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My predecessor, the former president, signed an agreement with the Taliban to remove U.S. | ||
troops by May the 1st, just months after I was inaugurated. | ||
It included no requirement that Taliban work out a cooperative government arrangement with the Afghan government. | ||
But it did authorize the release of 5,000 prisoners last year, including some of the Taliban's top war commanders, Among those who just took control of Afghanistan. | ||
By the time I came to office, the Taliban was in its strongest military position since 2001, controlling or contesting nearly half of the country. | ||
The previous administration's agreement said That if we stuck to the May 1st deadline that they had signed on to leave by, the Taliban wouldn't attack any American forces. | ||
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But if we stayed, all bets were off. | |
So we're left with a simple decision. | ||
Either follow through on the commitment made by the last administration and leave Afghanistan, or say we weren't leaving and commit another tens of thousands more troops going back to war. | ||
That was the choice, the real choice, between leaving or escalating. | ||
I was not going to extend this forever war. | ||
And I was not extending a forever exit. | ||
The decision to end the military airlift operations at Kabul Airport was based on the unanimous recommendation of my civilian and military advisors. | ||
The Secretary of State, The Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and all the service chiefs and the commanders in the field. | ||
Their recommendation was that the safest way to secure the passage of the remaining Americans and others out of the country was not to continue with 6,000 troops on the ground in harm's way in Kabul, but rather to get them out through non-military means. | ||
In the 17 days that we operated in Kabul, after the Taliban seized power, we engaged in an around-the-clock effort to provide every American the opportunity to leave. | ||
Our State Department was working 24-7, contacting and talking, and in some cases walking, Americans into the airport. | ||
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It's Monday, 31, excuse me, Tuesday, 31 August, Year of the Lord 2021. | ||
The President gave his address to the nation. | ||
Of course, he gave it at, what, 3.30 in the afternoon, 45 minutes late, bumped from the 1.30. | ||
But important enough, and I think by far everybody will agree, the most important speech of Joe Biden's term up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. | ||
And to make sure that we get Full coverage and analysis of this. | ||
We've asked Congressman Matt Gaetz, who I think is probably considered the number one proponent on the Hill and really the guy that thinks through the America First kind of strategic direction better than anybody. | ||
Our national security also comes from Probably, I think, the most pro-military district in the country down Pensacola, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Naval Base. | ||
And Boris Epstein, who was at the White House in communications and then one of the senior communications and strategists on the 2020 campaign and with us in 2016. | ||
Okay. | ||
I want to cut to the heart of this, and that's why we played that open at Joe Biden. | ||
Talk to me about the choice. | ||
He lays it out very clearly, very forcefully, that, hey, I had a choice between what Trump left me or an escalation, right, to go in there. | ||
He's trying to strategically get the high ground, then he goes down operationally, he goes down tactically. | ||
Whether you like Biden or not, it was a well-crafted speech in arguing that way. | ||
We're going to try to deconstruct it. | ||
Gates first and then Boris. | ||
As someone who stood with President Trump at Dover as they took caskets, draped in flags, holding my constituents out of the back of a C-130, that was disgraceful to watch. | ||
Joe Biden sets up a false choice. | ||
This was not a choice to leave or escalate. | ||
Donald Trump was right to want to end the war in Afghanistan. | ||
You agree that that's what he just said in that speech. | ||
He put that forth. | ||
That's his construct. | ||
But the fundamental flaw, the fundamental flawed assumption is that the Afghan government and the Afghan military would ever fight. | ||
If you start from the proposition that the Afghanistan government was always a mirage, it was always a lie propped up by U.S. | ||
cash, U.S. | ||
blood, and leaders in both parties that were dishonest with the American people time and time again. | ||
And the flag officers, for years I said they looked at the President Trump and lied in their face. | ||
It's the defense contractors, it's the defense department, it's the rot in all of this, the intelligence apparatus, all of it, that looked the President in the eye and lied. | ||
Well, you look at who won in Afghanistan, the Taliban won, but U.S. | ||
defense contractors won too, because they kept us there for far too long for unknowable gain. | ||
Here's what Biden's right about. | ||
We could have stayed another five weeks, five months, five years, and the outcome would have been the same. | ||
But if Joe Biden would have understood the reality that that military was always gonna be in the hands of the Taliban, we wouldn't have left all that equipment. | ||
We would have destroyed it or pulled it out. | ||
If we would have understood that there would have been no Afghan government to provide safe passage, we would have gotten our people out and we wouldn't have 13 Marines dead today that should be alive as a consequence of decisions where you had acute violence as a consequence of bad decisions. | ||
Here's what's gonna happen next. | ||
There's going to be a civil war in Afghanistan. | ||
ISIS-K is going to animate the violence because they don't see a propaganda win for the Taliban as zero-sum good for them. | ||
And my prediction is that the United States government under Joe Biden will be on the side of the Taliban. | ||
There's still a lot the Taliban wants. | ||
There is so much U.S. | ||
cash sitting in accounts that was reserved for the Afghan government and everything that those bandits and thieves couldn't steal on their way running out of town. | ||
This is the government that took off and took the $169 million. | ||
Yeah, the government. | ||
The Mirage government. | ||
But there's a lot more money left, and the Taliban wants it, and that is a negotiation that I believe is going on in real time now. | ||
Before I go to Boris, I just want to go back to the central thesis of his argument. | ||
I had two choices. | ||
We can play that again over and over, and the MAGA movement should focus on this. | ||
Liz Harrington and President Trump, I know they're looking at this right now. | ||
He said, I had two choices. | ||
I had either what Trump left me, or a major escalation. | ||
But Trump would have gotten our people out, would have gotten our equipment out, and wouldn't have left it all in the hands of the Taliban. | ||
