Aug. 31, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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From your strategic eyes, was this effort worth it? | |
| I would look any Afghan veteran in the eye and say your sacrifice was worth it, your time in Afghanistan. | ||
| I would look any survivor Gold Star family in the eye and say your service member Their sacrifice mattered deeply. | ||
| And the reason is, for 20 years, there was no attack out of Afghanistan. | ||
| We did find bin Laden. | ||
| We extracted justice, if you will, on bin Laden. | ||
| He sleeps at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. | ||
| And so, that's comfort. | ||
| But it's small comfort, Willie, compared to the numbers you put up, the loss of life, the cost. | ||
| It's immense. | ||
| So, In a very personal way to the veterans today, I would say your sacrifice mattered and will continue to matter for the country going forward. | ||
| But overall, it's been a tragic 20 years for the United States. | ||
| In that sense, I'm glad to see this. | ||
| My son was one of the Marines that died yesterday. | ||
| Your son? | ||
| Sorry, I'm on the radio. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
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My son was one of the Marines that died yesterday. | |
| 20 years and 6 months old, getting ready to come home from freaking Jordan to be with his wife to watch the birth of his son. | ||
| And that feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die. | ||
| I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning to Marines at my door telling me my son was dead. | ||
| So, to have her on right before me and listen to that piece of crap talk about diplomatic crap with freaking Taliban terrorists who just freaking blew up my son and know nothing to not say anything about, oh my god, I'm so sorry for the families. | ||
| So my son is gone. | ||
| And I just want all you Democrats who cheated in the election or who voted for him legitimately, you just killed my son. | ||
| With a dementia-ridden piece of crap who doesn't even know he's in the White House, he still thinks he's a senator. | ||
| First, I just wanted to say that Jared has exemplified so much that any man could ever strive for and made me so proud to watch him undertake this endeavor and going into the Marine Corps. | ||
| He completed his boot camp. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| First, I want to say to both of you, if I may, as a parent, you know, nobody can understand the loss that both of you have gone through. | ||
| I can't imagine the pain that both of you are living through, and I'm very sorry about that. | ||
| Mark, you met with Biden over the weekend. | ||
| How did that go? | ||
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Well initially I wasn't going to meet with him, but then I felt I owed it to my son to at least have some words with him about how I felt and it didn't go well. | |
| He talked a bit more about his own son than he did my son and that didn't sit well with me. | ||
| Your son was a hero. | ||
| I can't imagine the pain. | ||
| I really can't. | ||
| Darren, you said about your son, he had the biggest heart in the world. | ||
| And no parent, and I, as a parent, I think every parent watching right now understands this. | ||
| No parent should have to bury their sons or daughter. | ||
| It's not supposed to work that way. | ||
| He was scheduled to return home on September the 15th and retire and marry his fiancee, Nicole. | ||
| I can't imagine how you're feeling today. | ||
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You know, it's the absolute worst feeling in the world. | |
| Having them be away for so long and doing the job that they all love, there's no doubt about it. | ||
| Being a Marine to these guys is everything. | ||
| And having this happen to these heroes, Every one of them's a hero. | ||
| There's no doubt. | ||
| Every last one of them. | ||
| They... They died with their brothers and their sisters right next to them. | ||
| Doing exactly what they all wanted to do. | ||
| And that is defending this country. | ||
| Why did you choose not to meet with the President, Darren? | ||
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For exactly the reasons you just gave. | |
| We said absolutely not. | ||
| We didn't want to deal with him. | ||
| We didn't want him anywhere near us. | ||
| We as a family decided that that was the way it was going to be. | ||
| In reference to the checking of his watch, that didn't happen just once. | ||
| That happened on every single one that came out of that airplane. | ||
| It happened on every single one of them. | ||
| They would release the salute and he looked down at his watch on every last one, all 13. | ||
| He looked down at his watch. | ||
| And as a father, you know, seeing that and the disrespect and hearing from his former leaders, one of his master sergeants said exactly what you just said. | ||
| That this was avoidable. | ||
| That they left them over there. | ||
| They had them over there and let them down. | ||
| And that, we can't have that. | ||
| It can't happen ever again. | ||
| So what does that look like? | ||
| How does diplomacy get those people out of the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan? | ||
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It's not completely unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world. | |
| I mean, we have Americans that get stranded in countries all the time. | ||
| Okay, we're live in the War Room. | ||
| It is a Tuesday, the 31st of August, the year of our Lord 2021. | ||
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| There you heard from the parents, Kathy McCollum on the radio on the Wilkow Show. | ||
| Mark Schmitz, the father of Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz. | ||
| Of course, Kathy's the mother of Lance Corporal Riley McCollum. | ||
| And you heard Darren Hoover about his son, Staff Sergeant Darren Hoover. | ||
| We've got a very packed show today. | ||
| We're going to talk about this whole situation. | ||
| And the first voice you heard there was another one of these stiffs that continues just with the happy talk. | ||
