Oct. 26, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is what you're fighting for. | ||
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. | ||
| It's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | ||
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room. | ||
| Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Good afternoon. | ||
| I'm Brad Thayer filling in for Steve Bannon. | ||
| It's the next man up, but as I'm sure most folks in the audience know, Steve is going to be back next week. | ||
| So we look forward to that. | ||
| He'll be off to the races, of course, as we lead up, of course, to the election on November 5th. | ||
| We've got a packed show today. | ||
| There's so much to cover this afternoon. | ||
| I first just wanted to call the audience's attention to this great report done by the majority staff of Chairman Comer's committee on House Oversight and Accountability that looks at CCP political warfare, the Chinese Communist Party political warfare. | ||
| Federal agencies urgently need a government-wide strategy. | ||
| It's a great report for folks who are interested in this topic. | ||
| It should be read by all Americans, of course, particularly as we lead up to the election, to see how the Chinese Communist Party is undermining the foundations of the United States in every respect and what the government needs to do about it. | ||
| So kudos to the House Majority Staff. | ||
| They just did a great job on Chairman Comer's committee in generating that report, getting it out about 300 pages. | ||
| So maybe you wouldn't do it in one sitting or with one cup of coffee, but with a pot of coffee, folks, it's well worth The time to breeze through to look at. | ||
| I'd encourage everybody in the audience to do so. | ||
| Well, first up, we've got Grace Chong, of course. | ||
| She runs the engine room. | ||
| She runs War Room. | ||
| And Grace has a new piece up at warroom.org and looking at a very important topic. | ||
| But most importantly, she's got a message from Steve Bannon that she'd like to read. | ||
| So, Grace, over to you. | ||
| Thanks very much for joining us this afternoon. | ||
| Thank you, Dr. | ||
| Thayer. | ||
| I really appreciate you having me on. | ||
| So Steve wanted me to make sure that I read this for the Posse. | ||
| It is exclusive from Steve. | ||
| As Election Day approaches, a pivotal issue is emerging that could reshape key battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia. | ||
| Black and Hispanic men are turning against Kamala Harris. | ||
| Once known as the queen of mass incarceration for her policies in California, Harris now faces backlash for her refusal to enforce President Trump's first stepped act. | ||
| This failure is causing a groundswell of anger in these communities and it's turning into the October surprise that could swing the election. | ||
| Steve Bannon, who has been vocal about this issue, put it bluntly, quote, October surprise, Black and Hispanic men detest the queen of mass incarcerations, Kamala Harris, and will not vote for her because she refuses to mass deport illegal alien criminals while having her BOP deliberately failed to enforce President Trump's First Step Act, thus further destroying Black and Hispanic families. | ||
| The election will turn on this in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, end quote. | ||
| The first step act signed by Trump in 2018 was designed to give thousands of nonviolent offenders, primarily black and Hispanic men, a second chance. | ||
| It aimed to reduce sentences, offer early release, and help with re-entry into society. | ||
| It was a lifeline for families torn apart by unfair imprisonment. | ||
| Yet under Harris's watch, the Bureau of Prisons, BOP, has deliberately failed to enforce it, leaving thousands of men behind bars who should have been released. | ||
| Steve Bannon has been clear about this injustice, stating, quote, this is not about me. | ||
| This is about tens of thousands of prisoners that have been screwed over because Harris does not want to enforce a law that President Trump created, end quote. | ||
| Bannon's words underscore the fact that this isn't just a political issue. | ||
| It's a human one affecting entire communities. | ||
| Harris's refusal to act has been devastating for these families. | ||
| Men who should be home rebuilding their lives are stuck in prison, victims of a broken system. | ||
| Black and Hispanic communities are feeling the destruction. | ||
| Quote, this is the main reason Black and Hispanic men are not voting for her. | ||
| They see the destruction of families in their communities, end quote, Bannon has pointed out. | ||
| Making matters worse, Harris's neglect extends beyond the First Stepped Act. | ||
| While keeping these men imprisoned, she also refuses to mass support illegal alien criminals. | ||
| This failure leaves their communities further exposed to rising crime, compounding the devastation. | ||
