Jan. 5, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| President Trump got a free shot at 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 lie? | ||
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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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War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Back. | |
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| When I be complaining about food prices and you be like, ain't you rich? | ||
| Why you complaining about lettuce? | ||
| Why you complaining about this? | ||
| That just goes to show me when you be, when you become successful, when you have money, you're gonna, you're gonna go broke soon because y'all not budgeting. | ||
| I get a summary of the money that's being spent in my home every week. | ||
| So, when I'm starting to see that, like, groceries is, like, tripling up, it's like, hey, yo, what the f*** is going on? | ||
| I want to see for myself what the f*** is being spent on. | ||
| And, like, when I go to the f***ing supermarket, like, I went to the supermarket, and I'm seeing that everything tripled up. | ||
| That, like, lettuce was, like, $2 a couple of months ago, and now it's, like, f***ing $7. | ||
| Of course, I'ma say something. | ||
| The f***? | ||
| Because if I think that s*** is crazy, I could only imagine what middle class people or people in the hood is thinking. | ||
| So yes, I'm going to say something. | ||
| And I have a big platform. | ||
| So I do want anybody that's responsible of these prices to put down. | ||
| They're going to see my put it down. | ||
| I want to get Cardi B on our group here about the debt ceiling and tying it to the Federal Reserve. | ||
| That was more truth to power than I've heard from the Democratic Party forever. | ||
| I love that phrase tripled up. | ||
| Steve Cortez, that was kind of she kind of laid it out right. | ||
| She completely did, Steve. | ||
| You know, that's why I sent that to you earlier this morning. | ||
| I think she should be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Economics. | ||
| She's certainly far more deserving of it than people like Paul Krugman, who have actually gotten that award, unfortunately. | ||
| But listen, what she's talking about here is a visceral reaction, albeit very profane, but a visceral reaction to the anxiety that is out there in the country. | ||
| Now, she's wealthy and doesn't feel it herself, but she clearly does understand that working class people are suffering right now in the United States because of this Joe Biden inflation, which again, has collided with a Joe Biden recession, the worst of all worlds. | ||
| And this is part of the reason why, again, we should welcome this showdown over the debt ceiling. | ||
| Not only is it something to be avoided, it is something actually to be, it is something that we have earned the right to come to that showdown and to be able to tell. | ||
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Joe Biden, you will see your demands. | |
| Here's the key to the video. | ||
| This is why I say, and you see it from Royce White, who's after the Federal Reserve all the time, one of the things of this show is to show capital markets, economics, and how it ties back To the nation's economy and to your own personal life. | ||
| Cardi B in there, if you deconstruct it, she says, hey, I have a weekly printout for my home. | ||
| You know, she's obviously wealthy, big entertainer. | ||
| She says, I have a weekly printout. | ||
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Right. | |
| And I review it. | ||
| Then she said she went to the store to check the printouts, like blown her way. | ||
| But, hey, the costs are out of control. | ||
| She goes to the store and she says everything's tripled up. | ||
| What, a head of lettuce is seven bucks. | ||
| And then she says, You know, she's fortunate enough now to have some money. | ||
| She says, what about a middle class family and people from the hood? | ||
| Because she understands those prices aren't just for Cardi B who can afford it, but it's the middle class and the people, the working class people in the inner city that can't afford it. | ||
| This is, by the way, my point is, is this is what they fear about this whole fight. | ||
| They fear the showdown, and it's going to be a showdown, about the debt ceiling, the spending, and how it's financed. | ||
| There was yesterday this orgy out there with McConnell and with Biden rubbing up on each other and DeWine and all these guys on the infrastructure bill. | ||
| It's not paid for. | ||
| That's the Federal Reserve just putting money that you don't own. | ||
| The federal 24 prime banks own it. | ||
| And they just, you look at the history of it, they're the boom and bust, and they've led to the greatest consolidation of wealth in world history. | ||
| The framers would come back here and sit there, the revolutionary generation, and go, let me get this right. | ||
| We fought a war on an empire that was just about to hit the glideslope to become the most powerful in the world. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They had India. | ||
| We fought a war to break off from that. | ||
| Why? | ||
| We did not want to be beholden To a landed aristocracy and now these new oligarchs like the British East India Company. | ||
| We didn't want to do that. | ||
| We had a new deal. | ||
| We're going to create a new deal. | ||
| They would have come back today and say what you got Sequoia Capital. | ||
| You got you got you got Blackrock. | ||
| You got all these oligarchs on Wall Street and a big tech and you have kowtow to them. | ||
| Cardi B spoke right there more truth to power than if you listen to all of no offense CNBC all day long with all these geniuses in the economy. | ||
| She looks at things, she's looking at things, she goes, wow, look at those, look at the, this can't be right. | ||
| She goes to the store and says, hey, everything's tripled. | ||
| I love that phrase. | ||
| It's tripled up. | ||
| She summed it up right there. | ||
| It's tripled up. | ||
| And she said, look at a head of legs at seven bucks. | ||
| I, Cardi B, can afford it. | ||
| But the middle class people and the people in the hood, which is the minority working class people, can't afford it because there's nobody there. | ||
| They're not getting a bailout, right? | ||
| We unite that on economics and on what this this is a long con that's finally coming to a head because all they're going to tell you is this audience. | ||
| You are the ones that are creating a crisis. | ||
| They're all now saying you're conflating two things and you're going to cause a global economic crisis. | ||
