Aug. 9, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the reality. | ||
| They are totally, absolutely corrupt. | ||
| They're absolutely power-mad, and they're lawless. | ||
| They will use anything... Christopher Wray testifies yesterday, yeah, we're gonna get on that laptop from hell. | ||
| He's had the laptop from hell since December of 2019! | ||
| That's my point about half measures. | ||
| When we take to House, investigations of Fauci, investigations of the laptop, investigations of the southern border, investigations, investigations, investigations, accountability and criminal charges if need be. | ||
| We have to fight fire with fire because, trust me, they're playing to win and we're not right now. | ||
| We have to play to win. | ||
| The country's in the balance. | ||
| We will not bequeath a constitutional republic to our children if we don't. | ||
| I think that, again, this is a time for people who love our country, love our representative democracy, respect our Constitution, to take a breath, Realize we've been through worse than this before, and we will get through this again. | ||
| But when we get power back, it's time to hold everyone accountable. | ||
| The military leadership, the civilian leadership, the civil service, those in Congress who've abused their power, all of them have to be held accountable. | ||
| All of them. | ||
| It can't be this nice guy routine where we're just all, let's be friends. | ||
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This must be blind and those who are reporting have to do so with as much truth as possible as well. | |
| For us, for what they call a fragile democracy, raiding one of the homes of the former president and likely future opponent of this administration or this president, that's going to make things all hunky-dory? | ||
| Yeah, it's sad, Laura. | ||
| The democracy is not in jeopardy. | ||
| Their oligarchy is in jeopardy. | ||
| And the reality is that they are tearing the Band-Aid off in a very distinct and clear way and showing not just the American people that has known this for quite some time as they've been called domestic terrorists for showing up at a school board meeting to protest what's going on in schools, But they're now telling with clear and convincing evidence to a Republican political class that has been unwilling to fight back against this with the levers that they have. | ||
| And I think this is a wake-up call for those in Congress to be able to use the tools at their disposal to defund the FBI, to ask the right questions, and to prepare for a church-style commission next year, if given a Republican majority, to dismantle the FBI into a thousand bits. | ||
| Okay, I've got, welcome back, it's 9 August, Year of Our Lord 2022, you're in the War Room. | ||
| I've got Mike Davis and Matt Schlapp on deck, two heavy hitters. | ||
| I want to go to Russ Vogt, former head of OMB, Office of Management and Budget, which is really the position right next to Chief of Staff that kind of organizes any administration. | ||
| Russ, you threw down hard last night on Laura Ingram. | ||
| I want to be specific. | ||
| When you're talking about defunding, walk people through what the power of OMB is, but most importantly, the power of the House to stop an administration from funding everything they want, particularly when they have a Gestapo-like FBI and a DOJ that's out of control. | ||
| You said last night to defund. | ||
| Walk us through your tactics and strategy for when we take the House. | ||
| What is to be done, sir? | ||
| Well I want it to start this year. | ||
| I want it to start in the minority when Republicans in the House and the Senate need to have, Democrats need votes to get that through a United States Senate that has a filibuster. | ||
| So the debate begins right here and right now about whether Republicans are going to stand up on behalf of their constituents And actually begin to not fund the FBI or to demand answers as part of that process while still in the minority that leads and builds to something next year. | ||
| And so that is going to be done in the next several months. | ||
| The fiscal year ends in the fall and there will be an opportunity when Republicans are going to vote for appropriations bills. | ||
| Will they demand answers from the FBI and other of the national security deep state agencies about whether business as usual or whether business will change? | ||
| And then I think it's vital next year that House Republicans put in place a church-style commission. | ||
| They need to commit to it now when they do an agenda that they, with the House alone, can do this. | ||
| We don't need the Senate. | ||
| If the Senate wants to come along, that's fine. | ||
| But the House alone needs to commit to investigating to ensure that this weaponized deep state must be dismantled. | ||
| And we know every extent to which they have been weaponized against the American people. | ||
| I want there to be two years of these investigations so that we can run a presidential election on the notion of, it was lock her up, now it's going to break them up. | ||
| And we're going to return to self-rule and self-government in this great country. | ||
| You have also the knowledge and the details. | ||
| You could be an advisor to these committees. | ||
| I just want to make sure I get the process right. | ||
| Now, even before November, it's supposed to all be done by September 30th. | ||
| We know they're not going to do it. | ||
| They're going to have these continued resolutions, all this madness. | ||
| But your point right now for the United States Senate, since we have the filibuster, That you're saying they must demand investigations, hearings, all of that to get to the bottom of what's happened on this Mar-a-Lago and other situations of intimidation by the FBI and the Justice Department. | ||
| Did I hear you clearly? | ||
| You're saying start now with that? | ||
| Start now. | ||
| Start often in being able to ask those questions and connect it to the appropriations process. | ||
| And this is something that applies not just to this issue, and Stephen Miller, my friend and colleague, has made this point as well. | ||
| We cannot let Republicans go and pass these at the end of the day. | ||
| This is not something that we should just lose an entire year and months of leverage points against the Biden administration. | ||
