May 16, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
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| Live, baby. | ||
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| We kind of swap it every other day. | ||
| That's the Obama guys. | ||
| You know, breaking news, Fetterman just out, one of the folks in the engine room sent me, Fetterman's not going to be out until after Tuesday. | ||
| That'll be five days in the hospital. | ||
| With a stroke? | ||
| Fully vaxxed? | ||
| Hey, just saying. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| And he kept tweeting and put it up for 48 hours. | ||
| I don't know if the people in Pennsylvania, people in Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, you gotta take a gut check on that one. | ||
| But can you trust this guy? | ||
| Let me go to Rudy. | ||
| Talk about trusting people. | ||
| Letitia James is obsessed with taking down Donald Trump. | ||
| It's an obsession. | ||
| She's like Ahab and he's the White Whale. | ||
| Obsessed. | ||
| Should she be doing her job? | ||
| What should be her accountability for this situation in Buffalo, Rudy Giuliani? | ||
| Her accountability should be that she doesn't do a damn thing. | ||
| I mean, she ran on a one-issue campaign that should have actually gotten her disbarred, which is she wanted to put one man in prison. | ||
| I've never heard of a prosecutor either seeking office or running for office, you know, acting like Shavea. | ||
| And it is totally inconsistent with American justice, due process, She's been a due process violation from the day she's had the job. | ||
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And it's not just her. | |
| It's the governor that we have. | ||
| Our governor is like the governors they have in all these Democratic states. | ||
| I don't know if you can see this, but it says here, Governor, I'm beating crime. | ||
| That's our headline. | ||
| She thinks she's beating crime. | ||
| This is after what happened in Buffalo. | ||
| This woman is walking around, Hochul, thinking she'd beat crime. | ||
| Meanwhile, we set records and all the Rochester had more murders last year than ever before in its history under her. | ||
| She expanded the Cuomo bail law. | ||
| It's worse than it was before that. | ||
| And sure, she'll focus in on this Buffalo thing. | ||
| But meanwhile, we had people killed in New York last night. | ||
| We had people killed in Rochester last night. | ||
| We have people getting killed all over our state. | ||
| When I ran for mayor and Bernie was so We dealt with a much bigger crime problem, but it was located in New York. | ||
| This is all over the state, and she doesn't have any idea what to do about it. | ||
| Instead, she sends more people out on bail. | ||
| She makes a deal with the state legislature on bail, and the deal is worse than it is now. | ||
| And even Adams, the mayor in New York, is outraged about it, except Unfortunately, he doesn't have the political courage to go sock her right in the face. | ||
| He's a lightweight. | ||
| He's a lightweight. | ||
| They've got to fire the D. Andrew Giuliani. | ||
| Is there ever a time for Giuliani to be back in power in New York? | ||
| No, it is. | ||
| You've got to have some of that wartime consigliere, right? | ||
| Consigliere? | ||
| You've got to be a wartime. | ||
| Because New York is descending into chaos and anarchy. | ||
| You've got to be a straight guy. | ||
| I mean, Selden, who's the primary candidate, was against Trump before he was for Trump. | ||
| And now he's against Trump again. | ||
| He voted for Cuomo's record high budgets four times in a row. | ||
| A lot of other Republicans who are now in the House and the Senate voted against it. | ||
| So what kind of Republican does that tell you? | ||
| He voted for record high budgets. | ||
| We have a budget of 220 billion. | ||
| To Florida's 97 billion. | ||
| A lot of that is going into the hands of professional politician, Republican and Democrat. | ||
| If you voted for that budget, you're the last person who should be thought of as governor. | ||
| Plus, I don't know what he would do about crime. | ||
| He's on one side, he's on the other side, he's on another side. | ||
| Andrew, Andrew understands the crime issue cold. | ||
| He worked for four years for Donald Trump, which, as you know, is like working for 16 years in the White House. | ||
| It's like in dog years. | ||
| And he didn't get fired all four years. | ||
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He's a tough guy. | |
| That's what you need right now. | ||
| That's why I said I love Mastroianni. | ||
| Because of what Bernie said that you're not supposed to say on television. | ||
| He has a pair of... Tough guys. | ||
| Yeah, and that's what we need right now, not a bunch of... He has a set of stones, okay, like granite hard, brass. | ||
| Bernie, before I let you go, your expertise, this is very disturbing. | ||
| You've actually seen the entire tape as a professional, and your warning is that something's not right here, that this kid didn't... You don't think he learned this on a YouTube video? | ||
| He didn't learn this watching TikTok? | ||
| No. | ||
| You believe that this young man had to be trained? | ||
| Yeah, what 100% Steve and I'll give you some updates. | ||
| You know, I called Eddie Gallagher. | ||
| I sent the chief the you know, special Navy operator seal. | ||
| I sent him the video. | ||
| He called me he was getting on a plane. | ||
| He called me up and he said who trained this kid. | ||
| That was the first words out of his mouth. | ||
| He said this kid is extremely well trained and then he basically said everything I just told you. | ||
| He talked about the headshots, he talked about the changing of the mags. | ||
| You know, listen, anybody that watched the tapes that has done this in the past, you can see how well trained the kid is. | ||
| That being said, where did that happen? | ||
| How did nobody, given the kid's background, given the insight, the prior insight, that he's a nut, why didn't anybody report it? | ||
| Like, starting with the parents. | ||
| Look, authorities, don't get me wrong, they're directly the problem. | ||
| But hey, every one of these things is the same thing. | ||
| You've got these parents who are very disengaged. | ||
| Let it be somebody else's problem. | ||
| And people say, you can't say this. | ||
| Yeah, you can say it. | ||
| Hey, I know in the Bannon household, you're not doing anything. | ||
| They had a program, and you're with the program. | ||
