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Episode 3870: China Ties And Walz Lies

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unidentified		Now I happen to be and understand a little about China and lived in China and speak Chinese.
		I'm pretty friendly with China.
		I lived in China and as I said I've been there about 30 times but if someone tells you that they're an expert on China they're probably not telling you the truth because it's a complex country.
		But it's critically important for us.
		I don't fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship.
		I totally disagree and I think we need to stand firm on what they're doing in the South China Sea.
		But there's many areas of cooperation that we can work on.
		And when I was in China this past November, I got to have supper with their agricultural minister and talked about the issues.
		And some of the issues that were facing him were the same things facing us.
		GMO labeling, some of the issues for lower commodity prices as land prices rose.
		And I think it's critically important, and I think that is an overlap, why that's a human rights focused commission.
		It has opened I think channels of collaboration that I've been able to talk to the Chinese because when we're on the same I am, uh, I'm certainly honored to have been there and to see the spirit of the Chinese people about trying to, uh, very proud of their country, but understanding that freedom needs to needs to shine.
		Neiman Hama, Governor Tim Walz here.
		Happy Chinese New Year.
		This spring festival is a time to welcome and celebrate the new year with a smile and let the fortune and happiness continue.
		Please remember to practice social distancing and wear a mask as you celebrate.
		Gong Hei Fat Soi!
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unidentified		Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified		War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		Peter K. Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon.
		This morning we're going to meet Tiananmen Tim Walz, our Manchurian VP candidate.
		But before we get into that, I want to give you a preview of the show.
		Next segment I'm going to have a young man come on, Adam Milan, who is really one of the rising analysts and journalists, particularly on communist China.
		He'll be with us in the bottom of the hour.
		One of my great naval war heroes, Jim Finnell, will come in and talk about a huge misstep by the Biden-Harris regime with respect to allowing Thailand to basically get into the communist Chinese orbit.
		But most importantly, I think today as we go into Labor Day, I'm going to Analyze a story which the legacy media, I think, on purpose, particularly, did not focus on.
		And it's about our brother Steve Bannon, who filed an important motion in the court this week for his release.
		Based on my read of that chessboard, I do predict right now that Steve Bannon will be out of prison.
		In time to sit in this chair in the war room for what should be, if things go well, at least a month and maybe more before the actual election.
		They've been keeping Steve prisoner For no other reason than to silence him and prevent the greatest mind in political strategy, he proved that during the 26th election, from participating in this 2024 presidential election.
		You have to remember here the election interference that's going on The Biden's Department of Injustice is not just about trying to put Donald Trump in prison, stain him with the stink of so-called convicted felon, divert his money, literally hundreds of millions of dollars away from the campaign into legal issues, or divert hundreds of his hours.
		In my case, it was to try to intimidate people who would otherwise serve President Trump.
		As you know, I served four months in a Biden-Harris prison for simply defending the Constitution.
		But Steve's case is, I think, the purest example of silencing a political opponent for partisan ends.
		And next hour, I'm going to get into the weeds of the motion that Steve Bannon filed and why I believe, based on events which have transpired since Steve was put behind bars, that he should be released.
		So stay tuned for that.
		In the meantime, you saw in the cold open Tim Waltz wax eloquent in many different ways.
		I think there was a huge Freudian slip in that clip.
		And later on in the show, I'm going to ask Denver to replay just that thing in like a triplet thing where Waltz referred to channels of collaboration with the Communist Chinese, not cooperation, not coordination, collaboration.
		Collaboration.
		That's what Tim Walz is.
		He's a collaborator.
		The Manchurian candidate.
		That's a term immortalized by the famous Cold War thriller.
		Maybe you saw the movie, maybe you read the book.
		It was amazing.
		It represents a political figure who is unwittingly brainwashed by a foreign power to undermine his own nation.
		While fiction often mirrors reality in unsettling ways, the story of Kamala Harris's pick for Vice President, Tim Walz, and his kowtowing relationship with Communist China does read like a modern-day remake of that classic book and film.
		If elected, Walz would be the highest-ranking U.S.
		official ever, with such extensive ties to Communist China and the Chinese Communist Party.
		Let's not be naive.
		China's influence operations are real and they are pervasive.
		I wrote extensively about these influence operations in my 2011 book, Death by China, and my 2017 book, Crouching Tiger.
		The Chinese Communist Party has a very long history of using what's called elite capture.
