Feb. 15, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. | ||
| And what I worry about is the threat from within. | ||
| The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. | ||
| Now, I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted. | ||
| That the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. | ||
| He warned that if things don't go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany too. | ||
| Now, these cavalier statements are shocking to American ears. | ||
| For years, we've been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values. | ||
| Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy. | ||
| But when we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we're holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard. | ||
| And I say ourselves because I fundamentally believe that we are on the same team. | ||
| We must do more than talk about democratic values. | ||
| We must live them. | ||
| I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. | ||
| And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief. | ||
| And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs. | ||
| A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic And silently praying for three minutes. | ||
| Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. | ||
| After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. | ||
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Who do you think the Vice President's targeted audience was for that speech and what was the goal? | |
| I think it's the Steve Bannon's and the right wing fringe that seems enamored with right wing political movements here in Europe and in the United States. | ||
| Imagine lecturing Europeans about being afraid of their own electorate when it is Trump and Elon Musk. | ||
| Who are firing FBI agents because they dared to do their duty. | ||
| Who are having loyalty tests at the National Security Council. | ||
| Who are firing tens of thousands of federal employees because they consider them part of the deep state and can't be trusted. | ||
| You're going to lecture others about political tolerance of free speech? | ||
| That's a bit much. | ||
| Vice President Vance's speech to the conference has ruffled quite a few feathers in Europe. | ||
| What did he say to ruffle them? | ||
| He was talking about the freedom of speech and migration in Europe. | ||
| Do you believe that European leaders have a fundamentally different view of the world than this administration's? | ||
| Well, I heard his speech. | ||
| You're talking about JD's speech, right? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| I heard his speech and he talked about freedom of speech. | ||
| And I think it's true in Europe. | ||
| It's losing. | ||
| They're losing their... | ||
| Wonderful right of freedom of speech. | ||
| I see it. | ||
| I mean, I thought he made a very good speech, actually, a very brilliant speech. | ||
| Europe has to be careful. | ||
| And he talked about immigration. | ||
| And Europe has a big immigration problem. | ||
| Just take a look at what's happened with crime. | ||
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Take a look at what's happening in various parts of Europe. | |
| I thought his speech was very well received, actually. | ||
| I've heard very good remarks. | ||
| Who do you think the vice president's targeted audience was for that speech, and what was the goal? | ||
| I think it's the Steve Bannon and the right-wing fringe that seems enamored with right-wing political movements here in Europe and in the United States. | ||
| Imagine lecturing Europeans about being afraid of their own electorate when it is Trump and Elon Musk. | ||
| Who are firing FBI agents because they dared to do their duty. | ||
| Who are having loyalty tests at the National Security Council. | ||
| Who are firing tens of thousands of federal employees because they consider them part of the deep state and can't be trusted. | ||
| You're going to lecture others about political tolerance of free speech? | ||
| That's a bit much. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies. | |
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people had a belly full of it. | ||
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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. Bannon. | ||
| Friday, 14 February, in the year of our Lord. | ||
| You're in the war room for our late afternoon, early evening edition here on the holiday weekend. | ||
| A lot going on. | ||
| J.D. Vance. | ||
| No, Jerry Connolly, that speech was not targeted for, you know, Steve Bannon and the right-wing fringe here in the United States. | ||
| J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States, targeted that speech for that audience. | ||
| They needed to hear it. | ||
| Number one, that it was not Russia. | ||
| That's their enemy, and it's not number one enemy, or not China, the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| It was themselves, a mass migration. | ||
| And you know that JD's right, and what we've said here for years is correct. | ||
| If they thought it was Russia, if they were so afraid of Russia, they would pay more for their own defense. | ||
| They don't. | ||
| It's all performative. | ||
| Under 2% of GDP. They leave the United States to pay the rest. | ||
| They really let the United States be the kind of organizing principle with our army. | ||
| Our standing army in Germany, right, still there from World War II. And other units we deploy, like we have the 101st Airborne, I think a brigade of 101st Airborne deployed to Romania near the Ukrainian border. | ||
| Of course, we're underrating the Ukrainian war, $250 billion. | ||
| Zelensky says, well, only 179 headed in this direction, and I only received 77 billion, so you're at at least 102. The Munich Security Conference, the Davos of the Arms Merchants. | ||
