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June 10, 2021 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 1,013 – Tax the Aristocrats … Bannon Rants, Chris Wray’s Corrupt FBIEpisode 1,013 – Tax the Aristocrats … Bannon Rants, Chris Wray’s Corrupt FBI

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unidentified		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.
anthony fauci ▲ ● ▼		Because if you don't, then the worst happens.
unidentified		War Room.
		Pandemic.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		Alright, welcome back to the War Room Thursday, June the 10th, Year of Our Lord 2021.
		And I want to revisit this Merrick Garland issue very quickly again.
		I was stunned when I saw the comments.
		I suppose I probably shouldn't be as surprised as I am.
		I just guess I wasn't prepared for them to be so upfront about this.
		And I want to recap on a few things here real quick because it's hyper important that Hold it, hold it, give me the comments.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Oh, we don't want to raise taxes.
		We don't want to raise taxes.
		Is that what I'm hearing?
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I think most people are against raising taxes.
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		Most people feel like, you know, giving government the opportunity and the power to take from people's pockets is... Okay, okay, stop, stop, stop.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		When I was a child, I thought like a child and I acted like a child.
		Now that I'm a man, I think like a man.
		All the nonsense is the same nonsense I heard about free trade, okay?
		This is nonsense, and let me tell you why.
		Think about the deficits.
		You're saying, oh, they're just giving the government more money.
		Right now, right now, all you're doing is putting it on the burden of your children because with the taxes on the wealthy, you're allowing this spending to get out of control.
		Trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars.
		The Japanese and the Chinese are not going to buy enough bonds, right?
		They're not going to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay even a part of this.
		You're not talking about a lot, just a part.
		So they start paying their fair share.
		Then what you have to do is monetize there.
		You have to print money.
		So if you're not going to do it off the wealthy, all you're going to do it is off your kids.
		You don't have a choice.
		Somehow those deficits have to be financed.
		You're not going to just sit there and wish it away.
		Or start getting politicians in there that will fight, like MTG, that will fight and stop the spending.
		The spending is at a scale that is now in the kind of modern monetary theory.
		Right?
		We're destroying the dollar.
		We're destroying the balance sheet.
		The full faith in credit is you.
		The full faith in credit is the deplorables.
		So if you're going to give the top 25 people in the country that have a half a trillion dollars of assets, if you're going to let them totally off the hook while you're paying a full tax rate, do any of you guys get a break?
		When your accountant sits there and goes, oh, I got all these special deductions and special things that you don't have to pay, so you end up paying.
		You can put the chart back up.
		Like Buffett, you can pay 1% or 2% or 0.3%, like Bezos, right?
		But continue to support the woke policies of open the borders, of ship the jobs overseas, of look the other way when the fentanyl comes into the country and destroys the areas of Ohio and the upper Midwest.
		Right?
		In West Virginia.
		Do you see those top 25 guys living there?
		I know Buffett lives in Nebraska.
		I got his whole schlep.
		Okay?
		His whole story.
		This is a scam.
		You're being scammed.
		Just like you were being scammed on free trade.
		Oh, we gotta be free trade.
		Bannon and these guys are protectionists because it's a mercantilist system.
		The party of Davos' economic system is totally mercantilist and plays off the slave labor of China.
		That's why the deflation, that's why wages can't rise, only under Donald Trump, because guess what?
		We started to be protectionist with tariffs.
		You have to wake up here.
		You have to wake up.
		You have to stop thinking like children.
		Okay?
		Oh, we can't raise taxes on anybody.
		Well, if you're not going to raise taxes on anybody, and you're not going to stop the spending, and I haven't seen any politicians going to Washington that are going to stop the spending, then all you're going to do, you can't sell the bonds, then you're just going to print money.
		Okay, on the full faith and credit of the United States, blow up the debts.
		And remember, the contingent liabilities is $30 trillion of face amount of debt on our balance sheet.
		The contingent liabilities, backed by the U.S.
		dollar, or something like the ranges, depending on what your discount rate is, $120 to $200 trillion.
		$120, $220.
		Look at those kids on the carpet playing right now.
		Look at look at those that's all on the burden of them.
		So you got a choice.
		So let's start making some tough choices to stop with the happy talk.
		Here's a tough choice.
		How are we going to pay for it?
		We're pointing at Biden.
		But when we get power, how are we going to pay for it?
	What are you going to do about it?
	Are we going to cut the spending?
	Are we going to, are we going to demand that this thing, we get our house in order, this be paid for?
	You got three ways to do it, ladies and gentlemen, only three ways.
	You're going to sell the bonds, right, to foreign countries, right, insurance companies in Japan, to the Chinese on 1.2 trillion, right, and the only reason they got to pay it, we're paying the interest that they got to chase the, they got to chase yield, they need it, a zero interest rate world, that's why they're buying them, but they're only so much they can buy.
	The third and aspect, the only reason we can do this is we're the prime reserve currency, which we're destroying.
	We're destroying the dollar every day.
	Why do you think the rise of crypto?
	The rise of crypto is all because they're looking for another asset class, because we're destroying the dollar every day.
	Now, one other thing I want to get to, I'll turn back to you, Rahim.
	The other thing you have to understand in this populist revolution worldwide, the most advanced stage of this right now is happening with Reddit and Wall Street.
	What they call the dumb apes.
	You see these things called meme stocks, right?
	I think you've heard of AMC and the GameStop, GME, GameStop.
	There's a new healthcare one I think got in play last night.
	This is not about stocks.
