Feb. 8, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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We want to start off by thanking everybody for the support we have received in the last week. | |
| From anonymous donations, food, fuel and other essential items, we are overwhelmed by all the support. | ||
| The RCMP continues to blockade Highway 4 at Milk River, which has created logistical struggles for us to get essential services to the truckers at Cootes. | ||
| We call on the RCMP to allow unrestricted flow of traffic to support the peaceful protests at Cootes. | ||
| Over the last two years, Canadians have watched as the civil liberties of all have been systematically eroded. | ||
| We watched as our seniors were isolated and our kids were masked. | ||
| We watched as our working class was abused and forced into experimental vaccinations for the sake of public safety. | ||
| While using emergency powers, our provincial and federal governments, with the assistance of health departments, have systematically taken away our rights and freedoms. | ||
| We, the people, call on Jason Kenney and Justin Trudeau to immediately stop and retract all provincial and federal mandates and emergency health measures. | ||
| To all our doctors, nurses, paramedics, truckers, government employees, and all others who have lost their jobs or whose freedoms to choose have been taken away, we hear you. | ||
| To our seniors, our veterans, and all those who have given everything for this great country, we stand with you in this fight against government overreach. | ||
| And to our children, so loved and precious, most of them unaware that we are in the fight of our life You are the reason we cannot fail. | ||
| We call on the Premier to do the right thing. | ||
| The people have spoken. | ||
| This is not about which side you are on or political clout. | ||
| This fight is for the freedoms of all. | ||
| Albertans and Canadians, there can be no compromise of our fundamental human rights. | ||
| We call on Canadians to rise up and peacefully take back our freedoms. | ||
| It is time that we stop and we declare this pandemic emergency over. | ||
| And the truckers of Canada had a gut feeling and some really good common sense that this has to come to an end. | ||
| And the problem is that by coming to the population, the population needed to understand that they are backed by solid science. | ||
| And that is where people like myself, Dr. Hodkinson, Dr. Pones, etc. | ||
| have come forward because we know 100% of the science is behind the trucker. | ||
| The Canadian trucker is backed by solid, solid science, not the government positions. | ||
| These vaccine mandates have no scientific or medical basis and must be stopped now. | ||
| The mandates must be lifted tomorrow. | ||
| The carnage that's going on out there with our children is indescribable. | ||
| As Dr. Alexander stated, the evidence medically is overwhelming. | ||
| I'm not going to list it at this moment. | ||
| All I am saying is that there's a degree of exasperation that the world must understand listening to this. | ||
| Canada has been put forward as the epicentre of a major change in how things are run. | ||
| It's going to transform the usual institutions of politics, of medicine, of law and the media in ways that we cannot predict. | ||
| But major changes are coming. | ||
| And not only that, but we are being watched. | ||
| We are seeing democracy challenged. | ||
| And the Chinese are watching us. | ||
| Make no mistake, this is a moment in history where there's a tremendous amount on the table. | ||
| Not just vaccination schedules, but the very existence that we want our children to inherit. | ||
| Thank you so much for coming and I just want to say that I'm so sorry our country is completely failing. | ||
| The federal government is failing its people, the taxpayers. | ||
| This administration is, I can't even believe what they're doing. | ||
| It's like they're guilty of treason. | ||
| I did introduce articles of impeachment on Joe Biden because of how he is failing and not doing his job at the southern border. | ||
| But it's just worse than that after hearing everything that the four of you have said today. | ||
| And it is just, it's practically embarrassing being a member of Congress that does nothing, nothing to stop any of this. | ||
| And being, being here in Washington, D.C., being, just basically having our hands tied and having to do, thankfully, thank you for putting this together, a panel, but we're not even allowed to use a hearing room in the Capitol. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| Oh yeah, I can believe it. | ||
| It's Monday, 7 February, Year of Our Lord 2020. | ||
| We go from the state of emergency, the siege at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, to MTG. | ||
| I want to bring in Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| Congressman, we've got a lot to go through with you today. | ||
| We're going to have Ambassador David Friedman, President Trump's ambassador to Israel, on a little later in the show and hopefully get out to Boris in Arizona if we can work out some technical problems to get an update on this explosive Events that are happening today in Arizona Congressman Green you could almost I mean were you the writer for want to thank? | ||
| Rebel News Ezra Levant and the truckers lawyer Site for those first couple of clips, but you could almost have written that script up there in Canada. | ||
| Could you not ma'am? | ||
| I was blown away by listening to those men, and I was thinking to myself that I wish we had people standing like that in our country. | ||
| Those truckers are doing exactly what people should be doing in every single country across the world, where they're forcing these tyrannical COVID mandates, where they have enforced shutdowns. | ||
| And most importantly, Steve, they said something that really struck me. | ||
| They talked about their children. | ||
| And they said they are doing this for their children and for their future. | ||
| And this is what every single American should be doing. | ||
| We should be standing up to the Biden administration and all of their tyrannical overreach and everything they're trying to do to our country. | ||
