Jan. 10, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies. | |
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. - Yeah, Willie, this was a really surprising and candid interview. | ||
| This is outgoing acting ICE director P.J. Lechleitner, who sat down with me and told me about some of the frustrations. | ||
| He thinks that the current administration could have been more transparent and forthcoming on the immigration issue, and frankly, that Biden may have taken action too late to solve the border crisis. | ||
| This is someone who's been with DHS since its inception. | ||
| He's a 30-year career in law enforcement, served Republicans and Democrats. | ||
| I think some of his remarks here are really enlightening. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| We saw millions of immigrants come across the border. | ||
| And I know you're not focused on the border, but, you know, you're focused on the ramifications. | ||
| We're related to it. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| A lot of that came down. | ||
| It drastically fell, especially starting in June when the new executive action went into place. | ||
| Do you think that Biden should have taken that action earlier? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| Yes, he should have. | ||
| The administration should have taken that action earlier, and I think the career people in DHS would have liked that. | ||
| And all of us in DHS, quite frankly. | ||
| I don't know if anybody in DHS wouldn't have wanted that earlier. | ||
| You know, maybe there's some counselors here or there that don't like this kind of stuff, but law enforcement is always going to be on that side where we want some tighter controls. | ||
| Because for a while there, you remember, it was 10,000-plus. | ||
| Biden had an exit interview this week where he was asked about his regrets, and he did not mention the border. | ||
| Does that surprise you? | ||
| No, it doesn't surprise me, but it's unfortunate because I think we could have done more. | ||
| Because you have an ICE director saying now publicly to you, Julia, what we've heard privately from them for several years. | ||
| You're in the war room. | ||
| It's 9 January, Thursday in the year of our Lord, 2025. So many bombshells in that cold open, but most importantly, see what I clipped that last part, those few seconds? | ||
| Well, we've heard this quietly, but this is the first time it's been said out loud. | ||
| Well, first of all, MSNBC, you evidently have not been watching The War Room well enough. | ||
| But more importantly, I think that's what you call a cover-up. | ||
| Starts with MSNBC, but it runs all the way to the top. | ||
| The top being 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, whoever may be running the show there. | ||
| And by the way, Mayorkas, you're included in that too. | ||
| We're going to focus a little bit on the fires. | ||
| We have some guests, some people who are actually out in California right now, in Los Angeles. | ||
| But I played that clip. | ||
| You know, we focused a lot on immigration in today's morning show. | ||
| Because there is such a strong parallel with the fires, right? | ||
| This idea of resources being under-resourced, like I said yesterday. | ||
| How long have we always asked ourselves, is it a result of intentionality, trying to destroy this country, or is it a result of incompetence? | ||
| And that operative word there, or, I guess suggests that they're mutually exclusive, but I think you're seeing on full display right now in California that it's intentional incompetence. | ||
| Just like it was on the southern border, just like it has been in Ukraine, just like it has been in the Middle East, just like it has been with the trade deals and the endless forever wars that have plagued this country for decades. | ||
| Right? | ||
| What you are seeing now, it's not merely a natural disaster. | ||
| It is a complete and utter political failure. | ||
| Completely at the hands of Democrats. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Because it's quite funny. | ||
| There's never any shortage of resources. | ||
| And I know you probably thought I was going to say to send overseas to Ukraine or Israel or Taiwan or whatever country. | ||
| That's not the United States of America. | ||
| But there's never any shortage of resources to, what, fill your children and grandchildren's classrooms full of creepy, grooming, pedophilic, transgender-promoting books like genderqueer, right? | ||
| There always seems to be enough money in the budget to do that. | ||
| Sure, there's enough money in the budget to, what, give illegal aliens transgender surgeries? | ||
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Including the ones in prison? | |
| Right? | ||
| There's never a question of resources when it comes to their woke fetishes, and I probably use that word intentionally. | ||
| Oh, but sorry, I guess I'm a little high-maintenance if I want my fire hydrants to actually have water, or I think that firemen should be able to fight fires, not with designer handbags like they're doing right now in California. | ||
| I'm sure you guys have seen the videos, firemen. | ||
| I don't know where the hoses are. | ||
| Maybe they shipped them all over to Ukraine. | ||
| That's not just a joke. | ||
| They were literally doing that less than a year ago. | ||
| They're dumping barrels of water. | ||
| Sorry, not barrels. | ||
| Handbags of water to try to put out fires. | ||
| I think they call that third world. | ||
| Speaking of water, I want to play two clips from MSNBC admitting that basically none of the fire hydrants are working. | ||
| And this lovely, shall we say, DEI hire who gets paid, I think, $750,000 a year to make sure that water is indeed running and working in the Los Angeles area. | ||
| Somehow she's still not out of a job. | ||
| Let's roll these two clips. | ||
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We saw an apartment building engulfed in flames. | |
| I saw the fire engine pull up this afternoon. | ||
| A fire captain have one of his firefighters attach a hose to a hydrant, and that hose didn't fill up, Alex. | ||
