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Episode 2937: Putting Forth More Support Package For Ukraine
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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 at all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of it.
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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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.
When Joe Biden, our elected president, entered the room, When he approached me, his words to me were, my wife Jill and I know how you feel.
We lost our son as well and brought him home in a fog-draped coffin.
My heart started beating faster and I started shaking knowing that their son died from cancer and they were able to be by his side.
Also wondering how someone could honestly... Sorry.
Be so heartless to say he knew how I felt, a little over 24 hours and learning of my son's death.
After this encounter, I have never had any personal correspondence, nor has my son been honored or his name spoken by this Commander-in-Chief or his administration.
On what I feel is because of their failures and poor planning to exit our troops from Afghanistan.
And our world lead Ukrainian officials say Russian missiles hit residential buildings in both the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, killing a total of at least seven people and injuring more than 35 others.
It's the latest attack from Russia after Ukraine blew up parts of a critical road that linked occupied Crimea with parts of the Kherson region over the weekend.
All this escalated violence as Ukrainians say that they've stopped an assassination plot against President Volodymyr Zelensky.
CNN's Nick Payton-Walsh is in Zaporizhia for us.
Nick, the Ukrainians say they caught an alleged Russian informant.
What more do we know about this woman and the plot to kill Zelensky?
We don't quite know how far this plot progressed and it's important to bear in mind that Volodymyr Zelensky is certainly a hunted man by Moscow.
He often goes to the front line to corral troops and so this plot standing out frankly because of the Ukrainian security services bid to essentially publicize some of its details.
What do we know?
We don't know the nationality of this informant.
We do know that she is a woman who lived in Ochakiv, that's a peninsula off the coast close to Crimea, and that she worked in a military surplus store.
Allegedly, this plot was about the recent visit of Zelensky to Mykolaiv, a port city on the southern coast.
and she was apparently requested in messages that the SBU, the Ukrainian security services put out, allegedly with her Russian interlocutors, asked about times, dates to perhaps take pictures of the location. Now I should also point out that the Ukrainians have arrested about 29 or so informants in the last few months or so, so this is something that does occur relatively regularly, but there was clearly something about this plot that made them feel they needed to publicize it, but again a reminder of how Zelensky is
someone persistently who Russia would like to kill.
It's two months to the day since the counteroffensive started.
They've gained maybe 10 square miles or so, not a lot.
But, you know, attacking frontal fortifications reinforced by minefields without air superiority, not a lot of times in history you can show that's been successful.
I think we've set the expectation high for what the Ukrainian military can do.
But they're not fighting a combined arms fight.
They're not fighting a counteroffensive the way that historically shown has been successful.
Not their fault.
But they're doing the best they can.
So I'm glad to see we've got some sober reality with regards to the situation there.
Abrams tanks will be there in the fall.
So that will be obviously helpful.
But as Jim's reporting, it's not about hardware.
It's not about weapon support.
So how much can that help?
The Abrams tanks are going to get there at a time when the rainy season is going to start.
And the way tanks are deployed effectively is when they're used for shock effects.
And if you're Russia, you're seeing where those tanks are going to go, because that's exactly where the offensive priority is going to be at that time.
And what you'll do is you'll move troops there to counterbalance them.
There's only 31 tanks or so showing up.
They're not going to be That much of a difference maker.
There's huge logistical tooth-to-tail ratio that goes with those tanks.
Will they make a difference?
They're going to allow more Ukrainian crews to survive, but those tanks still don't have any more capability to go through minefields or do other things.
So, again, without the combined arms, without the air superiority, I think this is still going to remain a stalemate.
It's a real question about what Ukraine's going to need from the U.S.
in terms of additional funding, additional weapons, etc.
And the U.S.
public sentiment on it is changing.
There is really striking reality in this new CNN polling.
What it shows is that a majority of Americans disapprove of another support package for Ukraine.
45% approve it.
Should Congress authorize more funding to Ukraine?
55% oppose it.
Yeah, this is what Vladimir Putin wants to happen if he hangs on to this land that he has right now that he seized illegally, gets through the fall and then the winter.
We're now into next spring here and our political season presidential election is running.
Who knows what the politicians will say because this is really where the money is going to come from.
The Ukraine government needs a commitment from NATO, from the United States saying we're all in for however long it takes.
The problem is that doesn't jive with our political cycles here, and the United States leads the way with all these economic packages as well as the military packages.
So that's what Putin is hoping that will happen, that we'll lose interest.
So you're saying if the U.S.
fails to authorize further funding, you think its Western allies will follow?
I'm not sure the Western Allies have the capability and capacity to make the difference that Ukraine is going to need in order to sustain itself.
They need Patriot missiles.
