April 23, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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The populist leader, Marine Le Pen, with surging support from a flag waving far right, not seen in France since World War II. | |
| Why do you support Marine Le Pen? | ||
| For immigration. | ||
| For immigration? | ||
| She's glorious. | ||
| Le Pen, who has openly supported President Putin, and was quick to congratulate President Trump in 2016, riding a familiar anti-establishment wave. | ||
| Against the current president, Emmanuel Macron. | ||
| Polls suggest he'll hold on to power. | ||
| Camille told us she'll vote for her. | ||
| But listen to how reluctant she is to even admit it. | ||
| I think I'm going to vote for the other candidate because... The other candidate? | ||
| Not Macron? | ||
| No. | ||
| But you don't want to say her name? | ||
| Because it's not my political party. | ||
| To win over wavering voters like them, Le Pen has focused on the soaring cost of living and posts pictures on social media with her cats, the candidates clashing for the first time on television this week. | ||
| We're watching the debate with a group of students, none of them love Macron and they definitely don't like Le Pen, yet their vote on Sunday could determine the future of Europe. | ||
| Macron accused her of financial ties to Putin. | ||
| She called him elitist. | ||
| But many undecided young voters, uninspired. | ||
| And none of them actually talked about how it is difficult to be a young people in this country. | ||
| Macron fighting for every vote. | ||
| I think he's solid, this woman says, and loves his country. | ||
| This weekend, French voters will decide. | ||
| The world will be watching. | ||
| If you vote Le Pen, you vote Putin. | ||
| A huge blow to, uh, the Western world. | ||
| A huge blow to... Well, in case you were reading Stacey Abrams' novels and missed it, Barack Obama gave a big speech at Stanford yesterday on, quote, disinformation. | ||
| Now, like the Atlantic Magazine's conference on disinformation at the University of Chicago, The conference was all about promoting disinformation, but because self-awareness has been banned, nobody noticed. | ||
| Obama argued that only his political opponents lie, and they must be stopped immediately. | ||
| People like Putin, and Steve Bannon for that matter, understand it's not necessary for people to believe disinformation in order to weaken democratic institutions. | ||
| You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage. | ||
| You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe. | ||
| Oh, so people who disagree with Barack Obama aren't just saying things that are wrong, they're flooding raw sewage into our country! | ||
| So this guy's not just liberal. | ||
| In fact, he's not liberal at all. | ||
| He's a full-blown fascist who hates you and wants to keep you from talking or else. | ||
| How does people vote for him? | ||
| Hope and change. | ||
| Right, okay. | ||
| He wants censorship of anyone who disagrees with him, and now he just comes out and says it. | ||
| Watch. | ||
| While content moderation can limit the distribution of clearly dangerous content, It doesn't go far enough. | ||
| Users who want to spread disinformation have become experts at pushing right up to the line of what at least published company policies allow. | ||
| And at those margins, social media platforms tend not to want to do anything. | ||
| Not just because they don't want to be accused of censorship, but because they still have a financial incentive to keep as many users engaged as possible. | ||
| So me and my friends at the Aspen Institute need to be in complete control of every word uttered or else it's not democracy. | ||
| That's the case he's making. | ||
| That's the case they're all making. | ||
| Okay, the great Tucker Carlson, of course, the folks in France telling you it's very tough for young people in this country. | ||
| Yes, the French are Russian serfs, just like the youth of America. | ||
| Anybody under 35. | ||
| It's Saturday, 23 April, Year of Our Lord 2022. | ||
| Remember, I told you the shift in the narrative. | ||
| You got this, Rachel Maddow talking about eliminationist rhetoric. | ||
| You've got Obama then making a star turn at At Stanford, off of this Atlantic article that we talked about, and we're going to spend a lot more time on that this coming week, because we're going to get a sweeping mandate in November. | ||
| The progressive left, the woke corporations, the Democratic Party, the globalists, they're every day, there's democracy this, democracy that. | ||
| We're believers in democracy, because we actually have the votes, not phony votes, not made-up votes. | ||
| We actually have real votes. | ||
| And now everybody's motivated. | ||
| Everybody's at the ramparts. | ||
| Everybody's fighting every day. | ||
| And the progressive left, MSNBC, Barack Obama, all of them are going to get a democracy suppository on the evening of November 8th. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And then we will go from there. | ||
| I want to bring in now one of the most important states in all this, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Colonel Doug Mastriano. | ||
| He's running for governor. | ||
| He joins us today near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. | ||
| There'll be an event at the Eisenhower Center. | ||
| I was honored to be asked to come and speak at the annual Eisenhower speech last fall. | ||
| It's an amazing center. | ||
| It's right off the battlefield at Gettysburg. | ||
| President Trump, this is where we gave, President Trump gave his great drain-the-swamp speech in the run-up to the 2016 Victory. | ||
| Colonel Mastriano, this is getting very heated. | ||
| Jay Corman came out the other day and gave a press conference of the things he would do on voter integrity and the 2020 election, the first day he's governor. | ||
| What's your response to that? | ||
| Where do you stand on all of this? | ||
| Yes, and thank you, Steve, for having me on. | ||
| Just so everyone knows, you've invited me several times since the clash with Jay Corman, and I figured it'd be bad form to come on. | ||
| Say or do anything that could derail, you know, a forensic investigation of our elections. | ||
| But it's been eight months on now and nothing's happened. | ||
| So, you know, my position on, of course, that press conference, you know, Jake is a single-digit midget. | ||
| He polls around 3% or so. | ||
| The latest poll is about 3.3%, I believe. | ||