| And I asked the captain, out of every ten hydrants you attach to today, on average, how many are you getting full water from? | ||
| He says little to none. | ||
| And it was at that point that really the whole crew stopped, looked up at this apartment building, and they realized there was nothing they could do. | ||
| We ran out of water in the first tank about 4.45 p.m. | ||
| yesterday. | ||
| We ran out of water in the second tank about 8.30 p.m. | ||
| in the third tank about 3 a.m. | ||
| this morning. | ||
| Little to none. | ||
| Let that sink in. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Personally, that's about the amount of confidence that I have in Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass in the slate of true intellectuals outrunning this whole operation so wonderfully in California. | ||
| Little to none, I guess, is also the amount of confidence or belief that I have that Joe Biden actually won the 2020 election. | ||
| I think they've now declared a state of emergency. | ||
| Funnily enough, the FEMA director, the one who did a really good job, or the fill-in, sorry, I was confusing the Secret Service there because they've also done such a wonderful job of keeping this country safe. | ||
| The FEMA director, the one who oversaw the botched North Carolina flood response, by the way, I think they're already getting ready to kick out some North Carolinians from hotels there, don't think Ukraine's getting the same treatment, but she is, I think, arriving into Los Angeles today. | ||
| Last time I checked, it's... | ||
| It's Thursday. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| It's not Ukraine. | ||
| It's not a foreign country. | ||
| So if you can't grift off of it, right? | ||
| If Hillary Clinton couldn't have made a quick buck off of Benghazi, why are you going to get off your ass and do anything? | ||
| I guess that mindset sort of affects all of the D.C. ruling class. | ||
| But the Biden regime has been a perpetual since day one. | ||
| Day one. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Democracy dies in darkness, according to the Washington Post. | ||
| Yeah, when they were inaugurated in darkness, the Biden regime has been a four-year, unconditional, continued state of emergency, not just here at home, but abroad, in every corner of this earth, from Ukraine to the Middle East, to Afghanistan, now to California, to East Palestine, to the southern border, to the northern border, to every border. | ||
| And yes, newly donned what Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient George Soros, Borders Matter. | ||
| We're going to make sure you know that come January 20th. | ||
| You guys want to talk about domestic extremism? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Crazy cultists that MAGA are? | ||
| You guys are literally burning down Los Angeles in the name of climate change. | ||
| So I'd start with investigating those people for domestic extremism before coming after MAGA. By the way, Karen Bass, I say she's LA's equivalent of Lori Lightfoot, and I don't know if she's better or worse, which shows you how far things have fallen. | ||
| But just last month, LA's fire chief actually warned Karen Bass. | ||
| That the 17-plus million dollars that were cut from her department's budget, quote, severely limited, and we have the picture, we can put it up on screen, the department's capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires. | ||
| And let me be very clear. | ||
| For those of you who know, I actually born and raised in Santa Monica. | ||
| My house is, I believe, still under mandatory evacuation order. | ||
| I know victimhood culture isn't something that we embrace here in the war room, but for once, I get to criticize and politicize. | ||
| I know you're not allowed to politicize this issue. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| You guys politicized it when you made it so the fire hydrants didn't have water so you could pat yourselves on the back and say that you guys were climate change defenders. | ||
| When you elect Marxists who have no respect and only complete and utter disdain for humanity and human life, and you see that epitomized in the ideology that undergirds the climate change cult, this is what you get. | ||
| Because they don't care. | ||
| And actually, they don't care so much. | ||
| They won't even go out of their way to lie to you in the face. | ||
| They just won't even answer your damn questions. | ||
| Let's roll the wonderful Karen Bass dodging in a way I've never seen any politician before. | ||
| We'll see if we can get through it because it's about three minutes long. | ||
| We'll see how much we can take, but let's roll it. | ||
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Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? | |
| Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor? | ||
| Have you nothing to say today? | ||
| Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? | ||
| Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. | ||
| Are you considering your position? | ||
| Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster? | ||
| No apology for them. | ||
| Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. you I mean, at this rate, she should have just gone back to Ghana. | ||
| I could only take so much of that. | ||
| But I just want to give us a little background on Karen Bass, because I use that word Marxist very intentionally, right? | ||
| You can tell a lot about someone by who they choose to eulogize so publicly. | ||
| And in the case of Karen Bass, well, she very infamously and notoriously delivered a eulogy for one of the top members of the Communist Party of the United States for decades, not too long ago. | ||
| O'Neal Cannon was this person's name, and Karen Bass actually described them as her personal mentor in 2017, right? | ||
| Usually these people, the Jamie Raskins of the world, they get to say, oh, well, I was a red diaper baby. | ||
| This was decades ago. | ||
| No, no, not Karen Bass. | ||
| And she really liked this self-avowed communist because of the longstanding commitment to serving and uplifting others and for a century of fighting to make the world a better place. | ||
