May 18, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| So you don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| That this is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than a hundred possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always, because if you don't and the worst happens, War Room. | ||
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Pandemic. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| We've got a lot going on today. | ||
| By the way, tomorrow, I think it's 10 o'clock, there's going to be a press conference in Georgia. | ||
| Vernon Jones is running for governor down there. | ||
| Remember, Cosmo Mann, the lieutenant governor I think we called this shot, Rahim, a long time ago. | ||
| His political career ended yesterday. | ||
| He said he's not going to run for re-election. | ||
| Guess why? | ||
| Because of the cesspool that's down there about this vote. | ||
| Vernon Jones is going to step up to the microphone tomorrow and demand that a full forensic audit take place, just like in Arizona. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Citizens, not subjects. | ||
| Remember that. | ||
| The great Mark Fincham said at the beginning. | ||
| We start this show today from Independence Hall. | ||
| With the great team at Real America's Voice, Amanda Head and Ben Berquam. | ||
| They're broadcasting live of the special tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock on Real America's Voice from Independence Hall to talk about the founding of our nation and the importance of the great patriots in the revolutionary generation that were there at Independence Hall. | ||
| We're going to get more to remind ourselves. | ||
| The generals, we had the American generals talk on Saturday. | ||
| We've had the stars of Generals who focus on the service academies in the military. | ||
| These are two groups of military officers that are absolutely outraged at this cultural Marxism, a critical race that is being jammed into the military, right? | ||
| And the General said the other day, I think it was General Harrell, we had General Harrell, Boykin, and Bodick on the show on Saturday. | ||
| And all three of them talked about that they owe this to their children, their grandchildren, having a grandchild in their head, to the men they'd fought with. | ||
| We also owe it to every generation that's come before us and served on and buried in battlefields all over this country. | ||
| We're coming up on the most sacred civic holiday we have, Memorial Day. | ||
| We're going to be doing a special, we'll talk about that later on Memorial Day. | ||
| But it is in honor of that sacred dead, right, that we owe to every generation back to the revolutionary generation and before. | ||
| To defend this freedom now and not to allow ourselves to be taken over by these cultural Marxists. | ||
| It will not happen on our watch. | ||
| Trust me, it's not going to happen, okay? | ||
| You saw that from these mothers that are taking over these school boards, citizens signing up for precinct committeemen. | ||
| People are fighting back. | ||
| We're taking this back over village by village. | ||
| That's populism. | ||
| You're not looking for people from the top down, you're not looking for federal authorities, you're not looking for Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy's not going to save anything, okay? | ||
| You're going to save it. | ||
| That's the power of this show. | ||
| This show is all about one thing and one thing only. | ||
| Human agency. | ||
| We provide kind of information and a framework and try to get as many experts in there as possible, provide information to you, but this is about action, action, action. | ||
| The reason this show is metastasizing in growth And the power of it, the reason, you know, we have hundreds of people that want to come on the show is one simple reason. | ||
| It's not Rahim, it's not myself, it's not the great production team, it's not Captain Bannon or all the great co-hosts we have in here. | ||
| It's only one simple thing is this audience. | ||
| Because this audience are not just activists now, you're advocates, okay? | ||
| You're advocates for freedom and you're not going to back down. | ||
| That's what's going to turn the tide in 2022. | ||
| That's what's going to turn the tide in 2024. | ||
| Not anybody from the top down. | ||
| You're not a subject. | ||
| You're a citizen. | ||
| So I want to go real quick. | ||
| I will just add to that very quickly. | ||
| Very quickly. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| I didn't want to get the two-shot with you, but that's okay. | ||
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You have to like and subscribe and leave a comment and help the show reach more people. | |
| and subscribe and leave a comment and help the show reach more people. | ||
| So how do they do that? | ||
| So on every platform, on every different podcast platform, however you get this, make sure you take up all of those different little options, the share buttons, the comment buttons, even if you've done it before, leave another review. | ||
| I just want to tease that, now you've got the two-shot. | ||
| And the best combat historian in America with a slew of books. | ||
| We have them all the time. | ||
| We've done specials on Christmas Day. | ||
| We've done specials on World Day. | ||
| The great Patrick K. O'Donnell has now joined us in the studio with his latest book, The Indispensables. | ||
| We're going to get to all this. | ||
| The next hour we're going to intercut with news, but really spend time to go back to the founding generation, to go back to the populace, to the little guy that really stood up and at the moment stood in the breach And then the defining moment of the revolution, these defining moments, when it came down to who was prepared to stand up and be counted, and those would fade away, it was the American people standing in the breach that won the revolution. | ||
| That's the revolutionary generation. | ||
| Look, like Levin, I revere the Declaration and the Constitution, but that's a group of very sophisticated lawyers. | ||
| We were blessed at that time to have just incredibly sophisticated lawyers, whether it was Thomas Jefferson or John Adams or people like Alexander Hamilton or all the people that kind of were the founding generation of that aspect. | ||
| But you also had what it came down to was working men and women and leaders like Alexander Hamilton as a young officer on the staff of General Washington. | ||
| So we're going to get into all that with Patrick O'Donnell. | ||
| But first, I've got to go. | ||
| Something very special happened yesterday. | ||
