June 8, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| It's going to be you, the American citizen, in power, just like Miniman, just like back in the Concord Bridge. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| We're taking action. | ||
| And that action is we're taking over school boards, we're taking over the Republican Party through the precinct committee strategy, we're taking over all the elections. | ||
| Suck on this! | ||
| We're going to take our country back and we're going to put in the right people and we're going to get the right policies. | ||
| We're not going to let you globalist elites and the running dogs for that steal this country. | ||
| One of the tragic side effects of devoting a hearing to the events of January 6th is that we will all have to hear a lot more from him. | ||
| That was Steve Bannon. | ||
| As we know, he's been charged with two counts of criminal contempt of Congress and a trial that's set to begin on July 18th. | ||
| But while this week, most of us will be focused on the events surrounding the last election, the 2020 election, Bannon is already scheming, plotting ahead to do mischief around the next one. | ||
| We just listened to Bannon describe the precinct strategy in which interested citizens, in this case disciples of the Big Lie, volunteer themselves for election grunt work in an attempt to completely rewire the foundations of our democracy. | ||
| That plot, and more specifically, Bannon himself, are the subjects of a brand-new, incredible piece of journalism in The Atlantic, American Rasputin, which details the way Bannon is attempting to insert a lit bomb into the mouth of American democracy. | ||
| From that piece of reporting, quote, this is the Democratic Party's nightmare scenario. | ||
| The hobgoblin that visits at 4 a.m., the infrastructure of civil servants on the state level, which barely held the U.S. | ||
| together in the aftermath of the 2020 election, comes entirely undone through democratic means. | ||
| Joining us now, the author of that brilliant piece of reporting, Jennifer Sr., Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The Atlantic. | ||
| We love that piece so much, too. | ||
| This is, I mean, this is a triumph. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Everyone watching should get through the whole thing. | ||
| It takes two sittings to do it. | ||
| Let me just first ask you about spending all this time inside Steve Bannon's head. | ||
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Oh my god, and how much of it he was in mine. | |
| Yeah, tell me about that. | ||
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Yeah, I mean it was bonkers. | |
| I mean he's he's this very beguiling combination of he's charming, he's insane, he's A flimflam artist and is it insanity like it's crazy and it's not tethered to reality or is it like sadistic? | ||
| He knows how much damage it's doing. | ||
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I think he's generally like monomaniacal. | |
| I think he's a megalomaniac. | ||
| I think he's a likable mental. | ||
| I think he's, um, what would I say? | ||
| I mean, I think the real confound here is you can't tell what he believes. | ||
| He's truly disorienting in this way. | ||
| He can very easily code switch and start speaking like you and me. | ||
| Speaking, uh, sounding totally reasonable. | ||
| You know, when he's off mic and he's not a howling belligerent, he can actually hear my point of view about, say, Ketanji Brown-Jackson. | ||
| You know, like he can actually have a reasonable, rational argument, and then suddenly he's a different guy. | ||
| And he slowly but surely will start inhabiting this other point of view. | ||
| And for the life of me, four months out, I could not tell you whether he believes a big lie, and neither can most people around him, as best as I can tell. | ||
| Take me through the piece. | ||
| I mean, what is his, you know, I think the scary thing about Steve Bannon and the danger of looking at him as sort of some footnote from the Trump presidency is that he's at it and he's moved on to the next project, which is sowing chaos in 2024. | ||
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Oh, it's to make this permanent, right? | |
| He wants absolutely, he wants election deniers everywhere and like the idea of this is so Bone-chillingly dangerous. | ||
| I don't even know where to kind of begin. | ||
| I mean, his idea is basically to make sure that we've replaced all of the infrastructure that currently exists with people who are inclined to blow everything up, to reject election results if they don't suit. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So this is starting at the ground, you know, at the ground level, at the precinct level. | ||
| It's at school boards, it's election inspectors. | ||
| And you start low. | ||
| You do the grunt work where you're knocking on doors and you're signing people up. | ||
| And within a matter of years, you can be running elections. | ||
| You can assume real power. | ||
| And this is what, I mean, this is what makes it Republican endangering. | ||
| It's not a game. | ||
| And there are times that I feel like he has almost this Sportsman-like. | ||
| You know, it's PT Barnum stuff. | ||
| And this is our country. | ||
| Yes, no. | ||
| It's our country, actually. | ||
| It's the deplorables' country, and it's not taking us years. | ||
| We're going to do it now. | ||
| Okay, we've got a lot going on, and we've got a lot of work to do. | ||
| We've got Naomi Wolf is going to be with us. | ||
| Chris Kobach is going to be with us about the caravan and the invasion of the southern border. | ||
| Naomi, about efforts we have to make today, about hearings that are coming up. | ||
| She's going to get us all up to speed on that on Pfizer. | ||
| We've got the Taiwan situation. | ||
| The great Bill Gertz is going to join us on Taiwan. | ||
| This essentially shot across the bow of America. | ||
| You cannot touch the chips. | ||
| We're going to go to war. | ||
| This doubled down to our special over the weekend and the week before. | ||
| We've done four hours of specials on this very topic. | ||
| The coming war over Taiwan and this weekend we combine Ukraine the bloody Ukraine with the chips on Taiwan to tell you that it's going to be a blockade. | ||
