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October 17, 2025 48 mins

THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON, OCTOBER 17TH, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tomahawks to Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
What's going to happen if the United States isn't a conflict.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
And we need the tomahawks.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Well, that's that's the problem.

Speaker 4 (00:10):
We need tomahawks and we need a lot of other
things that we've been sending over the last four years
to Ukraine. We've been you know, we gave, we gave
them a lot. Now we have a different situation. We
send it to the European Union. They pay for it
and all that, and they have plenty of money. The tomahawks,
and we need a lot of other things that we've
been sending over the last four years to Ukraine. We've

(00:31):
been you know, we gave, we gave them a lot.
Now we have a different situation. We send it to
the European Union, they pay for it. One thing I
have to say, we want tomahawks. Also, we don't want
to be giving away things that we need to protect
our country. We have a very strong country right now.
We have a strong military. We have the greatest military
in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world.

(00:54):
I want to get this war over.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
One of the issues that the endatment raises is that
not only was this information exposed to his wife and daughter.
It was exposed to the Iranians because one of his
email accounts was hacked. And what I've learned is that
that is one way that the United States discovered that
there was this classified information on Bolton's AOL accounts because
they had a penetration. The US intelligence community had a

(01:17):
penetration of an Iranian system and they came across these emails,
and that sort of fueled this investigation. And there was
a debate in the Biden administration about whether they could
even move forward with this case because it would require
essentially disclosing to the Iranians that the US had that penetration.
That's a big deal, that's not often done. But the
Trump Justice Department decided that it was worth it to

(01:38):
pursue this case against John Boldton.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Likely knew that this information should not have been spread. Further,
that there was sort of an attempt to say, don't
share this, and then there was a sort of tongue
in cheek that response in the response but explained to
us why that cod or could not factor in here.

Speaker 7 (01:53):
So the power of a document like that or evidence
like that is really the government's ability to get it
into evidence. Trial, and that is, as we all know
at this table, going to be a function of the
witnesses that are able to authenticate that document. In plain English,
what it means is that if I'm having a conversation
with another individual and that conversation is private, either of

(02:14):
us has to be able to take the stand to
say I had this conversation with this person or I
receive this communication from this person. You cannot compel John
Bolton to testify because he hasn't fit the memory against selfcrimination,
and with respect to his family, it's possible that they
could be compelled to testify, but it's very unlikely. So
the question becomes with a communication like that, who is

(02:36):
the witness that you're going to use to authenticate it.
Certainly you could use the FBI, perhaps to say that
they got it through the investigation, but if you're not
hearing from either of the individuals who are participating in
the conversation, it loses its emphasis and the jury has
to sort of take it at the four corners of
the document, which could be good or bad depending on
who you're talking about. But certainly what you will not

(02:57):
have happen is John Bolton get on.

Speaker 8 (02:59):
The stand see this, and as Susan said, say.

Speaker 7 (03:02):
Oh, I only told them because I didn't want it known.
But at the same time, I didn't know that these
weren't things that they.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Were supposed to talk about. So that's not going to work.

Speaker 8 (03:10):
That's absolutely not going to happen.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
This indictment of Bolton accuses him of sharing emails with
information national defense information with two family members. They don't
say who the family members are, but they're presumed to
be his wife and his daughter. How significant is it
that a former National Security advisor was sharing information.

Speaker 9 (03:29):
With his family.

Speaker 10 (03:31):
I think, on one hand, Ariil, it's very significant because
John Bolton, like most people in that position, has shown
us that he understands what the rules of the road are.
In fact, the indictment itself shows us that John Bolton
fully understands that, because he's done a series of interviews
both before his time as the National Security Advisor and after,
where he criticizes other people for their handling and discussion.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Information.

Speaker 10 (03:56):
On the other hand, almost everyone who serves in this
kind of capacity writes a book at some point in time.
Right our bookshelves are Legion upstairs in our headquarters, with
these kinds of books, and you have to ask yourself,
how do people do that if they don't hold on
to classified or national security information at some point in
time in some venue. I think what complicates this here is,

(04:18):
obviously Bolton was using an intermediary. He was using his
wife and daughter basically as a transcription and secretarial service
as his ghostwriters or editors. It's not exactly clear what
function they fulfilled, but he was handwriting notes along his
journey as the nessay. Then he was converting them into
a word document and sending them to his wife and daughter,
either over an instant message platform that's non governmental or

(04:41):
a commercial email application. And that's the complicating factor.

Speaker 11 (04:44):
And if I could just throw in a quick one
on one hundred percent tariff on things like the movies,
obviously our movie industry is already the best in the world,
and I don't understand the competitive issue there.

Speaker 12 (04:56):
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (04:59):
Well.

Speaker 14 (04:59):
I'll say the movie thing first. If you know Hollywood,
and I used to live about sixty miles from there,
it became almost impossible to produce a medium to low

(05:20):
budget film in Hollywood, and so it was off to
Czechoslovakia and Canada.

Speaker 8 (05:27):
The industry went and it was drawn by.

Speaker 14 (05:33):
Heavy government subsidies from countries around the world who wanted
to cash in on.

Speaker 8 (05:39):
The Hollywood cow. So yeah, it's a significant that's a
significant issue.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
That Maduro offered everything in his country, all the natural resources.

Speaker 9 (05:55):
He even recorded a message to you in English recently
offering mediation.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
He has, he has offered everything. He's offered everything.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
You're right, you know why because he doesn't want to
fund with the United States.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Thank everybody.

Speaker 15 (06:12):
It's Friday, seventeen October, the Year of Our Lord, twenty
twenty five, joined by my co host this afternoon, Lee Wolmsburg.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Now, you're running right now.

Speaker 15 (06:22):
We know you as the Patriot Mobile political action person.
You're actually running for the state Senate in the state
of Texas.

