April 12, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| Let me be clear. | ||
| Failure to reauthorize 702. | ||
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Or gutting it with some new kind of warrant requirement would be dangerous and put Americans' lives at risk. | |
| No, absolutely. | ||
| I'm totally against FISA. | ||
| Altogether. | ||
| I think it's a complete lie. | ||
| It's like the dirty trick here. | ||
| If our government really cared about our national security, they'd shut down the border and they would mass deport criminals that have come across our border and they would be arresting people that are dangerous to our society. | ||
| That's pretty simple. | ||
| It's the common sense answer. | ||
| The other thing is anyone, if there's a threat in our country, any law enforcement can go to a court and get a warrant. | ||
| That's a factual truth. | ||
| I do not support FISA. | ||
| I don't support the reauthorization of it. | ||
| Changing it from five years to two years gives me no comfort whatsoever because Joe Biden's administration, his DOJ and his FBI is breaking the law anyways, and they're using it to go after their political enemies. | ||
| So do I trust FISA under the Biden administration? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| So I don't support it whatsoever. | ||
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You vote no on the rule tomorrow? | |
| No, I didn't vote no on the rule yesterday. | ||
| And that needs to be made clear to people. | ||
| People got confused. | ||
| There were some of our members saying that FISA was defeated yesterday. | ||
| Newsflash, it's coming back for a vote tomorrow. | ||
| I vote on the rules so that the amendments on the warrants can be, we can vote on them. | ||
| I thank the speaker. | ||
| I would point out before I recognize my friend from Ohio that the concerns that we're looking at here, I think, boil down to questions that people assert when they say, quote, lawfully collected information. | ||
| So therefore you don't need a warrant to search the 702 data for United States citizens information. | ||
| I think that's really at the crux of the debate going on. | ||
| And the rule that we have before us, which takes a product to respond to and make reforms and changes in response to some of the concerns raised, but then takes the critical and core component of warrant requirement and puts it off as an amendment subject to debate when there has been now some public pressure put on opposing the amendment. | ||
| That's the conundrum that you're seeing unfold for the American people to understand why there's some hesitation here to proceed when we're proceeding with reforms that don't get to the engine of the reform. | ||
| Reforms that might make some improvements, but those improvements are in the periphery. | ||
| They ignore the core problem, that fundamental issue as to whether or not you must have a warrant to look at the information of American citizens. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's at the core of it. | ||
| And we're talking about things that are significant. | ||
| We're just the tip of the iceberg, right? | ||
| Searches by the intel community, FBI included 141 Black Lives Matter protesters, two members of Congress, journalists, political commentators, victims who contacted the FBI, people who came to the FBI offices to perform repairs, individuals on online dating services. | ||
| And now we have in this bill a carve-out for members of Congress. | ||
| Congress, we get a heads up. | ||
| Hey guys, you've been queried. | ||
| Well, why do we get something that 330 million Americans don't get? | ||
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With that, I will yield. | |
| 19 Republicans voted against a Republican rule yesterday. | ||
| 19, including the member that managed debate on the rule. | ||
| I don't think that has ever happened in the history of the committee. | ||
| I mean, it's genuinely shocking to me. | ||
| This member voted for the rule in committee, but then voted against it on the floor. | ||
| Now, I've heard of, I was for it before I was against it, but this is nuts. | ||
| The rules majority turned the keys over to someone who wanted to crash the car. | ||
| During debate, I think he even came pretty close to telling the rest of the conference to vote no on the rule. | ||
| Now, I'm not actually sure Mr. Roy was aware of the power they entrusted him with as manager of the rule. | ||
| He could have offered an amendment to the rule on the floor to do whatever the hell he wanted to do, including rewrite the bill entirely, and it might have passed. | ||
| The person they picked to send to the floor to represent their position, the Speaker's position, couldn't even be trusted to do it. | ||
| No wonder why we can't get anything done. | ||
| I mean, this is crazy. | ||
| I've never seen anything like this in my life. | ||
| And here's some free advice. | ||
| Find out if your manager supports the rule before you send him or her to the floor to manage the rule. | ||
| The fact of the matter is nobody in real America gives two rats for your ends about whether or not someone votes on a rule, manages a rule, goes down to the floor, and then votes on a rule. | ||
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Bye. | |
| 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. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
| 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. Babb. | |
| It's Friday, 12 April on the Year of Our Lord 2024. | ||
| Very heated in the nation's capital today. | ||
| We've got two of the leaders of the fight for freedom, Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia 14 and from Texas 21st Congressional District, Congressman Chip Roy. | ||
| Let me start with Chip Roy. | ||
| I think we got Chip Roy by phone. | ||
| Congressman Greene is going to join us by Skype here momentarily. | ||
| Congressman Roy, I just want to go back to that clip we played before that one where you laid out exactly what is the heart of the problem here and why because we're hearing now Jake Sherman this morning has got Johnson flying down for some performative election integrity thing at Mar-a-Lago and Jake Sherman saying he thinks the President signed off, President Trump signed off on a two-year Tell us, what's the core problem here with this? | ||
| About these warrants? | ||
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Yeah, well, thanks for having me on. | |
| Look, it's a complicated issue, so I'll do my best to try to distill it. | ||
| You played that clip where I tried to do it on the floor. | ||
