Sept. 23, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
48:54
Participants
| 
| Speaker | Time | Text |
|---|---|---|
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Pray for our enemies. | |
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
|
unidentified
|
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. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
|
unidentified
|
MAGA Media. | |
| 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? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
|
unidentified
|
War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Welcome to The War Room. | ||
| It's Natalie Winters hosting, filling in for Stephen K. Bannon from a little bit of a different location than we're usually used to. | ||
| Don't worry, the War Room is doing well. | ||
| Just getting, I think, a little bit of renovations. | ||
| That should be exciting. | ||
| But in the meantime, I'm coming at you live from Rav's DC studio. | ||
| Buried lead there being that I'm coming at you live from D.C. | ||
| And on today, Friday, it really is a monumental and historic day that you, War Room Posse, I think need to give yourself a little bit of a round of applause because in an alternate universe where Kevin McCarthy and the Uniparty got their way yesterday, they would have voted on the CR, passed it. | ||
| We would have plunged this country into further fiscal oblivion, probably surpassed the $33 trillion mark not too long after all the while they're telling us that 8% cuts are so great, like I said, and I'll say it again, even Joe Biden wanted a 10% cut for the big guy. | ||
| So 8% is certainly not enough for the War Room Posse, but shout out to you guys. | ||
| All the calls that you've made, I hear behind the scenes, I talked to the members, really helped move the needle and make sure that this CR did not pass. | ||
| And like you guys saw breaking yesterday, likely they're going to be looking towards these single subject spending bills like Matt Gaetz and his fellow MAGA patriots have been demanding since January. | ||
| So that is some very good news. | ||
| And speaking of good news. | ||
| We're gonna bring in someone who I Well, I guess he's more of a bearer of bad news, usually, but that's only because I invite him on to talk about, usually, Hunter Biden corruption and how Congress isn't doing anything. | ||
| But today we got Mike Davis. | ||
| Now, Mike, there's a lot that I want to get to you to cover with you. | ||
| But before we jump into the breaking news about Menendez, because apparently now the DOJ, like, cares about corruption and bearer violations, I'd love to talk about your wonderful new piece for town hall, Jack Smith's gag order request is unconstitutional. | ||
| and un-American. If you can walk us through the piece and just the latest on the lawfare against Donald J. Trump. | ||
| So President Biden has, and Democrats have impeached President Trump twice and they've indicted him four times. | ||
| They brought bogus civil lawsuits like the civil fraud suit by New York Attorney General Tish James for the non-fraud of a business ban paying back sophisticated Wall Street banks in full with interest. | ||
| And I think that they're starting to see in the polling that this lawfare This election interference against President Trump is backfiring. | ||
| He's like Tupac. | ||
| Every time they indict him, they make him a legend and more popular. | ||
| And he's gone up by almost two points in the national polls since this lawfare started. | ||
| And Jack Smith, who is bringing these bogus, unprecedented indictments against President Trump for the non-crime of a former president having his presidential records, Which is allowed by the Presidential Records Act and for the noncrime of a presidential candidate objecting to a presidential election, which is allowed by the Electoral Count Act of 1887. | ||
| Twisting arms politically is allowed by the First Amendment. | ||
| If this were a crime, we'd have Democrat presidential candidates in jail for objecting in 1968, 2004, and 2016. | ||
| But Jack Smith is saying that this is backfiring. | ||
| And while Jack Smith is illegally leaking grand jury material and illegally leaking out of this investigation, illegally trying to taint public opinion, had a speaking indictment, does This inappropriate, bizarre press conference, he's trying to gag President Trump. | ||
| And I would say this, it is the criminal defendants, not the government, that has the Sixth Amendment right to a fair, public, and speedy trial. | ||
| It is the American citizens, including criminal defendants, not the government, who have a First Amendment right to speak out against the government. | ||
| No one has more of a First Amendment right, no one has more of a need for that First Amendment right than a criminal defendant speaking out against the judge and the prosecutor and the process in a criminal indictment that that criminal defendant sees as political persecution. | ||
| That's exactly what's happening here. | ||
| There is clear case law on point. | ||
| The DC local rules make it very clear that the gag orders protect The defendants and not the government. | ||
| And Jack Smith is going to this D.C. | ||
| Obama judge, Tanya Shuckin, who's this partisan activist judge who's been extraordinarily harsh on January 6th defendants while she turns the other way for these BLM and Antifa rioters who are a hell of a lot more damaging and dangerous and deadly than the January 6th prisoners. | ||
| And this Tanya Shuckin, I almost hope that she grants this gag order on President Trump because it will just show you how partisan she is and it will screech to a halt these criminal proceedings while this unconstitutional gag order gets resolved on appeal. | ||
| Now Mike, you know in the war room we are always proud to give you the signal and not the noise and on the Menendez indictment, I think this is one of those stories that you got to unpack. | ||
| You got to really focus on the timing. | ||
| Why now? | ||
| I don't think it's really a. | ||
| a secret to anyone that he's been engaged in some derivation, some iteration of corruption. | ||
| I know I used to spend a lot of time on the Morton's patio with my old boss Rahim, and he would always be there taking meetings with people who, I guess Donald Trump would probably say they're not sending their best. There was always sort of a murky vibe to his counterparts at the table at Morton's. But all jokes aside, the indictment of him for corruption, bribery, I'm not talking about Hunter Biden, comes at an interesting time just on the heels | ||
