Jan. 11, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| You just not 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 try 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? | ||
| 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! | ||
| I know the night is late, but when we come back, our very first bill We'll repeal the funding for $87,000. | ||
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You see, we believe government should be to help you, not go after you. | |
| We're going to pass bills to fix the nation's urgent challenges, from wide-open southern borders to American last energy policies to woke indoctrination in our schools. | ||
| We'll also address America's long-term challenges, the debt and the rise of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Congress must speak with one voice on both of these issues. | ||
| Our first orders of legislative business have been exactly what we promised to the American people. | ||
| We promised on day one to repeal Joe Biden's army of 87,000 new IRS agents and yesterday we did just that. | ||
| Today we will counter the Chinese Communist Party with our Select Committee on China. | ||
| We will vote to protect every American's constitutional rights with the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. | ||
| We will also vote to stop the Biden administration from selling our strategic petroleum reserves to China. | ||
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Well, one of the things we heard a lot about during that drama in the House of Representatives last week was the debt and the deficit and what needs to be done about it. | |
| And by the way, the debt ceiling as well and how that could be used to address those issues. | ||
| To bring us up to speed on exactly where we are with these issues and what could be done, we welcome now Maya McGinnis. | ||
| She's president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. | ||
| Maya, welcome back. Great to have you. | ||
| You and I have talked repeatedly about what's going on with, I will say it, overspending, borrowing so much money, borrowing more money. | ||
| The Republicans appear to really want to address that. | ||
| Do we need a debt-stealing crisis in order to do something? | ||
| Yeah, good to be with you. | ||
| We don't. We don't need a debt ceiling crisis because a debt ceiling crisis will be very, very damaging to our own economy. | ||
| And you don't want to negotiate in a way where you're actually threatening yourself. | ||
| But similar to that, here's what I think we do need. | ||
| We need an absolute commitment not to borrow anymore. | ||
| And let me separate these issues. | ||
| The debt ceiling means paying the debts that we have already incurred and passed into law. | ||
| The vast majority of members of Congress have voted to increase borrowing since the last debt ceiling increase. | ||
| So it's really not appropriate for them to vote for policies that would grow the debt and then turn around and say, I'm not going to pay for that. | ||
| And many policies that are already in place are the things that are driving the debt the most, are big mandatory spending programs and ongoing taxes. | ||
| Let me have this. | ||
| Okay, that's all they're talking about. | ||
| If we can get the morning from the hill up there. | ||
| I got Phillip Patrick to start this off. | ||
| They're firing out of the box. | ||
| Regardless of McCarthy today, they did pass the committee to go after the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Okay, and this is going to tie right back to the Biden regime. | ||
| By the way, the Biden top secret compartmented felony in the cover-up, By the Department of Justice is not trending on Twitter. | ||
| I'm going to get Posobik in tomorrow morning. | ||
| Elon Musk, and this shows you the phoniness of the whole operation. | ||
| It's the hottest story in the world. | ||
| It's the biggest story in the world. | ||
| We're going to have later the show. | ||
| The reporters, even like every time Biden goes somewhere, they're asking about it. | ||
| It's not trending on Twitter. | ||
| And here's the reason it's not trending on Twitter. | ||
| Elon Musk is not going to put up anything that goes against the Chinese Communist Party in any real sense. | ||
| Not going to do it. He's financed by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| I understand people hate when I say that. | ||
| But the Tesla joint venture in Shanghai is how he... | ||
| That's what he bars against. | ||
| He's got the margin loans over there. | ||
| He bars against it. He sells stock. | ||
| Without the Shanghai joint venture, I don't care what he's doing in the great state of Texas. | ||
| That's all fine. But it's the Shanghai joint venture. | ||
| And the selling into the Chinese market that is everything to him. | ||
| And he will not go, the reason this is suppressed, they understand immediately we connected the dots back to the CCP for the University of Pennsylvania, for Tony Blinken's West Executive Avenue consulting firm, and of course the laptop from hell. | ||
| It all goes back to the railhead of their money is the CCP. And you will never see anything. | ||
| Remember, that call they had that day I was on on the Twitter. | ||
| We were listening on Getter. | ||
| As soon as somebody mentioned the COVID demonstrations and think, oh, they jumped in. A couple of guys jumped in. | ||
| Oh, that's not that important. | ||
| You know, it's fine. It's okay. | ||
| And moved on. Why he had not condemned it. | ||
| So we're going to have a Sam Fattis on later to talk all about this. | ||
| But they passed to China. | ||
| There's already been a resolution put forward about the impeachment on Yorkus. | ||
| We're going to have Andy Biggs. Andy Biggs said, hey, I see the guy's putting it on. | ||
