Jan. 10, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the chair may reduce to five minutes the minimum time for electronic voting on any question relating to House Resolution 5 that follows a 15-minute vote. | |
| With that, Mr. | ||
| Speaker, I reserve my time. | ||
| The gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, following the vote on the previous question, Representative DeLore will offer a motion to commit. | ||
| I yield one minute to the gentleman from Connecticut to discuss that proposal. | ||
| A gentlelady from Connecticut is recognized for one minute. | ||
| When we conclude this rules debate, I will offer a motion to commit to add the expanded child tax credit. | ||
| In the face of the Republican majority's draconian agenda, we want to provide a tax cut, yes, to children and to families to make ends meet. | ||
| The child tax credit is the most effective tool we have in the fight against rising costs. | ||
| An antidote to inflation, it is about financial stability for families. | ||
| Nothing, nothing in this rules package helps American families. | ||
| Make no mistake, a vote against the motion to commit means Republicans are willing to raise taxes on working families. | ||
| The expanded child tax credit was the largest tax cut for working families and generations, a lifeline to the middle class. | ||
| It drove the largest decrease in child poverty in history. | ||
| People could pay their electric bills, fill their gas tanks, pay for childcare. | ||
| It reached more than 61 million children, lifted 4 million out of poverty, led to a 26 percent decline, in hunger in families with children. | ||
| There has never been a federal program that has such a profound impact in such a short amount of time. | ||
| Do the right thing. | ||
| Vote yes on the motion to commit. | ||
| I yield back. Okay, this is Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It's Monday, 9 January in the year of our Lord, 2023. | ||
| It's been a wild week. First week, it's the rules package being debated, and I think you're seeing democracy at work. | ||
| Right now, we're going to try to show a balance of Republican and Democrat. | ||
| Republicans for the package, Democrats opposed to the package, particularly certain elements of it. | ||
| A great learning experience. | ||
| We hope to show a lot more of this in the House, which will be quite Combative as it should be. | ||
| That's what democracy is about. | ||
| You're in the war room. We've got a lot to do. | ||
| I've got a lot of people to juggle, and we've got to go back to this floor debate. | ||
| Also, go to Grace Chong and Mo Bannon, I think, over at War Room. | ||
| You can see right now on Getter. | ||
| We've got a live stream going and a live chat there, so we want to have an immersive experience. | ||
| You're going to have to try to... Juggle this. | ||
| There's a lot of stuff going on. | ||
| I've got Koffler on Ukraine. | ||
| I've got Natalie Winters on Investigative Report, also some discussion about Twitter and Brazil. | ||
| But Matthew Tierman joins me. | ||
| Matthew, there's some breaking news out of Brazil. | ||
| Can you get us up to speed? | ||
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Yeah, so it is actually, you know, the correlations. | |
| You and I, we sometimes have a tendency to be a little flippant in our aggressiveness, but we are not. | ||
| When it comes to Brazil, Stalinism is setting in quick. | ||
| The correlations with J6 have spiked today. | ||
| A lot of videos floating around that show that there was many agent provocateur, that there were hand-picked lefties, recognizable, that were put in there ahead of the mass throng of protesters who marched to first the National Congress building. | ||
| And once they got in, the mails from begun, the destruction, the breaking windows, Very, very orchestrated. | ||
| The mosaic of video footage that is now coming forward as people who had it are able to upload it is overwhelming. | ||
| At the same time, we have a concentration camp that has actually been built. | ||
| 1,200 people have been rounded up. | ||
| As of this morning, we had a number of 400. | ||
| It's up to 1,200, and they're being detained. | ||
| In the federal police's main gymnasium in Brazil, packed in. | ||
| I have sources telling me they're getting from the people in there. | ||
| They're not giving them water. They're not giving them bathroom breaks. | ||
| There's a lot of elderly people there, and a woman has just died, and no one has access to lawyers. | ||
| Those who already have counsel, who have- Hold on, hold on. | ||
| How do you- Whoa, whoa. | ||
| Slow down. Take a deep breath. | ||
| How do you know that someone's died? | ||
| Who that verified that? | ||
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I've had that verified by five or six people who were either in there or talking to those people in there, and there's video of people looking in very, very rough shape, like sardines in a can. | |
| So this is looking like Brazil is treating their countrymen lower than Geneva Accords standards. | ||
| Which is not surprising when you realize who is taking control. | ||
| The Stalinist mentality is we will break as many eggs to make our socialist utopia omelette. | ||
| And that is what they're doing. We predicted gulags. | ||
| We didn't think it would happen this quickly. | ||
| But hey, J6 was a model. | ||
| If it could happen in the U.S., It could certainly happen in Brazil with those who are now wielding the full control of all the... | ||
| You know, they were asking about the extradition of Bolsonaro. | ||
| They were asking about, oh, Americans like Steve Bannon instigating this. | ||
| MSNBC was, Admiral Kirby says, hey, they talked to... | ||
| To Lula, no mention, I don't think, any mention of, he didn't want to talk about it, but it looked like no mention of Bolsonaro, no mention of us. | ||
| But they said there is going to be an investigation. | ||
| We would love an investigation, and we think that where Lula should start is to get to the report. | ||
| Matthew, real quickly, it's day 72 of the crisis. | ||
| Can you get MSNBC, can you get Nicole Wallace up to speed on what she's missed on the first, since they've just covered it starting today? | ||
