Dec. 2, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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The virus has now killed more than 100 people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is 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. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, breaking news here in the War Room. | ||
| House Freedom Caucus sends letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urging him to use, wait for it, all procedural tools at his disposal to deny timely passage of the continued resolution unless it prohibits funding for vaccine mandates. | ||
| Okay, this is, they're trying to make this very confusing and that's why we're bringing in Russ Vogt. | ||
| Russ was the Director of Office and Management and Budget in the government for President Trump in the last year of his first term. | ||
| OMB is the single most important job in the government next to the Chief of Staff of the White House and the President of the United States. | ||
| Kind of goes out of order. | ||
| President of the United States, Chief of Staff, OMB. | ||
| That is how the executive branch Organizes itself is around that center of gravity. | ||
| So anybody that knows programmatically every penny where it goes, but also how it goes and who it goes to, it'd be Russ Vought. | ||
| So, Russ, now we're at the thing that they haven't. | ||
| There's no continued resolution up here. | ||
| The government shuts down in 48 hours. | ||
| Russ, what would you be doing for President Trump if we were 48 hours away from a government shutdown? | ||
| How many hours a day would you be working, sir? | ||
| Yeah, we've been working pretty extensively to prepare for the reality of being able to manage the government in the absence of a funding measure like this, and we did it for the longest period of time in history. | ||
| It can be done. | ||
| The OMB knows how to do it. | ||
| Right now, we are in a critical moment for the country in that you have a couple of senators who are fighting. | ||
| You have the House Freedom Caucus fighting to block the continuing resolution because it funds the government and makes no effort to try to rein the Biden administration in. | ||
| We have vaccine mandates to fight. We have critical race theory to fight. We have money for refugees that need to be fought. There's $7 billion on the continuing resolution for that. | ||
| And so right now, Republicans can stand in the way. It's not about how they vote at the end of the day. They'll all vote against it, or some of them will vote against it. The issue is, do they stand procedurally against the continuing resolution and not give them unanimous consent to move it quickly between now and Friday? | ||
| That's really the leverage point and that's where we need senators to step up and support those three. | ||
| And right now it's Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and Roger Marshall who are fighting this. | ||
| There may be some others privately. | ||
| But we need more people to join those three and rally to stop this thing with the leverage point that we have right now between now and Friday. | ||
| Can I get Amanda and Cameron, my producer, Amanda and all the team at Real America's Voice. | ||
| I want all the Senate numbers up there. | ||
| In fact, we should put the congressional numbers up there, too. | ||
| But let's get the Senate numbers and Mitch McConnell's direct line. | ||
| OK, just so we break this down for people, because folks there, according to their plan, the Democrats, they want to prove essentially seven trillion dollars in the next 10 days. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And then take the cap off the debt ceiling. | ||
| So walk us through what a CR is. | ||
| Because this is really about it's kind of a fancy term or it's a piece of nomenclature. | ||
| It's really about funding the federal government on an annual ongoing basis. | ||
| Leave the bill back better aside. | ||
| That's extra. | ||
| The debt ceiling is a different topic. | ||
| I think they converge. | ||
| But just to continue resolution in a normal way, a government works. | ||
| This would all should have been done no later. | ||
| than midnight on the 30th of September, sir, correct? | ||
| Because the fiscal year is not the calendar year. | ||
| The fiscal year for our government starts October 1st. | ||
| We should have had this debated. | ||
| We should have had these appropriations bills passed. | ||
| We should be going on the normal course of business. | ||
| The reason we're not is the Republicans allowed these guys to spend all this time on this phony infrastructure bill, which they supported, all this time on Build Back Bankrupt. | ||
| And didn't take care of business. | ||
| And here we are in a situation. | ||
| And Russ, correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| Isn't it the annual deficit right now? | ||
| Roughly a trillion to a trillion and a half dollars? | ||
| Yeah, it'll be bigger right now in the midst of the work that we're the off ramp from COVID. | ||
| But before COVID, we're looking at trillion dollars every year as far as the eye can see without spending reform. | ||
| And Congress is supposed to do budgeting. Congress is supposed to pass, under the law, they're supposed to pass budgets early in the year. | ||
| That's supposed to be done February, March. And then they consider these 12 annual appropriations bills for everything that is considered discretionary. | ||
| Not your entitlement checks, not things like that, but the funding of the bureaucracy is supposed to be done throughout the summer towards the end of the fiscal year. | ||
| That routinely never happens. | ||
| They have a pile-up. | ||
| These bills are supposed to be considered, debated, go through them with a fine-tooth comb. | ||
| That never happens. | ||
| And now members are being asked to just extend last year's funding into the next fiscal year. This CR would do it as a short-term basis into February. | ||
| But again, this is the only leverage point or one of the few leverage points that the Republicans have to take the Biden administration and redirect them in a different, more freedom-based direction. | ||
| And this is game time, folks. | ||
| This is the opportunity that the Senate has to be able to push back and provide accountability. | ||
| It's not about waiting for elections. | ||
| It's not about waiting for the courts. | ||
| Those will have their place. | ||
| But everyone needs to pull the oar, and Senate Republicans need to pull the oar today. | ||
