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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world.
You don't want to frighten the American public.
France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans.
But you need to prepare for and assume.
Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China.
That 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 a hundred possible cases in the US.
Germany, a man has contracted the virus.
The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide.
Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus.
Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500.
anthony fauci ▲ ● ▼
We have to prepare for the worst, always, because if you don't and the worst happens, War Room.
unidentified
Pandemic.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Patriots, welcome to the second hour of The War Room.
I am Steve Cortez, and it is February 3rd, 2022, the year of our Lord, Anno Domini.
I get to use some Latin there.
My high school Latin teacher, Sister Mary Gale, would hopefully be happy with that.
And I am very pleased to be your substitute host for the day for Stephen K. Bannon.
Now, he is irreplaceable, but I'm doing my best.
He handed me the keys and we're driving the car, and I think we're doing fine so far.
We've got another really packed hour of a lot of very compelling guests, compelling topics, including The also irreplaceable Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG, will be coming up.
But first I want to discuss now with Wade Miller.
He's from the Center for Renewing America.
I want to discuss the idea, because he's been writing very powerfully on this topic, of Republicans, even in the minority, being able to use the power of the purse To get rid of these onerous and unscientific mandates, vaccine mandates, because there was some good news at the Supreme Court, right, in that the court thankfully decided that that Joe Biden's OSHA mandate was completely illegal.
But That's not a clean sweep because there are still millions and millions of Americans who are subject to vaccine mandates.
For example, the military, every federal worker, every healthcare worker in America, and quite frankly, a lot of folks who are just in the private sector because their companies have decided to stick with the Biden policy anyway, even though they're not being compelled to any longer by OSHA.
So this is still, this is not an issue by any stretch that is settled.
There are still millions and millions of Americans who are being compelled to disclose their personal, private medical decisions to their company as a condition for simply earning a paycheck.
And many of them feel pressured into actually getting a vaccine, a vaccine that they may not want, a vaccine that they may not need, that may not meet their calculus for their personal risk profile.
For example, the tens and tens, if not hundreds of millions of people who know that they had COVID and that they have recovered and that they have substantial natural immunity.
So, Wade, I wanna ask you about, tell me what the strategy here is because I think a lot of Republicans, even including members of Congress would say, well, we're in the minority where there's really very little we can do, particularly on the House side where majority really truly does rule in a more blatant way than on the Senate side.
What should House and Senate Republicans be doing right now?
How can they use the power of the purse to try to free Americans from these onerous vaccine mandates?
unidentified
Sure.
Well, thanks for having me on.
And as you know, there's no shortage of Republicans campaigning against vaccine mandates.
And yet we have a continuing resolution that's set to expire on the 18th of February.
And this is a bill that would fund government if they re-up it to the length at which they extend it.
This is a perfect opportunity as leverage to use that leverage to force Democrats to defund vaccine mandates.
That's a small ask.
Chip Roy, a Republican member out of Texas, is leading the charge on this with other members like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who you're going to have on later.
And they're actually, they put out a letter and the letter is very simple.
It just says, we will not consider any continuing resolution until vaccine mandates are taken out and defunded.
That's a small ask.
And yet you would think this would be a simple get, but right now there's only 49 Republicans in Congress that have signed onto that letter.
And you got to wonder, you know, with as much as Republicans are campaigning on this, if they won't Protect us in the most simplest of ways.
How serious and how committed are they to the idea of combating vaccine mandates?
And if they aren't going to ask, then we hope that states more states, more governors, more state legislatures will fill in the void and do what Republicans in DC won't do.
Right.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
And you know, Wade, I'm glad that you mentioned that part about the states, because I've been frankly disappointed, particularly in some of the very deeply red states, right?
The places where the America First movement has commanding, you know, even super majorities, for example, in both houses of the legislature, as well as the governorship.
We're not seeing even in those kinds of states, in general, I mean there are some exceptions of course, but we're not seeing a sweeping movement to protect Americans and to protect workers in those states. Do we need to see more action in the state capitals regarding vaccine mandates?
unidentified
Absolutely.
It's imperative that states act.
Right now, there's a couple of good bills throughout the country.
One bill in Texas by a state rep, Brian Harrison.
His bill basically says that it's unethical for doctors Uh, to give a vaccine when they don't have informed consent from the patient and they can't have informed consent.
If it's possible that person is there under de facto duress, because they're being mandated to get it.
That's 1 way you can go about it and states can interpose in a variety of ways.
They can outright ban within their borders.
Uh, any, any human being being forced to have a needle put in their arm and look, Republicans, you know, too many of them rely on the courts to do this work for them and they advocate their duty as as executives or as a legislature to step in and protect their citizen.
And this is what Congress and state legislatures should be doing.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
No, I think you're 100% right.
