July 24, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| 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. | ||
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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. | |
| Back in the War Room with Stephen K. Bannon and our great friend, capital market expert, | ||
| James, I got a little background in economic development, and I just want to bring one variable up that is always left behind, and you've been talking about it implicitly the whole time, but it's productivity growth. | ||
| The lead economist is at Northwestern, Robert Gordon. | ||
| 50 years of work on this subject, chart after chart. | ||
| It's been declining for 70 years in the United States of America. | ||
| The rate of productivity growth used to be 5 or 6, then 3 or 4, then 2 or 1. | ||
| And now CBO has productivity falling for the next 30 years. | ||
| Their forecast has us going from basically 1.9 to 1.6. | ||
| Now, three things make that up. | ||
| Human capital, which I just use a proxy of 12% of poor kids in Chicago, are reading at grade level. | ||
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Right? | |
| I mean, that is a third of economic growth, in a sense, coming up in our country. | ||
| Capital stock is number two. | ||
| Our capital stock in the U.S. | ||
| is smaller than China's. | ||
| Ours is about $70 trillion, theirs is about $100 trillion. | ||
| And then finally, technological advance, which we're great at. | ||
| We have the university system, like you were saying, China, the move from middle to high does involve that. | ||
| But that high tech piece has huge implications for income distribution. | ||
| And so I just want you, why doesn't the press, do they just not understand any of this? | ||
| This is the most important thing. | ||
| The real economy is your productivity. | ||
| The stock market is volatile, goes up and down and whatever. | ||
| And it's important to our lives. | ||
| But the real economy gets neglected, and so I would just love to hear you reinforce our story in your way, because you're so good at it. | ||
| James Rickards. | ||
| Sure, I read Robert Gordon's book and the thing that really struck me when we say we're all spun up, you know, the Internet, the World Wide Web, you know, AI, networking, telecommunications, all this stuff. | ||
| What Gordon said, he said the greatest technological innovation that increased productivity the most was indoor plumbing around 1870. | ||
| 1870 because prior to 1870, 50% of the human race spent 70% of their time | ||
| fetching water. That's what women did. | ||
| They got water for cooking, cleaning, whatever. | ||
| 50% of the human race spends 70% of their time fetching water. | ||
| Once you've got indoor plumbing, think of the productivity and the genius of women. | ||
| All of a sudden, they could do a million other things. | ||
| There were other issues. | ||
| And that's a network, by the way. | ||
| Plumbing's a network because you've got to connect two plants and all this stuff. | ||
| So when you read something like that, I say, yeah, it's 150 years old and we haven't done better since. | ||
| And they talked about a lot of other innovations. | ||
| So the point is, you're right, Dave, technology and innovation is the key. | ||
| How do you do that? | ||
| One thing is with what I'm calling American Plan 2.0. | ||
| This is the Trump plan. | ||
| Put up the tariffs, protect U.S. | ||
| industry, say to the world, hey, you want to sell here? | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| Invest here. | ||
| Put your money in the U.S. | ||
| Build your semiconductor plants in the U.S. | ||
| Train U.S. | ||
| workers in the factors you mentioned. | ||
| Education, technology and capital come together and you have a productivity boom. | ||
| Which, by the way, the United States had in the 19th century. | ||
| From Henry Clay to William McKinley was one of the greatest periods of growth in U.S. | ||
| history. | ||
| Let's do that again. | ||
| I think that's exactly what Trump is saying. | ||
| Yeah, and the left, you gave a good example. | ||
| You talk about productivity after 90% debt to GDP in the famous book. | ||
| We're well over that. | ||
| We're 130% now. | ||
| And our debt to GDP, our deficit this year is $2 trillion, right? | ||
| We basically borrowed from the kids, shoved it over into G, right? | ||
| C plus I plus G. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And we're calling this economic growth. | ||
| So we're doing $2 trillion to the government sector. | ||
| All the new jobs are government. | ||
| They're all part-time. | ||
| They're all foreign workers. | ||
| The press reports on zero of this. | ||
| And the Democrats get away with this. | ||
| And so close us out, James. | ||
| How do we respond in the War Room Policy? | ||
| What can we do? | ||
| Action, action, action, like Steve does. | ||
| How do we take these key ideas that you've just laid out and make them real so that We need to put the fear of God into our guys to follow the Trump agenda, too. | ||
| So close us out on that, James. | ||
| Yeah, it's not that difficult. | ||
| By the way, the debate we're describing, Dave, is a 235-year-old debate. | ||
| This starts with Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. | ||
| They've been going strong ever since. | ||
| But the other key elements of the American plan, high tariffs, strong defense. | ||
| Invest in the U.S. | ||
| Those are all things we're talking about. | ||
| And a central bank, but a real central bank, not the Federal Reserve, not the fake central bank we have today. | ||
| But you also have to close the border, because all that low-wage labor—see, the capitalists, so-called, like the low wages. | ||
| They like the open border. | ||
| Don't let them kid you. | ||
| The Republicans and big money and big tech, they like this open border. | ||
