June 11, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| It's also important to pay attention to the cast of characters Team MAGA is putting together. | ||
| The Republican National Committee has hired a prominent Stop the Steal advocate to craft its platform, Ed Martin, a former chair of the Missouri Republican Party who marched outside the Capitol on January 6th. | ||
| Another platform hire is a key figure behind the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a draconian playbook for a second Trump term. | ||
| Former Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vaught is a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist who's pushing a post-constitutional vision for a second Trump term. | ||
| Vaught supports prosecuting officials who investigated Trump and his allies, he told right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. | ||
| It can't just be hearings. | ||
| It has to be investigations, an army of investigators that lead to firm convictions. | ||
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With this normalization of the far right in this country and this idea that, you know, | |
| you're just voting for the opposition, I think this is a dangerous party. | ||
| If we look at Farage's alliance with Trump and Trump's open warfare with democracy, his | ||
| statements that he's going to be a dictator on day one, I don't think that it is something | ||
| casual to just say, oh, well, you know, maybe they'll make a better opposition. | ||
| You know, since I've been here, this country has been in the grips of a scandal about Rishi | ||
| Sunak's actions. | ||
| Actions around D-Day. | ||
| And I understand why people are offended. | ||
| I understand the pain that this is evoked. | ||
| But to me, the lessons of the Second World War, the lessons of D-Day, the way to honor the many, many victims is to look at history and look at the conditions under which the far right rises. | ||
| And I think it's when the right makes an alliance of convenience with the far right. | ||
| That is when fascism rises. | ||
| of what is now, again, another round of what seemed to be surprisingly right-wing election | ||
| results in Europe this weekend. | ||
| Was it right in 2016 to see right-wing election results in Europe as a harbinger of what was | ||
| coming for us in the fall of 2016? | ||
| As President Biden balances his campaign responsibilities right now with back-to-back trips to Europe. | ||
| He just got back from Europe. | ||
| He heads back to Europe again on Wednesday. | ||
| Do the election results from Europe right now, this weekend, have hallmarks that tell us anything about what to expect here and about how weird this is all going to get? | ||
| President Biden clearly sees our connections to Europe right now as absolutely key to the future of the world. | ||
| Does what's going on in European politics right now tell us anything to expect about the future of our world here? | ||
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I think that the Tories know they're going to lose and they seem to be practically throwing the election. | |
| They've basically written it off. | ||
| And it seems like Labour is running, trying not to make any sudden movements and to send lots of reassuring messages that very little really is going to change. | ||
| Are you disappointed? | ||
| Are you disappointed by that? | ||
| I'm not just disappointed. | ||
| I'm worried, because if we look at what just happened in Europe, if we look at what Schultz is doing, I'm seeing labor poised to make the same mistakes, which absolutely, I think, will win an election, but will set the table for a far-right comeback. | ||
| That's what I'm worried about. | ||
| I think the message that we're seeing from Europe is there really need to be policies that meet people's most urgent needs. | ||
| And this idea of what we're hearing from your leader about these fiscal rules, And basically, sounding like Margaret Thatcher on running a government like a household, which is ridiculous, is going to set the table for a far-right comeback. | ||
| Do you think they are important for us to pay attention to? | ||
| And can you just give us a rough characterization of what happened in those elections? | ||
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Sure, these were elections for the European Parliament, so the European Union-wide Parliament, and so it's the only election that takes place every few years in which all of Europe votes, so it's a good barometer of where opinion is in Europe. | |
| I think the two headlines are the far-right made noticeable gains in the two largest countries in Europe, France and Germany. | ||
| In France, the National Front Party, which is the far-right party that used to be on | ||
| the fringes of French politics, emerged as by far the largest vote-getter in this election. | ||
| And to just build on what you're saying, Rachel, this is a party that is not only far-right, | ||
| they've had ties to Russia. | ||
| They got a $10 million loan from Russia within the last decade. | ||
| So this is not conjecture. | ||
| This is reality. | ||
| And in Germany, the AFD party, which has ties that go back into the kind of neo-Nazi past | ||
| That's never a good thing in German politics, obviously. | ||
| They got over 15% of the vote. | ||
| Not a huge total, but very alarming given the source here. | ||
| Now, I want to be clear. | ||
| In other parts of Europe, actually, the center did hold. | ||
| But I think the real concerning factors in the two most important countries, France and Germany, we saw these far-right gains. | ||
| The reality is there's a great many people in his base, voters in his base, that do want somebody that is going to go and make things difficult and make, you know, even our allies uncomfortable. | ||
| And when they say we may cut off, you know, support for NATO allies and Russia can do whatever the hell they want, that is the type of fight they want out of a new American leader here in the year of 2024. | ||
| This is a new regime. | ||