	Those are really not about, there's no construct of investment that you can actually look at the stocks.
	This is a war.
	This is a war, this is a populist war, principally by people, populists on the left.
	There's some populists on the right.
	But the dumb apes are not there to take these hedge funds that have shorted these stocks and destroy them.
	They want to destroy the system.
	They think the system is rigged, and the system is rigged against this little guy.
	These dumb apes, this is as powerful and as meaningful, and do not think this is a finance story.
	It's only covered on some of the finance channels.
	Charles Payne does a great job of having these guys on, and Charlie Gasparino, who's nothing but a wall, he's a Wall Street stooge mouthpiece for the investment banks.
	Charlie Gasparino is as bad a guy as you could possibly get.
	Just a bad, bad guy.
	He's up there yesterday trashing some of the dumb apes.
	The dumb apes have got these hedge funds, and they got them.
	Because of these shorts, they can't get out of these stocks.
	And the dumb apes are not selling.
	It's not any kind of logic they teach at Harvard Business School.
	This is another front, and this is the most advanced front in the world of this populist revolt, is with the dumb apes.
	And don't think these people are stupid.
	They're far from stupid.
	That's why they call themselves the dumb apes.
	But this is very, and it gets back to the situation of yesterday.
	Look, with everything going on in the world, ladies and gentlemen, everything going on in the world, everything going on in the United States, you have an invasion on your southern border.
	You know what the Department of Justice is focused on?
	Are they focused on getting to the bottom of Wuhan?
	Are they focused on getting all the infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party throughout this country?
	Ray's over there today acting like a moron like he is.
	U.S.
	investigates leak of records.
	Was that a priority for the Department of Justice when they were all over the Tea Party for the IRS?
	Was that a priority?
	Well, they are all over when Donald Trump's tax returns are being leaked.
	And they were going to court to get Donald Trump's tax returns that they're going to use in some phony prosecution of Donald Trump in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office?
	No, because the top 25 guys who have, and let me repeat this, a half a trillion dollars of assets, okay?
	And the reason the assets are so big is because we've used the Federal Reserve, the full faith and credit of you, You and your children and your grandchildren, on your backs, we've dropped interest rates to zero, asset class, assets blew up, real estate and stocks, right?
	That's how these guys got so uber wealthy over the last, since the Obama administration.
	At least Donald Trump tried to take some of that out in the first year of his administration, quantitative tightening, and he grew the economy with that, heroically, and never got any credit for it.
	No.
	The wealthy not only have to pay more tax, they're going to pay more tax.
	This is not acceptable.
	This is exactly what the founders of this nation fought against.
	The aristocracy, as you know, Rahim, in England was a landed aristocracy.
	Right?
	And that's why they had, that's what the colonialism and they wanted territory and they wanted more territory.
	And finally, men and women here said, we're not going to have this.
	We're going to represent ourselves.
	We're not going to have some financial economic, the British merchant banks.
	Remember that great scene in John Adams, the HBO series.
	We have Hamilton, and Jefferson comes back from revolutionary France, and he goes, he turns to Hamilton and says, I don't even understand why we have a Secretary of Treasury.
	What is your job exactly?
	And he says, well, because I don't, you know, you've got to get finance, you have to have debt, you have to do all that, and by the way, I love Hamilton too.
	But Jefferson sits right there and says, you're telling me we fought a revolution here?
	We fought a revolution against the British?
	So I can have a British merchant bank control a New York stock jobber that has a farmer and hock to him a yeoman farmer that fought the revolution?
	Is that what we fought the revolution?
	And Hamilton kind of says, well, that's how you build a modern nation.
	OK, that's our founders fought a revolution on this very point.
	We have an aristocracy in this country.
	We have an elite in this country that is okay with the managed decline of this country.
	Why do you think Donald Trump's rise to the presidency is based upon this one central fact?
	Hillary Clinton was the mouthpiece and the apparatchik for the managed decline, the wealthy elites of the party of Davos, that it's the managed decline of our nation.
	And the rejuvenation of that nation is in these school boards, village by village.
	These women that are standing up saying, no, we're not going to have cultural Marxism jammed down our kids' throats.
	And the heroic blue-collar Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley, as hardscrabble a place as you can find in the United States of America, who are sitting there going, hey, I think I like these guys that are populists.
	I think I like these guys that are nationalists.
	I think I want to vote for them.
	They don't seem like racists to me because what they're trying to do is protect my family against an invasion that's coming because the globalists don't believe in sovereignty.
	It's all of a piece, ladies and gentlemen.
	So please don't sit in the chat room and give me the nonsense that, oh, I don't want to increase taxes.
	That's the same mentality.
	Oh, we got to have free trade.
	No, we don't have free trade.
	You have free trade, you're going to have no manufacturing base.
	You're going to have no jobs.
	All you're going to do is have fentanyl in here and all the working class people in the country hooked on opioids.
unidentified		Oh, yes.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And getting $1,400 a month now checks from the government because you realize, hey, we keep people happy by paying them some tip.
		That's a tip.
		The working class people in this country shouldn't have a tip, you should have a piece of the action.
		How about this, how about you have a piece of the, and I'm not a socialist, I'm a capitalist, but you can't keep a system where 25 people over 5 years pay, and I quote the Financial Times of London, paid, people that own a half a trillion dollars in assets, the top 25, over 5 years paid a total of 15 billion dollars in assets.
		So says the Financial Times of London, the tout sheet for the Party of Davos.
		So it's ridiculous.
		So please don't sit there and tell me, oh no, I don't want to raise taxes.