| It keeps all the wages down, because if the wages are low at the lowest level, they're also low at the middle level and so forth. | ||
| But the antidote to that, and Henry Ford actually got this right. | ||
| Henry Ford gave his workers, around 1915, gave his workers a $5 an hour raise. | ||
| And the other robber barons said, hey, why'd you do that? | ||
| They didn't have a union at the time. | ||
| Why are you giving your workers a raise? | ||
| He goes, I want them to be able to afford to buy my cars. | ||
| And that's the genius of the American system. | ||
| Tariffs raise prices, they do, but wages go up even more so people can afford stuff, and it's all made in the USA. | ||
| By the way, I was in a debate on this the other day and said, well, what about the rest of the world, you know? | ||
| I said, what about the rest of the world? | ||
| Why is it, let them come up with their own, you know, American plan or their own Trumponomics. | ||
| That's their problem. | ||
| Why are we making their problem our problem? | ||
| And this is the problem with the neoliberal consensus and the globalists. | ||
| They're happy if incomes in China are going up or India. | ||
| Hey, I've been to all of them. | ||
| My friends in India and China love the countries. | ||
| But we've got to put America first. | ||
| I hate to use cliches, but that's what we have to do. | ||
| Great. | ||
| James, thanks for being with us in the War Room. | ||
| I'm going to get you on next week. | ||
| I think I'm on deck Thursday and Friday. | ||
| I want to do a couple more deep dives with you. | ||
| You're just first class, great teacher, the way you explain things. | ||
| Thanks for being with us in the War Room. | ||
| Rickards just brought up shutting down the border as a key to U.S. | ||
| worker success. | ||
| And your lived experience, as Stephen K. Bannon would say. | ||
| We have Rosemary Jenks, one of the best people in the country on immigration, coming up. | ||
| We're going to play a cold open right now. | ||
| Get out your computers, look up Immigration Accountability Project, IAProject.org. | ||
| Please support them. | ||
| And Denver, why don't you roll the cold open for Rosemary Jenks. | ||
| I mean, you ask people, what are your top issues? | ||
| And they say, we're concerned about our border. | ||
| I mean, she was the Border Czar. | ||
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The numbers skyrocketed. | |
| She was supervising a policy that ended up, right now there's 3,000 people coming in a caravan. | ||
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No, look. | |
| She was going after our Customs and Border Patrol agents. | ||
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She was going after our ICE. | |
| You want to be factual and substantive? | ||
| I appreciate that. | ||
| That is a good instinct. | ||
| So she wasn't the Border Czar. | ||
| She was assigned to go to the countries that were the source of these immigrants and try and work with them to remove inducements for people to come here. | ||
| But she never was the Border Czar. | ||
| She wasn't in charge of the border. | ||
| You will call her that and she's going to have to contend with that. | ||
| This is the kind of thing that is playing out all over conservative media. | ||
| I just want to do a little bit of record correcting. | ||
| There's not record crime right now. | ||
| Number one, Harris was put in charge, as you said earlier, of combating the roots of immigration. | ||
| She was not and is not the border czar. | ||
| And the Biden administration did task Vice President Kamala Harris with the issue of migrant crossings, naming her the so-called border czar. | ||
| I've asked her We've been to the border. | ||
| We've been to the border. | ||
| You haven't been to the border. | ||
| to do it, to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries | ||
| that help us. | ||
| We're going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to | ||
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our southern border. | |
| We've been to the border. | ||
| We've been to the border. | ||
| You haven't been to the border. | ||
| And I haven't been to Europe. | ||
| I don't understand the point that you're making. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Dave Brat back in the war room with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| I ran on that issue at Congress 10 years ago. | ||
| Won largely on that basis. | ||
| Worked as hard as I could on Capitol Hill with key groups up there. | ||
| One of the key figures that was putting pressure on Congress. | ||
| The key figure, I will say, putting pressure on Congress. | ||
| There's many other groups. | ||
| We have them all on all week. | ||
| They do great work as well. | ||
| But Rosemary Jenks, welcome to the war room. | ||
| She's with IAProject.org, Immigration Accountability, and that's what we need. | ||
| Rosemary, why don't you respond to those clips, and we'll dig in a little further. | ||
| Thanks for being with us. | ||
| Thanks, Dave. | ||
| It's great to be with you. | ||
| I am just astonished at the gaslighting. | ||
| It is just unreal, the rewriting of history. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And you can't change the facts. | ||
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Right. | |
| You cannot change the numbers. | ||
| And I actually have a chart to share with you that says it better than words ever can. | ||
| If you can put up that chart. | ||
| This is actually the original version of the chart that President Trump had showing | ||
| at the rally in Pennsylvania. | ||
| It was originally created by Senator Ron Johnson's office. | ||
| And you can see why President Biden wanted to, I'm sorry, President Trump wanted to talk about this, because the historic levels of illegal immigration, and this is just the Southwest border, but these historic levels on the right side of the chart under the Biden-Harris administration, are insane. I mean, this does not happen by accident. This | ||
