March 17, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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There's been some reporting that the framework of a deal is being hammered out, one in which you would renounce NATO ambitions, declare neutrality, not allow foreign militaries to base on your land. | |
| Can you confirm any of that and update us on the status of negotiations? | ||
| The negotiations are still in progress. | ||
| The negotiations are fairly difficult. | ||
| And the current conditions of negotiation, I would say, it continues. | ||
| Any war could be finished at the table of negotiations. | ||
| Ambassador McFaul, what do you make of all of that? | ||
| I mean, you've written an op-ed saying, hey, the best negotiations are give them more military stuff. | ||
| Well, I'd say two things. | ||
| You know, wars tend to end in two ways. | ||
| Either one side wins or there's a stalemate. | ||
| And right now there's not a stalemate. | ||
| You were discussing earlier that 10% of their forces, I think were mentioned in the last segment, might have been destroyed. | ||
| That's a fantastic victory. | ||
| But 100% minus 10 means that 90% of Putin's forces are still at his disposal, right? | ||
| And as he continues to attack and make incremental gains, there's not a stalemate on the battlefield. | ||
| And so I'm not optimistic that there will be a negotiation until there is a stalemate. | ||
| There's another very important point to remember about what is going on here. | ||
| They are saying these things about negotiations so that they stop us from giving more weapons to Mr. Zelensky, right? | ||
| Because we don't want to escalate, right? | ||
| Maybe we better not give them those weapons right now because peace is going to break out. | ||
| And I would say until that gentleman, Mr. Putin, says that he's interested in negotiations, this is all premature for now. | ||
| Do you, do you, I'm not asking you obviously to do the White House's bidding here, you would never do that, but do you at least understand the stakes are so momentous when we're talking about whether we get it right or get it wrong could end up in a nuclear war? | ||
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Of course, and that's why I've said I'm not in favor of declaring a no-fly zone, because you don't get a declare a no-fly zone, you have to enforce one, and that would mean putting American pilots in the air and getting into a direct shooting war with Russia. | |
| I'm not advocating that. | ||
| But I am saying that you can't let Putin say, because he has a nuclear weapon, every other thing he does can cause us to self-deter. | ||
| There are 44 million Ukrainians, something like 6 or 7 percent of the population has already fled. | ||
| If Putin moves forward with targeting civilian populations for months or years, if the resistance could last that long, are we saying that at every point he can escalate to this, he can escalate to death camps, he can escalate to that, and we'll just constantly say, well, because Putin has nuclear weapons, at no point can we do more. | ||
| We can do more. | ||
| Ukrainians are fighting not just on behalf of their kids and their future, but they're fighting on behalf of the whole free world, as you mentioned. | ||
| And so, there's both idealism and realism at play in this moment, and we need to be doing everything we can to help the Ukrainians not simply lose more slowly, but actually have a shot at winning. | ||
| The world needs the Ukrainians to win. | ||
| And that means the Ukrainians need to be able to kill Russians. | ||
| And to kill Russians, they need more weapon systems. | ||
| They've got a will to fight. | ||
| We know who Zelensky is. | ||
| We know who the Ukrainians are. | ||
| What he asked us yesterday is, who are the Americans? | ||
| And who is the Biden administration? | ||
| He has the courage of his convictions. | ||
| Do we have ours? | ||
| We should. | ||
| We're a superpower. | ||
| We should act like it. | ||
| There are so many acts of defiance being played out on these streets. | ||
| One soldier and his flute and the national anthem. | ||
| We won't be ruled by others, it goes. | ||
| In so many ways, he speaks for his country. | ||
| Artisan columnists at America's largest newspapers agree. | ||
| And most of the mainstream media reporters are begging for a no-fly zone. | ||
| Not even Republican hawks are calling for that. | ||
| The most trigger-happy people in this country seem to be journalists. | ||
| President Zelensky in his remarks to Congress today again made his request for a no-fly zone. | ||
| Is there any scenario in which President Biden would change his mind? | ||
| President Zelensky is calling again for a no-fly zone over Ukraine. | ||
| Is that something you're giving any thought to at all? | ||
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President Zelensky is urging President Biden and NATO to impose this no-fly zone. | |
| You've said that this would significantly escalate the situation, so just to be clear, is this a no-go for right now or is this completely off the table? | ||
| It's like... | ||
| Can we please get into a shooting war with Russia? | ||
| I mean, if not now, maybe later can we start shooting Russians? | ||
| It's crazy! | ||
| The only people asking for that are Zelensky and American journalists. | ||
| A lot of you guys out there have been texting me, and we've been looking at a lot of texts this week, and you guys have an obvious question. | ||
| Why can't we support the Ukrainians, help them in any way we can, without fighting a hot war with Russia, and also fight for Americans here at home? | ||
| For everybody watching live, everybody on Getter, this is all noise, okay? | ||
| Signal is three things and three very simple things. | ||
| We are dedicated to take down the illegitimate Biden regime and stop it in its tracks every day of the week. | ||
| And we're doing a pretty good job. | ||
| Number two is this November to have a huge massive turnout and to destroy the Democratic Party as a national political institution, root and branch. | ||
| From the Rio Grande Valley all the way up to Royce White running against Omar in Minnesota. | ||
| A populist nationalist uprising at the polls to take down the Democratic Party. | ||
| And number three, This brutal war that's going on in Ukraine, they're reaching a peace deal right now. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party is the winner here. | ||
| We've got to take down the CCP. | ||
| Every day our focus is very simple. | ||
| To take down the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay, our task and purpose. | ||
| We're live in the War Room this morning. | ||
