March 2, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| I'm Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota. | ||
| Last night, Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address, and he lied to the American people. | ||
| But we saw right through it. | ||
| He told us that everything's fine. | ||
| I've got it under control. | ||
| But we know that that isn't true. | ||
| Because of the President's actions, Americans are losing their freedoms, and they're less safe than before he took office. | ||
| Well, no more. | ||
| We need to take a hard look at where Joe Biden has brought our country, and recognize But it doesn't have to be this way. | ||
| Our basic rights are under attack by the Biden administration. | ||
| Everyday Americans now find themselves with a government that is weaponized against them. | ||
| Parents are fighting for their kids' education. | ||
| People are questioning mandates. | ||
| But the heavy hand of government has crushed businesses, families, and people's spirits. | ||
| Election integrity, COVID-19, climate change, big tech, censorship, China, In Joe Biden's America, if you dare to disagree, or you state your opinion, you get deplatformed, canceled, or worse. | ||
| And on COVID-19, people lost their freedoms. | ||
| We must never forget how bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci closed our schools, shut down our businesses and our churches. | ||
| Never forget. | ||
| President Biden mandated that people choose between an injection or their job. | ||
| As America First conservatives, We need to remind people that there is an alternative. | ||
| Generations of Americans have shown us the way. | ||
| In South Dakota in 2020, when most states were shutting down their economies and forcing unconstitutional lockdowns, we did something different. | ||
| We never closed. | ||
| We trusted our people. | ||
| We never mandated masks or determined even what an essential business is. | ||
| Because every business in America is essential. | ||
| Our state motto is, under God, the people rule. | ||
| And I followed it. | ||
| I let people use personal responsibility to make the right decision for themselves and for their families. | ||
| And it worked. | ||
| We now have the number one economy in the country. | ||
| And it's possible because we didn't promote fear. | ||
| We focused on freedom. | ||
| President Biden is hoping that we'll forget that it was Democrats who crippled children's educational opportunities. | ||
| Forced them to stare at computer screens and covered their faces. | ||
| He said that our kids' lives have been turned upside down. | ||
| Well, you're the one who turned them upside down, Mr. President. | ||
| With his Attorney General leading the way, he sent the FBI after parents who were fighting back against divisive, anti-American curriculum like critical race theory in our schools. | ||
| Meanwhile, Democrat policies are encouraging real criminals. | ||
| Under President Biden, a surge of violence And lawlessness is sweeping across American communities. | ||
| It's claiming lives and disproportionately hurting low income and minority families. | ||
| America's heroes in blue are placing their lives on the line every day to protect people. | ||
| Meanwhile, Joe Biden and the Democrats defend the criminals. | ||
| They selectively enforce the laws on the books and they bail out rioters looking the other way. | ||
| President Biden may give lip service to funding the police, But the damage from years of Democrat rhetoric has already been done. | ||
| Now, President Biden has also been absent while an invasion takes place over our southern border. | ||
| I saw firsthand what Joe Biden's incompetence has done to the border security operation that was in place under President Trump. | ||
| I took action and I sent my National Guard to the border. | ||
| They did the job that Biden has failed to do, and unfortunately, It still gets worse every day with drugs and illegal immigrants pouring across our border. | ||
| Now, every town in America is a border town, and it's more dangerous as a result. | ||
| Biden's policies are waging a war on American prosperity. | ||
| Because of his spending, inflation is the highest in 40 years. | ||
| Young families can't afford homes. | ||
| Seniors watch helplessly as their life savings shrink before their eyes. | ||
| His economic solution he offered last night Was higher taxes, more government spending, and raising the minimum wage. | ||
| That will not fix inflation, Mr. President. | ||
| Biden has created a supply chain crisis, driving up the price of basic food like beef, milk, and eggs, and our grocery store shelves are going bare. | ||
| Now Americans know that food policy is a matter of national security. | ||
| When another country feeds us, they control us. | ||
| Yet under Joe Biden's leadership, China is accelerating its takeover of our food supply chain. | ||
| They're following the same blueprint that they used to strip America of our manufacturing base, and they're buying up critical fertilizer and chemical companies. | ||
| And just like food, energy independence is also a matter of national security. | ||
| President Biden's Green New Deal destroyed our energy surplus, and it turned it into an energy crisis. | ||
| Gasoline is nearly $5 a gallon in parts of our country. | ||
| And it's still rising. | ||
| President Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline on his very first day in office. | ||
| He banned domestic energy production on our federal lands, and he's making it impossible to build the energy infrastructure that we need for prosperity at home and our security abroad. | ||
| His policies make us dependent on Russia for fuel and on China for food. | ||
| This unfolds as we still watch Ukrainians defend their democracy and their freedom. | ||
| It is inspiring to watch these people fight, but it's also heartbreaking. | ||
| Make no mistake, Joe Biden's incompetence allowed this war to happen. | ||
| He canceled the Keystone pipeline and he let Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline go forward. | ||
| And when he created the crisis in Afghanistan by abandoning Americans while leaving billions of dollars in equipment behind, President Biden gave Russia all the leverage that they needed. | ||