| This is a new era. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, 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'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 line? | ||
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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. Babb. | |
| It's Tuesday, 11 June in the year of our Lord 2024 and yes, the aftershocks have finally | ||
| gotten to the mainstream media. What we reported on through the weekend, Sunday up on Getter | ||
| and then yes, all day yesterday to keep the War Room posse always ahead of the curve. | ||
| It's been a earthquake, tectonic plate shift in Europe, and particularly the two biggest countries. | ||
| Of course, Italy, although we may not love everything Giorgia Maloney's doing, Italy, the right, is in charge. | ||
| It's happening through the rest of Europe, but man, when Germany and France, and that's really the EU is Germany and France, when they have what the performance of alternative for Deutschland And what happened with the Green Party, crushed in Germany, and you've had the dissolution of Parliament by Macron, and now he's getting a ton of grief from his allies in the center and the center-left, even some of the center-right, saying that this is a role, and I call it a roll of the iron dice, a real gamble, as Rahim brought up yesterday. | ||
| We're going to get into all that much more on the FBI DOJ, a big op-ed by Garland, That says the unjustified announcements against DOJ and the FBI are totally, the unfounded accusations have to stop. | ||
| They're hurting the FBI and hurting the Justice Department. | ||
| Okay, I tell you what, Attorney General Garland, we'll make a deal. | ||
| We will stop with all the unfounded and we'll just focus on the founded because that's all we've been focusing on. | ||
| We don't do unfounded here in the war room. | ||
| We just do founded and that's what you should be worried about. | ||
| As the House gets ready to vote contempt charges on Merrick Garland. | ||
| A lot more going on, but I want to bring in John Solomon's wingman, Steve Richards, over just the news. | ||
| Kind of a blockbuster story pops up on your site, on the John Solomon site, late yesterday afternoon, early Evening, Steve Richards, explain to me, is there a litmus test? | ||
| Is the FBI blocking in its recruiting and hiring people that are MAGA or people that have any social media or anything to do with President Trump or support American citizens in good standing who are Trump supporters, sir? | ||
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Well, great to be with you, Steve. | |
| And so as you saw, as we broke last night, new documents indicate that the FBI initiated a security review of one of its employees. | ||
| And what they asked him was, do you support former President Trump? | ||
| Are you skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccine? | ||
| And do you support the Second Amendment? | ||
| Now, all these things are beliefs that millions of Americans hold. | ||
| And in the case of Trump, half the country supports him, as you see the recent polls. | ||
| And so, yes, there is this litmus test. | ||
| This is an agent who worked for the FBI. | ||
| Now he's a whistleblower. | ||
| But he took vacation days to go to the January 6, 2021 rally at the White House because he had the personal political opinion that there were irregularities in the election. | ||
| And he informed his superiors that he was going, and they didn't do anything about it for a year. | ||
| And then as the hysteria in the FBI built up over the January 6th events, they came after him, and eventually, after these interviews, revoked his security clearance. | ||
| Hang over a second. | ||
| They had a guy, an FBI agent in good standing. | ||
| He notified his supervisors, hey, I'm going to go over to the Ellipse. | ||
| I'm going to go over to hear the president speak on January 6th at the two or three hour series of speeches. | ||
| And then later, a year later, they call him in and what they wanted to drill down on his affinity for or support for Trump. | ||
| That's correct, Steve. | ||
| about the VAX, the COVID-19 VAX and the Second Amendment. | ||
| That's what they grow him on and then later they revoked his, they had | ||
| him there for a security review and later they revoked his | ||
| security clearance? | ||
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unidentified
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That's correct Steve and if you look at the the documents that we published with | |
| our article, my colleague John Solomon, the agents who are interviewing this FBI | ||
| employee, indicated that he was, that other witnesses said that he was a gun | ||
| nut quote-unquote and that he supported Trump's belief that the election was | ||
| And so they were using these political beliefs, which are normally protected under the bill of rights for a federal employee to hold. | ||
| They were using these political beliefs to determine whether or not he was allowed to possess a security clearance. | ||
| So they actually brought up the 2020 election, which is the heart of it all. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Has security clearance revoked? | ||
| Is he still with the FBI? | ||
| I mean, if you don't have a security clearance, I don't even know how you go in the building and get in the elevator bank at the FBI. | ||
| I don't know anything. | ||
| I couldn't even imagine a low-level administrative job that you wouldn't have, at least have a confidential clearance. | ||
| So what has happened to this individual? | ||
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unidentified
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So much like some of the other FBI whistleblowers, like Marcus Allen, who have recently come forward, this whistleblower, though he has chosen to remain anonymous, has filed a complaint with the Office of Inspector General at the FBI. | |
| And he's being represented by Empower Oversight, the group that has also represented the IRS whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden investigation and some of the other FBI agents. | ||