| He's great, but I'm putting up my own. | ||
| We got Todd Benzman. | ||
| They're moving to impeach my Yorkus right in the box. | ||
| The IRS thing, like a lot of these are messaging. | ||
| The investigations are real. | ||
| The messaging are not there. | ||
| I mean, they're great messaging. They're not real because it's not going to pass the Senate. | ||
| But there's a lot going on. | ||
| But I want to get to the debt ceiling. | ||
| She's got the old misdirection plate. | ||
| Now she's saying, well, she did say you shouldn't borrow any more money. | ||
| You should not borrow any more money. | ||
| Well, if you're not going to borrow any more money, we don't need to raise the debt ceiling. | ||
| Philip, they always said, well, you've already spent this. | ||
| That's the old canard. I want everybody to understand. | ||
| You're not raising the debt ceiling one penny. | ||
| You're not going to raise it one penny. | ||
| We're going to go through a situation where we show you how you can pay the debt, keep the full faith and credit of the United States government, pay all the interest payments on a waterfall, pay Social Security, pay Medicare, and then... | ||
| We have the old cash flow discussion. | ||
| Remember, all of it's discretionary spending. | ||
| Just because it's an appropriations bill doesn't mean anything. | ||
| It doesn't mean anything. | ||
| Still discretionary if you got the cash. | ||
| Philip Patrick, this whole issue last week comes down to money and power. | ||
| And the convergence of money and power is spending. | ||
| And the debt ceiling. | ||
| Give us your assessment, particularly where you and the Birch Gold guys see the economy going in 2023, which looks like a complete disaster. | ||
| How important is this fight, sir? | ||
| It's the most important fight in front of us. | ||
| And I think this is the year where the showdown really begins. | ||
| The markets are not looking good. | ||
| You'll turn on CNBC and you're going to hear, of course, the worst is over. | ||
| We're at the start of a big bull run. | ||
| And I think if inflation comes down marginally, which I think the headline number may do on Thursday, These calls will get even louder, but the reality is they're just wrong, right? They're just wrong. | ||
| Let's remember, we are down here 20 % from the most speculative level of valuations in US history, 20 % from an absurdly high level in the markets. | ||
| Based on Shiller PE, we still need about a 40 % drop to return to historic valuations. | ||
| Not even a typical recession would be enough to return stocks today to fundamental values. | ||
| During an average recession, we see about a 29 % drop in stocks. | ||
| Great Depression was over 55%. | ||
| Now, we look at the World Bank report that came out recently saying that this will be a global recession, right? And I think it's certainly imminent for this year. | ||
| But we've got to remember something. | ||
| During the last recessions, the stock market bottomed on average 12 months after the first Fed rate cut and 13 months after unemployment rate bottoms. | ||
| We're nowhere close. | ||
| Investors today are grossly underestimating what they call tail risk, right? | ||
| The probability that their investments will drastically underperform compared to history. | ||
| Listen, Jeremy Grantham's head fund, GMO, published a seven-year asset class forecast. | ||
| They're saying US stocks and bonds will be negative for the next seven years, and that's before the inflationary problem, which we know is nowhere close to being solved. | ||
| There isn't good news on the horizon. | ||
| Hold it. Let me go to the World Bank report. | ||
| I want to go to China and then come back to what GMO said. | ||
| The World Bank has put this report out that said they're seeing a significant global recession this year, and particularly in the developing world, it's going to be really bad. | ||
| But they're all running around with their hair on fire. | ||
| And this is why these things are inextricably linked. | ||
| You've got the China Select Committee. | ||
| Gallagher, Wisconsin is going to run that. | ||
| You've got the China Select Committee that's going to look at influence peddling and infiltration by the CCP. Right? | ||
| The CCP. Right. | ||
| In the United States, plus the problems we've got with it on Taiwan and other places. | ||
| But China's telling people now, on a day that Goldman Sachs lays off 4,000, 3,200 people, one of the biggest layoffs they've ever had, that tells you what Goldman, the smartest guys on Wall Street, think about the economy, right? | ||
| They also cut off the free coffee. | ||
| When Goldman's cutting off the free coffee, they want you caffeinated, right? | ||
| They want you chained to that desk 24 hours a day and caffeinated, having been a grundoon there. | ||
| Okay, so Goldman lays off $4,000. | ||
| Morgan Stanley comes out and says you're going to have a 22 % drop in equity prices this year, 22 % this year. | ||
| World Bank says... It says it's going to be a recession, global recession. | ||
| But I got them running around, they're high-fiving. | ||
| Jim Cramer's about to get all cranked up again. | ||
| Remember, he said on New Year's Day last year, it's the greatest economy he's ever seen, right, 2022. | ||
| Cramer's running around because China is now saying that when the opening, and of course the CCP makes up every number in the world, but they just hinted, they showed him some ankle, 6 % growth. | ||
| And man, it's like Moses came down from the mountain and had it engraved in a tablet. | ||
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I've never seen anything like it, Philip Patrick. | |
| Are they promoting us, sir? | ||
| Listen, two very good investments for this year. | ||
