June 27, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is what you're fighting for. | ||
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. It's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | ||
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room. Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, welcome. Monday, 26th of June, Year of the Lord, 2023. | ||
| It really pains me to say that Ben Harnwell's right, but Ben Harnwell. | ||
| We're going to spend this hour on the Chinese Communist Party and its infiltration of the American government. | ||
| Of course, the bought-and-paid-for controlled opposition are the fifth column of the Biden crime family, but I've got to open in Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| Breaking news out of Belarus. | ||
| Ben, Progression Releases New Message says Belarusian leader Lukashenko has offered to find ways for Wagner Group to, and I quote, continue its work. | ||
| Ben, you made the point, unquote, Ben, you made the point on the morning show that the border of Belarus is, what, 70 miles, 60 miles from Kiev. | ||
| I know BBC's got a further report. | ||
| Give us an update on what's happening, sir. | ||
| Yes, Steve. Well, look, I mean, I do enjoy that the rare occasions where fast-changing events prove me right. | ||
| Look, it's an expression that all analysts are using right now. | ||
| We're in the fog of war. | ||
| That is to say that all sides are lying. | ||
| They're all deliberately deceiving their counterparts, and in that degree of uncertainty. | ||
| They hope to steal for themselves some advantage. | ||
| My suggestion here, and it might be a bit outlandish, I haven't really seen other commentators or analysts suggesting this remotely, but the thesis is this. | ||
| Belarus is the southernmost tip Directly north of Kyiv, down to the northernmost outskirts of Kyiv itself, is 77km, which is about 50 or so miles, just a shade under 50 miles. | ||
| That is to say, it's doable, and obviously some of that straight line is the Dnieper River, so to go around that, to take the nearest roads around and what have you, well, you know, let's say it's going to take Two hours rather than one and a half hours, if you will. | ||
| What I mean by this is that Belarus, which hasn't really been a player in the war so far, hasn't been a factor specifically, could actually come into play. | ||
| And it really sort of provides access directly to the soft underbelly of Ukraine. | ||
| Because all of Ukraine's attention, obviously, as we've been following this over the last 18 months is down towards the south and towards the east. | ||
| Those are the main areas of the Russian push. | ||
| And the northernmost frontier has not been in this war remotely. | ||
| And the suggestion is, and I actually think if this is true, this is a diversion, a distraction of Homeric proportions, recalling the Trojan horse. | ||
| The whole thing, look, the whole thing on Saturday, it was a diversion. | ||
| Because if you think about it, if Pogosian had said, look, you know what, we're pulling out of the Donbass because we're going to come in for an attack. | ||
| We're going to come south. We're going to drop down due south down from Belarus. | ||
| The first thing Ukrainians would have done was they would have done everything. | ||
| Everything in to a retreating army, because that's the best time in military strategy. | ||
| That's the best time to go in for a kill when an army is retreating. | ||
| Instead, Prigozhin said, we're going to go and attack Moscow. | ||
| We're going to go invade Moscow. | ||
| We're going to launch a coup. Kiev, along with the rest of the world, basically said, pass the popcorn. | ||
| You know, because if your enemy is going to go off And create a pseudo-civil war. | ||
| The last thing you'd want to do is to attack them and slow them down so that they're forced to defend themselves. | ||
| You'd wave them along as they left your country. | ||
| And that's basically exactly what happened. | ||
| They left Without a skirmish, without a shot being fired. | ||
| So then they went to Rostov, right? | ||
| Then Prigozhin had a back-slapping meeting with Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister's deputy. | ||
| And everyone said, this is really odd. | ||
| What are the Russian army doing here? | ||
| Why aren't they shooting him? | ||
| Why aren't they arresting him? | ||
| But they had a nice photo-op chat. | ||
| And then they went due north towards Moscow. | ||
| They went about 250 miles up. | ||
| And everyone was saying, the Russian troops, you know, they're not stopping them. | ||
| It's all friendly. Are the Russians going to switch sides and join in with this coup? | ||
| And then towards Saturday evening, I think which is basically just after we finished on air and the news came out that Progozhin was going to take refuge in Belarus in a deal brokered by Lukashenko and then he went basically having got if you look at the map between Rostov and Moscow and just go halfway up he then basically went Sorry, | ||
| because you guys went this way. He went due west into Belarus, we think, because we don't know exactly where he is. | ||
| But there's no evidence, Steve. | ||
| There's no military evidence, no satellite snapshots suggesting that the Wagner troops have gone back southwestwards towards Donetsk. | ||
| There's no evidence of that. | ||
| All up in the air. This is the beginning, I think, of the era of warlordism, right, where everybody's going to have their own private army, but we'll see. | ||
| Ben, how do people get you on social media to follow this? | ||
| You're going to be with us every day this week as developments continue. | ||
