May 17, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Media companies and law enforcement have not done enough to monitor, to ban, to restrict, and to limit hate speech. | |
| On their sites. | ||
| Hate speech is not freedom of speech. | ||
| As you know, the First Amendment does not protect hate speech. | ||
| I'll protect the First Amendment any day of the week, but you don't protect hate speech. | ||
| You don't protect incendiary speech. | ||
| You're not allowed to scream fire in a crowded theater. | ||
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There are limitations on speech, and right now, we have seen this run rampant. | |
| So what is hate speech? | ||
| Well, it's speech that our leaders hate. | ||
| So because a mentally ill teenager murdered strangers, you cannot be allowed to express your political views out loud. | ||
| That's what they're telling you. | ||
| That's what they've wanted to tell you for a long time. | ||
| But Saturday's massacre gives them a pretext, a justification. | ||
| You have to ask yourself, who behaves like that? | ||
| What sort of person uses mass murder as an excuse to give a campaign speech or seize more political power? | ||
| We'll find out tomorrow when Joe Biden travels to the scene of this atrocity in Buffalo to speak to the country. | ||
| We haven't seen an advanced copy of his remarks, but we can guess what we will hear. | ||
| Biden's approval rating appears to be the lowest ever recorded for a president this century, lower than Donald Trump's. | ||
| That is a disaster for his party. | ||
| The Democratic Party will suffer for this in this fall's elections. | ||
| Biden still has time to change course and fix it. | ||
| He could try to improve the lives of voters who are dissatisfied with him. | ||
| That is entirely possible. | ||
| That's what politicians typically do when they're down. | ||
| They listen to the people who might reelect them. | ||
| But Biden doesn't plan to do that. | ||
| And we know for a fact because Politico disreported it. | ||
| Instead, Biden has decided to attack people who disapprove. | ||
| According to Politico, quote, Biden is taken to telling his aides that he no longer recognizes the GOP, which he now views as an existential threat to the nation's democracy, end quote. | ||
| People who disagree with Joe Biden, according to Joe Biden, are now a quote, existential threat to the nation, like Al Qaeda or climate change. | ||
| A threat that by definition is so profound, we must declare war upon it if we're to survive. | ||
| Now, keep in mind, this threat that Biden is referring to is you. | ||
| He's talking about his fellow Americans. | ||
| No president has ever spoken like this, ever. | ||
| Joe Biden does it regularly, and he's certain to do it again tomorrow. | ||
| But most painful and destructive of all, Biden is likely to use racial wounds in order to make his point. | ||
| There is no behavior worse than this. | ||
| All race politics is bad, no matter what flavor those politics happen to be. | ||
| No race politics is better than any other. | ||
| All of it is poison. | ||
| And Reverend, of course, it's hard to always monitor every dark corner of the Internet, of social media. | ||
| But we do know that there are Republican leaders in the House, the United States Congress. | ||
| We do know that there's a powerful news network. | ||
| We do know that there are powerful voices on the Trump right that are pushing the Great Replacement Theory. | ||
| Of course, there's scrambling now. | ||
| Oh no, when we called it a Great Replacement Theory, we weren't talking about a Great Replacement Theory. | ||
| Well, there have been studies, there have been studies, there have been articles. | ||
| It's not hard to see if we open our eyes that you actually have people that are doing everything they can to get more viewers, to make more money, to get more people listening to their podcasts, to get more followers online. | ||
| By pushing white grievance against brown and black people. | ||
| Turning whites against blacks. | ||
| Whites against Hispanics. | ||
| Whites against Muslims. | ||
| Whites against Jews. | ||
| And what is a consequence? | ||
| You and I were in Charleston in 2015. | ||
| Where you had black parishioners gunned down by a white shooter. | ||
| We saw what happened in Pittsburgh, where Jewish members of a synagogue gunned down in 2018. | ||
| In 2019, Hispanic Americans gunned down at a Walmart by another person who went there because of the Great Replacement Theory, now again in 2022. | ||
| Hours after that meeting, McConnell offered a strong counter-argument to Republican isolationists who have questioned the U.S. | ||
| sending another aid package to Ukraine. | ||
| This is not some handout, Mr. McConnell declared in comments that just as easily could have been directed at lawmakers he leads, writes the Times. | ||
| It is important for the United States to help. | ||
| It's important for the free world to help. | ||
| It's important for the Ukrainians to win and hopefully not many members of my party will choose to politicize this issue. | ||
| A quote from Mitch McConnell. | ||
| So Joe, that's a direct shot of course from Mitch McConnell to Rand Paul and to many other members of his house. | ||
| constituency who say why are we sending all this money to Ukraine when we've got all these problems at home. The package is going to pass but there is a group of Republican holdouts that McConnell was speaking to directly yesterday. | ||
| Yeah there certainly was and obviously isolationism has been a growing trend in the Republican Party for some time. | ||
| Donald Trump, of course, hated NATO. | ||
| He hated that the United States would have to defend other countries if they were drawn into war. | ||
| He tried to destroy NATO. | ||
| You had staff members chasing him around Europe when he was going from meeting to meeting trying to get him To say that he actually would, the United States would be there for other members of NATO. | ||
| Eventually, they forced him to say something. | ||
| But there's no doubt, he was an isolationist. | ||
| He pulled troops out of Syria. | ||
| 2,500 troops. | ||
| It was tragic. | ||
| He was always skeptical of expanding NATO. | ||
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So, $40 billion? | |
| We're beginning to talk real money here. | ||
| This is an extraordinary act by the United States. | ||
| OK, welcome. | ||
| It's Tuesday, 17 May, the year of our Lord, 2022. | ||
| You're live. | ||
| We're in the War Room. | ||
| A lot to go through today. | ||
| I have Cortez and Ben up. | ||
| We've got the Ukraine vote. | ||
| You've got the World Health Organization's Biden administration giving our sovereignty that. | ||
| Of course, it's game day. | ||
| In Idaho, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. | ||
| The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, so we've got a lot to get to. | ||
