March 22, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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The virus has now killed more than 100 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. | ||
| It's not enough just to say that only girls... We need to take action that actually does good. | ||
| And we need to defend Title IX, the legal framework that gives women the opportunity to succeed and to thrive in sports. | ||
| For months, really since November, my team and I have been talking to well-respected legal scholars at the national level. | ||
| We've been trying to figure out how to defend women's sports effectively. | ||
| We didn't want to just take action that would make us all feel good. | ||
| We want to take action that would actually do good. | ||
| And we have to do that in a way that we can actually win. | ||
| We can win the argument. | ||
| We can win it in court. | ||
| We can win it nationwide for all of our girls. | ||
| That legal victory has to be based on Title IX. | ||
| And our participation trophy just isn't going to cut it. | ||
| Let's take action that really gives us the result of protecting women's sports. | ||
| Now I want to be very palms up with each and every one of you here today. | ||
| These legal scholars think that South Dakota's chances of winning a lawsuit against the NCAA are very low. | ||
| The NCAA is a private association. | ||
| That means they can do what they want to do. | ||
| And even though I fundamentally disagree with them when it comes to this issue, if South Dakota passes a law that's against their policy, they will likely take punitive action against us. | ||
| That means they could pull their tournaments from the state of South Dakota. | ||
| They could pull their home games. | ||
| They could even prevent our athletes from playing in their league. | ||
| That's their prerogative. | ||
| So a fight that doesn't truly protect women's sports and doesn't allow women to compete Ultimately is going to hurt South Dakota families. | ||
| And if the NCAA did take action against the state of South Dakota, we could sue them. | ||
| I know we could do that. | ||
| But these respected legal scholars inform me that that what we would likely lose at that level facing the court circumstances that we have in front of us. | ||
| So we could pass a law, then we could get punished. | ||
| Then we could face expensive litigation at taxpayer expense and then we could lose. | ||
| We'd have nothing but a participation trophy to show for it. | ||
| Or we could take a different path entirely. | ||
| So today we're announcing that we're forming a coalition called DefendTitleNineNow.com. | ||
| OK, Kristi Noem was on the shortlist this summer to replace Mike Pence, or last summer to replace Mike Pence for President Trump. | ||
| She's said to be on the shortlist if President Trump runs again, which we hope he does in 2024. | ||
| She's on the shortlist to be the vice president. | ||
| And if President Trump decides not to run for his second term, she would be in the top tier of presidential candidates, maybe up until today. | ||
| Well-respected legal scholars on a national level, Mr. Hingis. | ||
| I'm going to come back to you in a second. | ||
| Just want to put that pin in that. | ||
| Well, that's the mantra. | ||
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Well-respected legal scholars... Unnamed legal scholars. | |
| Well-respected, you gave it away. | ||
| Well-respected legal scholars on a national level. | ||
| Said it two or three times. | ||
| Okay, you're in the War Room, 22 March, year of our Lord, 2021, with the semi-occupied Washington, D.C., because of Raheem Kassam's reporting. | ||
| Now the wall is coming down here, 43 million downloads in the podcast, and we're live everywhere, including in Mandarin, and blown through the firewall. | ||
| We're going to go to Panama, to the border, to Alabama, to Missouri. | ||
| There's so much happening here today, but we want to start in South Dakota. | ||
| To start off with, I want to bring in two of our analysts. | ||
| Number one is Joanna Miller. | ||
| She's a deputy over there with Dr. Peter Navarro, does a lot of work. | ||
| She was a special assistant to the President of the United States with Dr. Navarro over in the White House. | ||
| She's also two young women who have formed by sport. | ||
| She was a Division I player, soccer player at American University, her entire life dedicated to sports. | ||
| Then she became a semi-pro player here in Washington, D.C., and Captain Maureen Bannon, who is a four-time all-conference volleyball player in the Patriot League, which American's in also, and her entire life dedicated to women's sports. | ||
| I want to start with Joanna Miller first. | ||
| Joanna, explain to me, what did Kristi Noem say? | ||
| Everybody's kind of confused. | ||
| We're going to get Maggie Vanderberg here later, but what exactly is going on in South Dakota, and what was that press conference about? | ||
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Christine Noem, okay, so first of all, two weeks before, she was taking a stand for female athletes. | |
| And then fast forward two weeks, she gets threatened by corporate America and just bows down like typical Rhino politicians. | ||
| Female athletes deserve their leader, their leaders should be listening to them. | ||
| And what she did just there was bow to corporate America and then form a coalition because she had bad press for that bad move. | ||
| And so what we see here is another politician That's bowing to people that are lining her pockets and not taking a stand for things that actually matter. | ||
| Hang on, so Mo Bannon, you know, Joanne comes in a little hot right there, but didn't Christy Noem, she protects, if I understand this correctly, she protects the girls, sports, the grade school, the grammar school, and the high school, but she doesn't protect the college? | ||
| Is that what this is about? | ||
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Yeah, so this is the thing. | |
| Just as I was thinking about this, the biological differences between male and female are, when you have professional athletes, that difference becomes smaller and smaller. | ||
| But just a few seconds, for example with track athletes, just a few seconds can deny somebody a scholarship if somebody is just a few seconds faster than you are. | ||
| So when we have to compete at the collegiate level against people that have a biological advantage, that completely strips away scholarships from perfectly capable, competitive female athletes that have spent their lives training for that very moment. | ||