| is intentional. And Mr. Rickards was just talking about, you know, the cheap labor and how | ||
| both Republicans and Democrats want cheap labor. And that is actually true. | ||
| Um, There are fewer and fewer Republicans who are demanding cheap labor these days than when I started in this 30 years ago. | ||
| But the fact is now we have Democrats wanting cheap votes Well, a handful of Republicans still want cheap labor. | ||
| And the cheap votes is what explains the historic levels of illegal immigration shown in this chart under the Biden-Harris administration. | ||
| There's no other explanation. | ||
| There is nothing else that Democrats have to gain except a population in the United States Basically, whose ballots they can harvest and vote wherever they're needed. | ||
| And the process of that, first of all, President Biden signed an executive order over a year ago to require all federal agencies to provide voter registration information to every person they come in contact with. | ||
| So the Department of Homeland Security is providing voter registration information to whom? | ||
| Non-citizens, the Department of Labor, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, they all have to provide voter registration information. | ||
| And the federal voter registration form has a checkbox that you check that says, I'm a U.S. | ||
| citizen, and then you sign your name under penalty of perjury. | ||
| If you don't speak English, you almost certainly don't read English, you probably don't understand what this form is that a government official has just given you and told you to fill out. | ||
| So you're going to fill it out. | ||
| Now, the problem comes when we look at the migrant centers. | ||
| And there are migrant centers scattered all across the country now, thanks to the Biden administration's efforts to open the borders. | ||
| And so at those migrant centers, the question is, are the NGOs running them offering voter registration information and forms to the migrants? | ||
| And in fact, we have evidence that they are. | ||
| And in the second page of the document that I sent you, there's actually... That's not it, but that's fine. | ||
| Congresswoman Malliotakis from New York actually found a contract that New York City is requiring the migrant centers to sign. | ||
| And it says specifically, and I'm quoting here, the contractor shall provide and distribute voter registration forms to all persons. | ||
| Not all citizens, all persons. | ||
| She has that contract. | ||
| That's the standard contract that New York City is requiring these migrant shelters to sign. | ||
| Now, what's going to happen? | ||
| The migrants are going to be registered- Hang on, Rosemary, hold right there. | ||
| We're going to come back, hit rewind on that one. | ||
| This is all tied together, right? | ||
| Who's filling out the forms? | ||
| Who's mandating the use of these forms? | ||
| Stay with us, Rosemary Jenks. | ||
| With the accountability project, right? | ||
| IAProject.org. | ||
| Go check them out, support them. | ||
| IAProject.org to solve it. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Babb. | |
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| Dave Brat sitting in with the great Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| We have Rosemary Jenks in with us from Immigration Accountability Project, IAProject.org. | ||
| Go check it out. | ||
| But first, going back to James Rickards when he's talking about the significance of real estate or no real estate in China. | ||
| In our country, we've got cracks in the banking system on real estate too, commercial real estate sector. | ||
| One cannot say enough the value of your home as the primary asset in your life. | ||
| All the interest payments, all the principal payments you've put in, that is your primary asset likely, if you're with me and the bulk of the people in the American middle class. | ||
| living their lives. | ||
| Make sure you guard that asset. | ||
| Go to hometitlelock.com, hometitlelock.com, war room code word. | ||
| They will ensure that your home is protected, that that title cannot be stolen. | ||
| They have given plenty of stories on their war room over the years, Graceland, et cetera, | ||
| plenty of just regular folks getting ripped off. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| You can't believe it's true. | ||
| But go out to hometitlelock.com, code word Bannon for the discount, and they'll do you | ||
| right. | ||
| And give them a ring if you have questions for them too. | ||
| Back to Rosemary Jenks on immigration. | ||
| I think you were just covering Rosemary. | ||
| Our federal government is quite involved in distributing election materials. | ||
| Some of the folks can't read or write in English. | ||
| And so why don't you summarize that again and then we'll take it from there. | ||
| Yeah, so under the president's executive order, every federal agency has to provide voter registration forms to everyone with whom they come into contact. | ||
| So these are people, a lot of times people who don't speak English or read English, and they're being handed a a document by a government official and told to sign it. | ||
| And so they do, and then they're registered to vote, which by the way, is a felony offense | ||
| and makes them deportable, which they often don't know. | ||
| But the bigger problem is these migrant shelters. | ||
| So if the NGOs running the migrant shelters are registering illegal aliens to vote, which | ||
| we know that they are based on not just a New York City contract, but based on other | ||
| evidence as well, then what's going to happen is the illegal aliens are using the address | ||
| of the migrant shelter. | ||
| On their registration forms. | ||
