Aug. 14, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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This has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, and the worst happens... War Room. | ||
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Pandemic. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The Taliban, of course, taking control of huge swaths of the country. | ||
| They're saying, you know, possibly, you know, the Capitol could be gone in a month. | ||
| The president dispatching 3,000 troops trying to evacuate the remaining Americans. | ||
| What do you make of this situation? | ||
| You know, I defended actually earlier Biden's move. | ||
| I said, you know what, I think we do have to get out. | ||
| If you don't get out now, when do you get out? | ||
| But there's other Republicans like Dan Crenshaw that say we should just stay there because you can't let it just turn into a haven for terrorism. | ||
| I don't know what the right move is here. | ||
| Well, we had the right move, Rob. | ||
| Donald Trump had the right move. | ||
| It was to get out of Afghanistan, but with conditions to let the Taliban know that there would be severe consequences if they went back on what they promised. | ||
| What we're seeing here, and it's very dangerous because it has implications for China, Taiwan, and well beyond this, the Taliban weighed and measured Joe Biden and found him wanting. | ||
| So when Biden says withdraw, For a political point, he didn't do what Trump would have done, which was to make sure there were conditions, and now we've got a mess, Rob. | ||
| We've got an absolute mess. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| This guy, he's not playing with a full deck and he doesn't have people behind him in the White House who understand how the world works. | ||
| It's unfortunate you and I have to talk about it, but it's here. | ||
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It's coming at us. | |
| It's a scary time in that country. | ||
| China sees it, Rob, and they're going to go right for Taiwan because they think Biden's weak. | ||
| That's what's next. | ||
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Question to you is, what happens when they take Kabul? | |
| And what, God forbid, happens if any Americans are harmed? | ||
| Well, it's going to be a very cascading tragedy for the Afghan people to start with. | ||
| Most of the country now, 40 million people are back under their control. | ||
| The consequences of summary execution, women and girls being forced into near slavery conditions. | ||
| It's a sad, sad event. | ||
| We're out. | ||
| We now can easily protect and hold the Kabul International Airport. | ||
| We've got very strong security around the U.S. | ||
| Embassy. | ||
| There's a backup brigade in the 82nd Airborne prepared to go in also. | ||
| I can't stand to listen to this live. | ||
| This is what, and Navarro, I had to play both of them. | ||
| By the way, the great Rob Schmidt over Newsmax with Peter Navarro last night. | ||
| We actually had two of our war room regulars. | ||
| Prince was on Tucker. | ||
| Peter Navarro was on Newsmax. | ||
| Very powerful evening. | ||
| We have them both on for the second hour to go into more depth. | ||
| There's no bottom to Joe, but Joe Biden, I'm telling you, Political capital is done. | ||
| You've seen this in the Consumer Confidence Report, a collapse, one of the fifth biggest collapses in the history of over 50 years. | ||
| The last two times it collapsed this much, 2008, the financial crisis, in April of 2020, at really the height of the COVID, the CCP virus, when it was first blown through here in the United States. | ||
| There's no bottom. | ||
| And this is why Any Republican senator that votes for anything is a collaborator with this regime. | ||
| A collaborator. | ||
| This is not about working together. | ||
| This is not about bipartisanship. | ||
| You're reinforcing a catastrophe, a collapse of this country, an invasion on the southern border, a collapse in Afghanistan that's going to have massive geopolitical problems. | ||
| And the next two guys in Prince, the three guys you're about to hear in this hour, were the ones that President Trump asked to have a logical plan of how to get out in 2017 and had misrepresentations and direct lies by the apparatus led by McMasters and Mattis and all the rest of them. | ||
| Okay, all the rest of them. | ||
| Peter, I had to play the second thing of McCaffrey, right, on the Brian Williams thing last night. | ||
| You're just torturing me, Steve. | ||
| No, no, I gotta do it, brother, because you've heard it. | ||
| He's symbolic of when you're sitting in the Situation Room or you're in the Oval of this arrogance. | ||
| They sit there, we can definitely hold Kabul Airport. | ||
| Dude, they're tweeting right now! | ||
| The Taliban's heading up there. | ||
| By the way, if we played the whole clip, he said, yeah, they've taken mortars and surface-to-air missiles. | ||
| Well, then you ain't holding Kabul Airport, brother. | ||
| This is going to be lobbing hot ones in there on that runway. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Or shooting anything that comes by with a surface-to-air missile. | ||
| I mean, this is what we got and what we're giving away. | ||
| What's going to happen is, this is Saigon Redux in the 70s, right? | ||
| Except the problem is, there's not going to be anybody to be able to get out, and more importantly, we're not going to be able to go in and save anybody. | ||
| In there look I take you back like you and I fought the fight here Steve with Mattis with McMaster I remember in in the oval back in 2017 Sitting with Mattis in the oval like I I got came in there for another reason The boss is talking to Mattis about Afghanistan and the boss turns to me and says what do you think? | ||
| It's like so I go look the ring road Which goes around all of Afghanistan. | ||
| Like, the Taliban control 60-70% of that right now. | ||
| Mattis, why do you think that you're succeeding, and why do you think you're gonna do any better? | ||
| They had no friggin' plan. | ||
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It was like, eh, Mattis, eh, just send more troops. | |
| And people died, Steve. | ||
| And this is what, you know, like, we're in this woke culture here. | ||
| The Democrats, right? | ||
| Cuomo, right? | ||
| He gets put out of office because of touching, yeah? | ||
| This is what Biden is doing right here, okay? | ||
| This is the Taliban stoning women. | ||
