Aug. 13, 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. | ||
| You're not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Babb. | |
| Welcome back. | ||
| Harnwell here at the helm. | ||
| We have Mike Davis and Jenny Beth Martin. | ||
| Look, I didn't intend, when thinking about the show, before we went on air, to hit this point. | ||
| But something that I've always wanted to talk to both of you about, and hear you all together, is the Lois Lerner issue. | ||
| This was the director, I think, in charge of political exemptions at the IRS. | ||
| And back in the day when there was the Tea Party movement ascendant and Barack Obama was in the White House, there were a number of politically prioritized tax audits of the Tea Party movements. | ||
| Jenny, you were just saying just before the break that your organization was audited. | ||
| There was a big scandal. | ||
| There was a congressional inquiry. | ||
| Here's the point I want to make. | ||
| She was actually, Lois Lerner, was actually subpoenaed by Congress to come and appear. | ||
| She did some half-hearted attempts at invoking the Fifth Amendment, which I think Congress refused to accept because she'd already started speaking about the issue of her indictment. | ||
| The DOJ, right, You know, Merrick Garland's Nobody is Above the Law, the DOJ, did they press charges on Lois Lerner? | ||
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No. | |
| She ignored that congressional subpoena, right? | ||
| Steve Bannon is in prison for four months for doing exactly what Lois Lerner did. | ||
| This is the two-tier Nature of the contemporary judiciary, right? | ||
| Two-tier nature, one set of rules for one set of people, another set of rules for another. | ||
| And it's in your face and it's brazen. | ||
| I'm going to ask Mike in a moment just to recap this from the legal perspective in terms of congressional subpoenas. | ||
| But Jenny-Beth, Seeing as you're on the show, could you just recount for us what that was like when you had that tax audit by the IRS? | ||
| Yeah, so it amounted to an audit. | ||
| It was an approval process for us to get our determination for our non-profit status. | ||
| You have to have that determination. | ||
| It's a 501c3 and a 501c4 designation from the IRS. | ||
| Normally, it takes four to six months to get that, or it did. | ||
| All of a sudden, when Tea Party groups and groups with Tea Party or Patriots—and ours | ||
| is Tea Party Patriots—and their names started applying to the IRS, it didn't take four to | ||
| six months or even a year. | ||
| It took over three years, maybe even closer to four years, before we finally got our approval. | ||
| In fact, we got our approval by phone to our attorneys the day before I testified before | ||
| the United States Senate. | ||
| That's how we wound up getting our approval. | ||
| That's just absurd. | ||
| That's absolutely crazy, but that's what happened with us. | ||
| It may have been the United States House, but that's how we got it. | ||
| Lois Earner went before Congress. | ||
| I think it was the Oversight Committee. | ||
| I may not remember the committee exactly right, but she went before Congress. | ||
| She read a statement and then she pled the fifth. | ||
| So she opened up herself to ask questions, but she wasn't able to be cross-examined at all. | ||
| And she then pled the fifth. | ||
| I was sitting in the room when that happened. | ||
| They objected to it, and they just wound up ending the entire hearing, | ||
| and she did nothing. | ||
| And the IRS commissioner had no real consequences against him. | ||
| The local people who donated to Tea Party groups, there was testimony in Congress | ||
| that if you donated to a Tea Party group, you were six times more likely to be individually audited. | ||
| I had people across the country, including a World War II veteran who came up to me shaking, holding a sheet of paper with tears in his eyes, asking if he was being targeted by our government because he donated to my organization. | ||
| It was appalling. | ||
| We tried to get charges against her. | ||
| Peter Roskam, a former congressman, tried to get charges brought against her. | ||
| And they did nothing. | ||
| The DOJ did nothing. | ||
| They never even interviewed the people who were the victims of it. | ||
| It was appalling. | ||
| Mike Davis, you're one of the greatest legal minds I know, right? | ||
| You're listening to this. | ||
| Is there a statute of limitations here? | ||
| Or is it possible that once Trump returns to the White House, if the Republicans still control the House of Representatives, is it possible that things can, that a Trump-appointed Attorney General can still prosecute Lois Lerner for her outrageous illegality. | ||
| Well, even if we're beyond the statute of limitations, then she couldn't plead the fifth if she doesn't face criminal liability. | ||
| You could actually get to the bottom of it if you can. | ||
| That's the problem, is you had her going into Congress and she gave a statement And then she pled the fifth. | ||
| Well, you can't do that. | ||
| But the Obama D.C. | ||
| U.S. | ||
| attorney declined to prosecute the case because he's a partisan hack, of course. | ||
| But, you know, it just shows that Obama was the O.G. | ||
