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Episode 1,241 – Biden's Failures Have Cost AmericansEpisode 1,241 – Biden's Failures Have Cost Americans
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...has now killed more than 100 people in China, and new cases have been confirmed around the world.
You don't want to frighten the American public.
France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans.
But you need to prepare for and assume... Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China.
This is gonna be a real serious problem.
France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on.
Health officials are investigating more than a hundred possible cases in the US.
Germany, a man has contracted the virus.
The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide.
Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus.
Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500.
We have to prepare for the worst, always.
Because if you don't, then the worst happens.
War Room.
Pandemic.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Remember, there's only three ways to finance this mess.
One, you sell bonds, government bonds, to the Japanese insurance companies, to the Chinese Communist Party, which owns over a trillion dollars of it, or to the Gulf Emirates, essentially.
Number two is taxes.
And if you have a growth economy, like under President Trump, tax revenues increase.
With a flat economy like Biden's, tax revenues don't increase.
So either raise taxes dramatically or... And then you have a massive gap.
And the gap, it says, oh, we just print money.
That's a cute term for... That is on your shoulders.
That is essentially the Treasury selling bonds to the Federal Reserve.
That's this three-card Monte, right?
That's three-card Monte.
And that's how the national debt continues to go up.
It continues to go up.
Only you can give authorization.
You in this audience can give authorization to increase the debt ceiling.
They understand that.
They're in full panic mode.
So they're talking about putting into a continued resolution.
Remember these scams, these games they played with President Trump back in Obama's administration, where they just kicked the can down the road?
You never really get a budget.
You never really get your hands around what's being spent.
You never really have any definition of what's going on.
No, continue resolution for 60 days, for 90 days.
And they want to put, in the buried lead in The Hill, which is a great article.
You ought to read it.
Let's get it up in the live chat.
Make sure everybody reads it.
It's kind of inside baseball, but we know you like inside baseball.
Because it helps you think through exactly where you want to take this country.
In there, buried, is they're going to put the debt ceiling at continued resolution and just kick the can down the road.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Can't happen.
Cannot happen.
Guess what?
I'm going to use a phrase we haven't heard in a while, ladies and gentlemen.
They're talking about it.
The ticking time bomb.
Government shutdown.
Government shutdown.
If all this doesn't get worked out, and we don't allow a continued resolution, right?
We don't allow continued resolution.
At midnight on the 30th, no more money.
Right?
No new budget, no new spending, government shutdown.
Okay?
Okay, welcome to the War Room.
It is Tuesday, 7th September, the Year of Our Lord 2021.
That was at 10.05 this morning, okay?
I told you what was going to happen, because if you could read between the lines in the Hill, because there definitely had been some leaking going on.
You knew what the scam they were going to run, and guess what?
One o'clock, let's get CNBC's.
Let's get, Denver can put the CNBC article.
Guess what?
About one or two o'clock this afternoon, boom!
Continuing resolution.
Okay?
They're absolutely panicked.
Absolutely panicked about having to address the American people.
This is why they're sitting, they're going to come back and talk about the 1.25 trillion dollar infrastructure bill, which is not really about infrastructure.
Then they're going to talk about the 3.5 trillion dollar Human capital, human infrastructure, which is just another fiasco.
That, what, four or five trillion dollars, six trillion dollars, will transform this country.
You'll never get the genie back in the bottle.
To cover themselves, because they can't get it done.
Impossible.
And here's why it's impossible.
You've got the leverage.
It's called the debt ceiling.
Okay?
So what's the scheme?
I told you what they're going to do.
Continue resolution.
They're going to try to put the debt ceiling in there.
The CNBC article's got all kind of nuggets in it.
How they're going to tell American people, hey, you know, we've got all these hurricanes, we've got climate change, you've got to have this, you know, all these programs, veterans programs, everything's got to, you can't have the government shut down.
Only the whack jobs do that.
No, that's leverage.
Shut down a government.
Let's do it.
Done it before.
Let's do it.
They're running three-card money on you.
Buried lead in CNBC at the very bottom were all the good news.
You should read these articles from the bottom up.
You want to get the good stuff.
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65,000.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
65,000. 65,000 Afghan refugees. 65,000. How many of those are commandos and interpreters?
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65,000.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You need to cash money for that.
Okay, we've got some very special people coming on today.
Jim McCollum.
And Royce McCollum, that is the father and the sister of Lance Corporal Riley McCollum from up in Wyoming.
One of the heroes, one of the honored dead who were the guards at the, at Abbey Gate, at Kabul Airport.
They're going to be here today to tell us about their, Royce is going to tell us about her brother.
And Jim's going to talk about his son.
That's what we want to hear.
We want to hear their stories.
Don't want to hear Biden's stories on his son.
Don't want to hear any of that.
We want to hear their stories.
I want to hear about these patriots in the run-up to 9-11.