| People are going to be calling in. | ||
| It's get-out-the-vote time. | ||
| We're going to get to all of it. | ||
| I just want to, before I turn to Cortez and to Ben, I just want to make sure we do these cold opens for a reason, right? | ||
| To kind of make sure that you, because I understand you're not watching MSNBC, and CNN. | ||
| Although I will tell you, this is why you have to read the Financial Times. | ||
| You have to read the New York Times. | ||
| You should also obviously do your conservative and right-wing stuff. | ||
| But like watching Fox is a waste of time. | ||
| You should watch MSNBC. | ||
| MSNBC covers you in detail. | ||
| And you'll see yourself through the eyes of your enemy. | ||
| That's very important. | ||
| That's when you're going next level. | ||
| When you're going next level is to have enough sense of your thinking that you just don't have to sit and watch Fox all day long with the talking points, the talking points, the talking points, the talking points. | ||
| It's all noise over there. | ||
| Except for Tucker. | ||
| Some a Jesse. | ||
| You know, you got Maria fighting a good fight. | ||
| Judge Jeanine. | ||
| You got voices. | ||
| And you got one big program, Tucker's program. | ||
| That's Tucker's amazing open last night. | ||
| Although, I will say this. | ||
| I want to bring Cortez. | ||
| We've got so much to talk about the international situation and all that. | ||
| And of course, Twitter. | ||
| Elon Musk announced today that he's pulling the offer until they can prove that it's only 5% bots. | ||
| And of course, the thing's in meltdown and I'll get to that more later. | ||
| I don't want to say Mr. Bannon called that day one, but Mr. Bannon called that day one. | ||
| And now we're going to put all those guys in jail. | ||
| And this white conservatives that are flocking to Twitter are kind of morons, right? | ||
| Don't go help your enemy. | ||
| They're your enemy. | ||
| They're bad people. | ||
| They've stolen from pension funds. | ||
| They've lied about this. | ||
| Elon Musk said it's not 5% bots, which is the SEC information. | ||
| He's exactly 1000% correct. | ||
| It looks like he didn't take a lot of non-public information for him. | ||
| This is what they report. | ||
| This is what the stock trades on. | ||
| This is what the stock sells for. | ||
| This is what advertisers do everything. | ||
| This is what they present as their official position as a company. | ||
| And it's a lie. | ||
| He says at least 20% and said it may be as high as 80 or 90%. | ||
| It's not a company. | ||
| And you're going to find government... I'm not a conspiracy theory guy. | ||
| At all. | ||
| I'm a connect-the-dot-guy, and hey, here's reality. | ||
| You're going to see how has that thing been funded for years, because now we know it's all lies. | ||
| There's 80% bots or whatever Elon Musk says. | ||
| The deal's going to crater. | ||
| Unfortunately, the pension funds in Tesla, which I think are going to have massive lawsuits against, wait for it, the world's biggest narcissist, and no, that's not Donald Trump mainstream media, that's Elon Musk. | ||
| He's our greatest engineer since Tesla, greatest practical engineer. | ||
| He's a beyond, an over-the-top narcissist and conservative media and the pom-poms, and I'm gonna have Darren Beatty up here, I'll smack him around a little bit when he comes on about this. | ||
| I tease him a lot. | ||
| Conservative media that's got the pom-poms out for him, like they got the pom-poms out for Zelensky. | ||
| They're always looking for Ubermensch. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Got the pom-poms out. | ||
| He's destroyed how many pension funds? | ||
| Remember, it's been $400 billion loss of market cap. | ||
| That means money. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Pension funds have bought into $800 or $900 billion of stocks down now. | ||
| I think the market cap is $700 billion. | ||
| They'll never recover that. | ||
| You're going to see funds blowing up. | ||
| There are cops and nurses and police officers or firemen out there that ain't going to have the pension they thought they had because of this fiasco. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And I called this day one because I know how the system works. | ||
| I used to do that as a grundoon. | ||
| I did that for a living. | ||
| Well-trained. | ||
| Well-trained. | ||
| Okay, we're gonna get to all of it. | ||
| But I gotta go to this replacement theory thing. | ||
| One of the buried leads. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| In all the replacement theory stuff, you haven't seen War Room or Steve Bannon. | ||
| And this is the reason. | ||
| We are inclusive nationalism. | ||
| The watchword of Brother Cortez. | ||
| Myself, Navarro. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| All the War Impostors. | ||
| Inclusive nationalism. | ||
| Participatory populism. | ||
| Okay, that's putting your good old shoulder to the wheel, but it's it's inclusive of this of this subject called American citizens, American citizens. | ||
| If you're a citizen, that's what we're that's what we're protecting the sovereignty of this nation for its citizens. | ||
| Regardless of your race, your color, your ethnicity, or your religion, citizens, and citizens are workers, and we are to protect the workers. | ||
| We say this all the time. | ||
| So when Tucker and these other guys talk about the replacement theory, and they talk about it because they want to replace you as a voting body, that's still theoretical? | ||
| That may or may not happen. | ||
| I think a lot of the math and it says it does happen. | ||
| Although, Cortez and Bannon and Navarro said if we can test for every vote and put through the economics, 50% of Hispanics are going to vote for us, 25% of African Americans, we just have to do it. | ||
| You can't do it with country club Republican, you know, the nonsense that these country club Republicans put out. | ||
| You have to engage people where they are and you have to talk about real economic policies. | ||
| As Cortez says, you know, it's about immigration, about workers. | ||
| Today, up on Getter, if we can please put that up, my trusty producer team here in Denver, I put up on Getter this morning, Lloyd Blankfein, right, the former chairman of Goldman Sachs, former CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs, I think he's still chairman, he puts out today, he lists his, you know, he's one of the top guys on Wall Street, you know, he and Jamie Dimon are probably one or two. | ||
| When you talk about banks or investment banks, he puts out that he's got a solution. | ||
| He has his solution for inflation. | ||
| And he's a smart guy. | ||
| I mean, he ran Goldman Sachs. | ||
| He goes through, in order, what the solutions are. | ||
| You know what the number one solution? | ||
| Of everything on inflation, you know what the number one solution is? | ||
