Aug. 16, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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None whatsoever. | |
| Zero. | ||
| What you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy. | ||
| Six, if I'm not mistaken. | ||
| in this withdrawal in Afghanistan. | ||
| Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam with some people feeling with the military? | ||
| None whatsoever, zero. | ||
| What you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy. | ||
| Six, if I'm not mistaken. | ||
| The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. | ||
| They're not remotely comparable in terms of capability. | ||
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There's gonna be no circumstance and they're not remotely comparable in terms of capability. | |
| There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the United States from Afghanistan. | ||
| It is not at all comparable. | ||
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The last 10 years, our government has been trying to figure out what our mission should be, how to declare victory. | |
| And I think Joe Biden, what Joe Biden did was that he's, he remembered a debate he had with President Obama when he was vice president, he lost that debate. | ||
| And so as president, he decided to close down a mission he didn't believe in anymore. | ||
| The problem is, what about the implications? | ||
| And I think this is the key moment for us. | ||
| If Afghanistan returns to being a safe haven for Islamists, What have we spent 20 years doing there? | ||
| So yes, we beat Al-Qaeda. | ||
| We beat that generation of Al-Qaeda. | ||
| But there is another generation, which we saw with ISIS, of Islamists who are willing to do harm to the rest of the world. | ||
| Are they going to find a home in the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan? | ||
| That is the great challenge. | ||
| And if that occurs, this is the Saigon moment for President Biden. | ||
| It is the Saigon moment. | ||
| Saigon was 46 years ago, 30 April, the year of our Lord, 1975. | ||
| This is tonight, you're in the War Room, a live special. | ||
| Sunday, 15 August, the year of our Lord, 2021. | ||
| Kabul has fallen. | ||
| The flag of the Taliban is over the presidential palace. | ||
| They're mocking the United States and its allies by doing live press conferences, including an individual who claims he was at Gitmo for eight years. | ||
| They're doing live press conferences inside the presidential palace. | ||
| We are live in the War Room, and we're going to have a very special... I want to thank Real America's voice team in Denver, particularly our producer, Arthur Knight, also Rob Sig, Howard Diamond, The heads of the heads of the Real America's Voice. | ||
| I want to thank them. | ||
| John Fredericks, John Fredericks Radio Network, and of course GNews and GTV. | ||
| This is being broadcast in Simulcast in Mandarin and Japanese live for everyone following us. | ||
| We expect a big audience tonight. | ||
| My co-host is going to be Jack Pasovic. | ||
| We have Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| We have senior chief, we have many Afghanistan veterans led by Senior Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher. | ||
| We've got Teddy Daniels, many other Army veterans. | ||
| We're going to get down to the details tonight. | ||
| This is a moving story, and I got to tell you, the fecklessness of Joe Biden has been stunning. | ||
| There's a picture that the White House, I guess, felt, and let's forget the security breaches they had in the photograph, you know, showing the CIA Station Chief over in Qatar and other places, but They had a picture at Camp David of Joe Biden in a golf shirt and an Azad sitting there alone at a table, not in the Situation Room, not with his advisors around him. | ||
| And today on television, Tony Blinken and this crowd, it's been a humiliation. | ||
| And this is going to have massive geopolitical and geostrategic impact. | ||
| But right now, it is beyond a humanitarian crisis. | ||
| This is an emergency. | ||
| And I want to turn to Jack Posobiec. | ||
| Jack, get our audience up to speed on exactly what's happening. | ||
| In Kabul right now. | ||
| Steve, the situation in Kabul is quite grim right now. | ||
| We have Americans that are under fire at this very moment, and I want people to understand that even as we get into the breakdown of the politics of this situation, the long-term implications of this situation, why we were in Afghanistan for 20 years, people need to understand that at this moment, there are Americans, uniformed Americans, our soldiers, our boys, in harm's way. | ||
| They are under fire. | ||
| We've been told Thankfully, aircraft, military aircraft have been allowed to depart, land and depart from Kabul Airport. | ||
| At this time, the United States Air Force is being allied along with, we've got the UAE in there, you've got France sending in military transport, you've got Indians that are going to send from the Indian Air Force that are coming through the Arabian, the Indian Sea up through the Arabian Sea. | ||
| You've got a massive airlift, possibly one of the largest airlifts we've ever seen In military history, to get the thousands of people out. | ||
| Now, we just heard moments before I came on air with you tonight, before this special episode of War Room started, that they have essentially canceled all flights for those refugees and those US allies, those Afghan allies that are there. | ||
| Thousands of them have now come onto the airport. | ||
| And I think we're starting to see some of the images now on the screen. | ||
| There are thousands of people that are clamoring for these flights. | ||
| They're clamoring to get on these planes. | ||
| The problem is they don't even know who is with them on that airfield at this moment, at this very dark hour for Kabul. | ||
| While our people are under harm's way, you've got thousands of people that are out there. | ||
| They're firing rifles in the air just to try to keep some semblance of calm while these military flights are getting in, they're getting out as fast as possible. | ||
| And again, the majority of them, the bulk of them going through UAE, some are going to Qatar, and you're also getting U.S. | ||
| allies. | ||
| They're calling every single U.S. | ||
| ally who's got capable aircraft that can get to Kabul is on its way there right now. | ||
| Also, we're going to get some clarity about the number of American troops, 82nd Airborne Elements, 101st Airborne Elements, Special Warfare Command Elements, going back in to Afghanistan to either hold the airfield at the capital city of Kabul, even discussion about going to Bagram. | ||
