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. One of the reasons I am proud of this show and the production staff and the folks in Memphis and guys in Denver, both in Lindale TV and Real America's Voice and the entire production crew, small as it is, as driven as it is, is we're always... | ||
| Either well ahead of stories or able to frame a story in a way that actually makes perfect sense and becomes revealed over time. | ||
| We've got two amazing examples of that. | ||
| Brian Costello, who we've had on many times, is going to join us here in a moment, and that is about this Wall Street Journal, and quite frankly, a breathtaking article that I can tell you, just from the phone calls I've gotten, has rocked the nation's capital to its core about revelations, and there's a lot of stuff that's not in there. | ||
| About Sequoia Capital. | ||
| And we're going to get to Bryant Costello, who kind of broke all this a month or so ago on this very show. | ||
| The Saturday episode of War Room in the morning, as things were going on on Saturday afternoon in Europe, we had Posobiec and Harnwell on. | ||
| And I think we gave, to the degree in the fog of war over there, and nobody knows nothing, right, as Samuel Goldwyn used to say. | ||
| And as confusing the situation is, the party's changing sides constantly. | ||
| I think our coverage that day to kind of set up in a framework was, quite frankly, if I take a short bow, amazing because of Harnwell. | ||
| And the other guests we had on, Todd Wood and others, El Todd Wood. | ||
| Ben, I got a particular hat tip to you, and I want to bring you in, and I want you to, and thank you for staying up in Rome, well past your bedtime. | ||
| As people know, Brother Harnwell tucks in early. | ||
| Not a big name in the nightlife, La Dolce Vita. | ||
| Walk us through how you set up on Saturday and where do we stand in this story because it continues to evolve constantly. | ||
| Well, Steve, thank you very much and good evening to you. | ||
| So, to take the War and Posse back a little bit in time, back to those momentous and accelerating events on the Saturday, when the world's media was pushing out the story and the narrative that there was this force of 25,000 mercenaries being led by Yefgeny It goes from Rostov up to about 1,000 km directly north to Moscow. | ||
| The world's media was saying this is a coup that could lead to civil war and President Zelensky was cracking out The champagne. | ||
| And, you know, we took the three of us, me, you and Posse, we had a very sober view on this from different angles, slightly on our analysis, but none of us believed remotely what the world's mainstream media was pushing. | ||
| To the extent that at the very end of the show, the New York Post had published, just while we were still on air, reports that That Putin had apparently fled Moscow and the transponder in his plane had been trapped as he was going off to that palace that he's got by the sea. | ||
| And I basically said, you know, first of all, I'd said that there's absolutely no civil war going on. | ||
| There's going to be no Moscow under siege. | ||
| It was doubted that Fogosin's 15km long tank convoy was travelling north because there was no record or anything of that size travelling. | ||
| And particularly, and you know, this is all on Geta, and I say it's absolutely bullshit, the idea that Putin, who's KGB trained, will have fled Moscow because there's an angry cook on the warpath some 250 miles outside Moscow. | ||
| And lo and behold, Steve, lo and behold, the war room's analysis was, very pleased to say, spot on. | ||
| What happened was a late, last-minute deal, if you believe the narrative, which of course we don't, then President Lukashenko of Belarus had broke at a last-minute cease of hostilities between Prigozhin and Putin and welcomed Prigozhin along with his 25,000 mercenaries, giving himself safe refuge in Belarus. | ||
| And so that, therefore, from yesterday morning, Steve, onwards, and we were talking about, you know, what's the actual import of this? | ||
| And I had somewhat tentatively, and I say tentatively because basically I'm the only analyst I'm aware of pushing this particular I'd suggest it's a masterstroke because under the guise of coming in to Moscow, Prigozhin was able to successfully retreat his forces without a shot being fired by angry Ukrainians. | ||
| Obviously, they didn't want to rock the boat. | ||
| believed the narrative that he was heading towards Moscow. | ||
| You know, my enemies, enemies, my friends sort of thing. | ||
| So they basically waved them out of the country. | ||
| Not a shot being fired. | ||
| And they went up the road from Rostov to Moscow. | ||
| And then Some 250, 300 miles outside the kilometers, excuse me, outside Moscow. | ||
| They then veered westwards into Belarus. | ||
| Now, interestingly, Belarus is 48 miles at its southernmost tip from the outskirts of Kiev, 48 miles. | ||
| Now, that figure should be interesting because what is it, Steve? | ||
| It is exactly one tenth of the distance That Prigozhin traveled in one day, in 24 hours, on his march forward to Moscow, which is 480 miles. | ||
| Exactly, it's 110. And it's funny enough, Steve, it's round about the same distance that the majority of Ukraine's fighting troops would be if they're still located around Bakhmut. | ||
| About 430 miles. | ||
| So there they are, these troops in Belarus, basically a tenth of the distance from the rest of the majority of the Ukrainian forces, leaving the soft underbelly, to use Winston Churchill's memorable The soft underbelly of Kyane, relatively undefended and exposed. | ||
