Feb. 3, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the timeless scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| The reason I 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 line? | ||
| MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| Hunter Biden's legal team is demanding state and federal investigations into how his personal information was taken from his laptop computer and shared. | ||
| Biden's lawyers are also threatening a defamation lawsuit against Fox News' Tucker Carlson for allegedly failing to correct false statements about that information. | ||
| Biden's team is also calling for those investigations into a computer repair shop and former Trump advisors Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon. | ||
| Lawyers argue that they violated a number of Delaware laws in accessing, copying and sharing Biden's personal computer data. | ||
| It's an aggressive new strategy for teams representing the president's son. | ||
| Okay, there's a big part of this that was not disclosed, and we've asked Miranda Devine, the incredible columnist, I think the most important columnist in the country at the revered New York Post, a paper founded by Alexander Hamilton. | ||
| Miranda, by the way, it's 3 February, the year of Lord 2023. | ||
| It is Friday. We just had an hour with Matt Gaetz. | ||
| We're cutting that up now so everybody can share those videos with everybody. | ||
| A lot of breaking news in that hour. | ||
| Miranda Devine, the one thing that everybody, the left-wing media forgot to mention in all their breathless reporting is that I think the guy with the Tam O'Shanner actually tracked down Hunter Biden and dropped a lawsuit on him and Abby Lowell then comes out and does this. | ||
| It's a self-own. | ||
| I mean, this hearing are starting. | ||
| We just talked to Gates and we know what's happening behind the scenes. | ||
| They're rolling hard next week. | ||
| Miranda Devine, what's your assessment of all this? | ||
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Good morning, Steve. You're absolutely right. | |
| Certainly that's what John Paul MacIsaac, the computer repair shop guy who's filed this defamation action against Hunter Biden. | ||
| He's convinced that Hunter Biden's silly letters that he got his letters to send out on Wednesday was a direct retaliation for that defamation suit because you look at the timeline of John Paul MacIsaac had to hire private investigators to track down Hunter Biden because he's so elusive. | ||
| He's been living at the White House, as we know, and he goes off on holidays with his father and he moved out of his original Malibu mansion. | ||
| And finally, they found him at Culver City, Los Angeles, which is actually where Kevin Morris, I think, keeps an office. | ||
| And that was on Friday. | ||
| They served him with these legal papers. | ||
| And then five days later, this past Wednesday, came Hunter Biden's lawyers' letters, you know, which doesn't require any preparation. | ||
| It'd be, you know, a few hours' work for these very expensive lawyers and all their minions. | ||
| And so I think that Hunter Biden's concerned. | ||
| I think that the Biden camp is panicking. | ||
| And so they're doing the only thing they can do really is to go on the offensive. | ||
| And because there are all these Democratic dark money donors who've poured millions of dollars into various groups, That have been set up like, for instance, David Brooks' Group Facts Matter, supposedly, to try and defend the Bidens from the upcoming storm that's coming out of the House Republicans' hearings. | ||
| They basically have gone on the offence and are spraying everybody with letters and I don't think it's really an attempt to intimidate anyone because no one could be intimidated by these letters because they're just complete folly. | ||
| There's nothing in them. But I think it's really twofold. | ||
| To set out their kind of narrative, their false narrative, which will be swallowed up, polis polis, of course, by The Washington Post, New York Times, and the usual suspects. | ||
| And that will further muddy the waters. | ||
| They're trying to disguise the chain of custody and draw some question into it, trying to pretend that, you know, John Paul MacIsaac is some shady character. | ||
| And also, I think they're trying to distract from Joe Biden's classified documents problems, which are now bleeding into the Hunter Biden investigation in Delaware by the U.S. attorney there because, of course, They must. | ||
| Joe Biden should have been part of that from the start because he's the product they're selling. | ||
| And he's the orchestrator of this influence peddling scheme, which has been going on for four decades out of Delaware. | ||
| So two things. | ||
| I know you're pressed for time and I really appreciate you and our audience always does joining us. | ||
| Number one, just technically, wasn't it a self-own when they first did this of actually admitting? | ||
| And then Abby Lowell jumps out with some statement yesterday. | ||
| Well, we never said it's actually his. | ||
| We just want the cyber crimes looked at. | ||
| This was a massive mistake in a self-own on the eve of the storm hitting next week. | ||
| Do you agree with that, ma'am? | ||
| Absolutely. What a disaster. | ||
| And that's why we had the big front page yesterday with the picture of Hunter Biden saying, it's mine. | ||
| That's what that statement admitted. | ||
| It admitted he is accusing people of stealing his laptop, of accessing the information and spreading it far and wide without lawful reason. | ||
| And that's wrong. | ||
