July 7, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Breaking news from overseas. | |
| British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced just a short time ago that he is resigning. | ||
| It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new Prime Minister. | ||
| And I've agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now. | ||
| And the timetable will be announced next week. | ||
| And I've today appointed a cabinet to serve as I will until a new leader is in place. | ||
| In the last few days I've tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to change governments when we're delivering so much and when we have such a vast mandate and when we're actually only a handful of points behind in the polls even in midterm after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging and when The economic scene is so difficult domestically and internationally. | ||
| Okay, I can't take any more of that. | ||
| This shows your squandered opportunities. | ||
| I mean, let me be brutally frank. | ||
| Nigel Farage, Rahim Ghassan, the great people that brought Brexit, and he kind of signed up and had a pitch that wasn't working about the apparatus in Brussels, and now let's see how he squandered it. | ||
| And he's still hanging on. | ||
| I've got Ben Harnwell in Rome, who used to be a player in Parliament. | ||
| Of course, from Hearts Evoke, Peter McElvenna. | ||
| Fantastic political analysis and commentary. | ||
| And Cortez is going to give me some economics about this. | ||
| Because this is a country, this country just can't be in a hang fire. | ||
| They can't wander around. | ||
| All the media was wrong. | ||
| He didn't resign as Prime Minister. | ||
| And you know who told us this? | ||
| The one and only Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Ben, tell us exactly what's going on, because the American media, and quite frankly, some of the British media, have had this completely back-assward, as we say in the United States, or ass-backwards, however you want to say it, sir. | ||
| Morning, Steve. | ||
| Well, if Denver is able to start rotating through some of their headlines, which I sent through before, this is really a victory lap opportunity. | ||
| Not that I'm up for gloating first thing, On a Thursday morning. | ||
| But the reason is, and this is the reason why I've been saying that Boris Johnson, if he were to leave, it would be on his terms. | ||
| It's because there is no mechanism for Parliament to remove him as Prime Minister. | ||
| And neither, even less, is there any mechanism for a political party, that is in this case the Governing Party, the Conservative Party, to remove him. | ||
| And one of the reasons for this is because, you know, Britain isn't a Johnny-come-lately European country that's been around for five minutes with five constitutions every other minute. | ||
| We've been a growing, progressing parliamentary democracy over a thousand years. | ||
| And the Prime Minister, which isn't a constitutional office, technically the constitutional office is First Lord of the Treasury. | ||
| But the Prime Minister is the Queen's Prime Minister. | ||
| He serves her. | ||
| Technically, that is. | ||
| He doesn't serve Parliament. | ||
| He doesn't serve the government. | ||
| He doesn't serve the British people. | ||
| He is the Queen's First Minister. | ||
| And therefore, the prerogative, the royal prerogative on who is Prime Minister is the Queen's. | ||
| Now, by convention, the worst, the easiest way, the nearest thing To arriving at what the press have been talking about, which is Boris Johnson being forced out as Prime Minister. | ||
| The nearest way to get there is for the government to lose a vote of confidence in the House of Commons, in which case the Queen then takes the Prime Minister's advice as to whether the government should resign. | ||
| You see, all the articles I sent through all said that Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister. | ||
| And that's not what has happened. | ||
| But I'll carry on talking as the images circle round. | ||
| The easiest way to get there, then, is for the British government to lose a vote of confidence in the House of Commons. | ||
| And then, by convention, the Queen will ask the Prime Minister whether the government is going to resign or whether she should dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections. | ||
| Now, the only two times In the 20th century, 1924-1979, when a government lost a vote of confidence, the Prime Minister recommended a general election. | ||
| And that's what happened. | ||
| He's resigned as head of the Conservative Party. | ||
| He's resigned as leader of the Conservative Party. | ||
| And even if, in October, Steve, this is important, this is really important, Mike. | ||
| This is where all the mainstream media is totally getting wrong. | ||
| Even if, in October this year, the Conservative Party elects a new leader, that does not necessarily mean that Boris Johnson would have to quit, or be forced out, or resign as Prime Minister. | ||
| Okay, hang over a second. | ||
| I want to, particularly our American audience, the deplorables here, they're saying something. | ||
| I knew Donald Trump was going to win. | ||
| I had a strong feeling of this in 15, obviously the primary, but even 16. | ||
| But I absolutely knew to 100% metaphysical certitude, and I told him this. | ||
| The day that we won, I think it was June 26th or 27th, of 16 Brexit. | ||
| Because things kind of moved together, and I could see working class people that had the back of Nigel Farage, right? | ||
| We had the Breitbart London operation run by Rahim Ghassan, who did a magnificent job, right? | ||
| Rahim had actually been part of it, been Nigel's right-hand man. | ||
| We're going to try to get Nigel on later. | ||
| Here's the lesson. | ||
| Outside of what Nigel Farage accomplished, which was monumental to get their sovereignty back. | ||
| The conservatives, which are nothing, when you see these Tories, and let me be blunt, it's a dog's breakfast of folks. | ||
| I mean, it is shocking. | ||
| I think just the lack of leadership and the lack of testosterone and the lack of, and listen, I'm the biggest Thatcher fan in the world. | ||
| I don't see any of the women stepping up. | ||
| I just don't see any leadership there. | ||
| They have squandered You know, and I dealt with May in that crowd when they came to the White House about trying to cut a trade deal with them. | ||
| They've squandered 12 years. | ||
| This is the lesson for the deplorables. | ||
| I'm going to have Cortez talk about this. | ||
| This is a lesson for the deplorables, a lesson for MAGA, a lesson for America First. | ||
| We cannot squander a second. | ||
| Everything has to be urgent. | ||
| Boris Johnson's holding his country hostage right now. | ||
| They have an economic crisis. | ||
| They're in happy talk land. | ||
