Aug. 21, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | ||
| And I'm Stephen K. Bamm. | ||
| the news. We'll have more on that in just a few minutes. But | ||
| It's the dog that didn't bark for the first two days of the DNC convention. | ||
| What was that dog that didn't bark? | ||
| Foreign policy. | ||
| Not one mention of Gaza, Ukraine, Russia. | ||
| They had five Jewish Americans on last night and they weren't even allowed to say Israel. | ||
| I am delighted to have one of the great minds of the Trump administration with us this morning, Rick Grenell on foreign policy. | ||
| Before we get started, though, Rick did a beautiful chapter in my book, The New MAGA Deal, newmagadeal.com. | ||
| You can check it out. | ||
| But what I want to do to introduce Rick, because this is just pure Pure Trump poetry is just read briefly this passage real quick about the Trump America first policy doctrine. | ||
| So the Trump America first doctrine forces policymakers to be clear eyed to see the world as it is, not as they think. | ||
| It ought to be. | ||
| When our rhetoric surpasses our resources, when our policy exceeds our capabilities, when our expectations cloud our judgment, and when our desire to remake the world overtakes our duty to the American voter, that is when you get pointless and costly wars. | ||
| That is when you send America's sons and daughters into harm's way without a plan for what comes next. | ||
| That is when you make disastrous trade deals and sign dangerous nuclear agreements. | ||
| Is when you get massive inequality and a divided society. | ||
| That is when you get an immoral foreign policy. | ||
| And that is Rick Grinnell at his absolutely most eloquent. | ||
| Let's see if we can bring my brother Rick in. | ||
| That's, Rick, that's pure poetry, my friend. | ||
| You outdid yourself on that. | ||
| What I wanted to do with you this morning, Well, thanks for having me, Peter. | ||
| is to talk broadly about the American First Policy Doctrine, which you were, along with | ||
| the president and the architect of, and then just work through the hot spots of the world | ||
| and get your take on the difference between Kamala and Donald Trump on these things. | ||
| So welcome, sir, to the War Room. | ||
| Tell us about the Trump American First Doctrine first, brother. | ||
| Well, thanks for having me, Peter. | ||
| So great to see you thriving and fighting. | ||
| We really appreciate everything that you've done for this movement. | ||
| I'm glad you read that passage, and I'm glad that you reached out and asked me to write | ||
| this because I do think that the media misses the intellectualism of America first. | ||
| They dismiss us as, you know, not well thought out and kind of a selfish foreign policy. | ||
| And I think it's quite the opposite. | ||
| When America puts itself first, the entire world benefits. | ||
| And I speak to world leaders pretty regularly. | ||
| I just got back from a eight day trip and saw several world leaders. | ||
| And the reality is, is that they will tell us That the world was much better off when Donald Trump was in office because the rule of law was established. | ||
| You had a respect for democracy, capitalism, all of those global rules. | ||
| When America puts itself first, everyone else benefits. | ||
| And we need a rules-based system that is not based on selfish exploits. | ||
| The United States of America does not go out and conquer other nations. | ||
| One part of that passage that I think is the most poignant is talking about our rhetoric versus our resources. | ||
| When Washington, D.C. | ||
| becomes bloviating about what the world should be, And we don't have the capabilities to do a long and sustained effort and strategy to make that a reality, then we're duping the American people. | ||
| We have a $35 trillion national debt, and we're talking about two more wars under the Kamala Harris-Joe Biden regime. | ||
| Europe right now is on fire with a war. | ||
| The Middle East is on fire. | ||
| And I can paint both of these wars directly back to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. | ||
| First, in Ukraine, a lot of people talk about Putin watching Afghanistan roll out as a disaster. | ||
| And part of the reason that he decided that Putin decided to go into Ukraine. | ||
| I actually think it was much earlier than that. | ||
| We in the Trump administration decided to put sanctions on Putin's pipeline, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. | ||
| This was Donald Trump's vision. | ||
