Speaker 1: Welcome to the steven A. Smith Show.
Speaker 2: My next guest served as the White House Chief strategist
Speaker 2: for the first seven months of President Donald Trump's first administration.
Speaker 2: He's now the host of the Conservative Warroom podcast. He
Speaker 2: is also a man that has been on the record
Speaker 2: on several occasions endorsing circumventing the twenty second Amendment for
Speaker 2: Donald Trump to receive a third term in office. Okay,
Speaker 2: that is why I wanted to talk to my next guest.
Speaker 2: Mister Steve Bannon is on this show with yours truly.
Speaker 1: How are you, sir? How's everything?
Speaker 3: Thank you for being on doing fine, steven A. Thanks
Speaker 3: for having me honored.
Speaker 2: Now explain to me, Steve Banner, how you can with
Speaker 2: a straight face, sit back and say Donald Trump is
Speaker 2: going to be I'm inaugurated as President of the United
Speaker 2: States in January of twenty twenty, twenty twenty nine. He's
Speaker 2: going to win the election in twenty twenty eight when
Speaker 2: a twenty second amendment clearly states no one shall serve
Speaker 2: more than two terms. Could you talk about that?
Speaker 1: Police?
Speaker 3: The Constitution says Stephen that on the President Trump's Article
Speaker 3: two powers the chief executive officer of the US government's
Speaker 3: commander in chief of the Armed Forces, the chief law
Speaker 3: enforcement officer of the United States government, chief magistrate. And
Speaker 3: I think, as I count coming on your show, I
Speaker 3: think there's one hundred and fifty lawsuits in federal court
Speaker 3: by various organizations affiliated with the Democratic Party. The NGOs
Speaker 3: are actually members of Democrat Party suing President Trump on
Speaker 3: his Article two powers that are clearly delineated in the Constitution.
Speaker 3: So the constitutions open for interpretation. I have never said,
Speaker 3: and the people I'm working with have never said, we're
Speaker 3: trying to mend a constitution. We think that there are
Speaker 3: a number of legal workarounds of that, and we're working
Speaker 3: on that, and we'll probably present it to the public
Speaker 3: sometime either right before the twenty two midterms or shortly
Speaker 3: thereafter when most people will be jumping in the race
Speaker 3: for the twenty twenty eight nominations for the parties. And
Speaker 3: so this is something I'm absolutely convinced of. And I
Speaker 3: tell folks, I said, look, when I first really i'd
Speaker 3: known Trump for a couple of years, when I first
Speaker 3: start watching him as a politician act, and really as
Speaker 3: early as May of twenty fourteen, when I saw him
Speaker 3: go to these cattle calls in Iowa and in New Hampshire,
Speaker 3: and I told people I was running bright Bart at
Speaker 3: the time, and I told people, I said that guy's
Speaker 3: going to win the Republican primary and he's going to
Speaker 3: be the next person in the United States. People laughed in
Speaker 3: my face, and he was polling at zero. In fact,
Speaker 3: he polled at zero up for the next year all
Speaker 3: the way up right before he ran. He was still
Speaker 3: in the distant seventh or eighth place. Before he announced
Speaker 3: that day on fifteen January twenty fifteen, which would come
Speaker 3: of the ten year anniversary in twenty twenty one, when
Speaker 3: he had the second election stolen, he went back to
Speaker 3: mar Lago. The odds were along there. People laughed in
Speaker 3: my face. Fox News did not show him live for
Speaker 3: two years. So I tell folks, I say, folks, I
Speaker 3: have had Trump's back and been involved with people early
Speaker 3: on when the odds were so much longer than we
Speaker 3: have now of actually working through different alternatives to make
Speaker 3: sure he's on the ballot. And he will be elected
Speaker 3: President of States. And on the twentieth of January and
Speaker 3: the afternoon of twenty twenty nine, President Trump will be
Speaker 3: in the White House as serving his winning his fourth
Speaker 3: election and serving his third term.
Speaker 1: I'm doing this for my sole enjoyment.
Speaker 2: This clip that I'm about to bring up because I
Speaker 2: watched Bill Maher show all the time, Real Time with
Speaker 2: Bill Maher. I love seeing you on the last week.
Speaker 2: I love seeing what he had to say in the
Speaker 2: aftermath of his visit to the White House to meet
Speaker 2: with Trump. But this is you and him interacting with
Speaker 2: one another about this very subject. I'll ask my next
Speaker 2: question after I showed this to you again. Take it away, guys.
Speaker 4: Here it is the Constitution. Can I read a passage
Speaker 4: to you? Amendment twenty two No person shall be elected
Speaker 4: to the office of the President more than twice. And
Speaker 4: yet you keep talking about Trump's Maybe you should have this.
Speaker 3: I'll get you to sign a backstage underline. Well, President
Speaker 3: Trump didn't bring up running for a third term. Myself
Speaker 3: and others brought up running for a third term. President
Speaker 3: Trump is going to run for a third term. And
Speaker 3: President Trump was going to be elected again on the
Speaker 3: afternoon of January twentieth, of twenty twenty nine. He's going
Speaker 3: to be president United States.
Speaker 1: Why did I bring that up?
Speaker 2: Steve Benn And I'm going to tell you why, because
Speaker 2: the key thing that I peeled from that was you
Speaker 2: saying that President Trump didn't say this, he didn't ask
Speaker 2: for this. You guys would the ones that initiated it.
Speaker 2: What is this fixation on him? I see JD. Vance
Speaker 2: as the Vice President of the United States. Last time
Speaker 2: I checked, he probably governed the same way Trump is governing.
Speaker 2: We see Marco Rubio as the Secretary of State. He
Speaker 2: has been a state up for quite some time. He
Speaker 2: knows what the hell he's doing. There's a plethora of
Speaker 2: other individuals within the GOP that could definitely fill those shoes.
Speaker 1: What's the fixation on Donald Trump?
Speaker 3: Sir Steven. Look, there's a lot of good folks out
Speaker 3: there that could be president and and do an okay job.
Speaker 3: But if an individual like Trump, let's let's be specific
Speaker 3: about this, when he had the election stolen from in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, went back to Marlago and he made that
Speaker 3: decision those really dark days of January February March. He
Speaker 3: understood that if he was to come back and not
Speaker 3: just sit in mar Alago and buy more golf courses
Speaker 3: and get in the open Rota in the United Kingdom,
Speaker 3: or get some of his courses in the PGA tournaments
Speaker 3: in the US Open Rota here in the United States,
Speaker 3: and enjoy a big book deal and hang out with
Speaker 3: with Malaney and the family. He understood at the time
Speaker 3: that if he came back and came and ran for
Speaker 3: president again, not just the Republican establishment, but that the
Speaker 3: apparatus would try to put him in prison. The apparatus
Speaker 3: would try to bankrupt him, the apparatus would eventually try
Speaker 3: to assassinate him. He made the most courageous political move
Speaker 3: in the history of this country. If you take John
Speaker 3: Kennedy's profiles and courage, you read it and add it
Speaker 3: all up and triple it. That's one tenth of the
Speaker 3: moral clarity encouraged that President Trump had to say, I'm
Speaker 3: going to come back, because if I don't come back
Speaker 3: and do this and win and take the country back
Speaker 3: and take it back, get it back on the constitutional
Speaker 3: republics should be understanding what happened and then looking what
Speaker 3: happened in the four years the country's finished. This is
Speaker 3: why President Trump we've had. Most countries don't have something
Speaker 3: like Trump in their entire history. We've been very fortunate
Speaker 3: to have General Washington at the founding of the nation,
Speaker 3: President Lincoln at the rebirth of the nation, and now
Speaker 3: President Trump at the rejuvenation of this country. And that's
Speaker 3: why a man like that comes along every hundred years.
Speaker 3: And we've got to get all the squeeze out of
Speaker 3: the limit. We have to have this guy's back. We
Speaker 3: want him there as long as possible, and we're gonna
Speaker 3: find legal methods to do it. And President Trump will
Speaker 3: be re elected and be back in the oval office.
Speaker 2: Now, Steve Anna, I'm not gonna be some leftists constantly,
Speaker 2: you know, just just drilling in this point. But you
Speaker 2: do know everyone says, excuse me, the election wasn't stolen,
Speaker 2: that your lost fair and square in twenty twenty, the
Speaker 2: inordinate amount of lawsuits that were thrown out, they even
Speaker 2: the courts dismissed it, etc. Yet guys like yourself and
Speaker 2: others continue to say the election was stolen when others
Speaker 2: would argue that the facts say otherwise. Do you ever
Speaker 2: think about letting that go, particularly now that the man
Speaker 2: is back in office as the forty seventh president, and
Speaker 2: to avoid spewing such rhetoric, knowing that it just serves
Speaker 2: to continue to divide the country.
Speaker 3: What about that notion, I actually think it brings the
Speaker 3: country together. Ste So stephen A. The other day, President
Speaker 3: Trump signed in an executive order about crabs, about a
Speaker 3: guy that he appointed that was at DHS that says
Speaker 3: his most secure cybersecurity election in history. He actually initiated
Speaker 3: an investigation, as Tulca Gabbard, who is a Democrat right
Speaker 3: head of d and I Director of National Intelligence, said
Speaker 3: that they now have a beginning of proof that the
Speaker 3: machines can be hacked. And I'm not a machine guy.