| And he's alleging that his security clearance, for obvious reasons, was improperly revoked. | ||
| Do we have any timing of when this will be worked through? | ||
| And the article I think said a litmus test. | ||
| Do you believe in your reporting that this has actually expanded out and been a broader litmus test in the FBI? | ||
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unidentified
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So as far as timeline, we're not sure how quickly this will move. | |
| His lawyers at Empower Oversight asked Inspector General Horowitz to investigate this matter. | ||
| Based on his previous track record, we're not sure how quickly this will move along. | ||
| But two sources did tell my colleague, John Solomon, that there is evidence and they have reason to believe that this litmus test is more widespread than just this one whistleblower. | ||
| Steve Richards, what's your social media? | ||
| Where do they get all your reporting over just the news? | ||
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I post on Twitter, smrichards30, and on Truth Social at Steven Richards. | |
| Steve, thank you very much. | ||
| Great report. | ||
| You and John Solomon did a great job over there. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| This is why we're hammering every day and of course McCabe goes on Anderson Cooper last | ||
| night to give another. | ||
| I mean, I guess his idea is if he can whine and cry enough in front of a left-wing progressive | ||
| audience that will get them all worked up and defend him. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| That's all emotions. | ||
| We're going to get to the bottom of all this, including this, a litmus test. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| If you have an affinity for Trump, if you question the COVID-19 vax in response to the pandemic and quote unquote, the guy's a gun nut because he believes in the second amendment. | ||
| And then later they cut to the heart of it, the heart of it. | ||
| Election. | ||
| Oh, he believes the 2020 election was stolen. | ||
| That's why he went to the Ellipse that day to watch the speech. | ||
| That's why he did it. | ||
| Okay, there's a lot going on, including the earthquake in Europe that's reverberating here. | ||
| Actually, I think we reverberated there. | ||
| I think pretty good job. | ||
| Bravo, Zulu. | ||
| Gotta get on top of this French election. | ||
| The French of right, the right-wing French politics are making alliances now for the center-right. | ||
| They're coming after Macron as he rolls the iron dice. | ||
| A lot more going on, including, guess what? | ||
| Coming off of D-Day, one of the high civic holy days in the American calendar, to commemorate the valor of our troops and what they gave to basically free other people. | ||
| The United States government has decided now we're going to actually fund neo-Nazis and Nazis fighting for Zelensky, the Azov battalion. | ||
| Short commercial break, we'll come back with all that. | ||
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| ...has a new piece in the Washington Post entitled, Unfounded Attacks on the Justice Department Must End. | ||
| He writes in part this, in recent weeks we have seen an escalation of attacks that go far beyond public scrutiny, criticism, and legitimate and necessary oversight of our work. | ||
| These attacks come in the form of threats to defund particular department investigations. | ||
| Most recently, the special counsel's prosecution of the former president. | ||
| They come in the form of dangerous falsehoods about the FBI's law enforcement operations. | ||
| They come in the form of false claims that the department is politicizing its work to somehow influence the outcome of an election. | ||
| The Justice Department makes decisions about criminal investigations based only on the facts and the law. | ||
| We do not investigate people because of their last name, their political affiliation, the size of their bank account, where they come from, or what they look like. | ||
| Disagreements about politics are good for our democracy. | ||
| They are normal. | ||
| But using conspiracy theories, falsehoods, violence, and threats of violence to affect political outcomes is not normal. | ||
| What violence? | ||
| This is, okay, this is, you can smell the fear. | ||
| Let it wave to me. | ||
| Smell the fear. | ||
| Look at poor Mika. | ||
| Mika's all worked up. | ||
| She's concerned. | ||
| And Merrick Garland's concerned. | ||
| Garland, people will decide. | ||
| Congressional committees and investigations and special counsels and all of that, they'll decide. | ||
| You say it's unjustified. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| The investigations will decide that. | ||
| Not you. | ||
| You're not going to decide it. | ||
| You're the problem. | ||
| And Chris Wray and the rot at the FBI and DOJ. | ||
| You're the problem. | ||
| And we will stop all, we haven't done it, but we don't do unfounded. | ||
| Unfounded. | ||
| Unfounded. | ||
| We only do founded. | ||
| That's why you're worming around. | ||
| That's why McCain, why is McCain, goes on Anderson Cooper last night, wets himself again on national TV. | ||
| I certainly wish we had a tougher group of folks leading the FBI. | ||
| It doesn't seem like he's very tough now that the tables are being turned rapidly because they can see, they understand what's happening in Europe. | ||
| It's going to happen here. | ||
| Uh, so we got a lot going on. | ||
| I want to break it all down. | ||
| Uh, Rahim, I know you, one of the things I want to talk to was Azov, you and Harnwell, but I got to talk about this. | ||
| Merrick Garland, and we're smoking him out when he's got to go to the Washington Post with a huge editorial. | ||
| In fact, don't, why are you taking your time on your job? | ||
| Why are you not investigating the Biden crime family, uh, instead of sitting there writing an op-ed? | ||
