March 15, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Senator Romney. | |
| You've called me a treasonous liar simply for stating the fact that there are over 25 U.S. funded biolabs in Ukraine which, if breached, would release and spread deadly pathogens across the United States and the world. | ||
| And therefore they must be secured so that we can prevent any new pandemics from occurring. | ||
| Now, bizarrely, you claim that securing these labs, or even calling for securing these labs, is treasonous and will lead to a loss of life, when the exact opposite is obviously true. | ||
| The spread of pathogens is what will cause the loss of life, not the prevention of such a spread. | ||
| So, Senator Romney, please provide evidence that what I've said is not true and treasonous. | ||
| And if you cannot, you should do the honorable thing. | ||
| Apologize. | ||
| Resign from the U.S. | ||
| Senate. | ||
| Evidence of the existence of these biolabs in Ukraine, their vulnerability, and therefore the need to take immediate action to secure them, is beyond dispute. | ||
| Just the other day, the State Department's Victoria Nuland acknowledged that these labs, that contain dangerous pathogens, exist in Ukraine in her testimony to the U.S. | ||
| Senate. | ||
| Ukraine has biological research facilities, which in fact we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of. | ||
| So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Uh, Russian forces should they approach. | ||
| In a Pentagon fact sheet dated March 11th, there are numerous statements that both directly and indirectly confirm the existence of these biolabs. | ||
| The United States, through BTRP, has invested approximately $200 million in Ukraine since 2005, supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites. | ||
| On CBS Face the Nation on March 13th, CBS national security correspondent David Martin said that he'd spoken to a Pentagon official just that morning who told him they're concerned about the existence of these biolabs in Ukraine. | ||
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The concern is that the Russians will seize one of these biomedical research facilities that Ukraine has where they do research on deadly pathogens like botulism and anthrax, seize one of those facilities, weaponize the pathogen, and then blame it on Ukraine and the U.S. | |
| because the U.S. | ||
| has been providing support for some of the research being done in those facilities. | ||
| In April of 2020, in refuting Russia's accusations that the U.S. | ||
| was using biolabs in Ukraine to develop biological weapons, the U.S. | ||
| Embassy in Ukraine acknowledged that there are U.S.-funded labs in Ukraine working with pathogens for vaccines and other peaceful purposes. | ||
| In a CNN fact check on March 10th, 2022, there are U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine. | ||
| That much is true. | ||
| Furthermore, according to the DoD, there are two biolabs in Ukraine that have been under Russian control for quite some time. | ||
| Russia illegally took possession of two Ukrainian owned laboratories that BTRP upgraded in 2014 and continues to deny Ukrainian access to these facilities. | ||
| So Senator Romney, you have a choice. | ||
| Out of pride, continue to deny the truth or admit that you're wrong. | ||
| Apologize and resign. | ||
| Aloha. | ||
| And remember that without the truth, we can be neither safe nor free. | ||
| Joe, your column for the Washington Post that came out yesterday has gotten a response from around the world. | ||
| We've heard from people. | ||
| It's entitled, The War in Ukraine is Moving into a New Phase. | ||
| Biden and the West Had Better Get Ready. | ||
| And you write in part this, Over the past month, in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Biden has assembled the most impressive coalition since President George H.W. | ||
| Bush's skillful diplomatic efforts preceding the Gulf War. | ||
| Biden has united a fractured NATO alliance and Europeans have responded more forcefully than Vladimir Putin could have ever imagined. | ||
| But Putin's war against Ukraine is now entering a dangerous new phase. | ||
| Events are moving rapidly and it's time for Biden and his Western allies to adjust Russian forces could be preparing to use chemical weapons. | ||
| If Putin crosses that moral red line, the political pressure to respond will be overwhelming. | ||
| Biden and his allies need to prepare for that now in three ways. | ||
| Number one, stop playing defense. | ||
| Biden should stop telling Putin what he will not do. | ||
| Stop alerting him to what weapons he will not send. | ||
| Stop saying what strategies he will not employ. | ||
| And stop declaring where U.S. | ||
| troops will not deploy. | ||
| It is also time for NATO to stop being reactive to Putin's ever-changing definition of what constitutes an act of war. | ||
| Two, be disruptive. | ||
| Biden should change the dynamic by employing his own disruptive tactics. | ||
| The United States should move expeditiously to have the U.N. | ||
| General Assembly create humanitarian safe zones in Ukraine that allow civilians to escape slaughter. | ||
| Putin would be assured that the zones would not be used for military purposes. | ||
| However, any force targeting civilians there would immediately become a target of UN peacekeepers or even NATO. | ||
| While such a plan would likely cause deep discomfort inside the Biden White House, policymakers in the West may not be able to avoid such decisions for long. | ||
| The only question is whether they make the move at the United Nations before or after Putin deploys chemical weapons. | ||
| Three, guard your words. | ||
| While cable hosts and opinion columnists are free to call the Russian tyrant a war criminal, U.S. | ||
| ambassadors to the United Nations should be more prudent. | ||
| If Putin believes his future is inside a cage at The Hague, he will have no incentive to end this war. | ||
| The same holds true for senior U.S. | ||
| senators calling for regime change. | ||
