Dec. 1, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies. | |
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| You're not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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Warren, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Thus, it makes sense to moderate the pace of our rate increases as we approach the level of restraint that will be sufficient to bring inflation down. | ||
| The time for moderating the pace of rate increases may come as soon as the December meeting. | ||
| Given our progress in tightening policy, the timing of that moderation is far less significant than the questions of how much further we will need to raise rates to control inflation and the length of time it will be necessary to hold policy at a restrictive level. | ||
| It is likely that restoring price stability will require holding policy at a restrictive level for some time. | ||
| History cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy. | ||
| And I'll close by saying that we will stay the course until the job is done. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It is outrageous that every developed country in the world has paid sick leave except the United States of America. | ||
| No one should be at risk of losing his or her job by staying home when sick, needing to see a doctor, or getting life-saving surgery. | ||
| So it is progress that the agreement provides some time off for routine preventive and emergency medical care. | ||
| But what we need is paid sick leave for railroad workers and for every American. | ||
| So today the House will take two important actions. | ||
| First we will pass shutdown averting legislation to adopt the tentative agreement as negotiated by the railroad companies and labor leaders and again with the administration at the table. | ||
| Then we will have a separate up or down vote to add seven days of paid sick leave to the tentative agreement. | ||
| OK, welcome. | ||
| It is Wednesday, 30 November in the year of our Lord 2022. | ||
| Powell today, I think, did a mini pivot, a little bit blinked. | ||
| We're going to get more of that tomorrow to go through the math. | ||
| But let's say the Federal Reserve, I think, put the punch bowl a little bit back. | ||
| The markets responded to that, and it looked like they kind of blinked about this inflation. | ||
| Remember, it's the easy money policies, the negative interest rates, the zero interest rates that have really done more destruction to working class people and middle class people than virtually anything else. | ||
| And now with this fiscal spending that's been out of control, the trains of dollars spent, you've seen in the easy money printing, we've got, you know, massive inflation. | ||
| Another month, I think the 20th month in a row that we've had negative income, right? | ||
| Inflation higher than net income raises than wages. | ||
| So wages down for 20 months in a row on a real basis. | ||
| Since 1972, ladies and gentlemen, adjusted for inflation, I think the average income earner in this country has had basically a 12 cent raise. | ||
| This is one of the problems in this nation, right? | ||
| It's one of the problems in the nation is that the prosperity in this country is not shared. | ||
| It's not shared by the working class people. | ||
| It's not shared by really the middle class. | ||
| 0.5% of the citizens of this nation own more assets More real assets and financial assets than the bottom, wait for it, 90%. | ||
| That's exactly the type of oligarchy that we fought a revolution for. | ||
| We didn't want to be associated with a royal family and their big trading companies. | ||
| These oligarchs in the early stages of the British Empire that were going to do that to the United States of America and yet we have done this to ourselves. | ||
| The irony is It cut quite complicated and really tough to understand labor deal cut today, and I wanted to bring it. | ||
| We're brought in Tony Cardwell, president of the Brotherhood International Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Employees Division. | ||
| It's a one of the Teamsters Union is one of the 12 unions associated this and one of the bigger ones. | ||
| I think you, Tony, have 27,000 members of the union, 23,000 were eligible to vote for this. | ||
| Here, just explain, here's what I think people understand. | ||
| Why is Congress, first of all, why does Congress have any role in a labor negotiation between railroad workers, the railroads? | ||
| How does Congress step in here and start passing legislation? | ||
| Next thing you know, you quote-unquote have a deal. | ||
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Yeah, that the labor laws were written in 1929. | |
| So they go back, you know, nearly 100 years. | ||
| And so you're in a situation to where the Railroad Labor Act gives Congress the ability to make a decision or stop or strike for the interest of commerce. | ||
| And so they have that ability through the law. | ||
| And unfortunately, they have a right to intervene. | ||
| I don't think the intent of the law was that they intervene unless there is a real dispute that can be resolved. | ||
| Or something that's been previously asked for. | ||
| In this particular case, our request was for sick leave with the railroads. | ||
| And so it's frustrating that Congress would intervene on something like this. | ||
| But they did today. | ||
| They passed a bill that stopped our strike. | ||
| Our expectation is that if they're going to stop our strike, then they have an obligation to give us what we would otherwise get any rail strike. | ||
| So if we would have had a rail strike, we would have gotten sick leave. | ||
| They have an obligation to Uh, with the rail strike. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Here's what gets to be the confusing part. | ||
| First off, describe your part of the union, your union. | ||
| What do you guys, men and women do? | ||
| How many of them are there, et cetera, just let our audience, I want to audience get a feel for what you represent. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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I represent a 27,000 Americans. | |
| Some of the hardest working Americans that build and maintain the track structures in America. | ||