| Increase, dramatically increase immigration today. | ||
| Because they want to take wages down. | ||
| Every Democrat, every African American and Hispanic and young person that votes for these people and to keep them around, you've got yourself to blame now. | ||
| There's enough information out there that you can see it. | ||
| And this is the great replacement theory. | ||
| They want to replace you as workers with lower wage workers. | ||
| I have you compete around the world with tech workers. | ||
| I have been adamant on this show from day one. | ||
| The Ukrainian refugees, because of our laws, gotta stay in Europe. | ||
| That's a European problem. | ||
| You got Poland and Hungary and all kind of great nations over there. | ||
| They can deal out right there. | ||
| Just like we didn't want the Afghans here. | ||
| So, it's not racial. | ||
| We don't want the Ukrainians here. | ||
| The Ukrainian people are great people. | ||
| Once they come to the United States, they've been fantastic. | ||
| Get in line and come like everybody else. | ||
| No special deals. | ||
| This is why they're not coming with a worm. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| They do not want to argue the case on the terms that we lay out. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| This is why we're going to have a sweeping victory, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| It is most important for you, this audience. | ||
| You're the most powerful audience in all media. | ||
| Because you're activists. | ||
| We must stay focused on the thing itself. | ||
| As Cathy Barnett said the other day, the main thing is the main thing. | ||
| And we're not going to lose our focus. | ||
| It's quite simple. | ||
| On November 8th, all of these demons at the ballot box, you want to give them a democracy suppository? | ||
| We have a chance to shatter this. | ||
| And then you don't have to listen to it anymore. | ||
| It can be over there yammering on the side and they can play with themselves and do anything they want. | ||
| Go outside, kids, play. | ||
| Go do it. | ||
| It'll be meaningless. | ||
| We have a chance to shatter it. | ||
| Just like we shattered Twitter. | ||
| Twitter's shattered. | ||
| It's broken. | ||
| The executives are going to go to jail. | ||
| The founders are going to go to jail. | ||
| The board of directors should go to jail. | ||
| They have stolen from the American people and lied and misrepresented and now it's all exposed. | ||
| Okay, we're going to get to, we're going to get back, we're going to get to Ukraine. | ||
| We've got so much going on today. | ||
| In 11 heroes in the Senate, the numbers 2-0-2, 2-2-4, 3-1-2-1, and if you think you weren't effective, 11 senators voted no on the first round in this Ukraine, but they had 100% participation before you stood up. | ||
| We need to burn up the phone lines, particularly of the people that voted yes, and tell them it's a disgrace that two senators in the great state of Texas, let me be blunt, Voted for this thing? | ||
| In Tennessee, the Volunteer State, once again leading MAGA. | ||
| We'll get to all of it when we return with Cortez and Harnwell in the War Room. | ||
| We talked about Elon Musk and you just wonder whether Elon Musk all along has just been playing this Twitter thing for the headlines and just to poke and prod certain people because it's not like Musk didn't know going into this Uh, that Twitter's had a problem with bots for a very long time. | ||
| He's acting shocked now. | ||
| Bots? | ||
| Bots on Twitter? | ||
| Oh my lord, where's my fainting couch? | ||
| I may not buy this after all! | ||
| Look, what's happening here is a guy who I think, we don't know how serious he was from the get-go, but clearly he's having cold feet. | ||
| Clearly, he bought it at too high a price. | ||
| Everybody thought it was economically irrational, and that was before the stock market and all these big tech companies started to fall. | ||
| So, you know, when you start to think about where the market was when he bought Twitter, where the market is today, what Twitter was realistically worth? | ||
| Let me have it. | ||
| Victory has A thousand mothers. | ||
| Defeat is an orphan. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| By the way, you gotta eat. | ||
| Why am I on fire right now? | ||
| Lost a little weight, got a new haircut, got some sun. | ||
| No, did not get a chemical peel. | ||
| All you haters back there, come on, back off. | ||
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| The only reason Cortez comes to see us anymore since he's in the great state of Tennessee. | ||
| Tennessee! | ||
| The volunteers! | ||
| I'm loving me some Tennessee. | ||
| Leader in the MAGA movement today. | ||
| Officially, you know why? | ||
| Both senators voted no on Ukraine. | ||
| And no offense, Ron DeSantis, Governor DeSantis, the free state of Florida, you gotta have a talking to to your senators down there. | ||
| Particularly, let's go to war. | ||
| Marco Rubio. | ||
| But let's talk Twitter first. | ||
| Let's get Twitter first. | ||
| I'm gonna get Ben in here to tee it off. | ||
| So, Cortez. | ||
| I hate to say we called it and everybody's like, oh yeah, we called it. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| Everybody was loving up on that deal and rubbing up on Elon Musk, rubbing up on him. | ||
| Talk to me about, and this Twitter situation's bigger than just this deal, because I keep saying it ain't a company. | ||
| And you can tell now that I have a business mind. | ||
| And Joe Scarborough, University of Alabama, please. | ||
| I think he went to the University of Alabama, right? | ||
| Would the law school please call and take his law degree back? | ||
| He's a moron. | ||
| Brother, he knew it. | ||
| It's what's the publicly traded information he based the bid upon. | ||
| It's an SEC filing, dude. | ||
| Learn something. | ||
| You got dumber. | ||
| You were always not particularly bright, but you got dumber when you went to MSNBC, and then when you went to Morning Mika, you got real dumb. | ||
| And that's saying something. | ||
| And Steve, you know... That's saying something. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead, sir. | ||
| Before I get to the social media aspects, which are crucial here, just a word on Joe Scarborough. | ||
| And by the way, I will always defend University of Alabama. | ||
| My wife went there, my daughter's about to go. | ||
| They're a wonderful institution, and Scarborough is unfortunately a rare black mark on a great place. | ||
| What Scarborough mentioned in that rant that you played at the beginning... | ||
| He mentioned that the America First movement is about white grievance. | ||
| Well, you know who that would be news to, Steve? | ||
| Our black and brown Americans who continue to rally to our movement on the Hispanic side in momentous fashion. | ||
