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Episode 1,186 – Unparalleled First Seven Months in Presidential HistoryEpisode 1,186 – Unparalleled First Seven Months in Presidential History
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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.
anthony fauci
You don't want to frighten the American public.
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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.
anthony fauci
This is going to be a real serious problem.
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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.
anthony fauci
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.
of the year.
The United States has been a major contributor to the development of the United States of America.
The United States has been a major contributor to the development of the United States of America.
joe scarborough
More than a strategic loss militarily, what I'm hearing from elected leaders here, foreign leaders across the globe, diplomats, foreign policy leaders in Washington and again across the world, is that this is more than a strategic defeat for the United States.
It is A diplomatic defeat.
It's a reputational defeat.
And I had one leader from the Middle East yesterday who had very little use for Donald Trump's presidency and the chaos that that brought, but saying, you know, asking me, do you really think That we're thinking America is back?
Do you really think that America's reputation is any better now than it was one year ago?
Making reference to when Donald Trump was in office.
Suggesting that the United States' reputation has suffered yet again.
I'll just use the word.
A catastrophic blow globally among our allies.
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is the panic, the lack of clear information, the rumor mill is in overdrive, there's hysteria, you have Taliban fighters with whips, with guns, you have US and UK soldiers who are not allowing people in, you have mixed messaging coming through about what kind of paperwork you need and how you can get on a flight and where you can go. I mean, it is just an absolute mess.
And we heard President Biden say yesterday in his comments to ABC News that this is not a failure.
And I think a lot of people outside that airport, particularly those taking the kinds of extreme actions we're just talking about, would like to know, if this isn't failure, what does failure look like exactly?
steve bannon
OK, we're live here in the War Room.
It is Thursday, the 19th of August, the year of our Lord 2021.
You saw the fall of the Afghan government, I think in less than 10 days, right?
You're seeing the implosion in the fall of the Biden regime in almost that amount of time.
Remember, Morning Joe is the conventional wisdom of this city.
That's why it's an important show.
I know you may hate the sound of his voice at MECAs, but it's an important show.
You have to watch it.
It is the morning conventional wisdom.
And the conventional wisdom uses defeat, catastrophic failure.
Then you have CNN.
Clarissa Ward, the brave reporter that's over there in the middle of the country, telling you exactly... If this is not failure, I don't know what failure looks like.
This is CNN and MSNBC.
This ain't the war room.
Okay?
Now I want to bring in one of the most, we've got so much to go through today, but we're going to do a lot of math and a lot of statistics to show you exactly what is going on and what is happening.
I want to bring in first though Miranda Devine who has wisdom and judgment and discernment.
Her, last night, the New York Post, one of the most important papers in the world, its website had her story, her column up, her reported column, and kind of stunning, and with the picture of the hapless, feckless Joe Biden, with the tiny arms and the golf shirt, kind of by himself, lonely, up at Camp David, or wherever it was, right?
I'm not a conspiracy theory guy, but please, please tell me you don't have the clocks.
Wrong in the Situation Room or the Situation Room at Camp David.
Miranda, let's just go through your piece because it was quite brilliant.
I think you summarized it perfectly.
But even this morning, you've got the mainstream media who protected this guy when you were reporting that they won't talk about the hard drive from hell.
They won't give you a full due diligence.
They protected him in the summer, in the run-up to the run-up to 2020.
Hi Steve.
they're bailing and Rachel Maddow's leaking, her people are leaking that she's negotiating an exit at CNBC because she wants to spend more time with her family.
Miranda Devine, your thoughts, analysis, comments.
miranda devine
Hi Steve.
Well, look, at least the media is being honest about this catastrophic failure and you're saying it's unavoidable and Joe Biden is projecting this image of weakness and indecision and just frailty.
He is an old man with failing cognitive abilities.
We've known that since during the campaign.
It was obvious to any journalist, any media outlet, and everybody covered for him because everyone was so desperate to get rid of Donald Trump.
And that was the best they had.
And Joe Biden in his, you know, his entire life, he's been a self-aggrandizing fantasist.
And that was the way he behaved going into this Kabul catastrophe.
He was, you know, pretending just a couple of weeks earlier that nothing terrible would happen, that the 300,000 strong Afghan army was going to take over.
And he was imagining himself up there at the podium on September 11, in all his glory, being the first president to win or end the endless war in Afghanistan.
And that was all he was fixed on.
And that was why that timetable was broadcast to the world that the U.S.
was going to be out by August 31st.
The incompetence of that exit.
I mean, everyone agreed, you know, most people anyway, agreed that it was a good idea to get out of Afghanistan and whatever way you do it.
But the exit, you know, Americans had a right to expect that it be done.