| We're going to get to all that, but it's a very fluid situation. | ||
| What we know right now, if you're not an American citizen, we said this the other day on the broadcast, Jack, Saturday morning, that if you're one of the 60,000 interpreters, commandos, whoever worked for the United States, and who knows what the number is, and who knows what the screening process is, right now you're not, at least what they're saying, you're not getting airlifted out. | ||
| It's kind of, hey, this is the United States cutting and running in the devil take the hindmost. | ||
| Let's go to, I want to bring in Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| Congressman, there was a briefing today by General Austin, General Milley. | ||
| So you had Secretary of Defense General Austin, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Milley. | ||
| You had Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, gave a briefing to members of Congress. | ||
| Can you put us in the room and tell us what happened? | ||
| Yes, we had a phone call with the three of them and they let us know basically what you were hearing on the news, what most of you have been hearing on the news, which was very disappointing. | ||
| But there were some added details there that I find extremely disturbing. | ||
| One of them is that 5,000 prisoners were released from the camp. | ||
| These are known terrorists and many of these terrorists are on the terror watch list. | ||
| You combine that with the wide open border that President Biden has allowed to happen at our southern border with the United States and Mexico and we have a serious national security crisis that already exists for America but now it's worse. | ||
| There is no organized effort to secure the border along Mexico. | ||
| And now we have 5,000 known terrorists that have been released from this disaster and this complete failure by President Biden. | ||
| America is completely under threat in every single way because they will not secure our borders. | ||
| So I just want to make clear, I am very much pro-America first, and I believe that's the country that should be the main focus of this administration and every single elected member of Congress and the Senate. | ||
| But that is not what we are seeing. | ||
| What else we heard on the call I found very disturbing was at that time earlier today, it was that the Taliban had surrounded the city, but there was ISIS there as well. | ||
| Now, many of us remember that President Trump had defeated ISIS. | ||
| ISIS was not a group that we heard much or even were concerned about in the past several years, because President Trump and his administration and his leadership They had done such a good job and defeated ISIS, but yet to hear on that phone call today and being addressed in the situation happening in Afghanistan. | ||
| That ISIS is there and that they will be coming back was quite concerning and alarming. | ||
| Congressman Greene, did they have any, what was their rationale for planning this and planning this withdrawal, giving months heads up, having a 300,000 man army, we spent almost $100 billion or more arming it, training it, how did the city get surrounded in two or three weeks? | ||
| Did they have any rationale for how that happened? | ||
| Did they have the respect for you guys to walk you through how this all occurred? | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| They said that President Trump, I mean, President Trump had a plan laid out that President Biden was not following that plan, that he went ahead and made the difficult decision to pull the United States military out of Afghanistan and completely pull our troops out. | ||
| They were basically giving President Biden every break possible in this decision. | ||
| But as you can see, it's a complete disaster. | ||
| The so-called Afghan army that had been handed Black Hawk helicopters, so many rounds of ammunition, guns, vehicles, Humvees, all kinds of our great American military equipment. | ||
| They had been given that equipment, trained with it. | ||
| Well, as soon as the Taliban started coming through Afghanistan, Throughout the past several weeks, this Afghan army has just been handing over all of this equipment, these guns and vehicles. | ||
| This hasn't been happening just today and yesterday. | ||
| This has been going on for several weeks. | ||
| As a matter of fact, probably what you're not hearing on the news, but you should understand, is that Turkey has been leveraging its position with Afghanistan because Turkey wants to be involved. | ||
| Turkey and Pakistan very much want to be involved and they want to take over and make sure that Afghanistan is stabilized the way they want to see it stabilized. | ||
| So as you know, the history with terrorists in the Middle East, we have with Turkey and Pakistan involved, you have to understand that Al Qaeda is there and everyone knows who Al Qaeda is and remembers Osama bin Laden. | ||
| And then you have to understand the Taliban's alignment with Pakistan and Al Qaeda and what a dangerous threat this is for Afghanistan. | ||
| And any American that is stuck right now in that country and, and you know, God be with them and we're praying for them. | ||
| But here's the real situation. | ||
| There were 10,000 visas. | ||
| Congress voted to allow 10,000 visas for the Afghans that had assisted United States military and worked for the government over these years. | ||
| Well, there was hardly any of these visas handed out leading up to this, to this pullout. | ||
| And then we voted just several weeks ago. | ||
| to add, we added 8000 more visas, but we were told on the call today that the only people allowed to leave Afghanistan were those on a list that the State Department is managing. | ||
| So if you're, if you're saying there are thousands and thousands of people trying to leave, I don't know how they're going to do that. | ||
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The 60,000. | |
| Real quick, Stefanik sent out this, at least Stefanik, the congressman and conference leader, sent out about you weren't allowed to ask calls. | ||
| She said she had a base thing. | ||
| How many U.S. | ||
| citizens are left to evacuate? | ||
| And when is that mission going to be completed? | ||
| Did they give you any granularity about what's actually happening and what the plan is to get American citizens out? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| And this was an unclassified phone call, which was ridiculous. | ||
| If President Trump was in the White House, they would have brought Congress back. | ||
| We would have classified briefings. | ||
