Feb. 15, 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. | |
| 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 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. | ||
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War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Babb. | |
| That's gonna end very bad. | ||
| I think that's one of these things. | ||
| He's cloistered Caddy in Tallahassee. | ||
| Get him outside of Tallahassee. | ||
| It's not going to go well. Where did you put DeSantis? | ||
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What was the under-over on him? Oh, I didn't do an over-under on him. | |
| I think it's going to start as high as the Chinese balloon over Montana. | ||
| And by the time it gets to South Carolina... | ||
| It's crashed in the water. | ||
| They're going to be looking for records. | ||
| I speak to a pretty confident that when they get, that DeSantis won't be able to withstand the Trump juggernaut of attacks when it happens, and that he's too thin-skinned, he's too defensive, he's too awkward on a debate stage, and Trump will walk all over him. | ||
| They seem confident that he'll go the way. | ||
| Russia has lost. | ||
| They've lost strategically, operationally, and tactically. | ||
| And they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield. | ||
| But until Putin ends his war of choice, the international community will continue to support Ukraine with the equipment and capabilities it needs to defend itself. | ||
| Through this group, we are collectively supporting Ukraine's ability to defend its territory, protect its citizens, and liberate their occupied areas. | ||
| Ukrainian tanks on the front lines are running out of ammunition. | ||
| Commanders say stocks are so low, they now only shoot when they can see their enemy. | ||
| We use as little ammunition as we can, but still it's disappearing, says a battalion commander codenamed The Saint. | ||
| Can you stop this Russian offensive? | ||
| Now we can only hold them off, he says, but nobody knows how long we can keep doing it. | ||
| Their equipment is just too old. | ||
| Get in now. This tank, like most Ukrainian tanks, is about 50 years old, and spare parts are a problem. | ||
| Ammunition is a major problem, because Ukraine isn't making ammunition for these old tanks anymore. | ||
| They are using the stockpiles that they already have, and those stockpiles are quickly running out. | ||
| Russia still produces ammunition for its Soviet-era tanks and has huge reserves. | ||
| But here in Ukraine, tractor mechanics are keeping the old machines running and scavenging from destroyed Russian tanks until help arrives. | ||
| And it's not just tank rounds. | ||
| NATO is now warning Ukraine is using so much ammunition of all types. | ||
| That Western allies cannot provide it fast enough, with new orders taking up to two years to deliver. | ||
| Richard Engel reporting from Ukraine there. | ||
| Joining us now, NBC News Chief International Correspondent Keir Simmons on the Belarusian side of the country's border with Ukraine, where tensions are high this morning as Ukraine prepares for a new Russian offensive. | ||
| Keir, what are you seeing there on the border? | ||
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Well, Willie, we're right here on the Belarusian side, as you mentioned. | |
| The Ukrainian border is just a little way that way, and I'll show you that in a moment. | ||
| Effectively, we're on the Russian side, if you like, of the front line with Ukraine, albeit in Belarus. | ||
| But, you know, remember that President Lukashenko ultimately probably owes his position to President Putin, here in Belarus. | ||
| This is a part of the world where Belarusian observers say around 600 Russian missiles have been fired from, where Russian troops have been training, where Russian equipment is based, and of course where that initial offensive back in February It was launched from here in Belarus. | ||
| Let me just show you what we're seeing. | ||
| We're on the border. There in the distance, you can see this is the Belarusian border control using dogs. | ||
| What they're trying to show us is that they are defending, protecting their border with Ukraine. | ||
| Effectively, as you can imagine, the whole border is closed. | ||
| Just take you back around this way, Willie, and just walk with me a little bit in this direction. | ||
| The Ukrainian border is about... | ||
| Less than half a mile down along this road in that direction. | ||
| It doesn't feel tense, but it is a tense border, of course, albeit we are along the western side. | ||
| The Ukrainian city of Lviv is about 150 miles over there. | ||
| Action, if you like, is expected in the East. | ||
| Russia is in that direction. | ||
| And of course, really, the big question right now, and Richard Engel has been reporting that a renewed Russian offensive is underway. | ||
| The big question is whether when that offensive gets underway in earnest. | ||
| It happens from the east or whether, again, Belarus will be part of that. | ||
| Now, one of the important things about being here, of course, is to try to see whether there is any sign of that. | ||
| We haven't seen any sign of that. | ||
| The Belarusians are showing us around. | ||
| In another sense, they're not showing us very much. | ||
| There are reports of Russian troops on Belarusian territory over towards the east, but it could be. | ||
| That some of that is about trying to persuade the Ukrainians that there will be an offensive from here to try to kind of dilute their forces, if you like, make it harder for them to mount a defense. | ||
| Russia has lost. They've lost strategically, operationally, and tactically. | ||
| And they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield. | ||
| But until Putin ends his war of choice, The international community will continue to support Ukraine with the equipment and capabilities it needs to defend itself. | ||
| Through this group, we are collectively supporting Ukraine's ability to defend its territory, protect its citizens, and liberate their occupied areas. | ||
| It's Wednesday, 15 February in the year of our Lord, 2023. | ||
| We're going to get to Ohio. | ||
| We've smoked out Mike DeWine with his press conference. | ||
| Now he's doing Morning Joe. We've got Michael Patrick Leahy. | ||
| We're going to get all over that here shortly. | ||
| The Prime Minister of Scotland has stepped down after her transgender identity bill has just crashed and burned in Scotland. | ||
| We're going to get to all that. We've got Steve Cortez in the economy, Michael Patrick Leahy. | ||