| Harris's inaction is a double-edged sword, keeping Black and Hispanic men in prison while allowing crime to ravage their neighborhoods. | ||
| In critical states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia, where every vote counts, this issue could be the deciding factor. | ||
| Black and Hispanic men who might have been Harris supporters are now rejecting her. | ||
| They're voting for their families, their communities, and their future, sending a clear message. | ||
| They will not support a candidate who refuses to enforce the laws meant to help them. | ||
| Harris's negligence of the First Step Act and her failure to address the criminal element within illegal immigration could be the October surprise that flips this election. | ||
| For Black and Hispanic men, this isn't about party politics. | ||
| It's about survival, justice, and making sure their voices are heard. | ||
| They've seen the destruction of their communities under Harris's watch, and they're ready to vote for real change. | ||
| The election will turn on this. | ||
| So that is From Steve Bannon, from Danbury Prison. | ||
| I got a little help and I wrote with him. | ||
| So please check out warroom.org and share it with your friends and family. | ||
| It's a very important message. | ||
| It's not about him not getting early release. | ||
| It's not about that at all. | ||
| It's about the people who cannot, who are stuck in there and can't get the first step back. | ||
| So that is really important. | ||
| So thank you so much for having me on to share this very important message from Steve. | ||
| And also, Pasi, write your postcards. | ||
| Get out to vote. | ||
| Call, text, write your postcards. | ||
| It's crunch time. | ||
| We're going to win. | ||
| Pasi, you can do it. | ||
| I know it. | ||
| It's almost there. | ||
| Victory is at hand. | ||
| And nobody's working harder than Grace. | ||
| Grace, you're tireless in your efforts every day, ensuring that things turn out the right way, obviously, on November 5th. | ||
| But we greatly appreciate it. | ||
| And again, Grace has a great story up at warroom.org with Steve's message. | ||
| So everyone in the audience needs to look at it. | ||
| And read it and take it to heart. | ||
| Grace, just quickly, how are things looking broadly? | ||
| Any update on anything you'd like to report? | ||
| Well, Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, there are record numbers of Republicans coming in to vote early, which is fantastic. | ||
| So everyone, just get out to vote. | ||
| The energy is just through the roof. | ||
| Let's keep it going. | ||
| I mean, I have never felt this kind of energy in the past, like, four or five years, at least. | ||
| I mean, that is such great news, and let's beat the Democrats at their own game. | ||
| Excellent, Grace. | ||
| Well, thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. | ||
| We appreciate your assessment and for sharing Steve's message as well as your story. | ||
| Thanks, Grace. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, next, again, that's so important. | ||
| Vote. | ||
| You've got to get your friends to the polls, and we've got to keep this momentum going in the right way. | ||
| Next, I'm very pleased to be joined by the president of just a wonderful organization, the American Freedom Alliance. | ||
| Karen Sigamund is with us. | ||
| And Karen, just so wonderful to have you on the program. | ||
| I was able to be at your event, one of many that you've hosted, the event last Saturday in Allentown, Pennsylvania. | ||
| And just a wonderful occasion. | ||
| Welcome to the program, Karen. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| And it was terrific seeing you in Allentown. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| And I just wanted to reach out, Karen, to you on two points. | ||
| One would be, where can folks get the record of the previous talks that we've had in the swing states as you focused on those critical areas? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And then also, I'd like you to address, of course, that very important issue of what's next. | ||
| What are you doing next in the run-up to November 5th and also in the future? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, we had originally held, with Steve Bannon's encouragement and partnership, our original World War III The Early Years event in Los Angeles last year. | ||
| And as you know, we've been taking it to battleground states. | ||
| Culminating in our final one in Allentown that you were able to join us in, and of course you were with us in Los Angeles. | ||
| It was an unbelievable event. | ||
| You can see all the content that we've created in prior World War III, the early years events. | ||
| It's all up on our Rumble channel. | ||
| Some of it's on YouTube, but as you know, YouTube can be quite finicky when you address actual reality and threats and so on. | ||
| Issues like communism are frowned upon. | ||
| They don't like us touching that third rail on YouTube. | ||
| But it's all on our Rumble channel. | ||
