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July 21, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 2895: The American Military Is Compromised
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ben harnwell
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steve bannon
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ben bergquam
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dave brat
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jake tapper
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steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies.
unidentified
Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon
I got a free shot on 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.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big line?
unidentified
MAGA Media.
jake tapper
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Babb.
willie geist
So we were talking about this interview that Donald Trump did earlier this week.
It was in Iowa, a radio show in Iowa.
The former president was asked about the possibility of jail time stemming from special counsel Jack Smith's investigation.
Here is Trump's answer.
unidentified
Is it something that concerns you of, you know, of the people?
Making sure that they don't go out of their right mind if something like that happens because I know what I'm thinking of could happen if that for example they do Say Jack Smith says okay.
donald j trump
I'm going to put Donald Trump in jail I think it's a very dangerous thing to even talk about because we do have a tremendously a passionate group of voters, and I mean maybe you know Maybe a hundred, a hundred and fifty.
I've never seen anything like it.
Much more passion than they had in 2020 and much more passion than they had in 2016.
I think it would be very dangerous.
willie geist
Joe, much more passion than they had in 2020, implying it could be even worse than you saw around the 2020 election.
Obviously, just appallingly dangerous stuff to say, given the recent history in this country.
And also, as you pointed out earlier, very stupid, as he perhaps comes under indictment here for the events around the 2020 election.
unidentified
Yeah, I don't know if Donald Trump understands.
What does he think he's doing?
joe scarborough
Well, he's talking like a mobster.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe scarborough
It'd be a shame if, it'd be very dangerous for Jack Smith.
Wouldn't want another riot.
And they're more dangerous now than they were in 2020 or 2016.
Could be worse.
He's just so stupid.
He really is.
He just doesn't understand.
He's going up against the feds.
He doesn't understand that he can't bully and bluster and threaten his way Out of criminal charges that are coming because he broke the law, because he stole nuclear secrets, because he stole secret plans to attack Iran, because he stole secret military secrets, because he has people all around him.
All around him on January the 6th, that are testifying against him.
No Democrats, no moderate Republicans, all Trumpers.
Everybody that he ever hired has gone before the grand jury.
Everybody that was around him January the 6th went before the grand jury.
All Trumpers.
And he's going to be charged for some of the most serious crimes in America.
And his response?
His response, instead of talking to his lawyer saying, hey, get me a deal.
I don't know what it's going to look like, but get me a deal.
Because they've got me dead to right.
My own people are the people testifying against me.
Get me a deal.
Instead of that, he goes on an Iowa radio show and, like a mobster, threatens Jack Smith.
Has he not looked at pictures of Jack Smith?
This guy looks like a judge on Andor.
All right.
He looks like the guy that takes the good guy from the Star Wars galaxy and throws him into jail for life.
He doesn't understand.
Oh, my God.
Look, I'm scared.
You just scared me by putting this picture up.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe scarborough
Does he think Jack Smith is going to be intimidated by mob-like threats, Gene?
unidentified
Yeah.
And that's not going to happen.
Jack Smith looks like a pretty intense guy, and he looks like he's not going to take any of this from Donald Trump.
He just doesn't know what else to do.
He obviously sees the walls closing in on him.
The indictment's coming.
Someone must have told him, let him know what the conviction rate is in federal court, which is well over 90 percent of defendants who are charged either plead guilty or get convicted.
I mean, this is a tough situation for him.
Senator Grassley and Chairman Comer have subpoenaed an FBI document containing an allegation regarding a pay-to-play scheme between then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national.
So my question is, has the FBI complied with the subpoena for this document?
I believe we submitted a lengthy letter earlier today.
A letter?
joe scarborough
Not the document.
unidentified
I can't speak to the specific document.
Do you believe the Hunter Biden laptop story is disinformation?
I don't think there's anything I can share on that.
Will you appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden?
I'm not able to respond to questions about investigations.
How did you react to learning that President Trump called the Ukrainian president in a phone call asking him to investigate you and your father?
I'll let you guys and the media handle that.
President Trump brought up what he calls a lack of coverage of his unproven and unverified charges that Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, have received millions of dollars in corrupt payments.
There's no evidence of that.
Yes, there is.
It's all over the place.
donald j trump
It's been totally verified.
unidentified
No.
There's no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.
If you f*** around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.
steve bannon
Friday, 21 August, The Year of Our Lord 2023.
I wanted to play that entire, uh, because I know you love hearing Morning Mika to kick off a Friday.
Excuse me.
It's not August.
It's 21 July.