| Providing Russia's nuclear-armed president an off-ramp from the military catastrophe he created remains the best hope for the people of Ukraine and the world. | ||
| And Joe, I mean, these are dicey, dicey decisions, but we are at a crossroads. | ||
| We really are. | ||
| I was reminded looking at the situation over the past several weeks of Winston Churchill when he gave his finest hour speech in June of 1940. | ||
| He had spent his first month This Prime Minister doing everything he could do to save France. | ||
| That was a remarkable month, May of 1940. | ||
| But he had to go, June 18th of 1940, he had to go to the House of Commons. | ||
| And he said, the battle of France is over. | ||
| I fear that the battle of Britain is about to begin. | ||
| And David Ignatius, I think we get a look at the first three weeks of this war and say the same, that we are entering another phase. | ||
| The first phase, the president and Western allies did a remarkable job. | ||
| But let's look at the difference in just 20 days. | ||
| Twenty days ago, only one in four Americans wanted the United States to be actively involved in helping the Ukrainians. | ||
| Today, over 75% of Americans want us to support a no-fly zone, something that I actually think may be too much. | ||
| Uh, and you had foreign leaders, you had European leaders dragging their feet, being reluctant to cross Vladimir Putin and Russia 20 days ago. | ||
| That obviously has changed radically. | ||
| My belief is it gives Joe Biden, gives Western leaders a little more space to move more aggressively. | ||
| Don't be quite so prudent with their words. | ||
| Keep Vladimir Putin guessing. | ||
| You know, if you take three steps back, the problem with the debate that we're having over Ukraine and Russia, and particularly with biolabs in Ukraine, isn't that people disagree about what the facts are. | ||
| It's that nobody involved seems to be able to think clearly, think rationally, think empirically. | ||
| Everyone seems to have gone crazy, and that's bad because the people who have gone crazy are the ones making all of the decisions. | ||
| So it's not really about this specific issue. | ||
| It's about our leader's capacity to lead. | ||
| But the bioweapons story is just a perfect illustration. | ||
| So we just talked to Tulsi Gabbard, who was denounced as treasonous and potentially a murderer by a sitting U.S. | ||
| Senator. | ||
| Admittedly, it was Mitt Romney, but he spoke for many. | ||
| Because she said, look, Toria Nuland, Undersecretary of State, has said under oath there are biolabs in Ukraine. | ||
| And the contents of those labs, because it's a war zone, they haven't been secured, could wind up in the wrong hands. | ||
| To which Tulsi Gabbard said, holy smokes, this is a big deal. | ||
| I serve in the U.S. | ||
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Army. | |
| We don't want that. | ||
| By the way, we know that bio labs can sometimes cause massive problems for the world. | ||
| I think we've just seen that. | ||
| So then, so that was Tulsi Gabbard's point. | ||
| The New York Times was quick to denounce us for even talking about this subject. | ||
| Oh, don't call them bioweapons. | ||
| We never alleged the United States was making bioweapons. | ||
| We don't know that. | ||
| What we said is what's factually true, which is there are stores, we learned this from the U.S. | ||
| government, of Soviet-era bioweapons in Ukraine that for some reason have not yet been destroyed. | ||
| That's a huge problem, potentially. | ||
| And the New York Times admitted that in their attack of us. | ||
| Here's the quote, we'll just put it up. | ||
| Mr. Pope, this is Robert Pope who runs the program, had warned that Russia's invasion of Ukraine may damage laboratories in the country that conduct research and disease surveillance and are supported by the United States. | ||
| He noted that some of the facilities may contain pathogens once used for Soviet-era bioweapons programs. | ||
| But he emphasized the Ukrainian labs did not have the ability to manufacture bioweapons. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, we quoted him too! | ||
| That's true! | ||
| And it's terrifying. | ||
| And if we can't respond to it, because everyone's afraid of being called a tool of a foreign country, people who are trying their very hardest with the greatest level of sincerity to protect the United States, then we have lost the threat. | ||
| Then we can't lead the world, we can't even lead our own country, if people like that are in charge. | ||
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I think Joe's article's spot on. | |
| We are approaching a new phase in the conflict because Putin is getting more frustrated. | ||
| His frustration at this level is probably not going to get him to back off. | ||
| It's going to lead him to escalate the carnage he's imposing upon Ukraine. | ||
| He's got another 700,000 troops back in his homeland that he can apply. | ||
| And as Joe points out, we need to get ahead of the game and start controlling dynamics of this conflict. | ||
| And I agree with David. | ||
| We need to provide more weapons. | ||
| And I would emphasize UAVs. | ||
| I'd emphasize better air defense systems. | ||
| But also coastal batteries. | ||
| Because Putin is preparing for a naval assault on Odessa. | ||
| We should get anti-ship missiles down there ASAP. | ||
| More economic sanctions. | ||
| We're still holding back. | ||
| It should be full board, across the board, trade embargo, financial embargo. | ||
| And I agree with Joe. | ||
| We need to do more to secure the parts of Ukraine that are largely uncontested. | ||
| This is non-confrontational. | ||
| Britain, Katie Kay, last week was talking about how visceral this was for so many people whose parents or grandparents survived Hitler's blitz across all of Europe. | ||
| How much pressure are there on European politicians to do more to help the Ukrainians? | ||
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I think this is, in my lifetime, a unique moment in terms of European unity. | |
| Perhaps 1989. | ||
| So there is acute pressure. | ||
| It is coming from the grassroots. | ||
