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July 15, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 2004: This Caused Crisis Has Plummeted Consumer Confidence
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joe biden ▲ ● ▼
...of the experts, including Wall Street, are suggesting that it's highly unlikely that it's going to be long-term inflation that's going to get out of hand.
unidentified
The question that keeps coming up again and again is that the messages that we've received from all levels of the White House and Treasury have been wrong.
So how did you all get this so wrong?
Well, Martha, the things that the White House and the Treasury Department were saying last year, and I can't stress this enough, reflected the overwhelming economic consensus in the private sector in the U.S.
and other places around the world.
Are you saying more spending is the answer?
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
I'm saying more investment is the answer.
More investment in production.
Well, investment is spending, right?
unidentified
And that might or might not be the solution, but past spending efforts have not really helped.
This is actually worse than that, right?
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Friends, patriots, countrymen, lend me your ears, because we need to save this country from that cast of fools.
Fools and liars.
I am Steve Cortez, and I am in for the one and only Stephen K. Bannon.
The Admiral has the morning off, and I am thrilled to be here for him.
And I'm thrilled to get to talk to you about the economy, among many other things.
I'm also really pleased for this first hour to be joined by John Gibbs, who was a real America-first fighter and stalwart, somebody who I believe is soon going to be in the United States House of Representatives from the state of Michigan.
And he is co-hosting for the first hour.
Now, regarding those fools and liars that I showed you there in that opening sequence, they were Joe Biden first talking about how inflation was going to soon go down.
By the way, that clip, That clip, Patriots, was from July 21st of 2021.
That's right, almost a year ago, promising us that inflation was about to go down.
In fact, the exact opposite was true.
Inflation was skyrocketing already at that point and continues to skyrocket ever further, setting 40-year records almost every single week, every single month.
That is the economic reality.
The next one was Gene Sperling, who essentially said, Not our fault that we didn't get this right.
Newsflash.
Yes, it is your fault.
White House economic advisors are supposed to know what is happening.
So it's either total incompetence or it's total dishonesty or some combination of the two.
I tend to lean toward the latter.
The last one was Jared Bernstein, who effectively said, well, the way we're going to solve this inflation explosion that is crushing Americans' prosperity, We're going to actually spend even more.
We're going to make it even worse.
We're going to do the things that caused it in the first place, and we're going to do them on steroids.
And that somehow is going to ameliorate the pain that people are experiencing right now in the country.
And again, that's not my opinion, and that's not just those of us who oppose this Biden regime.
That's not just our view.
That is the overwhelming view of the American people.
University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey, which goes all the way back to the 1950s, it has never been lower than it is today.
Think of all the crises, all the challenges that this country has faced since the 1950s.
Never once, never once has consumer sentiment, consumer confidence been lower than it is right now.
This is a caused crisis.
And because it is a caused crisis, though, it also means that we can fix it.
That there are policy fixes.
None of them are easy.
But there are policy fixes, and I'm going to go through some of them, and I also want to get to to John Gibbs, because I think candidates like John are part of the fix, are part of what is going to make this right economically in this country.
But we can't get to that until we first talk about what is wrong.
So the spinmeisters from the administration tried their best this week to explain away the disastrous numbers that we got out, both CPI and PPI, producer price inflation, the most recent at 40-year highs.
But they're unable to because the economic reality has Owned by the American people.
Tells a very different story.
And so do financial markets.
So let's take a look.
Look, when you have Cortez over, you invite most people to dinner.
They show up with flowers or wine.
You invite Cortez and he shows up with a chart.
And that's exactly what I've done today at the War Room.
Let's go to chart number one, which is the XLI.
The XLI.
And this is the Industrials ETF.
That's an exchange-traded fund.
So in one ticker, you get all the big industrial companies put together in the XLI.
And what I've done there is I have shaded it to show you.
On the left side of the screen, for those who are watching and not just listening, you can see the Trump era.
And then on the right side, in the blue, is the Biden era for industrials.
These are big multinational industrial companies headquartered in the United States.
And folks, here's the takeaway, and Price is truth, and Price doesn't lie.
Even with all of the challenges of the CCP virus, even with all of those challenges, under President Trump, the XLI advanced 40%.
So far under Joe Biden, down 4%.
What a demonstrable difference.
And by the way, that includes Joe Biden inheriting, as you can see on that chart, a good bit of upward momentum.
In other words, the Trump boom 2.0, the surge off of the lockdown lows of 2020, Trump was rebuilding the American economy with gusto.
So Joe Biden inherited tremendous momentum, as you can see in that chart.
And he has squandered all of it and more.
Now listen, industrials are doing poorly, but a lot of other sectors, particularly the more consumer-facing ones, are doing much, much worse.
So let's look at chart two.
This is the KRE.
That is the Regional Bank ETF.
So these aren't the big boys, not Bank of America and JP Morgan.
It's the regional banks all around the country.
I wish I could tell you they were community banks.
Not that many community banks exist anymore.
That's another topic for another time that I think is very worth talking about.
But these are not multinationals.
It's not the Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley's of the world.
It's the regional banks.
The regional banks, as you can see on that chart, unfortunately, demonstrably, from the upper left to the lower right, regional banks are getting crushed.
As of right now, off of just this year's high, that chart is only for this year, off of this year's high, down 29%.
Down 29%.
What does that tell you about credit demand out there in the economy, about what is happening because of inflation to this country?
One more chart.
Don't worry, I'm not going to give you two hours of charts, folks, I promise you.
Steve Bannon, if he is watching, is probably worried, oh, Cortez is turning this into a chart show.
