Aug. 27, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| War Room, Extraction Under Fire, our special this morning on the 245th anniversary of the American Thermopylae in Brooklyn, New York. | ||
| We have Patrick K. O'Donnell, the combat historian. | ||
| The first extraction under fire in American history took place in Brooklyn Heights a couple days later. | ||
| We're going to get into all that, plus at 5 o'clock at night, 5 to 7, another special. | ||
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| I had a short technical problem. | ||
| People in the audience ought to understand we're under DDoS attacks 24-7, right? | ||
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| Do we have General Flynn? | ||
| Is General Flynn back up? | ||
| We're going to try to get to General Flynn. | ||
| We'll get General Flynn momentarily. | ||
| Okay, Rahim, your assessment of what... I know Kirby's giving a press conference over at the Pentagon. | ||
| We'll get General Flynn up as soon as... We'll bring him back as soon as we get him up. | ||
| Yeah, I just want to make people aware of the latest developments here as well. | ||
| Kirby's up there talking about where Afghan refugees will be placed in the United States. | ||
| That was supposed to be the press conference. | ||
| They were going to spend all the afternoon about the refugees coming to America. | ||
| That was the whole thing that Biden was actually going to address before the debacle at the Abbey Gate. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| Because that's a higher priority for them than actually getting the Marines out. | ||
| Quite clear that it is either a higher priority or at least the same level of priority as getting Americans out of Afghanistan. | ||
| American citizens. | ||
| They're talking about Quantico now, they're talking about the Air Force Base in New Mexico, and they're talking about Virginia as well. | ||
| Yeah, Fort Camp Pickett down in, that's down in, right south of Quantico. | ||
| So Virginia is going to be loaded up with refugees. | ||
| Remember, We absolutely believe that you've got to take care of our partners over there, but they should stay in region. | ||
| There's plenty of bases over there to bring people to the United States. | ||
| Sends a very bad impression, right? | ||
| Working with the United States doesn't get you a ticket to the United States. | ||
| It's supposed to make sure your country is a free country, right? | ||
| And so they should stay in the region. | ||
| I still don't understand. | ||
| I mean, it's the same point over and over again. | ||
| I still don't understand how it helps the country to take away its warfighters, right? | ||
| The people who may be able to mount some kind of a response to Taliban or ISIS-K takeover. | ||
| Oh, we just take out everybody else. | ||
| Okay, now we've solved a technical problem. | ||
| We've got General Flynn. | ||
| General Flynn, can you give our audience your situation report, particularly on an extraction under fire, what has happened so far, and what you believe needs to happen? | ||
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Yeah, so first of all, thanks Steve and team and your audience. | |
| So first of all, our nation is in an extreme crisis right now of leadership. | ||
| And so focusing specifically on the actions on the ground and in Afghanistan, and I know you've had some great guests on, Don Bolduck and Eric and John Bennett are great friends of mine. | ||
| And so I'm sure that they've laid out a lot of this, but for the audience that's listening, this is what we call a noncombatant evacuation operation under duress. | ||
| And I am now referring to this as sort of our nation's Alamo, because that's what it is. | ||
| We have been encircled by the enemy, an enemy that we have been fighting and killing for 20 years, the better part of 20 years. | ||
| And they now have us encircled, and we have a political leadership that is directing that we work with these thugs. | ||
| So this is an Alamo-type situation. | ||
| The end result is not going to be good. | ||
| Our number one priority, our absolutely number one priority, should be American citizens. | ||
| We should be Extracting every American citizen that is on the ground behind enemy lines right now. | ||
| And I know that the units that are there, the Marines, the Army forces that are there, the Air Force elements that are flying aircraft in and out of there. | ||
| They're incredibly dangerous situation. | ||
| A noncombatant evacuation operation, meaning you're going to evacuate essentially civilians. | ||
| And in this case, first priority must be U.S. | ||
| citizens. | ||
| All the other people that helped us throughout These last couple of decades, you know, they were brave and they helped us, but that's not our first priority. | ||
| And that may sound harsh, but that's life. | ||
| That's warfare. | ||
| And life is hard. | ||
| So the first priority is American citizens. | ||
| And then we have to start worrying about getting our men and women, our uniformed men and women out of there safe and sound. | ||
| So the kinds of things that are happening, I guarantee you, I guarantee you that at least there's three primary gates around that encircle that airfield. | ||
| Three giant gates, too. | ||
| And they are swarmed with people, people begging for their lives, people trying to get out of there. | ||
| And what happened yesterday with this brutal attack is not as the White House is trying to try to slide away from. | ||
| It's not an argument between ISIS-K, which is just absolute noise. | ||
| All of these enemy elements are all the same. | ||
| They're one and the same. | ||
| They're a radical form of Islamist ideology. | ||
| And you can call them what you want, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS-K, the Haqqani Network, Ansar al-Salami, you can call them whatever you want, they're all one and the same. | ||