They need things that only come from the United States and U.S.
defense contractors.
And you can't crank that machine up quick enough to get some of that material there at the time.
Look at the tanks.
It only took us eight months to get 31 tanks to Ukraine.
They need 400 if they want to have any kind of offense.
steve bannon
Tuesday, 8 August, the year of our Lord, 2023.
A lot to get through today.
But I want to make sure that as we lay out this narrative war that you understand it's not – we're not going to get caught in the trap.
Of just focusing on every detail of these illegitimate ridiculous lawfare assaults on President Trump.
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Yes.
steve bannon
That's a that's a in the 30 front war.
That's definitely a front and it's one that we're going to push.
But more importantly is to continue to go on offense on Biden in this in the illegitimate Biden regime on what they're doing to this country.
And quite frankly what they're doing to people around the world.
On offense that way, holding them accountable and then putting forward, making sure before the American people, people understand the trade-off here between one guy who's defending the Constitution, this Republic, and the other who's going out of his way to monetize access to himself, trading the country out, and just not in incompetence and malevolence.
And we know that the case for America first in populism Is the key that picks the lock, and who tells us that?
The Democratic Party.
We're going to get to that in a moment.
A magnificent report, really smart report over at National Pulse today.
Will Upton's going to join us in a second.
But I want to get to the heart of this right now.
I want to bring in Harnwell.
And Harnwell, I think you and Posobiec I gotta give a hat tip to you, Ben.
The military aspects of this have not really been your forte, except over the last year and a half, you just kind of dug into this.
And we had an hour, the entire six o'clock hour last night, we dedicated this and voila!
What happens?
Finally, the mainstream media starts to report this accurately.
We started off the cold open with a Sheryl Rex, a mom who is distraught.
Because of the lack of respect shown to her patriotic hero son, Lance Corporal Dylan Merola, who died in the fiasco in the pullout of Afghanistan.
And she was completely disrespected.
And this is Biden.
You know, he lies about everything, but a lot of it's psychological.
He's got this thing that the son that died with brain cancer died in Iraq.
And that's what he's telling these families.
I know I know how you feel.
My son came home in a flag flag draped coffin to compare a guy dying from brain cancer as terrible as that is.
It's quite terrible over at Walter Reed where they could be with them to to someone who you know in this fiasco brought about by Biden died in the line of duty and the parents never got to see him.
Her her.
Her hurt does not be turned to anger Is on display about what he thinks and how he puts forward Americans then we get into the whole Ukraine lie Everything you've been told this is all coming up up now And I just want people to know in the CNN story if we put the CNN lead up If we have that if Denver has that you'll see the headline this whole thing about The lies about the counteroffensive, the lies about all of it.
Can we get that one from my getter?
It's got that beautiful photo.
I'd rather have that than the written part, if we can just pull that.
You've got this big, bold headline, the spring offensive – the counteroffensive has collapsed.
It's completely collapsed and it's a heavy casualties.
Everything we've told and warned people about these kind of brave Ukrainians being thrown into the charnel house of being thrown into the charnel house of Ukraine.
And you see all the lies, misrepresentations.
The reason this is coming out is, remember, they're on these things called CODELs, Congressional Delegations.
They're going on these boondoggles all throughout the world to get brief.
A Democratic congressman has been one of the biggest cheerleaders.
I think it's Quigley of Illinois.
was getting briefed, was getting briefed in Ukraine, and he's the one that leaked it to CNN.
He said this is much worse than being reported.
In fact, the Spring Offensive is stopped, and the reason it's stopped, and it's not, you see the guy on TV right there pushing for, oh, combined arms, you need massive air support, we need to get, you know, fighter jets there right now.
They're always pushing for more weapons, always pushing for more weapons.
It's not more weapons, it's training.
They're not training combined arms.
They don't have enough time to train.
It's hard enough for the American military to do it.
As we've said time and time and time again.
And now into the Charnel House, they've gone and they've been slaughtered.
And the field commanders, the commanders in the field are saying we're not doing this anymore.
This is not coming from Zelensky and the higher-ups in Kiev that are going to the cocktail parties and living the high life and stealing American money with both hands.
This is the people in the field, they're seeing these kids chewed up.
They're saying we're not going to do this.
And yet, and Punchbowl reports this, what are we doing?
Back here, over this recess, they're putting forward, Biden's working right now with these guys to put forward another, another support package for Ukraine.
And you saw the CNN reporting there, 55% of the American people.
And we take great pride in bringing this true story to the American people with others, with Tucker and Posobiec and Charlie Kirk and others.
That the American people now realize it's been a lie, no more money.
The money in the Punchbowl story, the over $100 billion, all of this talk, they're talking about between cutting the budget, the $6.8 trillion budget, you understand it's really, we're discussing $100 billion, that's what the big fight's over, $100 billion.
