Aug. 25, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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The US has now killed more than 100 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. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| But the Taliban right now, focusing on the mission right now, are not living up to their commitments. | ||
| People are being stopped trying to get into the airport. | ||
| I'm talking about, you know, women, SIVs, others, Afghans. | ||
| People with papers, and they're being stopped outside the airport now. | ||
| There are total bottlenecks which seem to rise to the level of what the President said were the contingencies if the Taliban is not complying, if the flow can't continue. | ||
| We're loading planes, but some planes are leaving without, and some people are people who have private planes. | ||
| Waiting for them with landing rights, but can't get into the airport, as well as beyond the SIVs, there are lawyers, there are judges, women, lawyers, judges, educators. | ||
| We've told them for 20 years, you can live up to your potential. | ||
| And now they feel abandoned. | ||
| And I'd finally like to ask you about the local hires. | ||
| We evacuated our embassy and there have been cables back that I know you must be familiar with, or your teams are, of people who feel completely betrayed. | ||
| And these are thousands of people that we rely on in embassies around the world. | ||
| The message is going forward that we will not be loyal. | ||
| They were not told about the evacuation. | ||
| They were not put on those choppers with our American staff. | ||
| And they were forced, many of them, to find their own way through the Taliban checkpoints and then get turned away at the airport. | ||
| Some even got turned away once they were inside. | ||
| So what is the message to people working for the U.S. | ||
| government? | ||
| Veterans groups are angry about the SIVs, and then there are all the millions of Afghan women who have told their daughters and been raised under this promise of a future, which the Taliban are already, according to Ambassador Verveer today, are denying. | ||
| There are horrifying examples from provinces and from inside Kabul of people being targeted door to door, people in safe houses being sought out. | ||
| And all this promise of you will be safe, the Taliban spokesman said, you know, still Stay in your homes because we haven't told all of our people how to treat women, how to respect women. | ||
| They also say you can go to school, you can work as long as you comply with Sharia law, which under their interpretation is the most extreme example of the Islamic code that is seen anywhere in the world. | ||
| Andrew, a few things. | ||
| First of the... Okay, let's go ahead and cut that. | ||
| Denver, you can go ahead and cut it. | ||
| We're live. | ||
| You're in the War Room. | ||
| It's Wednesday, the 25th of August, Year of Our Lord 2021. | ||
| That was not the National Pulse drilling, the Secretary of State. | ||
| That was not Revolver, not News, Darren B. and the team. | ||
| That was not War Room. | ||
| That was Andrea Mitchell of NBC News. | ||
| And by the way, the reason I cut his voice, his response was so hapless that I didn't want to show disrespect for Andrew Mitchell again, to play it again, the response, and to our audience. | ||
| You're seeing the globalist project collapse around them. | ||
| And remember, The central theory of the case they had against Orange Man Bad was that all of Trump's team was totally incompetent, right? | ||
| They'd never really been in government. | ||
| They're completely incompetent. | ||
| This America First thing is all xenophobic and racist and MAGA. | ||
| It's all a bunch of people that are deplorables that, you know, breathe through their mouths and are all rubes, don't know what they're doing. | ||
| That we're the experts. | ||
| We're your betters. | ||
| We've got this. | ||
| And what you're saying, one of the big aspects you're seeing this is the of the administrative state is not its malevolence. | ||
| It's got a lot of malevolence. | ||
| But it's complete and total incompetence. | ||
| That's why I said at CPAC, in that speech I gave with Reince Priebus that time, we have to deconstruct the administrative state. | ||
| These institutions are hollow now because they've lost their central purpose, and they've even lost their ability to perform. | ||
| We're going to have a gentleman join us in a second, Russ Vogt, who was the director of OMB for President Trump, which is one of the most powerful Positions or billets in the entire government. | ||
| We're going to walk through this. | ||
| But this is stunning and I gotta tell you what's so stunning. | ||
| It's not just the actions are so uncoordinated. | ||
| It's not just that they don't really seem to not just have a plan but to be able to enforce their will to execute a plan. | ||
| It's the simplest things of even the simple messaging of what they're doing is so incompetent and so embarrassing and so humiliating. | ||
| I didn't even play and we will play later. | ||
| The guy at NBC News asked, I think, at some gathering they have at the White House today, asked a question about which is the reality. | ||
| They're going to leave Americans behind, right? | ||
| And they're kind of lying about the numbers and spinning the numbers. | ||
| And he says, what happens there? | ||
| And Biden laughs at him and says, hey, buddy, you'll be the first one I call. | ||
| Like it's some kind of joke. | ||
| It's like you're just going to kind of, you know, we're about to have, we already have. | ||
| Let's be blunt. | ||
| These are hostages. | ||
| We're at the good graces of the Taliban, this medieval theocracy. | ||
| And, you know, Andrea Mitchell's kind of like in shock that it's Sharia law, right? | ||
| And hey, I got news for you. | ||
| The Taliban is the least of the bad. | ||
| Haqqani Network, ISIS-K, I think they call it now, Al-Qaeda, and they got worse. | ||
| And on September 11th, in the 20th anniversary, which we should honor our dead here and what happened, They're going to have, you're going to have the creation of a terrorist super state. | ||
| They're going to be celebrating. | ||
| They've already mocked you. | ||
| I want everybody, we'll put it up late in the show if we can get it, maybe Denver can get it now. | ||
| Mount Suribachi. | ||
| They get in the uniforms that we left behind. | ||
| They take the Taliban flag and they recreate Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, to mock you. | ||
| To mock you. | ||
| I want every veteran in this audience And I understand a lot of people, particularly people suffering PTSD, are in anguish now because of the people left behind. | ||
