Aug. 16, 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. | ||
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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 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. | |
| Hey, Peter Canovaro sitting in for Stephen K. Bannon this August 16th day of our Lord in the year | ||
| We are now officially about 80 days to the election and roughly one month to the start of early voting in some states like the battleground of Pennsylvania, which begins early voting on September 16th. | ||
| At least early voting starts after the first debate. | ||
| If we lose this election, we will lose this country. | ||
| I simply don't want to live in the America of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. | ||
| Kamala Harris's twisted version of JFK's Camelot. | ||
| With Camelot, it's Camelot. | ||
| With Kamala, it's Camelot with a K. It's Camelot of inflation, Camelot of border chaos, Camelot of crime, and a whole lot of Camelot of woke. | ||
| You see that Time Magazine cover where America's latest political saint is canonized? | ||
| The headline should have been Joan of Woke rather than Kamala's moment. | ||
| At any rate, you know what we have to do here? | ||
| We have to take the airbrushed, sanitized fantasy of Kamala that has been created by a fawning corporate media into the reality of a Kamala Harris Who provides a remarkably catastrophic combination of radical wokeness, supreme incompetence, and unparalleled inexperience. | ||
| It's our job here in the War Room to break down the Maginot Line that the likes of CNN and MSNBC and newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post have drawn in front of her. | ||
| If you know your military history, the obvious way to defeat any Maginot Line is to strike hard on the flanks. | ||
| And this is what I have been proposing this week that we do. | ||
| To refresh from Monday and Wednesday, I'm advocating that the best way to attack both Kamala Harris and her running mate, tampon Tim Walz, or is it DUI Tim Walz? | ||
| I'm not sure which. | ||
| By the way, Tim, My grandfather was killed, murdered by a drunk driver, so folks like you, I don't take very kindly to. | ||
| And one must wonder now, are you gonna need a breathalyzer to get into the West Wing? | ||
| And, um, are you still on the sauce, brother? | ||
| Because that's a little bit scary for me here, okay? | ||
| Let somebody else drive you, don't get behind the wheel. | ||
| At any rate, here's the paradigm I propose, and it may be used by everyone, from podcasters and show hosts like Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters to the president himself. | ||
| Here's the Kamala takedown protocol. | ||
| Step one, from that vast cornucopia of stupid stuff that both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have said, Draw out representative clips that illustrate their positions on policy issues that have proved them to be far outside the mainstream. | ||
| For example, Harris is on record calling for the banning of fracking. | ||
| Hey, Denver, get ready for this. | ||
| Banning of fracking in general and the defracking of Pennsylvania in particular. | ||
| So step one in the Kamala takedown protocol is to simply play the clip. | ||
| So, let's see. | ||
| Denver, do we have a fracking clip here? | ||
| I'm committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs, and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all. | ||
| There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. | ||
| And starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right? | ||
| And then there has to be legislation. | ||
| But yes, and this is something I've taken on in California. | ||
| I have a history of working on this issue. | ||
| Okay, so you immediately get to a crossroads. | ||
| If Kamala Harris somehow tries to walk away from Banning fracking, then it becomes a character issue, OK? | ||
| A big character issue. | ||
| She'll do anything to get elected character issue. | ||
| She's consistent with her rise to power in California, and she brings all that Willie Brown stuff back into play. | ||
| But if she sticks to, yeah, she's going to ban fracking, which would be the ethical and moral position if she's taken it. | ||
| Then what you do in the Kamala takedown protocol is you next explain the actual harm banning fracking will do. | ||
| And this is where it gets both interesting and interestingly complex. | ||
| And what I want to do is I want to introduce a concept here of first order effects, second order and third order effects. | ||
| It's kind of when you do Economics and look at how things ripple through an economy. | ||
| It's like the immediate and then the knock-on effects that you do. | ||
| So the first-order effect here when Kamala Harris says she wants to ban fracking in the state of Pennsylvania is the obvious casualties in Pennsylvania. | ||
| The Kamala is the fracking policy. | ||
| It's the folks who make their living in the fracking industry And that's not just the roughnecks at the front lines of the drilling, but it's also those who transport the oil and gas that may come out of the fracking site. | ||