Listen, we'll always take the court victories when we can get them, but we shouldn't count on it.
We have to be far more proactive than that.
Now, a new Republican governor who is doing some terrific things regarding onerous mitigation efforts and restrictions is Glenn Youngkin, the newly elected governor of Virginia.
He came in, thankfully, and his attorney general, Mayaris, so far, Jason Mayaris, is really just acting, I think, with great speed and precision and trying to free, for example, the children of Virginia from being forced to cover their faces, something that we know scientifically is not valid and something which is, frankly, quite cruel.
I really believe it's a sign of child abuse.
It is a practice that is abusive of children to force them to cover their faces.
But he's meeting a heck of a lot of pushback, particularly in those liberal jurisdictions of northern Virginia, the Washington, D.C. Beltway area, some of the wealthiest places in all of America.
I think he will ultimately.
other time how wealthy these places have gotten because of the growth of the federal government.
But putting that aside for a moment, regarding mask mandates, what is the latest now regarding children in Northern Virginia? Are they going to be freed from having to cover their faces?
Is the governor going to prevail ultimately?
unidentified
I think he will ultimately. Like you said, the Attorney General of Virginia is fighting this on every front. It's quite amazing that the liberal education establishment is trying to prevent kids who want to go to school and learn from doing so on the basis of a protective measure that isn't actually that protective.
And, you know, we do a whole segment on electrostatic effect and Brownian motion and all the theories behind how masks work or don't work.
But what we were saying a year and a half, two years ago was called conspiracy theory and anti-science.
And now it's widely accepted by the New York Times and the Washington Post.
And frankly, Unless you have a full-face respirator and some sort of CDC-level decontamination unit at your home, the masks just aren't in the net effect of how humans interact in society and how they act throughout the day.
It's not going to provide you any relative amount of protection.
Omicron lives on plastics for 195 hours.
It lives on human skin for almost over 22 hours.
You can wear a mask all day long and the second you take it off, you dress your collar, pick up an Amazon package, something like that.
And it's possible that you could get it.
It just doesn't do anything.
And yet the education establishment is pushing pseudoscience on our children with a fake sense of some sort of protection.
And it's detrimental to their educational attainment and their opportunity and their learning.
And we're setting kids back years.
It's what the left has done to kids in Northern Virginia and across America and many areas.
It's just absolutely awful, and I hope that someday they're held to account for what they've done.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Listen, here's the thing, Wade.
Children, thank goodness, were largely spared from this virus.
Quite different from some past pandemics, right?
For example, the Spanish flu, which was terrible for young people, for young adults, and even for babies, for example, over a century ago.
This CCP virus, thankfully, almost entirely spared children.
So children should be living completely normal lives, and that should have been the case Months ago because we knew the real scientific data but instead we have made children in these blue jurisdictions suffer in particular ways that I can't even imagine the long-term effects and how dire they might be for a lot of children who have not played sports have not done in-person schooling or when they had they had to have they had to cover their faces I mean these are
These are the kinds of tactics, I think, you know, unfortunately, and circumstances that we're putting children in that can have really, really dire effects for years and decades to come.
Or do you think I'm exaggerating?
unidentified
No, you're right.
And there's all sorts of studies now coming out about the effects of children and speech impediments and all sorts of data on this.
In-home learning is not effective.
I think what you're going to see is test scores will go down and we'll see that lingering effect for years now because children are just so far set back.
I mean, look, my son has had the original variant and then we all went through Omicron a few weeks ago.
The first time he was sick for like 12 hours and he was fine.
This time he said he had a sore throat and he was playing and having fun and going outside the whole time.
I mean, obviously we were isolating and not having him around any other kids, but it would just barely affected him.
And yet, so he's got natural immunity, which the CDC even admits is 5 to 6 times stronger than those who are only vaccinated.
And yet now we have the medical establishment pushing for children to be injected with something that we have no long-term data on yet.
And we won't for a number of years.
And it's not even necessary.
It unfazes these kids.
And yet, you know, this is where we run into hurdle after hurdle from teachers unions and the medical establishment.
And it's just, it's as if, it's as if there's an ulterior agenda there.
Right.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Now let me ask you about a potential solution for Governor Yankin, because he and the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, they have gone to court right now, they are trying to join several lawsuits from parents in Loudoun County.
I think all of that makes sense and that should be the normal first step in this confrontation.
But if that doesn't get us to a resolution, if it doesn't free the children of the Commonwealth of Virginia from having to cover their faces just to go to school, You know, I think the tactics then need to get more significant and more severe.