Speaker 16 (06:29):
Yes, I'm running for Senate District nine. And in the
state of Texas we have thirty one senators. They're huge districts,
larger than congressional.

Speaker 15 (06:37):
There's only thirty one senators in all of Texas Texas Senate.

Speaker 16 (06:40):
About a millions since so it's a huge district. Our
races are more expensive than congressional races.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Wow, unbelievable.

Speaker 15 (06:47):
Hang around, Lee, We're going we got a lot to
get to let's go to Peter Navarre's on Pebble Beach.
Zelenski just left the White House a few minutes ago.
The President left, no gaggle, no discussion, heading to Palm Beach. Peter, today,
your speech really touched the heart. We started the show
down here in Texas with your speech. I gotta tell you,
the audience reaction was amazing because you talked about populism

(07:08):
and economic nationalism from the heart, and you really were
It almost felt like you were addressing the good folks
in Texas, the farmers, the ranchers, the entrepreneurs, the people
that really are the backbone of this country, sir.

Speaker 14 (07:25):
The Council on Foreign Relations is kind of the Davos
of Washington, DC. It's the center of gravity for all
of the policy guys who are going to be in
Democrat administrations.

Speaker 8 (07:40):
I went right at them today.

Speaker 14 (07:44):
I was happy to get the invite, but look, they're
responsible for everything you and I have fought for what
the better part of three decades now NAFTA. They were
behind China's entry into the wto the ill fated trans
Specific Partnership, which President Trump skewered on his first day

(08:07):
in office. In the first term and this drum beat
Steve a propaganda. Tariffs are bad, Tariffs are going to
cause inflation, Tariffs are going to cause recession.

Speaker 8 (08:19):
Don't do tariffs. We'll upset our allies. They're always so quick, Steve.
One of the themes of the.

Speaker 14 (08:26):
Speech was you can't trade our economic security for national security.
Economic surity is national security. If you don't have a
manufacturing base, you can't defend anybody, including yourself. So it
was a very interesting day and I hope the Council

(08:47):
of Foreign Relation on Foreign Relations got a little religion
today because I was preaching brother's preaching the Gospel of Maga,
and I was preaching it the way they didn't like,
because I gave them the data, the facts, sir. We
brought them facts and it was fun.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Okay, let me ask you.

Speaker 15 (09:06):
You went to kind of the high church of the
globalist and it's one of the most elite groups in
the world. You got to be invited to be part
of the Council on Foreign Relations, really headquartered in New York,
but with a massive state of the art office in
DC right near the White House. You also had Anna Swanson,
and I would say Anna is probably one of the
smartest people in the country about trade. She does a
great job of The New York Times, although she's not

(09:28):
she's a globalist, she's not a nationalist. But then you
had you had a live audience of the invitation only
of the Council, and then you had I don't know,
five ten thousand people just on their zoom a zoom call,
and we had, you know, hundreds of thousands watching live.
You actually got up in their grill like I've never
seen before.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
How did they respond to your kind of reader?

Speaker 15 (09:50):
Are they empathetic at all with what the populist nationalists
and the good folks in Texas are trying to fight for.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Is it just this elitist globalist sneering.

Speaker 14 (10:01):
Well, first of all, guest, toasting on the war room
is good training to go get in the grill of
the globalists. I thought that the reception in the room
was surprisingly warm.

Speaker 8 (10:15):
I think they get it.

Speaker 14 (10:17):
You got the leadership, the problems, the leadership, and the
fellows who take the checks and write the articles and
things like foreign policy.

Speaker 8 (10:25):
But these are smart people.

Speaker 14 (10:27):
They have eyes and ears and they can see over
time that Donald Trump's trade policies have certainly been very
effective they certainly see that it's Donald Trump creating peace,
not war.

Speaker 8 (10:43):
But this is the kind of constructive dialogue we need.

Speaker 14 (10:46):
I mean, look, Steve, I think we've broken the back
of the resistance on tariffs and trade as it is now,
because Donald Trump has succeeded beyond anybody's wildest dream in
terms of getting deals with virtually the rest of the
world that are very favorable to the United States, all

(11:07):
without creating inflation or recession. And everybody's kind of grudgingly
admitting who hasn't yet that yeah, it's working pretty damn good.
And oh, by the way, as I said in the
speech today, we're able to pay down our national debt
in ways which could actually get us a balanced budget
and keep our bond yields down and mortgage rates down

(11:31):
and consumer credit down. So look, Council on Foreign Relations
is the last holdout, but we went to them today
and they heard the message, and hopefully they'll come home to.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
Us as well.

Speaker 15 (11:47):
I know, I don't want any obviously classifying from measure
insight baseball, but today you have both the kinetic part
of the war President Trump are trying to solve with
this slaughter in Ukraine and President Trump comes on once
again with the empathet he diad he's trying to work on,
you know, Tomahawk's offensive, not with Putin. Marco's going over
next week to start the negotiation with Lavrov. President Trump

(12:07):
will follow to Budapest. You've also you Jamison, Ambassador Greer
Scott Besson are dealing with the Chinese Commis party on
what looks like open warfare about rare Earth. Where just
we overall directionally, where do we stand with this? Because
I will tell you not just markets, but as I'm
down here in Texas, people are paying attention to this
big time.

Speaker 8 (12:30):
Well, as the Boss says, let's see what happens.

Speaker 14 (12:32):
We'll know by November first, after President Trump meets with
President Shijin Ping.

Speaker 8 (12:39):
My favorite question of the day.

Speaker 14 (12:43):
In the forum today was about kind of the rare
Earth and what's the weaponization of our CHINAE supply chains
against this?

Speaker 8 (12:54):
You know, Steve, you know, I know it's unrestricted warfare.