| You've got to compare this, too, to what President Trump said yesterday. | ||
| He's going to have... | ||
| Well, first off, he's already lined up, I think, three meetings with Putin, which has these guys melted down. | ||
| A joint meeting, or a meeting in Riyadh, the two of them. | ||
| Also... | ||
| He's been invited there, and he's invited Putin, I think, already to Washington. | ||
| You could see MSNBC that night when that was announced. | ||
| They spit on the floor. | ||
| But what he's saying, what the president's also saying, is that he wants to meet with Xi and Putin together in a collective, like, summit. | ||
| I think a perfect place for that would be Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| Just saying. | ||
| And in there, he would sign a pact or convince the Russians and the Chinese to decrease their military spending by 50%. | ||
| He would do the same for the United States of America. | ||
| That would go a long way, a long way to solving our budget crisis. | ||
| Swords into plowshares. | ||
| Swords into plowshares, that theory. | ||
| Can you pull it off? | ||
| I can tell you, the force structure that comes around the hemispheric defense is outlined in the Panama to the Arctic. | ||
| Panama Canal to Greenland strategy, this new naval strategy, has to lead to a complete rethinking of our defense and a complete rethinking of the $900 billion we put into the defense budget. | ||
| What is so important, it kind of kicked off, you've had Pete Hegseth over there, you've had Marco Rubio over there, you've had Scott Besson over there. | ||
| Between Brussels and Munich, And it's a pretty good show of strength in teeing up this negotiation over Ukraine. | ||
| We are the cut and run just, hey, give it to them, say thanks. | ||
| You figured out what the Russians were out of here. | ||
| No money, no troops. | ||
| No money, no troops. | ||
| So, J.D.'s speech, the target audience wasn't the right wing here in the United States, Jerry Connolly. | ||
| Progressive Democrat. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| We know this stuff. | ||
| Our audience loves it. | ||
| Today, a resounding round of applause and support for J.D. on giving the speech. | ||
| People were just going, this is amazing. | ||
| And to think about it, it's just not a government official. | ||
| It's just not any government official. | ||
| It's Vice President of the United States. | ||
| Pete Heggs has started it off. | ||
| Pete gave an incredible speech. | ||
| Of course, all of them, oh, he gave away so much. | ||
| He's so naive. | ||
| A rookie mistake. | ||
| Said by Wicker of Mississippi. | ||
| Wicker of Mississippi is the one talking about using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| Remember Roger Wicker talking about using tactical nuclear weapons? | ||
| And lots of them. | ||
| Not like a couple of three, like, let's keep going. | ||
| I mean, that brother is cray-cray. | ||
| Tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. | ||
| So Pete Hexeth kicked it off the other day. | ||
| Saying, hey. | ||
| You know, we're not going to go back to... | ||
| There's not going to be a lot of negotiation about the Donbass or Crimea. | ||
| And he gave a ton of other truths and they melted down. | ||
| And then J.D. Today was... | ||
| The big one was, hey, we found the enemy. | ||
| It is us. | ||
| You're doing the mass migration. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| The elites of Europe. | ||
| Then the other was on the free speech and on the suppression of speech. | ||
| He also threw in there about support for... | ||
| Alternative for Deutschland and other rising Sovereignist parties and how it's been blocked They're in full meltdown In a day like today, they've had a bad day. | ||
| They realize that Trump's Justice Department doesn't care about their feelings. | ||
| It's just grinding through and checking boxes. | ||
| Emil Bovet is checking boxes. | ||
| He didn't care about the propriety of things or how nice he does them. | ||
| But J.D. dropped a hammer in Munich. | ||
| It had to be dropped. | ||
| They have never been talked to like that the entire time. | ||
| Think about the speech. | ||
| When you look at it, it's like, hey gosh, we talk about this in the world all the time. | ||
| This is not that relevatory to our audience. | ||
| But then you look at who he gave it to. | ||
| He gave it to the national security elites, the globalist elites. | ||
| The people that need a forever war to make money and exert power and control. | ||
| And he gave it to them, as we say down south, with the bark on. | ||
| And he didn't really care how it played. | ||
| They said, oh, the headline, he made a joke and nobody laughed. | ||
| It was stony silence. | ||
| I think what J.D. said is that after years, and it's not a joke, I think it's pretty, just a statement. | ||
| He said, hey, after years of scolding by, what's his name, Thunberg? | ||
| By Greta Thunberg. | ||
| After years of scolding by her, and remember she'd given stink eye when she gave Trump stink eye? | ||
| After years of scolding by her, a couple weeks of Elon Musk is fine. | ||
| Doing a wire scrub, a wire scrub of the U.S. government. | ||
| So historic speech today. | ||
| I think we've set the table now for Ukraine. | ||
| Look, President Trump's got Witkoff, I think, in Moscow. | ||
| Trump's going to do what he's going to do in these negotiations. | ||
| They're all upset that Zelensky does not have a role at the table. | ||
| Zelensky ought to be happy right now he's not behind bars. | ||
| He shouldn't be whining about a place at the table. | ||
| This deal's going to get cut. | ||
| Trump's going to do what he's going to do. | ||