Speaker 3: I say they stole the old fashioned way, particularly in
Speaker 3: Philadelphia and Pennsylvania with mail in ballots. But over seventy
Speaker 3: percent of the Republican Party believes the twenty twenty election
Speaker 3: was stolen. So I think right now of all Americans,
Speaker 3: I think it's about forty three to forty four, almost
Speaker 3: forty five percent. So a vast minority of your fellow
Speaker 3: countrymen believe that the twenty twenty election was stolen, and
Speaker 3: then a whole raft of people think there was something up.
Speaker 3: I have been adamant from day one we have to
Speaker 3: have a congressional investigation, open hearings about get to the
Speaker 3: bomb of twenty twenty and let the cards follow with them. Ay,
Speaker 3: but it's not over. You cannot have something that that's
Speaker 3: in a constitutional republic. And I am adamant that we
Speaker 3: have to investigate. Now, I see that Tulca Gabbert and
Speaker 3: President trump'signed the executive order. You're going to have a
Speaker 3: formal investigation of this. I'm sure we're going to go
Speaker 3: over the next couple of years and get it on
Speaker 3: the table. But for the Maga believers and the Maga faithful,
Speaker 3: it is an article of faith through our knowledge of
Speaker 3: doing this and getting and drilling down those numbers that
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty election was stolen. President Trump would have
Speaker 3: never run again if he actually thought he had lost.
Speaker 3: He would never run again, he says time and again.
Speaker 3: He ran for the simple reason he knew that twenty
Speaker 3: twenty election was stolen and he had to come back
Speaker 3: and write that wrong. This is why we call him
Speaker 3: He's like the Roman general Cincinnatus, who retired and went
Speaker 3: back to his farm and returned at the request of
Speaker 3: the people to basically save Rome from invading armies. That's
Speaker 3: how we think we think of President Trump as the
Speaker 3: American Cincinnatus.
Speaker 2: I got a couple of more questions to ask you,
Speaker 2: and I'll be right back. I don't want the audience
Speaker 2: to go anywhere, but I got a couple of questions
Speaker 2: that I got to ask you before I let you
Speaker 2: get on out of here.
Speaker 1: I'll be back after I pay these bills.
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Speaker 1: I think so? I think so, But you know what,
Speaker 1: I might be right on a few of them.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. I might be right on a few
Speaker 2: of them. Let's get to the first or the business sketch.
Speaker 2: I hear you're a fan of all the Houston sports teams.
Speaker 2: What are your picks for Sunday's Houston Rockets game?
Speaker 5: Jalen Green more than it's three and a half a sis.
Speaker 5: I like Jayalen Green more than three and a half
Speaker 5: a sist. My Ray Sing.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know that day is four twenty.
Speaker 5: That's a day of passing, okay, and there's be a
Speaker 5: lot of passing in that game. In Houston, we love
Speaker 5: to pass. Jabari Smith Junior is my next guy, and
Speaker 5: I will take him more than nine and a half points.
Speaker 3: Why because that number is so low it makes me angry.
Speaker 5: It makes me angry, and I'm telling you this, I
Speaker 5: would push it up and make it a demon. If
Speaker 5: it was fourteen and a half, I would almost take twenty.
Speaker 1: That's my second guy.
Speaker 5: My third guy, I have Gary Payton Junior again four twenty.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you ever smoked some Gary Payton,
Speaker 5: It's it is quite literally some of the best stuff
Speaker 5: you can find. And I'm going with Junior on this one,
Speaker 5: and it's going to be more four and a half
Speaker 5: rebounds and asses. Okay, that's my third guy, and then
Speaker 5: my other guy is Stephen Curry twenty four and a
Speaker 5: half points. I am from Houston and he is our kryptonite,
Speaker 5: so I am expecting him to have a field day.
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Speaker 1: I get it. So I'm gonna flow with you on
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Speaker 2: Let me go to the next question, because you had
Speaker 2: a unique opportunity to announce, you know, the fourth round
Speaker 2: pick at Lash's NFL Draft for the Texas Mister k Stover,
Speaker 2: how was that experience?
Speaker 1: Talk to me about that. That was awesome.
Speaker 5: I think my favorite part about it was being in
Speaker 5: Detroit and announcing an Ohio State guy. Did not realize
Speaker 5: until the moment when I heard the booze, I forgot
Speaker 5: about where I was.
Speaker 3: The other part was.
Speaker 5: It was cool because I'm a CJ. Stroud fan and
Speaker 5: uh Stover's at X c J Stroud or I was
Speaker 5: the CJ. Stroud's teammate at Ohio State, so that was
Speaker 5: kind of cool. It was kind of all the all that,
Speaker 5: and they traded a pick before, so I had a lot.
Speaker 3: To read the They had a whole paragraph.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was dope, though.
Speaker 5: I got the crowd fired up.
Speaker 1: Did you did? You did?
Speaker 2: And you should have listen. I wish they had better.
Speaker 2: I wish they had a better season, but it still
Speaker 2: wasn't awful. And by the way, speaking of the Houston
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get to the Houston Texas. Speaking later of
Speaker 2: Houston Texas, you know a few of the Texas players
Speaker 2: include a quarterback CJ. Strata and and of course linebacker
Speaker 2: Will Anderson. How do you think they'll do this upcoming season?
Speaker 1: I think they'll do great?
Speaker 3: Uh cj uh.
Speaker 1: A lot of you are saying he took what's great, sketch?
Speaker 3: Great? Great?
Speaker 5: Is the ANFC Championship game the least. I've already bought
Speaker 5: the tickets. I've already bought the tickets, and flights non refundable.
Speaker 5: I usually flight first class. I bought economy this time
Speaker 5: just because it was don refundable. I'm gonna be there
Speaker 5: rain and and and he's gonna throw for three hundred
Speaker 5: yards and I'm looking for a possible m v P
Speaker 5: and Will Anderson. I will say that was one of
Speaker 5: my favorite picks of the Texans when we traded up
Speaker 5: for Will Anderson. That was we are going to win now,
Speaker 5: and we're going to shock the world, and we are
Speaker 5: going to win this year. Okay, And I don't want
Speaker 5: to be that guy. So I am knocking on wood
Speaker 5: for for.
Speaker 2: A lot of emotion there, but I'm gonna let it slid.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let it slid because c J. Strouds the
Speaker 2: stud and I got love. I wish them nothing.
Speaker 3: But what do you think.
Speaker 2: I think he's a stud. I just think you gotta
Speaker 2: protect him better. But I think he's a quarterback of
Speaker 2: the future. He's one of the elite quarterbacks in the future.
Speaker 2: And I think he's gonna deliver a championship to Houston
Speaker 2: one day. I just don't think it's gonna be in
Speaker 2: the immediate future because I think Josh Allen and Lamar
Speaker 2: Jackson will probably grab a title before him.
Speaker 1: I don't think so about that.
Speaker 5: If you've seen Josh Allen play football, I r l
Speaker 5: it is uh quite literally, Uh. I don't know. Every
Speaker 5: time I've seen him play Houston, he gets his ass kicked.
Speaker 3: Okay, sorry for cousy. I forgot about it.
Speaker 1: Oh you need to stop that. You need stop that.
Speaker 1: That one give you to gifted sketcher.
Speaker 2: Got to get ready to run. But now before I
Speaker 2: ask you this last question. We'll talk about this later
Speaker 2: because I don't like your take on Josh Allen as all.
Speaker 2: But before we get on out of here, tell me
Speaker 2: about the Sideman charity match at Wimbley Stadium in London.
Speaker 2: Because you were involved in you were involved in that.
Speaker 2: Tell me about that.
Speaker 5: It's just something I do, mister Smith. To be honest,
Speaker 5: that's what I do. I am a winner.
Speaker 1: All I do is win.
Speaker 5: I broke my trophy, but I do have this other trophy,
Speaker 5: so I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Most of the time you see.
Speaker 5: That it says Sports Streamer of the Year.
Speaker 1: They only give out one of those, that's MVP.
Speaker 5: But this charity match, I don't know. Look up the highlights,
Speaker 5: lots of highlights. I'll tell you what it's like. I
Speaker 5: was walking around to England like I was Tom Cruise
Speaker 5: or something. Schools of children were stopping me, asking me
Speaker 5: and telling me, great football game in a different country.
Speaker 5: It was a dream come true and you know, to
Speaker 5: be the guy to save the world. It was like,
Speaker 5: I don't know. I felt like Nicholas.
Speaker 1: Cage Sketch Live at Large.
Speaker 2: I got it. I got it sketch on Steven A.
Speaker 2: Smith Show. I'm happy. I like you, my man.
Speaker 1: Look forward to talking to you soon. You take care
Speaker 1: of suffer, right.
Speaker 5: I love you, Bro, Thanks Bro, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Man, take care every good. What you know what?
Speaker 2: I'm so fascinated to talk to you. I could talk
Speaker 2: to you for hours. I ain't gonna lie because some
Speaker 2: of the stuff that you say. I was like, I
Speaker 2: cannot believe this man really really feels this way and
Speaker 2: it's this adamant about it.
Speaker 1: But I respect the conviction.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna switch to something else because I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get I want to get more into you. Steve Bannon,
Speaker 2: for example, you appear to have Donald Trump's air during
Speaker 2: his first turn, but he now seems to be listening
Speaker 2: to what some would describe as oligarus or the elites,
Speaker 2: as you called them. How often do you talk to
Speaker 2: President Trump right now and what role do you currently
Speaker 2: play in the Trump administration.
