June 14, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| 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. | |
| You're not going to free shot 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 lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| It's Friday, 14 June, the year of our Lord, 2024, the day after Kumbaya on Capitol Hill. | ||
| Of course, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, and others are not particularly happy about it, but President Trump met with the House delegation. | ||
| They sang him happy birthday and talked about the program going forward, also for 2025. | ||
| He met with the Business Roundtable, talked about his economic plan, how he intends to stop the madness and turn things around, also talked about a getting his supply-side tax cut from 2017 back reinitiated maybe even with a slightly bigger corporate corporate tax cut the business roundtable who you know are not exactly fans of the populist nationalist right of President Trump's movement seemed like they were on board welcomed him with open arms and then later Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnell came in complete total capitulation | ||
| He actually showed up. | ||
| He did a fist bump. | ||
| All the senators were there. | ||
| It seemed like it went great. | ||
| Like I said, everybody in the boat as we get off the amphibs to go down the ropes into the landing craft to converge on the beach. | ||
| We'll figure out the fights afterwards. | ||
| Everybody's going to be concentrated now on the convergence on the point, the point of attack that we call it here in the war room. | ||
| Senator J.D. | ||
| Vance is going to be with us as soon as we work out some technical issues to get him up. | ||
| He's going to talk about he's led this effort To block everything Joe Biden's doing and Schumer are doing on Capitol Hill. | ||
| Because remember, in the Senate, it's a lot different. | ||
| One or two people can make a huge difference. | ||
| And so he has pledged with other MAGA senators like Tommy Tuberville, Mike Lee, others to really say, no, we're not going to go forth any more, any more madness. | ||
| And there's a lot of madness going on. | ||
| So I think President Trump's trip absolutely incredible yesterday. | ||
| He's back. | ||
| He's back in Florida. | ||
| Just some programming notes. | ||
| We're gonna be live from Detroit as soon as our set gets totally set up and everybody gets in. | ||
| We're gonna be live in the five o'clock hour, six o'clock I'll take it back over, it looks like, and we're going to go live down to Club 47 in Florida where President Trump is going to address the 47 Club. | ||
| He's also going to be back in Detroit tomorrow. | ||
| I'll be there anchoring live the morning show. | ||
| Senator J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| Senator, can you just give us overall, it seemed like an incredibly successful meeting yesterday. | ||
| You've been really President Trump's man in the Senate, right? | ||
| It seemed like it was very successful. | ||
| You actually, you and others, I think, had Mitch McConnell come over and do a fist bump, have everybody kind of have a good meeting and say, hey, we're going to fight this one together, get more seats in the Senate. | ||
| Can you tell us what it was like? | ||
| Yeah, really good energy in the room, Steve. | ||
| And you had, you know, a number of folks, of course, who are allies of the president. | ||
| You also had some folks who are more skeptical, have been critical in the past, who recognize that, look, the voters have decided Trump is our nominee. | ||
| And whether, like me, you were sort of on the team early in this cycle, or it took you a while to come around, it's time to actually get on the team and help elect Donald Trump as president. | ||
| There's also broad recognition in that room, Steve, to recognize that If you look at our Senate polling across the country, there are a lot of really close and very winnable Senate races in Montana, Ohio, Nevada, a bunch of other places as well. | ||
| But every single one of our Senate candidates right now is running behind Donald Trump. | ||
| So there's a sort of recognition in the room that the MAGA movement has a certain amount of political potency, and we've got to figure out how to tap into that, not just for Donald Trump, but also for our Senate candidates. | ||
| And so there was a really good, I think, conversation just about, well, how do we Narrow that gap, right? | ||
| Fine if Trump runs a couple of points ahead of these Senate seats, we'll still win most of them. | ||
| But we can't have these Senate candidates running five, six, seven points behind Donald Trump. | ||
| And so it was really interesting that these guys now realize, I'm sure some of them for pure self-interest, that they need to get on the team and they need to figure out how to close that gap between Trump's movement and their voter base. | ||
| And I think that's fundamentally a good thing. | ||
| The other point I make, Steve, is you just compare the United States Senate of 2024 and hopefully of January of 2025 against the United States Senate of January of 2017. | ||
| You just have way more people who are open to restricting immigration at a large scale, way more open to people who are sort of skeptical of globalization and trade, of the entire globalist movement, of the free movement of labor and people and goods. | ||
| And look, it's a good thing. | ||
| It is fundamentally a good thing, I think, for Trump's governing agenda to have people who are allies in the United States Senate. | ||
| I'm of course proud to be one of them, but there are others too, Steve, and I think it's only going to grow. | ||
| Just real quick, I got other things going on, but this is just such a brilliant point. | ||
| Talk to us about this theory of the case that Trump's running five to seven points ahead | ||
| because of the MAGA movement in some of these states. | ||
| And these states are a lot of, some of these are red states. | ||
| You got, you got, you've got Ohio, you got Montana, Arizona. | ||
| Walk us through that. | ||