| That's Stavridis, one of the clowns they have on Morning Joe every morning to kind of try to sell you a different sense of reality. | ||
| But the parents that are there, remember Biden? | ||
| Went there and talked more. | ||
| It brings up this thing about his son. | ||
| His son was a lawyer that went over to Bosnia, okay? | ||
| And then somehow later, as people do, get brain cancer. | ||
| Five years, best treatment in the world. | ||
| He keeps equating this with these, he tries to equate this with these heroes, the 13, right? | ||
| That we know and we've gone through and shown you how they were basically just thrown out into the crowd. | ||
| by the command and of course only one person has been has been relieved for cause and that is Colonel Stu Scheller. | ||
| Marine Corps, because he threw his rank on the table and said, hey, we have to hold the chain of command responsible. | ||
| You heard the parents right there. | ||
| Biden talked more about his son, plus the thing about checking his watch. | ||
| I want to bring in Captain Maureen Bannon. | ||
| Mo, I want you to read the Facebook posting last night from one of the mothers. | ||
| So go ahead and read that. | ||
| We're going to bring in General Bullock. | ||
| Mo's here today. | ||
| We're going to go through. | ||
| Lance Corporal Kareem Nakawi is my son. | ||
| in the first hour and the second hour, but I want to cap off our cold open by reading that heart-rendering Facebook post last night. | ||
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Lance Corporal Kareem Nekawi is my son. | |
| I just got home about two hours ago from watching my son be removed from the plane, so I am now finally able to watch videos of what our awesome town has done to honor my son and our other fallen heroes. | ||
| I want to thank you all so much for your love and support. | ||
| My heart has been torn from my chest and I know I will never be the same again. | ||
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I got to exchange words with Biden yesterday. | |
| He is a complete piece of crap. | ||
| If you are someone who still supports Biden, then do not comment on this post. | ||
| I am hurt and I am angry. | ||
| The blood of my son and our other fallen heroes is on Biden's hands. | ||
| I let him know that face to face yesterday. | ||
| As my son and our other fallen heroes were taken off the plane yesterday, disrespectful Biden checked his watch five different times. | ||
| Biden is not our president and he is no leader. | ||
| My son's body will return to Norco in seven to 10 days so I can lay him to rest. | ||
| After I lay him to rest, I'm leaving in my blue Toyota Tundra to drive to the White House and I will not leave the White House until Biden resigns and takes his whole effed up admin with him. | ||
| Anyone who wants to join is more than welcome to follow along. | ||
| It's time we show our numbers and take back our country because only we, the people, can save our country. | ||
| Once again, thank you all so much for everything. | ||
| I know some of you have messaged me and I'm so sorry that I haven't gotten back to you, but my messenger and message requests have so many messages and right now I'm just not up to going through them all. | ||
| I don't know all of you, but the love and support you have shown for my son has made me love all of you. | ||
| Thank you all so much. | ||
| If you remember back, and I think it was right after the Iraq War started in 2003, I think it was in 2004, it might have been before Bush's re-election, there was a mother whose son died in Iraq, and she went down to the other White House, like the Mar-a-Lago of Bush was out in rural Texas. | ||
| He had a ranch out there. | ||
| And I think she camped out. | ||
| And CNN and MSNBC, this is when Keith Olbermann was at MSNBC, they played that nonstop. | ||
| They had camera crews down there, she was interviewed, and she said she wasn't leaving. | ||
| You have to understand how this has them shocked to their core. | ||
| Shock to their very being. | ||
| Mainstream media, nothing. | ||
| Nothing on CNN, nothing on MSNBC. | ||
| They so want to change the conversation to this was the Berlin airlift and, you know, this was great and Biden was so steady. | ||
| And it's cratering around them. | ||
| Of all the things of the geopolitics and everybody, they got these stories that, hey, some of the guys in Europe, some of the party of Davos, they're really concerned about Biden. | ||
| He's supposed to show Competence, what's the story? | ||
| The real thing they're panicked about and they're trying to change the conversation here in DC to just focus on these grotesque spending bills. | ||
| They're absolutely shocked and stunned that the American people are now starting to turn on them. | ||
| And these parents are the parents of the best of the best. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| They're the parents of the best of the best. | ||
| And they're shocked, and they're nervous. | ||
| I'm going to get into the politics of it. | ||
| I'm going to talk about Laredo. | ||
| I think it's Henry Cuellar, the congressman down there. | ||
| They're in shock, okay? | ||
| And here's why. | ||
| The righteous indignation. | ||
| Of the working class and middle class in this country that send their sons and daughters out to defend this country. | ||
| Both here and abroad. | ||
| And that's why it's crickets. | ||
| The power of it is really in that it's crickets. | ||
| The power of it is that they don't want to, they can't address it because there's no defense of it. | ||
| It's only going to get worse. | ||
| We're putting together, you know, we're the first one to go through molten, you know, exactly what happened to the Marines, right? | ||
| This was a disgrace at every level. | ||
| We're going to bring in General Bolduc, Don Bolduc, your legendary figure and special operator. | ||
| We got about a minute and a half and then I'm going to go to the break and bring you back. | ||
| Just what's your assessment of where we stand today with the Taliban celebrating? | ||
| They're in our uniforms, all that. | ||
| Where do you think we stand today, sir? | ||
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Well, I think we stand weaker than this country has ever stood in the history of our country. | |
