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Episode 2317: Biden's Border Magic Welcomes Millions Of Migrants
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steve bannon
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todd bensman
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steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies.
unidentified
Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon
You're just not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of it.
unidentified
I know you don't like hearing that.
steve bannon
I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
unidentified
MAGA Media.
jake tapper
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved!
unidentified
War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bass.
ron desantis
You can be... You can get things done.
And you can attract a huge, huge coalition, because I think most people realize there's a lot that's gone wrong in our country, particularly over the last two years.
Florida really is showing a way out of this morass and this mess.
But you've got to be willing to do it, and you've got to be successful in implementing it.
And in times like these, there is no substitute for victory.
We in Florida are the light.
Freedom will reign supreme with Florida leading the way.
I want to thank each and every one of you for your support.
We've accomplished more over a four-year period than anybody thought possible.
But I can tell you this, we've got a lot more to do and I have only begun to fight.
Thank you all.
God bless you.
Thanks so much.
steve bannon
There is no substitute for victory.
ron desantis
We've got a lot more to do, and I have only begun to fight.
Thank you all!
steve bannon
Okay, welcome.
We're gonna have that, I promise you, we're gonna have that a lot tighter.
We've had a Steve Bannon-type explosion here in the War Room with my production team.
Everybody calm down.
For the 11 o'clock hour, we'll have it right.
It's Monday, 21 November, the year of our Lord 2021.
We want to give a hat tip To actually give a hat tip to General MacArthur for No Substitute for Victory, his great line in his speech to Congress after Harry Truman had fired him, relieved him of command, and of course our own personal hero, John Paul Jones, I've only yet begun to fight.
The staff of Ron DeSantis for doing two direct lifts from the war room.
We'll jam it up at 11 o'clock so you can see, but that was Ron DeSantis at RJC.
And of course, you had Governor DeSantis there, and you had the Keebler elves, which I'll talk more about later.
So we don't like to get into a lot of the horse race stuff, but some very important things are happening.
I want to make sure everybody knows that it's the beginning of Thanksgiving week.
We've got a lot of specials this week.
We're going to do a lot of people.
We're going to bring in to talk about not just politics, but the direction of the country and where we're going.
We've got nothing but intense, hot breaking news all this morning.
I want to bring in Steve Cortez and I got Todd Bensman right on.
In fact, I tell you what, Cortez, I want to start, I'm going to change it up a little bit.
I want to start with and show the War Room Posse how Victory begets victory, and we're winning.
I know sometimes it looks like, oh my God, it's all dark clouds, and Bannon's trying to make me feel better, but these are real wins.
Let me bring in Benzmann first.
Benzmann, you've warned us, and we've got a huge breaking news.
We teed it up over the weekend.
Benzmann's got a huge piece that's out, and the Washington Times has picked it up.
He's got it on CIS.
And here's the thing, is that we've got This shows you the malfeasance of the Biden regime, and this is going to all lead to the investigation that one day will lead to his impeachment, right?
We're not going to jump into political impeachment, not going to do it, going to do investigations.
But Todd, you have warned us, and I want to pull the camera back for a second for the audience about this, what we call the orgy of malfeasance that will happen in the lame duck, right?
This lame duck is going to be, it could be historic in bad things that will happen.
And the only way you stop it is you literally have to put your shoulder to the wheel and make sure we put pressure on the right people so it doesn't happen.
We already know Nancy Pelosi told us that her number one priority was on Stephanopoulos a week ago was the debt ceiling.
That's the one thing they want is the debt ceiling.
The second thing they want is a massive amnesty deal.
For illegal aliens, right?
They want a massive amnesty deal.
Chuck Schumer said the other day, hey, we got to do it.
You know, we're not, you're not reproducing.
I mean, he went full replacement theory, right?
You're not reproducing, so you got to do it.
Todd, up until this morning's political piece, which I'm going to have Cortez talk about in a second, How big a deal?
You would tell me, hey, brother, we got a big problem here because they're working around the clock to get a massive amnesty deal in this lame duck.
Walk us through the efforts they were trying to make, sir, and how big an implication this would have for American culture and society.
todd bensman
Well, for sure, they're messaging and projecting out loud comments like Schumer saying, we need people.
We need people to do jobs.
We're not breeding enough.
These are, this is messaging about an amnesty deal that they're pushing for in the lame duck session.
He's talking about 11 million, others are talking about the 700,000 DACA.
The problem with amnesties, we should not lose sight of, is that amnesties spawn Me Too movement on the ground.
Not the kind that, you know, sexual harassment, but If you give 11 million people or even 700,000 DACA people amnesty, then the next thing you're going to be expected to do is grant amnesty to the next million, and the next million, and the next million.
Everybody's saying, me too, me too, me too.
And it entices people to rush the border.
You have a rush on the border now, a gold rush, but then you're going to look at a stampede if they try to do this.
You're going to talk about the Politico article in a minute, but I would point out that in that story, they're reporting that Republicans in the Senate are secretly in favor of this thing, that they're messaging that they're in favor of this thing.