| And this next one is coming up as well. | ||
| And you know, we were just in Allentown, the fifth of our road show. | ||
| We did live stream it. | ||
| And thanks to Grace and the War Room, we live streamed it on their Rumble channel. | ||
| And I think we're pretty close to 120,000 views of that at the moment. | ||
| The technology wasn't perfect. | ||
| It was a bit dark and so on. | ||
| The content is superb, so people can still see that on War Room's Rumble channel. | ||
| And what we've discovered, Brad, you know this, people are blissfully Sometimes blissfully, but generally speaking, unaware of the threats that we're facing from a national security standpoint. | ||
| I mentioned communism. | ||
| During the Cold War, people were pretty aware we were in a Cold War, and now people seem to not understand what's going on in the world around them. | ||
| They have a sense maybe that things are off. | ||
| So the purpose of our doing these is to bring awareness so that when people vote, as they must do, of course, they vote from an informed perspective, not one that's been prey to the juggernaut of misinformation as well as the relentless, deliberate silence on issues that matter to us. | ||
| So that's why we've been doing what we do. | ||
| What we're going to be doing in the run-up until the election is packaging some of the smaller clips of the video. | ||
| I mean, truly superb content, smaller ones to get them disseminated out there far and wide because, again, the disinformation, misinformation, and suppression campaigns are relentless. | ||
| So it's our purpose to get as much of the actual true information about the threats, about the people fighting against him. | ||
| You had just noted that brilliant report. | ||
| So more like that. | ||
| Honestly, true information is so crucial to get into the stream of people's awareness. | ||
| And as they have been doing, so must we. | ||
| This is not about politics. | ||
| It's about policies. | ||
| It's about recognizing the true state of the world and the threats that we're facing and supporting those fighting it and working just relentlessly as you have, as Grace has, as all of our speakers have in trying to preserve freedoms, our constitutional republic, And keeping us safe, free, and prosperous. | ||
| Oh, well, thank you so much, Karen, Dr. | ||
| Karen Siegmund. | ||
| Karen, what's the website of the American Freedom Alliance? | ||
| We're at AmericanFreedomAlliance.org, and our content, of course, is on our Rumble channel, just American Freedom... | ||
| There you go. | ||
| American Freedom Alliance. | ||
| And... | ||
| Again, YouTube. | ||
| We're also on Getter, Rumble, X, all the various social media platforms of note. | ||
| But check out our website, and that has the most up-to-date content. | ||
| Oh, wonderful. | ||
| Karen, thank you so much for everything that you do, for running the meetings so effectively and producing all of that wonderful content in critical states to do our utmost to call attention to the threat from the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Thanks, Karen. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. | ||
| Thank you so much for having me. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| So next we have... | ||
| So U.S. Navy Captain Retired James Fennell is my frequent writing partner. | ||
| We've a weekly column in American Greatness. | ||
| Jim had a background, of course, in naval intelligence, serving as a career naval intelligence officer, his position including very senior intelligence positions in the Office of Naval Intelligence and Chief of Intelligence for the 7th Fleet and U.S. Pacific Fleet, among other duties. | ||
| He retired from the U.S. Navy in 2015, and now he's currently a government fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Geneva, Switzerland. | ||
| So it's a rough duty, but somebody's got to do it, right, Jim? | ||
| And Jim and I together, we write together not only frequently, but we co-wrote a book called Embracing Communist China, America's Greatest Strategic Failure. | ||
| So, Jim, welcome to the program this afternoon. | ||
| Hey, Brad, it's great to be with you. | ||
| Honored to be here. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| Jim, I'd like to touch base with you on, first, the remarks that have been made over the last weeks by U.S. Army General Mark Milley, so the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then more recently by U.S. Marine General, retired John Kelly. | ||
| Who actually termed Trump a fascist and had a very dark foreboding about what would happen if Trump were elected on November 5th. | ||
| Jim, as a retired U.S. Navy officer, you retired in 06 as a U.S. Navy captain. | ||
| What are your thoughts? | ||
| What are your reflections when you see senior U.S. military, albeit retired, individuals making these types of remarks about former President Trump? | ||
| Well, I think, Brad, that we're in a dangerous area. | ||
