Jan. 17, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| So much to ensure that those who would seek to abuse our asylum system are not allowed into the country. | ||
| And those who have legitimate asylum claims, their claims are processed in due order and in due course, but they wait in Mexico until those claims are fully processed. | ||
| Will you work to reinstate that program? | ||
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Yes, Senator. | |
| The President and I have talked extensively about this and will... | ||
| A hundred percent partner with him to reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy and make sure that it's in place. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| I think Travis might be alive today if that policy had been in place. | ||
| Let me ask you about CBP1, the phone app that I've called Concierge Service for Illegal Immigrants. | ||
| I'm sure you're familiar with it. | ||
| This was the Biden administration's... | ||
| There is a newspaper report, a press report, that said the only problem with the app is it never asks users, are you seeking asylum? | ||
| They don't ask for any asylum evidence. | ||
| They simply release these so-called asylum seekers who use the app into the country on parole. | ||
| Sometimes they're never given a hearing. | ||
| The inspector general actually did a report, a full investigation report on CBP-1 and found that frequently users of this app were claiming the same addresses in the United States as their intended destination, even though they didn't know each other, they weren't family connections. | ||
| In other words, it has been completely abused. | ||
| And the idea that the federal government would pay for this kind of concierge service for illegals, I think is outrageous. | ||
| Will you end the use of the CBP-1 app? | ||
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if confirmed, and I have the opportunity to be secretary on day one, CBP1 will be shut down. | |
| There's data and information in there that we will preserve so that we can ensure we know who's coming into this country and who's already here that we need to go find. | ||
| But also we make sure that there's another program, CHNV, which I'm sure you're very familiar with, where our federal government actually paid to fly people into this country directly from other countries without any vetting or knowing who they are. | ||
| So there's several of these programs that need to be eliminated, and we need to ensure that we're following legal immigration laws. | ||
| I'm glad you just mentioned CHNV. | ||
| This is a mass parole program. | ||
| Of course, as you know, our law allows parole in only very limited circumstances. | ||
| There are two circumstances and it requires case-by-case evaluation. | ||
| The present administration, soon to be gone, has granted mass parole in direct defiance of the law, not case-by-case evaluation. | ||
| The CHNB program is one of those instances. | ||
| Will you put a stop to this abuse of our parole law and our asylum system? | ||
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Yes, we will go back to case-by-case evaluation of these parole cases and ensure that we have more resources, if you will, partner with us to make sure that our legal immigration system is fully utilized, that we have more judges, more immigration courts, so that we can process people legally and make sure that more immigration courts, so that we can process people legally and make sure that they are rather than, like Joe Biden has done, use this as an excuse to allow people to come into our country with no consequences. | |
| Let me ask you about another question. | ||
| Not a highlight, but a lowlight of this last administration and DHS. Your predecessor, the current secretary of DHS, established a disinformation board using taxpayer resources to police speech on the Internet and elsewhere to tag American citizens' viewpoints as either legitimate or not legitimate and use the power of the state to censor them, including having them removed and perhaps penalized. | ||
| This has got to be... | ||
| The darkest chapter, I think, in DHS's short history. | ||
| He eventually withdrew the board under intense criticism, but has never fully repudiated it and never promised not to do it again. | ||
| Will you pledge to us here today that under your leadership, there will never be a disinformation board or anything like it at DHS, and you will be a champion for the free speech and First Amendment rights of all Americans? | ||
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Senator, there will not be a board such as that under my leadership at the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| Fantastic. | ||
| In my remaining seconds, just one more thing about the Secret Service. | ||
| You've mentioned this, and I'm so glad that you did. | ||
| This committee, and it has been bipartisan, this committee has done bipartisan work on the attempted assassinations, or the assassination attempts, I should perhaps say, of the former president, soon to be the future president, soon to be the president, President Trump. | ||
| We were stymied at every turn. | ||
| And I should use the present tense. | ||
| We are currently being stymied at every turn by the current Secret Service leadership and, frankly, by the leadership of DHS, who have refused to turn over documents, who refuse to make people available for interviews. | ||
| We finally had to pass my own law in this committee, which we unanimously adopted a law, a statute, mind you, which would require DHS and Secret Service to turn over relevant information to us about the assassination attempts. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| When you come to office, to this office, I hope very soon, will you pledge to us that you will open the books on all of the facts associated and around these assassination attempts, that you will make available to us and to the public, most importantly, all the facts so that we can ensure that this never happens again. | ||
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Senator, if I am the Secretary of Homeland Security, I will certainly work with you to build transparency and make sure the facts are shared with you and your committee. | |