| of him criticizing, of course, Joe Biden's policy when it comes to Iran. | ||
| But can you walk us through sort of the other Maybe wins that you could see the Biden regime having by going ahead with this indictment of, like I said, someone who I think it's pretty well known that they've been corrupt for decades. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's amazing that the Biden Justice Department all of a sudden cares about foreign bribery and corruption, unregistered foreign agents, wire fraud, tax evasion, tax fraud. | ||
| It's amazing that they finally care about this. | ||
| Maybe they can use this precedent going after Bob Menendez to go after President Trump, who has the same issues that get ignored. | ||
| I think Jack Posso came up with a very smart tweet earlier today, like you said, Natalie. | ||
| It's just amazing the timing of this. | ||
| The Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez starts raising concerns about this This Iran deal for $6 billion or whatever the hell it was, this continuation of Obama's capitulation, worship of Iran, Menendez raises issues about this and all of a sudden they go after him. | ||
| I mean, how long has the Biden Justice Department, how long has the FBI known that Bob Menendez was a scumbag and all of a sudden today they want to do this? | ||
| And I guess the benefits to President Biden is that there are many. | ||
| They get to remove this chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is not a Biden puppet, right? | ||
| So they're going to get rid of him and maybe put in a Senate Democrat as the chairman who's more of a puppet to Biden. | ||
| They could easily replace Bob Menendez in New Jersey with a more compliant Democrat senator. | ||
| Maybe they can get a black woman Right, so they can hit their diversity goals, and then the Biden Justice Department can pretend that they're being nonpartisan here, that sure, we go after corruption on both sides, and we go after both sides of the political aisle, which is just complete nonsense. | ||
| Yeah, we go after corruption because we indict Hunter Biden for gun charges. | ||
| The only charge that doesn't implicate his father, Joe Biden, who we know we don't care about bribery, corruption, you name it. | ||
| Now, Mike, before we let you go, I have one question for you, because we've sort of started to see the talking points emerge again from some of the more establishment Republicans in the House saying that we can't have a shutdown because it's going to get in the way of impeaching Joe Biden, to which I would ask, well, then why did you guys go? | ||
| On break, go on recess for over a month and take a long weekend this week if it's so imperative that we impeach Joe Biden and we can't shut down the government. | ||
| But you've obviously been following this, you've been following these committees, these investigations quite closely. | ||
| On the CR front, on the funding the government, what's your take on the sort of talking point that we can't shut down the government, we need to capitulate on the CR, or we can't see an impeachment of Joe Biden? | ||
| So the same moderates who don't want to impeach Joe Biden or even open an impeachment inquiry are now using impeachment as an excuse to continue a spending spree by the Uniparty in D.C. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| I would say this. | ||
| Remember, Natalie, it's the high holy month of August recess. | ||
| It's now six weeks, apparently. | ||
| So that's a holy time. | ||
| And of course, Politicians can't work in DC during that high holy month, that high holy six weeks of August recess. | ||
| But it's not like this is a surprise. | ||
| They knew that September 30th was coming and they knew that the appropriations bills needed to be done by September 30th. | ||
| And I would say this to House Republicans, hold the line. | ||
| I did a Fox News opinion piece on this. | ||
| Pass the appropriations bills that you wanna pass at pre-COVID levels with the policy writers that have the support of 60 or 65% of the American people. | ||
| And if Senate Democrats and President Biden want to shut down the government because they want transgender surgeries in the military and they want weaponized justice systems to go after their political enemies, they can throw elderly Christians in prison for protesting outside of abortion Clinics while they have BLM and Antifa and their abortion industry activists raising hell across America. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Who cares if we shut down the Biden administration for a few weeks until we bring them back to the negotiating table and make the federal government go on a crash diet here. | ||
| The American people have had enough of this out-of-control spending where it's causing the interest rates to go up so high that people can't afford to buy homes. | ||
| They can't Afford to buy cars, they can't afford their student loans, the inflation is out of control, where gas prices are up by like 65%, grocery store prices are up. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| To hell with DC, to hell with the Biden administration, to hell with the executive branch. | ||
| Make them go on a crash diet or they can be defunded and shut down for a couple weeks. | ||
| Mike Davis, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| If people want to follow you and stay up to date with everything you're working on, writing, where can they find you? | ||
| It's article3project.org, article3project.org. | ||
| You can donate there. | ||
| Add article3project, add article3project on Gitter, Twitter, Truth, and my personal is M-R-D-D-M-I-A, my initials in Des Moines, Iowa. | ||
| Thank you, Natalie. | ||
| Thank you, Mike, for joining us. | ||
| You know, it's quite interesting. | ||
| You know, we ask on this show sort of the I think eternal question of the Biden regime is the destruction of America or the policies that they're putting out. | ||
| Is it intentional or is it do can we chalk it up to incompetence? | ||
| And I think the theory of the case on this show is of course, The former. | ||
| We know it's the intentional destruction or reformulation or reset of America, however you want to spin it. | ||
| But I think the fundamental question here, when you really get into it, and frankly, the fact that we're even asking this question, I would argue proves that the Uniparty does indeed exist, is that is it intentional or is it incompetence? | ||