Captain Ben is my co-host for the next couple hours.
We've got a bonus hour this evening.
I want to thank Real America's Voice.
There's so much going on.
The show is absolutely jammed.
I think we've got Navy SEAL, we've got Senior Chief Petty Officer Gallagher, we've got Petty Officer Tej Gill, we've got Commander Gritens, we've got Colonel Wendy Rogers talking about the 3 November.
We're going to get it all in.
But I'm bringing a very special guest.
Captain Bennett, thank you very much for riding shotgun with me.
I want to bring in somebody very special.
Michelle Bachman, and I've had Dean Bachman in because she's doing something very special, but it's also to kind of tee up the McCollums, because I think we've got to go back to the beginning and understand why Lance Corporal Riley McCollum was on guard.
It was their guarding and really helping humanity at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan a few weeks ago.
Dean Bachman, and Dean Bachman, you're, by the way, before I talk about this seminar, this all-day event you're going to have on Thursday, you ran for president, and one of the reasons you ran for president was you saw the scams that they were doing up here on Capitol Hill.
You've seen the continuing resolutions before.
We called that shot this morning because we want the entire posse, this is the most powerful audience in all media, to understand you're going to have to go to the ramparts because we're going to be talking government shutdown and we want to make sure the Republicans have the spine to stand up to this thing because you're going to get everything dumped on you about how bad you are, how evil you are, just like on the debt ceiling.
You're ruining the capital markets, you're ruining the full faith and credit of the United States when it's the uniparty, it's this apparatus up here that's doing it.
So, Congressman Bachman, before I jump into your all-day event that you're having at Regent University that we can all participate in about commemorating 9-11 and what the real meaning of it is, talk to me about this continued resolution, the scams.
You've faced this many, many times in your career.
Can you tell the audience what they're trying to do up here in D.C.?
michele bachmann ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, they want to keep the spending going without any accountability.
That's how they always do it.
And so you're right, it's exactly kicking the can down the road.
But the way that leadership speaks to the rank and file about it, the ones who are going to vote on this thing, is that we have to do it.
We don't have any option.
We can't shut down the government.
We'll all get creamed.
We'll all lose our jobs.
We'll get booted out.
That's absolute nonsense.
People need to understand, when the government, quote, shuts down, it doesn't really shut down.
Every federal employee is going to get paid.
They're only going to get paid a couple weeks later than what they thought they were going to, but they get paid in the meantime anyway.
So there isn't anybody who's going to lose their job.
There's probably about, realistically, about 14% of spending stops.
All the other spending keeps going.
Social Security, Medicare.
Because the dirty secret is, most of Washington, D.C.' 's spending, Steve, Is on automatic pilot.
That's why members of Congress and the Senate are effectually dinosaurs in a lot of ways, because there's ways that they can't stop the spending.
I'll never forget, I had a conversation on the plane.
I was serious about stopping Obamacare.
And one of the representatives that I was on a plane with, it was a long, long flight.
And I was telling him, we've got to repeal Obamacare because we've got to stop the spending.
And he told me it's impossible.
Now that Obamacare's passed, it is impossible.
We can never stop it.
I didn't believe him for a minute that we couldn't stop it.
I know it's possible to do it.
But this is just an idea in their minds.
You can never shut off the spigot.
In Congress's minds, their belief system is This party just goes and goes and goes.
Might be a little different.
Maybe when Republicans get in, we'll just do the same thing, but a little bit on the cheap.
But the fact is, the party will stop someday.
And it'll stop like a car going 80 miles an hour into a brick wall.
That's how the party is going to stop someday.
And it won't be pretty.
And that's why the best thing that we could do is have our representatives say, I'm not kicking the can down the road.
We're not going to authorize this spending because if Congress authorizes this spending, then that means Joe Biden will get his $6 trillion in this phony infrastructure bill.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, I just want to, in political history, in 2012, after Romney got smoked and Obama added seats, in 2013, the government shut down.
And remember, it was going to be the end of the world.
This was Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and Michelle Bachmann, all these people sitting there firing up.
on Obamacare and other issues.
That led to the victory in the House that turned the House back over the Republicans in 2014, which was the laid the groundwork for the Trump populist revolt that drafted off the Tea Party in 2010 and President Trump took it over the top, won all three, added to the House and won and took the Senate back and the presidency in 16.
We should not forget the same arguments you've heard over and over again.
If you shut down the government, it's the end of life as we know it.
That is just not true.
President Trump had a couple of shutdowns.
This is big time, and I'll tell you what.
We couldn't ask for better.
We couldn't ask for better.
You've got the leverage out there, ladies and gentlemen.
You have the leverage.
The reason is, the government also runs out of cash on October 15th, thereabouts, with the debt ceiling.
We've got a double whammy.
You've got the, you've got the, they've got to fund the government by September 30th.