		If you don't want to raise taxes on the wealthy like this, then either stop the spending...
		And get politicians that don't happy-talk you, but stop the spending, or just turn to your grandchildren and say, hey, I'm condemning you to servitude, because we're going to have this thing.
		You think it's going to stop at $30 trillion?
		Have you seen the budgets that are taking place?
		Have you seen even what the plan of Biden is?
		With $2 trillion here for the jobs, $2 trillion here for the American Family Program, another $5 or $6 trillion for the Green New Deal, on and on.
		And that doesn't include the contingent liabilities.
		The off-balance sheet liabilities are $100 to $200 trillion, depending on how your, the discount rates, the present value of that.
		Just turn to your children and turn to your grandchildren and say, hey, you know what?
		I don't think we should raise taxes because the Republican orthodoxy has been telling me that for 50 years, and I think that's right.
		And so I'm condemning you to indentured servitude.
		Let's just do that. Let's just be frank with these kids and say – because we're too gutless and we're too dumb and we're too tied to orthodoxy like we're tied to free trade orthodoxy.
		And you see the Club for Growth and all these more.
		And so all these groups are just shills for the wealthy.
		They're shills for the donor class, and they're playing you.
		You're the full faith and credit of the United States.
		It's upon your back and upon your shoulders and upon your children's shoulders, it's all going to get paid off.
		It's certainly not going to get paid off with these guys.
		They only paid $15 billion in the last five years.
		I forget, I think the personal tax, I gotta look at, I think it's $100 billion, I guess it's $125 billion a year.
		They're paying nothing.
		Look at their tax, look at the rates up there.
		Are you paying those rates?
		How about this?
		How about they just pay what you pay?
		I'm not looking to increase their tax, just let them pay what you pay.
		And they're gonna say, oh no, they got all these things to do investments.
		It's all nonsense.
		Have them pay what working class people pay.
		Let's just start there.
		So please don't bother me with, oh, Steve, you're so radical, you want to raise taxes.
		I don't want to hear it.
		It's nonsense, okay?
		When I was a child, I thought as a child.
		Now that I'm a man, I think as a man.
		Short commercial break.
		Thanks for getting me worked up, Rahim.
		Short commercial break.
		We're gonna return to the War Room in a moment.
unidentified		War Room.
unidentified		Pandemic.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		With Stephen K. Bannon.
unidentified		The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide.
		War Room.
		Pandemic.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, we're going to continue on the rant.
		I want to put that chart back up to Rahim.
		Okay, so let me just continue on for a moment.
		Because a lot of people in the live chat said, oh, if you try to tax and they're going to leave and they'll take all the jobs.
		You're acting like victims.
		Do you think they're taking that the mothers are acting like victims and taking back their school board?
		No, they're not acting like victims.
		Remember what the teacher said.
		You're either going to be a victim or you're going to be a victor.
		Okay?
		Victim or victor.
		We're fighting now down on the southern border and the Hispanic blue-collar Hispanics are on our side.
		Right?
		Because they understand somebody's prepared to fight and try to stop this.
		We're challenging the Chinese Communist Party.
unidentified		Why?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You know, Biden, there's a huge thing right here.
		Biden, what is this?
		Biden marshals Europe allies to take tougher stance on China.
		You know why that is?
		Because of the deplorables and Donald Trump.
		We stood up to China and the Chinese Communist Party, right?
		And now you got Biden and the party of Davos who doesn't want to do it.
		It's being forced to do it because you had a forcing function, just like in Wuhan, just like the nitty-gritty to find out about Fauci and all the lies and misrepresentations to force and understand that what the Chinese Communist Party did here.
		Correct?
		You're doing this in masks.
		The firestorm that's starting in August is going to be the forced vaccinations of the schoolchildren, or the othering of the schoolchildren by mothers.
		That's all to come, but you can see it's coming.
		We have to take the same understanding and be victors, not victims, of the financial system.
		And you can do it.
		First off, all those 25, they're all progressives.
		They're the ones that want the borders open.
		Right?
		They're the ones that want to be in business with the CCP.
		They're the ones that want woke culture.
		They're the ones that are looking the other way, are forcing in critical race theory and cultural Marxism.
		Of course, their kids don't have to have it, but now they're actually starting to infect the Ivy League schools and the elite prep schools.
		It's going to be a problem, because they don't want Buffy and Jody to have that.
		But up until then, they didn't care.
		Look at all the progressives.
		Look at all the damage they've done to the country.
		They don't pay anything.
		All I'm asking is something simple.
		What do you pay?
		What do you pay?
		Why don't they pay what you pay?
		They say, well, they got all these tax breaks.
		They're going to take the jobs.
		No, they're not going to.
		This is not some immutable, and this is what, when he first met the Republicans, started to understand what their concept was about free trade.
		It was like talking to, like, six-year-olds.
		This is not immutable laws of physics.
		This is not the second law of thermodynamics.
		This is about human agency, and policy, and structure.
		And yes, you can change it, and we will change it.
		And we will change it.
		And no, they won't take their money out of the country, and they're not going to take their jobs out of the country.
		That's not going to happen.
		Remember, we repatriated the money here under the Trump administration.
		Now, I argue that money should come in here and should go into communities.
		We give a better tax break for putting in capital equipment, to manufacturing, to build our manufacturing base.
		And guess what?
		Let's give them a bigger break to put it in urban areas like Detroit and like Baltimore and like St.
unidentified		Louis.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And we can have a renaissance in manufacturing.
		Like we had in the 19th century, in the turn of the century, when these cities were robust and thriving with manufacturing jobs.