That's a fundamental distinction. | ||
That's really where it comes down to, right? | ||
That is the key issue. | ||
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If you ask any... Let's go back out 30,000 feet. | |
You ask a middle schooler. | ||
You ask a middle schooler. | ||
You're in the middle of a fight. | ||
You're leaving. | ||
What do you do? | ||
Do you leave all your buddies behind? | ||
And then pull the biggest guy back? | ||
Or do you take everybody out first? | ||
This was so basic, and that is why this is so bad for Biden politically. | ||
Because it does not take a genius, it doesn't take a member of Congress, it doesn't take a Steve Bannon or a humbly Boris Epstein to understand that there was a way to do this that was logical, that was relatively safe, and that was right. | ||
There's a key decision point that crystallizes what Boris just said, and that was the decision to pull out of the airbase first, Bagram or Karzai. | ||
If we were drawing down forces, we could only defend one. | ||
But Blinken gave the advice that we should abandon the military installation and keep the civilian airport open, Because it would build more confidence with the Afghan government to have the civilian airport open. | ||
We should have kept that airbase open instead, and it shows how the bad advice that Biden was getting from Milley and from Austin put us in the bloody situation today that was totally avoidable. | ||
It's okay to have liberals. | ||
At some fancy university. | ||
It's okay to have liberals running around and saying dumb things here in the swamp. | ||
But you cannot have liberals actually making decisions because they do not get reality. | ||
You're 100% right, Congressman. | ||
Leaving Bagram, and the way they left it. | ||
Talk about killing morale. | ||
In the middle of the night, they threw the keys away to Afghanistan and didn't know about it. | ||
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Disaster. | |
Let's come back to Bagram a second. | ||
If your theory of the case is right then, What is, you see the President, you see Pompeo, you see others in the MAGA, American First Movement, saying it had to be conditions-based. | ||
Walk me through then, walk me through the conditions that then get you out. | ||
Oh please, we've been trying to get good conditions in Afghanistan for 20 years. | ||
We've never had them and we were never going to get them. | ||
The notion that we were five, you know, we were 5,000 prisoners away from winning or losing this battle that had been going on against an army of tens of thousands, that's a total red herring. | ||
That is a total red... Whoa, and if we hadn't released the 5,000, the Taliban wasn't gonna win? | ||
That wasn't even a fight! | ||
None of these people that we gave all this training to, all these arms to, they didn't even put up a fight. | ||
And that is so fundamental to the disaster that we see going on there right now. | ||
How did the intel services not know that to tell Blinken and to tell Jay Sullivan? | ||
What happens if it finds out that the intel services... That was the big lie. | ||
I mean, they were believing their own bullshit. | ||
They were telling a lie for so long and they were I do buy that, but here's the other part. | ||
it because a lot of these people were rolling out in the private contracting enterprises they were benefiting from the telling of this big lie and they told it over and over again you buy that i'd do by that but here's the other part i believe that there was definitely a line of folks saying hey this is going to be back but then uh... the blankets the austin's the jake sullivan's it's the one here And then you've got, this is also what happens when you have a rudderless White House. | ||
You don't have a functioning president right now. | ||
Let me say that again. | ||
We do not have a functioning president. | ||
So when there's no one making decisions, you've got Pence. | ||
You didn't think the guy that you saw the day making that speech, you didn't think he's functioning? | ||
Best he's done, right? | ||
The old, angry guy screaming at 3.30 in the afternoon. | ||
I keep asking this question. | ||
How come these bigger dresses to the country are not in prime time? | ||
Congressman Gates, that's a question. | ||
If you're going to address the nation about something so fundamental geostrategically, we've been there 20 years, 10,000 dead in both wars, all of it, how do you do that at 3 o'clock in the afternoon? | ||
I think that they have such unity of purpose with the primetime lineups that if they got the three o'clock content out, four o'clock is the rundown meeting, and then if Biden screws up in the speech, the producers are able to repackage it, they're able to wrap it in a nice little monologue. | ||
In America today, for a conservative, you actually have to be live in primetime to break through, but for a liberal, you actually want to be live at about three o'clock so that you have the nice comfort of the packaging. | ||
So, that's option one, that's bad for Biden. | ||
Option two, which I think is also very realistic, is he can't function at 7 o'clock. | ||
You think after Sundaner's, it's tough for him to do? | ||
He can't function. | ||
I mean, and you see it in these speeches. | ||
You saw it in the one a couple of Mondays ago. | ||
He wears down in the last third and gets really bad. | ||
Today, maybe not as terrible, but he gets bad and it's 4 o'clock in the afternoon. | ||
We're going to hold you over through the break. | ||
A couple of minutes here. | ||
I've got to ask you. | ||
Are any Democrats going to push for hearings to get to the bottom of what happened here over the last, let's say, eight weeks? | ||
Tomorrow, about a 20-hour hearing begins on the National Defense Authorization Act. | ||
There are a lot of neoconservative Democrats that are on that committee that have been very critical. | ||
of the Biden administration, people like Seth Moulton. | ||
And it's my expectation that you're really going to start to see some fissures among Democrats. | ||
My hope is that you don't see fissures in the Republican America First base, where all of a sudden our people start to think that we've got to revert to a neoconservative mean that Biden's failures in Afghanistan somehow mean we have to go find new regimes to topple and new caves to invade. I hope that we don't allow Joe Biden to dictate the terms of our movement. | ||
And that's not going to be new. It's going to be about the terrorist superstate in Afghanistan and partnering with the mullahs in Iran and up in Pakistan. | ||
Let me present it in its darkest contrast. | ||
Does this Afghanistan circumstance prove Liz Cheney right or Rand Paul right? | ||
You know, to me it proves Rand Paul right. | ||
That there was no amount of time, there was no amount of effort that was really going to make this thing work. | ||
But if you believe Liz Cheney, there's always a sustainable force. | ||
If we just sprinkle American troops all around the globe, all will be well. | ||