October 1st is a whole new year.
Need new cash, new appropriations, and guess what?
Then they're out of cash on the 15th.
The three card money ends.
Congressman Bachman, we've got other things to go through today with you, but we're going to bring you back because you're one of the old warhorses in this area about shutting down the government and staring them down.
And nobody's tougher than Michelle Bachman, I'll tell you.
She stood in the breach many times and had the entire city against her.
People's heads blowing up.
So we'll have you back, but this is a scam.
And we called it this morning, they came out with it.
They've got to have a continuing resolution.
They can't get all this stuff done.
So we're going to get fired up.
We're going to get on all these Republicans, right?
And particularly the guys in the Senate.
No continuing resolution.
Dare them.
Get your stuff done.
Let's see what you've got by September 3rd.
It's plenty of time.
Call them back from the junkets.
Where are they?
It's September 7th.
We've got plenty of time.
Get back here today.
Get back here today because you're burying our children and our grandchildren.
You're going to add another $6 trillion of debt.
Boom!
Just like that.
Remember, the full faith and credit of the United States is on your shoulders.
They can't sell the bonds to the Chinese.
The taxes won't pay for it.
Because there's no growth in the economy, so the tax revenue is not going to increase.
You gotta print money, and printing money is just saying, it's on your shoulders.
I want to play, can we play the clips from 9-11?
I want, Congressman Bachman, Dean Bachman now, down at Regent, on Thursday is going to have a very special event, but I want to show something.
Your theory of the case is, we're not really commemorating 9-11.
You don't, it's really crickets, you don't hear much about it.
Is that correct, Congressman?
michele bachmann ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, if you look, I was at the airport this last week.
If you look at the magazine stand, there's no covers of 9-11.
And remember, this was the most horrific event that the United States has faced in modern times.
This is the 20th anniversary.
This is the big anniversary for an event of that magnitude.
I didn't see any magazine covers.
And I sensed this earlier this summer, that there wasn't going to be much that was going to happen.
By commemorating what this meant.
Remember, this is prior to the fall, the collapse of Afghanistan.
There was no big retrospectives and major newspapers across the United States.
There were no academic symposiums that were being announced about this.
And that's because I think, Steve, we've moved into a time with critical race theory that the United States, on that day, on September 11th, the United States was the victim.
We were attacked by terrorists.
Today in classrooms across the United States and even on your TV news at night, the United States is seen as the perpetrator of all the ills of the world.
And so now the people, the cultural gatekeepers have exchanged who's the real victim and who's the real perpetrator.
And so it is crickets out there right now.
And that's why we need to have our cultural centers, which are places like academia, film, et cetera.
In fact, I took a look last night on Netflix and Amazon Prime to see what are they offering?
It's meager potatoes for any retrospectives on 9-1-1.
There's some out there, but I was looking for instance for United 93.
You couldn't find that film.
You couldn't find it.
It wasn't offered for free on Netflix or Amazon Prime.
So this is something that's being swept under the rug because America was the victim.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Dean Bachman, hang on for one second.
We're taking a short commercial break.
We're in return with Dean Michelle Bachman from Reed University.
We're also going to have Jim and Royce McCollum here to talk to us about Lance Corporal Riley McCollum.
All next in The War Room.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
OK, we're with former congressman and former presidential candidate Michelle Bachman of Minnesota.
She's now dean down at the great Regent University down in in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
OK, Dean, you had a What a 12 or 15 hour seminar on voter fraud.
And ladies and gentlemen, in the three-member movement, this is one of the most important things that they had.
We've got David Clements on there.
We got Peter Navarro on there.
And Dean Bachman, our audience could not have loved that anymore.
They could have taken another 15 hours.
And with the history of this Times written, that Symposium you had at Regent was one of the key things was you added the legal aspect to it and really got momentum, intellectual momentum, in back of the 3 November movement.
As you know, we're fighting.
We have Wendy Rogers on here in the second hour.
And we got Seth Kessel, Captain Seth Kessel, on tomorrow morning, right?
With Liz Harris from Arizona.
You've done another immersive experience because our cultural institutions are not commemorating the importance of 9-11 as the bloodiest day in American history.
Bloodier than Antietam, bloodier than Pearl Harbor on American soil.
So Dean, tell us what you're going to do.
How can people get access to it?
What can they anticipate?
michele bachmann ▲ ● ▼
We're having a virtual event, all-day conference.
It's available to anyone.
They can access it from their computer at regent.edu forward slash 9-1-1.
Again, regent.edu forward slash 9-1-1.
It will also be broadcast all day on OANN as well.
So you can access it there as well.
What we're going to be doing is taking a no-holds-barred, non-politically correct view of what happened on September 11, 2001 and what's happened in the 20 years since that time, leading up to this collapse in Afghanistan and what that meant.
