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In your new piece, you write in part, quote, while Trump's 2016 agenda was frequently stymied by infighting and incompetence, available signs point to a second West Wing staffed by loyalists who would actually carry out his policies. | ||
President Trump knows who can deliver and who can't. | ||
The backstabbers who weren't around in 2016 won't be in the next White House. | ||
Trump's senior campaign advisor, Jason Miller, told me, Trump's 2024 campaign has already demonstrated Trump can run an effective operation. | ||
This campaign is locked down, a Republican close to Trump said. | ||
Most of all, Trump is disciplined because fear is a powerful motivator. | ||
His wealth and freedom are at stake. | ||
He is terrified of going to jail. | ||
A longtime friend from New York told me the criminal charges helped solve Trump's messaging problem. | ||
Prior to the indictments, Trump was a one-line artist singing a tired tune that the 2020 election was stolen. | ||
But the dozens of felony counts gave him new material. | ||
He cast himself as a political martyr being prosecuted by the Biden White House. | ||
He's so distracted with the legal stuff, that's why the campaign is smooth, the Republicans to Trump, close to Trump said. | ||
You know, he says out loud that he would be a dictator and that he is your retribution to his voters. | ||
He says a lot of the quiet part out loud, even the frightening part out loud. | ||
He also has a campaign construct that now has his daughter-in-law built in. | ||
There are a lot of different factors to this that didn't exist the first time around. | ||
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That's right, Mika. | |
You know, everyone here on this show has been covering Trump for years. | ||
And the big story in 2016, and to some extent 2020, was that his campaign was a soap opera. | ||
It was clashing personalities. | ||
It was nonstop drama. | ||
And covering this cycle, the thing that I've been struck by time and time again, is that it's really a low drama campaign. | ||
These are operatives who are focused, who don't want press, who don't want their egos out there. | ||
They are focused on getting Donald Trump into the White House. | ||
Because as I write in the piece, his freedom is at stake. | ||
Really the only thing that is guaranteed to keep Donald Trump out of jail is becoming the next president of the United States and appointing an attorney general who will get these charges thrown out. | ||
It's really that simple. | ||
And I think that is really why you see Donald Trump so focused. | ||
And yes, he says incendiary things on the stump, but when it comes to the mechanics of running the campaign, it is a much different operation. | ||
I'm highly confident that when you go back and is a senior member of this administration, President Trump's administration, starting in the afternoon of the 20th of January of 2025, do you feel confident that you will be able to deliver the goods, that we can have serious prosecutions and accountability? | ||
And I want the Morning Joe producers that watch us and all the producers that watch us This is just not rhetoric. | ||
We're absolutely dead serious. | ||
You cannot have a constitutional republic and allow what these deep staters have done to the country. | ||
The deep state, the administrative state, the fourth branch of government never mentioned in the Constitution is going to be taken apart brick by brick. | ||
And the people that did these evil deeds will be held accountable and prosecuted. | ||
Criminal prosecutions. | ||
Let me ask you finally, how does the campaign interact with people like Steve Bannon and Kash Patel when they go on podcasts and they say that Trump is going to throw political opponents Andrew Porter's in jail and he looks into the camera and says, Ed Morning Joe, we're looking at you. | ||
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We're coming after you. | |
You're basically you're going to jail. | ||
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How does this button down campaign respond to that? | |
Well, I think they, not only do they respond to it, Joe, I think they're encouraging it. | ||
You know, Jason Miller is close to Steve Bannon. | ||
There's a whole network of people who have, while they're not officially part of the campaign, they have links to the campaign, and they're using it through the MAGA media to get the ground, you know, to get the troops, the MAGA foot soldiers all riled up. | ||
And I think we've learned all since the last cycle, let's not pretend. | ||
Take Trump at his word. | ||
I think the media, all of us, Democratic Party, even the few Republicans who are anti-Trump, are sort of not paying attention. | ||
Just look at what they're saying. | ||
This is a national emergency. | ||
And I think Donald Trump is just... | ||
We're hoping that, throw enough sand in people's eyes, he can get into office. | ||
But as Anthony Scaramucci told me, Trump's former communications director, they want to be a dictator. | ||
He said it out loud and we should take him at his word. | ||
But I think that what caught my eye, Isaac, about your book, because I think some of us that consider ourselves progressive, me on the civil rights side of that, Failed to really build, we try to work on this now with Nash Action Network, an infrastructure. | ||
Talk more about how they redid themselves and went from the bottom, very local, very grassroots up. | ||
Because I think that's underestimated in all of the flash we see of Donald Trump. | ||
Yeah, absolutely. | ||
It's been very under the radar, and it's just in the past few years, it's really since Trump left office that this has been happening. | ||
And Steve Bannon had a huge part in this by popularizing this idea called the precinct strategy, which was exactly that. | ||
Starting at the bottom, at the precincts, and going up in the party organization itself. | ||
This was the innovation over the Tea Party, which was like, you know, everyone go to this Tea Party meeting, you know, this Tea Party, that Tea Party. | ||