| Okay, that's first order stuff. | ||
| Second order. | ||
| When Kamala bans fracking, she reduces the overall supply of petroleum, not just in America, but also in the world market. | ||
| It's all interconnected, Kamala. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Get your nose out of the law books, learning a little economics here. | ||
| The inevitable result of Kamala's fracking policy is higher world oil and natural gas prices. | ||
| Second order of fact. | ||
| So, families, not just in Pennsylvania, but across America, Find them paying more to heat their homes, fill up their cars with gas, and even cook their hot dogs and hamburgers on propane stoves at tailgate parties. | ||
| And that's the second order effect of this. | ||
| That's still not the end of the story, however. | ||
| There are also the third order effects. | ||
| These are the broader geopolitical dangers that arise When the U.S. | ||
| loses its energy independence and winds up once again being a supplicant to an OPEC oil cartel, which is now controlled not just by a predatory Saudi Arabia as it used to be, but also controlled by a hostile imperial Russia, which, as it turns out, is the world's third largest petroleum producer. | ||
| Behind Saudi Arabia and the United States. | ||
| So once you make those economic and national security arguments, the first, second and third order effects, step three in the takedown Kamala protocol is to simply highlight the difference Between Kamala Harris's blunt force ban on fracking and the policies of Donald Trump during the four years of his administration in which oil prices were more than 40% below those in the Biden years. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| In those years of Trump, frack patrolling was plentiful and the United States did indeed enjoy strategic In Trump's America, the U.S. | ||
| will, with Trump as 47th president, build more pipelines, including the Keystone Pipeline, and lift Kamala Harris' ban on drilling on public lands. | ||
| And by the way, The bottom of the hour, we're going to have an amazing guest on. | ||
| He's the former Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt. | ||
| And he was the guy who was in charge of managing the leasing of public lands to make sure we had plenty of oil. | ||
| So with just these changes, Trump comes in and he goes back to the old policies, which worked well. | ||
| Trump will strike a big blow against inflation, even as he's able to build back his geopolitical wall against the likes of Saudi Arabia and Russia. | ||
| Elections do matter. | ||
| In fact, Saudi Arabia never would have abandoned the U.S. | ||
| dollar, as it has done during the Biden years, if Donald Trump had been president. | ||
| Saudi Arabia's realignment with the likes of Russia and Communist China has literally been the result of an abusive Joe Biden, with respect to Saudi, and an arrogant and clueless Harris pushing Saudi Arabia into the arms of Russia, Communist China, and all those folks out there who hate us. | ||
| Okay, so that's the first pass of the Kamala takedown protocol. | ||
| It's pretty straightforward and simple. | ||
| You show Kamala saying something radical and or stupid and fracking. | ||
| You show who gets screwed by her stupidity and wokeness. | ||
| And then you show how smart policy from Donald Trump will make it all right. | ||
| And look, there's no personal meanness in any of that. | ||
| None. | ||
| It's simply fair game to show how Kamala Harris, with her lack of understanding of even the most basic of economics, is simply not good for America. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Now let's take a variation on the Kamala takedown protocol with a little bit more complexity. | ||
| In this iteration, we're not just going to show Kamala's woke, radical agenda in her own words, rather than simply talk about it. | ||
| We're actually then going to show some of the victims of Kamala Harris's policy agenda, and one riddled by radicalness and punctuated by her own inexperience and incompetence. | ||
| Remember here with her law degree from a mediocre law school at that. | ||
| I'm a bit of a snob on these matters, but it matters where you go to school a lot because it's a signal of your underlying competence. | ||
| You have to remember here, mediocre law school, all she's ever done in her life is to be a prosecutor. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And in the White House, she's demonstrated absolutely no interest in learning about anything. | ||
| Whether it be economics, foreign policy, or building combat readiness at the Pentagon. | ||
| In fact, I think she spent most of her time plotting the overthrow of Joe Biden. | ||
| And at least Machiavellian 101, it's no wonder Biden's wife hated Kamala Harris, because Kamala did stick the knife in. | ||
| My side point here is that Kamala Harris is easy to attack, not just on a radical agenda. | ||
| On issues like energy and the border and all things woke she is even easier to attack invoking the twin dimensions of incompetence and experience on policy issues that touch on even the most basic economics All right. | ||