| And now that they've announced that he's going to continue his work in Belarus, which was a Ben Harnwell called shot. | ||
| Good job. Where'd they get you, Ben? | ||
| Thank you, Steve. I'm on Getter exclusively as my social platform of choice. | ||
| My profile is simply my surname, Harnwell, at Harnwell. | ||
| And in synthesis, we talk about Wagner, right? | ||
| They named themselves after Richard Wagner, the German composer. | ||
| The world was expecting Wotan's farewell, and instead they're going to get the ride of the Valkyries. | ||
| Beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, thank you very much. | ||
| Appreciate it. Thank you, Steve. | ||
| God bless. Let's go ahead and play. | ||
| I want to play. This global conflict, you've got the spring offensive is ground to a halt by the Ukrainian forces, but this conflict's metastasized. | ||
| You've got cyberattacks by Russians into the United States, CCP into the United States. | ||
| Let's play what Tony Blinken, after crawling back to the United States from this horrific meeting of kowtowing in Beijing, he was on Chuck Todd yesterday. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play that. Are we going to prevent China from having a military base on the island of Cuba? | ||
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We have been not only looking but also engaging in a number of countries over the last couple of years where China's trying to get a foothold. | |
| And we've been engaged diplomatically in a number of places. | ||
| And we've had some success in either preventing that, delaying that, or turning that around. | ||
| We continue to do that. I've raised that directly with my Chinese counterparts. | ||
| They know where we stand on that issue. | ||
| I noticed you say you raised it with your Chinese counterparts. | ||
| We have no relations still with Cuba. | ||
| I mean, this decision to pull back relations with Cuba, did we not just throw them into the arms of the Chinese? | ||
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No, we actually have raised this with the Cubans as well. | |
| So they also, for them, there's no secret about the concerns that we have and the fact that we're watching this very carefully. | ||
| Are we going to make sure it doesn't happen? | ||
| Is this a line in the sand? | ||
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Again, we've made clear that this is a real concern. | |
| And as I said, in a variety of places where China's tried to get a foothold militarily or with intelligence, we've been not only looking at that, we've been taking action to try to push back, and we've had some success. | ||
| Colonel Derek Harvey, that was yesterday. | ||
| You know, my phone was blowing up as soon as Chuck Todd did that yesterday. | ||
| The line in the sand. | ||
| It sounded like we're a tributary state. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Well, Secretary Blinken, if you listen to what he said there, he said we have had some success. | ||
| Not really, I guess. | ||
| If you're talking with Cubans, that's success from their perspective. | ||
| But, you know, having Four or five facilities there in Cuba already is a problem. | ||
| You know, the foothold is already established, you know, and they are gaining ground, not just in Cuba, but, you know, in Central America and in Venezuela and in Brazil and You know, it's significant and we are not doing anything about it. | ||
| Don't forget the Bahamas. | ||
| The Bahamas got that massive, it looks like the Pentagon, their embassy is there to tap into the underwater cables and to monitor Navy submarine activity. | ||
| The Bahamas, I mean, you got Central America, you got Mexico, you've got the fentanyl trade, you got Brazil, you have Venezuela. | ||
| Tell me where in the Western Hemisphere Can you point to any place where the Biden regime has backed off the Chinese Communist Party in any aspect of their envelopment of the United States of America, Colonel Harvey? | ||
| Well, they haven't pressed them and they've opened the door. | ||
| The restrictions on our activities in Latin America and Mexico to address the Chinese presence and also the Iranian presence and Russia is increasingly involved in small ways in areas to probe for opportunities, especially with their intelligence services. | ||
| It's not good. It's not a good picture. | ||
| The reason we're not... | ||
| No, it's not good is... | ||
| Derek Harvey is a very humble and good man. | ||
| It's not good. It's atrocious. | ||
| And here's why. But here's the logic. | ||
| There's an internal logic. It all makes sense. | ||
| Because at every level, we're in business. | ||
| Our leaders are in business with them. | ||
| And I mean deeply in business. | ||
| When I say business, I mean the making and taking of cash money. | ||
| Let me repeat that. The leadership in this nation... | ||
| is in business with the Chinese Communist Party deeply, whether it's the oligarchs in Silicon Valley, the lords, the equity lords on Wall Street, but particularly government officials. | ||
| I got two. We got Brian Costello with the Sequoia. | ||
| And Derek, you're going to hang with me for the hours. | ||
| These guys, too. I got Garrett Ziegler. | ||
| Garrett Ziegler. | ||
| And this is not Bannon saying it. | ||
| This is not Garrett Ziegler saying it, but it's for the whole world to go look. | ||
| Is there not a record that you've presented to the world that they can go online even as we speak? | ||
| And see chapter and verse of the Biden family, deep commercial business and financial relationships with senior members of the Chinese Communist Party in their most important thing, which was the capital markets allocation for One Belt, One Road, which was the leading instrument they did to start to control the Eurasian landmass, sir. | ||