Speaker 14 (12:58):
And what I explain to there out there that is
simply that my you know, my job at the White House,
Steve is not only bring things home into supply chain,
but the ones where there's vulnerabilities and all I can
say is what China's doing is making my job a
heck of a lot easier. I don't have to convince
anybody anymore inside the White House that we need to
do this, and we need to do it in Trump time,

(13:19):
which is to say, as fast as possible.

Speaker 8 (13:21):
So let's see what happens. Is always good for the
war room to be here.

Speaker 14 (13:25):
Thanks for carrying that today, Thanks to the Papa, sig
Brob Sigg and Parker for getting it all done. And
last thing I'll say, Steve got to be said. I'm
so pissed off that John Bolton as like Comy got
to self surrender chapter one of I went to prison
so you won't have to. You can read about my
leg irons arrest. You know, I don't want that to

(13:48):
be done to them, but it does provide a stark
contrast between how those bastards treated you and me and
how we're treating them.

Speaker 8 (13:56):
Eighteen counts felony, John Bolton.

Speaker 15 (14:00):
Last thing, Anna Swanson, one of the senior people at
the New York Times, did you happen to mention we
sold more books than than than number ten?

Speaker 3 (14:08):
We should be number eight.

Speaker 15 (14:08):
In the New York Times bestseller list, and we're not.
Did you mention it to Anna wet a thirty second brother?

Speaker 14 (14:13):
I I yeah, I communicated that through email to the
publisher or through Soulsburger, through Anna Swanson as well. She's
well aware of the problem. Look, don't expect fairness from
the New York Times. They're costing us. See, they're costing

(14:34):
us thousands and thousands of books out there, and it's
not about the money.

Speaker 8 (14:38):
It's about the message.

Speaker 14 (14:40):
And that's what they do New York Times is canceled
culture and skewed analysis, and uh, we.

Speaker 8 (14:48):
Just got to keep fighting. The good news is there's.

Speaker 14 (14:50):
The war room now and there's all sorts of alternative ways.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, we'll talk to your money brother. Thank you.

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Speaker 15 (15:33):
So at Real America's Voice and where we are juggling,
we're live in Texas right now.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Lead's my co host. Tomorrow morning from eight am to noon,
we're going to be live.

Speaker 15 (15:42):
And we're going to juggle between Orlando and Moms for
Liberty and here in Texas.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
We got breaking.

Speaker 15 (15:47):
News, personalities, politics, all of it, and we have a
rally tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 16 (15:52):
We do. You can learn more about it at Leefertexas
dot com.

Speaker 15 (15:56):
So I'll be there with Lee and we're gonna have
a rally and Gary Jack for this coming election. Simultaneously,
in the afternoon, we're going to do live coverage. Real
mark Is Voice going to do live coverage of Marine
Corps two fifty, very much like the Navy two fifty
we did, I think a couple of Sundays ago. Our
own Amanda Head is going to be there. She's at

(16:17):
She's at Camp Pendleton right now, Oceanside, California.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Amanda head.

Speaker 15 (16:21):
First off, Amanda, that's not normally a very safe place
for a young woman to be. But you did go
to Auburn, so I guess you're tough.

Speaker 13 (16:29):
Enough, right, I did, And I actually have two Auburn
camera guys, so we have banded together and we are good.
And look, we're right next to the base, we're right
outside of it. We actually just had two lovely marines
come out and make sure that we were not actually
filming the gate because that's a security risk. But we
are just focused here on the sign. But they were
lovely and it does feel quite safe. And you know, Steve,

(16:52):
you consider the demographics of southern California and what's happening
with deportations, and.

Speaker 9 (16:56):
There is maybe a touch less crime in these areas.

Speaker 15 (17:01):
Amanda, walk us through tomorrow you're broadcast, you're gonna anchor
tell us about a Pendalon. My understanding is we're going
to see a full marine amphibious assault and landing right
there at Pendleton. Can you give us a heads up
of what we can what we can look forward to.

Speaker 13 (17:17):
I will give you the full breakdown. I had to
write it down because there's so much you've got. It's
going to start off with ACV so those.

Speaker 9 (17:22):
Are those are amphibious combat vehicles.

Speaker 13 (17:25):
Those are going to be launching from naval vessels and
then coming aboard land.

Speaker 9 (17:29):
You've got C one thirties.

Speaker 13 (17:30):
They're gonna have parachute jumpers that are going to be
jumping to Red Beach, which is just a little bit
north of Camp Pendleton. You've got Navy Special Warfare divers
doing a demonstration. FA eighteen's, F thirty five c's those
are fighter jets. They're going to be executing beach strides
and that's going to be up until about one pm.

Speaker 9 (17:50):
And then we've got C eight fifty threes.

Speaker 13 (17:52):
Those are heavy lift helicopters and MB twenty two's those
are a type of osprey.

Speaker 9 (17:58):
Those are tilt rotor osprey's.

Speaker 13 (18:00):
We've got high Mars Marine Artillery units conducting controlled live
fire demonstrations. You're going to have a combined United States
Marine Corps and United States Navy Air Power finale SEE
one thirty flyover and then H one helicopter flyover and
flag presentation to close it all out. So this obviously

(18:20):
is for the Marine Corps. November tenth, seventeen seventy five
is when they began, but obviously a strong unity between
the United States Marines and the Navy, so the Navy
is participating as well.

Speaker 9 (18:32):
It's going to be incredible.

Speaker 12 (18:32):
Steve.

Speaker 13 (18:33):
If we were over at the site earlier today doing
a preset for all of our equipment, and it is
a production on par with President Trump's biggest campaign rallies
last year, and obviously even more expansive considering all of
the vehicles around that were already there. We were just
watching a demonstration and a rehearsal of the flyover. I mean,

(18:53):
it is American mite and patriotism on display.