I'm not, but I'm going to give you one more.
Let's go to chart three, and this is manpower I think this is important because the only thing that the pro Biden folks and his cheerleaders in the corporate media, the only thing they're hanging their hat on still is trying to say, but we're adding jobs.
Well, first of all, we're not really adding jobs.
We were simply recovering the jobs that were lost.
And we have been ever since the lockdown lows, but we're not creating new net new employment, but regarding the employment situation.
I strongly believe that it is about to turn over, unfortunately, in a terrible way.
You can't have consumer confidence at all-time lows and have employment stay strong for very long.
And if I look at this chart of Manpower, this is the largest staffing firm in the country by a long shot.
Manpower chart, MAN is their ticker, tells me that there is a real problem coming in the job market and that they are not getting hiring from their firm.
That chart, as you can see, again, it's just this year.
Highs this year $115 lows yesterday 73 off 36% off of the highs of just this year for Manpower Inc.
So unfortunately, it tells us also a very damning story, even for the job market, which has been relatively robust, that that is going to turn around going forward.
Now, if we can put my getter post up there, please, of Treasury Secretary Yellen.
There are people, as I said, who should know better.
There are people who are supposed to have expertise, who have all the credentials in the world.
She couldn't have better credentials, by the way.
Professor at Harvard, PhD from Yale, long experience at the Fed.
And yet, Janet Yellen says, oh, gee, inflation is unacceptably high.
You know what, Janet Yellen?
It is time for you to resign.
And any other business, not just business, any other pursuit of life, if you failed that miserably, if you told us it was transitory all of 2021, and you got it that disastrously wrong in the primary task of your job, which is the security and prosperity of the American people, The only honorable thing to do is to resign, is to resign in shame.
But she won't probably.
And unfortunately, collaborator Republicans probably won't hold her accountable, at least until we get a new Congress that's going to be seated.
And that's where I want to go next.
This is not all Biden's fault.
It's not all Janet Yellen's fault and Jerome Powell's fault.
They could not have done it, what they've done in the United States, without Republican collaborators.
Without Mitch McConnell playing ball the entire time, Kevin McCarthy playing ball at least part of the time, there have been plenty of establishment Republicans who have enabled, and in fact encouraged, this economic disaster that we now suffer in this country.
And one of those Republicans is Peter Meyer.
Peter Meyer, who is currently the representative for the Michigan 3rd District of West Michigan.
Thankfully, Peter Meyer has a very, very robust challenger in John Gibbs, who is the President Trump-endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District of Michigan.
John, welcome to the show and tell us why Peter Meyer is unsuited, is ill-suited in all ways, to represent Michigan 3.
unidentified
Well, Steve, thanks for having me on.
It's great to be here.
And as far as why Peter Meyer is ill-suited, I could go on for a couple of hours on that, but I'd start with his first vote in Congress was to impeach President Trump.
The one president who is the greatest reformer in recent memory, if not in our history, who is reducing unemployment, increasing wages, Giving us American energy independence, bringing stability to the international order, keeping Russia in check, keeping Afghanistan in check, keeping the Taliban afraid.
Everywhere you look, he was on the phone, keeping peace all around the world and at home.
So Peter Meyer campaigns on supporting Trump, campaigns on conservative values.
Days after he gets in the office as a freshman congressman, he votes to impeach Trump, backstabbing every single person who voted for him, knocked doors for him, put out yard signs for him.
It was a really treacherous move and a really backstabbing move.
So that is the most pragmatic thing he's done, obviously.
But people also know that he's done many other things besides that, such as two weeks ago, for example, he voted for the biggest gun control bill in decades.
He joined Nancy Pelosi and every single Democrat in the House voting for this gun control bill.
Only 14 Republicans voted for it.
Peter Meyer decided to make himself one of them.
He voted for Joe Biden's disastrous omnibus bill back in March.
Massive, massive spending.
It's what's causing all the inflation we're seeing right now.
He became one of only a small number of Republicans to vote for that bill as well.
It goes on and on and on.
I could go on all day, but it's a big problem.
The level of arrogance that he thinks he doesn't have to do what his voters want.
He thinks he can simply do what the globalists want and not represent the people of West Michigan is pragmatic.
So we need their leadership.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Speaking of the globalism aspect, of course, he voted for the $40 billion mountain of money to Ukraine.
And it is a mountain of money, by the way, that we didn't have.
We had to borrow the mountain and then send it over there to exacerbate an existing inflation crisis.
The inflation crisis was not caused by Ukraine nor by Putin.
But surely our escalation of that crisis, turning a regional battle into a global crisis, has massively worsened the pre-existing inflation scenario.
Peter Mayer, though, joined the globalists, joined Nancy Pelosi, joined Mitch McConnell, joined Chuck Schumer in saying it was imperative that we send $40 billion to Ukraine at a time when the people of West Michigan are suffering already from inflation and it's likely to Is that a loan enough to remove this man from office?
unidentified
I would say yes.
$40 billion for one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
Ukraine and Russia are their two peas in a pod when it comes to corruption.
We have no idea where that money is going to go once it gets over there.
And then the irony of us spending money to secure another country's border when we couldn't even spend any money to secure our own border.
I was in the Trump administration.
I saw a hard we fall just to get scraps from the table to secure our own border.
Yet they're going to give $40 billion just like that to Ukraine?
Totally corrupt country and totally preventable conflict if we had real leadership in the White House?
It's simply unfathomable.
People in West Michigan are suffering.
Gas prices are high.
Our veterans are out in the street homeless.
They ignore all these problems and they want to spend $40 billion in Ukraine?