| Well, thank you. | ||
| They can go online. | ||
| It's completely free, 644 pages. | ||
| We have $1,000 bounty to Matt Visor at the Washington Compost and Peter Baker at the New York Times for any corrections that they can make. | ||
| Did you see, Steve, and this relates to your statement, Peter Baker's and Nick Kristoff's ridiculous – it's not even a limited hangout. | ||
| They produced Global Times-style state media propaganda over the weekend – About how this story of Hunter Biden is merely about addiction. | ||
| First of all, I know no other addicts who walk around the house naked and take naked selfies. | ||
| That's not addict behavior. | ||
| That points to something deeper. | ||
| Secondly, putting all of this on Hunter's drug addiction is a joke. | ||
| He was corrupt before he fell off the wagon, and he's corrupt after he fell off the wagon. | ||
| The degeneracy is just a sideshow and helps explain their character and comportment. | ||
| As you said, this report has the five Ws. | ||
| So I respect Mr. | ||
| Harvey's work and everybody else, serious investigators. | ||
| If they have any questions about the who, what, when, where, and why, this dossier has it. | ||
| Remember Christopher Steele and how he put together these ridiculous one sentences with no footnotes, no citations. | ||
| They didn't list a single source. | ||
| We have 2,000. | ||
| In 20 footnotes in this, and there's not been one left-wing debunking yet. | ||
| And the reason why I'm bringing this up is I know for a fact that the committees have our dossier because I hand-delivered it to them. | ||
| One of the staffers told me that they printed off 40 copies, and there's different pages strewn about the office. | ||
| To the head of a nonprofit, that makes me feel good, but what would make me feel even better is if they effectuate the things that we ask them to do in the dossier, i.e., Subpoena the phone lines. | ||
| Get the pimps. | ||
| We don't care about shaming prostitutes. | ||
| What we're interested in the sex trafficking bit is getting the pimps. | ||
| There's a woman named Mareva Ekaterina who runs a human trafficking outlet called UberGFE.com. | ||
| This is all documented in a Senate report. | ||
| Ron Johnson knows about this site. | ||
| They don't need to go after every single prostitute. | ||
| A lot of these girls are in tough positions. | ||
| What they need to do is go after the pimps. | ||
| A lot of them have overstayed their visa. | ||
| What you do is very simple. | ||
| Tell Mareva Ekaterina, first of all, you're going to get deported. | ||
| Second of all, the time span is going to be much greater if you don't cooperate. | ||
| Threaten deportation immediately. | ||
| They'll spill everything on Hunter. | ||
| On this aspect, I'm going to come back to you in a second, Garrett. | ||
| We've got a huge document. | ||
| Of primary source documents, all provided by Hunter Biden. | ||
| Emails, text messages, summaries of phone conversations, money going back and forth, wire transfers, all of it. | ||
| We also know that they're sitting on a ton of this information to back it up. | ||
| SARS reports, suspicious activity reports sent from banks by law to the Treasury Department. | ||
| That's for the Biden crime family. | ||
| It's also got Anthony Blinken mentioned, Kurt Campbell, many, many others in the administration on the executive side. | ||
| Then you've got, and I want to bring in now, Brian Costello. | ||
| He and Derek Harvey have been going down the path. | ||
| The House Intelligence Committee, and here's what people understand. | ||
| Official Washington and the national security apparatus know this. | ||
| The whistleblower, the IRS whistleblower that was in this because Hunter Biden's expensing his female, the trafficking of females for sex, he's trafficking, he's expensing as a business expense, and his membership in a sex club, they're expensing as a business expense that brings the IRS attention. | ||
| We know it from an IRS whistleblower. | ||
| We also know from the whistleblower that the FBI and Ray, Ascertained that the laptop from hell was absolutely legitimate in November of 2019. | ||
| That's his report. | ||
| In November 2019, they ascertained that the laptop from hell was legitimate. | ||
| Did you ever see them come forward in 2020 when Biden was sitting up there lying to the American people on the debate and the 51 former intelligence executive, as Garrett Ziegler points out correctly, more of them from the Bush apparatus from 41 and 43 than even from Clinton and Obama? | ||
| Right? That signed it of the 51. | ||
| Signed it that it was a Russian disinformation when Ray knew in November of 2019, even before December. | ||
| I gave him the benefit of December. | ||
| Now, November of 2019. | ||
| 2019. New is real. | ||
| On the other aspect, the other line, the other line of work is these oligarchs in Silicon Valley and the cash money going back and forth from the private equity side is Sequoia Capital. | ||
| Another just front operation, and we know from leaks that have come out in the last week, Sequoia Capital is in back of one of the biggest pushers of bailing out the Silicon Valley Bank because they had exposure with some of their companies. | ||
| Brian Costello, walk us through the information that you know firsthand that we know that the House Intelligence Committee has but will not press forward with an investigation and will not ring the bell over at the FBI or Justice Department to shake out this supposedly voluminous report they've done on Sequoia Capitol. | ||