| Our wide open borders, skyrocketing crime, out of control inflation, gas prices at over seven year highs. | ||
| And now on the verge of going to war with Russia, and our Olympic athletes are competing in China, Communist China, where COVID-19 was made and released or escaped out of the lab. | ||
| It's almost too much to swallow, but God bless those trekkers in Canada. | ||
| I'll be praying for them, and I just want to see them to be successful. | ||
| They said they're at the epicenter of changes that are tough to predict. | ||
| They're coming in the matrix of politics, law, medicine, media, social media that churn. | ||
| Why do you think it's caught on at the grassroots level hard in Canada? | ||
| But here, I mean, we have the rallies from President Trump. | ||
| We have your rallies. | ||
| But we've seen huge marches in we've seen huge marches all throughout Europe. | ||
| We see this in Canada now We did have the medical with the medical tyranny March drew about 20 25,000 people here with Robert F. Kennedy jr. | ||
| And others a couple weeks ago, but you haven't seen the type of We're gonna get up in somebody's grill until they back down type of toughness and we're seeing that with our Canadian brothers and sisters right now Why do you think we're being much more passive about this? | ||
| Well, I think America is soft, if I have to be honest. | ||
| We've never truly suffered at the hands of government abuse and overreach, tyrannical governments, communism. | ||
| We've really never suffered that before. | ||
| This is the first time that we're actually seeing it. | ||
| And Americans don't know what to do. | ||
| They're frozen in fear. | ||
| I think many of them are maybe afraid based on how the pretrial January 6th defendants are being treated. | ||
| But, you know, you brought up the anti-vaccine march that was here in Washington just a few weeks ago, and it was. | ||
| It was a great turnout. | ||
| It was an amazing thing to see. | ||
| I'm thrilled with all the people that came and what they accomplished by using their freedom of speech. | ||
| I think we need to see more of it. | ||
| But what you just mentioned, you mentioned certain areas where we're seeing this combination. | ||
| Social media, you know, forcing people to be injected with something they do not want in their body and most people do not need. | ||
| And so much of this is coming through the government, but we're seeing it all over the world. | ||
| And, you know, it really is the silencing of speech. | ||
| It's the silencing of truth. | ||
| And that's why people in the grassroots are seeing it so clearly, because they aren't sheep. | ||
| They aren't brainwashed into what's spread across the controlled propaganda media in our country. | ||
| They're willing to see the truth, speak the truth, and hopefully stand up for the truth. | ||
| And that's what we need the people to do. | ||
| You talk about controlled, you know, the Republicans have essentially since 1968, whether the presidential level, the Senate, the House, all this, if you add it all up at state legislature, have won more elections than they've lost. | ||
| But in the process, as we've seen from what's happened since 20, January 2021, we've lost the country with these with those radical corporations, radical NGOs, the radicals on Capitol Hill. | ||
| The Republican Party has really acted as controlled opposition. | ||
| You've got an explosive interview, I guess, in the Washington Times that I've gone through, and they wrote an editorial on top of it, about you say, and it's gone viral today, there needs to be a civil war in the Republican Party to sort this out. | ||
| What specifically do you mean by that? | ||
| Well, you know, the whole reason I ran for Congress is not because I was trying to, well, of course I'm trying to stop the Democrat-Communist agenda in America, But really, I ran for Congress because I didn't have any trust and faith in Republicans anymore. | ||
| And what needs to be happening in our Republican conference is we need to be fighting for our identity. | ||
| And we need to be fighting to decide what kind of party are we going to be and who do we represent? | ||
| Are we going to be the party that continues to represent the corporate donors, you know, the big special interest groups, the ones that will hold hands with Democrats and give them exactly what they want? | ||
| That really puts money in the pocket of the UN, that puts money in these special interest groups that help these illegal aliens invade our border. | ||
| Are we going to be continuing to give these, you know, defense contract awarding millions and billions of dollars to these companies, private companies, that manufacture small arms so that we can just give them to other countries like Ukraine, like we're doing right now in Ukraine, and we have been doing this past year. | ||
| You know, what kind of party are we going to be? | ||
| The party we need to be, we need to be the party that represents the American people. | ||
| We need to represent the American worker. | ||
| We need to represent American traditional family values. | ||
| We need to be the Republican Party that works on getting rid of this massive national debt. | ||
| We need to be the Republican Party that's able to produce a budget that doesn't produce a loss, it can actually produce a profit. | ||
| We need to be the Republican Party that ends abortion and doesn't turn our back and turn our nose and keep voting to keep funding it. | ||
| But we need to be the Republican Party that does what we say we're going to do, the party that holds people accountable and ends corruption, because our voters are sick of it. | ||
| And I think our Republican voters are not going to trust us with their votes anymore until the Republican conference decides to be that party that puts Americans first. | ||
| Congressman Greene, how could it be that conference, correct me if I'm wrong, they made huge noise over the weekend about a censure of Cheney and Kinzinger, and I realize this was at the RNC, not your conference, but how are Cheney and Kinzinger still in the conference? | ||
| How can they sit there every night on TV and have Republican Next to their name and really go after President Trump and the Trump movement and the MAGA movement every day. | ||
