Feb. 21, 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. Bannon. | |
| I'm Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. | ||
| do solemnly swear. So help you God? | ||
| So help me God. | ||
| Congratulations, Mr. President. | ||
| Well, America, meet your new first family. | ||
| The Bidens are walking into the House now, the White House, where the President and First Lady will make their new home. | ||
| And for anybody out there wondering, yes, there has been a deep clean of the building, given the fact that the previous occupants did not take coronavirus particularly seriously. | ||
| World War III. Okay? | ||
| It is World War III, but we have a sacred obligation. | ||
| Just understand, and don't kid yourself, no matter what you all say. | ||
| Let's get it straight here, guys. | ||
| Where we were a year ago, the direction we're headed in, World War III. Go get vaccinated, | ||
| America. Go and get the vaccination. | ||
| I should be prosecuted. | ||
| Do you know we don't rule out first use nuclear? | ||
| I'm a stranger. | ||
| Birds on the red roof office never lost their way. | ||
| War on killers. | ||
| It's just a shot away. | ||
| It's just a shot away. | ||
| The conditions are so bad that one woman who News Nation has been in contact with has rashes on her body after showering. | ||
| I'm afraid to be with you, Mr. President, for as long as it takes. | ||
| We'll live. Thank you. | ||
| How does this whole experience feel for you? | ||
| that money matters more than humanity. | ||
| So, I'm going to be doing a little bit of a research on the importance of the internet. | ||
| It's | ||
| It's Tuesday, February 21, the year of our Lord, 2023. | ||
| The storm is not coming. | ||
| The storm is here. | ||
| Okay? You're in the war room. | ||
| And by the way, all the rats like Mike DeWine and Mike Regan, the head of the EPA, trip canceled to Africa. | ||
| He's heading back to East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| Mike DeWine, the governor, heading to East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| Why Donald J. Trump is going to be en route, I'll be there tomorrow. | ||
| We are calling on the Attorney General. | ||
| David Yost, a good man. | ||
| We're calling Attorney General David Yost to impanel immediately. | ||
| This is the Attorney General of Ohio to impanel immediately a criminal grand jury to start to take testimony, get the timeline, to basically call in the CEO and chairman of Norfolk Southern. | ||
| There's criminal activity gone on by this company. | ||
| It's now time to stop the nonsense, stop the spin, and don't let the Regan fly back To East Palestine and DeWine to fly back to East Palestine to try to cover their tracks because that's exactly what they're trying to do. | ||
| We're going to have Leahy and Jeff Clark join us in a little while, but we're going to start With everything related to the Third World War, because the storm ain't coming. | ||
| The storm is here. | ||
| I want to go to, I tell you, we've got a cold open. | ||
| We have Rebecca Koffler, formerly of Defense Intelligence Agency, a specialist in Putin and his inner circle. | ||
| Also, John, Colonel John Mills, who knows a thing or two about nuclear weapons and intelligence. | ||
| We're going to get, let's play the cold open for these two. | ||
| We got Cortez, Ben Harnwell. | ||
| We are packed wall to wall today in the war room. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play the cold open for our guest. | ||
| Biden just destroyed Putin's last hope. | ||
| In it, Cohen writes, quote, symbols matter, a Kennedy or a Reagan at the Berlin Wall, a Churchill with a cigar and a bowler. | ||
| For that matter, a green-clad Zelensky growling, I need ammunition, not a ride. | ||
| Simply by taking the hazardous trip to Kyiv, Biden made a strategic move of cardinal importance. | ||
| While the president clearly intended to bolster the confidence of Ukraine and the commitment of ambivalent Europeans and neo-isolationist Americans, his real audiences lay elsewhere. | ||
| As his remarks about Western strength indicated, Russia has cycled through a series of theories of victory in Ukraine. | ||
| It's been reduced to one last hope, that Vladimir Putin's will is stronger than Joe Biden's. | ||
| And Biden just said, by deed as well as word, Oh, no, it's not. | ||
| That is a gut punch to Russia's leader. | ||
| The Russians received word of the trip, were informed, and presumably the threat stated or implied that they would get a violent and overwhelming response if they attempted to interfere with it. | ||
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Now, we're not at war with the people of Ukraine. | |
| This is something I've said many times. | ||
| The people of Ukraine are no hostages to the Kyiv regime and their Western masters who have effectively occupied the country in a political, military and economic sense. | ||
| The West is using Ukraine as a tool, as a testing ground and as a launchpad against us. | ||
| One thing should be clear. | ||
| The more long-range weapons are sent to Ukraine, the longer we will have to push the threat away from our borders. | ||
| They're saying there is no connection between conflict in Ukraine and other hostile actions of the West and their statements that they would like to inflict a strategic defeat on us. | ||
| Either they are very cynical, ultimately cynical, or stupid. | ||
| It looks like they're not stupid. | ||
| They are aiming to inflict a strategic defeat. | ||
| So this statement that Russia is halting, putting a stop on its participation in the Strategic Weapons Control Agreement. | ||