| We need to make it very clear that Republicans are not going to pass this year's fiscal appropriations until help in the cavalry has arrived in November and in January, and so that Republicans can put their mark That's why I believe the debate needs to start now, but we're actually going to have potentially power to get this done in January. | ||
| And in January, you're saying both, it's a two-pronged approach then, it's both investigations, hearings, and also using the appropriations power when you actually have the gavel to choke, to cut off the oxygen of money, unless they fully cooperate in dismantling parts of these apparatuses that are used for political intimidation. | ||
| Am I hearing you correctly on that? | ||
| 100%. | ||
| That's the plan. | ||
| Okay, Russ Vought, how do people follow you on Twitter? | ||
| When the heat on this dies off, I want to get you back on and go through the details, because this needs steely resolve, and we're going to need people that can actually do this. | ||
| We need people that know the details, which you do. | ||
| How do people right now get to your site of this amazing think tank you have? | ||
| In addition, how do they follow you? | ||
| Because you come in a little hot on Twitter, and I want to make sure everybody follows you, particularly given this fight we've got right now. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| They can get us at americarenewing.com and at RussVote on all the channels. | ||
| Russ, thank you very much for joining us. | ||
| I look forward to having you back and go through the details of this, particularly when Russ calls for a church-style commission. | ||
| That's a Senator Church back in the, given the abuses of the FBI and the CIA for a couple of decades, had to bring them to account back in the 70s. | ||
| I want to go to Matt Schlapp. | ||
| Matt, you know it's pretty stunning to think how you guys at CPAC programmed CPAC, where the media all melted down, and then to have Mar-a-Lago happen, what happened at Mar-a-Lago, the raid yesterday, it's almost like, it's so prescient. | ||
| I mean, if you think about the speakers, think about the keynotes, you think about the panels, you think about the discussion, it was virtually all about what happened yesterday. | ||
| Walk us through that. | ||
| How did you guys know it's CPAC? | ||
| I mean, it's pretty stunning. | ||
| It's almost like you picked the weekend that the raid was going to happen, because what happened, the jackbooted nature of this yesterday, was really foreshadowed by virtually every breakout session, every panel, every workshop, and every speaker. | ||
| Matt Schlapp. | ||
| Yeah, no, it's true, Steve. | ||
| And it was the central theme of your remarks as well, which is, We're in a very dangerous place. | ||
| They talk about endangering the democracy. | ||
| They don't care about democracy. | ||
| They care about their authority and their political power. | ||
| We're the ones who care about the Republic. | ||
| And Steve, I believe it's CPAC that triggered the raid. | ||
| Yes, they've been going after Donald Trump, but they saw that man take that stage. | ||
| He was very presidential. | ||
| He was very graceful. | ||
| He was hard-hitting. | ||
| It was a speech like I hadn't seen at CPAC before. | ||
| I'm sure you were commenting on it. | ||
| Mercy and I were sitting together and we're like, wow, this is a blockbuster speech. | ||
| It just looks perfect. | ||
| The weekend went just, it was pretty flawless, starting with Viktor Orban, which they all melted down over and he gave a speech they couldn't find really any fault with. | ||
| And so Steve, when Trump comes across in a way where he's threatening politically, threatening them politically, They're going to attack. | ||
| We provoke them by giving Donald Trump that stage and letting him get all that positive media. | ||
| That's what provoked them. | ||
| And remember what Russ just said. | ||
| They have a very short time to indict, sadly, maybe even to prosecute Donald Trump. | ||
| Because when we get that power, I do think the Republicans have figured this out. | ||
| We've got to use every inch of that power. | ||
| Shut down that government. | ||
| Defund these agencies. | ||
| Don't vote for anything. | ||
| That allows them to continue to use this corruption to go after anyone that stands with Donald Trump, including the man himself. | ||
| Are you confident that you've seen, I mean McCarthy and people, I mean it's coming in a little hot now, Matt Gaetz told us they're getting on a conference call here I think right now as a group. | ||
| Are you confident from what you've seen so far that you're seeing the Steeley Resolve, that Russ Vought? | ||
| No. | ||
| Because what Russ Vought talks about is not business as usual. | ||
| What Russ Vought is talking about is using the filibuster right now to stop the appropriations process until you get answers, until you get guys in front of hearings. | ||
| And you had Ray just punch out in front of Grassley the other day, said, I got to catch a plane, was a private jet flying up to his house in the Adirondacks. | ||
| So are you confident you're seeing that? | ||
| Not just unity, but steely resolve you need to execute and implement what Russ Vought's talking about? | ||
| No, this is where I disagree with a lot of people I've watched in the last 24 hours. | ||
| I actually think our people do need to take to the streets. | ||
| I think it was right to go to Mar-a-Lago last night. | ||
| I think our people should get before the FBI. | ||
| No violence, don't break the law, don't go after cops. | ||
| But we've got a role to play. | ||
| We've seeded the streets. | ||
| We've seeded all these tactics to the left. | ||
| They've got everybody scared sitting in their basements. | ||
| That's why we had so many people at CPAC. | ||
| Watch the conversation I had with Jim Jordan. | ||
| Watch Steve Bannon's speech. | ||
| This is the playbook. | ||
| Jim Jordan talked about how important that first budget is when we get power, and they all know that. | ||
| The Democrats know that, which is why they're moving so quickly now to get Trump off the field and to get so many of us off the field. | ||
| That first budget deal after we win these majorities is critical. | ||