| Mary, I want to bring in Marian Mendoza. | ||
| One of the Angel Moms, one of the founders of the Angel Moms. | ||
| Yesterday, in Congress, in the Congressional Record, it was just absolutely extraordinary what happened. | ||
| Mary Ann, tell the story of how we actually had a commemoration, a declaration for your heroic son, the police officer that gave his life in the line of duty. | ||
| Tell us what happened and why did Andy Biggs yesterday finally get us into the Congressional Record? | ||
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Well, my son Brandon was killed on May 12, 2014 by a repeat illegal criminal here in our country. | |
| And it's, I've been fighting for seven years, Steve, and angel families are really the ignored group of Americans who have fought and fought and fought, but they've had loved ones killed by illegal criminals in our country. | ||
| More Americans have been killed on our home soil than Americans were killed in Vietnam. | ||
| And so this is, this is a tragedy. | ||
| This is something that really needs to be brought to the forefront. | ||
| Because this is what the Democrats and the Liberals want suppressed, especially as they're opening our borders right now. | ||
| But I went down to Yuma last week with Andy Biggs and 11 congressional members that he brought, and I made a comment to them at a dinner, and I said, when has there ever been legislation brought to the floor of Congress in support of American victims of illegal crime? | ||
| Never. | ||
| There's never been legislation brought. | ||
| However, legislators bring all kinds of legislation to the floor in support of illegal criminals in our country. | ||
| And so I wanted to just make that point. | ||
| And Andy Big surprised me. | ||
| This actually happened on May 12th, on the end of the seventh anniversary of Brandon's death, that he entered into congressional record that the death of my son and that he needed to be honored and also to bring awareness to the plight of angel families and how we are ignored all the time. | ||
| And I am fighting still, Steve, to bring awareness to innocent Americans who are killed by these unvetted, illegal invaders of our country. | ||
| And we need to become more fighters for the people who have lost their lives in this cause. | ||
| It's absolutely overwhelming. | ||
| Our country can't take it anymore. | ||
| And I don't want to keep accepting more people into my organization. | ||
| I fight so that I don't have to talk to any other families who have experienced this gut-wrenching heartache. | ||
| Mary Ann, how can we help you on this legislation since it's never been done? | ||
| Tell us how the War Room Posse, this huge audience of activists, what do they need to do, where do they need to go, how do they support you in trying to get this legislation put forward? | ||
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Well, we don't have any legislation to put forward. | |
| Andy put this in the congressional record, just mentioning and acknowledging angel families and the fact that there are innocent Americans that are being killed by illegal criminals in our country. | ||
| But we do need to bring legislation forward to protect our people. | ||
| The Take Care Clause in the Constitution is one of the biggest things that our legislators need to be paying attention to. | ||
| We deserve the protection that the Constitution affords us. | ||
| This protection and this giving attitude does not belong directed at people invading our country. | ||
| Our American elected officials need to be taking care of America first. | ||
| Americans first. | ||
| And we need to stop the insanity at the border. | ||
| Okay, this is one we'll take on then as a project. | ||
| How do people, you're a fire breather, your patriotism's unquestioned, the work you've done behind the scenes, and ladies and gentlemen, this is what the show's about, to provide platforms to people like Marian Mendoza. | ||
| How do people get to you? | ||
| How do they get more access to the Angel Moms, Marian? | ||
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Angelfamilies.org is our website. | |
| I do have a new podcast, it's called The Illegal Angle with Angel Mom Marian Mendoza. | ||
| You can find it on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, And I do have a YouTube channel, The Illegal Angle with Angel Mall, Mariam Mendoza. | ||
| I'm doing many, many interviews with Sheriff Daniels, Sheriff Lamb. | ||
| I have footage down in Yuma when I was down there with Andy Biggs. | ||
| I've been down to NACO showing the border wall there. | ||
| And the fact that the Biden administration is actually causing the erosion along the border that he's blaming Trump for because he has stopped all of these projects midterm. | ||
| None of the wall projects will have a warranty, Steve. | ||
| Because they have to finish the complete package, which includes the cameras, the lights, and the sensors, and the roads. | ||
| And so all of these undone projects, unfinished projects, is what's going to be causing the erosion that the Biden administration is trying to blame on Trump. | ||
| And Americans who have been down there and see the progress Trump made and understand the necessary border security that we need They know that Trump was the guy getting it done, and we know that Biden is the guy getting it undone. | ||
| He has stopped the wall and he has broke the law. | ||
| Mary Ann, thank you. | ||
| We'll make sure we promote this podcast every time you come for the new one. | ||
| So thank you very much. | ||
| You're a patriot and a hero. | ||
| And I know your son would be very, very proud of the hard work you've done for the last seven years to make sure that this doesn't happen again. | ||
| So we know you're a laboring oar, but thank you so much. | ||
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Thank you, Steve. | |
| That is heroism. | ||
| I want to talk more about heroism. | ||
| I want to bring in Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
| The last book you did, you're a combat historian. | ||
| You've gone with groups in Fallujah. | ||
| You've embedded during the Iraq and Afghan War. | ||
| You've been incredible. | ||
| Your books on World War II, Korea War, Give Me Tomorrow, just incredible, incredible. | ||
| But you kind of pivoted a couple of years ago with Washington's Immortals. | ||
| It is still, if you want to see the intensity of combat, and that's what, Patrick O'Donnell's not really giving you a lot of, it's strategy, but it's not a lot of the politics, it's the politics of the battlefield. | ||