| for this weaponization of our law enforcement, of the Justice Department, of the Treasury Department, the IRS, of our intel agencies to go after their political enemies while they protect it Their political allies like Lois Lerner, and this is on steroids right now under the Biden-Kamala regime, where they have gone after Trump. | ||
| They've tried to bankrupt him. | ||
| They've tried to throw him in prison for life. | ||
| They tried to take him off the ballot. | ||
| They tried to have his head taken off when they underfunded his Secret Service detail | ||
| on purpose, denying several requests. | ||
| And this is just part of the lawfare and election interference. | ||
| And this is why it is so important that we focus on election integrity over the next | ||
| three months. | ||
| And these Republican and conservative and right-thinking lawyers and election officials | ||
| and judges understand that the Article 3 project is going to have your backs when you fight | ||
| for election integrity, because the Democrats have proven in the past that they are very | ||
| good at rigging and stealing elections. | ||
| They just did it. | ||
| They just did this in a bloodless coup against President Joe Biden, the Democrat nominee for president who got 14 million, presumptive nominee, who got 14 million Democrat primary votes and they threw those out the window and they installed Kamala Harris in a bloodless coup. | ||
| So I don't want to hear Democrats talking about democracy or election integrity. | ||
| They're the biggest hypocrites in the world. | ||
| They're the tyrants who don't believe in following elections. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Mike, where can folks go to learn more about the Article 3 project and to follow your analysis and commentary? | ||
| I reposted you on X the other day. | ||
| I don't do anything on Twitter or X. I reposted you the other day. | ||
| Where do people go to keep up with your output? | ||
| Well, Trump's back on X, so I guess we can all be back on X. It's article3project.org, article3project.org. | ||
| You can take action there. | ||
| We're going to have a lot more action items going up on our website on election integrity. | ||
| You can donate to help fund us, keep the lights on. | ||
| And then you can also follow us on social media. | ||
| And I also want to commend Jenny Beth for what she's been doing for many, many years. | ||
| She's truly a patriot and warrior. | ||
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Thank you so much for that, Mike. | |
| I second that wholeheartedly. | ||
| Jenny Beth, where do people go to stay up with Tea Party Patriots and your own commentary and output? | ||
| Thank you both so much. | ||
| Go to TeaPartyPatriots.org, TeaPartyPatriots.org, and then you can follow me on X and Instagram and other places, Jenny Beth M, Jenny Beth M as in Martin. | ||
| And I think, Mike Davis, you do amazing work, and I'm so glad that you're doing so much for election integrity. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Mike Davis, Jenny Beth Martin, both of you. | ||
| Thanks very much for coming on the show. | ||
| And just to repeat the point, Steve Bannon is sitting in a federal prison right now for doing exactly what Lois Lerner The director of political exemptions at the IOS had also | ||
| refused to obey a congressional subpoena. | ||
| In fact, Steve said he wasn't refusing to just to say the point. | ||
| He never said he wasn't going to obey the subpoena. | ||
| He said he wanted a judge to clarify that the executive privilege applied for by President | ||
| Trump didn't apply in this case, because otherwise, Steve Bannon argued, he would in fact be breaking | ||
| the law. | ||
| So there's the difference between the two. | ||
| One of them gets the pass. | ||
| One of them goes to jail. | ||
| That is the nature of sadly of of the politicized, weaponized DOJ in America today. | ||
| And I would like to see a future. | ||
| Trump administration take that weaponized DOJ and apply it back with equal ferocity | ||
| to the very people who perverted it. Both of you, thank you very much for coming on the show today. | ||
| God bless. Thank you. | ||
| Natalie Dominguez from Home Title Lock is here with us today to talk about the case | ||
| just a few days ago in New York of a 90 year old who found himself dispossessed of his own home. | ||
| Natalie, good morning to you. | ||
| Could you tell us a bit more about this shocking case? | ||
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Hi, Ben. | |
| Good morning. | ||
| Yeah, I'm going to be honest. | ||
| There's one thing that There's one thing that pisses me off the most it's when people take advantage of the elderly and I'm sure many of you guys can relate so the story might be a little hard to hear but imagine being 90 years old living in the same house for 50 years and then all of a sudden someone comes up and is like hey your house is no longer yours and you were being evicted. | ||
| So yeah, this is happening right now to a retired Brooklyn contractor named Ray because an acquaintance of his that he'd met through a religious organization and a now disbarred lawyer managed to convince him that he needed to transfer the deed out of his home as part of a loan process for home renovations. | ||
| But don't worry, they reassured this at the time, near 70 year old man, | ||
| that everything would be transferred back when the project was finished. | ||