| The fact that, and was there a consensus with Steve Daines and these guys on the team now | ||
| to say, we got to embrace MAGA. | ||
| We have to embrace President Trump here if we're to take, and to get to 53, 54, maybe | ||
| 55 seats in the Senate? | ||
| 100% Steve. | ||
| And when I talk to Steve Daines, who I think is doing a good job as an RSC chairman, I have to say, they recognize that there is this gap between the top of the ticket and some of these down-ballot Senate races. | ||
| And there's just a recognition here that Trump has tapped into something that is not just a Republican phenomenon, of course. | ||
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Okay. | |
| There are independents, there are Democrats who are traditionally loyal to those parties who will turn out for Donald Trump, but they may not turn out for other Republicans. | ||
| The big question for us as a party, Steve, is how to take that movement and make it durable and make it something that benefits our Senate candidates too, especially the Senate candidates who are actually aligned with the agenda. | ||
| And I think what you're going to see in the Senate side, Steve, over the next six months is a lot of heightening the tension between the Trump movement And what the Democrats have actually done as a governing agenda. | ||
| You're going to see a lot of people talk about the wide open Southern border. | ||
| A lot of people talk about mass deportation, which until a couple of years ago, frankly, until Donald Trump was considered a complete taboo in American politics. | ||
| And you're going to hear a lot of people, especially in the industrial heartland, the Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania races. | ||
| You're going to hear people talking about tariffs and about protecting American manufacturing and really leaning into that. | ||
| So this is not your granddaddy's Republican party, Steve. | ||
| This is in many ways been totally transformed by the last six years of American politics. | ||
| And really the question for us Senate candidates, and I'm not a candidate myself, of course, but I'm helping a lot of Senate candidates, is whether we can actually get over the finish line, closing that gap by at least a few points. | ||
| Because if we do, Steve, you are right. | ||
| We're going to have 53, 54, 55 Senate seats. | ||
| But if these guys run six or seven points behind DJT, then we're in for a deep, deep set of problems in the United States Senate. | ||
| Let's talk about that. | ||
| You've been the leader in the Senate on this Forever Wars issue, particularly Ukraine. | ||
| Biden, who hasn't actually presented that well in Italy at the G7 yesterday, was up talking about a 10-year, signed a 10-year security agreement. | ||
| With Ukraine and then part of that's underwritten by essentially stealing or taking the interest of $300 billion of the Russian people's assets and funding it because Europeans don't want to step up to the plate to pay it. | ||
| And as you know, the people in the United States are fed up with putting money into Ukraine. | ||
| Stories are coming out overnight. | ||
| There's complete failure of raising any of these troops, the 500,000 fresh troops. | ||
| It's a non-event, even with this new draft law. | ||
| Put that in perspective. | ||
| And what are you in the Senate going to do between now and the time President Trump gets in to thwart, because I thought to sign a 10-year security agreement, I kind of thought that was a treaty. | ||
| I thought the Senate might have something, two-thirds of the Senate might have to opine on that, sir. | ||
| Well, Steve, you're right. | ||
| It is a treaty. | ||
| And there's no way that that is binding unless the United States Senate signs onto it. | ||
| And I'm going to do everything I can to prevent the United States Senate from doing that. | ||
| Look, we have to remember, Steve, that the entire argument For this, this art, this posture towards Ukraine is that if we acted like the tough guys and sent the Ukrainians a lot of weapons, the Russians would respect us. | ||
| Well, now we have Russian warships off the coast of Cuba. | ||
| Where is the respect that we were supposed to have earned? | ||
| I'll tell you where it is, Steve. | ||
| It's reflected in Joe Biden going on the world stage and embarrassing the entire country. | ||
| You can't have respect when you're led by a guy like Joe Biden. | ||
| It's one of the strongest arguments for reelecting Trump in 2024. | ||
| Here's the other crazy thing about all this, Steve. | ||
| We have no plan, no pathway to victory in Ukraine, and the President cannot stand there and articulate what we're trying to accomplish over the next 12 months, much less the next 12 years. | ||
| So this is a preposterous policy, Steve. | ||
| It's one of the great failures of the globalists of the last three or four years. | ||
| I've, of course, been proud to fight against it, but we have to be asking ourselves, What is the exit strategy? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I, you know, I don't, I don't want to claim a victory lap and say, you know, I was right for the last three years, even though that I was, I want to know what the exit strategy is so that we don't escalate this thing into a nuclear war where the guy with his finger on the button doesn't know where the hell he is. | ||
| So we've got to be careful here. | ||
| And the Republican party in particular, we need to be Statesman over the next six months, enough bumping our chests and talking about how tough we are. | ||
| We need to be careful about the next six months so that we hopefully set the next president up for success. | ||
| And Steve, you know, we've talked about this in other contexts. | ||
| One of the biggest problems with some of these funding packages, it is not just that we've been funneling a lot of money to Zelensky. | ||
| It's that they've explicitly tried to tie Trump's hands when he wins the presidency and becomes president in January 25. | ||
| So we as Republicans need to make sure that the next president is set up for success and not failure in Ukraine. | ||
