Aug. 2, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| So you don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, you're live. | ||
| It's Tuesday, 2 August, the year of our Lord 2022. | ||
| Who in a million years would have thought this would have been Super Tuesday? | ||
| It's game day throughout this great country of ours as the forces of MAGA and President Trump go up against the Republican establishment in just a brutal, brutal, brutal civil war. | ||
| They are unloading an incredible amount of money. | ||
| They don't have votes. | ||
| What they have is money, and they have the politics of personal destruction. | ||
| They're not arguing about policies. | ||
| They're out to destroy people. | ||
| Let's go to Missouri and start off with Commander Eric Greitens running in the Republican primary for Senator. | ||
| Commander Greitens, you got the endorsement yesterday. | ||
| Tell us how that's playing. | ||
| Are the folks in Missouri, the good patriots in Missouri, getting the word out there, sir? | ||
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But yes, sir, they are. | |
| We are honored to have President Trump's endorsement and honored to have right behind that Donald Trump Jr. | ||
| and Kimberly Guilfoyle. | ||
| You know, folks from the war room posse come on out and saying, we've got to continue to fight for Eric Greitens every single minute. | ||
| Steve, we are going to be working all the way through 1900 Central. | ||
| We're going to make sure that we're pushing folks out to the polls. | ||
| At the end of the day, this race is very simple. | ||
| Perhaps the biggest contrast in the country. | ||
| This is MAGA versus McConnell. | ||
| I was the first guy in the country to say that when I'm elected to the United States Senate, I'm voting against Mitch McConnell because we need new America first leadership. | ||
| And so we've got Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell coming in, pouring $10 million plus into false ads, fake polls for a rhino. | ||
| In fact, President Trump just two nights ago, came out and said that Eric Schmidt, my opponent, who's a rhino, that his campaign was practicing great dishonesty in politics. | ||
| And that's what these rhinos do, because they can't beat us, Steve, on the issues. | ||
| My rhino opponents refuse to even debate me during this election because they know they're wrong on election integrity. | ||
| They're wrong on the border. | ||
| They're wrong on the Ukraine. | ||
| They're wrong I'm returning to President Trump's America First energy policies, which we need to do. | ||
| They're wrong on foreign policy. | ||
| And because they're wrong on all of the issues, what they do is exactly what you said. | ||
| They push fake polls. | ||
| They push false ads. | ||
| But what you're going to see today is at the end of the day, love beats lies. | ||
| Courage is rooted in love. | ||
| That is why people stand up and they fight for their country. | ||
| And Steve, we have the fighters. | ||
| We have the Patriots, and they're going to see that our compassion beats their cruelty, our faith beats their fear, that we have unleashed a wave of MAGA warriors who are going out and they are fighting for every single vote, and we're going to bring home a great victory tonight, sir. | ||
| Okay, I know you're going throughout the state. | ||
| I guess you're going polling district by polling district. | ||
| I assume you're doing tons of AM radio. | ||
| AM radio is still the best to get the word out. | ||
| Walk us through, how do you promulgate this today? | ||
| How do you get the word out that you're the Trump-endorsed candidate? | ||
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Well, sir, this is my eighth interview of the morning. | |
| As soon as I'm finished with you, I'm on a Kansas City radio station. | ||
| I'm going out to vote myself personally, and we've got all of the media coming out for that. | ||
| Then I'm going to be doing more interviews after that. | ||
| Meanwhile, Steve, literally every two-minute break that I have, I am hitting our grassroots supporters, encouraging them, and they are texting and they are calling people all over the state of Missouri. | ||
| This is a critical race. | ||
| And for anybody who's listening right now who's in the state of Missouri, make sure that you get out and vote. | ||
| Our country is in a crisis. | ||
| You know, Steve, I was in the field team training when September 11th happened. | ||
| I believe that the crisis we're in today is 100 times worse than September 11th. | ||
| But there's a difference, and there's a hopeful difference. | ||
| After September 11th, it was me, it was my friends in the field teams, it was guys in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, Marine Corps, who went overseas to fight that fight. | ||
| In this crisis, sir, every patriot who's listening has a duty. | ||
| Every patriot who's listening has a role to play in helping us to take our country back. | ||
| So if you're in Missouri, get out to vote, please, for Eric Greitens in the Republican primary for the United States Senate. | ||
| Get your friends and your family out. | ||
| And if you're outside of the state of Missouri and you know somebody in the state of Missouri, encourage them. | ||
| Get out because we're going to win this battle today, sir. | ||
| Eric Greitens, social media, how do people track you during the day to keep up with constant updates? | ||
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Social media, critical updates are going to be at Eric Greitens on all of our social media platforms. | |
| And again, if you're in the state of Missouri, come out to the Victory Party tonight, but it's at Eric Greitens. | ||
| An honor to have everybody's support. | ||
| And Steve, for me, Election Day is also a day of gratitude. | ||
| I'm grateful to you. | ||
| I'm grateful to the fantastic folks around you. | ||
| I know you've got great patriots like Ben Bergquam and Steve Cortez. | ||
| On your show, these are incredible men of great courage, great character that you surround yourself with. | ||
| I'm grateful to you and to the entire War Room posse. | ||
| We're going onward to victory, sir. | ||
| Well, you're the one out there at the tip of the spear, Greitens, so keep grinding, run through the tape, and we'll be following you throughout the day. | ||
| Commander Eric Greitens in this tough race in Missouri. | ||
| The Trump-endorsed candidate, Don Jr., Kimberly, everybody, Boris, all of them piling in after Trump endorsed him. | ||
| A very contentious race. | ||
| McConnell and the forces of darkness out there. | ||