| And so focus on these weak Republican sisters. | ||
| Some of them are already out saying, well, we have to see, we have to learn more before we react. | ||
| We don't have to learn anything. | ||
| By the way, We all make mistakes, but let me tell you something. | ||
| There's nothing that Donald Trump has done that warrants the raiding of his house and the blowing up of his safe and all the theatrics when you put it just vis-a-vis Hunter Biden, the Clinton Foundation, Hillary and Bill Clinton, all the other wrongdoing. | ||
| Hillary Clinton stole $200,000 worth of furniture from the White House when they left for Little Rock in New York. | ||
| And you know what they told her? | ||
| Oh, just return it. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| Now maybe they're accusing Donald Trump of taking a scrap of paper and they're going to throw him in prison. | ||
| This is outrageous and the American people see it for what it is. | ||
| Matt, how do people get to you on social media and how they get to ACU? | ||
| At mschlapp on all the social media outlets. | ||
| And let me just tell you, Steve, this is a time for people to stand. | ||
| This is not a time for people to watch and listen. | ||
| We all know what's going on here. | ||
| Matt, thank you very much, and thanks for such a great CPAC. | ||
| Let me go to Mike Davis, Article 3. | ||
| Mike, you're normally a steady Eddie on this, but on your Twitter last night, you've been blowing people up. | ||
| Give us your sense of what happened and what's to be done about it. | ||
| So this is completely unprecedented, what the Biden Justice Department is doing to President Trump. | ||
| When President Trump left the White House with 15 boxes, that is routine. | ||
| He didn't pack his own damn boxes. | ||
| someone packed his boxes for him. | ||
| And when he left the White House, he is still the president of the United States until President Biden was sworn in. | ||
| So if he left the White House with 15 boxes, he has the inherent constitutional authority as the president of the United States, as the commander in chief to declassify any record he wants. | ||
| So when he left the White House with 15 boxes, they're not classified anymore. | ||
| So this whole idea that President Trump violated some statute on classified records is complete garbage. | ||
| And what they're doing to President Trump is actually very, very dangerous. | ||
| They're setting a very dangerous precedent where you could do a home raid of a former president of the United States. | ||
| You can't do a home raid of anyone. | ||
| You have to go to a judge. | ||
| In order to do a home raid, you have to prove to a judge that a subpoena and working with the target of the subpoena would not cooperate or they're gonna destroy evidence. | ||
| There's zero evidence of this here. | ||
| There's zero evidence. | ||
| And they're doing this because there's a dispute with the National Archives, with bureaucrats of the National Archives, over whether these boxes should, these 15 boxes, should be at NARA or in the presidential library down in Mar-a-Lago, or the former president's office down there. | ||
| We also have to remember, every former president As staff, they have office space, they have secret service, they have secure facilities. | ||
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So there's no allegation that this is going to get into the wrong hands. | |
| Mike, just hang on one second. | ||
| I know you've got to bounce, but I want to keep you just through the break. | ||
| And I've got another question on the other side. | ||
| We've got Peter Navarro, Steve Cortez, Todd Bensman. | ||
| Bensman's got a big, huge story that's breaking. | ||
| All next in The War Room. | ||
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| We rejoice when there's no more. | ||
| Let's take down the T.T.D.! | ||
| 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. | ||
| OK, for our audience, which, as you can imagine, is quite large today, I want to make sure what we're doing is trying to get as many voices in here as possible of really the front line of the fighters, the people that, as Steve Cortez would say, born for the storm. | ||
| OK, and so we're going to we're getting we're going to get them back on on the evening shows, tomorrow shows, all of to get much more reflective as we lay out. | ||
| But people should understand we're going to war on this. | ||
| We're not backing off one inch. | ||
| And we're going to use every tool available to take apart, as I said on Friday night in Dallas, take apart the administrative state, brick by brick. | ||
| And every day is going to be Stalingrad. | ||
| That's the tactic they pulled yesterday. | ||
| Hey, you guys tough talk? | ||
| How about this? | ||
| A little smash mouth down in Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| Fine. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| We understand it. | ||
| We're not surprised by it. | ||
| Mike Davis, extraordinary. | ||
| Would you have ever thought in a million years, given the fact you clerked for Justice Gorsuch, you've been part of this apparatus, you were Grassley's right-hand man? | ||
| Could you ever imagine a Justice Department going to a magistrate down in Florida and getting a raid with FBI agents up armored with weapons to desecrate a president of the United States House for the first time in the history of this republic? | ||
| Mike Davis? | ||
| No, this is unprecedented in our 250 years as a republic. | ||
| It's illegal. This is an illegal warrant. It was not called for by under the case law. You can't do a home raid if you can secure the documents with a less intrusive, through less intrusive means. And it was unnecessary. President Trump was cooperating. | ||
| There was no allegation or evidence that he was destroying any of this evidence or putting it into the wrong hands. | ||
| This is this is banana republic level tactics from the Biden Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland had to have signed up signed off on this along with FBI Director Chris Wray. | ||
| And so when Republicans Take the house in January. | ||
| They need to impeach both of these officials because they have abused their office. | ||
| We've seen a pattern with these two where they're willing to sick the FBI after every goofball and grandma who protest on January 6th. | ||