| I know that you've been very frustrated by the lack of transparency from the department, and I want to thank those of you that have worked on that report that was put together on these assassination attempts. | ||
| I know it was a bipartisan report and investigation that this committee conducted, and I appreciate it. | ||
| I appreciate you focusing on that and I'll work with you to get the information so that you have the truth of really what happened there and the failures so they can be fixed. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That's a great place to end and a high note as I see my friend Senator Blumenthal who did fantastic work on this effort and it will be an incredible... | ||
| It's an incredible new day and incredibly refreshing to have a DHS secretary who will tell us the truth, who will be honest with us about the facts, honest with the American people, and who will enforce our law. | ||
| And I know you'll do that, Governor Noem. | ||
| I look forward to supporting your nomination. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Senator Blumenthal. | ||
| Thanks, Senator Johnson. | ||
| Welcome, Governor Noem. | ||
| And thank you for being here. | ||
| Thank you for visiting with me. | ||
| And thank you to your family for their service. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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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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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. Band. | ||
| Okay, it's Friday, 17th January at Year of the Lord 2025. | ||
| Days of Thunder continue. | ||
| We're going to go back. | ||
| Senator Blumenthal, one of the most radical Democrats in the Senate, questioning Christine Noem. | ||
| We've got a lot going on today. | ||
| We're going to go to East Palestine, Ohio in a moment. | ||
| Let's go back to the hearing. | ||
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Ask you about disaster relief. | |
| California is on fire. | ||
| The fires raging there are going to leave destruction and devastation that is heartbreaking. | ||
| I am really disappointed with some of the statements that President-elect Trump has made. | ||
| For example, saying that, quote, "We won't give him," referring to Governor Newsom, "money to put out all his fires, and if we don't give him money to put out fires, he's got a problem." The specter is there of potential discrimination based on politics, withholding money from California or other states. | ||
| It's not an unfounded fear. | ||
| In the last administration, there were public reports about President Trump withholding money from the state of Washington because of his disagreements with Governor Inslee. | ||
| Connecticut, like the rest of the nation, suffers from these natural disasters. | ||
| Most recently in August, we were hit by major flooding, and these natural disasters are going to become more frequent, as will be the need for the federal government to meet the requests for declarations of natural disaster. | ||
| I assume you will agree with me that withholding disaster relief by President Trump or any other... | ||
| Chief Executive of the United States is a violation of his duty and of law. | ||
| Well, Senator, leadership has consequences. | ||
| And looking at the tragedy that's happening in California— I want to ask you yes or no, with all due respect. | ||
| What's happening in California is the ramification of many decisions over many years. | ||
| But under my leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, there will be no political bias to how disaster relief is delivered to the American people. | ||
| So if President Trump were to say to you, we're going to withhold money from Connecticut or Michigan or any of the states, Iowa? | ||
| Because we don't like the governor or we don't like the politics of the state, you would stand up to him and say, Mr. President... | ||
| We need to allocate that money. | ||
| Senator, in three days, President Trump will take an oath to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law in this country, and he will do that, and I'll be glad to have him back. | ||
| And I assume that's a yes. | ||
| I don't speak to hypotheticals, which is what you're asking me to do, but what I will tell you is that as secretary, I will do the same. | ||
| I will deliver the programs as the laws dictate. | ||
| Well, it's more than a hypothetical, with all due respect, and I apologize for interrupting you, but my time is limited, as you know. | ||
| I'm a veteran of these hearings. | ||
| It's more than a hypothetical. | ||
| It's based on experience with President Trump withholding money from Washington State and elsewhere. | ||
| I need to know from you, will you stand up to the President and say, no. | ||
| The Constitution and the Impoundment Act requires us, for example, to allocate the $100 billion that we have just appropriated in the last session to States like Connecticut, $3 million. | ||
| Texas, $10 million. | ||
| Almost every one of the states represented here. | ||
| Will you say no to the president if he withholds that money? | ||
| Sir, I don't know about the scenarios that you're referencing with President Trump, but what I will tell you is that if given the chance to be Secretary of Homeland Security, that I will deliver the programs according to the law and that it will be done with no political bias. | ||
| And if the programs... | ||
| Or if you decide to change the rule of law, then I will follow that while appearing to the Constitution. | ||
| So you pledge to allocate and distribute that $100 billion? | ||
| According to how the program is written, with no political bias. | ||
| Every American deserves to be there and have disaster relief, the same as their neighbors. | ||
| Basically following the law? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Let me ask you. | ||
| Senator Peters asked you about homegrown terrorists. | ||
| The New Orleans tragedy was the result of a homegrown terrorist born in this country, radicalized by ISIS. And it reflects the reason why the intelligence community, | ||
| the FBI, almost all of our law enforcement has said repeatedly domestic Violent extremism is the most lethal and persistent threat to our security. | ||