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Walk us through it, Brian. Well, Steve, you know... | |
| I first uncovered a lot about Sequoia through a civil lawsuit, and I presented it to a bunch of offices in Congress, and I commend you for having Colonel Harvey on because the one office that really took the bull by the horns was Nunes' office, and it was actually the whole team investigating the Russia hoax stuff. | ||
| And they said, we want the truth. | ||
| We don't care whether it's our party or the other party. | ||
| We want the truth. We want to know how to protect the American people and what you see here. | ||
| So what was presented to the House Intelligence Committee was America's top investor, the company that's funding all sorts of stuff in AI, robotics, biotech, all these different things, was employing a member of the Chinese government, not an agent, an actual member of the Chinese government. | ||
| And there was a video on the internet that he had access from his own interview on State TV, and people can go look at it. | ||
| Put Neil Shen in YouTube, and you scroll down. | ||
| There's a two-minute interview on State TV where he talks about having access to all the information on Sequoia's portfolio company. | ||
| So this flew directly in the face of the misrepresentations that Sequoia's made. | ||
| Saying that Neil Shen wasn't related. | ||
| Well, if he's not related to the entity and he's just using the name, why is he accessing the systems and the information on all the companies? | ||
| So we presented all this information to the House Intelligence Committee. | ||
| The House Intelligence Committee was running with the investigation. | ||
| Colonel Harvey, who you have on, was leading it. | ||
| They were digging into the facts. | ||
| They were confirming the facts. | ||
| They were looking at everything. | ||
| And then Nunes left. | ||
| The investigation got killed by Turner. | ||
| I reached out to the office to try and confirm they wanted to follow up with this. | ||
| No response. I don't know, Derek, is Derek still on, Steve? | ||
| Yeah, Derek's still with us, yes. | ||
| And I also want to point out something. | ||
| It looks like, you know, Garrett's done great work. | ||
| So what I'm going to show you right here, and I'm happy to get a copy so you can present this. | ||
| So this is a letter from the FBI and the Department of Justice saying this book Which is my dossier, which is presented to him, which lays out what we believe and has alleged seven Title 18 violations is scanned in at the FBI and the Department of Justice in multiple divisions. | ||
| And the only thing... | ||
| Okay, hold on. Slow down. | ||
| Slow down. Slow down. | ||
| Slow down. Because you're going to lose the audience. | ||
| We've got to make sure people... | ||
| So walk me back through this. | ||
| What is this dossier you're talking about? | ||
| What is this collection that you've put through that they've sent you a letter to say it's scanned in? | ||
| Just take the building blocks and walk us through what's going on. | ||
| So there were two... There should have been three, but there were two investigations going on, Steve. | ||
| The House Intelligence Committee was looking at What is China doing using our business elite, firms like Sequoia, to influence policy in Washington, D.C.? Are they communicating with the Chinese government? | ||
| What's the relationship and how is this thing working? | ||
| And how are they essentially buying malfeasance in the government, not approaching, not being honest about crimes and what's actually going on with these guys? | ||
| So there was a house intelligence investigation that Nunes was running, and Nunes' staff, and Colonel Harvey can obviously comment on that. | ||
| In addition to that, I brought the claims, and this is seven Title 18 violations, capital market securities fraud, corporate espionage, fire violations, racketeering, wire fraud, a bunch of claims through two former supervisory special agents, That worked for the FBI for 20 years. | ||
| One was an attorney. One was a counterintel guy. | ||
| The claims were walked into the Washington field office of the FBI. There were multiple meetings. | ||
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Okay, hold it. Full stop, full stop, full stop, full stop. | |
| In addition to House Intel, we got Derek on. | ||
| We're going to bring him back in a moment. | ||
| Going to House Intel, what's going down their own path. | ||
| And the reason people should understand, the reason they're going down this path is this is just not conversation in the air. | ||
| There's enough of a pattern of what's going on, and people are not dumb. | ||
| They see this advanced technology, all of a sudden you're seeing it in the Chinese military, in the PLA. How did it happen? | ||
| How did it get there? | ||
| These guys are not developing. | ||
| They don't have that type. They don't have the weapons labs we have. | ||
| They don't have the people in technology that create these ideas. | ||
| They're great at copying it, but they don't know how to actually conceive of it and bring that conception to an execution point. | ||
| So it's showing up all over. | ||
| Derek Harvey and others are smart and saying, how is this happening? | ||
| What is this interface between the capital markets in our country and venture capital in the Chinese military? | ||
| That's why House Intel... | ||
| House Intel does not kick off an investigation just because they're sitting around on a Monday morning having a hot cup of coffee and say, hey, why don't we do that this week? | ||
| It doesn't work like that. | ||
| There's enough out there in pattern recognition to initiate something that gets initiated. | ||