| It is St. | ||
| Paddy's Day, 17 March, Year of Our Lord 2022. | ||
| It's Thursday. | ||
| We've got a lot to go through. | ||
| The biggest development overnight, I want to give you signal not noise, is Jesse Waters is now on the side of the angels with Tucker Carlson, The War Room, Revolver.News, people who understand and can look at the world in a dispassionate way. | ||
| When you're talking about lives, you're talking about kinetic war, you're talking about economic war, this is very serious. | ||
| And Jesse only had one thing wrong. | ||
| Not wrong, I just want to make an observation to Jesse, who's just done such an incredible job, and obviously following the great Tucker Carlson. | ||
| So Fox now has two... Fox, which is the home of stupid TV, or TV for stupid people, and if you watch it, hey, sorry, it's just all day long, just ridiculous. | ||
| Jesse, the only observation I would make is that the most trigger-happy people are not a journalist, and it's not even the left-wing Democrats anymore. | ||
| It's elected senior Republicans. | ||
| That was Ben Sasse right there. | ||
| And what Ben Sasse is saying is dangerous, and it's most dangerous to the innocent women and children in Ukraine. | ||
| This is power politics on a global scale, and they are the pawns that the world is using. | ||
| And that is what's in the more that you continue to go in and continue to, to, to, to rev up the engines of war. | ||
| And just want to make sure everybody, and particularly if you want, if you listen to this on the podcast, if you get this on, uh, on, um, are you watching or listening on radio on the John Fredericks Radio Network? | ||
| This is one of the benefits of going to warham.org and getting and making sure you can get the show notes and make sure you get the clips from the show, because it is important if you're so inclined to see the visual. | ||
| We've hammered this for weeks. | ||
| I'm going to bring in Cortez here in a second. | ||
| We get Ben live in Rome and Ben's going to go through this. | ||
| We've said, hey, this is about a negotiation to get to a peace settlement that somehow can be start temporarily, but be permanent. | ||
| And it's just not about corridors and getting folks out, getting folks out of the cities that are now surrounded and besieged. | ||
| Headline of the Financial Times of London, and remember, the reason Cortez and I talk about capital markets and try to bring capital markets, whether it's bond markets or commodity markets or stock markets, markets for equity, markets for financial instruments, is they are proxies about how the people that move the world are thinking at that time. | ||
| It's a proxy for you to start to put into your Decision-making it's not just simple as oh the New York Stock Exchange jobs. | ||
| Yeah, we that is not just the indicator That's what we try to give you other indicators. | ||
| But the the paper of the party of Davos The paper of your betters not the Wall Street Journal is the Financial Times of London. | ||
| It's historically been the most powerful Today, they finally get back to the signal. | ||
| make decisions, okay? | ||
| And of course in populism, we're trying to change that. | ||
| But we've got to use the instruments of what the elites ruled the world by. | ||
| So what is their screaming headline today? | ||
| And remember, this is the first day since this war started. | ||
| It hasn't been a huge banner across with things about people dying in the besieged cities and the women and children. | ||
| Today, they finally get back to the signal. | ||
| Moscow and Kiev explore neutrality plan and peace talks. | ||
| Ukraine and Russia have made progress on a tentative peace plan, including a ceasefire and Russian withdrawal. | ||
| If Kiev declares neutrality and accepts limits on armed forces, said five people briefed on the talks. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And throughout the rest of the paper, the rest of this article, it goes into some level of detail, of which the great Ben Harnwell has given you this information, I don't know, a week ago? | ||
| As we've been focused on this from the very beginning? | ||
| That's what the show is out there to give you the briefing CEOs get. | ||
| And you get it free every day. | ||
| If you're driving a truck, if you're driving a cab, if you're just on your way to school, if you're taking the kids to school. | ||
| Empty and night. | ||
| Whether it's the moms fighting at the school boards, the peeps from the precinct committee. | ||
| This is participatory populism. | ||
| And we want to make sure that you get the most sophisticated briefing every day. | ||
| So this is what's important. | ||
| And you see these. | ||
| And I want to use a phrase again and again. | ||
| What Ben Sasse and these people are talking about. | ||
| You know, Ben Sasse has a long history of service to his country on battlefields all over the world and living all over the world and working on transactions and all that. | ||
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No, no, no, no. | |
| This is little Ben Sasse who begged Trump for an endorsement and then is one of the worst, if not the worst. | ||
| What these people are saying is both infantile And it's dangerous. | ||
| And I'll take any of them on. | ||
| That's why they won't come on Tucker Show. | ||
| They certainly won't come on. | ||
| It's infantile and it's dangerous. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| It's dangerous not just to the people in the region. | ||
| It's dangerous to citizens of this country. | ||
| Please write this down and remember this. | ||
| If you don't take anything else away from the show, you listening or watching this show in the continental United States, From the Rio Grande Valley up to Minneapolis, where the great Royce White is running as a populist. | ||
| Remember, from Maine to California, you are a combatant in this. | ||
| Don't just sit there and watch Fox all day long and think, oh, this is interesting, let me send 50 bucks. | ||
| You are a combatant, because we're at offensive economic war right now, hardcore, against the Russian people. | ||
| Don't let them turn into oligarchs and take it. | ||
| You are supporting, Because these are your guys making decisions. | ||
| I realize it's Biden, but hey, every Republican's up there. | ||
| Every Republican's up there. | ||
| Every Republican's up there trying to be hardcore. | ||
| Cortez, we got a couple minutes in this segment. | ||
| Your assessment, we didn't even get to him blowing up Salazar last night on this part. | ||
| We'll get to her thing about amnesty later. | ||
| Your thoughts of where we stand, sir, and particularly the narratives being driven in this country. | ||