| Gold, which we talk about a lot, and as always, inverse Kramer is usually a very safe bet. | ||
| Listen... Yeah. | ||
| As you said, this stuff is all tied together. | ||
| The reality is, look, in very simple terms, what goes up must come down. | ||
| Very simply, we have amassed a massive debt bubble. | ||
| We have fueled asset prices for the last 13, 14 years here in the United States, and we are going to pay the price. | ||
| You are correct. The World Bank came out. | ||
| They slashed growth broadcast from 3 % to 1.7%. | ||
| That's less than half of the 60-year average, right? | ||
| Yeah. This would be one of the weakest periods of global economic growth in three decades. | ||
| And what it tells investors domestically here in the United States, there really isn't an escape, right? | ||
| This is global in nature. | ||
| The reality is we have hard, hard times to suffer. | ||
| And as we've said, we need strong, real leadership. | ||
| And we're not getting that from the Biden administration. | ||
| Nothing's really looking good economically. | ||
| The inflationary situation doesn't look good. | ||
| There was a recent study, by the way, amongst developed markets, right? | ||
| And they said that when inflation goes above 9%, it doesn't decline to 3 % or less, but between 6 and 20 years, with the average being 10, right? | ||
| We've got a Fed who's restricted. | ||
| I think high inflation is our future, and it may even lead to the Fed ultimately marking up their mandate. | ||
| I don't think the 2 % mandate can be achieved anytime soon. | ||
| No, the terminal value. | ||
| I also want to tell the audience, we're pulling up. | ||
| We're not going to wait until we've run out of cash, right? | ||
| And to put the gun to your head and say, hey, for the full faith and credit United States, you got to change this. | ||
| We're not doing it. We're going to pull that whole debate. | ||
| Understand the war room is going to do that. | ||
| We're going to pull it up to like right now and get all over it. | ||
| And that's going to make things a little shaky because they're going to set that go. | ||
| It's the end of the world. The war room posse is making their head of the creditors committee. | ||
| I want people right now to kick the new year off. | ||
| To look at a range of alternatives, look at everything. | ||
| How do they go to Birch Gold? | ||
| How do they get to you? We've got a couple of reports that we put out. | ||
| We're going to put another one out with you in a couple of weeks on the dollar. | ||
| How do people go get all this information? | ||
| It's really simple. It's birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Again, birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| They'll get access to information kits, to the reports. | ||
| I've seen a lot of your notes on the report coming up, Steve. | ||
| It's exciting for me personally, so I know it will be for everybody else out there. | ||
| You can catch me, of course, on Getter at Philip Patrick. | ||
| This is going to be a big, big year for financial markets. | ||
| Now's the time to be involved. | ||
| Now's the time to be informed. | ||
| And to get information, one more time, give that real quickly, Philip, because at the end of the dollar empire, we've got another whole free pamphlet coming out. | ||
| I want you to get it, but how do they go? | ||
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Talk to an expert at Birch. | |
| Birchgold.com forward slash Bannon. | ||
| Birchgold.com forward slash Bannon. | ||
| Talk to Phillip and the team over there. | ||
| You gotta look at your range of alternatives, okay? | ||
| We're gonna be spending a lot of time on the debt ceiling spending appropriations off. | ||
| Phillip Patrick, Happy New Year. | ||
| Good to have you back, brother. | ||
| And look forward to having you back on here. | ||
| Happy New Year. Okay, Todd Benzman. | ||
| They're already moving to impeach Mayorkas on day two at work. | ||
| Back with Benzman in a moment. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
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| I've got Benzman. | ||
| Benzman, I need you. You've got your segment here. | ||
| You and I are going to go through a bunch of stuff because you've got so much you're working on. | ||
| I've got Andy Biggs at the bottom. | ||
| I'm going to talk to Biggs about Biggs. | ||
| He's putting forward a thing. Plus, Andy's working on everything else. | ||
| He's one of the great heroes. He was the hard six, baby. | ||
| Andy Biggs. We were proud to have him on every day last week. | ||
| We're going to hold Benzman and get him back on. | ||
| So, look, I've got Biden down there, and they're doing this immigration thing, the migration thing between the three countries. | ||
| Look, here's what they're trying to do. They're trying to put the three countries together. | ||
| They're trying to get an economic zone. | ||
| They're going to start with that, but they want to merge all three. | ||
| They want to merge all three. | ||
| That's the endgame. And that's why you're seeing... | ||
| All these legal pathways now, which they talked about there. | ||
| But I want to go back. | ||
| You've got a piece on the Daily Mail. | ||
| You got this UN situation. | ||
| You got the lawsuit in Pensacola. | ||
| There's so much going on. | ||
| And there's a lot of people. By the way, you got the guys in Texas have said, we're putting in a thing that we're going to go to zero in the UN until they build the wall. | ||
| You've got other people putting in policies that are going to have hearings. | ||
| This thing's on fire. | ||
| If you've sat there for a long time and said, hey, I'm tired of this guy, I think you're starting to see some activity with fighters, people who are tired of it. | ||