| Short version is this. | ||
| The baseline here is that none of us like advancing and continuing the Pfizer regime as it is without significant reforms. | ||
| We had a judiciary bill that was bipartisan, that reformed the entire system, including a warrant requirement for Americans, as well as other important reforms like Warren Davidson's Fourth Amendment not-for-sale language. | ||
| We had a strong product and kicked it out. | ||
| Judiciary is the committee of jurisdiction. | ||
| Unfortunately, the intel world, the powers that be, the warmongers, whatever you want to say, the uniparty, Unfortunately, the Speaker deferred to them and allowed them to drag this out over the last four months, five months, where we did an interim extension of FISA. | ||
| That interim extension of FISA expires in about a week. | ||
| So now there's a lot of pressure to try to say, what are we going to do on FISA? | ||
| Now, those of us who want to ensure there are some protections, if FISA expires, some protections on Americans do, in fact, expire. | ||
| So we're trying to make sure that we keep protections, but don't continue the regime that was used to go after Americans to the tune of 270,000 incidents that were unlawful of targeting Americans. | ||
| So, we believe there needs to be a warrant requirement. | ||
| That is at the core of the entire debate. | ||
| There are other issues at play. | ||
| What happened yesterday, or the day before, we went to the Rules Committee, and we believed we were going to be able to get a straight up or down vote on the warrant. | ||
| That the Speaker wasn't putting his finger on the scale. | ||
| Well, as it became clear, so I agreed to manage the rule. | ||
| Go to the floor and verify. | ||
| I'm on the Rules Committee. | ||
| We will get this out. | ||
| We'll have a free and open debate on the warrant requirement as an amendment on a base text which has some reforms but would not get to the core part, the warrant requirement. | ||
| Unfortunately, the finger was put on the scale. | ||
| There was lobbying against it. | ||
| It looked like it would go down. | ||
| And by the way, this would reauthorize for five years. | ||
| So, we killed the rule on the floor, and as you pointed out, I was getting chastised in the Rules Committee because it was the first time in American history, I think, that the manager of the rule voted against the rule on the floor. | ||
| Now, I was trying to work this to have the entire conference be able to have a debate on the floor, trying to do my job on the Rules Committee, trying to navigate it, give us a chance. | ||
| We didn't get there. | ||
| They got it wrong, so we killed it on the floor. | ||
| Fast forward. | ||
| What we now have on the floor is a two-year extension of FISA. | ||
| If we don't do that, the high likelihood is we get rolled with a clean extension of FISA for five years that the Senate sends over here and the Speaker puts on the floor. | ||
| So that's the dice roll, right? | ||
| Do we roll the dice that that's what happens? | ||
| We believed, and this is me and Marjorie and Pat and Jim Jordan and a whole bunch of others in the Freedom Caucus, Scott Perry and all this. | ||
| We put our heads together, and somewhat reluctantly, but we agreed, look, if we can get a two-year reauthorization with a decent number of forms that are in the base tax, which are decent, but not dispositive, and get a clean vote on the warrant amendment today, that that's worth proceeding with. | ||
| We are going to lobby like hell over the next two hours, and we're fighting on the House floor right now. | ||
| I'm about to go to the floor and go argue when we get off this, that we need this warrant requirement. | ||
| And we need this warrant requirement because this is the mass collection of data on Americans because you're targeting it on foreign foreigners, but you're collecting, incidentally, a lot of information on Americans that get searched for fishing expeditions. | ||
| So our intel friends say, oh, the sky will fall if you have this warrant requirement. | ||
| But that's just not true. | ||
| Every single instance in America, you've got to have a warrant requirement if you want to go target an American citizen, and it should be the case here. | ||
| If the warrant amendment passes, this is worthy of support. | ||
| A two-year reauthorization with a warrant requirement for Americans, that's worthy of support. | ||
| If it fails, the bill should go down, we should fight it hard, and we should try to kill it in the Senate, and try to live to fight another day in another way. | ||
| OK, you're going to head to the floor. | ||
| What's our marching orders for the War Room Posse? | ||
| To call their congressman now and say, you've got to vote for this warrant amendment. | ||
| The FISA extension must have the warrant requirement in it? | ||
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That is the core fight. | |
| The warrant requirement must pass. | ||
| If the warrant requirement does not pass, this bill needs to die. | ||
| So the first step is call your members of Congress, call the Speaker's office, but first call your member. | ||
| Let them know. | ||
| We want warrant protections in FISA. | ||
| We want you to pass this amendment, and we're watching. | ||
| We're going to pay attention. | ||
| Do you choose the Constitution, or do you choose the deep state? | ||
| That's the question. | ||
| Are you going to govern by fear or by freedom? | ||
| We think too many of our colleagues have been governing by fear and trying to use fear, trying to use scare tactics. | ||
| 9-11, you're going to die. | ||
| Terrorists are going to get you. | ||
| I am much more afraid, Steve, of the power of government being used on me. | ||
| I am much more afraid of that than I am of what some terrorists might do to us. | ||
| I don't like it. | ||
| I don't want to have bad actors be able to go run amok. | ||
| We should be able to have our foreign intelligence guys go after bad people abroad. | ||
| 100% agree. | ||
| But we should ultimately protect Americans. | ||
| Right. | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| People want to follow you over the next couple hours. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
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The best is going to be on Twitter, Chip Roy, T-X-C-H-I-P-R-O-Y-T-X, or my official account, Rep. | |
| Chip Roy, R-E-P-C-H-I-P-R-O-Y, on Twitter. | ||
| With your shield, or on your shield, Congressman, thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much, Congressman Chip Roy. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| 202-225-3121. | ||
