March 17, 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. | ||
| Open our schools! | ||
| Open our schools! | ||
| Open schools! | ||
| Open schools! | ||
| This is Watts. | ||
| It's a predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhood in Los Angeles. | ||
| Many of the city's poor call this home. | ||
| So do drug dealers and gangs. | ||
| That's why this shopping center resembles a fortress. | ||
| There is no escaping this environment without an education. | ||
| Unfortunately, these kids haven't seen the inside of a classroom in more than a year. | ||
| Lydia Friend is the ferocious advocate behind this rally. | ||
| She's the founder of Women of Watts, as concerned a grandmother as you'll ever find. | ||
| Our babies are falling behind. | ||
| She sees teachers passing students who aren't learning anything. | ||
| So they're pushing our babies along. | ||
| And when they get out into the real world, they don't know nothing. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because you didn't teach them like you were supposed to. | ||
| You used our tax dollars and did what you wanted to do with it. | ||
| And today we say what? | ||
| No! | ||
| No more! | ||
| Lydia knows what every educator knows. | ||
| There's no replacing the learning dynamics of the live, in-person classroom experience. | ||
| It's about communication. | ||
| It's about talking to one another. | ||
| Not just sitting there on Zoom trying to figure it out. | ||
| Or too scared to say that they need to interact. | ||
| They need to be able to use their brains. | ||
| Talk. | ||
| Share. | ||
| Lydia Friend's message to the schools is clear. | ||
| Get the teachers in the classroom and teach my grandchildren. | ||
| And we're going to keep on protesting. | ||
| We're going to keep on talking. | ||
| We're going to get louder and louder until it's done. | ||
| In Jesus' name we pray. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| You're gonna teach them, so that when they get out into the real world, they're educated, they can go on to college, to universities, and become something productive in life. | ||
| That would not be a statistic. | ||
| You know living here. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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The value of that education. | |
| Yes, I do. | ||
| And not only that, our young man's 12 and 13, 14 years old, out of school, when they get through Zooming, they've been recruited into gangs. | ||
| Okay, we're very honored in this segment to have both the filmmaker that made that, it's a much longer version where I get up into the live stream, and also the ferocious fighter for children in Watts, Lydia Friend. | ||
| We'll get to that in a second. | ||
| Now with over 41 million downloads on the podcast, we're live from the nation's capital, It's Wednesday, the 17th of March, the Year of Our Lord 2021. | ||
| You're in the War Room, of course, on the John Frederick Trader Network. | ||
| John Frederick is here co-hosting today, and we want to welcome our new station down in Atlanta, WMLB AM 1690 in Metro Atlanta. | ||
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| Every different aspect. | ||
| Make sure you download the Real America's Voice app. | ||
| And, simulcast in Mandarin by G-News and G-TV, and later in the day, blown through the firewall to mainland China. | ||
| So, we got first, we have the filmmaker, John Spiropoulos. | ||
| John, absolutely incredible film. | ||
| We're going to put the longer version up. | ||
| When I saw this the other day, it grabbed me from the very moment, right? | ||
| You hear all these politicians and everybody talking. | ||
| I realize California's got its own political situation, but this is around the country. | ||
| Where the schools are closed, and the parents are sitting there going, hey, our kids, the Zoom thing's nice in concept, but it's not working. | ||
| And our kids, in a competitive world, can't take a year off. | ||
| Bill Maher's the one that actually said this on his, he opened his monologue on Friday talking about this. | ||
| He says, you think they're taking a year off in China? | ||
| Well, they're not. | ||
| Okay, so how did you get the idea? | ||
| How did you find out about this? | ||
| And tell us a little bit about the film before we bring Lydia on. | ||
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I've been traveling the country from Southern California, drove all the way to Washington, D.C. | |
| for a little rally on the 6th of January. | ||
| You might have heard about it. | ||
| It's been in all the papers. | ||
| And drove back and interviewing patriots along the way, interviewing them about the shutdowns on their business. | ||
| And this is the first report about the shutdown's impact on students, because the closings are catastrophic. | ||
| Steve, there's not a kid in the country who got up today and said, I can't wait to get to school to study fractions or to dissect sentences or to study Shakespeare. | ||
| No, they want to get to school to see their friends, to go to baseball practice later or soccer practice or whatever team they're on. | ||
| Band rehearsal, choir rehearsal, clubs. | ||
| That's why they go to school. | ||
| The price of going and being with their friends all day is they have to learn fractions and study Shakespeare. | ||
| But the school spirit is the key to it. | ||
| If they're lucky, they'll meet a teacher along the way, hopefully several of them, who will inspire them, who will motivate them, who will help them find their passion. | ||
| But that does not happen on Zoom. | ||
| You've got to be live and in class where that human connection with a teacher can happen. | ||
| That's the reason why I still remember Miss Magner at Saugan Ash School, my sixth grade teacher, and it's been 60 years. | ||
| I'll never forget her. | ||
| Those are students today are missing that connection. | ||
| And when I heard about the rally, um, in, in Watts, I said, I gotta go. | ||