| You know, Jean-Paul MacIsaac had the work order signed by Hunter Biden, and obviously he was authorized to access the laptop, because how was he meant to fix it otherwise? | ||
| And so that was bogus. | ||
| But inadvertently, the lawyers, who are these new lawyers, as you say, these very expensive lawyers paid for by these donors, they're not au fait with all the intricacies of the false narrative that Kevin Morris has been cooking up for the last year. | ||
| So they inadvertently Let the cat out of the bag that they have been so careful for two years to pretend that the laptop isn't Hunter's. | ||
| And Hunter, when he was asked directly on, I think, CBS or something, When he was spruiking his book last year, he said, oh, I don't know if it is. | ||
| It could be mine. It might have been stolen. | ||
| It could have been hacked. | ||
| Maybe it was Russian intelligence. | ||
| And then he's asked, well, could it be yours? | ||
| And he says, well, yes, certainly it could be mine. | ||
| And Joe Biden, who knew perfectly well that it was Hunter Biden's laptop, has just lied nonstop, like he lies about a lot of stuff. | ||
| But on this, he stood on the debate stage, looked down the barrel of the camera, and he told the American people two weeks before the election in 2020 that, no, this laptop is a Russian plant. | ||
| It's complete garbage. | ||
| I want to then go, you more than any Reporter, and you have a reported column, and you're the author of the book, The Laptop from Hell, have done probably the most magnificent job of really talking about how their apparatus runs with the brothers and their involvement, Tony Babaluski. | ||
| When you say there's a coming storm in this House, the House hearings are going to start taking place right after... | ||
| The State of the Union next week. | ||
| What do you anticipate? Do you anticipate that it's actually going to get into the level of depth and breadth of what the really... | ||
| When you talk about the Biden crime family and how this has been going on for decades and decades and decades, and particularly, obviously, the things with the Chinese Communist Party in Iraq, all of that, and Ukraine. | ||
| Do you anticipate, when you say a coming storm, they may be afraid of it. | ||
| Are you... Enthusiastic or hopeful of what they're going to get to, given the depth of your reporting on all this? | ||
| Look, I am hopeful. | ||
| I think that James Comer is a deceptively genial man. | ||
| He really has a mind like a steel trap. | ||
| He reminds me a bit of Columbo, the TV detective, who sort of bumbles around. | ||
| He's all very sweet, but really there's a method in his madness. | ||
| And he's very sharp. | ||
| If you actually read the words that James Comer says, he's a lawyer, he's extremely careful with what he says, and he's extremely deadly, and he's extremely sort of even-handed. | ||
| He says, for instance, when he's trying to get the National Archives to hand over information, he says, or when he talks about the Treasury Department, when he says, That they won't hand over the suspicious activity reports pertaining to the Bidens. | ||
| He says, look, having a suspicious activity report doesn't necessarily mean you've done anything wrong. | ||
| Plenty of people have those. | ||
| So if they've done nothing wrong, they should just give it to us. | ||
| We're not making any judgments. | ||
| And so he's also like his very first hearing, which is next Wednesday, is very cleverly designed because it's about the cover up. | ||
| Which I think is even bigger now than the original story of corruption, which is as old as Washington itself. | ||
| This is a story about how the intelligence agencies and particularly the FBI coerced social media platforms to censor our story and to run cover for the Biden family. | ||
| And that will get into, of course, then the FBI covering up hiding the laptop, hiding Tony Bobulinski's five-and-a-half-hour interview and the contents of his three devices that he handed over before the election. | ||
| They did nothing with that. | ||
| They never contacted him again like they said they would. | ||
| And he was never called as a witness before that Delaware grand jury investigating Hunter Biden. | ||
| So I think that when we see that hearing next week, we'll really be able to get a feel for where James Comer is going. | ||
| with this investigation, he's called Jim Baker as first witness, and also another lawyer from Twitter, and Joel Roth, who is Twitter's former chief censor, who is the guy who, | ||
| in a sworn statement, let the cat out of the bag again on the FBI. He said the FBI came to Twitter before the election, and warned them about a dump of Russian disinformation that was to come before the election and that would likely happen in October and be about Hunter Biden. | ||
| So Yoel Roth will be there under oath, as will Jim Baker, the former top lawyer general counsel at FBI, who fortuitously shows up at Twitter eight months before the 2020 election and proceeds to run interference on anything that could be damaging to the Biden campaign, | ||
| including our first story on October 14, 2020, about Joe Biden and what it tells about his involvement In his family's influence peddling scheme from the material on the laptop. | ||
| So that will be fascinating. | ||
| By the way, if you want to get up to speed between that, and I know the audience does, the laptop from hell is absolutely a must-read to prep this. | ||
| Last question. You have been on this like a dog on a bone for a couple of years. | ||
| Is Tony Boboluski, is his five-and-a-half-hour tape and his testimony live before the country? | ||
| Do you believe that that's the key that picks the lock here? | ||
| I think it picks part of the lock. | ||