| And I know some people will bring up and say that, you know, well, General Flynn made statements back in 2015-16. | ||
| I think those are fundamentally different when you have literally General Kelly now three times trying to go after President Trump. | ||
| In asserting and making allegations that have been proven false. | ||
| So his statements and those of General Milley, General Milley's admission to Bob Woodward that he called the Chinese to alert them. | ||
| Give him the assurances that there wouldn't be any problems on his own initiative or the initiative of the Secretary of Defense without the knowledge and approval of the president, even though he's just an advisor to the president as the chairman. | ||
| He's not in the operational chain of command. | ||
| These kinds of acts by these senior officers are calling to question the oath that they took, which is to support and defend the Constitution Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. | ||
| And that Constitution says that the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief. | ||
| And in the time that General Kelly and General Milley and General Mattis, for another name, they all served under President Trump. | ||
| And if they believed that he was a fascist or they had Serious doubts about his fitness to serve, then it was upon them to make that protest in private. | ||
| And if there was no resolution, then they should have formally resigned while they were in office. | ||
| And they didn't do that. | ||
| So what they're doing now, especially this latest, I call it a cabal that occurred between, I think General Kelly has been It was abused in some sense by the Atlantic Monthly magazine who sought out and got his statements so that they could then have that aligned with the statement that we saw last night from Vice President Harris, from her residence, an official statement. | ||
| Calling President Trump a fascist and somebody who admires Adolf Hitler and all of this. | ||
| This is unprecedented, and it's something that is not helpful for the Republic in any way, shape, or form. | ||
| And if General Kelly felt that strong, then he should have stepped down while he was in office, and he didn't do that. | ||
| So it calls into question his motives. | ||
| It calls into question the integrity of his And it flies in the face of all other Evidence that we have about President Trump and his love for America, his love for the American serviceman and woman, and his efforts to try to rebuild the military during his time in office. | ||
| So I just don't see the truth to anything that General Kelly said. | ||
| Certainly, General Milley has nothing but contempt for President Trump. | ||
| So these are very partisan things. | ||
| They should not have been uttered by men that had reached that Pinnacle of power, four stars. | ||
| I mean, these are not inconsequential people. | ||
| I'm a captain. | ||
| I mean, I have to be careful about what I say, but I certainly don't carry the swagger or the merit of a four-star general or admiral. | ||
| And so these men really—they bring dishonor upon all of us who wore the uniform in some sense. | ||
| They should have kept their mouths shut, or they should have resigned at that time when they saw those activities that they allege today, years, years later. | ||
| And so it's not good, it's not helpful, and in a way, as many people have been saying over the last 24 hours, these statements from Vice President Harris are almost a call for another assassination. | ||
| And that's not good in any way, shape, or form. | ||
| It's not good for the Republic. | ||
| And we need to be very careful about what we say, but we should not accept this kind of behavior from retired senior officers. | ||
| And I'll say, when you take that oath as an officer, it's different than an enlisted person. | ||
| An enlisted person swears An oath to support and defend the Constitution as well as obey the rules of the officer set above them. | ||
| It doesn't say that in the officer's oath. | ||
| It just says the Constitution. | ||
| And I think what we've seen grow over the last 40 years is almost an arrogance amongst the officer corps, especially at the senior officer level, like Milley, like Kelly to a lesser degree, I think. | ||
| There's an arrogance that says, I work for the Constitution and I don't work for the president. | ||
| And I am equal to the president. | ||
| And if I don't like something he's doing, then I'm authorized to subvert what he wants to do. | ||
| And that is not what the founders and the framers had in mind when we set up this republic. | ||
| And we have an example of what you should do. | ||
| In 1949, we had what was called the Revolt of the Admirals. | ||
| The United States Navy was not happy about the new Secretary of Defense's focus on building bombers and not building aircraft carriers that the Navy believed they needed at the time. | ||
| They tried to take care of it internally. | ||
| Entreaties were rejected, and so these men stood up, wrote a letter publicly, and then they resigned. | ||