| That's plaguing Republican leadership, preventing them from putting single-subject spending bills on the floor, taking recesses for weeks, six weeks, over a month, while simultaneously telling us that we can't shut down the government, we need to continue business as usual, use omnibus bills, continue with CRs, use continuing resolutions to fund the government, with really no respect, no care, no due diligence for where that money is going to. | ||
| And they just want to continue funding the government, meanwhile taking breaks while simultaneously telling us that we can't have a shutdown of the government because then we can't impeach Joe Biden. | ||
| If impeaching Joe Biden was so important to these people, they wouldn't have gone on their trips all across the country, their congressional delegations. | ||
| Oh, because it's really important to meet with Ireland and meet with all these countries. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's all a talking point. | ||
| It's all spin. | ||
| And you can see that that's now sort of re-emerging in the news cycle. | ||
| Like I said, these rhino types, these establishment types are saying that we can't have a shutdown because Matt Gaetz had a victory, like you guys know, when it comes to these single subject spending bills, saying that we can't have that because then we can't impeach Joe Biden. | ||
| Absolutely crazy. | ||
| Stick with us through the break. | ||
| We got Dave Brat, we got Garrett Ventry, and later tonight, Lara Logan's second episode of her January 6th documentary is gonna be streaming on Getter and Rumble at 8 p.m. | ||
| Eastern, but until then, you gotta stick in the war room. | ||
| Steve will be back for the 6 p.m. | ||
|
unidentified
|
hour, and I will be right back after this break. | |
| I'm the CCD! | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | ||
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| It's still Natalie Winters. | ||
| I believe we got Dave Burratt with us. | ||
| We're going to get into all things economics. | ||
| I'm sure a little bit of slamming the Murdochs. | ||
| That's my only assignment that Steve gives me whenever I'm hosting the show. | ||
| But Dave, before we get into what the Wall Street Journal is saying and interesting numbers coming out about manufacturing and American Workers and productivity, you know, I think you know a little bit about taking down House Republican leadership, as you should. | ||
| I'd love to get your thoughts on Kevin McCarthy's decision to effectively surrender and send home his caucus this, or conference rather, for a very long weekend amidst negotiations over the CR, potential single-subject spending bills, appropriations, all this madness. | ||
| From your experience being in Congress, is this what you've just come to expect, or is this, frankly, a new low? | ||
| Well, you're going to be surprised at my answer. | ||
| From McCarthy, it's exactly what you'd expect, right? | ||
| Paul Ryan, all the prior leadership that we've been doing this same game with spending for 30 years. | ||
| And that's why we're 50 trillion in debt now in 10 years. | ||
| And at a 5% interest rate, that's $2.5 trillion in interest payments alone in 10 years. | ||
| That's half the budget back when I was in Congress. | ||
| So yeah, they're used to just having a total power play, everybody caving. | ||
| But my real answer is, and this is truthful, I'm very shocked at the Freedom Caucus For their failure to stand up together. | ||
| They had about 100 people back on the last votes, right, when the debt ceiling increase was being debated. | ||
| Everyone said, hey, we're all going to get together. | ||
| They voted as a conference on a $4 trillion cut. | ||
| And they said, just wait till we get to the process, right, and we're going to, you know, do our 12 budgets and get through it the right way. | ||
| And now after McCarthy promised all the procedural rules and that, of course, working through regular order for the budget where everybody gets to see how the sausage is made, now leadership comes through and says, whoops, we're not going to tell the truth again. | ||
| And there's only 10 people standing up after a promise made in public by the speaker and after the Republican conference voted as a majority. | ||
| To go forward with $4 trillion in cuts, and then they go up to the White House and McCarthy says, no cuts. | ||
| And now we're going to do the real thing, and there's nothing. | ||
| So, Russ Vogt had it right today. | ||
| It should be exciting this coming week. | ||
| Pelosi had an agenda, right? | ||
| And she would bang heads and get her people on the page. | ||
| Our leadership doesn't. | ||
| They let everyone run individual elections in our conference, right? | ||
| 220 people have individual elections. | ||
| The most liberal members of the conservative party get $20 million. | ||
| The most conservative members who follow the Republican creed, etc., get zero, like me. | ||
| If you follow and keep your word, you get zero. | ||
| And so that's roughly what's going on. | ||
| And I just pray the American people kick in here and follow your congressman, your senator. | ||
| And, you know, just say you want to be fair. | ||
| The weaponization piece is going to be the key, moving forward. | ||
| Watching our members, how they vote on the amendments related to DOJ, FBI, CIA, where there's just open and shut cases. | ||
| I'm dying to see the votes on that. | ||
| You're an expert on that, so I'm dying to hear your witty repartee and comebacks. | ||
| Well, thank you for saying I have witty repartee. | ||
| I have not paid you to say that. | ||
| But I would love to get your take, too. | ||
| Like I said, you know, you have the inside baseball. | ||
| You know what it's like to be in Congress. | ||
| But there are a lot of people who I think it's fair to call them You know, they certainly haven't been winter soldiers on the CR. | ||
| They've sort of been turncoats. | ||
| A lot of names, people who've come on this show, right, that you would expect to be on our side of the football. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It is shocking. | ||
| And, you know, I think we saw previously with the debt ceiling and, you know, I live in DC. | ||
| I obviously am a reporter. | ||
| I speak to a lot of these people. | ||
