Feb. 25, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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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. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Hi, it's Friday, 25 February, Year of Our Lord 2022. | ||
| I want to thank all of our distribution partners, Real America's Voice, Coast John Frederick Radio Network, and particularly GNews and GTV. | ||
| This is simulcast in Mandarin. | ||
| The heart of this problem is the center of gravity of this problem is the existential threat of the criminal element, not in Moscow. | ||
| As bad as they are, and they are a criminal element. | ||
| But the criminal element in Beijing. | ||
| We just finished kowtowing to them at the Winter Games. | ||
| Boy, doesn't that Olympic spirit really last? | ||
| Sochi was such a good tee-up to Crimea. | ||
| This is such a good tee-up to Ukraine. | ||
| It's so phony. | ||
| All the happy talk. | ||
| MSNBC, Mike Tirico, all the happy talk. | ||
| Humiliating. | ||
| Absolutely humiliating. | ||
| So now the center of gravity of this, the real geopolitical showdown, is between the Chinese Communist Party on the Eurasian landmass and the United States with Silicon Valley West, the South China Sea and Taiwan. | ||
| By the way, a guy on a radio show, I think it was in 2015, Said within five to seven years, we're gonna be in a shooting war in the South China Sea. | ||
| That guy was Stephen K. Bannon, okay? | ||
| Because I sailed the South China Sea as a young naval officer back in the 70s, and you could tell right then, it was gonna be a world hotspot. | ||
| Never thought it would turn into what it is today, with the Chinese Communist Party, basically, which had no navy, essentially had no navy back then. | ||
| The reach of the Chinese Communist Party is pretty extraordinary. | ||
| It's got to be thwarted. | ||
| It's got to be thwarted by the Lao Bajing. | ||
| Only the Chinese people can overthrow The Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Bill Gertz, in Taiwan, my working thesis, and reasonable men can disagree, and you're the expert because nobody's covered this better than Bill Gertz for decades. | ||
| I say that, you know, a third of the folks in Taiwan are either closet or active sympathizers with the CCP. | ||
| And in any situation we had there, we'd have two thirds of the Taiwanese people in back of us calling for us to come to their aid, being supportive. | ||
| I think you've got a fifth column, and I think that fifth column is up to a third of the Taiwanese. | ||
| Do you disagree, Bill Gertz? | ||
| There's no question that China, mainland communist China, has launched a massive information warfare operation against Taiwan. | ||
| They've infiltrated the media. | ||
| That said, the ruling DPP party, Democratic Progressive Party, is firmly against the Communist Party taking over the country. | ||
| They understand that China's formulation for talks with Taiwan is a formula for Hong Kong, basically eliminating all democracy on the island. | ||
| So, I think the Hong Kong situation has made clear to most Taiwanese that it's never going to happen under communist rule in China. | ||
| On the other hand, Taiwan has been building up its defenses. | ||
| It now has developed missiles capable of ranging Shanghai. | ||
| This is a very significant deterrent. | ||
| Any amphibious assault, any attack, which would begin with Chinese missiles raining down on Taiwan, will be responded with blowing up Shanghai, the financial heartland of China. | ||
| So, things are looking good. | ||
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I think under Trump, we saw... Hang on. | |
| Whoa, whoa, whoa. | ||
| When you say things are looking good, I want everybody to understand something. | ||
| I want to bring Cortez and Tierman back in here a second. | ||
| What you just said is, now what's happening in the Ukraine because of what the party of Davos gave false hopes to these folks in Ukraine about this, that can be contained. | ||
| The law of unintended consequences, it could always spin out of control, but that, and Tierman's point, that is containable. | ||
| You start flying combat sorties of the Chinese Communist Party, the PLA Air Force run thing, they light off one to Shanghai, trust me baby, that is the guns of August right there. | ||
| That's where it will come, it will all come unwound. | ||
| And I'm not saying go offensive on it, my point is, this is a tinderbox. | ||
| Look at this collection of clowns you see on TV. | ||
| The defense of the West, the defense of this Republic, now lays in the hands of people like Jake Sullivan, people like Tony Blinken, people like Kamala Harris, people like General Austin, people like Joe Biden. | ||
| I want you to see the Adams family up there every day on TV. | ||
| See this clown show. | ||
| Where they can't even think, sanctions are going to deter, sanctions are going to deter, sanctions are going to deter. | ||
| So on January 2nd, Biden comes up there and says, and throws in a Putin, don't you dare do anything in Ukraine because you're going to pay a huge price. | ||
| We're going to be there. | ||
| Zelensky last night on national TV said, where are you guys? | ||
| Where are you guys? | ||
| We got the guys in the legislature walking patrol with weapons they don't even know how to shoot. | ||
| We got civilians sitting there and they're putting in their pockets hand grenades to go around. | ||
| That's what the West's done. | ||
| In the South China Sea and Taiwan, trust me, this is big league, okay? | ||
| This is no regional conflict. | ||
| When the Taiwanese get their back up and stuff starts moving and they light one off to Shanghai, hey, Katy, bar the door. | ||
| You have no earthy idea what the Chinese Communist Party is capable of. | ||
| Let me just say something. | ||
| In World War II, the Chinese, I think, Bill, it's estimated 20 to 35 million. | ||
| We still don't have a head count. | ||
| Miles Guo and the guys will tell you the Chinese Communist Party doesn't care how many Chinese people die. | ||