We've had 20 years and now we're told that the war on terror is over.
So we're going to look at this and hear from people like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, We're going to hear from the man who was the Secretary of the Navy on that day, Admiral Vern Clark.
We'll hear from Bernie Carrick, who was the New York City Police Commissioner that day.
We'll hear from U.S.
Attorney General John Ashcroft.
We'll hear from the FBI agent who tracked Mohammed Atta, the guy who flew the plane out of Logan Airport into the very first tower.
We've got a gentleman who's going through history to show the movement of Christianity and Islam throughout the Middle East, what that means for today.
We have the most unbelievable lineup of people who are all just telling the truth.
No shade, no political correctness.
This is where it's at.
This is the hottest issue of our day right now.
And it's how we got it so seriously wrong.
We were attacked.
We were the victims.
And almost immediately, what we'll see is that our leaders, our political leaders and our military leaders, chose to believe a fantasy view of the motivation of the terrorists who attacked us.
Because they persisted in that delusion for 20 years, we got to the point where we saw the collapse in Afghanistan and essentially a loss in Afghanistan.
And there's so many pieces to this puzzle.
So we're taking eight hours to look into a deep dive because we will never forget.
We will never forget what happened September 11th, 2001.
We're not going to let this go by.
I saw here in America, it looked to me like we were going to let that go by.
I thought at Regent, we're committed to the truth, to telling the truth.
I found the best minds that I could to weigh in on this.
You'll hear marvelous stories from the people who are going to be on.
Again, you can access this for free.
It starts at 9 a.m.
Eastern Time, 8 a.m.
Central Time.
Go to regent.edu forward slash 911 or watch it all day at OANN.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, perfect.
Congressman Bachman, I want to have you back on tomorrow to do this again.
It's very important in the morning.
It's very important.
Everybody on Thursday, this is going to be an immersive experience.
And remember, it's a hundred times we spent $2 trillion.
Over 2,200 young men and women have died, killed in action.
Plus, that doesn't include the contractors, the pipe hitters and the contractors.
We have, I think, 25 or 30,000 wounded.
PTSD, I think 20 suicides a day.
PTSD everywhere.
And we're going to talk to the family of one of the honored dead, Lance Corporal Riley McCollum, here in a second.
It is a hundred times worse.
Than when it started.
A hundred times worse.
And Joe Biden says the war's over.
The war's not over.
We're at the now the beginning of the Third World War.
On the Eurasian landmass, with the Chinese Communist Party, Pakistan, who we've put a hundred billion dollars into, the Haqqani Network, the mullahs in Iran, Turkey, Russia, the Chinese Communist Party.
On the western flank of India, our ally in the eastern flanks, Taiwan in the South China Sea.
That's the worst, the kinetic war is coming.
I've warned about this for years.
It's a hundred times worse than it was at 9-11.
And we spent 20 years, never in the history of a great power, ever, you can study history all you want, never in the history of a great power have the elites in a country so misguided a country against the bravery and valor and sacrifice of its citizens.
Not that they didn't put the money up.
Not that they didn't send their sons and daughters.
Not that they put their shoulder to the wheel.
It was never a question of commitment, never a question of valor, never a question of courage, ever.
It's a question of the managed decline of our country by our elites of both parties.
Wall Street, the global corporations, the world corporations, the cultural elites.
That's why Michelle Bachmann and Regent University, they got to stand up and do a nine-hour immersive event Because you don't see that coming out of Harvard.
You don't see it coming out of Stanford.
Right?
You don't see it on NBC or CBS.
Or even the cable networks.
You've got little things.
You've got movies.
CNN's doing something.
You've got little bits and pieces.
But not the immersive experience because it is a 20-year lead-up.
It's a 20-year preamble.
It's like the overture of an opera.
All the themes are in there for 20 years.
And now we're in it.
Now we are in it.
And if you don't think this is going to be tough, you are sadly mistaken.
I know this audience knows it.
Why?
Because you're the deplorables.
It's your sons and daughters.
It's you that have served.
Your sons and daughters that have served.
They're always going to come back to you for the taxes.
The full faith and credit of the United States is on your shoulders.
All of it.
Dean Bachman, how do people get you on social media?
How they find out about this?
Where should they go right now to find out more about it?
We'd love to have you back tomorrow to talk more about this immersive experience starting at 9 a.m.
Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday at Regent University.
How do people track you down on social media?
michele bachmann ▲ ● ▼
Steve, thank you.
People should go to regent.edu forward slash 9-1-1.
They can register there.
They can sign up.
There's a flyer there.
They can get all of the information for this.
And if anyone goes to Regent University, which is regent.edu, type my name in and all the information will come up.
Michelle Bachman.
Michelle with one L, Bachman with two N's.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thank you, Dean Bachman.
Appreciate it.