| He has the Chinese, one of the biggest Chinese deals with CEFC, which is not just a Chinese energy company, but is basically the capitalist arm of President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative. | ||
| And for the last two years of Joe Biden's vice presidency, The Biden family and their various partners in America were travelling around the world doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party to try and expand Belt and Road, which of course is a direct threat to the United States. | ||
| That was using Joe Biden's name and the power and the prestige of the Vice Presidency. | ||
| So that's what Tony Bobulinski has. | ||
| And of course, tens of millions of dollars flowed out of CEFC into the Biden family coffers. | ||
| But he doesn't have the other part of the equation because he only signed on with the Bidens for that last part. | ||
| He wasn't there for the Ukraine, Russia, you know, and the early China stuff, BHR, which we can't forget, Hunter, I believe still owns 10 % of that equity firm. | ||
| But, you know, his lawyers say he doesn't. | ||
| But, I mean, look, if you look at Chinese stock websites, it appears his company still does, Skinny Atlas. | ||
| And if you look at the American sites, Skinny Atlas is still owned by Hunter Biden, although it's gone into some sort of freeze because he hasn't paid some bills. | ||
| So I think there's more, and they will get that because they will be able to subpoena people like Eric Schwerin, who really is the key to everything financial in the Biden family. | ||
| He used to do Joe Biden's tax returns. | ||
| Shuffled money between Joe and Hunter's bank accounts. | ||
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So he knows a lot and he's been subpoenaed. | |
| Eric Sherry, real quickly, what's your Twitter handle? | ||
| How do people get you on social media, Miranda? | ||
| At Miranda Devine everywhere, Steve. | ||
| Thanks a lot. We're going to make sure everybody buys the book, Miranda. | ||
| They have to. Miranda Devine from the revered New York Post. | ||
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Cortez now. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| Okay, breaking news for the war room posse. | ||
| And far be it for me to say the war room did this. | ||
| But, you know, as we started the show, I was mocking today's Financial Times of London, right? | ||
| The headline, we talked about the Chinese spy balloon with Congressman Matt Gaetz. | ||
| I read the headline, blinking to meet Xi during landmark China visit in sign of thawing relations. | ||
| And I think I said that didn't age well. | ||
| Just came across the wire, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Tony Blinken has canceled the meeting in China. | ||
| Tony Blinken and the Biden regime has now responded to the outrage of the American people. | ||
| The relationships are not thawing. | ||
| Cortez, we've got to talk about the economy, and obviously it's inextricably linked, unfortunately, with the CCP. But this is another blockbuster. | ||
| You know, the Biden regime, against all evidence, all evidence, pushes this narrative that relationships are thawing. | ||
| Let me be blunt. From an individual that is the first civilian in American history to be fully sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party, three minutes into the Biden administration, his hand went even off the Bible when Peter Navarro and I were sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party, and not one peep from the State Department ever about that. | ||
| You know why? Because the collaborationist with the Chinese Communist Party in the Biden regime wanted it. | ||
| The relationships are not thawing. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party is at war with the citizens of the United States of America, the nation of the United States of America, every aspect of it. | ||
| And they're at war with their own people. | ||
| Look at the COVID lockdowns. | ||
| It was a, it was Lao-Bai-Jing getting in their face saying, we can't do this anymore. | ||
| And now they just ripped them off. | ||
| And, you know, of course, they say they're maybe even going to die, but because they don't care. | ||
| The enslavement of the Chinese people is the basis of the business model of the party of Davos. | ||
| That's why Xi was welcomed as a hero in 2017, a couple of days before President Trump's American carnage, magnificent inaugural address for his first term, which he's going to win the third time to serve his second term. | ||
| Just do the math. Steve Cortez, Given your understanding of geopolitics and global capital markets in the world economy, sir, are there thawing relations with the Chinese Communist Party, sir? | ||
| No. If anything, I would say things are worsening, things are hardening with the CCP. Why? | ||
| Because the CCP is increasingly imperiled, particularly at home. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party in recent decades, Steve, has made a bit of a devil's bargain, a bribe, if you will, with the Chinese people. | ||
| You will accept our tyranny and our subjugation, but we will deliver economic growth to you. | ||
| That's been effectively the putrid bargain that has been made between the CCP and the Chinese people that has more or less led to a detente, right? | ||
| The people haven't demanded very much. | ||
| of the CCP, and for the most part for the last two decades, I think through a lot of economic smoke and mirrors, the CCP has been able to deliver, also through tremendous abuse of American workers with the complicity of the American ruling class. | ||