| And Ray did say that later, they gave him a piece of paper | ||
| saying that the house was transferred back, but sadly the family knows now | ||
| that it was never legally filed with the county. | ||
| And keep in mind, Ray initially paid $20,000 for this house in 1969. | ||
| It's now worth over 3 million. | ||
| And the scammer ended up taking out a mortgage of about 700,000. | ||
| So when the loan was never paid, the property was eventually foreclosed on and sold at auction in 2018, all while Ray was still living in the home. | ||
| And he didn't know any of this was happening until the LLC that bought it at the auction one day showed up with an eviction notice. | ||
| And what gets me the most, Ben, is that all it took was someone with bad intentions and a single piece of paper to just change this man's life. | ||
| It's absolutely insane. | ||
| It's a shocking story. | ||
| So people are listening to this, and I guess, is everyone similarly vulnerable as this 90-year-old guy to exactly the same thing? | ||
| Or does it affect certain types of home position? | ||
| How does it work? | ||
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Well, on paper, everyone's vulnerable. | |
| If you own a home, this could happen to you. | ||
| Unfortunately, when it comes to people, yes, the elderly are our most vulnerable population. | ||
| You know, people take advantage of their trusting nature. | ||
| A lot of people not knowing how technology works. | ||
| You know, the law has changed. | ||
| I mean, my grandparents are 90 years old, and this absolutely terrifies me. | ||
| And it really I mean, now they're in this huge legal battle with this company trying to kick him out of his home. | ||
| They've reached out to the New York Attorney General's office to try to halt the case because they passed that law last year where now, Letitia James, they can halt an eviction if they believe it's fraud, but they haven't even heard back from the office, at least from what we know right now with the story. | ||
| But yeah, this story and stories exactly like this are exactly why we do what we do. | ||
| You know, sometimes it's even just someone's lack of financial resources. | ||
| But yeah, elderly homes in more gender-defined areas, things that, you know, didn't cost a lot but have a lot of equity in them now. | ||
| I don't know, I just, with my grandparents and just people in general, my heart just really breaks for this man and his family. | ||
| Thanks, Daphne. | ||
| So, 30 seconds. | ||
| What do folks do, what do the posse do if they consent and they want to double-check their own security with regards to their title? | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. Welcome back. | ||
| Hanwell here at the helm, filling in for Steve Bannon. | ||
| Open primaries today in Minnesota, and therefore who better to talk about Ilhan Omar and her chances of being primary. | ||
| This was, of course, lest we forget, a member of the squad whom Royce White tried to remove back in the 2022 cycle. | ||
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But Laura Loomer, Laura, good morning to you. | |
| You're here this morning to galvanize the War Room posse members up in Minnesota. | ||
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Yes, absolutely. | |
| Thanks for this opportunity. | ||
| And for those who are listening who live in Minnesota, particularly those who live in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, which includes Brooklyn Center, St. | ||
| Louis Park, Richfield, Crystal, Robbinsdale, Golden Valley, New Hope, Fridley, and a small portion of Edina, Please make sure that you're voting today in the Minnesota Open Primary. | ||
| You can go and request a Democrat ballot. | ||
| You do not need to be registered as a Democrat. | ||
| You could be a Republican. | ||
| You could be an Independent. | ||
| You can be a Democrat and vote for Ilhan Omar's Democrat opponent, a guy by the name of Don Samuels, because He almost beat Ilhan Omar in 2022. | ||
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It was a difference of 2,600 votes and so Ilhan Omar is terrified because he knows that this Democrat on the ballot has a really good chance of removing her. | |
| He's not as radical and this doesn't mean that you have to vote Democrat in a general | ||
| election. | ||
| You can vote to remove Ilhan Omar by voting for her Democrat opponent today, requesting | ||
| a Democrat ballot, and it's completely legal. | ||
| This is the purpose of an open primary. | ||
| It allows for people of all affiliations to vote for who they want. | ||
| But bring a friend. | ||
| Call your friends. | ||
| Polls close at 8 p.m. | ||
| Minnesota time. | ||
| We have a real shot to remove another Hamas-loving member of the squad, which would be consistent with the current trend line, as we've seen Jamal Bowman and Cori Bush also have been removed. | ||
| Cream, if I'm wrong, but Congresswoman Omid is married to her brother, right? | ||
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Yeah, so Ilhan Omar, as I had helped expose back in 2018, she married her brother. | |
| And her brother, of course, is a homosexual man, and this was not done because she wanted to, you know, have sexual relations with her brother. | ||
| It was done to help him commit student loan fraud. | ||