| That terrorist was radicalized by ISIS. The investigation is underway. | ||
| We don't know all the facts, but we do know that he was a military veteran and ISIS was responsible for radicalizing him. | ||
| Shouldn't we focus on ISIS as a threat? | ||
| Senator, certainly we should be focused on all threats to this nation's security. | ||
| That's the mission of the Department of Homeland Security. | ||
| And homegrown terrorism is growing. | ||
| We have more and more incidences. | ||
| The tragedy we saw and the terrorist attack in New Orleans. | ||
| What will you do to combat it? | ||
| What will you do to stop ISIS and other extremist organizations from radicalizing people in this country? | ||
| Well, certainly, Senator, I'll continue to work with the administration and our partners and the Department of Defense, the intelligence agencies, also within Secretary of State and the other branches and cabinet officials to make sure we're bringing all resources to bear to identify and to stop these types of terrorist activities. | ||
| What I would say is the cybersecurity and intelligence... | ||
| Elements that we have within the Department of Homeland Security have been incredibly siloed. | ||
| They have not communicated with other intelligence agencies like they should and partnered. | ||
| INA has some interaction, but not enough. | ||
| And we also need to have CISA have interaction with the FBI, CIA to make sure they're working together to stop these types of threats and identify when they're growing among our citizens and how they become radicalized. | ||
| This area of questioning, I think, is supremely important. | ||
| I know there's a lot of focus on the border. | ||
| We all want more border security. | ||
| Let me have it. | ||
| Blumenthal. | ||
| They call him, what, Da Nang Dick because of his stolen valor. | ||
| Blumenthal a liar. | ||
| One of the worst guys in the Senate. | ||
| I want to hear that from Kristi Noem. | ||
| My question, he talks about $100 billion. | ||
| Where's that $100 billion in Appalachia? | ||
| Of the folks, we're going to have a working group call tomorrow that Ben's helping set up because we're going to get all over that to push this forward on Monday, over the weekend, but obviously for Monday and the following days when President Trump comes back. | ||
| And this glorious restoration of the Trump administration. | ||
| Right there, Kristi Noem, Governor Noem, is getting grilled this morning as Department of Homeland Security. | ||
| Josh Hawley was the individual, if you're listening on the podcast later or if you're listening now on radio and don't have the vision, that was Josh Hawley, one of the best of the U.S. Senate populists from Missouri. | ||
| And, you know, talking about the scam of the CPB1, all of it that we address in the show all the time with a guy named Ben Burquamp. | ||
| Now, we just heard there's a hundred, what is it, a hundred billion dollars they put into... | ||
| Into the fund. | ||
| It has it now. | ||
| And the question is, we just had been down in Appalachia, in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, where those folks are freezing in sub-zero, or excuse me, sub-freezing weather, still living in tents because the Biden regime has deemed that they're not worthy of aid. | ||
| But we're going to go to East Palestine, Ohio right now. | ||
| Really, the pivot point. | ||
| For President Trump, I tell you what, can we play the cold open? | ||
| We've got a cold open for a minute, because this is where President Trump is taking the oath of office on Monday. | ||
| And in his, and you guys who rode shotgun with us back in 21 in those early months, the pivot point in the primary to hurdle President Trump to winning the primary and then the presidency was a very specific visit. | ||
| It was his visit to East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| Because only Trump went there, because only Trump can go there. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play it, and we're going to bring in Ben Burkwam live. | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| What are you making about Biden not showing up, you showing up before he did? | ||
| Thank you so much for coming. | ||
| Thank you for not forgetting about us. | ||
| Thank you for coming. | ||
| Thank you, Don Jr., too. | ||
| What's your name? | ||
| My daughter was there. | ||
| What's your name? | ||
| Mr. Trump, I love you. | ||
| Mr. Trump, I love you, baby. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Thank you for your service. | ||
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Mr. Trump, I love you. | |
| Do you have any concerns for the residents here in East Palestine? | ||
| They're going to be treated so good now. | ||
| FEMA's coming up because we came here, and FEMA does a great job. | ||
| And they'll be taken care of now. | ||
| They were not going to be taken care of, but they're going to be taken care of now. | ||
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Did you hear any concerns from the mayor or from the fire chief? | |
| Well, the mayor's done a fantastic job. | ||
| The fire chief has done a fantastic job. | ||
| The problem was the federal government was going to send nobody. | ||
| And when I said I was coming, they changed their tune rapidly, and now they're sending the whole group. | ||
| So FEMA's coming, and they're coming with a lot of help and a lot of money. | ||
| Okay, President Trump's visit there energized. | ||
| He turbocharged, I think, the meaning and purpose in the back of his campaign and turbocharged him through the primary to the presidency that he would, at high noon on Monday, take the oath and be 47th president of the United States. | ||
| Ben Berquam, you're in East Palestine. | ||
| Talk to us. | ||
| You've got some folks there. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| And by the way, FEMA, you know, President Trump said it at the time when, I'm not so sure, the performance of FEMA has been as great. | ||
| As he perceived at that time, I think they've done a terrible job. | ||
| The FEMA director was an embarrassment. | ||
| I think he did a terrible job regarding East Palestine, and they've done a terrible job regarding Appalachia in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, from the hurricane and the massive flooding. | ||