Competently and in an orderly fashion, and really the grave error of abandoning Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night, not even telling your Afghan commando, you know, commander who just started, and then leaving all the equipment there, all the technology, all the weaponry for the Taliban.
It's incomprehensible that the Pentagon That the President, that the State Department, which is utterly incompetent.
I mean, you look, you look at the lies the State Department's telling these callow people who get up and yesterday, you know, that the Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman, talking endlessly about her own feelings, you know, this is personal for me, she said.
And you're just staring at the television and you're thinking, well, we saw you The handiwork, your handiwork at Kabul Airport with this tragedy that you've just shown.
People handing their babies over to U.S.
steve bannon
soldiers to get them out of... This is the point I want to get to.
Miranda, this is the point I want to get to about the incompetence and what is to happen now.
Because we started that cold open.
I want to thank my staff and the people in Denver.
That was brilliant.
The reason we did it in that sequence, the first two shots Are Afghanis handing their children and babies to guess who?
American soldiers.
They understand in the middle of a firestorm, safety rests in the sons and daughters of the deplorables.
And that's who's being put back in harm's way.
Let's cut to the chase.
There are 15,000 hostages in, American citizen hostages, in Kabul and the rest of Afghanistan.
15,000 according to the Wall Street Journal and now leaked by congressional aides. 15,000.
Many of whom are women, okay?
And many of those young women are hostages.
I was in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf back in the 70s when we had 50 that the mullahs took in Tehran.
52 locked this country up, brought down Jimmy Carter.
And Jimmy Carter looks like Rambo and steroids to this guy.
We have 15,000 hostages.
And the videos all now are the Afghan people saying, hey, I'm done, but I can save my kids.
How do I save them?
The sons and daughters of the deplorables, the American soldiers.
That are being put back in harm's way because of gross recklessness.
This is what it is.
This is gross recklessness of this administration.
Do you see anybody, Miranda?
You've been around the block a couple of times in these type of crises.
Have you seen anybody in this administration stand up to a microphone with any type of forceful will and convince you that they know exactly what's going on and they have a plan of how to get through this?
miranda devine
Not a soul.
You know, sadly, we've seen several State Department people.
We've seen Jake Sullivan.
We've seen, you know, the State Department, the Pentagon, General Milley, Lloyd Austin.
They just, they seem to be out of their depth.
They're not, you know, the one statement that we wanted to hear was that every single American would be brought home.
I mean, that's what, you know, past presidents would have been out there saying.
We will not rest until every single American is home and safe.
And we will use the full might of American military power to ensure that happens.
We're not hearing that.
We're hearing, oh, well, we're waiting for the Taliban to give a safe passage.
And, you know, we're going to send strongly worded letters.
Ridiculous.
This is from the people who have deliberately weakened themselves because they've embraced critical race theory in the military.
They, Lloyd Austin, one of his first acts was to close down the military and do an inward purge based on Joe Biden's feckless, hateful comments about, you know, the enemy within and tracking down domestic terrorists, which basically means persecuting Trump voters, anyone who doesn't think like they do.
And, you know, you had the State Department just a few weeks ago Flying the rainbow flag at the one billion dollar American embassy in Kabul.
I mean, that is just a provocation to a completely different culture.
Some sort of, you know, as if the American project now is about transporting the worst kind of cultural sort of fringe ideas to the rest of the world that they don't want, that they reject, that half of America rejects, frankly.
I mean, no one wants pregnant men and, you know, transgender ideology being taught to four year olds.
Nobody, you know, in America, you'd be hard pressed finding anyone who wants that.
And yet the State Department thinks that it can export that to the rest of the world and turn Afghanistan, like the United Nations did, It is some sort of project, some sort of gender project.
So all of that, these people have had their eyes off the ball.
They're acting as if the world is not a dangerous place, as if America's role is not precarious, as if our allies, you know, I'm from Australia and, you know, we have fought alongside America in every single war in the last hundred years.
And the quid pro quo of that is supposed to be that you have an ally if China comes knocking at the door.
And there's no faith, no trust anymore, among America's allies, that America is going to be that trusted ally and going to be strong enough to stand up against our adversaries around the world.
All that's happened with this Afghanistan debacle is that China, Russia and Iran, America's adversaries have been emboldened.
And everybody is looking at Joe Biden and seeing the feebleness seeing America's decline written on his face and his confusion.
And they are going to be plotting whatever trouble they want to make between now and when America gets its act together again, which I presume will be in 2024.
steve bannon
Miranda, how do people... we've got to bounce... how do people get to you?
We're going to push this, your cover story out big, we're putting it in live chat, but how do people track you on social media?
miranda devine
So I'm on Twitter, Miranda Devine, same on Getter, Miranda Devine, and on the New York Post website.
steve bannon
Miranda Devine, thank you very much.
