Jan. 31, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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...don't actually talk about them. | |
| Those who do talk about them don't actually know. | ||
| But when it comes to impeachment, do you think your conference will be lined up to move forward on that on the House floor? | ||
| Well, the process was pretty heavy last night. | ||
| Personally, I believe it's appropriate. | ||
| It's been a year-long process, very thoughtful and detailed. | ||
| And you've got the head of Homeland Security who is charged, legally, with securing our southern border. | ||
| And Phil, he's not only failed to do that, he's willfully uh... disobeyed uh... existing law uh... which requires that you detain certain individuals uh... | ||
| instead he's created this mass catch and release program which has resulted in things like in my home state about a year ago uh... they had a uh... individual on the terrorist watch list come across the border they had them and they released him into the country he was here for a year before he was picked up he's a member of al shabab uh... the terrorist group al shabab he was picked up in minneapolis recently so the uh... the process is moving forward and i expect the uh... | ||
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articles will pass out of committee and then we'll pass it off the floor It's a process. | |
| The precedent here, there hasn't been a cabinet official impeached in 148 years, and you've had several constitutional scholars weigh in, including one who said, whatever else Mayorkas may or may not have done, he has not committed bribery, treason, or high crimes and misdemeanors. | ||
| I urge principled Republicans who care about the Constitution to oppose those in their party who are seeking to impeach and remove Mayorkas. | ||
| That's Alan Dershowitz, who was a defender of Donald Trump in the first impeachment. | ||
| And then there's also this. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| I don't think they have established any of those bases for impeachment. | ||
| The fact is impeachment is not for being a bad cabinet member or even being a bad person. | ||
| It is a very narrow standard. | ||
| That was Jonathan Turley, who also agreed with your assessment during the Trump impeachment efforts, which they were political, there wasn't enough due process, and lacked precedent. | ||
| How do you respond to that? | ||
| Oh, I think there's been plenty of due process. | ||
| You've got an individual who's testified before every other committee in the Senate, in the House, perhaps more than any other cabinet member, and yet he won't come in and testify in front of the Homeland Security Committee. | ||
| Uh, to explain why it is he has literally been violating, willfully violating, the Immigration and Naturalization Act by failing to detain individuals who are coming across our southern border illegally, and there are other legal violations. | ||
| I have great respect For all of these constitutional experts, but the facts speak for themselves, and I think what you'll see coming out of committee now, because I'm assuming those interviews have been taking place before all of the debate, what you're seeing coming out of committee is I believe they will find that he has willfully Disobeyed existing laws. | ||
| He's willfully violated or abused and ignored the parole law in this country. | ||
| And that's why I think, ultimately, he should have resigned long ago. | ||
| You've got 8.3 million people that come across the border under his watch. | ||
| 1.57 million gotaways. | ||
| This is outrageous. | ||
| Remember when Jay Johnson, who was under the The Obama administration said a thousand a day was a crisis. | ||
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There is no question. | |
| This is well beyond that. | ||
| The solution among some of your Republican House colleagues is to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas. | ||
| They had that long 13-hour hearing yesterday. | ||
| Perhaps it did come out of that committee. | ||
| We'll see if there's enough votes to get it done in the larger House. | ||
| But what is your reaction to that process, to that attempt, when even the Wall Street Journal this morning saying this does not qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors? | ||
| You should not impeach someone based on policy disputes. | ||
| You have Republican senators saying this is a distraction, a waste of time. | ||
| Let's take this border deal that's being put in front of us. | ||
| What's your response to that vote out of that committee in the House yesterday to impeach Mayorkas? | ||
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Yeah, House Republicans are engaged in another partisan political stunt. | |
| They apparently have been ordered to do so by Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| Because these are the individuals who are basically running the House. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Okay, thank you. | ||
| Couldn't even get to the end to open the show because... Remember, Willie Geist and Mika are telling you, the Republican senators say, just take the deal. | ||
| Take this border security deal. | ||
| There's so much going on today, we're going to break it all down for you, and here's why. | ||
| Because you are the protagonist. | ||
| You're the driver of action in this audience, and we've got a lot of work to do. | ||
| I want to thank Parker Sig, Rob Sig, the entire team, Real America's Voice, folks in Denver, everybody, for making the last two days at the Republican, the precursor to the Republican National Committee, a lot of updates on that. | ||
| We're going to get to it. | ||
| But we've got to deal with Remember, by the way, it's Wednesday, 31 January, Year of the Lord 2024. | ||
| 150 years we have not impeached, and they keep saying all the headlines is it moved forward, it approved, no. | ||
| They voted to impeach Mayorkas last night, 18 to 15 I think it was. | ||
| A hat tip, and I realize she's quite controversial, And I realize a lot of times the war room itself and the war room posse get sideways with her. | ||
| But this is 100% the work of Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| Back a year ago, she said she was going to bring, she brought the first impeachment effort up and she said she was going to call a vote every day if she had to, to finally drive this. | ||
| I can't tell you, and I've been the first to say, we can't chase shiny toys. | ||
| This is not a shiny toy because it cuts to the heart of what they're trying to do in the Senate. | ||