And I think that all of that stuff has to be brought to public attention so that it can be put down or opposed.
steve bannon
Hang on a second.
Let's go to, if we pull up the Politico piece, I want to bring in Steve Cortez.
Steve Cortez, Politico reports out this morning that it's going to be very tough for them to pull off the Amnesty deal.
And by the way, the Amnesty deal they were looking for was the $11 million.
That's the one they wanted.
Fallback was the DACA.
And why, sir, is Politico saying right now they're going to have a tough time pulling off this massive reorganization of American culture and society, sir?
steve cortes
Steve, the simple answer, and this is the best news we've seen in some time, the simple answer is political pressure from the deplorables, particularly upon those GOP senators.
This is a very big deal, Steve.
A lot of us were very concerned.
that this was going to happen in the lame duck session. And not just the DACA individuals, but also the tens of millions, it's not 11 million, but the tens of millions of illegal migrants who have broken entered into the United States and reside in this country.
Chuck Schumer, I'm glad you brought that point up. By the way, Chuck Schumer completely validated and in fact promoted the replacement theory that the left has said for years, oh no, that's from some fever swamp on the right. A bunch of conspiracists believe in that.
Well, Chuck Schumer went into a microphone and looked at it on a camera and said, yes, we are absolutely going to replace you with illegal migrants.
It's not going to happen, thank goodness.
Even Politico, the left-leaning political, admits that this morning.
And there's one quote in that article, which I think is particularly reassuring for us, and it comes from Senator Josh Hawley.
He said, and this is a quote, there would be an unimaginable backlash.
An unimaginable backlash if GOP senators cave in this lame-duck session.
That is because of the pressure of the American people.
That is because we won the House.
Now listen, we didn't win as much as we wanted to win, but we won.
And Steve, we have to get over the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
I hear and see a lot of that on the right wing right now, and a lot of that among the deplorables.
Get over that.
We won the house.
We have tremendous leverage there and we're already seeing the consequences of that leverage, even in this lame duck session.
Because believe me, if we hadn't won the house, they would be doing full-scale amnesty in the lame duck.
It's now not going to happen.
steve bannon
Not going to happen.
And also putting the fear of God in the 10 senators they would need, right?
Also not doing the debt signal.
We're getting more of that.
Cortez got tons of economic news and capital markets and getting that.
But Todd Bensman, let me go back to you.
With that as a framework, of all the stuff you've ever brought to us, I think this is the most shocking because it's so brazen.
And ladies and gentlemen, just remember the day you heard this story from Todd Bensman.
Because this is going to be part of the process of the investigation into the invasion of the southern border that I believe will lead to impeachment charges against Mayorkas, Garland, and of course, Joe Biden.
Todd Bensman, tell me what the U.S.
government, the government that this audience pays for, is doing, sir.
todd bensman
So the Biden administration has secretively been pre-approving thousands and thousands of immigrants who were going to cross the border illegally.
Pre-approving them for entry while they're in Mexico and then escorting them across ports of entry or flying them by plane into American airports from Mexico by the thousands from the Pacific Ocean, Tijuana, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
They're being brought in on something called humanitarian parole, which they've been using on the illegal entrants.
But now they're using it for this, which is regarded among experts and immigration lawyers as illegal.
They can't use parole authority like they're using it, even for the ones coming in between the ports of entry.
The difference here is that they're increasingly expanding and moving the illegal entrance into the legal channel so that you can't see it.
And that they won't be counted in the statistics every month that we get.
Last year, we had 75,000 logged coming through the ports of entry.
In fiscal 2022, it was 175,000.
Where'd that extra 100,000 come from?
My best guess, informed guess on that is that it's from this program.
It's widespread.
They're bringing them in.
All along the border, through the ports of entry, and Fox News drones can't capture that action.
steve bannon
Okay, Hunter, go back and walk us through one more time.
Walk us through the mechanics of how this does, what they're doing, and why this is a violation of the law.
They're subverting the rule of law to do this, sir.
todd bensman
So what they're asking is, and I know this because I was granted unfettered access inside one of the Mexican operations the week before last, and I watched this Work.
And I interviewed three different shelter managers in Tijuana and in Mexicali.
The way it works is an immigrant who was going to cross the border applies for this program.
Everybody knows about it now.
It's spreading like wildfire all over the world.
People are coming in.
They have to hit a couple of criteria.
They have to kind of attest that they had trauma.
There's a story of woe.
NGOs, American lawyers, American law school students are all over the shelter system helping them gather their paperwork.
They put the paperwork together.
They send it to CBP through an online portal called CBP One.
I watch them, the Mexicans, pull this thing up and enter data into it.
All the Mexicans and El Salvadorans around me.
Once that's all in order, The Immigration Service drives them over and hand delivers them to the American authorities, and then they put them on buses and scatter them all around the country.
You will never see this.
The authority that they're using comes out of the INA, the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
It's there for Like a wounded cop who's been shot by a cop crawling up the riverbank or something.