| He says, I've done so much, I'm about to have this huge tax cut, huge tax cut, and they have massive deficit spending. | ||
| Remember, after Bretton Woods, the pound was the world's prime reserve currency when he had the empire. | ||
| World War I and World War II took care of that. | ||
| After the war, Bretton Woods made the dollar. | ||
| That's why we're the prime reserve currency. | ||
| That's why I'm going to talk to Cortez about this. | ||
| The strength of the dollar, and remember, it's just against other fiat currencies, it's still the world's tallest midget. | ||
| You're seeing the end of the dollar empire, although the dollar's strong, and you can tell now with the Fed and what Biden, the Treasury Department's going to try to use the strong dollar to get out of, to work themselves out of, partly out of this inflation, without having increased interest rates. | ||
| I'll talk to Cortez about that in a second. | ||
| Back to Britain. | ||
| They don't have the luxury. | ||
| He's giving a complete haphazard. | ||
| We're going to have tax cuts. | ||
| They have not put forward any idea, any concept how to shrink the state. | ||
| My point is they just can't print pounds. | ||
| They don't have the luxury we have of being the prime reserve currency with all the responsibilities we have to do that throughout the world. | ||
| We've taken on way too many. | ||
| That you can just have quantitative easing. | ||
| You just hit the button and you create money. | ||
| You just make it up. | ||
| You create it. | ||
| Somebody has to buy those bonds. | ||
| Somehow, they have to fill that deficit. | ||
| And Boris Johnson is an abject lesson. | ||
| I guess an object lesson. | ||
| The object lesson here is to watch how you cannot squander your opportunities. | ||
| This nation is on edge. | ||
| I keep saying, we ain't bringing this country together anytime soon. | ||
| That didn't happen in the Revolution. | ||
| That didn't happen in the Civil War. | ||
| It didn't happen in the Great Depression, World War II. | ||
| One side wins and one side loses, and you take the nation to another level. | ||
| That's when they say, wow, what a great unifier Lincoln was. | ||
| What a great unifier Roosevelt was. | ||
| What a great unifier Reagan was. | ||
| No. | ||
| One side wins and one side loses. | ||
| You go up another level and you unify around that. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. | ||
| Not to get too Hegelian on us. | ||
| But that's it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And what you're seeing in Boris Johnson, he's got him in hang fire right now. | ||
| Because Ben Harnwell is right. | ||
| And as Ben Harnwell told me, he said, Steve, you've got to keep getting this wrong. | ||
| He says, Boris Johnson has the cards. | ||
| I don't care if 250 of them resign. | ||
| He's got the cards. | ||
| And if I know it, he knows it. | ||
| And Ben was right. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Ben, hang on one second. | ||
| Let me bring in Peter. | ||
| Here is the solution. | ||
| And keep that up. | ||
| Is the solution... Maybe we do one of those tripe things, right? | ||
| Oh, good. | ||
| Is the solution... You can get off my lovely façade. | ||
| Is the solution here not to wait to October? | ||
| This is another thing that gets me about the Brits. | ||
| All the Europeans. | ||
| Come mid-July, you don't see them until September. | ||
| They all take off August. | ||
| The place could be burning down. | ||
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Oh, no, we've got to take the August holiday. | |
| As Ben well knows, it's 24-7, seven days a week in the War Room. | ||
| I don't believe in August holidays. | ||
| Peter, can they bring this thing up? | ||
| Do they have to wait to October, this Conservative Convention, to have a vote to see who replaces him? | ||
| No, they don't have to wait until October. | ||
| Obviously Parliament finishes on around the 21st of July, so another three weeks Parliament shuts down. | ||
| Doesn't start back in until the first week in September, but they could shorten the process. | ||
| It does not have to be at party conference starting 2nd of October. | ||
| The problem is there is a process and that process means the nominations open, you can put your name into a hat and then when the nominations close then the whole party must be balloted and they're round so they're reduced, the lowest candidate falls out So there is a process that has to happen. | ||
| Whenever Theresa May did it, it only took about three or four weeks for Theresa May. | ||
| The reason was Andrea Leadsom, her opponent, dropped out and they didn't have to ballot the members. | ||
| But whenever Boris ran, it was six weeks, I think, the process. | ||
| Not only do you have to ballot members, which takes time to send out the contact members to get that back. | ||
| You then have a second, third, fourth round if there are enough candidates because every Tom, Dick and Harry wants now to be Prime Minister of Britain according to the press today. Then you also need to have hustings. | ||
| You need to have hustings events where the two candidates, the two top candidates can engage and have questions. | ||
| So, I can't remember how many Hustings they had before when Boris was running, but the process of voting to the, putting it to the members for them to vote, that being whittled down through different rounds, then the final two have to public Hustings, that will take probably five, six weeks if all the candidates stay there until they're knocked out. | ||
| Let me go back to Ben for a second, hang on a second. | ||
| Ben, how much damage, he would say mischief, how much damage could Boris Johnson do between now and the time they get this all done? | ||
| And do you see a possibility he could throw his hat back in the ring? | ||
| Because this guy is slippery, right? | ||
| As you know, and you know him. | ||
| Tell us what Boris Johnson is going to do, how much damage can be done? | ||
| And the British economy is in implosion right now, imploding. | ||
| OK, and they're having this happy talk about a tax cut. | ||
| It's like here in the United States, you ain't having any tax cuts. | ||
| How are you going to have tax cuts? | ||
| Just print more money? | ||
| It's just a three-card money. | ||
| I'll give you a tax cut, but it's three-card money. | ||
| Hey, you feel better? | ||
| Here's a tax cut, but it's just going to print more. | ||
| It's just going to put more on the burden of your kids and grandkids. | ||
| Ben Harnwell? | ||
| Well, you know, I sort of think that the reason why Boris Johnson handled the whole crisis in the way that he did, that is, say, resigning as leader of the Conservative Party whilst Staying on as Prime Minister, which is perfectly entitled to. | ||
| This is what John Major did in 1995. | ||
| I think there's an outside chance that he's buying himself some time to do exactly what you just suggested, which is to throw his hat in the ring and try to stand again. | ||
