Speaker | Time | Text |
---|---|---|
unidentified
|
Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
unidentified
|
War Room. | |
Pandemic. | ||
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
Okay, it's Wednesday, 15 September, Year of Our Lord 2021. | ||
A lot to get through this afternoon. | ||
You're in the War Room. | ||
88 million downloads on the podcast, closing in on 100 million before our second anniversary. | ||
Also live everywhere. | ||
I want to thank all our partners. | ||
And in Mandarin, I did a big Mandarin broadcast today into China, mainland China, talking about the situation in the United States with election fraud and with General Milley and all of it. | ||
I want to turn now to Senator Jake Corman. | ||
Of Pennsylvania. | ||
Senator, very big news coming out of Pennsylvania today. | ||
You're the driving force in back of this. | ||
Want to give a hat tip to the grassroots that have been out there. | ||
But Senator, can you walk us through specifically what happened today? | ||
unidentified
|
Yeah, Senator Chris Dutch, chairman of the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee in Pennsylvania State Senate, offered a motion to subpoena the Department of State for a variety of records. | |
That motion was ultimately passed on a party line vote, but The information we're looking for to begin our process of investigating the 2020 and 2021 primary election is information such as all the emails that went out from the Department of State in Pennsylvania. | ||
You know, I think our Department of State acted completely inappropriately and in a partisan way in conducting the last election. | ||
So we're searching for all the emails that the Department of State did in their agency, plus all the emails to the counties. | ||
We subpoenaed all the guidances that the Department of State sent out to the counties. | ||
We subpoenaed all the voting rolls, the sure system to find out all the information of the individuals who were registered to vote, where they're registered to vote, so we can cross-check to begin the process to see who voted and were they properly registered so that we can do a proper review of the election. | ||
So is this to take it because there's a little confusion? | ||
I know a lot of the media is jumping on you guys already. | ||
Is this setting a precedent to get to a full forensic audit? | ||
Is this still an investigation? | ||
You're the president pro tem of the Senate. | ||
What would you describe what's been accomplished today? | ||
unidentified
|
Yeah, well, this is the beginning. | |
You know, this is information that we need to begin our process to audit the election, to investigate the election. | ||
And I'm not sure what the forensic audit legal term is, so I don't want to necessarily use it or not use it. | ||
but essentially we want to review and find out all our election processes that happened in the fall of 2020 and the spring of 2021, because we had a lot of problems in the spring of 2021, to make sure that people have faith in our election results. | ||
This is something that there obviously has been a lot of conversation, nothing that I've gotten more contacts on in my career in the state legislature, people concerned about how the election was conducted. | ||
And so, the Department of State oversees it. | ||
That's our first step right there to go after things that they've done. | ||
Our Secretary of State, who was in place at the time, had to resign in January in disgrace because of her inability to do her job. | ||
And so we want to get to the bottom of all the things that they were doing during the last election. | ||
Is Kathy Buchvar, are you also going to get all of her emails, everything that she did when she when she had the deck in the con as Secretary of State? | ||
unidentified
|
Yeah, absolutely. | |
This goes back to May of 2020 through May of 2021. | ||
Look, as you know, Senator Corman, we've been at the forefront of this, the war room posse, the people from Arizona to Georgia working on this. | ||
What is it specifically that's made you, I don't want to say change your mind, but say, hey, look, we've got to put this in back of us. | ||
We've got to get the facts. | ||
We've got to start getting emails. | ||
We've got to bring people in here under oath and start getting testimony. | ||
What is it? | ||
Because right now they're going to say, hey, Corman and the establishment there is just buckling under the pressure of the Trump movement. | ||
But I think you guys have really thought this through. | ||
I know you work with Senator Mastroianni, but what is it, what is it that you felt drove you to this point? | ||
This has got to happen and you're tired of the nonsense. | ||
unidentified
|
Well, I mean, we've been working at this for some time. | |
I mean, from January, we started with our election integrity committee to begin the process of finding out from other states and how we could do things better. | ||
But it really, I mean, it just comes down to this. | ||
You, I guess we refer to it as the grassroots, you know, the constituents. | ||
I mean, this one, you have this many phone calls, this many contacts. | ||
You know, I was at a restaurant last night and walking out, the parking tenant said to me, I'm all for the audit. | ||
You know, I was at a restaurant, you know, a couple months ago and the waitress says, you know, I'm all for the audit. | ||
You know, so you can consistently hear that refrain. | ||
You have to react to that. | ||
You have to react to that because this is a major concern of the people of Pennsylvania. | ||
And you can't have a thriving democracy if people don't believe in the system. | ||
So, you know, we will do a thorough investigation. | ||
It'll be a fair investigation. | ||
No, we want something with credibility. | ||
Something that, no matter who looks at it, will look at it with a review that says, yes, this was done fairly. | ||
But we want to get to the bottom of it so that we can put faith back in our process. | ||
Senator, what do you think, in looking at this process, to get to things like, when we call a full front, part of it's a canvas, and people got a lot of questions about Philadelphia. | ||
When you talk about a canvas and actually getting your hands on the ballots, when do you think you would be subpoenaing the actual ballots? | ||
unidentified
|
Well, the short system will be a big step in that direction. | |
That's going to give us the ability of who voted. | ||
Were they properly registered? | ||
Were they still living alive? | ||
In other words, a lot of claims that dead people voted. | ||
I don't know if that's accurate, but it'll give us the ability to find it. | ||
Do they still live in the Commonwealth? | ||
Do they still live in that voting precinct? | ||
That'll be the first big step to find whether there were people voting who shouldn't have been voting. | ||
You know, again, as I said to you before, you know, we're going to have voters come and testify whether, you know, what they saw and what they believe to be. | ||