| Why is the attorney general of the United States wasting time, wasting taxpayers' money, uh, writing an op-ed in the Washington Post or the Langley Bugle As Ben Harnwell calls it. | ||
| Rahim, your thoughts on this, sir? | ||
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Well, I'm old enough to remember, and good morning, old enough to remember when, you know, unfounded attacks on American institutions were, you know, democracy, right? | |
| That's what they said. | ||
| Democracy dies in darkness. | ||
| That's the Washington Post. | ||
| And every day they set about attacking the Office of the President, attacking the DOJ, attacking the State Department. | ||
| You still see it today, attacking the Supreme Court. | ||
| All this stuff, you know, secret recordings of Supreme Court justices and their families, wondering what flags they're running up the flagpole this week. | ||
| Completely and utterly undermining American institutions time and time again. | ||
| But, but, When a Democrat is running one of those institutions, like in this case, the DOJ, suddenly scrutiny becomes an attack itself. | ||
| The idea that Merrick Garland needs to go out there and run PR interference personally For his own department tells you something very serious is up, tells you that there is discord and disquiet within the institution. | ||
| Otherwise, you don't go out there and start making public pronouncements and start trying to hold the ship together. | ||
| This is not just about him trying to shore up his own position, trying to deflect from, you know, what is extremely not just not just legitimate scrutiny, by the way, needed scrutiny. | ||
| It is a necessity. | ||
| It is required. | ||
| It is urgent, and it is a stain on America if what Merrick Garland and what Joe Biden have been doing is not exposed. | ||
| But what he's doing here is, I think, trying to keep people from the inside from speaking out. | ||
| Rahim, once again, a brilliant point about who runs it. | ||
| Chris Wray Is a Republican. | ||
| A rhino. | ||
| He's Chris Christie's lawyer. | ||
| He's Chris Christie's buddy. | ||
| Chris Christie's the one that recommended him and pushed him so hard. | ||
| And we attacked the FBI relentlessly because it's turned into the American Gestapo. | ||
| First under Comey and McCabe, but certainly has continued on the Chris Wright. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
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Yeah, look, you know me. | |
| I do not discriminate against who I take shots at. | ||
| If I think something is being run poorly, run badly, whether it's the Speaker of the House, whether it's any campaign, whether it's any... I'm sure you've been on the receiving end of my complaints enough times as well. | ||
| But the situation isn't the same on the other side. | ||
| And, of course, they play differently. | ||
| And, in fact, you know, they play for keeps. | ||
| I was just this morning speaking to somebody about this and speaking about all the lawfare | ||
| that's going on at the moment, everything, you know, the contempt charges against Merrick | ||
| Garland where he should have, you know, there frankly should have already been the sergeant | ||
| at arms dispatched to haul him before Congress and make him accountable for his actions. | ||
| There should have already been a complete and total negation and a scrubbing of the | ||
| J6 committee and its findings and its reports. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play before I bring Ben in. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play. | ||
| But again, we play differently, some would say weaker. | ||
| This however, I do think is Merrick Garland starting to realize that actually we might | ||
| be starting to change the way we play. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play it. | ||
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In terms of if he is president using the levers of the Justice Department, the FBI to go after political opponents in a second term, how would that, how would he go about that? | |
| I mean, how feasible is that? | ||
| Well, I think it's entirely feasible. | ||
| I mean, you know, it's interesting to me that across those interviews, interviews with people who are like Dr. Phil and others who are trying to kind of get him to walk away from those claims, he soft pedals it a little bit, but then he gets out in front of the rally crowds and really hits it home. | ||
| It is absolutely clear, he said it many times in front of many different people, he intends to take the levers of power if he is reelected. | ||
| And use them for his own personal retribution goals, which in and of itself is so unbelievably offensive. | ||
| It should be to any American that any American president would purport to do such a thing. | ||
| Can he do it? | ||
| Sure, he can do it if he follows through with the plan that he's already laid out this 2025. | ||
| plan that they've talked about. He'll replace those folks in significant positions, the | ||
| Department of Justice and the FBI and other federal law enforcement entities with flunkies | ||
| who will do whatever he says. So the first steps in this process of trumping up charges | ||
| against people baselessly and throwing them in jail could actually happen. I think it | ||
| gets tougher when those cases start to make their way through the courts, you know, but | ||
| But that takes a long time. | ||
| And so I think it's reasonable that people who think they might be, you know, on the former president's enemies list start thinking about what does that look like? | ||
| What could that, you know, how could that actually play out in your lives? | ||
| And I think people are having those conversations, trying to figure those things out as we speak. | ||
| You better have a lot of conversations, because what's going to happen is going to be painting between the lines using the Constitution law. | ||
| And by the way, McCabe, the president-elect will have full authority to appoint 3,000 people. | ||
| That's where the briefing is going. | ||
| And I want everybody to remember, 3,000 people are political appointees. | ||