| Now your country needs you more than ever. | ||
| Right? | ||
| We need you more than ever. | ||
| But you have to embrace, particularly veterans, have to embrace this humiliation. | ||
| And understand what brought this about. | ||
| This is the administrative state. | ||
| It's not a deep state. | ||
| It's up in your face. | ||
| This is what they brought about. | ||
| And now they're in anguish. | ||
| And Andrew Mitchell lights this guy up. | ||
| He did not have an answer. | ||
| He didn't even begin to answer. | ||
| Want to bring in Captain Bannon first. | ||
| Mo, I know you've got a lot of friends, people that are over there, people know people over there, a lot of veterans going back trying to help, trying to do these Christian groups, trying to get women out that are working in these NGOs. | ||
| It's just a complete cluster. | ||
| We had Eric Prince, I've talked to him for a number of hours today. | ||
| I know it's a lot of people you know, the PTSD and the veteran community. | ||
| Give us your assessment of what is going on there. | ||
| Well, I just want to address this current administration has spent decades in government and the military leaders that should have properly addressed this withdrawal have been in those have been in the military for multiple decades. | ||
| So there's no excuse for this horrible plan of withdrawal. | ||
| And the fact that we have Americans being turned away at the gate. | ||
| I mean, I've seen videos of American passports being shown to get within the gate and they're being turned away. | ||
| You need to get all Americans out. | ||
| And the fact that Joe Biden is laughing that Americans will be left there. | ||
| I mean, like you said, there are already hostages, but we're going to have a horrible hostage crisis come September 1st. | ||
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| You served under, you served under General Austin in Iraq, right? | ||
| He was in charge of, wasn't he the commanding officer of the withdrawal from there? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| He was. | ||
| And he saw how the withdrawal was done out of Iraq. | ||
| So one would believe that when he saw the plan being presented, for the withdrawal out of Afghanistan that he would have questioned had he been paying attention to how it was done in Iraq, that he would have called into question how we were doing it in Afghanistan, which he did not. And that is extremely alarming. | ||
| This laughing of Biden, that's where these polls are at. | ||
| 32% of independents in this country approve of Joe Biden's actions. | ||
| And this does not incorporate what's happened over the last couple of days, really, since Sunday. | ||
| And that is down, I think, independents were like in 58% or something. | ||
| They polled at 56 to 58%. | ||
| It's been a free fall. | ||
| And it has incorporated this. | ||
| This guy does not have a bottom to this. | ||
| This regime is eventually over. | ||
| I want to bring in Russ Vogt now. | ||
| Russ, you've been in those rooms. | ||
| You're the president of the Center for Renewing America. | ||
| First, I just gotta ask you, having been, I think, outside of Chief of Staff of the White House, the most important job in the federal government, which is the Director of Office of Management and Budget, give me your appraisal of how they're handling this as a team. | ||
| Just actions they're taking and the messaging of those actions and then kind of executing their intent. | ||
| How do you assess this? | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| I mean, I think it's total incompetence, a lack of the ability to get people in a room of different agencies and figure out what is our plan for withdrawal? | ||
| Are we working together? | ||
| What needs to happen? | ||
| There's just been a total lack of leadership, and I don't think they've had a process at all. | ||
| And I think to the extent that they've had, it has been informed by this idea that, you know, they had made far more progress in the last 20 years as a bureaucracy than in fact they had and that the Taliban were better people than in fact they are and to the extent that you're just pleading with the Taliban not to move quickly and to risk your international standing is ludicrous and yet that's the kind of thinking and | ||
| viewpoints that inform the process for which this withdrawal has been conducted and it's been a total failure. | ||
| Yet Russ brings up a great point. | ||
| We didn't have time to play that. | ||
| They had Jen Psaki that basically said, oh, well, you know, and Blinken, oh, well, you know, they want to be respected by the international community. | ||
| We're working for it. | ||
| In fact, Psaki said, we'll pull it, hopefully not play tonight, tomorrow morning. | ||
| Hey, we're going to support the Taliban if they're good actors. | ||
| I mean, it's great. | ||
| Real quickly, Russ, you were there for the first impeachment. | ||
| Wasn't the first impeachment really about the interagency process? | ||
| That President Trump was this barbarian that didn't believe in the interagency process, that Vindman and all these guys, you know, day after day after day, the rubes in America First would be lectured on the interagency process, this kind of sacrosanct, you know, method that the U.S. | ||
| government works on to build consensus and people have equities and all this nonsense. | ||
| Are you seeing the interagency process at work at our betters, the people that are better than the Trump administration? | ||
| Are you seeing any of that at work, sir? | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| I mean, as you and I know, that process was supposed to be inerrant. | ||
| It was like it was the word of God. | ||
| You don't ever disagree with the interagency. | ||
| In fact, the interagency is a bureaucratic process that can work or cannot work based on sound leadership, and most of the time the bureaucracy is inclined to make it perform particularly bad. | ||
| And so this is an example of that. | ||
| And, you know, You would think that the bureaucracy would have been able, in their minds, to be able to perform well. | ||
| I think you nailed it exactly right with Andrea Mitchell being able to, you know, her life, her viewpoints are coming up in flames right now. | ||
| No, they're turning to ashes all around them. | ||
| By guys, they think that they're guys. | ||
| This is the key point. | ||
| This is the globalists. | ||
| It's not the nationalists. | ||
| We're the guys, you know, temporarily, and maybe, you know, we think it was stolen or we know it was stolen, but hey, they're the ones in power, the globalists, and they're seen to burn it down around them with their guys. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| Their guys. | ||
