Feb. 26, 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. | ||
| That 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 a hundred 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 and the worst happens, War Room. | ||
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Pandemic. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Got at least four members that I think are planning on running for president, plus some governors and others. | ||
| There's no incumbent. | ||
| Should be a wide open race and fun for you all to cover. | ||
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If the president was the party's nominee, would you support him? | |
| The nominee of the party? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Okay, live from our occupied nation's capital, we've hit the 50-day mark of the occupation, and also now through the good offices of National Pulse, the 37th day of an unaccompanied press conference by Joe Biden. | ||
| Okay, you're in the war room. | ||
| It is Friday, 26th of February, the year of our Lord, 2021. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| Where is this year going? | ||
| We're ripping through 2021. | ||
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| Also, Rumble, Gab, Telegram, Roku, Pluto, everywhere. | ||
| Ubiquitous. | ||
| We meet you where you are. | ||
| We've got live chats going all over. | ||
| Hashtag War Room Pandemic. | ||
| Want to hear your comments, observations, questions, ideas, people we should be talking to. | ||
| Commander Eric Greitens joins us in the War Room as co-host today. | ||
| Commander, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
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You bet, man. | |
| It's our intense CPAC coverage. | ||
| We've got Raheem Kassam and the great team at National Pulse on the trigger. | ||
| Before we go, we're going to go live to CPAC, and we're going to tell our audience, both the podcast audience, the radio audience, and our TV audience. | ||
| Today, we're going to be throwing it back and forth to try and get as much intensity from CPAC as possible. | ||
| Going to try to start with Tudor Dixon, John Fredericks, Amanda Head, and the team down there at Real America's Voice, big team. | ||
| Howard Diamond and the team really a show of force in CPAC this year doing wall-to-wall coverage. | ||
| Also we got Darren Beatty coming on, Steve Cortez, Syria last night, so a lot going on. | ||
| As soon as I get the signal we're gonna go right to CPAC and also have Captain Bannon down there. | ||
| Fog City Midge making a surprise appearance, right? | ||
| I guess she's back in the game, back in the fight. | ||
| Okay, Raheem, let's chop some wood here. | ||
| Tell us about this, I'm going to come to Syria with you, but I want to know, what's this when you say unaccompanied? | ||
| I know you're there to trigger people. | ||
| Didn't he actually have a press conference? | ||
| Didn't he take some questions from the press? | ||
| Not like Trump's. | ||
| I think in the first couple of weeks, the President stood up there, took everyone, I think it was over an hour, hour and a half, right? | ||
| It was fantastic. | ||
| I think it was in the East Room. | ||
| Just magnificent. | ||
| He took all incoming. | ||
| What's the story of Joe Biden? | ||
| So the reason this stood out to me yesterday, and the reason we put together the URL joanon.com, which is really, you know, Joe intending to remain anonymous throughout this presidency, or so-called presidency, because we don't really know who's pulling the strings. | ||
| There's all sorts of information coming out about, you know, who's authorizing the strikes on Syria, what does Kamala Harris know, all of that. | ||
| We'll get to that in a minute. | ||
| but really what's interesting to me and what stood out to me is that this is somebody who has campaigned on and even in post-November the third world has told the world this is the most going to be the most transparent presidency most transparent white house and all the while you remember Jen Psaki was asking for questions from the press in advance and now we learn that actually there are no plans | ||
| for Biden to have an unaccompanied that means no Kamala no Jill no Jen standing by the side. You stand right up there and take the incoming from me. Obama did it after about ten days in office Trump did it after about fifteen days in office we are now at thirty six days or so at least thirty six thirty seven days now and we have not heard Okay, I'm going to come, we're going to come right back to Syria. | ||
| This really gets a serious question of, like, the chain of command, what happened last night, the mainstream media bearing this. | ||
| I think Jason Miller put up, tweeted out, the great Jason Miller, who's down in Mar-a-Lago with the President, Jason, a former co-host here, in the War Room. | ||
| Jason tweeted out this morning, the computer, when you go online, not on your phone, the homepage of Politico, not one mention of it. | ||
| He's got MGT up there, her rally of coming to the National Pulse's defense here about this whole situation of Dr. Levine. | ||
| She was throwing down hard. | ||
| We'll get to that in a second. | ||
| Just real quick on that. | ||
| The Politico playbook this morning accused Marjorie Taylor Greene of harassing Congresswoman Newman because she put the thing up that said there are two genders. | ||
| It was Newman who put the flag out there first. | ||
| Don't mention this. | ||
| But how is it harassment? | ||
| MGT, I'm telling you, and she answered a basic question. | ||
| And we're going to have an expert on transhumanism in the second hour. | ||
| How many genders are there? | ||
| Pretty basic question. | ||
| I think, Wrighton, you're a Rhodes Scholar. | ||
| You were at Oxford. | ||
| Your science data and evidence base, is that not correct, sir? | ||
| Absolutely, 100%. | ||
| You couldn't have gotten to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. | ||
| That's like the crème de la crème, is it not, sir? | ||
| We did alright! | ||
| Your academic career, you know how to look at data, and you know how to call BS, right? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay, we're going to go live to CPAC right now, and John Fredericks. | ||
| Do we have John? | ||
| Tutor? | ||
| We got John? | ||
| So John, here's the thing, Raheem, MATCH Lab, Great picture of Matt this morning, but he's got the mask on. | ||
| I think he's getting his temperature taken. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| And was this something that was not planned for? | ||
| I mean, one of the reasons everybody wanted to go down there is for freedom and liberty. | ||
| You know, the Santa's done a magnificent job. | ||
| The CPAC guys have done an incredible job of pulling this thing together at the last second. | ||