| I saw President Trump and Chancellor Merkel talk about this issue. | ||
| President Trump was very forceful to say this Russian pipeline into Europe is a really bad idea, Chancellor. | ||
| And she defended it by saying, well, Donald, you don't understand Germany's relationship with Russia. | ||
| We can control Russia. | ||
| So she lobbied us to drop the sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 Putin pipeline. | ||
| We said no. | ||
| When Biden came in, she lobbied Biden and Biden said yes. | ||
| And the Senate Democrats dropped the sanctions on Putin's pipeline. | ||
| That was the moment where President Putin said, you know what? | ||
| I can go back in. | ||
| This crowd is really weak. | ||
| And that's when he started planning. | ||
| I think Afghanistan was the second point to show Putin just how weak this team was. | ||
| If you go back, and I keep trying to get reporters to go back and look at the Senate Democrats on the Senate floor talking about dropping the Nord Stream 2 sanctions, it's frightening their analysis. | ||
| They say, we must drop the sanctions on Putin Because otherwise there's going to be a war. | ||
| We're going to stick it in his eye. | ||
| This is something that doesn't need to happen because this pipeline is almost done anyway and it's going to be done. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| The Wall Street Journal reported that the Ukrainians blew up the pipeline. | ||
| I don't think it's too much to say that the first act of war was from Ukraine by blowing up the pipeline. | ||
| And we see the Europeans, headed by Chancellor Merkel, Who completely misjudged the Russians and the Russian strategy and Putin's offense. | ||
| You ask yourself, why did Putin invade under Donald Trump? | ||
| Because he realizes that there is a credible threat from Donald Trump. | ||
| Maybe not just military action, but certainly sanctions, tariffs, ruining of the economy. | ||
| Donald Trump is very credible on these issues. | ||
| Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not credible. | ||
| And that's why Putin endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for re-election when he said, very specifically, I want predictability from the Americans. | ||
| This team is predictable. | ||
| Now, the media are ignoring that. | ||
| They're not reporting that. | ||
| But the reality, too, is that Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have not spoken In more than three years, we have an unfolding massive war in Europe, billions and billions of dollars of American taxpayer money going to this war. | ||
| And Joe Biden hasn't picked up the phone to talk to Vladimir Putin. | ||
| Talking is a tactic, Peter. | ||
| It's not the goal, but it is a tactic to get to peace. | ||
| And you mentioned this idea of a stable policy that Putin wants. | ||
| Uncertainty heightens risk, and risk will deter folks like Putin. | ||
| I think that's the central idea. | ||
| The Communist Chinese love that in their policy. | ||
| They love to have us not know exactly what they're doing in the South China Sea, and that keeps us back. | ||
| knows that Biden's very particular. But Rick, you mentioned Afghanistan just in passing. | ||
| Can you just go over, recall exactly the disaster that was Afghanistan that sent the weak signal | ||
| to Putin? Look, I was inside the Oval Office many times when President Trump was very frustrated | ||
| that we weren't going fast enough winding down Afghanistan troops. And it was clear he wanted it | ||
| to come to an end. And he was pushing the Pentagon. | ||
| But you know, Peter, you know this about President Trump. | ||
| When generals on the ground They would forcefully push back and say, we get your goal, Mr. President, and we're achieving it and we're going in that direction. | ||
| But right now, we can't go too fast because of the safety concerns and the collapse. | ||
| And so they would push back on President Trump and say, go, we have to go a little slower. | ||
| We're getting there. | ||
| President Trump was very annoyed with the pace. | ||
| He wanted it to go faster. | ||
| But here's the clincher. | ||
| He listened to the people on the ground who said, slow down, take it down and keep going down every couple of months. | ||
| But let's do it in a controlled way. | ||
| And President Trump agreed with that advice and that pushback. | ||
| Joe Biden didn't. | ||
| Joe Biden heard from the same generals to say, slow down. | ||
| And he said, no, I want to be out by 9-11 for a political ribbon cutting ceremony. | ||