| This is the competent team. | ||
| This is the guys that come from the Atlantic Council. | ||
| These are the guys that come from CSIS. | ||
| This is all the best and the brightest. | ||
| Russ, you and Ken Cuccinelli put out an amazing piece. | ||
| We've got it up in the chat rooms and the live stream. | ||
| We're putting it up on the website. | ||
| You made a statement. | ||
| I want to make sure because there's a horrible situation. | ||
| Nobody argues horrible situation. | ||
| People have worked for us. | ||
| But Russ, I remember when I was there and you and I talked that in 17, when we had Eric Prince, we could have turned this thing around with President Trump. | ||
| The biggest problem we had was blue on green, you know, killings. | ||
| It was highly vetted commandos and special forces and senior military commanders and people like that that were shooting Americans in the back. | ||
| Guys have been vetted for years. | ||
| So walk us through what your statement says and what is this process that we've got to actually bring allies, maybe out of the region, bring them to the United States or who knows where they're going to be brought. | ||
| Walk us through it. | ||
| We got about a minute. | ||
| I'm gonna hold you over to the next break. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Our statement was to put out the policy position that we don't believe that people should be coming here under the Special Immigrant Visa program without being properly vetted. | ||
| And we're particularly concerned that we will go beyond the Special Immigrant Visas, which are the people that they are saying was our interpreters and people who really helped us. | ||
| But the reality is that, first of all, many of those people at times were working for both sides. | ||
| That needs to be vetted. | ||
| Number two, right now we have the Taliban We're doing our vetting for us. | ||
| So, if you listen to the spokesman, they're saying, we're telling the Taliban the types of people that we're looking for and have them send through a checkpoint. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| And so, from our perspective, we can't have 100,000 Afghani refugees coming here from a national security perspective and also from an assimilation perspective and expect that we're going to have a country that We can cohere together. | ||
| It's just, we're asking for a national security catastrophe. | ||
| Russ, hang on for one second. | ||
| Russ is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States. | ||
| We'll take a short commercial break. | ||
| Captain Bannon and I will return with Boris Epstein in the War Room in a moment. | ||
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War Room. | |
| 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. | ||
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| Okay, I want to go back to Russ Vogt. | ||
| Russ, what else? | ||
| You and Cuccinelli, you're not guys to be putting out statements that you're not pretty worked up about. | ||
| What else about this that you're quite concerned about this flood now of Afghan refugees into the system? | ||
| Here's what we're concerned about. | ||
| The Republican Party is very split on this, and they refuse to think clearly about the refugee problem. | ||
| They just want to be for bringing in anyone that they can. | ||
| It's kind of a version of open borders. | ||
| And what's important is that Congress take a hard line, the Senate Republicans take a line and say, look, we're going to use the appropriations process as a leverage point to make sure that the refugee resettlement has clear vetting processes and has a preference for regional resettlement. | ||
| You know, we got to get people out of harm's way, but that doesn't mean they have to come to the United States. | ||
| We need to make sure that when people are coming to the United States that, according to Pew Research, 40 percent of Afghan Muslims believe that suicide bombing can be appropriate in certain circumstances. | ||
| That's a huge problem. | ||
| That's not something that we should just bring to Dulles Airport in the span of a weekend. | ||
| So we're going to continue to push Congress to think critically and clearly about the problem that they are setting up, trying to relieve people of the circumstances that they're facing in Afghanistan. | ||
| Okay, we're going to have this statement up. | ||
| It's from Ken Cuccinelli, who's a senior fellow over there in Russ Vought, who's the president of the Center for Renewing America. | ||
| Russ, real quickly, you're the top guy when you're in the OMB about this. | ||
| You were worried about the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve every day of your existence over there. | ||
| What is going on right now in Congress? | ||
| Can you tell people where do we stand with all this? | ||
| You've got a tree and a half here, three and a half tree in there. | ||
| The debt ceiling hasn't been increased. | ||
| What is the current status? | ||
| Yeah, a couple different leverage points. | ||
| Right now, this week, they passed the budget resolution and they used a procedural smoke screen so that they could get the moderate votes to go along with it and make it a party-line vote. | ||
| But that will set up a series of legislating over the course of the fall that will be where the actual bill gets written and that gets passed. | ||
| And that'll have all of the liberal wish list and cradle-to-grave government expansion that Biden is pushing. | ||
| We'll have some opportunities to oppose that. | ||
| But we've got two big leverage points coming up. | ||
| That's the debt limit and that's the appropriations process. | ||
| Those are must-pass bills, generally, and so those will be opportunities for Republicans to leverage and push back on the Biden administration. | ||
| It's critical that they use those leverage points. | ||
| That firestorm's coming back in mid to late September, correct? | ||
| Is that what you're telling us? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Russ, you're doing an amazing job. | ||
| How do people track you down? | ||
| How are they following you on social media? | ||
| How do they get to the Center for Renewing America? | ||
| AmericaRenewing.com and you can get me an at Russ vote on either Getter or Twitter. | ||
| Russ, thank you very much for joining us. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Maureen, real quickly about the PTSD problem. | ||
| I know veterans out there, we want every veteran, particularly the Afghan veterans, that are questioning what, you know, the years there, their buddies, their units. | ||