It is not intended to be used for thousands and hundreds of thousands of people.
That is, if somebody's going to do impeachment or hearings, that is Issue number one, right there, Parole Authority.
Go ahead, sorry.
steve bannon
Hang on for a second.
Cortez, the insidious nature of this government to do this is exemplified by Todd Benson's great reporting here, sir, correct?
steve cortes
100%.
Look, the Biden regime simply does not believe in the sovereignty of the United States.
And that's an incredibly dangerous notion at any time.
But particularly now, Steve, and I know we're going to get into the details of the economics later, but let me just briefly say, we right now have 19 months straight of consecutive declining real wages for the American citizens working hard in this country.
That's the longest streak ever.
Worst streak in American history.
What an awful time to bring in millions of illegal migrants to compete in the labor force unlawfully and unjustly against American citizens.
So it's an awful idea at any time, but particularly at a time of tremendous economic strain as right now, which is why I totally agree with you.
We have to impeach Mayorkas methodically and work our way to Biden for this dereliction of duty.
steve bannon
It's not political.
These are not going to be political impeachments.
We promise you it will not be political.
Kevin McCarthy is 100% correct.
We've got to get beyond that.
These are impeachments for high crimes and misdemeanors against this nation.
OK.
Three biggest stories in the world.
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American taxpayers.
Trillions of dollars transfer of wealth.
collapse of Zelensky's position in the Ukraine and much much more all next in the world Here's your host Stephen K band There is no substitute for victory and yes, we have only just begun to fight There's victories everywhere, and two big ones right now are, look, don't get me wrong,
They're coming at you every day, and they're coming at you big.
They're using the big muscles to come at you.
So that's where we've got to fight.
We've got to pick our shots.
Remember, two of the three biggest things that we were going to do here was the mass illegal alien amnesty and the debt ceiling.
You do those two things, you're going to have a tough time putting this country back together.
Cortez is going to give me some commentary.
We've got massive stories all over the world we're going to get into that affect you directly, not just your beloved country.
Benzeman, this is the type of investigative reporting that makes you so unique.
It's just incredible.
A detailed story, a long time to put together, a lot of sources.
And I believe this is going to get real traction from some of the more mainstream conservative sources going forward.
Great story in the Washington Times already, so it's in the Washington Times as good as it gets.
Where do people go to get this?
I know you've got like a 10-minute video on this.
Where do people go get access?
Folks, write it down on the 21st of November in the year of our Lord, 2022.
This is the type of thing you're going to see in hearings next summer and fall, or even earlier, maybe in the spring, that will lead to the impeachment of not just Mayorkas, but I think Garland and Biden also.
So where do people go, sir?
todd bensman
The reporting is up at the Center for Immigration Studies, CIS.org.
That's the main place you can find it.
The video and the long form piece that I wrote.
steve bannon
Todd, where did we get your books coming out, what, for the 24th campaign?
Your publishers decided to put it out for the 24th campaign?
Is that what?
unidentified
Oops.
steve bannon
Kidding.
unidentified
Where can people get the book?
todd bensman
The book, Overrun, will be out in time in bookstores nationally.
In time, just right after the new Congress is seated, so it'll be there for everybody to use as a reference guide and to understand what happened.
And also, yeah, and you can follow, and it's available for pre-order if you want to support the book now.
You can follow me at tbinsman at Getter, and I just opened an account on Truth Social.
I have zero followers if anybody wants to go there.
So, I just, yesterday.
steve bannon
We can't let Todd Benson have zero followers.
Gotta go over the truth and load it up.
Since President Trump has told Elon Musk, after Elon Musk put out a, not just a sacrilegious, but I think a, how do I say this?
Maybe I better hold my tongue right now, but a despicable meme about Christianity.
Let me say, let me leave it at that for right now.
Thank you, Todd.
Appreciate it.
We'll make sure we push this out.
todd bensman
Thank you.
steve bannon
Okay, so your government over the weekend agreed to the framework, they pushed it, where they're gaming the system, and they know they're gaming the system, using humanitarian parole to get more illegal aliens into the country as quickly as possible before it's shut down.
And by the way, a watchword for the Republican Party, everybody that came in here in the last two years has got to go back to their place of origin.
And then start over again, legally, the way the system's supposed to work, not the way it's been gamed by this illegitimate regime.
Hey, and I don't care if the new special prosecutor or anybody likes, it's an illegitimate regime.
Illegitimate regime.
And we're going to get a chance to adjudicate that, I think, in the new Congress when we get the real J6 committee going.
They've already told, and McCarthy's already committed, To MTG, that Nancy Pelosi is going to be deeply investigated and everything the Democrats knew in the run-up to that is going to be deeply investigated.
The murder of Ashley Babbitt, all that's going to be deeply investigated, okay?
And I'm arguing for, let's go ahead and adjudicate 3 November.
And I don't want to hear these rhinos and these, oh, you can't go back, you can't look them back in time.