| You know what your marching orders are. | ||
| Let's go to Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| Congressman, you've been at the lead of this fight. | ||
| I just need you to tell, we started with Chris Wray. | ||
| Tell the pressure that's on members about what Intel, because taking out a judiciary, what is the Intel in deep state telling people in these briefings? | ||
| What is this fear that Chip Royce is talking about? | ||
| Oh, they're trying to instill fear in members, you know, especially like our own speaker, Mike Johnson. | ||
| They pull him in the room in a classified briefing and give him no proof but try to tell him that Americans are going to die unless you reauthorize FISA. | ||
| Or people are going to die unless you do XYZ. | ||
| Here's the deal. | ||
| I am completely against FISA, Steve. | ||
| Kill FISA altogether. | ||
| We do not need FISA. | ||
| FISA is the tool of the deep state. | ||
| And just because people think taking it from a five-year to a two-year makes this bill any better, it does not. | ||
| Here's the deal. | ||
| There's a carve-out for members of Congress in there, Steve. | ||
| That means that Congress has to be notified if a congressman is going to be spied on by FISA. | ||
| But yet, are the American people notified? | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| FISA is what was used to spy on the Trump campaign. | ||
| It's what's been used to spy on hundreds of thousands of Americans. | ||
| And the intel community wants it to continue. | ||
| So my question for everyone at home is, do you trust the government? | ||
| Do you actually trust the Department of Justice to police itself? | ||
| Do you actually trust Biden's DOJ to hold Biden's FBI accountable? | ||
| No, we don't trust any of it. | ||
| And I'm really sick and tired of Republicans here in the House kicking the can down the road and saying, oh, well, when Trump comes back, Trump will fix it. | ||
| Why don't Republicans fix it right now? | ||
| That's what I want to see. | ||
| I want to see a fight to actually do what we say we're going to do and stand up for the American people. | ||
| I voted yes on the rule. | ||
| I'm voting yes on the warrant requirement. | ||
| And then I am voting a big fat no on the FISA bill altogether. | ||
| And that's exactly what we should be doing. | ||
| Well, Congressman, if you could just hang for one second, we'll just take a short commercial break. | ||
| There's a lot more we want to get into that goes around your fight on FISA, your fight on Ukraine, your fight for the security of the southern border, and your fight with the current Speaker of the House, who will be at Mar-a-Lago later today. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| back in the war room in a moment. | ||
| Congressman, I think the audience liked what you just said, so I want to take a second and go back to the beginning. | ||
| Give us your argument, and then walk us through the complexity of what you're going to vote for in this warrant, and then eventually why you're voting against FISA. | ||
| Because the debate now is FISA or warrantless FISA. | ||
| You're saying throughout the whole thing. | ||
| And what would the Deep State's response be? | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene is irresponsible, she doesn't care about national security, we could have terrorist attacks, etc., etc., etc., ma'am. | ||
| Yeah, let's tell the truth to the deep state. | ||
| The reality is if they cared about protecting Americans, if they cared about our national security, they would shut our border down and deport the terrorists that they've allowed come in. | ||
| They would deport the cartel members that are running the southern border and they would deport criminals. | ||
| That's what they would do to protect our national security interests. | ||
| But instead, the biggest effort that I have seen this week has been everybody coalescing to get FISA passed and reauthorized. | ||
| And I have been disgusted with every single ounce of it. | ||
| It makes me sick. | ||
| Because we all know that we don't need FISA. | ||
| If there is a threat to anyone, any law enforcement in our country can go to a court and they can get a warrant and go after that person. | ||
| We don't need FISA. | ||
| FISA has been in place since 1978 under Jimmy Carter. | ||
| It didn't prevent 9-11. | ||
| And let's be real, when they strengthened FISA, all it has done, Steve, has been used to spy on the American people. | ||
| They are violating the Fourth Amendment. | ||
| Let me tell you the other tricks that have been done this week, and I cannot believe our speaker has done this. | ||
| Warren Davidson has a bill that would protect people's personal data with FISA. | ||
| Mike Turner on the Intel Committee has an amendment being voted on this morning, and I'm really interested to see if it passes, that would expand FISA's ability to go after people's personal data. | ||
| Well, let me tell you the garbage Mike Johnson did. | ||
| He's moving Warren Davidson's bill to protect your data to next week, but yet he's bringing Mike Turner's amendment in the package of amendments to be voted on this morning before we reauthorize FISA. | ||
| That's the garbage that's happening. | ||
| This whole thing stinks to high heaven, and anyone that tries to lie to you and tell you going from five years to two years for reauthorization is a good idea because it puts it under President Trump is lying. | ||
| The truth is, Congress, we make the laws. | ||
| We can change any department. | ||
| We can change any program. | ||
| We can change any policy at any time when we want to before it expires. | ||
| So the five-year to two-year is not a victory. | ||
| It is a loss for the American people to reauthorize FISA. | ||
| And this is just going to continue the same garbage. | ||
| And we don't trust the government to hold itself accountable. | ||
| The government doesn't hold itself accountable. | ||
| The government always screws over the American people. | ||
| And that's why the right vote this morning, if you're calling into your member, needs to be say, yeah, vote for the warrant requirement, pass that, and then vote no to FISA and kill the bill. | ||
| We should completely kill FISA. | ||
| Republicans in the House should be holding the line, not helping Joe Biden, not passing his agenda, because right now the Biden agenda is to put Trump in jail for the rest of his life and let him die in a prison somewhere and continue to come after you and your family because you're a Christian and you're a conservative and you're a patriot and you love this country. | ||
| And I'm sick and tired of it. | ||