| Okay, Cortez, we'll be talking about that momentarily. | ||
| Let's play a chorus, MSNBC, following closely The War Room and our own Real America's voice, Ben Burquam, is out there, has had a love bouquet this morning about the work we're doing. | ||
| Let's go and play the cold open for Ben Burquam, who's out in Arizona right now. | ||
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Your Honor, contending that there's irregularities and there is fraud in this election, at what point does Carrie Lake stop and say, am I undermining America's faith in our elections? | |
| Carrie Lake is going to help bring back honest elections to America. | ||
| But you haven't even laid out any fraud or irregularities. | ||
| But what fraud is there, Carrie? | ||
| What fraud is there? | ||
| This is serious. | ||
| This is about Arizona voters and their faith in this election. | ||
| So you know about a crime, and yet you're not reporting it to authorities. | ||
| This is exactly what we saw Donald Trump do ahead of the 2020 election here, claiming fraud before the votes even came in. | ||
| Now, to be clear, we expect Carrie Lake to have a strong chance of pulling off tonight's victory, but she's already setting up the stakes. | ||
| If Karen Taylor Robeson is close to her in this race, I think we're going to be looking at days ahead in which Carrie Lake, you know, the Trump acolyte, is contesting this election here for governor in Arizona. | ||
| Well, Vaughn, that was a heck of an interview. | ||
| You were extraordinarily patient, despite the fact that you were credited as, I guess, being what's bad about America or something like that. | ||
| Here you have somebody trying to actually undermine... I think it's destroying America. | ||
| Destroying America. | ||
| Here we have somebody who has spent the past couple of months trying to gain power by lying about how great the United States of America is, by lying about American democracy, by deciding should rather undermine American democracy and undermine the rule of law than actually risk losing a race. | ||
| And you see why she's a Trump acolyte. | ||
| You see why Donald Trump loves her because she loves Donald Trump and loves her own political power more than she loves America. | ||
| And it's really sad. | ||
| I actually pity her because I know people like her. | ||
| They may win a couple of votes in the short run, but they will lose in the end. | ||
| It's just an absolute disgrace. | ||
| And Arizona is ground zero. | ||
| I'm wondering, Vaughn, that was all my commentary, none of yours. | ||
| I'm wondering, Vaughn, do you talk, because I served with a lot of Arizona Republicans when we took over the House of Representatives in 1994. | ||
| Good, solid people. | ||
| One of them, Matt Salmon, was running for governor himself. | ||
| Good, solid, rock-ribbed, Reagan Republicans like we all were. | ||
| Talk about the battle between people like Matt Salmon, these public officials, these county commissioners in Maricopa County who keep trying to tell the freaks and lunatics in their own party that they're lying to voters. | ||
| Talk about the tension between these Main Street conservative Republicans and these ideological conspiracy theory chasing freaks. | ||
| Joe, you're absolutely right because this, I will say over and over again, is a conservative state. | ||
| It's historically been a conservative state. | ||
| It is a conservative state. | ||
| In 2018, Doug Ducey won his re-election by almost 17 percentage points. | ||
| You mentioned former congressman Matt Salmon who was actually running in this governor's race. | ||
| He dropped out just a couple weeks ago. | ||
| Last night he was campaigning for Karen Taylor Robeson, the opponent here to Carrie Lake who has the endorsement of not only Pence but also Ducey. | ||
| You know I sat down with Jan Brewer just over two weeks ago and for anybody that remembers Jan Brewer. | ||
| The audience gets a vote and I guess you've reached your limit because I'm getting blown up right now. | ||
| Matt Salmon. | ||
| Man, Matt. | ||
| Bad. | ||
| Not a smart decision. | ||
| You see right there what they want. | ||
| Here's what they want. | ||
| They want controlled opposition. | ||
| They want the country club Republicans that sit there and argue over some marginal tax cuts. | ||
| They want their tax cuts. | ||
| They want their deregulation. | ||
| They won't fight for anything else. | ||
| They're all for open borders. | ||
| They're all for the working class and middle class to get crushed economically. | ||
| What they want, and that's what Joe Scarborough was, it's the controlled opposition Republican Party. | ||
| It's the Washington generals to the Democrats and progressives in the unit parties. | ||
| Harlem Globetrotters, right? | ||
| The Washington Generals are just there to kind of have to be opposition, but never get close to really winning anything of importance. | ||
| Let's go to Ben Berquam. | ||
| Ben, the audience really loved that three and a half, four minute cold open we played for you by Joe Scarborough and the team at MSNBC. | ||
| You were in the background of that shot last night. | ||
| I mean, Carrie Lake was laying down. | ||
| The guy just couldn't, you couldn't hear her. | ||
| She's coming in full force. | ||
| You were there. | ||
| Tell us what happened. | ||
| Yeah, you know, it was hard for me to stomach just sitting here. | ||
| I wasn't watching it. | ||
| I was listening to it, but I was there last night and you know, it's funny right afterwards. | ||
| Vaughn's here and I told him last night. | ||
| I was like, well, that's the fake news. | ||
| I went back to our camera. | ||
| This is really the, you know, it's interesting where they're talking about setting it up for fraud in 2022. | ||
| They're still ignoring the fraud in 2020. | ||
| I was here for the election 2020 and nine days after the election I was down in Maricopa County every single day reporting for you with Boris and all the other the team down here and it was clear that election was stolen. | ||
| I mean all you have to do is look at the vote by mail, the the signature verification going from three to percent for Three percent to under one percent. | ||
| That stole the election. | ||
| Take out the machines and everything else. | ||
| They don't want to admit it. | ||
| It's the same people that won't admit the theft of 2020 that are teeing up, trying to tee up. | ||
| Ah, well see, we told you so. | ||
| You can't say anything about elections now for 2022. | ||
| And I just, I love Carrie Lake. | ||
| I mean, she just says it like it is. | ||