| So listen, Joanna, I'm going to stay with you for a second. | ||
| I know we're having a little technical error flipping back and forth. | ||
| I'm going to stay with Joanna Miller. | ||
| I can understand why now you've worked for Dr. Navarro for a couple of years. | ||
| What do you mean by bow down to corporate interests? | ||
| This sounds like Peter Navarro's fire-breathing populism. | ||
| Kristi Noem's a populist. | ||
| She gave the great speech out there at the Mount Rushmore. | ||
| She gave the great speech at CPAC. | ||
| She got so many people excited. | ||
| Coming out of CPAC, that's all I'm talking about. | ||
| So, Joanna, what do you mean by that she's bowing down to corporate interest? | ||
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Yes, so here's the thing. | |
| Two weeks ago, before the NCAA got involved, she was all gung-ho, especially with this Equality Act bill floating around in Congress. | ||
| She was all gung-ho for standing up for female athletes. | ||
| The second they start threatening her with lawsuits and legal challenges, That she immediately just forgets about all the little girls that dream big of being a collegiate athlete, of being a professional athlete, like I did. | ||
| I'm so thankful that I don't have to work my way up starting from 8 years old in these times with these kinds of things that could potentially get in my way and could have stripped me of my biggest dreams that I had as a kid. | ||
| So the second the NCAA gets involved, And she starts getting scared about legal lawsuits and legal challenges. | ||
| She completely just forgets about the person that she was just days ago and the strong actions she was going to take for female athletes. | ||
| Okay, hang on for a second, I want to bring Mo Bannon up while I turn to Raheem Kassam. | ||
| What is this mantra? | ||
| Raheem, you're a specialist in this because you were a comms director for Nigel Farage, you did Brexit with Farage. | ||
| Well-respected legal scholars at a national level. | ||
| When you say that for the third time and you don't, you don't, you don't throw out an Alan Dershowitz, you know, you don't throw out a... You don't name a firm. | ||
| You don't name a firm. | ||
| You don't name an organization, a group, you don't intimate it. | ||
| I'll tell you what, I've done it. | ||
| I've been on both sides of the BS, okay? | ||
| I've given it, and I've called it out. | ||
| And let me tell you something. | ||
| Are you calling this one out? | ||
| That is something special. | ||
| That's a really special one right there. | ||
| Three times in quick succession, you say the phrase, legal scholars at a national level. | ||
| Well, who are we talking about here? | ||
| The ACLU? | ||
| Give me a break. | ||
| But the ACLU, you applauded her. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Do you think that's who they're leaning on? | ||
| Could be. | ||
| Now, I know you're very close to Schilling and the people over at APP. | ||
| I know that this is one of their biggest things. | ||
| What are they saying over there? | ||
| Because remember, Kristi Noem is coming into this in the last week as, I mean, on fire. | ||
| She's at the top tier. | ||
| She's the senior most woman of any of the possible candidates, either to be a VP for Trump if he doesn't run or to get the nomination herself. | ||
| So she's on fire, particularly coming off CPAC. | ||
| You know, the speech out in Mount Rushmore. | ||
| What is APP? | ||
| What's the inside scoop here? | ||
| So people are saying that she's trying to position herself as somewhere in the middle in order to placate both sides so she doesn't draw too much fire on the run-up to a national election run of some sort, right? | ||
| And so that's a political calculation that she's making in this regard. | ||
| People are also pointing to the fact that some consultants and staffers around here Have links to groups like the NCAA and the Chamber of Commerce. | ||
| Now what's really intriguing is that she apparently hasn't answered the phone or returned a message from any of the legislators on the opposite side to her now of this issue for several weeks. | ||
| People have been asking questions. | ||
| They want to know who these genius national legal scholars are, for instance, and they're not actually getting a response at all from the governor's office. | ||
| So now we're hearing that these... You're going to hear a lot from uh the the republican legislators who are on the side of the real side of women's sports coming out and saying you better give us answers and you better give them to us fast we want to know who these legal scholars are we know who around you has been advising you what other consultancy contracts they have at the same time because something's really really fishy here So, Captain Bannon, I want to go to you. | ||
| I know you came back from CPAC. | ||
| You were saying, hey, Kristi Noem, it looks like the real deal. | ||
| How important is it as a young woman, when you put in all these hours, to understand you're going to have a fair shot when it gets to college? | ||
| How important is that? | ||
| And has that dream been cut in South Dakota by what Governor Noem's talking about? | ||
| It is 100% been cut because what she's basically saying by kicking it back to the house to have college athletics stricken from the bill is saying that I'll protect you while you're in elementary school and secondary school, but the moment you get to 18, I'm not going to protect you anymore, that you have to deal with a biological male in your team because I am worried about the revenue coming into my state. | ||
| That is basically what she is saying by saying that the NCAA can pull championships and home events and not allowing athletes to compete. | ||
| What about for the other women? | ||
| What about for the women that participate in those sports? | ||
| They're going to sit there and the WOC NCAA is going to pull the swim championship, or as she said, maybe even not let their teams compete against other teams in the NCAA. | ||
| How big a deal would that be for female athletes? | ||
| It could be a big deal. | ||
| It happened in North Carolina in 2016. | ||
| The NCAA threatened to put a ban in place, and then six months later lifted the ban because of a House bill that North Carolina signed about bathrooms for transgenders. | ||
| And then the repeal of it was very open-ended. | ||
| So Governor Noem might be trying to protect herself with that. | ||
| However, you're telling a little girl competing that Once you get to high school, you might not get a scholarship on a college team because of a biological male. | ||
