June 3, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
| MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| It's Saturday, 3 June, Year of Elour, 2023. | ||
| You guys know, having been here long enough, Saturday mornings are always my favorite shows, right? | ||
| As a kid, this is when you could stop schoolwork and get down to it, your grass-cutting business, everything, working with your dad in the yard, just all the good memories of doing this. | ||
| So that's why Saturday's always been a special day, always a work day. | ||
| Remember when I took over the Trump campaign, it started at 6 in the morning on Saturday when I get my papers. | ||
| I was sitting there in Bryant Park reading them and I started seeing all the stories about the Trump campaign. | ||
| They were just crushing him. | ||
| This was, I think, 13 August of 2016. | ||
| And that Saturday turned to be pretty important. | ||
| So Saturday's always a big day. | ||
| Welcome. Always glad to have you guys here. | ||
| I want to go back to Brian Costello. | ||
| And this is one of the things we're going to be developing. | ||
| This week's going to be a big week. | ||
| We're going to have Lee Smith on. Brian's going to be back on. | ||
| Colonel Harvey's going to be on. | ||
| Natalie Winters is going to be on. | ||
| We have a massive team on this. | ||
| Because there are things at House Intel, there are things at the FBI, there are things at the Justice Department. | ||
| There's all types of stuff floating around and nothing's bringing it to fruition. | ||
| And the reason they're not bringing it to fruition is there's a massive amount of cash that is off of your tax dollars and particularly off of your pension fund. | ||
| Off of your pension funds, your retirement money, a ton of money is being made in the world. | ||
| And you're not really getting the vigorous. | ||
| The elites of the world are getting the vigorous and they're laundering it back in here to the United States to have political control. | ||
| Let me be blunt. | ||
| There is a direct money trail. | ||
| Coming from investments in with the Chinese Communist Party in technologies that make them stronger. | ||
| That's why the coupling that's with Elon Mustang is so important. | ||
| They want to stay coupled. Jamie Dimon right here in this article in the Financial Times of London. | ||
| They want to stay coupled. | ||
| They must stay coupled. They want to stay coupled to your money to your investment money invested through these institutions. | ||
| They make profits and it's laundered back in here. | ||
| Much of it's laundered back in here to buy political, to influence, to buy political control. | ||
| Brian Costello, Neil Shen, the scale of this problem, because he's put up as the golden boy here. | ||
| I think he went to Yale. | ||
| He was at the Venture Capital Funds associated with them. | ||
| He's been the number one guy for many, many years. | ||
| Sequoia, you should understand, Sequoia is the Goldman Sachs of venture capital. | ||
| Goldman Sachs is the premier investment bank, and J.P. Morgan is the premier bank. | ||
| They're the J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs of venture capital. | ||
| Tell us about the scale of this problem, Brian Costello. | ||
| Yeah, so what Steve, so what you see because of, you know, essentially a member of the Chinese government sitting atop America's preeminent venture firm, he's able to penetrate organizations, right? | ||
| So he runs the Yale Center Beijing. | ||
| And you see folks like Jake Sullivan paid to speak over there when he's sitting on the bench at Yale. | ||
| He's one of the top donors at Stanford, the The professor of human artificial intelligence at Stanford in the center run there where McConnell's brother-in-law Jim Breyer is on is run by one of his friends Fei Fei Li and it's the Sequoia professor of human artificial intelligence. | ||
| So what you have is because they have this great ability to direct wealth. | ||
| They're able to penetrate these organizations through donations and everything else. | ||
| The scale is just beyond imagination. | ||
| I've explained this to people on the Hill. | ||
| Sequoia China, across funds, just raised $9 billion from US investors. | ||
| That $9 billion investment is going to create hundreds of companies in China, aligned with China made in 2025, in many strategic areas, totaling probably $2 trillion in market cap. | ||
| Two trained out, so hang on, put a pin in right there because I don't want, I want to be, when they say U.S. investors, I want this audience to understand. | ||
| It's the Oregon Teachers' Pension Fund. | ||
| It's CalPERS. It's the Florida State Fund. | ||
| It is the firemen, the teachers, the policemen, and plus if you're in any type of union or if you've just joined some sort of association. | ||
| Those groups give their money in the asset class. | ||
| They put some in private equity. | ||
| They put some with hedge funds. | ||
| They put some in just with people that buy stocks every day. | ||
| They put some with people who buy bonds. | ||
| They're in different asset classes to get a blended return. | ||
| Venture capital is a class. | ||
| I just want to make sure everybody understands. | ||
| The $9 billion is from American citizens, the little guy. | ||
| This is not the big shots, but some of them, they throw some money in too, but it is 99 % the money of this audience that is being used to fund this, Brian Costello. | ||