| And so Ilhan Omar is, yes, she's married to her biological brother, but now she's actually | ||
| married to one of her political consultants who she's funneled over $3 million of her | ||
| campaign funds to. | ||
| And so, you know, she ended up disrupting a marriage and had an affair with her political | ||
| consultants. | ||
| And now, of course, we've seen that she's been involved in multiple marriages, right? | ||
| Including the one with her brother to commit immigration fraud. | ||
| It's just one of the many things that Ilhan Omar has against her in this campaign season. | ||
| It's one of the reasons why she's completely unfit to be in office but unfortunately the Republicans have really not taken advantage of this opportunity to galvanize Republicans and independents to remove one of the biggest national security threats in our Congress today and that's the fact that we have a full-blown jihadist Okay, a Muslim woman who refuses to assimilate, who took her oath of office on the Quran and pledges allegiance to Allah and refuses to condemn Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and advocates for members of ISIS in her community. | ||
| Yes, these are all things that Ilhan Omar has done. | ||
| That has no place in our Congress. | ||
| But unfortunately, the Republicans are too scared of being called Islamophobe and Islamophobic to do anything about it. | ||
| So, you know, we're going to lose our country and we're going to witness an Islamofascist communist takeover if this red-green alliance is allowed to continue. | ||
| God forbid President Trump doesn't get into office unless we take things into our own hands and remove these jihadists before they remove us. | ||
| So Jamal Bowman lost his primary, Cori Bush lost her primary, now you're hoping for a third in a row here. | ||
| So look, folks up in Minnesota, Laura Loomer once again, what do they need to do to make Voice White smile today? | ||
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Well, you got to go to the polls and you need to go request a Democrat ballot and you have to request a Democrat ballot for the sake of voting and disrupting the open Democrat primary and vote for Don Samuels in Minnesota's fifth District and this will then allow your ballot to be counted against Ilhan Omar, regardless of whether or not you're registered Democrat. | |
| As I said, this is an opportunity for Republicans and independents to do what Democrats often do to us in states where we have open primaries. | ||
| Play in the race. | ||
| Take advantage of a legal opportunity to remove a Hamas supporter from Congress. | ||
| So if you haven't already done so and you're listening and you live in one of those towns in the 5th District, please find your polling location. | ||
| I tweeted a link. | ||
| It's on my Twitter. | ||
| People can go find their polling location and please cast a ballot for Dawn Samuels, okay? | ||
| I'm not asking you to change your registration and vote Democrat in the general election. | ||
| I'm just saying, cast a ballot for the Democrat so that the Democrat can beat Ilhan Omar in the primary. | ||
| And that's all we need to do. | ||
| You know, a lot of people don't play in these primaries, but you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to disrupt the primary and remove Ilhan Omar. | ||
| And it can happen. | ||
| Well look, in a world where 99.99% of people who call themselves journalists are just propaganda peddlers for the regime, you are a serious journalist doing original investigative work, and I pay tribute to that. | ||
| You mentioned your Twitter account just now, Laura. | ||
| Where do people go to stay in touch, keep up to date with your output? | ||
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Yeah, they can go to my Twitter, my true social, at Laura Loomer, and then also subscribe to my Rumble channel, Rumble.com slash Laura Loomer. | |
| I have my show every Tuesday and Thursday, 8 p.m. | ||
| Eastern, called Loomer Unleashed. | ||
| We're going to do some live election night coverage of this Minnesota primary tonight, so hopefully I'll be celebrating tonight like I was last week when Cori Bush lost her primary. | ||
| But again, I know that the war room reaches people and all 50 states reaches people all over the world. | ||
| For those listening in Minnesota, call everybody you know, post on your social media, get your neighbors, go to the polls and vote for Don Samuels, because I'll tell you, if we get 5,000 Republicans and Independents to the polls to vote for Don Samuel over Ilhan Omar, she will be removed from office. | ||
| We just need 5,000. | ||
| Laura Loomis, thanks very much for coming on the show today. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Yeah, thank you for having me on. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| OK, so moving from a small metaphorical war in Minnesota to the larger theatre, the Kinetic Theatre of the Middle East. | ||
| Captain Fennell and Dr. Thayer, good morning to you. | ||
| We're going to talk now, get some updates on what's going on there, especially regarding Iran's imminent attack on Israel. | ||
| That's expected any day this week. | ||
| That could kick off a third world war and then run up, really, to the elections. | ||
| I wonder how the consequences of that. | ||
