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Feb. 3, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 3365: Live Coverage From East Palestine: One Year Later
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unidentified
We'll be right back.
Emergency officials trying to get holdouts to evacuate as crews try to prevent an explosion from a train derailment.
Five of the cars that derailed were carrying vinyl chloride, which is associated with an increased risk of certain cancers.
The doctor says I most definitely have the chemicals in me.
They keep telling me to come up here, but nobody has nothing.
I watched as the cloud exploded over East Palestine.
The President of the United States did nothing.
The Vice President didn't bother coming here.
And I think it's disgraceful.
Real America's voice out here, we're not going to do that.
steve bannon
Good morning, East Palestine!
unidentified
I went downstream, stirred it up.
We're still getting that rainbow contamination.
It's everywhere.
There was vinyl chloride burning.
No one told us.
What kind of effect does that have on people?
All the different folks from around this general area have not had their well water tested by the EPA?
Correct.
ben bergquam
Every single person that I've talked to here locally says they aren't getting answers from Norfolk Southern, they're not getting answers from the EPA.
unidentified
You're leaving people in the dark.
Joe Biden said he would go to East Palestine and never has.
We just don't trust anything they say.
maureen bannon
The government is so quick to bail out the banks, but they're not willing to help out the citizens of East Palestine.
unidentified
They've given us all these problems.
Now we've got dead deer, three more yesterday.
The response has been disgusting from all of the agencies combined.
There are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing.
Don't worry about it since there are 1,000 train derailments a year.
Tell that to the people.
Your plight is our plight.
Amen.
ben bergquam
Your life is our life.
unidentified
Amen.
Your problems are our problems.
Amen.
I just want to say thanks a lot for having our back.
Without you, we would know a whole lot less than we know now.
A big God bless, God speed, and we love you and we will help you every way we can.
East Palestine, Ohio, you are our blood brothers.
The working people that have built this country and that we're going to depend to build this country going forward are being abused.
You're treated like trash.
You're just disposable.
And that's a mindset we have to get rid of.
How we get rid of it is throw these bombs out.
steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
unidentified
Bye.
Pray for our enemies.
steve bannon
Because we're going medieval on these people.
Here's how I got a free shot of 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.
steve bannon
I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
unidentified
MAGA Media.
jake tapper
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Babb.
steve bannon
Saturday, 3 February in the year of our Lord, 2024.
Last night I finished late.
I did not get back here to our makeshift studio until 2 in the morning from Prescott, Arizona, where the good folks in Prescott, and I gotta tell you, they're the backbone of the country, are very, very similar.
In fact, the exact same of the great patriots in East Palestine, Ohio.
We're gonna go now to Ben Berquam.
Real America's Voice has covered this non-stop.
Since it's happened, Ben, we've got many, many folks out there that we know that have been on our specials before.
Ben, set the table here, right?
Joe Biden's, you know, Joe Biden's, you know, bleeding now from East Palestine.
He's going to help him out.
He's going to come out and say some great things.
Walk me through what we got today, brother.
ben bergquam
Hey Steve, yeah we're back.
Today is the one year anniversary of the East Palestine disaster.
This is where we were last year at the roadhouse.
We're all over town.
We're going to be starting here at the roadhouse talking to some folks down here and then going around town talking to some business owners, talking to some locals that are trying to sell their properties, trying to get out of here.
I just want to show you real quick So, this is one of the creeks.
This is actually not the main creek, not Sulphur Creek, but this runs into Sulphur Creek, which is where the disaster came from.
But that field across the way, you can see, was actually one of the fields that flooded with all of the chemicals and everything that came from the derailment.
We're starting with Dr. Rick Chai, who's also a congressional candidate now, and who's treated many of the patients here.
To talk about exactly what's happened, where we're at now.
And Rick, you heard that.
You heard Joe Biden is finally coming.
He hasn't set foot in this town since this happened.
So we're going to be talking to the folks about that.
But Rick, just in a nutshell, what has the last year been for you guys?
unidentified
So the whole town is fractured both mentally and some physically.
I've been documenting the creeks for over a year now.
Just this weekend I took media down and right in that area there I dug dry dirt from the bank, chopped it up, threw it in the creek and chemicals come right out of the dirt.
The EPA says they can't find any evidence of chemicals.
I could teach a seven-year-old to do that and they can't find it with their millions of dollars and that's why I've decided to run A seat opened up, I'm running for Congress, D6, and I'm going to win this.
You know you're an outsider if Ted Nugent endorses you, so I'm going against two established politicians embedded like Alabama ticks, and I'm going to pry them out, and I'm going to win this.
Vote for me, Rick Chai.
My webpage is rickchai.com.