Incredible piece at the cover of the New York Post.
Thank you very much.
Miranda Devine.
Okay, we're gonna take a short commercial break.
They rolled Biden out yesterday.
The enemy to the Biden administration, they rolled him out yesterday, is the parents in Tennessee, or the attorney generals in Florida, or the governor of Florida, and in Texas.
That's the real enemy.
Because of the mask mandates, vaccines, all that.
That's the real enemy.
Short commercial break.
Attorney General Paxson, Richard Barris, next in the War Room.
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Pandemic with Stephen K. Bannon.
The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide.
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joe biden
Last week at a school board meeting in Tennessee, protesters threatened doctors and nurses who were testifying making the case for masking children in schools.
The intimidation and the threats we're seeing across the country are wrong.
They're unacceptable.
I've said before, this isn't about politics.
It's about keeping our children safe.
It's about taking on the virus together, united.
I've made it clear that I'll stand with those who are trying to do the right thing.
Last week, I called school superintendents in Florida and Arizona to thank them for doing the right thing and requiring masks in their schools.
One of them said, we teach science, so we follow the science.
steve bannon
The other said... I think I've heard enough of Joe Biden.
Can we go ahead and kill that?
Okay.
The vaccine passports in New York City, today you can't go into a restaurant, can't eat unless you've got a vaccine passport.
They don't even ask if you've had the virus before and have antibodies, which is what herd immunity is about.
That's a thousand times stronger, a hundred times stronger than these vaccines, which they now say you've got to get another booster shot.
Of course the Mayo Clinic, of course they say it's not peer-reviewed, the Mayo Clinic says Pfizer's 42% effective, the other one's 76% effective.
Only 30% of African-Americans in New York City have had the vaccine.
You know why?
They're logical and rational and they want to see the receipts.
They want to see evidence.
Understand what's going on here.
Understand what the con is.
Here's the con.
As they implode on the world stage because of their own fecklessness, your sons and daughters, the sons and daughters of the deplorables are the ones, the 6,500 and more, that are going to go back in To rescue the 15,000 hostages that are at the tender mercies of the Taliban.
Okay?
At the same time, they roll him out yesterday.
He refuses to take one question.
That's all the media wants to know about that.
But the enemy is... The focus of their attention and the enemy are the parents in Tennessee that want informed consent.
The enemy are the officials at the state of Florida and in Texas.
That's the enemy.
They're the problem.
And they believe in science.
No, you believe in scientism.
We're not anti-vaxxers here.
Okay?
We're not conspiracy theory.
But we want to see the math.
We want to see the numbers.
And we see Mayo Clinic and all these different reports coming out.
People want to know and they want informed consent.
Something like consent of the governed.
I want to bring in now Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas is at the forefront of this.
Attorney General Paxton, can you explain to this audience exactly what's going on between Joe Biden's regime and these various states and the parents?
unidentified
So it looks to me like he's trying to rule from on high.
He doesn't have the authority to tell our state whether we can have a mask, stopping a mask mandate at local school districts or cities.
He's out of control.
It makes no sense what he's trying to do to our states.
steve bannon
So what in Texas?
You've been at the forefront.
You told us you were one of, I think, our first guests on the 20th, on the faux inauguration, that said, hey, where he's within the Constitution, we'll work with him.
Where they're outside the Constitution, we're going to fight him.
Where do you guys stand in Texas today about this entire thing of mask mandates?
And they're going to go to some sort of forcing function on the vaccines, right?
They're going to try to other the kids that don't get the vaccines.
So what are you guys specifically doing down in Texas?
unidentified
So the governor issued an executive order, which is backed by state law, where during a disaster, he can issue these executive orders.
And he issued one saying that local governments cannot force people to wear a mask.
Now, individuals can decide to wear a mask.
Local businesses can require a mask.
It's up to the individual.
It's up to the individual businesses to make those decisions.
And now we have these local entities, cities, counties, school districts, saying we're not going to follow state law.
So now we've gone into court, we're probably in 10 lawsuits now, fighting this, and we are having success as we move up the ladder.
We are going to stop these local districts from ignoring state law.
steve bannon
So you're going to fight this on two fronts.
You're going to fight these local entities that are trying to say, hey, we've got authority, we'll do it, and I take it the federal government, there's no doubt the federal government's coming for you guys too?
unidentified
Oh, absolutely.
And when they come, we'll be ready.
They have no authority to regulate our local schools, our cities.
The state constitution sets us up, the legislature, as the governing body over all of it.
So, he can't do it.
steve bannon
We said from the beginning, months ago, that the firestorm was going to be around August 15th and when the kids start going back to school, particularly in a place like the state of Texas, the state of Florida, you're not going to see parents, they're just not going to sit there and just kowtow to this.