| We would be able to ask these questions, to be able to answer people that are calling our offices nonstop right now. | ||
| We would be able to pass this information on to families that are asking questions. | ||
| But no, this administration is a complete failure in every single way. | ||
| They did an unclassified call with members of Congress today and gave us hardly any information. | ||
| And then you had Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, coming on, and she had no questions to ask. | ||
| Except she was asking about, she did ask about what happened to the president of Afghanistan. | ||
| Where is he now? | ||
| Has he left the country? | ||
| While it was already being reported on the news at that time of the call that he had already left Afghanistan. | ||
| Speaker Pelosi had no clue what was going on. | ||
| And then she was asking specific questions about NGOs that operate out of Afghanistan and specific questions about NGOs from Northern California. | ||
| You can see where Nancy Pelosi's concerns lie. | ||
| But then Kevin McCarthy, Leader McCarthy, was able to come on the call. | ||
| And this time, I want to say I am very grateful. | ||
| I give credit where credit is due. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy laid down the lines. | ||
| He was very angry, basically chewed everyone out on the call, said this was a complete failure of the administration. | ||
| President Biden is weak, pathetic. | ||
| He looks like a fool. | ||
| He's embarrassing America. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy did ask specific questions, but when Milley came back on and Lloyd Austin came back on, they did not answer his questions directly. | ||
| As a matter of fact, they basically kept talking. | ||
| Congressman, hang over a second. | ||
| We'll hold you over just for a second. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Be back in our special on Afghanistan and the war in a moment. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
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The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | |
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back to our special about the fall of Kabul. | ||
| The government, by the way, has run the presidents out of the country. | ||
| The president of Afghanistan are soon to be the former president. | ||
| The 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has put in a statement shortly, a short time ago, calling for the resignation of Joe Biden, calling for his resignation specifically for his handling of the situation. | ||
| Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene, you've heard what President Trump says. | ||
| Do you agree with that, given your assessment? | ||
| It's a pretty big ask for a president to resign about something like this. | ||
| Do you agree with that? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| As a matter of fact, I have my team right now working on articles of impeachment because I'm so disgusted with Joe Biden. | ||
| You know, I've already filed one set of articles of impeachment, but his failure as a president Is is unspeakable. | ||
| The fact that our southern border is wide open right now. | ||
| We had nearly 215,000 people try to illegally enter our country just in the month of July. | ||
| And now this failure and embarrassment of what's happening with the pullout and the catastrophe and the human life that is being lost right now in Afghanistan is appalling. | ||
| But he is he has allowed 5000 terrorists Okay. | ||
| prisoners to be released in Afghanistan, that will be a direct threat to America. | ||
| And that cannot stand. | ||
| So President Trump right now is more presidential, and he's not even in the White House, than Joe Biden can ever be or stand up to in the past seven months. | ||
| Stefanik's office sent us this question she wanted to ask on this call. | ||
| The third question is, there's reporting that the U.S. | ||
| is paying a vast sum of cash to the Taliban in exchange for allowing the evacuation to proceed. | ||
| Is this true? | ||
| Now, she can't verify that. | ||
| I know it's going around. | ||
| Give us your thoughts on that. | ||
| Even the mention of that is pretty stunning. | ||
| What are your thoughts on this and what are you hearing? | ||
| I can't verify that either, so I won't say if it's true or not unless I had direct proof of it, but I would not doubt it. | ||
| Look at the way President Biden has the American military basically running scared out of Afghanistan, and they were begging the Taliban to give them time and wait until they could evacuate from the airport. | ||
| And so I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were paying the Taliban. | ||
| After all, they're already paying them with weapons, vehicles, Blackhawk helicopters, because the Afghan army is handing them over as fast as possible. | ||
| I mean, if you want to think about anytime any Democrat ever speaks to America about gun control again, and they want to talk to you about your AR-15, you tell them right now how many weapons and how many semi-automatic weapons did you hand over to terrorists in Afghanistan, to the Taliban, ISIS, and possibly al-Qaeda, before you ever talk to Americans about gun control. | ||
| So no, we don't know if they're paying them directly, but they're definitely paying them with our top-grade, 100% American military resources. | ||
| They turned, as Posobiec knows, they turned over Bagram just to the looters, didn't even turn it over to the military, just turned it over to the looters. | ||
| Congressman Green, how do people follow you? | ||
| You're on fire today. | ||
| Everybody's talking about your Getter account and your Twitter. | ||
| How can people follow you? | ||
| Well, you can't follow me on Twitter right now because I'm suspended. | ||
| I've got a few more days on my suspension and I have one strike left for telling the truth about vaccines and how they should be a choice for people, for speaking the truth on Twitter that Twitter doesn't want to hear, talking about the fact that the FDA needs to take its time. | ||
| Before it approves these vaccines, that more research needs to be done. | ||
| Speaking my opinion based on talking to people with real experiences with the vaccine, and then also talking with many health care workers that have taken care of COVID patients themselves, saying that they do not want to take the vaccine, that they want to take the choice. | ||
| So it's not a matter of being anti-vax, it's about making it a matter of Americans should have the right to choose their medical decisions for their own bodies and not have it government force like they do in Communist countries which sadly America is becoming ever so rapidly But Steve here's the deal people can follow me on getter Marjorie Taylor green. I'm still on Facebook I think I have one more strike there But yes, all my all my social media channels Marjorie | ||