		That's the targeting of influential figures in foreign countries to advance their agenda.
		In its elite capture operations, There are thousands, thousands of operatives run out of Beijing and Shanghai, and the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, uses their honey pots?
		I.e., the Fang Fang seduction of Congressman Eric Swalwell in California.
		Remember that?
		How does Eric Swalwell still serve in Congress after getting, you know, whetted by Fang Fang?
		But it's not just the honeypots.
		With Walz, it was the moneypots.
		And these are the things that shower academics, businessmen, and politicos like Walz with cash, emoluments, and prestigious appointments.
		Tim Walz's Money Pot history with the CCP has a long and checkered history.
		Over three decades, Walz visited China at least 30 times and developed extensive business relationships with Chinese officials.
		When he was teaching in China, Walz built a lucrative business that regularly brought American students to the country on the Chinese dime, or yuan, as the case may have been.
		Not surprisingly, Walz He's famous, famous for, you've seen it, you saw it in the cold open, for lavishing praise on China's authoritarian regime, even as he has called for more cooperation and collaboration.
		Collaboration, Timmy!
		Tiananmen Timmy!
		While criticizing American efforts to hold Beijing accountable.
		Boy, I'd love to have Hannity do something like this.
		I'm gonna send this baby to you.
		As for his gnome-to-gear, Tiananmen Tim, it's shamefully well-deserved.
		When I heard this, like, wow, my head exploded.
		Tim Walz chose the anniversary date of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
		Not to contemn communist Chinese fashion, but to celebrate his wedding day!
		After his nuptials, Mawson, his bride, who was also fed from the money pot of communist China, that's how the two met, a little suck in the Chinese teat, they honeymooned.
		Where'd they go?
unidentified		Not in Hawaii.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		And you can go to Paris.
		They went to Kunming in Yunnan province.
		Ironically, the place where the Flying Tigers flew out of in World War II and liberated what was then a free China.
		Doesn't it seem like the behavior of someone who consciously or not has become a CCP puppet?
		Should we not rightfully fear this Manchurian candidate now embedded within our political system who may well advance Beijing's interests at the highest levels of government?
		Chinese state-run media has certainly given us an answer to those questions.
		It was practically giddy when Harris announced Walz is a running mate.
		China daily columnist Chen Weiwei even questioned whether Walz would be the chosen one to bring
		so-called sanity to US-China relations.
		Of course, that's a euphemism for whether Walz would soften America's stance against
		Chinese economic and military aggression.
		The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, led by Chairman James Comer, has already launched
		a probe into Walz's connections to CCP-linked entities.
		The investigates highlight the very real danger that Walz is being influenced by Beijing,
		his connections to Chinese government officials, his fellowship at a Chinese university closely
		tied to the CCP.
		And here's what freaks me out.
		His willingness to speak alongside leaders of CCP front groups.
		They're all red flags.
		Pun very much intended.
		It's not just Walsh's shared ideology with China of socialism that is so troubling.
		As Walsh once put it, one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.
		Oh really?
		Tell that to Karl Marx.
		Walsh's ties to China also present a clear economic and national security risk.
		As a congressman, Walsh has consistently opposed measures to hold China accountable for its intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, massive dumping, and myriad other forms of economic aggression.
		Most alarmingly, are you listening folks in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan?
		Waltz has opposed the Trump tariffs on Chinese goods, tariffs vital to protecting American industry, steel, aluminum, Detroit, yeah, your auto industry, from Beijing's predatory practices.
		On the national security front, Waltz's reluctance to confront China's aggressive actions in the South China Sea, his tepid response to China's slave labor and human rights abuses, and his dog that won't bark, and Tim, you are a dog, Your silence on China's aggression against Taiwan raises further troubling questions for an American electorate overwhelmingly suspicious of Communist China's intentions.
		Here's your quote, mediaite.
		Here it is, baby.
		Raw story.
		They say who's on the ballot for vice president never makes a difference in the final election.
		This time it should.
		It was bad enough when the news leaked out about Tampon Tim, a woke governor who somehow thought it was a good idea to put tampons in boys' bathrooms.
		It got worse when we learned that as Governor Nero walls fiddled with calling up the National Guard during the 2020 George Floyd riots while Minneapolis burned.
		Now we have Tiananmen Tim, the Manchurian see-no-evil candidate who will let the CCP have its way with America.
		In the 2024 presidential election, we're not just choosing leaders, we're choosing the future of our nation.