R-I-C-K-T-S-A-I.com.
It's the only way to bring justice to this area, and I'll fight for the entire D6.
ben bergquam
What did you see?
So when you're treating people, what kind of illnesses, what are you seeing?
unidentified
So rashes, headaches, I myself suffered welts, diarrhea, gastric problems are very common.
So I was the only doctor that I know that consistently went against the CDC and tested people's blood.
And a high ratio of people came up with benzene and vinyl chloride metabolites in their blood.
The EPA would say, well, maybe they pumped gas that day and got gas on their hands.
It's criminal what happened here and what's still happening here.
ben bergquam
Steve?
steve bannon
Yeah, Doctor, talk to me, because when we went out there and did our special, people know when I got back that night, we came all the way back to our DC studios, I couldn't even do the show the next day.
I was as sick as I've ever been, and I made a point of not drinking the tap water because you guys said, hey, it still hadn't been purified yet.
Go back through it.
What are people, you just went through some symptoms.
What are people getting out there?
I mean, what was it about the chemicals in the water and the burn off?
What has it done to the citizens?
What's the potential and what have you seen as symptoms?
unidentified
So that's the scary thing.
We don't know the long-term potential.
Like I said, the CDC has pretty much shut things down.
They're just placating everybody.
The symptoms from patients are migraines, sore throat.
The other day it was almost like Niagara Falls here, meaning there was like a mist, rain, And just hanging in the air when it rains or when it's misty or foggy.
It smells like an open can of paint here.
And I don't go around saying, hey, what's the town smell like?
You know, I got out of my truck and I was just hit with this in my face.
And then residents started talking about it.
So there's still chemicals.
There's that big blue building called Saram Fab, which the Chinese man came here to live the American dream and built that factory.
There are still chemicals under that building.
That was never addressed.
ben bergquam
We're gonna be heading over there in just a minute.
unidentified
Okay.
Yeah, so yeah, I was actually the only one allowed to tour that and There's water almost like a waterfall coming into his building constantly that he has to some pump out.
We have video of that It's just a tragedy what happened to his business.
And yes, people are still getting sick rashes mostly that I see headaches migraines And you mentioned that, Steve.
ben bergquam
As you said, every time I came here, I got sick, you stirred it up, you immediately, even driving into town, we drove down by that warehouse, you still smell that smell in the air.
Go ahead, Steve.
steve bannon
So Doctor, just walk through for the audience, what has been the official response?
Because when we were there, the EPN, these guys hadn't done a good job, but they had promised to come back, they promised to put resources in the community.
Because people like ourselves and others and you guys are making this a national or international incident.
So Biden at that time was promising the EPA director who had tried to go to Africa on some musical tour.
Everybody was saying, oh no, East Palestine's a priority.
We're going to put unlimited resources in there.
We'll take care of everybody.
Just walk folks through from your perspective what's happened since then.
unidentified
A few things.
Number one, we have not received one penny or one bottle of water from the federal government.
People like to use the word forgotten.
We were not forgotten.
They know we're here.
We were abandoned.
They know that we're here and I would hate to think that it's because we're a very Republican district that we're either being punished or abandoned.
But to kind of give you an example, the The director of the EPA here, the coordinator... Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it.
steve bannon
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Just put a pin in that right there.
Ben Burquam, you've done more than any single individual in this country of covering the invasion of the southern border.
If Dr. Sai's what he's telling us is correct, compare and contrast what the illegal alien invaders get when they come and invade our country versus what the American citizens in East Palestine get according to Dr. Sai.
ben bergquam
It's a slap in the face, Steve.
The illegals get everything, and this community got nothing.
I love that, how you said that, Dr. Chai, that they got not just abandoned, they're getting punished.
That's what's happening here, so we're rewarding Invaders into our country we're rewarding people that are breaking in and beating cops up in New York Letting them out so they can go wherever the hell they want to go.
We're giving them our money We're inviting them through Catholic charities and through all of these leftist Communist groups called NGOs and through the federal government were inviting our country to be invaded and the citizens of this town weren't just abandoned, they're being punished for loving America, for standing up for this country.
It's beyond a disgrace.
steve bannon
It's criminal.
Dr. Sy, is Catholic Charities, Catholic Relief, has the Lutheran Relief Fund, have any of these Christian or the Hebrew Relief Society, have any of the Jewish or the Christian or even the Adventist, have any of those been to East Palestine to see how the folks are doing and what they can do to help?
unidentified
Not to my knowledge.
And I will say, illegals, that is high on my priority list.
Not only from the drug deaths that I see in my own office, but I'm for closing the border yesterday, and I'm for getting the illegals out.