| They didn't make it a political issue. | ||
| They didn't try to upset the political discourse of this country or influence Americans. | ||
| They just said, we think this is a wrong policy decision, and they resigned over it. | ||
| And you can disagree with them or not, but the fact is that they took an honorable position and they sacrificed, some of them, their careers. | ||
| Some of them were maybe junior flag officers compared to more senior ones, and they even had some captains. | ||
| So the fact is... | ||
| What counts is when you use your position and you show that you don't care about your own career, your own pocketbook, when you stand on principle. | ||
| And unfortunately, I don't think that we can say either General Kelly or General Milley have done that. | ||
| They've actually profited from their time in office. | ||
| And I'm a little bit less upset with General Kelly because I know that he lost his son. | ||
| And who can question someone who's lost their son in combat? | ||
| But General Milley, there's no question for him. | ||
| He is an arrogant person. | ||
| He's an elitist. | ||
| And he has gone on from being chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to move into these positions where he's making millions of dollars as an advisor and basically working off of the position that he had so that he can get involved with big defense firms and other things like that. | ||
| And he has shown a contempt For the office of the presidency and an arrogance that it's never been seen before. | ||
| And he's a shameful person. | ||
| Well, Jim, thank you very much indeed for that assessment, that critical assessment of the behavior of these two individuals. | ||
| Folks may recall that U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall, of course, one of the most famous probably Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, was so nonpartisan he wouldn't even vote in U.S. elections. | ||
| And keeping... | ||
| The U.S. military as a professional force is absolutely essential in sustaining the right type of civil military relations that we need to have in the United States. | ||
| Jim, there's so much to cover with respect to the hyper-aggressive activity of the People's Republic of China. | ||
| I'm going to have to hold you over the break to address all of those issues. | ||
| So, again, because there's so much to cover with respect to their hyperaggression, most recently against Indonesia and consistent aggressive behavior against Japan, partners like Taiwan, our treaty ally, the Philippines. | ||
| And Vietnam elsewhere. | ||
| Even India, of course, is feeling the heat once again from the People's Republic of China. | ||
| So, Jim, please stay with us over the break, and we'll be right back, folks, with U.S. Navy Captain Retired James Fennell. | ||
| Who's gonna give us a quick tour of the horizon of the aggressiveness of the People's Republic of China in the Indo-Pacific and elsewhere. | ||
| Food for thought as you think about your choices for November 5th. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| And I try to imagine talking to a Trump-adjacent friend and saying, okay, this guy over here is a decorated Marine general whose son died in combat serving this You think that person would listen? | ||
| I think they would. | ||
| I think that they might take it to heart if somehow you could make that connection. | ||
| Because Fox News, the right, Donald Trump have wrapped themselves in this mantle of patriotism and strength and the military. | ||
| And what we're learning is not just his contempt for the Constitution and American values that Mike Schmidt is talking about, but also his contempt, his deep contempt and disdain for the men and women who serve this country who've been injured or killed. | ||
| or captured. | ||
| So I do think you have a moral responsibility. | ||
| If you actually do care about these things, Tell the story. | ||
| And this goes double or triple for the people who worked in the White House. | ||
| If you actually knew that Donald Trump posed this kind of a danger and you're nearing the end of your career, Don't you have a moral obligation to share that information with the American people? | ||
| Isn't that the essence of duty and patriotism? | ||
| I mean, there are a lot of voters who, as Donnie mentioned, will just simply say, I don't believe this, or I don't know this, or I haven't heard this. | ||
| These folks know, they've seen it, and they believe it, and they're supporting him anyway. | ||
| And I think that's what's important, is they understand what the threat is, and they're doing it anyway. | ||
| You know, and in this whole question of the president as role model and the message he sends, I remember back in the 1990s when conservatives had this mantra about how character matters and always asked the question, what message are we sending our kids? | ||
| And yet in the last nine years, there's been this incredible disconnect. | ||