		If Harris beats Trump, Walz will be but a heartbeat away from the presidency.
		That's damn frightening, folks.
		Damn frightening.
		Did I say damn frightening?
		The Manchurian candidate.
		We'll be right back with Adam Milan, rising young star in journalism, to talk more about Tim Walz.
unidentified		We're all gone.
		We rejoice when there's no more.
		Let's take down the CCD.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		Peter Canemar in for Stephen K. Bannon.
		As I said in the next hour, I'm going to do a deep dive on why I strongly believe now that Steve Bannon will be out of prison sitting at this desk in front of a microphone broadcasting this show at least a month before election day.
		He's in prison now simply to shut him up.
		He's a political prisoner.
		I think it's the worst case of the Biden-Harris regime Silencing the greatest political strategist we have in this election season, and he's virtually silent because of what lawfare and the weaponization of the justice system has done.
		So stick around.
		I'm hoping journalists will watch that as well, because you really blew it this week by not reporting more fulsomely On that story.
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		All right.
		Hey, give me that clip now.
		You got an interesting clip.
		Let me see if I can see.
		I haven't seen this before.
		What do you got?
unidentified		If there is no connection between Tim Wurtz and China, it is possible that Harris will be more tough on China.
		But with Tim Wurtz's situation, how will the whole model evolve?
		We need to observe and also need to infer.
		So, regarding this issue, today I can only ask an open question.
		This question is obviously not something that can be answered clearly in the past few days.
		We need to use, not a single sound, but a single sound of love to prove it.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		Denver, you're playing tricks on me, right?
		You know, I don't speak Chinese.
		I have no idea what that guy said.
		Oh, but I do have an idea.
		I can bring in Adam Milan in Adam's corner.
		He's a new face on The War Room, and he does speak and read Chinese fluently.
		Adam, welcome to The War Room, brother.
		I wanted you to reflect a little bit on my opening monologue, talk a little bit about what you know about Tim Walz.
		But what was that clip all about?
		What's the Chinese press, the communist Chinese propaganda press, saying about Tim Walz?
		Do they hate the guy or love the guy?
unidentified		Yes, that's a clip from a commentator with Phoenix TV, which is a major state-run TV station based in Hong Kong.
		And he's saying that if it weren't for Tim Walz's deep connections to China, maybe Harris would be harder on China.
		So he's overall optimistic about the prospect of Tim Walz having a softening effect on U.S.
		policy towards China.
		And he's saying that they need to use the next 90 days or so to observe and to use reason to find out what exactly what effect Tim Waltz is going to have on a potential Harris-Waltz administration with regard to U.S.
		policy towards China.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		Adam, is it clear that Communist China and the CCP have chosen their candidate in this race and who is it?
unidentified		I think it's clear in that we have that op-ed with China Daily with Chen Weihua saying that he hopes, as you mentioned, that Harris and Walz could bring sanity, that Walz could bring sanity, as he says, to the U.S.-China relationship.
		Of course, that just means softening our stance on China.
		So I think that it's clear that with Walz in the mix, Harris-Walz would be a clear favorite for the CCP and for communist China.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		And you've been digging around.
		Like I said, you have a master's in journalism from Columbia.
		You're fluent, both written and speaking in Mandarin.
		What have you been able to uncover with respect to Tim Walz?
		If you were to write a profile of Tim Walz based on what you've seen, What would the high points be that American voters might want to consider when they go to the ballot box?
unidentified		Well, you've mentioned several of them.
		He first went to China in 1989 and he taught there as a teacher in Foshan in Guangdong province.
		And he went back almost every year taking students there Until about 2003, he was an international fellow at a state-run institution called the Macau Polytechnic Institute, and he started a company called Educational Travel Adventures to take students to China.
		And according to the letter from James Comer to Christopher Wray, that company was only dissolved days after he became a member of Congress.
		So he has deep ties to China.
		He's also called for President Trump in 2019 to end the trade war with China, as he said on Twitter.
		And that was in August of 2019.
		He went on a trip to Asia in September and he said that he doesn't think that the China market can be replaced.
		He thinks that the Chinese market is necessary for the United States.
		So that's clear that he doesn't want to decouple from China.
		And that's a that's an issue if I could say I'm here in Northwest Indiana in the in the heart of the steel belt and my father as a US Navy veteran and has worked as a steel worker for over 30 years and I know he's very proud to see me here and Yes.
		on the war room with you.