And the idea here was, no, no, no, we have the Republican Party, and we're going to use the Republican Party organization, the Republican Party structure. | ||
There's real power in that. | ||
There's money. | ||
There's volunteers. | ||
There's infrastructure. | ||
That is the infrastructure that all the candidates use. | ||
And they're not the motivation for that. | ||
Which has a lot of truth in it, actually, is that the reason that Trump failed in 2020 was because of a few uncooperative Republicans, and that by taking over the party apparatus and purifying the party, they would make sure that that wouldn't happen again. | ||
Gabe, you did a great job here of nailing the sophistication of the Trump campaign this go-round, and that it is not just a hack organization the way it was playing by the seat of their pants back in 2016. | ||
That's right. | ||
So if the campaign competition continues over into the policy realm, that's where I think Democrats should really worry. | ||
Not only that the campaign might be successful, but then in the policy realm. | ||
What are you hearing about there? | ||
Do you think that it's going to be run with equal sophistication? | ||
Well, I mean, by their own admission, you know, Jason Miller said that if they win the election, that the White House will be staffed only with loyalists. | ||
They've weeded out all the backstabbers. | ||
You know, a really important figure in this whole drama is Johnny McEntee, who was Donald Trump's former body man in the 2016 cycle. | ||
He rose up in Trump world. | ||
He became the head of White House personnel in the Trump administration. | ||
And his job is really to vet Thousands and thousands of potential appointees who will go into the civil service and carry out the MAGA agenda. | ||
He's working with the Heritage Foundation and they're creating, similar to this ground game, basically an army of people that will be ready in January 2025 to get into the government and carry out Trump's agenda. | ||
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. | ||
The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
It's going to happen. | ||
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
It's Monday, 8 April on the Year of Our Lord 2020. | ||
You see this morning complete and total meltdown over at the Information Warfare Center of the Biden regime over there at Morning Joe in MSNBC. | ||
They had Gabe Sherman on from the Vanity Fair. | ||
He's got a huge piece out about how the killing machine of the Trump campaign now is going to lead into policy. | ||
And of course, Isaac Arnsdorf, Who's the author of Finish What We Started. | ||
That book will be out tomorrow. | ||
We hope to get Isaac on the show later in the week. | ||
It's really a deep look at Dan Schultz's precinct strategy in the last two years and the school boards too. | ||
To look at the last two years or really almost the last four years from 2021 until today about how the grassroots really took over The Republican Party. | ||
Remember, I want to connect some dots here and I want to start with the $50 million that was raised at John Paulson's house on Saturday night for President Trump. | ||
Remember a couple weeks ago you had on Holy Thursday at Radio City Music Hall, you had The Three Kings, you had Obama, the traitor, you had Clinton, the rapist, and you had Biden, the criminal, raised $26 million, and they're all sitting there going, this is so amazing, Trump can't raise any money. | ||
Well, they raised $50 million on Saturday, but the reason they raised $50 million is tied back to that, also to that Holy Thursday. | ||
Remember, standing in the rain, going to Officer Diller's Christian wake that day, the little guy, the people out in Queens and in Brooklyn and Long Island. | ||
They went out there to commemorate and honor the officer, his widow and his infant son. | ||
President Trump also went. | ||
It's those little guys. | ||
It's the precinct strategies, what you've accomplished. | ||
Virtually none of the people, I mean a couple like Scott Besson, Jason Trenner, a couple, there's a handful that went on Saturday night that have had President Trump's back from the beginning. | ||
But the vast majority of those billionaires, 95% of them, did not support President Trump. | ||
They don't like Trump. | ||
They're there for one reason. | ||
They see the ascendancy of MAGA. | ||
They see President Trump leading in the polls. | ||
They see President Trump coming to a victory and they all have needs and wants and they want a piece of the action. | ||
We don't say that's a bad thing. | ||
You know, modern politics is about money. | ||
MAG is essentially tapped out. | ||
The small donors are nowhere have the capacity they had in 16 or in 20. | ||
You've got to go to large donors, but they're only there for one reason. | ||
They're there because you forced them there. | ||
Remember, the MAGA movement, having President Trump's back, has done something historic. | ||
You've taken out Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate. | ||
He's powerless now. | ||
He's retired. | ||
Done. | ||
Because he broke his pick on Ukraine, and you're the ones that were the hard-granted that he broke his pick on. | ||
You were relentless on that ridiculous bill he tried to put up. | ||
He broke his pick, and he essentially retired. | ||
You took out the leader of the Senate. | ||
You took out a Speaker of the House, the first time in the history of this Republic, McCarthy. | ||
Forced him out of office, and you took out the entire senior leadership of the RNC. | ||
Now that purge is not complete. | ||
There's still a lot of problems over there, and President Trump's got his team trying to sort things out. | ||
La Civita and Lara Trump and that team, they're trying to sort things out. | ||
But you did that. | ||
That was a grassroots move. | ||
And this is, you know, Dan Schultz has had this idea for many, many years. | ||
He's been working on it. | ||
I actually got him on a conference call with very sophisticated and wealthy people back in, I think, 15 or 16. | ||
And it just didn't resonate. | ||