Speaker 3: It's simple, I have a podcast or show that we've
Speaker 3: had now going on for five years. We started at
Speaker 3: the beginning of the impeachment, when nobody on the right
Speaker 3: wing or conservative media took the impeachment seriously. When Nancy
Speaker 3: Pelosi stepped to the microphone I think was up at
Speaker 3: the United Nations and said she was forming a committee
Speaker 3: to investigate potential impeachment. Over the call with Zelenski, I
Speaker 3: said right away, which I'd been preaching since before twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: if you lose the House, they will impeach Trump, just
Speaker 3: like Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats right now are going
Speaker 3: to raise two billion dollars the moment they take the House.
Speaker 3: If they do in twenty twenty six, the first order
Speaker 3: of business in early January twenty seven is to begin
Speaker 3: impeachment across thess of President Trump. The ruling class of
Speaker 3: this nation know they must destroy Trump and destroy Trump's
Speaker 3: populist nationalist movement. So my show is just the show.
Speaker 3: We have various experts on and people, and you know,
Speaker 3: Scott Bessen's Secretary Treasury was a contributor for a couple
Speaker 3: of years. Peter Navarro is one of my co hosts.
Speaker 3: Right Mike Davis, the Viceroy the one that has such
Speaker 3: a big voice, particularly bringing a Facebook to trial under
Speaker 3: the Justice Department in n FTC. Today, he's a prominent member.
Speaker 3: So we have all the top hardcore and I mean
Speaker 3: hardcore MAGA members, people who are quite frankly, we are
Speaker 3: farther to the right than President Trump. This platform has
Speaker 3: led us to have a vanguard of citizens. The reason
Speaker 3: our show is different. We are the show for the activists.
Speaker 3: We're not a general audience like Fox are just sitting
Speaker 3: there changing the channels. We have an activist based These
Speaker 3: are the people that make the phone calls. These are
Speaker 3: the people that took over the Republican Party by the
Speaker 3: precinct strategy. We believe in one simple thing. Human agency
Speaker 3: is your effort, in your will that will change this
Speaker 3: but you as an individual, and that's what the show is.
Speaker 3: And President Trump sees clips of it and he knows that.
Speaker 3: He knows that we're back in his policies and we're
Speaker 3: back in him every day. Although we disagree on certain
Speaker 3: implementations of the policies, he understands. The war rooms always
Speaker 3: there and that's why I think we've become quite power
Speaker 3: the MAGA movement.
Speaker 1: We are you talking.
Speaker 2: About what the left allegedly has done, what you guys
Speaker 2: believe that he has done they have done. You talk
Speaker 2: about you and your show and the movement essentially being activist,
Speaker 2: being rife with activists.
Speaker 1: That's the approach that you have. I get that.
Speaker 2: So what about the question that one would pose to
Speaker 2: you in terms of what are you willing to do?
Speaker 1: What lines are you willing to cross?
Speaker 2: If you assume that the left has done these things,
Speaker 2: if you assume that they've stolen an election. What about
Speaker 2: when people look at you all and they say, is
Speaker 2: any is there any lines that you won't cross? Because
Speaker 2: as we see things unfolding before our very eyes. Just
Speaker 2: the other day with the immigrant that was sent back
Speaker 2: to El Salvador. He wasn't an American citizen, but the
Speaker 2: court specifically said about a break I believe that's his name.
Speaker 2: They said to him, hey, he's to be protected here.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court voted nine and nothing to keep him here,
Speaker 2: and that he was gone, and the Trump administration said, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, we can't get him back. You know, when
Speaker 2: we see stuff like this in the United States of America,
Speaker 2: we're not accustomed to seeing an administration essentially ignore the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court, particularly when they vote unanimously. Are these the
Speaker 2: kind of things that you would endorse and support happening?
Speaker 3: I absolutely endorse. So let's go back for a second
Speaker 3: on people talk about breaking rules and things like that.
Speaker 3: We're the biggest believers in democracy. We just won a
Speaker 3: sweeping victory in November against all odds. Remember in sixteen
Speaker 3: where I stepped in and ran the campaign starting in
Speaker 3: mid August when he was ten or twelve points behind it.
Speaker 3: In sixteen, we came out of nowhere to be Clinton.
Speaker 3: Quite frankly, as people know, a lot of people say
Speaker 3: Clinton lost more than we won because she was so
Speaker 3: arrogant about going to Michigan, about going to Flint, Michigan,
Speaker 3: about going to Detroit, about going to Wisconsin. By going
Speaker 3: to working class Pennsylvania, we pierced the Blue Wall because
Speaker 3: we went there and did rallies, and President Trump convinced
Speaker 3: working class Democrats and Independents to vote for him. So
Speaker 3: we won that in twenty sixteen. That way, in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four, four years, they came after Trump. You know,
Speaker 3: they threatened to put him in jail, to bankrupt him,
Speaker 3: to do everything right. They saw us coming and still
Speaker 3: President Trump won a sweeping victory, including the popular vote,
Speaker 3: against all odds, as you so well know, and so
Speaker 3: we're a huge believer in democracy. The reason is we're
Speaker 3: seeing in front of us a nineteen thirty two type reorganization,
Speaker 3: just like a FDR led his coalition. Right now, we
Speaker 3: have more black, young black men voting for President Trump
Speaker 3: than ever have Hispanics ride because he's reaching out to
Speaker 3: working class people were populous economic nationalists, and that message
Speaker 3: is resonating. I tell you, for my time in prison,
Speaker 3: I only put out one statement. It was in late September,
Speaker 3: and I said Trump's going to win. In the third
Speaker 3: week of September, I say He's gonna win. I said,
Speaker 3: I could tell that from being in a prison. I
Speaker 3: was teaching Civics there and my students, young African American
Speaker 3: and Hispanic men in jail under mass incarceration for non
Speaker 3: violent drug dealing on these ghost drugs are there were
Speaker 3: ten and fifteen and twenty five year sentences, are sitting
Speaker 3: there talking about their families, and they, to a person,
Speaker 3: hated the Democratic Party, hated the Democratic Party. So the
Speaker 3: Democrat Party has lied to us. The Democrat Party has
Speaker 3: misled us. The Democratic Party has destroyed our families and
Speaker 3: destroyed the basic economics right because they're globalists. It was
Speaker 3: incredibly powerful and that's what President Trump was represents. So
Speaker 3: when you get this, I'm trying to tell Bill Maher
Speaker 3: the other night, when he handed me the Constitution, I said,
Speaker 3: look in the unitary theory the executive that Trump is
Speaker 3: the chief executive officer. He is the commander in chief
Speaker 3: of the Armed Forces. He is the chief law enforcement
Speaker 3: officer of the United States government. That's laid out an
Speaker 3: Article two. And it couldn't be planner. And we have
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty lawsuits in what the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: This whole thing started to try to come between President
Speaker 3: Trump his duties and responsibilities as the commander in chief
Speaker 3: of the Armed Forces. Now, Stephen A. Smith, let me
Speaker 3: posit to you that if if you ever I would
Speaker 3: got serious about this and actually ran for President of
Speaker 3: the United States, and one of the most important powers
Speaker 3: you have is commander in chief of the Armed Forces,
Speaker 3: would you ever, and you swear an oath to God
Speaker 3: to uphold that, would you let to Supreme Court, any
Speaker 3: judiciary come between you and what you've sworn to high
Speaker 3: Heaven that you will protecting the constitution of the American people.
Speaker 3: As being commander in chief, I would such will be no,
Speaker 3: you would put your you would put your obligation as
Speaker 3: commander in chief first, and that's what Donald Trump's done.
Speaker 2: But I would put my obligation as commander in chiefs first.
Speaker 2: Steve Bean into upholding the laws of this nation and
Speaker 2: what the constitution dictates as well, that would play a role.
Speaker 1: I would have debunked it. I wouldn't shove it aside.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say the hell with all of that, because
Speaker 2: I took this oath before God. So as a result,
Speaker 2: me being the commander in chief of this nation ignores
Speaker 2: the foundational things that this country was founded on and
Speaker 2: up and is upheld by. I wouldn't do that as
Speaker 2: a way to, for example, talk about the terrorists. For example,
Speaker 2: I'm just switching gears just to make my point. We're
Speaker 2: talking about the terrorists for a second. I don't disagree
Speaker 2: with Donald Trump about we need to fight China and
Speaker 2: that we've been hosed and we've been taking advantage of.
Speaker 2: But I did disagree with how he went about it
Speaker 2: because I felt he was alienating a bunch of allies
Speaker 2: when in fact, the target was China, So go after China.
Speaker 2: By going after everybody, you're turning allies against us, potentially
Speaker 2: turning them into allies for China potentially, And that was
Speaker 2: something that concerned me. I'm only making that point to say,
Speaker 2: you can agree with something or you can disagree with something,
Speaker 2: but under the tenets of the laws that govern our society,
Speaker 2: as long as you play by those rules, we're all
Speaker 2: safe because you're not scaring the living hell after the
Speaker 2: American people.
Speaker 1: You guys don't seem to do that sometimes. And let
Speaker 1: me say this to you.
Speaker 2: You brought up African Americans and Hispanics when you were
Speaker 2: talking about, you know, a voting block that Trump has
Speaker 2: actually gained ground in. And I said to myself, I
Speaker 2: know you're not bringing that up because you know I'm
Speaker 2: gonna bring up Project twenty twenty five, right, you know
Speaker 2: I'm going to bring that up, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: wonder your feelings about that, how supportive you are of that,
Speaker 2: and what kind of debilitating effect you think would have
Speaker 2: on African Americans and minorities in this country if everything
Speaker 2: about twenty twenty five Project twenty twenty five was embraced, what.