| They do the welding. | ||
| They work in the cold, the heat. | ||
| They do all the inspections on the track and all the rebuilding and restructuring of the track. | ||
| They still swing hammers and use jacks and lift heavy equipment and operate some of the most complex equipment in America. | ||
| So they're some of the most talented people and skilled labor in America. | ||
| And they work in all the elements. | ||
| And quite frankly, it's disturbing that some Some politicians are unwilling to stand with labor and these fine people and give them the sick leave that they deserve. | ||
| I think people felt that this thing was settled months ago. | ||
| The White House got involved, it was before the midterms, I think it was in August, July and August, they got very involved and had a deal. | ||
| It was going to be put to the unions for a vote. | ||
| Now, there's essentially 12 different unions. | ||
| And correct me if I'm wrong, there's around 100,000 or 115,000 Members of the union that would be eligible to vote on these on the on the deal. | ||
| Is that roughly correct? | ||
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That is correct. | |
| There's about 115,000 employees that were members that were eligible for vote and the railroads and the government continue to talk about how eight of these unions already ratified. | ||
| It's a little disturbing because it's still over 50% of the membership has not ratified or failed ratification. | ||
| So some of the largest unions in America voted against the tentative agreements. | ||
| Because the four that didn't ratify were some of the biggest parts of it, including yours. | ||
| Now, your rank and file, did they ratify the deal? | ||
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They did not ratify the deal. | |
| They voted against it. | ||
| Now, was the reason that people voted against it at the time, was it, had it just come down to the sick leave days? | ||
| Is that what it came down to? | ||
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It was a basic, uh, the basic issue. | |
| Um, some of it, you know, of course with inflation as high as it is, we had a decent wage package. | ||
| It was 24% compounded, but that's over five years. | ||
| And so if you evaluate that out, it's, it barely keeps up with the reported inflation numbers. | ||
| I would argue that inflation is quite a bit higher than what the reported numbers are. | ||
| But with that being said, our members are suffering. | ||
| They average $31 an hour, and this is some of the highest skilled labor in America. | ||
| Steve, I'm pretty sure you understand that $31 an hour is not enough for the highest skilled labor that our employees perform. | ||
| Well, particularly when it can't keep up with inflation. | ||
| That's the issue. | ||
| But here's why did the if went to all this negotiation? | ||
| Here's I think it's hard to keep up with this for the audience. | ||
| If Biden and these guys got involved and they said they had a deal, and then clearly they didn't have a deal, because I think even yours wasn't, it wasn't like 51-49. | ||
| It was, you know, more like close to 60-40. | ||
| So the rank-and-file rejected this, and particularly in the bigger segments, the bigger unions of the four out, they're bigger. | ||
| There clearly is dissatisfaction in the rank-and-file. | ||
| You would agree with that? | ||
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There's dissatisfaction, and there should have never been a report that a deal was done. | |
| It wasn't. | ||
| We're a democratic union in the sense that the majority wins, and the majority of the membership hadn't voted yet, so any reports that the deal was done and finalized was just simply not true. | ||
| We told and warned both the White House and the NCCC, which is the bargaining unit for the railroads, That this was going to be an extremely complex agreement to try to get ratified that there wasn't enough in it. | ||
| And particularly because of the sickly, we, we negotiated during what they call the cooling off period after, after the presidential emergency board, which is the recommendations that we got were issued. | ||
| We have a 30 day cooling off period. | ||
| And during that time, we negotiated with the railroads to try to make an agreement. | ||
| And in doing so, we told them that the agreement was less than satisfactory. | ||
| They seemed to all believe that it was good enough. | ||
| We warned them that it was going to be difficult to ratify the agreement and the agreements were a failed ratification. | ||
| So failed ratification, then the day they step in. | ||
| And let me understand this. | ||
| And by the way, your guys, your men and women have never had sick leave at all, right? | ||
| If you get sick, it's a day off. | ||
| You don't get paid for it. | ||
| Do I understand that correctly? | ||
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Yeah, the duopoly gigantic railroads are claiming that we have sick leave, which is just not true. | |
| We have short-term disability just like any other large corporation in the world or any other union. | ||
| We have no sick days. | ||
| So if you're sick, if a railroad member is sick and falls ill tomorrow from the flu and he's out for a day of work, two days of work, he will not get compensated. | ||
| And he has to go to work. | ||
| The policies from the railroad require him to be at work. | ||
| The, uh, the, the, the railroads have cut back so far under their operating scheme. | ||
| It's called precision scheduled railroading. | ||
| And it cut back so far with if, if we've lost about 40,000 members total in the industry in the matter of a couple of years, it cuts to the bare bones and in doing so. | ||
| They can't afford to have an employee sick. | ||
| If an employee is sick, then the train doesn't move or the crew doesn't work because they're at the very minimum. | ||
| There's no backup. | ||
| There's no backstop. | ||
| So in other words, because of the operating system, the policies have been put into place to force people to go to work sick. | ||
| You call in sick, you will get written up and after so many, you'll get disciplined. | ||
| And so it's forcing us to. | ||