| The populist sort of feelings when a yacht is sequestered or a grand mansion in Kensington or Mayfair Okay, welcome. | ||
| That's the ultimate cold open. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| And that I think is indicative of just how strongly people feel and we're talking about people here You know who don't read the financial times or watch morning joe We're talking about people in football stadiums who are waving the ukrainian flag. So it's a very very strong feeling Okay, welcome, uh, that's the ultimate cold open, you know why that's all the fog of war Tulsi gabbert can see through it. And of course the great. | ||
| Um Tucker Carlson, who's fighting just an incredible battle over there at Fox. | ||
| That's all, you're hearing the noise, except for the signal coming out of Tulsi, but the signal, Steve Cortez, Ben Harmel are going to join us, producer price index just came out an all-time high. | ||
| You think you've been wiped away? | ||
| This is not, has nothing to do with Putin, nothing with what they're doing. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We just had a titanic cold open. | ||
| I had to make you listen to all of it, right? | ||
| Including, at the end, Ed Luce, the columnist for the Financial Times. | ||
| No, Ed, we go through the Financial Times every day. | ||
| This audience understands the Financial Times better than you do, sir! | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Steve Cortez, Ben Harnwell from Rome, we're getting to all of it. | ||
| The economics, the politics, the geopolitics, the strategy, all of it, in your life, in the War Room. | ||
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| There is a method to our madness. | ||
| Welcome to the Ides of March, the 15th of March, Year of Our Lord 2022, at the end of the Roman Republic. | ||
| This is the day that the populist leader Julius Caesar, the leader of the populace, was assassinated in the Roman Senate, backstabbed by a lot of folks that have been his allies up until then. | ||
| So we're going to get to all that later in the show. | ||
| I'm bringing Steve Cortez, we've got Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Cortez, let's talk about the signal. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, understand something. | ||
| All this gobbledygook about, and all this soft thinking, and Mika, no offense, being Dr. Brzezinski's daughter, I know you're patting him on the head by reading the thing, but if that's the best that the University of Alabama, Alabama-y, can produce, That is a C-minus. | ||
| I won't say Georgetown. | ||
| That's a C-minus. | ||
| It is so, it's so ridiculous just to even thought of it. | ||
| And here's what's dangerous about it. | ||
| It's infantile. | ||
| So Joe Scarborough, let's put that over. | ||
| That's infantile. | ||
| But it's also dangerous. | ||
| What he and the Congressman are talking about and the war party on Fox, they're going to get more people killed. | ||
| They're going to get more people killed. | ||
| Negotiations are already going on. | ||
| And this thing's not going to be won or lost on the battlefield. | ||
| You're letting Putin kill more people and get more chess pieces, but there's a way to bring this to a head, to bring this to an end. | ||
| And it's not by funneling weapons into people who are not trained. | ||
| It's like the MiG-19s. | ||
| Where's the MiGs? | ||
| Where's the MiGs in there? | ||
| You have no logistics support. | ||
| No crews on the ground. | ||
| You have no runways now because they shot them up the other day. | ||
| No way to fuel them. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| It's this fantasy about a no-fly zone. | ||
| Of course, Joe Scarborough walks back. | ||
| In addition, it's not United. | ||
| They're still funding Russia and the oligarchs. | ||
| And now we can't. | ||
| China read the pencil-necked soy boy the riot act yesterday in Rome for seven hours. | ||
| Read him the riot act. | ||
| Everybody knows what happened. | ||
| Told him, hey, don't tell us what to do. | ||
| We're China. | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| You know, your president's compromised by us. | ||
| The Saudis who don't even take the phone call. | ||
| Think about that for a second. | ||
| We protect that corrupt kingdom. | ||
| He's talking about the great alliance that was built in the Gulf War. | ||
| Yeah, to protect the Saudi monarchy and the oil fields and Halliburton and Exxon and all their cash money with our troops and our treasure, our blood and treasure. | ||
| They won't even take his phone call, yet they put out a formal invitation to Xi and come have a state visit. | ||
| China's running the tables. | ||
| Talk to us about the real thing. | ||
| Talk to us about PPI. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for impact. | ||
| Steve Kortes. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Listen, exactly right, Steve. | ||
| Let's talk about something that actually matters to the lives of citizens of America. | ||
| Because Ukraine becoming a neutral, non-NATO country, is that consequential for the people of America? | ||
| No, it is not. | ||
| And if anything, it is preferable to the people of America because Ukraine is a buffer zone, will in all likelihood result in peace over there. | ||
| However, what really matters, things like prices, the price that People are paying every single day at the gas pump, at the grocery store, and everywhere else in their lives. | ||
| Today, just now, we got out Producer Price Index, the wholesale inflation read. | ||
| Matched the highest of all time at 10%. | ||
| So we are in double-digit territory, the highest all-time read on PPI. | ||
| And Steve, this is crucial too, because this is important. | ||
| You know, we're talking about Joe Scarborough and Mika and their constant narrative pushing of fake news and propaganda. | ||
| Well, their sister network, CNBC, who I worked for for many years, a business network that formerly did a great job of covering business and now too often delves into propaganda itself, This is how they framed this PPI news this morning. | ||
