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March 13, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 2582: If You Want To Win 2024 It Is Time To Stand Up For The Populist Message
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steve cortes
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steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
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.
jake tapper
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.
unidentified
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bamb.
steve bannon
Okay, welcome back. It's Monday, 13 March, Year of the Lord 2023.
There obviously is a lot going on.
We're going to go to the border in a second, but I got George Negron.
Biden is going to the West Coast.
He's going to California. He ain't stopping in East Palestine, Ohio.
He refuses to address the folks in East Palestine.
I'm proud of the fact that AdvirClean is one of our sponsors.
The folks there, as we talked about last week, got involved.
George, can you give us some updates about the use of your devices in East Palestine, sir?
unidentified
Oh yeah, thanks Steve. We're very happy to report.
So as we mentioned, when we send out an air system, we send out an air quality monitor.
So a lot of residents and businesses have been getting back the data for us.
And we've been seeing a difference between 85 % in the particulate matter from outdoor readings provided by the EPA and public monitors versus the indoor where we have our air systems.
And we also saw a 50 % We're happy for the folks that keep sending us the data, allowing us to analyze it and kind of give it back to them.
So we just wanted to share that update because we think it's very positive.
steve bannon
George, just hang on because I'm going to get you in.
I want you to hang through this block because I gave you the border and I'm going to lose Cortez.
So George, just hang there. I just want people to get a headline of what the results have been from East Palestine.
And it is unacceptable that Joe Biden has not been out there to address the situation in East Palestine when East Palestine, the folks in East Palestine are underwriting the bailout of the oligarchs in Silicon Valley.
So George, just hang on for one second.
Let's go. We've got Anthony Aguero in El Paso.
We have our own Ben Berquam.
Down with Lieutenant Castro in La Jolla, Texas.
We're going to go to both. First off, Anthony Aguero, tell us what's going on.
This was basically a rush through an invasion, an outright invasion of the southern border yesterday with no holds barred.
unidentified
What's the latest? So yesterday what happened, Steve, was a new wave of migrants arrived to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, and they were carrying a rumor that they were going to be allowed in as soon as they came and turned themselves over into the international port of entry.
And it not just happened here at this particular location that you see right behind us.
It happened at two additional port of entries at a smaller scale.
And unfortunately, the reality is that As we reported yesterday, it was not 1,000 migrants.
Confirming this morning, County Judge Richard Samaniego said it was capped the size was at around 2,000 illegal aliens consisting of mainly males coming from Venezuela.
The minute that they were not allowed to come in, the port of entry had to be shut down.
There is financial losses for both sides of the businesses of the border and they were closed down for hours and it impacted a lot of the people that were trying to come back and forth.
As a matter of fact, there was an American citizen that was assaulted on the bridge because she was trying to coincide with the illegal aliens that were trying to come across.
She was pleading to be let in and she ended up being assaulted and I think I sent a picture of The damage that they did to her arms.
steve bannon
Anthony, hang on for one second.
We're going to come back to you also. Amazing reporting from there.
Let's go to Ben Burquam, Lieutenant Casas.
He used to be Sergeant Casas, joins us from La Jolla, Texas.
Ben, how bad is it in Texas?
ben bergquam
What's the update? Well, as you saw there with Anthony, it's the same thing across the entire border.
We have some new footage. I think they're going to be playing there in Denver that shows what these guys are dealing with.
And it's all tied back to the open borders.
These are the rollovers.
These are the deaths that you're seeing.
As Oscar's in San Diego today, we just had eight die in a boat out there.
He's going to be bringing that footage out there.
This is what's going on on the southern border.
From west coast to east coast, it is just completely out of control.
And on top of that, you've got guys like Lieutenant Casas out here fighting the fight, and they can't even keep the guys in uniforms.
Lieutenant Casas? Yeah, that's correct.
unidentified
You know, one of the things that we've been having a problem with is the loss of officers who go work on other jobs where they're so fed up with it.
They want to make more money.
They just get out of this, and we're losing people at a very steady rate, but it's happening, and it's a big problem for us.
To be able to maintain the peace and stop the smuggling and drug going through our city is just a problem.
It's unstoppable.
For us, being a small community, it's almost virtually impossible, but we're able to still keep up, but we're having a very hard time with that.
ben bergquam
And it all goes back to what you're talking about, Steve, from the banking collapse, what they're doing with the energy sector, to the abandoning East Palestine, to the abandoning these communities.
It's the little guys that always get crushed by these Washington elite policies.
And it's not stopping. It's only getting worse.
steve bannon
Ben, can you ask Lieutenant Casas, because the Biden administration and the media is telling us things have gotten so much better since they put this humanitarian parole, which is just a scam.
That's just the parole people in Mexico flying on a plane into the interior of the country.
But has it really gotten better for the border communities like La Jolla, Texas, and even inland Texas?