| Have to have sick leave in the industry so you're not forced to go to work sick. | ||
| I want to go back to this precision scheduling because we had Charles Stallworth on for a couple times when this was first going on. | ||
| And he was saying, hey, one of the biggest problems here they're not addressing is this. | ||
| They should have at least two. | ||
| It's all about automation. | ||
| Everything's getting automated. | ||
| They're trying to take all the labor out. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And one of the big things they're doing with you guys, but they're also doing it inside the train itself. | ||
| And he was concerned about train safety saying, Hey, look right now, it's just, they just got one guy with the computer, right? | ||
| They eventually want to get, uh, both people out and just have it run automatically. | ||
| Is, is that a stumbling block to the deal or people just kicking the can down the road on that? | ||
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It, it, it was kicked down. | |
| The can was kicked down the road. | ||
| Um, we have, we've asked for intervention and, and, and, and, To solidify two-man crews. | ||
| I fight with our brothers and the unions, brothers and sisters on the trains. | ||
| I don't represent them, nor do I speak for them, but from somebody that knows the industry, it's alarming. | ||
| They want one guy on a train, eventually nobody, but they want one guy on a train. | ||
| Now this train's running through the middle of Chicago with, you know, thousands of gallons of chlorine and other things, chemicals and other things on that train that are extremely dangerous. | ||
| And they want to get to the point to where they have nobody on that train, but they're working hard to reduce the train crews from two to one while they're doubling the size of those trains. | ||
| They're literally, PSR has driven trains from good to go to nearly double the size that they typically operate with. | ||
| So I don't speak for those folks, but I fight for them. | ||
| Tony, hang over a second. | ||
| We're going to hold you through the break. | ||
| A couple more questions. | ||
| Okay, the rail strike, has it been averted? | ||
| There's still another vote to go in the Senate. | ||
| We're going to talk to Tony Cardwell from the Union in a moment. | ||
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We will fight till they're all gone. | |
| We rejoice when there's no more. | ||
| Let's take down Here's your host, Stephen K. Batts. | ||
| Okay, my guest is Tony Cardwell. | ||
| By the way, we have Lara Logan on deck, Ben Burcombe on deck, trying to get to the—also Carolyn Wren and some of the folks in Arizona. | ||
| A lot going on. | ||
| But we've got to make sure we understand this, because it's quite confusing. | ||
| So there's two bills. | ||
| One, it just stops the strike. | ||
| And that's the reason because of the 1929 law, and there was a lot of obvious contention around that because of the national security aspect of the railroad system. | ||
| And that got quite contentious, let's say that, right, with the military, all of it. | ||
| Since then, the government's got the ability to come in and just shut down so you can't go out. | ||
| But you've got this second part, which is the seven days of the sick leave, uh, which your rank, your members, uh, agree to or want, but you're going to take a vote. | ||
| You're going to, you need a vote in the Senate to pass that. | ||
| And to do that, you got to break filibuster. | ||
| So you need 10 Republicans. | ||
| Is that essentially where we are tonight? | ||
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It is correct. | |
| As you know, and as you're, I'm sure your members, your viewers are, are pretty educated about this process, but we, we have to get 60 votes. | ||
| In the Senate. | ||
| So, um, it's likely that we'll get all of the Republicans, you know, you, you always wonder with Joe Manchin and, and Sinema, but we're ultimately believe that we've, we've got the Democrats on board. | ||
| Um, but I really want it to be a nonpartisan issue. | ||
| It's unfortunate. | ||
| It has to be partisan in these situations. | ||
| Um, because it's just simply about standing with the workers. | ||
| Now, the senators that are going to be voting on this need to remember that they're voting with the thousands of railrokers that live in their, in their, in their territories. | ||
| And so the question for them is this, are you going to stand with the workers that you represent? | ||
| Are you going to stand with these giant corporations? | ||
| And that's the question at stake. | ||
| And for something that's just common decency, hardworking members that work out in the elements and whatnot and need sick leave, it's a reasonable request. | ||
| I know some of the typical union issues. | ||
| that have historically been in place who are fighting over things that are political and whatnot. | ||
| This is a non-political issue. | ||
| And we challenge the Republicans to stand with us on this issue. | ||
| Stand with the blue-collar workers. | ||
| If you're going to gain support from the unions and you're going to win back votes from the unions, you have to stand with us on these labor issues that are serious labor issues. | ||
| And we're hopeful that we'll get the votes for it. | ||
| We're working hard and we do have some Republicans with us. | ||
| Our goal is to gain as many votes as we possibly can. | ||
| So for the Josh Hollies, for Rubio, all those, we appreciate what they've said publicly. | ||
| We're hopeful that they stick to their word, that they vote with us. | ||
| We're hopeful that, you know, John can be another fan with us as well. | ||
| But here's a question, so maybe you can help enlighten. | ||
| You know, we pride ourselves of being the populist nationalist wing of this party or this movement, and you've got Josh Hawley, he's a young, fire-breathing populist. | ||
| You've got Marco Rubio, who's gotten more populist over time. | ||
| And so here's the confusion. | ||
| Explain it to us. | ||
| When they're sitting there tweeting out, as soon as this thing was done, they tweet it immediately. | ||
| So they're on this and they say, hey, why should we support the union leaders and the Biden guys that have put this together when the rank and file has voted against this? | ||