| However, in terms of historical precedent, this is something I've digged out for you, Steve. | ||
| Back in 1784, our old friend Pitt the Younger lost three no-confidence votes all in one year, all within a few weeks of one another. | ||
| And he didn't resign as Prime Minister. | ||
| He brazened it through. | ||
| He had the support of George III, however. | ||
| But there's absolutely no constitutional reason that he's obliged to resign as Prime Minister. | ||
| So he can do a lot of mischief, to answer your question. | ||
| I think, just to top you on your historical reference, I think that's because George III had just blown out Lord North. | ||
| For guess what, ladies and gentlemen? | ||
| Losing the United States of America, okay? | ||
| You don't think that rattled the British monarchy? | ||
| It rattled Britain to its core. | ||
| It was their Vietnam. | ||
| Ben, how do people, you're going to be up on this, I may get you back up in the second hour, how do people get to you on Getter? | ||
| Because I know you're, if you want to know what's going on, go to Hearts of Oak and go to Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Ben, how do people get to you? | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| It's simply my surname. | ||
| It's at Harnwell. | ||
| It's the verified account, not the imposter accounts, and I'm there all the time. | ||
| Okay, and Ben, you've got the straight shooting, so thanks. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We'll try to get you. | ||
| Nigel's going into London. | ||
| We're going to try to get Nigel, Ben back on. | ||
| Peter, how do people get to Hearts of Oak? | ||
| You guys are all over this also. | ||
| So at Hearts of Oak on Getter, on Rumble. | ||
| You can even listen to us on the go on Podbean. | ||
| So I know many of you will be listening to War Room on Podbean on podcasting. | ||
| You can listen to Hearts of Oak on the go as well, but on social media at Hearts of Oak on Getter. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Appreciate it, Peter. | ||
| Okay, the bad hombre, Steve Cortez. | ||
| I know the Brits drive him nuts, too. | ||
| Steve Cortez has got a lot of capital markets and economics to talk about, but we're going to talk about this disaster in our mother country next. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, programming note, we're going to have Kelly Chewbacca kick off tomorrow. | ||
| Talk about this magnificent rally they're going to have in Alaska with President Trump. | ||
| He's going up to the last frontier of America. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I guess Montana and Wyoming and places in Arizona. | ||
| That's still the frontier. | ||
| I consider them the frontier. | ||
| But let's say this is the big last frontier. | ||
| President Trump's going to be up there for a big rally with Sarah Palin and Kelly Chewbacca. | ||
| Kelly's going to be on tomorrow. | ||
| Talk about that and Murkowski. | ||
| We're also going to have Mike Lindell. | ||
| Remember, Mike got the hook. | ||
| From the big box, Walmart, who stand, remember, every dollar you spend there, and I realize you have to, particularly in this economy, and Steve Cortez is going to tell you why. | ||
| You know, go to mypillow.com, promo code WORM. | ||
| We've got all the sales up there, including the pillows, for $19.88. | ||
| Also, the second hour, for the people that caught the 6 o'clock show, and I strongly recommend everybody, add to your media diet. | ||
| If you can't watch it live, watch it afterwards. | ||
| Last night on the 6 o'clock show, we had the great Dave Walsh. | ||
| He's just done an incredible job of getting to the details of energy. | ||
| I know you guys like it, so much details. | ||
| And we had Gaffney. | ||
| Dave Walsh actually caught something Steve Bannon missed, and I am man enough to say I missed it. | ||
| The Reuters story about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, I missed, I don't know how I missed it, but I missed the part when he took 5 million barrels, and they're taking a million barrels out a day, remember, by law. | ||
| It's only to be used in strategic emergencies here for national security purposes. | ||
| Not to lower prices. | ||
| National security purposes. | ||
| He shipped 5 million barrels to foreign countries. | ||
| Didn't tell anybody. | ||
| This was caught by Reuters looking at the shipping documents. | ||
| But the buried lead of buried leads was brother Dave Walsh, and this is why he's a rock star. | ||
| And remember, he was just an audience member. | ||
| That's how we met this guy. | ||
| The check team's credentials and his stuff's been in it. | ||
| 15% of it, wait for it, went to the CCP. | ||
| Strategic Petroleum Reserve. | ||
| And then Frank Gaffney comes right on. | ||
| We're talking about the naval exercises they're having now in Latin America. | ||
| Steve Cortez has been warning about this for years. | ||
| And now, hey, the CCP, the Russia allies, they ain't just looking at the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| They're looking at the Sub-Saharan Africa. | ||
| They're looking at the Caribbean. | ||
| And they got their eyes on the ripe fruit that's going to fall. | ||
| And Argentina's about to collapse, economically. | ||
| In Brazil, this Lula vs. Bolsonaro is going to be the last bastion of us trying to say something. | ||
| Gaffney says, hey, if he shipped it over, they should be impeached. | ||
| That's impeachable offense. | ||
| Tucker picked it up last night, gave a great rant on it. | ||
| We're going to have it at 11 o'clock. | ||
| But, Steve, I also want to... This is my point about Boris Johnson. | ||
| We can't squander opportunity. | ||
| You've got to get on with it. | ||
| This country's in a crisis. | ||
| The world's in a crisis. | ||
| The United Kingdom's in a crisis. | ||
| Brexit didn't solve it. | ||
| Number one, the administrative state in Westminster is as strong or stronger than ours here. | ||
| And I keep telling people, use an example. | ||
| They're not going to pat you on the head and say, oh, you want Brexit? | ||
| That's great. | ||
| No, they're still fighting. | ||
| They've got almost nothing accomplished. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because the bureaucracy, the administrative state says, no, no, no, we know better than you out in the Midlands of England. | ||
| We're not going to do it. | ||
| I've got the great Ben Burquam. | ||
| Ben Burquam's down there in Brackerville the other day. | ||
| I had murders at the 27 Yankees. | ||
| I had Mark Morgan. | ||
| I had Chip Roy. | ||
| I had Ken Cuccinelli. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Had the great Sheriff Cove from Kinney County. | ||
| He's arresting people. | ||
| They're sitting there. | ||
| We declared emergency. | ||
| We're going to start arresting people. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| It's one tiny thing. | ||