| I want to go back over this past week. | ||
| We've got tens of thousands this week. | ||
| You've got known terrorists. | ||
| You've got fighting-age men, 80% of the people. | ||
| You've got Chinese Communist Party members coming across now to the tens if not hundreds of thousands. | ||
| During the week, do they come and give you secret briefings and all the intelligence about the invasion of the southern border, where they're going in different cities, where the concentrations are? | ||
| Or is it all about spying on the American people? | ||
| Do they actually spend any time at all on the southern border? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| Not an ounce of time, not a second, not anything. | ||
| And I serve on the Homeland Security Committee. | ||
| And by the way, Steve, those are my articles of impeachment on Mayorkas. | ||
| It has my name on there. | ||
| And I'm the only one that has actually brought accountability against the Biden administration by forcing our Republicans in the House to impeach Secretary Mayorkas. | ||
| And here we are, like, not pushing and shoving and forcing Chuck Schumer to hold the trial in the Senate against Mayorkas. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| We didn't talk about that this week, but let me tell you what's happening right now. | ||
| We have a classified briefing set up right off of the House that any Republican member or Democrat can go in and find out how scary things are in our state of national Security and all the reasons why, the garbage reasons why, we have to vote to reauthorize FISA and give the deep state the tool that they need to continue spying on all of us. | ||
| That's what's set up right now in a classified briefing. | ||
| Nothing about the border, but you can bet right now that your money is going to pay for terrorists that were brought into our country, paying for cartel members, paying for drug dealers, Paying for illegal aliens to make sure that they're housed, they're fed, their kids go to your schools, and they get health care. | ||
| And oh my goodness, let's make sure that they can vote. | ||
| That's the biggest thing the Democrats want to happen. | ||
| Congressman, you've been every night on MSNBC and CNN. | ||
| I see that Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the leaders of the Christian Nationalist movement. | ||
| You're one of the neo-fascists. | ||
| You're one of the leaders of MAGA. | ||
| You're President Trump's biggest supporter. | ||
| President Trump's a fascist. | ||
| Explain to me just the politics. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| Why is Marjorie Taylor Greene neo-fascist? | ||
| Why are you fighting to stop the state from spying on American citizens and progressive Democrats are saying it's the end of the world unless we pass a bill that allows the state to spy on Americans? | ||
| Explain that to the audience. | ||
| Well, the reality is the truth that we all know. | ||
| They have to call me horrible names and turn me into a monster every single day and night on the news because if they really allowed my words to be heard and told the truth about me, Americans would know that I'm actually very mainstream. | ||
| And I'm actually, I think and talk like most Americans do, and that is the last thing that MSNBC, the Democrat Party, and any of these people want real Americans to know about Marjorie Taylor Greene is that, uh-oh, we might actually agree with her. | ||
| Oh, shoot, we might like her. | ||
| she's speaking common sense, and she's actually fighting for our country and our tax dollars and our border. | ||
| That's the dirty secret. | ||
| They do not want anyone to know about it. | ||
| It's exactly what they do with President Trump. | ||
| And this is what they do with anybody that they know and they have seen up close, because they see me up close. | ||
| They know I mean exactly every single word I say, and I'm not full of shit just like Mike Johnson is. | ||
| And I'm actually going to follow through with actions instead of lie to people on television and in press conferences and out on the campaign trail, that I actually want the action behind the words that I'm speaking. | ||
| And they know that I mean it, Steve, and that's why they're calling me these names and that's why they lie about me every day. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| As soon as you bounce, we're going to go to the border with Ben Burquham. | ||
| He's got another report of tens of thousands of illegal alien invaders coming across the border, even as we speak, and they all get in the phone, they get in the money, they're getting air transportation deep to the United States. | ||
| We're then going to go to Rome. | ||
| Ben Harnwell's following. | ||
| Right now, the New York Times is breaking the story that the Ukrainians, since they can't get volunteers and they can't get young men around 27 years old to come, you know, the 500,000 troops they need, they're sending amputees Amputees back to the front line. | ||
| What is your situation with Ukraine, this Ukraine funding? | ||
| And is Speaker Johnson going to live up to his word to make sure that we secure the border before we give one penny to Ukraine, ma'am? | ||
| No, he's going to live up to his word and make sure that he ships 60 billion of your dollars over to Ukraine. | ||
| Doesn't that make you sick to your stomach? | ||
| When you said that just now, Steve, like my stomach flipped over. | ||
| The very thought that we are paying for the slaughter and the murder of an entire generation of Ukrainian men and that here they are, they're out of men. | ||
| So these amputees, these injured soldiers that have already been through the buzzsaw on the battlefield are having to limp their way or crawl their way back up to the front lines because Zelensky will not work a peace deal. | ||
| A peace deal with Putin and America is breathing down their throats and saying you must continue to fight and we are going to pay for it and force you to do it. | ||
| This whole thing is the most repulsive, disgusting thing happening, and the American people are the ones writing the check. | ||
| And I absolutely hate everybody here that is doing this. | ||
| I mean, I seriously hate them for doing this to the American people and paying for the murder and slaughter of people in Ukraine. | ||
| Vladimir Putin has not said he wants to go march across Europe and take Europe. | ||
| And the reality is Ukraine is not even a NATO member nation. | ||