| You've been down to the jail. | ||
| You've seen the prison where the January 6th political prisoners are. | ||
| How can you have two people? | ||
| And she's, I think, co-chair of this committee. | ||
| How could you have them that still has Republicans next to their name on national TV? | ||
| Well, that is what's frustrating and frankly very insulting for most people. | ||
| You know, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, there's many of us that wanted her kicked. | ||
| They wanted both of them. | ||
| We all want both of them kicked out of the conference, but we wanted it done a long time ago. | ||
| But here's the truth. | ||
| I think it's good for people to know. | ||
| They don't show their face in our conference. | ||
| They never come to our conference meetings, which I'm glad because they would not be welcome. | ||
| They wouldn't be allowed to come in. | ||
| But they're still a member and that's unfortunate. | ||
| Here's what I want to do, Steve. | ||
| We know Adam Kinzinger is not coming back. | ||
| Here's the other, the most important thing I think all of us can do is to make sure that Liz Cheney can never come back to Congress, that she is defeated this year in her election. | ||
| That's defeating her in the primary right now. | ||
| Everybody needs to get behind Harriet Hageman. | ||
| Get behind her. | ||
| We need to get her across the line and make sure that we defeat Liz Cheney. | ||
| That's priority number one to me because it's one thing we can play small ball and that's kicking Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger out of our conference, which I want to do, but I really want to, I'm one of those that wants to finish the game and I want the W and that would be defeating Liz Cheney and making sure that she never comes back. | ||
| Okay, we're going to ask, Congressman, if you can stay through the break, we have more to get to. | ||
| We also have Ambassador Friedman, his book is Sledgehammer. | ||
| It's how the Abraham Accords came together under the Trump administration. | ||
| You know, this is the most significant peace treaty ever in the history of the Middle East since the shattering of the old Middle East in World War I. Of course, the mainstream media never wants to talk about it, doesn't want to touch it. | ||
| We're going to have a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to turn with Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| She's going to tell us about the rise of China and the decline of America under these global elites. | ||
| Also, Ambassador David Freeman. | ||
| All next in The War Room. | ||
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It's all started, everything's begun, and you are over. | |
| Cause we're taking down the CCP. | ||
| Spread the word all through Hong Kong. | ||
| We will fight till they're all gone. | ||
| We rejoice when there's no more. | ||
| Let's take down the CCP. | ||
| They have all been taken down. | ||
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But Congressman Green, you said civil war. | |
| I understand you're in the you're up involved in the in the Senate primary up in Ohio backing J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| But when you say Civil War, does this mean the primary season starts March 1st in Texas, I think it ends in August in New Hampshire. | ||
| Are you saying to get involved in these primaries and make sure you have MAGA, America First, Trump winners of these primaries, it's just not about us taking 40 or 50 or 60 seats in November, it's taking 40 or 50, 60 seats with the right people that support President Trump's policies? | ||
| I mean it on multiple levels, Steve. | ||
| Yes, primaries are extremely important. | ||
| Take, for example, Texas 8. | ||
| I'm supporting Christian Collins. | ||
| I've endorsed him. | ||
| I'm going to work very hard. | ||
| I want to see him get across the line. | ||
| We have Dan Crenshaw, who endorsed Morgan Luttrell, and so that's one example. | ||
| Morgan Luttrell, unfortunately, I think, took campaign donations from Adam Kinzinger, and that's disappointing. | ||
| We don't want that type of Republican presence in the conference anymore. | ||
| I'm sure Morgan's a nice guy, but I'm really supporting Christian Collins, and I hope a lot of people there in Texas 8 will come out and support him and vote for him as well. | ||
| But yeah, primaries are so important. | ||
| Up in Ohio, J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| is the guy that I'm completely getting behind for Senate in Ohio. | ||
| J.D. is a true American patriot. | ||
| He's America first all the way. | ||
| I've had a lot of discussions with him. | ||
| I'm very excited about him, and I really hope the people in Ohio will get to know J.D. | ||
| more and help get him across the line in his primary. | ||
| And there's many other primaries going on across the country where here's the opportunity for people to pick more of an America first type of candidate versus an establishment I'll give you a very good example. | ||
| The Tennessee Five Race, I've endorsed, I'm supporting Robbie Starbuck. | ||
| But there's, unfortunately, President Trump endorsed Morgan Ortagus. | ||
| She was part of the State Department in his administration. | ||
| But I was really disappointed to see an email that came out of hers that said she looks forward to faithfully, faithfully serving the incoming Biden administration. | ||
| And she sent that email out on January 19th, only six days, six days, Steve, after Nancy Pelosi led the effort to impeach Trump for the second time. | ||
| So that's really hard for me to swallow. | ||
| A lot of people in Tennessee don't like it. | ||
| The base doesn't like it. | ||
| They are crying foul on this one. | ||
| So we're all getting behind Robbie Starbuck because we know who he is. | ||
| He's definitely all MAGA, America First, and I think he'd make a great member of Congress to faithfully serve the people in Tennessee. | ||
| And he's lived there for a while. | ||
| I think what I heard is, unfortunately, Morgan hasn't even lived there for a whole year. | ||
| But Robbie has a lot of support there in Tennessee, and I think that's going to be an exciting race to watch. | ||