What we shoveled into Ukraine.
That's the big fight that might force a government shutdown.
It's a hundred billion dollars.
It's in the grand scheme of the budget.
It's nothing but Ukraine.
We've shoveled a hundred billion dollars and you heard the guy right there.
Oh our Western allies.
Oh, they're so broke.
They can't do anything.
They're not going to do anything Europe wants us to underwrite their security and they're going to continue and by the way, the globalist elite in Washington DC have no problem with that because the defense contractors of war profiteers are making more money than ever.
Ben Harnwell, your analysis, observations, and reporting on this have been pretty spot-on.
Give me your assessment of where we stand this morning.
Oh, and I buried the lead.
Zelensky had an assassination attempt.
They're saying, oh, there's been others, but this one was important enough they had to bring it forward.
Now, they're blaming it on the Russians, and who knows?
You don't know if it even happened or if it occurred, but as we warned Zelensky when he lectured us, he particularly lectured this show from the stage at Davos, That, you know, oh, people should read the memoirs of World War Two to understand what's going on.
And I told him, hey, bro, I've read more, I've forgotten more memoirs of World War Two than you've ever read.
The one you ought to read is the best and the brightest, the chapter on Diệm, President Diệm in Vietnam.
Because when the CIA is finished with you, They've got an early retirement program, and that's what we're seeing today.
I tell you what, Ben, hang on.
I've taken the floor here for the entire first segment.
We're gonna take a short break.
We got Ben Harnwell.
We're gonna get into this Ukraine situation, complete debacle and collapse, and they want more money.
And of course, Biden wants to shovel more money over to the Toronto House so more Ukrainians die.
Will Upton's here.
Have the Democrats understand what is the winning political philosophy and policies in 2024?
Wait for it.
It's populism, economic nationalism, and America first national security.
You heard that before?
Short commercial break.
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right back in the warm in just a second.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
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steve bannon
China missed its export number in July by over 14%. Oops, didn't see that coming. Yes Yes, we did.
Why?
Because they've got supply chains.
They've got all kinds of problems.
They're all messed up, obviously.
Doesn't even deal with their debt problem, their property problem, all of it.
The over-leveraged problem.
But this was principally driven by the, wait for it, drop in demand for the United States.
Part of that is decoupling.
Part of it, people just don't have money anymore.
Also, 10 banks.
Moody's put 10 banks Regional banks downgraded 10 banks and put a bunch of money center banks on the watch list as the Biden banking crisis continues.
Also report.
I've got it up on getter.
Make sure you get up.
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You can get all my stream of conscious stuff.
We're putting up all the time.
Actually, I write them all the crack staff at at war room often posted for me.
Ben Harnwell, a couple of the producing staff, Mo, Grace, all of them, they all chip in to make that work.
But there's a constriction in credit, you know, the credit card situation.
APR is going north of 22%, I think, to 25%.
But it's also going to be a big contraction, as we warned you about, in credit, even the availability of credit.
A lot of these credit cards are going to get canceled and very tough for young people to get new ones.
Ben Harnwell, this is all inextricably linked, the massive economic problem we have here, and the shoveling of money over to Ukraine, you know, and the Ukrainians out there, you know, the Zelensky crowd's taking their, what do you call them, ten-percents, they're taking, they're getting a spiff off the top.
But more importantly, they're wasting the most precious asset they have.
That's these courageous young Ukrainians that are at the front line.
And finally, the field commander said, we're not doing it.
And we said this last night on the show.
They are not training combined arms.
You can send all the jets over there you want.
They're not trained in the sophisticated artillery, armor, you know, mounted infantry, all of it.
They're not trained.
And they're getting slaughtered by some very tough hombres.
The Russians who were dug in.
And by the way, I'm sure intelligence didn't catch the 70,000 mines.
They're talking about all these mines, all these entrenchments.
The Russians were out there in public, you know, viewed by the satellite non-stop doing it.
So this shouldn't come as any surprise to anybody when you're sending these people in for frontal assaults.
Ben, tell me about, we went through it last night.
This update this morning is pretty, pretty shocking because now the media is having, you see the shocked faces, right?
That they have to, they can't hide this anymore.
And they can't hide it because, quite frankly, on the battlefield, the tip of the spear, the most courageous people they have are saying, hey, this is not working and we're not going to continue to feed young men into the charnel house.
Ben Hornwell.
ben harnwell
That's absolutely right, Steve.
Good morning to you.
So yesterday on the show, on the afternoon show, we mentioned the CNN poll, which said that 55% of the American public now believe that U.S.