| So that would sure be a newsflash to them because bad hombres and proud Latinas are increasingly becoming the bulwark of our movement. | ||
| No, no, Cortez, Cortez, don't bury the lead. | ||
| This is why they don't come to war on this topic. | ||
| We don't do the great replacement theory that Toronto is a white-green. | ||
| No! | ||
| We say that we're two-thirds to 70% of the vote. | ||
| We just have to explain, we have to make it accessible to folks of exactly what we're talking about and then have policies to back it up. | ||
| The Hispanics, African-Americans and Hispanics are culturally the most conservative groups we have in the nation. | ||
| The other thing about whites, all of my enemies, I'm hated by more people on Earth than anybody. | ||
| I guess Trump's got that, okay? | ||
| Trump's got it. | ||
| Let's say I'm second. | ||
| Junior partner there. | ||
| But it's Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Shift, Eric Swalwell, Chuck Schumer, the Pope. | ||
| Name it. | ||
| Except for she and the guys in the Chinese Communist Party, they're all white. | ||
| And do you think, Cortez, do we relate to these young harpies, these insane harpies with the signs fetuses or snacks in front of the Supreme Court? | ||
| These 20 to 30 year old women that are white? | ||
| No thank you. | ||
| Give me Royce White, give me Miles Guo, give me Raynard Jackson, right? | ||
| Give me all the Hispanics we have, and no, give me that. | ||
| We're inclusive nationalism, that's why we're winning, and that's why they gotta come up with this stuff. | ||
| Hey, replace this. | ||
| Here's what we're replacing. | ||
| The elites in this country. | ||
| That's our replacement theory. | ||
| When Blankfein puts his tweet out about how to solve the economy, the inflation problem, his number one thing... Can we get my Twitter thing up there? | ||
| Or getter? | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
| Fruity and Slip. | ||
| Can we get the getter up there right now? | ||
| Light up Blank Fine. | ||
| They want to replace you as workers. | ||
| Well, we want to replace them. | ||
| Here's the great replacement theory. | ||
| We're replacing you, Mornin' Mika. | ||
| We're replacing you, New York Times. | ||
| We're replacing you in a shattering victory to do it. | ||
| And then you can go yammer among yourselves. | ||
| Go play outside, kids. | ||
| Just sit at the children's table. | ||
| Because we're going to sit at the main table. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Steve, this is a crucial point on the replacement of workers because you're right. | ||
| We can argue about the political replacement. | ||
| I don't think there's any doubt that a lot of folks on the Democratic side believe that a lot of new Americans are going to benefit them. | ||
| Politically, I'm not so sure about that, given the trends, particularly among Hispanics. | ||
| But there is no debate about replacing American workers, and I would argue it is a two-way replacement. | ||
| What I mean by that is we are offshoring American jobs. | ||
| We've been doing so by the millions for decades before Donald Trump. | ||
| It is unfortunately restarting now. | ||
| with Joe Biden in office. So that is a replacement of American workers and then of course replacing them by also importing masses of labor. So we have right now today as we speak Steve we have crude oil back to 115 dollars a barrel. This is crushing good working class Americans. Real wages are crashing in this country right now. What's the answer to that scenario? | ||
| Well, for the ruling class, it doesn't matter what the question is, the answer is always the same. | ||
| Open the border. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So, in other words, real wages are in the tank, and their answer is, let's bring in millions and millions of more workers so we can further depress those real wages? | ||
| I mean, it's almost comical. | ||
| It is so farcical. | ||
| But the ruling class is aligned on this. | ||
| Whether it's Wall Street titans, or the Democratic Party, or the corporate media, Or groups that are ostensibly Republican, or at least claim to be conservative, like the U.S. | ||
| Chamber of Commerce. | ||
| They are all the ruling class, the uniparty, the permanent political class, the establishment, is in unison on this point. | ||
| They want millions more new Americans. | ||
| And we on the right need to stand up and say no. | ||
| Number one, illegal immigration has to stop immediately. | ||
| But number two, I think we need to go further than that and say we have a right and an obligation as citizens of this country And through patriotic populism to defend first and foremost the prerogatives of the citizens of the United States, irrespective of what color or creed they are. | ||
| We are defending the citizens' security and prosperity. | ||
| And I would stipulate that part of that is a pause, a moratorium on even legal immigration. | ||
| But their answer always is open the borders, and then they try to silence us about this issue by claiming that any level of skepticism about those open borders Well, we just have to say we don't care what you call us. | ||
| We have a country to defend, we have a republic to save, and we are going to do so no matter what smears you throw our way. | ||
| Totally unfounded smears, though they are. | ||
| Okay, let's get in. | ||
| My phone is blowing up. | ||
| I'm not saying it's because of my Elon Musk call. | ||
| Far be it from me. | ||
| You know, Cortez, sometimes I get tired of winning. | ||
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I'm just kidding. | |
| Just trying to troll people now. | ||
| Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Talk about winning. | ||
| Okay, on top of all this, ladies and gentlemen, there's so much news. | ||
| If we can't get it on the show, you gotta join Getter. | ||
| Cortez is up there. | ||
| Harnwell's up there. | ||
| Bannon's up there. | ||
| And I'm telling you, if you get a feed with people, boom. | ||
| And my feed's full of just people from the audience. | ||
| I don't care if you've got 100 followers, I think you've got something intelligent to say, I'll follow it, right? | ||
| But everybody get there, because we're putting stuff up all day long. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, when we're approving a $40 billion bailout of Ukrainian oligarchs, sir, what are we hearing from Janet Yellen about the rest of our quote-unquote allies, Brother Harnwell, that you called so well? | ||
| Well, Janet, good morning, Steve. | ||
| Janet Yellen was speaking at the Brussels Economic Forum this morning, and she said that whilst the Ukrainian government was continuing to function, it required budget funding to pay for soldiers, employees, and get this, pensioners, and to meet its citizens' basic needs. | ||
| This is Janet Yellen, the US Treasury Secretary, in Brussels, arguing for money, For Ukrainian pensioners and Ukrainian citizens to meet their basic needs. | ||