| By making America look weak, he invited Russia to grab power in Ukraine. | ||
| This crisis and this conflict, it's on you, Mr. President. | ||
| It's on you and your so-called foreign policy experts who are more worried about pronouns than Putin, who are more worried about climate change than the Kremlin. | ||
| Americans know that we need clear, consistent foreign policy. | ||
| When we project strength We promote peace around the world. | ||
| Joe Biden is projecting weakness, and if he doesn't change course, he's going to drag us into another needless war. | ||
| And if he won't change course, he should resign. | ||
| Americans have no faith in Joe Biden or the Democrat Party, but we have not lost faith in ourselves, and we will defend American values, our rights, and our freedoms. | ||
| We will not let President Biden ruin this great country. | ||
| Our story is not over. | ||
| America was the greatest experiment in human history. | ||
| And we're going to build a future of freedom and prosperity. | ||
| We're doing that right here in South Dakota. | ||
| And that's why people are coming and they're moving here in record numbers for their freedom. | ||
| We live in a confused and a hurting world. | ||
| Conservative principles bring clarity and healing. | ||
| In President Lincoln's immortal words, we're going to bind up those wounds. | ||
| Rather than divide people based on differences, we're going to unite Americans around shared ideals. | ||
| And together, we will restore America as a place where men and women are free. | ||
| They're free to think, speak, create, and to build without fear. | ||
| We will restore an America where kids and their parents matter more than the politicians and the bureaucrats. | ||
| And no, we're not going to wait until November. | ||
| We're standing up for freedom right now. | ||
| The American people are showing up at school board meetings. | ||
| They're going to local election boards. | ||
| They're in our workplaces and in our communities. | ||
| National politics starts on your street and in your neighborhood. | ||
| Get involved. | ||
| Lead. | ||
| Do not be afraid to say, I love America and it's worth fighting for. | ||
| We're going to live our freedoms and we're going to restore our prosperity. | ||
| And we are going to lead our nation out of this Biden disaster. | ||
| I'm Governor Kristi Noem, and I'm proud to stand with America's patriots on this mission. | ||
| God bless you and God bless the United States of America. | ||
| Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, that is Governor Christy Noem of South Dakota. | ||
| Governor Noem, all I have to say is that is one of the most powerful speeches I have heard in a long time. | ||
| We're greatly honored that you came to the War Room to give that. | ||
| My first question, because you went through and took apart the content and the intellectual argument of Joe Biden brick by brick. | ||
| My question to you, you're standing in front of the image of some of the most powerful leaders in this country's history in Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. | ||
| Last night, not just his words, but his presence, his command presence, how he handled himself. | ||
| Could you give us some observations because the entire world watched that speech last night in a world that's a new war starting in Eurasia. | ||
| Could you, I'd like to know your thoughts on Joe Biden's command presence. | ||
| Well, it felt to me as though it was a performance. | ||
| He had practiced, but he couldn't pull it off. | ||
| And he also, I'm not sure necessarily believed everything that he said. | ||
| Joe Biden of the last 40 years, of course, has always been wrong on foreign policy and made bad decisions. | ||
| He's also embracing a lot of extreme positions that maybe 30 years ago he wouldn't have. | ||
| But it was interesting for me to watch him try to get through that speech, just checking the boxes, trying to make his base happy, but not really focusing on what the American people need. | ||
| And right now, what the American people need is they need reassurance that he gets it. | ||
| That he understands the true crisis that we have, not just on the national stage, but also here at home, where we have people who can't buy their food anymore. | ||
| They can't put gas in their cars. | ||
| They can't get to work. | ||
| And that is what they live with every single day, and the reality that Joe Biden just doesn't understand. | ||
| Governor, to that point, Joe Biden had this kind of part of the speech last night about inflation, talking about cutting costs. | ||
| Before we came on the War Room, before your stunning speech, West Texas Intermediate, I think, hit $112 a barrel, up from $42 a barrel on November 3rd of 2020, Election Day. | ||
| What impact is that going to have on the businesses in South Dakota and the folks in South Dakota? | ||
| What is Joe Biden's response and what is Kristi Noem's response? | ||
| Yeah, I saw that too, Steve, and it's alarming to us here in South Dakota. | ||
| We demand a lot of energy in our state. | ||
| It's cold in the winter, it gets hot in the summer, and it's a long ways to drive anywhere. | ||
| Agriculture is our number one industry. | ||
| And when you have energy costs such as gasoline, diesel fuel, natural gas, that all impacts every single aspect of our businesses here. | ||
| Plus, tourism is our second largest industry. | ||
| And so people need money to put in their cars to come visit us and to spend it here. | ||
| So South Dakota is very concerned. | ||
| The Keystone Pipeline was going to come through our state. | ||
| We were prepared and excited about that. | ||
| It was already laid out. | ||
| The infrastructure was there. | ||
| The equipment was here. | ||
| And when Joe Biden came into the White House on day one and canceled it, it was devastating for South Dakota because it made our energy supply much more insecure, made it much more expensive. | ||
| And we could see this storm coming. | ||
| As soon as he came into office, he started the storm that we have today, and I have no idea where these energy costs are going to stop. | ||
