July 6, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Peace. | |
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians, get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. | ||
| It's another element that backs them into a corner and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | ||
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Wednesday, 6 July, Year of Our Lord 2022. | ||
| You're in the battleground. | ||
| And I got to tell you, I don't think anything's more important right now than than is what is going on in the world of energy. | ||
| This is going to decide the economy, I think, is so central to what's happening in the run up to the midterm elections. | ||
| Biden flapping around. | ||
| We found out today that he's Dave, I don't know where to start. | ||
| out the the strategic oil reserves we got so much to go through. We finally be able to track down Dave Walsh came off the golf course putting back to work Dave Walsh former head of Mitsubishi Energy. One of the top energy guys in the country has been just such a great guide for us over the past couple of months. Dave I don't know where to start. I think I'd just let you walk us through what your assessment of where we are with obviously the world energy prices still through the roof. The Biden administration's | ||
| kind of hapless response in what's happening in in in Europe with the with the Russians. | ||
| Dave Walsh. | ||
| Well, one of the benchmarks to look at back to Germany, the thing that hasn't been discussed much about Germany with all this energy wind program they promoted for 15 years, home heating. | ||
| And building heating in Germany is 95% oil and gas driven. | ||
| And that's left out of their electricity data because that's viewed as home heating, building heating. | ||
| So they're in a desperate strait with the curtailment of Russian gas coming up in the next few weeks on these pipeline shutdowns for maintenance, which may be a long-term thing. | ||
| So they're scrambling. | ||
| You've got people running around now acquiring firewood, looking at very, very Cold winter. | ||
| Again, Germany's well north of Quebec City in terms of latitude. | ||
| Very cold. | ||
| So we've got a huge issue there. | ||
| With, again, understated in their energy profile, the dependence on gas and oil for heating is 95% in Germany. | ||
| And they import energy of all sorts. | ||
| About 65% of all their energy is imported. | ||
| Also, what they've begun to do, because of the curtailment of their nuclear program, only got three reactors left. | ||
| They had 15 ten years ago. | ||
| ...is import mass quantities of electricity from the France nuclear program. | ||
| 38 gigawatts a day being bootlegged into Germany to offset the shutdown of the reactors in Germany. | ||
| Again, giving, you know, homage to how little that renewable resource means to them. | ||
| The solar, three and a half hours a day. | ||
| The wind, nine hours a day. | ||
| All due respect to they brag that that's 37% of their power. | ||
| The trouble is it's massively intermittent and it causes them to depend very heavily in the shoulder and peak periods on gas. | ||
| On gas to back that up, which makes them even more dependent on gas than the home heating issue that I described. | ||
| You've got that going on. | ||
| France now has finalized its privatization of EDF. | ||
| Major global power company, Electricité de France, who own all the reactors in France, own a lot of the renewables capacity, the non-regulated renewable wind and solar in the U.S. | ||
| They're a big owner of. | ||
| Have owned minority shares of reactors here, now 100% owned by the government. | ||
| How does this happen? | ||
| Government stepped in in 2019 and announced price caps on EDF's electricity sales to its ratepayers, through wholesalers. | ||
| So they put severe price caps in 2019 on electricity prices. | ||
| Doubled down on them again in January of this year, costing EDF 8 to 9 billion euro a year in losses, making them cell power, electricity to rate payers at 30% below market levels and below their cost of production. | ||
| So they've driven them into bankruptcy. | ||
| Basically, Macron has taken the remaining shares. | ||
| Other issue going on with EDF is the Flamanville nuclear reactor begun in 2007, the build, still underway. | ||
| 17 years, 16 years later, 10 billion euro overrun, and supposed to be commercialized by next year. | ||
| Started building in 2007. | ||
| So all those losses have been now absorbed by the French people, through their ownership now of both the contractor building at Framatome, also owned by the French government, and the EDF, the utility that would operate it, now owned as of today by the French government. | ||
| French voters, with no vote of course, now have inherited 12 billion of overruns in the In the Flamanville plant. | ||
| So, you've got a complete meltdown in Europe that, you know, this urgent issue of a lack of gas has really brought into severe focus. | ||
| Okay, two articles, the New York Times just had it. | ||
| They've now, the EU is now, I think they've been watching Dave Walsh on War Room, they've been watching War Room. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, the EU and the New York Times just picked it up as we came on tonight, that they now designate investments in natural gas and nuclear power as green investments. | ||
| It would fall under ESG, the ESG requirements. | ||
| Is this just something to make people feel better so guys like us get off them, and the people in Europe get off them, or is this legitimate? | ||
| This is a taxonomy argument, or a language argument, that has been led by Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia have led the argument, now that they're members, to have the EU reclassify nuclear and gas as green, which actually makes a lot of sense. | ||
| France has joined that discussion because of their dominant nuclear capacity in the country. | ||
| Germany has been in a huge fight over that. | ||
| They can't stand that. | ||
| They want to stick with biomass, wind and solar as the only definition of a fuel. | ||
| So a big fight has broken out. | ||