I've jumped a month.
We're already planning on the road to Durban, right?
We got this whole thing planned since we're about 30 days away.
It's 20.
Let me start that again.
It's Friday, 21 July, The Year of Our Lord 2023.
Okay, good.
Um, I wanted to play The Morning Mika, not just because the audience demands it now, needs to hear Mika's voice first thing in the morning over your coffee.
You know, I get that feedback when we do these live shows about how much you just love hearing Morning Mika.
And for the TV and live streaming audience, view her early in the morning.
But you have to understand in the construct of this and make sure that you get this message out.
They said the quiet part out loud right there.
He's the judge on and or he's a guy through the good guys in jail for the only way they have now come to the conclusion.
They have gone all in on the deep state, the administrative state, imprisoning Donald Trump.
They make no pretense anymore that they can beat him at the ballot box.
They understand where the polling is.
They understand where the momentum of MAGA is.
They understand that he's done something not just the greatest come from behind the victory in American political history in 16.
The biggest blowout in 20 was almost 75 million votes versus the made up votes.
And, you know, I don't care who likes hearing you're done here.
Joe Biden is not legitimate.
I've said that from the very beginning.
Late in the evening, because Mark Elias walked us through how he's going to steal it, the Transition Integrity Project.
Bill McGinley and Raheem Kassam and myself went around and talked about that nationwide.
People were all sitting there, Bannon said he could just, you know, say he won.
There's no legal, if Trump says he won at 11 o'clock at night, there's no legal basis.
There's no legal basis when Associated Press says it.
When Hillary Clinton conceded, that's not a legal thing.
That's just a custom.
There's only one certified.
And the Biden electors have still not been certified.
Pennsylvania wanted them back.
Everybody wanted them back.
And the House should right now get into that about what happened in the 2020 election.
No, we're never going to let it go because it's the fruit of the poison tree we're dealing with in the Biden regime.
And of course, the establishment doesn't want to know about it because they don't want populist, nationalist, the Trump movement to survive.
I've got Ben Burkham.
We've got so much to go through.
I want to get that out there.
We're going to talk about this more this morning, particularly now it's open.
They've known about, they've known about the Biden crime family for years.
That's where Grassley, you know, Grassley is just some old tough Iowa farmer.
He's not even a lawyer.
He's putting the stuff out there.
Kind of the commonsensual Grassley is kind of the common sense of the American Midwest.
That's where we go to Iowa first for their, for their, um, for the caucus.
Because Iowans know how to weigh and measure people.
Just like in New Hampshire, that's why it's the first primary.
Now, in South Carolina, that's why it's the first big three.
Throw in Nevada.
It's a good cross-section, but that gets you a pretty good feeling.
Those folks know how to weigh and measure folks.
That's why Grassley's come forward.
This whole thing, this is a complete... Think about it.
What we know now from Burisma and all the memos that are coming out, this is what the whole first impeachment was.
The administrative state understands that Trump is going to eviscerate them.
And tomorrow on The Weekend Show, I'm going to break it all down.
My speeches, this whole logic, what's happening, and taking down the administrative state and the deep state.
The holy war against the administrative state that we're currently on.
And I don't care who over there.
You know, they ought to be moving to impeach Merrick Garland immediately.
And if Kevin McCarthy's people had any focus, any stones, had any guts, we'd be doing that.
Wouldn't be playing patty cake, but we're still playing patty cake.
Since they gave the Biden regime all the money in the world to bury the country, and since they still refuse to do anything on the open border, we're going to go down and have a committee meeting on the border.
We're going to send a very tough letter to Mayorkas.
In fact, let's get Mayorkas back up and let's put him under some really tough questioning.
That's what we should do.
We've got Ben Burquam.
Ben Burquam's in Gila Bend, Arizona, halfway between Lukeville and Yuma.
I want to go ahead and play.
Let's go ahead and play.
We got a cold open for Ben.
We're going to get him in the next block.
Let's go and play the Ben Burquam cold open.
We're going to get down to business here on the invasion.
See what the illegitimate Biden regime is doing to your nation.
unidentified
Let's hit it.
Yep, there it is.
ben bergquam
Here's the new bridge.
unidentified
Here we go.
ben bergquam
So, we found the new bridge.
They simply took it and moved it further upriver.
We're on the Colorado River right here, across from Yuma, Arizona, and Los Alcaldones.
That's Mexico right there.
This is a cartel-made bridge.
It looks like what they did was move it further down the wall.
We're about two and a half, three miles down from the Indian Reservation, and we're about the same distance, maybe a little further, from the dam.