Out of our country.
ben bergquam
And what a slap in the face that Joe Biden... Slap in the... Go ahead, Steve.
steve bannon
It's a disgrace.
But continue on, Dr. Tsai.
You were about to say CDC when I went to Ben.
Continue on with your presentation.
unidentified
I may have been talking about the CDC.
Oh, no, no.
I was talking about one of the head officials that coordinates all the EPA activities here.
He gave a victory speech about a month ago at the crash site, and he gave a news conference, and he said, well, chemicals are down to pre-derailment levels, which I can talk about that, but that's all a farce, too.
But he then calls me privately At my office.
And I said, hey, I don't record anybody, let's just talk like men.
So he then says, you know, Rick, I can't believe those chemicals in your creek were all there before.
And so he tells the world something else.
He lies to the world while he tells me something different on the phone.
This is your EPA, the EPA that allowed Norfolk Southern to lay tracks down over contaminated soil and didn't stop them.
And they're still putting their citizens at risk.
That's the organization that's supposed to protect its citizens or residents.
I think it's disgusting and it's criminal.
steve bannon
Why would the EPA guy at that level, why would he call you?
What was the reason he called you?
unidentified
Because I called him out for something on my YouTube channel, ChaiPod, T-S-A-I-P-O-D, and he didn't like what I said, so he called me, and I was repeating something that someone else said in town, and he just wanted to talk about it.
So then we started talking man-to-man, and that's what he told me.
He told me something different.
He told me that he believes these chemicals were not all here before the derailment, which they're stating in press conferences.
And just this week they said that they can find absolutely no evidence of chemicals and I just told you I took the media down and threw dirt from the side of the creek and chemicals come out of the dried dirt.
We're being lied to.
There's been corruption, deception, and lies for an entire year here.
steve bannon
Okay, Ben, just hang on for a second.
We're going to hold Dr. Rick Sy, who's with us, who was gracious enough to spend time with us when we were down here.
He's now a candidate for Congress in the Republican primary.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
As you can tell, there's still a lot of, how do I say this, people that are quite worked up, and here's the reason.
I think Dr. Sy has got it.
It's not that they've been forgotten.
It's not even they've been abandoned.
They're being punished.
And you know what they're being punished for?
They're being punished for being the backbone of this country.
This is essentially the talk, or part of the talk I gave with Eli Crane and Kerry Lake last night in Prescott, Arizona, where the people that are the backbone of this nation, the people upon which the prosperity and peace of this nation rests, are the ones that are being punished by the globalists.
Short commercial break.
We're going to be back in The Worm.
Go back to East Palestine, Ohio.
Just a moment.
unidentified
Until they're all gone!
We rejoice when there's no more!
Let's take down the CCP!
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
steve bannon
Okay, we're going to go back to East Palestine, Ohio, on the one-year anniversary.
Our own Ben Burquam is there.
We're going to dedicate today to the folks in East Palestine.
We are going to be breaking some other news.
We've got some other people who are going to come on, particularly when we talk about globalization with Dr. Larry Swickert, the Patriot's History.
Also, we've got Seagal Chadha with a quite damning report coming from the RNC, where we were with Ben Burquam in Las Vegas this week.
Dr. Chai, is Dr. Chai still there?
Yeah, Dr. Chai, just go through what you think needs to be done.
If you had a chance to talk to the illegitimate Biden regime today, what would you tell them?
What are the two or three things for the good of the community and the citizens of East Palestine, what needs to be done?
unidentified
Well, actually on a list of people to meet with him when he comes into town.
And the government needs to buy the people out and then go after the entity that caused this.
The people that don't want to return to their contaminated homes, that are getting sick.
That's what needs done.
And a middle ground would be no or low interest loans that do not have to be paid back until the people sell their property.
Because these people can't pay two mortgages.
So that's what I need done.
steve bannon
Hold it, go back.
You're saying, I want to make sure I understand this.
Are you saying, and can you point to empirical evidence that the situation is so bad that people in a certain geographic area have to be bought out of their either homes or their businesses?
unidentified
Okay, so right here, case in point.
I tested this family for vinyl chloride metabolites and benzene.
The entire family came up with vinyl chloride in their system and benzene.
Wayne, unfortunately, had recently come down with male breast cancer, which is very rare.
He had a double mastectomy and he had radiation or chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy, yes.
Now, can it be proven?
No, the causation, but that's what these companies rely on because it's very hard to prove.
But he can tell you he's never really been sick in his entire life.
No.
I lived in the same house for 25 years.
The worst thing I've ever had was probably a strep throat.
Then 18 weeks after they blew up those cars, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
And one of the things that's been shown, women that work in factories with vinyl chloride have a higher incidence of breast cancer.
Studies have shown that vinyl chloride can lead to breast cancer.