Has it gotten any easier for For them, since Biden's been actually gaming the system to fly illegal aliens deeper into the country, sir?
unidentified
No, absolutely not.
Actually, it's gotten worse because every single day we know that the smuggling is going through here because since they know they're going to get caught, they're not going to be allowed to come in.
Now all the smugglers, together with the cartels in Mexico, are making sure that these people get across through our cities and then across these It's not getting better.
It's gotten worse. And because of that, people are dying.
Pursuits are happening with us, the Texas Highway Patrol and Border Patrol, whoever it is, and people die.
People lose their lives because of this.
It's not true.
That right there, what you asked me, it's not true because we're actually seeing the truth.
We're out here seeing it every single day.
steve bannon
Lieutenant Costas, Ben, can you guys just hang on for a second?
I'm going to come right back to you. Anthony, I'm going to come back to you.
Steve, I know you've got to bounce.
Cortez. Cortez, I want you to connect some dots here.
I want you to do some interlocking.
You've said that, number one, until we come out with full-spectrum energy dominance, the inflation is not even going to begin to stop.
And, of course, these massive budgets.
But you've also said...
The time bomb here is the invasion of the southern border in this massive influx of what CIS says is going to be 12 to 15 million illegal aliens by the end of the regime's term.
You see what's happening today.
Connect that also to the collapse of our banking system because I got to tell you, on Monday, 13 March in the year of our Lord, 2023, in living color, it looks like you're seeing the collapse of the United States of America, sir.
steve cortes
Yes. And they are, of course, interconnected, and here's why.
I think your count is almost exactly correct.
According to Daily Mail calculations, about six million illegals have broken and entered into the United States since Biden took office.
Now, those six million illegals are coming here overwhelmingly to work, okay?
They are going to work in the American labor market where they compete illegally and unjustly against American workers.
Particularly blue-collar American workers, because most of these folks coming in are not coming in with special skills.
And by the way, if they were competing against, say, lobbyists or news anchors, that border would be sealed in a New York second, believe me.
But because they're coming in to compete against the deplorables, to compete against blue-collar Americans, The oligarchs and the power brokers in this country simply do not care.
Steve, tomorrow we're going to get out CPI, Consumer Price Index.
In all likelihood, it is going to show that inflation continues to persist well above wage gains.
What that means is, and we'll find out tomorrow morning, it would be the 23rd consecutive month of crashing real wages, the worst streak in all of American history.
Where if you are getting a pay raise, and I hope you are, it's not enough.
It's not enough to keep pace with the soaring costs of the goods and services that you need to live your life.
So in an era of crashing real wages, the worst possible idea is to import millions of illegal workers to compete against Americans and further depress those wages for hardworking citizens in this country, many of whom, by the way, happen to be brown and black Americans.
who are disproportionately harmed.
Look, I don't care what color you are, it's bad for all Americans.
If you're an American citizen, you shouldn't have to deal with illegal workers in the job market competing against you, no matter your color or your ethnicity.
But I think it is also important for us to highlight that it does particularly Inflict pain upon minority communities in the United States, which is a part of why it's a ridiculous liberal narrative to presuppose that insisting on a border is somehow racist.
There's nothing racist about insisting on the sovereignty of the United States.
So the open border that Joe Biden has inflicted upon this country is incredibly reckless in so many ways.
It's a national security nightmare for our country.
It's a straight street safety nightmare for our country.
But it is also Massively harmful to the economy of this country.
At a time when Americans are struggling simply to afford the necessities of life, an open border that is teeming with new workers to come in and compete in the labor market is simply an outrage.
And for that reason alone, For that reason alone, Joe Biden must be replaced, and I believe Mayorkas and perhaps Biden must be impeached for this complete derelation of duty.
And it's a derelation of duty with many ramifications, but including, to your point, Steve, very serious economic ones.
steve bannon
We had under Clinton, you know, when she ran, we talked about the managed decline of our nation.
This is not managed anymore. This is a free fall.
Steve Cortez, how do people get to you, substacking all your content?
steve cortes
Yeah, please follow me. I'm at CortezSteve on the Twitter, Cortez with an S, and you can link to my Substack there.
It's stevecortez.substack.com.
I explain in plain English for the financial layman exactly what is happening regarding this bank failure, what it means for you, and what it portends going forward.
So please have a look. Thank you.
steve bannon
Cortez, fine. See you tomorrow.
Great work. Thank you. I want to make sure.
Let's get it back up again. I explained everything about the capital markets and how we got into this situation, particularly the debt trap, because remember, it's about the debt ceiling and not giving a penny.
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Let me go back to Anthony Aguero in El Paso.
Explain one more time, and if we put the footage up.
This footage yesterday was so shocking of just the Apsirite just rush and invasion of our nation.