| They're willing to sick the FBI after parents were showing up to public school board meetings and Loudoun County, Virginia, because they're angry at the school's policies as it relates to their kids, but they're going to ignore Attacks on the Supreme Court, where people are showing up, illegal intimidation campaigns at Supreme Court justices' homes, where they have to be removed from their homes, where there was an assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh, his wife, Ashley, and their two daughters. | ||
| We've seen them eviscerate 250 years of executive privilege, going back to George Washington, where the President Trump's chief of staff, his trade director, His senior advisor, you, Steve, along with even his White House counsel, no longer enjoy executive privilege, something we've had going back to George Washington because they want to get Trump. | ||
| This is the most politicized, dangerous Justice Department I've ever seen. | ||
| And House Republicans need to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray accountable by impeaching both of them. | ||
| Mike Davis, how do people get you on social media and how they get to Article 3? | ||
| It's article number three project.org article three project.org and it's MRDDMIA is my personal and article number three project is the organization handle. | ||
| So article three project MRDDMIA and article three project.org. | ||
| And let's make sure we follow Mike Davis. | ||
| He's putting up a lot of information 24-7. | ||
| Mike, thank you very much. | ||
| Let's go to Dr. Peter Navarro. | ||
| Peter, you've seen the blunt end of the FBI. | ||
| Give us your assessment from what you saw yesterday. | ||
| You've spent so many days, months, weeks at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| They desecrated one of the most iconic presidential residences in the history of this nation, sir. | ||
| See, when they put me in leg irons, In solitary confinement on June 3rd, 2022, I said a couple of things. | ||
| I said that I was collateral damage. | ||
| I was not the target. | ||
| President Donald John Trump was the target. | ||
| And I also said that if they can come for Navarro and Trump, they can come for you. | ||
| What happened yesterday has borne out everything I said on June 3rd. | ||
| The noise here, Steve, is going to be all the pearl clutching and the wringing of hands about how bad what happened was yesterday. | ||
| But the signal here, Steve, and we must not get diverted from this, and no one has been more focused on this than you, we have to take the reins of power in November of 2022. | ||
| We have to take the governorships Kerry Lake in Arizona, Mastriano, Pennsylvania, Tudor Dixon in Michigan. | ||
| We have to take seats like Joe Kent in Washington. | ||
| We have to put Mark Fincham in Secretary of State, Christina Carallo in Michigan. | ||
| This is our focus, Steve. | ||
| This is our focus because they are coming for us. | ||
| And the only way we're going to stop that from happening, and when I say us, I don't mean you and me, because they've already come for us. | ||
| I mean everybody out there in Trump land. | ||
| This is the most serious crisis. | ||
| They've added now a political crisis to an economic crisis, and these people need to understand they have a razor-thin Majority in Congress and at the White House, which was taken by theft, and you cannot do the kinds of things they do without expecting to split this nation asunder. | ||
| So, signal. | ||
| Let's do what we need to do. | ||
| Do what you do so well, Steve, and stay focused on taking the reins of power, because this must not stand, sir. | ||
| Doctor, we've got to bounce, but I need everybody to go to Amazon. | ||
| Tell people how to get the book, how to get the audiobook. | ||
| We're going to have you back on and go into much more detail on this, but you've laid out a blueprint. | ||
| How do people get it, and then how do people find you on social media, because you're putting up great stuff all the time. | ||
| Steve, Taking Back Trump's America is the book that's the blueprint and battle cry for doing everything I just said, taking back the House, taking the White House for Trump. | ||
| You can go right to Amazon to get it, get the audio edition which has just been posted, or go to PeterNavarro.com and you can peruse the whole site and learn about the legal issues. | ||
| You can get the social media, get as the Twitter killer. | ||
| But Steve, Your speech at CPAC was seminal. | ||
| And it was a warning. | ||
| And this is a warning. | ||
| But let's stay signal here. | ||
| Let's do what we must do in November. | ||
| Take back Trump's America. | ||
| That's the book. | ||
| That's the mission. | ||
| Admiral out. | ||
| Dr. Peter Navarro, look forward to it. | ||
| Everybody's got to get this book. | ||
| He's absolutely correct. | ||
| That's signal, not noise. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Next, I've got Cortez has written this brilliant piece, but I want to do something a little different because Cortez has been the first guy with Navarro, the two I's, inflation and immigration. | ||
| I want to bring in the great Todd Bensman. | ||
| Todd, walk us through this piece in the Federalist, because this is a signal. | ||
| This is what's actually they're doing and trying to distract us with the police state and the jackboots. | ||
| Before I bring in Cortez, because I need him to comment, walk us through what this Federalist report is and why people are not paying attention to it, sir. | ||
| Well, people need to understand that a sea change has occurred in the migrant routes from the rest of the world to the southern border. | ||
| It's been made faster, smoother, in the words of the Biden administration, safe and orderly. | ||
| That's what their whole goal is. | ||
| And what I mean by that is we all know about the infamous Darien Gap, 10-day journey after a lot of shuttle diplomacy between the Biden administration, Blinken, Mayorkas, the Panamanians have opened up two shortcuts that now move it from 10 days to two days. | ||
| Very fast track through the Darien Gap. | ||
| So this whole idea about this, you know, arduous, dangerous, terrible 10-day to Turing passageway is now a two-day trip. | ||