The reality is that builds a lot of resentment and it's not effective and we are not a nation builder. | ||
The only nation we should be building is ours. | ||
The guy was tearing up the other night on TV was Lindsey Graham. | ||
Isn't he the President's golf buddy? | ||
Has the President got not enough Rand Paul around him and too much Lindsey Graham? | ||
100% too much Lindsey Graham. | ||
And this goes back, this isn't just America, right? | ||
Winston Churchill wrote about how you can never win a war in Afghanistan. | ||
That goes all over the world. | ||
Afghanistan already swallowed up the USSR. | ||
That was the downfall. | ||
People forget. | ||
The real downfall of the Soviet Union was going into Afghanistan in 1979, never recovered. | ||
Now we've been there for 20 years and everybody... Here's the one thing Biden did okay today. | ||
He went back to this whole, oh we couldn't be there forever, which everyone agrees with. | ||
But that's a false narrative, right? | ||
The real narrative is, why did you pull out in a way where there's Americans still trapped in Afghanistan? | ||
Why there are 13 Dead Marines. | ||
And the answer to that question is he did it because he didn't want to create any fragility or any lack of confidence in an Afghan government that was a total mirage. | ||
That never existed. | ||
You're saying that's the fundamental mistake of this operational thing. | ||
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Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
Here's what we're going to do. | ||
We're going to ask Congressman Gates to hold over. | ||
Real quickly before we go to break. | ||
Tomorrow, the 20-hour hearings on appropriations. | ||
It's on the Defense Authorization Bill. | ||
Yep, for the National Defense. | ||
This is the big kahuna. | ||
This is the bill that will pass, and so what, the amendments that pass or fail, they will likely become law. | ||
It starts as a 20-hour hearing, but it goes on for a lot longer than that, because this is essentially a trillion dollars, $880 billion. | ||
Correct. | ||
So every aspect of this gets authorized, right? | ||
And the good thing is we can force votes on a lot of these questions. | ||
What are you going to force votes on? | ||
Vaccine mandates, critical race theory being taught in our military academies, a lot of stuff. | ||
Good. | ||
Matt Gaetz, Congressman Matt Gaetz, he is the tip of the spear when you come to America first. | ||
He's from a district in Florida that's, I think, probably one of the most, not just patriotic, but the most pro-military. | ||
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He's got a couple of great Naval Air Station, Naval Base down there. | |
My kid brother learned to fly down there as a Navy pilot. | ||
Boris Epstein, also from the White House and from the Trump campaign in 16 and 20. | ||
All going to come back. | ||
We're going to put Congressman Gaetz, who's responsible for the war dead, the last 13 in Afghanistan, next. | ||
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Okay, we're about to get ready to ask Matt Gaetz. | ||
The reason we asked Matt to come over, the Congressman changed his schedule to come over here. | ||
He's got a lot of stuff to get ready for these meetings tomorrow. | ||
Was because he, I think, can articulate probably the best, America First, from not maybe a libertarian perspective, but kind of, because you come from a national security, look, that district, you've got to be on top of the defense appropriation, I mean, you have to know national security to be, to represent that district, right? | ||
But, as soon as you're coming up here, popping up on MSNBC, it was on CNN, it's got your big mug with Mo Brooks is going to be in studio tomorrow, a bunch of congressmen. | ||
Why are your pictures up there like wanted pictures? | ||
Right now, Nancy Pelosi is in the process of demanding that phone companies preserve the records of the members of Congress who are most effective, who are the firebrands. | ||
Now, I break this down on my podcast. | ||
It's called Firebrand. | ||
I hope folks go check it out on anywhere you listen to podcasts, also on Rumble. | ||
But Steve, you know, it's Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, Madison Cawthorn, myself, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs, Jody Heiss, Mo Brooks. | ||
Wow. | ||
That's a starting lineup of MAGA. | ||
That's MAGA starters. | ||
It is the front line of MAGA. | ||
And the reason Nancy Pelosi is doing this is because they want to cast this cloud of criminality. | ||
But what's phone records about what? | ||
You have a lot of phone records. | ||
Phone records regarding what? | ||
It's unclear what the duration in time is that they seek these records, but you know what? | ||
Nancy Pelosi... This is around January 6th? | ||
Nancy Pelosi better be careful what she wishes for, because if the new tradition when one party gains power in the House of Representatives is that you investigate the personal records and personal lives of the people who are out of power, | ||
Well, then 2022 and 2023 are going to be very difficult years for the Democrats, because when we come back in power, maybe we ought to demand preservation and review of the phone records of the Jihad Squad, those who were raising money to bail people out of, you know, prison when they were out burning our businesses and harming our fellow Americans. | ||
Maybe we ought to look at Nancy Pelosi's phone records with her husband, who benefited millions of dollars off of stock trades regarding technology bills that were moving through the legislative process. | ||
Who knows? | ||
Maybe there's a lot of people that... Maybe Eric Swalwell's text messages with his favorite CCP spies would be an interesting thing for us to be able to peruse. | ||
This is unprecedented, this is Marxist, and I look forward to standing up against it with my colleagues. | ||
This is kind of Banana Republic stuff, right? | ||
Very much. | ||
If they want to do that... But by the way, how about the executives at these companies in conversations with these members of Congress? | ||
Is that what you want? | ||
Sprint, Verizon, AT&T? | ||
Would you recommend they preserve their records? | ||
Well, you know what? | ||
If you want to be in that game, AT&T and Verizon and Sprint, if you want to become avowedly political, then that's going to work both ways. | ||
And so my strong recommendation to these companies is to resist political participation and to resist these efforts to try to really weaponize the Congress against its own members and elected representatives. | ||
Why does Nancy Pelosi think that on a day like this, he's got to give his national speech, that having Matt Gaetz's picture up on MSNBC is a good idea with MTG, etc.? | ||
Why does she do that? | ||
Well, first of all, I've lived in a country, and my family ran away from a country where this was okay, right? | ||
The Soviet Union ...is where they did the Stalinist show trials of the 1930s. | ||
Same thing this whole commission is. | ||