| So for any states that mail out ballots, those ballots are going to be mailed to the migrant shelters. | ||
| I guarantee you that the Democrats have a plan for how to harvest those ballots. | ||
| They now have a whole list of names of people they know are ineligible to vote, but are registered to vote and are going to be sent ballots. | ||
| So somebody's going to fill out those ballots and they're going to be delivered to some voter office. | ||
| So what we really need to do is have election officials looking through the voter rolls for multiple people with different last names registered at the same address and then figure out if that address is a migrant shelter because those are non-citizens. | ||
| This could be a make or break. | ||
| It's huge. | ||
| The felony piece you mentioned, there is no small deal either. | ||
| Just give me 30 seconds on that again. | ||
| It's a felony to do what? | ||
| It's a felony to vote illegally. | ||
| It's also a felony to falsely claim U.S. | ||
| citizenship, which they're doing by checking a box and signing their name under penalty of perjury. | ||
| So if you register to vote, you've committed a felony. | ||
| If you vote, you've committed another felony. | ||
| And you are deportable after that. | ||
| And so this is an important public service announcement. | ||
| Non-citizens, legal or illegal, non-citizens are ineligible to vote and it is a felony deportable offense. | ||
| Yep, unbelievable. | ||
| Rosemary Jenks, the Immigration Accountability Project. | ||
| When I was in Congress, immigration was huge. | ||
| The Democrats want cheap labor. | ||
| They say it's good for the economy. | ||
| Of course, it's not good for the American worker. | ||
| The American worker in not just border states, but across the country, they're suffering now. | ||
| They're suffering under the inflation from this past regime, from the Federal Reserve, from the competition over the border. | ||
| So the immigration issue is huge, but it's not the Democrats. | ||
| It's not just the left. | ||
| When I was in Congress in the Republican chamber, over half of the people voted wrong because they were supporting big corporations and cheap labor. | ||
| And they were dissing the American people. | ||
| That's why the American FIRST project now that's underway is uniting Democrats, Republicans, everybody. | ||
| Black, Hispanic, blue-collar workers. | ||
| It's America FIRST. | ||
| The Republicans are in on this thing. | ||
| It's the Uniparty. | ||
| Rosemary, why do we need the Immigration Accountability Project to solve that problem? | ||
| Yeah, you're exactly right, Dave. | ||
| And what the Immigration Accountability Project is completely focused on is making sure that voters know exactly what their elected officials are doing on immigration. | ||
| A lot of times, members of Congress take show votes so that they can pretend that they're on the right side of the issue, but behind closed doors, they're working for cheap labor. | ||
| We're going to expose them. | ||
| We just need all the help we can get to do that. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| Where do they go to get your rosemary? | ||
| IAProject.org. | ||
| IAProject.org. | ||
| And all of our social media is on the website. | ||
| Great. | ||
| This is the number one issue with the Trump agenda, the Republican platform agenda, the number one issue. | ||
| If you want to solve the problem, there's no accountability right now that I know of. | ||
| That's why Congress is getting away with murder, even on the Republican side. | ||
| All political views are my own, but those are the facts. | ||
| That's the way it is. | ||
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| Honored to have one of our long-standing friends at the War Room in-house. | ||
| He's our go-to energy expert. | ||
| I was reading the other day on Pennsylvania and VP, now presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, and her position on fracking, etc. | ||
| And I want to know what that means. | ||
| And so we're going to David Walsh. | ||
| He's our man on the scene. | ||
| David, thanks for being with us. | ||
| As always, why don't you lead us through what's going on on that issue and then more broadly. | ||
| Thanks, Dave. | ||
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Hey, Dave. | |
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| Kamala has been out in the past aggressively with a full ban recommendation on fracking of oil and gas across the country, a full ban on offshore drilling of any kind, and also in terms of pushing environmental justice and Government-capped utility costs, which the state of California has already experimented with to some degree, capping utility costs and stratifying percentage of income to denominate how much people pay for electricity instead of | ||
| per use basis, which does promote efficient use and efficiency measures. | ||
| Instead of that, hiding and obfuscating electricity costs by burying them inside government subsidies, which is what these caps do. | ||
| California is evaluating her state, 42% of its electricity costs be then allocated back to taxpayers in taxes instead of in use rates, which is appalling for efficiency. | ||
| So these are all the kinds of things she's pushing, pushing in her career much harder than Biden had prior to his election. | ||
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So this is a great concern. | |
| Yeah, go back to that first opening series you had, which I think is the most dominant, the full ban on fracking. | ||
| What percent of energy is that? | ||
| How many Saudis Arabias do we have or whatever? | ||
| Put it in layman's terms for us. | ||
| But what are we talking about? | ||
| When you're talking about this full ban, what's the impact on the country, on the economy, on your energy costs at home? | ||
| How does that work out, Dave? | ||
| Well, at this point in time, about 70% of the natural gas that we enjoy in the country is fracked. | ||