Congress should not authorize additional funding to support the war in Ukraine versus 45% who say Congress should authorize.
That's a very stark difference.
And that support dropped.
It's inverted from the beginning of the war, February last year, which had 62 percent of the American people wanted Congress to authorize more support.
So we go straight from this article then that we analyzed in depth last night.
I've got to give tribute here, if Denver would very kindly just put up once again while I'm speaking, this analysis by Punchbowl, which is absolutely first rate, right?
I'm not familiar with this or news organization.
This analysis is first rate.
I've studied what they've had to say about Ukraine, Steve, and I cannot tell what their editorial slant is or which direction it is.
It's just giving the absolute facts, which is really what any analyst wants to see.
So we're going from the CNN setting the context last night, directly today.
And lo and behold, this illustrates a point that we mentioned yesterday, that this administration is moving further and further away from where the American people are.
And here it is, this article here, talking about, in the pipeline, the date isn't known and the amount isn't known.
The amount they're speculating is 10 billion.
But here is yet talk that Congress is planning another supplemental funding bill to help Ukraine.
Shocking, given now where the American public is.
And again, the point here that I find particularly interesting was it frames it as saying that this funding request will pit Republican defense hawks together with the Biden administration against Donald Trump-aligned conservatives.
Well, what does that mean?
Steve, that is literally, by definition, the uniparty versus MAGA.
Here is what we've been talking about for so long, Steve.
And as this war in Ukraine has unrolled itself, this is exactly the dynamic that we're talking about.
It is becoming ever more explicit, ever more overt, ever more crystallized.
This is the dynamic.
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It is the Uni Party versus Magra.
steve bannon
There's no difference here than in Vietnam.
They sent those kids over to Vietnam and let them in the Cherno house over there.
And they sat back here, right, safe in the confines of the imperial capital, Washington, D.C.
The best and the brightest in Ukraine.
Have been chewed up on that battlefield as we have said we have been dead spot on in this thing since the days before it even launched and have not have never backed down an inch against all the media and the Republican Party and all this ridiculous Nikki Haley and all I'm running around Chris Christie's over there the other day with a big old thing of flowers looking like a buffoon, right?
The best and the brightest in Ukraine are being chewed up in the Toronto House and finally the field commander said, we're not doing this.
You can't take us over to Poland for 90 days or 60 days or 30 days and train these kids and then throw them up there against the Russians who are dug in.
It's a slaughter.
And finally the field commander said, we're having enough of it.
And, Zelensky, you should read best and the brightest.
Hey, maybe it's the Russians.
Who knows?
Maybe it's your own guys.
Maybe it's the CIA.
Who knows?
But Zelensky's wearing out his welcome, as his policy is, quite frankly, destroying Ukraine.
And this is why it's got to stop, because all you're going to do is kill more Ukrainians.
And you're killing the best ones, the best folks there, the patriotic ones.
The ones that love their country and don't quite get that they're the tools of the globalists, as Mershamer told them.
Professor Mershamer of Chicago called this straight out.
What about this?
Why does Zelensky go public now with the assassination attempt?
Supposedly they've had 29 informants, the Russians, outed over the last month.
They've alluded to other assassination attempts.
Why now are we hearing about this assassination attempt and they're making such a big deal about it?
Ben Hornwell.
ben harnwell
Well, Steve, this supposed assassination attempt is mysterious on a number of levels.
Firstly, the lady concerned, whose name hasn't been revealed, apparently works in some kind of arms and munitions warehouse.
She has some kind of military background.
There's the possibility that she's ethnically Russian, but I wouldn't want to speculate that On that at this point.
So there are two possibilities here, two principal ideas.
The first, I just want to pick up on what you were just saying, that President Zelensky is wearing out his welcome.
But he's not just wearing out his welcome as far as NATO is concerned and the American taxpaying public is concerned.
One might reasonably guess he's also wearing out his welcome with Ukrainians, as you were saying.
But let's not forget He has himself suspended parliamentary elections set for this autumn and presidential elections Sit for next year.
That sort of gives an idea that despite what the non-stop propaganda is that we receive here in the West about how beloved this man is in his own country, that might not actually be the deeper reality.
You wouldn't need to suspend your own elections if you were second Churchill.
steve bannon
By the way, I thought we were funding... I thought this was all about democracy.
That was all about democracy.
Doesn't sound like democracy.
Hey, Lincoln fought a bloody civil war.
Still the bloodiest, nastiest fight we've ever had in our country.
Thank you so much, Steve.
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on what you want. Ben, what's your social media? You're going to be back with us at six. We're going to go through this in more depth. How do people follow you in the interim?
ben harnwell
Thank you so much, Steve. Social platform is Getter. Just tap in my surname, Harnwell, and there I am with my analysis 24-7.
steve bannon
Thank you, brother. Okay, we're going to continue our celebration of American music.
