Aug. 4, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| I guess you can call them that. | ||
| Our gathering in Dallas for the annual CPAC convention beginning today. | ||
| There is an argument, though, if they really stand for conservative principles. | ||
| However, Donald Trump will address the event on Saturday. | ||
| That should tell you something. | ||
| Other high-profile speakers include Steve Bannon, Sarah Palin, and Sean Hannity. | ||
| Far-right Hungarian Prime Minister, as we just heard, Viktor Orban. | ||
| We'll also address the conference one week after his racist remark that countries where European and non-Europeans mix are quote no longer nations. | ||
| Orban has been alienated by much of the European Union but last week he met with Trump. | ||
| And as the BBC put it, he will be among friends in Texas this weekend. | ||
| Here's what calmness Dana Milbank wrote in a recent column in the Washington Post entitled, a hero of the Trump right shows his true colors, whites only. | ||
| He writes in part, quote, Thank you, Viktor Orban, for showing us where the American right is heading. | ||
| The Hungarian strongman who derailed his country's nascent democracy has been a darling of the MAGA crowd for his anti-immigrant policies. | ||
| He has been invited as a featured speaker to next week's Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas, alongside a who's who of Republican senators, governors, and members of Congress, as well as former President Donald Trump himself. | ||
| But Orban made things awkward for his American friends a few days ago during a July 23rd address. | ||
| He gave voice to the belief underlying his nationalism. | ||
| He opposes the mixing of races. | ||
| His July 23rd speech was an extended articulation of the Great Replacement conspiracy idea. | ||
| That was too much even for one of Orban's long-time advisors who resigned and lambasted the Prime Minister for, quote, a pure Nazi speech worthy of Goebbels. | ||
| She suggested that, quote, advocating, he was, quote, advocating the openly racist policy that is now unacceptable even for the Western European extreme right. | ||
| But not for the American right! | ||
| CPAC's organizer confirmed on Wednesday that Orban is still scheduled to address the group next week. | ||
| It was good of Orban to spell that out because now we know what Hungary's white nationalists and their American fanboys at CPAC have in mind when they rage against immigration and the Great Replacement. | ||
| They want to take us back to the dark ages. | ||
| Kati K. | ||
| Okay, live from CPAC. | ||
| It is the War Room. | ||
| It is Thursday, 4 August, the Year of Our Lord 2022. | ||
| I'm very honored to have, I guess, two instigators. | ||
| Of course, I've got Mercedes and Matt Schlapp from the ACU and obviously the guys that oversee and put together CPAC, the chairman. | ||
| Mercedes, first to you. | ||
| You've ruined Mika's morning's been ruined. | ||
| Morning Mika's been ruined because of the schlaps, right? | ||
| You've absolutely got her in lockdown. | ||
| Far right, Sean Hannity. | ||
| But I want to go to the buried lead. | ||
| She says this is supposed to be conservatives and what they really are is far right. | ||
| So tell us, has the CPAC always been, since President Reagan before, the backbone of the conservative movement? | ||
| Has not? | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| I mean, we've had Ronald Reagan, which I think spoke 13 times here at CPAC. | ||
| And, you know, Steve, I think when Mika is making these criticisms of what we are, so-called conservatives, you know, she actually married a once-upon-a-time conservative, Joe Scarborough. | ||
| I think it's on her, you know, she definitely, I think they both have lost their ways, Joe especially. | ||
| And it's just unfortunate that she wants to literally attack Everyday Americans who simply love America, they love God, and they love their families. | ||
| And they realize that we are really at the fight of our lives right now to save this country from getting bullied by the left who are trying to literally play this identity politics and call us all racist and constantly attack us for what we believe in, which is that of freedom. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| I mean, I don't know what they want to call our marriage. | ||
| Her people came from a much different part of the globe than my people came from. | ||
| By the way, Schlapp, you married up. | ||
| I did okay. | ||
| I did okay. | ||
| But here's the other thing, which is, I'm in Hungary. | ||
| We're at CPAC Hungary in Budapest. | ||
| And all these people are talking about how racist conservatives are because of immigration or that. | ||
| And I was like, how about this? | ||
| How about in America we stop killing our unborn children? | ||
| You know, we're killing young unborn kids of color. | ||
| More blacks are aborted than are allowed to live. | ||
| I'm not for that. | ||
| You're not for that. | ||
| They are the biggest hypocrites. | ||
| They say that we're the racists. | ||
| Stop funding Planned Parenthood. | ||
| Stop funding the genocide of that young black child, those kids of color. | ||
| I want to embrace them into our civilization. | ||
| They want to give them a death sentence. | ||
| One thing CPAC has done is that in going to Hungary, in going to Brazil, because here we have Viktor Orban, we also have Bolsonaro, you have connected the tissue of a sovereigntist movement or conservative movement throughout the world. | ||
| When you go to Hungary, it was jam-packed. | ||
| Everybody in Europe was talking about it. | ||
| Same with Bolsonaro. | ||
| You're going to go to Mexico before the end of the year. | ||
| You've already gone to Japan. | ||
| You just came back from Israel. | ||
| It was 5,000 young people were there. | ||
| Talk to us about... I'll just say one thing. | ||
| It's very hard to do white nationalism in Korea, in Japan, in Brazil, in Mexico. | ||
| I mean, come on guys. | ||
| In Israel. | ||
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It's insane. | |
| I mean, it's about freedom and it's about ideas and it's about human dignity. | ||
| They want to make everything about race. | ||
| And there's a common theme. | ||
| they're most triggered. I mean they've always been triggered to see PACs in the past, but one of the reason is is the the caliber of speakers you're pulling around from the world and in the fact that it unites with the Trump movement. And there's a common theme when you travel across the globe, I remember I was in Brazil and I say this story where we can't really understand the He's speaking Portuguese. | ||