| Make sure you're reaching out to people right now. | ||
| We need you. | ||
| We need you in this current fight. | ||
| We need you in this fight here in this country. | ||
| We need every veteran. | ||
| Every veteran. | ||
| Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gulf War, Vietnam. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| The Cold War. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Korea. | ||
| If you're still hanging in there. | ||
| WW2. | ||
| Right? | ||
| We need you. | ||
| We need every veteran to stand and deliver here. | ||
| What's the latest you're hearing on the PTSD problem, Maureen? | ||
| I'm hearing that What is going on in Afghanistan is triggering a lot of vets with PTSD. | ||
| And that means that veterans need to reach out to the crisis hotline, to the VA for assistance and anyone in the war room posse. | ||
| I encourage you to reach out to any veteran, you know, it doesn't have to be a member of the goal that fought in the global war on terror and check on them. | ||
| Don't act like you know what they're going through, but just reach out and let them know that you were there for them. | ||
| Ask them if they're okay and if they need anything. | ||
| And sometimes vets will not want to reach out, but just let them know that you're there for them. | ||
| Yeah, a lot of the vets are the strong, silent type. | ||
| You got to kind of, you know, you're going to have to ask. | ||
| Let's bring in Boris Epstein. | ||
| Boris, a lot going on everywhere. | ||
| You're seeing the poll numbers of this guy collapse. | ||
| The regime, the Biden regime is collapsing, collapsing before our eyes. | ||
| No Republican should offer any assistance to this regime. | ||
| This is a fiasco. | ||
| Elections have consequences. | ||
| Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences because there's no support for the guy. | ||
| It's in free fall. | ||
| We have a failed presidency already. | ||
| Boris, you've got more developments. | ||
| You think the Biden administration is in bad shape now? | ||
| Hammers are about to be dropped all over. | ||
| Tell us what's going on. | ||
| Steve, great to be with you. | ||
| Honored to be here in Getter Studios in New York today. | ||
| And let me tell you that this administration, the Joe Biden administration, is even in worse shape than any of us could imagine. | ||
| And I wrote back in March for Newsweek saying that this was a rudderless, rudderless White House. | ||
| If it was bad then, it's even worse now. | ||
| Here's what's coming. | ||
| There's a report that's going to come out of Arizona on the audit in the next several days. | ||
| It may be public in the next week or so. | ||
| And that is going to have From what I understand, and from what is out there, let's put it that way, it's going to have dramatic information about the swings in the number of ballots between what was certified and what has been counted during the recount. | ||
| There are in magnitude, many times, the difference between President Trump and Joe Biden when they finished counting, when they finished counting in Arizona. | ||
| And that's just Maricopa County. | ||
| From there, you're gonna see Wendy Rogers' petition blow up on decertification. | ||
| And I think you will see, likely, full forensic audits in Pinal and Pima and other counties in Arizona. | ||
| Again, major, major information coming on Arizona. | ||
| In Pennsylvania, always credit where credit is due. | ||
| State Senate President Jake Corman is doing the right thing. | ||
| He's convening hearings on the full forensic audit in Pennsylvania, and from what I understand, there is more major action coming that may not even be tied to any single county, but maybe for the state as a whole. | ||
| Jake Corman is doing the right thing, and I fully believe it is because of the strength of the MAGA movement, The MAGA Posse and the MAGA Brain Trust, that is the viewership and the audience of this show, they've got Jay Corman's back, they let him hear their voice, he heard them loud and clear, and now the right thing is happening in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Are you telling me you're hearing that Jay Corman's actually going to get some subpoenas? | ||
| Because Shapiro's not turning this stuff over. | ||
| He's already told them, don't turn it over. | ||
| If we're going to throw it down, let's throw it down right now. | ||
| Look, I don't blame Shapiro. | ||
| I understand what he's doing. | ||
| He wants to be governor. | ||
| He wants to be a Democratic governor. | ||
| He's got a fundraise off the war room. | ||
| He's already blown us up every day. | ||
| I get what Shapiro's doing politically. | ||
| It's obviously not right. | ||
| But the only thing that's going to get there is subpoenas. | ||
| Do you anticipate subpoenas coming out of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, sir? | ||
| Well, look right at the op-ed that Jake Corman put out, and he specifically said we're going to use our subpoena power, that the state senate's going to use their subpoena power. | ||
| Everything I'm hearing today, now 48 hours after that op-ed, that those are words that are full of power, full of strength. | ||
| I do believe that subpoenas are going to come down sooner rather than later in Pennsylvania. | ||
| That freight train of audits is going from Arizona to Pennsylvania and now just a couple of weeks until that hearing in Georgia on the 140,000 ballots being unsealed in Fulton County which is Atlanta. | ||
| And there's already a recount plan for Wisconsin in September. | ||
| Wisconsin where there's the clearest evidence of fraud. | ||
| We know from prior audits over 200,000 unlawful ballots, only 20,000 difference. | ||
| Folks I understand they call it differently but Wisconsin is starting a full forensic Correct. | ||
| They're doing it. | ||
| Reince Priebus did it the other day on the show, did it on John Frederick's Radio Network. | ||
| More people ought to book him. | ||
| Reince takes about eight minutes, he walks you through, you totally get it. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, understand, Arizona, we said the domino, you've got Georgia's in a range ward down there to take control of Fulton County. | ||
| You've got Corman coming to subpoenas. | ||
| Wisconsin started. | ||
| I met the judge at the Cyber Symposium. | ||
| I met the retired Supreme Court Justice. | ||
| He's got a whole plan. | ||
| He's got page after page. | ||
| They're ripping. | ||
| The media doesn't want to focus on it because Wisconsin is so easy to prove, right? | ||
| You've got these Wisconsin guys. | ||
| They're not wild-eyed war room types. | ||