We're going to actually have Will Upton from National Pulse working with Raheem.
He's going to join us after the break.
What we're going to have is Dick Curliss.
This is the one-eyed country music center from the great state of Maine, and this is the song, A Tombstone Every Mile.
A song I absolutely love and the best country music song ever to come out of the great state of Maine.
Dick Curliss!
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It's a stretch of road up north in Maine that's never, ever, ever seen a smile.
If they buried all the truckers lost in them woods, there'd be a tombstone every mile.
Count them off.
There'd be a tombstone every mile When you're loaded with potatoes and you're headed down You gotta drive the woods to get to Boston town
When it's winter up in Maine, better check it over twice That Hainesville road is just a ribbon of ice It's a stretch of road up north in Maine That's never ever ever seen a smile If they buried all the truckers lost in them woods There'd be a tombstone every mile Count them off
There'd be a tombstone every mile When you're talking to a trucker that's been hauling goods Down that stretch of road in Maine they call the Hainesville Woods
He'll tell you that dying and going down below won't be half as bad as driving on that road of ice and snow.
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steve bannon
It's got some incredible songs.
We're going to honor that throughout the day.
And the folks up in the great state of Maine love Maine.
Got a bunch of relatives up there.
My great-grandfather fought in the Civil War at the First Maine Cavalry and his brother was in the First Maine Cavalry and died on Dahlgren's Raid.
So we've got a lot of Maine folks.
We had them on both sides in that great conflict.
As many, many, many families did.
I want to get to the punchline of the open.
Remember, and by the way, just announce that, you know, I don't want to get too much in this because it's it's it's not particularly signal.
It's a little bit of noise.
But Rhonda Santos is it just announced Rhonda Santas fired his campaign manager two weeks after they said she her job was secure meet with the donors the things in a total free fall.
Although he's come.
I think he's saying some some good things.
He finally I think energized now to really get on some policies.
I think he's talking about the cartels is very powerful.
And we'll try to deconstruct that later, maybe this evening, to spend some time when DeSantis is pushing forward.
It also talks about classical education in Florida.
I think it would be fantastic.
In the public schools down there, would it be amazing if you could get that curriculum available to kids?
Number one, the STEM.
As we're telling you on AI, the biggest part of jobs going to be destroyed by AI are the programmers, the coders.
Remember, everything's teach to code, teach STEM to code.
You got to code, learn to code.
I think that one is maybe not going to be a career enhancing.
Bill it like it has been for the last 20 or 30 years because of artificial intelligence.
I want to go to the punchline.
Rahim has brought on Will Upton.
Will was over with Monica, worked for Monica Crowley over the Treasury Department when she was, what, Deputy Secretary of Treasury for Comms.
And Monica, as you know, is as smart as they come.
She only hires smart people.
And I appreciate the fact that National Pulse is on fire.
Rahim's doing a great job in hiring some incredible talent.
Will, I need to walk you through, you need to walk us through exactly what this is because this focuses on the general election.
Our focus right now should not be on the primaries.
The primaries are over.
There's more polling coming out, and I'm going to try to get Barris on later to talk about it.
From all these different polling, I mean, Trump's up 59%, you know, Geiser 10, and DeSantis is, I think, rapidly going to go down to single digits.
Since he said, you know, Trump didn't win, he said it was obvious Trump didn't win and Biden's legitimate.
I beg to differ, brother.
I think that's going to have an impact.
I think you're going to be a single-digit midget here quite soon, you know, a one-digit midget quite quickly.
You're going to get back down to the, you know, you're going to go to Chris Christie and Vivek and Mike Pence land below a two-handle, below 10%.
But we've got to focus on the general, and here's why.
Because the Democrats are focusing on the general.
Everything they're doing, they've outlawed a primary.
And you've got some Democrats running around saying, we've got to get this guy.
If they shift him out, they're going to shift him out.
And I think they will shift him out, but they're not going through this whole bizarre process of a primary.
It's Trump versus Biden's replacement, but we got to focus on the general because these big outside groups are putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the general election.
And I think you're going to see this in Ohio today and we're going to have Jack Abowski is going to be with us here momentarily to talk about Ohio.
But will the Democrats get it?
Tell me about this memo and what this this memo focuses on exactly what policies the American people want.
And walk me through the whole thing.
How did you find this?
Who wrote it?
Why is it important?
And what policies are they advocating, sir?
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Yeah, thanks for having me on, Steve.
So this is a memo from the Congressional, basically the Congressional Democrats' campaign arm.
It's called the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
And they had actually posted it online with basically a quiet link, and it leaked it to several members of the media.
