July 2, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| General Washington still awaits our reply to the problem of reenlistments. | ||
| The King's seal. | ||
| Now he respectfully suggests that a salary be granted our soldiers commensurate with their sacrifice. | ||
| But he has no money on hand to pay them. | ||
| Tents, soap, shoes and blankets are also greatly wanted. | ||
| The army recently took shipment of 50 crates of rifles, all without the flints required to shoot them. | ||
| The Proclamation by King George III. | ||
| Many of our subjects, misled by a desperate conspiracy of dangerous and ill-designing men, have forgotten the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them, and have declared rebellion And traitorously levied war against us. | ||
| It is the better part of wisdom to put a speedy end to such disorders. | ||
| We have fought fit to issue our royal proclamation that all our royal officers, both civil and military, are obliged to suppress such rebellion and bring the traitors to justice. | ||
| When the unhappy and deluded multitude, against whom this force shall be directed, shall become sensible of their error, I shall be ready to receive the misled with tenderness and mercy. | ||
| For those who persist in their treason. | ||
| For those who persist in their treason. | ||
| The punishment shall be death by hanging. | ||
| Given in Parliament this 26th day of October in the year... | ||
| God save the King. | ||
| 1775. | ||
| God save the King. | ||
| God damn the King. | ||
| God bless the King. | ||
| Who else could have brought such a spirit of unity to this Congress? | ||
| We will now all hang together. | ||
| Or, most assuredly, we will all hang separately. | ||
| The question is no longer whether there shall be independence, but when. | ||
| If we force a decision too soon, we may wreak disaster. | ||
| Independence without unanimity means nothing. | ||
| I'm in complete agreement, Doctor. | ||
| I will leave immediately. | ||
| The Virginia Convention must free us to act. | ||
| All 13 clocks must strike at the same second. | ||
| All 13 clocks must strike at the same second. | ||
| That's from John Adams. | ||
| It's Saturday, the 2nd of July, the year of our Lord, 2022, obviously for the last couple of days. | ||
| And then today and through Monday, we're doing special commemoration, celebration and focus on the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| Today is actually technically the day that the Declaration of Independence was signed. | ||
| In fact, There's a story out that Adams, he was so adamant as Adams would be about the Independence Day being on the 2nd when the deal was actually signed, not when it was promulgated, that he would refuse speaking engagements on the 4th because he said that's not the real date, it's got to be on the 2nd. | ||
| as only Adamus would. You saw right there, they were, what is it, ill-designing men, a better part of wisdom. The reason today is the gathering storm and I want to do something a little different today over our commemoration of 4th of July and the reason is that for the, and we'll get into this tomorrow with Dave, or Monday with Dave Brat. | ||
| The Declaration was signed, but we're already a year into the war, after Lexington and Concord, I think it was in April 1775, so you're over, what, 15 or 16 months since the real conflict had started, and it was, what, 5, 6, 7, 8 years to really punch through and get it done, of combat and fighting that took place everywhere from New York in the 90 days right after the Declaration was signed, all the way down to the Carolinas and then ending in Yorktown. | ||
| So in the big movements of American history, whether it's the Revolution or then 80, 100 years later, the Civil War, and then 100 years later, World War II, these big turnings in American history are all around a conflict, right? | ||
| And right now, I've asked some of the top thinkers and experts in the country to join us today to talk about the gathering storm around the United States of America. | ||
| And we're going to have a number of really our best and brightest over the next couple hours to go through this. | ||
| So you've got something to think about and really to, I think, very deeply as you celebrate, you got the cookouts, everything, maybe get a conversation going with your neighbors, your friends, your colleagues, your family, about where the United States really stands. | ||
| In the world today, and what is the gathering storm around our country, both domestically but in this show, really, these kind of international events that are happening. | ||
| I've got Frank Gaffney from Center for Security Policy, also one of the founders of the We've got the Committee on the Present Danger of China, we've got Brian Kennedy, who's one of the founders and the current chairman, and we've got, in the next couple of segments, Steve Mosher from the Population Institute for the study of that, and one of the best books about China, The Bully of Asia. | ||
| Frank, let me give it to you first, because I want to get some thinking first about the gathering storm, where we are, what's going on geopolitically, on your radar. | ||