They're going to want to see facts, they're going to want to see data, and they're going to be very, very, very They have a lot of discernment in this real quickly about the border.
You've got Biden.
You've seen this regime of the coming.
They're spinning out of control.
I know you guys are leading the fight down the southern border on this invasion.
And now you've got these various diseases coming through.
And now you've got people from all over the world coming through.
What specifically are you and Governor Abbott doing to stop this invasion on the southern border?
unidentified
So we've I've seen them six times now.
We actually had a victory on Friday where the President Trump's stay in Mexico program Was obliterated by the Biden administration and we had success on Friday where a federal judge said that the Biden administration cannot undo this.
And so hopefully at least we'll get them to follow the law at some point because they're not doing it now.
And as you can see, the results are horrific and they're getting worse by the month as more people come across committing crimes and spreading COVID, not just in my state, but really across the country.
steve bannon
You know, Attorney General Paxson, it didn't get reported enough.
We're trying to get CIS guys on here to talk about it.
This is a massive victory about the Stay in Mexico program.
But since that federal judge ordered it, is the lawless Biden regime, are they actually paying attention to the federal judge?
Have they re-imposed the brilliant policy of President Trump on the Stay in Mexico policy?
Have they done that, to your knowledge?
unidentified
It doesn't look like it to me.
As a matter of fact, they came out with something, I think it was yesterday, Where they were going to increase the number of hearings with non-judges and get through these asylum processes faster.
We're fine with that as long as they're actually following the law.
My guess is it's just going to be a quick process where more people suddenly qualify for asylum.
We'll see what happens.
steve bannon
Attorney General Paxson, thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Can you give us your social media?
How do people follow you?
unidentified
Facebook and Twitter and then KenPaxson.com for our website.
steve bannon
Thank you, Attorney General Paxson, endorsed by President Trump in his reelection bid for Attorney General.
I want to bring in now Richard Barris.
Richard, you've been doing a lot of polling, a lot of analysis, most of that before the implosion of the Biden regime about the Afghanistan situation.
But also, I know you've been looking at other polling.
Can you give us your assessment right now Of where you think Biden's approval is going to be, political capital he's got, because Nancy Pelosi is calling everybody back next week, that what they want to do is jam through all the spending, all these spending bills, in order to basically buy off the American people.
Can you tell people right now, given your analysis, where he stands?
richard baris
Well, you know, I mean, my gut tells me Stevie's going to fall some more, because we did have some interviews that were conducted, maybe 10 or 15 percent that were conducted At a period where people were digesting what was happening in Afghanistan, it could start on Friday.
And you can poll people Friday night, Saturday, all through the day and Sunday, but it's really not absorbing into their psyche right away.
You need a few days for that to happen.
So we had them at 47 overall.
I, you know, I, I strongly suspect if we were to continue to poll, probably would have been a little bit lower.
And we were just before we came on and I'm looking at the Favorability ratings for congressional leaders.
And it's this overall feeling because they're all, they're all sinking, every single one of them.
So obviously the American people are saying, whatever you're doing up there, we don't like it.
So I don't know that he has any political capital because nobody is particularly popular.
Even Chuck Schumer, who I think does a pretty good job staying as a leader, staying under the radar and keeping his favorability ratings from not swelling like McConnell's.
You had some additional analysis, I think, on voter favorability, stuff we couldn't get to yesterday.
I know we've got some charts.
We've got a couple minutes here and we'd like to keep you through the break.
steve bannon
to do with election reform is not popular and down the line.
richard baris
If not, I can rattle them off the top of my head.
But Mitch McConnell's now very favorable.
It's down to 6%, Steve.
Uh, so this guy is usually 8, you know, 9% very favorable.
He's down to 6 now.
So, and Kevin McCarthy is down to just under 9.
So he's looking where Mitch McConnell typically looks, with very unfavorable.
Uh, overall, uh, Mitch McConnell's approval rating, favorability rating is less than 30%.
And his overall unfavorable is about 60%, which it has been hovering around there for a while.
Uh, again, that's, that's a bit, he's the most unlike member of Congress.
Nancy Pelosi just has a higher very unfavorable.
So her very is 44%.
Mitch McConnell's very unfavorable is 37%.
But when you combine them, Mitch McConnell is actually slightly more disliked than Nancy Pelosi.
But everybody took a hit this month.
Which, again, what does that tell me after tracking this for six months?
It tells me that people are fed up.
I'm not sure that anything they've passed in the last six months has popular support.
steve bannon
Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break.
We're going to ask Richard to stay over for a few minutes on the other side of this.
We've got Captain Seth Keshel.
The captain is a veteran of Afghanistan.
