Feb. 18, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| We are not the only nation that has had an autocratic takeover. | ||
| It happened in Poland. | ||
| It happened in Brazil. | ||
| It happened where I was ambassador, Czech Republic. | ||
| All three of those countries got to the other side. | ||
| They ousted autocratic regimes like Trump and Musk. | ||
| You know, there's always an oligarch. | ||
| Whenever you've got a dictator, you've got an oligarch by its side. | ||
| Got a money bag. | ||
| How can we get to the other side like those countries did and not go the way of Hungary or Turkey where they never got them out? | ||
| There's a thousand and one things you can do, but we've done a big study and we know the seven things you must do. | ||
| And that's what we're working on. | ||
| Number one, defend the rule of law. | ||
| That's always what these dictators go for. | ||
| Number two, protect elections, because that's how you kick them out. | ||
| Number three, you have to fight corruption. | ||
| Number four, protect pluralism and on and on. | ||
| There's a set of seven things. | ||
| And the lawsuits we're bringing, I'm planning 100 this year. | ||
| One hundred. | ||
| The lawsuits we're bringing. | ||
| Are designed as part of that. | ||
| And they're starting to work because you can't do it in the courts of law alone. | ||
| You need the court of public opinion. | ||
| And what did we see this week in parallel with our Treasury lawsuit, that first Treasury case? | ||
| Peaceful protesters for the first time starting to show up at the Treasury building around the country. | ||
| Members of Congress for the first time starting to come to protests. | ||
| So you need that. | ||
| And even the press, so many others. | ||
| Have bent the knee. | ||
| Too many corporate owners of press have bent the knee, kissed the ring, count out. | ||
| But the press is waking up. | ||
| I saw some tougher confrontations this week. | ||
| So you trigger that immune response of the body politic. | ||
| Wake up, democracy. | ||
| And that's what's on the other side, is an awakened democracy. | ||
| Donald Trump and Elon Musk, peaceful. | ||
| Donald Trump and Elon Musk can't resist that. | ||
| I wonder why. | ||
| It seems to be you're getting a little bit under Elon Musk's, you know, a little bit under his skin here. | ||
| He tweeted, he posted an ex about you a number of times today. | ||
| What do you do about that? | ||
| What do you say in response to it? | ||
| Many, many tweets today. | ||
| Many? | ||
| We're showing them on the screen. | ||
| About our work and our case and me from Mr. Musk. | ||
| Jen, he's supposed to be in charge of government efficiency. | ||
| How does he have time to do all this tweeting? | ||
| I think he's not used to being held accountable. | ||
| But what we're doing in our case is the case tomorrow under the Constitution, but we also have done dozens of FOIA requests. | ||
| I applied to be a member of the Doge. | ||
| They said I'm not welcome because of my political affiliation. | ||
| We filed the very first case of any kind against the Trump administration saying the Doge was illegal right after Donald Trump was sworn in. | ||
| We got that Treasury order. | ||
| We're holding Musk and Doge and Trump accountable. | ||
| And Mr. Musk doesn't seem to be used to that. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| I take those tweets as a backhanded compliment and they are going to spur me on to bring even more litigation when necessary to defend the Constitution and laws from the Trump-Musk chaos campaign. | ||
| 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 try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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Mega Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It is Tuesday, 18 February, Year of the Lord, 2025. Today, this morning's exercise is going to be the following. | ||
| We're going to go around the horn as we've been talking about today. | ||
| The kind of the structure, strategy and structure today. | ||
| We're going to talk about the structure of what's going on as President Trump has another day of thunder. | ||
| They're going to be signing, I think, of executive orders. | ||
| I believe in Mar-a-Lago this afternoon. | ||
| I actually think that President Trump may attend as our own Jack Posobiec is. | ||
| General Flynn has his event down in Mar-a-Lago tonight. | ||
| I think President Trump's sticking around on Mar-a-Lago since everybody seems to have left. | ||
| D.C., the imperial capital, on President's Day weekend. | ||
| We're going to start about the resistance, and we're going to start with the tip of the spear of the resistance, and through Natalie Winters, our White House correspondent. | ||
| Since Darren Beattie is now in the government, and Raheem Kassam's a restaurateur, it's left to our own Natalie Winters to do the heavy lift. | ||
| Of course, National Pulse has got great stuff. | ||
| Revolver's got great stuff. | ||
| You've got to go there every day. | ||
| And then we're going to get into the geopolitics, what happened in Saudi Arabia, actually massive yesterday. | ||
| We're going to touch on what happened in Paris with the discussions of the Europeans. | ||