| Cortez, deconstruct the lies and misrepresentations in that phrase that we are causing. | ||
| We are causing. | ||
| We're going to jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States, sir, in this fight that is just on the horizon, sir. | ||
| And let me address that part specifically about the full faith and credit because Spanberger also promulgated an abject lie in her interview when she said that the debt would not be paid. | ||
| Debt service. | ||
| That is the first order of priority, okay, as far as receipts coming into the federal government. | ||
| So the debt service will be paid. | ||
| What won't be paid are some of the discretionary items, the boondoggle items, that were passed in that $1.7 billion monstrosity of an omnibus. | ||
| Trillion. | ||
| 1.7 trillion. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Trillion. | ||
| And by the way, the reason that this is coming to a head right now is because interest rates are rising very dramatically. | ||
| Let me be specific here. | ||
| One year ago, 10-year Treasury yield was under 1.5%. | ||
| It was 1.48%, to be specific. | ||
| Today, it is 3.76%. | ||
| It has more than doubled. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because Joe Biden came into office, he declared war on domestic American energy, he unnecessarily escalated the war in Ukraine, and most of all, Absolutely exorbitant borrowing and spending by Joe Biden in cahoots with collaborationist Republicans. | ||
| That has resulted in this absolute surge in interest rates, which is, of course, concurrent with a massive spike in inflation. | ||
| And let's talk about the real world ramifications. | ||
| Cardi B did a good job of that. | ||
| Talk about the grocery store. | ||
| Let's talk about auto sales. | ||
| There's a front page story of The Wall Street Journal today about how auto sales, unfortunately for the year 2022, hit the lowest level In a decade, okay, that is the reality because people simply cannot afford cars here are the statistics for the year 13.7 million autos sold versus before the CCP virus hit for the five years previous 26 2015 through 2019 over 17 million cars per year sold so we've gone from 17 million a year clip to | ||
| All the way down to 13.7. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because of inflation. | ||
| Because cars have simply become unaffordable to regular working-class Americans. | ||
| So these are the reasons. | ||
| The profligacy of permanent Washington and the ruling class has put our economy into this economic corner. | ||
| And the exit for the American people, the pressure point where we have leverage that we earned through the ballot box, through winning the House, is through the debt ceiling. | ||
| And that's why whoever the speaker is, this must become the political crucible moment in the coming weeks where we finally tell Joe Biden, you will do two things. | ||
| you will secure the border and you will begin to again, heal the American economy, particularly through unleashing American energy. | ||
| If those two items are non-negotiable and if we are willing to risk the brinkmanship that is necessary to save our country, both our sovereignty as well as our prosperity, then we will have the beginning of a great American renewal. | ||
| But we're gonna find out within a few weeks. | ||
| I'm not talking months and months down the road. | ||
| This moment is imminent. | ||
| Steve, how do people, we got a lot more to get through with you, but we're going to have to do it tomorrow or the next day. | ||
| How do people get to you on all your social media? | ||
| Yeah, please follow me on Twitter. | ||
| I'm at Cortez Steve, Cortez with an S. You can also find me on Getter. | ||
| I'm at Steve. | ||
| Thank you very much, brother. | ||
| I want to appreciate that. | ||
| You know, I want to bring in Mike Davis. | ||
| I got a thought. | ||
| Here's the thought. | ||
| You know, people, and Kurt Schlechter, I got a lot of respect for Kurt, he just put out a thing, show me what the plan is. | ||
| You know, you got to have a plan. | ||
| John Frederick said, hey, the fight's the plan. | ||
| Davis, you're a fighter, and that's what I think. | ||
| And I propose this, I think of the first to propose it, or Rogan O'Henley was the first, and I drafted off him. | ||
| But you don't need to be a member of the House of Representatives. | ||
| I think that, and I've said this from the beginning, I think Trump as a speaker, I think Trump as a speaker, and even if he came in for an interim hundred days to do the debt crisis and to do some of the hard work that needs to be done, if you can't get to McCarthy and nobody else works, I don't know why we're not looking at President Trump. | ||
| And no, I'm not crazy in that. | ||
| I talked about this over a year ago. | ||
| Mike Davis, you're sitting there watching all the deals be cut behind the scenes. | ||
| The rules package is a little arcane, but it's quite powerful. | ||
| I mean, McCarthy is sitting there basically saying, and the left-wing media is right in that, he's giving them everything, trying to give them everything they want, but it's a matter of trust. | ||
| Can you trust this guy? | ||
| Mike Davis, is McCarthy going to be Speaker of the House, sir? | ||
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No, he won't. | |
| He will never get to 218 votes. | ||
| He has not Earned 218 votes. | ||
| He'll never earn 218 votes. | ||
| He shouldn't earn 218 votes because people don't trust him. | ||
| They shouldn't trust him. | ||
| We're seeing reporting now that he's essentially taken off and given away his shirt, his pants, his socks, and it looks like his underwear. | ||
| He has nothing left to give and he still doesn't have 218 votes. | ||
| And it's not because of some House process and procedure. | ||
| It's not because of, you know, selfishness of House Republicans. | ||
| It's because of him. | ||
| They don't trust him and they shouldn't trust him. | ||
| He is known for months. | ||
| He's known for, since the election, he does not have 218 votes. | ||
| If he would have gotten more RINOs elected, establishment Republicans elected in November, if he had a bigger margin in the House, he could have gotten elected. | ||
| So he knows that he doesn't have the votes. | ||
| He's known for two months he doesn't have the votes. | ||
| He's the one who's taken the house to the brink here. | ||
| It's not these 21 patriots who are doing the right thing. | ||
| We should all praise them. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| They're saying on Fox, Eli Crane is a guy who did three combat tours for his country in some of the nastiest neighborhoods on earth. | ||
| He's a terrorist, is he not, Mike Davis? | ||
| He's a terrorist. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Enoch Crain's a terrorist. | ||