| Taylor green getter telegram. I'm still on Twitter I've got rep MTT. So but in teaching you all You ought and you always have a home on war room The audience loves you. | ||
| Congressman Greene, thank you so much. | ||
| Wait, one more thing. | ||
| One more thing. | ||
| Speaking of refugees, they did tell us on that call today that there would be refugees coming directly into America from Afghanistan. | ||
| And the reason why is they cannot find places for these people to go. | ||
| Other countries aren't willing to take them in. | ||
| A lot of Afghans have already fled to Turkey. | ||
| They fled to Pakistan. | ||
| What we're hearing is there's women and children being held in camps. | ||
| This is, this is an extremely dangerous situation for women and in any Afghan that helped the United States or worked for the government over the past 18 years, the Taliban is killing as soon as they find them and find out that they did that. | ||
| So this is, there's a lot of people dying and Joe Biden has blood on his hands. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene, thank you very much. | ||
| Pasovic, any update before I turn to Mike Cernovich? | ||
| Jack Pasovic? | ||
| Yeah, we're hearing now our reports of shots being fired from outside the airfield. | ||
| I'm talking to people who are on the ground there. | ||
| So far, it seems to be harassing fire. | ||
| Nothing in the range of... There was a report about mortars that was just outside the airport a few hours ago. | ||
| But nothing within the airport. | ||
| But of course, there's a lot of talk about what's going on with artillery. | ||
| There's a lot of talk about those old Russian man pads that were out there. | ||
| There's a lot of talk about stingers, surface-to-air missiles, a lot of this material. | ||
| And of course, a lot of weapons that were left over from the Americans, from the Afghan National Army. | ||
| Look, we know where this is going. | ||
| This is a complete collapse, not just of Afghanistan, but of institutional America. | ||
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Right? | |
| This was destined to go the way of the Soviet misadventure. | ||
| The American misadventure is now at an end. | ||
| It was always going to turn out this way. | ||
| Well, this is intelligence and military failure. | ||
| Remember, we trained these guys for 20 years. | ||
| We put in significantly north of $100 billion on this. | ||
| They briefed Biden weeks ago, right? | ||
| This is the CIA. | ||
| Brennan and all those guys. | ||
| CIA. | ||
| Massive failure. | ||
| Another intelligence failure. | ||
| Massive intelligence failure. | ||
| And the military's been lying to the American people. | ||
| They lied to Trump about what the training capabilities were. | ||
| You need a full forensic audit on 3 November. | ||
| And we do. | ||
| We need a full forensic audit in Wuhan. | ||
| And we do. | ||
| We need a full forensic audit about this. | ||
| OK, we're going to get to the bottom of this. | ||
| Biden is a figurehead for the administrative state. | ||
| You want to talk insurrection commission? | ||
| First of all, this is what a real insurrection looks like. | ||
| Go look at Kabul. | ||
| That's an insurrection. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Number two, if we're going to have a commission, let's have an Afghanistan insurrection commission. | ||
| Let's get all the generals up there. | ||
| Let's get Brennan. | ||
| Let's get all the CIA and all the rest of it. | ||
| All of them lied for 20 years. | ||
| The rest. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Every single piece of it, because we know history. | ||
| They're going to be history. | ||
| Let's go to Mike Cernovich now, one of the great commentators on the America First movement and one of the early guys involved in this. | ||
| Cernovich, you've been all over this for the last couple of days. | ||
| Give us your thoughts. | ||
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Well, I was thinking a lot and I sent you that image that I think is so important and it shows the cultural arrogance and unsophistication of the regime. | |
| I say that we don't have a government, we have a regime, a hostile government. | ||
| I just watched Casablanca and I feel very much like we're the ones singing the national anthem of the United States and the regime is singing the national anthem of Adolf Hitler and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot. | ||
| And that image that I sent you struck me because I'd heard it before, which is, You have the time or you have the watches, but we have the time. | ||
| And I've been thinking how profound it is that the Taliban, which is a terrorist and you know, the media matters will try to chop this up and I never let them do that. | ||
| They are on an infinite timeline. | ||
| Did anyone at the Pentagon? | ||
| No, because they're godless. | ||
| No one at the Pentagon believes in God. | ||
| They don't have religion. | ||
| They don't have spirituality. | ||
| Mattis, oh, Mad Dog Mattis, the warrior monk. | ||
| Has he read a book on philosophy, psychology, religion? | ||
| How do you defeat an enemy that isn't on a timeline of days or weeks or years or decades? | ||
| They believe in jihad that's an infinite timeline. | ||
| There was a video that went around where they said that they'll bring it over to America, but it doesn't have to be today or next year, that they'll wage jihad until the infinite. | ||
| And people, when they hear that, they get either rattled or nervous or they're ignorant. | ||
| Rather than just thinking for a moment, That you cannot defeat an enemy, or how do you defeat an enemy, that isn't on your timeline. | ||
| They're on the timeline of infinity. | ||
| That was even covered a little bit in American Dharma before Earl Morris ruined that film. | ||
| It was covered in The War for Eternity, which the media hated because it was actually a good book. | ||
| I read parts of that three or four times. | ||
| I thought, holy crap! | ||
| Finally, finally someone is trying to wrestle with spirituality and with timelines. | ||
| And realizing that these guys aren't on our timeline. | ||
| They're not on the timeline of the next election, the next quarterly earnings report. | ||
| They're on the timeline of jihad, of infinity, and there's no way that a godless, materialistic, degenerate society like ours can ever win, because everyone in America is just chasing that next dose of dopamine, that next dose of hedonic pleasure. | ||