| They've killed 90 to 100 million themselves besides aborting 400 million. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| If they lost a couple of hundred million Chinese in some conflict to take down the West or to solidify the hegemony, they don't care about the Chinese people. | ||
| They don't care about Lai Bai Jing. | ||
| Lai Bai Jing understands that. | ||
| We are playing with fire right now. | ||
| And there's no putting this back. | ||
| If this thing starts to crab sideways, okay? | ||
| And you got all the deep thinkers on Morning Joe and all these people, all these clowns they got up there. | ||
| Look at what they've done to the Ukraine right now. | ||
| Look at the situation we have. | ||
| 100% brought on there. | ||
| You see the quality of their character in Afghanistan. | ||
| And now you're seeing it in the bloodlands of Eastern Europe, in Eurasia. | ||
| Wait till that same incompetence, recklessness, malfeasance comes to the South China Sea and Taiwan. | ||
| Because you're not going to put this genie back in the bottle. | ||
| And you've got these stone-cold killers in Beijing, and that's what they are, the stone-cold killers. | ||
| And remember, it's not just the Americans of the West, or the Japanese, or the Australians. | ||
| They don't care how many of their own citizens die. | ||
| They could care less. | ||
| Whatever it takes to perpetuate their gangster rule. | ||
| So when Bill Gertz says, hey, these guys are armed up, and the Taiwanese are tough hombres, and they can light off into Shanghai, hey, if you're living in Kansas City today, you're living in San Francisco today, you're living in San Antonio, Texas today, you better sit at the edge of your seat and start paying attention to this, okay? | ||
| This is signal, not noise. | ||
| What you're hearing on this crap on the mainstream media, and even a lot on Fox, is all noise. | ||
| Lindsey Graham or whoever. | ||
| These people are getting us into a situation that is irreversible. | ||
| And once it gets thrown down, it's just going to develop. | ||
| Go read Tuchman's The Guns of August. | ||
| You can see how quickly this thing unfolds. | ||
| Bill Gertz, any other final words for us before we let you go? | ||
| Well, I think that the situation in the Ukraine is definitely looking like the Ukrainians can hold out a little bit. | ||
| The latest intel is that the Russian advance is bogging down. | ||
| And I think it's very significant. | ||
| This is key. | ||
| Putin needs to be defeated in Ukraine in order to send the signal to Xi Jinping that he cannot try and take Taiwan. | ||
| Okay, so let's assume that... So what you're telling me, if he's not defeated in the Ukraine... Because nobody's coming to their defense, dude. | ||
| They're not going to come to their defense. | ||
| Not one... You tell me the guys in... Macron's going to send guys down there? | ||
| You're telling me the guys in Berlin? | ||
| Guys in Rome? | ||
| Give me a capital. | ||
| Big talk in Boris Johnson? | ||
| Big talk in Joe Biden? | ||
| What you're telling me is, if we have to defeat Putin in the Ukraine, and that's the entry level to keep Xi from going, then guess what? | ||
| People better hunker down right now, because it's going to get ugly fast. | ||
| Well, I'll tell you this, the sanctions on Russia are going to drive Putin even closer to Beijing, and that's a real problem. | ||
| But clearly, I think he can overreach here, and I think he can be defeated ultimately. | ||
| I've been in Ukraine several times, including when it was a Soviet vassal state, and I can tell you one thing. | ||
| The Ukrainians have one enemy, and it's the Russians. | ||
| And they're going to fight. | ||
| They're going to fight to the end. | ||
| Bill Gertz, how do people get to you on social media? | ||
| How do they get to you at the Washington Times? | ||
| Your pieces are great. | ||
| They're must-reads. | ||
| How do they get to you? | ||
| At Bill Gertz and WashingtonTimes.com or GertzFile.com, my website. | ||
| Love you, brother. | ||
| Glad to have you back on the show. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Keep up the great work. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| Let me go back to Tierman. | ||
| Cortez, hang around there. | ||
| Tierman, is Bill Gertz right? | ||
| By the way, I thought the polls, I thought you guys told me for years all you guys were Europeans. | ||
| Scratch you guys a little bit and you're all Slavs. | ||
| That's what you're telling me. | ||
| You got the Slav super manhood, super macho. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Is that what we're saying? | ||
| Is Gertz right? | ||
| Is Gertz right? | ||
| Two things matter. | ||
| Culture matters and geography matters. | ||
| Geography is destiny and culture reinforces that. | ||
| And there is a Slavic culture and you've got this geography that has led to the Bloodlands destiny of Central and Eastern Europe. | ||
| There's one country in NATO that may end up sending troops if they feel that the threat is continuing to move toward the NATO border and NATO does nothing. | ||
| You have to keep in mind that NATO exists to defend NATO member states. | ||
| So if NATO were to send troops to Ukraine, A. U.S. | ||
| is running NATO. | ||
| U.S. | ||
| pays for it. | ||
| It's U.S. | ||
| troops predominantly. | ||
| But they would have to have unanimity. | ||
| And that ain't gonna happen. | ||
| Getting Greece. | ||
| I mean, sure you get Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. | ||
| But getting Greece and Spain and Scandinavian countries? | ||
| No way. | ||
| But Poland, if they feel those troops are deciding that they want to actually take down all of Ukraine, and they want to take it all the way to beyond Lviv, to Przemysl and Medica, the walkthrough border, then I could see Polish troops going, and Poland's military is strong. | ||
| Poland's been paying 2% for 15-plus years. | ||
| They've been paying 2.5% the last couple years. | ||
| And they're moving at 3%. | ||
| And this is not a small economy. | ||
| This is the fifth or sixth biggest economy in the EU. | ||
| They have a very robust military. | ||
| They've got U.S. | ||
| armaments from Raytheon and other defense contractors as they've moved closer to U.S. | ||