| They're going to quarantine Taiwan. | ||
| You can see it coming right now that this threat today from senior Chinese officials challenging the United States to take any action against them on sanctions or take any action about actually moving the equipment to these new locations in Texas and Arizona where we're trying to build these plants. | ||
| Okay, we're going to get to all that. | ||
| But first, I got to bring in the the queen of the of the of the of the to make this part of the precinct strategy. | ||
| And somebody that's out there training up the what they call them the Grundon's or the or the or the worker bees. | ||
| They got it wrong. | ||
| Because Cleta Mitchell, you're trained was not going to take us years to do this. | ||
| You're doing this in a matter of months because you're going around right now and training up people. | ||
| And Cleta is the best. | ||
| Cleta is the lawyer in the conservative movement. | ||
| That's been on every important organization to get them started, to be a board member, to make sure that people know what they're doing. | ||
| She's obviously very close to President Trump, but her new task and purpose is to essentially what Jennifer Sr. | ||
| from The Atlantic magazine that wrote that great piece called American Rasputin. | ||
| Of course, Nicole Wallace, who's in complete shock because participatory democracy, participatory populism, people are going to work. | ||
| Is MSNBC correct that they should be frightened that these are election deniers or these American citizens, ma'am? | ||
| These are American patriots. | ||
| We are going to stop the infiltration of our elections by the radical left. | ||
| Look, Steve, for more than a decade, the left has been infiltrating our election offices. | ||
| They have subverted the election process to have what I've started to call unobserved voting, where they move the voting to mail voting so that they can wreak havoc and they can cheat And I am part of a movement, the election integrity movement, where citizens all over this country are saying, we're not going to let the left continue to control our election offices. | ||
| And that's what they're upset about. | ||
| That's what those women on MSNBC are upset about. | ||
| They don't talk about the $2 billion. | ||
| That the left has invested in election infrastructure to support their radical ideas about stopping the in-person voting. | ||
| And we have to start fighting back. | ||
| And so we're training people. | ||
| My Election Integrity Network from the Conservative Partnership Institute, we're doing summits. | ||
| We have a summit in North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, Friday and Saturday of this week, Friday the 10th. | ||
| Saturday, the 11th, all day, go to whosecounting.us and register and come to our Election Integrity Summit in North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, this Friday and Saturday. | ||
| We're going to teach about voting machines. | ||
| We're going to talk about cleaning the voter rolls. | ||
| We're going to talk about how to be a poll watcher and a poll worker. | ||
| We're going to talk about protecting the vulnerable voters in nursing homes and group homes, where the left preys upon those people and steals their votes. | ||
| And in Arizona, for those of you from Arizona, go to AZElectionProtection.com. | ||
| That's AZElectionProtection.com. | ||
| Sign up to be an observer. | ||
| We need the army of poll watchers, observers in Arizona. | ||
| We need people to come to Raleigh this Friday and Saturday because we need to fight back against those women and MSNBC and the elites | ||
| Who call us names because we are patriots and we believe in the fundamental right to vote and we believe that elections should be conducted under the rule of law and not they're blown up by judges and left-wing groups to come up with it, manipulate the results to get what they want. | ||
| That's what they did in 2020. | ||
| We are not gonna let them ever do that again, ever. | ||
| Okay, I want to go back on something. | ||
| You said there's been $2 billion. | ||
| I mean, they're all sitting there freaking out, and you're saying, hey, when you pull the camera back, they've had Source and other people, and Zuckerberg put up $2 billion, and that's why you have Gina Griswold, that's why you have Katie Hobbs, right? | ||
| That's why you have all these radical Secretaries of State. | ||
| They were smart enough, quite frankly. | ||
| The Republican Party was asleep at the switch, and you just didn't deal with it. | ||
| That's the Republican Party. | ||
| But I want to compare and contrast. | ||
| Go back and compare your volunteer effort of training American citizens and patriots to do this and weekend seminars and they sign up. | ||
| We have and we're building the Army of the Awakened. | ||
| This is the Army of the Awakened, okay? | ||
| Compare and contrast right now the $2 billion of cash that's gone in from Zuckerberg Source and others versus the volunteer effort of CPI. | ||
| Well, let me tell you, I always say to the hundreds of people who come to our summits, we will never have their money, the money of the left. | ||
| They are awash in money. | ||
| They've got all these left-wing, guilt-ridden billionaires, like Pierre Omidyar. | ||
| He's an eBay founder. | ||
| And he has personally put in that we know of since 2011, over $250 million to build up these entities to support voting by mail. | ||
| And we have, there are myriad, you mentioned George Soros, you mentioned Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| I mean, there are all these left-wing foundations. | ||
| It is just, and I always say, we will never have their money. | ||
| We will never have the plethora of entities that they've planted inside election offices. | ||
| They've announced at least two, two, 80-plus million dollar projects this year. | ||
| One, to take over election offices by electing people at every level. | ||
| And one, to continue the SEEK DCL, the Mark Zuckerberg group that got nearly $400 million, Center for Tech and Civic Life, they're going to give out $80 million in grants to local election offices. | ||
| And so we have to do research and we have to expose where they are. | ||
| We have to fight them. | ||
