March 23, 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. | |
| 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, and the worst happens... War Room. | ||
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Pandemic. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Seeing some of the images because the congressional delegation provided some photos and descriptions about what they witnessed. | ||
| Children who are frightened and crying, overcrowded conditions. | ||
| Now that the public has seen that, Is that not a crisis? | ||
| And what conditions or situation, what metrics would have to be in place for the administration to call it that? | ||
| Well, children presenting at our border who are fleeing violence, who are fleeing prosecution, who are fleeing terrible situations, is not a crisis. | ||
| We feel that it is our responsibility to humanely approach this circumstance and make sure they are treated and put in conditions that are safe. | ||
| Well, again, I just have to say one more time, like we said yesterday, those children made the journey in the first place. | ||
| Because the United States of America now is sending a message to those children. | ||
| If you journey across the desert, you make a long and dangerous trip, we're gonna let you in. | ||
| And we're going to let you in if you're unaccompanied. | ||
| And sometimes, and we're going to find this out throughout the show, you can come in and we're not going to even give you a court date. | ||
| So the administration right now, the Biden administration right now, Is the one that's luring these children to the border with the promise of being able to get in. | ||
| So they can't say, oh well they've come all the way across the desert, we can't just let them go back across the desert. | ||
| No, you can figure out a way, a humane way, a safe way to transport them back home, I suspect. | ||
| But again, as long as you keep sending the message out. | ||
| They're sending a different message now. | ||
| No, not yesterday. | ||
| It's like, oh no, if they're up here, we're not going to send them back. | ||
| We're just going to keep them there. | ||
| And they're also letting families that come across illegally. | ||
| They're letting families just dissolve into the country and not have a court date, not have a date to come back. | ||
| This is, again, why do I bring this up? | ||
| Can we absorb families? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Can we absorb immigrants? | ||
| Yes, we can. | ||
| But a couple of things. | ||
| First of all, this is what causes the border crisis. | ||
| You can talk all you want to to foreign leaders. | ||
| You can give as much money as you want to give to these countries, which I believe we need to help these countries so people don't feel like they have to come to the United States as much. | ||
| But as long as you have a permissive immigration policy, you're going to have a crisis at the border. | ||
| And yes, We have United States Senators from Connecticut, Democrats, Liberals that are talking about tears in their eyes when they look at the situation that these children are in. | ||
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That's a crisis at the border. | |
| And as long as you have a permissive policy, first of all, again, it's dangerous for the children because more children are going to keep coming until you tell them, no, we're not going to let you in. | ||
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But you do understand they are saying that now. | |
| They're sending ads. | ||
| No, they're saying don't come. | ||
| But they're still not saying We're not going to let unaccompanied minors in the United States, which is what they're going to have to say. | ||
| And when they say that and when that message is clearly sent, then unaccompanied minors will stop crowding the border and the numbers that they're crowding. | ||
| That's one thing. | ||
| Also, there's a there's an issue of fairness here that nobody talks about. | ||
| And I really am not really sure why nobody ever talks about this, but I'm just going to say it. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| When I was in Congress, I had people who were family members who were desperately trying to get a husband or a wife over from Pakistan, or from India, or from Belgium. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
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From all over the world. | |
| And it would take years. | ||
| And they would go through this process that was just soul crushing. | ||
| And most of the time, they couldn't get in. | ||
| And we have a policy that just allows people to come in illegally. | ||
| It's not fair. | ||
| It's not safe to the children. | ||
| And the Biden administration has to understand. | ||
| If they're going to continue this policy, there aren't enough hotel rooms in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to hold all the migrants that are going to be coming. | ||
| I also like how you put this into two categories, Steve. | ||
| There are two different essentially crises going on at the border. | ||
| One, created by the Biden administration with their rhetoric and their incentive. | ||
| There is a flow of people flooding the southern border. | ||
| The second is, what do you do with them once they're there? | ||
| And what the Biden administration is learning is that you can demagogue your opposition party. | ||
| Once again, I said this a moment ago, but you can demagogue your political opponents as putting kids in cages. | ||
| What happens when you're now in charge? | ||
| You call them something different, but they're still in cellophane pods, as you point out, during a pandemic. | ||
| Now's the time for leadership. | ||
| Let's see what you have. | ||
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Well, what's interesting is she told Peter Doocy, well, we can't send them back across on this dangerous journey. | |
| Well, how about flying them back to their parents where they belong? | ||
| I mean, they just talked about flying immigrants, illegal immigrants over to Canada. | ||
| Why can't we change the law that allows us to put these children back where they belong? | ||