| We'll also talk, I think, a bit about Ukraine and the Kursk region. | ||
| First time since the Russia's invasion, I think, Ukraine has substantially entered Russian territory. | ||
| According to the Ukrainians, they have about a thousand Good morning. | ||
| Can you give us an update? | ||
| That also is an important dynamic, and I'll go into why in the U.S. conflict shortly. | ||
| But Captain Fennel, let's start with you and then go to Dr. | ||
| Thayer. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| Can you give us an update? | ||
| What are the developments here with regards to Iran's expected attack on Israel? | ||
| Well, good afternoon for me and good morning for you, Ben. | ||
| Thanks for having us on. | ||
| Right now, you know, as you said, there's an expectation that an attack could come at any moment. | ||
| And so how do we find indications and warning at a tactical nature? | ||
| It's going to be pretty hard for us in the in the public domain to be able to have the kind of sources | ||
| that would tell us when an attack is actually going to happen within minutes or hours. But it's | ||
| possible at any time, and Iran has basically said so much, is that they're going | ||
| to retaliate. There are some rumors about some kind of brokered peace deal that would leave Hezbollah | ||
| and Hamas in place, but I don't think that's likely. | ||
| I think that Iran is going to strike back. | ||
| There's a possibility they strike outside of Israel in some other interest to Israel in another location. | ||
| Again, I don't think that's likely either. | ||
| I think there will be an attack on Israel with a massive amount of force. | ||
| From Iran. | ||
| And because of that, the U.S. | ||
| has been moving forces into the region. | ||
| Secretary of Defense Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to make best speed, to actually go faster than best speed to get to the Gulf. | ||
| She's in the South China Sea right now. | ||
| They also, for some reason, publicly announced that they were going to escort the Abraham | ||
| Lincoln with a nuclear guided missile submarine, an SSGN, to go along with it, probably because | ||
| the carrier can outspeed the destroyer and cruiser escorts that are conventionally powered. | ||
| So the Lincoln will be out there to join the Teddy Roosevelt, all in the area of the Gulf | ||
| of Oman, or possibly even entering into the Persian Gulf. | ||
| And then we have an expeditionary strike group, the WASP, out in the eastern Mediterranean. | ||
| And we have a number of surface combatants that are associated with those strike groups | ||
| that are applying the waters of the eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of | ||
| Oman. | ||
| So we're gearing up as if there's going to be some kind of an attack. | ||
| It's unfortunate it's a little bit too little too late in some ways if they do launch this | ||
| attack. | ||
| So that's what I'm concerned about, is we're seeing the movement on U.S. forces that reflect | ||
| an imminent attack. | ||
| Dr. Thayer, if you could start your response to this question, then we've got about 40 | ||
| seconds, and then we'll go to Fernand Berg and then we'll come back to you. | ||
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Quickly, quickly, right? | |
| If America is withdrawing from the South China Sea, is America's spreading itself too thin with regards to the Chinese theater? | ||
| 30 seconds. | ||
| Yes, it is. | ||
| And so aircraft carriers are precious commodities and we have too few of them. | ||
| And so carriers that are going to be supporting potentially will be supporting CENTCOM in the Middle East are not present in the Indo-Pacom area. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| Stop what you are doing and listen to this. | ||
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Welcome back. | |
| Stop what you are doing and listen to this. | ||
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| Dr. Thayer, the Taiwanese, I guess, are sweating under their collars just a little bit more this week with regards to American semi... I won't say semi-withdrawal. | ||
| That might be slightly exaggerating it. | ||
| But America is over-expanding itself. | ||
| Ukraine, The Persian Gulf and drawing battleships out of the South China Sea. | ||
| Before returning to the Middle East, just give us a quick two minutes on what this might mean for the Chinese situation and President Xi's long expressed desire to retake Taiwan. | ||
| Well, Ben, it's a very important issue. | ||
| Even in the best of circumstances, we don't have enough conventional power in the area around Taiwan and the Philippines. | ||
| And so with the carrier moving to the Persian Gulf or in that area, of course, we have even less conventional might in that area, which is not a positive thing when you're attempting to deter an attack from Xi Jinping against Taiwan or against the Philippines. | ||
| And so aircraft carriers are important because of their tremendous military capability, but also as symbols of American might, of American power. | ||
| And so having these symbols sail obviously into the Middle East is important for Iran and the Israel dynamic. | ||
| but of course hurts us in the Indo-Pacific because we simply don't have enough conventional might, so we're having to make trade-offs. | ||