| That's what's going to happen. | ||
| And meanwhile, on our border, you got immigrant women being raped as I speak. | ||
| The Democrats have no sense of anything. | ||
| Trump had a conditional withdrawal, peace through strength. | ||
| It would have worked. | ||
| What Joe Biden has done, Steve, you know, it's a total failure. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Okay. | |
| I want to hang on a second. | ||
| I want to go through, I'm going to go back. | ||
| When you say conditions based, you were on Rob Schmidt last night on Newsmax, the great Rob Schmidt. | ||
| When you say conditions based, What do you mean? | ||
| Trump had, and by the way, he wanted to get out in 17, but he was talked out of it. | ||
| I shouldn't say talked out, it was misrepresented of what reality was. | ||
| He was lied to. | ||
| And we'll go back, because somebody says, oh, Bannon, you don't know what you're talking about. | ||
| Hey, let's go back and look at the briefings and let's get McMasters and Mattis here on national TV and let's just go through it. | ||
| I said at the time, those numbers are wrong. | ||
| That's a lie. | ||
| That's a misrepresentation. | ||
| That's not a lie. | ||
| You can't back that up. | ||
| All turned out to be lies. | ||
| On the cost, on the troop deployments, on the casualties, on what NATO was doing, you know, hiding behind, you know, NATO never going on combat deployments, ever. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| All lies and misrepresentations, okay? | ||
| You sat there, Navarro. | ||
| That's why I had to have McCaffrey. | ||
| They look you right in the eye. | ||
| We can hold Kabul Airport indefinitely. | ||
| Yeah, about 12 hours later, they're going to have, the enemy gets a vote here. | ||
| But I want to go back to conditions-based. | ||
| They need to read David Halverstam about 10 times to understand they just keep repeating the same mistakes. | ||
| But Steve, the conditions here were pretty simple. | ||
| You have 50 tribes, not a nation, okay? | ||
| But essentially you got the Taliban and then you had the Karzai folks in Kabul controlling the center, the capital, right? | ||
| And so the key conditions were peaceful joint negotiations, shared governance. | ||
| That was the centerpiece of it all, right? | ||
| And what Biden did With his, like, abrupt exit was undermine any possibility of any of that. | ||
| And the Taliban are feeling their oats, just like North Vietnam and the Viet Cong felt their oats. | ||
| And in come the divisions with Taliban flags waving and machetes ready to chop off the heads of young women. | ||
| And this is all to mock the United States, remember. | ||
| In Beijing right now, you're the expert. | ||
| Beijing right now, when they're looking at Taiwan, they're seeing the feckless collapse, and Biden's up, wandering around, up his home in Delaware. | ||
| Not even in the Situation Room, which just blows me away. | ||
| Until Wednesday, you've got Kamala Harris, you've got Milley, the white rage guy. | ||
| Let me connect a dot for you. | ||
| You've got Communist China. | ||
| In Afghanistan, mining critical minerals under the cover of the US military for years, and now they're going to cut a deal with the Taliban, right? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| At the same time, Joe Biden has just passed an infrastructure bill which slaps on a massive tax on critical minerals so we can't produce them here. | ||
| And meanwhile, I mean, Biden's incapable of connecting those dots. | ||
| And then meanwhile, over in Taiwan, you have led on this, Steve. | ||
| That's where our chips are produced. | ||
| President Trump wanted to bring our chip production to Arizona and Other places in the US. | ||
| If China takes Taiwan... | ||
| Our industrial capacity and machinery go down. | ||
| So we're getting beat on every front. | ||
| Southern border, Afghanistan, Taiwan. | ||
| It doesn't go down. | ||
| It doesn't go down. | ||
| That's too polite. | ||
| It implodes. | ||
| We don't have a modern economy. | ||
| We don't have a choice in Taiwan. | ||
| It's Silicon Valley West. | ||
| Peter Navarro's plan to move the advanced chip production to places like Arizona, right? | ||
| And even to the tribal nations in Arizona. | ||
| And friggin' Larry Kudlow, by the way, And Bolton were the kind of guys who just made it very difficult to bring things on shore. | ||
| Because the free market's going to take care of it. | ||
| If we had done that, if we had got a start on that, on critical minerals and everything like that, we wouldn't be facing this mess. | ||
| This is an implosion, Steve, and you have been right on this along the way. | ||
| And by the way, just before, I want to just give a shout out to Rob Schmidt because he is one of the best we have now, right now, doing great reporting. | ||
| Yeah, I love him. | ||
| I love him. | ||
| Rob Schmidt, the great Rob Schmidt over there. | ||
| He does a fabulous job. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| He's just straightforward. | ||
| Just gets newsmakers on like you. | ||
| I want to go back to this. | ||
| I want to go to the infrastructure bill. | ||
| You know, you're the president's manufacturing guy, and I call them collaborators because that's what they are. | ||
| By the way, I strongly recommend to President Trump and to the great team running, Liz Harrington and the great team running, they ought to look at, is it CREPO in Idaho? | ||
| I think is the only one of the 19 that has endorsement. | ||
| That endorsement, I strongly recommend be pulled. | ||
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Pull it! | |
| These are collaborators. | ||
| These are collaborators right now. | ||
| These 19 Republicans have done tremendous damage to this republic. | ||
| I don't know what they're thinking, but I do know, look, going back to 2017, Mitch McConnell has never been a supporter of President Trump. | ||
| He played the president just to get justices appointed. | ||
| That was his thing. | ||
| But he would never, he lagged on the appointments to the cabinet, he just wouldn't get us any kind of legislation. | ||
| He's gotta go. | ||
| He's gotta go, Steve. | ||
| And I think you had it right, you said it earlier. | ||
| Anybody who's running for Senate who wants President Trump's endorsement, they gotta promise to vote for somebody else besides McConnell for Senate leadership. | ||
| It can't be McConnell. | ||
| And it's not named Lindsey Graham or Mitt Romney or any of the 19, okay? | ||