Speaker 3: Do you say to that, well, first of everything about
Speaker 3: Project twenty twenty five. And I've got my Project twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five mug right here in front of you. I'm
Speaker 3: drinking my war Path coffee out of the Project twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. Look, here's when President Trump went back tomorrow lago,
Speaker 3: right when the election was stolen and he was thinking
Speaker 3: through about running in there's really dark months of January
Speaker 3: February March of twenty twenty one. Two things happened. One
Speaker 3: was there we started the precinct strategy, which was takeover
Speaker 3: the Republican Party at the grassroots by individual activists, working
Speaker 3: class people and middle class people that had no political power,
Speaker 3: had never been engaged in processes before. That was the
Speaker 3: political aspect of it. The intellectual, the intellectual part of
Speaker 3: it was that we know we needed if we came back,
Speaker 3: not to have happened what happened in sixteen. In sixteen,
Speaker 3: we came from behind. We had very little time for transition.
Speaker 3: We didn't have a deep bench of people, so we
Speaker 3: needed a number of years to think through both policies
Speaker 3: and work through cadres that were working together. That's where
Speaker 3: you had America First Policy Institute under Brooks Rollins, whose
Speaker 3: Secretary of Agriculture, had America First Law Institute under Stephen Miller,
Speaker 3: who's really the head of policy in the White House.
Speaker 3: You had a Conservative of CPI under Meadows and Dement.
Speaker 3: You had the O and B Director, had craa Center
Speaker 3: for Renewing America, RUSS Vote, which had Mark Paoletta and
Speaker 3: Jeff Clark. All these luminaries in the Trump second term
Speaker 3: had these think tanks. The Heritage Organization stepped in and
Speaker 3: kind of did an umbrella group to do it. Of course,
Speaker 3: President Trump, all of those policies are not President Trump's policies.
Speaker 3: There's various alternatives. The key to Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I think if you look at it is America First
Speaker 3: national security, to really think about what it's in the
Speaker 3: best interests of the United States inner citizens, and kind
Speaker 3: of economic populism, economic nationalism, what you're seeing now and
Speaker 3: what you dispute as the execution of really the economic
Speaker 3: war against the Chinese Communist Party. And so I understand
Speaker 3: there's a lot of debate about how this thing's being executed.
Speaker 3: But I think if you look at all of those
Speaker 3: think tanks combined in the policies what we call days
Speaker 3: of thunder or flooding the zone that every day President
Speaker 3: Trump is doing seven eight, nine, ten, executive orders, executive actions,
Speaker 3: having heads of state come in, He's doing press availabilities.
Speaker 3: No one's ever seen a presidency like this. This is
Speaker 3: this is like FDR doing a fireside chat every day,
Speaker 3: live and disintermediating the media. So the cameras are right
Speaker 3: there and he's taking questions and answers. Why signing executive orders?
Speaker 3: Why taking executive action? This is why this presidency is
Speaker 3: so powerful. It has so much momentum. But that momentum
Speaker 3: was four years in the making to do this. And
Speaker 3: that's why Project twenty twenty five and all of the
Speaker 3: possible President Trump doesn't agree with them all. He's going
Speaker 3: to pick and choose which one he does. Believe it,
Speaker 3: and you're seeing it right now in his executive orders
Speaker 3: and particularly and when you see this Rob Prochman, he's
Speaker 3: trying to work with Russia to pull him away from
Speaker 3: the Chinese Counties Party Orbit, the piece he's trying to
Speaker 3: bring in the Middle East and in Ukraine, what he's
Speaker 3: trying to do with the Persians to make sure that
Speaker 3: we have a negotiated deal and not a bombing run
Speaker 3: over their nuclear facilities, and most important, the tariffs and
Speaker 3: the reorganization of the world's commercial relationships, putting America first
Speaker 3: and most importantly American citizens first. And this is why
Speaker 3: African Americans and Hispanics are going to come to our cause,
Speaker 3: because we're putting their economic interests first. We're not putting
Speaker 3: the easy money overlords on Wall Street, are the global corporates,
Speaker 3: CEOs are the apartheid state of Silicon Valley in these oligarchs.
Speaker 3: We're putting their interests first. That's why people are rallying
Speaker 3: to our cause.
Speaker 2: See, I think what you're saying, it sounds great. Here's
Speaker 2: the problem. Example, the whole DEI issue. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you heard what my opposition to the administration was
Speaker 2: on that issue. So i'll tell it to you right now.
Speaker 2: When people thought about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the words
Speaker 2: that I use was let DEI stand for didn't earn it.
Speaker 2: I could say the same thing about Pete haig Seth. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm not denigrating him in any way. He served this
Speaker 2: country's He's a damn good host on Fox News. I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to throw any shade on in whatsoever Steve Bennett.
Speaker 2: I'm simply saying, to go from the host of a
Speaker 2: weekend show on Fox News to being the Secretary of
Speaker 2: Defense for the United States of America, overseeing three and
Speaker 2: a half million people, I think that's a bit of
Speaker 2: a stretch. So when they talked about DEI and it
Speaker 2: always seemed.
Speaker 3: To touch hand, hang hand, hand your please have been
Speaker 3: at you today. You have been a sports commentator and
Speaker 3: a journalist and a sports reporter, et cetera. And it's
Speaker 3: not beyond the bounds of reason. Donald Trump was a
Speaker 3: was a real estate developer and a t had no
Speaker 3: government experience at all, no military experience. It is not
Speaker 3: beyond the bounds of you know, probabilities that you could
Speaker 3: be the Democratic nominee for president Ied States, and you
Speaker 3: could be the president I States, if not in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty eight, because it'll be Trump sometime in the future.
Speaker 3: So that Pete Texas didn't go by. We're living in
Speaker 3: an ERAa. You don't have to check the box. You
Speaker 3: don't have to go be a mayor and a governor
Speaker 3: and then you're eligible in president ied states. In fact,
Speaker 3: I would say the exact OPA clearly Now if you
Speaker 3: look at all these governors in the Democratic Party, I
Speaker 3: think they're a disadvantage to people that actually have common sense,
Speaker 3: business sense, courage, conviction and authenticity. And so I think
Speaker 3: putting something about people's further, you know, previous like Tulci Gabbert,
Speaker 3: Taulci Gabritt never had a role in intelligences. You're doing
Speaker 3: an amazing job as d and I. So I think
Speaker 3: holding that against people is an old way of looking
Speaker 3: at things.
Speaker 2: And that's why I'm trying to address you, because I'm
Speaker 2: not holding it against them. I'm saying what people were
Speaker 2: saying about.
Speaker 1: DEI, that's what was being done to other people.
Speaker 2: In other words, you've got diversity, equity, and inclusion, and
Speaker 2: it automatically assume that if you are a minority, that's
Speaker 2: why you got that job. And ultimately we've got to
Speaker 2: eradicate that that stuff as opposed to looking at your potential,
Speaker 2: the fact that there were roadblocks and impediment to your
Speaker 2: eventual success and we had to overcome those things.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to throw any shade on Tosti Gavin
Speaker 2: except anything I was just saying.
Speaker 1: By people's definition of it.
Speaker 2: The nerve of some folks to come and to look
Speaker 2: at something like DEI and not to and not take
Speaker 2: into consideration why.
Speaker 1: The necessity for it existed to begin with.
Speaker 2: Similar to me covering sports, you got a Rooney rule,
Speaker 2: you got to interview minority candidates because owners weren't giving
Speaker 2: them interviews.
Speaker 3: You have.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you.
Speaker 2: Have civil rights legislation, why because there were so many
Speaker 2: impediments to the success or to the u upliftment of
Speaker 2: minority communities in this country. We don't seem to be
Speaker 2: taken into account the road block and the impediments to
Speaker 2: the American citizens success that really provoked these policies being
Speaker 2: put in a place to begin with. And I don't
Speaker 2: have a Steve Banning and his ILK talking about that.
Speaker 1: That's my issue.
Speaker 3: You talk, you hear about us talking about all the time.
Speaker 3: We've done the most outrug from day one to say
Speaker 3: we're going to be a multi ethnic, multi party and
Speaker 3: this is the way we build a coalition. This is
Speaker 3: why in the Rio Grande Valley, now you know Star County, Texas,
Speaker 3: which is the most Hispanic, it's a hard bitten county.
Speaker 3: Done in the Riar Grand Valley in South Texas, the
Speaker 3: most Hispanic community in the country, County country, ninety seven percent.
Speaker 3: We lost Hillary Clinton by sixty points in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: President Trump won by sixteen points in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Hispanics and African Americans are hearing our message of economic freedom, right,
Speaker 3: of putting America first, and of putting American citizens first.
Speaker 3: And we talk about the hard dollars and cents of
Speaker 3: bringing back manufacturing jobs and making those jobs available for everybody.
Speaker 3: This is the reason that the African American community the
Speaker 3: biggest critics of the Democratic Party, of the African American community.
Speaker 3: They have realized that they've been lied to by big
Speaker 3: city politicians, by the Democratic machine. They've been taken advantage of.
Speaker 3: Look at the at the the little headway they've made
Speaker 3: in these urban areas because Democratic politicians have been leeching
Speaker 3: off them for generation after generation after generation. And they're
Speaker 3: finally said, hey, keep saying that we might we may
Speaker 3: not love Trump, we may not love everything Trump stands for,
Speaker 3: but we love the fact that Trump's going to give
Speaker 3: us a fair shot. DEEI, by the way, EI to
Speaker 3: me was a cultural Marxist endeavor and would have never
Speaker 3: done for the African American and Hispanic community. What economic
Speaker 3: freedom is going to do for them? All?