| I've never been to Watts. | ||
| I'm not from this part of the country. | ||
| I've been here a few years because my kids, great grandkids live here. | ||
| So, you know, I'm here to be with them and I want to see that, but they're not in school either. | ||
| Um, they're doing, they did zoom for a while and then, and you can see. | ||
| They're not progressing and we have a thousand statistics to tell about it, but we've interviewed the parents and we know for a fact. | ||
| And when I saw Lydia, whoo, she's a firecracker and God bless her for fighting for her, you know, her grandkids and everybody else in that neighborhood. | ||
| So let's bring in Lydia Friend. | ||
| I think is well described the ferocious fighter Lydia from Women of Watts an organization. | ||
| I think you started a decade or so ago, but just the central question for our audience. | ||
| What is the problem? | ||
| I think it's the LA Unified School District. | ||
| What is the problem with the administrators and the teachers that they're not listening to the parents and the grandparents of these children, but just described us. | ||
| What do you what do you think this what's what's the issue? | ||
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They say the issue is safety. | |
| I say the issue is politics. | ||
| And they're just used to getting a paycheck and staying at home. | ||
| Our children are suffering. | ||
| The teachers don't want to go to class. | ||
| They say that it's not safe. | ||
| And I say, living in our community, our children, we have housing projects and on each side of the housing projects, there's a school. | ||
| And all the children that's Out of school right now. | ||
| After Zoom, they're out playing along with their friends. | ||
| And those are the same friends that they go to school with every day. | ||
| So when they asked me about safety, I told them the kids are playing with the ones that are in the classroom every day. | ||
| So I just think it's politics. | ||
| I think it's teachers. | ||
| Not all teachers, because we do have good teachers, but some of them just, you know, they're getting a paycheck and they get to stay at home. | ||
| And so I just think that literature needs to step up. | ||
| Let me ask you, is Compton and Lynwood, the other areas around Watts, are the schools, are the children back in school? | ||
| Are they just purely learning on Zoom at home? | ||
| Or are the other school districts that are not part of LA Unified, are they back in school right now? | ||
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Yes, they're in school. | |
| Compton, Lynwood, Long Beach, they're all in school. | ||
| And for me, I just look at Los Angeles being so huge. | ||
| Watts is just a small segment of Los Angeles and we always at the bottom of the pole. | ||
| So we always get the leftovers or we always get, what can I say? | ||
| Handled less because it's part of Los Angeles. | ||
| And then the part that I live in is Watts and Compton. | ||
| So Compton is in school. | ||
| Lenwood's in school. | ||
| Long Beach is in school. | ||
| Los Angeles Unified School District is not there. | ||
| And I blame... When you point out... Go ahead. | ||
| I blame the teachers because I just, you know, I told them on Saturday, if you're scared, because when you took an oath, you took an oath to teach our children. | ||
| And if you, if you, like John was saying, I remember L.H. | ||
| Foster. | ||
| I remember Ms. | ||
| McEnragus, the teachers that we had that cared They came out to the homes and checked on the children, sit there that extra hour, that extra 30 minutes to help you in class, to move forward in life. | ||
| But we don't have those teachers today. | ||
| I don't know what's going on with the teachers, but I feel like if you're scared, then you need to quit. | ||
| If you're scared to go against the union, to bring the children back to school, then I just feel like you need to quit. | ||
| If the cause is not I just want to go back to one thing. | ||
| When you talk to the administrators, you had this rally, you've gotten out national attention, and after today's show you'll have global attention. | ||
| When you talk to the administrators, not just the teachers, but the bureaucracy of the school system and the politicians, And Compton's open, and Lynwood's open, and Long Beach is open, and I take it that they've had some modicum of safety, they're not spreading the virus. | ||
| What is their response to you? | ||
| When you see other, and the kids in Watts are going to be competitive at getting in college, and getting ahead in life, and getting the good jobs, and all that. | ||
| They're going to be in competition with Compton, and Long Beach, and Lynwood, and Manhattan Beach, and all these other places. | ||
| What is their response to you when you can point to other contiguous school districts that are handling this in some way? | ||
| What is their answer to you? | ||
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It's not safe. | |
| That's it. | ||
| It's not safe. | ||
| That's all they say. | ||
| It's not safe. | ||
| We're working on it. | ||
| We're coming up with a plan. | ||
| And I just said, allow the parents to be part of the plan. | ||
| We need options. | ||
| Come here, baby. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Hey, what happened? | ||
| Come here, little girl. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Phil Kline had his daycare center. | ||
| Lydia's got, I'm sure, some grandchildren. | ||
| Lydia, just another question. | ||
| For the children overall to miss the year, they've put forward this thing that they can learn by Zoom from the home. | ||
| I heard you in the rally. | ||
| What is your assessment of that? | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
| Go ahead. | ||
| What's your assessment of life of a grandmother? | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| What's your assessment of the kids' ability to learn by Zoom from home over this last year? | ||