| But if you wanna know something, Lloyd Austin and the others here, more than anything, wanna send your uncles, your cousins, and your sons and daughters to the front lines in Ukraine because that is the only country that for some weird, sick, and evil reason that they care about. | ||
| They don't care about you at home. | ||
| They don't care about our country. | ||
| They don't care about our border. | ||
| They don't care about any of that. | ||
| They only care about Ukraine and everybody should be demanding that the Republican elected Speaker of the House stop listening to the garbage and lies that he's being told and do the right thing. | ||
| And if he's going to fund $60 billion anywhere, send it to the southern border. | ||
| Send it to the southern border and secure the damn border. | ||
| Stop funding Joe Biden's administration. | ||
| Stop funding the open, deadly border invasion. | ||
| And stop funding all of the crap that Americans are so sick and tired of. | ||
| We know you've got to bounce. | ||
| We've got about 60 seconds. | ||
| Any advice for President Trump today when he meets with Speaker Johnson, ma'am? | ||
| You know, I love President Trump. | ||
| I've spoken to him a couple times this week, and I really want to see President Trump to stay focused on the campaign trail. | ||
| We've got to win this election in November. | ||
| That's all that matters. | ||
| And I want to see him defeat these awful trials that the Democrats have brought against him, all for politics. | ||
| He doesn't need to be worrying about what Mike Johnson's trying to talk him into and Mike Johnson's trying to saddle up to him because he's scared of a motion to vacate. | ||
| Mike Johnson needs to do his job and leave President Trump alone and let him win this election. | ||
| Congressman Greene, where do they go to support you? | ||
| Where do they go to find out more about your social media? | ||
| All of it. | ||
| All of my congressional sites are repmtg. | ||
| That's all on my socials. | ||
| And I appreciate everyone's support. | ||
| Congressman Green, thank you very much. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Powerful. | |
| Gold 2420. | ||
| That's correct. | ||
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2420. | |
| In fact, it's actually higher than that, I think, right now. | ||
| Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Go talk to Philip Patrick and the team and do it today. | ||
| Understand what's happening. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Burquam and Harnwell next. | ||
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What you're showing us, what you're seeing in plain sight, the markings, the places to throw the ladders up, just seeing it so tangibly. | |
| And these crossings, I mean obviously you've got, you know, the United States has a crisis on its hands, but what's fascinating from what sounds like what you're saying is it's Mexican authorities who are taking action, that residents in Mexico are increasingly frustrated with the migration crisis as well. | ||
| So what are you seeing on that? | ||
| So we were hearing that and we wanted to see it firsthand there and that's why we came down here and wanted to spend some time with Mexican officials and to see what they have put together as far as these new efforts is quite striking because it is, in many places along the border, much more than you'd see from the U.S. | ||
| side as far as a law enforcement presence. | ||
| As far as what residents think, and I'm going to show you where we are because this gives a better context, this is actually a neighborhood here. | ||
| If you pan, this is a private community that backs up right to the U.S.-Mexico Wow, it's a private wall. | ||
| But it's interesting because we've been in touch with residents on the U.S. side and they're angry and they have shared with us over the past several months that they have these migrants coming through their property and that is frustrating them. | ||
| The same type of frustration is felt here on the Mexico side and communities like this, this is actually a private wall, are dealing with... | ||
| Wow, it's a private wall. | ||
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| The Mexicans, who's had the back of the Mexican citizens more than Oscar Blue Ramirez and Ben Burkwamp for, I don't know, the last three or four years of the war room, have been down there, put themselves in harm's way. | ||
| How does it now, CNN's waking up, the Mexican government's waking up. | ||
| Ben, the poor, if you're an honest, hardworking citizen in Northern Mexico, your life's a living hell, right? | ||
| Your life's a living hell. | ||
| Here's the point. | ||
| The good householder. | ||
| The honest citizen. | ||
| The person that just goes to work, wants to raise a family, and just wants to be left alone. | ||
| Right? | ||
| To raise their family as they see fit, and worship God as they see fit, and make their way in the world as they see fit. | ||
| Those are the people that the system is stacked against. | ||
| Burquam, you've been down there for years now. | ||
| You're in La Jolla with the great police department down there that have been under siege. | ||
| You just heard Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| We're in another huge fight on this FISA, you know, warrantless FISA, FISA with warrants, FISA overall, the ability, 270,000 times they've illegally wiretapped or look into American people's data or what they're doing. | ||
| The whole week has been on this. | ||
| Not one word, nothing really mentioned about the invasion of the southern border. | ||
| You've been down there three or four years. | ||
| Is this invasion abating? | ||
| And now even Mexican citizens are going to their government and saying, hey, you're killing us here, we can't even live normal lives because this thing is so out of control and we're in the path of it, sir? | ||
| Yeah, Steve. | ||
| First off, just shame on CNN. | ||
| Three and a half years too late. | ||
| They knew exactly what was going on. | ||
| They've been treading water for this regime for three and a half years, knowing exactly what's happening. | ||
| The reason Real America's Voice News exists, the reason my show Law & Border exists, the reason we're down here with the Hoya Texas PD and we've done the work that they should have been doing is because they've been derelict in their duty. | ||
| Yes, the Mexican citizens, the law-abiding Mexican citizens are just as pissed off As the law-abiding American citizens, because they're getting screwed in this whole thing too. | ||
| You have millions of Mexican citizens who have family members in the US, who do commerce in the US, who want to go back and forth, who want to make Mexico great, who are trying to do everything they can to raise their children, love God, love their families, and you see this going on. | ||