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Thanks.
michele bachmann ▲ ● ▼
We'll talk tomorrow.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thank you, ma'am.
I want to bring in now Jim and Royce McCollum.
Royce is the sister of and Jim is the father of Lance Corporal Riley McCollum.
We started this Saturday, 20 years ago, with what, 20, almost 3,000 American dead.
And the story continues on in 20 years, and one of the bravest heroes, Lance Corporal Riley McCollum, on the Abbey Gate, helping his fellow citizens, helping people who helped us in the war, and particularly just helping humanity.
I want to have it on just to explain, and we've got a couple minutes in this segment, and then we'll please hold you over to the next, but Jim, I'd like to start with you.
Just describe, just tell us about your son.
What we want to know today, we've got plenty of time later, and we'll get you back on to talk about responsibility and all that, but I just want this audience to understand who this young man was.
unidentified
Absolutely.
Thank you for having us.
We painted a really good picture of who Riley was through the memories and what an outstanding kid and that beautiful part of him.
There was so much more depth to him in his short 20 years that we haven't been able to express.
For all the good that he was, there was also a side to him that he was an ornery kid.
He was a pain in the butt sometimes.
Between 16 and 18 was a really dark time for him.
Uh, growing up, he did lose direction a little bit, didn't know what he wanted to do.
And when he enlisted on his birthday, on his 18th birthday, joining the Marines saved him, um, from, from where he, where he was and where he was headed.
And to know him and to understand him and the people that do know him will, will really understand this.
We grew up in a really affluent part of the country in Jackson, Wyoming.
We are not that.
Riley got to see a lot of the injustices and those that didn't have being suppressed, put down, and having a harder time.
And Riley always gravitated towards them and wanted to help them.
And it just, as I'm thinking about this, and I was listening to you, it encompasses everything that he was to where he was in Afghanistan and what he was doing, helping those that needed help.
And if there is one thing about Riley that I could ever Define him in, it was his selflessness and wanting to help those that either couldn't help themselves or didn't have what others had.
He's a good kid.
And that's the picture of him that is more realistic.
Troubled kid, pain in the butt, loved the Marine Corps, red, white, and blue.
Had strong political beliefs and convictions.
But he kept them to himself.
He was fairly private with it.
But he was always on the side of right.
Even if he was doing something wrong, the end goal was to do something right for someone else.
And he died doing exactly the way he lived his life.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Jim, if you and Royce could hang on, we're going to take a short commercial break.
We're going to return.
We've got the father of Lance Corporal Riley McCollum, that's Jim McCollum, and his sister, Royce McCollum.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, we're going to have a little bit later, Senior Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher.
We've got Petty Officer Tej Gill, another shooter that's going to come on Navy SEAL.
We've got Commander Greitens.
We've got Colonel Wendy Rogers.
We've got a lot to get to.
Also, we're going to talk about later in the show, Joe Biden was heckled today.
People yelling he should resign in this trip he made to New Jersey, but we got more important work to take care of right now.
It's the commemoration of the honored dead.
Mo, you want to jump in here and answer questions to Royce?
unidentified
I do.
maureen bannon ▲ ● ▼
Royce, I was reading that Riley, since he was a little kid, wanted to be a Marine.
unidentified
What inspired that?
Yeah, my dad wanted me to be a Marine.
So dad would just talk to us about that and then Riley just found that passion and he spent all of his time looking for magazines or video games or learning about just history of the wars that our country's been in and it just made him proud and he wanted to learn all of it so it was awesome to watch him grow up and just embody all of that and take all of it in and he would do like practice runs you know kids play
Army, whatever, as they're growing up, but he would go into like real life scenarios and, um, work through the whole thing in the yard and play with other people doing that.
And at recess, that's, that's always what he was doing.
Um, and he, when he went to bootcamp, I guess I'll back up a little bit.
Like the last couple of years of high school, he kind of struggled a little bit with, you know, maybe that wasn't the right path.
He questioned it a little bit, but the day that he turned 18, he still had a few months left of high school and the recruiter came to the school.
And he signed up on his 18th birthday and he just knew at that moment that that was the right thing to do.
He went to boot camp and actually got to come back and talk to the school as an alumni to the the students and all he talked about was how perfect that choice was and he's so glad he went and how it put him on the right path and saved him and he was doing what he wanted to do and you know I think he just he doubted who he was for a little bit but having that
Embodying that and being able to go and get through boot camp and now pass that forward and help other kids and then be in Afghanistan and help save so many lives.
That was exactly who he was and where he was meant to be.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Royce, what was he like as a brother?
What was Lance Corporal McCollum like?
unidentified
Mean!
We fought all the time, every day.
I don't think that there was a day that we didn't fight, honestly.
Yeah, we beat each other up.
We've got scars to prove it.
But yeah, I mean, growing up with him, it made me so much stronger and it was a blessing for my life just to have him and his struggles.