This is a joke, but it's a dangerous joke, and we've got to pay attention. | ||
Don't just scoff at it. | ||
Pay attention to those at home. | ||
Pay attention. | ||
That's one. | ||
Two, communications-wise, it's clear. | ||
Pelosi expected for Biden to go and soil himself today, and that's why she leaked it, pointed it out, wanted to change the conversation, and you know what? | ||
MSNBC now is running with it, so maybe they didn't think that was such a good speech by him. | ||
As a member of Congress, Benny Thompson's now got this blanket thing. | ||
He sent letters all over. | ||
The hearings are supposed to be in September. | ||
Do you think a priority should be what happened in Afghanistan? | ||
I mean, does Benny Thompson's things don't make sense anymore? | ||
It never makes sense. | ||
It looks ridiculous to the American people that our country is embarrassed on the world stage. | ||
We had a totally botched humiliation. Departure from Afghanistan and what Democrats in Congress are most worried about, not your job, not your paycheck, not your freedom, not whether or not the schools are open so your kids can go, not even our national pride, certainly not the border. What they're worried about is whether or not Marjorie Taylor Greene had some mean tweets that got people upset on January 6th. It's insulting to the people of our country who expect better of their leaders. | ||
I want to go back to Biden. | ||
I want to ask you questions. | ||
The 13 more dead yesterday came back. | ||
It's explosive what the parents that we start the morning show with just something. | ||
And by the way, it's getting it's getting more intense. | ||
I want to talk to you in a second about the social media oligarchs are starting to take people down. | ||
But but but but who's responsible? | ||
Is it the chain of command militarily or do you take it all the way back to the Oval Office? | ||
First of all, it's got to go all the way to Joe Biden. And that's how Americans think, right? | ||
He says the buck stops here. He is in the Oval Office. I don't think he's a legitimate president, but he is in the Oval Office. He's in the White House. He wants for the buck to stop there. It stops there. And specifically on something like this. This wasn't a military operation that was designed by the flag officers. This was something that he made the final call on. So the buck stops there eight because the btb thirteen honored that | ||
And look at the numbers of the families who cannot stand Joe Biden, even the ones who went. | ||
You've had two fathers, you've had two mothers, that's four at least out of 13 who've spoken up. | ||
You better believe that either every one of them or a huge majority are saying Joe Biden killed, killed our child. | ||
You've been on the social media oligarchs from day one. | ||
And I think you're the only guy, or one of the few guys, you do not take any PAC money from any corporations. | ||
None of them. | ||
I canceled them before they could cancel me. | ||
Okay, so you don't take any. | ||
And you've warned your fellow Republicans, including some guys we love, saying you're taking money from the wrong guys. | ||
I think it was Facebook and Instagram today cancelled the mother who said, hey, you're a piece of crap, and as soon as I bury my son, I'm getting in my car, I'm driving back, I'm having a pilgrimage across this country, and I'm sitting outside the White House until you're removed. | ||
She's taken down right away. | ||
And she also said, remember the key sentence, she said, cheating isn't winning. | ||
Yes, cheating isn't winning. | ||
I mean, she's full three November. | ||
What is the problem? | ||
How come we can't get the lesson to our guys about these social media oligarchs? | ||
This thing's got to be shut down when we take over in 2020. | ||
The new Republican position is, well, we just need to regulate them a little more closely. | ||
We need to just give them a little more guidance on censorship. | ||
Look, I don't want to regulate big tech. | ||
I want to break up big tech. | ||
It is the only solution. | ||
And for my libertarian friends whose sensibilities are, you know, perhaps a bit sensitized to that, we are fighting the Death Star. | ||
In these social media companies, and we have to fire everything we have at them. | ||
But what this show, what War Room exposed, is that the pandemic was really the start of their control and their ability to be able to do this. | ||
Once in the context of the pandemic, they could define the nature of truth. | ||
They were going to deploy that power in any political context, or any public health context, or any context of control that would benefit them. | ||
All politics is local. | ||
I want to go back to your district, because your district has been the tip of the spear of these wars, okay? | ||
Where does your district stand, particularly as we think through Afghanistan? | ||
I mean, we've had, the thing that has amazed me is so many people that are retirees have volunteered to go back in, right, with the State Department on help, and trying to get out real commandos, real translators, and I would say, so what, in your district, what are you hearing over the last couple of days? | ||
It's been very emotional. | ||
I've had people who fought in these wars call me expressing feelings of betrayal, shame, humiliation, and the point we have to reinforce to these folks is that we still need you here in our country to be great parents, to be great spouses, to be great business leaders. | ||
To join our movement. | ||
Oh, absolutely. | ||
To become the next round of congressional candidates, people like the great Joe Kent out in the state of Washington who should win that election. | ||
What we don't need is blame on those who are actually out there expressing their patriotism at an elite level. | ||
And right now, there are just a lot of people who feel like their commander-in-chief betrayed them, that the generals who lied for generations about the capabilities of the Afghan military were doing so for their own gain, not for our national interest. | ||
When Kabul fell, we came back here and my team pulled it together. | ||
We had a special on Sunday night two weeks ago, right? | ||
The day it fell. | ||
Tony Blinken's in the Hamptons. | ||
Tell me about that. | ||
That is a microcosm, a screenshot of what this administration is, the Biden administration. | ||
Completely devoid of reality. | ||
Completely divorced from what's actually happening. | ||
And frankly, just a bunch of elitist idiots. | ||
That's what it is, right? | ||
Blinken has been regarded for decades As somebody who has no idea what's actually happening on the ground, and he proved it by going to the Hamptons. | ||
Remember, Biden was on vacation himself. | ||
That was the same weekend when they had the issue with the clock. | ||
They're putting out a picture of Biden. | ||
The clocks are wrong. | ||
It's obviously an old stage picture. | ||
The whole thing is a disaster. | ||
There are a lot of dynamics still unfolding with Blinken. | ||
The Taliban want U.S. | ||