It didn't resonate with them. | ||
Because like Ecclesiastes says, there's a season for everything, right? | ||
A time and purpose under heaven. | ||
This is your moment. | ||
You forced those billionaires who all, by the way, they were all DeSantis and Youngkin and Nikki Hale. | ||
They're all neoliberal neocons. | ||
They're not populist nationalists. | ||
They're there for one reason. | ||
You took their choices away. | ||
You honed this down to the MAGA movement, to President Trump, to America First, to the deplorables. | ||
You forced their hand. | ||
They're not there because they love Trump. | ||
They don't love Trump. | ||
Heck, a bunch of them were hanging in for Nikki Hale. | ||
All the biggest donors for these guys were all there. | ||
Saying yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir. | ||
How big a check do I have to write? | ||
Fifty million dollars. | ||
Now that's all going to come with deal baggage, as we say on Wall Street, but hey, we'll work through that over time. | ||
And right there you're seeing their panic with also Project 2025. | ||
Remember in 16, the company behind Victory, we weren't staffed. | ||
We admit that. | ||
We didn't move MAGA. | ||
We had, who are these MAGA guys? | ||
Let's get them in the White House. | ||
Let's get them in the administration. | ||
Those 3,000 billets that you can fill immediately, they're going to be filled day one this time. | ||
Johnny McEntee, Paul Danz, Project 2025, Russ Vogt, the entire team working. | ||
This is where, look at the faces of those people. | ||
They're in shock. | ||
They're not happy. | ||
They're not happy because they understand that President Trump is leading not just a political party and not just a political movement. | ||
This is a deep, deep tectonic plate shift in American culture, society, civilization, all of it, as we drive towards this monumental victory. | ||
Now, do we have a few speed bumps in front of us? | ||
Yeah, a couple of three. | ||
We're going to talk about those today. | ||
Joel Pollack's going to join me in a minute, talk about Israel. | ||
MTG, we've shifted her to 11 o'clock. | ||
She's going to be here talking about the fight, this brutal fight that's going to take place in the House on FISA and Ukraine. | ||
She's going to be here with latest updates. | ||
We've got Jason Trent's going to join us, talk about how we get control of this federal budget. | ||
He's got a few modest proposals. | ||
Brilliant guy from Wall Street. | ||
So we're going to get it all done today. | ||
We're on a roll here. | ||
This is a historic week. | ||
One week from today is when they start phase two of the destruction of President Trump with lawfare. | ||
That's New York City. | ||
The case is going to be curtain raising next week. | ||
We will be there. | ||
We'll have a team in place. | ||
Talk more about that later. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
Back in The Worm in a moment. | ||
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Depends on whether you care what happens to the Palestinians as opposed to the Hamas government and the people with guided missiles. | |
Yes, they were. | ||
Yes, they were. | ||
Now, wait a minute. | ||
Yes, they were. | ||
And Hamas is really smart. | ||
When they decide to rocket Israel, they insinuate themselves in the hospitals, in the schools, in the highly populous areas, and they are smart. | ||
So they try to put the Israelis in a position of either not defending themselves or killing innocents. | ||
They're good at it. | ||
They're smart. | ||
They've been doing this a long time. | ||
Look, I don't agree. | ||
I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. | ||
I had a deal, they turned down, that would have given them all of Gaza. | ||
All of Gaza, between 96 and 97% of the West Bank, compensating land in Israel. | ||
It is six months since October 7th, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. | ||
Today, Senator Schumer was supposed to appear at the Council of Jewish Organizations to speak. | ||
He has done that for decades, has never missed an event. | ||
Today, besides betraying the people of Israel, besides betraying America's number one ally, Israel, today he showed the world that he is also a coward. | ||
He said he was coming. | ||
I was waiting for him, but he never showed up. | ||
What a coward he is. | ||
I can tell you one thing, Senator Schumer. | ||
If you had come today to this event that you were scheduled to be at, you and I would have remembered it for the rest of our lives. | ||
You are a betrayer and you are a coward. | ||
We've been asked in the past Why are our protests on the International Day of Quds, why are they so anti-America? | ||
Why don't we just focus more on Israel and not talk so much about America? | ||
Gaza has shown the entire world why these protests are so anti-America. | ||
Because it's the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities that we just heard about. | ||
And this is why Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Day of Quds, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America. | ||
El Malti, America! | ||
Malcolm X said, and I quote, we live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this earth. | ||
It's not Genocide Joe that has to go. | ||
It's the entire system that has to go. | ||
Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen and would support it, such a system does not deserve to exist on God's earth. | ||
And so when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist, the chant, death to Israel, has become the most logical chant shouted across the world today. | ||
End moat to Israel! End moat to Israel! End moat to Israel! | ||
Okay, welcome back. | ||
That last was not in Tehran. | ||
That was in Dearborn, Michigan. | ||
I have said this and said it from the beginning. | ||
This pro-Palestinian movement is the most anti-American movement in the history of this country. | ||
And right there, it's the First Amendment, right? | ||
He's sitting there right there. | ||
Death to America. | ||
America is the worst. | ||
America is the great Satan. | ||
