Feb. 16, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| So you don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always, because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| By the way, as we were talking, it looks like Job Creators Network has put up a massive billboard in Times Square. | ||
| It says, Joe Biden opens schools now. | ||
| Hey, Joe, we thought you were going to listen to the science, not special interest. | ||
| That would be the teachers union. | ||
| Pretty bold, right? | ||
| Jason, we're going to get this to the producers after I finish this segment. | ||
| I want it to go up. | ||
| I want to go back to this hour. | ||
| We're going to focus on this crisis at the border and this massive amnesty bill that's coming forward, both inextricably linked. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| We have some breaking news as well. | ||
| I don't know if you saw that. | ||
| A House Democrat is bringing a civil lawsuit filed in Tuesday in federal court. | ||
| That would be Mississippi Democrat Benny Thompson is bringing a civil action against former President Donald Trump relating to the riot at the Capitol. | ||
| And Rudy Giuliani. | ||
| And his attorney, Rudy Giuliani. | ||
| Also, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, a whole bunch on a post-Civil War law. | ||
| We'll get all to that. | ||
| OK, I want to go back to the border. | ||
| By the way, we're going to have Todd from CIS on tomorrow about his new book. | ||
| He's been scheduled. | ||
| We're going to have him on. | ||
| Also, we're going to have Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab, on Thursday. | ||
| Tonight Show. | ||
| We're going to have the energy expert, Daniel Turner, on talking about the situation, why power is down in California, why rolling blackouts, besides just the ice storm, rolling blackouts through the United States, why China builds more coal-fired plants than anywhere in the world, I think in the history of the world right now, why the Biden administration kowtows to him. | ||
| Okay, I want to go back to the war correspondent, Michael Yont. | ||
| Look, Michael. | ||
| The reason you've got this situation, you call it osmotic flow, throughout the world, but particularly from Central America and Southern Mexico up to the United States, is people are rational. | ||
| They understand. | ||
| If you're incentivized to come across the border and you're in a situation, we talk about human agency here all the time, that seems to be out of your control because of corrupt governments or corrupt dictatorships or This tragedy of biblical proportions in Central America, which you just said, hey, these places are paradise, and the economies don't work for the people. | ||
| You're going to have that flow. | ||
| The question I have for you is, where's this crisis right now as you see it? | ||
| Because we're about to have experts on here to talk about that in relation to this amnesty bill. | ||
| That's coming forward from the Biden Administration. | ||
| I think the most important piece of legislation they will put forward. | ||
| Much more important, I think, right now, even in the COVID, as far as the direction of the country. | ||
| So where do you think this crisis is right now on the border? | ||
| You just came back from there. | ||
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They just turned up the gas. | |
| The pressure is clearly building. | ||
| And, you know, people are rational. | ||
| I like the people. | ||
| I've spent quite a bit of time in Central America. | ||
| I was just in Mexico. | ||
| I'm going straight back. | ||
| You know, I'm in San Francisco right now. | ||
| Osmotic pressure out of blue states into red. | ||
| I mean, people don't just go from Mexico to the United States. | ||
| They go from blue states to red. | ||
| I mean, osmotic pressure happens within towns, right? | ||
| And so the people are doing What's best for them and what's best for their families and they're trying to get to places where they can do better for themselves. | ||
| The problem is, of course, as you put on your excellent show every day, we have a huge amount of our problem set only grows with our economy and other issues. | ||
| And it's not like we have a lot of extra room at this point with schools still closed and whatnot, and they want to bring more people in. | ||
| It's not a good time. | ||
| Michael, how do people get to you? | ||
| How can they follow you during the day? | ||
| How can they get to your website? | ||
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Right, I publish often on Patreon, and also I'm on Twitter, michael underscore yawn, my last name is Y-O-N, Yankee, Oscar, November, and then I pop up all over the place, for instance on your show, and I was on John Frederick's this morning, and I'll be getting the word out in many different ways. | |
| Thank you very much, Michael, for joining us. | ||
| Also, I want to announce that Todd Bensman will be on our show tomorrow. | ||
| Talk about his new book on the border, about cartels, jihad, all of it. | ||
| An amazing new book from Todd Bensman. | ||
| He'll be on tomorrow. | ||
| I want to now turn to Chris Chemelinsky from the Numbers USA, one of the top groups out there, particularly about the mathematics and what's in back of everything related to immigration. | ||
| First off, Chris, talk to us about what the Biden administration executive orders and what they took over from President Trump. | ||
| Where we stand today with just the executive orders on this crisis at the border? | ||
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Yeah, well, they've completely rolled back almost everything that the Trump administration did to try to control the border and control illegal crossings over the border. | |
| You know, they've ended the Remain in Mexico policy, which was extremely successful at discouraging people from Central America coming up to the United States and making false claims for asylum. | ||
| They've reinstituted catch and release. | ||
| Which essentially means that once somebody is apprehended, they process them and then release them into the United States. | ||
| The Trump administration had a zero tolerance policy. | ||
| So once people cross the border illegally, they would process them, but then they would turn them back and send them back to Mexico. | ||
