Bannon`s War Room
WarRoom Battleground EP 971: Senate Continues Debates On SAVE AMERICA ACT
18 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the Save America Act and why is it important?
American people signed up for. And it's our job to stop it and get our country back on track. Today, we'll show our constituents who is and who isn't on the side of the American people. And I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this resolution. And I yield. OK, we're back live to the Senate. The Democrats are kind of pivoted off the Save America Act. They are full on now.
Another war powers resolution trying to force some vote in the war powers. I might say that there's some tweets that we're trying to get the clip that Chuck Schumer said, hey, we Democrats, we're not opposed to the voter ID.
Chapter 2: How are Democrats responding to the Save America Act?
Neil McCabe, make it make sense to me what's actually going on, sir. Well, they're going to they're going to just chew up some clock until about nine o'clock tonight and then they'll start again at the noon.
But the Democrats are trying to use this as a platform that maybe people are paying attention and they can basically get their licks in on affordability and war powers and everything else, Steve. So we're here for another hour. We're doing bonus. Ben Harnwell, we preempted the show, but we're going to have that in its entirety, and we'll figure out when we're going to have it. It'll be tomorrow.
We're going to figure that out. You're not going to miss a second of these great shows he's doing. Mike Lee, we understand that Mike Lee is going to come on at 830. He's going to take the Senate floor and start to make it make sense. We definitely have a very so far strong and robust representation by the Republican senators.
it's not kind of the bare knuckles brawl that md kittle over at the uh... over at uh... the federalists said we need he says hey you need a fist fight to get this thing through it we haven't seen that but you have seen people fall on the republican side and it's kind of surprising tell me about this schumer situation we're looking for a clip right now we've seen a bunch of tweets from reporters i guess he did a gaggle did he actually say what are you talking about democrats if he's saying that now
That means the coverage. Right. That means the Republican Senate is sticking the landing in the coverage. And this is why for the last hour, folks, they've been talking about they were dumping on the Save America Act for now two days on this various times when they scheduled these this back and forth. They've been on the war powers ever since really the conclusion.
Of of the intelligence, you know, CIA, DNI, FBI getting grilled by the United States Senate, particularly on, as we said on the five o'clock show, really pressing about imminent threat and then pressing about the President Trump get briefed on the Strait of Hormuz. Really come with that. And ever since that happened, Neil.
surprise surprise there all the sudden it's all war powers act this war is uh... taking everything down it's complete abject failure trumps terrible uh... we got it we got a constraining i think is reading the tea leaves i believe they they understand at least a stern understand their arguments against the save america act are are are are not are not landing right and they want to go into something else uh... for to schumer to say that because he's been the most adamant
that uh... that this whole process would disenfranchise half of the women in america sir Right. So we're actually going back to the way things were done before McConnell, when they actually tried to work out these bills on the floor and do some horse trading and some back and forth.
But there's a former Senate chief of staff who's been advising Mike Lee, who told me that when he saw Schumer's comments, he says, if that's true, we're in the red zone and we could actually win this thing, Steve. Neil, where do people go to get your reporting, particularly on nights like tonight, where they track you down? You can find me at Reporter McCabe on all the socials, Steve. Thank you.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Neil McCabe provide about the Senate debates?
No nation can have a healthy democracy without secure elections. For these reasons, I urge all senators to vote for the Save America Act. Now, Mr. President, I ask consent that my following remarks appear separately in the record. Without objection. I'd like to take a moment up front to recognize the American heroes who have lost their lives in the line of duty as part of Operation Epic Fury.
I extend my deepest condolences and offer my prayers to their families and loved ones. I also say with absolute confidence, these American heroes will not have given their lives in vain. For 47 years, Iran's outlaw regime has waged a war of death, destruction, and terror on the United States, our friends, our allies, and indeed the civilized world.
And now, after 47 years of indecision and timidity, America has finally put our foot down. President Trump has sent a clear message that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and they will never be able to threaten the rest of the world again. It's difficult, in fact impossible, to overstate just how imminent the threat from Iran was before we took action.
But Democrats are now trying to twist this around by claiming the threat we faced wasn't actually imminent at all. However, our top intelligence officials disagree. Earlier today, I chaired the Intelligence Committee's annual Worldwide Threats Assessment hearing. Director of National Intelligence Gabbard testified that Iran was working to rebuild its nuclear program before Operation Epic Fury.
According to her, Iran was trying to recover from the severe damage to its nuclear infrastructure sustained by the 12-day war and continued to refuse to comply with its nuclear obligations with the IAEA. But that wasn't the only, but it wasn't the only threat of a nuclear program that hung over our heads.
Less than one month ago, Iran had thousands of missiles armed and ready to hit our bases and kill Americans. as far flung as Western Europe and the Indian Ocean. Thanks to communist China's help, Iran developed a vast missile arsenal that far exceeded the combined missile defenses of the United States, Israel, and our Arab friends. And it got much worse every single month.