| Yesterday's attack was a message, was a big finger in the air to the United States of America saying, don't you dare think about leaving on any other day than what we've dictated to you, which is the end of this month, the 31st. | ||
| So we've been dictated to by our enemy, And this administration has basically succumbed to that. | ||
| And as I said the other day in another commentary that I wrote about was that we've essentially surrendered. | ||
| You can go back a week or so when Biden was talking about trading with the Taliban. | ||
| He mentioned the idea that we might be able to trade with them in one of his speeches. | ||
| And I knew then this was a complete, utter, and total surrender. | ||
| To an enemy force that, for your audience, this is not an enemy that we can work with. | ||
| The one thing about this particular war is we have done a lot of killing and a lot of capturing, but primarily a lot of killing in the last 20 years. | ||
| You think that these people are all of a sudden going to go, oh okay, everything's fine, we're going to follow the Geneva Conventions, we're going to have some type of nice little table that we're going to sit across and we're going to come up with some conditions? | ||
| No. | ||
| This is the worst type of warfare that we have ever experienced and it's going to get worse. | ||
| People need to understand, American people need to shore up and understand that the sacrifices that we are about to see and the brutality that we are about to experience in the coming weeks, days, weeks, and months against any American citizen that is left behind, particularly women. | ||
| And this is not a kinder, gentler enemy. | ||
| Other former military guys that have gotten out there, and I heard one admiral talking the other day about this is maybe a Taliban 2.0. | ||
| Bullshit. | ||
| Excuse my Irish. | ||
| This is not a Taliban 2.0. | ||
| This is a relentless, this is a thuggery type of enemy that they are going to be brutal. | ||
| They are going to try to get as many Americans as they can possibly get their hands on, and America will be held hostage for a long time. | ||
| Unless we make a commitment, unless we make a commitment, Steve, and I don't think it's going to come out of the leader in the White House right now, or the administrator in the White House. | ||
| I'd call him that because he's not a leader. | ||
| Unless the leadership in this country decides to actually use the capabilities that we have in the military, and we definitely have capabilities in the military, the United States of America still has options. | ||
| The United States of America, if given, particularly the military, if given the task, And it will be a brutal evacuation, but nonetheless, there will be far more lives saved, American lives saved. | ||
| All the other lives, we will do our best. | ||
| All this nonsense, and when I watched the Pentagon briefing yesterday, and I haven't heard one today yet, They're all, what they're trying to do is they're trying to whitewash in front of the American people. | ||
| They're trying to whitewash by saying, well, we've had, you know, nine sorties a day. | ||
| We've had, you know, 7,000 people an hour. | ||
| They start throwing these numbers out as though we've actually accomplished something. | ||
| And the central command commander, who I know well, General McKenzie, he is responsible, overall responsible for all operations in Afghanistan. | ||
| When he started to talk about This was after the brutal attack against our great Marines yesterday. | ||
| I do want to talk about them in a second here. | ||
| But after that attack, he says, intelligence is now telling us that there could be car bombs. | ||
| And we have Apache helicopters on the runway that we're ready to use at any moment. | ||
| I mean, it was surreal. | ||
| And it was a canned statement. | ||
| And as I was watching, after about 30 seconds, I said, This guy didn't prepare this statement. | ||
| This statement was prepared by a political operative who said, you're going to get in front of the cameras and you're going to say this. | ||
| Last comment on this diatribe, Stephen. | ||
| I appreciate you letting me go on and on. | ||
| Last comment is that the statement by the President Biden yesterday He did not take responsibility for this. | ||
| I don't care what he said early on about the buck stops here. | ||
| He started to point fingers towards the previous administration. | ||
| He started to point fingers towards what he was told by the military. | ||
| So there's going to be, in the coming days, you're going to see some talking points coming out of the left to start to have the blame removed from this administration and shifted elsewhere. | ||
| And there's going to be some people that are going to end up taking the blame for this. | ||
| As far as I'm concerned, the entire chain of command needs to be fired, and that starts with the commander in chief. | ||
| Let me take two seconds, Steve, if I can, and just talk about the... | ||
| Marines and a sailor that was killed yesterday, don't mind. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| General Flynn, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| I want to hold that. | ||
| What you just said was magnificent. | ||
| I want you, as we pivot to the Marines and the medic that gave their lives, and others as well, I want to make sure you have a runway for that. | ||
| So we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
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| to 7, we'll be back. | ||
| And Patrick K. O'Donnell is going to join us. | ||
| By the way, Aaron, Aaron Babbitt is going to join us here momentarily with Darren Beattie. | ||
| We're going to return with General Mike Flynn. | ||
| He just laid out one of the questions we're going to ask General Flynn. | ||
| There's a problem at the White House, but there's also a problem in the military chain of command I don't think this country's ever had. | ||
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Okay? | |
| It's got to be dealt with. | ||
| We're going to return with one of America's heroes and great patriots, General Mike Flynn. | ||