		And I just wanna say thank you for standing up for us.
		Thank you for fighting for us.
		And thank you for defending us with tariffs against the economic aggression of totalitarian China.
		Tim Walz clearly would not do anything close to that.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		Adam, is there any politician in America who is in any way comparable to Tim Walz with respect
		to how compromised Walz is given his history?
		Is there anybody who's anything like that in any kind of position of power or whoever it has been?
unidentified		I think you mentioned the clear one, which is Eric Swalwell.
unidentified		That's a clear example.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		So is it a fact that Walsh, when he was bringing his students over and then doing a business to bring students over, how much was the Chinese communists paying for those students?
		I heard that.
		Is that an accurate thing?
unidentified		James Comer in his letter said that at least one trip involved Chinese funding to bring U.S.
		students to China.
		Appears to be the case based on James Comer's letter to Christopher Wray.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		So you've heard me in my monologue.
		I referred to this notion of elite capture influence operations.
		You're very familiar with with communist China.
		Can you talk a little bit about how they go ahead and try to get American politicians with money pots and honey pots?
unidentified		Yes.
		Well, you mentioned the example with Eric Swalwell and Fang Fang, which would be the the honeypot example.
		And then, of course, there's the money pot, which involves the exchange programs like the ones that Tim Walz was involved in.
		So funding trips to China, you know, actually, well, James Comer mentions in his letter that that at the time that he was a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic Institute, Tim Walz had significant credit card debt.
		And so, you know, there's certainly the possibility that some financial considerations could be involved.
		Also, you know, these plum, you know, fellowships at Chinese universities are in the mix as well when it comes to the money pot example.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		Do we have any transparency into how much Waltz and his wife remember his wife was there at the same time?
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		I believe how much they might have received from that money pot.
unidentified		Don't have a concrete amount at this time that I've seen.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		And neither one of us are surprised at that, right?
		That's going to be a secret right up to election day, I would imagine.
		But I suspect it runs in the tens of thousands of dollars or more.
		So I've asked you to Going forward to do a little regular appearances here and the idea behind What Adam Milan can bring to the war room is that he can?
		monitor What the Chinese press?
		is saying in about the the race and sometimes It only happens in the Chinese language papers rather than the English translations and things like that.
		Is there anything you want to add as we go the break really quickly?
		You have 30 seconds here.
unidentified		Well, I think it's very notable that he's called for President Trump to end the trade war.
		That was at the height of the great work that you and President Trump were doing to put tariffs on China and to stop China's economic aggression.
		And that's that's a big issue.
		And yeah, I think that's something I'd like to add that, you know, he wants to end the trade war.
		He doesn't realize, apparently, that the trade war was started by China.
		It's been going on since 1949 in a 100-year marathon, as Michael Pills documents.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		All right, my brother, great start.
		War Room, welcome Adam.
		Let's hear the comments.
		We'll be right back with the great James Fennell.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		Peter K. Navarro here for Stephen K. Bannon in the war rooms now, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10 to noon.
		Mark your calendar.
		Look, in a minute, I'm going to bring in James Fennell, one of my heroes, longtime acquaintances and friends, going back to the transition of the Trump first term back in 2016.
		And the way I want to just quickly set this up, we're going to be talking about how Thailand I actually served in the Peace Corps for three years, I know the country well, where Thailand just announced it was not buying F-16s from the United States, but rather it's going with a European supplier in Sweden.
		And this one hits close to home for me because although I've never been a car salesman, I was kind of the F-16 salesman in the White House for President Trump.
		Particularly aircraft like the F-16 were really an important part of the Trump economic and military policy.
		Economically, when you make F-16s here in the United States, that's a bunch of jobs and good wages.
		And from a security point of view, when you transfer arms to Allies that reduces the need for American boots on the ground and that's a good thing too.
		So we had a robust F-16 and arms sales program.
		We were always getting our knees cut off by woke libs in the State Department.
		I had to deal with that with a A heavy hand and I'm happy to say I did it successfully.
		We got a lot of stuff done in Trump time.
		So when I heard about this, this one hits really close to home and I wanted to bring Jim Fennell in now.
		The Director of Intelligence for the Pacific Fleet.
		He was at the front lines of the war against Communist China, which did ruffle some feathers in the Pentagon.
		Jim, the mic's yours, man.