| It's just, you can have that dream as a child, but don't worry, it won't happen in the end. | ||
| Okay, Joanna Miller, Captain Bennett, thank you very much. | ||
| Let's go to, if we can bring up, jump in here. | ||
| Just very quickly on that. | ||
| The worst thing about this today isn't the cave, isn't the corporate interest. | ||
| We're used to, you know, Republicans letting the side down. | ||
| The worst thing about this is, she says, hey, we're not doing this because we might get sued and we might lose. | ||
| Well then every single private enterprise corporate that doesn't like a state's laws in the future is going to quote her But what about this quote she made, she said, they're a private organization, they can do what they want. | ||
| They can do what they want? | ||
| Really? | ||
| Is that actually true? | ||
| Firstly, I don't believe that as a private organization we have the right to discriminate. | ||
| I don't believe as a private organization we have the right to abuse people. | ||
| I don't think we have the right to, you know, force or allow, you know, men into women's locker rooms. | ||
| This is what we're talking about here. | ||
| Well, I mean, she was reading from a script pretty steadily there in that speech. | ||
| By well-respected legal scholars on a national level. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And she was reading it very specifically. | ||
| She said, let's have a palms-up moment. | ||
| You know, she had all of that scripted. | ||
| She didn't think to read that and go, wait a minute, I'm not making any sense. | ||
| Private organizations can't do whatever they want. | ||
| I didn't think that sounded like heavy-duty legal scholars. | ||
| Let's go to Maggie first. | ||
| Maggie, I'm going to keep you over the break. | ||
| I got to ask you, you've been tracking social media all day, and one of the reasons is Governor Noem, so respected, so highly thought of, got lit up by conservative social media today. | ||
| Did she not? | ||
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Yeah, well, you know, it was pretty wild. | |
| I was watching the show this morning, and when her presser came on, I was intrigued. | ||
| I thought, oh wow, maybe she's going to walk this back. | ||
| She's coming out with her You know, her new organization, Defend Title IX. | ||
| But then it was very confusing because the things she actually came out and said versus what she did was it was it was contradictory and it was confusing. | ||
| And so part of the problem is what's happening on social media is there is a lot of confusion. | ||
| You know, if you look up Kristi Noem on Twitter right now, there are a lot of a lot of people in conservative media who are tweeting about this. | ||
| Raheem wrote a great tweet. | ||
| Uh, as well as his article. | ||
| The Federalist has an article as well out that people are tweeting. | ||
| But I think a lot of people don't really understand. | ||
| They see sort of this... This presser was confusing and it was deliberately confusing for a lot of people. | ||
| Maggie, hang on one second. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| We'll be back with Maggie Vandenberg in a minute. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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| Noam has been among the elite of kind of this populist nationalist movement, really identified with President Trump. | ||
| Just had a big fundraiser down in, I think, in Mar-a-Lago a couple weeks ago, but took a big haul down there from Trump's biggest supporters. | ||
| As you see it on social media, how banged up is she today on her image, particularly with the hardest core of the MAGA groups, who have up until now really, really loved her? | ||
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So the people that are hitting back on social media are more of the conservatives in the media, people that know what's really going on. | |
| The problem is, is this whole story has been very complicated and kind of convoluted, especially with this presser today, which was sort of an attempt to do some, you know, PR management, I guess, but it's confusing. | ||
| So a lot of people don't fully understand what's happening. | ||
| This audience is lit up about it. | ||
| I know that the chat earlier was going crazy. | ||
| So the people that are in the know that understand it are angry and rightly so. | ||
| But the part of the problem is that so many people don't realize that this what's really going on and when it's explained to them, they are very angry. | ||
| So, you know, people just need to keep putting the pressure on this issue because while a lot of people aren't necessarily engaged in women's sports, this is a larger cultural issue that I don't think that are that the conservatives shouldn't give up on. | ||
| Maggie, how do people get access to you during the day? | ||
| I know you're being suppressed on Instagram, etc. | ||
| What's the easiest way to follow you? | ||
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Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at FogCityMidge. | |
| Fox City, thank you very much. | ||
| I want to go back to you. | ||
| Maggie Burns, a good point. | ||
| This is one of the issues that can attract those suburban women in Atlanta and in Raleigh and places like that, that couldn't stand the sound of Trump's name, but did like a lot of his policies. | ||
| And this is one that crosses over, given the radical nature of radical nature of that second tier of the Biden administration, which is going to enforce this. | ||
| Do you think conservatives got to continue to press this? | ||
| Oh, I think that Nome's behaviour now has actually galvanised more Conservatives behind this issue. | ||
| You know, I think what's happened here is that a lot of people were hands-off with it, thinking, hey, somebody out there's going to do the right thing, Governor Nome's probably the one who's going to do that, and then watching this take place before their own eyes. | ||
| Remember, it's only been a case of Two or three weeks since she's flipped her position, really in the last 10 days, that she's really flipped her position on this. | ||
| I think a lot of people, I saw that there were clubhouses going in on this today. | ||
| Lots of chatter about it. | ||
| Clubhouses being the new social media? | ||
| Yeah, these live podcasts. | ||
| Lots of conservatives jumping in saying, all right, well look, if she's not going to be the hero of all of this, we've got to find another one. | ||
| Let's all pile in. | ||