| We'll be back in the War Room. | ||
| Extraction under fire in just a moment. | ||
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Okay, you're live in the war room. | |
| It's 27th August, Year of Our Lord 2021. | ||
| Patrick K. O'Donnell, the Books of the Indispensables, and the Immortals, Washington Immortals. | ||
| It's the 245th anniversary, even as we speak, of the American Thermopylae that took place in Brooklyn today. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Also, the first extraction under fire came with General Washington and his troops from Brooklyn Heights a couple days later. | ||
| Patrick A. O'Donnell is going to do all of it. | ||
| I want to get these books up in the live chat. | ||
| We're going to sell a ton of books today. | ||
| He's going to join us back at 5. | ||
| We get into more detail about this. | ||
| We asked Patrick to come in today because of everything that's going on in Kabul. | ||
| And this has happened in American history before, right? | ||
| We've got a long DNA. | ||
| of taking care of these problems. | ||
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| Okay, I want to go back to General Mike Flynn. | ||
| General, before we... I know you want to talk about the troops themselves, about the Marines and the Corpsmen. | ||
| The others are exposed in harm's way. | ||
| But I got to ask you as a veteran, what was most stunning yesterday? | ||
| We all know that Joe Biden's a hack. | ||
| We all know that Jake Sullivan is not up to the task. | ||
| We know Tony Blinken's a pencil neck. | ||
| We understand. | ||
| That's a given. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| The American people didn't get it because tech oligarchs suppressed it during the campaign. | ||
| And this is why elections have consequences and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences. | ||
| But that aside, I think what most shocked veterans yesterday is the military chain of command. | ||
| McKinsey, Milley, Austin, all of it. | ||
| And it's stunning, stunning. | ||
| And that's why we played Bennett's video, and that's why we played Colonel Scheller's video, because you actually have, you know, a veteran and then you have an active duty lieutenant colonel. | ||
| People are shocked about the rot at the top of the military structure. | ||
| General Flynn, your analysis. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So, you know, the phrase today is that, you know, we have woke generals, right? | ||
| So generals and admirals for both. | ||
| Yeah, I know, you know, that we're not going to get much out of Biden in this administration. | ||
| You're Sullivan Blinken, you mentioned, the National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State. | ||
| I know Secretary of Defense Austin. | ||
| I've known him for 25 years. | ||
| I have lived, slept, trained, operated with that man. | ||
| I know Milley. | ||
| I know McKenzie, Frank McKenzie at Central Command. | ||
| I know the commander on the ground in Afghanistan. | ||
| And I know most of the chiefs of our services, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. | ||
| And when the Chairman gets together with those service chiefs, they get together in a place over in the Pentagon called the tank. | ||
| It's a very special room. | ||
| And if they're giving this kind of nonsense advice to the President of the United States to execute this mission this way, they all should be basically brought up on charges, not just not just resign in disgrace. I mean, that's, that's, I can't, I cannot believe, and this is what's hard for a lot of veterans, Steve, and a lot of us. | ||
| We cannot believe that these people are that incompetent or that, you know, that political, but obviously the incompetency that we are seeing unfold on the ground, and it's really at the, you know, you know, what it's really doing is it's hurting the men and women that are there because they're being put into, into harm's way in something that was very very avoidable. | ||
| So, for all the veterans, and I speak for a lot of veterans, a lot that I'm in touch with, and I know the sentiment of our armed forces, there's no way in the world that our men and women, the sergeants, the corporals, the privates, the lieutenants, the captains, the majors, that they can look up to this leadership and say, yeah, these guys, I'm willing to follow them to hell. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| And I don't think, and at this stage, at this point in time, this is a really dangerous situation where we have senior leaders in our military that are accepting this. | ||
| I mean, you know, Don or one of your other guests might have talked about throwing stars down. | ||
| I would throw those stars away. | ||
| And this is really, you know, I'm sort of starting to refer to this because it's a dangerous situation. | ||
| This is really sort of the 21st century version of the American Alamo. | ||
| It could be that bad. | ||
| And we have a situation on the ground that our men and women are going to do all that they can. | ||
| But don't count on this enemy, you know, like they tried to tell us, like Frank McKenzie tried to tell us or Biden trying to tell us that we can work with them or we're working with them. | ||
| Well, I wouldn't I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them. | ||
| These are dangerous, dangerous people. | ||
| And and this is not going to end well. | ||
| It could. | ||
| It could, as you highlight the Battle of Washington Heights here, where George Washington was really smart. | ||
| And he, like I always like to say, Steve, the best plan has the most options at the last possible minute. | ||
| George Washington operated on that with that sort of model in mind. | ||
| And he was able to save enough of his forces to be able to fight another day. | ||
| And he ended up going on to win. | ||
| So yes, America, we have been here in certain aspects in a situation like this. | ||
| This happens to be a really big situation, though. | ||