| On the first 69 or 70 days, what did they miss, sir? | ||
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Well, I mean, they've missed the entire breakdown of a constitutional republic's quick descent into autocracy, starting from the judiciary controlling their levers and breaking down the separation of powers. | |
| The beauty of a constitutional republic is that power is checked. | ||
| Especially historically in the U.S., but in parliamentary systems in Europe as well. | ||
| While Brazil, and I think that Bolsonaro did not do enough when he was in power to check the power of the judiciary. | ||
| And that is a sad state of affairs because now they have total power. | ||
| I would argue that Lula is not the most powerful man in Brazil. | ||
| Nowhere near. It's Alexandre de Moraes. | ||
| The head of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Electoral Court, who has pulled all the levers to spring him from jail, to expunge his record, to oversee and anoint himself head of the subsidiary court. | ||
| That's a conflict of interest, head of the Supreme Court, and now he appointed himself head of the electoral court so that he could administer and oversee the election. | ||
| So you've got one guy with more unilateral powers. | ||
| He's behaving as a corrupted, despotic monarch. | ||
| This is not a constitutional republic any longer, and that is a scary thing. | ||
| Can you tell, get Morning Mika and people up to speed on the first step that Lula should do in his investigation? | ||
| Should we read the report from the military about their inability to really complete an audit? | ||
| What would be the highlight? | ||
| What would be the one or two things you would have Lula focus on in MSNBC, BBC, CNN, everybody? | ||
| What would you have them focus on, sir? | ||
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Well, last I checked, Mika's not returning my calls. | |
| I met her once, and she didn't seem too friendly in Europe when she saw what side of the divide I was on. | ||
| But these people are willfully blind. | ||
| As I've had conversations today with the mainstream press, AP, Washington Post, the usual suspects, now they're paying attention. | ||
| The revolution would not be televised with 10 million people on the street, but now that they have their southern border January 6th that they can utilize for a global narrative set, they are very attentive. | ||
| And I've had several reporters hang up on me when I wouldn't take the bait on the framing they were going with. | ||
| Trump, Bolsonaro, Bannon, Jason Miller, Matthew Tierman organizing the coup from Mar-a-Lago or Washington. | ||
| I said, that is fake news. | ||
| Aren't you interested in the censorship of journalists or Lula da Silva being unconstitutionally let out of prison and illegally having his record expunged? | ||
| No interest. Crickets usually ending up in getting hung up on it because they realized I wasn't going to take their bait. | ||
| So we know how they operate, and they are working very, very hard to make hay with this new opportune fact pattern from yesterday. | ||
| And they're going to take the bait of Lula. | ||
| You've got to get, by the way, Lula, you want legitimacy? | ||
| You've got to turn over those machines. | ||
| You've got to get to the bottom of what happened to the machines. | ||
| By the way, let's not hold it against Mika. | ||
| You have that effect upon Mika. | ||
| Many women you meet the first time, Matthew Tiermon. | ||
| What's your social media, Matthew, so people can follow you during this Brazil, this major event in Brazil? | ||
| I call it the Brazilian Spring. | ||
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First off, that last gig made you sound like my Jewish mother, so thank you for that. | |
| I was a little homesick. Matthew Tiermon, M-A-T-T-H-E-W-T-Y-R-M-A-N-D at Getter, Twitter, War Room, and hopefully be on Tucker tonight as well, so tune in for that. | ||
| Okay, look for you on Tucker Carlson tonight and Matthew Tierman. | ||
| Fantastic job you've been doing on everything related to Brazil. | ||
| Can we go to the House floor for a second? | ||
| I want to bring Natalie Winters here about Brazil and I've got to bring Koffler in about Ukraine. | ||
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Let's go back to the floor. Cut out the salary for an employee he didn't like or thought was acting improperly. | |
| That was not appropriate and of course that did not prevail. | ||
| But I regret that we don't have an opportunity to look at these rules in the way that so many on this floor talked about doing. | ||
| First of all, of course, they're not single issues. | ||
| There are a lot of issues. It's the rules. | ||
| Secondly, there are ways and means to provide for consideration in a transparent, open fashion in which I could offer an amendment to a rule. | ||
| that I thought was not in the benefit of this House or the American people. | ||
| Unfortunately, the process, which is the very first process under which we have considered a piece of business, not necessarily legislation, and that is ironic. | ||
| But it is what it is. | ||
| But it will, as such a process does, force us to vote against a piece of Organizational rules because we don't agree with some of those rules. | ||
| And that's what I will do. | ||
| Let me come back. This debate is between Democrats and Republicans on this rules package. | ||
| Kind of revolutionary because you've got real input and real stroke and real power from the House Freedom Caucus, the MAGA wing of this, as you saw last week. | ||
| I want to bring in Natalie Winters. | ||
| Natalie, a couple of things. Number one, explain to me, and I'm having James Zircon later, what is this situation with this, the criticism now of Elon Musk? | ||
| He shut down the Brazilian team, and I think they're accusing him of being part of this or being part of the problem because he shut down the entire Brazil operation and included their quote-unquote misinformation team. | ||
| Can you get us, I think Rolling Stone, Washington Post, everybody now is putting stories up on this. | ||
| What's going on with Twitter? | ||
