March 14, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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And now... | |
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| Across the Polish-Ukrainian border. | ||
| They have to understand though at this point that this war has entered into a new phase. | ||
| Americans have been watching war crimes committed on their television sets day and night over the past several weeks. | ||
| Now we have again the talk of chemical weapons being introduced in this battle. | ||
| I'm wondering if Joe Biden, if we're going to stop hearing Joe Biden talking about what he's not going to do now that you look at the public polls and We've gone from only 25%, 26% wanting to be involved to 75% supporting a no-fly zone. | ||
| Not that, of course, anybody here is suggesting that happens. | ||
| I am curious, though, will we stop hearing Joe Biden talking about what he's not going to do? | ||
| What tactics he's not going to employ? | ||
| What jets he's not going to send? | ||
| And we may see a bit more cautious Joe Biden with his words. | ||
| I think that's the decision the White House is trying to make right now. | ||
| As I reported today about the campaign to so clearly say, outline what the President is willing to do and not to do. | ||
| That has been the M.O. | ||
| throughout this crisis to this point. | ||
| Suggesting there are lines simply he would not cross. | ||
| And that has gotten some criticism. | ||
| Though, I think you're right, largely the foreign policy community has praised his response. | ||
| There's a growing number of people on both sides of the aisle who say he's telegraphing to Putin too much, what he's willing to do or not. | ||
| And if there are these harm lines, that's giving Putin perhaps permission to do up until that point. | ||
| Certainly, we're hearing that from Republicans. | ||
| We're hearing that from the former president as well, although his words, of course, should be taken with a grain of salt considering how much he emboldened Putin throughout his time in office. | ||
| Certainly, the current White House believes that. | ||
| This is the decision, as the White House knows, we're about to enter a new phase here. | ||
| And there's some hope for a diplomatic solution. | ||
| We heard from Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman over the weekend say that she does feel the Russians are a little more serious now about talks. | ||
| So there is that hope. | ||
| But if that doesn't happen and the atrocities continue, chemical warfare used, we will move into a new phase and the White House knows it's going to have to respond differently. | ||
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Why is gas so expensive and why is the United States inflation rate at a four-time decade high? | |
| I had the opportunity to ask the White House why gas down the street is $7, and here's what they said. | ||
| The obvious reason, we are getting out of a two-year pandemic. | ||
| When use goes up, price goes up. | ||
| But the call is predominantly about Ukraine and Russia, so how does that relate? | ||
| Russia is one of the top three producers of oil, and it is actually their number one revenue source. | ||
| Now, with Putin starting this horrific fight between Ukraine and Russia, nobody wants to work with him and do an international trade. | ||
| So, with people being scared of war and limited resources, prices are bound to go up as well. | ||
| For the people who can't pay $7 for a gallon of gas, there's an app called GasBuddy that shows you the cheapest gas near you, as well as a link in my bio to donate to the misplaced refugees of Ukraine. | ||
| Why is gas so expensive? | ||
| Okay, we don't need to play three times. | ||
| Morning, it is War Room. | ||
| It is Monday, 14 March, Year of the Lord 2022. | ||
| We actually had a great cold open for you. | ||
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We didn't deliver that, but we will work on these and get them better. | |
| You're in the War Room. | ||
| We're live, and we're going to go to Rome here in a minute, right outside the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the meeting with Tiger Yang and Jake Sullivan is taking place, the senior Chinese Uh, the hammer, uh, she's right hand on everything foreign policy. | ||
| I've had the, uh, I won't call it the pleasure sent across the table from that guy, not a pleasant individual as we know from Alaska when he was shouting at the Americans, uh, about what all our shortcomings are. | ||
| Of course, Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken took it. | ||
| Like two errant schoolboys, and our relationship has been kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party ever since. | ||
| This war spreads out of control. | ||
| Also, breaking news in Shenzhen province. | ||
| I think it's 17 million people in total and complete lockdown. | ||
| That is the province in southeast China, right across, really, Canton, in the old way we used to say it, Canton, right across the Pearl River, right across from Hong Kong. | ||
| Hong Kong, I think, is totally in lockdown, too. | ||
| A new variant of, wait for it, the CCP virus. | ||
| Okay, it's in total lockdown now. | ||
| That is the manufacturer and that's the railhead for the supply chain of so many products in the United States, particularly electronic products, chips, all of it. | ||
| We got Cortez to talk to us about that, Miranda Devine. | ||
| Just want you to know, Miranda Devine, New York Post, is going to be here. | ||
| We're fighting for this war spreading. | ||
| You hear the infantile and dangerous war talk Of clowns like Joe Scarborough, you know, the University of Alabama Law School's finest. | ||
| Clowns like... Does he have a passport? | ||
| Just a question. | ||
| Has there ever been anywhere outside of South Padre Island? | ||
| Is that where it is, South Padre Island, where all the fraternities go down to the party? | ||