| Because up until this point, and seemingly reading the world's press today, Steve, nobody is countenancing the idea of an attack from the North, from Belarus. | ||
| So I've got a couple of stories here, and if Denver would be so kind as to let's go with the one here in the Washington Post. | ||
| And we'll just have a gentle canter through the news developments today. | ||
| And I hope I will successfully make the point that there has not been a single revelation in the last 48 hours that contradicts this thesis. | ||
| And in fact, in some way, The news, what scant news there is, what scarce news there is, pretty much can be interpreted along with this thesis. | ||
| So here is the Washington Post article, the headline. | ||
| After mutiny, Putin says Wagner can go to Belarus, go home or fight for Russia. | ||
| And so therefore, obviously, having outlined what the thesis is here, they can go to Belarus. | ||
| So here's a clear signal. | ||
| Obviously, the narrative is that Putin is sort of crucially and critically wounded in Moscow. | ||
| No one is particularly alert to the possibility that in the full, broad light of day he's saying to the Wagner mercenaries that they are free to go to Belarus. | ||
| And interestingly, Steve, elsewhere, for example, in The Economist today, there was reports that, and of course they can't make head or tail of this, but the world would possibly certainly know how to interpret this, that all of the recruiting stations of the Wagner mercenaries are open for business, as per usual, in Russia. | ||
| Ordinarily, if you're accepting the mainstream media's narrative, it would be somewhat quixotic. | ||
| But if you understand what's going on, it makes perfect sense. | ||
| And I'm just going to go to the opening line here of this Washington Post article. | ||
| Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed his nation on Monday, yesterday, for the first time since the weekend mutiny by Wagner mercenaries, saying he would keep his promise and allow the group's fighters to move to neighbouring Belarus. | ||
| Now, here is the world's media, the mainstream media, recasting the man that they've said is a bloodthirsty tyrant who poisons his enemies. | ||
| with radiation, they're recasting him into the image of a Victorian gentleman who Well, you know, fair play, old chap. | ||
| You want shake on it. Let's let's brush it down and forget it ever happened. | ||
| Which is remarkable, given that the intervening time period here is 48 hours. | ||
| And the Washington Post even found space to say that his tone, Putin's tone, was both stern and conciliatory. | ||
| Well, you know, I'm glad that the decent Russians were able to sort of sort that out like gentlemen. | ||
| Moving on to Belarus, this is from the Kyiv Post. | ||
| Lukashenko orders full combat readiness of the Belarusian army. | ||
| Now, what he's saying is that he's ordered the country's army to assume full combat readiness because This is his official explanation. | ||
| He's worried that with the Wagner mercenaries in Belarus, there might be a similar push on Minsk as there was in Russia. | ||
| So he just wants the country to be ready. | ||
| Well, you know, Everyone's free to see the facts and draw with their own conclusions. | ||
| I would suggest that Belarus moving on to a full combat mode is an indication that something else is going to happen. | ||
| And I might just sort of briefly add, Steve, two weeks ago, less than two weeks ago, Putin moved a number of nuclear missiles to Belarus. | ||
| I would suggest that now, with hindsight, we can see what the strategy of that was, was now because there are Russian missiles on Belarus. | ||
| If there is an attack from Belarusian territory south into Kyiv, obviously NATO will start its sabre rattling against Belarus. | ||
| That's a lot less likely now if effectively, to all intents and purposes, Belarus is nuclear-armed. | ||
| And I just want to, as a final point, to indicate how the mainstream media twists things on a dime. | ||
| Here's what they said on the 26th of June, which was yesterday. | ||
| This is less than 48 hours after they were pushing the narrative that Moscow was there quaking in its collective boots, ready to fall at the sight of 25,000 mercenaries, that we were being constantly assured of the most ferocious, most combat experience of the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, and therefore a mortal threat to the man that they themselves have been saying is a mortal enemy to the West. | ||
| Here's what they said, right? Here's what they said, less than 40 hours to gain the Washington Post. | ||
| Though Prigozhin has claimed to have 25,000 fighters under his command. | ||
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The figure is widely believed to be an exaggeration. | |
| British intelligence has reportedly put the true number closer to 8000. | ||
| So there we go, less than 48 hours, and they flick the narrative from this being a force capable of collapsing Russia to just like, you know, a little bit of a rabble perhaps, you know, nothing to scare the horses. | ||
| And they flick, then they switch the narrative, Steve, as if they're flicking a light switch. | ||
| And very sadly, I'd say 70-80% of the global audience will just flip-top, open their head, put the new thought in, close their head, and carry on as if nothing happens. | ||
| You're not arguing. | ||