| This is bigger than other times we've been here, so we still have options. | ||
| But let me ask you about that, because I think people, now on the 20th anniversary, Instead of commemorating our honored dead at the tip of Manhattan where the attacks took place, in Kabul they're going to be celebrating Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban, all entities that we destroyed and beat. | ||
| Decades ago, and now it's going to be there, and people are now talking about, as Patrick O'Donnell reminds me, that the Haqqani Network is an extension of ISI, the Pakistan Intelligent Forces. | ||
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Yeah, so let me talk about Pakistan. | |
| Terrorist superstate with access to nuclear weapons, General Flynn. | ||
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Yeah, so first of all, that neighborhood, surrounding that neighborhood are five, five Nuclear-armed countries. | |
| Iran, Russia, China, India, Pakistan. | ||
| Pakistan, their strongest partner is with China. | ||
| The big winner, the big strategic, geostrategic, geopolitical winner of this current conflict right now is China. | ||
| Because China controls Pakistan. | ||
| The ISI, which is the intelligence arm, it's like the CIA version in Pakistan, they have been controlling the Haqqani Network. | ||
| They have been controlling the Taliban. | ||
| They have been, in coordination with With the Al-Qaeda and these ISIS elements. | ||
| So they do not want an end. | ||
| And to back up one step, the Americans, we have been funding through our various agencies and activities, we have been funding the ISI for the better part of these last couple of decades. | ||
| And believe me, folks, they're turning on us. | ||
| So the big winner here geostrategically is China. | ||
| That just opened up a large swing gate For China to continue to connect what they call in their Belt Road Initiative, which is a road, rail, and sea network to be able to dominate the world, basically. | ||
| And that's going to be really the end of the day, what comes out of this if we're not smart about how we operate and we don't allow ourselves to get further into the hole here that we're in. | ||
| The other thing, and I'll jump really quickly to the Indo-Pacific region, You know, there's got to be a lot of unease and restlessness right now in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, I mean, Philippines, Australia, because China is going to raise its head in the Indo-Pacific region like it's never done. | ||
| We already see naval and air incursions over Taiwan defense zones. | ||
| So, folks, this is not over. | ||
| This getting out of Afghanistan, the way that we are getting out of Afghanistan, this disastrous plan That was totally avoidable, is not done, and it's not going to be done on the 31st of August. | ||
| I know you want to say something, General Flynn, about the troops, the Marines, took the incoming, and the troops are there today. | ||
| Give your observations and analysis. | ||
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Yes, just briefly, because I know you've got other things going on too, Steve, so first thanks for allowing me on to voice my really experience in this stuff, but for The men and women and those that that gave the ultimate sacrifice yesterday. | |
| And I think it's I think it's 12 Marines, one sailor, a Navy corpsman. | ||
| Their families are probably going to start getting notified today. | ||
| So we should cherish the men and women that continue to serve our country and those that are still there fighting as well as the wounded because there's some seriously wounded Marines as well yesterday. | ||
| But those that are Those that were killed in action, their families are going to be notified in the coming days, probably starting today. | ||
| Their communities are going to start to be notified. | ||
| We cannot thank them enough. | ||
| I mean, we should offer our prayers. | ||
| We should offer whatever it is that we need to offer to support the men and women in uniform and those that are serving as sort of the pointy end of the spear and who are put into harm's way. | ||
| For those people out there in our country, this is not necessarily the boots on the ground that caused this problem. | ||
| This is the suits in Washington, D.C. | ||
| that caused this problem. | ||
| And those are senior—those include senior military leaders who have been wearing suits too long instead of BDUs, battle-dressed uniforms, and they have become complacent. | ||
| Our nation can get out of this in a very—it'd be difficult. | ||
| General Flynn, how do people get to you on social media? | ||
| How do they follow you? | ||
| to have to really find, discover new leadership because the leader in the White House right now, the guy in the White House right now, is not the right person to do it. | ||
| General Flynn, how do people get to you on social media? | ||
| How do they follow you? | ||
| What's your easiest access points? | ||
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They can go to americasfuture.net, americasfuture.net, or they can follow me on, I'll just give my telegram, at realjenflynn, at realjenflynn on telegram. | |
| And I am, you know, I really am adamant that we will come out of this, folks, but it's not going to be without sacrifice, not going to be without commitment, and not going to be without people getting involved in this country like they've never been involved before. | ||
| So thanks for the time, Steve. | ||
| General Flynn, honored to have you on. | ||
| Look forward to having you back. | ||
| Thank you very much for taking time away from your busy schedule. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
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God bless. | |
| General Mike Flynn, a true patriot. | ||
| Raheem, observations. | ||
| Well, the one thing that I've been thinking of since the horrific events of yesterday morning is that that wasn't as bad as it gets. | ||