| So there are groups like APP, others out there right now who are recruiting. | ||
| And let me tell you this, If somebody does have aspirations, whether it's the next cycle or the one after that, this is a perfect issue for them to jump on. | ||
| Because not only is this popular with, as you say, the suburban mothers who maybe couldn't stand the sound of Trump's voice or the tweets from Trump's Twitter account, but this is actually across the board, across both parties. | ||
| People do not want biological men playing against their daughters at any level. | ||
| Can we play Jen Psaki? | ||
| Do we have that up and ready to go? | ||
| Can we get that up right away? | ||
| I want to bring in now Michael Yan, and as soon as we've got the... Michael Yan's down in Panama. | ||
| Michael's one of the best combat correspondents that we've ever had. | ||
| If we play Jen Psaki and get that ready... Are we ready to go? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I don't think the President sees it that way. | ||
| The President, the Secretary of Homeland Security, have all conveyed that there are a number of factors at play here, including the fact that a number of the people who are making this treacherous journey are fleeing circumstances that are not in the economic front to hurricanes, gang violence. | ||
| There are smugglers who are making their own pushes about how this is the time to come. | ||
| So we understand we're working against a lot of push factors that are pushing people to come to the region, come to the border. | ||
| But what we are conveying from our end is that the border is not open. | ||
| The majority of people are turned away. | ||
| And we are, as we're talking about children here, And with children, our focus is on expediting the processing at the border and ensuring they can get to shelters as quickly as possible. | ||
| So what is she talking about? | ||
| Majority of the people, we're not, we're not, the border is not open. | ||
| The majority of people, 100,000 are going to hit us next month, 51,000 are going to get rejected, 49,000. | ||
| What, from a communications point, Rahim, is, can this, and I don't know why the media is not lighting these people up every day. | ||
| It's all gobbledygook. | ||
| It's double talk. | ||
| Their policies are a disaster and they sit there and lie to your face like you're a moron. | ||
| What's really amazing is you can see the people in the corporate media are now realizing that Jen Psaki is not across her brief. | ||
| She's not up on the issues and she's willfully lying to them. | ||
| The problem is most of the people in that room, I say most because Peter Doocy is actually relatively good on this, but most of the people in that press briefing room are not doing the background research, they're not doing the background reading, they're not listening to people like Michael Yon and others who actually know the situation, have been down there. | ||
| A lot of these reporters asking questions about the border are as clued up as they were on, let's say, January the 24th last year when we were in the White House and they were saying Trump's a racist for closing the borders with China right So these are the intellects that we're dealing with. | ||
| Didn't Martha Raddatz, that was an eye-opener, how she's sitting there with her eyes wide open, right, about the reality. | ||
| Once you go to the border, you see what the reality is. | ||
| I think that's absolutely the case. | ||
| I encourage more reporters to go down there and do it. | ||
| It is harrowing, it is dangerous, and you see what is at stake in America as a result of these policies. | ||
| Just on the specifics of what she just said there, she says the border is closed and the majority of people are sent back. | ||
| Okay, even if we accept that that's the case, if we accept that they maintain that the borders are closed and they're sending the majority of people back, how bad does their communications process have to be to people in those countries where they're coming up, that they still think it's okay to come up, and how bad do the That you have a gag order on CBP officers down there, and you're not getting real-time numbers from the government. | ||
| So, Michael Yan, you're in Panama. | ||
| You're one of the top combat correspondents in the United States. | ||
| Tell us what's actually going on down there in the region. | ||
| Well, Steve, I just came in from Colombia, as you know, at the Darién Gap, at a place called Cabragana. | ||
| We were watching people cross into the Darién Gap. | ||
| As you know, the Darién Gap is about 60 miles of the most treacherous jungle on Earth. | ||
| Extra territorial migrants that come in from places like Congo, Afghanistan, Pakistan. | ||
| They go into South America first, then they will come in from places like Chile, Ecuador, Colombia. | ||
| They'll come to Colombia and that's where they cross into the Darien Gap to come up here to Panama. | ||
| So I've been on both sides to the Darien Gap now with Chuck Colton and Misako Genaha. | ||
| We've been interviewing migrants on both sides. | ||
| And for instance, today I put on my Patreon photos of a 16-year-old Haitian girl named Madeise, whom we interviewed over on the Columbia side. | ||
| And Chuck Holton, the famous war correspondent who's been with us every step of the way, he's been on this border issue for 20 years. | ||
| He lives here in Panama, right? | ||
| And so he's interviewed people coming out of the Darien Gap for many years, and he says every woman that comes through there, every pretty girl is raped, every single one. | ||
| Everybody is robbed many are murdered many just die out there from whatever snake bites or floods or you know It's a very rainy area. | ||
| It's very treacherous through the mountains And so they're pulled through and pushed through the Darien Gap they end up here in Panama Then they go up to Costa Rica and finally they end up and you know through all the other countries they end up in Texas or Arizona now this human osmotic pressure is A lot of it has been straight from Biden. | ||
| I mean, this all stopped under Trump. | ||
| Most of it stopped under Trump. | ||
| Not all, but most of it stopped. | ||
| We could stop this at the Darien Gap with simple diplomatic pressure on Colombia or Panama because both sides control that border. | ||
| The ultimate wall is the Darien Gap. | ||
| They can't get through the Darien Gap without being caught on both sides first. | ||
| So we saw them checking passport. | ||
| We saw the Colombian authorities checking all the passports from everybody who goes through down in Colombia. | ||