| We just got to get the governor to sign the document. | ||
| The great Ben Burquam of Real America's Voice. | ||
| He ain't down on the Rio Grande Valley. | ||
| He's not there looking at people invading our country. | ||
| Where's Ben Burquam? | ||
| They're up there in the state capital, Austin, outside the state capital. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Hey, Governor Abbott, who's endorsed by Trump and who's voted on by Republicans. | ||
| Hey, can you please sign the document? | ||
| It's invaded. | ||
| As a supplicant, use Boris Johnson and these Tories as an example. | ||
| People are fed up with all of it. | ||
| They want action, action, action. | ||
| They don't want to hear any more happy talk. | ||
| Boris Johnson, I must stay because I'm going to give you a tax cut. | ||
| Dude, tell the people how you're going to pay for that. | ||
| Like this year when they send that three-and-a-half thing up here. | ||
| Tell me how you're going to pay for your Ukraine holiday. | ||
| How are we going to do that? | ||
| Tell me. | ||
| I want details. | ||
| I want action. | ||
| The deplorables are awakened. | ||
| You can't snow them anymore. | ||
| Because this show is dedicated to ripping the curtain back and showing you, hey, this is what the engine room looks like. | ||
| Here's how the pieces fit together. | ||
| You're smart enough. | ||
| Now you hold them accountable. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| Am I right or wrong here? | ||
| I know I'm on a rant today, because this thing in England, the reason it's important is about us. | ||
| It's reflective about us. | ||
| They're different actors, but it's that same political class, and they're having these meetings, these awfully, awfully, and then, oh no, we have to have the conference in October, we gotta take August off. | ||
| Don't take any days off! | ||
| Don't take any hour off! | ||
| The house is on fire. | ||
| There's a fire bell in the night right now. | ||
| This nation's in a crisis just like they're in a crisis. | ||
| Just like the Judeo-Christian West is in a crisis. | ||
| Cortez. | ||
| Steve, your Irish is clearly up today, and it should be, for good reason. | ||
| Look, the British deplorables, the British populists, they were betrayed by Boris Johnson, and they've had enough of him. | ||
| And you're right, the American deplorables have been betrayed by far too many establishment Republicans. | ||
| Regarding the border, which you cited, as I mentioned on your show yesterday, the majority of the U.S.-Mexico border is controlled by Republicans. | ||
| Republican governors with Republican legislatures in both Texas as well as Arizona. | ||
| That's enormous power if we choose to use it wisely. | ||
| But instead, establishment Republicans have sat on their hands and said, oh, not my problem, and effectively passed the buck. | ||
| Well, Boris Johnson tried to pass the buck, and I think that the main reason that he's being, thankfully, ousted from office is because of what's happened with the British economy. | ||
| And to put some stats on this, the British pound, for example, Steve, has been absolutely falling apart lately. | ||
| It is at 1.20 right now versus the U.S. | ||
| dollar. | ||
| That is a two-year low, not very far from its all-time low, which was reached back in the 1980s, 1.04, when it almost got to parity versus the United States dollar. | ||
| And, you know, you're right that in the olden days, before the supremacy of King Dollar, when the pound really ruled the financial world, the phrase, sound as a pound, meant something. | ||
| Well, it doesn't mean much anymore, and a big reason is inflation. | ||
| Steve, The UK is the only advanced economy in the world that is in worse shape than the United States, particularly as it relates to inflation. | ||
| Their inflation rate right now, 9.1%. | ||
| Even worse than the United States, which is bad enough at 40-year highs. | ||
| at 8.6% here on the official reads. | ||
| I think actual inflation is far higher than that, but going off of government stats, we're at 8.6%. | ||
| The UK is at 9.1%. | ||
| The only countries that are worse than the UK regarding inflation, if you look at the G20, are nations like Turkey, Russia, and Argentina. | ||
| Absolute basket cases. | ||
| So, Boris Johnson has failed politically, and he has certainly failed when it comes to the economy. | ||
| The British people are suffering, and you're very right, Steve. | ||
| They've had enough, and we Americans Let's take a lesson from this. | ||
| Let's make sure that we deplorables, that we in the populist patriotic movement, we have a sense of urgency. | ||
| It is critical. | ||
| Let's learn from the anti-lesson of what Boris Johnson did wrong and not repeat those mistakes here. | ||
| They've squandered 12 years. | ||
| They'll never get those 12 years back. | ||
| When England collapses, even with Brexit, those 12 years, that was a decade, over a decade. | ||
| We can't do that. | ||
| Let me go to Burquam quickly, because we've got a lot to go through. | ||
| Ben Burquam, why are you, with all, Real America's Voice investigative team is pound for pound as good as you get. | ||
| Your investigations on the southern border have been Pulitzer Prize winning quality. | ||
| You're never going to get it because you're not at NBC or CNN or CBS or something like this. | ||
| But why, sir, are you wasting your time? | ||
| Please tell me why you're in Austin today when you should be down in Eagle Pass, Texas or Ovalde or on the other side of Del Rio City, you know, watching this invasion and assisting as you always do, sir. | ||
| Why are you in Austin, Texas? | ||
| Well, to answer that, first off, because what you said before you came to me with Steve Cortez about China and Russia, I was actually interviewing someone from Venezuela down in Eagle Pass yesterday who says they're creating bases in Venezuela, Chinese and Russian bases in Venezuela. | ||
| Venezuela is sending their army to invade America. | ||
| They're sending illegals Through their army to invade America. | ||
| We have China is taking over Panama, Central America, South America is being taken over by communist people that hate this country and we're inviting it into our country and instead of actually stopping it, doing his number one job of protecting the citizens of this country, we've got Governor Abbott who's hiding in his lavish palace, he's got his governor's mansion behind the Capitol here, hiding from the citizens of this state. | ||
| And the question is, when, Governor Abbott, are you going to declare the invasion that everyone with eyes can see? | ||
| Otherwise, if you're not going to do it, step down like Boris did, let somebody who will do it. | ||
| I guarantee you, Alan West would do it. | ||
| I guarantee you, my friend Chad Prather would do it. | ||
| But if you're not going to do it, you may as well let Beto, take over the state and run it into the ground. | ||