| You also talked about Biden yesterday that it reminded you of JFK and Reagan in Berlin. | ||
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That is probably how we're going to look back on this moment, isn't it? | |
| Biden going. Absolutely. | ||
| Absolutely. You know, these are presidents. | ||
| Who went to the edge of Europe, looked to Russia, and said, we are here, we are strong, we are standing with our allies. | ||
| Whether it was Kennedy saying, ich bin ein Berliner, or whether it was Reagan saying, tear down that wall. | ||
| You're gonna listen again in the future to Joe Biden saying, Kyiv stands, democracy stands, in the exact same way. | ||
| Because this was a sign of an alliance that many of us thought was on the ropes. | ||
| That is back and stronger than ever. | ||
| Okay, it's not an alliance. | ||
| It's a protectorate. NATO is a protectorate. | ||
| The NATO countries did not really fight in World War II except for England. | ||
| Okay, we'll go through all that today. | ||
| But they're twisting history. | ||
| And I'm going to tell you, remember that video we just ended with because we're going to play that quite often in the year ahead. | ||
| When they sit there and equate John F. Kennedy going to Berlin and Reagan's tear down this wall, they equated this thing with the fake... | ||
| Air raid siren, right, on someone that's not an ally? | ||
| Ukraine is not an ally. | ||
| Remember that. But there's a lot going on. | ||
| What you saw there was Putin's State of the Nation speech today. | ||
| Rebecca Koffler, you know Putin and the team of gangsters around him. | ||
| And people have got to understand something. | ||
| They said that famous book, there was one, The Guns of August, but the other was The Sleepwalkers, of how we... | ||
| All the swells, all the diplomats, all the officials, the kings and queens, all were sleepwalkers into World War I. Of course, it destroyed them all, right? | ||
| We're sleepwalking again. | ||
| And by the way, Rebecca, as I turn over to you, the Wall Street Journal I just got from the engine room, the Wall Street Journal has announced that she... | ||
| President Xi is going to go to Russia for a state visit with Putin. | ||
| So we got him going to Tehran with the Ayatollah. | ||
| The Ayatollah was just there. | ||
| The Mullahs were just there in Beijing. | ||
| That alliance is coming together. | ||
| He's going there, and then he's going to go to Russia. | ||
| So you don't think we're into it. | ||
| We are into it big, okay, and not in a good way. | ||
| Not in a good way. Taking our eye off the ball of our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party and what they plan in the South China Sea, the Straits of Taiwan and with Taiwan. | ||
| Rebecca Koffler, walk us through Putin's State of the Nation speech today and particularly this kind of blockbuster news about the START Treaty, ma'am. | ||
| Yes, this was the most highly consequential speech, Steve, of Putin's entire presidency in my assessment. | ||
| Why? It's because He just delivered a strategic message to the United States and the West about Russia's readiness for unrestricted nuclear warfare. | ||
| We're no longer talking about the escalate to deescalate, the detonation of a low-yield tactical nuclear warhead on the battlefield that we spoke in the beginning of this conflict. | ||
| What's started is this nuclear treaty This was the world's nuclear arms control regime that provided stability for the entire world. | ||
| Why? It's because Russia and the United States possess 90 % of the world's nuclear warheads. | ||
| Well, what Putin just did by suspending Russia's participation in this treaty, he dismantled this entire regime. | ||
| He is getting ready for a total war. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| It's because the Russians have concluded, based on all the rhetoric coming out of Washington, you know, Putin is a war criminal, cannot remain in power, which means regime change. | ||
| The United States' goal and objective in Ukraine, as it was stated, is to defeat Russia militarily and weaken it economically so Putin can no longer attack other countries. | ||
| And so Putin is looking at this, and he told us today during the speech that These people, meaning us, they want to blow a strategic defeat strike to us. | ||
| And in the meantime, they're trying to sneak into our nuclear facilities. | ||
| Do they think we're fools or are they idiots? | ||
| He said, they can't be possibly idiots. | ||
| They're a smart country, the United States. | ||
| So that's the implication of the suspension of the Scott regime. | ||
| It's because Russia no longer has restrictions on deployed warheads and launchers. | ||
| Russia will no longer allow US inspectors into their nuclear facilities. | ||
| So we're going to be blind as far as what Russia is doing in the nuclear realm. | ||
| And finally, Putin said he's going to renew nuclear testing if the United States does. | ||
| And he gave the Russian intelligence assessment that The United States is conducting or is about to conduct nuclear testing. | ||
| And let's be clear, we haven't had any nuclear testing in the world for 30 years. | ||
| So this is a complete game changer. | ||
| And we are firmly on the path to nuclear Armageddon, about which President Biden informed us And you just played those clips. | ||
| All of a sudden, I don't know what changed, but we're definitely sleepwalking into it, as you just said. | ||
| We're going to take a break, but just real quickly. | ||
| Putin showed us today that he's prepared to use low-grade tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine. | ||
| Is that what this message in this speech of Putin's is? | ||
