Jan. 31, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
48:56
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What did you talk about, and did you press Assad on things like his use of chemical weapons, systematic torture, and the killing of so many Syrians? | |
| Yes, Senator. | ||
| And upon returning from this trip, I met with people like then leader Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, talked to them and answered their questions about the trip. | ||
| And quite frankly, I was surprised that there was no one from the intelligence community or the State Department who reached out or showed any interest whatsoever in my takeaways from that trip. | ||
| I would have been very happy to have a conversation and give them a back brief. | ||
| I went with former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who had been there many times before and who had met with Assad before. | ||
| A number of topics were covered and discussed. | ||
| And to directly answer your question, yes, I asked him tough questions about his own regime's actions, the use of chemical weapons and the brutal tactics that were being used against his own people. | ||
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Were you able to extract any concessions from President Assad? | |
| No. | ||
| And I didn't expect to. | ||
| But I felt these issues were important to address. | ||
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It's no secret. | |
| I have some reservations about your past positions on vaccines and a couple other issues. | ||
| And so we know a lot about you. | ||
| I'll tell you a little bit about myself. | ||
| Before I entered politics or even thought about running for office, I practiced medicine for 30 years, working in public hospitals in California and Louisiana, specializing in liver disease, caring for those who otherwise would not have had a specialist. | ||
| If you will, dedicating my life to saving lives, that is, being a doctor. | ||
| Now, there is a moment in my career that really informs me now. | ||
| In the early 2000s, I was loading a patient onto an air ambulance. | ||
| An 18-year-old young woman to go to get a liver transplant from acute liver failure due to hepatitis B. I have a question to see if you can do that. | ||
| Mr. Patel, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 presidential election? | ||
| Yes or no? | ||
| President Biden's election was certified. | ||
| He was sworn in and he served as the president of the United States. | ||
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Once again, the... | |
| People who are 100% loyal to President Trump cannot answer that question. | ||
| It is alarming that you want to be an FBI director who can answer a simple question, factual question. | ||
| Did you say that the FBI headquarters should be shut down and reopened as a museum of the deep state? | ||
| Mr. Chairman, are we allowed to go an extra time? | ||
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Let's see. | |
| You get a second round. | ||
| Before I call on Senator Lee... | ||
| Could you just answer the question if he said that the FBI headquarters where they investigate cybercrime and terrorism should be shut down and open as a deep state? | ||
| As a museum. | ||
| Did he say that the headquarters should be shut down? | ||
| I deserve an answer to that question. | ||
| He is asking to be head of the FBI, and he said that their headquarters should be shut down. | ||
| Mr. Chair, parliamentary inquiry. | ||
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You got anything you want to say, Mr. Patel, before I go on to Senator Lee? | |
| Simply this. | ||
| If the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI. I stood with them here in this country. | ||
| In every theater of war we have, I was on the ground in service of this nation and any. | ||
| Accusations leveled against me that I would somehow put political bias before the Constitution are grotesquely unfair. | ||
| And I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI. Let's ask them. | ||
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I am quoting his own words from September of 2024. It is his own words. | |
| It is not some conspiracy. | ||
| It is what Mr. Patel actually said himself. | ||
| Facts matter. | ||
| I'm going to make America healthier than other countries in the world right now. | ||
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Will you guarantee do what every other major country does? | |
| It's a simple question. | ||
| And by the way, Bernie. | ||
| You know, the problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies. | ||
| It's in Congress, too. | ||
| Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry. | ||
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Oh, no, no, no, no. | |
| And protecting their interests. | ||
| Oh, I thought that that would come. | ||
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No, no, no, no. | |
| I ran for president like you. | ||
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I got millions and millions of contributions. | |
| They did not come from the executives, not one nickel of PAC money from the pharmaceutical industry. | ||
| They came from workers. | ||
| In 2020, you were the single largest receiver of pharmaceutical money. | ||
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Because I had four contributions from workers all over this country. | |
| Workers, not a nickel from corporate PACs. | ||
| You were the single largest except for pharmaceutical dollars. | ||
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No, from workers in the industry. | |
| 1.5 million. | ||
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Yeah, out of... | |
| 200 million. | ||
| All right. | ||
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But you have not answered. | |
| Last question. | ||
| Let me ask you, I've worked very hard to put your own words here in front of the committee. | ||
| Not, you know, fake news, not conspiracy theories on the Internet, but the actual things that you have said. | ||
| On February 23rd, 2022, at the very moment that Russian tanks were rolling across... | ||
| The peaceful border of Ukraine for the first time. | ||
| You tweeted at 11.30 p.m. | ||
| Your time. | ||
| This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden administration slash NATO had simply acknowledged Russia's legitimate... | ||
| Legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine's becoming a member of NATO. Did you say that, yes or no? | ||
| I believe you're reading my tweet, Senator. | ||
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Yes, is the answer. | |
| A few months later, you said on your podcast, and I quoted it, quote, but this regime change war against Russia that the U.S. and NATO are waging via their proxy in Ukraine didn't begin when Putin invaded Ukraine. | ||
| They had their eyes set on this objective long before that. | ||
| Did you say that, yes or no? | ||
| I believe you're reading my tweet. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| The answer is yes. | ||
| You are agreeing that you basically said that Putin was justified in rolling over the peaceful border of Ukraine the first time since World War II that a free nation had been invaded by a totalitarian state. | ||
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And you were there at 11.30 p.m. | |
| that night. | ||
| To say that you are with them, not us. | ||
| 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. | |
| The reason 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've tried 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, Friday, 31 January, Year of Alert 2025. You saw a selection from yesterday. | ||
| I want to really thank this audience and what you did yesterday and repeat, we still need to be at the ramparts, folks. | ||
| 202-224-3121. | ||
| Go to Article 3 if you... | ||
| Want to download Mike Davis' app or get in contact with Grace Chung, the queen of the trolls. | ||
| Our chief operating officer, Grace, has put up Bill Blaster. | ||
| We need to be back on the ramparts. | ||
| He had a massive impact yesterday. | ||
| It's the reason Morning Joe did not start with the hearings yesterday. | ||
| They're not happy. | ||
| Let me posit this. | ||
| All three are going to get through. | ||
| If we do our job today, if we do our job today, and some work's got to be done, particularly with people like Senator Cassidy. | ||
| We just have to get their minds right. | ||
| And nothing is better than having constituents and or MAGA folks call and be polite and say, hey, have you really thought about Bobby Kennedy? | ||
| The president wants him. | ||
| We want him. | ||
| You want him too, don't you? | ||
| So yesterday, you saw the unhinged nature of it. | ||
| I want to bifurcate. | ||
| On the days of thunder, I want to bifurcate. | ||
| Remember, we believe in this theory of flood the zone, right? | ||
| So that you can always put the mainstream media and the enemies of the people on their back foot and overwhelm them. | ||
| But what's been most interesting, and to bifurcate the Senate confirmation pieces into two pieces, we had kind of the theory of the case folks and the strategy folks in Pentagon, State Department, Treasury, OMB, DOJ, two weeks ago. | ||
| And then yesterday, we kind of had the execution, the implementation branch. | ||
| Of going after the administrative and the deep state. | ||
| Yesterday was actually going after the biopharmaceutical medical industrial complex. | ||
| And Senator Tuberville sat here. | ||
| And I asked Senator Tuberville if you have the military industrial complex and you have the big tech industrial complex and you have the pharmaceutical medical industrial complex, which is the most powerful in the city. | ||
| And he goes, hey, it's no doubt. | ||
| He says the biopharmaceutical medical is orders of magnitude. | ||
| It's by far – it's more powerful than tech and military combined because it's in everywhere. | ||
| There's trains of dollars flowing through the system. | ||
| It's to constituents. | ||
| And so this guy is so easy to rip off money. | ||
| It's it. | ||
| It's everything. | ||
| And they have the biggest lobbyists. | ||
| And he said, you know, and Mary Holland confirmed that last night there. | ||
| There are, what, seven lobbyists or seven to ten lobbyists for every member of Congress, the 535. So yesterday, in the flood, the zone, you had all three. | ||
| You guys had their back. | ||
| 202-224-3121 is the main switchboard for the Senate. | ||
| If you download one of these apps... | ||
| You get all the information where they can't hide from you. | ||
| Most importantly, this is why I like the apps, and this is something that Grace was adamant about, is we put in the local offices. | ||
| Calling a local office is always great. | ||
| It's fantastic. | ||
| If you're a constituent, even better. | ||
| But you'll have the committees up there, both... | ||
| And you've got to get a committee first. | ||
| So yesterday's committees were Intel for Tulsi Gabbard, Judiciary for Kash Patel at the FBI. And, of course, Health and Human Services, although that was performative. | ||
| It was really the Finance Committee, and Cassidy's still key, the Finance Committee. | ||
| So we've got to get a committee vote. | ||
| You've got to get out of committee. | ||
| There are times when maybe you don't have to get out of committee, but that's too technical. | ||
| Right now we want everybody out of committee. | ||
| And Ted Cruz said cash is going to get approved. | ||
| There was some of our friends, Josh Hawley and some others, saying some people are jiggy. | ||
| Curtis of Utah, jiggy. | ||
| Todd Young of Indiana. | ||
| Jiggy. | ||
| If you're in Indiana, if you're a Hoosier, or if you're Hoosier-lite, if you like Hoosiers, if you like the movie, if you like Indiana basketball, if you believe Indiana should have been in the college football playoff, you need to call Todd Young's office. | ||
| 202-224-3121. | ||
| Please get their minds right. | ||
| President Trump wants the cabinet. | ||
| It was unbelievable the vitriol and the hatred they went through yesterday. | ||
| Just to make sure. | ||
| Folks, no. | ||
| Postos are going to join me next. | ||
| I want to post on here for the intel part of it. | ||
| Because I want to talk about... | ||
| Yesterday, Tulsi was essentially... | ||
| The heart of it was Ukraine. | ||
| It all gets back to Ukraine. | ||
| Appeachment gets back to Ukraine. | ||
| The modern revolution. | ||
| The color revolution. | ||
| Victoria Nuland. | ||
| Her husband, Kaplan. | ||
| Remember him of writing the big 5,000-word essay. | ||