| It's both, Steve. | ||
| It's these pension and retirement accounts. | ||
| It's the firemen. It's the policemen. | ||
| It's the ironworkers. It's their union money. | ||
| Also, a large portion of Sequoia's fund is their crony capitalist network. | ||
| It's the portfolio CEOs of their company. | ||
| SPF from FTX had $200 million invested in Sequoia's funds. | ||
| I don't know how much of that was allocated to the China funds. | ||
| Ron Conway, Reid Hoffman. | ||
| All these guys have been part of Sequoia portfolio companies. | ||
| Okay, let me make sure people understand something. | ||
| The fix is in because this guy is part of the Politburo. | ||
| He's the financial advisor. | ||
| They're backing his venture plays, so they may let one or two fail, but by and large, they're essentially guaranteed. | ||
| The risk is mitigated. | ||
| They take the pension fund money in there. | ||
| They need the bulk of it. It's also friends and family or their portfolio companies. | ||
| Those guys, the Reid Hoffmans of the world, these guys get to put more money in. | ||
| That's how they get super wealth. | ||
| The game is totally rigged and totally fixed, Brian Costello, to enrich the wealthy and to make sure the pension fund money here is the mother's milk that finances the... | ||
| This is why I say you cut them off from capital, six months they're dead. | ||
| This is one of the principal ways they get capital... | ||
| Into the country, Mr. | ||
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Costello. Yeah, and I'll hit on your earlier segment, right? | |
| There are, you know, pictures on the web, 2017, 2019, of Elon Musk with Neil Shen, with Li Kuang, who's now the premier of China, who is the Politburo member running Shanghai. | ||
| You know, so Shen's not just facilitating Sequoia investments. | ||
| He's actually facilitating all the elite and their access to the Politburo within China. | ||
| And I would argue this makes him... | ||
| The debate isn't whether he's an agent of the foreign government, Steve. | ||
| He is the Chinese government. | ||
| Okay, repeat that. This is the key point. | ||
| It's not that we get this guy on a fire charge. | ||
| It's not that he's an agent of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| He is the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Brian, you've got a lot of time you've spent on this and stuff to the SEC. This coming week, we're getting to all of it. | ||
| Natalie Winters, Lee Smith, Colonel Derek Harvey, Brian Costello were all in on this. | ||
| A lot of work's been done. | ||
| And I can tell you, last time Costello was on, we had even more leads. | ||
| There's a lot of whistleblowers, a lot of FBI people, a lot of people in DOJ that are the good guys that understand that this system stinks right to high heaven. | ||
| This is an open secret. | ||
| In the imperial capital, this is an open secret. | ||
| We're about to rip the scab off it so all the pus can ooze on out all over all of them because this has to be confronted. | ||
| Brian, how do people get to you either through email or social media? | ||
| Just pretty simple, Steve. | ||
| Twitter, BP Costello. | ||
| Hopefully I'm still on with a drop of Musk news, so we'll see. | ||
| Maybe I'll be over there on Getter with you. | ||
| We've got to get you a getter account. | ||
| Brian, look forward to seeing you back here on Monday. | ||
| Brian Costello, thank you very much. | ||
| The Sequoia Capitol, Neil Shen. | ||
| Thanks for covering this, Steve. | ||
| Neil Shen. No, no, no. | ||
| It's massive. And people won't cover it because they're afraid. | ||
| They're intimidated. These people play smash mouth. | ||
| There's no doubt about that. I can tell you this play smash mouth. | ||
| Nicole from New Federal State. | ||
| Miles Guo is sitting in a federal prison right now. | ||
| Miles Guo, who has done more than any single individual to expose the Chinese Communist Party influence peddling here in the United States. | ||
| Do we have the cold open? Let me play the cold over and bring Nicole in. | ||
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Now, Mr. Bear, why? Why do you think? | |
| I'm screaming three miles three miles. Oh, check. So you can remember what you did? | ||
| Oh, what you said? Yeah. | ||
| What you said? Yeah. Like, I'm going to come in. What am I going to do? Yeah, I'm gonna go. | ||
| Sure. Don't leave the shoe. Yeah, sure. Don't leave the beach. Sure. Don't watch. It's the enemy. Yeah, you should have shared. Sure. Yeah, I'm gonna show you a little bit like an ancient. The new federal state offers itself as an alternative for the Chinese people. And here's the reason. The Chinese Communist Party is not a legitimate government. | ||
| 我们要的就是平衡,我们要的就是很简单,一人一票选举中国的政治。 要的就是要中国人民过上有尊严的健康的真实的幸福生活。 Okay, welcome back. | ||
| Nicole, tomorrow is the third anniversary of the new federal state of China, which is an alternative way forward for the Chinese people. | ||
| Can you just tell us tomorrow about who can we anticipate? | ||
| I'm going to get a keynote, but you've got a tremendous amount of very prominent folks are going to be there. | ||
| Walk us through what's going to happen tomorrow. | ||
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Who are we going to hear from? Thank you so much for having me. | |