| That's not going to be as bad as it gets. | ||
| Nobody wants to say that. | ||
| Nobody really wants to think that. | ||
| But we're still at quite the beginning of a lot of this. | ||
| People say this is a war-weary America. | ||
| Hey, you ain't seen war yet. | ||
| It's coming. | ||
| I want people to remember and I want people to pray for the fact that that wasn't an incident that happened yesterday morning. | ||
| This is still going on. | ||
| These people are still in the line of fire. | ||
| These people are there right now, sweating and worrying and having these problems to solve that are unsolvable without the chain of command being on their side. | ||
| And we're just beginning the extraction under fire. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| 245th anniversary today, this very moment of the American Thermopylae. | ||
| We're in the middle of it all. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
| Aaron Babbitt is going to join us to talk about his beloved fallen wife, Ashley Babbitt, next. | ||
| Okay, Extraction Under Fire, it's a War Room special. | ||
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| We pride ourselves on being the top breaking information. | ||
| Yesterday, we broke it I think at 10.30 live on the show, giving our contacts with people like Sam Faddis and Michael Yan, the combat correspondents and the CIA people. | ||
| We broke that there were four Marines killed, not just injured. | ||
| The mainstream media didn't get to that until almost two and a half hours later, and the White House never really fessed up to it until, you know, after CENTCOM did. | ||
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| Senior Airman Ashley Babbitt spent 14 years defending her country as a patriot. | ||
| Her life was ended In this city, right? | ||
| The nation's capital, in the capital itself. | ||
| Her husband, Aaron Babbitt, joins us. | ||
| Raheem's come back to help us get organized. | ||
| Aaron Beatty is going to join us here momentarily. | ||
| Aaron Babbitt, just a point-blank question. | ||
| You saw the interview last night with the Capitol Hill police officer that shot senior airman Ashley Babbitt. | ||
| In your mind, sir, as her husband, was she killed in cold blood? | ||
| I absolutely believe so, for a multitude of reasons. | ||
| You know, Steve, I carried a gun for ten years, private security at a nuclear power plant, another five years in the Marine Corps. | ||
| So, God bless those Marines yesterday in the dock and their families. | ||
| It's absolutely tragic. | ||
| But I'm well-versed in the use of force continuum and the steps you have to go through to discharge a firearm and take a human life. | ||
| This guy skipped every single step and stood off to the side and put a bullet in my wife. | ||
| He claims in that interview that he was yelling and screaming that his throat was hurting so bad. | ||
| You look down that hallway behind him, there's not a single officer that was reacting to his so-called screaming. | ||
| So, and he has conveniently had his mask on the whole time. | ||
| So, apparently he's more scared of COVID than having to, you know, take my wife's life. | ||
| Yeah, look, Aaron, thank you so much for joining us here. | ||
| I watched that interview yesterday with, I mean, disbelief that actually Lester Holt could allow somebody to That's an absolute talking point. | ||
| without any pushback and I'd like to put those points that he made to you. | ||
| Lieutenant Byrd said that he saved quote saved countless lives on January the 6th. | ||
| Aaron do you believe that to be true? Do you believe that to be a talking point by Byrd? | ||
| That's an absolute talking point. In the same interview he said that they were basically stuck in that area once that door was barricaded. | ||
| Am I supposed to believe that there's not about 50 other ways to get out of that house chamber? | ||
| So it's all it's all that whole interview. | ||
| I'm damn sure in my own head that he's had those questions for about a month. | ||
| His attorneys and whoever else helped him script his answers and he's probably done that interview about 30 times with the Lester Holt filling. | ||
| Only thing that was missing was Lester holding his hand during the thing. | ||
| And Aaron, just to confirm, we haven't done that with you. | ||
| You don't know what we're going to ask you here. | ||
| But I believe you're correct that the bird walked into that interview wanting to make certain points. | ||
| And one of the other points he made right at the top of that was his complaints. | ||
| He's been getting a lot of mean messages. | ||
| He says he's been getting a lot of death threats. | ||
| What do you say to that? | ||
| Well, I say suck it up, bud, because January 7, I was inundated at my office, my personal cell, mail, everything, emails. | ||
| I've been getting death threats since January 7th. | ||
| Some of the most horrible crap thrown at me. | ||
| And the only thing I did on January 6th was become a widower. | ||
| So he was actively part of that. | ||
| He murdered my wife. | ||
| I can't have sympathy for it. | ||
| That's a pretty harsh term there, Aaron. | ||
| So your belief as the widower That senior airman Ashley Babbitt, a 14-year veteran, was murdered in cold blood in the nation's capital on January 6th. | ||
| Is that your belief? | ||
| Executed, murdered, assassinated. | ||
| I'll throw out anyone you want. | ||
| I believe all of it. | ||
| There was only one shot fired that day, and it was by him. | ||
| And it was by himself. | ||
| And leading up to that, he's flagging everybody with his pistol inside the house chamber. | ||
| He says he took a combative stance. | ||
| No, he didn't. | ||
| He was rocking back and forth. | ||
| His finger was on and off the trigger. | ||
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| No, no, no. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
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I wouldn't want that in the first place, but there's no way he's doing that. | |