| These are steady eddies and they're saying, hey, we're going to get to the bottom of this. | ||
| And what really galls them is that 200,000 You know resident that registered vote the registered voters that went away. | ||
| They just kind of wrote him off here a couple weeks ago Whoa, what are you doing here? | ||
| Dude the canvas not the count real quickly. | ||
| I got to ask you. | ||
| Let's flip back to I know you got other news We'll get to that tomorrow on the elections, but I got to ask you about Afghanistan and this is not about messaging This is about the coordinating of decision-making. | ||
| This is why this administration is in a freefall and In a total free fall. | ||
| And no one should assist him in doing anything. | ||
| Boris, have you seen this? | ||
| Between State Department and Pentagon having statements and different things happening on the ground. | ||
| Planes coming in, planes going out. | ||
| They don't even know the numbers. | ||
| I mean, talk to us about a government that cannot function. | ||
| Boris Epstein. | ||
| Steve, the Department of Defense put out a picture saying, this is an American plane. | ||
| A liberal reporter zoomed in and said, nope, that's a plane from the UAE, the United Arab Emirates. | ||
| That is how dysfunctional, that is how pathetic this government is, the Biden government is right now. | ||
| It is absolutely unacceptable, and it's driving Biden's approvals way into the 20s. | ||
| You better believe it. | ||
| You heard it here loud and clear. | ||
| Joe Biden is dropping like a rock with the American people, and I will be shocked if it's not in the low 20s approval rating with independents, and that's a leading indicator, 20% overall in the next couple of weeks. | ||
| This is a total unmitigated disaster, the type of which a hegemon country has never seen. | ||
| Has never seen. | ||
| That is the kind of embarrassment that this is. | ||
| The UAE is running laps around us in terms of getting people out of Afghanistan. | ||
| How does that make people feel? | ||
| I tweeted today, there's a woman pleading to the president to get her out. | ||
| Real quickly, by the way, they're looking at maybe 1,500 or more 2,000 hostages, okay? | ||
| Real quickly, about the ability to not get anything done, he doesn't have any political capital, right? | ||
| Right now, do you think Joe Biden could actually push any legislation through Congress? | ||
| 30 seconds. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| Joe Biden is an albatross. | ||
| He has negative political capital. | ||
| And Republicans, don't you dare play along. | ||
| Don't you dare give in to Joe Biden. | ||
| Stand strong. | ||
| The time is now. | ||
| The Democrats are in a terrible state. | ||
| We're going to win over 60 seats in 2022 and win the presidency in 2024. | ||
| Give us your social media handles, Boris. | ||
| Know that about a new website coming. | ||
| Go to it now. | ||
| Sign up. | ||
| BorisEP. | ||
| www.borisep.com. | ||
| Coming in super hot on Getter. | ||
| BorisEP. | ||
| Add BorisEP on Twitter. | ||
| Boris underscore Epstein coming in hot on the Gram. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Stay strong. | ||
| Okay, we'll be back in a second. | ||
| We've got Chris Kobach, Captain Bannon, both in the War Room next. | ||
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| Action, action, action. | ||
| Speaking of action, Mo Bannon's very interesting tweet from someone named Army Dog. | ||
| Can you read that tweet? | ||
| Very important. | ||
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| It says, so I hear that Biden wants to now stop the VA benefits to veterans who won't get vaccinated. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Now it's a effing time. | ||
| This, if this is in fact, if this is in fact true, then Veterans with PTSD, especially those from PTSD from the Global War on Terror, it's going to increase suicide rates because they will not be getting the care that they need at the VA hospitals if, in fact, they deny care to veterans that have not been vaccinated. | ||
| By the way, Daily Mail, we're going to have this tomorrow. | ||
| Daily Mail's got a story. | ||
| I think it's the number two story up right now. | ||
| Daily Mail saying they're going to court-martial 800,000 troops. | ||
| They're talking about court-martialing 800,000 troops and won't take the vaccine. | ||
| We'll get into all that. | ||
| Just reporting with Daily Mail, saying we're getting to drill down on that big time tomorrow about these vaccines and the United States military. | ||
| Not that the U.S. | ||
| military Has anything more to do than get critical race theory jammed down his throat. | ||
| Now it's being called back in to save the bacon of the globalists in the Biden administration. | ||
| Andrea Mitchell and her buddies in Afghanistan. | ||
| Want to now go to Chris Kobach. | ||
| Chris, you're the top guy we've had on immigration for years and years and years. | ||
| A couple things. | ||
| Number one, I gotta ask you about, Russ Vogt was on, you know Russ very well, about this Afghani situation with people that, you know, we're interpreters, we're commandos, we're guys that helped us, but you now got this thing that they're in Dulles Airport, they're totally unvetted, right? | ||
| You can't do vetting like they're trying to do. | ||
| What are your thoughts on that, sir? | ||
| Two things, Steve. | ||
| One is that the ones who did help the United States and the U.S. | ||
| military in Afghanistan are the paradigm of what we define a refugee to be. | ||
| Someone who is in danger by the new government of a country because of his membership in a particular group. | ||
| In this case, the group of Afghan nationals who helped the United States. | ||
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So those are the kind of refugees Is that our country has a tradition of absolutely welcoming. | |
| The problem is that the Obama administration screwed this up by forcing it to be done in such a rushed way. | ||
| The proper way to do this would have been to have a period of two months more, where they're gradually vetting these individuals to make sure that they're not terrorists, not Taliban members themselves. | ||
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| We've got these individuals being flown in a rushed fashion into Dulles. | ||
| Talk to me about the Supreme Court. | ||
| You've gone and argued many times about immigration. | ||
| availability of witnesses and documents that are probably back behind in Afghanistan. So the screening is going to be tougher now because of the way the Biden administration rushed this. | ||