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This is what's so crazy about the McCarthy approach, this Jeff Miller. | |
| Jeff Miller is the Amazon and Apple, the guy who made millions for Amazon and Apple's running Kevin McCarthy speaker race. | ||
| He's a slimy lobbyist who's one of Kevin's best friends. | ||
| They're so stupid about how they're doing this. | ||
| Instead of trying to woo over these skeptical conservatives, who are rightfully skeptical, they're calling them names and trashing them and trashing their motivation. It is the dumbest strategy I've ever seen and it shows you why Kevin McCarthy should not be Speaker. He has the very bad combination of incompetence and arrogance. | ||
| You can be one or the other. | ||
| You can't be both. | ||
| And he is both. | ||
| And so that's why he cannot be the Speaker of the House. | ||
| He's too stupid and too arrogant to be the Speaker of the House. | ||
| They need to throw him overboard. | ||
| We're on our sixth vote. | ||
| He's dragging this out. | ||
| He's making it about himself. | ||
| They need to throw him overboard and elect someone else. | ||
| I think it's going to be Scalise. | ||
| He's the one who can unite the party. | ||
| He'll have 218 votes. | ||
| These Freedom Caucus members aren't going to demand his shirt, his pants, and his underwear because they trust him and they don't trust Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| I know you get a punch and I appreciate you sticking around. | ||
| With this package, real quickly, this package, essentially what he's done over the last 24 hours is proven everybody's point. | ||
| When it came down to it, he just gave up all this stuff he said he would never give up, it'd be impossible because he really couldn't be speaker. | ||
| Even one member to vacate the chair. | ||
| Isn't there just presenting this package Prove the point of everybody sitting there going you can't trust the guy because he'll do anything in the moment to get exactly to the next rung of the ladder, sir? | ||
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Imagine when he's at the negotiating table with Ron Klain, the White House Chief of Staff, and Chuck Schumer. | |
| They're going to take his pants, his socks, his underwear, just like These 21 House Republicans are doing now. | ||
| He is weak. | ||
| He's ineffective. | ||
| He's not smart. | ||
| He raises a lot of money. | ||
| He goes to the corporate fundraisers, takes a lot of money, particularly from big tech, and does their bidding. | ||
| He doesn't give a damn about everyday Americans. | ||
| It's time to cut bait, House Republicans. | ||
| It is Kevin McCarthy who is the problem. | ||
| Mike Davis, how do people follow you? | ||
| Because you're coming in a little hot, particularly on Getter and Twitter. | ||
| How do people get to your social media? | ||
| Because they've got to follow you. | ||
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| to make friends, let's say that. | ||
| short commercial break we're going to return to the war room in the great fight before us in a moment happy uh with with other republicans in their conference Yeah, these last couple of days have cracked open the party and we've gotten a real look at some of the tensions that have been simmering for several years now. | ||
| Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas has been vocal going after this group of 19 or 20 holding up the potential speakership of Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| Congressman Crenshaw said this yesterday about the group, that group of far-right members standing in the way of Kevin McCarthy. | ||
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They keep coming up with more and more ridiculous reasons. | |
| I love bringing up the example of Bob Goode because I think he's one of the worst members of our caucus. | ||
| This is absolute dud. | ||
| He literally got up and he was mad at McCarthy because McCarthy took three weeks to call him after his election. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| McCarthy, by the way, spent about $2 million to get that loser elected because he couldn't get elected on his own. | ||
| And Lauren Boebert, who just insulted Donald Trump just because Trump's supporting McCarthy, I mean, she barely won her election. | ||
| McCarty spent a bunch of money on her. | ||
| Let me have it. | ||
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Because she's not good enough to win. | |
| That's a misdirection play. | ||
| Bob Good's got more courage, and he stood in the breach on this thing. | ||
| You know, Crenshaw, and look, he served his country, and you can't take that service away from him. | ||
| He's served with courage and valor. | ||
| Just like John McCain, but it doesn't, you know, would translate into the here and now. | ||
| Your service to your country is your service to your country, and you're a hero in that regard. | ||
| But look at Eli Crane and what he's doing. | ||
| It can't continue on like this. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| It can't continue on like this. | ||
| This fight has been brewing for 10 years. | ||
| We had the, you know, for instance, since the Tea Party Revolt in 2010. | ||
| We had Brad on yesterday. | ||
| It really got intense in 2014. | ||
| Remember, all four of the big ones, the young guns plus Boehner, all gone except McCarthy. | ||
| All gone except McCarthy. | ||
| I'm going to pull Spanberger in a second and talk about debt ceiling. | ||
| One of the reasons I think people come to the show, I don't like to waste your time. | ||
| We like to talk about signal, not noise. | ||
| What's really important and what's going to happen. | ||
| I said on here over a year ago that Donald Trump should be the speaker, at least come in for an interim of a hundred days. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Why did I say that? | ||
| I knew this was going to end up. | ||
| That McCarthy, that this wing of the party that is responsible, they're saying they're all for chaos and for Brother Crenshaw. | ||
| Tell me, correct me if I'm wrong, but you say these guys didn't stand for anything. | ||
| Is it not McCarthy's guys in the club for growth? | ||
| They'll come up with a whole new package to basically concede of what they wanted on rules, which is it's inside baseball. | ||
| It's the way that the floor is run and where the power really is. | ||
| To give the House Freedom Caucus so many members on the Rules Committee and put them in chairmanships of certain committees and sub-chairmanships of certain important subcommittee chairs, like in Armed Services and others. | ||