| Sure. So if you remember, Elon Musk took over Twitter in October. | ||
| So now, given what happened in Brazil, a lot of the mainstream media outlets, they're working in concert like they always do to push a very specific narrative. | ||
| And that is that in November, Elon Musk allegedly fired basically all of the Brazil-based Twitter team. | ||
| They don't really get into the specifics of why, but because of this mass firing, a lot of people who are involved in content moderation in Brazil were also laid off. | ||
| But what's really interesting, and I think kind of the buried lead of this Rolling Stone article, there's a very telling sentence where they say, ever since this cohort of people who are based in Brazil who work for Twitter have been fired, The engagement of right-wing accounts on Twitter, specifically those that are pro-Bolsonaro, has skyrocketed, right, to unprecedented levels. | ||
| And that shows you, once you take the restrictions off these social media platforms, populist candidates like Bolsonaro, you know, the right-wing people, conservatives, they just are naturally organically more prominent and more popular. | ||
| Then these kind of artificially astroturf left-wing narratives. | ||
| So that's why they need these censorship campaigns so hard. | ||
| But I think what's really important here to bring it back to what's going on in the United States is I think they're really trying to use this example of what's happening in Brazil with these election protests and what's going on at these federal buildings as sort of a case study, as sort of a warning sign. | ||
| To people here in the United States as to why we need social media censorship, right? Why disinformation, why misinformation is so deadly? | ||
| And I'll make it even, I think, more full circle because I think Brazil is important in its own right, right, in regards to natural resources and the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| But in terms of the election integrity battle here in the United States, Part of the reason that we haven't seen, I think, really any real inquiry or investigation into the fraud that occurred in Brazil is because, if people remember, the nonpartisan group that was brought in to be responsible for election observation in Brazil, right? It was supposed to be nonpartisan, no conflicts of interest. | ||
| They were given sole access to really vet these machines before they were used, was the Carter Center. | ||
| Now, we have a report up on the War Room site talking about how this group is intimately involved, including receiving money from the Chinese Communist Party and their various foreign influence groups. | ||
| But do you know where else the Carter Center was heavily active and brought in as the independent, nonpartisan election observer? | ||
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Swing states in the United States election elections. | |
| And aren't they all over Arizona, for instance, in the Carter organization in Arizona as one of those swing states, ma'am? Exactly. | ||
| Arizona. I remember you reporting. | ||
| I remember you reporting. | ||
| Yeah, you took my lead away from me. | ||
| And the funniest thing, there were two elections in all of 2022 that they put out post-election statements about saying that no election fraud occurred and that people who say otherwise are engaging in misinformation and disinformation. | ||
| And do you know what those two elections were? | ||
| Brazil and And Arizona. | ||
| So this is an example of how there really is both a globalist and a global concerted effort. | ||
| Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. | ||
| That is blockbuster. | ||
| Go back and hit rewind just for a second. | ||
| What was their report? | ||
| Not that they would ever be in business with the CCP to drop this. | ||
| Give us that report again. | ||
| So the Carter Center, I know we have limited time today, so I won't get into it, but the Carter Center has taken funds on the think tank and academic side of it from a group called the China United States Exchange Foundation to put out reports that are basically pro the United States and the rest of the world collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| But even more nefariously, the Carter Center since the 1990s has actually partnered and signed memorandums of understanding with the actual Chinese Communist Party, not influence groups, but the Chinese Communist Party itself, to help administer elections overseas in China. | ||
| They've sponsored delegations for Chinese Communist Party officials to come into the United States to watch how we run our elections here. | ||
| So this is a group that, you know, to its core, not only is it obviously Chinese Communist Party funded, but it's really a globalist, and that obviously runs in line with the Chinese Communist Party, but they're also funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation, Pfizer funds them, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. | ||
| So my point is, there's repeat offenders, and what they're trying to push the narrative here with the social media censorship is that if we don't have censorship To the nines, if we aren't suppressing any person who is marginally conservative in support of Bolsonaro, you're gonna get January 6th-like events. | ||
| So they're trying to create this, I would argue, a very fake narrative. | ||
| And that's why you see all these mainstream media outlets kind of pushing a similar story, right? | ||
| It's like the information laundering process. | ||
| It starts with the Washington Post and then it trickles down to the Rolling Stones of the world. | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| I want you to hold because I'm gonna come back for your investigative report. | ||
| Telling me about the conservative handles on Twitter. | ||
| You're saying, and particularly things around Brazil, as soon as the restrictions were taken off, you're saying these things exploded? | ||
| Is that they had tremendous following? | ||
| I want to read a direct quote from the Rolling Stone article because it's so telling. | ||
| The takeover, so this is talking about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. | ||