| But all of that is unraveling right now, and we see the economic numbers and the economic downturn in China is careening lower as the Chinese economy crashes into a ditch because it can no longer sustain the debt that they have amassed and, this is critical, a very weakened U.S. consumer, and we're going to get into some of this data on just how weak the U.S. consumer is, a U.S. consumer is not something that the Chinese model can handle. | ||
| China is still totally dependent for its growth on the United States consumer because, again, they were able, unfortunately, In a bipartisan way to co-opt the ruling class of the United States, both permanent Washington as well as the C-suites of corporations. | ||
| And they were able to become such the key element of the supply chain of the United States, which eviscerated American manufacturing, hollowed out communities all over the United States, but it allowed China to produce a lot of growth over the last 20 years. | ||
| All of that is now suspect and at risk in large part because the American consumer is so weakened by Joe Biden. | ||
| So ironically, the person that the Chinese Communist Party was able to corrupt and the family, the Biden family, that very person is the man whose policies are so weakened in the U.S. consumer that it is going back, it is boomerining back to China and creating massive problems for the CCP. Steve, walk us through your assessment. There have been some numbers out the last couple of days. | ||
| Biden's high-fiving, but I think they're keeping their streak going. | ||
| The Cortez, as Cortez really looks at the reality of the lives of the working class and the middle class in this nation, they're not quite breaking the champagne bottles out right now and uncorking the Veuve Clicquot, right? No. Not Veuve Clicquot, not cold duck, because they can't afford that either right now. | ||
| That's the sad reality. | ||
| In America. Let's look at this by the numbers. | ||
| By the way, speaking of numbers, okay, a good payroll number, the headline number, 517,000, much better than expected. | ||
| But we need to look underneath the hood. | ||
| We also need to recognize that that is a backward-looking number. | ||
| Let's look at what is happening right now. | ||
| and what the trends project going forward, which, of course, is far more important. | ||
| So let's look at chart number one. | ||
| Let's look at the state of the U.S. consumer, because I made statements about how imperiled the consumer is. | ||
| But don't take my word for it. | ||
| Let's go to some of the biggest names in the consumer space, and, in fact, the biggest name, which is Amazon. | ||
| And, by the way, I realize that the audience does not like Amazon. | ||
| The three sort of A's gave their earnings reports yesterday. | ||
| All of them failed miserably. | ||
| Amazon, Alphabet, which is Google's parent, And Apple. | ||
| I understand we don't like any of those three companies, but they still provide an incredibly important read into where the US economy is, and particularly the consumer, when it comes to Amazon. | ||
| So as that headline from MarketWatch indicates, Amazon had its worst holiday quarter since 2014. | ||
| Okay, that is very significant. | ||
| We talked about that a lot on this show heading into the Christmas shopping season, how tough it was going to be for the U.S. consumer, at least according to Amazon, which is ubiquitous regarding the consumer. | ||
| We now know that was an accurate projection, the worst holiday quarter since 2014. | ||
| But in case you think that it was somehow peculiar only to Amazon, look at Apple. | ||
| Apple's Christmas shopping season down 5 % over last year. | ||
| And they had their first drop, quarterly drop, since 2016. | ||
| So the consumer is in a lot of trouble. | ||
| The consumer is spent. | ||
| The only way the consumer has dealt With Biden's economic stagnation and really stagflation, because of course it's a stagnant economy plus inflation, has been through massive credit card spending, a gig which unfortunately is up with rising interest rates. | ||
| So let's go to chart number two. | ||
| Let's look at the wage picture. | ||
| I think this is important too. This is from Kathy Jones, who is the fixed income chief strategist for Schwab. | ||
| So this is not some right-wing This isn't somebody from our side of the aisle. | ||
| She points out that even within this strong headline number, when we look at the details, and this is a quote from her, she's talking about the wage gains, which are not nearly enough to keep pace with inflation. | ||
| She says, quote, not strong given the increase in jobs. | ||
| And she further goes on, quote, suggest lower wage jobs led the hiring. | ||
| So in other words, Steve, listen, it's a good thing to add jobs, but the reality is when we look at the data, these were predominantly low-wage jobs that are not even coming close to keeping pace with Joe Biden's inflation. | ||
| That's why we have 21 straight months and counting of crashing real wages, meaning your income adjusted for the goods and services that you need to live your life. | ||
| Now, let's look at the third element here. | ||
| If we go to chart number three, because we've been talking about the consumer side, let's look at the business side. | ||
| Let's look at manufacturing and production. | ||
| Unfortunately, things are probably even worse on that side of the ledger. | ||
| This is U.S. equipment orders. | ||
| This is going back to the beginning of 2020, so the beginning of the pandemic basically through now. | ||
| As you can see on the left side of that chart, not surprisingly, New equipment orders, capital goods, those orders plunged during the lockdowns, not surprisingly. | ||