| Then later we'll talk about a situation report and then talk about this thing called hybrid warfare or unrestricted warfare, which is a new concept, I think, to the American people because they think of warfare, they think of tanks and guns and planes and, you know, grainy black-and-white photography from World War II. | ||
| So, Frank, when we talk about a gathering storm from your perspective, and you've dedicated your professional life to both the study and the defense of our country, the study of war, national security, and the defense of the country. When we talk about this on Independence Day weekend, and particularly on the 246th day of the signing of the Declaration, where are we? Where is the United States of America, sir? | ||
| Steve, I'd be remiss not to start by saying thank you for the patriotism that you exhibit every single day, and that you inspire countless others, because the gathering storm is upon us. | ||
| That is a phrase that Winston Churchill used to describe in his magnificent, epic, historical memoirs of the Second World War. | ||
| The beginning phases of it was The gathering storm that broke upon his country after others on the continent were attacked mercilessly by Adolf Hitler and his ally at the time, Joseph Stalin. | ||
| In our time, we see another axis, if you will. | ||
| Certainly, the successor to Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin, is the junior partner in it at the moment. | ||
| The senior partner, unmistakably, is Xi Jinping, the Hitler, if you will, of our time, only, I would argue, vastly more powerful and more dangerous. | ||
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They have auxiliaries. | |
| that are in the mix, the North Koreans, the Iranians, I would argue the Taliban, assorted radical leftist Marxist communist dictators now emerging throughout our own hemisphere, and others who will pile on if a jump ball gets going. | ||
| And so, to just put the metaphor here, I think where we find ourselves is at a moment very like the 1939 period, in which arguably the war has already begun. | ||
| I personally think that what Putin was given permission by Xi to do with his foray into Ukraine, as long as it didn't interfere with the genocide games, was the opening act. | ||
| And we're now looking at, and we'll be discussing in the course of today's really terrific conversations, how this is shaping up to be the next phase, perhaps, with the Chinese making their move in the Western Pacific against Taiwan, perhaps. | ||
| Other allies of ours and maybe even our own assets, personnel and territory. | ||
| And then what happens if all of that takes place that turns this into truly a global conflagration, World War III. | ||
| And I can't think of better people to discuss all this with than the team that we've assembled. | ||
| I did want to just mention in closing, Steve, that one of the things we'll be featuring on The latter part of the program is a brand new study that was released this week. | ||
| We call it our Team B3 report by the Center for Security Policy and the leadership of the co-chairman, the former House Intelligence Committee chairman, Pete Hoekstra, and Lieutenant General William Jerry Boykin, United States Army, retired. | ||
| His last duty station was as the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. It's a terrific report. We'll be talking more about it as a subset of this war that I'm afraid is now upon us at the hands of notably the Chinese Communist Party. The power of the team report, it shows you that this thing's happening. | ||
| I mean, it's already begun. | ||
| Brian Kennedy, and by the way, Frank, we're going to try to reboot you as we do this, get you a little clearer. | ||
| Let me go to Brian Kennedy. | ||
| Brian, you talk about the gathering story and about Churchill. | ||
| When you look back at the history of time, and this is for our audience, you know, in the United States they look at Pearl Harbor, and that kind of was the inciting incident. | ||
| And then, you know, you get to Normandy pretty quickly, or in the American mind. | ||
| And maybe, maybe some people think, well, the invasion of Poland on the 1st of September 1939. | ||
| But when you look at it in the fullness of time, you go back, you see that with, you know, you could argue Japan from 1931, or at least in the invasion of Manchuria, the war began on the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| And with Spain and the Civil War there, that there were, just like bloody Kansas as a preamble to the Civil War, you had these things going on. | ||
| And that's kind of... | ||
| the part we're in now. | ||
| It actually is in war, and you'll understand that 20 or 30 years from now. | ||
| What we want the audience to do is understand it today. | ||
| Brian Kennedy. | ||
| Well, again, thank you, Steve, for having us on the show today. | ||
| Great to be with you, as always. | ||
| Frank's reference to Churchill seems apt to me. | ||