| Well, I guess in the communist version of, quote, better place, I guess the hellish fire escape that is Los Angeles is probably fitting. | ||
| I guess you're sticking it to the rich, right? | ||
| Good luck taxing them. | ||
| Don't think you can collect property taxes like that, right? | ||
| And in a statement in 2016, after you guessed it, Fidel Castro's death, Bass suggested that, quote, it was a great loss to the people of Cuba. | ||
| She actually went to go see Fidel Castro speak in Cuba, quote, several times, and even said he was, quote, charismatic. | ||
| But remember, MSNBC tells you that we're the rapists and the insurrectionists, but Fidel Castro is charismatic. | ||
| I mean, honestly, that makes more sense than the fire response we've seen going on in Los Angeles. | ||
| I guess it also makes sense that Karen Bass has admitted that communists are, quote, a huge influence on her. | ||
| She actually would travel to Cuba as part of the Vinceremos Brigade, a Marxist group that started started by the Castro regime to subvert American interests, weaken democracies and spread communism around the world. | ||
| She was described as the leader of that group by the communist newspaper. | ||
| And a U.S. sheriff who infiltrated the group testified that to be part of it, you had to be confirmed as a Marxist Leninist. | ||
| And they were trained in, quote, terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare. | ||
| And by the way, Karen. | ||
| Quite a fitting name. | ||
| You can't even say that this was decades ago because you apparently still have an addiction to hanging out with communists and Marxists because just in 2023, you were caught canoodling and meeting secretly with one of the leaders of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship and Foreign Contact, one of the foremost Chinese Communist Party foreign influence groups that tries to target Western politicians to advance the policies that are preferred by Beijing. | ||
| Maybe you and Hunter Biden could get into business together. | ||
| So you know what, Karen Bass, and we'll lump Gavin Newsom in here too. | ||
| I think I have a New Year's resolution for you. | ||
| Do you know what that is? | ||
| It's to resign. | ||
| And it's to preserve your documents and hire a good lawyer. | ||
| I know they say most people don't follow through on their New Year's resolutions, but come January 20th, I think you're going to. | ||
| Right? | ||
| When I describe fire hydrants that don't work or corrupt politicians and bogus botched elections, you would think I'm talking about Cuba. | ||
| Apparently, it's Karen Bass's fetish to turn America into Cuba. | ||
| That's her slogan. | ||
| Make America Cuba. | ||
| Right? | ||
| I'm not on RAV, so I think I can cuss, but they turned your country, they turned California into a shithole. | ||
| And it was all by design. | ||
| And they're laughing about it, right? | ||
| So don't lecture us, right? | ||
| These are the what? | ||
| The intellectual geniuses. | ||
| The logistical geniuses, the complex systems, whatever HR term, euphemism they want to use, the geniuses that are now telling us that we don't have the capacity or the intellectual capability to come up with the formation of mass deportations. | ||
| You guys don't even know how to get damn water in your fire hydrants, so spare us the lectures on telling us that we won't be able to carry out mass deportations. | ||
| Or better yet, shut up when you tell us that we aren't allowed to hire what, quote, loyalists. | ||
| President Trump is so radical for hiring a bunch of loyalists. | ||
| Well, at least they're loyal to this country, and they're not a bunch of DEI affirmative action hired bureaucrats who suck at their jobs. | ||
| But apparently, if you read Pride magazine... | ||
| They don't. | ||
| The new LGBTQ female fire chief chick. | ||
| Let's read this headline. | ||
| Los Angeles' first LGBTQ +, important to get the plus in there, fire chief is proving lesbians get it done. | ||
| That's an actual headline. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| We can put it up if we have it. | ||
| If we don't, you'll have to believe me. | ||
| I know it's so wild. | ||
| Like I say, Meta can't even fact check me because they don't have their fact checkers anymore. | ||
| I've been wanting to get to that story, but we've been stuck dealing with all these fires. | ||
| Right? | ||
| But here's the point, and we're going to get to our first guest momentarily. | ||
| You cannot defeat fires with DEI, with wokeness, with progressivism. | ||
| You can't build cities off of wokeness and DEI and progressivism. | ||
| It's not just about the fires itself and the burn. | ||
| Immense, innumerable, unquantifiable amount of acres and homes and structures and families that have been displaced. | ||
| It's also about what this symbolically represents that is being burnt down. | ||
| A complete and utter failure of a democratic supermajority, both politically, culturally, spiritually, in the beautiful state. | ||
| Of California in Los Angeles. | ||
| Also, those people could pat themselves on the back and say, look, we're a multicultural society. | ||
| We're woke. | ||
| Yeah, we're not racist Republicans. | ||
| We didn't vote for Trump. | ||
| We're the good ones. | ||
| Like I said, my house is under mandatory evacuation order, so I'm allowed to say this, but I hope it was worth it. | ||
| I truly hope it was worth being able to make your pronouns on your driver's license, ZZIM and ZIR, whatever it may be that day of the week. | ||
| So when you had to flee the fires that were started and appeasing, trying to appease the climate change cult, at least your driver's license has ZZIR on it. | ||
| You might have to abandon your car and it's going to get engulfed in massive apocalyptic flames. | ||
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But hey. | |
| At least you can be non-binary and you can get an abortion post-birth and your kid can become trans at six months. | ||
| I won't call you homeless because I guess I have to call you unhoused, right? | ||
| That's the appropriate term as I was taught growing up in Los Angeles. | ||
| Wild times. | ||
| Absolutely wild times. | ||
| Almost sinister times, too. | ||
| I'm honored to bring back Jeremy Kaufman, I think one of War Room's favorite guests. | ||