| Given the fact that Putin, and correct me if I'm wrong, as we said when he came up with the deal about him going, I guess later on Saturday afternoon as we talked, When they gave him full amnesty, now he's retrading it that traitors are going to be prosecuted. | ||
| Also, we know that the CCP is quite upset about how Putin's handled this. | ||
| He certainly looks weaker, right? | ||
| Because he looks like he's less in control. | ||
| Are you saying that it's not some elaborate ruse to shift the Wagner fighters who've been kind of the centerpiece Of this defense of the Donbass, and particularly Bagmut, to, in a very circuitous Draw them off the front line, | ||
| back to Rostov, up to Moscow, then back around to Belarus, and then to eventually reposition them 40 miles from Kiev, a dagger right at the heart of Zelensky, to know that he's got these mercenaries, criminals, right at his doorstep so he doesn't have free reign. | ||
| As we know, the... The spring offensive is grinding down because they're already starting to leak stories that this is all the fault of NATO because there wasn't enough ammo, there's not enough air cover, all of that. | ||
| Are you saying that or you're saying this is part of obviously they weren't paid and every general's becoming a warlord, but that this kind of worked out because Lukashenko was able to cut some deal and get him over there and now he's got his own mercenary force and becomes, with the nuclear weapons and this, he's now a major player. | ||
| If not the major player in the solution to this problem that's going on in Ukraine, sir? | ||
| Steve, that's a great question. | ||
| And it provokes me to point out a certain fact here. | ||
| If this is an elaborate ruse, a smokescreen, a feint, in order to basically say to the world and Ukrainians, look over here. | ||
| What's really over there? | ||
| They're doing something totally different. | ||
| If it's a distraction, Then, look at the three players we're talking here. | ||
| We're talking Oleksandr Lukashenko. | ||
| We're talking Evgeny Prigozhin. | ||
| And we're talking Sergei Shoigu. | ||
| Shoigu. Who are... | ||
| From what one can understand, these are the three people who... | ||
| Putin's not the kind of guy who has friends. | ||
| But if he... These are the three people who are closer to him than perhaps if he had brothers. | ||
| These people... | ||
| Prigozhin doesn't call him Your Excellency. | ||
| He doesn't call him Mr. | ||
| President. He calls him Papa, right? | ||
| That's the term of affection that he has to him. | ||
| Shoigu, they go hunting together. | ||
| They have them for decades. | ||
| They're very emotionally close. | ||
| And Lukashenko is probably the only world leader that Putin can really rely on. | ||
| They're not equals, obviously, but Putin is without doubt the dominant part. | ||
| But there is a personal relationship of trust here. | ||
| For this elaborate hoax to work, Putin has the three key players. | ||
| Are there people that he must trust most in the world to be able to pull this off? | ||
| Firstly, because an army of 25,000 mercenaries towards a relatively You need to trust the guy who's leading that. | ||
| In Soviet days, that would have been unthinkable because no Secretary General of the Soviet Union could have taken the risk that whoever was leading that wouldn't go all the way. | ||
| The same thing is true for the Ministry of Defence. | ||
| You need to know 100% that the Russian army isn't going to throw its lot in and join that rebellion. | ||
| And you'll also need to trust Lukashenko in this. | ||
| Please, go ahead. The obvious fact, as I said on Saturday, the obvious fact that no generals or admirals came to Putin's defense, is there a fear in Europe now that this is going to devolve into warlordism, that every general is going to figure out, hey, I've got to have my own deal, my own profit? But we already know it's like that anyway, because the Russian military is not nearly as effective as anybody thought it was or feared it was or coming across the north, you know, the... | ||
| Was it the Fallujah Gap up there in the North German Plain to conquer Poland, the Low Countries, Germany, the Low Countries, and France? | ||
| So it's not the effective combat unit because they've been stealing the equipment, stealing the money for decades. | ||
| Is Europe still concerned that this is going to devolve into warlordism, Lukashenko just being another warlord who now has nuclear weapons? | ||
| Can I push back against that presumption that Russia has shown itself and demonstrated itself to have been massively overestimated? | ||
| I'd push back against that. | ||
| What Putin has actually done is held off Basically the rest of the world, the armed world, the US military industrial complex and all of its tentacles, he's held them off for a year and a half while still pushing and making gains into Ukraine. | ||
| This is now existential in terms of credibility. | ||
| This is now existential really for the Biden regime 100%, but also for a number of the European leaders that have thrown their lot in with that counteraction. | ||
| And Putin, you know, has slowed down this counteroffensive to basically nothing. | ||
| I would push back against the assumption that they have underdeveloped, that they have proven themselves to be weaker. | ||
| I actually think, given the forces that they're fighting against, they've actually done rather well. | ||
| I would say it's a little too soon to say whether the Europeans... | ||
| I'm not arguing that. | ||
| I think they've done very well. | ||
| I think they've done very well in stopping the offensive in all the Western arms. | ||