| So for the first time in 150 years since I think the Secretary of War, Belknap, was impeached back after the Civil War, I think it was 1876. | ||
| Man, there was some wild stuff happening back then, wasn't it? | ||
| It doesn't get covered enough in American history. | ||
| They had so many contested presidential elections, they had to pass the Electoral Count Act of 18, was it 1887? | ||
| Of course, Mitt Romney, those guys, changed that law. | ||
| Tried to change it. | ||
| It's unconstitutional what they did. | ||
| Tried to change it in an omnibus. | ||
| Tuck it into an omnibus a couple of years ago. | ||
| That showed what everybody was doing on that day of January 6th to bring the Green Bay Sweep to the floor of the House and the Senate was absolutely 1,000% appropriate. | ||
| And Judas Pence was the guy that didn't understand the law. | ||
| He and his team didn't understand it or just violated it. | ||
| Once again, back to that error. | ||
| We have now impeached the Homeland Committee. | ||
| The Homeland Security Committee has impeached Mayorkas and sent it to the floor. | ||
| Buried lead. | ||
| Here's the signal. | ||
| The Senate is so freaked out about this. | ||
| Red state Democrats. | ||
| Tester, Casey, the entire crowd are so panicked, so panicked, the guys down in Georgia. | ||
| They want to bury this thing. | ||
| They're going to send it to a committee first. | ||
| They're not going to go up and put it on trial, which they're supposed to, after the House vote. | ||
| So this thing is getting heat. | ||
| Here's the reason. | ||
| It cuts to the heart of this amnesty bill that the Senate, that Lankford and the Traders in the Senate have pushed forward, because here's where they messed up. | ||
| Everything in that Senate bill is that is to be done. | ||
| And right now, Biden could do all of it. | ||
| Okay, he can do all of it if he wanted to. | ||
| We know that he could do all of it. | ||
| Just listen to President Trump. | ||
| Right now, it all depends upon Mallorca's desire to implement it. | ||
| So not just is a phony codification, is it a total codification of the invasion of the United States of America? | ||
| And any Republican that votes for that should be turfed out. | ||
| And this is all driven by Mitch McConnell. | ||
| Mitch McConnell, the NRSC, Danes, that entire crowd. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| They are not our allies. | ||
| They are not MAGA. | ||
| In fact, I would respectfully submit that they are enemies of this Republic. | ||
| They kowtow to the big donors, and this is a big donor bill because it gives the work permits immediately to, I don't know, six, seven, eight million illegal alien invaders, and that will crush the black working class or crush the Hispanic working class in this country. | ||
| So hat tip to her. | ||
| She drove this thing through. | ||
| And this is what we're talking about. | ||
| Action, action, action. | ||
| You just can't continually talk. | ||
| Sometimes you have to get in there and plow through it. | ||
| And last night was not pretty. | ||
| It was ugly. | ||
| They won ugly, I think, at midnight. | ||
| The vote finally went down after battling the Democrats the entire time. | ||
| Vote was 18 to 15. | ||
| We have three aspects that are moving forward on Capitol Hill that you're in the middle of the fight. | ||
| Let me break down this fight for a second so you can see the battle space. | ||
| We have the overall budget and the CR and they continue to tap that along. | ||
| We're going to get another CR. | ||
| That battle right there with the $2 trillion deficit. | ||
| At the same time, you have the supplemental. | ||
| That's another hundred billion dollars. | ||
| And that supplemental, they've held our border hostage to get to your crane money. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| As the world has predicted for many years, there's now an active coup underway between the military and Zelensky, and Ben Harnow is going to be here in a minute to explain that to me. | ||
| And Mayorkas is getting impeached here at the same time that Texas is throwing down, and other states are coming to their back on a constitutional crisis on the southern border. | ||
| This is all merging in together into one thing. | ||
| We're going to get Ben on in a second. | ||
| I want to go to Todd Bensman, though. | ||
| Todd, you've got another report up that's going to make people's head blow up, but I want to kind of go through some pieces so the posse can understand what our marching orders are today. | ||
| I want to go to Majorca's. | ||
| I'll come back to your great piece about how the American... Just understand something, folks. | ||
| You are, and this is about this budget and about not fighting and the woken and weaponized, your tax dollars. | ||
| The great tragedy here is the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own country. | ||
| The most patriotic people in the country, the most patriotic, that pay their taxes, raise their family, send their sons and daughters to volunteer to go into the military, and then they get transferred out. | ||
| They get sent all over hell's half acre and protecting other borders, like protecting the border between Jordan and Syria. | ||
| Right? | ||
| To die there from the Georgia soldiers who were deployed there to die protecting that border instead of our own border. | ||
| But let's talk about this impeachment for a second. | ||
| Todd Bensman, the Democrats are flapping around. | ||
| We started that with Tom Emmer. | ||
| Tom Emmer is not a fire breather. | ||
| He is the whip. | ||
| He's a guy that tried to run for Speaker, and President Trump came out against him. | ||
| He's not fully MAGA. | ||
| He's 100%. | ||
| Willfully violated. | ||
| We have all the laws in the books we need, and right now, while they're trying to push this phony bill, Todd Bensman, we have for the first time in over 150 years, a Cabinet Secretary impeached at a committee level for willfully violating the laws of the United States of America. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Well, all of this reminds me, you probably remember just a few years ago when Barack Obama was in office, he was asked, why do you keep deporting and detaining people? | ||
| Why won't you stop doing that? | ||
| Illegal immigrants. | ||
| And Obama turned around to him and said, because it's the law. | ||
| I have to do this because the law says I have to do this. | ||
| And I am not a king. | ||
| And Joe Biden is not a king anymore than Barack Obama was on this issue. | ||