| And those trade-offs, in the best of circumstances, are dangerous, but particularly when we're dealing with a hyper-aggressive leader like Xi Jinping, who presently is aggressing against the Philippines at Second Thomas Shoal, and consistently against Taiwan as well. | ||
| And of course, it's not a coincidence, is it? | ||
| China, Iran, Russia, these countries are all allied. | ||
| So they're prodding at the limits of America's capacity here in a concerted effort. | ||
| We can see this, I think, quite clearly. | ||
| And there's no reason to believe, by the way, that it will finish with these three countries. | ||
| Captain Fennell, can you just say a little bit here, because how many, with regards to Israel, how many protectorates around the world do you think America is able to cast its shield over with any degree of success moving forward? | ||
| Israel is effectively a protectorate, right, of the United States. | ||
| What's in the Middle East now? | ||
| Is it going to be a time for choosing? | ||
| As we're running up to an election period, with the American economy assuming an extra trillion dollars every few months, is this election campaign going to be a time for choosing for America to decide what an American taxpayer is going to afford to protect around the world and what it can't afford to protect? | ||
| And we'll come to Ukraine on that subject in just a moment. | ||
| Right then we're in a position where we're becoming increasingly out of resources as Brad mentioned to where we are being stretched and you you know you say we're going to Ukraine event that we can talk about what's happening in the investment we're making right now with military force to go into the Middle East and then the clearly the issues in the in the Pacific, the Western Pacific with China. | ||
| So these are areas where any one of them, the Baltic, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, now the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, or you get out to the Western Pacific, they're all areas where we need to be present. | ||
| And so when a flare comes up or a fire comes up in the Middle East, we're sending an inordinate number of our resources there to cover down on that. | ||
| as we should for a treaty ally. But it's costing us because now the Chinese are using this | ||
| absence of the Lincoln to have their carrier, the Shandong, operate in the South China Sea. | ||
| And in six days from now, there'll be a major exercise on the Korean Peninsula, Ulchi Freedom | ||
| Shield that the U.S. and South Koreans do each year. And so will we have a carrier for | ||
| that? And oh, by the way, we just got out of a very extensive exercise in the Hawaiian | ||
| Op Area called RIMPAC, Rim of the Pacific exercise, where the USS Carl Vinson was operating. | ||
| She's heading back to the West Coast. | ||
| And on top of it all, you have our four deployed carrier, which has been the USS Ronald Reagan. | ||
| She's on the West Coast now, and she's going to be turning over with the USS George Washington carrier strike group. | ||
| So right now, when the Lincoln departs through the Strait of Malacca and heads out into the Indian Ocean, We will not have an aircraft carrier patrolling inside the first or second island chain as we wait for the swap out between the Reagan and the GW. | ||
| So we're at least a couple of weeks away from that. | ||
| So all of this is timing right now is to the advantage of Beijing and Moscow and Tehran to probe and check and test us in Pyongyang to see where we're the least able to cover down and what choices this administration will make. | ||
| And really, it's a reflection on the lack of preparedness that this nation has taken | ||
| towards its conventional and nuclear military force structure over the last 35 years, as | ||
| we forgot about great power competition with the Soviets and bought into everything about | ||
| the peace dividend and all that that we talk about in our book up here, that side, embracing | ||
| communist China, America's greatest strategic failure. | ||
| We forgot about China, and we forgot about that we needed to have this large force structure to be able to cover all of these crisis areas around the world. | ||
| Not for dominion, but to cover our own national interests and those of our friends. | ||
| Yeah, I don't have any objections to starting off this point with talking about America's vital national interests pivoting quickly to Ukraine. | ||
| I saw something yesterday in the news. | ||
| My cue here for Denver is the Punchbowl article. | ||
| Headlined Pro-Ukraine Republicans Look to Avert a Funding Lapse in January. | ||
| And it's basically Senator Tom Tillis Who's described quite accurately as a pro-Ukraine Republican, along with his fellow travelers, is organizing now for January, whichever the administration is going to be, because the awareness that the famous $61 billion to Ukraine that was passed back in June is going to start running out. | ||
| So they're now Republicans. | ||
| Republicans, that is to say, underline here. | ||
| Republicans are taking the initiative to prime the levers of power to get more money coming through for Ukraine. | ||
| Now, I would have said if I'd have seen this astonishing maneuver that they're being so public about this, this is not going to go down well with Republican voters. | ||