| There's no option of being not on the program, okay? | ||
| You were with the program. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Okay, they were in charge, not you. | ||
| They were in charge. | ||
| These kids are all the same. | ||
| They're down in the basement with the video games. | ||
| They're doing all this stuff. | ||
| It's all crap. | ||
| Okay, it's all crap. | ||
| We're for the American family. | ||
| We're for getting the economics right so the American family can thrive. | ||
| But hey, with that comes, with great power comes great responsibility. | ||
| The responsibility is, you're the first, it's your kid. | ||
| Your kid, just like the situation out there with the other kid. | ||
| Bernie, how do people get to you on social media? | ||
| Because I know people are going to be following you and want to know your insights. | ||
| Bernard Kerrick, Twitter, Getter, all the social media platforms, same thing, Bernard Kerrick. | ||
| I appreciate changing the schedule to come on here today, brother. | ||
| Thanks, Bernie. | ||
| Mayor, your closing thoughts on this. | ||
| I mean, it's obviously just the beginning of it, but this shows you... One of the biggest stats you gave us, I forgot, was the budget in New York is $270 billion for a state that's bleeding population versus the free state of Florida, it's $90. | ||
| This is what Andrew Giuliani's got to take on. | ||
| Law and order in this out-of-control crap in New York that's crushing the deplorables in New York City under the boot of an authoritarian government that doesn't do what it's supposed to do. | ||
| Yeah, we spent the weekend this weekend figuring out how to cut that budget. | ||
| Andrew, among other things, is very charming. | ||
| He's a terrific speaker, tough guy, but he's very, very smart. | ||
| And he's very, very dedicated to getting at the issues and changing it. | ||
| The other guy, Zeldin, as I said, you know, was against Trump, for Trump, wouldn't mention Trump at the convention. | ||
| You just don't have it in a state like this when you're that kind of a politician. | ||
| It's all over the place. | ||
| Let me say one thing to Bernie, who was the police commissioner of mine who reduced crime more than anybody else. | ||
| I had three great police commissioners and Kelly was a great police commissioner. | ||
| This guy reduced crime more than anybody else and saved my life on September 11th. | ||
| So you don't have anybody better than Bernie Kerry. | ||
| I'd listen to him very carefully, but I'm going to say one thing. | ||
| I don't count on the parents to turn in their children. | ||
| Where the hell was the FBI? | ||
| Where was the state police? | ||
| Where were the local police? | ||
| You know where they were? | ||
| The FBI was off being a political law enforcement operation, and the others have no leadership because Hockel is a joke. | ||
| She's a joke. | ||
| People laugh at her. | ||
| And Cuomo was worse than a joke. | ||
| I mean, the last two elected Democratic governors in this state had to go out on scandal. | ||
| Our lieutenant governor has already gone out on scandals. | ||
| Are we stupid enough to vote for another Democrat in New York? | ||
| We may have a $400 billion budget and triple the number of crimes. | ||
| I mean, somehow, somewhere, we've got to get through how the Democrat Party has brainwashed the people of New York, like the people of Chicago. | ||
| 50 years of Democrats, 27 shot this weekend, and five dead. | ||
| It's a typical Chicago Democrat weekend. | ||
| You want to keep having it? | ||
| Keep voting for the Democrat Party. | ||
| You want to change it? | ||
| Kick them out of office and let them straighten themselves out and become the kind of party they were with Jack Kennedy. | ||
| This is why Hispanics and African Americans are going to vote for us in overwhelming numbers. | ||
| Bernie, by the way, a great lead-in because we got Steve Cortez in Chicago that's going to join us right after Rudy. | ||
| Rudy, how do people get to you on social media, on the radio show, and that show that you draft off of that Dr. Maria Ryan has on Sunday mornings? | ||
| That's the number one show, number one show on Sunday mornings on WABC that you're kind of the wingman for now. | ||
| I almost said nothing, Bernie. | ||
| So, here's what it is. | ||
| You go to RudyCommonsense.com. | ||
| RudyCommonsense.com. | ||
| You hit subscribe, you'll get me, you'll get Dr. Ryan, which is her Uncovering the Truth show on Sunday. | ||
| And then if you go to WABCRadio.com, you'll get my show at three o'clock this afternoon. | ||
| And I'm going to be following up on the subjects that we're all talking about today and hopefully have some more information about it. | ||
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OK, we'll follow you closely and follow you and get great job. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Great job, Steve and Bernie. | ||
| Well, I tell you what, great job for you with Doug Mastriano, the first guy. | ||
| As I remember, you were the first guy to endorse him. | ||
| The first guy. | ||
| I was the first to endorse him, and he was the first to give me a chance. | ||
| I don't forget. | ||
| I have something called loyalty. | ||
| He was the first to give me a chance, and then all the other followers jumped on board. | ||
| Well, that was the quality of the conference, too. | ||
| 25 May. | ||
| Look, we're going to get to all of it. | ||
| Listen, we're going to decertify those electors. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| Rudy, thank you very much. | ||
| Do I have Brother Cortez up? | ||
| Is Steve Cortez with us? | ||
| Steve Cortez, you join us from today from murder capital of America. | ||
| Is it Chicago? | ||
| Out of control? | ||
| Well, unfortunately, and America's Mayor Rudy Gianni was exactly correct. | ||
| There has been just mayhem, even by the terrible standards of Chicago. | ||
| There's been incredible violence and mayhem here. | ||
| It's made a lot of national news. | ||
| There have literally been riots and looting, along with a lot of killings. | ||
| The statistics for the week, for the last week, a total of 93 people shot, including a six-year-old and an 11-year-old, 16 of them killed. | ||
| And this is also important, Steve. | ||
| It used to be, Chicago's been a violent city for a long time, but it used to be that that violence was somewhat contained to the so-called bad neighborhoods. | ||
| It has spread everywhere now. | ||
| It is citywide. | ||