| He has no remorse for what he did. | ||
| You could tell yesterday. | ||
| any of the family at all before this interview? Has he bothered to try and make contact? | ||
| No, no, no, no, not at all. I wouldn't want that in the first place, but there's no way he's doing that. He has no remorse for what he did. You could tell yesterday he was claiming himself to be a victim in that interview. Was your wife, Senior Airman Ashley Babbit, was she a threat to this republic, sir? | ||
| Oh, she was a patriot. | ||
| She was a patriot. | ||
| Her favorite holiday was July 4th, outside of Christmas, man. | ||
| I mean, and they keep trying to say that this is, you know, I guess last week it came out that, you know, 95% they found out was unorganized. | ||
| My wife's situation couldn't have been more unorganized than anybody's because we were sitting down in Cabo For Christmas. | ||
| We always go away for Christmas. | ||
| We leave the country. | ||
| We're down there and she says she wants to go see President Trump speak because they're screwing him out of this thing. | ||
| She thinks it might be the last time, at least for another four years before she gets to see him. | ||
| I kind of laughed it off. | ||
| I was like, you know, we've been off for two weeks, Ashley. | ||
| You know, we're going back to work Monday. | ||
| We kind of need to be there for the business and the guys. | ||
| And we got back and it was January 1st. | ||
| She bought her ticket and she flew out January 5th by herself. | ||
| And I mean, a lot of people want to Take claim and issue with how do you let her go out there by herself? | ||
| We lived there for like. | ||
| Fifteen years. | ||
| I mean, we lived in that area. | ||
| That's where we met. | ||
| We met in Maryland. | ||
| We were just south of D.C. | ||
| She has other friends that are still there. | ||
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So, she just went out there... But hang on a second. | |
| You're saying she's not an insurrectionist. | ||
| You were in Cabo. | ||
| She wanted to go see the President and talk, maybe for the last time. | ||
| She's not an insurrectionist. | ||
| She's not a white supremacist. | ||
| She's not a Christian dominationist. | ||
| She's not any of these other things. | ||
| Neoconfederate. | ||
| We'll throw them all out. | ||
| Was your wife, Senior Airman Ashley Babbitt, was she any of those things, to your knowledge? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| She was a fourth to our combat vet, two to Afghanistan, two to Iraq. | ||
| She loved this country. | ||
| I'm looking over my computer right now with a flag that she still has. | ||
| It's her flag that was hanging off the side of our house and it's still there. | ||
| She walked around loud and proud. | ||
| She didn't care what people thought about her. | ||
| She loved Donald Trump. | ||
| She loved the president. | ||
| She loved where we were going as a nation. | ||
| You know, we live in Southern California, guys, and Ashley would drive around with a life-size head of Donald Trump in her back passenger door on the driver's side, looking like she was driving him around. | ||
| She did not give a damn. | ||
| She wanted people to know that she was loud and proud about her country and her president. | ||
| I want to take you back to that scene that so many of us have watched over and over again from multiple angles, and I can't even begin to imagine how it feels for you, but it feels to me like we're missing some of the picture in there, and I want to get your thoughts on that. | ||
| From the testimony that Bird gave to Lester Holt yesterday, of course he says he was screaming, his voice was painful because he was screaming so much, barking all of these orders. | ||
| But as you say at the beginning of this interview, he stands off to his side, he's got his finger on and off the trigger. | ||
| Nobody else in that hallway behind him appears to be panicking in the way he is. | ||
| And as you say, he's screaming through a mask, which as any of us who've ordered a coffee in recent months knows, you have to scream five, six, seven times louder and louder every single time to even hear what somebody's saying. | ||
| Aaron he also says that he wasn't able to make out what people were saying beyond the other door so how did he expect them to make out what he was saying and then finally your thoughts on the fact that there were police officers standing right behind Ashley in that hallway into which Lieutenant Byrd shot. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| Perfectly stole my first point was that he circled around saying he was screaming and yelling but he couldn't understand what they were saying so exactly how are they supposed to understand what he's saying if he's screaming and then don't forget there was three police in front of Ashley too and standing you know between her and that door and they moved out of the way so this guy Bird at one point in time during the interview too he said he had no idea what was on the other side of that door And he's still shot. | ||
| He could have hit one of those police officers. | ||
| If I worked for this guy or with this guy, I would be absolutely terrified. | ||
| He has no business carrying a gun. | ||
| I wish he left his gun in the bathroom on January 6th and my wife would still be alive. | ||
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| No, I don't. | ||
| just have one final one final question from my end in the interview last night he said quote what I would like to say is to all the families from January the 6th that their family members received injury or loss of life that my heart goes out to them I'm sorry for their loss and what they're dealing with and I pray they find peace and comfort Aaron do you accept that apology from lieutenant | ||
| no no I don't and I won't I think the only reason they put this guy out on the stage is because for the last almost eight months everybody's been saying who killed Ashley Who killed Ashley? | ||
| Who killed Ashley? | ||