| What is your assessment? | ||
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These are my grandchildren here. | |
| Hey, how you doing? | ||
| Ask me that question one more time. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| What is your, what is your, we heard you in the rally, right? | ||
| You're the fire-breathing populace out there, but what is your assessment for the audience of kids' ability to learn by Zoom, right, from the home over this last year? | ||
| Is it keeping them competitive? | ||
| I mean, what is your, what is your belief? | ||
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No, it's not. | |
| I'm very active with my children, my grandchildren. | ||
| They get up every morning, and I'm just a grandparent that makes sure that the kids are doing what they're supposed to be doing. | ||
| But I can see the tiredness that my granddaughter always say that she wish she was at school so she can communicate with the students or she can be with her friends. | ||
| She likes being in the classroom, helping out the students that need help in the classroom. | ||
| She says always finish first. | ||
| And so there's no interaction. | ||
| Sometimes I can pass by and they're not on camera. | ||
| And I want to know why the teacher said that didn't have to be on camera today. | ||
| So I want to know what was she doing last night to make her not be on the camera with the kids today. | ||
| You know, so it's just a lot going on. The children are restless. It's all kind of stuff going on. | ||
| Lydia, if we could ask you to hang on. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return with the filmmaker John Spiropoulos, who made this incredible film about the rally, and also Lydia Friend, who's the founder of Women of Watts. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break, and we're going to return. | ||
| We've got Raheem Kassam. | ||
| We've got John Fredericks in studio. | ||
| Also, Dave Ramaswamy. | ||
| We're going to have a complete assessment of tomorrow's meeting in Alaska. | ||
| First sit-down between high-level Chinese Communist Party officials and the Biden administration's Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Dave Ramaswamy. | ||
| The Venture Capitalist will be coming in and giving a complete assessment of that. | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon, John Fredericks, Raheem Ghassan. | ||
| We're going to turn in a moment to Watts. | ||
| Lydia Friend and the filmmaker John Spiropoulos about the situation with the school district in Watts and the children there. | ||
| In a minute on Warwick. | ||
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| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
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Okay? | |
| This is one of the more important segments we've done. | ||
| I've got to tell you, because this show – remember, the reason this show is so big globally, it's about human agency and human action. | ||
| But as we say, courage is contagious. | ||
| And as Churchill said, courage is the most important of all the virtues because it's upon courage that all the other virtues rest. | ||
| And that's why when I first saw this film over the weekend and the firebrand is the ferocious fighter that is Lydia Friend, I said, this is how change comes about, right? | ||
| Because you're fighting an entire bureaucracy, entire bureaucracy that has its own point of view, its own institutional way it's going to roll. | ||
| And this is deemed that the children are going to learn from home off a computer. | ||
| But no, somebody stood up. | ||
| The founder of the Women of Watson said, no, our kids are falling behind or the school districts are open and kids can't take a year off. | ||
| Kids can't fall behind in this kind of post-industrial society. | ||
| They need to learn and they need to learn every day. | ||
| And she took it in her own hands to do these rallies and to fight back and defend the children and grandchildren. | ||
| I want to bring back in now Lydia Friend, the founder of Women of Watts. | ||
| Lydia, we're pressed for time here, but just tell us a little bit about Women for Watts. | ||
| How long have you had it founded, and what are you working on here to defend these children against really an indifferent and unfeeling school bureaucracy? | ||
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Women of Watts has been around for 19 years, and we work within the community, not with just the children, but with our seniors. | |
| Making sure that they have food, making sure the children have backpacks and different things that they need for school. | ||
| We have a kitchen in Watts that we usually serve food to the children. | ||
| And that's one of the things that I miss the children, how the parents used to always say, because we serve the breakfast in the morning at our church in my Women in Watts kitchen. | ||
| The kids are up early in the morning, ready to go to school, praying and got their books together. | ||
| And we don't have that no more. | ||
| So right now, the only thing we can do for the children is make sure they have what they need now. | ||
| So every Tuesday, we pass out food. | ||
| We make sure that the home has got their backpacks. | ||
| I mean, their blankets and stuff. | ||
| So we just all over doing whatever we can to help our community as a whole. | ||
| And basically, right now, we're really working with the children to get back in school. | ||
| We passed out backpacks. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Liddy, could you share for a second, how important has your religious faith been in your fight in defending children and the grandchildren out there? | ||
| How important has your faith been? | ||
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Without God, we can't do it. | |
| And my faith is strong. | ||
