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Nov. 18, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 1,423 – Action On Redistricting, Border, PollingEpisode 1,423 – Action On Redistricting, Border, Polling
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boris epshteyn
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christopher f rufo
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john fredericks
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todd bensman
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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.
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War Room.
Pandemic.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Hello, this is Boris Epstein in the War Room, and as we start the second hour, it is 18th November, Year of Our Lord 2021.
It's my honor to be here while Steve Bannon has a previously scheduled engagement, and we wish him Godspeed and God bless.
Go full Honey Badger on them, no doubt about it.
A ton of news today, a ton to cover.
We're going to have a ton of Steve says what to chop in the last hour.
I want to talk about redistricting.
We've been going through this state by state by state.
We've talked about North Carolina.
We've talked about Kentucky.
I want to talk to you about Florida and Georgia.
Let's go back to Georgia.
This was yesterday.
Georgia, right now it seems like the Georgia legislature is leaving it at 8 to 5, which is absolutely unconscionable.
There's no reason whatsoever whatsoever to have it be 8-5 because then in two years if the legislature flips, God forbid, or something else happens politically in Georgia, you could be right back to 8-6 or even 7-6 or worse.
So in Georgia, again, MAGA patriots, have your voices be heard, color within the lines, but color boldly, speak loudly, do what you need to do, call your elected officials, call the state senate president, call the legislature, call the legislators, and let them know that you will not accept anything but a fully strong MAGA redistricting plan.
And again, this is very important.
It's not just about...
and adding Republican seats. It's about adding strong MAGA seats on which there will have to be less resources spent. So that is absolutely vital, very, very, very, very important. And again, make sure you have your voices be heard. Make sure you're contacting your elected officials because look what the Democrats are doing. They're smart in Maryland, in New York, in Illinois, all across the country where they control legislators and legislatures and legislators.
They're saying, hey, guess what?
No more Republican seats in Maryland.
In New York, we're going to cut it way down.
In Illinois, way down.
Republicans need to do the same thing.
We've got to play Smash Mouth football because if we don't, if we do the same old, hey, we're in the country club, it's all fun, we're having a good time, let's go have a nice club sandwich, we're going to get nowhere and we're going to get blown out.
We're not going to have the MAGA control in the house of the Senate that we need.
This is our chance.
Remember what we talk about.
And this is real.
This isn't some funny slogan.
100 seats.
100 years.
I was proud to, I believe, to be the first one on this show months ago now to say that it is realistic.
It is realistic for us to get to 100 seats in 2022.
Now we're seeing polling on ABC, of all places, that says right now the ballot polling is Republican plus 11.
In 2010, when the Tea Party Revolution swept, I believe, 64 seats, it was Republican plus 7.
Now it's R plus 11.
Never before seen in ABC polling.
Never before seen in ABC polling.
We played that clip from last weekend on George Stephanopoulos.
I'm sure George, being the Democrat operative, that he has loved having to play that on his show.
Brutal polling for Joe Biden.
Four plus eleven, the largest advantage seen for Republicans in the history of the polling.
And why is that?
It's because of the crises all across the country.
We'll talk about the border.
No southern border whatsoever.
Afghanistan, the worst national security crisis in the history of this country.
Economics, only, according to the most recent Quinnipiac poll, not Rasmussen, not Trafalgar, 16% of Americans 1-6 believe that joe biden is handling the economy correctly let me say again sixteen percent of americans out of a hundred americans okay you stop a hundred people on the street only about sixteen and that's there's a margin of error to that
only fifteen sixteen maybe twelve maybe thirteen say yeah joe biden's doing a good job on the economy that is so statistically insignificant in terms of the amount of approval it's effectively zero You know they say when you have 4-5% of unemployment, you effectively have zero unemployment?
Of course, that's the unemployment numbers that they tell us.
But by the same logic, if you're at about 12-13-14% approval on the economy, you're effectively at zero.
So the Biden administration, as we said, and hey, all the mainstream media had to do was listen to the show.
As it was said on the show, the Biden administration has been killed in the crib.
And respectfully, it's not about Steve Bannon.
It's not about Boris Epstein.
It's about you, the MAGA posse, and also about the Democrats actually being worse than any of us.
Than any of us.
Really, ever, truly expected.
But now it's on us to take advantage of that.
It's on us to take action.
And how do we take action?
We make sure that redistricting is done right.
That Republicans play the same smash-mouth football the Democrats do.
And if they do not, they cannot continue in politics.
If somebody in Georgia, if somebody in Kentucky, if somebody in Florida who is a major elected official, state senate president, state house speaker, or a governor, do not want to do the right thing on redistricting, they do not want to continue in Republican politics.
It's really as simple as that.
And now let's go to Florida.
Right now, for some reason, for some reason, the state senate came up with a very, very, very weak redistricting map.
Very weak map.
They've got Ron DeSantis as governor.