So, there's empirical evidence right there.
ben bergquam
And Steve, I just want to follow up with that question, and we're going to go to Lonnie's house here in just a minute, but Lori, Steve was just asking the question, how do people feel about still living here when the EPA is telling you it's safe?
What is your message?
What is your thought on that?
unidentified
I think that they have convinced a lot of people That it is safe.
It is not safe.
Our own local government, we're in Pennsylvania, and the plume came over our homes, and nobody wants to speak out.
We're speaking out.
I have people talking to me about it, but I can't get them to go public with it because I think they're afraid.
I think that's the whole bottom line.
So, you know, we know our home isn't safe.
steve bannon
What are they afraid of?
ben bergquam
Go ahead, Steve.
steve bannon
What are you afraid of?
What are people afraid of?
unidentified
Well, I was afraid of cancer, but my husband's already got that.
So you know, I'm worried about my kids.
I'm worried about my grandkids, you know, and what's going to come down the road for them.
Our youngest daughter who does live with us is suffering health issues from this too.
She's on medicine so she doesn't throw up.
And yesterday informed me that she has been bleeding somewhere she shouldn't be bleeding.
So you know, now we're going to have to go investigate that.
ben bergquam
Why would people be afraid to speak up about this?
unidentified
this? I think they worry about retaliation. From who? Well from friends and neighbors. This does divide families. You know my own family, you know I have family members who say, oh nothing's wrong.
Everything's great.
Everything's fine.
You know, and they don't want to hear about it.
They think that we are like looking for some payday and that's not what we're looking for.
You know what I'd like to have?
I'd like to have it be February 2nd, 2023 and them stop that train before it derailed.
So Steve, what people are afraid of.
Norfolk Southern, as you know, has dangled gifts in the promise of a $25 million park here.
I was shocked when I started showing the chemicals three weeks in.
Shut up!
Don't make Norfolk Southern mad.
We're going to lose the park.
The town is fractured.
Brothers are fighting brothers.
There's husbands and wives that have split up over this.
It's just, it's ruined this entire town.
In fact, the media finds it hard to find some people to talk to and they find it hard for places to film because they're not welcome here anymore.
ben bergquam
Yeah, and I'll just speak to that, Steve.
We've been going around town and that sentiment is there.
It's a combination of things.
It's some people that have been advised by their attorneys not to talk because, as you said, there's this idea that there's going to be some payday for some of the lucky ones.
But then there's the other side of it where a lot of people are just almost despondent.
They don't want to talk about it because they don't want to deal with it.
That cognitive dissonance, like, okay, we have to, we just want to get on with our lives and hope that this goes away.
I mean, it's, it's a tragic, it's a tragic, tragic scene.
Uh, and it is, I can't imagine.
See, if I got young kids, I cannot imagine living here.
And again, we're going to go talk to Lonnie and Dave and, and, and I, and you try to sell a house.
You can't give a house away here.
Who's going to come?
Who's going to move here?
I mean, it's just, and it's so beautiful.
It's such an amazing little community.
steve bannon
Doctor Rick, let me go back.
You're saying families are divided.
What is the division?
Tell me what's the division in the town.
unidentified
Well, from the very beginning, people were saying, oh, you people that claimed you got sick, you just want money.
But I have contended from the very beginning that the people picking on the people that don't want to piss Norfolk Southern off with the promise of the park and all the things they're doing here, they're the ones that want the money.
They're the greedy ones, because I have never seen such callousness toward your neighbor Uh, that you would claim you were sick.
And the only way we're going to help here is for me to win this.
I am a MAGA, America First Republican, D-6.
I fought the CDC, I fought corruption from the local mayor, on up to the federal government, and I have a lot to lose.
Uh, you know, I could have lost a lot.
I don't know if they'll sue me or whatever, but I don't care.
I do what's right and I'll do the same thing for D-6.
In the words of the late, great, great Rowdy Roddy Piper, I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass and I'm all out of bubblegum.
And President Trump?
Let's give the world more TDS.
That's Trump and Chai Derangement Syndrome.
I'm the man you want in Washington.
That's the only way that we have real power to help here.
Because these people have become... Go ahead.
These people have given up hope.
There's no help here.
25 million dollar park.
New businesses here.
Hotels.
There's rumors of hotels coming here.
They're putting a training center.
5,000 people training here a year.
5,000 migrants.
When I say migrants, just people from all over the country.
We don't know who these people are.
This was a quaint little town.
Half the town wanted to become the next Las Vegas or something.
That's not why I moved here.
So the town was great before you spilled your mess here.
Clean your damn mess and get the F out.
It was good before.
It was a beautiful town before you got here.
We don't need it better.