We saw it pop up in the Washington Post with everybody's favorite Washington Post columnist, Jen Rubin, who Usually when you have these sort of quiet links like this, you don't actually link to the memo.
You just kind of keep it there.
I've stumbled on a few oppo books on different candidates over the years by just sort of knowing how to search around on the internet and you kind of stumble on the links.
But Jen actually linked to it and so I started digging into it.
And I was kind of astounded by the angle that the DTRIP is taking here.
You know, usually you hear, you know, from Democrats a very kind of progressive, very sort of green energy and sort of more elite agenda anymore, very neoliberal, very globalist.
But the DTRIP is actually targeting a lot of moderate Republicans who tend to kind of vote in line with like the Club for Growth or the Kochs.
And they want to actually drive a wedge between these moderate Republicans and the MAGA base.
People who are pro-Trump, people who are populist.
So the states are going after places like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
And they intend to basically attack Republicans for some key votes in the House, where they're accusing them of gutting manufacturing jobs, cutting veteran services, defunding law enforcement.
Sort of, you know, the more establishment GOP sort of slash spending slash taxes agenda that we've kind of seen creep back into the minds of a lot of House Republicans, especially.
steve bannon
But here's the thing, they're going after, they're saying, if you watch MSNBC every night, all they're talking about is how progressive, and all these young people are getting more left-wing, and so all you hear from the Republicans is these moderates, is they can't back MAGA policies.
They have to be even more moderate.
Right?
All these districts, quote-unquote, Biden won.
This memo puts a lie to that.
I just want to make sure that it's not us saying that.
This memo comes forward and says, no, here's the game plan of actually how we take the House back through these moderate, non-MAGA Republicans.
We basically take MAGA-type policies, right, on economic nationalism, America first.
And that's what we run with.
That's what the DCCC is saying.
unidentified
Yes, exactly.
They're basically accusing Republicans of ignoring kitchen table issues like lowering costs, creating good paying jobs, essentially kind of returning to that mode of being okay with outsourcing, being okay relying on foreign supply chains and cheap foreign labor, cheap foreign goods.
You know, they went after Republicans. One of the big things they're going to hit them on is the Limit Save Grow Act, which was the original Republican plan to lift the debt ceiling that had a lot of very steep cuts to government services in it, including, you know, a work requirement for food stamps, things like that. They're going to go after a lot of these voters.
I grew up in southeastern Ohio. Like, I know a lot of Republicans in southeastern Ohio who are on food stamps and still vote Republican. I'm pretty sure they're not going to appreciate that kind of line coming from the GOP. But you're going to have to, you know, we're going to have to deal with government spending.
steve bannon
I mean, look, this is not perfect.
They're going to come after because we say, hey, there's got to be more cuts because that's where you get economic growth.
But that's a fight we'll have.
That's a fight we'll have.
Right.
And I think it's a good fight to have.
What I'd like what these guys are saying is basically populist.
Working class, kitchen table policies, domestically, and America first, right?
To put America first, it's not wild left-wing populism.
That's what you've got to understand.
When they really look at how they're going to take it back, they understand the country is not there.
Some of these university towns are, and the big cities are, but that's not where they're going to win control of the house.
Is that your sense of what this memo says?
unidentified
Yes, and you look at their target list they have in the memo, it's basically the entire New York delegation. It's a handful of seats in PA, it's some seats in Arizona, it's Don Bacon in Nebraska. They're targeting some of these swing districts that are in areas that aren't urban areas. They're generally suburban to rural, but they have strong manufacturing industries in the area or did have strong manufacturing. And so they're going to come with this populist message
that we saw work very well for President Trump in 2016 and worked very well for the entire administration, something that we really believed in. And the Democrats are going to pay a lot of lip service to this.
steve bannon
And by the way, worked great in 2020 when he got the 74, the unbelievable 74 million votes.
Well, how do people now get you?
You just came on board.
It was a great hire that Rahim did.
How do people get to you over at National Pulse?
I want everybody to go check out National Pulse right now.
You know, you've got the total free site you can go to.
And if you want Rahim's contextualization and commentary, there's another way that you can get some of the more exclusive content.
Totally free if you just go and want to keep up to date, and Raheem's getting a team over there.
It's just incredible.
So where do they go?
unidentified
Yeah, if you want to sign up, you just go to thenationalpulse.com forward slash war room.
So that'll get you signed up for The National Pulse.
And you can find myself on Twitter at WUPTON, W-U-P-T-O-N.
Or I guess it's X now.
Formerly known as Twitter.
steve bannon
Formerly known as Twitter.
Okay, Will.
Thank you very much for coming on.
Great piece.
Look forward to following up.
Thank you.