		Just tell the people why this is a failure of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden yet again in the foreign policy arena, sir.
jim fanell ▲ ● ▼		Well, first of all, Peter, thanks for having me here.
		And we always remember where Steve's at in the fight that we're in.
		I want to start off my remarks by referencing an op-ed that came out on the 21st of August in The Washington Post from former Vice President Mike Pence.
		It was entitled, We cannot give in to isolationists.
		Taiwan must not fail.
		A new and troubling strain of isolationism is emerging in the Republican Party.
		And I just want to refute that in the sense that every time I've been on the war room, I've only talked about things that deal with our operations and national security interests in Asia and dealing with communist China, who's an avowed enemy.
unidentified		You just heard Adam mentioned since 1949.
jim fanell ▲ ● ▼		And so I think it's important that we put that out there because there's people that are trying to detract from President Trump and the campaign and try to paint us in as America first, as America alone.
		And that's not what we're about.
		And your opening to this segment clearly demonstrate that you've fundamentally, clearly recognized that.
		And that by building these F-16s and other platforms like this, you bring jobs to Americans.
		They're not a hollowed out industrial force as we saw over the last 30 years as we transitioned our workforce to the PRC.
		In this specific case, we can back up to 18 August.
		Just almost two weeks ago, they declared a new Prime Minister, installed a new Prime Minister in Thailand.
		It's the daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin, who had been a controversial Prime Minister over a decade ago, had to be chased out of Thailand, had some ties to the PRC, very sympathetic to the PRC.
		Well, his daughter is now the Prime Minister.
		And three days after she's announced as Prime Minister, the Royal Thai Air Force announces that they're going to go with the Swedish Saab Gripen as the replacement aircraft for their 50-plus F-16s, aging F-16s that they have.
		This is another example where we have had benign neglect or even malicious neglect of one of our oldest treaty allies.
		We go back to 1833 with the Kingdom of Thailand with the Treaty of Amnesty and Commerce.
		So that's 190 years that we've had treaty relations with with Thailand since the 50s We've had defense treaties with them and so they're a longtime ally and friend of ours and we have been over the last decade essentially turning our back on on the kingdom of Thailand.
		And it started under the Obama administration when the Thais had a,
		what they frequently have had over the years, sometimes these government officials
		go against the political establishment and the will of the people.
		And so there's what they have, bloodless coups.
		And in 2014, there was a bloodless coup and the military took over
		for a while until King Rama, Bhumi Paul took over
		or brought them in and resolved the situation.
		But when that happened, the Obama administration and their state department
		freaked out and caused a big furor and made a big issue out of it.
		And basically we said, and look, till you resolve this
		and you get the military out, we're not gonna deal with you.
		And that really affected the people of Thailand and their sensibilities
		and why we would take such a strong stance against something that didn't hurt anybody.
		It was their form of how they deal with things politically.
		And so since that time, for the last 10 years, we've watched the relations deteriorate.
		And now we see the result of that with the Thais now saying we're not going to go with America for the F-16.
		We've seen also that the Thais have gone to China for frigates, submarines.
		They're working with China on this idea of building a canal across the Thai Peninsula, the Kraa Peninsula.
		The Kraa-Isthmus Canal is 27 miles wide.
		That hasn't occurred yet, but they're talking with them.
		Cambodia is another nation in that region of Southeast Asia, just the next-door neighbor to Thailand.
		They just announced here this week that they're going to build a 111-mile canal that connects the Mekong with the Gulf of Thailand so that they can divert water and resources.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		Jim, if I may hear, if I may hear just for a minute.
		Cambodia has long been a lost cause.
		They are deep, deep within the armpits of communist China, so nothing surprises me about that.
		But Thailand, it's a beautiful Independent minded country that has long been one of our allies.
		And I remember when I was in the Peace Corps, I was up on the Thai border in the Northeast province.
		And that's where the bombers actually flew out of Udon Thani in the Kornponom.
		That's where they flew out to bomb Hanoi.
		And I could hear them going over my schoolhouses, as it were.
		And I believe, I think we had a conversation about this.
		You may well have been over in that area at the same time as an intelligence officer.
		And my point is that back then, Thailand was very cooperative and important in our foreign.
		and military policy. They were our friends and allies. And I just want to let people know,
		listening to this, that it's a crime to let Thailand slip into the communist Chinese orb.
		It's this self-inflicted, woke kind of wound of this John Kerry, Kamala Harris,
		Biden-style foreign policy, where if we disagree somehow with something they do,
		whoever it is, we punish them.