| The takeover has since coincided with an engagement boom for Brazilian right-wing accounts on the platform. | ||
| The Rolling Stone, you hear it there. | ||
| It's not a conspiracy theory. | ||
| Shadow bans are indeed real. | ||
| The rest of the piece goes on to say, really, I think the funniest thing is they're saying, you know, once we stopped content moderation, right-wing accounts, pro-Bolsonaro accounts, Basically, they're saying once we stopped artificially altering engagement, account accessibility, people's voices were actually heard. | ||
| And I think it's sort of a parallel, like we were talking about with the Carter Center and elections and votes. | ||
| And to quote, you know, Jamie Raskin, let's have an incredibly intense investigation into the legitimacy of these election results. | ||
| Let's not have a dubious investigation. | ||
| Let's do it. I think the Rolling Stone can be one of the first pieces of evidence that we cite. | ||
| This all gets into the pre-bunking also. | ||
| They want to pre-bunk. Natalie, hang her for one second because I've got to get to your investigation over the Daily Beast. | ||
| But I want to bring in Rebecca Koffler. | ||
| By the way, the House has gone into recess, so we would cut back to the House floor. | ||
| And I don't think the vote's gone on yet. | ||
| I'm looking at my Evercrack producer. | ||
| Mo and Grace, I think, are still up on the live stream. | ||
| By the way, this is a quote right now from James Comer. | ||
| There's a new day dawning in the House right here. | ||
| James Comer, who is going to set to chair the Oversight Committee. | ||
| His quote, President Biden has been very critical of President Trump, mistakenly taking classified documents to the residents or wherever, whenever, or wherever, and now it seems he may have done the same thing. | ||
| How ironic. | ||
| It looks like there's a breaking story about Biden and some classified documentation. | ||
| So Comer. I can tell you right now that the Republican establishment is not excited by some of these chairmen that are being picked in. | ||
| Bill Cristo has already called them election deniers, a full MAGA, that the conservatives and the MAGA and the populace are really taking over these key committees. | ||
| They're not the Republicans. | ||
| You're getting as tough a statement From some of these establishment Republicans, as you're getting for Democrats. | ||
| I want to go to Rebecca Koffer. | ||
| Rebecca, you've got an amazing piece that you came out with, I think, this morning. | ||
| But I want to get into, I want to make sure everybody knows, because Angus King came back, the independent, the senator who's independent, but caucuses with the Democrats up in Maine. | ||
| He went to Ukraine. | ||
| Over the Christmas holidays, he came back. | ||
| His report was big headlines. | ||
| This is trench warfare. | ||
| It reminds me of World War I. Now, we told people back 10 months ago when the slaughter started, it was going to be World War I-type warfare. | ||
| The Russians keep pounding away. | ||
| There's some report today, and I don't know if it's real. | ||
| Do we have that clip? I can play it to tee up. | ||
| Do we have the clip ready to go with the map? | ||
| Is that the clip ready to go? | ||
| Let me know. I've got a clip I want to play for Rebecca. | ||
| Yeah, here it is right here. Let's play the clip for us about the 600 casualties in the Ukrainian army. | ||
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Let's go ahead and hear it. On day 319 of Vladimir Putin's 10-day military operation, they're claiming an attack that they've identified over the last 24 hours, Ukrainian troop concentrations in a building in the town of Kramatorsk that we can see in the center there, and that they attacked it with rockets. | |
| And have killed over 600. | ||
| Now, that's interesting. They've said it's in retaliation to the Ukrainian New Year's Eve strike in the city of Mekiva that the Ukrainians claimed that they killed 400 Russians in, and the Russians said that they had lost 89 in that. | ||
| Rebecca, you wrote, I think, one of the definitive books on Putin about how he thinks as a KGB officer and how he thinks, and particularly his... | ||
| And you can't say it any other way. | ||
| He has a virulent hatred of certain elements of the United States of America, right? | ||
| But you wrote this book about it. | ||
| But there's been so much misinformation out there about this war. | ||
| And you've always been kind of a steady hand on this to say, look, the Russian military is the... | ||
| And by the way, people should know Rebecca is a former... | ||
| Senior DIA, Defense Intelligence Official, and that's what I call, they do the heavy lift. | ||
| The CIA is kind of an Ivy League setup. | ||
| The workers, the people who get the heavy lifts come from Defense Intelligence. | ||
| What's your assessment, because you're seeing this back and forth, but every day I'm seeing horrific images Every day of the Russians just digging in, and this looks like we're now back to attrition warfare. | ||
| You saw that huge map, which I love, which I think ITV or Channel 4 over there does, is that whole huge map that shows you Eastern Ukraine kind of under control of the Russians. | ||
| Get us up to speed on exactly what's happening. | ||
| This is a real tragedy, Steve. | ||
| We're entering the hottest phase yet in this war. | ||
| Why? It's because all of the three sides, the three parties to this conflict, Moscow, Kyiv, and Washington, are postured to escalate. | ||
| Zelensky is emboldened by his ability to convince Washington to part with our money, with U.S. taxpayers' money. | ||
| Remember the stellar performance that he gave to Congress just a few days ago? | ||
| Before Christmas, coincidentally. | ||
| We're providing right now 50 % of Ukraine's GDP in terms of money and very sophisticated weaponry. | ||
| Ukraine's Chief of Military Intelligence Kirilla Budanov just vowed that Ukraine is going to strike deeper and deeper into the Russian territory. | ||
| Well, is Putin really going to just sit back and wait until Moscow is decapitated? | ||
| Of course not. Putin is also postured to escalate. | ||
| He just gave a nine-minute speech where he basically galvanized the entire Russian people. | ||