| He didn't listen to those on the ground. | ||
| He instead let politics go overboard and determine our Middle East policy. | ||
| We have people who are concerned about Michigan, Pennsylvania on the Democratic side, the campaign officials. | ||
| who are determining foreign policy right now, because that's how they stay in power. | ||
| And it's really a terrible thing. And it's something that President Trump never did. | ||
| Rick, when you were in with the president, was there ever any discussion | ||
| to abandon Bagram Air Force Base? | ||
| It seems to me that there were two catastrophes with the withdrawal from Afghanistan. | ||
| It was the butchery of American troops. | ||
| I mean, it was just so horrible what happened. | ||
| But strategically, to allow Bagram To fall into the hands of those folks? | ||
| I mean, talk to me without violating your security clearance. | ||
| I mean, was that ever discussed? | ||
| I mean, come on. | ||
| Look, President Trump was very clear about what needed to happen. | ||
| I heard him say, we need to get all of the equipment out. | ||
| And if we can't get the equipment out, then we should disable it or destroy it. | ||
| Because we're not going to leave it behind for the Taliban and others to take it or sell it or use it. | ||
| And President Trump was so detailed on this issue. | ||
| I remember him in the Oval Office talking about the large tents that we bought and purchased. | ||
| He knew exactly what those tents cost, and he knew exactly what they looked like. | ||
| And he said, those are very useful tents. | ||
| Bring them home. | ||
| But they weren't really tents, they were like buildings. | ||
| And so he could get very specific about the base, about the landing strip that we built, and if we couldn't take it back or hold it, then it should be destroyed so that it could not be used. | ||
| He was very clear. | ||
| I mean, to give them all of that equipment and one of the best landing strips in the world, it seems just quintessential of buying Paris. | ||
| And what's frightening to me, Rick, about Harris is I can't think of a single presidential candidate, a major presidential candidate, who has less foreign policy experience than Kamala Harris. | ||
| I mean, it defies the imagination. | ||
| And the only world leader she seems to have any relationship with is Benjamin Netanyahu. | ||
| And all she wants to do is insult, insult the guy. | ||
| When we, Rick, when we come back from the break, I want to shift from Putin, Afghanistan, | ||
| Ukraine and get your get your analysis of the Gaza, Israeli, Iran hat trick there that | ||
| threatens us literally with world war at this point because of the weakness of Kamala Harris | ||
| inexperienced in Joe Biden. | ||
| So Rick, stay right there. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| You already in Steve Bannon's war room. | ||
| I am Peter Knavar with the great Rick Grinnell. | ||
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| All right, Rick Grinnell. | ||
| We were talking about Trump first policy doctrine and foreign policy. | ||
| I noted the total absence, the total absence of any discussion of foreign policies in the first two days. | ||
| And five Jewish Americans, including a rabbi, on stage last night and not one mention of Israel. | ||
| Gaza's on fire. | ||
| My view is you can't leave Gaza until all the tunnels are destroyed. | ||
| Iran's shooting missiles at bases that are hosted by the Americans, killing Americans. | ||
| You got Hamas, you got Hezbollah. | ||
| What would be different under Trump? | ||
| What is Biden-Harris doing wrong, sir? | ||
| Well, look, this is day 319 of having Americans held hostage in Gaza and all this administration between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris can talk about. | ||
| is a ceasefire. | ||
| Now look, a ceasefire is an admission that you had a war, that you failed to keep the peace that Donald Trump handed you. | ||
| And so I say to my Arab American friends in Michigan and in Arizona, where we're really trying to push Donald Trump, I say to them, you know, you have to remember two things, and we have these top two messages, Peter, that we say to the evangelicals in America, to the pro-Israel Jewish Americans in America, and to Arab Americans throughout this country. | ||
| We say the same two talking points. | ||
| Unlike the Democrats who have to change their talking points according to who they're talking to. | ||
| But our two points that President Trump is very proud of are simple. | ||