Explain exactly what happened, Anthony.
unidentified
There was a new wave of migrants that was arriving into Ciudad Juarez coming from the southern border of Mexico, Steve.
They were carrying a rumor stipulating that they would be allowed into the country if they simply just showed up to the international port of entries.
Many of these migrants are currently complaining that CBP-1, the application for them to come into the country, quote unquote, legally, is crashing on them, and they're really upset.
Because at some point when they all sign up as a family, only one or two people from that family unit are allowed to come into the country.
And so they are upset and they are complaining that they are separating families at the border.
And so part of this rumor was a part of the manifestation that was happening yesterday was also frustration of the migrants that have been stuck in Juarez because hundreds continue to arrive on a daily basis.
So it is creating a huge bottleneck It's potentially going to burst, Steve.
But unfortunately, we don't have the manpower.
Yesterday, CBP was under scrutiny because it was not just happening simultaneously in one location.
It was happening simultaneously in two other locations, just like the footage that you're seeing right on the screen right here, only on just a smaller scale of what you're seeing.
And so these migrants continue to arrive to the southern city in Ciudad Juarez, and it's only causing more frustration in Kansas.
Crime is creeping into the city of El Paso, Texas.
And once all these migrants were pulled away from this area, they began going into different breach points.
One, as you are very familiar with, Steve, where we build the wall, what structure is put up.
They actually have the gate for access open.
It is chained open still.
So a lot of the migrants began going through there, causing over 2,000 arrests just on Sunday alone in the El Paso sector, Steve.
steve bannon
Unbelievable. We built that wall and you keep that gate closed.
Nobody can get around it. It's the best model wall ever built on the southern border.
And one thing I am so incredibly proud of.
And what they do is they chain open the gate so people just stream through.
You're seeing a total absolute collapse of your nation.
An invasion of the southern border.
Officers like the Lieutenant Cassis.
Nobody has their back.
And you see a complete collapse.
They're not going to East Palestine.
They're not going to Yuma. They're not going to El Paso.
They're going to Silicon Valley or Kyiv and rubbing up on them.
Next in the post, Stephen K. Band.
Okay, welcome back. We've got a lot to get through.
We're also, obviously, continuing coverage of this financial crisis, the Biden bonds and the Biden banks, the Biden bonds that are blowing up the Biden banks.
Right? They're being bailed out by MAGA. We're going to get the oligarchs being bailed out by MAGA. Just remember when you hear all of this, it is 100 % a taxpayer bailout.
Don't let them lie to you.
And here's what's the worst thing about it.
The venture capitalists that are the sponsors of all the depositors have more than enough money to do credit facilities to allow them to make payroll and to fund operations.
They don't want to do it because they'll get lower overall returns.
And management doesn't want to do it because they'll get diluted.
This is all about their upside.
So once again, just like in 2008, we have socialized the downside.
In other words, the taxpayer, the person making $40,000 a year, Shoulders of the burden, while the oligarchs and their elites that run these companies that hate you, the woke companies, deplatform you, debank you, all of it, they get all the upside and you pay for it.
So if you prefer to sit there and take it, just take it.
If not, you've got to get the Republican House has the ability to stop this.
But they've got to get off the dime here.
Just too slow. Not on edge.
Not on point.
Not sharp enough.
Not understanding the problem enough.
If you need better staff, get better staff.
But it's just not good enough.
Not even close. The thing on Friday, I love the Freedom Caucus.
That's just not good enough.
The response is budget.
Not good enough. None of it's good enough right now.
It's okay, but it's got to get so much better.
It's got to be world-class right now.
East Palestine. You talk about a tale of two cities.
I can add a couple more cities in there now.
La Jolla, Texas, Yuma, Arizona, where we had the...
The committee meeting, right?
The field committee from the judiciary talked about the financial collapse, the healthcare collapse, the hospital collapse because of the invasion of the southern border.
We've got El Paso, Texas.
We've got our own Oscar Blue Ramirez in Tijuana.
Eight illegal aliens died at sea off the coast of California over the weekend.
We're going to get to all that. I want to go back to about East Palestine.
George Negron from Enviroclins.
Ben Berquan was there.
You had Ed Henry, Karen Turk, Harry Oates, the great producer, did a couple of great days.
Fantastic. We've been covering it.
We talked about, for everybody, given the situation where EPA is not protecting you, there's burning the stuff in the atmosphere, about making sure Since you guys are in Navy ships, and I'm quite familiar with that, that you check out all the information about your product and your service.
And you guys throw in an air monitor when you buy one of the products.
It turns out, I guess, George, people around East Palestine or in East Palestine did this.
Walk us through exactly what happened and what have been the results so far, we know, from the data we're getting in.
unidentified
Absolutely. Not only did people do it in the hundreds, so not only in East Palestine, but surrounding areas.