Politics is always the past, the present, and the future combined into one.
If you can't do that, if you can only give happy... Because when they talk about the future, it's all happy talk.
They're just happy talking to you.
This is why we lost the country under these clowns.
The Keebler elves.
Go to RJC and pull the... Don't take it from Steve Bannon.
Go look at the tapes of the Keebler elves.
Larry Hogan and Chris Christie and, you know, Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley.
Some are fine people, right?
They're OK.
It's all Keebler elves.
It's a contest to be the world's tallest midget.
OK, that's what it is.
It's all the same crap.
It's all the same.
And by the way, they're there at a neocon conference and they're all rubbing up and loving up on Zelensky in Ukraine.
It's the same crap.
They got the country in bankruptcy.
The same craps had sons and daughters of the deplorables dead on foreign battlefields for absolutely nothing.
For nothing.
That's the tragedy.
It's not that they gave their lives for their country.
That's tremendous patriotism.
We can never honor enough that sacrifice.
But then you look at the callous individuals who did it, like the war criminal Cheney family, and has that really changed?
Are any of the Keebler elves really any different?
There's a difference in degree, not in kind, from the Bush-Cheney junta.
Right?
They're just not.
Steve Cortez, we got the reparations, we have the crater of Ukraine.
Here's why Ukraine's cratering, because they know the Republicans are not going to authorize the cash, and Europe's not stepping up.
Europe's running in the other direction.
They're going to have a cold, hard winter in Germany and other places.
Steve Cortez, give me your assessment before I go to your chalk talk.
steve cortes
Well, by the way, regarding Ukraine, two of those candidates that you have mentioned are potential candidates, Pompeo and Nikki Haley.
Both of them, of course, globalist warmongers.
In the case of Pompeo, contemporaneously, right now, advocating for an escalation in Ukraine.
In the case of Nikki Haley, somebody who literally served on the board of Boeing.
The very epicenter of globalist interventionism.
So we are not returning to that style of international politics.
We believe in the America First approach of realism and restraint.
And this incoming GOP house, I believe, is going to hold the line.
And if they don't, the deplorables are going to pressure them into holding the line.
Because, by the way, we do have a border crisis.
Not the eastern border of Ukraine, but the southern border of the United States.
And to this point of amnesty, Steve, I think it is so crucial again and I want people to be encouraged out there at this apparent victory.
We haven't confirmed it yet but it's apparent victory that this legislation is dead in the lame duck session because we know historically that amnesty only invites and instigates Further illegality, and I would point people to Ronald Reagan, who I think is a towering figure of American history, one of the greatest statesmen in all of U.S.
history who won the Cold War.
To me, the gravest mistake of the Reagan era was the 1986 amnesty.
I think he did it with the best of intentions, but it was a disaster and it unleashed a torrent of illegal migration that has continued all the way to the present day.
Amnesties do not work.
It is not in the interest of American citizens.
And thankfully, it looks like we have stopped it for these coming weeks.
And now we need to go further than that.
It's not enough to just stop this amnesty.
We need to go further.
I would also point out, Steve, that the American left, realize what's happening here.
The American left is preying upon the best instincts of the American people.
And what I mean by that is, historically, we have been a country that does indeed welcome legitimate asylum seekers.
People who are running from despots for their lives, okay?
A Christian underground pastor in communist China, a Jew in Iran, a Soviet dissident, okay?
These are people who legitimately needed and deserved asylum.
These millions who are pouring into our country are economic migrants.
They are not fleeing tyranny.
They are economic migrants and they are abusing the goodwill of the American people with the express consent and help of the Biden regime And a lot of leftist NGOs, many of which are funded by George Soros.
So please realize the motives here.
It's really critical.
steve bannon
But I understand that your power, both in the debt ceiling and on this amnesty, is coming to fruition.
That's what I said.
Hey, right after the election, bang, you got to get no days off.
Can we play the chalk talk from Steve Kortes and start the capital markets piece of the troll?
steve cortes
Patriots, in recent weeks, consumer-facing companies like Target have issued some pretty dour warnings about the weakness of the U.S.
consumer into the crucial Christmas shopping season.
And for many of those companies, their share prices have been smashed.
All of it points to a Biden Blue Christmas.
Let's look at the numbers in a Chalk Talk powered by Getter.
Latest survey from Goldman Sachs shows that almost half of consumers surveyed said they are going to spend less This holiday season, 23% say they're going to try to spend the same amount, which means that over two thirds of Americans are either in financial retreat or at best in a holding pattern.
Why?
Well, largely because of Biden's runaway inflation, particularly for the necessities of life.
The have to items of gasoline, groceries and utilities as a basket up a staggering 16% year over year.
Now, here's the good news.
The incoming House GOP can start to fix this mess, fight this inflationary madness.
Let's make sure that they do it.
steve bannon
Steve Cortez, Biden and them are talking about, they changed a little bit, but they're talking about, hey, it's still great, high employment, low consumer.