| We are tired of weak Republicans who do nothing. | ||
| They piss on our leg and tell us it's raining and they do absolutely nothing. | ||
| We need conservative fighters that are willing to stand up for this country or this country is gone. | ||
| Here's what I'm missing. | ||
| I've got Russ Vogt, I've got Ken Cuccinelli, I've got Mark Morgan. | ||
| I've got Sheriff Kenny. | ||
| I've got the great Chip Roy. | ||
| I've got heavy hitters. | ||
| These are 27 Yankees when it comes to this. | ||
| And they've passed it! | ||
| They've declared an emergency. | ||
| What else can happen? | ||
| Those are front-line heavy hitters. | ||
| It doesn't come any bigger. | ||
| You tell me, what else does he need? | ||
| This is what I'm missing. | ||
| Anything else, Abbott, just tell us. | ||
| Give us a punch list. | ||
| We'll go do it. | ||
| We'll go get it. | ||
| Just give us the punch list. | ||
| Don't blow it. | ||
| Just give us what else you need. | ||
| We commit we will go get it. | ||
| Ben. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| No, that's it. | ||
| We have it. | ||
| We have everything we need. | ||
| We have the evidence. | ||
| They've laid it out in great detail. | ||
| You have sheriffs on the border. | ||
| You have judges on the border who are being destroyed. | ||
| And all they need is Governor Abbott to declare the invasion. | ||
| That's all they need. | ||
| And to Steve's point, Republicans control more than two-thirds of the southern border and they're doing absolutely nothing. | ||
| Ducey's doing nothing and Greg Abbott is doing absolutely nothing but burning money down on the border. | ||
| He can change it. | ||
| Brnovich wrote the original opinion but he's not doing anything. | ||
| This is the other thing you'll watch the Brits, BBC and all this. | ||
| Look at the political conversation, Cortez. | ||
| Look at the political conversation. | ||
| It's all political talk, and that's why people dial it out. | ||
| They hate it, because it doesn't deal with reality. | ||
| Your country's in an economic crisis and imploding. | ||
| The pound's almost at parity with the dollar. | ||
| Price is truth, and look at what's happening. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Governor Kristi Noem is going to be, we're going to get her response in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. | ||
| Also how, against all odds, in South Dakota actually incomes are rising. | ||
| Governor Noem's going to join us. | ||
| Cortez Berquam, you hang right there in Texas. | ||
| At the Capitol. | ||
| Somehow we'll get you an audience. | ||
| Steve Cortez, please, stick with us. | ||
| We're going to be back in a moment. | ||
| A little worked up there, a little hot. | ||
| The Brits can do that. | ||
| Trigger the Irish in there. | ||
| Cortez got it. | ||
| He knows. | ||
| The Bad Hombre! | ||
| Okay. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, I've got Steve Gertesner. | ||
| He's going to have some economic analysis in a second. | ||
| Ben Burkham is going to stay at the State Capitol in Texas. | ||
| We're going to get back to Ben. | ||
| Nigel Farage, we're trying to track him down. | ||
| Nigel, join us in the second hour live from London about this situation. | ||
| But I had to get some stability here because I've been ranting all morning. | ||
| We asked Governor Noem to come on. | ||
| Her new book, not my first rodeo, but it's the subtitle, Lessons from the Heartland. | ||
| I needed some nice stability from the heartland to help us out here. | ||
| Governor, we broke on the show yesterday with Dave Walsh, our energy expert, and also Frank Gaffney about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. | ||
| And Dave had actually gone through the rewarded story and then went and checked the bills of laden that showed they were being shipped overseas. | ||
| The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is supposed to be a national security asset. | ||
| It never was intended to combat prices. | ||
| So you have a guy that stopped production, but he's trying to use it. | ||
| And now they've caught him shipping it to 5 million gallons. | ||
| We're taking a million gallons out a day, roughly. | ||
| Right? | ||
| He shipped 5 million overseas. | ||
| And nobody knew about it. | ||
| Reuters had to find it out. | ||
| And now in the bills of Layden, Walsh and Reuters have found out that 15% has gone to China. | ||
| I just want to compare the folks in South Dakota. | ||
| As great a job as you've done at trying to keep incomes up, and we're going to get to that in a second, how is that going to sit with them to know the strategic, it was only set up for national security crises, right? | ||
| That's been used now to try to get the prices down on a government that hates the oil industry and the natural gas industry and the energy industry, and they hate the farmers because they hate fertilizer, and now know they've been sending it to foreign countries, ma'am? | ||
| I think, Steve, when you talk about this, He's literally sending our national security supplies to our enemies. | ||
| And he's giving them more and more control over our food policy as well. | ||
| We look at China has consistently for years, I've been talking about it for 15 years, buying our chemical companies, our fertilizer companies. | ||
| They own our processing systems for our food. | ||
| Now they're buying our land. | ||
| And now he's giving them our cheap oil that President Trump bought and put in our strategic oil supply to protect us far into the future. | ||
| He's giving that to them, which we'll have to replace at a much higher cost. | ||
| You know, I said several months ago that I didn't think President Biden really loved America. | ||
| I'd love to have somebody show me one decision he's made that said that he does. | ||
| It's he is weakening us on a tragic scale over and over again. | ||
| How bad are energy, diesel increases, gasoline increases, the increase in fertilizer? | ||
| How is it impacting the stand-up, honest citizens of South Dakota, ma'am? | ||
| Oh, farmers are spending thousands of dollars a week to run just one tractor more than they did a year ago. | ||
| And remember, everybody in South Dakota has to drive a long ways to go anywhere to work, to buy their groceries, to take their kids where they need to go. | ||
| It's been an incredibly challenging time. | ||
| Remember, all of these costs go into your food supply. | ||
| Our number one industry is agriculture. | ||
| Our second largest industry is tourism. | ||
| So both of those are high energy demand industries, but they're incredibly important to our state, but to our country, too. | ||
| We feed the world here. | ||
| This is the breadbasket of America and the country. | ||
| And we're seeing our enemies come in and buy up the assets that control the supply chain. | ||