| What I'm saying, Steve, is it's much larger than that. | ||
| He's been signaling tactical for a long time. | ||
| We're talking strategic. | ||
| START is strategic nukes. | ||
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Okay? Hang on one second. | |
| Hang on one second. We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Rebecca Koffler from Defense Intelligence Agency is with us. | ||
| We've got Colonel John Mills, Steve Cortez, Harnwell, all of it next in the War Room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | |
| Thanks for tuning in. | ||
| I'm Stephen K. Bamm. | ||
| I'll see you next time. | ||
| you After 2014, we began helping Ukraine build the military that is succeeding, and creating a mid-level corps of noncommissioned officers was a big part of it. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Ukraine had had a Russian-style army in terms of tactics, in terms of the ways it used armor, in terms of under-resourced Middle commanders. | ||
| And that began to change. | ||
| The centerpiece of that was our training of Ukrainian special forces. | ||
| We're dispersed now around the country and doing all kinds of extraordinary things. | ||
| Same time we began to develop new ways to use technology and to integrate our ability to see the battle space. | ||
| with extraordinary fidelity and updated constantly through AIs. | ||
| You know, understand what a target looks like, feed it into the system, use it for intelligence analysis, use it for targeting. | ||
| If you wonder why the Russians are always on their back foot, why they never seem to make much progress, it's because we have applied technologies for modern warfare that have never been seen. | ||
| That's changed since 2014. | ||
| So it evolved. | ||
| 2014 began it and they kept adding new. | ||
| General Milley was a key person when he was Army Chief of Staff in getting this rolling. | ||
| So I wrote a few months ago when I went to Ukraine to look at this. | ||
| I don't think Russia can win this war against the technology that it's facing. | ||
| I don't think it's possible. I want you to understand what was just said there. | ||
| David Ignatius, he's the lead national security columnist for the Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Washington Post. | ||
| He is the conventional wisdom. | ||
| If Morning Joe is the morning show of the conventional wisdom among our sociopathic overlords, as Ben Harnwell would say, David Ignatius is the running dog columnist for the national security state. | ||
| He just said the quiet part out loud. | ||
| I want everybody in this audience to embrace that. | ||
| Since 2014, we've been arming these people. | ||
| This goes back to the Captain Maureen Bannon. | ||
| Instead of going to Afghanistan, they redeployed her to take those Abram tanks to the Baltics and to Poland. | ||
| Wait for it in early 2014, right? | ||
| That's when we started getting this whole deal ready. | ||
| And he just said right there, Steve Cortez. | ||
| How stunning and shocked are you? | ||
| I mean, just right there. And using AI and that technology, I keep telling people we're actually doing the acquisition targeting for the Ukrainians. | ||
| This is why that the Republicans got to get off their ass and they have to get Biden to come to Congress and lay out a War Powers Act. | ||
| Right there, we're an enemy combatant. | ||
| David Ignatius is bragging about it. | ||
| It's one of the reasons that they've held off the Russians to date. | ||
| Steve Cortez. You know, Steve, what Ignatius described there, I think, unfortunately, accurately, this is not a Cold War. | ||
| It's not a proxy war. | ||
| It's actually America deeply involved on the ground in Ukraine, effectively right now at war with Russia, but to your very important point, without any resolution from Congress, certainly without a declaration of war. | ||
| And without even the decency to come to the American people and make the case dispassionately with facts and data to the American people why this regional struggle matters so much to the United States. | ||
| When David Ignatius talks about the way U.S. technology is being used, U.S. targeting, about the high fidelity view of the battle space, all of that sounds like a nation that is very much at war. | ||
| And, in fact, I think that is the reality, that this war has already begun, but it's not too late for us to draw it back, particularly now that we control the U.S. House of Representatives. | ||
| Also, I'm glad you played those completely hyperbolic tapes of MSNBC trying to compare this ridiculous staged drive-by visit of Biden to JFK and to Ronald Reagan. | ||
| JFK, who, whatever you think of as domestic policy, when it comes to foreign policy, was a fierce fighter for America both personally in World War II and then politically in the earliest days of the Cold War. | ||
| Ronald Reagan, the man who brought the Cold War to a culmination. | ||
| Okay, these are two absolute statesmen and they should never ever be compared to the feckless Joe Biden who staged a photo op complete with the ridiculous canard of air raid sirens that just coincidentally happened to ring for the first time in days and days at the moment that he stepped outside. | ||
| The American people, of course, are not going to fall for this foolishness. | ||
| Also, one other point. You mentioned that Xi is going to Russia. | ||
| On this very date, Steve, in 1972, this is the anniversary today of Richard Nixon going to Beijing to visit China. | ||
| Why did he do that after two decades of complete isolation between the U.S.? Almost no interactions between the U.S. and China. | ||
| Why did he do that? He had any admiration at all for Mao, quite the opposite. | ||