| Then they come through the Panama side, they get caught down in Darien province on the other side of the Darien gap where the Panamanian authorities put them into camps down there, go through everybody's passport again and they hold them. And then they finally send them to Puerto Rico where passports are checked again. Costa Rica could also stop them. We have many ways along, we have many methods along the way to stop them down here. | ||
| And instead we're allowing these children many... | ||
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Babies! | |
| You can look at my Patreon today. | ||
| Look at the photos. | ||
| I took those photos with my own hand, my own cameras. | ||
| Babies that you have to carry going through 60 miles of jungle, right? | ||
| Many of the parents die. | ||
| The children who survive that are sometimes picked up by others. | ||
| They could make it up, obviously, all the way through Mexico and be sold. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| We, our authorities, know this is going on. | ||
| This is not hidden. | ||
| I'm not revealing any secrets. | ||
| I'm just going down and photographing what's been known for years. | ||
| And now with the red carpet being rolled out in the United States, we have huge numbers of people that they can't even process. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Is the perception there, we've got about 30 seconds, is the perception down there among the locals that are coming, is that the red carpet is being rolled out? | ||
| Is that where their sense is? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| It's not just their sense. | ||
| It's on CNN at night. | ||
| I told Rahim this last time I was on your show. | ||
| I mean, CNN comes on at night in Spanish, tells them that you're welcome in the United States now, and tells them how to get up there, where the holes are in the wall, what states to go to. | ||
| It's not just a sense that they're welcome. | ||
| They're being told directly that they're welcome. | ||
| Michael, we're going to put your Patreon up. | ||
| We're going to get down to this on the CNN story tomorrow. | ||
| Michael Yant, one of the top combat correspondents in America, now down in Panama for us, documenting all this. | ||
| Michael, thank you very much. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to have Michael back on the show tomorrow. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to go to Arizona. | ||
| We're going to talk to one of the top investigative reporters, Drew Hernandez. | ||
| Also, Alabama with Mo Brooks. | ||
| Missouri with Eric Greitens. | ||
| We're going to have Peter Navarro. | ||
| We're going to have Boris Epstein on their analysis of the populists that are about to announce for the United States Senate. | ||
| All next in The War Room. | ||
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War Room. Pandemic. With Stephen K. Bannum. | |
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
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| Here's your host Stephen K Banham. | ||
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| I want to go now to the border, Drew Hernandez. | ||
| We've got Jan down there in Central America, and he's going to start working his way up now from the Durian Gap over the next couple weeks. | ||
| We've got Drew Hernandez and others down on the border. | ||
| Drew's one of the top young investigative reporters. | ||
| Drew, we're hearing nothing but spin from the White House, and you've got President Trump saying, hey, look, I put in the toughest security policies, and Homan was on Mark Levin last night, said, hey, this thing was all messed up when Trump took it over. | ||
| What he has may not be absolutely perfect, but it made the border the most secure it's been in Homan's 30 years in border security. | ||
| What say you, sir? | ||
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I would say Jen Psaki, Biden, the White House currently are lying. | |
| They're lying to the American people. | ||
| I recently had a trip down in Yuma here in Arizona down at the southern border where there's at least over 100 yards of just complete incomplete. | ||
| I know it's a funny thing to say, but incomplete border wall and people could walk straight into the country and you could actually see the cartels on the Mexican side of the border. | ||
| They drop them off in their cars and they send the migrants over the open border wall or incomplete border wall area, and they send them over, and the Border Patrol actually receives them, and the Border Patrol apprehend them and take them and transport them to a detention center. | ||
| I have this all on film. | ||
| You can see it on my Twitter, Drew H. Live. | ||
| It's all there. | ||
| So when Jen Psaki stands in front of the American people and says, number one, this isn't a crisis, but number two, that these families are being rejected, that is 100%, I can verify, I've seen it with my own eyes. | ||
| It's documented a lie. | ||
| That is a lie. | ||
| Jen Psaki has been fact-checked. | ||
| The White House has been fact-checked. | ||
| They're not being turned away. | ||
| They're receiving them and they're taking them to detention facilities here in the United States. | ||
| It's basically, Steve, like a black market, the cartels are a black market Uber service. | ||
| I know that's a crazy thing to say, but that's literally what they're doing. | ||
| They send them over, the Border Patrol receives them, apprehends them, and takes them into the United States. | ||
| And it's happening around the clock, by the hour, hundreds of people, even here in Arizona. | ||
| What's interesting is these cartels, a recent report came out, they're making $14 million a day. | ||
| They're making $14 million a day smuggling human beings. | ||
| And they're not calling this a crisis? | ||
| This is absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| It's it's it's preposterous. | ||
| And now now here's the crazy part. | ||
| The Biden administration is trying to virtue signal and say they're going to spend more than 85 million dollars putting the migrants in hotels. | ||
| Are you serious? | ||
| Listen. | ||
| It is a confirmed fact. | ||
| Border Patrol agents have at least briefed me as well that single males will kidnap children on the Mexican side of the border in order to get a pass to come into the United States and claim asylum to appear to be a family, and they get apprehended and put in detention facilities, and they're not even families. | ||
| Some of these kids are getting kidnapped. | ||