| Everything that Biden is doing is designed to tie Trump's hands. | ||
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We can't let that happen. | |
| You're seeing this then. | ||
| You consider this part of this detrumpification movement for the second term, understanding he looks like if it was held today, he'd win and win big, take the Senate, add seats to the House. | ||
| This is a detrumpification movement to detrumpify the second term, sir? | ||
| Well, sometimes they say this explicitly in private that they want to make it harder for the next administration. | ||
| And what they mean, of course, is Donald Trump, because a lot of people expect he will win. | ||
| They want to make it harder for the next administration to do anything diplomatically with that conflict. | ||
| Well, look, we shouldn't roll over on anything, Steve, but diplomacy is part of the job of being president. | ||
| And you have to have both the carrot and the stick to do diplomacy successfully. | ||
| They're trying to take away Both of those tools from the next president of the United States, and they're trying to do it because they know Trump's going to win and they don't want him to be able to conduct diplomacy successfully. | ||
| I mean, look, it's like a joke, right? | ||
| That Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize like six months into his presidency for doing absolutely nothing. | ||
| If Trump is able to come in, guarantee Ukrainian neutrality. | ||
| Guarantee Ukrainian independence and actually bring this war to a close. | ||
| It'll be the most successful piece of public diplomacy in at least a generation. | ||
| I really think they want to deny that from Donald Trump. | ||
| And most importantly, they want to deny that kind of victory from the American people. | ||
| We can't let that happen, Steve. | ||
| We've got about two minutes. | ||
| I know you got to bounce, but we keep saying in the show, people got to take the burden off President Trump now, both in the House and the Senate. | ||
| Everybody just can't wait till he comes in on 20 January 2025. | ||
| You've actually taken the lead on that in the Senate. | ||
| You're saying, hey, you're getting a couple of Tuberville, Lee, Hawley, a couple of the populists and more of the big Trump backers and saying, hey, we're going to throw down and we're going to block everything Biden's going to try to accomplish. | ||
| Can you give us some details of that? | ||
| Yeah, very briefly, Steve. | ||
| Procedurally, the details kind of matter here because to block something in the United States Senate, to block a nomination, effectively to force Schumer to take up days of floor time to bring this thing up to a vote, you have to be willing to hold a nomination, but then you simultaneously have to be willing to fight for that hold on the floor of the Senate. | ||
| And so I've gotten a number of my colleagues together. | ||
| They're all great guys, and we're all joining hands and saying, look, There are 44 nominations that Biden has brought forward that are fundamentally connected to the lawfare against Donald Trump and the entire Republican party. | ||
| Not just Trump, of course, you've got the pro-life activists, the J6ers and so forth. | ||
| So we're not letting Biden have additional foot soldiers, at least not for free. | ||
| If they want to do it, they're going to have to use the Senate procedures, force a vote on this stuff and actually fight for it. | ||
| And we're going to fight back. | ||
| And this is important, Steve, because look, our voters don't expect us to win every fight. | ||
| They don't expect us. | ||
| They know that we're Senate Republicans are in the minority, but they expect us to do more than treat the Senate as a high class debating society. | ||
| Even from the minority, there are things that we can do to deny Joe Biden foot soldiers for his lawfare. | ||
| And that's exactly what these people are. | ||
| It's foot soldiers for the deep state. | ||
| And we know what those people have been used for the last three years. | ||
| We've seen it. | ||
| So why would we give them a glide path? | ||
| Me and a few of my Senate colleagues are saying, we're not going to do that anymore. | ||
| And we're going to fight back. | ||
| We'll put your social media up. | ||
| We'll get everybody to your website. | ||
| Thank you for joining us, sir. | ||
| Honored. | ||
| Great. | ||
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J.D. | |
| Vance, President Trump's man in the Senate. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| We're going to go, I believe, at 11 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time, 10 o'clock Central. | ||
| We're going to go live to outside of a federal courthouse in Houston, Texas, where they're trying to liquidate InfoWars today. | ||
| Alex Jones's entire company, including his social media accounts, pretty extraordinary. | ||
| They filed last night to literally strip everything from Alex. | ||
| So we're going to go there at At 11 o'clock in the second hour of the show and get updated. | ||
| I want to make sure everybody... Senator Vance is in this dogfight in the Senate to basically, you know, get a pound of flesh from Schumer and the Radical Democrats as they try to increase the apparatus of lawfare. | ||
| It's quite brilliant and you have some of the best people in the Senate The Hawleys of the world, the Mike Lees of the world, the folks that are very, very focused on, you know, taking lawfare out of the system, trying to get pay a letter. | ||
| Hakeem Jeffries, his discussion of Associate Justice Alito today was just, not just over the top, it was inappropriate, calling him an insurrectionist. | ||
| I mean, these people are playing hardball. | ||
| Remember Mike Lee's theory of the case, it's to shrink the court. | ||
| And to have them trim their sails. | ||
| I'm not saying the 9-0 ruling yesterday was because of this. | ||
| I think that may be for other issues. | ||
| But to trim their sails, particularly on the Fisher decision that now looks like it's going to come in the next week or two, which I think will be monumental. | ||
| Also, the immunity hearing and the pressure on the Supreme Court is incredible. | ||