| You brought up something, and since it's so tied to agriculture, you brought up something a lot of people are not talking about, but it's vitally important. | ||
| You made the connection between how Wall Street and the global corporations with China shipped our manufacturing base over the last 20, 30 years. | ||
| You're saying now agriculture is a national security issue, and we've got the same problem. | ||
| Can you take a second to explain that to people? | ||
| Well, I've been talking about food security and food policy as a national security issue for 20 years. | ||
| I've worked on, you know, different policies and trade agreements for many, many years, recognizing that when another country grows our food and produces our food, that then they would truly control us. | ||
| I saw the fear that the media on the left generated through this virus. | ||
| Imagine when people are actually going hungry, which we're getting close to today. | ||
| So what is interesting to me is most people, you know, We don't recognize the diversity in the agriculture sector that we need to have to make sure that we have a safe and affordable food supply chain. | ||
| We need to make sure that we always have food here that people can afford to put in their homes and to feed their children. | ||
| But what China has been doing is not just been manipulating their currency, manipulating their markets and the access that we have to them that is not nearly as fair on the regulatory level as ours is. | ||
| They've been buying up all of our fertilizer companies, our chemical companies, our processing plants when it comes to the livestock industry are bought up largely by China corporations. | ||
| These are people who do not want our safety. | ||
| They do not love America. | ||
| They would love to destroy us and they're not dummies. | ||
| They're going out there not only strengthening their military, they're also taking over those mechanisms which we need and that are vital for our people to survive. | ||
| You said you made a comment in the speech that every day on this show we talk about the red tsunami and everybody working together to have a blowout election in 2022. | ||
| And I know you're on the ticket to running for re-election in South Dakota. | ||
| But you said we can't wait until then. | ||
| We have to work it every day. | ||
| What did you mean by that? | ||
| I think that every day we have to get up and recognize that we have to be telling people what we believe in. | ||
| It's really easy to oppose this president. | ||
| He is wrong on every single issue. | ||
| But we also have to tell people where we stand, what we believe, and how it works for them and their families and creates success. | ||
| I think South Dakota is the perfect example of that. | ||
| Steve, all we did in South Dakota the last two years is put into place exactly what conservatives say they believe in. | ||
| For decades, conservatives have said We believe in low taxes, low regulations, embracing freedom, personal responsibility. | ||
| We did all of that in South Dakota and we proved that it works. | ||
| With the number one economy in the country, one of the lowest unemployment rates, least amount of businesses closed, we have lower mental health challenges, even lower suicide and overdose rates. | ||
| Our people are happier and they're happier because we embraced freedom and let them make decisions that were best for their families and businesses. | ||
| So what's on your punch list for the people of South Dakota in the run-up to 22, but over the next couple of months? | ||
| What's the two or three things that Governor Noem puts at the top of her agenda? | ||
| Well, we're continuing to focus on growing our economy, recruiting businesses and people here. | ||
| We've been supporting our law enforcement officers, and we've had thousands move to our state because we told them they could live somewhere where they were respected, people would support them. | ||
| But we're also focusing on banning critical race theory from our schools. | ||
| That's in our legislature right now. | ||
| It's a bill I brought forward. | ||
| Also making sure that we're keeping our freedoms protected, our Second Amendment rights, and that we'll continue to be bold in leading and telling our story, what it means for America, pointing to the optimism and the hope that our state has proven out and what the true spirit of America is. | ||
| South Dakota is a testimony that I think these stories can move hearts and minds that maybe weren't voting Republican and conservative before. | ||
| Uh, before we have an activist audience and I want to give a call to action from you about what they should before do that, because I know blue check Twitter is going to go crazy. | ||
| I just want to make sure I understand. | ||
| This was a very, uh, straightforward, tough and pointed speech or point rebuttal. | ||
| And the part of that you asked, you said that if Joe Biden didn't do what he should resign, could you just, I just want to make sure, because people are going to be blowing us up about your, you would call on Joe Biden to resign if he didn't do what? | ||
| If he doesn't project strength, if he doesn't defend America, if he doesn't recognize the jeopardy that he puts people's lives in every single day by not embracing national security policy, by not standing by freedom, this man is a disaster. | ||
| And if he doesn't turn it around soon, he absolutely has the responsibility to resign and let someone lead who actually knows how. | ||
| Governor Noem, we have an activist audience, and we want to have a call to action of what you think this audience should do and where they should go, but I just want to repeat that great motto of your state, Under God the People Rule. | ||
| What's your recommendation for this audience of how they put their shoulder to the wheel? | ||
| This audience needs to run for office. | ||
| I don't care if it's your city council, school board, if it's the legislature, or if it's for Congress. | ||
| Run for office. | ||
| And if you're not going to run for office, then find a fighter who will, and get behind them and do all that you can. | ||
| Don't just write checks. | ||