| So I really want to punch down. | ||
| But what I will say is there are 16 pieces of legislation in the Senate. | ||
| He's the president of the Senate. | ||
| And so everything he lists on his plan as governor, Actually, myself and my colleagues have pages and pages of legislation to reform our elections, and he's not running it. | ||
| So it's just more empty rhetoric and talk. | ||
| So look, you were the guy that helped with Rudy Giuliani and all of us initiate the first, the railhead, the first conference at historic Gettysburg that started everything, all the revelations, Peter Navarro's report, all of it, that's leading us to be right at the cusp in Wisconsin, the cusp in Arizona to decertify these Biden electors. | ||
| Then what would be your position? | ||
| What's your position now and what would be your position if you win this primary and if you beat Shapiro to become governor of the Commonwealth? | ||
| Well, as far as cleaning up the election, I mean, I'm in a good position as governor. | ||
| No one knows voting integrity better than me as far as the candidates running for office, and no one has done more to it. | ||
| And, you know, sadly, Jake has stood in the way. | ||
| Had he wanted to reform the elections, he had the power to do so as president of the Senate. | ||
| I mean, of the 16 bills that I listed here, Five of them are mine, and it takes on Act 77, which was compromised by the Democrats in our state Supreme Court, which is Democratic. | ||
| We have voter ID on here. | ||
| That's co-prime sponsor with Judy Ward, co-prime with Stefano on taking on voting reform in Pennsylvania. | ||
| There's a whole list here, but okay, put that aside. | ||
| As governor, I get to appoint the Secretary of State, and I have a voting reform-minded individual who's been traveling the nation and knows voting reform extremely well. | ||
| That individual has agreed to be my Secretary of State. | ||
| I'm going to have, of course, a team around that individual that's really good on voting reform. | ||
| As governor, I get to decertify any or all machines in the state. | ||
| Obviously, I have my eyes on several of the counties that have machines that I believe are compromised. | ||
| And it's going to be a top issue for me because, you know, Steve, you served your country. | ||
| I did as well. | ||
| And this is no game for us, you know, for politicians to hop on the air and make these empty promises when they actually have the power to do something now and didn't. | ||
| I can't believe him. | ||
| Colonel, the Commonwealth Appeals, the appeals court ruled that the 2.6 million mail-in ballots were unconstitutional. | ||
| And I understand the Democratic-controlled Supreme Court reversed that. | ||
| But since that's such a kind of a landmark decision, what can be done just with that? | ||
| Because I think that's what gets people's heads blown up the most, that these 2.6 million ballots were clearly unconstitutional, illegal. | ||
| Is there anything to be done between now and the time you're governor on that? | ||
| And if you do win the governorship, what could you do with that? | ||
| Yeah, well, as far as that ruling from the Commonwealth Court, obviously we're very happy with that ruling. | ||
| Sadly, it has not been ruled on yet by the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, which is five of the seven are leftists or Democrats. | ||
| It's actually their ruling, their decision on 17 December 2020, which compromised our elections at the Commonwealth Court, Struck down and I don't see any chance in hell where the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court is going to rule against themselves. | ||
| So that's a month ago. | ||
| They're going to hear it, I believe, probably in June or July after the primaries over and they're going to uphold their own decision and strike down the Commonwealth decision. | ||
| You know, as far as the way ahead, you know, I just want to clarify for people out there, Pennsylvanians, if you say, hey, I'm not sure my vote counts and therefore I'm not going to vote, you're part of the problem. | ||
| That's exactly what the Democrats want you to say. | ||
| I know as well as anyone else, or more than most people do, how bad things are in Pennsylvania as far as voting reform. | ||
| But we do have hope. | ||
| And the hope is what we saw in Virginia last November. | ||
| In Virginia, it looked like the first and second amendments were going to be struck down. | ||
| The legislative body in Virginia was going to ban speech against them, the elected officials, and they went after the second amendment, the hard and heavy, two years ago. | ||
| But the people of Virginia came out in overwhelming numbers and overcame the cheating in Fairfax County and other counties that leaned heavily left. | ||
| And more importantly, on top of showing up, the Republicans went to work. | ||
| They had about 95% of the polls manned as Republican poll watchers were on duty making sure there was no shenanigans or at least reducing the chance of fraud. | ||
| And so Pennsylvania, that's how we do it. | ||
| So let's get to this primary in 17 May. | ||
| And after that, it's time to get to hard work here to beat back Josh Shapiro in November. | ||
| Woke schools, I know, are an issue. | ||
| Also, Pennsylvania is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. | ||
| Natural gas, we're going to report later about how they're still paying, now they're paying in rubles. | ||
| They're, you know, Russia, we're underwriting, the Western Europeans are underwriting what's happening in Ukraine by buying the gas. | ||
| I blew up guys the other night on Italian TV live about the hypocrisy in this. | ||
| You've also got the immigration issue. | ||
| Pennsylvania is now a border state. | ||
| They're flying them right in. | ||
| As governor, walk through a couple of those issues. | ||
| What is Doug Mastriana going to do that Shapiro's not? | ||
| This is pretty easy. | ||
| So I'll focus on energy, Steve. | ||
| And there's a lot I'm going to do on day one. | ||
| I'm looking at DeSantis, who's really a model of Republican leadership. | ||
| And my goal, obviously, as a governor of Pennsylvania here, is to make Ron DeSantis look like Amateur Hour. | ||
| And I love that guy. | ||
| But there's a lot we can do in Pennsylvania. | ||
| And I could go through that later on. | ||
| But as far as energy, Tom Wolfe has signed us up without a vote from the General Assembly to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. | ||
| We call it REGI. | ||
| And what that is, it's a state version. | ||