| So tomorrow is a very important day for not only the 1.4 billion Chinese people who are yearning to be afraid from the CCP, but also tons of American people, American patriots and people from around the world who would like to live in a global society free from the CCP's manipulation and infiltration. | ||
| And so tomorrow, our event that will commemorate the June 4th, the Tiananmen Massacre from 34 years ago, And to celebrate a big journey, you know, a huge endeavor started by Mr. | ||
| Mao Guo. He's CCP enemy number one. | ||
| He's currently being detained in the Metropolitan Detention Complex in Brooklyn. | ||
| And every day from his cell, he can see the Statue of Liberty. | ||
| And he wants to bring the Statue of Liberty to China, where 1.4 billion Chinese people can also leave And he ended up being in a federal prison. | ||
| So this speaks volumes to how big this task is. | ||
| And he's not only up against the CCP in Congress of China, but also the deep state and the Kabul and the CCP's greatest allies in this country inside the U.S. federal government agencies in DOJ, FBI, And so this man, he gave up everything. | ||
| He gave up a billion dollars of his personal asset. | ||
| He lost both of his parents and his wife and daughter and son. | ||
| They're paying great price. | ||
| For what? He's not asking a single money from U.S. We're not asking America to help save us. | ||
| We simply ask the American people, the American government, the United States of America, stop funding the CCP. Because if America's big tech and Wall Street defund the CCP, the Chinese people, we, the NFSC, we can take down the CCP within six months. | ||
| So our biggest obstacle to our pathway to freedom is not Xi Jinping, it's America's deep state, it's the American elites, Washington's political establishment who have been bought out by the CCP. It's the likes of Jamie Dimon. | ||
| It's the likes of Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. | ||
| These people, these so-called American billionaires and, you know, American people, their hands are stained with the Chinese people's blood. | ||
| So on June 4th, it's the Tiananmen Massacre anniversary, and we're calling for the American people to stand with the NFSC to condemn the American sellout like the Jamie Dimon, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and all the corporate America that has built their profits based on the Chinese people's slavery, the Uyghur's concentration camp, and stopped funding the CCP so that we can be free. | ||
| Nicole, how did they get to you? | ||
| Tomorrow we're going to be on Getter Live the entire day starting at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on our War Room and my personal. | ||
| Where do people go to you, ma'am? You can follow us on NFSC TV on Getter because we'll provide live streaming for the entire celebration of the event featuring our greatest co-founder, Steve K. Bannon, in the absence of Mr. | ||
| Mouse Guo. And we will be also Expecting great messages from the sitting congressmen and great American patriots, grassroots leaders and rappers and mega people. | ||
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So let's take down the CCP and make America great again. | |
| Take down the CCP. Nicole, thank you. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
| But it's going to be pretty rough when we return in the war room. | ||
| We started with how the West was won, but particularly the song, Promised Land, to talk about the New Jerusalem that we have been bequeathed. | ||
| Correct? Also, I talked about The Economist. | ||
| New article in The Economist that talks about really our sponsors talking about this alternative economy that we're trying to help these people build away from the woke groomer economy that you see, right? | ||
| And also this is why I said the taxes. | ||
| Taxes should be increased on those companies. | ||
| Taxes should be increased on these progressive left oligarch billionaires. | ||
| I wanted to tee this up because we're going to spend a lot of time on this in the next couple of weeks and the reason is important. | ||
| Over the July 4th That weekend before, there's going to be an incredible film that's going to be released that talks about the world in America today, the reality. | ||
| It's something that, when we have focused on it, has been very powerful. | ||
| Like I tell people, it's not my line of country, and one of the reasons is it's too almost horrible to contemplate. | ||
| But the heroes that have done this and people that I'm very close to and I admire, people like Jim Caviezel and Eduardo Verostegui, who are about to introduce another great actor in A Man of God, but also Tim Ballard, a hero in real life. | ||
| This movie is The Sound of Freedom that's going to come out. | ||
| It is incumbent upon us To make sure, and talking about this alternative economy, to put this in Hollywood's face. | ||
| This film's been finished. | ||
| It's a powerful film. | ||
| It's a disturbing film. | ||
| It's been finished for a number of years, and it's been blocked. | ||
| Basically been blocked. And so this great group that did the series The Chosen, the company Angel.com, they've gotten in back of this to release this film, and this is going to be a Herculean effort. | ||
| We need to sell two million tickets. | ||
| Before opening day, we need to send a message. | ||