| Inquiring minds want to know because he doesn't know anything about international affairs, military, national security, all of that, although I realize he was a congressman from Pennsylvania, Pensacola, got that part. | ||
| OK, Biden needs either implement the War Powers Act or come before Congress and talk about going to war because that's what we're doing. | ||
| We're offensive economic war right now. | ||
| This thing's expanding and metastasizing. | ||
| As we told you, of course, what they don't report is the parties are actually trying, at one level, de-escalate and have these peace conferences or have this stand-down conference. | ||
| That's what's really going on behind the scenes. | ||
| We're going to get to all that. | ||
| Let's go to Rome. | ||
| We've got Steve Cordes going to be with us for the first hour. | ||
| We've got a lot to do on the war, a lot to do on the economy, a lot to do on inflation. | ||
| Then we're going to get to We're going to get to politics and, of course, this Pfizer fiasco in the second hour. | ||
| And then Captain Fennell is going to join us later about the entire situation in Taiwan and the South China Sea. | ||
| Let's go to Rome Live outside the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. | ||
| Our own international editor, Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Ben, what do you got for us? | ||
| Morning, Steve. | ||
| Well, the meeting today here that's taking place over my shoulder is between Yang Jiechi And Jake Sullivan. | ||
| Now, Tiger Yang has a long diplomatic history. | ||
| He was 20 years ago ambassador to the United States. | ||
| He was then foreign minister. | ||
| And he's now generally regarded as the foremost contemporary architects of China's foreign policy. | ||
| And he's second in diplomatic ranking, only under Xi Jinping himself. | ||
| And across the table from him is Joe Biden's best pencil neck that he could find to send here on a one-to-one negotiation. | ||
| And to put this into context, the reason this meeting is taking place right now is, as we've been covering over the last sort of 20 days here on the War Room, the various NATO countries outside of the formal NATO infrastructure have been sending munitions to Ukraine, largely via Poland, safe in the knowledge that Russia won't attack any of these storage depots. | ||
| Now, that has somewhat forced Russia to try a similar manoeuvre, And therefore President Putin has asked China for some support, financial support and even military support. | ||
| And the meeting taking place right now over my shoulder is basically that America is now putting pressure on China, threatening serious consequences to China if China goes ahead and assists Russia, which is probably its strongest international ally at this moment, in Russia's hour of need. | ||
| Okay, so there's a lot going on here. | ||
| Part of this is about the war in the Ukraine. | ||
| Other aspects of it is to keep that war from expanding now to the South China Sea and Taiwan. | ||
| And as we get more engaged in this every second, it only makes it more dangerous, more dangerous. | ||
| As more we escalate and you have these infantile and dangerous people on Fox News and MSNBC and CNN, You know, supporting the foreign policy community. | ||
| Remember, that's the deep state, that's the administrative state. | ||
| They're all cheering this on. | ||
| They love it. | ||
| This is the Atlanticist, right? | ||
| This Atlanticist. | ||
| Essentially a racist war in Ukraine. | ||
| We're gonna get into details about that tomorrow, about the neo-Nazis. | ||
| Exactly what your tax dollars are supporting. | ||
| The facts. | ||
| The facts on the ground and why Maripol has been such a nasty, brutal siege and why we're seeing so little video. | ||
| Coming out of Maripal. | ||
| Okay, Ben, hang on for one second. | ||
| I'm going to come back to you about where we stand on the negotiations and the talks. | ||
| I know people told me it may be in Israel, maybe all over the place. | ||
| Cortez, your assessment of where we stand this morning, and let's throw in Sengen in that process. | ||
| We tell you, we tell folks, hey, when these things start, you don't know which direction they're going to head. | ||
| You know, Steve, it's fascinating right now. | ||
| China is actually in a very precarious economic position. | ||
| If we had a strong American leader, if we still had Donald Trump in the Oval Office, this would actually be a great time to be putting the economic screws to the Chinese, demanding things like economic reparations for the biological war that they waged upon the world, including the United States. | ||
| Things like much higher tariffs for their imports. | ||
| And let me put some numbers to this. | ||
| Just this morning as we speak, FXI, that is the ticker for the largest, most liquidly traded Chinese ETF in the United States. | ||
| It is down almost 5% right now as we speak, it is down 35% of its highs of just about six months ago. | ||
| So the Chinese stock market is careening lower, extremely worried about this situation with the virus resurfacing with abandon, and about the third largest city in China, Shenzhen, being shut down, the fourth largest port. | ||
| In the world, second largest Chinese port, an incredibly important place for commerce. | ||
| You mentioned that it's in some ways a tech epicenter for the Chinese mainland, particularly when you look at Foxconn, which of course is primary supplier to Apple for iPhones and other significant products that we consume here in the West. | ||
| My point is, China's actually in a corner. | ||
| If we could realize it, act like it, if we could play it, we actually have. | ||
| But instead, Because of the weakness of Joe Biden, an imposter who occupies the Oval Office, and because he has been compromised by the CCP for decades as a senator, as a vice president, as an ex-vice president, private citizen, and now, unfortunately, totally worthless. | ||
| Unfortunately, the tables have turned, and China believes that it has an incredibly strong hand to play. | ||