| And I always say, we're never going to have their money, we're never going to have this plethora of little entities, community organizers that they have, but we have patriots. | ||
| We have millions of patriots, and all of us together can make a difference. | ||
| And we make it bite-sized chunks so people can figure out where they can best help, and we give them the tools to do that. | ||
| And I'm telling you what, we are going to watch them. | ||
| We're going to watch eyes on every ballot. | ||
| We are not going to let them pull the mischief that they were able to pull in 2020 because we weren't watching. | ||
| That's the main thing. | ||
| That's what Nicole Wallace and her friends are worried about, that we're going to be watching. | ||
| I want to go back to how to become a force multiplier. | ||
| This weekend's Raleigh, North Carolina, and you get to, if you go, you know, you've got comrades there, there's camaraderie, you get to meet new people. | ||
| These are workshops. | ||
| You're not going to sit there, one thing I guarantee you. | ||
| Because I know Cleta, she's been my lawyer for these non-profits. | ||
| Cleta's not there to have people tell war stories. | ||
| If you go, you're going to learn. | ||
| So when you walk out of there, you're essentially weaponized. | ||
| Besides Raleigh, what's the rest of the summer, as you can see it right now, because I want to send people to your website, where do they go and where else around the country are you going to do these? | ||
| Well, we've done six already in different states. | ||
| We're going to do, after Raleigh, North Carolina, we're doing Wisconsin. | ||
| Wisconsin, June 24th and 25th. | ||
| It's going to be at the Milwaukee Renaissance Hotel. | ||
| We're just putting up the flyer at whosecounting.us, whosecounting.us. | ||
| So go to that. | ||
| And then we're going to start really focusing on recruiting poll watchers. | ||
| And so go to AZElectionProtection.com. | ||
| That's the Arizona site. | ||
| We need people to sign up there, and we're going to really start pushing out some video training. | ||
| So if you haven't been able to attend a summit, we're going to have the video resources so you can download that. | ||
| We've got the Citizen's Guide to Building an Election Integrity Infrastructure in your local area, in your state. | ||
| We are arming The Army of Patriots. | ||
| That's our goal. | ||
| And so we're going to be focusing on what are the questions you should be asking about voting machines in your local area? | ||
| What are the questions that you can ask that you can do to help clean voter rolls? | ||
| How do you protect vulnerable voters? | ||
| I mean, honestly, we need people in every county who are going around and making sure that they remember that a lot of nursing homes and senior centers, assisted living The staff people have been unionized by the SEIU. | ||
| And literally, we've documented how, in Wisconsin, how they literally, the staffer people, stole the votes of elderly citizens. | ||
| And so, we can't let them keep doing that. | ||
| We can't let them have the field to themselves. | ||
| And so, come to the website, www.whoscounting.us, and then download the Citizen's Guide. | ||
| Go to azelectionprotection.com, go to the website, join us in Raleigh, plan to come to Milwaukee, and then plan to get the videos that will help you get a group of people together in your area so you can watch what your election office is doing. | ||
| That's how we fight the left. | ||
| That's how we fight and win. | ||
| Khalida, hang on for a second. | ||
| We've got another clip from Morning Meika. | ||
| I want to play this and get your response on this. | ||
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54 past the hour on Thursday, the January 6th committee will hold its first primetime hearing. | |
| Among those caught up in the investigation, former Trump aide Steve Bannon, who helped fuel conspiracy theories before the insurrection and is currently awaiting trial for refusing the committee's subpoena. | ||
| Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jennifer Senior joins us now. | ||
| She's out this morning with a new profile of Steve Bannon entitled American Rasputin. | ||
| Thank you very much for coming in. | ||
| Jonathan Lemire has the first question. | ||
| It's a fantastic profile. | ||
| I was reading it this morning. | ||
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So Steve Bannon, obviously he's fallen in and out of former President Trump's favor. | |
| They had a long period where they didn't speak. | ||
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Before January 6th, though, he was back in the center of things. | |
| First of all, just tell us where Steve Bannon is now and what sort of role does he play with the MAGA movement and the extreme right wing? | ||
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So when I started doing the research on this, it was January-ish, and I had heard from a number of sources that he had not spoken to the president in like a year. | |
| I think they kind of follow each other like two cats circling one another. | ||
| Where he is in terms of the MAGA movement, I think he is responsible for marshalling, you could make the case that he is responsible for marshalling a lot of the energy behind January 6th. | ||
| His podcast, which he insists is not a podcast but is a TV show, Although it's on, like, channel 240 of Pluto TV, which is its own weird metaphor for how kind of distant it is from where we see things. | ||
| It's got a very activist base, you know, and he's constantly having citizen activists on a show saying, how can we get to you? | ||
| You know, tell me how you get involved in local politics. | ||
| And he's really working hard to get everybody involved in the kind of superstructure and the infrastructure of the Republican Party. | ||
| You describe how he sort of gets his followers going, kind of rowing, drill sergeant type. | ||
| Use your agency! | ||
| Yeah, what does that mean? | ||
| Put your shoulder to the wheel! | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And a force multiplier. | ||
| And a force multiplier. | ||
| So what is he hoping? | ||
| And you say from the ground up. | ||
| From the ground up, meaning that if people get involved at the precinct level of politics, Election deniers will eventually rise up and be in control of all the election apparatuses, right? | ||