| He put the entire country of Russia on a wartime footing, both from the military standpoint and from the economic standpoint. | ||
| And, of course, Washington keeps expanding the scope and scale of the weaponry we're providing to them. | ||
| It's no longer the blankets and the night vision goggles like during the Obama administration. | ||
| We are talking right now top-of-the-line missile defense system, you know, the Patriot. | ||
| We're talking about HIMARS, and recently we're talking about a Bradley fighting vehicle. | ||
| This is a tank killer. | ||
| So we right now steadily are climbing what we call in the intelligence business escalation ladder. | ||
| And coming from the intelligence community, we gamed this all out. | ||
| Right? So every single war game that I participated in ended up in a nuclear conflict. | ||
| And that is because Putin and the Moscow regime view Kyiv as part of their strategic security perimeter, similar to our Monroe Doctrine, right? | ||
| Remember in 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis. | ||
| Would we have ever tolerated the Russians, you know, having their nuclear weapons and having Any kind of their military hardware next to our borders? | ||
| Well, it's the same thing. | ||
| He views that as an existential threat for which he's going to do everything to neutralize it. | ||
| And just to demonstrate how they view this conflict. | ||
| And this threat is existential. | ||
| I'll give you a quote by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who on December 28, he warned in a speech, Washington, that carrying out a decapitation blow targeting the Russian strongmen and physically eliminating the head of the Russian state is going to be responded with A very serious action. | ||
| So they're basically thinking that we are coming out for Putin's head. | ||
| That's how they view it. | ||
| And this is why this conflict is going to end up, if it's not stopped, into World War III, really. | ||
| Okay. Hang on for one second. | ||
| We'll bring you back after the break. | ||
| I got Natalie Winters from her investigation, Jane Zirkle. | ||
| There's breaking news here. | ||
| Jake Sherman over at Punchbowl, which is on Capitol Hill, Comer, and this is why there's a new day dawning, okay? | ||
| And I realize a lot of people have been disappointed about a lot of things, but hey, there's a new day dawning. | ||
| Comer is telling, I think, one of the guys from Punchbowl, That he will, this is Comer, he will send a letter to the White House Counsel's Office and National Archives tomorrow on the, wait for it, classified documents found at University of Pennsylvania at that Biden Center, the Biden deal he had, underwritten as Natalie Winters. | ||
| Remember, as I think, partly by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Classified documents, whoa-ho, baby. | ||
| Man, oh man, oh man, can't believe it. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| There's a recess in the house in this rules debate. | ||
| We've got Natalie Winner. | ||
| She's got a bombshell report about the Daily Beast. | ||
| We've got Rebecca Koffler. | ||
| A lot more questions to talk to her about Ukraine. | ||
| Jane Zirkle's going to tell us about social media, what's happening down in Brazil. | ||
| Maybe even play a little clip from Nicole Wallace. | ||
| Nicole Wallace not loving on Steve Bannon this afternoon. | ||
| Giving stink eye. | ||
| That's okay. We can take it. | ||
| short commercial break back in a moment as they're voting on the rules package is going to get done tonight Pretty intense debate. | ||
| Looks like the Republicans have been whipped. | ||
| They're all in line. And we're going to continue on. | ||
| By the way, the show's here as we spend more time focused on the House. | ||
| And there's a new day dawning. | ||
| Already, the Justice Department has admitted that they notified, I think, Biden in the fall. | ||
| About something that happened when he was vice president. | ||
| Natalie Werner's notice about the University of Pennsylvania. | ||
| It seems like he left classified information there. | ||
| The reason why you say, well, why did this happen, Steve? | ||
| Why did this come up today? | ||
| It came up today because we're in charge now. | ||
| Comer's in charge of oversight. | ||
| That's where all of a sudden you've seen this. | ||
| Why didn't it come and tell people last fall? | ||
| Did they tell the minority last fall? | ||
| Did they tell people what's going on before the election? | ||
| Before the election? | ||
| No. The Justice Department, you're going to find out, suppress this information. | ||
| This is exactly what goes on. | ||
| These people are totally corrupt. | ||
| And this is, why did it disappear today? | ||
| Why all of a sudden today we have Comer and everybody? | ||
| Because guess what? These rats, you're going to see, you're going to be turned over rocks. | ||
| You're going to have cockroaches running everywhere. | ||
| So I know people said, hey, wish we had won more seats, wish we had done that, wish this, wish that, got it. | ||
| But we got what we got. | ||
| And I'm telling you, if people roll hard, you're going to start the process of saving this nation. | ||
| I got news for Zelensky because I think the farm, let's bring a call for, didn't the farm, we just gave them, I think, $50 billion out of this package that was snuck in the middle of the night in the omnibus. | ||
| They just announced yesterday another $4 billion, I think it was, $3.2 or $4 billion of additional aid outside that package. | ||
| And correct me if I'm wrong, did the foreign minister come on TV over the weekend? | ||
| I saw clips from her saying that the West needs to actually increase it. | ||
| It's going to take more and more and more. | ||
| Did that happen in the last couple of days, that what we've given so far is not even close to being good enough? | ||
| Tell us what happened. Oh, they continue to request more and more. | ||
| Request is putting it mildly. | ||
| They continue to shame us into giving them more money, claiming that it's not a charity, but it is actually an investment. | ||