| Now, thankfully, they bounced back just as fast and, in fact, even faster with the massive rebound, the Trump boom 2.0. | ||
| But then if you look starting January of 2021, once Joe Biden takes office, what has happened ever since? | ||
| A demonstrable downtrend. | ||
| To the point where we are now, looks like, about to go negative again for the first time since the lockdown. | ||
| So on the consumer side, on the manufacturing side, capital goods, every forward-looking indicator is, frankly, miserable for this country. | ||
| So corporate media is going to try to celebrate this report. | ||
| They're going to try to gaslight the American people and pretend that things are fine. | ||
| Thankfully, polling shows us that the vast majority of Americans know otherwise because You know, Steve, sometimes you can spin people about certain issues, right, if they don't have a personal stake in it. | ||
| You can't spin people about their personal bank account, about their spending, about the kitchen table reality that they face every day. | ||
| And that continues to be, despite a good headline number today, that kitchen table reality continues to be incredibly dire. | ||
| And this is the important point, Steve. | ||
| It's worsening, okay? | ||
| It's worsening. So there needs to be a sense of urgency out there, particularly for the GOP House. | ||
| Really. And one of the things that's keeping this carcass going is this massive federal spending, which is increasing the deficit, increasing the total debt, increasing the interest rates. | ||
| All of it's got to stop. Steve, you're on fire. | ||
| I want to make sure people can get to your content, particularly Substack. | ||
| And tell about the explosive nature of your Substack piece the other day on the ingrates in New York City. | ||
| Talk to us about that. Yeah, obviously people are fired up. | ||
| I don't blame them. My most recent article on Substack, Immigrant Ingrates, the numbers of people reading it is about five times my normal. | ||
| And that's without it being posted in any major platform. | ||
| It's only on my own Substack. | ||
| I put articles at Newsweek, RealClearPolitics. | ||
| This one was not. And it got five times my typical readership, which is normally pretty strong, not to pat myself on the back. | ||
| But this one really exploded. | ||
| It really popped. And it tells me that there is understandably and correctly a lot of anger out there at this situation, right? | ||
| At our open borders, the fact that we tolerate it, the fact that we are paying for these people, and the fact that a certain portion of them have the gall to actually be ungrateful to this country and to actually protest about the accommodations that we are providing for them in a time of economic angst for the citizens of the United States, who must always be our priority. | ||
| So I encourage the audience, if you haven't read it, please take a look. | ||
| You can find me on Twitter. | ||
| I'm at Cortes Steve, Cortes with an S. And then it links to my substack from there, Immigrant Ingrates, about These malcontents, rabble-rousers, many of them causing a lot of problems in New York City who dare to bite the hands that feed them, the American hands that are feeding them when they came to our country, uninvited, unvetted, unwelcome, and yet act as if they are entitled already, only having been here weeks or months. | ||
| Steve Cortez, honored to have you on here. | ||
| Thank you very much for your update. | ||
| And Biden keeps the streak going. | ||
| As monitored by Steve Cortez and also the working class people in this country. | ||
| Thank you very much. You bet. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. Okay. Cortez, a Tennessee boy now. | ||
| We're going to turn back to Memphis. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy and Newsweek have broken really, I think, an incredible story about Mr. | ||
| Nichols. Back in a moment. | ||
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| Michael Patrick Leahy. | ||
| Incredible job. In this situation of Tyree Nichols, Mr. | ||
| Nichols out in Memphis, they had his celebration of life for his funeral yesterday. | ||
| Very disturbing because it just never made sense why it happened. | ||
| I think the authorities have been terrible about the information they've put out, obviously the video, but the video, more questions than answers because it looks like he was tortured, essentially. | ||
| You... Five former members of the Memphis Police Department, | ||
| all black, all members of the 40-member Scorpion unit, were arrested Last week, and charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of 29-year-old Tyree Nichols, also Black, stopped, beaten on January 7th, died on January 10th, as you mentioned, his funeral earlier this week. | ||
| On Tuesday, we approached the Memphis Police Department to get a response on rumors, the rumor that, A, this was targeted because he was having a personal relationship, the victim, with one of the police officers who beat him to death. | ||
| And that they were allegedly members of the Vice Lord gang. | ||
| They responded on Tuesday and said in a non-denial, basically, they said there's no evidence to support that. | ||
| On Wednesday, Newsweek followed up with the district attorney's office, and the district attorney's office confirmed that they are investigating these reports. | ||
| That moved the ball forward. | ||
| We have contacted the Memphis Police Department to get more information on who supervised these five former police officers, and the Memphis Police Department now has gone silent on us, Steve. | ||
| They're not responding. So what is this? | ||
| Given what Newsweek found out, I mean, what's your take on this thing right now? | ||