| Mark Paoletta and the team over at CRA is doing the best of giving some air cover for that, but that's why J.D. | ||
| Vance and his team are really taking the lead on this in the Senate. | ||
| Also in Ukraine, yesterday what happened, and this is after reports now overnight that they're putting in the draft In Ukraine, which they fought for a year, it's been an epic fail. | ||
| There's essentially 500,000 minimum combat troops short. | ||
| They need those combat troops from young men and they don't have them. | ||
| Why? | ||
| The parents of the young men, the young men themselves, have decided they're fighting for the sociopathic oligarchs in Ukraine that control the country and steal the money. | ||
| Oh, and MTG just lost an amendment on the floor, the same 74 to 80, you know, to 100 of the same people in the house that are fighting against any more Ukraine funding. | ||
| Another kind of fiasco in the house just a little while ago. | ||
| Mike Rogers saying, hey, the money was already taken out. | ||
| MTG and Matt Gaetz saying that's not true. | ||
| They're putting up documents. | ||
| Anyway, she lost the amendment, the fight. | ||
| This is an ongoing fight and it's got to stop. | ||
| Uh, what they've done now, because the nations of Europe, the Europeans are saying, hey, you know, we can't go back to our people and say they got to have, you know, they can't retire at 50. | ||
| They can't, uh, they can't take six weeks off, seven weeks off in the summer with August. | ||
| They can't, um, they can't have free healthcare because they got to fund the war in Ukraine. | ||
| So they essentially stolen the Russian people's assets, the interest from it, | ||
| 50 billion dollars and they're gonna use that to arm Ukraine. | ||
| Putin's already said, hey you're just not gonna take our money. | ||
| The world doesn't work like that. | ||
| Jim Rickards is gonna join us and Dave Bratt in the second hour. | ||
| We teed this up last night with Philip Patrick but this is monumental. | ||
| Particularly if you're concerned about your retirement, if you're concerned about the purchase power of the dollar. | ||
| One of the reasons the dollar has the purchase power it has, and it's 20% down under Biden, is we're the prime reserve currency. | ||
| Every transaction in the world has to be converted into dollars. | ||
| That gives the dollars a certain strength. | ||
| The fiscal mismanagement, the monetary mismanagement, the insanity is getting the world led by the Saudis who announced yesterday or kind of back-channel announced that they're going to cancel the petrodollar deal we've had since the Arab oil embargo and President Nixon taking us off the gold standard in the early 1970s. | ||
| That has been the foundational element since we kind of shattered Bretton Woods Back then. | ||
| This means the end of the dollar empire. | ||
| Eventually, these BRICS nations that have all the resources, and if you don't think BRICS have stroke, look at this weekend. | ||
| There's gonna be a peace conference in Switzerland about, wait for it, Ukraine. | ||
| Who's not attending? | ||
| The BRICS nations. | ||
| CCP's not attending. | ||
| I don't think any is going. | ||
| The Global South is sitting there going, no. | ||
| Let Western Europe and the United States talk about that when you're ready for a real deal | ||
| led by Turkey, as Ben Harnwell told us almost two years ago that they will be the guys at | ||
| the end to actually cut the deal. | ||
| The BRICS nations are starting to flex their geopolitical strength. | ||
| They're also working 24-7 of how to make sure they can take the financial power of the dollar | ||
| because they think it's been weaponized against them and turn that to their advantage. | ||
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| Talk to Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| I've got a call open now for Ben and Rahim. | ||
| We're still trying to track down Rahim, but I think we'll Let's go and play the cold open. | ||
| I'll bring in brother Ben Harnwell. | ||
| But we begin tonight with chaos at home and chaos abroad. | ||
| As President Biden met with nervous world leaders for the G7 summit amid the renewed rise of European fascism and what many are calling global Trumpism, Donald Trump was rallying his sycophantic troops in Washington, D.C. | ||
| Biden and top global allies took action today to reinforce their solidarity with Ukraine as it fights off Russia's invasion, clearing the way for a $50 billion loan package for Kiev. | ||
| Still, Biden is in the beast of European chaos. | ||
| In Rome, tensions in Italy's lower house erupted into a fistfight, sending an opposition lawmaker to the hospital over a controversial government proposal that critics say will further impoverish Italy's south. | ||
| In fact, it's all eyes on Italy, which is hosting the summit of the group of seven industrialized nations in the wake of the European Parliament election that saw victories for the far right in places like G7 countries France and Germany. | ||
| And just like here in the U.S., abortion has returned to the spotlight in Italy decades after it was legalized. | ||
| Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney, a hardline conservative, is reportedly trying to eliminate a reference to guaranteeing access to safe and legal abortions in the text of the G7 summit's final declaration. | ||
| It's another sign of Europe's far-right marching steadily into the mainstream, as hostilities grow over immigration, climate measures, and globalization. | ||
| Over the weekend, center-right and far-right parties made huge gains in the European Parliament elections, meaning they will occupy close to a quarter of the 720 seats. | ||
| A conservative populist backlash to progress should sound familiar to voters on this side of the Atlantic. | ||
| But it's happening all over the world and could very much reorder Europe's political landscape. | ||
| The far right is on the rise over here and over there. | ||
| I think that's the thing is that Americans tend to think that this is just us. | ||