| So today, as sad as it is, and as much as it shows That the regime is a failure, I think it's a profound moment of reflection and to think about spirituality and our own connections with God and our own connections with the divine and asking, are we just chasing pleasure, transient pleasure, or are we living on a longer timeline, the timeline of decades, the timelines of centuries, the timelines of infinity, because that's what it's going to take for good to prevail over evil. | ||
| Mike, how do people follow you? | ||
| How do people get to you and more of your writings, more of your films? | ||
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They can watch Hoax Movie. | |
| You know, they got to look for me. | ||
| I've made myself harder to find. | ||
| As you know, it's hard to get me to do stuff because I feel like the era we're entering in is an era for people who have to really seek actively and assertively and get on a different timeline. | ||
| So I think that's the lesson for today is one of spirituality, one of reconnecting with our own faith and asking If the people who we consider evil are on a timeline of infinity with their God, what timeline are we living under? | ||
| Mike Cernovich, thank you very much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| We're on a special. | ||
| I want to thank the people at Real America's Voice, John Frederick's Radio Network, and of course GTV and GNews to put it up in Mandarin. | ||
| We're going to return next after a short break. | ||
| Veterans are actually fought and bled. | ||
| And had their compatriots die in Afghanistan are going to weigh in about their thoughts of what's happened here in the last couple of days as the United States of America has cut and run. | ||
| And according to Mike Cernovich, let the devil take the hindmost. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
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We'll be back in the War Room in a moment. | |
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
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The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | |
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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| Jack Posobiec, before I turn to Senior Chief Petty Officer Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who fought there in Afghanistan, then Teddy Daniels, from the Army, any updates on what's happening? | ||
| We know that there's a lot of consternation about the airport, what's happening. | ||
| And you said the other day, McCaffrey's on MSNBC right in back of us, right? | ||
| After all his nonsense the other day, that they could hold it. | ||
| You know, they have the howitzers already, they've taken from Bagram, and they have the mortars. | ||
| The Taliban could shut down that airport at any time they want, correct, Jack Pasovic? | ||
| No doubt about that? | ||
| Look, Steve, we said this yesterday morning, Saturday morning, you and I sitting here on the war room, we explained this. | ||
| There is one There's one airfield that is a single point of failure. | ||
| There's one airstrip at Kabul Airport. | ||
| One well-placed RPG round, mortar, etc. | ||
| You do a little bit of damage on that thing, and you don't have a lot of space there either. | ||
| And it's shut down, period. | ||
| People don't know who's on the base right now. | ||
| There's thousands of these refugees that have come on. | ||
| There's been no screening process whatsoever for them. | ||
| They have no clue what's happening. | ||
| They are taking harassing fire from outside. | ||
| People are freaking out and the situation is deteriorating. | ||
| Biden is talking about days and days. | ||
| No, we need something in hours. | ||
| And where is the president? | ||
| The president spoke. | ||
| FDR spoke on Pearl Harbor. | ||
| When Challenger went down, Reagan was right there. | ||
| Bush was out on 9-11. | ||
| Biden is missing. | ||
| He's completely missing and the entire world can see it. | ||
| The disgraceful picture of him at Camp David by himself with no advisors around is pathetic. | ||
| You have to have people in the room. | ||
| He should be at the White House in the Situation Room. | ||
| Now they're talking about an infusion of thousands of new troops. | ||
| Senior Chief Petty Officer Gallagher, you bled over there. | ||
| You had men die over there. | ||
| The sacrifice of our Navy SEALs, Special Operators, Marines, Army, unbelievable. | ||
| And contractors. | ||
| 4,000 contractors died who are basically pipe hitters who are former military guys. | ||
| I think the people are most stunned about, and not that we weren't, because I said, hey, they lied the entire time, the training of the Afghan military and particularly the intelligence failure. | ||
| So, Senior Chief, give your blunt assessment to the American people of how this happened and where we are right now. | ||
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Well, you know, there's no surprise in what's happening right now. | |
| I think I do agree with we should be pulling out of Afghanistan. | ||
| I definitely think it was right now. | ||
| Um, you know, and then the president, you know, straight bold face lying earlier about how the Afghan forces can take care of themselves. | ||
| I mean, anybody that's been over there multiple times and trained with the Afghan forces knows that they do not have the same resolve the United States does. | ||
| You know, you are trying to get these Afghan forces to believe in Afghanistan, to believe in their country, but it's not, it's not ever going to happen. | ||
| They don't have the same belief in their country as we do in ours. | ||
| So obviously, once we pull out, as we're seeing right now, they're going to give up the land that they, we pretty much gave them to the Taliban. | ||
| So, you know, this is no surprise, but, you know, it is a tragedy. | ||
| You know, it's very emotional. | ||
| I know for a lot of veterans that have fought over there. | ||
| But I can tell you that I don't look back on the past 20 years. | ||
| We are over there to keep the wolf at bay and I think we did a hell of a job doing that the past two decades. | ||
| Look, the individual valor and hard fighting our troops did, without a question. | ||
| Those who died and those who served have been stabbed in the back. | ||
| Let's call it what it is, stabbed in the back by this administration and the global elites. | ||
| This is outrageous, right? | ||
| Everybody's agreed, we've got to get out of there, but you have to do it in a conditions-based way, so just not cut and run. | ||
