow the documents will be made public tomorrow is damage is that is because this is not done in isolation these are interstrictly linked let's go

44:34back in time why the Chinese Communist Party why were they focused on mail and ballots what we're doing this because of the pandemic and John you know through your reporting in the Wuhan lab and Fauci and and everything about gain of function and all that they're inextricably linked the Chinese Communist Party is that war with us they're war with us with a biological hit because they couldn't stop Trump Trump and that and remember in the fall of 19 the economy was sitting on all cylinders you had virtually zero inflation you had almost zero you know the interest rates were low you had blue collar workers with higher wage growth and white collar workers the non-college graduates higher than college graduate it was the perfect merger and the Chinese had torn up in May of 19 they torn the light hires to deal which actually put them in the world economy tore it up in our face and spit in our face said we're not going to do that the the Wuhan lab and this in this scandal on the on the ballots on the intrusion into the election are are of the

45:35same piece and it shows you the willful blindness people don't get off the hook on this thing this is the willful blindness of the Chinese Communist Party unrestricted warfare against the first off the highly focused on Donald Trump to make sure he was removed from office right and they were trying to use it through the electoral system but they were doing anything possible I don't see how that this is the deep state I mean you don't need to talk about a theoretical anymore this is exactly how it works and first off in allowing this to happen and number two and then covering it up sir well Steve let's think about where we are it's 14 hours since I put these documents into the public ground they're irrefutable there is irrefutable proof that China access the voter registration data of Americans in 2020 now within six hours of that revelation coming forward in 2024 in Great Britain there was a national crisis the equivalent of the White House 10 Downing Street the national security apparatus of Great Britain was in enormous alarm and they

46:41created a national solution to this including election integrity improvements punishments for China the Biden administration joined in trying to punish China China in punishing some of the Chinese hackers about them we're 14 hours into the same revelation the same MOH China there hasn't been a White House briefing there hasn't been a peep out of the director of national intelligence there hasn't been anything said by the people who possess this evidence the difference in how Great Britain which by the way isn't a model for a lot of things right now and how we're reacting to it now is part of the reason the the current people around the present have the opportunity to make this what it should be a moment of alarm for the American people a moment of alarm for Congress they should be educating folks there have been crickets on this you can't complain about the deep state if after the deep state's been foiled and the information is not public you don't do the responsible thing that this information requires be done and I think you have to ask yourself where's

47:43the communication strategy today where is the briefings that those senators could have where's the rest of the documents now John to this credit John Ratcliffe told me yesterday in a statement from his press secretary he's going to declassify everything that's great but where is the movement today Great Britain jumped on this within hours we're not going to be a day or two into it and there's been nothing but a yawn from the people around the president uh for exactly the same allegations the same concerns that created a national crisis in Great Britain the deep state only succeeds when Republicans lay down and don't take advantage of the disclosures and the concerns that we now have exposed for the American people so you can't blame the deep state now this the Trump White House the Trump National Security Office knows what happened do they have the courage to step in the void or are they going to play the rope and dope game like they did for two and a half years of Russia collusion when every day Sarah Carter and I would go out and show that Russia collusion was uh bogus and the the Trump White House one would would act like victims

48:48against this deep state there's no reason to be victimized the data is out there the only thing that is needed now is courage in the will by the current Trump administration to bring this to the American people and to fix it the reason you it's impossible to have a state visit with this information out there you just can't do it well that's why some of the things that were being said to me last night some of the excuses that were being made by the people around the president exactly we don't want to offend she listen she doesn't care about offending us he was having conversations two weeks ago about giving hypersonic missiles to Iran he doesn't seem like a guy that's worried about offense and by the way the president I know president Donald Trump doesn't care about she's feelings he cares about protecting these elections for future generations so I don't understand the lack of engagement I could find a million excuses not to do this Republicans are good at finding excuses and not acting in the interest of the American people this is one time at 80 85

49:51percent issue where the Republicans have all the wind behind their back the only question is will they ride that wind will they fold their cards like they've done many times and allow the deep state to win in a default match you're gonna see the CCP lobby and all its glory gotta get a trade deal gotta have a state visit no you do not this is evidence the the the the pandemic in this and they're all inextricably linked because they use the mail-in ballots understanding what they had done the pandemic it's clear as you could possibly we're they're gonna take the Chinese county's party on as an enemy an existential threat or you're gonna play along and if you play along they're gonna win John Solomon where do people go this explosive and we're gonna be on this nonstop with you we got a lot more coming next show the high lot more stuff but yeah just to do that count Jay Solomon reports of the handle on all social media and I'm lucky enough to file you every night in this great never grill America's voice six o'clock just to do their noise with the amazing I meant that John you're what you're gonna do in the next couple days is

50:53make it harder for people to run away from this because now the now the receipts you're putting out the receipts and that's what we've needed here so well I'm grateful for appreciate your courage yeah thank you Steve well it's it's it's everything I mean if you don't if you don't follow this and you don't put this up then you're not gonna have a country anymore very simple yeah that's so sure you can actually say we got one today with the with the we sell we sell America to the highest bidders what we're doing let's go to the floor and Baratso who's really the right hand man of tune is a target campaign rally for a Democrat and he doesn't want you to have to show one to vote I guess he doesn't want the illegal immigrants at his rallies but it's okay if they vote for him it's astonishing why did Democrats support showing a photo idea to attend a political rally and oppose it to vote in an election look what's clear to all of us is it Democrats oppose elections that limit participation to just American citizens they don't like that idea

