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Episode 2649: The Standoff In Taiwan
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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. Bannon.
joe scarborough
He pulled back a bit in these exercises. Now the ending of these exercises would suggest that.
Were you hearing conflicting signals throughout the weekend, or had you heard all along that China was going to be a bit more restrained?
unidentified
Well, China has said that it was simulating sealing off Taiwan and that they had rehearsed precision strikes on key targets.
This is the first time we've heard that sort of language associated with the drills, but the drills are not We're not as intense or expansive as the ones that we saw last summer after Nancy Pelosi's visit.
What is curious, Joe, is how some of this language describing the drills is being picked up and amplified to create this impression that there's this ominous drumbeat towards war, which is not the case right now.
Beijing has been very deliberate in its response to that meeting between House Speaker McCarthy and Tsai Ing-wen.
Xi Jinping is trying to position himself as a global statesman and China as a diplomatic power player.
They're also playing the long game here.
There are presidential elections in Taiwan next January.
More mainland friendly candidate is going to be returned to power.
So there was the sense that they weren't out to scare voters with the military drills, but certainly to be able to have this show of power, this show of confidence, and maybe have people think perhaps the US isn't going to come to your rescue.
What is really interesting for me in this is what has been generating attention here in state media and in social media.
It's not the drills.
And it's not the US delegation that's been visiting Taipei.
It's anything to do with France.
It's anything French.
It's Emmanuel Macron who is being absolutely celebrated here after that state visit last week because of some of the comments that he was making about European strategic autonomy and not always falling into line with the US position.
That's after the comments he made here.
Then he gave that interview to Politico and a couple of French journalists where he said, quote, the question Europeans need to answer, is it in our interest to accelerate a crisis on Taiwan?
No. The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction.
He went on to say that Europeans haven't been able to solve the crisis in Ukraine, so it would not be in Europe's best interest to try to make commitments to Taiwan.
So that has been music to some nationalist ears here, where the Taiwan issue actually gets very broad-based support from people who think that the island should be unified with the mainland.
It also doesn't strategically help the US here at a time when there is no high-level communication between the US and China.
There is very little trust between the two sides.
And there doesn't appear to be any clear momentum to get any of it back on track.
Breaking news, the Pentagon investigating how top-secret U.S. documents came to be posted on social media.
Troubling disclosures not only about the war in Ukraine, but also China, Iran, and the Middle East.
How did this happen, and what does it mean for national security?
ABC senior White House correspondent Mary Bruce is at the White House tonight.
Tonight, growing concerns as more and more top secret classified Pentagon documents are being discovered posted on social media.
Dozens of pages of sensitive material dealing with everything from China to Iran's nuclear program to North Korea.
It comes as the Pentagon tonight is investigating how classified documents about U.S. and NATO plans to assist Ukraine in the fight against Russia were leaked and posted on the Internet.
Those documents, most of which we cannot show, paint a detailed snapshot of the Ukrainian battlefield on March 1st, including training schedules and locations for Ukrainian troops, weapons delivery schedules, and casualty updates.
Pictures of the documents appeared on social media this week, but ABC News has found that some were posted on the Internet in early March, shortly after the documents were drafted.
The photos include visible creases, as if the pages had been folded to fit in a pocket.
A U.S. official saying the documents are no longer relevant to the battlefield, adding that they are of limited intelligence value and appear to have been altered from the original documents.
For instance, the number of Russian fatalities was significantly reduced in the photo posted online.
But the fact that this top-secret material appeared on the Internet so soon after being issued only deepens the security concern.
These leaks causing lots of alarm.
Mary Bruce joins us now from the White House.
And Mary, the Pentagon tonight racing to uncover just how all this classified information got out and just who posted it online.
Lindsay, the Pentagon is extremely concerned in looking at everything from who had access to these documents to who may have printed them.
And right now it is not clear if this was a leak from inside the Pentagon or a hack by a foreign actor.
Meanwhile, tonight there is already an international blame game going on.
The Ukrainians blaming the Russians and the Russians pointing a finger at the U.S. We'll be right back.
steve bannon
Okay, Easter Monday, 10 April, in the year of our Lord, 2023.
As we hurdle towards, you know, we're in the early years of the Third World War, as we've told you, in the convergence of these crises, the financial and economic crisis now with the geopolitical.
But we also have an information war going on right now.
Let me bring in Jack Basobiec.
I've got Jack Basobiec, and Colonel Mills is going to walk us through some slides a little later about exactly what The CCP and the People's Liberation Army and Navy are actually doing now on this envelopment strategy on Taiwan.
But I want to get to Jack first.
Jack, as many people know, is a former naval intelligence officer, speaks perfect Mandarin, reads Mandarin.
He was stationed in China for a number of years.
Jack, I want to start with first that cold open.
I want to thank the team in Denver and, of course, the Always Crack production team at the producers here at the War Room, particularly on a Monday.