| But this is a global phenomenon that is happening in Europe, too, and it's all the same markers. | ||
| They want women back in traditional roles. | ||
| They want all-white, you know, access to things like education and opportunity, economic opportunity. | ||
| They want to drive immigrants and non-white immigrants out. | ||
| It's what Brexit was. | ||
| It's all the same thing. | ||
| Is there any point in trying to get Americans to sort of think more globally about this as they think about the election in November? | ||
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Well, I want to take a deep breath here. | |
| I'd take 25% in Congress by just being NAGA. | ||
| I mean, 25% is not a majority. | ||
| It's nowhere close to a majority. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| They made gains. | ||
| But I do think we need to, like, go, OK, let's look at this. | ||
| What's going on in the UK right now, Joy? | ||
| What's going on in the UK right now? | ||
| The Conservatives are about to get their lunch handed to them. | ||
| Yes, they are. | ||
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They are going to be taken out of power for the first time in a long time. | |
| And the Labour Party is surging. | ||
| Now, so what do these two things have in common? | ||
| It's the folks that are in power now. | ||
| People want something different. | ||
| People want change. | ||
| The worst thing you can be in government right now is in government right now. | ||
| And that really is what I think a lot of what's going on here. | ||
| I don't want to discount the fact that they're trying to back up some basic freedoms. | ||
| But, you know, as I said earlier today, you know what America needs to ask a simple question? | ||
| Are you okay with a dictator who wants to go into a neighboring democracy and change the borders of that country by force? | ||
| The worst thing now to be running for government is to be in government. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| Because the neoliberal, neocon policies of the West have not worked. | ||
| It's quite simple, ma'am. | ||
| If you understood that, maybe you'd still be a senator from Missouri. | ||
| But you don't, so you're a B-level talking head on MSNBC. | ||
| But Ben Harnwell, that's the first time I think I've ever seen MSNBC actually embrace the reality that the world right now is going through the populist, nationalist, sovereignty right. | ||
| Whether you call us far-right, right-wing, but it's certainly right of what have been the conservative Christian Democrats or the Republican Party or the Tory Party. | ||
| Right of that. | ||
| Because this is conservatism with punch. | ||
| It's the first time I've seen them actually go to the thesis of the war room, sir. | ||
| Because I was about to say something different, Steve. | ||
| Good morning to you. | ||
| I was about to say, we don't even need to do this show anymore, The Warren. | ||
| Just cut to Joanne Reid and Claire McGaskill and say, not this. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Not that. | ||
| Not what they're saying. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And then we can just go to the beach. | ||
| On this occasion, however, they have intuited something. | ||
| And it's not, as Joanne Reid hysterically says, and hysterical in the sense of, Sort of a mental breakdown rather than anything amusing. | ||
| And her sort of paranoia that there's a rise of global fascism around the world. | ||
| I mean, that's just that's just a delirium. | ||
| That's the word I wanted. | ||
| It's a delirium. | ||
| What is taking place is a movement and it is a globe. | ||
| It is taking a place across the globe. | ||
| It is a movement where people and it's not just on the right either in quotation marks. | ||
| Because people are coming at this movement historically from all areas of political persuasion. | ||
| It's a movement of people saying that their sociopathic overlords do not represent them nor their interests, and they want change. | ||
| They don't want to hear happy talk anymore. | ||
| They're not going to be fobbed off with a few pre-election platitudes. | ||
| They want change. | ||
| That's the essence of this movement. | ||
| Ben, hang on. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
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Well, we're not going to the beach, but I love the idea. | |
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| Talk to Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| We're back with Harnwell and Rahim next in the War Room. | ||
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| Ben Harnwell, we've had the cold open. | ||
| You see what's going on in Europe. | ||
| MSNBC now finally agrees to the War Room's theory of the case that they're In a strictly link just like and they said the magic B word that would be Brexit that came out of joy and read Right, you knew it had to help, you know I think joy and we're gonna blow her head up so much What's gonna happen in Europe in the next couple weeks in the United States and maybe she gets a new wig? | ||
| So Ben your thoughts a lot going on from night Rahim is gonna join us Nigel Farage is now that the Reform Party is polling ahead of Labour, I don't know what they say about Labour, surging. | ||
| I think the surging party there is the Reform Party under Nigel Farage, who's talking about a merger of Reform Party and Tories, what remains of the rump of the Tories to have a single party in opposition in Parliament. | ||
| Your thoughts about France and about your beloved United Kingdom, sir? | ||
| Well, let's start off with my beloved homeland. | ||
| The news is that a YouGov survey for the first time now has placed Reform UK one point ahead of the British Conservatives. | ||
| The Times of London calls this a crossover moment. | ||
| I prefer the term. | ||
| I think Nigel Farage used this himself, the expression tipping point himself. | ||
| I think that's what this is now. | ||
| It's a tipping point in British politics. | ||