| And I think we've already sold, I don't know, a couple hundred thousand just to the War Room audience. | ||
| But this is where you go to angel.com slash war room. | ||
| I want you to buy tickets now and buy tickets for your friends, and you've got to go. | ||
| And once you go, you're going to, although the film is very tough, I think you're going to go multiple times. | ||
| Obviously, Jim and other people associated with the passion are in this film, and the reason is it's so important. | ||
| I tell you what, before we bring in Tim and Eduardo, we have a five-minute clip. | ||
| I want to play it. I want you to watch this. | ||
| If you're on the podcast, listen to it. | ||
| But that's why you go to worm.org and get our email. | ||
| You'll get all the clips. This is from The Sound of Freedom. | ||
| We're going to bring in Tim and Eduardo right at the conclusion of this clip. | ||
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Let's go ahead and play it. Lane six. | |
| Is there some kind of problem, | ||
| officer? Oh yeah, that's an old picture. | ||
| You know how kids are these days. | ||
| They just grow up so fast. | ||
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That's him. | |
| No, no, no. I'm a judge. | ||
| Put your hands in the wheel. Do nothing. | ||
| I'm his uncle. | ||
| You just ask him. Just ask him. | ||
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I'm his uncle. Hello? | |
| ¿Cómo te llamas? | ||
| Osito Teddy. | ||
| I'm your uncle. | ||
| No, ese nombre no. | ||
| That's not your name. | ||
| Your name is the truth. | ||
| Miguel. | ||
| Miguel, I'm not... | ||
| Mucho gusto, Miguel. | ||
| Ven conmigo. | ||
| Why don't you go right over there, okay? | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| you Thank you. | ||
| He has lacerations consistent with sexual abuse. | ||
| It's only three or four days old. | ||
| This will must end. | ||
| It's a course in movie rapid Tango hammer Kira's wanna have a kiss I You're amazing. | ||
| I'm ready. | ||
| you You're seven years old, Emmanuel. | ||
| Did you know it? No, it's July. | ||
| 2nd of July. Why? | ||
| Entonces ya tengo ocho. | ||
| Tengo un hijo de tu misma edad. | ||
| Se llama Kaelin. | ||
| Yo me llamo Tim. Tim Ballard. | ||
| Pero me puedes llamar Timoteo. | ||
| Tio, tio. | ||
| That's my name in Spanish, right? | ||
| It has your name, baby. | ||
| Oh My sister gave me it. You're rescuing children, right? | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| That film is The Sound of Freedom. | ||
| Go to angel.com slash worm right now and get your tickets. | ||
| We need to sell this film out to show Hollywood. | ||
| We're building an alternative economy, okay? | ||
| As I keep saying, stop giving your money to people that hate you and start giving your money for products and services of people that support you and are one with you. | ||
| Tim Ballard, explain to our audience, a lot of people don't know, explain exactly who you are, what you do, and just give me an overview of this film. | ||
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Well, thanks so much, Steve. | |
| Thanks for having me on. I spent 12 years as an undercover operator special agent with US government, Homeland Security investigations, and working child crimes. | ||
| I just got so fed up with the bureaucracy, the jurisdictional limitations. | ||
| The inability to get the work done when children were being sold and trafficked. | ||
| This is the fastest-growing criminal enterprise on the planet. | ||
| This is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year business. | ||
| It's a black market. And far from really effectively tackling the problem, at least when I was... | ||
| But hold it. But hang on. | ||
| I want to make sure people... | ||
| Hang on. I want to be specific. | ||
| It's a black market. | ||
| In children that are trafficked for sex, is that what this black market is? | ||
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Absolutely, yeah. It's estimated by the State Department, Department of Energy. | |
| We're talking about six million children in the world who are being sold into slavery. | ||
| It's slavery, that's what it is. | ||
| It's children who don't own themselves, but they are acted upon and they are sold for labor, for sex, and for organ harvesting. | ||
| You were part of our government. | ||
| Why did you step out and become independent? | ||
| I thought that Homeland Security, etc., that we have a whole process and we're legal throughout the country that would shut this down, that this would not be a big problem in the United States of America, the promised land. | ||
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Right. Well, I was working several cases in 2012, and I kept being told to come home. | |
| I actually love Homeland Security investigations. | ||
| We work with them. The agents on the ground are amazing. | ||
| It's the policymakers on top who make things difficult. | ||
| I was told to come home on a couple of operations, one in Colombia and one in Haiti in particular, and I had enough. | ||
| I just said, I'm not coming home. | ||
| I'm staying. And we finished the operation. | ||
| I had to finish it as a private citizen, but it was successful and we rescued, as the movie will show, we rescued over 120 kids. | ||
| But there's this nexus to the United States. | ||