| She doesn't pull any punches. | ||
| And really, MSNBC needs a little bit of that. | ||
| They, for too long, have just been able to really intimidate people into silence and to say what they want to say. | ||
| And in fact, now they're basically endorsing Rhino Republicans. | ||
| I mean, if that tells you anything, that Carrie Lake should be the choice, that's it right there. | ||
| If MSNBC is supporting Republicans, you don't support those Republicans. | ||
| Because they're supporting you because of controlled opposition. | ||
| Real quickly, Ben, we've got about a minute. | ||
| Tell us, what's the intensity? | ||
| I know you're down there going to run up Kerry Lake with Ben in the second hour of the show. | ||
| Tell us what's happening on game day. | ||
| Yeah, Kerry's gonna be joining me. | ||
| I gotta tell you, Steve, last night, it was intense. | ||
| This place was way beyond fire capacity limits. | ||
| It was packed. | ||
| Conservatives are fired up in Arizona. | ||
| They're gonna be showing up all day today, and we'll be with Kerry all night tonight, following the outcome of the elections. | ||
| Obviously, we'll be watching all the other races closely as well. | ||
| Arizona is the bellwether for the rest of the country. | ||
| If MAGA wins in Arizona, MAGA wins across the country. | ||
| Yeah, no, it's the railhead of the MAGA movement. | ||
| Ben Berquam, give us your... How do people follow you throughout the day, sir? | ||
| You're going to be back with us next hour. | ||
| How do they follow you throughout the day? | ||
| Real America's Voice, americasvoice.news. | ||
| If you don't have the app, you are behind. | ||
| Get it on your phone, and then you can follow me, frontlineamerica.com, or at Ben Berquam on Getter, on all the social media. | ||
| Okay, see you in a little while, Ben. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Thanks for the reporting. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
| We're gonna talk, we got Taiwan, we got geopolitics, we got capital markets, but I gotta bring in brother Cortez when we come back. | ||
| I can hear his teeth just... He's had to... I forced him to sit through the whole thing. | ||
| Short break! | ||
| Cortez, Harnwell, Bannon, in the War Room. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, Walmart canceled Mike Lindell, but we did. | ||
| MyPella.com promo code war room on today of all days. | ||
| Lindell's going to be with us here at six o'clock. | ||
| We're doing an entire one-hour special just on Arizona. | ||
| How we got here, what happened that night, all about Fox News, calling it early, get into all of it, the demographics, the polling, all of it before. | ||
| The counting actually starts. | ||
| Peter Navarro is going to be here at 5. | ||
| Also going to have Ben Burkhardt with People Live. | ||
| We're all over Arizona today, but the other races are very important. | ||
| And by the way, I just wanted to do a pressure test. | ||
| We just stress test. | ||
| You know, Cortez, they have stress tests in the financial system. | ||
| We just gave a stress test to the War Room Posse. | ||
| And with 60 seconds left, we had to wave off. | ||
| They couldn't take any more. | ||
| The stress was too much of too much MSNBC and morning sanctimonious Airhead Morning Joe. | ||
| By the way, MSNBC, when are you going to start calling it Morning Mika? | ||
| It's Morning Mika. | ||
| She carries the load. | ||
| She's the star. | ||
| Do you pay her as much as you pay Scarborough? | ||
| Do you pay her more? | ||
| It's Morning Mika. | ||
| One, it's outrageous. | ||
| It's so misogynist. | ||
| Morning, Joe. | ||
| Forget it. | ||
| That guy, he's a load. | ||
| She's carrying a heavy load every day, sitting there pontificating. | ||
| Back in the old days, he talks about this all the time. | ||
| I think he won two terms as a congressman before he had a certain issue down at his staff office and had to go spend more time with his family. | ||
| But I think he was a congressman for like one term, right? | ||
| And every time he harkens back, yeah, I remember when I was in the House. | ||
| Go ahead, Steve. | ||
| It's an interesting point you make, because as much as I can't stand her politics and her lies, Mika is a ten times better broadcaster than is Joe Scarborough. | ||
| And I think that's obvious to anyone who looks at it with an objective eye. | ||
| And speaking of being good at broadcasting, there is no one better in this current crop of political candidates than Carrie Lake, somebody who was a major broadcaster, primetime broadcaster in one of the biggest metro areas of America for decades. | ||
| And I think one of the reasons, Steve, that corporate media has such particular derision, one of the reasons they just cannot stand Carrie Lake, is that they view her as an apostate. | ||
| You know, much like I was talking about yesterday, the way they view people like Blake Masters and John Gibbs because they went to Stanford, because they worked in big tech. | ||
| And the establishment folks assumed these are folks who are part of our club. | ||
| When they defect and go to America First, in the case of Carrie Lake, when somebody who is at the highest levels of broadcasting, somebody who has incredible skill on air, on camera, when she, to them, defects and goes to the America First movement, when she becomes a patriotic populist, They literally can't take it. | ||
| It makes their hair. | ||
| It makes them pull their hair out. | ||
| And because of that, they attack those people with particular vitriol. | ||
| And we certainly have seen that. | ||
| In this campaign season. | ||
| Hopefully today, though, the people are going to offer their payback to those ruling class elites and tell them, you no longer control this country. | ||
| This country has been sliding into oligarchy. | ||
| But we are going to reverse that. | ||
| We are going to recapture and reclaim our republic. | ||
| And part of that is electing these incredibly credentialed, but also incredibly, incredibly principled patriotic populist people like Carrie Lake, John Gibbs, Blake Masters, and others who are running for office today. | ||
| No, you've got Stanford grads, Harvard grads, you've got Kobach running for AG, you've got combat veterans, you have an African-American who walked away with so credentialed, walked away from potentially being CEO of Apple and Microsoft to go preach the word of the living Christ in Japan. | ||
| You've got a sheriff up in Washington. | ||
| The breadth and scale of MAGA. | ||
| So it's not look, we got to win tonight. | ||