By the way, one of the guys pulled my getter where I had that savings rate.
I will get that in a second.
What's the reality for American working men and women?
By the way, that the Biden administration, he ought to get impeached on this, just committed trillions of dollars of reparations for climate change to third world dictators, including China, including the CCP.
Steve Cortez.
steve cortes
Right.
unidentified
Well, do you want me to address the reparations part first or the state of the economy?
steve cortes
Where do you want to go first, Steve?
steve bannon
Do state of the economy, then we'll lead into reparation.
I want people to feel the pain and then we'll tell them about reparations.
steve cortes
Understood.
So listen, on the economy, the new, and there's an Axios article this morning out about this, you know, the new sort of watchword is, or phrase is, Is soft landing or stable steady growth?
These are the catchphrases being used now by the White House and its friends in the corporate media.
It's sort of the new transitory, right?
Oh, it's not a hard landing.
It's a soft landing.
Here is the economic reality, okay?
And don't take my word for it.
I want to show you data and charts and evidence.
So if we can please go to chart number one.
I think this is important.
This is the yield curve.
This is the U.S.
Treasury 2-year versus 10-year yield curve.
That chart goes all the way back to 1976.
I wanted to give you a lot of history there.
Right now, the yield curve has inverted, and we've talked before about what that means.
It's essentially a massive vote of no confidence from the bond market because 2-year yields are spiking higher because of inflation, 10-year yields staying steady or going down because of economic pessimism in a recession.
Right now, the 2's-10's yield curve is at the lowest level, minus 70 basis points, the lowest level since the 1970s.
What I really want to highlight here to folks who maybe don't watch bond markets very much or don't quite get the yield curve, which I understand, if we look at that chart, though, again, this is a sign of no confidence, a sign of enormous Hang on one second.
steve bannon
I want to talk about how the bond market is not saluting on the business plan of the Biden regime, just like the American people are not.
Okay, short commercial break.
Steve Cortez, we're going to walk through economics in detail.
Also, we're going to have Caroline Wren.
The Attorney General in the great state of Arizona thinks this thing can't be certified, the election can't be certified either.
Next in the War Room.
unidentified
Hi, I'm Bill Gates, chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
One of the questions that we've been getting since the general election on November 8th is, did the printer problems on election day impact Republican-leaning areas more than Democratic-leaning areas?
Well, as your supervisor, I want to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to cast their vote.
And we've reviewed this issue, and we've found that the 70 vote centers that were impacted by the printer issues were spread all across Maricopa County, and they did not impact one part of the Valley more than the other.
Thank you for your question on this issue, and look forward to more updates this weekend.
steve bannon
Bill Gates, who I think he's put, he tweeted out that he's now in an undisclosed location.
Hey Bill, bro, Democrats, note to self, Democrats don't vote on game day.
MAGA Kerry Lake supporters vote on game day.
Your analysis is once again how mindless you are, right?
And if you think this crap is going to sit there and convince anybody, you got another thing coming.
Including, Brnovich's attorney general sends a brutal blistering letter on a Saturday night At like 9 or 10 o'clock, and it's not because they're trying to bury it in the weekend, because they were so outraged of your incompetence and malfeasance in this election, an election that I have said from the very morning you guys started to do it, is impossible to certify.
Caroline Wren is a senior advisor to Carrie Lake.
This letter was a blistering letter and that's just one of dozens of these letters are coming in with tens of thousands of now complaints and this clown puts out something so obviously stupid because Democrats don't vote on election day.
Oh yeah, that video was ridiculous.
hey guess what when there were no problems. Isn't that interesting there are no problems on any of this until the massive outpouring of support of Kerry Lake and Abe Hammaday and Blake Masters and Fincham and the entire ticket because our voters vote the traditional way.
caroline wren
Caroline Wren. Oh yeah that video is ridiculous I mean please like Kerry Lake's supporters voted three to one in support of Kerry Lake on election day and he's talking about the different areas.
I mean, he's so tone-deaf, it makes me want to set myself on fire every time I have to watch him put out some ridiculous video.
But the real bombshell, though, was this Attorney General letter on Saturday night.
I mean, it opened up an inquiry into Maricopa County's handling of the midterm elections, and they are demanding a full report of the now very well-publicized irregularities and warning that there is evidence of statutory violations.
These are all things that we've been inquiring about.
We know that they're true.
And it really is a major escalation into this dispute of how our voters were treated on election day in the largest county in the state, which is Maricopa County.
And we saw tons and tons of ballot tabulators having issues because of printing problems.
But what was fascinating about the letter to me was that, one, it was sent by the Assistant Attorney General, Jennifer Wright, and it was sent to Tom Liddy.
If you remember Tom Liddy, he's the one that we showed y'all and someone had leaked out a video of his just disgusting handling and vulgar language of the way he treated Cary Lake volunteers and attorneys in our war room.
The letter went to him, and it's demanding a full report on how this stuff was handled.
And it's also saying that they have to get this in before the final canvass on November 28th.