And then again, you know, the governor made us spend, you know, probably hundreds of millions, I don't know the exact dollars, getting all new machines before the last election. | ||
And they all have paper trails because that's what he wanted. | ||
Well, what are the paper trails for other than to verify the vote? | ||
And so I believe at some point we want to work with the counties because the counties aren't, you know, you know, they didn't do anything wrong. | ||
So we want to work with them so we're not putting too much of an onus on them. | ||
But yeah, I think at some point, I mean, I don't know for sure, but at some point we will get to the ballots. | ||
And then, you know, maybe bring the machine manufacturers in to walk us through how these machines work and are they able to be, you know, hacked from the outside. | ||
And then maybe ultimately, I don't know, you know, look at some of the actual machines. | ||
So this is just the beginning. | ||
But I think it's a big first step. | ||
And this information that we'll get from the Department of State, We'll go a long way to starting to educate us on the last election. | ||
Senator Corman, last question. | ||
The Attorney General Shapiro is obviously running for governor. | ||
He's got a plan to get in the White House one day through the governorship of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and he looks to thwart the Trump movement in doing that. | ||
There's a lot of criticism, I guess, or observations from the left-wing media, and I know MSNBC and CNN's going to be all over it, with Shapiro saying, Jake Corman's just, this is a crass political move. | ||
He sees the opportunity to get the Trump movement on its side and kind of cover his right flank. | ||
Because he's got ambitions to be governor, too. | ||
Any response to that would be that charge from Shapiro and his people? | ||
unidentified
|
Look, we're always judged by our results, correct? | |
The results are what matter. | ||
It doesn't matter. | ||
I always say in government and politics, it doesn't matter what you're for. | ||
If you don't accomplish anything, what good are you? | ||
And so our results of this investigation, what will we be judged by? | ||
And I'm willing to stand by that. | ||
I think we're going to put a good, fair, thorough investigation into place and then let people make decisions where they want. | ||
You know, people are always going to be critical. | ||
You know, they're already spreading fear, right? | ||
Because, you know, what are you afraid of? | ||
So what if we find nothing? | ||
You know, if there's nothing there, we won't find anything, right? | ||
So what are you so afraid of, of us doing this? | ||
That's sort of the question to me. | ||
So, you know, we're going to do it correctly. | ||
We're going to do it thoroughly. | ||
And I'll stand by our results and, you know, let the political pundits scream where they want. | ||
But that's just noise on the side. | ||
We have a job to do and we're going to do it. | ||
Senator Corman, your social media, how do people follow you as you begin this journey to get to the bottom of what happened on 3 November 2020? | ||
unidentified
|
My personal is SenatorJayCorman.com, and you can check me out there. | |
And we have, for people who are interested in voter fraud, it's PAVoterFraud.com. | ||
OK, Senator Corman, President Pro Tem of the Senate and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, thank you very much for joining us today. | ||
unidentified
|
Thank you. | |
Take care. | ||
Have a good night. | ||
Major breaking news, of course, Boris Epstein, the one and only Boris Epstein from the War Room, has been all over this, just working incredibly hard. | ||
And of course, Tony Shoup in the audit, the PA, all the grassroots, this is a big day. | ||
Really a very important day in the history of the 2020 election, because I tell you now, it's not just the Wild West, the Great Patriots out in Arizona, it's just not the fight they've had down in Fulton County and in Georgia. | ||
Now you've got the first big industrial state The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has now moved. | ||
You're going to see... Wisconsin's all over this. | ||
They've already begun the investigation there. | ||
And you're going to see Michigan fall in line. | ||
Watch. | ||
Just stay tuned. | ||
Cortez. | ||
Steve Cortez is my co-host for the entire hour. | ||
You know, you've had Boris, you've had the grassroots, Corman, you've had Mastriano. | ||
This is a coming together of many, many different forces to say, and I think Senator Corman's sitting there going, hey, I can't go to a restaurant. | ||
I can't get my car out of the parking lot. | ||
I don't have a deplorable coming up and going, hey, Senator, where's the audit? | ||
But you've been at this for a while, Cortez. | ||
Give me your observations. | ||
Sure. | ||
No, he said a couple very important things there. | ||
As did you, Steve. | ||
By the way, the history, the symbolism of Pennsylvania getting into this fight. | ||
Pennsylvania, you can say, in some ways, is where our nation was born. | ||
It's where our Constitution, of course, was drafted. | ||
It's a major swing state, of course, in current electoral politics, so it's fantastic. | ||
And symbolically important that Pennsylvania is engaged. | ||
But he said two things there that really grabbed me. | ||
The first is he said that he has never heard more from constituents in his entire legislative career than this 2020 election issue. | ||
I looked it up when he said that. | ||
He was elected in 1998. | ||
So we've got a guy here, the president of the legislature of a major state, who has served more than two decades in that legislature, and he says he has never heard more about another topic than the 2020 election. | ||
That is significant and profound. | ||
And by the way, it means that a lot of Republicans, even well-meaning Republicans, people like Mo Brooks, for example, who I think is an America-first congressman, who told that crowd at the Trump rally in Alabama, essentially get over it, and they booed him! | ||
Okay, and again, I'm not trying to rip on Mo Brooks. | ||
He's an America-first guy. | ||
But that crowd roundly booed him. | ||
We are not getting over it. | ||
The American people are not going to just get over it. | ||
We had an election stolen from us. | ||
We have the statistical evidence to back that, and we must get to the bottom of it. | ||
It's not going away. | ||
But then the second thing that he mentioned to your point, Steve, is the way the deplorables all over the country, regular people, working class folks, Who are educated on these issues, the way they're bringing this to his attention. | ||
You might even say they're pestering him, I think, you know, in a very good way. | ||
I certainly have heard that a lot, you know, from the deplorables as I travel across this country about the election, but you know what I'm hearing about now even more? | ||
Another topic, related topic of course, because elections have consequences and stolen elections have disastrous consequences. | ||