| Churchill was looking at the world, and he went around England at the time, With a small group he called The Focus, to try to explain to the British people that war was coming, that all the signs had been made clear by Hitler. | ||
| You could read Hitler's speeches. | ||
| You could listen to them. | ||
| You saw what was going on in Asia, and that the British people ought to prepare for war. | ||
| Today in the United States, we're preparing for war again. | ||
| I believe war has already come to our shores. | ||
| In May of 2019, the Chinese Communist Party issued a declaration of a people's war to alert the Chinese people that they were going to be entering a phase against the United States where they would go with an unrestricted warfare strategy against the United States. | ||
| Within six months, we saw the spread of COVID throughout the country. | ||
| And then we saw the summer of violence. | ||
| And we're coming up actually, I was reminded of this watching those The, uh, the intro with the British troops and the American troops fighting in the American War of Independence. | ||
| We're coming up on the two-year anniversary of the Trump administration shutting down the Houston consulate of the Chinese government because the Chinese government in Houston, Texas, was sponsoring both espionage and political influence operations, including helping the BLM and Antifa riots. | ||
| You're absolutely right. | ||
| We've entered a period where war is actually going on. | ||
| Okay, we'll take a short commercial break. | ||
| This is our Independence Day weekend special, The Gathering Storm, the beginning commencement of the Third World War. | ||
| I have Brian Kennedy, Frank Gaffney, Steve Mosher. | ||
| We'll take a short break. | ||
| We're gonna be back in a moment. | ||
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| 🎵 Lift up your hands, ye heroes, and swear with proud disdain 🎵 | ||
| 🎵 The wretch that a wooden snare you shall spread his net in vain 🎵 | ||
| Should Europe empty, all her force will meet them in a rain, And fight and shout and shout and fight for free America. | ||
| We let fair freedom hither and lo, the desert smiled. | ||
| A paradise of pleasure was opened in the wild. | ||
| Your harvest, bold Americans, no power shall snatch away. | ||
| Preserve, preserve, preserve your rights in a free America. | ||
| We're torn from a world of tyrants beneath this western sky. | ||
| We've formed a new dominion, a land of liberty. | ||
| The world shall own we're free men here and such will ever be. | ||
| Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah, huzzah for free America. | ||
| Some future day shall crown us the masters of the main. | ||
| Our fleet shall speak in thunder to England, France and Spain. | ||
| Nations o'er the ocean spread shall tremble and obey. | ||
| The prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America. | ||
| President recognizes Mr. Adams of Massachusetts. | ||
| The prince of America. | ||
| Thanks for watching! | ||
| Bye! | ||
| Objects of the most stupendous magnitude. | ||
| Measures which will affect the lives of millions, born and unborn, are now before us. | ||
| We must expect a great expense of blood to obtain them. | ||
| But we must always remember that a free constitution of civil government cannot be purchased at too dear a rate, as there is nothing on this side of Jerusalem of greater importance to mankind. | ||
| My worthy colleague from Pennsylvania has spoken with great ingenuity and eloquence. | ||
| you He has given you a grim prognostication of our national future. | ||
| But where he foresees apocalypse, I see hope. | ||
| I see a new nation. | ||
| Ready to take its place in the world. | ||
| Not an empire, but a republic. | ||
| And a republic of wars, not men. | ||
| Gentlemen, we are in the very midst of revolution. | ||
| The most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the history of the world. | ||
| How few of the human race have ever had an opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children. | ||
| I am not without apprehensions, gentlemen. | ||
| you you But the end we have in sight is more than worth all the means. | ||
| I believe, sirs, that the hour has come. | ||
| My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. | ||
| Oh Oh All that I have, all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready to stake upon it. | ||
| While I live, let me have a country. | ||
| A free country. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Bye! | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| That's obviously the John Adams, that was HBO. | ||
| Recommend everybody get it. | ||
| If you haven't gotten to watch it multiple times, it is a absolute classic and strongly recommend get for your family and to watch it. | ||
| This is our Independence Day weekend special. | ||
| We're going to have more special programming all day Monday. | ||
| And we've always had some special stuff coming up, leading up to this. | ||