We're going to get his thoughts on that, and then we're going to talk about his analysis on 3 November of the level of fraud that we had, the level of cheating, of illegitimacy, all of it.
Remember the con.
You know, Clyburn's on it.
We'll try to get the recording.
Clyburn's on it, who's the guy that made Joe Biden a Democratic nominee.
Clyburn, who's a tough, smart old politician from South Carolina.
He's on this conference call with the Democrats saying, hey, we've got to jam through infrastructure.
We've got to jam through the 3.5 trillion, not just the 1.2 trillion, the 3.5 trillion, because we've got to buy off the American people.
He says to keep our reign.
Right.
He gets it.
He understands what they're doing.
That's the con.
And you have 19 and they are collaborators.
They are collaborators, these 19 senators that voted for this fiasco, okay?
And President Trump ought to take, uh, was it, uh, Crapo's endorsement from Idaho and pull it.
Short commercial break.
Captain Seth, Richard Barris, we're going through math next.
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Action, action, action.
To have directed action and to enforce your will, you've got to understand the math.
There's nobody better at that than Richard Barris.
By the way, I just want to remind you, the guys at Rasmussen are doing a fantastic job.
If the election was held today, 37% of folks would vote for Joe Biden.
This is an implosion.
It's an elevator down and there's no stop.
There's no stop button.
He makes Jimmy Carter look like Rambo, okay, on steroids.
This is a disaster.
He's imploding.
This regime is coming apart.
And now the finger-pointing and the knife-fighting is going to start.
Okay?
Because they've been humiliated and they have no plan.
You have 15,000 hostages.
That's what they are.
They're at the tender mercies of the Taliban.
You don't think so?
Look at that opening video where they're passing their babies and their children.
Two American soldiers.
You know why?
They know if you want safety and security in this world, you look for a son and daughter of a deplorable.
These are your sons and daughters that have now been put in harm's way by... Where's Hunter Biden?
Wasn't he a naval officer?
Is Hunter Biden over there?
Right?
Any of the sons and daughters of these elites, are they over there?
Are they going back over there?
Or the Bush daughters?
Did they sign up during the war?
No, they did not.
None of these elites.
Were there some?
One or two?
Don't get me wrong.
Get a couple of three.
Get a couple of three.
Bill Kristol's son's a Marine.
You get a couple of three.
Pence's son's a pilot.
I think a Marine pilot.
You get a couple of three.
But by and large, you do not.
And now they're being put back in harm's way in the middle of this firestorm created.
Biden and these globalist They sowed the wind, and now they're reaping the whirlwind.
But who's reaping it?
Are your sons and daughters.
Your sons and daughters are being put back in harm's way.
They give over Bagram.
They don't give it.
They just walk away from Bagram and don't even turn it over to the Taliban Air Force, the Taliban Security Forces, the Taliban military.
They just walk out like a one-night stand.
This is cut and run and devil take the hindmost.
And you don't think the Taliban's devils?
Well, you haven't been watching these videos.
Most of these videos, we can't play in Real America's Voice.
Remember Real America's Voice the other day?
We had the video of the guys falling out of the plane.
We were the first guys to see it.
They logically said, hey, maybe a little too much for a TV audience.
Okay?
Then CNN started playing it.
My point is that there's horrific videos coming in from the region.
Seth Kessler is going to join us in a minute.
He was over there.
Okay?
Folks, know this.
Your sons, understand what the con is.
Your sons and daughters are now in, they've panicked and they're sending them back over with no plan.
The Taliban that control everything, with the CCP and the Russians having their back, okay?
We've walked into it.
This is complete and total incompetence.
Richard Barris, walk me through some numbers that show us where the American people stand, even before this all comes to light.
richard baris
Yeah, so I think a big part of this has to do with the economy to the failure for the economy to take off.
I think people had expectations of what would have happened if Donald Trump had been reelected.
We saw a lot of the gains that happened post shutdown under Donald Trump have been squandered.
So we started something.
Uh, called the Registered Voter Economic Confidence Index.
And if you guys have that line chart you want to show people, uh, that'd be great.
But just to tell people what they're looking at, there is predictive value in the Consumer Confidence Index, but we started this because who cares what all Americans, all adults think.
When we're talking about predicting elections, we wanted to talk to just registered voters.
And you can see the dive here that obviously fell last month.
It fell almost 10 points, Steve.
What had been holding it up was the expectations component.
We have two sub-indexes, just like the Conference Board does with consumer confidence.
We have the present situation, which was always bad.
And the expectations, which people were still kind of holding out hope.
But that dove 11 points this month, so it pulled the rest of the index down.
It's now at 48.6.
And all of the sub-indicators that go into those sub-indexes, how we calculate this, they just got so grim and ugly.
We're in new territory now, Steve.