| I mean, I'm fluent in Spanish, very different. | ||
| We're sitting there and all of a sudden the speaker goes, fake news. | ||
| And the whole crowd just rises to their feet because they are dealing with the indoctrination of the children. | ||
| They are dealing with fake news that won't cover in an objective way. | ||
| And it's really hard for these politicians to be able to succeed in a lot of ways because they're trying to tear them down personally. | ||
| And that's exactly the leftist tactics they're doing across the globe. | ||
| They're bringing them to America. | ||
| And their goal, Steve, is to call all of us far right. | ||
| That is their goal, to try to just keep us in a corner. | ||
| And we have to push back because conservatives are the majority in this country. | ||
| As part of our party, as part of the Republican Party, we're the ones that can push back against the leftist agenda. | ||
| And if we don't do it, then who's going to do it? | ||
| Remember, this is why they cheat, Steve. | ||
| Because if you're going to win at golf or tennis or whatever, you don't cheat. | ||
| Because you're going to win big. | ||
| When you're not going to win, what do you do when you have no character? | ||
| You cheat. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So that tells me everything about who's the majority. | ||
| They know we're the majority. | ||
| They know we're right on the policies. | ||
| Supermajority. | ||
| Supermajority. | ||
| They know it. | ||
| And they have one thing left to do. | ||
| Silence our voices and then steal our votes. | ||
| And that's what they're doing. | ||
| This is, and you're perfect because you ran this for President Trump. | ||
| The Hispanic vote. | ||
| A perfect example of why it's a lie about the white nationals. | ||
| The Hispanic vote. | ||
| I had the head of the new TV service that's here at CPAC launching, El Americano. | ||
| He said he believes their number is 55 to 60 percent of Hispanics in this midterm voting for Republicans. | ||
| Talk to us about that. | ||
| Those values are core to the Hispanic community because they're core to the American conservative community. | ||
| Well, and for so many Hispanics, this idea of freedom, that is fundamental. | ||
| The idea of being able to practice their faith. | ||
| The idea of raising their children in a place where they don't have to be worried of them being confused with their gender at the age of five. | ||
| They don't want government in their lives. | ||
| Many of these Hispanics fled socialism, fled communism. | ||
| fled oppression to come to America so that their kids can live in safe communities. | ||
| And what are we doing? We're allowing the Democrats to push an open borders policy. | ||
| They don't want to fund the police as much as they say they're for the police now because they had to change their tactics. And they're extreme on abortion. I mean, there's so many of these issues that the Hispanic community is saying, wait a second here, I don't feel comfortable in this party. | ||
| So yes, are they moving towards a right? | ||
| Yes, but they're still swing voters. | ||
| And they're young Hispanic voters. | ||
| And this is the moment in time for conservatives to close the deal. | ||
| Reagan did it. | ||
| Well, okay, let's talk about that. | ||
| I want you to address literally Mika and Morning Joe about your point. | ||
| Joe Scarborough was obviously a guy who's a huge fan of Ronald Reagan. | ||
| The point is, we haven't moved off of Reagan's core beliefs, right? | ||
| This is still the conservative movement. | ||
| Ronald Reagan could come here today and would be a rock star, right? | ||
| So talk to Joe Scarborough. | ||
| Because every day they're hammering that we're far right, we've left the Reagan legacy behind. | ||
| I mean, the reason I got involved in this conservative movement was 15 years ago, 20 years ago, I made that film about Ronald Reagan and him taking down communism. | ||
| How do you connect Reagan's core values to what we do today? | ||
| Well, I gotta tell you, I mean, you always remember that moment of tear down that wall in Germany. | ||
| And I, you know, and I think like it really sends a direct message. | ||
| I think people need to realize that our democracy, our republic is so fragile. | ||
| We can lose our freedoms very quickly. | ||
| It happened in Venezuela. | ||
| It happened in Cuba. | ||
| You're seeing this happening in Latin America, just even with the loss in the Colombian election. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| For Joe Scarborough to go out there and try to be this prophet and try to be this moral crusader for the left, it's a betrayal of what we stand for, which is that of defending our freedoms here in America. | ||
| If we are not able to allow for debate and discussion with the other side, if they're forcing down our throats, whether it be climate change or this craziness with Can I just say one thing to Mika and Joe who, you know, there was a time when we were on this show rather regularly. | ||
| I was on CNN regularly. | ||
| I was on MSNBC rather regularly. | ||
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And I would just say to Joe, there was a time when you came to CPAC. | |
| one thing to Mika and Joe who you know there was a time when we were on this show rather regularly I was on CNN regularly I was on MSNBC rather regularly and I would just say to Joe there was a time when you came to CPAC we're the same people coming today that we were 10 years ago when you came and the other piece is you loved Donald Trump when it was good for your ratings you loved Donald Trump when you were bro buddies you know when you used the rooms at Mar-a-Lago which is pretty swanky place by the way don't | ||
| blame you for liking it but you know you turned on him when it was bad for you but it the same people are animating this movement who were animating it when you put them on your show day after day after day and you liked it How do I know that? | ||
| You and I talked. | ||
| You wanted me to help the campaign. | ||
| You were all in on Donald Trump becoming president, and now you're not, for whatever your reasons, I can't know what your heart is, But how dare you attack the good people who are grassroots Americans who simply want to take us back to a constitutional order. | ||
| They don't like parents getting attacked. | ||
| They don't think five-year-olds should be pushed on gender confusion. | ||
| They don't think America is 16, 19, and BLM. | ||
| They think America is George Washington and the great patriots who set this thing up. | ||