| Want to go now to so Brian Kennedy when you go back today's the the 246 anniversary of the signing You understand the Giants on shoulders of which we stand I would actually argue if you look at the revolution you look at the Civil War you look at the World War two the greatest crisis the gathering storm of the greatest crisis in the history of this Republic a Republic that those gentlemen that revolutionary generation bequeath to us that this is the greatest crisis | ||
| Brian Kennedy. | ||
| Yes, I think you're absolutely right, Steve. | ||
| Abraham Lincoln called those men of the founding era Iron Men. | ||
| Because he saw in them the resolution that you saw in John Adams to build a country that was free. | ||
| Today, that country is in crisis. | ||
| We've seen threats from abroad with communist China, but we really see a decay within among America's political elites. | ||
| America's political elites have forgotten what that republic is all about. | ||
| It is forgotten that all men are created equal, that the government should be limited in its nature, and that the purpose of government is to protect our natural rights. | ||
| And if ever we needed to band together as a country is today. | ||
| And thank God for President Trump, and for you, and the MAGA movement, and especially this war room posse. | ||
| Or joining together with the kind of spirit and love and unity and vigor that we're going to need to recapture the spirit that brought America together. | ||
| At our founding, we're going to need that same revolutionary spirit again if we're going to recover the American experiment in free government. | ||
| Without that, without that unity and spirit, and need I say, love for one another and for our country, true patriotism, all could be lost. | ||
| But every day that I listen to you on The War Room, I am more and more encouraged Because I see that devotion to our freedom that our countrymen have. | ||
| And it will require a great deal of fighting, fighting in the best political, rhetorical sense. | ||
| But the American people are up for it. | ||
| I think we've never been more unified, even in this very dark time. | ||
| Steve Mosher, on that, our enemies, particularly the Chinese Communist Party, they know from which we came, from the Adamses and the Jeffersons and the Franklins, and they see our political leadership today. | ||
| What do you think, how do they size up the United States? | ||
| Do they size it up that we are a generation that our Iron Men, like Lincoln, called our founders? | ||
| Steve, thank you for doing the show today. | ||
| We have enemies both without and within. | ||
| I must say that vis-a-vis China, we would not be in the position that we are in today were it not for the four years of the Trump administration that you so nobly served in. | ||
| I was part of the Catholic advisory group for the Trump campaign in 2016 and 2020. | ||
| In my view, we won both times. | ||
| And had it not been for that four years, we would be much further down the road, both to dissolution from within and to encroachment from communist China. | ||
| It is the biggest threat internationally by far. | ||
| Russia pales in comparison, as you appropriately said. | ||
| Russia is now the junior partner in the Sino-Russian partnership after being the senior partner way back in the 1950s. | ||
| And I would start in talking about the communist movement in China. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party, 94 million people strong. | ||
| I would start by remembering always that the Chinese Communist Party's principal enemy has always been the United States of America. | ||
| This was true in the 1930s and 40s. | ||
| It was temporarily in abeyance in the late 1940s when Chairman Mao successfully convinced communists in our own State Department and in the White House that he was nothing but an agrarian reformer who really wanted nothing but Democracy model upon the United States. | ||
| That fooled General George Marshall and we allowed the communists to come to power in 1949 and 1950. | ||
| They played the same game against us in the 1980s and 90s when they pretended in many respects to be going our way so they could get access to our science and our technology. | ||
| And chiefly our financing and our consumer market to buy the cheap Chinese made goods that are made by the equivalent of slave labor. | ||
| Now, of course, under the misrule of Xi Jinping, the Communist Party leader, we see the Chinese Communist Party returning to its roots. | ||
| This was made clear in 2013 when Xi Jinping took power because he published a nine-point central committee directive which said that the enemy of the Chinese Communist Party was the rule of law. | ||
| The enemy was human rights. | ||
| The enemy was freedom, the free market. | ||
| The enemy was everything the United States stands for. | ||
| And they have been at war with us really since their founding, but it has gotten much more vicious, much more aggressive, and I'm afraid is going to go kinetic. | ||
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We're going to get into all of that next. | |
| This is the Independence Day weekend special, The Gathering Storm. | ||