| Right, and to connect it again to capital markets, Steve, because I think this is important. | ||
| Not that we ever slavishly follow markets, and not that markets always get things right, but you're exactly correct that markets are a really important real-time barometer of where serious people and serious institutions are willing to wager on the course of events. | ||
| And let's look at crude oil right now. | ||
| So crude oil, which shot all the way up to $130 a barrel, As the fighting commenced over there in the Black Sea region is now back to 100. | ||
| Now, that's still massively too high, of course, and that's because of Biden's policies. | ||
| But the point is it went from the 90s to 130 pretty quickly back to the 90s. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because capital markets and at least the energy markets are getting more confident that a deal can be reached. | ||
| So at the very same time that we have charlatans like Ben Sasse trying to escalate, as we have the American media just clamoring breathlessly for continual American involvement and intervention and escalation. | ||
| Thankfully, there are more dispassionate voices and thinkers on both sides of the actual belligerence in this conflict. | ||
| And Russia and Ukraine continue to signal to the world, we don't know what will happen, but they continue to signal to the world that a detente is possible. | ||
| Where there is a neutrality of Ukraine, where it is a buffer zone, as it probably should be by all logic. | ||
| But that decision shouldn't be for us to make. | ||
| That's another point I want to make here, Steve, is that these folks like Ben Sasse and Lindsey Graham and Sean Hannity All of them, in their arrogance and their condescension, they very much view the world as this chessboard, and they fashion themselves as chess masters. | ||
| Of course, they're not even capable of playing checkers, and when they disastrously fail at playing this game of globalist chess, inevitably, the pawns are the citizens of the United States. | ||
| who always pay for their mistakes. | ||
| So we are saying enough, and we're winning converts over. | ||
| We're winning over people like Jesse Watters and everyday people that you run into. | ||
| More and more Americans are waking up to the reality of, wait a second, we've waged war and we've engaged in nation building for 20 years in this country, except for the four years of Donald Trump. | ||
| The consequences were disastrous for this country. | ||
| We are no longer trusting these so-called elites, people like McFaul, who we showed there, or who you showed during your introduction. | ||
| We're no longer trusting them. | ||
| We no longer believe they have our best interests at heart. | ||
| And I believe, we'll see what happens, but I think peace can happen. | ||
| Okay, we'll take a short break. | ||
| They got a power block now at Fox, Waters and Tucker back-to-back. | ||
| It's gonna be very important. | ||
| That's a pivot point. | ||
| That's an intellectual center right there, gravity. | ||
| Okay, short break. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
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| Remember, we have people all over the country that work and help this show and contribute, and they watch the show. | ||
| They give me some breaking news. | ||
| Number one, Laura Ingram, I understand, pushed back on Tom Cotton last night. | ||
| Laura Ingram is not where Jessie is, but she's coming. | ||
| This is so important. | ||
| This is so central to the great Tucker Carlson as a center of gravity over there. | ||
| Jesse Waters is now obviously with us on this and being rational, right? | ||
| People tell me Laura Ingraham, although not where Jesse is, pushed back on Tom Cotton last night. | ||
| Also, Bill Hemmer, I'm getting this real time, that Bill Hemmer just had, and I really like Bill Hemmer a lot. | ||
| Bill Hemmer's the morning guy, one of the morning guys. | ||
| He just had Petraeus on. | ||
| And Cortez and Harnwell, he goes, he asked Petraeus, are we helping the Ukrainians win? | ||
| Are we helping them to fight to a stalemate? | ||
| And basically, Petraeus said, a stalemate for now, but we may at least help them organize and begin to push back. | ||
| But OK, so people understand. | ||
| And look, this is about one of the most important things is making sure that we have as little loss of life right now among these innocent civilians in the Ukraine. | ||
| OK, and you can do that and be smart about this. | ||
| Also, I believe that all the guys that are commentators, and all the guys that are talk show hosts, and all you guys that love the Constitution so much, and adore the Constitution, and the Constitution this, and the Constitution that, that's your line of country. | ||
| It's not my line of country. | ||
| It never has been, okay? | ||
| Right now, I don't understand why you're not saying there should be some declaration of the War Powers Act, or there should be some come to Congress. | ||
| I don't need Zelensky talking to Congress. | ||
| Just, hey, it's okay. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| But we need Joe Biden talking to Congress. | ||
| We need to find out what the Constitution says. | ||
| This thing of, you can put black and white photographs on this and it looks like 1939. | ||
| I got that. | ||
| That's kinetic war. | ||
| And let's say the casualties, they're still saying the casualties are under 1,000. | ||
| I'm not downplaying that. | ||
| It's horrific. | ||
| What I'm saying is in modern warfare and economic war, you and this audience are combatant. | ||
| We're at offensive, offensive, offensive economic war against the Russian people. | ||
| Not simply the oligarchs. | ||
| It's the Russian people because his system now is so tied around the KGB and former military. | ||
| They got some Russian term for it that I cannot pronounce. | ||
| They've got this system of KGB, FSB, and military around Putin that control the country. | ||
| So what they're doing, they want regime change. | ||
| And the regime change, they're going to break the central bank of Russia. | ||
| They're going to destroy the currency. | ||
| They're going to sweep the reserves. | ||
| They're going to make sure Switzerland's not neutral. | ||
| All things we didn't do against... I'm going to throw in a couple of random names. | ||
| We didn't do it against Hitler. | ||
| We didn't do it against Mussolini. | ||
| We didn't do it against Tojo in the military junta in Imperial Japan. | ||
| We didn't do it against Mao Zedong. | ||
| We didn't do it against Stalin. | ||