Now, I'm not an attorney, but it would seem to me that if they were to arrest some superintendents or some principals who are foreseen against the will of the people of Virginia, right, who voted to elect this man, Glenn Youngkin, at least in part based on this promise to do this, you know, do you think that some arrests may be in order at some point?
unidentified
I mean, certainly if school officials continue to ignore lawful orders and they're preventing children from getting an education, I don't think it's out of line at a certain point for that to be considered.
And if we need it, the National Guard go in and ensure that kids are allowed into schools to once again stop Democrats from stopping kids from going into school.
Yeah, you're right.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
A lot like the 1950s, unfortunately, right?
In a lot of southern states in America.
Now, listen, I hope it doesn't come to that.
I hope that good judgment will prevail and we'll see what happens with these court proceedings.
But it seems to me that Governor Yunkin should at least be willing, and Attorney General Meares in the Commonwealth of Virginia, should be at least willing to consider what they need to do in terms of escalation.
Because there are clearly some forces at work here in northern Virginia who We'll do whatever they can to maintain their own power, even at the expense of children.
So listen, Wade Miller from the Center for Renewing America.
Where should people find out about you and about your organization?
unidentified
Sure.
So you can catch us on Twitter, our President Russ Vogt, as well as on Twitter, at Russ Vogt, AmericaRenewing.com.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Wonderful.
Wade Miller, thank you so much for being with us today.
Really appreciate it.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
You bet.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
The Center for Renewing America is doing some really, really important work out there, folks.
Now, we're going to stay on the topic of children, and we're going to talk specifically about children in the city of Chicago, my former hometown, someplace that I raised a family and a place that I had to leave with sadness, mainly because of spiraling violence in that city, which unfortunately, continues to only get worse.
It is an absolutely failed place in the middle of the United States of America.
It really, let's face it, historically was the capital of the American heartland, the city of Chicago, and it is full of chaos right now.
It's a warning to all of America.
We're going to speak with the former governor of Illinois and former Democrat, I believe he'll say former Democrat, we'll ask him shortly, Rod Blagojevich.
Blago, up next.
unidentified
Welcome back to the War Room.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
I am Steve Cortez, in for Stephen K. Bannon, hosting today.
Patriots, I want to talk to you about my home city of Chicago, because I think Chicago matters a lot for the entirety of America.
You know, it is literally and figuratively the heart of this country.
It is a place that, you know, in many ways we could call the capital of the American heartland, Chicago.
It's the beating heart of this great republic of ours.
But it's a very sickened heart unfortunately right now and that is just the reality of the situation on the ground in Chicago.
I should know because I raised a family in the city of Chicago for 25 years until parachuting out because quite frankly and there were several reasons but the main reason being the increasing danger and the increasingly random danger as well In the city of Chicago where neighborhoods that were formerly considered to be safe were no longer safe and were full of violent gun crime.
It's really amazing in some degree to some degree to analyze what has happened in Chicago and in some ways.
I wrote an article about this at real clear politics.
So please take a look Chicago chaos.
A warning for America.
I talk about in there how in some ways what's going on in Chicago is reminiscent of things that you normally expect to happen in third world countries, not in the United States of America.
Scenes that are somewhat reminiscent almost of shows like Narcos.
And I'm going to specifically talk about a young girl, a precious young girl, Melissa Ortega, who was tragically shot and killed in broad daylight.
There was gunfire between rival gangs that unfortunately hit this precious young American girl, this young Chicagoan.
She was killed tragically.
Thankfully, they did at least get the bad guys, and the trigger man, the gunman, is Emilio Carripio.
He's only 16 years old, and get this, he was already charged just in recent months with three armed carjackings, and yet he was given probation, he was free out on the streets to commit yet another gun crime, and this one with even more horrific results, unfortunately.
That young Chicagoan, Melissa Ortega, beautiful girl, is dead because of the violence of Chicago.
And in this case, from an assailant who was known to be extremely dangerous, who was known to proclaim himself as a gang member, and who had already committed several, not one, but several Armed acts of violence, and yet he was allowed to patrol and roam the streets, unfortunately, of the Windy City.
Now, to talk to us about Chicago, I'm really happy to welcome in a friend of mine and somebody who loves dearly the city of Chicago, and that is the former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich.
Now, Rod, you and I have talked several times offline, and I know you have decided to stay.
You are fighting for the city you love.
I admire you for doing that.
And tell me what it is, from a policy perspective, what do you think can finally turn around the chaos that is Chicago right now?
unidentified
Well, I don't think it's that complicated.
I think the political leaders in Chicago, our mayor, Mayor Lightfoot, our governor, Governor Pritzker, and a bunch of other leaders, but principally the mayor, they need to choose sides.
They can't be a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
They've got to pick a side.
It's a war going on on those streets.
And that little girl, Melissa, God bless her, she was caught up in the middle of that war.
And that war is gang wars and gangbangers are controlling certain neighborhoods.