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Speaker 2: So you're saying eradicating DEI is actually putting minority interest first.
Speaker 1: Is that your position?
Speaker 3: Yes, radicaateing DEI and getting back to a level playing field.
Speaker 3: Here's what you want to do. You want to make it.
Speaker 3: You want to get Hispanics and African Americans a shot,
Speaker 3: take a shot at the apartheid oligarchs created by the
Speaker 3: Democratic Party because that's where the money is. In Silicon Valley,
Speaker 3: we have melonrech schools have been turned over to the
Speaker 3: STEM program. And why do we not have American hang
Speaker 3: on because they can't get into the engineering schools of
Speaker 3: computer science? Engineering? Why has nothing to do with IQ,
Speaker 3: has nothing to do with achievement, has nothing to do
Speaker 3: with native intelligence, has nothing to do with their drive,
Speaker 3: their grit and determination. It's a simple factor. Was before
Speaker 3: I went to Harvard, I went to a Land Grant university,
Speaker 3: and the engineering schools in the my Land Grant University
Speaker 3: is I don't know, seventy five or eighty percent South
Speaker 3: Asian and Chinese. Why because their governments pay full freight
Speaker 3: on tuition and the African American and Hispanics of my
Speaker 3: state still play in state tuition, so they're not there.
Speaker 3: And then Silicon Valley won't hire them. You know why
Speaker 3: they're taking HB one visas, which is a scam, and
Speaker 3: hiring young people coming out of India right at one
Speaker 3: fit at half the cost and having them, you know,
Speaker 3: sleep a to a condo in Silicon Valley work as
Speaker 3: indentured servants and blocking out African American Hispanic familis. If
Speaker 3: we want to take on the oligar, let's take him on.
Speaker 3: If the African American community wants real economic freedom, let's
Speaker 3: talk on Wall Street, Corporate America and a Silicon Valley
Speaker 3: that has blocked them and has blocked them for their
Speaker 3: economic interests, DEEI and all these social programs that are
Speaker 3: going to do it. We take down the oligarchs, and
Speaker 3: the African American community, particularly young men, understand this that
Speaker 3: a guy like Trump ain't a politician. He's an armor
Speaker 3: piercing show. And what he's going to do is Pierce,
Speaker 3: excuse me, he's not he's not.
Speaker 1: He's not a politician. He's not.
Speaker 2: By I got you and by the way, Steve Bennett,
Speaker 2: I got to tell you something right now. I think
Speaker 2: you've got me a little twisted, my man. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you something right now.
Speaker 1: I ain't hit it. I'm not hit to.
Speaker 2: Defend the Democrats. Let's stop that right now. Let me
Speaker 2: eradicate that thought right now. So most of what you
Speaker 2: said I totally get you, and it definitely there's a
Speaker 2: been tremendous damage done by the Democratic Party, particularly with
Speaker 2: African Americans in this country.
Speaker 1: I'm sick and.
Speaker 2: Tired of them, Rod, like the Republicans haven't done it.
Speaker 3: They don't want your voice in this thing. And I
Speaker 3: can't tell you why. I'll give you one data point.
Speaker 3: One of the first polls done that had your name,
Speaker 3: because I've been telling people for a while, I said,
Speaker 3: this guy is authentic, he's he's got convictions, he's tough,
Speaker 3: He's the type of candidate that the Trump era is
Speaker 3: gonna see. I think the first poll had you at
Speaker 3: seven and a half percent. Now you see other polls
Speaker 3: coming after Democratic or is one percent. I said, Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith getting the treatment, okay, because the last thing they
Speaker 3: want you are, brother, Hey, the last thing they want
Speaker 3: is you calling them out. Trust me, they got to
Speaker 3: They got a closed shop. That closed shop has got
Speaker 3: people that will line up and support them and support
Speaker 3: the billionaires that finance them in the credential class of
Speaker 3: a lot of Ivy league progressives right that run the
Speaker 3: deal that you see on MSNBC every night, and the
Speaker 3: last thing they want is a guy like Steven A.
Speaker 3: Smith coming out and talking truth to power. So I've
Speaker 3: already seen how you're getting the treatment. How's a guy
Speaker 3: go from seven and a half percent to one percent?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you how the poll is rigged? Okay, and
Speaker 3: you're gonna get more of that treatment because the last
Speaker 3: that apparatus wants they don't want anybody coming in and
Speaker 3: intruding on their game.
Speaker 2: But Steve Bennett, fine, I actually agree with what you
Speaker 2: just said. I said it on Hannity last night. I
Speaker 2: don't think I thought that was a bunch of bs.
Speaker 2: I'm near eight percent in the polls, and after being
Speaker 2: all over the news over the last month, suddenly I'm
Speaker 2: at one percent. I was born at night, not last night.
Speaker 2: I saw it that a mile away. No problem there.
Speaker 2: My issue, however, is this you keep saying them like
Speaker 2: the Democrats, like the GOP, has been innocent in all
Speaker 2: of this, all of these years, when we point to
Speaker 2: a thirty seven trillion dollar debt, when we talked about
Speaker 2: America not being prioritized in a litany of areas and
Speaker 2: what have you The things that you've pointed to, You
Speaker 2: act like it's just been the Dems. It's been the
Speaker 2: GOP too. What didn't you say, haven't they been?
Speaker 1: I'm guilty.
Speaker 3: I've had a big I've had a bigger beast with
Speaker 3: the I have a bigger beeth of the Republicans and
Speaker 3: the Democrats. They've been controlled opposition. The country didn't get
Speaker 3: in this shape unless you had both parties working it right.
Speaker 3: You had the you had the neoliberal, neo cons the
Speaker 3: globalists that set policy, and the Republican Party just went
Speaker 3: along with. First off, you do understand the Republican Party
Speaker 3: hates Donald Trump. Now to the degree that we've put
Speaker 3: MAGA in there, it's fine, But the traditional country club
Speaker 3: Republicans they hate Maga. They hate everything MAGA stands for.
Speaker 3: They hate Donald Trump, hate, pure hate. This is why
Speaker 3: when the election was stolen twenty twenty, no establishment Republicans
Speaker 3: stood up for him. When he went back to Marlago,
Speaker 3: Fox did not, and Brother Hannity, they did not have
Speaker 3: Trump on Live. I think for almost two years they
Speaker 3: were afraid he was going to talk about the stolen election.
Speaker 3: Everything had to be. You know, they would take their
Speaker 3: rallies later, or they would do pre recorded interviews. The
Speaker 3: Murdochs were all in for the governor of Florida, and
Speaker 3: for Nicki Haley, right, and for Rod DeSantis' entire crowd,
Speaker 3: Glenn Youngkin, everybody but Trump Trump.
Speaker 2: You mean the same network they had to spend seven
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty eighty seven million for the dominion voting thing.
Speaker 2: You mean that network, That's what you're saying. They were
Speaker 2: all in for somebody other than.
Speaker 3: Trump, somebody other than Trump one hundred percent. They didn't
Speaker 3: really put up any fight on the they did. They
Speaker 3: put a very little fight in going after the stealing
Speaker 3: of the campaign, very little fight. And when Domini came
Speaker 3: up after Murdoch was deposed and you saw that he,
Speaker 3: let's say this, he's lost his fastball. They didn't want
Speaker 3: They didn't want him in a court, in open court
Speaker 3: and getting eviscerated. That's where they settled for this huge
Speaker 3: number and essentially kicked Trump to the curve and the
Speaker 3: Trump movement to the curve. They tried to basically drive
Speaker 3: Ers Ronda Sanders on a town hall every other night
Speaker 3: on Fox in twenty one twenty one, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two, President Trump was basically boycotted by
Speaker 3: Fox for any real coverage.
Speaker 2: Steve Bannon let me, I'd be remiss and neglecting to
Speaker 2: bring this up, because obviously you have a very influential
Speaker 2: voice in this country. A lot of people look at you,
Speaker 2: a lot of people trusted what you have to say,
Speaker 2: So let's just get right to it. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: you were found guilty of contempt of Congress after refusing
Speaker 2: to comply with the subpoena to appear to hearing of
Speaker 2: the United States House Select Committee on January's on the
Speaker 2: January sixth attack, and served a short prison sentence in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, When you look at your track record, okay,
Speaker 2: and what you've been, what you've had to endure, okay,
Speaker 2: recently reaching a plea agreement. Why should people trust what
Speaker 2: you have to say on this particular subject that they
Speaker 2: can do follow your lead and everything will be all right.
Speaker 2: Why should they trust you?
Speaker 3: Steve Bennet, By the way, I'm proud I went to prison.
Speaker 3: I went to prison as a political prisoner. I went
Speaker 3: I went to Danburry prisonban around one hundred years. I
Speaker 3: think I'm the only misdemeanor in the history of Danbury.
Speaker 3: It was I am proud to go and I didn't
Speaker 3: go to a camp. Danbury is an old school prison,
Speaker 3: quite dangerous, and one of the reasons is dangerous because
Speaker 3: the mass incarceration of young African American Hispanic young men
Speaker 3: on these on these Rico chargers conspiracy to distribute drugs,
Speaker 3: which they get ten, fifteen, twenty twenty five years in
Speaker 3: a small place like Danbury, and they can't handle the time.
Speaker 3: And what they do is they turn to these drugs
Speaker 3: called K two and others, and that turns you know,
Speaker 3: that totally flips them. These prisons are very dangerous. They're
Speaker 3: very overcrowded. I was proud to go to prison. I
Speaker 3: was proud to be an inmate, and the reason was
Speaker 3: I would do it again. The people that sent me
Speaker 3: to prison, Nancy Pelosi and the committee, Stephen A. Smith,
Speaker 3: they went and begged Biden. He didn't want to do it.