I'm now hearing about it from everybody, from deplorables, regular folks, About the vaccine mandate. | ||
For example, when I flew here to Washington, D.C., one of the women who was working in the baggage department of the airline recognized me, came inside, and said, will you please work on my behalf? | ||
And she's asked me specifically, can you talk to Donald Trump about this issue? | ||
I'm going to get fired from the airline because I don't want to take the jab and I already had COVID and I don't feel that I need it. | ||
That's the new, so 2020, massive issue among the grassroots. | ||
The next one, the emerging one now, is the vax mandate. | ||
Oh, absolutely. | ||
You know, elections have consequences and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences. | ||
Let's stay in Pennsylvania for one second. | ||
This is a game changer. | ||
The first dominoes, obviously Arizona and the Patriots out there have done such a job. | ||
I know they got the report that's going to be coming out. | ||
You've already had... | ||
They showed a little bit of ankle on the canvas. | ||
But to get into these big industrial states. | ||
Remember, Pennsylvania is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. | ||
I mean, the economy of Pennsylvania alone is one of the top 10 countries in the world. | ||
I mean, this is a major industrial power, right? | ||
To have this happen, and particularly the corruption in Philadelphia, they've run that, there's original gangsters there that have run that place like that for a couple of hundred years. | ||
And to get in there, and even the possibilities of getting your hands on the ballots, or having a canvas, have Shapiro and these guys absolutely frozen in the headlights. | ||
And people, just because you issue subpoenas a day, this is going to be a tough fight, and people are going to really have to have the back of Corman, Mastriano, grassroots have got to be in there. | ||
Steve Cortez. | ||
No, you're so right. | ||
Number one, because of the size, the scale of Pennsylvania. | ||
We've talked about its historic importance, its current importance economically to the country, but also this, Stephen, I think this is key. | ||
You know, when it comes to vote cheating, my hometown of Chicago, which I recently left, sadly, had to leave really, was chased out by blue policies there. | ||
Chicago has the reputation as being the worst place in America for vote rigging. | ||
And that certainly was probably accurate in past decades. | ||
But it's really not the case now. | ||
The true epicenter of election malfeasance is Philadelphia. | ||
It's no longer Chicago. | ||
Philadelphia now is what Chicago was when the boss, Richard Daley Sr., was in charge of Chicago. | ||
And so because of that, If we can pull the veil back and take a real look, a forensic look, at what happened in Pennsylvania in 2020, I think it's going to be highly illuminating and highly indicting, quite frankly, and I'm choosing that word wisely, I hope, regarding Pennsylvania. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
Be back in a second. | ||
unidentified
|
War Room. | |
Pandemic. | ||
With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
War Room. | ||
Pandemic. | ||
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
Okay, go to MyPillow.com right now. | ||
Promo Code War Room. | ||
We've got the towels again. | ||
Normally $109.99 for a pack of six, now $39.99. | ||
We told you before that the sale's not going to last forever. | ||
Take action. | ||
Human agency. | ||
Action, action, action. | ||
The War Room Posse is the most powerful audience in all media, as you put your shoulder to the wheel. | ||
By the way, they've got the sheets on sale, there's pillows on sale, toppers on sale. | ||
Just go to our Square. | ||
Just go to MyPillow.com. | ||
Promo code WARROOM. | ||
Support the fight for freedom today. | ||
So, Cortez, I want to—and I know there's some doom polling us. | ||
I want to kind of tie these next two together. | ||
In, and I take a different tack on that, we've got to get rid of the mail-in voting. | ||
Absolutely. | ||
That's one of the reasons we're fighting this, and we've got to get rid of the machines, and I'm not picking on Dominion. | ||
Okay? | ||
What I'm saying, I'm just not a machine guy. | ||
I don't know anything about them, but I said, let's go back to hand ballots. | ||
Hey, let's vote on game day. | ||
Let's have only early voting for people that are infirmed. | ||
No mail-in ballots, unless it's absentee. | ||
unidentified
|
Right? | |
I've voted by absentee before, and you know you're going to be at 10, but you've got to fill your, do your deal, and fill your thing out, and have a legitimate excuse. | ||
Everything else should be a paper ballot on game day, and if it takes two or three days to count them up, then it takes two or three days. | ||
You don't need to know instantaneously who won, okay? | ||
But you need to make it fair and square. | ||
In California, I just don't think, and we gotta get rid of the mail-in ballots, but last night was a blowout, and I gotta tell ya, and I've said this before, this is why I supported this movement from the beginning when it was only an idea, is that you got an opportunity to take a guy like Newsom out, you gotta take a guy like Newsom out. | ||
Newsom and Newsom's wife. | ||
They are a very powerful political unit. | ||
And mark my words, in all this fantasy talk about what's going to happen, we had an opportunity because we had Latinos, we had suburban women, because of what he did in the pandemic, how he was crushing the state by too much overreach from Sacramento and his arrogant ways and his lifestyle. | ||
You had a unique opportunity to take him down. | ||
And then everybody got onto the, you know, the Bruce Jenner and the Larry Elder train and kind of lost the plot points. | ||
Steve Cortez, your thoughts? | ||
No, exactly. | ||
It became a two-man race rather than an up-or-down vote on Newsom. | ||
When it was an up-or-down vote on Newsom, there was enormous momentum, particularly among Hispanics, and I think among working-class people in general. | ||
Most Hispanics fit into that category, but working-class people suffered disproportionately from the harsh lockdowns. | ||
And nowhere were they harsher than in Newsom's California. | ||
And of course he, like most ruling class elites, lived a very different life. | ||
His kids did go to school in person, to private school. | ||
He did go to maskless indoor dinners at the French Laundry, where the booze bill alone was $15,000 paid for by lobbyists. | ||
So we had a chance. | ||
We did not take him out. | ||
And I agree with you. | ||
Listen, as much as I detest his politics, I respect his skill as a politician. | ||
I'm telling you, that Newsom moment last night, I think it is equivalent to Joe Biden's moment in South Carolina. | ||
Joe Biden in Iowa and New Hampshire looked like he was dead. | ||
He was dead to rights. | ||
He came back to life in South Carolina and he now sits in the Oval Office. | ||
unidentified
|
Hold it, hold it, hold it. | |