| One of the reasons, this isn't the primary reason, but one of the reasons the Ukraine thing has been so important, Ukraine would You know, help balance off Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Yugoslavia in that argument, which is another reason they've been so anxious to have the Ukraine join the EU to balance off the the other Eastern European nations that have pushed this logic that that nuclear and gas are necessary and they should be classified then as renewables. | ||
| And we're going to make that the benchmark. | ||
| So they apparently Poland, Yugoslavia, Czech with joining with France as an ally have won one out on the vote. | ||
| Germany was concerned that they would actually prevail. | ||
| In redefining the landscape, the taxonomy discussion of the gas and nuclear are fundamentally important. | ||
| Therefore, they're renewables too. | ||
| We need them. | ||
| So this is logic has prevailed based on Eastern European countries pushing this, who have joined the EU in the last 10 years. | ||
| Quite interesting. | ||
| Let me ask, I want to talk about this. | ||
| There's a program underway to kind of make sure that Uh, Russia does not stop. | ||
| I think it's divert or stop 3 million barrels per day or 5 million barrels per day. | ||
| JPMorgan had an analysis that if they did 5 million barrels per day, the price of oil could go to $380 per barrel, which would mean the end of Western civilization. | ||
| And that Biden's administration to stop this is trying to convince China, India, and Turkey not to take that production. | ||
| What are we talking about here? | ||
| production should continue on to get to what are we talking about here? | ||
| It's kind of confusing because at $380 a barrel, that's the $5 million. | ||
| That's the end of the Western economies. | ||
| Three million barrels a day, I still think it goes to $200 per barrel. | ||
| And how does the Biden administration think that they have any stroke at all with Turkey, India or China when it comes to the ability of those nations to get access to unlimited oil and gas given the size of their populations and the growth of their economies? | ||
| Well, they have no stroke at all. | ||
| We know because it's been reported by India. | ||
| They have been buying oil from Russia through this period at about $110 a barrel. | ||
| So they've already enjoyed a preferential negotiated bulk purchase price inside of the announced higher OPEC pricing. | ||
| Again, Russia has collaborated with Saudi, but they're not a member. | ||
| They've exercised their freedom to cut special deals. | ||
| So I don't think there's a way in the world we can influence their They're off take price to China, to India, and other nations that elect to do business with. | ||
| But the price on the margin issue affecting the marginal supply drop below demand for something like oil and gas, you saw during 2021, the US falling off two and a half million barrels of production per day, versus where we were in 2019, created havoc with pricing already, as we kind of Unintentionally, maybe intentionally, joined OPEC with production curtailments. | ||
| Ours are an environmental argument, theirs for reasons of driving prices up. | ||
| We both did the same thing, but that nominal decrease, $2.5 million globally, did cause a part of the run-up in pricing during 2021. | ||
| From 40 bucks to about 110 bucks. | ||
| You can see how sensitive the pricing is to small deficits from global demand. | ||
| Another 3 million barrels from Russia would be devastating. | ||
| Would be devastating. | ||
| On pricing. | ||
| What, on pricing, what do you think the probability, whether it's the 3 or the 5 million, that the price of oil could get to $200 a barrel, or $380, and they were up front, they thought the $380 per barrel was remote, but it's still a possibility. | ||
| That would also, the structure of the Western economy would collapse under oil prices that high, Dave Walsh? | ||
| It would collapse under oil prices that high. | ||
| And I go back to the grossly understated and misinformation campaign we've all been plagued with for 15 years on the fact that the positive topic that oil and gas and coal are gone, they don't matter anymore. | ||
| Just look at Germany, 95% dependent for home heating and commercial building heating on oil and gas. | ||
| Nothing's really changed. | ||
| Transportation fuels globally are 98% oil and gas driven. | ||
| The impacts of this would be absolutely devastating. | ||
| Absolutely devastating. | ||
| I mean, in this country alone, we saw the gas-fired power plants elevate in 2016 to 2020 by about 400 megawatt hours, 400,000 megawatt hours across the country in use, where that displaced coal-fired generation was shuttered by some of the alphabet soup regulations we've talked about before. | ||
| The wind and solar displacement of that coal-fired power was only about 20% of it. | ||
| Natural gas, 80% of the replacement power that occurred from these coal shutdowns due to the act we saw ruled on SCOTUS in favor of dismantling last week. | ||
| Cost us 400,000 megawatt hours of power reduction. | ||
| Wind and solar displaced very little of that. | ||
| It was all gas. | ||
| Gas was three-quarters of it. | ||
| So the dependence on gas here, growing to now 40% of our electricity supplies, it's been huge. | ||
| So we're very dependent on it. | ||
| And an issue such as this with the oil would be a devastating one. | ||
| I don't think we're going to get there, but we talked before about $150, maybe $200 as this picket gets shut down to Western Europe more and more tightly by Russia. | ||
| Let's pray that we don't go to $350. | ||
| That's a complete disaster. | ||
| The Biden administration, and I want to make sure we're precise about this, because you have the Strategic Oil Reserve, which was never meant to just lower prices. | ||
| It's supposed to be filled up under President Trump cheaply, I think at an average price of $25 a barrel or something like that, in case of a national emergency. | ||
| Biden's actually been using it for something it was never meant to be used for, take down prices. | ||
| Now we find out, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just going off news sources, that they've diverted 5 million barrels of that. | ||
| Overseas? | ||
| How does that work? | ||
| You mentioned, hey, we could actually beggar thy neighbor in the exporting of natural gas or other energy sources, but what is this? | ||
