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Episode 1,612 – Steve Cortes Hosts: Inflation and Border InsecuritiesEpisode 1,612 – Steve Cortes Hosts: Inflation and Border Insecurities

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unidentified		This has now killed more than 100 people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world.
anthony fauci ▲ ● ▼		You don't want to frighten the American public.
unidentified		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.
anthony fauci ▲ ● ▼		This is going to be a real serious problem.
unidentified		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.
anthony fauci ▲ ● ▼		We have to prepare for the worst, always.
anthony fauci ▲ ● ▼		Because if you don't, then the worst happens.
unidentified		War Room.
		Pandemic.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
		150,000.
		You'll note that when we reported this initially, the estimate was 178,000.
		Dow Jones has now taken down that to 150,000.
		Here is the decline.
		Here are the declines by business size, and every single business size saw declines.
		Big on the small business, which is what you'd expect with an Omicron hit here.
		144,000 medium-sized businesses down 59,000, and large businesses down 98,000.
		Every sector, except for, I believe, manufacturing.
		I'm not sure.
		We've got to check that number there.
		Leisure hospitality down $154,000.
		Trade and transport down $62,000.
		It says they're manufacturing down $21,000.
		Education and health services down $15,000.
		And construction down $10,000.
		A quote here from Neela Richardson from the Chief Economist at ADP says the labor market recovery took a step back at the start of 2022 due to the effect of the Omicron variant and its significant The likely temporary impact to job growth and Andrew that's where we are.
		There was a report we did on on Monday.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Patriots, you are in the War Room on this day, February 3rd, Year of Our Lord 2022.
		Anno Domini, I am Steve Cortez, and I'm going to be your host today.
		I'm in for Steve Bannon, who we all know is irreplaceable, but I'm going to do my very best to steer the ship today without Steve Bannon.
		Steve and his family are mourning the loss of his father, but also celebrating the incredible life of Martin Bannon, a centurion, somebody who was given To this world, to the family, to the country for 100 years.
		So we pay enormous tribute to the life and legacy, of course, of Martin Bannon.
		Now, the economy.
		Unfortunately, February is beginning where January left off, meaning terrible economic news.
		It was a dreadful month of just economic failure, the likes of which we hadn't seen since the lockdown, since the spring of 2020.
		Why?
		Well, it's because of the misbegotten policies of Joe Biden that have been an economic train wreck.
		They're reporting right there on CNBC.
		And by the way, CNBC loves to be a cheerleader, not just for Joe Biden, but for the economy in general.
		It makes sense.
		It's their business model.
		Plus, they're part of corporate media, which, of course, you know, again, loves to cheer on at every possible moment the Biden administration.
		But even CNBC has to concede just how troubling this recent economic news is.
		That was the latest report that we got yesterday.
		From ADP, the massive payrolls company, HR company, processing paychecks and all sorts of things.
		And they, in their survey, it was just a massive miss, just a Grand Canyon size gap between expectations, which were supposed to be for adding about 200,000 jobs on the ADP survey.
		Instead, a vastly negative number, a huge miss, which then sets up for tomorrow's official number, which comes out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
		and we will find out if that number, in fact, potentially turns negative.
		Expectations right now are for about 150,000 added jobs on the positive side.
		But there's a lot of worry now, understandable worry and angst on Wall Street, on trading desks, investors all over the world that the US economy is decelerating in a really, really significant way.
		And unfortunately, decelerating at the same time that prices are exploding higher.
		So we have literally the worst of all worlds right now in the United States.
		We have decelerating growth with prices that are surging.
		I want to get to show you a couple of charts here, because I think it's important for you to be as armed with information as you can possibly be.
		The War Room audience is one of the most intelligent audiences, of course, in all of media.
		And I think you can handle a bit of the more sophisticated, you know, sort of Wall Street inside baseball information and synthesize it in your own life.
		Because right now, what's going on in this country What's going on economically in the United States is a crisis.
		It truly is a crisis.
		There are several created crises right now from Joe Biden.
		One of them, we have a border crisis, which we're going to talk about.
		We have an inflation crisis.
		We might potentially be getting into a land war in Europe.
		A lot of created crises.
		But I want to focus right now on the economic one, because this is of Biden's doing.
		So let's look at a chart.
		And this is the first chart that I want to show you on a 10-year Treasury yield.
		10-Year Treasury Yield.
		Let's get that chart up.
		I believe that's the savings one that we're seeing up there right now.
		Let's get 10-Year Yield, please, if we can.
		That one.
		There we go.
		Okay, that is 10-year treasury yield.
		So, why does this matter to you?
		Listen, a lot of people, if they pay attention to stock markets, and by the way, stock markets are extremely volatile today.
		Very, very volatile.
		Particularly the Nasdaq, which is getting slammed.
		Some poor earnings out from Facebook parent meta.
		Not that I'm going to shed any tears for Facebook having a problem, but the Nasdaq and markets in general are incredibly volatile right now.
