Jan. 13, 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. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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Mega 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. Mann. | ||
| Monday, 13 January, in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| We're about to start the Days of Thunder. | ||
| The preamble will be, remember, if you keep in score at home, that whole number one, get his team in place. | ||
| Now, they're hiring like crazy. | ||
| They've got the National Security Council that's coming up. | ||
| They're hiring like crazy. | ||
| We're going to go through all that. | ||
| In fact, Posa is going to join Ben Harnwell. | ||
| I've got Frank Gaffney. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, a big announcement of something we're going to do this afternoon at 1 p.m. | ||
| I want everybody to tune in, too. | ||
| But we're going to really, and I think Moe's actually, we're going to be there for the tomorrow with Pete Hegseth. | ||
| Before Pete goes, there's going to be these junior officers, really the folks that fought these wars, are going to go out and have a show of force for Pete before the hearing, and then there's going to be a bunch of junior officers at the hearing. | ||
| In fact, I think our own Captain Bannon will make it if she can get back in time. | ||
| We'll maybe have her on the afternoon show if she's not traveling to get us up to speed on that. | ||
| A lot going on. | ||
| I do need you, and the bond market is now finally saying they've had enough of Biden. | ||
| So what they're trying to do in the business media is saying two things. | ||
| That, and remember how biased they are, they're saying that the deportation of the unskilled workers, the deportation of the unskilled workers are going to drive up inflation because you're going to take all the workers away from... | ||
| From the low-skilled jobs, they've really suppressed the wages of the African-American and Hispanic community. | ||
| That was the whole purpose of why the Biden regime brought them in here. | ||
| Obviously, they want the votes also. | ||
| Number two, the tariffs. | ||
| They're saying President Trump's tariffs plan, the tariff plan is going to be inflationary, which is not the case. | ||
| Go back and look at President Trump's first term. | ||
| He put the most stringent tariffs I think has ever been on, China, the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And his inflation was basically bupkis in the years 18 and 19 when he left office. | ||
| In fact, the reason so many people voted for him was they want to go back to the economy and peace and prosperity. | ||
| They want the world back in 19, pre-the Chinese Communist Party bioweapon that was COVID-19. | ||
| And so President Trump's got a track record, a demonstrable track record. | ||
| And Peter Navarro... | ||
| You know, we had a guest on the other day, John Gardner, talks about, this is Saturday, if you didn't make the Saturday show, and I was only able to tuck it in because he's got a manufacturing book about making America a manufacturing superpower. | ||
| Again, and it's doing it through small manufacturing businesses. | ||
| But John's, we talked and we kind of came up with this concept that I think is quite powerful. | ||
| You know, What John's saying before the panic of 1906 or 1907, which was caused by the Great Fire in San Francisco in 1906, this is why California has a huge impact and you have to watch what's happening in Southern California. | ||
| The fire of 1906 led to the panic of 1907. It was J.P. Morgan himself that stepped in basically as an individual and with his bank was able to sort that mess out before the economy collapsed. | ||
| Later, I think they had J.P. Morgan testify, I think it was in front of the Senate, and they were asking about his role and his self-serving, and he said all the bonds in Christendom couldn't get him to tell a lie about what went on. | ||
| That all came from that period. | ||
| It was right after that that they went to a federal, shortly thereafter, the creature of what Jekyll Island with the Federal Reserve came up, the control of our money, the Federal Reserve, also the income tax, but they had a mind shift. | ||
| Up until then, tariffs. | ||
| Had really financed tariffs and fees, things for getting into the U.S. market, really were the only revenue source. | ||
| I think the states were the only people that tax personal income. | ||
| So this concept, and they created a group that's inside the federal government, reports to the Treasury, called the Internal Revenue Service. | ||
| Well, John Gardner, where we were talking about the other day, is that the mindset, and I think this is what President Trump is trying to shift the mindset, and Wall Street's blowing back on it, saying, hey, your deportation plan's going to be inflationary, your tariffs are going to be inflationary, they kind of missed the point. | ||
| It's going to be anything but that, both of those. | ||
| But the concept and the construct now, I think, is the change, as President Trump's doing and talking about Greenland and Panama and extending the frontiers of the United States, kind of Manifest Destiny 2.0 or the Monroe Doctrine on steroids or even what they're calling the Great Game, which you know was between Russia and Great Britain back in the 19th century around Central Asia, particularly Afghanistan, that the new Great Game will be in the Arctic, but even Stavridis. | ||
| Admiral Stavridis, who hates Trump, a never-Trumper, actually said the Greenland move was strategically, I think he said, brilliant. | ||
| In all this, I think the reset, as President Trump's done so well, is to get back into the thought of the external revenue service. | ||
| Think about it for a second. | ||
| When I talk about the deficit, you know, the 6, 6.5 trillion dollars we spend. | ||
| And how you have this deficit because we only take in like $4.5 trillion, maybe $5 trillion. | ||
| Most of that is still, I think two-thirds of it, is still personal taxes or taxes on entrepreneurs and LLCs, but it's all basically personal taxes, right, from the little guy. | ||
| The corporations, I think the total tax of corporations is like under $500 billion. | ||