| And he certainly doesn't have any, you know, Mayorkas is certainly not one of the king's men who can just decide not to follow the law. | ||
| The president has it, you mentioned already, the president has it within his authority to order his appointee, DHS, to do the same thing. | ||
| Under INA 212F, go look it up. | ||
| The section 212F says that the president can on a whim shut down the border, 100% returning 100% of all illegally entering aliens into Mexico. | ||
| This is not something that, you know, he can't do or has to, you know, make a law about. | ||
| It's already there. | ||
| Like you mentioned, he's not a king who can just decide what not to do and what, what he wants to do. | ||
| And that's what they're, that's what's going on here, really. | ||
| I mean, that's what this is about. | ||
| I don't think the impeachment, I mean, obviously the numbers aren't there to succeed. | ||
| They can't get it. | ||
| They'll never remove him in the higher chamber. | ||
| That's not the point. | ||
| But hang on, but hang on, hang on. | ||
| This is a tough vote. | ||
| We now know, and everybody on Capitol Hill is talking about it, the Democrats are not just going to take this up and say, oh, they have no support. | ||
| The red state Senate Democrats are panicked about having to take this vote. | ||
| This is how much the American people worked up right now about this guy and about the border. | ||
| So, hey, is he going to be removed in a trial at the Senate? | ||
| Highly unlikely. | ||
| OK, but it doesn't mean that you're not going to have a ton of these red state Democrats to save themselves because they understand how Biden has opened up the border to an invasion. | ||
| The purpose of the trial in the Senate is just like the purpose of the debate in the House, folks. | ||
| Don't don't lose the plot here. | ||
| The purpose, and this is why we need platforms to adjudicate, you're going to put in front of the nation in this debate in the House over the impeachment of Mayorkas. | ||
| Not something that's on a committee that you're watching on C-SPAN or you're seeing because you come to the signal, not the noise of the war room. | ||
| You're going to put before the nation to galvanize all the media. | ||
| They're going to debate exactly why Mayorkas willfully violated what you just said, the laws of this country. | ||
| What you just said, Todd, 0.0001% of the United States knows that. | ||
| This vote in the House does that and the trial in the Senate, and I'm telling you right now, the Democrats are going to try to bury this. | ||
| They're going to try to put it to a committee instead of coming up for a vote right away. | ||
| Ben's been, hang on for a second, you've been all over this for years, and now it's culminating in a massive fight on Capitol Hill. | ||
| Also, Ben Harnwell from Rome on the coup in Ukraine. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K Vance. | |
| Okay, we've got Richard Stern. | ||
| We're going to try to get Dave Bradd up. | ||
| He's on the road. | ||
| We've got Philip Patrick. | ||
| We've got a lot to go through on the economy, tax cuts, all this deficit, to make sure that you're insiders. | ||
| Hornwell's up. | ||
| Hornwell's been all over this. | ||
| I really want to give a hat tip to Ben about how he's, you know, we've been talking about this for over a year, but it's happening in real time in Ukraine right now. | ||
| So the globalists and capital have a big problem. | ||
| This whole thing they've been pushing To codify the opening of the border and to ship 60 billion dollars of your money over to Ukraine is falling apart in real time before our eyes because if we keep hammering and hammering and hammering and hammering all of the facade of their lives will crack and crumble and you're seeing this now. | ||
| This thing in Ukraine, and have prayers for the Ukrainian people, because the hell they've been put through, I don't think is anything like the hell they're about to be put through. | ||
| And this is 1 million percent on the doorstep of the Atlanticist, Atlantic Magazine, Stavridis, all these scumbags at MSNBC, all these people, consultants, all this, the Davos crowd, the City of London, Brussels, Jake Sullivan, Blinken, Biden, The blood of the Ukrainian people are in your hands. | ||
| If this thing breaks out to a civil war between the Ukrainian people, which looks like it could be happening, that's 1 million percent on you guys. | ||
| President Trump said he could do this in 48 hours. | ||
| I think President Trump could do it in 12 hours. | ||
| But this is Boris Johnson blinking this entire crowd and you compare what we have told you on the show from the day of the invasion, you compare that what you heard on CNN and Fox News and MSNBC, the incompetence, the malfeasance, the lies, all of it. | ||
| And you see where Ukraine is right now, where you essentially have a military coup. | ||
| They can call it anything they want. | ||
| But when a guy's the president in a country that the military's supposed to report to the president, and Zelensky's a world figure, right? | ||
| They made him into this, you know, the mini Churchill. | ||
| And by the way, a lot of conservative fanboys were in back of that too. | ||
| This little scumbag. | ||
| When the military says, when he says, hey, you're fired, call a meeting, fire a guy, and then go in the room. | ||
| Nah, I don't think so. | ||
| I don't think we're going to do that. | ||
| That's called a coup. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Kind of what somewhat happened to President Trump with the scumbag military leaders and generals you've got leading the greatest troops in the world, the United States military. | ||
| We'll come back to that in a second. | ||
| Bensman, I want to go to the second historical, because folks, we are living in historical times. | ||
| Don't take it from me. | ||
| Take it from the main actors in this. | ||
| There's a constitutional crisis. | ||
| brewing on the southern border about the concept of the sovereignty of our nation. | ||
| It gets down very simple. | ||
| The sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the United States of America, what they argued to put all that money in Ukraine, we said was the most important on the southern border. | ||
| And now you have a major constitutional crisis. | ||
| Todd, you've spent your career, in fact, most of your career, you've been with Texas DPS and you've been in the intelligence operation out there. | ||
| You know it better than anybody. | ||
| Texans are not going to back off this. | ||