| Massive crowds, packed, sold out in every type of venue. | ||
| But what is the local authorities, and are people going to have to wear masks during the day, take their temperature? | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| Yes, if you want to come to CPAC and you want to get inside the Hyatt Regency, there's a mask mandate here. | ||
| It started with the local government and the mayor of Orlando. | ||
| Now, if you go outside in Florida, the best thing is basically volunteer. | ||
| It's very relaxed. | ||
| Go to bars, have a good time. | ||
| No problem there. | ||
| But if you're going to be in the Hyatt Regency and you want to go to any of these events, you're going to have to put a mask on. | ||
| There are masked police all over the place. | ||
| They also make you put it over your nose. | ||
| Some of these things are for the older people. | ||
| It's a long walk, and they're gasping for air a little bit, so they might relax it, but you've got to take your temperature every day, and you have to have a mask on, except when you're in Radio Row, like I am, then of course you're on the air, you can take them off, so it's fine for us. | ||
| But if you want to get into any of the events, if you want to get into the media center... | ||
| You have to be masked. | ||
| You have to take your temperature. | ||
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Okay, hang on for a second. | |
| What do you mean that there's masked police? | ||
| Is this the hotel or is there outside authority wandering around getting ready? | ||
| And what do they do? | ||
| Write you up? | ||
| They give you a chit? | ||
| It's like a speeding ticket? | ||
| No, they have a box of masks. | ||
| They have a sign that says wear your mask. | ||
| They have a bag with them so they can drink water. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Every about 100 feet, there's the mask security, making sure you have a mask. | ||
| And if you don't put it on, they will not let you go through the next step. | ||
| So you have to put the mask on. | ||
| In order to get to Media Row and into the event, you have to take your temperature every day. | ||
| Then you put a green or red button on your name tag. | ||
| If you can see mine here, if I can... | ||
| Just pull it up. | ||
| See, I got a green button and a red button, which means I passed the temperature test. | ||
| So you have to be able to do that. | ||
| But look, I've told people that were coming here that if you want to get in the CPAC, if you want to participate, you're going to have to put a mask on. | ||
| If you're not willing to do that, you're not going to be able to come. | ||
| But hang on, when was this thing dropping? | ||
| Last time I... I haven't been to CPAC. | ||
| I went one time to the White House, but I haven't been in five or six years. | ||
| I remember it's a younger crowd, younger audience. | ||
| That's what we think. | ||
| We got our young crowd down there. | ||
| You know, the Mo Bannons and the Maggie Vanderbilt. | ||
| It's a very libertarian leaning. | ||
| I mean, this was the Rand Paul. | ||
| You know, somebody joked yesterday, Ron Paul won the straw poll 20 years in a row, right? | ||
| It's a hardcore libertarian crowd, or it used to be. | ||
| I know it's more MAGA today, but my point is, some of those people might take it personally if they're coming all the way to Florida. | ||
| They love Governor DeSantis. | ||
| They want to go down there because everybody's telling us every day, Florida, everybody's going to Florida because it's the land of liberty and freedom. | ||
| They show up and they got not just a mask, they got some guy up in your grill about where your mask is. | ||
| So how's that setting with the traditional rank-and-file that is CPAC? | ||
| I think everybody understands the situation we're in here. | ||
| Oh you go outside the hotel into the Florida uh into Florida itself and uh it's very different. | ||
| I went to a I went to we all went to a bar last night uh about 5 30 after the show no masks there but I think people are just accepting in order to do this right now you got to have a mask on. | ||
| I haven't seen any rumbling about it to be honest. | ||
| I think there's a lot there's a tremendous amount of enthusiasm here uh Governor DeSantis kicked things off at At 9 a.m., but the number of young people, the number of... This is a populist event. | ||
| You can forget... In fact, CPAC's not the right name. | ||
| It's T-PAC. | ||
| It's the Trump Political Action Conference. | ||
| It's all about Trump, MAGA, populist. | ||
| I mean, there's no traditional Republicans here, but we love spending their sponsors' money, as I said yesterday, to get out our populist message. | ||
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Yeah, you were the lead on Mediaite just all morning, John Frey's causing trouble. | |
| Okay, I think the reason they've done this, one of the reasons they've done this, is to make sure they've got all the international media and the mainstream media down there, so as soon as any of the Trump people don't want to wear a mask, it's going to turn into a super-spreader event. | ||
| So for people down there using their common sense, you know, level-headed, understanding that this is all a triggering event. | ||
| You're saying it's TPAC. | ||
| Talk to us about DeSantis. | ||
| How'd he kick it off this morning? | ||
| I mean, it's standing room only. | ||
| He's the best governor in America. | ||
| The people that live in Florida are happy to have him. | ||
| And I tell you what, other people from other states like me, I live in... | ||
| Virginia, where our governor was a walking, talking catastrophe. | ||
| Can't figure his way out of a paper bag. | ||
| Everything is locked down. | ||
| We're envious. | ||
| We're envious of Florida. | ||
| We're envious of their governor, their government, how they work things here. | ||
| And the biggest thing about coming to Florida is you get off the plane or get out of your car and you realize, hey, people are still living. | ||
| They're living their life. | ||
| Like, it's real life. | ||
| Like the old days, when you could just go outside and have fun and be happy. | ||
| That is what Florida is right now. | ||
| And for the people coming here, Steve and Raheem from out of state, I gotta tell you, it's... | ||
| It's shocking. | ||
| It hits you in the face like a windstorm because you can't believe how other people are living in America and we are not if you're from these locked down states. | ||
| So DeSantis, I gotta say, if Trump doesn't run in 24, this guy decides to run for president, good luck beating it because he got a tremendous ovation here today, a warm welcome, and people recognize him as a doer. | ||
| That gets things done, and he's a strategic thinker, but he's broken through the left-wing media. | ||