He's got the mullahs in Persia and Tehran are his heroes. | ||
All of it. | ||
Joe Pollock, who was Andrew Breitbart's executive editor, later became the senior editor-at-large at all things at Breitbart, has written a couple of brilliant pieces, I think, over the last week. | ||
So, Joe, help me out here. | ||
There are four combat brigades of Hamas. | ||
Everybody agrees with this. | ||
This is not even a question. | ||
There are four combat brigades of Hamas in southern Gaza. | ||
There's two combat brigades, essentially, in Judea, Samaria. | ||
So that's six out of, I think, originally 21. | ||
The IDF retreated or pulled back, attacked a retreat over the weekend after a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu and Biden and also this massive protest on Saturday night. | ||
You kind of said this was coming. | ||
You wrote that the color revolution is coming. | ||
to Israel, to remove Netanyahu and basically to surrender to the radical Muslim Brotherhood franchisee Hamas. | ||
Now, our audience is very familiar with color revolutions, given the great work of Darren Beattie and Raheem Kassam and Michael Benz about, you know, Victoria Nuland in Ukraine and the color revolution against Trump in the summer of 2020. | ||
Tell me, what do you mean? | ||
Is Israel, is Bibi Blinke? | ||
Are they actually going to withdraw these troops? | ||
And not take care of, not finish the job against these six remaining combat divisions, sir? | ||
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Well, I had the opportunity to speak to an Israeli government spokesman today, and I asked him that question. | |
Is Israel retreating from Gaza? | ||
And he said you should not read too much into the withdrawal of troops from southern Gaza, that we have the capability of moving those troops back in there at any time. | ||
And some Israeli sources I spoke to told me that they expect the nature of combat operations to shift. | ||
From having a heavy presence of infantry on the ground to having more of a special forces type of engagement as they go into Rafa, that city, which is the last Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza. | ||
Very strategic location, by the way. | ||
It's right on the border between Gaza and Egypt. | ||
It controls all the border crossings there and the smuggling routes underground. | ||
It is the last stronghold of Hamas, the four battalions you mentioned. | ||
Plus the Hamas leadership and more than likely about a hundred living Israeli hostages who are being used as human shields by Hamas. | ||
Israel has to go into Raqqa to complete the destruction of Hamas as a military force, but they pulled back. | ||
So some people are telling me, no, it's just a tactical withdrawal. | ||
But as you mentioned, it happened after President Biden told Netanyahu in that phone call last week that he wanted an immediate ceasefire. | ||
And that was extraordinary because the Biden administration essentially took the side of Hamas. | ||
that says they won't exchange hostages in any kind of deal until there's a ceasefire first. | ||
For many months, both Israel and the United States were on the same page, saying you only get a ceasefire if you give up hostages. | ||
Hamas has said, no, we want a ceasefire first. | ||
Then, of course, there's no guarantee they give up the hostages. | ||
They have a much stronger bargaining position. | ||
They're not under military pressure. | ||
Biden essentially took the side of Hamas in that negotiation. | ||
That is now the official position of the Biden administration. | ||
And what becomes clear before we get to the bit about the color revolution, what becomes clear is that Biden has been using Hamas in the last two months as leverage against Israel. | ||
That is to say, when Israel came close to destroying Hamas, first in the city of Khan Yunis and now in Rafah, Biden tried to stop Israel from destroying Hamas because he wants to use this war to leverage a broader deal in the Middle East. | ||
Now, President Trump was very, very close to that broader deal without any kind of concessions to terror groups, to the corrupt Palestinian Authority. | ||
He was going to base it simply on the mutual interest of the Saudis and the Israelis in having trade, commerce, peace and normal relations. | ||
But Biden is now trying to use this conflict To force Israel to accept a Palestinian state, which the vast majority of Israelis don't want. | ||
Ten years ago, Israelis were in favor of it. | ||
They believed that peace was possible. | ||
After October 7th, the polls have completely flipped in Israel. | ||
The Israelis don't want any Palestinian state on their border that could direct this kind of violence at them again. | ||
And Biden, nevertheless, is trying to impose this on Israel so he can show constituencies like the one you showed in Dearborn that at least this wasn't just a wasted effort, that he hopes to bring them back on board in time for November 2024. | ||
And so he's trying to use Hamas as leverage. | ||
He's saying to the Israelis, don't you dare destroy Hamas, because if you do, then you're going to be able to impose your vision on Gaza, which is a demilitarized Gaza controlled by non-terrorist Palestinians. | ||
Biden is saying, no, I want the Palestinian Authority back in there. | ||
I want a big deal with the Saudis that includes a Palestinian state, Israeli withdrawals from this, that, and the other place. So Biden is using Hamas, a terrorist organization, as leverage against Israel. And it becomes clear now that he's done that since the beginning of the year. Back in February, Netanyahu said, let us go into Rafah. It'll take weeks, not months, for the war to be over. Two months later, the Israelis have now pulled out of southern Gaza. | ||
They've essentially said it's a tactical retreat, but they've really been forced to do it. | ||
And there's no hostage deal. | ||
There's no big deal with the Saudis, although Biden keeps talking about it. | ||
And Biden is Publicly trashing our ally, and it is making the mullahs in Iran very happy. | ||
It's making Hamas very happy. | ||
This has always been their strategy. | ||