| When we come back, we're going to continue this. | ||
| What I'm doing now with the Kamala takedown protocol is show you the second more complex version of how to go about using her own words. | ||
| Her own words, and then the words of her victims, that's where it gets a little more complex, to illustrate why you're better off in Trump's America than Kamala Harris's America. | ||
| All right, Navarro here. | ||
| We will be right back. | ||
| Stay here. | ||
| and we got Dave Bernhardt coming up the bottom of the hour. | ||
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We will fight till they're all gone. | |
| We rejoice when there's no more. | ||
| Let's take down the CCD. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bound. | ||
| I I | ||
| Hey, Peter K. Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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| All right, let's get back to where we were in the takedown of Kamala Harris with policy, the Kamala takedown protocol. | ||
| As I was saying, she's easy to attack, not just on a radical agenda on issues like energy and the border and all things woke. | ||
| She's even easier to attack invoking the twin dimensions of incompetence and inexperience on policy issues that touch on even the most basic economics and the most simple of foreign policy goals. | ||
| In fact, I'd match my own record in the White House as an assistant to President Trump moving policy actions through the deep state pipeline to create jobs and, during the pandemic, save lives. | ||
| Anything Harris has managed to achieve as Vice President. | ||
| In this, J.D. | ||
| Vance was right to say Kamala Harris hasn't done a damn thing. | ||
| But it's also important to point out that there are some very damnable things Harris has done that likewise reflect both on her radical nature and incompetence. | ||
| I'm referring, of course, to the two tie-breaking, damnable votes on the two budget-busting bills that have been acting like gasoline on an inflationary fire, with one of those bills ironically called the Inflation Reduction Act. | ||
| As John McEnroe might say, you can't be serious. | ||
| Anyway, back to my main point. | ||
| In the more complex version of the takedown of Kamala Harris that I'm offering, feel free to use this, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, or anybody else in the conservative media. | ||
| You first use Kamala Harris's own words to show her radical mess, incompetence, or inexperience. | ||
| And you show another video clip or montage that features real victims harmed by Harris. | ||
| So let's test Our producers there, folks in Denver, let's try this one now in the realm of economics. | ||
| I'm going to start with a clip montage of Harris in support of Bidenomics, claiming that inflation has been solved. | ||
| Then we're going to use a now widely-clarified clip of an African-American mother to sit down for him in Philly, talking about how inflation is battering her family. | ||
| I'm pretty much not going to have to say anything after this thing. | ||
| You'll get the picture of the Kamala takedown protocol. | ||
| Okay, let's see the clips. | ||
| Because while our economy is doing well by many measures, prices for everyday things like groceries are still too high. | ||
| You know it and I know it. | ||
| You know, when I was Attorney General, I went after price-fixing schemes. | ||
| And when I am President, it will be a day-one priority to fight to bring down prices. | ||
| I will take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging. | ||
| I will take on corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents on working families. | ||
| I will take on big pharma and cap the cost of prescription drugs for all Americans. | ||
| We can continue to bring manufacturing jobs back to America! | ||
| And back to communities like Eau Claire! | ||
| All that, ladies and gentlemen, and everyone else, that is called Bidinomics. | ||
| That is called Bidinomics, and we are very proud of Bidinomics. | ||
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How hard has inflation hit you? | |
| It hit me hard, it's hitting me hard. | ||
| Who do you blame for it? | ||
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I blame the federal government at this point. | |
| If a working class mom who works as a paralegal cannot buy a $2 bell pepper because it's now five, imagine a mother living on a food stamp. | ||
| Imagine a mother who's making minimum wage trying to feed children. | ||
| They're killing us without killing us. | ||
| If you understand that. | ||
| They're killing us without telling us they're killing us. | ||
| They're hurting people in ways that they can't help themselves. | ||
| It's either feed my child, or how about feed my children, and I don't eat. | ||
| But I have to go work. | ||
| They're killing us without killing us. | ||
| They're killing us without killing us. | ||
| They, Kamala Harris, you know the old, you broke it, you bought it. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You broke it, you bought it. | ||
| Kamala, you broke the economy with Bidenomics. | ||
| You bought it, girl. | ||