| We didn't do it against the Soviet Union when they had nuclear weapons and were three seconds from launching each other in 1983. | ||
| I don't even think we did it to Pol Pot. | ||
| Let me just throw out some random names, okay? | ||
| But we're doing it against the Russian people now. | ||
| Oh yes, the Russian people that gave 25 million of their lives, I think, 25 or 30 million in combat, or in siege of St. | ||
| Petersburg, of Leningrad, and Stalingrad, and Moscow, and all fighting all the way back. | ||
| That allowed us, in the heroism and valor of our troops, that we could land less. | ||
| There's 186,000 illegal aliens coming across the southern border this month. | ||
| Only 156,000 troops landed at D-Day, at Normandy. | ||
| If it hadn't been for the Russian people, not their communist overlords, if it hadn't been for the Russian people, we would have had to land 2 million people at Normandy. | ||
| Remember, the reason Churchill held off for so long on the Western Front, and they kept saying, you gotta have a Western Front, is all the brutality of the Somme and all the casualties in the First World War. | ||
| He knew the British people couldn't take another massive land war with those type of losses. | ||
| That's why they went to Italy. | ||
| That's why he wanted to fight North Africa. | ||
| And he wanted to go to the ball. | ||
| He did not want to land in Normandy. | ||
| Held off and held off and held off. | ||
| Stalin says, hey, I need a second front. | ||
| I need it now, now, now, now, now. | ||
| I'm gonna need too much people. | ||
| Those people Those people are the ones you're at economic war with. | ||
| Just like our allies of the Chinese people that lost, I think, another 25 or 30 million, taking the brunt of the Japanese Imperial Army so that our brave men that landed at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Peleliu and all those places, right, all those hellholes, had as tough as the Japanese were and dug in at places like Iwo Jima and Okinawa, The brunt of the Japanese land forces were eaten up in mainland China. | ||
| Lao-Beijing, who, by the way, are enslaved today by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And what do we do? | ||
| Our elite MSNBC's got big crocodile tears up there every day and the blue and gold flag are over there kissing Xi's ass for his Olympics. | ||
| So don't sit here and give me, oh, I got this. | ||
| I'm the big crocodile tear playing the flute. | ||
| Let's have the flute guy again. | ||
| You're at war with our allies in World War II, which were the Chinese people and the Russian people. | ||
| Forget Stalin, and forget Chiang Kai-shek, and forget Mao Tse-tung. | ||
| The people that took the brunt of it, so that we could take down the fascists in Europe, and we take down the military junta in Imperial Japan, with our technology and our production, and the brave men and women in the United States who went to these foreign battlefields and died. | ||
| No! | ||
| Let's allow part of it to be in subjugation and in slavery in China, to allow Beijing, let them be in slavery, while we kiss the ass of their overlords, and make them more money than ever with the post-war, international, liberal, rules-based order, which they want you to die for in battlefields in Ukraine. | ||
| Get a plane and fly over there today. | ||
| Don't sit here on these talk shows and give me this talk. | ||
| Grab a gun and go. | ||
| Let me see your heroism. | ||
| Stand next to Zelensky. | ||
| You can be the leader of the American Legion over there. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Go do it. | ||
| It's a free world, brother. | ||
| Go do it. | ||
| Wear the t-shirt. | ||
| Get fully ripped and sit next to Zelensky and just preach from there. | ||
| Preach from there. | ||
| More and more people are going to die, innocent people are going to die, and other innocent people's lives are going to be destroyed. | ||
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Why? | |
| Because of the lies and misrepresentations in the sleepwalking we are doing. | ||
| Steve Cortes, your analysis. | ||
| I'm going to go to Harnwell. | ||
| We got a lot. | ||
| We're going to go to the southern border. | ||
| We're going to talk about things that are important today, okay? | ||
| This is obviously very important, but we're going to get down to them. | ||
| We're going to... Tucker, we could play all of Tucker's thing last night with Salazar, but she's the epitome of what one of the problems are. | ||
| We're going to do that in the next segment. | ||
| Cortes, your assessment analysis before I go to Harnwell. | ||
| Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned about Sass. | ||
| If you're so bold, pick up a rifle and go over there. | ||
| You know who made a very convincing video on that exact point is Eric Greitens, who I think is going to be the next great America First Senator from Missouri. | ||
| Somebody who has picked up a rifle and fought all over the world for the United States as a Navy SEAL. | ||
| He said, hey, if you feel that strongly, good luck. | ||
| We'll say a prayer for you. | ||
| We sure hope you come back. | ||
| But there's no vital American national interest to involve our country in what is clearly what should be a regional struggle. | ||
| And by the way, we're picking on some of the usual characters right now. | ||
| I want to also talk about the House leadership, which I thought had a shameful press conference yesterday. | ||
| Here was a quote from Elise Stefanik, who's somebody that I normally have a lot of political admiration for. | ||
| She said, quote, the stakes could not be higher. | ||
| I mean, really? | ||
| The stakes could not be higher? | ||
| For whom? | ||
| For the United States? | ||
| If we were simply dispassionate about this, if we would simply be logical instead of emotional, we actually have very small stakes in this regional skirmish. | ||
| Over the eastern border of Ukraine. | ||
| That is the reality. | ||
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But instead, the Washington establishment... What stake do we have at all? | |
| I would like to see that crowd up there. | ||
| Hold on, in the house. | ||
| I'd like to see them with a sense of urgency on the invasion on the southern border. | ||
| 186,000 people are coming across this month. | ||
| Only 156 hit the beaches of Normandy. | ||
| Only 300,000 in Patton's 3rd Army. | ||
| This is every month. | ||
| Patton's 3rd Army was an entity of itself. | ||
| D-Day was a 48-hour event. | ||
| 156,000 men. | ||
| This is every 30 days. | ||
| Please stand up, House leadership, and show me the urgency for the working class Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley. | ||