| Talk to me about the Supreme Court. You've gone and argued many times about immigration. Tell us about this victory you had this week from the Supreme Court. | ||
| Big, big deal. | ||
| It is huge. | ||
| So the state of Texas and the state of Missouri filed this lawsuit in district court in Texas saying that the MPP, the Migrant Protection Protocol, the Remain in Mexico policy, is To remove it, the way the Biden administration did, violates the Administrative Procedure Act. | ||
| It also violates a provision of federal law that says you can't just be releasing aliens into the United States at will in the way that the Biden administration is doing. | ||
| Anyway, it was a great opinion, very long, thorough opinion by a district judge in Texas. | ||
| The Justice Department Basically freaks out, as is the DHS. | ||
| Like, oh no, we have to go back to remain in Mexico. | ||
| They went to the Fifth Circuit seeking a stay of the judge's injunction. | ||
| Fifth Circuit said no way. | ||
| And they went to the Supreme Court seeking a stay of the injunction. | ||
| Again, the Supreme Court said no way. | ||
| So this is huge. | ||
| Now the DHS, the Biden administration, is under a court order to restart the remain in Mexico policy. | ||
| That is one of the single most important things we can do to solve the crisis at the border. | ||
| Interestingly, DHS came out with a statement, I believe it was this morning, saying they will begin the process of talking to their Mexican counterparts. | ||
| That sends an alarm bell in my mind, sounds an alarm bell, because they're beginning, they're starting to begin. | ||
| No, they should be immediately putting these people into Mexico rather than starting some sort of negotiation with the Mexican government. | ||
| Our statutes make it very clear that's what they're supposed to do. | ||
| Hopefully, DHS will comply quickly with this court order, but it is a big deal, Steve. | ||
| I mean, this is a game changer. | ||
| And by the way, we owe you a lot of thanks in getting this done. | ||
| I want to go now. | ||
| You're representing a bunch of Texas sheriffs. | ||
| Explain what's happening there, because it's kind of along the similar lines. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| Think of it this way. | ||
| The case that Texas brought with Missouri is to basically solve the problem at the border itself. | ||
| Where these individuals are coming in when they should actually be asked to remain in Mexico while they're often fraudulent asylum claims are being processed. | ||
| Our case is on behalf of Texas sheriffs and it's about interior enforcement. | ||
| The Biden administration has issued these orders that have shut down ICE and the vast majority of illegal aliens who would have been removed and who are required to be removed and detained under federal law are not being detained or removed. | ||
| It's a violation of law. | ||
| So our sheriffs Uh, have filed a motion for preliminary injunction in the U.S. | ||
| District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Galveston. | ||
| And, uh, that the final briefing on that motion was just concluded two days ago. | ||
| But one of the things that, uh, many people will be interested in is in our brief, we describe what there have been rumors about for many months and there it's, but the Biden administration has not publicized this. | ||
| and that is that the Border Patrol, in at least two sectors on the border, has been releasing aliens into the United States without a notice to appear. | ||
| Now, many people may not be familiar with what a notice to appear is. | ||
| A notice to appear is a charging document that says, we're releasing you, but you have a duty, you have a legal obligation to show up at an immigration court to be deported, and if you wanna argue your asylum claim there, you can do so. | ||
| But the Border Patrol has been turning people loose without any notice to appear. | ||
| Instead, they're issuing some new thing called a Notice to Report, which is a request to please show up at an INS office sometime in the next 60 days so that the INS can begin, or sorry, so that ICE can begin the process of deporting you. | ||
| It's kind of a joke in the view of many officers because... It's not kind of a joke. | ||
| It's not kind of a joke. | ||
| It's a total joke, and it's a cover. | ||
| Essentially, they're just releasing people into the United States to just go take off, hang out, and become an illegal alien, right? | ||
| And drive down wages, essentially, is what they're doing, correct? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And here's one legal aspect of it that's kind of important, and that is, That when you issue a notice to appear and say you're an illegal alien and you don't show up, the court will issue a removal order. | ||
| They will deport you in absentia without you being there. | ||
| And that's a big deal. | ||
| With this notice to report, if the alien doesn't show up, it doesn't mean that there's no judge who is authorized to, at that point, issue a removal order. | ||
| So it gives them a better standing in the United States legally, although they're illegal anyway, but they don't have a removal order against them. | ||
| Through this notice to report. | ||
| So it's a very pernicious thing that the Biden administration has been doing, and we reviewed the details of it in our filing. | ||
| We'll make sure we get the filing in there real quickly. | ||
| Governor Abbott keeps talking, he's building a wall, now he's running for re-election, he's, you know, he's a fire-breathing, you know, doesn't want anybody in here. | ||
| Does he have these sheriffs back? | ||
| If the governor was doing his job, why do they need Chris Kobach? | ||
| I'm missing something here, I know you're going to explain it to me. | ||
| If the governor of Texas had the sheriffs, these are not federal officers, they're essentially state officers or they're officers of these counties that are part of the system of the state of Texas. | ||
| Where's Abbott? | ||
| You know, it's been interesting representing the sheriffs in this litigation. | ||
| There is a lot of frustration with the speed with which the state of Texas has come in and provided assistance and with the amount of assistance that they're provided. | ||
| Now, the state has in recent weeks tried to, you know, pick up its pace and try to address the sheriff's needs. | ||
| But, you know, think of it this way. | ||
| The sheriffs are on the front line. | ||
| They are the ones who are investigating the crimes when cars get stolen. | ||
| When fences get cut, when people are being abducted, when other property is stolen, they're the ones right there dealing with the illegal alien surge. | ||