| He doesn't care what they say, and people in his state are very, very happy. | ||
| His popularity is off the charts. | ||
| Okay, John, thank you very much. | ||
| Look forward to having you back on the show live. | ||
| Great report from CPAC. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| Ron DeSantis has done a fantastic job. | ||
| Okay, we're going to go back. | ||
| We're going to get Darren Beatty in here. | ||
| Big thing on Syria last night. | ||
| Let's also point out, DeSantis resisted the groupthink. | ||
| He resisted the groupthink, he thought for himself, and guess what? | ||
| The results show that Florida is having better results related to coronavirus, even though Florida has a more elderly population, than California, where Gavin Newsom absolutely locked down the state. | ||
| So, DeSantis resisted the groupthink, he stood up to the leftist pressure, and what happened? | ||
| He got better results for his people. | ||
| You know, you've got guys like Gritens, Rhodes, Scholar, DeSantis, also with the mainstream media everyone talks about, with Yale and Harvard, right? | ||
| DeSantis went in, evidence-based, fact-based, made decisions, and they came at him hard. | ||
| Everybody I talk to is saying, hey, Florida's where it's happening for the simple reason is they've done it logically. | ||
| They've had targeted interventions. | ||
| Look, they've had some fits and starts you've gone to when you have a CCP virus, right, that nobody knows. | ||
| They haven't yet gotten into Wuhan to find out what type of biological weapon it is. | ||
| Of course, in California right now, they're finding out they've got a strain out there that they've never seen before. | ||
| So no, DeSantis has done a terrific job, and he's a great guy, and he's a guy of – he's not the warm and cuddly they're used to talk about in the old days. | ||
| Oh, you've got to present to the big president the guy you want to have a beer with. | ||
| No. | ||
| Ronny Sanders is the guy that you want there in the foxhole with you getting stuff done. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to come back. | ||
| We've got Darren Beatty. | ||
| We're going to talk about Syria. | ||
| We're also going to go live back to CPAC. | ||
| Like I said, throughout this next couple hours of the day during the show, we're going to be jumping back and forth between live coverage of CPAC and the War Room. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We'll be back in a second. | ||
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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, welcome back. | ||
| We're going to be jumping back and forth between CPAC. | ||
| Had a little technical problem down there. | ||
| We're going to try to get it sorted. | ||
| But I want to go to, we got from Revolver, we got Darren Beatty. | ||
| So, Darren, I've got a guy in the war room today. | ||
| I've got two guys. | ||
| I've got Rahim Ghassan, who dedicated his life for many years in London and was lit up about it. | ||
| about radical jihad, and took all the incomings, and what the problems were, and was one of the first guys to talk about the caliphate, and you gotta destroy the caliphate, right? | ||
| Don't know if we gotta get into this. | ||
| You don't need to be all over the world, right, fighting these wars, but you gotta focus on what you gotta fight on. | ||
| Greitens actually deployed a number of times in these wars, right? | ||
| So these are two veterans. | ||
| And I've got veterans of these wars, and tell me what happened. | ||
| I had a flashback last night, because I was in the Situation Room, essentially You know, four years ago at this time, I'm banging on the table, not happening. | ||
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Right? | |
| What are we doing? | ||
| Why are we sending these cruise missiles over here? | ||
| Why are they so obsessed? | ||
| Darren Beatty. | ||
| The audience has to understand something. | ||
| Why are they so obsessed about Syria and wanting to get in up there and get a conflict rolling? | ||
| What possesses the globalist elite of both parties that are obsessed with Syria for some reason, sir? | ||
| The intelligence community seems to have lost its etiquette. | ||
| They don't even have the decency anymore to fake a chemical attack, it seems. | ||
| But this has really been going on for a long time, as you've said, and it's not just under Trump. | ||
| Unfortunately, Trump did launch an attack. | ||
| It didn't really amount to much, but this goes all the way back to Obama. | ||
| A lot of advisors associated with the kind of Hillary Clinton wing of the Obama administration were pushing him to intervene in Syria, get engaged in the civil war, and ultimately topple Assad. | ||
| Now, to his credit, Obama refused this. | ||
| He refused a full-on engagement that would result in toppling Assad. | ||
| It looks like what we're seeing here with Biden is that those remnants from the Hillary Clinton wing of the Biden administration are getting their way and they're poised for a full on offensive against Assad. | ||
| Now, why do they want to get rid of Assad? | ||
| That's that's a very interesting question. | ||
| It's very interesting. | ||
| Why are we even there? | ||
| Well, Trump effectively destroyed the territorial possession of the ISIS caliphate. | ||
| The ISIS excuse is no longer there. | ||
| And even when they were using the ISIS excuse, it wasn't really the full story why we were there. | ||
| We were there to get rid of Assad for geopolitical purposes. | ||
| Now we're there. | ||
| Same reason. | ||
| Mixed messages. | ||
| In fact, their excuse for attacking Syria in this case was a bomb attack in Iraq near Erbil, the Kurdish province. | ||
| Military officials at Pentagon has not even said that they know who's responsible for this. | ||
| So they don't even know for sure who's responsible. | ||
| They're just attacking and it's clear they want to maintain a foothold Escalate in the region, possibly remove Assad. | ||
| It's the same story over and over and over. | ||
| Greitens, you've been there. | ||
| Tell me, why are they obsessed about this? | ||
| Why do they do this all the time? | ||
| Look, what you have is you have a Republican foreign policy establishment and a Democrat foreign policy establishment, which for a long time, and still today, often see things the same way. | ||
| Keep in mind, Trump's boldest moves often came when he stood up against that foreign policy establishment. | ||
| People obviously remember the big move to actually move The U.S. | ||
| Embassy to Jerusalem, which had been promised for decades by all of these presidents, who promised to do it when they campaigned, never did it. | ||
| President Trump did it. | ||
| The foreign policy establishment was yelling, if you move the U.S. | ||