| I'm saying now, since you didn't see a lot of generals coming to his decision, isn't everyone thinking, I need a deal like that? | ||
| That you're going to splinter down to different power centers? | ||
| I'm not saying Putin's going to be overthrown, but you're going to go back into warlordism where each one of these guys in the big army groups is going to have his own deal. | ||
| And he's going to figure it out for himself. | ||
| And if Rostov on the Don is, you know, the Southern Command's area, maybe that really becomes the Southern Command's area. | ||
| And just, hey, we'll do what we got to do, and we'll do what we got to do when we got to do it. | ||
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| I don't know, Steve. I don't know whether that's a possibility. | ||
| I don't think so, because I actually think Putin's going to come out of this strengthened, modern and weakened. | ||
| But of course, of course, if I'm wrong, if I'm wrong, and this wasn't an organised theatre between the three main players, and Prigozhin is basically just crypto insane, Then who knows what will happen to Russia. | ||
| People feared this was going to happen to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. | ||
| And Yeltsin wasn't particularly good at holding things together. | ||
| It's pretty bad. You had a lot of the push towards the economy into the hands of the oligarchs that we see now. | ||
| The nuclear missiles went north East, South and West and largely disappeared. | ||
| But Putin came in 20 years ago and has held the country together. | ||
| Now, if Putin were to disappear, then perhaps some of those centrifugal forces that you're suggesting might at last kick into play. | ||
| We're going to have to watch and see as spectators on this one. | ||
| Great analysis. We're spending a lot of time on this. | ||
| Hopefully have you back on tomorrow. | ||
| We've got Poso. We're going to have a lot of people. | ||
| Todd Wood, all of it. Where do they go to get your... | ||
| You're up late. | ||
| Where do they go to get your social media? | ||
| Thanks Steve, it's on Getter, simply my surname which is Harnwell, that's the profile, at Harnwell on Getter, and also in periodically written newspapers, news articles, excuse me, for publishing on warroom.org. | ||
| And if you want to get hold of those, you need to register via the website for those, because they're not on my Getter feed, they're not anywhere, they're exclusively Exclusive content on War Room. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. Brian Costello. | ||
| Thank you, brother. Fantastic. | ||
| Brian Costello. It's got to warm your heart to see the Wall Street Journal today basically validate, and this is a well-researched, well-reported story. | ||
| If Memphis can just put the headline up, a blockbuster story today in the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| Walk us through it. We've got about four minutes on this set. | ||
| I'm going to keep you from the entire second half of the show, but just give us an appetizer here of what this is and how it reaffirms what you've been telling our audience over the last couple of months. | ||
| Yes, Steve. It's actually Kate O'Keefe from the Journal. | ||
| It's actually some pretty good reporting besides your outlet and a couple others on the Sequoia China stuff. | ||
| So what it basically lays out is how the National Security Council and Kirk Campbell had been working with Sequoia to unwind its China operation. | ||
| And we can get into it the second half, but based on what we laid out on your show yesterday, this is very concerning, right? | ||
| Sequoia is a big establishment political donor. | ||
| And where other people tend to get prosecuted and When they're doing things illegal, I guess if you give enough political donations, you get to work with a security council to unwind what you're doing. | ||
| So... No, no, no. But hold it. | ||
| But hang on. The heart of the story is how the Biden regime, because Kurt Campbell's got his, you know, he's the head of the Asia Pacific desk, but he's, as Natalie Winters has reported, this guy's up to his neck and taking money from the CCP, giving speeches, etc. | ||
| They were so nervous about what you were taking to people. | ||
| That they basically went to these guys and said, correct me if I'm wrong, is what this story says, is that you've got to break this thing up, and this has got to stop being so easily traceable, because the court is taking the cash and funneling it back to the Democratic Party, Republican Party too. | ||
| But that's what caused... | ||
| Colonel Derek Harvey to initiate the investigation of the House Intelligence Committee. | ||
| It got too hot. This was a protection racket for the guys that sold our country out to the CCP. That's the heart of the story, is it not, sir? | ||
| Yes. It was hide crime, hide crime, hide crime. | ||
| Wait a second. This guy knows we're hiding crimes, and he's still raising $9 billion from U.S. investors, which is going to result in $2 trillion in companies in China aligned with the Chinese industrial plants. | ||
| One thing not referenced in the article, so if you see that, Kirk Campbell, who's on the National Security Council, is dealing with a guy at Sequoia Capital named Don Vieira. | ||
| Well, Don Vieira used to be Lisa Monaco's chief of staff in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice in 2011. | ||
| So the entanglement, the head of public policy, Michael Ortiz at Sequoia Capital, was on the Biden-Harris Intelligence Community Presidential Transition Team. | ||