The police are on the run because the political leaders don't have the backs of the police.
In fact, within the Democratic Party, the party that I was once a member of, a governor in, a congressman in, used to be a very different Democratic Party, by the way, but today's Democratic Party is a Democratic Party that not only doesn't support the police, many of them want to defund the police, and many of them actually want to outright abolish the police.
And the police know what's going on, and therefore, when they don't have political leaders who are protecting them and on their side, They are on the run, and the gangbangers aren't stupid.
They know that.
And they are on the run in the other direction, being very aggressive, very forceful, and taking control of neighborhoods.
And as a result, we have murder rates in Chicago that are higher than they've ever been since 1996.
And little children like little Melissa Ortega are being caught in the crossfire.
I don't think it's that hard.
You've got to declare war on the gangbangers, go get the gangbangers, arrest the gangbangers, put the gangbangers in jail, and prosecute them.
And you're right about the body toll.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Unfortunately, almost 800 Chicagoans killed in 2021.
It gets the dubious title of the murder capital of the United States.
By the way, over 3,500 shots.
I think that's also something that's worth talking about because the death toll would be even higher if it were not for Chicago ERs, which somewhat tragically are incredibly well skilled at treating gunshot wounds because of so much practice.
I mentioned this in the article as well.
The United States military actually, when we were still really actively involved in Iraq and Afghanistan, they would literally send medical staff to Chicago so that they could train in the treatment of gunshots before they had to go over to the other war zones across the globe.
That's how significant the situation was in Chicago.
And Rod, I want to get your opinion on this too, because your successor as governor, and I detail this in the article, in terms of the brazenness, you know, you mentioned About how much the bad guys effectively know that they're largely in charge in the city of Chicago.
I laid out this story because it didn't get much national attention and I think it deserves to get national attention because it's so truly bizarre and really kind of frightening.
So there was a gang of thieves who broke into a couple of convenience and liquor stores in the middle of night, stole the cash register.
Emptied the cash registers of the contents.
They then drove by Governor Pritzker's private residence, not the not the state mansion, but his private residence, which is an extremely upscale swanky neighborhood of Chicago.
They dumped the cash registers on his front lawn, and this is the real kicker, okay, as if that wasn't bold and brazen enough.
They did so en route to the Burberry store, the high-end luxury good retailer on Michigan Avenue, which is sort of New York's, excuse me, Chicago's version of Fifth Avenue.
To rob that Burberry store for the second time in three days.
And the first time they robbed it, they got away with $100,000 of luxury goods from Burberry.
So, en route to the robbery, second time in three days, hitting the same store, they literally dumped the cash registers, the loot, effectively, on the front lawn of the governor.
This, to me, again, I think it's something that you would expect to see in a movie or a TV series like Narcos.
Doesn't this tell you that the bad guys largely know that they're in charge and are even thumbing their noses at the highest officials of the state?
unidentified
Yeah, well, let me say a couple things.
First of all, that would have never happened when I was governor.
Nobody ever did that to my house or by my house.
Gangbangers wouldn't have been allowed to do that.
We'd have really addressed that seriously.
But that's an example, what you just pointed out, of how much contempt these gangbangers have for authority.
Here you go to the governor's house, his mansion, in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago.
We have a governor who inherited a lot of wealth.
And they know that that governor, like our mayor, is only gonna provide lip service.
They're not going to do anything meaningful and serious to go after those gangbangers because they're afraid of upsetting a certain significant constituency group in democratic politics.
So they do what they do in front of the governor's house and they do it without any kind of consequences and go on to do what they did down on Michigan Avenue, which incidentally is part of this whole movement now.
rod blagojevich ▲ ● ▼
Carjacking, Gang wars, shooting up neighborhoods, killing innocent children, and smash and grab robberies where they've taken what they do down into the business district of Chicago, the commercial districts, and brazenly just break into stores and steal things.
unidentified
And they, again, they're not stupid.
They know they can get away with it because they know the police have their hands tied because the Democratic political leaders, our mayor, our governor, and others, are not only not protecting the police, they're not siding with the police.
They're afraid to side with the police.
And there's an old saying, when the cat's away, the mice play.
And that's what's happening here.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Well, and Kim Foxx, who is the Cook County prosecutor, there's a lot of terrible Soros-backed prosecutors all over this country, but she might be the worst in breed.
I think she's even worse than the others of a really ignoble group.
I think she, unfortunately, takes the title as the most corrupt, the most incompetent, the most inept.
I have a podcast called Lightning Rod Today.
She thankfully got a lot of very deserved attention and derision when she tried to let Jesse Smollett off the hook, but that was really the least of her overall crimes.
Governor, I appreciate you so much being on today.
And I know, I think you've got podcasts.