| Over $3 trillion, I think, is personal taxes or taxes related to Social Security, roughly. | ||
| And I think the mindset is that you have this huge internal revenue service. | ||
| They've added 10,000 agents because, think about it, everything related to the U.S. government, which much of that is to support the American empire or corporations overseas or support kind of deadbeat countries and deadbeats like NATO who won't pay their bills and won't pay for the defense or even in the Gulf Emirates. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You've got to throw Israel into that. | ||
| I'm not saying they're a deadbeat, but the cost of doing all this in the Middle East, in the Gulf Emirates, in the North Arabian Sea, in the Persian Gulf, where I was deployed as a young man back in the 70s. | ||
| What do we do in the South China Sea and around, you know, with Japan and the East China Sea? | ||
| That it's all paid for by American taxpayers. | ||
| It's an internal revenue service. | ||
| And this construct is, hey, well, hold it. | ||
| Why don't we reinitiate what they had in the 19th century? | ||
| What about an external revenue service? | ||
| And codify the tariffs. | ||
| President Trump is very serious when he talks about these tariffs. | ||
| And what he's saying is that why do they get a free pass to get access to the greatest, most robust, vibrant market in the world that the American citizen, the American citizen, you provide the substrate of stability to make this such a robust commercial and consumer market. | ||
| Our deficit, I think, in November, the trade deficit with China was over $100 billion. | ||
| The trade deficit has been huge. | ||
| And what are they saying? | ||
| Well, the trade deficit has been so huge over the last couple of months because people are front-running buying things from China because they understand President Trump's tariffs are coming. | ||
| I think we have to have a total reorientation. | ||
| A total reorientation. | ||
| External revenue service. | ||
| Why is all the burden put on taxpayers? | ||
| There should be a mentality that says, hey, guess what? | ||
| To get access to this market, to get, I think, even to capital markets. | ||
| That will probably be later. | ||
| And I keep saying that, hey, if the wealthy don't want to get taxed, two things they should do. | ||
| Number one, they should get their lobbyists and the donor class should back off this massive federal spending. | ||
| Because in the back of the day, the federal spending is all in response to pressures put on them from either interest groups and or lobbyists that represent specific interest. | ||
| If you want to cut the spending, you've got to back that pressure off. | ||
| That's where the donors come. | ||
| So you tell the donors to the wealthy, hey, look, you can have it two ways. | ||
| We can close this deficit and you can help assist the doge guys in the deconstruction of the administrative state. | ||
| And you can help them stop this whole madness about federal spending. | ||
| Or guess what? | ||
| Somebody's got to pay for it. | ||
| We're beyond the stage of just running up the national debt. | ||
| You just can't do it. | ||
| Because now it's not just your children and grandchildren, it's you. | ||
| You do basically have a second mortgage on your house if you're lucky enough to have one. | ||
| Right? | ||
| The way you're paying now with inflation. | ||
| And we just walked through how, if you don't have a house, think of it as a, or if you're not a family group, think of it as just another loan out for you at about $100,000. | ||
| And the payments on that loan go to build inflation. | ||
| This is why one of the things of inflation is you've got to get the financing costs for the government down. | ||
| Well, you've got to get that down to people in the treasury market to stop flooding it with more and more treasury securities that you have to finance or refinance. | ||
| It's pretty straightforward. | ||
| But we have to take the thing off that we're going to pay for the whole thing internally. | ||
| Why does that have to be? | ||
| It doesn't. | ||
| It can be external. | ||
| I'm not saying it's going to take away all your personal taxes day one. | ||
| I'm not saying it's going to take down dramatically, but it's a start. | ||
| And it's a mindset. | ||
| The mindset is, hang on. | ||
| We've got an internal revenue service. | ||
| They're adding 10,000 agents, and all they're going to do is audit me and come after me. | ||
| What about external revenue? | ||
| And what does that mean? | ||
| It's more than just tariffs. | ||
| It could be fees. | ||
| It could be all sorts of things when you get creative. | ||
| Bottom line. | ||
| To get access to you in the United States of America. | ||
| A nation, not an idea. | ||
| America is not an idea. | ||
| America is a nation. | ||
| With a border and a culture and a people and citizens of that, they've always been looked at to burden everything. | ||
| It's time now, and I think this is the perfect time for it, because President Trump is really coming, and what he's doing, he's a disruptor. | ||
| And in that disruption, look at how he's already changed the strategic calculus with the whole, what I call, Fortress America, or the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, or Manifest Destiny 2.0, or the Great Game 2.0, where he's saying, hey, maybe our borders actually go from the Panama Canal, which President Trump is going to take it back. | ||
| He's not going to allow some local government. | ||
| That was kind of given this on a loan to then turn it over to the Chinese Communist Party for the military. | ||
| That is not going to happen on President Trump's watch. | ||
| And also Greenland. | ||
| And I think the Greenland gambit is brilliant because the Greenland gambit puts the Russians on notice. | ||
| And it puts NATO on notice. | ||
| The Russian army, as far as a strategic threat to the United States of America, is, you know, I don't know if it gets into the top ten for the United States of America. | ||
| The Russian Navy, is, number one, the Russian Navy as far as a military threat. | ||
| That entire Russian Navy, or virtually every important element of it, has to come through the Greenland, Iceland, UK, from their bases up near the Arctic, and Mermanks, and I think Archangel and some other places. | ||