And not only did they take advantage of this offer, not only to get the air system to mitigate and protect them, but also to monitor what was in the air.
And folks started sending us back the data.
We started aggregating, pulling in this data from the cloud.
And what we saw is the comparison of 85 % reduction in particulate matter from indoors to outdoors with the residents and businesses that use our air system.
And we saw a 50 % reduction in the total volatile compounds.
So it was really, you know, it's great to see.
It just reinforces that there is There's technology out there that can help with this.
Everyone should take caution when it comes to their air, especially with these environmental pollutions and what they're facing, specifically in East Palestine.
And as you can see, the numbers are that big blue graph on the top is the outdoor reading.
The green-yellow is the ones below.
You'll see a periodic spike, but you'll see it quickly come down.
And that's measured in a room size with our air system.
So those that took advantage of it set up the air monitor, utilized us as a resource.
We're always happy to, Steve. Anyone that comes from your show or comes through to us, we're happy to share and speak through the data.
But the results speak for themselves, the units protecting them from some of these harmful chemicals and particulate matter.
They definitely don't want to be breathing in.
And this is across the nation.
This is something that if you have the opportunity to take advantage and go to ekpure.com, Take a look at the information we put up there.
Take a look at the air system. Call us up if you have any questions.
We'll ship you an air monitor for free so you can measure your device.
You can call us up to help you read it.
But we're happy to help service the community of East Palestine and across the U.S. because it's not just there.
There's a lot of environmental pollution and things that we should be worried about.
steve bannon
George, one more time. I want everybody to get all the information about this as Ken.
Where can people go and then they can call you and ask questions?
What's the site and then where are they called to talk to you guys?
unidentified
Absolutely. So it's ekpure.com and we'll have all the information there with that Steve package that we use.
They can use coupon code Steve and get an additional 10 % off.
We're prioritizing free shipping.
If they want to give us a call, they're welcome to call 239-331-5711.
But all our contact information, product testing reports are listed on the site and we're going to start publicizing some of these case studies as we get them in so we're fully transparent on the results and what we're seeing.
steve bannon
George, hang right there. Ben, I want to bring you for a second about East Palestine.
I'll come back to you on La Jolla. But Ben, when you were out there, you could actually smell it and you could actually feel it.
I'm incorrect about that?
ben bergquam
No, you're 100 % right.
In fact, I immediately got a sore throat.
I had trouble breathing the first night I got there.
I had sinus issues, a headache, and I thought maybe I was just hypochondriac.
Maybe this was just placebo effect.
I'm making myself feel this way.
As soon as I went down to the border to cover that event you talked about in Yuma, everything went away.
As soon as I went back, I started tasting that kind of sweet necrotic smell that's coming out of the river there, especially as we started churning the water, and immediately I got a sore throat, trouble breathing, sinus, headache.
And again, I was only there for four days.
I can only imagine the people that are having to live through this.
It's terrifying, especially if you have a family.
steve bannon
We're going to have their backs.
George, one more time before you go.
How do people get to your site?
I want everybody to go check it out today.
Get information. And if you got to, you got to call.
George, one more time. How do people get to you guys?
unidentified
Go to ekpure.com.
That's the package right there.
It's on your screen. Use coupon code STEVE, and we're going to get you taken care of, and we're going to be here to help throughout this.
steve bannon
You're doing the Lord's work there, brother.
Thank you so much. Honored to have you as a sponsor, really.
Great, great, great work.
We're going to spend a lot more time in this East Palestine situation.
Unsad Biden hadn't been there.
Thank you, George. I want to go to Oscar Blue Ramirez down in Tijuana.
Oscar, tell us about this tragedy over the weekend.
What happened? How did eight people lose their lives right off the coast of California, sir?
unidentified
Well, Mr. Vannon, again, the illegal and illicit activity continues over here.
They cross on Sunday morning.
They reportedly called the Coast Guard, and they said that two boats were discovered on the side of the United States as they crossed illegally into the United States.
One of the boats was carrying seven women and five children.
They were rescued and taken to shore.
But the other boat, they found it capsized as they send the Coast Guard, send a helicopter in a boat to rescue the other migrants that they were inside of this capsized boat.
Eight of them, they were found dead in the sea.
Seven of them are still missing.
James Spittler, the head chief commissioner of the Coast Guard in Southern California, has said that And this year they have had a humongous increase of illicit and illegal activity crossing through the sea.
717 % of an increase of people crossing illegally being trafficked into the Southern California.
And only on the year 2021, 23 people have died crossing through this particular area, sir.
steve bannon
Hold it. Give me those percentages again.
unidentified
What are the increases? 717 percent.
That is what James Spittler has said, that it has been an increase since a couple of years from now, crossing and trafficking people through this part and this area.
People have died, multiple people have died, and they think that it's easy crossing to this part.