| Where, you know, and to Liz Cheney's point, if you wouldn't hire him to babysit your kids, actually you wouldn't hire him to work at McDonald's. | ||
| You wouldn't hire him to be on the board of directors of your company. | ||
| You wouldn't put him in a position of trust in the military, in schools, in any institution. | ||
| And yet, you know, he's poised to possibly be elected president of the United States. | ||
| There's this disconnect. | ||
| And also, in the lives and the minds of parents who are raising children, I have three children and five grandchildren, and you want to teach them about how to model virtue and sportsmanship and honesty. | ||
| Donald Trump doesn't do any of that. | ||
| And for all the parents out there, they have to ask, you know, what are the policies that are more important than the message that Donald Trump is sending to your children? | ||
| Well, welcome back this afternoon. | ||
| I'm Brad Thayer, filling in for Steve Bannon, who will be, of course, back with us next week. | ||
| Thank you very much indeed for those clips, the review of those charges directed against President Trump and others. | ||
| Jim Fennell, we're joined by U.S. Navy Captain Retired James Fennell, who shared his assessment. | ||
| With respect to General Milley and General Kelly's remarks. | ||
| Jim, I'd like to turn now to, we'll have Colonel Harvey on in just a moment to share his assessment, to provide his assessment. | ||
| But Jim, if you could give us a quick tour of the horizon of the threats from the People's Republic in the Indo-Pacific. | ||
| We've got about four minutes, Jim. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, Brad, I mean, you and I wrote an article together in American Greatness, and we asked that fundamental question that Reagan asked in the election with Carter. | ||
| Are we better off today than we were four years ago? | ||
| And that was considered about your economic situation domestically in America. | ||
| And we posed that question in the foreign policy arena, specifically with China. | ||
| And we can say without a doubt that we're worse off today with what China's posture is than we were four years For instance, just over a week ago, the Chinese launched Joint Sword 2024 Bravo, which is this major one-day exercise that was essentially a test of a quarantine or a blockade of the island of Taiwan. | ||
| It had 153 aircraft sorties going into the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone. | ||
| One day of that exercise included their carrier, their first carrier, the Liaoning, operating. | ||
| She flew 140 sorties that day, fixed wing and helicopter. | ||
| It was a great increase from just two years ago when she was averaging maybe 30 to 35 sorties a day. | ||
| She flew 140 that day. | ||
| Since then, she's gone back into the South China Sea and just in the last 48 hours conducted a northbound transit of the Taiwan Strait. | ||
| This follows Sunday's transit of the U.S. destroyer USS Higgins and His Majesty's Canadian ship Vancouver, the two Allied ships going south. | ||
| Here today in the last 24-48 hours, we've got reporting from Indonesia that China's threatening and harassing Indonesian seismic survey operations from their Coast Guard down in Indonesian waters in the southern part of the South China Sea. | ||
| There's new reporting and new imagery of an island that China's now, another island that China's building out off the coast of Vietnam, Triton Island, and it's going to be used as an intelligence platform, a signals intelligence collection station to be able to track and monitor air activity from Vietnam and extend China's We're good to | ||
| going on around Taiwan. | ||
| There's been threatening words and rhetoric from Russia against Japan. | ||
| We've got now reporting from the North Koreans that they're sending thousands of troops into Russia, obviously at the coordination and cooperation of China. | ||
| And then we've just had this week the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. | ||
| Plus conference in Kazan, Russia. | ||
| And the Chinese are basically, even though it's in Russia, being held in Russia, it's China that's and it's Xi Jinping that it's there announcing their four goals of BRICS committed to peace, committed to innovation, committed to justice, committed to green development, and in a closer people-to-people relationship. | ||
| The real theme of the BRICS conference this year is to talk about creating a new And it's a dangerous time. | ||
| It is indeed a very dangerous time. | ||
| Jim Fennell, thank you very much for joining us this afternoon and providing your assessment of the threats of PRC's activities in conjunction with Russia and other actors. | ||
| Jim, thanks very much. | ||
| I'm pleased to be welcomed by U.S. Army Colonel, retired Derek Harvey. | ||
| Derek is a former NSC staffer who served on the staff of Congressman Devin Nunes when Nunes was ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and his knowledge of the Middle East is unsurpassed. | ||
| A great friend of the program, Derek, welcome. | ||