| And of course, it has enormous sway In what's going on right now in the Black Sea and the Ukraine crisis, you know, it is no coincidence, of course, that that Putin made that trip not just to see the Olympics, not just to say hello to Xi, but but to get permission from who has effectively become his economic godfather in President Xi to get permission to engage in this aggression against Ukraine. | ||
| So all of it is inextricably linked. | ||
| If Biden would wake up and realize, though, that we actually have a strong hand if we play it correctly, if we say, hey, to the world, to the Ukrainians and the Russians, what's going on in Ukraine is a human tragedy, but it's not a national security crisis for the United States and China. | ||
| You're in a bad spot right now, and we actually hold the cards economically. | ||
| Yeah, Biden, and for all the cheerleaders over at Fox, you know, the four things have been laid out. | ||
| Biden's got to come forward and make a case, and you guys have to make a case, why it's in the vital national security interests of the United States, of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the eastern border of Ukraine and southern Ukraine. | ||
| Why is it when we have an invasion on our southern border, which I just hear crickets about? | ||
| I just hear crickets about. | ||
| And you had these 42 infantile senators. | ||
| Yes, infantile. | ||
| They sent a very dangerous signal with this letter they sent about the Migs. | ||
| That would just be more escalation. | ||
| More escalation. | ||
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Steve, I think this is so important too. | |
| I tell you what, Cortez, hang on for one second. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to be back in a moment. | ||
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| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| you As the siege of Kiev starts over the weekend, shelling As the military situation gets graver on the ground, the kinetic war gets graver. | ||
| The two NATO bases, essentially what would have been the NATO bases, were hit by the Russians over the weekend. | ||
| I think they sent a signal. | ||
| Also very tough, I think, to operate out of there now. | ||
| And of course they're starting to grind through the south. | ||
| And it looks like the biggest fight is Maripol down there, which we're going to get into more details when we have Eric Prince. | ||
| And others that know the area, know the region, know the players, so you don't get happy-talked to come in and talk about all this. | ||
| I want to go back to Steve Cortes. | ||
| Steve, we ran out of time. | ||
| You were finishing your thoughts. | ||
| What were they? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You know, by the way, Stephen, thank goodness for your show, because the corporate media in the United States does not want to talk about the good news that we've actually gotten over the weekend and including today, and that is that negotiations are making progress. | ||
| That's not my assessment. | ||
| That's the assessment of the leadership of both Moscow and Kiev. | ||
| We got statements out of both sides, Russia and Ukraine, that there was substantial progress and the potential To even sign a negotiated truce within days. | ||
| That's literally what they said. | ||
| You know what is reacting, by the way? | ||
| American media is not, but financial markets to some degree, right? | ||
| You know, I mentioned before that China is getting crushed because of the virus situation. | ||
| Nothing really to do with Ukraine in terms of that market move. | ||
| But there is a massive market move as we speak in crude oil today. | ||
| Crude is down $8. | ||
| This is the first significant fall for crude in weeks. | ||
| And the primary reason It's because there is some hope that there is going to be that there is de-escalation from the people who are most involved. | ||
| So, Steve, we see this contrast right now of Biden in Washington, D.C., American media, the Davos crowd, Brussels, all trying to escalate. | ||
| But the people actually involved, the parties actually at risk, the people actually suffering are trying right now and apparently making progress. | ||
| Toward de-escalation, we should join them in working toward that de-escalation. | ||
| It will, of course, be better for them, but it will also be better for us. | ||
| And who knows? | ||
| Crude oil, right now, pressing $100 on the downside. | ||
| Wouldn't it be great to get crude back below $100 again? | ||
| A negotiated truce can do that in the Black Sea. | ||
| Here, real quick, tell people why markets or proxies are so important about reality, whether it's the stock market price of a Taiwan semiconductor, or it's the Chinese stock market today, or the commodity markets, or you always talk about markets. | ||
| Why are they good proxies for reality? | ||
| To let people know, forget the spin, this is where people are actually betting hard cash and capital every day. | ||
| Exactly, Steve. | ||
| It's where the rubber meets the road. | ||
| So it's one thing to have an opinion. | ||
| Let's use a sports analogy, Steve. | ||
| It's one thing to have an opinion about March Madness and get in a pool where you're risking nothing, or maybe, you know, you're risking a cup of coffee. | ||
| But, okay, let's say you've got about a hundred bucks. | ||
| This matters to you now, okay? | ||
| You're going to take it far, far more seriously. | ||
| It's going to matter to you. | ||
| And so in financial markets, where we see people committing capital the world over, as I said, it's where the rubber meets the road. | ||
| It's far more reflective of reality, in my view, On an ongoing basis not always perfect clearly and financial markets clearly get things wrong But it's a far better reflection of the real assessment of a situation instead of just somebody pontificating on MSNBC or one of the legacy media platforms so right now today now again could be wrong but as of today as of right now this moment Crude oil is getting slammed. | ||