| In this version of the Kamala takedown protocol, we've got both the perpetrator and Kamala Harris and one of her victims. | ||
| That's the first rule of effective communication. | ||
| You can talk all you want about a thousand people being harmed, but all that talk is never as good as showing one person actually suffering from that harm. | ||
| Of course, in this rendition of the Kamala takedown, you likewise recall how in Trump's America, prices were stable. | ||
| Inflation was non-existent. | ||
| Non-existent! | ||
| Real wages were rising. | ||
| People were far more prosperous. | ||
| OK, you get the picture now? | ||
| We'll be using this technique again in the show today, but also in the coming weeks. | ||
| It's kind of like we've been doing in the war room with the cold opens, but with a little bit more twist. | ||
| We want to get much more precise about this. | ||
| I, for one, am absolutely outraged that politicians as radical, incompetent, inexperienced and as flat out dangerous As Kamala Harris and comrade Tim Walz are being shielded by the legacy media rather than shredded. | ||
| Are you listening? | ||
| Lester Holt, David Meir, and Norah O'Donnell from the big three, ABC, CBS, NBC. | ||
| Hey, hey, Norah. | ||
| Hey, David. | ||
| Hey, Lester. | ||
| You're supposed to be America's trusted news anchors. | ||
| But you are simply not doing your job! | ||
| You simply can't be trusted. | ||
| How about Anderson Cooper and Jon Stewart? | ||
| Guys are smart dudes. | ||
| Both of you lefties also purport to have some journalistic integrity. | ||
| I'm not seeing any of that. | ||
| Just as inaction is a form of action, silence is a form of speaking. | ||
| In this case, not speaking out to ask the tough questions of the Harris-Waltz ticket. | ||
| And as for you, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reed, Chris Wallace, and all of the rest of you who, when you go to Kentucky Fried Chicken to order chicken wings, you ask for left wings only, can you really make the case The common folk of America, with whom you are so far out of touch with, will be better off from both an economic and national security point of view under a current regime | ||
| It has ignited inflation, that's not in dispute, set off an unparalleled border chaos and crisis, that's not in dispute, defunded the police and thereby fanned the flames of crime in our major cities, likewise, that's on Kamala, fueled an energy crisis, of course on Kamala, and infected our schools proudly, mind you, these people are proud of introducing their wokeness into our schools, corporations, and even the Pentagon, with woke policies out of touch with the mainstream, and in the case of the Pentagon, creating severe national security problems. | ||
| In other words, Lester Holden, David Mir, O'Donnell, hey, don't forget Maggie Haberman, John Carl. | ||
| Boy, we got a clip from him. | ||
| Cue that up if you can. | ||
| I want to end this segment with that guy. | ||
| Do your freaking jobs as journalists and then let the people decide whether they want to live in Kamala Harris's America or Trump's America. | ||
| I know which one I want to live in. | ||
| I've been there. | ||
| I was inside of it. | ||
| I saw. | ||
| He was safe and secure in Trump's America. | ||
| He was safe and secure and prosperous in Trump's America. | ||
| Have you got that Denver? | ||
| Have you got that John Carl thing? | ||
| Play that if you can. | ||
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Maybe not. | |
| Denver? | ||
| All right, we'll leave with the cold open on that. | ||
| John Carl is a bugaboo for me. | ||
| The dude is like living in silk right now by writing nasty books about Donald Trump. | ||
| And the flip-flop that John Carl just did on a major network should not be tolerated Even on, I don't know, a local show in Wichita, Kansas. | ||
| And I love Wichita. | ||
| Journalistic integrity is what's lacking in this campaign to date. | ||
| And that press conference, which consisted of Kamala and Walt sitting, interviewing each other, arguably one of the most embarrassing and lowest points of American journalism because journalists didn't attack it. | ||
| Peter K. Navarro, in for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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We'll be right back with the guest. | |
| He was one of my favorites. | ||
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David? | |
| Two years ago, more than two years ago, the president put Vice President Kamala Harris playing a critical role in terms of trying to stop the flow of migrants across the border with the easy ones, the criminals, people who commit crimes, deport them. | ||
| But he said Deporting 15 to 20 million people. | ||
| How do you actually do that? | ||
| Well John, we have to start with the fact that we have a wide open southern border because our border czar actually set a lot of open border policies. | ||
| They suspended... You know she's not actually, she wasn't the border czar. | ||
| Oh, that was what the media called her. | ||
| She assumed the title. | ||
| She had control over a lot of our border policy at a time when they were suspending... | ||