| And we've seen that at times when the Biden administration has tried to turn people back to Mexico, Mexico is saying no now because they're not afraid of the Biden administration as they were with the Trump administration in terms of sanctions if they didn't help enforce immigration laws. So what we've seen again is just pretty much a complete reversal and the numbers show it. The border apprehensions from last month were the highest that we've seen since the border surge of 2019. So I think we're headed down the same path and you're going to see | ||
| those numbers continue to increase and we're going to have 100,000 minimum illegal aliens crossing the border every month. Also on internal enforcement and border wall, what is taking place there? Yeah, well with the border wall they've terminated the national emergency that President Trump declared. | ||
| And essentially what that national emergency declaration allowed Trump to do was to transfer unused funds from other accounts to help build the border wall in addition to what Congress has appropriated. | ||
| But the Biden administration has even gone a step further. | ||
| They've stopped all construction on the border wall, including the funds that Congress has appropriated. | ||
| To build border wall along the border. | ||
| So and that's what's happening on the border. | ||
| You know, and again, the biggest impact in terms of border policy is the reinstitution of catch and release. | ||
| Essentially, if you cross the border illegally, as long as you're not carrying a boatload of drugs, they're going to pretty much release you into the interior of the United States. | ||
| So you're going to get what you want. | ||
| As for interior enforcement, they did order the deportation freeze. | ||
| So they're not going to deport anybody for 90 days. | ||
| But A federal judge down in Texas has put a nationwide injunction. | ||
| We saw so many times every single time the Trump administration tried to do something on immigration, a liberal judge would put a nationwide injunction on it. | ||
| Well, payback can be rough. | ||
| So that's essentially what you're seeing now is you have some more conservative judges are coming in and they're freezing. | ||
| Some of the things that Biden is trying to do with immigration, including deportation freeze. | ||
| But they're still essentially ordering ICE not to remove anybody. | ||
| So even though the judge has ordered that, we're not really seeing any deportations right now, even of violent criminals. | ||
| Well, that's what I want to ask, because we're on Miriam Mendoza next, and then the CIA is after that. | ||
| What about criminal aliens, illegal aliens? | ||
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Well, they said that the deportation freeze doesn't exclude dangerous aliens. | |
| So there's supposed to be, even under the Biden guidance, still, you know, we're talking about essentially horrendous murderers and rapists and, you know, hopefully child abusers and People of individuals who created crimes like that, they should still be getting getting deported. | ||
| But again, we haven't seen any statistics on deportations come from the Biden administration yet. | ||
| So we don't actually know if they're removing those people. | ||
| We know that the Trump administration was not only removing those people, but they were also removing people that committed some some less violent crimes as well as they should be, as well as anybody that is in the country illegally and just got caught up in in regular enforcement and enforcement efforts. | ||
| Okay, I wanted to go back and connect to the very opening of the show with Mitch McConnell and this whole thing about the definition of the Republican Party. | ||
| What Chris said at the very top of his interview, he said, hey, look, they've already undone everything that Trump did in four years because Trump did it by executive order. | ||
| Why was that? | ||
| It was not statutory. | ||
| It was not a law. | ||
| Why was it not a law? | ||
| We controlled the House and the Senate after Trump's come-from-behind massive victory that dragged Mitch McConnell and made Mitch McConnell the leader again. | ||
| The reason it's not statutory is that the Chamber of Commerce donor class of the Republican Party are not populist, nationalist, traditionalist. | ||
| They're part of the globalist elite. | ||
| So you don't really have one party. | ||
| The reason this is not in law, that cannot be undone by a stroke of a pen, is because the Republicans in the House and the Senate, some wanted it, in fact most wanted it, But not particularly leadership. | ||
| Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell have no interest. | ||
| They're part of the Koch Chamber of Commerce, open borders, lower wages. | ||
| Why do you think when Donald Trump comes in, in the Rio Grande Valley, working-class Hispanics are supporting Donald Trump? | ||
| Why? | ||
| They understand both the smartness of a wall and border security to protect their well-being from these cartels and drug and human traffickers. | ||
| And they understand the economic benefits of limiting the labor poll so that you have lowest Hispanic unemployment in history and increasing wages for the striver's economy, as Steve Cortez talks about. | ||
| This is not hard. | ||
| It's hard to accomplish, but it's not a conspiracy. | ||
| It's right there in front of your eyes. | ||
| You can see it. | ||
| And why can Joe Biden come in, as Raheem Kassam says, he's got 56 executive orders. | ||
| Besides the tax cut, And I think the prison reform, but there wasn't a lot done that could have been done particularly about our sovereignty and immigration and economics. | ||
| And why is that? | ||
| It's not that Donald Trump didn't beat his head against the wall every day. | ||
| It's that he was not supported by the globalists in the Republican Party. | ||
| And this is what this defining, this is going to be the definition of the Republican Party of the next couple of years. | ||
| You can't have it both ways. | ||
| And this is a perfect example. | ||
| Christian McGlashan says, hey, with a stroke of a pen, he's undone everything that Trump did. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| It's not a law. | ||
| It's an executive order. | ||
| That's why you see at the end of the movie Lincoln, they're all fighting over an amendment to the Constitution to end slavery. | ||
| Why? | ||
| The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order that could be undone by the next guy. | ||
| That's the way the system works. | ||
| And it gets to the beating heart of the problem. | ||