| And in order to do that, it took the Panamanian government to order its patrol boats Cinefrance patrol boats to stand down and allow these migrant vessels to land further up the coast on the Caribbean side and on the Pacific side. | ||
| This is a very important and significant change. | ||
| There's one other very important and significant change as well. | ||
| And that happened in Southern Mexico. | ||
| I've been telling you guys for a long time. | ||
| I've been down there many times and watched it myself. | ||
| That the Mexican government was using National Guard troops since the Trump administration to block and slow the flow of migrants coming in from Guatemala. | ||
| That is no longer the case. | ||
| They now are issuing fast pass visas of three different sorts to everybody that comes in right away so that they can head straight to the border. | ||
| So between what's happened in the Darien gap, In southern Mexico, we now have what I call a superhighway, almost straight to the U.S. | ||
| border. | ||
| And this is from the 150 countries other than Mexico and Central America. | ||
| Remember, we have like 45% of everybody hitting that border is from somewhere else in the world. | ||
| So the numbers In my opinion, should double, triple, quadruple from this point forward, heading straight to the southern border, mainlining right to our border. | ||
| Mainlining, double, triple, quadruple. | ||
| Todd, we're going to have you back on. | ||
| Todd Benz is going to be at six o'clock tonight to kick off the show, to go in details. | ||
| Todd, until then, give your social media and your website. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Right now, that piece is up on the Federalist under my name, Todd Benzman. | ||
| I'm at tbensmengetter, follow me there, bensmentod at Twitter, cis.org, Center for Immigration Studies. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| A stunning development. | ||
| Todd Benzman will join us back at 6 o'clock. | ||
| Kerry Lake to kick off 5 o'clock. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| We're going to have Steve Cortez. | ||
| He's got a brilliant piece. | ||
| Steve Cortez is basically saying, time for games are over. | ||
| You've seen what the Biden administration is doing right now on the southern border, which will be Article 1 in their impeachment. | ||
| The great Steve Cortez will join us next with Joe Kent and Carl Palladino, all next in the War Room. | ||
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| Okay, Cortez. | ||
| The great Stuart Cortez. | ||
| Steve, I wanted to wait for you to build up to this, and quite frankly, have Bensman come in. | ||
| Steve Cortez was the first one, looked at the nation, and I said, hey, this is all about the two I's. | ||
| Inflation and immigration. | ||
| I want to add a new I, sir, to your magnificent piece you wrote this morning about why President Trump has to go, and that's intimidation. | ||
| The War Room, Engine Room, I should tell you, gave me that. | ||
| It's the three I's now. | ||
| Inflation, immigration, and intimidation. | ||
| Steve Cortez, what action should Donald J. Trump take today to respond to the desecration of his historic, iconic presidential residence in Mar-a-Lago, sir? | ||
| Steve, I believe President Trump needs to immediately and formally announce that he is indeed a candidate for the presidency in 2024. | ||
| You know, this is a time of great peril for our country, but it's also a time of great opportunity simultaneously. | ||
| And at a time like this, at a fulcrum moment, Steve, I really believe that strongly worded condemnations, no matter how eloquent they may be, simply will not suffice. | ||
| We need to take action, because what happened yesterday at Mar-a-Lago, was a despotic and tyrannical gambit perpetrated by an illegitimate regime, the Biden regime, against not just Donald Trump and against not just the America First movement, although they were both targets, but against really all of the American people, against precedent, against principles. | ||
| And so the response cannot simply be words. | ||
| It has to be action. | ||
| And to me, the most consequential action that the president can take right now is to formally declare that you have raised the ante, you have escalated, you drew first blood, Biden. | ||
| I am going to answer and I'm going to raise the stakes even further from there. | ||
| Because make no mistake, Steve, where the Biden regime is marching in jackboots, I would add, they are marching toward a Trump indictment. | ||
| Why? | ||
| To connect this to the previous discussion. | ||
| Because they are failing so miserably on every aspect of policy. | ||
| Particularly because of the created crises, the two biggest created crises of the Biden regime, inflation and the immigration fiasco, because they are failing miserably on both of those massive issues, the two most dominant issues for the American people, they recognize that the most formidable and potent threat to their political power is Donald J. Trump. | ||
| And so they are using every tactic at their disposal, no matter how illegal, no matter how unparalleled in American history, every tactic to try to delegitimize him and ultimately to try to disqualify him from taking them on. | ||
| So given that reality and given the stakes here, I believe that President Trump would be well advised to announce today or as soon as is practical, let's make it formal, Let's get it on. | ||
| Let's have this fight. | ||
| You agree that this whole fiasco of the spending and tax orgy, everything they did over the last couple weeks, they've done the polling already. | ||
| They understand that's a Washington story. | ||
| It's only going to add to inflation. | ||
| You've done a great job, but the underlying economy, the bottom's falling out for average Americans. | ||
| At the same time, that's what I wanted Ben's been on before you. | ||
| They've created the superhighway now to jam as many illegal aliens up here as possible. | ||
| Their efforts have failed. | ||
| You're saying you believe that they've got one lesson. | ||
| That's total lawfare. | ||
| Am I hearing you correctly? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Just police state tactics right now. | ||
| Because they know they can't argue on the issues, right? | ||
| So that is why they are reaching for this incredibly desperate and reckless gambit. | ||