| Because as we know, she said herself, they come with a piece of paper of in their pocket and they're gonna unite them with people. I mean this is like a pedophile's dream, a sex traffickers dream, the way they've set up this system to use children as a way to get across the border because that once the children come across they can't be sent back and so anybody who's with those children gets to stay with them. | ||
| Well, keep in mind it's not a crisis it's just a circumstance. | ||
| Okay, but wow. | ||
| Kaboom. | ||
| When the Democratic Party's lost Joe Scarborough, and Mika's making the squinchy face, she's giving them the look, the squinchy face, right? | ||
| Luring children across the desert to the border. | ||
| Joe Scarborough, and Joe, you said nobody talks about this, about the unfairness of having this, about people trying to come in here legally. | ||
| You're not listening, or your producers are not watching The War Room. | ||
| We've been talking about this for years, sir. | ||
| You're waking up, I mean, that, you sound like a moron, right? | ||
| Okay, it is Tuesday, the 23rd of March, Year of Our Lord 2021. | ||
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| We're trying to get Michael Yan, the great combat correspondent who's come from Afghanistan and Iraq. | ||
| He's now down in Panama. | ||
| At the really the other side the Darien Gap where they're flooding through heading north is dangerous journey morning Joe We've got a very special in-studio co-host today the one and only Eric Prince a guy That's probably even more notorious than Stephen K Bannon notorious Eric Rahim Kassam Because Eric hasn't heard the whole thing, but we had Morning Joe literally this morning in a complete meltdown. | ||
| He said the Biden regime is luring them to the border, which is I think a step beyond even what I've said. | ||
| No, that's hotter rhetoric. | ||
| Is he being cancelled? | ||
| Is he a hater? | ||
| No, no, seriously, is he being canceled? | ||
| By the way, Joe, note to self, that's going to be in a great 30-second spot later in the year. | ||
| Later in the day. | ||
| But he's speaking the truth. | ||
| And look at Mika. | ||
| Because Mika's saying, no, they put up yesterday, from what Michael Yan was talking about, CNN, these guys are showing stuff like, hey, here's how you get up there. | ||
| Now the Biden administration, in full panic mode, is taking a few Facebook ads, and they're going on local radio going, no, no, no, no, don't come now. | ||
| Don't come now. | ||
| And she's saying that's her defense. | ||
| No, no, Joe, they really said, get out of here. | ||
| Come on, it's open. | ||
| I think they said they had a comic book as well to discourage people to come. | ||
| Of course, a comic book. | ||
| Mika just described it as a pedophile's dream. | ||
| No, no, that later was the Fox, but it was a pedophile's dream. | ||
| But here's the thing. | ||
| They're shipping, they made the point there that, why don't they fly them back? | ||
| Because they're flying them, as of yesterday, they're flying them to guess where? | ||
| Montana. | ||
| They're flying them to Wyoming. | ||
| They're flying them to Idaho and to South Dakota. | ||
| What did we say when we built the wall? | ||
| We had that second tier that said, every town's a border town. | ||
| Remember we went to Cincinnati, went to Detroit, every town's a border town. | ||
| So you folks on the Pacific Northwest, don't think, and you're talking about the Connecticut Congressmen, Senators crying with the big tears. | ||
| Connecticut, your day's coming. | ||
| Everybody should share the burden. | ||
| This shouldn't just be on the working class Hispanics down the Rio Grande Valley, right? | ||
| You've been down there so many times with us in McAllen, those places, down in Yuma, down in Arizona. | ||
| This can't be on the Hispanic American working class in this country. | ||
| The elites are doing this. | ||
| And now everybody's got to step up to the plate. | ||
| It should go to Montana. | ||
| It should go to Wyoming. | ||
| The governors there should be on fire. | ||
| People should be on fire. | ||
| This is America's problem. | ||
| It's just not the Hispanics down on the border. | ||
| And now you got Morning Joe, he sounds like he's in War Room from like a year ago, right? | ||
| They're now waking up to the fact, and here's the reason, they can't hide, they can't hide the truth of this, right? | ||
| This, and we're gonna have, from Panama, you're the guy who knows Latin America as well as anybody, Venezuela. | ||
| The countries there are, many are in collapse, in Central America in collapse. | ||
| The cartels, you look at a map and you see all these countries, that gives you a false sense Of security. | ||
| It's really a lot of place down there. | ||
| It's anarchy run by drug cartels, now human trafficking cartels. | ||
| It's plumb away plateau. | ||
| Silver or lead, right? | ||
| For the poor Mexican... What does that mean for our audience? | ||
| Silver or lead? | ||
| Silver or lead. | ||
| That's the very evil bargain. | ||
| The cartel says you either take my money or you're going to take my lead. | ||
| And so it leads to societal meltdown. | ||
| I mean, on top of that, COVID has hit Mexico hard. | ||
| It's the highest per capita death rate in the world because of all the diabetes and the... Comorbidities. | ||
| Comorbidities, right. | ||
| Obesity, diabetes, all those things. | ||
| So between the murder and trafficking problems caused by drugs, on top of COVID now, it's a... President Trump called it right. | ||
| They were Shithole countries and people wanted out of them. | ||
| We didn't have, by the way, our policy was not perfect, because I don't know if you can get a perfect policy, but the zero tolerance coupled with remain in Mexico, coupled with the deals we cut with the frontline nations, right, and more has to be done to figure out those economies. | ||
| Here's the first thing that has to be done. | ||
| The wealthy, the seven big families in Mexico, starting with Carlos Slim all the way down, and the families that rule these Central American countries, Game's over. | ||
| It's not going to be on the back of the American taxpayer. | ||
| It's not going to be on the back of the working class in this country, where it is, where it all is, on the deplorables. | ||