| The advice from the peanut gallery here is, hey, cut bait, leave, let them have it. | ||
| They can keep all the equipment they got, all the money they stole at fair and square. | ||
| Just, it's their deal with the Russians. | ||
| Go ahead, work it out, figure it out. | ||
| No, but they want to make this big convoluted... | ||
| You know, David Ignatius, representing the CIA, excuse me, from the Washington Post, is over in Munich. | ||
| Maybe, you know, meeting a couple, three contacts. | ||
| Big day on the geopolitics side. | ||
| When Europe finally got the joke, they didn't read the memo, so they had to have the memo read to them. | ||
| Hey, we're out. | ||
| Protecting you again over 100 years from the first time we showed up is not in the vital national security interest of the United States. | ||
| It's in the security interest. | ||
| We'd like to do it. | ||
| You're an ally. | ||
| All this phoniness, oh, defense of Europe's everything. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| Just not. | ||
| Europe's got to stand on its own. | ||
| Cannot be a protectorate of the United States. | ||
| It's got to stop being a vassal state. | ||
| That's the key to America first. | ||
| Okay, we're going to go to the border. | ||
| Natalie Winters has breaking news on Facebook from the White House. | ||
| Big ruling in Louisiana on vaccines. | ||
| Bolsonaro in trouble in Brazil. | ||
| We're going to get to all of that and much more. | ||
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| And Moskowitz, they did a story about Moskowitz. | ||
| In fact, we'll play that a little later in the show. | ||
| Moskowitz going to the well of the house and talking about what we're talking about, having the doge cuts. | ||
| You have to have the doge cuts into this budget, or it's ridiculous for us to pay for them, then only cut them later. | ||
| So, so, so dumb. | ||
| But the New York Times has picked up on that, written a story about it, about how the 14th of March is going to be a Donnybrook. | ||
| Right now, all the Democrats united, so they're not going to push for a continued resolution. | ||
| And I just don't see all the Republicans getting there, particularly what this thing has. | ||
| Biden's bill, $2 trillion deficit, and no doge cuts. | ||
| I don't know how that's sellable. | ||
| I just don't. | ||
| I can see a third of the Republicans not voting for that. | ||
| But then you end up in the unenviable situation of shutting down Trump's government. | ||
| Think about that for a second. | ||
| Think that through. | ||
| Anthony Aguero and Ben Berquam are down at the wall that separates, the only thing that separates El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America from Juarez, Mexico, which is a town of a lot of bad hombres. | ||
| Anthony, thank you for joining us, sir. | ||
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Thank you for having me, Steve. | |
| Currently, we find ourselves right here. | ||
| We build a wall structure. | ||
| Right behind us, Border Patrol began putting some Normandy barriers out here to prevent some individuals that were coming into the United States with ATVs and dirt bikes, Steve. | ||
| Border Patrol agents have now... | ||
| Deployed their drones, something that I had not seen in, quite frankly, years out here. | ||
| Border Patrol agents are now on the line with the drones literally sitting on the hood of their vehicle. | ||
| And they also have deployed technology such as the blimp that is overlooking for miles now into Mexico, which gives Border Patrol agents a heads up before these... | ||
| Criminal invaders are attempting to jump in certain spots out here in the porous border, Steve. | ||
| Ben is right here right now. | ||
| He's pointing the camera into some... | ||
| Currently, we're shooting the camera into some of the individuals that are out here on the border trying to get across, and border patrol agents are having the swiftest, quickest response that we've seen in a few years now, Steve, and it's very... | ||
| It's a great sight to see, and it's definitely a first step in taking our country back, sir. | ||
| Anthony, that was known as one of the most dangerous parts in an area that is dangerous. | ||
| Between El Paso and Juarez, and Juarez used to be a very beautiful, sleepy border town with some entertainment and fun. | ||
| It's gotten to be one of the most dangerous places on Earth. | ||
| I think it was the murder capital of the world for three or four years before we built the wall. | ||
| Has cartel traffic, and particularly we built it up there, people should know, goes all the way up the side of that mountain. | ||
| And we did it because, Ben, you remember this, it was the sex trafficking and the human trafficking of young children coming across there. | ||
| And what we found up there was enough, it was heart-rendering. | ||
| Has that stopped? | ||
| Are the cartels still as active as they once were? | ||
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Well, you were responsible for this beautiful structure right behind us, Steve, and you guys actually put a dent into the cartel during the Trump administration stopping several... | |
| Dozens of routes that are lined up behind me that you can still are there, no longer active. | ||
| However, we have the Catholic diocese directly behind this property, Steve, and they are reluctant to allowing the construction and the continuation of this border wall, which is something that Border Patrol agents seem to share frustration about. | ||
| They did agree to these Normandy barriers to prevent some of these dirt bikes that were freely just crossing with product and individuals in the middle of the night. | ||
| But the frustration on some of these agents, because the Catholic diocese does not want any kind of structure being built on their property. | ||