| So we have two apparatus people put in Sequoia Capital for exactly this reason, to buy off Washington and make sure their employment of a member of the Chinese government is not confronted. | ||
| You're burying the lead again, brother, because as you've reported and shown here on this show, you went to the FBI with seven different verticals of criminal activity. | ||
| Big report was done. | ||
| That report hit with a thud on the desk of, wait for it, Lisa Monaco, right? | ||
| As we go to break, that's essentially correct, sir? | ||
| Yeah, and let's remember that Kirk Campbell works for Jake Sullivan. | ||
| Jake Sullivan's wife works with Garland in Monaco. | ||
| So the entanglement here, the cover-up of the Biden stuff, the cover-up of the Sequoia stuff, and the indictment of Trump are all the same people. | ||
| All inextricably linked. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short break. | ||
| Brian Costello, who is a private investor, brought this forward because he saw what was going on. | ||
| And of course, they've tried to bury it. | ||
| They ain't burying it anymore. That story in the Wall Street Journal is also to give them air cover. | ||
| We're going to see if there's going to be additional reporting of this because it's a blockbuster story. | ||
| But there's a lot of shrapnel that's going to spread out this. | ||
| Brian Costello will join us on the other side on Sequoia Capital. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party, high treason. | ||
| Selling Out Your Nation for Cash Money. | ||
| Next in the War Room. | ||
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Okay, welcome back. | |
| Brian Costello, who has come on this show and broken this, quite frankly, massive story because you're seeing two vectors. | ||
| You've got the Biden crime family taking money from CEFC, the capital markets allocator. | ||
| For One Bell One Road, at the highest level, CCP. And this is all the text messages and the emails. | ||
| And now whistleblowers coming out with the tax issues and all of that. | ||
| But they exist in a culture of which selling the American people out to the Chinese Communist Party is the coin of the realm. | ||
| It's the coin of the realm. | ||
| And you've got it happening in every aspect, and particularly Sequoia Capital, which is the Goldman Sachs, Of venture capital. | ||
| And when they announced a couple weeks ago, they're breaking into like two big pieces, China here, the U.S. here, but other pieces. | ||
| It caught Silicon Valley, you know, unawares, and quite frankly, it was breathtaking that here this massive operation would break itself up. | ||
| So, there's a reason they're doing this. | ||
| They got caught. Okay? | ||
| And they got caught by people like Brian Costello and Derek Harvey. | ||
| Derek Harvey has told that Mike Turner, and right now we got to find out why Mike Turner is not pursuing the investigation, is it because they gave money to Kevin McCarthy? | ||
| Is that the reason? | ||
| Mike Turner, the incompetent, ill-prepared former mayor of Dayton, Ohio, who is head of the House Intelligence Committee, killed despite this investigation. | ||
| Brian Costello took in seven different dossiers on seven different verticals of criminal activity regarding securities or the raising of capital or the providing of capital to companies. | ||
| Seven different verticals. | ||
| And seasoned FBI field officers, field agents were dealing with this. | ||
| I knew there was something here. That died. | ||
| So the legal entity, or the legal aspect, the civil aspect of civil crimes, or actually civil issues, but also crimes spiked by the FBI, or DOJ, main DOJ, and the House Intelligence Community spiked, killed the Democrats one way, Republicans the other. | ||
| The Times of London picked up part of this story a couple weeks ago about Sequoia had been financing with American Pension Fund money the most advanced artificial intelligence apparatus of defense technology. | ||
| The Strategic Policy Institute in Australia came out a report the other day that Voice of America summarized a set of the 32 or 33 leading military technologies I think that the Americans are behind the Chinese in 28. | ||
| Oh, by the way, and that's all because their venture capital and private equity have been funding or they've been allowing to be stolen this technology. | ||
| And now, today, the Wall Street Journal has a blockbuster story. | ||
| And that blockbuster story is how Kurt Campbell and other members of the National Security Council and Biden's inner circle went to Sequoia and said, hey, guess what, dude? | ||
| This thing is so in your face. | ||
| It's so outrageous what you're doing. | ||
| We're not going to be able to cover up for it anymore, so you've got to go ahead. | ||
| And then they had Neil Shannon. | ||
| Everybody put their heads together and tried to break them, tried to cover it, and they wanted to go to bed after the story. | ||
| That is not going to happen. | ||
| Brian Costello's on this. | ||
| Derek Harvey's on this. | ||
| Natalie Winters is on this. | ||
| The War Room is on this. | ||
| We are going to be relentless because people sold out this nation for money. | ||
| Okay? And Neil Shen is an operative and essentially an officer of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Works for the Politburo. So, Brian, we got a couple of clips here, and I want you to tee them up, and then we'll play them. | ||
| What are we about to see here? | ||