They think that they just can walk over, swim over, and swim to the other side.
oscar blue ramirez
They don't know the consequences and the deep holes that they are But ultimately, these two boats, they were all the way deep into the ocean.
unidentified
You know, one of them was found capsized.
Eight people died on that one, and seven, they still cannot find them, and there's still operations on the other side.
As a matter of fact, we just saw a weird thing about this.
We just saw a Coast Guard unit passing by through this area that you don't see that very often, sir.
steve bannon
Oscar, hang on. Anthony, hang on.
I want to go to Ben Burquan. Ben, you've been with Oscar and Anthony all the way from the Venezuelan-Columbia border all the way up.
You guys have tracked this like nobody else with the great Michael Yan.
Put it in perspective, what are we seeing given what's happened this weekend?
ben bergquam
Well, just as Anthony was speaking, what people need to understand is this is all coordinated.
And the migrants, the illegal aliens that are coming up through this are really just pawns in this game.
They're just money to the cartels.
And not just the cartels, the United Nations and these leftist NGOs like Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services.
All of these organizations. So as Anthony's talking about these people coming up that are expecting to be led across, the reason they're expecting to be led across is they're being lied to and told by these leftist activists.
And as Joe Biden and as the left out of Washington, D.C. say they're doing something to fix it, he knows damn good and well they're not doing it because he's not in control of it.
It's these leftist activists that are really driving the ship.
They're the ones pushing the policies out of Washington, D.C. That's what's happening right now.
Everywhere from Venezuela, all around the world right now, you have these same organizations that are telling people, just keep coming, keep coming, keep coming.
And what you see everywhere from Venezuela to right here in La Jolla, Texas, they're dying on the way.
steve bannon
Lieutenant Costas, we've got about a minute to you.
Do you feel that any, does law enforcement there feel, does anybody have your back?
Does the governor of Texas, the president of the United States, does anybody, do you feel, you on the front line, feel anybody has your back?
unidentified
Well, to be honest and sincere with you on that, I feel that we don't.
A lot of this stuff that we're coming across, there's thresholds that the federal government needs to meet.
And I don't want to really get into that, but I will say this.
They will not prosecute certain individuals.
So on the state level, we have to do it.
If we don't do it, all of this stuff continues.
And right now as we speak, there's people crossing.
And they're going through.
And if we chase them, there's going to be pursuits.
And in those pursuits, people end up dying.
And that's the cause and effect of all of this.
And going back to do they have our back?
Yeah, they do. Because to a certain degree, they do.
They help us.
Sometimes we need units and all of that.
We get grants.
But if we really ask for the help that we need to get intel on all of that, on all of these people we're catching, we're not getting that.
And that's frustrating to us as a law enforcement agency.
steve bannon
Okay. Lieutenant Casasang right there.
We're in Tijuana, Mexico, El Paso, Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas.
In La Jolla, Texas, we're going to go to Taiwan next, come back to the border, and we're going to end up in Silicon Valley.
All next in The War Room.
Remember, all their venture capital funds have enough money to do this, but they're coming to you because you're going to bear the burden of the risk of the downside.
They're going to keep all the upside. I think up to a third of the companies, Natalie Winters thinks 50%, I think a third of the companies are CCP companies.
Back, CCP-oriented.
Got Sequoia money, which is a CCP front in it.
In Silicon Valley banks, remember you're bailing out the CCP at the same time.
Grant Newsham joins us from Taiwan.
I think that they're at a conference today.
I think we're trying to get clear of Pascal.
Grant, you've got a new book, When China Attacks.
When China attacks, tell me about this bombshell that happened over the last couple of days, the Persian-Tehran-Saudi Arabia deal cut in Beijing, unbeknownst to the Biden regime, that now looks like they're bringing in allies on the entire Eurasian landmass to basically get ready to drive the United States out of the Western Pacific.
Grant Newsham, the author of the book, When China Attacks.
unidentified
Oh my goodness, that deal between the Saudis and the Iranians that the Chinese are going to take credit for having engineered, that is a huge setback for the Biden administration for the United States.
And it's something the Chinese can crow about.
Saudi Arabia has long been considered America's strong ally, but this administration has done its best to really alienate them.
One of the big concerns here is that Iran is a real enemy.
We've let China actually broker this peace.
It seems to be a peace agreement.
Now China is going to continue arming Iran.
They are going to feel unrestrained.
But even more important, you're going to see maybe some efforts and successful efforts to have the Chinese currency.
That will be now used more often in oil trades.
And that is probably the biggest blow from all of this.
It doesn't get the attention.
Our last big lever over the Chinese is the U.S. dollar.
steve bannon
Yeah, they take us as the prime reserve currency.
They do these massive output deals, and then they're going to have it not use petrodollars.
They're actually going to use the yuan as the currency to do it.