| That's the first time it's happened in weeks. | ||
| The reason are the headlines that largely got buried over the weekend that there is progress being made, that peace is actually possible. | ||
| Am I saying it's likely? | ||
| Look, we'll see. | ||
| It's a very volatile situation. | ||
| But the point is, there is at least progress toward de-escalation from the parties involved. | ||
| I believe there would be more progress if Washington and Brussels would stop trying to escalate while the actual participants are trying to de-escalate. | ||
| In the American media, obviously you can't shame them, right? | ||
| They're part of the fix here. | ||
| The propaganda coming out of here, relentless, the war porn, to try to drive the emotions of the situation. | ||
| Now is when you need cooler heads to prevail, to stop the slaughter. | ||
| Of these women and children, because it's going to continue until somebody comes to the table. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And by the way, media matters. | ||
| Now that you're the new pomp, now you got the pom-poms out, Madeline Peltz and her team over there as the cheerleaders for continued war. | ||
| We're not saying that the Ukrainians should surrender. | ||
| The things on the table is not about them surrendering, okay? | ||
| Let's go to Ben Harnow. | ||
| Ben, where do we stand with this fourth round talk, sir? | ||
| Well, since we've been on air, Steve, these talks are now underway. | ||
| And the negotiator on behalf of President Zelensky, Mikhailo Podolyak, has said that the negotiations on peace, on the ceasefire, on immediate withdrawal of troops and for security guarantees. | ||
| And he said that it's a hard discussion. | ||
| But as Steve Portes was saying as well, there are positive soundings. | ||
| Coming out generally about the progress of these, of all four rounds of the discussions. | ||
| And I think what attention will now also be on is what sounds come out of Jerusalem with Naftali Bennett, because both sides have actually, you know, he has been, unattributed briefings have been critical of him. | ||
| But also both sides have officially on their Twitter accounts said that he's been doing a very important job and sort of bringing both sides together. | ||
| So I think that's probably going to be the next step. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| where a lot of attention is now going to be based. | ||
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| If I could just respond just very quickly to something that Steve Cortes was saying, he's absolutely correct. | ||
| China is in a very vulnerable position here trade-wise, but then so is the West, and so is Russia, right? | ||
| All three parties have a lot to lose if like Captain Ahab from Moby Dick, they just go in all obsessed for an end which is unlikely to be achieved, and we'll pull everything down in order to get there. | ||
| That's important to say. | ||
| All three major parties here are in an extremely vulnerable situation. | ||
| Okay, I want you to hang there because here's the key thing. | ||
| We know that the Chinese are underwriting this entire endeavor. | ||
| In fact, it's part of their grand strategy to unite Russia, Persia, Turkey, Pakistan, the little mini-me in North Korea, to consolidate their control and hegemony over the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| What we need to find out today is soy boy, pencil neck Jake Sullivan going to find out How much they're rearming, if this is true, Beijing's denying it, Russia's denying it, but the West is pointing out there that Putin's turned to them for immediate infusion of arms. | ||
| So, why don't you stick around there in Rome? | ||
| What I'd like to do right now is pull up, can we get the Chalk Talk of Steve Cortez? | ||
| And this goes back to this last TikTok of this influencer, but let's play Steve Cortez's Chalk Talk and we'll talk about inflation. | ||
| Patriots, this is Biden's inflation. | ||
| Even Larry Summers, who was the top economic advisor to Barack Obama, he concedes that this 7.9% inflation, the highest in 40 years, it is not due to events in Ukraine. | ||
| It's not due to any foreign leader, including Putin. | ||
| Now, sometimes these economic numbers, they may seem abstract. | ||
| So let's talk in very practical terms. | ||
| What does it mean to your life? | ||
| Well, one way to think about almost 8% inflation is that's just about exactly an entire month They're in full court press. | ||
| Meaning that as hard as you're working for the month of March, all of that income is gone It is disappearing because of the erosion of Biden's inflation. This is March madness, but not in the fun basketball way instead in the angst ridden economic suffering way because of Joe Biden This is they're in a full court press Biden said the other night this DNC meeting They're in full court press to blame this all on the war | ||
| and that they've had to do this to support the Ukrainian people That all the inflation is Putin driven Steve Cortez, that is a bald-faced lie, correct? | ||
| It is a 100% lie. | ||
| We've certainly shown a lot of that data here on The War Room. | ||
| I hope we've done a good job of arming our audience, your audience, with the information they need to repel that lie. | ||
| And it is exactly that. | ||
| The reality is we already had an absolute inflation crisis here. | ||
| Now, yes, this confrontation with Russia, which I believe is a totally unnecessary escalation, it is worsening that existing crisis. | ||
| I think it's taking us from a place where we were already headed into recession, Already entering a 1970s-style economy, and it's giving us the risk of entering a 1930s-style economy, so I will concede it is badly worsening the situation. | ||
| But the reality is, if we look, let's take crude oil, for example. | ||
| Let's talk numbers and data here. | ||
| If we look at crude oil, on November 3rd of 2020, on this current contract of crude oil, it traded for $41 a barrel when Joe Biden illegitimately prevailed. | ||