| The scene you just saw was very accurate. | ||
| In fact, HSI, they let us actually film in the very lane at the port of entry in Clexico, California, where that scene happened. | ||
| And it's more relevant today than ever. | ||
| When we're talking about what's happening on our southern border. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short break. | ||
| Tim Ballard and Eduardo. | ||
| Eduardo is one of the actors in the film and one of the, how do I say this, when we talk about good men, one of the best men I've ever met. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We've got some other clips. We're going to talk about the sound of freedom. | ||
| And what Tim just said right there, remember in this film, he's a government agent working for the U.S. government to stop this. | ||
| He's ordered home. He says, I'm not going to do that. | ||
| I'm going to finish this mission. | ||
| And he did, for many good reasons. | ||
| But if you think it was a problem about the time they're talking about this film, it's exacerbated. | ||
| On your tax dollar, short commercial break, the black market, and the trafficking and slavery of young children for sex next in the world. | ||
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This is your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| Okay, I want to introduce the, bring on the producer and an actor, Eduardo Verostegui, and you may remember him from CPAC, Mexico. | ||
| This is one, very close to Jim Caviezel, all the guys with a passion, one of the best actors out there, one of the best men I know, and a guy that is going to have a major, major impact on the world. | ||
| Eduardo, walk people through, you select certain projects, and I know these projects, you dedicate your life to them, they take so much time. | ||
| Why are you the producer here? | ||
| Because you're obviously one of the best actors, not just in Mexico, but in the world. | ||
| Why this? Why the Sound of Freedom? | ||
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Why did you get involved here? Thank you, Steve, for this space. | |
| We're very grateful to you for all the help you're giving to this, not just the movie, but the movement. | ||
| Well, I'm from Mexico. | ||
| I was born in Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, raised in a very little town called Jicotenca, Tamaulipas. | ||
| I moved to Los Angeles when I was 28. | ||
| I was living in Miami at that time. | ||
| I was flying to Miami. | ||
| I was flying from Miami to Los Angeles and I met a casting director on the plane. | ||
| And he asked me if I wanted to do an audition for a film that he was working. | ||
| I told him, you know, my English is not very good. | ||
| You know, I can say things like, you know, I'm hungry. | ||
| What is the bathroom? You know, gallina chicken. | ||
| My car is red. Things like that. | ||
| And he said, don't worry because, you know, 90 % of the film you are going to be sleeping. | ||
| Okay. So I think I can do that. | ||
| I did the audition. I got the role. | ||
| I finished the movie. | ||
| And right there, when I was doing that movie, I met this wonderful lady who actually happens to be, at that time, very good friends of Gene Caviezel and his wife. | ||
| At that time I didn't know Jean Caviezel. | ||
| So this lady became my English teacher and she taught me English, but not only taught me English. | ||
| She changed my life using the Socratic method. | ||
| She started asking me questions like, for example, Eduardo, what is the purpose of your life? | ||
| Who is God in your life? | ||
| How are you using your talents? | ||
| How do you choose your projects? | ||
| Why do you want to be an actor? | ||
| You know, when you wake up in the morning, what motivates you to wake up? | ||
| Who do you die for? Who do you live for? | ||
| Are you part of the problem or part of the solution? | ||
| You know, a lot of people in America, they think that you guys, Latinos, are a threat to the democracy of this country because they think that you guys are what we see in film or television, the negative stereotype of Latinos, where you always are the worst of the worst, And very few times you see Latinos having the opportunity of being heroes, but not like Superman or Spiderman, but the everyday hero. | ||
| So are you part of the problem or part of the solution? | ||
| Because media influences how people think. | ||
| And Steve, that's when I put pause. | ||
| I look back and I realize that I was part of the problem. | ||
| Governed by ignorance, I forgot that whatever project that was involved, whether you like it or not, you know, you impact. | ||
| You have an impact on how people think. | ||
| You know, Plato said, If you have to choose between art or politics to govern a nation, he said, I will choose art because art has the power to change people's hearts and their minds. | ||
| Therefore, how they think, how they live, how they behave, etc. | ||
| So I realized that I was part of the problem and I made a promise to God right there. | ||
| I made a promise to my parents that I will never use my talents again to do anything that will offend my faith, my family, or my Latino culture. | ||
| After I made that promise, I ended up not working for four years and I lost everything. | ||
| But I gained everything. I gained true freedom. | ||
| True freedom is not to do whatever you want, but to do the right thing. | ||