| I know what's going on to some extent behind the scenes, but it seems like the way that they get, you know, these members to flip their votes or to, You know, sort of support policies that aren't really in line with the base with the people who work to get them elected is through, you know, promising them certain things or, oh, we'll bring allow you to bring this one bill to the floor. | ||
| Oh, you know, we won't pledge these resources against you. | ||
| We'll back in the primary. | ||
| You know, what do you think? | ||
| And again, this is, of course, speculation, but just really, like I said, from the insider perspective, Kind of help the audience understand, because it even blows my mind too, how some of these people who, you know, we consider them part of the war room posse, you know, they're usually on our side. | ||
| They're sort of reneging on their America First agenda and their America First promises. | ||
| And you know, why is that? | ||
| Yeah, well, the full weight of the world does come down on you, right? | ||
| CNN, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, the articles, they start a spin cycle, they come after you personally. | ||
| There's huge pressure. | ||
| But the major argument is that the leadership will come at you with some rational arguments, right? | ||
| They will say, hey, the polling right now is tight. | ||
| We could lose the House. | ||
| And if you guys mess this up, Then we could lose the House. | ||
| And then even if we win the presidency, we got nothing because we don't have legislation. | ||
| So they'll come at you with this without saying the proper thing is the Pelosi approach. | ||
| And all of our members should say, Kevin, Mr. Speaker, if you come forward and explain to the people what $7 trillion, right, having a COVID budget where we handed out checks to everybody, right? | ||
| We were throwing out checks to every business, every person. | ||
| So we got a COVID budget now going forward for the next 10 years. | ||
| Without COVID, right? | ||
| It's an absolute disaster. | ||
| It's laughable. | ||
| And that's why the Wall Street Journal today had a piece putting down these hard right people, the hard right people who are against $2 trillion deficits. | ||
| That's hard right. | ||
| And that's why your comments are right. | ||
| Our folks should not cave. | ||
| We have to get, and we need not just the Freedom Caucus 40, there should be another 60 from conservative districts, so we have 100. | ||
| And then once you build that momentum, then you get a majority in the conference, and then the whole thing flips. | ||
| And then you have a conservative governing party which can save the country. | ||
| But you know the big three issues, right? | ||
| It's where you add on China, where you add on 50 trillion in debt, and where you add on the border. | ||
| And you don't, and weaponization, right, the administrative state and energy policy, I could go on. | ||
| But leadership has not mentioned any of those in its messaging in the last week or two. | ||
| And that tells you all you need to know. | ||
| This is not going to be a substantive debate. | ||
| And the Wall Street Journal, obviously, with their messaging, they just want a $7 trillion budget ongoing, right? | ||
| They want tax cuts for the rich, I guess. | ||
| They want a big defense budget for their pals up there. | ||
| But until they explain otherwise, read their article today. | ||
| They had another one called U.S. | ||
| Labor's Real Problem. | ||
| U.S. | ||
| labor, right? | ||
| The American worker, meaning U.S. | ||
| labor, you people. | ||
| Your problem is productivity. | ||
| And they kind of blame productivity on the back of the working class, which again is, and they parse it so carefully, but they're blaming it on the worker, not a 50-year downtrend in U.S. | ||
| productivity and terrible government policy. | ||
| And so we're dealing, those members are dealing with a lot of pressure on them. | ||
| But hey, you got elected to represent the American people. | ||
| And that member of parliament from Germany, boy, did she Come out strong and simple. | ||
| The simplest honesty. | ||
| Your job is to represent the people. | ||
| There's no such thing as partial freedom. | ||
| There's no such thing as partial democracy. | ||
| There's no such thing as partial rights to liberty. | ||
| You either have it or you don't. | ||
| And boy, she stood up and gave the world a shout out in front of the United Nations. | ||
| And man, I'm going to find out who she is because she gets an A+. | ||
| Yeah, note to self, nothing about what the Republicans are doing on the Hill could be described as pro-worker. | ||
| I mean, H.R. | ||
| 2, the bill that they love to talk about as being, you know, the greatest thing ever to happen to the southern border, they wanted to ram it through without E-Verify. | ||
| If there's any legal provision that is specifically designed to protect the American worker, it shows you how entrenched they are. | ||
| With the corporate interest. | ||
| Now, we can finish this block out talking about the CR and then we can get into some of the other interesting data economics charts, as you're well known for, after the break. | ||
| But it's interesting. | ||
| I was kind of crunching the numbers. | ||
| And since 1995, the House has failed to pass rules, right? | ||
| So that's to advance the bill to the floor for an actual vote. | ||
| Eight times. | ||
| Just eight times in history. | ||
| It happened six times to Speaker Newt Gingrich in a period of four years, two times to Hastert in a period of eight years, and with McCarthy it's happened already three times. | ||
| Two in just one week, in just eight months, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Explain the significance of that, how much of a humbling loss and frankly a victory for the War Room Posse that that is for someone like Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| Yeah, well, after I beat a very significant figure, the person who was going to be the speaker, I was told and asked by leadership, right, are you going to play team ball? | ||
| And I said, well, my team's America. | ||
| And my principles I ran on are just very clear. | ||
| I'm gonna do what's in the best interest of Americans every day, and that's the way I voted. | ||
| But they say, well, that's not good enough. | ||
| We need to know a few specifics. | ||
| On your committees, will you always vote for the budget? | ||
| Well, you always vote for the rule, etc., and a couple other things. | ||