| And we have the Biden administration to blame for that. | ||
| We have the Pentagon to blame for that. | ||
| We have the State Department to blame for that. | ||
| It is absolutely a disgrace to America and to those that serve in the American military. | ||
| They have let them down. | ||
| We are weak geopolitically. | ||
| We can't trust anybody. | ||
| I'm being told that guys that are in other places in the world serving are being told by people, we can't trust you. | ||
| How are we going to ever be able to do business with you? | ||
| This has weakened our nation down to its very core. | ||
| What they have done is inconsistent with our character and integrity. | ||
| What they have done is inconsistent with our values and our principles, and it is consistent with what I've seen throughout my career as lions being led by lambs. | ||
| This is coming to fruition on this particular event. | ||
| Lions led by lambs. | ||
| General Donald Bolduc. | ||
| He'll join us on the other side of the break. | ||
| We've got General Bolduc. | ||
| We're going to have Nigel Farage, hopefully, in a few minutes. | ||
| We've got Captain Bannon. | ||
| We're going to talk about these heroes. | ||
| We've got Russ Vogt talking about the refugee situation, the one thing the Biden administration had planned with this fiasco in Kabul. | ||
| They had everything planned on the refugees. | ||
| And Jack Posobiec. | ||
| OK. | ||
| Another grim day in the war room. | ||
| Be back in a moment. | ||
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Does that include the prospect of giving them aid? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, first of all, we do believe that there is an important dimension of humanitarian assistance that should go directly to the people of Afghanistan. | ||
| They need help with respect to health and food aid and other forms of subsistence, and we do intend to continue that. | ||
| Secondly, when it comes to our economic and development assistance relationship with the Taliban, that will be about the Taliban's actions. | ||
| It will be about whether they follow through on their commitments, their commitments to safe passage for Americans and Afghan allies, their commitment To not allow Afghanistan to be a base from which terrorists can attack the United States or any other country. | ||
| Their commitments with respect to upholding international obligations. | ||
| It's going to be up to them. | ||
| And we will wait and see by their actions how we end up responding in terms of the economic and development assistance. | ||
| Okay, you're in the War Room. | ||
| It's Extraction Under Fire. | ||
| We're continuing these specials throughout the day. | ||
| We're going to have other news too we'll be breaking, but I just want to put it in perspective. | ||
| Yesterday was the 245th anniversary of the first Extraction Under Fire, Continental Army. | ||
| From a British expeditionary force crushing it across Long Island six or seven weeks after the declaration was signed to crush this rebellion, this revolution, in the cradle. | ||
| Washington took his men off of Brooklyn Heights, got everybody off, and he was the last man to leave. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| What they're talking about right there goes back to the founding of our nation. | ||
| Adams, Jefferson, all these guys. | ||
| You had the Barbary Pirates. | ||
| They had all of continental Europe. | ||
| Guys paid them tribute. | ||
| These were very bad guys, right? | ||
| They would capture all the merchant ships, sell people into slavery, the whole deal. | ||
| Bad. | ||
| And people paid them off, paid tribute. | ||
| So the United States had the same problem. | ||
| The Ukrainian nation took them, tried to take them merchant ships, and they offered the same deal. | ||
| And Jefferson and this crowd and Adams and the founding of the nation said, millions was a lot of money then. | ||
| Millions for defense, not one penny for tribute. | ||
| That's what Jake Sullivan was talking about. | ||
| Let's cut to the chase of where we are with this feckless Biden administration. | ||
| Now we're in the knees. | ||
| They're over there today. | ||
| They're not waiting for September 7th. | ||
| They're celebrating. | ||
| They got the American uniforms on. | ||
| They're hanging guys off of helicopters. | ||
| They're shooting people already. | ||
| OK? | ||
| We've created the Jihadist super state. | ||
| Right? | ||
| I don't say that. | ||
| The Economist says that. | ||
| Right? | ||
| The Economist already got it on their cover. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Quo vadis? | ||
| Quo vadis? | ||
| Global Jihad. | ||
| Whither thou goest? | ||
| I'll tell you where it goes. | ||
| Where it goes to you. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So now you got Jake Sullivan and all these pencil necks. | ||
| They're going to fund the Taliban. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| It's paying tribute. | ||
| They left Americans behind. | ||
| They left NGO people behind. | ||
| They left certain of our allies behind. | ||
| And now they're going to pay tribute. | ||
| How about this? | ||
| Trillions for defense, because we spend it anyway, not one penny for tribute. | ||
| That's what he's paying. | ||
| You think he got on his knees to Black Lives Matter, which he did? | ||
| Remember he got on his knees back in July of 2020? | ||
| We'll pull up things. | ||
| He's on his knees to the Taliban. | ||
| Please, please don't hurt us anymore. | ||
| Please don't do anything. | ||
| Stavridis, please, please, please. | ||
| We'll pay you tribute. | ||
| Oh, we're going to do aid. | ||
| It's tribute. | ||
| And we're going to find out when we get investigations going they were paying them money beforehand. | ||
| There were deals cut. | ||
| I want to bring in now Nigel Farage. | ||
| One of the smartest guys out there and a leader of the populist nationalist movement throughout the world. | ||
| Former head of UKIP. | ||
| Really got Brexit done. | ||
| Now got the number one show over GB News. | ||
| Lighten up British media. | ||
| Nigel, I know you've got some very, what I'd say, focused analysis and comments on this very topic. | ||