maintained presence in country because they want to see the benefit of the grift. | ||
They want to get in on the U.S. | ||
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Are we going to pay tribute to the Taliban? | ||
The Taliban seeks cash. | ||
There's a whole lot of money that the Afghan government wasn't able to run out of country with. | ||
I know you're a student of history. | ||
We have a reputation from Jefferson and Adams on Millions for defense, trillions for defense, billions for, not one penny for tribute. | ||
Are we going to pay tribute, effectually, to the Taliban? | ||
How do you know we haven't already? | ||
Right, that's the key question. | ||
You think, by the way, will your hearings get to the bottom of that? | ||
We need to get a lot of the information that they're briefing us on out in public. | ||
How can you hang up? | ||
You only get a minute and a half left. | ||
You're going to go back over these big hearings tomorrow. | ||
How can the Matt Gaetz's of the world get into the system here and get some answers? | ||
Well, we're going to have to expose more of the deep state at the Pentagon. | ||
You know, we've been working on that at the Department of Justice and the FBI, but there's a deep state at the Pentagon too, and it's going to require some of our fighters getting on the Oversight and Armed Services Committees to get to the bottom of this because These 13 Marines who are not alive today did not have to die. | ||
They did not have to die. | ||
The decisions that were made keep these people employed. | ||
How do Millie and Austin still have jobs today? | ||
If we had a president where the elevator was going to the top floor, those two people would be fired. | ||
And Blinken too. | ||
Blinken and Jake Sullivan. | ||
Give us the podcast and how do people track you on social media. | ||
The podcast is called Firebrand. | ||
Follow me on Twitter at repmattgates. | ||
Also, Rumble, man. | ||
The War Room kills it on Rumble. | ||
Folks should check it out. | ||
Are you hot on Getter yet? | ||
I haven't got on Getter yet. | ||
Oh, come on. | ||
What are you guys doing? | ||
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What's happening? | ||
Okay. | ||
You are a Firebrand. | ||
The podcast comes out how frequently? | ||
How do people know that? | ||
Every Thursday morning, so you can catch it right before War Room. | ||
Every Thursday morning. | ||
What is that lady still doing up there? | ||
Thank you very much for doing this, sir. | ||
Thank you. | ||
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ending an era. | |
Okay, welcome back. | ||
It's War Room. | ||
Really want to thank Extraction Under Fire. | ||
Really want to thank Congressman Gates for coming in here. | ||
A very lively conversation with him. | ||
A lot going on in elections, and we're going to start getting more of that in the broadcast. | ||
We understand we've been really tied up in this Afghan situation. | ||
I want to bring in Vernon Jones, runner for governor in Georgia. | ||
A couple things. | ||
Understand you're running in a primary. | ||
Well, first of all, you and I know Joe Biden is out of touch. | ||
Did you get a chance because I know you're you're very close to President Trump. | ||
You know, you came you actually flipped from a Democrat to Republican announced it on actually in the January 6th day at the big speeches down there. | ||
And now, you know, the president you're close to him. | ||
What do you think of Joe Biden's? | ||
What do you think of Joe Biden's speech? | ||
Well, first of all, you and I know Joe Biden is out of touch. | ||
Joe Biden took President Trump's idea, but he didn't have any idea of what he was doing. | ||
And And, you know, as opposed to taking the approach of trial and error, Joe Biden's always having an error, then trial. | ||
So he's above his head, as you know and I know. | ||
He has created major problems over there. | ||
He did not even vet the Taliban president. | ||
When you look at Joe Biden's approach to everything, he's trying to play a major league game with minor league players. | ||
It's just been a disaster and he needed to... Okay, there's a controversy, one of the big controversies we had with Russ Vought today is this refugee situation. | ||
The only thing they had organized from April is getting the refugees out. | ||
We know this because the NORTHCOM commander in a briefing the other day starts talking about April and they got culturally appropriate food. | ||
Now we're all for getting our allies out but they have to stay in the region. | ||
What's happening in Georgia and what's your position on this, Vernon Jones? | ||
Well, when I saw Governor Kemp join Joe Biden and welcome the Taliban and welcome these unvetted suicide bombers and these terrorists to Georgia, many of us in Georgia, we just almost flipped. | ||
We could not believe that Brian Kemp was so afraid of Stacey Abrams that he would cave in to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party and welcome the Taliban terrorists to Georgia, to neighborhoods and to various locations, not only through Georgia, but Look at what's happening. | ||
It's going to be through this country. | ||
And so what do you think is going to happen? | ||
They were able to bring over these terrorists. | ||
They're going to have cells stationed throughout this country, and they're going to be sending back information. | ||
And I believe next three or four years, you're going to see the results of what Joe Biden did. | ||
This thing is long from being over. | ||
Joe Biden called himself ended one war and he started another. | ||
And Brian Kim has been acting as if he's his twin brother and welcomed them here. | ||
Okay, there's more controversy today. | ||
We had Michael Patrick Leahy and the team on here from Georgia Star. | ||
More controversy about chain of custody on ballots and now they got the receipts and they can prove it. | ||
This mess in Georgia. | ||
What is going on and why haven't anybody, you know, Raffensperger's talking about putting the Fulton County Electoral Board in receivership because, quite frankly, he wants to control the process. | ||
Why is Kemp not all over this? | ||
I mean, every day you're hearing more horrific news. | ||
And this is one county. | ||
159 counties in one county. | ||
I think it's 43,000. | ||
Failed chain of custody. | ||
Black letter law down there. | ||
And I think it's DeKalb County. | ||
So tell us where Kemp stands on this and where do you stand on this? | ||
This has been consistent. | ||
Brian Kemp caved in to Stacey Abram with that special settlement agreement. | ||
Brian Kemp caved in and allowed these drop-off boxes. | ||
To be put in place, which in fact, the legislature did not write drop-off boxes into law, so actually any ballot received through these drop-off boxes are invalid. | ||
And then you see that he caved in again, or I should say, no, he's been forceful not to want to have an independent audit. | ||