| And remember, Dave Ramaswamy keeps talking about agency. | ||
| Dan Schultz, agency. | ||
| You in the audience have agency. | ||
| That's what the United States is built upon. | ||
| Individual agency. | ||
| That's why you need to go to Dan Schultz's site and get empowered. | ||
| Once you're empowered, as a precinct committeeman, you have, your agency then has power. | ||
| Power. | ||
| Chris, talk about power. | ||
| By the way, we're going to ask you to stay over for the next one. | ||
| We're going to have to cram all this in. | ||
| What is the Biden administration now doing with this massive amnesty bill that's got so many different parts to it? | ||
| Walk us through where it stands, what it means. | ||
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Yeah, this has got to be, you know, imagine if the Trump administration had blundered one of their top priorities the way that the Biden administration did. | |
| We had reports of the Biden administration meeting with business groups and special interest groups pretty much every single day in the week leading up to inauguration. | ||
| He said, I'm going to introduce a massive immigration bill on day one. | ||
| And here we are almost a month into the Biden administration. | ||
| We still don't have a bill. | ||
| So it's like what's happening there in terms of that. | ||
| At first, we heard that there was not enough votes to pass it, which we probably could have told you on the onset, just because of everything. | ||
| It's such an ambitious plan. | ||
| Hang on, we've got 30 seconds in this segment. | ||
| When you say ambitious, hit the headlines of how ambitious and bold it is. | ||
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Amnesty for 11 million. | |
| Anybody who can claim that they were in the country by January 1st of 2021, including anybody who was deported by the Trump administration. | ||
| So it includes amnesty for all of them. | ||
| You're going to see increases in guest worker programs, increases in chain migration. | ||
| They're doubling the visa lottery. | ||
| This is something that's unheard of. | ||
| Usually the Gang of Eight bill eliminated the visa lottery. | ||
| They want to double the visa lottery and an entire rollback of all enforcement programs. | ||
| They're going to pretty much gut enforcement, even Biden administration's idea of enforcement. | ||
| They're going to gut it. | ||
| Chris, hang on. | ||
| I want to bring you back to the right. | ||
| Chris Chemelinsky from Numbers USA. | ||
| Mary Mendoza from Angel Moms. | ||
| Also join us in the War Room. | ||
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Pandemic with Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, always remember, you're the war room posse, the most powerful audience in the world because you engage. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Just remember when Chris Chmielinski says they've undone everything that Trump did in four years with the stroke of a pen in a couple of days because it wasn't a law, it was an executive order. | ||
| The executive order is in the Constitution, it's been around forever. | ||
| Abraham Lincoln used it in the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, essentially executive order. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Because he couldn't pass a law at the time and he knew that. | ||
| He did it with a stroke of a pen. | ||
| That's what Donald Trump did, but he couldn't pass a law. | ||
| Why are these not statutes? | ||
| Why are they not laws? | ||
| They are not laws because of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. | ||
| Do not forget that. | ||
| This is not one political party. | ||
| It is a political party of populist, nationalist, working class people and middle class people and entrepreneurs that have as their leaders in a donor set, globalist, corporatist, the Wall Street faction, To be everywhere in the world with troops deployed? | ||
| That's what this is about. | ||
| So when Chris Chmielewski says, hey, stroke of a pen, it's all gone. | ||
| It's all gone for a reason. | ||
| And now you have people fighting back, by the way. | ||
| We're going to get, not quite yet, but we're going to talk about that billboard up in Times Square, went up even as we spoke, I think, or maybe went up about the, about, there it is right there, a billboard about Ladies and gentlemen, focus on the schools. | ||
| The schools are going to become a battlefield. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That's a metaphor. | ||
| Media matters. | ||
| And here's why. | ||
| It's not simply, as Dave Ramaswamy said, all the mental issues and really the agony of these kids not being in school, having to do it from home and maybe not having the right computers, the right hookups, all that. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Of that part of society that needs that education every day to make sure they, in an advanced industrial economy, can get ahead. | ||
| What are we doing to these kids? | ||
| But as importantly, Tony Fauci, not Steve Bannon, Dr. Tony Fauci, Dr. St. | ||
| Tony Fauci, the key to herd immunity is the vaccination of the school kids. | ||
| That's him. | ||
| Not me. | ||
| That's him. | ||
| To get to herd immunity. | ||
| Now we have some breaking news. | ||
| I think your story on... It's your story! | ||
| I'll put your byline on it. | ||
| Kamala Harris. | ||
| Is it blowing up? | ||
| It is absolutely blowing up. | ||
| We put the story up. | ||
| Kamala Harris is now taking Joe Biden's head of state calls for him in the first hour here. | ||
| You know, I really... She's making them. | ||
| More important than taking them. | ||
| Hey, I don't even mind if she's taking a couple because he's sleeping. | ||
| He's taking a nap. | ||
| She's making... She's at that down the other end of the West Wing making calls. | ||
| That's my problem. | ||
| Okay, here's the deal. | ||
| I'll change taking to making in real time right now. | ||
| It's not taking. | ||
| She's making. | ||
| That's bigger. | ||
| Change and update. | ||
| He's taking a nap. | ||
| He gets a sundown. | ||
| He's taking a nap. | ||
| He's taking a nap. | ||
| She's making the calls. | ||
| Fine. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Editor's note. | ||
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By the way, you're the editor-at-large of the National Policy... It's just Editor Emeritus. | |
| But all I did is I took the readout, published it, and people are going wild because of your right to identify this as a major aberration. | ||