| And, you know, Austin, Texas is trying to respond, trying to, and they are doing a lot of things, especially the Attorney General's office. | ||
| I mean, they're doing an extremely good job. | ||
| But the, but the sheriffs have been asking the governor for help. | ||
| That help, you know, takes the form of building walls, providing detention facilities for the illegal aliens who are captured and the smugglers. | ||
| And they have complained because they haven't seen quick enough response. | ||
| But certainly in recent weeks, the governor's office is trying to pick it up. | ||
| Chris, you're at the forefront of this. | ||
| You're one of the best guys in the country. | ||
| What's the site? | ||
| What's your group? | ||
| How do people get to you? | ||
| How are they following you on social media? | ||
| Yeah, the organization that is doing this work that I'm serving as general counsel at is called the Alliance for Free Citizens. | ||
| www.AllianceForFreeCitizens.org, all spelled out. | ||
| Um, for my, my website personally is just ChrisKobach.com. | ||
| K-R-I-S-K-O-B-A-C-H.com. | ||
| Are you on social media? | ||
| Are you on Getter or Twitter? | ||
| Uh, yeah, on Twitter at, uh, Kobach, ChrisKobach1787. | ||
| Okay, perfect. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Let's bring in Phillip Patrick now from Birch Gold. | ||
| Phillip, we had Russ vote on here asking about all these bills are passing. | ||
| I sent you this Bloomberg article which blows my head up about the $4 trillion. | ||
| Was it $438 million every hour? | ||
| Now we're in this quagmire in Afghanistan, trying to extract ourselves, but the CCP is all over the Eurasian landmass, they're looking at Taiwan, the pressure on the dollar. | ||
| When you sit there as a precious metals guy and you see what we're talking about, over and above the 4 trillion, what we're going to add to the balance sheet, walk us through your analysis as a gold and precious metals expert. | ||
| Yeah, look, we've talked a lot about spending. | ||
| Obviously, congressional spending has been very topical for the last couple of weeks, but it's not just Congress that's being loose with fiscal affairs here. | ||
| The Fed has too, right? | ||
| The Fed has been purchasing bonds hand over fist since 2008. | ||
| The rate has accelerated dramatically during COVID. | ||
| Bond buying by the Fed has doubled in the last 18 months from $4 to $8 trillion. | ||
| But as you point out, it's not just here in the United States, right? | ||
| To put the amount of global spending into perspective, it's been $834 million an hour for the last 18 months in bond buying programs, essentially an attempt to keep the biggest stock market rally of a generation going. | ||
| So, it's happening globally, and the U.S. | ||
| is certainly leading the way in terms of Fed spending for sure. | ||
| Hold on, hang on. | ||
| When you say the Feds buying the Treasury's bonds, ladies and gentlemen, that's a very fancy term, but that would be you, the American people. | ||
| That's a full faith and credit. | ||
| That's not a Japanese insurance company, it's not the CCP, it's not the Gulf Emirates, right? | ||
| That would be good old deplorables. | ||
| You're buying these bonds, right? | ||
| And the Feds kind of acting as your agent. | ||
| Is that not correct, Mr. Philip Patrick? | ||
| Absolutely spot on, yeah. | ||
| And it's, look, it's not new, right? | ||
| Debt has grown massively over the last 15 years, seven times the rate of tax receipts, over four times that of economic growth. | ||
| But the question is, what issues does it create down the line? | ||
| Jeff Gundlach, who's CEO of DoubleLine Capital, he said, and I quote directly, he said, we're growing debt like crazy. | ||
| And he said, as long as we continue to run these policies, we're looking at a roadmap that is clearly headed towards the U.S. | ||
| dollar losing its sole reserve currency status. | ||
| And I think he's absolutely right. | ||
| I think he's absolutely right. | ||
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| I want you to take a break. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| About a minute and a half. | ||
| We're going to come back. | ||
| Mo Bannon's got a report on the VA. | ||
| I've got to talk to you about the reserve currency. | ||
| We're going to get a report from Michael Yan in Afghanistan. | ||
| We've got a lot more to come. | ||
| A special little uh commemoration at the end of the show. | ||
| Once you hang I'll be back in a moment. | ||
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| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, we started with Andrea Mitchell reading the write-out to Blinken, your betters, as the Globalist Project burns to ashes in front of them. | ||
| They're calling on the sons and daughters of the deplorables in the 82nd Airborne, in the Navy SEALs, in the 101st Airborne, in the 18th Airborne Division, in Special Forces Green Berets to go back in and get people out so they're not hostages. We're going to talk about that in a second. | ||
| However, Daily Mail is reporting, Mo, can you quickly read this headline? We'll get more into it tomorrow because I know everybody in our audience's head's going to blow up, particularly when people are talking about PTSD. We've got to get people through this, people that fought, all the casualties we had there, all the injuries, all the deaths. Maureen, read the headline from the Daily Mail, please, ma'am. Pentagon orders all active military to get the vaccine as soon as possible. 800,000 service members still haven't gotten a | ||
| shot and could face court martial if they don't. | ||
| Could face what if they don't, Captain Bannon? | ||
| What could they face? | ||
| Court-martial. | ||
| Okay, so we're now threatening court-martials against the best and the brightest, the finest we've got, right? | ||
| That they always call on, gotta call on them. | ||
| By the way, are they checking their COVID status and their vaccine status there at Kabul Airport? | ||
| Is that what we're checking? | ||
| When they're tossing those babies over the barbed wire to American servicemen and women, the best of this generation, are they checking for COVID? | ||
| Are they doing a test? | ||
| They got a PCR test? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| The phoniness of this is unbelievable, but here's what's happening. | ||
| The administration's, this regime, I'm going to call it, is burning to the ground in front of us, in front of the whole world. | ||
| And the American people see it, and that's why they're 32% among independents, and they're going to be in 20s, they're going to be in the high 20s. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| There's no political capital. | ||