| Tonight, as Navy SEALs, they're talking about putting in Special Operator SEALs, 82nd Airborne Brigades, 101st, people to go in an emergency, secure these places and get these folks out. | ||
| If you're sitting there tonight contemplating that, what do you anticipate is going to happen from a special operative? | ||
| Just to try to get some sort of control so that you can get out the American citizens and maybe some NGOs and maybe some people in Afghanistan to work with us. | ||
| What can people expect over the next couple of days, Senior Chief? | ||
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Well, I can tell you if the special operation community is being briefed and being told that they have to go get the American citizens that are left over there out, it will get done. | |
| That is one thing that we are, we definitely excel at is coming up with plans on the fly. | ||
| So I can tell you, you know, you can expect that special operators will go in there and get our, get the American citizens out. | ||
| Nobody loses their lives doing it. | ||
| Senior Chief, how can people follow you? | ||
| I know you got the book out. | ||
| How can people follow you? | ||
| How can people get to you? | ||
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You have the EddieGallagher.com website and then I'm on Instagram, Eddie underscore Gallagher. | |
| By the way, the book is absolutely amazing, so everybody should try to get it. | ||
| Senior Chief Petty Officer Gallagher, thank you very much for joining us. | ||
| I want to go now to Teddy Daniels, who was awarded the Purple Heart in Afghanistan, running for Congress now up in Pennsylvania. | ||
| So, Teddy, what are your thoughts tonight? | ||
| And I want every veteran out there, particularly Afghanistan, but Afghanistan and Iraq, you've got to put your shoulder to the wheel. | ||
| Look at this complete, not just humiliation of our country, But what this administration, what this regime, I think is a smart way to say it, has allowed to happen, it's a disgrace. | ||
| And every veteran out there that served in Afghanistan or Iraq is being stabbed in the back by this administration. | ||
| This is outrageous. | ||
| It's humiliation to the world. | ||
| And I gotta tell you, Pacific, I'm gonna get you in here in a second about what China's thinking of right now. | ||
| The CCP in Beijing is looking right at, not just Central Asia, they're looking right at Taiwan and the South China Sea. | ||
| So Teddy Daniels, What are your thoughts tonight as you sit here and see the flag of the Taliban over the presidential palace in Kabul? | ||
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Steve, I'll tell you, it's a kick in the groin to guys that served over there. | |
| There was so much American blood spilled in Afghanistan. | ||
| You know, I agree with Chief Gallagher. | ||
| You know, we kept the wolves at bay for 20 years. | ||
| But it's the way that the withdrawal happened that is the kick in the groin. | ||
| You know, right now as our top generals are studying white rage and critical race theory, you know, the country of Afghanistan has fallen. | ||
| Biden's in Camp David eating ice cream cones instead of stepping up, being a leader, and making a statement. | ||
| You know, President Trump put out a statement today calling for Biden's resignation, and I echo that. | ||
| This man is not capable to lead. | ||
| And I remember when Jen Psaki gave her press conference and said that the military just couldn't get it done in Afghanistan. | ||
| Steve, that's a lie. | ||
| We won every fight we were in. | ||
| It's the politicians who let us down. | ||
| You know, Trump would have never allowed this to happen. | ||
| We would have never pulled out this way. | ||
| And 20 years of U.S. | ||
| forces being there and preventing Any type of terror attacks on foreign soil in less than 20 days 20 days It's fallen So, you know right now what we're looking at is Is there's going to be a new axis of evil who's going to come in and control that region? | ||
| It's going to be Iran Russia and China Okay, they are going to finance the new terror organizations that fill that void and There's going to be more attacks from the Middle East on US soil on assets around the world, and there's one person to blame for it. | ||
| And that's Joe Biden. | ||
| You know, the big kick in the gut was the Gitmo detainee We just gave a press conference from the Presidential Palace. | ||
| A guy served eight years in Gitmo, mocking the American people. | ||
| That's what I'm saying, stab in the back. | ||
| Gitmo. | ||
| Released. | ||
| There, right now, sitting in the Presidential Palace, mocking you. | ||
| I want every taxpayer, every veteran to embrace that. | ||
| Don't look away from it, staring in the eye. | ||
| Teddy, we've got to bounce here, but I've got to ask you, how rough is it going to be for American troops to have to go back in there and sort this mess out? | ||
| This is, Biden brought this on, Blinken brought this on, Milley brought this on, and now, once again, the sons and daughters of the deplorables. | ||
| Whether you're 82nd, 101st, Special Operators, Navy SEALs, Green Beret, you name it, they gotta come to the rescue again. | ||
| It's on their shoulders once again, after 20 years. | ||
| Gotta call them back. | ||
| They gotta sort the mess out when he's sitting up at Camp David by himself. | ||
| These people are wandering around and Kamala Harris is tweeting out about getting a vaccine today. | ||
| It's the sons and daughters of the deplorables that gotta go back in. | ||
| Gotta have to go back in. | ||
| Teddy, how nasty is that? | ||
| How gnarly is that going to be? | ||
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It's going to be ugly. | |
| And I'll tell you what, I have full faith in our U.S. | ||
| Armed Forces. | ||
| We have the best trained military in the world. | ||
| Our Special Forces operators are absolutely amazing. | ||
| I pray I pray for them as they go in, because it's not going to be clean. | ||
| It's not going to be pretty. | ||
| It's going to be bad. | ||
| And the other thing I pray for, Steve, are the women and children left there once Sharia law is enacted again in Afghanistan. | ||
| This is the second humanitarian crisis that was created solely by Joe Biden, the first one at the border, and now this one in Afghanistan with the women and children. | ||
| I pray for our troops going in. | ||
| And I pity anybody who's going to be on the business end of the Marines, the Special Operators, who are going to hit the ground there, because it's not going to be pretty. | ||
| How do people follow you on your campaign? | ||