| No. | ||
| There's got to be a total reorganization and realignment. | ||
| That just can't continue like it is. | ||
| It's not working. | ||
| These countries are literally out of control down there. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That's why people are making a rational decision. | ||
| They're heading north. | ||
| You and I would do the same thing. | ||
| Let's get out of here. | ||
| Hey, we've got a chance to get across. | ||
| We're going to get across. | ||
| I don't fault the people that want to walk out of there, that want a better life for their family and kids, to not be worried about a cartel gunning them down or beheading them. | ||
| I don't fault that at all. | ||
| I fault awful governance at the state, local, and federal levels all through Latin America. | ||
| How powerful are the cartels from Central America all the way, I guess Latin America, all the way up through the Texas border and into the United States? | ||
| They rival the military power of the governments where they operate. | ||
| Fully. | ||
| So, at the local police or the state police level, they really can't flex up against the cartels or it is inevitable that they and their family members will be killed and killed ugly. | ||
| Not just killed, but tortured and killed. | ||
| Really, it's only the, like the, in the Mexico, it's the Marine Corps, is the only kind of outside force that can go against the cartels from time to time, but that's not infiltrated. | ||
| And they eventually get infiltrated as well. | ||
| Remember what happened when they tried to arrest El Chapo's son. | ||
| 150 cartel gunmen showed up, including with trucks with belt-fed 50 cal machine guns in the back, and shot up the town until he was released. | ||
| That is not a government that's in control of that society. | ||
| What has to be done, we've got about a minute here, what do you think has to be done to suppress the cartels or are we just beyond that? | ||
| Because now human trafficking is the highest margin business, better than drug trafficking, better than arms trafficking, now they've got humans. | ||
| And Mexico just legalized pot. | ||
| Just in the last few days or weeks. | ||
| So that will take a huge cash crop away from the cartels. | ||
| What are they going to do? | ||
| They are going to smuggle more humans. | ||
| Look, you either legalize everything across the board or you have to go to war against the cartels. | ||
| What do you mean legalize? | ||
| All the drugs? | ||
| Eric Prentz is going soft on me. | ||
| I said you either decriminalize it and take the massive criminal profit out of it or you have to get extremely tough An enforcement of supply. | ||
| You know, in my experience, I visited death row in Texas with Chuck Colson years ago in a prison ministry. | ||
| And even guys that were in lockdown 24 hours a day on death row in Texas were able to get drugs. | ||
| So as long as there's a demand, there's going to be a supply. | ||
| Hold on to that. | ||
| We got to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Eric Prince is in the studio today. | ||
| We're talking about the border, talking about Afghanistan, strategic metals, China, all of it next. | ||
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Pandemic with Stephen K Banham. | |
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
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| OK, I want to pivot now back. | ||
| We've got Eric Prince in studio. | ||
| One of the reasons we want to get somebody that really has the details of what the reality is in South America and in Central America and Mexico for what's causing this explosion. | ||
| Biden's policies are doing it, but there's a natural as Michael Yan. | ||
| We're going to Panama with Michael Yan right now. | ||
| Great combat correspondent from Afghanistan and Iraq for many, many years. | ||
| Been in Portland with Antifa. | ||
| And now it's down on this side of the Darien Gap in Panama about the osmotic flow. | ||
| Michael, tell us what the... Jan, tell us what the situation is today. | ||
| You've got Eric Prince in the studio there. | ||
| We were just talking about it yesterday. | ||
| This is a big boy game down here and it requires big boy rules with people with high skill sets like Eric. | ||
| We have a lot of mutual friends. | ||
| You have a lot of people that are crossing the Darien Gap, for instance, from Colombia That just have babies. | ||
| They'll have literally carrying babies. | ||
| You've seen the photos on my Patreon. | ||
| You have others that look like warriors. | ||
| I mean, they're young men that are, you know, quite stout. | ||
| They have very aggressive attitudes, very aggressive demeanor. | ||
| They're clearly mixed in with these people that are actually trying to get away from something. | ||
| The people that are trying to get away from that positive osmotic pressure that drives people from famines, from pandemics, from corrupt governments like Venezuela, communism, from wars as well. | ||
| So I mean, there's that positive osmotic pressure. | ||
| Then there's that negative osmotic pressure that's the red carpets rolled out in the United States. | ||
| You know, you can get everything for free up there, basically. | ||
| So there's that, or at least there's the perception that you can. | ||
| And the perception, as you know, is what matters. | ||
| So you've got this hop, this human osmotic pressure that's just pulling people, for instance, through the Darien Gap. | ||
| And some of the people going through there, they look, look at the photos. | ||
| I've got videos of everybody who went in from Copper Ghana on one of the days about two weeks ago. | ||
| I've made video of every single person that went in. | ||
| You should see some of these guys. | ||
| I mean, what are they coming up to the United States for? | ||
| Are they coming up to be part of Gangs? | ||
| Are they coming up to be part of some kidnap squads or whatever? | ||
| You know, Eric deals with this stuff all over the world. | ||
| They're coming up to join the Rotary Club in the Chamber of Commerce. | ||
| Hang on for a second. | ||
| Does the United States, Eric Prince, the reporting of Michael Yan and others, and your understanding of Central American and Latin American Mexico? | ||