That's an insult.
Alan Shaw keeps saying, we're going to make your town better.
We don't need it better.
We want it how it was.
steve bannon
How could they possibly put cars there and bring people?
How could they possibly bring a park there, bring people in a training center, when you're saying that the ground's contaminated, the water's still contaminated, the air's contaminated.
How could Norfolk Southern possibly do that and get an insurance company to underwrite them?
unidentified
I don't know.
I just showed that the dirt in the park where the children play has chemicals in it.
So your guess is as good as mine.
It's the biggest cover-up that I've ever been aware of.
And everybody that watches the news and doesn't know the real story, you know the mainstream media, they think everything is fine here.
They've done a great job.
They're good at what they do.
I contend they've got a think tank 24 hours a day working, and it's like a chess game.
They're 10 steps ahead, and they're thinking about how to spin all this.
steve bannon
Ben, the other folks are there.
Are you going to visit with them now, or are you going to come back to the Roadhouse?
What's your journeys today?
ben bergquam
Yeah, we're going to come back, but I'd like to do something, if you don't mind, Steve.
Tell me your name again, sir?
steve bannon
Wayne and Lori.
ben bergquam
I'd like to pray for them, and I'd like to pray for the community, if you don't mind, Steve.
steve bannon
Sure.
ben bergquam
Lord, we lift up Wayne, we lift up Lori, we lift up the entire community here.
Rick, the hopelessness that people fear, Lord, the fear that's in this community, the lies that have been spread, Lord, I pray that your eyes would see this, that the people here would see it through your eyes.
I pray for healing for Wayne, complete healing for Wayne, and for everybody that's dealing with the sickness.
I pray that they would have healing, Lord, and I pray that you would set this community free, but you would expose the liars and the people that cause this, and you would hold them accountable in Jesus' name.
Yeah, Steve.
Amen.
Amen.
We're gonna be talking to the folks out here, but that's what they need, Steve.
They need hope.
America needs hope.
And what they're getting is, as you said, punishment.
And a year later, Wayne, I don't know if you wanna jump in on this.
What do you think about Joe Biden showing up a year late?
unidentified
This is live, right?
Oh, well, uh, too little too late, Jack.
ben bergquam
Anyone else want to jump in on that?
unidentified
I just think that it's, uh...
It's just going to be for a photo op.
I think that, you know, he needs to stay where he's at.
I think this needs to be handled on a local level, a state level.
You know, federal government, they, you know, they can do things, they don't want to do them.
Actually, none of the government wants to do anything, honestly.
ben bergquam
Ma'am, do you want to jump in?
unidentified
This is my guy right here.
ben bergquam
I noticed the hat.
I noticed the hat, so.
You better have.
unidentified
Yeah, well, it is like it's very questionable as to why he wants to come now a year later.
I mean, people are still suffering, unfortunately, but my husband has some great ideas.
If he's running for Congress, you probably mentioned that already.
ben bergquam
Randy, you want to jump in real quick?
unidentified
Well, I would just say that I don't want to be rude, you know, but I know that the vegetables have been, they've been Affected here, and we don't need another affected vegetable I'd say he can stay home Steve That's pretty much.
steve bannon
Yeah, what is Randy?
What is uh?
What is Rick's I tell you what we'll come back in a second.
So it is East Palestine, Ohio, okay Here's your host Stephen K Vance Let's go back to East Palestine, Ohio.
Ben Burquham.
ben bergquam
Yeah, Steve, so Rick, for the folks out there that don't know, or again, if you could let us know if they want to help you, how do they do that?
Talk to us about your campaign.
unidentified
It is rickchai.com, the campaign page.
My last name is T like Tom, S like Sam, AI, and Dr. Rick Chai for Congress on Facebook.
They say I can't win because one opponent's about up to two million dollars spent, the other one's half a million.
But I have something they don't have, grassroots.
The ragtag American amateur hockey team that won against the Russians in the 80s, Miracle on Ice.
When I win in 2024 D6, I'm going to be the Miracle on Rice.
So, we will win this, and I'm going to fight hard for everyone in D6, as hard as I fought for East Palestine, Ohio, and continue to fight.
Let's do this!
Let's win this, Ohio!
Thank you so much, Steve Bannon, for having us on.
God bless you, sir, and God bless you, Wayne.
ben bergquam
Stay tuned, Steve.
We're going to be making a move.
steve bannon
Yes, sir.
Thank everybody there, and we're going to move to another location, but East Palestine is our focus to set things right.
So thank you very much, Ben.
and see its initial location.
happen today.
unidentified
Thank you.
steve bannon
You saw the EPA guy come out a couple months ago when Dr. Chai confronted him.