| He gives you a bird's-eye view of putting you in the moment with units, with a small unit of Marines in Fallujah, going door-to-door, or it's a small unit of soldiers of Marines in Korea, right, at the Chosin Reservoir, right, but you get the, you get the grunts view of what combat is at that time. And you see that with all the highfalutin talk and all the treaties and all the grand strategy and everything like that, it all comes down to the tip of the spear on both sides, | ||
| right? Of who stands into the breach and it always comes down to the little guy, right? The little guy. | ||
| We hang in there and essentially is he prepared to give up his life for an abstract idea which is called freedom. Now it has reality and practicality and they can see it and that's why they it's both if you read his books it's the camaraderie and cohesive unit cohesion that of their friends and that now they're buddies but also they're their homes, right? | ||
| And this is what they do. | ||
| So Washington's Immortals, which is an absolutely incredible book, you've now found it up. | ||
| We only got two minutes to go to break, but The Indispensables. | ||
| What motivated you first in two minutes to write this? | ||
| Basically, I found the story of the Indispensables through Washington's Immortals. | ||
| These are the guys that transported Washington's army across the Delaware and also across the East River. | ||
| But it's way more than that. | ||
| As you said, this is a boots-on-the-ground story of the Revolution from the men at the tip of the spear at all the inflection points of the Revolution. | ||
| They were also the intellectual mainspring of the early Revolution, which is really quite fascinating. | ||
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What do you mean the intellectual mainspring of the early revolution? | |
| Some of the key members of this group for instance Elbridge Gerry he takes the concept, abstract concept of republicanism with a small r, and really translates it into reality. And it also, it's imbued in our values in the early revolution and then later on in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It's incredibly important, along with other members. These guys also finance the war. | ||
| They're some of the wealthiest men of the war, and they bring in a very crucial resource, which is powder. | ||
| There's a massive ammunition shortage in 1774-75, and they convert their trade routes with Spain and the Dutch East Indies into supply lines. | ||
| And they bring in all the powder, and it's incredibly useful. | ||
| But it's also the boots on the ground, the guys that are there. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| We'll be back in a minute. | ||
| So you're going to tie together how they're intellectuals, how they're also financiers, and they got the working end of an oar right here. | ||
| The Indispensables, it's out today. | ||
| Patrick K. O'Donnell, if you want combat history, this is it. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to come back in the War Room with the revered combat historian Patrick K. O'Donnell in just a moment. | ||
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War Room Pandemic with Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| We've got breaking news in Georgia. | ||
| We're actually going to get one of Michael Patrick Leahy's The Great Georgia Star team. | ||
| We're going to get one of those on later in the show. | ||
| Breaking news out of there. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| Surprise! | ||
| 330,000 ballots still do not have certification, which they promised. | ||
| Supposed to be done right away. | ||
| They promised it no later than 19 January. | ||
| It's still not done. | ||
| Vernon Jones is going to step up to the microphones tomorrow. | ||
| He's going to demand. | ||
| He's running for governor. | ||
| He's going to demand that Georgia call back the legislature and they immediately empower The Senate in Georgia does exactly what the Senate in Arizona is doing, get a full forensic audit, a full re-canvas. | ||
| Remember, it's the canvas, not the count. | ||
| Full re-canvas. | ||
| And also, we're not machine guys, but look at the machines we're at. | ||
| The same tripartite investigation. | ||
| When Fincham dropped here, people understand this on the Information Warfare, when we dropped Fintan, Fincham, Mark Fincham at 1030 with his great quote, citizens not subjects. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| We dropped him to get Dr. Mercola simultaneously. | ||
| On both, and we keep MSNBC on one of the big screens and we keep CNN here to trigger you on this one. | ||
| Both of them, Raheem, simultaneously, at the bottom of the hour, both went to Arizona and they had the pull quote from the establishment guys, the same pull quote. | ||
| Insane. | ||
| Insane, what's going on is insane. | ||
| This is information warfare. | ||
| MSNBC and CNN answer the question, go back to the states, not to the war room, Don't go over to the National Polls, you don't have to go anywhere like that. | ||
| Just go to the letter from the President of the Senate of Arizona, Karen Fan. | ||
| Go to her letter and answer the question. | ||
| Don't spin it, just address it. | ||
| Don't talk about bamboo ballots and ultraviolet. | ||
| That's all nonsense. | ||
| These guys are finding out where the receipts are not, okay? | ||
| And we haven't gotten to the re-canvas. | ||
| The smart Democratic operatives understand they're sweating bullets on the canvas. | ||
| That's why the Justice Department has been weaponized now to protect Biden's illegitimacy. | ||
| Came out in that letter, the subtext of the letter is that if you participate in this re-canvas, you're going to be open for criminal charges. | ||
| Criminal charges! | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Right before I talk about citizens not subject, I want to say one other thing about information warfare. | ||
| We had Bob Costello on here yesterday evening. | ||
| He crushed the Southern District of New York with the letter he sent us. | ||
| He crushed the Southern District. | ||
| You know why he crushed them? | ||
| Ari Melber, Chris Hayes, the MSNBC, Joey Reed, CNN. | ||
| They didn't lead with the Rudy situation yesterday. | ||
| Crickets on Rudy. | ||
| A huge day in the prosecution, the persecution of Rudy Giuliani. | ||
| Crickets. | ||
| Absolute crickets. | ||
| And you know why? | ||
| They crushed him yesterday about the persecution of Rudy Giuliani and particularly being the president's lawyer. | ||
| OK, so stand by there. | ||
| Because Rudy Giuliani is one of the best Americans we have, one of the greatest patriots, one of the finest men this country's ever produced. | ||
| Right? | ||