Hang over a second. | ||
Hang over a second. | ||
Hold it, hang over a second. | ||
Hang over a second. | ||
I remember watching you on Fox and we got to pull this clip one day. | ||
I think it was the Laura Ingraham Show. | ||
You're on a panel. | ||
They were burying, remember the guy finished fifth in Iowa and I think fourth in New Hampshire and they were putting how much dirt was on his grave and only Steve Cortez on any network. | ||
So you're saying in your analysis and you were dead right on Biden back in the primaries, you're saying Newsom, you think, hey, this guy's got a long runway ahead of him. | ||
He does. | ||
No, and I would go so far as to say, look, there's a lot of time between now and 2024, but if the Democratic presidential primary were today, he would be the frontrunner. | ||
He absolutely would be. | ||
And here's why I say this. | ||
Number one is that he repelled this movement, right? | ||
This is big. | ||
And not just by a margin, right? | ||
By a small margin. | ||
I mean, he crushed it, right, in the recall. | ||
So he can claim a mantle. | ||
And again, don't get me wrong, Steve. | ||
I can't stand, I detest his policies. | ||
Particularly regarding the virus. | ||
But again, as a political analyst, and as somebody who lives in the world of communications, he's superb in communicating. | ||
He's great on television. | ||
He's handsome. | ||
He's got a gorgeous family. | ||
He's persuasive. | ||
He's well-spoken. | ||
He's self-deprecating. | ||
He's got a lot of skills, okay? | ||
Now, all of those skills, right, unfortunately are put to use for a statism that is absolutely For crushing and for a globalism that is incredibly abusive of the middle class, which is one of the reasons that California, I think I made this point last time I was on your show, but I think it's worth repeating. | ||
California, a lot of people wouldn't guess this, has the highest poverty rate of any state in America. | ||
It is not Arkansas or West Virginia or those kinds of places people might suspect. | ||
It is the state of California. | ||
California is in many ways a third world country within the United States. | ||
Those who have a lot of wealth who live in gleaming subdivisions near the coast. They live fantastic lives in California. | ||
But the masses, for them, it's a slog. And it's largely because of the policies of Gavin Newsom. | ||
But I am telling you, do not discount Gavin Newsom. And I believe that we need to keep our eye on him. | ||
Let's always know who's your opponent, right? Any good coach pays a lot of attention, right? | ||
We got to do our scouting. The scouting report on Newsom, in my estimation right now, if I were a coach writing up the scouting report, my scouting report would be this is a rising star. | ||
He is going to be a leading contender, if not the lead contender, in 2024 for the presidential nomination. | ||
And one of the reasons, Steve, is likability. | ||
It's very important, right? | ||
Because his counterpart in the Bay Area, who happens to be the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, she is as unlikable as she could possibly be. | ||
Newsom has the same radical policies she has, but with a likability factor that I think is critical. | ||
Again, he's somebody to watch, he's somebody for us to counter. | ||
I 1000% agree, not even a question. | ||
I want to go to the polling, because there was a moment there that the lead in saying we've had enough of Newsom and his policies were Latinos and Hispanics in California. | ||
And as you know, because you're the guy who's been saying, you know, got us focused on the Rio Grande Valley, got us focused on L.A. | ||
County, got us focused up in the Bronx, that there's a new generation of Hispanics and Latinos are saying, hey, look, I kind of like this economic nationalism. | ||
I kind of I think I'm a populist. | ||
Right. | ||
And I like Trump. | ||
Talk to us about Quinnipiac, I think is backing you up when it comes to polling about where Hispanics are regarding the Biden regime. | ||
Listen, for working class people, whatever their ethnicity or race, for working class people, I firmly believe the winning political combination is economic nationalism plus cultural conservatism. | ||
We put those two things together, that is a winning formula. | ||
It's winning both in terms of policies for this country, but also the politics. | ||
And that's particularly true for Hispanics, and we certainly saw that in 2020. | ||
You're so right. | ||
Listen, I was very proud to be a leader within the Trump campaign of outreach to Hispanic Americans. | ||
We were incredibly successful, including, by the way, in California. | ||
To tie this back into the California conversation, In L.A. | ||
County, which is far and away the largest county in America, we gained a half million votes in that incredibly urban, diverse county, Donald Trump did, and gained on margin, gained 4% on margin, gained a half million raw votes in L.A. | ||
unidentified
|
County. | |
But to get to your point about this new polling just out yesterday from Quinnipiac, Joe Biden approval, he's down to all the way down to 42% overall, 50% disapproved, 42% approved. | ||
Underwater by 8%. | ||
But what I find most fascinating, and I just put this out on my Twitter and on my Getter, I prefer if the audience out there goes to Getter. | ||
I'm at Steve. | ||
Very simple. | ||
I'm just Steve on Getter. | ||
I put this poll there and a link to it, and I circled this number. | ||
38% the Hispanic approval number of Joe Biden is now in the 30s. | ||
It's only 38% and that is because blue-collar people most Hispanics by definition are blue-collar people blue-collar people are having a terrible time right now Steve trying to handle the Biden inflation spike because Their wages, if they are increasing, they're not increasing enough to keep pace with inflation, to keep pace with their costs at the gas station, at the grocery store. | ||
We're coming up upon winter soon. | ||
Their heating bills are going to be absolutely out of control in cold areas of the country. | ||
Hispanics feel that with a particular sting, and they are responding with their disapproval of Joe Biden. | ||
And by the way, to put that in some context in this Quinnipiac poll, because I think it's important for us to look at the data on the whole, just how stark this differential is. | ||
Black Americans still have 69% approval of Joe Biden. | ||
You have a 31% lower approval rating. | ||
Excuse me, did I say disparate? | ||
They have 69% approval of Joe Biden. | ||
You have 31% lower at only 38% among Hispanic Americans. | ||
So my point here, too, for the bigger picture is the gains in 2020 were incredible. | ||
The polling shows us that the momentum continues. | ||
And if we, into 2022 and 2024, if the America First movement continues to focus on economic nationalism and cultural conservatism. | ||
If we reject globalism, if we reject the kind of nonsense of Jenner, who by the way got 1% of the vote, 1% of the vote in California. | ||