| That's how it's originated and produced. | ||
| Natural gas provides 42% of the electricity in the country. | ||
| And that's electricity that runs baseload, meaning all of the time. | ||
| So when we talk about now server centers, data centers, Larry Fink talks about AI and our growing shortage of electricity because renewables don't supply nearly enough. | ||
| They're vastly deficient in hours per day that they work. | ||
| Natural gas, more of it, becomes a dominant factor on having the kind of industrial server center, data center, and AI capacity that we're talking about, plus EVs, all this stuff that would take the electricity demand needs up by about a factor of two, that can only be done with full-time power generation plants such as those run with natural gas, which today already is 42% of our electricity. | ||
| If that's cut off, we've got massive price uplift beyond what we're seeing already. | ||
| In this administration, we've already seen 31% uptick in electricity costs nationally due to... Say that again. | ||
| How much? | ||
| How much? | ||
| How much already and then how much more? | ||
| From the beginning of his administration, up 31%, this will progressively continue. | ||
| I've got some charts on this, St. | ||
| Denver. | ||
| I don't know if they're able to be brought up, but we've already seen a radical increase in electricity costs because of the shutting down, baseload, constant duty plants. | ||
| And bringing online massive quantities of four and a half hour a day solar eight hour a day wind with massive intermittent massive shortage of electricity coming from those new sources as we've shut down coal and not built gas plants. | ||
| So we've seen that as we continue to do that rates in this country will probably triple over the next 15 years electricity rates. | ||
| As we continue to opt for short power systems, solar, wind, and battery storage that cost a fortune. | ||
| Solar five times more in capex cost than combined cycle. | ||
| Wind option 11 times more. | ||
| Hey Dave, we're coming right back. | ||
| Hold that thought. | ||
| Dave Walsh. | ||
| Giving the full cost, the impact of the Green New Deal on steroids. | ||
| Coming in with perhaps the next President of the United States. | ||
| The War Room always gives it to you straight. | ||
| Back with Dave Walsh and the receipts on energy. | ||
| Stay with us in the War Room. | ||
| He's been leading us through the implications of a possible President Kamala Harris on a total ban on fracking in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Dave, in a couple minutes, outline what are our key exports in this country and then contrast the energy full spectrum dominance approach of Trump versus Biden and Harris. | ||
| Well, Dave, as you've highlighted numerous times, we have a trillion dollar trade deficit in this country. | ||
| We export Far less than we import. | ||
| The top four, four of the top five exported commodities in the country are natural gas A, oil B, chemicals deriving from gas and oil C, and plastics products deriving from oil and gas manufacturer D. Four of the top five export products, these are about 360 billion gas and oil alone of the two trillion a year we export. | ||
| So massively important to the stabilization of the currency, And having at least an attack on the trade deficit, which China is the main culprit of about 800 billion a year of imports from China, to fight that, the need to continue to produce for our citizens and for exportation, the mass quantities of Marcella shale, the Bakken shale, West Texas shale being produced on a legendary basis to support continuance of our domestic economy being very strong, as President Trump pointed out in his thousand words on energy. | ||
| In the acceptance speech at the RNC, and to keep a handle on the balance of trade not going completely out of control. | ||
| Yeah, but Dave, I think you wanted to point us somewhere, give us your coordinates, anything the War Room Posse should be reading, and a couple action items. | ||
| And we got Senator Rand Paul on deck. | ||
| Well, the new MAGA deal has been mentioned. | ||
| I'd like to promote that to a good friend, Tomorrow I'll put this together. | ||
| I haven't had the energy chapter highlighted. | ||
| In very brief terms, President Trump's energy plans can be reached on Getter, Truth Social, and X at DaveWalshEnergy. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Dave. | ||
| American Patriot, make sure you follow Dave Walsh on his coordinates. | ||
| He's always with us. | ||
| He's our energy expert contrasting your lived experience, your future coming up. | ||
| Now it's our pleasure once again to welcome Senator Rand Paul to the War Room. | ||
| We're both, I think, aligned on the freedom as a central value virtue of this republic. | ||
| Freedom comes out of the Judeo-Christian tradition, but the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, our economy... | ||
| is based on this idea in the textbook, you know, Econ 101 of free markets. | ||
| In a market on the supply curve, you're supposed to have a bunch of firms competing and duking | ||
| it out. | ||
| And when you have that competition, it leads to lower prices and better quality and good | ||
| quantity and all that. | ||
| Right now we got the Magnificent Seven, just massive firms with massive political power. | ||
| If I were still in Congress, I'd be writing up trust buster bills. | ||
| I'm not going to put Senator Rand Paul in any bucket right here, but I'm letting him speak for himself. | ||
| Senator Rand Paul, welcome to the War Room. | ||
| And on this freedom initiative, what do you see are the major moves we have to make to restore and keep our republic? | ||
| You know, if you watch CNN, which I don't really recommend, you will hear a lot about democracy. | ||
| Unfortunately, they fundamentally don't get what the most important democratic enterprise is in the world. | ||