| He did it because we were in an existential struggle then with the Soviet Union, and he did not want the two greatest powers, both of which were communists, he did not want the two greatest powers of the Eurasian landmass to be in any way aligned. | ||
| So he very smartly, very strategically, drove a wedge between China and Russia. | ||
| That was brilliant by Richard Nixon, and it set the stage for Reagan to later win the Cold War. | ||
| We now have the exact opposite scenario where we are practically begging China and Russia to form an ever-stronger alliance because of our needless escalation against Russia. | ||
| Russia is not a material threat to the United States as long as we take a realpolitik view of Russia. | ||
| China is the existential threat versus the United States. | ||
| But again, we're practically begging them to form an ever closer alliance. | ||
| This is the antithesis of a Nixonian approach in every way. | ||
| It's the opposite of Trump's too. | ||
| What we're trying to do is make sure Russia and China never partner. | ||
| Russia and China partners with Iran. | ||
| First off, these are ancient civilizations. | ||
| You've got a civilization. You've got Persia. | ||
| You have China. You have Russia now forming a new axis, throwing Turkey, throwing the house Assad because the output deals. | ||
| Let's kick in Pakistan. Let's give them North Korea, mini-me, and then throwing a couple of the stands in Central Asia. | ||
| And let's kick in Brazil and some activity in the Caribbean. | ||
| CCP controls the Caribbean. | ||
| You got all you want, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| You've heard it here first. | ||
| This is no more storm is coming. | ||
| The storm is here. And right there, David Ignatius laid out to the American people what McCarthy and these Republicans and McCall and these guys don't get. | ||
| We're an active combatant in this war, in a high-tech cyber war, where target acquisition, and they're talking about we're using artificial intelligence. | ||
| We're using the state of the art. | ||
| Now, we're removed somewhat. | ||
| We're in Poland or in some of these other territories, Romania, doing it, right? | ||
| But this is a high-tech war, and it goes right there about how the Ukrainians have held them off. | ||
| Look. We have got to get to the negotiating table, and we've got to get to the negotiating table quickly. | ||
| And Zelensky, and this is why Biden gives him an open checkbook, however long it takes and whatever you need, right? | ||
| And what they did and what Kamala Harris did on purpose to tee this up was to go to Munich and sit there and say, we have definitive – we have formally determined – Have they come forward now in 72 hours and shown us one scintilla? | ||
| Have the Republicans been hounding for this? | ||
| If McCarthy and McCall and these neocons think they're going to get off the hook there, you're not going to get off the hook. | ||
| And let me tell you how important this plays. | ||
| Ron DeSantis, who's a neocons neocon, was in that fire station or wherever he was in Staten Island, the police station. | ||
| Giving this talk yesterday to the first responders and to the police. | ||
| He gave a talk to Fox and friends. | ||
| He sounded almost to the right of Trump on this. | ||
| And then Trump's thing last night. | ||
| Trump and the movement have moved everybody. | ||
| Ron DeSantis saying, look, I don't know why we're in Ukraine. | ||
| We got the southern border. I mean, he's given the Trump mantra. | ||
| And this was a guy who was a neocon's neocon. | ||
| So right now, the base of the Republican Party. | ||
| The MAGA base, who are made principally of veterans, are parents of people who are serving. | ||
| We're not pacifists. | ||
| We're not peaceniks. We're not the traditional anti-war crowd. | ||
| What we are is the anti-national suicide crowd. | ||
| We will not let this happen. | ||
| We're not going to sleepwalk into this. | ||
| I'm a constitutional conservative. | ||
| Okay, constitutional conservative. | ||
| Where are you in getting Joe Biden instead of being over in Kiev? | ||
| Why is he not on Capitol Hill laying out? | ||
| Let him come to the nation and let the vote be the vote. | ||
| If the country wants to vote for that and the representatives want to vote for that, hey, vote for it, okay? | ||
| We're a constitutional republic. | ||
| But we need Biden immediately to come to Congress and lay out exactly what the plan is. | ||
| And we need hearings immediately about what our involvement is. | ||
| What are we doing already? | ||
| I realize the Armed Services Committee is traditionally the War Committee, so most of the people on there are pro-military industrial complex. | ||
| I got that. But we need hearings immediately. | ||
| What Gates and what MTG and these others are trying to do is too little. | ||
| They're trying to do it, and it's fine, but there's too few voices in the Republican Party, and this has got to be a gut check. | ||
| You've got Nikki Haley blowing around Iowa, and she's still sitting there saying, Steve Cortez, why are we in Ukraine? | ||
| Because this is about liberty. | ||
| This is about liberty and freedom. | ||
| Are you buying that, Brother Cortez? | ||
| I'm not buying it. And most importantly, Republican voters aren't buying it. | ||
| So let me put some numbers on this. | ||
| And I posted this on my social media. | ||
| Brand new poll out from ABC News, Washington Post. | ||
| Not our kind of polling company, but nonetheless, it shows us the trend. | ||
| Asked, are we doing too much in Ukraine? | ||
| Ten months ago, among Republican voters, only 22 % thought we were doing too much. | ||