| I'm going to let you break down, break this down. | ||
| I'm just going to report the facts, OK? | ||
| And she actually even said, if that wasn't, if that wasn't bad enough, she even said that Ukrainian reconstruction will ultimately, ultimately require massive investment. | ||
| And she likened it to rebuilding Europe after 1945. | ||
| But beyond that, the European president of the of the European Commission, the European Commission is basically like the cabinet for the European Union. | ||
| And it's not it's comprised of unelected bureaucrats. | ||
| And Ursula von der Leyen warned that the project of rebuilding Ukraine is going to cost several hundred billion euros. | ||
| Which I think follows on a point that we've been making on the war room since the beginning of this, which is who is going to pay for the rebuilding of Ukraine? | ||
| Because if we taxpayers are going to be paying for it, we we really ought to be demanding via our elected leaders a seat at the table advising Zelensky how much more we're prepared to pay for in the rebuilding of his country. | ||
| Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. | ||
| We're going to take a break and I'm getting upset. | ||
| We're going to continue. | ||
| I've got to take a break and have maybe a water with my coffee. | ||
| The pensioneers, they don't have their pensions in Ukraine and you're going to end up paying for it. | ||
| I want you to embrace this. | ||
| Hispanic Americans, Black Americans, you don't think they're going to rally to our side and stop the madness of shoveling money to Ukrainian oligarchs? | ||
| Are Ukrainian oligarchs taking care of their pensioneers? | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We'll be back. | ||
| I think Doug Mastroianno is going to join us quickly. | ||
| Cortez and Harnwell will be here too. | ||
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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. | ||
| We have Colonel Doug Mastriano on, who's calling in from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. | ||
| It's game day. | ||
| Colonel Mastriano, tell me, how's the Get Out the Vote operation working, sir? | ||
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Yeah, really well. | |
| Thank God we do have a statewide network of people in the grassroots working. | ||
| Really a lot of excitement. | ||
| Responding to scores of texts and messages and seeing pictures of my people out working the polls starting at 7 a.m. | ||
| So Pennsylvania, this is your day. | ||
| You don't like what's going on in our state and nation. | ||
| This is your chance to take the power back and please don't stand aside and you have until 8 p.m. | ||
| tonight to vote. | ||
| Every county in the state, we have a Doug Mastriano page. | ||
| So say you're in Schuylkill County. | ||
| area you've got for you get the vote how can people what's the easiest way for members of this audience that are in the state of Pennsylvania or know people in Pennsylvania to get them to find out where to go do you have a central like a getter account Twitter account or website yeah so I every county in the state we have a Doug Mastriano page so say you're in Schuylkill County at Schuylkill County for Doug Mastriano or Allegheny County for Doug Mastriano if you're not on social media and can't do that go to Doug4gov.com | ||
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and each county has a voting office as well that could help you So you just Google your county name and, you know, Voting Help, and they'll get you to the right direction. | |
| So it's really way too easy. | ||
| Josh Shapiro was on, the game started last night, Josh Shapiro was on MSNBC for basically a beatdown on Doug Mastriano to kick this thing off the day before. | ||
| You've got him pretty worked up, Colonel Mastriano. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
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I think it's pretty simple, because we're going to beat him and beat him bad. | |
| You know, even his fan club in the Philadelphia Choir is concerned that he's not been vetted. | ||
| He hasn't had a serious race to run against. | ||
| He hasn't had a serious opponent. | ||
| And that we're as tough as nails. | ||
| We're fighters. | ||
| We represent a broad movement. | ||
| Okay, let me give you a fact, Steve. | ||
| When Josh Shapiro did his announcement last fall in downtown Pittsburgh, he had no more than 50 people. | ||
| I'm being generous. | ||
| I only saw 20 in the pictures. | ||
| in my kickoff rally in December, the day after a snowstorm in Gettysburg, we had 1,400 people. | ||
| This is something that the Democrat machine can't beat. | ||
| Additionally, Josh Shapiro is just a personification of the radical left. | ||
| His party has left so many Democrats behind. | ||
| That's why we're seeing 56 percent of Latinos down in Pennsylvania coming over to our side. | ||
| That's why I've been endorsed by Latinos. | ||
| And that party has gone so radical that we've been registering Democrats to vote for me as Republicans here over the past couple months. | ||
| So he's done. | ||
| It's the dying throes of a party that's gone too radical. | ||
| Josh Shapiro is a 100% creation of the left-wing media, the MSNBCs of the world. | ||
| They made him a national figure. | ||
| I 1,000% agree with you, and we're going to have a process called the vetting of Josh Shapiro, because he has not been vetted. | ||
| And man, oh man, is there some vets out there, there's some vetting out there to be done. | ||
| It's going to be interesting. | ||
| The problem you're going to have, Matt Strana, here's the problem. | ||
| The problem is the gutless cowards that the Republican establishment, we're going to call them out by name on here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that are too weak to back a MAGA candidate, to back a Trump-endorsed candidate, to back the Trump movement in Pennsylvania. | ||
| The problem we're going to have in Pennsylvania is not Josh Shapiro so weak. | ||
| The support he's going to get is by a greedy, shiftless, cowardice, Republican establishment that's got their snouts right in the trough of all the corruption and all the goodies that Josh Shapiro feeds out to him. | ||
| Is that not correct, Colonel? | ||
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It is true. | |
| We have this one lobbyist group in Harrisburg. | ||
| They sank $13 million into McSwain. | ||
| And they used about, I guess, two to four million to hit me hard with propaganda and lies and distortions, and they couldn't even stand with their guy. | ||
| They flipped ships and got to another group. | ||
| They're doing all that they can to keep the people's candidate, me, the MAGA candidate, me, to win this election here. | ||
| They're going to lose, they're going to lose power, but you're right. | ||