| And Todd Benzman is going to be here because we're going to talk about the geopolitical realignment, the geostrategic realignment, which makes total sense now. | ||
| A report yesterday highlighted by our own Todd Benzman that the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, It's starting to, I don't know, focus on the cartel situation in Mexico. | ||
| And I think that'll all make sense as we go through it this morning. | ||
| I want to start with Natalie Winters. | ||
| Norm Eisen. | ||
| Why is he important? | ||
| Why is he now trending all over the place? | ||
| You've been at this with this guy for many years, right? | ||
| He goes way back. | ||
| He's part of the thinking of the color revolution. | ||
| Actually, in Ukraine in 2014, you know, with Victoria Nuland and Samantha Powers and Anne Applebaum, you know, the three sorority sisters of doom, Macbeth's witches, right? | ||
| So why is Eisen important? | ||
| And why is he coming to the forefront today, kind of trending as being one of the leaders of the resistance to the days of thunder, ma'am? | ||
| Norm Eisen's reason for existence, his raison d'etre, is protecting democracy. | ||
| And what you just watched from that MSNBC clip that aired about a week ago, and then that Jen Psaki clip came from last night, shows you just what exactly democracy means to Norm Eisen, which is a purely partisan, politically weaponized term that they use to describe the preferred regimes of the American ruling class, call it the deep state, call it the... | ||
| And Norm Eisen's entire career, through his writings, through his sort of appointments at these D.C.-based think tanks, through his advocacy, through groups like the States United Democracy Defenders, they have all been about preserving the status quo of quote-unquote democracy. | ||
| And the best example of this is the fact that Norm Eisen was intimately involved with the first impeachment of President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| He had actually drafted, I believe, Nearly a dozen impeachment articles before President Trump was even sworn in. | ||
| He then basically advised, provided legal counsel to the Mark Zades of the world, who essentially then impeached President Trump. | ||
| So for that man to sit up there and say that he cares so much about democracy while in the same breath talking about how they can peacefully remove... | ||
| The democratically elected president, Donald J. Trump, and they can't even use the Electoral College loss dunk on him because he won it so overwhelmingly, shows you that is a clarifying moment for who Norm Eisen is. | ||
| And frankly, I would also look no further than what his group, the States United Democracy Defenders and their sort of C4 Action Group, which is the one that is actively suing Doge, as we speak, along with a bunch of other President Trump sort of linked initiatives. | ||
| And policies, but it was this very same group that essentially did, and we'll use MSNBC jargon, a hostile takeover of the Arizona AG office, that's Chris Mays, and weaponized their office to bring the indictments against President Trump, | ||
| against his supporters, essentially lawfare go after the Jeff Clarks of the world, and again provide them, essentially rot copy verbatim with the lawsuits with the indictments that they then hurled against MAGA. | ||
| But if you want to take a step back, because then you get to the global ramifications of this and that's where you sort of invoke then the color revolution critique of who Yes. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You have to link what is going on at USAID, what they have done throughout Eastern European countries, particularly when it comes to Ukraine, where 9 out of 10 media outlets are funded by USAID. Yes, 9 out of 10, 90%. | ||
| Imagine that. | ||
| Right? | ||
| That's not war room. | ||
| That's Ukrainian foreign ministers admitting to that. | ||
| But if you read their democracy playbook, which was essentially their blueprint that they've now put out three iterations of, the third one, which they then cross-supplied, translated everything that they learned from interfering in regimes abroad, where they admit they're now doing it here in the United States, States, which was published coincidentally on January 17th, 2025. | ||
| Well, in this sort of playbook, several hundred pages, USAID is mentioned several dozen times, including but not limited to admitting that they were planning to bankroll resistance to the democratic backsliding that was going to occur under President including but not limited to admitting that they were planning to bankroll resistance | ||
| And the media example that they give is an entity called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, which was responsible for essentially the dossier that led to the first impeachment. | ||
| Of President Trump. | ||
| So you can see this whole concept of depicting President Trump, Elon Musk, everything that they're doing as autocratic, as anti-democratic, as democratic backsliding. | ||
| It then basically allows them to have a much broader and wider tool belt where they can oppose, sabotage, and obstruct the Trump administration, but it also gets them out of their ideological sort of bend where how do they even oppose a democratically elected president as these Okay, | ||