| That they will be Secretaries of State, Mark Fincham, guys like that who are in Arizona, right? | ||
| You start low and you ultimately end high. | ||
| End of it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He was in the Navy. | ||
| It's like Navy speak with extra habanero. | ||
| Extra. | ||
| Joe, jump in. | ||
| Yeah, I'm just curious, Jennifer, how do you balance, when you're writing about Steve Bannon, you're talking about the dangers, but how do you balance that with the fact that Steve Bannon wants you to write this article, and he wants you to say that he's dangerous for democracy, and he's going to frame this article, and he's going to talk about it, he loves this, so how do you balance that? | ||
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It's a great question. | |
| You know, exposure doesn't equal an endorsement. | ||
| I think that's journalism. | ||
| And I think we would be foolish not to pay attention to him. | ||
| I mean, I think he's going to do what he's going to do, whether we are watching or not. | ||
| And it's better for us to know what he's up to. | ||
| And so just because if we don't pay attention to him, it's not like he's not there inflaming people and helping so... | ||
| I think a really anti-democratic movement and like, you know, sort of laying dynamite beneath the floorboards of American democracy and blowing everything up. | ||
| So do you want to know about it or do you want to stick your fingers in your ears and cover your eyes? | ||
| It's our choice. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Really appreciate your coming in. | ||
| Jennifer, a new piece in The Atlantic entitled American Rasputin. | ||
| It's on Steve Bannon and it's pretty chilling. | ||
| And Joe, as we close today, D-Day, your thoughts? | ||
| Well, first of all, I would say that's a great way to put it. | ||
| A great way she put it. | ||
| And the question is that people have always wondered, it was with people like Bannon, does throwing the attention to him make them actually more powerful and stronger? | ||
| I think I agree with Jennifer. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| Cleta Mitchell, you see right there, they're absolutely panicked. | ||
| What they don't want, they want their version of democracy is what they're telling you what to do. | ||
| They don't want American citizens and patriots engaged. | ||
| All we tell people is, by the way, I don't care if you're left-wing. | ||
| If you're left-wing, go sign up and go do something. | ||
| We want total participation because we have the votes of two-thirds of the nation. | ||
| We have votes of two-thirds today. | ||
| You see it's happening in L.A. | ||
| today with African-Americans. | ||
| It's Rio Grande Valley with Hispanic-Americans. | ||
| We are the overwhelming majority of this country, and we're taking this country back this November at every level. | ||
| And, Cleta, you're one of the key parts of it. | ||
| You see they're absolutely in panic mode. | ||
| It's two different shows on MSNBC the other day. | ||
| They're completely panicked about exactly what you're doing in building the force multipliers and letting people use their agency. | ||
| Cleta Mitchell, give us your summary thoughts, ma'am. | ||
| I will say this, Steve. | ||
| At every one of our summits, people come up to me and they tell me, I'm here because I saw you on War Room. | ||
| And the reason I want to come on War Room is because that's how to communicate with the great patriots of this country. | ||
| And I dare say, Steve, that your viewership and your listenership, your audience, is far bigger than MSNBC's. | ||
| But our patriots Believe in this country. | ||
| Believe in the rule of law. | ||
| We believe elections ought to be conducted according to law, and that's why we want to watch. | ||
| We're not trying to do anything subversive, but you know how they always project. | ||
| The left always projects. | ||
| So when they say we're the ones trying to blow up the country, you know that's what they're doing. | ||
| So I urge people, come to www.whoscounting.us, sign up for Raleigh's North Carolina Summit for this weekend. | ||
| We'll have the Wisconsin Summit flyer up there in the next 24 hours. | ||
| Go to azelectionprotection.com to become an Arizona poll worker. | ||
| We need people everywhere. | ||
| Remember, 2020? | ||
| Never again. | ||
| That's our goal. | ||
| Never again. | ||
| The Army of the Awakened. | ||
| What we need is to get involved. | ||
| That's what Steve Stern said yesterday. | ||
| Cleta, thank you so much. | ||
| You're a saint for doing this. | ||
| You really are an incredible, incredible person. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| I want to bring another leader, another leader of this movement, Naomi Wolf. | ||
| We've got a little sketchy connection. | ||
| But Naomi, because I need everybody to go to work today. | ||
| And we need him to go to work on this task and purpose that you just found out. | ||
| Tell us what's going on and can people actually communicate and actually send something so that their voice can be heard about whatever's going on with the CDC or the FDA? | ||
| Can you explain exactly what's happening? | ||
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Sure. | |
| It's so awful. | ||
| The FDA has offered until the 7th to get comments in and then until the 13th | ||
| to get comments in that they may or may not read and present to the committee that is going to be deciding on the 13th and the 14th about whether to issue an emergency use authorization for kids, babies, newborns, zero to five years old to be injected with these mRNA injections. | ||
| These injections that are causing, you know, causing so much visible harm In the Pfizer documents, and just to note, you know, you have to decide what's best for you and your children, but children are not at high risk for serious outcomes from COVID. | ||
| And the Pfizer documents show that children are at risk that they do sustain heart damage and other harms from these injections. | ||
| So the FDA, you know, the same people who turned a blind eye to thousands and thousands of Serious adverse events, including death, in the Pfizer documents. | ||