The Senate has been telling everybody that he's the MAGA governor, that Florida's the best place to be, that Florida's where MAGA's welcome, that Florida's where MAGA's on fire, he's been pushing back on the mask mandates, he's been pushing back on Biden, etc, etc, etc.
But then the State, and he's the most powerful political elected official, the most powerful politician in the State.
So the State Senate rolls out a map, and it effectively keeps the same breakdown, 16 to 12.
16 to 12.
Why would they do that?
They could literally add 4 or 5 seats in Florida alone.
For some reason, they don't do that.
And specifically, in Florida 7, they're leaving Stephanie Murphy's seat largely intact.
And in Florida 13, they're leaving Charlie Crist's seat largely intact.
I have absolutely no idea why that's happening.
Denver, if we have the information for the office of the governor in Tallahassee, let's let him know.
If we have it, let's put it up.
I've got the information here.
The address is 400 South Monroe Street in Tallahassee, and the office phone number is 850-717-9337.
That's the office of Governor Ron DeSantis.
I've got a lot of respect for Governor DeSantis.
I've interviewed him in the past.
He obviously served America honorably, and he's been a strong governor down there.
But if he wants to tell the MAGA movement that he's going to be a leader moving forward, including, according to his people, a candidate for president, which obviously, I believe President Trump will and should run in 2024, and then he will be the presumptive nominee and the presumptive president who will walk into the White House in 2025.
But if Governor DeSantis wants to run for president in the future, the time to prove your MAGA strength is now.
It's now.
It's not tomorrow.
It's not a year from now.
It's now.
That 16 to 12 should be at least 18 to 10, and I'd say 20 to 8.
That's what it should be.
There's absolutely no reason, absolutely no reason, for it to be anything different.
Absolutely no reason.
So, again, MAGA pictures.
Do we have Denver?
Do we have the information?
Let's try to put it up on screen for the Office of the Governor up there in Tallahassee, down there in Tallahassee.
Beautiful place.
Florida's a great place.
And Florida's a great state.
But it's all about action, action, action.
And if we don't have action that we're taking, we are losing.
If we're not moving forward, we're moving backward.
That is the only thing that we could do is move forward, take action.
And again, just as I said to the folks in Georgia, As we said in Kentucky, as we said in North Carolina, always color within the lines.
But there's a reason that we have a democratic system in this country.
And that means that you have the power to impact the future.
You, the MAGA movement.
The reason that the Build Back Better agenda is in the toilet is you.
Because you put your strength, your power behind the backs of the moderate Democrats, not even Republicans.
The moderate Democrats that said, you know what, we're not going to be okay without a CBO score.
We're not going to be okay without ensuring and making 100% certain That this Build Back Better agenda, which is by the way such a stupid name, and we all know it's a complete joke, but it's not Build Back Better, it's Build Back Worse.
But you said that unless we know for certain, a thousand percent certain, That this is not going to cost Americans one extra penny.
We cannot afford it.
We cannot vote for it.
So let's do the same thing.
Denver, if we have it, let's do the same thing on redistricting in Florida.
Let's not leave it at 16 to 12.
Let's push it at least 18 to 10.
Let's maybe go 20 to 8.
It's in our power to do so.
See, I'm so fired up about it.
I'm sweating over here in the warm.
The heat is on, baby.
The heat is on.
We're having a good time, but we have to be focused.
Because if we do not take control of this redistricting, if we do not have MAGA district, and I'm not saying R plus 2, R plus 3, I'm saying MAGA plus 7, MAGA plus 8.
Because it is not enough, it is not enough to just be even.
It is not enough to stay where we are.
Because the Democrats, they're moving in on us in their state.
So I'll give it again, the Capitol there in Tallahassee, 400 South Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Florida.
The phone number for the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis, 850-717-9337.
And be respectful, but be honest, and be forthcoming, and be powerful, that we want redistricting done the right way.
Because if not, If not, A, 2022 is in danger, still.
And you better believe that 2024 could be in danger as well, because these seats, they swing.
Think about the Tea Party Revolution in 2010, 64 seats for Republicans, Democrats back in control of the House in 2018.
100 seats, 100 years, but only, only if redistricting is done right.
Because these Democrats, when they take control of states, they move fast.
They don't wait around.
They don't go to the movies.
They don't sit around chatting about it.
They don't sip mint julep cocktails.
They go and they hit hard.
And we've got to do the same thing.
That is what I'm sick and tired of.
And I was disgusted yesterday and I'm disgusted today by the way that Paul Gosar was treated in the House.
And if you don't believe that redistricting the right way will solve that, I've got every bridge in the city of New York to sell to you.
Because with the right districts, we do not have to worry about allowing the Democrats to censor and then kick off committees our respected, and let's be honest, leading members of Congress.
Somebody who's got a lot of experience in Dr. Paul Gosar, somebody who knows what he's talking about, kicked off two committees.