Where should folks go if they want to follow you and follow your work?
unidentified
I have a podcast called Lightning Rod Today.
You can get that on all the different platforms.
I'm working on a documentary film.
We're in development now on Crime in Chicago.
Very excited about that, Steve.
We hope to start shooting the actual film in the middle of February, which will deal three-part series on crime in Chicago, which is, Steve, unfortunately, the epicenter of crime in the United States.
We used to be the transportation hub.
We're now the hub of crime.
And, you know, what is happening in Chicago impacts all of America.
We don't get a handle on it here.
It'll just continue to spread in other places.
And so the documentary is something I'm very interested in working on, looking forward to it.
But thank you very much for your interest.
And let me just say one last thing.
In spite of all of our difficulties, we live in a great country, don't we, Steve?
And it's up to us, we the people, to not take it anymore and demand from our leaders that they do their responsibility.
And when it comes to public safety, it's the first duty of government.
We need to hold these political leaders accountable, irrespective of what political party they're in.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, that's right.
We certainly do need to do that.
By the way, one of the things that the audience may not know about Governor Blagojevich is that he was a Chicago Golden Gloves champion.
And I, of course, love boxing, so Governor, next time that I'm back in Chicago, we used to live not too far from each other, you and I, perhaps we can go to Hamlin Park and get in the ring and do a little bit of light sparring.
I don't think either of us is young enough to do serious sparring anymore, are we?
unidentified
I'm certainly not, and you're such a nice guy, I don't think I'd want to hit you.
But I know Hamlin Park real well.
I used to represent that area in the state legislature and in Congress.
I know it real well.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, no, it's a great gym.
It's one of those old-school boxing gyms.
It stinks.
It's too hot.
It's exactly like boxing gyms are supposed to be.
So, and I appreciate you metaphorically fighting again for the city that you love, and I admire the work you're doing there.
Governor Rob McGoivich, thank you for being our guest today.
Appreciate it.
unidentified
Thanks, Steve.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
You bet.
Folks, one of the things that I encourage you to please read my article at Real Clear Politics about the city of Chicago, a city I love, a city I feel terribly for.
One of the things I point on there is the life discrepancy gap.
This is from NYU School of Medicine.
Streeterville, wealthy neighborhood, the average life expectancy is 90.
Just a few miles away from there in Englewood, perhaps the most troubled neighborhood in all of Chicago, 60.
A 30-year life expectancy gap, the widest in all of America.
Policies really, really matter.
Politics matter.
We're going to talk to one of the heroes of politics, one of the heroes of our movement, Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG, up next.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼
We're going to talk to one of the heroes of politics, one of the heroes of our movement, Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG, up next.
Instead of focusing on a bill that's almost 3,000 pages worth $325 billion in spending estimated, that doesn't really help America.
It's going to give $8 billion to the UN Climate Fund and mentions coral reefs 383 times.
What Congress should be doing is working on a budget that will fund our government since we're running out of money in just a few weeks.
What Congress should be doing is doing something about the fentanyl that's coming from China that's killing young people and is now the number one cause of death in Americans from 18 to 45, not COVID-19.
What Congress should be doing is funding a wall, building a wall, protecting our border, and deporting illegal aliens who are stealing American jobs.
That's what we should be doing to help the American worker.
But instead, we're debating a bill that's going to fund climate change, the Green New Deal, and help the coral reefs.
This isn't what Americans care about.
We all should be voting no and doing a better job.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
The fantastic and impressive and courageous Marjorie Taylor Greene, and she joins us now.
MTG, thank you so much for being on the show.
Really, really appreciate it.
By the way, if we could bottle your bravery, right, and if we could ship it out to candidates and politicians all over this country, particularly those who claim to be conservative, But but sell us out regularly.
If we could bottle it, it would be a tremendous service to this country.
But thank you for everything you're doing.
Thank you for the brave stances that you take to put America first.
And speaking of that, you wrote an article for The Washington Times that was just published.
Why does Karl Rove want to send our sons to war?
I think this is an incredibly important argument that you are making.
Tell us what motivated you to write this op-ed for The Washington Times.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼
Well, it was a tweet that I saw of his and he had tweeted an article and the article was written by someone else that I've never even heard of that supposedly works for MSNBC and then apparently calls himself a conservative.
I mean, go figure that one out.
And it was an article on Commentary Magazine or something like that, another publication that I've never heard of.
And I thought, okay, what is Karl Rove trying to tell everyone here?
And so I read the article and I found the article laughable, first off, because it was written in such a way it was hard to even understand.
But the article was claiming, the writer was claiming, that it's the people that are nationalists, populists, people that want America first policies, are the ones that are out of touch, saying that we're out of touch, and don't understand the Ukraine and Russia issue.
And that just that struck a chord with me so hard.