| We are packed wall to wall, but we've got to start in the charnel house. | ||
| That is Ukraine, and I want to make sure of this audience, and we're very proud that you're the most informed audience in the world because we take the most serious publications in the world. | ||
| I realized when we first started the show you hated the sound of Morning Joe, but it's quite important to understand the conventional wisdom that's out there. | ||
| Also, we may dip in. Nikki Haley is actually on launch in Charleston today. | ||
| We're going to try to maybe dip into that since yesterday, let's say, was a failure to launch. | ||
| But I want to show you the Financial Times of London is the World's Wall Street Journal. | ||
| Every decision-maker in the world reads this paper every morning. | ||
| Okay? For the politics, the geopolitics, the economics, the capital markets. | ||
| And I want you to see today's Financial Times headline, Russia masses aircraft within striking range of Ukraine targets, Wes warns. | ||
| Okay? You see that big headline? | ||
| New phase as land forces stutter. | ||
| Okay? NATO speeds air defense deliveries. | ||
| Ammunition needs critical. | ||
| You see that from the Financial Times, what's really going on as the West Panic? | ||
| The geniuses of milling these guys didn't think through the World War I type tactics where the Ukrainians are using 6,000 rounds a day to put up a wall of lead to protect themselves from this kind of rejuvenated Russian army. | ||
| And they don't have the ammo. | ||
| They don't have the basics right now to defend themselves in the Russians regrouping. | ||
| Martin Wolf, who just wrote this big book on democracy and how bad Trump is and Trump's a barbarian and Trump's a savage. | ||
| Martin Wolf weighs in. He's one of the biggest fanboys of the war. | ||
| So on the eve of it, with the Ukrainian people getting crushed right now, you've got new interventionism is laden with risk. | ||
| Oh, really? Oh, really? | ||
| That's quite interesting, yeah. | ||
| 50,000 dead women and children, civilians. | ||
| But the big one, and the most, the signal, not the noise. | ||
| It's right there. What have we told you? | ||
| That is Xi with a full military entourage with the head mullah in Persia in Iran for a state visit. | ||
| That's their new partner. | ||
| This is the consolidation of the Eurasian landmass with the enemies of the United States of America. | ||
| And that would be Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, North Korea, a couple of the stands in Central Asia. | ||
| Hey, maybe even the Saudis throwing in with them with the CCP. And the CCP's got a new ally that they're underwriting. | ||
| That's Russia. I want to get to Kash Patel. | ||
| Kash, here's what... | ||
| Should Milley... | ||
| Just leave aside the coup against President Trump. | ||
| Should he not be relieved for cause right now because of a fantasy? | ||
| You are Chief of Staff at the Pentagon. | ||
| You may well be Secretary of Defense or head of the CIA or DNI under President Trump in the third victory second term. | ||
| Would you say as a professional that Millie and I don't know where the Republicans are and I'm bringing this guy back for open testimony right now. | ||
| What is the insanity that he's talking about that the Russians are losing? | ||
| They've lost tactically operationally when the Ukrainian people are getting mauled in the charnel house that is eastern Ukraine, sir. | ||
| Hey, it's great to be with you, Steve. | ||
| And look, let me just unpack this for a second. | ||
| Mark Milley used to work for me when I was chief of staff at DOD. And I served with him when he was a military officer that we needed and that acted on intelligence and the best interest of America at heart. | ||
| I was in the Situation Room when we did the Baghdadi raid. | ||
| And on that evening with myself and President Trump and others assembled there, Mark Milley did his job, which was protect America, the politics be damned. | ||
| Now, the reason I bring that up is because I know he's capable of doing it. | ||
| But when you look at the speech he just gave, you now see that Mark Milley is what I call the kraken of the swamp. | ||
| He makes Nancy Pelosi look like a goldfish when it comes to political swamp monsters because all he cares about is the next headline to make himself look good. | ||
| Remember, this is the same guy that apologized for walking across Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park with President Trump with a sidearm because the media was in an uproar. | ||
| It was the right image to subdue the fires that were going around the country. | ||
| This guy, Mark Milley, has failed in terms of advising the President of the United States on intel-based reporting to defend this country. | ||
| Instead, he's going to politicize base reporting to say false things like the Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing. | ||
| And oh, by the way, no one's talking about the fact that how did Mark Milley and his entire operation, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, underestimate the amount of ammunition and money the Russians had to fight this war? | ||
| I want to answer that question right now. | ||
| The Financial Times are all talking about the Ukrainians saying, remember, when they talk about the 50-year-old tanks, those are Russian tanks. | ||
| That's Russian ammo because they were part of Russia. | ||
| How could they not plan? | ||
| How have they walked the Ukrainian people in the bravery of the Ukrainian army? | ||
| Forget the politics. Just the stand and fight against the Russians. | ||
| How did they not plan Kash Patel? | ||
| We spend a frickin' trillion dollars a year over there. | ||
| How did the planners not get it right on the logistics that these people were gonna... | ||
| What they're doing now is they're shooting 6,000 rounds. | ||
| Here's what they're doing. They're in a trench and they're putting up a wall of lead. | ||
| They're not even firing at targets. | ||
| They're just sitting there going, hey, if I put up a wall of lead all day long, maybe these crazy maniacs in the Russian army won't come and overrun us. | ||
| How did the Pentagon not have the logistics down, sir, to make sure these people could defend themselves when that's all they talked about? | ||
| How did that happen? Simple. | ||
| The Pentagon, at least under the Trump administration and us, used to base its positioning and concept of operations and planning methodology based on facts, facts on the ground, facts from our allies, and intel matters from our reporting around the world. | ||