| In crushing the five families of the Mafia back in the 80s. | ||
| Of cleaning out the cesspool that was Wall Street back then. | ||
| Mike Milken and that crowd. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And then, running for mayor, winning, and turning New York City around, because it was quite frankly, I don't think it was as bad as it is today, but it was awful. | ||
| Turn around and then being the mayor there for 9-11. | ||
| An American hero that they're persecuting with a weaponized Southern District of New York. | ||
| Well, you didn't hear a lot of the... You didn't hear Ari Melber and all the guys that are normally rooty all the time. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't hear it yesterday. | ||
| Citizens Not Subject says Mark Fincham out in Arizona. | ||
| That's what we call Arizona, the Concord Bridge, that coliseum, although I might have to change that to Lexington Common, the green at Lexington Common, because Georgia's gonna be the Concord Bridge. | ||
| That's gonna be number two. | ||
| Talk about Citizens Not Subject, the indispensable. | ||
| So here's, we broke this. | ||
| On our Christmas Day special, because why, every year at Christmas, Patrick Kaganow comes in, and we go through the American battles that have taken place on Christmas Day, and what certain, whether the Korean War in Vietnam, World War II, at Bastogne, the whole thing, we always go and do a very special part, and this year, quite frankly, Took Patrick, we took an hour on crossing the Delaware. | ||
| So I just wanna make sure people, and particularly our podcast and radio audience can't see this. | ||
| This book's called The Indispensables. | ||
| It's out today. | ||
| It's kind of the sequel to or the follow-on from The Immortals, Washington Immortals, which was the vanguard of this great regiment that did so much to save the revolution. | ||
| The famous painting of crossing the Delaware. | ||
| Are these the indispensables? | ||
| Are these gentlemen that are kind of nameless to history? | ||
| You've now brought these gentlemen to life? | ||
| I actually focused on the forward portion of the boat. | ||
| And these are the indispensables. | ||
| uh... manual loots uh... focused in on them and you can see there's an african-american rower in their yep and that's him he's a man he's a member of the marble head regiment along with the other men and that the reason why it's so important is washington had four crossings of the delaware uh... that and christmas day three of them failed except for the marble headers | ||
| Well, because it was a howling, correct me if I'm wrong, it was a Northeaster had poured in, I mean this storm that they had to, first off, a night, people should understand, a night, a forced crossing of a river at night on any military objective, whether it was at Mets in World War II, Patton's Group, a forced crossing of a river is nothing more dangerous, correct? | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| And this happened in the middle of a howling Northeaster? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And the river was swirling. | ||
| It was extremely dangerous. | ||
| There was ice in it. | ||
| It took all of the skill of the Marbleheaders to get across that river. | ||
| Because all the other parties that tried to cross failed. | ||
| And they changed the course of the revolution that day. | ||
| Tell us about the Marbleheaders. | ||
| Who are they? | ||
| Why are they called the Marbleheaders? | ||
| Marblehead's located about 30 miles north of Boston, and in 1774, Marblehead was the second largest city in Massachusetts. | ||
| It was also one of the greatest economic hubs of Massachusetts. | ||
| Fortunes were made on cod fishing, as well as trade, and it was really one of the main springs of the Massachusetts economy. | ||
| And these men were extremely wealthy, many of them, but it was also, you know, you had thousands of men that would go out on boats and fish the Grand Banks, which were the most dangerous waters in the world at the time. | ||
| You know, they were fighting against nature constantly. | ||
| But what's interesting and unique about this group is it was also the first diverse regiment. | ||
| And many of these men were African Americans, Native Americans, there was Hispanics. | ||
| They all crewed these boats together. | ||
| And skin color didn't matter in the midst of a raging storm when it was life and death decisions had to be made. | ||
| And that would later translate into on the battlefield. | ||
| How did they go from cod fishermen and people who are accumulating some wealth because of the grand banks, how do you go from that to having a business end of an oar in your hand? | ||
| Normally you would think these guys would be senior level officers or by regiments. | ||
| How do you actually go to doing the hard work that it takes to basically be a deck seaman? | ||
| It was interference by the Crown. | ||
| The Crown was interfering in their lives constantly. | ||
| They were impressing many of these men. | ||
| Literally, they'd go out on their boats... For the Navy? | ||
| For the Navy. | ||
| And impressment at this time was slavery. | ||
| They'd pull up to a boat and they'd say, okay, congratulations, you're part of the Royal Navy now. | ||
| And it was a life commitment. | ||
| That's Nelson's Navy. | ||
| It was such a good lifestyle. | ||
| Some of the guys volunteered. | ||
| Tell them what a press gang is and why you're so... They would just go on shore and they would just round up people. | ||
| Or they would go and seize... They'd pull up against a ship and they would go on board and they'd take them. | ||
| But the Marbleheaders fought back. | ||
| Because you were a subject, not a citizen. | ||
| And by the way, when you were in press in the World Navy, you would in all likelihood never return home. | ||
| You would never return home. | ||
| You'd die on ship. | ||
| Or somewhere in the Caribbean, or the Royal Navy controlled the world at that time. | ||
| It didn't matter if you had a family, anything. | ||
| It's too bad. | ||
| Tough break for a swell guy. | ||
| But these guys fought back. | ||
| In the opening scene of The Indispensables is Michael Corbett's ship being boarded, and Michael Corbett threw a harpoon at the British Lieutenant's jugular vein and severed it. | ||
| Michael Corbett, as an American, let the Royal Navy know how enthusiastic he was about being impressed. | ||
| And it was none other than John Adams that defended him in court and got him off. | ||
| How did you get off after killing a Royal Naval Lieutenant with a harpoon? | ||
| John Adams, at that time, was the first super lawyer in the United States. | ||