And so what it looks like they did was just simply move it in the middle Harder for people to get to it.
More than likely there's a cartel coyote over there right now waiting.
And they've got the group that they're going to send across later tonight.
The sad thing is Border Patrol flies over this with their helicopters every day.
Now it doesn't matter where the cartel moves this bridge.
Border Patrol should see it.
In fact, they should see them building it.
And yet they just leave it here.
unidentified
They're coming now.
There they are.
ben bergquam
You can just see their heads moving.
unidentified
At the top.
So they'll all come across as a group.
And then the coyote will lead them over here.
ben bergquam
And tell them which way to go.
unidentified
Thank you for watching!
Bye.
ben bergquam
You can hear some of the kids.
unidentified
and they're going across the river now.
ben bergquam
There's a light.
I think I can see a light.
unidentified
Turn it.
There.
The light is there, Coyote.
There they go.
I think I see a light.
I think I see a light.
I'm going to go.
Where are you from?
ben bergquam
Cuba.
unidentified
Cuba, Peru?
Yes, Peru.
How many people?
100.
ben bergquam
Do you speak English?
unidentified
No. No?
I'm dead.
ben bergquam
Sien?
unidentified
Yeah.
I'm dead.
Colombia.
Colombia?
Where are you from?
Colombia.
Colombia.
Where are you from?
Peru.
Peru?
Where are you from?
Where are you going?
Where are you from?
Peru.
Peru?
Where are you from?
ben bergquam
Peru.
unidentified
Peru?
Where are you going?
Where are you from?
Peru.
Peru, brother.
ben bergquam
Peru?
unidentified
Peru.
ben bergquam
Where are you going?
unidentified
United States.
steve bannon
Okay, we're gonna go live to Ben Berghoff.
We'll take a short commercial break.
We're going to go live to Ben Bergwem.
You're here in the War Room on Real America's Voice on the 21 July in the year of our Lord 2023.
Back in a moment.
unidentified
We rejoice when there's no more, let's take down the CCP!
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon
Okay, um, we just heard, I guess, breaking news, Tony Bennett has passed away at 96 years old.
We're going to do a tribute to American music for this month, and we're going to continue this on.
So this is just not going to be for July, but I think we're going to shift that, switch that up to Tony Bennett.
More about that later.
Frank Gaffney, we got Ben Burquham, we're going to go to Ben live with that amazing cold open we had, but Gaffney's here.
Big webinar today.
We need people to watch.
And then there's a vote next week.
Frank, I'd be hard-pressed to think you could have a worse Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff than Milley.
But I think they may have pulled one out of the hat.
This guy is the king of woke.
And it's outrageous.
First off, it's outrageous that the Senate was so easy on him.
I wish he had to tangle with Matt Gaetz.
But talk to us about the webinar.
What are you guys doing to alert people to this in the next week?
frank gaffney
Steve, the larger problem with which you have been very focused, I think, is that we have a fundamental transformation of the United States military that is underway.
Sadly, it is taking it in the direction of Marxism.
That's what is really meant by the term woke, of course.
It is a cultural Marxism, and they are very seriously pursuing it with their critical race theory and their, you know, transgender accommodations and their Efforts to indoctrinate at the Air Force Academy and elsewhere are men and women in uniform purging the good ones and having difficulty recruiting anybody is the upshot of it.
And what we're watching right now, I'm sorry to say, is the idea that they're going to put in charge of all of this
At a time when we are at the cusp of a war with China, I fear, and I know you do as well, at the time when our military is being weakened to the point where the Heritage Foundation has said the Air Force is now, quote, very weak, unquote, under three years of the leadership of the guy that Joe Biden wants to make the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as you said.
Friends of mine say he's going to make Millie look like Patton.
So we have a webinar today at 1215 at the Committee on the Present Danger China.
They can register for it at presentdangerchina.org.
War room favorites like Dr. Carol Swain, Bishop E.W.
Jackson, Kenneth Blackwell, and Lieutenant Colonel Alan West are going to be our panelists.
And they are going to address this without, you know, any question about whether they're white supremacists.
steve bannon
These are serious people.
frank gaffney
They're going to be warning us.
The Senate must vote next week not to confirm a woke general to lead our military at this terribly, terribly fraught moment.
steve bannon
Can you imagine in a crisis in Taiwan, and here's who you got in the Situation Room, in the Kennedy Room down there.
Here's the situation.
General Brown, the woke of the woke.