| In addition... You see enough as yourself as an investor, right? | ||
| And you go with a full documentation to the degree that you can do it on an unclassified basis. | ||
| You approach the FBI, correct, with this collection of information, sir? | ||
| Yeah, and we approached them with a couple issues, Steve. | ||
| We approached them with, listen, there's a bunch of capital market allegations here which are well documented, which I have, you know, 30 years experience working there. | ||
| There's also this fundamental problem that one of the participants and alleged co-conspirators in the capital market issues is Neil Shen, who also works for America's preeminent venture firm. | ||
| He also has a second job working for the Chinese government. | ||
| And this isn't even subjective, right? | ||
| And these guys are funding companies in critical and sensitive areas. | ||
| Like, how did this happen? | ||
| So in these interviews with the two former agents, there are national security people. | ||
| It wasn't just the FBI field agents and the Washington field office. | ||
| So there's this second issue. | ||
| And then there's this third issue, which is like, how come the Securities Exchange and these organizations that are supposed to be protecting the American people aren't doing anything? | ||
| So when I eventually met with the FBI, one of the conversations was, what's the SEC doing? | ||
| Right? So you have bodies in the government that know there are crimes happening, Related to Chinese executives that are supposed to protect the American people and supposed to protect the integrity of our republic, who knowingly and purposely aren't doing their jobs. | ||
| So walk me through real quick. | ||
| I got about a minute here. I'll hold you through the break. | ||
| Derek Harvey is going to rejoin us. | ||
| When you approached these guys in the Washington field office, these two senior guys, they took all the information that you had collected? | ||
| They took all the information, they gave it to the FBI and the Washington field office, and here's news for your show, okay? | ||
| In the Durham hearing, the FBI has said that they will never have another crossfire hurricane issue because they're gonna let the investigations be run in the field offices. | ||
| Well, these claims were immediately transferred The Department of Justice, seventh floor, main justice. | ||
| Contradicting the representation that the FBI has been making to the Judiciary Committee. | ||
| So here are political donors employing a firm. | ||
| In 2021, this change was supposed to be enacted in 2019. | ||
| In 2021, are doing the exact opposite. | ||
| They're taking a politically sensitive case and they're running it over to the seventh floor. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| We're taking a short commercial break. | ||
| We've got Brian Costello, who's been on the trail of Sequoia for quite a while. | ||
| And of course, Colonel Derek Harvey from House Intel worked in the National Security Council under President Trump in his first term and also a legendary figure in the United States Army. | ||
| a short commercial break back in a moment. | ||
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With Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| So Colonel Harvey, given that's everything that's happened and transpired over the last week with with the Durham hearing, with the whistleblowers coming out at the at the IRS about and by the way, Garrett Ziegler had to bounce. | ||
| We're going to have Garrett back on the show tomorrow morning. | ||
| With everything, Garrett Ziegler's now brought forward with the laptop from hell in a formal kind of systematic way. | ||
| Peter Schweitzer's on the show referring to Garrett Ziegler's work on the laptop about the phone numbers and Biden having a secret phone number that they haven't even, that the committee has not even subpoenaed yet, which is mind-boggling to me. | ||
| You've got now the Chinese Communist Party in your face in Cuba. | ||
| You've got this report. | ||
| We'll get back to Costello in a minute. | ||
| Of all this activity, and Neil Shen, people should understand, Neil Shen is not a Grundoon. | ||
| He is probably, I would say, the most prominent venture capitalist in the United States. | ||
| I think he went to Yale. He's on every different board. | ||
| He's on the board at Yale. He's everywhere. | ||
| This is a prominent guy. And now we find out through your guy's investigation, and it's out there publicly, He's an advisor to the Politburo and the CCP. He's basically a Chinese Communist Party official and makes no bones about it when he's on their state TV talking in Mandarin. | ||
| So what are people to make when they hear that Mike Turner in the House Intel Committee won't even pursue the investigation you have and you see the money going back and forth? | ||
| What are hardworking Americans that ring doorbells, give 50 bucks, You know, walk precincts, show up at conferences. | ||
| What do they think of what's going on? | ||
| Is this game totally rigged? | ||
| Is this Chinese Communist Party just got money everywhere and we should just give up on this, that we are clearly not in managed decline, but a free fall and a total tributary state, Colonel Derrick Harvey? | ||
| The Chinese have successfully penetrated our government, the SEC, FBI, DOJ, and the Biden White House. | ||
| The protectorate around President Biden are people like Lisa Monaco, the Deputy Attorney General, who is actually the coordinator and the consigliere for a lot of this cover-up activity. | ||
| And the cover-up is massive and it goes beyond just, you know, the Biden investigation here and looking at Hunter. | ||