| Do people in the United States, including Morning Joe, which is going through a meltdown and Mika's getting the bad face, do they have any earthy idea what's in store for us about what's about to happen when the weather warms up in April and May? | ||
| I'd say the closest comparison would be to that autonomous zone, we call it the CHOP, that they tried in Seattle. | ||
| A truly lawless state where you can't depend on the police, and it's just a free-for-all, it's warlordism. | ||
| That's effectively what parts of Latin America have become, because you have a central government with no means to enforce any kind of rule of law, so that when you have an absence of rule of law, you have a rule of force. | ||
| And then the strongest survive. | ||
| And women get abused, the weak get preyed upon, and the strong grow stronger. | ||
| And I don't think that's what we want in America. | ||
| And so border security matters. | ||
| And he's right. | ||
| When you start the fire hydrants and you build that huge column of water moving, the momentum is going to build. | ||
| Okay, so this is one of the things I used to argue in the White House all the time. | ||
| Because every town in the United States is a border town, right? | ||
| You can't fight this fight on the southern border of the United States. | ||
| It's kind of the concept, like ISIS, about the migrant crisis in 2015, particularly coming from North Africa. | ||
| If you're going to fight it in Southern Italy, you're losing. | ||
| You've got to push that. | ||
| You've got to interdict this problem down in Southern Libya and these places like this. | ||
| Here, the interdiction has to start on the other side of the dairying gap and not just money for resources. | ||
| By the way, the wealthy down there have got to pitch in. | ||
| They just skim off the top. | ||
| And the people are abused, and the taxpayers of the United States are always pitching in. | ||
| Those days have got to be over. | ||
| And you've got to go all the way down to Venezuela and these failed states down there. | ||
| And I realize people say, oh, Bannon wants to get you all involved in Latin America. | ||
| Well, no, I don't want to do that. | ||
| But you can't just fight this. | ||
| Or maybe I'm wrong. | ||
| Can you just fight this on the southern border of the United States? | ||
| Or do you have to interdict this problem deeper into Central America and Latin America? | ||
| There's a reason every military expert talks about defense in depth and having layers. | ||
| If you try to make the problem only solved in one 50 meter clear space along the Texas-Mexico border, you're going to have a problem. | ||
| And you are going to have even more humanitarian crisis as all those refugees butt up against the fence. | ||
| The Roman Empire, when it fell, It fell because the Visigoths and the Vandals literally walked in. | ||
| I say today, with air travel, that means the Taliban can be Taliban, Al Qaeda, or whatever criminal terrorist element can get to the United States within 13 or 14 hours from pretty much anywhere in the world by aircraft. | ||
| In this case, they're walking or being bussed in an industrial-level crime spree It's not organized crime, it's industrialized crime. | ||
| This is the point. | ||
| These cartels are so sophisticated. | ||
| They've got the things with the wrappings on the arm, what cartel members, right? | ||
| This is industrial human trafficking. | ||
| Encrypted communications, night vision, 50 cal sniper rifles, belt-fed heavy automatic weapons, RPGs, not just guns that have been leaked across by the Obama administration, or purchased illicitly in the United States, but serious weaponry purchased out of Eastern Europe and the Middle East that they use to threaten and to really effectively control the Mexican state. | ||
| Jan, is that what you're seeing down in Panama? | ||
| Is there a correctness in that now you've got this is industrial human trafficking? | ||
| They're tied in with these governments, all the governments are corrupt, and some of them are, you know, it's either silver or lead. | ||
| Some of them are intimidated that, hey, if I don't play along with these guys, I'm going to have I'm going to end up wrapped up like the guy on cellophane on the park bench the other day, right? | ||
| With his head cut off. | ||
| Is this the problem we've got down there, Jan? | ||
| Yes, in fact, I just had lunch with Senator Maria Cabal down in Columbia, and we talked about this for hours. | ||
| She's a Colombian senator who actually goes up to CPAC annually. | ||
| She didn't go this year, but she's very dialed into this. | ||
| And, you know, right now, something Eric would be very dialed into. | ||
| Colombia is now the Afghanistan of South America. | ||
| The cocaine production has just skyrocketed. | ||
| You know, instead of opium, it's cocaine. | ||
| So up there, one thing I would like, I hope Eric is listening very closely. | ||
| This can be stopped by individuals. | ||
| This doesn't need our government. | ||
| Our government is not doing anything about it. | ||
| There is that chokehold, that varying gap. | ||
| You know well what it is. | ||
| On both sides, the Colombian side and the Panama side, that spigot can be turned off on either side or both sides. | ||
| But if they can't get through the Colombian side, they'll never get into Central America. | ||
| They'll never get to us. | ||
| If they can't get through the Panama side, same deal. | ||
| And it's a very tight chokehold. | ||
| There's not many people involved down there. | ||
| To stop them from getting through those gates. | ||
| And so it doesn't require, if the United States government will not do it, properly let's say funded people from the United States could go down there and make our own deals to keep people from getting through. | ||
| And look what Steve and his team did down there on the wall in El Paso. | ||
| I've been to that wall numerous times. | ||
| It's not that the wall stopped everybody from coming through. | ||
| The wall's a small section. | ||
| But here's the point, Michael. | ||
| Yeah, but the wall thing was just symbolic to, you know, when Pelosi came in. | ||