The only good news I think last night is the fact that Jenner got 1% of the vote. | ||
Elder got 47% of the vote for the candidate, if he were to be recalled, which of course he wasn't, Newsom. | ||
But if we combine those two things of economic nationalism and cultural conservatism, We have a winning formula for all of America, but particularly so for Hispanics. | ||
And Steve, if we turn Hispanics overwhelmingly into an America First movement, and if the GOP can successfully harness that energy, it will be the dominant governing party and governing movement in this country for decades ahead. | ||
The GOP is not able to. | ||
What's going to happen is the MAGA movement will be able to do it. | ||
The MAGA movement and the Trump movement will be able to incorporate this because President Trump and his policies... Remember, they're not interested in deregulation and tax cuts. | ||
I mean, that's all secondary. | ||
What they're interested in is policies that help working class people. | ||
I'm actually kind of shocked. | ||
That the approval among African Americans is only 69%. | ||
It's 31% either disapproval or don't have an opinion. | ||
But it's only 69%. | ||
These numbers, you haven't seen any good data point in any of these polls for Biden. | ||
It's a complete meltdown. | ||
Do you not agree, Mr. Steve Cortez? | ||
A hundred percent. | ||
Listen, and I don't claim to be a polling expert because I've never done polling, but in terms of a consumer of polls, I do consider myself to be a bit of an expert because I read all of these polls that come out, read all of the crosstabs, get into the hundreds of pages. | ||
So from having watched these polls so closely for years now, during the Trump presidency and now, you just don't see these kinds of moves this quickly. | ||
Particularly, Stephen, this is important. | ||
Not just the approve-disapprove. | ||
But the strongly approved versus strongly disapproved, and that's where Joe Biden is now massively underwater. | ||
20 percentage points plus, depending on the poll, which one you pick, around 25% in most of them, underwater on the strongly approved versus strongly disapproved. | ||
You've got only about a quarter of America right now. | ||
in most polls willing to say that they strongly approve and that number continues to just tick down month by month because this is a guy in office, I don't want to say a president, but a guy in office who does not have a true base. | ||
There's no such thing as a Biden fanatic. | ||
It just doesn't exist. | ||
He does not have what President Trump has. | ||
He doesn't have what his former boss, Barack Obama had. | ||
Barack Obama had a very strong, very fervent base. | ||
As much as I can't stand Obama's politics, I'll be the first to concede he had a base. | ||
There's no base for Joe Biden. | ||
And because of that, there's no floor for his polls. | ||
But of course he got more votes than Obama Okay, short commercial break. | ||
We'll be back with General Milley and Steve Cortez in a minute. | ||
unidentified
|
Pandemic with Stephen K Bannon. | |
The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
War Room. | ||
Pandemic. | ||
Here's your host Stephen K Bannon. | ||
use of him. But this president, this current president, who follows the Constitution, who's not fomenting an insurrection, who follows the rule of law, has complete confidence in Chairman Milley and him serving, continuing to serve in his role. | ||
unidentified
|
And even as Republicans may criticize him and have questions about his suitability to continue, would that be a factor that President Biden would consider, separate from his judgment about how he conducted himself? | |
I don't think the President is looking for the guidance of members of Congress who stood by while the President of the United States and the leader of their party fomented an insurrection, and many of them were silent. Go ahead. | ||
unidentified
|
Again, I can't speak to the validity, but I see nothing in what I've read that would cause any concern. | |
Senator, you know, if this is true... | ||
A big part of America is not going to trust the Pentagon, which is the exact wrong thing for us, because they think, you know, the guy in charge, he's playing the double game. | ||
Steve, you're right that we need to hear it straight from the horse's mouth. | ||
General Milley will address these matters and we'll be sure that he does address them. | ||
And you're also right that we have a principle going back to George Washington of civilian control of the military. | ||
No matter how much the left in America disliked President Trump, no matter how much Nancy Pelosi thought he was unfit for office, and no matter how much we disagree with Joe Biden, We have one commander-in-chief who has control of the military in conjunction with Congress's constitutional control of our military, and that is a vital and cherished principle. | ||
Senator, you don't want to judge him until you hear what he says, but if he says, yeah, it's true, I called him a couple of times, then should he quit or should he be fired? | ||
Well, Steve, we need to know, if those conversations happen, what occurred in those conversations. | ||
It's fairly common for senior military leaders and cabinet members to talk to their counterparts in other countries. | ||
So the fact of the conversation is less important than the content of the conversation. | ||
And that's why we need to hear straight from the horse's mouth. | ||
And that's what we're going to do in the days ahead. | ||
Thank you all for being here, and thank you. | ||
unidentified
|
Sir, did General Milley do the right thing, sir? | |
Thank you. | ||
I have great confidence in General Milley. | ||
unidentified
|
Thank you. | |
Well, I was just going to say, I mean, what he is doing here, if these reports are accurate, Laura, what he has done, General Milley, is go outside the chain of command. | ||
He's broken the chain of command. | ||
He has threatened the constitutional principle of civilian control of the military. | ||
He doesn't have the right, he doesn't have the authority to contact our opponents in Beijing and tell them that he will inform them about any action we might take before we take it. | ||
I mean, I can't believe I'm reading this. | ||
I hope these reports are inaccurate, but he does need to resign. | ||
He needs to resign, and if he won't resign, he needs to be fired. | ||
I mean, he has broken the trust of the American people. | ||
I don't know what Tom Cotton's thinking about it. | ||
I think the world of Senator Tom Cotton, particularly in national security affairs, but I got to tell you, the October call, you know, leave aside the Pelosi, the after around the 6th, they're bad enough. | ||
But if he made This call to his counter to the PLA because they were concerned after Trump barely mentioned the Wuhan lab in a speech, right? | ||
On this show we've been hammering the Wuhan lab as a bioweapons thing that obviously the virus came from. | ||
We all know that. | ||
That's common knowledge now, right, as much as the left wants to de-platform people, etc. | ||