| Nigel Farage. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look, the same narrative is happening this side of the pond. | ||
| Boris Johnson is promising a very large aid package to Afghanistan. | ||
| We're kind of treating the Taliban now like our allies on the basis that somehow they're better than ISIS-K. | ||
| And I can see recognition Official recognition of the Taliban coming very quickly. | ||
| Let's remind ourselves this has been for the last 20 years a prescribed terrorist organization and yet the West is happy to do a deal with them. | ||
| Our equivalent is paying Baden-Geld, where we paid the Danish invaders not to come back next year. | ||
| So they came back and raided us even more heavily. | ||
| It's appeasement, it's weakness. | ||
| I do understand the sensitivity of those that are left behind. | ||
| And Steve, have a think about this. | ||
| I mean, of all the bad decisions Biden made in the withdrawal, the surrendering of the Bagram Air Base was probably the worst. | ||
| And last night we saw the Taliban going in, picking up the rest of the American kit that was left behind. | ||
| Helicopters and everything else, looking like kids in a candy store. | ||
| And now we have people saying, from within the Taliban, they want Bagram to become the base for a campaign of international jihadism. | ||
| So whichever way you turn, this is a disaster. | ||
| But if I can put, perhaps to your viewers, a slightly British stance on this. | ||
| You know, we've stood with America and America stood with us on virtually every major conflict since 1917. | ||
| You know, we've shed together much blood, much treasure with some very common goals. | ||
| That is now broken. | ||
| There is today no special relationship whatsoever. | ||
| Biden did this withdrawal unilaterally. | ||
| Without consulting us, without consulting NATO. | ||
| Indeed, when Boris Johnson rang in for an urgent conversation, Biden got back 40 hours later. | ||
| Can you believe it? | ||
| 40 hours later in the middle of Kabul falling. | ||
| And I don't think if there was another major jihadi problem in Afghanistan and the Americans said we're going back or we're going somewhere else, British public opinion would not wear it at this moment in time. | ||
| And I've been, as you well know, for 40 years, I've worked for American companies. | ||
| I've been involved in American politics, American media. | ||
| There's nobody this side of the pond who thinks this relationship matters more than I do. | ||
| But right now, I've got to tell you, Steve, I would not trust America in any joint activity with this administration in charge. | ||
| Nigel, one of the selling points when they stole the election, the selling point that they push forward is Trump is a barbarian, Trump is incompetent. | ||
| Nobody wanted to work with him. | ||
| You know, he was too aggressive, too abrasive. | ||
| And that Biden was competent. | ||
| He had the Morning Joe crowd and he had all the, you know, all the swells. | ||
| He's competent. | ||
| Just leaving the politics aside, what is the assessment from Europe of the mere competence of the Biden administration to actually execute on a policy? | ||
| Well, let's not just talk about the administration, Steve. | ||
| Let's talk about Joe Biden. | ||
| I mean, we've seen the CNN town hall debate. | ||
| We've seen many other examples where he appears to be incoherent. | ||
| You know, Gaga was a phrase used by one unattributed British cabinet minister. | ||
| You know, cognitive decline in old age is not a laughing matter, and it's something many families have to face. | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| I'm not belittling it as a disease, but I think we're seeing it. | ||
| In the 46th president of the USA, I'm a leader of the free world. | ||
| He is not up to this job by any mark, by any measure. | ||
| And that's what people here are really talking about. | ||
| The guy's not up to it. | ||
| He's made a catastrophic decision. | ||
| He's given the Taliban $85 billion worth Of up to date American military equipment, he's given the Chinese Communist Party access to three point five trillion dollars worth of important mineral resources, including lithium. | ||
| He's destroyed America's reputation on the world stage, and NATO may never come back from it. | ||
| So you can look at it both ways. | ||
| One is the actions. | ||
| But in terms of competence, it's clear to me the man is not fit for the job and should go pretty soon. | ||
| Nigel, How Do People, your show, as we predicted, is on fire. | ||
| It's one of the most dominant shows already just in its first couple of weeks in all of British media. | ||
| How Do People in the U.S., how did they get it, and how do they follow you on social media? | ||
| Well, the GB News app is there. | ||
| You know, just download the GB News app. | ||
| There is no geographical limit on that. | ||
| And it's working very effectively, very well. | ||
| And for me personally, it's at Nigel underscore Farage on Twitter. | ||
| That's one way of doing it. | ||
| There's a host of other ways too. | ||
| But Steve, you know, for me to say these things about lacking trust in the USA really hurts me. | ||
| To say it, because I believe so much, as you well know, in our cooperation together, this man is destroying all of America's friendships, all of America's relationships, and turning America from being a leader of the free world into a laughing stock. | ||
| And that is a very, very sad thing to say. | ||
| No, Nigel, I think our audience, that's what we wanted to have you on today and had to have you on today. | ||
| Our audience understands not just your love for your own country, but your love for the United States and our partnership together. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Nigel Farage from London. | ||
| I want to bring back in General Bullock. | ||
| General Bullock, when you hear somebody like Nigel Farage talks about and lives and breathes a special relationship, how does that strike you, sir? | ||
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Well, he's spot on. | |
| I mean, he's absolutely correct in everything that he just said. | ||
| You know, this is a culmination of decades of bad leadership being promoted to the highest levels because they are more interested in their own careers. | ||