| You've got Stephen Mosher, Frank Gaffney, Brian Kennedy, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Take a short break. | ||
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| The wretch that would ensnare you shall spread his net in vain. | ||
| Should Europe empty, all her force will meet them in the red. | ||
| Okay, that is Diane Terraz. | ||
| For those that see our specials, you know that we're very big fans. | ||
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| That's from her album, The Songs of the American Revolution. | ||
| That song, we'll compare it tomorrow. | ||
| I mean, on Monday we're going to do an analysis of that song. | ||
| I think it's the tune of the British Grenadiers, which she also sings. | ||
| And they changed the words to, it's a patriotic song during the revolution. | ||
| I've got Moshe Gaffney and Kennedy. | ||
| Let me go back to Stephen Moshe. | ||
| So Stephen, for All the problems we have internally, and obviously there's these massive domestic problems, when you look at internationally, particularly what's happened, it seems like it's picking up at an excelling rate. | ||
| In the second hour we're going to get into your new Team B report on the Wuhan, on the biological weapons program, everything that happened in the pandemic, really that went at the top of the Trump administration this summer and fall of 19 was like no other. | ||
| But I want to go back to something Frank Gaffney continues to talk about, and I don't think enough Americans, and particularly policymakers here in town, are focused on. | ||
| And that is May of 2019, with the declaration of the People's War. | ||
| They also, at that time, announced a massive expansion of One Belt, One Road. | ||
| Putin was in town. | ||
| They had the big conference. | ||
| They announced that they were not going to sign what is the major deal of President Trump, which covered the seven deadly sins. | ||
| They broke off that after a year and a half of negotiations, which was our big focus in the White House, said they weren't going to do that. | ||
| Later came back with this kind of smaller deal on tariffs. | ||
| And they also made a fundamental that Ian Bremmer actually says the biggest, most important geopolitical move of the 21st century, which they announced that we are going to go two separate ways on technology. | ||
| We're going to have a break with the West and we're going to do our own. | ||
| And then shortly after they declared the People's War. | ||
| Because I think people, when they even think of World War II, they don't understand that the Nazis and the fascists and the Russians all working together, they had plans and designs and strategies that they were executing on while England slept and while America slept. | ||
| And right now, we are certainly sleeping, because every night on TV, it's all Russia, it's all Ukraine, it's the Eastern Border War. | ||
| We're not focused on the fundamental, full-spectrum, hybrid, unrestricted warfare that they're hitting us on. | ||
| Information war, cyber war, economic war. | ||
| So, sir, since you're an expert, and your book's called The Bully of Asia, I think your publisher must have had something to do with it, because if you read your book, it's the monster of Asia. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party, as Gavin said, is the most monstrous dictatorship With power. | ||
| There's been other monstrous ones that have been tinier, but of any scale and power, and it is the most existential threat ever. | ||
| Not just to the Judeo-Christian West, but specifically to the United States of America and the American people. | ||
| Steve Mosher. | ||
| Yeah, Steve. | ||
| You know, if you talk about the great mass murders of human history, Chairman Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party in general ranks at the very top. | ||
| And it's not even close. | ||
| I mean, look, Chairman Mao and the Chinese Communist Party killed 100 million Chinese. | ||
| If you add into that the 400 little victims of the one-child policy, many of whom were killed right before or right after birth, the total death toll caused by the Chinese Communist Party is 500 million. | ||
| That's a half billion people. | ||
| So he makes Stalin and Hitler look like pikers in that regard. | ||
| I think, to go back to the World War II metaphor, the gathering storm... Can you just do one thing? | ||
| Right before we get to the metaphor of the storm. | ||
| I need to go back to the math, because nobody... And this is on the Chinese people! | ||
| This is on the Chinese people. | ||
| They're the greatest. | ||
| The Chinese people. | ||
| Go back to that. | ||
| A hundred million they've killed. | ||
| Famine. | ||
| Concentration camps. | ||
| Cultural revolution. | ||
| Firing squads. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| But then, and nobody talks about this, 400 million people in the one-child policy, mainly through late stages of abortion. | ||
| Stephen Mosher? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I think you have to add that to the death toll. | ||