| Aside from that, the morale out here is at a whole other level. | ||
| It is refreshing to see, and I'm very proud of what our Border Patrol agents are able to accomplish, watching them now coming all together with several agencies doing a great job out here, sir. | ||
| So, Ben, is the Border Patrol, the Customers and Border, do they feel that their job is essentially not as important as it once was when things were pouring across and trying to stop it now? | ||
| Now that they're there and the military's there, it stopped to a trickle because people know President Trump's going to send you right back. | ||
| Did they believe the weight of this crisis has now shifted to the ICE agents? | ||
| No doubt about it. | ||
| It's clearly shifted to the 15 million illegals that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris allowed into our country over the last four years. | ||
| And understanding what a nightmare that's going to be to actually rid this country of all of those criminal illegal aliens that were let in. | ||
| But at the same time, they're thankful now they are actually able to do their job. | ||
| To Anthony's point, these guys on the line, the guys we were rolling with, a lot of them are veterans. | ||
| A lot of these guys were former special forces. | ||
| Now we were rolling with the Boar Star guys today. | ||
| These guys want to... | ||
| For lack of a better term, kick some ass and take some names and protect America, put America first again. | ||
| And they're finally able to do that again. | ||
| So they love what they're able to do. | ||
| And this is not stopping what the cartel is doing. | ||
| Just to give you an idea, they slowed down the cartel activity from two years ago to today. | ||
| It went from 2,500 apprehensions to this week, it's been around 100 or less every single day. | ||
| So a dramatic change. | ||
| But the cartel is only slowing down. | ||
| And what appears to have happened today is they've ramped back up again. | ||
| We saw multiple groups. | ||
| We caught multiple groups. | ||
| We were in pursuit. | ||
| We chased them down. | ||
| We caught several. | ||
| They were throwing rocks at us. | ||
| They moved back over to places where the wall isn't. | ||
| You've got cartel that basically just stand there all day long as they send more and more people across. | ||
| It's clear the cartel is getting frustrated and they're getting desperate to start moving more people and product. | ||
| So they're not stopping. | ||
| Border Patrol, but the key here is Border Patrol is finally able to do their job. | ||
| But until you get security on the Mexico side, the cartel is not going to stop. | ||
| They just get more ingenious with how they bring the product and the people across. | ||
| But yes, back to your first part of your question, right now the biggest problem America has is we've already let the cancer into our country. | ||
| Now we have to cut it out and rid our country of it. | ||
| And these guys understand that. | ||
| We were talking about that this morning. | ||
| The bed space just in the detention centers alone is not nearly enough. | ||
| We need millions of beds. | ||
| And we have hundreds in certain places. | ||
| It's going to be a bottleneck, a disaster of a bottleneck for sure when we start really getting the numbers that we need to start getting to get them out of our country. | ||
| But at least in the meantime, Border Patrol is able to do their job and they're ecstatic about that. | ||
| They love President Trump. | ||
| It's $175 billion. | ||
| The number itself is so outrageous. | ||
| That's one of the reasons they're doing the reconciliation and what we recommend they break into because they need this money. | ||
| $175 billion. | ||
| I hope people understand the scale of that and how that's wiping out big parts of Medicaid and other social programs. | ||
| Ben, before I go back to Anthony, you mentioned about the Mexican government. | ||
| you seem to imply that they're not sending the troops up to either confront the cartels or back the cartels off as they secure their side of the border. | ||
| I'll just tell you what I saw today. | ||
| And this is, you know, what I've seen over and over and over again. | ||
| Most of what you see from the Mexico side is performative. | ||
| They get the threat of tariffs. | ||
| They say, okay, we'll back off. | ||
| We'll send some troops up. | ||
| And the troops go up to some locations. | ||
| They get the photo ops. | ||
| But they don't really do much. | ||
| Some places they do. | ||
| And you do have operations. | ||
| When I was down there with Oscar, you had Mexico doing more than America was doing. | ||
| We had checkpoints all over the country. | ||
| That was the first time I'd seen that. | ||
| But what I saw this morning was them allowing the cartel to operate at will on Mount Crystal Ray. | ||
| So whatever is preventing them from stepping up and doing their job there, you have to remember, all of these communities and opera is controlled by the cartels. | ||
| So you start sending in forces, you're starting a war with the cartel. | ||
| And so I think they're kind of picking and choosing how far they want to push the cartels. | ||
| But we have to remember, too, Mexico is basically a failed narco state. | ||
| You've got cartel control in most of the country. | ||
| When these guys make choices like that, it's not like in America, you know, you piss off a gang, you still, you know, have the biggest gang in town, you still got the prisons in our police force, although, you know, we do have some corruption in America. | ||
| In Mexico, it's a whole other game. | ||
| Every level of government is corrupted. | ||
| So it is mostly performative from what I've seen. | ||