We know that. | ||
We're not going to get to the bottom of it. | ||
All you people on the vaccines, we're not going to get to the bottom of it until we get into the Wuhan lab. | ||
And President Trump, I think, mentioned in one speech towards the middle of end of October, And Milley thinks his counterparts are upset, they're called upset, and he talks about actually informing them if there's any military action? | ||
What are we waiting for a hearing for? | ||
He should be brought up today. | ||
He's a senior military advisor. | ||
Remember, he's not a combatant commander. | ||
He's not a combatant commander. | ||
But he is the senior military advisor to the commander-in-chief. | ||
I have no earthly idea why we're even waiting on this. | ||
He's got to be brought up, and somebody's got to, like, last night, Call this together, put him under oath, and ask some direct questions. | ||
What do you think our enemies think of us? | ||
Right now we are sliding towards a kinetic war in the South China Sea and in Taiwan, and that is, you know, Jack Posobiec the other day was quoting the Global Times of talking about what the regime's looking at in Taiwan as the real estate industry that's been propped up for years is imploding in China and wiping out The Chinese deplorables. | ||
Lao-Beijing savings are all going. | ||
You see, every day they've got another riot at one of these offices saying, hey, I need my money back. | ||
Well, they said, well, your money doesn't exist anymore. | ||
They have a revolution in China right now because they've been stiffed, okay? | ||
And Xi is looking for other ways around there. | ||
Steve Cortez, am I missing it here? | ||
And I'm not one to want to jump on a guy For no reason, I think the thing with Pelosi and these other things are bad enough and terrible and are grounds for, but that's where you can have kind of a nice hearing and go through it. | ||
This call in October, that's just black or white. | ||
Dude, if you get it, boom, you're gone and then you're going to stay in trial and you're going to go to Leavenworth. | ||
I was going to say, I'm not sure you're going far enough in saying that he just needs to be removed. | ||
If this reporting is true, he belongs in handcuffs. | ||
I mean, he absolutely does. | ||
Look, if you are informing the head of the military of the existential enemy of the United States, the Chinese Communist Party, the head of the PLA, if you're informing him, if you're giving him a pledge that we are going to forewarn you if we ever attack You are a traitor to the United States. | ||
You're a traitor to our flag and a traitor to the uniform he wears. | ||
Look, he had already beclowned himself before the country with his white rage nonsense and all of his politically correct garbage. | ||
So we already knew that he was a fool and we knew that he was a politician rather than a military leader, rather than a soldier. | ||
We now know that he may, and look, the reporting could be wrong. | ||
Let's put him under oath. | ||
Let's get to the bottom of this, and there will clearly be a lot of other evidence besides just his word if we start really digging into this, which we must to find out what really happened here. | ||
But if the reporting is correct, he is a traitor who belongs in handcuffs. | ||
That is the reality. | ||
And I also want to bring this up, Steve, because let's also remember that Milley is the guy who, under oath, told the American people and told the Congress that Bagram was unnecessary. | ||
He literally said, no big deal, that we gave up Bagram. | ||
Well, we saw the disastrous consequences of that blunder, right? | ||
13 American lives lost because we tried to do a very difficult evacuation in the middle of a gigantic city that was teeming with people, many of whom hate us, some of whom were willing to be violent against us and killed 13 young American heroes because of that disastrous decision to give up Bagram. | ||
The reason I bring that up And how I think it relates to this new news from the Costa and Woodward book is, it makes me wonder, Steve, and look, we don't know, all right, so I'm posing a question, I'm not making an accusation, we don't know, but the fact that he was discussing in a back-channel way such critical issues with the PLA, with the People's Liberation Army of China, the fact that he was talking with Beijing on the sly while Donald Trump was still president, it makes me wonder | ||
What were his motivations with giving up Bagram, a place that the Chinese are now in all likelihood going to take over, and perhaps have a military presence in Afghanistan? | ||
These are also questions that, again, I'm not making an accusation because we don't know, but I'm suspicious that there's something there. | ||
Okay, we're not conspiracy theory guys. | ||
Cortez and Beto, no, they're no coincidences. | ||
But I gotta tell you, I'd say if that's true, the conspiracy theory crowd's got something to work with. | ||
unidentified
|
What is he calling up and talking to the PLA about this? | |
and we'll give you a heads up. | ||
And let's say, hey, these dots may be connected. | ||
They may not. | ||
But, you know, look, regardless, again, if it's true, he's a traitor. | ||
He's a traitor to the United States. | ||
We already knew he was a clown and he should have been fired previously for his political correctness alone was reason enough for him to be fired. | ||
On top of that, the disastrous exfiltration from Afghanistan should have had a whole host of people fired. | ||
You know, here's the thing, too, Steve. | ||
The next president of the United States, who I believe is going to be Donald Trump, For his second term, his third win, but his second term as president. | ||
But the next Republican president, whoever the America First president is, is going to have to fire a lot of people, starting at the Pentagon. | ||
A lot of generals and admirals with stars on their shoulders. | ||
They need to go because there's a lot more Millies, unfortunately, running around the defense establishment. | ||
You know, I'm a veteran. | ||
My daughter's a West Point grad. | ||
She's a veteran. | ||
My kid brother's a Navy pilot. | ||
We're a family of veterans that serve, you know, basically the six to eight years. | ||
Not a lot of people have made a career, but six to eight years. | ||
But I gotta tell you, when Austin doesn't come up to testify the other day, General Austin, you got Milley. | ||
The Biden administration, right now, we have to have a frank discussion about the civilian control of the national security state in the apparatus. | ||
Exactly what's going on. | ||
We saw in the first Trump impeachment, That the interagency process, they got their own ideas of what's going on. | ||
We've seen the problem in the intelligence community. | ||
This is very dangerous. | ||
That October call is seven days in May. | ||
That's seven days in May. | ||
It's got to stop. | ||
This is a big problem. | ||
It's got to be sorted. | ||
And we shouldn't be taking days to do this. | ||
He should be called up in the Senate Armed Services Committee and should have it classified. | ||