| You, of course, are of fame. | ||
| The FBI, I think, came to your house. | ||
| You shouted them down. | ||
| You need to go do that to a LAFD or Karen Bass. | ||
| But there's something really interesting going on with the insurance claims, especially in the Palisades, the numbers in terms of houses that they recently canceled, the premiums. | ||
| I wanted to bring you on to sort of walk the audience through what exactly is going on in terms of the financial insurance aspect of this whole story. | ||
| That's at least not getting a lot of coverage right now. | ||
| Jeremy, hit us with it. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us. | ||
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Thank you for having me on. | |
| There's a common theme of everything you're talking about, which is the left likes to deny reality and then get mad when reality occurs. | ||
| We see this. | ||
| There's a lot of focus on the DEI stuff. | ||
| Yes, if you pretend everyone is the same in their firefighting ability and don't optimize for who's the best firefighter and who knows the most about fires, you're going to get bad outcomes. | ||
| But there's also been a denial of reality on the market side of this, on how insurance is priced and who can buy it. | ||
| And so California has a law that says you can only use historical data. | ||
| To price your insurance. | ||
| So you can't use future projections. | ||
| So what the insurance companies did is they, of course, are monitoring the situation. | ||
| They're the ones who have to pay out all this money. | ||
| They saw the Palisades as a very risky area, and it was too expensive, or they were not legally allowed to charge the price for the danger. | ||
| And so what they did is they just dropped a bunch of their customers, right? | ||
| Because insurance isn't charity. | ||
| They have to make money, you know, they have to make money too. | ||
| It's a business of pooling risk. | ||
| And so if they can't charge the price that they need to charge for the risk of that area, they're going to drop you. | ||
| So there were thousands of homeowners in the Palisades who were simply dropped by their insurers because California made it illegal. | ||
| Well, I mean, | ||
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- I mean, what I think is whoever at Allstate predicted that these fires are gonna happen is who should be put in charge of the California Fire Department, right? | |
| Like these insurers saw that this was gonna happen and they, like, I can get the sort of feeling that, hey, if they knew this was gonna happen, like they should have done something about it. | ||
| There's something sort of wrong that they're doing as well. | ||
| You can't expect these places to be charities, right? | ||
| And if they're not allowed to charge the market clearing price, then what else can they do then drop you? | ||
| I do think I haven't gone through everything that they were saying. | ||
| It would be nice if the insurance companies had been shouting more about this and agitating against the environmental agencies and the leftists who prevented good forest management. | ||
| But it is pretty clear that the insurance companies correctly predicted. | ||
| That there was an increased risk of fire in these areas. | ||
| And just walk us through. | ||
| I know a lot of people are focusing on sort of the DEI aspect of it. | ||
| Obviously, all these hires that they found, as Steve always says, they look like they're... | ||
| From the Star Wars bar, and that's maybe mean to Star Wars, but just from your sort of perspective, the sort of impetus for all of this, do you think that we're right to be? | ||
| I know we're not allowed to politicize it, but do you think that the DEI incompetence, the environmentalism, I sort of said it's this convergence of everything that is wrong with modern-day progressivism on full display and full ablaze right now. | ||
| But from from your perspective, what do you think is sort of the the push, the compounding factors that have produced this truly, I mean, fire of epic proportions? | ||
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Yeah, the the it's impressive how many different areas the left can deny reality in simultaneously. | |
| And this is just another area, right? | ||
| They want to believe, in terms of forest management, you know, that... | ||
| That you can just keep everything alive and that we should now have no fires at all whatsoever. | ||
| And of course, this produces buildup of brush and essentially all of this stored risk. | ||
| And then what happens is the market correctly perceives that risk. | ||
| And so, again, the left tries to sort of legislate reality away. | ||
| And they say, well, you're not allowed to charge that much money for the insurance. | ||
| And so they deny reality on who should be a firefighter. | ||
| They deny reality on forest management. | ||
| They deny reality on how we manage the insurance market itself. | ||
| And then what you're going to see happen next is... | ||
| The politicians, the leftist politicians in California are going to attack. | ||
| They're going to attack the insurance companies, and the media is not going to tell them the truth, right? | ||
| And so they're going to say, the people are going to have to pay, they're going to call for bailouts, and they're going to call for more regulations and more rules. | ||
| And there will be no admittance of any kind of failure here on any axis that they denied reality. | ||
| They will just deny reality further and attempt to regulate reality further. | ||
| Jeremy, if people want to follow you, as always, thank you for coming on the show. | ||
| Where can they go to do that and stay up to date with all your analysis? | ||
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Yeah, I'm about to hit 200,000 followers on X, and I give you takes there that you might not see in other places, so you can follow me at x.com slash Jeremy Kaufman. | |
| Jeremy, thank you so much for coming on. | ||
| We'll have you back. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| War Room Posse, of course, you got to make sure you're checking out Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws. | ||