| But the biggest thing, back to your point real quick, Steve, the biggest thing for us to be able to do this is we have to cut off the funding to all the illegals that are in America. | ||
| They will self-deport. | ||
| So we have to let ICE do their job, pick up the bad guys. | ||
| But if we cut off the funding to the illegals that are already in our country and we stop, we enforce background checks and E-Verify, they will leave our country. | ||
| They're here for money. | ||
| They're not here. | ||
| They claim fake asylum, but they're here for the money. | ||
| We cut that money off, they're going home. | ||
| Ben, you and Anthony Hanks hang on. | ||
| I've got a bunch more questions about the cartel. | ||
| Breaking news out of the White House about Zuckerberg. | ||
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| Big day in court today. | ||
| Tish James suing Elon Musk. | ||
| She and 14 other, I think, attorney generals. | ||
| They're doing it in New York. | ||
| I told you. | ||
| This is in federal court, but just watch the state courts there. | ||
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| We've designated the cartels because there you can tell, and I will tell you this, having spent a number of years down in that general location where we built the wall, it is run by the cartels. | ||
| And the cartels have judges on the payroll, the police on the payroll, certain federales. | ||
| It's a controlled environment. | ||
| So Anthony Aguero, we've designated the cartels a terrorist organization, and I know that Trump wants to get it on and break these cartels. | ||
| We've already had military intelligence aircraft over the area, particularly down on the western side, scoping things out. | ||
| What is your sense of, what's this cartel war going to look like? | ||
| And is it going to be dangerous for American and Mexican civilians to get caught in the crossfire? | ||
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Well, they don't want any problems, Steve. | |
| I recently saw a video that was put out by the cartel south of the border of Brownsville where they're saying that they're not threatening any law enforcement, that they don't want any problems, that that's the last thing that they would do. | ||
| They are now backtracking because they frankly don't want any of our government or our military going down there. | ||
| What's going to be interesting is once they start actually designating some of these cartel factors as terrorists, Are we then going to see more individuals from Mexico trying to come to our border claiming asylum because they are fleeing a terrorist state? | ||
| That is going to be something that we're going to have to be dealing with very soon out here because they're not going to slow down. | ||
| These people want to continue to push their product and it is going to create definitely violence. | ||
| Now I'll tell you one thing. | ||
| The Trump administration has been very proactive in going even as far as some of the corrupt individuals that have been operating down here in El Paso. | ||
| Last week alone, they actually arrested a CBP agent that was responsible for distribution of methamphetamine. | ||
| And he was also allowing illegal aliens to cross through the port of entry that he was actually working at. | ||
| So those investigations are ongoing. | ||
| I'm hearing that there are more investigations still going and more arrests are pending, sir. | ||
| But back to your point, I do believe it is going to cause violence. | ||
| And I do believe it is going to increment the amount or the number of Mexicans that are going to try to get to our border and use the excuse of the cartel to then say that they're in a terrorist state, that they need to flee for their safety. | ||
| sir. | ||
| Ben, your thoughts? | ||
| Yeah, I think it has to happen. | ||
| I mean, I totally agree with what Anthony's saying right there. | ||
| I think it's an accurate assessment that you're going to use that excuse. | ||
| In fact, the same NGOs that teach people how to game the system now will teach people how to game the system with that new designation. | ||
| But it has to happen. | ||
| I don't think Mexico is going to deal with this problem on their own. | ||
| I don't think, frankly, they can. | ||
| As you mentioned, and we've mentioned, they're too corrupt from the top to the bottom. | ||
| And so I think by... | ||
| Labeling them terrorist organizations, it unleashes an arsenal of tactics and operations that our government can do that they can't do otherwise, which will then free up the non-corrupt governments or individuals in Mexico to join in and take these guys out. | ||
| I don't see any other way of... | ||
| And make no mistake, these guys are just as bad as ISIS. They will dismember you while you're still alive. | ||
| They are absolutely terrorists. | ||
| They need to be treated that way. | ||
| Anthony, to that point, in designating them terrorist organizations and being able to use paramilitary and ultimately military power, in your mind, since you've dealt with them so often, will they prove to have a glass jaw against American? | ||
| Special Forces, CIA, paramilitary, American military, or are they going to get even more violent and more crazy? | ||
| Because they do some violence optics to scare people and to put them in a state of fear and anxiety. | ||
| Do you anticipate that, or do you think these guys start to fold as they have the hammer dropped on them? | ||
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They're completely going to fold, Steve. | |
| I mean, quite frankly, the CIA knows where every single one of these individuals are at, and once they start coming after them, they're going to completely fold. | ||
| They continue to use their intimidation tactics. | ||
| Just yesterday, here south of El Paso, Texas, a dismembered body of an individual was found. | ||