		We can do that because we can have the tax laws.
		No!
		I didn't win that.
		I lost that.
		Because I said, all they're going to do is use it to do stock repurchases.
		They're going to game the system.
		Right?
		They're going to game them.
		What did they do?
		You didn't see any huge increases in capital expenditure.
		You saw some.
		President Trump tried.
		But mainly they tried to game the system and juice the stock market and cash in on their options and move down the path for the three years of CEO because they don't care.
		What they care about is having the corporations be woke corporations to tell you you're evil and you're a white supremacist and you're a nativist and you're a xenophobe.
		It's the heart of the problem.
		And we have to get our arms around it.
		The first way to get our arms around it is to start thinking in realistic terms.
		So don't sit there and write, this is the same argument for years and years and years.
		People said, no, Bannon, you can't say that.
		You're a protectionist.
		Yes, I am a protectionist.
		I want to protect American manufacturing jobs.
		And in the fourth industrial revolution, have the United States at the forefront of great manufacturing jobs.
		Manufacturing jobs that can do what?
		That can support families.
		Right?
		So that people have the opportunity or women have the opportunity to say, hey, maybe I don't want to work outside the home.
		Maybe I want to raise a family.
		And yes, my husband can make a living off a great manufacturing job.
		This is what I say about Mr. Floyd.
		Look at Mr. Floyd's life when they talk about his murder or his death in Minnesota.
		I say, look at it.
		He had COVID-19 from the CCP, right?
		He had fentanyl in his system from the CCP.
		And instead of being a senior part of a management team in a great manufacturing company in Minnesota, right?
		Closing up his house or at his lake house, enjoying fishing.
		Right?
		He didn't have a manufacturing job.
		Why?
		Because all the factories have gone to China.
		All the jobs have been shipped to China.
		That's the tragedy, to me, of George Floyd, is emblematic of what's happened to this country.
		And until we solve for that part of the equation, until you solve for the equation, wages have been flat in this country since 1972 for working people.
		Why?
		Because of increase in productivity, but mostly because we shift to high value-added jobs overseas and we open our borders and let everybody in here to compete with the people that are least prepared to do it because they have the least education opportunities.
		This is all things that can be changed.
		And people that see that we're doing that change are going to be with us.
		That's why this movement can have every ethnicity and race and religion.
		And color.
		In the Rio Grande Valley, the reason I continue to harp on that, because that is the canary in the mineshaft.
		And that's what the Democratic Party is most worried about.
		They understand these policies.
		But we have to become realistic.
		And I'm not a socialist.
		I don't want to take all their assets.
		But if we go down this path, you're going to have a revolution.
		And that's what I tell them.
		If you go down this path, you're going to have a revolution.
		And they're going to take your assets.
		And not just is it going to be cultural communism, it will be real socialism or communism.
		And we don't have to get there.
		But you have to start to think the system and stop letting people game the system.
	The scams they've got are so big.
	One of the scams is the philanthropic.
	They get to put the stock in.
	They get to transfer their stock over for no taxes whatsoever.
	Put them in these philanthropic organizations.
	And these philanthropic organizations, they club you and your culture every single day with progressive wokeness that they use as a tax law because all the senators, all the congressmen are in their back pocket.
	Why?
	Because they give them donations.
	That is the power of the deplorables.
	That's the power of the Trump movement.
	It's a true grassroots movement.
	And now it's more powerful than the Tea Party.
	You're taking over school boards.
	You're confronting this.
	You're joining now on the precinct strategy thing.
	You're joining the Republican Party as precinct committeeman.
	But we have to get the economics right.
	And I understand it's going to come as a shock because people say, oh, no, no, no, no, no, we're for cutting taxes.
	Well, at some point in time, somebody's got to pay, and you've got three choices.
	You either sell the bonds, you pay the taxes, or you print the money, or you stop the spending.
	And I haven't met anybody yet that can stop the spending.
	And so until we unite to do this and can stop the spending, you're going to have to pay.
	Either your children and grandchildren are going to pay for it, The current generation is going to pay for it, or international institutions are going to pay for the bonds.
	Until somebody comes up with something different, then you're not really having an adult conversation.
	It's just happy talk.
	So I'm sorry if I hurt anybody's feelings, but you know what?
	We're here to break furniture.
	We're not here to pat you on the head and tell you it's all going to be okay, because it's not going to be okay.
	The only way it's going to be okay, if you take action.
	You're the power, not me, not Rahim, not even President Trump.
	Not the Santas and all that.
	Their power is contingent upon and conditioned upon having the back of the people.
	And that's the power of this movement.
	That's the power of the deplorables.
	That's the power of MAGA.
	Mr. Rahim Ghassan.
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		Look, I, um, there's a lot there.
		There's a lot there.
		But I think there's a couple of other things, just to simplify on these matters, because I've struggled with this for some time.
		You know, I grew up in London, hanging out with a bunch of libertarians, you know, thinking about, oh, you know, it's great to lower taxes and flatter taxes, and obviously everything that's around that about the Tea Party, but look, you've got to look at it like this.
		You look at all of the injustice and iniquity out there at the moment, whether it's down at the border and mass migration.
		Why?
		To placate the big corporate entities that don't pay their fair share.
		You look at what's going on in terms of inflation right now.
		Why?
		To placate the big corporate entities that don't pay their fair share.
		You look at how much is being stacked on this country and its children and grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren in terms of debt.
		Why?
		To placate the big corporate entities that don't pay their fair share.