| Don't get me wrong, but it's not just about tonight. | ||
| It's about the direction of this movement. | ||
| People are coming on. | ||
| And I said, this is beyond Trump. | ||
| You can't put all the pressure on President Trump. | ||
| You can't he can't carry the load for everybody. | ||
| And what I love is this show, this audience. | ||
| People have stepped up at school boards, the precinct committee, canvassing boards. | ||
| It's just absolutely amazing. | ||
| At the county level, people running in the state legislatures, all of it, and you see candidates running in Congress in these primaries against the establishment. | ||
| Look, why is MSNBC's Steve Cortez rooting for Rooting for Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell out in Missouri. | ||
| Why are they rooting for the real estate and financial and banking elites in Arizona? | ||
| Because that's what it is. | ||
| Robeson, and look, they're lovely people. | ||
| Mr. Robeson is a very classy guy. | ||
| Karen is good people. | ||
| They're good people. | ||
| It's just, hey, sometimes you get on the wrong side of an issue, right? | ||
| And they are classic kind of limited government Republicans. | ||
| We're not in that era anymore. | ||
| This is, Arizona is more, it's beyond Trump. | ||
| MSNBC tries to, you know, it's always orange man bad. | ||
| This is far beyond President Trump, and he knows that. | ||
| We can't, and the reason we're not giving it up is that we can't give it up. | ||
| You see, everything, it's the fruit of the poison tree, right? | ||
| Correct? | ||
| The poison tree being the big steal. | ||
| Yes, sir, go ahead. | ||
| And Steve, what I wanted to say is I think there's a generational issue here, because I think people who are basically my age and up, who really remember the 1980s, they believe somehow that we're still in an era, a political era like the 1980s, where we're arguing over really things at the margins, okay? | ||
| Where we're arguing over marginal tax rates, that sort of thing. | ||
| And we had broad unanimity in this country on sort of foundational first things. | ||
| You know, we all believe that the Soviet Union, for example, at that time, We are no longer in that era, okay? | ||
| And we need to realize what time it is in America right now. | ||
| agreement on the principles, the moral and ethical principles of Judeo-Christianity that underpin American society. We are no longer in that era, okay, and we need to realize what time it is in America right now. We are facing down with literal Marxists on the other side of the aisle. This is, again, this is no longer a polite disagreement among people who share a broad consensus. | ||
| That is not the reality of America in the 2020s. | ||
| Unfortunately, a lot of people who claim to be Republicans, who claim even to be conservatives, have that old school mindset that is simply no longer applicable to today and to the problems of today and to the challenges we face. | ||
| You know, as I said, I really believe, and I don't think I'm exaggerating here, America is sliding into oligarchy. | ||
| In some respects, I think we're already there. | ||
| If we don't arrest that dissent quickly, if we don't reverse it, if we don't reclaim this republic, it will very soon be too late. | ||
| So these candidates know what time it is in America, and they realize the immediacy. | ||
| And that's why, by the way, this America First coalition is broadening. | ||
| And you're so right that Donald Trump clearly was the indispensable man, right? | ||
| He was the key leader. | ||
| He was the one who achieved the breakthrough of winning a presidential election when nobody thought he could. | ||
| And he remains the leader of the America First movement. | ||
| But the patriotic populist movement is broadening incredibly. | ||
| And as evidence of that, let me tell you something that just hit the wire now, and I want to give a hat tip to Ryan Gerduski, who's Often on this show, he's great at analyzing polling, and he points out that in New York State, in one of the bluest states in America, in New York State, Hispanic approve, disapprove, as this is a Siena poll, today of Joe Biden, only 39% approve, 57% disapprove. | ||
| 57% disapprove of Joe Biden among Hispanics in New York State. | ||
| Steve, that is hard evidence. | ||
| That the broadening of this coalition continues and that the political opportunity is vast for our movement if we stay focused and if we pray and work. | ||
| Those are the two things I want everyone to do continually, especially on days like today. | ||
| But if we pray and work, we are going to persevere. | ||
| We're going to achieve. | ||
| We're going to save this Republic. | ||
| A big part of it is today. | ||
| God, I'm so grateful that a guy that was captured by the Jesuits at Georgetown is given the motto of the Benedictines, work and pray. | ||
| Come on, baby. | ||
| Cortez, not bad. | ||
| Amen, hold it. | ||
| Before we get... It is about... | ||
| Showing up today. | ||
| It is about delivering today. | ||
| It is about, in every level, whether it's a school board, a poll watcher, this is participatory populism and inclusive nationalism. | ||
| That's why things are expanding. | ||
| People see that they can come in here and they can have an impact right away. | ||
| This is a newly formed political movement. | ||
| You know, we're making it up as we go along. | ||
| Everybody will tell you that. | ||
| That's why for the audience, if you get involved now at the precinct strategy, if you sign up to be part of a, you know, Moms for Liberty or Moms for America, all these parental rights groups and get involved at your school board level. | ||
| If you get involved at any level, particularly the precinct committee, you don't have to be, you don't need to be a donor. | ||
| You can be an owner. | ||
| Get involved right now. | ||
| You have a, not just a vote. | ||
| You have a voice. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| You know, that's such an important point. | ||
| By the way, Politico, relevant to this discussion, Politico published an article, which I think it meant to be a hit piece, as often happens with these liberal hit pieces. | ||
| I read it and said, wow, that's great news. | ||
| And the article is about how the RNC, an organization which people like us have often been very skeptical about, but about how the RNC is actually partnering with a lot of grassroots organizations and people who have great problems with the accuracy of the 2020 election. | ||
| And of course, again, they meant this to be a hit piece. | ||
| Oh, how dare the RNC even talk to these people? | ||