| And there's two bills out there right now to impeach Majorca. | ||
| So, Todd, go to the UN part first, because I think that connects some dots. | ||
| Then I want to talk about your article, but I also want to talk about this Pensacola case. | ||
| Sure. Well, there's a 2023-2024 budget document That's online from the United Nations about all the money, $1.7 billion, that they're going to shower all along the migrant routes to the US border. | ||
| Within the $1.7 billion they're going to spend down there in 17 Latin American countries is $450 million on cash and cash equivalents that they're just going to hand out to Migrants for shelter, transportation, rent, lodging in hotels and hostels, debit cards for 600,000 people. | ||
| There's a support network with real cash, most of it coming from U.S. taxpayers that will be showered all along the migrant trails to sustain this mass migration. | ||
| To make people want to come, not worry about coming, and certainly not want to go home or stay home. | ||
| And this is just for 2023, their budget. | ||
| I've got this whole thing laid out. | ||
| We're talking about $130 million to help 586,000 immigrants on their way here with shelter, hotels, lodging, rent, utilities. | ||
| $25 million for long-distance transport for 158,000 migrants, and debit cards, cash cards for hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands of migrants that they can use in any store to make any kind of purchase on a monthly basis. | ||
| Okay, hold it. We're going to hit rewind on this. | ||
| I'm going to need you here and I probably need you here tomorrow morning because this is so important. | ||
| In the audience, I want your head to blow up. | ||
| If you're at work or this is afternoon driving a lot of places, you're driving home from work, you're putting on a hard day, you're putting in what they're adding, you know, they're trying to cut the 87,000 new IRS agents that are going to try to come and take your money. | ||
| I like Anna Polina Luna was on Cavuto. | ||
| My girl, Anna Paulina Luna, draws out, taxation is theft. | ||
| I thought Cavuto's head was going to blow up. | ||
| In the control panel at Fox, they were like, she goes, taxation is theft. | ||
| Hit them with both barrels. | ||
| It's taxation. I think the U.N. gets totally $14 billion to get this sidebar program, $1.7 billion. | ||
| $450 million. They're putting that in to prime the pump on the trail. | ||
| They're basically incentivizing people and telling them, hey, we're going to take care of you financially. | ||
| All you got to do is head north. | ||
| Instead of sitting there going, we don't want you to come. | ||
| You can't come. You're not legal to come here. | ||
| This is not an asylum program. | ||
| We may help your country, and let's figure out what we can do together to keep you in your own country. | ||
| They're putting, of the $1.7 billion, $430 million of it, $450 million of it goes into Sprinkle into the pathway north. | ||
| Is that what I'm hearing, Todd Bensman? | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| They've been doing this for years, but not to this extent. | ||
| And they're very public about it. | ||
| They're just plowing money into the migrant trails. | ||
| A lot of people regard this as aiding and abetting the mass migration, and it's with U.S. taxpayer dollars, which is the thing that angers a lot of Republicans who know about this. | ||
| The majority of people in this country have no idea that their tax money is being funneled through the U.N. to help fund our border crisis, the greatest in American history. | ||
| Now, there is a group of Republicans in the House that have proposed a defunding bill. | ||
| It's not going to go anywhere, but they did propose it to make their point. | ||
| Because of the debit cards and the cash, they hand out envelopes stuffed with cash in many cases. | ||
| And so there is a move, and they're going to revise that bill. | ||
| Hang on a second. | ||
| Let me get to that in a second. These are messaging bills right now because they're not going to go to the Senate. | ||
| Yes. But the point is to get awareness and get hearings and let people see what's going on because guess what? | ||
| The appropriations, they took the gavel out of our hand. | ||
| McConnell had not screwed us. | ||
| And let Pelosi have the gavel, but given McCarthy or whoever is going to be the gavel on appropriations, this afternoon you could say, guess what? | ||
| I saw this line on here. | ||
| How about this? It's zero. | ||
| This bill is not going to pass until that's out of there. | ||
| Now, they took it away because they knew what they were doing to keep the cartel going, but they're already starting to appropriations process. | ||
| So every hearing you have, every time we have it on the show, every time you tweet it out or put it out on Getter or push it on Facebook, It gets, it resonates. | ||
| That's what being a force multiplier means. | ||
| Also, we get it in the conscious to build the narrative to say, hold it. | ||
| They got debit cards. | ||
| They're paying rent. You know, nobody's in this audience. | ||
| You're coming home from work day. Somebody giving you a debit card that you can go put food on it, that you can go put your rent on it, that you can put your gasoline on it. | ||
| Ask yourself. Is anybody bailing you out? | ||
| No, you have illegal aliens. | ||
| People are not citizens of this country, and I'm not demonizing these folks. | ||
| Hell, if they're going to give us all this stuff, of course you're going to come north. | ||
| Why would you not do it? | ||
| You'd be an idiot not to. | ||
| They're rational human beings. | ||
| This is your government aiding and abetting an invasion of this country, Todd Benzman. | ||