| And even Washington officialdom right now openly justifies this investment as Bleeding Russia off of its military material and its military force. | ||
| So this is what's happening. | ||
| We're effectively fighting a proxy war using our own weaponry and Ukrainian soldiers. | ||
| Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. | ||
| And right now it's being depopulated, Steve. | ||
| Ukrainians have lost between 120 to 140,000 people. | ||
| And on top of that, the Russian casualties, and we have a quarter of a million right now of military-age, child-producing males Dead or injured in Europe. | ||
| And it's nowhere, the end is nowhere. | ||
| Hold on, is that a combination of Russia? | ||
| Because I thought Russia was 100,000, Ukraine was 100,000, then you had 40,000 civilians. | ||
| Walk me through your set of math. | ||
| I'm giving you the total of Russians and Ukrainians combined is quarter of a million right now. | ||
| There's 200,000 total of military personnel plus about 40,000 civilians, okay? Do they understand that the gravy train's over? | ||
| I mean, our assessment is zero. | ||
| They get no money. Let Europe, let France, let Germany. | ||
| Just a report in the paper that Germany had the highest non-participation in the military. | ||
| They're all becoming conscientious objectors because they don't want to fight in Ukraine. | ||
| They want American boys and girls to go over there with our money. | ||
| Do they understand? We're not going to send battle tanks. | ||
| We're not going to authorize jet aircraft. | ||
| We're not going to authorize long range or mid range missiles that can hit into Russia. | ||
| We want this thing. We want them to get to the negotiating table. | ||
| And that map you saw up there, hey, I guess that map's going to be whatever it's going to be. | ||
| But they're going to have to get to the... | ||
| And this thing, happy talk about an audit of what went over. | ||
| Forget that. How about this? | ||
| We'll audit later. No money right now. | ||
| You know they're skimming it right off the top. | ||
| How much actually gets to the frontline soldiers? | ||
| How much actually gets to the people and how much is stolen by the oligarchs? | ||
| Rebecca, I got to bounce because I got to go back to the House floor. | ||
| Let me know when that vote is done. | ||
| Rebecca, how do people get to you? | ||
| Read this amazing article you've got up now and all your other information, including your book. | ||
| I have the website, RebeccaCoffler.com. | ||
| My book is... | ||
| Putin's Playbook is available anywhere on Amazon and any other store. | ||
| I actually predicted this war because it was all gamed out, as I said, in the intelligence community. | ||
| And every single war game ended up in U.S. Boys and Girls being deployed into the theater. | ||
| This is where we are marching steadily. | ||
| I'm on Getter, Twitter, and Truth Social. | ||
| Rebecca at 0132. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| Let's fight. | ||
| I mean, we need to prevent socialism from poisoning this country, and we need to elect the right leaders so that they can put America back together in order and the world back together in order, because Biden has created chaos, not only in our country, but all over the world. | ||
| Thank you for having me, Steve. | ||
| America first. Thank you very much, Rebecca Koffler. | ||
| By the way, you talk about war games and you got... | ||
| Excuse me. You talk about war games. | ||
| CSIS had this result of a war game on CNN that talked about an invasion of Taiwan that would happen in 2025 or 2026. | ||
| The results of the war game were that the United States, the Seventh Fleet, the Pacific Fleet, were able to hold off the invasion of Taiwan, which is Silicon Valley West, but it would come at a steep cost. | ||
| The cost would be two carrier battle groups, essentially at the bottom of the Taiwan Straits, thousands and thousands of casualties, but the Americans would prevail. | ||
| Now, I don't think that didn't include South Korea, Japan, didn't include cyber, unconventional warfare, but it's a very scary report that even, and it's almost, I'm not saying a Pyrrhic victory, But the requirements for that victory were pretty stunning. | ||
| Two carrier battle groups. That has not happened since the darkest days of World War II. In fact, the darkest and earliest days of World War II, if you take the kamikazes hitting the later smaller aircraft carriers. | ||
| Let me go to Natalie Winters. | ||
| Natalie, and by the way, just let me know when the vote's over on the House floor because I'm trying to maintain two things. | ||
| Natalie, I want to get to this Daily Beast interview. | ||
| Tell us, how did you get involved in this, and what's the result? | ||
| Because it's pretty jaw-dropping, ma'am. | ||
| Well, I think most people in War Room probably know me from my early reporting, which has to do with how the Chinese Communist Party really has bought and paid for so many Of the journalists, though I won't even use that word because it's not an accurate description, but the paid propagandists in the mainstream media, much like everything in the United States, a lot of the talking points that you see come out of the media, I would argue, are made in China. And I've done a lot of intense reporting into how the Chinese Communist Party has, you know, | ||
| multi-billion dollar political warfare operations to target journalists at outlets ranging from MSNBC to NBC to CNN. to the New York Times. | ||
| So I thought it was very, very interesting, kind of with that context in mind, that a journalist whose name you probably see on your Twitter or Getter feed quite a lot, because he always seems to be breaking, I would argue, dubiously sourced stories, Attacking the character and, I would say, the after-work activities of some of the nation's leading conservative voices. | ||
| He was responsible for breaking stories about Herschel Walker allegedly paying for an abortion and having a secret son. | ||
| And most recently, he actually alleged that CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp had groped a male staffer I believe last year. | ||