| Good for J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| John Carl. | ||
| John Carl, you are... Come on, dude. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Come on, dude. | ||
| That's not journalism. | ||
| That's like... How do you live with yourself at night? | ||
| When you go to bed at night, do you think to yourself, wow, I'm just like doing anything for money? | ||
| Just like Kamala Harris will do anything to get elected. | ||
| That's embarrassing, John Carl. | ||
| You have been embarrassed officially. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I am so pleased to have with me the former Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt. | ||
| He has a beautiful chapter in my new book, The New MAGA Deal. | ||
| The subtitle kind of says it all. | ||
| It's the unofficial deplorables guide. | ||
| To the Trump 2024 platform, you can peruse it at Don Junior's website, NewMegaDeal.com, go on Amazon, Barnes & Noble. | ||
| David Bernhardt is one author of a number of former Trump officials who wax eloquent on the various policies where we trump Kamala Harris, both in the polls and in the reality of Benefiting our economy. | ||
| And so I want to welcome David and I want to immediately turn over the floor to him to kind of describe what he's seen with respect to how the Harris-Biden regime basically has taken your strong policies of Donald Trump that you implemented and basically shredded them. | ||
| Wax a little eloquent. | ||
| Explain how it works in the Department of Interior at the boots on the ground, how policies get implemented or don't get implemented, sir. | ||
| And it's great to have you with us. | ||
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Well, Peter, thanks for having me. | |
| I'm thrilled to be here. | ||
| And, you know, President Trump began his vision for a strong energy policy, a policy of energy independence. | ||
| Energy dominance as he called it really with you and the team in the original 2016 campaign. | ||
| And from that moment of laying out a bold vision that was based on common sense elimination of red tape that was unnecessary. | ||
| The expansion of access to areas to make them available for Energy development and really going all in on moving forward, particularly on federal lands and on deregulation. | ||
| By doing that, the president made some dramatic, dramatic improvements. | ||
| And we often forget just how consequential his term was. | ||
| As a matter of fact, if you go back and look, during his term, on average, | ||
| the average American family saved $2,500 a year on electricity costs and gasoline gas costs. | ||
| And if you look at more recently in the Biden administration, what you see is gasoline prices well above 50% and electricity prices well above 25%. | ||
| So that stark contrast is where the rubber meets the road. | ||
| But to accomplish that, the president did a whole host of things. | ||
| He opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge area that's called the Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing for the first time ever. | ||
| Issued through us regulations that expanded areas of development, while at the same time dramatically increasing the speed that permits were issued, particularly permits to drill. | ||
| They increased in terms of speed by over 300%. | ||
| So on the ground, the Department of the Interior, which manages about one in every five acres of land, Really went, um, went boldly in delivering on the president's message. | ||
| And there were a whole series of things, you know, he authorized the key stuff. | ||
| We warmed the environmental policy act regulated. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Maddock improved the endangered species act. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Hang on, David. | ||
| David, do me a favor. | ||
| Reboot your Skype. | ||
| We'll get you back immediately. | ||
| Your connection, it happens. | ||
| Let's get you back with a fresh Skype connection, and we'll bring you right back in. | ||
| Well, we're waiting for David Bernhardt. | ||
| The issue here is how much drilling you can do safely and When Donald Trump reduced, dramatically reduced regulations in Denver, let me know as soon as you get David Bernhardt back, dramatically reduced regulations, but it was never at the expense of environmental protection or efficiency. | ||
| It was simply we went in there and it's like there was just so many layers of regulation that slowed things down, but really didn't offer any incremental Protection. | ||
| And the statistic that jumps out at you from David Bernhardt is that the Department of the Interior accounts, manages one out of five acres, one out of five acres in the entire United States. | ||
| It's like, it's like if you live in cities, you think Everywhere is as crowded as cities. | ||
| But it doesn't take long, and that's why they call it flyover country, when you get up in a plane and you start flying, there's like these vast expanses of land, and a lot of that is managed by the federal government for stewardship. | ||
| Okay, so let's bring David back in. | ||
| Sorry for the technical delay. | ||