| Well, yeah, and it's not just Americans. | ||
| You know, the piece that I published about the UN funding for 2023 quotes a migrant shelter director, the biggest migrant shelter in Mexico, in Monterey. | ||
| And he's telling me this story about how this mother of three children getting 6,000 pesos a month on her credit card, as well as getting shelter, food, everything they need, clothing in his shelter. | ||
| He's mad. He's like, how dare you? | ||
| She's asking for more money. | ||
| She wants him to help him get a raise. | ||
| And he's like, the average Mexican doesn't get 6,000 pesos a month and they're working their butts off. | ||
| He's furious about this. | ||
| And he's a passionate advocate for these migrants and he's mad about it. | ||
| It's patently unfair. | ||
| A lot of people would view this as unjust and injustice. | ||
| Talk to me about guys over in the House that right now are moving bills to try to defund, take the $14 billion we give the U.N. and zero it out and say, we want the $14 billion to build the wall and other things. | ||
| Talk about this movement to defund the U.N. on this topic. | ||
| Yeah, so you want to take a look at Representative Lance Gooden's bill. | ||
| I link to it in my piece, CIS.org. | ||
| It's co-sponsored by 12 Republicans. | ||
| Most of them are in the Freedom Caucus. | ||
| They're saying, look, we're going to defund the United Nations on the basis of their using U.S. taxpayer dollars to hurt American taxpayers. | ||
| The irony is a little bit rich there. | ||
| I'm told that they are going to revisit this in the very, very near future, add some revisions, rewrite it, and trot that thing out. | ||
| You're going to start hearing about this UN thing as part of the overarching border reform enforcement move in the Republican House. | ||
| So you'll see this. | ||
| Real quickly before I get Andy, you're going to hang with me, but Mayorkas, they're moving bills right now to start the impeachment process. | ||
| We're going to have Andy Biggs on here for a second. | ||
| Does Mayorkas deserve to be impeached, yes or no, Todd Bensman? | ||
| I think that there is plenty of grist for that mill. | ||
| The chief one is this made-up parallel immigration system That's extra-legal, outside of the law, skirts congressional statutes. | ||
| Start with humanitarian parole. | ||
| Fact-find. Will it succeed? | ||
| No. But I think that we can fact-find. | ||
| We'll take a short commercial break. | ||
| I think we'll get the votes. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
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Back with Andy Bix, Congressman from Arizona, next. | |
| Okay, courage is contagious. | ||
| And we saw courage last week when we were bringing in Congressman Andy Biggs. | ||
| Congressman, we have not had you since the incredible victory you guys had the other day. | ||
| And I'm so incredibly proud that in the unforgiving moment that was the 28 minutes on Friday night, This audience, which has gotten to know Eli and yourself and, of course, Rosendale and Good and Matt Gaetz, all of you guys and Boebert, to sit there and see you guys hang together is just absolutely incredible. | ||
| And I just want for the audience, it's just incredible. | ||
| You know, we can't say enough. | ||
| Talk to us about a little bit, how, what happened there, what that was like, all the threats you had, and then how it's played out over the last couple of days you've guys gotten in and gotten to work. | ||
| Yeah, you know, Steve, I'll tell you, the six of us hung together well, but it was synergistic with the other 14. | ||
| So the 20 of us fought that fight, and it was so synergistic. | ||
| But with the six... | ||
| When we decided that they had their votes, they were going to get there, but we'd gotten so much with the help of our team, a total team of 20, and one more Victoria Sparks who was voting present with us. | ||
| You know, the pressure was intense, the things that were said, the threats that were made. | ||
| I had major donors call me and Threatened me, and I had people tell me I wouldn't get committee assignments. | ||
| I mean, those things happen, and we knew that they were going to happen, but we believed that we would get to the right place, and when we felt we were at the right place and we could go no further, that's when we made the call, and we did it as a team, and that was really how it happened. | ||
| I've got to tell you, though, none of this was started. | ||
| And Matt Gaetz is just absolutely brilliant at how he gamed this out and how he thought it out. | ||
| And the whole story will come out later, but Gaetz was working on this last summer, thinking through. | ||
| But Congressman Biggs, if you had not stepped up in that conference right after the election and put your name in when everybody else was running for the hills, This would have never happened. You needed what we call Wall Street a bid away. | ||
| Not that you were going to win the speakership, but you needed somebody to step up there and put them. | ||
| You needed a bid away from McCarthy. | ||
| If you had not done this, I don't think it would ever come together even to get organized or get out there. | ||
| So that's why I think the nation, not just the conservative movement, the Republican Party, the entire country, you can already tell already. | ||
| It's going to be more on point, more focused. | ||
| This is going to help the country. | ||
| We've already had a ton of progressives, which is amazing. | ||
| We're saying, hey, why don't we have guys like Gates and Boebert and Biggs on our side that have prepared us? | ||
| Why didn't we stand up to Pelosi? | ||
| Why did we sit there and take it? | ||
| I mean, I was amazed by Twitter on Sunday. | ||