| And that's what it is. | ||
| Now, on its face, they want it to appear powerful. | ||
| Well, federal agents show up armed, right, to overtake, at least temporarily, the president's residence. | ||
| But the reality is this is an act of desperation, and we need to see it. | ||
| For that. | ||
| But I also believe, Steve, to your point about the American people are not going to be fooled by a few legislative wins that have been rammed through by Pelosi and Schumer. | ||
| The American people are suffering right now. | ||
| That's not my opinion. | ||
| That is their actual reality, as reported by poll after poll. | ||
| And so another reason that I believe Donald Trump needs to get in this race sooner rather than later, and I would counsel immediately get into this race, is to reinvigorate the spirit of the American people because we know that consumer confidence right now is at an all-time low in the country. | ||
| The country is in a very bad place in terms of spirit and optimism. | ||
| There is angst and anxiety pervasive across the land. | ||
| That action last night is only going to deepen that despondency. | ||
| But we can fight against it. | ||
| And no one can fight against it more powerfully than Donald John Trump. | ||
| Thankfully, we have in President Trump the greatest counterpuncher in all of political history. | ||
| I refer to him as the Floyd Mayweather of politics. | ||
| Nobody can counterpunch better. | ||
| It is time for President Trump to effectively deliver a political right cross directly back at the Biden regime and at the ruling class to say, your actions do not intimidate us, to your point of the third eye, and these actions will not stand. | ||
| I will win the presidency. | ||
| The American people are going to reign again. | ||
| We are going to fix the messes you have created, including immigration and inflation. | ||
| And ultimately, there is going to be hell to pay. | ||
| There are going to be actual consequences. | ||
| By the way, I've advocated, as you know, you and I both have advocated strongly that they should announce or should announce strongly and immediately. | ||
| I think you should announce today. | ||
| You're right about counterpuncher. | ||
| Here's the other thing. | ||
| Besides announcing and getting on with the campaign, you actually can, because of command by negation, this kind of military tactic, military strategy also used in hostile takeovers. | ||
| He could actually grind the Biden administration to an absolute standstill. | ||
| Grind it down to absolute standstill. | ||
| That's what we have to announce. | ||
| The beginning of Trump's presidency would be six years, not four. | ||
| You do it today. | ||
| Then we take the House. | ||
| You got the appropriations. | ||
| Steve, just hang on for one second. | ||
| I want to bring in the great Joe Kent. | ||
| Joe, first off, give an update to our audience on where we actually stand on your drive to victory in Washington 3, and then I want to ask you about the jackbooted Gestapo tactics of yesterday. | ||
| Get our audience up to date. | ||
| Where are we in your race, sir? | ||
| Yes, Steve, so great news. | ||
| Yesterday, as the FBI was raiding President Trump's house in Mar-a-Lago, We had another ballot drop. | ||
| We surpassed Jamie Herrera-Butler. | ||
| We are up by about 1,000 votes, 960 votes. | ||
| There's still about 15,000 to 20,000 votes in play. | ||
| Those are all game day votes right now. | ||
| So we're feeling very strong. | ||
| A lot of smart people like Rich Barras, People's Pundit, are saying that our path to victory is pretty clear right now at this point. | ||
| So we're not taking anything for granted. | ||
| We're still out there helping people cure their ballots if they need that done. | ||
| And really just staying focused on getting rid of Jamie Herrera-Butler. | ||
| But as of right now, we have made the primary. | ||
| By the way, I think Dave Wasserman over at the Cook Report is saying that, I don't think he's quite to saying I've seen enough. | ||
| I'm not sure I saw that, but he's saying he doesn't see a viable path for your opponent, whose name I always refuse to say. | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
| Are the people besides Richard Burr saying they don't see a path because these are game day votes, this is the war room posse that shows up on game day, the MAGA deplorables that are voting and it's breaking for you? | ||
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Well over 50%. | |
| Is that math basically correct? | ||
| That's correct, Steve. | ||
| These have been, by and large, in our favor. | ||
| They're game day votes. | ||
| Wasserman and a few other pretty prominent leftists, the deputy for the Washington State Democrat Party, also, he agreed with Wasserman's assessment that there's no way that Jamie Herrera-Butler comes back from this. | ||
| So, as of right now, we've won the primary. | ||
| We'll advance into the general as long as these next 20K votes or so shake out. | ||
| It's going to be a nail-biter. | ||
| I think it's going to come down to certification on the 19th. | ||
| So, this is, unfortunately, Far from over, but we are making steady progress and things are looking good. | ||
| Joe, talk to us, give us your assessment of the jackbooted nature of the Gestapo, the FBI Gestapo yesterday, and Steve Cortez's brilliant piece up on his sub stack that we're pushing out about President Trump essentially announcing today and getting on with it, sir. | ||
| I think that'd be amazing if President Trump announced today or as soon as possible. | ||
| I mean, look, I think that this just shows everyone what many of us have been saying for a very long time. | ||
| We're at war. | ||
| The left isn't the left of, you know, 10, 15 years ago. | ||
| These guys don't care about winning arguments anymore. | ||
| They're not playing politics. | ||
| They are playing no holds barred, seize every single lever of power and wield it. | ||
| And so the lesson to us has to be that, number one, we have to unify. | ||
| The primaries are almost all done. | ||
| Yeah, primaries are hard fought, but we need to bring together the America First movement. | ||
| We need to bring together Republicans. | ||
| We need to unify. | ||
| And then when we take back power in 2023, we have to play smash mouth. | ||