Sometimes Monday a little slow off the mark.
They're on fire today.
Jack, NBC News, before I get into the intelligence part and what the real story is, it's not the leaks are obviously terrible.
It's not the leaks.
It's not the reveal that the United States spies on its enemies and its allies.
It's the content of the leaks.
Don't let the misdirection play us all now.
Who did it?
Is there MAGA people inside that did it?
Are there other allies that don't support us that did it?
It's about the content because it shows you...
That we know almost virtually nothing about what's really going on in Ukraine.
And what you've been told, the triumphalist narrative, is a stone-cold lie.
That ain't Steve Bannon and Jack Posovic telling you that.
It's not Charlie Kirk on Defund the War.
That is from the documents themselves.
But I've got to go to that opening piece of NBC. Remember, NBC are the partners to the Beijing regime.
Because they broadcast the Olympics, gave them huge money for the Olympics, were over there last year for the Winter Olympics, kowtowing to the CCP, never bringing up any of the issues related to the enslavement allowed by Jing.
But that opening segment from the NBC reporter, It was absolutely pure propaganda for the CCP. That was 1,000 % CCP talking points right there.
Of course, Bozo Joe from Alabama is just sitting there with that stupid look on his face as he normally has, just sitting there nodding his head.
Jack Posobiec, tell me first off about, because we're going to talk about fifth columns, right?
In the fifth column, she says, oh, all they're talking about is Macron.
Macron, our great ally.
We bailed out the Europeans three times.
We bailed them out in World War I. We went back and bailed them out in World War II. We went back and bailed them out in the Cold War against the Soviets.
President Reagan took down the evil empire.
Now we're fully underwriting the Ukraine war.
We're fully underwriting it.
The government and the war itself and the documents show that we're being lied to every step of the way.
It's another Pentagon Papers, another Afghan report right from The Washington Post.
This shows you we're being lied to.
Over the weekend, we got Macron cutting a deal in Beijing and coming out and saying, hey, you know, we shouldn't take a side here.
And we shouldn't, you know, the currency thing is we got to look at alternatives.
At the same time, Elon Musk, who's a trader, not even an American, there's another guy like Murdoch and like Soros, these guys, they get citizenship because they want to grift off the American people.
They are not Americans.
They do not have America's self-interest.
He's over there in Shanghai, open with the CCP money, opening up the new factories and take all the business from the one, quote unquote, he did in Texas.
Jack Posobiec, put it in perspective, particularly the information war that's going on when you have major media outlets right there.
And they call Terry Guo.
Remember, Miles Guo and War Room defeated Terry Guo in the primary in Taiwan because he's a Kuomang Tan, but he is an absolute asset.
He's Foxconn. All of his production facilities are in mainland China.
He's completely bought and paid for.
By the CCP, he's the fifth column in Taiwan.
The head of Kuomintang, he's in China this weekend.
Macron's in China this weekend.
Elon Musk is in China this weekend.
They're getting all their buddies, all their buddies over there because it's a time to choose.
You're on one side or the other.
Nobody's straddling in the middle here.
Nobody's straddling the middle.
This is the Third World War.
You gotta pick a side. Hey, if you pick the opposite side, no problem.
Pick the opposite side.
But you will deal with a resurgent MAGA America that will hold you accountable, Jack Posobiec.
jack posobiec
Look, Steve, it's really amazing.
So, Emmanuel Macron fancies himself as the modern-day Charles de Gaulle, but he's really un idiot apavi, the idiot of Paris.
Because what he's doing, he's the useful idiot of Paris.
What he's doing by going over to China is signifying what we've told you here on The War Room, and I've told you on Human Events Daily, Charlie Kerr and Turning Point USA, we told you he's going over there not as the president of France.
He may think he is acting in that capacity.
What he's going over there is as the operative and the emissary of the World Economic Forum.
This is the party of Davos, and it's very simple, folks.
There's a reason that NBC and every single other agency, when they talk about this, they'll always leave out the economic factors.
They'll always leave out the economic quotient to this situation.
The fact that you've got big businesses throughout the United States and throughout the West That are deeply in bed, every industry at this point, almost every single industry in the West is dependent on China, and they're going to continue being that way because they have a deal.
They have a deal with the CCP that was enacted after Tiananmen Square, the events of June 4th, 1989.
And the reason for this is simple.
They send over the Western capital, they send over the IP, they're getting the money in between.
unidentified
He's telling me to change my mic.
steve bannon
Jack, talk to me about someone like France, someone like Macron actually making the pivot and sitting there going, hey, we're underwriting the Ukraine war.
We're picking up the slack that he refuses to do.
And if you try to pick up...
He dropped.
Okay, we're going to try to get Jack Posobiec up in his studio again.
Big weekend. Let me just put it in perspective.