| and the Pentagon. | ||
| And I could see them sending troops in. | ||
| I don't think that's going to happen. | ||
| I don't think Putin is going to test that. | ||
| I don't think it's in his best interest. | ||
| Keep in mind, the same time he's doing this, he's saying to the Russians, these are our Ukrainian cousins. | ||
| He does not want to annihilate 10,000 Ukrainians. | ||
| He's killed 100 already, probably more than he wanted. | ||
| He's just looking for leverage to cement his Crimean land bridge. | ||
| He has a gift in that Biden is so weak and the people around him, including the Eurocrats, are so weak that he can take it now instead of six or 12 months from now. | ||
| The next hinge point, though, and this is what Bill Gertz was getting to, is Taiwan and China. | ||
| And there's a lot to unpack there. | ||
| And we should do that with Xi's third term. | ||
| Does he do it now or does he wait? | ||
| Cortez, are you buying what Bill Gertz was selling there in his segment? | ||
| I know the centrality of China, but is Taiwan, you think, prepared to withstand this? | ||
| Well, they're certainly prepared to put up a serious fight. | ||
| Whether or not they can prevail, I have no idea. | ||
| But I can tell you this, the economic ramifications would be an earthquake. | ||
| And I'm not exaggerating there. | ||
| By the way, these are the perils of globalization, right? | ||
| We heard from our ruling class for decades only about the upside of globalization. | ||
| Mostly upside, by the way, for them, not for American workers. | ||
| But there are tremendous dangers and risks in globalization. | ||
| The fact that the United States is so utterly economically dependent on supply lines from Asia, from the Pacific, and specifically regarding chips on Taiwan, individually puts us in enormous economic danger right now. | ||
| Now we have to change that big picture, and we need to onshore and manufacture particularly critical processes here, but that can't be changed in the near term. So the economic risks are rising very, very dramatically. You now have a marriage of gangsters between Xi and Putin. And clearly, in my view, the reason Xi cares, he doesn't really care about Ukraine, but the reason he cares about Ukraine is as a test case for what he could potentially do against Taiwan. And, you know, I would tell all the folks out there in | ||
| the audience, it's hard right now to get a lot of important supplies in the United States. | ||
| It's hard to get a refrigerator, or the car you want, or at least in the color you want, that sort of thing. | ||
| If we talk about a kinetic war in the Pacific, if we talk about actual fighting in Taiwan, forget it. | ||
| It's not that you're not going to get the refrigerator of your choice, you're not getting anything, okay? | ||
| We're not talking just recession. | ||
| I think recession is a given right now. | ||
| We're talking a deep, deep recession, if not actual depression in that scenario. | ||
| Now, that would be catastrophic for the United States and for our prosperity. | ||
| It would be terrible for China too, but here's the thing. | ||
| The CCP, because they don't really have the answer to the people, at least not in the near term, they're probably willing to take that risk. | ||
| From their perspective, as gangsters, as a junta, it probably makes sense for them right now to seriously consider a move on Taiwan. | ||
| Big time. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short break. | ||
| Tierman is going to stick with us throughout the segment, and Cortez. | ||
| Guts and Surprise is coming. | ||
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Just hang in there. | |
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Banham. | ||
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| Do I have the Nigel Farage thing ready to play? | ||
| Give me the sign when that's ready to play. | ||
| Tierman, I know you got a punch. | ||
| We're going to have Matthew Ondemar doing a live show. | ||
| Before I lose Matthew Tierman, I want to play the Nigel Farage clip. | ||
| Let's play it right now. | ||
| with the Ukraine. | ||
| We've had a message that's been sent out now for 10 years, and this is not just the EU. | ||
| Indeed, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, and I'm afraid Ed Miliband too, have all been saying to Ukraine, look, why don't you come and join the European Union? | ||
| While you're at it, why don't you join NATO too? | ||
| And this is something that has been seen by Putin to be a deeply provocative act. | ||
| We have given false hope to those Western Ukrainians, and did you see them with their EU flags and their banners? | ||
| They actually toppled a democratically elected leader. | ||
| Yes, I know Ukraine's corrupt, I know he wasn't perfect, but they toppled a leader. | ||
| And I do not want to be part of an emerging expansionist EU foreign policy. | ||
| I think it'll be a danger to peace. | ||
| It's the party of Davos. | ||
| It was the EU that got us in this jam. | ||
| And we are hammered. | ||
| I've said from day one that the KGB-controlled criminals in Moscow, that Putin and these guys are, right, are second only to the real criminal regime in Beijing. | ||
| Tierman, you're going to join us tomorrow. | ||
| You're in Berlin now. | ||
| You're going to Warsaw. | ||
| We're going to get a lot of coverage from you next week. | ||
| But talk to people over the next 24, 48 hours until we get you back on here tomorrow and over the weekend. | ||
| What should people be looking for in this situation? | ||
| Well, first, I just want to say Nigel is right, but not 100% correct. | ||
| I love Nigel. | ||
| He's one of my favorite people in the world. | ||
| But the Ukrainian people toppled Yanukovych and the dictator, but he's right that the provocation trying to bring them into the EU and NATO... Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, that was all driven by the EU and a false hope. | ||
| Come on, dude. | ||
| Yes, they overthrew it. | ||
| They had their own coup by the Ukrainian people, but that was instigated by the party of Davos and Brussels. | ||