| He was decapitated, and there was total signs of torture. | ||
| These are people that are... | ||
| Pretty much involved in the narco trade here back and forth, but they use these intimidation tactics, and I personally feel that once they know that our military operation is coming to them, they are going to fold. | ||
| There's no way that they can hold up against the United States military, sir. | ||
| There's just no way. | ||
| Anthony, how much corruption is down? | ||
| Real quick, Steve. | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| Steve, as we were talking, a group of illegals just got dropped off. | ||
| There's a red truck. | ||
| I don't know if you can see it. | ||
| It just came, and these guys right here, if you can see, they're running up into the mountains right now. | ||
| This group is running up there. | ||
| They're going to be making their way across into our country illegally later. | ||
| You've got coyotes guiding them. | ||
| I'm going to actually chase after them. | ||
| Hang on a second. | ||
| Let me just move up here just to show you how active. | ||
| This scene is, these guys are non-stop and in fact, it looks like they're moving into this facility. | ||
| Some of these places have tunnels, so they're going to hide back behind there. | ||
| But that just, like literally as we're speaking, a group of about 10 just got dropped off by a truck and they will be coming into our country shortly. | ||
| Sorry, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, they just went into this... | ||
| In the truck... | ||
| They just went into this... | ||
| Go ahead and describe it, Ben. | ||
| Facility over here. | ||
| Hang on, hang on Anthony. | ||
| Into this construction facility. | ||
| Anthony's going to zoom in on them. | ||
| So that group of illegals just got dropped off. | ||
| And a lot of these construction companies, a lot of these companies here are all in on this. | ||
| So these guys are getting led back up around the mountain. | ||
| They're going to get handed off to the cartel that we were chasing, the guys we were chasing earlier up by Monument 2. But because of this wall, they can't simply run into here. | ||
| So had this happened before this wall was built, these guys would have simply ran in here and come across the border. | ||
| border. | ||
| Now they're making their way back up around the mountain to come across tonight. | ||
| In broad daylight, folks, with every force in the world down there to stop them, they're still going to come. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Trump's done such a great job of stopping 99% or 98%, I think 97% of the flow, but it's relentless. | ||
| And you've got to send a signal. | ||
| This is why you've got to deport them as soon as they get here. | ||
| No more hanging around, and you've got to wait for a judge, things like that. | ||
| Ben, before we go, just for the cartels and the cartel war, how bad is the corruption? | ||
| How bad is the corruption among the police, the judges, local officials on both sides of the border, but particularly the United States, as far as cartel money? | ||
| Yeah, sorry, Steve. | ||
| We're back. | ||
| We lost connection there. | ||
| Oh, how bad is the corruption down there? | ||
| How bad is it with the police on the payroll, the judges on the payroll? | ||
| Because the cartel spreads a lot of money around. | ||
| They would rather do it with gold than with lead, but if they have to, they'll do it with lead. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Well, look, it's at every level. | ||
| And this is the problem in Mexico. | ||
| You don't know who's on your side and who's not. | ||
| You talk to the federales. | ||
| You know, you talk to one guy, you think he's a good guy, but he doesn't know if the guy right next to him is corrupt. | ||
| And it goes up the line. | ||
| You go to the military. | ||
| We've worked with some military in Mexico. | ||
| They seem like good guys. | ||
| We get a call later on, find out that whole squad, you know, guys in that squad were corrupted. | ||
| And so it's every level. | ||
| The corruption is so deep, you don't know. | ||
| And you don't know if you're being watched, if they're getting paid off by the cartel, if they're going to end up sending somebody to your house because... | ||
| The guys that you think are the good guys are actually the bad guys. | ||
| That's the problem, is the uncertainty level. | ||
| It's just like running a business. | ||
| The biggest killer for business is uncertainty. | ||
| In Mexico, the biggest killer for opportunity, progress, making it a first world country, is the uncertainty of who's in control. | ||
| And down there, the problem is, from the presidency down to the janitor, you don't know who's on the take and who's not. | ||
| Anthony, social media, where do people get you? | ||
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You can find me on X, Agüero. | |
| Anthony Agüero live, sir, actually. | ||
| Anthony Agüero live on X. I appreciate your time, Steve. | ||
| Let's make sure we push that out, Mo and Grace. | ||
| Ben Berquam, you're always working on your Border Series. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| Yeah, our next episode is Law& Border Season 5 are going to be coming out. | ||
| This is the... | ||
| Restoration of America season as we take this country back. | ||
| We will have our newest episodes coming out in the next couple weeks. | ||
| And I'll have some breaking footage from today. | ||
| We've been running all day. | ||
| We haven't even had time to put it out yet. | ||
| We've got it cutting. | ||
| We'll break that footage on America's Voice on all of our social media. | ||
| And then I'll be playing on all the shows next week. | ||