| Well, if you talk to anybody in Memphis, the rumors of people who say they've talked to people within the Memphis Police Department who say one of the officers did have a personal vendetta against Tyree Nichols. | ||
| And this was one of the allegations that Newsweek investigated or said that the Shelby County DA is investigating that one of the officers took photos of Tyree Nichols after he had been beaten and texted them to his ex-wife or ex-girlfriend. | ||
| That is one of the rumors there. | ||
| They're looking into. There's no way, Steve, that this was a standard traffic stop. | ||
| Every traffic protocol was violated. | ||
| This looks entirely to be a hit, a planned execution of Tyree Nichols by these five police officers. | ||
| It also then raises the question of the charges of second degree murder versus the premeditated nature of this. | ||
| I mean, this is what struck me at the very beginning. | ||
| Why would Did this guy have a previous record? | ||
| Was he a gangbanger? Was he a drug dealer? | ||
| It doesn't seem like any of that's true. | ||
| He was working the swing shift at FedEx, seemed to be a pretty good employee, living at home with his parents, heading home to his parents not that far away after working the swing shift late at night. | ||
| Why were there that many officers? | ||
| Why are there that many cars? These guys refer a special group to Scorpions. | ||
| Did he have any nefarious activity? | ||
| Nothing's come forward on that, so it doesn't seem to be it. | ||
| Maybe they're holding that out of the investigation. | ||
| How are they handling... The media, I mean, what are they putting forward here? | ||
| Because, you know, at least this seems to be an area of inquiry they ought to be updating people on. | ||
| They should be, but they're... | ||
| And it's interesting, the MSNBC and CNN won't touch this part of the inquiry, sir. | ||
| They won't touch it at all. | ||
| And interestingly enough, the local newspaper there, it's a Gannett publication, the Memphis Commercial Appeal. | ||
| Today, they have a story, kind of a puff piece, on what a tough year it's been for the police chief there, Sarah Lynn Davis, she's a black woman who came there a year and a half ago. | ||
| She's the one who set up this special unit, the Scorpion unit, that we're trying to get information on. | ||
| They're not providing it to us. | ||
| Who supervised them? Who trained them? | ||
| What are the records that these five now-fired police officers who've been charged with second-degree murder, what are their records? | ||
| We can't get that right now. | ||
| Let me tell you what I'm concerned about. | ||
| I think there's a possibility To keep this from all coming out to the public, that the district attorney, who is a Soros-favored district attorney, will cut a deal with these police officers and not have this information, whatever the information is, come to the public. | ||
| That's a real concern. | ||
| That's why we are all over this story. | ||
| We have a full team going into looking at all the details here, Steve. | ||
| Okay, Michael, you're one of our strategic partners to keep us up to date. | ||
| Incredible work by the Tennessee Star, part of the Star News Network. | ||
| Michael, Patrick Lay, how do people get to all of your different news outlets that come under the umbrella of the Star News Network? | ||
| TennesseeStar.com, TennesseeStar.com for this story, thestarnewsnetwork.com also. | ||
| And you can reach me at Michael P. Leahy on Twitter, Getter, and on Truth Social. | ||
| Michael P. Leahy, another Irishman just like you, Irish-American. | ||
| I have that Irish temper as well, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| I didn't catch that. | ||
| You have the famous wife? | ||
| I have the famous Irish temper like another Irish American Stephen K. Bannon has. | ||
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| Leahy and Bannon run a little hot, let's say that. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy, thank you. | ||
| Great job. Great job all over Memphis. | ||
| Darren Beattie. Darren, you're on and you've got this amazing article in Revolver, which has so many amazing articles every day. | ||
| But I want to ask you, you know, Breitbart had, I think, an exclusive with Thomas Massey. | ||
| Who I know you're a big fan of because of his, you know, Massey's from MIT and just, I think, one of the biggest, if not the biggest brain in Congress. | ||
| He's in the top two or three. And it's about Thomas Massey saying, hey, this Ukraine madness has got to stop and I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna make it tough for them to fund any of this. | ||
| We had Matt Gaetz on here earlier today talk about there's an effort underway to force Biden to come to the Congress under the War Powers Act and at least, you know, walk through the plan. | ||
| We started the show by saying, you know, this headline in the FT that Biden's going over to, excuse me, Blinken's going over to kowtow to the CCP and the headline is because of thawing relations. | ||
| That's how the Biden administration, at the same time, we've got a spy balloon. | ||
| Oh, by the way, the CCP just put out a press announcement. | ||
| It's in fact not a spy balloon. | ||
| I think it's a weather, it's a civilian weather device, and it's a civilian weather device, and it inadvertently blew off course. | ||
| And so, you know, they're a little embarrassed, but nothing to see there. | ||
| Beattie, geostrategically, Because you're one of the intellectual leaders like Gates in America first. | ||
| Before we get into the dollar situation, give me your perspective on Massey, Gates, the House, the Ukraine war, which are now told that unless we give... | ||