And so it's a very big development.
steve bannon
By the way, Tom Liddy's testimony, when you guys went to court to expand for three hours because of the screw-up, Liddy's testimony itself is going to be explosive when contextualized later.
Let me just cut to the chase.
The Attorney General says that you have now dozens of other people coming out, and all the other counties were disenfranchised.
This thing cannot be certified.
Impossible.
Because the chain of command is Maricopa County, then Katie Hobbs.
Wow, would she certify her own stolen election?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Then you got Brnovich, then you got Ducey.
And Brnovich and Ducey understand that they both want political careers, so they got to be straight on this.
They can't just rubber stamp Katie Hobbs.
Your thoughts on that, Caroline Wren?
caroline wren
Well, that's why I think this letter is a big deal.
I mean, they're demanding these things, they're demanding them quickly.
I don't think Maricopa is going to have the answers.
I mean, in the letter it says that these complaints go beyond pure speculation, but include first-hand witness accounts that raise concerns regarding Maricopa's lawful compliance with Arizona election law.
And it also says, furthermore, that statements made by both Chairman Gates and Recorder Richard, along with information Maricopa County released through official modes of communication, appear to confirm potential statutory violations of Title 16.
So if this is coming out from the Attorney General's office to Maricopa County, and the Attorney General is one who is in charge of certifying this, I think it's really going to raise some big questions.
There was another quote that really stood out to me in this was, it's about, I know, eight paragraphs down, but it said, alternatively, if the network administrator was able to make universal changes, please detail and how the printer configuration settings were corrected.
I would like to know who the network administrator was of all of Maricopa County, where 62% of Arizonans live. That seems to be a very significant thing that is just laying out there to where these tabulators were allegedly not connected to any internet. So who was it that was a network administrator who, where they claim that they tested all these machines on Monday and they worked fine, and all of a sudden 48% of them did not work on election day.
steve bannon
Look, I just want to make sure people know that there is so much incredible work going on behind the scenes on many different levels.
And to make sure, just don't think that, hey, because Kerry Lake's not coming out firing off the football every day, that things are passive.
Nothing can be further from the truth.
But I just want to give people a heads up over this holiday, because remember, we have the no days off policy here at the War Room.
Over this holiday period, a lot of stuff is going to start exploding on this topic.
Am I correct in that assumption, Caroline Wren?
caroline wren
Oh, definitely, especially with this looming November 28th deadline for the Canvas.
steve bannon
So the Canvas, by the way, is the term of actual certification, right?
So the Canvas is a term of art they use for what we refer to as a certification, correct?
caroline wren
That's correct.
So Maricopa County, they have to certify by November 28th and then send it up through the Secretary of State, our opponent, the Attorney General, and the Governor.
And so that's why this letter is very interesting, because it's demanding all this information Before November 28th, what could be happening here is that they're laying the grounds to not certify this.
We're going to find out.
steve bannon
This is my point.
The level of detail and all the detail that's coming from, I'm putting up on Getter all the time, but the level of detail, how they're going to certify this by, over Thanksgiving, by next, what, Monday or Tuesday, is going to be interesting, right, to say the least.
Also, I want to draw an analogy here.
Where you got this guy, SBF, right on the FTX, the Ukrainian money laundering to the Democratic Party scam of this crypto company, and people are saying, hey, he's putting out all these interviews and tweeting stuff and texting stuff and he's damning himself for criminal charges.
Bill Gates has to understand, every time he comes up with another BS spin lie, right, on these videos, he's not helping his case.
Don't think we're not deconstructing every sentence you say.
So I know you're hiding in a bunker somewhere.
Hey, whatever, you know, if you gotta hide in a bunker because you think there's some issues out there, fine, hide in a bunker.
But every time you come out of the bunker with another redonkulous video, don't they say we're sitting there go, man, that's amazing.
I didn't really understand that until Bill Gates made it all, uh, made it all, you know, so I could, I could, so the simpletons could understand it.
Caroline Wren.
caroline wren
The amount of misinformation coming out of their office is really just ridiculous.
And they're the ones who accuse us of misinformation.
I mean, every single statement that Bill Gates gives conflicts with
uh... steven richard is conflicts what is in their manual because it's a conflicting out to what they told poll watchers that day and so someone has to get to the bottom of this in the attorney general really is the right person to look at this that's why we we were really expecting that yet that letter we saw when it came out everyone in fact about that but it does seem to be independent inquiry but but but this came because citizens were going to not just these different sites they were also going to the attorney general jury judge responding to the people the people bring the evidence i'm arrest my case your carol's got about some arrest my case carolina say
steve bannon
The best coverage of this, because you're not going to get the hack Arizona media, is the, wait for it, the Jeff Bezos Amazon Washington Post.
The Washington Post is actually putting up stories.
They're saying, hey, there's some big issues here that got to be addressed.
They're actually probing, and am I correct in that, Caroline, that actually the Washington Post right now, New York Times is running cover for Maricopa County.