| This is wildly... This is not the way it's done. | ||
| Let's quote the left. | ||
| This is not normal! | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| In related news, WhiteHouse.gov has the one ad up now for the food taster. | ||
| Okay, I want to go back to Chris Chmielinski. | ||
| We've got Miriam Mendoza here in a moment. | ||
| So Chris, we focus on signal not noise here in tomorrow's news today. | ||
| I just want to go back. | ||
| You dropped about five bombs here in the 30 seconds we left. | ||
| Talk about The audacity of this bill. | ||
| You say $11 million. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| I think it's even Numbers USA. | ||
| We've got Center for Immigration Studies, the great Mark McCrain later. | ||
| Isn't the number, you know, Ann Coulter tells me it's $30 million in her book. | ||
| Is it really between $15 to $25 million? | ||
| More than $11 million? | ||
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It's definitely more than $11 million. | |
| I think even the last DHS statistic that we have, which is now like seven or eight years old, had it at about $12 million. | ||
| So I'm sure it's more than that, because we've had border surges in a later part of the Obama administration, and all those people were caught and released into the interior United States and weren't accounted for. | ||
| So it's going to be more than that. | ||
| The Biden plan, once it's officially released, it's going to grant amnesty to at least 11 million. | ||
| And yeah, I wouldn't doubt if it's closer to maybe even 20 million, maybe even more than 20 million. | ||
| Again, not only does it grant amnesty to everybody who's in the country, it grants amnesty to more than a million people who were removed by the Trump administration in their four years in office. | ||
| So all those people will be eligible for the amnesty as well. | ||
| And I think the key thing to point out with this is they're all going to be eligible for citizenship within eight years. | ||
| So guess what that means? | ||
| If Biden were to win reelection, that means a couple of presidential elections from now, all of the people who gain amnesty under the Biden administration. | ||
| Get to vote in 2028. | ||
| That's a huge, huge, huge deal. | ||
| That's going to change elections in this country completely. | ||
| Not that they haven't been changed already. | ||
| And they've stripped the phony happy face off this. | ||
| This is no enforcement. | ||
| This guts, first of all, they don't want any enforcement at all, but this literally, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, but this guts enforcing the internal enforcement at the wall itself and at the border, but also the internal enforcement. | ||
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Interior Enforcement, we're hearing that this bill could potentially, and again, this is just based on the White House outline, haven't seen the details of the bill, but we hear that they're telling activists on the other side, on the open borders activists, that this is going to gut E-Verify. | |
| It's going to completely eliminate E-Verify, which is the tool that's used by employers. | ||
| More than 50% of employers are using this tool to check and make sure that their new hires are actually verified to work here in the United States. | ||
| And that jobs magnet is huge because that's why people are coming to the United States because they know they can get jobs. | ||
| There's these unscrupulous employers that don't care about the law and they're willing to hire people who are in the country illegally and aren't authorized to work. | ||
| So that's a big deal. | ||
| They're going to cut that. | ||
| They're going to completely remove border enforcement and again, all but remove any sort of deportation mechanism. | ||
| So ICE will be good. | ||
| OK, real quickly, Chris, when does this get dropped? | ||
| Is it going to come in pieces or is it still? | ||
| We heard that they knew there's going to be so much resisting or breaking pieces. | ||
| When do you anticipate Politico's telling us this is the end of the week? | ||
| When do you think this gets dropped and how is it going to get dropped? | ||
| What's it going to look like? | ||
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Yeah, now that we're past the circus of the last couple of weeks, I think we're going to see this introduced by Senator Menendez within a week or so, definitely by the end of the month. | |
| But what we're hearing is that both Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin, who are on the Senate Judiciary Committee, want to start with the DREAM Act instead of this. | ||
| I think they get one crack. | ||
| So I think there's going to be a lot of forces pushing to bring this one forward before the DREAM Act, because if they do the DREAM Act, whether they get that through or don't get that through, I don't think they get a second chance. | ||
| So I think there's going to be a lot of pressure to do this one instead. | ||
| Okay, how do people get to you? | ||
| How do they get to NumbersUSA? | ||
| You guys are fantastic. | ||
| How do they get to you during the day? | ||
| Your coordinates on how to get to NumbersUSA? | ||
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Yeah, thanks for that. | |
| They can visit us at NumbersUSA.com if they're already members. | ||
| Please go ahead and take action. | ||
| Visit your action board. | ||
| If not, there's a green Join Us button on the top left. | ||
| Go ahead and click that, and you can send a message to Congress and join our list, and you'll start receiving all of our action alerts, especially when this thing starts hitting the ground running, which I think is going to be soon. | ||
| Does it cost anything to sign up to join? | ||
| Is it membership for free when you join up? | ||
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100% free service. | |
| I mean, obviously we're happy if people want to donate to us, but 100% free service. | ||
| I want everybody in this audience now to go to Numbers USA. | ||
| Just get smart. | ||
| Just get the numbers. | ||
| Understand what the arguments are. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Even people on the left, you should go to Numbers USA. | ||
| Chris, thank you so much. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
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Thanks for having me. | |
| Fabulous organization. | ||