| Another huge tens and tens of billions of dollars that, oops, in fact, Putin's not only not beaten and we're not heading down to liberate Ukraine in a spring offense with our tanks and the German Panzers, excuse me, the German Leopard 2s. | ||
| Actually, Putin somehow, Shazam, has 500,000 troops on the Ukrainian border and is about to go and launch a brutal winter offensive of which the brothers in Russia know how to do, and Kyiv might fall. | ||
| Darren Beattie, thoughts, analysis, observations, sir? | ||
| Well, Thomas Massey along with Matt Gaetz and a handful of others are really the When it comes to advocating America first foreign policy. | ||
| So I really congratulate Massey's efforts on that. | ||
| And the question really is, what is our objective? | ||
| What's our endgame? Do we want to be in a position where we're just forking over hundreds of billions of dollars indefinitely to something that we've even seen what the use of this? | ||
| Where's the money going? We know it's going to the Lockheed executives and the Raytheon executives and to the corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine and the region. | ||
| But how is this actually benefiting the Ukraine, much less the people of the United States, which should be the primary concern? | ||
| I don't think there's been any clearly articulated statement regarding where all the money is going, what it's doing, and what our expectations are. | ||
| And if anything, It simply serves to prolong this conflict, thereby increasing the probability of some kind of calamitous escalation that would be in the interest of nobody. | ||
| And in the meantime, what it also does is Continue to prolong the immiseration of the Ukrainian people, who at this point would probably be far better served, as would their Russian counterparts, to a cessation of hostilities at this point. | ||
| And that's something that all of these $100 billion checks to our sugar babies in Ukraine just doesn't facilitate. | ||
| You know, we're talking about this morning, we're talking about a way to force a Biden regime to come to Congress and, you know, do a war powers resolution where they had to lay out their strategy, their tactics, their objectives, the cost. | ||
| Should we, on our side of the football, force the Nikki Haley's and the Mike Pompeo's to do the same on our side of the football to walk us through their war powers resolution? | ||
| They all want to be president. | ||
| Commander-in-Chief, shouldn't we have those folks actually step forward and give us their overview of exactly what they...because these guys are lathered up about Ukraine, sir. | ||
| Absolutely. And I mean, frankly, I would be shocked if either Pompeo or Nikki Haley paid any deference to the war powers or to the authority of Congress when it comes to Involving the United States in military conflicts. | ||
| I think, to some degree, that's been a thing of the past. | ||
| Unfortunately, I would love to see its restoration. | ||
| And if anyone can do it, it's Massey and Gates and others. | ||
| But no, Nikki Haley and Pompeo, they're the same creature, basically. | ||
| Pompeo, you know, he's He lost a lot of weight. | ||
| I can't make the joke that I was going to make, but he lost a lot of weight. | ||
| He's the same creature as Nikki Haley, and they're both in direct service of the military industrial complex and the national security state. | ||
| It's obvious to anyone who can see, and more people understand that in relation to Lindsey Graham because he's such a known quantity, but I think even more dangerous than Graham because people aren't aware Are people like Pompeo and Nikki Haley who have more plausible sort of pro-Trump bona fides because they were in the administration. | ||
| But in terms of foreign policy, their agenda is diametrically opposed to the America First agenda. | ||
| Okay, Darren, you've got some amazing pieces up on Revolver. | ||
| We're going to go through this about the American economy, the U.S. dollar, all of it. | ||
| Short commercial break. Darren Beattie joins us on the other side. | ||
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| Okay, Darren B. from Revolver joins us. | ||
| Darren, before we pivot to this great article, I just got to ask you about, we had Gates here, weaponization of government. | ||
| The hearings start next week. | ||
| It's going to start in the social media. | ||
| I think Baker is the first witness, the former FBI counsel. | ||
| What do you anticipate is going to happen, and how is Revolver going to cover this? | ||
| Well, that's a great question. I think it's a good place to start, especially in conjunction with some of what we learned from the Twitter files. | ||
| But really, Revolver, as we've been on this and War Room has been on this for a long time, that the bottleneck in terms of censorship has always been the national security state, whether internal to these bureaucracies or to the multiplicity of sort of NGO cutouts that have become sort of the The epicenter of this disinformation industry and disinformation journalism. | ||
| I would hope that all of this is exposed in the course of these hearings, that the focus isn't simply on the malfeasance within, technically, these bureaucracies themselves, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, | ||
| and so forth, This archipelago of NGOs that sustained the disinformation scam that is linked very closely with government, both financially and in terms of a professional revolving door relationship, I would hope that those are investigated as well. | ||