| Also to put their person in charge of the Joint Committee, which is the Church Commission, which the first person in the modern era to talk about that is Stephen K. Bannon years ago. | ||
| That we need a new Church Committee. | ||
| Right? | ||
| For the FBI and the CIA that's far worse than it was even in the seventies when they realized they were out of control. | ||
| In things like the cover-up or maybe even involvement in the Kennedy assassination, the involvement in the President Diem's assassination in Vietnam, with what they had done with the anti-war movement, what they had done with the civil rights movement, what they had done in many different areas. | ||
| We had the CIA. | ||
| They were out of control then and they had to be brought to heel somewhat by the Church Commission. | ||
| I'm the first guy to say that. | ||
| What's one of the big issues they're arguing? | ||
| Who's going to chair? | ||
| Who's going to chair the Church Commission? | ||
| Who's going to actually chair it? | ||
| Right? | ||
| They want a House Freedom Caucus guy. | ||
| The Joint Committee on the Weaponization of the Government. | ||
| So, I don't put it... And who was the first person to talk about the debt ceiling? | ||
| It was kind of important years ago. | ||
| That we're going to come to this moment. | ||
| It's going to get bigger. | ||
| That's what this is about. | ||
| Money and power. | ||
| And I wasn't just throwing it out there on Trump. | ||
| And quite frankly, if President Trump had focused at the time and the people around him had helped focus, he would have been the Speaker of the House on Monday night. | ||
| He would have been the Speaker of the House on Monday night. | ||
| It is not. | ||
| If you want to look at an alternative, I understand a lot of people don't like Scalise, don't know enough about him. | ||
| Maybe not Stefanik fans. | ||
| All these potential choices don't look like Jordan can get there. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That that that Jordan, that Jim Jordan can't get there. | ||
| What about Trump? | ||
| And do it for some interim period, 100 days to get to get the debt. | ||
| Would you not rather have Trump leading a negotiation on the debt ceiling and the spending than some of these other people? | ||
| Would you not? | ||
| And that's what it's going to come down to. | ||
| We're hurtling towards a financial and economic crisis. | ||
| Just like the 1930s. | ||
| We're going through a dark valley, okay? | ||
| And we've been able to kick the can down the road, but just printing this money, and that's nothing but IOUs in your children and grandchildren. | ||
| The reason the political class doesn't want to talk about it, there's no penalty to them. | ||
| In fact, there's nothing but benefits to them doing it, because their constituents feel happy. | ||
| Remember yesterday, they're sitting there rubbing up on each other, and MSNBC says, look at this. | ||
| Look at this split screen. | ||
| This is government that works versus chaos. | ||
| No. | ||
| On the side of the screen that was the House of Representatives, this is a fight, and it's a fight for something important. | ||
| It's for people to have the stones to step up and stand up to the elites that run this country and have led to the managed decline to now we're on a cliff that it can totally implode. | ||
| Biden just announced 30,000, I think, from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, 30,000 per month, I think they said, it's just been announced. | ||
| So I'll get to more of that in the afternoon show. | ||
| Why not Trump? | ||
| Show me a better alternative for right now. | ||
| Why not Trump? | ||
| And if he called in all the markers and ideas, remember, over half of the conference, half of the conference is from 2016. | ||
| Half of the conference has been there since Trump has been the head of the Republican Party. | ||
| And show me who would be a better negotiator. | ||
| When I said this a year or so ago about Trump, It was absolutely serious because I knew we were going to get to this point, particularly that a McCarthy was not going to be able to organize things because I'd been here since the beginning of this fight. | ||
| We took down Cantor in June of 14. | ||
| First time in the history of the nation that a sitting majority leader, a sitting majority leader was beaten in a primary by a complete, total unknown, Dave Brat. | ||
| Later, Mark Meadows put in the motion to vacate. | ||
| Why do you think they're so petrified of the motion to vacate? | ||
| That's how we got rid of Boehner. | ||
| He put in a motion to vacate, and I remember he came over to talk to me over at the Breitbart Embassy about the concept of doing it, because nobody even talked about it for decades, hundreds of years. | ||
| He put it in, and he was mocked and ridiculed. | ||
| Boehner was essentially gone eight weeks later. | ||
| After the Pope came and says, yeah, I'm not going to step down, etc. | ||
| Then Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan. | ||
| It was so brutal on Paul Ryan that eventually he said, I quit. | ||
| I'm going to go be, you know, Rupert Murdoch's running dog on the board of Fox. | ||
| And now. | ||
| We come to McCarthy. | ||
| And I knew this day was going to come, that there'd be this incredible fight and that McCarthy would offer everything, and to tempt people, I'll give you everything. | ||
| They're so adamant on what they couldn't give until they had to save themselves. | ||
| And this is why that process itself is exposed, exactly why people like the Eli Cranston were all going, hey, my constituents have the common sense to say, 95% say, under no circumstances, Eli, are you to vote for McCarthy. | ||
| So we're going to sit here and we're going to come back at noon, you're going to hear all these masturbations, all the spin, you're going to have all the fog of war. | ||
| But the thing itself is, what are we doing here? | ||
| We're here to save the nation from a crisis. | ||
| That crisis is because of a leviathan, the administrative state, OK, with every aspect of it, the biomedical security state, the national security state, with Spanberger sitting there going, it's a full faith and credit. | ||
| No, that's an outright stone cold lie. | ||
| And all they're going to do is lie to you. | ||
| No, ma'am. | ||
| Plenty of cash comes in. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| Plenty of cash comes in to pay the senior part of the cap table, which is the government securities, right? | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| Treasury securities. | ||
| We pay that off. | ||
| We pay all the interest off. | ||
| We pay Social Security. | ||
| We pay Medicare. | ||
| And then, hey, what do we got left? | ||
| Let's start paying this, let's pay the priorities. | ||