You got Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, Kamala Harris, General Austin, and of course the Commander-in-Chief, the illegitimate Commander-in-Chief, Joe Biden.
Think about that crew making decisions on your sons and daughters.
No wonder you have a recruiting crisis.
Who would trust that?
unidentified
No doubt.
steve bannon
Who would trust that?
They're all compromised or they're all woke.
Either woke or compromised.
Yes, sir.
frank gaffney
And unfortunately, there's a fair number of them that are compromised by the Chinese Communist Party's elite capture, as we talk about in the book, The Indictment.
Let me just say, if people want to register their opposition to this nomination, please go to rejectgeneralbrown.org.
There's an Align Act campaign that will get you directly in touch with your senators.
Urge them to say no.
To this, well, Marxist, racist general.
And there's a fabulous piece by Scott Sturman at The Federalist that gives you a very short course on how bad this guy is and how wrong it would be to put him in charge of our military.
steve bannon
I haven't had time to put that.
I haven't had a chance to put The Federalist piece up.
Eric Prince sent it to me overnight.
I'm going to get it up on my getter and I have Mo and everybody push it out.
Frank, one more time.
What time is the webinar and where do people go?
frank gaffney
12.15 today to about 1.30, excuse me, 12.30 to about 1.45, and they go to presentdangerchina.org to register.
You have to do that, and please check out while you're there all of our other great webinars, including one that we did three weeks ago about Sequoia Capital, Steve, and I'm so glad you're on that case.
We need Mike Gallagher.
To go after Sequoia Capital, along with these other venture capital firms, by the way.
steve bannon
Mike Turner and McCarthy.
Stop taking money from them, by the way.
unidentified
Mike Gallagher is the one I'm particularly hoping will do so.
steve bannon
Oh, Mike Gallagher, yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I would love the Marine, Captain Gallagher, to go do it.
That'd be great.
Because Mike Turner's not.
And people in Dayton ought to turf him out.
Frank, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
frank gaffney
Thank you for fitting this in.
steve bannon
For the audience today then, tons of free content that you're not going to want to miss.
So you've got 12.30 to 1.45 right after the show.
You've got, of course, you've got Charlie Kirk, but if you can also, maybe on your second screen, watch this webinar, it's going to be very powerful.
Then at two o'clock we're going to have up on Getter, you've got the Jack Posobiec show here, but you're also going to have Darren Beatty's live interview with Imran Khan.
They're trying to do to him what they did to, and by the way, Imran Khan's not perfect.
But they're trying to do to him what they're doing to Trump.
He's going to do live.
We're going to have it up on Getter in my own personal Getter account.
So a lot going on then back 5 to 7.
We're going to be on fire tonight.
Let me go to Ben Burkhart.
Ben, you're in Gila Bend, Arizona.
What's the temperature there this morning, sir?
ben bergquam
Hot.
It's really hot.
It was 115 to 120 yesterday, and that's in the shade, so it's freaking hot.
And you got people, you got illegals out here all behind me.
You saw that video from this morning.
That was in Yuma.
I'm kind of right at the crossroads.
Hila Bend is right at the crossroads from Yuma down to where we're going next, and you will not believe what I'm going to show you at our next stop later in the next hour.
But this is, this is absolutely, it's being overrun.
It's all a lie.
And what's the worst part about this, Steve, is as you played in that cold open to start the show, the reason that they're coming after Andor, are coming after the righteous, is because they know these guys are traitors to our country.
As Frank Gaffney just said, they've sold out to China, they're traitors to China, they've sold out our country on our border.
You see it every single day.
Everything that you see is a lie coming from Washington, D.C.
And the best way I could explain this, Steve, If I were the cartels, if I were the CCP, if I were the enemies of America and I wanted to create policies that would destroy America, I would do exactly what Washington DC is doing right now.
steve bannon
I want to go back over that and give it, let's give a preview for what you're going to see.
This, this is now all the nations of the earth have been invited.
You know, we have tight asylum laws.
We have a very structured asylum process.
Biden is totally thrown out of the way, and the mainstream media is sitting there going, oh, the illegal crossings have dropped their loads.
No, they haven't.
They've just gamed the system to take people more to Mexico or coming across.
Talk to me about what we're going to see when we get you back live in Lukeville.
Tell me the type of invasion we have.
ben bergquam
It's a three-pronged invasion, Steve.
So we have the illegals that are coming across using CBP-1.
Now these are now considered lawful entries.
So basically we've just changed the term from illegal to legal.
But they're all illegal.
That's half a million that they're allowing.
That's going to increase as we go.