| One is you would not have war, you'd have more Arab-Israeli peace agreements under Donald Trump. | ||
| And two, what do you expect when you fund Iran? | ||
| We had Iran squeezed. | ||
| We had Iran isolated. | ||
| And make no mistake, the Democrats thought that we were being too harsh on Iran. | ||
| They mocked President Trump. | ||
| They mocked me. | ||
| The media mocked us for going out front and saying that no company should be doing business with Iran. | ||
| We were squeezing them. | ||
| We were bankrupting them. | ||
| We were isolating them. | ||
| We were making them a pariah of the international community. | ||
| With lots of pushback from Democrats to say we were mean spirited, but guess what? | ||
| It worked. | ||
| We were able to deny Iran the funding that they needed to launch any wars. | ||
| Joe Biden came in. | ||
| And one of the first things he did was try to get us back into the Iran deal. | ||
| He got rid of the Trump sanctions on Iran. | ||
| He gave them cash and credit. | ||
| So when you combine the sanctions relief, the cash and the credit, it's hundreds of billions of dollars given to the Islamic regime in Tehran. | ||
| What do you expect? | ||
| What did they do with that money? | ||
| Every basic foreign policy person would tell you that they would fund the Houthis, they would fund Hamas, and they would fund Hezbollah. | ||
| They did all three. | ||
| And they created the funding mechanism to launch October 7. | ||
| So now we find ourselves 319 days later, Anthony Blinken has completely been shoved off the stage. | ||
| He can't come up with a peace deal to save his life. | ||
| Kamala Harris barely knows where the Middle East is. | ||
| And Joe Biden is asleep. | ||
| We literally have no one pushing peace deals. | ||
| And the only thing that the media will ask a politician right now is, are you for more funding for the war? | ||
| Or are you not for more funding the war? | ||
| It's all war talk. | ||
| In Washington D.C. | ||
| It's war, more war, more funding for war. | ||
| I think that it's outrageous. | ||
| We need to have a peace agreement and you need to have the State Department at the table, not just the Pentagon. | ||
| See, the genius here, Posse, of Rick Grinnell, is he's identified the root source of the problem. | ||
| It's Iran as the poison that provides the funding and the weapons, and run them through, it's Hamas in Gaza, it's Hezbollah in Lebanon, it's the Houthis in Yemen, all engaged in the destruction Of Israel and attacks on American military personnel. | ||
| And Rick, for the life of me, I've never understood kind of the John Kerry, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden mentality of cozying up to Iran. | ||
| I mean, I'm old enough to remember Jimmy Carter and the embassy and the first hostages that Iran took. | ||
| What is the pulse in the Democrat Party? | ||
| Are they simply trying to kowtow and cater to an Arab community that I think you rightly said would be much more Well, it's a naive belief that somehow Barack Obama's words are going to change the radical regime in Tehran. | ||
| Let's go back to a couple of things. | ||
| on with these people? How is Iran, how do we, the US government, give billions to them? | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| Well, it's a naive belief that somehow Barack Obama's words are going to change the radical | ||
| regime in Tehran. Let's go back to a couple of things. One, it's the rhetoric over the | ||
| resources. | ||
| And this is a lofty rhetoric of believing that somehow we can convince people through our words. | ||
| This stems from Barack Obama. | ||
| What you did not hear from Barack Obama last night is any analysis or apology about his cozying up to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. | ||
| Much of our problems in the Middle East resulted around Barack Obama's failure in Egypt, And then his cozying up to Bashar al-Assad in Syria. | ||
| Remember, it was Assad in Syria who started to gas his people and the world saw it. | ||
| The UN even issued a report saying, yep, Assad gassed his own people. | ||
| He used chemical weapons on his own people. | ||
| Barack Obama beat his chest and said, if we found proof, then we would stop that. | ||
| That's the red line that he would cross and we would act. | ||
| There were multiple reports showing that Assad did it. | ||
| The UN six months later issued a report, as I said. | ||
| The UN coming around way later to say, yep, he did it. | ||