| Most of these riots and looting, as a matter of fact, are happening in what were considered the best neighborhoods. | ||
| They're happening on Michigan Avenue, which for people who don't know Chicago, that is the equivalent of New York's Fifth Avenue. | ||
| That's where the high-end luxury shopping and apartments are. | ||
| It's happening just off of North Street Beach in Lincoln Park, the most exclusive residential neighborhood In Chicago, so it is a city in chaos and my warning to America is that you can't dismiss what has happened in Chicago. | ||
| Don't think, oh, that's just the systemic failure of Lori Lightfoot. | ||
| And a Soros-backed prosecutor. | ||
| It is that, to be sure. | ||
| But my point is that what is happening in Chicago, which is the literal and metaphorical heart of America, is crucial for all of America. | ||
| And it is representative of what the future portends for this country writ large if we allow Biden and the Democrats and complicit Republicans to enact the policies that they want to enact. | ||
| Because they want Chicago on a national scale. | ||
| By the way, we're going to come back in a second with Cortez. | ||
| We're going to get into some economic financial information. | ||
| But remember, it was Cortez that warned you from day one. | ||
| When this inflation starts kicking in and the recession starts and the layoffs start, this is going to be a long, hot, nasty summer. | ||
| OK? | ||
| We're not Switzerland. | ||
| We're just not. | ||
| And you're going to see, this is why it's got to be, these policies got to be stopped now. | ||
| They are crushing the working class African-Americans. | ||
| They're crushing the working class Hispanics. | ||
| And things are going to get out of control because of their policies. | ||
| Not some theory replaced. | ||
| Their policies are destroying the working class and the working poor. | ||
| Steve Cortes joins us from Chicago next in the War Room. | ||
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We rejoice when there's no more, let's take down the CCP! | |
| It's a weekend of chaos and violence in Chicago. | ||
| Perhaps you've seen some of the disturbing images of looting, rioting, and a lot of killing. | ||
| Now let's get to some of the numbers behind those images in the Chalk Talk brought to you by Getter. | ||
| Just this week alone in Chicago, 16 people killed, most of them young black men. | ||
| 93 people shot, including an 11-year-old and a 6-year-old. | ||
| Now, let's look at some of the stats. | ||
| As crime is exploding in Chicago, arrests are going down. | ||
| For example, let's compare robberies. | ||
| So far this year, 145 people have been arrested for robbery in Chicago versus this time in 2019, pre-pandemic, 250. | ||
| So what explains this massive decline in arrests as crime explodes upward? | ||
| Well, one of the key reasons, perhaps the main reason, lack of policemen. | ||
| The left makes it miserable to be a cop in places like Chicago. | ||
| Not surprisingly, they're quitting or retiring early. | ||
| In 2019, had about 13,500 cops in Chicago, almost 2,000 fewer right now, even as the violence explodes in the city. | ||
| Now, folks, if you don't care about Chicago, realize this, Joe Biden and the Democrats want to bring this reality to all of America. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Welcome back. | ||
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| So no matter, it's just getting four or five hours. | ||
| Boom. | ||
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| Also, then you get up. | ||
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| We're coffee aficionados here in Service Cortez. | ||
| Steve, your beloved Chicago, man, it is, it is, it is horrible. | ||
| But I want to draw the camera back of what you've warned about and tie it directly to the economic numbers you're seeing. | ||
| And particularly the biggest story in the world, ladies and gentlemen, is the absolute collapse. | ||
| Of China. | ||
| China is in a collapse, okay? | ||
| And when China collapses, that's going to be a situation we're going to be dealing with for a couple of decades. | ||
| And right now, the numbers coming out of there last night, Steve, were horrendous. | ||
| And how does that relate to the long hot summer? | ||
| You've got Milwaukee, you've got L.A., you've got Chicago. | ||
| The big urban centers are literally spinning out of control with woke mayors, defund the police, cops afraid to do their job. | ||
| In anarchy and chaos, and it's being visited upon the people that are most vulnerable, the working poor, the working class Hispanics and blacks, who are just trying to get their kids educated, right? | ||
| Trying to get their kids educated, trying to do their... Remember, I said the other day, when a complex system collapses, And you're seeing a complex system collapse. | ||
| They're sitting up there yammering on about the rules-based order, the international rules-based order. | ||
| We've got to put $40 billion into Ukraine. | ||
| The thing is collapsing. | ||
| It's collapsing because all they did was grift off it and allow China to rise so quickly under a totalitarian dictatorship. | ||
| The complex system is collapsing, whether it's an invasion of the southern border, no formula for the babies, no diesel gasoline in the eastern part of the United States. | ||
| And Dave Walsh said, hey, the first thing we got to do is stop our exports. | ||
| That's kind of beggar thy neighbor. | ||
| He said the first people hit are going to be the Caribbean and Latin America. | ||
| But we have to do it because our capacity is down over 50 percent. | ||
| India stops their wheat exports. | ||
| Now, they weren't a big exporter until You got Russia and Ukraine, no weed coming out of there. | ||
| So they were supposed to feed the Middle East. | ||
| Now you have China. | ||
| These numbers in China, and remember, they're lying about every number. | ||
| Every number. | ||
| Why am I sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
| Because I've been calling them out for years about their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| Now you see a collapse. | ||
| What is underpinning this right now, ladies and gentlemen, is a collapse of a complex system. | ||
| This is what happened in Rome. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| This is how it happens. | ||
| A complex system that's been around starts to collapse. | ||
| And what Steve Cortez has warned about, when that system collapses, it's not going to be Rebecca at Sunnybrook Farm. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Stuff is going to happen. | ||