| On January 1st was the 24-23, I think it was 24 of, you know, Trump is the new Caesar, what is he, the Red Caesar, whatever they call him, and that the moral justification for Brutus stepping up and assassinating him, being a hero. | ||
| That whole crowd yesterday got down to Tulsi is America First. | ||
| Tulsi believes America First. | ||
| Tulsi served in combat over there in Syria. | ||
| She's now a lieutenant colonel. | ||
| It's about Ukraine. | ||
| It's about the warmongers. | ||
| It's about the war machine. | ||
| It's about the war profiteers. | ||
| They're freaked out that we could shut down this war. | ||
| President Trump wants to shut it down. | ||
| He has nothing to do with it. | ||
| There's a great story in The Guardian this morning. | ||
| I have it up on my Getter. | ||
| If you go to Getter, totally free app, you can get my inside thinking on news of the day 24-7, particularly late at night. | ||
| It's a brutal story in The Guardian. | ||
| You know what it's about? | ||
| The journey of individual troops in the Ukraine war and their families. | ||
| The headline is, I think it's over, we're tired, we don't want any more. | ||
| And how they have been brutalized. | ||
| Obviously by the Russian infantry and artillery and armor. | ||
| But more importantly by the indifference of the oligarchs that run Ukraine as they've been stealing American dollars with both hands. | ||
| This is why this war has to be brought to an end. | ||
| Because we've killed enough. | ||
| And I commit to the Ukrainian people, we, the America First movement of President Trump, will not fight to the last Ukrainians dead. | ||
| We will not let Professor Mersheimer's forecast come true. | ||
| It was all hand-to-hand combat yesterday. | ||
| The reason we're in good shape today is because of you. | ||
| You had the back of Kash Patel at the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, and Bobby Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As health and human service. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
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The royalty of the Democratic Party. | |
| A MAGA choice. | ||
| A MAHA. Make America healthy again. | ||
| Folks, it's a work day in the war room. | ||
| Poso on the other side. | ||
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A traitor. | |
| Senator, my heart is with my commitment to our constitution and our nation's security. | ||
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Ours too. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I have shown throughout my almost 22 years of service in the military, as well as my time in Congress, How seriously I take the privilege of having access to classified information and our nation's secrets. | ||
| And that's why I'm committed, if confirmed, as Director of National Intelligence, to join you in making sure that there is no future Snowden-type leak. | ||
| And I would do so by taking four specific actions. | ||
| Number one, again, to make sure that there are no illegal and unconstitutional programs. | ||
| Limiting, in a big way, those who have access to our nation's top secrets through security clearance reform, making sure that every single person in the workforce knows about the legal whistleblower channels available to them, and making sure that there's a direct line available to me should anyone have concerns. | ||
| If people choose to step outside of those legal channels to raise any concerns about programs or actions that exist within the intelligence community that are classified, There will be no excuse to do so and they should be charged and prosecuted under the law. | ||
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Was he a traitor at the time when he took America's secrets, released them in public, and then ran to China and became a Russian citizen? | |
| Senator, I'm focused on the future and how we can prevent something like this from happening again. | ||
| Yeah, Post is going to join us in a second, but right there you saw they're obsessed with Snowden. | ||
| I know a lot of people, not this audience, like who's Edward Snowden? | ||
| Well, Snowden was not a great guy, right? | ||
| Did some very bad things. | ||
| But what he did to cross these guys is he exposed that the intel communities and the telecom communities all in conjunction and the oligarchs were all spying on you and spying on American citizens. | ||
| Let me go back to the theory of the case of the oligarchs. | ||
| The most progressive, the two most progressive presidents in history on surface, that would be President Obama and then the Biden regime, which is essentially run by Obama guys, right? | ||
| Because they didn't think Joe was all that bright. | ||
| Obama is, and he kind of, I know the audience is not going to love this, I consider him a tragic figure, like from Greek tragedy. | ||
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Why? | |
| His greatest strength becomes his weakness. | ||
| Here's why. | ||
| He's the perfect guy they got. | ||
| And two things happened. | ||
| Number one, a 2008 collapse, financial collapse with weeks to go. | ||
| Essentially gave him the presidency because McCain and Palin were up I think by a point on the day it happened. | ||
| But it tainted his presidency forever because the bailouts were everything important and he went basically Geithner. | ||
| The guy at First Boston, he had a First Boston guy. | ||
| It was his first big fundraiser. | ||
| It was one of his mentors. | ||
| And Bernanke, you know, and they gave him – they saved the system by flooding the zone with liquidity. | ||
| They took the balance sheet of the Fed from $880 billion to $4.5 trillion and saved the system, and you paid for it. | ||
| An average schmendrick making, I don't know, $45,000 a year, you underwrote that. | ||
| Did you get a bailout? | ||
| No, you did not. | ||
| But you gave bailouts, and this is why you had the greatest concentration of wealth in the history of this republic happened during Obama's years. | ||
| On MSNBC and these things, they're running around, and they got all the progressive things. | ||
| That's all pro-wrestling. | ||
| What's happening on cable TV is pro-wrestling. | ||
| That's to get you worked up, and it's pro-wrestling. | ||
| It's not about money. | ||
| It's not about power. | ||
| Pro-wrestling. | ||
| They want to divert your attention to what they're really doing. | ||
| So he does that at the same time because Zuckerberg and these guys had come and seen him because of the people around him. | ||