| I want to bring in now Marian Mendoza, one of the Angel Moms. | ||
| So Marianne, what has the Biden administration done at the border and internally about our sovereignty and our security? | ||
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They're absolutely undoing everything that President Trump did, all of the conversations that Angel families had with him to make sure that the tragedy that has hit myself, losing my son to a repeat illegal alien criminal, allowed to stay here, not deported. | |
| We were fighting to make sure that we don't have another American family experience what we have. | ||
| You know, Steve, and even more on what Chris was just saying, you know, although it says that people must physically have been here by January 1st, 2021, this is seriously going to include millions more with this chain migration. | ||
| And it's also going to place a large burden on American employers to provide an overabundance of protection for workers. | ||
| My son was a police officer. | ||
| He took an oath to protect his community. | ||
| We've got an overabundance of, you know, cities and states that are wanting to defund the police. | ||
| You have a president who's going to bring in unvetted people across our borders. | ||
| They are providing large funding to enhance the ability to process asylum seekers at our ports of entry. | ||
| That in itself proves that this is not just about the people who are already here. | ||
| This is going to be a wide open door policy that's gonna allow everybody in. | ||
| And people like my son, who was protecting this community, is not going to be able to do their job, especially when they're fighting defunding the police. | ||
| And these are a lot of times unvetted people who are coming across our border. | ||
| The unsecured areas of our border are going to be even more rushed because these people are emboldened by the liberals and by a president who's bringing forth a citizenship act like this. | ||
| And it re-institutes the Central America Minors Program to reunite children with US. | ||
| relatives and create a Central American Family Reunification Parole Program to more quickly reunite families with approved sponsorship petitions. | ||
| And so what this means is all of these unaccompanied minors who came into this country and are flooding in now, like 6,000 this month, those parents will be reunited with their children here. | ||
| The numbers, the 11 million number that Biden is throwing out with this act is a bunch of bull. | ||
| Hang on a second, we're taking a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to turn with Miriam Mendoza, one of the Angel Moms, also the great Mark Krikorian for the Center for Immigration Studies, talking about the crisis at the border, and quite frankly, a radical piece of legislation. | ||
| Remember, I didn't say executive order. | ||
| They've done the executive orders to undo what President Trump did. | ||
| The reason they're coming forward is they've got, they're lined up together in their house in the Senate. | ||
| The globalist elites of the Republican Party when President Trump was president. | ||
| We'll return in a moment. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, in sub-zero weather, there's rolling blackouts now in Omaha, Nebraska, throughout the Midwest, I think even in Texas. | ||
| We're going to have Daniel Turner, an energy expert, on this afternoon to talk about why we're having rolling blackouts from California all the way through the Midwest. | ||
| Understand, there's massive storms. | ||
| But what's the situation with energy here in the United States versus what's happening in mainland China, where they're building, I think, more cold-fire plants today than in the history of the world. | ||
| Mr. John Kerry, Mr. Climate Change, who admitted at the U.N. | ||
| meeting last year, if we don't get China on board, all the Paris Accords are a joke, a total and complete joke. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Daniel Turner on this afternoon, also the great Steve Camerata, who works with Mark Krikorian, another great member from CIS, is going to open the show today at five o'clock. | ||
| We've got to get our hands around exactly what's going on on the border. | ||
| And this is the protection of the working class Hispanics Their agency in the Rio Grande Valley, down there on the border of New Mexico and Arizona and California, and also remember with the cartels, every town's a border town in the United States. | ||
| That's why we built the wall, we took the roadshow up to Cincinnati, Ohio, into Detroit, Michigan. | ||
| Every town's a border town because of the cartels. | ||
| Also the great Todd Bensman. | ||
| He's written an incredible book about the border. | ||
| He's been down there with Michael Yan, the combat correspondent. | ||
| He's going to be on the show tomorrow. | ||
| So we're going to be all over this. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| To get the signal, not the noise. | ||
| Also, real quick, before I go back to Miriam Mendoza, the great angel mom, your piece trumps, you know, talk about with a stroke of the pen, four years of work are gone. | ||
| Why? | ||
| We did not have the ability, we had the capability, not the ability to put it in statute. | ||
| Why was even We Build the Wall started? | ||
| Because you couldn't even get a penny for the wall. | ||
| Not Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| It was Paul Ryan and the feckless Republicans. | ||
| They didn't want it. | ||
| The leadership didn't. | ||
| This is why there has to be fundamental change. | ||
| Rahim Ghassan, real quickly about that poll, the Surigaon National Polls. | ||
| Yeah, 59% of Republican voters telling Morning Consult, which actually means probably it's more like 80% of Republican voters, saying they want Trump to play a major role in their party going forward. | ||
| But that is up. | ||
| According to Morning Consult, 18 points from their poll on January the 7th and an increase of 9 points from a follow-up poll on January the 25th. | ||
| So he's getting more and more popular within the party. | ||
| Even in tough polls, percentage-wise, it's just exploding. | ||
| Of course he's going to lead the party. | ||
| It's not even a question. | ||
| The Boston Herald picked up the Lincoln Day speech I gave and said, hey, he's the guy, right? | ||
| Show me any of these munchkins that can get the kind of votes and can lead the type of effort we need to lead on the sovereignty of this country. | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| Nikki Haley? | ||