| If it's a priority in national security and defense, we'll pay that. | ||
| Let's get together because we can't continue to do this. | ||
| This audience, Spanberg is not, you are the full faith and credit of this nation. | ||
| Not them, not the elites, not Sequoia Capital, not Larry Fink, none of them, you. | ||
| And you have a say so. | ||
| And why not call in Trump? | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Trump would do it. | ||
| Why not Trump? | ||
| If you had to be in a negotiation, and even for the people out there saying, I kind of lost on Trump. | ||
| He's picking bad people. | ||
| He's not focused. | ||
| And look, I've been at the forefront of that. | ||
| I love Trump, but I say put the golf clubs away. | ||
| Let's get to work. | ||
| If you were in a room and you're talking about finance and capital markets, you had the toughest negotiation in the world, and they're calling everything in the book. | ||
| Who around there would you rather have than Donald J. Trump? | ||
| Who would put the more fear of God in him? | ||
| They would melt down if you had Trump in there saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| I think this is the way we got to do it. | ||
| I think this is the way we got to do it. | ||
| In normal times, you wouldn't think of going back to a former president, although John Quincy Adams went back with Speaker of the House. | ||
| The country's in a crisis. | ||
| It's a crisis of capital. | ||
| It's a crisis of economics. | ||
| It's a crisis of finance. | ||
| Yes, yes, we have other crises, too. | ||
| Don't get me wrong. | ||
| You got one on the southern border, but that's what they're doing. | ||
| They're going to say, oh, that's going to solve inflation for us. | ||
| Because here's the problem with inflation. | ||
| It's too many African-Americans and Hispanic Americans, lower skilled. | ||
| They're making too much money or we can't fill those jobs. | ||
| They're making too much money. | ||
| So our solution for that is we got to open the border and have it all in. | ||
| That's a new thing. | ||
| Immigration, mass immigration, mass amnesty. | ||
| That's the solution. | ||
| Don't you think Trump knows how to handle that? | ||
| Didn't Trump do a good job on that? | ||
| Did we have these crises when Trump was there? | ||
| Was there a crisis at the border? | ||
| He put it down and would have done more, but the McCarthy and Ryan wing wouldn't let him. | ||
| The McConnell wing. | ||
| I'm being very serious here. | ||
| I'm being very serious. | ||
| You want to break the deadlock? | ||
| You want to get on with it? | ||
| You want to get everybody paid? | ||
| Let's do it for a hundred days. | ||
| Let's say the president comes back and says, hey, I'll do it for a hundred days and we'll set the motion. | ||
| We'll set in motion the investigations. | ||
| We'll begin the negotiation on the debt ceiling. | ||
| We'll do it all. | ||
| I'll do a hundred days. | ||
| It may be extended after that. | ||
| Well, why not? | ||
| What's your downside? | ||
| Tell me what the downside is. | ||
| McCarthy and the established and the ruling class is bringing on this crisis. | ||
| It's their crisis. | ||
| I got a solution for him. | ||
| You want out of the crisis? | ||
| Let's bring in Trump. | ||
| You want to end the crisis? | ||
| Let's bring in Trump now. | ||
| They don't want to do that because they understand not in the room, not in the deal. | ||
| If Trump's in the room, we're going to have a different outcome on the debt ceiling and the spending. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to go to the Vatican next. | ||
| Ben Harnwell. | ||
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We will fight till they're all gone. | |
| We rejoice when there's no more. | ||
| Let's take down the CCB! | ||
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| That's the end of the first quarter. | ||
| Can we get to Ben Harnwell in a second? | ||
| But I'm going to follow up more By the way, they're trying to come and adjourn again or not adjourn. | ||
| They've got deals cutting. | ||
| You've got Club for Growth running around. | ||
| There's a lot of moving pieces today. | ||
| And you've heard you get by the way, Dan Bishop, I think, has put a statement saying, hey, it was misinterpreted what he said on Fox that he is going to stay for his entire term and fight it out. | ||
| But he is not he's not going to resign if McCarthy becomes speaker. | ||
| But he is opposing McCarthy right now. | ||
| This fight speaks to bigger issues. | ||
| And I'm absolutely I'm not. | ||
| I'm not running this up the flagpole as just a goof. | ||
| I would never take airtime on the show to do it. | ||
| Trump is a viable alternative for what's in front of us. | ||
| You'd still have a majority leader, you'd have the whip, you'd have all that right now. | ||
| And this is why, remember, they've picked up. | ||
| If we never mentioned the death sentence, they would just let that go. | ||
| Well, the death sentence, let's tuck it in a bill. | ||
| They understand we've highlighted it. | ||
| They understand that we understand it better than they do. | ||
| They understand, and by the way, one of the reasons I understand it is that with Russ Vogt and the team and McIlvenny, with the OMB team at the time, let's say, Mulvaney and the team, we put together, this is in the summer of 2017, when the debt ceiling was coming up with the budget, all of it, in the fall. | ||
| We put together a plan to do the waterfall. | ||
| Exactly how the cash comes in. | ||
| How do you do the payments? | ||
| What's the prioritization? | ||
| How do you not default on the debt? | ||
| You're not going to default on the debt. | ||
| That's a lie. | ||
| There's a way to do this. | ||
| That you don't default. | ||
| That takes a weapon. | ||
| Because full faith in credit is going to be terrible. | ||
| You're going to cause a global economic crisis. | ||
| That's a lie. | ||
| They have caused a global economic crisis. | ||
| They have done it. | ||
| And remember, in doing it since 2008, they've put the greatest concentration of wealth using the Federal Reserve, using the Federal Reserve for themselves while you got crushed. | ||
| Cardi B spoke truth to power day about the inflation part of it on the day. | ||
| And this is why Royce White is such an important part of this of this movement. | ||
| During the George Floyd situation, he led a march of I think of 10 or 15,000 people. | ||
| Where did he go? | ||
| Not down to the George Floyd Center, which has become that square to honor Mr. Floyd. | ||
| He went to the Federal Reserve and they were in shock. | ||
| Hey, what is this guy doing? | ||
| What's he blaming the Federal Reserve for? | ||
| He went to the core of it. | ||