| I'm not saying overwhelmingly, but in a day when you're down to thousands of votes in Arizona and everywhere across the country, it was a pretty big spread for your members. | ||
| As populists, why should we go against the rank and file and support the bosses, the Biden administration, and it looks like even the corporations? | ||
| Why should they do that? | ||
| Or are you saying that this sick leave, if they had that, they would have voted for it? | ||
| Because I think there's a lot of confusion here about exactly what the workers themselves wanted versus, and particularly in a partisan age, when you get Biden and Schumer and Pelosi. | ||
| You know, coming together for something, you kind of feel the fix is in, sir. | ||
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Yeah, no, our members were polled and they wanted this. | |
| We talked to thousands of calls. | ||
| We had numerous town hall meetings with hundreds of members on the calls. | ||
| And then there were several issues. | ||
| I mean, the members do want other things, but the number one issue was sick leave. | ||
| It was consistent across the board. | ||
| And the thing that I would challenge these folks with, the populace group, is that our Our members are largely working conservative states, many of them are conservatives and populists themselves, and they want this. | ||
| They believe that it's the right thing to do. | ||
| We represent members in Nebraska and Colorado and all these different states where you have large groups of very conservative individuals that would love to vote for these guys and believe in them, but we are expecting a roll call vote. | ||
| And our expectation is for Republicans to start standing with labor, and then we have no problem supporting them or making sure that votes go their way, or pushing votes their way. | ||
| That's important that they stand with labor. | ||
| If they don't, and they stand with the corporations and the duopolies, then we have a problem. | ||
| And I don't think that the populist movement supports these gigantic corporations and their extreme lockdown control over the bureaucrats in Washington. | ||
| If that's the case, then go ahead and challenge me, Steve. | ||
| You're the leader of this movement. | ||
| Challenge me on it. | ||
| No, I look I one of the things I think we would like to see more fight on this precision this whole thing about precision scheduling and all this we're very opposed to automation coming in and taking out high value-added jobs. | ||
| This is what's going to kill this economy quicker than anything to turn over to these AI and the quantum computing and all that and you don't particularly in something like when you're when you're tripling or doubling the size of the train loads and the trains and you're You're carrying a lot of dangerous chemicals that need to be shipped across the country for industrial production. | ||
| Safety is at the forefront, and it looks like people are avoiding that and kicking it down the road, and that ought to be central. | ||
| But I gotta tell you, you don't have the backing. | ||
| When Pelosi and these guys can step in and basically shut down and don't let you guys go out, you have very little leverage. | ||
| Are you open? | ||
| To talk to people like Senator Hawley and Rubio and those types? | ||
| Are you open? | ||
| Are you making calls? | ||
| Are you and the other four big parts of the union that didn't pass this, are you going to make yourselves available to talk to them? | ||
| Or has everything got to go through Biden's Labor Secretary, Marty Walsh? | ||
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Yeah, I have some of our people in D.C. | |
| right now doing some lobby work. | ||
| I had to be home today for some of the interviews and other things that I had to do. | ||
| I'm going to be there tonight. | ||
| I'm flying into DC tonight. | ||
| And our goal is to get any conversations with any Republicans in the Senate that we can to discuss our issues. | ||
| Our general president has been actively working the Hill as well. | ||
| The general president of the IBT, Sean O'Brien, has been extremely active in trying to get the Republicans to join us on this fight as well. | ||
| We'll take anyone that we can get. | ||
| to stand with working class Americans. | ||
| It's a non-partisan issue, in my opinion. | ||
| And so I would be more than willing to sit down and talk with them. | ||
| If they want me there, if they want to talk tonight, I'm available. | ||
| If they want to talk tomorrow, I'm available. | ||
| And we do have to come together, even after this is over, to work with these folks to break the backs of these operating systems on the railroad that are destructive and unsafe. | ||
| Operating systems? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| It's only going to get more dangerous. | ||
| You're only going to have more casualties. | ||
| It doesn't have to happen. | ||
| That's all that is about squeezing out higher margins on this, and we understand companies got to make a profit. | ||
| We're capitalists here, but you can't have one person on one of these trains on a computer. | ||
| As many glitches as computers can have, and you certainly can't go where they want to go, which they want to take all the humans out of the process. | ||
| That's quite obvious. | ||
| They're trying to do it in every industry out there. | ||
| Tony, we got to bounce. | ||
| What's your social media, Tony, so people can follow you as this thing kind of comes to a climax? | ||
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Yeah, you can go to our website at bmwe.org. | |
| You can follow us on Facebook as well. | ||
| We're on all the various different social media. | ||
| We're publishing things by the minute. | ||
| We're trying to keep all the discussions and voting that's going on right now in the Senate available for our membership, but it's available for the general public as well. | ||
| And we're excited that we've been able to successfully bring Our message to the general populace out there, it's exciting because the railroad labor hasn't got this much attention for many, many years. | ||
| So we're excited that our message is getting out there and people are understanding this fight. | ||