Put as many civilians in harm's way as possible, create global international outrage, and hope that the United States forces Israel to withdraw. | ||
It looks like that is happening. | ||
You broke some news here. | ||
I got to go to break, but I got about 60 seconds. | ||
With the force of the IDF, we've taken out 15 combat regiments, battalions, in what, six months or five months since they actually engaged in combat. | ||
You're saying now they're trying to sell that they can go in special forces? | ||
Isn't it possible? | ||
You can't take out the four hard. | ||
These are the hardest of the hard down there in the South and they got in this top flight in Judea, Samaria. | ||
Are you saying they're pitching now that they're going to use special forces to get this done and not the blunt force of the IDF? | ||
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That's what they're saying. | |
They can go in and limited operations and they point to the successful operation at Shifa Hospital A couple weeks ago, where they fought a pitched battle against Hamas terrorists who had returned to that hospital. | ||
They killed 200 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists, they arrested more than 500, and they had zero civilian casualties. | ||
The Israeli military protected the doctors, the nurses, the patients, the staff, and they got the terrorists without any civilian casualties. | ||
So they're saying, that was a successful operation, we can do that in Rafah. | ||
Unfortunately, that's not the only thing that has to happen in Rafah. | ||
As you mentioned, There is the presence of so much Hamas firepower. | ||
I tell you, Joel, Joel, Joel, Joel, just hang on. | ||
I want to take time and develop this. | ||
Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large of Breitbart, an expert on all things Israel, going to join us after a short commercial break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | |
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This is about the central bank digital currency. | ||
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Gold got up to 23.64. | ||
It's backed off a little bit, but every day it's kind of ratcheting up, getting a new base. | ||
We're not here to give you financial advice. | ||
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Talk to Philip Patrick. | ||
He was on the Saturday show. | ||
Absolutely magnificent. | ||
So, Joel, back to you about this reality. | ||
You know, Clinton, I want to put it in perspective. | ||
Help me out because you're the expert. | ||
Clinton's talking about Yasser Arafat. | ||
They came up with a two-state solution back in, you know, in his day. | ||
I think they were in Camp David, you know, up there. | ||
Yasser Arafat, it's not that the Palestinians turned it down. | ||
Yasser Arafat went back and never even put it to a vote because he told people later and they gave him everything. | ||
If he had put it to vote, he'd have been killed. | ||
Because the focus of the Islamic supremacists are the total destruction of Israel. | ||
And part of that's because it represents the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
That's what this is a civilizational struggle. | ||
Am I wrong in that? | ||
There's no peace here. | ||
They just can't. | ||
This is why it's so important. | ||
For Israel and Netanyahu's government to coalition war cabinet to finish the job. | ||
And look, as brave as that battle was last week, when you've talked about four brigades of their toughest fighters that are now down the south, and as you said, all the other infrastructure down there, I just don't see how we're going to do it. | ||
But if you do it by a series of raids, you're going to be doing this eight years from now and you're losing the information war. | ||
So walk, explain to me how that makes sense. | ||
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It doesn't make sense except as a strategy either to placate the Biden administration, which remains the main source of arms and ammunition for Israel. | |
Or perhaps as a tactical maneuver ahead of hostage negotiations in Cairo to try to get Hamas to budge. | ||
Hamas says they're not going to release any hostages until there's a permanent ceasefire. | ||
Maybe Israel withdrew some troops as some kind of a goodwill gesture to hope to entice them into some position of compromise, but they're not compromising. | ||
Hamas is sticking to its guns. | ||
They are taking heart from the Biden administration's shift against Israel at the United Nations and again last week in lecturing Netanyahu And they are toughening their positions. | ||
What you mentioned with Camp David, Yasser Arafat walked away from a deal between Bill Clinton and then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak that was exactly as Clinton described it. | ||
He walked away from a deal. | ||
The Saudis thought he was crazy for walking away from a deal they wanted this confrontation over with. | ||
He was welcomed as a hero when he returned to the Palestinian territories. | ||
They hung banners saying, Arafat is Saladin, the Muslim conqueror who took over Jerusalem 500 years ago. | ||
And so there is a religious basis to this conflict. | ||
It doesn't prevent every Arab or Muslim state from making peace with Israel, but it does fuel the radicals in the Palestinian movement who only want to destroy Israel. | ||
They don't want to build their own state. | ||
And that's what you see on campuses and in American cities. | ||
Hold on, hang on. | ||
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Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down. | |
Go back and repeat that. | ||
It's not said on television and it's not said often enough. | ||
Say what you just said. | ||
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Palestinians don't want a state. | |
They just want Israel not to be a state. | ||
The only Palestinians who have given any thought to what it might mean to build a state, ironically, are the Palestinians in Hamas, who had a conference in 2021 at a beachfront hotel in Gaza, where they pulled together all kinds of planners and experts and started dividing up the state of Israel into little cantons that were going to be governed as part of an Islamic state. | ||