| Now we've got the Lieutenant Governor, other people, and you've got other governors, Nome, Stitz, others, I think DeSantis, others prepared to send, and actually prepared to call their National Guard back from Sub-Saharan Africa, right, or East Africa, and to call them back and to send them to the Texas border. | ||
| Right now, although the Supreme Court ruled, it looks like the federal government hasn't gone in and cut any wire. | ||
| Give us an update, and do you agree we have a constitutional crisis down there? | ||
| I wouldn't call it a crisis, but it's definitely a dispute. | ||
| This is all about control of the dirt down there along the riverbank. | ||
| Who gets to do what with that dirt and on that dirt? | ||
| Texas Governor Greg Abbott is saying that dirt is mine. | ||
| I'm the state. | ||
| That's state dirt. | ||
| And I'm going to put concertina wire and deploy my forces all along that. | ||
| And he's right. | ||
| Uh, but the federal government is saying, well, uh, you know, that's our dirt and, you know, we're going to do what we want with it. | ||
| Uh, and to a certain extent that at least the Supreme court, uh, has temporarily ruled that, that they're right. | ||
| So, uh, the question is what's going to happen as a result of it. | ||
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And I think ultimately this will all be so. | |
| Oh, put a pen in it for a second. | ||
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Hang on. | |
| Let me say, it's not a crisis. | ||
| They did what Andrew Jackson did. | ||
| When he says it's not a crisis, the Supreme Court has ruled and the state of Texas goes, yeah, I think we overrule you on that. | ||
| And the government, because Biden understands the optics here will look terrible when his federal authorities go down and cut the razor wire to allow more processing because folks understand something. | ||
| What Langford has done, everything on this bill is about processing more illegal alien invaders into this nation quicker and deeper. | ||
| Here's how much money Langford has allocated to President Trump's wall. | ||
| The wall that we know will at least be an interim barrier. | ||
| We didn't say it was a final solution. | ||
| Interim barrier. | ||
| And this entire thing. | ||
| Here's what Langford thinks. | ||
| of President Trump. | ||
| Here's what Langford and McConnell think of the MAGA movement. | ||
| Here's what they think about the sovereignty of this nation and the sovereignty of our citizens. | ||
| Not one penny to the wall. | ||
| That's just in your grill. | ||
| That's just to show you, hey, Trump, yeah, you had a couple years there, fine, but we got our own way and we're going to codify an invasion for our donors. | ||
| So Todd, when you say it's not a crisis, you've had, I don't remember And now they're talking about a morning MECA. | ||
| They're going to nationalize the National Guard. | ||
| They're going to federalize the National Guard. | ||
| They're actually going to sit there and go, well, Kristi Noem, you want to send troops, and Stitch, you want to send troops, and DeSantis, you want to send troops. | ||
| The 25 governors have backed up Babbitt. | ||
| They're going to say, hey, tough guy, those are actually our troops. | ||
| Not just is the dirt not yours, your people are not yours. | ||
| They may be in the Texas National Guard, but they're going to be cutting the wire on our side. | ||
| How do you say that's not a crisis, sir? | ||
| Yeah, just, I mean, the way I, I, I define crisis as if, you know, uh, guys who have guns pull them, uh, or start having fisticuffs over, uh, you know, where there's use of force down, but that's my definition. | ||
| I don't see that happening. | ||
| I think this is going to be, but I do think that, um, there are, You know, far-reaching implications about having to do with what the Supreme Court ultimately rules here, like who can do what on the dirt and whose authority supersedes whose authority down there, and that's going to matter a lot. | ||
| Um, those matters are not settled right now, but I'm just not going to, I'm not, I have heard people say, Oh yeah, they're good. | ||
| And actually there have been cases of, you know, there have been heated moments where they're like nose to nose, these guys saying, this is my, these are my immigrants. | ||
| No, they're not. | ||
| You turn those immigrants over to me. | ||
| You know, that sort of thing has been going on there, but you know, people kind of ultimately stand back. | ||
| But I do think that there will be long-term implications here, depending on what goes on. | ||
| Well, hang on. | ||
| I did say, I'd love your Texas analysis of a crisis, and I agree. | ||
| When they start pulling out the guns and they start beating each other, that's a true crisis. | ||
| But you don't get to that until you get to the middle. | ||
| I said constitutional crisis, and you got one right now. | ||
| Chip Roy. | ||
| And I realize a lot of people have a problem with Chip because of the DeSantis situation, just like with the MTG and Herb McCarthy thing, and I got that. | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| And I understand the anger. | ||
| And I understand the mistrust. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| I fully understand that. | ||
| However, there are people that drive the action. | ||
| And when you drive the action, he's, you know, chips. | ||
| Uh, very admired in the House because he gets stuff done. | ||
| Chip's saying that the Supreme Court, that what's happening down on the border, that if it continues to go forward and continues to rule on an interim basis, he compares that, Bensman, to the Dred Scott decision. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And he makes the case now, if Dred Scott was done now, would people obey it? | ||
| They understand that if they'd fought it back in, what, 1857, 1858, you might not have gotten, to your point, to a shooting war amongst brothers. | ||
| So do you think we're in a constitutional crisis down there? | ||
| I mean, tell me the way out right now. | ||
| I mean, I think the way out is that they're going to fight this out in court, and the justices are going to rule. | ||
| The Supremes are going to rule. | ||
| The fact that this is all happening at the Supreme Court level, that these decisions all have to—they go quick. | ||
| I mean, they're like mainlined straight to the Supreme Court, these things. | ||
| So that does indicate that this is very legally serious. | ||
| These questions are legally serious. | ||
| And I guess you could call that part of it a crisis. | ||