		But the bond market, in a lot of ways, folks, is actually more important to your life than the stock market for a lot of Americans.
		And let's look at the bond market at what has happened from 10-year treasury yield.
		That is the interest rate upon which all interest rates globally are gauged.
		That is really the benchmark yield for the entire world, for everything from German government debt all the way to your credit card statement or your auto loan or your mortgage.
		All of them are based off of 10-year treasury yield.
		If you look at that, when Joe Biden prevailed, and I don't say that he won because of course he did not legitimately win the election, but if you look at when Joe Biden prevailed, illegitimately so, on November 3rd of 2020, 10-year Treasury yield was only 0.8%.
		So we had with Donald Trump at the end of his presidency, at the end of his first term of what I hope will be two terms ultimately, At the end of his first term, we had an economy that was roaring back to life.
		An economy that was really experiencing the Trump boom 2.0.
		But we had it with extremely tame inflation and extremely low interest rates of 10-year yield all the way below 1%.
		Incredibly low by historical standards.
		But what has happened ever since?
		If we take a look at that chart we see that it is more than doubled and we are now at 1.8 percent actually 1.85 to be extremely precise here as of this morning.
	Why?
	Because of Joe Biden's borrowing and spending on steroids.
	Massive gargantuan borrowing and spending has sent interest rates soaring in the United States and has sent inflation, not my opinion, not Steve Cortez's opinion, has sent inflation to 40-year highs at 7% for the Consumer Price Index.
	So this is, it's a disaster.
	Let's go to one more chart, and that is the savings rate.
	I want to show the savings rate in the United States, which unfortunately is taking a massive hit.
	If you look at the savings rate, it has now gone to back below where it was pre-pandemic.
	Why?
	Well, because Americans unfortunately have to spend so much more of their money on the inflated prices of goods and services, everything they need, particularly food and energy, but everything across the board.
	The Biden inflation has unfortunately, and then this is the third chart, which is important for us to see too, the Biden inflation has caused a massive decline in real earnings.
	earnings in real earnings, meaning adjusted for inflation.
	So perhaps your pay is going up, but it's not going up enough to compensate and to afford all the things that you need and want in your life.
	And that is what that chart is showing you right there, which is courtesy of Steve Moore, the economist, good friend of mine and a fine economist.
	The reality is real wages have now declined for 10 straight months under Joe Biden.
	Again, this is a created crisis and it's a crisis which in all likelihood is probably only going to get worse.
	And it's starting to be reflected, by the way, in Wall Street volatility.
	Now, I want to connect this economic crisis with the border crisis because I think that they are, in some ways, the same issue.
	And to help us discuss that, I want to bring in Victor Avila.
	Victor is running for the Texas Land Commissioner.
	And, Victor, you know, here's what I mean when I say inflation, and you might, some of the viewers might immediately say, wait a second, he's just jumping to the border, it's a separate issue.
	No, they're the same issue in many ways, and here's why I believe that, Victor.
	When we look at real wages that are crashing right now in the United States, the worst possible idea, the worst policy program, the worst agenda that could be inflicted upon the United States right now is to welcome in hundreds of thousands and in fact millions of illegal migrants into this country where they will compete, they are competing, Unfairly and illegally in the job market.
	We already have downward wage pressure, real wages crashing in this country.
	And what are we doing?
	We're inviting in, Joe Biden is inviting in millions of new workers.
	Your thoughts?
unidentified		Absolutely.
		And first of all, I just want to take an opportunity to give my condolences to the Bannon family as I keep them in my prayers during their difficult time.
		But you're absolutely right.
		I was just down at the border, visited six counties along the Texas border, and it is non-stop influx of either smuggling or people turning themselves in or the cartels bringing in the drugs, it doesn't stop and you're absolutely right.
		The impact, and this is what people sometimes don't understand when I talk about border security, is not just the illegal immigration, but the impact that it has in many other aspects in our state of Texas and our country.
		The criminal justice system, the school systems, the healthcare system, and of course the economic systems and our jobs in our United States of America.
		And it has a tremendous impact directly related to what's happening in this, what I don't even call it an open border policy.
		It's a no border policy right now down there.
		It's complete lawlessness.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Now, Victor, let me ask you this, because the fine people of Texas, of course, cannot wait around until the 2024 election, when we obviously hope that there is an America First presidency, and that once again there is some sanity brought to our federal government regarding protecting the border.
		But look, Texans are enduring a crisis right now.
		And of the four border states, two of them are Republican-controlled, Texas and Arizona.
		What should Texas be doing, not waiting around for the federal government, what should Texas be doing specifically to control the situation in the Lone Star State?
unidentified		There's a lot that the state of Texas could be doing and that's why I'm running.
		That's my primary reason why I'm running is that I've kind of been fed up just like a lot of people along the border, the ranchers, the landowners.
		We're fed up with the federal government doing nothing.
		And can the state of Texas do something?
		Absolutely.
		This is what I'll do as Texas Land Commissioner.