		You know, the flat taxes and the libertarians, they tried, they tried.
		But as you say, until we get to a point where people, we actually believe that people are going to be implementing things like that here on Capitol Hill, which is further away than you could possibly ever believe, ladies and gentlemen.
		Even your most libertarian of libertarian congresspeople here on Capitol Hill know this.
		Absolutely no way, shape, or form that we're seeing anything like that in the next couple of years.
		Hang on, Steve, let me conclude this point.
		Wait, wait, just let me conclude this point real quick.
		Because it's imperative that people know.
unidentified		The concern...
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		That I hear from people time and time again is that if you raise these, if you levy these punitive taxes on the hyper-wealthy that control the Amazon.com's and the Washington Post and all of these different things that, oh, you know, they're just going to leave and they're going to take their taxes with them.
		They're not paying any taxes!
		So there's nothing to take with them.
		But what they're going to do, oh, they're going to leave and then the jobs are going to go with them.
unidentified		So what?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Hang on.
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		So what?
		If a woke corporate that puts a rainbow flag on its Twitter profile says, oh, actually we're done and dusted here.
		So what if Amazon isn't importing cheap Chinese crap into the United States and charging you for it?
		So what if it costs your iPhone a little bit more?
		It's a country.
		It's your country.
		And it's worth considering.
		In fact, it's worth demanding of your representatives that this is the time to hit these people with punitive taxes and hit them hard.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, the Libertarians think it works if you can cut the spending.
		And the whole concept of growing North Korea is, oh, you just choke the beast out because we'll cut taxes, they won't cut spending, eventually won't do it.
		No!
		They just keep printing money.
		How do you think we have $30 trillion of debt on the balance sheet and still going?
		And not just that, look at the contingent liability.
		You must look at the contingent liabilities.
		$100 trillion North, maybe $200 trillion of contingent liabilities.
		I went to Harvard.
		I have an HBS.
		You've got to count up everything.
		You just can't count up sun.
		So you haven't choked the beast off at all.
		The beast only gets bigger.
		Also, remember, they're not leaving because here it's the deplorables.
		It's civic society that presides the structure of safety for the capital markets.
		They're not here because they like you, because they don't like you.
		They're here because you provide the civic society that provides the underpinnings, the foundation of the capital markets.
		That's why the capital markets are so robust in this country.
		Don't think they're going to run away.
		Don't play that sucker's game.
		They're not going to go anywhere.
		They're going to stay here.
		You know why it's the safest?
		Capital markets... Yes, sir?
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		Real quick, it was polled before Brexit.
		Do you care if life costs a little bit more as long as you get your country back?
		And people said, no, we don't care if it costs a little more.
		We want our country back.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		Okay, short commercial break.
		Return to the War Room in a moment.
unidentified		War Room.
unidentified		Pandemic.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		With Stephen K. Bannon.
unidentified		The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide.
		War Room.
		Pandemic.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		Can you tell us anything about that meeting and what it tells us about the origins of this virus?
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		It is simply unacceptable to sit here a year later and say you're not going to tell us whether or not there was information about the origins of the virus when it is so central to the safety and health of our fellow Americans.
unidentified		I certainly understand the point of the question.
		Again, I have to be careful not to discuss specific investigations.
		I will say that in addition to our investigative work, as I think has been recently publicly stated by the DNI and I think even the President himself, the intelligence community has been looking at this issue.
		There are We are unable to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable if we throw our hands in the air and say, well, there's differences of opinion.
		We have to assess whether those differences are similarly rooted in fact.
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		That's why I need the facts from you.
		unable to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable if we throw our hands in the air and say, well, there's differences of opinion.
		We have to assess whether those differences are similarly rooted in fact.
		That's why I need the facts from you.
		Will you provide to this committee any scientific analysis that the FBI has done regarding Dr. Yan's claims, regarding the messages she provided to you regarding Beijing's knowledge of the origins of this virus, their military's involvement, and even efforts to try to present to the world a fake genome sequence at the beginning of these developments.
unidentified		I'm happy to see what information we can provide.
unidentified		I will have my staff follow up with yours and see what information we can share on the subject.
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		You get that if we don't look at that rooted information, we're unable to ascertain what differences of opinion are correct and incorrect.
		But it's hard to believe that the FBI didn't believe Dr. Yan was credible or significant because she lands on April 28th.
		Your agent, Dana Murphy, takes her phone that day.
		I'm holding the receipt from where you got the phone that had the WeChat messages that had very important information regarding Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party.
		And it's not every day that an FBI agent flies from Los Angeles to New York to follow a Chinese doctor who is a whistleblower and a fact witness.
		And even if Dr. Yan's technical analysis of the virus is incorrect, the fact that she showed up saying that she wanted to provide information and tell the truth Seems significant today.
		Now back when Dr. Yan made these pronouncements regarding the Chinese Communist Party, their military involvement, the leak of this virus from the lab, we had a number of people trying to discredit her.
		Are you able to ascertain whether or not that effort to discredit Dr. Yan is part of the counterintelligence efforts by the Chinese Communist Party?
unidentified		Again, I want to be careful both about what information we can provide in general about any kind of ongoing investigation but also about what form that information would take because in some cases you may be touching on things that would be classified and that might require a different format.
		So I certainly understand why you're asking the questions.
		Let me commit to you that I will go back with my folks and see what information can be provided and what form it would have to take if we can provide any.
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		That would be very helpful.
unidentified		Mr. Chairman, may I be recognized?
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		Hold on, Mr. Chairman.
		You let everybody else go over first.