| Is he taking oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that was in there for low cost, he's going to have to replace it at $100 a barrel, so bigger burden to the taxpayers. | ||
| Is he diverting some of that to foreign countries, sir? | ||
| It absolutely appears that it is. | ||
| I mean, the shipping manifests, as reported by no less than Reuters, who are not a right-wing publication, especially when it comes to energy. | ||
| I'm polled by them all the time on wanting support for solar and wind and things of this nature, have reported manifests showing 70% of the last major deliveries went to the Trieste port in northern Italy, went to Holland, and about 15% to China, shockingly, out of the strategic reserve resources or aquifers in Texas and Louisiana. | ||
| Shocking. | ||
| The Trieste port is really mainly owned by the Austrian petroleum company in Austria. | ||
| Pipelines go from the port to Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary. | ||
| The oil probably diverted there and potentially to support the war effort in Ukraine. | ||
| We're not sure. | ||
| Another large part of it went to Holland. | ||
| This isn't exporting. | ||
| This is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for our national defense. | ||
| Should we need oil for a conflict or be a supply shortage in this country? | ||
| That's the purpose, goal, and objective of having the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. | ||
| This has nothing to do with exporting. | ||
| This is the government giving away assets that are owned by the American people, again, with no vote. | ||
| We own those assets for our defense, for our national security, for our energy independence. | ||
| Should supply curtail issue really occur, it hasn't yet, but if a big one occurs, that's the purpose of that. | ||
| He's giving it away without a vote of Congress. | ||
| And yeah, you've got to replace it now with $120 a barrel oil. | ||
| This is different than anything. | ||
| He's giving away national resources. | ||
| resource. | ||
| Did I hear? | ||
| Did I hear you right that 15% of it went to China, our mortal enemy? | ||
| That was in the report by Reuters. | ||
| Sir, I don't have the receipts myself, but that was, and again, I'm saying Reuters is not a right-wing reporting agency. | ||
| So the fact that these shipments were collected specifically is very worrisome. | ||
| That's specifically directed. | ||
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Okay, last question. | |
| They had this article about natural gas as a geopolitical weapon now, and the importance of natural gas. | ||
| We have two Saudi Arabias that Divine Providence has deemed will be in the United States. | ||
| One is in Pennsylvania, New York, parts of West Virginia, parts of Ohio. | ||
| The other is in Alaska. | ||
| We have two Saudi Arabias, right? | ||
| And we've handcuffed ourselves. | ||
| How important is the unleashing of that? | ||
| And how important is natural gas as a geopolitical weapon going forward? | ||
| Dave Walsh? | ||
| Oh, it's a huge weapon. | ||
| And now we're seeing a report today of potentially pricing seven times higher. | ||
| And it's a weapon because if the Russian capacity goes away for Western Europe, The fungible resource left to get to Western Europe is from here and Qatar, in terms of LNG shipments. | ||
| We have, at this point, four LNG terminals. | ||
| The Freeport one is shut down. | ||
| They're exporting now about $65 billion a year of natural gas. | ||
| There are six more LNG terminals to be finished by 2025. | ||
| We would then be at something like $150 billion a year exports, would then be our number one exported product Nationally, the natural gas is fundamentally important. | ||
| We enjoy it. | ||
| The benefit here is because it's produced here in the US, three places actually, the Permian Basin, West Texas being the third, Saudi Arabia, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, out to Ohio, New York, but they don't want to frack. | ||
| Alaska, we're blessed with a huge resource of it. | ||
| The ability to pipe and distribute it more effectively across the country. | ||
| I talked about eastern Virginia being shut down from use of it. | ||
| Because of the Atlantic Pipeline, the other Duke-Dominion Joint Venture Pipeline shuttered because of permitting issues across many counties, the Keystone XL Pipeline. | ||
| There's nothing but a completely robust argument to build out the pipeline infrastructure within North America to make this great, great capacity we have completely usable here. | ||
| There's a penalty on exporting it naturally. | ||
| It costs about $10 per MMBTU additional to freeze it. | ||
| At 240 degrees below zero to compress it down to one 600, 600 different size to ship it as LNG and then to decompose it and turn it back into natural gas at the receiving port. | ||
| You've got about a $8, $7 to $8 premium to do that. | ||
| So we have a natural advantage in cost. | ||
| We're always going to have because it's here. | ||
| We don't need to ship ourselves LNG. | ||
| We do it by pipe. | ||
| Well, if they're permitted, we do it by pipeline, the modern way of shipping natural gas and oil. | ||
| The issues of freeing up that pipeline supply and the production, especially in places like New York, is fundamentally important. | ||
| Fundamentally important. | ||
| Last question, we're going to try to have John Katsimatidis, the billionaire who runs WABC and a bunch of radio stations throughout the country, he's a guy who owns a bunch of marketing assets, downstream marketing assets. | ||
| He gave an interview the other day, we're going to try to have him on Thursday or Friday. | ||
| He said, hey, the Biden administration, it's all happy talk, everything they're talking about is happy talk, until you start producing more oil. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And then dealing with capacity limitations and refineries. | ||
| They're just kidding themselves. | ||
| And they're saying they're doing everything to go against that. | ||
| What is your thoughts on that? | ||
| Is John Catsimatidis right? | ||
| Is Joe Biden's administration, this regime, led us into this crisis? | ||
| And everything you're hearing right now is nothing but happy talk because they're not dealing with core issues? | ||