| It's a great coffee table book. | ||
| Of course, warroom.film, government, gangsters, sacredhumanhealth.com, the best grass-fed beef liver, very good for glowing skin, might I humbly add, sacredhumanhealth.com. | ||
| And I just want to lay down a marker now, because what was the word of the day when everything that we saw transpire in North Carolina with the floods and just the absolutely atrocious, horrific response there? | ||
| It's misinformation, right? | ||
| Start the clock. | ||
| Start the clock on actual victim blaming, where they will start blaming Californians, Americans writ large. | ||
| Say, oh, you're spreading misinformation if you're criticizing our response to this fire. | ||
| Well, let's just get the record straight. | ||
| Your response has absolutely sucked. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| You don't have water and firemen are using handbags to try to put out tens of thousands of acres worth of fires. | ||
| That's not misinformation. | ||
| It's the truth. | ||
| We here in the war room, unlike Facebook, are still in the business of fact-checking because the facts... | ||
| Have always been on our side. | ||
| Just on that topic, the State Department is launching a new counter disinformation agency. | ||
| It's called the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation Interference Hub. | ||
| It's a mission center energizing a network of U.S. interagency, international and private sector partners that decisively exposes and counters disinformation and propaganda. | ||
| Their mission is to direct, lead, synchronize, integrate and coordinate efforts of the federal government to recognize, understand, expose and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security or stability of the United States, its allies and partner nations. | ||
| So that's going to be a Trojan horse for some more censorship. | ||
| I think I just found a new agency that needs to be shut down. | ||
| But humble suggestion to Joe Biden, the deep state, if you want to focus on the threats that are plaguing this country, maybe start with getting water in the fire hydrants. | ||
| Call me radical. | ||
| Call me an extremist. | ||
| I think it's the truth. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
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So I want to reach down and bring you up. | |
| And that's kind of something that stuck with me to this day. | ||
| Part of that work means speaking up for those who can't. | ||
| Over the last few years, LAFD has dealt with a fair share of controversy. | ||
| And Larson, not afraid to sound the alarm. | ||
| I chose to speak out pretty much by myself about the issues of sexism and racism within my department and the need for change. | ||
| I don't think there's any question that our department is. | ||
| The best at fighting fires. | ||
| We do it better than anybody in the world. | ||
| But when it comes to the personnel side, we have some issues and they're not insurmountable, but they need to be addressed and fixed to the best of everybody's ability. | ||
| Yeah, I'm sure when what, trenchial fires are pouring down on the city of Los Angeles, did you try telling them, oh, well, we're not sexist or racist? | ||
| Did that help? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| But thank you for rooting out what systemic racism from Los Angeles Fire Department. | ||
| It really has gotten us so far, so far, so far that I get to sit here and host a show while my house is under a mandatory evacuation order. | ||
| But hey, at least my fire department's not racist. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| We are now joined by the intrepid and wonderful investigative reporter, not very beloved by MSNBC for her wonderful gotcha interviews. | ||
| I love watching them. | ||
| Savannah Hernandez, who actually is in Santa Monica right now. | ||
| Before we get into some of the on-the-ground interviews that you've been conducting, I think the audience is really curious what people there think is causing these fires. | ||
| It seems like more are springing up every night. | ||
| We were talking in the break, and you told me that you were originally supposed to be going to San Diego to do some work reporting on the homelessness crisis. | ||
| But then you had to go up north because of now these wildfires, which I think is a true testament to just the woeful mismanagement of the great state of California. | ||
| But give the audience sort of a synopsis of what you've been doing there, your sort of overarching interviews with the locals, what they think is going on. | ||
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Absolutely, Natalie. | |
| Well, like you said, I was originally in San Diego. | ||
| I did not fly here for the fires. | ||
| But because it's California, you can really pick and choose, right? | ||
| You want to focus on the homeless crisis, the drug addiction crisis, now these historically destructive wildfires. | ||
| Now, when I was in San Diego, actually, I had a local who took me to a homeless encampment because the fire chief over there said it was a hot spot for fires and that we should go investigate it. | ||
| As soon as we got there, we saw the beginnings of an unattended fire. | ||
| Having to call the fire department, Natalie. | ||
| So there is absolutely a lot of truth to the homeless being able to set fires, obviously, throughout the entire state of California. | ||
| And these oftentimes turning into these very huge and destructive fires. | ||
| So that's what was happening in San Diego. | ||
| And then we made our way up to Alcadena, Pasadena area, to take a peek at the fire there. | ||
| Let's not forget that that was one of three yesterday. | ||
| Now, you know, we're at like four or five. | ||
| Separate fires that popped up. | ||
| We've had tens of thousands of acres burned. | ||
| It's been absolutely devastating. | ||
| But in the Altadena area, I was speaking to residents, one of which who was actually in his home as the Eaton fire was surrounding it. | ||
| He stated that his electricity was turned off yesterday afternoon. | ||
| And then the fire really started and made its way to them in the evening. | ||