| Any of the 19. | ||
| The consumer price confidence. | ||
| You're somebody that's been all, you and Cortez are always all over this. | ||
| It's imploding. | ||
| The American working people understand, that drop, this is, look at the convergence of the polls. | ||
| He's imploding. | ||
| There's no reason to work with this guy. | ||
| Rachel Maddow, you think it was a random, I'll need you to stay over for the break. | ||
| I know you're busy, but you guys just stay for a few minutes. | ||
| Rachel Maddow, it's leaked the other day, lead story on Drudge, that she's thinking of leaving MSNBC to, and they leaked, to spend time, more time with her family. | ||
| She wants more off time. | ||
| She's the brains of the operation. | ||
| She understands where this is headed. | ||
| She wants a cut and run now. | ||
| They get this thing passed, she's out of here. | ||
| I can't defend him anymore. | ||
| You know, the reason why Jon Stewart left, because he couldn't handle Obama-Biden. | ||
| He beat up on George Bush for years, and then it's like, oh, be careful, you might get what you asked for. | ||
| Just saying. | ||
| The legitimacy is all in question now, as you see these geniuses around there. | ||
| Peter, real quickly, the consumer price confidence as the real poll, that's the leading indicator of where these polls are. | ||
| When they start taking these polls in the next several weeks, this guy's going to be in the 30s. | ||
| I'm telling you, there's no bottom to worry. | ||
| He's got no bottom, right, Peter Navarro? | ||
| Let me say this real quickly. | ||
| The people of this country are so smart. | ||
| They're seeing Biden appropriate trillions and trillions of dollars. | ||
| They know that's not going to help them. | ||
| It's going to go the other way, hence, ergo, consumer confidence down. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| I'm asking Peter Navarro to stay over here. | ||
| I know he's very busy and he's carved time out of it because Peter Navarro is very locked in the way he does things. | ||
| I'm sure you couldn't tell that. | ||
| You're killing me, Larry. | ||
| He's taking a little time off. | ||
| You're killing me, Larry. | ||
| We're going to come right back. | ||
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We've spent a few minutes with Dr. Peter Navarro. | |
| We've got Eric Prince. | ||
| We're going to the border. | ||
| We've got so much happening in the war rooms. | ||
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We'll be back in two minutes. | |
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Banham. | ||
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| Okay, Peter Navarro, we pride ourselves on signal not noise. | ||
| That's what we said we started the show by talking about back in June. | ||
| We said August 15th. | ||
| August 15th is the day that it's going to start with the schools going back. | ||
| But I want you to tell the American people right now, because you're a great guy looking over the other side of the hill, what to anticipate, what should they be looking for, what's in it, how's it going to impact their lives, this debacle in Afghanistan. | ||
| Well, there's going to be a battle between folks who want to send a bunch of troops back into Afghanistan and the status quo of chaos. | ||
| Sending troops back in is not an answer. | ||
| You broke it. | ||
| You bought it. | ||
| But for the American people, here's the danger. | ||
| Afghanistan becomes Taliban. | ||
| Goes to Pakistan, which becomes more extremist. | ||
| That becomes conflict with India. | ||
| China sees the chessboard. | ||
| They align with the Taliban in Pakistan, so they get their minerals in Afghanistan. | ||
| They see weakness in the U.S. | ||
| They make their move on Taiwan. | ||
| That threatens the South China Sea, which is 70% of sea traffic in terms of Exports and imports around the world this comes home to roost chief Steve Peter Fantastic work, and I gotta tell you we're gonna have you back on Monday and Tuesday. | ||
| We're gonna drill down even in more addition I think actually President Trump will sometime this week address the nation and We need to hear from him on this topic, not in a rally, but I think in a serious setting. | ||
| President Trump had a plan. | ||
| We're going to bring in the guy next that gave him the plan. | ||
| President Trump had this under control. | ||
| And this is not just a humiliation and embarrassment, but what has happened after 20 years is a disgrace. | ||
| And this is why President Trump, this is why Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States. | ||
| It's the managed decline of our nation by our elites. | ||
| And you're seeing it all now in living color. | ||
| Watch the MSNBC Clown Show. | ||
| Watch Morning Joe on Monday morning. | ||
| Watch David Ignatius. | ||
| Watch the midget Jim Stavridis. | ||
| Watch all the guys they bring up as all their experts and all the conventional thinking. | ||
| See how they're all scrambling. | ||
| They had Ryan Crocker on there the other day saying, oh, it's Trump's fault. | ||
| It's Trump's fault. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Steve, give me 30 seconds. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Full screen, Denver. | ||
| OK? | ||
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Yep. | |
| Okay, that's the Governor Cuomo of Afghanistan, okay? | ||
| What Biden has done is basically lead to the rape and killing of women in Afghanistan on top of everything else. | ||
| Back to you, Steve. | ||
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20 years. | |
| 20 years. | ||
| It's not 2,200 lives. | ||
| I want to say something for Peter and Navarro leaves. | ||
| There were 3,800, I think, contractors. | ||
| Those are all, those are pipe hitters. | ||
| Those were American paramilitary and special forces guys and army that had just punched out and were working as contractors because the big Pentagon things won't pay for retirement. | ||
| We lost 6,000. | ||
| Over 6,000. | ||
| 65 or maybe 7,000. | ||
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Dead. | |
| over 6,000, 65 or maybe 7,000 dead. | ||
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Okay? | |
| Okay, I think 25 to 30,000 wounded, right? | ||
| PTSD. | ||
| Two trillion dollars. | ||
| Brown University says the net present value when you count it all up. | ||
| And this is what you got, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| The interest costs alone are staggering. | ||