| It is happy talk. | ||
| Discussion of the federal excise taxes being relieved on gas at the pump, the state taxes being relieved, are nothing. | ||
| You're addressing, he's addressing 10% of the cost profile of gas at the pump. | ||
| The 90% is the production of crude oil, the refinement of it into gas, the transportation of it. | ||
| That's the production, the resource capacity, the availability of it. | ||
| Needs drastically grown. | ||
| We have huge reserves of it here and in Canada. | ||
| And I'll say again, across Canada, the United States, Mexico and Brazil, England would join that. | ||
| We have a consortium. | ||
| We didn't kill OPEC in the early 80s. | ||
| We needed to. | ||
| It's an illegal cartel. | ||
| Russia have joined it. | ||
| If we could cross collaborate in a way to destroy it, and I think we have the capacity of the countries I named more than equal Russia plus OPEC. | ||
| We've got there are ways to deconstruct their power. | ||
| We need to exercise them. | ||
| We need to be active on production is the main is the main thing we've got and transportation of the fuels in in the North American continent. | ||
| Make it easy and cheap and keep us bulletproof, but keep us in a position to be able to globally dominate. | ||
| That's that's the way forward. | ||
| Everything he's done has been about full spectrum energy dominance. | ||
| Every step this administration has taken in the background has been about stopping production in the U.S., in Texas, now worried about the environment, Texas suddenly in the Permian Basin, offshore, the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, removing permits. | ||
| All of their actions have been about shuttering capacity, all of them. | ||
| Dave Walsh, how do people get to you on social media? | ||
| I know you're very active on Getter. | ||
| How do people track you down? | ||
| Is that Dave Walsh Energy on Getter? | ||
| And that's a good way to reach me. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Dave, thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I want to bring in Frank Gaffney. | ||
| Frank, I want to talk about MI6. | ||
| They had this joint press conference today. | ||
| But I got to ask you, brother Gaffney, you've been at this a long time. | ||
| You're the founding chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger China. | ||
| We just found out the Biden administration by Reuters, right? | ||
| Not Breitbart, not Gateway Pundit, but Reuters. | ||
| No fan of the administration. | ||
| They find that Biden's been lying to the American people, been shipping five million barrels out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. | ||
| And wait for it, 15% of that's been going to the Chinese Communist Party in China. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, what say you, sir? | ||
| Well, I beg your pardon, Steve. | ||
| I'm trying to pick up the pieces of my exploded brain from that revelation. | ||
| Not that it surprises me. | ||
| I mean, look, this administration does everything it can, and I've said this to you repeatedly, and I can't figure out where I am in this picture. | ||
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There we are. | |
| Not conduct itself as a wrecking operation against our country, but selling our strategic petroleum reserves to, as you said, our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, is simply beyond belief, even for this outfit. | ||
| It is treason. | ||
| I don't know what other term to use for it. | ||
| It is enabling our enemy to be more dangerous and beggaring the American people. | ||
| In the process. | ||
| And, you know, if this doesn't constitute grounds for impeachment, I don't know what will. | ||
| And it can't happen soon enough. | ||
| Needless to say. | ||
| Frank, you were back in those days, you were in the Defense Department in Reagan, but you remember the big fights we had even to create the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and it was always, it was there as never to be used just to bring price down. | ||
| It was a strategic asset in times of national crisis about our national security. | ||
| He's taken five million barrels and sent it over to Austria, sent it to Holland, And sent it to the Chinese Communist Party without telling the American people. | ||
| This is an investigative report of Reuters that went and saw the shipping documents, right? | ||
| The shipping documents. | ||
| And you haven't heard a lot of Republicans go after this. | ||
| How big a deal is this entire thing about using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for what its purpose was not meant to be, which was to hold it back in case of a national security crisis here where we couldn't get overseas oil and we had to use it ourselves? | ||
| Well, Steve, let's just start with the underlying effort that he's been making. | ||
| A million barrels a day has been taken out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves and just tried to use it to manipulate the market, to try to lower gas prices marginally. | ||
| But that's a million barrels a day for, I don't know, whatever it's been, three months or so. | ||
| That has hugely impacted the amount that we have. | ||
| The fact that some portion of that, a relatively small portion to be honest, but still any of it is being sold off to foreign powers, especially hostile foreign powers, just compounds the outrage that is involved in this kind of manipulation. | ||
| You're absolutely right. | ||
| I was there when we were trying to ensure that American stockpiles were | ||
| Well, like Chinese stockpiles are these days, something that we can actually preserve against the eventuality, the certainty, I'm afraid, that we are at some point going to be desperately in need of, whether it's oil or whether it's, you know, rare earth minerals or other materials that are supposed to be stockpiled. | ||
| And this is spendthrift. | ||
| This is outrageous. | ||
| This is treasonous in the final analysis. | ||
| Frank, I'm going to ask you to stay through the break on the other side because we've got to talk about Latin America, this exercise. | ||
| But real quickly, MI6 and the FBI gave a joint press conference. | ||
| It was extraordinary. | ||