| The issues expand into the SEC, they expand into the FDA, drugs, the The issues was COVID, NIH, etc. | ||
| There's a massive cover-up underway. | ||
| It's a dereliction of duty, but it's purposeful. | ||
| And there's a uniparty elite. | ||
| They've been co-opted or they're coerced. | ||
| Now, the FBI will come out and they will put a trophy out there and say, look, we got this professor at a university that You know, was bringing some information back when he was flying back home to China. | ||
| And we have arrested him and charged him with espionage. | ||
| But they're not going after the big fish, even though the documentation is there. | ||
| They know they have the information. | ||
| They have the intelligence. They have the IRS information. | ||
| They have the Treasury information. | ||
| They have got Securities Exchange information. | ||
| plus from their own investigative efforts. | ||
| What Brian Costello provided was an A to Z outline with documentation of at least seven areas of criminal activity as he outlined. | ||
| Our concern at the House Intelligence Committee was What is going on? | ||
| It's not just the small fish stuff that the FBI was looking at. | ||
| We were getting reports, I was getting reports from frustrated FBI agents saying that higher-ups in DOJ were shutting down and not allowing them to pursue things, similar to what the IRS agent has talked about with the Hunter Biden issues. | ||
| Question is why and we wanted to understand that and we wanted to understand hold out China Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang over a second. Hang on a second Really Costello. I want you to go through the seven Just read the seven areas of criminal activity that you turned over enough documentation to the FBI That experienced field agents said Wow Just walk me through that, and Derek, I'm going to come right back to you on what you just told, because that, to me, is a blockbuster. | ||
| Costello, walk me through the seven areas of criminal activity. | ||
| Violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 and 1934, so securities fraud. | ||
| We laid out potential allegations of corporate espionage related to if America's pre-animate venture firm was giving access on information to its portfolio of companies to a member of the Chinese government and he didn't work for them. | ||
| There's a significant problem there. | ||
| There was enterprise RICO claims because these were people There were multiple parties working together and there are multiple predicate crimes. | ||
| And that does something, Steve, which is really important. | ||
| It extends the statute of limitations, especially on the securities fraud side. | ||
| When you look at an enterprise, there were issues related to FARA. In terms of for the partners at Sequoia, right? | ||
| Hang on. For our audience to understand, this is the Foreign Agent Registration Act, that people were here working as foreign agents for a government and did not make that public, correct? | ||
| And you were accusing the Sequoia partners of that? | ||
| Yeah, Shen's a member of the Chinese government. | ||
| He's not the actual agent. | ||
| He's the member of the Chinese government. | ||
| So the people lobbying government on his behalf are actually... | ||
| You know, need to be registered, right? | ||
| Okay. There were potential violations, we believe, in allegations and claims that this would get into Foreign Corrupt Practices Act stuff. | ||
| You know, one of the Sequoia portfolio companies, you know, and Sequoia has a prominent member of the Chinese government on the board, and we've talked about this. | ||
| We don't believe FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, was just cold calling. | ||
| You know, officials trying to get a billion dollars out of China. | ||
| There were also all the associated claims that go with this stuff, right? | ||
| Wire fraud, mail fraud, all this. | ||
| And money laundering. Yeah, wire fraud and money laundering. | ||
| Okay, so that's seven criminal areas, significant crimes that you gave the FBI information on. | ||
| Yeah, and I'll also leave something to build on... | ||
| Let me build on something Derek talked about. | ||
| So Derek talked about Lisa Monaco. | ||
| We already know Lisa Monaco's fingerprints are on the Trump raid, right? | ||
| Lisa Monaco was doing the review. | ||
| Biden and DOJ had handed the review of TikTok over to the DOJ, and it was being run by Lisa Monaco and Adam Hickey. | ||
| So in September 2022, I sent a letter to Lisa Monaco, Adam Hickey, and a bunch of people in the white-collar criminal division at DOJ Saying, hey, I want you to be aware. | ||
| I've been interviewed by the FBI. There was a House Intel investigation open. | ||
| There's a bunch of documentation scanned into your system. | ||
| And the principles behind ByteDance, you are sitting on claims against. | ||
| And you know what happened, Steve? | ||
| The DOJ took the ByteDance TikTok review and they transferred it over to CFIUS so that they didn't have to have their fingerprints on it. | ||
| Give me that one more time so the audience understands that. | ||
| Just hit that one more time. | ||
| The Department of Justice, they knew about these claims. | ||
| They knew the claims that the Washington field office of the FBI took them seriously enough to go against protocol that they had laid out in Crossfire Hurricane, which Lisa Monica was also involved in, to transfer to DOJ. So that means they believe there are crimes there. | ||
| They interviewed me. There were multiple meetings with former FBI agents about these claims. | ||
| Then when it was put across Lisa Monaco's desk, her handling of the review of ByteDance and TikTok got moved off her plate. | ||