| And we plan on continuing even after this is over. | ||
| Tony, thank you very much for joining us. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Thanks for your time, Steve. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| Let's go to Ben Berquam. | ||
| He's on the road again. | ||
| He's down at one of his favorite places, Eagle Pass, Texas. | ||
| You're with Constable Bowles. | ||
| What's going on down there, Ben? | ||
| You know, you've been doing great work laboring in the vineyard in Arizona. | ||
| You had to go down because we got an invasion on the southern border last time I looked, sir. | ||
| Yeah, it continues, Steve. | ||
| I was just with the America Project yesterday. | ||
| They announced their lawsuit in Arizona, and they actually came to Texas today to announce a lawsuit on behalf of property owners across the border against the Washington D.C. | ||
| and the bureaucrats that have dereliction of their duty of committed dereliction of their duty and and just to give you an example I'm here with Deputy Secretary, excuse me, Deputy Constable Bowles. | ||
| Constable, you were talking, this is shocking Steve, talk to us about the numbers that you guys are seeing and what you expect once Title 42 goes away. Right now Ben, what we're seeing here, local law enforcement all up and down the border. | ||
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Here in Maverick County, we're experiencing on a slow day about 1,000 to 1,500 people crossing, and that's a slow day. | |
| On a heavy traffic day, we're looking at upwards of 3,000 plus per day, and these are the people that are turning themselves in. | ||
| These are the people that want, what they call them, the give-ups. | ||
| They're basically turning themselves in for processing because they're knowing that they're going to be processed and they're going to be released into the United States. | ||
| The other side of the coin is if we have a thousand people crossing a day that give themselves up to turn themselves in, we've got at least a thousand, if not more, that are getting by, that are not being processed, that are being smuggled in using more and more complex smuggling operations. | ||
| And we've seen that the numbers of the human smuggling have increased. | ||
| Two, three times, at least, since the last time you were here, since the last time we spoke back earlier this year. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| Unbelievable, Steve. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to go back to Eagle Pass, Texas, about the invasion on the southern border of the United States of America. | ||
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Be back in a moment. | |
| You're in the Worm. | ||
| Go back to Eagle Pass, Texas. | ||
| So, Constable, here's what I don't understand. | ||
| We got Lara Logan coming up in a second, who's fighting this fight every day. | ||
| You know, I love my state of Virginia. | ||
| People love Florida, Tennessee, wherever they're from. | ||
| They love their home state. | ||
| They love the college football teams. | ||
| There's deep affinity. | ||
| But Texas is even different. | ||
| I'll be honest, sometimes the charms of Texas are lost on me compared to some of my friends that live there that absolutely say it's paradise on earth, okay? | ||
| How can people in Texas, and particularly Abbott and Republicans and Paxton and all these guys and all the other officials and even How can they allow this to happen? | ||
| Because what you've described is an exponential growth in this. | ||
| This is not only not getting worse, it's not stopping, it's increasing at an increasing rate. | ||
| So how can Texans, let's leave Biden and these guys aside for a second, how can Texans allow this to happen and not have your back? | ||
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Well, first of all, sir, as a Texan, I love my state, and God bless Texas. | |
| Texas is one of the few states that is actually trying to do something about the border issue that we're having right now. | ||
| Not so much a border issue, a border crisis is what we're having. | ||
| Governor Abbott is one of the few governors that's actually trying to do something by deploying the Texas National Guard to the southern border. | ||
| Also by deploying the DPS, the Texas Department of Public Safety, down here to assist the National Guard and to assist the Border Patrol. | ||
| But the problem that we're having is Texans, we're just as mad as everybody else is. | ||
| We don't like this issue, what's happening. | ||
| This has never happened before in my lifetime. | ||
| I've seen maybe one time it happened, maybe about 20 years ago, where we kind of had a similar issue with people coming across the border from South America, but that didn't last very long. | ||
| But the sheer numbers that are coming across within the past two years, year and a half, are incredible. | ||
| And as Texans, we're not upset about it, we're mad. | ||
| We're very angry at what's happening, because we're seeing more and more issues with people coming across. | ||
| All the border communities. | ||
| Most the majority of the border communities along the Texas Mexico border are small communities. | ||
| Eagle Pass is only a community of about 40 to 50,000 people and we have about anywhere between several thousand people coming through per day. | ||
| Multiply that By 30, you're looking at anywhere between 150,000 to 200,000 people sometimes coming in per month. | ||
| That's what's crossing through this border. | ||
| And the numbers are amazing all up and down the Texas border. | ||
| Here, we're looking at the size of Eagle Pass crossing about every 15 to 20 days here. | ||
| And those numbers that are crossing on a slow day will have 1,000 to 1,500 people crossing. | ||
| But hang on. | ||
| And I understand Biden's only exacerbating this. | ||
| I mean, we've said that this is the first issue that we feel needs to be investigated to lead to impeachment of Garland, Mayorkas, and Biden ultimately, okay? | ||
| But given that, You have Texas officials from Abbott on down with National Guard, the DPS, the Texas Rangers, state militia, everything. | ||
| Do you believe that they've had your back, the local people, to do everything? | ||
| This is not a small thing. | ||