| Because people are going to want it. | ||
| They're going to want it. | ||
| How do I get food? | ||
| How do I have... | ||
| In Italy, we'll get Harnwell back up, the guy Draghi came here to the Oval Office and went back to Italy and said, he actually says, it's a decision now for us to support the money we need to put in Ukraine because we're not putting any, but we've got to put more because the United States is putting $40 billion. | ||
| You're going to have a choice between peace and air conditioning. | ||
| Okay, and he hasn't described why is he talking about peace? | ||
| Because I think his argument is nonsense. | ||
| But he told him, hey, in Rome, they're not going to go without their air conditioning in July and August. | ||
| Write that down. | ||
| Okay, not going to happen. | ||
| They're not going to support a government that does that. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| So your point about China, by the way, is so valid here, because the numbers that we got out overnight were horrific. | ||
| And those are the numbers that they were willing to admit to, Steve, to your point, because, of course, we know that the CCP Always obfuscates, but even the CCP had to admit that because of its ill-advised and totally unscientific lockdowns, that year-over-year growth has gone negative again there on both the consumer side as well as the industrial side. | ||
| I put these charts up actually on my social media. | ||
| For the first time since the spring of 2020 lockdowns. | ||
| Now, we have no control over that, but here's the issue, Steve. | ||
| What we have had control over for decades in this country is completely offshoring the critical production capacity of the United States all over the world, but particularly to China, making us unbelievably vulnerable at a moment like this to that supply chain disruption, which has not really worked its way through the system yet, right? | ||
| They only started locking down a few weeks ago. | ||
| We haven't seen the most acute consequences yet of what is happening right now in China. | ||
| And listen, the United States economy itself is completely teetering and wobbling right now. | ||
| We are in no position of strength to handle a massive slowdown, a massive loss of momentum from the second biggest economy in the world. | ||
| Again, because we're far too Intertwined with them. | ||
| So unfortunately, Steve, the inflation scenario in this country, which is terrible, in all likelihood is going to get worse and perhaps dramatically worse, in part because of what's going on in China, and also in large part because we insist on engaging and escalating an economic war with the nuclear power of Russia, who is engaged in a regional battle that has no significant U.S. | ||
| national security interest at stake. | ||
| And to talk about this point, let's talk some actual I brought some charts along which I think are illustrative of this. | ||
| You mentioned wheat and what's going on with India banning wheat exports. | ||
| Wheat right now as we sit here presently on the day, just for today Steve, is up 6%. | ||
| It's over $12 per bushel. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Now, to put that in historical context, as I show on that chart there, and these are wheat futures, which are actually traded in Chicago at the Chicago Board of Trade. | ||
| Where was it on election day when Joe Biden illegitimately prevailed? | ||
| It was below $6 a bushel. | ||
| Now, this is critical too. | ||
| Before we get to the present parabolic move, that 8.45 that I put on the chart there, $8.45 a bushel, that's last Thanksgiving. | ||
| That was last November. | ||
| My point there is it was already massively trending higher. | ||
| It was rocketing higher well before anything got going in Ukraine. | ||
| It was already up almost 50%. | ||
| So we had an existing Biden inflation surge, which was making wheat incredibly expensive. | ||
| But his insistence that we escalate the war in Ukraine and that we involve America directly in an unprecedented economic war with Russia, that has taken what was a bad situation and turned it into a catastrophic one globally. | ||
| And Steve, as we've talked about on this show, it's not just the supply of wheat itself from those two countries, from Ukraine and Russia, which is critical, but even more important for the rest of the world that grows wheat, it's the fertilizer issue. | ||
| That Russia is the dominant player in global fertilizer, waging economic war with them Has consequences the world over, some of which are really hard for us to to predict, quite frankly. | ||
| But Steve, I think it's it's a it's an understatement to say that it is going to be chaotic. | ||
| Remember that the Arab Spring started because wheat prices exploded. | ||
| The chaos around the world, in the United States, it's going to be, I believe, societal instability and a lot of economic pain. | ||
| In many other countries in the world, in developing and poor countries, it's going to be famine because of these consequences. | ||
| These are the kinds of policy choices that we are making. | ||
| These are the kinds of crises that we are creating. | ||
| That's important. | ||
| This didn't happen. | ||
| This isn't bad luck. | ||
| This isn't just, you know, the way the ball bounces in the world. | ||
| No, these are created crises. | ||
| First of all, because of our spending, absolutely exorbitant borrowing and spending here at home, which made the price of all tangible goods rise massively, whether it was a house or crude oil or a bushel of wheat. | ||
| And then the insistence of the Davos crowd, the insistence of the Washington foreign policy establishment to massively escalate what should be a regional struggle that really shouldn't matter much to the rest of the world economically. | ||
| Unfortunately, we've made it matter. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| I want to bring in Frank Gaffney. | ||
| We've got a couple of minutes. | ||
| Frank Gaffney joins us. | ||
| Frank, tell us about the webinar today. | ||
| We've got about two minutes. | ||
| Walk through who's going to be there, how they get there. | ||
| This is vitally important. | ||
| 4.30 this afternoon. | ||
| Frank Gaffney's got a show at 11 o'clock on Real America's Voice. | ||
| Frank, where do people go? | ||
| How do they get there? | ||
| What are they going to see today? | ||