| The biggest problem, I do agree, Steve, that's a great observation, our biggest problem is going to be these feckless, rhino-type Republicans here that will not allow us to have a fighter as governor. | ||
| But we're going to beat them, and they're going to lose power, and they're going to be put to shame. | ||
| Today, they're going to be put to shame. | ||
| In fact, they pulled out all the stops to try to stop us and spread lies. | ||
| I mean, it was like they were working for the Democrat machine. | ||
| Shameful of them. | ||
| They are. | ||
| They're controlled opposition. | ||
| They'd rather make their money with being controlled opposition, being the Washington generals than the Democrats Harlem Globetrotters. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Colonel Mastriano, can you once again just tell people how to get there to figure out how to get out to vote today? | ||
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It's one of the easiest ways. | |
| It's just Google your county. | ||
| So if you're in Fulton County, you know, Fulton County Voting Office, and I'll take you to your county website, and they'll give you all the information you need on where and how to vote. | ||
| Or go to dougforgov.com. | ||
| You know, the bottom line, Pennsylvania, that this is our day. | ||
| This is probably the last chance that we'll have in a lifetime to have a primary that's wide open. | ||
| The state party that did not endorse first time in 44 years, and the last time they did not endorse That was the last great Republican governor, Dick Thornburg. | ||
| He won in 1978. | ||
| A lot of things are similar, and we need to do the same today. | ||
| So let's not dither. | ||
| Let's get out and vote for Doug Mastriano. | ||
| And I've been fighting for you all along. | ||
| Let's continue to fight and make our state great. | ||
| Colonel Mastriano, Godspeed. | ||
| Good luck today. | ||
| Keep grinding. | ||
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Thank you, Steve. | |
| Thanks for all that you're doing. | ||
| Thanks for holding the line for us out there. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| Steve Cortez, you were out in Illinois yesterday. | ||
| It's the same problem everywhere. | ||
| The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a microcosm of what the issue is. | ||
| The corrupt, incompetent, gutless, Republican country club establishment would rather go along and they don't care if their schools get destroyed, they don't care if your kids get poisoned, they don't care about any of it. | ||
| You know what they care about? | ||
| They care about what they've grabbed for themselves. | ||
| That's what they're grabbing. | ||
| They grabbed it for themselves and they're holding on as controlled opposition. | ||
| Because you always have to have an opposition in these authoritarian things, right? | ||
| You have to have an opposition that's feckless and hapless and they don't care, as long as they got theirs. | ||
| That's what these elections are about to blow up. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Look, the Republican establishment is about its own self-aggrandizement, and we see it all over the country. | ||
| And I think, Steve, I'll go even a step further than you. | ||
| I think a lot of them, quite frankly, like being in the minority. | ||
| They like being the controlled opposition. | ||
| They don't actually want the reins of power because it is easier and more lucrative to be the controlled opposition. | ||
| That's why these primaries in Pennsylvania today, these primaries that are coming up in the upcoming weeks, are so crucial all over the country. | ||
| What I would point to you in terms of a news item about just how important this is, Steve, listen, it's great that we're growing the number of senators who are opposing this aid to Ukraine, but it's still at 11 right now, Steve. | ||
| 11 out of 50, okay? | ||
| That is pathetic and damning. | ||
| And let's also make this point, because this is clear. | ||
| These are 11 who voted no on a procedural issue. | ||
| That doesn't mean that ultimately they won't fund this. | ||
| We'll see, you know, where it shakes out in the end. | ||
| But for example, Rand Paul, I have a ton of respect for him. | ||
| Very glad that he stood up to say, hey, we're going to tap the brakes. | ||
| But he did not say that he's against aid for Ukraine. | ||
| He just wants more oversight of the spending. | ||
| OK, that's not where the American First Movement is. | ||
| It's certainly not where I am. | ||
| It's not where you are. | ||
| It's not where the deplorables are. | ||
| Our answer is how about zero for Ukraine right now? | ||
| That is a European problem that should be taken care of by our wealthy supposed allies in Europe. | ||
| We have immense problems here, including our very own border crisis. | ||
| That isn't the eastern border of Ukraine. | ||
| It's the southern border of the United States. | ||
| So my point is, To motivate the people out there, these primaries are crucially important. | ||
| In some ways, they're even more important than the general election. | ||
| And the Republican establishment believes that because Donald Trump is out of office, that now is their time to reclaim the party. | ||
| So that's why the voters must show up and must push back against the donor class and against the establishment figures who are trying to really, I would say, pervert these primaries. | ||
| I'm still in Chicago right now, Steve, and here in Illinois, it's going on on a massive scale. | ||
| The richest man in Illinois, a hedge fund magnate, Um, Ken Griffin, who started Citadel, is trying to literally buy the Republican primary, spending $45 million in a gubernatorial primary on Richard Ervin, who is a deeply radical Democrat masquerading as a conservative in the Republican primary, and through saturation advertising, they believe that they can fool the electorate. | ||
| Well, we're fighting back hard. | ||
| I'm behind Darren Bailey, who's an America First state senator. | ||
| But this kind of race, it's not peculiar to Illinois. | ||
| It's happening all over the country. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance already prevailed against the establishment in Ohio. | ||
| That was a fantastic victory. | ||
| And I believe it's also a game plan for other America First candidates around the country who are fighting the establishment in similar ways. | ||
| I want to go back, let's go back to Europe for a second. | ||
| This is, it was yesterday's, but for people who didn't see the show, Sweden and Finland to herald new era with NATO applications. | ||
| This is the front page of the Financial Times, most powerful paper in the world, Financial Times London. | ||
| Sub-headline, move expected in days, Europe faces geopolitical shift, and here's the sub-headline, Turkey objections no hurdle. | ||
| And that's a direct quote from the Financial Times of London. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, you called this. | ||