| And, you know, and I say that it has not strings. | ||
| It has to be certain conditions you have to have. | ||
| And this is in California. | ||
| You can't have radical governance and radical rule for decade after decade after decade that causes these disasters. | ||
| And then just throw money at these progressives in California and think it's all going to be better because it's not. | ||
| Ben Berkman, what do you got for us? | ||
| Yeah, Steve, by the way, to Representative Blumenthal, shame on you. | ||
| I was going to use a different word. | ||
| Shame on you for talking about representing the people, getting the people the funding that they need when you have abandoned Appalachia. | ||
| You've abandoned North Carolina. | ||
| You've abandoned... | ||
| You've abandoned Georgia and you've abandoned the community that I'm standing in here now. | ||
| Chloe, if you'll show this crowd. | ||
| Thank you to Rick Chai for putting this together. | ||
| This is a crowd from East Palestine here. | ||
| This is just a small representation of the people whose lives have been destroyed by this administration, by Norfolk Southern, by FEMA, by the very people that are supposed to be representing The people. | ||
| And I've got... | ||
| We're going to be talking to a lot of them, Steve, but I just finished an interview. | ||
| This is the first interview that's been done. | ||
| Edwin Wang of Saram Fab right across the street. | ||
| We were actually going to do the event there, Steve. | ||
| We're going to get these groups here. | ||
| But no one is willing to go into that building, his warehouse, because they still have not cleaned the warehouse. | ||
| Edwin... | ||
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It's a plant. | |
| It's a plant. | ||
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Excuse me. | |
| It's a manufacturing plant. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| This is outrageous. | ||
| Wait till you see this, Steve. | ||
| We just did the interview. | ||
| Wait till you see the interview. | ||
| But I just want you to tell us, Edwin, talk to us through what you just told us over there. | ||
| What happened and what has been FEMA's response, the government's response so far? | ||
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All right. | |
| My name is Edwin. | ||
| I'm a small business owner. | ||
| And I started a business 23 years ago, and we started a business in New Jersey. | ||
| And then by the end of 2018, I thought this is the right time. | ||
| We need to do something for the country. | ||
| We have been a wholesale business importing products from internationally. | ||
| At that time, I thought it was the right time to do something for the country. | ||
| So I gave up everything in New Jersey. | ||
| I moved to East Palestine to take over two abandoned buildings. | ||
| And we spent a lot of money to renovate the buildings to the current condition, as everybody can see in the town. | ||
| So we established two new plants making high-temperature insulation materials for steel mill industries. | ||
| This is like a multi-million dollar investment. | ||
| For a small business owner, this is a large sum of money. | ||
| So we made an investment in this town and building two new plants and relocating a wholesale business here. | ||
| We immediately created 50 jobs. | ||
| So without the development, we would... | ||
| Create more and more jobs, I believe, and we are going to generate tremendous revenue from the three companies and make a huge contribution to the local economy. | ||
| And that one night, everything was devastated. | ||
| So we lost everything. | ||
| We lost all the employees, we lost our customers, we lost all the orders. | ||
| Received from our customers. | ||
| And most importantly, we lost a safe facility to continue our production. | ||
| So after that disaster, EPA, Norfolk Southern, they used my property for the last two years to perform massive cleanup operations around the building. | ||
| They have dug very deep into the ground to remove the contaminated soil. | ||
| A lot of soil has been removed around my building. | ||
| And today, I want to have people's attention to the building itself. | ||
| They have done so much around the building for the last two years. | ||
| So far, nothing has been done. | ||
| To decontaminate the building itself. | ||
| The building is in the center of the contamination. | ||
| This is unbelievable. | ||
| And now nobody wants to enter into that building in the town. | ||
| Go ahead, Steve. | ||
| Ben. | ||
| Yeah, so let's cut to the chase here, but is it still contaminated? | ||
| Has FEMA been out? | ||
| Have they given him the resources or they just seized his building? | ||
| He's had to lay everybody off and nothing's changed. | ||
| I mean, what action is being taken? | ||
| Is he getting support or have they just seized it? | ||
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I don't know what is going on. | |
| Nobody cares about this building, it seems to me. | ||
| Although they entered into the building several times to do some testing, that's it. | ||
| Nothing has been done to the building itself to decontaminate it. | ||
| And there is no information to share with me as a property owner. | ||
| I believe I have the right to get information about what is going on on my property. | ||
| This is two years later. | ||
| I'm telling you, Steve, wait until you hear the story. | ||
| This is the first time I've heard this. | ||
| It's absolutely insane. | ||
| It's been no communication with the owners? | ||
| No communication with Mr. Wang right there? | ||
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No communication with me, no. | |
| No transparency at all. | ||
| Terrible. | ||
| Sir, can you hang on for one second? | ||
| Ben, hang on one second. | ||
| I just got to cut back to the hearing. | ||
| Annie Kim is grilling Christine. | ||
| Let's cut back to the hearing. | ||
| We're going to come back to East Palestine in just a minute. | ||
| Then he should come before this committee as well. | ||