Speaker 9 (18:57):
Tomorrow is going to be absolutely spectacular.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Everything going on in Taiwan.

Speaker 15 (19:01):
It couldn't be a more timely effort With the Navy,
and of course what Cleo Pascal calls calls the Men's
Department of the Navy, the United States Marine are Amanda,
you start where at Mom's Celeberty and Texas from eight
o'clock remember war room coverage expanse of Real America's Voice.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Eight am tomorrow to noon.

Speaker 15 (19:21):
Sorry, our normal tended noon show, but we're gonna have
two hours in the morning.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Lee's gonna be with me.

Speaker 15 (19:25):
Brian Harrison's gonna be with you, many other people from
Texas gonna be We're gonna cut back and forth between
between this amazing conference of Mom's Liberty in Orlando. Then
we're going to toss it to Amanda in the team
out in California at Camp Pendleton. They're gonna let it rip, Amanda.
What's your social media? I'm sure people gonna have tons
of questions all day, all night where they go.

Speaker 9 (19:46):
At Amanda Head, everywhere, Amanda Head.

Speaker 15 (19:48):
Thank you so much, ma'am. Good luck tomorrow, Bravo Zulu. Okay, Lee,
here's what I don't get. Okay, we've known Patron Mob
have been a sponsor for years of known you and
that you've got a great company, you've got a great family,
You're kind of revered down here with the grassroots. You're
kind of legendary in the grassroots. And what you guys
have done Patriot Mobile has done as outreach on so

(20:11):
many different things, right the schools, the Bibles of the
Bible for.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
All of it just amazing.

Speaker 15 (20:16):
Why would somebody's got a life like that want to
get into cut through a policists? Folks got understand, as
we've covered on the Trille can pacts all of it.
The Texas Senate only has thirty one people, so each
one of them's targeted, particularly with the business interest, with
the radical left, with everything, you get all these other
issues that are coming for It's one of the reasons
I came to Texas. I said, something's going on down

(20:38):
to Texas. I got start spending more time there. Why
would you leave that nice life to go into the
cockpit of what modern politics is, particularly in state like Texas,
which as goes Texas, so goes the country.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Man.

Speaker 16 (20:52):
The bottom line is, if good people don't get in
the game, who's running the show? Right, bad people I've
noticed desire to be an elected official. I have no
desire to have a title. This is a duty right
I'm needed at this time. I'm not going to allow
a Democrat to win the seat or a Rhino to

(21:13):
win the seat, because Texas matters. If Texas goes, so
goes the country. And you're right, my life is really great.
It's a lot better without this. But if good people
don't self sacrifice and get involved, you have the other
type of candidate who is in it for themselves, and
that never works out well for the people your district.

Speaker 15 (21:33):
Is huge includes I think part of one of the
best cities in this country, Fort Worth, Texas just extraordinary.
I spend so much time in Fort Worth of the
last thirty years, and you've got the great part that's
north of Fort Worth. The reason your case is pretty
is pretty interesting is that when you announce, and given

(21:54):
how people know you from grassroots, you had a fairly
big lead against the Democrat and then all and then
all of a sudden, the establishment Republican business community drops
in a guy with I don't know four million dollars
or whatever he had, and just starts corporate bombing. I mean,
they're sending a signal they don't want Maga, they don't
want a grassroots person, they want somebody that's very meliable

(22:17):
to the business community.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
How do you handle that? Well?

Speaker 16 (22:20):
To understand the dynamics of that statement, that this is
a special election and there is no primary, So there
was already a Democrat in and then I got in
the election. So the next Republican that got in was
willing to split the vote. The next Republican that got
in didn't care at the possibility of splitting the vote
and perhaps giving the seat to a Democrat. That alone

(22:43):
should be enough to know who to vote for. But
in addition to that, now that we know, since the
finance reports have come out that over ninety three percent
of all of his money has come from out of state.

Speaker 15 (22:53):
Ninety three percent of that big amount of money was
out of state.

Speaker 16 (22:56):
I've never seen that in the history. You know, I've
been in politics a long time. I've never seen that
with another Texas candidate. It's really phenomenal. We are working
really hard at the grassroots. We have a good campaign.
It's we're strong on our messaging. We know what the
people want. You know, this district has over twenty cities,

(23:16):
it has thirteen school districts, so and I've been at
every one of them talking to the voters.

Speaker 15 (23:21):
And this kind of an explosive growth area of Texas
correct well, one of the most explosive growth states in
the Union.

Speaker 16 (23:26):
It is, and in our area is one of the
most explosive growth Senate districts in the state of Texas.
So we're out there working hard. We know what the
people want. We have the grassroots machine, volunteers, moms and
dads who love the state and love this country and
want to keep Senate District nine.

Speaker 15 (23:45):
Read you're doing the President Trump precinct strategy. Turning point,
Charlie Kirk, you're knocking on doors in voter engagement.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
What is you?

Speaker 15 (23:53):
What are your team and you hearing from the voters
when you knocking on the doors in their mind? Right now,
nine months into President Trumps administration and with all the
madness that just went through the reditioning fight in Texas,
what are voters telling you is top of their mind.

Speaker 16 (24:07):
So no matter where I go in all of these cities,
there's two top issues property tax and security and policing.
So that includes your local police, that includes border security.
And something that I have been really sort of screwing
from the mountaintops is this is what President Trump has
done to our southern border is amazing him. He's closing it,

(24:30):
you know before.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Just does that show up now and jumping up.