| But what I'm talking about when I say the GOP Civil War, Steve, I'm talking about our values. | ||
| I'm talking about our agenda. | ||
| And I'm talking about winning races based on what our agenda is going to be, who Republicans are essentially at our core. | ||
| We need to do better and not winning based on Biden's failures. | ||
| I really want to see our Republican conference Actually do the work for our voters and serve America first, instead of just being part of the unit party in Washington, which has led us to this failure where we are now. | ||
| Okay, I think certain people are listening because you and Congressman Gates were on here talking about a new theory of governing of really using committees to be oversight committees. | ||
| If our operations center in Denver can please pull the clip from Maria Bartiroba right now? | ||
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Extraordinary. | |
| I mean, we know that the CCP is an adversary of the United States. | ||
| What are you going to do about this? | ||
| We know that Peter Schweitzer also reported that the Biden family accepted $31 million from the CCP. | ||
| So there is a serious question of potential conflict of interest here. | ||
| Are you going to investigate this? | ||
| Should you take the House majority? | ||
| Yeah, not just this, but we'll take action. | ||
| When we take the majority, we will create that committee on China. | ||
| And it would be a bipartisan committee, so you have one American voice on how we can compete. | ||
| Where China comes in and captures the critical minerals. | ||
| When they come in and capture our medical supply and others. | ||
| We will no longer help. | ||
| We will investigate the origins of COVID. | ||
| We'll investigate the AG's research into calling parents terrorists. | ||
| We'll investigate Afghanistan. | ||
| Afghanistan withdrawal. | ||
| Why did we have 13 new Gold Star families? | ||
| Because this president closed Bagram that allowed a suicide bomber out that killed the individual. | ||
| The release of American taxpayers' reports. | ||
| Why is that being allowed? | ||
| There is a lot of places that we can hold him accountable, but Peter's book raises a lot of questions that need to be answered, and we might have to go further. | ||
| We might have to be able to have a further investigation. | ||
| Congressman Green, this really looks like a litany of what you've been outlining for months and months and months. | ||
| Is the leadership in the House now getting serious that, hey, when we take the House, it's going to be no more happy talk, we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what's been going on and take action around it, ma'am? | ||
| Yeah, well, Steve, I'm going to give credit where credit is due. | ||
| Yes, they actually are. | ||
| What you just heard Kevin McCarthy talking about is what I've heard behind closed doors for quite some time now. | ||
| And this is the change that we want to see, right? | ||
| So these are the things that are being talked about, but I definitely want to see them become action. | ||
| That's the most important thing to our people is action, not just promises. | ||
| But yes, these are the things that Kevin McCarthy and leadership is talking about. | ||
| Actually, we're talking about it through our whole conference. | ||
| We aren't going to tolerate this anymore. | ||
| There needs to be accountability, and there's real oversight that needs to be done. | ||
| Now, you've heard Matt Gaetz and I crying for it from day one of this Congress. | ||
| You've heard us calling for all these things. | ||
| And you've heard like me and other members of House Freedom Caucus, we've been pushing on the forefront. | ||
| But it is something different. | ||
| I know people are maybe surprised to hear Kevin McCarthy say those things, but this is part of the things that he's planning. | ||
| But we also need to be pushing harder, pushing further. | ||
| And never allowing the Democrats to abuse the American people like they have for the past year and abuse our Constitution and abuse our institutions like the House of Representatives and the White House. | ||
| It's all gone too far. | ||
| So we just have to make sure that we hold everyone's feet to the fire and make sure these promises follow through. | ||
| You've got a very perceptive tweet, if our guys in Denver could put it up as I ask you this question on split screen. | ||
| You have a tweet up today saying, in 2050, the Chinese Communist Party, our existential threat and mortal enemy, has a plan to have world hegemony, yet the United States' plan is to be, what, net carbon neutral. | ||
| Why did you put that up, and what's the point you're trying to make? | ||
| Well, this is all about Ukraine. | ||
| Some of this is about Ukraine, but actually this is where I'm pushing my Republican conference to go further. | ||
| The entire country, actually, we need to come together on this one. | ||
| This is where we need to put political parties aside, and we need to be united as Americans against China. | ||
| And the reason why 2050 is so relevant there is because the Biden administration, the Democrats, the progressives, all of them together, want America to be net zero carbon output by 2050. | ||
| And the reason why President Xi says China is going to be the number one superpower by 2050 is because if America is net zero carbon output... | ||
| That means we are not creating any energy whatsoever. | ||
| That means we have taken our manufacturing practically down to nothing. | ||
| And that means America isn't is no longer leading We're no longer leading economically. | ||
| We're no longer building. | ||
| We are no longer doing anything. | ||
| We'll be completely dependent on China by 2050 and by other countries in the world. | ||
| So President Xi is very smart. | ||
| China is very smart and they're patient. | ||
| They're willing to let America destroy ourselves based on these ridiculous climate change theories and based on this very idea that we need to bring down our carbon output down to zero. | ||
| Which is the decision to destroy America economically. | ||
| And so that's what I was talking about. | ||