| The guys that are basically the Pod Save America guys who are traditionally number one podcast in the nation every day. | ||
| We're a bench essentially number two in political podcasts. | ||
| Those guys got him. | ||
| They got the social media guys around him and they explained to him this is how he beat Hillary Clinton. | ||
| And Obama being a constitutional lawyer and a pretty straight guy, wasn't familiar with it, but bought in. | ||
| And they made a pact. | ||
| So the most progressives made a deal. | ||
| They made a Faustian bargain. | ||
| They went to these oligarchs and ran these social media things and they said, hey, we're going to allow you, we're going to make you the richest people in the history of humanity. | ||
| And we're not going to, we're going to let you create an apartheid state. | ||
| We're progressive, but you can create an apartheid state. | ||
| Have no Hispanics, no blacks, no working class whites. | ||
| Don't even have to have American citizens. | ||
| Total apartheid. | ||
| In fact, we're going to let you bring in indentured servants from South Asia and some people may even say it's modern slave labor. | ||
| You can do it 50% of the cost and they're compliant. | ||
| You do what you want to do. | ||
| We'll let you do all that and we don't care. | ||
| We're progressive. | ||
| You do it. | ||
| And more importantly, this thing called the Justice Department and the Antitrust Division and all the alphabet agencies, SEC, all this should be looking at and trying to not give monopolistic power. | ||
| We'll actually let you become monopolies. | ||
| And in fact, we'll make sure that Google, there's a hundred of these little EV companies, electric vehicle companies running around. | ||
| There's no competition to Google. | ||
| There's no competition to Amazon. | ||
| No competition to Facebook. | ||
| There's no competition to Twitter. | ||
| There's no competition to oligarchs. | ||
| We will, in fact, take you out of capitalism because capitalism is about markets and about profit. | ||
| We will actually let you perform. | ||
| We'll change it. | ||
| We'll change it. | ||
| We'll change it to digital platforms and rent, and we'll let you become rent seekers. | ||
| In fact... | ||
| You know, Curtis Yarvin and this Balaji guy and some of your avant-garde thinkers, the dark enlightenment in the network state, we'll let them come up with a whole new structure. | ||
| And you'll call it techno-feudalism. | ||
| Because all the schmendricks that are going to underwrite this are going to be, you know, are blocked out by the apartheid state. | ||
| They're just digital serfs. | ||
| And we'll let you do that. | ||
| Now, but here's what you have to deliver for us. | ||
| We're a hegemon. | ||
| We're the American empire. | ||
| We're everywhere. | ||
| We're powerful. | ||
| But we need the commanding heights in the age of the algorithm. | ||
| In the algorithmic age, we need you brothers to make sure that we have the commanding heights in technology. | ||
| We will give you everything. | ||
| We will give you wealth. | ||
| We will give you power. | ||
| We will give you monopoly. | ||
| We will take you out of capitalism. | ||
| We'll let you create an apartheid state. | ||
| We will do everything. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| To satisfy your every whim. | ||
| But you have to deliver on your side. | ||
| The bargain is in the algorithmic age. | ||
| We are full spectrum dominant. | ||
| And what do we know in the last 72 hours? | ||
| Last week? | ||
| What do we know? | ||
| Well, we know that TikTok is so much more advanced on social media than whatever these losers came up with. | ||
| Addictive. | ||
| That the Chinese Communist Party who created it. | ||
| Won't even allow it in their country and won't let it near their kids. | ||
| And look, whoever owns it and owns the algorithm, that's a whole different conversation. | ||
| President Trump is essentially playing an investment banker right now. | ||
| He's playing Lazard Farrar, trying to get a deal. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| I'm talking about the technology and what they allowed. | ||
| So far advanced in what we've got. | ||
| It looks like a jet, a F-16 compared to a Model T, right? | ||
| And, lo and behold, wait for it, our theory of the case of AI, of kind of mass, brutal computing power. | ||
| And, in fact, you don't have a Green New Deal. | ||
| We can't think of climate change. | ||
| It's all gone because we need ten times the power we got now. | ||
| We need the power plant right next. | ||
| We need the nuclear plant or the coal-burning plant right next to, you know, our data centers. | ||
| Everything's data center, data center, data center because it's brute force computing for artificial intelligence and to push the envelope to get the artificial general intelligence. | ||
| And then the Chinese Communist Party and the PLA come out, and lo and behold, and I'm not saying it might be a PSYOP, or it might be a Sputnik moment. | ||
| But one thing we know, we got the oligarchs, they don't look so tough this morning. | ||
| Now, it turns out, if he thinks it's a Sputnik moment, and there's arguments for that, they totally blew it. | ||
| Totally blew it. | ||
| And what's the first thing they do? | ||
| They sit there and say, American people, it's terrible. | ||
| And you gave us wealth. | ||
| We're going to give some of the wealth back. | ||
| And yes, maybe the Justice Department should come in and break us up so competition would help. | ||
| Did they come back and say, we're going to break the apartheid state? | ||
| In fact, the American citizens, there's nobody here with a billet that has an education or better. | ||
| Well, welcome American citizen here. | ||
| We were wrong. | ||
| We did it all wrong. | ||
| We'll do it. | ||
| You know what they did? | ||
| They say that? | ||
| No. | ||
| In fact, they want more and more and more. | ||
| And now what they want is a bailout. | ||
| Oh, we have to have Mercury, like an astronaut plane. | ||
| We have to have like a space program or we have to have a Marshall plane. | ||
| We need a bailout. | ||
| We need a bailout. | ||
| We need a bailout of your money. | ||
| Just like Silicon Valley Bank. | ||
| Was this Biden and, oh, the oligarchs, he's like Eisenhower leaving, or he's like Washington, his farewell to the troops down at Francis Tavern. | ||