| But it has to come right by Greenland. | ||
| The United States takes Greenland, both the Chinese Communist Party in the Arctic, and also the Russians strategically are on their back foot. | ||
| And this is what President Trump's doing. | ||
| He's looking at things differently. | ||
| He's looking at things differently. | ||
| Now, you have the corporate entities in the deep state. | ||
| We're going to have tonight from the Daily Signal, I think in the 6 o'clock show, there's a poll out that shows that 50% of federal bureaucrats, I think it's 50% of federal bureaucrats, and the administrative state and deep staters are saying they're going to have full resistance to President Trump. | ||
| Full resistance to President Trump. | ||
| Not like, oh, well, we won't take his orders, but they're going to resist because they don't think he's taking the country in the right direction. | ||
| Well, it's not their say-so. | ||
| He is commander-in-chief. | ||
| He is the chief executive officer. | ||
| And you're going to see this. | ||
| He's the chief magistrate of this country, the chief magistrate, which is this unification, this unified theory of the executive, which for so long they've allowed the Justice Department to do. | ||
| President Trump is taking that back. | ||
| That's per the Constitution. | ||
| He's the chief lawmaker in the country, the chief law enforcement officer in the country. | ||
| The turmoil here is going to be quite extensive. | ||
| President Trump's just not going to have a clear path because they're going to try to chop blocking. | ||
| The corporations are all down there right now with their little million-dollar checks and they want to come to the inauguration and they want to wear a black tie and paddle around and go to all the receptions. | ||
| That's all fine. | ||
| That's part of an American tradition. | ||
| But those corporations, and particularly the tech corporations, there's some comments I have in the New York Post today with the great Miranda Devine talking about Zuckerberg. | ||
| Zuckerberg can't be trusted at all. | ||
| He came in the Oval Office. | ||
| They lined him in the Oval Office when I was there. | ||
| And I went absolutely bonkers, but he still got to the Oval Office. | ||
| And later, he put up $450 million of his own money to steal the 2020 election. | ||
| To steal the 2020 election. | ||
| These guys are supplicants now because President Trump is coming in with the American people have his back. | ||
| But after six months a year of hard fighting and resistance at the administrative state and deep level and the corporations, is Zuckerberg and these guys going to be counted on? | ||
| The only thing they can be counted on is to look after their own self-interest. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| If anything outside of that, you're fooling yourself. | ||
| These supplicants, it's all performative. | ||
| A short commercial break. | ||
| Johnny Kahn takes us out. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
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The president has mentioned he will say to that murderous former KGB colonel, that thug who runs the Russian Federation, you will negotiate now. | |
| Or the aid that we have given to Ukraine thus far will look like peanuts. | ||
| That's how he will force those gentlemen to come to an arrangement that stops. | ||
| I will say, you know, the other thing that we're going to need to see is really stabilizing things on the battlefield. | ||
| And one of the things that we'll be asking of the Ukrainians is they have real manpower issues. | ||
| You know, their draft age right now is 26 years old, not 18. I don't think a lot of people realize that they could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers. | ||
| So when we hear about morale problems, when we hear about issues... | ||
| Look, if the Ukrainians have asked the entire world to be all in for democracy, we need them to be all in for democracy. | ||
| And they certainly have fought bravely. | ||
| They certainly have taken a very noble and tough stand. | ||
| But we need to see those manpower shortages addressed. | ||
| This isn't just about munitions, ammunition, or writing more checks. | ||
| It's about seeing the front lines stabilized so that we can enter into some type of deal. | ||
| You know, Mike Walls, Green Beret, has served his country, fought for his country, good man. | ||
| Seb Gorka, as you know, we think the world is Seb, good man. | ||
| I think there's something that I write here. | ||
| This is not President Trump's war. | ||
| He does not own this war. | ||
| He's had nothing to do with this war. | ||
| He tried to stop it. | ||
| He came out as a world leader at the beginning, out of office. | ||
| An office that was stolen from him, that the war would never happen if he was the president, which he was legitimately and stolen by these imposters. | ||
| These imposters did this. | ||
| Folks on this show have known, we have fought this from day one for the Ukrainian people to say we're going to get to the same spot. | ||
| So in the run-up, and Ukraine's going to be big because you've got to step into that decision immediately. | ||
| Right there is the echoes of Vietnam. | ||
| You know, we've got to turn this over to the Vietnamese. | ||
| Balls, what you're talking about, that implies to me a long process of our engagement. | ||
| That's not the deal here. | ||
| President Trump doesn't own it. | ||
| Kagan has written, please, guys, over there, read the Kagan piece. | ||
| Kagan has already said, this is going to be Trump's biggest strategic defeat. | ||
| President Trump has no ownership here. | ||
| None. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| Nada. | ||
| The null set. | ||
| And Seb, I love you, but haven't we given these guys enough? | ||
| We've given them billions, we've given $250 billion, a quarter of a trillion. | ||
| Would we not like to have that money back to take care of situations like in Southern California? | ||
| That there's going to have to be a bailout of insurance, they're going to come looking for a bailout of insurance, a bailout of everything. | ||
| And this is why I went through the bond market. | ||