Look, unrestricted warfare is kind of the Bible that we've looked at of unrestricted warfare.
The shocking thing about your book, you actually look forward in time and talk about when it goes to a kinetic.
Walk us through that for a second.
According to you and your thinking, is your theory of the case We know the CCP's been at war with us economically, political warfare, economic warfare, psychological, cyber information.
Make the case of why they're heading towards a kinetic war that they think they can win, sir.
unidentified
Well, they've had 30 years at least of weakening us.
They've hollowed out our manufacturing.
Just tons of millions of jobs have gone to To China, our financial class, our business classes are falling all over themselves to do business in People's Republic of China.
They're providing The Chinese with convertible currency by probably at least a couple hundred billion dollars a year that allows the Chinese to build up their military.
As I say, they've weakened us.
There's the biological attack they've launched on us and the chemical assault, the fentanyl, that killed 70,000 Americans last year in one year, and that number's going up.
Their cyber theft, cyber operations have been just Great help to them.
Once again, building up their economy, building up their military as well.
They've got any number of proxies working on their behalf.
Meanwhile, the People's Liberation Army has become a formidable force that in certain circumstances could give us all we could handle, which is a nice way of saying it could probably defeat us in certain types of fights.
That was not the case 20 years ago.
We've allowed that to happen.
Our military advantage over the Chinese is at best patchy in some areas that are ahead of us.
So they have weakened us.
And you can see, look at the way we're fighting each other, the confusion, just the animosity that you see in the United States.
This administration really can't decide what it focuses on.
It seems to be responding ad hoc to everything.
It can't decide if it sees the Chinese as an adversary or an enemy.
The shooting is the last stage.
So the shooting is, if anything, the last stage.
Taiwan is a very attractive place.
steve bannon
When I was as a young man on a destroyer in the South China Sea in, what, 76, 77, 78, the Chinese were fishing boats, right?
It is unbelievable. The freedom of navigation was the 7th Fleet, and it was unquestioned, not even questioned.
Today, if you look at it, the question is, could we stop an air and naval blockade or stop an amphibious assault?
Hang on one second, I'm going to come right back to you, Grant.
I want to bring Cleo Pascal. She's done amazing reporting.
We talk about the Eurasian landmass, but we're forgetting the Caribbean, South America, and particularly the islands in the Western Pacific, the South Pacific, Polynesia, Micronesia, all of it.
Cleo, what are they doing?
And you've released these letters that talk about the pressure they're putting the political folks down there under.
Is the Chinese Communist Party trying to sweep through what the second island chain, I think it's called, and make sure they envelop the United States of America?
unidentified
Thank you very much for having me on.
The overt goal has been to push the U.S. back to Hawaii.
So that means not just the first and the second island chain, but leapfrogging, as the Japanese wanted to do kinetically using political warfare, and in fact unrestricted warfare.
And the letter that's just been released by the president of the Federated States of Micronesia, which is a geographically very large country in the Central Pacific, which has a compact or free association with the United States, which means that the U.S. uses it as part of the expanded defense perimeter.
The U.S. is responsible for its defense And security is a textbook case of unrestricted warfare.
He goes through all of the ways that China has tried to put pressure on him and on his government, bribes, threats, funding succession movements.
It is unrestricted warfare, the book, come to life.
And it's really — it can't be ignored.
It's a president of a country saying, this is happening to us, and we really need help.
And what we want to do to get out of it, he offers a solution, is actually to flip recognition from China to Taiwan.
It would be one of the first countries to do that in a very long time.
And so it would reappropriate the narrative that China has been pushing that Chinese expansion is inevitable.
steve bannon
I just want to make sure you got the first island chain up there with Taiwan around the South China Sea, the second island chain, I guess back to Guam.
You're saying, your theory of the case, is this what the Japanese tried to do in World War II? This is actually the third island chain to push us all the way back to the Pacific.
And you're saying they're doing this not in the kinetic sense that the Japanese tried it, but they're trying it with unrestricted warfare.
Is that, Cleo, your theory of the case here?
unidentified
Yeah, absolutely. And it's what the president of the Federal States of Micronesia has said.
This was something that was testified to, I think, in 2008, if I'm not mistaken, by Admiral Keating in front of, I think, Senate Armed Services Committee, but I need to check.
But what he said, I'm very sure of, which is that a senior Chinese official had come up to him and suggested that the U.S. take Kauai East and China will take Kauai West and don't worry about it, China will make sure everything's nice and calm in that part of the Pacific.
And now we're seeing that come to life.
And if you take a look at what they've done with the Solomon Islands, they basically won Guadalcanal without firing a single shot, almost on exactly the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Their political warfare has been incredibly effective.
steve bannon
And sophisticated. Real quickly, when you say that his recommendation is to flip it to Taiwan, would the United States have to then go forward, which I'm an advocate of, and say, hey, the one challenge policy that we've been beholden to since the early 70s is no longer operative, that we'd have to look at Taiwan as an independent republic, ma'am? Well, I think it is a country.
unidentified
I'm in the country of Taiwan at this very moment.