| here's what I want to, the audience, the takeaway, is that you have people like Carville, right, James Carville, and I think his podcast has now been promoted up on Daily Mail as a big deal. | ||
| And then you have Chris Matthews, it had been Chris Matthews back on Morning Joe this morning. | ||
| You have these, I don't want to call them just boomers, but you have these people that are playing in an old playbook and don't quite, have not... | ||
| They didn't circulate the memo to them. | ||
| There are people in the Democratic Party saying we just got to let Doge and Trump burn themselves out. | ||
| And obviously the political response is all over the map. | ||
| And you got Claire McCaskill on TV and you got Elizabeth Warren. | ||
| That is not, that is all noise. | ||
| That is not signal. | ||
| There's a sophisticated, coordinated resistance. | ||
| And it's going between the color revolution apparatchiks. | ||
| And these people are very smart. | ||
| They've been at this for a while, and they're just not going to toss the keys to us, right? | ||
| This is the whole crowd in back of Ukraine and so much more, the isolation of Russia. | ||
| These people are demonic. | ||
| They're very smart, and they're very tough, okay? | ||
| You have that set, and they're inextricably linked, because most of these people are, come from, a lot of them come from legal backgrounds, to the actually quite sophisticated assault that is happening on Days of Thunder on the Trump agenda. | ||
| In federal courts. | ||
| And of course, and I wholeheartedly agree with this, get to the Supreme Court quickly. | ||
| They're going to go to the Supreme Court now with the special counsel's office President Trump has terminated. | ||
| Get to the Supreme Court quickly, and let's lay out some theoretical backup to the unified executive theory, which this is all about. | ||
| Remember, ideas have consequences. | ||
| The color revolution, I want to spend a minute or two on this before we go to break. | ||
| That whole construct of what they've done in other countries, and they brought it here to the United States, obviously in President Trump's first term, which I would argue worked pretty well for them, because you saw how they thwarted it. | ||
| What are the key strategic elements of that, and where do you see it playing out right now, Natalie? | ||
| I tell you what, Natalie, we're so close to break. | ||
| I want you to chew on that. | ||
| And this is why we have a White House. | ||
| We have a different way we're approaching the White House. | ||
| Brian Glenn is fantastic, and he's doing the day-to-day. | ||
| He's there. | ||
| He's always jumping in, and he's in the Oval Office for the signings and get that amazing one-on-ones with the president and the president just sitting there looking at the camera. | ||
| Amanda Head, of course, is over there on occasions with John Solomon. | ||
| And Natalie's doing something quite different. | ||
| She's looking at the strategic deployment of assets coming from the White House as you try to take down the administrative state and take on the deep state and, of course, do the three main policy things we talk about. | ||
| And the beginning stages of the kinetic part of the Third World War. | ||
| Number two is the mass deportations of 10 to 12 million illegal aliens. | ||
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| Natalie Winters, Color Revolution. | ||
| This is so important. | ||
| Don't pay attention. | ||
| Two-thirds of the stuff you see on TV is nonsense. | ||
| MSNBC, CNN. It's not the heart of the thing. | ||
| The heart of the thing is the very sophisticated political operators that have been inside the administrative and deep state for many, many decades. | ||
| They run the deal, okay? | ||
| They are not prepared to give this up. | ||
| They've spread their madness throughout the world. | ||
| That's what we're choking off. | ||
| And Norm Eisen... | ||
| Is one of the biggest practitioners of this. | ||
| Once again, Natalie, I just want to leave the audience where we go to another aspect of this, which is the funding of it, and that's USAID, to tell me about the color revolution in Norm Eisen. | ||
| You know, what we're talking about, I mean, is the equivalent of like a nuclear bomb to the Constitution, to this country, to elections, certainly to the Trump agenda. | ||
| And, you know, you always talk about the idea of they're not going to hand us over the keys. | ||
| They're not going to say, congrats, here's a pat on the back. | ||
| You won the election. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
| I think the concept of a color revolution to sort of extend that metaphor is the idea that those set of keys shouldn't even exist because the system is so foolproof, is so, you know, under lock and key that. | ||
| You can't even change it, right? | ||
| That sort of is what the impeachment represented symbolically, the first impeachment, right? | ||
| You can't deviate from what they call the Washington consensus. | ||
| And if you look at the sort of three pillars of what undergirds the theory of color revolution, which Norm Eisen and his sort of mentor were the seminal authors of the text that really created the playbook. | ||