| And I think they've been watching War Room or going to your webinars, finally, at Committee on Present Danger. | ||
| They had a joint press conference to say, uh, the Chinese Communist Party and its infiltration of spies is the biggest security threat we've ever had. | ||
| I'm summarizing, but is that what they said, sir? | ||
| Well, I confess I didn't see it, Steve, but if they did, praise God, if they've replaced the idea that it's white nationalists and supremacists that are the greatest threat we face, that alone would be very, very happy news. | ||
| But if they've recognized that it's not just the espionage, Steve, it's the whole panoply of unrestricted warfare against us that the Chinese engage in, and the Biden administration is enabling. | ||
| Including its friends at BlackRock like Larry Fink who are funding it all. | ||
| This is, with our money, this is the sort of thing that I think has to be grounds for impeachment and, for that matter, treason trials. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| We're going to come back with Frank Gaffney, the Monroe Doctrine about our hemisphere. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| Joint operations by our enemies in the Western Hemisphere. | ||
| We're going to get to all that next in the War Room. | ||
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We're going to get to all that next in the War Room. | |
| War Room, Battleground, with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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Standby. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| I just want to reiterate the heads of MI5 in the FBI today warned of a threat posed by China. | ||
| The first ever in the history of the two allies press conference, joint press conferences by the security chiefs, said they are facing a, and I quote, game-changing challenge from the Communist Party, which is, and I quote again, covertly applying pressure Across the globe. | ||
| We have warned about this for years is the reason I'm sanctioned. | ||
| I'm the only civilian in the history of this Republic to be fully sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And I wear it as a badge of honor. | ||
| Of course, Frank Gaffney, as you remember, that happened exactly four minutes into the Biden regime at four minutes afternoon on the 20th of January of 2021. | ||
| It was Mike Pompeo, it was Peter Navarro, it was myself and Matt Pottinger. | ||
| And of course the Biden administration never said a word about it, never made a protest, nothing. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| They're in business with him. | ||
| Frank, you brought to my attention this week and I want you to walk through it because it shows you how back against the wall we are in losing sight of what is important with our vital national security. | ||
| Talk to us about these joint exercises, sir. | ||
| Well, first, let me apologize for that camera thing. | ||
| It was making me seasick. | ||
| So I'm glad we got it under control. | ||
| Steve, what we've learned is that something that has been in the offing for years has now finally arrived. | ||
| And that is the vacuum of power that we have created in Latin America has been exploited by our enemies. | ||
| Top of the list, the Chinese Communist Party, but also the Russians, also the Iranians, their proxy Hezbollah, and increasingly, I'm sure we're going to see the North Koreans and who knows, the Taliban and others, coming together as we speak to put on military exercises in Venezuela that will bring not only | ||
| I suspect some of which will be permanently deployed in not just Venezuela, not just Nicaragua, but probably most of those countries that are these days going communist left and right in the continent to the point where | ||
| The last major one that isn't communist yet, but maybe within months, is Brazil. | ||
| And this is a frightening prospect because you put the armed forces of various nations in close proximity to our country, endangering what's left of a pro-American sentiment in the Western Hemisphere, and no good can come of it. | ||
| We've got to start paying attention, more attention, in the Trump administration. | ||
| We did, and we do all the time. | ||
| You know, we're very close to the Bolsonaro's, very close to the folks down in Latin America. | ||
| Frank, here's what concerns me. | ||
| Argentina's finance minister resigns on Thursday. | ||
| He's the guy to negotiate this $40 billion bailout IMF. | ||
| They announced a socialist follow-up to take his place. The currency drops 20%, the bonds drop 40%, inflation is at 60%. | ||
| Argentina is teetering and floating. You have Lula versus Bolsonaro this fall in this election, and Lula is a partner of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| It's the reason the whole issue of commodities with the CCP, all the corruption came because they were cutting deals with the CCP back in the early 2000s, of which they caught him for corruption. | ||
| And eventually, I think with the Petrobras thing and with the car wash scandal, threw him in prison. | ||
| All of Latin America right now, two thirds of it's already flipped to these populist left, hardcore left, really socialist regimes. | ||
| You think we got a problem? | ||
| Coming up through the Darien Gap and we're about to have the young man who's running for the Attorney General in Arizona. | ||
| Think about the job he's going to have. | ||
| If you think Arizona and the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas are under onslaught right now with an invasion, you wait until all of Latin America implodes and our enemies are down there to take advantage of it. | ||
| You just had Dave Walsh on here saying, hey, if you took Canada, Mexico, the United States, Brazil and the UK. | ||
| Right? | ||
| We're all kind of partners. | ||
| If you could take those, you're bigger than OPEC. | ||
| You're bigger than OPEC plus Russia. | ||
| Now, if we lose Brazil, if Brazil is lost, that's going to have a tectonic relationship like losing China after World War II. | ||
| It's going to be one of those things. | ||
| When you lose Latin America, you think we've got problems now? | ||
| You're going to have problems that are insurmountable for the frontline states down in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. | ||