| And the height of hypocrisy and shame should go to AMLO and to Joe Biden. | ||
| The only reason President Amlo is doing anything right now in Mexico is because this is an election year and he wants to keep Joe Biden the gravy train for the cartels and Mexico and for him in office. | ||
| That's the only reason he's doing this show, this supposed show of force. | ||
| But what we see every single day, what I saw yesterday in Reynosa, Mexico, you have 10,000 people. | ||
| These camps are massive. | ||
| The United Nations is pumping billions of our tax dollars into this. | ||
| And every single day, Joe Biden is allowing more people across the border. | ||
| We saw hundreds yesterday coming across with the CBP-1. | ||
| They're letting them in through CBP-1. | ||
| They're letting them across illegally. | ||
| And they're flying them directly into our country. | ||
| It is an absolute shame and disgrace. | ||
| And the fact that they're focused on American citizens when they're allowing terrorists to come into our country and making it more dangerous every single day. | ||
| These politicians should be out of office. | ||
| And that's why it's so important that November 2024. | ||
| But I want to give Lieutenant Casas the time because these guys are really, this is the front lines. | ||
| These guys that are out here day in and day out living in these communities that the cartels operate in. | ||
| It's just, they're the real heroes of America, sir. | ||
| Lieutenant, give us a situation report. | ||
| You guys seem like you're under siege. | ||
| Tell the American people, in fact we have a global audience, what's it like to try to protect the people in your community in La Jolla and try to enforce the rule of law, sir? | ||
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Well, I can tell you what, I've been up since 2 a.m. | |
| this morning and I'm still here and I'm gonna be here probably till most of the day because of the job that we have to do to keep the community safe. | ||
| This struggle that we have with the Smuggling cartels involved and all of that. | ||
| It hasn't stopped. | ||
| Every day this week, we've been able to apprehend at least one vehicle that's loaded with undocumented immigrants. | ||
| And this is a nonstop thing. | ||
| The more officers we have out there, the more we're going to catch these people. | ||
| But we're such a small community. | ||
| We're a small police department. | ||
| But yet, we're in the fight. | ||
| We're not letting off. | ||
| And we're not going to let off. | ||
| We have to protect our community and everything that's going to go north from here. | ||
| Lieutenant, do you think, do you feel as law enforcement and to the people, the hard-working citizens in La Jolla, do you think you've been abandoned by the federal government? | ||
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I believe so. | |
| You have to think about it this way. | ||
| If there's things that we've needed, you know, financially through grants we get them, and you want the support from the federal government, and when you don't get it, then, you know, we have to find a way to operate with what we have. | ||
| We've been getting more equipment. | ||
| We're getting ready for something. | ||
| We don't know what's coming. | ||
| But we know we need these all-terrain vehicles to go into the brush area where Border Patrol sometimes can't get to, not even our units can get into. | ||
| So we have these ATVs that we go in there in uniform, and we'll carry our weapons with us and everything, because there's going to be something going on. | ||
| We just know that that's going to happen, and we need to get ready. | ||
| I don't know why I have to say this, but I know that the people know this, of this nation. | ||
| That people are getting ready because the elections are coming up, and there's going to be a swift change, and it's going to be fast, and it's probably going to affect everybody. | ||
| And as law enforcement, we have to be ready. | ||
| Do you think that the invasions are now worse because the sense is that President Trump could win, and if President Trump gets back in, he's going to seal the border? | ||
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Well yes. | |
| You know, when that word came out of mass deportation, it scared the hell out of everybody. | ||
| And everybody that's here that doesn't, that's here illegally, It's messing with them, and it's affecting everybody. | ||
| So I think that's an increase, an influx that we've been getting of smugglers, smuggling people out of our state, because they know something's coming down the pipe, and they're preparing themselves. | ||
| Just like we're preparing ourselves for whatever they want to bring, they're preparing themselves by trying to get out of here. | ||
| Congressman, I mean, Lieutenant, are the cartels being more brazen today about how they're running? | ||
| Are they making more money on human sex trafficking, human trafficking, drug trafficking? | ||
| Are they being more brazen? | ||
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No doubt that they are, of course, yes. | |
| And we know that because some of these individuals that we've apprehended just a few days ago, they even tell us, you know, hey, we're running drones on you guys. | ||
| We probably have more drones than you guys have. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| They're probably right. | ||
| Because they do fly a lot of drones from Mexico into the United States. | ||
| And they fly them into our city and adjacent cities. | ||
| And they follow the people they need to follow. | ||
| They know where Border Patrol's at. | ||
| Just like Border Patrol may be able to know where they're at. | ||
| It's just like a cat and mouse thing. | ||
| And yeah, they are more brazen. | ||
| And they're taking chances because it's all about the money. | ||
| They're getting money. | ||
| They're getting rich. | ||
| They're becoming millionaires. | ||
| And they're very young. | ||
| Some of these are very young men driving $90,000 trucks. | ||
| ninety thousand dollar trucks that gets a game Hang on for a second. | ||
| I think this is, the audience may not fully comprehend this. | ||
| You're saying that there's a, that the cartels brazenly are flying drones into the United States into U.S. | ||
| airspace and they're actually monitoring Border Patrol or La Jolla PD are citizens they want to monitor? | ||
| They're actually, they're doing this and it's kind of unabated? | ||