But the team over the Washington Post, who have no love for Carrie Lake, Right.
And no love for Trump.
Are actually doing an even-handed job?
caroline wren
Oh, they are.
It's been really surprising.
They put out three or four very good stories.
They were the ones who kind of broke the story on election day about these, the software being made in Japan and how it had probably been recalled or they weren't able to get.
So they've been putting out several good stories.
They clearly have some good investigative journalists on this.
But that's a smart thing to do, because what people don't realize is that if they do not actually look into this, if the press doesn't do their job, if the Attorney General's office doesn't look into this, then we are facing an existential crisis among Republican voters who are never going to trust our election systems again.
Especially if they don't actually look and say, this is what happened and this is why.
And we need to have answers to this, so I appreciate when any journalist look into it.
And the Washington Post has had great coverage of this so far.
steve bannon
You know, to conservative media and the RNC and the state GOP and everything, just a note to self.
When the Attorney General's office in Arizona and the Washington Post are the tip of the spear in this thing, I think you've got to ask some questions.
Where are you guys?
Right?
Where are you?
This is an existential threat to the country because this thing is a disaster on a global stage.
In fact, later in the afternoon I'll play that video of all the media that came to see Kerry Lakes on election night, and they realize it's a sham.
By the way, people in Brazil are showing what democracy is.
There's tens of millions of people on the street.
This is beyond the Bolsonaro's.
They are sitting there going, we're not going to let an election be stolen.
It's interesting that we look at Western Europe and the United States, and India and Brazil have to teach us what democracy really is.
When India and Brazil are the leaders and people, And the working poor showing you what it is to make democracy work with Western Europe and the United States, and this thing in Arizona is a humiliation, not simply to the Arizona, and it is, but to the entire United States.
Caroline, how do people follow you on social media?
caroline wren
It's at Caroline Wren, and it's on Getter, Truth Social, and Twitter.
steve bannon
There's going to be a lot of stuff breaking every day here over the holiday period, including, I think, on Thanksgiving.
So everybody's got to stay tuned, stay on the trigger of all the breaking information in Arizona.
Caroline, thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Cortez, your analysis and thinking on this Arizona situation.
steve cortes
Yeah, listen, a couple things important.
As Caroline pointed out there, Maricopa County isn't just any county, it is the county that comprises the supermajority of the population of Arizona.
Also important to note for folks who may not follow Arizona politics closely, that the Attorney General Brinovich, this is far from a MAGA fire breather, okay?
He is not one of us, philosophically.
And yet, thankfully, he's taking his duty very seriously here.
He might be an establishmentarian when it comes to ideology, but he's taking his duty seriously as Attorney General.
And if you read that letter, it is a dispassionate legal document trying to find the facts and the truth to protect the integrity of elections In Arizona.
So I give him kudos for putting it out.
He was somebody that I argued against vociferously during the primary.
I was glad he lost the primary.
But thankfully, he's a patriot who's taking his job seriously right now, trying to protect the citizens of Arizona, and in fact, all of America.
If and when Kerry Lake is certified as governor of that state, election reform has to happen in Arizona, including getting all of those machines out of there.
Return to paper ballots.
steve bannon
By the way, Carrie Lake has said, and this is why the mainstream media didn't want to cover it, her first act she's going to do is not about elections.
She is going to make sure the election thing is cleaned up and get rid of all the Maricopa County folks and make sure it's done fair and transparent.
Her first thing was to declare an invasion on the southern border, to jam up the Biden administration.
Because she says, hey, and this is even before the new information, how they're gaming the system.
Okay, Steve, I'll tell you what we're going to do in the next segment when we get to all the economics.
I want to go back and play your first chart.
I want to make sure people get the entire picture of this.
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If you go to my getter feed, I'm always putting up the Guardian and CNN constantly.
In fact, what we train the audience is, that's not to listen to Fox and the conservative media.
Look at what everybody else is saying.
This is the, this is the That's the fundamental thesis of the show, to give you access to information.
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Steve Kortes, let's go back to the beginning.
You start with your first chart.
I want you to... You've got the floor, sir.
Walk us through your assessment of the economy.
steve cortes
You bet.
So the Biden regime wants us to believe that we're having a, quote, soft landing or, quote, stable steady growth.
Well, the bond market thinks otherwise with a massive vote Of no confidence.
So, if we pull up chart number one, please.
This is the 2's-10's yield curve.
Now, in normal times, as you can see on that chart, the horizontal line across the middle, when the chart is above that, that is a normal term structure, meaning 10-year yields are supposed to be higher than 2-year yields.
That's a normal yield curve.
The curve is now inverted, meaning 2-year yields are higher.
Why?
Because inflation is absolutely soaring.
So, when the When that chart is below the line, things are wrong.
Things are stressful.
The bond market is saying, we don't believe in this economy.
We think there's systemic risk.
And let me be specific.
That chart goes all the way back to 1976.
So I want to provide a lot of history and context here.
Right now, the curve is as inverted as it has been since the 1970s.