		I will build that barrier.
		I will build that wall on state Public owned land that we oversee in the state of Texas over 13 million acres of it So I will be focusing on the one on the border And by the way, I've been talking to the private landowners and the ranchers and they tell me Victor will donate our land Please do something with it.
		We'll give it to you.
		We'll lease it We'll work something out so you can do something and the state of Texas can do something to finally stop the flow the big difference here Steve is that We are not slowing or stopping the people from entering to begin with.
		And once we get them here and we take possession of them, it's too late because then we give them over to the Biden administration.
		We give them over to Border Patrol.
		We know what's happening there.
		They're not allowed to do their job.
		They're just releasing them into our country.
		Some are not even being processed.
		They're going straight from the river, straight into airplanes, straight onto buses throughout our whole country, coast to coast.
		You're absolutely right.
		This is not sustainable.
		This is not the way to go.
		It is a national security issue on top of everything.
		It's a public safety issue.
		Right.
		We had a Houston police officer killed by an illegal alien last week.
		When are we, when is this enough?
		When are we going to have enough that illegal aliens are taking the lives of our U.S.
		citizens?
		When are we going to say enough is enough and secure our border?
		Let me tell you another thing I'll do really quick with as land commissioner.
		I'm going to engage Mexico.
		I will take our lieutenant governor and our governor to Mexico and we will engage Mexico because They're not doing their job over there.
		They're not doing what they're supposed to be doing.
		And the people that are illegally present in our country are also illegally present in Mexico.
		And they are doing absolutely no nothing, regardless of how you feel about Mexico and the corruption.
		Believe me, I know I was almost killed.
		By the cartel there 11 years ago.
		And I know I'm battle-tested.
		I will bring it to them.
		I will sit down with them and say, listen, it's time for you to do something on your side of the border.
		Help us help you.
		Kind of an arrangement here.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Now, Victor, you make an important point there.
		It's not just bad for the United States.
		And of course, we're America first.
		So I am first and foremost concerned about our country and our economic and national security.
		But it's also incredibly problematic for Mexico as well.
		And Joe Biden, again, a created crisis.
		He is causing enormous problems south of the border as well.
		Listen, I appreciate you being in this fight.
		For the audience out there, where do they go to learn more about you, more about your candidacy, Victor?
unidentified		Please visit VictorAvilaTX.com.
		Your donations are very welcome to get me to the last month here before the primary in Texas which is on March 1st.
		Thank you for all those that have already donated.
		You guys are incredible and the support that we have with the grassroots movement and the people.
		I'm doing it for the citizens of Texas and for the rest of the country because the people know outside of the state of Texas that whatever we do here is going to impact them Eventually, which is the way he's already doing negatively in a lot of aspects.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Because every town is a border town.
		Yeah, Victor Avila, I appreciate it.
		You are a bad hombre.
		Thank you for everything you are doing that down there.
		We're going to talk more about the border with Todd Bensman up next.
unidentified		Pandemic with Stephen K. Bannon.
		The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide.
		War Room.
		Pandemic.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
		What has happened to the southern border is not only history-making in scope, but will have long-lasting second, third, and fourth order implications for American citizens.
		Therefore, the great mass migration that began on or about Inauguration Day 2021 profoundly qualifies for a broader public discussion about how to address it.
		That takes comprehension as to what it is and how it works.
		During its first year and now into its second, I have interviewed hundreds of the immigrants, most recently on an eight-day fact-finding journey to the Guatemala-Mexico border city of Tapachula.
		From my vantage point, I can confidently report that there is but one root cause that they, the immigrating foreign nationals most often cite for coming now.
		It is that President Joe Biden opened the American southern border wide to them.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Joe Biden opened America's front door and isn't just allowing illegal migrants to pour into this country, but is in fact incentivizing them, is rewarding them, is thoroughly inviting them to come into the United States, to trespass into our homeland.
		It's a national security danger, it is a street safety danger, and it's also an economic risk for this country.
		And it's one of the reasons, I believe right now, why inflation is soaring in the United States, meaning real wages are declining because wages are not keeping up.
		And part of the rationale, part of the reason why wages are not keeping up with the torrid pace of inflation is because Joe Biden keeps inviting millions of new workers into the United States.
		To unjustly and illegally compete in the labor market, particularly against blue-collar, working-class Americans, the people who can least afford to see their real wages decline, as they have now for 10 straight months.
		Some of this reality, by the way, being reflected in stock markets today.
		Very, very volatile stock markets right now.
		A couple of companies that I don't care for very much, Facebook and Amazon, are getting absolutely smoked.
		Now, I'm not going to shed any tears For the oligarchs that control those companies, but I do think that they're worth watching as a read into what's happening right now regarding the consumer.
		And we've seen consumer confidence plunge in this country.
		University of Michigan survey, which goes back decades, shows that we gave up all of the recovery gains that we had under President Trump.
		We are now back to below in terms of consumer confidence according to University of Michigan.