| We'd be the 12th state, mostly New England and Mid-Atlantic states. | ||
| It's a cap-and-trade like the Paris Climate Accord. | ||
| So we have to actually pay for CO2 emissions. | ||
| And as the only energy-producing state in this compact, it's going to cost us an estimated this first year, when it goes into effect, about $461 million and $2 billion over the length of two years. | ||
| So on day one, executive order, we're out of Reggie, day one. | ||
| And that's gonna happen and that's gonna drive down energy costs because it's believed that being a member of Reggie is gonna cost Pennsylvania's an energy producing state where it's gonna cost us 30% more in energy costs statewide to keep the lights on. | ||
| Tom Wolf and his eight years of reign here, every year he tries to find a scheme or a racket to put a fee or tax, but a fee on our energy producing companies. | ||
| And in the midst of this need for energy, we have companies closing this year. | ||
| I was in the Southwest last night, there's near Somerset, there's a plant closing this year, there's another plant closing next year because of the regulations. | ||
| And those operations are moving to West Virginia, Ohio and Texas. | ||
| We are the third greatest energy producer in the nation. | ||
| We're number two in natural gas, third in coal, but overall three. | ||
| I'm under Mastriano on day one, I'm striking down about the eight years of Tom Wilson regulations. | ||
| And we're going to unleash the potential for Pennsylvania energy. | ||
| So this is going to be a booming place under Mastriana because we're going to take off the chains and the burdens that Tom Wolf and the Democrats and little Josh Shapiro would do as well and just unleash the potential. | ||
| This is going to be open for business on day one. | ||
| Colonel Mastriana, how do people find out more about you and more about your campaign and particularly this event at the Eisenhower Center this afternoon at four o'clock? | ||
| Thank you for having me on, Steve. | ||
| And so it's Doug4Gov.com. | ||
| So Doug, number four, gov.com. | ||
| Colonel Mastroianni, fight on. | ||
| And thank you so much for being one of the sponsors that got all of this rolling back in November 2020. | ||
| Took real courage and foresight. | ||
| So thank you very much for doing that, sir. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Thank you for your leadership and, you know, risking so much for our country. | ||
| I do respect and honor you. | ||
| So thank you and God bless you. | ||
| Thank you, Colonel. | ||
| OK, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to be back in a moment, and we're going to go to Ohio. | ||
| We're just leaving the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania near Gettysburg, where Colonel Matt Jones is going to have a big event today at the Eisenhower Center. | ||
| Liz Harrington, I think our own Liz Harrington, our former executive editor at The Worm, is going to be there today, so everybody go up and say hi to Liz. | ||
| We're going to go to Ohio. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance is going to join us. | ||
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J.D. | |
| Vance is President Trump's candidate in Ohio. | ||
| There's a big rally out there today. | ||
| Also got Kellyanne Conway about a situation in Nebraska that needs to be talked about. | ||
| All next in the war room. | ||
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War Room Pandemic with Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room Pandemic. Here's your host Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
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| I want to go to J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| President Trump's going to Ohio today. | ||
| Very important and big rally for J.D. | ||
| Vance and other people he's endorsing in the great state of Ohio. | ||
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J.D. | |
| joins us by phone now. | ||
| J.D., tell us a little bit about the rally, the details. | ||
| How do people find out about it? | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| All of that, sir. | ||
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Yes, Steve. | |
| So people can go to DonaldJTrump.com to sign up for the rally. | ||
| I think there are probably still some tickets available. | ||
| I don't know because, as you know, Steve, sometimes these things get sold out very quickly. | ||
| Man, Trump rallies are a lot of fun. | ||
| They're kind of like rock concerts. | ||
| A bunch of patriots hanging out, celebrating together. | ||
| Max Miller's going to speak. | ||
| He's a Trump-endorsed candidate for Congress in Northeast Ohio. | ||
| I'll be speaking. | ||
| I'm sure there are going to be a lot of other folks speaking as well. | ||
| And then, of course, at 7 o'clock, we're going to hear from the man himself. | ||
| And man, the weather in Ohio is beautiful right now. | ||
| It's going to be like 75 degrees and sunny all day. | ||
| So we're going to have a good time. | ||
| Real America's Voice will be covering that. | ||
| We're also going to have it up on our Getter, and we'll be giving commentary, so all the Getter teams will be up on this live. | ||
| Of course, Real America's Voice is going to have wall-to-wall coverage. | ||
| J.D., can you give people a heads-up about your talk tonight? | ||
| What are going to be the themes of J.D.? | ||
| You know, you're a mesmerizing speaker. | ||
| You've still given the best populist speech, I think, over in Pentagon City last summer, or I guess last May, maybe about a year ago. | ||
| Walk us through your themes tonight. | ||
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Yeah, man. | |
| We've had a lot of interesting things happen in Ohio. | ||
| We just had a baker in the state of Ohio where the woke mob tried to attack them for their Christian conservative values. | ||
| They just want a big judgment. | ||
| Probably going to talk a little bit about that. | ||
| I'm going to talk about the fact that if we want to take this country back, Steve, we have got to start fighting back against both the left, but also the corporate donors that have gone in bed with the left. | ||
| And this is the thing that Republicans, conservatives, populists like you and me, We've been woken up to this stuff, but the whole movement has to realize that when Disney is trying to teach sexuality and gender identity to six-year-old kids, we do not have the same allies we used to have. | ||
| We don't have the same enemies we used to have, Steve. | ||