| One of the core problems of inequality in this country, the Federal Reserve. | ||
| They say the death sentence you're going to tie, you're going to tie spending cuts, you're going to tie the sentence. | ||
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No! | |
| We are going to tie the problem. | ||
| The problem is the Federal Reserve and fiscal domination by these politicians. | ||
| Fiscal domination where they just passed this ridiculous legislation that has no way to be paid for except to print money because we're the prime reserve currency. | ||
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Why? | |
| Because of your hard work. | ||
| The safety and security that you provide, the cops, the first responders, the nurses, the teachers, the insurance, the basic moms and dads that go about their work every day, the civic society, the little platoons, as Edmund Burke called them, you provide that safety. | ||
| It's not that we have a better security SEC. | ||
| It's not that we have better security laws, not better. | ||
| We have better banking laws. | ||
| Yes, ours on the margin are better. | ||
| Yes, they are. | ||
| Enforcement's better when they want it to be enforced. | ||
| Not like SBF, when it's a money laundering operation for the Democrats in Ukraine, and boy, that guy's off the front page, right? | ||
| Steve Bannon gets every camera crew in the world, right? | ||
| That guy shows up, nothing, right? | ||
| It's all a con, it's all a scam, because they don't want to talk about it. | ||
| They want you to be stupid. | ||
| They want you to be uninformed. | ||
| They want you not to know what's going on. | ||
| It's about money and power, right? | ||
| And their power, they control the money. | ||
| No. | ||
| We're not going to increase... Let me make sure all the liberal journalists and all the business guys that watch this show and listen to the podcast understand something. | ||
| We are not going to raise the debt ceiling one penny. | ||
| Not one penny. | ||
| And anything we would do with the debt ceiling is going to be tied, not just to spending cuts to get some, stop the madness, stop the madness of the administrative state, the Leviathan, and start to cut off its oxygen, which is money, right? | ||
| It's money. | ||
| We're going to tie it to the Federal Reserve. | ||
| The ownership of the Federal Reserve must be taken and must be taken from the 21 prime broker banks that own it, that own your currency, and must be put in a trust for the American people. | ||
| The American people have to own their own money. | ||
| So suck on that. | ||
| Do you think the death sentence is going to be something? | ||
| Do you think your lies and misrepresentation has gone in the past? | ||
| No. | ||
| People are in this fight. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy is not deserving of the speakership for the simple reason he can't be trusted in a tough fight to represent and to have the titanium spine you're going to need to stand up to the elites that run this country and have led to the managed decline of the greatest nation on earth. | ||
| That's what this fight's about. | ||
| And I don't care if Fox News and all the guys, if they can yammer on the Dan Crenshaw, yammer on! | ||
| Continue to yammer! | ||
| Like little dogs yammering and biting at the ankles. | ||
| Continue to yammer. | ||
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Yammering. | |
| No, because Murdoch gets it. | ||
| He owns the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| He owns the New York Post. | ||
| He owns the media empire. | ||
| He gets it. | ||
| He understands it. | ||
| The Murdochs are plain smart. | ||
| The boys, they're plain smart. | ||
| They don't understand exactly what's going on. | ||
| They just want to kick the can down the road, have this thing, keep printing money, keep spending money. | ||
| No. | ||
| Game's over. | ||
| Can't do it. | ||
| Can no longer do it. | ||
| Until you know the game's over. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party and the KGB and all of them are great allies. | ||
| Saudi Arabia, since the Gulf War, what have we done? | ||
| We've got troops over there all the time. | ||
| We're fighting wars to protect the oil fields. | ||
| They're cutting deals with the CCP. | ||
| The Mullahs are cutting deals with the CCP. | ||
| Turkey's now sitting there with Putin going, yeah, I think Putin's right. | ||
| You know, I think you've got to keep Crimea in. | ||
| The great NATO ally, the guys who want to come to the EU, Turkey, yeah, they're all in. | ||
| Now you got Wan Qishan, the hatchet man for Xi. | ||
| He's the brains of the operation. | ||
| He's the one that Bloomberg went to Singapore and Bloomberg said, the smartest, most important guy in the world is Wan Qishan. | ||
| I spent years hammering him. | ||
| It's one of the reasons I'm sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| I singled him out. | ||
| Where is he? | ||
| He's down at Lula. | ||
| He's down at the coronation of Lula, where they stole the election in Brazil and nobody stood up to it. | ||
| Nobody. | ||
| And Juan Shih-Shan, the puppet master, is down there for the coronation, cutting the deals to bring Brazil and the Liebensraum for the CCP has been Brazil. | ||
| That's the resources they want. | ||
| This is not secret stuff, not inside baseball. | ||
| This is just the way the world is. | ||
| And that's why this fight today, and you're going to hear all kinds of things, this and then, they hate Kevin, it's all personal. | ||
| It's about money, and it's about power. | ||
| And they, every day, they're wetting themselves over, if they can't do this, what about the debt ceiling? | ||
| We're not going to increase the debt ceiling one penny. | ||
| Suck on that. | ||
| Embrace the suck. | ||
| The time for the decline of this country is stopped. | ||
| It's got to be over. | ||
| And this audience, I understand, hey, sometimes it wins, sometimes it doesn't. | ||
| No, you got to put your shoulder to the wheel. | ||
| Otherwise, let's just all go on vacation. | ||
| Let's all go just sail around the world, do what you want to do. | ||
| Let's just do it. | ||
| Let them control it and let them destroy it. | ||
| Did they do that in 1776? | ||
| Did they do that in 1863? | ||
| Did they do that in 1942? | ||
| We just did the Wake Island. | ||
| What, the anniversary of Wake Island right before Christmas. | ||
| Wake Island. | ||
| The guys on Wake Island. | ||
| The Alamo of the Pacific. | ||
| They just say, Dad, we'll just give up. | ||
| We'll just roll over. | ||
| No. | ||
| Some people do. | ||
| Some people run and hide. | ||
| Hey, that's history. | ||
| People, it's a free choice. | ||
| If you're going to be a coward, go be a coward. | ||