| So they're going to try and quiet it down. | ||
| So they're going to put his face out there, put him on, you know, get him, get him on an interview, let Lester handle him with a kid gloves, and then whisk him back to his safe house where he can watch Netflix all day. | ||
| So, Aaron, what is your plan to deal with this? | ||
| And this audience is the most active audience in all media. | ||
| How can they assist, if they so choose? | ||
| Tell us what your plan is. | ||
| This audience is action-oriented, and after hearing your thoughts, there may be a lot of this audience that wants to pitch in here. | ||
| So tell us, what are you doing? | ||
| So, my attorney, Terry Roberts, he established a legal fund. | ||
| I think we have a banner for it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But it's give, send, go. | ||
| And it's justice for Ashley Babbitt. | ||
| And all of that money, they go right to the firm. | ||
| We're facing David versus Goliath fight. | ||
| I mean, everybody in your room knows that right now. | ||
| We're about to have the full weight of the government raining down on us. | ||
| We filed suit, I believe, in April. | ||
| I kind of stay away from that. | ||
| That's definitely Terry's role. | ||
| But from my understanding, going forward from April, it takes six months, just like everything else dealing with the government does. | ||
| It takes forever. | ||
| So it's going to be six months from April to where it starts getting hurt. | ||
| So, okay, so you're suing, we've put up a banner, we've got it, we want everybody to go there and find out more information. | ||
| Before we let you go, Aaron, we open the invitation to come back at any time, right? | ||
| People want to hear the story ongoing. | ||
| That's one thing, is obviously your suit, right? | ||
| But the other is an investigation, and we've heard this kind of in whitewashers, you know, different organizations, nobody knows, kind of done these things, and this guy's off the hook. | ||
| Have any Republican Members of Congress, have any members in authority reached out to you and talked to you about what they can do and how they can help to get this back in and have a real investigation about what really happened to Senior M and Ashley Babbitt? | ||
| The only Congress person that I've spoken to was the night of the 6th and that was Daryl Issa and he was confused as to why he was calling me. | ||
| I later found out it's because my business is in his district in East County. | ||
| I never heard from the congressman that supposedly represents me here in San Diego, and I don't want to at this point. | ||
| But Dr. Paul Gosar, he's in regular contact with my mother-in-law. | ||
| And you got Marjorie Taylor Greene and Louie Gohmert, they're actively championing my wife's name and seeking justice for her. | ||
| But that's half of a percent, and there's still 99.5% out there that don't give a damn. | ||
| Would you want to see a formal, a real formal investigation to get to the bottom of this and hold people accountable and people responsible for the for the killing of your wife? | ||
| Yeah, but whose hands we put that in? | ||
| I mean, it's already been through DOJ. | ||
| It's already been through DC Metro. | ||
| And now, conveniently, last week, we find out that the secret police force known as the Capitol Police investigated themselves. | ||
| To me, that's two guys sitting at a desk saying, it's good. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
| Throw that in the drawer, and they don't even have to talk about it, because they're not subject to FOIA. | ||
| So what was the point of even putting that out there? | ||
| Aaron, we've got to jump, but we're going to figure out how to get to the bottom of this thing, trust me. | ||
| Aaron Babbitt, thank you. | ||
| Aaron, we'll have you back on. | ||
| We're going to have that at the bottom, get it in the live chats. | ||
| We'll take a short commercial break. | ||
| Raheem Patrick will be joined by Darren Beattie in Extraction Under Fire in the War Room. | ||
| Okay, Extraction Under Fire. | ||
| You're in the War Room. | ||
| It's 27 August, Year of the Lord 2021. | ||
| The 245th anniversary of the American Thermopylae. | ||
| Tonight at 5 o'clock for two hours. | ||
| We have another special, but we also have breaking news on the elections. | ||
| Everything going on. | ||
| The Fed Chief today, Patrick K. O'Donnell, is going to join us. | ||
| His book, The Indispensables and the Immortals, are going to be up. | ||
| We don't sell A grunge of those today because he's going to walk through. | ||
| This is historic. | ||
| The American Thermopylae today, 245 years ago, but led to the first extraction under fire. | ||
| As General Bolduc and General Flynn and Eric Prince said, it's in the DNA of our military to do these very tough evolutions and we're going to see one done over the next 72 hours. | ||
| Well, I don't blame him. | ||
| Bird hadn't reached out prior. | ||
| who are jammed for time, I realize today. | ||
| Rahim, fantastic job on the interview. | ||
| Give me your analysis and thoughts. | ||
| Well, I don't blame him. | ||
| Bird hadn't reached out prior, went on TV, and gave an apology while making excuses. | ||
| Oh, I've been getting death threats and oh, you know, I was shouting orders. | ||
| None of it, none of it seemed to me, and I watched it, none of it seemed to me heartfelt. | ||
| I'm, I am taken aback. | ||
| I'm watching the Give Cent Go right now. | ||
| Taken aback by the number of people who are chipping in here. | ||
| I think $5,000 has gone in just over the break. | ||
| We want to 10x that today. | ||
| The audience is just incredible. | ||
| It's GiveSendGo.com forward slash justice for Ashley A-S-H-L-I. | ||
| I just gave 250 bucks. | ||
| I hope everybody else can join me. | ||
| Okay, we're going to have much more of this. | ||
| This is Aaron's first time on here. | ||
| There will be many more. | ||
| I want to go now to Darren Beattie, Revolver.News. | ||