| This is a webinar about the threat to our sovereignty that is represented by the Biden administration's efforts to put in charge of public health emergencies of international concern, the director of the World Health Organization. | ||
| It'll be sponsored by our Stop Vaccine Passports Task Force. | ||
| That's a joint effort of our committee on the present danger, China, Steve and Reggie Littlejohn's Women's Rights Without Frontiers. | ||
| It'll run from about 4.30 this afternoon, Eastern Time, till probably 5.45 or 6. | ||
| And we've got an extraordinary panel of specialists and other authorities on the matter, including our friend, former Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra, Dr. Peter Bregan, who has written about the COVID-19 pandemic and the global predators. We are the prey. And unfortunately, this is in part thanks to | ||
| the World Health Organization being essentially a wholly owned subsidiary now of the Chinese Communist Party under its Director General, Dr. Tedros. We got about 30 seconds, Frank, I'll pitch back to you. | ||
| Also, people that come today, not just learn about it, the intellectual side of it, you're going to have an action plan of how people can get involved and engaged to stop this, correct? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| We've got a terrific Align Act campaign that will give them direct access with a click of a mouse to their elected representatives to say we do not want our sovereignty surrendered. | ||
| Everybody in this audience today, you've got to go check this out. | ||
| And we're going to make, we're going to promote it. | ||
| Harnwell's going to be on Getter Live beforehand. | ||
| Captain Bannon, we're going to be promoting it. | ||
| This is very important. | ||
| Put together with an all-star team very quickly. | ||
| Stopvaxpassports.org. | ||
| Stopvaxpassports.org. | ||
| We'll have it up. | ||
| Frank, real quickly, your Getter handle? | ||
| Frank Afni. | ||
| It's got constant stuff. | ||
| Okay, 4.30 today. | ||
| Frank, thank you so much. | ||
| Honored. | ||
| It's clear that many countries, from China to Russia to even friendly nations like India and Brazil, are working hard on ways to reduce their vulnerability to Washington's whims. | ||
| None of these efforts have so far gained much traction, though it's worth noting that the share of global foreign reserves held in dollars has declined from 71% to 59% over the last two decades. | ||
| Now, partly this is because the United States appears less stable and predictable in the use of its extraordinary privilege. | ||
| In the two decades preceding Russia's recent invasion, Washington massively ramped up sanctions for all kinds of reasons, by more than 900%. | ||
| Many of these measures have been overreactions and should be rolled back. | ||
| After 9-11, Washington put in place highly intrusive measures aimed at tracking money going to terrorists. | ||
| It has imposed harsh punishments on banks that do not adhere to all U.S. | ||
| sanctions. | ||
| It has sanctioned Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, and others, often simply to satisfy domestic critics who wanted to do something but not pay much of a price. | ||
| This kind of economic warfare has failed to change the regimes in any of these countries, but has caused widespread misery for ordinary people. | ||
| Note that sanctions against Russia are aimed at policy change, not regime change, and therefore could be much more effective. | ||
| Sanctions jumped up sharply during the Trump administration, which unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and then threatened to impose sanctions on anyone who traded with Tehran, even though the Iranians had adhered to the deal, which took place under a U.N. | ||
| framework. | ||
| And then there are the measures pursued domestically by American regulators and judges, like the almost $9 billion penalty against the French bank BNP Paribas in 2014. | ||
| Again, all these only work because of the power of the dollar. | ||
| I support the sanctions against Russia, but President Biden needs to make a speech explaining them. | ||
| He needs to make clear that the Russian invasion of Ukraine marks the most serious assault on the rules-based international system in decades. | ||
| If it succeeds, it could tear apart that system. | ||
| That is why Washington has worked with its allies to impose these extraordinary measures. | ||
| He needs to detail the legal basis for America and its allies' actions. | ||
| For example, how exactly can governments seize privately owned property for which the owner, even if he is a Russian oligarch, has clear legal title? | ||
| How can people be sure that these powers will not be abused? | ||
| Biden needs to emphasize that the U.S. | ||
| will only take such measures in the future when there are blatant violations of international law on the scale of Russia's actions. | ||
| The dollar maintains its crucial role in the international system because the U.S. | ||
| is the world's largest economy. | ||
| It has the most liquid debt markets. | ||
| Its currency floats freely. | ||
| And crucially, it is regarded as a country based on the rule of law and not one prone to arbitrary and unilateral actions. | ||
| OK, welcome back. | ||
| This is why this is so important. | ||
| Like Rachel Maddow is the chief intellectual over at MSNBC. | ||
| And I realize a lot of times you can't you got to understand the opposition. | ||
| Fareed Zakhar is the kind of the he's the Party of Davos spokesman at CNN. | ||
| And that's why his show is always watched by the Kissingers and all those guys. | ||
| They're admitting. | ||
| To what we've been saying, he understands this thing's on shaky ground, that they're not going to start getting this stuff passed, that we've called him out. | ||
| Because we understand the vital national security of the United States, and it's not this. | ||
| He's worried about the dollar. | ||
| He actually said, Fareed Zakhar said, we've said here months ago, Biden has to come before the nation and make his case. | ||
| And this is what Conservative Inc., put the pom-poms down for Zelensky, please. | ||
| And let's, your beloved Constitution, pull it, read it, and say, hey, we're in hybrid war. | ||
| War today is just not tanks blowing, you know, it's not kinetic. | ||
| It's hybrid. | ||
| It's information warfare, it's cyber warfare, and most of all, it's economic warfare. | ||
| What are we talking about on the show? | ||
| Odd nauseam. | ||
| Steve Cortez, pretty stunning of Fareed Zakar, sir. | ||
| Sure sounds like he's been watching War Room, right? | ||