| Don't just show up and volunteer at one event. | ||
| Every single day, get up and recognize that this fight matters, and it matters for the future of our country that we give to our children. | ||
| Governor, how can people find out more about you? | ||
| We have a huge international audience also. | ||
| We're in Mandarin. | ||
| We're subtitling in Mandarin and in Japanese. | ||
| How do people find out more about Governor Kristi Noem? | ||
| Well, just go to my website, KristiNoem.com. | ||
| You'll find more about me. | ||
| Just Google Governor Kristi Noem, but you will find that you're going to get a lot of feedback on just how conservative we've been and just how powerful our message is here in South Dakota. | ||
| Under God, the people rule. | ||
| South Dakota, the Governor, Kristi Noem. | ||
| Thank you very much for your rebuttal to Joe Biden. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Have a great day. | ||
| Yes, ma'am. | ||
| OK, we're going to go to the convoy next, but I got to tell you, that was a point by point refutation of this, I don't know, discombobulated stringing together of words and concepts last night that I thought was particularly an embarrassment. | ||
| But Governor Noem, I think, went through it brick by brick and took it apart. | ||
| I also agree with Governor Noem that I think the physical presence of Joe Biden was very disturbing. | ||
| Very disturbing in a time that you have to project strength and you have to project resolve. | ||
| It was it was not there. | ||
| And I think the Democrats in the in the media that cover for him understand that last night. | ||
| I think reinforce something that I have continued to say over and over again. | ||
| And this is both what happened in Texas with the primaries and then Joe Biden's speech up there to the joint session of Congress. | ||
| We have a unique opportunity to destroy the Democratic Party as an institution as it exists today with a sweeping massive turnout in landslide in in 2022. | ||
| And Governor Noem is every day you got to go to work on this because it's it's it's right there in front of us. | ||
| It's only going to be about execution and work. | ||
| And we'll be held accountable if we don't do it. | ||
| So we're going to go now to the convoys. | ||
| Do I have, do I have the call open? | ||
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Let's, we're going to play some, do we have the, we have Claire? | |
| Yes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Claire, you're joining us from the convoy? | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Yes, we're in Monrovia, Indiana with the convoy. | ||
| So can you give us an update? | ||
| I hear yesterday was 60 to 70 miles long. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| So we have a guy at the back and a guy at the front. | ||
| And from those two locations, everybody in the convoy is in the right lane so that we can get a good count. | ||
| And yeah, it was around 60 to 70 miles long yesterday. | ||
| So tell us today, you're in Monrovia. | ||
| I understand there's going to be a couple of days in regathering and regathering strength. | ||
| Can you walk people through what's going to happen? | ||
| And I want to make sure people can participate. | ||
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Okay, so yeah, we're at Ted Everett Farm Equipment, and there's going to be a rally tonight at 7 p.m., where the final count of the venue is 2,000 people, and it's expected to be completely full. | |
| And here, we're having just one rest day. | ||
| We've been driving for seven days. | ||
| This is our eighth day. | ||
| So after this point, we'll be heading to our next location. | ||
| But today, this is where we're going to be. | ||
| We're going to be rallying, and there's going to be a lot of people showing up. | ||
| Listen, what's the attitude of people right now? | ||
| What's their spirit? | ||
| Let's take the temperature for our global audience. | ||
| Where are people's heads right now after seven days? | ||
| And particularly in Washington, D.C., there were no masks last night in Congress. | ||
| I mean, you people are sending a message that's so powerful that the powers that be are starting to crumble before it. | ||
| Do folks out there in the caravan understand that, that you're already changing America just by the peaceful nature you've done, but the powerful nature of what you guys have pulled together? | ||
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Yeah, the people here... | |
| There's this feeling in the air. | ||
| So a lot of us have had conversations. | ||
| We've been on the road for seven days. | ||
| We're tired. | ||
| It's been a long trip so far, but what keeps everyone going is all the support that they're getting on the side of the roads. | ||
| And so as we've seen thousands and thousands of people standing up on the side of the roads cheering us on, being here, that's what fuels everyone. | ||
| So yes, everyone's tired, but at the same time, we know we can keep on moving forward. | ||
| With the people that are standing behind us, and everyone here is, I had a few conversations yesterday, and there's a lot of people joining us currently, and those people also are all planning to go to Hagerstown, Maryland. | ||
| So the core group is now being built here, where before you had people dropping in and out, but now everyone's so excited, they're pushing forward. | ||
| They're standing up for our freedoms and talking about having conversations about freedom. | ||
| So last night we had a rally right here where I'm standing. | ||
| There was a big crowd and all of the different truckers and people that are involved in the convoy got up and told their stories. | ||
| And the common consensus is, once again as I said before, people feel like their voices are not being heard. | ||
| They feel like the government is pushing mandates on them with different incentives from the pharmaceutical companies that that do not align with the American people's beliefs and values and so everyone's so excited they feel so empowered and and and they're driven to continue moving forward uh given what we've seen as we've actually been on the road | ||