We're at 22% of a positive outlook of the current business condition in this country.
That's abysmal.
steve bannon
There's nothing he can do to turn this around.
They're going to try to jam these massive bills in to blow up the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve to try to buy off the American voters, but American voters have got too much common sense for this.
Richard, your analysis is amazing.
How do people follow you on a day-to-day basis?
richard baris
I'm gonna, uh, you know, stay on Twitter as long as I can.
Steve will keep putting it out from there.
At peoples underscore pundit.
And they can follow me on Locals, peoplespundit.locals.com.
And on the YouTube channel.
We'll go over this in pretty deep, uh, deep detail.
At, uh, peoplespundit.
YouTube.
steve bannon
Richard Barris, thank you very much.
Honored to have you on here.
richard baris
All the best, Steve.
steve bannon
Thanks, brother.
Let's bring in now Captain Seth Keshel.
Captain, first off, you were in Afghanistan.
Tell us your assessment, and other folks I know you know that were over there and served with you, I think it was a decade ago.
What's your assessment of what you see today when you see the troops put back in harm's way at the last second in a panic move?
And the Afghani people, Understand, if I want to save my kids, if I want to save my baby, I'm probably gone, but if I want to save it and make sure it's got a chance, I've got to give it to an American serviceman.
I've got to give it to one of the men and women that serve, that have the American flag on their shoulder.
Don't give me any of the crap about America and American decline.
America's in decline, but we have elites that are managing our decline.
You look at this Greatest Generations there, the world knows when they're desperate, what do they look for?
An American soldier.
That's what they look for.
When they think it's all gone, you see around these gates, they think they got no chance of getting out, the Taliban's got them.
Hey, they're passing the most precious thing in their life, their children, to American soldiers.
And remember, those American soldiers are your sons and daughters, of the working class people in this country.
That's your sons and daughters, overwhelmingly.
Right?
That's what the world looks to for safety.
That is what's being thrown away by, like trash, by the Biden administration.
And there's 15,000 hostages, American hostages, no priority, no plan.
General Austin, an embarrassment.
He's a good man, he's got to go.
General Milley, not a good man, he's got to go.
Okay, this is gross incompetence.
This is not incompetence, this is gross recklessness.
Seth Keshel.
seth keshel
You know, Steve, I'm not so sure I agree that everybody we mentioned is a good man.
You know, we all took an oath to do what's right, to uphold the Constitution.
And, you know, to mismanage a theater of operations like this for 20 years is a monumental task to undertake.
I knew about 10 years ago that this was a doomed effort.
So obviously it's coming to fruition even faster under Joe Biden.
You know, Donald Trump knew that it was a lost cause, but he had a plan to scale down.
He had a plan to get out of there strategically.
The only way to make Afghanistan work is to hand it over to the locals like the ANA, the Afghan National Army, or the Afghan National Police.
But when I was there 10 years ago, They were going out and having imaginary firefights with the Taliban coming back to their stations and claiming on expense reports that, you know, we shot off 10,000 rounds, get replenished and go back and sell the ammo.
So you have nothing in place to ever hand off a peaceful transfer in Afghanistan.
And before we even talk about the values that just don't match up, you're not going to hand off Western freedoms and liberties to a nation that is full of tribal blood feuds and fundamentalist Islamic belief.
So before I went to Afghanistan, my dad also was a veteran of Vietnam and he's a three time veteran there, a lieutenant colonel of the infantry.
And he told me when I was a second lieutenant before I'd ever deployed, he said, look, the Taliban has this phrase, which is you have the watches.
We have the time.
So we're the ones that are kind of on a fixed time.
They wait you out.
And that's why Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires.
The British failed tremendously there.
The Russians failed tremendously there.
And of course, with counterinsurgency doctrine being what it is, which counterinsurgency doesn't work, Fort Huachuca won't really tell you that, but it's a doctrine that is absolutely not sustainable on a landmass the size of Texas.
Islands are really the only place where counterinsurgencies have ever worked out in modern history.
steve bannon
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We'll keep you giving you updates.
Captain Kestrel, you served, your father served, Elections have consequences.
Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.
Walk us through, we've got about five minutes in this segment, and then we'll continue over.
Walk us through what your assessment is of the election of 3 November of 2020.
seth keshel
It was funny hearing Richard Barris before me come on here and saying that 37% of Americans would vote for Biden if the election were today.
I'm honestly not so sure that number was much higher back in November, the more we peel into these numbers.
So we were going to discuss the 10 irrefutable points.
Is that what you want me to go over now?
steve bannon
Yeah, I'd like you to go over now and re-emphasize.
I think this is a very important point.
You're going to make the case that, hey, I don't know what he got, but he didn't get near 81 million votes.