| The same people who colluded are now calling for public comment, which they have to do by law. | ||
| And so you can flood the zone. | ||
| I know that your wonderful producer, Cameron, is going to post a link. | ||
| There's one directly to the government site where you submit your comment and you can tell the FDA what you think. | ||
| I personally think that those kinds of comment slots are kind of black holes because you don't see what other people have done. | ||
| So I'm offering a Daily Clout to publish your comment, and hopefully we'll have hundreds of comments. | ||
| And that way, at least it'll be public. | ||
| They can't pretend that nobody wrote in and nobody had anything to say. | ||
| And a number of our amazing volunteers, the 3,000 War Room Daily Clout Pfizer document research volunteers, are submitting their own comments and citing The findings that they've already made, the 17 to 20 reports they've already done showing the harms to people, to human beings, to moms, to babies, to children from these mRNA injections. | ||
| So have your say. | ||
| I'm personally not, you know, I just think these things are theater. | ||
| I think we need to do more than comment. | ||
| We need to keep having members of Congress demand disclosure of all documents from the FDA and investigations. | ||
| But in the very short term, have your say. | ||
| Let them know that you are not sitting citywide. | ||
| Naomi, we've got about a minute. | ||
| Just walk people through. | ||
| I want to make sure people go to either Daily Clout or how do people get organized tonight to put these comments up? | ||
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Yeah, well, we do have a submit your comment link right up on Daily Clout. | |
| I'll send the link to the actual federal database where you submit your comment. | ||
| I'll send it to your producer so you can put it in your social media. | ||
| And you can also go to James Roguski's sub stack. | ||
| He also has the link to where you submit your comments and share them on social media, share the comment form so that the FDA will hear from you. | ||
| They're really evil because they didn't announce this until kind of the eve of the deadline. | ||
| They certainly didn't issue a press release or announce it publicly, have a press conference. So they're really... | ||
| Of course not. | ||
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| ... | ||
| Real quickly, what's Daily Cloud? How do people follow you on social media? | ||
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So come to dailycloud.io. | |
| You can see all the reports that the amazing volunteers have posted, and you can also follow me on Dr. Naomi R. Wolfe, and those are the main places on Getter. | ||
| You're on fire on Getter. | ||
| Let's get all the Getter information up. | ||
| Everything for the Daily Cloud and everything for Rogowsky site. | ||
| Very important. | ||
| Naomi, thank you for coming in at the last second to do this. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| Everybody to the ramparts with the FDA. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Bill Gertz, Chris Kobach. | ||
| Gertz back on Taiwan. | ||
| Kobach on the invasion of the United States. | ||
| Next in the War Room. | ||
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Okay, welcome back. | |
| Very disturbing a story this morning out of Bloomberg. | ||
| One of the chief economists, or the chief economist in China, gave a speech. | ||
| And what she did, she threw down hard. | ||
| She said, and listen, I don't want to say it's in response to the two specials we've had the last two weeks. | ||
| We've done the coming war over Taiwan two weeks ago, and this past week we did The blood of Ukraine and the chips on Taiwan. | ||
| We've talked about this extensively. | ||
| We had Captain Finnell on to talk about the exposure of the 7th Fleet, the difficulty we would have stopping a quarantine of Taiwan or more militarization of the South China Sea. | ||
| So I reached out Today I'm honored to have, I believe, the most well-sourced reporter in Washington on all things China and CCP, writer of so many great books about it, and a guy who really knows the enemy here, the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| It's the one and only Bill Gertz from the Washington Times. | ||
| Bill, Tell me about Taiwan, your concerns about Taiwan. | ||
| I mean, you're dialed into the Pentagon. | ||
| You were very dialed into the Trump administration. | ||
| So many close colleagues of yours were inside the administration. | ||
| Walk us through what you think this means, given the tensions going. | ||
| They said if any sanctions come up, like Russia, any. | ||
| Remember, in Russia, we went to offensive economic warfare, trying to take down the central bank, trying to destroy the ruble, swept all their reserves, all the banks throughout the world. | ||
| What does this warning mean to you, sir? | ||
| Well, this is clearly an important and significant threat on the part of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| This was a speech given by a woman economist, her name is Chen Wengling, and she is reflecting the aggressive stance that China is preparing for Taiwan. | ||
| In particular, the headline on this piece was, we can't let TSMC move to the US. | ||
| So they understand that they are vulnerable from a microchip supply chain issue, and they want Taiwan. | ||
| And her statement was very clear. | ||
| They have to, she quote, recover Taiwan. | ||
| This fits with the threats that have been also made from the military, the Chinese military stating that they're going to retake the island within a few years. | ||
| You know, we've had testimony from two US Pacific, Indo-Pacific commanders saying that it's only a matter of time before the Chinese move against Taiwan. | ||
| And this is clearly something they want, this important chip factory, which produces probably 50% of the world's microchips for computers. | ||
| Listen, the Taiwan semiconductor, Cortez and I talk about it all the time, you've got to use it as a proxy for what's happening in Taiwan. | ||
| I mean, the amount of, you know, the percentage of chips they make for the world is that, but I think it's 80% of the advanced chips for the United States. | ||
| Here's what they said. | ||