Let me show you what the bond market is signaling right now.
That things are worse than points A, B, and C. What are they?
A, is the 1987 stock market crash.
The bond market saying things are worse now.
B is the dot-com bubble slash 9-11.
That is point B on that chart.
The bond market saying things are worse now.
And then C, more recently, the 2008-2009 housing crisis, the great financial crisis.
The bond market, once again, saying things are actually worse now than all three of those historic economic calamities.
Now, I put this in front of you, Steve, number one, in front of the audience, number one, to make sure that people are educated about the reality, that they're not spun by the narrative of Biden or the corporate media.
But number two, not just to depress them about the gloomy outlook, and it is indeed incredibly gloomy, but to motivate everyone to know that we have an incoming GOP House majority.
And with that, we have a lever to start fighting this madness, to start fixing the economic mess that has been created by Joe Biden and his cronies, and to start fighting this absolutely pernicious inflation.
And let me, if we can, let's go to chart two here as well, because I want to show you also, this is a New York Fed Manufacturing Index.
This is the Empire Manufacturing Index.
It is put out for decades and that chart goes back to the year 2000.
This is new orders for manufacturing from the New York Fed.
As you can see, the very far right of that chart, an absolute plunge since Joe Biden took over.
It is now at its lowest point ever.
And here's what's so important about that.
That's not just where we are now.
That's looking forward.
That is new orders.
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Okay?
steve cortes
So, everyone needs to realize the severity and the intensity of the economic crisis that we are in right now.
Again, not the opinion of Steve Cortez.
What the data, what the numbers are actually showing us.
Now, it is imperative for the House GOP incoming majority to realize this.
To recognize this.
and I believe needs to engage immediately in, if necessary, brinksmanship on two issues.
Number one is securing the border.
Number two is unleashing American energy because the quickest way to reestablish American prosperity, to start fighting this pernicious inflation, the quickest, easiest method is, once again, unleashing American energy.
Under President Trump, we had full-spectrum energy dominance.
We had dependable, affordable domestic energy.
We can have it again, and we can have it relatively quickly, but the House has to have the smarts and the guts to be willing to take Joe Biden to the mat to say, if you don't do this, we will not fund one of your measures.
Not dollar one for any of your initiatives, unless you once again unleash American energy, because the American people are suffering terribly economically, and the capital markets tell us things are going to get worse.
steve bannon
In the middle of all this, you've got two things.
There's shoveling.
Biden's pushed $37 billion of Ukraine money in the lame duck, which is the third part of the stool that we've got to knock out, which leads to more.
Because Ukraine's saying we have no money to pay for anything.
Our energy's gone.
Everything's gone.
And we need more money.
We're not going to negotiate, but we need more cash.
But also reparations.
People have to understand, probably the biggest story over the weekend was reparations.
This is the other aspect of the G20.
They have their climate meeting every year.
Glasgow last year, it was in Egypt this year at the resort.
And John Kerry and a couple of guys at the party of Davos EU push this.
This is a framework.
They actually not just engage in a dialogue, which should never happen.
They actually agreed to a framework, a framework of reparations.
This is what Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord in the opening days of the Trump administration.
Steve Cortez.
steve cortes
Steve, the Biden regime and their Davos cronies are right now planning for one of the, if not the biggest transfer of wealth in all of human history from you, the American citizens, I was asked, do you believe in reparations to developing countries?
to the poor of those nations, it will go to the despots and the oligarchs of those nations.
To put this in context, by the way, I'm glad you mentioned the Paris Climate Accords because the head negotiator for that terrible agreement that Trump thankfully got us out of, his name is Todd Stern.
He was Obama's chief negotiator for the Paris Climate Accord.
Here's what he said about this issue of reparation.
Quote, I was asked, do you believe in reparations to developing countries?
I said, no, absolutely not.
Okay?
That is Obama's chief climate negotiator said no.
Absolutely not.
This was unthinkable during even the Biden administration, Steve, okay?
During the most, quote, progressive administration in all of U.S.
history, or at least maybe since FDR, they said, are you kidding?
Absolutely not.
We're not even going to discuss it.
And now here we are with Biden, not only being discussed, but actually in a planning stage, being discussed as a legitimate alternative.
And again, at a time, this would be ridiculous at any time, but at a time when the stress on regular Americans is reaching decade highs, multi-decade highs.
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That is the reality.
That's how insulated they are from the economic reality of the American people.
steve bannon
John Kerry and Biden pushed this.
Every working class Democrat that voted for him on Tuesday, November 8th, baby, you deserve, like I said, you voted for it, you got it.
Okay?
And don't give me any tears now.
No tears in the war room.
Because, right, they held it, waited afterwards, and they're pushing the reparations.
Cortez, what's your social media?
How do people get to Substack?
steve cortes
Yeah, please find me at Steve on the getter.
I'm at Cortez Steve, Cortez.s on the Twitter.
Thank you, sir.
steve bannon
Steve Cortez, thank you very much.
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