| And what you might have expected in the run up to a general election is that a protest vote party, when faced with the reality of perhaps a collapse, change in government or something like that, one might have thought conventionally that the votes, the protest votes that have been sustaining So if I can use the term a protest party, a protest movement, we'll start to dissipate and converge around one of the two established political parties. | ||
| That's not what's happening in the UK, Steve. | ||
| As we get closer to the general election, the people are taking a long, hard look and they are definitively leaving the British Conservative Party and they're coming over. | ||
| Even though, by the way, in this two point leap for reform, It's actually left the Tories unchanged on 18. | ||
| I think that's right. | ||
| Unchanged on 18, whereas reform is now on 19. | ||
| So reform is actually picking up votes not only from the Conservative Party, but also from the rest of the political spectrum, from the undecided, which is an unusual and very encouraging dynamic to look at. | ||
| That's not the only poll, Steve. | ||
| I wanted to To look at because and this is this is the context is, you know, what I like about the war room here is that we is that we in the run up to the European elections, we said there is no I'm not just in the run up to the European elections. | ||
| We said there is something taking place in Europe in terms of populist nationalism. | ||
| The rest of the mainstream myths, the mainstream media looked. | ||
| Uh, towards the election weekend is basically the end of a certain, uh, new cycle when they were then going to pivot on to something else. | ||
| We, in our coverage, we were laying the analysis, the background for something that wasn't the end of a particular new cycle. | ||
| It was really the start of this new cycle. | ||
| And what's happening in the UK, what's happening in France, the total meltdown of their political establishment. | ||
| These are consequences of what happened when the people themselves spoke in the European Parliament. | ||
| So quickly to have a look at France now, because this is a very interesting and important poll that's just been published ahead of their general election, which I think the first round is on June the The third and the second definitive round, and I think we start July 6th or 7th or something like that. | ||
| So presently, the National Rally has 89 seats in the National Assembly. | ||
| And it's forecast to leap up, get this, from 89 to 200 and between 235 and 265. | ||
| I'll repeat that. | ||
| They're forecast to go from 89 to between 235, 265. | ||
| I'll repeat that. | ||
| They're forecast to go from 89 to between 235, 265. | ||
| That's an absolute explosion. | ||
| Macron's party, on the other hand, is set to go from 249, where it is now, to down between | ||
| 125 and 165. | ||
| So that is a real dynamic that you can see, a real, what we call an undercurrent towards | ||
| nationalism. | ||
| It wasn't dissipated that people's anger at the abuse of their political elites wasn't | ||
| dissipated when they voted in the European Parliament elections. | ||
| It's actually, their results have actually encouraged and fortified them. | ||
| To seek realistic change. | ||
| And as we say always, the issue here, this is the point that Joy and Reed and Claire McGaskill don't want to, never wanted to confront. | ||
| In fact, the reason for this isn't just happening in a vacuum, because people, you know, They've just woken up one morning and said, oh, you know what, today I think I might vote for a party I've never voted for in my entire life. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| There's something, there's a massive wall of anger and disgust behind this change. | ||
| And it is principally tied to the immigration crisis. | ||
| And that is another thing that links continental Europe politics to American politics. | ||
| The other thing, you know, one more is that particularly if you take in to Germany, a new article in the Guardian, which is no fan of the worm as you guys know, that it's the youth. | ||
| Axios had this story the other day of how the youth vote. | ||
| When I'm saying youth, I don't mean the under 35s. | ||
| I mean the 18 to 29s are coming to Trump, hurtling to Trump. | ||
| I think he lost them by 30 points in, it lost in quotes, lost them by 30 points in 2020. | ||
| He's now tied and the trend line is that Trump's going to take the youth vote. | ||
| I think 24% of the youth in Germany voted for Alternative for Deutschland. | ||
| This is where the establishment is really in shock. | ||
| That with all the propaganda and all the Greens, the Greens are imploding across Europe as young people sit there and go look at this invasion of their country, the stealing of their culture, the stealing of their society, the crime out of control, and sit there and go, hey, I think I want the country my grandparents had, right? | ||
| I don't want this. | ||
| And they're coming. | ||
| Exactly what's happening here in the United States. | ||
| One other thing, Ben, you mentioned protest vote. | ||
| These things are a process. | ||
| We try to teach process here. | ||
| Go to Pat Buchanan to... | ||
| To Perot, to the Tea Party, then to MAGA, then the arrival of Trump and the formation of MAGA. | ||
| You go from a protest vote to boom, now in power, right? | ||
| And that's what you're seeing here in Europe as they start to galvanize around some of these leaders. | ||
| The Bardella, which I think is a great pick. | ||
| He'll probably, if the French parliament goes along the way that the alliances look like they're working out and the polling shows, he'll be prime minister at the age of 28. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And this guy's as far right as you can possibly get. | ||
| So, Ben, they're direct connections. | ||
| They're demographic connections. | ||
| There's issue connections between what's happening in Europe and what's happening here in the United States, sir. | ||
| Let's look at the youth thing, right? | ||
| Let's break that down. | ||
| Periodically, every few days, Steve, there's an article in the press that details this, and I always send you the text, and I always say, the kids... I have a standard tagline for this now, probably wearing thin, if it was ever funny. | ||