		We are back to below Where we were at the spring of 2020 lockdowns.
		Now think about that.
		So regarding the border, listen, Todd Benson does amazing and important work and is trying very firmly to warn the United States about all the various dangers that are presented by this open border.
		And Todd, I want to begin, if we could, because you just put an excellent article out in your work for the Center for Immigration Studies, an article out about somebody who was on the terror watch list Who is being allowed, overtly by ICE, is being allowed by the Biden administration to remain in the United States and a free man who is supposed to report on his own cognizance.
		Can you give us the details?
		I mean, I'm laughing.
		Of course, there's nothing funny about it, but it's so absurd that it almost seems comical.
		Can you tell us about this story?
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		This is definitely one for the books, rapidly filling books of crazy with this administration and the border.
		So, as a Venezuelan crossed the Rio Grande River in the RGV sector, Rio Grande Valley sector, in early December, swam the Rio Grande from Matamoros to Brownsville.
		They ran his name, he popped on the FBI's terror watch list.
		Normally, what happens when they hit on that is, FBI will go down and interrogate and try to assess, and then usually those people end up deported.
		Nobody ever hears about this.
		None of this is public record.
		It's all in the classified realms of DHS.
		But in this case, ICE ordered this individual's name as Issam Bassi released.
		Despite FBI protestations that he remain in custody and he went to Detroit to pursue an asylum claim and he's there to this day just running around free.
		This is the reason why he was released was that they didn't want him to get COVID in detention.
unidentified		Right.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼		So they, you know, he was overweight.
		So this is a story that really kind of goes to the heart of The national security threat that we also face at the border that people don't really know about very widely, that there are people coming to the border who are on the FBI's terror watch list.
		Recently, former Chief Border Patrol agent Rodney Scott said that 14 that he knew of in his last year in office had hit that border, and we know that lots more come and are apprehended in Mexico and in Panama and Costa Rica on the route in.
		Almost always they get deported.
		That's just the way my book, America's Covert Border War, goes into elaborate detail about what we do and how we're handling this problem down there.
		I will say one thing.
		The story was broken by a former New York Times journalist named Charlie LaDuff.
		In a small, obscure online publication in Detroit, and it was based on leaked documents, classified documents.
		Somebody in the Homeland Security apparatus was so upset by this.
		I know we laugh and we're just like eye-rolling, but I mean, somebody put their neck on the line to whistleblow this thing to Charlie LaDuff.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		Now, understood.
		And, you know, look, somebody within DHS, you're exactly right, clearly thought that this is such an absurdity, right?
		The idea that ICE would overrule the FBI and say that this person should be allowed to roam freely in the United States.
		It's just, and you mentioned a point there that I want to highlight because, you know, in this sort of whole absurd episode, this is the most extreme and most egregious aspect of it, in my view, is the idea that Because this guy, because Issam Bazzi, who's on the terror watch list, because he's overweight, he was at too much risk of acquiring COVID to keep him in detention.
		Is that accurate, Todd?
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼		This was cited in the classified materials that were provided to Charles, Charlie LaDuff.
		I spoke to Charlie.
		We've talked on the phone and we text back and forth and So far, no one has disputed this story.
		It stands unchallenged.
		So it is what it is.
		That's what they said in the docs.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, incredible.
		Now listen, I want to ask you about, because he's from Venezuela, I want to ask you about this broader issue of we're seeing a huge uptick, of course, from every country basically in the world, but particularly from Venezuela.
		You also point out in this article almost 25,000 Venezuelans crossed just in the month of December, just this past December, December of 2020.
		21.
		Now, I think most of these economic migrants are frankly abusing the asylum generosity of the United States because we have very poorly written but very well intended asylum guarantees to try to help people who truly do need, people who are being persecuted, who need to run for their lives from oppressive regimes.
		In the case of the Central American countries, those are tough places to be sure, and they're full of poverty and violence, but so are a lot of parts of the United States, but they're not countries that persecute people.
		Venezuela's a little different, though.
		Do these Venezuelans, in your view, have more valid reasons to apply for asylum in the United States?
		Not this jerk on the terror watch list, by the way, but I'm saying these tens of thousands of Venezuelans.
		What's your assessment?
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼		Well, the Maduro regime has destroyed the Venezuelan economy.
		I think that that's, you know, obvious.
		Everybody knows That you can't buy food in Venezuela.
		But that makes these migrants the very definition of economic refugees.
		They're people who are leaving because they can't work, they can't eat.
		That's not so much political persecution.
		So I think that Venezuelans do not qualify for asylum.
		They're all going to say, I was in a protest somewhere and the police came.
		But the vast majority of these folks were not in any kind of protest and were not, you know, directly persecuted by the Maduro regime.
		He just destroyed their economy is what happened.
		So millions of them, six million of them fled to neighboring countries, Colombia, et cetera, and have been able to sort of eke out a living.
		They were trying to wait out the Maduro regime.
		They found that there was a route into the United States through the border because the Biden administration had opened it.