| Because they're both in Chinese. Well, first I want to read what the Journal wrote, right? | ||
| Just let's look at this. | ||
| Shen's stardom in China, playing off what you said, Steve, and relationship with the Chinese government started to raise eyebrows in Washington. | ||
| He often met Communist Party officials and joined a top government advisory committee. | ||
| So this is translation, America's preeminent investment firm is employing a member of the Chinese government. | ||
| It had nothing to do with his stardom, right? | ||
| And this gives you a huge competitive advantage. | ||
| I want to read a second thing. | ||
| He told ByteDance it could deflect...so, by the way, Shen's the only Chinese member of...a Chinese national member of the board of directors of ByteDance, and he also works for the Chinese government. | ||
| So he told ByteDance it could deflect US regulatory heat by offering security guarantees, hiring more white Americans to run TikTok US, and saying it aspires to be a global company. | ||
| So what's missing from that What Sequoia was also doing was writing checks into Washington to keep TikTok from being confronted. | ||
| So there's one clip here, I think. | ||
| It's the YouTube clip that was referenced in the article. | ||
| So I don't know if we want to queue that up, Steve. | ||
| Well, tee this up for in the article. | ||
| How's this YouTube clip? | ||
| What did they say about it? And then I want to show it. | ||
| Yeah, and just so you know, the DOJ and everybody have possession of this. | ||
| Prior to Campbell meeting with Sequoia, and I think that's important. | ||
| So this is Shen, and this is good reporting by Ms. | ||
| O'Keefe. Evidently, this is in 2016, a state TV interview with a financial outfit in China, where Shen talks about the value of him being able to access information on Sequoia's portfolio companies. | ||
| So can we queue it up? | ||
| Yeah, let's go and play that and then Brian Costello for our podcast and radio audience will explain. | ||
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We've done a year's don't sit down. Ah, ten times it has handled it. You sound like a fool. Yeah, it's a good turn. | |
| You're done. Don't want to walk. We need that. How to do this? | ||
| That's it. This one. I'll try to turn this one. I'm done. | ||
| She's due to see a particular finish. See your logic. | ||
| So she's it's a little bit. Yes, you got to listen to me. | ||
| She'll you do you don't make a sound. What's up? | ||
| 确实你需要去判断企业家, 判断企业里面的财务。 但更重要的是, 一个基金必须有自己的所谓knowledge base。 当然knowledge base反映到具体, 很多人说我们有投资图谱, | ||
| landscaping。 但这个后面就是一个重要的一个知识库。 这个知识库我们必须建立起来。 而且这个知识库也用一个非常重要的手段来做IT。 每个人手上有不同的过去的经验积累,那么怎么能够管理好你的知识库?首先这个知识库不是一个人的,是整个团队的。我们其实非常幸运因为红杉过去40年以来积累了这样一个技术的手段,我们内部有一个非常重要的Database叫SMS。 SMS提供了所有我們曾經考察過的每一個行業過去的點點DG的積累通過IT手段 甚至你可以找到比如讲当年去看美国的电子商务公司当年的Zappos访问的时候曾经有过哪些访谈有过哪些pros and cons这些点点滴滴全球的这些团队都能够分享我认为这是极其宝贵的也应该说是我们最重要的竞争力 Okay, | ||
| so that's Neil Shen in an interview with State TV, and he's talking about how his entire team in China, so all 200 people that work for Sequoia Capital in China, which includes him who works for the Chinese government. | ||
| It's also been reported from 2017 to 2021. | ||
| Politburo member number four's daughter was there. | ||
| Wang Yang's daughter was working for Sequoia. | ||
| They all have access to a database, proprietary information, So just so people know, Sequoia's funded companies like NVIDIA, 23andMe, Airbnb, like all these companies that they've actually funded. | ||
| So him and his team are able to access a database they refer to as SMS, which we believe stands for Sequoia's Management System, and take that information and use it to help build companies in China. | ||
| Well, this directly contradicts the statement Sequoia made for a while that Shen was a separate entity. | ||
| Well, if he's a separate entity and part of the Chinese government, why are you giving him access to information on all your portfolio companies? | ||
| And the other thing is, do the portfolio companies know their information is being shipped over to China through somebody in the government for a couple of the partners at Sequoia to make money? | ||
| So this was pointed out as a big concern in Washington because it was directly contradicting what Sequoia was saying about their relationship with a member of the Chinese government. | ||
| And it took Brian Costello to point that out. | ||
| I want to just hit rewind for a second. | ||
| I want it slowly, because it's a lot to absorb, and that's in the journal. | ||
| We got a hook here. Tell the audience once again what Neil Shen said to the nation of China, because this is on CCTV. This is going out all over. | ||
| Tell him what he said his real role and function was. | ||
| Well, so you're talking about... | ||
| So in 2020, Shen got up. | ||
| So there was a lot of pressure. | ||
| So this would have been around the same time Campbell was starting to meet with Sequoia and the administration was starting to meet with Sequoia. | ||
| So what did they do? | ||
| What did the Chinese government do? | ||
| They rolled out Neil Shen in March 2022 at their, uh, it's called the Two Sessions, their annual meeting. | ||
| It's the Nationals People Congress and also the organization Shen belongs to called CPPCC. So think of it as kind of the Senate and the House. | ||
| They roll him out to speak to the whole Chinese government, the entire Politburo and everybody in the Great People's Hall about the climate, right? | ||