| Number one was sort of mass demonstrations and mass street protests, which we're certainly seeing right now. | ||
| But just pay attention how any time that there is a protest, Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC crowd, they really, really, really amplify them and really, really hype it up because they want to create this idea, right? | ||
| Even though it's actually not that many people, but they want to create the idea, the sort of astroturfed idea that there's such staunch opposition. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| To your point, it's amazing that from Nicole Wallace all the way through the evening, they'll have the multi-screen. | ||
| They'll talk about, this is what's happening in Denver today. | ||
| This is what's happening in Orlando. | ||
| And they'll have the entire screen with each of the different protests. | ||
| And there's probably not 500 people at any one, but when the screen's full, it reinforces to them that they're taken to the streets to take this back. | ||
| It's information warfare perfected, ma'am. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's confirmation bias, right? | ||
| It's straight-up agitprop. | ||
| They want the idea that there is such unrest in the United States and such massive opposition that there's just demonstration after demonstration after demonstration. | ||
| When in reality, I've been walking to and from the White House more or less every day, and it's typically like three people outside standing and screaming. | ||
| You know, it's not really these mass-organized demonstrations. | ||
| Believe me, that's what they want, and I'm sure they'll pay people to do it. | ||
| But organically, it's not happening. | ||
| The other component of the color revolution is impeachment proceedings, which obviously they can't actually do or carry out right now. | ||
| But I would argue that that is why they are so kind of clinically insane over what is going on in terms of the mass firings and layoffs, because they're essentially pulling the plug. | ||
| embeds within all of these agencies and make no mistake, they're certainly teeing up the stage for if they were to take the house for another impeachment. | ||
| But I think the other key point here, which goes back to sort of the autocratic framing of president Trump that we've been hammering for so long is this idea of engineering contested election results. | ||
| So part of that is their typical, you know, trope of like, Oh, well, president Trump lost the electoral college. | ||
| So he's not justifiably elected. | ||
| But they sort of lost that card. | ||
| So I think that that's sort of where, and obviously we have our issues with Elon Musk, but I think that that is sort of why you see this continued narrative. | ||
| You mean not that he lost the Electoral College that he didn't win the popular vote? | ||
| The new thing is they're all wigged out about the popular vote, right? | ||
| Yeah, popular vote. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| Okay, continue on. | ||
| Rug was ripped out from underneath them because he won so overwhelmingly. | ||
| So I think that their embrace of the critiques on Elon Musk as, you know, the shadow president, as President Musk is the person who's commandeering the White House, really sort of, I think, through a roundabout way, accomplishes that goal, that idea that it's not actually President Trump who's running the show. | ||
| It's this merry band of idiots that is Doge. | ||
| And even the critiques on the fact that the Doge staffers are so young, it's trying to create illegitimacy around that organization. | ||
| While, just for example, that Jen Psaki segment that we played opening the show... | ||
| In the same segment where they're bashing Doge staffers for being 19, they're then having David Hogg on to say that the Democrat Party needs to be run by younger Gen Zers, right? | ||
| So ideologically, it doesn't really square. | ||
| So that's sort of the equivalent. | ||
| And like you were saying, Steve, and after this we can play the USAID clip, but I view my role as the White House... | ||
| Sure, go ahead. | ||
| No, no, keep going, keep going. | ||
| I want to hold, by the way, Denver, I want to hold the clip. | ||
| I get something I want to... | ||
| Well, to your point about how my role as a White House correspondent I think is unique, besides the obvious reasons to everyone else in that room, is that it really gives me a front row seat to the mainstream media, which is sort of the core, I would say, ground shock troops of this whole resistance effort. | ||
| So obviously covering the White House and the press conferences is important. | ||
| But what amazing access to have to understand how they're formulating the narratives, and that's what I view my role as. | ||
| I want to go, so folks, we've talked about this before, but it's a number two pencil day. | ||
| Autocratic breakthrough. | ||
| Because this is their new concept that they're trying to hammer and using the media. | ||
| Autocratic breakthrough. | ||
| What do they mean? | ||
| Why is it an important concept to them to try to pin on President Trump in the days of thunder? | ||
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Ma'am. | |
| Well, it's the framing of President Trump. | ||