| But listen, even for Reid, and I certainly completely disagree with him, right, when he extols the virtues of the so-called rules-based international order, which has been nothing but a disaster for regular Americans. | ||
| But I will give him the credit for identifying correctly the risks that we are taking with the credibility of the United States dollar, which has been the reserve currency Of the world for a century. | ||
| And what does that mean to regular Americans? | ||
| Well, it means that it's kept inflation in check. | ||
| That for 40 years, for example, until Joe Biden from roughly 1980 to 2020, we didn't have inflation in a serious, consequential way in this country. | ||
| In large part because of the stability and strength of the United States dollar. | ||
| That has been squandered now, in a matter of months, by Joe Biden, who has declared full-on economic war against Russia. | ||
| Again, over a battle, a regional battle, in which the United States has no vital U.S. | ||
| national security interests. | ||
| And actually, I brought a chart along for this, if we can pull up chart three. | ||
| And I didn't forewarn them, but hopefully the control room can get this done. | ||
| But if we get chart three, I can show that not only are we playing with fire, looking at the United States dollar, but so far, losing. | ||
| Okay, so Steve, that is the dollar versus the ruble. | ||
| I flipped this one, okay? | ||
| Embarrassing. | ||
| This is embarrassing. | ||
| Remember, we weaponized the dollar to take down the Central Bank of Russia, and he says policy's bull, it was regime change, we want the people to be impoverished. | ||
| You got one shot on this. | ||
| That's gotta be the CCP. | ||
| This is why I'm sanctioned. | ||
| I was sitting there saying, you gotta take these guys down with economic warfare and the dollar's the way you do it. | ||
| You go up to Russia and you fail? | ||
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It's the worst of all worlds, Brother Cortez. | |
| We used an economic fiscal dirty bomb, okay? | ||
| And it didn't do anything. | ||
| It lasted a few weeks. | ||
| So if you look at that chart, when it goes down dramatically, okay, that is the ruble going down. | ||
| That's dollar ruble flipped in ruble terms. | ||
| That's the ruble going down. | ||
| So for a few weeks, yes, the United States, Joe Biden, Was able to cause enormous pain for Russia. | ||
| But look at how fast it has bounced back and then some. | ||
| The ruble is significantly stronger today versus the United States dollar than before Putin decided to invade. | ||
| So what does that mean? | ||
| It means that number one, his currency is strong. | ||
| Number two, the things he sells, principally fertilizer and energy, they are massively more expensive. | ||
| So he is collecting just mountains of money, most of it from Europe, but mountains of money in an increasingly strong domestic currency. | ||
| So, number one, to your point, we upped the stakes in a way we have never done in United States history, not even against the Nazis in World War II. | ||
| We literally did not try to debank the Germans and the DMARC in World War II. | ||
| That's how consequential this move was, this unprecedented move. | ||
| And Steve, it didn't work. | ||
| It backfired on the United States. | ||
| In a matter of weeks. | ||
| And the long-term consequences, the long-term fallout, is that we have practically forced the rest of the world, and not just bad guys like Putin, allies of ours like India, we have forced the rest of the world to say, guess what, folks? | ||
| We can't rely on dollar-denominated payment systems any longer. | ||
| We can't operate at the whim of Washington, D.C. | ||
| We can't have a duttering fool like Joe Biden simply wipe away our assets. | ||
| And so the rest of the world is quickly learning how to de-dollarize. And the consequences for this country, Steve, $30 trillion in debt. If we don't have the reserve currency and our interest rates start to really, really spike, Steve, don't, and I implore the audience out there, don't assume that we cannot become Venezuela, that that can't happen here. Venezuela was once an incredibly wealthy and advanced country and it's had a century of misery. And Argentina, Argentina, Venezuela. | ||
| Hey, and by the way, you think Chicago's heating up now? | ||
| You wait until you have to cut the federal budget by a trillion dollars, because you can't afford it. | ||
| This is what we're talking about. | ||
| We've got a luxury of being able to do it to bury ourselves, but at least you can do it. | ||
| You've got to cut by a trillion dollars? | ||
| Get back to me about what Chicago and Detroit look like, okay? | ||
| Get back to me. | ||
| This is what we're talking about, social cohesion. | ||
| This is why they're driving down. | ||
| The other thing, Farid Zakhar ends... Oh, by the way, go to birchgold.com slash Bannett. | ||
| Get my paper on this. | ||
| First of a seven-part series. | ||
| The decline, the end of the dollar, of the dollar empire. | ||
| King dollar, as Cortez calls it. | ||
| The end of the dollar empire. | ||
| This is what it talks... Dollar's stronger now because everybody's floating to it. | ||
| Doesn't mean we're not destroying it as a prime reserve currency because everybody's sitting there going, I gotta get another basket of currencies. | ||
| I can't do this because these guys can take me out day one. | ||
| Farid Zakhar, though, finishes with his... | ||
| Yeah, go ahead, sir. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| To that point, too, the dollar is doing okay versus most other currencies, not the ruble, but most other major currencies right now. | ||
| But it's not doing okay versus what is right now the preferred currency, which doesn't come from a country. | ||
| It's tangible goods. | ||
| It's commodities. | ||
| So, in other words, the dollar is being massively devalued versus crude oil, versus wheat, versus single-family homes, right? | ||
| By the way, these are all the things that most people principally care about. | ||
| These are the biggest costs in their lives. | ||
| That's why rent is up 18% year over year. | ||
| Gasoline up 43% year over year. | ||
| We show the chart of wheat, which has more than doubled since Joe Biden was illegitimately elected. | ||
| So these are the consequences. | ||
| The dollar is absolutely already being massively devalued. | ||
| Right now, it's against tangible assets because that's what capital the world over wants right now, and I think very smartly so. | ||