Speaker 3: They went on their bellies and begged Biden for blanket
Speaker 3: pardons that have never been done in the history of
Speaker 3: this country. Blanket, undefined pardons. It's never been done. All
Speaker 3: the committee got them and all the staff got them,
Speaker 3: and then why was that because the whole thing was
Speaker 3: a lying sham at the beginning, I stood up for
Speaker 3: the Constitution on separation of powers and also for the
Speaker 3: president to be able to talk to people and keep
Speaker 3: that confidential right on two purposes, I said, and I
Speaker 3: told my lawyers, let's just go all the way and
Speaker 3: try to do it. If they find me guilty in
Speaker 3: a rig trial in Washington, d c. With perjured testimony
Speaker 3: from a person who took a pardon, Okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: I don't care if I go to prison. I go
Speaker 3: to prison. I'm prepare to put it all forward here.
Speaker 3: People understand. That's where they come to my show. I
Speaker 3: don't care, and I tell people, hey, if they steal
Speaker 3: it again, we're going to go back to prison. I
Speaker 3: keep saying if they win the midterm elections. In the midterm,
Speaker 3: which traditionally kind of flips back and forth, if Hakeem Jeffries,
Speaker 3: who will raise two billion dollars if he wins become
Speaker 3: Speaker of the House, Because this is going to come
Speaker 3: down to after we lost the seats in Wisconsin on
Speaker 3: the Supreme Court ruling, It's going to come down to
Speaker 3: California and New York, and if we lose those seats,
Speaker 3: the first action Keem Jeffrey's going to say is in panel,
Speaker 3: just like Pelosi did, going to have panel a impeachment
Speaker 3: committee and impeached prisident. Trump will go right back to it.
Speaker 3: And if they steal twenty twenty eight, the first thing
Speaker 3: they're going to demand is they're going to have all
Speaker 3: kinds of lawfare again, just like the Justice Department had
Speaker 3: after us, and go AFTERS again. And Hey, if I
Speaker 3: go to go to prison again, I'll go to prison.
Speaker 3: I don't give a damn. I'm not going to back
Speaker 3: off one second. And I think that's why people come
Speaker 3: to the show, because they realize, Hey, this guy puts
Speaker 3: it all on the line. He's not afraid of these guys.
Speaker 3: There's nothing I'm seventy one years they me in prison.
Speaker 3: I'm seventy. I don't give a damn. They gonna put
Speaker 3: me in prison the rest of my life. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to shut up and I'm not going to stop
Speaker 3: fighting for my country.
Speaker 2: You talked about being proud of you, proud of the
Speaker 2: pleat deal you you reached when you admitted to.
Speaker 3: First off, first think about it. They spent seven years,
Speaker 3: millions of dollars. They basically had to rewrite the constitution
Speaker 3: of New York to come after me again. They said
Speaker 3: I stole twenty two million dollars. At the end it
Speaker 3: was about fifty to seventy five thousand dollars. I paid
Speaker 3: a legless, one armed veteran, okay, so that he could
Speaker 3: work right on something for me. And when they did
Speaker 3: the deal is because they couldn't get a conviction. Okay,
Speaker 3: we couldn't get totally quitto. Why because they went to Manhattan.
Speaker 3: They went to Manhattan and got the same type of
Speaker 3: Manhattan jury they got against Trump. Right, these things are
Speaker 3: totally rigged. They signed Steve. The thing I signed, by
Speaker 3: the way, had had no penalty, no fine, no public
Speaker 3: service nothing. The judge actually the SIGNIAT says, hey, I've
Speaker 3: been doing this a long time. I've never seen a
Speaker 3: deal like this. They realized that I could fight this
Speaker 3: thing and still get hung jury's but they told me
Speaker 3: we're gonna come after you and after you and after you.
Speaker 3: So I said, okay, fine, let's do it. I am
Speaker 3: proud one of the protest things I've done, including the
Speaker 3: Navy and working for Trump and doing the show is
Speaker 3: building that wall in El Paso, Texas. If you saw
Speaker 3: the movie Sacario, you know how bad roar as it is.
Speaker 3: And what happened well that we built the wall right
Speaker 3: there to stop the cartels from trafficking women across it.
Speaker 3: I am so proud of that wall and the people.
Speaker 3: They couldn't find a witness ever to come forward to
Speaker 3: say what Bannon these guys did was wrong. So yes,
Speaker 3: I wear that with pride to They've come after me,
Speaker 3: to bankrupt me, to put me in prison. I cannot
Speaker 3: be defeated. And you know why I don't quit. If
Speaker 3: you don't quit, you will beat them because eventually they
Speaker 3: will fold.
Speaker 1: Are you a nationalist?
Speaker 3: Yes? Absolutely, nationalists we're living in Yes, sir.
Speaker 2: That's why I was gonna add to that. I mean
Speaker 2: some people, and I didn't want. I didn't want to
Speaker 2: say that. Some people have looked at it. They say
Speaker 2: Steve Bennett and they say white national I said, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that to him. I'm going
Speaker 2: to ask him the word nationalist, and I want him
Speaker 2: to describe himself as what he believes he is.
Speaker 1: So you say an.
Speaker 2: Economic nationalist, what exactly does that mean in this world
Speaker 2: of globalization where everybody's doing business with one another, and
Speaker 2: if you're on the outside looking in, it can compromise
Speaker 2: an economy in a lot of people's size, stephen A.
Speaker 3: Stephen A, it's putting the country first and putting the
Speaker 3: citizens firstus. What's this economic war as you described at
Speaker 3: the beginning of the show, about China and about terroriffts
Speaker 3: and about non tariff barriers, bringing back manufactured the five
Speaker 3: million manufacturing jobs that we lost over the last twenty
Speaker 3: or thirty years to China. To bring those manufacturing jobs back.
Speaker 3: Remember New York City, Your city used to be a
Speaker 3: manufacturing powerhouse. And people say today, well, it can't be.
Speaker 3: That's not the second law of thermodynamics. There's no natural
Speaker 3: property that says manufacturing jobs can't be here in the
Speaker 3: United States. That's all done by human decisions, particularly by globalists,
Speaker 3: which is very simple. The capital wants to follow where
Speaker 3: the cheap labor is, and the cheap labor is the
Speaker 3: La Baijing of China, the working man and woman of China,
Speaker 3: what they call Old hundred names. They work for essentially
Speaker 3: slave labor wages and slave labor conditions and filthy environments
Speaker 3: because the Chinese Communist Party doesn't care. And more importantly,
Speaker 3: the lords of easy money on Wall Street don't care.
Speaker 3: The global corporations in the C suite don't care. In
Speaker 3: the apartheid state of Silicon Valley don't care. They don't
Speaker 3: care howpens those people, just like they don't care what
Speaker 3: happens to the working class, in the middle class in
Speaker 3: this country, whether you're black, White, Asian, what you're ethnically,
Speaker 3: what you're religion, they do not care. What they cares
Speaker 3: about their money and their power, and they got a
Speaker 3: rig system to keep control. If you want to throw
Speaker 3: those chains off, you have to be an economic nationalist.
Speaker 3: And I'm proud of that. And here's what I'm most
Speaker 3: proud of, the sea coming together, the diverse crew we're
Speaker 3: putting together to have a nineteen thirty two type realignment.
Speaker 3: And I see Bernie Sanders in AOC running around the
Speaker 3: country drawing huge crowds. Those people are thirsting for an answer.
Speaker 3: The Democratic Party abandoned working class people because they abandoned
Speaker 3: the policies that would bring jobs back. And you see
Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders AOC, Well, what did the GOP do talking about?
Speaker 1: What did you because you separate, you separate nothing. You separate,
Speaker 1: you separate Trump from the GOP. That's why I'm asking
Speaker 1: now you feel about the DAMS. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about the GOP.
Speaker 3: The GOP did nothing. The GOP is the same neoliberal
Speaker 3: neocons invade everywhere and have huge tax cuts for the wealthy.
Speaker 3: This is what Trump brought to the table. This is
Speaker 3: in fourteen. When I see Trump there, he's against all
Speaker 3: these other GOP politicians. He talked in another nomenclature, he
Speaker 3: talked in another vernacular. People leaned forward. This is not
Speaker 3: the traditional thing that's very thin without substance. Trump was
Speaker 3: talking about substance and he wasn't a he's not a
Speaker 3: polished politician. He wasn't a politician at all. But people
Speaker 3: leaned into it. And that's the populism that we have
Speaker 3: brought to the Republican Party and took over the Republican Party.
Speaker 3: But I will tell you most elected officials behind closed
Speaker 3: doors are not pro Trump and they're certainly not pro
Speaker 3: our policies. This is why heads have exploited the last
Speaker 3: couple of days, including your good buddy Sean Hanny, who's
Speaker 3: head blown up the most about we are going to
Speaker 3: raise taxes on the wealthy. The tax bill that's there
Speaker 3: is being worked on right now, does not extend the
Speaker 3: tax cuts to the upper bracket. It has a snapback.
Speaker 3: It goes from thirty seven back to probably forty percent
Speaker 3: for the upper bracket and maybe even something else for
Speaker 3: people that are millionaires. And Sean Hannity is having a
Speaker 3: total meltdown right now because that's not traditional Republican policies.