| Another 1,000 have to be confirmed by the Senate. | ||
| But there are 8 million contractors. | ||
| Well, Steve, look, it's not just the FBI. | ||
| And a ton of those millions are in executive positions. | ||
| So my whole thing is let's cancel the contracts and let's let's staff up with MAGA. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Suck on that, McCabe. | ||
| McCabe, you're so worried because you know the crimes, you know, when the hands are gotten | ||
| on the records and we start going through the receipts, what's your future portends? | ||
| Ben Harnwell, your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Well, Steve, look, it's not just the FBI, it's the DOJ-FBI complex. | ||
| And both of them, both of these institutions together either need abolishing in the case | ||
| of the FBI or fundamental reform in terms of the DOJ. | ||
| And the other point I'd make on this is that it's not so much the law, and this is where I might differ a lot, I think, with Magga on this, the political prosecution of Donald Trump. | ||
| What gets me here, fundamentally, isn't so much the law or the stacked trial in New York. | ||
| It's the disequal application of the law. | ||
| That is, I think, the fundamental thing here. | ||
| You know how it is that certain people are going to be sent to prison for, in their words, | ||
| not cooperating with a congressional subpoena. | ||
| And yet sort of 20 years ago, Eric Holder, excuse me, 2012, Eric Holder wasn't. | ||
| That was a vote, by the way, in Congress that was bipartisan. | ||
| We had Democrats voting for contempt of Congress there. | ||
| DOJ did nothing in his case. | ||
| Who was vice president back in 2012? | ||
| It was Joe. | ||
| Nobody is above the law. | ||
| Biden. | ||
| So it's just the hypocrisy of the regime. | ||
| I think that really, really gets under people's skin. | ||
| And that is what the anger behind that, I think, is what's going to drive fundamental necessary reform in the next coming Trump mandate. | ||
| Guys, hang on. | ||
| I'm going to hold you through the break. | ||
| MTG may join us also. | ||
| We have Raheem Kassam. | ||
| We have Ben Harnwell. | ||
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| Republicans in Congress just voted that we should leave our allies altogether. | ||
| That we should break up the big Western alliance. | ||
| That we should defund NATO. | ||
| And I think nobody really paid attention to this vote because this legislation was put forward by a very fringe member of Congress, a member of Congress who is known for her publicity stunts, and she is therefore eager to—eager, sorry. | ||
| I am eager. | ||
| She is easy to ignore. | ||
| But it wasn't just her. | ||
| Forty-six Republicans voted for this thing. | ||
| A fifth of the Republicans in Congress last week voted to defund NATO. | ||
| Don't just forget being the leader of the free world. | ||
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Forget the whole idea of there being a free world at all. | |
| They saved that for the anniversary of D-Day. | ||
| 46 Republicans voting to defund NATO. | ||
| Yeah, Rachel, because most of those nations in NATO were on the other side of the football or neutral, leaning towards Hitler. | ||
| Ma'am, you got to learn your history. | ||
| Much to learn in your history. | ||
| The fringe member of Congress now joins us, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. | ||
| Rachel Maddow is not happy with you. | ||
| The ruling elites of this nation are not happy with you, Congressman Greene. | ||
| Can you explain what you were trying to accomplish? | ||
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Well, of course she's not happy. | |
| Rachel's never accomplished anything real in her entire life. | ||
| She's only lied on television for a living. | ||
| You know, I've run a company, a construction company, most of my adult life before I came into Congress, Steve. | ||
| I know what it's like to be an American and a business owner working hard every single day. | ||
| And Americans are fed up with funding and paying for the defense of other countries, while our country is overrun and our border is ripped wide open. | ||
| And we have people, millions and millions of people from over 160 countries around the world coming in, taking our jobs, sleeping on our streets, taking over our schools, taking over hotels, taking over our cities. | ||
| And getting in our police officers' faces, committing crimes and murdering Americans. | ||
| We're fed up with it. | ||
| And NATO, all these European countries, they don't pay their fair share. | ||
| So why should America continue to pay for the defense of all these other countries when they are unwilling to even pay their fair share? | ||
| It's the right thing to do. | ||
| That's not a fringe thing to do. | ||
| That's a pro-America thing to do. | ||
| And that's something that Rachel Maddow has No understanding and doesn't even know what it's about. | ||
| We just have a report out of the Daily Telegraph from London that the United States has approved funds that has been voted by the House and the Senate, part of that $61 billion, to the Azov Brigade, which is, you know, a neo-Nazi from Nazi origins. | ||
| Rahim and Ben Harnwell from Rome, we're going to get into this in a moment, as soon as you bounce. | ||
| Didn't you ask for accounting? | ||
| Didn't you ask to make sure the money wasn't stolen, to make sure Zelensky and his buddies weren't put in the pocket, which I understand is like 10% right off the top? | ||
| But do you approve, or the other Republicans approve of the money, after you asked for forensic audits, money going to a Nazi battalion fighting under the control of Zelensky and his generals? | ||
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Absolutely not. | |
| Steve, from the beginning, day one, I've always fought against funding this war in Ukraine. | ||
| I've never voted to send a penny. | ||
| And as a matter of fact, this week is an extremely important week to talk about Ukraine. | ||