| And I know that that's something where, as far as I know, his role will be directly at the White House, is not something that will be under the purview directly of this committee. | ||
| So I just wanted to raise those concerns. | ||
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Yeah, Tom and I work very well together and talk and communicate all the time, and we'll be working together on a daily basis when we're in our positions under the new administration. | |
| And I would say there's no authorities being planned to be taken away from the department or myself if I'm in. | ||
| But it sends some mixed signals. | ||
| You can understand how people in my home state, maybe around the country, when they hear Mr. Holman saying, I'm making the decisions. | ||
| When they hear President-elect Trump say, he's in charge of our border. | ||
| So I urge that we're going to try to do our best to try to make sure we're empowering the department, empowering the next secretary, because that's where our laws are invested in our decision-making. | ||
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Well, thank you, Senator, and we'll make sure you have all the information that you need. | |
| And Tom, working directly with the president, and I, working directly with the president, hope to help you get all that you need to reassure that the authorities will stay the same as they currently are, but we will continue to work to secure that border and make sure that we're working together in that way. | ||
| I want to just switch gears. | ||
| You raised the concerns about terrorism, especially foreign terrorist groups. | ||
| I guess I just want to ask you, what are the major foreign terrorist groups that are out there that we're tracking? | ||
| Which are the ones that are concerns to us in terms of potentially trying to inspire or coordinate an attack upon us? | ||
| And if you can just give me a sense of what their current capabilities are to try to enact that. | ||
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Well, I think we face a lot of threats, Senator. | |
| And since I'm not in the role today, I shouldn't get into specifics with you. | ||
| Well, you can at least get into specifics about what organizations that are out there. | ||
| So I just wanted to get a sense of your knowledge of the organizations. | ||
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We have all the traditional terrorist organizations that have always threatened the United States. | |
| But I would also say Hamas, ISIS, continuing down that path of those terrorist organizations. | ||
| But we'll continue to also focus, though, not just on those, but also the cartels, their partnership with... | ||
| And what they are doing. | ||
| Listen, I've told people for years, for over 30 years, I've worked on national policy, on food policy, on agriculture policy, and I've seen the Chinese agenda to infiltrate our country, control our food supply chain, but also their manipulation of their currency and stealing our IP. | ||
| And now I believe that this fentanyl crisis that they have flooded our country with is geared, and the purpose of it is to kill our next generation of Americans. | ||
| No, I don't discount the importance of those. | ||
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on one or two groups, I think it takes your eye off the ball as to where all the threats could come from. | |
| We just spent a significant amount of time talking about homegrown terrorism as well. | ||
| I'm glad we're having that conversation. | ||
| But the reason why I mentioned it, I was not trying to quiz you or anything of that nature. | ||
| It's just that when the Department of Homeland Security, when their threat assessment for 2025 lists three organizations, lists al-Qaeda, lists ISIS, in particular ISIS-Khorasan, and the IRGC and the threat from Iran. | ||
| I just want to make sure that I get it. | ||
| You're talking about the importance of the border. | ||
| We all understand that. | ||
| We want to work with the incoming administration to try to have an order. | ||
| That's Senator Kim from New Jersey with Christy Nomer. | ||
| We're going to come back. | ||
| We're going to go to East Palestine. | ||
| We may try to go to the Middle East, even Bethlehem if we can pull it off. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break right now. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
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| In your face, aggressive smears or try to lay traps for later. | ||
| So just fantastic job. | ||
| And your support, the overwhelming support that you've given by working the phones, emails, text messages, social media, all of it. | ||
| These folks know you have their back. | ||
| And I tell you what, they go on with a lot of confidence. | ||
| I know this personally from talking to them, knowing that the Warren Posse has their back. | ||
| We also have the back of the people in East Palestine. | ||
| Let's go to Ben Burquan. | ||
| Ben, I like to go around the room and just get a feel, particularly how much progress has really been made in the last couple of years since President Trump. | ||
| And do they believe that's because the Biden regime just just is not interested in working class people in places like eastern Ohio? | ||
| Ben Burkwine, I'm going to turn it over to your brother. | ||
| Yeah, let me just go around the room here. | ||
| By the way, Edwin has a letter we're going to try to get to President Trump, hoping that when President Trump's in office, he'll be able to come out here and make a difference for it. | ||
| I'm going to come back to Edwin in just a minute. | ||
| I just want to go around the room. | ||
| Tell us, the response you've gotten from the federal government, where are you guys at now? | ||
|
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We still need a federal declaration of disaster. | |
| We don't have health insurance. | ||
| Health insurance people do have does not cover these chemical testings and things that we need. | ||
| We still need relocated. | ||
| Our homes haven't been tested. | ||
| We don't even know what to clean with. | ||
| Can you clean vinyl chloride with bleach? | ||
| Nobody even told us. | ||
| People are still sick. | ||
| We need out of these homes. | ||
| And we need research money. | ||