| Give us the reality in Europe right now. | ||
| They don't want to pay up. | ||
| Yellen's yammering on. | ||
| She's crying tears because they don't want to pay up because the guys in Italy don't want to pay for the pensions in Ukraine and don't want to pay for the oligarchs. | ||
| And now you've got the situation in Turkey. | ||
| They don't want the expansion of NATO. | ||
| And I would say they got to come back here. | ||
| They have to come back and get two thirds of the Senate. | ||
| All NATO allies must get to a minimum of 2 percent immediately before we even consider any expansion. | ||
| Although the Finns and the Swedes will pay their share. | ||
| It's not the point. | ||
| Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Pushed out an idea saying if Joe Biden is going to vote in America's name to allow the accession of Finland and Sweden, at least before doing that, insist on an announcement to the NATO charter that says any country that doesn't meet its 2 percent is immediately expelled from the alliance and then vote to allow these two countries in because that might concentrate minds slightly. | ||
| On the subject of NATO, however, Steve, I just want to mention this news, which again, I think both the war room and myself and you, I think all three of us, we pushed this out on Getty this morning. | ||
| Very, very important development. | ||
| I don't understand why it's not leading on every newspaper around the world, but the Russian Defence Ministry said that earlier today, its missiles destroyed US and European arms shipments And in Western Lviv, which as far as I'm aware, this is the first public acknowledgement of direct military engagement between Russia and between NATO members. | ||
| Very big. | ||
| And correct me, Lviv, this is the town, this is the town that's to the western part of it. | ||
| This is the one that's near the Polish border? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| People gotta understand something. | ||
| We're forcing our way into this conflict as a combatant. | ||
| The Democrats, Steny Hoyer and these guys go there and say we're at war. | ||
| The great Matt Gaetz, I'll get it up on Getter later, he gave a five-minute talk in the well of the House. | ||
| He said it was brilliant. | ||
| Do we have Ambassador Sands? | ||
| Let's bring in this conversation. | ||
| Ambassador Carla Sands, an ambassadorial appointment of President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| She is running in the Senate race in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Your thoughts, ma'am, on this, on the $40 billion, they had 11 senators vote against it. | ||
| If you were a senator in the Commonwealth representing the great people in the Keystone State, how would you vote on this? | ||
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I would be a hard no on the $40 billion because we know Ukraine is part of Europe and it's surrounded by rich European countries and they are not paying their fair share. | |
| This is Europe's problem. | ||
| Joe Biden may have caused it, but Europe enabled it. | ||
| They were the ones importing the Russian gas for decades and then ramping it up with Nord Stream 2, which my team and I blocked the entire time I was the US ambassador. | ||
| And I talked to the Finnish ambassador and I encouraged their joining NATO because we know the Finns have a real fighting force and they invest in their military. | ||
| I like your guest's idea. | ||
| If you don't pay your 2%, you're not part of NATO. | ||
| I mean, if you're a member of a club, especially the club that protects your security, you have to pay your dues. | ||
| Otherwise you're out, right? | ||
| There's no free lunch in the world. | ||
| And these countries, many of them have been free riders on the American taxpayers. | ||
| As you know, Steve, I'm running for the U.S. | ||
| Senate here in Pennsylvania and today is Election Day and I'm so happy to talk to you and your viewers because your viewers are my voters. | ||
| I am the America First candidate since 2016 and I've been a conservative activist all my adult life. | ||
| I'd be honored to earn every Pennsylvania listener and viewers vote. | ||
| Today. | ||
| I have a website, CarlaSands.com. | ||
| You can learn more. | ||
| Follow us on social media. | ||
| But I was the U.S. | ||
| Ambassador to Denmark from 2017 until 2021, working to counter Russia and China, working with NATO and the Pentagon. | ||
| And we increased our trade over 43% while I was there. | ||
| Ambassador, Ambassador, can you hold through the break? | ||
| It'll be about two minutes. | ||
| We want to get, I want to get your thoughts on NATO, specifically the lies they're telling about Donald J. Trump, Joe Scarborough lying about Trump in NATO. | ||
| After that meeting, McConnell offered a strong counter-argument to Republican isolationists who have questioned the U.S. | ||
| sending another aid package to Ukraine. | ||
| This is not some handout, Mr. McConnell declared in comments that just as easily could have been directed at lawmakers he leads, writes the Times. | ||
| It is important for the United States to help. It's important for the free world to help. | ||
| It's important for the Ukrainians to win. And hopefully, not many members of my party will choose to politicize this issue. A quote from Mitch McConnell. So, Joe, that's a direct shot, of course, from Mitch McConnell to Rand Paul and to many other members of his House constituency, who say, why are we sending all this money to Ukraine when we've got all these problems at home? | ||
| The package is going to pass, but there is a group of Republican holdouts that McConnell was speaking to directly yesterday. | ||
| Yeah, there certainly was and obviously isolationism has been a growing trend in the Republican Party for some time. | ||
| Donald Trump, of course, hated NATO. | ||
| He hated that the United States would have to defend other countries if they were drawn into war. | ||
| He tried to destroy NATO. | ||
| You had staff members chasing him around Europe when he was going from meeting to meeting trying to get him. | ||
| I've heard, I've heard. | ||
| That's Mourning Mika. | ||
| I've had to hear it twice. | ||
| I want to bring in Ambassador Carla Sand. | ||
| She was there. | ||
| Carla Sand was picked by Trump, handpicked by Trump. | ||
| Ambassador, is that a bald-faced lie of what Joe Scarborough just said this morning on Mourning Mika? | ||
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Go ahead, ma'am. | |
| 100%. | ||
| It's a bald-faced lie. | ||
| Donald Trump built NATO like no president ever has. | ||
| I believe that he gained about $400 billion of commitments from our European allies to strengthen NATO. | ||
| They were slow rolling both Obama and Trump. | ||
| They don't want to pay their fair share. | ||
| They want the American taxpayer and the American military to take care of them. | ||
| But they're rich countries. | ||