They're the ones who will tell you we want an Islamic state. | ||
That's the kind of state we want. | ||
Go to any of these pro-Palestinian protesters on campuses or in the streets of America and ask them, what kind of Palestinian state do you want? | ||
Do you think it's going to be a democratic state? | ||
Go ask the queers for Palestine. | ||
If the Palestinian state they want is going to respect gay rights, and then go to Hamas and see what Hamas stands for, how they execute gay people, how they hope to make the remaining Israelis who they don't chase out of the country or kill, they want to make them into slaves to work for the new Islamic state that's going to work somehow in the land between the river and the sea. | ||
That's what Hamas is planning. | ||
But the rest of the Palestinian movement doesn't do anything to create the conditions for statehood. | ||
They don't even take responsibility for feeding their own people. | ||
Somehow in this war, it becomes Israel's responsibility to feed the Palestinians, to give them electricity, to make sure that they're okay, even though the Israelis are not the aggressors here. | ||
The Palestinians attack the Israelis. | ||
Not just Hamas, by the way. | ||
Talk to the residents of those border communities like I have in Israel, and I'm going back there tomorrow. | ||
They'll tell you Palestinian civilians participated in the atrocities in in the looting, that they came into their communities. | ||
Sometimes you had Israeli families hiding out in the safe rooms in their homes, terrified, fearing for their lives, listening to Palestinian civilians go through their refrigerators and go through their closets and take whatever they wanted. | ||
That's the reality. | ||
Israel was invaded by Palestinian society in Gaza. | ||
And that's the reality here. | ||
There's no movement toward building any kind of state. | ||
And you go to other Arab states, you see different kind of leadership. | ||
I was in Dubai, Abu Dhabi last year. | ||
You see what the Emiratis have done, how they've changed course, how they've embraced modernity in a way. | ||
It's not perfect by any stretch, but they have a different view, a view that looks forward. | ||
The Palestinian National Movement is a destructive movement. | ||
They don't invest in themselves. | ||
They only invest in the tunnels underneath the ground. | ||
There are no bomb shelters for civilians in Gaza, just for Hamas. | ||
All that construction money, all that material, it didn't go into buildings and civic centers and stadiums and schools. | ||
It went into tunnels. | ||
For Hamas terrorists, then it went into rockets and weapons from Iran. | ||
They are single-minded in their focus on creating an Islamic state in what is today the Jewish state of Israel, which is open to members of all faiths. | ||
They're celebrating Eid this weekend. | ||
Jerusalem, Muslims can come and observe there. | ||
Christians had Easter. | ||
They're going to have Orthodox Easter. | ||
Israel is an open, tolerant, democratic state, but that's not what Hamas wants. | ||
And you should challenge any pro-Palestinian people you see and ask them, what kind of state do you want? | ||
Now in Israel, the other problem, aside from the Palestinian question, is the political instability that's being fomented there in this color revolution that we discussed earlier. | ||
The Biden administration is pushing the internal instability of Israel. | ||
They're trying to topple Netanyahu because he is the last obstacle to the Biden administration's grand utopian plans for the Middle East that include capitulating to Iran, allowing the Palestinians to have a state, and allowing these other forces to run amok, not just in the Middle East, but all over the world. | ||
They don't have a plan for dealing with that. | ||
Their plan simply is to give in. | ||
And Netanyahu has stood up to Obama and Biden for a decade saying, you can't do this. | ||
This doesn't make sense. | ||
This is not the reality of the Middle East. | ||
And because he's the one person who will tell it straight to them, they want him out of the way. | ||
So Biden and Schumer have said openly they want new elections in Israel to get rid of Netanyahu. | ||
There was a very interesting intelligence assessment. | ||
It was prepared in February, but it came out in March from the U.S. | ||
intelligence agencies predicting that there would be protests to topple Netanyahu. | ||
At the time, there were no protests. | ||
And all of a sudden after this assessment comes out, there are protests and the timing is very suspicious. | ||
In addition, the White House hosted Netanyahu's main political rival, Benny Gantz, who was a former IDF chief of staff, former general, but he's Netanyahu's main rival. | ||
He shows up at the White House without telling Netanyahu right after this intelligence assessment comes out or around the same time. | ||
And it's absolutely clear to everybody what's going on here that the White House of the Biden administration is trying to push Netanyahu out of office by using the same color revolution tactics they've used to topple other democratically elected governments. | ||
They create the illusion of public outrage and public unrest. | ||
And what you don't see are the 75% of Israelis who agree with Netanyahu's policies, who want to go into Rafah and finish off Hamas, who are sending their sons and daughters into the army, into the military reserves, leaving work, leaving home, going in there. | ||
And you know, at the beginning of the war, when I went in October, right after October 7th, I said that if Netanyahu did not invade Gaza, the army that was camped out on the border with Gaza We're turning around, go back to Jerusalem, kick him out of office, and then go back and fight the war. | ||
Because the people of Israel want to be rid of Hamas. | ||
They support the war. | ||
They support the policies that Netanyahu has adopted. | ||