| And I think with the lot larger tax Paying American public more widely and three and a half months to the election. | ||
| What I would have said a couple of days ago, forget it. | ||
| There's no chance. | ||
| And then something extraordinary happened, which I have to say took me somewhat by surprise. | ||
| And that is a military success for the Ukrainians in the war up in the Kursk region. | ||
| According to Ukraine, they've got about a thousand square kilometers. | ||
| The Russian count is a lot less, obviously. | ||
| But they have themselves admitted to having evacuated some 75,000 Russians from there. | ||
| Now, one of the principal arguments, it seems to me, for Republicans, for America First | ||
| Republicans in the arguments and the debates regarding further continued funding to Ukraine | ||
| was that this money wasn't, it was just wasted going down the drain because the borders between | ||
| Ukraine and the contested borders are now digged in. | ||
| It's a war of attrition, and America can't afford to finance Ukraine's side of that attrition any longer. | ||
| I wonder, and I ask you to start with you, Captain Fennell. | ||
| I wonder whether, does this incursion, this successful incursion from President Zelensky into Russia, does this change that dynamic? | ||
| Does it make it more viable that Americans might have to pony up another $61 billion in January? | ||
| I think that's clearly the intent of this push, is to draw attention to the fact that Ukraine is not lost and that we need to continue, and I'll say it, pouring money down the drain for an ongoing war. | ||
| We need to stop and get off this vicious cycle of fighting in these wars and funding these constant wars, as opposed to resetting our national defense structure and our ability to have the kind of conventional and nuclear power force that would prevent the continuation of these endless wars. | ||
| That's the real issue. | ||
| We need to stop and get off the hamster wheel, and we need to start building up our Navy and our Air Force and our nuclear arsenal to the extent that no one would think of doing this, or that if we jumped in or said something that we could quickly cauterize it, which we haven't been able to do in the Ukraine, which we haven't been able to do in Israel, which we're not doing in the Far East. | ||
| So we have a problem here. | ||
| We're addicted to the current war, but we're never preparing for the future long-term great power conflict. | ||
| Dr. Theo, one minute, if you will. | ||
| Do you think this is the moment for the Trump campaign to come out with a very coherent and decisive position, an ambiguous position, on further funding to Ukraine? | ||
| It is an opportune moment to do that, but sadly with this war of attrition, Ben, there are going to be others, because this conflict Unless there's true leadership, if Trump returns to office, this conflict is going to continue, much like World War I did on the Western Front. | ||
| So Ukraine's invasion of Russia is peripheral. | ||
| It's a sideshow designed to attract attention, as Jim illuminated. | ||
| The center of gravity of this campaign is the Donbass. | ||
| Where you have very intense force to space ratios where Russia's effort is. | ||
| So we need to keep that in mind. | ||
| But the fundamental point remains the same. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party is the center of gravity here. | ||
| It's driving these conflicts, whether it's Iran or whether it's Russia and Ukraine through its support for Putin, its support for Iran and Iran's proxies. | ||
| And that underscores, again, the hyper-aggressive nature of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| It's the problem in international politics. | ||
| It's the security threat for the United States. | ||
| And as Jim said, we need to restructure. | ||
| We need to recognize that and adjust to it. | ||
| And President Trump certainly would do that if he's in office after November 5th. | ||
| Dr. Thayer, 10 seconds. | ||
| Your social contacts. | ||
| I met Bradley Thayer at Getter and Bradley Thayer at Truth and Brad Thayer at X in our book, as Jim | ||
| mentioned, Embracing Communist China, America's Greatest Strategic Failures, available wherever | ||
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you buy books. Captain Fennel, your contacts. | |
| ... in Arizona politics are now not only endorsing Kamala Harris for president, | ||
| but actively working to help her campaign by reaching out to Republican voters who | ||
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feel marginalized by Trump's MAGA movement. | |
| One of the biggest reasons I'm voting for Kamala Harris and I would have voted for Joe Biden is that they are not Donald Trump. | ||
| We are here to send a clear message. | ||
| Arizonans are rejecting Donald Trump and his failed leadership. | ||
| Another Trump term with JD Vance would be far worse and would lead our country down a path that I don't think we could ever recover from. | ||
| The Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona, John Giles, the leader of the Republicans for Harris movement, gave a powerful speech at the sold-out Harris Walls rally outside of Phoenix on Friday. | ||
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I do not recognize my party. | |
| It has been... | ||
| The Republican Party has been taken over by extremists that are committed to forcing people | ||