| So I was tired, Steve, of waiting for a role that would portray a man as a real man. | ||
| And a priest in front of mine, Father Juan Rivas, he and my English teacher, they advised, why don't you become a producer so you can have the power to control the message? | ||
| And I did. I met Alejandro Monteverde at that time, and Leo Severino, and the three of us, we put this company together, this production company together, with one goal, one mission. | ||
| Produced films that will have the potential not only to entertain, but hopefully to make a difference in people's lives. | ||
| Our first fruit of that mission was a little movie that has changed the lives of so many people, including my own life, called Bella, a pro-life film. | ||
| That was our first movie that we produced. | ||
| It won the Toronto Film Festival. | ||
| It came out in more than 20 countries. | ||
| Most important, it saved many lives. | ||
| Till today, I still receive letters and emails from women who were pregnant, who scheduled to have an abortion at that time. | ||
| And after seeing the movie Bella, by the grace of God, they changed their mind and kept their babies. | ||
| So thousands of babies have been saved, thanks be to God, because of this movie Bella. | ||
| After that, we did Little Boy. | ||
| And then I was doing a lot of focus groups on Little Boy, of my movie Little Boy, our movie Little Boy in Los Angeles. | ||
| This is eight years ago. | ||
| And that's when we met Tim Ballard and his team in Los Angeles. | ||
| And when I learned what they were doing, traveling around the world undercover, rescuing children that were kidnapped from sexual exploitation, and when he gave me all this information and he explained to me with details what is happening around the world in this matter, I couldn't sleep, Steve. | ||
| I was depressed. | ||
| I was in shock. | ||
| He told me, I remember like yesterday, he said, Eduardo, it's very sad what I'm telling you. | ||
| It's very sad what we have told you. | ||
| But it's more sad that now that you know, if you do nothing, what are you going to do? | ||
| And it was clear to me that I had to put pause in everything that I was doing at the time so I can dedicate my entire life to end child trafficking. | ||
| I said, team, I have a weapon of mass instruction and inspiration, movies, filmmaking. | ||
| I want to make a movie about your life. | ||
| Now, you have done hundreds of rescue missions around the world. | ||
| I mean, you can only tell your story completely in a TV series, you know, 100 episodes. | ||
| But we're going to make one movie. | ||
| So tell me what's the hardest, the most difficult, the most dangerous rescue mission you've ever done in your life. | ||
| And he said, the first one. | ||
| Cartagena, Colombia. And then I introduced him to Alejandro Monteverde, and he shared the story of Cartagena to us. | ||
| And then we asked him, so what happened at the end? | ||
| And he said, well, you know what? | ||
| These kids were rescued. They were in tears. | ||
| They were crying. They were singing. | ||
| It was like this beautiful sound of freedom. | ||
| That's the story and that's the title. | ||
| And it's been eight years of our lives working in this project for two hours of your time. | ||
| Edward, let me ask you a question. | ||
| Well, that's what I want to ask you about. | ||
| This film is, just as a filmmaker, it's a magnificent work of art. | ||
| It's incredibly tough. | ||
| I'll talk about that in a second. But as a film, it's a handcrafted direction, acting, screenwriting, photography. | ||
| Why has this movie been so hard to get into theaters? | ||
| Go to Angel.com right now, the folks that did The Chosen, slash War Room. | ||
| Go to Angel.com slash War Room. | ||
| Get your tickets and get tickets for your friends. | ||
| Do it right now. We've got to sell this theaters out. | ||
| We've got to send a message. With a film that's this powerful, why has it taken so long for this film to get to theaters? | ||
| Because I think I met with Tim and the team years ago. | ||
| Why is this film that's been finished, and any distributor can sit there and watch it, any exhibitor and say, wow, people are going to want to see this film just for the action, although it's very tough. | ||
| Why has this film had such a tough time getting into theaters? | ||
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Well, you know, in the beginning, when I met the team and And I wanted to assume this responsibility of producing this film, I thought was going to be something very simple, Steve. | |
| You know, I thought, well, you know, I'm going to have Alejandro, who is a genius, Picasso, Dalí, crazy filmmaker, amazing, most important. | ||
| You know, I think he's a genius, Alejandro Monteverde, but the best is, you know, the best is that he doesn't know it. | ||
| So that keeps him humble. So I thought I'm writing the script, you know, then Tim Butter, a hero, a hero to me, a real hero. | ||
| So I thought I have the perfect combination of everything. | ||
| A true life hero, the best filmmaker, director, in my opinion, Alejandro Monteverde, who did Bella, Little Boy, and now Sound of Freedom. | ||
| Then I thought, okay, we need another Picasso crazy Dali Michelangelo actor, Gene Caviezel. | ||
| Then I thought, bingo, I think we have something very special and this is going to be very simple to put out there because who is going to be against saving children? | ||