| It then rallied all the way up into the 90s before things got hot in Ukraine. | ||
| We're just over $100 now as we speak. | ||
| Might break $100 to the downside, which again would be extremely welcome. | ||
| And if we get positive, more positive developments out of negotiations and de-escalation in the Black Sea, we will break $100 to the downside. | ||
| But the point is, More than doubled, went from 40 to 90. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because Joe Biden, number one, declared war on American domestic energy production. | ||
| He attacked the golden goose of an energy-dominant America, full-spectrum energy dominance that was achieved under President Trump. | ||
| Number two, he and Nancy and Chuck engaged in an absolutely exorbitant spending orgy that sent the price of just about every physical good on Earth soaring. | ||
| Because again, capital, we're talking about the The smart moves of capital markets. | ||
| Capital markets saw what was happening, saw the Biden inflation explosion that was unfolding and poured into assets that are protected or largely protected against inflation. | ||
| Things like commodities and real estate and housing. | ||
| So this is 100% Biden's and inflation. | ||
| And Steve, once again, you don't have to take my word for it. | ||
| Actually, listen to Larry Summers. | ||
| Now, Larry Summers and I wouldn't agree on very much when it comes to policy or the economy, but we'll agree on this point and I'll give him credit We're being honest enough to say that that inflation print and he was very explicit about this. | ||
| He was on Bloomberg TV and he said the president is wrong. | ||
| Biden is wrong to try to blame this on Putin. | ||
| This is not Putin's inflation. | ||
| This belongs to Joe Biden against the I also think it's so important to put it in practical terms, because sometimes if you're not into economics, you don't follow financial markets, sometimes these numbers can become a bit esoteric. | ||
| What do they really mean? | ||
| Think of your working all March, folks, every citizen out there. | ||
| You are working all of March, not for yourself, not for your family, but just to try to defray Biden's inflation. | ||
| His inflation has stolen your earnings for the month. | ||
| That is the wrong kind of March madness. | ||
| Very well said. | ||
| By the way, it's not just Summers. | ||
| There's also Steve Ratner. | ||
| Here's what I think is interesting about Ratner, who wants to be Secretary of the Treasury or head of the National Economic Council. | ||
| Both he and Summers are thinking, what do we have to do to stop this? | ||
| That's why they're not buying into the happy talk. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Miranda Divine George's for the New York Post next Okay, welcome back The military situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate. | ||
| Let's bring in now Miranda Devine from the New York Post. | ||
| And we can get her article up on the site and on the show. | ||
| Miranda Devine joins us. | ||
| Miranda, incredibly perceptive column today in the New York Post. | ||
| That's why I say you're the best in the country. | ||
| Unlike, you know, and I guess we can't criticize the Wall Street Journal because they all go back to the same employer. | ||
| But you see Karl Rove's pieces, all these pieces, and you come out, you state a very strong case about Orban and some of these, Poland and Orban and other guys, but it cuts to the heart of exactly what this whole thing's about. | ||
| European values. | ||
| Ben Harnall has been covering the EU meeting in Versailles, everything about pushing, you know, trying to push the EU farther east. | ||
| But the whole question gets to be, what exactly are European Union values? | ||
| And what is this whole thing about? | ||
| Walk us through your analysis today, because quite frankly, it is stunningly brilliant because it's so simple. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Look, it's just unbelievable. | ||
| But last Thursday in the middle of the Ukrainian War and this refugee crisis that Poland and Hungary are bearing the brunt of. | ||
| The European Parliament voted to economically sanction Poland and Hungary, the very countries that are opening up their hearts and their wallets to the victims of this war. | ||
| And they did this because, of course, the EU, the European Union, has been taken over by liberals, By leftists, and they don't like the way these conservative nationalist countries do business. | ||
| They don't like the fact that Hungary and Poland refused to take all those millions of Middle Eastern men that Angela Merkel invited into Europe during the Syrian crisis in 2015. | ||
| The European Union doesn't like the fact that Hungary has built a fence, that it has border security. | ||
| And they don't like the fact that Hungary and Poland also have rejected gender ideology, LGBTQ activist agenda in schools. | ||
| They don't want children to be told that there's no such thing as a boy or a girl. | ||
| And for that, the European Union says that these countries don't abide by European values. | ||
| So in that regard, Is that part of this whole push for the EU to get in Ukraine, the EU to continue to go forward? | ||
| Now, here's the great news. | ||
| Coming out of the Versailles conference the other day, there's a lot of countries in the EU are saying, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down. | ||
| We didn't know this was going to lead to a shooting war with Russia. | ||
| So this is even over and above NATO. | ||
| How does the Ukraine war play into this, do you think, Miranda? | ||
| Well, again, this is, you know, a battle, I guess, between conservative and traditional values and nationalist populist governments. | ||
| And I guess what people want and this sort of European project to enforce the sort of liberal New World Order onto countries in the Eastern Bloc and including Russia. | ||