| My point is, private citizens can't build a wall. | ||
| And I'm all for the wall. | ||
| The wall's not the Maginot Line, but you need more in-depth. | ||
| But this is beyond Citizens, this is beyond volunteers, this is beyond volunteer associations, right? | ||
| You have leftist organizations, and quite frankly, Jan, since you were lighting CNN up, et cetera, what Mika's saying on Morning Joe today is, oh no, they've changed the ads, they've got Facebook ads, they have radio ads, they're now saying, don't come now, don't come now, because you helped call them out about how the ads beforehand and what they were saying beforehand was again, hey, we've worked on this system, now's the time. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And that's the word down in Latin America. | ||
| I think this is far beyond individuals, no matter how many, you know, patriotic or people that want to help down there, etc. | ||
| In fact, the NGOs down there are part of the big problem right now, aren't they? | ||
| They're the guys that are basically acting as a concierge service for the cartels. | ||
| State-funded assistance provided by the NGOs to the traffickers. | ||
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| It's the same problem with state-funded boats or NGO-funded boats in the Mediterranean, Holland. | ||
| Okay, this is the point I want to get to. | ||
| What Rahim's been bringing up is this is exactly analogous, not to the surges we've had before under Obama and Trump, this is the 2015. | ||
| Coming out of the Middle East, that Angela Merkel brought up, and then spread to North Africa, where you had basically a nation like Germany, Angela Merkel, one of the globalists, just like Joe Biden, basically put, hey, we're open for business, we welcome you with open arms, and for more cheap labor. | ||
| Yes, putting a humanitarian phony face on it, when the corporate interests want cheap labor, and the progressive left want cheap votes. | ||
| Raheem Kassam. | ||
| I don't understand how we're in a situation now where not only is Joe Scarborough talking about how this regime is luring people across the border, but we actually have... Biden could actually very easily reach out to practically any European leader and go, hey, you lived this, you made a bunch of mistakes through it as well. | ||
| Can you tell us what works and what doesn't work here? | ||
| Can you tell us what discourages and what improves the situation? | ||
| But nothing. | ||
| No consultation. | ||
| Salvini. | ||
| Orban. | ||
| You know, anybody. | ||
| But nothing. | ||
| That's the call I want to set up with Kamala Harris. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
| Jan, hang on here, because we're going to get Ernie Priet talking about what nobody's talking about, which is the sanctions have been blown away by Iran and Venezuela with the CCP, with China. | ||
| We're going to go to Michael Jan and Eric Prince's favorite place on Earth, Afghanistan, next in The War Room. | ||
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| Okay, got Eric Prince in studio. | ||
| We've got Michael Yan down in Panama. | ||
| Do we have Ernie? | ||
| Is Ernie Preate ready to go? | ||
| We got Ernie Preate, former Attorney General of the state of Commonwealth, Pennsylvania. | ||
| Ernie, over the weekend you were bringing up something to me, it was in the Wall Street Journal, but not a lot of other people were talking about it. | ||
| This is the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, making deals, making even a bigger deal with the mullahs in Iran, buying oil, giving them cash, arms, also in Venezuela. | ||
| This, you know, once again, and this is before the Alaska beatdown, right? | ||
| This shows you once again the CCP's on the march on controlling the Eurasian landmass with, they've got their vassal state of North Korea, they've got Turkey, Russia, it's, I say Pakistan, my colleague here, Prince, doesn't 100% agree with me on that, but you made the legal point about the sanctions. | ||
| So what's going on between the CCP and Iran that is kind of avoiding the sanctions we've got in there? | ||
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Well, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on both Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea. | |
| And one of the things that has happened since the election in November is that they believe that the Biden administration is not going to continue to enforce those sanctions. | ||
| And therefore, there's going to be less leverage in the government of America to Trying to bring those folks into compliance. | ||
| It just doesn't happen that you have the Chinese coming onto American soil in Alaska and insulting the Secretary of State and nobody does anything. | ||
| I mean, you can imagine Mike Pompeo having that be said to him and not doing anything. | ||
| He'd have picked them up by the scruff of the neck and escorted them across the Bering Strait. | ||
| The point I see is this, if you don't have leverage, you don't have any power over the Chinese. | ||
| They have found ways to take Iranian oil, Venezuelan oil, in a million barrels a day, and to take it and to ship transfers on the open seas, and to use the new financial platform, cryptocurrency, to avoid detection by the The banking system, and put that oil and gas into China, where they really need it. | ||
| And then at the same time, they're propping up Yong Yang, because they know that we're not going to do anything about it. | ||
| What we've done now is significant. | ||
| We have put China and Russia together. | ||
| Sergey Lavrov the other day said, oh, we're going to get together and try to find a new currency to do financial transactions. | ||
| You nailed it again, Ernie. | ||
| Okay, hang on for a second. | ||
| Ernie nails it again. | ||
| They meet for the first time, right, under the Biden administration. | ||
| First thing they talk about, we've got to get off the U.S. | ||
| dollars, the prime reserve currency, right? | ||
| We've got to have our own deal. | ||
| Because between the SWIFT system on tracking all financial transactions, and they have to convert everything into dollars, we've still kind of got them, and they're going to get away from that. | ||