Speaker 16 (24:33):
I actually just talked to the sheriff earlier today and
he said, we are seeing crime rates go down since
President Trump lowered, I mean lowered the amount of people
coming over. You know, prior to this. You know, Tarre
County is the reddest county in the nation. Our sheriff
testified in Washington, DC that in this Red County. He
was doing a bust up a stash house and he
found women in cages here in Parrett County. And that's

(24:55):
part of healthy that's cartel, the drug lords and the
drug traffickers. So that has truly helped that. However, Texas
has to be prepared for a life after President Trump.
We can never again be caught off guard depending upon
who's in the White House. We are the eighth largest
economy in the world. We have a two point seven

(25:16):
trillion dollar GDP. There is no reason why we can't
handle our southern border. And I know that's supposed to
be the federal government's responsibility, but Texas is big enough.
We need to watch our own border and always, always
be prepared.

Speaker 15 (25:30):
I can tell you from the last couple of days.
One of the things that the nationwide audience is shocked about.
I'm getting text so let they go. The property taxes
can't be that high there, talk to me about the
we got a minute the property I think people say, well, no,
this is Texas. These are self reliance, this is the
pioneer frontier spirit. Your property taxes are out of control.

Speaker 16 (25:47):
So they're very, very high. Now, keep in mind we
don't have a state income tax, so it offsets with
property tax. But what happens is sometimes it does it
absolutely gets out of control and you've got people being
taxed out of their homes, especially senior citizens. We have
some tax important tax amendments on this November fourth election
as well, and they will increase our homestead exemption. So

(26:09):
the homestead exemption hires heightens the amount to where you
don't get taxed. So right now, the first one hundred
thousand dollars of all of our property is not taxed,
but this raises it to one hundred and forty the.

Speaker 15 (26:22):
Way the way real estate's down here, one hundred thousands,
nothing right exploding.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Okay, Lee, hang on first.

Speaker 15 (26:27):
So, by the way, what's your campaign where if people
want to know more about your campaign, where they go
right now?

Speaker 16 (26:31):
Leefortexas dot com.

Speaker 15 (26:33):
Okay, And this is going to be a barn burner.
This is going to go all the way. You're gonna
have to run through the tape. You know that it's
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Speaker 12 (26:54):
Back in a moment, here's your host, Stephen k Back.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Welcome back.

Speaker 15 (27:06):
You just got as you walked in here on this
Friday afternoon, a huge endorsement in this race.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Who just endorsed you?

Speaker 16 (27:12):
It's so exciting. I just got a call from the
Fort Worth Firefighters Association. These are the men and women
running in a burning building when we're running out of it,
and they are really a powerful force in Senate District nine,
and I am so blessed and honored to get that call.
I'm really excited.

Speaker 15 (27:26):
So why, given the choices out there, why did they
select you?

Speaker 16 (27:29):
You know, one of the things we talked about in
our interview is when I was a news anchor and reporter,
I was one of the first reporters to talk about
the off gassing and plastics when they're burning and the
carcinogens in those and how firefighters are affected by that.
So I really relate to a lot of their issues.
And I've always honored our police and fire my entire life,

(27:50):
and they just recognize that. And I'm just really so
they know you've got their back. You're not just somebody
blown through town and one to endorsement. You've been You've
had their back for a long time, for a decade.

Speaker 15 (28:00):
Decades, amazing and it pays off in a huge People
should know that it's a huge endorsement.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Here in this in Fort Worth, the four area.

Speaker 15 (28:08):
Terry Conney Aaron writes, you also, sir, had a great life.
Why do you want to be Attorney General of the
great state of Texas? And why would you give up
your life to get into this part of elective politics
which is just a cockpit. It's going to be this
is going to be such a tough race. Why are
you doing it?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
It's a great race, look, and we're this is the
great life. Running for office in this capacity. I love
running for Texas AG. I love the fight that we're in.
You know, I'm a former marine and an earlier segment,
you guys were talking about the two hundred and fiftieth
birthday that's coming up.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
I love being in the fight.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
But the reason why I'm running specifically for Attorney General
of Texas is because I have served at Attorney General
Ken Paxson's right hand I was his offensive coordinator during
the Biden years. Suing the Biden administration as an Attorney
general candidate, I've been endorsed by Ken Packson to succeed him,
and I have seen.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
From a front row seat.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
How important it is to have a battle tested warrior
in this position, to operate effectively in a lawfare environment
in which we're in right now. My three opponents, they
don't have the slightest clue what they're doing. They may
be good legislators, but they are not, as President Trump
described me when he brought me to the Justice Department,

(29:25):
true maga attorneys and warriors for the constitution.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
That's what we need in the Texas AG's office.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
And I think that my background litigating, investigating, suing, defending,
and appealing on all the major issues that your national
audience cares about, that's what.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Makes me best suited for this job. We got to
get the warrior in the fight, and I think that
that's me.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
So, Aaron, here's what I'd staying.

Speaker 15 (29:46):
It was Glenn's story and Lee Wamsgan that kind of
came to me and said, Hey, I don't think you
quite understand how big a deal this impeachment of Ken
Paxson is and how cuts to all the core issues
between MAGA and the establishment, between the Trump faction and
the Bush faction.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
And that's when we got engaged. Man.

Speaker 15 (30:03):
We did stories every day and had people on, had
did sarity specials, and we're kind of the platform that
started turning the things around. In a system that would
impeach a guy like Ken Paxson, who's kind of a legendary,
you know, individual as being an Attorney general in the
MAGA movement, why would you want that job.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Somebody's got to do the fight. Somebody's got to go
to war and fight to advance our values through the
justice system.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
I was with Attorney General Ken Paxson as his right
hand man throughout that entire impeachment process, from the moment
that those liars decided to accuse him of doing a
bunch of wrongdoing, to drag him through politically, try to
humiliate and destroy him, all the way through the investigations
and the impeachment, which, by the way, I think it's
important to note, Steve, for your audience, all three of

(30:55):
my opponents were behind the instigation and impeachment. Attorney General
Ken Paxton, a guy that you had on the show
just the other day. Congressman Chip Roy was the first
elected official in America to call for Attorney General Ken
Paxson to be removed from office in October of twenty twenty.