And just because Karl Rove, you know, he built the Bush dynasty.
He's the architect of all the Bush policies, architect of Republican policies that have truly failed Republican voters and failed our country overall.
That just led me to write that piece because I was so mad about it.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Sure.
And you know, Congresswoman, you bring up an important point there, which I think maybe some of us on the right don't make often enough.
When it comes to the globalism and the constant U.S.
interventionism all over the earth, the nation building, the constant war waging and fighting all over the world, George W. Bush is every bit as much to blame for those policies as Barack Obama.
I mean, I think that it was really largely, if you look between those Absolutely.
And I think what a lot of people don't understand, if you haven't been involved in politics, is it's the consulting class.
And that's who Karl Rove is.
and constant globalism.
And I think it's important for us to come to terms with the Republican parties, at least the establishment Republican parties, complicity in all of that, including men like Karl Rove.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼
Absolutely.
And I think what a lot of people don't understand if you haven't been involved in politics is it's the consulting class.
And that's who Karl Rove is.
He's part of the political consulting class that makes millions and millions of dollars by defining the policies that the politicians that he promotes, that he helps get elected, that they put into place.
And it's the Bushes.
They're totally the same as the Obamas.
They want the same global economy.
They want the same globalist policies.
And you're right, Steve, by saying that that Bush's policies weren't really any different from Obama policies.
We just saw we saw some glaring differences in social issues and things like that.
And that's where You know, we get caught in those shiny objects that get so distracting.
But really, it was a seamless transition of globalism pushing us towards this.
And that's what's wrong with Washington.
We have the Uniparty.
It's the Uniparty in Washington.
It's the Republicans like the Bushes and Karl Roves and the neocons that really are doing the same bidding and the same thing as the Democrats.
And they all work together, like Lindsey Graham helping just pass all of Joe Biden's nominations and willing to jump in there.
And ramp right through whoever Joe Biden picks based on race and gender for the next Supreme Court justice.
But that's what that article is about.
And I try to define in there the differences of what we want as Americans for our country with our tax dollars versus what the globalists, and that's those Republicans and Democrats, want and what they're trying to achieve.
unidentified
Right.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
So listen, MTG, as is typical of your style, you gave it to Karl Rove with the bark on, so to speak.
unidentified
And I want to quote one of your lines here.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
You said, My view is that Mr. Rove despises America first.
He loves war and the global economy that all these wars prop up.
And my direct response to that?
unidentified
Screw Karl Rove!
So, you gave it to him both barrels, right?
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Do you think that he personally, by the way, that he personally is largely to blame for the war machine that is Washington, D.C.' 's establishment?
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼
I think he's just part of it.
He's kind of someone you could consider a figurehead because he would love war with Russia so that You know, he wants to send young people, and I said in this article, he wants to send 18 year olds like my son over to fight nuclear Russia so that he can get on television and beat his chest like a tough guy and talk about America this and America that and then and try to put down Russia and try to put down all these other countries.
That's what that's what Karl Rove ultimately wants.
But my message for Karl Rove is is he can go put on that uniform and go over there and fight nuclear Russia himself if he wants to be the tough guy because young people have had enough. You know it's 18 to 24 year olds that have been completely wounded by this government and all these failing globalist policies and so a lot of these 18 to 24 year olds if there's any country and border they want to defend it's America's country and border.
That's what they care about.
Not going over there and fighting some war we don't need to be in so that Karl Rove can beat his chest like he's so tough.
unidentified
Right.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
You know, Congressman, I think you make an important point there, by the way.
These people like Karl Rove or like Vindman, they are perfectly free to go over there and fight on behalf of Ukraine.
The rest of us would very much like to stay out of that struggle, thank you very much, but if they want to be sort of a latter-day version of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and their involvement in the Spanish Civil War, hey, have at it.
Nobody's stopping Americans who really feel that strongly if they want to go there and fight, but we're not going to compel The brave men and women who serve in our uniform to go over there because it makes no sense for us.
Let me ask you, Marjorie, if I could, about this larger issue of Russia, you know, because, you know, you mentioned that Russia, of course, is a nuclear power.
And listen, I'm not naive.
I don't believe that Putin is a good guy.
I don't think he wishes well for the United States, but nor does it have to be some existential enemy on every topic at every juncture.
But in Washington, D.C., here in this city, There's almost a sick obsession with Russia and with constantly trying to pit the United States against Russia, even when the circumstances do not dictate a confrontation with Russia.
To what can you ascribe this?
I really think it is an obsession.
It's almost a delusion.
You know, what is motivating that delusion regarding the need to constantly try to demonize Russia and constantly try to pit America against Russia?
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼
You know, I totally agree with you.
It is a really interesting thing, isn't it?