| And this was the doing of the Chinese Communist Party on the grounds that the excuse was the only way they could develop China was by radically reducing the number of babies born, as if The birth of babies, who are the ultimate resource. | ||
| They grow up into productive human beings who produce more than they consume. | ||
| The Chinese people being among the most productive, enterprising, hard-working people on the planet. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party wantonly killed 400 million of the most productive, enterprising people on the planet. | ||
| And now, of course, they have a dying population and excess of men, which I believe Feeds into the aggressiveness that we see on the part of the Chinese Communist Party right now. | ||
| You've got tens of millions of young men running around who will not be able to find brides ever. | ||
| Their brides, the young women that they would have married, were killed before and right after birth by female infanticide, by sex-selective abortion. | ||
| So you've got a lot of excess testosterone running around China, and the Chinese Communist Party, I think, is increasingly ready to unleash it on not just Taiwan, but on wider parts of the world as well. | ||
| But 500 million, a half billion people, the greatest killing machine in human history has been the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| It has been a killing machine since its founding. | ||
| There were purges, mass murders, In the 30s, in the so-called red base areas, there was mass murder as soon as they took power in the 1950s with the killing of what they called landlords. | ||
| People who owned small plots of land were called landlords. | ||
| And killed by the millions. | ||
| There was the identification of one class enemy after another. | ||
| You see, the Chinese Communist Party, like all communist parties, is a war party. | ||
| It has to be at war, either at home or abroad, at all periods of time. | ||
| And so at home, it identifies a class enemy, and it targets that class, and it eliminates that class. | ||
| And this happened in the Cultural Revolution. | ||
| It's happening now with regard to the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, the Mongols in northern China. | ||
| They're all being targeted for gradual genocide. | ||
| So this is how the system, the Communist Party, maintains its totalitarian control over the Chinese people. | ||
| The mayor of Beijing just said That we're going to have to maintain the COVID zero policy for another five years. | ||
| What is that but another way of maintaining the muscular tone of the system by telling the Chinese people we can lock you up in your apartments at any moment of any day and and keep you there for weeks on end even if you starve to death in the meantime. | ||
| So this is the kind of system that is not content with just governing 1.4 Billion Chinese. | ||
| It wants to govern the entire world. | ||
| It sees the United States as its ultimate enemy, and it wants to ultimately destroy us and be the dominant power on the planet. | ||
| They've made no secret of these plans. | ||
| All we have to do is what I've done, and that is read what the Chinese Communist Party leaders themselves are saying. | ||
| And they will understand, people will understand in the United States that this is the real existential threat to the United States. | ||
| It is a threat to our very existence as a free people. | ||
| Moshe, people say, oh, you guys, particularly the Committee on Present Danger, you guys are hairs on fire. | ||
| This is a civilization, a country that's never been expansionary. | ||
| They only care about what's inside China. | ||
| What do you say to that, sir? | ||
| Well, I say that Chinese civilization started on the North China Plain and had expanded westward, expanded northward into Manchuria, expanded westward into what they call Xinjiang, the New Territories, which they just took over in 1950. | ||
| It expanded southwestward into Tibet, which was a free and independent country for several thousand years. | ||
| It expanded southward into the area of what used to be controlled by the Thai people, who are now pushed south into Thailand. | ||
| So China has always been an expansionist country. | ||
| It is the biggest surviving empire in the world today. | ||
| More than half of China's territory actually consists of territories that, until recent history, belonged to the Manchus, the Uyghurs, the Kazakhs, the Uzbeks, and, of course, the Tibetans. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, you talked about the People's War, the Declaration. | ||
| Go back into May 19. | ||
| Was part of it an expansionary outlook of One Belt, One Road? | ||
| Did they have designs on controlling the entire Eurasian landmass through this People's War, sir? | ||
| If properly understood, what the Chinese Communist Party has been doing under Xi Jinping is A truly global empire building operation. | ||
| They call it the Belt and Road Initiative. | ||
| There are some 145 countries, I think at last count, out of 190 or so in the world today, that are now in some form or fashion hooked up with this infrastructure build out, but basically of a colonial character. | ||