| Two things are totally free. | ||
| Go to birchgold.com slash Bannett. | ||
| Get my new The End of the Dollar Empire. | ||
| It's going to have the biggest impact in your life of anything except for maybe transhumanism, right? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You get it and it'll freak you out. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Talks about how money was such a political issue in the 19th century. | ||
| We're going to make it a political issue in this century. | ||
| It has to be. | ||
| Also, 202-224-3121. | ||
| Captain Bannett. | ||
| Get that everywhere. | ||
| 224-3121, Captain Bannon, get that everywhere, okay? | ||
| And all the platforms, all the chat rooms, all the forums. | ||
| That is the main switchboard for the United States Senate. | ||
| We need you on the phones today to tell Mitch McConnell and these gutless Republicans what you think of the $40 billion for five-month bailout of the Ukrainian oligarchs. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| We need you on the ramparts today blowing these guys up telephonically. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Get to 202. | ||
| 2-2-4-3-1-2-1. | ||
| Do it right now. | ||
| Get on there even while you're watching the show. | ||
| Fritz Cortez, he's tearing up about the rule of law and the rules based on everything like that. | ||
| It was our own Ben Harnwell that actually highlighted what even Fritz said earlier is a big problem with this. | ||
| I'm all for stripping the Russian oligarchs, and most importantly the Ukrainian oligarchs, of their cash before we put in a penny. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| One penny. | ||
| But he brings up an interesting point in our great brother in Rome, Ben Harnwell, who's so tied to English common law, said, hey guys, there's a way to go about this and a way not to go about it. | ||
| Ben Harnwell. | ||
| That's right, Steve. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, here's the principle that the unappreciated pillar of Western civilization, which all four of us are 100% on trying to defend here, Is that it's the rule of law. | ||
| It's that government exists to protect your natural rights. | ||
| It's your right, your innate right to property, to say what you have, what is yours is yours. | ||
| It's not simply lent to you by by by the permission of the state and the state. | ||
| You can give the state can take away. | ||
| And I think that that's what Farid was saying. | ||
| And probably the most pure essence, A spiritually American monologue I've ever heard on CNN. | ||
| And I was thinking when I listened to that, Steve, a conversation that we had when we were talking back in the day about our Academy for the Judeo-Christian West, that you said to me constantly, never forget that somebody, even if they're on the other side, even if they're ingrained a fighter for the other side, they can always see the light and they can always turn around and convert. I wonder, listening to that monologue, whether what we have seen there is a Damascene conversion from, as you say, the leading... | ||
| I think they're trying to cover themselves. | ||
| Real quickly, and we'll get off the road to Damascus here for a second. | ||
| We'll go to Germany. | ||
| You've got a minute. | ||
| Huge development in German politics, Jesse. | ||
| Across Europe, they're saying, hey, we don't want any more of this. | ||
| We're tired of this. | ||
| We don't have the money. | ||
| We don't want natural gas. | ||
| The German people are now voting and telling these guys, hey, stop. | ||
| We don't want any more of this nonsense. | ||
| De-escalate. | ||
| Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Yeah, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had a massive setback now in really the Social Democrats' backyard of North Rhine-Westphalia. | ||
| And their vote, now here's the interesting thing, their vote peeled off to the Christian Democrats, which is Angela Merkel's party, but also to the Greens. | ||
| The Greens tripled their vote. | ||
| They had an unprecedentedly high voting return. | ||
| And my takeaway is this, in 30 seconds, If you are elected as a... I'll tell you what, hold. | ||
| You don't have... Stop. | ||
| You don't have 30. | ||
| We only got 19. | ||
| But you're gonna hold over and we'll get you right after the break. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| In Chicago. | ||
| Ben Harnwell in Rome. | ||
| Would Cortez swap with that? | ||
| Inquiring minds wanna know. | ||
| Don't know about that. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Be back in a moment. | ||
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| Okay, welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| And by the way, we've got a huge show. | ||
| So, Hardwell's going to be up afterwards. | ||
| Captain Bannon's going to be up. | ||
| I'm going to be on getter. | ||
| You've got to go at 4.30. | ||
| We're going to get all the gaffney stuff. | ||
| You must go to the seminar today. | ||
| Of course, during the 5 o'clock hour, we're going to be dipping in and out of there, so you get some of the highlight reel. | ||
| But you ought to have it up on your other screen. | ||
| We're going to talk about how you get weaponized on this WHO thing. | ||
| By the way, my phone is blowing up. | ||
| From the engine room, people are telling me right now, Mitch McConnell's office will not pick up the phone. | ||
| That's okay, keep calling. | ||
| He can only hide so long. | ||
| We're going to make sure that these guys hear. | ||
| They don't want to hear. | ||
| They think everybody supports him on this. | ||
| Nobody supports him on this. | ||
| Babies are starving in America. | ||
| Babies don't have formula, yet you're sending $40 billion for the next five months. | ||
| I'm giving them $56 billion, the same as in Afghanistan. | ||
| The machine just wants to keep being fed. | ||
| with fiat currency that your children and grandchildren are going to pay for. | ||
| Well, actually, no, everybody under 40 years old is going to pay for it. | ||
| Big league. OK, I want to go to Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Ben, you've got Italy, you've got Germany, you've got Turkey. | ||
| Everything is going on. | ||
| They're all trying to deescalate while the American war machines trying to escalate. | ||
| Sir. That's right, Steve, that's absolutely right. | ||