| Embassy to Jerusalem, here comes World War III. | ||
| He did it. | ||
| There were a couple days of protests, and everything was fine. | ||
| Keep in mind, it was that same foreign policy establishment which demanded that when there was a drone that was shut down, that Trump take You know, really strong action against Iran. | ||
| And Trump said, does this make sense? | ||
| Does this actually make sense for the American people? | ||
| Oh, they're a few minutes away. | ||
| This is Bolton. | ||
| They're a few minutes away from launch when Trump has to step in and intervene. | ||
| He has to step in and intervene and say, I don't know that this makes sense for the men and women of Potosi, Missouri and their kids who are on the front line. | ||
| That's who they should be thinking about instead of playing these games. | ||
| So, Darren, tell me, what is American first? | ||
| We're a pro-defense, strong national defense, but in your mind, because you're probably on the wing on this one with us, tell us what in your mind America first national security policy, particularly in regards to situations like Syria. | ||
| Well, that's a great question, and it's actually quite complicated. | ||
| Unfortunately, I don't know of any other time where there's been such a profound disconnect between the operation of the military, the intelligence community, the national security apparatus and the actual security and well-being of the American people. | ||
| I think we need two dimensions. | ||
| One, we need to make sure that military engagements are actually serving America's interests in the sense of its geopolitical position, its resources and so forth. | ||
| But there's a second step that's equally important, if not more so, which is to make sure that by securing America's geopolitical position and its resources, those benefits actually redound to the American people rather than simply enhancing the loot of the people who control America, who hate Americans. | ||
| That's a crucial step, and I think what we see now is a very troubling disconnect, both from the interests of America as a country and our engagements overseas, and secondly, in the interests of America as a national security state and the interests and well-being of actual Americans. | ||
| I think what Darren is saying is so important, and let me break it down real simple, okay? | ||
| You need to be able to walk into a diner in Dunkland County, Missouri, and you need to be able to say to men and women there, this is why it's worth putting your son or daughter's life at risk. | ||
| This is why it matters to you, and if you can't do that, if it doesn't make sense, then We shouldn't be fighting here. | ||
| This is the key point, because I've got to tell you, my daughter deployed over there, you have no control. | ||
| That's when you realize it's in God's hands. | ||
| You literally are sitting there going, and the question you ask every day is, what is this all about? | ||
| If she dies or comes back wounded or has the PTSD, what is this about? | ||
| That's what the American people have to understand. | ||
| It's not just the treasure, it's the blood. | ||
| What are we doing this for? | ||
| And they've got to be able to look at the kids and say, later on, this was worth it. | ||
| You did your duty, you served your country, but it's got a purpose to this. | ||
| Okay, we'll go to another point that disturbed me about this. | ||
| What is, I realize you're triggering these guys with the unaccompanied press conference, and I'm not saying we're teasing them, it's very serious we're doing that, but it doesn't get any more serious than what happens. | ||
| The Democrats yesterday put up the thing about the commander-in-chief not having, I think 37 Democrats, the commander-in-chief not having the sole ability to actually launch. | ||
| I think that's at Trump, not at Biden, but then you get You know, all this thing, and the guys on the right saying, oh, he's so sleepy, they're trying to cover up. | ||
| But then you have this thing in the middle of the night. | ||
| I mean, for us, it was such a well-thought-through thing, and argued, and quite frankly, they won the argument, okay? | ||
| I didn't think they provided the science data or evidence, as history shows. | ||
| But, this was well-argued through, and there was a specific chain of command that people knew. | ||
| Is this true? | ||
| Is Kamala Harris, was she not in the loop on this thing? | ||
| Number one. | ||
| And number two, Jen Psaki and Kamala Harris were the first ones. | ||
| Trump did it last time. | ||
| Do you have authorization? | ||
| Do you have status? | ||
| I mean, the Biden situation... | ||
| Where he's dropping in the polls because it looks, you know, we got open borders and closed schools. | ||
| We still don't have a straight answer on vaccines. | ||
| Now Fauci's telling everybody, hey, you can go hug, you know, tonight. | ||
| Last night's a different thing. | ||
| You can go hug. | ||
| But this is, this is national security in which stuff started getting launched. | ||
| American kids are going to be put in the middle of it. | ||
| What was the chain of command, Mr. Rahim Ghassan, last night as you see it? | ||
| Because I know National Pulse is all over this. | ||
| Yeah, and, you know, I appreciate the, you know, the discussion, how the discussion began about our histories, and now I've never classed myself as a veteran in the sense, but an intellectual... But you've been a veteran in the... Of the intellectual arguments, and I want to get into some of those, because that would explain why we saw some of what we saw yesterday. | ||
| So, let's think about this first in terms of the JCPOA, right, the Iran deal. | ||
| There is a lot of what Biden did yesterday is supposed to assert his Dominance over a future Iran negotiation. | ||
| He's trying to send a message without taking diplomacy off the table. | ||
| To the militia groups. | ||
| To the militia groups. | ||
| They're proxy armies. | ||
| So what we're effectively seeing is the militarization of diplomacy again, right? | ||
| And he probably still thinks it's 2012, by the way, which is why he thinks he can still do that. | ||
| The rest of the world looks at that and goes, that was a failed way to try and run negotiations and try and conduct your foreign policy. | ||
| And it's a failed way to bomb your way into diplomatic situations. | ||
| The second part of it goes to the Kamala Harris-Joe Biden divide that we're seeing, you know, emerge in the West. | ||
| And really, you know, the Ron Klain versus the vice president's staff and all of these different groups that are shaking out right now. | ||
| It does appear from certain sources are saying that Kamala was not briefed in advance of this happening. | ||
| And I think that may be a direct response to what some Democrats have said. | ||