| Not only did she say that, and people have to understand, everything these people say is approved. | ||
| She's just not out there winging it, give it in some paper. | ||
| She said if there are any sanctions whatsoever, like we did against Russia, they've got to go seize it. | ||
| But in addition, you brought up the point, even with us taking parts of the factory over, because now you have multi-billion dollar programs in Texas and in Arizona to rebuild the chip capacity here, as Peter Navarro and I argued in the White House in the spring of 2017. | ||
| And quite frankly, Kudlow and Cohen and these guys were all, no, let the free market dare. | ||
| We said, no, this is a massive national security interest. | ||
| Bill Gertz, is Taiwan Silicon Valley West? | ||
| Can the American economy really operate unless we have a free Taiwan? | ||
| Well, this speech by Chen was significant because they're trying to prevent Taiwan from moving factories to the United States. | ||
| They're going to be opening a big factory in the southwest. | ||
| I think it's Arizona. | ||
| And so they want to prevent that from happening. | ||
| And so, again, they're putting pressure on. | ||
| They're stepping up the rhetoric. | ||
| They're stepping up military provocations. | ||
| Plains going in there. | ||
| This is really significant. | ||
| Taiwan is a democratic dagger pointed at the heart of Beijing. | ||
| It proves the lie that the Communist Party's method, their system, Marxism-Leninism with Chinese characteristics, is the wave of the future. | ||
| Taiwan is a democratic state and that's why they want, ideologically, to get rid of it. | ||
| It's a threat to communist ideology, which is the whole point of the Communist Party's Motivation for staying in power. | ||
| Bill, do you think that the way that they'll try to do this instead of amphibious assault or air assault, because they want to keep the assets of Taiwan, do you believe that they will try a naval quarantine of Taiwan like the United States did around Cuba during the Kennedy administration? | ||
| And if that's the case, do you believe our 7th Fleet, which Captain Jim Finnell does not, do you believe the 7th Fleet could actually break that quarantine? | ||
| A blockade of Taiwan is certainly possible. | ||
| You know, China now has the largest navy in the world. | ||
| And, you know, that is one possibility. | ||
| I think also information warfare is key and subversion. | ||
| They're working aggressively within Taiwan to subvert the government. | ||
| There's actually pro-Chinese Communist Party news outlets in Taiwan. | ||
| They haven't really taken it seriously. | ||
| They haven't really developed a counter-information warfare strategy against the mainland. | ||
| It should be done. | ||
| But definitely a blockade is definitely a threat. | ||
| Whether the U.S. | ||
| Navy could counteract that, you know, right now the focus has been on wokeness and political correctness in the military. | ||
| This is one of the driving goals of the Biden administration. | ||
| So that's going to lessen our ability to deter something like that. | ||
| That's what they're looking at. | ||
| They're trying to find ways to deter China from taking this action, which the military commanders, as I mentioned, have said is almost inevitable. | ||
| Bill, you wrote the finest book, I think, on China to understand it. | ||
| How do people get access to your latest book? | ||
| And how do they get your columns and all your writings about the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese? | ||
| Yeah, I'm on Twitter and Getter and Truth Socialist, at Bill Gertz. | ||
| My website is The Gertz File. | ||
| Latest book is Deceiving the Sky, the most important book you can read on the threat posed by Communist China. | ||
| Thanks for having me on, Steve. | ||
| Deceiving the Sky. | ||
| Go to Amazon. | ||
| I tell you, it's a book. | ||
| And it's, it's, you know, it's, it's something you got to get into, because it's got so much information in it. | ||
| But if you want to find out about this coming war, we've got with the China, against the Chinese Communist Party, actually a war that they're already at war with us in hybrid unrestricted warfare, information war, cyber war, economic war, but the coming kinetic war, there's no better place than deceiving the sky. | ||
| Bill Gertz, Washington Times, go to his website. | ||
| Bill, thank you for changing your schedule around day to join us. | ||
| Really appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Captain Bannon, real quickly, let's get up. | ||
| Do we have the graphic of this draft Trump? | ||
| Things are on fire since you put it up this morning. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| Give me your latest analysis of what's going on. | ||
| The audience, so far from what I've seen in reviewing both on Your Getter and the War Room Getter, they love it. | ||
| They want Trump back in the White House as soon as possible. | ||
| So continue, the audience, continue to go to those two pages and it's also on my pages. | ||
| And leave your thoughts, comments, tell us what you really think about this, about Trump coming back into the White House. | ||
| And we want to draft him now. | ||
| We want to go now. | ||
| We don't want to wait. | ||
| Draft Trump right now. | ||
| We want Trump stepping up to the microphone and saying, hey, I'm in. | ||
| Don't need an exploratory committee and don't need any more namby-pamby. | ||
| All these rhino Republicans saying, oh, Trump should do this, Trump should do that. | ||
| People had a belly full of it. | ||
| The nation's in jeopardy. | ||
| I want to bring in now, Mo, I'll come back to you for the end of the show. | ||
| Thank you for co-hosting and being my wingman today. | ||
| I want to go to Chris Kobach, running for Secretary of State, Kansas. | ||
| Chris is I think I would have to say the number one expert in the country on all things immigration. | ||
| He was going to be undersecretary of DHS and unfortunately we didn't pull that off. | ||
| A man with the Trump administration would have been different if that had happened. | ||
| We've had, you know, Oscar Blue, Ramirez, and all the great team at Real America's Voice down in Tapachula, and you see this, you see this caravan coming, and Chris, it started, we had Oscar down a couple weeks ago, it was 1,000 people. | ||