		And so they're coming to take advantage of that.
		They're economic migrants who are going to claim political persecution falsely.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		In my opinion.
		Well, Todd, listen, I don't think there's ever a good time for America to just throw open the barn door and say every economic migrant in the world, come on in.
		That is always a bad idea, but it is particularly a bad idea at a time like this when we have inflation exploding in this country and real wages declining.
		Yeah, it's just, look, as I said, there's never a good time for this kind of policy, but Joe Biden couldn't have picked a worse time than to do what he's doing right now.
		Todd, where do people go to learn about you and about your work and about your book?
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so America's Covert Border War is available on Amazon or anywhere that books are sold.
		I appreciate that.
		It's about the jihadist threat at the border and what we do there.
		And I'm on Getter, T. Binsman at Getter.
		I love Getter.
		And I want to shout out that my employer, the Center for Immigration Studies, which does incredible work, just opened an account on Getter.
		They're being just, you know, algorithmed to death over on Twitter.
		So I would appreciate it if everybody, you know, follows the Center for Immigration Studies over on Getter 2.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Yes, and I am at the free speech platform Getter as well.
		I got the very simple name, just at Steve.
		So please follow Todd, follow CIS, please follow me, and that is a place where we will not be de-platformed, thankfully.
		Todd Bensman, I appreciate all the work you're doing, and thank you so much for being with us today.
		Thank you, sir.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
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		Up next, we're going to talk to Joe Kent, an American warrior, about his race for Congress.
unidentified		Coming up.
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		The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide.
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steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Welcome back!
		I am Steve Cortez, in for Stephen K. Bannon, and this is The War Room.
		So Patriots, I've been pretty busy this week, traveling all over this great country of ours, trying to save it, trying to make America great again.
		I was down in Miami, Florida.
		It was great to be in the free and rational state of Florida that is dealing with the virus like adults in scientific and normal ways.
		I was down there for the Project Veritas event on Saturday over the weekend and then went a bit north from there to Palm Beach to see a little guy, not a little guy, a big guy named Donald J. Trump and to hang out for a bit at Mar-a-Lago and I was very honored to hang out with our next guest and that is Joe Kent who had a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago The President speak very, very forcefully on behalf of his candidacy.
		So Joe, first of all, it was great to hang with you, great to hang with President Trump, with a lot of his family.
		Tell us first, before we get into some of the specifics of your race, tell us about, whatever you can, about your conversations with President Trump and his interest in what you are doing.
unidentified		Yeah, thanks for coming out to Mar-a-Lago.
		It was a great night.
		Very honored to have President Trump, Don Jr., and Kimberly Goylefield host that fundraiser and that event for me.
		So I got a chance to speak with President Trump.
		I just gotta say, President Trump is looking like he's reverse aging.
		The guy looks fit, very energetic.
		We had a great discussion about the race and how the establishment's coming after us.
		It's to be expected, and the far left as well.
		But I shared with him that we're leading in the polls.
		He's watching that very carefully, watching our fundraising numbers.
		So far, things are looking really good.
		I mean, President Trump is extremely engaged, I would say, in every single race across the country, really knowing that we have to win in 22 if we're going to be able to keep the momentum to hold the White House and take it back in 24.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Yes, and I think it's so critical, and I know President Trump knows this, and I certainly know you know it, Joe Kent, not just that we get a Republican majority, because I think right now that looks like almost a sure thing.
		We can never, you know, get lazy, we can't get complacent, but it looks very likely, right, that we're going to get a Republican majority.
		but that we have to get an America first Republican majority.
		That it's not going to be a repeat of what happened when people like Paul Ryan were claiming to be conservatives, claiming to be America first.
		That we need a very different kind of America first, our majority in the Congress.
		Now, by the way, to your point, too, you are right.
		President Trump, since leaving office, he seems to be getting younger.
		Perhaps that, you know, that Florida sun is helpful for him.
		So that's good to see.
		But listen, I want to ask about some of the specifics of your race, because it seems to me that there are some underhanded tactics that perhaps there are some candidates who aren't really trying to win, but are instead playing spoiler.
		What can you tell us about the dynamics of your race, about a jungle primary?
		What's happening in your district, Joe Kent?
unidentified		Yeah, so Washington state has a jungle primary, meaning we don't register by political parties.
		So basically the top two vote getters in the primary move on to the general, regardless of political party.
		So it heavily favors the incumbent, Jamie Herrera-Butler, the impeachment voter, RINO.
		She's not doing very well in the polls right now.
		We have her at third place.
		There are other candidates right now who've entered from the right in an effort to divide the America First ticket.
		They're coming hard after me, saying that I don't understand the free market, that I'm sympathetic to the very far radical left.
		And really, this is a very important distinction, because Jamie Herrera-Butler also says that These America First people don't understand the free market.
		And this just shows you that the corporate ruling class, the reason why they went after President Trump so hard is because he wanted to bring jobs back for the American people, bring back our manufacturing, deregulate our economy.