Got guys like DeGrasse and Upton focused on Capitol Hill.
The DCCC, saying the quiet part out loud, they're not running as wild-eyed progressives.
Do I have... Do I have John?
John, Jacobo... Help me out here.
Huh?
Jakabowski.
John, how you doing, brother?
Are we going to win today, John?
That's what people want to know.
How big a game day vote do we have to have to turn out to win?
That's the question people want.
unidentified
Yeah, it's an important question at that.
And the question really depends upon whether or not our voters are educated on the right side.
There's been a ton of misinformation, disinformation, even voter intimidation tactics by the left.
Right now, what we're seeing, Steve, out of the gate are some very encouraging signs, some tremendous turnout numbers.
25% initially, probably in the rural counties, 10% in some of the urban counties.
So these turnout numbers meet what we're hoping for.
Obviously, we're not going to take any vote for granted.
So we have teams of people making calls to voters that haven't gotten out yet to push the vote so that we can get them to the polls before 7.30 p.m.
But initially, very encouraging numbers.
And as long as our voters know how to vote, which is vote yes on Issue 1, I believe we're going to prevail tonight.
steve bannon
This is kind of complicated because all the polling sites, since it's a special election and some of the county supervisors in charge of the elections didn't have the staff or the money, it's not as simple as when you vote in a general election, correct?
unidentified
Yeah, that's right, which is why a simple place to go if you have any questions about polling precinct is at voteohio.gov.
You can find your polling location, you can find the hours, and you can also always reach out to your local county board of elections who can give you an understanding of where your precinct's going to be.
So if you're not certain, go to voteohio.gov or call your county board of elections or ask a friend that's close by to you.
I'm in Wood County, so I'm happy to give anyone a ride if you have any questions.
Reach out to me on Twitter otherwise, but we have teams of people who want to make sure that you can get to the right polling place and want to answer any questions you might have to vote yes on this issue.
steve bannon
Jack Abowski, one of the issues here is how far would be, this gets also to the question of early voting and doing the early voting and we got the big Mike Lindell election summit next week, but how far were we behind starting on game day?
How far were we behind on the early voting?
unidentified
Yeah, so Steve, if the numbers hold that Republicans voting yes on issue one, Democrats voting no on issue one, if we use that as a pure indicator of how voters are going to vote, which we're not certain because it's an issue, but it's probably a pretty safe proxy.
To give you an idea, in the 2022 midterms, J.D.
Vance was down by about 13 points out of the gate coming into Election Day.
He ended up winning the state by six points.
We think right now we're down by about nine points.
So, this is a margin we absolutely can make up.
We're doing better than we did in midterms, and a lot of that is due to the grassroots efforts of all of these volunteers that rose up and recognized how significant this issue was.
You know, Steve, our common friend Russ Vogt talks about the late hour that we're in in America, and I think people are getting that message and recognizing the significance of this vote, and that's why people have been so engaged in spreading the word in the midst of misinformation, disinformation, and voter intimidation from the left with their millions of dollars that they've deployed.
steve bannon
How do people follow you during the day to keep up to date on everything?
unidentified
So they can follow me at John Jacobowski, my Twitter account, which I think we shared yesterday.
Thank you for doing that.
Also, you can check out the various sites.
There's an organization called Protect Women Ohio, which has been at the tipping point of the sphere of making sure that we share information pertinent to the grassroots leadership that's out there.
There's a number of voices in Ohio doing some great work to push that message out.
steve bannon
John Jakubowski, we'll check in with you in the evening show, see how we stand.
unidentified
Looking forward to it.
steve bannon
Big special election today.
Short break.
Darren Beattie on deck.
unidentified
on death.
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steve bannon
Okay, Wall Street's in a selloff right now, but like I said, I don't put a lot of focus on the stock market.
One, it's very concentrated to these tech stocks, and of course everybody's running around with artificial intelligence.
This is all going to be amazing.
They're throwing money at it nonstop, and so a lot of it's caught up in the hype of that or the hype of… You know, these stocks like Tesla, which was, as we told you, grossly overvalued, I think has lost six or seven hundred billion dollars of its market cap.
I haven't checked recently, which is more than I think all the other car manufacturers combined.
Total market value of what Tesla lost because it was just a hype machine.
But very seriously, their deep structural Economic problems in this country and financial problems.
We started yesterday in the cold open with the mother is talking about her kids are not struggling.
They're drowning and this gets back to this kind of How the elites are driving this in concentration concentrating their wealth and power you see in this now you can't hide it anymore and
Because the gross overspending of the Biden regime and all this $5 trillion, $6 trillion of off-balance sheet, not the budget of the $6.8 trillion for two years combined, for each year, with up to a $4 or $5 trillion deficit minimum that could be run, that McCarthy basically rolled them together.