| So there would be plausible deniability. | ||
| Okay, hang over one second. | ||
| Put a pin in that. Derek Harvey. | ||
| Given the information Brian Costello had put together and gotten to the FBI, but also because these things are, Costello did a good job of compiling it, but it's not that these things are unknown at the working levels in these different agencies. | ||
| You initiate, and I said, this is not, Derrick Harvey's got plenty to do, and Devin Nunez. | ||
| Derrick Harvey just doesn't come in on a Monday morning and say, let's have a cup of coffee, let's fill up our work week, let's go investigate the leading venture capitalist in the country, Neil Shen, and the leading in the gold standard, the Goldman Sachs of venture capital, Sequoia Capital, for being basically an apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| People, FBI agents and others, had continued to come to you. | ||
| Is that correct, sir? To say, we have these problems, we have these issues, sir? | ||
| Yes, we were doing a scan of all the information available and trying to figure out what was really going on. | ||
| And we had issues being brought to us from FBI agents saying, we're going after the small fish, but we're not doing anything about what's right there. | ||
| Right in front of us and that is Sequoia Capital. | ||
| I talked to people at the Congressional Research Service and then expanded the net and started talking to people that are involved in the financial markets. | ||
| It's an open secret what Sequoia Capital was doing and the relationship with the Chinese Communist Party in the intersection there where Sequoia Capital was actually the starship for the Chinese effort to access our R&D What's going on in all our startup industries across the high-tech R&D area in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. | ||
| And then they would mine it. | ||
| They go through viewing rooms because if you're going to invest in the company, you can go into a, basically they call it a viewing room to understand what is going on, where they're headed to see if you want to invest significant capital. | ||
| When Sequoia Capital invests, they go in and they try to put people on the management team as well as on the board. | ||
| So they have Extra insight into what's going on, and that continues to feed the monster, which then, in our view, translates back, because Neil Shen is the linchpin between the two, and they see that this stuff comes back to China. | ||
| They invest in China in like industries, in the same industries. | ||
| Sometimes they buy the companies, sometimes they just stay invested in them. | ||
| And then they open the door and they try to encourage American investors, American corporations, to invest in those same types of ideas in China to fund their state-of-the-art R&D. And that's where you wind up with 19 of 23 areas of military research, the leading and most important areas being led now by China. | ||
| America's R&D and America financing is behind it. | ||
| Now, I would also say, Steve, The problem here is not just the FBI and the Securities Exchange Commission under Gensler have tried to cover these types of things up, or they come up with a settlement that is a minor fine for some of the securities violations, but they've made billions of dollars in the process. | ||
| We don't see from the Hill, even today, and I commend Garrett Ziegler and the Marco Polo project because It's a treasure trove of information and leads. | ||
| If you had the right organization, the right staffing, the right types of aggressive investigators getting the documents, getting the depositions, and doing the subpoenas. | ||
| The IRS records, the Treasury reports, getting the WhatsApp data, subpoenaing or doing national security requests of AT&T. Hang on. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Now you've gotten to the heart of why we're doing this hour. | ||
| We have a military base that is more lethal than what the Russians tried to do in 1962, being built 70, 80, 90 miles from Miami right now. | ||
| And you just saw Tony Blinken. | ||
| We're not going to do anything about it. | ||
| You've got corruption and money changing hands at every place. | ||
| I've got Costello that literally has something you could take and start a massive investigation in and of itself that's bouncing around the executive branch of the government. | ||
| And then we had Garrett Ziegler on this morning and to find out, you know, Peter Schweitzer, who, you know, I was head of the government accountability for years with Peter when he first did it up and saw the great work he's doing. | ||
| But he's he's actually tapping into a lot of stuff Garrett's done. | ||
| Garrett's got the phone, got the number. | ||
| They have not subpoenaed. | ||
| I want this audience to embrace this. | ||
| They have not subpoenaed the number or the phone records for Biden's private phone line. | ||
| Which now we broke the laptop from hell back before the 2020 election. | ||
| This is 2023. We've been in charge. | ||
| Comer and these guys have been in charge. | ||
| I understand there's pressure to time for it. | ||
| They don't have the right staffs. | ||
| They don't have the right people. | ||
| You know, Brian Costello is not with them. | ||
| Peter Schweitzer is not with them. | ||
| Garrett Ziegler is not with them. | ||
| You have massive information that's been collated, curated, And organized by very smart, tough people that understand this, that they know is true because it's already gotten traction inside the executive branch who's spending their time trying to bury it. | ||