| And people are looking the other way, and I've got to tell you, our enemies are not. | ||
| They're in Sub-Saharan Africa, they're in the Caribbean, but they see Latin America right now as a resource-rich, a great population of hard-working folks, educated, that's about to drop to our enemies. | ||
| Frank Gaffney. | ||
| You're absolutely right about all of that, Steve. | ||
| And the trouble is that when Latin America implodes, it won't just be the good guys, the Venezuelans, the Peruvians, the Colombians, the Brazilians, who love America, who will be fleeing. | ||
| Let's put a fine point on it, Steve. | ||
| The Marxist-Communist takeovers of their country. | ||
| It will be everybody coming, and they will include large numbers, as we're seeing already, of unaccompanied military-age men whose backgrounds we know nothing of, but we have to believe will, in substantial number, be coming here to do us harm. | ||
| You know, this is an unforced error. | ||
| It's not just on this president, though he is complicit in it, of course, as in all of the wrecking operations. | ||
| But every president since the one I served, and you've admired so much, Ronald Reagan has, of both parties, basically, at best, had benign neglect of Latin America, and at worst, malign neglect. | ||
| And the chickens are coming home to roost in a very, very dangerous way. | ||
| You look at the banality they just had in Los Angeles this conference and it was banal. | ||
| I mean, it was absurd. | ||
| Frank, I'm so proud you've got another Blockbuster Tomorrow webinar on the West Pacific. | ||
| Give us what the webinar is. | ||
| I want everybody to sign up. | ||
| The thing's been overwhelming. | ||
| I've gotten so many great compliments of what you guys have been doing. | ||
| And by the way, I got great compliments on the special The Gathering Storm we did on Saturday. | ||
| What is the webinar tomorrow and how do people get there? | ||
| Well, again, this was your idea, Steve, so I want to give you credit for the weekly efforts to update the American people about the various ways in which the unrestricted warfare of the Chinese Communist Party is being wielded against particularly this country, but really the free world writ large. | ||
| We're going to look at the Western Pacific and specifically what the Chinese are doing with everything from their wolf warrior diplomats scarfing up Islands to become new power projection sources for them. | ||
| To the merchant, marine, and maritime forces, paramilitaries, Coast Guard and others that are being used to dominate the fishing grounds and essentially run out the local fishermen from them, as well as take all of their fish. | ||
| To the bastion islands that they've created for the purpose of, you know, waging war out there. | ||
| Right on through to what do we do about all this. | ||
| It's what's been called, and I think correctly, a maritime insurgency. | ||
| We've got an all-star cast that's going to be appearing at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon. | ||
| Okay, I just lost Frank. | ||
| I'll finish at 1 o'clock tomorrow. | ||
| We're going to have that. | ||
| Let's go ahead. | ||
| 1 o'clock tomorrow, the webinar. | ||
| I'm going to put it up on the Chiron right here. | ||
| The Western Pacific. | ||
| This has been a high, high priority for us to go through. | ||
| These webinars have been blocked by us. | ||
| We'll make sure everybody gets it. | ||
| If somebody can give me how to get to that, I'll just repeat it. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, thank you for that technical problem. | ||
| I'm bringing in a young man now, former Army Captain and Intelligence Officer running for the Attorney General in the Republican primary out in Arizona. | ||
| He's Trump-endorsed Abraham Hamaday. | ||
| Abraham, first, do us a favor. | ||
| Just introduce yourself to the audience. | ||
| It's the beginning of early voting day. | ||
| I wanted to get you on. | ||
| I know it's by phone, but walk us through. | ||
| Just give us your background and tell us why President Trump decided to endorse you, sir. | ||
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Thank you, Steve. | |
| Great to be on with you. | ||
| You know, for me, I'm not just a former Army Captain Intelligence Officer, but also a former prosecutor, Maricopa County Attorney's Office. | ||
| But how, why I got into this race, Steve, you know, I was out on my Army deployment in Saudi Arabia for about 14 months from July of 2020 to September of 2021. | ||
| And when we got back here, I no longer recognized our country. | ||
| And I think many of us feel that way right now. | ||
| And it was expedited during the COVID times, but This is unlike anything we're witnessing. | ||
| I think your program is aptly named War Room. | ||
| We're at war. | ||
| This is an ideological war. | ||
| It's not just big government we have to worry about. | ||
| It's not just the federal government. | ||
| It's big tech. | ||
| It's the big business. | ||
| It's sports. | ||
| They're dominating every aspect of our lives. | ||
| I want to hone in on that the states have so much more power than we've ever realized. | ||
| I think if there's one silver lining to COVID, it's that purpose. | ||
| Ron DeSantis in Florida has done a great job. | ||
| You know, I think we can't always rely on D.C. | ||
| to solve our problems, and Arizona and the states are going to be the ones that save our country under the right leadership. | ||
| So that's when I jumped into this race. | ||
| And, you know, President Trump, he graciously called me on his birthday, June 14th, and he endorsed me. | ||
| And, you know, he's saying I'm tough and we're going to take back our country. | ||
| And Arizona's on the front lines of so many of the problems we face with the border, with the elections. | ||
| But, you know, besides being endorsed by President Trump, which was an honor, I'm also endorsed by Senator Rand Paul. | ||
| You know, he's a big fighter and hopefully will prosecute Dr. Fauci when we take back the Senate. | ||
| But everything is going great, Steve. | ||
| And the early ballots start today and the election is on August 2nd, the election day. | ||
| But right now, it's been a rocket ship, especially since President Trump's endorsement. | ||
| Look, you just heard Frank Gaffney's assessment of Latin America. | ||