| The progress was sitting there going, we got rolled for two years. | ||
| Look at these guys. These guys are prepared to put it on the line. | ||
| Tell us about that, how some of your progressive people who totally disagree with you on policy 1,000 % were sitting there going, we look like chumps. | ||
| We sat there and let her have the imperial speakership, and these guys had guts enough to stand up, and they broke. | ||
| They started. They didn't totally break it because we had it, and part of it slipped away, but they started the process of breaking the cartels, sir. Yeah, you know, I watched that group come in, and I thought they were going to break the cartel from the left, you know what I mean? | ||
| That they were going to force Pelosi out. | ||
| And by the way, there had been, for two election cycles before that, a progressive part of that party was trying to get rid of Pelosi as their leader, but they just could never get it done. | ||
| But in the end, you have to be willing, as you know, Steve, you have to have the will, and you have to be, in some ways, willing to take self-immolation, if I could put it that way, or the immolation that's going to happen to you, and just say, this is the right thing to do, right? | ||
| And when it happens, it's unpleasant as heck, but you just have the will, and you stay with it. | ||
| And... We did because we thought it was right. | ||
| The firing off of football the last couple of days has been impressive with the rules package, all that. | ||
| But I want to be very specific. | ||
| We've had Todd Benzman on. | ||
| He's going to join us. He's watching right now. | ||
| He's going to join us right after. We've talked about everything on the border, the case in Pensacola, Biden, this UN. Now we know the UN's putting billions of dollars. | ||
| The thing's out of control. | ||
| And today, I heard earlier, I actually posted on Getter, one of the congressmen put forward a bill to impeach Mayorkas, and then I heard Andy Bigg say, hey, hey, hold my beer for a second. | ||
| I got mine coming, and I've been working on this. | ||
| So tell me about it. | ||
| Tell me, is this serious? | ||
| Are we going to put forward a process to finally impeach somebody over the invasion of our southern border, sir? I pray that we will. | ||
| Look, you know, Fallon from Texas did his. | ||
| I've had mine out there for Two years now. | ||
| But we keep updating ours because there's more and more and more to go that this guy has done. | ||
| And so we were just actually adding, editing that today earlier when I heard that the other one had been dropped. | ||
| So ours will go into the hopper in the next few days before the end of the week. | ||
| But I believe my colleagues, many of my colleagues are ready to go. | ||
| There are some that aren't so. | ||
| There's some that just don't, they view it as a mistake. | ||
| These are some of the same people who told me whatever you do. | ||
| In fact, I was told by some of them, some of the same people, they said, if you do what you're doing on the floor, on the speakership, you will destroy the party, destroy the majority, and ultimately destroy the country. | ||
| And I thought, well, first of all, No single person has that much power. | ||
| And if the institution and the party are so weak that having a debate about who should be the third most powerful person in the United States government, the Speaker of the House, is going to destroy us, then we're already destroyed. | ||
| We need to have that. | ||
| And I would say the same thing to the people who are telling me this about Mayorkas, that it's going to be perceived as political. | ||
| It's not going to be perceived as political. | ||
| We're going to have an opportunity to show what this guy has done to dismantle our border and put this country in peril economically, national security-wise, crime-wise, the inhumanity, the environmental impact. | ||
| All of these things have been put in jeopardy because of this guy and his policies. | ||
| And people say, well, it's Biden's policies. | ||
| Also is open border. | ||
| He's lied to Congress. | ||
| He's committed perjury. For no other reason, that should be impeachable for you. | ||
| Congressman Biggs, we know you're working on this and you're going to push this forward, and I believe we're going to generate enough interest and enough outcry from the base to demand that this go forward. | ||
| But since you were the first guy really to step up and put it all on the line for self-immolation, we've got about five minutes. | ||
| Walk me through what Andy Biggs wants to see of all this. | ||
| You did the fight. | ||
| You got the battle. | ||
| You won that first battle. You didn't get all you wanted, but you got a lot. | ||
| Walk us through and make this audience comfortable that Biggs is on top of it, and here's where we're going to go from here. | ||
| Well, first of all, there's two lines here. | ||
| First of all is the opening up the process so that I can adequately represent my constituents. | ||
| So what you're doing is you're getting back to a true 72-hour rule. | ||
| I think it should be longer. | ||
| I think it should be five hours. | ||
| Five days, quite frankly. | ||
| But nonetheless, you got 72 hours, and the way it's written is not like the way it was written. | ||
| The germaneness and the single-subject provisions. | ||
| The single subject's not nearly as strong as the germaneness, so it's not where I would have had it. | ||
| But what it does is it says you can't come in and say you're going to have a bill on, let's say, the antitrust for big tech and then throw in $40 billion to give to Ukraine. | ||