I mean, after all, didn't the Clinton Foundation, Bill Clinton and Hillary, didn't they rake in like over $100 million into their Clinton Foundation?
$138 million.
I can't remember the exact number.
And then Bill Clinton got paid a bunch of money for speaking fees over there, over there in Russia.
I don't know why the Democrats need Putin to be their bad guy.
They need him to be the ultimate enemy, which is so interesting to me.
And I agree with you, Steve.
I really don't see any necessary need in that.
Maybe the Democrats are upset with Putin because he only believes in two genders and he doesn't want to, you know, do things in his military like transgender surgeries.
Or maybe they don't like Putin possibly because he just won't go along with their climate change stuff.
I really haven't ever heard him say that he's interested in, you know, working down, working carbon output down to zero percent and just And just switching everything over to electric vehicles.
As a matter of fact, I think he's interested in continuing using oil and coal and other natural resources that produce power that we can depend on.
Maybe that's their issues with him.
I'm really not sure, but I think it would be a lot smarter, and it was what President Trump had done, was to pursue to have a good relationship With Putin and Russia, and we should find things we can work on together instead of here they are beating the drums for war after they failed in Afghanistan, which is actually really funny, isn't it?
Because imagine if you're Russia right now, you're looking at Joe Biden going, wait a minute, aren't you the guy that abandoned $85 billion worth of America's military equipment and weapons?
And you also abandoned your own people in Afghanistan and you pulled out and you failed so badly that 13 of your own soldiers got killed.
And then Joe Biden, you failed America so much that you abandoned $1 trillion in rare earth mineral mines, even though America paid for the whole entire infrastructure to be built there to be able to mine those rare earth minerals.
So I would imagine that it's pretty hard for other countries looking at Joe Biden And his serious case of dementia and his daily naps that he takes every day and take him serious about this, especially when Americans like me and many others like you, Steve, and so many are saying, you know what, we really care about our southern border where China fentanyl is coming across and the Mexican cartels are delivering it through our wide open border.
So it is something that I don't know.
I don't know why Russia always has to be their bad guy.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Right.
Listen, changing topics a little bit, Congresswoman, I was able to hang out with you a bit in person in Miami at the Project Veritas event, which was fantastic and impressive in the free state of Florida where people are normal, quite unlike going from Florida to Washington, D.C.
is like going from one planet to an entirely different planet, unfortunately.
But I want to ask you about the policy issues, though, because Project Veritas, of course, has been subjected to a lot of tyranny and censorship from big tech.
Will you commit to being a leader, once we do get the majority of an America First majority, of really finally at last taking on big tech with government action?
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼
Absolutely, and this is actually an issue that I have my team working very hard on.
See, there's multiple Republican bills right now about reigning in big tech censorship, and so we're working through each one of those.
I'm finding the things that I like, I'm finding the things that I don't like, And I think we need to have something that comes to vote, that will come to pass into law, that will actually take action.
I'm one of those people that get really irritated with campaign promises and just talking about something and not producing action.
That just frustrates me.
Republicans failed us in the past when they could have stopped censorship and reined in big tech, and they just didn't even get it done.
So this is something that I'm working on and looking at closely with my team.
And trying to figure out what is the best way to rein them in.
I think breaking up the monopolies is one thing that we definitely need to look at.
Viewing them as common carriers is another way to handle this issue.
And then, of course, taking away their protections of Section 230 is also one of the things you constantly hear Republicans talk about.
But I think on a bigger level, what is more important to me Is not only breaking up their monopolies, but opening up for other companies to compete.
Because when you have competition in the marketplace, that's when you have customers and consumers that have another choice, have somewhere else to go, where they can be happier with their experience.
And I definitely believe in that.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
And a lot of these are monopolies, or at the least oligopolies, that I believe need to get addressed.
Listen, we're almost out of time.
Where should folks go, though, where they want to be supportive of your efforts, Congresswoman?
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼
Oh, I greatly need the help, and I always am so grateful to people that support me.
MTG4America.com.
You know, we're all running for re-election, and we need the support of great people like everyone watching this, and I think War Room folks.
The War Room posse are the greatest, so I'm always grateful for their support.
unidentified
Fantastic.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Thank you for joining us.
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steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Welcome back, Patriots!
You are in the War Room, and I am Steve Cortez, and I am the substitute host today for Stephen K. Bannon, who, as I have stated several times, I think, during the broadcast, he is not replaceable, but we are doing our best here to steer the ship without our Admiral Bannon.
He and his family are both mourning the loss as well as celebrating the life of his father, Martin Bannon, somebody who was a gift to The Bannon family, to his community, to this country for 100 years.
He lived to be 100.
And we pay him full tribute and also send all of our affection and sympathy to the entire Bannon family, not just Steve, but all the other wonderful folks.