| But that rule vote and voting for the budget were the two biggies. | ||
| That leadership would say, you've got to vote for the rule, because if you don't have, you know, 100% vote for the rule to get legislation moving in the first place, it embarrasses leadership. | ||
| And they got all sorts of complexities in there, too, right? | ||
| If you tell them, hey, I'm going to pose this thing up front, it's better for you. | ||
| But if you ever surprise leadership, you'll be out on the street, you know, begging for food or something in short order. | ||
| And so that is the real deal, right? | ||
| That I didn't get any money from the party, they put me on the no-money committees, and it got so bad they kicked me out of a member's dining room for a few weeks, right? | ||
| That's the only thing I had left. | ||
| It's the only privilege I had left. | ||
| And it really is that way. | ||
| And so I just tried to get out on the press and tell the American people the truth that way, but it's very hard. | ||
| And then your own party, right, the party apparatus, along with the Dems, come after you for upholding the major bullet points of the Republican creed and everything we believe in. | ||
| Dave Brat, hang with us. | ||
| We gotta jump to break, but I wanna get to really, I call them insulting, staggering numbers and analysis from, of course, the Murdoch-owned Globalist Wall Street Journal when it comes to American workers. | ||
| We'll get to that after the break. | ||
| We've got Garrett Venturi calling in to talk all things Trump-pulling, you guessed it. | ||
| He's surging, still surging. | ||
| Keep indicting him, keep impeaching him. | ||
| Not gonna work. | ||
| He's still gonna win. | ||
|
unidentified
|
And we'll be right back after this break. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | ||
| Welcome back to The War Room. | ||
| We still got Dave Brat riding shotgun, getting ready to talk all things economy. | ||
| But in the meantime, or maybe after the show, I guess after the 6 p.m., you guys gotta go to birchgold.com slash Bannon to get the latest installment of the End of the Dollar Empire with all of the craziness that's coming out of Washington, D.C. | ||
| Frankly, I think it's very clear Not just that they don't care about you and they're not going to protect you, but that they don't want you to be informed. | ||
| And the very fact that you know so much, whether it's about the CR, single spending bills, single subject spending bills, appropriations, you name it, they're very, very ticked off by that. | ||
| And frankly, that's why, as we were talking about in the last break, why McCarthy has seen, I would argue, so many of his rules shot down really at an unprecedented, ahistorical level, because You are holding your representatives accountable, so make sure you keep calling them. | ||
| But like I said, make sure you go to birchgold.com slash Bannon to get the latest installment of The End of the Dollar Empire. | ||
| And speaking of The End of the Dollar Empire, how's that for a segue? | ||
| Dave Ratt, I know you have some charts. | ||
| I know the audience loves the charts. | ||
| You got to sign up for the newsletter, too, if you want to see the charts, not just on the show. | ||
| But walk us through the new numbers that have to do with manufacturing. | ||
| Yeah, well, and I might spare you, I may pull up a chart or two, but I'll just get to it. | ||
| The Wall Street Journal today wrote an article yesterday called U.S. | ||
| Labor's Real Problem, right? | ||
| Labor, that means you, the working person. | ||
| Your real problem is your lack of productivity. | ||
| And they go through it, you know, they're very smart. | ||
| So they go through it very carefully and then they try not to blame it on the worker. | ||
| And they say, and look, you know, you can blame some of this on government policy. | ||
| But the rest of the world has become very productive. | ||
| I just want to make the main point, because this is the main point. | ||
| Don't blame our lack of productivity on government policy because the rest of the world has gotten so productive. | ||
| How big is their federal government? | ||
| Right? | ||
| Our federal government now is $7 trillion budgets out of a $25 trillion economy. | ||
| That's over one-fourth of our economy on its way to one-third. | ||
| That's the major point I want to point out. | ||
| It's the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| I cannot believe these guys are serious. | ||
| They have access to the smartest people in the world. | ||
| They know exactly what they're putting down, and they're putting down nonsense on paper yesterday and today, blaming the $7 trillion budget folks that are against it. | ||
| They're calling them all sorts of names. | ||
| It's just incredible. | ||
| I think a lot of them are good Catholic guys. | ||
| Hey guys, Come on, don't bear false witness. | ||
| That's part of the code, right? | ||
| Let's get the story straight, right? | ||
| If you want to favor the rich, just favor the rich and just say so. | ||
|
unidentified
|
All right. | |
| So now I usually don't get political. | ||
| All the political views are just my own. | ||
| I don't speak on behalf of any party or anything. | ||
| But if you do want to blame the workers, I did think this through a bit, and the workers may be culpable in Detroit. | ||
| And I'm going to take my own friends down, because I was born in Detroit, and I'm a Michigander and grew up there and went to college here and whatever. | ||
| And so I am going to say some of this is the workers' fault, because if the workers in Detroit voted For the policies which have put themselves into bankruptcy and ruined Detroit as a city, then you are culpable, right? | ||
| Detroit, hear me, and the rest of the cities, if you don't want the Wall Street Journal blaming you personally for your own destruction as workers, which I don't like, but if you voted for policies which do all this green stuff and experimental cars, and the president of India says, hey, everybody knows there's not enough rare earth metals for this electric vehicle thing to be sustainable long run at the big numbers, it's common sense. | ||
| And if you voted for endless regulation, and if you have voted to decimate your city through their own policies, where you've lost half your population since the heydays, and boy am I a fan of Detroit, I want a resurgence, but you've just crushed the people who vote for those policies. | ||