According to CIA Director Ratcliffe's testimony during today's hearing, if left unchecked, they would have the ability to range missiles to the continental U.S. Given these facts on the ground, we were left with no choice. Iran had already loaded and cocked the gun. What were we supposed to do? Wait until they pulled the trigger? Of course not.
Iran has been an imminent threat to Americans for 47 years. Let's take a look at the record. Was the threat imminent in 1979 and the days before Iran took over our embassy and held dozens of Americans hostage for more than a year? Did Iran pose an imminent threat to more than 200 Marines before they bombed our barracks in Beirut in 1983? And did thousands of our troops who were murdered in May
We're in this war now, so we got to win it. And we have to win it in a smart way to make sure the blood and treasure is not needlessly spilled, but we're in it. And we have to have victory. Now, how that victory is defined, the President of the United States, Commander-in-Chief is going to do that. But it shouldn't be lost on people.
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Chapter 4: What arguments are made in favor of voter ID laws?
be as even-handed as we possibly can be in this process, because it's developing. And for you to fully use your agency, you must come to your own conclusions. I can't tell you what to think about this. President Trump cannot tell you what to think about this. Rachel Maddow cannot tell you what to think about this. Tucker Carlson can't tell you to think about this, what to think about this.
Any of these haters, Trump haters, On the left, or now, they all call themselves Super MAGA. Well, you know how funny they are. You've been here from the beginning. You remember 15 and 16. You remember who's with us and who's against us. It is, I think, very important when you have a ceremony like today at Dover Air Force Base where...
Six American heroes are honored dead who gave their life in defense of their country and signed up for that in an all-volunteer force on this KC-135 that crashed and they all died, that their loved ones, or at least some segment of their loved ones, asked that this be closed press, that there be no footage taken from it. I want that to settle in on the audience. I have no observations of that.
We're just reporting that out. This thing of imminent and plenty of things. And look, for the people that are pro-war here, let me make a recommendation for folks that were there those many long years ago and decades ago. Let's not go back 47 years. Let's not go back to the Marine barracks. Should there be vengeance for the Marine barracks? Yes.
But President Reagan, President Reagan, who was taking down the evil empire at the time, he was the commander in chief that put the Marines in the barracks. And he's the commander in chief that made a decision that once that catastrophe happened, it essentially was what it was. There was other things that were done, paramilitary, CIA, all that.
But there was no escalation as many of the neocons at the time went on the warpath for him to do. And President Reagan knew all the facts and all the intelligence at the time. He had been the one, the fear of Reagan is what brought the hostages home. The failed effort to rescue them only made the Mullahs and the Ayatollah double down.
It was Reagan and the strength of Reagan to put the fear of God in them. President Reagan who was not opposed to the application of military force The question still needs to be answered This country needs an answer and we're going to be relentless about pursuing it What was the information that the commander-in-chief was given both on the 12-day war and in this
That it was an imminent, why was it an imminent threat? And you're not turfed out of MAGA by Tel Aviv Levin, who hated Trump and hates Trump, or Ben Shapiro, who hated Trump, and that's the reason I fired him, or he quit, depending on whose story you believe, at Breitbart, because of his hatred, pure hatred of Donald Trump.
You think those guys are going to dictate to anybody that's been in MAGA who's in or who's out or what you're doing, what your status is? We need to get the facts.
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Chapter 5: How do the Republicans plan to tackle the War Powers resolution?
And that is a unique talent. He's saying, no, he said, yes, if we just pulled out, if I went through the military exercise and I went through the defanging and the decline that Captain Fennell, who's a target here as part of the Naval Intelligence, actually does programs like this where you go in and strip down a military and destroy it.
That he just said, oh, by the way, I will stop my rant and we're going to go to the floor live with Senator Lindsey Graham. spent fuel you need to operate a peaceful power program, you don't need to enrich. And if you want to enrich for medical purposes, very limited, fine. But you can't have an enrichment program that would lead to making bomb-grade material because you're not reliable.
And I would go a step further. It would be like letting Hitler have anything. See, the difference between me and I think a lot of people here, maybe most Democratic colleagues, I think these guys are religious Nazis. Hitler wanted a master race. He wrote a book. Nobody believed him. He literally wanted to kill all the Jews and nobody believed him. The Ayatollah is the same.
The regime is built around a cult of death. They want three things to purify Islam. They're Shiites. Their number one enemy is Sunni Arabs. They think they've got the faith wrong, that they're traitors to the faith. They hate Sunnis because they're not true to the faith. And Saudi Arabia believes it.
So they want to purify Islam, bend it to their will, make every Sunni reject their view of Islam and accept the Ayatollah's view. That's what they say, not me. I believe it. Number two, they want to kill all the Jews. And they openly say it. They're not hiding their disdain for Israel. They actually talk about it. They put death to Israel on like milk cartons.
These people are serious and you should take them serious. Like in the 30s, people didn't want to believe that Hitler meant what he said because they were tired from World War I. And they said, oh, he's just all talk. He wants this. He wants that. He wants more German-speaking territory. He's not completely crazy. You know, he's sort of just doing the Hitler thing. Well, he was completely crazy.