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Yes, they are flying those drones into, and it's common knowledge for the federal government that understands that that's happening, and us as a local police department in our city, we know those drones are coming in. | |
| We've seen them ourselves. | ||
| And it's not us flying them, it's them from Mexico. | ||
| I've actually captured smugglers where they have on their phones drone footage of police cars, of border patrol. | ||
| They monitor and they record that stuff and they send it to each other. | ||
| And it makes them braver. | ||
| They feel like they're untouchable because they don't have to touch our land to be able to give directions. | ||
| They give them from the Mexican side using drones. | ||
| Have you guys raised that to Texas state officials, Department of Public Safety, Texas Rangers, or the Border Patrol, that you're now being monitored by the cartels and their surveillance drones? | ||
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Steve, they're aware of it. | |
| If they don't speak about it, maybe they're not allowed to. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But everybody's aware of that. | ||
| We all know that they use that. | ||
| That's common knowledge to us. | ||
| They don't hide it. | ||
| These people do not hide that they do that. | ||
| Let me ask you, to go from a surveillance drone to an, you know, upgrade to an armed drone is not, once you know the systems of flying, it's not that hard. | ||
| Do you guys concern yourselves that some of these drones eventually by the cartels may be armed? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Yes. | ||
| That's always in the back of our mind that that they could drop something on us. | ||
| They could drop a grenade on us. | ||
| They could use anything to harm us. | ||
| We're very aware of that. | ||
| Um, but we try to take our precautions and try to stay, try to stay as safe as we can. | ||
| We use, try to use the best equipment that we have out there. | ||
| We got better ballistic vests. | ||
| When we go out there into the brush, we have our helmets, we have everything that we can use. | ||
| But of course, When somebody drops a grenade on you, if that was to happen, you know, I don't think that any of that's going to help us. | ||
| But yeah, we're aware of that. | ||
| And that's in our mind. | ||
| And that's concerning. | ||
| Ben, can you hang on for one second? | ||
| Can you and the lieutenant hang on? | ||
| I want to hold you guys to the break. | ||
| I want to come back. | ||
| I want to talk about your experience with Ukraine on the southern border. | ||
| Right there, you're hearing it. | ||
| You talk about brazen U.S. | ||
| airspace. | ||
| They're up there in Congress. | ||
| And all the deep states talking about is Pfizer to spy on you. | ||
| Do you think for a second that they're concerned about the security of the country? | ||
| When you see what's happened on the southern border, and do you see briefings on the southern border, do you see them all coming saying, we've got to shut down, that, no, you shouldn't fund another thing, another day of the federal government until this thing's shut down? | ||
| Do you ever hear them say that? | ||
| No, you do not. | ||
| And right there, you've got the thin blue line Down in La Jolla, Texas, who puts their lives on the line every day, and now they say, yeah, we're surveilled by drones. | ||
| They got better drones than we got. | ||
| And you get these young punks, and they got the cell phones, and they got the footage where they're monitoring the La Jolla PD and the Texas authorities and the Border Patrol, who are all in harm's way. | ||
| Are they talking about that in Washington, D.C.? | ||
| And trust me, to go from a surveillance drone to something that's got weapons on it, Because the cartels got all the money in the world to buy the best. | ||
| And why do they have it? | ||
| Because the border's wide open and the Biden regime is in business with them. | ||
| Just like AMLO's government's in business with them because people are making a lot of money. | ||
| Sex trafficking, human trafficking, drug trafficking. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party is their partner. | ||
| Second Opium War. | ||
| Opium War in reverse to destroy the American people with fentanyl and more drugs. | ||
| It's all brazen, and what's the Deep State, what are they all worried about? | ||
| They're worried about the legal authority to spy on you. | ||
| They're not worried about the border. | ||
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short break. | |
| Oh. | ||
| We need more immigrants. | ||
| In fact, I want more immigrants here. | ||
| We need more refugees here. | ||
| We want more refugees here. | ||
| There's a way to do it. | ||
| You know, the thing that always bugged me when I was, I have to say it, I'm sorry, there's no way to say it. | ||
| I don't have a bell to ring here. | ||
| When I was in Congress, ding! | ||
| What always bugged me was, They're pitching about how you need the invasion for the economy. | ||
| The economy's going to collapse. | ||
| I kid you not. | ||
| I'll get to that in the second hour, because I don't want to keep the lieutenant and Ben, who are going to go on a ride, from going about his appointed rounds. | ||
| Just one thing. | ||
| Gold, as I said earlier, 2420. | ||
| Bounced around new high, broke 24. | ||
| We don't give you financial advice, but we point you in the direction of people that can walk you through things. | ||
| Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Go talk to Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| Philip joins me tomorrow. | ||
| We're doing coup d'etat Saturday. | ||
| I'll talk more about that in the second hour, but go to birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Do it today. | ||
| Ben Burquam, they're making... Scarborough and those guys are egging it on, saying that Central, to save the economy, to save the economy, we need a bigger invasion. | ||
| No, this is their new pitch, because they're brazen, they're not going to stop it. | ||
| I'm going to get to Hardwell in a minute in Rome to talk about, because now McCall is out there saying we've got to get Ukraine, we need to put that bill up there. | ||
| It's not going to have anything related to border security. | ||
| Talk to me about your and the lieutenants and La Jolla PDs and law enforcement in South Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, what do they know about Ukrainians? | ||
| Well, before I let Lieutenant Casas say that, to Joe Scarborough, say that to the Iowa workers that got laid off to allow refugees to take their work. | ||