| It's not free anymore. | ||
| The Federal Reserve just doesn't have the ability to create this fiat currency. | ||
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The rest of the world's saying, Yo! | |
| Yo! | ||
| What are you guys doing? | ||
| You've got to refinance $7 trillion. | ||
| That's why the 10-year treasury is going to go up and your life is going to change. | ||
| Your mortgage is going to be higher. | ||
| Your car loan is going to be higher. | ||
| Your credit card is going to be higher. | ||
| Inflation is going to be higher. | ||
| President Trump can beat inflation. | ||
| But not if you had this kind of massive sinkhole of debt. | ||
| And so the Ukraine thing has got to be tied back to an economic reality. | ||
| Which it seems like the national security guys are a little detached from that. | ||
| So I want to bring in two people that follow this and two people who we had on the show almost three years ago on the day before and the day the war started. | ||
| That would be Ben Harnwell and Jack Posobiec. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, help me. | ||
| Make this make sense to me, brother. | ||
| Please. | ||
| Well, Steve, when it comes to Ukraine, certainly the United States has sent already ample amounts of... | ||
| Weapons, ample amounts of armaments, ordnance. | ||
| In fact, we've sensed so much that key admirals within our own navy are saying that we're running out of our own ordinance to defend against the Chinese Communist Party and others. | ||
| We're also hearing the same from the army in terms of the artillery stockpiles and the shells that we aren't even able to produce enough to maintain our own military stockpiles. | ||
| I'm not entirely sure where all these extra weapons are coming from unless they mean that we're going to do it. | ||
| We're going to be digging into our own pockets even more in terms of that because that's just reality. | ||
| I do understand, of course, President Trump wanting to – perhaps this is President Trump's policy and he wants to maintain credible deterrence, and credible deterrence means you have this threat of escalation on the table. | ||
| Certainly understand that, and I'm not dismissing it. | ||
| But the fact of the matter remains that in 2024, what President Trump and J.D. Vance campaigned on was an end to the endless – An end to the forever wars. | ||
| These wars, which, by the way, I don't know if anyone's been looking lately, but they're not going too well for the Ukrainians, as it turns out. | ||
| Go and look at the vast cauldrons that Russia has created in Donetsk and Lugansk and going out into the Donbass region, okay? | ||
| They're running roughshod over the Ukrainians right now in the Russian-speaking eastern provinces, and they've got an eye on the strategic goal of the Dnieper River and possibly looking even past that. | ||
| To Kherson, Nikolaev, and then down to Odessa, which we've been talking about on this program for a long time. | ||
| So you want to escalate, you can escalate, but what the Russians have shown is that they're more than willing to escalate to them with these new strategic weapons, these hypersonic-style glide missiles that they've been able to show they have a capability for. | ||
| They can escalate with strategic weapons without even going nuclear. | ||
| So what does that mean? | ||
| They can go out further and further. | ||
| Look, they just struck the Ukrainian Rada. | ||
| Which is their parliament building for the first time not far from Zelensky's office. | ||
| That's why, by the way, and Zelensky knows he's pressed up against the wall. | ||
| That's why for the first time since he suspended them all the way back in May, suddenly Zelensky is saying he wants elections again. | ||
| Oh, suddenly Zelensky wants elections because he realizes that he's in a bad negotiating position right now and he realizes that the writing is on the wall. | ||
| That this thing, Steve, and we said from the start that we don't support the war. | ||
| We don't think that the war is justified. | ||
| But we also look at it and we say we also don't think that it was unprovoked and that it is unwinnable. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| It's unwinnable. | ||
| Because what? | ||
| You want to go fight? | ||
| You're going to go fight to the last Ukrainian? | ||
| What happens when you run out of the 17-year-olds or the 18-year-olds? | ||
| Then you move to the 17-year-olds and then the 16-year-olds and then you got the pensioners going out there. | ||
| You got the graybeards. | ||
| What, are we going to send the Steve Bannons out there? | ||
| No, I don't think so. | ||
| That's what they're going to be pushing for. | ||
| This is going to be like the end. | ||
| Of the end of World War II and the Battle of Berlin, at least before VE Day, when they were sending these German pensioners out with the machine guns and trying to hold the line. | ||
| They couldn't hold up for a second against Marshall Zhukov. | ||
| So, I mean, this is ridiculous. | ||
| Every single day that this continues, more people die for no reason. | ||
| And this is not—President Trump has no ownership here. | ||
| None. | ||
| That's my point. | ||
| The implication of sending in more weapons than the 18-year-olds is that that's going to somehow stop the Russians. | ||
| And Prince was just on here. | ||
| I'm going to go back to the Dnieper River. | ||
| Eric says when they get there, they're not going to give it up. | ||
| The thing started bad enough having the Russian-speaking eastern provinces and Crimea, but that was kind of reality. | ||
| Now you've got others. | ||
| I just don't see the Russian army. | ||
| And this is the Russian army that can never blow through, like in the old days when I was in the Pentagon after sea duty, we focused on the, what is it, the folded gap and the Red Army coming through Poland and the North German plane, and you had to have interdiction, Air-Sea-Land Battle 2000, the interdiction. | ||
| I'm not so sure that's a big threat anymore. | ||
| They can't take Kiev, but they... | ||
| There's some implication that by sending in more arms and getting the 18-year-olds, that's going to somehow show the Russians that we're in a strong negotiation. | ||
| This is going to keep pounding. | ||