| It's not about politics or party, it's if you voted for those policies, the current energy policy, oh my word! | ||
| Right. | ||
| You're putting the Motor City out of motor business. | ||
| It's just stunning to me. | ||
| And so hopefully I've made that point clear. | ||
| So then, you know, I do have some charts. | ||
| I'll bring them up. | ||
| But I want to make one other point for folks to think about. | ||
| And I started researching this. | ||
| And the manufacturing story, I think, is way worse than the numbers reveal. | ||
| So I started Googling and doing a little research on what's wrong here. | ||
| There's something really wrong. | ||
| So I found a major hint, Natalie, and I think you're going to be fascinated with this and you probably know all about it because you're the master of research. | ||
| But back under Obama, the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, put together a new way of doing manufacturing statistics. | ||
| And OMB put out a proposal, and I'm going to read this, because you can't believe this wording. | ||
| You cannot believe what they did. | ||
| The proposal suggests that, in quotes, factory-less goods produced, this is a term out of OMB, factory-less goods produced, FGPs, can be classified as manufacturing goods. | ||
| Well, what's that mean? | ||
| That means that if a company outsources 100% of their production Shoves all their assemblies, all their production, all their parts to China and produces it there, they can still count it as manufacturing in the United States of America. | ||
| So what does that tell you? | ||
| Our statistics on manufacturing are way overstated. | ||
| And so, if you didn't get all that theoretical stuff, you know, hit rewind and go over it again, but I'll give you one example. | ||
| Example. | ||
| Accordingly, companies like Apple, which according to the New York Times, right, so this is, you know, I'm quoting the in crowd, relies on hundreds of thousands of workers in other countries to produce its goods, would now be included in the manufacturing industry statistics. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So if you if you think things are bad for manufacturing now, based on the numbers and the decline and productivity has been going straight down, it's worse than you think, because the statistics you've been fed are full of these kind of just incredible stories. | ||
| And so, Natalie, you know, take a riff on that, what you know about it, what you think about it. | ||
| I always love it when the guests give me a chance to riff. | ||
| Steve has told me I need to go on more, more rants. | ||
| So I seldom do. | ||
| But unfortunately we have other, much, people are much smarter than, uh, than myself. | ||
| I need to come on the show. | ||
| So I gotta let you go, Dave. | ||
| We gotta have Garrick Venturi on before we gotta, before we gotta bounce. | ||
| But if in the meantime, people want to stay up to date with everything you're working on, writing, your thoughts, where can they find you? | ||
| Yeah, just come visit Liberty University. | ||
| I'm now the Vice Provost for Engagement, so my job is to engage all of you friends who come visit me. | ||
| So please come to Lynchburg, Virginia, and send your scholars, and then go to Brat Economics on Getter, and I post all these charts, and all this stuff will be out by tomorrow. | ||
| Thanks, Natalie. | ||
| Great show, as always. | ||
| I would also nominate you for the position of Ambassador to the War Room on behalf of Liberty University. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Nice. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Thank you, Dave. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| And Garrett Venturi, I think we have you. | ||
| You always join us by phone. | ||
| Your competitor, Mike Davis, has the decency to join us via Skype, but that's all good. | ||
| We see where we fall on the hierarchy. | ||
| But Garrett, I would love to get your thoughts on the latest Trump polls. | ||
| Break it down for us. | ||
| I predict you will use the word surging because that is what Donald J. Trump does in the polls, but just give us the latest rundown. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Well, to be fair to me, I was just spending time with one of War Room's favorite, Carrie Lake in Arizona, and I'm jet-lagged on the way back, or else I would love to join you by Skype. | |
| You know, you're right, Natalie. | ||
| Insurging is the word for Donald Trump right now. | ||
| He is crushing in the polls. | ||
| He's beating Ron DeSantis by 50 points in most of these polls in the primary. | ||
| You've seen Ron DeSantis in New Hampshire fall below Lavake, Nikki Haley, Chris Christie. | ||
| He's in fourth or fifth place in New Hampshire. | ||
| He's falling behind in Iowa. | ||
| And President Trump just continues to really dominate there. | ||
| And then it's just even the general election. | ||
| The mainstream media polls, CNN, CBS, Fox News, Donald Trump is beating Joe Biden. | ||
| I think that's why you're seeing them panic here. | ||
| And that's why, you know, like you pointed out earlier, they continue to try and indict him, but it's not working. | ||
| The people see through it. | ||
| Just anecdotally, I was in Falls Church, Virginia, for lunch the other day, and people in a suburb of Virginia, which is blue, are talking about how President Trump I heard two or three people say the economy was better under him. | ||
| So people are definitely feeling this not only in the polls, but in reality. | ||
| And so Donald Trump is in a very good place. | ||
| Falls Church, Virginia, that's mind-blowing. | ||
| But Garrett, I'll hold you through the break because I want to get into, on the House side of things, the potential impeachment inquiry. | ||
| You know, Warren has a little bit of a different take on it, but I'd love to get your inside scoop. | ||
| But I'm just curious, you're someone, you know, you spend a lot of time with the MAGA base, with people like Carrie Lake, and when you go through the polls and you try to figure out what are the issues that's Really allowing Donald Trump to cut through, not just against Joe Biden, but particularly in the Republican primary. | ||
| I think that the Agenda 47 videos that he keeps putting out are very substantive, really chart a path forward. | ||
| But what are the issues that you think he's been able to draw the most stark Contrast between him. | ||