| in the center of the political spectrum out of the party. | ||
| Gina Swoboda, Chairman, Chairwoman of the Arizona Republicans. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| Thanks for coming on the show. | ||
| So we've just seen there in the clips, all the rhinos are being flushed out and they're saying they're not going to vote. | ||
| You know, my response? | ||
| Bring it on. | ||
| All right. | ||
| This is this is really what I think the Trump revolution is about. | ||
| It's about America first. | ||
| Patriots taking this party back and flushing all the pretend fake Chamber of Commerce. | ||
| Country Club Republicans flushing them out of the party. | ||
| All they've done is grifted off the party for decades. | ||
| I was delighted to see your candidate, Carrie Lake, down in Arizona, say in an interview, I think it was with Punchbowl, they were trying to suggest, are you going to moderate? | ||
| Are you going to come to the center? | ||
| And she said, you know, I'm not moving my positions and my positions are where the majority of Arizonans are. | ||
| What's your take on this? | ||
| Is Carrie going to be hit by all the John McCain acolytes saying they're not going to vote for Trump or Vance? | ||
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Is she going to be damaged by that down in Arizona? | |
| Thank you. | ||
| So a couple of things to unpack there. | ||
| One, I would be shocked and it would be news if Mayor Giles actually endorsed a Republican. | ||
| So that's number one. | ||
| That guy has endorsed Biden and Obama, and he apparently keeps the Republican Brand on his voter registration, but he he doesn't vote Republican based on his endorsements the other two people in that clip I mean Sam Campana was was last in office as a mayor in Scottsdale in 2000 and the other person Robin Shaw hasn't been in office since 1998 | ||
| So they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel to try to find, quote-unquote, Republicans that are supporting what is, as you've discussed, the most dangerously liberal ticket, I think, in history. | ||
| I think this is a more liberal ticket than McGovern was, right? | ||
| So that's number one. | ||
| Number two, I do not believe—Giles, again, one of the things he was saying at what they're calling a sold-out rally, which, of course, was not open to the public. | ||
| is that he doesn't recognize the party. | ||
| In Mesa, where he is the mayor, they are forcing girls to share bathrooms with boys. | ||
| So perhaps what he thinks is centrist, middle-of-the-road policy is not where the American people are. | ||
| So I think Carrie's a wonderful spokesman for the party and for the middle. | ||
| We want everybody. | ||
| I need every single person, no matter where you fall in the Republican Party spectrum. | ||
| I don't think those people are indicative of Republicans at all. | ||
| I don't think there's a person on the ground in Arizona, including the independents, including a lot of Democrats. | ||
| They're the ones who don't recognize their party. | ||
| If you looked at Bill Clinton's platform in 1992, that's far closer to where the Republican platform is now than where the Democrat platform is. | ||
| I mean, the Overton window that we like to discuss has gone so far to the left for their party that I don't think people would recognize it that had run in 92 and 94 and 96 and 98. | ||
| So I think we're going to bring home the people that were establishment Republicans. | ||
| Listen, there's no runway left for this country. | ||
| So if there are people who are like, well, I don't like this candidate and I don't like populism, so I'm just going to let it burn and walk away. | ||
| I have a newsflash for them. | ||
| You need to vote with us because Arizona lost the entire executive branch to basically radical Marxists in the last cycle when they had an equipment malfunction in Maricopa. | ||
| So if I lose the legislature out here, if we don't get President Trump back to close off that border, there ain't no coming back, baby. | ||
| So they better have another plan, because the plan is not going to be we're going to rebuild the moderate middle. | ||
| That won't exist if Biden and Kamala and these people get their way. | ||
| Gina, just yes or no then. | ||
| You're with me on this. | ||
| Bring it on to the McCain retreads in Arizona. | ||
| Bring it on, yeah? | ||
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Well, I want to nuance that. | |
| I want to nuance that because I recognize that there are people who didn't want to vote with us, who were angry about the populist movement, but I need them to vote with us. | ||
| I'm not interested in punching them in the face as much as I am in educating them and saying, how can you tell me you support the Republican Party platform and vote for this radical ticket? | ||
| You can't have it both ways. | ||
| Then just come out and say, I'm a Democrat. | ||
| Gina, that's all we've got time for. | ||
| Thanks for coming on the show. | ||
| We'll dig into this later on in the week. | ||
| Thanks for coming on, Gina. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Michael Lindell, closing two minutes to you, sir. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| Yeah, good morning. | ||
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