| I'm an evangelist. | ||
| I work around the church, in the church, but I came from behind the four walls to help those that are out on the street. | ||
| We have to go outside and help the ones outside my faith. | ||
| It's all I have is depend on Jesus, depend on God for everything that we do. | ||
| He's the one that's directing us to do it. | ||
| And it's important for our children to get back to school. | ||
| Steve, I was just talking to John just a minute ago. | ||
| We had teachers that would knock on the door and come get you out your bed and take you and have you go to school. | ||
| Those teachers are not here anymore. | ||
| They're 70 years old. | ||
| And if it wasn't for Ms. | ||
| Foster, If it wasn't for Miss Magaragas, if it wasn't for Miss Jordan, I wouldn't have made it because they pushed me all the way. | ||
| Not only me, but a lot of us back in the 70s, we were pushed and we got our education and we moved forward. | ||
| And the kids don't have that. | ||
| We don't have those teachers no more. | ||
| We just don't. | ||
| Everybody moved. | ||
| It's different. | ||
| It's all about a dollar bill. | ||
| It's all about self. | ||
| We got to get outside ourself and help our children. | ||
| Our children need us. | ||
| Education is important. | ||
| Lydia, how do people get access to you? | ||
| Can you give us your social media coordinates? | ||
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Facebook, Twitter, the website, all that? | |
| Facebook, and then we have www.womanofwatsonbeyond.com, we have Twitter, and we have Instagram. | ||
| Lydia, I want to thank you very much. | ||
| We're going to get all that into the live stream. | ||
| I want everybody out there to go to the site today, give some support to the Women of Watts and beyond. | ||
| Lydia Friend, the ferocious fighter to try to get kids back in school. | ||
| I want to thank you very much for coming on. | ||
| John Sparopoulos, we'll get your website up also. | ||
| I want to thank both of you. | ||
| Lydia Friend, Women of Watts. | ||
| John Sparopoulos, the filmmaker. | ||
| Thank you very much for being in the War Room. | ||
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Thanks for having me. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, man. | ||
| Thanks, John. | ||
| This is how change comes about, right? | ||
| It's about individual fighters. | ||
| That's why this show is about human agency. | ||
| Right there, as soon as I saw that, I said, that is someone who is not going to back down an inch. | ||
| And these massive bureaucracies, right? | ||
| When you're sitting there, you think, I can't do anything about it. | ||
| What does she do? | ||
| She starts having rallies. | ||
| She starts motivating people every day. | ||
| She's doing something for the kids. | ||
| This is what change is about, right? | ||
| This is how this country gets turned around when you have people like that that will not back down. | ||
| One person with courage makes a majority. | ||
| That's really what this segment is about, and it's very moving. | ||
| And the other thing is, she had the courage to call out the current teachers of today, and said, where are the teachers in the 70s that would drag you out of bed, that would stay after school, that would worry about you, that would push you forward? | ||
| Today, she said, the teachers in L.A. | ||
| County today, they want to stay home. | ||
| She said it three times. | ||
| They stayed home for a year. | ||
| They're getting a paycheck. | ||
| Why go into school? | ||
| Why bother to work? | ||
| Then she also called them out. | ||
| Sometimes Zoom. | ||
| They're not even on screen. | ||
| Where were you last night? | ||
| I mean all this is now coming out and this is to the detriment of Of an entire generation of these children. | ||
| And Lydia Friend understands that they're falling behind, as you pointed out Steve, their competitors in other counties in California and other states. | ||
| You can't make this year up. | ||
| It's gone from their life and it puts them at a serious disadvantage moving forward. | ||
| It's really what's happening in LA. | ||
| for against these children is really sick it is actually sick behavior and this lady is a national hero of children's rights which is to get an education. | ||
| National hero. | ||
| National hero. | ||
| Rahim. | ||
| It was just, you know, it clicked for me in that interview and I thought back to Mrs. Fireman and Mrs. Runicles and Mr. Rinson and Mr. Mell and all these teachers that I had growing up that You know, it didn't literally drag me out of bed, but I can't imagine what it's like for people right now. | ||
| You know, I'm a great proponent of homeschooling, but I understand that not all people can do that, and especially not all people in a place like Watts can be doing that and dealing with that. | ||
| When you've got to get on the bus at six o'clock in the morning to get to work, it's impossible. | ||
| And you're working two jobs or three jobs, etc. | ||
| So I know how important those figures are in people's lives and What you see from Lydia there and the passion with which she speaks, and I'm sure there's a gargantuan number of things that Lydia and I would disagree on, but I think we can all agree on that basic principle, which is that | ||
| The institutions as we've known them and loved them for years and years, and defended them for years and years, are not just letting us down now, but are letting the next generation and the generation after that down. | ||
| This is the administrative state. | ||
| What Bill Maher said on his HBO show about China the other day. | ||
| He says they're not taking a year off, right? | ||
| They're doubling down. | ||
| She personifies that. | ||
| She sits there and goes up against the bureaucracy in LA Unified School District and says, hey, in Compton, and in Long Beach, and in Linwood, where they're not part of your bureaucracy, they figured it out. | ||