| It's the marketplace. | ||
| It's democratic in the sense that it's completely voluntary and that you vote every day with your dollars. | ||
| So you vote for what companies will succeed by the things you purchase. | ||
| Now, as far as big being bad, I don't think big is bad unless they're using government to create their bigness. | ||
| They're using government to create their monopoly. | ||
| If you're simply Apple, and I don't agree with some of the social politics of Apple, but you sell a great product and people love your product, I'm not for breaking up Apple. | ||
| I will contest maybe their views if they're politically on the other side of issues. | ||
| And I just don't think that bigness is necessarily bad, because bigness means you're pleasing the consumer and the consumer is buying your product. | ||
| But ultimately, the greatest form of democracy is capitalism, where you vote with your dollars every day. | ||
| Yeah, no, that's good. | ||
| I am a little bit more active on that issue when it comes to trust busting just because of the trends and the tendencies we're encountering right now. | ||
| We had Mike Benz on yesterday, great discussion of corruption at DHS. | ||
| The government using several of the magnificent firms to censor the American people. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead, Bram. | ||
| When you talk about it, this is what's important sort of about First Amendment issues. | ||
| I was completely behind Eric Schmidt's case, Missouri versus Biden. | ||
| I thought the lower courts got it right, because the government does not have a right to use a private company to censor our speech. | ||
| But when it comes to the company alone, I differ from some of the conservatives. | ||
| Some of the conservatives have said, well, let's regulate Twitter like a utility because so many people use it and it will have a regulated utility. | ||
| Well, I'm old enough to remember when Ma Bell on AT&T was a regulated utility and you had to go wait in line for a terrible, ugly black phone that had no functionality at all. | ||
| And it was worse than the post office. | ||
| So regulated utility doesn't excite me for living in an economy or an internet where they're going to be regulated utilities. | ||
| So really if you look at the First Amendment very clearly it's about government not doing things. | ||
| Congress shall not abridge speech. | ||
| So the FBI has no right and neither does Homeland Security to meet with Twitter or to meet with YouTube and they should be forbidden from that. | ||
| Now, if it's just Twitter saying we want content controls and we're going to do this and that and we don't like conservatives and we're going to ban them, unfortunately that is the way the marketplace works and you leave them and you go somewhere else. | ||
| So, for example, when YouTube took speeches of mine down that I made on the Senate floor Talking about a cabal of people in the administration that tried to impeach Trump and that started it while at work in the National Security Council. | ||
| When I mentioned that, they took it down because I mentioned a guy's name, Eric Ciaramella, who was working for government at the time and he was the so-called whistleblower. | ||
| But I don't think you're a whistleblower when you're working and conspiring at work to concoct an impeachment based on something that was not an impeachable offense but was a policy position. | ||
| But also I gave a speech on masks or an interview on masks on a public or a broadcast television that was taken down from YouTube. | ||
| But instead of saying I want to ban YouTube or force them to take my speech, my position is I just went to Rumble. | ||
| And so I put all my videos on Rumble and we try to cater to them because they are more open to free speech. | ||
| So I think it's an important distinction whether or not we want to regulate the Internet because the danger of regulating the Internet is that you set up some sort of government committee, which sounds good when you're in charge, but then when the other guys get in charge, having a committee decide what content is good on the Internet may not be what you bargained for. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
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Well, good. | |
| Which brings us to point number two. | ||
| Everything up in the swamp right now seems to be pointing to three-letter agencies, right? | ||
| The Secret Service is under DHS. | ||
| Benz is on yesterday talking about the complicity and the behavior linkages between the State Department, DOD, DHS, the three-letter agencies, and the mainstream media. | ||
| On this cabal, The Republicans, we have not brought any discipline to bear on just gross negligence over and over and over. | ||
| 51 intelligence officers rush a gate for three years. | ||
| Steve Bannon's in jail for a warped committee that Mike Johnson says was misconstrued. | ||
| Where are the Republicans putting some consequences in place on this grotesque misbehavior? | ||
| You know, on Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, I told the House leadership from the very beginning, the January 6th committee should have been continued. | ||
| Everybody on it should have been fired. | ||
| They should have been replaced with Republicans, the same way the Democrats did it. | ||
| And not to be vindictive, but to undo those subpoenas. | ||
| I would have done that on January 1st when the Republicans were sworn in in charge of the House. | ||
| I would have convened the committee one time. | ||
| I would have voted to get rid of those subpoenas. | ||
| And then I would have also said at that time, we're disbanding the committee because it was a corrupt process and we're not going to do this to our opponents. | ||
| That's why we're disbanding it. | ||
| But I would have met once to wipe out those subpoenas. | ||