| They're at the brunt of it, but every town in this country is a border town. | ||
| Where's your sense of urgency there? | ||
| And not a photo op to go down there. | ||
| Where's your sense of urgency? | ||
| Where is it? | ||
| It's absolutely vital. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Go ahead, sir. | ||
| You are a fired up Irishman today on St. | ||
| Patrick's Day, and I love it. | ||
| I want to tell you, by the way, you're my second favorite Irishman, Irish person. | ||
| My first is my mother. | ||
| Always, but you're my second favorite. | ||
| But listen, you know, regarding House leadership and the others, by the way, Mitt Romney, you pick it, okay? | ||
| Sean Hannity, pick him. | ||
| All they keep saying are using these ridiculous platitudes like, you know, the defense of freedom, you know, that sort of thing, rules-based international order. | ||
| Explain to us, have the decency and the respect for the American people to make the case to us Inappropriate. | ||
| this threatens America, okay? | ||
| For example, Zelensky himself, who I think gave a shameful presentation before the United States, tried to guilt us into helping his country, used Pearl Harbor and 9-11 in what I thought were completely disrespectful ways. | ||
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Inappropriate. | |
| Explain to us, Zelensky and Romney, explain to us how reaching some sort of settlement over the eastern portions of Ukraine endangers Paris, okay? | ||
| And then from there, because I don't believe that, first of all, despite the propaganda they're putting out. | ||
| and then explain from there how that endangers the United States. | ||
| I would argue you cannot make that case. | ||
| And that's why they're not bothering to, but they need to have at least that respect. | ||
| George W. Bush, as terrible a president as he was, and as awful as the Iraq War was, he at least had the respect to try to make the case to the American people. | ||
| Now, it was garbage intelligence, and it was illogical thinking and strategy, but at least he had the decency to say, I need to make a serious presentation to convince the people. | ||
| That we should risk American blood and treasure. | ||
| We see none of that right now. | ||
| It is pure emotion and guilt and castigation that if we disagree, if we actually want to try peace over there, and if we don't think there's a vital American interest, that somehow we're a puppet of Putin. | ||
| And the deplorables out there need to know the Republicans are every bit as awful on this point, the elected office holders, as are the Democrats. | ||
| Listen, the reason Biden, it wasn't just his respect for the American people, he was forced to by leadership in the House and Senate. | ||
| Bush was. | ||
| Because there were tons of Democrats at the time. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| That's what Republican leadership should be doing right now is being adults, not infants. | ||
| Being adults. | ||
| They should force Biden and the administration to come and make the case. | ||
| I don't mean Zelensky coming in with some video and all this slobbering all over him. | ||
| Come and make the case to the American people and everybody out there, you big constitutionalists, where is your, how do you revere the Constitution today? | ||
| Force him to come and make the case to the American people as he's required to. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Going to the border next. | ||
| Also a short stop in Rome. | ||
| All next in The War Room. | ||
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| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| By the way, the Blame and Shame Tour continues. | ||
| That's Axios saying that, and that's not War Room or Steve Bannon. | ||
| Axios called Zelensky's thing the Blame and Shame Tour. | ||
| One thing I didn't note, Cortez, but let's put a pin on this one. | ||
| He proposed this new thing called U24, a new world organization that would be a military organization, like a NATO on steroids, that would go in and stop all these things. | ||
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| Coverage, because they don't want to talk about another ridiculous idea from Zelensky, OK? | ||
| Almost as ridiculous as putting in a no-fly zone, which would get us into immediate kinetic war with Russia, right? | ||
| With their cyber weapons and their nuclear weapons and their chemical weapons and their biological weapons. | ||
| He did invoke, though, I thought, very disrespectfully, and see the Republicans stand up there, stand in ovation, slobbering all over it. | ||
| We're going to remember all this. | ||
| You can't get away from this thing. | ||
| We're going to remember all this. | ||
| Because at the end of the day, we're right. | ||
| We know we're right. | ||
| And the realistic thinking about this is what exactly is going to save the lives of the innocents. | ||
| Because here's what you've done. | ||
| You've walked these people into this, and then you've left them to their own fate. | ||
| That's what's happened. | ||
| That's really what's happened. | ||
| You've left them to their own fate. | ||
| But the Blame and Shame Tour has continued, Brother Cortez, and today's stop was Berlin. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, give me a minute or two on what the Germans got from Zelensky. | ||
| I know he had to refer to the Holocaust. | ||
| That had to be part of it, because every place he goes, you'd see these Winston Churchill and commons. | ||
| He's 9-11 Pearl Harbor and Martin Luther King in at Congress in the America. | ||
| He's in Berlin. | ||
| I can just in front of the Bundestag. | ||
| I got to imagine something with the Holocaust. | ||
| What do we got Ben? | ||
| Yes, that's absolutely right Steve. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| He's basically a pitch to each parliament he speaks to. | ||
| It's really putting the finger in whatever emotional wounds there are from history to make the point. | ||
| So as you say, he goes to Germany, he talks about the Berlin Wall, he talks about the generation that might still remember the never again commitments that people will make every year. | ||
| And it's really laying on the emotional identification that Ukraine's problems are Germany's problems existentially. And he also says explicitly that very thing. He says that Germany, with its trade with Russia, which it hasn't ended, that is to say the fuel trade, is financing Russia's war on Ukraine. And he makes it absolutely explicit, | ||
| which is an interesting thing for him to do, Steve, if you think about it. | ||
| Because we made this point on The Wall Room about two weeks ago, and we were widely pilloried for doing it, but we said exactly this thing. | ||