I remember he's just he's almost as guilty as as Biden is and there'll be a motion to vacate as soon as they can find an appropriate appropriate Somebody could step into the breach.
He'll be gone.
There's no doubt about that.
But that drove this problem with the banks.
Because the higher interest rates and everything about the bank bonds, you know, selling at discounts all of it.
Now, they papered over it for a couple of months.
And finally this week you've had two downgrades and of course the left-wing business media is trying to cover for the Biden regime and not really discuss it, but Fitch downgraded U.S.
securities.
Why?
They said, well, they tried to spin it and the media tried to spin it.
Oh, because of the, this is because of the MAGA Republicans.
This is because you can't, you know, there's always these fights over the debt ceiling.
Au contraire.
If we'd approved the MAGA Republicans' plan, which was not draconian by far, if you approved that plan, Fitch would have never downgraded the U.S.
securities, the government securities.
It's the non-sustainability of this business model we have for the country, which is continue just to print money at the Federal Reserve to pay for these massive deficits.
Now there's going to be a, you know, it's a trillion and a half to two trillion dollar deficit this fiscal year.
As we warned you.
It's going to blow through the toll numbers and now you're seeing now you see Moody's today last night came out and downgraded 10 more regional banks and put a bunch of money center banks on watch on notice.
We have the I have an article up on getter from the from one of the New York.
I think it's New York one Spectrum News in New York one.
Over 50% of the office buildings in New York.
Are not now worth their debt.
A lot of them are just going to be handed back to the banks.
Because commercial real estate's in a free fall.
One, because, and that's where the begging people, you gotta come back to work, you gotta come back to work, where the lawlessness, the anarchy, the people working from home that don't want to go back to the cities to have to work.
The commercial real estate, and that's why they hit the regional banks.
The regional banks are where most of you think it's bad with the money center banks.
On commercial real estate in cities like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, it's the regional banks that have most of the exposure to commercial real estate.
And we're on very, very shaky terms.
At the same time, the credit card debt goes over a trillion dollars for the first time in history.
A trillion dollars.
Now it's going to be at very high rates and getting higher.
And they're contracting credit at the same time.
So those people have been living off the credit cards and particularly young people have been getting all these credit cards.
I told you months ago that game is over.
It's a credit contraction.
Not expansion.
And so the grip gets tighter and tighter.
The lived experience.
Don't look at the statistics.
You don't have to listen to me.
Don't listen to business news.
You don't have to.
Look at your own lived experience.
That's why the DNC, the DCCC is saying we got to focus on kitchen table issues and we got to focus on America first.
That you have to go off these moderate Republicans, you have to do that now.
They're going to hit on some of the things on like, oh, the MAGUS 2 extreme in spending, but we'll take that fight with working class people because they know the government spending is not what's going to make them prosperous.
It's not going to happen.
This is why what's happening this month, you're going to have the central banks meet in Jackson Hole, and you're going to have the basically developing world, the BRICS, and another 40 countries going to meet in Durban.
You've got to go to birchgold.com right now.
We have a three-part whole detailed that I would love you to read called the end of the dollar empire.
I would love you to read that but we've got a pricey just on the just on the Durban what's going to happen in Durban and you're seeing they're going to try to start alternative currency because they're purchasing power is being destroyed.
I think it's down 17 or 20 percent.
These are not This is led by enemies of this country, enemies of this country, the Chinese Communist Party that right now understand they can't keep, they can't, they know the elites in our country being irresponsible and we haven't been able to fully stop them yet because we haven't.
We're getting there.
We're throwing punches.
We're getting there, but they know that.
Also at this time, remember 80 or 90% of the value of your house or your net worth is typing your house and that's going to become more important as we go through more turbulence.
So go to HomeTitleLock.com right now, just check it out.
Don't allow yourself to be exposed to any kind of cyber criminals.
There's nothing about that house, either your house insurance or the title insurance, or here to make sure you've got this cyber protection, to make sure that no cyber criminal can take it and take out a second mortgage.
You must protect your castle at all costs.
Because that's going to allow you to weather the storm.
Okay, Dick Curliss is going to take us out with a Tombstone Every Mile, a great country music song from the great state of Maine.
We're going to be back with Darren Beattie, Jim Hoff.
We're packed into hour two.
unidentified
Be back after a short commercial break.
When you're talking to a trucker that's been hauling goods, down that stretch of road in Maine they call the Haynesville Woods.
And going down below won't be half as bad as driving on that road of ice and snow.
It's a stretch of road up north in Maine that's never, ever, ever seen a smile.
If they buried all the truckers lost in them woods, there'd be a tombstone every mile.
Count them all.
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