		May I be recognized just for unanimous consent?
unidentified		Gentlemen's time has expired, Mr. Deutsch.
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		You're not treating everyone equally, Mr. Chairman.
		You went over by more than a second.
		Mr. Johnson went over by 45 seconds.
unidentified		Gentlemen's time has expired, Mr. Deutsch.
unidentified		What?
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		I just want a unanimous consent request.
unidentified		Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
		You want a unanimous consent for what?
		Oh, okay, I'm sorry.
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		Just a UC is all.
unidentified		Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
matt gaetz ▲ ● ▼		I seek unanimous consent to enter into the record the receipt from the United States Department of Justice wherein Dr. Yang's phone was taken by FBI agent Dana Murphy.
unidentified		Without objection, without objection, the gentleman's time has expired, Mr. Deutsch.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much Mr. Chairman.
		I agree first.
		First, I want to thank you.
		OK, we can go ahead and come back live.
		That was Matt Gates.
		And that was the questioning of FBI Director Wray for the first time.
		And you've seen a lot of Bob Neweiman.
		And the questioning is about the 2020 Woman of the Year for the War Room, Dr. Li Ming-Yang.
		This audience, she's a beloved figure.
		And they're asking the questions right now.
		She came over here in April as a faculty and this was direct evidence about the Chinese Communist Party's knowledge of this in late December of 2019 of the virus.
		What did the FBI do it?
		Simple question to write.
		What did you know?
		And when did you go tell the task force, the vice president?
		When did you go tell the president?
		We are banned on Twitter because I made a metaphor like we were talking about saying Thomas Moore a couple days before about a head on you know when he when he was executed they put his head on a pike on London Bridge and I said that there'll be two heads on pikes and there needs to be Tony Fauci and Chris Wray.
		I also want to make a point, and the reason is that these guys have obfuscated and lied and not done their job.
		Chris Wray had direct evidence of what was going on in late April of 2020, and he did nothing.
		He did nothing.
		He did nothing.
		And we're going to sit there and hammer every day to see what he did with the information he had.
		At the time, Rahim, I believe there was only, I think there was only 10,000 people that died then.
		15,000 people that died.
		There's over 600,000 in the United States today.
		Chris Wray had direct information.
		What did he do with it?
		Did he tell the National Security Advisor?
		Did he tell the Vice President Head of the Task Force?
		Did he tell the President of the United States?
		What did Chris Wray do with this information?
		Not Dr. Yan's assessment and analysis of the virus.
		She's got theories of the virus that I think stand up very well, but I'm not a scientist, but I've seen the scientific community come in.
		Some agree with it, some don't, but she says this is part of a bioweapons program.
		She said it was gained a function of bioweapons initially getting off the plane.
		She nailed that.
		But more importantly, leave that all aside.
		She is a fact witness about what went on in those days in late December of 2019.
		Because she was mandated by her lab in Hong Kong to make direct contact with Beijing, with CDC in Beijing.
		And she has the receipts.
		On her phone is the WeChat in Mandarin.
		And the FBI have that.
		And you saw right there, this is typical Ray.
		And one other thing for this audience to note, Ray is a Christie guy.
		How did we end up with Ray Chris Christie?
		How did we end up with Berman at the Southern District of New York?
		Chris Christie.
		You know, Chris Christie who says, you know, I may be running in 2024 because I want to implement populist policies.
		Chris Christie said populist policies.
		The most bought and paid for of all the major political figures in the Republican Party, Chris Christie.
		Ray is Chris Christie's guy, Berman's Chris Christie's guy.
		This is what you get when you get great Chris Christie running your transition.
		These are the great picks that he's got for you.
		Ray is a total disaster and a complete and total liar.
		Complete and total liar.
		He had the information, he had the hard drive from hell in December of 2019.
		What did he do with it?
		Everything you're seeing about the compromise of Hunter Biden, he had that in December of 2019 before President Trump was impeached.
		What did he do with it?
		Before Joe Biden won the primaries against Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
		I don't want to hear all the progressive guys, the populists on the left.
		I don't want to hear your whining and your hand-wringing.
		Biden wouldn't even have been the nominee if Wray had done his job and Barr had done his job.
		Yes, that's Bill Barr who got the $2 million cash advance for his book.
	A payoff by the system for his book.
	Chris Wray sat there today and that shows you the power of Matt Gaetz.
	You know why they want to take Matt Gaetz down?
	You know why they want to take Matt Gaetz down?
	Which looks like it's because he's dating young women.
	I don't know.
	Right?
	He's a bachelor that dates women, that's what they're trying to take him down.
	They want to destroy Matt Gaetz because Matt Gaetz is one of the few guys that has the stones and the intellect to brace up a guy like Ray right there and have Ray bobbing and weaving.
	I gotta get back, you can't talk about investigations.
	Well sir, trust me, there's going to come a day when it's all going to come out and you're going to have to sit there and face What you did on April 28th and 29th of 2020 when your agents got direct evidence of Beijing's understanding and knowledge of a SARS-like explosion of a virus in 2019.
	And you had the evidence.
	And sir, what did you do?
	Did you go tell Fauci?
	Did you go tell Collins?
	Did you tell Mike Pence who was heading up the task force?
	Did you tell the National Security Advisor?
	Did you go tell the President of the United States?
	Did you tell Bill Barr?
	Who did you tell?
	Who did you tell?
	And then you took the Chief Scientist for the FBI in a couple days later in New York and grilled her.
	Where's that report?
	Has anybody in Congress seen that?
	Has anybody in any administration seen that?