| So here it was, all of a sudden, Shen's actually becoming an agent to speak for climate change in China when all of a sudden the Biden administration. | ||
| So I don't know if you want to Roll the clip. | ||
| You have him at the Great People's Hall speaking to... | ||
| No, no, no. But I want to go back to this clip we just saw, not the future clip. | ||
| Just go back and hit rewind and explain what he just said. | ||
| Because it's going to be confusing people. | ||
| These names, people are just getting into the story and just starting to understand who the players are. | ||
| What do you just tell the audience? | ||
| What he just said is that as being part of Sequoia, the U.S. firm, he has access to over 40 years of information on their investments. | ||
| And that's very valuable to him. | ||
| So he even points out a specific example. | ||
| And the specific example he pointed to was Zappos, which was an online shoe retailer that Sequoia invested in and sold to Amazon. | ||
| And ironically, Shen became the top investor in e-commerce, right? | ||
| He invested in Pinduoduo and MeetOn and JD.com and a bunch of the e-commerce things. | ||
| So he was learning from Sequoia. | ||
| It wasn't just capital that they were providing him. | ||
| They're providing them information and know-how from building some of America's best companies to replicate and build companies in China. | ||
| What And once again, by the way, you said 2020. | ||
| It wasn't 2020. This is 2022. | ||
| This was far after the Trump administration because Campbell's a player. | ||
| Kurt Campbell works on the national security. | ||
| He is central to the Biden's interface with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| I just want to go through again what the story said and read that clip again from the story because this is how nervous they were. | ||
| And they were nervous because they understood that House Intel, when Harvey was there, was starting an investigation. | ||
| And also a guy like Brian Costello was coming at it in a totally separate way, talking about the crimes, not civil crimes they had committed in regarding of the raising of money and where the money was going and how that was being raised and how investors were tracking it and what was happening to all of it. | ||
| So they knew they had a problem. | ||
| What did Kirk Campbell do? I mean, there's simple questions in this, Steve, right? | ||
| When Shem went to raise the $9 billion, did he disclose to the investors that he's part of the Chinese government? | ||
| Did pension funds invest in him knowing that he was a member of the Chinese government running the firm? | ||
| So in terms of Campbell, here's the question, right? | ||
| Lisa Monaco and company at the DOJ, when Campbell met with Sequoia Capital, were in possession of substantial criminal allegations. | ||
| I was interviewed, so I believe an investigation was open. | ||
| There were multiple people within multiple meetings with the FBI agents who helped me introduce the claims. | ||
| So did Campbell know this? | ||
| And if Campbell went and met with someone, he knew the DOJ was in possession of crimes and walked back to crimes. | ||
| It's obstruction of justice. | ||
| There's underlying crimes there. | ||
| So the question was, you know, Kirk Campbell aware of the claims that Lisa Monaco's division at the DOJ and the FBI had quashed, had shut down. | ||
| So this is substantial. | ||
| I want to make sure that people... | ||
| It's just like in the Biden situation. | ||
| I want to bifurcate this. | ||
| There's two issues. Number one is the crimes themselves. | ||
| And remember, the tragic part of this is the crimes themselves take place with your money. | ||
| It is your money that's leading to the destruction of of your country. | ||
| I want everybody in the audience to understand that your pension funds are being used to fund agents and operatives of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| They're giving the money to the PLA and companies in China totally controlled by the CCP, right? | ||
| And to have not just an unrestricted warfare advantage in cyber warfare and information warfare and other types of unrestricted economic warfare, But in addition to have the possibility of kinetic warfare, because they can send a carrier battle group of the 7th Fleet to the bottom of the Straits of Taiwan. | ||
| That is what is going on. | ||
| And let's call it what it is. | ||
| That is treason. | ||
| Number one. Number two. | ||
| Because money's coming back and people are making profits. | ||
| Costello said at the beginning, you know, the $8 billion leads to $2 trillion of value and ultimate value in these companies. | ||
| People are also making a ton of money. | ||
| There's some of that money that keeps them for themselves. | ||
| But some of that money they're channeling back in. | ||
| And Costello can walk you through. | ||
| They're channeling back into the Democratic Party. | ||
| Mike Moritz, the head guy over there who ought to be in prison, right, is one of the money allocators into the Democratic Party. | ||
| They're up to their neck in the Democratic Party. | ||
| So the cover-up, and that's why Kirk Campbell's nervous for one reason. | ||
| It's not about the security of the United States of America. | ||
| It's about the Democratic operatives and money tied to Biden and money tied to the entire apparatus that stole the election and got Biden in there, got their hands, and they're getting caught, giving cash to the Chinese Communist Party and technology and information off that technology report so companies to defeat you. | ||