But Biden is backing the left-wing opposition, which can't win elections anymore in Israel. | ||
They have fallen out of favor. | ||
Ever since the failure of Camp David that we just talked about, with Yasser Arafat walking away from the deal, the Israeli left has collapsed. | ||
They can't win an election, so they go to the streets, and the Biden administration is encouraging them, and some of the leaders of the protest movement in Israel openly brag that they're talking to the Biden White House and taking instructions from them. | ||
Now, I've met some of these protest leaders. | ||
Some of them are sincere people who believe that it's in the best interest of their country that they get a new government for whatever reason, but some are hoodwinked by the Biden administration. | ||
They think that this administration is great for them and that it's going to arrange The political situation in a post-Netanyahu world in a way that favors the Israeli left. | ||
But what both the Biden administration and the left-wing movement in Israel are not reckoning with is the fact that the vast majority of Israelis want to win the war. | ||
They don't want to live under the shadow of Hamas. | ||
They don't trust Hamas. | ||
And they support Netanyahu's policies, even if some are tired of him personally since he's been around there for so many years. | ||
But this is a war that Israelis know they have to win. | ||
Joel, where do people get your writings over at Breitbart, the Breitbart Radio News, the radio shows, your social media? | ||
You come in a little hot sometimes on Twitter. | ||
Where do people go? | ||
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Well, you can follow it all at Breitbart.com. | |
I'm also on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 7 to 10 p.m. | ||
Eastern on Sundays. | ||
And you can follow me on Twitter at Joel Pollack. | ||
That's where you'll get a lot of my observations about the Middle East. | ||
And look, I got to tell you, Israelis are telling me They need a change in the American administration. | ||
Many Israelis are despondent and despairing because they feel that Joe Biden is the worst thing that's happened to their country. | ||
They trusted him in the beginning of the war. | ||
They trusted he would stand up to Iran. | ||
Now they're terrified of him because they feel he's unleashing hell on their country by backing away and letting the forces of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, walk all over Israel. | ||
Not just Israel, but not even responding to attacks on America. | ||
How can it be that this primitive tribe in Yemen that can't even Hopefully, maybe we'll track you down where you're in Israel. | ||
the Iranians. How can they threaten global shipping? | ||
Israelis are looking at this and seeing a weak America. They're terrified and they're counting the months until November, until January 2025 really. | ||
Hopefully, maybe we'll track you down where you're in Israel. You leave tonight for Israel? | ||
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I leave tomorrow. | |
Tomorrow. | ||
Okay, we'll track you down. | ||
Joel, thank you so much for coming on and explaining this. | ||
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Thank you, Steve. | |
The color revolution and the net and hair blank. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Joel Pollack. | ||
Joel, I think, knows this topic as well or better than anybody in this country. | ||
Joel Pollack over at Breitbart. | ||
Jason Trennett joins us. | ||
And Jason, I'm going to ask you to hold through the block. | ||
We're getting to a little late. | ||
You were with President Trump on Saturday. | ||
We'll get to that later. | ||
But you have given, as people should know, Jason is considered by the hedge fund guys on Wall Street as one of the smartest guys out there. | ||
And I think you've had such a great understanding and grasp on really where this economy is going. | ||
But talk to me for a second about, we got about 60 seconds. | ||
Tee it up. | ||
You've got a simple proposal That you think can get our budget under control, this massive out-of-control spending, and you're, in essence, it's making the American people kind of the preferred stockholders. | ||
It's making them in charge when they write checks, that they can actually see what's going on. | ||
Give me 60 seconds and then we'll bring you back and go into more depth. | ||
The 60 seconds is this, Steve. | ||
You stop withholding at the employer level and you force people to pay for their taxes like they pay for any other good or service with quarterly checks. | ||
And that's the way the system worked from 1913. | ||
There was no federal income tax, permanent income tax until 1913, until 1939. | ||
And people paid taxes quarterly. | ||
The problem with withholding is that it makes the system opaque and it's not uncommon even in my office among young people where they'll get a tax refund and think that they're getting something from the government other than their own money back without interest. | ||
And so I think if people paid their tax bills like they paid their other bills, they would demand much more from their government. | ||
And I think it would stop a lot of this crazy spending that we're seeing from the government, both at the federal level and the state and local level. | ||
This is brilliant. | ||
This is something Trump could do. | ||
Okay, short commercial break. | ||
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Jason Trennard from Strategist joins us next in The World. | |
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | ||
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Jason, so Jason, I've always tried to push that Election day and tax day would be the exact same day, because people are so upset on tax day that they understand how the government's taking this much money, but then you focus on elections. | ||
You're saying something I think even better as a lead-up to it. | ||
That because when you withhold the taxes, you're right. | ||
It's not just the young people. | ||
I know so many people saying, I'm waiting for my government tax refund. | ||