Now, I don't know why he wanted to kill all the Jews. I don't know why Hitler thought the Aryan race is the only pure race on the planet, but a lot of people are dead because we got that wrong. Let's don't do that again. We're playing like World War II never actually happened. And you're rewriting this regime's history. From 1979, what have they done until today?
What have they done to make you think they don't believe what they say? Because I am going to play this as an entirety. I wouldn't want to miss a second of Lady G. The Lady G alert, as one of the war engine rooms told me. We're going to have...
Some polling, and we're going to have some interesting analysis and news about Lindsey Graham, because it boggles my mind how the good people in South Carolina, how Southerners continue to send that to the Senate, as destructive as that is. So we'll get back to that. We're going to play Lady G's in its entirety. I want to bring in Jan Jokolek. Sir, I have a question.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Iran's nuclear capabilities?
And everything since then has been to come at us in the hardest way. And this is a power. And they so dwarf this collection of nutcases in Iran. And, yes, they are dangerous. Don't get me wrong. Heck, I've been part of this whole anti-Mullah situation for 20 years now. made movies about it, went to conferences about it, built up a grassroots effort against it, all of it.
Hell, I spent all this time in Texas putting the Sharia law on the ballot to make sure that we don't have the invasion in the jewel of the crown of the union. But Jan, we sit here and talk about this, and they're missing the point because they want to miss the point. The central enemy of the United States of America and the people of the United States of America is the Chinese Communist Party.
The central enemy of Lao Bai Jing, the common man and woman in China that has killed 450 million by forced abortions and maybe 250 million in gulags and killed and starved. And now your book, Killed to Order, shows their outright barbarity and savagery.
What doesn't the Lindsey Grahams and the Tom Cottons and all these folks that got us now in a big old shooting war, a big old shooting war, once again in the Middle East all about oil, what are they missing, sir? Well, to tell you the truth, I don't even know if they're missing this.
But what I know a lot of people miss is the fact that what's in this book, which is, I think, critical, is what you alluded to, that the Chinese Communist Party actually instrumentalizes absolutely everything. I've been on shows talking about how it instrumentalized its so-called ally Iran, basically to distract from
building the ultimate military to try to attack America, building its own nuclear program, keeping America's gaze on the Middle East, helping support all of these non-state actors to keep America distracted. So that's just one example. In Kill to Order, I talk about how they actually instrumentalize individual human bodies. My concern is that we've made a lot of progress.
What you talked about, the CCP going against the deal, the ripping up the deal that President Trump created in Trump 45, I actually argue that that is the first time that we actually did something that the CCP didn't expressly want. I have a whole chapter in here talking about how they're expert at making us complicit, about basically bamboozling us and getting us to go along with them.
When I started, it was a 95-5 issue. Everyone believed we were going to change China. And they had no intention of changing. They just wanted to take our cash and basically hollow out our industrial base, build their own shipping, build their own military. And this book actually contains all of this mind of the CCP. And I'm not convinced.
that Washington DC entirely understands how the lengths to which this regime will instrumentalize everything, the cold, hard stare of the people at the top and what they've been through to actually achieve what they have, the bodies they've had to climb over to do it.
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Chapter 7: How does the discussion address U.S. military strategy in the Middle East?
257? And all of Amazon, I think we're ready to understand what the CCP is finally and kind of change our policies to actually deal with them appropriately. And this book tells us how to do that. Let me say something. Yeah. Let me say something. Part of it's the book. There's no doubt. And people, I think, are ready now to absorb it. But a big part of it is you.
You work for, I think, one of the most amazing institutions in this country, the Epoch Times. The humility and the work ethic in that paper is amazing, absolutely amazing, and what you guys put up every day. Your American Thought Leaders is amazing, and I think people have seen, coming on The Worm and other shows over the years, my being on your show,
They understand your humility and your decency and how you've got the best interest of this country of heart and humanity in Lao Bai Jing. This book is actually to say, hey, we must take on this murderous dictatorship. Because they've got a billion people under their, at least a billion people under their boot, and they're quite dangerous. Jan, any closing thoughts? We've got about 45 seconds.
And here's the thing. I'm not an isolationist. We need to communicate with them, right? But we have to understand exactly who we're dealing with. And this is the critical part, right? I think what this book can really help the American public at any level, where you're at the grassroots, you're at the state level, federal level, legislator, whatever.
You can actually understand how you can deal with these people who are trying to infiltrate every aspect of our society and essentially subvert it. That has been their project. Let's not let it happen. Let's understand how the CCP really works. Get the book, share it with your friends. Let's blow this out of the water. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. We're going to come back.
Short commercial break. We're going to turn to the Senate floor. Guess what? Lindsey Graham ain't talking about stop. Save America. He's talking about his favorite topic, war and the rumors of war. Next from the United States Senate in the war room.
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Chapter 8: What are the future prospects for U.S.-Iran relations?
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