It went from 1,000 a day to 1,500 a day, which is half a million a year.
That's number one.
Then you have the ones that I just showed you in the cold open from down in Yuma.
Uh, that we're also going to have in in Lukeville.
These are the ones that are coming across that Myrka said are coming across illegally, that they're going to be deported.
They're not being deported.
Those ones are also being added.
They're just being invited in.
I've gotten reports from customs agents, friends of mine, saying that they're even including many of those in the CBP-1.
And then you have the other part, and this is the part where I'm standing now, where we're going to show you footage from Sonoyta, Mexico, excuse me, Sonoyta, Mexico, where they have stalls set up, where they're catering to the illegals that the cartels are trafficking, the runners that don't want to get caught.
I actually have a brand new pair of carpet shoes I just bought from there.
This is going on so they're using the cartels using all three of these to run the the guys that don't want to get caught through the desert to run the illegals as as as distractions and diversions that we're going to see in Lukeville and Lukeville is the new Yuma it's being completely overrun And then the CBP won.
All of this is aiding and abetting the cartels and the CCP and the Chinese syndicates and the criminal enterprises around the world.
And the entire world's coming.
Wait till you see who's coming right now.
We're about an hour away.
We're heading there now.
steve bannon
Okay, I want you to go ahead and take off, Ben, a great report.
Burkhart, where do people get you on social media before I let you go?
ben bergquam
You gotta check it out.
I have so much footage.
At Ben Burquam.
At B-E-N-B-E-R-G-Q-U-A-M.
On Getter, on CloudHub, on Twitter, on everything else.
And then FrontlineAmerica.com for the stories and AmericasVoice.news.
Our new episode actually airs on Saturday, 4 p.m.
Eastern Law and Border.
But I gotta jump in the car.
We're heading out there, Steve.
I'll see you next hour.
steve bannon
We'll see you back here.
See you in the next hour.
We're also gonna try to get Ben up at 5 o'clock.
I'm gonna reach out to Kerry Lake because this is why Kerry Lake Is not governor.
The vested interest of the Arizona business community doesn't want to shut the border.
They like this.
Okay, we're getting to all of it.
Ben Harnow, we get reports from Ukraine, all of it.
Joe Allen, Mark Ruffo, Sam Sorba.
It's crazy.
I want to end this block.
This is Tony Bennett's, and this is Tony Bennett's, I guess his signature song, right?
Oh, Fly Me to the Moon.
Okay, we're gonna do Fly Me to the Moon first.
Let's go ahead and let it rip and we'll be back in a moment.
unidentified
As I go along Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars you
Let me know what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.
In other words, hold my hand.
In other words,
Darling, kiss me Fill my heart with song Let me sing forevermore You are all I longed for All I worship and adore In other words, please be true
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
steve bannon
Okay, I'm going to get to Harnwell in a second.
I want to bring in Dave Brat.
Dave, first off, give me your assessment.
Give me your assessment of what you've heard in the first two, you know, they're coming for Trump.
Because they can't beat him at the ballot box, quite obvious.
And then the invasion.
And this is now so outrageous.
Not just people should be impeached, but why is McCarthy, why are they not thrown down hard?
Holman rule.
They ought to move the House.
The Republican conference should go and hold a session in Yuma, Arizona.
Not a hearing.
Move the Congress down there.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says it's got to be up here in the fancy Paris of the United States in Washington, the imperial capital.
Go down.
If you want to stop, no more whining.
Get down there.
McCarthy, grow some stones.
Get some guts and go down.
Dave Brat.
dave brat
Yeah, these charges and back and forth at the political level, there's never been anything like it in my lifetime or anyone else's out there listening.
This is no longer a one-off, right?
It's not about one or two instances.
of malfeasance or a corporate sector that's been overtaken.
This is the leading presidential contender in one of our two major political parties and there's serious evidence linking that investigation to the other major issues of our time, meaning a war we're in with Russia, Ukraine, where the U.S. is playing the major role. If the administration called that war off tomorrow, it would be done.
Germany and etc.
steve bannon
would vote to get out.
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Now that you say that, do we have the Trump thing ready to go?
Hit Trump on Ukraine.
donald j trump
And we have a corrupt, compromised president, crooked Joe Biden, who is dragging us into World War III.
And that's what's happening on behalf of a nation that paid his family millions and millions of dollars in obvious bribes.
All you have to do is take a look at how much China, how much Ukraine have paid the Biden family.
It's a total disgrace and a very dangerous one.
Under these circumstances, the notion that we would even consider Admitting Ukraine into NATO at this time is completely unhinged.