| And this is what I'm saying, the war imposter, you have a voice in this, you have a vote in this. | ||
| We've got to light these phones up. | ||
| You've got to have the back of the senators that are trying to slow this thing down. | ||
| In the Senate, to get this through, you have to break – it's not just a 51 vote, right? | ||
| You have to get 60 to move it forward on the Senate side? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| But even more so, Steve, because they're up against the timing crunch and the Democrats waited to the very last minute on this, they actually have to get unanimous consent to be able to move this. | ||
| So, you know, we should have what we need to be able to force this fight with the very few senators that we have currently. | ||
| But those senators are going to come under extraordinary pressure. | ||
| It already began at the Senate lunch yesterday, and to the extent that more conservatives are joining together with Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and Roger Marshall, that group will grow, and it'll be harder for them to be able to get this thing through. | ||
| And then you're right. | ||
| Even with all the time in the world, they're going to need to have 60 votes to move a continuing resolution through the Senate. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, in 2013 it was Mike Lee and Ted Cruz over Obamacare, remember? | ||
| And people said, oh my gosh, you shut the government down, it's the worst thing we're going to lose. | ||
| We picked up seats in 2014, I think in the Senate, in the House. | ||
| Government shuts down. | ||
| Look, it's Biden's administration they're shutting down by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. | ||
| They couldn't deliver. | ||
| They couldn't deliver. | ||
| They should have thought about this earlier. | ||
| They should have thought about this earlier, or they ought to be open. | ||
| You're just not going to rubber stamp what they did last year. | ||
| That's what's so ridiculous about this. | ||
| I think it's ridiculous to kick this into February. | ||
| They shouldn't be given any time because it's opportunity costs. | ||
| The more time they have to spend on this, and the debt ceiling, the less time they have on Build Back Broke. | ||
| And if Build Back Broke kicks into the first quarter of next year, it doesn't happen. | ||
| It doesn't happen. | ||
| It's not going to happen in election year. | ||
| Time is our friend here. | ||
| Time is our ally. | ||
| And you're seeing people who know how to use leverage who have been here before, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee in particular. | ||
| So Russ, walk us through, if you were advising them, the logic of what Russ Vogt would be telling them to do right now. | ||
| Right now, use your leverage. | ||
| Block the continuing resolution, make there's to be a national debate right now on all of the issues that I mentioned, the vaccine mandate, preventing the refugee funding for unvetted security risks, all of the above in terms of pushback on Biden. | ||
| Don't make this about the just funding this into February. | ||
| Republicans have night terrors about the prospects of being blamed for government shutdowns. | ||
| They shouldn't. | ||
| we routinely have an opportunity if we frame the issue the american people to win because we're focusing on the issues that they care most about and so fight these things right now and be able to consume the political action around this and and don't allow it to be spent by washington dc trying to figure out where they have the votes for bill back broke the logic of the show today because is always an internal logic the reason i start with maloney talked about germany and said europe's always about | ||
| six three months to six months ahead of us this gets the heart and we had carry lake in here talk is a governor of the state about these vaccine mandates If you want to stop what's happening in Germany, where today they just announced a full lockdown for all of the unvaccinated, Austria has announced not just a lockdown for the unvaccinated, but Full vaccination of everybody in the nation. | ||
| Mandatory vaccination on 1 February. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, that's less than 90 days, okay, in Austria. | ||
| If you want to stop that, Russ, you have a full, robust debate now in December about this, correct? | ||
| And it's about money. | ||
| They can't go forward. | ||
| This is a forcing function. | ||
| You force them to the table that we have a national debate at a very high level. | ||
| You agree? | ||
| In order to say, hey, if what happens in Germany and what happens in Austria happens here, we at least fought and had a debate about this early on. | ||
| It just didn't allow it to happen. | ||
| Russ Vogt, your thoughts? | ||
| Precisely. | ||
| This is about having the debate that's necessary. | ||
| And to be clear, senators are relying on the fact that there's been courts that have provided injunctions against the vaccine mandate. | ||
| Well, that's only against the enforcement provisions of the vaccine mandate. | ||
| The work on the vaccine mandate that the bureaucracy does continues. | ||
| And so it is vital to be able to cut that funding off now, have that debate now, and be able to bring the American people to the point where they can have a say on this critical leverage point today, tomorrow, in the United States Senate. | ||
| The second no, by the way, we've only got a couple of minutes for Russ, he's got to bounce. | ||
| The second no is the debt ceiling, right? | ||
| The debt ceiling. | ||
| I just want to go, when you did your work when you were there as a mixed deputy, Mulvaney's deputy, and then later when you took over, we would go through this exercise, when I was there for the first year, we'd go through this exercise with you about the waterfall effect, the cascade. | ||
| The $3.5 trillion still comes in, correct? | ||
| And I understand you've got payments that are kind of off that, but in the timing of when it comes in, There's a way that you can prioritize paying off the government securities, at least for a while, that this whole thing that you're going to blow up the capital markets, that's another lie and spin of Wall Street. | ||
| Is it not, Russ Vought? | ||
| It is. | ||
| The debt limit is fundamentally different than a government shutdown situation because you have tax revenues that are coming in and you have the ability to use all those tax revenues to pay for servicing the debt and a sizable number of other commitments as well. | ||