| Don't think so. | ||
| Mike Pence? | ||
| Nah, don't think so. | ||
| Just to your point about the rolling blackouts here as well, do not underestimate how serious political issue this can turn into as well. | ||
| In 2015 David Cameron was seen to be ignoring the flooding surrounding Storm Desmond in the UK at the time and it was really his undoing. | ||
| You know a lot of people think Brexit was David Cameron's It was really the lackadaisical attitude that David Cameron took to people's houses being destroyed in 2015. | ||
| This could really, really hurt. | ||
| There's rolling blackouts in sub-zero, the engine room, the worm's showing me, rolling blackouts in Omaha, Nebraska, out there in sub-zero temperatures. | ||
| That means you get a blackout, you and the kids, you got a problem, right? | ||
| So President, somebody ought to wake up President, I know Joe Biden's probably taking an early nap, somebody's got to wake up President Harris, see if she's on the case. | ||
| Macron and France want to know, okay, I want to go back to, I want to go back quickly to Miriam Mendoza. | ||
| So Miriam, Real quickly, I also want to talk about the economic issues. | ||
| This is why Trump did so well at the border with working-class Hispanics. | ||
| Right now, where this economy is, with CCP virus, COVID-19, you've got all this problem with the economy, all this problem with unemployment. | ||
| Essentially, and this is why the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican establishment and the Kochs love this, because you're just flooding the zone with cheap labor. | ||
| That's what the issue is. | ||
| So how's that going to play down with working class Hispanics on the border? | ||
| Marian Mendoza from Angel Moms. | ||
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It's going, you know, when you stop and think about what happened this last year, Steve, we, the remittances that went out of this country to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, that's people here illegally sending money home, was $61 billion in 2020. | |
| That went out of our economy at a time when how many Americans were out of work? | ||
| $61 billion. | ||
| And that's what happens to a lot of the money in these communities. | ||
| It doesn't stay in the United States. | ||
| And this $15 increase of minimum wage, everything is falling into place of what this Biden administration is doing to not only bring down Americans and America, but to bring down our economy and keep us under a, you know, one world government kind of a situation of what they've been pushing for for years anyway. | ||
| But the biggest problem that I see and coming from a personal standpoint, Steve, is the amount of illegal criminals that are going to be coming into our country. | ||
| And I know how that affects a family. | ||
| I know what happens. | ||
| These people come from a different culture. | ||
| They don't understand how things work here. | ||
| We've got a rape epidemic in North Carolina going on of young children by illegals in North Carolina, sanctuary counties that a couple of sheriffs put into place. | ||
| After they got elected in the 2018 election, we've got to be careful of who we are electing on a local level. | ||
| Sheriffs, city councils, city councils direct police departments if they're going to be sanctuary police departments, if they're going to be a sanctuary city. | ||
| We've got to become more involved at a ground level and make sure that we're putting the right people in office. | ||
| You have, I take it on the Angel Moms site, you've got stats to back those assertions up, you've got stats to back up the the the rape epidemic and all that? | ||
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I will get everything up there. | |
| Everything is well researched. | ||
| Let's make sure those are pretty hot. | ||
| Let's make sure you can back that up with facts. | ||
| Whatever it is, make sure you got it up to get it. | ||
| Yes. Okay, fine. Whatever it is, I don't have time to do whatever it is. Make sure you got it up to get it. Because the people are coming across, they're incentivized to come across. | ||
| Yes. They're hardworking folks. | ||
| They're incentivized to come across. | ||
| What we've got to do is stop the incentives and protect the American citizens here. | ||
| American citizens in Rio Grande Valley, Southern Arizona, New Mexico. | ||
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That's the problem with this president. | |
| A need for a job doesn't say you need to have citizenship. | ||
| Okay, so how do people get to your site? | ||
| How do they follow you during the day, Marianne? | ||
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AngelFamilies.org. | |
| I am on Gab at MA Mendoza 480. | ||
| I am also on my Angel Families United Facebook page is where I put most of my information out. | ||
| Okay, perfect. | ||
| Mary A. Mendoza from the Angel Moms. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here. | ||
| I want to go to Mark Krikorian from Center for Immigration Studies. | ||
| So, Mark, give us your assessment of where exactly we stand on the border now that the Biden administration has basically, with a stroke of a pen, unwound everything Trump did at the border with our partner countries of Mexico and Central America and on internal enforcement. | ||
| Where do we stand? | ||
| Biden has actually tried to and mostly rolled back everything Trump did, although there's a few things they're keeping in place because they realize it'll be awkward for their political prospects of this bill that they're going to introduce this week to have a border crisis explode right in their faces. | ||
| It's going to happen anyway. | ||
| I don't think they have any control over it, but they think That maybe if they slow walk a few things, they'll be able to get away with it. | ||
| So, what they've done is, without going into everything, stop the wall construction. | ||
| they have ended what was called the remain in mexico program which insured that people uh... sneaking across the border or walking up to a cross legal crossing point and saying they want asylum have to wait in on the mexican side of the border for their hearing date in other words they can't use it as a kind of gimmick to get past the border patrol and disappear into the u s and that took away a lot of the incentive | ||