| And one of the reasons for that is because the peoples of France, Italy and Germany do not want to have an escalating situation with Russia and hope that their governments will work to find a diplomatic solution. | ||
| Now, that's not true for every country in the world, but it's certainly true for these three principal countries. | ||
| I just want to finish the point I was making about Germany, because I think it has massive implications for what's going to happen in November in the United States. | ||
| Basically, Olaf Scholz came in as the center-left chancellor after 16 long years of Angela Merkel, who was the center-right Christian Democrats. | ||
| They had this big election yesterday in the most dominant, powerful region of the Social Democrats. | ||
| And what happened? | ||
| The Social Democrats' vote went down, and it went up for the Christian Democrats and for the Greens. | ||
| Now, this is a huge industrial base. | ||
| If it were a country, it would have the sixth largest economy in the whole of Europe. | ||
| There's a lot of manufacturing there. | ||
| And my takeaway is this. | ||
| If you are elected as a don't-rock-the-boat candidate that represents a change of government, don't rock the boat. | ||
| And what he has done is that he tried to resist. | ||
| but eventually succumbed to the globalist pressures and joined in with the EU, doing what his people did not want to do, which was to escalate the situation with Germany. | ||
| And he has suffered. | ||
| And that vote has gone to the pro-business party. | ||
| And as I was saying before, the Greens, who are the pacifist faction, are not happy with the heavy artillery being shipped out to Russia. | ||
| Yeah, but the Greens are also the ones that shut down all the energy. | ||
| They're up to their neck in the guilt of this thing, right? | ||
| Because they shut down the energy, all this. | ||
| This is why they're buying the natural gas and paying the Russian war machine. | ||
| Real quickly, how did it get to your getter live feed this afternoon? | ||
| Yeah, it's simply my surname, Steve, which is at Harnwell. | ||
| At Harnwell. | ||
| And I'll be there in about an hour's time. | ||
| Okay, you don't want to miss that, Ben. | ||
| Captain Ben is going to be up. | ||
| We've got this big event at 4.30 this afternoon. | ||
| We're going to get all the information. | ||
| Steve Cortes, closing thoughts on really a Monday morning I think we're going to remember because of the collapse of the Chinese economy, sir. | ||
| Yeah, I think unfortunately. | ||
| And to connect the dots there, Steve, between you talking about the situation with Europe thankfully trying to de-escalate while the U.S. | ||
| escalates and then the politics of it and Mitch McConnell not answering the phone. | ||
| Mitch McConnell, I found this headline actually kind of galling over the weekend. | ||
| This is from Mediaite. | ||
| Mitch McConnell, this is the headline. | ||
| Mitch McConnell hopes GOP won't politicize $40 billion Ukraine aid package. | ||
| Won't politicize it. | ||
| This from a man, Addison Mitchell McConnell III, who was elected to the United States Senate in 1984. | ||
| He doesn't want us, the deplorables, to politicize this. | ||
| Well, way too late for that, because you are the most political dinosaur in America, and we are going to insist on a foreign policy of realism and restraint, and we're going to insist that our elected leaders, especially the ones who claim to be conservatives, are going to prioritize the various crises that exist in this country right now, not 6,000 miles away. | ||
| The cheerleaders at Fox News and the Conservative Inc., tell me how this is sustainable. | ||
| This is $40 billion just at the end of the fiscal year. | ||
| Walk us through the plan. | ||
| Have you forced Joe Biden to come forward and lay out a plan, either through the War Powers Act or what he has to do in going to Congress? | ||
| Or even anything, you know, fare thee well. | ||
| They have not told us what the plan is. | ||
| It's all this sovereignty and territorial integrity and self-determination of the Ukrainian people while the southern border is being invaded. | ||
| by his invasion of the southern border. | ||
| That's the territorial integrity we want. | ||
| That's the sovereignty we want. | ||
| The sovereignty we demand is for the American citizens in this nation. | ||
| Ask the Republicans. | ||
| When you call, say, tell me the plan. | ||
| We did this in Iraq and Afghanistan. | ||
| $9 trillion, 7,500 dead, 52,000 combat casualties, 20 veterans every day with PTSD, hooked on fentanyl, killing themselves. | ||
| Nine trillion dollars. | ||
| We are not going to be a republic. | ||
| This is how the Roman Republic fell, okay? | ||
| We are not going to be a republic if we keep going down. | ||
| And today they announced, what did they announce? | ||
| Mitch McConnell's over there, big brand, sitting there with Zelensky. | ||
| They're putting the combat troops back into Somalia. | ||
| When Donald Trump said, no, no, no, we're going to dial this thing down. | ||
| We're not going to have the boots on the ground all over the place. | ||
| Remember Blackhawk down? | ||
| Remember how that turned out? | ||
| Was that a nice place to be stationed? | ||
| They're putting combat ground troops back in, New York Times headline today. | ||
| This is how much respect they have for you. | ||
| Where's Mitch McConnell and the plan? | ||
| Why are they not demanding people come forward? | ||
| Tell me what the plan is. | ||
| Tell me what your objectives are. | ||
| Give me a critical path. | ||
| Tell me what it is, Mitch. | ||
| Oh, the most important thing! | ||
| No, it's not even the top 50 most important things, sir, because it's not in not only the vital national security interest, it is not in the national security interest of the United States. | ||
| It's in it for those people in the Ruhr Valley in Germany, and for the people in Italy, and for the people in France, the exact people saying, no mas. | ||
| We don't want any more, because we want our air conditioning. | ||
| Okay, we're going to be back here. | ||
| Cortez, real quickly, give me your handle so people can get to you. | ||
| Yeah, please find me at Getter, I'm at Steve, and then at Twitter, I'm at Cortez, Steve Cortez with an S. We're going to be on Getter all afternoon, live, and we're going to be putting up stuff back at 4.30. | ||
| The webinar starts, we're going to be back here from 5 to 7. | ||
| It's going to be on fire. | ||
| That, I can guarantee you. | ||
| Back in the War Room. |
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