| Welcome this afternoon. | ||
| It's great to have you. | ||
| Hey, Brad, I'm appreciative of the opportunity to talk to you today. | ||
| And if you don't mind, I'd like to make a comment about General Milley and, you know, General Kelly, if that's okay. | ||
| Please, Derek, please. | ||
| Okay, well, I know both of those gentlemen, and I've been disappointed in their performance for years. | ||
| It's generals like Millie and Kelly, despite Kelly having lost a son, who led our forces and did not focus on winning. | ||
| At great expense of treasure, of blood, and of loss of life, we have had generals who have not been focused on winning or giving the best, most sound military advice. | ||
| They've been focused on other things, unfortunately. | ||
| And both of these generals have been very political throughout their careers. | ||
| That's how they became general officers, and that's how they're making their wealth today, is because they have cozied up to the authoritarian left. | ||
| If they're going to talk about fascism, the real threat here, the real fascists, in my view, are those that are aligned with the censorship, the big tech social media complex, with big pharma, with the attack on the separation of powers, with the attack on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association and property rights, and the Second Amendment, which is what we see from the left, and the Democrat Party, which they are both aligned with. | ||
| This is what we see when we have the weaponization of DOJ and the FBI. That is fascism. | ||
| It's the corporate political party partnership that we have seen with the Democrat left, with their control and mutual support. | ||
| That is the threat to our republic. | ||
| That is the threat to the small d democratic process. | ||
| That is the threat to our civil liberties. | ||
| And this is projection on the left's part. | ||
| And it's dark, it's dangerous, and it's desperate, and it's deceptive. | ||
| And that's what I have to say. | ||
| Now, if they were really concerned about this, both of them are comfortable with, you know, authority because they grew up and worked for years and years where it was top down. | ||
| The boss says what happens, the military structure and alignment. | ||
| But they have become misguided in my judgment. | ||
| And if, you know, General Kelly really thought that there's a problem, he had plenty of time. | ||
| He was, if he was really upset, why did he wait years and years to bring this forward? | ||
| Derek, thank you so much for making those points, necessary points. | ||
| Derek, so much is happening in the Middle East, of course. | ||
| You're the expert on the topic. | ||
| I wanted to, just in the time that we have left, look at if you'd share your assessment of Israel's preparations for For actions against Iran. | ||
| The U.S. has recently sent a terminal high-altitude air defense system from a battery formidable with a formidable radar system, the Tipi-2, of course, to augment Israel's capabilities to defend itself from a ballistic missile attack. | ||
| Derek, if you'd share any assessments, though, it does seem like things are moving, heating up with respect to the tension between Israel and Iran, sir. | ||
| Well, I think that's true, and, you know, Israel has been focused on developing a response and an effective response that will reestablish deterrence and will be significantly damaging to Iran. | ||
| Now, we don't have insights as to what type of targets are going to be hitting and how and what sequence they will be. | ||
| It's an incredibly difficult task, you know, for Israel, for their Air Force, and if they use land-based missile systems and air-launched missile systems. | ||
| You've got, you know, a time and distance factor, you've got air defense capabilities, and you've got to be able to recover your pilots, okay, and your platforms. | ||
| So it's going to be problematic for them and great risk, so it takes a lot of Planning and exercising. | ||
| And that is what I think was released in some of the imagery and some of the intelligence that was released. | ||
| It jeopardized an aspect, perhaps, of what Israel was planning for Iran and the type of profile missions they might be employing. | ||
| The United States at this point in time cannot be trusted By Israel with any operational or strategic insights as to what they're going to do and how they're going to do it. | ||
| Because systemically, this administration, up and down in the chain of command politically, but also in the DoD side, you've got too many people that are in key positions that have access to intelligence and policy information. | ||
| That look at Iran as a friend and as a future partner in the region and look at Israel as the problem. | ||
| And they have this 180 degrees backwards. | ||
| But they think they are morally right. | ||
| They firmly believe in what they're doing. | ||
| They're ideologically committed to it. | ||
| And if you look at CIA Director Burns, he has a reputation for leaking information. | ||