| I was gonna use the term competitor, but I don't even think that's fair I won't disrespect the former president like that But what are the issues that you think he's really able to draw the distinction between him and everyone else on? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Well, I think the big things are Donald Trump, everyone saw what he did when he was president. | |
| His promises made, promises kept. | ||
| A lot of D.C. | ||
| politicians and others promise things and then they get there and they do the exact opposite. | ||
| I think, like you said, his Agenda 47 has been remarkable. | ||
| I think the weaponization of the DOJ and him fighting against that has obviously been very strong. | ||
| And I think his border policies and then just we know the economy was better under President Trump. | ||
| And so I think that people really do, Republican voters, They trust President Trump. | ||
| They've seen him do it before, and I think that's exactly why they are continuing to support him. | ||
| Again, like you said, it's not really a race with Donald Trump is up 50 points here. | ||
| We're talking about like being in the third quarter of a football game, and the team's up 72 to 6. | ||
| It's not much of a race here. | ||
| Trump's running away with it. | ||
| Easy money for Donald J. Trump. | ||
| That's a sports reference, even I can understand. | ||
| Garrett, I guess we can get into it now, and like I said, you'll stick with us through the break, but I can't read it, but your chyron, maybe it says that you're also an advisor to, of course, Elise Stefanik, a good friend of the War Room. | ||
| But could you sort of walk us through, I believe, Comer is set not only to subpoena some more bank records when it comes to the Biden crime family, but I guess the impeachment inquiry, you know, barring a shutdown, as we've been repeatedly told, is set to commence imminently. | ||
| So if you could sort of walk us through the game plan, you can at least start and then I'll keep you through the break to drill down on what exactly that looks like. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah, and you guys at War Room have really been laying the groundwork for this, right? | |
| The base has demanded, they've seen Joe Biden's corruption, they've seen that he's compromised, and you guys have done a great job on this, really paving the way here and putting pressure on House Republicans to get their act together and do these things. | ||
| No, I think Comer has done a nice job here. | ||
| I think being able to subpoena bank records from Hunter Biden and James Biden is going to be a big first step, and that's something he wants to do here so we can see. | ||
| We obviously know they've benefited massively from Joe Biden being in office as vice presidency. | ||
| They used their influence with Joe Biden to get foreign business, millions of dollars from Russia, China, Ukraine. | ||
| And we've seen Joe Biden may have shifted policy to protect them and to help them. | ||
| We saw that with the firing of the Ukraine prosecutor. | ||
| Everyone knows the famous story where Joe Biden publicly pressured and privately pressured the Ukrainian prosecutor who was actively investigating corruption surrounding Burisma, a company that Hunter Biden was getting a million dollars a year from. | ||
| So they're definitely going to look into that, and we can get into that more obviously a little bit later. | ||
| But I think that's So they're not going to be focusing on the gun charges, is what I'm hearing. | ||
| The sole charge that doesn't implicate Joe Biden. | ||
| It's funny how that happens. | ||
| vice presidency. So they're not going to be focusing on the gun charges is what I'm hearing. The sole charge that doesn't implicate Joe Biden. It's funny how that happens. | ||
| Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| You got to go to Rumble and Getter. | ||
| Royce White's podcast will be streaming live so you can catch up on all the content from him that you've missed. | ||
| And like I said, Laura Logan's documentary at 8 p.m. | ||
| Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| Same platforms. | ||
| But in the meantime, we'll be right back after this break. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| I do want to ask you about the vaccines and how well, I mean, how well do they work? And do they actually help reduce transmissions of the virus at all, this latest vaccine? | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So we know that these vaccines are safe and they're effective at preventing the worst of what COVID can bring to you. | ||
| And that is putting you in the hospital or dying. | ||
| Unfortunately, we're still seeing hundreds of people over 65 dying each week with COVID. | ||
| We have about 20,000 folks in the hospital right now with COVID. | ||
| So what the vaccine can do is protect you from the worst of what COVID is. | ||
| But remember, the vaccine early data is showing us it can also prevent you from getting long COVID. | ||
| It decreases your risk of getting long COVID, which is extended symptoms from that COVID virus. | ||
| So, yes, protecting from the worst, but also protecting you from potential long-term symptoms from this virus, even if you have a mild case. | ||
| I can't help but tell you this story. | ||
| I was in several hospitals at the height of this pandemic. | ||
| And one of the things I heard from someone in the hospital, from one of the nurses, they said, someone came in here, they had COVID, it was really, really bad, they couldn't breathe. | ||
| And the person's wife says, don't you dare give them that vaccine. | ||
| It is dangerous, it is deadly. | ||
| This is one of those big issues, this anti-vaccine sentiment. | ||
| Do you have a specific plan to try and combat it? | ||
| And how worried are you about a rise in this anti-vaccine sentiment? | ||
| Well, it's really important that we are communicating with folks and having longer conversations to make sure that we're addressing people's questions, that they understand the data that we see. | ||
| That's why I'm sharing personally what I would recommend for my own family in terms of vaccination. | ||
| I know folks want to be healthy, that they want their families to be safe. | ||
| So we're just going to keep communicating about the good information that we know, the scientific information that we're seeing. | ||
| We want to communicate as transparently as we can and answer folks' questions. | ||