| Now, some very smart lawyers tell me it wouldn't have worked, but I don't know. | ||
| I would have gone with my lawyers then back to court and said, look, The so-called grand jury, which is not really a grand jury because it was a bunch of partisans, have rescinded the subpoena. | ||
| Why are you holding me in contempt? | ||
| I think that's a strong argument. | ||
| Lawyers that know more about the process tell me it wouldn't have worked, but I think it was worth it, even for the optics of them showing that this was a farce and they were trying to undo the farce. | ||
| So I think we should have done that. | ||
| I still think they ought to do that, frankly. | ||
| With regard to spending and the three-letter agencies, Republicans have done a terrible job of using the power of the purse. | ||
| I mean, for example, Speaker Johnson went along with the Democrats. | ||
| He voted against the majority in his caucus for the most recent spending bill, for the Ukraine funding, and against Pfizer reform. | ||
| All the things that really Donald Trump says he cares about, Mike Johnson voted on the other side of these issues. | ||
| But they don't use the power of the purse. | ||
| So, for example, the 51 intelligence agents that said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, this was a lie. | ||
| Many of them still have access. | ||
| I was standing in the Oval Office with President Trump when some of these issues came up and he said, I said, Mr. President, take away their access. | ||
| These people are selling their access to CNN. | ||
| They still have classified knowledge. | ||
| Take away their access. | ||
| And he did. | ||
| I think that with the power of the purse you could force these issues. | ||
| Defund the CIA till they take away the access to the 51 people who lied about the laptop. | ||
| Their lying to the public and acting in a rankly partisan way should preclude them from ever getting classified information. | ||
| You can't have thieves and liars, or you shouldn't have thieves and liars working in the intel agencies and then using that information to manipulate politics. | ||
| Yep, yep. | ||
| Senator Rand Paul, we got about a minute and a half, two minutes left. | ||
| I hate to give you such a short time on this huge issue, but the Federal Reserve, your dad is an American icon on that issue. | ||
| They have caused the 07-08 crisis, according to the greatest monetary theorist, John Taylor. | ||
| What are your views? | ||
| If we don't get an America first type at Treasury and the folks over the Federal Reserve, I just see them always favoring the Wall Street fat cats, enriching the rich, and the middle class takes a bath as usual. | ||
| What would be your counsel to President Trump? | ||
| Who should he appoint to these major positions so that we at least at a minimum reform the Fed to follow a Taylor rule or something that will be good for the American people? | ||
| Well, the Federal Reserve is in the chain of blame for inflation. | ||
| But really, it starts with Congress. | ||
| Congress borrows about $2 trillion a year. | ||
| Of that $2 trillion, we sell some to the general public in Treasury bonds. | ||
| We sell some to foreign countries' Treasury bonds. | ||
| But then the Federal Reserve buys about a third of that. | ||
| When the Federal Reserve buys a third of our debt, when they add hundreds of billions of dollars to the money supply, that dilutes the value of the currency and that's what creates inflation. | ||
| The reason I recite something that everybody that took Econ 1 should know is that there are people in the Senate, Elizabeth Warren being one, who's very vocal that the prices are rising in your grocery store because the grocery store owners are monopolies and greedy. | ||
| This is where we have to be very careful of both liberals and sometimes populists who think that it's the business causing high prices instead of understanding that it's Congress and the Fed that cause high prices. | ||
| But she wants to break up the grocery stores. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| And if she were in my third grade economic class, I would fail her. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Give us your coordinates. | ||
| Senator Rand Paul, always great to have you on. | ||
| You're a crowd favorite. | ||
| How do people reach you, support you, and give us your coordinates? | ||
| I think through all portals. | ||
| If you go to RandPaul.com, you can find several different portals. | ||
| I've got official Facebook, unofficial Facebook. | ||
| I got Twitter. | ||
| I got unofficial Twitter. | ||
| We are all over social media. | ||
| Come join us. | ||
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Good. | |
| Good. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Keep up the great work for freedom. | ||
| Senator Rand Paul on the war room. | ||
| Always lighten it up by renewing our energy. | ||
| Thank you, Senator. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Dave Brat, back in the war room with the great Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| back in the war room with the great Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It's our pleasure and honor to welcome the great Rabbi Wielicki back to the War Room, a friend of Steve Bannon and the show. | ||
| Brother, we got Prime Minister Netanyahu in Congress. | ||
| There's politics flying all over the place on this. | ||
| There's a special relationship. | ||
| Between Israel and the United States of America, for biblical, religious reasons, there's foreign policy implications. | ||
| So why don't you, I know you're going on a longer show later in the day, but why don't you tee us up and tell us how we should be viewing what's going on up in the swamp today. | ||
| Thank you, Dean Braff, for having me on. | ||
| I think that there's really two things that the war room posse should be watching for in this Netanyahu speech. | ||