| What could have happened, the opportunity costs put in our country, but we didn't. | ||
| All the geniuses in the Bush administration, all the geniuses in the Obama administration, all of the party of Davos, the global operation, they wanted it. | ||
| They wanted these Western elites to have this government, this democracy that said, hey, it's not a country, it's 50 tribes, okay? | ||
| They got a different deal, and you can't force this on people. | ||
| But this is where we are. | ||
| But what you don't do is you don't cut and run. | ||
| The United States does not cut and run. | ||
| The last time we did this, after Watergate with the Democratic Party, it's just not what died in Saigon and getting off the roof and all the pictures they show. | ||
| What they don't show is the 25 to 30 million people that were butchered in Southeast Asia after that. | ||
| The Camarouge, Pol Pot, all of it. | ||
| The payback. | ||
| Ask the Vietnam refugees that came here. | ||
| That's because the Democratic Party, once again, who do not care about anybody but themselves, they cut and ran in Vietnam. | ||
| Cut and ran is a disgrace. | ||
| And that blood's on them. | ||
| 30, 25 or 30 million people in the region murdered, butchered, okay? | ||
| And that's what's going to happen here. | ||
| After the globalist project didn't work out, what does McCaffrey say? | ||
| Well, we're out. | ||
| It's going to be an unfolding tragedy of women raped and stood up and shot, but we're out. | ||
| It's so easy, isn't it? | ||
| Just like on the southern border, so easy. | ||
| So easy. | ||
| This is why we're going to take this country back. | ||
| And by the way, the biggest thing they got on MSNBC today, here's the biggest threats in the country. | ||
| It's people questioning, it's mothers questioning COVID and the masks. | ||
| That's the number one terror threat. | ||
| Number one terror threat. | ||
| Put that thing up there. | ||
| Number one terror threat. | ||
| Number two is people questioning the election, the insurrectionists. | ||
| That's the threat? | ||
| DHS, where are you on the invasion of the southern border? | ||
| DHS, where are you on what was happening in Afghanistan? | ||
| What got briefed to Biden, you geniuses? | ||
| More lies and misreputation to that halfwit? | ||
| What did you tell him in April and May when he decided to do this, a game of four-month heads up? | ||
| And every day they're so shocked. | ||
| You go on MSNBC, it's shocking how much territory they made. | ||
| They had a big map on CBS the other night. | ||
| It's so shocking what's happened. | ||
| MSNBC last night, the brave correspondent, the female that's in country, Brian Williams, they got the map. | ||
| Oh, it's so amazing how quickly they moved. | ||
| No, it's not amazing at all. | ||
| And Peter Navarro can tell you that, and Stephen K. Bannon can tell you that, and my next guest Eric Prince is going to tell you that, because they sit there, they're either complete idiots, or they stone-cold lie to your face. | ||
| And the worst thing, it's a combination of both. | ||
| This is why it's imperative to this nation, and they've got to embrace this, the mainstream media, we must have Donald Trump back. | ||
| As imperfect as he is, and he's the first to admit he's not perfect. | ||
| Look at the world when he was there, and look at what we have today. | ||
| Look at the facts. | ||
| Don't take it from Bannon, don't take it from the War Room, don't take it from what they call right-wing media. | ||
| Look at the facts before you, and here's the common sense of the American people. | ||
| That consumer confidence, it's dropping, and they're shoving so much money at you, free money. | ||
| They still understand there's something wrong here. | ||
| That's the common sense of the American people. | ||
| There's something wrong here. | ||
| This can't continue. | ||
| This is not sustainable. | ||
| This is how empires collapse. | ||
| Steve, let me say one thing here. | ||
| In a world of outrage, that slide that you put up on the screen is one of the most outrageous things I've ever seen. | ||
| They want to call me and you a terrorist. | ||
| For saying that putting masks on young children is not necessary and harmful? | ||
| We're terrorists because of that? | ||
| And we're terrorists because we say the election was stolen when all the evidence shows, the receipts show widespread fraud in election regulation? | ||
| They dare compare those kind of accusations to what happened on 9-11 from Al-Qaeda taking down buildings? | ||
| I mean, come on! | ||
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Biden, you are out of your friggin' mind! | |
| That dog is not going to hunt because the American people are going to see through it. | ||
| By the way, that's where we started the show off about the mask. | ||
| It's not me. | ||
| It's not War Room. | ||
| It's not Navarro. | ||
| It's Brown University is telling you the IQ of the babies has dropped 21%. | ||
| Why don't we have a five alarm fire about that? | ||
| What caused that? | ||
| The CCP virus, you don't think we gotta get to the bottom of Wuhan Lab and we gotta really get to the bottom of these masks? | ||
| 21% of our babies are these children born at 21% drop in IQs. | ||
| And you sit there and you're gonna put up there that on the number one thing it's the mothers of America that question this? | ||
| It's beyond outrageous. | ||
| It's insanity. | ||
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No, no, no, no, no. | |
| This is why it's important. | ||
| This is why Rachel Maddow, you know, I don't think I'm going to renew my contract. | ||
| I want to spend more time with my family. | ||
| You're the brains of the operation and you're responsible for this. | ||
| Don't cut and run now. | ||
| Don't be like Biden in Afghanistan. | ||
| You can't run away from this. | ||
| All of you are tarred with this and we're going to make you eat it. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And this is going to be known in history of what you did, and you're accountable, and you're responsible. | ||
| That's where we're going to get to the bottom of 3 November. | ||
| That's where we're going to get to the bottom of the Wuhan lab. | ||
| You covered it all up. | ||
| We're going to get to the bottom of all of it. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And you're going to be held accountable, and you're going to be held responsible. | ||
| If the world wants to see what they're like, let's listen to McCaffrey. | ||
| Well, we're out. | ||