| That Russia had been financing the Green Lobby throughout Europe, throughout the world, To lobby governments to reduce its reliance on its own energy producing capacity and therefore, obviously, to increase its reliance on Russia, which has been doing that deliberately to make us enfeeble ourselves in order to not be able to resist a maneuver such as that Russia has done now. | ||
| Now, that would be a real thing for Zelensky to say, to spell out, to say, As we did, as we had the courage to do, we said Greta Thunberg is directly responsible. | ||
| She may be an innocent party to this, she may not have intended this, but everything that she has been doing, don't forget that the Deputy Chancellor, I think it is, in Germany right now, is a member of the Green Party. | ||
| The Greens are dominant in Germany, they have been for a couple of decades. | ||
| Well, the Greens are basically a fifth column. | ||
| for Russian interests, for being financed by the ruble. | ||
| They may be innocent, they may be passionate about the environment, but they have done, they have acted to serve Vladimir Putin's interests. | ||
| Now if Zelensky wanted to go on a blame and shame tour, he could have really identified what the blame is and what needs shaming, but he didn't. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Hang on, just stay right there. | ||
| We're going to get to the negotiation. | ||
| You say you're pilloried until you're not. | ||
| After that, everybody's ripping you off. | ||
| There's commas and no attribution to the work you did, but that's fine. | ||
| I call it an homage. | ||
| We do it every now and again here. | ||
| It's an homage. | ||
| We try to name check everybody we get the material from, but this is the beating heart of it. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And the quote-unquote de-industrialization process of the Greens, of Greta Thunberg, you know, the little angry 11-year-old, right, or 9-year-old, however old she was when she started her rant, that all the adults froze in place. | ||
| And Zelensky's right, Cortez. | ||
| There's still, Western Europe's still underwriting this. | ||
| This is what's the phoniness of this entire thing. | ||
| They're still underwriting it by the massive energy purchases. | ||
| Why? | ||
| The people in the United States, think about this for a second, we're an absolute enemy combatant of the Russian people. | ||
| We are. | ||
| We're taking down their total economy with our Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, and other central banks that we're leading on. | ||
| We're the lead on the offensive economic war here, which is financial and about currency. | ||
| They're underwriting it and financing it at the same time that we're taking down the Russian people because we want regime change. | ||
| We want a revolt to overthrow Putin and these guys. | ||
| Cortez. | ||
| Is Zelensky right that Germany is financing this? | ||
| And is Ben Harnwell right that this is a product they don't want to talk about? | ||
| And the Greens have what I call command by negation. | ||
| It's very important to understand how the Greens have gotten here. | ||
| Very smart. | ||
| Very intelligent how they did it. | ||
| Command by negation. | ||
| A small group of dedicated people can use leverage points and change the world as they've done. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It speaks to the duplicity of the Davos crowd, right? | ||
| Right now, as they pontificate and beat their chests before the world and post Ukraine flags everywhere, which have now replaced the masks as the sign of virtue signaling, at that same time, they are funding literally both sides of the war. | ||
| We're giving direct aid and armaments to the Ukraine, while Western Europe in particular is giving massive amounts of funds to the Putin war machine. | ||
| So literally funding Both sides of the war. | ||
| You know, I think also regarding the duplicity here. | ||
| Let's look at what Ukraine really has meant to America. | ||
| I would argue the eastern border of Ukraine has no strategic significance United States Ukraine does matter to us though in two ways. | ||
| The first is economic because you talk about that economic war that we're now waging against Russia and it is unprecedented. | ||
| Those risks are not only for Russian citizens, though. | ||
| They're feeling it most immediately already. | ||
| But those risks are also for the United States because I believe King Dollar is being dethroned right now, which is going to have decades-long consequences for American citizens. | ||
| And right now, as we speak, crude oil, which is at $100, it's better than 130 where it was in recent days, but it's still at $100. | ||
| Wheat is over $10 a bushel. | ||
| Those are economically devastating prices, not just for the United States, but for the entire world. | ||
| So we have the economic risks. | ||
| And then I would also point out, because I think when you were talking about the comeuppance from people who admit that we were right all along, didn't get much notice, of course, but the New York Times overnight, believe it or not, now admits that the laptop from hell was authenticated, right? | ||
| The New York Times admits it took them a year and a half, a year and a half too late after lying to us forever that it didn't matter and it was Russian disinformation. | ||
| Here's why that story is relevant to today. | ||
| Ukraine, and this was largely revealed by the laptop from hell, Ukraine has been a piggy bank for the worst characters in American politics For years. | ||
| From the Clintons to the Bidens. | ||
| We learned a lot of those details because of the laptop from hell, which we said all along was authentic. | ||
| Even the New York Times now admits it is authentic. | ||
| So in that regard, Ukraine does matter to us. | ||
| Doesn't matter to us strategically, but it does matter in terms of it being a piggy bank of corruption for the Bidens, the Clintons, and other detestable characters of politics in the Western world. | ||
| Okay, we've got a chart, if we can pull it up. | ||
| I don't know if we've got it loaded in right now, but I'm going to go right to it. | ||
| By the way, John Solomon, the great John Solomon, is going to join us next hour. | ||
| We've got Dave Bratt, John Solomon, Terry Schilling, some interesting developments coming out of Charlie's office on the Supreme Court nominee. | ||
| But we've got this, yeah, let's put this, play this to Cortez. | ||
| I'm so glad you brought this up. | ||
| It has been authenticated. | ||
| We're going to have John Solomon on here to talk about the hard drive from hell. | ||