| You know the pressure coming up on the Arizona border. | ||
| Arizona, which as we say on War Room, is the railhead of the patriots of MAGA, right? | ||
| It is hardcore and these people are such good people. | ||
| Walk us through, you've got the invasion of the southern border, you've still got all the mess. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, that's a great question. | ||
| I get asked this on a campaign trail. | ||
| You know, for me, it's more of a cultural issue, right? | ||
| all that. As you look at the world, triage, you know, what do you do first day on office? | ||
| Where are you going to put your shoulder to the wheel? | ||
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Where's the center of gravity of your office's AG going to be? Right. I mean, that's a great question. I get asked this on a campaign trail. You know, for me, it's more of a cultural issue. Right. I mean, for seeing what's going on at the border, you know, before Joe Biden took office, Steve, we saw these migrant caravans wearing this t-shirt that says, Joe Biden let us in. | |
| And this is where, as Attorney General, I have to work with a good governor, right? | ||
| This is an all-hands-on approach. | ||
| And what we have to do is classify what's going down at the border as an invasion, start getting creative on our legal fights. | ||
| I mean, look, if we just accept the status quo as it is, we would not have gotten rid of Roe v. Wade. | ||
| Right now, President Trump has laid out a great Supreme Court and he's filled up the judicial bench with some strong conservatives that we have to start tackling and, you know, rethinking our assumptions. | ||
| So what's going down at the border to me is not a federal immigration problem. | ||
| It's a state sovereignty issue. | ||
| It's a state border issue. | ||
| And we've got to protect our citizens there. | ||
| So I want to classify the cartels as terrorist organizations, which when we do that, we'll have enhanced sentencing guidelines. | ||
| And under current state law here in Arizona, Steve, now they use the U.S. | ||
| Department of State's definition of terrorism, and that's been politicized. | ||
| The Afghan Taliban was not listed as a terrorist organization until January of 2021. | ||
| The Yemen Houthi rebels who were firing missiles at us when I was in Saudi Arabia, they were delisted as terrorists by Joe Biden, which is why the Saudis are not, you know, wanting to meet with him. | ||
| So Arizona, you know, we have the ability to know who the narco terrorists are. | ||
| But besides that, you know, the election fraud of 2020, I tell folks, I'm a former prosecutor. | ||
| You prosecute crimes that occurred in the past. | ||
| I'm not going to give up on the fraud of 2020. | ||
| I actually voted overseas, Steve, on my deployment, and how I voted was interesting. | ||
| Arizona is only one of three states that allow email voting for military members who are deployed, which is interesting because the whole purpose of mail-in ballots back in the day was so you could actually vote when you're deployed, but now they've shifted to email voting. | ||
| So I actually had to print out my ballot, fill it out, take a photo of it, and then email it to the county recorder's office. | ||
| So none of it was anonymous, it wasn't a real ballot, and apparently what happens then is it gets transferred to a ballot. | ||
| But then when I got back in September of 2021, I had multiple mail-in ballots at my house. | ||
| So, and it wasn't under my name. | ||
| So for them to constantly and consistently gaslight us and tell us that the 2020 election is the most insecure in history, it's a lie. | ||
| And when I talked to President Trump about it, and I told the president that we're still going after the crimes of 2016 if you're looking at the Durham probe, and we still need justice for what Hillary Clinton did. | ||
| We have to be vigilant on it, but we've got to tackle it in a way to see some sense of urgency. | ||
| Our country is quickly dying. | ||
| When I talk about changing the culture of the office, I want to instill in the attorneys, the assistant AGs who will be underneath me, that what we're doing now is saving our country. | ||
| We all recognize what happens this November will determine our country's future for the next century, and we've got to seize this moment that President Trump has put on us by getting a good judicial bench for us. | ||
| Abraham Hamaday is a former Army Captain, Intelligence Officer, and Prosecutor. | ||
| Abe, how do people find out? | ||
| It's the first day of voting, early voting in Arizona. | ||
| How do people find out more about you on social media? | ||
| How do they find out? | ||
| How do they get to your campaign? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| So I'm on Twitter and Truth Social at Abraham Hamadeh. | ||
| H-A-M-A-D-E-H. | ||
| And they can go to my website, which is Abe4AG.com. | ||
| Abe4AG.com. | ||
| They can spell it out or they can use the number for it. | ||
| Both work. | ||
| Abe, thank you very much for joining us. | ||
| Really appreciate it. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Trump-endorsed AG candidate. | ||
| A sense of urgency. | ||
| Talking about a sense of urgency. | ||
| Let's go, we got Doug Wardlow in Minnesota. | ||
| Doug, I saw on Twitter, I got this, your plan to clean up elections in Minnesota. | ||
| You're running as AG. | ||
| Now, they had a convention and the establishment picked another candidate. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, you're still in the race and there's going to be a primary. | ||
| So you're still running for AG, is that correct? | ||
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That's right, Steve. | |
| Thanks for having me on. | ||
| Absolutely running for Attorney General. | ||
| The primary is August 9th in Minnesota. | ||
| We've got a convention process in the primary. | ||
| Unfortunately, the convention here is tainted by spears and lies, and the RINO establishment basically selected the candidate, propped up his campaign, and he narrowly beat us at the convention. | ||
| But the people will decide on August 9th. | ||