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Steve, teddydanielspa.com. | |
| Sir, thank you. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, any updates? | ||
| We've got Corey Mills. | ||
| We're going to bounce another veteran from Afghanistan. | ||
| Any updates? | ||
| Yeah, Steve, I've got two pieces. | ||
| You want signal, not noise. | ||
| That airport doesn't have supplies for that amount of people over that period of time. | ||
| You're talking 60,000? | ||
| Is that what somebody was saying? | ||
| This airport is not set up. | ||
| This is a transport hub. | ||
| This is not designed as well as the infrastructure that is there for the basing. | ||
| But this isn't designed to hold that amount of people. | ||
| You're going to start running out of food. | ||
| You're going to start running out of facilities for all these people. | ||
| Where are they going to sleep? | ||
| Where are they going to eat? | ||
| I'm giving you a rundown. | ||
| They say there's 60,000 Afghans, either commandos, interpreters, or others associated with the American government that want out. | ||
| And there's all these NGOs. | ||
| You want to have a headcount on that? | ||
| Then you've got thousands, they're saying thousands, and you've got the contractors. | ||
| Somebody said up to 10,000 Americans when you count all the contractors. | ||
| This collapsed so quickly. | ||
| This is the Intel failure. | ||
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Go ahead. | |
| Yeah, here's number two, and you got this coming out on Twitter through Preston Byrne. | ||
| They're pointing out the Taliban, and this is actually well known, the Taliban mainly use WhatsApp servers for their communications. | ||
| Do you really mean to tell me that the U.S. | ||
| government, the CIA, didn't think to shut that down? | ||
| They didn't call up Mark Zuckerberg and say, hey man, flip the switch, shut off all of Afghanistan for WhatsApp so we can get our people out. | ||
| That is a failure on par with Pearl Harbor. | ||
| You're an intel guy. | ||
| The overall intelligence, how could they brief, these guys were briefing people two and three weeks ago, said the 300,000 man would last for years. | ||
| Remember, in the fall of Saigon, it was two years after, it's two years after the peace treaty was signed. | ||
| There was a long-term incursion and infiltration and all that by the NBA and the Kong. | ||
| This is, we're two weeks short of Biden's even pullout. | ||
| The intel, you're an intel guy, 30 seconds before we go to break. | ||
| How did the intel failure happen? | ||
| Steve, you had people reporting what they wanted to be true, not what was actually happening. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, he's the senior editor now over at Human Events. | ||
| He's made that thing a must-read. | ||
| You also gotta go to his Twitter feed. | ||
| He's on Getter. | ||
| It's just crazy what he's doing. | ||
| He's our co-host here. | ||
| On Saturday morning, he had some of the most prescient commentary out there and analysis, and it was tweeted all over, and it was so much better on the other networks. | ||
| He said, hey, this airport's gonna get to be the centerpiece of it, and the only reason it's gonna be held, General McCaffrey, if the Taliban allows us to keep it open. | ||
| We're totally, we have no leverage in the situation. | ||
| Zero leverage. | ||
| After 20 years, 2 trillion dollars, 6,000 dead, including the contractors. | ||
| Okay, special edition War Room. | ||
| We're going to be back in a moment. | ||
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| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | |
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, I want to thank the team at RAV, Rob Sig, Howard Diamond, and of course our producer Arthur Knight tonight for putting on this special at the spur of the moment. | ||
| We thought it was necessary to get the War Room's voice out there, particularly young Jack Posobiec. | ||
| We did such a good job yesterday. | ||
| The President, 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has called on Joe Biden to step down, to resign, because of his handling of this debacle in Afghanistan after 20 years. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, there's been some other great tweets out there. | ||
| I know you've been following all the news. | ||
| Give us an update. | ||
| Yeah, Steve, you know, I actually just got some video in right now. | ||
| I'm going to see if I can send it over to Cameron. | ||
| It's one of the last U.S. | ||
| Army Chinooks. | ||
| That's coming off of our embassy there in Kabul. | ||
| Now, they're flying, what they're doing is the Chinooks are flying from the embassy to the airport. | ||
| So they're flying over to Kabul airport. | ||
| So now they've got to wait there for longer term flights. | ||
| This is clearly going to be historic. | ||
| But speaking of history, there's Rupert Stone had a tweet out. | ||
| He's a freelance journalist. | ||
| And he said, you know, when you look at the speed of the Taliban's advance in terms of guerrilla warfare, their ability to essentially take over the country in just one week. | ||
| This isn't a celebration, it's not an endorsement, but this is on the level of Mao or Jap in Vietnam. | ||
| This is something where they took down, they took down one of the strongest militaries in the world, as well as the fighting force of that country. | ||
| What it was, it was a moral victory, and then it quickly became a physical, material victory. | ||
| They won the ground there, period. | ||
| I want to go to Corey Mills now. | ||
| Corey's running for Congress. | ||
| Teddy's running up in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Teddy Daniels. | ||
| Corey's running down in Florida. | ||
| Corey Mills, you were 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan. | ||
| How do you feel tonight, sir, when your compadres in the 82nd are going back in to Afghanistan after 20 years? | ||
| Corey Mills. | ||
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Yes, Steve. | |
| So I was there, obviously on a mill operation. | ||
| I was there as a contractor as well, working with the State Department, as well as for working with other agencies there. | ||
| What I'm seeing right now isn't surprising. | ||
| We knew that the Biden administration was going to go ahead and blow this condition-based agreement. | ||
| We knew very well that China was already looking to eyeball Afghanistan. | ||
| They were saying they would recognize the Taliban. | ||
| Again, you know, I know everyone keeps trying to say that, you know, Joe Biden, his biggest concern is what is he eating for his next flavor of ice cream? | ||