| This is expansionist EU foreign policy. | ||
| I was there. | ||
| I was in Central Europe. | ||
| I was talking to Ukrainians. | ||
| God, you Slavs. | ||
| You Slavs, when you want to throw down, you want to throw down. | ||
| You're just itching to get to Kiev, aren't you? | ||
| You're itching. | ||
| Tierman just committed the Polish Army independently to march down there. | ||
| Keep going, brother. | ||
| I love you, but man, you guys. | ||
| This is what happens. | ||
| Hold it, hold it. | ||
| Stop right here. | ||
| This is what the law of unintended consequences are. | ||
| This is what happens in the fog of war, right? | ||
| People get their blood up. | ||
| This is why it's called the bloodlines. | ||
| Anything can happen now because of false happy talk out of Davos, out of Brussels, out of London, out of Wall Street, out of the city of London, and out of Washington D.C. | ||
| with this group of kleptocrat oligarchs led by the Clinton mafia. | ||
| This is why we're in this mess, and I'm telling you, all bets are off. | ||
| Matthew Tierman. | ||
| True that. | ||
| Yes, Ukraine should never have been wooed into the EU, wooed into NATO. | ||
| It is totally inappropriate. | ||
| It is not in the mature level of a state that it would have made any sense whatsoever beyond an ability to engage in the same sort of money laundering the post-communists did in Central Europe in 2004 when they had a whole bunch of Central European countries ascend prematurely so that the post-communists could launder their ill-gotten gains. | ||
| That being said, next few days, What to look for? | ||
| Things are about to get real. | ||
| Ukrainians on the ground now have guns. | ||
| They are ready to fight. | ||
| This is not going to be a cakewalk for Putin, and it will bring him to the table, but he will get away with the Crimean land grab because there's no will to put troops, they don't have the military mechanisms in place to go and defend it now that their airfields have been absolutely bombed to hell. | ||
| So just watch the videos that you're going to see because you're going to see civilians just like the Maidan. | ||
| Those were civilians. | ||
| I know them. | ||
| Many of them were my friends shooting at the snipers in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, taking on bullets, people dying next to my friends, journalists who had friends who got shot. | ||
| So, I mean, there was legitimacy in that revolution, but there was a provocation and wooing toward the EU and NATO is totally inappropriate. | ||
| Tierman, how do people follow you? | ||
| Your Getter feed is on fire on all the international news, and you get kind of snarky in your Twitter feed on your political news, but how do people follow you? | ||
| Those idiots keep suspending me, so I'm kind of moving more and more toward Getter and no more Twitter. | ||
| Getter, Matthew Tierman, M-A-T-T-H-E-W-T-Y-R-M-A-N-D, and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. | ||
| We'll see you tomorrow, brother. | ||
| Cortez, I want to go back. | ||
| We've got Rebecca Koffler going to bring her. | ||
| I've got to get Boris up here. | ||
| If we can get Boris up, I've got to get some polling and some math. | ||
| Cortez, once again, I've got to go back and hit the thing itself. | ||
| Walk me through why this audience should be watching Taiwan Semiconductor as a stock, as a proxy for this expanding war. | ||
| As a proxy, yeah. | ||
| And by the way, no position in this stock. | ||
| I'm not trying to pick on this company. | ||
| It's just such a massive and incredibly important company, both to the country of Taiwan, but even more importantly for us, to the entire business of chip manufacturing of semiconductors worldwide. | ||
| Because again, Taiwan is the epicenter. | ||
| In some businesses, we are literally 100% dependent on Taiwan for our chips that are critical for our phones, our washing machines, our cars, everything we do. | ||
| Taiwan Semiconductor, The chart that we showed previously shows that just five weeks ago, this stock, and this is a massive company. | ||
| It's worth almost $600 billion. | ||
| But just five weeks ago, this stock in the U.S. | ||
| version of it traded at $145. | ||
| It's all the way down to $110 right now. | ||
| It got to $104 as of yesterday. | ||
| $110 right now. I got to So clearly investors capit very nervous about the he about the ability of Taiw and independent of china of gangsters between Beijing and Moscow. | ||
| So I think this is an important stock to watch. | ||
| By the way, right now as we speak, Steve, U.S. | ||
| stocks are soaring. | ||
| The Dow is up over 600 points as we speak. | ||
| Taiwan's semiconductor still down on the day. | ||
| So just to show you that kind of a diversion, There is an incredible disparity between what's going on in U.S. | ||
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| By the way, Steve, U.S. | ||
| stocks, when I say the Dow's up 600 on the day, it's up about 1,500 over yesterday's low, a mammoth comeback off of yesterday's low. | ||
| But guess why? | ||
| At least what I'm hearing from some really big honchos in the hedge fund business, it's because they believe that the Fed will now have an excuse to not raise rates, that they're going to try to use the Ukraine situation as an excuse. | ||
| That would be Terrible policy would be a terrible blunder, as Americans are suffering from awful inflation. | ||
| But it's the kind of thing that the ruling class and asset owners love on Wall Street. | ||
| I hope they're wrong on that prognostication, because the Fed absolutely needs to raise rates. | ||
| But regardless, this Taiwan situation, again, is so much more potentially economic devastating than anything we're talking about regarding Ukraine. | ||
| But look, Steve, if you look at the CCP, if you look at the world from their perspective, from an evil regime, They know that they have unleashed on the entire world the CCP virus, and they've done it in a consequence-free manner, meaning they have not yet paid one yuan or one dollar of reparations to the United States or to anyone. | ||
| They have not paid any consequences. | ||