| The reality is that the bureaucracy and to some extent those in charge of the bureaucracy do not want to make those political decisions about what gets paid versus what doesn't. | ||
| So they put out a lie To the American people, to the capital markets, and they say that every dollar that we owe, whether that is a dollar for bonds or whether that is a dollar for HUD grants, is the same. | ||
| And that's not true. | ||
| And there is an ability for prioritization. | ||
| We've been calling for it for over 10 years as these debt limits have really begun to fight. | ||
| And the bureaucracy can do this. | ||
| They refuse to do it. | ||
| But it is certainly something that they have the ability under the law to do. | ||
| Russ, I want to have you on next week. | ||
| I know you're jammed for time, but I want to go through your recommendations. | ||
| People have talked about this a lot, and there were supposed to be agreements in the past. | ||
| We're going to raise the debt limit, but we're going to get spending reform. | ||
| But it's always the credit card gets raised, and the reform goes out the window. | ||
| People forget about it. | ||
| But there are, in your mind, real things that could happen here. | ||
| You don't raise it one penny, and the only way you would ever raise it is that the spending reforms come first. | ||
| then you raise it. Are there spending reforms that you see that get control of Leviathan here and use the debt ceiling as the hammer? | ||
| Well, there can be. | ||
| There's a lot of things that need to occur to be able to change the separation of powers or revert back to the way the separation of powers were meant to work. | ||
| But my recommendation would never be to do a long debt limit increase because I think that this is the leverage point that you need to preserve. | ||
| And this Biden administration is just not going to, you know, go along with your spending reforms. | ||
| They're going to try to violate any cap that you put in place. | ||
| So yeah, it's an opportunity to have a debate about fiscal reform. | ||
| But not to give them a very long increase, even if we got to that point. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But you're with me. | ||
| No increase right now. | ||
| Nothing to talk about until you give us a plan. | ||
| And the plans are going to be in the CR. | ||
| Russ, how do people get to your new organization? | ||
| How do they follow you on social media? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| AmericaRenewing.com. | ||
| And right now, in Twitter and Getter, we're putting out real-time updates on a number of the games that they're playing to be able to get around this leverage point. | ||
| At Russ, vote at Getter. | ||
| Yeah, we're linking to Russ constantly because he's got the latest and greatest. | ||
| He's the big brain in the back of this. | ||
| Russ, thank you. | ||
| Thank you for taking time to change your schedule to do this today. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It's to the ramparts all. | ||
| To the ramparts all, right now. | ||
| You're in the room. | ||
| They're waiting for you. | ||
| You've got a say in this. | ||
| You're not powerless. | ||
| You have the power. | ||
| Let's use it. | ||
| Use your agency. | ||
| Philip Patrick, next, in the War Room. | ||
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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. | ||
| OK. | ||
| We're in the Valley of Decision. | ||
| A lot of work to do today for the War Room, but this is what you're called to do. | ||
| All those people out there and sometimes, you know, because I read all the chats later and say, oh, no, we got to, you know, Go to Civil War and say, hey, chill. | ||
| Focus on what we have at hand and realistic, not just blowing steam. | ||
| Now you have a chance to actually matter. | ||
| You've got this jammed up for a reason. | ||
| The reason is, a big part of the reason is the show and the audience. | ||
| You have put the fear of God in these people. | ||
| You got Mitch McConnell up here trying to play footsie with them. | ||
| But you have a couple of senators that are hanging tough. | ||
| And there's a lot of senators. | ||
| Remember, this is a fluid situation, but there's a lot going on. | ||
| Joe Manchin on the other side. | ||
| Don't think Joe Manchin is just alone. | ||
| There's three to five people in back of Joe Manchin hiding behind a Joe Manchin that don't want, you know, they don't want a huge increase in the debt ceiling. | ||
| Also, particularly don't want Bill back broke. | ||
| But right now it's about opportunity costs and what it is is to force them, this is a forcing function, to force them now to spend their time making a pitch to the American people about the vaccine mandates, about all this crap they've got in this budget on an annual basis. | ||
| We've got them jammed up because they haven't done their work. | ||
| We've let them off the hook more times and McConnell and the guys always let them off the hook. | ||
| Now it's time to put them on the hook. | ||
| And we've got it right here. | ||
| They'll shut down their government. | ||
| They'll go crazy. | ||
| You'll see CNN and remember to see the big crocodile tears and they'll think, oh, you're going to blow 2022. | ||
| No, you're not. | ||
| Stand tough, hang tough and just be there and get focused. | ||
| Because if you don't do it now, if you don't have this debate now, if you don't force it, don't use this forcing function to get it out there. | ||
| Remember, if we had told you three months ago that Austria was going to have mandatory vaccinations for all citizens on February 1st, that would be conspiracy theory. | ||
| That'd be a bunch of nutcases, right? | ||
| Let's take you off a couple more platforms. | ||
| If we had told you that Germany was going to lock down all unvaccinated people, you'd say, well, that can't be possible. | ||
| The Germans got the greatest research universities in the world in this matter. | ||
| They will never do that. | ||
| That's announced today. | ||
| And we keep telling you, if you look at the history of this, and we're the very first people to cover it. | ||
| War Room Pandemic, we started on this back in January of 2020. | ||
| We've always been ahead of it. | ||
| And we've been telling you, that's why we have the people on from Europe. | ||
| That's why we have Dr. Naomi Wolf, Dr. Malone, others, all these others, that Europe is, I don't know, three months to six months ahead of the United States. | ||