| So I couldn't agree more with what Brian has said, what | ||
| Steve has said what you've said about the ambitions of this regime in Beijing and its ability now to marshal unprecedented resources, including, as we talk about frequently on this program, our money for the purpose of building out the empire, the infrastructure to support it, the power projection capabilities to dominate | ||
| And to ensure that there isn't anyone who will stand in their way. | ||
| And just to close the loop on several of these points, to the extent that they can use class warfare, or in our case, racist warfare techniques of Mao's, to bring down us inside the United States, to divide us, to turn us against each other, to enable the | ||
| Well, fifth column, I would call them, the Marxists, the communists, the radical leftists, what have you, inside the United States, it greatly enhances the likelihood of success in taking us out, and there will be no impediment to the realization of their ambitions worldwide if they succeed. | ||
| Brian, go back to Houston. | ||
| I think it's fascinating. | ||
| I don't think anybody in the audience understands this. | ||
| Talk about this fifth column and talk about what they did in their Houston consulate. | ||
| Well, out of each consulate in America, the Chinese Communist Party runs various what they call fox hunt groups. | ||
| Where you have actual members of the Chinese consulate engaged in intimidation espionage with and among people within the Chinese community, Chinese Americans that are living and doing business in the United States. | ||
| They go to them. | ||
| They try to have influence. | ||
| They go to politicians and try to have influence. | ||
| They do engage in espionage. | ||
| Back in 2020, not merely were they doing that. | ||
| Mike Pompeo and the State Department was examining all that. | ||
| But they saw, even though this was not widely talked about in public, they also saw that they were helping BLM and Antifa coordinate some of the riots in the greater Houston area. | ||
| And when you combine helping BLM and Antifa promote violence in the United States, along with doing untold economic damage in this country, with espionage and political intimidation of Chinese Americans. | ||
| Finally, the Trump administration said enough is enough. | ||
| We're closing the consulate. | ||
| We're coming up on the two year anniversary of that. | ||
| It's not been reopened. | ||
| And so there's an example of the fact that not merely was it promoting violence, but it was also hurting America economically. | ||
| Steve Mosher, I know we've got to let you go. | ||
| How do people get to you, sir? | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| How do they get to the book? | ||
| Well, I apologize for still being on Twitter. | ||
| I am on other social media as well, at Steven Mosher. | ||
| And our website at Population Research Institute is pop.org, pop.org. | ||
| And I'm also a member of the Committee on the Present Danger of China, and I'd like to thank Brian and Frank for leading that initiative, and of course for you for All of you, great service to the Republic. | ||
| thank you my friend steve mosher nobody knows china better i gotta tell you get the book uh bully evasion we'll put it up on the uh on the uh site here momentarily short commercial break kevin freeman economic warfare is going to join us next on this commemoration weekend of our independence lift up your hands heroes and swear with proud disdain | ||
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the wretch that a wooden snare you shall spread his net in vain Should Europe empty, all her force will meet them in a rain, And fight and shout and shout and fight for free America. | |
| We let fair freedom hither and lo, the desert smiled. | ||
| A paradise of pleasure was opened in the wild. | ||
| Your harvest, bold Americans, no power shall snatch away. | ||
| Preserve, preserve, preserve your rights in a free America. | ||
| Torn from a world of tyrants beneath this western sky, we've formed a new dominion, a land of liberty. | ||
| The world shall own we're free, been here and such we'll ever be. | ||
| Huzzah! | ||
| Huzzah! | ||
| For free America! | ||
| Some future day shall crown us the masters of the main. | ||
| Our fleet shall speak in thunder to England, France, and Spain. | ||
| Nations o'er the ocean spread shall tremble and obey the prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America. | ||
| Diane Taraz there with Free America. | ||
| Okay, it's July 2nd, Saturday. | ||
| We're going to end up the first hour here. | ||
| We're going to get the second hour. | ||
| We had a little technical problem with Kevin Freeman. | ||
| We're going to have him in the next hour. | ||
| I want to go back to Brian Kennedy. | ||
| Brian, here's the thing. | ||
| You hear Frank, you hear Mosher, you hear people that are professional and have been doing this a long time. | ||
| This city, Washington, D.C., has got a lot of smart people in it. | ||