| One of the big things, you know, like I said, the masks are coming off, so the performative piece of it is out there. | ||
| I want to go to the accountability piece. | ||
| When the truckers and the people associated in the Children's Health Defense Fund, TV, which you're associated with, when you say, because they're taking off the masks, they're clearly afraid, and they want, oh, the mask mandates are gone, this means nothing, go home, go home. | ||
| When you talk about accountability, What do people, the truckers, the people in the RVs, the people in SUVs, what do they mean by accountability? | ||
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I spoke to a woman yesterday who's driving in the convoy and she had tears in her eyes because her life has been destroyed by COVID restrictions. | |
| And so what people want is a world moving forward where if there are more pandemics, if there are more crises that require lockdowns, But that's not the America that we live in, that restrictions are lifted permanently. | ||
| And there's a phrase going around where people are saying, mandate freedom, and that's the only mandate that we want. | ||
| And so when it comes to our congressmen, our representatives holding these people accountable for their conflicts of interest, Fauci, and everybody that's heading up this entire operation of mandates, Holding these people accountable, saying their names, and everyone here moving forward. | ||
| Knowing who they're voting for, why they're voting for them, and making sure that we get people in office that stand by us. | ||
| And after this entire movement, I can see many politicians standing up because they realize now that they're not alone and they don't have to be afraid of these conflicts of interest and these pharmaceutical companies that are pushing them and telling them what to do and what to say. | ||
| So I see moving forward, the people here want accountability for our politicians for what's going on. | ||
| And the individual businesses that are also discriminating against people for not getting an experimental injection and wearing a mask. | ||
| By the way, I want to remind everybody, if Denver can get the copy of The Real Tony Fauci, the book by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., done in conjunction with the Children's Health Defense, it is a stunning document and I strongly recommend it. | ||
| I think it's being reprinted now. | ||
| You can order a copy. | ||
| I can't recommend highly enough. | ||
| Everybody read that book because we talk about accountability. | ||
| Accountability is coming. | ||
| That's going to take real accountability. | ||
| It's going to take place after November 8th. | ||
| But read that book now to understand the depth, I think, of what Laura Dooley and other people at the Children's Health Defense Fund are talking about. | ||
| Laura, before we let you go, how do people get information about where to join, where the rallies are going to be, where in Hagerstown or if they can, you know, what overpasses or if they can kind of come and join as you guys head from Indianapolis into the greater Washington, D.C. | ||
| expanded metropolitan area? | ||
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So the official website of the People's Convoy is the peoplesconvoy.org, and there they're posting official routes as quickly as they can. | |
| But Children's Self-Defense TV, we've gotten pretty close to the truckers so far, and so now as soon as there's a change, a route change of any sort, a roadblock, we let you guys know where we're going to be, how these routes are moving, and where we're going along the way. | ||
| So you can tune in at childrenselfdefense.org for that information on the convoy update. | ||
| Claire, are you live streaming? | ||
| People have asked me all the time, do you also live stream and how do people get access to your social media and Children's Health Fund so they can catch it on an ongoing basis? | ||
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Yeah, so we're live streaming every day at 10 a.m. | |
| Eastern. | ||
| And so me and my partner, Ariana Victor, go live and we give those updates. | ||
| So we say, okay, this is what we saw yesterday. | ||
| We'll do some interviews with the truckers, the different people on the convoy, and kind of get the feeling and the vibe of what's going on. | ||
| And then once again, we also do updates every day on the routes and information on where we're going. | ||
| So you can find that... Your wingman... | ||
| Claire, your wingman, wasn't she in the lead truck, the lead rig yesterday? | ||
| Am I correct in hearing that? | ||
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Yes, yes she was. | |
| So, the entire convoy has just taken us under their wings, like we're their nieces or something, right? | ||
| I've never felt more safe with a group of men in my entire life. | ||
| I'm not even joking, you know, you have this entire, you know, people have this view of what truckers are, and I had no idea that the core group is full of Owner-operators. | ||
| They're business owners. | ||
| They're good men and good people. | ||
| And so, Ariana had the privilege of riding with Mike Landis, who is one of the organizers. | ||
| And we were given a World War II flag from a veteran who was killed in action by his daughter. | ||
| And so, they went to a shop in the middle of the convoy and got left behind and they Installed it on the truck, told the story, had some really good conversations about freedom and why Mike Landis isn't here. | ||
| And that was on our episode yesterday, and we're having the part two today being aired right now. | ||
| So if you guys want to tune in and see that really touching, touching story, it'll be on there. | ||
| And we'll make sure we link to it here in the War Room. | ||
| Claire Dooley, Children's Health Defense TV. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| Fantastic job. | ||
| You and your wingman. | ||
| Everybody's doing. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| We appreciate you having us. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
| The great Lou Dobbs is next to put it all in perspective. | ||