| We're out. | ||
| Just cut and run. | ||
| Hey, that's the Afghan women's problems. | ||
| Daily Mail's got a woman saying, eyes being gouged out and raped. | ||
| That's what the Globalist Project did. | ||
| Okay, Peter, we've got to jump. | ||
| I've got to get Eric. | ||
| I'll tell you what, Eric Prince, jump in here. | ||
| Hey, the brother, real quickly, we've got about a minute and a half. | ||
| Just walked into your pit last night with Tucker. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| We're going to start with that on the other side. | ||
| Summarize the editorial you wrote in the Wall Street Journal in May of 2017. | ||
| Give me a minute and a half on that. | ||
| What did you say back then? | ||
| We needed one person in charge. | ||
| The biggest problem is that no one is actually responsible for Afghanistan because the globalists have been, it's been one continuous rotating of the chairs. | ||
| When you have a bankruptcy in a company, the courts appoint a bankruptcy trustee. | ||
| So I said you need one person in charge that the president can turn to, and that person is in charge of the military, intelligence, diplomacy, and then he's pending. | ||
| One person. | ||
| Second, you need to build a security force that reflects the society that you're in. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| military tried to replicate itself. | ||
| So the most expensive military in the world tried to build another one to mirror itself, and it just didn't work. | ||
| Third, there's a lot of natural resources in Afghanistan that were never, ever developed. | ||
| I mean, the Russians, sadly, did a much better job of developing the resources in Afghanistan than even the United States did. | ||
| So there's a ton of value that we missed, and it's because we have generals in charge, because generals like to control terrain instead of focusing on the arteries of how people make money. | ||
| Okay, we're gonna take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're in return with Eric Prince's, uh, the open, uh, cold open next is about Eric Prince on Tucker Carlson last night, and then we're gonna come back with Aaron Prince in person. | ||
| Eric Prince presented, this is another guy they dog every day, right? | ||
| You know why? | ||
| He speaks truth to power, and he knows what he's talking about. | ||
| He presented President Trump a plan in the summer, in the spring and summer of 17. | ||
| If we had implemented that, none of this would happen. | ||
| And the military and the intelligence community lied and lied and lied and lied. | ||
| All next in the War Room. | ||
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| OK, so Eric, we're going to do the Tucker clip in a second, but here's what I want you to do. | ||
| Walk through what you told the president in the summer of 17 and then the briefings you had, what the military, what their response to yours was, because I want to set it up to now cut to the... I want to go back then. | ||
| What you laid out in a couple of bullet points that needed to happen immediately, and what the response was, and particularly the difference, there was a huge difference in math. | ||
| You had a set of math, and they had a set of math. | ||
| And I want to, then we'll talk about what was real and what was a lie. | ||
| Not miscalculations. | ||
| Bald face, look you in the eye, lies. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So, I tried to address, at that point the US had about 15,000 troops in country, and another 30,000 contractors. | ||
| Of those 15,000 troops, not a lot of them actually would leave the wire every day, and they were very hamstrung by force protection concerns and insider attacks and all the rest. | ||
| So I tried to address three things that the Afghan military needed to stay functioning. | ||
| One was reliable mentors that would actually live with, train with, and fight with the Afghan units. | ||
| A 36-man veteran contractor special forces team attached to each Afghan battalion. | ||
| You know, the only part of the Afghan military that works Is the Afghan commandos. | ||
| Second, they need reliable air support. | ||
| So we would provide an aircraft. | ||
| I used to have 50 of my own airplanes in country. | ||
| So we understood how to do that. | ||
| And third, the Afghan military needed combat support. | ||
| They needed food, fuel, parts, and ammunition reliably. | ||
| You saw some of these units that have been surrounded, annihilated, executed. | ||
| It's because they ran out of ammunition. | ||
| They never had air support. | ||
| Those three fundamental basics of warfare collapsed. | ||
| Because the U.S. | ||
| military tried to replicate itself in a 90% illiterate society. | ||
| So that whole program, I would have done it with 6,000 guys. | ||
| It would have been $3.5 billion to do that whole thing to keep the Afghan forces functioning. | ||
| At a time when the U.S. | ||
| military was spending $62 billion, actually more than the entire U.K. | ||
| defense budget, just in Afghanistan. | ||
| So we were less than 5%. | ||
| And hold it, repeat that, repeat that, repeat, repeat that again. | ||
| I want people to understand the numbers we were dealing with. | ||
| Repeat that, please. | ||
| The current, the span back in 2017 was $62 billion. | ||
| At least. | ||
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By the way, but they said, but they sat there and lied to us. | |
| You said you'd walk through the, you walked the president through, it's going to be 62 and a half billion dollars or north. | ||
| That's the minimum. | ||
| And they sat there and go, no, it's five, 10, 15 billion. | ||
| It gave all this gobbledygook. | ||
| He said 62, but that's the number they ended up spending. | ||
| Correct? | ||
| Isn't that the number they kind of spent? | ||
| Sure, because I went through the OCOA, the Overseas Contingency Operations Budget. | ||
| The extra money that Congress would appropriate for these wars, and that's what they were burning. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| These guys lied to your face. | ||
| Let's talk about today. | ||
| You heard McCaffrey. | ||
| There's no plan. | ||
| Biden's not even around. | ||
| This thing's going to collapse, and it's going to collapse, and people are going to point to us, right? | ||
| Because they've been there for 20 years, and they try to stand up. | ||
| These Western-educated elites are all a bunch of liars. | ||
| They're all party of Davos guys, looking right in the face of corruption. | ||