| As an autocrat, right? | ||
| Like, that is what it goes back to. | ||
| Because if they smear him as that, in the same way, it's basically the color revolution iteration of the 2016 ad hominem attacks of you're a racist, you're a sexist, so therefore I can assault you, I can punch you, I can get away with doing anything I want to you. | ||
| This is the, like, political warfare equivalent, right? | ||
| Because you're an autocrat, because you're a dictator, I can remove you from office. | ||
| And they're not exactly shy about it. | ||
| It's very systemic. | ||
| And planned out. | ||
| And it goes all the way back. | ||
| Put it this way. | ||
| Our conspiracy theories, in quotes, have always been better than theirs. | ||
| Their conspiracy theories come from the ivory tower of academia. | ||
| This idea of democratic backsliding, Ziblatt and Levitsky. | ||
| They're now rolling that out right now in real time. | ||
| Live fire exercise in the name of democracy. | ||
| Live fire. | ||
| They also have, this goes back to your clip at Norm Eisen at the beginning, which is, what, six months old or a year old. | ||
| They have a certain set of criteria, a certain set of benchmarks, boxes you have to check to get to autocratic breakthrough, right? | ||
| That we can't be full autocrats until we've pierced certain things. | ||
| And this is how they frame everything. | ||
| Forget the Carvels, forget the Chris Matthews, forget the old school guys. | ||
| They're not relevant. | ||
| This is the signal. | ||
| They're all noise. | ||
| And you can tell on the Democratic side they're not paying attention to. | ||
| This is the signal. | ||
| USAID. We're going to talk about Saudi Arabia. | ||
| A geopolitical realignment in the air. | ||
| And what does that mean? | ||
| It means also focus on hemispheric defense. | ||
| That's one of the big things. | ||
| And hemispheric defense, what do you have to do? | ||
| You have to take out the chemical warfare of the second opium war with the cartels. | ||
| All next in the war room. | ||
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Scared. | |
| I think that... | ||
| You know, 12 days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. | ||
| They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills, and then all gone overnight. | ||
| All gone overnight for Christina Dry and Adam Dubard, fired this month in the chaotic shutdown of foreign aid distributed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. More than eight... | ||
| They're not looking for competency. | ||
| They're not looking for if you're good at your job. | ||
| They're looking for peer loyalty tests. | ||
| And if you don't give it, you will be punished. | ||
| And they had to leave the building. | ||
| And these are folks who had decades and decades of public service serving USAID across administrations, from, you know, George Bush to Obama to the first Trump administration. | ||
| And they... | ||
| We're never able to walk back in the building again. | ||
| There was no process? | ||
| No one explained to them why they were being relieved? | ||
| To my knowledge, they received an email, and then if they didn't leave the building, they were escorted out of the building. | ||
| Okay, this is like artificial intelligence when they say, or this is Elon Musk and the chips on Neuralink. | ||
| It's going to cure the blind and heal the lame, and you've got the guys with the paraplegics, and they put the chip in, and all of a sudden they're playing chess. | ||
| They found this woman. | ||
| This is in 60 Minutes but clowned themselves on Sunday night. | ||
| It's hard to get to lower depths than 60 Minutes is today, particularly given what it used to be back in the 60s and 70s. | ||
| But they had two segments. | ||
| The one on German misinformation was, I thought, humiliating for a news organization like 60 Minutes. | ||
| But this thing was almost as dumb with Scott Pelley because they picked, I guess this young woman is, because the CIA, they have front, you know, they are doing water projects in India, in South Asia. | ||
| They are doing, you know, things that every Christian philanthropist would support in sub-Saharan Africa. | ||
| That ain't USAID, okay? | ||
| It's a cutout for the CIA. It's been doing bad stuff all over, right? | ||
| It's the NGOs they funded to to basically exacerbate organizing exacerbate the invasion of the southern border and then everything they did here domestically. | ||
| But they're going to beat this dead horse as long as it goes. | ||
| Natalie Winters. | ||
| Yeah, that 60 Minutes interview, I think, was yet another example of a live fire exercise of color revolution propaganda. | ||
| Why do I say that? | ||
| Because it's the idea of presenting these hardcore, politically left apparatchiks. | ||
| As nonpartisan, independent bureaucrats. | ||
| Well, 60 Minutes and Deep State, if you want to make that chick your poster child for what it means to be a nonpartisan civil servant, then have at it, because I'm happy to exclusively report Scoop here in the war room that that chick, Christina Dry, well, I uncovered her old blog that she had been writing through the years of the first Trump administration. | ||