| You can have left, right, up and down. | ||
| You know, this is about children, three-year-old kids, five-year-old kids who are being raped 15 times a day. | ||
| Who's going to be okay with that? | ||
| I thought, you know what? The war is very divided. | ||
| Very divided. But I think there's more things that unite us than what divide us. | ||
| And I think this is one of those things that are going to be bringing us all together. | ||
| And I thought this was going to be very simple. | ||
| Then, you know, writing the script was very hard because of the topic. | ||
| Alejandro did a fantastic poetry, you know, where even children, the children who were in the movie, Steve, they didn't even know what the film was about because we wanted to protect their innocence and their purity. | ||
| Their parents were there. The movie was, I mean, I treat every child on set as it was my child, you know, always the golden rule. | ||
| So anyway, so we finished the movie and then Netflix passed. | ||
| Amazon passed and I was very confused because I'm showing the movie you know I'm very objective you know even though we produce the movie you know I can see you know sometimes as parents you see your babies as the most beautiful babies in the world and maybe they're not but with the love of you know of parents that's how you see them so I thought you know what I want to be very objective you know maybe my maybe our film is not working But I started showing the movie to thousands of people, and people were crying and standing ovations. | ||
| Okay, what's going on here? | ||
| Something's really weird here. | ||
| So then I realized, you know, of course. | ||
| I mean, of course. | ||
| They're blocking this film because this crime is everywhere. | ||
| This is a global problem. | ||
| Everywhere. US is the number one consumer of child sex. | ||
| Mexico is the number one provider. | ||
| So that's why, you know, As a Mexican... | ||
| Okay, I need...hang on, Edward, for one second. | ||
| I need you to repeat that. I need...because I'm going to finish this show about the Promised Land and the New Jerusalem that was bequitas. | ||
| Please repeat what you just said, sir. | ||
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This is a global problem. | |
| It's a human problem. | ||
| It's growing and growing and growing. | ||
| US, United States, the American Dream, is the number one consumer of child sex in the world. | ||
| Mexico, where I'm from, is the number one provider. | ||
| So only through a bilateral effort, working together, I know, I know, that if everyone knows what's going on, together we will end this. | ||
| That's where I put my hope. | ||
| My hope is in God. | ||
| God's children are not for sale. | ||
| And I know God is creating an army. | ||
| He's putting an army together. | ||
| And you're one of the soldiers, Steve. | ||
| Definitely Tim Ballard is. | ||
| Definitely Jim Caviezel is. | ||
| He's risking his life. | ||
| He's an amazing human being. | ||
| Alejandro Monteverde is. | ||
| And everyone who was involved in this movie is. | ||
| And there's many organizations around the world that are fighting every day to save the children. | ||
| And I'm just so happy and so honored. | ||
| It's a privilege for me to be used as an instrument, as a soldier in this army. | ||
| And I'm willing to give my life for our little brothers and sisters. | ||
| Because again, God's children are not for sale, Steve. | ||
| You've become part of this army because we're going to send a message with this film. | ||
| We're going to send it over the 4th of July. | ||
| The Sound of Freedom is the film. | ||
| Angel.com. Go there right now. | ||
| Get your tickets. Make a statement here. | ||
| Get your friends there. They chose this because it's coming up against some of the biggest movies of the year. | ||
| The weekend before 4th and then the weekend after. | ||
| Two of the biggest movies of the year. | ||
| They did this. To send a signal. | ||
| Angel.com slash War Room. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break when we return with Edwardo, the producer, and also Tim Ballard. | ||
| It's his story of his life told through this incident in Columbia. | ||
| As Edwardo says, God's children are not for sale. | ||
| We're going to be spending a lot of time in this film because it's more than just a movie. | ||
| It is a movement. And this movement, we should all be disgraced and ashamed and humiliated. | ||
| When you think that the promised land is the number one consumer of child sex trafficking and sex with these children, it's not acceptable. | ||
| It's simply not acceptable. | ||
| You have a time to join this army. | ||
| Angel.com slash word. | ||
| We're going to turn with Tim Ballard and Eduardo in just a moment. | ||
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Let's take down the CCP! | |
| Spread the word all through Hong Kong We will fight till they're all gone We rejoice when there's no more Let's take down the CCP! | ||
| Stephen K Bang Let's take down the CCP! | ||
| I mean, pedophiles, you got 12. | ||
| 288. | ||
| Can I kill Tifad? | ||
| It is the fastest growing international crime network that the world has ever seen. | ||
| you It has already passed the illegal arms trade, and soon it's gonna pass the drug trade. | ||