(31:16):
Then all the way three years later in September twenty
twenty three, he was still lending his name, image, likeness,
and updated quotes and on speaking tours calling for him
to be convicted by the State Senate. My two other
opponents were involved in whipping support to impeach Ken Paxson.
One of my opponents spent five hundred thousand dollars of

(31:37):
his own money bank rolling primary challengers and House members
who were going against Ken Paxton.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
And so the choices are very clear in this race.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
If Texans and your national audience stand with Ken Paxon,
there is only one person in this race who is
suited to be his successor, not only in terms of
the loyalty that I've shown the devotion to our movement,
but the fact that I was in the lines den
with Attorney General Paxton. He endorsed me to succeed him,
and I am ready to go to war and Steeve,

(32:08):
I'll tell you this, I've seen how ugly this law
bear can get.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
I've seen how nasty it can get.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
We're not just fighting the demonic left, but we're fighting
the Swish Rhino line duplicitous, deceptive rhinos on the right
as well, both of whom came against Paxton, and both
of whom I've been fighting for my entire career, and
that experience that makes me uniquely suited to serve as

(32:35):
the next Chief Legal Officer of the State of Texas.

Speaker 15 (32:38):
Aaron on the twentieth of January of twenty twenty one,
as President Trump's plane left the tarmac to the sound
of Frank Sinatra's you Know a great song, My Way,
we had Boris Epstein calling in. We teed up the
five o'clock show, the afternoon show, and the first guest
we had was Ken Paxson, and we said, Ken, you know,

(32:59):
the the AG's.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Going to be the frontline here. Tell us what you're
going to do.

Speaker 15 (33:02):
And he says, Hey, where the Biden administration was in
the bounds of the constitution, right, and this benefits the
folks in Texas. We're going to support it and work
with it. Where they're outside the bounds of the constitution.
And this is to the detriment of the citizens of Texas.
I'm going to lead the fight, and of course it's
legendary what Ken Paxon did, leading virtually every fight, including
for the election, all of it. Now that President Trump

(33:25):
is in, what are you going to do as attorney
general regarding the Trump administration?

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Totally?

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Well, I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
I remember January twentyth, twenty twenty one vividly because what
we were doing that afternoon is we were preparing our
very first lawsuit, which we dropped When I was Ken
Paxson's deputy and his offensive coordinator. We dropped our first
lawsuit against the Biden administration on January twenty first, twenty
twenty one, on.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Order security related matters, and we won that case.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
And since that time, I was responsible for coordinating and executing.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
All of those Texas Vied Biden lawsuits.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
During my tenure as Ken Paxson's deputy, I brought forty
six lawsuits against the forty six president, and with Ken
Paxson leading the charge, we won eighty five percent of
those cases.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Now, it's a very different operating environment that we're in
right now.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
We don't have an existential enemy in the White House
in fact, we have a very close.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Ally in the White House.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
And so what I stand uniquely positioned to do, as
somebody who just came from the senior most ranks of
the Justice Department in the presidentially appointed Senate confirmed role
as the head of the Office of Legal Policy, is
that I am uniquely positioned to partner with the Trump
administration to muster those resources, whether it's the White House Staff,
Domestic Policy, or DHS DOJ, to bring those to bear

(34:45):
as somebody who's already been vetted by that team, somebody
who's already a friend with all of those key players,
to coordinate our efforts to turn and train our guns
on the enemy of liberty that have taken route here
in Texas, whether they are the nonprofits, the Soros funded das,
the shurial law entities that are taking root here, the

(35:07):
anti American college campuses that have flourished right here in Texas.
So rather than turning our artillery against the Feds, we
can coordinate and cooperate with the Trump administration, with me
as the Attorney General, a former senior Trump Administration official,
to really really root out leftism, corruption, violence, fraud, waste
abuse right here at home. On our home soil in

(35:29):
the lone Star state, and that's what makes me uniquely
effective as the national Attorney general.

Speaker 15 (35:35):
Aaron social media coordinates and where do people go find
about you?

Speaker 3 (35:39):
More about you and your campaign?

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Well, folks can go to my website at Aaronrights dot
com a A R O N R E I t
z dot com, and I post on all social media
platforms if you just search for my name or my
ex handle, in particular at Aaron Underscore Rights, A R
O N Underscore.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
R E I t Z.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Vote for Trump, True Maga attorney and warrior for the
Constitution and the Ken Paxson endorsed successor as the next
Attorney General of Texas.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Aaron, thank you so much for joining us on a
Friday appreciation Thanks.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Thanks, welly, good luck, God bless you.

Speaker 15 (36:14):
Thank you for being in the corps. And tomorrow, of course,
Marine Corps two point fifty from Camp Pen.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
And Amanda Head and the entire raft team will be
out there.

Speaker 15 (36:23):
How do you I mean, we got up close and
personal with the Texas Senate and I didn't know a
whole lot about it beforehand, and I said wow, when
I went through the Kent bags and trial and they
were the jury, and how close that whole thing was.
How are you prepping yourself as you run and talk
to your constituents to actually join that body, which I
would respectfully submit is not entirely maga.

Speaker 16 (36:45):
Well, yeah, and absolutely isn't. The Senate is so much
better than the House? Right, How do I prepare myself?

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Why is it? But why is that?

Speaker 15 (36:53):
In Texas? Texas? I said today we had a conference
meeting here. I said, this is the reddest Man state
for people and for activists and for grassroots and the
politico apparatus. The reason Texas is purple is that you
have a blue apparatus, but still most of them have
Republican next to their name.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
How could that possibly be?

Speaker 16 (37:14):
Well, it really comes down to leadership. The leadership in
the Senate is significantly more conservative than the leadership in
the House. And so we have an unusual thing, you know,
with only thirty one senators, twenty of them are Republican.
Five of them they're open seats coming up for election.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
How can that be? Well, why would that many people
want to leave it? One time?