I want to have a 159-county independent audit that not only looks at these ballots, but it looks at the process, exactly what this local newspaper revealed, that the process, how these ballots were captured. | ||
how there was no chain of custody. There's so many problems and that's just in DeKalb County alone. | ||
President Trump won by thousands and thousands of votes, but Brian Kemp does not want that to come out because Brian Kemp, and you and I both know that Brian Kemp wasn't supportive of President Donald Trump. He was more afraid of, he was more afraid of Stacey Abrams than he was supportive of Donald Trump. Okay, so I'm 469 county, I ought to get to the bottom of this. Okay, I understand what you're saying, but here's what I understand. You got Arizona's, and you can't went out to Arizona. Arizona's about to come out with the report, okay, and we're going to see what actually happened in Maricopa County, expand over there, but before that, I think it's going to blow | ||
people's heads off. | ||
You've got Jay Corman and the guys of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. | ||
I don't know, they're talking about hearings and subpoenaing government officials, and Jay Corman can make decisions. | ||
You've got Reince Priebus and the guys out there in Wisconsin. | ||
Paul Ryan said today, oh, nothing happened, Trump lost. | ||
But you've got Reince Priebus and you've got the former justices on the Supreme Court. | ||
You've got Troupas, you've got all of them. | ||
They're working through, they've allocated $600,000 to kind of do a full forensic investigation, which is an audit. | ||
Georgia is the, as Peter Navarro says, for the good people in Georgia, the election process down there is the ultimate cesspool. | ||
So what is actually, and I understand we're in the courts, but what action needs to be taken and what does Kemp need to do, sir? | ||
Kemp needs to right now order 159 counties for rents and audits. | ||
Start with DeKalb County, start with Fulton County, Cobb County, those metro counties, and go throughout this state because clearly it shows fraud. | ||
It clearly shows that there's so much of a debacle here that this election could not have been free, fair, and transparent. | ||
But he's afraid of it because, one word, corruption. | ||
When I say there's a dead cat on the end of this line, Steve, there's corruption on the end of this line. | ||
And when you look at who the players are, at the tip of the spear is Brian Kemp. | ||
When it comes to Dominion, it's Brian Kemp. | ||
When it comes to the drop-off boxes, it's Brian Kemp. | ||
When it comes to not having a 159-county audit, it's Brian Kemp. | ||
When it comes to not bringing this up in an upcoming session to discuss it in a special session and to order it, it's Brian Kemp. | ||
Brian Kemp has failed Georgia. | ||
Brian Kemp is hiding something. | ||
I don't know what it is, but I can tell you it's a stench to it, and we're going to get to the bottom of it. | ||
Sooner or later, this cover-up is going to have to be revealed. | ||
Vernon Jones, how do people find out more about you and how they find out more about your campaign, how they follow you on social media? | ||
They want to be a part of taking Georgia back. | ||
Go to jonesforgeorgia.com. | ||
That's jonesforgeorgia.com. | ||
We're going to take Georgia back and we're going to get to the bottom of what happened. | ||
President Trump won Georgia. | ||
Let's be clear about that, Steve. | ||
He won Georgia, but it was Brian Kim and him holding up and establishing the parameters where fraud could take place. | ||
And he not wanting to get to the bottom of it. | ||
That says it all. | ||
That says it all, Steve. | ||
That says it all. | ||
There's a dead cat on the end of this line. | ||
Vernon Jones, thank you very much for joining us here in the War Room. | ||
Appreciate it. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Okay, I want to go around the horn. | ||
I want to start in, let's start in Georgia. | ||
Okay, you've seen Michael Patrick Leahy, these guys are getting the receipts. | ||
It seems like Georgia, with everything that's happening in the courts down there, and you've got the judges actually giving it, if you've got momentum coming out of Arizona, you're about to have a report drop, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, you know, Vernon Jones is hammering down there, but where are we in Georgia? | ||
So first of all, Vernon did a good job, right? | ||
Summing up where the fault lies in Georgia. | ||
And there's no doubt that that Governor Brian Kemp did nothing to help us after the election. | ||
Couldn't get it over with. | ||
And by the way, those two lost Senate seats are on Brian Kemp as well. | ||
They're on Brian Kemp and they're on Mitch McConnell for not doing the $2,000 when it was so simple. | ||
So let's not forget about that. | ||
That's one. | ||
Right now, you're about two weeks out from that next hearing in Georgia on the key case of unsealed ballots. | ||
The judge done a good job. | ||
The judge done a good job. | ||
That's probably the only judge in the country who's actually done a good job. | ||
140,000 ballots going to be unsealed in Georgia. | ||
That is the key next inflection point. | ||
You know this, different than 43, we're talking about the chain of custody that DeLahey just brought up with the cop, totally different thing. | ||
I mean, Georgia, that's what I'm saying. | ||
There's so much cesspool. | ||
Arizona, what can people really help? | ||
Is this going to, is the preliminary report going to be at least leaked or is somebody going to know about it before the Labor Day holiday? | ||
I don't think so. | ||
I don't think so. | ||
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I never want to give the audience the wrong expectation. | |
Because you don't want it leaked. | ||
That's the answer. | ||
We don't want it leaked. | ||
Because what we don't want to do is leak it and then have the mainstream media break it apart. | ||
What is happening right now is information is being exchanged between the audit team and State Senate President Karen Fan, and then she will decide when it's made public. | ||
People love you, but they think you're being played by the Republican establishment in Pennsylvania. | ||
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Okay. | |
I don't know a lot of things, okay? | ||
But being played isn't one of them. | ||
And here's what I'll tell you. | ||
I'll tell you loud and clear. | ||
It is about 540 Eastern. | ||
There's another day wasted. | ||
On Tuesday? | ||
On Tuesday. | ||
This is Tuesday, August 31st. | ||
Where are my subpoenas? | ||
And I'm a whole lot less friendly than I was 24 hours ago. | ||
Where are my subpoenas? | ||
Because there's another day that's gone. | ||
Nothing's happened. | ||
So I'm going to draw a line. | ||
Here's what I'm going to say. | ||
Because the Friday before Labor Day, first of all, it's Shabbos before Rosh Hashanah, so it would be offensive to put something out. | ||
Got the high holidays coming. | ||
But in all seriousness, Friday before Labor Day is a gone day. | ||