| Thinks you can sell a bag of cocaine one time to the child five to ten times a day? | ||
| God's children are not for sale. | ||
| How long you been doing this? | ||
| All years now. How many pedophiles you got? | ||
| 288. | ||
| My kids, he found. | ||
| For Homeland Security, you know we can't go off rescuing Honduran kids in Colombia. | ||
| Which means she'll disappear for good. | ||
| Imagine walking into her room right now, singing up to bed. | ||
| What we do. You quit your job, and you go and rescue those kids. | ||
| Okay, that's the trailer, and we're going to have it up on Getter. | ||
| We're going to have the guys back next week. | ||
| Tim Ballard, this is obviously a very controversial area with the Q situation, the political situation. | ||
| They always demonize the Q people. | ||
| You were an agent for the U.S. government for how many years, sir? | ||
| For 12 years. What Eduardo just told us, is that the truth? | ||
| Is the United States of America, the New Jerusalem, this promised land that's been bequeathed to us with, what, 12 or 14 generations of patriots, is it the number one consumer of child sex trafficking and the sex with children's slaves in the world, | ||
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sir? Year after year, yes, we consume more child sex material than any other nation, and we are in the top one to three for destination countries for human trafficking. | |
| We are the source. We are the demand. | ||
| Tim, you've dedicated your life to this, correct? | ||
| Correct. What's your social media? | ||
| How do people get to you? | ||
| We're going to get them to the movie, but how do they also follow you, sir, in your movement? | ||
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At TimBallard89. We look forward to having you on next week. | |
| Angel.com. | ||
| slash war room. Get tickets now. | ||
| We're going to send a message. | ||
| You're going to learn the story of Tim Ballard, a former DHS agent that would not come home and would not get off mission to rescue these children. | ||
| God's children are not for sale. | ||
| Eduardo, you've dedicated your life to this also. | ||
| Tell people one more time, why do they have to join the army here to save these children? | ||
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Well, first of all, Steve, we've been In your show, almost an hour, right? | |
| Right now, in Mexico, in this hour, seven children disappear. | ||
| 47 a day, 21,000 a year. | ||
| This is the official numbers. | ||
| I think it's three times more. | ||
| If we don't do something now, Steve, again, all of us, if we don't do something now, the pain, the pain of these children, Sooner or later, we'll reach out to all of us. | ||
| And then we are the ones who will be living a nightmare that is going to be very hard to wake up if we don't do something now. | ||
| Don't wait until this tragedy comes to your house for you to wake up. | ||
| Wake up now. | ||
| Together, we can end this nightmare. | ||
| Together, we can end this terrible reality. | ||
| We have to do something. | ||
| Whatever is in your hands. | ||
| We all have different talents. | ||
| We all have different missions. | ||
| You know, some people are in politics. | ||
| Some people are filmmakers. Some people are, you know, doctors. | ||
| If everyone knows about what's going on, ask God. | ||
| Dear God, how can I help? | ||
| I'm an instrument. What can I do to end this? | ||
| Because tomorrow can be your child. | ||
| What if this is your daughter? | ||
| What if this is your son? | ||
| You will stop everything you're doing. | ||
| You will hope that the whole world will stop everything they're doing so they can help you to find your child. | ||
| Let's do the same for the children of someone else. | ||
| Eduardo, how do people get you on social media? | ||
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Eduardo Verastegui. | |
| My name, Steve. Thank you. | ||
| Twitter is only Everastegui. | ||
| Everything else, Facebook, Instagram. | ||
| It's Eduardo Verastegui. | ||
| Eduardo, honored to have you on here once again, brother. | ||
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More important than that, Steve, right now, and thank you for this, is 4th of July, Independence Day. | |
| Freedom. Let's bring this freedom back to the children. | ||
| Please, this is so important. | ||
| I believe, again, together, this is an army of God that will send, God is sending this army, To rescue these children. | ||
| Because again, I'm gonna repeat this every day. | ||
| God's children are not for sale. | ||
| Together we can end this nightmare. | ||
| Sir, honored to have you on here. | ||
| Look forward to having your entire team, all of you guys on here next week. | ||
| Go to angel.com slash worm right now. | ||
| Join God's army. | ||
| Join the army that's going to shut this down and stop it. | ||
| Discourage. And it's a disgrace that it's happening in the United States of America, the greatest country in the world and poor Mexico. | ||
| What's happening? I want to end once again how we started with the promised land for how the West was won. | ||
| See the nation that was bequeathed to you. | ||
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See the new Jerusalem. We'll take the rest. | |
| Oh, gee, for you, for every mother's son! |
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