| This is a quote from their article, their headline. | ||
| Inflation comes in lighter than expected. | ||
| Now, the reason they get away with that, and there's some technical truth in there, okay, just a tiny, tiny grain of truth, is that if you look at it, yes, month over month, Wall Street expectations officially were for .9, 0.9 for the month. | ||
| It came in at 0.8. | ||
| Okay, so can you say that it was in a minuscule fashion, lighter than expected? | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| However, Is that being honest? | ||
| Is that an honest framing? | ||
| When you have double-digit inflation that matches the highest read on record for producer prices? | ||
| No, that is not honest framing. | ||
| I would also say this, Steve. | ||
| Producer prices very soon become consumer prices. | ||
| That's the way the economy works. | ||
| At this point, it's wholesale inflation, soon-to-be retail inflation, what we are paying for everything we want and need. | ||
| And I pointed out yesterday, Steve, I think this is important for the audience to grasp. | ||
| With the CPI, Consumer Price Index, at 7.9%, and I think that vastly understates where consumer inflation really is, but if we accept the official read of 7.9%, that's Almost precisely an entire month of wages because there are 12 months. | ||
| 8 times 12 almost equals 100. | ||
| So that means that the month of March, this is exactly the wrong kind of March Madness. | ||
| This is the fun kind of office pools and basketball. | ||
| The March Madness is you are working this entire month. | ||
| We're halfway through the month. | ||
| It's the Ides of March. | ||
| You still have two more weeks to work only to try to offset inflation. | ||
| You are not going to get ahead one iota in the month of March. | ||
| And very soon, what producer's prices tell us, is that it's going to be April as well. | ||
| You're going to be working a month for inflation. | ||
| Now you're going to be working six weeks. | ||
| Soon it's going to be eight weeks for just inflation. | ||
| What this means is real wages. | ||
| Wages adjusted for costs, which is what matters. | ||
| That's your real prosperity. | ||
| Real wages have now declined for a full year straight every single month under Joe Biden and it had nothing to do with Putin. | ||
| Inserting ourselves unnecessarily into this regional conflict is going to make it worse but the crisis predated anything happening in Ukraine and this is a crisis that is that is horrific for all Americans but especially working-class Americans. This is 100% on the Uniparty in the apparatus. | ||
| This is because of actions they took, and let me tell you, these Republicans, if you think the 42 infantile decision to send that letter to Biden about putting the Migs over there, and Tom Cotton, you should be ashamed of yourself, okay? | ||
| Mike Pence, champions for freedom, right? | ||
| All hollow words, all happy, all performative, while people are getting killed, okay? | ||
| Just as bad on this inflation, Is the Republican signing on to this 1.3 trillion dollar deficit spending plan the other night, right? | ||
| Just another, there's more kerosene on the fire. | ||
| Why Biden's administration has done nothing. | ||
| We still haven't had any tap by the Federal Reserve. | ||
| We're still quantitative easing. | ||
| They haven't started quantitative tiding. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead. | ||
| Let me connect the national security there to the economic because I think those stories are conjoined if we think about it. | ||
| Holistically so notice that the Senate as you as you talked about the Senate met all through the night into the wee hours of the morning to make sure that we could get 14 billion dollars to Ukraine that we could escalate and we are funding both sides of the struggle remember we as well as Western Europe are literally funding both sides of this war but that was an imperative right that had to be done immediately. However, that same Congress was unable to deliver even $4 billion, which was requested for our wall. Now, here's the connection to the | ||
| economy, Steve. And I talk about real wages declining. One of the reasons that real wages are crashing in this country, in addition to Biden's inflation, is that Biden has also invited in, enticed in, I would say, millions of new workers to compete unfairly and illegally in the labor market against American citizens. | ||
| American wages would be higher if we were serious about protecting our own border instead of protecting the eastern flank of Ukraine. | ||
| If you're black or Hispanic, just understand something. | ||
| If somehow they talk you into or spin you in the propaganda to vote for Democrats, you're voting for your own economic destruction, okay? | ||
| 64% according to CNBC, before the inflation, 64% of folks live paycheck to paycheck. | ||
| Now with the inflation, I don't know how they're going to make it March and half of April, Steve Cortez. | ||
| This is, by the way, it's all the Uniparty because they're making out like bandits. | ||
| They're living high on the hog. | ||
| They're drinking champagne, eating at the big dinners over here in Washington, D.C. | ||
| and New York in the Hamptons. | ||
| They've had the best times ever. | ||
| Good times are still rolling. | ||
| They could care less. | ||
| Go ahead, sir. | ||
| Steve, that's an important point because inflation can be great for people who own a lot of assets that are inflating. | ||
| It's great for multinational energy companies. | ||
| It's great for folks who own a lot of commercial real estate. | ||
| So inflation doesn't harm everyone. | ||
| It harms most effect most course, working class ame right. By the way, speaki to pull up this chart bec it's important though to are hardly in the minorit the opposite. We're in th If you look at chart one we pull out of ABC and Ipsos. | ||
| So not from some right-wing organization. | ||
| And look at the approve-disapprove on Joe Biden on the topic of inflation. | ||
| 29 versus 70. | ||
| Only 29% approve. | ||
| I'm amazed the number's that high. | ||