		And that just pushes them right into communist Chinese hands.
		So microphone back to you.
		Were you were you up in that area when I because I wanted you to be the ambassador to Thailand.
		We actually worked that when when you got in, when Trump got in 2016, I thought you would have been a hell of an
		ambassador either to China or Thailand.
jim fanell ▲ ● ▼		Sir. Well, Peter, I wasn't there as early as you were, but I was there in the 85, 86 time frame.
		And I was working in an orphanage in northern Thailand in Chiang Rai, which is about 60 kilometers south of the Burmese
		border.
		And I had spent some time like you in a situation where you're working around the Thai people and you get to meet them and know them, learn about their history, learn about their sense of independence and their devotion to freedom, and the fact that they take their sovereignty very seriously, just like most nations do, and we should.
		And so when we turned our back on them in that events in 2014, it's just been, like you, it's been very troubling for me to watch this and think about the people that are supposedly the experts in our State Department, the people that are supposed to have this special knowledge of understanding our friends and allies, completely just do an ideological position on this.
		And it's a position that really just offended the ties and have set us back.
		And I mention Cambodia only in the sense, and I agree with you, nothing that Cambodia does surprises me, but I mention that because China uses Cambodia to pressurize Thailand.
		And that's why the canal and the Navy base at Ream and Chinese warships now operating in the Gulf of Thailand are all parts of the Chinese comprehensive national strategy to bring Thailand into their orbit.
		And they're doing that.
		And we are, unfortunately, That's another big oversight, Jim.
		We send to Thailand to represent the American government and the values that we represent
		don't seem to align.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		That's another big oversight, Jim.
		And I can tell you this, if Donald Trump were in the White House and that news had broken
		Never would have happened if he was.
		But if that news had broken, we'd be sitting there and he'd be talking to the top leaders of Thailand, making sure that they reverse that decision.
		That's the kind of thing you would do.
		Look, this stuff goes right over the head of the Kamala Harris's and Biden's and Blinken's and all of that.
		But it's a lot of jobs, Jim.
		And it's a lot of security that we're not going to have in the South China Sea if you got our aircraft carriers out there.
		Anyway, you just take.
		We got a minute to break.
		Take take this last minute and finish up your thoughts, if you would, and let us know how people can get a hold of you and your great book.
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jim fanell ▲ ● ▼		I just mentioned one other major element of this story, which is the industrial base and the supply chain and how we produce aircraft.
		We're producing aircraft.
		We used to produce F-16s in Fort Worth.
		Well, we moved that in our infinite wisdom to South Carolina, and we're only producing three F-16s a month.
		And we have to supply other allies in Romania, Bulgaria, and other parts of the world.
		It's taking seven years from the time a contract is signed to get a F-16 to an ally.
		That's not going to work.
		So we have diplomatic problems, we have industrial supply problems, and we have a Pentagon that's failing.
		We have flag officers, general officers, senior executive service people, all getting paid $200,000 a year to do what?
		To watch us lose?
		It just doesn't make sense.
peter navarro ▲ ● ▼		I was actually at the ribbon cutting for that South Carolina plant.
		And again, I tell you, if Trump were president, they'd be pumping out planes a lot faster than that.
		Jim Finnell, by the way, Jim and his partner in beautiful crime, Brad Thayer wrote a very nice chapter in my new book, The New MAGA Deal, The Unofficial Deplorables Guide to the Trump 2024 Platform.
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		You can check out Jim and Brad's writings.
		Nobody does it better than those guys on China.
		So I'm glad Jim could bring us stuff.
		Again, you don't hear any of that stuff elsewhere.
		That's solid analysis right from the front lines.
		Peter K. Navarro, that's what we do here on The War Room.
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		I'm going to bring Richard Barris on to talk about polling.
		And later in that hour, I'm going to go over the motion that Steve Bannon's lawyers filed and provide an admonition To the legacy media.
		You know, CNN, as bad as it is on the lefty side, you usually have at least some TV on something when there's breaking news on this.
		But it was really interesting, like it was crickets on Steve's case.
	There's subsequent events that have happened since they put Steve behind bars that really strongly point in the direction of letting him out.
	And I'll give you the two different possible rationales for that and how those requests are being made.
	But journalists who are covering Vanna's case You need to do a little better job right now.
	Go back and read that motion.
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