| We didn't base it on politics. | ||
| This Pentagon, under Milley and Austin and President Biden, has continuously based decision making to defend the United States of America and all the participation we have in the Ukraine based on politics because they want to wear the yellow and blue pin. | ||
| They want to invite Zelensky to the well of the Capitol. | ||
| They want these headlines so the American people, or at least half of them, will cheer them relentlessly. | ||
| For a job well done. | ||
| But what they're not doing is acting based on the needs and the landscape of the shifting war that is the Ukraine battle against Russia. | ||
| They could have simply investigated that, we have the knowledge and the manpower to do so, and then come back and reported it to our chain of command and say, we need X, Y, and Z to arm ourselves. | ||
| But they failed. This is going to be far worse in Afghanistan. | ||
| If you thought that was a debacle, this is going to be to the 10th power. | ||
| Cash, hang on for a second. | ||
| Cash is going to stick with it. | ||
| We've got Michael Patrick Lee on Ohio and DeWine trying to cover himself now with Cortezus here. | ||
| Breaking news out of Beijing. | ||
| Beijing has just announced a headline item from Beijing. | ||
| China threatens U.S. entities over downing a balloon. | ||
| China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of suspected Chinese spy balloon off the east coast of the United States. | ||
| They were not specific. We're going to get into CBS News. | ||
| Broke a blockbuster last night. | ||
| Guess what? As Kash Patel told you, they picked the spy balloon up over mainland China well before the 28th of January. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Kash Patel... | ||
| One of President Trump's top national security advisors, Michael Patrick Lee from the Ohio Star, the Steve Cortez. | ||
| All next in The War Room. | ||
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We will fight till they're all gone. We rejoice when there is no more. Let's take down the CCP. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The War Room. | ||
| So I'd want to answer a relationship issue. | ||
| You have the Chinese spy ship that went through. | ||
| You've got China buying more oil from Russia. | ||
| You've got China opening up cases in the U.S. trying to steal U.S. technology from universities. | ||
| President Xi is going to be meeting with the Iranian president. | ||
| At what point do you review, a big review, of the U.S. relationship with China? | ||
| And at what point does the president ask for a call from President Xi? | ||
| Again, I don't have a call to talk about today. | ||
| Let me just, again, level set here, and I know I'm running close on time, but sorry. | ||
| The president met with President Xi at Bali at the G20. The whole purpose of that discussion was to move this relationship forward in a better way. | ||
| Most consequential bilateral relationship in the world. | ||
| The president knows that. And he wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way. | ||
| And Secretary Blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to Beijing to have those kinds of conversations to get some of these communication vehicles and venues back on track, whether it's climate change or military. | ||
| Hang on, hang on, hang on. Hang on, climate change. | ||
| This goes back to the FT story from Friday a week ago, right? | ||
| Friday a week ago, Blinken was gonna go, you know, the sign of thaw of relations before State of the Union. | ||
| Right there, John Kirby, who's a pro's pro, he will regret saying that. | ||
| Dang near wheels up on Friday. | ||
| Cash Patel, brother, and this is what we got from it. | ||
| This is what we got from it, right there. | ||
| That's your reality. | ||
| We're in the Third World War. | ||
| This is the early years, okay? | ||
| And this is the axis. | ||
| And you're being lied to, to your face, you're being lied to by the senior military command of this nation because they've been so politicized and so woke. | ||
| Millie and these guys are lying to you. | ||
| We have been dead right on this topic from the very beginning. | ||
| It's not like, oh, it's so great, you're right. | ||
| No. This is dangerous for the Ukrainian people. | ||
| It's dangerous for the American people. | ||
| It's dangerous for the world. | ||
| That's reality right there. | ||
| They're not being armed. | ||
| They're running out of ammo. | ||
| They're two years behind, and China's consolidating all of it. | ||
| Kash Patel. You brilliantly said on this show last week, you're going to find, I was going on about the 28th and the 28th and the dang near, you said, hey bro, you're going to find that it is much earlier than the 28th. | ||
| They pick up everything over mainland China. | ||
| They knew this was coming for a while. | ||
| CBS News late last night broke that exact story. | ||
| Cash Patel. Yeah, look Steve, being the former chief of staff at DOD and deputy director of national intelligence, we have Uh, overhead, as we call it, overhead collection, be it from space or other, um, devices that we have that are aerial born, um, to collect. | ||
| And you bet our bottom dollar, at least in the Trump administration, we prioritize against collecting our number one enemy, which is the CCP. And the second these objects leave mainland China and headed direction towards America, they are detected. | ||
| Now, why we are, we're lied about and have not been informed about that and why the senators yesterday did not receive that information In the briefing is a whole nother investigation that Congress has to perform. | ||
| Because this guy, Joe Biden, is prepackaging intel falsely to stuff it down our throats to get past this narrative. | ||
| And oh, by the way, remember when Joe Biden said, oh, we, the U.S., don't have any collection over mainland China. | ||
| And I said on your show, I hope to God he's lying. | ||
| Because if we stop collecting over mainland China, we got a whole nother problem that's ten times the size of this red balloon. | ||
| Hang on. Let me go. | ||
| We didn't have time to play the clip, so jammed. | ||
| Yesterday, the senators, and these are Democratic senators, came out of this briefing and said, hey, we got more questions now than we had going in. | ||
| Rubio said 95 % can be pressed. | ||
| They demanded that Biden come before the American people. | ||
| Why has Biden not come before the American people? | ||
| What Kash Patel told you last week and what the CBS News broke last night because the timeline, remember, get them on a timeline and that's when you expose their lies. | ||