| Not just for us, for everybody listening. | ||
| This isn't a political issue. | ||
| To me, politics has no room when it comes to human health. | ||
| That train didn't ask if we were Democrats or Republicans before it derailed here. | ||
| And this could happen in any community. | ||
| So the research that you do on us, we've already been made into guinea pigs. | ||
| We need money to do research to find out what happened to our bodies and what may happen to yours next. | ||
| We've had no help at all from the federal government. | ||
| As a matter of fact, February 28th, I will be forced back home, and I cannot go back home. | ||
| My stepfather's a 90-year-old Korean War vet. | ||
| We're going to be homeless because our home is that contaminated that we cannot return. | ||
| Nobody has helped. | ||
| There's no reason for them to end our relocation. | ||
| They know what they did to our home. | ||
| The EPA, they had deemed us a special circumstance. | ||
| That didn't go away. | ||
| Chemicals don't know a calendar date. | ||
| We've had no help. | ||
| And I am begging President Trump, please don't let my family become homeless. | ||
| Please do something to help us. | ||
| Please. | ||
| Make me believe in the government again, because I... We've been failed by all of them. | ||
| Please make a difference. | ||
| Show that you care. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Ma'am? | ||
| Hi. | ||
| My husband's Dr. Chai, and he's been doing a lot of work in the creeks exposing all the chemicals. | ||
| I see how this has affected his health. | ||
| And it's small things that just pile on and continue to happen. | ||
| So I can only imagine the people out there in this town that are sick, and they're not coming forward, and they don't know what to do. | ||
| And the further we get away from this disaster, the more the government or the EPA or whoever is in charge says that, well, we don't know if that's from the chemicals exposure. | ||
| But we know what has been happening here over these past two years. | ||
| It's been piling on and piling on. | ||
| And God forbid any more happens because I don't want to see the health of the people here in ten years. | ||
| So this is a message to President Trump. | ||
| You came here. | ||
| You didn't forget about us. | ||
| You came here. | ||
| You brought us water. | ||
| You brought us supplies. | ||
| And we are forever grateful for that. | ||
| And we, right now, are counting on you to do the right thing. | ||
| J.D. Vance, our Vice President-elect Vance, knows what's going on here. | ||
| And so does Robert Kennedy Jr. So they know. | ||
| And we are counting on you. | ||
| Steve? | ||
| Let me ask you, can you just ask her, when she says piling on and piling on over the last two years, can she be specific about that? | ||
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One illness turns into another illness, turns into another illness, and you don't know the origin of the illnesses. | |
| I'm just speaking from someone I know. | ||
| Over time, it's like it starts as one thing, but then it turns into another and turns into another, and you can't find the root cause of it, no matter how many doctors you go to. | ||
| And then there are people with cancer now, and people have passed away in this town, and they are saying it's unrelated, but we don't really know at this point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I'll tell you just personally, I get sick every time I come here. | ||
| I don't live here. | ||
| I can't imagine living here, Steve. | ||
| Every time I come, it starts with the same symptoms. | ||
| Sore throat, headache, sinus issues. | ||
| If I stay longer, I get nauseated. | ||
| And they're telling these people... | ||
| Does anyone trust what the government's telling you? | ||
| Raise your hand. | ||
| Anybody. | ||
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No. | |
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| Just make sure. | ||
| This is not raising your hand. | ||
| Anyone trust what the government's saying? | ||
| You do? | ||
| I trust the one who's coming in, though. | ||
|
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I trust President Trump. | |
| I do. | ||
| Do you guys think it's going to get better under President Trump? | ||
|
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Oh, yes. | |
| It can't get no worse. | ||
| Come, come, come, come. | ||
| If we can't see you. | ||
| Come, come, come. | ||
| We've got to get in this shot. | ||
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I didn't want to do this. | |
| We're from Pennsylvania. | ||
| And we were completely left out of everything. | ||
| We've all had testing in our household, and we've all tested positive. | ||
| When they decided to blow up the vinyl chloride cars, the cloud came over us. | ||
| And there's documentation online by a gentleman who does not want to be interviewed showing the cloud coming into Darlington and Darlington Township. | ||
| And we've had our water, our soil tested. | ||
| We tested positive for vinyl chloride and benzene both. | ||
| All three people. | ||
| Yeah, in our body. | ||
| All three people in our household. | ||
| My husband developed a rare form of male breast cancer 18 weeks after the derailment. | ||
| And we are headed back for more testing today because we don't know that... | ||
| It hasn't returned. | ||
| And, you know, I know that people in Pennsylvania are also suffering. | ||
| My heart breaks for the people in East Palestine. | ||
| I grew up here. | ||
| But it's county, you know, statewide. | ||
| There's more than just one area affected. | ||
| And nobody, nobody wants to hear. | ||
| And Steve, one of the other things that's going on, we've got Pastor Shelly. | ||
| Hang on, Ben. | ||
| Ben, hang on. | ||
| Just hang on one second. | ||
| Ask the folks when there was unanimous, there's unanimity that they don't trust the government. | ||
| In the last two years since President Trump was there, what actually interface have they had with the government? | ||
| Is it EPA? Is it FEMA? Is it the federal level, the state level? | ||
| When they say they don't trust it, they hope President Trump turns things around. | ||
| What interface, what interactions have they had with what branches of the federal government? | ||