| Of which we were one of the driving forces in getting into the New York Post. | ||
| We knew it was correct because we had it checked by top people in the world. | ||
| And we're going to play it later and have that ad of all the liars, of Brennan and these guys to try to thwart Trump, all said it was Russian disinformation. | ||
| These people immediately, and I'm going to tell you what's going to happen after we take over in November, all the security clearance is going to get pulled, okay? | ||
| I want to make sure that Clapper and all these guys understand that we're going to get your security clearances pulled and that means you can't make a living, okay? | ||
| You're impoverished. | ||
| Because all you do is dine off of being able to sell what you know, right? | ||
| Sell what you monetize your inside access to intelligence information and all these consulting firms and boards you sit on and all the retainers with the corporate crowd. | ||
| It's all based upon your security clearance. | ||
| That's going to get yanked. | ||
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| All of it. | ||
| Everybody who signed that letter has got to have it yanked because you are liars and you're guilty of treason. | ||
| You knew for a fact that this was accurate and you lied. | ||
| You said it was from Russia. | ||
| That's a lie and even the New York Times has to admit it now. | ||
| Let's put that chart up. | ||
| The Clintons the other day, just remember, announced that they're starting back the Clinton Global Initiative. | ||
| Look at that chart right there and look at Ukraine. | ||
| Ukraine, if you consider it a European country, it's the poorest country in Europe. | ||
| It's the third most corrupt nation on Earth by the people that do that analysis of what's third or fourth, with Russia being number seven. | ||
| Think about that for a second. | ||
| In Latin America, in Central America, in Africa, in South Asia, okay? | ||
| And it's the third or fourth most corrupt in the world. | ||
| Look at the amount of money given to the Clintons. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| It's stunning, given their size in the economy and from the Ukrainian people. | ||
| They've used the worst elements, the worst political mafias, the Biden crime family, as Rudy Giuliani calls it, and of course the Clinton mafia. | ||
| This is what I was doing before I stepped into the campaign. | ||
| In fact, the principal reason I was brought into the campaign is because I had dedicated myself to taking down the Clintons. | ||
| We just came out of Peter Schweitzer's great book, Clinton Cash. | ||
| We just made it into a movie that came up on 1 August and was in the process of getting millions of downloads, including by many Bernie Sanders. | ||
| Back in August of 16, many Bernie bros Cortez, you remember this, that had a belly full of all this. Okay. Real quickly, Ben, because we've got the board to get to, we've got Harnwell. Give me a hot two minutes on where we stand with the negotiations right now. Financial Times of London is saying they're working out the details of a neutrality plan. Where do we stand, sir? | ||
| Well, what Sergei Lavrov has said is that there is some hope of reaching a compromise and that neutral status is now being seriously discussed along with security guarantees. He adds that, he mentions something about absolutely specific wordings, which he says both sides are close to agreeing on. | ||
| Now, that absolutely specific wordings means that when they're in those discussions, that they know what they're talking about and what they intend, both sides know exactly what these terms mean. | ||
| Outside of those negotiations, we can sort of speculate to a certain degree. | ||
| As we've been mentioning over the last few days, there's this issue of neutrality, which is where I think the conversations, which had been a sticking point, are now sort of tending to resolve themselves. | ||
| But that term itself, neutrality, has evolved over three weeks. | ||
| Back at the beginning of the war, it referred to keep no membership for NATO or the European Union. | ||
| Now neutrality is being referred to as no foreign military installations. | ||
| But I know you got to go back to work. | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| Because I know you're putting this stuff up on Getter. | ||
| I got to go to Cortez for an assessment here. | ||
| But what's your what's your social media? | ||
| How do people follow you on Getter? | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, it's absolutely Getter is my unique and sole output on social media. | ||
| And my profile is at Conwell, which is my surname. | ||
| Ben is the Jack Posobiec of Getter. | ||
| Ben, great. | ||
| Steve, give me 30 seconds before we go to break on the bid and the ask here on these negotiations. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, listen, it looks to me like they're making real progress because we're hearing it from both sides. | ||
| I don't believe either side generally, but when both sides are saying that they're making progress, we have every reason to believe that is happening. | ||
| I also think that the price action in financial markets, particularly in crude oil, tells us that there's a likelihood that we can actually have a reasonable detente, a reasonable ceasefire. | ||
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And we should be promoting that, not escalating. | |
| We're the de-escalation crowd, not the escalation crowd. | ||
| Because we're trying to get to a smart solution and save lives, okay? | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Going to the border next. | ||
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| I'm asking a question about borders. | ||
| All of us are appalled by the violation of Ukraine's borders. | ||
| You don't seem as appalled by the violation of our borders by tens of millions of people, so let me ask you for the third time. | ||
| Sure, I do. | ||
| That's a misrepresentation. | ||
| Would you support the U.S. | ||
| military securing the United States border tonight, or on the same timetable as sending MiGs to Ukraine? | ||
| How about that? | ||
| That's hypothetical again. | ||
| Let's talk about the border. | ||
| No, it's a very straightforward question. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| You're a lawmaker. | ||
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| What do you mean? | ||
| Just say it. | ||
| You're not for it. | ||
| I am saying... You're giving me the whole segment, which is great, and I thank you very much. | ||
| Let's go back to my bill. | ||