| And you know that, and you know that, and you believe that, but you turned on us. | ||
| You can turn on me, but don't turn on these people. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| You might be standing, but you can come here. | ||
| Pelosi save America the two things how we're gonna win massively in November and then what we're gonna do to deserve that victory of turning the country around tell us how do people get here tell us what you're gonna accomplish who are the big speakers what you first can still get tickets at conservative org we have you might be standing here by the way this is bigger than DC ever was this is gotta be 3,500 seats out there right away from numbers but it's a bigger room and this Trump asked me just one I know, I'm sure he did. | ||
| This Dallas is actually going to be bigger than last year's Dallas. | ||
| Well, and we live stream it, which gets millions. | ||
| I think Donald Trump last year got 35 million views just alone. | ||
| Wow, wow. | ||
| More than the Grammys and whatever it was. | ||
| Combined, combined. | ||
| The Oscars and that, yes. | ||
| So, you know, I got to tell you, what I love about coming to these events, Steve, is that people connect. | ||
| There's people from all over the country, all over the globe that come here to learn. | ||
| And then they connect, and then they go back home, and then they say, I'm going to run for school board, or I'm going to go support my candidate, or I'm going to go knock on doors. | ||
| And they realize what's at stake. | ||
| And why? | ||
| Because the neighbors, if they trust each other and they talk about the issues that matter, Yes. | ||
| They're more important than us. | ||
| You network at CPAC and you know you're not alone. | ||
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Yes. | |
| So how do people come and get tickets and then how they see the live stream? | ||
| Well, you go to conservative.org to see the live stream and you go there for tickets. | ||
| We'd love to have you come here in hot Texas, Dallas, Texas, but get the tickets quickly. | ||
| Can't they just watch War Room? | ||
| Put in code. | ||
| Well, we're going to be non-stop Real America's Voice. | ||
| We have a huge setup. | ||
| Ed Henry starts in the morning. | ||
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We're here. | |
| We're going to be all the four hours of live every day from War Room. | ||
| By the way, put in code WARROOM. | ||
| You get to do it. | ||
| We're going to have a gathering. | ||
| Everybody's going to hang out. | ||
| We're looking for all the posse. | ||
| We got some of the posse members right back here. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| We'll be talking to the crowd. | ||
| I want to thank you guys. | ||
| I want to ask one thing. | ||
| I'm putting you on the spot. | ||
| I think you need to sign in a silver sharpie one of the black jerks. | ||
| And I think we should auction the thing off. | ||
| Done, done, done. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| A KMO? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Deal. | ||
| We didn't say it, Steve, but one of the things we talk about, we're raising a lot of money for the legal defense for these J6. | ||
| Where do they go for the J6? | ||
| They go to our website, go to the First Amendment Fund. | ||
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Conservative.org? | |
| That's right. | ||
| The First Amendment Fund and Conservative.org. | ||
| It's a part of our C3 if you want to help these kids that are being persecuted by Liz Cheney and the gang. | ||
| We've got to help. | ||
| Leave no man behind. | ||
| No man behind. | ||
| Guys, this thing's going to be spectacular. | ||
| I had no earthy idea of the scale of this. | ||
| This is bigger than the old seat back in DC, so it's fantastic. | ||
| Everybody go to conservative.org right now. | ||
| You still get tickets. | ||
| You get day tickets. | ||
| President Trump's going to speak on Saturday, but Matt has told me you get tickets now. | ||
| You're going to have to stand, but that's okay. | ||
| It's President Trump. | ||
| It's only going to be an hour and a half speech, right? | ||
| Okay, guys. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Cortez and Navarro next in the War Room. | ||
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We rejoice when there's no more left ...begins at CPAC Texas. | |
| Join President Trump, Sean Hannity, Steve Bannon, and a packed house of conservative all-stars. | ||
| With your help, we will take back the House. | ||
| We will win the Senate. | ||
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A big red wave is coming. | |
| It all starts at CPAC Texas. | ||
| Fire Pelosi. | ||
| Save America. | ||
| And then, a Republican president will return to the White House. | ||
| Who, who, who will that be? | ||
| The American Conservative Union is responsible for the content of this advertising. | ||
| Okay, welcome. | ||
| We're live at CPAC and we got some War Room Posse here. | ||
| So great. | ||
| So great. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| The deplorables. | ||
| Full army of deplorables right here. | ||
| Awaken deplorables. | ||
| We're going to be doing interviews out there with our crowd, our gang, here momentarily. | ||
| It's going to be a big crowd at CPAC today. | ||
| It's like over 100 degrees outside in Dallas, but CPAC's Close to being sold out. | ||
| Anybody, a War Room member, anybody around, make sure you go to conservative.org, code WARROOM, put your name in. | ||
| We're going to be special events here, meet everybody, hang out with the entire posse. | ||
| I want to go now to, we got Peter Navarro and Steve Cortez. | ||
| Peter, you call him from a cell block? | ||
| I keep reading the news every other day. | ||
| Every other day he can roll up. | ||
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No, I know your lawyer is saying we can't talk about that. | |
| So brother, I got it. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| Let me go. | ||
| Cortez, let me start with you. | ||
| You can go to him first after that shot. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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| The reality is, as you've been telling us, and you were one of the key members of President Trump's 2020 campaign and in 2016 early on. | ||
| Saying, hey, the Hispanic vote is full MAGA, and they're deplorables, and we can roll out the vote. | ||
| We had the head of the new Hispanic language TV network, El Americano, on yesterday on the show saying, hey, their target number is 56%. | ||