| And when I read it, I said, wow, that's to your point, Steve, that is participatory democracy. | ||
| That is something that we should be encouraging all over this country to have eyes on the process, because I think the election process is still very imperfect, but the more eyes we have on it, the better chance we have of honest results. | ||
| Cortez, to tell you how good a reader you are, deep reads of these things, as soon as I saw that it hit at 6 o'clock in the morning, I contacted my good friend and lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, who's the star of that piece, and I said, hey, they meant this to be a hit piece. | ||
| Actually, I think that it signaled to the donors, why are they working with the unwashed masses? | ||
| You ought to cut them off the money. | ||
| Cleta's on at 11. | ||
| She's on here at 11 to go through that exact article. | ||
| No, because the article is absolutely correct. | ||
| They meant it as a hit piece. | ||
| It shows you that the grassroots, the RNC realizes, hey, we've got tremendous power right here. | ||
| But Politico wrote that so that the country club, Wall Street Republicans are going, oh my God, now the contagion is spreading. | ||
| We're going to have to call, we're going to have to call her and cut it off. | ||
| Go ahead, sir. | ||
| It's analogous to when Joseph in the Bible in the Old Testament said to his brothers, you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good. | ||
| Similar analogy here politically, and I'm not trying to say that it's a biblical issue, but similar analogy. | ||
| It absolutely offends politico, but it reaffirms us and it encourages us that yes, this is the path forward. | ||
| And that this groundswell, this grassroots movement, continues to gain power. | ||
| No one can be complacent, that's for sure. | ||
| A lot of the polls for America First candidates look great today, but we can't rely on polling. | ||
| We know that. | ||
| We have to put, as you say, the shoulder to the wheel. | ||
| We have to hustle. | ||
| We have to pray and work. | ||
| This is a day for action. | ||
| It's a really important day. | ||
| It's not the only day. | ||
| It's not all that's gained or lost today, but it's a really important day for the movement because we have some fantastic candidates who are going to change the shape of state capitals, going to change the shape of the United States House. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short break. | ||
| We're going to come back and talk some economics. | ||
| By the way, the state legislature, this is the day Rusty Bauer's career comes to an end. | ||
| There's so much happening at so many levels in these states. | ||
| again, but whether it's Trump or somebody else, we need to pave the way this time because that was not the case, unfortunately, in 2016. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay, we're taking a short break. | ||
| We're going to come back and talk some economics. | ||
| By the way, the state legislature, this is the day Rusty Bauer's career comes to an end. | ||
| There's so much happening at so many levels in these states. | ||
| Okay, back with Cortez Ben-Harawa in a second. | ||
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| They can prevaricate and engage in doublespeak, pretending we're not in a recession. | ||
| But the American people know better, and the numbers say otherwise. | ||
| Let's look at the data in a Chalk Talk brought to you by Getter. | ||
| This is manufacturing new orders. | ||
| It is, by definition, forward-looking. | ||
| Very important data set. | ||
| It just hit 49 and 48, meaning below 50 contraction. | ||
| That is a recession. | ||
| Let's put this number in context. | ||
| All-time high was 71 back in 2003. | ||
| Trump was elected with this number at 52. | ||
| His economic program and the Trump boom brought it all the way to 67. | ||
| It then tanked into the lockdowns of 2020, not surprisingly. | ||
| But then what happened after that? | ||
| Months later, soared to another new record, the highest it had seen since 2003. | ||
| A great handoff to Joe Biden economically regarding manufacturing new orders. | ||
| What did he do with this inheritance? | ||
| He squandered it. | ||
| And right now, two months in a row in recessionary area for manufacturing new orders. | ||
| Joe Biden is crushing the American economy. | ||
| Okay, Cortez, walk us through that. | ||
| The problem we have here is a real manufacturing and real economy problem, not the happy talk they're talking about. | ||
| And that's going to start coming through. | ||
| And then we got the China problem. | ||
| So give us your analysis as you see it right now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And by the way, yeah, all of that is not even taking a look at all the risks from China, which are immense. | ||
| But just looking at the domestic economic situation here in the United States. | ||
| And by the way, I did a Chalk Talk today because last night I did a Getter livestream to preview today's elections. | ||
| Got massive viewership. | ||
| And one of the things I saw in a lot of the comments from folks in the livestream was how much they love Chalk Talks and they want more. | ||
| So I will try to increase the pace of these. | ||
| But what I wanted to show here is That this economy is faltering at every level. | ||
| And what I mean by that, yesterday, for example, we showed how badly small business is doing. | ||
| We know that the consumer is more pessimistic than they have ever been in all of American history, in a survey that goes back to the 1950s. | ||
| But manufacturing generally is large firms. | ||
| There's not a lot of tiny manufacturers, unfortunately. | ||
| We'd like to change that in America. | ||
| But manufacturing, which I was talking about in that Chalk Talk, that generally is medium-sized to large firms in the United States. | ||
| So at all levels, unfortunately, the American economy stumbles. | ||
| And particularly regarding new orders. | ||
| Because new orders, by definition, is forward-looking. | ||
| And yeah, by the way, there we see it in chart form, what I was just talking about. | ||
| That's going back one year. | ||
| So this is the ISM New Orders Index for manufacturing. | ||
| It just came out yesterday. | ||
| And if you look at that trend, it is unfortunately, demonstrably, from the upper left, To the lower right, like almost any economic gauge that we look at for Joe Biden right now. | ||
| So here's, I think, the important takeaway. | ||