| So do others. | ||
| And you've got You know, a number of people that were part of the Iran Experts Initiative who are currently in this administration. | ||
| You know, this arrogance that they have, that they know what is right. | ||
| And, you know, we faced that when we came in in 2017, where throughout the bureaucracy you had people who were working at state and the CIA and others who were wholly committed to the JCPOA and took Great offense at the idea that there could be another way of approaching this. | ||
| So the administration faced leak after leak after leak by, I won't call them holdovers, by permanent, you know, staff who, you know, served in the State Department and CIA, some of who were detailed to work in the National Security Council. | ||
| And, you know, this is what we've seen. | ||
| We have a systemic problem now with too many people thinking that because they believe that they're morally justified, it's okay to leak. | ||
| And the problem is the FBI is not going to really go after it because they are aligned with this administration at the senior levels in DOJ and the FBI, and they're not going to do anything that's going to cause harm to this administration. | ||
| Derek, thank you so much. | ||
| That really illuminates the dangers that we face. | ||
| And your point about Israel not trusting, I think, is absolutely critical. | ||
| We've got to redress this situation, no doubt. | ||
| Colonel Harvey, thank you very much indeed for sharing your assessments, both on multiple issues today, the Middle East, as well as the problems and tensions that we face in our civil-military relations. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| I'm very pleased to also be joined by Yes, sir. | ||
| Looking forward to seeing the green back. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| Yes, Colonel Harvey. | ||
| Next week. | ||
| Couldn't be soon enough, certainly. | ||
| Catherine O'Neill. | ||
| We're joined by Catherine O'Neill this afternoon. | ||
| Catherine, welcome. | ||
| Thank you so much, Bradley, for having me on. | ||
| Oh, it's our pleasure. | ||
| Any thoughts or points you want to share, of course, with the War Room Battleground audience? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
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| It's a great deal. | ||
| As I've mentioned a few times before, I like to have at least 50 to 75 pounds of this in my freezer at all times. | ||
| So it's good to stock up on this right now. | ||
| Indeed, certainly. | ||
| And so this is, you're from the cowboy state, of course, the great state of Wyoming. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And we appreciate that element. | ||
| And you have a wide range of products, too, Catherine, beyond the specials that you advance. | ||
| And I encourage folks to go to the website to look in detail, of course, at what you have. | ||
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| I'm sure they are. | ||
| Well, thank you very much, Catherine, for joining us and for Meriwether Farms. | ||
| And I encourage folks to go to the website and check out the deals that you have for us. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Have a great day. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, lastly, this afternoon, let me just express my appreciation. | ||
| I'd like to thank Denver for the help they've given us over the time while Steve was away. | ||
| And I'd like to thank my great producer, Cameron Wallace, for navigating us through the Scylla and Charybdis of every episode. | ||
| Your great help has been greatly appreciated. | ||
| And then the audience as well. | ||
| Folks, thank you so much for all that you've done, for supporting the program, for supporting the effort that we've had while Steve has been away. | ||
| I believe firmly that the audience has made War Room stronger. | ||
| And we'll be turning War Room over to Steve next week. | ||
| focus show and one that is going to that he's going to boost, of course, when he comes back to the stratosphere and beyond. | ||
| But you have allowed us to continue to sustain the show as a thriving entity, as one which has continued to focus on the top of the issues that we need to as we run up to the election in a very difficult time and in a very difficult electoral circumstance. | ||
| So my great appreciation to the audience. | ||
| Many, many thanks for watching and for participating. | ||
| And all of the folks who've joined us in the CARES again while Steve has been away have just been wonderful. | ||
| I'd like to thank all of my guests this afternoon. | ||
| Grace Chung has just done endless, tireless work. | ||
| She works with Nobody's Working Harder. | ||
| Karen Sigerman, Dr. | ||
| Karen Sigerman, president of the American Freedom Alliance. | ||
| Captain James Fennell, outstanding individual who served his country, and equally, U.S. Army Colonel Derek Harvey, retired. | ||
| Thanks very much indeed. | ||
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