| My strong recommendation is that President Trump has no ownership of this. | ||
| President Trump has fought from the beginning to say this was misguided, that the Ukrainian people are going to pay for it. | ||
| His track record here is unimpeachable. | ||
| And I don't know, all of a sudden, it looks like the implication is that you get involved here, and a year from now, you're still negotiating. | ||
| Kagan tells you what they're going to do. | ||
| They're going to say, oh, this is Trump's fault. | ||
| This is Trump's war. | ||
| This is Trump did this. | ||
| President Trump is far from it. | ||
| So, Jack, I'm just concerned that... | ||
| You know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. | ||
| With all kind of good intentions that we're setting ourselves up for, bad actors. | ||
| And those bad actors are the national security establishment of the progressive left and the globalist. | ||
| They've gotten us into this fix. | ||
| Why are we going to go and take their strategy and kind of double down on it? | ||
| Why would we ever do that? | ||
| These people are not good people. | ||
| They're bad actors. | ||
| Jack Posobiec. | ||
| And Steve, go and look, speaking of Kagan, go and look at the Washington Post editorial board today, because what have they done? | ||
| This is with the new Jeff Bezos. | ||
| Remember, it's a kinder, softer Washington Post. | ||
| Endorsed every single Trump nominee for confirmation with the exception of the national security team of Tulsi Gabbard, of Pete Hegseth, who have been against the Ukraine war and for winding down these forever wars, for pulling our troops from Syria as well. | ||
| RFK, who he's up for HHS, but guess what? | ||
| He's also outspoken on those issues and who's the only other member of the cabinet-level officials that they did not endorse, of course, Russ. | ||
| Vote. | ||
| So, you see, folks, this is what it comes down to. | ||
| The people who are actually... | ||
| Everybody else got across. | ||
| Everybody else gets across. | ||
| But when it comes down to the actual populists, when it comes down to the actual people that want to do something for the good of our country and not the good of... | ||
| For foreign countries, suddenly that's a bridge too far, even for the new kinder, gentler Washington Post, which, by the way, is not going to be including Jen Rubin anymore. | ||
| I'm so sorry. | ||
| I'm so hurt that I won't be able to see her wonderful writings grace the pages of that austere publication. | ||
| Hold on, don't bury the lead. | ||
| Natalie's going to pick this up at 5 o'clock, but don't bury the lead. | ||
| Jen Rubin's partnering with—who's she partnering with? | ||
| Norm Eisen. | ||
| Oh, our good buddy Norm Eisen. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Darren Beat will tell you a thing to free about Norm Eisen. | ||
| Mr. Color Revolution himself. | ||
| The granddaddy. | ||
| The Color Revolution is putting together their own squad for their own, like, mini media platform. | ||
| Hey, love it. | ||
| We're a free country. | ||
| We love free debate and free speech. | ||
| The facts will bury you. | ||
| Right? | ||
| But we love the fact that the Color Revolution guys are finally, you know, Kagan, you're going to see Victoria Nuland hanging out there, Samantha Powers, and Applebaum, the Sorority Sisters, the Sorority Sisters of death and destruction. | ||
| Seven Sisters. | ||
| Okay, Poso, hang on for a second. | ||
| The Seven Sisters. | ||
| Hey, hang on for a second, Jack. | ||
| Birchgold.com. | ||
| Into the dollar empire, which is no Rachel Maddow. | ||
| We're not trying to destroy the dollar. | ||
| We're trying to save it here in the war room. | ||
| This is why you've got to understand a concept Rachel Maddow does and help destroy this country. | ||
| That would be modern monetary theory. | ||
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The cyber program is by far and away the world's largest, bigger than that of every major nation combined, and has stolen more of Americans' personal and corporate data than that of every nation, big or small, combined. | |
| But even beyond the cyber theft, there's another part of the Chinese cyber threat that I think has not gotten... | ||
| The attention publicly that it, I think, desperately deserves, and that is Chinese government's pre-positioning on American civilian critical infrastructure to lie in wait on those networks, to be in a position to wreak havoc and inflict real-world harm at a time and place of their choosing. | ||
| The Chinese have already insinuated malware. | ||
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We're talking about transportation systems. | |
| We're talking about targeting of our energy sector, the electric grid, natural gas pipelines. | ||
| And recently, we've seen targeting of our telecommunications system. | ||
| The water, energy, the grid, Gaffney's going to go up in a second, the energy grid fought this for years, transportation systems, water, natural gas, telecommunications, this is called the biggest cyber hack ever, and he didn't even mention the Treasury Department. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, you're a naval intelligence officer, you speak perfect Mandarin, you read Chinese. | ||
| Brother, help me out here, the Chinese Communist Party already at war. | ||
| Hasn't the cyber war against the United States already started, and they're on offense and they're winning, sir? | ||
| Well, Steve, you also have to look at the different view of warfare when it comes to the strategic doctrine of the PLA and the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Again, they don't view a difference between competition and war the way we do. | ||
| So certainly we would view kinetic activity as war, but they view theft of proprietary documents. | ||
| They view theft of government secrets, cyber theft. | ||
| They view all of that as completely permissible in competition because that is the Chinese style of warfare. | ||
| It is total war. | ||
| It is war on every front, every imaginable front. | ||
| It's whole of society warfare. | ||
| That's why you see all the way down to the honeypots like Fang Fang going after congressmen or up-and-coming congressmen as they were at one point, like Eric Swalwell in the San Francisco area and others. | ||