| It's time for us to wake up and realize what time it is. | ||
| That's what I'm going to talk about tonight. | ||
| The first move against Ron DeSantis, who I thought was a full flex down there in Florida, and we've been covering that wall-to-wall. | ||
| There has been some pushback about First Amendment rights, and does this show a conservative movement or the MAGA movement that is cutting its ties to capitalism and the First Amendment, free speech, and capitalism? | ||
| J.D., you've been at the forefront of this populist, inclusive nationalism. | ||
| What say you, sir? | ||
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I think that's the wrong way to think about it. | |
| What capitalist system requires, or even can survive, when you have the biggest corporations on the one hand benefiting from a ton of special government carve-outs that our small businesses never get to enjoy, and on the other hand have decided to declare war on the cultural values of the nation that's giving them all of those handouts. | ||
| There is no First Amendment right that Disney has to have special tax breaks from the state of Florida. | ||
| There's no constitutional right that Disney has To copyright protection that no small or medium-sized creator in this country can enjoy. | ||
| So what conservatives who say that this is an assault on capitalism are basically saying is that if Disney goes to war against America, America cannot fight back. | ||
| That is a loser mentality. | ||
| That is how we've lost this country for 30, 40 years. | ||
| And if we keep on doing it, we're going to keep on losing. | ||
| I'm glad that DeSantis, obviously President Trump sort of started this whole movement But we've got a lot of fighters who are pushing back against this stuff. | ||
| Obviously, I'm one of them, but we cannot keep on surrendering to the big companies that are destroying American values. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| Here's the question. | ||
| Since the Senate races are so expensive, and this one against Tim Ryan is going to be epic, and it's a wash in cash, and clearly McConnell and these guys are great at fundraising for big corporations and big donors, how are you going to pivot if you win the primary and then beat Tim Ryan, how are you going to pivot in the Senate when they say, hey, look, JD, it's a great theory. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| You're smart. | ||
| But we underwrote this. | ||
| Tell me how you were. | ||
| Tell me how that works. | ||
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Well, I think one of the ways is we've got to do the fundraising that we've been doing right from people, you know, big corporations. | |
| We haven't been doing fundraising for big corporations. | ||
| We have been fundraising from guys like Peter Thiel, who's aligned on all this stuff. | ||
| But also from a huge grassroots network of small-dollar fundraisers. | ||
| And this is the direction the Republican Party has to go. | ||
| You're always going to have rich guys writing checks, but you need to find the rich guys who actually are aligned with our values. | ||
| And you've also got to go to the middle-class conservatives all across the state of Ohio and all across the country who are willing to underwrite this stuff. | ||
| Because you're exactly right, Steve. | ||
| If we continue to be underwrote by Disney, by Google, if we continue to depend on these guys for all of our campaign contributions, Yeah, you're going to have a few strong patriots who stand up to him, but most people are going to fold when the time really comes. | ||
| So it's a whole movement that we have to build, Steve, a whole fundraising network that's already starting it. | ||
| I mean, Trump built a small dollar fundraising network, the likes of which has never been seen in American politics, certainly not on the Republican Party. | ||
| We just got to keep on building on that. | ||
| And if you see the way that the Trump family, Donald Trump Jr., has gone to war with the Club for Growth, which is backing Josh Mandel, you know, the Chinese Give us a minute or two. | ||
| growth that's backed exporting our manufacturing jobs to China, you need people who are willing to stand up to these oligarchs. So I'm thankful that we have, you know, a few brave patriots that are doing it, but we're gonna have to get more. | ||
| Give us a minute or two, I know you got a bounce, on why you would be, make the case why you're the best MAGA candidate to take on Tim Ryan, because we got, we have to hold this seat and we need it to be a MAGA seat. | ||
| So why are you the best? | ||
| When people sit there and weigh and measure, and people have said stuff in the past, other people have done stuff, but when they've got to come down and say, hey, look, I've got to make a decision here on holding this seat and driving this narrative forward and this program forward, why are you the best MAGA candidate to take on Ryan? | ||
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Maybe because Ohio voters can smell a phony. | |
| They can smell when somebody doesn't believe what they say, and we're not going to beat Tim Ryan with a guy who's reading the script, literally a script from the consultant talking points, instead of going and fighting for our values. | ||
| If you look at these clowns on the debate stage, if you look at the fact that they've avoided a lot of the debates, they've avoided town halls where voters are asking questions, you cannot win a race in the state of Ohio unless you can answer tough questions and defend our values, man. | ||
| One of the most important things a senator does, yeah, you've got to vote the right way on legislation. | ||
| One of the things a senator has to do is be able to stand up before an audience and say, this is why we believe what we believe. | ||
| This is why it's good for our people. | ||
| This is why I'm going to fight for these values. | ||
| I'm the only guy who can do that in this race. | ||
| That's why President Trump endorsed me, Steve, is because he saw these debates and he realized, look, J.D.' 's the only guy who can actually carry the MAGA message, carry the America First message to a broader population. | ||
| That is ultimately what we have to do. | ||
| We've got to be able to win these fights. | ||
| We can't just keep on getting beat with people who don't actually believe what they say they believe. | ||
| That's the problem with the Republican Party, man. | ||
| Think of all of these guys who say MAGA, MAGA, MAGA on TV, who say that they love Donald Trump, but when it came to trade, Steve, you saw this up close. | ||