| uh... by this time is give that incentive back and what we're seeing in south texas especially is the mexicans are now starting to say uh... we're not going to take back people that you turn around because of the public health rules that we have in place that allow the border patrol to do that We're not going to take them. | ||
| And so the Border Patrol is stuck, you know, holding the bag. | ||
| I mean, they have nowhere to detain these people. | ||
| And this administration doesn't want immigrants to be detained, especially those who come as families. | ||
| So they're letting him go. | ||
| It's basically catch and release started up. | ||
| It hasn't spread everywhere across the border, but South Texas is where it is, and that's where most of the Central Americans go anyway, because it's closest to Central America. | ||
| So we're now seeing, you know, a restart of catch and release, and we're seeing an attempt, a sort of a replay of what they did during, one of the things they did during Obama, Which is public service announcements and statements to people in Central America saying, now is not the time to come, don't come, you won't succeed. | ||
| But then those that do get across the border are let go. | ||
| So they call home on their cell phones, they all have cell phones, and say, hey, I got through. | ||
| Don't believe what they're telling you. | ||
| And so we're going to see in another month or two, I think, and it's going to take a little while to gather steam, a really pretty bad border crisis. | ||
| And let me just add, finally, don't be distracted by the caravan issue. | ||
| Caravans are a problem. | ||
| But the Guatemalans and the Mexicans are pretty committed to breaking up the caravans because they're sick of having people traipse across their territory. | ||
| But that caravans don't amount to that big a share of the flow of illegals using asylum as a gimmick to get into the U.S. | ||
| So even if Every caravan, and a new one is starting apparently, is broken up, all kinds of other people will come through, you know, regular smuggling means, and do the same thing. | ||
| Empowering the cartels. | ||
| I want to go back to, you said asylum's a gimmick. | ||
| Why is, because we've had this policy of taking in political asylum, why do you say in this regard, given the frontline nations of Central America, that your belief is that this is a gimmick? | ||
| Now, it's not a gimmick for everybody, obviously. | ||
| Some people get asylum. | ||
| But the vast majority of people in general, and specifically those from Central America, don't qualify for asylum. | ||
| What I mean as a gimmick is it's being used at the coordination with the smugglers and with American anti-borders activists and immigration lawyers as a way of Sort of making the first cut. | ||
| In other words, when you sneak across the border, you say, uh, please don't return me, Mr. Border Patrol. | ||
| I fear, uh, you know, being sent home. | ||
| So what happens is you get a, what's called a credible fear interview. | ||
| It's like the first cut. | ||
| And basically everybody who doesn't say Mickey Mouse is talking to me through my dental work gets that okay. | ||
| Then they let you go and in order to apply for asylum. | ||
| Half the people who are let go never apply. | ||
| In other words, it's not even a question of showing up for hearings. | ||
| They don't even bother to apply. | ||
| And even the ones who do apply, because you get a work permit if you apply, at the end of the day, when they're ordered removed because their case was rejected, They don't leave. | ||
| And this administration has made it quite clear that they're not going to look for them. | ||
| So it's an ideal means of avoiding the limits on immigration. | ||
| Mark, we'd like to have you stay over for part of the next thing. | ||
| So 30 seconds of this. | ||
| Lindsey Graham and Durbin on DACA. | ||
| Where does that stand right now? | ||
| What is Lindsey Graham doing to push DACA? | ||
| Yeah, good question. | ||
| It's a bad idea as it is. | ||
| I'm a squish on DACA, but only if It's combined with tough enforcement, so we don't have DACA 2.0 five years from now. | ||
| But how can they have tough enforcement when they're getting it for it? | ||
| Anyway, let's take a commercial break. | ||
| We're going to bring the great Mark McCrory from Center for Immigration Studies back. | ||
| We've got Kane from Citizens Free Press in a preview of Raheem's podcast in the evening show. | ||
| All next, War and Pandemic. | ||
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War Room Pandemic with Stephen K. Banham. | |
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| Okay, as we highlighted, the school and the vaccine situation a couple weeks ago, that's now at the forefront. | ||
| This immigration, the border crisis, the one that's pending, is all in front of us. | ||
| It's going to start. | ||
| That's why you need to go to Center for Immigration Studies. | ||
| Follow the writings of Mark Krikorian. | ||
| He is the man. | ||
| Just want everybody to know it. | ||
| This is one of the smartest guys we've got in the country and he explains it in a very humane, logical process. | ||
| Remember, we're winning working class Hispanic votes in the most Hispanic counties and the ones most under this pressure in the Rio Grande Valley. | ||
| Star County, Hidalgo County. | ||
| Up and down there where Trump was building the wall and where he's stopping illegal immigration so he can't flood the job market at the lower end of the scale with his mass of illegal alien labor and finally get unemployment among working class Hispanics down historically and wages up to make them part of the system. | ||
| So Mark, real quickly, this bill, how big is it going to be? | ||
| Is it going to come in one drop? | ||
| What's the timing? | ||
| Get us smart. | ||
| Well, they're talking about introducing it this week as one big bill, like a giant thing, just like the Gang of Eight and the earlier bills like that. | ||
| But they've signaled that they're willing to break it up into pieces. | ||
| So I think the introduction of the big bill this week is kind of for show. | ||
| And then they're going to break it up and say, OK, well, let's do something more modest. | ||
| And they're going to try to pass bills that would still add up to amnestying more people than President Reagan amnestied in the 80s, but supposedly a smaller bill because it's not the big gigantic thing. | ||
| The last amnesty was supposed to ever happen and he said the biggest mistake of his administration. | ||
| let last uh... | ||