| Here's the scary part. | ||
| If they actually put migrants in hotels, they're not actually families. | ||
| They could potentially be putting some of these migrants' children in hotels with pedophiles and rapists and kidnappers, unsupervised. | ||
| And that's supposed to be a good thing? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| Hang on a second, Drew. | ||
| This is where I think people, it's hard to put together, is that ICE has been essentially handcuffed. | ||
| You have no internal enforcement. | ||
| They say these mayors down there on the Rio Grande Valley say, hey, they're flying guys into the interior of the United States. | ||
| But there's all kind of people here. | ||
| They're not doing covid tests. | ||
| The CEO of Greyhound saying, hey, I can't have people come on my buses because one out of every 20 are infected. | ||
| How and you're for somebody that's been down there and done a lot of a lot of research, a lot of investigative reporting. | ||
| How out of control is our southern border today, sir? | ||
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Uh, I asked a specific question. | |
| I asked this specific question to a border patrol agent down here in Arizona. | ||
| And I said this, I said, sir, it looks like you guys are outnumbered. | ||
| I could watch the cartels with my own two eyes. | ||
| I can watch them dropping people off. | ||
| I can watch when you guys have to intercept a family. | ||
| They send other people down on another open border section. | ||
| And the Border Patrol agent let me know, he said, when we intercept a family, we cannot leave them by themselves. | ||
| So if we have like 20 people at one open border, incomplete part of the border, and we're dealing with them, we're apprehending them, we're getting them ready to be sent to a detention facility, the cartels will send another 30 people at a different part of the open border. | ||
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And the Border Patrol agents, there's what, maybe like eight of them in this certain little sector? | |
| They can only deal with those families at that one time. | ||
| And I said, sir, It looks like you are outnumbered. | ||
| And he said, you know what, sir? | ||
| You absolutely are right. | ||
| We are. | ||
| And what's interesting about this, Steve, is where's AOC? | ||
| Where's Rashid Tlaib? | ||
| Remember in 2019, AOC is staging photo ops? | ||
| At the migrant facilities, pretending to cry on camera in front of millions of people saying she cares about the women, she cares about the migrants. | ||
| Where are they now, Steve? | ||
| She's silent. | ||
| AOC wept. | ||
| Okay, real quick, we've got to bounce, but I've got a question. | ||
| For someone who's got experience like you have, how bad is this going to get as it warms up down there in April and May, sir? | ||
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I think it's going to get worse. | |
| I think there are people literally living on the southern border right now on the Mexican side that really believe that now's their time to come. | ||
| And right now we have a serious crisis. | ||
| I think a lot of people are going to die. | ||
| I think that's how bad this is going to get. | ||
| Because a lot of these people that are coming from Central American countries, they don't have citizenship in Mexico, Steve. | ||
| So where do they go now when they do get turned away? | ||
| They're either going to get recruited by the cartels, they're either going to die, they're going to literally have no way to work and put food in their own stomachs, or they're going to get put into prostitution rings. | ||
| You think it's bad here in the US? | ||
| Imagine what it's like in Mexico. | ||
| These people have zero hope and the Biden administration is responsible for giving these people false hope and they're probably going to die because of this irresponsible administration in the White House. | ||
| Drew, how do people follow you on social media? | ||
| How do they get to your reporting? | ||
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You guys can follow all of my reporting on Twitter, Drew H Live, or my Gab, Drew Hernandez. | |
| I'm the only verified Drew Hernandez on Gab. | ||
| You guys can support me. | ||
| All the links are in the description, and I appreciate it. | ||
| Drew Hernandez from Phoenix. | ||
| Thank you very much, sir. | ||
| I want to turn now to Peter Navarro, Assistant to the President for Manufacturing. | ||
| Peter, you were in the room. | ||
| You were down in the National Security Council space for these meetings. | ||
| You were in the Oval with the President. | ||
| What is going on here? | ||
| Homan last night said it's the worst I've seen in 30 years. | ||
| This thing's collapsed since Trump left office. | ||
| Put in perspective what you guys did in the Trump administration versus where we are today. | ||
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Steve, for your radio audience, I'll talk you through it. | |
| For those watching on TV, this guy here, Donald J. Trump, built this big, beautiful wall. | ||
| This gentleman over here, Customs and Border Protection, is a lot safer today because of these kinds of walls. | ||
| And this whole edifice has collapsed. | ||
| Because Joe Biden and the people who are controlling him decided to kill what we talked about in the Situation Room, the single greatest incentive for people to not come here, which was that agreement with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries to stay on that side of the board. | ||
| Now, here's some news for you. | ||
| Breaking news, Steve. | ||
| What has to happen right now is every single candidate Running for the House of Representatives and the Senate in 2022, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, needs to do this. | ||
| They need to take the Secure Borders Pledge, which is to say that anybody, anybody who crosses the border from the 1st of January of 2021 will never, ever have a pathway to citizenship in this country. | ||
| And that they will be returned to the countries from which they came for. | ||
| The only way we're going to be able to do anything now with the way Biden has set up this strategic game that the cartels are playing against us is to have a Congress and a Senate Which will keep that pledge and make sure that everybody coming now is going back from where they came. | ||
| Otherwise, they're going to just keep coming. | ||
| You're saying zero tolerance. | ||
| I want you to walk through once again the Secure Border Pledge. | ||
| Give it to us again. | ||