The PLA military, the CCP military, spent the entire weekend in development strategy, even sending a carrier battle group over to East Taiwan to show that they can completely cut off the island.
And, of course, NBC is just sitting there going, oh, yeah, it's kind of overblown.
You know, Xi's a peacemaker.
He's now on the global stage as a senior statesman, as a peacemaker.
These are all lies and misrepresentations.
This is all...
The media coming together to sell out America.
NBC should be ashamed of themselves.
Elon Musk, his true colors came up.
And by the way, Business Insider and others picked it up on Getter.
I lit this guy up over the weekend.
They picked it up, okay?
They picked it up and said, hey, Bannon continues to call him out to being totally owned by the CPC. Remember he denied it at first when I first lit him up on the Tim Pool show?
Oh, Bannon, I thought he was smart and evil, and I just think he's evil.
Hey, dude, I don't care what you think.
Here's what the reality is.
You are not an American.
You've been over here leeching off this country.
You came to the White House all the time begging for handouts.
We cut you off.
No handouts for you.
No more handouts. Okay?
Let your venture capital partners put that up.
You went immediately to the CCP, kowtowed to them, took their money, and now you're over there this weekend on a weekend at the Senate and still refuse to call them out, refuse to put any of the anti-CCP people up on Twitter?
You are a total and complete scumbag.
Total and complete scumbag, and so is Macron.
Any European, we've got to cut off all money from Ukraine right now.
unidentified
Short commercial break. Back in the warm in just a moment.
We rejoice when there's no more.
Let's take down the season.
Host, Stephen K. Back.
steve bannon
Okay, we're going to go to Tennessee at 11 p.m.
We're also going to get Dr.
Lindsay in here, and we're going to get Carol Swain to talk about the situation at the University of Florida, which exposed this DEI industry, I mean systemic, deeply embedded into the university and education system.
We're going to also talk about what's happening in Tennessee in this, because today there's especially another, they're calling for a big rally there.
So we get Michael Patrick Leahy, get all over that.
Jack Posobiec. The CCP doing a very sophisticated envelopment exercise over the weekend, intruding into Taiwan airspace, showing...
I think this is a wake-up call for people to follow it.
One of the carrier battle groups is on the eastern side of Taiwan.
It's a full envelopment strategy.
They're going to do a naval blockade, then an air...
And then they're going to dare the Americans to break it, the 7th Fleet to break it.
And then if they actually want to go next level, they'll do an air assault in to seize the chip factories.
At the same time, you got the fifth column in the West.
You got Macron, Elon Musk, the former head of the Taiwanese government, KMT. Chiang Kai-shek's old party but now totally pro-CCP. And you've got Terry Guo announcing Foxconn has factories all over the United States.
He's totally owned by the CCP. He announced this for the presidency because they want to make sure that they have this fight where half the Chinese people don't want to defend against the CCP. And at the same time, these leaks, what these leaks show, Jack, you're a naval intelligence officer.
Does it shock you? The headlines, we're spying on our allies, we're spying on our enemies.
Is that a big shock?
That's not a shock. The shock here is, quite frankly, we know very little of what's going on in Ukraine, and what we know is totally wrong.
They say there's 70,000 dead combat casualties in the Ukrainian army and 16,000 in the Russian army.
The triumphalist narrative that the Russian army is being defeated and beaten back and he's about to collapse, at least from the documents to the Joint Chiefs, is wrong.
jack posobiec
Okay, so Steve, there's a lot going on here, but let's go back to China for a second, because we have to understand, you got to go back to 101, Chinese military strategy.
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the pinnacle of skill.
To subdue the enemy without fighting.
That is why they fund Fifth Columns.
That is why they're working on these, not just envelopment strategies from a military perspective, But envelopment from the political, social, and economic perspective.
If you were talking about this story, before we had the mic issue before, this is what I was getting into.
If you were talking about this story, if you're listening to anyone who's talking about China, Taiwan, while leaving out the economic elements of the story, you know that you're talking to someone who either A, doesn't know what they're talking about, or B, is bought off.
Because that is the entire story.
Why are they operating in the East?
Because that is your major shipping routes.
That is one of the most major maritime shipping routes of the entire planet, all planet Earth, the amount of shipping that goes through there.
That's the reason that they're challenging the Seventh Fleet there.
This isn't going to go to a situation where you're going to have American Or even other flagged, you know, international commercial shipping that are running this.
They're not going to try to. That's why they talked.
If you watched our Saturday show, we explained all of this, Steve.
When we came on here and said the reason they're announcing maritime interdiction operation, this is all show.
What you're seeing right now is all show.
The most important thing, signal not noise, folks.
Signal not noise.
The maritime interdiction operations that they announced that would start to take place against commercially flagged vessels.
Operating in and out of Taiwanese ports is the most important thing that China has said since the beginning of this, because they're going to every single company.
They're going to every single chamber of commerce across the entire planet.