| And then we're continuing to see our president's policies devastate our farmers and take more money out of their pockets. | ||
| So the political class in London is having a discussion like a lot of the political class has here that's unrelated to what's reality. | ||
| The business, and I'm going to get to Cortez in a second, Goldman Sachs' analysts came out and said, well, you know, technically, technically we're in a recession. | ||
| No, ma'am. | ||
| The working class people, middle class people, the people who make this country work, it's a real recession and it's deep already. | ||
| They don't need the Atlanta Fed to come in and do some econometric model, okay? | ||
| Cortez will walk through that in a second. | ||
| But in South Dakota, The book is called, not my first rodeo, Lessons from the Heartland. | ||
| What's the lessons you have for America? | ||
| How do you try to keep wages up in a time of, we now know we're in a recession, every state's in a recession, the energy states more than ever, right? | ||
| How have you done it? | ||
| What are the lessons of South Dakota that we can apply to America? | ||
| Well, I think the biggest lesson in the book is we don't complain about things, we fix them. | ||
| We make decisions every day and fix them. | ||
| And my job as governor is to continue to defend my people from this federal government. | ||
| I'm at war every day with the administration to protect my state's rights and my people's rights. | ||
| It's about personal responsibility. | ||
| We were the state in the country that had no mandates, no lockdowns, didn't even define and divide businesses based on being essential or non-essential. | ||
| We said everyone is essential. | ||
| And look at what's happening in South Dakota today. | ||
| We have incomes going up faster here than in any other state. | ||
| Our economy is number one in the nation. | ||
| I have less than a thousand people in the entire state on unemployment. | ||
| Our kids are leading the country in educational outcomes. | ||
| People are happier. | ||
| They're doing so much better here because we've chosen conservative operations and decisions and values and it's proving to work. | ||
| So that's what I think is interesting is a lot of these other even In our own party. | ||
| Steve, you know better than I do, they talk conservative, these governors, but they don't do it. | ||
| Here in South Dakota, we're doing it and we've got the proof every single day that it works, that it defends freedom, that it loves America. | ||
| We've got people that all over the state didn't riot and protest and get upset over the 4th of July. | ||
| They celebrated. | ||
| They spent time with their families and talked about our founders and proudly stood and sang the national anthem and talked about the military that continues to defend those freedoms today. | ||
| I love this state and I think it's the hope for the country because it really stands for what you and I have said for years needs to happen throughout the entire United States. | ||
| I want to talk about urgency for a second, because you clearly go about things in an urgent way, and if you read the book, it's because of the ways you were raised. | ||
| Coming off a farm, you didn't have the luxury of taking a day off, as your dad reminded you time and time again. | ||
| Your dad's a great figure in this book. | ||
| It's worth buying the book just to meet Christy Noem's father, because he's a larger-than-life character. | ||
| But in Britain, right now, between him resigning, and it turns out he didn't resign as Prime Minister, they're going to have some conference in October, and they're going to, it's, they're taking August off, and that's what I'm trying to tell people, we don't, they've squandered 12 years, besides what Nigel Farage and Brexit did, okay? | ||
| And that wasn't the Tories, that was basically the deplorables of England doing that, right? | ||
| We don't, I get a sense In the Republican Party, that there's not a sense of urgency that we got to get on with it and stop just meandering around or being just opposite what the Democrats do. | ||
| We have to have a plan and that plan has to be executed because people now are at the point of saying, hey, we'll give you the authority, but you have to deliver. | ||
| I just don't get that sense still that you see people that are on top of it and prepared to work seven days a week, 24 hours a day to save this country. | ||
| Governor Noem. | ||
| Oh, you're exactly right, Steve. | ||
| I went to help a couple of congressional candidates that are already serving in Congress in the House of Representatives, and they asked them from the crowd what their agenda was going to be if they got back in control of the House and in Congress, and they didn't know. | ||
| One of them said they would have a predictable schedule. | ||
| One of them said that they would know when they were going to be home and when they were going to be in Congress because they would be in control of the congressional schedule. | ||
| And another one said that they were Going to continue to pass bills and hold hearings. | ||
| It's not an agenda that American can be inspired by. | ||
| And that's the one thing that makes me hope that Americans get our act together. | ||
| I talk about people all the time when they have debate over the next presidential election and they say they don't want President Trump to run. | ||
| I said, well, we better grow up as a party and recognize that he very well could run. | ||
| And if he runs, there's so many people in this country that are loyal and support him. | ||
| That we need to build a team to get him across the finish line of a general election because we've seen our country go places the last three years. | ||
| We would have never dreamed. | ||
| I would have never dreamed that this country could be downgraded and devastated and decisions be made the way they were the last three years and that we could see people get so much traction to remake this republic so quickly. | ||
| So I knew there was people that had the agenda. | ||
| I didn't know that they could have this kind of an effect of that fast. | ||
| So it's more important than ever that Conservatives realize the time for action is now. | ||
| We need to have a plan and then we need to do it. | ||
| We can't just talk about things. | ||
| We can't complain about them. | ||
| We need to fix them. | ||
| Governor, the book is not my first rodeo, Lessons from the Heartland. | ||
| Are there any, walk us through, is there any effort for you to get out there? | ||
| Any speaking where people can get to see you? | ||
| Is anything going on in South Dakota? | ||
| How do people get the book? | ||
| Because people that have bought it from when you were first on love it. | ||
| They love the stories of your childhood and growing up, and particularly your mom and dad. | ||
| And your dad's this incredible figure who unfortunately died Well, you know, people can buy the book anywhere books are sold. | ||