How come Ilhan Omar is still on a committee?
How come Rashida Tlaib is still on a committee?
Explain that to me.
And yes, I get it.
Well, you know, we've got to play these games about kicking Liz Cheney off committees and Adam Kinzinger because if we cost Republican seats, then junior freshman members may lose seats, Byron Donalds, Burgess Owens, and others.
Fine.
But how come Rashida Tlaib is allowed to be on the House Foreign Affairs Committee?
She's an anti-Semite.
Rashida Tlaib hates me.
Hates me.
Okay?
Ilhan Omar, who's on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, hates me.
How come they're allowed to be on committees?
Paul Gosar's kicked off.
Stephen King hasn't seen a committee for five years, I think.
Okay?
But Ilhan Omar says it's all about the Benjamins, is a clear anti-Semite, hates me, hates my family, hates the Jewish people, hates the State of Israel.
She's on the House Foreign Affairs Committee?
Rashida Tlaib, clear anti-Semite, she's allowed to be on committees and she's a leader over there in the House?
How come we Republicans do not treat Democrats the same way?
And I've said this before and I'll say it again, I said it yesterday.
When we take control next year, and I believe Elise Stefanik said this on the record, but I want to hear it again from her, from Leader McCarthy, from Steve Scalise, from everybody.
When we take control next year, Within 24 hours, within 24 hours of the next Congress being sworn in, in early January of 2023, I better not see Ilhan Omar on any committees.
I better not see Rashida Tlaib on any committees.
I better not see Eric Swalwell, yes, the Chinese spy-loving Eric Swalwell, on any committees.
These people are not just stupid.
They're not just hateful.
They're not just anti-Semitic and anti-American.
They are dangerous!
So if you allow for Dr. Paul Gosar, and the poor guy, he didn't even see that video, and yeah, sure, the video's not great, but he didn't even see the video.
If you, and I'm getting hot about this, and I'm gonna stay hot about it.
If you allow Dr. Paul Gosar to be kicked off committees, where we are in control next year, within 24 hours.
Ilhan Omar, gone.
Rashida Tlaib, gone.
Eric Swalwell, gone.
And hey, let's go bigger.
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AOC.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
AOC doesn't stand for anything that Americans believe in.
If you poll her positions, she's maybe a quarter of the American public.
Let's take a look at her video games that she's put out there that are hateful, that are angry.
But let's look at the videos from her committee.
We've got to take control, but we've got to take control with power and action.
Because without power and action, control is worthless.
We have to treat power the same way Democrats do.
Play Smash Mouth football, or don't play at all.
And redistricting has to be done right.
We'll be right back.
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Pandemic.
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boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
This is Boris Epstein sitting in for Stephen K. Bannon, who has an otherwise scheduled engagement.
I'm sure he's crushing it.
You keep killing it, Connie Badger.
Godspeed and God bless.
We are here in the War Room, action-packed hour.
Let's go back to what we talked about in the first hour.
Do not forget how vital redistricting is.
MAGA redistricting to take control, to take MAGA control.
100 seats, 100 years.
Now let's bring in Chris Ruffo from one of my favorite entities, Manhattan Institute.
Manhattan Institute has been a leading conservative Think tank, but really more of an action tank over there at Manhattan Institute, and they're all about action, action, action, which we love.
Chris, how you doing, brother?
christopher f rufo ▲ ● ▼
Doing very well.
Great to be with you.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Good to be with you.
Let's get right to it.
Yesterday, you were super focused on the story of the whistleblower of the FBI treating parents, treating parents as terrorists.
Tell us more.
christopher f rufo ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, that's right.
I guess now, last month, weeks ago, I was the first person to really break the news that Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, had requested that the FBI, the U.S.
Attorneys, and all law enforcement around the country start creating a task force to monitor and really to intimidate parents that are protesting at school board meetings.
He did this very clearly at the behest of some of the public teachers unions and other cronies.
But now we have the smoking gun.
The smoking gun was out.
Some brave individual within the FBI leaked these whistleblower documents to the House GOP, showing without a shred of a doubt that the FBI is mobilizing its counterterrorism division.
To add what they call threat tags to parents to put them in a counterterrorism database and using counterterrorism tools to monitor just average moms and dads that they think could be not a terroristic threat but a political threat.
I think that is really the key to what's happening.
The Justice Department is out of control.
It appears that Merrick Garland lied under oath to Congress, to the U.S.
Senate, and this is a bombshell of a story.
We have to keep pushing, pushing, pushing, because the Justice Department is being desperately politicized right before our eyes.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
So Chris, let's go one more step here, okay?
Manhattan Institute, a great entity, knows a lot about politics.
You obviously are super clued in.
What does this mean politically, right?
So, you know, I'm a political animal, right?
I think about things in terms of elections.
You know politics.
But if you're a mom and dad in Virginia, in North Carolina, in Pennsylvania, they always talk about the soccer moms.