Just absolutely unbelievable and yes I think that does disqualify him in addition to everything else.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
To that point about the border because he's weak on this as well and just yesterday this is terrible news uh Patriots maybe you haven't even seen this yet it just happened last night but uh tucked within this massive defense authorization act is an amnesty effectively so the Children of people who are here legally.
People who are here legally, temporary work visas.
Not citizens of the United States.
Those people, their children, if this amendment passes the House, if it in fact passes the Senate, their children are going to be fast-tracked for citizenship.
For citizenship in the United States.
Unfortunately, 62 Republicans voted for this.
Now, it was mostly the typical people that you would think in the House.
Malia Takis.
It was Mace.
It was Kinzinger, who thankfully is on his way out.
Rodney Davis, who's on his way out, thankfully just beaten by Mary Miller.
It was Liz Cheney, who soon will be on her way out.
And it was, predictably, Peter Meyer.
Peter Meyer, again, in a time when real wages are crashing for Americans, for citizens of this country.
Peter Meyers sees it fit to welcome in a gigantic new avenue for potentially millions of new citizens who were only here as guests of the United States and will now be welcomed in law as full citizens to compete in the labor market against the citizens of West Michigan.
unidentified
Yeah, it's totally insane.
Americans want a lawful immigration system that has order and fairness to it.
That does not include amnesty because amnesty rewards those who came to our country illegally.
And so we can't be going on that path.
It is totally wrong.
And that's just the legal side of it.
That doesn't count the economic side.
This is basic mathematics.
When you increase the labor pool, wages go down.
So at a time when we want wages to be going up, you need to have a little bit of reduction of labor pool.
immigration mass immigration does the opposite of that it reduces wages for everyone is including americans at a time when he didn't be going up so this is really really problematic both from an economic standpoint as well as a fairness standpoint and think of those who came here legally the right way and i'm having a look over and see people being rewarded for coming over here uh... legally through amnesty i think it's very very problematic matter what way you look at it so yeah this is a really big problem it goes against the values of uh... west michigan against all americans who have common sense and last of the fair orderly immigration system amnesty is
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
exact opposite of that sure seems to me that uh... peter meyer he prioritizes msnbc and that crowd over muskegon michigan in your district I mean, I think that is just the unfortunate reality.
By the way, I don't want to only rip on Peter Meyer.
It's important for us to point out his record and to, from an evidence and database standpoint, say how wrong he is.
But I also want to talk about why John Gibbs is the right replacement, why President Trump endorsed you, why I've chosen to endorse you, and why you make sense, why you are the America First fighter.
That the whole country needs to have in the House of Representatives, but that West Michigan specifically needs to have to fight there.
So we're going to get to that next.
We're going to talk to John Gibbs about making the case.
I think we've made the case against Peter Meyer.
Now let's make the case for John Gibbs in the War Room.
Up next.
unidentified
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steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Patriots, Steve Cortez in the war room, in for Stephen K. Bannon.
The Admiral has the morning off, which is very rare for him, so you've got the bad hombre coming to you live from Washington, D.C.
I am here in the Imperial Capitol.
I don't like to get here much.
I like to get here in the war room, but I don't like to get to Washington, D.C.
very much.
It's amazing how masked up this city still is.
A lot of people who live in normal places in America would be pretty shocked, I think, to come.
You'd be shocked by a lot in Washington, D.C.
But you certainly would be shocked to see just how masked it is right now in this city.
But listen, we're trying to change this city because we need to change this city to change this country.
And I've said often and believe it that we can't just elect Republicans.
We can't elect the Paul Ryan majority in the House of Representatives.
We need to elect Republicans who believe in the patriotic populist movement and the America First agenda.
Thankfully, there are a lot of candidates out there like that.
And I'm really pleased and honored to be joined in person by one right now who was co-hosting with me, you know, Bannon invited me to co to, you know, guest hosts, and then I, the guest brought a guest.
You're not supposed to do that, right?
When you get invited somewhere, but that's what we did anyway.
Um, and we have John Gibbs here, who is the president Trump endorsed challenger in the third congressional district, who was trying to take down Peter Meyer, who is a completely squish globalist Republican, does not remotely believe in the American First agenda.
We just went into some detail on his many problems of his voting record, but I also, John, I want to make the affirmative case for you, because I do think it's important, right, not to just be anti, we need to point that side of it out, but also why you?
You know, why should John Gibbs?
And look, I'm thoroughly convinced, and I know a lot of your story, you have amazing credentials, and I don't believe in credentialism, but you do have amazing credentials, having graduated from both Harvard and Stanford.
Having worked for some of the most significant big tech companies in this country, serving as a missionary to Japan, oversees a Christian missionary, learning a very difficult language.
So you've accomplished a heck of a lot in your young life, but I don't think it's your credentials alone that qualify you.
So talk to us about, make the pitch for, we know why Peter Meyer needs to be replaced.
Why should the replacement be John Gibbs?
unidentified
I've got the right mix of stuff.
One, I'm from Michigan, obviously, born and raised, so I know our people.
I know where we're at.
I know the heart of our people and what we need.
So that's a really important thing.
A lot of politicians lose sight of that, like Peter Mayer.
Being from a super, super rich, elite background, he's totally disconnected from what regular people want, where their hearts are at.
That is a problem, because he's got to represent those folks, and he's not doing that right now.
So I think one of the real issues is that Peter Mayer simply cannot represent where the people are.
I can.
My background is a, if I dare say, humble background.
I'm the first in my family to attend college.
My parents worked hard.