| It's done very well. | ||
| We're on the New York Times bestseller list. | ||
| We're thrilled about that in the first week. | ||
| But I also think that people will be able to go out and to really understand, not just who I am, but a lot of what makes this country special. | ||
| And that's what I think is so important about this book. | ||
| And it tells the history of Some of my fights in Congress, some of the decisions I've made as governor, the remarkable event we had on July 3rd at Mount Rushmore with President Trump. | ||
| There's stories in here people have never heard before and they'll enjoy it. | ||
| So they can buy it anywhere books are sold and we'd appreciate it if they would. | ||
| But also I'm speaking kind of all over the place. | ||
| If there's an opportunity for me to talk about the contrast in leadership from different states, Republican leadership versus Democrat leadership, the consequences of those leaders and they're getting the right ones in office. | ||
| I'm doing that. | ||
| I really think that it's important we be engaged at this time. | ||
| And I'm running for reelection in our state this year. | ||
| So I'll be spending a lot of time in South Dakota, hoping people will trust me to continue to lead. | ||
| And we're going to do big things. | ||
| We're going to continue to do big things here because we can, we're willing, and we recognize that it's incredibly important for the rest of the country to have an example to follow. | ||
| How do they find out your schedule? | ||
| Do you have a website people can go to besides the book? | ||
| I do. | ||
| I think if people go to christinome.com, they'll see where I'll be, where I'll be speaking, and what I'll be doing. | ||
| We've always got different press releases and notices that go out, and my social media as well. | ||
| I do a lot of it, so people get a pretty inside view of where we are and what we're going and where we're doing. | ||
| We're going to be speaking at some big Republican events coming up nationwide. | ||
| And it'll be a chance for us to really come together on some universal agendas that we need to be pushing in this country that protect American families. | ||
| We're going to have you back on at some time in the future about that, because you can see the left is now saying, hey, you know, the Senate's controlled, they're all controlled, the state legislature's controlled with these states that all add up to like 20 percent of the country and all the big centers. | ||
| It's the heartland of this country. | ||
| It's the working class and middle class people that make this country work, right? | ||
| That make this country work. | ||
| It is. | ||
| That's why the dollar is so strong. | ||
| And the elites, the coastal elites, do not want to admit that, Governor Noem, at all. | ||
| They hate that. | ||
| They hate the fact that South Dakota even exists, ma'am. | ||
| Well, I don't know if you've heard some of the national comedians, Wanda Sykes and those guys, just last week saying, we should just erase the whole middle of the country. | ||
| They're not relevant. | ||
| California and New York should make all the decisions. | ||
| And I thought, dear God, can you even imagine if that happened? | ||
| But that's literally the way that they think. | ||
| What's interesting is the pandemic made people realize that the cities aren't all they're cracked up to be. | ||
| There's a part of, I mean, this country now for the first time is when they Google where they want to take a vacation or a trip, they're seeking rural America and small towns. | ||
| There's something out here that is reminding them about what's special about America, and it's pretty inspirational. | ||
| So I'd invite everybody to come visit us, come see really what is America, and it'll restore your hope and your faith in this country. | ||
| Not my first rodeo. | ||
| Lessons from the Heartland by Governor Kristi Noem. | ||
| Governor, thank you very much for joining us today. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| You have a wonderful day. | ||
| We'll see you soon. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Cortez, you found that out in Illinois. | ||
| Did you not, sir, from Chicago, about the rest of the state? | ||
| You know, I certainly did. | ||
| I had the privilege of traveling all over Illinois, barnstorming in a plane, a road trip in a bus with Darren Bailey running for governor there, and met deplorables all over the state of Illinois. | ||
| And it is a massive state outside of Chicago, of course. | ||
| And look, I'm a proud Chicagoan, used to live there, raised a family in the city. | ||
| But the downstate folks in Illinois rightly feel that they are often abused by Chicago and its political power, particularly as it relates to Springfield, to the state capital there. | ||
| So, Darren Bailey is going to be a voice not just for downstate, but also for downtown in Chicago. | ||
| And Illinois is a deeply blue state that I believe is very much in play. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Largely because of inflation, disinflation. | ||
| Which is ravaging the entire country. | ||
| It is even worse in blue jurisdictions in places like Illinois where gasoline prices are just crushing middle-class people. | ||
| That equals political opportunity and an opening for the American person. | ||
| Okay, Cortez is going to go through the math of the economy of the United States of America. | ||
| Ben Burkham is down in Austin. | ||
| All next in the War Room. | ||
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| I promise next time I have Eric Prince on, I'll let him talk more like I like Cortez. | ||
| But Eric was so wrong. | ||
| I'm just kidding. | ||
| Eric's going to come back on. | ||
| Got a bunch of specials we're going to do, too, to make sure that you guys get fully briefed. | ||
| Absolutely, and I was pleasantly surprised to see from the Boston Globe, not exactly a right-wing publication, but from the Boston Globe, some pretty honest reporting, and this was their headline. | ||
| Sales are off. | ||
| Costs are soaring. | ||
| For some small business owners, the recession has already arrived. | ||
| And they cite the Boston Globe does a survey done by a line of all of thousands of small business owners across the United States. | ||
| And Steve, unfortunately, the results of this survey are absolutely damning and do indeed affirm that the recession is here. | ||
| It is here and it is deep and it is particularly pernicious for small business. | ||
| Let me give you some of the statistics. | ||
| 60% of small business owners say That the current inflation is worse for their businesses than the COVID lockdowns were. | ||
| I mean, think about that. | ||
| The majority, a super majority, say this situation right now is worse than the 2020 lockdowns and then COVID was for their businesses. | ||