| And if we lose the dollar as the reserve currency of the world, you lose the ability to print the endless amounts of money that every administration has been doing. | ||
| Okay, so back to the economic lesson Eric Prince just brings up. | ||
| Remember we had the experts on the other day. | ||
| This 1.9 trillion and the 3 trillion is coming. | ||
| X amount is going to be sold in bonds to the Chinese, the Gulf Emirates, and Japan. | ||
| The rest we're going to call monetize the debt. | ||
| We're just going to create that money, the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve. | ||
| Here is the point, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| If you continue down this path, you don't have to convert everything into dollars. | ||
| The Chinese, the Japanese and the Gulf Emirates are not going to be buying those bonds. | ||
| That means you've just got to continue to print. | ||
| This is why Larry Summers, who's no America first Donald Trump guy, he's up there saying, we're hurtling towards a path of a financial debacle. | ||
| And the guys that know that are the buyers of the bonds. | ||
| That's the Chinese and even the Russians sitting there going, we've got to get off this. | ||
| And if we get off, either through crypto or anything else, some oil-based yawn. | ||
| A gold-backed cryptocurrency. | ||
| A gold-backed cryptocurrency. | ||
| If we can get off of that, if we can get off of this, the United States of America becomes Argentina Immediately! | ||
| Worse, it becomes the Weimar Republic, which was Germany in the 20s, which completely collapsed, and you ended up electing Adolf Hitler. | ||
| When you have economic meltdown, when people see their life savings obliterated by hyperinflation, really bad things happen. | ||
| Okay, I want to go to, as we're talking about this, in the Chinese desperately needing resources, Strategic metals. | ||
| Let's talk about the Afghanistan, Central Asia, and look, we're America first. | ||
| We don't want to be spread out everywhere as everybody's policemen, with our sons and daughters over there, and people spread all over, and American taxpayers. | ||
| But there's some harsh reality, particularly when it comes to strategic resources, Mr. Erik Prince. | ||
| Look, a free market works when all sides believe in free trade and the free exchange of goods and services. | ||
| But China has made a very concerted effort over the last 20-30 years to be dominant in those strategic metals. | ||
| And those are, like NPDR, the stuff that you use to make a battery for a Tesla. | ||
| These are the rare earths? | ||
| For a very high-end electric motor, yeah, rare earth elements. | ||
| And so there's a lot of that stuff In the ground, there's some in Texas, there's some in Mountain Pass, California. | ||
| All the production of Mountain Pass, California goes to China. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they have the processing. | ||
| They process 95% of the rare earths. | ||
| Now, is it a little environmentally unfriendly? | ||
| Yeah, there's some ugly stuff to do, but if the United States doesn't want to be completely dependent on China for the minerals needed to make an F-35, the seeker head of a missile, the essential guts of a cell phone, Then the U.S. | ||
| has to pick some winners and decide to do some things in the United States. | ||
| Build a processing facility out at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah where they did all the chemical weapons testing. | ||
| It's never going to be condos. | ||
| Fine, let it be the processing center and start to reduce that dependency on China for those rare earths. | ||
| Again, they're produced in Africa. | ||
| This is a couple billion dollar decision, and it's... I'm not saying the economics. | ||
| I'm not saying the economics. | ||
| It's strategically. | ||
| Jan says, hey, it's all about leverage. | ||
| This takes away... The Chinese are very open about this. | ||
| They have the leverage on us on rare earths and strategic metals. | ||
| They flexed against Japan a few years ago regarding a dispute over some islands. | ||
| and Japan's response to that was to start a massive recycling program so they reduced their dependency by doing that. | ||
| That's a start and we can do that but you know with the largest economy in the world we're gonna have to do better we're gonna have to find some original sources and processing ourselves or at least in friendly countries that are not directly under the footprint. With the Green New Deal being part of this next tronch this next tronch is going to have a two trillion dollar infrastructure and a trillion or two trillion dollars onto the Green New Deal okay And they're going to get it done by reconciliation. | ||
| How are you going to sit there and make the case that, hey, you know how we compete here? | ||
| We've got, and this is what people don't understand, we've got a ton of rare earths here in the United States as our natural minerals, right? | ||
| We don't have the ability to process it, make it usable. | ||
| You've got to take that offshore because of the environmental issues. | ||
| How, in an era where we're going actually more green, are you going to sell that you've got to have some of the nastiest processing, even in relation to coal? | ||
| That's part of the lie of the Green New Deal, people that are so anti-hydrocarbons. | ||
| There's three parts of your electrical bill. | ||
| One is generation, one is transportation, and one is tax. | ||
| They've effectively removed the tax on green energy and made it, instead of tax, it's a massive subsidy. | ||
| When you produce green energy, whether it's in the fields of Texas or somewhere where it's sunny, you have to generate it there and you have to transport it a long ways, which means you need an enormous amount of copper wire and other minerals for the transportation. | ||
| It's not very green because you've got to go dig it up somewhere else. | ||
| Fracking. | ||
| It's also inefficient because you're losing that transportation, you're losing, it's highly inefficient. | ||
| Friction loss, everything else. | ||
| So again, markets, the essential thing, what I learned at Hillsdale College was price indicates all the information you need. | ||
| It indicates demand and scarcity. | ||