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Did I say that these guys are great lawyers? | |
| He wasn't the guy with the driving force and independence for nothing, right? | ||
| He even had the crew of the British ship sympathetic after he deposed all of them. | ||
| So talk about that. | ||
| So a press gang comes on a ship and says, because you're a subject, not a citizen, We think we got a better deal for you. | ||
| You're going to get on this man-of-war and to parts unknown. | ||
| You leave home in the morning to go fishing. | ||
| You're never to return because you're on a Royal Navy ship, never to go back home again. | ||
| Corbett says, I don't think I want to do that. | ||
| It's really dramatic, and it's all in the testimony of the trial. | ||
| And Corbett actually said no, and there was literally a line in the sand. | ||
| There was some sand on the deck, and he put the sand out with his foot and said, if you cross it, I will throw a harpoon right at your dregular. | ||
| So he gave the guy a warning? | ||
| He gave the guy a warning. | ||
| The British lieutenant came forward. | ||
| Of course, a British lieutenant in the role in Nelson's Navy is not going to say, Corbett, nice. | ||
| And he got a harpoon right to the neck. | ||
| Did he die? | ||
| He died. | ||
| By the way, you've got to get the book, The Indispensables. | ||
| One thing I'll tell you about Patrick O'Donnell's book, they're full of... this is not high-level 60,000 feet. | ||
| You're literally on the deck plates or you're on the pitching deck. | ||
| You get to see what is exactly... because your research, you go back... It's all primary documents. | ||
| First off, the ones he did for Korea, which is a national treasure because a lot of these veterans... you went through and spent Thousands of hours of interviews. | ||
| First-person interviews with people to get what it's like. | ||
| In Fallujah, you ain't embedded with the Marines, so when you go door-to-door, O'Donnell's there writing it down. | ||
| Or he's interviewed somebody. | ||
| If he can't interview him, because in the Revolution it's a little hard, right? | ||
| You go back to the original diaries, journals, etc., and it's all factual. | ||
| It's all factual. | ||
| I use the original pension files that these men had, the original oral histories, if you will, of what they said and did. | ||
| Because in a pension file, you couldn't let... You'd go in front of the court and say, under oath, what you did. | ||
| And it had to be vetted. | ||
| There were a couple, three people showing up for pensions, right? | ||
| And they had to vet. | ||
| Just being Americans, right? | ||
| You're always going to get guys. | ||
| So, we're going to finish with the opening story of The Indispensable. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Other breaking news out of Georgia. | ||
| We've got a lot going on here this morning. | ||
| We're honored to have Patrick A. O'Donnell. | ||
| I want this posse to power into this book. | ||
| This is about patriots. | ||
| This is what happened hundreds of years ago to fight for our freedom. | ||
| That fight continues today in Arizona. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| It's going to spread to Georgia. | ||
| All next in The War Room. | ||
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| War Room. Pandemic. With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| Just get Michael Patrick Leahy. | ||
| I'm going to do some producing here live. | ||
| Okay, stop. | ||
| I don't have time to chase people down. | ||
| We've got breaking news in Georgia. | ||
| Huge story in the Georgia Star. | ||
| Let's get Michael Patrick Leahy on. | ||
| If you can't, I'll just read the story. | ||
| I don't have time to track down. | ||
| The brilliant field reporters of the Georgia Star. | ||
| Okay, I want to make sure that we're not selling chopped liver, because we're the biggest book buying audience anywhere. | ||
| Colonel Lohmeier's book, by the way, is number one throughout the world. | ||
| I think it's number four hard copy, number one paperback. | ||
| We're supposed to have Colonel Lohmeier, if you can get through some of the Pentagon issues today, we're going to have Colonel Lohmeier on this afternoon, and we're going to have more of the American General's talk later in the week, also the Star's movement about, we're going to get all this cultural Marxism, critical race theory, all getting out of the military. | ||
| Bishop Garrison, all the stuff that's being exposed by Darren Beatty and the team at Revolver, all getting out of here. | ||
| But the indispensables. | ||
| The Wall Street Journal yesterday had a review by Mark Spencer, a noted historian, in the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| This is a rave. | ||
| I actually had to look and see if one of Patrick's relatives wrote this. | ||
| No, it's an absolute rave. | ||
| The book is already number one in history. | ||
| Number one on Amazon in history, number one in politics also? | ||
| Revolutionary War history. | ||
| It's 122 on Amazon. | ||
| Okay, I want everybody to power into this book, The Indispensables, right now. | ||
| It has also gone through its first, you've already gone, it's in second printing already? | ||
| Yeah, two weeks ahead of, before we even published. | ||
| It's also in the front of the store at Barnes & Noble and pretty much everywhere. | ||
| This is one. | ||
| Also, on these types of books, you've got to get these and get them for your grandkids and your kids. | ||
| These are the types of books they ought to be reading. | ||
| Because this goes back to the revolutionary generation. | ||
| This goes back to what it's all about. | ||
| Remember, I keep saying, and the generals say, it's always for the children and grandchildren. | ||
| However, it's Burke's dictum. | ||
| We owe as much to who came before us as we owe who comes after us. | ||
| You're here, that's what human agency is, you're here for one period of time on earth, right? | ||
| In that period of time, you get the free choice to use your agency. | ||
| That's what this show is about, right? | ||
| But we owe going back generations, all the way to the revolutionary generation even before that, but the revolutionary generation particularly, Because you've had the greatest generation, you've had the revolutionary generation, and I think you've got the ones that fought and won the Civil War, and you have this generation today that's coming up, and they're fire breathers, and they're going to be, I think, our new greatest generation. | ||
| In The Indispensables, finish with the opening story, I got a Royal Navy Lieutenant with a harpoon in his neck, he dies, right? | ||