| This isn't post-World War II anymore. | ||
| They need to pay their fair share and be active participants and contributors. | ||
| Denmark paid more during my time as the U.S. | ||
| ambassador because I went on their Navy frigate and I looked up in the missile silos and there were no missiles. | ||
| And they were like, well, we can't afford to buy the missiles. | ||
| We don't have the money. | ||
| Well, and they're rich. | ||
| They have free health care, free college. | ||
| And I did encourage them and they did buy missiles for their silos. | ||
| That's just one example. | ||
| But I'm a... What Carlos Sanz is talking about is the truth. | ||
| Trump built NATO. | ||
| These people up here just want you to underwrite it. | ||
| Now you've got your underwriting the pensions in Ukraine. | ||
| Real quick, I want Carlos Sanz to stay around. | ||
| Give me the thing from the White House right now. | ||
| I want Ambassador Sanz first and then Cortez. | ||
| Can we go ahead and hear this? | ||
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We understand that the shooter did purchase his guns legally, but he did have a history of mental health issues and was held for an evaluation last year. | |
| So does the White House believe he should have been prevented from owning a gun because of that history, and how does the administration propose doing so in the future? | ||
| So just give me a second because I really want to touch on this. | ||
| It's really important. | ||
| Our nation is facing a mental health crisis, so it's important to call that. | ||
| One that is worsened by acts of violence like the one we saw in Buffalo that can traumatize communities, especially communities of color. | ||
| And anyone seeking support in the wake of shootings like this should contact Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-985-5990. | ||
| Help is available. | ||
| At 24-7, 365 days a week, a day of a year, I should say, for people who are experiencing emotional distress related to any natural or human-caused disaster. | ||
| Okay, hang on a second. | ||
| Look, she seems like a lovely person, but you've got to give her the hook. | ||
| This is not working. | ||
| Biden, you've got a negative. | ||
| Right track, wrong track. | ||
| You're at 80%, brother. | ||
| The 20% includes Democrats. | ||
| If you just take Independents, which are proxies, they're at like 9%. | ||
| Richard Barrett just came out of a poll in Georgia. | ||
| Independence, right track, wrong track, are 5.6%. | ||
| It's over Biden, over free regime, but you can't do this. | ||
| The point, ma'am, is not about the community as big as that is, and that's important. | ||
| The point is, he was a psychopath that they knew was a psychopath, and they didn't do anything about it. | ||
| Doesn't that make a great reply? | ||
| He's a psychopath. | ||
| Ambassador Carla Sands, your comments and analysis, ma'am. | ||
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Yeah, our Second Amendment never takes a day off. | |
| No matter what happens, it was a terrible tragedy that happened, and he didn't get the help that he needed, that the community knew, the family knew, and the authorities knew. | ||
| We're not doing enough. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| But I just want to pivot back to Pennsylvania for a second. | ||
| I'm running for the U.S. | ||
| Senate. Today is election day so go out and vote. I'm the most electable candidate in this field. | ||
| You've got two guys that have flip-flopped over and over. | ||
| The voters don't trust. They can't close the deal. One lady who lied on her resume. She's conservative but if you lie on your resume, what else are you lying about? And can you trust that person in the Senate? Steve, our constitutional rights don't take a day off because the government's not doing their job. | ||
| And we are not doing enough for our people here in the United States, whether it's the mentally ill, the homeless. | ||
| We are not compassionately serving these people. | ||
| We're shoveling billions and perhaps trillions to these illegal immigrants that Biden has opened our southern border to. | ||
| The crisis that they are creating, whether it's energy, the inflation, the invasion, the schools and indoctrination, these are crises of Biden and his administration's own making. | ||
| And we have to stop it. | ||
| The Republicans, and it has to be America First Republicans, because the rest of them go along to get along, just like the $40 billion that was just voted on. | ||
| We have to stop these radicals from fundamentally destroying our country. | ||
| This is our 1776, Steve. | ||
| Ambassador Carla Sands, Godspeed, good luck today. | ||
| We'll talk to you when this is all over. | ||
| Thank you very much for coming on The War Room. | ||
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Thanks. | |
| Go out and vote! | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| OK, we're going to have others on throughout the day. | ||
| We've got Idaho. | ||
| By the way, what a throwdown in Idaho between MAGA and ultra MAGA. | ||
| And the Republican Party and the stiffs out there are having their comeuppance today. | ||
| Real quickly, Cortez, your thoughts in the White House, babbling about it. | ||
| This guy was rolled up. | ||
| He's going to kill his high school and graduation. | ||
| The authorities know about it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And by the way, Corinne Jean-Pierre, I've done a lot of television with her over the years. | ||
| That kid should have been in a he should have been either in a jail cell or he should have been in a padded room sir Right and by the way Corinne Jean Pierre I've done a lot of television with her over the years She and I both worked at CNN at the same time No. | ||
| Not good. | ||
| audience other prices Cortez you worked at CNN believe me I was there as an America first warrior but that was just it was total deflection there and not even an artful deflection right it was a total illness and the failures the systemic failures of law enforcement of family of community right to prevent this this psychopath And her answer was, well, there's a lot of mental illness out there. | ||
| Let me give you an 800 number, right? | ||
| In other words, trying to say we can't talk about the actual issue at hand. | ||
| By the way, Nina Jankiewicz over at the Ministry of Truth in DHS, I mean, I'm sure she was beaming with pride at that answer. | ||
| But look, here's the thing. | ||
| You know, we need to be a serious country right now because we are facing systemic crises, created crises. | ||
| One of those crises is violence across this country. | ||
| Cortez, we're going to take a 90 second break. | ||
| We'll be back. | ||
| I know you've got to bounce. | ||
| We've got to do some economics. | ||
| We've got a lot going on in the second hour. | ||
| Just hang with us. |
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