| But David, come on back here. | ||
| Resume where you left off, if you can possibly do that. | ||
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Well, here's the bottom line, just to cut to the chase. | |
| The federal government controls a large amount of land that is available and accessible for energy development. | ||
| And essentially, the Biden administration's policy And the Harris's policy is essentially as little involvement and utilization of those lands as possible. | ||
| It's just that simple. | ||
| Trump took a very different approach, and they have systematically, over the last three years, tried to undo virtually everything President Trump did. | ||
| And now, as they move into campaign season, they're committed. | ||
| They're trying to modulate their thinking. | ||
| But here's the difference. | ||
| President Trump, from 2015 through his campaign, today, if you go to Agenda 47, he lays out specifically what he would do on energy. | ||
| And he has a bold, bold vision. | ||
| If you look at Harris, what you see is she even actually sued the Obama administration because she thought their energy policies were too aggressive as an attorney general. | ||
| She pushed back on every initiative that President Trump initiated when she was in the Senate. | ||
| She signed as a co-sponsor, the Green New Deal. | ||
| And she said under no uncertain terms, she would ban fracking. | ||
| And the truth of the matter is, the innovation associated with fracking on first state and private lands, and then federal lands, is what drove the energy revolution that we saw from the mid 2000s until today. | ||
| And it's what drove tremendous economic growth. | ||
| Now, for the next 82 days, she'll probably say, hey, I'm much more moderate on these issues. | ||
| But here's the thing. | ||
| Both she and President Trump have specific track records, have specific visions, and have specific outcomes. | ||
| And the contrast simply could not be greater. | ||
| In terms of one, delivering higher energy and gasoline prices for the American people, and another, actually delivering savings, substantial savings over his tenure. | ||
| And I think that's what we ought to be focused on. | ||
| You said something that's really important about fracking, that it was an innovation. | ||
| People, particularly younger folks, don't understand that fracking didn't exist. | ||
| And just as a little personal history, I actually got my start Back at Harvard on the policy issue, when after the oil embargo in the 70s, we were basically exposed to threats from Saudi Arabia, the OPEC cartel, and the first job I was ever given as a doctoral student was to figure out how to reduce our oil import dependence | ||
| And thereby reduce our social security threat. | ||
| And here's the punchline. | ||
| Never, ever did I ever dream at that point in time that we would be able to be strategically energy dominant. | ||
| It was like that would have been a fantasy if I had said that. | ||
| If I got up and say, yeah, we could do that, I would have been laughed out of Harvard. | ||
| They probably would never have given me a friggin degree. | ||
| So, the fracking thing is a really big deal. | ||
| I want to come to that in the next segment we're going to do, but I want to finish up and turn the floor back to you for the next 60 to 90 seconds. | ||
| How much oil comes from federal leasing in terms of the whole of the United States? | ||
| How important is federal leasing, sir? | ||
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Well, federal leasing represents, depending on the time, Over, you know, 20 to 24% of the oil produced in the United States. | |
| And that's a very big, very big number. | ||
| And then when you take, when you take and recognize that, you know, under Trump's vision, there'd be additional leasing, which means that that percentage would go up over time. | ||
| That's a very important component. | ||
| And it's a critical component when you look at the development of our national security, our economic opportunity, and it also allows communities to thrive that may not have other resources. | ||
| And I think that that's something to really be cognizant of. | ||
| There are communities throughout the West That depend on the development, the responsible development of natural resources for their hopes, their futures and their dreams. | ||
| And having the ability to move forward with projects is very important to those communities and those people. | ||
| And we can't forget that as we think about these lands. | ||
| All right, sir. | ||
| When we come back, we are going to delve into the world of fracking in a little bit more detail. | ||
| I'm with former Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt. | ||
| He's one of the co-authors of the New MAGA Deal at NewMAGADeal.com. | ||
| I'm Peter Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| you are in the war room where truth is power. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann Thanks for watching. | ||
| Hey, Peter Knavarian for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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| All right, let's get back to the business of Kamala Harris's ban on fracking. | ||