| There was almost unanimity last spring that we should escalate, that we should be intervening in Ukraine. | ||
| Now, I think there were some brave America First patriots. | ||
| You were absolutely one of them. | ||
| Standing up saying, wait a second, what's our U.S. vital national interest? | ||
| Okay, making the case for de-escalation, against intervention. | ||
| Well, let's fast forward to the present day. | ||
| In 10 months, what has happened? | ||
| That number has more than doubled. | ||
| It is now today, among Republican voters, 51%. | ||
| A majority and climbing, I believe, of Republican voters believe that we are doing too much in Ukraine. | ||
| So we are winning the argument for an America first approach of realism and restraint. | ||
| for a foreign policy of non-interventionism and de-escalation and diplomacy. | ||
| We are winning the hearts and minds of all Americans. | ||
| By the way, the number even of Democrats also more than doubled. | ||
| It's lower than Republicans, as you might figure, but it also more than doubled. | ||
| The trend is our way here. | ||
| The American people are waking up to just how dangerous this is, but not just dangerous, Steve, how expensive it is, and we can't afford it. | ||
| You know, Todd Benzman is over right now. | ||
| We're so jammed for news. | ||
| He's given his live press conference at the National Press Club about, wait for it, the invasion on the southern border. | ||
| That's the border that's in the national security interest of the United States, not the eastern Russian-speaking border of two Slavic nations. | ||
| They've been fighting over that for 5,000 years. | ||
| They're going to fight 5,000 years in the future. | ||
| Have at it. In Europe, all the guys in Europe, all the people in Davos, those nice Swiss chalets, start forking your money over. | ||
| Start sending your sons and daughters over there. | ||
| Let's see Europe stand up for once. | ||
| Stop being a vassal state of America. | ||
| Stop being a protector of the United States. | ||
| Step up to the plate. Short break. | ||
| Koffler-Cortez next. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
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| We're going to be doing it for four days. | ||
| And then President Trump on Saturday. | ||
| That is going to be a... | ||
| Amazingly important speech. | ||
| I actually think the 24 campaign kicks off tomorrow in East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| And here's why. Michael Patrick is going to be at the top of the hour. | ||
| The EPA, remember talking about the EPA, the minister to cancel the trip to Africa. | ||
| He's now flying back. He's going to go to East Palestine. | ||
| They're the ones who have the authority. | ||
| The local coordinator, the on-scene commander for that area, has gotten back to Michael Patrick Leahy, who's writing up right now, a reporter on this show at 11 o'clock, that they are saying, wait for this one, who gave the authority for the controlled release and the controlled burn? | ||
| They're blaming it on the fire chief. | ||
| You can't make this up. | ||
| They're blaming it on the fire chief of East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| The fire chief of a 4,000-person village, Hamlet. | ||
| They're blaming him that he gave the authorization. | ||
| Hey, no to EPA. No to Governor DeWine. | ||
| No to Governor Shapiro. | ||
| And most importantly, no to Norfolk Southern, the chairman and CEO. No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| You're not going to... The folks in East Palestine are not going to be blamed for this, and particularly you're not going to blame the fire chief, okay? | ||
| Nice try. Not going to work. | ||
| War room's going to be all over you. | ||
| We need Yost, the Attorney General of Ohio, supposed to be a good man in MAGA. Sir, what you need to do immediately... | ||
| Is to impanel a criminal grand jury to start to get the timeline and testimony and start with nothing sovereign. | ||
| But, hey, you can expand it out. | ||
| You can expand it out to the EPA. You can expand it out to Governor DeWine. | ||
| You can expand it out to Shapiro and all that credit. | ||
| Anybody you want to. Even bring the fire chief in. | ||
| Bring the poor fire chief. You're not going to blame this ecological and humanitarian disaster On a fire chief in East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| That dog won't hunt. | ||
| Okay? So you can do all the spinning you want. | ||
| But this is why you have to keep pressuring these people because they're going to come forward with their lies. | ||
| Right? Let's get them on the record with their lies. | ||
| Yost, the Attorney General of Ohio, step up to the plate. | ||
| Empanel a criminal grand jury and empanel a criminal grand jury today. | ||
| Okay? We shouldn't let this thing go any longer. | ||
| Show the nation that Ohio The rule of law works, and the little guy's voice is heard. | ||
| You're now going to dump, now the EPA, the Biden regime is going to try to dump this responsibility on the folks, on the decent, hardworking folks in East Palestine, and they're going to say, oh, it's your fire chief. | ||
| Give me a frickin' break. | ||
| The fire chief. The fire chief. | ||
| This is how stupid they think you are. | ||
| This is what contempt they hold you in. | ||
| The guy's going to Africa for a seven-day boondoggle on climate change with a bunch of celebrities, and we finally shamed him on coming. | ||
| He's heading to East Palestine because Donald Trump's showing up. | ||
| DeWine's going back there because Donald Trump's showing up, and now they're starting to cough up, oh yeah, well here's who did it. | ||