| You just talk about 200,000 people. | ||
| We had the mayor of Aldi, Texas. | ||
| Those kids, before they were slaughtered in that school, they had 50, 50 lockdowns because of illegal aliens coming through and the police chasing them. | ||
| The people down there are not living the life, even close to the life they could live. | ||
| You're shattering Texans and Texans, and these young kids are being impacted. | ||
| They'll never, I mean, what's happening to them, and the fear, and the anxiety, and the uncertainty, what's going on in the community, is changing their lives forever. | ||
| We'll never be able to put that back in the bottle. | ||
| Do you believe, I know the federal government not only doesn't have your back, they're working against you. | ||
| Do the senior officials in Texas, are they doing? | ||
| We have to go to extreme measures now. | ||
| You can't do this with half measures. | ||
| Do people, are people taking this as a crisis? | ||
| When you tell me 200,000 people, that's larger, sir, than the army that landed at Normandy on D-Day, right? | ||
| These are massive numbers of a scale incomprehensible. | ||
| Is everything that can be done at a senior level to have your back being done, sir? | ||
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Well, first of all, sir, I know that Governor Abbott is trying his best. | |
| And but at the same time, God bless the Border Patrol. | ||
| They're trying their best to. | ||
| But the problem that we have is that the sheer number of people that are coming across, there is no real deterrent for them. | ||
| There is nothing holding them back to stop them from coming across from coming across the southern border. | ||
| Here in Eagle Pass, we have the Rio Grande River, which is our border. | ||
| Very obvious. | ||
| There is nothing really to stop them once they hit the water and once they start coming across. | ||
| to physically push them back or to keep them physically from crossing so that's why uh... the border patrol feels it feels very frustrated because before they would apprehend detain and and use whatever means necessary to deal with the person and and and deal with them along the immigration side using immigration laws now they've got | ||
| Basically one hand tied behind their back and they're trying to do their best but they're overwhelmed and now local law enforcement and state authorities are having to deal with along with the Texas National Guard but the numbers don't stop and there's no way once there's there's really no way right now to stop them from coming across even with the National Guard being here even with the DPS trying to help up the Texas DPS Just like you said, very extreme measures have to be taken now. | ||
| And Governor Abbott just a couple weeks ago, what we're looking for is he just declared an invasion. | ||
| Now, what does that mean in simple terms? | ||
| Well, granted to the Constitution, there are certain authorities granted to the states. | ||
| By the U.S. | ||
| Constitution, it allows individual states to do that. | ||
| And to my knowledge, this has only been done once before, I believe, many, many years ago. | ||
| But that's what it's going to have to take. | ||
| Now, what we're hoping for local law enforcement is for the state authorities, Governor Abbott granting the Texas DPS and the National Guard, giving them even more resources or more whatever they need. | ||
| In order to assist us in trying to contain all these people coming across. | ||
| Because the vast numbers that we're seeing, the norm along the border has been disrupted. | ||
| It's no longer normal. | ||
| There's been a disruption like you can't believe with the sheer numbers of people coming across. | ||
| We can't deal with it. | ||
| We need lots of assistance. | ||
| And there's no foreseeable end in sight. | ||
| And that's what we're hoping for. | ||
| We're looking to our state to Governor Abbott to help us and hopefully he's taking steps in the right direction even more than what he's doing right now. We're glad for what he's doing but the problem is so bad that just like you said extreme measures are going to have to be taken in order to try and avert what's going on right now. | ||
| And Steve, if I could just jump in on that real quick. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead, Ben. | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| I mean, what we're talking about is the governor needs to not just declare the invasion, but use these National Guard troops, which are right over here to our left, to repel the invasion. | ||
| I sat in a meeting where he told us, he looked the audience in the room, and it was a bunch of sheriffs and law enforcement from across the state, and he said, we're sending down the National Guard, they're going to repel the invasion. | ||
| That's what he needs to do. | ||
| At this point, he has not done that. | ||
| But when you talk about extreme measures, we cannot keep accepting this in. | ||
| We are bleeding out as a nation, and these communities are dying because of it. | ||
| You're destroying... Ben, you set us up with the Marivolta. | ||
| You're destroying these communities. | ||
| You're destroying these kids. | ||
| And Texas is one of the places that has the highest percentage of people volunteering for the military. | ||
| I mean, Texas is the backbone of the nation. | ||
| You're destroying generations of kids that are being robbed of their childhoods. | ||
| When the young children that were slaughtered in that school in Uvalde, when you find that they had 50 lockdowns, that's one a week! | ||
| Lockdowns because of illegal aliens! | ||
| And the media, they talk about that. | ||
| How's their lives even affected before that? | ||
| You can't live like that. | ||
| It's like you're living in a war zone. | ||
| Texas is not a war zone. | ||
| These children are citizens of the United States. | ||
| The other thing I want to get to, Constable, We'll move some other stuff around because I want to finish this. | ||
| The sophistication, we're not dealing with a bunch of morons. | ||
| The cartels are one of the most adaptive, sophisticated groups in the world. | ||
| They deal with the Chinese tongs. | ||
| This is a paramilitary operation, more sophisticated, I would say, than even what we had to deal with in Afghanistan. | ||