	What did you do, Chris Wray?
	How much blood is on your hands?
	How many people were dead on April 28th and how many are dead today?
	That's who you got to start holding accountability.
	People have to be held responsible.
	We talk about we're a society of self-reliance and responsibility.
	We need to start to hold the expert managerial class responsible.
	Chris Wray, you are responsible.
	You had the information.
	What did you do?
	Did you inform anything?
	Why are we still talking in May of 2020?
	It's some debate about Wuhan Lab.
	You have direct evidence.
	Did you move on that?
	How quickly have you moved?
	Are you working 24 hours a day?
	You're taking weekends off?
	Your agent's taking weekends off?
	Is some process?
	This is an emergency.
	And because it's a gain-of-function, it is a bio-weapon.
	What have you done, sir?
	I'll tell you what you've done.
	You've done nothing.
	And you're not going to be a C-Dog.
	Oh, we're doing some investigation.
	No, no.
	That does not work.
	From every grave of every person that died, they would like to know.
	Their families would like to know.
	All the dead would like to know.
	They would like to know, what did you do, Chris Wray?
	Besides, oh, it's under investigation, I can't talk about it.
	You're getting into classified information.
	No, that's not good enough, and it's not going to be good enough.
	And we have dedicated our lives to find out and get to the bottom of it, like we got to the bottom of Wuhan, and like we're going to get to the bottom of November 3rd, and we're not going to back off one inch.
	So understand, Ray, every second of every day, we're coming for you to get that information.
	And to find out exactly what you told people, what you told them, and what you did about it.
	You're supposed to be the FBI.
	You're supposed to be J. Edgar Hoover's, the guy in that long lineage of great people that have protected the country.
	What are you actually protecting?
	Did you protect the country when you had the hard drive from hell with Hunter Biden and you saw the compromise of the Chinese Communist Party at the highest levels of our government?
	Did you protect the country in that, sir?
	Did you?
	No, you did not.
	Did you protect the country with the information you had in April of 2020 from a defector?
	And if you want to understand, and all these stories going on, all these defectors, while there are defectors, why won't they come to the United States and why will they not deal with the FBI?
	Why did the defectors that want to leave China, and want to leave the Chinese Communist Party, and want to come forward and tell the truth, because my organization got a defector out, and she went and she had, forget what you think about her as a scientist and what you think about her papers and her analysis, which I happen to think stand up very well, leave that aside, that's not the question.
	She's a fact witness and she's got the receipts.
	What do you think about that, sir, and what did you do with it?
	That is the question before the House today, and guess what, Chris Wray?
	You can lie, you can spin, you can say everything like that, but guess what?
	I know.
	What did you tell people?
	What did you tell people?
	What did you tell the task force?
	And you sit there today with the gall, oh I got an investigation, I can't talk about investigation, can't talk about it.
	Well answer, sir, to the dead.
	Why don't you answer to the, what, 600,000?
	And why doesn't CNN put that up there?
	Why doesn't MSNBC put that up there?
	You're so concerned about the dead, why don't you get on top of Chris Wray?
	And why is it Matt Gaetz I have to ask these questions?
	Yes, Matt Gaetz who you're trying to break every day.
	That Matt Gaetz.
	That guy.
	Why did you do that?
	Where's MSNBC?
	Where's Sanjay Gupta?
	Where are all the great investigative reporters at the New York Times and the Washington Post and ProPublica?
	Where are you?
	The 600,000 dead would like to know that.
	They would like to know what the FBI did.
	They would like to know what action Chris Wray took.
	They would like to know this whole apparatus that we're paying for.
	This is why people are disgusted.
	They're disgusted because this is all fake and all phony.
unidentified		Right?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We pretend.
		You come up there and you pretend.
		Well, the dead don't think it's phony.
		Because they died from it.
		It's revolting, and this is where our country is.
		Ray, you're a disgrace.
		You're an absolute disgrace, and we're going to be on you every day, sir.
		And I don't care if they take us off Twitter, because we've got another thing up our sleeve on that, too.
		We'll take a short commercial break.
		We've got a bunch of guests, but I've been on rants this morning.
unidentified		We've got a bunch of guests, and I swear we're going to get to them.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We're going to come back, get to a couple of our guests before we take off.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
unidentified		War Room.
unidentified		Pandemic.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		With Stephen K. Bannon.
unidentified		The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide.
		War Room.
		Pandemic.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, welcome back.
		We have breaking news.
		I really want to thank the team, the Real America's Voice team in Denver for doing such a great job cutting into Matt Gaetz's, basically, inquisition onto Chris Wray, who couldn't answer a question.
		But just for our audience, many of you joining us who haven't been with us for the year and a half, Dr. Yan is a defector from China.
		She's been a prominent part of, as a contributor here to the War Room.
		Just an incredible individual, very brave.
		She was our Woman of the Year in 2020.
		It's about her when she first got here and information she gave the FBI immediately upon coming here to the United States about direct involvement of the Beijing regime, the CDC, the PLA, the Chinese Communist Party directly, and about what Ray did with that information given it was in the most vital time of this pandemic, which was in the March-April-May timeframe of 2020.
		I want to thank everybody.
		We're going to have a lot more to say about it at five o'clock.
		Rahim, I take it you got, we're going to reboot that and we're going to get to it.