| But hang on for a second. | ||
| This is what Chip Royce is saying and kind of what Abbott's saying. | ||
| If they take it all the way to the court and the court goes, hey, we thought about this and we concluded with Roberts and Comey, Barrett and some others, it looks like they've been intimidated by the mob up there saying, no, Texas has got to let them cut, the Fed's got to come down and cut the wire. | ||
| According to everybody that's saying it right now, from Chip Roy to Lieutenant Governor Patrick to Attorney General Paxton to the governor of the state, Abbott, who's no fire breather, they're going to say, hey, we hear you, but it ain't happening. | ||
| So if that's the case, what happens, sir? | ||
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Right. | |
| Well, then it gets interesting. | ||
| I don't think there'll be violence still, but it does get interesting because Abbott and his people, and I've talked to senior state leaders, so I know what their thinking is right now, is that there is nothing in any of these rulings that says that we can't put wire down. | ||
| The rulings are just that the federal government can take the wire down if they want. | ||
| That's their loophole. | ||
| So they're going to keep building. | ||
| If the Feds come in and tear it down, they're going to come in and they're going to rebuild it. | ||
| And it'll be like this. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But here's the problem. | ||
| I tell you, we're going to go to break. | ||
| Todd, please hang on. | ||
| We've got Ben, we've got Stern, we've got Bensman. | ||
| We have nothing but hitters this morning. | ||
| Here's the issue. | ||
| If Biden allows that to happen, and he allows MAGA, and Patrick, and Paxton, and Abbott, and the great folks in the Republic of Texas to say, hey, we can put the, they interpreted it that way, he doesn't move, his approval among Democrats will crater. | ||
| He will show, and he will show the world. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| He's trying to be a wise guy. | ||
| He got his bluff called. | ||
| He got his bluff called. | ||
| And he's got his bluff called, I believe, by people that understand the sovereignty of the state of Texas. | ||
| The territorial integrity of the state of Texas is more important than what Joe Biden wants to do to get reelected. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | |
| Bye. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Okay, Lou Murray is going to join us a little later, I think, this morning. | ||
| I'll try again. | ||
| He's got a great piece in the Boston Herald about every town, a border town, about what's happening to Boston, right, because of this. | ||
| I've got Todd Bensman. | ||
| Ben Harnwell is going to join us about this coup that's going on, but I got Richard Stern from Heritage. | ||
| Let me get Richard in for a minute, and then I'm going to come back to Harnwell and to Bensman. | ||
| Richard, and I want to talk about this tax, this other tax fiasco they are going. | ||
| But I've got Harnwell in Rome who's going to be reporting from the Times of London and the Guardian and all this. | ||
| I mean there's a coup going on right now in Ukraine. | ||
| Zelensky has had a fallout with his top field commander, the military head of the uniformed services, told him in a meeting to his face, I'm calling for your resignation, you're going to have to step down. | ||
| The guy goes, I've got to think about that, but I don't think I'm going to do it. | ||
| Zelensky talked to a couple other guys and said, no, you can't do that. | ||
| So the military has actually stood up to him. | ||
| So in the middle of trying to push this Ukraine $60 billion, as we've said for a long time, the government over there is coming apart because they're not winning the war. | ||
| The spring offensive failed. | ||
| At the same time, we've had Benzman on here about the impeachment of Mayorkas, who's central to this fiasco, this sellout on the border bill, which is really an amnesty bill. | ||
| You've got Texas in a standoff. | ||
| You've got a constitutional crisis down there. | ||
| You've got Mayorkas for the first time in 150 years. | ||
| Just tell me, you know this city better than anybody. | ||
| How can they continue to go forward with these massive spending programs on these topics Where everything they've told the people about it are a lie, and it's all collapsing around them, sir. | ||
| Well, you know, as you know, this wouldn't be the first tyrannical government that we funded and then collapsed under its own weight. | ||
| But, you know, you hit the nail on the head, right? | ||
| The DC cartel does this. | ||
| They steal your money through taxes and through inflation, and then they blow it on their donors, right? | ||
| We have known from the get-go on this. | ||
| This money isn't really about Ukraine. | ||
| In fact, truth be told, most of the money doesn't physically go to Ukraine. | ||
| It goes to U.S. | ||
| defense contractors. | ||
| So it's money that doesn't go to the private sector, money that doesn't go to producing goods and services that benefit Americans. | ||
| Instead, it goes to companies whose headquarters are in D.C., whose lobbying arms are almost larger than what they actually produce, who take this money and produce things and send it abroad. | ||
| And that's part of how we've ended up with $260,000 in debt per household. | ||
| And, you know, this tax bill we're looking at, it's another one of these as well. | ||
| Okay, I've got to get to this, and this is why I really appreciate you changing your schedule. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| I've mentioned a couple of times, but quite frankly, I knew something was wrong, but I couldn't figure it out. | ||
| The Hill newspaper today, which is, people understand, we quote the Hill a lot because it's kind of the tip sheet of what's going on up there, but it ain't MAGA by a long shot. | ||
| The Hill newspaper this morning, and I want to lay out, you've got a child tax credit, an additional child tax credit. | ||
| And you've got this then some temporary relief for entrepreneurs. | ||
| And we love entrepreneurs. | ||
| We're the entrepreneur show. | ||
| We love the fact entrepreneurs out there and we understand they need regulatory relief and tax relief. | ||
| But that's a fig leaf over what they want with this child, this child, a tax credit. | ||
| They're saying, oh, well, we're just taking it from the COVID money. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And we used to have some of the COVID companies on here that get the tax relief. | ||