| The timeline, Kash, how is he going to be able to look to the American people in the eye and have that whole phony story about the calls they had around the first and the second, knowing that we knew this thing launched from mainland China and we had it tracked a week before it hit the Aleutian Islands, sir? How is he going to explain that? | ||
| He can't and it's an embarrassment and we're losing across the board. | ||
| When he says he's continuously lying by not providing us the intelligence that shows the initial point of collection detection, which we had after it left mainland China. | ||
| He continues to lie to the Senate. | ||
| He continues to lie to the oversight committees and China won't even take the phone calls of the secretary of defense and the chairman, a chairman who said he would warn his counterpart in the Trump administration should we attack him. | ||
| These guys are laughing at us. | ||
| And they're saying they're going to take decisive action. | ||
| My concern, let's put the balloons aside, is the fact that China and the CCP have probably conducted a dozen cyber intrusions while we've been looking up at the air and gasping for leadership from our commander in chief, which is why I don't think it's a coincidence you have railroad switches and electric grid accidents across America at this time. | ||
| They are all interrelated, in my opinion, and Joe Biden will not address them. | ||
| Because he knows it is a tectonic failure of leadership, and if were he to go to the camera, he would be destroyed. | ||
| So they are, of course, hiding him in his basement. | ||
| We're going to get you back on here and talk about that because something kind of odd. | ||
| Remember, there's no conspiracy but no coincidence. | ||
| Kind of odd. A lot of this stuff's happening with the transportation. | ||
| Pete Buttigieg, what me worry, is kind of wandering around. | ||
| We're going to have Cortez and Michael Patrick Leahy to jump on that. | ||
| By the way, just one last question about your book, Government of Gangsters. | ||
| People normally thought FBI, maybe the intelligence services, DOJ. Are there government gangsters also in the Pentagon and used to be totally not political at all? | ||
| Are there government gangsters in there that you will expose in your book given your time there? | ||
| Absolutely, more so than anybody, and I'm starting with Mark Milley, case in point. | ||
| He is a guy, as I said at the top of the show, who I knew had the ability to perform his job and then became the largest political animal and surrounded himself with minions that would do so. | ||
| And I name them all in the book, but more importantly, I know how we can fix it in the DOD. So just go to fightwithcash.com, fightwithcash.com. | ||
| We're raising a lot of money. That's my foundation. | ||
| You can find out about the book, but we've got fresh new merch out there, Orange Man Bad lineup. | ||
| We gave away $100,000 last year to Jancic's families and people in need, and we want to do more. | ||
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Go to fightwithcash.com. | |
| Cash, President Trump is going to be, what right now he needs to do is become a government in opposition, anti-war president right now, leader of opposition to stop all this madness. | ||
| He can stop it now and then turn it around in January of 2025 when he takes over as commander-in-chief again. | ||
| And John, let me be blunt about this. | ||
| Donald J. Trump is going to win the Republican primary. | ||
| Donald J. Trump is going to win the presidency for the third time. | ||
| And Donald J. Trump is going to start his second term in January 2025. | ||
| Cash, I think we need to start it now to start chop-blocking these guys because the lies and misrepresentation, they are sucking us into the vortex of a global kinetic war that we are not prepared for and should never fight. | ||
| Should never fight a global kinetic war. | ||
| We don't need to do it. | ||
| And by the way, we can win by being tough and using irregular warfare, using unconventional warfare, hybrid warfare, unrestricted warfare, cyber information, economics, political warfare, all of it. | ||
| We don't need to lose any kids on the battlefield. | ||
| Cash Patel, one more time, how did they get to all your writings? | ||
| Just FightWithCash.com, FightWithCash with a K, and I'm on Truth Social. | ||
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| Okay. By the way, we're going to have Julie Kelly, I think, in the second hour. | ||
| I tell you what, I'm going to keep to the bottom of the hour, the open for Leahy. | ||
| Let's go to Steve Cortez. | ||
| Steve, in all of this, brother, Cortez, I know you're too quick. | ||
| Tess is like the American American. | ||
| Every time I talk to him, he says, hey, you know, it's the Financial Times. | ||
| I got to read my Wall Street Journal. | ||
| Okay, I got it. But when you see a cover of the Financial Times of London and Martin Wolf and these guys are all ducking for cover about intervention, the new intervention is laden with risk. | ||
| How does that sit with you, particularly as you look at the American economy for working class people, sir? | ||
| Right. Well, you know, it's a study in contrast, a very unfortunate contrast about where are the priorities of permanent Washington, because we have an economy in shambles right now, particularly for the middle and lower income folks in this country. | ||
| And I think we're gonna get into some of those details about just how dire things are economically. | ||
| But at the same time, rather than focusing here, rather than focusing on crumbling infrastructure, In places like Palestine, Ohio, the focus of Permanent Washington, of the ruling class, of the managerial class of this country, is on Ukraine, is on a war that is five and six thousand miles away that is immaterial to our national security. | ||
| And yet it has become priority number one, it seems. | ||
| of this feckless Biden administration, rather than focusing, when it comes to foreign affairs, we can't ignore the world, when it comes to foreign affairs, focusing on the actual existential threat to the United States, which is the CCP. And by the way, it's important for us to note, the more that we antagonize unnecessarily Russia, okay, and when I say unnecessarily, Not that Putin's a good guy. | ||
| No, he's a thug and a gangster, okay? | ||
| But again, that regional battle in Ukraine has nothing to do with the United States. | ||
| But the more we antagonize unnecessarily Russia, the more we push them into a very close alliance with the CCP and with China. | ||