| One of them, the first one, is that just last week the Knesset, in advance of Netanyahu's speech, voted overwhelmingly 68 to 9 with a whole bunch of of left-leaning Knesset members not showing up | ||
| because they didn't want to vote against it, but 68 to nine, and most of that nine | ||
| were the Arab Knesset members who were anti-Israel, voting against calls for a Palestinian state, | ||
| a two-state solution. | ||
| Most people don't understand how disastrous that would be for Israel, but they were doing that | ||
| because there are rumors, and there's a good reason to believe that Netanyahu is being pressured | ||
| by the Biden administration to make noises in favor of a Palestinian state. | ||
| So everyone in Israel is gonna be watching for that. | ||
| But more importantly, Dave, what I'm concerned with is does Prime Minister Netanyahu understand | ||
| where America first is? | ||
| Does he understand what the Republican Party and what the Ascended MAGA movement is all about? | ||
| Because that's really who's going to be winning. | ||
| That's the Donald Trump movement. | ||
| And if Prime Minister Netanyahu thinks that he's still talking to old neocons and it's all about funding, he's got another thing coming. | ||
| I've been vocal in Israel being opposed to this dependent relationship where the relationship is all about Israel getting funds. | ||
| I'm in favor of the J.D. | ||
| Vance approach. | ||
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J.D. | |
| Vance is pro-Israel because Israel and the United States share the destiny and the history of the Judeo-Christian civilization. | ||
| If Israel, if the Jewish people returning to our homeland after 3,000 years in fulfillment of the most repeated biblical prophecy isn't important to Americans who come from a biblical worldview, then we've got bigger problems than geopolitics. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance, his approach, while at the same time, again, voting against the aid because aid to Israel comes with strings attached. | ||
| And we just look at all the leverage the Biden administration is wielding against Israel, preventing us from destroying Hamas, which is all built on all that aid. | ||
| Israel is a wealthy nation. | ||
| And we should be able to fend for ourselves, but we signed some bad deals with the Obama administration that have forced us to get all our weapons from the U.S. | ||
| and close down our own munitions factories that have tied our hands. | ||
| But as politics are today, what I'm looking for is to see that Prime Minister Netanyahu understands the changing winds of politics in America and speaks to the America First movement about Judeo-Christian values and how Israel's fight Is a fight for America as well because our enemies always say Israel's this little Satan and America's the great Satan. | ||
| Yeah, thank you, Rabbi. | ||
| Very well said. | ||
| Very clean. | ||
| Give us on the war room some hope when it comes to the special relationship with Israel. | ||
| Of course, that has to do with God. | ||
| And, you know, Israel, when I was over in Israel years ago, there was a strong, strong support for the U.S. | ||
| and back then President Trump. | ||
| You know, guessing 70, 80 percent. | ||
| And now with all this university protests and revolts on the Palestinian stuff, give us some sense of where you think Israel is going to be and then the Jewish population in the United States. | ||
| Is there cause to be optimistic that we're moving in positive directions there? | ||
| Well, for the Jewish community in the United States, overwhelmingly the Jews in America have abandoned their faith in our progressive left. | ||
| But younger American Jews skew more towards tradition. | ||
| The Israeli population is right-wing and nationalist. | ||
| Israel is a right-wing country. | ||
| There's a reason why we haven't had a left-wing prime minister since Ehud Barak some 20 years ago. | ||
| The stereotype you're used to in America is flipped in Israel. | ||
| Younger Israelis are more right-wing, more faithful to God, more conservative in their politics than older Israelis are. | ||
| So the future in that respect is bright. | ||
| What the posse has to hang on to is that the enemies of Israel, remember they were protesting the Christmas tree lighting in Rockefeller Plaza. | ||
| They interrupted the Easter Sunday mass in St. | ||
| Patrick's Cathedral. | ||
| Our enemies attack Christianity in the name of their hatred for Israel. | ||
| And we should all recognize that this war Israel's fighting is just a kinetic front in the same war that you're fighting over there. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Rabbi, thanks for being with us today on The War Room. | ||
| In closing, you can start out the pitch. | ||
| In Israel, how do you get a good sound night's sleep? | ||
| Well, I get a sound night's sleep on two MyPillows that I bought. | ||
| I bought them in the States to support Mike Lindell, but oh boy, they support my head every single night. | ||
| I'll also point out that I'll be on War Room tomorrow with Colonel Derek Harvey to do a postgame on the Netanyahu speech. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| I gotta pivot over to our friend at MyPillow, Mike Lindell, the American patriot. | ||
| Mike, there's your overseas Israel support lines, empirical evidence, receipts for the greatness of MyPillow internationally. | ||
| What do you got on sale for us today, brother? | ||
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| So, we all need that right now, Dave. | ||
| Yeah, Mike Lindell, no matter where I go, he gives away 12,000 free pillows to Liberty University students at Convocation Worship. | ||
| We got Congressman Michelle Bachman on yesterday, friends of Mike Lindell. | ||
| And now we got the Rabbi Willicki in Israel sleeping on my pillow. | ||
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