If hearings for next week are not announced by close of business on this Thursday, On this Thursday, September 2nd, then the Republican establishment in Pennsylvania, Jake Corman, Chris Dush, and the rest of them are playing us and slow-walking this, and that will not be acceptable. | ||
And we'll go back to talking to those folks having their next jobs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. | ||
And Wisconsin is making progress. | ||
I want to pivot, Biden, this speech today. | ||
Clearly the most forceful he's done. | ||
Blue check Twitter was all, you know, they were all loving it at first. | ||
Some. | ||
Okay, give me your assessment as you see. | ||
Let's be nonpartisan for a second. | ||
Sure. | ||
Let's talk, because this has been, this presidency's in a death spiral right now. | ||
We know this, right? | ||
Or this regime's in a death spiral. | ||
They needed this today to try to stop the bleeding. | ||
Do you think they stopped the bleeding? | ||
No. | ||
First of all, going out there at 3.30, and I hear what Congressman Gates is saying, how that may play well. | ||
Now, it doesn't play well for the country as a whole. | ||
Maybe for the MSNBC audience that works, but not for the people who get their news still from the local news, not from people in middle America. | ||
If you're not out there in prime time as the president... Well, also the people, they want to see the gravitas of the White House, and you're coming in at 8 o'clock at night. | ||
It's 3.30 in the afternoon, East Coast. | ||
Bizarre, isn't it? | ||
It's 12.30, West Coast. | ||
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Bizarre. | |
Everybody's working. | ||
It made absolutely no sense. | ||
So that was bad. | ||
A lot of the feedback has been that he was actually screaming and didn't have control of himself. | ||
You know, that's just the optics. | ||
And then the substance was, it was mumbling, bumbling. | ||
He came under and said everything was perfect. | ||
But all the blame goes to President Trump. | ||
You can't have it both ways. | ||
Peter Baker, by the way, Peter Baker of the New York Times, said what I just said on MSNBC right after. | ||
We thought it was going to be a love fest, but as we watched the post game on MSNBC, Peter Baker came in pretty negative against Joe Biden. | ||
We had Ms. | ||
Sheehan, her son died, I think, in 2004. | ||
Cindy Sheehan, she was everywhere, and they had thousands of photographers, and the BBC, NHK, everybody following around. | ||
I've never seen a reaction like the parents have had the last couple of days, some of these parents. | ||
And none of the parents have come out with anything positive, not a word positive, about Joe Biden. | ||
All you've seen is the fathers on Hannity, the mother on the radio show, who went out and absolutely slammed not just Biden, but let's not forget that this goes back to Joe Biden but also his enablers. | ||
The Mark Elias, the Perkins Coie, those who cheated in this election, who helped Joe Biden get into the White House, the blood is very much on their hands. | ||
And they're the ones who have to look at themselves in the mirror and say, because of their craven, their craven tactics, we've got this mumbling, bumbling, feeble, feckless old man in the White House making terrible decisions for this country, and because of them, you have 13 honored dead Marines who could be alive, should be alive with us today. | ||
Chase Bank debanked General Mike Flynn, the head of DIA, many tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a patriot, honored hero, on question for reputational risk. | ||
That's the letter said. | ||
I'm going to break some news here. | ||
They did the same thing to me in 2017. | ||
I was a Chase client, and I got a note saying, well, you know, we're not really comfortable, you know, you're in politics now, a thousand percent, because I was in the Trump administration. | ||
They came early, and they came hot, and they had no explanation. | ||
Chase Bank did the same thing to me four years ago. | ||
Of course, I am not nearly to the level of American hero Michael Flynn, but that is what they're doing. | ||
That's what the woke corporatists in America are doing to American patriots. | ||
Because you're very strategic. | ||
You've focused on Mark Elias and Perkins Court. | ||
Are you trying to raise their level of reputational risk so that when people are associated with them, they get stench on them? | ||
I'm hoping that by close of business today, Mark Elias gets a call and says, Mr. Elias, the managing partner of Perkins Court wants to speak with you because blood is on your hands. | ||
Because if it was not for Mark Elias and Pierre Perkins-Coy, the election would not have been stolen? | ||
Correct. | ||
Mark Elias, Perkins-Coy, the evil geniuses who stole this election for the feckless Joe Biden. | ||
Donald Trump would have done it right. | ||
Joe Biden failed. | ||
It's Mark Elias' fault. | ||
And they bragged about it. | ||
Time Magazine, Molly Balls, they bragged about it. | ||
Rubbed your nose in it. | ||
No more good press on MSNBC for you, Mark. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
Colonel Wendy Rogers is in Ohio right now with the Josh Mandel rally. | ||
She'll join us right at the other side of the spring. | ||
welcome back war room Extraction under fire. | ||
We've had Colonel Wendy Rogers talking to us and giving her analysis of what happened in Afghanistan, and we're going to get more from her later in the week as she can go through the President's speech. | ||
But she's in Ohio today. | ||
First off, Colonel Rogers, you're traveling, this tour you're doing of the country to spread the gospel of 3 November, the 3 November movement, and 50 state audits is just unbelievable. | ||
I know you're in Ohio today. | ||
You've got a Josh Mandel rally. | ||
But real quickly, can we get any update at all on Arizona as far as what you know? | ||
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Hi, Steve. | |
Yes, broadcasting here from just north of Dayton, Ohio. | ||
I just got a communique from the Arizona Senate. | ||
We will be having a closed caucus Zoom meeting on Thursday, and so I hope to have an update for everyone then. | ||
But suffice it to say, it is most important that we get this Arizona audit accurate Uh, and not rush it. | ||
And as everyone knows, three out of the five Cyber Ninjas got COVID, which slowed things down, as well as partial trickling now of the Maricopa County supervisors having given us the envelope. | ||
I am in Ohio to underscore how strongly Josh Mandel is committed to election integrity. | ||
He is the fine a fine candidate for senate and uh... he's a former marine and i have just uh... | ||
uh... unbridled respect for him he's got a a mind for finance obviously it's having been state treasurer here and i'm really excited to be with him tonight and jenna ellis because the election integrity has become the number one issue everywhere i've gone all over this country uh... people come up to me and say we are relying on arizona to get to the bottom of twenty twenty so that we can fix twenty twenty two Thank you. | ||