| And then what happens? | ||
| And then Corbett goes to trial, and the transcripts of the trial are what I used to build the opening scene of this book. | ||
| And Corbett is really quite interesting. | ||
| He's such an obscure figure, but he works with the main trading houses in Marblehead. | ||
| He brings back the arms from Spain and the gunpowder. | ||
| That's our first foreign aid ever, even before we're a country. | ||
| It's through the Marbleheaders. | ||
| They forge these contacts with Spain and these alliances, which become crucial. | ||
| Absolutely crucial. | ||
| Especially in terms of powder. | ||
| But the town goes through really an interesting transformation in 73-74. | ||
| Sort of a lot like today. | ||
| They're hit with a virus. | ||
| That they bring in through ships, through the merchants, and they try to quarantine it. | ||
| They have pest houses where they put people that have the virus. | ||
| But they also come up with a novel solution for the time. | ||
| They try an inoculation hospital. | ||
| And inoculation at this time is not hard science. | ||
| It either kills you or it cures you. | ||
| And people are terrified of it. | ||
| They have a doctor who's a little rougher in those days than today. | ||
| It's not about wearing a mask. | ||
| You get pustules all over your face. | ||
| It's really a brutal disease. | ||
| But the town is divided politically from the virus. | ||
| The Patriots build the hospital and the Loyalists can't stand it. | ||
| Why the Loyalists can't stand it? | ||
| It's a power thing in control. | ||
| They send a mob of half a dozen guys or more with torches and tar and they burn it to the ground when the Patriots are in the hospital. | ||
| What happens next is the owners of the hospital have a writ where the sheriff comes out and arrests the guys that burned it down. | ||
| But a mob, which the loyalists incite of thousands of people, literally storm the jail with crowbars and axes and break the guys out. | ||
| And then what happens next is really extraordinary. | ||
| The proprietors of the hospital have their houses surrounded by a mob. | ||
| The main character of the book is a guy by the name of John Glover. | ||
| He's about a 5'3", scrappy, French-Indian War veteran, and he's not having it. | ||
| He has a cannon, a loaded cannon, that he puts in the foyer of his house, and he says, I'll fix them. | ||
| And as soon as the crowd comes to his front lawn, he orders the doors put open, and the cannon is there, and he's got it with a torch in hand, and he said, disperse. | ||
| And they do. | ||
| That was the original get-off-my-lawn. | ||
| It is the original get-off-my-lawn. | ||
| But hold it. | ||
| Okay, stop. | ||
| I gotta stop it. | ||
| This is the thing about immortals in here. | ||
| People talk about today, we're disunited, worst ever. | ||
| You hear all this nonsense from these clowns on the mainstream media. | ||
| That's why you gotta read these books. | ||
| Describe to us the country between loyalists and patriots. | ||
| You had the one-third in the middle, but you had about... How intense, how nasty, and how brutal, because people forget the revolution was also a civil war at the same time. | ||
| It was. | ||
| It was a civil war. | ||
| It was a political revolution before a kinetic revolution. | ||
| There's a lot going on. | ||
| And liberty and freedom are concepts that are really resonating in 73-74. | ||
| And it's from Marblehead. | ||
| many of the guys like albert gary are are putting out these concepts that are really unique in novel for the time it's starting to resonate with people and but you still have half the town in many of the the wealthiest members of the town are pardoned loyalist best friends of general gage they stay at gage stays at their house for instance the british general yes yep and uh... but it's it's it's very intense in one of the the main characters the book | ||
| is a guy but in the evening fannil bonded doctor bond runs the inoculation hospital and... | ||
| But Bond... The one they burned. | ||
| The one that they burned to the ground. | ||
| But Bond, at Lexington and Concord, he's a patriot. | ||
| But he, according to, you know, he has a Hippocratic Oath. | ||
| He tries to, he treats everybody. | ||
| He actually treats the British soldiers there. | ||
| And that causes the patriots in the town to believe that he's a loyalist. | ||
| His house is surrounded. | ||
| The Patriot's not buying the Hippocratic Oath. | ||
| If he's a Patriot, he gets care. | ||
| If he's a Loyalist... He writes this letter to Elbridge Gerry in 1775, pleading for his life, and he has a court-martial. | ||
| He's exonerated. | ||
| But Dr. Bond becomes the fighting surgeon of the Indispensables. | ||
| He's a company commander through the entire war. | ||
| A guy that's initially cancelled, literally. | ||
| Fighting surgeon through the whole war. | ||
| He stays on. | ||
| Half the regiment actually goes home after Trenton. | ||
| He stays on. | ||
| And then Washington taps him for the greatest decision that he ever made, which at the time the Army was having 20-25% casualties because of smallpox. | ||
| They're dying left and right. | ||
| He orders Bond to inoculate the Army. | ||
| Many believe it's Washington's greatest strategic decision because they're not able to continue the fight, and Bond dies as a result. | ||
| And he's an obscure figure that has never been written about until The Indispensables. | ||
| That's the thing with the Immortals and the Indispensables is that when you read these books and see the stories of these people that history has forgotten about, you understand the giants on the shoulders that we stand. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Right? | ||
| These are giants and at the time they're just common men and women. | ||
| It is the way that you're going to be referred to a hundred years from now. | ||
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| We're in a fourth turning right now. | ||
| This is exactly like the Revolution, the Civil War, Great Depression, World War II. | ||
| This is a great fourth turning in American history. | ||
| A hundred years from now, they're going to write about this time and place, right? | ||
| Whether it's Arizona or Georgia, things are going on, okay? | ||
| And that's why these individuals had the opportunity to be counted on, right? | ||
| And at that moment, what drove their decision-making of why you would give all and give up your practice, give up your wealth, give up the cod fishing, and become part of the indispensables? | ||
| It was personal. | ||
| It was their personal duty and honor. | ||
| But it was also that the British totally shut down Boston. | ||