| Why are the House, why is Mike Turner not all over this investigation in House Intel? | ||
| And quite frankly, why are Comer and Jordan and these people, where are the staffs, where are the killers, where are the lawyers, where are the subpoenas, Derek Harvey? | ||
| It all goes back to the Speaker. | ||
| The Speaker decides on the apportionment of resources. | ||
| If they wanted a January 6 style committee or Frank Church committee that was there after Watergate, they would have 150 more people. | ||
| They would have brought in think tank people and put them on contract. | ||
| They would have hired Brian Costello. | ||
| They would have hired Garrett Ziegler. | ||
| That's what the Democrats do. | ||
| We don't do that. | ||
| The reason is our leadership, in my view, It's co-opted or they have something on them. | ||
| Plain and simple. What do you mean by that? | ||
| You mean as far as either money or other aspects? | ||
| Yes. Speaker McCarthy had to have been in the approval of shutting down these investigations. | ||
| He put Mike Turner in charge. | ||
| Mike Turner, and if you look at the balance of the people, and here's what The balance of the people on the House Intel Committee now that it's expanded by, you know, almost seven or eight more members. | ||
| Those that are there, the term that I heard on the Hill from others is those are those are Speaker McCarthy's Praetorian Guard. | ||
| They're his protectors. | ||
| Wow. You mean people he had selected to be on the House Intel? | ||
| Yeah. Why would Speaker McCarthy need protection, sir? | ||
| Well, he's been taking a lot of money from Sequoia, and that money started to pour in about the same time as our investigation. | ||
| I don't know the backside of this, and that needs to be looked at. | ||
| Is Mike Turner someone that you would naturally turn to run an intelligence committee? | ||
| Does he have military service? | ||
| Does he serve overseas? | ||
| Does he have a long history in the defense industry? | ||
| Does he bring any expertise whatsoever to the complex issues of intelligence? | ||
| He brings no unique skills, no unique analytical insights, no history of being a student of the intelligence community or one that has expressed an interest in conducting oversight to make sure that the 16 intelligence agencies and the Director of National Intelligence Office maintains, stays within the boundaries of their authorities. | ||
| Okay? He does not have that inclination. | ||
| He's a Europhile. | ||
| He desires to be liked. | ||
| He's a Boehner Republican. | ||
| And very much against the America First agenda. | ||
| That's who he chose. | ||
| We'll get more into Mike Turner as this week progresses. | ||
| I want to go to Brian Cassell. We've got a couple of minutes. | ||
| Brian, Is the information you had and presented to the FBI, if presented to these committees today, particularly the Oversight Committee, do you believe there's enough there for oversight to start an investigation of Sequoia Capital and its involvement with politicians, not just in the executive branch, but in the House itself, sir? | ||
| Yeah, I do. I mean, someone, exactly what Derek laid out, someone's going to have to step away from Speaker McCarthy and his biggest donor. | ||
| But yes, there is direct contradiction of what the FBI and DOJ have said they've put in place for protocol to prevent the next crossfire hurricane, that the investigations will be led at the field office. | ||
| I have two FBI agents with 20 plus years of experience say, this is the fastest they've ever seen a case transferred to main justice. | ||
| Usually the FBI gets meat on the bone, drills into the claims and then brings it there to prosecute. | ||
| They had DOJ main justice, not even the FBI, take the lead on the investigation. | ||
| So the two agents that interviewed me eventually in February 2022, one of them was the liaison from the FBI to the DOJ main justice. | ||
| So certainly Jordan at judiciary, Comer has potentially The administration covering up crimes for one of its biggest political donors related to China. | ||
| This is the game, Steve. | ||
| What's happening here. Go ahead. | ||
| They need the donors Chinese money to stay on top. | ||
| That's the problem. Real quickly, I've got about a minute. | ||
| I've got about 30 seconds to you. When you say that they're his biggest donors, be specific, what do you mean they're his biggest donor? | ||
| Michael Moritz from Sequoia was one of Biden's biggest donors in 2022. | ||
| No, but you said McCarthy. | ||
| You said McCarthy. So Doug Neone and his wife have been making substantial donations to McCarthy that started right around the same time of this investigation. | ||
| In addition, their portfolio company CEOs, like Ken Griffin from Citadel, who's also just supporting DeSantis, are making big donations to McCarthy. | ||
| Okay, real quickly, we're running out of time. | ||
| Where's social media? Where do you go? | ||
| We'll have you back on later in the week. | ||
| Where do they go to get you, Costello? | ||
| Twitter, BP Costello. | ||
| Fabulous. Derek Harvey, where do people get to you, Colonel Harvey? | ||
| Derekharvey.org, my webpage, and then Colonel D. Harvey at Twitter. | ||
| Explosive. Thank you, guys. | ||
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| Let me say I know Costello and Derek Harvey well. | ||
| They're in very good spirits. | ||
| They're not suicidal. | ||
| Dangerous territory. We're going to see you back here live tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. | ||
| We're going to pursue this further. | ||
| The sellout of the United States of America to the Chinese Communist Party. |
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