| Is it EPA? Is it FEMA? Is it other parts of DHS? Is it HHS? Can you just ask and get a – let's just do some quick hits. | ||
|
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So, Steve, because President Biden said this was – Man-made and not a natural disaster, FEMA could not help. | |
| We haven't got one bottle of water or any assistance. | ||
| And my argument was 9-11 was not a natural disaster either. | ||
| And FEMA rushed there. | ||
| And anyone else? | ||
| Thank you, Rick. | ||
| Anyone else? | ||
| EPA, who have you been talking to? | ||
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Not only do we not trust what the EPA has said, we've done our own investigations and we have many, many tapes of them proving that they lied to us. | |
| CDC, under the Biden administration, allegedly went door to door. | ||
| They went door to door for one day and got sick and left and never told us. | ||
| When we forced the CDC back in, do you want to know what they told us almost verbatim to thousands of people? | ||
| You've all been exposed. | ||
| You all have chemicals in your body. | ||
| We don't know what to do about that, but we can treat the cancer it causes. | ||
| Why wasn't that over every front page news? | ||
| They said that the thousands of American people stuck right here still in this contamination when they're finding more contamination. | ||
| They just found 14 more pockets of vinyl chloride in the soil back in November. | ||
| We're Americans and we've been failed. | ||
| J.D. Vance came here, though. | ||
| J.D. Vance went into the creeks with Dr. Chai. | ||
| That's not under cell. | ||
| Dr. Chai sacrificed his life. | ||
| He's been in those creeks with these chemicals. | ||
| He took J.D. Vance there. | ||
| J.D. Vance has written three letters to the EPA, bipartisan letters with Sherrod Brown, asking for indoor air testing, asking for dioxin testing, asking for a public emergency, and he personally wrote a letter to President Biden asking for a disaster declaration. | ||
| We have been failed by every single piece of the government, down to our local government, who bullies and harasses people that are sick. | ||
| They didn't talk for 17 months before one local official brought up human health effects, and that was a newly elected official. | ||
| What's happening here? | ||
| Never in a million years did I think this would be happening in the United States of America. | ||
| And I apologize to everyone I called a crazy conspiracy theorist. | ||
| They were right. | ||
| I was crazy. | ||
| Hi, Ben. | ||
| Steve, you know Lonnie. | ||
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Hi, Steve. | |
| I have a comment I would love to direct towards President Trump and J.D. Vance. | ||
| I would love for you guys to return to East Palestine, Ohio and our surrounding communities and drain the swamp that is taking place here. | ||
| This community has been ravaged. | ||
| by corruption and lies lies to the American people our families, our loved ones, our children, our businesses, our livelihoods Everyone that we love has been impacted by this. | ||
| Never in a million years did I think that I would live to see the day that we would turn on each other. | ||
| I thought after this disaster it would be united like we were after 9-11. | ||
| I thought that our communities would come together and fight the evil corporation that did this to us. | ||
| We need President Trump. | ||
| To get here and drain the swamp in this community. | ||
| It is contaminated. | ||
| They have infiltrated every single part of our lives with contamination. | ||
| Our health, our mental health, our physical health, every single part of this has contaminated our lives. | ||
| And we need help. | ||
| We need President Trump back here to help us and make a difference and set an example of them so it never happens again to another community. | ||
| It can't happen again. | ||
| We can't have another East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| We just, it cannot happen. | ||
| It has to stop here. | ||
| It has to stop here. | ||
| We have to learn. | ||
| Hey, Ben. | ||
| Ben. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead, Steve. | ||
| Hey, Ben, just hang on for a second. | ||
| We're going to return to East Palestine in just a second. | ||
| Very powerful and personal. | ||
| Please, that's what you got to call it. | ||
| Think about this for a second. | ||
| We've gone from Appalachia now to East Palestine. | ||
| I'm seeing some pattern recognition. | ||
| You're seeing it too. | ||
| If you're the American working class, if you're working class men and women around this nation, and the entire apparatus is on your shoulder, you're treated like garbage. | ||
| You're treated totally, you're totally disposable. | ||
| This is why President Trump is returning to the White House. | ||
| And we will make sure that things are set right out there. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break here in a second. | ||
| And we're going to return. | ||
| We're going to be in East Palestine. | ||
| We're also going to try to go to Bethlehem. | ||
| I think we got Jason Jones there if we can somehow work out the technology. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We'll be back in the warm in a moment. | ||
|
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Did we get Jason and Bethlehem? | |
| *music* Okay, let me go. | ||
| I got Jason Jones. | ||
| We don't. | ||
| Okay, let's get him up. | ||
| We're going to go to Jason Jones in Bethlehem. | ||
| That's in the Holy Land. | ||
| And we're going to go back to East Palestine. | ||
| That is in Ohio. | ||
| Eastern Ohio. | ||
| In a moment with Ben Burquam. | ||
| We're going to get to the bottom of this thing. | ||
| The Appalachia looking the other way, FEMA. This is obviously related to the politics of it. | ||
| These are strong Trump country. | ||
| There's no doubt about it. | ||
| Let's get Mike Lindell. | ||
| Mike Lindell, how the cross, I think now more than ever, people would need a cross, right? | ||
| How are we doing on that, sir? | ||
| The war room, they almost went through our first. | ||
| We got more that came in today, you guys. | ||
| Get the crosses. | ||