| I mean, a lot of the antagonism among the Russian people towards the West is based on This idea that these, you know, the antithesis of family values, these sort of woke ideas are being thrust down the throats of countries that don't want them. | ||
| And basically, they're losing their national sovereignty. | ||
| If you can't decide what your child is being taught at school, if you are trying to reject, you know, the so-called values that are about destroying the family, If you reject having your borders overrun by people who don't share your values and who can't assimilate, then somehow you are to be punished. | ||
| You're not allowed to be part of the civilized world. | ||
| And I think that this overreach, this cultural overreach by Europe, by the European Union, that plays into the sort of social unrest that has now led to this war. | ||
| And it has given Vladimir Putin kind of an excuse and a cudgel, I guess, a propaganda weapon to use domestically to whip up fervor and anger against the West and anger against NATO and the EU and gives the Russian people the idea that they're besieged. | ||
| Because certainly that's the way the Hungarians and the Poles feel. | ||
| OK, so this is – you've got to connect a dot for me because this is why I'm corn-fused. | ||
| Why is it then that Republicans in this country that you would think would support this understanding that if you lose this, you actually lose your sovereignty, right? | ||
| And you see heroes like Ron DeSantis down in Florida. | ||
| Fighting for this every day. | ||
| Why are so many the the neocons on you know certain you know on Forget that never Trumpers and the haters are going on MSNBC and CNN, but I'm talking Fox News Max you see him all the time that are saying that Tucker Carlson and and and others including were where the Putin wing of the party why why did why do they not get the the basic understanding of | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, maybe cowardice. | ||
| They don't want to join the dots. | ||
| Maybe, you know, I mean, a lot of conservatives, Republicans anyway, I don't know if you call them conservatives, but they like to say that they don't get involved in the culture wars. | ||
| Those are sort of dirty, you know, scuffles that are beneath them. | ||
| They don't realize that that That's the heart of everything. | ||
| And so, I don't know, they're playing big boy games. | ||
| I don't really, I can't really get into their heads. | ||
| It just seems illogical and ignorant. | ||
| This whole thing about EU values is absolutely brilliant, the way you brought it up. | ||
| Everybody's got to read this article. | ||
| I need people to be a force multiplier today. | ||
| You need to share this, Miranda Devine's magnificent piece in the New York Post. | ||
| We're going to get it everywhere in the chat rooms, but I need people to be a force multiplier today. | ||
| Miranda, how do people follow you on social media and how do they get more access to your writings? | ||
| At Miranda Devine on Getter and Twitter and just look the New York I have several columns there a week, so you can just click on my page. | ||
| Miranda Devine, honored to have you on. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thanks so much, Dave. | ||
| Now, Cortez, as fate would have it, you also have a piece up on your substack. | ||
| Miranda Devine takes one angle of attack on it. | ||
| You take the second angle of attack. | ||
| Connect the dots for me here, sir. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And by the way, Steve, it's fascinating because the great powers of the West, both in Western Europe as well as the U.S., we no longer colonize other countries through conquering armies, but we sure do engage in cultural imperialism right now. | ||
| And that's not just the EU doing it, it's Washington, D.C. | ||
| doing it as well, insisting, for example, that societies and countries, we do it in Africa, we're doing it right now in Europe to Hungary and Poland, that societies that are far more traditional and in many cases far more Christian in their worldview than 2022 America is, that they must subscribe to our ideology, things like a lack of sovereignty or a void of sovereignty, things like sexual education from a largely homosexual perspective to young school children. And if countries choose to | ||
| reject those kinds of ideas, they're somehow rejecting modernity. | ||
| is the false idea of the establishment ruling class in Washington as well as in Europe. | ||
| But regarding Washington, D.C., my new article up on Substack is imploring Americans, in particular the deplorables out there, to reject the dishonest war hawks. | ||
| Steve, you and I mentioned very briefly on Saturday's show Ambassador McFaul, who was Obama's ambassador to Russia, current tenured professor at Stanford. | ||
| He was a Rhodes Scholar. | ||
| He's somebody with According to the ruling class, impeccable credentials. | ||
| But he made a rather obscene statement on MSNBC on the Rachel Maddow Show. | ||
| Of course, he was not corrected on air. | ||
| As a matter of fact, the show tweeted out his comments in a video. | ||
| They were proud of it. | ||
| He said that he was trying to position Putin as somehow being actually worse than Hitler. | ||
| And he said at least Hitler did not kill ethnic Germans. | ||
| He said he did not kill German-speaking people. | ||
| Of course, That's a ludicrous, ahistorical lie. | ||
| He killed hundreds of thousands of Germans, including, according to the U.S. | ||
| Holocaust Museum, about 160,000 German Jews. | ||
| But a lot of other Gentile Germans as well, brave citizens who were non-compliant, people like the evangelical minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who would not comply, would not acquiesce to his evil, were killed. | ||
| So it was a total affront. | ||
| Number one, it was a historical lie. | ||
| Number two, it was a total affront To the memory, to the sacred souls of those who were slaughtered by Hitler. | ||