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The Secure Border Pledge is this. | |
| Anyone who has crossed our border starting January 20th, 2021, the day Biden took office, Going forward, until we get this under control, we'll never, ever, ever have a pathway to citizenship in this country and they will be returned to the countries where they came from as soon as we get back control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and eventually the White House. | ||
| This has to happen. | ||
| Steve, populist economic nationalism, there's two rules. | ||
| One is fair trade to protect our blue-collar manufacturers. | ||
| But the other is secure borders. | ||
| These people who are coming across the border, you know, our hearts may bleed for them, okay? | ||
| They're doing what they'd have to do for their families, but they are going to destroy America in the process. | ||
| They are going to take away jobs from blue-collar workers. | ||
| They're going to drive down wages, real wages, of blue-collar workers. | ||
| Most of these workers they're going to harm. | ||
| Our minorities, African Americans and Hispanic Americans, they're going to overcrowd our emergency rooms. | ||
| They're going to overcrowd our K-12 schools. | ||
| They're going to bring in, as they are doing now, pandemic-related issues. | ||
| And never mind all the cartel-related issues with sex trafficking and slave labor and all of that. | ||
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Steve, we did such a beautiful job. | |
| President Trump did such a beautiful job. | ||
| It's two things, Steve. | ||
| It was the wall and it was the agreements with Mexico and the Northern Trigon. | ||
| I had something to do with that, okay? | ||
| We threatened tariffs on Mexico and within 24 hours after the CNN's heads were on fire, Mexico said, OK, we're keeping them there, not sending them there. | ||
| So that's the pledge. | ||
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Secure borders, no pathway to citizenship pledge. | |
| Hang on. | ||
| We've got about a minute and a half left. | ||
| I want to go back over something. | ||
| You're saying you need this pledge because you're tired of the happy talk, you're tired of candidates saying one thing and doing another. | ||
| This puts it all out on the table. | ||
| Just lay it down. | ||
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They need it. | |
| Sign on the dotted line, Steve. | ||
| No, no messing around. | ||
| No Kevin McCarthy BS. | ||
| I'm so sick of that guy. | ||
| All he does is, like, take advantage of crises and mouth slogans. | ||
| I want this stuff in writing. | ||
| This is like Tea Party pledge stuff. | ||
| Peter, he was just down the border. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| He just went to our wall. | ||
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A little photo opportunity. | |
| He did, like, the Diana pledge. | ||
| You know, like, hey, I'm Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| Like, I'm a cool dude. | ||
| It's like all this stuff happened on your watch, Kevin. | ||
| All this stuff happened on your watch, Mitch. | ||
| What we need is a revolution in the House of Representatives and the Senate. | ||
| And I know you got people like Mo Brooks coming out and running. | ||
| Everybody running. | ||
| I don't care what their party is. | ||
| It's like secure borders pledge, no pathway to citizenship. | ||
| If these folks think they can just cross the border and stay here and just feed from the social welfare trough and take the jobs of Americans, No, no. | ||
| That's not going to cut it, Steve. | ||
| Not going to cut it. | ||
| We can't have a country without secure borders. | ||
| Tomorrow, starting at noon, Michelle Bachmann, the Dean at Regents, is going to have a seven-hour, a seven-hour summit to go through all the receipts, have top speakers, Metaxas, they've got Mark Stein, they've got Dr. Ben Carson, but they also have Clements from New Mexico State, and of course they've got Peter Navarro walking through the Navarro Report. | ||
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I get my 15 minutes of fame there tomorrow, yes. | |
| I'm so happy Dean Bachman is doing this. | ||
| Peter, real quickly, how do they get to see the report beforehand? | ||
| How do people go to your website and pull it down so they can read it before you talk about it? | ||
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PeterNavarro.com. | |
| PeterNavarro.com. | ||
| Pull that on down. | ||
| Pull down the immigration report. | ||
| And those reports will give you, essentially, the receipt. | ||
| Steve, this... We got more crises than we can handle now, thanks to the Biden regime. | ||
| It's a tragedy. | ||
| It's a tragedy. | ||
| Never mind that. | ||
| Fiasco in Alaska. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| See you. | ||
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By the way, Big thumbs up on the slippers. | |
| That slippers worked? | ||
| We got the big thumbs up. | ||
| I thought you liked that. | ||
| Real quickly, you're breaking news on National Pulse on Jen Psaki. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| So, Jen Psaki's sister, we noted this morning, has appeared to get a rather cushy government job. | ||
| Stephanie Psaki, who many people wouldn't have heard of, is now a Senior Advisor in Human Rights and Gender Equity at the Department of Health and Human Services. | ||
| She appears to have been appointed at some point this month, which is really interesting because when the Biden regime came into power, they said, hey, no jobs for the family members. | ||
| We're not doing that. | ||
| What's really interesting also is that this group, she worked for the Population Council, which as far as I can tell is a pro-abortion entity that actually goes to black and brown populated countries and helps fund abortions, which I think is a pretty racist thing to do, if you ask me. | ||
| She worked at the Population Council for years and years, but her biography suddenly disappeared from the Population Council's website. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Always a tell. | ||
| Okay, I want to turn now to Boris Epstein. | ||
| Boris, we had a little bit of a fiasco in South Dakota today with Governor Noem, who was one of the, you know, top tier candidates. | ||
| But tonight, you've got Mo Brooks in Alabama, a fire-breathing populist, you know, kind of the follow-on to Jeff Sessions as far as immigration goes on the border. | ||