| They're more interested in their little club. | ||
| They're more interested in their organizational nepotism. | ||
| And they bring people up right behind them that are just like them because they got to cover their tracks. | ||
| And now we have Afghanistan. | ||
| Now we have 13 Americans that have been killed. | ||
| And it is to the forefront. | ||
| The actions on the ground in Afghanistan, in my mind, are indicative of the bad leadership at the senior levels in the military, the State Department, and this administration. | ||
| I saw it for eight years in the last administration, and it's back to haunt us. | ||
| Okay, General Bullock was talking there about the Obama administration. | ||
| He has now dedicated his life to run into the United States Senate to serve again. | ||
| General Bullock has agreed to stay with us for the second part of our opening hour. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Captain Bannon is going to be back, and then we're going to have Russ vote. | ||
| Captain Bannon, we're going to walk through the beginning of a tribute that we're going to take throughout the day to the fallen, 13 fallen in Afghanistan. | ||
| We're going to be back in a moment in The War Room. | ||
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Okay, we're live in The War Room. | |
| Tuesday, 31 August, Year of the Lord 2021. | ||
| Got a lot to get through the day. | ||
| Just Joe Biden's speech to the nation. | ||
| Of course, you definitely do speeches to the nation at 1.30 in the afternoon. | ||
| I mean, who does this? | ||
| Can't it just be obvious that he can't handle a nighttime speech? | ||
| I mean, who addresses the nation? | ||
| On a topic as central to our country going forward as what the debacle of how it happened, why it happened, the pullout, all this, and going forward where we've basically now triggered the Third World War. | ||
| That's what we've done. | ||
| The western flank of this is India and up in Kashmir with Pakistan, the nuclear weapons, Iran, the terrorist super state of Afghanistan, all of our enemies, and the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| The guy's driving it, right? | ||
| The criminal organization. | ||
| The right flank is the South China Sea and Taiwan, Silicon Valley West. | ||
| So who does that at 1.30 in the afternoon? | ||
| Answer, nobody. | ||
| He's kicked it back now to 2.45, because they need more time to get their lives. | ||
| Or Jill, and I don't say this trying to be snarky, has not, you know, finished putting, getting the smashed peas and the peaches, right, for lunch. | ||
| This is where we are. | ||
| Nigel Farage says we're a joke right now. | ||
| Nigel Farage loves this country, right? | ||
| He loves America. | ||
| And when he says it, you can tell it. | ||
| It's more in sadness than in anger. | ||
| That we're now on the international stage, a complete and total joke. | ||
| Where we're not a joke, is this young generation. | ||
| And that's where our rejuvenation is going to come from. | ||
| That's why I need every Afghan and Iraq war vet. | ||
| And Golf War vet. | ||
| Obviously the Vietnam and guys like me and the Cold War, all that, obviously we should get there and put a shoulder to Will. | ||
| But particularly those that served in the desert. | ||
| In the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That have seen the waste, have seen the bad leadership, have seen all of it. | ||
| 9 trillion dollars, the 10,000 dead, the 55,000 wounded. | ||
| That's of both wars. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Have seen it. | ||
| Your country needs you again. | ||
| I'm going to get to General Bolting in a second. | ||
| He's doing it. | ||
| He's coming out. | ||
| He can play with the grandkids, live a great life. | ||
| He's not. | ||
| He's now into the maelstrom of getting his face ripped off, of getting into politics. | ||
| Captain Bannon, let's take, let's, I want to go through. | ||
| We're starting this of our honored dead. | ||
| Can you take it and walk us through? | ||
| You know, the father told Biden he was tired of hearing about, he didn't want to hear about Beau Biden. | ||
| It wasn't appropriate. | ||
| He didn't want to hear it. | ||
| He told him to his face. | ||
| You have to know the stories. | ||
| You have to know the backgrounds of these young people. | ||
| We don't need to hear your story about Bo. | ||
| You need to hear that you need to hear and understand the stories of this and Biden kind of blow him off. | ||
| So Mo, go ahead and take it, ma'am. | ||
| United States Marine Corps Sergeant Joannie Rosario Picardo was part of the Marines female engagement team. | ||
| She was a native of Lawrence, Massachusetts. | ||
| A 2014 graduate of Lawrence High School and attended Bridgewater State University. | ||
| She was full of light, armed with valor and bravery, who at the young age of 18 decided to raise her hand to serve our country as a member of the United States Marine Corps. | ||
| Corporal Umberto Sanchez, United States Marine Corps, was a native of Logansport, Indiana. | ||
| 2017 graduate of Logansport High School, he bravely answered the call to serve his nation. | ||
| He was honored to be putting on the Marine uniform and serve his country. | ||
| Staff Sergeant Ryan Noss, U.S. | ||
| Army. | ||
| Motivated young man who loved his country from Knoxville, Tennessee. | ||
| He joined the Army shortly after graduating high school. | ||
| He was part of the 8th PSYOPS group and was looking forward to moving to D.C. | ||
| upon his return home. | ||
| Staff Sergeant Darren Taylor Hoover, United States Marine Corps. | ||
| Known as Taylor, former high school football player from Midville, Utah. | ||
| He spent his entire adult life as a Marine for the last 11 years. | ||
| His father said his son did what he loved, was leading his men, and was with them to the end. | ||
| He loved the United States and proved it by his service. | ||
| Sergeant Nicole Gee, United States Marine Corps. | ||
| She was a Marines Marine, loved helping people, and she did it until the end. | ||
| She's a native of Sacramento, California. | ||