Speaker 3: This is what President Trump and this economic populism, this
Speaker 3: economic nationalism, is brought into the Republican Party. And this
Speaker 3: is why we have people who are Democrats and independence,
Speaker 3: including so many young African Americans are listening to Trump finally,
Speaker 3: because he's talking in a different nomenclature and his policies
Speaker 3: are different.
Speaker 2: You know what you went off about billionaire Commerce Secretary
Speaker 2: Howard Lutton. It you called them close to an unmitigated disaster.
Speaker 2: But some would argue because you don't like him in
Speaker 2: front of the camera because he doesn't seem to know
Speaker 2: what the hell he's saying in your eyes half the time.
Speaker 2: But some would argue it's because Trump's all over the
Speaker 2: place and as a result, he doesn't know what to
Speaker 2: say from day to day. It's like it's almost like
Speaker 2: I need to notice, Steve Bennett, is there anything that
Speaker 2: Trump does wrong in your eyes? And if it is,
Speaker 2: what if there is something, tell us what it is.
Speaker 2: Because you seem to blame the GOP. You're clearly blame
Speaker 2: the left. You even blame people that he's listening to
Speaker 2: that he has speaking on his behalf.
Speaker 1: What do you find at fault with Donald Trump?
Speaker 3: In this regard with Howard Ludennek, I am not saying
Speaker 3: about his job as Commerce Secretary. My point is that
Speaker 3: we have to be very tight and on point about
Speaker 3: how we're running this thing out. And I think President
Speaker 3: Trump to date, because the whole concept of reciprocity and
Speaker 3: how he's rolled it out in escalatory ladder, which is
Speaker 3: going up the escalatory ladder against China, I think it's
Speaker 3: been a pretty much a close run. Thing has been perfect.
Speaker 3: It has not been perfect because it's quite complicated. But
Speaker 3: you take what Besson's doing, you take what trade representative
Speaker 3: of Jamison Grier is doing. You talk about the East
Speaker 3: Asian countries of Japan and South Korea and Taiwan and
Speaker 3: Vietnam and throw in India are now stacked up, coming
Speaker 3: in to make deals like plains at Laguardi on a
Speaker 3: Friday night. I think it's as close to us as
Speaker 3: best as a close run thing as we get. Is
Speaker 3: it absolutely perfect? It's not. But these type of complicated negotiations,
Speaker 3: just like to the Russians, they're never gonna be perfect,
Speaker 3: just like Reagan's was not perfect, just like kissingers to
Speaker 3: bring the Vietnam War to end. We're not perfect. They're
Speaker 3: not perfect. They're complicated deals with big personalities representing their
Speaker 3: countries as they should. So I think right now where
Speaker 3: we're position of this is amazing. Given that the Chinese
Speaker 3: Communist Party has been running an economic war with US
Speaker 3: against for decades in the elites on Wall Street, Corporate America,
Speaker 3: and Silicon Valley, in the political class of Democrats and
Speaker 3: Republicans have stood by and let them ravage our nation
Speaker 3: and ravaged the American people, and finally Trump stood up
Speaker 3: and we're in it now, we're engaged in it.
Speaker 2: You've called Tesla ceo and Doe, and mister Doze himself
Speaker 2: had Elon Musk, You've called him evil. Is there a
Speaker 2: new civil war brewing inside of MAGA?
Speaker 3: Yes, the mission it's not a civil war, you do have. Look,
Speaker 3: let's go back to the nineteen thirty two coalition, right,
Speaker 3: Remember in nineteen thirty two FDR had Southern clans members
Speaker 3: in the Democratic Party in the South and basically dominated.
Speaker 3: He had professors at Harvard, he had Wall Street tycoons,
Speaker 3: he had ranchers out west. The Democratic Party was a
Speaker 3: broad coalition that essentially governed this country. Really to Trump
Speaker 3: came along, even pasted Ronald Reagan, but really till Trump
Speaker 3: came along, that was for what fifty sixty seventy eighty years.
Speaker 3: Because they put a broad coalition together, a lot of
Speaker 3: them hated each other and hated what each other stood
Speaker 3: for President Trump's putting together coalition. One of the newest
Speaker 3: aspects of that, Stephen A, is what we call these
Speaker 3: tech oligarchs, of these tech bros. And they're more libertarian,
Speaker 3: but they support particularly in putting together a winning coalition.
Speaker 3: I think over the last couple of weeks they've been
Speaker 3: a little shocked about what President Trump's done. Particularly Mark
Speaker 3: Zuckerberg gave him a million dollars but then came into
Speaker 3: the Oval office as a supplekan every day to say, please,
Speaker 3: whatever you do, call off this lawsuit, the lawsuit that
Speaker 3: Trump brought in his first term, but that one of
Speaker 3: the hidden jewels of the Democratic Party, Lena Kahan, who
Speaker 3: is FTC, cleaned it up and brought it forward, and she,
Speaker 3: to me, is one of the best people of that
Speaker 3: being an economic nationalist and a populist in this country.
Speaker 3: And the Democratic Party that no Democrat that Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: and Joe Biden didn't have her back at all. Now
Speaker 3: Zuckerberg failed. The trials started yesterday. Zuckerberg is going to
Speaker 3: have to testify. And what are we trying to do.
Speaker 3: We're trying to break up Facebook, We're trying to break
Speaker 3: up Meta, We're trying to take on the oligarch. So yes,
Speaker 3: they're seeing that all the coziness they had with Trump.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, look at Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: Elon Musks financial sponsor is the Chinese Commerce Party, That's
Speaker 3: who he's in business with Tesla. President Trump could not
Speaker 3: be dropping bigger hammers. Everybody in the media saying he's
Speaker 3: gonna let Elon Musk cut so many deals and everything.
Speaker 3: He's going after Elon Musk chief financial sponsor, and he's
Speaker 3: actually put a tariff that's gonna have. That's gonna be
Speaker 3: so prohibitive for Tesla. His board's telling him, hey, dude,
Speaker 3: you got to come back. You got to stop the
Speaker 3: Doge thing and you got to come back, and it
Speaker 3: shouldn't be lost on you. Stephen A. Smith, that Elon
Speaker 3: musk In Doge is a lot more prominent today than
Speaker 3: it was a month ago.
Speaker 2: That is true. Can't deny that before I let you
Speaker 2: get on out of here. And man, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I disagree with a lot, but you're smart as hell.
Speaker 1: You know what the hell you're telling you. You know
Speaker 1: what you want to say.
Speaker 2: I give you credit for that, Steve benn and I
Speaker 2: can't deny it. I gotta ask you this though, based
Speaker 2: on everything that you've said.
Speaker 1: Essentially, that's what all of.
Speaker 2: This comes down to in terms of twenty twenty eight
Speaker 2: and Trump getting a third term. You believe the only
Speaker 2: person that you can rely upon to deliver what your
Speaker 2: vision and what the magavision is for this country is
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. You don't believe in anybody else in the GOP.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm peeling from all of this, Steve Benn In.
Speaker 1: To that you say, what, Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith, I think they're very good people. JD. Van's are
Speaker 3: a good man. You got so many good people. But
Speaker 3: for this time and history and what we have to do. Look,
Speaker 3: it took us forty fifty sixty years to get the
Speaker 3: country in this place, and the Republican Party had power
Speaker 3: as much as they didn't have power. This is both parties.
Speaker 3: God us here. The uniparty got us here. A guy
Speaker 3: like Trump, a leader, not a politician, is a guy
Speaker 3: getting is out. And my point is we got to
Speaker 3: play this handout. We got to play this handout. And yes,
Speaker 3: that's why I'm a firm believer in spending a lot
Speaker 3: of time on working through the issues regarding his running
Speaker 3: for a third term. But I will say, and I
Speaker 3: think you need to think about this for the nation.
Speaker 3: The Democratic Party, because I come, I'm a you know,
Speaker 3: my family were Democrats. We're Kennedy Democrats. My dad you know, FDR,
Speaker 3: that's when it came up with the Great Depression. FDR
Speaker 3: was everything my family. You know, to think voting for
Speaker 3: Nixon was like incomprehensible. It was Ronald Reagan. Eventually the
Speaker 3: Vietnam War and Ronald Reagan got my family only about
Speaker 3: a third of it still over fifty percent of the
Speaker 3: Greater expanded. You know, Bannon clan is still Democrats. So
Speaker 3: what President Trump, what the Democratic Party needs, because the
Speaker 3: Democratic Party of our parents and grandparents is gone. A
Speaker 3: service to the country would be people like yourself in
Speaker 3: others actually confronting that and getting into the race and
Speaker 3: actually putting forward common sense, common sense solutions for the nation. Thing.
Speaker 3: That's the debate on the left that needs to happen.
Speaker 3: And we're not going to get this thing sorted until
Speaker 3: until you get a Democratic Party that's back to the
Speaker 3: roots that it had, a back of actually listening to
Speaker 3: working class people and not this credential class. Right, the
Speaker 3: credential class and the billionaires. You can't let the billionaires
Speaker 3: be the puppet masters. You can't let the credential class
Speaker 3: kind of run the deal. What it has to do
Speaker 3: is get back to its roots. And it's not going
Speaker 3: to get back to its roots unless it's confronted. Look
Speaker 3: the fights they had for years against the Republican Party.
Speaker 3: We've had our civil war. We're still having it. You
Speaker 3: guys have not.
Speaker 1: Steve, I got it. I listen.
Speaker 2: I'll address that in a second. But you're driving me
Speaker 2: nothing with this when you're bringing up the billionaires. Listen,
Speaker 2: I know that the Left has been catering to elites,
Speaker 2: and it was clear they forgot about the working class.