| How it happens, that has roles. | ||
| And you saw today, we started the show with Fauci and these guys up there. | ||
| Got to get the boosters, got to get the boosters, got to get the shots. | ||
| The vaccines are going to take care of the Omicron. | ||
| Well, we have no idea what the Omicron is right now. | ||
| Don't. | ||
| But immediately they go to the full vaccination. | ||
| So if you want to lance the boil and if you want to do it as free men and free women and having a discussion and a debate and maybe it's a heated debate. | ||
| You have it when you got them against the corner. | ||
| They need your consent to get the money. | ||
| Let me just cut it down to the basics, okay? | ||
| So you want to have the consent of the governed? | ||
| The governed do not consent to this. | ||
| Here's what we want. | ||
| We're going to pick some random concepts. | ||
| Data, evidence, and science. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Data, evidence, and science. | ||
| That's what we want. | ||
| And now's the time to have it. | ||
| And the way you can get it is use your agency. | ||
| It's quite simple. | ||
| Get on the phones, get the emails, show that the government do not consent to this now. | ||
| And let these senators know you have their backs. | ||
| This is what a representative democracy is about. | ||
| You have their backs. | ||
| And in fact, the ones that get weak, you should get on your Senators. | ||
| Why are you not up there? | ||
| Why are you not doing this? | ||
| Why I hear it's Marshall of Kansas, Cruz of Texas, Lee of Utah. | ||
| And why does it always fall upon Mike Lee and Ted Cruz? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why are not other Senators up there? | ||
| Ask your Senator. | ||
| Get on the phone. | ||
| Call the office. | ||
| But, you know, really get the local office in the state and call them. | ||
| And say, hey, I want the head of the office on the phone. | ||
| I can't get the Senator to give me the office. | ||
| Read him the RIOT Act. | ||
| Tell him what you think. | ||
| Phillip Patrick, one of the things I appreciate Birch Gold making you available, and I really appreciate it. | ||
| I get so much great feedback from the audience of the people at Birch Gold to make themselves aware, because I keep saying, hey, I'm not telling you to buy gold. | ||
| I'm not telling you to buy crypto. | ||
| But here's what I am telling you to do. | ||
| You have to, because these people here are so radical and so reckless. | ||
| They've done it to themselves and they're doing it to you. | ||
| They're destroying the U.S. | ||
| dollar. | ||
| They're destroying the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve and the United States. | ||
| The full faith and credit is you. | ||
| It's on your shoulders. | ||
| They're destroying it. | ||
| Them, not you. | ||
| You owe it to yourself. | ||
| You owe it to your family, your children, your grandchildren. | ||
| You have to now look at alternative stores of value, whether it's precious metals or crypto. | ||
| You owe it to yourself today to get up to speed. | ||
| You're going to have to pull the trigger. | ||
| You're going to have to make the decision. | ||
| You owe it to yourself to learn. | ||
| Nobody's going to spoon-feed it to you. | ||
| It's too important a topic. | ||
| All the noise that people chase, this is signal. | ||
| This is money in power. | ||
| This is transformation of not just the economy, but the citizens' relationship to its government. | ||
| To Leviathan. | ||
| Philip Patrick, your thoughts, sir? | ||
| It's interesting times. | ||
| As we know, the current extension, the postponement of the debt ceiling expires tomorrow, 37 hours away. | ||
| As you state, the debt limit is the only leverage Republicans have this Congress. | ||
| Last time we were in this position, we were discussing the temporary extension. | ||
| McConnell stated very clearly, and this is a direct quote, he said, I will not provide such assistance again if your all Democrat government drifts into another avoidable crisis. | ||
| Yet here we are again. | ||
| McConnell is backtracking already. | ||
| He said on Tuesday he was having productive discussions with the Democrats on this temporary extension. | ||
| There's a possibility he may cave again, and I think it comes down now to the Republicans staying strong and, as you say, forcing the debate. | ||
| whatever McConnell's been doing, it's not happening, right? | ||
| It's like Groundhog Day. | ||
| He puts his foot down, nothing changes. We have these productive conversations, and we end up in the same situation. There's no strategy here. | ||
| When we were here in September and we told them no, the four no's, I just want to make sure the audience understands, to raise the debt ceiling, even to get to this point on the continued resolution and just have this night, because we have two things, the continued resolution on the annual budget, which they haven't done, and the debt ceiling, which they, it was half a trillion dollars to get here, ladies and gentlemen, $480,000. | ||
| $480 billion to get to the middle of December. | ||
| And here's why there's no penalty for it, because it's on your shoulders. | ||
| It's just printing money. | ||
| And that's not, it's not free. | ||
| There's nothing in the world that's free. | ||
| My dad used to say, if somebody's going to give you something free, run across and get on the other side of the street. | ||
| Nothing's free, right? | ||
| And $480 billion just added to the debt on your children's, grandchildren's, and your shoulders. | ||
| Philip Patrick, if we're weak on the CR and let this go, and we're weak on the debt ceiling, give us your assessment of capital markets, of the dollar, of this inferno we're going to start walking into. | ||
| This political wrangling is making everything worse. | ||
| Look at the situation. | ||
| Look at where this spending has gotten us up until this point. | ||
| We've discussed it, and it's getting worse. | ||
| It's 30-year high inflation. | ||
| We have massive bubbles in the markets. | ||
| This is all being fueled by massive government spending. | ||
| And the craziest thing of all is they don't want to address the issues, right? | ||
| And we've discussed this before. | ||
| What we get from this administration is gaslighting. | ||
| Oh, spending? | ||
| It's going to lower inflation, right? | ||
| It's not going to cost us anything. | ||