| When it came to immigration, when it came to foreign policy, These guys were stabbing them in the back. | ||
| I'm the guy who says what I believe, who can defend the agenda, but behind the closed rooms, I'm going to be fighting for that agenda too, not stabbing our people in the back. | ||
| J.D., how did they find out more about you, your campaign, and the event today? | ||
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Yeah, so the event, DonaldJTrump.com, that's where they're taking tickets for the rally. | |
| You can go to JDVance.com to learn more about me, support the campaign. | ||
| Come to Town Hall Monday, Steve. | ||
| We're doing Toledo, Westchester, and Dayton, Ohio with Donald Trump Jr. | ||
| Doing three big rallies there on Monday. | ||
| Sign up for them. | ||
| Come out and see us and ask a question if you got one. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance, thank you very much. | ||
| Exciting times. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thanks, Steve. | |
| Do we have Ben Harnwell? | ||
| Kellyanne Conway? | ||
| There's a very disturbing situation out in Nebraska with Charles Herbster and Kellyanne, the campaign manager from 2016, is going to join us here in a minute to talk about that. | ||
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| Want to get a minute? | ||
| Ben, I'm going to bring you back, and we got Ben Berquam down in Panama. | ||
| We got Kellyanne Conway is going to talk to us about Nebraska. | ||
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| It talks about Western, European, they're still selling arms to the Russians. | ||
| Still selling arms to the Russians. | ||
| And, wait for it, certain companies are using rubles to make payments. | ||
| We said from day one, this is a Western, this Ukraine situation is a Western European problem. | ||
| They need to stand up, it's a European problem. | ||
| Okay, European problem, not an American problem. | ||
| Our vital national security interest is down on the southern border, and we're going to go to Panama, outside the Darien Gap, where Michael Yan is and Ben Burquam is, and you can see this concept of the controlled flow. | ||
| They're getting it all set, coming right up from Central and Latin America, through all over the world, 80 nations, just to have the invasion on our southern border. | ||
| And yet, The countries of Europe and the leaders are as phonies as three dollar bills. | ||
| The people are good and strong, but they're being misled. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| OK, we're we're working to track down Kellyanne. | ||
| She's going to be on here sometime this morning. | ||
| In the next hour, we're going to have Dr. Naomi Wolf, if we put the graphic up for the special, we're going to go through the Pfizer investigation in quite a bit of detail. | ||
| We're also going to have other names. | ||
| We've got news makers are going to come on and we're going to do some reporting from France. | ||
| Huge election tomorrow. | ||
| We're going to see if there's a hidden Le Pen vote, like there was a hidden Trump vote, and a hidden Brexit vote. | ||
| I think there's going to be some, don't know if it's going to be able to cross the trade, but we're going to see very intense campaigning there and a very important election for us. | ||
| The one thing I will tell you is that Macron, let me bring in Ben Harnwell as we track down Kellyanne. | ||
| Also, Burquam's getting set. | ||
| Down in Panama. | ||
| We've just got a lot going on today. | ||
| And you know, I was thinking about this. | ||
| The Saturday Morning Show has got a very special place in my heart. | ||
| When we started Breitbart Radio, I had done radio in the evenings, on Sunday evening. | ||
| I think Drudge had the spot and then Andrew had it for a while. | ||
| At KBC in Los Angeles. | ||
| I'm not sure George actually had that spot. | ||
| He had a Sunday evening show. | ||
| And then so when we first did Sirius, we did the Sunday evenings and that was our show. | ||
| And then the show got so big, they came back and said, hey, why don't you do Saturday mornings? | ||
| I go, I love Saturday mornings. | ||
| Saturday mornings are fantastic. | ||
| You know, I think about this the other day. | ||
| I think I've worked Just about every Saturday morning since I was six or seven years old, right? | ||
| You know, doing the grass and with your dad and helping out in the yard, then cutting grasses and doing all that. | ||
| Saturday morning is always very special. | ||
| It's a good work day. | ||
| In fact, when I got to Harvard Business School, I think it was only a couple years after they stopped The Saturday classes. | ||
| They used to have, the colleges used to go on Saturday mornings. | ||
| And of course that was always a challenge given Friday night. | ||
| But the Saturday shows always had a very special place in my heart. | ||
| One of the reasons we do it, we try to catch up on everything we haven't been able to get to through the week, and particularly the important stuff. | ||
| Talk about what's going on on the weekend. | ||
| And it's always been, and we've, you know, historically we've always been able to do these kind of specials, where most of our great work on the CCP and the specials have always been on Saturday, and then we could break the segments up and push them out. | ||
| Through the week. | ||
| The weekend specials get massive downloads as people just want to see us take on a topic. | ||
| And so we're going to try to do that so we can kind of focus on topics as we cut in and out for news. | ||
| Ben Harnwell in Rome. | ||
| And Ben, I don't know. | ||
| Do we have clips from my do we have clips from my takedown of Ben? | ||
| Did we get the clips from the Italian TV? | ||
| Do we have those? | ||
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| OK, fine. | ||
| I want to go to these two articles. | ||
| I want to go to these two articles on The Daily Telegraph and The Times. | ||
| And we'll try to show these clips later or we'll show them on Monday. | ||
| And unlike most of the time when I do these interviews where it's just attack, attack, attack, these folks were not attacking. | ||
| But I did get a little frustrated and I had to just kind of throw down hard and maybe a little too hard. | ||
| Uh, you know, given the circumstance, but I had to throw it on her because I'm just tired of the nonsense. | ||
| This thing in Ukraine is a great tragedy and a great waste. | ||