It made me a more compassionate person and it made me able to deal with struggle and the difficult things that we went through so much better.
Yeah.
If I may, they fought always, constantly, with the dumbest things, but at the drop of a hat, they had each other's back.
It was frustrating as a dad to see them bicker over Cheerios.
But yeah.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Jim, let me ask you, by the way, this is very truthful, you can tell they're brother and sister.
When he said, as many kids, and particularly our audience will know this with raising children today, particularly young men, when he said he went through a dark period, when did you know as a parent, because you always hesitate, you assume it's the right thing, you hope it's the right thing when they volunteer, when did you know as a parent it was the right thing for him to do to enlist in the Marine Corps right out of high school, or actually kind of when he was still in high school?
unidentified
When he actually called me on his 18th birthday and said, I need you to come in and sign some papers.
I'm going to enlist today.
Um, I reminded him that he's 18 and he didn't need my signature anymore, but I, I made the trip in to meet with him anyway.
And I knew right then, um, this, this is, it was beautiful.
Um, he wanted me to be proud of him at that point in his life.
I don't think he knew.
And I certainly didn't say it enough that I was proud of him.
And I think that, That decision on that day when the recruiter came was his moment to reach out to me so that I would be proud of him.
And I think that meant a lot to him that I came.
It's hard to explain that, but there was something where he was reaching out to me, wanting me to be proud of him in his enlisting.
If I had any regrets, it's that I did not tell him that I was proud of him enough.
So parents, tell your kids you're proud of them.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Royce and looking at this this great shot that, and by the way, we're playing.
We're showing photos of Lance Corporal, but looking out there, the beautiful scenery obviously in the in the in the in the in the West where you are.
What do you feel when he actually deployed overseas?
He went to Jordan first and then to Afghanistan.
And of course, that's some of the most dangerous neighborhood in the world coming from.
Really, the great experience of the American West where you're raised out there in the open air.
It's a very unique American experience.
Did Riley ever have a chance to share with you his thoughts about these deployments over into really, you know, in defending America, you've got to go into some pretty bad neighborhoods.
unidentified
Yeah, well, we didn't get to talk to him since he left Jordan and went to Afghanistan.
When he was in Jordan though, I don't think he really had anything bad to say about it other than it was hot.
Um, you know, he, he said that it was, it was that part of his deployment was pretty easy.
Um, they were just manning a checkpoint and they were the second one in and, um, it was pretty smooth and they did a lot of drills and training.
So, um, him being there wasn't too bad.
He slept through all the bombing.
They said they could see him going off, but they, he didn't, it didn't bother him or affect him at all in Israel.
Yeah, he said he mostly slept through it and didn't even notice.
So, yeah.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Jim, when he was raised as a young man out there in the West, what were the virtues that he focused on?
I mean, it's a very different experience than a lot of the United States.
What was it like for him to be raised as a young man out there versus more in an urban environment?
unidentified
He had a lot of opportunities to be in touch with himself and nature.
Um, we hunt, fish, hike and, and things of that nature, which you take, take for granted when you're here.
Um, he couldn't wait to get back.
Um, you know, he, he definitely missed home.
Um, he wrestled from about the time he was six years old.
Um, we got to see a lot of the country doing that.
I'd take him on, uh, you know, across the country to, to wrestling tournaments, um, and things of that nature.
And he was always, he was always happy to be home.
He got to see the other sides of, of The last time he was home, all he could talk about was getting back to Wyoming or Montana.
You want it out of California as soon as possible.
Yep, he definitely missed home.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Walk us through now, I know we've got a GoFundMe page and we can put the GoFundMe page up.
I want everybody to, and we ought to put this in the live chat and all the different forums we have.
For him to be remembered, how do you want Riley to be remembered and how do you think he would want to be remembered?
unidentified
I think he would want to be remembered as that kid that reached out to those that needed help.
Um, we've kind of made jokes.
You know, he, he sought out the misfits.
Those that just didn't quite fit in.
And that's who, that's who his best friends were.
Those that had struggles, those that had personal struggles, those that came from broken homes.
Those were the people that Riley rallied around.
And they, we would, countless kids would be at our house.
Um, some of them we knew, some of them we didn't know, but they were always welcome in our house and Riley would show up.
Hey, they're going to stay for dinner.
All right, we better make more dinner.
Um, He just had that, that just genuine love of other people, just a very compassionate person.
And again, that's, that's what he was doing in Afghanistan.
And I, you know, I couldn't be more proud of him and what he was doing.
And I know he was doing what he, what he needed to be doing.
And for all the right reasons.
And on that note, we've been joking a lot the last couple of weeks.
Wow.
The last week that he's kind of like a modern day Robin Hood.
And I'll just tell a funny little Christmas story.
Our house had burnt down, or my grandpa's house, and we were staying in it.