| In Missouri, you've got a former Navy SEAL commander, you know, two-time Bronze Star awardee, one for valor, Purple Heart, Rhodes Scholar, and Eric Greitens, a former governor, had a little bit of controversy down there. | ||
| But these are populist nationalists. | ||
| How important is tonight these two announcements in both Alabama and Missouri, sir? | ||
| Well, I'm not going to get ahead of any announcements, but I will tell you that MAGA candidates all across the country, in Alabama and Missouri and Pennsylvania, are going to be absolutely vital. | ||
| Remember, we talked about this on our Road to 22 special, the Road to 2022 special, which I look forward to doing more of with you, Steve. | ||
| We talked about how the 2022 Senate map is actually not as bad for Republicans as many Democrats and some Republicans will tell you. | ||
| If we have MAGA candidates in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, and other locations, Nevada, Colorado, North Carolina, where I hope Laura Trump runs for that seat that's being vacated, thankfully, by Richard Burr. | ||
| If we have MAGA candidates in these places, Arizona, another one where I think Mark Kelly is very vulnerable. | ||
| It is very straightforward, a very straight path for Republicans to take full control of the Senate. | ||
| And if you talk about the House, look at what happened in 2020. | ||
| Another reason why it is incredulous that Joe Biden somehow got 80 million votes, supposedly, Republicans gained 15 seats, and there's a direct path to gaining the remainder necessary to get a majority in the House. | ||
| So there's a very realistic proposition. | ||
| As long as MAGA candidates are on the ballot, For Republicans to control the House and the Senate come January 3rd, 2023. | ||
| Listen, I want to go to South Dakota and Governor Noem. | ||
| You know, CPAC, she was on fire out last summer with the President at Mount Rushmore, this tremendous speech she gave. | ||
| She was in the top tier, in the top couple, maybe even replaced Pence last year, last cycle. | ||
| But particularly if President Trump runs again, which we hope he does, she would be on the short list to be VP nominee. | ||
| If he doesn't, she'd be in the top five or six candidates overall. | ||
| How do you assess what happened today in South Dakota, Boris? | ||
| It's hurtful. | ||
| It's definitely hurtful to Governor Noem, no doubt about it. | ||
| What you're seeing out there on social media, what you're seeing in conservative, especially MAGA circles, is an absolute disagreement with Governor Noem on her decision to not sign a bill which would preclude, effectively, transgender athletes participating in women's sports. | ||
| the real honesty is this is there's two genders and it would preclude you know people who are born a male from participating in women's sports christine ohm went against that she said the ncaa would come down too hard on her and her state of south dakota but that excuse is not playing well so i think it is hurtful now there's a long time left until twenty twenty four so what i would urge governor noem and her team to do and i've donated to governor noem what i would urge them to do is take a look | ||
| make the right decision, make a correction and everything can still be fixed. | ||
| But any doubling down on this would be very hurtful to her politically. | ||
| Real quickly, because I know you were head of surrogates for us in 2016, you're a comms expert, you're also in the White House in the Comms Department. | ||
| Rahim and I were talking about this phrase she kept using, you're also a lawyer, well-regarded legal scholars at a national level. | ||
| Three times she repeated that without saying who. | ||
| How big a deal is it for her to come forward and say, hey, here's the guys that advised me on this? | ||
| I think it's all about where she comes down on it herself. | ||
| You know, I don't think the backstory is necessary. | ||
| We don't need to know how the sausage is made. | ||
| I think it would be right for the government to come down and say, you know, what the true conservative, what the MAGA position is, is that we cannot be following Joe Biden. | ||
| We cannot be following the woke example and allowing those who are born males to be competing in female sports because it effectively kills Title IX. | ||
| I mean, what happened to feminism in this country, right? | ||
| what happened to being for women's rights in this country and for pushing and fighting for equality between women's sports and male sports. | ||
| So you know, I think that the right decision will be here is a step, a correction. | ||
| People make mistakes. | ||
| Americans would understand that. | ||
| The MAGA movement would understand it. | ||
| But doubling down and then, as you mentioned, referencing some no-name scholars doesn't really get you anywhere. | ||
| So I think this was a political mistake, but it is not a mistake that Governor Noem, who is a political pro, is very strong, cannot come back from. | ||
| I think she can with the right moves from here on out. | ||
| Okay, what's your social media accordance? | ||
| How do people follow you, particularly with Mo Brooks? | ||
| Looks like he may announce tonight Stephen Miller's down there, a big activity in Missouri with Eric Greitens. | ||
| How do people follow you? | ||
| Eric Greitens is going to be on Fox News. | ||
| There's going to be a major interview here in the 6 o'clock Eastern hour. | ||
| Mo Brooks in Alabama. | ||
| Follow me at BorisEP on Twitter. | ||
| And on Instagram, Boris underscore Epstein. | ||
| I may not have huge guns like Peter Navarro showing them off in that t-shirt, but you know what? | ||
| I still put some fun stuff up there on Instagram and on Twitter. | ||
| At BorisEP on Twitter, Boris underscore EPSHTEY on the gram. | ||
| Stay strong. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Talk to you tomorrow. | ||
| What was the podcast about today? | ||
| We're actually going to be recording the podcast immediately after this show. | ||
| It's going to be about Peter Daszak and the links between the WHO, the CCP, Dr. Fauci. | ||
| All of it will be coming out on TheNationalPulse.com. | ||
| This is one of the biggest stories out there. | ||
| By the way, I noticed on social media they're spinning so far to get Fauci so far away from the story. | ||
| They want him so far away from gain of function and from the Wuhan lab. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Tomorrow morning we've got a very special guest. | ||
| We'll be sitting with Rahim and I for the entire two hours. | ||
| We'll go through geopolitics and the economy. | ||
| Tomorrow. | ||
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