| And then, number three, and I think this is what's important, is let's talk about though, and let's analyze, why do they leap to such hyperbole? | ||
| Why do they go to such extensive and dishonest rhetoric? | ||
| It's because there is no legitimate case to be made for an American vital national interest in the border of Eastern Ukraine. | ||
| So, they must create a narrative whereby they can pretend that Putin is actually a threat to us, and that he's actually a threat to Western Europe, that he is on the verge of marching all the way to Paris. | ||
| Now, that is totally nonsensical. | ||
| Putin has shown no ability so far to even occupy all of Ukraine, much less move on to other countries or in any way threaten the Western alliance. | ||
| But this is the kind of lie that is being told. | ||
| And it's not just being told, by the way, though, by MSNBC and McFaul. | ||
| These same kinds of lies and ridiculous hyperbole are also being spewed by people like Mark Levin, by people like Lindsey Graham, ostensibly part of our coalition, by people like Sean Hannity. | ||
| So we see the establishment and the Republican neocons All coalescing very, very quickly to try to escalate this war. | ||
| And again, as we mentioned earlier, Steve, at the same time that the Russians and the Ukrainians are smartly trying to de-escalate. | ||
| We have the neocon Americans, Republican and Democrats alike, trying to escalate. | ||
| It's shameful, and I believe they must be named and shamed. | ||
| Which I've done in my article. | ||
| And it starts with McFaul, but it extends to a lot of people who want to position themselves as our friends and allies. | ||
| But when we scratch the surface just a little bit, we realize they're not America First. | ||
| They don't believe in a foreign policy of realism and restraint. | ||
| They don't really believe in Trump. | ||
| They just want to cater to us because they know that the voters of the populist nationalist America First movement control the modern Republican Party. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| I have more to say about that. | ||
| And also the Constitution. | ||
| If you love the Constitution, don't we have to honor the Constitution in this situation and force Joe Biden, either through the War Powers Act or to come to Congress, I think, and actually make the case to declare war on Russia? | ||
| We declared economic war. | ||
| War is just not... | ||
| These guys understand war's just not tanks and shells, all that kinetic. | ||
| That's kind of 20th century warfare. | ||
| Warfare in the 21st century, much more sophisticated. | ||
| Information warfare, cyber warfare, and economic warfare. | ||
| And we're in an offensive economic war with Russia right now. | ||
| Let's bring in Michael Patrick Leahy. | ||
| There was one senator who kind of stood tall over the weekend. | ||
| This letter to Biden, 42 Republican senators signed it, and Mitt Romney's running around. | ||
| I'll tell you what, we're going to hold Michael after the break. | ||
| There was a letter that went out about sending MIGs, about sending MIGs from Poland and sending them to Ukraine to escalate. | ||
| Now, who knows about the logistics of it, how they're going to fly it, how you're going to service them, how you're going to get parts to it, where you're actually going to land, because they've shelled all the runways, as Jack Posobiec has already said. | ||
| But the infantile, oh, and Mitt Romney accusing Tulsi Gabbard of treason, of treasonous activities, right? | ||
| A guy that's so gutless and has such a tedious family. | ||
| Have a history of not supporting the United States in times of war. | ||
| He's sitting there accusing people of treason. | ||
| He's one of the guys, he and Joni Ernst, two of the people that drove this letter. | ||
| But a very smart and brave senator from Tennessee wouldn't be party to it. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We return where I have Michael Patrick Leahy be back in a moment in the War Room. | ||
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| to the war room Just remember, the Law of Unintended Consequences. | ||
| The Law of Unintended Consequences. | ||
| In this entire, expanding, metastasizing conflict that our bettors, the people supporting, what is it, the post-war liberal rules, international rules-based order, right? | ||
| This scam, That allowed the Chinese criminal organization, the Chinese Communist Party, to become the existential threat to the American people. | ||
| First off, it's a complete threat to their own people. | ||
| They've enslaved the Chinese people, Lao Bajing, but then become a mortal threat to America, the United States of America, and its citizens. | ||
| We're going to have Captain Fennell at the bottom of the second hour coming in from Europe to talk about exactly where we stand with South China Sea and Taiwan. | ||
| The real fight we're going to have, not this phony fight that's here. | ||
| We have no dog in this fight, okay? | ||
| The borders of Eastern Ukraine is between Ukraine and Russia and whoever other party over in Europe wants to get involved in settling this dispute. | ||
| It needs to be de-escalated now for the women and children in Ukraine. | ||
| The women and children in Ukraine are just pawns in this game. | ||
| It's time to stop it. | ||
| And that's why we've got to stop the infantile and dangerous attitudes of our indecisions of our political elite. | ||
| You see how infantile they are? | ||
| Come forward with the arguments. | ||
| Let's hear the arguments. | ||
| Let's hear the arguments. | ||
| Lay out your facts. | ||
| We'll lay out our facts. | ||
| Our facts are the winning facts. | ||
| Let's go to Michael Patrick Leahy, Senator in Tennessee. | ||
| Senator Hagerty did not sign that letter the other day. | ||
| Why was that, Michael? | ||
| Well, that's a very important question, Steve. | ||
| Of course, there were 42 GOP senators that signed this letter on Thursday, March 10th. | ||