| And of course, maybe most importantly, all of these sort of psychological influence operations that have been conducted on the part, it's not just an issue of censorship, it's an issue of these bot farms and influence operations that have been conducted to influence politics in the United States and other Western nations. | ||
| Let's turn to this incredible article you've got. | ||
| It's written with a nom du jour. | ||
| The individual is obviously very sophisticated but can't give his name. | ||
| He'll be crushed in the financial and capital markets. | ||
| Walk us through this piece and what does it mean? | ||
| Yeah, it's very unfortunate. | ||
| The author is, as you say, very sophisticated, one of the most intelligent people I know. | ||
| But, you know, it's easy for us to forget that we're in this, you know, media world where we have the privilege of being able to say what we think. | ||
| Very few people, even a lot of wealthy people, maybe especially a lot of wealthy people, just don't have the freedom of speech. | ||
| They can't say what they think and they live in fear, which is very unfortunate. | ||
| But in this case, I stood to benefit because I was able to publish this incredible piece, and what it's about is the question of how long will the U.S. dollar remain the global reserve currency? | ||
| And as you know better than anyone, there's a lot at stake in this question geopolitically, politically, economically, and so forth. | ||
| And the case goes in great detail, covers all types of counterarguments, and its thesis is simple. | ||
| U.S. dollar isn't going anywhere. | ||
| It's the king of currencies and will remain the reserve currency in the world into the indefinite future. | ||
| In fact, the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency may in fact outlast the U.S.'s geopolitical influence militarily and in other means. | ||
| That's how durable it is according to this argument. | ||
| I'd be happy to get into the specifics of the argument, but I think generally why it's important, it speaks to this broader kind of psychological disposition that I think we see on the right. | ||
| In the title, it says, sorry, Zero Hedge. | ||
| I love the folks at Zero Hedge, but there's this kind of apocalyptic inclination that Zero Hedge indulges in. | ||
| I think a lot of people on the right indulge in, and it's because We see how eroded the standard of living is in the United States. | ||
| We see the video clips of third world conditions in airports. | ||
| We see Mogadishu-like conditions in Philadelphia. | ||
| We see homeless people defecating in the street in San Francisco. | ||
| We see incompetence and corruption everywhere we look. | ||
| And I think it's very normal to say they're This is not sustainable and must translate into the decline of America as a geopolitical superpower. | ||
| But the connection is not as strong as people think. | ||
| And in particular for the factors that enable the US to have a global reserve currency are not as connected to the factors contributing to our plummeting standard of living. | ||
| And so I think there's this inherent sense of It's not that we want an apocalypse, but our inherent sense of logic and justice sort of expects it because we see that nothing makes sense. | ||
| But actually, it doesn't quite work that way. | ||
| And the system is far more robust and far more sustainable than we tend to think, for better or worse. | ||
| And that applies more than ever to the US dollar status as a reserve currency. | ||
| No, it's a brilliant piece. | ||
| The reason I want it up there is I absolutely, I don't totally disagree with it, but I disagree with it. | ||
| I think that the missing piece is that the way this happens is like, it's an overused term now, but like Hemingway said, bankruptcy. | ||
| It's slowly at first and then all of a sudden. | ||
| The major, and I know this, that the major powers that be right now are working like Trojans to get off the Prime Reserve. | ||
| No, you can't do it anytime. | ||
| It's not going to happen next month. | ||
| It's not going to happen in six months. | ||
| But if we go down and continue on this path, it will happen. | ||
| Just like in England, you cannot... | ||
| We will not be the prime reserve currency. | ||
| And one of the things I'd point to is that right now Russia, India, and China, particularly India and China, are buying gold at rates that would blow people away. | ||
| The behind-the-scenes purchase of gold. | ||
| Anyway, it's a fantastic piece. | ||
| This is the kind of debate we need. | ||
| This is the kind of thought piece we need. | ||
| And once again, Revolver is at the tip of the spear. | ||
| While you're over at Revolver today reading this piece, this incredible piece in the dollar to get you thinking about this in the prime reserve currency, you've got to stick around and also read the Nikki Haley piece, which is the single best takedown of Nikki ambitious as Lucifer Haley. | ||
| It's just incredible. How'd they get you on social media? | ||
| We've got to bounce, Darren. | ||
| How do people get to you? At Darren J. Beattie on Twitter, at Revolver News on Gitter, and as always, revolver.news. | ||
| Read the currency piece with an open mind, because again, a lot of people on the right, we all think everything's going to collapse, because again, it doesn't make sense, it's incompetent, but it's not that simple, so read it, let me know what you think in the comments. | ||
| Exactly. By the way, it's fantastic. | ||
| The Nikki Haley piece. Great Revolver. | ||
| One of the early sites I go to every day before I get to my financial times. | ||
| I want to know how the world really is. | ||
| Darren Beattie, thank you. Honored. | ||
| Thank you. Revolver. | ||
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