Joe Biden can't even walk up a flight of stairs on Air Force One, and he can't put two sentences together.
The last thing that this incompetent administration should be doing is risking war with a nuclear-armed Russia or China or other countries.
We have somebody that doesn't have a clue representing us.
steve bannon
By the way, right there, President Trump put that out the other day, Dave Brat.
He's already thrown down, no NATO for Ukraine, gotta end the war in Ukraine, he'll do it in 24 hours.
This is another reason they hate him, particularly now that the cash machine for the Bidens is just not the CCP, it's also Ukraine, sir.
dave brat
Yeah, well, I agree with him on that.
And all the political views are my own.
I usually just do the economics.
But I love this because it's all economic.
No economist has done any study or impact of this Ukraine war on our economy, nor on the likely implications of a Taiwan-Chinese war, except for RAND.
And they have it at 5% to 10% GDP hit loss to the United States of America.
Five to ten percent GDP hit.
That's a 50 percent market drop immediately.
And that's with no boots on the ground in China.
So yes, everyone needs to go back and review their John Mearsheimer, who's been on this since 06 and then 14 in Crimea.
And all the nonsense that's been going on with Burisma for a long time, linking the Ukraine to the United States and all the political corruption in that tangled web.
But this is leading the United States to punch Russia right in the nose.
They've said this is existential.
Prior to Crimea, prior to 2014, they sent the red light Yeah.
They're actually, and I'll get in all, you know, this is hot stuff, but Russia's got tens of thousands of troops amassed.
They could be on the offense right now, and they're not, because they don't want to get into it with NATO.
Yeah.
steve bannon
Hang on one second, because I want to get, I want to get, I want to get Hart, Harnwell in here now, then we'll get to the de-dollarization after I do, because I want to get into the, the global aspects of it.
And here's why.
CNN... I haven't had a chance, I don't think, to put it up on Getter yet.
CNN's got a huge story of how the quote-unquote Spring Offensive... Remember we talked about combined arms?
You're going to have aircraft, you're going to have tanks, artillery, and troops.
This is what they were telling us about.
They had to have all that.
We had to ship these tanks over.
CNN's got it.
It's dismounted, it's dismounted infantry.
That's what the Ukraine, the Ukrainians now, what Mershheimer said, this is a charnel house for young Ukrainian men.
And that's why you see these stories, they can't recruit them.
They're hiding out in the city because this is not a combined arms.
This is not, this is not infantry, artillery, tanks.
This is, even the Bradleys, this is a handful of dismounted infantry that are going against these minefields.
And the Russians are dug in.
And you ought to, hey, ask the Nazis.
When the Russians dig in, they're pretty tough.
Ben Harnwell, walk me through your view.
Take it from the top.
You've got a whole series of things you want to connect.
And I'm going to get Brad back in for his observations.
And then we're going to talk about what the Bricks are doing to get off the U.S.
dollar, sir.
ben harnwell
Good morning, Steve.
Good morning, Dean Bracht.
Well, the article you were referring to in CNN is headlined, even with new armored vehicles from the U.S., progress is hard won on Ukraine's southern front.
But you know what?
You know who else, other than CNN, has been talking about the rather delayed and disappointing progress of the counteroffensive?
And I quote, even for Ukrainians.
And that is, he's just been sacked.
Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, Vadim Kristaikov.
Now he gave an interview last week, we covered this very heavily on the war room, surrounding the fallout from the comments that President Zelensky had made in the run up to the NATO conference in Vilnius.
He'd said that a lack of a timetable was absurd.
He said that American legislators had said that basically the West isn't Amazon and that Zelensky should be showing more gratitude.
Well, there was an interview by Ambassador Prystaiko on Sky News in the UK.
And I have to confess, by the way, I'll make a quick aside.
I didn't see this interview.
It's been memory hold.
However, someone who did see it was President Zelensky, and he was asked, the ambassador, what he thought of Zelensky's sarcasm.
He asked if it was sarcasm when Zelensky said, should he get up every morning and personally phone the UK Defence Secretary and thank him.
Comments which had gone down, and we reported this on the War Room, comments had gone down very well.
And Chris Dyko had said, you know, that there was a hint of sarcasm.
But I don't think that kind of sarcasm is healthy, he said.
We don't have to show the Russians there is something between us.
They have to know we are working together.
If something happens, Ben Wallace, the UK defence minister, can call me and tell me everything he wants.
So here was the ambassador trying to defuse a tense situation between the UK and presumably also the Americans and Ukraine.