| They got the heroin going, the poppies going, they're stealing everything in sight, stealing with both hands. | ||
| They talk to these morons, McMasters and Mattis and all these clowns. | ||
| and tell them they're CAFRI and all the CIA guys and Ryan Crocker and they just believe it on the surface, right, that they can stand this up. | ||
| This dilemma, this crisis, because I'm a believer, hey, I was over there on a ship during the hostage crisis in the 70s. | ||
| Is your belief they're going to be taking hostages? | ||
| Can we actually hold this unless we send in some massive amounts of troops to protect this? | ||
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| Look, I think there's no chance we end up holding an embassy. | ||
| If I were the Haqqani, the leadership of the Taliban, I would imagine they would marshal their forces, surround Kabul and wait and come in on the morning of September 11 and feed the revenge in the sweetest form to the United States. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised if they do that. | ||
| There are already at least a thousand Taliban fighters in Kabul already now. | ||
| I had a buddy that was there last week. | ||
| He said you could see him walking around. | ||
| They were clearly not civilians. | ||
| They were hardened fighters walking all through the Capitol unarmed, but waiting for the day for the call to rise up. | ||
| But I think the Taliban are smart enough that they will not try to take hostages, not try to poke the bear on the way out and give that excuse. | ||
| They know they've won. | ||
| They will win. | ||
| They will have their hookah dance on top of the U.S. | ||
| Embassy at the right time, but they were going to let the U.S. | ||
| Leave. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| I don't think there will be additional troop surge required to cover the exfil. | ||
| I don't know how long it's going to take them. | ||
| I mean, the pathetic thing is how bad is the briefers giving information to President Biden in July, mid-July, saying, yeah, the Afghans will hang on. | ||
| There's 300,000 of them. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| And a month later, there was just an internal document at the embassy today that there are now Nine hours a day of destruction time, where you can bring your stuff to a burn unit to have your U.S. | ||
| flags, anything that could be used as propaganda or intelligence, destroyed in the compound. | ||
| So yeah, we're down to burning files at the U.S. | ||
| President's Embassy, the nearly a billion dollar U.S. | ||
| Embassy in Kabul right now. | ||
| The other ridiculous thing, the helicopter off the rooftop moment, That actually happened effectively six years ago already because the command in charge in Kabul viewed Kabul as so unsafe that any U.S. | ||
| embassy person arriving in the country gets picked up at the airport in Kabul and flown by helicopter two and a half miles across the city onto the embassy grounds. | ||
| So that's how unsafe they view it already. | ||
| In this case, unlike Saigon, you're not flying. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| We got the Tucker clip. | ||
| I want to play Tucker and Eric Prince from last night. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play it, Denver. | ||
| Before I ask you what we should do, I just cannot resist asking you, why is it that for almost 20 years, not just under Biden, but under previous administrations, the State Department and the Pentagon felt the need to use American power for some kind of social experiment to rearrange the traditional society in Afghanistan? | ||
| How is that in our national interest? | ||
| Why would we do that? | ||
| It's the same collection of national security elites in Washington that have failed for that entire 20 years. | ||
| They took what was a brilliant victory by Special Operations and the CIA in the first six months after 9-11 and turned it into a massive failed nation-building exercise. | ||
| And it's largely been like a Star Trek cosplay convention where they just sit and talk to each other and delude themselves into thinking they're making progress. | ||
| And it's been the same nonsense and they refuse to think about any other ways to solve this problem. | ||
| Afghanistan was never really a country and they ignored that and tried to make this central government nirvana based in Kabul, ignoring any kind of central or local governance based on whatever their social experiment is. | ||
| And the U.S. | ||
| military replicated itself. | ||
| I mean, the U.S. | ||
| military, the most expensive military in the world, replicated itself in Afghanistan with a lot of expensive capability. | ||
| And we've been beaten by weapons that were designed in the 1940s, carried by largely illiterate goat herders. | ||
| If there is any shame in Washington, there should be a lot of people resigning, and if not, they should be fired. | ||
| A lot of people resigning or fired. | ||
| Remember, the fighters in Afghanistan defeated Alexander the Great, they defeated the British Empire, they defeated the Soviet Empire at the top of their game. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| We took, at the time Eric Prince made that presentation, the President Trump, the number one, the way we got casualties was green on blue, was Afghan security forces we had paid for and trained shooting us in the back. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| We took, these great globalists, these geniuses, They took the world's best fighters and turned them into the world's worst army on $100 billion dollars north of your money and they lied. | ||
| The whole thing about the lie about $80 billion dollars, that's a lie. | ||
| $62.5 billion dollars, you count every pocket they hide it, and it was Eric Prince that pointed it out. | ||
| They're lying to you. | ||
| They look you in, just like McCaffrey on Brian, oh, we can hold Kabul Airport indefinitely. | ||
| No, you can't. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And this is the problem, Eric. | ||
| You've seen it. | ||
| They look people in the eyes and they lie right to them. | ||
| The smart people are yet again, forgetting that the Taliban have captured artillery, American artillery, 155 howitzers with a 15 to 20 mile range. | ||
| Unless they have confidence they can take out every one of those tubes, there's going to be a hell of a lot of hellfire and brimstone raining down on Kabul. | ||
| Not just that, but plenty of rockets as well. | ||