| be back in a war room in just a moment. | ||
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So, let's get started. | |
| So, we're back in the war room. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Okay, welcome to the war room. | ||
| This is a 70 mile long truckers convoy heads into the greater Washington DC. | ||
| metropolitan area. | ||
| We had Governor Kristi Noem on from South Dakota in front of Mount Rushmore throwing down hard on what Joe Biden said, and we were very honored to have Lou Dobbs on a day that we've weaponized the dollar. | ||
| Oil's gone over, what, $112 a barrel. | ||
| We're at full economic war with Russia, and there's a kinetic war going on in the Ukraine. | ||
| Only Lou Dobbs can put it all in perspective. | ||
| Lou, thank you for joining us. | ||
| Very honored. | ||
| Obviously, you're an audience favorite, but everybody wants to know Lou Dobbs' take on last night, Joe Biden, both the performance and the content, sir. | ||
| Thank you very much, Stephen. | ||
| It's great to be with you. | ||
| First, as to the president's performance, it struck me that we were witnessing a propaganda movie from the 1930s. | ||
| It could have been Soviet. | ||
| It could have been Nazi. | ||
| It was outrageous to see a president lie to the American people time after time after time. | ||
| Steve, quite honestly, I thought at various points that he was about to announce that he, President Joe Biden, was about to convert to the Republican Party. | ||
| And not only was he converting to the Republican Party, but that he had decided that Donald Trump was right about everything, economics, geopolitics, and that he had decided to become an America first Trumpian Republican on top of all of that. | ||
| It was outrageous what he did. | ||
| And then the kicker at the end, the moonshot cancer cure for all time. | ||
| That's an insult to every doctor, every nurse, every research scientist, every organization that has worked so hard and so successfully. | ||
| Over the last 30 years to develop new treatments for cancer, to suggest that it's a death sentence, what kind of mindless nonsense is that from the President of the United States? | ||
| And then to watch the Democrats in the audience, because that's all they were, was an audience, They didn't even know when to applaud for crying out loud because one, they couldn't understand him and two, the lines were such a disaster. It was written in the most sophomoric fashion. | ||
| It was bureaucrat ease, if you will, that had no connection whatsoever to the soul of meaning of words and the listeners and viewers. It was horrific. And then on top of that, the political theater goes solipsistic and we go to all of the anchor desks for the cable news networks. | ||
| And that's what we're going to do. | ||
| At least. | ||
| And they then repeat the lies and they applaud like seals about, you know, simple articles. | ||
| The, ah, whatever it might be. | ||
| It was outrageous to watch. | ||
| And there was no spirited critical judgment whatsoever of what he said, what the background was for each issue that he did at least mention, but he did not deal with. | ||
| I could not think of one honest statement that the man actually made. | ||
| And then to be heralded as a uniter? | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| He is a plagiarist. | ||
| And he did it again last night. | ||
| Only he chose Donald Trump to plagiarize. | ||
| Lou, given your years of reporting about Wall Street, capital markets, corporations, international economics, you've met some pretty tough hombres. | ||
| The criminal element in Beijing and the KGB thugs in Moscow, how would they view that performance last night, do you believe? | ||
| I think that they probably cannot imagine that a superpower has such a man leading it. | ||
| Obviously weak Feeble and completely at a loss as to the implications of what he was saying and the reasons for his, you know, there is a great mystery at the end, go get him. | ||
| We're starting to hear the White House gin up all sorts of explanations for that. | ||
| None of them are satisfactory. | ||
| A completely random, bizarre remark that was a perfect capstone to a bizarre and random address to primarily the Democratic Party, although they didn't seem too interested in what the man was saying or what they could understand of what he was saying. | ||
| The thugs in the Kremlin and in Ukraine right now, the Russians, they are not intimidated whatsoever by anything that that president said. | ||
| He even had, I said that he did not say one honest thing. | ||
| He at least did say that he was following other nations in restricting Russians from our airspace. | ||
| That he did acknowledge. | ||
| It was the most honest moment I thought of the night. | ||
| Given your show was always about economics, capital markets, and politics, and geopolitics, we are, and I keep telling people, there's three types of warfare. | ||
| There's information and cyber warfare, there's economic, and then there's kinetic. | ||
| The non-stop, you're seeing the kinetic war of the Russians going down, doing their typical strategy of moving in slow, surrounding, shelling, all of that. | ||
| But where right now, our government is on a First, it's unprecedented for the United States to take such action. | ||
| weaponizing the dollar in our currency. | ||
| Given your years of experience, what is the wisdom, and are we going to face the law of unintended consequences here as we get into this hardcore economic war against the regime in Moscow? | ||
| First, it's unprecedented for the United States to take such action. | ||
| And it assumes that there is some sort of stasis here that is measurable, quantifiable, easily analyzed, understood and from which we can project an outcome. | ||
| As you suggest, this is not a strategy that will lead to a certain result that's beneficial to the United States or to the world community, for that matter. | ||
| It is a highly risky approach. | ||
| It is, again, a mark of, I think, becklessness on the part of the U.S. | ||
| leadership, i.e., the Biden administration, to try to even go weaponize the dollar and go after the ruble, because it is, first of all, it is a, you talk about civilian casualties, collateral damage. | ||