| Say that to the Chicago citizens who can't get work because you've got illegal aliens taking those jobs. | ||
| Say that to the millions of American citizens who barely have enough money to put the food on the tables because we're bringing in more cheap illegal alien labor to take their places. | ||
| It's an absolute disgrace. | ||
| I just, I can't even, Steve, you know what you do when you play those clips. | ||
| I just, I can't say anything. | ||
| And while this is happening, 60 billion dollars to Ukraine. | ||
| We've got Ukrainian soldiers escaping Ukraine to come here. | ||
| Lieutenant, tell us about this. | ||
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Just a few months back, there was a pursuit that went through our city. | |
| We ended up in that pursuit, and that pursuit ended up crashing. | ||
| It was a truck loaded with undocumented immigrants, illegal aliens. | ||
| When we arrived there, we wanted the first to find, there was a lot of dead people, but we wanted to see who we could save and give first aid to. | ||
| What was strange about all of this was there was two gentlemen, one that was standing up and one that was sitting down because he couldn't get up. | ||
| And when I asked him, are you okay? | ||
| He spoke English to me. | ||
| And I asked him, where are you from? | ||
| And he said, I'm from Ukraine. | ||
| I didn't pay a lot of mind to that right away because there was a lot of people injured. | ||
| But then I go back to him and I start talking to this guy. | ||
| He pulls out a cigarette and starts smoking. | ||
| His shoulder's out of place and broken. | ||
| And he's standing up smoking a cigarette. | ||
| And he tells me, I am a soldier for the Ukrainian army and I don't want to fight the Russians. | ||
| That's why I'm here. | ||
| And I said, you actually paid To be put in this truck that nearly killed you, and he said yes. | ||
| They both ended up going to the hospital. | ||
| I ended up going a few weeks later to talk to the hospital director and find out about these Ukrainians. | ||
| And she told me they are now in the state of Nevada with their family. | ||
| They're getting better. | ||
| But they had some pretty bad injuries. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| I had not ever encountered Ukrainians. | ||
| But that day they almost died. | ||
| Sheriff, hang on. | ||
| Lieutenant, hang on. | ||
| Hit rewind for a second. | ||
| Tell me about Ukrainian soldiers paid to basically desert and to come to the United States, to sneak into the United States illegally, and we shipped them then after they almost died, almost killed you, we shipped them into Nevada? | ||
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that we shipped them into Nevada? Yes, they did pay because you know that's one I said, well, why were you in that truck? | |
| I mean, everybody was being smuggled, including you, right? | ||
| And he said, yeah, we paid and they paid a hefty amount. | ||
| I think it was probably like something like 13,000 just to get him across the river because they're not Mexican or anything like that. | ||
| So they charge those guys more. | ||
| And when they got, they got taken to the hospital because they were very, they were injured severely. | ||
| And like I said, A few weeks after that, I went to the hospital to see how they were and I was told they're gone. | ||
| They're in Nevada now with their family. | ||
| They reunited with their family in the state of Nevada. | ||
| Lieutenant, let me ask you a question before we leave. | ||
| How can the good folks, and I'm talking about the law-abiding bedrock of La Jolla, Texas, and I'm talking about the people that pay their taxes, that work, that raise good families, how can they consider law enforcement or the legal system in the United States or any law in the United States anything but a joke? | ||
| When every day they see with their own eyes exactly what's happening here in the invasion of this country and people are making money. | ||
| Some people are looking the other way. | ||
| Some people are just taking the money. | ||
| How are they supposed to sit there and abide by any rules or any laws if they see what's happening on the most fundamental issue about our sovereignty, sir? | ||
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You know, we have a lot of good people and they know this is happening. | |
| And sometimes they even question us. | ||
| Me personally, you know, I'm gonna use myself as an example. | ||
| They've asked me, how can you continue doing what you're doing? | ||
| And, you know, and all this is happening, and I tell them, we have to. | ||
| If we don't do it, who else is going to do it? | ||
| You know, we're having a hard time dealing with this. | ||
| I know that here in Texas, the good thing is we have DPS helping us out. | ||
| You know, you got the Rangers. | ||
| You got all these men that are helping. | ||
| And we're very grateful for that. | ||
| But it's the community themselves, the people that live here and in adjacent cities. | ||
| They make that decision. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| We're going to do things right. | ||
| There are some that may go rogue on us, but they'll end up in jail just like the smugglers. | ||
| But yeah, I can speak for the majority of these people. | ||
| They do the right thing. | ||
| They work hard. | ||
| They open up small businesses, and they just want to survive. | ||
| They don't get no freebies. | ||
| They just want to survive. | ||
| Just like us. | ||
| No freebies. | ||
| Ben, how do we get social media? | ||
| How do you get to your new episodes? | ||
| How do we get to Lieutenant's social media? | ||
| I've got new stuff coming out, so much content. | ||
| We got yesterday at Ben Burquam on all social media, frontlineamerica.com. | ||
| Kerry Donovan's been putting out a ton of articles, the new stuff, but stay tuned for that. | ||
| And then americasvoice.news, new episodes of Law & Border will be coming out. | ||
| And then La Jolla, I think Facebook, La Jolla, it's L-A-J-O-L-L-A Texas PD. | ||
| If you go on the Facebook page you can get there. | ||
| You can contact the station if you want to support their work and find out anything that they need. | ||
| I would absolutely recommend you guys doing that. | ||
| Lieutenant, go with God. | ||
| Our prayers are with you, sir. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| Thank you so much, Steve. | ||
| That's a hero. | ||
| Those folks down there are heroes. | ||
| The citizens are heroes. | ||
| And the police. |
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