My dad worked two shifts at General Motors growing up.
So I know what it's like to be a regular person.
So that's the first important thing.
The second thing is service.
You know, you really have to understand the concept of service and knowing what it means to serve others.
I was a missionary in Japan for 70 years.
I learned a language.
I became totally fluent in Japanese.
And it is all about adapting to people and serving people's needs when you're a missionary.
That is such a critical thing.
Peter and Myra doesn't have anything near that.
I've got that.
And so I think that's such a strong point in my favor.
And very importantly, I know what it's like to fight the swamp.
I was in the Trump administration for four years, serving under Dr. Carson at HUD.
We saw every single trick in the book that the swamp plays, how they mess with the statutes, how they try to trip you up on regulations, how they use different lobbyist groups and the media and the congressional committees to try to trip you up.
I've seen all that stuff.
So I'm ready on day one to fight all their tricks because I've been there for four years already.
I've seen it and I know how to fight from day one.
No one else in the race has that.
Meyer doesn't have it.
The Democrat communist challenger certainly doesn't have that either.
So I'm the most qualified when it comes to jumping into government and knowing how to fight and get things back on track.
So I would say those are the basic things that qualify me.
In addition, Steve, to what you mentioned earlier, Not that I really care about it that much, but, you know, my degree in computer science from Stanford University, that was very good in training me how to really think deeply, think analytically, especially computer science being an engineering-type field, so I really got that experience.
I worked in Silicon Valley, so I worked for a startup company that made cybersecurity software, so I know the area of cyber fairly well, and I also know entrepreneurship, business, moving quickly, and the government moves very slowly, so I know how to put both of those together.
I worked for Palm, if you remember the Palm Pilot or the Palm Trio smartphone.
It's kind of fun working on those.
And then I worked at Apple on the very first version of the iPhone.
So I got to work on that before it came out under Steve Jobs and really experienced his leadership.
And Apple is great at execution I must say.
Having worked at different companies in Silicon Valley, Apple was For all their faults today what will they become at least back then when I was working there they at least have that part down well and so I think all those things come together to really make me by far the best person here.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
I think that experience in big tech look clearly you you know you didn't go native philosophically right at all with Silicon Valley but I think that kind of experience with big tech being Because big tech is so dominant in our lives, and I would argue so abusive in our lives.
We need politicians who understand big tech, and there are not enough.
But thankfully, there are some amazing challengers who do, and you are absolutely one of them.
I've got another one coming up shortly in the next hour, who's Blake Masters.
I think J.D.
Vance is one of those people as well.
So these are all America First people.
They're populist nationalists who also have worked at the highest levels of big tech, which I think is critical.
You mentioned Dr. Ben Carson.
Ben Carson is not just one of the leaders of our movement, but I think he's one of the most inspiring stories, frankly, in all of America.
I mean, I really do.
Somebody who rose from really a tough and at times troubled childhood in the state of Michigan to become one of the most renowned surgeons in the world, and then a major and influential political figure.
Talk to us about Ben Carson, what he has meant to you politically, personally, and as a mentor.
unidentified
Well, I'm really thankful to have the endorsement of Dr. Carson as well.
Um, having worked under him for nearly four years in the administration, that means a lot to me.
And he is spectacular to work under because he's a regular American, just a basic common sense American, the kind of people we need way, way more of in DC.
Um, you mentioned earlier, Steve, how this city has just got a weird vibe to it.
Um, I think part of that reason is because there's not enough regular Americans working in government here.
You've had the wonks, the political wonks and the consultants, and it just is really sickening.
But we have a Dr. Carson that's amazing to be able to work under him and promote basic things such as families.
Every American, even people on the other side of the aisle, know that when a kid is raised with two married parents, you have better outcomes in every way.
The kid has a smaller chance of getting in trouble at school, of getting into crime, of becoming poor.
So all Americans know that when a kid is raised in a two-parent home, you have better outcomes.
Dr. Carson tried to promote that, and we did promote that when we were in our administration.
But many of the Democrats and even a lot of the Ronald Republicans were totally afraid to touch this issue.
This is what you get when a regular American comes in.
You get basic American common sense, but then a swamp runs up against it.
But it was great to be able to serve under someone like that who's just a good dude, really, really smart, obviously, neurosurgeon, well-respected.
And we get to fight for regular basic American values when you're under someone like that.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
that. So sure, it was wonderful. He's just he's an amazing man, you know, in all ways. I'm not saying that just because I happen to agree with his politics outside of politics. I just think objectively, he's just an amazing American story.
Now, listen, from the politicos when I talk about you to them, here's what I get typically is that, hey, Gibbs is a great guy, but he's going up against Meyer who has endless money, right, who is an inherited billionaire and because of his family's stores has very high name ID. So the question I always get is can he win? Well, you know, evidence in your favor from from Richard Barris, who does amazing polling and is a frequent guest on his show.
You just got out some fantastic polling.
So let's talk about, and I know you take nothing for granted, August 2nd is your primary and you're going to sprint and hustle all the way to the finish line.
Every candidate has to.
A lot of big primaries on August 2nd.
But, why should your supporters or potential supporters be reassured that you can and will win this race based on this new Barris polling?
unidentified
Sure, so Rich Barris, who's one of the best pollsters out there, he's been one of the most accurate pollsters, totally scientifically based.
You can't take anything away from him at all.
We've done some new polling, it shows that right now, as it stands where we are today, I'm ahead of Peter Meyer by something like 18 points.
I think it's 17.8 to be precise.
So we've got a pretty commanding lead.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
That's the Stanford computer science in you.
unidentified
Go ahead.