| But also, talking about Ukraine, I had a second tweet attached to that one. | ||
| Here's what's going on with Ukraine. | ||
| It's not about democracy. | ||
| That's not what this Russian buildup is. | ||
| This is about fighting over oil and gas contracts for Germany and Europe. | ||
| And so Putin and Xi have outsmarted Joe Biden, and they've just made a deal this past week. | ||
| They've made a deal for oil and gas sales, where Russia will be selling oil and gas. | ||
| I think it's like $117.5 billion contract. | ||
| So, Russia isn't so concerned about Nord Stream 2, unfortunately. | ||
| He just made a big deal and signed a big oil and gas contract with China. | ||
| But here's what's happening. | ||
| Now, the United States has heavily gotten involved, and this has been going on. | ||
| It's just people haven't been paying attention and talking about it, but it's been going on this year. | ||
| People are, they're working hard, the U.S. | ||
| is working hard to try to get in on delivering natural gas to Germany and Europe. | ||
| But I want you to think how insulting that is. | ||
| Like Tucker Carlson talks about how the Biden administration doesn't care about America's borders, but they're so concerned about Ukraine's borders. | ||
| Think about how the Biden administration doesn't care about our gas prices at the pump. | ||
| They don't care about our energy independence. | ||
| They're so concerned about making sure that they can deliver natural gas to Germany and the rest of Europe. | ||
| They're so concerned with making sure that our taxpayers can pay for small arms deals, delivering, I think we're almost to three billion now, delivering military supplies to Ukraine instead of taking care of our own country. | ||
| So the insult is severe and the Biden administration is failing America. | ||
| Congressman, we'll get your social media up, and particularly your SassPak, all the information out there so people can find out more and support your efforts. | ||
| Thank you very much for joining us here today. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene next. | ||
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Ambassador David Friedman. | |
| Long ago, Isaac and Ishmael, the sons of Abraham, reconciled to bury their father. | ||
| But for over 3,000 years, their descendants have been in almost constant conflict. | ||
| Recently, miraculously, the children of Abraham began reconciling, moving together toward peace in Jerusalem. | ||
| The ambassadors of the United Arab Emirates. | ||
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What assigned it for tens of the present? | |
| We want people to have more confidence in their future. | ||
| I hope in 2,000 years people will look back to this era and say that was the turning point. | ||
| History making progress. | ||
| Nobody's done more for Israel than I have and nobody's done more for Israel than you have. | ||
| Don't miss the conclusion of this four-part series. | ||
| There are nearly 10 of us in the room but we burst into a spontaneous applause. | ||
| You understand you changed the world. | ||
| Have Ambassador David Friedman, the book is Sledgehammers, the complete inside story of how Ambassador Friedman, a team around him, and President Trump were able to hammer out this historic accord. | ||
| David Friedman is the son of an Orthodox rabbi. | ||
| He's renowned as one of Wall Street's smartest guys and one of the best negotiators, had no diplomatic or foreign policy experience when he took this job as ambassador to Israel. | ||
| So, first, Ambassador Friedman, what is the Abraham Accords? | ||
| Why is it so historic, and why is it so important today? | ||
| Well, it's a normalization, a series of normalization agreements between Israel and five Muslim nations, beginning with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco, and Kosovo. | ||
| Five Muslim countries. | ||
| We haven't had progress in the Middle East for a generation. | ||
| Not since a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994, one with Egypt in 1978. | ||
| That was it. | ||
| The Middle East, especially Israel and its neighbors, have been in conflict and it's been a horrible debilitating bloody conflict for a generation. And the Abraham Accords begins to end that. It doesn't completely end it, but it begins to end that. And what it does is it really realigns the region, not as a coalition among countries, but a coalition among ideologies. The moderates | ||
| in the region, Israel, UAE, Morocco, Bahrain, these are countries that are all fighting radical Islamic terrorism. | ||
| They all have this common enemy, primarily in Iran. | ||
| And so, that universal hostility against radicalism has now formed the basis of a new Middle East. | ||
| A Middle East which is now a significant alliance among moderate countries. | ||
| It changes the Middle East. | ||
| It changes the threat profile of the United States. | ||
| It makes it less likely that Americans will ever have to go back to the Middle East to fight wars. | ||
| It creates massive opportunity for Israel, our most important ally in the region, in fields of national security technology. | ||
| And it makes allies like the Emirates, which are becoming an increasingly more important ally, it's located only about 30 miles across the Strait of Hormuz from Iran, it makes the Emirates stronger. | ||
| It brings Saudi Arabia into the fold. | ||
| I think if we were still in office, Saudi would be part of this arrangement. | ||
| When we fly now from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, we cross over Saudi airspace. | ||
| That itself was unthinkable only about, you know, a year ago. | ||
| So, we are changing the Middle East where we're bringing to the Arab world a collection of political thinkers that really want to embrace modernity for the first time, bring the Arab world into the 21st century and beyond. | ||
| And but most importantly, we've made a series of agreements that make America safer and more secure and less likely to have to fight wars overseas. | ||
| Ambassador, how did it take? | ||
| I think this is an amazing thing, and the book is Sledgehammer. | ||
| I recommend everybody that's got an interest in this topic, you've got to get this. | ||