| You know, yesterday we talked about Paul Krugman, who's really an economic fool, despite his Nobel Prize, who went on CNN and tried to spin a lie that, number one, we're not in a recession. | ||
| Number two, if we are, it doesn't matter. | ||
| And number three, all the people I talk to say things are just fine. | ||
| Now, I don't know who he is talking to, but the macro reality tells us otherwise. | ||
| I think certainly anyone of any common sense Knows even from the micro, from their conversations with people, just how stressed and worried people are. | ||
| And here's the even worse reality, Steve. | ||
| When we look at new orders, that tells us that we're not near the bottom. | ||
| That tells us that things are going to get worse. | ||
| That this economy, the descent, is intensifying, unfortunately. | ||
| So things are not going to get better. | ||
| And I hope that that doesn't just depress people, though. | ||
| Because I don't say it to depress people. | ||
| I say it to prepare them and to give the deplorables out there a sense of urgency. | ||
| That things are dire. | ||
| Things are worsening. | ||
| It's not my opinion. | ||
| That is what the economic trends tell us. | ||
| And again, though, we have agency. | ||
| We can take action. | ||
| We have an ability, thankfully, with these elections, to dramatically reverse this dissent of the American economy. | ||
| And a dissent of America in many ways. | ||
| But economically is where I'm focused right now. | ||
| And again, it's the cold reality, no matter what the mainstream media tries to spin as narrative, no matter what the Dems say, no matter what the White House says, we are in a recession. | ||
| It is a deep recession and it can get far worse if we don't start taking immediate policy action. | ||
| That's why I want to talk about the four, because I want to tie the action to what we're seeing underneath it. | ||
| Because in the last, you know, last week and within 24 hours, You had the $400 billion they tried to add to the burn pit legislation of Jon Stewart. | ||
| And we support the Jon Stewart burn pit part of it. | ||
| But playing the games to put the $400 billion there, you had $350 billion, which only $50 billion went to the chips thing. | ||
| You had another $250 or $300 billion added. | ||
| 1.1 to 1.3 trillion dollars. | ||
| corporate giveaways. | ||
| And then the real spending, besides all the nonsense they're talking about, the real spending, they're talking about, I don't know, $600, $700 billion on the mini Build Back Better, right, the spending orgy. | ||
| That's roughly, pick your number, because the accounting's so bad. | ||
| It's $1.1 to $1.3 trillion. | ||
| because they understand they're getting thrown out of office and the Republican collaboration is kind of going along with them. | ||
| This is an orgy. | ||
| It is wrecked. | ||
| You know, you have negligence, gross negligence and recklessness, standard of care. | ||
| This is gross recklessness. | ||
| These people don't care about anything. | ||
| So Cortez, given policies you've seen, and quite frankly, the Fed thinks a love tap. | ||
| That's just a tap, 75 days, a tap. | ||
| Real interest rates, Brett and I did it a month ago, real interest rates should be 7 1⁄2% to choke this down. | ||
| given the policy you're seeing, given the collapse you're seeing, and tying it to what's happening in China, the real economy in China, give us, walk us through how you think this is headed right now. Right, well now listen, right now the trajectory is for a recession so deep that it would borderline be a depression. I think that is the reality right now. | ||
| As I've been saying for months, I don't think it's debatable whether or not we're in a recession. | ||
| I think the real debate is, is it going to tip all the way into depression, which I think is absolutely possible. | ||
| Now, I think it's also preventable. | ||
| Again, I'm not just being Dr. Doom here. | ||
| I do think it's preventable, and I think that these elections, today is a big day in that effort to try to stop the bleeding, to apply a political and policy and economic tourniquet to the bleeding of America that has been caused by Joe Biden and, you're right, by collaborationist Republicans. | ||
| Let me get specific on that point, because this is very relevant to elections today. | ||
| Peter Meyer is the incumbent so-called Republican representative from the 3rd District in Michigan running against John Gibbs. | ||
| Peter Meyer voted for the atrocity, the mammoth, behemoth, $1.5 trillion omnibus package. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And he joined dozens of other House Republicans, unfortunately, who voted for that. | ||
| He voted for the $40 billion additional aid package to Ukraine that we didn't, money we did not have, that we borrowed to send to escalate a war in which we don't have A U.S. | ||
| national interest. | ||
| He is a collaborator. | ||
| He owns part of the Biden inflation explosion. | ||
| Mitch McConnell owns part of it. | ||
| I would argue Kevin McCarthy owns part of it as well, having voted for the Ukraine situation. | ||
| So this, here's the point. | ||
| The minority has incredible power if they choose to harness it, particularly in the Senate, where the minority is literally mathematically as big as it can be. | ||
| The minority is 50. | ||
| If the minority is so emboldened, It can stop this madness. | ||
| And I do believe, thankfully, here's the good news. | ||
| The terrible news is we've had way too many collaborators. | ||
| But the good news is, particularly looking at the Senate, I think this new crop of candidates who I believe are going to win and going to be true America First senators, they are going to change the complexion of the entire Senate. | ||
| I'm talking about people like J.D. | ||
| and Blake Masters and Adam Laxalt and Katie Britt. | ||
| I think that this new class, many of them young, many of them outsiders coming from outside of the world of politics, they are gonna change the dynamics of that entire chamber, of that body, because you don't need 51 senators. | ||
| It would be great if we had that many America First winners, but you don't need that many. | ||
| You need a committed group of five to 10. | ||
| They're gonna join some of the folks like Holly, who are already there and already have guts and brains. | ||
| And when they join together, there's gonna be an America First caucus that is going to transform that body. | ||
| And that is the beginning at least of healing this economic crisis that has been inflicted upon America. | ||
| And again, it's not my opinion that that's going on. | ||