And they're saying, pick one, pick one us or them, the red flag with the yellow stars or the red flag with the blue field and the white sun.
It's as simple as that.
They're saying, you have to choose us.
And those ships, they're not going to be able to get insurance, Steve, if they're being told they're going to run blockades.
They're not going to be able to get reinsurance from Swiss Re.
The captains aren't going to want to pull out of port.
So which do you think that every company is going to choose?
And this is what China has done vis-a-vis Taiwan since the 1970s.
First, they got the switchover, the handover of diplomatic recognition from Taiwan, the Republic of China.
At the United Nations, on that Security Council, that vote was then given to the CCP. That was all the way back in the 1970s, and they got that through Carter.
Then they kept going forward and getting everyone to recognize Beijing over Taiwan, cut relations with them, isolate them economically, isolate them culturally, isolate them diplomatically, so that they would be left with no other choice than to re-assimilate back into the mainland.
That has been China's plan for 50 years, and it will continue to be their plan.
Now, all you're seeing is them speeding it up.
They're just speeding it up at this point because it's like Hemingway said, gradually, then suddenly.
So they're trying to put Taiwan now on the same track, the same playbook that we saw in Hong Kong just three years ago, in 2019, end of 2019, give or take, right before COVID kicked off, coincidentally.
Totally coincidence, right? There are no conspiracies.
And we know that with Hong Kong, we were told it was going to be one country, two systems for 50 years with no interference from Beijing.
That was a complete lie, and they locked up every freedom fighter.
They want to do the exact same thing with Taiwan.
They want to, as the CCP would say, re-assimilate Taiwan without a shot fired.
At this point, when you've got people like Macron, when you've got MSNBC out there running cover for it, it looks like They're following exact—they're executing their playbook.
steve bannon
They're executing it to a T. Let's talk about Macron and the intels coming about Ukraine.
Remember, all the people out there every day saying, oh, democracies in the line, democracies in the line.
Well, you don't see them. Where are they in Taiwan?
Where are they in Taiwan? Well, let me ask you this.
jack posobiec
Let's look at this, folks. Let's talk a little something called logistics.
Ukraine is a country that has your back door from Lviv into Poland.
You can go through Hungary. You can resupply weapons in.
How are you going to resupply weapons to Taiwan in a wartime scenario with the Chinese Navy completely?
Just walk me through that.
Just walk me through the process.
I'm not just talking weapons, by the way.
I'm talking about little things like the fact That 85 % of Taiwan's energy supply is imported.
How are they going to be able to run the hospitals?
How are they going to be able to run the schools?
How are people going to live without an energy grid?
People do not understand because Taiwan is an island as opposed to Ukraine, which has this massive territory, 17 times the size of Taiwan.
And we walked through the differences.
There on Saturday that you're not going to be able to resupply.
They're not going to be able to eat. They're not going to be able to power their homes.
They're not going to be able to power their hospitals.
They're not going to be able to power their military installations.
What good is the intel if you don't have any power for it?
What good are your surface-to-air missile systems if they don't have any aircraft missiles if they don't have Any power to them.
People are not actually thinking through how devastating a blockade would be of Taiwan.
And of course, that's why the CCP is pressing that button and threatening to do this with these development operations.
And to all the people out there who say, oh, well, you know, China would have problems if they were conducting amphibious assault, the lift, etc.
Yeah, they could turn Taiwan Into a flaming fireball overnight if they wanted to.
They don't want to do that because they want to assimilate the island, but that's why they're talking about these missile strikes, which I think people are missing the point.
It's not about being able to strike down some of them.
steve bannon
We're not going to get all of them. They also want the chips also.
By the way, even if you're not into the supporting people for democracy, I got that.
You can't be the world's policeman.
Here is just a practical matter.
The American economy would implode.
You think you've got a problem with the banking crisis?
You ain't seen nothing yet. You lose those chip factories, the advanced chip production of these factories, you're a done deal.
Jack, tell me about... I'm shocked in this intel, which they're scrambling.
The only thing they come out and say is, you know, that slide that shows the casualties in Ukraine versus the Russians, that's been doctored.
The only one you're hearing has been doctored.
You know, hundreds of slides out there, this is the only one that's been doctored.
We're being sold a triumphalist narrative by the media, by the Biden regime, by Victoria Nuland, and it doesn't match up with what the joint chiefs are telling, the staff's telling the joint chiefs.
jack posobiec
Brother Posovic. Well, you know, Steve, it's interesting, too, because my question, I guess, then would be in response, you say, OK, these numbers are doctored.
Well, does that mean that the numbers you're getting are just coming from the Ukrainian government?
Do you really mean to tell me that we don't have any other better sources of intel than what the Ukrainians are putting out themselves?
Because those are clearly propaganda numbers.
So are we getting are we being propaganded?
So you're going to tell me that this joint staff briefing, which is briefed to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Now, okay, that's General Milley.