| And if you have an interest in national security, you've got to get this, because the inside story of Ambassador Friedman and President Trump doing this. | ||
| How was it that a president who was an entrepreneur Right, with limited foreign policy experience and a renowned deal guy on Wall Street doing restructurings, bankruptcies, reorganizations with limited diplomatic background. | ||
| Why was it you two that were able to do and kind of reconceive what all the brainiacs, all the smartest guys in the room, you hear them all the time on TV pontificate about this. | ||
| Why was it two outsiders that could actually conceive of it and then execute on it? | ||
| Well, because he needed outsiders, because the conventional wisdom was was was flawed. | ||
| But so many of these people were deeply invested in the conventional wisdom. | ||
| What there was that famous quote by Secretary of State Kerry in 2016. | ||
| You know, he he dispelled the notion that Israel can make peace with any country without first making peace with the Palestinians. | ||
| He said, you know, it can't be done. | ||
| It absolutely positively can't be done. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| You know, we did it now. | ||
| You know, we came to this with a with a different approach. | ||
| We listen to everybody. | ||
| We listen to all the political elites. | ||
| We listen to all the all the guys all the all the smart people who talk on TV and we asked sort of a simple question has have any of these guys managed to succeed in anything that they're talking about, you know, what have they done since 1994? | ||
| It's been it's been a generation. | ||
| You know, is there anything we could point to in any of the work of any of these professional diplomats, professional pundits, academics? | ||
| Is there anything we can point to that we want to import into our administration? | ||
| Or do we want to take another swing at it from a different angle? | ||
| And the failure of the last 25 years in the Middle East has been breathtaking. | ||
| And we didn't see anything there we liked. | ||
| And so the president and I and Jared and Pompeo and a couple of others, we looked at this and said, let's try something different. | ||
| It's not working. | ||
| And the most important thing was really to just use common sense that we all You know, we're able to import from our life experiences whether in business or law, you know, what do people need? | ||
| What do they want? | ||
| What can they give up? | ||
| What do they have to have? | ||
| What are the you know, what are the points of leverage? | ||
| What are the points that can be that can be traded and and ultimately what's so special about these agreements is that you know, everyone up until this point had said Israel can only have peace in the region if it gives up large swaths of land. | ||
| And not just any land, you know, land that if they give it up would pose an enormous security risk to Israel and land if they give it up, they would be betraying their own biblical heritage because most of this land that the Palestinians want is the land where the Bible, you know, the activities of the Bible took place. | ||
| Everyone said you got to give it up in order to make peace. | ||
| And, you know, all of our discussions suggested that was wrong. | ||
| That just wasn't true. | ||
| What's special about the Abraham Accords, this isn't land for peace. | ||
| This is peace for peace. | ||
| These are two countries. | ||
| Let's start with, you know, Israel and the Emirates. | ||
| Two, you know, very advanced countries with a lot of history and a lot of national pride and a lot to be thankful for. | ||
| These are two countries that said, you know what? | ||
| We are better off being together than apart. | ||
| You don't have to give us land. | ||
| We don't have to give you land. | ||
| We don't have to trade anything. | ||
| This is not conditioned upon any, you know, any quid pro quo. | ||
| We are just better off being together than apart. | ||
| And after we we made that deal, and we began to implement it, what we found was not only did the piece, you know, was it embraced at the leadership level, but the people, the people began to really embrace each other. | ||
| And that just led to, I mean, today you go to the airport in Tel Aviv, you look at the at the screen at the airport, you'll see more flights going to Manama, Dubai and Abu Dhabi than maybe any other place in the world, including the United States. | ||
| I mean, these people are deeply embracing each other's heritage, their culture, their science, their education, their technology. | ||
| And it's wonderful to see. | ||
| I told this to President Trump the last time I met with him that, you know, so I'm an Orthodox Jew and I try to keep kosher and it's easier for me now to get a kosher sandwich in Abu Dhabi than a kosher sandwich in Washington, D.C. | ||
| And that's that's how things have changed. | ||
| That's the next part I want to get to. | ||
| If you read about it, by the way, everybody should get sledgehammer because you can see what President Trump was up against when I talk about the administrative state. | ||
| In all your fights and getting into it, in these tough negotiations, you've got the whole Iran situation. | ||
| Two of the toughest things you've got, you know, Jared, Avi, you, the President, and then bringing in Pompeo, is one, the foreign policy establishment at the State Department, and the other is progressive Jewish organizations like J Street, who really come after you from the time you're nominated. | ||
| The entire time. | ||
| Walk through the domestic fights you had to have. | ||
| One, the apparatus, and two, really progressive Democrats. | ||
| Well, the internal fights were the toughest. | ||
| You know, we had much more trouble with our own government and, to a certain extent, our own people than with anyone else. | ||
| Look, I'll give you an example. | ||
| When I got there to Jerusalem in May of 2017, it was the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, where Jerusalem became a unified city under Israeli control. | ||
| And they had a big ceremony planned and I was invited to go and attend Jerusalem Day with the Prime Minister of Israel. | ||