| It is the antithesis, it's the exact opposite of what Richard Nixon very astutely did 50 years ago when he drove a wedge between those two countries, right? | ||
| To make sure that the two communist powers of the world could not unite. | ||
| We're doing the exact opposite now under Joe Biden. | ||
| In his 50 years in Washington, D.C., he learned exactly nothing. | ||
| And Steve, to your point about the FT finally coming, sort of coming clean about the reality of the situation in Ukraine. | ||
| Here are the people who suffer most of all, the citizens of Ukraine. | ||
| Steve, this is a humanitarian disaster, what is going on right now. | ||
| What we are fomenting, what we are stoking, what we are financing right now. | ||
| The Ukrainian soldiers are being absolutely slaughtered, okay? | ||
| And it is clear that contrary to what white rage Millie says, they are not winning. | ||
| Okay, and here's the point, though. | ||
| It's not that we want Russia to win, either. | ||
| If we stop financing this unnecessary war and get to the negotiating table, a settlement absolutely can be reached. | ||
| And I've said it before, there would be no better person. | ||
| It's never going to happen, but there would be no better person to negotiate that truce and that settlement than Donald J. Trump. | ||
| If we got serious, though, about using U.S. diplomatic and economic power to force a settlement, a settlement would be reached. | ||
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De-escalation. | |
| Cortez, hang around. Cortez is going to walk us through the economy. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy's... | ||
| By the way, the situation in Ohio is a disgrace. | ||
| And here's the principal disgrace. | ||
| People who should have known better acted in their own self-interest and not the interest of the deplorables of eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and quite frankly, the United States. | ||
| All next in the War Room. | ||
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War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. | |
| Are you confident that it's safe for the residents of East Palestine and the communities around there to return home? | ||
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Yes. We continue to test the air. | |
| We continue to test the water. | ||
| And we've done that really since the beginning. | ||
| And before we told them they could go back, you know, we had readings that indicated the air was just pretty much what it was before. | ||
| It was what it was before the train wreck even occurred. | ||
| As far as the water, we continue to test the water at different stages as it goes out towards the Ohio River. | ||
| We've told the residents most people are on the village system. | ||
| Those are deep wells. | ||
| We think that they're very safe. | ||
| But until we get the test back, we've told them out of an abundance of caution they really ought to just drink water. | ||
| We've got our first test back from one of the wells last night. | ||
| The test was fine. | ||
| We would expect today or tomorrow to get the other well tests back. | ||
| And as soon as we get those back, we'll make that available to the public. | ||
| So if it were your family, Governor, you'd be okay sending everybody back home? | ||
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Yeah, look, I mean, we indicated that. | |
| We're going to continue to test the air. | ||
| We're going to continue to test the water. | ||
| But what that is indicating is that it is very, very safe. | ||
| My staff is going to tell me if we missed anything. | ||
| It goes on forever. But you notice he never quite answers a question. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy, we smoked him out to force that press conference, which was a disaster, right? | ||
| And we had Jeffrey Clark on right after you. | ||
| Jeffrey Clark says the governor does not have the authority to actually do. | ||
| Remember, because you have a controlled release, and then they had this quote-unquote controlled burn. | ||
| The release was to get the liquid out of the tanks, to get it into this ditch. | ||
| Then they had all these different options, which they just decided to burn it because Norfolk Southern wanted to open up the train line. | ||
| Michael Patrick Lay from the Ohio Star, am I wrong in that assessment, sir? | ||
| No, I think you're right. And of course, if you talk to the locals in East Palestine, they have a different view about what the environment is like there right now. | ||
| Of course, you have so many people there that are talking about problems that they're having personally with rashes and with a problem with eyes and headaches and with pets having problems, fish dying, chicken dying. | ||
| And of course, there's no mention by the governor of the potential long term effects there. | ||
| Now, I will say this, Steve. | ||
| He did admit that, quote, the collective WE ordered the controlled burn on February 6th, three days after the derailment. | ||
| The WE was really Governor DeWine in Ohio, and he basically assumed the right to do that. | ||
| Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark on this program yesterday said, no, the law says it's the on-scene coordinator of the EPA who has that authority. | ||
| We reached out to the EPA and this morning they got back to us. | ||
| And they confirmed that there was an on-scene coordinator there. | ||
| We don't know exactly the days that on-scene coordinator was. | ||
| We asked them, did the on-scene coordinator order the controlled burn on February 6th? | ||
| And did that on-scene coordinator have the legal authority to do it? | ||
| No response. I mean, they said, we don't know. | ||
| We'll get back to you on that. | ||
| We've also asked the governor's office. | ||
| That's not a dot. Hold it. | ||
| At least, okay, EPA, you're trying to protect your regime. | ||
| Give me a non-denial denial. | ||
| Just don't go ahead. It's a really good question. | ||
| We'll get back to you on that. | ||
| You're supposed to know that that's a factoid that should be like emblazoned in the front of your mind. | ||
| Not a hard one. Right, Leahy? | ||
| This is my point. I could have gone on for another five minutes on Morning Joe. | ||
| All he's blaming is Norfolk Southern. | ||
| Hey, they got a lot of blame about why it came off, all that. | ||
| But from the moment it was laying on its side, Government authorities had to step in. | ||
| They're the ones that represent the people of East Palestine, Steen, Ohio, the deplorables. | ||