		This is so essential.
		Seal off immigration, get us out of endless foreign engagements.
		And so this really was an affront to not just the Republican establishment, but also the Democrat establishment and the corporate donor class.
joe kent ▲ ● ▼		The corporate donor class and the swamp are very much at play in my race, trying to dilute the America First agenda so they can just get a corporate Republican in there to further their corporate interests.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
		And you know, I think that's such an important point that you're making, Joe Kemp, because the populist economic agenda of the America First movement is anathema, of course, to the big shots in corporate boardrooms, right, who have done very well from decades of offshoring of American processes and production and manufacturing and decades of onshoring millions of new workers, legal and illegal,
		You take a much more populist view, and you want on-shoring of capacity and production back to the United States, and I believe that you also are willing to take on big tech and the oligarchs of big tech in ways that other more traditional Republicans are not willing to.
		Are these the issues on which they're trying to come at you and claiming somehow?
		That you're not a conservative?
unidentified		That's exactly right.
		So they're quick to say that, hey, these are any kind of government intervention in the economy.
		That is some form of socialism.
		That's exactly what Bernie Sanders and all these other people are advocating, which couldn't be further from the truth.
		President Trump really set the template when he made working class wages rise between 2017 and 2020.
		So these are tried and true tactics by the left to say that, hey, you guys just don't understand the free market.
		And then we have to bow down to the corporate interest.
		Again, yeah, I want to bring back the manufacturing.
		I want to deregulate our natural resources industries here, like timber and fishing.
		But then also, we have to go after big tech.
		It couldn't be more evident now than it is with COVID tyranny.
		Big tech will be the vehicle to really implement all of these things that the government can't get done fast enough.
		In Washington State, COVID tyranny is up in our face every single day.
		So we know that Republicans are going to win in 22.
		It's almost certain.
		But this is what the Kevin McCarthy's, this is what the Lindsey Graham's want.
		They want just Republicans like Jamie Hearn Butler to rise to the top so that they can say that, hey, this whole Trump economic era, that was just a flash in the pan and that Trumpism is gone.
		But the Republican Party is here to stay when really the opposite is true.
		President Trump won.
		By bringing in this unconventional coalition of people that knew that we needed to bring our jobs back.
		We made the Republican Party, under the leadership of President Trump, the working class party.
		We need to keep it that way.
		We can't surrender to these corporatists and fall for these divisive games they're playing.
		Amen.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		You know, Joe Kent, it's interesting, you know, these topics are so important to me because I spent 25 years on Wall Street as a broker and trader and strategist.
		And look, quite frankly, I'll make an admission, all right?
		I was basically a Wall Street, traditional Wall Street establishment Republican.
		I really was.
		I believe, for example, in, in quote, you know, so-called free trade.
		And Donald Trump came along and he opened my eyes and I think taught me and taught a lot of folks out there that we never really did have Free trade, it was managed trade and it was very much managed against the interests of American workers in favor of multinational corporations.
		So that the game was rigged in very, very many ways and rigged against the interests of working class Americans who saw their wages decline in real terms and in nominal terms for decades.
		And you're exactly right.
		It's so important for us and I don't think we can highlight enough How really grand the success was before the CCP virus.
		So before the virus artificially crashed the global economy, we saw into the year 2019 probably the best year, not probably, the best year for workers in all of American history.
		6.8% wage growth with very tame inflation, 2% or below, so very real wages galloping higher, even better than that for blue-collar workers who enjoyed almost 10% All those who had been in the back of the line previously leapt to the front.
		Minorities, blue-collar workers.
		So we don't have to guess about whether or not America First economics work.
		We have the proof of what happened 2017-18-19 when we demanded fairness and reciprocity in trade and when we controlled the border so that there wasn't an influx of illegal workers into this country to pressure wages downward.
		Issues that are resonating with people do you find in Washington State when you talk to them?
		Do they realize what was happening before the CCP virus and that it can happen again with people like you in office?
unidentified		They really do.
		And this is why people want to bring back the Trump America First populist economics, because it really had a direct impact on their daily lives.
		They saw their wages go up.
		They understood exactly what was happening.
		And then with the CCP virus, they saw that our ruling class was willing to exploit this virus to reset things back to this pre-2016, 2017 era.
		And this is exactly why they went so heavily after President Trump, and they had to get rid of him.
		The ruling class had to get rid of him with everything that went on with COVID, the summer of riots, and then the stolen election.
		They had to move in lockstep to make sure that the corporate interest retained power, and that's exactly what's at play right now in my race.
		That's why there's so many spoiler candidates that are coming in, and that's why Jami Hara-Butler is attacking me for saying that I don't understand the free market.
		If you look at who her corporate donors are, This is exactly what they want.
		With this red wave coming, they want to make sure it is a corporatist GOP red wave that resets the balance and tries to put an end to the Trump America First agenda.
		But that's not going to happen because people understand exactly what's at play right now.