| And I'm about to leave two hours before I get there. | ||
| I get a call from the State Department and they tell me you can't go. | ||
| And I said, why not? | ||
| They said, well, you know, Jerusalem Day is very controversial. | ||
| It's the Israelis like it, the Palestinians don't. | ||
| I said, well, you know, on Jerusalem Day, which is, you know, in June of 1967, when it was reunited, on Jerusalem Day, the Western Wall, the most holy prayer site of the Jewish people, was converted from a parking lot for camels and donkeys, which is what the Jordanians use it for. | ||
| To a holy plaza in which Jewish people could finally return to the remnants of their ancient temple and pray. | ||
| Why would I not be celebrating that? | ||
| Why would anybody not be celebrating that? | ||
| They said, well, you can't go. | ||
| You just don't understand. | ||
| You can't go. | ||
| So I said, look, do this. | ||
| Take down this number. | ||
| And call the guy on the other end of the phone. | ||
| And when you get him on the phone, he tells you, he tells you that I shouldn't go. | ||
| I won't go. | ||
| But unless he calls me, I'm not going. | ||
| So who's that? | ||
| I said, well, it's Donald Trump's number. | ||
| You call him, and I'm sure he really wants to hear from you. | ||
| I'm sure he'd love to hear from you. | ||
| Call him up and tell him what you think. | ||
| And if he calls me, great, I won't go. | ||
| And the truth is that that attitude, which is sort of the derivation of the book, why I use the word sledgehammer, you had to have that attitude going in. | ||
| If you go into a job like this, and you just want to get along, You want to be friends with all the elites, all the professionals who've been handling American foreign policy for a generation. | ||
| If you want to be taken by them and be accepted by them, you have no chance. | ||
| You have no chance of success. | ||
| You have to be willing to use the fact that you work for a president who was elected by the American people. | ||
| And we're going to do the will of the American people, not the will of an unelected bureaucracy that exists in Washington, D.C. | ||
| And, you know, in the book, there are obviously other stories. | ||
| Oh, no, it's one story after the next about you working with the president. | ||
| And we've got a minute here, and I'd love to keep you through to the break. | ||
| The book is Sledgehammer. | ||
| As you see it today, you've seen this announcement at the start of the genocide games in Beijing, where the transnational criminal organization, the CCP, is announcing a strategic partnership. | ||
| We've lost a lot of ground in the past year. | ||
| I mean, the world is all connected. | ||
| in Iran. What is your sense of the geostrategic position right now, given the Abraham Accords have been signed and obviously implemented? You just talked about the transportation. | ||
| What are your thoughts today of where we stand? | ||
| Dr. David M. Barker, Chief Executive Officer, Abraham Accords We've lost a lot of ground in the past year. I mean, the world is all connected. So the Abraham Accords, you know, among themselves are still doing fine. | ||
| The relationships are growing for good reason. It's in the interests of all the countries and their people. | ||
| But everyone's getting nervous. They're all getting, you know, everybody's getting really nervous about where things are. The new alliance between Russia and China, you know, where they're now lecturing. | ||
| They put out a statement on Friday, they're lecturing the United States on human rights and democracy. | ||
| One country about to invade another sovereign nation, another country that holds a million ethnic Muslims in concentration camps, and they're going to lecture the United States on human rights and democracy. | ||
| The Iranians are just a step behind. | ||
| We're chasing Iran. | ||
| We're relieving sanctions. | ||
| We're giving up sanctions on Iran. | ||
| They're giving us nothing in return. | ||
| All these things cause all these countries, you know, Israel, UAE, Bahrain, you know, it's in a tough part of the world. | ||
| It's in a dangerous neighborhood. | ||
| And they're watching and they're seeing the Biden administration make this neighborhood much more dangerous. | ||
| Ambassador, hang on for one second. | ||
| We want to get to you. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return with President Trump's ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. | ||
| The new book is Sledgehammer. | ||
| I'll be back in a moment. | ||
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| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| The book is Sledgehammer. | ||
| It's a page-turner. | ||
| I read it in one sitting. | ||
| I couldn't put it down. | ||
| It's got amazing stories of President Trump and how a group of outsiders actually got the most significant Middle East accords, really, in living memory. | ||
| Ambassador David Friedman joins us. | ||
| Ambassador, we're pressed for time. | ||
| I just got to ask you, you've got China and, you know, Well, the Middle East is going to become a dangerous place again, because Iran is going to gain power by reason of U.S. | ||
| the most dangerous actor in the Middle East. Where is the Middle East fall into this geostrategic calculation between Russia, China, the Mulas as they try to consolidate the landmass, the Eurasian landmass, sir? Well, the Middle East is going to become a dangerous place again because it's going, Iran is going to gain power by reason of U.S. | ||
| weakness. We are, look, you know, There's every every 10 years or so there's there's a picture that moves the world. | ||
| You know, you had the Vietnamese priest who self-immolated in Hanoi and that captivated a nation. | ||
| Well, that picture in Afghanistan of Afghanis hanging on to the window wells of an American Air Force fighter that was evacuating Kabul with so many people left behind. | ||
| That's that's seared into the psyche of so many people in the world and people just it's going to take a lot of work to undo that. | ||
| And as a result China and Russia are I think, you know, they're on the March and they're they're they're consolidating. | ||