| Lance Corporal Dylan Muralla, United States Marine Corps, from Rancho Cucamonga, graduate of Los Osos High School, had only been in Afghanistan two weeks, planned to study engineering in college after his military service. | ||
| His mom said he was kind, loving, and giving to every single person he would give anything for anybody. | ||
| Lance Corporal Kareem Nekawi, Graduated from Norco High School in 2019. | ||
| He loved what he was doing. | ||
| He always wanted to be a Marine. | ||
| David Lee Espinosa, United States Marine Corps, Laredo, Texas. | ||
| Graduated from Lyndon B. Johnson High School. | ||
| Grew up in Rio Bravo. | ||
| Corporal Hunter Lopez, United States Marine Corps, from Riverside, California. | ||
| His parents are Riverside Sheriff's Deputies Captain Herman Lopez and Deputy Alicia Lopez. | ||
| He was a brave and selfless soldier who answered the call of duty. | ||
| Riley McCollum, United States Marine Corps, graduated in 2019 from Jackson Hole High School, was going to be a father in three weeks and was a newlywed. | ||
| He joined the Marines the day he turned 18. | ||
| Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, United States Marine Corps, from St. | ||
| Charles County, Missouri. | ||
| Graduated high school in 2019. | ||
| He became a Marine in 2020. | ||
| He had always dreamed about being a Marine and he was on his first deployment. | ||
| Corporal Dagan William Tyler Page, graduated from Miller South High School in Omaha, Nebraska. | ||
| Joined the Marines in 2019. | ||
| He loved the brotherhood of the Marines. | ||
| His parents said he was a genuinely happy guy that you could always count on. | ||
| And Navy Corpsman Maxton Silviak from Berlin Heights, Ohio, graduated in 2017 from Edison High School. | ||
| He was excited about the opportunities the Navy would offer him and planned on making the Navy a career. | ||
| So, Mo, thank you very much for that. | ||
| I know you've got to bounce for another interview. | ||
| You'll join us back after that's over. | ||
| You're a better man than I am to get through that. | ||
| So, thank you. | ||
| General Bolduc, thank you very much. | ||
| We're going to do this in the second hour also. | ||
| General Bolduc, you're a legend in the Special Operations, Special Forces community. | ||
| You've led men and women like that. | ||
| Tell us about it. | ||
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First of all, the honor to work for and lead men and women like that are just unbelievable. | |
| It's just an unbelievable honor. | ||
| And it's something that you can never take for granted and you have to work for them. | ||
| When there is a decision out there that puts your organization and the people in your organization in harm's way unnecessarily, then you need to push back. | ||
| And I have had, I believe I have established that reputation in the military at every single level of command, that I will not allow anybody above us to unnecessarily put people in harm's way. | ||
| And I've done it, and I've done it numerous times, and I continue to do it. | ||
| And you pay a price for that in this military where contrarianism and having common sense is overruled by this imperial sense of, I told you to do it, so you're gonna do it regardless of the consequences. | ||
| And that's what we see play out here. | ||
| Nobody threw their stars on the table. | ||
| We had a lieutenant colonel Lieutenant Colonel Scheller, who has the moral courage to come forward. | ||
| And what do they do? | ||
| Instead of putting their arm around him and saying, you know what? | ||
| You're absolutely right. | ||
| Because the rest of us can see he's absolutely right. | ||
| They fired him. | ||
| And then he resigned. | ||
| And now he has 17 years in the military that he is not going to get any recognition for. | ||
| And that is absolutely wrong. | ||
| It is an honor and an obligation to serve people. | ||
| And you have the obligation to keep them as safe as possible. | ||
| I know what it's like to look at parents and fathers and brothers and sisters in the eye and say, I'm sorry for your loss. | ||
| I also know what it's like for them to be angry, for them to be mad, for them to be upset. | ||
| And I understand that. | ||
| And that comes with the territory. | ||
| But nothing is worse than that loss that is done in vain because of decisions that could have been made better, that should have been made better, that they knew was a better option. | ||
| And our service members are going to stand there, and they're going to do their job, and they're going to do it well, and they're going to bear the brunt of the consequences, which is what has happened over the last 20 years over and over and over again. | ||
| And I agree, their service is not in vain. | ||
| They served their country. | ||
| They gave their oath. | ||
| They honored their oath. | ||
| It is the senior leaders that broke their oath and responsibility. | ||
| Every single one of those senior leaders from the Secretary of Defense down should have said something instead of, Comments like, we don't have the capability and capacity. | ||
| The president made the decision. | ||
| The Taliban is who we have to deal with. | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| This is all a bunch of garbage. | ||
| And it is why we need change in the United States Senate and in the United States House of Representatives with people that know what it is to sacrifice and serve. | ||
| And we'll do that on behalf of this nation and not on behalf of themselves in their next job. | ||
| This is why it's so important for Afghan and Iraq vets and Gulf War vets to get engaged here. | ||
| You've got to come back. | ||
| The trumpet calls it again. | ||
| You've got to come back. | ||
| I want to ask you about, not the strategic, but let's talk about the tactical. | ||
| Just putting those Marines like they did, and the corpsmen and the sergeant, the army sergeant, in harm's way like they did. | ||
| What is the community telling you? | ||
| I know you're as dialed in as anybody. | ||
| What are you hearing? | ||
| from your fellow officers and senior enlisted that serve with you in Afghanistan and Iraq about how this was just pulled off at the basic, at the operational level at the airport to put those kids, because it's one thing to lose a child in combat, it's another thing to lose a young son or daughter where you think the higher up echelon were not on top of things. | ||