| We'll be doing the National Defense Authorization Act this week in Congress. | ||
| Once again, I will be introducing my amendment that no money should fund the Ukraine war coming from our own military funding. | ||
| The NDAA is such an incredibly important bill. | ||
| It's the funding of the Department of Defense. | ||
| And the Department of Defense mission is to protect national security interests of the United States and to protect Americans. | ||
| Funding a war in Ukraine does the exact opposite of that. | ||
| It puts us at threat of entering World War III, as the Biden administration has authorized the use of military weapons to be fired into the interior of Russia. | ||
| And in the same time, Steve, while they're funding the Azov battalion, which are Nazis, they don't want to talk about any sort of peace plan for Ukraine, which goes completely against any idea of | ||
| supporting Ukraine. | ||
| If you support Ukraine, you support peace for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. | ||
| You don't support making sure that you fund a war where they keep getting murdered on | ||
| the battlefield and you're wiping out an entire generation of young men. | ||
| But it's even more dangerous, Steve, as we're funding—as the United States is continuing | ||
| to fund the Ukraine war, as they're funding Nazis while they're calling President Trump | ||
| Hitler and accusing us of being Nazis. | ||
| They're funding Nazis with our own hard-earned tax dollars. | ||
| The scarier part, Steve, is BRICS just recently or is about to hold a peace summit that the United States won't even be a part of. | ||
| We won't even take part in this massive conglomerate of countries all around the world that are going to stop using the dollar for their currency in their trade with one another. | ||
| They're going to completely destabilize our economy, tank our dollar to levels that none of us could ever think was possible. | ||
| And this is all happening while America is filled with bloodlust and murder to continue this war in Ukraine. | ||
| We're really looking at dangerous times for the United States. | ||
| Bring a point you bring up about the BRICS, because the Swiss Peace Conference Lindsey is going to have is going to go nowhere. | ||
| That Global South Peace Conference is really going to make things, really going to get to a peace deal, I think. | ||
| Why does she call you, why does Rachel Maddow call you a fringe member? | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, when you led the charge and Gates and others about Ukraine funding, over half the conference Voted, I think, not to fund it. | ||
| And Mitch McConnell lost his really minority leadership over breaking his pick on Ukraine funding. | ||
| Does that sound fringe to you, ma'am? | ||
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No, it's not fringe at all. | |
| When over half of the majority of the majority, over half of Republicans voted with me to stop funding Ukraine, to stop funding Ukraine and our NDAA last year. | ||
| And by the way, Mike Johnson was one of them. | ||
| He was one of the Republicans that voted for my amendment. | ||
| That's not fringe at all. | ||
| That means most Republicans agree with this. | ||
| It's also not fringe because most Americans also agree that the United States should not be funding a | ||
| war in Ukraine. | ||
| So when we're going to talk about the question, we're going to ask the question, who is fringe? | ||
| It's actually Rachel Maddow is the fringe person in this story. | ||
| It's not me. | ||
| It's Rachel Maddow. | ||
| Congressman Green, there's an op-ed today in the Washington Post from Eric Garland saying | ||
| unfounded criticism of the FBI is dangerous, the unfunding of the FBI and DOJ, the continual | ||
| hammering by the MAGA right in Congress is dangerous. | ||
| Is he correct? | ||
| Is it unfounded criticism that you and Matt Gaetz and your other colleagues are bringing up about the Justice Department and the FBI, ma'am? | ||
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No, none of it's unfounded. | |
| As a matter of fact, you know, I introduced articles of impeachment against Merrick Garland, and I wish that my Republican colleagues had the gut to impeach him because that man should be impeached. | ||
| He's led the Department of Justice. | ||
| And politically weaponized it against President Trump, against conservatives, against parents, against pro-life protesters and against anyone that protested the election on January 6th. | ||
| And the FBI has been the lackey of this politically weaponized Department of Justice. | ||
| I'll tell you something, Steve, right now. | ||
| It's not unfounded, but here's what we should do with the Department of Justice and the FBI. | ||
| We need to rip both those departments apart. | ||
| We need to break them down and systematically rebuild them. | ||
| We have to remove all the people, the resistance people that were planted there back when Obama was president, and we have to pull out all these people that are completely, completely against America. | ||
| They're against our Constitution. | ||
| and they are for a weaponized, authoritarian justice system. | ||
| And that's the most terrifying thing to most Americans today. | ||
| They cannot believe this has actually happened. | ||
| And I think my Republican colleagues need to get tougher. | ||
| I'm tired of being one of the few in Washington that's calling for this. | ||
| The Republican Party needs to wake up and see exactly what's happening, not only to thousands of people from January 6th, but to people like you, Steve, and Peter Navarro. | ||
| And I'll tell you something else. | ||
| I'm very frustrated with our Speaker. | ||
| I'm very frustrated with our Congress. | ||
| We should be doing more to stop what has already happened to Peter Navarro and what is going to happen to you. | ||
| That January 6th committee is completely a sham fake committee. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi broke the rules when she set it up. | ||
| He set it up against the House rules and did not allow the Republicans to serve that were | ||