| No, but correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| I don't want to misrepresent you. | ||
| I am correct. | ||
| That's all I'm saying. | ||
| You don't support sending the U.S. | ||
| military to the border. | ||
| You don't. | ||
| I just want our viewers to understand that you're for defending a foreign country, but not our own. | ||
| And it's pretty clear. | ||
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| All the technology we could find so we can secure the border. | ||
| All the military, the veterans, the police forces that we could hire so we can secure and seal the border, not only for people, but fentanyl and child sex traffickers. | ||
| So I just told you, the bill is right there. | ||
| If there's technology, it's not so simple as to say you're going to put this or that. | ||
| It's a series of technicalities, a series of technology that we need to use. | ||
| I get it, I get it. | ||
| That is for the border. | ||
| I agree with your intent. | ||
| You know, if you're for securing the border, I'm totally on your side. | ||
| And thank you for mentioning it. | ||
| Then what are you going to do? | ||
| But let me ask you something. | ||
| Let me just ask you a question. | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| Can you see why Americans who support the Ukrainians' right to secure their own borders, I mean, I certainly do. | ||
| Most people do. | ||
| All Americans do. | ||
| Can you see the frustration that they might feel listening to you, a lawmaker, say, yeah, there's a process, but when it happens in a foreign country, we have to send billions of the U.S. | ||
| military, your sons, But we can't kind of do that here because why? | ||
| I mean, can you sort of understand the frustration? | ||
| A little bit? | ||
| But I have never said that I want to send troops, our boys, to fight in Ukraine because I don't think that Zelensky is asking... And we're sending at the same time stingers and javelins and ammunitions and we're sending a lot of things that are related to the military. | ||
| Why not treat our own border with the same seriousness? | ||
| Patriots, Miami-Dade County in South Florida used to be a dependable Democratic stronghold in the Sunshine State, but no more. | ||
| Let's take a look at the data. | ||
| Going back to 2016, Hillary Clinton won Miami-Dade by a massive 30%, but by 2020, Joe Biden did win it by only 7%, a shrinkage of 23%. | ||
| Overall, now let's look at the gubernatorial race. | ||
| In 2018, DeSantis lost Miami-Dade by 21 points. | ||
| But right now, brand new polling as presented by the Miami Herald shows that DeSantis is leading by 7% in Miami-Dade County for an astounding four-year swing of 28 percentage points. | ||
| Now, what accounts for this? | ||
| I think a lot of it is the terrific leadership of DeSantis over the state of Florida taking on Big corporations and using actual reason and science rather than narrative to guide that state through COVID. | ||
| Another huge reason is Hispanics. | ||
| Hispanics moving toward the America First movement, toward Trump, toward DeSantis. | ||
| Right now in Miami-Dade, majority of Hispanics there disapprove of Joe Biden. | ||
| This news is all no bueno for the Democrats and great for America First. | ||
| Okay, welcome back to the War Room. | ||
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| Let's go to Salazar, you've seen her plan. | ||
| She's as phony as a $3 bill. | ||
| She couldn't even answer the question straight forward. | ||
| And when she says, not in Ukraine, we're sending troops non-stop into the Baltics, right? | ||
| We've moved, we've moved from when I was in the service and what NATO was, I think it was a thousand miles away from, or 2,000 miles away from Moscow. | ||
| We've moved it up into the Balkans. | ||
| And hey, and your kids are going there. | ||
| Moe's last tour was, I think, over in Germany or Poland somewhere, right? | ||
| You're moving forward, you're moving east with your troops, non-stop. | ||
| So Salazar is just a spinmeister. | ||
| She's awful, and she's also a liar. | ||
| Her plan is a flat-out amnesty plan, is it not, Steve Cortez? | ||
| It 100% is. | ||
| By the way, you know, as I showed in that Chalk Talk, she's totally out of touch with her constituents, but more importantly, she's totally dishonest as she tries to somehow make the case that Ukrainian nationalism is totally commendable, but American nationalism is forbidden. | ||
| Can some American explain that to me, please? | ||
| But regarding her dishonesty, I want to be very precise here, and I posted this on my social media. | ||
| If people want to see her legislation with their own eyes, Tucker is right, as he usually is. | ||
| And she is lying through her globalist teeth. | ||
| This is from her own website, and I am quoting, she calls this the redemption program for amnesty. | ||
| And here's what she says, quote, it also opens up eligibility for existing pathways to citizenship. | ||
| Eligibility for existing pathways to citizenship. | ||
| If you read the details of her plan, she allows illegal aliens to not only stay here long-term, to not only stay here, but to eventually be afforded citizenship, to be rewarded for trespassing, for breaking and entering into our country. | ||
| I would suggest to you, Steve, by the way, the donor class has fallen in love with Maria Salazar because she's their idea of what a Hispanic Republican should be. | ||
| But guess who does not embrace that? | ||
| Actual voters, many of whom are Hispanics who believe in border sovereignty, who respect and admire the Customs and Border Patrol, the most Hispanic agency of the entire federal government. | ||
| They are not in line with the corporatist, globalist, Dishonest drivel of Maria Salazar. | ||
| And she should be a Democrat. | ||
| She probably won't switch parties because she sees the trends in Miami-Dade, a formerly dependable Democrat enclave, which is now increasingly an America First locale. | ||
| But we have to repel her lies and also just, again, her globalist thinking. | ||
| American nationalism is every bit as worthy, much more so in my opinion because I'm an American, but American globalism is every bit as worthy as Ukrainian nationalism is for Ukrainians. | ||
| Do you see Mitch McConnell, he's down there talking about more arms to Ukraine right now in the well of the Senate. | ||
| Do you see them working, have them at 3 o'clock in the morning have to do something to get the border wall built, to send troops to the southern border? | ||
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| To seal off an invasion, 186,000 people? | ||
| We're going to go to Pinal County next when we return. |
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