| They just got to hold a global soiree, the Winter Olympics in China. | ||
| From their perspective, what they have seen go on with Joe Biden as a as a Totally worthless and weak leader in the Oval Office. | ||
| What they have seen go on with Ukraine, with the virus, with lack of reparations, with the Olympics, is that time and again they don't have to pay a price for misdeeds. | ||
| And I fear that they will view this as their window, as their opening to get a lot more bellicose in the South Pacific and on Taiwan. | ||
| Real quickly, I think you said yesterday, Navarro, that they're using this, the bump in interest rates, the stopping of the quantitative easing, and the stopping of the massive spending. | ||
| They're coming up with another 5% increase in the defense budget. | ||
| They're going to have a $3.5 annual budget deficit presented next week to everybody as a win. | ||
| Not one tool. | ||
| The reason the market's juiced today is the fact that they know that because of the created crisis, the created crisis by the global elites In eastern Ukraine and now all of Ukraine, that the Fed is not going to come in and slow things down. | ||
| The punchbowl is not going to be taken away. | ||
| Is that what you're hearing, Cortez? | ||
| That is exactly correct. | ||
| That the Fed now has the excuse, or at least they think they have the excuse they need, to slow walk what is a significantly warranted tightening of policy to try to help working class Americans out there. | ||
| But once again, what we're seeing right now at least, is the Fed may well be choosing the prerogatives of the ruling class, the prerogatives of the owners of assets, people like Blackstone and Blackrock, and they're willing to just stick it. | ||
| to the deplorables out there in the country. | ||
| That's right now what is being telegraphed by financial markets. | ||
| Okay, Cortez, please hold for us. | ||
| Let's bring in Boris Epstein. | ||
| We've got Rebecca Koffler we're going to get to. | ||
| Boris, you've got some polling on all of this about where the American people are coming down. | ||
| Thanks for joining us. | ||
| I think Denver's got your slides. | ||
| Walk us through what the reality is here, what the American people think. | ||
| Steve, honor to be here. | ||
| Very important day, of course, internationally as well as domestically. | ||
| Denver, if we could put up the slides. | ||
| This is the Reuters, Ipsos poll, and it's a poll of the top issues as they're ranked by Americans right now. | ||
| I'll go through these as Denver gets them up on screen. | ||
| These are absolutely debilitating. | ||
| Absolutely debilitating to Joe Biden. | ||
| Number one issue. | ||
| No, that's not it. | ||
| Number one issue. | ||
| Economy, unemployment, and jobs. | ||
| This is a different poll, Denver. | ||
| It's the one sent earlier this morning. | ||
| Number one issue. | ||
| Economy, unemployment, and jobs at 23%. | ||
| Number two. | ||
| Healthcare at 9%. | ||
| Public health, 9%. | ||
| Crime or corruption, 8%. | ||
| Environment, climate, 7%. | ||
| Go down, down, down, down, down. | ||
| War and foreign conflicts is 5%. | ||
| It's at 5%. | ||
| It is all the way down. | ||
| It's tied with morality and inequality and discrimination in terms of what Americans actually care about. | ||
| It is one-fifth, about one-fifth of the economy. | ||
| So all this wag the dog. | ||
| that Biden and his team are playing is absolutely not working. | ||
| And again, this is according to Reuters, Ipsos and Reuters, which actually had a blip up for some reason, an overall approval for Biden has that blip go all the way back down this week. | ||
| So Joe Biden's approval is not moving at all in the direction he wants. | ||
| It's moving in the opposite direction. | ||
| And the American people, you know, they're not blue checkmark Twitter. | ||
| The American people care about putting food on the table, care about milk not, this is the slide, thank you so much. | ||
| The American people care about putting food on the table, the dollar being the dollar, the milk not tripling in cost over the length of the year. | ||
| So look at it right there. | ||
| Economy and employment jobs at 23, healthcare system at nine, public health at nine, crime at eight, War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| at seven, immigration at seven, and then all the way down at five is war and foreign conflicts. | ||
| This is debilitating to Biden. After the break, I'll have a break for independence. | ||
| Okay, short break. Be back in a moment. | ||
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| War Room, pandemic with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room, pandemic. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Now more than ever, you need to get acquainted with the Bible, the King James Version. | ||
| We've got a special relationship with Lee Greenwood and his team. | ||
| Remember, his publishing company wouldn't publish this Bible. | ||
| that he put together, which was the King James Version of the Old and New Testament, and all the providential-inspired founding documents of our great republic. | ||
| That would be the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Pledge of Allegiance, all of it, okay, under one leather binding. | ||
| That is the God Bless the USA Bible, and you get it at GodBlessTheUSA.com. | ||
| Go there, check it out. | ||
| If it interests you, type in promo code WARRIOR and you get free shipping and handling. | ||
| So you might want to check it out today, because at the end of the day, this is a spiritual war. | ||
| Okay, we've got a lot to go through, a lot of wood to chop, and not a lot of time to do it. | ||
| When that's tomorrow, we're going to have in-studio, author of a really incredible book, Putin's Playbook, Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America. | ||
| The author is Rebecca Koffler. | ||
| I want to join her. | ||
| She's going to join us right now by Skype, first time in the War Room. | ||
| Rebecca, I just want to make sure people know, you're a former DIA, Defense Intelligence Officer. | ||
| You've spent a career in intelligence. | ||