| Look at Eli Crane. | ||
| Take Eli Crane as your inspiration, and they're cutting him up every second. | ||
| A guy that did three combat tours. | ||
| Brother Crenshaw, is Eli Crane a terrorist? | ||
| Brother Crenshaw, is he a terrorist? | ||
| Did Eli Crane not serve his country like you did? | ||
| Is he a terrorist? | ||
| Is that what we call him? | ||
| Is he a terrorist? | ||
| Is he a terrorist? | ||
| No. | ||
| Eli Crane's a man of hero. | ||
| He's a hero. | ||
| He's a man of valor. | ||
| In the hardest thing, moral courage. | ||
| So this fight, why not Trump? | ||
| Why not Trump? | ||
| If you gotta get somebody in the room for what the big issues are, and we know what the big issues are. | ||
| It's these investigations, obviously, important. | ||
| But the big issues before us is we have to stop the madness. | ||
| We have to stop the insanity of the global elites that run this country. | ||
| It must be stopped, and it must be stopped here and now. | ||
| If it's not stopped here and now, It's over. | ||
| We're not going to be the constitutional republic that was bequeathed to us. | ||
| And I would love for Mark Levin and all of our principal constitutional conservatives to join us in this cause. | ||
| Because you're not going to have a constitutional republic if they still have the ability to spend us into oblivion while they take all the value and they incorporate all the wealth. | ||
| And that's the system we have. | ||
| The system works for them. | ||
| Because it's your kids and your grandkids are going to end up paying for it and they in the here and now benefit from it. | ||
| So of course they're going to do it. | ||
| And nobody steps up to them. | ||
| So my vote right now is why not Trump? | ||
| If you've got to have a nasty piece of work in the room negotiating, Give me the nastiest. | ||
| And Trump in a negotiation is a beast. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So why not Trump? | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Why not? | ||
| The Constitution allows for it. | ||
| Don't have to be a member of Congress. | ||
| Lee Zeldin. | ||
| We had the Lee Zeldin boomlet. | ||
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| They got the Fred Upton boomlet. | ||
| Why not Trump? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I want to pivot here. | ||
| I want to get some of this in before the break. | ||
| I want to go to Vatican and Ben Hardwell. | ||
| So many huge things have happened this week. | ||
| We haven't been able to get into. | ||
| One is the funeral for Pope Benedict. | ||
| Ben, just give us an update about today. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Ben joins us live from the Vatican. | ||
| Good morning, Steve. | ||
| Yes, well, the funeral took place this morning at 9.30. | ||
| The numbers that have been released so far show a diminution from that of the funeral 17 years ago of John Paul II. | ||
| Here are the figures now. | ||
| In April 2005, there were two million pilgrims, two million pilgrims that filed past the coffin over a six-day period compared to Benedict now, when 65,000 people filed past, and in terms of raw numbers, 500,000 people in St. | ||
| Peter's Piazza 17 years ago, 500,000, with 600,000 in overspill areas across Rome, that's 1.1 million in total, compared to 50,000 people in St. | ||
| Peter's Piazza 17 years ago, 500,000, with 600,000 in an overspill, in overspill areas across Rome, that's 1.1 million in total, compared to 50,000 people in St. Peter's Piazza behind me this 50,000? | ||
| I thought they were respecting 160,000, but 100,000 showed up. | ||
| down and give my analysis on precisely what that means for the future. | ||
| 50,000. I thought there were a hundred, I thought they were respecting 160,000 but 100,000 showed up. You're saying it's 50,000 not 100? | ||
| Yeah, well the figures vary from news organization to news organization. The consensus is 50,000. | ||
| Those are the figures that the police released. | ||
| We're not taking a shot at Pope Benedict about just the size of the crowds or anything like that. | ||
| It's quite different. | ||
| So we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Ben and I will get down to it, break it all down. | ||
| I'll have a few more comments. | ||
| Before you turn you over to the madness that's going to happen this afternoon, remember the signal, not the noise. | ||
| This is all about money and power. | ||
| That's why right now we have to stand up and say, no, it can't be McCarthy. | ||
| If it can't be McCarthy, then who's it going to be? | ||
| My vote? | ||
| It's Trump. | ||
| Bring him in for 100 days. | ||
| Let's start the negotiations. | ||
| Let's do the debt ceiling spending. | ||
| Let's get it up front. | ||
| Let's do it now. | ||
| Let's lance the boil. | ||
| Let's get down to what's really important. | ||
| Let's stop playing games. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return to the war room in the Vatican with Ben Harnwell in just a moment. | ||
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| I just want to read this. | ||
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| We're going to be up there today, in and out. | ||
| We'll go back to the Vatican in a second. | ||
| This is Sarah Ferris reporting on Twitter. | ||
| Senior Republicans not happy with Andy Harris' demand for labor gavel. | ||
| I asked Andrew Holt in line for that gavel just now. | ||
| Quote from Andrew Holt. | ||
| As far as skipping over people's seniority, I think we've gone too far. | ||
| He says there's a point where McCarthy loses more votes than he gets with concessions. | ||
| The concession list grows. | ||
| Here's the solution. | ||
| You want to compromise in a coalition and to get the people paid and get on with the business and set up the committees? | ||
| How about this? | ||
| 100 days to save America. | ||
| And in that 100 days, Donald J. Trump will be voted tonight, or tomorrow, to be Speaker of the House. | ||
| And the Republicans say, we're going to do it for 100 days. | ||
| And in the 100 days, you get everything set up, all the investigations set up, and Trump begins the negotiations now. | ||
| Not when they're running out of money. | ||
| They said, oh, the crisis is going to hit us in the summer or fall. | ||
| Well, that's where they're out of cash, and they're going to put the gun to your head. | ||
| We're out of cash! | ||
| The full faith and credit guy do it now. | ||
| Let's start it now. | ||
| We know what this is about. | ||
| You're not going to hide anymore, and you're not going to lie anymore, and you're not going to spin anymore. | ||
| If you want somebody in the room that understands how to do these types of negotiations, his entire professional career is doing that, it's Donald J. Trump. | ||