| What say you, Steve Cortez? | ||
| Is this a white nationalist movement, sir? | ||
| Over to the America First movement. Let's talk numbers, by the way. | ||
| CBS News, not exactly a right-wing organization, just put out some polling and in their generic question about who you want to vote for for Congress this year, not a candidate but just a party, they have Hispanics right now saying that they are 42% for Republicans and 45% for Democrats. | ||
| That's within the margin of error. | ||
| So it's essentially a tie. | ||
| Now to put that in context, four years ago from CBS polling in 2018 midterms, Hispanics were plus 40 for the Democrats. | ||
| Plus 40 all the way to essentially tied today. | ||
| A 40 percentage point move in four years is an absolute political seismic move. | ||
| It is truly a political earthquake. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Well, two reasons. | ||
| On the one hand, the Democrats have effectively made Hispanics into political orphans by becoming an incredibly radical party that is in no way welcoming to people of any kind of traditional values and to people of hard work and entrepreneurial grit, which is really a definition of Hispanics. | ||
| On the other hand, the America First Movement, this muscular vision of nationalism, sovereignty, cultural conservatism, it's incredibly attractive to a lot of Hispanics. | ||
| And let me broaden that out. | ||
| I think it's attractive to working-class people, period, whatever their ethnicity, whatever their race. | ||
| It just so happens that most Hispanics fit in that category of working-class Americans. | ||
| So we continue to broaden the movement, the patriotic populist movement, and we continue to transform the Republican Party. | ||
| Now, it's a process, and it can be frustrating at times. | ||
| And there are still a lot of corporatist legacy elements in the Republican Party. | ||
| But the reality is, we are continually, step-by-step, transforming the Republican Party into a workers' movement, and that includes a whole lot of Hispanics. | ||
| This is the case, and one of the things we're trying to convince people is that we can not just win at the ballot box, we can also govern. | ||
| Talk to me about, your Navarro report was at the core of thinking through how the big steal took place. | ||
| Give me your impressions, sir, since you did so much work in analytics about Arizona. | ||
| Walk me through what's happened in Maricopa County and Pinal County. | ||
| How can we be two years, what is it, 18 months, 19 months, 20 months after you published the Navarro report That went through line by line the problems in Arizona and particularly Maricopa County. | ||
| Brother, how are we here 18 months later under Katie Hobbs and the Republican establishment in Maricopa County and we're at 82% of the vote counted and they say they're going to drop another 5,000 votes tonight at 7 p.m.? | ||
| How does that happen, sir? | ||
| First of all, Steve, you do clean up nice, and I love you at that standing desk. | ||
| You got to do that in your home studio, brother. | ||
| You got to let me help you out with that. | ||
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Chat room, give me a couple of thumbs up on that so he gets the idea. | |
| We're standing. | ||
| We're standing. | ||
| I talked to Carrie Lake early on in her run for governor, And I found her just to be an amazing person. | ||
| And so I invested in that race. | ||
| I endorsed her. | ||
| And so I'm sitting there looking at the results. | ||
| It's like midnight, 1 a.m., 2 a.m. | ||
| It's like they get to 80 percent. | ||
| I'm having flashbacks, Steve, of the presidential election night where they stopped the count. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They stopped the count. | ||
| And we know now they stopped the Trump count so they could figure out exactly how many votes they needed to steal the election in each of the battleground states. | ||
| And so I'm doing like this déjà vu stuff. | ||
| So I figured, at least by the morning, They'd have a result somehow that they could screw Carrie Lake and we'd be done with it. | ||
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But now, this goes on and on and on. | |
| It's a gift, Steve. | ||
| This is the best ad for November Carrie Lake is going to have against Katie Hobbs. | ||
| I mean, you can see it now. | ||
| She can't even count the votes. | ||
| How's she going to count for the governor? | ||
| It's like, it just won't work. | ||
| And it's like, it's just such an In your face result, we will get to the bottom of what happened in the railhead of Arizona. | ||
| Look, it's a Republican. | ||
| It's the Republican. | ||
| Yeah, but it's the Republican establishment does not want her to have any momentum. | ||
| Guys, hang on for one second. | ||
| I want to bring in Joe Kent. | ||
| Joe Kent's getting the okey-doke up in the great state of Washington. | ||
| Joe Kent, give us an update in the second most important technological center In the United States after Silicon Valley. | ||
| We're now two days out from the campaign and they've, I don't know, they counted 53, 70% of the vote. | ||
| Joe Kent, what's going on brother? | ||
| We're at about 70%. | ||
| The numbers are sketchy, though, because this is a high turnout year. | ||
| So I think a lot of the projections we had going into this are a little bit on the low side. | ||
| But it appears that there is about 90,000 ballots left to be counted. | ||
| Last night, we moved from being five points behind to being about three points behind. | ||
| So I am about 3,900 votes away from Jamie Herrera-Butler. | ||
| The impeachment voter was still around 90,000 ballots out there. | ||
| Now, these ballots that remain, we believe to be mostly day of voters. | ||
| We think most of mail-in votes have gotten counted. | ||
| For instance, I know I dropped my ballot off on election day at the county commissioner's office, and I just checked the online status today, and they still haven't processed my ballot. | ||
| So, we think most of the ballots that are out there are our voters, MAGA voters, so we're still very much in the fight. | ||
| These are game-day voters, you think, coming from rural communities that are going to be just like Carrie Lake. | ||
| People remember, with Lauren Culp and Joe Kent, Carrie Lake was 10 points down, right, when everybody went to bed. | ||
| And all those game-day voters, all the Trump voters, all the deplorables come in, and what you've got is then a big shift in tide. | ||
| Is that what we can expect, Joe? | ||