There you go.
That's right.
Yes, yes.
So it looks really good for us where we're at right now.
And there's even better news than that.
That number is with only about half of all the primary voters knowing that I'm endorsed by Trump right now.
That's where we are.
If we can keep working hard, hitting the streets, getting that number up to 100%, if all primary voters know I'm endorsed by Trump, we're up by something like 34 points against Peter Meyer.
We're going to keep working towards that every day, working really hard because we want this margin to be huge.
We want it to be as big as possible, seem to keep raising and getting out there and knocking doors, putting out yard signs, because we've got to show everybody, both America and the world, that we are done with Biden and those Republicans who are collaborators with him, who are putting us in the disturbance situation we're in right now.
We got to tell them that you are done.
We got to send that message in the absolute biggest way possible.
That's why even though the polling right now is great, we're going to keep working hard.
Another aspect of the poll, and something that you might hear from some of these folks is, well, if Gibbs wins the primary, he'll lose in the general.
Peter Meyer's got a better chance of winning in the general.
Well, the answer to that is absolute no.
Actually, I'm polling just slightly ahead of the Democrat challenger in November, God willing, if I win the primary, which we will.
Well, Peter Meyer's down by 17 points, 17 points against Democrat challenger, because so many Republicans are going to stay home or not vote for him in the general because of how he backstabbed and betrayed our base.
So he does far, far worse in the general than I do.
So this argument people are saying, well.
Meyer's the only one who can win in November.
False.
I'm the only one who can win in November.
Meyer will get toasted.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
That is such an important point.
You know, in swing districts, and you're in a swing district, right?
In swing districts, it is imperative that the Republican nominee, whoever it is, offer something compelling for people to rally to.
If you offer a squish milk toast agenda, which is the definition of who Peter Meyer is, you're going to lose to a well-financed opponent, which you're going to have.
unidentified
Yes.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
In that district.
So that is such a good point.
And yes, to your point, too, about you're right now, in Barrister's polling, for voters who are informed that you have President Trump's endorsement, you're at 62% right now and climbing.
So that's part of what we're doing here, is informing the voters that you have President Trump's endorsement, that you have Ben Carson's, you have Steve Cortez's, you are clearly the America First candidate.
One thing I want to ask you about here is, you know, that I'm just thinking about.
Here you and I are, and, you know, the Democrats and the corporate media, they want us to pretend that America is a systemically racist country.
Yet, we went over your credentials, right?
You went to the very best schools in the world.
You're a black man who I think is about to be a United States representative.
I'm a Hispanic guy who has served a president at the highest levels of this country.
So, this example, this black and tan, which is a drink, right?
A beer that the Irish like to drink.
This black and tan is at least an indication that if America is systemically racist, it's not very good at it, is it, John?
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, it will appear that based on our life stories, this country has failed pretty badly at being racist and stopping us from going anywhere.
So that's quite puzzling for those who want to just paint a negative picture all the time.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Yeah.
And that's why I think it's important.
Look, we never want to play the quota game and we never will, of course, in the America First movement.
But it is also important as we broaden our coalition that there are leaders from these broader constituencies.
So it's important to have Hispanic leaders, black leaders, women leaders, all of it.
In the America First Movement.
And again, that's not a quota.
That's not saying a quota hire.
We will never do that.
There's a quota hire, by the way, across town right now, who's Corinne Jean-Pierre, the current White House press secretary, who unfortunately, you know, she was hired because she checked off every single box, right?
Immigrant, gay, woman, black, all of it, right?
And they hired her and she's utterly unqualified for her position.
I think that's becoming more and more clear to folks.
Listen, in terms of this town and witch hunts, we're going to talk about the January 6th committee up next with the great Julie Kelly.
Stay with us.
unidentified
We will fight till they're all gone.
We rejoice when there's no more.
Let's take down the TTP.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Like Antifa?
unidentified
And that there were actual officers working with this, and we never got to the bottom of that, and we never got any answers about that, and then to this day we're just supposed to pretend that that never happened.
Without Antifa?
alexandria ocasio-cortez ▲ ● ▼
I have no idea what happened to the people on the inside who were very clearly sympathetic with what was going on and opening the doors wide open for that.
unidentified
And I'm supposed to sit here and pretend like nothing happened?
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Fascinating.
AOC.
AOC's been in the news quite a bit lately.
But AOC, sort of saying the quiet part out loud, telling America that the cops were opening the doors.
That's the exact quote.
That the cops were opening the doors to the protesters, to the rioters.
Did she unwittingly admit to the American people that there's a heck of a lot that we don't know?
about January 6 and what actually happened there.
I'm really pleased to welcome in Julie Kelly and she has done, I think, just absolutely incredible, exhaustive, patriotic work in all matters related to January 6 and the abuses of people who have been thrown in a, I think, a political prison and Uh, and frankly been the subjects of a witch hunt, particularly those who were not involved in anything violent that day.
Uh, Julie, you know, I want to thank you first of all, just on behalf of this country, certainly that you've taken up this cause and you took it up when it certainly wasn't popular.
I think it is gaining, you know, thankfully in acceptance that there's a lot that we don't know, but You were on this case very, very early.
And I think more than anybody else, there have been others who have done important work.
Darren Beattie, I think Tucker Carlson's done important work.
But more than anyone else, this country owes you a debt of gratitude for standing up and saying, we need to get to the full truth of what is going on there.
Is AOC unwittingly lending you a hand, Julie Kelly?
unidentified
Well, first of all, Steve, thank you so much for those kind words.