And if you do the math, you think he's high 30s, low 40s, right?
So walk us through it.
Walk through your 10 points, because they're pretty shocking when you actually see the hard math.
seth keshel
Okay, so to start off, we had a big issue with Mesa County, Colorado last week.
A lot of people started talking about Mesa County, and I did a video on my Telegram channel, and my estimate was that there were 5,000 excess Biden votes just based on registrations, population data, and voter behavior trends.
And I had a local just now reach out to me who's doing some independent research on Mesa County.
He said we have 5,457 phantoms or imaginary voters in Mesa County.
So the way I analyze these numbers based on trends and historical behavior of voters is absolutely something that's over the target.
So if we want to pull up the 10 irrefutable points, we can begin to go over those.
And these are the points that General Flynn and I put out in the Western Journal that the media just cannot refute.
These are national level trends.
And we can go ahead and click through the slides here.
So a bellwether county.
We hear bellwether counties a lot of times.
A bellwether is a leading indicator of a final election outcome.
So these are, next slide, these are 19 counties since 1980 that have been absolutely perfect in aligning with the winner.
Donald Trump won all 19 of these in 2016.
And of course there are bellwether counties that do die off every year.
So there are people that are going to try to come against this with that.
But yes, bellwether counties can change, but you see most of these are in your working class regions in the Northeast or in the upper Midwest and Midwest.
These are your working class voters.
This is the sentiment that generally sways the national election one way or another.
The one county that Biden won, Klamath County, Washington, is about 5,000 Democrat votes heavy as well, so I have no doubt Trump carried that county.
But these have been to the winner of every election since 1980.
Trump won almost all of them, and really all of them if we talk about Klamath County like I just did, but we have this result.
Slide, please.
Here's Bellwether States.
So most people, when they talk about Bellwether States, they're going to say Ohio or Florida.
I prefer to talk about it in terms of coalition.
The founders believed that the electoral college system was necessary to avoid a situation where you only have campaigns going on in what used to be Virginia, but now Florida, Texas, New York, California.
Bellwether States.
Next slide.
These are four states that President Trump carried in 2016.
He also carried all of them in 2020.
That would be Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, and Florida.
These four states have been won by the same candidate 13 times since 1896.
And all 13 times, they all go to the same guy.
That guy wins the election.
So Trump won all 13.
He won all 13 again in 2020.
These are urban, suburban, rural, white-collar, blue-collar, union.
Every race of voter there is.
This is a very broad coalition, and it shows Trump's true strength.
And somehow, for the first time in 124 years, this did not align with the winner of the election.
Okay, slide please.
steve bannon
Captain Keschel, hang on for one second.
We're taking a short commercial break.
We're going to go through the other analysis.
It's pretty brutal so far, right?
Remember, elections have consequences.
Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.
America, the world, and humanity is seeing the catastrophic consequences of the illegitimate Biden regime.
Captain Keschel, we'll continue when we return in the War Room in just a moment.
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Captain Cashel, this is incredibly important, because we've said from day one, if you keep hammering at his legitimacy, the American people are going to wake up to it, and now they are.
Can you continue on with your presentation of the math, the actual statistics and the math, the hard math, that shows that something was awry on 3 November of 2020, sir?
seth keshel
Absolutely.
And these numbers for those that might just now be tuning in, these are important to understand as just overall national points, not into the nitty gritty, not into any of the cyber, but to show the people that 20% sliver of this country that still needs to be convinced that there are issues going back to 1892.
This is a hundred percent justification for these audits.
And so the third point, the share of the primary vote, this is something used to offset that argument that Biden just had high turnout.
It was anti-Trump turnout.
So the primary vote slide, please.
The primaries began in 1912.
Since the primaries, you've had four incumbent presidents that made it through primaries and became the party nominee.
So these are people obviously put up for re-election, Ford being an exception, running for the first time.
But these are the shares of the primary vote of those who lost in the general election since the primary system began.
Hoover's at 36.
You have a couple guys there in the low 50s, Ford and Carter.
And then, of course, you have Bush, 41.
He had the highest primary share of the vote to lose.
That was 72.8%.
Now go to the next slide.
Why is this important?
The primary share of the vote is important for understanding a nominee's strength with the base.
So if you don't have base support, which we all know that Trump had a tremendous base of support.
These are some Republican candidates that show what you have with a large base support.
Because if you don't have it, you're not going to get the turnout you need.
Eisenhower and Nixon, 86 and 87 percent.
Those are both 40 plus state landslides.
You have Reagan, of course, with a 49 state landslide in 84.
He had 99 percent of the primary vote.
So what we see here is Republican incumbents on their way to a general lands, general election landslide.
What their primary totals look like.
Now we're going to see what Trump's primary total looked like slide 94%.