| Is it perfect? | ||
| No, it's not perfect. | ||
| But can it work? | ||
| Because I asked her, I said, is there any sickness or spraying sickness? | ||
| And clearly there's not. | ||
| The schools wouldn't have still been open. | ||
| It's not that it's easy to do this. | ||
| Clearly it's not easy. | ||
| But it's got to be done. | ||
| You can't have open borders and closed schools. | ||
| And what she said is, three times, they keep saying, it's not safe. | ||
| And she said, it has nothing to do with safety, it's all about politics and political power. | ||
| It's all it has to do with. | ||
| And she called him out, and good for her. | ||
| This is, I think, the political class has gotten indifferent. | ||
| To the reality of what people's lives are, right? | ||
| It's not indifference, it's hostility. | ||
| The political class is now openly hostile to people like that. | ||
| I think indifference is several decades ago. | ||
| Now it's hostile. | ||
| They're in the way. | ||
| Lydia's in the way. | ||
| Of what? | ||
| Of them. | ||
| Of total control. | ||
| Getting a paycheck and not showing up in the classroom? | ||
| Let me tell you where they're going to go with this. | ||
| When they open back up the classrooms, because you've seen this a little bit in the things they do where the kids are in the plexiglass cubicles. | ||
| When they open some of these schools back up, what they're going to go to is the kids basically in class Zoom, where the teacher's just a babysitter, and the kid's learning off a computer in the classroom, and every now and again you'll break for some interstitial human contact, but you're basically going to learn off a machine. | ||
| He teaches the IT guy. | ||
| He teaches the IT guy and the supervisor. | ||
| And the teacher becomes the proctor. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Not the girl, not the lady in third grade that changed her. | ||
| I had sister Catherine in third grade. | ||
| 67 kids, 72 kids. | ||
| Best education I ever got. | ||
| And she, they tell you you gotta have school size, class size. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| We had 67 and she was all over you individually. | ||
| She had a piece of chalk. | ||
| This is the best education you ever got. | ||
| She had a blackboard and a piece of chalk. | ||
| And a ruler, and a ruler to... Oh, I got the chalk thrown at my head, I remember that. | ||
| Listen, here's the thing, why do they feel hostile to people like Lydia? | ||
| Because what is the greatest threat to facade? | ||
| Authenticity. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay, women of Watts, I want you to go to the website, let's get in the live chat, I want you to go there, visit today, see what Lydia's working on, see how you can support her fight against the administrative state to get the kids back in the schools. | ||
| She said, hey, they can't take a year off. | ||
| And this Zoom is just not working. | ||
| Nice in theory, doesn't work in practice. | ||
| OK, we're gonna take a short commercial break. | ||
| From Watts to Alaska. | ||
| What's happened in Alaska? | ||
| It's the first sit down between the Biden regime and the regime in Beijing. | ||
| I guess actually it's an administration. | ||
| Rahim says it's a regime. | ||
| Biden administration and the CCP up in Alaska. | ||
| We're going to break it all down with Dave Ramaswamy in The War Room next. | ||
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| Remember, courage is contagious, right? | ||
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| That's what this show is about. | ||
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| Okay, we look to respect this audience. | ||
| Josh Rogan showed the other day by coming in here, spent an entire hour with us from the Washington Post, talked about his new book, Chaos Under Heaven, which I'd recommend everybody get. | ||
| We're gonna get Dave Ramaswamy, one of our strategic analysts in a second, talk about what's happening in Alaska, which I'll be commenting on this book, but also Politico, Number one story today, lead story today, about what we've been talking about here in the War Room for a while, and what MTG was so impressive when she was in here, Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| Raheem, can you give us a quick breakdown of the Politico lead story? | ||
| Well, I mean, I think the best way to frame it is that this article goes right to the heart of every failure of leadership that we're seeing on the political right at the moment. | ||
| It's a failure of political leadership. | ||
| There is a failure of research leadership. | ||
| There is a failure of media and messaging leadership out there. | ||
| I suppose the one area that the establishment Republicans always do well in terms of leading in is grifting. | ||
| There's certainly people out there, you know, happily fundraising, indeed fundraising off Donald Trump's name still, despite demands that he stop doing that. | ||
| But this Politico article really gets to the nub of all of this. | ||
| Which is to say that the Republican Party is still run by sheep and they are leading the lions. | ||
| And the lions out there are this audience, the lions out there are the base, but the people out there in charge who are supposed to be leading the fights here on Capitol Hill have kind of been AWOL. | ||
| For the last couple of weeks. | ||
| Now, there are exceptions, of course. | ||
| There are incredibly strong exceptions. | ||
| But those are exceptions that are kept away. | ||
| MTG told us earlier on that she wasn't invited to go down to the border. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| With Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| And when Congressman Gosar gets up and says, If you want to talk about 1.9 trillion, let's talk about how we get that 1.9 trillion into the hands of ordinary Americans, not into the hands of Marxist pet projects or corporate backchannels or bailouts for Democrat states. | ||