| And with Al-Qaeda and ISIS, this is very adaptive, very sophisticated, very technology savvy, and they got a lot of cash. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Talk to me about how they've adapted over the last year since we visited you early and Ben visited you earlier. | ||
| You're talking about three times more. | ||
| Most of that's driven by the cartels. | ||
| How have they adapted to actually improve their operations to the detriment of the citizens of Texas, sir? | ||
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Well, I'll give you two examples. | |
| I was talking to Ben a little while ago. | ||
| One example is on the northern part of Maverick County, I'm talking here locally, what we're seeing is on the northern part of our county we have our processing center, our Border Patrol Processing Center, which they process several thousand people per day. | ||
| What we've seen in the past several months, and we've caught up on it because we learn as well, we learn by our mistakes as well just as everyone else, The smugglers are crossing people closer in areas in very close proximity to the processing center so that they know these people will get picked up quicker and will be processed even quicker and more efficiently. | ||
| And we'll be released into the U.S. | ||
| Rather before, as going back into earlier in the year, we had people crossing all up and down the border here. | ||
| When Ben was here the last time earlier in the year, right here where we were standing, we were seeing anywhere between 25 to 50 people crossing per hour. | ||
| And right now, those numbers have pretty much come to a standstill. | ||
| We're seeing the smugglers have gotten more smarter. | ||
| They've gotten more complex. | ||
| They've studied us more. | ||
| and they know what areas are safe to cross where they can cross large numbers of people at all at the same time and where uh... in these locations where the crosses and they know that border patrol is there they know that the national guard is there or they know that local law enforcement will be there to receive these people so they won't be in danger And Steve, this goes right back to Secretary Maricus, Joe Biden, their idea of controlled flow. | ||
| The reason the cartel is able to do this, the cartel is making more money than they ever have in history, but it's because we've greased the skids. | ||
| The idea of controlled flow, what Democrats in Washington, D.C. | ||
| are doing, is incentivizing more of it. | ||
| We're simply throwing out carrots for them to come and get, and we're making it easier. | ||
| That's what we're seeing come through here. | ||
| It's just like Todd Bensman's article, and Alden was reporting on that, the reason that they're claiming asylum on the Mexico side. | ||
| And coming through across the bridge right above us partly that way is because Joe Biden these Democrats don't want you to see it. | ||
| But this is all we're doing is stuffing money into the cartels pockets to enrich them and to make them more powerful as you said. | ||
| Counselor, let me ask you, I read a, it was classified for Texas, not national classification, but a report that was done from a consulting group for DPS that said, basically in the counties of the Rio Grande Valley and in certain counties in South Texas, that it was questionable whether local authorities were in control or the cartels were in control. | ||
| I want to hold you through the break, yet a minute. | ||
| Are the cartels actually more in control now of our southern border than either federal or state officials, sir? | ||
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Yes, yes they are. | |
| The sheer numbers of people that are coming across, the vast amounts of wealth they are generating in the human smuggling element and also in the illegal narcotics element, the number of illegal narcotics coming across has also increased 10-fold. | ||
| The DPS puts that out constantly, and it is true. | ||
| All up and down the border, where we're seeing large groups coming in, we're seeing it here in Eagle Pass as well. | ||
| Through our ports of entry as well, too, in Del Rio, in Eagle Pass, Laredo, they're catching record numbers of drugs coming across the border, record numbers coming across to the river. | ||
| It's, it's amazing. | ||
| And, and all this just generates more and more money for, for the cartel. | ||
| And it just, it basically gives them a blank check to study and move on and increase their wealth. | ||
| Constable Bowles, why don't you hang on. | ||
| Ben Burquam, we're going to return. | ||
| They're talking, they're arguing up here about another $40 billion for the border, eastern border of Ukraine. | ||
| Where you have the cartels in charge of your southern border in Texas, Arizona, California. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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| As the War Room audience – let's say this. | ||
| They're a little perturbed, OK? | ||
| Because they're action, action, action in their beloved country. | ||
| And we have a huge audience in Texas that loves Texas like nobody else loves their state. | ||
| It's just incredible the loyalty and patriotism and pride of the folks in Texas about their great state and what's being allowed to happen to it by Biden. | ||
| I've said this now for a year and a half, right when he came in in this illegitimate regime and started changing everything President Trump had done and we tried to accomplish at the border and at least had some semblance of control. | ||
| This is an invasion of the United States and on Capitol Hill right now. | ||
| This is huge fights and power plays going on We do report on it every day One thing's in this omnibus bill. | ||
| They're talking out on a 30 40 billion dollars for Ukraine more more arms more more relief for the folks in the Ukraine and And yet no discussion of our southern border There's an invasion on the southern border of the United States. | ||
| I gotta tell you the 12 or 13 generations that came before us Would spit on the floor and disgust about what all of us allow have allowed to happen. | ||
| I realize people are saying hey, I'm fighting it. | ||
| I'm fighting it. | ||