| The majority of them also, 51% this is very damning, Steve, 51% say that they fear that their businesses are going to close permanently in the next six months. | ||
| The majority of small business owners in America believe that their businesses are going to close permanently in the next six months. | ||
| And Steve, one third of them, 35% report that they did not pay rent in June. | ||
| I mean, think about what that could do to the commercial real estate market, number one. | ||
| But if one third of small business owners in America are unable to pay their stores rent, to pay their businesses rent, in the month of June, that tells me that not only are we in a recession, we're in an incredibly deep recession. | ||
| And it's much worse in some places, by the way. | ||
| In the state of Illinois, for example, we were just talking about Illinois, that number is 44% in Illinois. | ||
| Almost half of small businesses in Illinois say they did not pay rent in June. | ||
| They were unable to pay their rents. | ||
| Small business, this is what he keeps saying. | ||
| Biden, I've created so many jobs. | ||
| Forget that. | ||
| It's all nonsense happy talk. | ||
| It's like Boris Johnson's tax cut. | ||
| You've got, you've got people saying that the lockdowns, this is worse than the lockdowns, the inflation. | ||
| 51% I am going to be closed permanently. | ||
| That means I'm out of business. | ||
| I'm packing up shop. | ||
| 44% in Illinois not making rent. | ||
| A third are not, didn't make June's rent. | ||
| That is, that is a DEF CON 2 flash. | ||
| Here's the reason. | ||
| What's the engine of job growth in the nation, Steve Cortez? | ||
| Right. No, of course, it's small business and small business has been absolutely crushed by inflation because Steve, if you look at the economy, you know, we talk a lot about how inflation as far as consumers, you know, who does it hurt the most? It hurts middle and lower income folks, particularly those who are on fixed incomes, a lot of senior citizens. When it comes to the business community, there are firms that benefit from inflation, but they are almost all, Steve, gigantic multinationals that produce resources. | ||
| Small businesses tend to be the consumers of those goods that are inflating. And so small business is disproportionately harmed by this runaway inflation. And by the way, to connect this back to our discussion about the UK, what do Boris Johnson and... | ||
| And Joe Biden have in common? | ||
| Well, while their economies respectively are imploding, two of the worst nations in the world, the US and the UK right now, among advanced nations, they really are the two worst in the world economically. | ||
| What are both of them focused on, the Prime Minister of England and the President of the United States? | ||
| They're focused on Ukraine, okay? | ||
| They are focused right now on Ukraine, sending billions and billions of dollars that we do not have, that we are borrowing, to send to Ukraine to escalate a crisis in which the United States Has no discernible national security interest at the same time. | ||
| Small businesses are flailing in the United States. | ||
| And again, that is not my opinion. | ||
| That is the actual data coming out of a massive survey of small business, thousands of small businesses in this country. | ||
| The majority of them telling us that they are not even going to make it, Steve. | ||
| The priority for Boris Johnson should be small businesses in their countries. | ||
| Instead, they are doing the dirty deeds of Davos and trying to escalate a crisis in which the United States should not be involved at all. | ||
| Okay, take your calendars out, folks. | ||
| You need to take your calendars out and mark this day. | ||
| Thursday, 7 July, 2022. | ||
| Today, we're telling you. | ||
| They're going to come back from their August break and they're going to be talking about, essentially, a bailout for all of this. | ||
| They can't have... Do you understand what happens in this country if 51% of the small business nation will shut down six months from now? | ||
| Let me see. | ||
| Let me project that. | ||
| Oh, that's over Christmas. | ||
| Do you understand by the end of the year if half the small business country lock up and don't go? | ||
| They're going to come back with, wait for it, a massive stimulus package. | ||
| It's going to be an appropriations bill, Cortez, that's going to be two and a half trillion dollars. | ||
| You're going to be back to where you were in the pandemic because it's now three card money. Am I wrong in that, Cortez? You can see that's coming, right? They're going to try that, but Steve, guess what? | ||
| That sends inflation to Argentina levels, okay? | ||
| And I want to, again, I don't want to be all doom and gloom, and I don't want to depress the audience, but I want them to be equipped, and I want them to be ready. | ||
| Do not assume that the United States can't become Argentina, or that we can't become Venezuela. | ||
| Both of those countries that I just mentioned were very wealthy at one time. | ||
| A century ago, Argentina was wealthier than the United States. | ||
| So it can happen here. | ||
| Don't assume that it can't happen, okay? | ||
| We already have dangerous levels of inflation, It could become hyperinflation if the Congress and Joe Biden do something like what you're talking about and pass another massive stimulus and pour even more gasoline upon the inflation fire. | ||
| So, this is a dangerous, dangerous situation we're in right now. | ||
| And again, small business is in a terrible place, not based on my opinion, Based on a survey of thousands of small businesses as reported by the Boston Globe. | ||
| And again, I don't often praise legacy platforms like the Boston Globe, but I will praise them for telling the truth about this. | ||
| That for small business right now, the recession has arrived. | ||
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| It's not a debatable point. | ||
| It's not something to be ratified in the future. | ||
| It is here and now. | ||
| It exists. | ||
| Inflation is crushing them. | ||
| Inflation is crushing. | ||
| Real wages for Americans, which is all that really matters, are real wages. | ||
| What are your wages doing relative to the costs in your life? | ||
| Right now, real wages are absolutely crashing. | ||
| And again, where is Joe Biden's priority? | ||
| Where is his attention? | ||
| It is on Ukraine. | ||
| That is what the establishment, that includes Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, what are they doing right now while small businesses are in peril in this country? | ||
| They are sending billions and billions of dollars that we do not have to Ukraine to further escalate a crisis which will only make that inflation even worse on May Street. | ||
| Cortez, we're going to put your social media up and talk about the next thing. | ||
| Thank you very much. |
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