| And if you've seen the new footage coming out of Maripol, um, the, the, the level headed people have got to stop misleading people. | ||
| And I was exposing this hypocrisy and talking about the hypocrisy and particularly of the Italian government and the EU and the, because the Italian government is really run by technocrats, EU technocrats. | ||
| And the lies and misrepresentations come out of the German government and come out of the Italian government are pretty monumental. | ||
| And so now there's a couple articles, one in the Times of London, the other in the Daily Telegraph, and they talk about what I consider the hypocrisy of not having a real conversation about what's going on. | ||
| And this is about who's underwriting the Russian establishment, the Russian military establishment, the Russian state power that's clearly down in this conflict on the border Morning, Steve. | ||
| Ukraine and particularly in Donbass and Maripol as they try to build a land and get a land bridge down to Crimea and maybe even over to Odessa later on. So talk to us briefly about these articles Ben. What do they tell us? I want to make sure they're up in all the platforms so people can, I may have to cut and paste them so people can get past the paywalls, but walk us through what these two articles tell us. Morning Steve. Well firstly I want to pay tribute to some of | ||
| the the monologues that you've done on the war room because they're I think some of the best contributions out there in the public domain just drilling down on how we have been bankrolling Putin's war machine for our dependence on Russian energy. | ||
| And I also think, along with that, is that you've been pretty singular in indicating how the outrage and the sanctions have been totally performative. | ||
| That is to say that they're done to be seen without having the necessary substance behind them. | ||
| The news from my reporting today really surprises even me to the degree of just brazen hypocrisy that some of our world leaders are capable of. | ||
| Before I just start on this, I just want to pay tribute to Investigate Europe, which is a team of journalists working right across the EU whose research I'm going to be leaning on for this. | ||
| So since 2014, in the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia, the EU imposed one sort of sanction specifically to do with armaments on Russia. | ||
| And it has emerged EU countries since 2014 have been exporting an estimated 346 million euros worth of weapons To Russia. | ||
| Now, I know that just sounds like a figure and figures are difficult to conceptualize, but the bombs and the rockets and the torpedoes and explosive devices that we've been seeing on our television screens every day for the last two months have been sold to Russia, primarily by France, Germany and Italy. | ||
| And the astonishing thing about the performative nature of our European leaders It's that the very country that, via economic warfare, we've been trying to take down, to destroy their economy, Russia, that very country, is using the armaments that we ourselves have sold. | ||
| And that, I think, is absolutely astonishing. | ||
| But it doesn't end there. | ||
| It gets worse, if worse were actually possible. | ||
| One of the reasons that we said on the war room that these sanctions are so performative Is because, as you pointed out, Europe, Germany especially, 57% of its domestic gas production, desperately, desperately reliant on Russian energy exports, Russian natural gas. | ||
| And Russia responded a month ago, it said, fair enough, for these enemy countries that are arming Ukraine, if you want to continue to buy our gas, you need to pay in rubles rather than dollars. | ||
| And this sort of ties into part of the Russia-China strategy that you and Steve Cortes have been illustrating, which I don't get into now. | ||
| This also ties into the fact that we went to economic war, you know, under hybrid war. | ||
| Or unrestricted warfare, as it's called now. | ||
| Remember, the kinetic part you're seeing in Mariposa is just one small part of it. | ||
| You have a information war, which the Linskys, you guys are masters at, right? | ||
| You have a cyber war, which Russia's the leading, one of the leading, if not the leading power in the world in that. | ||
| And then you have economic warfare, which we're a big believer in. | ||
| And we advocated a strong, strong, aggressive economic warfare against the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| It's been an economic war with us for decades. | ||
| Uh, and in the economic war, the offensive economic war, which no Republican made forced Biden or his secretary treasurer, anybody come to Congress under the War Powers Act and make the argument why we were an offensive economic war as we try to take down their central bank. | ||
| Here's the thing we did. | ||
| And I'll make sure we get guys on this week so we can explain it a little more thoroughly, but essentially what we did is we swept, they had almost a trillion dollars, I think it was 800, 900 billion dollars of reserves in various banks where people keep these reserves so they can be used to sort out trade, etc. | ||
| Reserves. | ||
| Two-thirds of those reserves were in dollars and in euros. | ||
| And essentially we just went to war and kind of swept those with the Bank of England and other people. | ||
| We just kind of took their money. | ||
| You're doing this. | ||
| We're going to counter this. | ||
| And this is what we're doing. | ||
| So we're taking away your reserves. | ||
| Number two, we're going to go after your central bank through this method and others to destroy the central central central bank of Russia. | ||
| That'd be like somebody coming in trying to destroy the Federal Reserve or trying to destroy the Bank of China or trying to destroy the Bank of Japan or the Bank of England. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Or the European Central Bank, the big central banks of these of these entities. | ||
| And and we went after the ruble to destroy the ruble. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because of regime change. | ||
| We thought by bringing the economy down quickly, not just sanctioning the oligarchs, but literally going up to the heart of the Russian economy. | ||
| And that means the currency. | ||
| Because currency is everything. | ||
| It's the reason that I've done this with Birchgold. | ||
| You go to birchgold.com slash ban and you can sign up and get my End of the Dollar Empire because we've weaponized, the Federal Reserve's been a disaster. | ||