| Then it was like 2,000 people. | ||
| We came back over the weekend, it was 12,000, it's like 15, 16, 17,000 people. | ||
| Why are these caravans coming? | ||
| What's the force in back of it? | ||
| And most importantly, given your brilliance about all of our laws, What must we do now, either at the state level in Texas or the federal level, to stop this? | ||
| Thanks for the question, Steve. | ||
| And just one correction, I'm running for Attorney General. | ||
| Used to be Secretary of State in Kansas. | ||
| Anyway, what's pushing it? | ||
| Well, you can look at the migrants themselves. | ||
| It is not family units. | ||
| It is, if you look at the videos of people coming in, it's 90% plus single males. | ||
| Why are they coming? | ||
| They're coming to work. | ||
| There are plenty of jobs that they believe they can obtain in the United States. | ||
| Take those jobs away from U.S. | ||
| citizens or people who are here legally. | ||
| This is economic migration, pure and simple. | ||
| And the other shocking thing is the sheer magnitude of it. | ||
| You know, in May, we had a record-breaking number going back more than 20 years of 220,000 apprehensions at the border. | ||
| Now we're looking at something that could be far greater than that. | ||
| And if Title 42 goes, It could be half a million or more in a single month at the border. | ||
| And why are they coming? | ||
| Because the Biden administration is inviting them. | ||
| Even though the federal district judge in Louisiana said Title 42 cannot be tossed in the trash can just yet, the Biden administration is signaling to them, well, we want to get rid of it. | ||
| We are going to appeal the judge's decision. | ||
| We are going to find some way to get rid of Title 42. | ||
| The other really big thing that I guarantee these migrants have heard Is that the Biden administration published a new rule about a month ago, a regulation that basically gives an official standing on the border, a CIS, Immigration Citizenship and Immigration Services official, gives him the ability to unilaterally grant asylum, right there! | ||
| Not in front of an immigration court, not with the United States represented by a different attorney so that all points of view can be perspective, but a single official granting asylum at the border. | ||
| That's a violation of federal law, And thank goodness, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stepped up once again to fight this fight. | ||
| So to your question, if we didn't have Republican Attorneys General who were willing to go to court and stop the Biden administration, the 100-day pause on deportations would have gone into effect. | ||
| We've already seen the remainder of Mexico basically gutted, but at least there's a shred of it left, and Title 42 would be gone. | ||
| Congress is unable to stop this lawless president And at least we have State Attorneys General stepping into the breach to do so. | ||
| And that's the principal reason that I'm running, to be Kansas Attorney General. | ||
| It can't just be Texas and maybe Louisiana or maybe Missouri from time to time. | ||
| We need more states stepping up and doing the work to hold off the Biden administration in court until we can get an executive who will actually enforce the law. | ||
| Because your theory of the case is ours, that every state's a border state and every town's a border town, right? | ||
| I mean, it's endemic. | ||
| I want to go, listen, you're, you know, was it Harvard trained, Oxford trained, you've had the best education legally, you're very steady, I call you Steady Eddie, you're very judicious, the way you say it, a lot of discernment, you know, you're not a bomb thrower like Bannon is, although some of your legal things become bombs. | ||
| Is what you've seen of what the Biden administration has done vis-a-vis the Constitution and existing law, do you believe there are grounds here for us to move on impeaching him on this invasion of the southern border? | ||
| Chris Kobach. | ||
| I do. | ||
| And the specific reason I do is that Biden has issued multiple memoranda and orders ordering executive law enforcement officials of the federal government to break the law themselves. | ||
| I'm not just saying ordering them to stop enforcing the law. | ||
| We see that every night on TV. | ||
| I'm talking about ordering federal officials who are below him in the executive branch to break the law. | ||
| That is without doubt a high crime or misdemeanor and qualifies for impeachment and removal under the Constitution. | ||
| When you say that, is it executive orders that Mayorkas got? | ||
| Were they promulgated through DHS? | ||
| Is this having to do with what you say about the granting of asylum immediately? | ||
| In what areas are you particularly concerned that they've been lawless? | ||
| Okay, let me give you a couple examples. | ||
| So, several of them were executive orders from the President himself, signed on the day he took office, January 20th, 2021. | ||
| Take, for example, the dismantling of ICE, ordering ICE officers to break the law and not deport people who federal law says must be deported. | ||
| First, it was a presidential order. | ||
| Then Mayorkas followed it up with a February 18th, 2021 memorandum. | ||
| Or actually, I believe it was the acting secretary at the time. | ||
| Then there was another memorandum from September of 2021 from Mayorkas himself. | ||
| And so what he does is he has a presidential order, and then he has his cabinet members make orders that enact, that implement these lawless executive orders. | ||
| So it's a combination of both. | ||
| With regard to the asylum change, that's a proposed rule, which means a proposed regulation, the first step of a regulation. | ||
| Again, it's using the cabinet official as the one who is delivering the illegal act, but it's all coming from President Biden. | ||
| It's not as if any of these things Are being organically generated within the Department of Homeland Security. | ||
| Why did the existing Republicans at the time, I mean you came forward and of course the war room, but why are we just hearing this now from Chris Kobach and really getting focus of Chris Kobach and Paxson and a few others? | ||
| You know, I think many people just maybe they took Biden at his word and thought that he was going to sort of be faithful to the rule of law and that he would not be a radical with respect to our borders. | ||