And you'll learn about this.
You'll learn about the Biden DOJ targeting, harassing, surveilling parents because of their stances against critical race theory, crazy woke liberalism, mask mandates.
How does that make a regular mom and dad, how does it make them feel?
christopher f rufo ▲ ● ▼
You know, I think there's two separate groups.
There's one that it really actually works.
It intimidates people.
It creates a heightened political environment.
It's perceived as causing some consequences to speaking out.
But I think the bigger group and the more important group are those parents who are already fired up, that they're not gonna back down.
And they see this for what it is.
It's a brazen attempt to politicize our law enforcement and silence parents to criminalize dissent.
And these parents all over the country are now rallying against the Biden regime.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
But what about the third group?
What about the third group, Chris?
What about the group of people who are maybe not that engaged politically, right?
Because you got to remember, if you look at any election in this country, outside of the crazy, you know, 2020 election, we're told that Joe Biden, who's at 60% of the economy, somehow a year ago got 81 million votes.
Sure, I'm going to believe that, just like I believe that the sky is bright pink every single day of the year.
But usually, you know, a certain percentage of Americans are engaged, they vote, but the rest of adult Americans don't.
So what about the third group of people who are not engaged, but they learn about this and become disgusted by it?
Disgusted by that surveillance.
Disgusted by that overstep.
Disgusted by that overreach.
And get engaged.
And get engaged on MAGA.
christopher f rufo ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, I mean, I think that we already have very recent evidence to this.
After the Biden administration was exposed for mobilizing the FBI against parents, after these school districts in Northern Virginia were hiding sexual assaults, were hiding critical race during the curriculum, what we saw in the two-month period preceding Yunkin's election was a 42-point shift among voters who prioritize education as their number one issue.
And so this 42 point shift is not just Republicans who are already firmly in the Junkin camp, but more importantly, many independents and moderates, roughly three quarters, and then tens of thousands of Biden voters, people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020, that then voted on this education issue for the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Glenn Junkin.
So I think it shows that when you come after people's kids, when you try to put the state between parent and child, you're not only going to get the hardcore MAGA people fired up out in the streets protesting at the school board meetings, but you're going to get those normal moms and dads who may not be 100% engaged, But they know that something's wrong.
Instinctively, they can feel it.
And they know that going to the Republican, going towards conservatives, is the only safe harbor for their kids.
That's a message that we should all be hammering home.
And the future of our education in the United States depends on it.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Chris, that's very well put.
No doubt about it.
And what I see happening now, and you're right about looking at the Virginia election, and this is definitely going to go through 2022 and 2024, because this is the build of the MAGA movement, right?
The MAGA movement began with the leadership of President Trump, continues under the leadership of President Trump and it's all about connecting with the forgotten men and women of America. Connecting with those who believe they're disenfranchised, disaffected, left behind. That's what MAGA is all about. And while the Biden DOJ, the Biden administration, are trying to run this country, and I'm going to say this, they're trying to run this country like it's the Soviet Union or Germany in the 1930s.
The MAGA movement is only continuing to build, to get stronger, to be more about action, and to do the right thing.
Chris, how can people at home push back on this overreach from the Biden-DOJ?
What should they do in your estimation?
christopher f rufo ▲ ● ▼
Well, you have tremendous power.
And what we've shown, just the fact that they're now trying to suppress parents means that parents have power, that parents are a threat to the teachers unions, to the Biden administration, to the out-of-control critical race theory, bureaucracy.
And so what you can do is get involved locally, sign up with local groups, figure out what's happening, attend your next school board meeting, do public comment.
I've put together a guide for parents.
It's the Critical Race Theory Briefing Book.
It's available for free on my website.
It's going to give you the background, the information, the knowledge, and even the language that you'll need to be successful pushing back.
But get organized at the local level because you may not have the power to influence national politics all at once if you're just a mom or a dad at home today.
But what you do have the power to do is to have an influence in your local school district and ultimately those local institutions are what really matter.
They shape your life.
They shape your experience.
They are what's going to either Yes.
harm or help your family.
So get involved at the local level, get educated on these issues.
Always communicate with a sense of optimism, propriety, a color between the lines, as you say, Boris.
But get out there and show what you believe and never back down.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Well, Chris, whenever anybody's using one of my lines, I'm automatically a huge fan, but I've been a big fan of yours for a long time.
Thanks so much.
Can you give your coordinates, give your socials, how can people find you?
You've got to be following Chris on CRT, on pushing back against CRT, on pushing back against Biden-DOJ overreach, and a ton of other topics.
Chris, go ahead, give your coordinates.
christopher f rufo ▲ ● ▼
That's right.
I'm at RealChrisRufo, at RealChrisRUFO on Twitter.
And my website is ChristopherRufo, that's ChristopherRUFO.com.