You've been such a good friend and helping to cover my work from the very beginning, as you said, when people were not paying attention to this issue or everybody was afraid to cover it.
So I really appreciate your friendship and your partnership with this.
Yes, I welcome AOC to the transparency fact-finding mission that the January 6th Committee is not.
And I really urge her to continue talking about the fact that Capitol Police officers at several locations opened doors, stood by as people entered, filed into the building, took photos with them, chatted with them.
These people had no idea that they were going to later be charged with any sort of crime and their lives destroyed for it.
So I welcome, I hope her staff reaches out to me.
I have a lot more that AOC can help us uncover.
Not just related to Capitol Police, but a lot of other things that we still have unanswered about January 6th.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Right.
Now, you know, and of course, you know, it is funny to see because it's funny to sort of have an alliance with AOC.
But on a serious note, it certainly matters symbolically.
But do you think it matters legally, Julie?
Like, in other words, for some of these defendants, is it possible for them to use that tape or to ask for testimony or subpoena testimony from AOC herself?
Could this have actual legal relevance for them?
unidentified
That is a really good point because, of course, these defense attorneys need all the help that they can get before these DC District Court judges.
And so maybe they will pick up on her comments.
Maybe they will ask for more clarification from her as to what she's referring to, because she is right.
Capitol Police let people into the building.
We also don't have reports on Capitol Police or DC Metro Police investigations into Some misconduct, maybe related to what AOC is saying, but certainly related to the use of munitions against protesters outside the building that day.
Flashbangs, pepper balls, tear gas, punching, kicking, shoving protesters.
We certainly don't have any of those reports.
I would think people like AOC, who are very committed to preventing and calling out excessive force by police officers, would also join.
our efforts to expose those reports and that information related to Capitol Police and DC Metro because we certainly do not, we haven't even scratched the surface as to that misconduct by those two police departments that day.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
And Julie, let's talk about your latest article at American Greatness.
And for the audience out there, most of them probably already regularly read American Greatness.
If not, though, I highly encourage everyone to because there are a lot of fantastic websites out there, a lot of great publications.
But I think American Greatness for our movement is best in breed.
And you write Often there, thankfully.
And your newest article is, what is Adam Schiff hiding?
And it relates to a vote that just went down in the United States House.
A razor-thin vote, where for once we got every single Republican to actually hold the line and vote correctly.
Even a couple of Democrats.
Nancy Pelosi herself, which is very rare, the Speaker doesn't normally vote, actually had to step in and vote to pass Adam Schiff's amendment.
Tell the audience, please, what this amendment is and why they should be so concerned.
unidentified
Well, first of all, they should be concerned because the author of the amendment is Adam Schiff, indisputably the most dishonest person in Congress.
And as you know, Steve, that is a pretty low bar, high bar, maybe.
So the fact that the Russian collusion, hoaxer, evidence forger, impeachment, whistleblower leader now wants to pass this amendment That basically will conceal any materials information coming out of the Department of Defense related to not just criminal prosecutions, but congressional inquiries.
Now, you and I both know, and I'm sure this very astute audience knows, that this looks like cover up from Adam Schiff to conceal information related to a lot of things that the DOD has been involved with, not the least of which would be the Afghanistan withdrawal.
But as I explained in my piece, The military's involvement before and on January 6th.
The military, as you know, Steve, cannot be engaged in civilian domestic law enforcement activities.
That means surveillance, collection of intelligence, and certainly any sort of enforcement.
If the military did, and there are some indications that they did do that before and on January 6th, this is a huge scandal that Adam Schiff and the Democrats and certainly Biden's DOD will want to conceal.
Even though this happened on Trump's watch, we know how the military, especially people like Mark Milley, felt about the president in the final year or so, or actually through his whole presidency.
So this is a cover-up and it will give that sort of legislative protection to anything that Republicans want on a DOD.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Right. And you make that point there, Julie, which I think is critical about Mark Milley, because I think those of us on the right, we quite correctly have enormous reverence for the United States military as an institution, right? And particularly for the troops who serve us and who risk their lives to serve the United States. But I think we also at that same time need to recognize that the military brass, the top echelon of leadership of the Pentagon is every bit as politicized and corrupt as anywhere else within the administrative state, unfortunately, of the
And I think that's an awakening that is happening for those of us on the right, but it's a difficult process to get there.
I mean, but isn't it important to get there?
And part of getting there is through transparency.
For example, figuring out exactly what went on with the DOD in Jan 6.
unidentified
We absolutely need to know, and as I explained in my piece today, There was a bombshell report in Newsweek earlier this year that's been completely ignored, that Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen called elite commandos with shoot-to-kill authority to Quantico the weekend before January 6th, and this included military units.
So what is that all about?
If they were deployed as any sort of local cop or local spy, detective, investigator, On January 6th, that's clear violation of this law, this Posse Comitatus Act that Schiff refers to.
The problem, Steve, is enforcement of this Posse Comitatus is completely arbitrary.
No one's ever been convicted of this.
So the DOD could interpret this any way that they wanted to and say, well, the military was involved.
It was in violation of this statute.
Therefore, any evidence collected, any documents we have, any communications related to that, uh... is that has been unlawfully collected and we cannot that produce it to any of these committees that's what this is looking at that this is another big scandal related to what the government did on january sixth and what it refuses to tell the american people about exactly what their involvement was lives. Right.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
And it's a very convenient way for Adam Schiff to effectively pull a legal curtain, right, over the entire issue, because I think he knows, as most Americans know, that the Republicans are going to take control.
And I'm going to speak here with John Gibbs in a moment about what needs to happen once Republicans do take control.