| It was the fire chief. | ||
| Yeah, I think it was the fire chief. | ||
| The fire chief did that. Screw you. | ||
| You're not going to hold people in contempt for too long because we're going to start banging heads, okay? | ||
| It's unacceptable what you allowed to happen. | ||
| And you're sitting there lying now and trying to blame it on some local fire chief in a 4,000 town village. | ||
| And what you've done to the country, what you've done to the nation, and particularly what you've done to those poor folks there, they're not disposable garbage, okay? | ||
| And we're not going to let you treat them like trash. | ||
| You people make me sick to my stomach. | ||
| You make me sick. This is the administrative state. | ||
| Why do you think we're fighting this thing? | ||
| They're just in their arrogance, right? | ||
| Look what David Ignatius just told you. | ||
| Did anybody in this room, did anybody in this audience, this massive audience vote to start arming Ukraine with advanced technology? | ||
| Anybody know what was going on from 2014? | ||
| David Ignatius just told you from 2014. | ||
| Did you know they're doing all the target acquisition for Ukraine? | ||
| Did you know that? Did you know that? | ||
| No, nobody knew that. I didn't know. | ||
| That's called sleepwalking, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| And right now you have to take personal responsibility. | ||
| You know enough from the war room. | ||
| You can't. No more hiding. | ||
| No more hiding. Okay? | ||
| It's your responsibility. It's my responsibility. | ||
| It's Cortez's responsibility. | ||
| It's Koffler's responsibility. | ||
| It's Trump's responsibility. | ||
| It's DeSantis. It's Tucker. | ||
| It's all of it. We know enough now what's going on. | ||
| We can't just sit there, oh, it's Biden and the Democrats. | ||
| No. This can all be stopped, can all be stopped by this audience alone. | ||
| Enough pressure on these feckless, gutless, spineless Republicans, right? | ||
| You put enough pressure on them, we can bring this whole thing to a halt. | ||
| We can save humanity. | ||
| Because, hey, you don't think Putin would light this thing up? | ||
| This is a criminal. Here's what we got. | ||
| We have the worst of all nightmares. | ||
| You have a merger. | ||
| You remember the godfather of Cortez? | ||
| You have a merger of the worst criminal elements in the world. | ||
| The Mexican drug cartels are like junior varsity compared to these guys. | ||
| You got the murderous criminal regime in Beijing. | ||
| That have killed hundreds of millions of their own people and could care less. | ||
| You've got the criminal element in Moscow with Putin and the KGB FSB guys, right? | ||
| The follow-ons of Stalin and these guys could care less how many they're killing. | ||
| And you've got the Ayatollahs and Mullahs in Persia, in Tehran, who could care less how many people they're killing. | ||
| You're going to throw in Erdogan. | ||
| He's a lovely piece of work. | ||
| You're going to throw in the House of Saud. | ||
| They're fantastic. They're humanitarians. | ||
| They're so great. Let's kick in the Pakistan guys and let's throw in Mini-Me up there in North Korea. | ||
| That's a lovely group right there. | ||
| It's all criminal element. | ||
| And we've allowed it to come together. | ||
| Cortez, this ain't a storm that's coming. | ||
| This is a storm that's here. | ||
| Isn't it, brother? Right. | ||
| No, it's a storm that has started, but again, it's not too late to pull back from the precipice. | ||
| And we, the deplorables, the America First movement, earned the right to an incredible lever of power in Washington, D.C. that is the House of Representatives. | ||
| And particularly as it pertains to this debt ceiling, this showdown, which is upcoming, it's an enormous pressure point. | ||
| And it can be used to achieve and demand accountability on issues like the border, the border that matters, the southern border of the United States, not the eastern border of Ukraine, and now on issues of, if you want to continue this escalation, Joe Biden, and the Washington war machine, Defense contractors, K Street, all of it. | ||
| If you want to continue this escalation, you are going to have to come to Congress, and you're going to have to dispassionately make your case to the American people, A, why this matters so much to the United States, and then B, if it does matter, what is the actual plan? | ||
| And lay it out for us in detail. | ||
| What is the plan in terms of timeline, in terms of American commitment, and in terms of the finances? | ||
| How are we going to pay for it? | ||
| Because this is a critical point that I've repeated often, but I think it bears repeating. | ||
| The reality is we are borrowing the mountain of money that we are sending over to Ukraine. | ||
| So it's an incredibly dangerous situation from just a national security perspective. | ||
| But on top of that, adding insult to injury, It is also making our economic predicament, which is dire, especially for middle class people, it is making our economic crisis all the worse here at home because we are borrowing the money to needlessly stoke a battle which should be regional and unfortunately is becoming ever more at risk of becoming a global conflagration because of the escalatory tactics Of Joe Biden. | ||
| By the way, too, one quick point, because MSNBC and most of corporate media, they made a big deal overnight and this morning about how brave this was of Joe Biden to go to Ukraine. | ||
| Give me a break, okay? | ||