| That's probably because of the way ABC skews its polling. | ||
| But still, my point is, this is a winning issue politically. | ||
| It's also, obviously, in policy. | ||
| Prerequisite for the America First movement to solve. | ||
| And we do have the answers to solve it, Steve. | ||
| The two simplest ones, by the way, are number one, stop spending. | ||
| Stop the borrowing and spending. | ||
| Hold the line. | ||
| We have 50 senators. | ||
| We can do it. | ||
| Number two, secure the border so that wages can rise because we restrict the flow and stop the flow of illegal workers into this country. | ||
| I gotta tell you, we're in a fix right now, ladies and gentlemen, and you've got a war party that is not... Let me just put another thing up. | ||
| Cortez, get you and Harnwell after the break. | ||
| We only got about a minute. | ||
| We haven't factored in. | ||
| So now you've got the whole Putin situation. | ||
| You've got the oil price. | ||
| Remember, we're making Putin and the guys wealthy as oil's going to skyrocket, right? | ||
| The Saudis are getting wealthier. | ||
| Of course, they're asking for Xi to come for a state visit and they will not take Biden's phone call. | ||
| How come Morning Show and these hypocrites sit there? | ||
| The alliance is better! | ||
| NATO's a joke! | ||
| NATO's a joke. | ||
| First off, when they start spending 2%, the Germans are scared to death. | ||
| They finally did what I told them to do in the White House five years ago. | ||
| When the rest of the guys start throwing some cash into it, they just did a study of people in Europe that were fighting for their country. | ||
| I don't think it topped 30% of any nation, except for Poland. | ||
| I think Spain and Italy, these things were like in the 30s and the low 40s. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| It's a joke. | ||
| NATO's a total joke. | ||
| They gotta stop being Debbie. | ||
| Some of the alliance is never better, and they got the Supreme Allied Commander, Stavridis, they're all up there talking then. | ||
| Hey, nobody's following you. | ||
| But here's the part, even what the world's gonna do. | ||
| In China right now, 50 to 60 to 80 million people are in lockdown, including in Shenzhen, okay? | ||
| The railhead of the supply chain for the world, because we shipped all the jobs over there. | ||
| We ain't even, the impact in this thing hasn't even hit us yet from the bioweapons lab of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Okay? | ||
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| Okay, I want to bring in Ben Harnwell from Rome, and I've asked Ben to be at our headquarters and not out in front of what they call the wedding cake there, the monument that's right next to the Roman Forum. | ||
| Ben, there's all kinds of breaking news that the War Party, Fox, and the mainstream media won't talk about, but it is actually the most important stuff. | ||
| You've got a punch list here. | ||
| Let's go through it, sir. | ||
| Good morning, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, basically, my reporting today is going to illustrate that this war could already have been concluded by now. | ||
| But the U.S. | ||
| pro-war lobby is digging down. | ||
| The first thing I want to talk about, and this is really, really big, this is going to dominate international geopolitics, I think, for the next generation, if not longer. | ||
| And this is the fact that China and Russia are moving together and are forming basically a single Entity called Eurasia, right? | ||
| And they're doing this in front of our very eyes and they're doing this because we've pushed them into doing it. | ||
| Here's what's been happening. | ||
| The proof of this is to see something which is really below the radar. | ||
| I mean, there have been a few reportings of it in things like Reuters, but most of the most of the domestic US and British press totally ignored it. | ||
| OK, so the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to have a quick look at what's going on in Moscow today and yesterday. | ||
| Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, met with the Qatari Deputy Prime Minister, who's also the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani. | ||
| And today, the same Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov, meets with the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hussein Ameh Abdullahi. | ||
| Also, in Moscow. | ||
| And obviously there's an orientation around here because the U.S. is very clean, very keen to increase the supply of oil on the global market. | ||
| And this is really now depending on the Middle East's ability to play ball. | ||
| And they're not. | ||
| Well, they're playing ball with Russia and China, not with the West. | ||
| And that's that that that that that orientation of the Middle East around sort of Eurasian political priorities now is going to be fundamental, I think, not just with regards to UK, Ukraine. | ||
| This is going to be to do with the health and and sustenance and the ability to continue of the West more generally. | ||
| Interestingly, the Iranian Prime Minister said that Russia is going to stand next to Iran until the end of the nuclear talks, which Presently taking place in Vienna. | ||
| So those are those are some interesting things also On the back of this is the fact that Saudi Arabia has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Riyadh In order to strengthen ties with Beijing now important to note here that Saudi Arabia has rejected requests from the US to pump more oil in and to tamper surging food prices. | ||
| And let's not forget the UAE stayed out of the UN Security Council resolution condemning Moscow's attack on Ukraine. | ||
| So these are four important, very important, Middle East countries and they are now within the Eurasian sphere of influence. | ||
| That's the first thing. | ||
| The second thing... Sorry Steve. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| The second thing I'd like to talk about now is back to Ukraine. | ||
| And a very interesting interview emerged. | ||
| It was out a week ago, but the press really didn't pick it up at all. | ||