| The men's and women's made in the USA, you guys. | ||
| The War Room saves 30%. | ||
| You guys, and by the way, the media's been just attacking me because I'm selling crosses on the War Room. | ||
| And also, we're adding... | ||
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| And so promo code WARROOM. You guys, go to the website. | ||
| And go down TSC, Steve, and click on it. | ||
| You're gonna see the crosses there and the towels. | ||
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| We're gonna do it through the inauguration of our great real president, Donald Trump. | ||
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| You guys, I'm going to be heading out to the inauguration here in a couple hours, and I look forward to seeing you all out there. | ||
| And it's going to be a great weekend. | ||
| It's going to be awesome. | ||
| Mike Lindell, one more time, where do people go for the crosses? | ||
| Yeah, you guys, go to MyPillow.com. | ||
| Scroll down. | ||
| You're gonna scroll down to get the War Room. | ||
| You got to see Steve there. | ||
| Click on it. | ||
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| You guys, that's a War Room exclusive, 30% off. | ||
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| We know that that's one of the things Donald Trump's going to bring down in price is those shipping prices that have destroyed our country. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
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| Promo code WARROOM. Mike, looking forward to see you here. | ||
| And we'll hang out and do a lot of work this weekend. | ||
| A lot going on. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| We're packed with different meetings, different groups this weekend, giving talks to people this weekend, getting up for a big coverage starting on Monday. | ||
| All-day War Room from 10 all the way through the afternoon. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, Dave Brant. | ||
| We'll be joining us and others. | ||
| Natalie Winters, obviously, a lot going on. | ||
| The coverage of RAV will pick up early, trying to get the religious service at St. John's Church. | ||
| In the next hour, we're going to return. | ||
| We're going to try to juggle three things simultaneously. | ||
| The hearing of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who they really haven't laid a glove on yet. | ||
| And I think this speaks to the preparation. | ||
| Of the cabinet secretaries, or the proposed cabinet secretaries. | ||
| So far, they haven't laid a glove on anybody. | ||
| And they've tried. | ||
| The thing that shocked me the most is how ill-prepared the Democrat senators are for the witnesses. | ||
| And particularly, they're laying out a vision of kind of President Trump's MAGA policies. | ||
| Marco Rubio, Senator Marco Rubio, could not have been clear about the end of the post-war international rules-based order. | ||
| It had been specifically gained by the world's elites and been gained in conjunction with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| President Trump's out with a tweet today about Xi. | ||
| Just got off the phone with Xi. | ||
| Had a good phone call. | ||
| Remember, President Trump is about peace and prosperity. | ||
| He does not want to slide into a shooting war. | ||
| With the Chinese Communist Party and, I don't know, pick a random place, the Straits of Taiwan, around Taiwan, South China Sea. | ||
| President Trump has opened a dialogue with President Xi. | ||
| He said the call went very well. | ||
| They talked about a lot of things, trade, tariffs, fentanyl, many, many other topics. | ||
| Of course, it went great with Pete Hegseth this week, yesterday, between Russ's vote on Wednesday. | ||
| And Scott Besant, yesterday you saw President Trump's economic plan kind of laid out. | ||
| Amazing Pam Bondi, or now Pamela Jo Bondi, by her name tag. | ||
| Pamela Jo Bondi went yard as Attorney General. | ||
| Then yesterday the follow-up, just incredible. | ||
| Kristi Noem is giving as good as she gets. | ||
| She's been very impressive so far. | ||
| They've tried to chop block her, but to no avail. | ||
| Right now, and this is because this audience, numbers 202-224-3121, make sure you continue to let those senators, the overwhelming support you've had for President Trump's cabinet secretaries, and I want to give Charlie Kirk a shout-out on this. | ||
| Charlie Kirk put that kind of program together, as did Article 3 project under Mike Davis, to make sure that we backed these folks during the confirmation process. | ||
| They flooded the zone, and it certainly has worked this week. | ||
| The media has not been able to get on steady footing. | ||
| And the Democrats, the questioning's been juvenile. | ||
| You've had major, major deep policy. | ||
| They say, oh, President Trump, he's all transactional. | ||
| He just goes from things. | ||
| Well, listen to his cabinet secretaries. | ||
| They're speaking for President Trump. | ||
| President Trump goes through all these opening statements. | ||
| President Trump sits down and spends hours with them going through policy, talking about what he wants to do, where he sees things going. | ||
| So when you're watching these cameras, that is in conjunction. | ||
| They're riding shotgun. | ||
| Whatever cabinet department it is. | ||
| And so far, it's been fantastic. | ||
| Not great news out of two locations. | ||
| That would be Appalachia with Ben Burkwam spent the last couple of days, particularly in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, parts of Virginia, about this kind of biblical flood that's been abandoned. | ||
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And they've been abandoned in East Palestine, Ohio. | |
| That will all cease starting at noon on Monday. | ||
| When President Trump takes over and we start to have his FEMA director, somebody like Lee Zeldin. | ||
| This is why Lee Zeldin is very important in EPA. Lee Zeldin's got to get approved immediately by the committees and then by the overall Senate. | ||
| I understand that right now only Marco Rubio, it looks like Senator Rubio, will do it. | ||
| Short commercial break, 90 seconds. |
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