| There has been a carousel of Hollywood celebrities posing with Zelensky, okay, one of, I think, the darkest figures in the world right now, Zelensky. | ||
| And that doesn't make Putin any better than him, by the way, but let's just be honest about who Zelensky is. | ||
| But there's been a carousel of Hollywood celebrities posing In and out of Ukraine, a carousel of Vogue photographers in and out of Ukraine to take pictures. | ||
| I'm just glad, by the way, that Biden, apparently he was able to get some time on Zelensky's schedule in between his photo shoots. | ||
| But spare me the ridiculous hyperbolic talk about how brave this was. | ||
| It's ridiculous. No, no. | ||
| First off, we asked permission of Russia. | ||
| They notified Putin right before they even left D.C. Let's be blunt. | ||
| We asked permission. We kowtow everywhere. | ||
| Rebecca Koffler. To this audience, how dangerous is this right now, given the fact that you know Putin and his cronies around him, these gangsters in Moscow as well as anyone? | ||
| We're in uncharted territory. | ||
| As they look at the world, how dangerous is this next couple of months? | ||
| It's 1000 % dangerous, Steve. | ||
| Here's why. I agree with Steve that this was pure theatrics, but it was also extremely reckless for Biden to go into the combat zone. | ||
| Yes, they did have to ask the Russians because the Russians own airspace over there. | ||
| But remember, the Russians actually took down MH17 airliner and back during the Cold War, They also took down KL007. And when Putin hears the rhetoric, this man can no longer remain in power, and the U.S. wants to strategically defeat Russia, what do you think some of the hotlines think? | ||
| What do you think? I think it is extremely reckless for Biden to show up in that combat zone and do all of his, you know, he's almost as theatrically skillful as Zelensky at this point. | ||
| Remember the big hug and kiss, the handwritten note, the tie that he wore, and then, of course, that siren. | ||
| But going back on how extremely dangerous the situation is right now, I want to follow up on something very important that Steve Cortez just said. | ||
| But I want to zero in on the second part of his statement. | ||
| He said, Russia is not a material threat to the United States. | ||
| I agree with that statement, especially with the caveat that came after that. | ||
| So long as the United States does not further erode Russia's strategic security perimeter, which the United States has done, as you just yourself articulated, well, what's his name? | ||
| Ignatius did. And by the way, Ignatius, he's a spokesperson, a publicist for the CIA. I have personal and direct knowledge that he is, you know, in the roller decks of the CIA people, and this guy knows what he's doing. | ||
| They leak information to him, including classified information, and sometimes they even use him. | ||
| So Ignatius acknowledged that we're doing target acquisition. | ||
| So as Steve said, we're already at war. | ||
| Since the Russians have concluded that we are seeking the strategic defeat, that's when Russia presents a threat. | ||
| And here's the threat. | ||
| You started talking in the first segment about tactical use. | ||
| We are now in the strategic realm because that's what a start is. | ||
| And if you couple Putin's action with suspending start, With the situation that we had last week, when Russian strategic nuclear-capable bombers breached the air defense identification zone in North American airspace, flying close to Alaska, and they did that eight days. | ||
| times in two days. | ||
| What do you think they're doing there? | ||
| They're practicing, they're operationalizing concepts of first strike. | ||
| They won't do that. | ||
| They won't strike the United States out of the blue. | ||
| The doctrine is there's no longer demand and they strike out of the blue sky like we had during the Cold War. | ||
| But they do have the first-use doctrine, meaning if they assess that the United States is about to defeat Russia, And it doesn't need to be defeated. | ||
| Nuclear weapons are unconventional or it could be a cyber attack. | ||
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| I know you're the new starlet on Fox& Friends in the morning, and congratulations on that. | ||
| You're giving great information, but can you give your information on how people get the book? | ||
| Because still the best insight on Putin and how they think. | ||
| Also, which the title sounded a little over the top when you first came out with it, but more and more, as scary as it is, it sounds like we're sleepwalking into a major punch right in the face. | ||
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| The title, I disagreed with the title that was chosen by my Literary agent, but if you understand the premise that Steve Cortez just talked about and I amplified, As long as we do not erode Russia's strategic security perimeter, then Russia will not attack us. | ||
| But what we're doing right now, as you just pointed out, we have become effectively a direct party to war with the world's most powerful nuclear state, Russia. | ||
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| Rebecca, thank you very much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here. Cortez, we're going to move off of this topic and on to economics, etc. | ||
| But any closing thoughts you've got as we're sleepwalking into this and the demand has to be the MAGA Republicans have got to step up and all those people that didn't want to come to the defense on the five days that changed the country in early January have got to step up now. | ||
| What we need is a commitment. | ||
| By the way, the Associated Press is reporting under 50%. | ||