		They know who actually made their lives better, and that was the Trump populist economics policies, and that's what we're going to bring back.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, no, we are certainly not going to let it happen, but a lot of us have to work really, really hard.
		Again, we can't have, there can't be any complacency out there among the deplorables out there.
		You've got to look, things are looking good politically.
		They're looking terrible for the country economically.
		They're looking good politically for our movement.
		But nobody can rest, and I know there can be no complacency out there.
		By the way, these corporate donors, you know, the same kinds of people who are supporting Herrera-Butler, your opponent, the incumbent RINO, they are of course working hand-in-glove with the Chinese Communist Party.
		That is just the reality, you know, even though they don't want to admit it, of course.
		And regarding China, Today, just today, I actually saw a lot of advertisements and notices all over my social media feed, which were very disturbing to me, quite frankly, promoting the Olympics.
		Look, China knowingly infected the world.
		Even if you don't believe that the virus was manufactured, it is a matter of fact that China knew they had human-to-human transmission.
		They sealed off Wuhan from the rest of China while allowing the citizens of Wuhan unknowingly to fly all over the world and infecting the world.
		We have, the world was infected knowingly by the CCP and yet now the world shows up to stage a grand party of the Olympics in Beijing.
		What are your thoughts, your comments and analysis on the fact that they're hosting an Olympics?
unidentified		I mean, it's an absolute disgrace between China's gross human rights violations internally, but then also, as you pointed out, them sending us the Chinese Communist Party virus, which not only crippled our economy, it crippled the world economy, and now we're rewarding them and acknowledging them and treating them like they're a real country, not a transnational cartel.
		We're rewarding them with the Olympic Games and we're putting our Olympic athletes at risk at every single level.
		It's just inexcusable and it just shows you exactly where this White House's agenda is.
		They're kowtowing to China.
		They're launching all these diversionary tactics throughout the world, almost to the brink of us getting into a war with Russia for us to avoid any kind of confrontation With China, all we're doing is putting ourselves further under debt with the Chinese Communist Party by continuing this relationship.
		Same thing with our our supply chains.
		I mean, it is just absolute insanity.
		So I think it's not us not sending Olympics to the Olympic Games there and not sending athletes to the Olympic Games would have been a great signal to the Chinese Communist Party that we know what they're doing and we're not going to tolerate it anymore.
		But instead, we saw Biden and his national security team continue to kowtow to China.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, no, listen, to me it's unconscionable.
		Normally I love the Olympics, look forward to it, watching a lot of sports that, you know, most of us don't normally watch, not sort of typically American sports, a lot of them, particularly the Winter Games.
		And I just, I will not, on principle, I will not watch a minute of it, and I certainly won't promote it to anybody for this year, because I think it's outrageous that we are helping the Chinese Communist Party to stage a grand global party at a time like this, after what they just did, the crimes that they committed against the entire world, the death, the misery, the economic devastation, all of it caused by the Chinese Communist Party.
		As a matter of fact, I think quite the opposite.
		It's time for biological war reparations against the Chinese Communist Party.
		And I think the place for us to start on that is the trillion dollars of treasury debt that we owe to the Chinese.
		That should be written down to zero.
		And that would not be the totality of the war reparations that I think we are deserving, but it would sure be a good place to start.
		So Joe Kent, you also mentioned the situation right now over in Ukraine.
		Of course, you are a veteran yourself, a warrior.
		You're also a Gold Star husband.
		I want to speak to you about the, we're going to keep you on through the break please, and I'm going to speak to you about the situation in Ukraine, as well as the new news out of Syria.
		A lot going on on the global stage, and a lot of it, quite frankly, Fairly troubling when we have somebody like Joe Biden in office right now.
		So, Joe, can please do stick around.
		He is an America first candidate in the state of Washington somebody I got to hang with at Mar-a-Lago somebody who has president Trump's Endorsement and he is a warrior and a veteran and we're gonna get his national security expertise up next monitors us.
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		Speaking of big tech, by the way, just to give you an update here, since it is an extremely volatile session right now in financial markets, and we started the show out by talking about the miserable trend of the Joe Biden economy, particularly as it relates to inflation.
		Big tech companies are getting walloped right now.
		Facebook is down 25% after some disappointing earnings.
		And guidance.
		Now, I don't shed any tears for Zuckerberg.
		Amazon's getting crushed.
		I certainly don't shed any tears for Bezos either.
		However, I do think that the volatility in financial markets lately is starting to reflect the reality of a Joe Biden stagflationary environment where inflation is going up, but demand is decelerating, growth is going down.
		And that's what we see certainly reflected in real wages right now.
		Which have been crashing in this economy, so it's bad for Main Street Possibly bad for Wall Street as well and certainly seen quite a lot of volatility there now We're continuing the conversation with Joe Kent who is in an America first warrior, and I don't mean just political warrior But a literal warrior somebody who has who has been deployed all over this world and of course he and his family paid a staggering price losing his wife and In the global war on terror in Syria.