| And he was saying, hey, we can afford at 1.9 trillion to put $10,000 into the hands of ordinary people if you get rid of all of the trash in the bill. | ||
| But where was Republican leadership on that issue? | ||
| Where was Paul Gosar's phone calls? | ||
| Where was his invitation? | ||
| You know, none of these people, they want the style points, they want the money and the checks, they want to be able to go on television and have, you know, majority leader after their name or whatever it is now. | ||
| Minority. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Less than that. | ||
| That ought to be flipped immediately. | ||
| Irrelevant leader. | ||
| It ought to be flipped immediately to Jim Jordan. | ||
| You need fighters. | ||
| Right, so this Politico article goes to the heart of all of that, and Steve, I think you're quoted in there once or twice. | ||
| Yeah, at the beginning. | ||
| I say, hey, the left, why are they not going to come in for $4 trillion? | ||
| We didn't fight this at all, and understand we don't have the votes, but you've got to, this is information warfare. | ||
| That's why Biden and these guys are around doing this national tour now, the three-minute speech up in Pennsylvania yesterday. | ||
| This is what it's all about. | ||
| You've got to fight this. | ||
| Also on Politico today, If you scroll down about the fifth story is guess what? | ||
| The Republican Attorney Generals of key states are going to now take on the COVID bill and talk about the unconstitutionality of a lot of it. | ||
| Remember, as we say, this bill is the most radical piece of legislation has been passed in 40 or 50 years. | ||
| And it also comes with 1.9 trillion dollars attached to it. | ||
| It's not like even H.R. | ||
| 1 or the Equality Bill, as bad as they are, and they're horrible, they still gotta go back to the Appropriations Committee and fight for the money. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| It's just a law. | ||
| It's a statute, right? | ||
| They gotta go fight for the money. | ||
| Here, the money comes attached. | ||
| That's why this is thermonuclear. | ||
| And once again, as we've been pointing out, who's going to do the job? | ||
| It's the brave and courageous attorney generals of these red states saying, hey, hang on for a second now. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| What exactly is going on here? | ||
| How are you divvying this money up to these other states? | ||
| Right? | ||
| What about this? | ||
| Why are you bailing out these blue states? | ||
| Why are our taxpayers doing it? | ||
| You're going to see tons of court fights, tons of challenges. | ||
| Because we didn't do the information warfare at the beginning to say, hey, look, this is what this bill's really about. | ||
| Like I said in there, if you're talking about direct cash payments to the thing, and that's how it's being sold, that's why it polls so well. | ||
| What's not to like, right? | ||
| But that's not what this bill is. | ||
| But you've got to take the, you've got to do the hard work down front. | ||
| This is one of the things we talked about, Rahim. | ||
| Where's all the analysis around here? | ||
| All these think tanks, all this stuff, donors putting We've got hundreds of millions of dollars in. | ||
| Where's it broken down to the component pieces? | ||
| And not just that, hey, the guys in prison are getting it. | ||
| Yeah, that's bad, but there's so much more to this thing that's got to be broken down. | ||
| So that's the fight that's got to take place. | ||
| We are winning part of it. | ||
| John Fredericks, don't be shy. | ||
| You get in the war room. | ||
| The Republican establishment once again proved how feckless and weak they are because they put up absolutely no fight, just like they never do. | ||
| That is why it is so important to take this party over from the grassroots up. | ||
| I'm telling people, you've got to get involved. | ||
| This thing is so weak. | ||
| There was absolutely no pushback. | ||
| There was no counter-narrative. | ||
| There were no protests. | ||
| There were no TV town halls. | ||
| They did nothing. | ||
| They did absolutely nothing. | ||
| It's like you don't even have an opposition party. | ||
| That's why go to your local unit. | ||
| It's painful as it is. | ||
| I know it's like going to the dentist. | ||
| People are going to drive you bananas. | ||
| Become a precinct chair. | ||
| Get involved. | ||
| You can take this thing over. | ||
| Just a committee minute. | ||
| Go to Dan Schultz, a guy in Arizona, the hero. | ||
| PrecinctStrategy.com. | ||
| Go there today. | ||
| We're not going to start a third party. | ||
| President Trump's already said that. | ||
| What you're going to do is take over the Republican Party at the precinct level. | ||
| Go to PrecinctStrategy.com. | ||
| Remember, here is about human agency, human action. | ||
| Can I tell you though, I wasn't digging it last night. | ||
| Digging what? | ||
| The interview. | ||
| I mean with President Trump. | ||
| I didn't feel it. | ||
| And I get that he's probably doing a little bit of this, you know, stay a little quiet. | ||
| What didn't you like? | ||
| Look, when President Trump... Besides the fact he told you to get a vaccine. | ||
| Well, quite. | ||
| When President Trump came down the escalator, he was a bomb thrower. | ||
| It wasn't just throwing bombs like the media wanted to portray him. | ||
| It wasn't throwing bombs in a scattergun way. | ||
| It was actually very tactical. | ||
| It was boom on this issue and boom on that issue. | ||
| And stick that in your pipe and smoke it. | ||
| And now, I appreciate the comments on the about the border last night I think very important but there wasn't this kind of this fieryness and I understand he's probably being told hey listen you got to be out there but you can't be too out there and you got to create you know a bit of anticipation and you know. I didn't see that last night at all. | ||