| You're an analyst now. | ||
| You know this, you know the bloodlines as well as anybody. | ||
| A lot of this book, which is pretty extraordinary, there's pages in this book that are blacked out because you had to get it cleared by the CIA and DIA. | ||
| And so there's a lot of this redacted. | ||
| Tell us about Putin. | ||
| Who are we dealing with? | ||
| We keep calling him a KGB thug and a criminal. | ||
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| Putin has been preparing for this moment for the last 20 years, Steve, and he didn't even make a secret of it. | ||
| in sovereignty of countries, if he doesn't deem that they're sovereign countries. | ||
| Tell us about Putin, and particularly the war strategy and the thinking inside the Kremlin. | ||
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| Putin has been preparing for this moment for the last 20 years, Steve, and he didn't even make a secret of it. | ||
| He has declared that he wanted to reconstitute a supranational alliance, not unlike the former USSR, and to resubjugate former Soviet states such as Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, and Russia. | ||
| And all we needed to do, Steve, is just listen to him and believe him. | ||
| Every speech that he said, every strategic planning document that the Russians have developed, military doctrine, national security strategy. | ||
| And basically what he has developed is a five point plan that includes cyber warfare, space warfare, military, i.e. | ||
| exactly, you know, black on white, all of these intentions, right? | ||
| And basically what he has developed is a five point plan that includes cyber warfare, space warfare, military, i.e. kinetic option all the way to nuclear, something called active measures, which is election interference and spying, espionage and intimidation, assassination, These are the classic tools of Putin's playbook. | ||
| And we see right now with his attack on Ukraine as one of the initial steps of achieving his strategic goal. | ||
| Why, given that he's trying to put together what Russia, not to sow you in what Russia considers their sphere of influence, why does the United States have a dog in this fight, ma'am? | ||
| Well, here's why. | ||
| The Washington establishment has pursued a bipartisan long-term policy To prevent Russia from emerging as a dominant power in Eurasia. | ||
| This used to be a highly classified policy, now it is out. | ||
| And Putin does not really believe when Washington says that our goal is to quote-unquote democratize Ukraine and the post-Soviet states because we want to bring freedom and human rights to them. | ||
| Putin doesn't think like that. | ||
| He is a real politic, you know, a classic former Soviet, former being in quotes, of course, KGB officer. | ||
| He's very rational, but his rationale is not Western. | ||
| It's Russian-Soviet rationale. | ||
| So what he sees is NATO's encroachment into Russia's sphere of influence. | ||
| Consider this. | ||
| During the Cold War, the distance between NATO forces and St. | ||
| Petersburg, one of the largest cities in Russia, was 1,000 miles. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Today, this distance has been reduced to 100 miles. | ||
| So he purely views it in military terms. | ||
| He views NATO forces potentially being deployed into Ukraine if Ukraine were to become NATO member. | ||
| And that is threat number one to them, and this is why Putin has drew a red line. | ||
| And unfortunately, instead of speaking directly and candidly, Washington keeps pushing the democracy line, and the Russians just simply don't buy it. | ||
| We got a punch, but we're going to have you on tomorrow. | ||
| Just one question. | ||
| Why is this book have so much, why is it redacted? | ||
| I know you can't give the details, but why were they so tough on redacting your book on this book about Putin? | ||
| The security apparatus, the intelligence apparatus basically blacked out many, many pages in your book. | ||
| Why was that? | ||
| Because they didn't want the American people to know that they have completely missed every single signpost indicating what Putin was up to. | ||
| I mean, President Biden right now is grabbing at straws, you know, sanctions, shmansions. | ||
| That wasn't going to stop Putin and change his behavior. | ||
| Where was President Biden when he was VP of former President Obama? | ||
| And they were briefed, I personally briefed, scores of Pentagon officials in the Obama administration, the White House, NATO. | ||
| Informing them of Putin's very unique new generation warfare strategy and Biden did nothing about it. | ||
| And at the 11th hour somehow he thinks that sanctions are going to change Putin's mind and prevent him from achieving something that he has been hatching for 20 years? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| So this is why the intelligence agencies Blacked out all my criticisms and all my revelations, including what happened back in 2016, because the Russians did not want to elect Donald Trump. | ||
| They had a very different goal. | ||
| And so, the intelligence community assessment that came out on January 7th, on January 6th, rather, 2017, was false, because James Clapper, John Brennan, and James Comey orchestrated a pretext. | ||
| They weaponized the intelligence resources to create a pretext so that they could spy on people like Carter Page to get closer to the Trump campaign. | ||
| This is why they redacted all of it. | ||
| They don't want the American people to know how badly they've messed up, bungled up the Russia threat. | ||
| Rebecca Koffer will be live with us more. | ||
| The book is Putin's Playbook, and I guarantee you, you will not be able to put it down. | ||
| Putin's Playbook from Rebecca. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Honored to see you tomorrow. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Can I play real quickly the MSNBC? | ||
| I've got to get Boris and I've got to get Cortez to talk about this. | ||
| Play it from yesterday. | ||
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| What is being presented to the President? | ||