But, Julie, one last thing I want to ask you, because I think this made a lot of news, at least within conservative circles.
Judge Royce Lamberth, who you have been properly, extremely critical of, he just sentenced a 69-year-old grandmother to two months in prison.
Her name is Pamela Hemphill.
And her crime was parading.
Is there anything else?
Is there any reasonable explanation for this grandmother going to prison for parading?
unidentified
There is not.
And shame on Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, I will note, almost 80 years old.
He should have long ago retired from the D.C.
District Court, now sentencing this cancer-stricken grandmother, 69-year-old woman, to serve two months in jail for an offense, a petty offense, Steve, That the district court chief judge admitted months ago that that court never even deals with, but hundreds of people have been charged with operating.
They've been sentenced to months in jail.
Lambert isn't the only judge who's done this.
Um, but this is part of the criminalization of people who protested Joe Biden's election on January 6th by Joe Biden's justice department.
With full complicity by this DC district court, including people like Royce Lambert, shame on him.
For what he's done, not just to her, but to other defendants as well.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
And Julie, for the audience, for people who want to help defendants like her, where should they go?
What is the method that you believe in for people who want to assist?
unidentified
So there was a great organization put together last year by the adoptive aunt of one of the detainees.
It is Patriot Freedom Project.
Patriotfreedomproject.com.
I know Steve has interviewed the founder of that group.
I know you guys have helped promote that.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼
But that's a place where people can donate, not just to help legal fees, but for these families who have been completely decimated and bankrupted by this abusive, vengeful DOJ prosecution.
unidentified
So PatriotFreedomProject.com.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Okay, great.
And how about your social media?
Where do people find you besides American Greatness?
unidentified
I'm at Twitter, Julie underscore Kelly, too.
I am at Getter and Truth Social at Julie underscore Kelly.
I think.
I think that's where I am, but anyone can look me up.
They'll find me pretty easily, I'm sure.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Fantastic.
The great Julie Kelly.
Thank you for everything you're doing for this country, and I hope you have a fantastic summer weekend ahead.
unidentified
You too, Steve.
Thanks so much for having me on.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
You bet.
So, getting back to John Gibbs, a congressional candidate.
Trump endorsed a congressional candidate in Michigan 3 trying to unseat Peter Meyer, the squish Republican collaborator.
Somebody who voted to authorize the January 6th committee.
It seems to me this is yet another reason why he needs to go and you need to replace him.
unidentified
Yes, I would say so.
And you look at what's happening with the 69-year-old grandmother who has cancer, no less.
Being put in jail for two months for something that people never, ever go to jail for before January 6th, it's absurd.
They're totally abusing their power.
The DOJ has a prosecutor's handbook that tells them what you're supposed to charge people with and how much time they're supposed to get for various things.
They're totally disregarding it, and they're just making up the rules as they go.
So this is dangerous stuff, using the organisms of government to go after one's political opponents, and that's all we're seeing here.
Peter Mayer supported that.
He voted for the January 6th convention, the first one that came up.
And the fact that he even considered voting for that when Nancy Pelosi and every Democrat voted for it, it's a pure witch hunt.
It's just unbelievable.
But yeah, it's terrifying stuff.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
No, it's really, it's unfortunately just the weaponization of prosecutorial power, prosecutorial abuse for partisan political reasons.
And it has to stop.
I think part of how it stops obviously is I shouldn't say obviously because maybe it's not obvious to everybody, but it is to get not just a Republican majority, but America first Republican majority that has guts and backbone and a willingness to call these people to task, right?
Whether it's folks within the DOJ, fellow congressmen, people like Adam Schiff.
I mean, it's, it's absolutely critical.
So it's, it's one of the many reasons that we need to get you and a lot of folks like you elected.
And by the way, I think we're going to so far, the record in the primaries has been fantastic.
The America first candidates are overwhelmingly winning right now in these primaries.
I think they're going to continue to, and your polling shows that you're going to win, but again, no complacency.
And I know you won't, I know it's not who you are, but no complacency out there either from the posse, from all the deplorables.
We have to stay absolutely hustling and grinding and working and donating.
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Peter Meijer is a sellout Republican.
Peter Meijer supports harmful transgender legislation that would destroy girls' sports.
He thinks it's just fine to let men take opportunities and scholarships away from girls.
Meijer's bill would put men in girls' locker rooms, men in women's prisons, and even men in battered women's shelters.
Peter Meijer is selling out our families and putting our daughters at risk.
Would you trust Meijer with your daughter?
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Wow, that is one powerful ad from the great Terry Schilling and his group, hammering, properly hammering, Peter Meyer for gender-confused nonsense.
Peter Meyer, of course, is the current incumbent in Michigan's 3rd Congressional District, who I believe will soon be beaten in the primary on August 2nd by John Gibbs.
Now, John, I want to ask you about him, and that's not your ad, although it obviously works in your favor, but that is from an outside group.
But I want to ask you about this issue, not just as it relates to Peter Meyer, but more broadly.
You know, it seems to me that, for example, protecting girls' sports, once you get outside of crazy New York newsrooms and, you know, K Street lobbying offices, this is a 90-10 kind of issue, you know, 95-5.
In your district, it might be 97-3, right?
I mean, literally, it's just, it is such a common-sense issue of, of course, girls' sports should be protected, and of course, boys should not be allowed, no matter what they claim to be, to compete in girls' sports.
Um, is it important that we have leaders like you who are willing to stand up for this, uh, for this just common sense rationality?
unidentified
Yeah.
You know, Steve, as I always say, this November is not going to be Democrat versus Republican.