| And believe it or not, she's compared President Trump to Hitler and Mussolini and actually said that MAGA supporters need to be, quote, exterminated. | ||
| If you want to put the picture up on screen, she had a blog post called Hashtag Still Not Trump Though, where she demands that, quote, it must not be Trump and that he is, quote, absolutely unfit to run our country. | ||
| Quote, he reminds us of a reincarnation of Mussolini or pre-genocidal Hitler. | ||
| Then she has some other blog posts. | ||
| I'll read this one verbatim. | ||
| Maybe this is what USAID soft power means, but, quote, if your argument to support Donald Trump is that he says it like it is or some of his stuff makes sense, he says what everyone else is afraid to say, congratulations! | ||
| You are probably a racist or sexist or misogynistic or homophobic or classist or ableist. | ||
| You represent the problem we are trying to eliminate. | ||
| You represent the privilege we keep talking about going on to say that President Trump President Trump has no empathy and gives power to hate all before writing an article about how she is a white ally and instructs her friends on how to also be a white ally and join the white alliance. | ||
| I would also be remiss, Steve, to not add that the guy sitting next to her, Adam Dubard, used to work for a group called Represent Us. | ||
| Where he has a bunch of articles smearing January 6th as a corrupt coup, trying to pressure people into not donating and withdrawing funds from Jan 6 lawmakers. | ||
| And he donated to Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders. | ||
| And for 60 Minutes, not to bring this up. | ||
| First of all, they should have been screened and never been on. | ||
| But this shows you what a group of sad sex. | ||
| The only kind of worst I've ever seen. | ||
| It's when they did Leslie Stahl. | ||
| Leslie Stahl. | ||
| Who should be put out to pasture. | ||
| Embarrassing. | ||
| Humiliating. | ||
| And they've never come back and said all the mistakes they made and the lies they propagated. | ||
| It's a clown show. | ||
| It's a total clown show. | ||
| Almost as bad Sunday night on 60 Minutes was almost, I thought, as humiliating as Saturday Night Live, the 50th anniversary. | ||
| The only stuff that was funny was the old stuff. | ||
| And you had these smug elites sitting there, just, you know, self-congratulatory. | ||
| The modern-day skits were sophomore, I mean, juvenile, ridiculous, not funny. | ||
| The whole thing was just a clown show. | ||
| And then you had Tom Hanks. | ||
| Of course, MAGA's got to be an old white racist. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So on the nose, bro. | ||
| Wake up. | ||
| Natalie, Norm Eisen, the Revolver. | ||
| Remember, Darren Beattie. | ||
| I love how this rolls off the tongue. | ||
| He's now acting under Secretary of State, I think for public diplomacy. | ||
| Our own Darren Beattie at Revolver, so other people are running a revolver, but Darren, they're doing a great job. | ||
| It's an amazing piece of, kind of a compilation piece of Norm Eisen and the many reasons he should be in prison, which if we do our job correctly, Norm, you will be. | ||
| And I can recommend a great cell block at Danbury that I think would be open. | ||
| Natalie, social media, I know you've got to go over to the White House. | ||
| Amazing hit today. | ||
| Social media, where do people get you? | ||
| Natalie G. Winters on all social media platforms. | ||
| Thank you so much for having me on. | ||
| Thank you, man. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| I'll get Natalie's feedback about the Chinese Communist Party and what's happened. | ||
| This is amazing. | ||
| Our beloved Financial Times of London. | ||
| Now this is the print edition, which you guys know I love. | ||
| So the online edition is more updated. | ||
| Ben Harnwell joins us from Rome. | ||
| We're going to go through this. | ||
| Zelensky will not recognize talks with Moscow that exclude Ukraine. | ||
| Dude, as we keep saying, if you got partners and sponsors and guys that write checks, you can stick out and do whatever you want. | ||
| You know, you're leader of the Ukrainians. | ||
| Do it. | ||
| We're out, 100%. | ||
| No arms, no people, no money. | ||
| Out, hard. | ||
| And you've got in Paris yesterday, Ben Harnwell, the fantasies, particularly the United Kingdom. | ||
| This is a nation, and they ought to check their balance sheet and how they're doing, and hey, the Bank of England being, I don't know, five weeks late on delivering gold to clear trades. | ||
| There's something going on in the city of London, and it's not good. | ||
| Outside the city of London, the United Kingdom is a third world nation. | ||
| Now, they've tried to punch above their weights and they've tried to get to the 2% or over the 2% of GDP for defense because they are an ally of the 20th century with us. | ||
| That being said... | ||
| The Labor Prime Minister to commit combat troops into security, I mean, dude, what planet are you on? | ||
| Have you looked at the finances of the United Kingdom? | ||
| We're the first one to call out Liz Truss of that debacle she came up with, and we said the first day that she put that out that she was going to be gone, we thought in 90 days. | ||