| We should caution, we don't know that he's signed off on any of this, but what is so interesting is that this would be, in advance of any attacks against us, it would be offense, or defense if you will, defense of Ukraine, which was hit again with cyber attacks this morning. | ||
| That's exactly right, Andrea, and that's what's so significant here. | ||
| American officials and others briefed on the matter tell Courtney, QB, and me that these options include things like shutting off the internet in parts or all of Russia, disrupting trains and railroads that are resupplying Russian troops in Ukraine, everything from making the trains not function to making them fall off the tracks, as one person put it. These options are designed to disrupt but not destroy we are told. So they would fall short | ||
| of an act of war. They would be carried out by a variety of agencies including U.S. Cyber Command, the National Security Agency, the CIA would be involved. | ||
| They're designed to be deniable. | ||
| You can be deniable and be acts of war. | ||
| Boris, first you, and then Cortez. | ||
| Elections have consequences, and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences. | ||
| Rebecca Coffley said, sanction shmanctions, because they're talking about going on cyber war, and as we know from unrestricted warfare, that is modern kinetic war. | ||
| Boris Epstein, how dangerous is this, of what they're banning about lightly over at the White House, sir? | ||
| It's extremely dangerous. | ||
| And these idiots, like the people they have on MSNBC, honestly are no better than the idiots they've got at the White House. | ||
| It's literally the same people. | ||
| So it's, you know, you've got this echo chamber of stupidity, which has led us to where we are. | ||
| And you even have the New York Times, Politico now, who are hammering Biden for getting absolutely crushed by Putin on this front. | ||
| This thought that somehow you could go and do not just sanctions, but go into cyber and attack supply lines, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| It seems like there's a thirst for war that we have not really seen in this country since the Balkan crisis of the 90s when they used that to bail out Bill Clinton. | ||
| So that's what we have going on here. | ||
| The sum total of all of this war porn is that they're trying to wag the dog so hard, but going back to the polling I mentioned in the last segment, it's not working because the American people are not buying it. | ||
| And hey, you know what? | ||
| If somehow they're right and this actually does hit our economy, well that's going to be even worse for Joe Biden because that's what the American people actually care about. | ||
| The Wag the Dog's not working because you're polling, but Steve Cortez's Wag the Markets may be working because they're using it as a pretext to back off the Fed from taking actions that need to be done to stop inflation in this country. | ||
| Steve Cortez on Wag the Markets. | ||
| No, I think, unfortunately, you're exactly right there, Steve, and this will greatly exacerbate what is already an inflation conflagration that has engulfed this economy and that has, unfortunately, vexed regular consumers, everyday Americans. | ||
| Every single time they go to the store, to the gas pump, to the grocery store, this reality slaps them in the face. | ||
| So, the Fed may, in fact, and financial markets right now are betting that this is the case, the Fed may use This invasion of Ukraine is a pretext to slow walk or slow down what really needs to be a normalization. | ||
| By the way, that's all we're really asking for is normalization. | ||
| Meaning, stop feeding the inflationary beast. | ||
| Stop the quantitative easing. | ||
| Stop the extraordinary measures. | ||
| Now, I think they need to go even further than that, but that is the first step. | ||
| It's just to get back to a place of policy normalization. | ||
| Steve, we got new data out on this, by the way, just today. | ||
| It seems like almost every day or every other day we get a new inflation data point that's horrific. | ||
| Today was the PCE, Personal Consumption Expenditure Index, which is the favored index of the Fed and particularly their team of economic advisors. | ||
| It came out the headline number at 6.1%, the worst in 40 years. | ||
| I almost get tired of saying this because all these numbers are the worst in 40 years. | ||
| It's the worst Since 1982, the core number was 5.2%. | ||
| That was the worst since 1983. | ||
| And again, this inflation has been building for a solid year plus because of Joe Biden's policies with a lot of assistance from Chuck and Nancy on Capitol Hill, plus Mitch McConnell. | ||
| Let's not leave the Republicans out of it. | ||
| A lot of assistance from them. | ||
| This is not due to Ukraine, although it may be making things worse right now in the near term. | ||
| But I fear that the Fed is going to use this as an excuse to try to greatly exacerbate an inflation situation that's out of control in this country. | ||
| Steve, how do people follow you, your writings and also your social media? | ||
| Please find me at getter I'm at Steve, very simple, and then at Twitter I'm at Cortez Steve, Cortez with an S. | ||
| Steve, fantastic report. | ||
| Boris, by the way, the echo chamber of stupidity is so good. | ||
| I'm stealing that, though, but I'll always reference you. | ||
| The echo chamber of stupidity, MSNBC. | ||
| How do people follow you, Boris, the newsletter, email, and your social media? | ||
| No doubt about it, and everybody should go check out the Reuters Ipsos poll. | ||
| When it comes to independence, it's even worse. | ||
| BorisCP.com, at BorisCP on Gitter, at BorisCP on Twitter, hottest on the ground, Boris underscore Epstein. | ||
| Stay strong, God bless, and Shabbat Shalom. | ||
| Yeah, we're going to get Boris back on to do it through the polling. | ||
| Today's the last day. | ||
| There's a lot of domestic stuff happening. | ||
| Supreme Court, you also got last day of early voting in Texas. | ||
| Joe Reek, my patron supply, going to join us next. | ||
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| Let's take down the CCP. | ||