| These oligarchs, you created it, dude. | ||
| You made it. | ||
| They were all progressive Democrats. | ||
| They're all progressive Democrats until 11 o'clock at night on the 5th of Eastern Standard Time, on the 5th of November, when they had their Damascene moment. | ||
| And they sat there and go, wow, this really is political power. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| MSNBC lied to us. | ||
| We got our asses kicked. | ||
| And there's going to be some bad stuff. | ||
| Maybe we're going to get to Mar-a-Lago and go see Charlemagne and maybe bring a check and be supplicants. | ||
| Yes, we're surrender. | ||
| And they had to gall to ask for a Marshall Plan saying, hey, the first thing ought to be is, first off, these companies got to be shattered into a thousand pieces of competition. | ||
| But they're going to say, no, no, you can't do that, Steve. | ||
| No, you can't do that because the Chinese Communist Party is coming for us. | ||
| You were right. | ||
| For all these years, you're right. | ||
| The Frank Gaffney, the Committee on the President of the Danger of China, you're right. | ||
| You're 100% correct. | ||
| They're coming for us. | ||
| So now we need to be bigger because we need national champions. | ||
| You can't break us up. | ||
| We need to be bigger. | ||
| And you can't stop AI. Yes, AI may be leading us to the abyss, that bottomless pit that we don't know about. | ||
| But you can't do it now because they're in an arms race. | ||
| And the Chinese Communist Party, as you've told us, Steve, you tell us every day, the Committee of the President, how bad they are, how evil they are, how the dictatorship. | ||
| They've got the commanding heights. | ||
| We've got to get it back. | ||
| And so we need more and more and more. | ||
| And we've got to throw the safeguards out because now we are in a Sputnik moment. | ||
| Embrace that. | ||
| Because that's the reality. | ||
| Of the oligarchs, the sociopathic overlords of Wall Street and the oligarchs in Silicon Valley. | ||
| That's where we are. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, if the revolutionary generation and the framers of the Constitution, those kind of two generations combined, if they came back to this country today and saw what we've allowed to happen, they would spit on the floor. | ||
| And this is why the Republican establishment and the conservative movement and all that, I'm a limited government, constitutional conservative. | ||
| No, you're not. | ||
| No, you're not, because you bought into this and allowed it to happen. | ||
| Yes, you weren't in power, but you didn't throw down hard and say, we're not going to have this happen. | ||
| Now, folks, we're in a jam. | ||
| We're in a real jam. | ||
| There are no easy choices. | ||
| Because there is some logic to what they're saying about the Chinese Communist Party in the PLA. Yeah, there's some logic there. | ||
| So now we're in a jam. | ||
| Now we're in a real jam. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| The greatest nation on earth, the most powerful nation on earth, a nation that's delivered more prosperity, more wealth, freed more people. | ||
| We're in a jam. | ||
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A self-inflicted, once an eagle. | |
| Speared by an arrow, said, by my own hand, I am smitten. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| Birch Gold. | ||
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| President Trump put out a fire-breathing truth social last night on the BRICS nations. | ||
| Yo, BRICS, he said. | ||
| You keep messing around and trying to get your currency and trying to get a gold back. | ||
| Remember something we've talked about and taught you the last two years? | ||
| This is the end of the dollar empire. | ||
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| It's about the BRICS. He said if you do that, it's going to be 100% tariffs. | ||
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| Philip Patrick. | ||
| Philip's going to join me tomorrow, but you may contact him with today. | ||
| Dr. Ralph Abraham. | ||
| And folks, this goes back to being at the ramparts. | ||
| 202-224-3121. | ||
| The President of the United States wants Tulsi Gabbard at D&I. The President of the United States wants Kash Patel at the FBI. The President of the United States wants Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Health and Human Services. | ||
| And they presented fantastically yesterday under very trying circumstances. | ||
| Dr. Ralph Abraham is here. | ||
| He's the Surgeon General of the great state of Louisiana. | ||
| Dr. Abraham, your thoughts on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Cabinet Secretary of Health and Human Services, sir? | ||
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Steve, there's so much distrust in healthcare in America now. | |
| The COVID epidemic certainly made that exponentially worse. | ||
| What RFK wants to do is bring back transparency to the government, bring back transparency to healthcare. | ||
| We are in a position in America where our health, our obesity, our chronic disease, it has become a national security issue. | ||
| And if we don't do something drastic to get it back on track, then we will get to a point of no return. | ||
| How would, in your mind, given the fact, and particularly Senator Cassidy, but others, we're really going into Bobby pretty hard. | ||
| How would you see that working? | ||
| When you say, you know, radical, Bobby Kennedy talks about radical transparency. | ||
| When he talks about gold standard science. | ||
| As someone, you're on the front lines. | ||
| You're the Surgeon General for a state that gets hit all the time by hurricanes. | ||
| And, you know, it's great folks down there, but you guys are under siege all the time. | ||
| How do you translate that to what Kennedy can do? | ||
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Well, Steve, we're in a state that's very poor, you know, and in fact, I'm actually seeing patients today while I'm talking to you, and our patients are some of the most healthiest in the nation, but our nation has some of the most unhealthy people in the world. | |
| So what Bill Cassidy, the rest of the senators, need to do, they need to look at what we've been doing for the last, what, 50 years, That has not worked. | ||