| Just very quickly. | ||
| You know the markets have not been particularly well the last couple of days and this move by Biden will again be a form of using something to placate big corporates and placate big defense companies in a way to kind of steady the markets and say hey hey we can stimulus our way by bombing other countries. | ||
| Business Insider's lead story today is talking about how big business is very comfortable with Biden and the Democratic Party. | ||
| There's been a big shift, as we told you, gave all the tax breaks and deregulation. | ||
| They've completely flipped on, particularly MAGA. | ||
| They hate the populist movement, hate the nationalist movement. | ||
| Darren Beatty, got about a minute, and I want to hold you over briefly into Cortez's time, but what about Rahim? | ||
| Rahim is saying this is part of a bigger geopolitical move by Biden to say, hey look, I can take on Iran, and what I'm going to do is start taking on their proxy armies that are up there in Syria. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, this is one of the, you know, pretexts for remaining in that region of Syria in particular is that we want to establish some kind of outposts to counter Iranian influence. | ||
| I don't know whether that's actually, you know, we've been there quite some time and I wish they would actually articulate what their objectives are. | ||
| By now, it doesn't seem like they've done this and that the objectives are actually changing by the minute. | ||
| You know it's a problem for the media, Barry. | ||
| Okay, I want to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Hang on, Darren, because I got a question. | ||
| Is this just their obsession, they want to get in a shooting conflict with Russia? | ||
| Is this all about they're up there because of that? | ||
| Darren Batey, Steve Cortez, next in the War Room. | ||
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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, I'm bringing in Cortez in a moment. | ||
| I want people to understand, you've got four of the biggest brains in this movement. | ||
| You're going to have Steve Cortez, Darren Beatty, former speechwriter at the White House, and people in the posse fully understand, Beatty's the only Ivy or Ivy League equivalent professor that pre-2016 stood up and said, hey, I'm with this guy Trump, right, early on, and caught nothing but incoming. | ||
| Raheem Kassam, former editor of Breitbart London, now in charge of the National Pulse, and of course our own commander, Eric Greitens, former governor of Missouri and a warrior. | ||
| A guy dedicated, what is it, ten years of your life? | ||
| Yeah, I was on active duty for six. | ||
| Did four deployments over there. | ||
| Iraq, Afghanistan. | ||
| They promote pretty quickly over in the SEALs. | ||
| Got a commander in six years. | ||
| I know you're early. | ||
| That's another thing. | ||
| He's picked early all the time. | ||
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| Okay, Nelson's Navy. | ||
| I want to go back to Darren Beatty. | ||
| I'm going to bring Cortez in after I go around the horn here. | ||
| Is this Why we're up in Syria with ill-defined objectives, and it's kind of all over the map, and they don't come out and make a case, you don't see the Pentagon last night or today, they're burying it, you know, they had it, you know, our great young producer Cameron Wallace teased me, he says, hey, they just hit Syria. | ||
| You come down here, it's on the cryer on CNN, until Zucker calls and says, get it off, take it off, get it down, don't want to talk about that. | ||
| Right, they had it on there when it first went up, oh, Joe Biden is the Commander-in-Chief. | ||
| Is this Their obsession about wanting to get into some sort of shooting conflict anywhere in the world with Russia. | ||
| Mr. Darren Beatty. | ||
| Yes, I mean, this has been a longstanding obsession. | ||
| And in fact, Samantha Power, who I believe is up for nomination for a USAID post in the Biden administration, one of her last speeches in the Obama administration, which she served in the capacity of UN Director, was precisely urging intervention in Syria in order to initiate conflict with Russia. So this has been going at for a long time. The Syrian situation is | ||
| complicated and the role of Russia fluctuates. I think the Iran is just as much a feature here as Russia was, but in most general terms, the Biden administration is absolutely obsessed with Russia, certainly compared to the Trump administration. | ||
| The power of NGOs, which are essentially intelligence cutouts like the Atlantic Council. | ||
| Which basically absorb all of their energy in order to crush populism, crush nationalism, crush the energies associated with Trump's victory. | ||
| They are obsessed with Russia. | ||
| They're obsessed with the pipeline there. | ||
| And they want us to get into conflict with Russia. | ||
| No question. | ||
| The question for us is what do we get out of it? | ||
| Yeah, here's the point. | ||
| Russia's a sideshow to a sideshow, right? | ||
| It's the CCP. | ||
| CCP's financing the mullahs. | ||
| You pull away the CCP money in arms, Iran, the mullahs collapse in a week. | ||
| They've got to be kept on the $400 billion oil deal. | ||
| Greitens, is this an obsession of the elite ruling class of this country with Russia? | ||
| Look, it's an obsession with Russia and it's also an obsession with conflict. | ||
| So when you look at a lot of the intellectual history behind a lot of this push towards intervention, all of it is always driving towards the use of the American military overseas. | ||
| And it doesn't ever answer that fundamental question because of the disconnect. | ||
| This is where we talk about the disconnect between the elites and regular people. | ||
| Most of these elites, they haven't served, they don't understand the mindset... And the kids don't serve. | ||
| By the way, this is the elite progressive. | ||
| They see the national security, they see the intelligence community, and they see law enforcement here as instruments of power. | ||
| Don't think it's not like the old days in Vietnam or something like that. | ||
| They've got a whole new take on this thing. | ||
| They're the ones that are power-mad. | ||
| Beatty, how do people get to the revolver? | ||
| How do they get to you during the day? | ||
| You guys are on fire. | ||
| We've got two new great pieces, Revolver.News, one on economics, one by the great Congressman Paul Gosar. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| We've got stuff on Syria. | ||
| I'd just like to say to conclude this discussion, war is essentially an affirmative action policy for our defense contractors. | ||