| And still Barack Obama didn't do anything. | ||
| Do you know that Assad is still in power in Syria? | ||
| And between the Russians who are all over Syria and the Iranians all over Syria, we have another failed country that we don't talk about enough, and that directly is at the feet of Barack Obama. | ||
| Now you add the Obama-Biden-Harris belief that Iran can be talked out of a nuclear weapon, and it's total naivete. | ||
| It is a disaster. | ||
| But we don't have an interested media, national security reporters in Washington, DC, just regurgitate what the left says. | ||
| And they're not skeptical enough to say, wow, you look at Egypt, you look at Syria, you look at Iran, and this didn't work. | ||
| This whole naive theory From Obama to Biden to Kamala Harris, this is the woke left and they are making us left less safe. | ||
| That's why we have multiple wars. | ||
| And I'd be remiss here not pointing out that when we have all of these multiple wars, it does come home to roost in the sense of if we look at our border crisis, which Kamala Harris refused to do anything about, a lot of the flow coming over Across our southern border and sometimes our northern border is refugees from the wars that Kamala and Joe started. | ||
| And I'm wondering how we should handle that. | ||
| I mean, am I wrong about that? | ||
| Europe's got the same problem. | ||
| They're taking all the refugees and it's creating instability in Europe. | ||
| It's creating terrorist threats here. | ||
| Thoughts? | ||
| Well, first of all, the EU, the European Union, became smaller and less powerful because they couldn't deal with their immigration crisis. | ||
| Chancellor Merkel lost her job, and the British said, we're out of the EU because she couldn't come up with a rules-based system. | ||
| Her rhetoric became bigger than her resources. | ||
| And that's a real problem. | ||
| Europe is still suffering over that. | ||
| We should learn the lessons of Brexit and a smaller, less powerful EU simply because they couldn't get a handle around immigration. | ||
| I think that we're in a crisis here, but I can also bring it down to the American people a little bit differently. | ||
| When you spend billions of dollars for other people's borders and wars overseas, you then therefore do not have money to take care of the veterans or to give money to schools that are in need of repair. | ||
| Or to invest in healthcare, technology, all of the things that make us a great country, we aren't able to invest in at the proper levels simply because we're sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and to fight for you. | ||
| Okay, we will be right back with Rick Rennell. | ||
| We're going to go to one other part of the globe that Kamala Harris knows nothing about and Joe Biden's screwing up. | ||
| That would be the South China Sea in Communist China. | ||
| Peter Navarro in with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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| Hey, Peter K. Navarro here in the War Room with Rick Grinnell. | ||
| He does a beautiful chapter in The New Magadheel, newmagadheel.com. | ||
| To me, it was one of the keystone chapters of the book because it lays out in just really beautiful detail the America First foreign policy doctrine. | ||
| We've gone from Russia, Ukraine to Gaza, Iran. | ||
| Now let's finish up, Rick. | ||
| We've got communist China building missiles, boats, carriers, subs, threatening Taiwan. | ||
| What's your take on the current state of play in the South China Sea and how the inexperience of Kamala Harris and the mistakes of Biden have encouraged the communist Chinese like Russia? | ||
| You know, Peter, I know you know this, but I spent eight years inside the UN Security Council at the UN as the top political advisor to four different ambassadors. | ||
| And if you think about eight years at the UN, where there's 193 countries maneuvering and you cover every single foreign policy issue, my eight years taught me a whole bunch. | ||
| And one thing that I learned is that the mistake of the US foreign policy is when you allow Russia and China to come together. | ||
| And the basics are that they don't like each other. | ||
| They don't have the same negotiating styles. | ||
| They don't maximize the same things. | ||
| And so we have to be very strategic about making sure that Russia and China are not collaborating together against the West, against the United States. | ||
| And this to me is one of the fundamental flaws They just don't understand the basics of how to do that. | ||