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Right, they weren't on top of things and the tactical assessment by the leaders down there on the ground should have been This is, this is untenable. | |
| This is not the way we can conduct business. | ||
| And I am not, you know, I get it. | ||
| We have a mission and we got to help Americans. | ||
| We got to help Afghans. | ||
| We got to do this stuff. | ||
| That is exactly right. | ||
| But I can't do it with the, with the resources that you gave me. | ||
| So until you give me the resources to execute this mission, then I am not putting any of my service members in harm's way. | ||
| And this mission will not, will stop until you get me what I need. | ||
| That was his obligation. | ||
| That was their obligation. | ||
| This is force protection. | ||
| We have risk assessment rules. | ||
| We have things that we have to follow for everything that we do, whether we go to the range, jump out of an airplane, or conduct combat operations. | ||
| And all of that was thrown to the wind because senior leaders decided that it was more important to put our men and women at unnecessary harm's way. | ||
| This is malfeasance. | ||
| This is criminal, I believe. | ||
| These are high crimes and misdemeanors for the political side. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| I want to ask you about that. | ||
| Tell me about the generals, the 90 flag officers that have signed this letter about a senior commander, about Biden. | ||
| Talk to us about that. | ||
| We've got about a minute and a half. | ||
| I know you've got a bolt. | ||
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| Biden should resign. | ||
| The Secretary of Defense should resign. | ||
| The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should resign. | ||
| They have not done their job. | ||
| And that's the difference. | ||
| Following orders and saluting the flagpole and being a good soldier is all good until you reach a certain point. | ||
| And then when you cross that threshold of violating my oath, putting men and women in unnecessary harm, making bad decisions that ruin the credibility of our nation, this is a national disaster for us. | ||
| And it's not hyperbole. | ||
| They've ruined the credibility of our country. | ||
| They have put men and women across the globe in harm's way because you heard Nigel. | ||
| Nigel said it. | ||
| We are not trusted, and we have guys on the ground that require trust from the people that we work with. | ||
| This is criminal. | ||
| General Bolduc, how do people get to your site about running for Senate? | ||
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www.donbolduc.com. | |
| Please go to my site. | ||
| I have the knowledge, the experience to serve in the United States Senate and do the right thing for our national security. | ||
| Live free or die. | ||
| Thank you, General Bolduc. | ||
| Honor to have you on here. | ||
| Okay, we're going to turn in a moment. | ||
| The one thing they had planned was the refugees to Wisconsin and Texas. | ||
| Russ Vought, former OMB under President Trump, next in the world. | ||
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A Ford to fumble this here at home. | |
| I know I'm proud to say that Team Rubicon is working in partnership with the D.O.D. | ||
| and D.H.S. | ||
| and the State Department to assist with this resettlement effort here in the United States. | ||
| We're currently supporting D.O.D. | ||
| installations in three states. | ||
| You know, we anticipate that that's going to grow significantly over the next several weeks and months. | ||
| I mean, ultimately, this will be out of the headlines within 7 to 14 days, but it's going to be 7 to 14 months until You know, these Afghans are moved off these DOD installations until they're integrated into our communities, until they find jobs, until they get banks and get their children in schools. | ||
| I don't know a single American who can look at the photos of these Afghans walking through these airports, these young children holding their mother's hands, and can't have compassion and sympathy for what they have endured. | ||
| Okay, back in the war room. | ||
| By the way, we do have compassion. | ||
| We do have sympathy for our allies. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Not even a question about that. | ||
| hopefully become a part of the fabric of our communities. | ||
| I know it's. | ||
| Okay, back in the war room. | ||
| By the way, we do have compassion to have sympathy for our allies, 100%, not even a question about that, but they have to stay in the region. | ||
| You know, we're going back to. | ||
| They're going to go back to Afghanistan. | ||
| They're going to free their country. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You can't do that in Wisconsin. | ||
| You can't do that in Texas. | ||
| We can't get in a situation where we have allies, and if something goes askew, or just working with an ally is really a lottery ticket to get here in the United States. | ||
| That's not the way it works. | ||
| Can't work like that. | ||
| And he says it's going to fade in the headlines in 14 days. | ||
| Au contraire. | ||
| We're going to keep it in the headlines. | ||
| We're going to keep it in the headlines. | ||
| We do have compassion for these people. | ||
| We do have sympathy for these people. | ||
| And we've got to do that in bases in the region. | ||
| Just has to happen. | ||
| Because one day they've got to go back to Afghanistan and help free their country. | ||
| Right? | ||
| That was our whole 20-year, you know, debacle was in doing. | ||
| So when it goes awry, You just don't get a lottery ticket to come here to the United States. | ||
| It's a twisted thinking. | ||
| And it's not that you don't have sympathy and compassion. | ||
| That's what I'm trying to say. | ||
| If you don't do that, you don't have sympathy and compassion. | ||
| No. | ||
| We have sympathy and compassion. | ||
| And because you'll see most of the Afghan veterans, the people of the war had sympathy and compassion. | ||
| That's why they went there. | ||