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| Tomorrow, a couple of things. | ||
| Tonight, Dennis Prager is going to be with us, joining us. | ||
| We're going to get Dennis, one of the great, I call him the modern Socrates, to get Dennis Prager thinking about where we stand in all this. | ||
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| This world situation. | ||
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| What is happening as we go into the Dark Valley? | ||
| We've talked to you about this for years and boy, we're hurtling into it right now. | ||
| And the leadership is so hapless and feckless. | ||
| Everybody's got to understand at the core of this is a spiritual war. | ||
| And this is why we're so proud to have partnered with the team over at the Lee Greenwood guys that got their Bible canceled. | ||
| They're doing it on their own. | ||
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| Because it is, it's going to only build in intensity. | ||
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I want to bring Joe Reek in, from My Patriot Supply. | |
| And Joe, the reason is, I know you must have had a big day yesterday. | ||
| I had so many people that are fans of the show that know me, that came to me, wanted to thank you and thank your operators and people for being open. | ||
| I heard they burned the phone lines down. | ||
| It might have been your biggest day in history, but I want to make sure people have access to let you guys can teach people more, whether it's power, water, food, everything, of what people need to start thinking about to be prepared, because now, more than ever, you have to be prepared. | ||
| Joe Reek. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, like you said, yesterday was an all-time record day for orders here at MyPatriotSupply. | ||
| Far beyond the orders we received when the COVID 15 days to slow the curve announcement broke about two years ago. | ||
| The good news is, Steve, we're sitting on about half a million square feet of inventory and raw materials. | ||
| So we are in stock and we are shipping quickly to meet this surge in demand as the nation's largest emergency food supplier. | ||
| But the story doesn't end there, Steve. | ||
| Russia and Ukraine account for 29% of the global wheat exports. | ||
| Our honey wheat bread that we carry here at MyPatriotSupply, it's our best-selling item. | ||
| We're seeing wheat prices for production skyrocket as the wheat becomes more and more of a scarce commodity. | ||
| Even here in Utah, our school districts are having issues securing milk for students for their school lunches because of driver shortages, labor shortages. | ||
| So the strains on the supply chain are popping up everywhere. | ||
| You know, our customers, they know that more bad news is coming. | ||
| And what they're telling our preparedness advisors when they call in on the phone, they are worried about cyber attacks. | ||
| More importantly, about our attacks on our power grid, specifically from Russia or from elsewhere. | ||
| And so people are very, very concerned of what's going on because of what's going on in Ukraine. | ||
| It's affecting us here today. | ||
| So, in addition to Russia and Ukraine accounting for 29% of the global wheat exports, they also account for 19% of the total exports, as well as 80% of the sunflower oil exports. | ||
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Right now, that's gone, and it's not going to come back anytime soon. | |
| So, we're going to see more and more shortages happening because of what's going on across the world, Steve. | ||
| I just wanna make sure, when people call, I want you to give the numbers. | ||
| You've got these experts. | ||
| They're experts in planning, can talk about power generation, can talk about water, water filters, food, all across the board. | ||
| You're a one-stop shop? | ||
| We are. | ||
| Call us. | ||
| I mean, our toll-free number is 866-229-0927. | ||
| We have preparedness advisors standing by. | ||
| They can walk you through a plan that fits the needs and the requirements for your own family. | ||
| There's not a one-size-fits-all, Steve. | ||
| Every family is going to be different. | ||
| Come talk to our preparedness advisors, tell them what your concerns are, and they'll find a plan that fits you and your needs because things are going to get worse. | ||
| I mean, yesterday, as we were taking orders, our biggest concern yesterday was focusing on trying to get more raw ingredients, more food secured for six months from now, and even for the end of the year, because we know that another wave is coming, not just this one. | ||
| Joe Reek, thank you. | ||
| Honored to have you as one of the sponsors, and keep up the good work. | ||
| Everybody that gets in touch with me after they talk to you guys are really appreciative of the time and effort you guys put in, so thank you. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Be safe. | ||
| Elections have consequences, and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences. | ||
| We're getting into the thick of this thing, okay? | ||
| And this is brought about because of a stolen election. | ||
| How many people in this country, independents, Moderate Democrats would like Orange Man bad back, bad tweets and all. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| You saw what the media and what the apparatus did to try to destroy Donald Trump. | ||
| And this is what they got to show for it. | ||
| The blood in Ukraine is on their hands. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| They gave the false hope. | ||
| Look last night. | ||
| Don't ask Steve Bannon. | ||
| Don't come to the War Room. | ||
| Cut into Global TV and watch Zelensky last night begging. | ||
| Said, you guys promised me. | ||
| You committed to me. | ||
| And we are alone. | ||
| Everything that's happening now is a creative crisis. | ||
| The financial and economic creative crisis. | ||
| Tonight, Dennis Prager. | ||
| Tomorrow, a special on geopolitics, economics, all of it. | ||
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