| The kids are alt-right, which is the thing that I always send to the company. | ||
| But this is a growing thing. | ||
| Let's break this down. | ||
| For all the reasons that you said, kids are starting to have a certain nostalgia for a way of life, for civility, for a way of living, for civilization, that perhaps their parents might only just remember. | ||
| There's something else I want to suggest, however, in addition to your point. | ||
| Kids. | ||
| Kids are rebellious. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Kids more than adults. | ||
| Because when you go into adult, you start to seek out to conform socially. | ||
| Kids don't have that. | ||
| Kids are trying to establish their personality, establish their identity by rejecting, you know, and this has been, I think, a phenomenon since probably the 50s, rejecting, as it were, their parents and their parents' values. | ||
| The kids have been, Generation Z, like the millennials, they have had a certain form of woke propaganda. | ||
| They've been hit with that so intensively over the last, say, 15, Yes, 10-15 years in schools. | ||
| That is the monoculture now, that if they want to establish their identity and their personalities and their uniqueness and their individualness, that is what they have to rebel against, because that is the omnipresent monoculture that has been hit on them so hard. | ||
| So ironically enough, Steve, ironically enough, the very thing where we might have thought, looking at this externally, that the left, and I even mentioned this on the show a few days ago, where the left was omnipresent. | ||
| powerful, omnipotent in terms of its create, sort of forming and shaping kids' minds. | ||
| They've actually gone so far on that, kids are starting to rebel against it. | ||
| And that's a very interesting and positive development. | ||
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| Ben, stick around. | ||
| Raheem's going to join us. | ||
| We got Jim Rickards, Dave Bratt. | ||
| We're going to go a lot through capital markets, geopolitics, also politics. | ||
| In France, the meltdown right now is that the French right-wing parties or the French farther from the center-right are starting to work together in alliances. | ||
| You see this happening in the United Kingdom where Nigel said, hey, I have no problem merging with the Tory party potentially after the election to be a bigger opposition and I would lead that. | ||
| It's the same thing you saw on Capitol Hill yesterday, the Kumbaya moment with President Trump and many of his biggest critics on the Hill. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We'll break it all down next. | ||
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| Welcome back. | ||
| Let's go to Houston, Texas, outside the courthouse there. | ||
| I think a federal court in Houston. | ||
| Chase Geiser from InfoWars. | ||
| Chase, tell us what exactly is going on. | ||
| Where's Alex Jones? | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| Why are you guys in Houston? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| So we are standing outside of the court building right now. | ||
| Alex is about ready to go into his first hearing. | ||
| He did speak to the press briefly before walking into the building. | ||
| But basically today we have a couple of hearings going on. | ||
| One for Alex Jones' personal bankruptcy and another for the bankruptcy for Free Speech Systems. | ||
| And Free Speech Systems, of course, is the parent company for InfoWars. | ||
| We anticipate that his personal bankruptcy is gonna be moved from a Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7, | ||
| which will basically remove his ownership of InfoWars today. | ||
| We're not sure what the fate of InfoWars specifically is going to be, but it seems very likely | ||
| that the judge is gonna dismiss the bankruptcy, which will give the company technically back to Alex, | ||
| but remove the bankruptcy protection. | ||
| We anticipate the plaintiffs will then move to liquidate at the state court all of InfoWars' assets. | ||
| And we don't know what the process is gonna be like fighting that from this point forward, | ||
| but it's definitely a very pivotal moment in InfoWars history and in the Free Speech argument. | ||
| Was this something that Alex and his lawyers worked on to take away the bankruptcy protection? | ||
| Or is this something that happened with court pressure? | ||
| Or is this pressure from the families? | ||
| How did we get to this place that the bankruptcy protection is being taken away? | ||
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Yeah, that's a really good question. | |
| And to be totally honest with you, Steve, some of these answers are a little bit too nuanced for me in terms of bankruptcy law. | ||
| This is something that is part of the legal strategy for Alex Jones. | ||
| This is not Alex Jones giving up. | ||
| This is just the beginning of this next fight. | ||
| For several reasons, they did make this decision. | ||
| However, we have been backed into a corner to the point where it seems like every week that goes by, Steve, our options are fewer and fewer as to what we can do to keep InfoWars on the air. | ||
| We're doing the best we can. | ||
| Is InfoWars after the days? | ||
| Can we still anticipate that InfoWars is going to be on? | ||
| Alex's show that goes from noon, I think it's three, four, five hours sometimes, and you've got these other great shows up there with folks. | ||
| Can we anticipate, at least for right now, nothing will change after the day? | ||
| The shows will still be on? | ||
| The website will be on? | ||
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Yeah, worst case scenario would be that this would be shut down this afternoon. | |
| We don't think that's likely. | ||
| I think there's probably a greater than 50% chance that we see a shutdown sometime next week. | ||