| Look he's on a phone. | ||
| He's on a phone call with Maria Baritomo, who he's got a great relationship with. | ||
| They're having a dialogue on a phone call. | ||
| This isn't like you're coming down the escalator running for president and you've got a narrative that you have to drive down. | ||
| You liked it? | ||
| I thought it was fine. | ||
| He's having a conversation. | ||
| Everything the president does, now you can't scrutinize and say, it's not what we want. | ||
| It's not fire. | ||
| It's not this. | ||
| It's not Brimstone. | ||
| He had a conversation. | ||
| I think his point is, should you be coming out and having conversations with friends of yours or do something bigger and bolder? | ||
| Well, you know, I think what he did yesterday is basically he came on in order to call out the crisis at the border and I think he did that with passion and it was a very sober response. | ||
| But then, you know, the host got into the Queens issue with the marriage and this and that and kind of went off the rails there. | ||
| And look, he's a believer in the vaccine. | ||
| He's got a right to do that. | ||
| He didn't say it was mandated! | ||
| Experimental gene therapy, or so they're saying, or people are saying. | ||
| Okay, let's go to Dave Ramaswamy and let's talk about Alaska and the sit-down. | ||
| The book here, Chaos Under Heaven, and by the way, after our one hour special of the day, it went from 1500 to number 100. | ||
| That's the buying power of this audience of books. | ||
| They had this disturbing thing about before Trump won in 2016, they had the exact same team, kind of, that's sitting down in Alaska from, you know, reporting to Susan Rice and John Kerry, but the exact same team from China. | ||
| So Dave Ramaswamy, our strategic advisor and strategic commentator for the War Room, what's your assessment of the meeting in Alaska? | ||
| What's at stake? | ||
| What's going to be the Chinese position? | ||
| What's going to be the American position? | ||
| See, any meeting in Alaska has to focus on the bare necessities. | ||
| But seriously, Steve, I think the administration, and I know they have plenty of critics, but at least on foreign policy, so far they made the right noises and made the right statements. | ||
| For example, the Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell has said that China's economic coercion of Australia has been raised in every meeting between U.S. | ||
| and Chinese officials and will be re-emphasized in this coming meeting in Anchorage. | ||
| That's like tomorrow evening and Friday. | ||
| And also it's actually welcome in the South China Sea that U.S. | ||
| carriers over the last month have made freedom of navigation operations and you know the CCP has just made Not a big deal. | ||
| I mean, the views issued very tepid statements. | ||
| But just to step back and give the audience a frame, what's at stake here is the future of the free world. | ||
| And why that's the case is, I mean, we discussed a couple of weeks ago, the Pew survey and the Pew research poll. | ||
| Most Americans usually are divided on all kinds of issues, but when it comes to China, 9 out of 10 Americans have unfavorable opinions of China. | ||
| And more importantly, conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats agree that human rights issues take precedence over economic issues when it comes to China. | ||
| So any meeting Or any discussion that's happening in Anchorage would have to emphasize on this human rights issue and how large numbers of Americans are deeply concerned with what's going on in Xinjiang, what's been going on in Tibet for decades, and what's going on in Hong Kong, and how that affects the future of America's relationship with China. | ||
| And let me give you just a couple of examples. | ||
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| I think this administration wants the emphasis to be on climate change and, you know, decarbonizing transport and getting to electric cars and panels. | ||
| And I'll just give an example to the audience, which is the making of solar panels is extremely energy intensive. | ||
| It uses coal. | ||
| It uses quartz in an oven or a furnace and much of it is done in China and in the province of Xinjiang. | ||
| So the Democratic administration or Democratic voters have to reconcile between their personally preferred instinct or policy and what's going on to make it happen. | ||
| I mean, the two don't jive. | ||
| And also, on the other hand, now countries in Europe or allies in France, in Germany, in the UK are recognizing the deep problem with the supply chains coming out of China and how they're not just an affront to human rights, but they're also an affront to economic So the once again, I think the expectations of this meeting in Alaska are very low. | ||
| And I mean, as it should be, because over the last year, if you look at look at what's happened, they've not only denied | ||
| Access to the lab in Wuhan for investigators, but they've also actively run an influence operation in Western democracies, including America, to distract from their culpability of not just spreading the virus worldwide but also doing this Problematic gain-of-function research. | ||
| So I think any meeting that happens has to bring up all these uncomfortable issues. | ||
| Okay, Dave, hang over a second. | ||
| When we come back, we're going to talk about the Quad and your thoughts on the Quad. | ||
| Big meeting in Alaska, John Fredericks, correct? | ||
| This is the first time that the Biden administration is going to be held to account for their policies in the public domain. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
| We'll return with Dave Ramaswamy, John Fredericks, Raheem Kassam, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| We're talking the CCP in Alaska with the Biden administration next in the War Room. | ||