| And when you remove price from reality, you get the distortions that became the Soviet Union or that would become the United States under a Green New Deal because you're literally destroying The basic economics of energy, which underpins the economy. | ||
| How does Afghanistan and the troops, we've got a couple of minutes here, I want to get Ernie and Jan back in here, but this whole situation with what President Trump had negotiated with Mike Pompeo, not pretty, right, kind of winning ugly, I guess you would say, maybe not winning at all, but to withdraw South after 20 years, in regards also to the strategic resources that are there, where do we stand with Afghanistan? | ||
| It continues to be a loss. | ||
| We're in worse shape now than even four years ago when President Trump took over. | ||
| The Taliban control more and more and more of the terrain. | ||
| The very flawed peace deal that Zalmay Khalilzad agreed to said that there would be a ceasefire and the Taliban wouldn't attack US forces. | ||
| But it said nothing about them not attacking Afghan forces, so the rate of death of Afghan forces at the highest now as it's been in 20 years. | ||
| After 20 years? | ||
| And trust me, after 2 trillion dollars and what, 5,000 casualties, the dead, or was it 2,500 dead in Afghanistan? | ||
| 2,500 dead. | ||
| 2,500 dead. | ||
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| And tens of thousands of casualties and PTSD and all that. | ||
| And another trillion dollars in health care we're on the hook for, for all the damaged vets we have. | ||
| The net present value of that one trillion dollars, okay. | ||
| Why should anybody care? | ||
| Why should anybody care? | ||
| Because part of the hegemony of the dollar, part of the reason it's the world's reserve currency, is because there's the understanding or the hope, the acceptance, that the U.S. | ||
| is the strongest military force in the world. | ||
| And when you're defeated, when you've had 20 years and all your smart generals and trillions of dollars, effectively unlimited resources, and you're beaten by 20,000 goat herders, It's a really, really black mark on the armed forces of the United States. | ||
| And it's not on the men and women that actually do the fighting. | ||
| It's a huge black mark on the leadership. | ||
| Haven't they done this to a couple of empires, like Alexander the Great, the Russians, the English, right? | ||
| And now the United States. | ||
| Have they got a track record of beating empires? | ||
| Yeah, but actually the Russians were well on their way to victory. | ||
| It was a billion dollars a year in direct lethal aid from the United States, including Stinger missiles and more ordnance than you can imagine. | ||
| They literally flew every Tennessee Walker mule out of Tennessee to Pakistan to carry all the arms in. | ||
| That's what defeated the Russians, the Soviets in Afghanistan. | ||
| What defeated us? | ||
| Pentagon stupidity. | ||
| Horrific leadership, a non-stop revolving door of commanders that were never ever held accountable. | ||
| Everybody there for 12 months? | ||
| 12 months. | ||
| We've rotated the US troops forces there about 32 times now, and we've been through at least 15 different commanders. | ||
| So again, no one's held to account. | ||
| All of those people that messed up there ended up getting promoted, or are working for a huge hedge fund, or they're They're at the Council on Foreign Relations. | ||
| They're regarded as foreign policy experts. | ||
| They failed. | ||
| We got beat by the Taliban, and we should be ashamed of that. | ||
| Okay, Michael Yan, Eric Prince, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return in just a moment to talk about that huge summit that took place on Sunday night at the War Room Posse. | ||
| Helped make such a massive success, didn't get back into the geopolitics of the Biden administration. | ||
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War Room Pandemic with Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host Stephen K Banham. | ||
| I want to announce today that Mike Lindell will be with us tomorrow. | ||
| Mike Lindell will be with us Thursday and also Friday. | ||
| He's got a lot of news breaking on the vote of fraud. | ||
| He's got a lot of news breaking on his new social media platform. | ||
| He's got a lot of news breaking on MyPillow.com. | ||
| We're going to get to all of it in the days ahead. | ||
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| He's got a lot more announcements to be, to make about my store, uh, his new entity. | ||
| Also his new, um, what he's doing on voter fraud and what he's doing on social media. | ||
| So Mike Lindell working 24 seven as a patriot should. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We've got now, talking about Patriots, Jeff Brain of CloudHub. | ||
| They had this amazing summit the other night, 6,000 people on it, many people from the War Room. | ||
| My phone's been blowing up, Jeff. | ||
| Ever since Sunday, people loved it. | ||
| They loved it. | ||
| And so, tell us what you guys accomplished on Sunday night, how did you pull it off, and where do you guys go from here? | ||
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Yeah, that 6,000 number was just from one site. | |
| Actually, we ended up having 23,000 people join it. | ||
| You know, America is very divided, and this is a unity summit. | ||
| People actually want to come back together, and we had 23,000 freedom-loving Americans. | ||
| You know, they want to have freedom of thought. | ||
| They want to have elections they can trust. | ||
| They want to have their businesses back open. | ||
| They want to get back into the churches. | ||
| People are very fed up, and this was all about freedom-loving Americans. | ||
| We actually on CloudHub created groups called Defend California, Florida. | ||
| All across the country and we had over 700 people volunteer so far to be state leaders. | ||
| So people are very engaged. | ||
| We encourage your viewers to come to CloudHub, sign up and get in one of those groups where we are going to be working to engage with them and mobilize them, you know, to restore our freedoms across the country. | ||
| Now our next event will be April 18th at 6 p.m. | ||