| One of the reasons is to defend the nation. | ||
| But part of that, I want to bring in Russ Vogt. | ||
| Russ, you see the twisted thinking and the way they try to twist it that the America First and the MAGA movement and everything like that are just heartless. | ||
| You have no sympathy, you have no compassion. | ||
| You go right to an emotional part of this. | ||
| And what they're doing is very dangerous because of the vetting. | ||
| Remember, when President Trump first took over, the biggest problem we had was blue on green Um, really assassinations of Afghan security forces shooting American soldiers in the back. | ||
| Those are the most high, they were the most highly vetted commandos. | ||
| Those are the most highly vetted individuals in Afghanistan. | ||
| And it's almost impossible to fully vet, virtually. | ||
| Russ Vought. | ||
| No, I think you make a great point, Steve, and I think one of the ways that the other side, the globalist side, makes so many advances in this country is by trying to have the moral high ground. | ||
| And one of the things we want to do is to make sure that the American people know that we have the moral high ground to say, look, we don't want people to be in harm's way, but we want them to go to a regional resettlement paradigm to make sure that they have an opportunity to go back to their country when it is safe and that they are not coming to this country unvetted without an ability to assimilate into this country. | ||
| You know I think that this, the other interesting aspect of this is that to the extent that the debate has been cloaked under the the facade of this is about helping interpreters and people who helped us. | ||
| We're learning more and more on a day-to-day basis that this is in fact the use of parole authority by the Department of Homeland Security to just allow and matador anyone else that they want to based on the notion of just getting refugees because they are refugees to be able to come to this country. | ||
| You look at the most globalist semi-nation, the European Union, made up of many different nations, but one collective organization. | ||
| The globalist European Union has said that they are going to take a more nationalist perspective than the United States of America is currently, because they have the recent history of what the Syrian refugee resettlement did to those nations. | ||
| And I think it's paramount that our people and our Congress begin to wake up to this reality. | ||
| There was one last thing. | ||
| I'll get back to you, Steve. | ||
| The Team Rubicon spokesman said this is going to play out for seven to 14 months. | ||
| that's actually the reason why we are focusing so heavily upon this because this issue is not going away and congress and republicans who think they're just gonna be able to talk about interpreters and move on and i i i think there's gonna be a different reality that shows up in the public policy arena ross we actually stay over into the next hour Jack Pasovic is going to try to join us here in studio. | ||
| I just want to make sure we go through your bona fides, because we're going to have a couple minutes here. | ||
| You were Mick Mulvaney's deputy at OMB. | ||
| You became OMB. | ||
| And people have to understand, in the government, the two most powerful jobs of really getting things done Outside of the president himself is the chief of staff in the director of OMB, right? | ||
| These are very powerful Positions and Russ is a guy that was very highly regarded and trusted by President Trump So I want to go back when you talk about talk about the matador talk about The parole what are they tell us what they're doing because in the presentation that they from North Com | ||
| The senior Air Force general, the only thing that the Biden administration had thought through and planned down to the thing of having, was it halal food, culturally appropriate food, was the refugee situation. | ||
| And they said they've been doing this. | ||
| They've been planning this since April. | ||
| Russ, take it. | ||
| We got about a minute and a half. | ||
| Then we go to break. | ||
| Sure, a congressman in Wisconsin, Tom Tiffany, did a tour of the refugees that he was seeing at the local military facility in Wisconsin, and he started asking, did you guys come here under the Special Immigrant Visa, or asking the people that are in charge of them, and they had all come through the use of parole authority. | ||
| Parole authority gives Mayorkas the ability to have a special dispensation for those who are coming based on the authority that's vested in him. | ||
| And of course, this is open border Secretary Mayorkas that has a debacle along our southern border. | ||
| So of course that they are going to allow as many people who to come in as possible. | ||
| And they realize that in the bureaucratic, is anyone going to be able to ask questions in this bureaucracy? | ||
| And if they ask any questions about whether something makes sense or not, the other side, the bureaucratic infighters, are just going to call them a racist or an Islamophobe. | ||
| The system is just not set up for rationality and wisdom in any way when it comes to these types of border and immigration and refugee and assimilation questions. | ||
| Well, it's set up to be what it is. | ||
| The problem is you've got people that have their own agendas. | ||
| Their own agendas. | ||
| The open border globalist crowd have their own agendas. | ||
| Immediately they go to the heart strings. | ||
| Right? | ||
| To take the high moral ground. | ||
| We're not going to let that happen. | ||
| We have sympathy. | ||
| We have empathy. | ||
| Right? | ||
| These people are vessels of the Holy Spirit. | ||
| We're not even questioning that. | ||
| But, the purpose is to make sure that you can eventually go back and free Afghanistan. | ||
| You've got to do that from the region. | ||
| You don't get a lottery ticket to come here to the United States. | ||
| We're going to stay on this. | ||
| We're going to keep it in the headlines. | ||
| Kay Russ vote is going to stay over. | ||
| We're going to have Jack Posobiec in studio. | ||
| We've got a lot more to cover in the second hour of The War Room. | ||
| Extraction under fire. |
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