You can get the free Critical Race Theory briefing book, get up to speed on what's happening in our schools, and get ready to fight back.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
I love it.
Chris, thank you so much.
God bless you.
Stay strong.
Keep fighting.
unidentified
Okay, do we have John Fredericks down here?
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Let's go to John right now about the breaking story, the breaking story coming out of Virginia with the Virginia Congressman Elaine Laurie over there, who's got a huge problem.
Elaine Laurie has been exposed to be a huge investor in Alibaba.
John, how are you?
john fredericks ▲ ● ▼
Good, Boris.
This is breaking news.
She filed her tax return.
And we find out that Congresswoman Elaine Luria, she goes by Commander Luria because she served in the U.S.
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Navy.
john fredericks ▲ ● ▼
She was a commander of a vessel.
We find out now that she has between $250,000 and $500,000 invested in a company called Alibaba, which is controlled by the CCP.
The very people that those in the Navy based in her district, which is one of the biggest Naval bases in the world in Norfolk, many of our Navy seamen are fighting the CCP or if there's a problem with Taiwan, obviously, they're going to be the first ones in the ships on the front line getting shot at.
And here you've got Elaine Loria, the Congresswoman representing them with up to $500,000 invested in a company completely controlled by the CCP.
So she's making profits off the very company that Her constituents in the Navy and in the naval base in her district are going to have to go and fight.
It's an incredible, brazen, in-your-face, crass, finger in the eye.
Let me ask this question, John.
Of course, the fake news refuses to cover it.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Right, the National Polls did a great job on this, of course.
National Polls, Natalie Winters over there.
Let me ask you this question, John.
So, $250,000 to $500,000, a huge amount of money, more than, you know, a large majority of Americans have invested, period.
And from what it appears, this is invested directly into Alibaba, right?
It's not invested into a fund that's done investing into Alibaba.
This is directly into a Chinese company, which today is tanking on news that The CCP is taking larger control of it.
This is major, major, major, major.
So, how is she explaining this?
Does she have, does Laurie have any explanation?
And by the way, I'm being told that Laurie is absolutely done.
There's no way she's going to win re-election.
But how is she explaining it today?
And is she going to resign?
We've got 30 seconds.
john fredericks ▲ ● ▼
Dead silence.
She can't explain it.
Because the typical way you explain it is by saying, hey, you know, it's in a trust.
It's up to my financial advisors.
They make my investments.
I don't really check it every day or it's in a blind trust.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Oh, yeah.
john fredericks ▲ ● ▼
The problem here is you can't get $500,000 in a single stock in a blind trust.
Like, nobody would do that.
Right, so this was obviously she made a decision.
She made a decision to invest this money and she said nothing.
And of course, the fake news in Virginia Beach, the Virginia pilot and others.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
John, hang on with us.
We'll be right back right after the break.
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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.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
I'm here in the War Room.
It is an honor to be here for Steve Bannon.
Well, he's otherwise engaged.
We're having a good time.
It's Boris Epstein.
We've got a huge, huge, huge, huge last half hour.
Let's go back with John Fredericks.
John, how are you, my friend?
john fredericks ▲ ● ▼
Never better, Boris.
Thank you.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Well, you're never better because you're on here in the War Room.
We're having a good time.
You're looking handsome.
You got the bridge behind you.
What's that bridge, John?
Where is that?
john fredericks ▲ ● ▼
I'm bridging rural and urban communities together into one.
That's kind of what our mantra is here, Outside the Beltway.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
I like it.
john fredericks ▲ ● ▼
And so that is actually a bridge in South Georgia, in the Savannah area, that takes the urban area of Savannah down into the more rural areas of South Georgia.
So that's the signification of it.
You know, you're the first person that's asked me that in a year, so thank you.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Well, John, I'm here to please brother.
You're a MAGA champion.
You've been at the front lines of the fight for 3 November.
You're at the front lines of the fight for Virginia.
You are a huge, huge, huge difference in the MAGA win.
And yes, I'm saying this, the MAGA win in the Virginia Governor's race.
John Fredericks, you were a huge force multiplier there, no doubt about it.
Okay, let's go back.
We've got a couple minutes.
Let's talk about Loria some more.
What does this mean for her, A, does she have any way she stays up until she's voted out next November?
And then what does this mean broader?
And we've had this issue, let's be honest, it's both on the left and the right.
You know, Richard Burr from North Carolina with his stock buys.
You had Loeffler out of Georgia with her stock purchases.
I don't like any of it.
I hate all of it.
If you're an elected official, If you're an elected official, you have no business, you have no business buying, selling, or acting in stocks or securities that you have an impact on.
Of course, this is different.
This is Loria buying a Chinese company that is controlled by the CCP.
By the way, nobody's heard from Jack Ma in about two years.
He's supposed to be the founder of Alibaba, right?
What happened to him?
The CCP's got full control.
So, what does this say, A, about Loria and her political prospects for the next year, because then she's done?