| And so maybe next time we can discuss the role, the political economy of our defense contractors and their role in these affairs. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| We definitely will. | ||
| Rahim Ghassan, do you want to jump in here? | ||
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Can I play my favorite game for a second? | |
| The lead story on Mother Jones is about Angelo Quinto, the person who was killed by police officers. | ||
| The lead story on Talking Points Memo is about Don Jr. | ||
| The lead story on Vox is about Amazon's race problem. | ||
| The lead story on the Huffington Post, CPAC's murderers row. | ||
| The New York Times, number of houses for sale in America. | ||
| Daily Kos. | ||
| Same Republicans peeling back the rights of black voters. | ||
| Blah, blah, blah. | ||
| The Economist. | ||
| The rules of big tech are changing. | ||
| I'm not seeing Syria. | ||
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| It's interesting, isn't it? | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Cortez. | ||
| No, wait. | ||
| I'll tell you how far they will go to avoid putting Syria on the front page. | ||
| Foreign Affairs Magazine's lead story right now is China must stop hiding its vaccine data. | ||
| They would go so far as to peddle a Stephen K. Bannon conspiracy theory to keep Syria off the front page. | ||
| Dude, that says it. | ||
| Cortez, before we get into the economics and MAGA and CPAC, I've got to ask you about this because you've been at the forefront of this. | ||
| This thing in Syria, and this is the most anti-America first part of the foreign policy you could have. | ||
| Is that correct, sir? | ||
| A hundred percent. | ||
| It's not America first, it's unfortunately America everywhere. | ||
| I think we also need to look at this cast of characters who are now bellicose war hawks who support intervention all over the world, including in the Middle East. | ||
| A lot of these very same people and same institutions When we faced off against the Soviet Union, which was an actual existential threat to the United States during the Cold War, unlike Russia right now, okay? | ||
| But when we faced off with the USSR in the Cold War days, all through the Reagan days, for example, these were the appeasers and peaceniks and pacifists who wanted to coddle the Soviet Union, who now want to go to war against Russia. | ||
| It's total hypocrisy, it's illogical, it's ludicrous. | ||
| But this gets to the point. | ||
| The progressivism today is not what, don't think about the New York Times and the Pentagon Papers. | ||
| The New York Times and the Washington Post defend the apparatus. | ||
| They see the apparatus because now they want real power. | ||
| This is Nietzschean, the will to power. | ||
| They see these as instruments of state power and they want to, they're going to control the state, they're going to control the social media, they're going to, this whole thing is to push the populist or, you know, not worthy of making the great decisions of state. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You think that Donald Trump is not worthy of that? | ||
| Go ahead, Steve. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Steve, they were heading that way anyway, even pre-Trump, right? | ||
| I mean, they really were. | ||
| These institutions you're talking about, like the New York Times, Legacy, corporate media, academia, they were becoming essentially pro-big state, which meant pro-war, at least in part, and perhaps primarily. | ||
| And then Donald Trump sent that into overdrive. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because he was the first president for peace in this country in decades. | ||
| Because his America First foreign policy of realism and restraint, which was amazing for America, engaged in no noon wars and in fact made real gains in winding down the disastrous wars of his predecessors. | ||
| And I mean that plural, not just Obama but also George W. Bush. | ||
| So that sent this into into overdrive and unfortunately a lot of these The very platforms that were formerly aligned with a peace movement, again, are now the most bellicose war hawks you can find in American public life. | ||
| What do you want to see come out of CPAC prior to Donald J. Trump on Sunday afternoon when he makes his big speech about the direction of the Republican Party? | ||
| He talks about immigration, the sovereignty of the United States, all that. | ||
| What do you want to see come out of CPAC in the next two days? | ||
| Right. | ||
| So, you know, pre-Trump, I think it's important that outside of Donald Trump, who is unquestionably the indispensable leader still of our movement, it's important that the rest of the movement, the luminaries of the movement, whether they're elected office holders or other important people in our movement, that they show the country that the movement is united because corporate media is trying very hard right now To spin a narrative that there's a fractious Republican Party, that there's this great civil war going on all over America within the GOP. | ||
| And that is not the case. | ||
| Now, I'll be the first to concede, there is absolutely fracture within legacy office holders in Washington D.C. | ||
| And there may be some consternation and battle among the donor class. | ||
| But there is not a battle among Republican voters, not at all. | ||
| As a matter of fact, there's dang near unanimity among Republican voters that they back the America First agenda. | ||
| So I think today, tomorrow, a lot of speakers who are not named Trump, they can project that vision, that America First vision to the country, hopefully break through the nonsense and noise that the corporate media wants people to believe, and project the truth, which is that the America First workers' movement ...has transformed the Republican Party into a very new party. | ||
| In many ways, it's what the Democratic Party was, perhaps, say, pre-JFK, a long time ago. | ||
| But regardless, it is a workers' movement that is growing and that is young. | ||
| I also want that to be projected, that we are out of power right now. | ||
| And that's frustrating. | ||
| Very frustrating. | ||
| However, we also have to take solace in the very real knowledge that our movement is very, very young. | ||
| We are going to dominate politics in this country for decades to come. | ||
| The future belongs to American nationalists. | ||
| Our movement is growing. | ||
| Yeah, and let me just double tap on what Steve Cortez is saying, because it is so important. | ||
| The media wants to create the sense that Republicans are fighting against each other. | ||
| And in fact, what you have is this strong movement, as Steve put it so well, of workers, of people who are putting America first. | ||
| And as Steve has said time and again, you look at the increasing number of Hispanic voters who are coming, of African-American voters who are coming, young people who are coming. | ||