And then he said, hey, he had this conversation with him later where the guy admitted there's the chemicals.
Joe Biden's out there for a victory lap.
Don't forget the importance of East Palestine.
Because East Palestine epitomizes how the elites in this country, from the corporatists of Norfolk Southern, to their shareholders, to the big hedge funds, to EPA.
Remember the guy who was going to go to Africa on some, taking some rock band over there, taking some band or some group over there for some, you know, convince the people in Sub-Saharan Africa that climate change is their biggest problem, right?
Joe Biden's there today to take a victory lap.
Because if you go back and look at President Trump's, what I call the American Cincinnatus, his coming back from Mar-a-Lago and saying, hey, you're not going to you're not going to steal this election and get away with it.
I'm coming back here to make sure that we are at the tip of the spear to take this country back because I'm going to have my second term.
I'm going to have my third victory.
It was I think the inflection point was East Palestine, Ohio, about a year ago when President Trump went and nobody else would go.
All you heard was double talk from the governor.
You heard double talk from all the officials.
It was President Trump that went out there.
Once again, a bold move, like we went to Flint, Michigan in 2016, like we went to Mexico to confront the then president of Mexico about the wall and about the invasion, even then, which President Trump shut down.
President Trump's bold move in East Palestine put the Biden regime on their back foot.
And I've always argued A lot of people point to Afghanistan, and Afghanistan was horrific, particularly the loss of young American lives.
But I think the inflection point of President Trump's campaign against Biden was East Palestine.
when President Trump would go to show people, not only are you not abandoned, I'm not gonna allow you to be punished, versus Biden.
Biden's there today to take a victory lap.
The media's there today to laud a victory lap, and they're gonna have people out in East Palestine, they're gonna sit there next to Biden and go, yeah, this is terrific, you're great, and thank you very much.
East Palestine shows you the impact on globalization in this country, because from Norfolk Southern to the folks in your government, right, the administrative state, they are globalists.
They do not put a priority on defending the United States of America and particularly her citizens.
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The Ramparts.
They're going to release the text of the amnesty bill here in probably 24 to 48 hours.
You're going to see what they think of you.
Here's what they think of you.
You're trash.
Okay?
They're welcoming in the invaders as their new American political constituents.
Think about it for a second.
No NGOs in East Palestine.
They don't have water, haven't had any water shipped from the government.
No bottled water, no type of clean water.
Yet, when the invaders come across the border, they're treated almost like royalty.
Given debit cards, given phones, given money, given, what is it, the EBT cards, all of it, taken care of, shipped into the interior of the country as quickly as possible, processed as quickly as possible.
This is what Langford is going to bring you.
American citizens treated like trash.
Oh, no, excuse me.
You can't, you can volunteer to serve your country as a patriot and you'll be shipped to defend borders.
Of course, those borders will be in Jordan and Syria, the Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia, but it will not be Ukraine, right?
Well, $60 billion in their borders, not one penny.
They will not put one penny into the wall in this bill.
That shows you everything you need to know about these people.
They hate you.
They need you because you provide tax revenues and you're kind of debt slaves right now, but they hate you.
Part of showing that hate is what happened at the RNC this week as we left Chatta, and that's Chatta from Nevada.
You're a National Committee woman.
You were actually, on the inside, you had a resolution.
First off, your resolution to stop the spending, and the ridiculous spending, was that, I take it that resolution was passed unanimously, and Ronna said, this is a really great idea, why didn't I think of that, Seagal, and thank you so much.
She gave you a big hug.
When it passed unanimously, you got brought up to the stage and got a big hug?
sigal chattah
Yeah, hugs and kisses the whole time.
The resolution failed as we knew that it was going to fail.
Because I wanted to cap staffers' salaries at a measly $10,000 a month.
Right, Steve?
I mean, $10,000.
How atrocious of me to ask for that kind of cap on staffers' salaries.
I wanted more transparency on this line of credit that we were all talking about.
There's no oversight.
They don't want transparency.
You know, I tell people that Republicans are going to start winning elections when Morana stops feeding her friends, and I don't think it could be more true than that.
So it was a very deflating conference for about a third of the RNC members.
steve bannon
Here's what I don't understand.
How could people vote against a resolution to cap spending and how could they vote against or not approve transparency?
How could the other two-thirds of the members be against that?
sigal chattah
Because it's a corrupt organization and you feed your friends and They don't want the truth coming out, and if there's transparency, then everybody's going to see how much donor money is being wasted on consultants.
I've never seen so many consultants getting paid, and all they've shown that they can consult on is losing elections.
Astonishing, you know, and it's just so disheartening because I'll tell you, we come here from Nevada and every state sends their three delegates to the RNC.
And, you know, first of all, to be chastised constantly by the head.