| But at Real America's Voice or at Real AM Voice on all social media. | ||
| And then at Ben Burquam, my personal social. | ||
| As well as FrontlineAmerica.com and my sub stack is Frontline America. | ||
| Ben, thank you. | ||
| Stay safe down there. | ||
| Always dangerous. | ||
| And I'll see you at CPAC, brother. | ||
| Force multiplier. | ||
| See you at CPAC. Force multiplier. | ||
| Ben's going to be one of the lecturers. | ||
| The situation down there is getting under control because of amazing focus and resources to seal the border, secure the border. | ||
| Now the deportation started. | ||
| I got to tell you, you're still going to have a conflict with the cartels and the Trump administration is gearing up for that. | ||
| Only way to stop the chemical warfare of the Chinese Communist Party in our beloved country, the fentanyl trade, is to take it head on. | ||
| And I think Anthony's right. | ||
| Our intelligence services, I think, have pretty well marked out what's in Northern and Central America. | ||
| And the guys in there better be prepared for some incoming. | ||
| Natalie Winter, speaking of incoming Facebook, how did you rattle the cage of one of the richest, most powerful men in the world, ma'am? | ||
| Yeah, oops. | ||
| I think these people should learn by now. | ||
| Don't come after me. | ||
| Don't come after the war room. | ||
| Don't come after the war room posse. | ||
| And certainly, don't come after you. | ||
| I had wanted to come on the show today just to simply break the story, which is that one of these huge Silicon Valley-based, you know, left-wing tech funds that doles out billions of dollars annually. | ||
| Who's number one benefactor, by the way, is Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| Well, believe it or not, they've actually been funding some of the groups that are currently suing President Trump, whether it's Treasury, Doge, OPM, Education, the kind of Schedule F stuff, you name it. | ||
| But apparently, the New York Times beat me to it because they're already running cover and shilling for Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| They put out a whole story where, frankly, they demean me. | ||
| They call me a right-wing influencer. | ||
| Last time I checked, I'm a co-host, White House correspondent, and investigative reporter. | ||
| But I guess that's part of the smear campaign. | ||
| They didn't even ask for my comment. | ||
| They simply said that the allegations that I put forth in my story that was well-documented from primary sources and financial records was just that was fake news. | ||
| This is the best part. | ||
| Their defense, they're saying that because the Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a donor-advised fund, right, so a lot of people give money to it, it's then pulled and they distribute it to charities that they do appropriate. | ||
| Well, Mark Zuckerberg said, well, maybe it wasn't us. | ||
| It could have been one of the thousand other people who've donated to it. | ||
| To which I would say, Mark Zuckerberg, maybe instead of trying to trash me and this show in the New York Times, you should be dedicating that energy to condemning and disavowing the group that you're funding with, what, one one-hundredth of a degree of separation? | ||
| Last time I checked, if you want to depict yourself as the newfound MAGA convert, you should want absolutely no ties. | ||
| And Steve, I would just like to double down on the veracity and truthfulness of my claims, but I would also like to add that this group didn't just fund Protect Democracy to the tune of over $4 million over the course of three years, which like I said is suing President Trump and is part of the Democracy Forward Coalition, which has dozens of lawsuits against President Trump. | ||
| But this, like I said, California-based foundation, well, they actually bankroll Planned Parenthood, ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Brennan Center, all of those entities which played a very crucial role in trying to keep President Trump off the ballot in 2024. And lastly, I would just add that if Mark Zuckerberg wants to take the defense of, well, the reason why I didn't maybe fund this one left-wing organization is because... | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Return in a moment. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| So, Natalie, step back for a second. | ||
| Explain to the audience why this is so important. | ||
| Because Zuckerberg is now trying to become a new court jester in the court of the Sun King. | ||
| And in doing so, people are pointing at him that he may have been involved in certain nefarious activities. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| I would say go back to the metaverse and stay there. | ||
| Mark Zuckerberg with him and all these sort of big tech guys. | ||
| The past is... | ||
| Prologue, what do I mean by that? | ||
| All of these organizations that over their lifetimes they've given, you're talking about billions of dollars to. | ||
| I mean, I buried this one group, the SCVF. Mark Zuckerberg is their top donor and donated nearly $2 billion worth of Facebook stock as of 2018. I'm sure it's only grown. | ||
| These groups, right, the dark money apparatus that you hear us talk about so much. | ||
| A cornerstone, a bedrock, a pillar of that, if not probably the overwhelming majority of it, is this sort of class of tech prototypes, of which Mark Zuckerberg is one of the leading examples. | ||
| And now, frankly, I think it's insulting to the intelligence of the MAGA movement, to the people who watch this show, that you think our standards are so low that just because you give a $1 million donation, the minimum to make it, what, seven figures so you can get your nice seat at the inauguration, that all of a sudden that that makes you a MAGA convert. | ||