| Jake Sullivan is really good as an academic and a thinker, but he's terrible at actually doing practical foreign policy. | ||
| He's crippled when there's different actions on the ground that he didn't anticipate in his white paper. | ||
| And so I don't think we should ever have an academic to be a national security advisor ever again. | ||
| It's been a disaster. | ||
| And for the China portfolio, this has never been more clear. | ||
| China loves the fact that we are out distracted by a war in the Middle East and a war in Europe. | ||
| Meanwhile, they're out doing exactly what they want to do. | ||
| And it's all about the economy. | ||
| It's growing their economy. | ||
| They've got the Germans over a barrel with cars. | ||
| They continue on their supply chain takeover. | ||
| And they're threatening Taiwan. | ||
| And there's not much that this Biden-Harris-Blinken team is doing about it because they're so distracted. | ||
| And so what we need to do is we need to have Donald Trump come back and give them some competition. | ||
| You were a huge part of making sure that China felt the competition. | ||
| And for me, that means continuing on the path of befriending and having better policies with India. | ||
| I would put Turkey in there, a NATO ally since 1952. | ||
| We need to have better economic relations with Turkey, which will only help us really blunt what's happening with the Chinese. | ||
| I'd also put the Philippines in there, Indonesia. | ||
| Singapore. | ||
| There are many countries that we can grow our relations with, grow our trade policy with, that will also put the Chinese back on their feet. | ||
| And lastly, I think we just got to think strategically about why we let the Chinese into the WTO more than 20 years ago. | ||
| We thought Bill Clinton's articulation was that if we let the Chinese into the WTO, that they would move closer to a Western belief on democracy, capitalism and human rights. | ||
| And by all practical purposes, it's gotten worse. | ||
| Ever since we allowed the Chinese into the WTO, the situation in China has gotten worse. | ||
| And let me just finish with one thought, is that the Chinese have a real problem with the poor people in China and the middle class. | ||
| They don't have enough information. | ||
| The middle class, I call the Beijing soccer moms, They don't have enough information about what their government is actually doing to their children. | ||
| For instance, with terrible environmental laws, many children have asthma. | ||
| And if the soccer moms in Beijing realize that their child has asthma because of poor environmental laws, they're going to get angry. | ||
| So we need to have an information war to really bring down this idea that the Chinese are | ||
| controlling information to their people. | ||
| And we need to pressure the United Nations that they can't be allowing the Chinese to | ||
| pretend that they're a global power with a veto at the Security Council while also at | ||
| the same time leading the G77 countries as developing nations. | ||
| and taking money from UNICEF and World Food Program and other UN programs because they're a developing nation. | ||
| They're playing us. | ||
| They're a superpower and they're a developing nation. | ||
| They're getting money from the UN while also vetoing any policies at the UN. | ||
| It's unacceptable and we have to do a better job. | ||
| And Rick, one of those frightening things I ever saw, I went over to Geneva during the administration | ||
| to negotiate a new postal agreement basically that stopped us from giving a bunch of money to China | ||
| at subsidizing and posterize. | ||
| It was very helpful, but what was frightening was how big a mission they have In Geneva for the World WTO, first of all, but also all these United Nations organizations, they basically now control. | ||
| I mean, and we don't do any of that kind of soft power stuff. | ||
| The last thing just in a minute. | ||
| Can you explain your comment about Germany being over a barrel on cars just so people understand that relationship? | ||
| I think because that's an important one. | ||
| Well, just real quickly, when you and President Trump were squeezing China and trying to bring the world together to squeeze them, if you remember, Chancellor Merkel had announced that she was going to take 10 CEOs from Germany over to Beijing to sign agreements. | ||
| Most of those were car companies. | ||
| to expand. I pushed Chancellor Merkel to say now is not the time for our ally Germany to be going | ||