| It was an exclusive interview that Zelensky gave to ABC. | ||
| And he said in that interview that regarding NATO, I have cooled down regarding this question long ago after we understood that NATO is not prepared to accept Ukraine. | ||
| And he said the people who elected me are not ready to surrender. | ||
| But we can discuss with Russia the future of Crimea and Donbass. | ||
| Now that second part we did actually report amongst the first to report a week ago. | ||
| But the first part about Ukraine no longer interested in NATO has basically been, it It died a death. | ||
| And that's rather bizarre if you think that if you take the Western media at its word that the West is seeking propaganda. | ||
| They're not seeking propaganda. | ||
| But he's got a junior guy, too. | ||
| There's not a junior guy. | ||
| So the deputy, one of the deputies there is saying he's been in a meeting and he's saying, hey, this thing's got to be Resolved by May, because the Russians are going to run out of gas and weapons, which is ridiculous. | ||
| The Chinese are obviously funding them in the background. | ||
| But didn't he say that this thing's going to be done in two weeks? | ||
| There'll be a negotiated settlement here in two weeks? | ||
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Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely right. | |
| What Zelensky's implying is NATO and the EU, this is all of a sudden, think about it for a second. | ||
| We walked these people into it because the EU, the guys in Brussels, and the NATO guys kept telling Zelensky, we want you. | ||
| Now Zelensky's saying, I don't even know that industry, if you're not sending me anything, if you're not preventing, what's it called, to close the sky? | ||
| All of these deaths were preventable. | ||
| This was all driven by the West. | ||
| And we're not saying, we're not taking Putin's side. | ||
| Those guys are killers, as they're showing. | ||
| But more women and children are continuing to die because they were led down the primrose path by the EU and by NATO. | ||
| And now serious people have to get together and we're allowing, they're not listening to us. | ||
| You think they had any interest in what Jake Sullivan had to say yesterday? | ||
| They did not. | ||
| That was a seven hour lecture, just like happened in Alaska to Tony Blinken. | ||
| And they said there potentially could be real ramifications, real consequences, I think the quote that came out of the Associated Press story, it's in Guardian, there could be potentially real consequences if China doesn't back the sanctions. | ||
| China's not backing the sanctions, they're underwriting this thing! | ||
| Because it's their plan to consolidate the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| I've talked about this for years. | ||
| And now we've pushed the Russian people, because we're at offensive war against the Russian people, to destroy the Central Bank of Russia, to destroy their currency, to destroy their way of life. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because we want regime change. | ||
| The West has deemed that we want regime change. | ||
| We are playing with fire, and we're playing with people's lives. | ||
| We're playing with people's lives. | ||
| Let's ask the 500 dead. | ||
| That's what the U.N. | ||
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| The U.N. | ||
| says there's 500 dead civilians. | ||
| Let's ask the 500 dead what their vote is about the E.U. | ||
| and NATO, knowing that the E.U. | ||
| and NATO... The E.U. | ||
| laughed at it the other day. | ||
| Some guy said, you know, we may be expediting this too quickly. | ||
| Let's get back to you, Zelensky. | ||
| And Zelensky's going to come. | ||
| He's going to have a big... Morning Joe says he's like Winston Churchill. | ||
| Please, spare me. | ||
| This is all performative. | ||
| All performatives. | ||
| He's going to come before Congress via video tomorrow, and he's going to lay down. | ||
| He still wants the jets. | ||
| He still wants the air cover. | ||
| He still wants to close the sky. | ||
| He wants a no-fly zone. | ||
| Nobody in the city knows what a no-fly zone is. | ||
| It's just all yammering. | ||
| Just all yammering. | ||
| And people are dying. | ||
| People are dying. | ||
| I want to play something. | ||
| Cortez, I want you on this. | ||
| I want to play something from CNN. | ||
| Every now and again, if you watch these things, a moment of truth comes out. | ||
| Let's go to CNN. | ||
| This was over the weekend. | ||
| This is a short clip from CNN. | ||
| I'm going to bring my populist nationalist partner, Steve Cortez, in for this. | ||
| Play it. | ||
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As we look over some of the week's receipts, Karina explains the hardest impact of inflation on a small business owner is how unpredictable her world has become. | |
| The demand for her business is there, everything else is a nightmare. | ||
| And that makes it hard for someone like you to run your business? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| It makes it unbelievably difficult for us to predict any pricing. | ||
| I can't even say I'm going to charge you a certain price right now because in three days, it's probably bound to change, you know? | ||
| And it's never for the better. | ||
| Phoenix, Arizona has one of the highest inflation rates in the country. | ||
| The latest statistics show it's three percentage points higher than the national average for cities. | ||
| And that makes life harder for people living on fixed incomes, like Geraldine Spencer. | ||
| This was the first one I ever did. | ||
| As she shows us her painting skills, Geraldine tells us she lives on $1,700 a month in Social Security. | ||
| She says she pays $600 in rent, and at least $300 a month pays for needed kidney and blood pressure medications. | ||
| The rest of her bills, like home utilities, car fuel, and groceries, she finds depressing. | ||
| How hard is it living on a fixed income? | ||
| It is hard. | ||
| And I feel so sorry for my friends that just don't have this kind of money as much as I do, because they're much worse off than me. | ||