| But those allegations aside, I think it's very, very curious that this reporter who works for The Daily Beast, Roger Sollenberger, formerly worked for a now sanctioned company that is tied to the Chinese Communist Party's People's Liberation Army, a company known as DJI, which is a drone making company that is actively involved in the surveillance of China, but really tries to get American companies, including federal contractors, to use their products And there's a lot of controversy, | ||
| and like I said, the firm has been sanctioned and blacklisted because they comply with the Chinese Communist Party's request to turn over data, surveillance tapes on American soil to China, to Beijing. | ||
| And what's so interesting, too, Roger Sullenberger, who loves to parade with this air of moral superiority on Twitter, Well, this company that he used to work for, again, that's an employment that's conveniently missing from his bio on the Daily Beast website, but they were actually primarily sanctioned because a lot of the surveillance technology that they have developed, or that DJI uses, has been used in the genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and China. | ||
| And what's so interesting is that a previous company that Roger Sullenberger used to work for called 3DR, which was an American drone company, actually partnered with DJI to give them their own surveillance company, their kind of proprietary surveillance system. | ||
| It's unclear whether or not that was exactly used in the surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but it really is a perfect example, I think, of how American companies have routinely aided and abetted not just the Chinese Communist Party's atrocities against their own people, but have allowed for these Chinese Communist Parties to really ascend On the global stage and global marketplace, all the while calling people like me and you and other conservatives evil, making these spurious, | ||
| dubious allegations. And it's just a perfect example of how the mainstream media really should establish their headquarters in Beijing and not here in the United States. | ||
| So this Sullenberger, has he ever admitted, I mean, on any of these reports, does he ever say, hey, I work for a CCP-sponsored company as he goes after, I don't know, whether it's Matt Schlapp or Herschel Walker. | ||
| I heard he's gone after many other people. | ||
| Does he have full disclosure that he says, hey, this is, by the way, I've worked with companies that have strong financial ties to the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
| Nope. Despite going after America first candidates and politicians, which are of course China last, CCP last people too, on the other side of the coin, his professional bio mentions there's no reference to the fact that he worked for a very, very heavily A controlled company by the Chinese Communist Party that, as I said before, has been sanctioned by both the Trump administration and the Biden regime for their ties to China's military. | ||
| And what's more interesting is I think there's kind of been an effort to really bury this tie between Roger Sullenberger and DJI drones. | ||
| There were some videos of him, I think, playing around with DJI products, but they've since been delisted. | ||
| They're now private, so you can't access them. | ||
| So I think this is definitely a A stain on his employment record that he doesn't want anyone to know. | ||
| But it's very important to understand where a lot of these journalists, which even Vanity Fair in a piece, they did a whole glowing piece on him not too long ago, kind of praising him as the guy who broke a lot of stories about Herschel Walker. | ||
| And they call him this, you know, kind of amateur, this newcomer to journalism who's been breaking a bunch of stories. | ||
| So it's certainly not that I want to, you know, speak, but it's certainly a curious track record that this guy just kind of comes out of nowhere, you know, or that nowhere actually having been on the payroll and working for a Chinese Communist Party controlled company now just is really an attack dog against a bunch of conservatives. | ||
| So it's certainly curious. | ||
| One of the reasons you're at War Room now is your strong investigative capabilities and what you've done the last couple of years and now that this is always going to be such a huge thing in the House. | ||
| What is your response? | ||
| The Democrats are starting to freak out. | ||
| I mean, Jamie Raskin And we go after him a lot here, but he's a serious player. | ||
| I mean, it's one of the reasons we go after him. | ||
| He is like in full meltdown mode about the weaponization of the government subcommittee. | ||
| He's saying this thing is dubious. | ||
| He says you got all these election deniers like Jim Jordan and others associated with this, going to chair it. But he says it has immense Investigatory power. | ||
| Just across the board, and you see an R.A. Comer and Oversight going after, they want response from Biden's White House. | ||
| We're going to get to this. You know, it's very ironic that they found this one about Biden being vice president. | ||
| And real quickly, Natalie. | ||
| This University of Pennsylvania deal with Biden has always been a little scammy, right? | ||
| This is part of that whole Hunter Biden laptop. | ||
| It's about where the money went, who was it raised from, what Biden actually had to do for it. | ||
| The whole thing has got a scam associated with it and it's got a CCP taint somehow, ma'am. | ||
| Well, China has actually plowed its over $50 million into the University of Pennsylvania. | ||
| And because our lawmakers have no appetite to go after China, maybe this commission, this committee will expose, you know, who exactly is responsible. | ||
| I and the War Room audience can kind of piece it together based on a lot of the public statements these politicians make. | ||
| But with the way the law is written, you don't really have to disclose what institutes exactly are accepting the money from these various Chinese Communist Party-linked entities. | ||
| So it's not certainly clear who exactly within the University of Pennsylvania system was taking, like I said, this over $50 million amount. | ||