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| I want to go to Dave Ramaswamy. | ||
| Dave, the Quad is India, Japan, Australia, and the United States. | ||
| The Biden Administration is leaning on this, that this is going to save us. | ||
| Is it going to save the West against the criminal, transnational criminal organization that is the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
| By the way, this is not about the nation of China and it's not about the Chinese people. | ||
| Lao Bai Jing are the deplorables of China, the greatest people in the world, they're hard-working, this is a great civilization that's been captured See, I don't know if there's a human savior. | ||
| that's, as Stephen Mosher said, the greatest killing machine in human history that has tried to destroy the Chinese people over the last 70 years. | ||
| Is the Quad going to save the West, and particularly, is it going to save the United States of America? | ||
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| There's a divine one for sure. | ||
| But that being said, Steve, the goal of the Quad, and there was a meeting last week attended by the heads of state of all the Quad members. | ||
| And one of the takeaway was to have a backup option specifically focusing on the pandemic and getting our economies back on track. | ||
| So the goal was to have the vaccine rollout, even though it's controversial, but at least Have a billion vaccines produced and available by the end of next year and using India as a manufacturing hub. | ||
| And the other key points of discussion was the choke points that are developing in the wake of the pandemic. | ||
| And one of the top ones is on semiconductors. | ||
| And that's where the Taiwan play comes in. | ||
| So it's not just an issue of Taiwan being a democracy and a US ally but Taiwanese companies are the world leaders in fabricating high-end semiconductors used in everything from cars to airplanes to you know fighter planes and even game consoles and so you have looming shortages developing and so one of the goals of of the Quad meeting was to diversify the supply chain, | ||
| making some of the South Korean and Taiwanese companies have them invest in the United States, which would be very welcome, but also moving supply to maybe India, Vietnam, other countries in Asia. | ||
| And the Japanese and the South Koreans who Secretary Blinken and Secretary Austin met earlier this week are completely on board with that. | ||
| And Japan, Vietnam, India, independently, are working on this issue. | ||
| So, for example, the Japanese government has given about $2 billion in subsidies to its companies to move They're manufacturing away from China and into India. | ||
| The Taiwanese companies like Foxconn are also moving into India. | ||
| So the goal is we can't have a single point of failure. | ||
| And that's a big takeaway of the pandemic. | ||
| We can't have most of the pharma and drug production in Wuhan and other Chinese cities. | ||
| Apple just announced they're moving to India too. | ||
| Dave, we've got to bounce. | ||
| Give us your social media coordinates so people can follow you. | ||
| Dave's going to be doing a much more regular spot here, talking about the strategic, what's happening in, not just in Asia, but throughout the world. | ||
| Dave Ramaswamy, how do people get to you during the day? | ||
| Steve, before that, let me say I'm totally on board with boosting the immune system. | ||
| I think that's the way for people to be healthy and happy and prosperous. | ||
| Because, and also PSA, if not, you might be attending any weddings this summer in two recommended attire. | ||
| Biohazard formal and hazmat casual. | ||
| So please prevent that eventuality. | ||
| And they can reach me on social media at Gab Dave Ramaswamy. | ||
| Dave, thank you very much. | ||
| By the way, for our Hampton Roads audience, remember, South China Sea, for the greatest naval base in the world, Norfolk, Virginia, my hometown. | ||
| Make sure you understand, South China Sea. | ||
| Write that one down, because that's going to become, you talk about choke points, not manufacturing, that is the most important choke point in the world. | ||
| Today, the premiere of Outside the Beltway with John Fredericks on Real America's Voice at 4 o'clock. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| And of course, your radio network's exploding. | ||
| What's the show going to entail today? | ||
| What is outside the beltway? | ||
| You've got about a minute. | ||
| What's outside the beltway? | ||
| We just want to get real voices for real people. | ||
| Get outside of Washington. | ||
| Get outside of the swamp. | ||
| Get views that don't have anything to do with the donor base. | ||
| And we want to fight. | ||
| And we want to bring truth to people and give them an opportunity. | ||
| We're also going to do, starting on Friday, our last segment is going to be a caller segment. | ||
| We're going to take a live Phone calls from around the nation in the last 12-minute segment. | ||
| Never been done on RAV. | ||
| We're going to be doing this. | ||
| It's going to be the same one. | ||
| 888-480-JOHN. | ||
| Starting out Friday. | ||
| Remember, go to Women of Watts and support Lydia Friend today. | ||
| What about the podcast, Raheem? | ||
| Well, we've got a big story up as the lead on TheNationalPulse.com right now. | ||
| Exclusive West Point-hosted chair of top Chinese influence org and ran exchange programs Captain Maureen Bannon, I'm going to be all over you. | ||
| After I read that National Post, what is going on up at West Point? | ||
| At the Revered Academy? | ||
| The Fortress on the Hudson? | ||
| Don't know. | ||
| Did you buy her slippers? | ||
| That's what I want to know. | ||
| Did you buy your daughter slippers? | ||
| I got a whole thing of slippers. | ||
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| We'll see you back here at 5 o'clock. | ||
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