| Let's change the ship, let's move the boat to a different direction, and let's start solving these problems. | ||
| The Senate, certainly on the Republican side, needs to vote in mass, in solidarity, for RFK to be confirmed. | ||
| Once he's in that position, then you're going to see the needle move in the right direction. | ||
| The president, he wants him. | ||
| I want him. | ||
| I think the great majority of the people in America want him. | ||
| I can assure you, most of the people in Louisiana want RFK as their next secretary. | ||
| The reason I wanted you to have you on here, Dr. Abraham, and maybe give people access for your social media is because... | ||
| Folks would think that the Nicole Shanahan's, you know, maybe parts of California or super liberal states or progressive states would be the people in back of this Make America Healthy Again or that they would like Bobby Kennedy because he's progressive. | ||
| The reason I wanted to have you on here, there's not a more southern state with good folks and MAGA folks than Louisiana. | ||
| And you're telling me the folks in Louisiana and you in the medical, you guys want Bobby Kennedy, who some people are saying is this wild man, progressive lefty, sir? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Now, you know, we may not agree with everything that RFK does on the political front, but we certainly, or I and the people that follow me, the people that I've talked to in the healthcare professions, they know that he is bringing the right ideas to the table. | ||
| So we are... | ||
| Really, behind him, 100%, putting him in that position. | ||
| You saw what Rand Paul said yesterday during the Senate hearings as somewhat of a rebuttal to what Senator Kennedy was saying. | ||
| And I would suggest that everybody go back and see what Rand Paul said, because he gave a phenomenal statement of not only the health care in America, but... | ||
| A rebuttal on some of the craziness that the Democrats, certainly, are lodging against RFK. So, let's get this done, do the right thing, let's move forward with healthcare in America, and let's do make America healthy again. | ||
| Dr. Cassidy, what is your social media? | ||
| How do people, I think a lot of people are going to want to talk to you. | ||
| Where do they get you on social media or your website? | ||
| How do they get to you? | ||
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They can go to ldh.la.gov and there will be a drop-down box to Surgeon General. | |
| We'd love to have conversations with people across the nation on this issue because of the many important issues that President Trump is having to push back against now. | ||
| This healthcare issue, the healthcare of America, is, again, I think it's a national security issue and we've got to get it right. | ||
| Make America healthy. | ||
| Before I let you go, Doc, have you had a chance to—we're going to make sure that Dr. Cassidy, Senator Cassidy's office, sees this and others. | ||
| Have you had a chance to chat with him or Senator Kennedy? | ||
| Have you had a chance to get up to speed with what the Surgeon General of Louisiana thinks? | ||
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I see both of our senators on a fairly regular basis. | |
| I really believe that when it comes down to the vote, they're going to do what they know is best for America. | ||
| They're going to do what they know President Trump wants to do, get his cabinet in place, get his people in place in these key positions, get this nation back on track. | ||
| We know where it's been in the last four years. | ||
| It's been a debacle. | ||
| So everyone on the Republican side needs to get behind President Trump. | ||
| He did receive a mandate from the people. | ||
| And let's get this country going back to where we know it needs to be. | ||
| One of the best healthcare countries in the world. | ||
| And right now, we're just not there. | ||
| Dr. Ralph Abraham, it's an honor to have you on here, sir. | ||
| We'll make sure that Grace and our team push out today. | ||
| We would love to have you back on with Things Calm Down a little bit to start this national conversation about Make America Healthy Again. | ||
| Anytime, sir. | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| You know, for the audience, you know, Nicole Shanahan, when she comes on here, she lights the boards up. | ||
| This Make America Healthy Again, and you saw the Children's Health Defense. | ||
| We've been working with these people for, I don't know, four years now. | ||
| This is a real thing. | ||
| This is a real thing. | ||
| These moms are up in arms, and even the New York Times, as Mary Holland said yesterday, they're not treating it as a fringy, nutcase cult anymore. | ||
| They're taking this seriously because it is serious. | ||
| And here's why the New York Times is taking it seriously, because this thing has big-time political power. | ||
| So I want to make sure everybody listens to Dr. Ralph Abraham. | ||
| Jack, before I go back, I was going to start with my screen, but I want to start with this. | ||
| Tulsi and Cash. | ||
| Let's start with Tulsi. | ||
| The obsession with Ukraine, the obsession with Snowden, the obsession with 702, they came at her heart yesterday, and she's so gracious and such a calming presence and unflappable. | ||
| It was just magnificent. | ||
| Your assessment, sir? | ||
| Well, Steve, it really was interesting, right? | ||
| Cash brings the heat, but Tulsi brings the ice. | ||
| She cools things down. | ||
| But at the same time, she's able to cut across the lies, the distortions, the distillations of the intelligence community. | ||
| And what she said in her opening statement, Steve, these are things that have never been said before in the well of the Senate. | ||
| Blaming the intelligence community for weapons of mass destruction. | ||
| Going out and laying forth. | ||
| When they talked about Syria, she said, let's talk about Syria and the Al-Qaeda offshoots that have now taken over. | ||
| She said, I have no love lost for any regime or any dictators, but I hate radical Islam and radical Islam is on the rise. | ||
| And also walked you through just a masterclass of 20 to 25 years of intelligence failures that have led to what? | ||
| But a resurgence of radical Islam, a radical Islamic regime that has taken over Syria, Iran that is now resurgent, and Iran that is now emboldened across the entire region. | ||