| You know, if you've had employees go there and get it, they got to pull that capital and they think it's tap. | ||
| They think all those claims are basically gone. | ||
| So it's about $50 billion. | ||
| They're trying to use that, but This is a Keynesian infusion. | ||
| At the exact moment, we shouldn't be doing any more Keynesian infusions of more federal stimulus. | ||
| Number two, this is the most direct payoff for Biden's constituents that I've seen since they tried to get the working class people in this country to pay for the debt on colleges. | ||
| Now the Hill, and that's what I ask you, they've come up and said, yo, yo guys, you're not really counting this correctly. | ||
| That because all these guys in the committee saying, oh, this thing kind of pays for itself. | ||
| You got the COVID tax relief. | ||
| It's $400 billion. | ||
| Not me. | ||
| I knew something was wrong, but the Hill guys did it. | ||
| Richard, $400 billion added to the deficit if you pass this bill for the child tax credit. | ||
| Is that directionally, are you guys at Heritage coming up with the same kind of directional number? | ||
| We will be lucky if it is that low. | ||
| So, you hit the nail on the head on that one. | ||
| You know, this is the old thing that Milton Friedman talked about, that there's nothing so permanent as a temporary government program. | ||
| So, you're absolutely right. | ||
| This quote, pay for, is a fixed pot of money. | ||
| It is the $78 billion they're talking about, and there's not another dime you can take out of that. | ||
| So, JCT, the formal scorekeepers within Congress, Tax Foundation, the Hill, their numbers you talked about, they're looking at hundreds and hundreds of billions if these things are made permanent. | ||
| Out all the way to one and a half trillion dollars of new deficits. | ||
| And so that's asking the Fed to print money. | ||
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| Go back. | ||
| The Hill's saying this child tax—explain it to people—that this is not going to be—they're just not going to be able to set it offside. | ||
| Okay, for the COVID tax relief stuff, if programmatically there's nobody else qualified, and that's what they're kind of saying, they've got to basically everybody, The $70 billion should be an offset. | ||
| The $70 billion should just be wiped out and say, hey, guess what? | ||
| We took our first thing at trying to get the deficit down, but $70 billion that we're not going to spend. | ||
| But even the offset, the Hill saying $400 billion, you just said $1.5 trillion. | ||
| How do you get, from something they're telling the people, that it's offset, you don't have to worry about this, we're not going to increase the deficit because it's an offset with the COVID tax money, how do you get, they're at $400 billion, how did you get to $1.5 trillion? | ||
| Well I will say, even in the Hill article, they say it's between $400 and $1.4 trillion, depending on exactly what happens. | ||
| And that speaks to the uncertainty of what's going on. | ||
| Tax Foundation's figures are $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. | ||
| Everyone's kind of in the same ballpark of that range. | ||
| It's a huge range because of that uncertainty. | ||
| So to the point you were bringing up there, what this bill does is it provides really slight partial things through the next 20 months. | ||
| But we all know these are going to be permanent things. | ||
| Now I will say the core of the business provisions, those are good for small businesses, for large businesses. | ||
| Here's the rub though, the way they're actually written in this bill, Most of that money is retroactive payments, i.e. | ||
| corporate welfare, to a handful of large companies. | ||
| In fact, 57% of the net benefits in the bill are going to go to companies that use the interest deduction. | ||
| These are tech startups. | ||
| These are financial companies and Wall Street. | ||
| These are not your mom and pop small business firms, right? | ||
| So, you know, the bill here is pretending as if it's giving permanent, long-term, broad-based expensing provisions. | ||
| It's really not, it's really written to mostly be this corporate welfare. | ||
| Then as you brought up on the child tax credit part of it, 91.5% of it isn't the actual child tax credit. | ||
| It's the additional part. | ||
| That's all welfare money. | ||
| And illegal aliens can get access to that because you only need an ID, an identification number, not a social security number as the tax filer to claim that credit. | ||
| So this is a massive expansion of welfare benefits. | ||
| That illegal aliens get access to. | ||
| And when Trump was in, he did a lot to close that, but he got as much as he could. | ||
| He couldn't close that loophole all the way. | ||
| This bill is driving a Mack truck through it. | ||
| Richard, explain to our audience how this happens on Capitol Hill. | ||
| You've got the hardest-working audience out here. | ||
| They want to be fair. | ||
| They're decent, hard-working Americans. | ||
| But how do we get in a situation where we have $2 to $2.5 trillion deficits on this fiasco of the federal budget, and they're spending all their time On this supplemental to get $160 billion to Ukraine to put some more money to process illegal aliens quicker, not one penny to the wall. | ||
| And now they're coming up, oh, we're going to help children, and it's going to be offset. | ||
| It could be up to a trillion and a half additional to the deficit of money we don't have. | ||
| And at the same time, you find that the tax thing is not really to the mom and pop entrepreneurs that support this show. | ||
| It's basically the Wall Street firms and Silicon Valley tech startups. | ||
| How does this happen? | ||
| Tell us how the swamp works, because this is the core of the problem in our nation right now. | ||
| It absolutely is. | ||
| So the thing the swamp, but I like to call it the DC cartel, but either works, right? | ||
| The thing they figured out decades ago is if you tax somebody, they're aware that you're taxing them. | ||
| But if you print money out of the Fed, if you run deficits, if you crowd out private borrowing, it shows up as inflation. | ||
| It shows up as mortgage rates that spike. | ||
| But that doesn't feel direct. | ||
| In fact, if you poll most Americans right now, They don't think that's why mortgage rates are unattainable for most people. | ||
| They don't think that's what's causing inflation. | ||
| They think it's corporate price gouging more than anything else. | ||