| It's an absolute nonsense. | ||
| And now what's happening? | ||
| Biden starts to get some heat, right? | ||
| Gas prices are high. | ||
| So he has to make a political attempt to address it. | ||
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| Let's sell off some strategic oil reserves, 50 million barrels onto the open market. | ||
| 50 million barrels of oil is half of one day of the globe's consumption of oil. | ||
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This is literally a drop in the bucket. | |
| What this is, it's pandering. | ||
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It's political. | |
| Hey, look, we're working on the issue over here. | ||
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You know, it's like a magician. | |
| You put your hand out there and you pick your pocket with the other hand. | ||
| There's gaslighting coming from this administration. | ||
| They're trying to suggest that they're addressing issues and it's very meager attempts while fueling massive government spending. | ||
| You're a guy that does this for a living. | ||
| I just want to ask you, straight up, has the Treasury Department, the Secretary of Treasury, has the Federal Reserve, has anybody in the administration, has anybody with an actual official capacity come forward and actually walk through a plan backed by mathematics that you, Philip Patrick, as an analyst in this area, has seen that you can then make some judgment for what the future holds? | ||
| Have you seen that, sir? | ||
| You said something earlier. | ||
| Data, evidence, science. | ||
| That is not something that this administration has any interest in. | ||
| We talked about it before, right? | ||
| The numbers coming out. | ||
| It's nonsense, right? | ||
| We were told in no uncertain terms. | ||
| Spending packages would lower inflation. They wouldn't cost anything. The CBO came out and said that's absolutely not the case Data evidence and science is something that this administration has no interest in you can see it in policies Regarding the vaccine you can see it in economic policies These guys are just trying to force through an agenda at any cost it No, we're not seeing it at all Philip how do people and I really appreciate you and the | ||
| guys at Birch Gold being accessible to this audience How do people get to you to get your current assessment of things? | ||
| What's the website? | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| Of course, so birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| You can get some great information on precious metals from us directly. | ||
| To reach me, it's at Philip Patrick on Getter. | ||
| Last thing, 30 seconds. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi has to shut down Biden's government over the weekend. | ||
| Is that going to be the end of the world? | ||
| Will the sun rise on Monday morning, Philip? | ||
| I think the sun will rise on Monday morning. | ||
| And look, what it's going to do, it's going to force this debate. | ||
| It's going to force it and we need to do it. | ||
| Philip, thank you so much. | ||
| Thank you for making yourself available. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's called a forcing function. | ||
| That's where we are. | ||
| The one in front of us right now is the CR. | ||
| Make sure you lighten up these phones, you lighten up the emails. | ||
| Everybody out there, you're always talking about, hey, we don't have any power, you know, oh, woe me. | ||
| No, you're in it. | ||
| You're in the mix right now. | ||
| We're in the valley of decision. | ||
| The annual budget first, the CR first, debt ceiling second. | ||
| They gotta push, build back, broke. | ||
| No time to deal with it. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Gotta deal with this now. | ||
| We gotta force a national debate on vaccines. | ||
| Gotta do it. | ||
| Let's do it now. | ||
| We're big boys and girls, aren't we? | ||
| Short break, back in a second. | ||
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| Pandemic. | ||
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| I want to bring in now a very special guy. | ||
| Robbie Starbuck is a Cuban-American award-winning filmmaker, but man, oh man, running for the House in Tennessee. | ||
| Watch this guy in Tennessee Five. | ||
| Man, oh man, he wrote a piece in the New York Post. | ||
| Exploded. | ||
| The blood is on the hands of George Soros. | ||
| Robby, here's a question. | ||
| You're running in Tennessee, and you make the case that I've been saying for a long time, but you make it 100 times better. | ||
| That although you're running for the House in Tennessee, this is a national issue of what Soros has done, and Republicans across the country have got to be stepping up for this. | ||
| Why are you picking on George Soros, sir? | ||
| Isn't he just some old guy that's made some money and wants to give to philanthropy, sir? | ||
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The question is, why am I the only one picking on George Soros? | |
| You know, there's very few of us who are actually going to go out there and go against him, and I don't know if that's because we're the only ones who are unafraid. | ||
| Or what it is, but the truth is... | ||
| You know, without having law and order, you don't have a country. | ||
| And this attack George Soros is launching and his plan to remake America, it goes beyond just going and attacking the law and order system that we've come to value in this country. | ||
| It goes to all these other places like academia, entertainment. | ||
| I mean, it really encompasses every pillar of culture in our country. | ||
| And he's doing it because he knows that at the end of the day, all politics are really local and that what happens on these local levels are going to, you know, sort of transmute into the national scene over time. | ||
| And so he's localizing the issues of freeing people who are, you know, just violent criminals. | ||
| And this is something that we're seeing the effect of all over the country with people dying. | ||
| And I don't want to see the country I love become the country my family had to flee in Cuba. | ||
| So, you know, I burned down my career in Hollywood to go and make this run for Congress because we need people who understand what time it is in America. | ||
| And if we don't get smart, a lot smarter than the establishment Republicans have been, And we don't get on offense and realize we're in an ideological war, we are going to lose this country. | ||