| He was wondering, how did this start if all of our electricity was down? | ||
| Many of the residents stating, yeah, we've been getting information from outside sources because we don't even know what's going on due to the fact that we don't have electricity. | ||
| So I spoke to this resident. | ||
| He was saying that he watched the fires rage for an hour and a half. | ||
| Before finally evacuating his home, not one firefighter showed up. | ||
| There was no helicopters, of course, due to those strong winds. | ||
| But many of the residents asking, where were the firefighters? | ||
| We were warned two days ago about these strong winds. | ||
| We were warned, but there was no preparation. | ||
| And that's something that I heard from so many residents. | ||
| Another resident as well, Natalie, this was absolutely insane because, again, this resident, Albert, he's telling me. | ||
| Fires were raging. | ||
| We didn't see any firefighters. | ||
| We ended up evacuating last night. | ||
| Fast forward to yesterday morning around 7 a.m. | ||
| I'm speaking to another resident who said that the firemen had barely gotten there that morning at 5 a.m. | ||
| She had left to go by her own fire hoses because at this point, the residents of California have resorted to turning on sprinklers and essentially trying to save their own homes with their own water because... | ||
| This is the situation that they've been left in with basically zero help. | ||
| She went to go get her own fire hoses. | ||
| The police had cut off the road and would not let her through to go and bring those fire hoses to her home so that she could continue hosing down the area around her home to try to make sure that... | ||
| Our fires didn't come back because, keep in mind, a lot of these other areas that are affected are still smoldering. | ||
| The strong winds come in, reignite things. | ||
| So the entire situation is so poorly mismanaged. | ||
| The communication is horrible. | ||
| The firefighters are stretched thin. | ||
| I spoke to a firefighter yesterday who, of course, stated, yeah, basically all these blue hydrants that you're seeing, we have not been able to pull water out of them. | ||
| We don't have the ability or the manpower, quite frankly, to put out these fires. | ||
| At the end of now, we still have zero percent containment on the Pacific Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire. | ||
| We have five reported dead. | ||
| You have 350,000 who are without electricity. | ||
| I mean, these are really third-world conditions, Natalie. | ||
| It's obviously still so raw, but in your interviews with people, did you get a sense that there was sort of an anger or a frustration or at the very least confusion with California-Los Angeles leadership? | ||
| Like, what is sort of the vibe on the ground there in terms of who people feel is responsible for this utter tragedy? | ||
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Oh, absolutely. | |
| I mean, it's really half and half, right? | ||
| Because we are in California. | ||
| So a lot of the liberals are like, oh, it's just the natural wildfires. | ||
| This happens every time. | ||
| They really haven't gotten to that next natural progression of, OK, how did our leadership get us to this point? | ||
| But you do have the other half of Californians who really do understand that it was the lack of fire prevention. | ||
| It's the fact that water reservoirs have not been built in California, a new one since, what, the 1980s. | ||
| You know, you had Mayor Karen Bass that was in Africa. | ||
| Of all places. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Nobody knows. | ||
| But she's in Africa. | ||
| Meanwhile, her entire city is undergoing evacuation orders and we're seeing these historic fires. | ||
| So there are Californians that see the issue that are definitely asking, again, those questions. | ||
| If we knew strong winds were coming in, if we know that this happens every single year, why was nothing done to prevent this from happening? | ||
| And again, too, you know, the fire insurance aspect. | ||
| Many residents talking to me as well about how their insurance was canceled. | ||
| And this one resident, her mom lived in a Zone 6 area or Code 6, it might have been called. | ||
| So they canceled her fire insurance because they basically articulated, yeah, the insurance companies know that California leadership is not going to do anything to prevent fires. | ||
| So the insurance companies then don't want to insure them because they know that based on the location that they're at, that basically everything's going to burn. | ||
| And just another word that you used, I think, that certainly piqued my interest, I'm sure the audience agrees, the sort of intentional, right, the arson, right? | ||
| I saw a video last night, I believe it was Dr. Andrew Huberman, who posted it just to fire people intentionally setting a fire on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica. | ||
| He said he called in the cops, they came, they put it out. | ||
| But like I said, last night, another fire sort of sprung up in the Hollywood Hills area. | ||
| What do people there think is causing it? | ||
| Do they think it's naturally derived or is there potentially an arson component to this? | ||
| Looks like we might have some technical difficulties if we want to try to reboot Savannah. | ||
| It's all good. | ||
| Because, now look, you can call me conspiratorial. | ||
| We've only been, what, crowned the number one spreader of misinformation by the New York Times. | ||
| I'll take it. | ||
| But here's the thing. | ||
| What was it yesterday? | ||
| I told you about that Washington Post article. | ||
| It's from 1996. Warning. | ||
| I think the headline sounded like something straight out of my mouth. | ||
| It was that illegal aliens are responsible for an ever-increasing number of wildfires in California. | ||
| And they said if nothing was done about this, well, there would be a catastrophe. | ||
| Now look, it's obviously too early to tell what exactly caused this fire. | ||
| But you certainly can't sit there and say, That the countless fires, and don't worry, I'm going to get into the data, that have been caused by illegal aliens have not drained the resources, of course exacerbated, or you could say aided and abetted, by Karen Bass's decision to chop block their funding. | ||