B, what do we need to do to prevent this from happening overall?
John Fredericks.
john fredericks ▲ ● ▼
Well, let's go, let's start with B and then go backwards.
First of all, it's the uni party.
It's the uni party.
I mean, you pointed it out, whether it's, you know, Kelly Lefter, Kelly Lefter, Kelly Lefter, Richard Burr, whatever it is, these people make money off being in office.
They get insider tips and information or hunches, whatever you want to call it.
They certainly shouldn't be profiting from that.
Everybody knows they do it.
Then they retire, they got a lot of money, even if they get beat.
You look at this Laurier situation, how do you represent people in the Navy that are going out on ship Seaman that leave for 6, 9, 12 months at a time, that are in the South China Sea fighting the CCP, and you're investing in a company to make money off the CCP?
I mean, the conflict of interest, the hypocrisy is beyond the pale.
Look, Elaine Laurier was done before this.
Yunkin carried her district.
By 10 points in 2021, there'll be a new map, but that district is only slight changes.
If there's a legitimate Republican candidate, right now there's a couple of them, that emerge as a nominee.
She's gone.
Spanberger's gone.
McBath has gone in Georgia.
Bordeaux has gone in Georgia.
Conor Lamb has gone, whether he runs for Senator or not.
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Butterfield's gone in North Carolina.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
No doubt about it.
John Butterfield gone in North Carolina.
Yarmouth is gone.
Sherry Bustos is gone.
Spires gone.
John, thank you so much.
We've got to go to Todd Bensman at the border and Michael Young because it's starting to downpour down there and I don't want the boys to get soaked.
John, give you coordinates real quick.
We'll talk to you soon.
Go ahead.
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boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
John, thanks so much.
God bless you.
Keep firing on all cylinders.
You're an absolute killer.
You're an absolute machine.
We love John Fredericks.
Let's go to the board.
We've got Tom Bensman from the Center for Immigration Studies, and we've got Michael Young.
Let's go.
Gentlemen, how are you?
You boys staying dry over there?
I'm worried about you.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
A little bit.
We're starting to get a storm system in here, but we'll live.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
All right, give us the latest.
Part of the reason, and this is very important, part of the reason that Joe Biden is in the 20s, is in the 20s, and yes, I said the 20s because that's what the real polling shows, is because we do not have an operational southern border right now.
Give us the latest on the border.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
Well, the Biden administration is doing its very best to keep this in the dark.
There is an assembly line of migrants that are being very quickly legalized and moved right through the city that we're in, which is McAllen, Texas, right into the United States, resettled to all four corners of the country.
Just a little bit earlier today, this morning, this is Catholic Charities behind me, and the city bus station is right catty corner to where I'm looking at right here, just offloaded Two buses loads filled with migrants who are very freshly legalized after coming off the border.
They went right into the door.
They were processed in and in a very short period of time they will then be walked over to the bus station where they'll board buses and that process used to be out in the open here on these streets but now they've set it up so that you can't see it.
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todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
We're on our way there after this, but my understanding is that they've got National Guard and Border Patrol blocking all the entrances to this particular park, and they've given it over to Catholic Charities.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
How's that legal in Constitution?
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
They've done it.
I don't know, but they've done it.
That's where the buses came from that we saw.
There's the video right there I shot just this morning.
These buses are just coming, I'm told, all day long, dropping these migrants.
All of those folks are still in there right now.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Let me go to Michael.
Michael, you've been an absolute champion.
Such, such a force on this issue.
What are you seeing, and how is this different from a week ago, two weeks ago, a month ago, two months ago?
What's the development?
What's the progression?
That's what the MAGA posse wants to know.
unidentified
Yeah, and by the way, this town is very pro-MAGA.
It's mostly Hispanic and very pro-MAGA.
The Rio Grande.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
We're taking over the Rio Grande.
Yep, we're taking over.
unidentified
Absolutely.
Everywhere I go, I'm going all up and down the border.
It's the same story.
They're tired of Biden.
I'm surprised he's as high as 20.
But not to get into that, I've been tracking these guys all the way from Columbia into Panama for months.
I took a couple of congressmen down there.
So, uh, been down to Tapachula, Mexico, tracking them down there and up in, you know, in the north part of Mexico as well and all over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona is picking up. And now we've got governor Abbott here in Texas.
I know this might not be popular to people, but I'm not paid to be popular.
I'm not really paid much at all anyway.
But Governor Abbott, he says he's cutting down on this, and it's not true at all.
They're flooding over the border.
We were out last night, Claude and I, we were out on the border with Masako Kanaha from Japan.
And it's clear that the National Guard, everywhere I go, is covering up.
And DPS, Department of Public Safety in Texas, is helping them, as are some of the local police departments, such as Eagle Pass.
Yesterday, they did a big exercise with helicopters at Eagle Pass.
You know, a show of force.