| around our strategy of squeezing China. The world is starting to squeeze China. Why are you going in | ||
| and signing deals? And you know what her response was to me? | ||
| But Ambassador, we've planned this trip for more than a year. That was your trip. | ||
| I mean, you know the German way. | ||
| Once we plan something, we can't go off. | ||
| It's already planned. | ||
| I'll leave you with a funny story. | ||
| I was in the East Wing when Merkel showed up for a dinner and I was invited to the thing and she's walking down with Trump past all of us and Trump points out, points to me and goes, yeah, that's Peter Navarro. | ||
| And she went. | ||
| Like this. | ||
| She didn't like our trade policies, I think was the point. | ||
| Rick, you are a patriot, you're a great American hero, and your kind of expertise is what we need in 2025 and what we don't have with Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Blinken, Jake Sullivan, And the clown show otherwise known as that administration. | ||
| And it was interesting to me to see on the stage Barack Obama, Bill Clinton. | ||
| I mean, these are people who got us into all the endless wars and the mess and Bill Clinton got us into the WTO. | ||
| There's no institutional memory. | ||
| It's our job to remind people about that. | ||
| Rick, safe travels, brother. | ||
| You're doing the Lord's work, and we appreciate that. | ||
| And thanks again for your contribution in the new MAGA deal, brother. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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| That's Rick Grinnell. | ||
| You take care, man. | ||
| Boy, unpack that! | ||
| In fact, if you got that podcast thing up there for me, Control Room, I want you to put that graphic up now. | ||
| What we need to do, War Room Posse, is to, when you don't have time to Watch the show live. | ||
| Obviously, you can get it on Memorex, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts. | ||
| We're going to show you how to do that in this show. | ||
| And we're going to have a graphic, a way you can scan it. | ||
| And I'm stalling here a little bit, hoping Denver gets that up. | ||
| I kind of threw them at it. | ||
| We'll get it up later if they don't. | ||
| But the point is that I need everyone to go And go to Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts, find Steve Bannon's War Room, make it one of your favorite shows, download the app and get it on a regular basis. | ||
| So if you miss the War Room live, there it is right now. | ||
| Download War Room now on Apple Podcasts. | ||
| You can scan that and stuff like that. | ||
| What's important here, like, look, this is what we do here on The War Room. | ||
| I keep that scan up. | ||
| We give clinics information. | ||
| We take deep dives. | ||
| And what Rick Grinnell just did in about 40 minutes for The War Room is offer you a doctoral seminar On the problems in foreign policy that have been created through Kamala Harris's total inexperience and Joe Biden's incompetence. | ||
| And he's given you a window in the world of how. | ||
| So here's an assignment. | ||
| Put that that graphic back up, please. | ||
| I want you to go to. | ||
| Apple podcast get the graphic back up coat and once you go to Apple podcast and if you're not getting that Download it and We'll get that done If I give you a little bit of what the rest of the show is going to look like at the top of the hour at 11, we are going to have breaking news poll results. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Download the War Room now on Apple Podcasts. | ||
| that little scanner thing, you can do it with your PDF, your Apple phone or whatever. | ||
| And again, get this thing as one of your favorite shows and have it downloaded every day. | ||
| And I would really appreciate it if you went and looked at what Rick Grinnell said | ||
| and share it with some of your friends. | ||
| What we're gonna do at the top of the hour is we're gonna have Fresh. | ||
| And I'm talking Fresh right off the telephone. | ||
| Survey results from Rasmussen and Mark Mitchell. | ||
| And we're gonna go, we're gonna take our time doing this because there's a lot to unpack in the crosstabs. | ||
| We're going to go through the battleground states. | ||
| Particularly Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and see what the matchup is in a Harris-Trump race, and then what happens when you throw Bobby Kennedy in the mix. | ||
| Bobby Jr., if you're listening, brother. | ||