		And Joe, I want to ask you about this.
		There's new news out today regarding Syria that a special forces operation of the United States military has killed a very senior ISIS leader.
		It seems to me that this kind of surgical precision attack is largely what America militarily should be focused on rather than nation building and the deployment of large amounts of forces.
		But as a military expert, what is your what is your take on what's happening today in Syria?
unidentified		It's a very good thing that we conducted this strike without losing any Americans.
		That speaks to the skill and just the valor of our military, our special operations forces.
		They've perfected this art of going in and hunting down these terrorist leaders and killing them in the dark of night, almost to an art form.
		So that's great.
		The thing is, in a place like Syria and a lot of these volatile Middle Eastern countries, We're always going to have the next leader of this terrorist movement, and do we need to go and necessarily have massive amounts of troops deployed?
		I strongly advocate for us not having massive amounts of troops deployed into these places conducting nation building, or really even having much of a permanent presence, because that basically takes away our tactical and strategic advantage of being able to rapidly deploy, project force, and then get out.
		Because once you hang out in these areas and you remain stagnant there, You become a target, you take away your great tactical advantage.
		So our military presence right now in Syria is just us caught up in a, I don't know, four or five sided civil war between the Turks and the Kurds, between the Assad regime with the Russians backing them and the Iranians.
		Our troops are essentially just speed bumps.
		So we can conduct limited counterterrorism operations like this.
		It looks like most of ISIS's senior leadership is over in Idlib province in Syria, which is kind of under the purview of the Turks, who we have some form of liaison relationship with.
		So this shows us that we can conduct these limited special operations strikes without having our troops so vulnerable in places other parts of Syria where they are right now.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Understood now let's talk about the wider military situation not too far away from Syria over in Ukraine because Joe Biden and certainly the the corporate media continues to cheer him on you know it seems to almost be inviting a confrontation with Russia you know and look as a warrior as a veteran do you believe that the United States has a real and serious national interest in getting involved in in what is clearly you know a very long-standing ethnic struggle
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Between Ukraine and Russia, do we have a dog in this fight?
unidentified		We simply do not.
		And the Ukrainian government agrees that we don't have a dog in the fight.
		I mean, even President Zelensky of Ukraine has been trying to ease the tensions between us and Russia because of the reckless and completely irresponsible rhetoric coming out of Washington, D.C., trying to beat the war drums, saying that we need to have some sort of a conflict with Vladimir Putin and with Russia.
		Over Ukraine.
		I mean, there's multiple things at play here.
		But really, the bottom line is Biden is extremely weak domestically for all the obvious reasons, and they want a distraction.
		And then this also ties into the military industrial complex really seeking to dust off the playbook that they know so well.
		And that's painting the Russians as the bad man.
		Then you have the confluence of the mainstream media who's been beating the Russian drum for the past 30, almost four years now, all working in perfect harmony.
		But this is very dangerous.
		This could have real consequences when you start deploying thousands of troops.
		On to the border, simply a Russian private and an American private having a misunderstanding and starting to shoot at each other.
		This is literally how world wars start and it's no game.
		This isn't Syria, this isn't Iraq or Afghanistan.
		This is up against Russia, a nuclear-armed country.
		So I think right now we need Congress to act very swiftly and demand that Joe Biden seek a formal authorization use of military force or a war declaration and freeze any funding for additional troop deployments.
		This is what Congress did to President Trump when he tried to get us out of war in Afghanistan.
		When Trump tried to get us out, Congress froze his ability to withdraw troops.
		I want to see Congress act that decisively to prevent us from going to war.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Right now, listen, Congress needs to to take its its power seriously once the Republicans are back in charge, particularly as it comes to war powers, because I totally concur.
		This is a really, really dangerous game.
		And I think it is largely a game, a game of diversion that Joe Biden and his acolytes are playing.
		And, of course, as I said, being completely cheered on by the corporate media.
		But the The men and women, the young men and women, the brave warriors of the United States should never be sent into harm's way unless there is a compelling American interest, and there just simply is not one here.
		Not to mention, to your point, President Zelensky himself really threw Joe Biden under the bus and said, hey guys, things are actually pretty calm here right now.
		It's time for you Americans to cool your jets because our situation is not dire.
		I mean, which is crazy.
		So listen, Joe Kent, where should people go to learn about you, to support your campaign, and to follow you?
unidentified		Yeah, absolutely.
		JoeKent4Congress.com is the website.
		I'm up against the rhinos and the establishment and the far left.
		So JoeKent4Congress.com is where people can go support our effort to take our country back.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Fantastic.
		Thank you so much for being with us in the War Room today.
		Appreciate it, Joe Kent.
unidentified		Thank you very much.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼		Folks, this is somebody worth supporting.
		I will certainly tell you that.
		I was honored to get to hang out with him in person and I'm certainly honored to try to help propel him to the Congress because we can't just take over with ours.
		They have to be America first Republicans in the majority of the House and Senate in 2022.

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