| And by the way, what was it, the couple tens of millions of dollars that she took off their docket? | ||
| Where do you think that money ended up? | ||
| Really only two options, right? | ||
| It's either Karen Bass's pockets or connected lobbyists and friends or the case of Joe Biden, we learned it's probably the family members. | ||
| I do think Hunter Biden's Malibu mansion did actually burn down. | ||
| Apologies for that. | ||
| But here's the thing. | ||
| They probably used it for illegal aliens to begin with, right? | ||
| I'm hearing reports that all the American or the Californians, the Los Angeles residents who Don't have homes anymore and are needing to spend the night in shelters. | ||
| The shelters are full of illegal aliens. | ||
| And by the way, like I said, the Government Accountability Office, I believe it was back in 2011, They had done some analysis. | ||
| And I'll read the headline. | ||
| This is from Reuters, okay? | ||
| This isn't the Gateway Pundit. | ||
| This isn't War Room. | ||
| This is from 2011. GAO study links Arizona wildfires to illegal immigrants. | ||
| Quote, found that of 77 human-caused borderland wildfires that were investigated by federal officials from 2006 to 2010, 30 identified illegal border crossers as a suspected source of ignition. | ||
| I'm just saying. | ||
| When you jam through, what, 15 million illegal aliens, which if this study shows, at least in Arizona, are responsible for nearly half of the wildfires going on there, you're going to drain your resources, not just of your fire department, but of your entire country, of your entire state. | ||
| I think California spends $21.8 billion annually, and that's at least what they report. | ||
| On immigration. | ||
| And don't even get me started. | ||
| On legal immigration and the whole H-1B, H-2B, visa issue. | ||
| It's what I really want to be talking about. | ||
| But Gavin Newsom is making that quite difficult. | ||
| Like I said yesterday, I stand by it. | ||
| Maybe he needs to be lobbying and groveling for a preemptive pardon, too. | ||
| I think we are again rejoined by Savannah. | ||
| Yes, we are. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Savannah, if you want to pick up where you left off, just sort of... | ||
| What... | ||
| The sort of pulse on the ground is when it comes to what is causing these fires, dare I use the A word, arson, but it just seems weird. | ||
| I mean, it's a reductive and simplistic way to put it, but it just seems like these fires keep popping up. | ||
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No, you're absolutely right. | |
| This started off with the Pacific Palisades fire on, what, Tuesday morning? | ||
| And then we saw the Altadena fire pop up. | ||
| We saw the Hearst fire pop up. | ||
| And then last night, we saw the Sunset fire pop up. | ||
| And residents on the ground very much saying, we don't believe there are electrical wires up there. | ||
| This very much seems like this fire was potentially set. | ||
| And then on the ground level in the city, you're already seeing the homeless lighting these fires all over the place. | ||
| So truly, Natalie, it does seem... | ||
| Like, the California government will try to protect the environment for everything but human beings from the homeless crisis and the homeless being allowed to light these fires to, again, the lack of fire prevention with forests or even forest management, the fact that the water reservoirs have not been built since a new one since the 1980s, that fire hydrants have run out of water. | ||
| I mean, this is just a perfect, I guess, equation. | ||
| To have the worst fires that we're seeing and what we're currently experiencing. | ||
| But again, regarding the arson, I very much think that was in play. | ||
| And the most sinister part about these fires, too, is that we never get answers, right? | ||
| We never get answers on how they started. | ||
| And it always kind of seems like that gets brushed under the rug and then comes in climate change. | ||
| And that's the new talking point. | ||
| No, I mean, Karen Bass spent, what, three minutes being silenced when she was asked about, do you like going to Ghana? | ||
| You want to go back? | ||
| I think we'll only know if this fire, or who started this fire, if it is probably a straight, white, Trump-voting, you know, January 6th participating male. | ||
| Otherwise, there'll be no interest. | ||
| I'm just curious if you have been able to do any reporting or see or talk to people in terms of the shelters or temporary housing being set up for people who have been displaced. | ||
| I know there were some reports. | ||
| There are reports that a lot of these areas are already overcrowded because of illegal aliens. | ||
| But what is sort of the movement, the logistical operation side of the sheltering look like out there? | ||
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That isn't something I've been able to investigate, but it's absolutely at the forefront because, like you said, we are hearing those reports and we've even seen it. | |
| I was just in San Diego outside of an entire hotel that has been utilized for illegal immigrants over the last year. | ||
| And you're seeing pallets of water there. | ||
| You're seeing buses there. | ||
| You're seeing, again, individual hotel rooms allocated and, of course, millions and even billions of dollars allocated to sheltering these illegal immigrants. | ||
| So regarding this shelter right now, that's something I'm going to go investigate. | ||
| These hotels already have been filled by illegals. | ||
| So this kind of reminds me of New York, right? | ||
| Where if you're a tourist and you want to even rent a hotel for the night, it's going to be either extremely expensive because they're all filled up or you're not going to be able to because illegal immigrants have taken precedent. | ||
| So that is still an issue here in California. | ||
| And I guarantee that is also playing a part in this. | ||
| Savannah, if people want to follow you, stay up to date with everything you're working on, maybe you can tease a little bit of the work you're going to be doing down in San Diego. | ||