		This is absolutely a major, another, if you think the lab and Fauci, Ray and the FBI and what was done and what was told, what President Trump was told, right, is going to start to be a major issue here and about the involvement, direct involvement of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army is going to change
		Everything of what you know today a lot of stuff's going to come to light and Ray we've got the receipts okay I didn't my organization the rule of law society did not put itself out at such risk and risk her life to come out there to have you basically trash her information and not do anything with it we're going to get to the bottom of all of it okay on that I will commit anything, okay?
		My sacred honor.
		We're going to get to the bottom of it and make sure that you're held accountable, sir, for all the deaths and all the destruction that came afterwards when your responsibility was to take action.
		Okay, we've got a lot of other guests.
		We're going to have to bump those tonight, but in a big rally in New Hampshire, we're going to talk about getting to the bottom of a full forensic audit, but I've got to go to a superstar in Michigan.
		Matt DiPerno.
		Matt, thank you for hanging in here.
		I follow you closely on what's going on.
		Get our audience up to date.
		There's new developments coming up in Michigan directly tied to you.
		Hopefully, we one day will get a full forensic audit.
		Give us the update of what's going on in Michigan, sir.
unidentified		Yeah, thanks for having me on, Steve.
		I appreciate it.
		Two things we put out late last evening, two new reports that came out.
		One shows that there was, we've proved now that there was Direct access to the Antrim County Election Management System because we show on November 5th, we can see it in the forensic images.
		That an anonymous user logged onto the EMS remotely with escalated privileges and made changes to the database when they were trying to retabulate the election.
		So that's one huge, huge development because now we prove that the machines were remotely accessed.
		And more importantly, they were remotely accessed by an anonymous user who had elevated privileges in the system.
		That is pretty damning for the non-forensic reviewers out there, people who do not want a forensic audit.
		And the other thing probably is equally explosive.
		Everyone's seen ballots before, like these ballots here.
		On the side of the ballot, there's these black boxes.
		There's 59 black boxes on the side of the ballot.
		We now see within the forensic images that in Antrim County, Those blocks, blocks 15, 18, 28, 41, and 44 were all intentionally modified.
		The height and the width, the shape of those blocks were intentionally modified in order to generate errors.
		What does an error do?
		In this case, by modifying those specific blocks, they were able to cause rejections for Republican ballots.
		Meaning if you voted for Donald Trump and then put your ballot in the machine, your ballot was rejected at a rate of 20% more than Joe Biden ballots.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Well, Matt, we got to bounce.
		I just got a question because we've been we've been following you since shortly after November 3rd.
		Do you believe you and others can make a case to the Senate, the Republican-controlled Senate in Michigan, that you need to have a full forensic audit and obviously a recanvassing and a drill down on the machines in Michigan to get to the bottom of what really happened on the 3rd of November 2020?
		Do you believe you can make that case?
unidentified		Oh, absolutely.
		If they were to allow us to come and talk to them, they refuse to let us talk to them because once we talk to them and brief them, once they see my two volumes of evidence, there's no way they can unsee it.
		But right now, they refuse to talk to us.
		But we're getting closer.
		We've so far sent 3,500 affidavits to the Michigan Senate demanding a forensic audit.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		So how can this audience, this audience is, the power of this audience comes, it's an activist audience, it wants agency, it uses human agency.
		We've got about a minute and a half left.
		How can this audience support you and the other patriots in Michigan to force the Senate to do their duty and to call for a special session and have a full forensic audit in Michigan?
		What do you need this audience to do?
unidentified		Well, one thing people can go to my website, there's going to be an affidavit put up there later this afternoon, which is the affidavit that 3,500 people have already signed, they can submit that to the Michigan Senate or they can call the Michigan Senate. Call leader Mike Shirky, who we've now learned actually has ties to China through his business dealings. It's unbelievable, but people can call him,
		demand an audit, or Senator McBroom from Michigan also.
		They can get a hold of those people, demand an audit from those people, and demand that those two senators sit down and meet with me and look at the evidence we have.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Matt, you're a hero and a patriot.
		You've been grinding on this for months, and I know a lot of it seems thankless, but you've got so many patriots that have your back.
		You're in their prayers, and just remember, this entire audience and much of the nation supports your work, so thank you very much, and keep grinding, sir.
unidentified		I appreciate you, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Thanks, brother.
		Okay, hey Raheem, are you guys doing a podcast today?
		At 5 o'clock we're going to replay a lot of The Gate stuff.
		We've got so much more to get to.
		We've got some great guests, My Patriot Supply.
		We've got a big rally that's going to happen in New Hampshire.
		Guess what?
		Patriots on Friday.
		A huge rally there to force a full forensic audit in New Hampshire.
		We're going to talk more about the big rally that Mike Lindell and the team are going to have in Wisconsin on Saturday.
		A lot going on at 5 o'clock.
		Are you going to have a podcast, Raheem?
		Are you going to do any work between now and then?
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		I'm thinking about it.
		No, I think we will be.
		I'm on with Buck Sexton immediately after this show as well, and then we'll be doing a podcast too.
		Busy, busy day.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		How could we not?
		Tell Buck and his partner good luck on the new show.
		It's fantastic.
		Hal Boone, Gina and all those guys do great.
		We need more voices out there, more platforms.
		I want to thank everybody today, particularly for putting up with my rants.
		Raheem got me all worked up.
		So we'll be back at 5 o'clock.
		A lot more to go through at 5 o'clock.
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		I said you were getting soft.
raheem kassam ▲ ● ▼		I told him in the break he was getting soft.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Raheem, after 10 years, Raheem knows to get to me.
		It's almost like an ex-wife.
		You're almost getting like an ex-wife.
		Okay, we'll see you back here.
		Raheem's gonna have a podcast.

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