It's like the government's giving them money. | ||
The government's taking their money and give them no interest. | ||
The time value of money the government keeps. | ||
It's a huge scam. | ||
And then doles out. | ||
You're saying, let's just set it up that every quarter you write, they don't withhold anything. | ||
You write a check. | ||
Then you can start getting worked up about this massive government spending that doesn't help you, only adds to inflation, only adds to your economic misery. | ||
And then you're like a financier. | ||
You actually are a financier of the government because you're actually taking an action, writing a check, not having the government withhold it. | ||
The withholding is another part of the scam so that you don't really think you're part of the system. | ||
Go ahead, sir. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I mean, Steve, it makes you a consumer. | ||
It makes you a consumer of government services. | ||
And right now, again, I think the way the system is set up is there's a tendency for people to think that their income is some sort of dispensation from government. | ||
And that's not the way it works. | ||
We're the citizens. | ||
We're the people who are paying for the government. | ||
And these are the things, if you paid for it just like you paid for anything else, you would demand a lot more value for your money. | ||
And you'd ask questions about the way the money is being spent. | ||
And of course, and again, this is not, it seems crazy, but this is the way the system worked. | ||
from 1913 through 1939. | ||
But when there was no federal income tax in the U.S. until 1913 permanently. | ||
And that's the way it worked. | ||
Every quarter you would write. | ||
And as you would suspect, the size of government was a lot smaller. | ||
Just fund the war. | ||
We started withholding. | ||
Unfortunately, Milton Friedman, one of my great heroes, was one of the great regrets of his life is that he was involved in creating the system. | ||
But the fact of the matter is that it changed everything because, again, people are not focusing on what they're paying. | ||
And of course, if you trust in people, in regular people, to do the right thing, it's a much better way as opposed to giving a bunch of elites essentially carte blanche on the way they're using your money to spend on other people. | ||
How did FDR and that team concoct this? | ||
I mean, obviously, they had foreshadowed what was happening in Europe, and there's all controversies about what happened in the Pacific, particularly around Pearl Harbor. | ||
But what was the logic? | ||
How did they push through the thing that they were going to withhold your money instead of having you write a check? | ||
The logic, Steve, was largely that there was a relatively small number of people who had paid taxes up until 1939, so the tax base was not particularly wide. | ||
They needed to raise money and they wanted to expand the tax base. | ||
Now again, you're talking about government spending as a percentage of GDP that is a fraction of what it is now. | ||
So no one really complained too much. | ||
It was a little more efficient. | ||
It was easier to get money in the door more quickly to start funding. | ||
I don't think this was the master plan to keep more of people's money, but it wound up being a very convenient way to keep a lot more of people's money after the war had ended. | ||
As Ronald Reagan said, the closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program, and this is exactly what happened. | ||
You were there on... So first of all, what it would take for us? | ||
Is this President Trump? | ||
Is this something he could take executive action on? | ||
Because we're going to get back at this. | ||
This is a brilliant idea. | ||
I also like mine to make tax day election day, but can you do this by executive order? | ||
Can you do this by executive order? | ||
Steve, I don't know the answer to that. | ||
Making this proposal, I should know the answer to that, but I will find out. | ||
I can't see why not, because I don't believe this would require congressional approval. | ||
You're still collecting the taxes. | ||
You're not changing the tax rates. | ||
You're simply asking people to pay. | ||
We're going to get in the back of this, but here's the thing. | ||
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Okay, I'll get it wired. | |
When I first talked to the guys about moving, they said, no, no, no, the deficit will be even bigger because you need that money. | ||
I said, well, hold it, we're running $2 trillion deficits. | ||
You can skip the six months just once and then we'll catch up, but you just do it. | ||
They panic. | ||
Whenever you make people have to write a check close to focusing on the spending, they panic. | ||
They absolutely panic. | ||
They want this totally hidden. | ||
Go ahead. | ||
I'm sorry to interrupt Steve, but there's no organization on earth that hasn't figured out a way to do this. | ||
Whether it's a gym membership or whatever it is, they stagger it so that So that you don't, all of the money isn't due at the same time. | ||
They stagger it by your alphabet or something. | ||
So there'll be no cash flow issues if you did it this way. | ||
It would just make people, again, it would remove the opacity of the process and make people much more aware of what they're paying for the services of government. | ||
And again, the government is there to serve us. | ||
We're not there to serve We're not there to fund a lot of these wacky programs. | ||
And of course, we're running deficits of $2 trillion a year, 7% of GDP. | ||
We've only done that three other times since the end of World War II. | ||
And each time we were running deficits of this magnitude, the unemployment rate was above 7. | ||
What we're doing now is crazy and irresponsible. | ||
Can you hang on for 90 seconds? | ||
I want to talk a little bit about Saturday, to the degree you're comfortable with it. | ||
Jason Trennert, who was with President Trump on Saturday. | ||
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90 seconds. |