| That's how we select our nominee for Attorney General, and I'm the only America First candidate in this race, and we're focusing heavily on election integrity because we've got to figure out what happened in 2020, investigate it, and prosecute it. | ||
| In Minnesota, you know, President Trump was on me in 2016 and says, hey, we got to go there more often. | ||
| I'm saying, look, let's focus on the other ones. | ||
| We lost it by less than 1%. | ||
| Trump was right. | ||
| I was wrong. | ||
| We could have carried Minnesota if we spent more time there. | ||
| Trump has always had Minnesota as a top target of him. | ||
| We should have won in 2020. | ||
| What are you going to do to sort this mess out, Doug? | ||
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Absolutely right. | |
| Minnesota is a red state outside of the Twin Cities metro area. | ||
| It's a completely red state, and I believe that President Trump did win in 2020. | ||
| The votes were just not counted correctly. | ||
| We've got a problem with election fraud here. | ||
| I mean, then we've got Keith Ellison, our Attorney General, the most radical, extreme Attorney General in the country, and he is nowhere to be found when it comes to investigating or prosecuting election fraud or voter fraud. | ||
| And we've got allegations and video evidence in Minnesota in the run-up to the 2020 election Of campaign workers and others engaging in an illegal cash for ballot scheme, what appears to be an illegal cash for ballot scheme, as well as an illegal ballot harvesting scheme. | ||
| Very serious stuff. | ||
| There's a lot of evidence. | ||
| We need to investigate it and prosecute it. | ||
| We can only have secure elections if we enforce the laws that we have, the laws that make border fraud and election crime a felony here in our state. | ||
| So that's what we're going to do in Minnesota. | ||
| I'm the only candidate in the race, a Republican candidate, with a plan to deal with Uh, election fraud and election crime. | ||
| And we're going to create a unit within the Office of the Attorney General dedicated to election integrity. | ||
| We're going to make sure all of our units of government that administer elections do so according to the law. | ||
| We're going to investigate all allegations of election fraud and election crime. | ||
| And we're going to train police on how to invest, how to spot voter fraud and how to investigate, uh, election fraud as well. | ||
| And then we're going to prosecute aggressively. | ||
| We're going to work with our county attorneys and prosecute cases aggressively and make sure we send a clear and unmistakable message, and that is this. | ||
| If you commit election fraud in the state of Minnesota, you will go to jail. | ||
| Then people will start following the law, then we will have clean elections, and we will be able to be confident that our votes are being counted accurately. | ||
| And I think what we're going to find, once we have secure and clean elections in Minnesota, is that Minnesota has been a red state for quite some time. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| I just want to make sure I heard you. | ||
| You said you're going to train the police? | ||
| You're going to train the police to help with the running of elections? | ||
| Did I hear that correctly? | ||
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Well, we're going to train local law enforcement, sheriff, and police to be able to spot election fraud. | |
| And because election fraud, voter fraud, is a felony, right? | ||
| So we're going to train them on how to spot it and get them to participate in investigations of lawbreaking involving election crime. | ||
| And then working with attorneys at the Office of the Attorney General, we'll involve them in investigations and then ultimately prosecute folks for breaking our election laws. | ||
| But it needs to include local law enforcement as well. | ||
| They need to be able to spot this stuff and help us in the investigations. | ||
| We can multiply our forces that way and make sure that we are following all possible leads and all credible evidence of election fraud and bringing those who commit and perpetrate these acts to justice. | ||
| And we're going to use our RICO laws as well. | ||
| Those who plan and coordinate election fraud in our state. | ||
| Or do it from other states. | ||
| We're going to bring them to justice as well. | ||
| Real quickly, I got about a minute. | ||
| I saw Chicago had 80 people shot over the weekend. | ||
| New York City had 50 people shot over the weekend. | ||
| I saw some video from Minneapolis. | ||
| Looked like it was out of control but no police around. | ||
| What are you going to do as Attorney General to basically make sure there's law and order and not anarchy and chaos in places like Minneapolis? | ||
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Exactly. | |
| Keith Ellis has been looking the other way and doing nothing about it. | ||
| We're going to staff up the Criminal Division of our Attorney General's Office to prosecute criminals. | ||
| We're going to make sure that lawbreaking in the state of Minnesota has consequences. | ||
| That's going to help boost the morale of police. | ||
| Because right now, police make a difficult arrest, and they see the same person back out on the street many times, just days or weeks or maybe a month or two later, and that demoralizes them. | ||
| And that's why we cannot recruit and retain officers. | ||
| So by prosecuting crimes and making sure that lawbreaking has consequences, that's going to help us boost officer morale and then That'll help us recruit and retain officers and bring our force levels up so we can deter crime in Minneapolis and St. | ||
| Paul and all across the state of Minnesota. | ||
| So it's critical that we restore law and order that way. | ||
| Doug, how did they get to your campaign? | ||
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On my website, which is dougwardlowag.com. | |
| You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook and Truth Social. | ||
| Doug Wardlow, thank you very much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here. | ||
| Somebody that's not gonna be, uh, have the establishment steal something at a convention. | ||
| Okay, back tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. | ||
| We're gonna be on fire. | ||
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