| It's the opinion, number one, of millions and millions of American people, but number two, it's what the economic numbers show us, okay? | ||
| The data doesn't lie. | ||
| The numbers don't lie. | ||
| When we look at new orders for manufacturing, it's an absolute freefall. | ||
| It's in contractionary area of that index. | ||
| Again, it's a diffusion index, meaning above 50 is expansion, below 50 is contraction. | ||
| We now have, as of yesterday, two months in a row of contraction. | ||
| The future is foreboding, okay? | ||
| But I would also say this, but the power is yours. | ||
| deplorables. Let's get out there and claim it. I want to go to, do I have Harnwell up? Ben, Tom Friedman, because part of this, you got to link it to the debacle in Ukraine of where we're pouring money into and now the Russians are blowing back and, you know, with the This is not started, initiated or meaningful what the debacle is about Russia and the Ukraine, but Russia and Ukraine certainly have an element in exacerbating it. | ||
| Tom Friedman, the single biggest cheerleader, wrote a column today criticizing Nancy Pelosi, said it was irrational, radical, stupid about her going to Taiwan because Friedman has been an apologist for the CCP from time immemorial. | ||
| In fact, I'll tell you about afterwards, the head of conference and I was, Andrew R. Sorkin and Friedman, I was there with Eric Schmidt to the Eric Schmidt of Google Debating the Chinese Communist Party and Friedman ended up agreeing with me at the end of a going to full-out war with them What you had to he's? | ||
| He's got a column about Taiwan, but his pivot, he says, the reason we got to do, it's not going to do Taiwan. | ||
| We got to focus on Ukraine because Russia's everything we must take it down. | ||
| And then he's got the buried lead, which we have been telling this audience and conservative Inc and the Fox News people from day one. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, what did Tom Friedman say in his column in his word, sir? | ||
| I'll go straight to the buried lead. | ||
| Good morning, Steve. | ||
| The timing could not be worse. | ||
| Dear reader, the Ukraine war is not over. | ||
| And privately, US officials are a lot more concerned about Ukraine's leadership than they are letting on. | ||
| There is a deep mistrust between the White House and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, considerably more than has been reported. | ||
| And the next paragraph gives an indication of what that mistrust might be based on. | ||
| To do with the sackings of the head of their intelligence agency and the firing of the Ukraine's Prosecutor General, which, of course, we did cover on The War Room. | ||
| But Friedman goes on and says that he's not seen any major media coverage of that. | ||
| He needs to be watching The War Room. | ||
| Will you explain everything, Steve? | ||
| Cortez, give me your assessment. | ||
| You've got Tom Friedman there, one of the biggest guys with the pom-poms out for Zelensky, saying the quiet part out loud. | ||
| The guy's a con artist. | ||
| The oligarchs around him are dirty. | ||
| Biden's regime understands they've got a massive problem. | ||
| Jonathan Swan had that guy up at Davos, and he's lecturing us. | ||
| The people that don't support us in the United States should read the memoirs of World War II. | ||
| As I've said, I've forgotten more about World War II, the knowledge of, than the actor ever knows. | ||
| He should start reading the best and the brightest about a guy named President Diem, okay? | ||
| When Democratic administrations are done with you, they're done with you, right? | ||
| Once they've used you, they move on, bro. | ||
| So don't take it from me. | ||
| Read the great David Halberstam, the guy's name's President Diem, right, in Vietnam. | ||
| Cortez, give me your assessment. | ||
| Well, in his case, D.M., he ended up dead, right? | ||
| Not just out of power, but dead. | ||
| Listen, here's, I think, the takeaway from this story, which is very important. | ||
| You're exactly right. | ||
| This is the first salvo, I think, of the White House starting to turn on Zelensky, because even this Biden White House, as corrupt and inept as they are, they are even realizing, holy cow, we have bet a fortune on a horse that has totally corrupted himself. | ||
| That is incompetent. | ||
| That is an egomaniac. | ||
| That is the reality of who Zelensky is. | ||
| And I know that's unpopular in a lot of circles to say right now, but too bad. | ||
| It's the truth. | ||
| And even the Biden White House clearly is waking up to that. | ||
| This was clearly a planted story with their friend, with their stenographer, Friedman, to start floating the idea that, hey, Zelensky shouldn't have a halo around his head, okay? | ||
| He is no saint. | ||
| He is certainly no ally of the United States. | ||
| He's an ally of Zelensky, okay? | ||
| And he's an ally of the oligarchs of Ukraine, because Ukraine has oligarchs who are every bit as dirty as the oligarchs of Russia. | ||
| And by the way, if those oligarchs and if those terrible leaders, and Zelensky and Putin are both terrible leaders, if they want to have a regional fight, have at it, because it has nothing to do with the United States. | ||
| If we would simply stay out of it, it would be a regional battle. | ||
| We can be involved from a diplomatic standpoint, sure, from a humanitarian standpoint of trying to achieve peace. | ||
| but if we would stay out of it from a financial and strategic standpoint that regional fight would be settled among the gangs and that's what it is effectively a fight of gangs. You know who suffers the most by the way? | ||
| Are the people of Ukraine. | ||
| Ukrainian people suffer the most from what Zelensky is doing. | ||
| That is the reality. | ||
| Okay short break Harnwell, Cortez are going to stick with us. | ||
| And then at the top of the hour, we got Cleta Mitchell. | ||
| We have Christine Caramo. | ||
| We're going to get into voter fraud and what's being done about it next in the world. | ||
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| Cortez, Nancy Pelosi looks like she may have just landed in, she just landed in Taiwan. | ||
| Did not get shot down out of the sky. | ||
| So we'll have to see how that story develops. | ||
| So by the way, he shut down all the opposition TV stations. | ||
| He shut down the opposition party. | ||
| Not even the opposition TV station. | ||
| Anything that wasn't a government TV station, he shut down. | ||
| Shut down the opposition parties. | ||
| This is the Democrat Zelensky. | ||