But it shouldn't matter for the process.
Are you telling me that this document, which is one of the most important briefings that goes throughout the government every day, That you're putting propaganda numbers in there?
That you don't have any better source of intel and you're going to assess it with moderate?
You're going to assess it with moderate confidence when you don't have any actual source on these numbers whatsoever?
Who made the assessment?
If we're going to talk about the numbers and the truth of the numbers, tell me how you're making these assessments.
Are you going through overhead imagery?
Are you counting trucks that have gone back and forth?
What exactly are you using?
to determine these estimates?
Or do you have actual, you would think that because we're basically running the war from Ukraine that we would have a little bit better numbers than an assessment on this?
I think the bottom line here, Steve, is that we've been giving everything to Ukraine, but we're not getting very much back in terms of intel We don't know where our weapons are going.
They already testified that in Congress.
They don't know where the weapons are going.
They don't know where the money is going.
They don't know how many people have been killed.
They have some basic ideas of where things are on the battlefield.
But when you look at these documents, there's not much to that.
Meanwhile, with the other hundred pages of documents, because those briefings that go out, it doesn't just cover what's going on in Ukraine.
They'll do hotspots and they'll go rest of the world to go around the horn.
This is a nightmare for the Five Eyes relationship, an absolute nightmare, because it turns out that just like we learned from Glenn Greenwald all the way back in 2013, the United States is spying on everyone, including its allies, and continues to.
steve bannon
Jack, I know you've got to bounce.
Where do they go to get the defund, to sign this defund, you and Charlie's new effort to defund the war in Ukraine?
jack posobiec
Where do they go? It's so ridiculous.
You've got to go to defundthewar.com and sign your name right now.
Stand right to this. Go listen to Human Events Daily.
unidentified
We'll be up tonight. Human Events Daily.
steve bannon
Jack, we'll put up all your social media coordinates.
You're the most prominent voice in social media for MAGA. Thank you very much.
Jack Posobiec. Naval officer, former intel guy.
unidentified
Short break. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon
Okay. There's a lot going on.
I realize it's Easter Monday, but there are no days off here, right?
We're at the beginning stages of the Third World War, so we talked to you about it.
If we can put up President Trump's, I don't know, but the true social, President Trump tweets out and puts up on TrueSocial a post that goes just World War III. And the mainstream media people go nuts.
Oh, on Easter Sunday. These wars don't care about Easter Sunday or Good Friday or Holy Saturday, right?
Or Ash Wednesday or Christmas Day.
They don't. Heck, we do a special every year on Christmas Day.
What's that special? Been doing it for a decade.
It's about the combat history of Christmas.
Some of the worst fighting in American history over the Christmas holiday.
He doesn't care about that. President Trump gets it.
Just puts out World War III. People that understand get it.
The mainstream media, who many times kowtow to the Chinese Communist Party, our mortal enemy, come out, oh, Trump, what a terrible thing to put out on Easter Sunday morning.
You go up on Getter, too.
Now, Vanity Fair, all the left-wing things are all on.
Because Kennedy's running in a Democratic primary.
They're trying to say, oh, the nationalists with Bannon, all these white supremacists, these crazies, all the anti-vax wingnuts are all in the back of this.
It's a very powerful campaign.
Don't let anybody. This show has been an advocate of him getting in the race from the beginning when we first met him on the Anthony Fauci book.
Remember, this book sold, what, a million and a half copies?
We sold half of them here in War Room.
Why? And I put it up on the Vanity Fair.
He's got a big story about him today.
I put it up there that, hey, anybody that will make as a centerpiece of his campaign Big Pharma, Wuhan Lab, Dr.
Fauci, and the VAX, that's a crusade that we need to have.
That's a discussion we need to have.
We need to have that as a country, and we need to have that to make sure that mistakes that were made can't be made again.
Bobby Kennedy can do that.
That's why his campaign is important.
That's why he's going to get zero votes in the Democratic primary.
They're all owned by Big Pharma.
You saw the weekend. How's Biden?
Biden's opening it up to TikTok and to the influencer.
TikTok, totally owned by the CCP, they're going to open up a room in the White House for the influencers because the 21 to 29-year-old vote is what got him in the election in 20.
They're saying got him in the election in 2022.
I call it the army of the most uninformed.
And by the way, folks, from 21 to 29, if you're pushing it, God bless you.
You're a Russian serf.
You're not going to own anything.
You're being crushed economically.
If you want to support that, it's a free country.
Go support it. Go support it.
But that's Biden's strategy.
A couple other news items.
The Hill newspaper over the weekend leads story.
Directed at you, this audience, because remember, you're chairman of the creditors committee, right?
You're chair of the creditors committee.
You're the full faith and credit of the country.
They're tying together.
They're tying together. The headline is, if we can pull that to Denver, they tie the debt ceiling to the banking crisis.