| This is a growing, strong movement. | ||
| And yes, is there conflict? | ||
| With politicians in Washington D.C. | ||
| who want to fight for the establishment, of course. | ||
| Is there conflict with the swamp? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| But when it comes to the actual movement of proud, patriotic Americans around this country saying, you know what, we're going to put America first, there is a strong, energetic, powerful movement right now. | ||
| So to Greg's point, we see the youth and you see the dynamism. | ||
| If you were at CPAC and able to give a talk to everybody and also the President on Sunday about the future of the economy, you were the first guy to name it the striver's economy. | ||
| What these policies of President Trump did for working class people and middle class people. | ||
| Where does Steve Cortez see the American economy today? | ||
| You know, unfortunately, I'm very troubled. | ||
| This is not a Trump economy anymore, and you're exactly right. | ||
| If I were speaking there, I would go through quickly 2019, which was the best year in all of American history, the pre-CCP virus year, when the Trump policies were really coming to fruition, were coming to their full application in America. | ||
| And 2019, the stats just, you know, were absolutely Blow the doors off positive for American workers. | ||
| 6.8% overall wage growth, even higher than that for blue-collar workers, higher than that for blacks, for Latinos. | ||
| It was a gangbusters year for American workers, proving that the Trump agenda of America first economic nationalism works. | ||
| What do I mean by that? | ||
| Tax cuts, regulatory relief, and then perhaps most importantly, regarding foreign policy and trade, demanding tough trade terms, particularly with China, And controlling the border. | ||
| Controlling the border is not just a national security and justice and safety issue. | ||
| It is all of those. | ||
| But I think it is primarily an economic issue. | ||
| And I think that is critical. | ||
| Because right now, already, only five weeks into the Biden presidency, we have essentially an open border. | ||
| Very few in the corporate media want to pay attention to what's going on down there. | ||
| But there is a crisis that is building right now. | ||
| That's not my opinion. | ||
| That's based on the numbers. | ||
| If we look at The Border Patrol stats, for example, January was, this January arrests were almost double arrests of January, excuse me, more than double arrests of January of 2020. | ||
| The February numbers, of course, are not yet final, but we had a quote just yesterday from Axios where they said this is on pace to be perhaps the worst month ever for unaccompanied child arrivals. | ||
| People are swarming the border and it's cold. | ||
| Once it gets warmer, it's only going to intensify. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because people respond to incentives. | ||
| They smartly respond to incentives, including would-be trespassers into America. | ||
| And Joe Biden has already created and wants to accelerate incentives to draw potentially millions of illegal migrants into this country. | ||
| And again, why is that an economic issue? | ||
| Here we are in a time where the American strivers or working class people are just getting back on their feet. | ||
| We have an economic recovery that's very fragile and I think teetering right now in this country. | ||
| And the worst possible scenario for those workers in terms of getting back to full employment, getting back to rising wages, the worst possible scenario is to flood our economy with new labor. | ||
| That's exactly what Joe Biden is inviting. | ||
| Hey, Steve. | ||
| Steve, hang on for one second. | ||
| We're taking a break, but I want to answer the question of this. | ||
| We're going to have the $1.9 trillion will give us, I think, $5 trillion of stimulus to bridge in the COVID and also the world's economy. | ||
| How's it all going to come back? | ||
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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, Cortez, you're one of the smartest guys I know in the hedge fund business, but I've got a lot of other guys that are saying, hey, they think, they're seeing it, that there's so much pent-up demand, and they're looking at, like, you know, Carnival Cruise bookings for 2022, hotel bookings in places like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Florida in the summer this year, and they see this thing coming roaring back. | ||
| Now, with the $1.9 trillion that's going to get approved, I guess, in the next week or two, I think it's up to $5 trillion, $4 or $5 trillion that we've done a stimulus. | ||
| What's the bond market telling you, Steve Cortez, about where the American economy is going and where the world economy is going? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And Steve, here's why I can't unfortunately concur with their optimism, and Wall Street is still extremely optimistic, but so much of that demand was based on rock-bottom interest rates, particularly housing. | ||
| Housing really has led the charge of the recovery in the United States. | ||
| Since last spring, but housing is going to have a very hard time with interest rates moving up as violently as they have been. | ||
| And I'm sure a lot of the audience out there, even if they watch financial markets, they probably don't watch bonds. | ||
| Bonds are considered boring and complicated. | ||
| But I would say to the audience, you know, you may not care about bonds, but bonds care about you. | ||
| They matter tremendously to your life. | ||
| And I provided a chart which shows what has happened in bond yield to bond yields since Joe Biden was elected. | ||
| Right after the election on November 3rd, bond yields bottomed. | ||
| 10-year Treasury yields bottomed at about 0.7%, incredibly low, of course, by historical standards. | ||
| They had more than doubled through yesterday. | ||
| They had a high of 1.6% yesterday. | ||
| That is a massive increase for 10-year Treasury rates to more than double in a period of months and in a very violent fashion. | ||
| And here's why I believe this is happening, Steve. | ||
| And again, I'm very counter Wall Street on this. | ||
| I really believe if rates were to rise slowly and steadily, that would be a good thing. | ||
| That would mean the bond market believes in growth in the United States and prices can rise. | ||
| When it rises in this fashion, in this violent way, I believe what's going on is there is a bond market revolt right now. | ||
| And with the bond market, think of the bond market almost as a bank. | ||
| And the bank is lending to the United States. | ||
| The United States is the business. | ||