| You're going to see this again and again. | ||
| And I just look at Chris Wray and I say, gosh, if only Chris Wray had some kind of position in some kind of agency where he possibly could have affected. | ||
| He's sitting up there and talking about what a failure he is. | ||
| Oh, it's so terrible. | ||
| It's so sad. | ||
| I can't believe this is going on. | ||
| Meanwhile, oh, you got FISA-702. | ||
| We can't do anything about that. | ||
| But that doesn't stop the ISIS guy, truck driver, from running over people on New Year's Eve down on Bourbon Street. | ||
| Excuse me, he's over in Egypt. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| It gets worse than that. | ||
| He starts off by talking about the largest criminal investigation ever. | ||
| Hey, he's bragging about it. | ||
| Largest criminal investigation he's ever had. | ||
| Put people in jail. | ||
| A thousand people in prison. | ||
| And then he ends with the fact that the Chinese Communist Party, the biggest threat, is an existential threat to the United States of America and her citizens that's already here. | ||
| It's already embedded in the infrastructure. | ||
| Just remember, unrestricted warfare, they think going to the kinetic part is actually stupid and a defeat. | ||
| They want to defeat the enemy into total submission before the first gun's fired. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| The first gun's fired. | ||
| They're already at war with us. | ||
| He just lays it out. | ||
| It's Sun Tzu. | ||
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What do you think they read at the Chinese Military Academy? | |
| Sun Tzu. | ||
| What do you think they read? | ||
| Unrestricted warfare, baby. | ||
| They read Klausowitz? | ||
| The Chris Ray thing boggles the imagination. | ||
| Jack, I know you're busy. | ||
| We'll get you back on. | ||
| Talk about Hexeth later. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| Your Twitter feed is always on fire. | ||
| Where do folks go? | ||
| Look, you can go follow me, of course, at Human Events Daily. | ||
| We're going to be up there every single day this week, and then going into next week, we'll be at the inauguration for full coverage. | ||
| By the way, Bulletproof, the new book, finally approved for Audible on the audiobook side. | ||
| I actually read this one, so we got some comments that they wanted me to read when we did the last book, so sat down, put myself under the gun, and did the entire book for Bulletproof. | ||
| That's out and it's actually got new information that we weren't even able to get into the book. | ||
| So that's up on the audio book side and people are we've got a big debate going back and forth. | ||
| Steve, what's your take? | ||
| If you read and if you listen to an audio book, does that count as listen or as having read the book? | ||
| It's listening to the book and thinking about the book. | ||
| Reading is a different set. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Go read on humans. | ||
| I'm a reader. | ||
| Steve Bannon, not an audiobook guy. | ||
| I'm not a listener to... | ||
| Not an audiobook. | ||
| Audiobooks are huge. | ||
| Don't get me wrong, but you've got to read it. | ||
| Read it to a different level. | ||
| Folks, here's the thing on Bannon. | ||
| He does four hours of podcasts a day and doesn't listen to a single one himself. | ||
| I absorb him. | ||
| I absorb him in the zeitgeist. | ||
| Okay, Jack, thank you so much, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| I'll talk to you, man. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, 2 o'clock, 2 o'clock, it's going to be up. | ||
| You've got Charlie Kirk after us, noon to 2, populist nationalism, and then Jack's at 2, we're back 5 to 7. Frank Gaffney, it must warm the cockles of your heart given the fact you've dedicated your life to this. | ||
| Have Chris Wray actually agree with Frank Gaffney? | ||
| They're embedded into the energy grid. | ||
| They're embedded into the natural gas grid. | ||
| They're embedded to all of our infrastructure. | ||
| Already embedded. | ||
| And yet he's arrested a thousand J6ers and put them in prison. | ||
| I don't think he's arrested one official at any company at Huawei. | ||
| I haven't seen anybody. | ||
| TikTok, I haven't seen anybody embedded any of the software companies. | ||
| I haven't seen one arrest of a Chinese Communist Party member, Frank Gaffney. | ||
| You know, Steve, it breaks my heart, to be honest with you. | ||
| I'd so much rather have been wrong about the warnings that we've been making for all these years. | ||
| On the grid thing in particular, I mean, Donald Trump, when he... | ||
| was president, promulgated an executive order that said, we're not going to have any more foreign equipment in our electric grid for good and obvious reasons. | ||
| One of the first things that Joe Biden did in that, you know, onslaught of executive orders when he came to office was to repeal that. | ||
| So he went from having 200 high voltage transformers from China in our grid. | ||
| Which was a terrible mistake to having 400 now or more. | ||
| And we know from some of them having been dismantled that they've got back doors in them that the Chinese can use to take them offline or blow them up or whatever they want. | ||
| I mean, this is a travesty, but it's just one example of malfeasance at the highest level. | ||
| And my beef on Ray is, you know, he's done a lot of butt covering lately on most of these things, but he has not done very much. | ||
| To counteract those problems. | ||
| And instead, as you say, it's been diverting resources to pursuing people like us. | ||
| It's outrageous. | ||
| As the Committee on Present Danger puts out, they call it World War Xi, and it's amazing. | ||
| It's a series. | ||
| You can go there. | ||
| Frank's the co-founder of that with myself and Brian Kennedy. | ||
| They've done an amazing job of going through the details. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party is already at war with the United States. | ||
| They look at war totally differently. | ||
| This cyber war, and they bet it. | ||
| Their war, and in their mind, their calculus, they're winning. | ||