| We didn't know it would be in 30 days. | ||
| But these guys in labor, they do not understand basic math. | ||
| And they shouldn't be running over to Paris talking about big commitments to restructure Ukraine and pay for it. | ||
| Who's going to pay for it? | ||
| You know, the Germans yesterday are going back to change the Constitution so they can raise a bunch of debt. | ||
| Hello? | ||
| The German, the guy running on what the CDU, the finance minister, says Europe is on the precipice of a sovereign debt crisis. | ||
| When you say sovereign debt crisis, that's like DEFCON 2. Okay, that's governments that can't pay it back. | ||
| Remember Greece? | ||
| And he named seven. | ||
| And Ben Harnwell, you might take comfort in this. | ||
| Number three was Georgia Maloney. | ||
| So two of the three were, it was Macron and Georgia Maloney. | ||
| France and Italy were number one and two for a sovereign debt crisis. | ||
| And they're over there, yeah, we're going to do this, we're going to do this. | ||
| You guys aren't going to do anything. | ||
| You're not going to put any money, and you're going to look to us, and we're not putting up money. | ||
| We're not sending troops. | ||
| We're out. | ||
| And the reason I can tell you we're out, we've called this shot for a long time. | ||
| To redo the geopolitics of the world, geostrategically what we try to accomplish in the first term, it was blocked by the globalists here in the Norm Isens of the world, and that is to have a realignment against the Chinese Communist Party with the Russian people who were our allies in World War II as our allies today. | ||
| Walk me through the Financial Times, what they put on the website, and an update to what happened in Saudi Arabia. | ||
| And folks, what happened yesterday in Saudi Arabia is pure signal. | ||
| Okay, give it to me, Ben. | ||
| Steve, before we go into Saudi Arabia, I need to hoover up some of the things that happened in Paris yesterday. | ||
| We covered this live at 11pm local time last night. | ||
| And what's going on in Germany, the most economically powerful member state of the European Union is pretty important. | ||
| They have an election, federal elections. | ||
| On Sunday, and this is the shadow over which this conference is taking place, took place yesterday in Paris. | ||
| Since we were on air yesterday, Steve, Olaf Scholz, the Reich's councillor, stormed out of the Paris meeting. | ||
| This is according to the Daily Mail, because it was inappropriate for Keir Steimer to be talking about pledging peacekeeping troops to Ukraine. | ||
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| This is absolutely important. | ||
| Germany and Poland are so terrified of Vladimir Putin. | ||
| They ruled out sending troops yesterday. | ||
| They've been dropping that hint. | ||
| They've been saying it, in fact, for the last couple of months. | ||
| They affirmed it yesterday. | ||
| No, we're not sending troops to Ukraine. | ||
| Perhaps a bit of cash. | ||
| No troops. | ||
| That's how frightened they are of Vladimir Putin. | ||
| One call shot, one war room call shot is that we said yesterday in real time before anyone had sat down. | ||
| At this European conference, that it was going to be a performative action. | ||
| And it absolutely was. | ||
| Because the other countries that expressed concern with Keir Starmer's positioning were not only Germany and Poland, Spain, and as you mentioned, Italy as well. | ||
| It is a perfect weather vane. | ||
| No principle whatsoever in its governing or its foreign policy. | ||
| It will tap to the strongest wind. | ||
| That's why sometimes in politics a few weather vanes are important. | ||
| That was yesterday in Paris. | ||
| What's happening in Saudi Arabia today is even more important. | ||
| And you've been mentioning, Steve, that the online edition of the Financial Times is updated as opposed to the version that you have there in your hands. | ||
| It's been updated in real time since you and I spoke about this before the show started because some of... | ||
| Tammy Bruce, she's the State Department spokeswoman. | ||
| Some of what you and I discussed on the phone this morning has actually already been removed from the FT website. | ||
| Fortunately, I have the PDF from the earlier version. | ||
| But let me read this out. | ||
| So when I circulate the link, as I always do... | ||
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Hold on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. | |
| Has it been removed because Tammy Bruce, and we love Tammy, she's the spokeswoman over at State Department for Rubio, and the three-man team was Witkoff, who's kind of Trump's lead negotiator now, Secretary of State Rubio, and of course, National Security Advisor Colonel Waltz. | ||
| Was it removed because of what Tammy said and the State Department wanted to walk it back? | ||
| Or was it removed because it was a misinterpretation? | ||
| Well, look, I know we're less than a minute away from the break. | ||
| In answer to that, I honestly don't know. | ||
| But what the International Bureau has done is that we flagged up the text that has been removed from the statement. | ||
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That's obviously going to be the most interesting part. | |