| appointed to the committee. | ||
| They also destroyed all the evidence from last Congress from the committee. | ||
| That right there makes that committee completely, completely taken apart. | ||
| Its authority should not stand. | ||
| We should be holding those members accountable. | ||
| They should be under investigation and perhaps should be indicted for destroying evidence from a congressional committee. | ||
| And you should not have to serve time in prison. | ||
| Peter Navarro shouldn't be in prison. | ||
| So I think my Republican colleagues need to step up. | ||
| They need to be stronger. | ||
| They need to quit just running their mouth. | ||
| Congressman Green, you were out. | ||
| You're one of the president's biggest supporters. | ||
| You're a very close advisor to him. | ||
| You were out in the Nevada heat this Sunday at the rally. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| It looked like 110 degrees. | ||
| Not bad for a gal that just had her 50th birthday, by the way. | ||
| The president's going to be in town this week, and the breaking news is he's going to meet with the GOP House, sound like the conference, on Thursday. | ||
| What are you going to say in front of the President when you see him on Thursday, ma'am? | ||
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Well, you know, I'm always honored to stand with President Trump. | |
| I'm one of the few that will go out there and meet him where it's inconvenient, difficult, and over 100 degrees. | ||
| A lot of people like to show up in front of cameras or in the air conditioning, but I'll fight by President Trump's side anywhere. | ||
| I'm looking forward to him coming to Washington. | ||
| I've asked him to come meet with Congress, with Republicans in Congress, for a very long time, and I'm very happy to see that it's finally happening. | ||
| It's time for Republicans in Congress to face him face-to-face and treat him like the leader of the party that the American people recognize him to be. | ||
| I'm tired of Republicans in Washington always being the last ones to show up to support President Trump. | ||
| It's time for them to be the first ones to show up to support President Trump. | ||
| I'm also excited for President Trump to speak at the NRSC. | ||
| I'm looking forward to him talking to Senate Republicans. | ||
| And those are some of the Republicans that seriously need to come around. | ||
| They need to bend the knee and realize that President Trump's policies are the policies that Republican voters want across the country and not the moderate, uniparty policies that they have been promoting and voting for in Washington for a very long time. | ||
| Congressman Green, if we don't win the great state of Georgia, the Peach State, President Trump will not be the president. | ||
| We've got to win Georgia. | ||
| I know you're very concerned that there's not enough focus on stopping a potential steal down there. | ||
| Your thoughts, ma'am? | ||
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I am very concerned about my home state of Georgia. | |
| Steve, thank you for bringing that up. | ||
| You know, there's a lot of great people here in our state that have been fighting ever since 2020, doing everything they can to uncover the fraud that happened here, and there's been a lot of great work that has proven it. | ||
| And we have serious—I still do not trust Fulton County, even though we've changed our election laws. | ||
| Fulton County cannot be trusted. | ||
| Neither can DeKalb, and neither can Gwinnett. | ||
| This is something that will, I won't trust it until I actually see the results. | ||
| But I know Georgia supports President Trump. | ||
| I know for a fact we are not a Democrat or even a purple-type state. | ||
| We are a red state, and we are Republican through and through. | ||
| But the Democrats have Georgia as their top target. | ||
| And the evidence of that is Joe Biden picked Georgia to be the first location of the presidential debate that's coming up later this month. | ||
| That is a signal that should be heard around the world, that should be heard, especially in every acre of the state of Georgia, because the Democrats are going to target Georgia, not only in this presidential election, Steve, but in the next governor's race. | ||
| They want to take Georgia. | ||
| They want to take a hold of it, because Georgia is the jewel and economic hub of the Southeast. | ||
| We have the third largest port in the country, and everything runs through Georgia here in the South. | ||
| So, we need everyone here at home in Georgia, and I'm working very hard on it. | ||
| We are going to be building rallies. | ||
| We are going to be building support for President Trump. | ||
| And we are going to be straightening out our issues in the Georgia GOP so that we can be | ||
| a force to be reckoned with. | ||
| I've got Rahim and I've got Ben Harned. | ||
| Well, Rahim, you just got it up. | ||
| I want to talk about Azov-Bataan. | ||
| We've got a lot to go through. | ||
| What MTG just said, the big issue is President Trump coming to Washington. | ||
| He's going to talk to the business roundtable, so the business guys, because remember, all the business guys are coming back now to Trump. | ||
| To, as supplicants, after they bailed on him, after the election was stolen, of course this audience didn't, you had his back for the entire time. | ||
| He's going to meet with the Senate. | ||
| He's going to meet with the House. | ||
| These are Republicans. | ||
| It's going to be Thursday. | ||
| It's going to be a big day, and we will be covering it wall-to-wall. | ||
| Raheem Kassam, and I know Ben wants in on this because Ben has covered this from the beginning, too, as you have, and I tip my cap to you two guys, along with Pasovic, of being, I think, the original people that brought this up a couple of years ago. | ||
| And when you brought it up, You guys were mocked and ridiculed that, oh, you were Putin's things, it was all a lie, this never happened, none of it. | ||