National Guard saying that, you know, this is going to be like a Mike force, you know, a mobile reaction force with helicopters like from Vietnam, what we would do in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You know, to push back this caravan that's coming up.
But the caravan's just a distraction.
Night and day.
Right now, they're crossing the border, as we speak.
And at nighttime as well, even a lot more, especially right now.
The moon is almost full, they cross a lot more on bright nights.
But anyway, the Mike Force is irrelevant.
And what they're doing when they do catch them is the National Guard turns them over to the Border Patrol, who eventually just releases either into the interior of the United States, or does a Title 42, sends them back across the border, and then they just turn, they just revolve right back to the United States.
Literally, sometimes they drop them off at a bridge, and then they walk off the bridge and go right back through the river, right in front of you.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
So I mean, it's, So the bottom line, Michael, is this is not even a shade of stopping.
We're going the other way, right?
Is it fair to say, in your estimation, you and Todd, and I'll let you guys go because I want you to be healthy, I want you to be safe, is it fair, and I want you both to answer this, is it fair to say that we right now do not have a functioning southern border?
unidentified
Very fair.
It's just true.
I'm along the border every single day.
They're coming day and night, right now.
Do we have any idea on who's coming?
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Are they being checked?
There's no security checks, obviously, right?
There's no way to check their background, no way to check their motivation, no way to check their intent.
We have no idea who's coming through, right?
unidentified
I hired somebody on the Mexican side.
Bottom line is we have no idea.
I was down there on a reconnaissance last week, found a nice spot to collect documents.
He's collecting huge amounts of documents, Cuban passports, IDs from people from Africa, all over the world.
I've got stacks of them already.
And so they discard them before they cross the Rio Grande River.
They leave them on the ground and we just pick them up.
So I mean, they're from all over the world.
They're from at least 80 countries.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Bottom line is we have no idea.
Todd, go ahead.
unidentified
Right.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
Right.
And these migrants, they come in, they drop their IDs over there, and they come in and say, my name is Mickey Mouse.
Believe me, I want asylum.
And we do take their biometrics when they come in, their fingerprints, their facial, you know, triangulated photos and the rest of that.
But that doesn't mean that, you know, you can run that against data that doesn't exist.
So you're at square one with all of these people.
unidentified
Lots of Africans coming in, lots of Middle Easterns.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
We just had Afghans cross the border.
Last week Breitbart reported a bunch of Afghans came in with Syrians and Pakistanis.
Those are the kinds of people that are also coming through here.
There is a national security nexus.
Very strong here.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
And listen, to Media Matters and CNN and whoever, MSNBC, this isn't about Todd Benson, Michael Yan, Boris Epstein saying, oh well, these are different ethnicities.
It's got nothing to do with that.
It's national security of America.
We live here.
Our kids live here.
Our families live here.
We deserve security.
Isn't that why we pay 50% of taxes or whatever it is they're charging us now?
We pay for security.
We deserve security.
Ever since the peace of Westphalia hundreds of years ago, the Western system has been based on countries and borders.
And the Biden regime has rid, has robbed the American people of our southern border.
Todd Benzman, Michael Young, thank you so much.
Give your coordinates right now, please.
Todd, go ahead.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
Well, you can follow me on at tbenzmangetter.com.
And I'm also on Twitter, BenzmanTodd.
And you can see all my work at CenterForImmigrationStudiesCIS.org.
I like Getter a lot, by the way.
Enjoying it.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Good.
Getter is strong.
And you've been doing amazing work.
Thanks so much.
God bless you.
Michael, where can people find you?
Where can people follow you?
unidentified
Getter as well.
And it's doing great.
And also on Locals.com.
But I'm migrating away from Locals as well, just to Getter.
And just, I put up every day.
I put up photos from the border and videos and that sort of thing.
Every single day.
boris epshteyn ▲ ● ▼
Awesome.
God bless you.
Todd Bedson from the Center for Immigration Studies.
Michael Young, the correspondent.
God bless both of you.
Keep on fighting.
Keep on staying strong.
So important to have you at the border.
God bless you guys.
Be careful.
This is it, folks.
This is it.
If you want to know why, if you want to know why Joe Biden and his administration, his approval, are in the tank and dying.
This is the answer.
This is the answer.
It is because there's no southern border, we had a disaster in Afghanistan, we have an economic disaster brewing while we have the supply chains are in the toilet, while you've got Pete Buttigieg trying to breastfeed his kids.
It is an absolute mess in America and it is all, it is all because of Joe Biden.
We've got one, we've got one segment left.
Elections have consequences.
Stolen elections have dire consequences.
Stay with us right after this break.
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Folks, it's been an honor to be here with you.
We've got a couple minutes left.
I want to talk about polling.
Denver, let me see the poll.
And the chart that was put up on RealClearPolitics today that shows just how upside down Joe Biden is.
This is crazy.