| 100 days. | ||
| Let's get him in the room, and let's do the debt ceiling, let's do all the, let's do the spending, let's talk about the madness, and let's talk about the Federal Reserve. | ||
| Who knows more about money or interest rates than Donald Trump? | ||
| Remember, Ralph Norman's come to this as a real estate developer because it's so interest rate sensitive. | ||
| What he said yesterday, right now we're on the verge of spending a trillion dollars on interest a year. | ||
| One trillion dollars a year. | ||
| Bigger than defense budget. | ||
| You want to talk about a national security problem? | ||
| You want to talk running around? | ||
| We got national security. | ||
| Gotta get Kevin McCarthy right now because this is a national security problem. | ||
| We got all those guys, the military veterans. | ||
| I honor their service. | ||
| Honor their service. | ||
| National security issue. | ||
| Here's the national security issue. | ||
| You're spending a trillion dollars a year more on the defense budget, which is out of control, on interest. | ||
| That's a national security problem, and I've got a solution. | ||
| And tell me if anybody's got a better solution for right now, for this afternoon. | ||
| Give it, hey, how about this, 100 days of Donald Trump. | ||
| Let's get him in the room. | ||
| You don't think their heads will blow up? | ||
| You don't think that the Senate, oh, you can't do that, you got Trump? | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| You want to put it in their ear? | ||
| You want to get up on their grill? | ||
| Give me Trump for 100 days. | ||
| You give me Trump for 100 days and you'll start the process of sorting out this mess. | ||
| And the fact that they hate it so much is the better reason we ought to do it. | ||
| So I got a solution. | ||
| I got a compromise. | ||
| Put it all to bed this afternoon. | ||
| Trump for 100 days. | ||
| Who's in? | ||
| I'm not going to get off this one. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Simple reason. | ||
| They hate it so much, even the concept of it. | ||
| Ben, I want to finish back to the Vatican. | ||
| Listen, there were tears of joy when St. | ||
| John Paul II passed away, and the white smoke came out, and it was Pope Benedict at the time, Cardinal Ratzinger, the conservatives sat there. | ||
| I remember so much of my traditionalist conservative friends had tears of joy that the best pick was this conservative theologian that was the wingman for St. | ||
| John Paul II. | ||
| It didn't quite work out like that, did it, Ben Harnwell? | ||
| No it didn't, Steve, quite sadly. | ||
| And of course, one of the reasons why everyone thought this, that Benedict, or the then-Cardinal Ratzinger, was some conservative or even traditionalist icon, was because that was what the mainstream media had been telling us. | ||
| It's the same mainstream media that back in 2005, of course, that was telling us that George Bush The then president was some sort of conservative, really sort of strong Republican politician, figure, and of course he wasn't either. | ||
| What we have to stop doing, Steve, is looking to the mainstream media for their indications on who are conservative or traditionalist figures, especially when they play them up as they were doing with Ratzinger, because it's invariably never true. | ||
| It wasn't true with George Bush. | ||
| It wasn't true with Cardinal Ratzinger. | ||
| This is one of the reasons why there are so few people here in the piazza behind me. | ||
| Obviously, compared to John Paul II, and I know I don't have very much time, but compared to John Paul II, who died when he was still in office, Benedict was out of office for 10 years, and yet it is strange that basically a tenth of the people were here. | ||
| One of the reasons is, and we're going to have to break this down, Steve, in future episodes because it's extremely important, to the defence of the Judeo-Christian West is where the position of the Catholic Church is on some key cultural issues. | ||
| And to do that we need to define two terms, conservatism and traditionalism. | ||
| Now you've often said, both on air and on your Getter feed, that we're traditionalists, and we are. | ||
| It's important to say what that means in the context of the decline of the Catholic Church. | ||
| Traditionalists want to go back To before the Second Vatican Council. | ||
| Remember that to all the evangelicals whom I love. | ||
| I have a great relationship with you guys, especially on Geta. | ||
| I love the evangelicals. | ||
| But let this name stick in your head, the Second Vatican Council. | ||
| It was a big council, ecumenical council. | ||
| Thousands of bishops, all the world's Catholic bishops, here in the Vatican behind me. | ||
| And what they basically did was they changed the substance of the faith. | ||
| on that occasion. | ||
| Now, conservatives believe that what was taught at the Second Vatican Council is possible to interpret that in line with the traditional faith. | ||
| Traditionalists deny that completely and say, no, no, we need to go back to before the Second Vatican Council. | ||
| Cardinal Ratzinger, to the very marrow of his bones, believed that the Second Vatican Council was reformable. | ||
| And that position was basically torpedoed by his successor Pope Francis. | ||
| And I think that explains why there are so few people here today. | ||
| Ben, we'll get more in this now that there's not even somewhat of a conservative looking over the shoulder of Pope Francis. | ||
| How do I say this? | ||
| Another issue. | ||
| We'll get into more of that. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, thank you so much. | ||
| Ben, how do people get to you on Getter? | ||
| Of all the contributors we've got, I love, and the feed's everybody, you are, sir, my favorite feed. | ||
| And you've gotten some posts up there, particularly about domestic American politics that are on fire. | ||
| How do people get to you, sir? | ||
| That's very gracious of you, Steve. | ||
| It's simply my surname, Harnwell, at Harnwell on Getter, the only platform I'm there micro-blogging, and I look forward to the interaction and debate I have with a lot of the great listeners to this show at Harnwell. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I want definitely the evangelicals to get involved and get engaged in this. | ||
| Okay, we're going to be back here at five to seven. | ||
| You're about to see five hours of madness, I'm sure. | ||
| We'll be back here to set it all right, and I will continue the Unbreakable internal industrial logic of Trump for Speaker. | ||
| Trump for Speaker. | ||
| Put him in the room. | ||
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