| But this has got to stop and here's one of the most disturbing things and you know, Larry Logan. | ||
| We're trying to track her down having some technical problems. | ||
| She's going to be on here talking about this situation in with this Spanish or French fashion company's got all this. | ||
| Uh, awful stuff about children. | ||
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No, people don't have a conspiracy theories and we're not conspiracy theory guys on here. | |
| We say there are no coincidences, but there's no conspiracies and people mock you and all the people do Q. But Hey, when you see a report yesterday, Ben Berquam and constable about from an H from a federal whistleblower to project Veritas. | ||
| And she's sitting there talking about HHS and turning over the massive trafficking of young people up through this border, our border. | ||
| And government officials looking the other way. | ||
| Trafficking for sex trafficking. | ||
| I helped build that wall in El Paso, Texas. | ||
| Right there up the side of the mountain where the cartels brought them across. | ||
| Burquam, you were there with me. | ||
| You saw all the horrible stuff that was left behind. | ||
| The torture of these children. | ||
| And the sexual exploitation of these children. | ||
| And that had all happened. | ||
| And all happened. | ||
| And we're looking the other way. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And you see what they've done? | ||
| And you go to Houston, you go down to Houston, they say, in this house there's 41 unaccompanied minors with these traffickers, in this house there's 21, on our watch, with our tax dollars. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| Ben Burquam, and then Constable, what is the Veritas revelations of now, out in the open, and the U.S. | ||
| government as a partner to these traffickers? | ||
| Well, what it is, Steve, is the tip of the iceberg of the largest human trafficking and child trafficking operation in world history that's being orchestrated by Joe Biden, Secretary Marcos and the Democrats of Washington, D. C. Joe Biden is the largest human trafficker in the world right now because of his policies, and it's a small fraction of what we're seeing. I spoke to a woman and I have a friend who actually works in the O. R. R. The unaccompanied minors program. She She's getting us contact and content every day on what's happening there. | ||
| And what she's telling me is they're basically not doing any background checks on anyone who's requesting these kids because, as you heard from Constable Bulls, they are so overwhelmed. | ||
| The floodgates are open. | ||
| These guys can't handle it. | ||
| And really what they're doing is, as you mentioned, we're profiting the cartels in Mexico, but the cartels are in America. | ||
| They are running these sex trafficking operations. | ||
| In America, and we are simply giving these children to them to be trafficked. | ||
| It is evil, pure and simple. | ||
| It is evil. | ||
| It is evil. | ||
| Constable Bowles, your observations. | ||
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My observation on this area is first-hand. | |
| Just yesterday I came across two children, one nine, one six, a nine-year-old girl and her six-year-old little brother. | ||
| And it disgusts me to know that this is going on. | ||
| These two little kids were crossed on the border and just basically left there to fend for themselves. | ||
| And if I hadn't been on patrol and seen them, I asked them how long they'd been there. | ||
| They said they had no idea. | ||
| And where are they being left to? | ||
| Just being left for someone to find them? | ||
| Who's taking care of them? | ||
| Their parents? | ||
| Where are they? | ||
| They're coming into this country and they're being processed as unaccompanied children and a lot of times they have addresses where they're going to or What we hope is a relative that they're going to, someone that will care for them, but ultimately we have no idea or how to honestly verify that. | ||
| And this is the scary part. | ||
| And to me, I'm a father of two, I have two sons, and it's disgusting for me to even just think about that, what's going on. | ||
| And I know it's happening because we get reports about that all the time. | ||
| The kids that are coming across, they're traumatized, they're scared, they're without their parents. | ||
| They're crossing hundreds, if not thousands, of miles over several borders to get to the U.S. | ||
| border. | ||
| And once they get here, many of them are going to live with that trauma. | ||
| Who knows what they've been through? | ||
| Just an example, those two children, the nine-year-old girl and six-year-old boy, who knows what they went through? | ||
| They were from Honduras. | ||
| And they came all the way up from Honduras up to here, to Eagle Pass, and crossed the border. | ||
| And someone crossed them across the river. | ||
| And literally left them on the side of the river. | ||
| And I just happened to be driving by and came upon them there. | ||
| So this is what's happening here and now. | ||
| And it's disgusting and it upsets me very much. | ||
| Constable, we gotta bounce. | ||
| Is there any way for social media of how people can follow you or find out more about what's going on down there? | ||
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Right now here, we're down here in Maverick County. | |
| They can go to the local Maverick County website or the Eagle Pass, Texas website and see how we're doing down here. | ||
| My constable has a Facebook page, Constable Joe Mike Biatti on Facebook and we show what we're doing there. | ||
| We apprehend a lot of people and show what's going on and we report to the best of our ability what's going on so other people can see. | ||
| God bless you, sir. | ||
| You're doing God's work. | ||
| Trust me, you're doing God's work. | ||
| Birquam, how did we get to you? | ||
| Americasvoice.news, FrontlineAmerica.com, at Ben Birquam on everything but Parler. | ||
| At Parler, it's at Frontline America. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| You're indefatigable, Ben. | ||
| Keep working. | ||
| We'll see you tomorrow. | ||
| Okay, short break. | ||
| We'll be back for the second hour. |
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