| That's not just oversight. | ||
| It starts with oversight, but then also using the appropriations process. | ||
| To withhold funding from these agencies until we start to see real reform. | ||
| And it's not just going to be reform. | ||
| We're going to go after the people that have violated the law. | ||
| We know many people, AG, Merrick Garland, and many others have violated the law. | ||
| And we need to start going after them. | ||
| And if we're not going to see real consequences, we withhold funding. | ||
| That's the tools that we have. | ||
| That's the power that we have. | ||
| And we have to wield it accordingly. | ||
| Joe, people, the War and Posse want to follow this 24-7, so how do they get to your social media? | ||
| How do they get to the campaign to make sure they're on top of this? | ||
| Yeah, please go to joecantforcongress.com. | ||
| Our fight's far from over. | ||
| We're going to advance into the generals, what it looks like, so we're going to need everybody from the Posse to support us. | ||
| We're also building up the war chest for potential legal action, if need be. | ||
| Also, if you live in the district, make sure that your ballot has been accepted. | ||
| Go to joecantforcongress.com. | ||
| Joe Kent, 1-6 Jan-19 at Twitter, Gitter, and Truth Social. | ||
| The audience wants to know, yesterday you had to go square your ballot away. | ||
| Did Joe Kent's vote for Joe Kent actually clear? | ||
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It did, Steve. | |
| Yeah, I went in, I had to fix my signature. | ||
| It's a pretty easy process. | ||
| You just gotta watch the website. | ||
| Went down, fixed my signature, and then I saw later on in the day on the website it had been accepted. | ||
| So, that's why checking that website is so important. | ||
| Good for the folks in Washington, checking that signature. | ||
| Okay, Joe Kent, thank you very much, sir. | ||
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Thanks, Steve. | |
| Cortez, you announced today, talk to me about Kent and Russ Vogt. | ||
| We've had a range of people, Ambassador Grinnell, Gates, everybody talking about the actions that need to be taken to set things right here, besides the political process for actually running. | ||
| What is Steve Cortez's recommendations that what needs to be done to take on the administrative state, sir? | ||
| Well, other than President Trump, which, again, I think that's the most immediate and consequential step of action to be taken, is President Trump announcing. | ||
| But other than that, is to be laser-focused on these elections. | ||
| We need America First warriors, people like Joe Kent. | ||
| I think John Gibbs in Michigan 3 is another example at the House. | ||
| There's a lot of them in the Senate, a lot of them running for state houses around the country. | ||
| But we cannot... If there's one takeaway, I think, and there's a lot of takeaways, but if there's one regarding the election, regarding this current election season that we're in, one takeaway from last night, that I hope all of the America First deplorables will absorb. | ||
| It is this, that we have no time for corporatist, milquetoast Republicans. | ||
| We are no longer in a political debate where we are debating marginalia and we agree with the opposition on sort of fundamental first principles. | ||
| No, as you very presciently laid out at CPAC days ago, Steve, we are in a cultural and political war. | ||
| The other side recognizes that and the other side is willing to use Any tactics at their disposal to defeat us. | ||
| We need to, I'm not saying we should use any tactics, but we need to embrace the mentality, unfortunately, that we are in a cultural and political war. | ||
| And to fight it, we need people who are willing to be brave like Joe Kent. | ||
| We need them in the Congress. | ||
| Simply taking over with a Republican majority that ends up being a Paul Ryan-style House majority is totally inconsequential, will not heal the wounds that have been inflicted upon this country by Joe Biden in the last year and a half. | ||
| So I think we need to realize what time it is in this country. | ||
| We need to realize the stakes and we need to realize to elect candidates who recognize as such. | ||
| And again, to me, the foremost candidate is Donald Trump himself. | ||
| Look again, we did not ask for this escalation. | ||
| Our opponents brought on this escalation. | ||
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Why? | |
| Because they recognize how weak their political position is because of their policy failures, because of their created crises. | ||
| But now that they have brought this escalation, Steve, is it incumbent upon us as patriots to meet it? | ||
| The hour is late and we're looking for those born for the storm, as Cortes said. | ||
| Steve, what's your social media? | ||
| Yeah, please find me at Getter, I'm at Steve, and please read my slipstack on the reasons of why Donald Trump should announce immediately. | ||
| We're pushing out hard, Cortez, thanks. | ||
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| By the way, primary day today, you've got Doug Wardlow, you have the great Royce White, a lot going on in Minnesota today. | ||
| We're going to be checking everything out in the evening show, also in Wisconsin, the intensity there. | ||
| builds. I wanted to finish this morning's show where we brought in kind of what the front line or many of the people on the front line of this fight, everybody from Ambassador Grinnell to Congressman Gates to Boris, Steve, Cortez, Navarro, Vote, Schlapp and many many more. But I wanted to finish with with Joe Kent and finish with Carl Palladino. Carl is running for Congress in New York right now in a very tough race. I think that primaries on the 23rd. Carl, you're actually a personal | ||
| friend of the president. I called yesterday the day he'll live in infamy with the desecration of one of the most iconic presidential residences in the history of this country. First time ever a presidential resident desecrated by jackbooted, basically paramilitary FBI going there on some phony thing about the National Archives. | ||
| Carl, give us your assessment of knowing Donald Trump as you do, of where his head would be at today, the fight in him, and also what you intend to do in the United States Congress to set things right. | ||