It's going to be crazy versus normal.
The idea that girls should play in girls' sports and boys should play in boys' sports is simply basic American common sense.
People from both sides of the aisle should support this.
You can't even get more obvious than that.
But yet they're trying to drive so hard and twist things and say there's 57 genders.
I don't know what the number is these days.
So yeah, this is an issue of simple basic common sense and I think getting it out there when people like Peter Meyer actually go against basic American common sense and support this craziness is really important.
Because it's another way that someone like him is way out of step With mainstream American thinking.
And it's not just him, it's all the other RINOs and the Democrats and the far-left academia who often push this stuff as well.
They're all complicit.
So, yeah, it's absolutely nuts.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Well, again, I think it's him catering to the MSNBC crowd instead of Muskegon, right?
unidentified
That's right.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
And by the way, speaking of Muskegon, didn't you just get a big endorsement out of Muskegon?
unidentified
Yes, Steve, absolutely.
The Muskegon GOP officially endorsed me and disavowed Peter Mayer.
The straw that broke the camel's back was in Peter Mayer.
It's not easy to get an endorsement from an official GOP organization in the district with an incumbent Republican, right?
I mean, that's, it's unusual.
It's bold and it's fantastic.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
insulting to every single person who voted for Peter Meyer and the great people of West Michigan. It's not easy to get an endorsement from an official GOP organization in the district with an incumbent Republican right I mean that's it's unusual it's bold and it's fantastic and I think you know it speaks to why this is so important for you. But again to the number one issue these issues are important but the number one issue across America the polling shows us this certainly my campaigning all over this country tells me this again is
I would argue it's not just a number one issue, it's probably the number one, the number two, the number three issue right now, because it is just absolutely crushing Americans' prosperity.
And to discuss inflation, I want to bring in Philip Patrick from Birch Gold.
Philip, appreciate you very much.
Join us today to talk about inflation.
I talked about it a lot at the beginning of the show, but I also want to mention just how bad the energy situation is and that it is a caused crisis.
So here in the United States, thankfully, the good Lord blessed us with just oceans of energy underneath our feet.
Oceans that we were harnessing and using very well during the Trump administration.
We became not just energy independent, but in fact, energy dominant.
Unfortunately, the Biden administration made a decision, a willful decision, in my view, a total dereliction of duty, to squander that wonderful resource that this country is blessed with.
But we're not the only country that's done that.
A lot of crazy countries have done it, including Germany.
And there's an article out on Reuters right now about what's going on in Germany, and it's really pretty startling.
German energy firm calls for energy price cap to avoid social unrest.
Now, first of all, talk about will price caps work?
And if you could just speak to Germany and social unrest, not a combination of words we ever like to hear.
phillip patrick ▲ ● ▼
No.
Look, the suggestion is now with the fuel crisis that the Germans are facing, energy prices could triple in Germany.
And as you say, they're now worried about social unrest in Germany, which is very, very concerning, of course.
So they're discussing price controls.
It's just one example of how rising prices can lead to political issues.
But As we know, price controls never work.
They're contrary to free market principles.
And with prices capped there, at the end of the day, energy suppliers are just going to look for other places to sell it.
It's not going to work.
Why would you sell to Germany at a discount and not another competitor?
So, at the end of the day, they're going to take their business elsewhere and get full prices.
Price controls are typically the last-ditch effort of a socialist-leaning government to try and stay in power.
It's a desperate attempt.
It's not going to work, but I think it's a reflection of the times that we're in.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Sure.
And in these times, in these troubled times, where, you know, a snotty Swedish teenager is determining energy policy for the entirety of Europe, it seems, and unfortunately has allies like Biden here in the United States, what do you think is the investing strategy?
I'm guessing it's going to be resources.
phillip patrick ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, I think commodities are the way forward.
Like, you've got to look at the situation we're in domestically here in the United States.
It's a disaster.
We've got 40-year high inflation.
We have bubbles in the stock market.
We've got bubbles in housing, and the air is starting to come out of it.
The Fed now have to engineer a recession.
So, for me, it's about looking at assets that are conducive for the climate that we're in, and I think commodities have the advantage, right?
Precious metals is an example.
They increase when inflation increases, right?
They are commodities.
So, by definition, they go up.
They're also a safe haven asset.
So, when stock markets decline, safe haven demand goes up.
Yeah.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
Philip, where should the audience go if they want to check out your firm and potentially invest?
phillip patrick ▲ ● ▼
Of course.
So, birchgold.com forward slash Bannon.
Again, birchgold.com slash Bannon.
And they can reach me directly at Philip Patrick on Getter.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
All right, Philip Patrick, thank you so much, and you have a wonderful weekend, sir.
And to much of this world, have a wonderful weekend, I hope.
So listen, John, it's been fantastic having you here for the entire hour.
I know you're going to continue to hustle all the way through the finish line.
For audience members who want to learn more about you and want to potentially help you to overcome a billionaire, squish Republican, entitled Republican, where should they go?
unidentified
People can go to votejohngibbs.com.
That's votejohngibbs.com.
Check out the website.
You can reach pretty much everything there.
You can see our socials.
Definitely follow me on Facebook, as well as Twitter, Getter, especially Getter, and everything else.
So go and hit up the website, votejohngibbs.com.
You can also sign up for my prayer team to pray for us, as well as other volunteer opportunities.
So, voteJohnGibbs.com.
steve cortes ▲ ● ▼
John, fantastic.
Thank you for being here.
Keep working hard.
I know you will.
Up next, another fantastic candidate, Blake Masters.
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