| Not Norfolk Southern. | ||
| Norfolk Southern is a for-profit entity. | ||
| What they want to do is get this stuff out, get the tanks removed, and get the train line open. | ||
| Okay? And I don't blame it. | ||
| That's what companies are supposed to do. | ||
| But it's out of their purview. | ||
| And the whole thing of the controlled release, this is who authorized the controlled release and who made the decision to let the company with their hazmat guys start burning it into the atmosphere. | ||
| How were these decisions brought about? | ||
| And to have the Clark nailed it last night. | ||
| He says the stone-cold line, the on-scene commander for EPA, has the authority. | ||
| Now you got EPA. Walk me through the questions you asked him again, Leahy. | ||
| I want to make sure everybody understands how bluntly you asked these. | ||
| We went to the EPA and we got a response from them. | ||
| Our great reporter, Hannah Poling in Ohio, has been doing a great job on this, Steve. | ||
| And she asked them this question. | ||
| Did you have an on-scene coordinator there? | ||
| And did they order the controlled burn? | ||
| on February 6th, and did they have the illegal authority to do that? | ||
| They confirmed they had an on-scene coordinator there to us. | ||
| They didn't say when that on-scene coordinator was there. | ||
| And when we asked them, did they order the controlled burn? | ||
| They said, we'll have to look into that. | ||
| When we asked them, did that on-scene coordinator have the legal authority to issue the controlled burn? | ||
| They said, we'll have to look into that. | ||
| We'll get back to you. Now, Steve, I might add, we've reached out to the governor's office and said, By what legal authority did you order the controlled burn on February 6th? | ||
| Now he framed that as a we, but the we was Governor DeWine, Governor Shapiro, and unnamed federal agencies. | ||
| It was DeWine who ordered the controlled burn. | ||
| Right now he's on Morning Joe. | ||
| This is his cleanup. | ||
| He went on Morning Joe today to try to clean this up and put all the blame on the company. | ||
| Remember, these timelines are important. | ||
| Because it exposes all their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| What they're going to continue to focus on is the company's failure about the original crash, right? | ||
| There's no doubt. There's going to be plenty of liability. | ||
| There'll be lawsuits. They got insurance. | ||
| They're going to fight all that. But we're talking about when the decision was made. | ||
| And I will tell you right now. | ||
| I'd have to see the analysis because I think they're lying about, oh, we were so concerned about getting a control release because they were so afraid of the chemicals blowing up in the tank trucks and putting shard everywhere. | ||
| Okay, fine. Show me. | ||
| Show me who did that analysis. | ||
| I'd like to see that. I'd like to see why it's so majorly important to do the control release. | ||
| Leahy. Steve, we've asked Governor DeWine and his office for that analysis. | ||
| We've not yet received it. | ||
| People gotta know, Leahy's a Harvard and Stanford graduate, right? | ||
| It's Harvard College and Stanford Business School. | ||
| Leahy, you didn't go to law school, you went to the business school, right? | ||
| I went to the business school, that is correct. | ||
| And you're like a dog with a bone. | ||
| Leahy used to work with me at Breitbart. | ||
| He's like a dog with a bone. | ||
| And right now you get a big bone. | ||
| This is a big issue. It's a major issue. | ||
| Steve, let me add, what we've done with the Star News Network, we have built an excellent team of reporters that are skilled at investigation and don't give up. | ||
| Hannah Poling at the Ohio Star is doing a great job. | ||
| We've got Susan Berry, our national education editor. | ||
| Matt Kittle, our national political editor. | ||
| Iowa Star, Wisconsin Star editor. | ||
| We've got a great team. | ||
| And if you want to get real news on some of these stories, go to thestarnewsnetwork.com. | ||
| Okay, by the way, Susan Barry's the best. | ||
| You broke the story down in Memphis. | ||
| That's exactly what happened. They haven't fessed up totally yet, but you're going to find out that's what happened. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy, thank you very much. | ||
| Appreciate it. Thank you. | ||
| Great to be with you, Steve, and thanks for covering this. | ||
| Yes, sir. We want to get to the dead fish and all that, too. | ||
| We got to get to that. But right now, the most important thing is find out who authorized the control release and then who authorized and why did they do a controlled release? | ||
| Was it really a concern about blowing up the tank cars? | ||
| Because I'm from Missouri on this one. | ||
| You got to show me on that. I'm not buying it. | ||
| I'm just not buying it. | ||
| Maybe, maybe, maybe, okay. | ||
| But then in the control release, because there's no such thing as a controlled burn when you have these types of toxins. | ||
| I mean, Cortez, they're putting more phosagene in the air than hit on the first day of the Somme, right? | ||
| That basically destroyed the British Army. | ||
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| After World War I, we actually did treaties to say, okay, we can kill each other in every different type of way, but this is actually insane. | ||
| We can't do this anymore. | ||
| And that's where you had the Chemical Weapons Treaty. | ||
| Steve Cortez. You know, look, Steve, to your point about being from Missouri, right? | ||
| Show me. Any good math teacher says, show me your work, right? | ||
| You can't just give me the answer because you might have looked on the desk of a smarter kid next to you and gotten the answer, right? | ||
| So show me your work so that I know it's valid. | ||
| Well, similar here, right? | ||
| And when we've used this same analogy, the same approach on myriad issues, for example, when it comes to the debt ceiling, Janet Yellen, show us your work, show us your projections. | ||
| How do we get to a place of fiscal sanity? | ||
| When it comes to Ukraine, Pentagon, show us your work. | ||
| What exactly is the plan? | ||
| Because the plan can't just be endless escalation and an open checkbook from the American people. | ||
| Same principles apply here in Ohio. | ||
| Show us your work. How did you come to this decision? | ||
| And what is the plan from here forward? | ||
| And by the way, part of the reason transparency is always an imperative in a free republic, Steve, but it's particularly important now. | ||