| It's all a joke, but we have to start looking at the fact of whether or not this is a real strategy. | ||
| We're seeing where Russia has continued to increase its strength. | ||
| We're seeing where China continues to push its strength, and it's almost as if this administration is pushing for a Chinese global hegemon. | ||
| Corey, real quickly, when you said conditions-based, this is something President Trump, look, we all knew we had to get out of Afghanistan because we didn't want to continue the nation-building operation of Bush and Obama, which is total disaster, right? | ||
| It's not really a country, it's 50 tribes. | ||
| In Pakistan, the Pashtuns are all over. | ||
| But the conditions-based element of this, just walk our audience briefly through why Trump's plan would have worked, and the cut and run, and just go out in the dark of night will not work. | ||
| Corey Mills. | ||
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Well, yeah, as you said, I mean, our mission was flawed from the beginning when we became a nation builder. | |
| That is not the job of our US military. | ||
| We were there for CT operations, IO operations, regular warfare operations. | ||
| The president basically has pulled out, utilizing political optics only, where Trump and Secretary Pompeo had certain conditions that must have been met, conditions such as the not actually fleeing and coming into the actual capital itself, not taking over the capitals of every single individual province, making sure that women and girls are still able to go to schools, making sure that Afghanistan does not remain or try and stay or become a safe haven of terrorism, which again was the reason we went in there. | ||
| So there was this whole list of condition-based agreements that was already set and established. | ||
| But the issue you have is that all of our adversaries are recognizing the fact that Biden is a weak administration and that they will not be held to task. | ||
| China knows this, Iran knows this, Russia knows this, and the Taliban knows this. | ||
| Al Qaeda will grow, and this last two decades will have been nothing more than a military exercise. | ||
| The gathering storm. | ||
| Corey Mills, how do people get to you? | ||
| I know you're running for Congress down there in Florida. | ||
| How do people find out about you? | ||
| How do they get to the campaign? | ||
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You can go ahead and get me on Twitter at CoreyMillsFL or go to our website at MillsForFlorida.com. | |
| Corey, thank you. | ||
| Thank you taking time away tonight for coming on here and talking about it. | ||
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Thank you, Steve. | |
| Pasobic, give us an update and then we're going to ask you for your closing thoughts on what people can expect. | ||
| You're pretty good at talking about what's on the other side of the hill. | ||
| This is not a mess. | ||
| This is not a human tragedy. | ||
| This is an absolute, complete debacle and catastrophe. | ||
| It's only going to get worse. | ||
| I don't want to talk about the politics of it. | ||
| He's going to collapse, as he should. | ||
| As we've been saying, he is collapsing. | ||
| Now it's going to be a direct implosion. | ||
| There's no bottom to where his number is going to be. | ||
| Donald J. Trump today said he must resign, called for him to resign. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, your thoughts on that? | ||
| Well, my first thought on that was if Kamala Harris resigned tonight, she would immediately become the frontrunner as the Democrat nominee for 2024. | ||
| We'll see if she actually rises to that opportunity or not. | ||
| Alternatively, she could declare herself president. | ||
| I don't think anybody would bat an eye. | ||
| They'd just file the 25th Amendment after the fact. | ||
| But really what we need to be paying attention to is, look, I said this before and I'm an East Asia guy. | ||
| I'm a PACOM guy. | ||
| What is the story now for Taiwan? | ||
| Will the United States defend Taiwan? | ||
| Or are they even prepared to defend Taiwan? | ||
| Keep in mind, we don't want to go to war with China in the East China Sea. | ||
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| We don't want to go to war over Taiwan. | ||
| The best way to do that is to look like we mean business, to prepare for, if you want peace, prepare for war. | ||
| We do not look like we're in that situation right now. | ||
| We do not look like we're ready to fight tonight. | ||
| If China were to do so, this would be a huge moment for them to encroach and annex the island country, country of Taiwan. | ||
| And Silicon Valley West. | ||
| Your economy in the United States will implode because of the chips. | ||
| Remember, we have an invasion on the southern border. | ||
| We have the cartels are totally out of control, right? | ||
| They dominate so much of our southern United States, particularly in Arizona and the Rio Grande Valley. | ||
| Everybody knows it. | ||
| It's open secret. | ||
| We have political prisoners here in Washington, D.C. | ||
| We have an election we still haven't gotten to the bottom of. | ||
| You've got a debacle in this vaccine and the firestorm, as we said, on August 15th. | ||
| They go back to school tomorrow. | ||
| Watch out. | ||
| The mothers are up in arms. | ||
| This country is spun out of control and it's spun out of control for just one simple reason. | ||
| The Marxism and the radical nature of the Biden administration is no doubt about it. | ||
| We're going to be covering. | ||
| We'll be back here at 10 o'clock tomorrow. | ||
| The senior editor of Human Events, Jack Posobiec. | ||
| Posobiec, real quickly, you're Getter and Twitter. | ||
| How do people get to you? | ||
| Because you're on fire right now. | ||
| Yeah, head over to Getter. | ||
| It's running smooth right now. | ||
| Love the new update. | ||
| Ton of stuff going on there. | ||
| And as MTG just said, if you're not on Getter right now, you could be missing out on news that's breaking as real-time flies. | ||
| We're in the fog of war right now. | ||
| Go over to Getter. | ||
| Follow me on there. | ||
| And of course, on Twitter as well. | ||
| Jack Posobiec. | ||
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| I want to thank Real America's Voice, the team over there, John Furniture Network, GNews, GTV, everybody for putting on this special, including the crew here. | ||
| We're going to be back live at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. | ||
| You're not going to want to miss a second of it. | ||
| We've got a packed show. |
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