| Eric, it's time now. | ||
| You said that either last night they've got to resign or be fired. | ||
| I've got a couple of minutes here. | ||
| You had some brain analysis for then-President Trump. | ||
| What would be your assessment today of what, when Trump, because he's returning to power, of what has to happen with these, and it's not just their losers. | ||
| They're dangerous because they sit there and lie to your face. | ||
| What would you say, the scene levels, the intelligence community, the apparatus in the defense community? | ||
| By the way, this is why they put us up as a terror threat. | ||
| They understand we're going to get rid of all of them when we get in. | ||
| You're all fired. | ||
| And I believe criminal charges ought to be brought up, right? | ||
| You ought to get to the bottom of it all. | ||
| Eric Prince, what should happen here? | ||
| I would rather have 30 competent people at the NSC than the 400 folks that in some ways polluted the place for the last many administrations. | ||
| The amount of detailees from the various other federal agencies that come there, it's extremely important to get, you know, people as policy. | ||
| And I think the most important position, most important foreign policy position in Washington is the CIA director, because those authorities can solve a lot of problems. | ||
| When you've had this continuum of statecraft of embassies on one end and nuclear weapons on the other, The whole middle is the intelligence world, and when the CIA doesn't want to do their job... | ||
| You leave it to the military to try to solve with a very predictable failure. | ||
| But hang on, brother. | ||
| We only got two minutes left. | ||
| You just said he got briefed in July that the 300,000 Afghan security forces could hold on indefinitely, way past the August 31st withdrawal. | ||
| This is another example of Brennan and these guys. | ||
| They're beyond incompetent. | ||
| So you talk about the CIA. | ||
| We need to see those briefing papers have to be made public. | ||
| Respond to the thing what happened in July where we are now. | ||
| We got about two minutes. | ||
| Yeah, Biden says the Afghan army is going to hang on and clearly not. | ||
| Look, the commander of U.S. | ||
| forces, he was giving very clear direction. | ||
| This is going to unwind very, very quickly, but he was overridden by the NSC and the political staff at the White House. | ||
| That was their thing. | ||
| This is Biden. | ||
| Biden supposedly knows all. | ||
| They're going to have to live with it. | ||
| I presented the same paper that I gave to Trump back in 2017. | ||
| I gave it to the team Biden in January and February of this year. | ||
| So they had the same options to consider other than the complete debacle that they've given us now. | ||
| And they chose to reject it because supposedly they know better. | ||
| Watch the mainstream media. | ||
| They're going to try to cover this up all week, but you're not going to be able to turn your eyes away from it, okay? | ||
| A collapse that I think is actually more catastrophic than Vietnam, okay? | ||
| And remember, 25 or 30 million people died in the aftermath of that on the Democratic Party when they cut and ran, okay? | ||
| Eric, are you on social media? | ||
| How do people follow your writings? | ||
| I know you're working on a big op-ed right now. | ||
| We've got about 30 seconds. | ||
| How do people follow you? | ||
| I come on your podcast once in a while, Steve. | ||
| Otherwise, I pretty much stay off social media. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| I can't do without this man. | ||
| change that or deep hiding. Okay, Eric Prince, you're a patriot, you're a warrior, and you're a very smart guy with incredible common sense, which people need right now. Kind of like the General Grant, General Sherman types, right? They have real practical knowledge, not this theoretical crap. You called it out in 17. | ||
| Can't do without this man, he fights. | ||
| Can't do without this man, he fights. | ||
| Mattis, McMasters, all of them. | ||
| Clown Show. | ||
| McCaffrey, Clown Show. | ||
| Brennan, Clown Show. | ||
| Total Clown Show. | ||
| A disgrace. | ||
| A disgrace to this country. | ||
| And you're going to see it in the coming days and weeks ahead. | ||
| Afghanistan. | ||
| All the deaths, all the rapes, all the murders is theirs. | ||
| It's on them. | ||
| Short break, we're going to go to the border next in the war room. | ||
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| It's on fire. | ||
| And I gotta tell you, they're going to be trying to suppress. | ||
| You think the Wuhan lab? | ||
| You think through November? | ||
| Watch when we start going after them about this debacle. | ||
| The invasion on the southern border and what's happening in Afghanistan. | ||
| And here's the common thread. | ||
| They think people are trash. | ||
| These global elites think people are trash. | ||
| Look, we're out. | ||
| We're out. | ||
| They can cut and run. | ||
| And let the devil catch the hymos. | ||
| And they're devils over there, okay? | ||
| These are demons. | ||
| They're about to engulf that. | ||
| And I'm not a guy who said we should be over there, we can't be policemen over the world, but this is different. | ||
| After 20 years, when we fought it the entire world, what we're doing, you just can't cut and run, treat these people like garbage and trash. | ||
| They're not trash, they're temples of the Holy Spirit. | ||
| If you believe in the DJ or Christian West, you'd understand that. | ||
| And what's going on in the southern border is the same thing. | ||
| Same thing. | ||
| And who bears the brunt of it? | ||
| Working class Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley. | ||
| That's why they don't want a full forensic audit. | ||
| We're going to run the tables on them in 2022. | ||
| You understand that? | ||
| Because Hispanic working class people are going to vote for us. | ||
| Because they detest you. | ||
| They despise you. | ||
| They detest what you've done to this country, and they detest what you're doing to them. | ||
| Let's go to Oscar Blue. | ||
| He's in Mexico. | ||
| Oscar, take it away. | ||
| Your reporting there is amazing. | ||
| Tell us what's going on. | ||
| The American people have to hear what you have to say. | ||
| Take it, sir. | ||
| Good morning, Mr. Bannon. | ||
| Yes, it started on the 9th of August. | ||
| There's flights coming in from McAllen, Texas. | ||
| With deportees of Central America, these are non-Mexicans and they're arriving to Tapachula. | ||