| Because it only takes me about probably 3.5 seconds to look through the history of the organizations that Mark Zuckerberg and his Chan Zuckerberg initiative. | ||
| Have donated to, to very, very quickly surpass that $1 million figure. | ||
| So I would like to just, I don't know, refresh the memory of whatever meta spokesperson spoke with the New York Times today, which, like I underscored, never reached out to me for comment on this piece. | ||
| That shows you, I guess, shilling for billionaires. | ||
| It's just what the New York Times wants to do, unchecked and unopposed. | ||
| But their group, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has given hundreds of grants to basically exclusively left-wing organizations, including some that are responsible for what we just witnessed, America's open borders, a million dollars to the National Immigration Forum, $550,000 to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, $200,000 to the American Immigration Council, $150,000 to the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. | ||
| They've also given $1.6 million to the Civil Rights Corps. | ||
| I could read on the entire show all of these left-wing nonprofit, which in reality are activist organizations. | ||
| Over $3 million to the Tide Center, which bankrolled the lawfare against President Trump. | ||
| I mean, frickin' the former president of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. | ||
| Was David Plouffe, so spare me any idea that this entity is not something that's overtly political. | ||
| They've given millions of dollars to groups that act They actively advocate for defunding the police. | ||
| They're actually partners with a website that I believe is called defundthepolice.org, forward.us, which is one of the leading open borders advocacy groups in the United States, which back in the first Trump administration actively opposed and lobbied against his immigration agenda. | ||
| They fought for the DACA dreamer people to stay. | ||
| Mark Zuckerberg co-founded that organization. | ||
| And I'm old enough to remember the Center for Tech and Civic Life, the what was it, hundreds of millions. | ||
| That they doled out to rig the 2020 election. | ||
| But Steve, the issue really isn't even Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| Yes, it's partly him. | ||
| But the issue is that congressional Republicans, like for example, Jim Jordan, who when Mark Zuckerberg came out, what was it, a few months ago and did his big mea culpa, put out that, what was it, only one and a half page letter when you adjust for the spacing and the signature saying, yeah, I'm sorry, I guess I rigged the 2020 election. | ||
| Put no footnotes on his assertion that Actually, the grants weren't rigging the election. | ||
| They were to make the election equitable and fair. | ||
| I never saw any evidence to prove that. | ||
| Congressional Republicans lauded that. | ||
| As a huge victory and a big win. | ||
| So, of course, Mark Zuckerberg is going to think that if they just do some puff piece in the New York Times that they're going to be able to get away with it. | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| The facts and the receipts don't lie, and it's a continued pattern of behavior. | ||
| And even if Mark Zuckerberg did have a conversion, he should come out and disavow this organization because his money, maybe indirectly, maybe directly. | ||
| Is being used not just to fund this one-off organization that's suing Trump, but to prop up a dark money apparatus that is out to destroy, weaponize, bankrupt, and imprison the entire MAGA movement. | ||
| So the Meta team, who I guess wants to talk with me and get their side of the story out there, how about this? | ||
| I'll sit down for an hour-long interview with Mark Zuckerberg, and we can have an on-camera discussion about what his funds, what his billions of dollars were doing. | ||
| And I would encourage him to try to say- Well, oh, I didn't know. | ||
| I don't think that that quite holds you know exactly what you were doing, in part because you were the co-founder of a lot of these organizations. | ||
| So I'm really sick and tired of these tech bros who think this show, this audience, and people like myself, who are not influencers, but we're co-hosts, are so dumb that we're just going to pick up whatever slop they'll give us because he donated a million dollars to Trump and got a haircut and works out now. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| And we're going to keep hunting these people down. | ||
| They thought this was going to scare me off their path. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| Natalie, fantastic. | ||
| Natalie, where do we go for your social media? | ||
| I know you're going to be on this one over the weekend. | ||
| Fantastic rant. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I get mad sometimes. | ||
| It's Natalie G. Winters on all social media platforms. | ||
| Probably except Facebook, but I'm okay with that. | ||
| No, I want to work on that. | ||
| I'm not so sure. | ||
| Zuckerberg would do an interview, but we'll figure out some way for you to pierce the shell over there. | ||
| In the metaverse, maybe. | ||
| This is a big one. | ||
| It shows you also how much they want to clean up their past to try to show their citizens in good standing. | ||
| I mean, they're very nervous about this. | ||
| As they should be. | ||
| As they should be. | ||
| Natalie, fantastic. | ||
| Have a great weekend. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Fantastic work. | ||
| We'll see you later. | ||
| Get Natalie on social media. | ||
| We have Mike Lindell. | ||
| Yeah, the video. | ||
| Let's go and play Mike Lindell. | ||
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