| Why does it seem like we're doing another thing of the 1930s, where Jack Kennedy had to write the book Why England Slept? | ||
| You see why America is sleeping right now. | ||
| What is it about our elites, cultural, political, and financial business? | ||
| Yeah, that's a great question Steve. | ||
| this burning issue is and that is the Chinese Communist Party is an existential threat to the entire Judeo-Christian West and particularly the United States, sir. | ||
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Yeah, that's a great question, Steve. | |
| On the one hand, we live in a republic where people, you know, work hard, they raise their families, they don't think about foreign affairs and they expect that our elites in Washington will concern themselves with these. | ||
| But it turns out the elites in Washington, invariably in this country, don't take these things seriously. | ||
| And I'm reminded of Abraham Lincoln, who said that, you know, in his Lyceum address, that all the armies of Europe and Asia could not by a trial of a thousand years. | ||
| Take a drink from the Ohio River, that if destruction be our lot, it will be, you know, we're either going to live forever or die by suicide. | ||
| And he was trying to explain that the only way we can get this wrong is if we, the American people, get it wrong, don't see the seriousness of all these things. | ||
| When you look at American elites, especially our financial elites, like those folks on Wall Street, Larry Fink at BlackRock, others at the big investment banks, all they see is the money that can be made in China, and they don't see the threat that the Chinese pose to the American people. | ||
| They don't see that when these folks on Wall Street take the retirement funds of Americans and invest it in Chinese corporations, many of whom are building ballistic missiles that are going to be aimed at the United States, or armaments that can be used in a theater combat against the United States. | ||
| These folks on Wall Street don't seem to care. | ||
| They don't think that's important. | ||
| They think that war is some kind of abstraction, or that the future is somehow with communist China, and that America is a secondary power. | ||
| They really are betraying what is great about this country. | ||
| And there's no one holding them to account, except for people like President Trump, and you, and the Committee on the Present Danger of China, and people like Frank and Steve Mosher, who have been trying to American people just how dangerous communist China is. | ||
| And it seems to me if we do not wake up to this fact, we will have the equivalent of dying by suicide. We will know all the facts, and we will let those facts sit on the table and do nothing about it. Today, the Chinese are building an advanced military, they have advanced fighter aircraft, they have an advanced Navy, they have advanced ballistic missiles. | ||
| The Dongfeng 5 ballistic missile can go from China and hit you there in Washington, D.C., and it can cover the rest of the United States. | ||
| They are preparing for war because they believe in becoming the dominant power on Earth. | ||
| We in the United States are not today serious. | ||
| We're arguing about Transgender rights, transgender bill of rights. | ||
| We're arguing about racial issues where you don't see these things being a problem, other than the fact that the media creates these problems. | ||
| And the American media's, you know, fixated on January 6th as if that were a threat to our democracy, when in fact all of these things combined are the threat to our country. | ||
| Frank, we've got a minute to wrap up this first hour. | ||
| Is Brian correct in what he says? | ||
| I'm afraid he's understating the magnitude of the problem, Steve. | ||
| And the truth of the matter is that our elites are being captured by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| They have an express program for that purpose. | ||
| The money is the lubricant, to be sure, but I think Brian sort of touched on it. | ||
| These people have, it seems, come to the conclusion that they want to be on the winning side, and it's going to be China. | ||
| So they are aiding and abetting this mortal enemy of our country. | ||
| They are putting money From American investors into the pockets of the Chinese Communist Party at a moment when they have to know those people will lose their shirts. | ||
| They're going to lose those investments if there is, in fact, a full on kinetic war with China, which I think we all agree is coming. | ||
| And we must not allow this treason. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
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This treason to persist. | |
| On the 246th day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| We're talking about losing this nation to both enemies, foreign and domestic. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return with an expanded team of Brian Kennedy and Frank Gaffney and others to talk about the gathering storm that gathers around this, our beloved Republic. |
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