| We encourage folks to visit cdc.gov and get their questions answered and engage with your doctor, with a nurse practitioner. | ||
| Ask good questions and make sure you're using tools to protect yourself. | ||
| Well, she definitely was a good CDC stooge. | ||
| She got in the term safe and effective, which I'm sure they're probably mandated to use to describe the COVID vaccine, but she sort of let it slip that I guess it's not actually meant to prevent COVID. | ||
| Now they've moved the goalpost for, what is it, the hundredth time. | ||
| You're not gonna get long COVID if you'd get the vaccine. | ||
| I don't remember that when you guys were mandating vaccines and forcing us to take them. | ||
| I was told that you wouldn't get COVID if you took the vaccine, but it seems like, like I said, they're already moving the goalposts again. | ||
| And by the way, I just have to add, Seems like a pretty precarious time to be wanting to fund the federal government allowing them to continue to weaponize against us every agency just all of them collectively ahead of what we know are likely plans to roll out a new batch of lockdowns and mandates to combat combat | ||
| COVID-19, right, that's the new forever war in America, I guess that, and Ukraine, which they're, believe me, fighting, dying on hills to make sure they can still fund, like you guys may know already, they exempted Ukraine from a government shutdown, so even if we do go into a shutdown here, Don't worry, Zelensky, you will still get your billions of dollars to do who knows what with. | ||
| And great news for the Zelensky fans out there too, the Clinton Global Initiative has sort of re-upped their operations. | ||
| And guess where they're focusing on? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Ukraine! | |
| Quite shocking. | ||
| I can only imagine the corruption that'll ensue there. | ||
| I can't tell if it'll be worse than what the United States government and your taxpayer dollars are already funding. | ||
| But, Garrett Ventry, while we still have you, like I said, you work very closely with a lot of House Republicans. | ||
| I would love to get your thoughts specifically on sort of the COVID lockdown front. | ||
| If we see another kind of full court press coming from whether it's the deep state or the Democrats to roll out a new batch of lockdowns, do you think we'll see a sort of counter offensive launched by House Republicans to stand up? | ||
| And like I said, I don't like the term do not comply because it implies that there's mandates to comply with. | ||
| But do you think we'll see some sort of pushback? | ||
|
unidentified
|
I mean, you would certainly hope so, right? | |
| I mean, this is, we saw what the lockdowns did the first time, right? | ||
| They lied about, just like you pointed out here, at first it was, if you get the vaccine, it will, you'll never get COVID, right? | ||
| It'll prevent you from getting COVID. | ||
| Then every, then people, you know, millions of people got the vaccine and they got COVID. | ||
| And now it's, if you get boosted, it'll prevent you from getting long COVID. | ||
| Like they just continue to shift the goalposts. | ||
| The vaccine, they did it on the lockdowns. | ||
| We saw the damage the lockdowns did for, You know, kids at school for the economy, just generally people's mental health. | ||
| It was not a good thing. | ||
| The lockdowns didn't work. | ||
| We started at 14 days to slow the spread, then turned into 14 months to slow the spread. | ||
| And in my opinion, one of the first things Donald Trump needs to do when he does take back the White House in January of 2025 is there should be an absolute Special counsel to investigate Anthony Fauci's many lies and crimes. | ||
| There's no one who did more damage to the United States of America over the last 50 years than Anthony Fauci, an unelected bureaucrat who during COVID had all this time, you know, we're supposed to be fighting this virus that's very serious. | ||
| And being locked down and all this stuff, but he found time to do every single interview. | ||
| He found time to be on the cover of InStyle magazine. | ||
| He lied about the effectiveness of masks. | ||
| He lied about the lockdowns and their effects. | ||
| He lied about the effectiveness of even the vaccine. | ||
| And so I think that no one has done more damage to this country than Anthony Fauci, and I would love to see him in orange in prison forever. | ||
| As he should be. | ||
| There are a lot of people I'd love to investigate with a special commission, and probably their wives, too. | ||
| But Garrett Ventry, gotta let you go. | ||
| Where can people find you on social media? | ||
|
unidentified
|
You can find me at Garrett Ventry. | |
| Always good to be with the War Room crew, the posse, and Natalie, too. | ||
| You are one of the best hosts here in America. | ||
| We appreciate everything you do. | ||
| That is quite the compliment, though I would have to push back and say Steve is far superior. | ||
| But thank you, Garrett, for joining us. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Of course. | |
| Take care. | ||
| And War Room Posse, after that last segment, that's all the more reason why you guys gotta go to JaceMedical.com to get your drugs, antibiotics, whatever you need, not reliant on the Chinese Communist Party, not reliant on the Deep State, not reliant on the outsourcing, offshoring model of economics that the globalists love so much. | ||
| Take your health into your own hands, free of any influence of, of course, the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Steve will be back for the 6 p.m. | ||
| show. | ||
| I think he's got a bit of a Ukraine special, and of course he'll be back for the 10 a.m. | ||
| tomorrow, but thank you again for letting me hang out with you this afternoon. | ||
| And like I said, War Room Posse, you guys gotta give yourself a very big round of applause, because in an alternate universe where you guys didn't exist, the CR would have passed yesterday, and today would have been the first day under just, I guess, business as usual status quo of just... | ||
| Government spending galore up the wazoo. | ||
| With nothing in return, no substantive change, but because of you guys, because of the calls you've made, because you've helped them, hold the line! | ||
| We live another day without a CR. | ||
| And with that, I will go into the weekend a very happy person, as you should too. |
Export Selection