| They also had something called the Fisheries Act. | ||
| Their livelihood was completely destroyed economically by the British. | ||
| So they were motivated... Economic warfare. | ||
| Total economic warfare. | ||
| Which is another thing that's really important in this book. | ||
| But they fight anyways, and they do it, you know, with no pay. | ||
| They're, you know, hardly—shoeless, bloody tracks at Trenton. | ||
| I mean, this—the hardship and sacrifice is extraordinary. | ||
| Then they come home, racked with PTSD. | ||
| Most of these guys are bankrupt after the Revolutionary War, and many are dead. | ||
| There's over 600 widows in Marblehead alone. | ||
| 600 widows. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And bankrupt. | ||
| And thousands of orphans. | ||
| And they've given up everything for the revolutionary cause. | ||
| For a cause. | ||
| In some cases, for a country that had yet to be born. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| We're going to come back to that. | ||
| I want to go now to somebody who knows about the founding generation, Michael Patrick Leahy. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy wrote the greatest book about the Tea Party and tied it back to the original foundational documents. | ||
| By the way, we didn't produce this show. | ||
| Starring at Independence Hall was just serendipity. | ||
| Having Patrick O'Donnell, we had planned this for a while because it's the day of publication, but then having Leahy available. | ||
| Michael, so I know you're one of the great, not just leaders of the Tea Party movement, but really someone that understands the founding documents, the revolutionary generation. | ||
| You're Georgia's star. | ||
| The story you broke today about the still, we don't have certification documents from the ballots. | ||
| Talk to us about what's going on there and where do you think this has in Georgia? | ||
| Okay, I know we're going to get Michael Patrick Leahy momentarily Okay, let's get it worked out and then come back. | ||
| I want to go back to Patrick as soon as we get him up. | ||
| We're trying to do a lot here. | ||
| We're throwing a lot onto the production crew. | ||
| There's too many Patricks is what's happening. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| How long did it take you to research this book and how long did it take you to research Washington's Immortals? | ||
| It took five years for both books. | ||
| Five years each? | ||
| This one was a much harder research haul though. | ||
| Why? | ||
| More obscure unit. | ||
| I had to literally rebuild the regiment from the muster rolls. | ||
| I have a picture of the muster rolls in this book, and I took all the pension file applications right here. | ||
| To reconstruct the regiment from the ground up, basically. | ||
| And I found just these extraordinary stories that had been lost in history. | ||
| But it was a lot harder to do. | ||
| It's a more complex book than Washington's Immortals, even though it spans a shorter period of time. | ||
| By the way, Wall Street Journal gave it a rave yesterday, an absolute rave review from Mark G. Spencer. | ||
| Go check it out if you want to before you buy it. | ||
| Read the rave review in the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| Here's the thing about why I buy this book and give it to friends, etc. | ||
| When you finish O'Donnell's books, whether it's the book of Fallujah or the book about the Chosin Reservoir, your books, with the grittiness of the combat and the sacrifice, There's a feeling you have, and one of the feelings is you're proud to be associated. | ||
| You're proud to be from a country of the common man, because your stories are all about the little guys, whether it's non-commissioned officers in a marine rifle platoon in Fallujah, or it's in Chosin Reservoir on Give Me Tomorrow, or whether it's the Washington's Immortals. | ||
| These are people that have been Their deeds are still there, but even some of those are forgotten, but they certainly have been forgotten in the history of time, in the midst of time. | ||
| You not just bring them to life. | ||
| You finish these books and you go, wow, I'm so, now I understand why we have things like the Memorial Day and why we have things like the Fourth of July, right? | ||
| Which have also been lost. | ||
| They've kind of, let's go to the beach and let's have some hot dogs, etc. | ||
| You have a good feeling and understanding exactly The DNA of the country, right? | ||
| The DNA of the country and what the sacrifice was. | ||
| Raheem. | ||
| So I understand that it's not exactly tradition to give gifts for the 4th of July. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| But I think this may be one of those things that you want to start doing. | ||
| Because not just under this current administration, we've seen the, you know, the revocation of the, you know, the Garden of Heroes that was supposed to be built. | ||
| Genius. | ||
| But also, we saw how the media, the corporate media and the left mocked President Trump for wanting to do a big 4th of July celebrations, right? | ||
| So let's double down. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| Give it to the young people in your life. | ||
| Feedback, Michael Patrick Leahy and Patrick O'Donnell in a moment in the War Room. | ||
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| I want to turn now, I think we've got Michael Patrick Leahy, a great patron. | ||
| Leahy, real quickly, you wrote a great book on the Tea Party's connection with the founding documents. | ||
| What was the name of that, sir? | ||
| Covenant of Liberty, the Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement. | ||
| And your guest outlines many of the themes that I hit on in that book back in 2012. | ||
| It's amazing, amazing, amazing. | ||
| Okay, I want to go to, you've got, today you drop another bombshell. | ||
| Vernon Jones is going to stand in front of microphones tomorrow and demand in Georgia that the same type of hand forensic audit and that re-canvassing and the machines, all the same thing done in Arizona, that the Senate in Georgia get on the ball here. | ||
| You've got another explosive story. | ||
| The Georgia Star, your paper tells me today, Michael Patrick Leahy, the 330,000 ballots that still don't have the certification documents forwarded up To the leaders in Georgia, is that correct? | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| In the state of Georgia, there is no chain of custody documentation for 333,000 absentee ballots placed in drop boxes. | ||
| That was out of a total of 600,000 absentee ballots placed in drop boxes. | ||