| That's what they're nervous about now. | ||
| You got two pilgrims here. | ||
| You got Harvey over at House Intel, and you got Brian Costello, who's an investor, just trying to do the right thing. | ||
| These guys start kicking up some dust, and the next thing you know, they're spreading around. | ||
| They said, well, hang on for a second. | ||
| Whoa, we got the Democrats. | ||
| You got Kirk Campbell. We got to tamp this down, because all of a sudden you get some Republicans out there. | ||
| Next thing you know, you come into a Trump guy like Harvey, we could have a problem. | ||
| So what did they do? They spread some cash around. | ||
| As this cartel works in this imperial city, they spread some cash around to the Republicans. | ||
| Not as much cash, but the Republicans can get pimped out cheaply. | ||
| And what they did is they got some cash to Kevin McCarthy and others. | ||
| And next thing you know, Mike Turner, who is an absolute tool, And people in his district should have him primaried and thrown out of Congress because he's a disgrace on every aspect. | ||
| He goes on Andrea Mitchell, goes on the shows, he gets that knitted brow, gets all puffed up. | ||
| You're an idiot. You don't know anything. | ||
| You're a moron. | ||
| And you get him up there and he shuts down the investigation. | ||
| So it's not just the crimes of treason of allowing our enemies to get to technology and we're paying for it. | ||
| It's also the fact that all the people in the apparatus knew about it. | ||
| And they went out of their way to shut it down. | ||
| Out of the way to kill the dossiers that Brian Costello came up with. | ||
| And out of the way to tell Derek Harvey, no, shut down. | ||
| And actually perp walked Derek Harvey out of the House Intel because of this. | ||
| Because of this. | ||
| And now the Wall Street Journal is giving the hook that, do you understand how hot this had to be for the Wall Street Journal to do this story? | ||
| Brian Costello, your thoughts about the Journal story and where do we go from here? | ||
| We've got about three minutes. Yeah, I mean, first off, Steve, I'd just like to comment on Derek. | ||
| I went to a number of congressional offices and names. | ||
| I won't name names right now, but people that people know. | ||
| Colonel Harvey and Devin Nunes and their team were the only one that took this seriously and honestly. | ||
| They said, give us the dirt. | ||
| If it's Republican dirt, we want it. | ||
| If it's Democratic dirt. So they honestly wanted to protect the country. | ||
| And it was the only office that I went. | ||
| It wasn't about political and maintaining your job. | ||
| Listen, I think the Wall Street Journal, you know, a bunch of people did really lazy reporting on the breakup of Sequoia. | ||
| They just said, oh, you know, Sequoia is being altruistic and breaking up because the tensions are high with China. | ||
| So Kate had O'Keefe from the Journal had some good next level reporting here. | ||
| There was some stuff I learned about the Campbell meetings. | ||
| There were gaps in terms of what I saw and what my experience was with the FBI and the DOJ. It's not the whole story. | ||
| The whole story is The DOJ, the FBI, the White House are covering up crimes for a political donor who sold the country out to China. | ||
| And the Republicans right now, across multiple committees, the Intelligence Committee, the China Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the House Oversight Committee are ignoring it because McCarthy is in their pocket now, too. | ||
| And I find it very ironic that McCarthy decides to come out today, you know, Questioning Trump the day that Sequoia and the huge cover-ups in the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| So, you know, the Republicans have a choice. | ||
| Are they going to come out and call this out? | ||
| Are they going to go after this? They can subpoena Sequoia directly, who doesn't have the protections that the Department of Justice has. | ||
| And they can find out what the communications were to who, what they knew when. | ||
| And that's why Harvey and Nunes were at risk. | ||
| Because they were going to be willing to do that once they took power. | ||
| So Turner had to kill that because he has to keep the money flowing into McCarthy that then flows down to him. | ||
| We've got about a minute. How do people follow you? | ||
| This story is developing. | ||
| It's getting bigger. It's metastasizing. | ||
| How do people follow you? | ||
| BP Costello on Twitter. | ||
| Keep it pretty simple. | ||
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Steve, go ahead. | |
| I'm going to laugh. There's a lot of former FBI guys tracking this, and they said I cleaned myself up a little yesterday because they said I looked like I had just chopped a cord of wood in the Unabomber-like cabin, so I decided to clean myself up a little bit today. | ||
| I didn't want to say anything. | ||
| And by the way, for all those people inside the FBI and DOJ that are doing your job, hat tip, we know it's tough. | ||
| But that's what we're looking for. | ||
| And there's some good alumni that's helped on this too, Steve, and want to see the right thing done. | ||
| They're good. There's many, many, many good people. | ||
| Costello, make sure you've got good security. | ||
| I was starting to worry about you. Of course, that looked more like a war room look. | ||
| Okay, we'll be back here at 10 a.m. | ||
| tomorrow morning. Going to be on fire. |
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