| Two, President Biden basically said, we urge your administration to work with Poland and our NATO allies to expedite the transfer of urgently needed air power capabilities from the U.S., NATO, and other allies to Ukraine. | ||
| Forty-two signed it. | ||
| Eight did not. | ||
| Bill Hagerty was one of the eight who did not sign it, along with Blunt of Missouri, Inhofe of Oklahoma, Mike Lee of Utah, Loomis of Wyoming, Moran, Rand Paul, and Mike Rounds. | ||
| Now, we have, it's our lead story, by the way, at the Tennessee Star, TennesseeStar.com. | ||
| We have reached out to Senator Hagerty to get his response as to why he did not sign that letter. | ||
| We suspect we know why, because he's a very savvy international diplomat, former ambassador to Japan. | ||
| And I think he believes, my guess would be, he sees that as a possible escalation. | ||
| In that confrontation, he's going to be at a news conference here in Nashville at 3.30 at the airport welcoming an American from Tennessee that he has worked behind the scenes to get freed from the Japanese legal system. | ||
| That's going to be live here at 3.30 Central Time. | ||
| We are going to ask him that very question. | ||
| Why did you not sign this letter? | ||
| And we think we might get a good answer from him. | ||
| Senator Hagerty was the head of the transition when we won. | ||
| He ran the transition team, the nuts and bolts of it, became ambassador to Japan and then ran and won with Trump's endorsement in Tennessee. | ||
| For those of you following along at home, it's a very important, we can tell you, signal not noise. | ||
| It's very important he did not sign that letter. | ||
| He separated himself out. | ||
| From the infantile and dangerous lead that they fell in back of Mitt Romney. | ||
| Mitt Romney is an infant. | ||
| Thinks like an infant. | ||
| Is very immature. | ||
| Prone to get very nervous and it's, you know, on the balls of his feet. | ||
| Popping up and down. | ||
| Very infantile and dangerous person to follow. | ||
| And Bill Hagerty made a very big decision not to do that. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy... Let me add this. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| There's a side story there. | ||
| Because Mitt Romney was sort of a mentor in business early on to Bill Hagerty. | ||
| And we're hearing that Romney and Hagerty are now very much not on the same page. | ||
| Romney, we are hearing, is very jealous of Hagerty's rise and higher profile as he exhibits, I think, what you might consider a more measured approach to international affairs. | ||
| I would call that approach America First approach, not isolationist, but actually being very judicious about what this country does with its blood and its treasure. | ||
| Remember, I want to put it in perspective, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| On the same day they sent this letter, this is the same crowd that didn't even read the 2700 page bill but passed it because it was so important. | ||
| Joni Ernst and Mitt Romney, so important. | ||
| You had to get the $14 billion, not one penny to the border, but the $14 billion over for aid in Ukraine. | ||
| You had to do it, so that's why the $1.3 trillion deficit, discretionary spending, we don't have the money for it. | ||
| We're just going to print money and put it on your kids. | ||
| They didn't even read it! | ||
| They don't even have enough respect for you to read it, much less debate it or talk about it. | ||
| They didn't even read it. | ||
| Pass it immediately in the dead of night. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because we had laid the trap for them. | ||
| You guys were going to light their phones up and call them and say, you can't do this, you've got to slow it down, you can't get 60 votes. | ||
| They work till 3 o'clock in the morning. | ||
| They don't work for 3 o'clock in the morning unless they want to get something done in the dark of night. | ||
| So at the same time they're doing that, they're putting the letter forward. | ||
| They're putting the letter forward. | ||
| Let's escalate. | ||
| Let's send the Migs in there. | ||
| Not that logistically it's a joke. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You're not going to close the skies over there. | ||
| It's a total joke. | ||
| You're initiating a European war, an expanding European war. | ||
| And hasn't the 20th century taught us the slaughter pen of particularly that part of the world, that part of Europe? | ||
| I'd say the greatest tragedy in all humankind is the Bloodlands and what happened there. | ||
| It dwarfed even what happened in the rest of World War II around the peripheral, around Western Europe, or the island chains that we had to fight so violently to get to Tokyo and to get to Berlin from the West. | ||
| The Bloodlands with the tens and tens and tens and tens of millions of people slaughtered, combatants and non-combatants. | ||
| What do you think they would tell us from the grave? | ||
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| What would they say? | ||
| What would they tell us? | ||
| No, but let's be infantile and let's showboat and let's have the... When you're a statesman, you have to sit there and weigh and measure as a great power must. | ||
| As a great power must. | ||
| You can't be an infant. | ||
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| But now I'm a man, I've put away childish things. | ||
| Bill Hagerty understands America First. | ||
| That's why Mitt Romney's jealous. | ||
| That's why the other guys running are jealous. | ||
| Bill Hagerty understands America First. | ||
| That was a profile in courage. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy, Star News Network. | ||
| We'll put all your links up. | ||
| Thanks for joining us. | ||
| Great to be with you, Steve. | ||
| Steve Cortes, just hang on for a second. | ||
| We're taking a short 90-second break. | ||
| We've got a lot of wood to chop, but I've got to finish with Cortes briefly, right after a short commercial interruption. |
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