| Why? Because there is such massive, valid distrust of the institutions of our country, which have failed us, unfortunately, one by one, both the public and private institutions that used to provide the very foundation of civil society in America. | ||
| I'm talking about universities, the FBI, the Catholic Church, the legacy media. | ||
| I could go on and on, massive corporations. | ||
| One by one, they have lost their legitimacy with the American people. | ||
| So we are no longer willing to just take your word for it, Pete Buttigieg, and yes, Republican governor, Mike DeWine, we're not going to take your word for it. | ||
| And can I tell you, as a guy who specializes in messaging, you know what would be a really important symbolic message for the people of East Palestine, Ohio, would be Mike DeWine, Pete Buttigieg, and the head of the EPA, who's a guy by the name of Regan. | ||
| All three of them should be living and staying right now. | ||
| They should be full-time in that community. | ||
| Big time. And if they tell us that the water is safe, they should be drinking it on air. | ||
| Okay? That would be very important and very symbolically, it would be a symbolic show of leadership for the American people. | ||
| You just named it. | ||
| Why is Pete Buttigieg, who runs every open mic, and right now it's about the racism in the construction industry, why is he not down there camped out? | ||
| Why is DeWine not down there camped out? | ||
| And they asked him the question about the families. | ||
| Is it safe? He wouldn't even answer it. | ||
| Well, you know, I just kind of stand by what I said. | ||
| It's not a yes, no problem. | ||
| In fact, I'm bringing the wife and the kids down. | ||
| We're going to do an Airbnb. | ||
| We're going to take one of the homes right there. | ||
| And I'm showering every day. | ||
| Remember, yesterday was kind of confusing whether even the water guy said, should you even shower with bottled water? | ||
| He said, everybody should be drinking bottled water. | ||
| But this was after like a seven-day gap. | ||
| I've got two minutes. I don't have the clip ready, but I want to talk about when we won the New York Times and the Brookings, the woman at Brookings said their biggest problem is they have people. | ||
| They put this information out. They have people question institutions and plug it in. | ||
| Yeah, baby. That's exactly what we do. | ||
| And hey, it's a rich field. | ||
| We only do a lot of work, right? | ||
| Real quickly, I'm going to keep you through the break, but tell me about the situation with the Buffalo Bill's safety defensive back, and now they've all of a sudden clammed up. | ||
| Talking about institutions, they've clammed up about what really happened to him, sir. | ||
| Right, so Damar Hamlin gave an interview with Good Morning America, and his answer, or really his non-answer, didn't provide any resolution. | ||
| In fact, it presents more questions for the American people, because when he was asked by Michael Strahan point blank, what did the doctors tell you? | ||
| Why did this happen to you, to a supremely fit 25-year-old on national television to collapse in massive cardiac arrest, to nearly die? | ||
| Why did this happen to you? | ||
| In an extremely, excruciatingly awkward exchange, he sort of stammered and hemmed and hawed, and he finally just said, I don't want to get into that. | ||
| Well, why? Why does he not want to get into that? | ||
| And by the way, his own medical situation is his business, but the NFL can't claim that, okay? | ||
| Corporate media can't claim that. | ||
| When a supremely fit 25-year-old collapses seemingly without reason, right, in a routine tackle by NFL standards, a very routine tackle on national television, Corporate media should be supremely interested in investigating the answer there. | ||
| They're not. And ask yourself why they're not. | ||
| Hold it. Hold it. | ||
| Cortez, they've been interested in every factoid around that for three weeks. | ||
| Remember, they canceled the game. | ||
| They even had to change the home field because of this. | ||
| It wasn't a small thing. | ||
| Every detail was there. | ||
| You think the detail may be, hey, can you talk about your heart for a second? | ||
| Short break. Cortez on the other side. | ||
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| Okay, welcome back. Cortez is going to hang with us. | ||
| We got Julie Kelly, I think, the next hour. | ||
| We're packed wall to wall. | ||
| But I want to bring in George Negron from EnviroCleanse. | ||
| This is one of our sponsors that we've had. | ||
| And the reason I want to bring on George is people had reached out to me the last couple of days and said, hey, we've actually gone and bought the product. | ||
| And these guys live in western Pennsylvania because they're concerned about they're not being dealt straight with. | ||
| And not just the media, the media's kind of being blocked out of this, right, by authorities, whether it's the EPA, whether it's Department of Transportation, whether it's Governor DeWine, Shapiro. | ||
| Any of them. Walk through the air filter. | ||
| What is it? The reason I loved it and loved you coming on board was that this was one of my responsibilities when I was a naval officer, right? | ||
| Because air quality in ships, particularly submarines, I was on the destroyer, is so important. | ||
| And you've got this big Navy contract. | ||
| You're signed off by the DOD. Walk people through the air filter and why now's the time they ought to be thinking of getting this. | ||
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Yeah, it's actually one of the best air filtration systems you could possibly have at a given time. | |
| Originally designed Department of Defense technology for chemical warfare agents and biological. | ||
| So, when you think about some of these chemicals that are present day and time in the air, these polyvinyl chlorides, our system's designed to take those in in high levels of exposure, break them down without emitting anything back into your environment that's an irritant. | ||
| We are designed for these high-level contaminants, exposures, whether it's a biological or a chemical, so anyone could safely buy a product like ours knowing it's actually treating the air versus blowing the contaminant from one side of the house to another. | ||
| How do people find...I want people to have access to information. | ||
| People are going to make their own decisions, but how do they find out about this? | ||
| When you go on the site, walk them through where they get to find the technical specifications and what you guys put forward that'll actually do. | ||