It should be behind closed doors at first. | ||
Okay. | ||
I want to go back To the baggage handler at the airport. | ||
I want to go back to medical apartheid. | ||
You were the first one to call it this. | ||
This is the vaccine. | ||
I've said it before when things first started. | ||
When they come back to school in the middle of August, the firestorm is going to start because that's when they're going to go after the kids. | ||
And Tony Fauci, remember, Fauci is far beyond even Biden. | ||
Biden's even giving you an option with the OSHA rules to be tested. | ||
By the way, none of these rules are going to be put in place, right? | ||
But the corporations want to do it. | ||
They're going to put it in place. | ||
Would they think government would back it? | ||
Fauci wants vaccines for everybody. | ||
No natural immunity. | ||
Okay, which is nonsense. | ||
Steve Cortez, you got an article that's blowing up over RealClearPolitics. | ||
Walk us through it. | ||
Yes, and it's titled Biden's Medical Apartheid, and I do think that is the correct phrase because this is an attempt by Joe Biden and his ilk, his allies in corporate media, his allies in corporate boardrooms across America. | ||
This is their attempt to demonize, to otherize, if I can use a term from the left, a whole host of Americans, tens of millions of people, Who have made informed, rational decisions that they don't want this jab. | ||
For many of them, it's because they already have COVID and they have recovered and they smartly believe that they have natural immunity. | ||
For others, they believe that they are young and relatively healthy and that the disease does not present a statistical Risk to them, and that there are risks to any medicine, but particularly to a brand new vaccine, even if it does have approval. | ||
But whatever the reason, Steve, the point is, now that we know, and this is one of the points I make in my article, now that we know that even those who are immunized, even those who have gotten a vaccine, now that we know that they too can spread the virus, There is no moral argument to be made here. | ||
No ethical or moral argument that anybody else must get it. | ||
It is quite literally no one else's business whether you choose, whether I choose, to get the vaccine or not. | ||
Because even people who get the vaccine are vectors. | ||
They can still spread the disease. | ||
And now that we know that, again, I think that takes the onus, it takes any kind of moral obligation off. | ||
So, what's going on here then? | ||
Why is Joe Biden doing this? | ||
And the point I make in this article, and I believe it firmly, is he is trying to punish the deplorables. | ||
Because consider who's mandated and who's not, Steve. | ||
So who's mandated? | ||
Working class citizens. | ||
People who work in the United States and citizens of the United States. | ||
Who is not mandated? | ||
Who doesn't have to get this jab? | ||
Those who are on public assistance, those who are jobless, illegal migrants who are pouring across our southern border. | ||
We're on track for 2 million arrivals, uninvited trespassers into the United States. | ||
No such mandate upon them. | ||
No such mandate upon the 100,000 plus Afghans that we just airlifted into this country. | ||
Mass migration of Afghans, which I believe is a is a colossal blunder that we're going to pay for for years. | ||
Importing a wave of people from a country where, according to Pew Research polling, 39% of the population believes suicide bombing is justifiable. | ||
But aside from the cultural problems and the security problems of bringing in that mass of people, note, they are not subject to this mandate. | ||
Who is? | ||
It is Joe and Jane Worker American citizens. | ||
So he is clearly targeting the deplorables with this order, and he wants to make their life incredibly uncomfortable. | ||
He's putting them literally in a corner, people who don't have a lot of savings, people who don't have the option necessarily to just work from home or be a consultant, right? | ||
The working class folks out there who, again, have made a rational personal choice that should be their choice alone. | ||
Joe Biden is saying, no, we are going to reach into your life. | ||
We are going to punish you. | ||
You are going to inject this vaccine. | ||
You're going to inject this brand new medicine, even though you may not want it, even though you may not need it, or you are going to be fired. | ||
It's cruel, it's capricious, and it is directly targeted, Steve. | ||
Short break. | ||
Back with Cortez and the boardroom in a moment. | ||
unidentified
|
Tech monitors us, censors us, deplatforms us. | |
Conservatives have been helpless to do anything about it until now. | ||
Join Getter, the social media platform that supports free speech and opposes cancel culture. | ||
On Getter, you can express your political beliefs without fear of Silicon Valley liberals coming after you. | ||
Getter is led by former Trump advisor and War Room co-host Jason Miller, who saw what big tech did to President Trump and decided to fight back. | ||
is the fastest growing social media platform in history with 2 million users. | ||
Including prominent conservatives like Mike Pompeo, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Steve Bannon. | ||
Join Getter. | ||
It's in the App Store, the Google Play Store, and at getter.com. | ||
Longer posts, longer videos, sharper and clearer pictures. | ||
And unlike the Silicon Valley oligarchs, Getter will never sell your data. | ||
Send a message today. | ||
Join Getter. | ||
It's time to cancel, cancel culture. | ||
I mean, you've talked a lot about, you've used that phrase, civil war, before. | ||
Do you think that we really are headed that way? | ||
Well, I think the question is, what's a war? | ||
You know, a war, it doesn't have to be killing each other. | ||
Okay, well, I don't mean it that way. | ||
I mean, but sometimes when it gets out of control, it does lead to that. | ||
It's a good thing that we read history and see how it is left in the past, how moderation has gone to extremism. | ||
It's something we should be aware of. | ||
But it is, we certainly have kind of a war developing between the various factions, the states, and so on, and how that will be resolved. | ||
unidentified
|
Like in the 2022 elections, there's still the question, there's talk of systematically challenging those elections. | |
And if there's a systematic challenge, that's a challenge to democracy. | ||
Because if you don't know who gets to sit in the seat to make the votes, how do you resolve that kind of thing if the system isn't there? | ||
Open my mic, I can't take any more of this guy. | ||
This guy's an unregistered foreign agent of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
He's been in business for forever. | ||
Okay, he always looks after their interests. | ||
He's a total and complete scumbag. | ||
And this is one of the reasons this country's in the fix it is, is because this guy runs one of the biggest money management firms out there. | ||