| Robby, why do you say, I mean, the New York Post, it's, you know, Alexander Hamilton's paper, it's the paper that broke the laptop from hell. | ||
| We had Miranda Devine on here yesterday. | ||
| It's a hard-hitting paper, leans right, although the Murdoch's on it. | ||
| It's got fascinating pieces in it, articles in it. | ||
| Why is the headline that Soros has blood on his hands? | ||
| What charge are you specifically making about George Soros and why he must be stopped? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| I mean, this is very simple. | ||
| He's elected DAs all over the country by funneling millions of dollars into races that typically only have five figures. | ||
| These DAs then let people out of prison through their no bail or low bail policies. | ||
| These people then go on to offend and commit murders. | ||
| They also are just lax across the board with all types of crimes. | ||
| One in San Francisco that was funded with millions of Soros' dollars called these quality of life crimes. | ||
| So, you know, things like peeing and defecating on the street, beating people up in the street in a homeless encampment. | ||
| These are just quality of life crimes, according to them. | ||
| These things end up turning into violent crimes where they end up killing people. | ||
| And that's why we have the highest murder rates we've seen in these big cities in our lifetimes. | ||
| Because these people have gone out of control and there's no law and order. | ||
| The prosecutors have no interest in bearing this down. | ||
| Look at a place like Waukesha. | ||
| What just happened? | ||
| The terrorist attack there from an anti-white bigot who You know, went and plowed through a crowd of children for a Christmas parade. | ||
| This is somebody who was released through one of those low bail, no bail policies by a guy who essentially is an acolyte of the Soros belief system that we don't need this stuff. | ||
| Soros isn't just doing this through DAs either. | ||
| He's doing this through tons of local races. | ||
| He's also investing in projects like, you know, he put $50 million towards a no bail project at the ACLU, which has essentially become a far left organization, far past the heyday of protecting free speech and now moved on to How do you, real quickly, how do you, once you get to Congress, give me the one or two things that you're gonna do to combat Soros. | ||
| I would say on a number of fronts, you know, you've got to look at the micro issues he's hitting because this goes all over the board. | ||
| He's hitting immigration. | ||
| He's funding these NGOs. | ||
| You know that better than anybody. | ||
| He's funding all these groups that are going and pushing CRT in our schools. | ||
| So I would localize the issues to these one, two issues and try to push clean bills and then make the Democrats have to answer for why they won't, you know, pass these clean bills. | ||
| And then if we have a majority, we get them to Biden's desk. | ||
| He's going to have to answer for why, you know, let's say a CRT bill. | ||
| If we say on CRT, we're banning Any institution that takes government money, so that includes places like Lockheed Martin, you know, and Amazon with their cloud services. | ||
| If you take government money, you can't deploy your train with CRT. | ||
| That includes every school in America because every huge private university takes government funds as well. | ||
| If we take that to Biden's desk and the Democratic Party is running on this idea that CRT doesn't exist, then he's going to have to explain why didn't you sign it. | ||
| And that's going to be an incredibly popular issue in 2024 when we bring in a Republican president. | ||
| Now, on the flip side of that, you also have issues like immigration, where why don't we have a bill very clearly stating that if you come into our country illegally and you're caught, then one time you will never be allowed to come into our country legally and you will never be able to receive benefits ever again. | ||
| Make it very clear. | ||
| Change the incentives. | ||
| We need to go to battle on offense on each one of these issues in order to solve the larger issue of the money he's funneling into all these places. | ||
| The establishment Republicans on the flip side need to stop putting their money up, primarying America First candidates like me, and instead funnel that money into funding DA candidates that can beat these progressive monsters, and stop this insane practice where we're allowing Soros to invest millions in races up against Republican candidates with almost no money, or even, you know, these independent candidates. | ||
| There's some places where you can't elect a Republican DA, and there's independent candidates who are running on law and order, and they have no money. | ||
| We shouldn't allow that to become a reality in America, because what happens in those places is going to fester, and it's going to bleed out into our areas. | ||
| Robbie Starbuck gave up a great career in Hollywood to do this, to run for Congress, to take MAGA to the Capitol. | ||
| Robbie, how do people follow you on social media, and how have they found out more about your campaign? | ||
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Thank you. | |
| They can follow me at Robbie Starbuck, R-O-B-B-Y, Starbuck on every social media platform, but you have to spell it all out because Big Tech has search banned us. | ||
| So if you do Robbie Starbuck with a space, you won't find me. | ||
| So you got to keep it all together. | ||
| But to support my campaign, go to starbuck2022.com. | ||
| As I said, that fundraising is hugely important because if we have people like Soros on the left funding those left-wing candidates, all the more reason we need normal people to champion warriors who will go into Congress and fight for the people. | ||
| If we don't do that, the establishment, the unit party between the Democrats, And those establishment rhinos, they are going to dominate. | ||
| We need to show them who the boss is, and in this 2022 election, I believe we're going to do that. | ||
| Robbie Starbuck, the piece in the New York Post is everywhere. | ||
| We've got it on all our platforms. | ||
| We need you to be a force multiplier of folks and push this out there. | ||
| Robbie, thank you for changing your schedule to be on the show. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
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Thank you, Steve. | |