| They're going to bring in the Iranians and we're going to have a very dangerous, you know, the Japanese the Taiwanese and the countries in the Middle East, especially the ones across the Straits of Hormuz are going to be in danger and we have to come to We have to get our mojo back. | ||
| We have to get our strength back. | ||
| I mean, I don't know how we're going to do it with this leadership. | ||
| I don't see it. | ||
| But it just shows you how fragile the world is. | ||
| In just one year, we have surrendered almost all the strength that we so carefully built up during the Trump administration. | ||
| Ambassador Friedman, how do people get the book? | ||
| I know it's on Amazon. | ||
| It's in bookstores tomorrow. | ||
| How else can they get to you? | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| What's your website? | ||
| Well, Sledgehammerbook.com. | ||
| Sledgehammerbook.com gets you to all the retailers. | ||
| It also gets you a nice gallery of about a hundred pictures that sort of support the narrative, all the narrative and pictures, so people can look at that. | ||
| All the retailers will have it tomorrow. | ||
| Of course, it's on Amazon. | ||
| Okay, as soon as we hear if you get any public lectures, then we'll put them up. | ||
| Ambassador Friedman, David Friedman, author of Sledgehammer, President Trump's Ambassador to Israel. | ||
| Thank you very much for joining us. | ||
| The book's amazing. | ||
| It's a page-turner. | ||
| Anybody who's got an interest in this area or really interested in geopolitics should get it. | ||
| Sir, thank you. | ||
| Great book. | ||
| Thank you for joining us. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Best of luck to you. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Okay, we're going to go now from Israel in the Middle East to Arizona to get to the bottom of 3 November. | ||
| Boris Epstein joins us. | ||
| Boris, breaking news out of Arizona. | ||
| It's kind of conflicting information. | ||
| What the heck is going on out there? | ||
| Let me break it down real quick, Steve. | ||
| You went from desert in Arizona to desert in Israel to desert in Arizona. | ||
| I just got here. | ||
| Here's the bottom line. | ||
| In the Senate, State Senate President Karen Fann did not allow for an in-depth public presentation of further evidence of fraud to take place. | ||
| Huge mistake by her. | ||
| But that information has been now turned over to Attorney General Bronowich to put further pressure on him to act. | ||
| But vitally, in the House, Mark Fincham has dropped a resolution. | ||
| It is now public. | ||
| The Arizona House Republicans just tweeted about it. | ||
| There's going to be more statements going out about it. | ||
| He has now dropped a resolution, introduced a resolution to decertify three counties, Maricopa, Yuma, And that would reclaim the electors from right here in Arizona. | ||
| And that means that this is the second state in the union now, Wisconsin and Arizona, to put a resolution on the floor, on the floor, to decertify and to reclaim the electors. | ||
| And now the time is to put every piece of pressure possible, of course, coloring within the lines, On every legislator in Arizona, in the House and the Senate, to support this resolution and to reclaim Arizona's electors from Joe Biden. | ||
| Is this optics or is this, do you think it's meaningful? | ||
| Has the Karen fan situation today offset this? | ||
| Look, you've been second deed out there to sort this mess out. | ||
| Is this optics or is this real? | ||
| No, this is real. | ||
| This is a signal, not noise. | ||
| CanFan is just—that's noise. | ||
| She's standing in the way of the freight train of decertification. | ||
| She knows what's coming, and she made a huge mistake today, a huge political mistake. | ||
| But hey, she's retiring. | ||
| Maybe she doesn't care anymore. | ||
| But for those of us who care about this country, who care about the truth, who know that the 2020 election was stolen, This move today in the House is absolutely major, and it is groundbreaking. | ||
| This is not optics. | ||
| This is reality. | ||
| And this is the action, action, action we've been working for. | ||
| And this is why I've been here. | ||
| This is what I've been pushing for the whole time I've been here. | ||
| Huge kudos to Mark Fincham, running for Secretary of State here in Arizona. | ||
| And again, every single patriot House and the Senate who signs on to this will show that they are truly American patriots, that they're truly MAGA, that they stand with the War Room Posse, with the MAGA movement under the leadership of President Trump. | ||
| For those who do not, we know that they're rhinos. | ||
| That would be a huge political mistake, and they will be digging their political graves by not signing on to this resolution to reclaim the electors right here in Arizona. | ||
| OK, we're going to be back at 10 o'clock tomorrow, but we're going to be all night on Getter. | ||
| But your Getter account, how do people get to you on social media? | ||
| Because we're going to keep up with a lot happening in Arizona right now. | ||
| This is huge. | ||
| This is the biggest news we've had is the Wisconsin introduction of a resolution to reclaim. | ||
| But really, it's even bigger here in Arizona because there's more people, there are more members in the House and the Senate who are supporting it. | ||
| And the groundswell in Wisconsin is rising as well. | ||
| It's going to be major news in Pennsylvania and Georgia throughout the week. | ||
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| Stay strong. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| All eyes on Arizona. | ||
| I'll see you tomorrow. | ||
| Okay, massive redistricting fight. | ||
| You see in the New York Times, the front page of the New York Times, talking about the war rooms. | ||
| We've been talking about it for months, about this massive redistricting. | ||
| We're going to get into that tomorrow. | ||
| We're going to get into the polling tomorrow. | ||
| We're going to get into economics, finance. | ||
| They're trying to pass a bill that's got $200 billion plus of additional spending over top of the $1 trillion deficit. |
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