| Where can people go to do that and stay up to date with everything you're doing? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Go follow me on x at sab underscore says underscore and go follow the Frontline's Twitter account as well because we have multiple reporters who will be on the ground investigating this, talking to residents, trying to figure out what's going on in California. | ||
| Thank you, Savannah. | ||
| Please stay safe. | ||
| I love Santa Monica. | ||
| It's my hometown. | ||
| I wish we could offer you a better welcome right now. | ||
| But thank you for doing the hard work that not a lot of reporters are interested in doing. | ||
| We appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you for joining us on The War Room. | ||
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Thanks, Natalie. | |
| Of course. | ||
| Warren Posse, as you know, times are turbulent. | ||
| If you like Pavlov's dog, anytime I hear that, I think of Steve saying that about Birch Gold, so you probably know where I'm going. | ||
| You've got to be checking out birchgold.com slash Bannon or texting Bannon to 989898 while you still can. | ||
| Get the latest installment of The End of the Dollar Empire. | ||
| Maybe read that while you're drinking what? | ||
| A cup of your Warpath dot coffee. | ||
| This is the medium roast, not the dark roast that Steve likes, but it's cool packaging. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| It sort of looks like a fire. | ||
| Maybe bad timing. | ||
| To promote that one. | ||
| But it's BoardPath.coffee. | ||
| And lastly, NationalPulse.com slash War Room. | ||
| You guys know I got my start over there working under Rahim at the National Pulse, so you can subscribe. | ||
| NationalPulse.com slash War Room. | ||
| Now, I want to flag for you guys, too, just some other relevant reporting because the Biden regime is not going quietly into the goodnight. | ||
| Catch my drift there. | ||
| They're doing everything that they can do to sabotage President Donald J. Trump's what should be third, I guess, legally speaking, second term, but particularly on the front of immigration. | ||
| Not only, for starters, there's a new group that sprung up. | ||
| It's called Civil Service Strong, which is basically the manpower, the sort of actual actionable material. | ||
| Activist group of a coalition called Democracy Forward, which is sort of the new hotbed of Resistance 2.0. | ||
| People like Norm Eisen and his group, the state democracy defenders, are all involved in this, ACLU SPLC. But they are advising, actively advising federal employees on how to whistleblow, how to file complaints, how to sue, all those sort of lawfare tactics, right? | ||
| Lawfare is not going away. | ||
| They're just rebranding. | ||
| Like I said, it's called Civil Service Strong. | ||
| So they're certainly getting all their resources, to use the word that we started this show with, together. | ||
| Funny how Gavin Newsom's, what, $25 million fund to bail out criminal illegal aliens from deportation. | ||
| That's about the amount of money they stripped from LAFD. I wonder if that's where that money went. | ||
| But there's no issue of lack of resources there. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So explain to me, Karen Bass, how you're cutting the LAFD budget while you're setting up a secret slush fund to avoid deporting criminal illegal aliens. | ||
| Some other exclusive reporting. | ||
| You know, we're not just into rants here on The War Room. | ||
| Hey, I gotta keep up with Steve. | ||
| It's a tough job. | ||
| I always call this job a fool's errand. | ||
| Anyone who wants to be Steve Bannon's co-host, because it's a very hard job. | ||
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But... | |
| The Office of Refugee Resettlement has put forth policy changes, get ready for this one, that will now make it so unaccompanied minors entering the United States will be asked for their pronouns and can now identify as nonbinary. | ||
| Now, this wasn't something that was, you know, done in an EO or really publicized to the American people. | ||
| It was buried in like a 20,000, 30,000 page document that I read on the Federal Register talking about guideline and policy reviews that they're conducting sort of via the administrative state route, like I said, as opposed to via Congress or anything like that. | ||
| But in the entire document about how they want to streamline the unaccompanied minors' admissions process, which I would say it shouldn't be admissions, it should be rejection, deportation, that's the issue that they wanted to focus on. | ||
| They thought illegal alien children were being oppressed because they couldn't put their pronouns as they, them, or identify as non-binary. | ||
| Let that sink in. | ||
| And then, of course, speaking of natural disasters, you have the Biden regime actively working to prevent the implementation of a rule that would allow Border Patrol to turn away migrants that pose a public health security risk to the United States of America. | ||
| And now this rule is supposed to go in effect in 2021, but every single year they have worked to block the implementation of it, and now they're trying to extend it through 2025. They're also trying to revise the H-2B visa process. | ||
| This is going to go into effect on January 17th. | ||
| So there are less barriers to citizenship. | ||
| And rework all of the H-1B stuff so they can jam through even more foreign workers. | ||
| To take your jobs. | ||
| To take your livelihoods. | ||
| So they can treat you like roadkill and make you train your replacements or make you watch your damn house get burned down. | ||
| So a bunch of oligarchic climate change hacks, fetishists, deranged cultists can feel good about themselves. | ||
| Well, I guess here in the war room, I was going to say we fight fire with fire, but I think there's only one way to fight fire nowadays. | ||
| And that's with President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| As always, thank you for joining me for this hour. | ||
| I will see you guys tomorrow. |
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