| Is that what you're thinking? | ||
| That's what we're thinking. | ||
| We are cautiously optimistic, but right now it looks like the game day voters are what remains to be counted so far. | ||
| We've had a record so far of people that showed up and voted in person at the county auditor's offices. | ||
| By in person, I mean they actually physically carried their ballots in and dropped them off. | ||
| That's as close as we can get to in-person voting, unfortunately, here in the state of Washington. | ||
| But we believe most of those guys are, that's MAGA right there, people that held onto their ballots because they don't trust this process. | ||
| Joe, can you give us your social media because people want to follow this 24-7 and track you and Culp. | ||
| Yeah, please go to joekentforcongress.com. | ||
| Also, encourage people to go to wavote.com. | ||
| I'll put that out on my social medias. | ||
| They can check the status of their ballots and they can see if their ballot has been rejected. | ||
| If your ballot's been rejected, you have until the 16th to go down to your county auditor's office and fix your signature or fix your ballot. | ||
| So, wavote.gov. | ||
| I'll put that out. | ||
| Check your ballot status. | ||
| Thank you, Joe Kent. | ||
| Cortez, to you, brother. | ||
| Carrie Lake had $30 million dropped on her head. | ||
| As you know, John Gibbs had millions dropped on his head. | ||
| Joe Kent and Culp out there by the establishment. | ||
| Do they have any intention? | ||
| Do the banking, real estate, corporate interests in Phoenix, Arizona, have any intention? | ||
| Of giving control of that state to the sweep you just saw of MAGA voters. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| Steve, they are not going to hand those keys over easily. | ||
| The reason they won't is because they're the keys to a sports car that they've been driving at the expense of regular working class Americans. | ||
| Look, the administrative state has worked incredibly well for the power structure, for the credentialed elites. | ||
| And that's been the case for decades. | ||
| They have used globalization largely as the mechanism to punish regular Americans, and we shouldn't have any fanciful notions that they're just going to hand power over in any orderly way, right? | ||
| They are fighting tooth and nail, as we should expect. | ||
| But here's the key, too. | ||
| The oligarchy cannot withstand, for now, the oligarchy is still Not so cemented in power that the populist movement can still reclaim our Republic. | ||
| And we're seeing that happen. | ||
| But to your point, one of the biggest problems, even in red states where you elect Republican governors and Republican legislatures, right, is that the corporate interest in those states, I think Georgia's a perfect example, Coca-Cola and UPS and Home Depot in Atlanta, they end up dictating to the Republican Party what they do in that state. | ||
| What we're saying now and what this movement is demanding now, via candidates like Kerry Lake and Joe Kent, both of whom I believe are ultimately going to prevail here, is demanding, no, you will not be dictated to from the corporatists. | ||
| You are going to listen to the American people. | ||
| But part of doing that is getting to election practices that make sense. | ||
| And this isn't rocket science, Steve. | ||
| This isn't difficult. | ||
| We need to get to game day voting, voter ID, and paper ballots. | ||
| And if we do that, we're going to have accurate elections and we're going to have results that day. | ||
| Okay, we're taking a short break. | ||
| Navarro, just hang on because I want to get your thoughts about what Carrie Lake, if Peter Navarro, the fighter, was in Arizona, what Peter Navarro would be doing today to bring this thing to a head. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
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| Biden, Pelosi, McConnell inflation explosion creates havoc for small business in this country. | ||
| Let's get to the numbers in a Chalk Talk powered by Getter. | ||
| This is the percentage of small businesses that cannot pay rent in a survey of over 3,500 businesses done by Alignable. | ||
| This is for July. | ||
| Overall, this is stunning. | ||
| Overall, one-third of American small businesses did not meet rent in the month of July. | ||
| As bad as that news is, it's even worse for some of the sub-sectors. | ||
| Restaurants, 45% could not meet rent. | ||
| Transportation companies, largely because of fuel costs, 48% couldn't pay their rent. | ||
| Minority-owned small businesses, almost half of them. | ||
| Couldn't pay their rent in July. | ||
| So, while left-wing economists and corporate media in the White House try to spin and pretend that we're not in a recession, small business knows otherwise. | ||
| We are in a recession, and a very deep one. | ||
| Okay, we're back. | ||
| We're live from CPAC. | ||
| We got the war room posse in back of us, a whole pack of deplorables, full maggot a day, a whole host of speakers. | ||
| You can still get tickets, conservative.org, put in code war room. | ||
| We're going to be doing breakout sessions, talking to people. | ||
| Economist Dave Brad from Liberty's in here for the next couple of days. | ||
| He's going to be one of my wingmen in and out. | ||
| I got Navarro. | ||
| I got Cortez. | ||
| Before I go to Peter Navarro, Cortez, the Bank of England announced today, their analysis, the Bank of England, they increased an interest rate pop, the biggest they've done in 25 years, actually the biggest they've done since they've been independent from the British government. | ||
| Biggest interest rate pop. | ||
| In addition, bad news for the Democrats, they said inflation is going to peak in October at 13%. | ||
| Right. | ||
| and it won't get back to Trump's 2% until at least mid to late 2025. | ||
| In addition, they said, hey, a long and bitter recession. | ||
| Steve Cortez, the Bank of England telling us something that we should, are they being more truthful to the American people from London than Jay Powell and this class of clowns here in the United States? | ||
| Because you compare what the Bank of England just said today and you compare that to what, happy talk we've been hearing here, and we try to give you the numbers every day of Brad and Navarro and Cortez, who's telling the truth? | ||
| The Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, sir. | ||
| So, Steve, it's refreshing, it really is, to hear central bankers actually tell the truth, to not lie to their people and say that this is, quote, transitory, or that we're, quote, in transition. | ||