Oh, the debt ceiling fight, the debt ceiling fight is going to even exacerbate the banking crisis.
Why? Because they're saying, oh, you're going to default on the securities.
We're not going to default on the securities.
We're not. There's no increase in the debt ceiling.
Take the cash and pay off the securities.
Janet Yellen's sitting there going, you have to pay off your bills.
You have to pay your bills, that's your new mantra.
Well, hangover, say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
If we have a government security that we've issued, that's gotta be paid off and the interest gotta be paid.
Nobody questions that. Nobody questions that.
Your bills, well, hold it.
That's kind of broadly defined.
You've got a lot of bills in that $6.8 trillion.
Hey, maybe we've got to schedule the payments.
Maybe we've got to stretch it out. Maybe we've got to tell a couple of guys, hey, it got into budget, but it's not going to get authorized.
They're saying, oh, because the MAGA Republicans are finding the debt ceiling, they're going to have to increase interest rates to get people to pay higher interest rates to buy the securities.
That's going to make what the banks hold go down, as we've explained to you.
Now MAGA is informed.
MAGA knows what the scam is.
And they're blaming, oh, this is going to be terrible.
It's going to make the banking crisis work.
Wait for it right now.
The whole financial collapse of the country is going to be your fault.
It's going to be your fault. 100 % your fault.
Oh my gosh, you're not.
Because you have a simple theory of the case.
The common sense of the American working man and woman has a very simple theory of the case.
How about this? We're going to cut the printing machine at the Federal Reserve off.
First time in history we're going to deconnect since it's been formed.
We're going to deconnect that.
We're going to break that connection to the Uniparty up here in Capitol Hill and the imperial presidency that just comes out and puts out a $6.8 trillion budget with no possibility of how to pay for a trillion and a half or $2 trillion of it.
No. What does print more money?
But now because you stand in the breach and say, not on our watch, not going to do this, all of a sudden the Hill, and look at all the quotes, all the lies.
Janet Yellen's up there like some crazy old aunt.
You got to pay your bills.
You're not there to talk about bills.
A default is about a security of the United States government, not about a bill.
A bill could be something that you owe in some doctor's repayment in Medicaid or something with the defense contractor.
And, of course, the big scoop that Jonathan Swan has, the big scoop that Jonathan Swan has, is how McCarthy's finally seen that budget guy.
The budget guy comes up and goes, we're not going to be able to get a budget.
Well, dude, what have you been doing?
Why can't you get a budget? Yes, the budget's going to have some cuts in it.
And you're going to take some incoming from the budget, from the people that got us in this situation.
You can't pay for it all.
Modern monetary theory doesn't work, and it's time now to step up and say that.
Have some stones and say that.
So yes, McCarthy's all jiggy now because he's got these guys ahead of the budget committee.
They're wandering around talking.
Get on point. You got to get a 10-year budget that gets to a balanced budget in 10 years with defense cuts, discretionary spending cuts, and Medicaid cuts.
You can't touch Social Security and Medicare.
That's not that hard an exercise.
It's hard, but you're supposed to do hard things, but it ain't that hard.
On top of that, you see they're shoveling the money into Ukraine, and the whole Ukraine triumphalist narrative is a lie.
Who says that? The briefing documents to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The documents say right there, and they're saying this is the one that's not true.
Remember, they're spinning you right now, misdirection.
Who leaked it? DOJ investigations.
Oh, they're spying on our allies.
Of course we spy on our allies.
Our allies spy on us, right?
You don't want a friend in the world to get a dog.
Look at Macron. You wouldn't have spied on him.
He goes to Beijing and sells us out, comes back and says, hey, we shouldn't pick a side.
We shouldn't pick a side.
And about that currency, yeah, you know, there may be some alternatives out there.
These are people we bailed out in World War I. We bailed out in World War II. We bailed out against the evil empire in the whole Cold War.
Three times a charm.
Now we're back over in a European war between two Slavic entities slugging it out over the industrial eastern Russian-speaking portion of the Ukraine.
Okay, they're slugging it out.
And I've never questioned the valor or the commitment of the Ukrainian people.
It's pretty impressive. By the way, like in World War II, right?
Guys fighting on each side, hey, they slugged it out.
Those two go at it.
Go at it hard.
And it's a slugfest.
That's what's happening right now.
Look at Bakhmut.
That battle's worse than the most, it was nine months, eight months.
They're slugging it out, giving as good as they get.
But you're underwriting it to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars that we don't have.
And not just that, you're being lied to every second of every day.
Let me get, uh, I got Karen, see, Karen, it couldn't be more timely.
Tell me about this conference.
I want everybody in the area in the region that can attend it.
And of course you get a boardroom discount, but the, the, the American Freedom Alliance has a great conference.
It's going to be on the beginning stage of world war three.
You've got an all-star cast.
That's going to be there. I think it's in a couple of weeks.
If we can get it up, Karen, tell us about it.