I gotta ask you, you're in Ohio, that is Trump country, I mean that's the one we focused on in 16, we knew we won that, it's the one here, but we won it by 9 points I think this time, and people are still focused on 3 November, I mean why, Wendy Rogers, you've been going all over the country preaching this gospel, why Ohio, and why do Ohioans have an interest in, that's where Trump had essentially a blowout, why are they interested in Ohio about 3 November? | ||
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Because even if a state went for Trump, from what I'm hearing, there is corruption and fraud everywhere. | |
And even if it's in one part of one state, we should absolutely audit every county that used the machines. | ||
I mean, I was in North Carolina and it was the same story, story after story about fraud and corruption in that state, even though it went for Trump. | ||
That's not the point. | ||
The point is that we have to get to the bottom of how all this is happening, the complacency, the ineptitude, and the nefarious actor interference that's possible. | ||
We have to disclose and find out what is under the hood. | ||
And so that means every state. | ||
And that's been my charge going on this trip. | ||
And people come up to me from all over saying, Wendy, I've never been involved in politics until now. | ||
And these moms come up to me and family members, and they are just absolutely livid with the steal. | ||
Colonel Rogers, what's your social? | ||
By the way, there's a rally tonight. | ||
It's for Josh Mandel. | ||
He's running the Senate for in Ohio. | ||
You've got Jenna Ellis. | ||
You've got Colonel Wendy Rogers. | ||
We're gonna make sure we're gonna put what the live stream is so people can watch this. | ||
These are the fire breathers about election integrity and particularly 50 state full forensic audits from November 30. | ||
Gotta get to the bottom of it. | ||
Colonel Rogers, what's your social media? | ||
You've become kind of a rock star in this movement. | ||
Everybody wants to follow you all day long. | ||
So how they do it? | ||
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I need everyone to go to WENDYROGERS.ORG, W-E-N-D-Y-R-O-G-E-R-S dot org, WENDYROGERS.ORG, to the upper right corner and sign the petition to decertify this presidential election. | |
We want a million signatures and we are already, I think, at 200. | ||
Wow. | ||
Colonel Rogers, thank you very much. | ||
Looking forward to having you back on later in the week. | ||
Colonel Wendy Rogers, Air State Senator. | ||
Thank you, Steve. | ||
certified carl rogers thank you very much for having back on later we call when the rogers as they can be back on God bless you. | ||
In Ohio tonight, Josh Mandel, Bear Gryllit, Jenna Ellis, Wendy Rogers, Breathe in Fire, 3 November. | ||
Why is this 3 November movement, you've been there at the beginning, why is it catching fire, it seems like? | ||
And by the way, every obstacle, subpoenas, fighting this in court, why is it catching fire? | ||
Because it's the fight for the truth. | ||
It's very direct. | ||
We know, logical people know, the worse Biden does, the more clear it gets that he did not get 81 million votes. | ||
And the worse it gets with Biden now, blood on his hands, the American people are more and more focused on what happened on 3 November 2020. | ||
About his legitimacy. | ||
And by the way. | ||
You can see this in polling numbers now. | ||
The polling numbers are getting worse. | ||
He's going to be with independents in the 20s here any minute if he's not today. | ||
And that's a leading indicator for overall. | ||
The 3 November movement speaks to the very soul and to the legitimacy of this administration. | ||
And it's a huge problem for Biden. | ||
Give me your social media. | ||
Absolutely. | ||
New website just up. | ||
Gotta go to it. | ||
www.borisep.com. | ||
Sign up. | ||
A lot more info coming, of course, super hot on Getter at all times, at BorisEP, at BorisEP on Twitter, and Boris underscore Epstein. | ||
They go to the website, they get a newsletter, all that? | ||
Yeah, so just this morning, I sent out a newsletter with our hit from yesterday. | ||
It went viral. | ||
BorisEP.com. | ||
Go right now. | ||
You came in a little hot yesterday. | ||
Real America's Voice, and this is what I love about Real America's Voice, they're going to go out throughout the country And they're going to take the temperature of the country right now. | ||
They're not going to stick in D.C. | ||
You've got Ben Berquam, who's now back after the big family tragedy. | ||
Glad his wife and everybody are doing fine. | ||
Ben Berquam in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, just south of Myrtle Beach. | ||
And you can't get any more MAGA than down there. | ||
Ben Berquam, Amber Head, talk to us about what's going on. | ||
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Hey, thank you, Steve. | |
We're here. | ||
We've got an awesome crowd of amazing patriots behind me. | ||
We're about to start our Save America Freedom Tour, the fourth leg of that in Murrells Inlet, and this is what it's about. | ||
It's about hearing from the American people. | ||
We've got some amazing speakers, and we are honored to have you on here, and then we're going to be in Georgia On the 2nd, so on Thursday the 2nd, we'll have you there doing some Q&A. | ||
It's going to be an amazing time, but we're about to start that show here in the next hour, 6 o'clock. | ||
We're going to go through 7.30. | ||
You do not want to miss what we have, and it ties into Afghanistan, ties into the border, ties into everything that matters to the American people. | ||
Okay, the entire War Room Posse, what we want you to do is just stick with Real America's voice right now. | ||
Ben Berkwan, we're going to flip it over to them. | ||
Ben Berkwan, we got the entire team down there. | ||
We're going to take it. | ||
This is going to be amazing. | ||
And this is what they're doing. | ||
They're taking the bus. | ||
They're going throughout the country. | ||
They're taking the temperature of the American people. | ||
Things are heating up. | ||
In the nation's capital, I've got to tell you, we're about to enter into a new cycle that's going to be insane. | ||
You've got these huge spending bills. | ||
We've got everything that happened in Afghanistan, all the geopolitics of it, the finance of it. | ||
I've got to tell you, the debt ceiling, they're trying to jam down this H.R. | ||
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It is intense. | ||
And that's why Ben Burquham and the team of Real America's Voice are going to be out there in the country to see what's the real voice of America and what they have to say about it. | ||
Stay tuned right here. | ||
We'll see you tomorrow morning at 10. | ||
Thank you very much, Boris, for driving by. | ||
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Great to be here. | |
Thanks so much. | ||
Thanks to Congressman Gates. |