| Best case scenario would be that Alex is able to work out some sort of a deal that allows us to stay on air for the next three to four months while we liquidate and sell our inventory ourselves. | ||
| Now, based on the actions of the legal team that's been in opposition to us over the course of the last year, I don't anticipate any goodwill whatsoever. | ||
| I think they want to aggressively shut this operation down as quickly as possible, similar to how they're shutting you down in as many ways as they possibly can, because they don't want the truth being broadcast up as this election approaches on November 5th. | ||
| I really think that what this is truly about is preventing any pro-Trump voices from having a large audience in the coming months as this election heats up. | ||
| Yeah, that's what I wanted to ask you. | ||
| The possibility that the folks that are owed the money could get paid back, you would have to be on air, Alex would have his sponsors, be selling advertising, doing the things that you guys do to generate revenue from that cash flow. | ||
| They would get it and eventually, and one and a half billion is kind of hard to ever see it getting paid down, but at least some money starts coming in. | ||
| To move to liquidation and just to sell for your property, plant, and equipment is pennies on the dollar. | ||
| I think your logic is totally sound. | ||
| paid back so it would lead one to believe that this is all about silencing | ||
| Alex Jones in the run-up to the all-important 2024 election is anything of my logic | ||
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Incorrect there sir as you see it. I think your logic is totally sound there have been a couple of | |
| Junctures during this process where we thought we were going to be able to settle with the plaintiffs one | ||
| One settlement that was offered was for over $80 million. | ||
| There was another counter offer for over $50 million. | ||
| We understand that our assets are worth somewhere less than $10 million. | ||
| So they're making substantially less by liquidating us than they would by keeping us or allowing us to be on the air to continue to operate and settle with them and make payments to them over the course of 5 to 10 years. | ||
| But there's several reasons, and I won't bore you with the logistics or the details of the reasons why we didn't accept some of the settlement offers in the past. | ||
| Silence and control speech. | ||
| They wanted a board of directors basically to run the company, which is something that was an untenable position for Alex personally. | ||
| But they've made over $70 million suing Remington already. | ||
| They're making a lot of money, raising money for nonprofits and other organizations based off of depicting Alex as this perpetual villain. | ||
| So I think in their eyes, they want to A, shut him down, and B, they anticipate that they're going to be able to generate revenue for themselves in other ways by taking the trophy that is InfoWars in the freedom of speech space. | ||
| What I didn't understand, they actually went after his social media. | ||
| They went after his Twitter account last night in federal court. | ||
| How does that work? | ||
| How do you take someone's Twitter account? | ||
| And do you anticipate that'll be given to them over the next couple of days? | ||
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Great question. | |
| So we heard this news break yesterday. | ||
| Reuters covered it. | ||
| and they did file a motion for Alex's at real Alex Jones Twitter account to be explicitly listed as an asset in this chapter 7 bankruptcy because they want to take it and they try to make some silly arguments for why they should but this is something that I've never heard of or seen before I've never Witnessed anyone have their personal Twitter account removed in a bankruptcy, even in examples of Tucker Carlson being fired from Fox or Don Lemon or Brian Stelter. | ||
| It's unprecedented that when somebody leaves a major news organization that they have to forfeit in any way their personal Twitter presence. | ||
| So this is something that they're just trying to do without any law to back it up. | ||
| It doesn't seem like it's going to go through. | ||
| I think this judge is actually fairly reasonable. | ||
| I don't think it's something that's really going to happen. | ||
| But the fact that they're trying to do it is just another example, among a litany of examples, of why it seems like they're actually trying to just shut him down rather than get what's in the best interest economically, financially, for the plaintiffs in this case. | ||
| Chase, what is your social media? | ||
| Where do we go to follow you? | ||
| We're gonna hopefully come back maybe late in the second hour if Alex is out or if you're still up and we have an update, but where do people go in the interim? | ||
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Best way to find me is at realchasegeyser, that's C-H-A-S-E-G-E-I-S-E-R on X. But I encourage everybody, before they follow me, to follow Alex Jones, which is at realalexjones on X. Fantastic. | |
| Chase, we'll come back to you. | ||
| Great report. | ||
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Appreciate it. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Chase Geyser down there in Houston. | ||
| Man, oh man, they are coming after Alex Jones like nobody's business. | ||
| Been pretty amazing. | ||
| Fighting a good fight. | ||
| That's a voice they definitely want to shut down in the run-up to the 2024 midterm. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| We're going to take a 90-second break. | ||
| Harnwell's going to stick around. | ||
| I think we're going to try to track down Raheem. | ||
| We've got Jim Rickards, Dave Brat. | ||
| We're very packed here on Flag Day. | ||
| At 12 noon, Charlie Kirk is going to be... Charlie Kirk's show is going to come on. | ||
| I think they're going to be live. | ||
| They're finally set up. | ||
| They're going to be live from Detroit. | ||
| We'll be live from Detroit at 5 o'clock. | ||
| Also, we're going to stream on our other channels. | ||
| Steve Stern in Flag Day. | ||
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