Totally in partnership, he manages tons of Chinese money. | ||
He's been going over the years. | ||
They mock and laugh at him all the time. | ||
He's a running dog. | ||
For the CCP, okay? | ||
And here he's dictating to the MAGA movement, oh, you're the undemocratic forces because you want to get to the bottom of what happened on 3 November. | ||
He should talk to President Pro Tem Jake Corman and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that are now going to subpoena all the records to get the receipts. | ||
Cortez, tell us about Ray Dalio, who wants to be a big thinker. | ||
And by the way, Andrew Roy Sorkin should be embarrassed. | ||
And Becky Quick said after this, and I love Becky Quick, she's fabulous. | ||
She said, great interview. | ||
No, Becky, it's not a great interview. | ||
It was pathetic. | ||
You should be embarrassed. | ||
CNBC should be embarrassed. | ||
And particularly Andrew Roy Sorkin, who's, I don't agree with Paul, but he's a very bright guy. | ||
That was a coach pitch interview, a disgrace. | ||
Steve Cortez. | ||
No, 100%. | ||
I worked at CNBC for a long time, by the way. | ||
It's where I got my start in TV. | ||
It's how I ended up in politics, because I was a financial guy who started doing financial television, then flipped over to the political side when this guy named Donald Trump came down an escalator and decided to run for office. | ||
And CNBC used to be a fantastic network. | ||
It's not very serious anymore. | ||
It doesn't do a very good job of covering markets. | ||
And it's constantly politicized. | ||
It's kind of done what ESPN has done in sports, right? | ||
They can't just sort of stay in their lane. | ||
They have to politicize everything, and they do it, of course, from a leftist skew always. | ||
Regarding Dalio, look, he's one of the titans of the hedge fund industry. | ||
I come from this world. | ||
That is my previous career, so I know that world well. | ||
And look, globalization and kissing up to China, it's been magnificently beneficial for people like Ray Dalio. | ||
It's been great For the hedge fund industry, it's been misery for American workers. | ||
And so, of course, on top of that, on top of the economic misery, it's terrible for our national security and, as we found out all too blatantly in 2020 and to the present day, terrible for our health security in addition to Our national security because of what the CCP did to the entire world with its virus. | ||
But, you know, getting back to Dalio, for him to talk down, you know, about Americans, about deplorables, people, working class folks who want to know the proof about what really happened in 2020, it really is, unfortunately, the height of hypocrisy because these Wall Street titans, with their carried interest loophole, which is nothing more than that, it's literally just It's a completely unfair tax break that benefits the absolute top 1% of the top 1% in America. | ||
These people have incredibly disproportionate power in our country right now. | ||
And again, the America First Movement, I think, has to be a workers' movement and has to co-opt the GOP and continue transforming the GOP into a workers' party. | ||
One of the ways that I would advocate doing that, and this is a minor plank in a bigger platform, but I think it's still an important plank, would be doing away with the carried interest loophole, which just benefits private equity guys and hedge fund titans like Ray Dalio, who then turn around and what do they do with that money? | ||
They use it, people like George Soros for example, uses it to fund leftist district attorneys and prosecutors all over this country who have done enormous damage. | ||
All over the United States. | ||
That's what they do with that money that we let them unfairly capture and manipulate. | ||
Legal manipulation, but manipulate through the tax code. | ||
So, you know, I'm not in a mood really to hear lectures, quite frankly, from Ray Dalio. | ||
By the way, I want to connect this to some of the data that we just got this week. | ||
This hedge fund crowd with the data that we're getting. | ||
We got terrible inflation news out yesterday. | ||
The CPI up 5.3%. | ||
The media, of course, celebrated, oh, inflation is cooling because it was one tick lower than 5.4% the previous month. | ||
We're still at a 13-year high, Steve, okay? | ||
So context is important. | ||
You can't say inflation is cooling when it's down a tenth of a percent from 5.4% to 5.3%. | ||
We're at 13-year highs. | ||
But within that report, and this is interesting, and that was for August, Uh, the recent CPI. | ||
The latest data that we have on rents, we don't have August data yet unfortunately, but we have it for July. | ||
Rents in the United States in July, on a year-for-year basis, up 9.2%. | ||
That's an astounding number. | ||
Now here's why. | ||
Because people can't afford housing. | ||
Because particularly the aspirational buyer, right? | ||
The young folks, the people who are starting families, the people who are starting to make a bit more money or trying to save to buy a house, they can't buy that house because prices are galloping in front of them. | ||
Why? | ||
Because people like Ray Dalio, and I don't know that he individually is doing this, but people like him, these massive hedge funds and BlackRock and Blackstone, they are piling for the first time in U.S. | ||
history into individual homes. | ||
Okay, they've always been involved in the real estate market, but now they're getting into buying individual homes. | ||
unidentified
|
Why? | |
because of what Biden did. | ||
Yeah, but also zero interest rates, negative interest rates. | ||
They're going to buy the assets, you're going to rent, you're going to basically pay for them doing it, and they're going to own the asset. | ||
Real quickly, Denver, can you please put up Peter Navarro's book, and I'm going to ask Cortez about his social media handle. | ||
By the way, nine o'clock tonight on Newsmax, every night of the week, is Cortez and Pellegrino, the great show. | ||
Steve co-hosts it, it's a show you've got to watch, but the opening monologue is always fantastic. | ||
It's Tucker equivalent, right? | ||
Tucker does a great job, Cortez does a great job, and really, Steve's is very analytical. | ||
Get to Amazon today. | ||
Peter Navarro's in Trump time. | ||
My Journal of the Plague Year is a must-buy. | ||
If you want to know what really went on, if you want to know the background of a medical apartheid, which is the blockbuster article in Rear Clerk Politics of Steve Cortez, you want to see the beginning of the fight against Fauci from Navarro and how he supported the President, how President Navarro supported the President, go to InTrumpTime, my Journal of the Plague Year. | ||
Go to Amazon. | ||
I need the whole posse to pile in. | ||
This is going to be a New York Times number one bestseller. | ||
Cortez, real quickly, ten seconds, what's your social media? | ||
Yeah, listen, Navarro's a nationalist hero. | ||
I'm at CortesSteve, CortesLivingAss on Twitter. |