I don't quite see what the confusion is.
And the U.S. has been sending incredibly mixed messages.
I was just in Palau, which is a country that recognizes Taiwan, and they held a big oceans conference recently.
And they would have liked to invite President Tsai, but we're told that President Tsai couldn't come if Kerry came.
So they were given this choice of Tsai or Kerry.
And because of the compact and their relationship with the U.S., this is the location of the Battle of Peleliu.
This is a place where American blood is soaked into the soil for the sake of liberty and freedom.
But they are being told that they can't have the president of Taiwan come and visit their country, the democratic representative of the Chinese peoples, if you want to put it that way.
The U.S. needs to be much more clear, I think, on how important democracy is, not just to itself, but the U.S. as a symbol of democracy for the region.
steve bannon
Cleo, hang on for one second.
I want to go back to Grant. Grant, do the people, the folks in Taiwan, our allies there, do they believe that the United States can actually defend them militarily on the kinetic side from either an air or naval blockade of the island or an amphibious assault, sir? I think some of them do, but it's been many years.
unidentified
They hear the words that America supports them, really admires them, and yet the Americans will barely be seen in public with them in a military sense.
We do almost no joint training with them.
Two platoon-sized exercises over 40 years is not a whole lot of joint training.
So it's like some guy telling a girl, yeah, I love you, baby, but if you see me in public, pretend you don't know who I am.
This has got to change.
And so the Taiwanese would like to believe it, but I think they need to see some more concrete actions on the part of the United States.
It seems as though US policy has long been handcuffed by fear of what the Chinese will say.
And if you don't get over this, China's going to keep turning up the heat.
And one of these days, if they don't subvert Taiwan and get it to surrender, they will start shooting and attack.
And one can imagine what happens.
They go hard, fast, cut off, isolate Taiwan electronically and cut the Internet, etc.
Learn from what the Russians did in Ukraine and don't make those mistakes.
And then tell the administration, look, you stand clear.
This is domestic matter or else we go nuclear.
And this administration, I am not at all sure what they would do.
I have a feeling they might crawl up behind the desk, unfortunately.
So we've got to take this seriously and show we're serious.
steve bannon
They would blink. Grant, real quickly, how do people get to the book when China attacks, and how do they get to all your great writings?
unidentified
Well, my writing is at grantnewsham.com.
You can get to that. The book's available at Barnes& Noble, Amazon, the usual.
I have a Twitter, which is at NewshamGrant.
steve bannon
Grant, fantastic work.
Thank you for staying up late.
Cleo, your reporting's been amazing.
I want to have you back on to go through The tragedy of the 80th anniversary of the blood we spilled in the Solomon Islands and through the South and Western Pacific and what we're doing giving up politically right now to the CCP. Where do people go to get all of your, what's your social media currents and how do they get all your reporting?
unidentified
I'm sort of on Twitter, at Cleopascal, and through there you can find the other stuff.
Thank you for asking. Cleo, thank you very much.
steve bannon
Amazing work. Grant, fantastic work.
Thank you guys for staying up late tonight in the Western Pacific.
Thank you very much. Okay, we're going to take a short...
By the way, the Silicon Valley Bank bailout that you're doing, that MAGA's doing, you're bailing out the Chinese Communist Party also.
I think up to a third of the companies are associated with the CCP. Are we asking the CCP to throw any money here?
Are the venture capitalists putting any money in for their companies?
No, they are not. You're the suckers.
And the political class is going along with it.
You know why? They don't want to seem like they're causing any disturbance.
It's time to cause a disturbance now.
You have to. You have to stand up for this now, immediately.
If you roll over for this, you'll roll over for anything.
Short break. Back to the border.
Next. Only in the war room.
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steve bannon
Okay, a couple things. Make sure you go.
We're going to spend, obviously, so much time this afternoon on the Silicon Valley Bank bailout.
I'll be doing more rants, doing more analysis, deconstructing the whole thing because it affects your life.
I want to make sure today you're calling.
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I want to hear by the closed business today that's been epic about you getting in the grill today.
Of these legislators that will not draw a line in the sand and say, no way, impossible, we're not going to do this.
MAGA and the American people are not going to bail out the oligarchs on what was really like the cool kids table in junior high school.
With corruption and graft and the CCP and all of it, we'll go into more details.
And also... The Biden regime's economic plan, we've got to be tougher in going back against this trillion dollars, 6.8 trillion dollar budget, and plus not one penny more for the debt limit.
This is the inflection point.
You've got to fight it now. You've got to fight it, and you've got to come all in.