| We've also now weaponized the dollar to take down the Russian economy and cause regime change so that Putin and these guys were all thrown out. | ||
| Well, what they did is they came back and they said, hey, how about this? | ||
| Suck on this. | ||
| You guys need our natural gas, and the Germans aren't going to stop buying it, and the Italians are not going to stop buying it. | ||
| They may go performative and go into their parliaments. | ||
| As I asked Ben the other night, I said, hey, when I was lighting these guys up on this panel, has anybody actually said this on Italian TV? | ||
| He says, no, nobody said that on Italian TV. | ||
| Where I said, hey, if you want to really help the people in Ukraine, and you want to stand up to commitments that the people in Ukraine believe that they got from the EU and believe that they had from NATO when they got into this mess, The first thing you've got to do is stop underwriting. | ||
| The way you do that is, hey, your life's going to change. | ||
| Because it's going to cost more money, because of what the Greens have done, or allowed to do, and you guys went along with Greta and all those people, and shut down nuclear power, and made it much more costly to get energy. | ||
| That if you cut off the cheap Russian natural gas, if you cut off the cheap Russian natural gas, it's going to be much higher cost of living in your nation. | ||
| Have you told your people that? | ||
| No, and the hypocrisy. | ||
| And so now we find out that there are certain entities that are paying in rubles. | ||
| This is what the hapless Biden administration has put us in real jeopardy, and here's why. | ||
| When you go after a king, you've got to go after and give a head wound. | ||
| You can't give a flesh wound. | ||
| You've got to give a head wound. | ||
| When you use the dollar, you have to use the dollar. | ||
| If you're going to weaponize the dollar, You need to destroy your target. | ||
| You can't give a glancing blow to your target. | ||
| Because all of a sudden, everybody's sitting there going, well hang on! | ||
| Are they going to sweep our reserves? | ||
| Are they going to come and try to destroy our currency? | ||
| Are they going to try to get our people to overthrow us? | ||
| And so all of a sudden they want to do baskets, and you see the Saudis and the Chinese are doing this. | ||
| Baskets of currency of the RMB and other currencies, maybe the digital yuan, to pay for the output deal they got with the Saudis. | ||
| Our allies, Modi, and our allies in India, and remember it's called the Indo-Pacific Strategy now, if you look around how the containment is, the Indo-Pacific Strategy, You've got that, and now India, because they've got to buy Russian natural gas, they don't have any energy resources, none, with what, a billion, over a billion people, no energy resources, and quite frankly, a food problem. | ||
| Sri Lanka, right off the coast, is having food riots and now fertilizer going through the roof because of this whole mess. | ||
| And the Chinese Communist Party, which is sitting there telling everybody, hey, You know, you can't trust the Americans, you can't trust the American dollar. | ||
| That's the snake's head that we should have gone for in the first place. | ||
| And on top of all this, you got the hypocrisy of the EU and the hypocrisy of the NATO quote-unquote allies. | ||
| I told the Italians, I told these guys sitting on this kind of populist left-wing channel, these commentators, one of them was a communist. | ||
| I said, hey, if you want to talk about Russia, first off, start paying your 2% to defend yourself. | ||
| And I said 44% of your country in a latest poll won't even defend Italy. | ||
| 44% of the people won't even defend their own country. | ||
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| We're slotting to a global catastrophe. | ||
| Not slotting, hurtling towards a global catastrophe. | ||
| And part of it is the different disinformation that Obama talks about. | ||
| The hypocrisy of these slick characters like Obama. | ||
| Slick salesmen. | ||
| You call him, you call Clinton a slick willy? | ||
| Hey, Obama's slicker by 10x. | ||
| Okay, short break. | ||
| We're going to be going to Panama next. | ||
| Ben Burquham. | ||
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| President Trump's going to be in Ohio. | ||
| We had J.D. | ||
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| They're going to be at the rally. | ||
| Mastriano, others, all over the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania today. | ||
| Doug Mastriano, big event at the Eisenhower Center near Gettysburg. | ||
| He was on. | ||
| The convention right now is in Michigan. | ||
| Rudy's there. | ||
| And, of course, you got Matt DiPerno and Christina Karama up for AG and for Secretary of State. | ||
| A lot going on out there. | ||
| Rachel Hamm's out in California later today. | ||
| Big convention there, a Republican convention, so a lot going on. | ||
| We're gonna be in getter all day long putting it up. | ||
| Very disturbing news out of Nebraska. | ||
| You know, we had Charles Herbster on this week. | ||
| These allegations have been made. | ||
| I want to bring in Kellyanne Conway, the campaign manager of the 2016 Trump victory. | ||
| A very close advisor to President Trump. | ||
| Kellyanne, it's very disturbing You know, I was able to get this filing, a court filing, and I'll be honest, and you know, it's pretty hard to shock Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon, but man, I am shocked. | ||
| This filing that Charles Herbster made about the allegations and the people making the allegations about him. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, and I'm just going to toss it to you because I don't know all the details of what I read, but it looks like all these people somehow that are making these allegations and their family members work for Governor Pete Ricketts or the Republican Party out there, Kellyanne Conway. | ||
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Hey Steve, thanks for having me. | |
| Congratulations on your continued success. | ||
| So let's just review the facts as we know them. | ||
| Fact, Pete Ricketts is in his last term as governor of Nebraska. | ||
| He does not want Charles Herbster to succeed him. | ||
| He wants a guy named Jim Pillen to succeed him. | ||
| Pillen's a terrible candidate, probably dragged into the race by Ricketts. | ||
| Pete Ricketts is a Republican governor in a ruby red state of Nebraska that President Trump carried by double digits. | ||
| So he's got his own guy in the race. | ||