| On November 3rd, more than six months ago, there were 5 million votes cast. | ||
| We're doing the job that Secretary of State Brad Rappensperger should have done. | ||
| He refused to track all these absentee ballot transfer forms that provide the chain of custody. | ||
| We went to each of the 159 counties, got the data. | ||
| Only 59 counties have responded so far. | ||
| Our lead story at the Georgia Star News is this. | ||
| Six months after the 2020 election, Fulton County, that's where Atlanta is, has failed to produce chain of custody documents for 18,901 absentee ballots. | ||
| That's about 5% of the missing 333,000. | ||
| But they gave us a zip drive, which they said contained all the documents from 37 drop boxes and 41 collection days. | ||
| But no, it didn't. | ||
| There are about There's 385 Dropbox collections out of 1,500 that are missing. | ||
| So we've asked them, where are they? | ||
| Half a year after the election. | ||
| Michael, we've got to bounce here just real quickly. | ||
| This is all required by law, correct? | ||
| Am I correct? | ||
| These certifications aren't on a date, sir. | ||
| They've blown through that. | ||
| But this is not Michael Patrick Leahy making up something out of the war room. | ||
| This is the certifications required by law, sir? | ||
| No, these documents are required by the Emergency Election Code Rule passed by the State Election Board back in July of 2020. | ||
| Notably, the Legislature did not authorize drop boxes, but the Emergency Election Code Rule did. | ||
| Yes, this is a consent decree, Stacey Abrams. | ||
| They still haven't even complied with that. | ||
| Okay, last thing. | ||
| Get to the Georgia Star. | ||
| Cosmo Mann, the Lieutenant Governor, announced his political career is over. | ||
| He's not running again. | ||
| This is going to be part of Vernon Jones tomorrow. | ||
| Peter Navarro says Forget Arizona, Georgia's AssessPoll, and he says you can see what AssessPoll it is by reading Michael Patrick Leahy, the Georgia Star. | ||
| Michael, we'll put this in the live chat, maybe we'll get you back on here at 5. | ||
| You're a patron. | ||
| Our great reporters handled it. | ||
| Laura Baigert and Tiffany Morgan were the great reporters that did these stories. | ||
| Fantastic, good. | ||
| You've learned what I try to teach you is make other people do the work, you take the credit. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy. | ||
| Oh, I can vouch for that. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy. | ||
| Okay, we've only got a couple of minutes, but I've got to tell you. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Ten seconds. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| We have breaking news coming out of Pennsylvania County right now that is doing local elections and primary races today, and they have a problem scanning Republican ballots only. | ||
| That's according to the election judge down there. | ||
| We've got the breaking news up on the National Pulse. | ||
| They've got to get rid of these machines or whatever these scanners are. | ||
| The Indispensables. | ||
| Raheem's got an amazing idea. | ||
| Buy them now. | ||
| Give them away at 4th of July. | ||
| When people show up to your 4th of July, just don't give them a hot dog and a hamburger. | ||
| Give them all that. | ||
| Have a beer. | ||
| Watch a little baseball. | ||
| Have fireworks. | ||
| But besides fireworks, you want fireworks? | ||
| Do something that's going to change your life, particularly the young people. | ||
| The Indispensables. | ||
| Give me one of your great summaries here, because you're incredible. | ||
| It's about personal agency, like you said. | ||
| It's about an individual or a small group of individuals that can change the course of history through their actions, and that's exactly what The Indispensables is about. | ||
| They saved the army multiple times, three times. | ||
| At the East River Crossing, where the miraculous fog came in and screened the movements, these were the men that manned the boats. | ||
| At the Battle of Pell's Point, They stopped the British from severing, basically, the Continental Army through a series of actions where they fell back behind stone walls, an emerging part of the American way of war. | ||
| And then later at the Battle of Trenton, Dr. Bond, and then there's just numerous other occasions. | ||
| This is about human agency. | ||
| You're going to see the shoulders that you stand on. | ||
| Because remember, right now, in this period of time, you're these folks. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| It all depends on you. | ||
| It's all on your shoulders. | ||
| So make sure you get the indispensables. | ||
| Raheem's got another brilliant job. | ||
| I think Raheem's going to cut his deal with Patrick K. O'Donnell after Raheem's made it a 4th of July staple. | ||
| Raheem, podcast today. | ||
| We're actually at 5 o'clock. | ||
| We're going to take some highlights from your podcast today. | ||
| So we did one yesterday with Peggy Grandy, the former Executive Assistant to Ronald Reagan, and Mike McCormick. | ||
| You're talking about logs and White House logs and meetings and things like that. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| How that all works. | ||
| How do people get to the podcast? | ||
| The Revolver National Pulse is on fire. | ||
| How do they get to the Pulse? | ||
| Very simple. | ||
| TheNationalPulse.com forward slash podcast. | ||
| You can get it on all different platforms. | ||
| It's all there. | ||
| TheNationalPulse.com forward slash podcast. | ||
| Okay, suppose at five o'clock today we're going to have a couple of blockbuster reports coming out of Arizona. | ||
| We're also going to talk about the economy. | ||
| We've got some news on inflation. | ||
| But most importantly, if we can work everything out with the Pentagon, we're going to have Colonel Lohmeyer on his books, the number one book in the world. | ||
| This is a cult shot by me. | ||
| As soon as I found out about this last week, I said, this thing's going to explode. | ||
| Number one book in the world. | ||
| He's a patriot. | ||
| We're going to get all of this Marxism out of our military. | ||
| Veterans and patriots are going to make sure it happens. | ||
| It's outrageous what they're trying to do to our... Read The Indispensables and think of what they're trying to do today with this critical race theory. | ||
| See you back here at five. | ||
| Patrick, thank you. | ||
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| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| It's an honor to be on your show. | ||
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