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| Let's play the Pelosi. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi is watching War Room. | ||
| Let's go and play her clip. | ||
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Right now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi taking questions. | |
| She is at the center of all of that's going on right now. | ||
| But in particular, we heard her just a little while ago about the continuing resolution. | ||
| She says there's going to be a vote before the end of the day today. | ||
| The clock is ticking to avert a government shutdown before midnight tomorrow night. | ||
| But again, looming over it is a threat from some Republicans who want to delay final passage of the bill because of the Biden administration's vaccine mandates. | ||
| The House Freedom Caucus sent this letter to Mitch McConnell, urging him to slow down the process in the Senate. | ||
| Okay, right now, by the way, get email, text, phone, whatever you gotta do, local office, Washington D.C. | ||
| office, make sure people know that you have their back, and most importantly, for those voices in the Senate that are in your state that are not doing it, ask them, what are you guys doing? | ||
| We're not playing footsie with these people anymore. | ||
| Okay, speaking about playing footsie, I want to bring in Bradley Thayer now, one of the top analysts about the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| There's the Committee on the Present Danger, China, at 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock today, of which I'm one of the founders of. | ||
| Frank and Brian Kennedy, Frank Gaffney, the entire team, Kyle Bass, it's a who's who. | ||
| He's going to talk about this kind of Greek tragedy where you, the workers, the middle class in America are actually paying for the Chinese Communist Party, I think $4 trillion of assets have gone over there. | ||
| Bradley, with this current administration, does Beijing think we're, do they think we're a threat now? | ||
| Do they think we're winning? | ||
| Are they in their back foot like they were in the Trump administration? | ||
| Or do they see the chessboard now and understand they've got America right where they want them? | ||
| Well, good, good, good morning, Steve. | ||
| Good to be with you. | ||
| Sadly, they're not on the back foot anymore. | ||
| And we're in a very unfortunate situation. | ||
| Since Biden has come into office, where the Chinese Communist Party does see opportunities to move against the United States in Taiwan, against India, elsewhere around the world, but also economically as well. | ||
| The efforts of the Trump administration, which you know very well, the efforts of the Trump administration were taking to ensure that China could no longer exploit The U.S., U.S. | ||
| economy, U.S. | ||
| intellectual property, U.S. | ||
| knowledge, to the extent that they did, has been eroded by the Biden administration. | ||
| Diplomatically, we seem, we, the U.S., seem to be on the back foot with the disaster in Afghanistan, the disastrous withdrawal, and other measures that have been taken. | ||
| It's not a coincidence that the PRC has tested new military technologies recently, hypersonic vehicles, which is an illumination of how their military strength has grown. | ||
| And now they're no longer willing to hide. | ||
| There's no they feel there's no longer any necessity to disguise their capabilities. Increasingly, they're out in the open. | ||
| And that's worrisome for deterrence of aggression from the Chinese Communist Party. Steve. | ||
| Do you believe after the Olympics that they're going to do you think we're drifting towards a kinetic war. | ||
| We understand they're an economic war with us, an information cyber war. | ||
| Do you believe in your analysis that our weakness after their Olympics on the world stage, that they will look towards, you know, are we drifting to a kinetic war in the South China Sea and in Taiwan, sir? | ||
| Steve, I believe we are, and it certainly could come before the Olympics, right? | ||
| We want to be aware of a consistent problem in international politics, which is the fog of peace. | ||
| The recognition that just because Taiwan was not attacked by China yesterday and wasn't today, it's not going to be tomorrow. | ||
| So we want to be aware that things can change very rapidly in international politics. | ||
| So I see definitely the Chinese regime moving against Taiwan and continuing in their all-asthma expansion. | ||
| Uh, in, uh, territorial expansion, but then also as you observed, um, they're engaged in ideological war against us and economic war. | ||
| So it certainly could come before the Olympics. | ||
| It could come afterwards. | ||
| So we really, it's imperative that the United States take active measures to deter China. | ||
| We do not see those measures yet coming from the Biden administration and they're urgently needed. | ||
| Bradley, we've got 30 seconds. | ||
| How do people follow you on social media? | ||
| How do they follow your writings? | ||
| On Getter, Bradley Thayer is the best way to follow me, but also ThayerHahn1 on Twitter. | ||
| All good ways to follow my writings and other material. | ||
| The pieces you put on RealClearPolitics and The Hill are amazing. | ||
| Bradley Thayer, one of the deepest thinkers. | ||
| The Fog of Peace. | ||
| Remember that. | ||
| The Fog of Peace. | ||
| We're drifting towards a kinetic war. | ||
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| We're drifting towards a kinetic war. | ||
| And they're going to be the chess masters. | ||
| Gordon Chang next in The War Room. | ||
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| I tell you, it is heating up here right now in Washington, D.C. | ||
| This is going to be a quite nasty, I think, next 72 hours as we get into this whole continued resolution and potential government shutdown. | ||
| You're going to get her more than ever, because part of this shutdown is going to be about having a national debate about vaccines and vaccine mandates. | ||
| You see what's happening in Germany. | ||
| You see what's happening in Austria. | ||
| Germany today, shutdown, full shutdown, full lockdown for the unvaccinated in the nation of Germany, announced today, immediately. | ||
| Okay, we just had the great Bradley Thayer on The Fog of Peace. | ||
| He says we're drifting towards a potential kinetic war in the South China Sea or Taiwan, maybe before the Olympics. | ||
| Hey, ladies and gentlemen, the Olympics are in February. | ||
| Bringing in Gordon Chang now. | ||