Speaker 15 (37:34):
So Republicans is twenty five percent of the Republican. Of
the Republicans in the Senate as powerful as that is.

Speaker 16 (37:39):
Yes, and so several things. One of them, you know,
got a great job. The other one is running for
another position. A couple of retired. So you know, life happens.
People retire. You know, we're not meant to stay in
government forever. So think about our founding fathers. They risked
everything to run. You talk about why would I do
it because I have a great life. I don't want
to do it. It's a duty to do it. And if

(38:01):
more good people don't do it, our country is finished.
We have to we have to step up.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
What's going to be the top of the agenda.

Speaker 15 (38:08):
You said your things are property taxes, in security, and
particularly Hitt's something quite important. There was a controversy that
the board was involved in for years, the duty of Texan,
of the Texas government to secure the border. You just
can't wait for the federal government this During Biden, it
was a disaster. You had Project Lone Star, but we
had Bean Burakwam Benzman and many people are in the

(38:30):
government today down there. The Project Lone Star was a
licking to promise. I mean they were coming through and
it wasn't being done. Is that something you're going to
push because you're going to say, hey, the Trump president
Trump as great as he is, and of course I'm
head of Trump twenty eight. You're saying, at some point
in time that's going to come to a conclusion. Texas
has to stand up and secure its own border. You're
the eighth biggest economy in the world.

Speaker 16 (38:51):
Right, it's the biggest responsibility of government is to protect
our citizen.

Speaker 15 (38:55):
And you think the state government too, You think they're
going to They clearly don't want to do that, right
or they would have done.

Speaker 16 (39:00):
There's a lot of people that want to and if
we send reinforcements like ali wamsconsta Senate, we'll have more
strength for that.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
You know, operations is that big?

Speaker 15 (39:08):
Is the constituency you're talking to them, that's something they
bring up.

Speaker 16 (39:11):
It's very important, Wow, very important. We've seen the decrease
in crime, which is you know why I talked to
the sheriff today. He said, yes, it's real, Yes we're
seeing it. Yes it's tangible. But Republicans are really good
when we win in elections to sit back on our
couch and eat our bombons. We have to prepare now
to make sure our border is never left wide open again.

(39:33):
Eleven million immigrants where illegal immigrants were taken off the
streets enough fitanol to kill every man, woman and child
in America, Canada and Mexico was seized by a law enforcement.
We cannot be in that situation again.

Speaker 15 (39:49):
You've had some Antifa problems here with going after ICE
officer two instance, I think one up in North Texas
and then that horrible shooting down here a couple of
weeks ago. What are your constituents, potential constituents telling you
about that, about the ICE officers and the mass deportations.

Speaker 16 (40:07):
Well, our constituents are absolutely fully supporting law enforcement, fully
supporting ICE, and we think it's un American. And if
you're going to attack our ICE agents, you do not
deserve to be in this country.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Wow, Lee, hang around the folks. I talked to Navarre.

Speaker 15 (40:24):
You could tell about his speech today at the Council
FIM Relations.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
President Trump right now is weighing and measuring what to
do on.

Speaker 15 (40:31):
The request for Tomahawk missiles to go on offense in Ukraine.
Remember the kinetic part of the Third World War in
Ukraine two point eight million to three million casualties already.
Of course, We're now in an open economic war with
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Speaker 3 (40:49):
We called it four years ago.

Speaker 15 (40:50):
Goal was eleven hundred dollars an ounce Today forty three
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Speaker 12 (41:00):
Here's your host, Stephen k Back.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
Obviously a big audience watched this.

Speaker 15 (41:06):
A lot of the mega folks, Melissa Kats and these
fire breathing populist nationalist Trump followers, they want to They're
very focused, particularly in the Dallas area, about security for elections.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
How big a priorities are for you.

Speaker 16 (41:21):
It's a big priority. And you know, we we made
some progress after the mess of the COVID election. However,
that bill took authority away from the Attorney general, put
it all in the hands of the local district attorneys
and those woke district attorneys.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
That he told me and Paxton told me that was
a killer for him, it was a killer.

Speaker 16 (41:39):
It was a killer. So I mean, think about it.
Where this stuff happens the most are in these blue counties,
and that's where we need to prosecute. And he wasn't
allowed to go after them without it being referred to
him from the district attorney and they weren't doing that.
So we did fix a lot of that this session,
but there's a lot more ago.

Speaker 15 (41:55):
As people are kind of shocked about a lot of
the regulations down here in Texas and how it's really
the polcal class down here is blue. People also assume
you're the most gun owner friendly state in the Union.
I take it that would not be correct, as I've
followed you around for the last couple of days.

Speaker 16 (42:10):
That would not be correct. We've made a lot of
progress this How can that happen in Texas? Well? I
don't know. I don't know. I've not understood it because
everyone I talked to is I'm really on the same
page with me. With the Second Amendment, I have fought
to ban and constitutional red flag laws that violate due
process for decades. I'm the only candidate in this race
that was down in Austin this session talking to members

(42:32):
pushing to get this law passed, going door to door
to door. We did get it passed. We finally banned
red flag laws in Texas this session. But where we
miss the mark is civiliability bills. With the Second Amendment.
What a lot of people don't realize is you can
use your standard ground law. You can legally defend your family.
Of course, there'll be a court proceeding if you kill

(42:53):
an intruder who's trying to harm you, and then you
walk out of court totally justified in using that force.
But then the leftists across the country and definitely in Texas,
they will fund lawsuits to suit.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Oh right, they hit you.

Speaker 15 (43:06):
After getting off from the criminal side, they come as responses,
they come in and hit you with a civil suit.