| So, you know, what's happening here is they figured out this way where they can steal your money through inflation, through boxing out private firms from growing, through boxing out people from buying homes. | ||
| In credit markets, and that's how they're stealing. | ||
| And it's not the money, it's your purchasing power. | ||
| They're stealing the value in the money and then spending it. | ||
| So that way it gives them this ability from a political standpoint to give as much value as they want to their friends, their donors, their special interests, and to not get blamed for having directly taxed somebody. | ||
| And I'll give you one even better on this. | ||
| Taxes a lot of times are on the wealthy, they're on big corporations. | ||
| Now, you know, I believe that trickles down to people. | ||
| But it feels like it's on those people. | ||
| Inflation? | ||
| It's on the lower-income people. | ||
| It's on the middle class, right? | ||
| In fact, the middle class and lower-income Americans feel inflation spikes more than anybody else in the country. | ||
| So they have managed to figure out a way to tax the middle class and to tax the working poor in a way that no one had figured out how to do politically before. | ||
| And that's why we've got to stop them. | ||
| That's why we've got to shine a floodlight on this. | ||
| Okay, Richard, what should our audience do today? | ||
| First, I want to get people smart on this, and I want to do it quickly. | ||
| This thing, Johnson's Day is going to bring it to the floor this week, and I mean, it's mind-boggling because the illegal aliens get access to this. | ||
| Where do people go right now, either your social media, what you're working on at Heritage, to get smart about this? | ||
| Well, you can go to my Twitter at Rich A. Stern. | ||
| You'll find work there done by my colleagues, Preston Beshears, Robert Ruckdir, Joe Griffith, and we've done a lot of work, put a report, a few op-eds out on this. | ||
| I got some sad news for you, though. | ||
| So it's now formally, as of I think about 20 minutes ago, formally on the suspension calendar for tonight in the House of Representatives. | ||
| For your audience, by the way, the suspension calendar is exactly what it sounds like. | ||
| It is a suspension of the rules of the House of Representatives, waiving all of the things against it that would prohibit its consideration of the normal rules. | ||
| This is where they try to cram this through. | ||
| Without a real vote on it, without real debate or consideration on it. | ||
| So tragic news, to be honest. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| They suspend it because it's all Democrat votes. | ||
| Johnson swore. | ||
| An oath to heaven, he wasn't going to use the suspension. | ||
| Every time he's got to get something that's massive spending, he uses Democrat votes. | ||
| Then he just gets the worst of the worst in the Republican Party to back it. | ||
| He swore he wasn't going to use the suspension. | ||
| Anytime they're using the suspension rule, you understand something's up. | ||
| They're trying to jam you. | ||
| So anyway, we'll get to work here. | ||
| People should go there. | ||
| Richard, thank you so much for making this clear. | ||
| You guys do a fantastic job. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| This is the fight you've got to have if you want to get to a balanced budget, folks. | ||
| 202-225-3121. | ||
| I would strongly recommend you call your representatives, and particularly Speaker Johnson's. | ||
| And this is maybe you need Bill Blaster from Grace. | ||
| So Grace, you're going to get in the chats, and with Carly Bonet and our team over at Telegram, all the chat rooms, and make sure people sign up for Bill Blaster. | ||
| Because I'm sure Speaker Johnson is going to have you on MUSAC. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Not going to want to hear the outrage. | ||
| Remember, on this child tax credit, which is giving Biden a gift in an election year, why would you do that? | ||
| Tell me why. | ||
| One, giving him just a total freebie. | ||
| Two, it's more Keynesian stimulus at the exact time you don't need more Keynesian stimulus. | ||
| You have fiscal irresponsibility. | ||
| Right? | ||
| This is going to add to that. | ||
| You have monetary irresponsibility that the Fed can't even justify now why they're going to cut rates additionally. | ||
| And you've got Janet Yellen jamming the system in the most sophisticated quantitative easing ever to put liquidity in the system. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why do you ask this happening right now? | ||
| Let me think for a second. | ||
| Let me cogitate on this. | ||
| It's to stop Donald Trump. | ||
| It's to give a temporary hide to the economy to stop Trump. | ||
| And Republicans are now going to go along with this. | ||
| Johnson, and this shows you the big donors and backers. | ||
| Remember the mom and pop? | ||
| And that's where I knew something stunk about this. | ||
| I said, I can't figure out the entrepreneur side of this tax bill. | ||
| We're supposed to be the goodies for the, for the conservatives and Republicans. | ||
| It's really not there. | ||
| But the other illegal aliens are eligible for this. | ||
| Benzmann's gonna hang around. | ||
| We'll bring him back at the next break. | ||
| He's gonna talk to you about more that you're paying for, folks, your own destruction, the invasion of your country. | ||
| You are the underwriters. | ||
| Next in the War Room. | ||
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| They have all... | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | ||
| Okay, we know from Grace that the... | ||
| You call Johnson, it goes directly to voicemail. | ||
| So they're hiding from you. | ||
| That's where you gotta get Bill Blaster. | ||
| Let's go directly to it. | ||
| Other updates. | ||
| Cliff Bence, who's not exactly a fire breather from out in Oregon. | ||
| He's really been kind of opposed, on the fence, but opposed to the impeachment of Mayorkas. | ||
| Just said, hey, seeing what he saw yesterday, he's kind of coming down the side and impeaching Mayorkas. | ||
| So this thing is historic and it may actually go through and it ties. | ||
| It's not a shiny toy because it cuts to the heart. | ||
| of Biden doesn't need anything. | ||
| He's had every tool he's needed. | ||
| He initiated this. | ||
| They planned it, they executed, they organized it. | ||
| Also, Community Bank of New York, a financial fiasco there. | ||
| I'm going to get more to that in a second. | ||