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Absolutely. Transparency is key. | |
| I think a lot of our competitors are just going to get you with some very clever and good marketing. | ||
| Here we're a science first company because of the clientele we service from the Department of Defense to schools. | ||
| So you go to ekpure.com and you can scroll on that page. | ||
| There's a lot of information where you'll see some third-party testing validations. | ||
| Some chemical testing, which is very important because the chemicals we test against are hydrogen sulfide. | ||
| So Steve, as you can imagine, hydrogen sulfide in very low amounts could kill someone. | ||
| So when we're testing that against a household air purifier, it's because we really believe in the technology and we want to push it against its limits. | ||
| So there's a testing tab right above the page that they can go to do all our third-party testing. | ||
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| But more importantly, they're backed with a 30-day money-back guarantee. | ||
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| So they're going to be able to test their air, see where they stand, and be able to see the positive effects that our air systems have. | ||
| So once again, we're going to be the company that stands behind what they preach, total transparency on the science and the results, and they're always welcome to give us a call. | ||
| We're an American-based company. | ||
| We manufacture these in the U.S., and we're proud to continue to support that. | ||
| I don't want to put you on the spot, but just this concept of controlled burn of these types of dangerous chemicals and particularly what happens when they burn, does that strike you as a professional in this space a little odd? | ||
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| So, I mean, it could be considered odd, but it happens. | ||
| I always believe right now is our biggest threat to our air quality is the environmental pollutions that we're facing with outside. | ||
| We can control what's indoors in our environment. | ||
| That's why I think more so often than not, what COVID spung is... | ||
| Us being mindful of what the air that we breathe. | ||
| We only have one air supply. | ||
| So I think when you're dealing with whether it's these environmental pollutions, these releases, these burnings, the industrial pollutions from cars, you know, there's a lot of things that we're facing on a daily basis. | ||
| Childhood asthma and childhood allergies are skyrocketing. | ||
| So we got to start protecting the air inside our home. | ||
| And we're one of the better technologies that you should consider when you're trying to combat that. | ||
| George, once again, how do they get to the site to get all the information you've got up there? | ||
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| Take a look. They can do that. | ||
| Take a look. Go through the site. | ||
| Look at the testing reports. Give us a call if you have any questions. | ||
| If you feel comfortable enough to purchase today, we have a full 30-day money-back guarantee. | ||
| They use coupon code Steve. | ||
| They're going to get 10 % off and get that free air quality monitor as well. | ||
| By the way, good enough for Navy combatants, good enough for your home. | ||
| George, honored to have you on here. | ||
| Thanks for coming. Likewise. | ||
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| Thank you, brother. I want to make sure Grace and Captain Bannon, make sure we get that up so everybody goes and gets the information. | ||
| One of the things, whether it's my Patriot Supply, Birch Gold, we're trying to provide people with information on a broad range thing. | ||
| We're in the beginning phases of the Third World War. | ||
| Do not let anybody tell you differently. | ||
| And you can see it right now. | ||
| On the front page of the Financial Times of London, the biggest money managers in the world, the biggest capital markets guys, it's all full of nothing but this war. | ||
| Ukraine here, China, the CCP are a big enemy. | ||
| Also, like in FJB, not only am I a huge supporter of that project in the community, my wallet, I want everybody to know Borsamai's wallet is public, right? | ||
| You can public. I've not only never sold a coin, I've only bought coins, and that wallet is public. | ||
| Everybody check it. We are huge supporters of the FJB project in the community, but we're also supporters of the guys at Birch Gold to go look at the alternatives they lay out, my Patriot Supply. | ||
| Everybody we're putting up here right now and kind of, I don't call it the prepper or the survivalist because I don't consider myself a prepper or survivalist. | ||
| I consider myself just somebody that looks at facts and sees things spinning out of control. | ||
| And that's why the situation in Ohio is so important. | ||
| The situation in Ohio and what Steve Cortez just said about the NFL, here's why they're important. | ||
| You're being lied to to your face. | ||
| If we hadn't made a big deal about this, about the specific thing or the controlled release in this quote unquote controlled burn and say, boom, that makes no sense at all. | ||
| Who made that decision? And now you have people scrambling around. | ||
| They still have not told us. | ||
| You know, DeWine says, oh, it's also a group of authorities. | ||
| They still not have told us who specifically made the decision, right? | ||
| We know legally we had Jeff Clark on here. | ||
| It's got to be the on-scene commander from EPA, right? | ||
| That's technically what it says. | ||
| And Clark was a DOJ to kind of oversee the legal part of that. | ||
| Same with the NFL, with the Hart situation, right? | ||
| The institutions are spinning and lying to you. | ||
| You now have to have good old-fashioned Walden Pond, right, self-reliance. | ||
| You and your family, you've got to put yourselves first in thinking through every different aspect of your life, every different aspect of your life. | ||
| Instead, they said, let's just go through a punch list. | ||
| Let's go through a punch list, okay? | ||
| Short break. I've got Cortez to stay over because we've got a lot to get to in the economy, and I want to play that clip on the National Football League, okay? | ||
| Because this is another situation. | ||
| We have a major institution in the United States that's not being transparent and not being straightforward. | ||
| Short break. Back in the worm in 90 seconds. | ||
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