Speaker 16 (43:11):
Yes, twenty states have made this illegal. Texas still has it,
and we missed the mark. And that's one of my
Second Amendment priorities if I'm elected, because if you can
be sued and live your livelihood, you do not have
a Second Amendment.

Speaker 15 (43:23):
Brian Harrison was telling me one of the things people
are starting to focus on now is concern about the
Texas budget, about deficits. You've guys had a couple of surpluses,
but it seems like it goes overnight. Nobody really knows
where this money is being spent. There's all kind of
off balance sheet pockets. The only responsibility of the Senate
in the House, I believe, is to pass a budget. Correct,
what's the story on finances down here? Deficits in the

(43:46):
direction of where things are going.

Speaker 16 (43:48):
So again, our GDP is two point seven trillion.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Dollars any eighth things economy in the world.

Speaker 16 (43:53):
It is, it is, it's huge. We're soon by and
we're going to be the seventh largest economy in the
world and and buy in real budget is right, just
over three hundreds you're alien legislation. Yeah, only every few years.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
But you have now special sessions all the time.

Speaker 16 (44:10):
Well, we do. We only have a special session outside
of the regular sessions in an emergency situation. These past
special sessions are because it followed regular session. So we
are supposed to only meet every two years. But there
was our budget increased dramatically. While we gave some property
tax reliefs, some good things happen. We have to cut
spending the only way to really reduce the property tax burden.

(44:32):
Step number one. I always I'm a root cause person
instead of just putting band aids on things. Step number one,
we need to cut spending in the State of Texas
and tighten the belt and get rid.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Of we say spending.

Speaker 15 (44:42):
What has Like I said, it's come to a shock
to people about how progressive some of these things are.
What's the problem with cutting spending? You would think with
the common sense of the Texas Frontier and still this
entrepreneurial spirit when you come down. I mean, people in
Texas love this state so much. Where's the spend? Why
are you having increases in spending and where is it?

Speaker 16 (45:02):
Well, our two biggest budget items in the state of
Texas are education and health and Human Services, and there's
a lot of waste fraud interviews in both of those categories.
And I know the last session a datish committee was implemented,
and we need to double and triple that. We need
dosee on steroids in the state of Texas, and that's
going to be one of my goals.

Speaker 15 (45:21):
Education Brian Harrison has statistics of like only a quarter
of what the juniors in high school can read a
proficiency or have math proficientcy. That can't possibly be as
much money as Texas puts into education. And quite frankly,
how Texas education is kind of revered here given the
university system, given you Baylor and all the private schools, TCU, SMU,

(45:43):
University of Texas, the Public Texas A and m Texas
Tech how can you have more money spent on education
in failure to perform.

Speaker 16 (45:52):
I'll tell you it's heartbreaking. As a mom who you know,
raised two boys they're in university now, it's really heartbreaking.
The state of Texas currently is looking at five school districts.
There's thirteen in Senate District nine. Out of those five
school districts statewide, two of those that are being looked
at being taken over.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
For underperformance, taken over by the state.

Speaker 16 (46:11):
Taking over by the state are in Senate District nine.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Impossible. We have all with fort Worth and all the explosive.

Speaker 16 (46:16):
Orthis D is one of them. Blake Orthised D is the.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Other one, Lake Worth.

Speaker 16 (46:20):
We have a lot of work to do. Those kids
deserve better, They deserve good education. That affects everything. It
affects their lives, it affects our workforce. People are having
a hard time finding good workers.

Speaker 15 (46:32):
And you haven't gotten rid of DEI or you haven't
gotten rid of this radical transgender ideology, including in Texas,
the home of Friday night lights.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
We still have an issue of men in women's sports.

Speaker 16 (46:43):
Well we did. I'll tell you. Three sessions ago they
passed a bill that stopped men in women's sports only
K through twelve though, and so we're like, what because
transgenders from their states can still come in and take
those girls scholarships that they've worked for their entire scholastic career.
Session before last we got it bumped up to cover
colleges as well. Everyone thought, great job done. Here's the problem.

(47:06):
What was not outlawed.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
There was a work around.

Speaker 16 (47:09):
There was a work around. The work around was men
and boys were still allowed in private spaces, women's locker
rooms and kids' locker rooms bathrooms. This session, again, I'm
the only candidate in this race. I was in Austin
testifying on behalf of the Women's Privacy Act. And that
bill is really incredible because it covers the privacy of
girls and women in all government buildings, so that covers

(47:30):
schools K through twelve public universities. It also specifically covered
all women's jails. I gave case study and my testimony
about how heterosexual men were using the loopholes they were
predators to break into women's jails and rape them. One
of them in Riker's prison. He was in jail for
raping an infant to death. He put on a skirt,

(47:51):
went to the women's jail, raped her was convicted for it.
The third scenario is all women's domestic violent shelters. So
we outlawed that in the state of Texas and protected
women and girls because women and girls privacy, dignity, and
safety is worth the fight.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
Amen, you're with us tomorrow morning. Tell us where's the
Where do people go to find out where the rally is?
Where they go to your website.

Speaker 16 (48:12):
It's right on the front page of Lee for Texas
dot com. You see it right there.

Speaker 15 (48:16):
Okay, we're going to be back tomorrow and we're gonna
be bouncing across from the great state of Texas and
what's going on here with conservatives and grassroots MAGA and
of course the Moms for Liberty conference in Orlando, Florida,
and we're gonna be tossing it in the afternoon to
Amanda head in the Real America's Voice team for Marine
Corps two fifty. So tomorrow Saturday, it's here starting at

(48:37):
eight am Eastern daylight time.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Stick around.

Speaker 15 (48:41):
We got another hour of the war room late on
a Friday in October, back at a moment
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It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.

Crime Junkie

Crime Junkie

Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.

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Stuff You Should Know

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