| That would be violative of those rules and that gives us that power to step in and make sure that we're on point and we're focused on the legislation, which means that we will hopefully do better legislation going forward and then we'll be more transparent so the people of the United States can hold us accountable instead of everybody saying, well, I didn't vote for that, you know. | ||
| Somebody just added that in, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| We got to be accountable. | ||
| Then the other part of it, Steve, is we're getting to the spending side of it. | ||
| Everything from the debt ceiling to reinvigorating the appropriations process and the budgeting process so we can try to attack the structural deficit which drives our national debt. | ||
| And so those two aspects in and of themselves are huge and Potentially transformational. | ||
| They're not the be-all and end-all, but what they do is they actually have a chance to change this institution to make it more responsive to the people and actually deal with the problems we have, you know, whether it's energy policy, border policy, the inflation and economy. | ||
| Those two things are there, and I think it will begin to open up as people realize how—members of Congress, that is—realize how much more Power that they have to represent their constituents, I think it's going to be dynamic. | ||
| Now, we have to be vigilant as members of Congress to encourage our leadership to not waive the rules. | ||
| We can't allow them to waive the rules. | ||
| We have to stick to the rules and hold firm because there'll be the temptation that comes with leadership. | ||
| And I'm not saying they're going to. | ||
| There is a temptation to just waive the rules so you can do what Pelosi did, which is always have an imperial, as you described, an imperial speakership. | ||
| So I am hopeful that Kevin McCarthy, I want him to be very successful. | ||
| I want him to be successful with the Republican Party agenda, the America First agenda. | ||
| But in order for him to be successful, in my opinion, these rules are going to get him there. | ||
| They're going to make him a successful speaker, a memorable speaker. | ||
| Tell me, people that at 10.30 or 11.30 at night when Crane, Good, Rosendale, and Biggs voted for somebody else, the people that said, those are my guys, how do you make them comfortable that since we didn't remove the cartel head, that this can still be something that is meaningful and really starts to change the country, the debt ceiling, the spending, all of it? | ||
| And it's just not kabuki theater. | ||
| Right. I mean, certainly my biggest fear is that it is performative and we lose the ability to constrain leadership. | ||
| Well, that's why the motion to vacate is important, but there's other avenues that are out there to keep pressure on leadership. | ||
| And there has to be pressure on leadership. | ||
| So when the four of us said, okay, We're going to go out as a team because we came in with these two as a team. | ||
| We're going to go out as a team. | ||
| What we said is we're going to have to make sure that we keep vigilant eye on the ball and target and keep focused. | ||
| And any five members can actually hold up this process. | ||
| We don't want to do that. | ||
| We want everybody to come in and succeed with the America First agenda. | ||
| And that's what people need to understand. | ||
| We are going to keep focused on the promises. | ||
| And I believe that Mr. | ||
| McCarthy is a different Mr. | ||
| McCarthy than he was before we got through these agreements. | ||
| And the reason I say that is because before, he did not have to pay attention whatsoever. | ||
| He could just blithely go along with the status quo. | ||
| We've hopefully changed the status quo. | ||
| That's the first step at change, is to just recognize the status quo and change it. | ||
| And that's what I think we've done. | ||
| And Steve, we're going to keep working with our colleagues. | ||
| And by the way, it wasn't just conservatives that liked the rule changes. | ||
| I talked to many in the middle and on the other side of our conference who said, I love the rule changes you're doing. | ||
| I love the rule changes, which we didn't have to do it this way. | ||
| And I would say, if we weren't doing what we're doing, you wouldn't see those rule changes. | ||
| Amen. Congressman Biggs, how do people follow you now more than ever? | ||
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| You're a hero and a patriot, sir. | ||
| Thank you very much for joining us here. | ||
| Andy Biggs, Arizona. | ||
| Incredible. Incredible fight. | ||
| People don't realize behind the scenes how they tried to destroy him. | ||
| Short break. Ben's on the other side. | ||
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| As people know, we got the team, Grace Chong, Captain Bannon. | ||
| We got all of them rolling. Just a couple of quick things. | ||
| Comer, head of House Oversight, initiates a probe into Biden's handling of the classified documents and asks the White House and the National Archive for records. | ||
| Matt Gaetz has just said they're going to release the 14,000-hours report. | ||
| Of the J6 tapes have been hidden by the Democrats. | ||
| A couple of bills, Pat Fallon's announced that he's also putting in additional information on his impeachment of Mayorkas. | ||
| And, you know, Congressman Troy Nels, we had on last week, he supported McCarthy, but the sheriff down there said there's 65 Democrats voted against the Select Committee on Investigating China. | ||
| And their names, we're going to get their names so everybody... | ||
| You know, everybody focuses on this. | ||
| It's unacceptable not to have an investigation of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| We're going to out everybody that was against it. | ||
| Todd, you've been gracious enough. | ||