| Our Philip Patrick's going to join me. | ||
| I noticed yesterday, in the last couple of days, the people in Nevada, in Las Vegas, for the RNC, for the Charlie Kirk Turnpike, USA, Couldn't have been a better crowd. | ||
| Love you guys, the county heads, the precinct strategy people, the precinct, all of it, just fantastic. | ||
| I did notice... | ||
| When I asked for a show of hands on my end of the dollar empire, right, there are a lot of my dog ate the homework. | ||
| So I need you guys to go free. | ||
| It's totally free. | ||
| I signed a couple of copies yesterday, by the way, because we need you as smart as the guys who work on Wall Street. | ||
| We just do. | ||
| Or the people that fund the D.C. | ||
| cartel or work as a political operatives, because you are the counterweight to that. | ||
| End of the Dollar Empire from Birch Gold. | ||
| Slash ban it. | ||
| Just get it right now. | ||
| Read it. | ||
| If you don't understand it all, it's fine. | ||
| Just get it. | ||
| Get used to the nomenclature, the terms, all that. | ||
| That's how you get smart. | ||
| This is a Socratic process to work you through. | ||
| Benzmann, I need you to explain to the American people exactly what they're underwriting and how it's being done off the books with these NGOs and particularly the religious organizations. | ||
| Not just your taxes, your charity donations are going to destroy your country, sir. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, when I was in studio with you a week or so ago, I told you that I was working on a piece about all the NGOs working under the United Nations In Latin America, 15 Latin American countries to distribute just hundreds of millions of dollars in aid all along the migrant trails, sort of helping to sustain their movement through there. | ||
| And now I've kind of broken it out and explained to you that the State Department's Population Migration and Refugee Bureau. | ||
| Is the one that is, and this is a Biden controlled political appointees run, uh, agency within the state department, uh, is shipping cash directly to a great many of these NGOs, which then turn around and that's taxpayer money, which then are turning around and dropping them, dropping all that aid as cash and food and shelter and everything to the immigrants down there. | ||
| My piece that just went up yesterday names them. | ||
| I just looked at the religious organizations. | ||
| I've got 248 of the NGOs listed in this piece. | ||
| You can click on the link, pull them all up and see who the NGOs are and how much money that they anticipate spending in 2024. | ||
| Well, it turns out that a lot of them are just passed through. | ||
| Organizations for Biden administration cash diversions. | ||
| The state department and the USAID are sending cash through. | ||
| I looked at about 30 of the 248, the religious organizations that are affiliated with, you know, the Catholics, the Jews, the Adventists, non-denominational evangelical groups. | ||
| And that those are the groups that I just looked at in the short time I had showing exactly how this works and what's going on down there. | ||
| All of this is part of a $1.6 billion plan for 2024 to aid and abet illegal immigration and they know that they're doing it. | ||
| They're planning documents Say we know that they're all headed to the US and they're providing transportation for it shelter for it cash debit cards for it through all of these different agencies and Here's why they're doing it, because their synagogues and their churches are empty. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They're empty, and they're using, these are their new recruits. | ||
| I said this about the diocese of New York years ago, when I was in the White House, and Dolan, I think, went off on me. | ||
| I said, dude, I've lived there, I've seen it. | ||
| This is their recruiting tool. | ||
| They're not doing it for some spiritual, oh, because of the call of God. | ||
| This is practical. | ||
| They're using your cash, They're not explaining to you where it's going, and this is how they're recruiting folks coming up. | ||
| 100%, the evangelicals do it, the Catholics are terrible, and I'm a Catholic, the Lutherans are just as bad, you got the Adventists, and now you got this Hebrew organization, and normally they're not guys who do a lot of evangelize, you know, they don't evangelize, but they're in this too, right? | ||
| All of them. | ||
| This is multi-denominational, is it not? | ||
| Yes, it is. | ||
| I mean, you know, and I'm getting pushback This morning from the Adventists, their public information officer is like emailing me saying, why are you attacking us and targeting us? | ||
| And I replied, I'm not targeting you. | ||
| I mean, I'm an equal opportunity. | ||
| I'm just dispassionately reporting that these religious groups are, you know, in the mix down there, providing aid to thousands and thousands of immigrants that they know are heading to the U.S. | ||
| border, because I suspect that The revelation that they're involved in this is kicking up some parishioner dust that people that are mad about. | ||
| They should. | ||
| Yeah, and I'm guessing that probably that there are Catholics that are mad about some of the stuff that I reported in this, but whatever, it's all public record. | ||
| And I'm not judging, I'm just saying you're down there. | ||
| You're helping, you're in the mix. | ||
| We're in the middle of a mass migration crisis. | ||
| You're dispatching, and that's the power of you. | ||
| We're not. | ||
| We're saying, hey, Catholic Charities, you guys are taking money from the government, you're taking money of false pretenses from the parishioners, and you're down there aiding and abetting the invasion of our country. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| Invasion of our country, and I think that's under treason. | ||
| Todd, real quickly, where do people go for your book, your writings, your amazing social media, all of it? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| The book is Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. | ||
| History. | ||
| That thing is still flying off the shelves right now. | ||
| You can get it at bookstores and at Amazon or Barnes and Noble or wherever you buy your books. | ||
| There's an audio version, too. | ||
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| You're fantastic, sir. | ||
| Todd Bensman, Center for Immigration Studies. | ||
| We're going to talk about this Langford Bill. | ||
| We're going to go talk about Ukraine. |
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