| And then the article, Freeman says, hey, he fired essentially Merrick Garland and the head of the CIA on the same day. | ||
| He's accused his ambassadors and everything of being spies. | ||
| But he was on the cover of Vogue, giving the full blue steel, Zoolander, going full Zoolander. | ||
| And of course, even the people that love him thought he jumped the shark. | ||
| What say you, sir? | ||
| Yes, listen, the reality is that Zelensky is a lot more like Putin. | ||
| He's a lot more like an autocrat like Putin than a lot of Americans on the left want to believe. | ||
| And even some fools on the right, people who at least claim to be on the right, who are in the Republican establishment. | ||
| You know, you're right. | ||
| Imagine in the United States, if on the same day the President fired the Attorney General and the head of CIA, imagine the media storm that would be, what an amazingly consequential story that would be. | ||
| Even if it's warranted, it would be an absolute media firestorm. | ||
| No such Firestorm unfolded in Ukraine. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they have no free media, because he dispatched with it. | ||
| That's the reality. | ||
| Now, to connect this back to today and to the U.S. | ||
| elections, what's going on in Ukraine, because Biden has chosen, Biden and NATO have chosen to escalate that war, because they are funding both sides of that war and have turned it into an international crisis rather than a regional one, it is exacerbating the existing, the pre-existing inflation crisis that Biden caused here at home. | ||
| That inflation right now is far and away the number one issue on voters' minds who are going to the polls today. | ||
| Not my opinion. | ||
| That's what polling tells us. | ||
| And Steve, I'm stealing this from you because you actually posted it on your social media, but this is from Axios. | ||
| They asked, most important issue, 74% Don't bury the lead. | ||
| a very important issue. | ||
| 74%, 17 percentage points more than any other issue. | ||
| Inflation is far and away the number one issue that voters care about. | ||
| And that very inflation is being exacerbated by our needless intervention and escalation in this Ukraine crisis. | ||
| Don't bury the lead. | ||
| Down there, 46% of American voters believe deficits. | ||
| They never talk about deficits. | ||
| They never talk about only war room. | ||
| 46%. | ||
| The American people are awakening and they're connecting deficits to inflation. | ||
| 46% say it's their top issue. | ||
| It's normally like 6% or 3%. | ||
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| Zelensky, the buried leader of Tom Friedman. | ||
| By the way, ladies and gentlemen, understand that's called a trial balloon or running it up the flagpole. | ||
| They put it into a prominent, they leak it into a prominent columnist that goes throughout the globe and all of a sudden the chattering classes start talking about it. | ||
| Those in the know start talking about it. | ||
| They're going to see if anybody salutes. | ||
| You're going to see a lot less Zelensky's the greatest in the days, in the weeks ahead. | ||
| I want to thank the War Room. | ||
| contributors and correspondents, particularly our own Ben Hornwell in Rome. | ||
| Tell us about your other boy Draghi. | ||
| He got the treatment today in CNBC. | ||
| He did. | ||
| A great puff piece for him, but it won't do him any good. | ||
| His reputation is in shreds. | ||
| Let's not forget, Steve, because these two things are, to use a Bannonite phraseology, they are inextricably linked. | ||
| The fall of the Draghi prime ministership and and the distancing that we are seeing now from Western governments. | ||
| If I have time, perhaps a little late in the second hour, I might come back and talk about what's going on in Germany, because these things are all linked. | ||
| So, when Draghi resigned, the war in Posse, you will remember I said, the fall of this government, of this Prime Minister, is now the turning point. | ||
| You are now going to see governments distancing themselves from Draghi, from President Zelensky, because as much as they're in on the grift, the thing that the politician absolutely has to put first and centre is their re-electability. | ||
| And what you call, Steve, the double shotgun of unaffordable food and unaffordable fuel that are going to kick in in the autumn. | ||
| These, like the little boy in Fat Man, are going to drop on Democrats' chances in November of maintaining the House. | ||
| And that's the reality. | ||
| And that is why we see this kite being lifted. | ||
| In the Thomas Friedman column, because even as I said yesterday, even an administration as socially autistic, as blind and deaf to reality as the Biden administration, realizes the disaster and chaos it has caused and is now, in what months remain, is trying desperately to claw back a little bit of Sympathy and comfort for the American people. | ||
| Because the American people, as Steve Cortez was just saying, they're not stupid. | ||
| They know the economic reality as much as the pom-pom cheerleaders are trying to create a fake reality in the media. | ||
| By the way, I love sliding in the reference to the nuclear weapons we dropped to end World War II. | ||
| Ben, you're going to come back in the second hour. | ||
| I definitely want to go through Germany. | ||
| A lot happened in there. | ||
| Cortez, what is your social media so people can get you? | ||
| Are you going to be doing live streams tonight on the election coverage? | ||
| Not tonight, I will not be, but I am going to be posting a lot on my social media. | ||
| Please follow me on Getter. | ||
| I'm at Steve. | ||
| You can also check out the Chalk Talk that we showed, and please share that around. | ||
| If any of your friends try to fool you, try to buy the mainstream media narrative that the economy is actually fine, show them the numbers in that Chalk Talk. | ||
| Find me at Steve. | ||
| I'm also on Twitter at CortezSteve, Cortez with an S. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And Ben, we'll see you in the second hour. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, Steve Cortez. | ||
| We've got a lot more to go in international economics that are going to affect your life, particularly in Germany. | ||
| Next hour, here's what we're going to do. | ||
| People are on watch on the big steal. | ||
| We've got Christine Karamo from the state of Michigan and Cleta Mitchell. | ||
| The Politico hit piece this morning actually was a paid advertisement for the great Cleta Mitchell. | ||
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