| But, you know, he makes Obama look like a punter, as the British would say. | ||
| I mean, he makes Obama's actions on the border look fairly respectful. | ||
| And when Obama was breaking the law as well, I mean, Biden or whoever is pulling the strings and controls what Biden says and does, This is full-scale open borders, and it is an invasion by any definition, and it is something the country has never seen before. | ||
| You're looking at 200,000 month after month after month, more than a million, approaching 2 million if you count getaways, coming in in a single year. | ||
| We've never seen anything like this. | ||
| And if Title 42 goes, it's going to be like the population of a small state coming in every month. | ||
| There has to be some enforcement of our laws We have a completely lawless president. | ||
| I think some people, some Republicans are finally waking up to it. | ||
| And you know, I think, Steve, I think some Independents and Democrats are waking up to it as well. | ||
| Well, the Hispanics, this is why we're going to carry the Rio Grande Valley. | ||
| This is why we're going to have such a big turnout today in Los Angeles. | ||
| The Hispanic community absolutely gets it. | ||
| The African-American community is starting to awaken to this. | ||
| This is a great awakening going on right now of independence models. | ||
| Look, in the Rio Grande Valley, where it comes across first, we're going to get 50 or 60 percent of the vote this year of working-class Hispanics. | ||
| They understand that we have their back, and it's totally lawless. | ||
| I want people, just take a minute, and I want to walk through, because, look, listen, Kobak is special. | ||
| Kobach is a guy that has been on this since the early days of the terrorist situation with Askrof. | ||
| He knows the law. | ||
| He knows exactly what he's talking about. | ||
| He's a very steady hand. | ||
| Walk through what you're doing to back the sheriffs down in Texas. | ||
| Walk through what you've been fighting right now, and how can people find out more about your work and how to support you? | ||
| Yeah, I appreciate you mentioning that case. | ||
| We've got another case in federal district court in Galveston, Texas, where a group of seven Texas counties and sheriffs are suing the Biden administration Precisely about what we were just talking about, how the Biden administration is ordering ICE not to respond anymore when sheriffs call and say, hey, I've just picked up a smuggler plus 10 illegal aliens. | ||
| When the Biden administration is ordering ICE to release people from state penitentiaries who should be normally, under the law, transferred to ICE and then promptly deported. | ||
| So these sheriffs are trying to protect their communities. | ||
| I'm representing them on behalf of the Alliance for Free Citizens in court. | ||
| So we're fighting that as well. | ||
| But there are so many battles, just on the field of immigration, where the Biden administration has broken the law. | ||
| Texas, as I mentioned, bringing that lawsuit to stop the granting of asylum by officials right at the border. | ||
| The Title 42 lawsuit brought by Alabama, sorry, not Alabama, Louisiana, along with some help from Missouri. | ||
| It is extraordinary how many violations of law are occurring simultaneously That's why I think the State Attorneys General are actually, right now, the most important officials in actually getting legal action to stop Biden. | ||
| People can follow me at chriskobach.com. | ||
| That's K-R-I-S-K-O-B-A-C-H dot com. | ||
| And my handle on virtually all the social media platforms is chriskobach, K-R-I-S-K-O-B-A-C-H. | ||
| If people are interested in following your campaign and learn more about that in Kansas for AG, how do they, where do they go? | ||
| I would say go to the website. | ||
| ChrisKobach.com. | ||
| K-R-I-S-K-O-B-A-C-H dot com. | ||
| They can follow it right there. | ||
| You're a patriot and a hero, brother. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Chris Kobach. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Captain Bannon, let's get back in here, and I want to get up on the screen. | ||
| Everybody can go to, we've just got it on Getter right now, we may expand it out, but I want people to learn how to use Getter. | ||
| Go to Getter, either the War Room site, or go to Getter from my site, at Steve Bannon, on Getter. | ||
| Simple to learn how to join, and give me your comments, your thoughts, your observations on exactly this. | ||
| Draft Trump, and do it now, the summer of 2022. | ||
| Captain Bannon, tell me how it's going, what kind of volume have we got? | ||
| People want President Trump back in the White House immediately. | ||
| They want him to come back in and save this country. | ||
| Everything that Joe Biden has touched, he's ruined. | ||
| So they want Trump as soon as possible. | ||
| And they do not want to wait until 2024. | ||
| So the vast majority of the comments we've got are supporting drafting today. | ||
| Let's announce today. | ||
| No exploratory committee, nothing. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Announce you're running for president. | ||
| Is that the sense we're getting right now, Captain Bannon? | ||
| After reviewing the comments, that's the sense that I'm getting is that people want him in immediately. | ||
| And it's very positive feedback after seeing the Okay, did she just freeze up? | ||
| Give me your real quick, I've got 30 seconds. | ||
| I know you're always upset unless you get your social media up here. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| So you can find me on Getter and Twitter at Maureen underscore Bannon and also on Instagram at real Maureen Bannon. | ||
| If I don't give her time to put that Graham thing up against her, she gets very snippy afterwards. | ||
| Captain Bannon, thank you very much. | ||
| You're going to be my wingman for the rest of the week here on War Room Battleground. | ||
| We're going to see you at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. | ||
| It's going to be pretty intense. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| You're going to be back in the War Room. |
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