| And they have for years said, we're willing to lend to this business at rock bottom rates, at near zero. | ||
| Suddenly, there's new leadership of this business. | ||
| It is Joe Biden. | ||
| And the bond market no longer believes in the growth trajectory of this business. | ||
| So the bank, the bond markets are saying, we need much higher interest rates now if we're going to loan to you. | ||
| Because what we see, what the bond market sees is endless borrowing, but they don't see the growth story that they saw during the Trump era. | ||
| So I think this is a sea change. | ||
| This is a secular shift. | ||
| And I fear what we're going to see very shortly in this country, Is something we haven't seen in decades, which is significant inflation without wage growth. | ||
| And if we get that, it is a massive squeeze on the middle class. | ||
| We're already seeing it in energy. | ||
| We're already seeing it in terms of the bond market. | ||
| And by the way, to connect this discussion to the last one about Russia, the best thing that ever happened to Moscow and to Putin is Joe Biden coming into office and assaulting American energy. | ||
| It's just everybody loses except for big oil companies and Putin. | ||
| You think this is going to be even worse than the stagflation back in the 70s? | ||
| worried. This rise in yields has caused a lot of volatility in financial markets this week. I think this portends very poorly for the Biden slow-growth era that we are, I think, unfortunately entering. | ||
| So you think this is going to be even worse than the stagflation back in the in the 70s? | ||
| You think that's where we're heading? | ||
| I mean, I don't know that it gets that bad, Steve, but I'm saying we haven't even had a whiff of that in decades, right? | ||
| I mean, there's plenty of people out there watching today who in their lifetime, if they're young, they've never seen significant inflation in the United States. | ||
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But here's the thing, remember, it's perfect. | |
| Clinton, remember, Bob Rubin, back then, Bob Rubin as head of NEC and then Treasury Secretary, managed the economy for the 10-year bond. | ||
| The 10-year bond, forget the stock market, the 10-year bond tells you what's happening, okay? | ||
| I've got to tell you. | ||
| This apparatus, and what people are not saying, this is what I've been screaming about, about the Russian serfs and the millennials don't own anything, since 2008, and people would actually argue much longer, but at least since 2008, the entire apparatus is set up on basically zero interest rates. | ||
| Correct, sir? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| We're about to trigger some stuff here. | ||
| I'm not so sure the apparatus is set to do this. | ||
| Mr. Steve Cortez. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| And yeah, and I'd say it goes even further back. | ||
| It really goes back to the Y2K bubble, right? | ||
| So, you know, we had balanced budgets or close in the 1990s, the peace dividend of the end of the Cold War, we had significant growth, the beginning of the invention of the internet, which wasn't Al Gore. | ||
| Those were solid days and we didn't borrow a lot, right? | ||
| But from 2000 onward, starting really with the Y2K bubble, and then of course, September Number 11, war everywhere, tech bubble. | ||
| We have been borrowing massively for two decades in this country. | ||
| And again, bond markets have happily accommodated that borrowing. | ||
| And I'm saying for the first time in decades, what we might be seeing right now, and I believe we are seeing, is a bond market revolt, where the bond market is saying, wait a second, if you're going to borrow that much without a growth story, without a business plan, effectively, the kind that Trump had, We're going to demand higher rates. | ||
| And you're so right. | ||
| It's hard to exaggerate the fallout from sustained higher rates, what that would do to our economy. | ||
| Folks, you've got to understand. | ||
| I think you've got to strap in now, because this thing is going to get very, very, very choppy. | ||
| A lot of guys sitting there going, oh no, the pent-up demand is so big. | ||
| Cortez, how do people get to you? | ||
| Give us your social media coordinates. | ||
| Talk about the show. | ||
| Yeah, please follow me at Cortez Steve, Cortez with an S. I continue to put up Chalk Talks. | ||
| I'm going to put up some about exactly what we're talking about here, about interest rates and so forth. | ||
| And I will continue to be a warrior for the deplorables, a happy warrior for the deplorables, and be their voice out there in media. | ||
| Okay, real quick and we're going to come back to this at the top. | ||
| I'm going to bring in Chris Buskirk. | ||
| Chris, we've got about a minute. | ||
| We're going to hold you over to the next segment. | ||
| Your assessment of what Cortez is talking about the economy and the impact it's going to have on the deplorables. | ||
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| I mean, the whole economy basically is designed in order to reduce wages and to make sure that power and capital pools at the very, very top. | ||
| Look, real wages started stagnating in this country in about 1970, and it hasn't changed much ever since. | ||
| There was a couple blips up in 2018 and 2019, which I think was great. | ||
| But there's a reason that people need two incomes just to stay afloat in this country. | ||
| That's the working class. | ||
| That's the middle class. | ||
| And what's happened is that what some people call a Cantillon effect because monetary policy just means that people who own assets, they get richer while everybody else gets further and further behind. | ||
| That's the way everything's set up and I think that what Steve was talking about, Cortez was talking about, is that it's just going to accelerate. | ||
| Okay, we've got Chris Buskirk. | ||
| He's the founder of that magnificent magazine, online site, American Greatness. | ||
| They know what really drove America to greatness and what's going to get us back, make America great again. | ||
| He's going to stay over. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return to CPAC. | ||
| We've got Maggie, Fog City Mid, we've got Captain Bannon, and you two guys, quickly, Cortez's outlook for the economy. | ||
| Yeah, it's so important. | ||
| We'll talk about it more after the break. | ||
| He's right on about a number of key things. | ||
| My generation has been so warm and toasty for so long, we do not know what's coming. | ||
| I gotta tell you, there's no plan. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| They don't articulate a plan. | ||
| Okay, we're taking a short commercial break. |
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