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I think it was a big mistake. | |
| Big mistake. | ||
| Not only disgusting, but way out of line for these people to go after Donald Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump is probably the most talked about person in America today. | ||
| And Donald Trump is going to serve another term and he's going to, he's going to come in and he's going to clean up once and for all this, this deep state nonsense. | ||
| For these people to go on and on and continue to pick at him. | ||
| And then to take a bold move like this is impeachable. | ||
| I mean, I promised that on day one in Congress, I will bring a resolution to impeach not only Biden, but also Garland, okay, for their misfeasance. | ||
| This is a terrible, a terrible crime that they've committed to use the American government and to use our administrative FBI and DOJ for this purpose is just terrible. | ||
| Carl, I just want to make sure I got this right. | ||
| You're saying as a congressman, one of the first things you will do will bring articles of impeachment or want to initiate an investigation to make sure you get the information of an impeachment on both Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States and Joe Biden. | ||
| Do I hear you correctly? | ||
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Nobody believes, Steve, that Merrick Garland acted without the approval of Klain and Susan Rice. | |
| Because, I mean, in my book, Joe Biden's incapable of making a decision in today's world. | ||
| I mean, the man's incompetent. | ||
| He should have been taken out of office long before this. | ||
| He doesn't have it. | ||
| We all recognize it out here. | ||
| We can't stand two more years of this man. | ||
| He's got to go. | ||
| It doesn't matter who his replacement is. | ||
| At this point, this man can't make a cogent decision on something as simple as this situation that's arisen at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| You don't go into the backyard of a serious presidential candidate and take advantage of him like they did and take all his papers The President of the United States, by the way, has a lifetime top-secret clearance. | ||
| For him to hold onto papers is not a crime. | ||
| And I don't know exactly what the situation is as to his negotiations with the National Archives. | ||
| But certainly, the National Archives has no right to make claims and to send the FBI in to confiscate all of his papers. | ||
| That's just way beyond any... Carl, given the fact that you're going to win this primary and then go on to the general, would you support President Trump? | ||
| Are you one of us that want Trump to announce today that he's running for president in 2024, sir? | ||
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Yes, yesterday would have been better, yeah. | |
| As soon as he can do it. | ||
| As soon as he can do it. | ||
| Okay, let me ask you about your opponent. | ||
| You're in a throwdown up there. | ||
| The RINOs, the establishment, don't like much about Carl Palladino. | ||
| What's your response to that? | ||
| Tell me about all the attacks that have been coming at you. | ||
| What is the best case you can put forward to the folks up there? | ||
| Those that know me know that that's my words. | ||
| I have convictions very similar to you. | ||
| And my convictions are what I voice. | ||
| a Republican majority? | ||
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Those that know me know that that's my words. | |
| I have convictions very similar to you, and my convictions are what I voice. | ||
| I voice for the people because that's what I hear from the people. | ||
| And I'm not afraid to confront government. | ||
| I'm not afraid to confront the press. | ||
| I confront all of them and I'm having actually having fun doing it because I get a personal joy out of it. | ||
| But the idea of me winning this is It's a foregone conclusion. | ||
| I'm going to win this race against—his name is Langworthy, and he's a typical egotistical politician from the Buffalo area who is the New York State Party chair and is using his office, his office's resources, and his office personnel to advance his candidacy, which is very unfair and very—and we will continue to disclose on that. | ||
| Carl, how do people find out more about your race and how do they follow you on social media to keep up with this? | ||
| The primary is, I think, on the 23rd, so we're down to the short strokes. | ||
| How do they get to your campaign and how do they get to your social media? | ||
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carlpaladino.com Carl Palladino, it's a big fight. | |
| We're going to follow this one closely. | ||
| It looks like Joe Kent's crossing the finish line as the victor in Washington 3. | ||
| Carl Palladino in a throwdown against the establishment in the Buffalo area in New York. | ||
| Thank you very much, Carl, for joining us and your insights into President Trump. | ||
| He's a close friend of his. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay, tonight, five o'clock, Kerry Lake's going to be on here. | ||
| We're also going to be packed with other people at the forefront, at the cutting edge of this fight. | ||
| But his, who's most important to be the cutting edge of the fight, you, the audience. | ||
| The reason the War Room has power is because of the audience, an activist audience. | ||
| You need to take action. | ||
| One thing, go to precinctstrategy.com right now. | ||
| We need everybody to get involved, get engaged. | ||
| We've got so many different moms for delivery. | ||
| We're going to be putting them all up, pushing them out all day on social media. | ||
| Become engaged! | ||
| The attack on Mar-a-Lago yesterday was an attack on you and the American people. | ||
| They fear you. | ||
| They fear anybody that steps up for you to give you a voice. | ||
| Remember that. | ||
| But what you have to do is become a phalanx. | ||
| The way you do that is to sign up, get engaged, put the channel changer down. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Back at 5 o'clock tonight, Kerry Lake and a cast of others as we all go to the ramparts. |
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