| But there's a lot of damage they can do, that's why it's got to be stopped. | ||
| Philip, just tell me again about the U.S. | ||
| dollar. | ||
| And here's the thing, I just want to make sure, listen, the Treasury's issuing the bonds, the Fed's buying the bonds, but that's really the American people. | ||
| Everybody in this audience, you are essentially buying the bonds, the full credit. | ||
| And what did Philip Patrick say, the buried lead? | ||
| It's driving the biggest stock market rise in history. | ||
| This is the concentration of wealth. | ||
| Because a little bit of taste you get in your 401k, your pension fund, it's the swells on Wall Street that are making the money. | ||
| The top 1%. | ||
| This is the scam. | ||
| Remember, it's your dough. | ||
| It's a beautiful system. | ||
| There's no conspiracy. | ||
| I don't want to hear Bilderberg Group. | ||
| I don't want to hear the Knights Templar, the Illuminatis. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| The Protocols, the Elders of Design. | ||
| You don't need any of it. | ||
| That's what I keep saying. | ||
| They're too complicated. | ||
| The system's pretty straightforward. | ||
| You're just, you're just the mark. | ||
| Everybody in this audience understand you're the mark. | ||
| Philip Patrick, the guys, the dead guys are saying, hey, the pressure on the U.S. | ||
| dollar, and once that collapse, baby, game over. | ||
| The con game, the three-card money is finished. | ||
| Is that correct, sir? | ||
| It's absolutely right. | ||
| Look, we're doing this to ourselves, right? | ||
| Look at what the Fed are doing. | ||
| We've talked about raising the debt ceiling, spending more money, you know, raising the credit card limit while spending more money. | ||
| It's absurd and we're making it easy. | ||
| Listen, China, Russia, they've been putting pressure to remove the dollar as the standard for trade for a long time, right? | ||
| Between 2009 and 2020, January of both. | ||
| They signed bilateral swap agreements with 41 other countries, including Russia, right? | ||
| Russia and China's share of trade in dollars fell below 50%. | ||
| It was 90% five years ago, in 2015, six years ago. | ||
| So it's significant. | ||
| And what are we doing here in the United States? | ||
| We're making the case for China, right? | ||
| We're making it easy for them. | ||
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Get off the dollar. | |
| You're going to go to London next week. | ||
| We've got reports from you there. | ||
| How do people get to you right now? | ||
| Because it gets your 20-page report. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| So for the 20-page reports, birchgold.com forward slash Bannon. | ||
| A lot of good information there. | ||
| If you want to catch us on Twitter, it's at birchgold. | ||
| You're amazing, Phillip. | ||
| We'll talk next week. | ||
| The dollar, what pressure it's under. | ||
| And we're doing it to ourselves. | ||
| By the way, Phillip, just remember, this time it's completely different. | ||
| This time it's going to be different. | ||
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| That's what they say. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| This time it's going to be different. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay, I want to bring in Michael Yan. | ||
| Michael, you had an amazing report this morning. | ||
| We only got a minute or two. | ||
| The Secretary of State, Michael, is saying it's 1,500 people. | ||
| They may be left behind. | ||
| What is your reporting telling you? | ||
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| And we know Sec State just lies constantly. | ||
| We see Jim Pisocki right now trying to throw a guilt trip on Eric Prince for charging $6,500 per person to get him out. | ||
| To me, that's an incredible deal. | ||
| I don't even know how he would do it that cheaply. | ||
| Helicopters are expensive. | ||
| They must have a lot of volunteers involved in helping to get them out. | ||
| Uh, it's, uh, the United States has completely failed. | ||
| It's not like you can just teletransport yourself out of there for free. | ||
| Gas costs money. | ||
| Helicopters cost money. | ||
| I see Congressman Tom Tiffany, whom I recently took into the Darien Gap. | ||
| He's a very courageous man. | ||
| I took him out into the jungle here in Panama to see migrants coming across the jungle. | ||
| He's talking about vetting processes that are necessary for Afghans. | ||
| Afghans need rescue just like everybody else. | ||
| There's a lot of Christians, Afghans trying to get out, and others, and they're having Extreme difficulty. | ||
| Of course, they're all facing murder and every sort of torture. | ||
| And so right now, my concern is I may actually go over into theater to try to help coordinate some of these things. | ||
| These are not going to end on the 31st of August. | ||
| There are going to be private people that are going to still be getting people out. | ||
| I may go there and do the best I can, as I see many other people are doing, because this is coming down to a Dunkirk. | ||
| And if people like Eric Prince don't stand up and don't get in there, it's going to be private money, it's going to be private operators, ex-SEALs, ex-Green Berets, ex-Delta Rangers, it's going to be those guys that are getting people out. | ||
| Michael, thank you very much. | ||
| We'll have you back on tomorrow. | ||
| Put all your social media up in the live chat and on the podcast, sir. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Michael Young, best combat correspondent we ever had in Afghanistan. | ||
| Thank you very much, sir. | ||
| Okay, Charlie Watts, 80 years old, left the yard. | ||
| This is, by the way, the key member, they said the key member of the Rolling Stones. | ||
| want to go out with one of his best songs. | ||
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I wanted painted black. No colors anymore, I want them to turn black. | |
| I see the girls, the white dress, they're messed up afloat. | ||
| I have to turn my head until my darkness goes. | ||
| I see a line of cars and they're all painted black. | ||
| With flowers and my love hope never to come back. | ||
| I see people turn their heads and quickly look away. | ||
| Like a newborn baby it just happens every day. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| I look inside myself and see my heart is black. | ||
| I see my red door, I must have it painted black. | ||
| Maybe then I'll fade away as I have to face the facts. | ||
| Not easy facing up when your whole world is black. |
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