| This is the time now to drop out of the race and endorse Trump. | ||
| It's the smart thing to do for this country. | ||
| Regrettably, you're... | ||
| In your view, your campaign just didn't get traction. | ||
| You made some serious mistakes early on and not getting on the ballot as much as possible because you got so much opposition from the Democrats, not Trump. | ||
| Trump never got in your way. | ||
| And I think you know as well as I, and I think you've said it, that your father and your uncle ...would literally be rolling over in their grave looking at the policies of the current Democrat Party. | ||
| So come on home, Bobby. | ||
| This is Navarro in the War Room. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| And top of the hour, you'll be right here for RAS Mission polling results. | ||
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| We want to make sure people get to where they need to go. | ||
| All right. | ||
| In a few minutes, we're going to have breaking polling news from the great Mark Mitchell at Rasmussen Reports. | ||
| You say Rasmussen, I say Rasmussen. | ||
| What's interesting about Rasmussen reports is that it's one of the most accurate polling groups that are out there. | ||
| Yet it has been removed from some of the polling aggregates precisely because it is accurate. | ||
| And we'll talk a little bit with Mark about that. | ||
| But mostly what we're going to go do is go through all the battlegrounds. | ||
| And it's a tight race. | ||
| Spoiler alert. | ||
| We know that. | ||
| We know that as soon as Biden dropped out, Whoever. | ||
| I mean, it could have been the corpse in like the Bernie's movie. | ||
| Remember that one coming in and numbers would have went up because Joe was was nearly dead as well and feckless and incompetent. | ||
| So that's a that's a hard parlay to try to get reelected with. | ||
| So, well, what was interesting to me So far about the Democrat National Convention, I was at the Republican National Convention and we had I think a lot of people on stage, including the vice president candidate and the president himself, talking a lot about how specifically a Donald Trump | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance, Vice President, President Combo, could improve the lives of the American people at a time when we're suffering from an inflationary crisis which has spawned housing Crisis, a border crisis, which is bearing down on wages, bringing terrorists and all that stuff. | ||
| I mean, you know, you know the drill. | ||
| We've also got particularly in our major cities and related in part to the border crisis. | ||
| A crime crisis because of people like Kamala Harris who want to defund the police and decriminalize illegal immigration and raise money for protests. | ||
| I mean, I can't believe Kamala, I can't believe we have a ticket on the Democrat side where the vice president nominee, Tim Walz, and he's more of a polka to me. | ||
| Tim Walz, when Minneapolis was burning, refused to send a National Guard, and the people who were burning it, Kamala Harris, was urging to get Remove from any jail and to raise money for so they could keep burning Minneapolis. | ||
| I mean, you can't, you can't make that up. | ||
| But the point is, we got a crime crisis, a border crisis, an economic crisis. | ||
| You're not hearing any of that. | ||
| Are we celebrating eight years of Barack Obama? | ||
| I mean, economically, that was like Death Valley. | ||
| It was like they had to create a new term in economics, the new normal, to describe a world in which our economy was more like a flatline growth rate. | ||
| And Bill Clinton gets up there, and he was the guy in 2001 who had welcomed China into the World Trade Organization and created five million jobs destroyed in the Midwest and untold damage and turned China into the military powerhouse it is, running rampant around the world. | ||
| I mean, you look at that stage. | ||
| And Hillary, she gets on there and you just hate her. | ||
| I mean, that's her legacy. | ||
| You look at Hillary, and if you're a Democrat or a Republican, you just hate her. | ||
| And Michelle, look, everybody on the Democrat side seems to like Michelle, but at the end of the day, there's this undercurrent of racism there that comes out of that girl. | ||
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| I'd love to hear some policy tonight on that stage. | ||
| How are they going to fix things? | ||
| What's the over-under on that? | ||
| Is Duque Navarro back? |
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