| NBC had it on the other day. | ||
| Only 48 % of the people, according to the Associated Press, support this program in Ukraine right now. | ||
| The numbers are coming our way. | ||
| And you can tell this. | ||
| DeSantis was not born last night. | ||
| He's a neocons neocon, and he's preaching old-time religion here on this Ukraine situation. | ||
| I've got it up on Guetta right now. | ||
| He gave a Trumpian MAGA response to Ukraine the other day. | ||
| We're fighting for freedom. | ||
| We're fighting for liberty. No more nonsense coming out of Nikki Haley and the rest of the neocons. | ||
| Your thoughts and observations on this? | ||
| Look, the stance on Ukraine was a significant issue in the 2022 Republican primaries, and there are some candidates, J.D. Vance probably being the best example, some candidates who prevailed, I think, largely because they took a very brave, non-interventionist stance on Ukraine. | ||
| But now that the situation has escalated so much because of Joe Biden, I think it's going to be a primary issue, not just an important one, but a primary issue into 2024 primaries, whether for president or any other federal office, right, because of the danger that you're talking about. | ||
| I think it's also important for us to draw this contrast, of course, because these ridiculous comparisons from corporate media are going to persist, pretending that Joe Biden is somehow Reagan-esque or that he's Kennedy, either one of them going to Berlin. | ||
| It's very important to draw this contrast. | ||
| The Soviet Union was a powerful empire and a global menace that was on the march all over the world, okay? | ||
| An empire that put missiles 90 miles away from the United States. | ||
| That's the kind of existential struggle we faced in the Cold War, which required such extraordinary means from the United States. | ||
| When we look at Russia today, markedly different, of course, from the Soviet Union. | ||
| Russia today has trouble even controlling its near-influence, its near-border influence, okay? | ||
| It is not on the march all over the world. | ||
| It is a struggling and fading power. | ||
| Now, they do have an ultimate weapon in powerful nuclear weapons, but other than that, They're really not very potent, and they don't need to be an adversary of the United States. | ||
| If we take a realpolitik view, and if we follow that kind of foreign policy agenda of realism and restraint, Russia is largely immaterial to the United States, whereas China is now what the Soviet Union used to be. | ||
| China is the existential threat to the United States, economically, militarily, cyber, you name it, in every single sense. | ||
| And again, to just reemphasize this point, on the anniversary of Richard Nixon's overture to China, which was brilliant in 1972 on this day, We are pursuing an exactly opposite, the anti-Nixonian policy of practically compelling Beijing and Moscow to form an ever more powerful alliance because of this recklessness. | ||
| Let me throw in one other unfortunate anniversary today, Steve, about the consequences of a rush to war and of a lack of seriousness and of, unfortunately, a rush to escalation. | ||
| Today in 1916 began the Battle of Verdun, one of the most brutal and bloody battles in all of human history. | ||
| It lasted almost the entire year of 1916 during World War I. 300,000 people were killed in the Battle of Verdun, ultimately 750,000 total casualties. | ||
| One of the gravest mistakes in world history, World War I. Let's think about that as we sleepwalk toward potentially a global war because of an eastern border of a country that is not relevant to the national security of the United States. | ||
| That's the reality here. | ||
| I implore the American people to think about this in a very sober and dispassionate way and realize that our problems are not 5,000 miles away. | ||
| Our problems are here at home. | ||
| economically and regarding our very own border, which is totally unguarded. | ||
| We're going to get to all that here momentarily. | ||
| We're going to take a 90-second break. | ||
| We've got Joe Reeks going to join us. | ||
| Cortez is going to go through some economics everybody has to hear. | ||
| We're going to go to East Palestine. | ||
| We've got Michael Patrick Leahy with breaking news there. | ||
| To Cortez's point, as a young naval officer in the mid to late 70s, I was on a destroyer in the 7th Fleet, the Western Pacific Fleet. | ||
| We were an anti-submarine platform. | ||
| To defend the carrier, the carrier battle group. | ||
| Our task and purpose was Soviet submarines in the Western Pacific, South China Sea, Straits of Taiwan, East China Sea, Indian Ocean, all that. | ||
| Okay? Not Chinese submarines, Soviet submarines. | ||
| They were a global power and a global enemy. | ||
| Okay? And now we're sleepwalking right into a war where people are throwing around these terms like tactical nuclear weapons. | ||
| Like it's just some sort of garden party talk. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
| 90 seconds. We're going to come back. | ||
| We've got Joe Reeks going to join us for My Patriot Supply. | ||
| We've got Cortez. We've got a bunch of economics to go through. | ||
| We're going to get Michael Patrick Lay and Jeff Clark. | ||
| The EPA has announced they found the culprit. | ||
| They have found the villain. | ||
| And the villain is the fire chief of East Palestine, Ohio? | ||
| Does he have the authority? | ||
| Does he have the authority? | ||
| Does he have the authority with a $6 trillion federal budget in the EPA, the Nazis over the EPA? Echo Nazis? | ||
| Does he have the authority? |
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