And we had a ton of help from the community those first couple weeks, kind of getting things out and having a place to stay.
And we decided to bake cookies for everyone for Christmas.
So my sister and I had him come over and help, and he just sat and played games the whole time.
He didn't really help, but he knew what they were for.
And the next day we went to go deliver all the cookies and the entire tray of cookies was gone, except three cookies that he left.
We're like, Riley, did you eat all the cookies?
And he's like, no, no, no.
I took them to a friend and he took them to a friend's house and told them that he made the cookies for him because they were not doing well and they needed some cheering up.
Um, and the, the kid always had the best intentions.
And we realized this, this week that everything he did was always to help someone else, but it didn't matter if he like stepped on the toes of everyone else around him to get there.
Um, or if he hurt someone else trying to help this kid, he just always was, was focused on that one kid who really didn't have enough and needed something and needed, needed a friend.
The heart was in the right place.
The journey to get there was, uh, needed some work.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Well, sounds like an absolutely great young man.
Once again, the GoFundMe page is up.
I want to thank you two for coming on.
We'd like to have you back in the weeks ahead to talk about, obviously, there's a lot of controversy about Afghanistan, a lot of controversy about the chain of command.
It's not the time to talk about it today.
We got plenty of time to talk about that, but we want to really remember.
Lance Corporal Riley McCollum, for the young man he was.
And what I'd love is that you gave the unvarnished, and I know he would appreciate it, right?
Particularly Royce, fighting with him every day.
It sounds like a brother and sister, right?
Very American, fighting with your brother every day.
So, fantastic.
I want to thank you, too, for joining us here in the War Room.
unidentified
By the way, is there any social media or any other way?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Is there Facebook or, Royce, do you have social media, any other way that people can follow you guys?
unidentified
Facebook is the easiest, I think.
I have an Instagram, too, that people have been contacting me on.
You'll learn a lot about us from Facebook.
We're about as real as it can get.
I'm pretty much an open book.
I'm keeping my mouth shut on some stuff right now because it's not the right time.
Yeah, find us on social media.
We're there.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
What's the Facebook?
How do we find you guys on Facebook or Instagram?
unidentified
My Instagram is JacksonYOJim and I'm just Jim McCollum on Facebook.
And mine is RoyceYOGirl on Instagram and then Royce McCollum on Facebook.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, we'll get this in the live chat.
Let's get up on the website.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate you guys coming on.
unidentified
Thank you.
Much appreciated.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Sir.
A very American story, right?
We're going to try to have as many of the individuals and families we're going to have on here in the next week or so to commemorate this.
Mo, I want to thank you and the rest of the team for tracking this down.
We're going to take a break here in a second.
We're going to bring in Senior Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher, who's been in harm's way many, many times.
He's going to talk about the situation over there and also about the young men like Lance Corporal Riley McCollum, right?
People are not perfect, but they end up being perfect Marines and perfect soldiers and perfect Navy SEALs.
Also, we're going to have TAGE Petty Officer Tej Gill, another former Navy SEAL, who's been in the thick of it.
I think Tej has made 15 deployments over into the area, so we're going to have that.
Next hour, we've got Commander Greitens, we've got Wendy Rogers, we've got a lot to talk about about the election fraud, a lot of this going on.
So we're going to take a short commercial break.
I want everybody to stay tuned.
We're going to come back with Senior Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher next in the war room.
unidentified
He's going to be a great guy.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, welcome back.
I want to bring in now Senior Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher.
Senior Chief, I take it in your career of leading men in combat, you've had a couple of three Lance Corporal Riley McCollums that have people that may be a little headstrong in high school, but got sorted out in coming to the Corps, to the Navy, have served with you, correct?
unidentified
Oh, that's definitely correct.
And like I said before, yeah, I was one of those individuals.
You know, coming up through high school, I was very headstrong, a wild child, getting in trouble.
Just like McCallum and a large majority of individuals that join up to serve our country, and actually those majority of those individuals are the ones on the front lines.
They're natural protectors.
They, you know, they were protectors in high school and they just needed an avenue to guide them to actually use those abilities for good.
And I think the military is a perfect place for those individuals.
I mean, it was for me, you know, the military saved my life.
Give me a direction to go in and you know, the men and women like that are the ones that keep this country safe and keep it strong.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, I want to make sure everybody that knows either has grandchildren or sons or daughters in high school, if you think a little off track, remember some of those individuals in MOCA and vouchers make the best soldiers, the best SEALs, best commandos, best Marines, really when they get in the service because they got a certain driving motive and background.
They just need a sense of direction.
They just need a little bit of purpose.
Exactly.
Here's what I think is most disturbing is that, what's your assessment of how things have been handled over there, Senior Chief?
And particularly as every day we hear more stuff about guys like yourselves and Tay's going back over there.
To help get people out.
It's kind of a fiasco.