And Zelensky fired him.
He fired him yesterday.
He phoned him up and sacked him.
So, the first thing I want to point out, in the article that Denver very kindly just had up on the screen from The Guardian, everything is sourced, thank you so much Denver, everything is sourced in this article.
You know, you've got the Amazon comments, you've got the sarcasm comments, you have everything in there, apart from the actual Sky interview itself.
It has been completely memory hole.
This is the UK media, which is I think the UK mainstream media, worse than the American mainstream media, if it were possible, in holding the British public misinformed as to the nature of what is going on in Ukraine.
Second point is that this ambassador, who says further on in the article that the counter-offensive has been disappointing, has been disappointing even for Ukraine, he was basically sacked for telling the truth, which gives an indication of the degree, I think, of panic I would suggest that is starting to seep in to the Zelensky regime.
And the third point, before I move on to my next story, Steve.
Is there is something here that I think needs to have further emphasis in the Western media?
President Zelensky at that conference was acting very erratically.
OK, very, very erratically.
And I think more investigation needs to be done as to the causes of that erraticism and seeing as we are bankrolling the war effort.
steve bannon
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Remember we had Anna Polina Luna on here.
She went to Poland and met with the head of their, I think, their Senate.
And he was sitting there going, the American people have an obligation to send us unlimited money in arms so we can defend the United States from Russia.
She's like, hang on for a second.
What are you talking about?
We have an obligation?
I think it's their attitude, and you've clearly got some diplomats that understand people in these nations are starting to get a belly full of it, particularly as their economies slow down.
So when you say he's making quick decisions on that, what do you mean he's acting erratically?
Because in his own self-interest, That's not erratic.
He's chopping the head off of anybody that tries to cross him in his own... Remember, he shut down all opposition.
He shut down the Orthodox Russian church because he says they've infiltrated the country.
He's shut down the press.
When you say erratically, that's not erratic.
That's him being a warlord.
ben harnwell
He shut down the press, he's banned the opposition political parties and now he's cancelled the parliamentary elections at the end of the autumn this year and the presidential elections for the following year.
The eroticism, Steve, isn't so much as acting like a thug.
In Ukraine.
The eroticism is that he's acting... I won't refer to us as allies, but effectively that is the de facto role that we are fulfilling here.
He's acting erratically towards us, the people who are helping him and financing his war.
The day before Vilnius, when you call your key financiers in an existential war absurd, Right.
And give no indication to the pain and suffering that ordinary working families in the United States and the UK and the rest of Europe are supporting and the burden they are supporting for a war that does not concern us, in which we have no vital national interest.
Gratitude would seem to be the order of the day.
And that's not what Zelensky was supplying.
It was it was hectoring and public an attempt at publicly humiliating the West.
That is what I would suggest is erratic.
And you know, Zelensky likens himself and is often likened in the Western press to Winston Churchill.
Winston Churchill never did anything to humiliate Roosevelt or the United States when we were begging for US help.
steve bannon
OK, Ben, just hang on one second.
We've got Tony Bennett we're going to go out with.
We've also got Dave Brat.
We're going to get into all of it.
We're going to talk about the geopolitics.
We're also going to talk about, we're 30 days away, or was it 30 in a wake-up, away from Durban, about the de-dollarization.
We're going to get into all that.
Short commercial break.
Be back in a moment.
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It calls to me to be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.
The morning fog may chill the air.
I don't care.
Okay, we got a lot of wood to chop here.
Harnwell, I'm going to toss it back to you.
steve bannon
Stephen K. Bass.
We're going to talk about Spain and the rise of Vox, V-O-X.
That's the equivalent of MAGA.
And Ben, I'll work out the details with you later.
We don't have time for that, but finish up with this brilliant analysis and assessment of Ukraine, sir.
ben harnwell
Thank you, Steve.
I'm staying, therefore, in the region of Ukraine and will leave Vox for tomorrow.
There are important things to say about this election in Spain on Sunday.
There was this article here.
I'm going to call now for the Reuters article.
The Wagner Mercenaries Train Belarus Special Forces Near Polish Border article.
This is a very interesting development.
The War in Posse has been following these developments very closely over the last three weeks.
So it's a month now, basically.
24th of June it was, the so-called coup.
This is a very interesting story.
I searched on Brest, which is where the town is.
It is five miles away, five kilometers, three miles away from the Polish border.
But more importantly than that, folks, it's less than just a shade under 30 miles away from, yes, you've guessed it, the Ukrainian border.