| Revolver and National Pulse have been at the tip of the spear on this thing. | ||
| January 6th, We don't have more time, Darren. | ||
| We want to get more time to spend with you on this. | ||
| But the Ashley Babbitt part of this, give us your analysis. | ||
| I mean, like everyone, I find it to be outrageous. | ||
| And it's a personal tragedy for Ashley Babbitt and her family. | ||
| But it really speaks to the larger political dynamic in our country. | ||
| The unprecedented manner in which the media protected this police officer who shot a protester in cold blood. | ||
| When you juxtapose that to the entire George Floyd situation, which had our nation in apoplexy for months and months on end, and Derek Chauvin and what happened to him, it just goes to show that these events, although tragedies on the personal level, simply play out as part of a proxy war | ||
| Conducted by every dominant institution in this country against the American people, particularly American patriots adjacent to Donald Trump. | ||
| That's what all of this is about. | ||
| And really, it's hard to imagine how we can have a functioning country anymore, or how patriots like Ashley Babbitt can really channel their patriotism in a situation in which all of our institutions are this corrupt. | ||
| And so I think we need some type of accountability for Ashley Babbitt, although as her husband pointed out, it's very hard to see how that can happen, given the nature of these organizations that are tasked with such investigations. | ||
| Well, let's go to that. | ||
| We only got a couple of minutes, but I said yesterday where we should have immediate investigation of what happened and what's happening in Kabul and how we get in this situation to have to have an extraction under fire, right? | ||
| Benny Thompson sending out letters to everybody in town to get all this information by September 9th and have, you know, the MSNBC. | ||
| It's a massive investigation. | ||
| What are your thoughts about that, Darren Beatty? | ||
| Well, I mean, I think we need a massive investigation into all of this, but the bottleneck is how do you choose the right people to investigate and Give them the authority to draw up the information relevant and then have the relevant institutions on board that are willing to implement whatever conclusions come up by the investigative body. | ||
| The Achilles heel in this country right now is its complete lack of accountability and the complete lack of any mechanism for accountability in this sense. | ||
| Until we solve that problem, it's hard to see how we won't continue on into this Disintegrating spiral whereby the United States is completely actuated against the American people and particularly against those who support Trump. | ||
| I gotta ask you, the letter that went out from Thompson and these reviews, it kind of proves the point of Revolver's investigation. | ||
| Were senior members of some of these paramilitary, these groups, whatever they are, were their records requested? | ||
| I noticed when I looked down the list, some names were shockingly missing. | ||
| Mr. Darren Beattie. | ||
| Well, yes, that's an excellent point. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| They've gone into this phase where they're requesting the communication records of everybody and their neighbor, including this guy. | ||
| I'm sure he's a good guy. | ||
| He goes around cleaning up streets on behalf of Trump and so forth. | ||
| That's how far they're reaching. | ||
| And yet, on all the names that appear, one name is conspicuously absent, namely the name of the person who is the founder and leader of the main militia group that they've imputed to this whole operation. | ||
| It seems like they want records on everybody in the entire country, other than the person who leads the so-called militia organization that they blamed all the organizational elements of One Sixth on. | ||
| I've never seen such an exercise in studious neglect and it really underscores the investigative reporting that we've done really saying This is extreme selective prosecution here at the very least. | ||
| And how do you account for the fact that you have all these little fish, not even being thrown, just being thrown in jail, but persecuted in a manner that would make Stalin blush. | ||
| And yet you have the leader of the militia, just not only unindicted, but barely even searched. | ||
| It simply, it doesn't add up. | ||
| Darren, how do people follow you on social media? | ||
| How do they get to revolver.news? | ||
| Because you got to get there to get all the breaking analysis on this. | ||
| You can get me on Twitter at Darren J. Beattie, D-A-R-R-E-N-J-B-E-A-T-T-I-E. | ||
| And as always, Revolver.News, we got a really hot piece on the latest shameful development in our military. | ||
| People are kind of shocked by it and disgusted by it, so go check out that piece on Revolver.News. | ||
| And we do have major 1.6 follow-up pieces in the works, but as always, we have to be very careful, very meticulous, because when these things come out, They sent shockwaves that reverberate throughout the entire nation. | ||
| No, you've changed the whole narrative, Darren Beatty. | ||
| We're going to be back at 5 o'clock for a continuation of Extraction Under Fire. | ||
| We're also going to have election news, we're going to have news about things that are going on with the Federal Reserve, all of that. | ||
| Patrick O'Donnell is going to join us, the author of The Indispensables, Washington's Immorals to the 245th Anniversary. | ||
| Raheem, we got a podcast today? | ||
| Potentially, but bigger than that, the GiveSendGo website just crashed. | ||
| So many people were trying to go to it to donate, so make sure you write down a piece of paper, make sure you go back there today if you can't make a donation right now. | ||
| This audience is the best. | ||
| See you back here at 5 o'clock. | ||
| Everybody, and get your friends to come to 5 o'clock, Extraction of the Fire, afternoon version. | ||
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