How do people get access to it?
Whether live streaming or in person, ma'am.
karen siegemund
Yeah, thanks. It could not be more timely, as you say.
We are in World War III at the moment, the early years.
That's not to say it will necessarily go full, you know, hot war, but that we are in a war is no question.
It's coming up April 22nd and 23rd.
It'll be in Torrance. We have you, Steve, keynoting it.
We also have Ed Dowd, so bringing in the financial as well as the destruction that they're doing with Big Pharma.
We have so many people from the War Room.
Joe Allen, Frank Gaffney, Brian Kennedy, we have Trevor, Patrick Wood, who you've had, Dr.
Rechtenwald, Dr. Thayer, so lots of War Room people, Dave Walsh, all the most tremendous speakers, certainly the A-Team on national security, on freedoms generally, on national sovereignty, on individual liberties, that we are in a war is no question.
It's political, it's cultural, and it's actually, at this point, literal with Ukraine, as you were just talking about, as a potential real hotspot for this going global.
Also, as you said, we've bailed Europe out once, twice, three times.
Now we're being dragged in.
Unless we refuse to be dragged in, but finding that the administration of this great country, the United States of America, is actually playing for the other side, helping to foment the chaos, helping being part of what China is doing, what the globalist organizations are doing, ceding sovereignty to the World Health Organization and so on.
Everything that all your War Room listeners are already aware of, we are addressing that at this conference.
You can find out more about it at americanfreedomalliance.org.
Yes, we have a coupon code for 25 % discount with the coupon war room.
So it's truly the A-team of everybody, all the major names on the issues of national security, China, globalism.
steve bannon
You get to network. You get to meet people.
If you're there in person, it's extraordinary.
Last one I went to is incredible.
If you can't get there in person, is there going to be a way to see the videos or to livestream?
karen siegemund
We always record everything.
It will all be on our Rumble channel, absolutely.
We'll livestream parts of it, but probably not the entire thing.
All the videos, though, will be up on our Rumble channel as they were from our last conference with you and Ed Dowd and others.
So that's AmericanFreedomAlliance.org.
They are astounding events.
We are thrilled that there is a hotel in the Los Angeles area that will host us.
It's not easy.
So since we go to all that trouble and effort to bring everybody in, please come.
Do not miss this opportunity to network, to meet these amazing people, these freedom fighters, these experts, these people who love America and the freedoms that we have.
steve bannon
Karen, thank you very much.
And Douglas Murray is speaking to you.
Thank you. Yeah, Douglas Murray is giving the keynote.
Douglas Murray is giving the keynote on Saturday night at the dinner.
So make sure that we'll get it up.
Make sure that everyone in the area that can get there, this is a type of event like a CPAC, like the Turning Point.
You get there, you get to meet everybody, you get to network.
Also, the book, another timely thing, the indictment, the first book of the War Room, our new War Room publishing effort with Gaffney and the Committee on the Present Danger, China, couldn't be more timely.
Because we go through and we talk about the indictment.
This phony indictment against Trump is not relevant.
It's boring. It's stupid.
It's only helping him in the polling in the primaries.
It's going to help him in the general.
That hasn't turned yet, but it will turn.
Trust me, it'll turn. Because the bottom's falling out of the world.
You want peace and prosperity?
Get a guy that gave you four years of that.
You want anarchy and chaos?
Just stick with the team you got.
This illegitimate regime has done nothing in the world but anarchy and chaos.
Don't take it from war room.
Look at what's happening in Taiwan.
Look what's happening in Ukraine.
Look what's happening in our capital markets.
Look what's happening on the southern border.
Look what's happening everywhere.
And all they've got to do is point fingers at everybody.
Afghanistan, oh, that was Trump.
Even the media laughed in their face about that.
Okay, short break. Go check out the indictment right now.
I think we're up on, I believe we're up on Amazon now for pre-orders.
Okay, go check it out right now.
We're going to be back. We're going to get some maps and some charts so you can see what's happening around Taiwan.
11 o'clock, we're going to go to Tennessee.
There's so much going on today.
We're going to get to it all.
Get through it all, you're in the world.
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steve bannon
Okay, I've got stuff up there all weekend long.
We've got all our contributors to put stuff up.
We're going to do live shows. I think we're going to try to do another.
I've got to talk to Grace and to Mo after the show.
Maybe talk to them in a break. I think we're going to do a reprise, put back up our Saturday show.
The raves we got about that were extraordinary.
That's because we had Dr.
Taylor Marshall and Tom Williams, and Tom Williams' new book about the persecution of Christians, which is pretty extraordinary.
Major New York Times story today on Governor DeSantis about what he's going to do on immigration in Florida.
It's pretty breathtaking.
Governor DeSantis coming out hot and coming out hard.
I'm going to try to get to that with Todd Benson and some people.
We can't do it this morning. We're going to do it in the afternoon show.