| You're going to stay at the start of our 6 o'clock, but I want to get a couple minutes for Biggs said he's moving forward and updating his... | ||
| They may merge it with Fallon. | ||
| This is getting to be a thing, though. | ||
| People are outraged by this, and particularly when you come in here and every day you're talking about what the law is, the asylum law, and they're going out of their way just to break the law. | ||
| Give us your assessment. As an ability to get information out about, in a formal setting, what would you recommend these guys do to start this process? | ||
| How would you actually start it, and where would you tell these guys to go? | ||
| Well, to start with, the nation's top law enforcement officer is constitutionally obligated to make sure that the laws passed by the legislative branch are hewed to, that they are enforced. | ||
| And that's probably the first big issue that somebody would want to raise at a hearing like that, is that that was not done on purpose, purposefully not done. | ||
| To hold to the INA about mandatory deportation and detention. | ||
| And number two is these structures, these extrajudicial kind of parallel ad hoc laws that they came up with that are parallel to what Congress wanted, which is notice to report, handing out notice to reports to thousands upon thousands of immigrants and Allowing them to enter the United States. | ||
| This massive use of humanitarian parole, which is supposed to be a one-off, you know, singular individual basis power given to, you know, mass numbers, hundreds of thousands of people, notice to appear. | ||
| The failure to, not failure, but I would say intentional Abrogation of duty to deport, to carry out deportations from the interior. | ||
| The Mayorkas administration stopped interior deportations of every category. | ||
| The numbers are down 80%, 90%, even of criminal aliens, leaving criminal aliens that have Lawful deportation orders hanging over them, just ignored, left. | ||
| So that should just kind of give you a starting place right there. | ||
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| I want you to hang on because we're going to keep you on to the 6 o'clock show. | ||
| I'm going to talk about Biggs co-signed the defund bill. | ||
| I'm going to get back into your U.N. analysis, talk about the Daily Mail story. | ||
| And I've got to talk about when the three amigos are down there, it looks like they're talking about one entity, Canada, the United States, and Mexico, particularly this micro, very, very dangerous. | ||
| So hang with me, Todd Benzman. | ||
| Todd Benzman from CIS, author of the amazing new book, Overrun. | ||
| We'll talk about that. Krom Carmichael. | ||
| Krom, we need a healthy, on-point team this year. | ||
| I'm telling you, it's going to be a long, tough year. | ||
| I didn't say this was going to be easy. | ||
| Long, tough year. And I realize some people are excited. | ||
| I say, Steve, it's so tough. | ||
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And so, hey, if it's fine, go get entertained someplace. | |
| Don't bother me. We're going to be serious. | ||
| We're going to be tough. And we're going to be angry. | ||
| Solty, brother, why do people need to take it? | ||
| How do they get the special deal? | ||
| And where do they go? Steve, thanks again for having me. | ||
| And you do marvelous work. | ||
| Your posse is great. | ||
| But I've got some interesting information here, two tidbits for the show today. | ||
| There's a psychologist named John Norcross, and he has been studying for decades New Year's resolutions. | ||
| And here's what his studies have said. | ||
| He said, if you make a general resolution like, I'm going to be a better person, that generally doesn't amount to a hill of beans. | ||
| Nothing happens. The more specific you are, however, with your New Year's resolution, the more likely it is that that New Year's resolution will be kept and that you will be positively benefited. | ||
| And so what I would encourage your posse to do is to say, I'm going to take better care of my heart this year, and I'm going to do it by signing up and taking soul tea every day. | ||
| Now, let me give you a reason to do that. | ||
| We had a letter that came in from And came in from Lisbeth. | ||
| Not Elizabeth, just Lisbeth. | ||
| And it says, I'm only taking salt tea for about six weeks, but I must share these amazing numbers. | ||
| She said, my cholesterol overall has gone from 229 to 170. | ||
| But here's the best part. | ||
| Her HDL, which is the good cholesterol, went from 43 to 56. | ||
| Her bad cholesterol, the LDL, went from 150 to 71. | ||
| Now, I will tell you that that's extraordinary. | ||
| In my case, my bad cholesterol went from 130 to 89. | ||
| But we get letters that are similar to this from your folks, from your posse, and so I'm encouraging your folks to make a New Year's resolution to take care of their heart and to do it by taking soul tea. | ||
| And the way to do that is to go to warroomhealth.com, that's warroomhealth.com, and then enter the code WARROOM at checkout. | ||
| Now what that does is for your first shipment in the subscription, you'll get $29.95 off, which is half price. | ||
| And then the subscription on an ongoing basis is always three bottles for the price of two. | ||
| And it works out to about 70 cents a day. | ||
| So think about that. 70 cents a day to take care of your heart. | ||
| It works out to about $20 a month to take care of your heart. | ||
| So please, and start taking it as early as you can. | ||
| Yes, sir. WarroomHealth.com. | ||
| WarroomHealth.com and the code WARROOM at checkout. | ||
| Perfect. Thank you, brother. | ||
| I love the new microphone. | ||
| It's working beautifully. | ||
| Love it. Short break. |
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