| So my commute is about a block and a half, which is real nice. | ||
| So you can walk to work? | ||
| I walk to work. | ||
| It's the best. | ||
| That's a cheap gas bill. | ||
| Oh, I love it. | ||
| The walk home from the ceramic shop where Katia Schwartz works might save her money on gas. | ||
| This is my humble abode. | ||
| But the night's after work are filled with dread, searching for a new place to live. | ||
| In four months, Katia's rent for this 300 square foot apartment is going to jump from $670 a month to just over $1,000. | ||
| She says her paycheck won't cover it. | ||
| I would consider living in my car. | ||
| Yes, I would. | ||
| Though my sister would never allow it. | ||
| OK, by the way, that clip actually went longer. | ||
| Thanks for cutting. | ||
| OK, it was to the end. | ||
| We'll get this right at the end. | ||
| The woman says she feels worthless. | ||
| The little woman working there at the ceramic shop. | ||
| If the clip played out another 30 seconds, she sits there and almost starts crying and says she feels worthless. | ||
| And she feels worthless because she says, I keep trying, I keep working. | ||
| She works at a ceramic shop. | ||
| Her rent for 300 square feet, her rent is what? | ||
| $600, $700. | ||
| It's going to essentially double. | ||
| This is Larry Fink and the guys. | ||
| All the wealthy slumlords and apartment owners, they're making out like bandits. | ||
| They love the inflation. | ||
| They just doubled it on this girl. | ||
| She's an American citizen. | ||
| And she sits there and she says at the end of it, I feel like it's something I did. | ||
| I feel worthless. | ||
| No, ma'am, it's nothing you did. | ||
| You went to work in the little ceramic shop every day and worked and worked and worked and worked. | ||
| These are the elites in this country. | ||
| Any Hispanic or black African American in this here, the sound of my voice understand something. | ||
| The Uniparties and the Democrats are all, to give you the happy talk up front, they're up to their neck in it with Joe Biden's decisions, okay? | ||
| It's their decisions that are destroying you. | ||
| No, you're not worthless whatsoever. | ||
| You are an American citizen, and that makes you special, okay? | ||
| But you're being destroyed by your betters, Steve Cortez. | ||
| Steve, to your point, most Americans, let's just be frank here, they don't have extravagant goals. | ||
| They have reasonable demands. | ||
| They want to have the dignity of productive work. | ||
| They want to have safe places to live that they can afford. | ||
| And to that point of rental prices, I don't think this gets enough attention because we talk so much about food and energy, and that's critical, of course. | ||
| But let's talk about rental prices, because they have soared, and that has zero, 0.0, to do with what Putin is doing 5,000 miles away. | ||
| Let's talk numbers. | ||
| If we look at 2018 and 2019, under Donald Trump, with wages accelerating, real wages leaping higher, we saw rental price increases nationally, according to ApartmentList.com. | ||
| Of 2% and 3% in the year very contained in the year 2020 slightly down. | ||
| Not surprising given the lockdowns in the year 2021 under Joe Biden 18% increase nationally. | ||
| In apartment rents and to the point of that that CNN piece there much higher than that in some of the hotter metro areas more like 30% in places like Phoenix and some of the markets of Florida because so many Americans are smartly becoming refugees from blue America and going to those places. | ||
| But the point is apartment rents are crushing. | ||
| I think it's Katya and Phoenix. | ||
| And it has zero to do with international geopolitics. | ||
| It has everything to do with the financialization of the United States economy, and that's been going on for a couple of decades. | ||
| And then Biden absolutely pouring kerosene all over the inflationary fire that is engulfing this country. | ||
| I think it's Katya and Phoenix. | ||
| Just remember, Klaus Schwab told you, the World Economic Forum, you're not going to own anything, but you're going to love it more. | ||
| You're not going to own anything, but you're going to love it more. | ||
| We're destroying a generation of Americans before our eyes! | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in the warm in a moment. | ||
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| But I think that's an incredibly relevant question, and I think DOJ, in the same way that it is setting up a task force to investigate oligarchs, should look into people who are Russian propagandists and shilling for Putin. | ||
| That's being, if you are a foreign asset to a dictator, it should be investigated. | ||
| In fact, I remember when Tulsi Gabbard And I even hate that we're discussing it because I think to myself, who is this woman? | ||
| She's no longer in Congress, she's a failed presidential candidate, she only practically exists on Twitter, and the fact that we're giving her oxygen is what makes her relevant, that we're talking about her on Hot Topics. | ||
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But on the other hand, how do you not call out something that is repeating false Russian propaganda that has been brought down? | |
| They used to arrest people for doing stuff like this. | ||
| If they thought you were colluding with a Russian agent, if they thought you were putting out information or taking information and handing over to Russia. | ||
| They used to actually investigate stuff like this. | ||
| And I guess now, you know, there seems to be no bars. | ||
| And people are not being told to hate Putin. | ||
| Putin doesn't need a reason to be hated. | ||
| What's the collective IQ of that crowd? | ||
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You started a necessary war that nobody wanted. | |
| Isn't this... | ||
| That's the brain trust at The View. | ||
| What's the collective IQ of that crowd? | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| Maybe take some bets on our getter account. | ||