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Charlie Kirk follows us next in Real America's Voice.
He'll be on fire about all of this.
Brother Kirk is wired in.
Anthony, let me go to our own Oscar Blue.
Oscar Blue, real quickly, just a summary of what's going on in Tijuana, the tragedy of eight dying at sea, illegal aliens.
What else is going on, sir?
unidentified
Well, today they're still going to continue to search and the Coast Guard is going to continue to search for the seven other individuals that they are still lost at sea that they were reported by James Fittler, the commander in chief of the Coast Guard, who yesterday he just basically said, Eight individuals were found dead at this capsized boat as they crossed illicitly and illegally into the United States.
And the number, Mr.
Bannon, it is the number that is the most outrageous number, 717 percent.
He said that in the past years they had an increase of illicit and illegal activity as crossing, as trafficking of people into the United States.
This tells you that it hasn't decreased.
This tells you that not only they're crossing by land, they're crossing by mountains and to open border gaps, but continuously also they're crossing through sea as they are being traffic into the United States of America, sir, from this area.
steve bannon
Real quickly, what are your coordinates?
How do people get to your reporting on social media?
unidentified
Thank you, sir, for the invitation.
Oscar Blue on Getter, on Twitter, on all social media, it's Oscar Blue Ramirez, and of course, sir, Real America's Voice News.
Sir, thank you. Thank you, brother.
steve bannon
Anthony Aguero in El Paso, give us a quick update, and then how do people get to you to follow you?
We'll have you back on the evening show, sir.
unidentified
Yes, sir. So basically what happened out here in El Paso within the last 24 hours was a new wave of migrants, predominantly males from Venezuela, arrived to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, coming in with an ambitious attitude and wanting to come across.
They carried a rumor saying that they would be allowed into the country as long as they showed up into the international port of entries.
They showed up not just to one, but they showed up to three international port of entries, causing chaos all across the border.
Putting our special response teams on high alert.
And right now the El Paso migration dashboard is monitoring the situation.
It's back to business as usual.
But we're going to be keeping an eye for you guys out here.
And you can find me on Rumble at Real Anthony Aguero, sir.
steve bannon
You're a hero, Anthony.
We'll get you back on this afternoon.
Charlie, you're there with Lieutenant Casas, one of the heroes and patriots down there in La Jolla, Texas.
Tie it all together, and I want to hear Lieutenant Casas tell us what we can do, what this audience can do to assist him.
ben bergquam
Well, thank you for the compliment, calling me Charlie, Steve.
But actually, as we're here, this just happened behind us.
We've got a unit that just pulled in.
Talk to us, Lieutenant.
What's going on here? Yeah.
unidentified
Remember I was telling you, Steve, that as we're speaking, there's actually smuggling going on behind us.
And just as we were speaking, one of our officers just right now got engaged on a vehicle, ended up catching a smuggler.
And some undocumented immigrants in that vehicle.
So we just made that arrest just as we were speaking.
So this is a constant battle that we're battling.
It's not every other minute.
No, it's constant.
Right now as we speak and you see those cars coming across, there's probably somewhere in between somebody smuggling undocumented immigrants and bringing them into the United States, putting them in stash houses.
Some of them do die because of this.
And then they move them up north, further to the northern states, and then they do what they're going to do.
Some of them are criminals.
I want to add that to this element, that a lot of these people are criminals themselves, and they're undocumented.
They're the ones that are smuggling.
They're moving firearms.
Right now, I'm going to get with ATF about a case that I'm working with right now about a female who was moving illegal aliens here in our area in La Jolla.
And she's also selling guns.
And she's asking these people, you want full loaded AKs, ARs?
They're going to cost you a little bit more, up to $3,000.
And this is actually going on in real life.
I'm dealing with these people.
We're dealing with these people as a city and as a community.
And that's why we don't stop what we're doing.
We can't. If we stop this, this place will fall apart.
It's just something you cannot do.
And unfortunately, the federal government has their hands tied.
steve bannon
You're a hero, sir. They're selling fully loaded AKs.
Ben, how do people get social media to you, Lieutenant Casas?
How did we get your coverage throughout the day?
unidentified
We'll see you back here tonight. How did they get the coverage?
ben bergquam
Of course, americasvoice.news.
You've got to download the app, America's Voice app.
FrontlineAmerica.com is my website.
And then all social media at Ben Berquam, B-E-R-G-Q-U-A-M. And La Jolla, it's La Jolla, L-A-J-O-Y-A. Sorry, not the California La Jolla.
unidentified
It's La Jolla Police Department.
You can find us on Facebook, La Jolla Police Department.
steve bannon
Lieutenant Costas, you're a hero and a patriot.
Ben, you too. Ben Burquam, not Charlie Burquam.
Charlie Kirk is next, though.
Stick right here on Real America's Voice.
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