| And she pointed out how it has been the intelligence community and the current foreign policy decision makers in Washington, D.C. that have led to this situation. | ||
| You want more ISIS, you want more Al-Qaeda, you want more Shia militia groups? | ||
| This is how you get it. | ||
| We've destabilized the Middle East, And look, there were a lot of people saying, go in there, pull your punches, talk nice, don't say anything positive about Snowden. | ||
| Just call him a traitor, throw him under the bus, do all that stuff, placate him, get your votes. | ||
| She didn't do that. | ||
| She stuck to her guns. | ||
| And what she said with Snowden was very balanced. | ||
| It was very balanced. | ||
| Hang on, Snowden. | ||
| I've got to go back to this. | ||
| Because I want to go back to 2014. Ukraine and the Arab Spring. | ||
| Arab Spring was, what, 12 or 13? | ||
| 2011. Because of... | ||
| 11, okay. | ||
| I want to go back in time there. | ||
| Because they're inextricably linked. | ||
| This is the Victoria Nuland. | ||
| This is your State Department. | ||
| This is Pax Americana. | ||
| This is the American Empire. | ||
| This is how they thought. | ||
| The color revolution. | ||
| Remember, Arab Israelis were going to do the color revolution in these Arab nations to free them. | ||
| And the color revolution that Victoria Nuland pulled off in Ukraine. | ||
| And this is the other piece, by the way, of what you were just saying about Obama. | ||
| This is the other piece of what you were just saying about Obama, that his administration got taken over by all these people. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Obama bailed it. | ||
| And listen, this is why he's a tragic figure. | ||
| Don't blow me up, posse. | ||
| He's a tragic figure. | ||
| He is a tragic figure. | ||
| They sold him on the bailouts of the neoliberal neocon bailout plan to have you pay for it and bail out the sociopathic, easy money sociopaths on Wall Street. | ||
| They then cut the deal with the oligarchs in Silicon Valley. | ||
| The third leg of the stool is this whole color revolution, you know, worldwide. | ||
| The Samantha Powers, the Ann Applebombs, the Victoria Nulans, the three sorority sisters, right? | ||
| I don't want to say they're the witches out of Macbeth. | ||
| Far be it for me to say that. | ||
| But go back in time. | ||
| Remember all the Arab strength. | ||
| Egypt had to fall. | ||
| They all had to fall because they're all bad guys. | ||
| The Iraq war all had to fall. | ||
| That was maybe a little precedent. | ||
| They all had to fall. | ||
| In their hands, today, what do we have, Jack Posobiec? | ||
| What did they deliver to us? | ||
| Chaos. | ||
| Chaos, war, extremism. | ||
| The outbreak of ISIS, the headchoppers, and all the Christians. | ||
| And by the way, Tulsi stood up for the Christians of Syria, for the Christians of the Middle East, which are a minority group that is quickly becoming an endangered species in the Middle East as these radicals gain more purchase. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hang on a second. | ||
| I'm going to hold you through a break when we come back. | ||
| Remember... | ||
| The caliphate, the ISIS caliphate, the physical caliphate between Iraq and Syria, President Trump took that down in six months. | ||
| Remember, that was going to be a generational thing Obama told us. | ||
| There's a new, now there's a great power. | ||
| You have Turkey, you have Persia, you have Egypt, and you're seeing the rise of the Ottoman caliphate, financed by Qatar. | ||
| Financed by Qatar. | ||
| Don't talk about Israel. | ||
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This is about the West. | |
| This is about the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
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| Jack, you know, I've talked to you a bunch, but when we relieved the watch in 17, we went through all the dispositions, Flynn and I, and... | ||
| At that time, as you know, Syria's been a big focus of Obama and Biden and all this crowd because they want to get cheap by jail with the Russians so they can start shooting at each other. | ||
| And the disposition of troops, I think we had, remember that army the CIA was paying? | ||
| Because they're always paying these democratic armies that are all Islamists, right? | ||
| The realities are Islamists. | ||
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Oh, no, no. | |
| Moderate jihadists. | ||
| Moderate jihadists. | ||
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John McCain says they're the moderate headchoppers. | |
| Moderate head chopper. | ||
| So we're paying, we got American Special Forces, and they got 1,000 yards away, 2,000 yards away, they got the Iran Revolutionary Guard, some proxy army they got. | ||
| It's a dog's breakfast over there. | ||
| And remember, when you're getting these briefings, they're all lying to you. | ||
| That's what I tell people. | ||
| When you go in there, everything they're going to tell you is a lie. | ||
| It's a wilderness of mirrors. | ||
| So you got to be able to sit there and kind of, as you know, Jack, coming from the intel services. | ||
| And I said, I look at it, I said, that's Palmyra where the great rooms are. | ||
| 2,500 years ago, on essentially the same date, Roman legions were right there where we were. | ||
| And, I don't know, Darius III or Xerxes II or whoever was right there where the Persians were. | ||
| It ain't changed. | ||
| And it ain't gonna change. | ||
| It's the West versus kind of all comers over there. | ||
| The Turks, the Egyptians, remember Alexander's generals? | ||
| That was Cleopatra's great-grandfather or whatever. | ||
| They conquered them all, and then when he died, they split it all up. | ||
| That's where we are. | ||
| And Victoria Nuland and these people are not going to change it. | ||
| This is where I get a mess. | ||
| And what they're not thinking of, you've got Qatar, the worst of the worst, Qatar, that den of iniquity, those vipers who finance all of it, are now financing the Turks. | ||
| This is Erdogan. | ||
| It's the new caliphate. | ||
| It's the Ottoman Empire. | ||
| They want to reinstall it. | ||
| They want it with Qatar. | ||
| They want to take back the two holy sites from the other Bedouins, the Arabs, and UAE, and they want to control it. | ||
| And we're in a world of hurt. | ||