| Eastern Time and we'll continue. | ||
| We'll have some additional great speakers This weekend we had Sidney Powell talking and others, but on April 18th we'll have even more, including we're going to try and get Mike Lindell there. | ||
| But this is very important that people across America wake up. | ||
| We're seeing social media platforms silence our voices. | ||
| We're seeing our businesses close down. | ||
| And we're even asking questions about elections. | ||
| Let me just understand something. | ||
| The Defend Florida guys did a great job. | ||
| So the 23,000, you're going to have a Defend in every state in the union. | ||
| Every state is going to have a Defend, like Colorado, Defend Texas, all of that. | ||
| You're going to have each one. | ||
| And CloudHub's going to have their own special little group. | ||
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| Getting engaged, you know, not just posting. | ||
| And so yes, every state has a Defend Wyoming, Defend Alaska. | ||
| Okay, how do people get to CloudHub? | ||
| people get there and get involved. There's also Defend Our Union as a master group where people can get involved. We also have Defend Our Businesses, Defend Our Speech, Defend Our Elections as issue groups there. There are many other groups as well, but those are great groups we've created for this. Okay, how do people get to CloudHub? What do they do to find out and get involved in all this? What do they do? Yeah, go to www.cloudhub.com and sign up. | ||
| It takes two minutes. | ||
| It's a great platform, lots of content for you. | ||
| You know, we have channels, we have video sharing, we have discussion timelines like Twitter, great things for people to get engaged in. | ||
| Okay, Jeff, thank you very much for joining us here today. | ||
| Really appreciate it. | ||
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| Okay, I want to turn now back to Eric Prince on Afghanistan. | ||
| Talk to us about Afghanistan and your solution there. | ||
| Look, you have to think back to what happened right after 9-11, 20 years ago. | ||
| The President gathered with his National Security Cabinet at Camp David, and while the Pentagon was still smoldering, the best thing the Pentagon wanted to do, the only thing they wanted to do, was bombs, missiles, and a ranger raid, and they wanted to wait six months, until the following April, and do a conventional invasion via Pakistan with a mechanized infantry division. | ||
| So that's what the best military, the most expensive military on the planet, that was the best thing they could do when their own headquarters was attacked in their national capital. | ||
| It was the agency that said, hey, we'll do an unconventional war approach with a few special forces, a few agency case officers backed by air power, and they smashed the heck out of the Taliban in a matter of weeks. | ||
| And that in a In that moment, you kind of get the problem of what the Pentagon is, because we were winning in Afghanistan for the first six, eight months. | ||
| You're talking about this is the horse soldiers, this is guys going way back. | ||
| Looks like they came out of the 7th Calvary, right? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And when all the flag officers, all the generals showed up, and Bagram became a saluting zone, and you had to shave your beards, that's when all progress stopped. | ||
| And we basically copied the Soviet battle plan of the 80s and replicated that. | ||
| And we've been losing money and losing our best and brightest ever since in a pointless effort and so Until you get away from that until you take that until the Pentagon leadership is held to account until they're actually You know, we love our troops love them enough to make sure they have good leadership not the leadership we have at the Pentagon now So what's the solution now? | ||
| You could go back to an unconventional approach. | ||
| We're going to stay back in there for another 20 years? | ||
| That's what the globalists want us to be there forever, right? | ||
| Because the globalists aren't sending their sons and daughters to fight. | ||
| So tell me what the solution is. | ||
| Go back to what we recommended to President Trump back in the spring of 2017, an unconventional war. | ||
| There's 25,000 contractors in country, still, in Afghanistan. | ||
| Most of those can go home as well, because the U.S. | ||
| forces can leave. | ||
| What percent of those contractors are doing logistics work, like, and even work preparing food? | ||
| How many actually, on top of the Taliban, eradicating Taliban? | ||
| None of them are doing that. | ||
| 25,000 just logistics? | ||
| They're supporting a handful of U.S. | ||
| troops that are there. | ||
| Keeping the Baskin Robbins and the three different coffee shops open. | ||
| Look, the U.S. | ||
| has gotten some very bad and very expensive habits of how it does business, and that's why they're losing. | ||
| If you wipe that away and go to an unconventional warfare approach with a few of the right contractors, they can work directly for Afghanistan. | ||
| That will keep the lights on and keep the Taliban at bay. | ||
| You have to view the Taliban. | ||
| It's never going to be Dubai. | ||
| It's never going to be Miami. | ||
| Accept that. | ||
| But give a structural support, a skeletal support. | ||
| Is anybody listening to either your advice or advice like yours right now in the Pentagon? | ||
| That's off the table. | ||
| It's big army. | ||
| It's basically going to be big army. | ||
| It's big army. | ||
| It's the same problem you had with General McMaster in the White House, a three-star Army officer, armor officer, who wanted to promote what the big machine does, and until adult leadership actually says, enough, and says the definition of insanity is to do the same thing and expect a different result. | ||
| Every one of the books I read, they all think you're a screwball. | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| Fine. | ||
| If they call me a screwball, I will happily wear that crown. | ||
| But they're just flat out wrong, and they've wasted our sons and daughters, and they've wasted a hell of a lot of taxpayer money. | ||
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