| No, they gave it straight to the British people and said, we're going to be in a recession, they said, by the end of the year, and inflation is going to continue to run at absolutely unacceptable levels. | ||
| I would also ask you to connect this to politics. | ||
| This is one of the reasons that Boris Johnson, thankfully, is on his way out. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| and the U.K. | ||
| have been, by far, the worst among industrial nations when it comes to growth and when it comes to inflation. | ||
| The Anglo-American alliance, economically speaking, is worst in show right now. | ||
| We're doing so much worse on inflation than our peer countries, than France and Switzerland and South Korea and other advanced nations. | ||
| But, you know, to bring it back to the United States and what I was talking about there, in my chalk talk, Steve, of the percentage of smal pay their rent. | ||
| 45% of re didn't pay their rent in a recession number, Steve number. | ||
| restaurants in America di in july. That's not a rec That's a depression numbe no longer even some acade not we're in a recession. | ||
| Recession. | ||
| That is very clear, okay? | ||
| And the evidence and data tell me that. | ||
| Not the opinion of Steve Cortez or even Peter Navarro, as esteemed as those opinions might be. | ||
| The numbers tell us we are in a recession. | ||
| It's a deep one. | ||
| And to me, the danger, Steve, really here, I'm not trying to be too alarmist, but if we make the wrong policy decisions from here, it can tip into depression. | ||
| But here's the good news, Cortez. | ||
| To alleviate your fears, Dr. Peter Navarro, the brilliant economist Joe Manchin has come up with Chuck Schumer, another brilliant economist, and Schumer, a great businessman. | ||
| They've come up with Joe Biden and the group there with the, what is it, the Inflation Reduction Control Act? | ||
| The Inflation Control Act! | ||
| Peter, the Inflation Control Act, is that a TED or Wellian, sir? | ||
| Well, it's more like a sitcom, one of these HBO specials where it's like, what can we call this that's so far removed from what it actually is? | ||
| Just to be our inside joke on the American people, here's the thing, if you do the numbers on this inflation reduction act, The primary spike in prices comes over the next two years, and over the next year is going to be the critical time whether policymakers can break the back of what's going to be a wage-price spiral. | ||
| And bring stagflation down into control before it really gets a head start. | ||
| Remember, my background here, Steve, I don't know if you can see it, but this is the 1970s stagflation. | ||
| So this Inflation Reduction Act, are you kidding me? | ||
| I think it's going to be really important for Cary Lake in Arizona to run On the MAGA platform, which is a strong economy and secure borders, and an endless war. | ||
| And all of this ties together because this Inflation Reduction Act is going to make things worse. | ||
| The other thing on the Bank of England thing, the other thing I want to say about that To the Steves. | ||
| Once the Fed starts raising interest rates, that actually boosts the U.S. | ||
| dollar and it puts deep pressure on the pound and the euro and central banks around the world who are forced then to raise interest rates as well. | ||
| And that becomes a global contraction. | ||
| So for all the reasons Steve Cortez gave, the Bank of England did what it did. | ||
| But it's also true they were protecting the pound. | ||
| Let me, let me, let me draft off both those comments for a second. | ||
| Cortez, and I want everybody in the War Room posse to understand this, because we pride ourselves on being ahead of the core on finance, capital markets, economics, so that you can make better decisions in your own life. | ||
| And we pride ourselves on being a news show that actually incorporates that as part of a holistic look at the world. | ||
| Because you can't, if you're not looking at capital markets, you're not going to look at money. | ||
| You're not going to leave the economy. | ||
| You can't talk about politics. | ||
| Anybody who talks about politics is not linked with that. | ||
| It's just, that's all noise, okay? | ||
| In The Signal, Steve Cortez said something, and Navarro, you and Cortez, since the spring of 2021, With the American Recovery Act, you guys started warning about stagflation. | ||
| You were a year ahead of everybody else. | ||
| You were the first guys to say disinflation is not going to be transitory. | ||
| We had Krugman, we had 34 Nobel Prize winners saying it. | ||
| You had the New York Times, Wall Street Journal. | ||
| The warning today is quite different. | ||
| And the warning today is when you look at the math and cut away the happy talk, You are one or two policy decisions away from a depression. | ||
| And people have to understand, these are not decisions that can be easily reversed. | ||
| And right now, you've got a cast of clowns that nobody has faith in. | ||
| Steve, stay with that. | ||
| That is a brilliant point. | ||
| Steve, it's a brilliant point you just said. | ||
| One or two policy decisions. | ||
| You're one policy decision away from the Inflation Reduction Act. | ||
| You pass that, no way you control stagflation. | ||
| Back to you, sir. | ||
| Absolutely, because all the happy talk... By the way, Kyrsten Sinema came out. | ||
| The only part of that bill I liked at all was the tax on carried interest. | ||
| And Sinema came out last night and said the one change she has to have is no... Hey, no offense. | ||
| Sinema's gone full hedge fund, full VC, right? | ||
| We understand now Phoenix is going to be a capital of high-tech, right? | ||
| Because the money's coming down there. | ||
| Brett, is Steve Cortez and Peter Navarro right? | ||
| Are we one or two policy decisions away from driving us into a depression that can't be reversed for an entire decade? | ||
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| And we're one geopolitical event away, right? | ||
| China, Taiwan, any additional shocks to the economy were doomed. | ||
| I read an article yesterday, which New Jersey's having a hard time still spending the money they got from COVID, right? | ||
| So the sugar high is not quite done. | ||
| It hasn't quite made its way through the funnel all the way. | ||
| Once that comes to an end, then what these guys have been saying for the last two years comes true in the labor markets. | ||
| Finally show up. | ||
| That's the last shoe to drop, right? | ||
| Once it hits the labor markets, then the middle class gets whacked and the news cycle changes. | ||