| Fine. | ||
| We're going to hold it through the break. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| So much going on. | ||
| All good. | ||
| Todd Benzman is also going to join us. | ||
| CIA announced yesterday that they are repurposing themselves, at least part of it, to focus on the cartels in Mexico. | ||
| This is part of the realignment on geostrategically on hemispheric defense. | ||
| Todd Benzman, the author of the seminal work Overrun, which did so much to win the 2024 election. | ||
| Benzman and Harnwell next in the Word. | ||
| Okay, Ben Harnwell, the update of the Financial Times of London on what happened in Saudi Arabia yesterday. | ||
| Give it to me. | ||
| Tammy Bruce, spokeswoman. | ||
| Everybody knows Tammy. | ||
| Fantastic old friend of Andrew Breitbart's. | ||
| Tough as boot leather, as we say. | ||
| What do you got for us? | ||
| Tammy's name, so the online version of this article, Tammy's name is no longer on this State Department comment. | ||
| But basically, this is how the FT are covering the Riyadh negotiations that took place already this morning. | ||
| Four and a half hours of talks that the U.S. State Department said the two sides would appoint, and I quote, high-level teams to seek... | ||
| To end the war and establish a diplomatic channel to resolve bilateral issues. | ||
| And I know you have your particular geopolitical interpretation of these comments that go beyond what the FTT is saying. | ||
| It's very interesting your analysis. | ||
| Tammy Bruce, State Department spokesperson, said the diplomatic channel would, quote, lay the groundwork... | ||
| For future cooperation on matters of neutral geopolitical interest and historic economic and investment opportunities which will emerge from a successful end to the conflict in Ukraine. | ||
| And the part of her statement that has now been lifted from the most up-to-date version online is one phone call followed by one meeting is not sufficient to establish enduring peace. | ||
| We must take action and today we took an important step forward. | ||
| Okay, here's what's happening. | ||
| If you notice what they're talking about, and this is Witkoff, Waltz, and Rubio with Lavrov. | ||
| And Lavrov is, you know, a regional gangster. | ||
| Let's just say that OG. And look, you can't trust the KGB. They're like a more muscular version of the CIA. But they are what they are. | ||
| And the Russian people have always been their allies. | ||
| Unfortunately, they've got some bad hombres at the top. | ||
| But that's just, you just got to deal with it. | ||
| What's important, Ben, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that yesterday was about setting a framework to have broader geopolitical discussions, broader. | ||
| Ukraine, this was not a negotiation to get into, set even the boundaries for Ukraine. | ||
| Ukraine's just one small part of an overall potential rapprochement. | ||
| Am I over my skis on that, sir? | ||
| Well, look, four and a half meetings, Four and a half hours to discuss something which, look, we know how these diplomatic meetings can take place. | ||
| There's really five, ten minutes worth, five minutes from the US side, five minutes from the Russian side. | ||
| There's not that much to discuss. | ||
| So to be talking for four and a half hours, I think it's legitimate to say that they are discussing the wider geopolitical implications that we've been discussing on this show for three years, specifically the great unmentioned. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And this article is China and the CCP. And as we've been saying... | ||
| Yeah, it's all about China. | ||
| By the way, I disagree. | ||
| There's not five and five. | ||
| They'll go on, Lavrov and those guys, when they roll in Rubio. | ||
| Look at Rubio's opening statement to the... | ||
| And then people didn't pay attention. | ||
| We told the Democrats had no pushback. | ||
| Let's go back to the confirmation of Marco Rubio. | ||
| The opening salvo is that the post-war international rules-based order... | ||
| It's not only over, it's worked against MAGA, it's worked against working people in the middle class of the United States. | ||
| It's allowed our industrial power to be gutted by the sociopathic overlords of Wall Street in partnership with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Anyway, a lot more to go here. | ||
| I'm going to put a pin in that. | ||
| Harnwell, you stay right there. | ||
| Pensman's going to join me in a second because we're going to talk about the geopolitical shifting of President Trump's vision of hemispheric defense and why phase one, maybe not taking the Panama Canal or Greenland, that's all in process, or Canada, it's dropping the hammer and stopping the chemical war of the Chinese Communist Party, the second opium war against the United States, and maybe stopping the 100,000 casualties we have every year. | ||
| And that will require kinetic activity. | ||
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I mean, I think all the social media that we use is a prime example. | |
| TikTok teetering on being banned is because there's a hard pipe of our data back to a country that we're a bit at odds with. | ||
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