Speaker 2: Don't get me started with WoT culture, cancel coach, identity, politics, transgender,
Speaker 2: all of this.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't get me started with that.
Speaker 2: I know that they're at fault for that, But I
Speaker 2: just saw Trump in that White House just the other
Speaker 2: day talking to billionaire friends about how much money they
Speaker 2: made in one day when he went on his truth
Speaker 2: social account and said this would be a good time
Speaker 2: to buy. So it ain't like this just the left
Speaker 2: talking to billionaires. He's doing it all the time. And
Speaker 2: by the way, isn't he won aren't those his contemporaries?
Speaker 2: Why are we acting like it's the left talking to
Speaker 2: the billionaires and forgetting about folks.
Speaker 1: But it can't possibly be him. Now he's Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith, number one, He's the first. When Biden came to
Speaker 3: office on a stolen election, he had Schumer, he had Pelosi.
Speaker 3: The Democrats ran the deal. Okay, ran the entire deal.
Speaker 3: They put up a proposal, a tax proposal that would
Speaker 3: actually tax the wealthy, tax bionnaires. Brother, it never even
Speaker 3: got out of committee. They're totally performative, and they're totally phony.
Speaker 3: The reason is the Bionnaires own the Democratic Party, lock
Speaker 3: Stock and Berrel. Bernie Sanders runs around the country right
Speaker 3: now talking about the oligarchy. The oligarchy was created by
Speaker 3: the Democratic Party. All of those oli guards, all of
Speaker 3: them were Progressive Democrats until eleven pm each Standard time
Speaker 3: on the fifth of November, when Maga and President Trump won,
Speaker 3: and then they had their road to Damascus, their Damascene moment,
Speaker 3: the reality. Oh, all of a sudden, I think we're Maga.
Speaker 3: I think we're tech. I think we're tech bros. We
Speaker 3: really like Trump. Trump has got the biggest of them all,
Speaker 3: Zuckerberg in court trying to break his empire up right now,
Speaker 3: show me what every Democrat has done, including the phony
Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders who wanders around yarmorn. Bernie Sanders had two
Speaker 3: shots at the Clinton the Clinton mafia, the neoliberal neo
Speaker 3: Khan apparatus in charge of the Democratic Party. Two shots.
Speaker 3: He never laid a glove on him. Trump came in
Speaker 3: out of nowhere and politically ripped her face off and
Speaker 3: beat her in a general election against all odds. When
Speaker 3: he was down as much as ten or twelve points.
Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders is a phony. Bernie Sanders is a weakling.
Speaker 3: Bernie Sanaders doesn't talk about any fundamental change. And that's
Speaker 3: because nobody in the Democratic Party until you and a
Speaker 3: couple other guys come along, men and women come along,
Speaker 3: challenged the maionnaires that own it.
Speaker 2: I'll definitely challenge them. I ain't got no problems with that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll be on my I'll be right here.
Speaker 2: Just like you have your own platform, I have mine
Speaker 2: to challenge them. But it doesn't mean I'm not going
Speaker 2: to challenge your side either. So let me paint this,
Speaker 2: let me throw this out there as the last question
Speaker 2: to you, Steve Bennet, and I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: By the way, thank you so much for giving me
Speaker 2: your time. And like I said, I owe you. I
Speaker 2: return the favor anytime you ask. Here's my question to you,
Speaker 2: in your perfect world, from a policy perspective, a vision
Speaker 2: of America, how the Blacks how to Latino? Since you
Speaker 2: alluded to them earlier, how do they fit into this
Speaker 2: grand makeup of what America should be and may may
Speaker 2: end up being down the road.
Speaker 1: If your guy, Donald Trump is in office.
Speaker 2: Or anybody else that you support for that matter, I
Speaker 2: want to give you an opportunity to paint a picture
Speaker 2: of what America would look like for people other than
Speaker 2: white men, because we all know. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know, I have this thing. When black folks catch
Speaker 2: a cold, I said, when white folks catch a cold,
Speaker 2: black folks catch pneumonia, it's always worse for us than
Speaker 2: it is for folks in white America.
Speaker 1: I always say that.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to be a hypocrite and not
Speaker 2: say that right here while you're on the airwaves. But
Speaker 2: if your vision, if you achieved, if this administration and
Speaker 2: beyond achieved what you want achieved for America, how does
Speaker 2: America look for the rest of us?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I was raised in the North Side of Richmond, which
Speaker 3: was a predominantly black section of Richmond, And when everybody
Speaker 3: ran in the nineteen sixties and ran to the suburbs,
Speaker 3: my parents we stayed. And the reason was, it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter if you're black, whatever, you're a neighbor and you
Speaker 3: see the hard working folks there in that neighborhood, it's
Speaker 3: very simple. They're American citizens and they get a better
Speaker 3: deal than everybody else. This country comes first, Her citizens
Speaker 3: come first. Regardless of your ethnicity, erase your religion, any
Speaker 3: of it. And right now, that's the vision of Donald
Speaker 3: Trump to put the country first. And in putting the
Speaker 3: country first, the American citizens get a preferred deal. Right now,
Speaker 3: the entire world system is on the shoulders of the
Speaker 3: working class and middle class in this country. The full
Speaker 3: faith and credit of the entire system, of the thirty
Speaker 3: six trillion dollars and one hundred treeion dollars contingent liabilities.
Speaker 3: It's not the Federal Reserve, it's not the sec it's
Speaker 3: not the great banks on Wall Street. It's not a handful,
Speaker 3: you know, the political class. It's the American working class,
Speaker 3: in the middle class, the full faith in credit, the
Speaker 3: entire apparatus world security. The two battlegroups in the Red Sea.
Speaker 3: Right now, there's two carry battlegroups are made up the
Speaker 3: twenty four thousand sailors. There are working class sons and
Speaker 3: daughters of American citizens. It's quite simple, put this country first.
Speaker 3: At the same time, put the citizens first. All they're
Speaker 3: asking for. The citizens in our country are not asking
Speaker 3: for a handout. All they wants a piece of the
Speaker 3: action and it's upon us to deliver that forum if
Speaker 3: we give them a piece to the action and actually
Speaker 3: turn a capitalist system that has very few capitalists in
Speaker 3: it to actually bring them into the capitalist system with
Speaker 3: ownership of real assets and ownerships of financial assets, and
Speaker 3: understanding their own country. They don't have to compete against
Speaker 3: foreign labor and the soil that for generation after generation
Speaker 3: their families have fought and died for and built these communities.
Speaker 3: That's the sunlit uplands. Once we deliver that, this country's
Speaker 3: going to be on the right track. And that's why
Speaker 3: I support having Trump around as long as possible, because
Speaker 3: he is an armor piercing shell to the elites that
Speaker 3: rule this country.
Speaker 2: Two terms, not any more than that set of twenty
Speaker 2: second Amendment. But I hear you loud and clear. I
Speaker 2: want to thank you for your time. I really really
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Can't thank you enough, And I'm extending an
Speaker 2: invite down the road because we know midterms of coming
Speaker 2: up and all of that stuff, and I wanted you
Speaker 2: to know that you're welcome back on I really really
Speaker 2: appreciate your candor, your thoughtfulness and what. I don't agree
Speaker 2: with everything. You know that, but I hear where you're
Speaker 2: coming from. And I thank you for taking time out
Speaker 2: of your schedule to come on the show for so long.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate thank you for it.
Speaker 3: And you've got a duty to your country, just like
Speaker 3: Trump knew he had to do to this country. Steve Asmith,
Speaker 3: thank you for having me on. Look forward to coming back.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, take care, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: You heard him, former chief strategist for Donald Trump, still
Speaker 2: strategizing for him, very very committed to it, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. Outspoken as hell, unapologetic about going to prison,
Speaker 2: unapologetic about supposedly breaking the law, unapologetic about his unwavering
Speaker 2: support of Donald Trump and what Donald Trump is trying
Speaker 2: to do, and making it very clear ain't the GOP support.
Speaker 2: It's Donald Trump. He believes he's a once in a
Speaker 2: generation kind of figure, and he's not bending one inch
Speaker 2: on that. Whether you like it or not, you gotta
Speaker 2: respect the conviction if nothing else. That's really what this
Speaker 2: comes down to. Is going to get very very very interesting.
Speaker 2: I just you know, I asked him a question. I
Speaker 2: just wanted to hear him speak and let him articulate
Speaker 2: his position to the masters and he certainly did that.
Speaker 2: He was unapologetic in doing so. It's pretty damn scary
Speaker 2: to be quite honest with you, when you consider how
Speaker 2: convicted he is. And he talked about the Magma move,
Speaker 2: he talked about them being activist.
Speaker 1: He said, we need the GOP. We are who we are. Damn.
Speaker 1: He wasn't playing.
Speaker 2: He's given me a lot to think about over the weekend,
Speaker 2: make no mistake about it, and I'm gonna do just
Speaker 2: that until next time, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: I hope y'all enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: Hope that left some food for thought, a lot to
Speaker 2: think about, a lot to contemplate. Should give the Democratic
Speaker 2: Party an idea of what the hell they're up against
Speaker 2: and what they're going to have to do to knock
Speaker 2: off Donald Trump or anybody else on the GOP. With
Speaker 2: that man supporting them, Son, they think about the way
Speaker 2: around the Son, they think about it.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: I got to get on out of here. I got
Speaker 2: the NBA playoff action to get back to. I holler
Speaker 2: at y'all in a few days and tell them peace
Speaker 2: and love. Everybody, take care and be safe.