| On that topic, Cortez, you and I, give me the buried lead we saw yesterday. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| All the happy talk from the White House. | ||
| It's all labor market strong. | ||
| We have said it on the show. | ||
| Look at the underlying hiring attack. | ||
| Look at all those numbers in retail are going to come home to roost. | ||
| Steve Cortez, tell me about the labor numbers off of Dave Brat. | ||
| Yes, and to that point, we've seen the first significant crack in the job market, and that is job openings. | ||
| Okay, job openings have been expanding and remaining extremely elevated basically throughout the recovery off of the spring of 2020 lows. | ||
| But guess what? | ||
| The last two months they have dropped demonstrably 600,000 fewer job openings. | ||
| This month, or excuse me, it's July, but in July versus June, and fewer than May previously. | ||
| So that is a very significant drop, way below expectations. | ||
| The markets we're looking for, Wall Street economists, we're looking for 11.25 million job openings. | ||
| It came in at only 10.7 million job openings. | ||
| That is a very significant miss. | ||
| It's a massive drop, and I fear it's going to be the worst of a lot of drops. | ||
| And Steve, listen, to some extent, it almost has to happen, because just think about the sequence here. | ||
| If 45% of restaurants in America, and again, this is a huge survey from Alignable. | ||
| This isn't a small sampling. | ||
| 3,500 total small businesses surveyed. | ||
| If almost half of restaurants couldn't pay their July rent, okay, that's the first bill they miss. | ||
| But then the next cutback, it only makes sense, is going to be, I have to start cutting staff. | ||
| And that is going to continue to happen. | ||
| I think it's already unfolding. | ||
| It's going to accelerate going forward. | ||
| And so this paints a picture, again, of an economy, you know, Stop listening at all to corporate media debating whether or not we're in recession. | ||
| We're in a deep recession. | ||
| The question from here is whether or not— Brad just told us we still have the sugar high. | ||
| There's still money out there. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| You've got 45 percent of restaurants not making rent. | ||
| In August and September, they're not going to be making payroll. | ||
| They're going to have to cut that payroll back. | ||
| You've still got sugar high. | ||
| This is why, as I predicted, they were going to come back after the break and have a massive stimulus bill. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| They jumped it before they left. | ||
| Navarro, back it up. | ||
| You're saying this thing's inflationary. | ||
| If the Inflation Control Act passes, how inflationary is it going to be, sir? | ||
| You're passing a Keynesian stimulus bill at the same time that the Federal Reserve says inflation is their number one enemy and they're raising interest rates. | ||
| That should never happen. | ||
| You should never have fiscal policy and monetary policy fighting it out. | ||
| And we know that monetary policy is losing. | ||
| Inflation is spiraling out of control. | ||
| The last thing, Steve, that you would do would be to add on top of what we face now that one policy decision that's going to further spike inflation and then call it the Inflation Reduction Act. | ||
| Just, just, just to be in your face about it. | ||
| So this is serious. | ||
| I go back to the fall of 2020, leading in to the 2020 election, and I sent a memo to Trump and Meadows and said, hey, we're facing this stagflationary crisis. | ||
| What we really need to do here, and it remains true, is bring home our manufacturing Fix our supply chains, have those manufacturing jobs available to people, increase productivity, and do all the things, and by the way have cheap energy, that would contain what is a stagflationary crisis now. | ||
| And the one thing Janet Yellen was right about, she warned of permanent scarring in the economy as we lose small businesses. | ||
| What I said in that memo was that what they don't understand on Capitol Hill is when you lose a small business, you don't get it back. | ||
| It's not like you can turn that spigot on and off. | ||
| That's what that guy, that court test scenario, that's the scariest thing I've heard in a month. | ||
| And I've heard a lot of scary things this month. | ||
| That's scary, Steve. | ||
| To connect that back to politics, because Peter makes a great point here, right, about we can't just expect that small business can pop back. | ||
| And I'm not sure this isn't entirely unplanned. | ||
| And what I mean by that is the concentration of power, right, is a clear goal of the regime, of the oligarchs. | ||
| And this might not be entirely by accident. | ||
| Eliminating small business is the economic equivalent of trying to weaken the family on the social side, right? | ||
| And they go hand in glove, by the way, right? | ||
| So the diffusion of power has always been one of the hallmarks, one of the pillars of our movement, subsidiarity. | ||
| And what we see in destroying small business is the exact opposite of the diffusion of power, the opposite of subsidiary. | ||
| This is the concentration of power on a massive scale. | ||
| So remember that, that I hate to be this cynical, but these policy makers might be just fine with what's going on right now in terms of the destruction. | ||
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And real quick, what Steve just said, we're one policy mistake away from disaster. | |
| And just for the folks out there, you're feeling encouraged after yesterday, that's halftime. | ||
| Stay on it. | ||
| Some of the Senate leadership yesterday I heard were saying, because we got some good policy people coming on board, we're going to have a hard time getting past the one-yard line for the touchdown, getting these folks elected. | ||
| So stay informed. | ||
| If we don't get the good policy guys into office, none of this good stuff happens. | ||
| Okay, short break. | ||
| Navarro, Cortez, Brad, and a special guest joining us in the next block in the War Room. | ||
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| The deplorables, the posse was complaining it was a little slow, a little dry with Cortez and Navarro. | ||
| Better bring in the one and only Mike Lindell. | ||
| Hey, what do we have to say to Walmart for canceling Mike Lindell? | ||
| Mike Lindell, thank you. | ||
| So honored to have you join us, brother. | ||