| We've got the former Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt under President Donald Trump. | ||
| And let me make a statement here and you see if you agree with this. | ||
| The bulk of fracking is done in the state of Pennsylvania. | ||
| When Kamala Harris banned fracking, it's a direct attack On the state of Pennsylvania. | ||
| It's not surprising that she wants to back away from that, given that Pennsylvania may well determine the outcome of the election. | ||
| But fracking is critical to the economic and national security of this country. | ||
| Secretary Bernard, tell us what fracking is and am I right or wrong? | ||
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Well, first off, you're absolutely right. | |
| From a political perspective, Pennsylvania is key for energy development, and it happens to be key for the presidential election. | ||
| The truth of the matter is the innovation of fracking unleashed the unleashed energy resources In Texas, in the Permian, in New Mexico, and then obviously throughout Appalachia and even in areas like North Dakota. | ||
| But from a political reality, Pennsylvania, given its importance politically, is absolutely central, in my opinion, to her newfound thinking. | ||
| But essentially what fracking does is allow for an opportunity for resource extraction to be done at a higher, a greater utilization by | ||
| creating fissures in the underground resource that allow for greater extraction of natural gas | ||
| or oil. | ||
| And as a consequence to that, we have seen a dramatic increase in our ability to develop | ||
| these critical natural resources. | ||
| And that is what led to the energy revolution that we've seen. | ||
| That's what's under lighted. | ||
| And as a consequence to that, there's a longstanding effort by the environmental community To move to concepts called basically keep it in the ground to prevent fossil fuel development. | ||
| And she is from a line of thinking. | ||
| Her entire political history is aligned with this notion that the critical resources we have should not be utilized for the greater good of our country. | ||
| I mean, that's been her position throughout her political career. | ||
| And so recently she's claimed that she's seen the light and she no longer supports a ban according to her campaign staff. | ||
| But what that doesn't tell you is what is she actually for? | ||
| In the earlier segment, Peter, you mentioned your experience at Harvard and the thought that there might be an innovation for greater national security through the invention of fracking. | ||
| Well, I actually was in the White House in the Bush administration, and I can tell you, at one point, the gasoline hit $4 a gallon. | ||
| And everybody was looking around saying, what are we going to do? | ||
| And at that time, Alan Greenspan's view of the future of energy was wall-to-wall LNG import facilities on both coasts. | ||
| And that was the future of our energy in theory. | ||
| But at that time, at that moment in time, Innovators were developing enterpreneur entrepreneurs were developing this new technology that would dramatically change our energy policy picture. | ||
| And what President Trump did. | ||
| is took that innovation and began to apply it on federal lands to blossom our energy portfolio. | ||
| And what Biden and Harris have done is taken that future and they're trying to constrict it, | ||
| constrain it, limit it, and they're just getting started. | ||
| Yeah, and it's an innovation that nobody really saw coming. | ||
| And... | ||
| And what you're saying is that the federal government has a tremendous power to implement the policy Of energy development, that it has a real material effect on world prices and therefore down the road, consumer prices and the welfare of basic Americans. | ||
| And when you say she repeatedly, we're talking about Kamala Harris from the Californication state of California. | ||
| And that's her DNA. | ||
| You can't advance in the state of California unless you're adamantly opposed to things like fracking and even just basic, standard, traditional oil development. | ||
| That's who she is. | ||
| So our job is to expose her hypocrisy. | ||
| Last question. | ||
| In terms of the Keystone pipeline, And I think we're going to have to carry this over just to the start of the next hour. | ||
| But I want to get your quick take on what the Keystone Pipeline means and why we have this repeated battle. | ||
| And one of the first things I did in the White House, David, literally, was help write an executive order to get the Keystone Pipeline not only going, but to be built with U.S. | ||
| produced Iron and steel. | ||
| That was one of the coolest things we did in the first week when we were in office. | ||
| So when we come back, let's spend a few minutes on that, and then we'll let you go fight the battle out there. | ||
| But David Bernhardt, co-author of The New MAGA Deal, newmagadeal.com. | ||
| I'm Peter K. Navarro in the War Room for Stephen K. Bannon. |
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