| It's a free country. | ||
| That's fine, Steve. | ||
| Except six months ago, over six months ago, Donald Trump endorsed Charles Herbster to be the next governor. | ||
| So Pete Ricketts has said publicly that he and his father have put at least $600,000 into a dark money group to run these ads against Herbster. | ||
| He has said the president has made a mistake. | ||
| And that Charles Herbster is not qualified to be governor of Nebraska. | ||
| It's always seemed like a one-way personal political vendetta because Charles doesn't respond in kind. | ||
| So Ricketts has tried everything he could. | ||
| He's got a different guy in the race, got all of his fundraisers, all of his folks from Axiom Strategies. | ||
| The state party is beholden to him. | ||
| This woman, Jessica Flanagan, people say really runs the state, even though the lieutenant governor has endorsed Herbster. | ||
| They've tried everything. | ||
| Oh, Charles didn't pay his taxes. | ||
| He did. | ||
| Oh, Charles doesn't really live in Nebraska. | ||
| He's a fifth generation farmer and rancher. | ||
| He employs people in six different states. | ||
| He's a very successful person. | ||
| Success doesn't know any boundaries, but he certainly is an active businessman in Nebraska. | ||
| Nothing was working. | ||
| Charles has been the front runner all along, including the polling we've done last night and the night before. | ||
| We're tracking this sucker all the way to the end, Steve. | ||
| And so they laid this down. | ||
| You've got six, you've got women coming forward. | ||
| We only know one's name. | ||
| Her name is Julie Salama. | ||
| She's a state senator who curiously, Governor Ricketts mentioned to me 10 months ago, got in my face at an RNC event at Laguna Miguel, where I very politely, and I've protected him all along, but I'm not going to do anymore. | ||
| I'm done trying to be Nebraska nice if the Nebraska governor is not going to be nice. | ||
| And he got in my face. | ||
| His brother was there. | ||
| Brian Baker was there. | ||
| It was a very uncomfortable moment. | ||
| I went up just to say, ìGovernor, it seems like weíre going to be on different sides of the race for your successor.î He got in my face, ìWeíre going to destroy Charles Herbster and everyone around him.î I said, ìWhoa, I thought maybe it was ideological. | ||
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It sounds very personal.î He mentioned this Julie Slama woman that he had appointed to the legislature as a state senator when he as the governor had the right to do so. | |
| Charles ended up giving her $10,000 in a political contribution. | ||
| He had also given money to her opponent, $5,000. | ||
| She won. | ||
| Charles gave her $10,000. | ||
| Her allegation is that she was sexually assaulted by Charles Herbster in full view of one of these big Republican dinners. | ||
| The date that she says, ìSteve, in 2019î, in Charlesís complaint against her for defamation of character, heís suing her for slander of defamation of character. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| legal document everybody this is not Twitter this is real and he says in there that she contacted him many times after the alleged incident came to his condo thankfully other people were there too including Governor Hyndman and others to solicit that $10,000 contribution which then she took. | ||
| Senator Slama and her husband invited Charles Herbster to their destination wedding in the Dominican Republic. | ||
| Now, you know the definition of destination weddings is you invite those closest to you, closest family and friends. | ||
| It's not one of those big cattle calls, if you will, of weddings. | ||
| And he could not go, so she went. | ||
| In the complaint, everybody can see it's a public document, Senator Slama texts Charles Herbster, unprompted, and says, here is my home address if you want to send a gift. | ||
| And Charles responds, I'm sorry, who is this? | ||
| I recognize her number. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| I'm a survivor of something much worse than what's been described. | ||
| And I stand with survivors. | ||
| But this is all relevant information, Steve, because it's either causation or coincidence. | ||
| We've polled the six ways to Sunday, my friend. | ||
| People in Nebraska, Republican primary voters, who are very loyal to Donald Trump, they do not want the sitting governor so involved in choosing his successor. | ||
| That's up to the people of Nebraska. | ||
| And it just seems as the person, Steve, you'll remember, as the person who escorted Joe Ricketts, Todd Ricketts and Brian Baker, excuse me, Mr. and Mrs. | ||
| Donald and Melania Trump to their private residence in Trump Tower to make the peace after the Ricketts had spent close to $8 million in Never Trump money. | ||
| They made the peace. | ||
| They were supportive. | ||
| Todd Ricketts went on to be the finance, national finance chair of the RNC. | ||
| But this is just seems like a major obsession. | ||
| I don't want anybody, I don't want to hear from anybody that I'm making this woman relive. | ||
| She's all over social media talking about it. | ||
| She said she's not doing it for publicity. | ||
| She doesn't want to talk about it. | ||
| And then she talked about it to the media. | ||
| It seems like causation. | ||
| The last thing that is very important is that they were shopping this around for a very long time. | ||
| We know that is fact. | ||
| Mark Meadows told Charles Herbster last year, ìBe careful, because I heard that theyíre going to try to come after you with some kind of sexual allegation.î People are saying, ìThis just surprised me when some website came up with it after reputable peopleís back.î It doesnít seem like a coincidence. | ||
| It seems like causation. | ||
| Steve, I think the reason is very simple. | ||
| I think that Nebraska, any state capital, certainly the national capital, Steve, nobody wants to lose power. | ||
| And the people there, they feast on power, they feast on knowing each other's strengths and each other's weaknesses. | ||
| Kellyanne, hang on one second, we've just got to take a short break, a 90 second break. | ||
| Kellyanne Conway, I know she's got to bounce, but I want to just hold her for a second. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| 90 seconds. | ||
| We'll be back on the other end. | ||
| Kellyanne Conway. | ||
| We've got Naomi Wolf. | ||
| We're going to go to the Darien Gap with Michael Yan and Ben Berkman. |
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