| And I'm announcing here, but Lindell is going to be with us for the entire next hour. | ||
| We got Pasova, we got Dr. Malone, we got everybody. | ||
| Let me go to closing thoughts. | ||
| Dr. Navarro, I know you got to go work with your lawyers today. | ||
| Any closing thoughts before we let you bounce? | ||
| It was a great day yesterday. | ||
| Arizona is really the key. | ||
| It's the railhead, Steve, as you've said many times. | ||
| One fall, they all fall. | ||
| We're going to, as a team, have to really get behind Lake Fincham, Masters, and make sure that that team is for the people in Arizona so that we can get to the bottom of what happened there and also build the kind of strong economy and secure borders that we're going to have. | ||
| Arizona can be a microcosm. | ||
| For that Abbott needs some help. | ||
| He's been trying to sue the feds to keep secure that border. | ||
| We get Kerry Lake down there in Arizona. | ||
| That's going to be another another good thing on the economy. | ||
| See just the last thought here. | ||
| We are on the precipice of the worst stagflation. | ||
| We've had since the 1970s and you you're brilliantly saying that we're one or two policy decisions away from a point of no return and We need to focus on this Inflation Reduction Act and hope something goes wrong on the way to those clowns passing that, because that could be the one that drives us over the edge. | ||
| But I'll let you go here and see, Pac. | ||
| You look great there, standing up at that desk. | ||
| My brother Lindell is a patriot. | ||
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| We're going to be the new stand-up. | ||
| Navarra's been bugging me for years about doing it stand-up. | ||
| I'm going to do it like I used to do with the old Breitbart radio. | ||
| Peter, what's your social media? | ||
| Yeah, real Peter Navarro. | ||
| But go to PeterNavarro.com. | ||
| That'll get you to Taking Back Trump's America book. | ||
| It'll get you to Getter, the Twitter killer. | ||
| And you can read up on the latest in the soap opera, otherwise known as my legal issues with the feds. | ||
| But I need your help there, War Room. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bye. Let's order the book on Amazon. By the way, let's go to right now, Amazon, border the book. | ||
| They didn't chain up Navarro yesterday, so you're making progress. | ||
| Steve Cortez, is Navarro right? | ||
| Do we have to outvote the fraud and outvote the money like we did in Arizona, sir? | ||
| Amen. | ||
| We have to and we will. | ||
| Admiral Bannon, I will tell you, listen, as pessimistic as I am near term on the economy, I am just as optimistic right now about the political trajectory of this country and this movement. | ||
| What we did on Tuesday night was incredible, but we can't rest and celebrate. | ||
| We have to fight on, on to November and on to victory. | ||
| We're going to send a group of America First champions who are going to truly represent us in Washington, D.C. | ||
| People like John Gibbs, Blake Masters, Carrie Lake and her state capitol. | ||
| And then in Washington, D.C., more people like Black Salt and Katie Britt. | ||
| And J.D. | ||
| Vance, it's going to happen. | ||
| We need to work and pray. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Tudor, Dixon, and Michigan. | ||
| It's going to be incredible. | ||
| Steve, how did it get to your sub-stack, your show, all of it? | ||
| Yeah, please follow me on the getter. | ||
| I'm at Steve. | ||
| Very simple. | ||
| And then at Twitter, I'm at Cortez. | ||
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| Are we one step, one policy step away from a Great Depression? | ||
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Some of the folks who take on the establishment, you don't get any money from the party. | |
| Keep your eyes on that. | ||
| Write news articles on that. | ||
| and put the heat on the leadership. | ||
| And what happened to me, what happened to some of the folks who take on the establishment, you don't get any money from the party. | ||
| Keep your eyes on that, write news articles on that, make sure your candidates are being supported by the conservative party, who is supposed to support people who love America and want the best for our economy. | ||
| Bratton, how do people follow you now that you're finally up on Getter? | ||
| Thanks to Dave Bratt's wife, who finally taught him how to use social media. | ||
| I'm not sure you know how to use it, but at least she logged you on. | ||
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| Bratton Economics on Getter. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| You're here at CPAC for the next couple of days. | ||
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Yeah, CPAC. | |
| Meet young people. | ||
| Liberty University is a cutting edge of business schools. | ||
| Tell us, what are you trying to accomplish here at CPAC? | ||
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Yeah, see, I just love meeting the young folks, and some of my old friends in politics are around, so I just spread the good news on Liberty. | |
| Come visit me on the third floor up there. | ||
| I'm dean of the business school. | ||
| And then here, it's just fun to be with the old friends, Liberty-loving people. | ||
| It's fun to be with people like you, and I love everybody back. | ||
| And that's what this is all about. | ||
| CPAC Mac and Mercedes Schlapp do an outstanding job, and having Bannon here in the war room, Posse, and all this excitement around here. | ||
| They're driving the energy in the whole room, so it's great to be here. | ||
| By the way, you're an economist. | ||
| Cortez is a street guy. | ||
| Navarro's from Harvard. | ||
| Did Walmart miss its earnings because they took the classic pillow at the $19.88? | ||
| Is that why they missed earnings? | ||
| And by the way, they announced yesterday they're laying off hundreds of executives of Walmart corporate. | ||
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| It's unambiguous that the empirical evidence is they drove the arrow in the wrong direction by getting rid of the main man here. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Dave Brad, thank you. | ||
| Now, use that 1988. | ||
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| Steve Cortez, thank you. | ||
| Peter Navarro, always. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Have a good day today. | ||
| Brad, thank you for dropping by. | ||
| I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. | ||
| Dave Brad will be back with us. | ||
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