It's down in the bottom southwestern corner of Belarus, tucked in on the border between Poland and Ukraine.
All I can say is for those who are wondering what the Wagner troops are doing up in Belarus, why they're doing a training mission with them, basically right under Zelensky's nose.
I have my theories to what's going on here.
I think we're going to see more and more of these training missions, joint training missions with Belarus all the way along the northern border.
steve bannon
But hold it.
Hang on.
You're the guy that called this live when it was happening.
This is plays it.
Reuters is basically confirming Ben Harnwell.
Hey, this is just a troop movement to get him up, pull him out of the front line around Bakhbut.
Have some sort of phony thing and then shift him around to Belarus.
So they're 49 miles from Kiev.
Oh, and now they're going to train the Belarus army, right?
Special forces.
I think you called this Ben.
Am I wrong in that?
ben harnwell
Look, um, Like anyone else, Steve, I'm quite happy to float along in the stream in the same direction as all the other little fishes.
It takes a great deal of effort to go persistently in the opposite direction.
I would like there to be a fact that says, Han, well, you're wrong.
This is a crackpot theory.
Read the memo.
Get with the mainstream media narrative here.
Stop going on about Wagner in Belarus.
The reason, Steve, I can't do that because every time there is a development, It would seem to suggest that there's a lot more going on than that which the mainstream media is portraying.
And I'll close with this.
I know we've got to give way to Dean Bratt.
I'll close with this observation.
Surely, surely the American satellite spy networks, which is second to none in the world, will be aware of what is going on.
And if they were concerned about that, they would feed it through to their favorite outlet, the Washington Post and what have you, and start correcting a narrative.
The reason that they're watching this and observing this and not doing that, I would suggest, confirms the analysis that we had in Vilnius when we suggested that this was the moment NATO was washing its hands of Zelensky.
And that's why I think all the people who know what's going on aren't saying anything, because they're just going to wait now for events to take their course.
steve bannon
Ben, how do people get to you?
Until we get you back up tomorrow, there's a massive national election in Spain.
The continent is coming right.
We've worked on this project for many, many years.
This is the rise of Vox, which is the MAGA party.
Ben will break it down for you tomorrow.
How do people get to you between now and then, Ben?
ben harnwell
Thank you so much, Steve.
It's Getter, as always, my favourite social media platform of choice.
Simply type in my surname, Harnrell there, Harnrell, at Harnrell, and that's where I will be pushing out my thoughts and analysis on events.
steve bannon
Thank you, brother.
See you tomorrow.
ben harnwell
Thank you, Steve.
God bless.
steve bannon
Dave Brad, your observations, particularly of this, because The Senate's marking up the National Defense Authorization Act.
We have an approval of a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
This is all coming up in the WOC.
The WOC is getting put back in by the Senate, but most importantly, there's going to be hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine.
This came up with another billion and a half this week.
Your assessment, sir.
dave brat
Yeah, my assessment is there's chaos throughout the globe, and this is now what it looks like when the United States says, we have your back.
It's a total disaster.
Young Christians in the Ukraine are being slaughtered.
So when I talk about Russia being able to dominate, they certainly can.
We're talking real politique here, right?
This is crass power politics.
Reinhold Niebuhr taught us 50 years ago, nations do not love each other.
There's not even justice at play here.
All we want is some proximate justice.
Right.
And so the the Russians know they have to live with the Ukrainians.
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Right.
dave brat
All they want is a buffer.
That's all they've asked for.
The Ukrainians were doing fine with democracy, getting rich, etc.
So none of this stuff passes the smell test.
Why were they there?
Instead, the Taiwanese people are learning a lesson now, what it looks like when the U.S.
says, we have your back.
And they have CCP communist candidates running and gaining ground now because of the loss of United States credibility.
So this is not America first.
This is what it looks like when America is weak.
And how we got into this, the lack of strategy coming out of our defense officials across the board.
Someone needs to speak up.
You hang on, we're going to take a 90 second break.
Brat on the other side, Chris Ruffo trying to get up.
Sam Sorba, packed in the second hour.
a piece we're going to get to, because it shows American weakness.
steve bannon
You hang on, we're going to take a 90 second break.
Brat on the other side, Chris Ruffo trying to get up.
Sam Sorba, packed in the second hour.
Tony Bennett, tribute to Tony Bennett, as we leave.
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When he breaks your heart to bits.
you.
Let's see if the puzzle fits so fine.
That's when I'll discover
That revenge is sweet As I sit there applauding From a front row seat When somebody breaks your heart Like you broke mine When I come home
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