51:58and they're likely to line up one after another today to vote to say nope don't check the idea of a photo with a photo on it in order to vote because we want to cram as many people as we can with their ballots into the ballot box to be counted no matter where they're from Democrats said the same thing after the state of Georgia enacted voter ID laws in 2021 what were the results well more people actually voted not fewer turnout hit record letters that the lines move faster than ever before the Democrats say it was an impediment voter ID is important Democrats voters suppression lies have been thoroughly debunked time and time again yet they continue to repeat them voter ID and citizenship proof are safeguards for our elections they are not restrictions the Save America Act is how we make elections safe secure and a true

53:04reflection of the American people every American should desire that American elections be decided by American citizens who wouldn't well somebody that wants to load up the balance with people who may vote for them whether their citizens or not every member of the Senate should support the Save America Act by opposing this bill mr. President Democrats are once again putting illegal immigrants ahead of American voters and Republicans are going to make sure that every voter in America and every citizen voter in America knows which side of that issue people stand on photo ID and citizenship or not the Republicans are here to say it's important that only citizens vote and people prove who they are by showing a photo ID when they go to the ballot box thank you mr. President i yield the floor suggest the absence of a quorum the clerk will call the roll

54:11is also Brooks okay we're gonna go through this and we'll be more speakers weren't so what a rav the real miracle voice our channel we're gonna do is that the host during the shows throughout the day the Charlie Kirk show the Jack Pasovic show Steve Gruber Eric Bowling back to war room then to John Solomon in and out we're going to be following directly this debate however we're also going to be streaming all of it on our you know we can split the stream so the other stream will be covering nonstop and obviously we're doing that to war room on our getter and rumble and all that grace and mo on top of it uh Jenny I got McCabe and Jenny Beth Martin like I said we've got a lot to cram into today we're juggling a lot of balls the the Irish prime minister is going to show up momentarily to the White House we'll be covering that to the bylight it is St. Patrick's days very traditional Jenny Beth Martin your assessment of of where do we stand now we're gonna go through a whole Republican roll call my understanding is it look I have a rudimentary

55:13understanding the Senate rules but are we gonna actually force the Democrats smoke them out and have them try to defend this ma'am okay we got our unmute we have to unmute Jenny Beth you have to unmute yourself sorry about that um Steve that is exactly again we we need to make sure that we are smoking the Democrats out right now the Republicans intend to have this pro long debate and I appreciate that the Senate majority leader Thune is actually doing this he's not just doing some sort of quick cloture to sweep it under the rug and say that that he he voted and that's it he is having a real debate he wants to talk about the issues let the Democrats go defend why they want to not to ensure that only American citizens are voting in American elections let the Democrats explain why they don't think that voters should ensure that they have photo ID when

56:13they vote improve they are who they say they are when they vote let the Democrats explain why they think it's necessary to have so many male and ballots all over the country the way that we did in 2020 which gives opportunity for more mistakes and opportunity for fraud and then let them explain why it's okay to have men and women's sports why do the Democrats want want it to be okay for children to be mutilated and made infertile for the rest of their lives when they're not old enough to give informed consent that is absolutely that is wrong the American people don't want any of those those things that the Democrats are are doing they want to ensure American citizens can vote they want to ensure we show photo ID reduce the number of male and ballots so that we ensure that we have less opportunity for fraud and mistakes in our election men should not be in women's sports and absolutely we need to be doing all we can to save American children so the Senate Republicans

57:18are out there they are doing what we have asked them to do for weeks not even just weeks months in months in months and now it is our turn as activists to get up and thank the Republicans for doing the right thing tell them to stay strong and keep debating and then call the Democrats and call them out on this nonsense they should not be standing against with the majority of Americans want in this country and the majority of Americans want only citizens voting in our elections they want to show proof of citizen they want to they want to show proof of citizenship when they register to vote voter ID we just keep polling on this the majority of Americans want that part of the save America bill to pass and now with these new provisions I was looking at polling recently and the majority of Americans also want no men and women's sports and they want no transgender surgery on children it's pretty simple just do what the American people want Democrats you

58:19don't only represent your base you represent all of your constituency and the majority of your constituency wants these common sense things to happen. Jenny Beth let's go we got about a minute I tell you what we'll hold we're coming to McCabe after the Jenny Beth if you just hold with us to we're going to go back to the center floor we're going to juggle that with the Irish Prime Minister supposed to show for 11 a.m. a bilat with President Trump I'm sure President Trump will invite the media in for this and I'm sure President Trump will have some comments a lot going on overnight in the war believe the the secular leader the guy who's really in charge of of Iran that went to the streets and gave the threats that President of the United States pretty sure that it's been confirmed by the military and the and it is really intelligent so it's like he may have been killed in a strike last night a lot going on the nations are great allies in NATO telling Trump

59:19yeah I don't know this around things not really our deal keeping the Red Sea open the Suez Canal streets of Hormuz and that's not really NATO's problem they said it up in your grill not our problem if we pulled the entire United States Navy out and said hey guys you deal with it would not impact the United States of America barely at all don't let people say you got to keep Suez open you've got to keep the streets of Hormuz open that's a European and Asian problem now the United States Navy keeps the sea open but it's outrageous what the allies have told us just say it's your deal you deal with it we'll get into all of that hopefully President Trump I'll mention that Dr. Theres can be with us Birch Gold take your phone out turbulence in capital markets you betcha turbulence throughout the world you betcha take your phone out text ban and B.A.N.N.O.N. at 9-8-9-8-9-8 get the ultimate guide for investing in gold and precious metals in the age of Trump and get direct access to filipatric in the team of virtually back to the war in a moment do you owe back taxes or

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