| And Israel is going to be in a world of hurt because they happen to be, if you look at the map, they're kind of in the middle of it. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| And this is what President Trump, this is another thing dumped on his plate. | ||
| This is where we got two carrier battle groups. | ||
| We got two carrier battle groups down the Red Sea. | ||
| What is down there for? | ||
| Fighting, taking incoming drones from the Houthis. | ||
| Our own troops are shooting down our own F-16s. | ||
| You think that Apache helicopter thing's bad? | ||
| We just shot down an F-16 from a destroyer or cruiser. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they're keeping the Suez Canal open. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because Europe's got to get trade. | ||
| I think they're going to get a wake-up call tomorrow in Canada and Mexico when a 25% tariff hits them. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, your thoughts on Tulsi? | ||
| Tulsi, get across the line? | ||
| Well, Steve, Steve. | ||
| No, actually, before I go into that, the other piece on Europe is don't miss the news that came out of Denmark yesterday. | ||
| If we're going to talk Suez Canal, if we're going to talk Red Sea, don't miss the news out of Denmark that... | ||
| What did Denmark just allow? | ||
| Denmark's energy agency just gave the green light to who? | ||
| Russia to start patching up Nord Stream 2. So Denmark very interestingly gives the green light. | ||
| Now, I'm not saying I know that there's some kind of deal going on back in the works there, but... | ||
| Regarding the end of the Ukraine war, but you know if there's one thing that Putin wants is he wants that pipeline back. | ||
| That's why we always knew that it was never the Russians that did that. | ||
| You don't blow up your own pipelines in the middle of a massive war. | ||
| You would never do that. | ||
| But Denmark coming out and suddenly saying, oh yeah, yeah, you guys want to do some work on the pipeline? | ||
| No problem. | ||
| Be our guest. | ||
| The same Danes that are now caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Greenland. | ||
| So something's moving behind the scenes regarding all of this. | ||
| This is a Mahanian... | ||
| This is a Mahanian... | ||
| This is hemispheric defense. | ||
| You have the... | ||
| As we talked to you with Mackinder, you have the World Island, right? | ||
| And now you have wars around the periphery of the World Island in Ukraine, in the Middle East, in the South China Sea, just like in World War II, the imperial Japan, the Nazis and the Italian fascists. | ||
| We're trying to take the world island, right? | ||
| This fight's been going on for a long time. | ||
| And President Trump's saying, hey, we're opting out. | ||
| How about this? | ||
| Hemispheric defense. | ||
| We're going to start in the Panama Canal all the way up to Greenland. | ||
| We're going to make sure the Chinese and the Russian Navy are our problems. | ||
| We'll block them on the first island chain in the Pacific, but we're going to block them here, not let them hook up. | ||
| We're going to stop all the submarines from coming down. | ||
| We're going to monitor them nonstop. | ||
| And oh, by the way, the Russian army is not our problem. | ||
| That's your problem. | ||
| So that's when he says, hey, maybe it's 5% GDP. They're scrambling to get to 2%, right, and take the women's health care and the Green New Deal out of it, really have arms up. | ||
| And then President Trump goes, hey, it's not maybe 2%, maybe it's 5%. | ||
| If they have to hit 5% of GDP, they're not going to have the free health service, they're not going to have the free universities, they're not going to be retiring at 50 on full pensions. | ||
| They're not prepared to do it. | ||
| The elites over there have been having the American working man and woman, the American middle class, writing the checks. | ||
| Oh, and your sons and daughters are forward-deploying Germany. | ||
| Your sons and daughters, 101st Airborne in Romania. | ||
| Your sons and daughters happen to be on those carrier battle groups in the Red Sea. | ||
| Are you benefiting from the carrier battle groups in the Red Sea? | ||
| I don't think so, because Sue Eskenau is servicing Europe, not the United States of America. | ||
| Jack, will you hang on for a minute or two on the other side? | ||
| I want to talk about cash and the FBI and what cash is going to do. | ||
| Maybe some of the grand strategy. | ||
| This is why Canada, with the 25%, the new geoeconomics of President Trump, they're going to be listening because in the geostrategy, what President Trump is saying is the great game of the 21st century. | ||
| Remember, we talked about the great game of the 19th. | ||
| That was the Russian Empire and the British Empire down in Afghanistan and areas of Persia and Pakistan, which was India then. | ||
| The Russian Empire wanted a warm water port, right, to get direct access to the world's oceans. | ||
| Because they're up in Mermanx and Archangel, and they know that somebody who controls Greenland can control that. | ||
| And the British had to defend the British Raj, the jewel in the crown, since they lost the colonies. | ||
| That would be you and me. | ||
| With the revolution, the 250th anniversary going to kick off on April 19th, when the guns go up at Lexington and Concord, right, with the folks that... | ||
| You're the direct heirs of. | ||
| That would be the revolutionaries, right? | ||
| All coming together. | ||
| Now, Canada's most secure border is now their weakest, up in the Arctic Circle, the new great game. | ||
| You got China up there. | ||
| You got Russia up there. | ||
| The United States is going to be up there. | ||
| Maybe our new state or series of states. | ||
| Maybe it's a couple of three in Canada. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| But they're going to be listening a lot more when that 25% tariff, the geoeconomics changes tomorrow. | ||
| And the geostrategy of the hemispheric defense. | ||
| Hey, let's slap an iron dome on it too. | ||
| And then we're totally secure. | ||
| And we can pick and choose where we go. | ||
| We don't need protectorates in Europe. | ||
| We don't need protectorates in the Middle East. | ||
| We don't need protectorates in the South China Sea. | ||
| We don't need protectorates. | ||
| As long as we still... |
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