Now we see there's 65,000 refugees buried into this continuing resolution of Biden administration.
He's being heckled in New Jersey.
I mean, basically screamed at by people to resign.
What is your assessment from some guy that used to see it from the deck plates, right?
Because you were at the tip of the spear.
What's your assessment of how this thing has been handled?
unidentified
Well, I can tell you this, you know, pulling out of Afghanistan.
There was it wasn't a matter of, you know, if the Taliban was going to take over, it was when obviously they took over a lot quicker than expected.
And now it's going to go back to a breeding ground of multiple terrorist organizations.
And not only that, we've left them with enough equipment to supply themselves.
This thing, I don't think there's a word to describe how poorly this has been handled.
And, you know, from the get go, I tried to remain very logical about it but you know as this thing keeps going on it's it's disgusting and you know there needs to be and I know this words being thrown around is accountability but that's exactly what needs to happen you know you want to honor those 13 individuals that gave their lives not too long ago well the best way this administration can honor them is by resigning and
And not only this administration, but the top military brass, any individual in the military who had anything to do with the planning of withdrawing from Afghanistan needs to go.
The fact that these top military leaders did not use their rank at some point to say, hey, this idea is bad.
We are signing off on a bad plan here.
They need to get out because what is the point of having that rank?
You know, and that's, that is the, uh, I think America is now seeing the epidemic, which I know I had seen over the past 20 years with our, uh, with our brass and the military is they've all become yes men.
Um, you know, we've had one general relieved over the past 20 years.
And the only reason he was relieved is because he told the truth and he said, Afghanistan is not looking good and this isn't going to turn out well.
Boom, he was gone.
So what did that do?
That set up the example for all the other higher brass.
You just say exactly whatever the administration's want to hear and not tell them the truth.
And now I think we're seeing the downfall of that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I want to drill down on this because I want to leave the political leadership.
They're a disaster and everything they put their hand to has turned out to be a bigger disaster.
But the uniformed services, I don't think people, I think people were so shocked when they saw a million of these guys in the Air Force with Colonel Lohmeyer talking about critical race theory and white rage and all this big deal they were making about that.
They've gotten away from the fundamentals, right?
And that's the accountability.
You're saying people in uniform need to be held accountable.
Leave the political leadership aside.
That's got to be held accountable too, but it's a separate conversation.
Your point is that we have uniformed leaders that let down the Lance Corporal Riley McCollum, let down their families, and let down this country.
unidentified
Exactly.
You know, accountability goes up and down the chain of command.
They're, you know, the upper brass, they'll be the first ones to hold an enlisted person accountable if they lose a piece of gear or lose a weapon.
And, you know, the punishments are always severe.
But now that we have them, But this botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, we've lost American lives.
You know, this plan was a failure from the get go.
And no one has spoken up and said, hey, we need to rethink this.
That right there is I mean, it's plain and simple.
You failed.
And now you got to pay for that failure by resigning and The problem is, you can have this military brass resign, they're just going to stick another Yes Man in their place.
There needs to be a complete revision of the officer corps and the way they're being taught how to lead Uh, the way they're being taught, you know, why they're in the military.
Um, I, I saw it from my experience the past 20 years, you know, I have these officers, um, over in Afghanistan and Iraq who would all of a sudden just jump out and go out and knock with us, you know, sit in the Humvee, not do anything, but then come back, write themselves up for a combat award, maybe a valor device.
Um, and then they were doing that because that's a golden ticket on their way up the, uh, the ladder.
Um, And you know, back then seeing that it was disgusting, but I really didn't.
At that point, I wasn't thinking too much of it, but now I can see the end state of exactly the problem that's in the officer corps and what they actually think leadership is.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Senior Chief, we're going to have you back on to drill down on this more.
We got a punch.
How do people get access to the book?
It's a huge hit.
How do people get access to the book and how they access to you and your wife?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
So the Man in the Arena, you can go and buy it off of Amazon or go on EddieGallagherBook.com.
And then you can find myself on Eddie underscore Gallagher on Instagram.
And then my wife is the same, Andrea underscore Gallagher on Instagram and also our nonprofit, the Pipe Hitter Foundation.
You can go to PipeHitterFoundation.org or PipeHitterFoundation on Instagram.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
By the way, the book, you can't put it down.
It's an incredible man in the arena.
Senior Chief, thank you so much for joining us today on The War Room.
unidentified
Thank you for having me.
Okay.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Short commercial break.
In the next hour, Wendy Rogers and I are going to talk about voter fraud.
We've got Seth Keshel tomorrow morning.
Arizona's heating up.
Of course, Thursday we're going to audit the vote, try to have Tony Shoup on tomorrow about the hearing in Pennsylvania on Thursday.
A lot going on there.
3 November, okay?
We're drilling down.
Short commercial break.
Tej Gill.
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