So listen, there's something that I think we need to talk about regarding Joe Biden.
And that is this aspect.
unidentified
If he had simply done nothing, okay?
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
If he had done what he largely did during the campaign, was sit in his basement and do nothing except perhaps eat some oatmeal and watch Matlock.
If he had continued with that trajectory, right?
Things would actually be fine in the United States, and I'm not trying to be a smart aleck here.
I'm pointing out that the handoff that he got on so many crucial topics, particularly I'm particularly thinking of the border and the economy, and I think those two issues are intertwined, but the handoff that he got From Donald Trump was a magnificent one.
If he had simply done nothing, if he had stayed at Rehoboth Beach at his beach place, the economy would be soaring right now because that was the trajectory until Joe Biden decided to come in and stoke inflation, the likes of which we have not seen in more than a generation in this country.
The economic recovery, the Trump boom 2.0 was working and if anything was accelerating.
Regarding the border things weren't perfect, but we had a border situation which was under control and things were getting better all the time even though President Trump had to constantly of course fight both politically as well as fight in court against the open border really obstructionists of the Democratic Party.
The point is the border was under control and economic migrants knew Throughout the world, they're not dumb people.
They knew that they were not going to simply be welcomed into the United States.
That it would be difficult for them to try to sneak into our country and to try to stay here as economic migrants.
Quite the opposite from Joe Biden.
They have literally been invited, incentivized, rewarded for flooding the border of the United States.
And what we see now is a historically chaotic situation With literally millions of illegal migrants, economic migrants, pouring into the United States and at the worst possible time.
Now let me connect that situation to the economy and to very volatile financial markets lately.
And folks, just so you know, I care a lot more about how well Main Street is doing.
Then I do about Wall Street.
So I think the stock market, for example, did extremely well under President Obama.
Regular working class Americans did not participate in it by and large.
I mean, yes, regular people do own stocks, but most regular working class citizens in this country do not own enough stocks to be materially Immediately effective in terms of improving their prosperity so the stock market did great under under Obama So I don't like the stock market necessarily at least in isolation as a gauge of the success for the economy I care way more about what's going on in Main Street But what we see right now is the reality of Main Street and those numbers and we played some of them for you
Showed you some of the charts earlier in the show those numbers from Main Street are miserable 7% consumer price index inflation and folks Real inflation is actually quite a bit higher than that if we still calculated it the way it was calculated in previous decades We'd already be At double digits, so there is a misery index going on right now out there in the country.
Americans 10 months in a row have seen real wages go down.
They are working harder and harder to lose ground to become poorer by the month as wage increases simply cannot keep up with the massive, soaring, vaulting Biden inflation that is making everything that we want and need in our lives exorbitantly expensive.
unidentified
That is the reality.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
And now financial markets, to get back to financial markets, which are very volatile today, we're starting to see the capital markets wake up, I think, to this reality, to the to the 1970s style stagflation that the United States faces.
So just today, for example, technology shares are really under duress, down well over 2% right now.
The small cap Russell 2000, which is the one that I really encourage you to pay more attention to, because that tends to be very domestically oriented, It tends to be more reflective of what's actually happening in Main Street America.
As I pointed out as a guest on this show, when I wasn't substitute hosting, as I pointed out as a guest, the Russell 2000 last week and the week before tipped into official bear market territory, meaning that is defined by Wall Street and Wall Street parlance as a more than 20% decline from the peak.
That was the reality of the Russell.
So there are a lot of signs out there Uh, in capital markets, a lot of signs, unfortunately, from the Main Street economy that things are bad and that they are going to get worse.
Unfortunately, you have to be looking.
unidentified
You know, you never get the happy talk here on the war room.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
You're going to get the straight truth, but then also the solutions.
You know, what are the solutions?
And I think this is crucial.
Some of the solutions involve, I believe, not just shutting down Illegal migration into the United States.
That's a that's a baseline case for the 2022 and 2024 agenda for the Republican Party But I also happen to believe that even a moratorium a pause on legal immigration would make a lot of sense right now for the country number one because of the absolute Anarchy, which has unfortunately dominated the border in recent months because of Joe Biden, but number two, to get wages to rise so that wages will rise in the United States and we will see real wages increase again.
An immigration moratorium, in my view, would make a lot of sense, among other America first fixes for the economy.
I also think the terrorists probably need to go Quite a bit higher, particularly regarding China, and China needs to pay biological war reparations.
So not only should we not be celebrating China at a time like this, not only should we not be helping them have a grand party for the Olympics, we should instead be sending a delegation over there of attorneys and diplomats with a bill which the CCP needs to pay to the American people.
Thank you so much for allowing me to sit in today.
Peter Navarro will be in tonight, and I believe Stephen K. Bannon back tomorrow.
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