| What's the collective IQ of the view? | ||
| Of course, whoopie, what, the anti-Semite? | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| This is great. | ||
| I love the way they get it all spun up, right? | ||
| Because then you've got to deal with the hard reality of the world. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| Look, first of all, I've done more television than I care to remember with Ana Navarro, so I've been dealing with her nonsense for a long time. | ||
| But I wish we could just dismiss it, but The View has a large audience. | ||
| I think this is something we need to confront, something we need to push back against. | ||
| Also, just on a quick side note, notice Alyssa Farrar was at that table and nodding furiously in agreement with Ana Navarro that, yes, we shouldn't be investigating those With whom we politically disagree. | ||
| This is somebody who had a reasonably senior position in the Trump White House. | ||
| And Steve, I know you agree with me that that needs to change in the second Trump term. | ||
| In many ways, personnel is policy and there needs to be way better personnel, both in the United States House of Representatives and Senate for this fall, but then also in the White House staff once Donald Trump is reinstated as he properly should be when he's reelected for a third time for his second term. | ||
| But to this point that Ana Navarro makes, I think it's very revealing that the supposedly tolerant left is now getting much more brazen, much more open about advocating what are clearly, clearly fascist tactics t to criminally investigate you. | ||
| We are going to use the force of law to suppress your view because we do not agree with it. | ||
| And to say that if you disagree, that you don't believe there is an American interest, Well, I'm not pro-Putin. | ||
| I'm pro-America. | ||
| I'm not pro-Ukraine. | ||
| I'm not pro-Putin. | ||
| I'm pro-America, okay? I'm not pro-Ukraine. I'm not pro-Putin. | ||
| I'm pro-America. And the question that needs to be asked here and that we're trying to present to the American people is, is there a compelling U.S. net vital national interest in this struggle? | ||
| If there is, then how do we manage it? | ||
| If there is not, then how do we simply use persuasion and diplomacy to try to reach a solution? | ||
| I certainly fall in the latter camp, that there is not a demonstrable vital national interest in what is clearly a regional and ethnic struggle in the bloodlands 5,000 miles away. | ||
| But for having that view alone, people like you, like me, like Tulsi Gabbard, like Tucker Carlson, are being relegated by people like Ana Navarro and her fellow Harpies on The View to not just being political opponents. | ||
| But to be ostensibly criminals, you know, so make sure, and I hope the audience understands that. | ||
| Yeah, this was this was Mitt Romney. | ||
| Mitt Romney's the first guy to say it. | ||
| He said that Tulsi Gabbard was in treasonous activity. | ||
| Real quickly, on breaking news, members of the Eurasian Economic Union and China will develop a project for an independent international monetary and financial system. | ||
| That's just breaking news. | ||
| What does that mean, Steve Cortez, to our audience? | ||
| Well, what it means is, and we've spoken about this a lot on this show, I've written about it a lot in my sub stack, what Joe Biden is right now jeopardizing is a century, literally a century of the hegemony, the supremacy, the primacy of the United States dollar. | ||
| King dollar has reigned the world over. | ||
| All important transactions in the world occur in United States dollars. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because the dollar was backed by the full faith and credit of the people of the United States and protected also by the supremacy of the United States military, the superiority of the U.S. | ||
| military. | ||
| All of that has been put in jeopardy by this weaponization of money against Russia, and not against Putin or against the oligarchs, but against regular working class people in Russia who have seen the value of their rubles and their purchasing power collapse in recent weeks. | ||
| An unprecedented weaponization of money By Biden. | ||
| One of the risks, one of the main consequences may well be that we are literally propelling, we are compelling the rest of the world to find currency alternatives because they cannot operate at the whim of the United States and knowing that they can be essentially debanked, they can be de-dollarized at the stroke of a pen by somebody like Joe Biden. | ||
| So unfortunately, I think the more subtle message in Xi perhaps taking his first foreign trip since the CCPirus CCP virus was unleashed on the world from Wuhan. | ||
| His first foreign trip, according to Wall Street Journal, is going to be to where? | ||
| To Riyadh. | ||
| Because there is an emerging alliance on the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| India, China, Saudi Arabia, Moscow. | ||
| Now that's a very complex alliance. | ||
| And there are a lot of nuances to it and a lot of internal conflicts. | ||
| But the point is, all of them now have a vested interest in not operating in dollars. | ||
| And that matters to regular Americans, even if you don't care about international affairs, because King Dollar has kept, until Biden, has kept inflation contained here for the last 40 years. | ||
| And that is no longer the case. | ||
| Okay, Steve, just hang on for a few minutes, we've got a 90 second break coming up here. | ||
| This is as big a signal as you can get. | ||
| This ain't noise, this is pure signal. | ||
| People are scrambling to get off of the dollar as the prime reserve currency. | ||
| And the reason is, we're at offensive economic war against the people of Russia. | ||
| Not Putin and the oligarchs, against the people of Russia. | ||
| And you, in this audience, are a combatant. | ||
| So stand by for the collateral damage, okay? | ||
| By these feckless, irresponsible people in the city of the Imperial Capital. | ||
| Short commercial break. |
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