| Because there's no guys like Ray on their side of the football. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Just not. | ||
| That would not address this. | ||
| But Frank, I want to say today at 1, we've got a new initiative. | ||
| We're starting totally free, but I want everybody that can to see it live. | ||
| If you can't, watch it again on tape later. | ||
| What's going to happen at 1 o'clock today on our new initiative called the Victory Coalition? | ||
| Yeah, Steve, with your help, we've put together a team to work on a facet of the war that we're facing. | ||
| And you're right, it is World War Xi. | ||
| The Chinese are at the vanguard of it, but they've got a lot of help from, I would say, other totalitarians, including the globalists with their world government strategy, but also the Sharia supremacists. | ||
| And the Victory Coalition is... | ||
| A group that is going to be focusing specifically on that problem and what it represents. | ||
| And it happens at the moment, and we're going to be talking about it in a briefing that some of our best guys are going to be giving, Gal, Karen Sigamund among them, about the war that Israel is fighting right now. | ||
| It is their war, of course, against these Sharia supremacists, but it's also ours. | ||
| And we're going to be talking specifically about What Joe Biden's team, and it's not all of them exactly, but it's an awful lot of the anti-Israel officials inside his administration, are going to try to perpetrate. | ||
| They're using it as leverage to try to essentially euchre Israel into making a ceasefire with Hamas that will save that terrorist organization, that will, I believe, actually give it the victory. | ||
| This is being done with the threat hanging over Israel's head that it will be saddled shortly with a U.N. Security Council resolution, very like one you're familiar with, Steve, because at approximately this point in the last Obama administration, | ||
| well, I call the Biden administration 3.0, but the second of the three Obama administrations, they went to the U.N. and they got UN Security Council Resolution 2334 adopted. | ||
| They had New Zealand bring it up, not the United States. | ||
| And the United States didn't vote for it, but they abstained and that allowed it to become binding. | ||
| And the purpose of that was basically to screw Israel. | ||
| And that's what they're doing now with another idea, which is to have the finding made by the U.S. government that Israel has, in fact, been preventing humanitarian assistance from getting to the civilians in Gaza. | ||
| That's not true, but they're going to say it. | ||
| And then they're not going to do anything about it themselves because they don't want to actually be tagged as being hostile to Israel. | ||
| But they're going to work probably with the Algerians. | ||
| Slovenians or some other group to bring to the UN Security Council a very, very draconian resolution that would be binding on Israel if it doesn't do the ceasefire. | ||
| And really, I think, create not only terrible problems for our friends in Israel as they fight our war and theirs, but also... | ||
| Problems for Donald Trump. | ||
| That's the other piece of this strategy, is to bind Donald Trump. | ||
| And you've documented this brilliantly on any number of examples. | ||
| Here it is again. | ||
| It mustn't be allowed to stand at 1 p.m. | ||
| If you haven't registered, please go to victoryco.org. | ||
| To get in on the Zoom call. | ||
| It will be streamed, I think, by Grace on your platform, Steve, and it will be available afterwards. | ||
| But it's really important that people take this aboard because we're watching the undermining of one of our most important allies as part of a larger strategy of this administration to screw our friends and help our enemies. | ||
| And last point, Steve, here's the thing. | ||
| You're going to have Joe Biden at the State Department today. | ||
| Maybe it's already happened as we speak, but he's there to tout his accomplishments in the foreign policy arena. | ||
| It should be a very short speech, but instead it's long, it's selective. | ||
| And it's characteristically dishonest. | ||
| And we've had enough of it. | ||
| But unfortunately, they're using some of the comments that Donald Trump has made about ending this hostage thing before he takes office as further efforts or leverage on Israel. | ||
| And I think that's a terrible mistake. | ||
| I hope the incoming president will make it clear. | ||
| He stands with Israel as he did so well in his first term. | ||
| President Trump's being handcuffed every day by this administration. | ||
| Whatever you look, whether it's deportations, whether it's the kinetic wars, whether it's the debt and deficit, I said this, they're trying to do everything they can to make sure that he has the hardest possible task ahead of him to turn this mess around. | ||
| They're doing this nonstop. | ||
| Frank, we'll see you at 1 o'clock, brother. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
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| Okay, Victory Coalition won a graceful charge. | ||
| Ben Harnwell is going to be the morning show, but I'm going to call an audible right now. | ||
| Ben is going to join us at 6 o'clock. | ||
| We've got a 6 o'clock show that's already packed with amazing talent, but Ben is going to lead off. | ||
| Ben has been the lead of our effort to make sense of what's happening on this Ukraine war, but also... | ||
| There's all type of debate in Europe right now as MAGA, as the populist nationalist perspective of MAGA starts to, I don't know, help these movements throughout the world. | ||
| Ben will break this down next. | ||
| Ben Harnwell with us at 6. Short commercial break. | ||
| Remember, birchgold.com. | ||
| Just take your phone, Bannon, at 989898. Find out about IRAs and 401ks. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
| Yes, we have legal immigrants in Florida, so you can't conflate illegal immigrants with people who are here legally. | ||
| Now, I've also said... | ||
| We've got some big problems with some of the legal immigration programs that we have. | ||
| I mean, we've seen this H-1B program, how companies will bring in H-1B, the Americans train the H-1B, and then they fire the Americans and hire the H-1B. How would that even remotely be acceptable? | ||