| Gordon is one of the deepest thinkers about the issues with the Chinese Communist Party and the rest of the world. | ||
| Gordon, is Bradley Thayer right? | ||
| Do you believe In your thinking and your writing and with your contacts and your analysis, do you believe, sir, that we are drifting towards a kinetic war around Taiwan in the South China Sea? | ||
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Well, we certainly are. | |
| On the 19th of last month, Steve, the State Department actually had to issue a warning to China that it would invoke Article 4 of the U.S.-Philippine Military Treaty and use force against China. | ||
| Because China was blocking the resupply of second Thomas Scholl. | ||
| So clearly, you have to threaten to use force. | ||
| There's a possibility of that. | ||
| Also, the problem here is that the Biden administration is in disarray. | ||
| We know this because President Biden will one day say, we're going to defend Taiwan. | ||
| And then his press secretary walks it back. | ||
| His Secretary of Defense walks it back. | ||
| The State Department walks it back. | ||
| And Beijing looks at this and says that the U.S. | ||
| is not prepared to deal with force in the South China Sea or Taiwan or any place else. | ||
| And this is a continuation of what they were saying as Afghanistan was falling in the middle of August, that the United States was no longer able to win wars. | ||
| It was not able to confront China and that it would not defend Taiwan. | ||
| Gordon, you had Biden sitting there going, yeah, we're going to defend Taiwan, we're going to do it. | ||
| Then they had the four-hour mini summit, telephonically or by video. | ||
| They immediately came out and said, oh, we believe, we told Xi we're all for the one China policy. | ||
| Does China, in their, the way they look at the world, not the way that we look at it for them, the way they look at the world, do these gangsters in Beijing, do they believe right now that America under Biden is a tributary state, sir? | ||
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Well, in general, Steve, they look at everybody as a tributary state. | |
| And we know this because of what Xi Jinping has been talking about and what his officials have been talking. | ||
| They mentioned tianxia, which is all under heaven. | ||
| This is the notion that Chinese emperors ruled all under heaven, and they were the world's only legitimate rulers. | ||
| Now, Xi Jinping knows that he doesn't have the capability to enforce others to agree with that. | ||
| But nonetheless, this is where they're going. | ||
| And so, yes, they do view the United States as not a sovereign state, but as a colony. | ||
| And one other thing, we know that the way they're dealing with us, that they don't respect our sovereignty. | ||
| So yes, they are acting upon that belief of Tian Xia. | ||
| Gordon, today you have some of the heaviest hitters in the anti-CCP movement coming together to actually show the American people how the middle class and working class in this nation are funding this up to $4 trillion. | ||
| 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock, we're going to have the live stream. | ||
| We'll play it up in the boardroom. | ||
| Sir, what's going to go on between 1 and 3, and why should all of our viewers watch it? | ||
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Well, the important thing here is that history is going to look back at this time. | |
| And probably, you know, historians are not going to wonder why China was so malicious. | ||
| But they will wonder why Americans gave China the ability to kill Americans. | ||
| Because we have trade with China. | ||
| We have investment in China. | ||
| We're providing them critical technologies, often for free. | ||
| And this is I don't know the word for this, because really what we can say is that China cannot actually threaten the U.S. | ||
| without our cash, but we're so happy to supply the cash. | ||
| And that means as a matter of national sovereignty, as a matter of survival of our republic, we've got to cut off the flow of investment into China and trade with China and everything else that strengthens a Chinese regime that has declared a people's war on us. | ||
| Real quickly, Gordon, that concept of a people's war declaring on us, can you walk us through why that is so monumental? | ||
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Well, China in May 2019 declared a people's war. | |
| And this is the highest form of struggle that Beijing has short of a formal declaration of war. | ||
| And of course, there won't be a formal declaration. | ||
| China has declared the United States to be its enemy. | ||
| We have a president who won't say that China is an enemy. | ||
| He won't even say that China is an adversary. | ||
| The most he will say is a competitor. | ||
| Well, China is not competing with us. | ||
| They declared a people's war on the American Republic, Steve. | ||
| We've got to understand the magnitude of this challenge. | ||
| Gordon, 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock today, we'll have the Livestream Committee on the Present Danger, China, which I'm honored to be one of the founders of. | ||
| It's going to have some of the top thinkers, including Gordon, up there. | ||
| Gordon, how do people follow your writings, your analysis on social media and your website and your books? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I'm on Twitter at Gordon G Chang, G-O-R-D-O-N-G-C-H-A-N-G, and I archive all my articles free on my website, which is www.G-O-R-D-O-N-C-H-A-N-G.com. | ||
| We're going to get it up on the platforms. | ||
| Gordon, thank you for joining us. | ||
| You're a patriot and a hero, sir. | ||
| You've been at this a long time, so thank you very much for standing in the breach. | ||
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Thank you, Steve. | |
| I really appreciate this opportunity. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Gordon Chang. | ||
| Okay, we'll be back at 5. | ||
| We're going to have some analysis. | ||
| It's going to be explosive. | ||
| You're all going to want to come back, tune in for the evening show. | ||
| I want to thank all the producers. | ||
| I want to thank Denver. | ||
| I want to thank the entire crew, everybody. | ||
| This show clicked today. | ||
| I was actually interested in watching this. | ||
| See you back here at 5 o'clock when we come back to The War Room. |
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