Imagine your coach when losing seven seasons and then telling you you're a bad football player.
It was so astonishing, it's sad.
It's actually sad.
And this is why Republicans will continue to lose elections as long as she's there.
steve bannon
Okay, let me ask you, did they actually walk through the finances at all?
How much cash?
And everybody in this audience, everybody in this can hear the sound of my voice or see my image and please pass this on.
Not one person in the MAGA movement, not one, should ever give a nickel, not a nickel, to the RNC why Ronna McDaniel and her cohorts are running it.
Once they're removed, and I'm hearing all kinds of talk they may be layered with other people, it doesn't matter.
You can't lair that, because they control the apparatus inside.
Until she's gone, until the people and the consultants, high-paid consultants around her are gone, not one member of the Warren Posse, not one member of MAGA, not one deplorable, my strongest recommendation is not give them a penny.
Hold your money, hold your fire, Right?
Don't support this?
Did they actually go in some sort of transparent manner, told you about cash coming in, cash coming out, and why they've only got nine million dollars and why they're going out to take a credit line now?
sigal chattah
Well, you know, there was a Budget Committee meeting and, you know, at the Budget Committee meeting there were discussions about the finances.
Albeit, it's not as transparent as we would want.
Again, there's this layer of murkiness that exists.
Look, we're 168 people.
We're not a Fortune 500 company where you've got to disclose everything to shareholders.
But when we come back to our state, Steve, and people ask us, and our counties ask us, what's going on at the RNC?
Are we getting money?
Nevada has a huge Hispanic population.
Where's the RNC going to be in this election as far as Hispanic outreach?
And we don't have answers because at the end of the day, it's great.
We found out, and I'm going to assume that this is accurate, that the debt that I brought up in my resolution was paid on Wednesday.
I understand that there is another nine, ten million dollars cash on hand.
And if it's such a lucrative endeavor, you don't need a line of credit because the Democrats don't take lines of credit out because they're raising money.
And I think it's almost, you know, what comes first, the chicken or the egg.
Are people not donating to the RNC because everybody hates Ronna?
Or are people just waiting for her to leave?
To donate money because I'll tell you what, I'm hearing people say that if she's gone the money will flow into the RNC.
steve bannon
Let me ask you, it ended, there's all these rumors for announcing retirement, announcing resignation, but you had a several hour closed-door session that ended it.
Can you give us any, what's ever appropriate, given the quote-unquote secrecy of it, can you share with us what was in that closed-door meeting?
sigal chattah
So the closed door meeting was actually the members-only breakfast where they took two hours to essentially address my resolution.
The general session is the actual meeting where the 168 gets a vote on the budget, on passage of the budget.
Obviously, I opposed the passage of the budget, along with the other five resolutions that were passed.
But, you know, we all anticipated that there was going to be a resignation because that's what we were told, that this is it.
This is, you know, she's going to say goodbye to everybody at the winter meeting.
And you know, and instead of saying goodbye to everybody at the meeting and resigning in a manner with integrity, she spent three days berating members of the 168 that were not team players that were the ones that are the issue at the RNC.
Zero accountability, zero responsibility, but were the problem at the RNC, not her.
steve bannon
And so she's dug in.
You're telling us that she's not going anywhere.
She's dug in and she's going to run it through the 2024 election.
sigal chattah
Oh, she's going to run it straight into the ground.
I mean, that's what she has been doing is running the Republican party straight into the ground.
Um, so she's not going anywhere.
Uh, I don't know.
There's still whispers that she's going to be gone, but you know what I would say to your listeners is give to your state parties, give to your candidates.
The RNC has just been proven to be an apparatus that is not utilizing donor dollars to help elect Republicans.
steve bannon
Seagal, hang on for one second.
We'll hold you through the break.
We'll be back in a moment with Chadda from Nevada in the War Room.
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We rejoice when there's no more, let's take down the CC.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
steve bannon
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We'll just be blunt.
Until Ronna leaves and the people around her leave, there can be no more money into the RNC.
They're choked down for cash right now.
They've become a major distraction.
They have to remember eventually the campaign and the In the Trump campaign, the RNC is supposed to merge into a victory fund.
They're not going to have any money, they don't have any organization.
All we've heard is terrible things coming out of Michigan, terrible things coming out of Arizona, terrible things coming out of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Just terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.
Needs to be a change.
Not a hostile takeover, just a reorganization, a restructuring.
Seagal, where do people get you, ma'am?
sigal chattah
They can find me on Chatter for Nevada on Twitter, Truth, Getter, everything.
And I agree with you, Steve, until there is a change, then nothing can, we won't see any results.