| Well, that is a way in which to achieve it. | ||
| And it is ignorant of U.S. | ||
| authorities to suggest that this will be focused on Vladimir Putin, his oligarch cronies and the Russian state. | ||
| It just simply will not happen. | ||
| And what's interesting here is that in addition to that, we are sitting with a lot of energy focused on Russia, while their sole strategic partner The People's Republic of China and the CCP are not even mentioned. | ||
| There was sort of a glancing reference that passed before I think many people even caught a reference to China. | ||
| And China right now is the bulwark in the world economy that is protecting Vladimir Putin and his thugocracy, if you will. | ||
| Lou, two things. | ||
| I want to get to the cost thing. | ||
| He talked about inflation by still championing the Green New Deal. | ||
| You know, West Texas Intermediate, I think, went to $112 this morning. | ||
| He talked about getting arms around the cost. | ||
| Do you have any idea what he was actually saying? | ||
| Because this seemed like the most important thing for the American people was that, and it was the most confused part of the speech. | ||
| Do you understand what he was saying? | ||
| I have no, I honestly, I am working very hard. | ||
| I am watching diligently and listening every bit as carefully. | ||
| I at times had no idea even what it was that he was trying to express that he was confusing and misstating as he did so. | ||
| I am deeply troubled about the state of this man, his physical health, his mental health. | ||
| It was horrible to see that display. | ||
| When I said he was dishonest throughout, imagine saying that he wants to have us be energy independent, that he wants to see a solution for these high prices. | ||
| And then he talks about putting a cap on prescription drug prices, cutting them. | ||
| It's again, it is the Trump agenda that he reiterated and reiterated and reiterated without credit once, without a single credit to his predecessor. | ||
| This is the awfulness of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party as it is today. | ||
| It is ridiculous. | ||
| And to watch the performance, by the way, of the Democrat audience, I didn't see many Republicans But the Democrats I saw, including a Supreme Court justice, they were behaving like bashful schoolchildren and about as interested in what that president was saying as they would have been in a late afternoon study hall. | ||
| It was horrible to watch the maturity, the lack of maturity of those people in that room. | ||
| Awful. | ||
| You did bring up something earlier in this conversation where the speech was so confusing, so poorly put together, and obviously cut and paste because it had these hard cuts to other topics. | ||
| The audience was so confused. | ||
| The people that support him didn't know when to stand, didn't know when to clap. | ||
| It was a debacle for a guy that needed that speech to inspire people. | ||
| It was the most rudimentary elements of rhetoric or making a speech, where you could just tell it was slapped together with very little thought and less practice. | ||
| Lou, I've got to talk about your podcast, because now you're out and you're talking to people every day. | ||
| Give the audience some details. | ||
| People love it. | ||
| How do they go there? | ||
| How do they support it? | ||
| What are they supposed to do? | ||
| Uh, it's called the Great America Show, uh, because we sort of want to advertise our point of view as well as the reality. | ||
| This is America. | ||
| It is great. | ||
| And we, uh, we are all about, uh, truth, justice, and the American way it's available on all podcasts, the platforms. | ||
| And, of course, we talk about all of the politics from local to international and we're covering now as everyone else is this horrific war on Ukraine and trying to, like certainly others who I respect and foremost among those, Steve Bannon, as you, trying to navigate what is | ||
| in the national interest in this moment of great tension and in Ukraine violence. | ||
| Where does it lead and what is the national interest and how is it best served? | ||
| Particularly critically important right now, I think, for all of us, because the White House is part of the information wars. | ||
| We are being shelled by our own government with disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda daily. | ||
| More than the fog of war, it's a global fog. | ||
| But in the fog of war, we've got Lou Dobbs to help us through. | ||
| The podcast is fantastic. | ||
| We're going to put it back up on all of our sites to push it out. | ||
| Got to listen to Lou Dobbs every day. | ||
| Lou, thank you so much. | ||
| And thank you for doing this analysis of Joe Biden, the debacle, the great Lou Dobbs, the great American shows, the podcast. | ||
| Let's everybody get into it and listen. | ||
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| It's Ash Wednesday, and we've asked one of, I think, one of the most prominent and hard-working religious figures in the Catholic Church, Fr. | ||
| Pavone, who's been a leader in the Right to Life movement, to join us on Ash Wednesday. | ||
| Fr. | ||
| Pavone, particularly for our non-Catholic audience, and for maybe even a big part of the audience, or some of the audience as non-believers, walk us through what is Lent, and why is Ash Wednesday such an important day? | ||
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Well, Steve, thanks for having me today. | |
| And of course, those who believe in the scriptures, whatever denomination they are, and including our Jewish brothers and sisters in the Hebrew scriptures, we know that God is constantly calling us to turn away from sin. | ||
| And Lent is a special period of time during the year where we focus again on that, because repentance is a lifelong task. | ||
| We don't just repent of sin once and then everything's okay. | ||
| We're constantly fighting temptation. | ||
| We're constantly fighting evil. | ||
| And you know, the power of evil, the power of sin, is behind a lot of the problems that we discuss here on this program and in our national life, in our political debates. | ||