This is from RealClearPolitics, okay?
And by the way, this is a rolling average, so it takes into account where Joe Biden is only upside down by like 5% in a poll, which is Democrat plus 37, whatever it is.
On November 5th, the day after infrastructure passed, Joe Biden and his net approval rating was 7.5.
7.5, okay?
Today, that net approval rating is minus 12.
Do you know how big that is?
That is absolutely, it's otherworldly.
Again, right now, it's negative 12.
41.2 approve, 53.2 disapprove.
On November 5th, the day after infrastructure passed, it was negative 7.5.
The guys lost four and a half points in an average, which, you know, that is so hard to do.
In one poll, it's, you know, it could go up or down.
But in average, you've got to keep everything, you've got to keep everything in mind.
You've got to keep everything included as you calculate it.
Today, a new low in the average approval for Joe Biden.
It's 41.2.
But if you look underneath, If you look underneath at what's in those numbers, the latest Quinnipiac poll, 38 approve, 53 disapprove.
38 approve, 53 disapprove.
So, that infrastructure bill on which, let's be honest, it was the only hope.
The Biden administration had.
They were hanging all their hopes on it, saying, oh, we'll pass infrastructure.
You know, we'll get a couple of Republicans, which they did, which was absolutely wrong to you.
13 Republicans who dared, who dared in the House to vote for the infrastructure bill, which as President Trump said, is the reelect Joe Biden bill.
You were wrong and you should not remain in Congress.
And Nicole Meliotakis, that includes you.
And we've all heard about, you know, the tough moment that you had at the NRCC event right after.
No one cares.
To the 13 Republicans who thought it was a good idea to back Joe Biden and throw him a lifeline, you've got political troubles, okay?
But, the bigger picture is, that did nothing.
And you know what it proves?
It proves that you, the MAGA posse, the MAGA movement, the American people, are smart.
It proves it for the millionth time.
You see right through the nonsense, right through the BS, right through an infrastructure bill that's only about 5 or 10 percent infrastructure.
And that is why Biden's approval is continuing to tank.
And on the economy?
On the economy, let's put that chart back up.
That's overall because I just like to see, I like to see that kind of movement as a Wall Street guy.
It's always fun to see something going all the way up and something else going all the way down.
That's like a perfect supply and demand curve.
Okay?
Like a perfect supply and demand.
And you look at that approval just plummeting.
And you look at the disapproval going up and up and up and up.
And you know what that is?
That is American demand for leadership going up, and that's Biden's supply of leadership going way down.
The guy's a disaster.
He's feckless.
The people in the White House are pathetic.
Now we're hearing that the Labor Secretary hasn't even deigned to move into Washington, D.C.
He comes, he stays at the Hilton a little bit, then he goes back to Boston.
Matt Walsh.
Absolutely crazy.
You've got a Labor Secretary who is not working.
You've got a Transportation Secretary who was on double, triple, secret paternity leave.
Paternity leave.
While Americans are going without products that they need.
While the supply chains are down.
You've got a non-existent president.
You've got a non-existent vice president.
Remember Kamala Harris?
People thought, oh, Kamala Harris, she's going to do a good job.
She's going to be the border star.
Doesn't go to the border.
And now the only stories you ever hear about Kamala Harris are how her and Biden are not getting along.
You think?
You have two feckless wonders in there.
Of course they're not going to get along because they're pointing fingers at one another.
You know, Joe Biden probably thinks, you know, Kamala Harris is You know, a colleague of his from the 80s.
He has no idea.
Maybe he thinks Kamala Harris is Nancy Reagan or something.
You know?
He has no idea where he is.
Completely, completely, completely removed from reality.
But the bottom line here is this, folks.
The bottom line is you've got to continue to be all about action, action, action, because that is what's driving Joe Biden into the 30s, into the 20s.
Right now he's in the 20s on approval.
Don't worry about the Quinnipiac Bowl.
I'll look at the crosstabs.
I bet you it's at least D plus 7, D plus 8, which means that the real approval of Joe Biden is in the 20s, and actually it's going to the teens, because we're the president, we're the leader.
The key thing, and hey, You know, James Carville said it.
It's the economy, stupid.
And if he's at 16% approval on the economy, that means that this administration is dead, it is finished.
And again, if you believe that 81 million Americans, 81 million Americans voted for this guy a year ago, through November, and now only 16% of Americans approve of his job on the economy, you are kidding yourself.
And the Biden administration knows it.
The Biden DOJ knows it.
That's why they're going after the leader in the 3 November movement under the leadership of President Trump, Stephen K. Bannon.
They're going after Stephen K. Bannon because they know they lost the election.
They know President Trump won the election.
And they know they cannot do anything about the plummeting.
of Joe Biden's numbers.
It's all up to you now.
Action, action, action on redistricting.
Action, action, action on 3 November.
Action, action, action on taking our country back.
Thank you so much.
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