So this was in 2020 in the height of the pandemic.
With no valid contender to the Republican nomination against Trump, and I promise you, Bill Weld was not a valid contender ever.
Neither was Joe Walsh, but that's probably time for another segment.
But Donald Trump with 94% support with a very high number of votes, when nobody really needed to show up to vote for him, does not suggest a candidate that was weak going into the general election.
In fact, it defied all the history we have on primaries for 108 years.
Before we move to the next point, it's really important to understand Biden on his primaries.
A lot of people forget this and they forget they fail to talk about it when they want to say that Biden had high turnout and enthusiasm.
Biden was near the bottom of the pile in Iowa and New Hampshire, and then in Nevada, where the Democrats desperately need to gauge minority support, Biden was absolutely at the bottom of the pile, too.
It was only when Clyburn came around for him in South Carolina, and then the DNC forced everyone to drop out before Super Tuesday, that he took off.
And so he was one of the weakest primary performers ever, and his running mate didn't even make it to the Iowa caucuses, so it kind of makes you wonder.
Slide, please.
Incumbent vote gain.
Since 1892, no incumbent president has gained votes and lost re-election.
Slide.
You can see here there's been three campaigns that lost votes and were still re-elected.
FDR twice and Obama in 2012.
Obama was one of the weaker nominees that there's been in his reelection.
He lost almost 4 million votes, but managed to win because Romney could not communicate to the working classes in the Rust Belt.
You can see Trump's total is the third highest.
Nixon's total is higher because we had a legitimate third-party contender in 1968 who took electoral votes in George Wallace.
We have Bush in 2004.
2000 was a very low turnout election historically, so his total along with John Kerry's is very high.
And Trump, of course, 11 million up this year and somehow is not back in the White House.
Voter registration by party.
This is a very critical predictor.
This is something that is used by people who try to see through the polls because not everybody is as professional as Richard Barris or Trafalgar.
Registration trends are extremely predictable as far back as party data is recorded.
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida are three of my best examples of that.
Slide.
This is what happened in Pennsylvania in the past four years.
You had a net new registration advantage for Republicans that was a ratio of 21 to 1.
That's 242,000 net new Republican registrations over 12,000 net new Democrat registrations.
That is a perfectly accurate predictor.
If you go back from 2008 to 2012, both of the parties lost, but the Democrats lost more, so the Republicans made up an advantage and Romney split Obama's victory margin in half.
And then there was a huge surge under Trump, just like we saw in the last four years, and it flipped the state, moved it six points to the right.
So Pennsylvania's numbers, and at the county level as we're about to look at, suggest a six to eight point Trump victory in Pennsylvania.
If you want to laugh at that, nobody would have thought we'd have seen an eight and a half point Trump victory in Ohio in 2016 or in 2020, but we did.
These three counties here show you how that registration predictor works out.
Look, we have very limited population growth, and with limited population growth comes limited registration growth.
And when we have one party surging in a coalition shift, and that's actually a Richard Barris term, is coalition shift, that's what's going on in this region.
Pennsylvania and Michigan trend perfectly, and we see that Republican line taking off under Trump in 2016, and that is coming at the expense of the Democrat column.
Which is why we say often that it is two-time Obama voters that put Trump in the White House for the first time.
That trend absolutely, according to registration trends over 20 plus years, show that Biden has about 68,000 extra votes just in these four counties.
York, Butler, Luzerne, and Westmoreland.
Statewide, it's over half a million.
Here's the same trend in Michigan.
Michigan and Pennsylvania have trended perfectly for 88 years.
Michigan has almost no growth.
You have no tech growth.
You have people moving out to other states.
You have a tremendous coalition shift underway, really, since 2012.
Romney didn't pick up much because he couldn't connect with the working class, but the Democrats have lost 300,000 votes, two consecutive elections, 2012 and 2016, going into this one.
And Trump has a record vote gain, almost 400,000 new votes in 2020.
And you have a sharp reversal in that decline.
That dotted line is a very generous estimate of where Biden should have been at this year based on trends and population growth.
But we have about 600,000 extra Biden votes in Michigan this year.
And here that is...
steve bannon
Captain, just hang on one second.
I want to continue this over the break if you have a few minutes.
It's very powerful.
Certainly.
Remember, I've talked to all these top...
I've talked to all the top hedge fund guys in the world, all mathematicians.
Not one.
And most of these people hate the sound of Trump's name.
Not one.
Everyone that says mathematically impossible for Biden have won it.
Okay?
Mathematically impossible.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
This is why you're seeing it imploded right now, because he's not legitimate.
He has no base of support.
We're going into dangerous, uncharted territory, foisted on us by the globalists, foisted on us by the tech oligarchs, foisted on us by the media.
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