| There's a spiritual foundation to this. | ||
| So Lent is a time where we heed the warning of the prophets, repent of sin, we heed the warning of St. | ||
| Paul. | ||
| Now is the time of salvation. | ||
| It starts with Ash Wednesday. | ||
| You know, Scripture talks about repenting in sackcloth and ashes. | ||
| The ashes on Ash Wednesday, which are placed in the form of a cross on our forehead, In our Catholic community, remind us that we are dust and to dust we shall return. | ||
| They remind us of the need for humility. | ||
| They also remind us that through the cross of Jesus Christ, we conquer death, we conquer sin, and we also have the hope of eternal life. | ||
| Because Lent is preparing us for Easter. | ||
| It's preparing us to renew the promises of our baptism. | ||
| Many people will be baptized at Easter, and those of us who are already baptized will renew that commitment, which means two things. | ||
| Rejecting sin, and believing in Jesus Christ and in his gospel. | ||
| That, Steve, in a nutshell, is what this is about. | ||
| You might say it's like going into a spiritual war room for a period of 40 days. | ||
| What is the traditions of fasting, absence from meat, certain things, sacrifices for Lent? | ||
| What aspect does that play? | ||
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You know, what it is, it's like going into the gym and, you know, we train our muscles, we take something that is good, maybe something that we particularly enjoy, ice cream or whatever it might be, and we say, okay, during the period of Lent I'm going to sacrifice this, not because there's anything wrong with it, But because if I can say no to something that's pleasurable, but it's okay, then I'm stronger to say no to something pleasurable that's not okay. | |
| And that's what temptation is. | ||
| Communally, we take on certain penances that we all do as a group, as a church. | ||
| And so today, we abstain from meat. | ||
| All the Fridays of Lent, we abstain from meat as a community. | ||
| And today, and also again on Good Friday, the day of our Lord's death, we abstain, we fast also, so we eat less during the course of the day. | ||
| Again, as a way of all together as a community saying, Lord, we have sinned, and we're acknowledging this, and we're denying ourselves certain things so that we can become more spiritually alert to the need to repent each day. | ||
| Is there anything that you recommend in leading up to, you know, Holy Week and Holy Thursday and then Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? | ||
| Is there anything that you recommend that Catholics and other Christians do as far as readings or any other types of preparation? | ||
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I think it's important to just spend more time reading the Scriptures, all of us going into the Scriptures, and in particular, as you mentioned, you know, Good Friday, we're talking about the passion and death of our Lord. | |
| Those accounts in Scripture of His suffering, of His crucifixion, His death and His resurrection Do we have it in all of the four Gospels? | ||
| To really study those passages is one of the most fruitful things that we can do. | ||
| Appreciating how much our Lord suffered, and then identifying with it, because we're going through a very, very rough time of history right now in our nation and in our world. | ||
| And for Christians, you know, we join our sufferings to the sufferings of Christ, and we learn that for those apostles, the world was ending. | ||
| I mean, the crucifixion for them was like, was dashing of all their hopes. | ||
| They didn't know where to turn next. | ||
| And then, right in the midst of that, we have the power of the resurrection and the new hope that that brings. | ||
| We've got to identify with that. | ||
| We've got to apply that to our times. | ||
| And I think a re-reading and a re-studying of those passion narratives, especially in the four Gospels, will be a great preparation. | ||
| Times like this where people are looking at now, just coming off of a biological weapon or this massive pandemic, you've got all this economic uncertainty, now every day you're bombarded with these images of a shooting war in Eurasia. | ||
| What recommendations do you make to people spiritually about what they should be doing? | ||
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You know, isn't it interesting how it became a partisan issue, how we responded to the pandemic and how we dealt with Masks and vaccines, you know, why would it be a partisan divide? | |
| I think one of the reasons is, and Pew Research did a good study on this, the Democrat Party tends to be the party towards which people who do not have faith gravitate. | ||
| Okay, just in general, as a trend. | ||
| We have a lot of believers gravitating toward a Republican Party and its policies. | ||
| I mention this because the difference in the way we've responded to all of this has a lot to do with whether we believe that this life is all you get or that there is indeed, that this life is indeed a preface to eternal life. | ||
| Because if we have eternal life, we have the hope of that life in Christ, and our suffering is a portal into that life, well, that changes how we deal with the pandemic. | ||
| That even changes how we deal with war. | ||
| It's not that we tolerate evil. | ||
| In fact, it makes us fight evil even harder. | ||
| But it's not like we're maniacs trying to do everything possible to eliminate every little ounce of suffering here in this world. | ||
| And if suffering comes to us, you know, we're just crushed by it, and we're hopeless, and we despair. | ||
| For a Christian, it's just the opposite. | ||
| We are suffering in union with Christ. | ||
| We know that even though we die, we live. | ||
| Father Prevost, what's your social media? | ||
| How do people get to you? | ||
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F.R. | |
| Frank Pavone, Steve, on Truth Social and Getter and all the main platforms. | ||
| F.R. | ||
| Frank Pavone. | ||
| Father Pavone, thank you for kicking off our lunch for us. | ||
| Thank you, sir. |
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