| You have chain migration, which is not merit-based, and is bringing in more distant relatives. | ||
| So there's a whole host of issues there that need major reform. | ||
| But from an immigration enforcement perspective, I mean, if somebody is here on like an H-2A visa, they are working in the state of Florida legally. | ||
| And when we did E-Verify, people would say, we had E-Verify enacted, say, hey, there's a busload of farm workers. | ||
| I saw them on I-4. | ||
| And people assume they're illegal. | ||
| And then FDLE looks, they all had the H-2A visas. | ||
| And so there's no enforcement. | ||
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Here's to your point about the MAGA rift. | |
| I'm glad to see it. | ||
| I very much agree with Steve Bannon. | ||
| I mean, the last estimate that was done, by the way, and this speaks to, Michaela, you're saying it's just 85,000 people that are allowed annually. | ||
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But the last estimate that was done in 2019 approximated that 600,000 foreign nationals were here on this visa program. | |
| all of them being provided with a pathway to citizenship that doesn't include in two years, you can then get out of that program and become a permanent resident. | ||
| OK, so they're allowed to stay in this country from up to six years. | ||
| They don't apply for permanent residency. | ||
| Of course, we can assume that the majority of them do. | ||
| And they're allowed to stay up to 10 years if they go to work for the Department of Defense. | ||
| Again, all of these applicants have a pathway to citizenship. | ||
| So you just imagine, you're like, yeah, I just went to work in America as a teacher for a couple of years and I became a citizen or as a janitor for a couple of years and I became a citizen. | ||
| It's just, it's not okay. | ||
| And I want to be clear, all across the board, it's not just the H-1B. There's a ton of visa programs that are being routinely abused. | ||
| And like I said, I have faith in the American people. | ||
| I think that the American people can fulfill those positions. | ||
| I know they can fulfill those positions. | ||
| And so I am not on the side of Elon Musk and Trump in this debate. | ||
| And I think that, you know, Elon Musk has been at Mar-a-Lago for a bit too long and thinks that that is the sample of what MAGA is, and it simply isn't. | ||
| Okay, it's not that we're not on President Trump's side. | ||
| We're obviously on President Trump's side. | ||
| It's just we have to get our hands around this. | ||
| You know, Newt Gingrich is out at least during The Guardian today, that we're rabid. | ||
| If we want the deportation of all the illegal aliens that came here in the Biden regime, that we're rabid. | ||
| We're not rabid at all, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| We have to restore this republic. | ||
| We have to restore our sovereignty. | ||
| One of the bases of our sovereignty is people that came here illegally. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Regardless of the situation, people who came here illegally have to go. | ||
| And that has depressed and crushed the low-skilled working-class workers of blacks and Hispanics. | ||
| One of the reasons we started to put this coalition together. | ||
| They have to go. | ||
| So we're not rabid. | ||
| We look at this very kind of dispassionately. | ||
| But it has to happen. | ||
| The same with... | ||
| There is no legal immigration right now. | ||
| All of it's a con and a scam. | ||
| It's all based on a kind of an architectonics of... | ||
| Screwing the American citizen. | ||
| Like big corporations. | ||
| We're not going to let that stand. | ||
| And this is going to lead to, guess what? | ||
| Pulling a hair and gnashing of teeth and some tears. | ||
| I got that. | ||
| It's something we welcome because you've got to get to the bottom of it. | ||
| And right there was Governor DeSantis and Candace Owens talking about it. | ||
| But this is not going to go away. | ||
| This is what, in the days of thunder, that start with executive orders. | ||
| Right? | ||
| One executive order I would really like to see is just for right now. | ||
| Let's just have a... | ||
| Full stand-down on quote-unquote legal immigration. | ||
| Just a total moratorium. | ||
| So we can actually start to look at these programs and see the abuse of going on. | ||
| Everybody understands the abuse, but it's deeper than the abuse. | ||
| The very essence of it is to bring in people to compete with American workers. | ||
| There's no more qualification. | ||
| And even the visa program that says you invest so much money in the country to get a free thing. | ||
| We don't need people just stroking some checks here and getting into the country. | ||
| It's all got to be rethought. | ||
| American citizens, the whole nomenclature, the whole thinking has to be put the American citizen in the middle of this. | ||
| And so we're going to be on this nonstop. | ||
| Like I said, the HB1 program, it can't be reformed because it's a scam. | ||
| It has to be just shut down, deport everybody here on an HB1 visa immediately back to their home country, and fill said jobs with American citizens. | ||
| And you won't miss one beat. | ||
| Because to date, we still haven't seen one HB1V worker that has a skill set that's greater than an American, or brain that's greater than an American. | ||
| So, I think the apartheid that is Silicon Valley, because Silicon Valley is run as an apartheid entity. | ||
| That has to be broken. | ||
| I'm sorry, this is the United States of America. | ||
| Mike Lindell, we're going to end the show, as we always end it, for a word from you. | ||
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| Thanks, Shane. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mike Lindell, like back in high school, he was doing two-a-days in the morning and the afternoon. | ||
| Charlie Kirk is next, followed by Jack Posobiec, Human Events Daily. | ||
| We're going to be back here 5 to 7 tonight. | ||
| On the eve of Days of Thunder preamble tomorrow, Pete Hegseth starts it off with his confirmation hearing. | ||
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