| Daily Telegraph reports, and it's also broken down and analyzed over at National Pulse, your site, that the United States of America has given the okay that our money, our taxpayer money, will go to funding the Nazi Azov Brigade, sir. | ||
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Yeah, there's a lot to cover here and I'll try and run through it all very quickly. | |
| Look, number one, let's start at the most important part of this. | ||
| This is a direct, a direct attack, contravention, attempted negation of Vladimir Putin's very opening gambit when he launched the military operation in Ukraine. | ||
| And that's what it's designed to be, by the way. | ||
| This is this is a provocation. | ||
| It is intentional. | ||
| This is not a strategic decision that you needed to take necessarily on the battlefield. | ||
| This is a an attempt at kind of a to lure a great big attack from Russia into then be able to go back to the American public to the European public and say, see, look, the bad man is doing bad things. | ||
| We need more money. | ||
| We need more moral support. | ||
| We need more. | ||
| shoulder to the wheel for Zelensky and Ukraine. | ||
| And this is indeed, in fact, an attempt to further his position, as you know, as we saw | ||
| this weekend from lots of reports across not just the British press, but all around the | ||
| world, how much pressure Zelensky is under recently, how much the court around him is | ||
| corrupt and what that's doing to morale on the ground. | ||
| And, of course, you know, we know we know what problems the Ukrainians have now in terms | ||
| of recruitment, in terms of the age of the average age of the people that they're putting | ||
| on the front lines, the average way that they are fighting. | ||
| And even in the small pockets, even in these small neighborhoods, getting absolutely clowned | ||
| in some areas that just six months ago. | ||
| They said oh, you know, they're fine We're never gonna lose that not a problem But let's talk about Aesop real quick. | ||
| The Azov Battalion has absolutely, there is no doubt about it, this has been reported for years and years and years on end, has absolute direct links to Neo-Nazism. | ||
| This is not something that is disputed, this is not something that even they dispute. | ||
| What they say is that they have undertaken a PR operation to change their image and to try and kind of put a lot of those things in their past. | ||
| They've not, by the way, said, oh, and we divest of that and we repudiate all of that and we're sorry about that and we would never No, they don't say that. | ||
| They say we're trying to soften our image. | ||
| And of course, one of the biggest lobbyists in the world at the moment, what we reported just a couple of weeks ago, was former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. | ||
| He is a lobbyist for neo-Nazis, and it looks like the efforts of his lobbying have been targeted at Joe Biden, at the US State Department, and beyond, and been successful, Steve. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, it is a disgrace that this deal was cut or okayed over the commemoration, while Biden was over there, in the commemoration of D-Day, of which American, British, Canadian troops, French, Polish gave their lives going up against Rommel in the Wehrmacht, in the Nazis. | ||
| How could any U.S. | ||
| president Use the commemoration and bring Zelensky first, which is a disgrace. | ||
| Because remember, at least 50% of the Ukrainians fall on the side of the Nazis, right? | ||
| Including many of the people that are going after Russia today. | ||
| Russia was our ally. | ||
| The Russian people were our allies, which they try to airbrush out of this. | ||
| But how could this happen, Ben? | ||
| And you've reported that there's actually Nazi brigades of Russians, ultra-nationalists fighting for Zelensky. | ||
| How could the American people be funding this? | ||
| Steve, it's disgusting. | ||
| Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky basically trampled over the memory of heroes on D-Day, instrumentalized that event in order to, as you say, Steve, I've still got my notes open on the computer from yesterday's show, where we spoke about Naomi Klein, who was having a meltdown on British television, panicking over the normalisation, in her words, the normalisation of the far right. | ||
| And we said yesterday, less than 24 hours ago, there is no evidence whatsoever that this is the case. | ||
| This is the evidence that the far right is being normalized. | ||
| It's being run by our sociopathic overlords. | ||
| I have to build on a point that he was making, however. | ||
| Let's go to The Hill from today, OK? | ||
| A direct quote. | ||
| The Azov Brigade is among Ukraine's most effective and popular fighting units, but has been dogged By its origins as a volunteer battalion that drew fighters from far right circles. | ||
| That's what the Hill says today. | ||
| You want to know what the truth is? | ||
| We need to go to what the Hill was saying back in 2018, when Congress passed a bill that prohibited the funding, the arms exports from the United States to the Azov Brigade. | ||
| And that's what Rahim was referring to. | ||
| This is what the Hill said in 2018. | ||
| And it referred to Dezov as a controversial, ultra-nationalist militia that has openly accepted neo-Nazis into its ranks. | ||
| Here's Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat. | ||
| White supremacy and neo-Nazism are unacceptable and have no place in our world. | ||
| This was the guy who drafted the amendment to that spending bill. | ||
| He says, I am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the US From providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov battalion fighting in Ukraine. | ||
| This has been... Oh, let me... Last one. | ||
| But a spokesman for the group, the Azov group, defended it, telling USA Today in 2015 that only 10 to 20 percent of recruits are neo-Nazis. | ||
| This is what the... This is the truth. | ||
| You've got to go back. | ||
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