| so we're and by the way did when they drop the bill that's when they will start the demonization of mark recorion of numbers usa of senator immigration studies of the entire deplorables audience uh... the head of uh... president of the new york city court they've been doing that for years to you i know that that this is good for us this first to napalm on it Steve Cortes said, yes, Perez said, it was foreign interference. | ||
| Foreign interference led to working class Hispanics voting in record numbers for Donald Trump. | ||
| Foreign interference. | ||
| This is how clueless they are and how they don't want to admit reality that a populist, nationalist, America-first policies for American citizens works. | ||
| Mark McCrory, how do people get to the site? | ||
| How do they follow you during the day? | ||
| What are your social media coordinates? | ||
| We're online at cis.org. | ||
| We have a blog, a daily blog, all of our stuff. | ||
| And if you have a taste for snark and sarcasm, I'm on Twitter at Mark S. as in Steven. | ||
| Mark S. Krikorian. | ||
| Mark, thank you very much. | ||
| Steve Camerata on tonight and the evening show. | ||
| Thank you very much, brother. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| You are the man. | ||
| I don't care what Steve says. | ||
| You are the man. | ||
| Okay, I want to go now to Cain at Citizens Free Press. | ||
| Another site, bookmark it. | ||
| You've got to go there multiple times a day. | ||
| Cain, explain the stack. | ||
| Explain your site. | ||
| If we can get the site up after we see enough of the beautiful visage of Cain. | ||
| I love that that picture's black and white, by the way, because he's wearing a garish purple shirt in that picture and he's black and white in it. | ||
| If we get a chance to get the stack up there, explain when people go to Citizens Free Press and get the updates. | ||
| Sometimes I think it's the Raheem Kassam Fan Club. | ||
| Tell us what the stack is. | ||
| What should people understand about your site? | ||
| Well, there's a few thoughts I gotta give right now. | ||
| It is the Raheem Kassam National Pulse Fan Club this morning. | ||
| I woke up, though, you know, I check everybody's site. | ||
| I get 45 journalists sending me DMs through Twitter, sending me their stuff, and I check everybody's site every morning. | ||
| And Raheem had some great stuff up. | ||
| The garish purple shirt, he's exactly right about the black and white. | ||
| That's from my UVA 30th reunion. | ||
| That's on the lawn. | ||
| Those are Thomas Jefferson columns. | ||
| And colonnades that you see behind there. | ||
| Let's talk about the stack. | ||
| You know, the stack is a microcosm of my life. | ||
| 18 hours a day. | ||
| For readers who don't know, go to Citizen Free Press. | ||
| I update headlines from about 9 in the morning till 2 or 3 in the morning every day. | ||
| What Steve talks about there with the stack is just, I don't have time to move stories down. | ||
| So there's 150 up there right now from the last 24 to 36 hours. | ||
| I essentially sit here in my office in the People's Republic of Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University, and churn out the headlines and try to fight socialism. | ||
| And that's what the site is. | ||
| There's a bit of smart, there's a bit of fun, but it's mostly really, really hard work, except for moments like this. | ||
| Kane, real quickly, we've got about two minutes left. | ||
| What stories are you personally following? | ||
| You think of the big stories you want people particularly to focus on when they come to your site? | ||
| Well, you know, I was just writing it down during the commercial break. | ||
| The biggest story in the last 24 hours is your story, Steve. | ||
| It's you at the Boston Herald that Trump may run for Congress in 2022. | ||
| And lead the impeachment effort possibly against Biden and replace Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker. | ||
| People had a gasp with that story, and it's a fantastic possibility. | ||
| You know, other stuff that's developed in the last 24 hours since then, you guys have touched upon it most of the show. | ||
| Crazy rolling blackouts in Texas. | ||
| Let's all install wind turbines everywhere we can find them. | ||
| Let's do it nationwide so that we can all freeze next time there's an unexpected ice storm. | ||
| You know, Other things that are going on, you guys have done a fantastic job of covering it all, but I've continued to cover what's going on with the seven Republican Senators who turned against the President. | ||
| We've got a censure resolution being circulated in Utah for Pierre Delecto, Mitt Romney. | ||
| We've got Richard Burr censured by the North Carolina GOP. | ||
| We've got Susan Collins, who is looking as though she may be censured by the Maine GOP, and we know they're pretty way back in Maine, so that's something. | ||
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Here's what I want to do. | |
| I want to go, once again, Citizens Free Press, bookmark it. | ||
| When you go there, from 9 in the morning, Indiana time, until 2 or 3 in the morning, you're up, updating the stack, and I take it as first come first, you put the hottest story up at the top of people who go down, you have 150 stories right now. | ||
| I guess it's non-curation, it's curation. | ||
| So Cain, are you on Twitter or any social media, or does it all go to Citizen Free Press? | ||
| It's mostly Citizen Free Press. | ||
| You guys know that I could care less about Twitter and Facebook, have no Facebook presence, never have Twitter, it's just an afterthought. | ||
| As far as the order of stories, you know, that causes a huge conflict with the readers on my site, because I want to keep the most important stories on the top. | ||
| But there are so many addicts who come every 30 minutes, they get pissed off when they see the same story up there and they want to see the new stuff. | ||
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We've got to bounce, we've got to bounce. | |
| Is Kane, he is the founder of Citizens Free Press, bookmark it, go to the day. | ||
| If you're a news junkie, go there constantly. | ||
| Podcast, what's on your podcast today? | ||
| I'm going to try, we're trying to get Mike McCormick to join us to talk about, exactly. | ||
| Biden, if he's not taking a nap, Biden. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a kind of a long break, we'll be back at 5 o'clock. |
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