But a big breaking story in the New York Times on that.
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Go to MyPillow.com, promo code WARWROOM. Let me get Colonel Mills here.
Colonel Mills, we've got about six minutes.
I'm going to toss to you. Walk me through what you've put together for us about Taiwan, sir.
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And I'll be at Karen's event at Redondo Beach also.
Looking forward to that. So it's very important for everybody to understand what's going on.
Just to orient everybody, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines.
And so in their operation joint sword, I mean, not only do the Chinese steal our IP, they steal our names for operations.
The Shandong Carrier Strike Group has been operating to the east.
Now, we've met 7th Fleet Senator Arleigh Burke through the straits.
But this is really the area of contention.
This is really where the Allies should focus their effect, is securing the East approaches to Taiwan.
These are just notional engagement areas.
In case of conflict, channel the Chinese to force them to come straight across with mines and submarines.
Japan has a very powerful submarine force, and the South Koreans and the Japanese have been coordinating very well together.
Again, you'd even see the South Koreans block the Chinese, Japanese block the Chinese.
This is Okinawa.
We're with Japan.
We're arming Ishigaka, so Forward Operating Base Ishigaka, and then also down in the Philippines.
So now we're going to be putting, Army is going to be putting a Tomahawk and Navy SM-6 mounted on trucks.
That's our hypersonic weapon, Ishigaka in the Philippines.
Ishigaka in the Philippines.
So we want to be able to secure the approaches in case of any conflict.
So that's the first one.
Just want to show Carrier 3 for the Chinese, the Fujian right here.
This has catapults.
The Shandong doesn't have catapults.
So this is being fitted out pier side here.
And this is at the Jiangjin shipyard in Shanghai.
But then carrier four, no name.
Nuclear and catapults.
Nuclear and catapults.
Very concerning. So this is what it's going to look like.
SM6. This is hypersonic.
The 2B configuration is hypersonic.
And then Tomahawk.
This looks like that's from Barking Sands in Hawaii.
So Army is rushing to get these, again, in Ishigaka and the Philippines.
This will be ferocious fire support.
And then, again, you were talking about Teri Guo, Kaohsiung.
This is really the KMT. The capital city is up here in Taipei, but this is really Go Ming Dong KMT party.
Strength is down here.
And then that big fab, that's the one that kind of stands out.
Are they going to go after the TSMC fab in Tainan City?
Because they're really always coming from the south.
That's really what's going on.
So again, the forward counties of Pengu, Kamoi, and Matsu.
Kamoi and Matsu may fall, but they're going to inflict casualties.
Again, we want to channel China to come straight across, block the north, block the south with mines and submarines.
See, that's what's going on, and the Chinese have been very aggressive.
Operation Joint Sword.
steve bannon
Okay. This incredible intrusion into Taiwan airspace, a show of force around the envelopment.
Here's the takeaway. We have all the ability to shut this down With unrestricted warfare, economic warfare, political warfare, cyber warfare.
What I wanted Mills to do right there, if the balloon goes up on this in a kinetic war, that's a shooting gallery right there.
It's still questions, and some of the top guys in the Committee of the Present Danger don't believe the 7th Fleet will be able to keep open the South China Sea, will be able to keep open the Straits of Taiwan, will be able to break a naval or air blockade.
If they do it, it'll be at a huge cost.
This is a shooting gallery right there, 90 miles off the coast of China.
We've looked the other way for decades as we've underwritten They're building up of this massive military force.
And now it's becoming evident.
They intend to flex. This weekend was a full flex.
They had Macron, one of our top allies in Europe, right, kowtowing to them, had the president of the EU kowtowing to them.
You had Elon Musk in Shanghai talk about opening up the new factory with their money, right, and then trashing all weekend, trashing Americans' manufacturing capabilities and our manufacturing leadership.
Talking about, oh, it's all the brains are in software and in algorithms, you know, all his nerd patrol.
He says all the geniuses are there trashing the American ability to be a manufacturing superpower.
You got Terry Guo, Foxconn over there announcing he's running.
He's a total CCP asset, if not an agent, but he's a total CCP controlled asset.
So they got the fifth column going.
What Mills just laid out for you, and if you listen to the podcast, you got to come to the site and get the slides.
It's a shooting gallery.
And what did Frank Gaffney say a couple weeks ago?
America's not prepared psychologically to take it.
It's one thing to withdraw from Afghanistan, another reason to quit Iraq, another reason to walk away from Vietnam, another in Korea.
It's another thing to take a catastrophic blow to the military, an actual military defeat, an actual kinetic war defeat.
And if we don't savvy up here, that's what they're setting us up for.
They're setting us up for us to lose a carrier battle group and lose 10,000 sailors.
Colonel Mills, just hang on for one second.
Short break. Mills on the other end.
90-second break. We're going to go to Tennessee.
Also down to Florida.
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