| But it really is curious, I think, to me, when you see these huge sums of money flowing, Confidential documents in the Penn-Biden Center, which also has appointed a lot of people at their high levels, people who were involved in Joe Biden and the Obama administration's pivot to Asia, particularly in the realm of transportation and green energy. | ||
| So I think it's interesting when you have basically no chain of custody or no track record on where exactly this money's going, because that's the way the regulations that the Obama-Biden regime was writing, so you don't know where the money's going. | ||
| And you have confidential documents swirling around with an influx of Chinese cash. | ||
| Again, as someone who's followed Chinese Communist Party influence operations and really understands how they operate and how they really infiltrate every corner. | ||
| They leave no stone unturned here in the United States when you have people like the Biden family who welcome them with open arms and open wallets and on the receiving side of things, not the giving side. It certainly raises red flags. | ||
| Can you, by the way, even as we speak, Politico is breaking a story of the Pentagon way sending striker combat vehicles to Ukraine. | ||
| They had Bradley fighting vehicles. | ||
| We haven't sent combat tanks, battle tanks, but man, I gotta tell you, the equipment we're sending there I don't know why the constitutional conservatives don't say, Joe Biden's going to come down here and make a declaration. | ||
| At least give me a Tonkin Gulf resolution. | ||
| Give me something. Because this is beyond a proxy word now. | ||
| We're sending top-quality American equipment. | ||
| Pentagon Way is sending striker combat vehicles to Ukraine. | ||
| I'm more about to say that on Getter Later. | ||
| Natalie, what's your social media? | ||
| Tell people how to get you. | ||
| Sure. I'm Natalie G. Winters on Getter, Twitter, Instagram, and you can find my work on Facebook. | ||
| And as always, go to the warroom.org website to keep up with my latest reports. | ||
| Fantastic. Let's go back to the floor. | ||
| We'll go back to the floor right now, and then we're going to get to Crom Carmichael. | ||
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Let's go to the floor. A gentlelady from Connecticut. | |
| Ask for the yeas and nays. | ||
| Yeas and nays are requested. | ||
| All those in favor of the vote by the yeas and nays will rise. | ||
| Special number having risen, the yeas and nays are ordered. | ||
| Members will record their votes by electronic device. | ||
| Pursuant to the order of the House of today, this is a five, five minute vote. | ||
| Okay, let's go. | ||
| Krom, we're going to go back and forth. | ||
| We'll be up on Getter. You got, you know, this gets a little confusing. | ||
| They just do all these different votes, but we'll get it all sorted out up on Getter in a while. | ||
| Krom Carmichael, the best gift somebody can give themselves for the new year. | ||
| We need the War Room healthy. | ||
| We particularly need healthy hearts. | ||
| That's the engine that drives it all. | ||
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What do you got for us? Steve, thanks so much for having me on. | |
| What's interesting, I read an article recently. | ||
| I don't know if you're... | ||
| Can you hear me? Krom, we're going to have to reboot you, brother. | ||
| It's not working. So let's go ahead and reboot Krom. | ||
| And let's go back to the house floor right now. | ||
| Get us up to date. We're going to bring in Jane Zirkle. | ||
| Jane, get us up to date on all things Brazil. | ||
| You've been covering this beat for us. | ||
| You've been doing it nonstop since before the election. | ||
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Tell us what's going on, ma'am. So a common goal of the protests throughout the past several months of the people of Brazil has to be getting fair media coverage. | |
| And that's something that they unfortunately haven't really received until the events of yesterday. | ||
| And now as we've seen Brazil clearly has an election problem. | ||
| But the thing is, it's been facilitated by a censorship problem. | ||
| And it's not just coming from big tech. | ||
| It has largely been coming from the Brazilian judiciary, figures like Moraes, Alexandre de Moraes, who have been implementing censorship onto pro-Bolsonaro voices, people and politicians. | ||
| And now we've seen companies like Meta come out, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram. | ||
| and WhatsApp say that this incident that occurred yesterday was an inciting incident and they will be removing content related to it and even prior to the election they labeled Brazil as a high-risk situation and so they have been moderating the content that has been posted regarding Brazil and now going back to Twitter when Elon first mentioned Brazil he said that there was a strong possibility that What had been going on at Twitter was favoring leftist Brazilian politicians, | ||
| and the bombshell report that came out in the Washington Post about Elon Musk finding at Twitter that they were Did she freeze? | ||
| Okay, we've had a little technical problem with Krom. | ||
| We've got a little technical problem with Jane, but that's okay. | ||
| Okay, we're going to be back. I'm going to be up on Getter. | ||
| I'm going to be up on Getter here shortly as we go through these votes on the House. | ||
| We're going to be back here at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. | ||
| The show is going to be very intense in the days ahead as we're going to juggle all the capital markets, geopolitics, politics, and we're actually going to cut in for as much of the live debate into the floor as possible as a lot's going on as we try to sort things out in the House. | ||
| Remember, there was a populist revolt last week. | ||
| You saw it all. We've gotten a lot of control, and people are not happy. | ||
| The people that are the most unhappy are establishment Republicans. | ||
| Bill Kristol speaking for them, saying, hey, you've got all these election deniers taking over committees. | ||
| Okay. 10 a.m. | ||
| tomorrow morning. Be back in the war room. | ||
| Tomorrow's going to be another intense day. |
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