And, you know, we need to make sure that we push the president to make a change on this apparatus.
steve bannon
Well, I gotta tell you, Nevada is key for president's election.
Arizona is key for the president's election.
I gave this talk last night.
Arizona is the key that picks a lot.
Nevada, we have to win Nevada.
And right now the people in those states are sitting there saying, hey, nothing's going on.
Seagal, thank you so much.
Look forward to seeing you back on here next week.
sigal chattah
Have a good weekend.
steve bannon
Can't be layered, has to be removed.
It's like detain and deport.
Quite simple terms.
Removal.
Removal.
Cannot be layered.
Layering does not work.
Layering is not going to work.
People are not going to give any money if she's layered.
So I know people say, oh, we're going to layer, we're going to put five more people on top.
No, no, you still got the cancer in the middle of it.
And they control the apparatus, not you.
If you come in layered, you're going to stay, you're going to be like one of those ambassadors that came into Vietnam.
And all this, the madness still goes on.
And you're told what they want you to hear.
And then you go back to the President of the United States and tell him what he wants to hear.
Right?
And you get disasters like Vietnam.
That's what's happening over at the RNC.
Part of this today, we're gonna get into globalization in the next hour.
I want to make sure, the reason is Palestine.
is so important. In addition to the citizens, the American citizens there, and what it means on a what it means on a national global scale. You're seeing the impact of globalization here. It's one of the reasons Birch Gold is our partner. It's one of the reasons we want you to read The End of the Dollar Empire because the de-dollarization movement, right, the The decline of the United States as an industrial power because we're into this stage of finance capitalism.
You're seeing the results of finance capitalism in East Palestine.
Where the people there, the workers there, the industrial base means nothing.
It's all about Wall Street.
It's all about the shareholders of Norfolk Southern.
It's all about doing as little possible to set things right in East Palestine.
Right?
So the profit and loss statement is not impacted.
There's no liability.
That's exactly what's going on in East Palestine.
Make sure you go to birchgold.com slash Bannon today.
It's totally free.
Four installments.
A fifth is coming.
The end of the dollar empire.
And I updated the third installment, the debt trap.
Just so you can be up to speed on the firefight we have this coming week on things like the budget and, of course, the amnesty bill they're going to lay out in the next 24-48 hours.
Ben Burquam, you've got in front of you now one of the individuals that testified in front of Senator Mastriano in that incredible hearing at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Senate.
Get us updated, sir.
ben bergquam
Well, right after this, Steve, I'm going to introduce you to Lonnie Miller, but I just want to tell you, we came over to her house.
We are right around the corner from where this, the derailment happened, the disaster happened, and even right now, you can still smell that sweet, necrotic smell in the air.
Every time I come here, I get sick, but Lonnie, tell us your story.
So, your house has been on the market for over 100 days, but, I mean, that's not the entire story.
Talk to us about what you've gone through here.
unidentified
We were home the night that that train derailed, and I watched as those days unfolded.
Yeah, we watched, you know, the fires burning.
We watched Norfolk Southern bringing in rail right across the street and stacking brand new rail Friday night into Saturday morning, hours, within hours, after the derailment.
We watched them lay the tracks over that contamination, the water, the dirty water and soil, and like we didn't exist in our home here.
We've been in our home for 30 years.
This is the home where my husband proposed to me on Valentine's Day 28 years ago this year.
This is the home that we brought our son.
Austin home too when he was born.
This is the home that his footprints are in the concrete slab in our garage that we built when he was five months old.
And they've destroyed my family's life here.
And they've acted like we don't exist on our street here.
They won't come in and properly test our homes.
We believe that it's contaminated.
We know what they're gonna find.
Our house has been on the market now for over 100 days and our realtor has told us in her entire career she has never had a listing where a home hasn't even had one request for a showing.
We've lowered our price on our home twice now.
We were forced to take out a 30-year mortgage to get our family away from here.
This was my forever home, and we're starting over again.
We had plans that this house was going to be left to our son, and now those plans, it's just, our plans for our entire life have changed that night in February, a year ago.
And I'm so angry watching my family go through this, my loved ones.
It's not right.
And this corporation just rolled through our town like we didn't exist.
And it should have been prevented.
It should have been prevented.
I testified to that.
They could have stopped this from happening.
And they are destroying lives.
Our town that we loved, that I grew up in, that I loved, It is not the same.
It'll never be the same.
They can continue to pour millions of dollars into this town.
It's not gonna make it right.
It's not gonna make it right.
It'll never make it right for me.
I was terrified to touch my son's baby picture hanging on the wall, feeling like it was contaminated.
I was terrified picking up my family's photo albums.
steve bannon
Ben, tell Lonnie, hang on for one second.
We're going to take a short break.
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