| This is a huge effect because nobody in the mainstream media is covering this and nobody wants to talk about this and it is affecting the Tapachula citizens. | ||
| The Tapachula citizens just found out we have been covering these two flights that they've flown from McAllen right here to Tapachula with deportees of Guatemala. | ||
| Number one, they are completely upset that they are getting a massive influx from the South And now they're getting an influx from the North. | ||
| And number two, the Tapachula citizens and the Chiapas citizens, and ultimately the Mexican citizens, they're completely upset that they are paying for this. | ||
| It is coming out of the federal tax money of the Mexicans, which they are using the transportation of the National Guard all the way to Guatemala, dropping them off in the middle of nowhere with nobody to pick them up. | ||
| This is kind of like, we understand it over here, It's kind of like Biden trying to cover his mess. | ||
| The Biden administration, for every journalist over here, has been a complete disaster. | ||
| They don't understand what is going on with the actual administration that is occurring right now in the United States of America. | ||
| They don't understand how this massive influx has affected our country and who is the number one that just started all of this by incentivizing this to happen now. | ||
| Right now, the mainstream media is not covering this. | ||
| And yesterday, Mr. Bennett, the Commissioner of Immigration was right here when we were approaching the airplane that it was going to be transporting These deportees to Guatemala, the Mexican Commissioner of Immigration arrived and we asked them, what are your thoughts on these deportations and why Mexican people have to pay for this? | ||
| And he said, what deportations are you talking about? | ||
| With the airplane on the back and with the people transporting these people to the south, it is just a blatant lie. | ||
| This clearly is an agreement between the Biden administration and the Mexican government. | ||
| I gotta ask you real quick, we only got a couple of minutes left, but talk to us about the good, hardworking people down in Mexico. | ||
| They got the border, they're coming up from the south through the cartels, going to the United States, then the certain ones that get rejected, where there's not a lot, they're dropping them, flying them back, and just dumping it back onto the laps of the Mexican people. | ||
| So what do the Mexican people see, is they see their country destroyed around them. | ||
| Well, first and foremost, they're completely upset. | ||
| You got Mexican people that have already been, you know, vaccine tested, With COVID tests and they already have their tourist visa to cross illegally and to provide economy to the border, to the border cities. | ||
| And these people are not essential to the United States of America, but you have millions, millions coming in by the mountains to non-port of entries, open non-port of entries. | ||
| And they're letting them in with all, you know, all kinds of diseases that I, that I mentioned yesterday. | ||
| You got syphilis, you got gonorrhea, you got AIDS, you got now, you know, the, the, the nonsense of this COVID variant. | ||
| You got all of this. | ||
| They're really upset. | ||
| Not only it is affecting the tourism that is coming into Mexico and providing economy from the United States to Mexico, but ultimately it is affecting their pockets. | ||
| And they're upset because this is an influx over here in Tapachula. | ||
| The Mexican business owners, they are completely drained. | ||
| They don't understand when the government is going to do something about it because it's affecting their pockets and it is completely unfair because they have their business under their permits, under legislation, and you have another business in front of their door that is prohibiting people to come in and do their business to provide economy. | ||
| This is completely irresponsible by the Mexican government and it is completely unfair for the Mexican people and the border. | ||
| Oscar, the Border Network News, you're back up again. | ||
| How do people follow you during the day, sir? | ||
| Thank you so much, Mr. Bannon, for the invitation. | ||
| They can follow me on Facebook and YouTube. | ||
| You can find me as Oscar El Blue. | ||
| Also, Border Network News, Telegram, Instagram, and Facebook, and also my Telegram as Oscar El Blue. | ||
| Thank you so much for the invitation, sir. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We're going to put it up on our live chat. | ||
| I want everybody to pick this up and follow it during the day. | ||
| It's amazing reporting from Mexico. | ||
| These elitists, these Party of Davos, they don't care about working class people. | ||
| I don't care if it's in Afghanistan. | ||
| I don't care if it's in Taiwan. | ||
| I don't care if it's around the littoral nation of the South China Sea, in India, in Central America, in Mexico, on the border. | ||
| They do not care. | ||
| You're just rubbish to them. | ||
| You're just rubbish. | ||
| You're just trash that's in the way. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| This is the greatest crime of this century, is what they think, and their thinking is just like the criminal organization of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| This is disgusting. | ||
| It's not what the United States stands for. | ||
| It's not who we are. | ||
| We're going to sort this out, okay? | ||
| And they put up there that you're the biggest terrorist threat because you're questioning masks and vaccines of your school kids. | ||
| The firestorm is coming, as I said, on August 15th forward when school goes back. | ||
| You're the terrorist now. | ||
| You're the problem. | ||
| You question 3 November what happened in Maricopa County, you're a terrorist. | ||
| OK, we're going to sort this whole mess out. | ||
| OK, we've told you, you keep the pressure on. | ||
| He's going to implode and he's imploding before your eyes. | ||
| There's no bottom. | ||
| There's no bottom to where this polling goes with Biden. | ||
| No bottom whatsoever. | ||
| OK, it's going to heat up. | ||
| You ain't seen nothing yet. | ||
| The next couple of weeks are going to be intense as Kabul falls. | ||
| And we'll find out what the Taliban does to the Biden administration and all the globalists next on Monday, 10 o'clock in the War Room. |
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