May 8, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Yet selected a new pope. | ||
| The second vote of the day just wrapped up just before the show started with black smoke rising from the top of the Sistine Chapel. | ||
| The ballots are only burned after two rounds of voting unless a selection is made. | ||
| Yesterday we also saw black smoke rise above the Sistine Chapel. | ||
| If we see white, if we see white smoke, it signifies there is a new leader of the Catholic Church. | ||
| A two-thirds majority needs to be reached in order for that to happen. | ||
| Two more votes will be held today. | ||
| Out of the more 250 cardinals in Vatican City, only 133 are eligible to vote under those the age of 80 can cast a ballot. | ||
| ...sense of how you believe the church may go after Pope Francis in terms of its choice of a new pontiff. | ||
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Well, right, that's the big question. | |
| In terms of the electoral process, things are kind of going as you'd expect. | ||
| We'd be very surprised if there was white smoke either last night or today. | ||
| Now, possibly the end of today. | ||
| Pope Francis was elected on that fifth ballot. | ||
| My guess is tomorrow. | ||
| I think it might be a little more divided conclave. | ||
| We heard during the general congregations, those discussions before the conclave, that there were disagreements about the direction of the church. | ||
| Some wanted to go, you know, very much with the Francis moment. | ||
| We tend to look at it through our Western lens, and so we have certain preoccupations, usually around questions of sexual morality. | ||
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But go to... | |
| Africa, for instance, where the church is burgeoning, but also under great persecution. | ||
| Go to the church in Asia, and you see the interreligious dialogue is of huge importance. | ||
| So they're considering all these different dimensions of the church's life, and there's something happening inside the walls of that Sistine Chapel right now, and we'll see. | ||
| My sense is it might be a little more divided than it was last time. | ||
| Also, I'd say... | ||
| Speak politically. | ||
| Last time, the more liberal faction was better organized. | ||
| This time, I know the conservatives were better organized going into the conflict. | ||
| That could lead to a little more of a deadlock. | ||
| They focus on one small set of issues. | ||
| And you were talking about sexual morality, sexual issues, whether it's abortion, whether it's same-sex marriage. | ||
| But for most of the world, especially in the... | ||
| We keep talking about the South. | ||
| They talk about that, but you're right. | ||
| The focus is on religious persecution. | ||
| It's on those Matthew 25 issues where Jesus talks about feeding the poor, clothing the naked, bringing hope to the hopeless. | ||
| Underline that fact for us and explain to Americans that are watching right now. | ||
| This isn't just about what somebody's position on abortion is going to be or on same-sex marriage. | ||
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Right, and that's the beautiful part of the Francis papacy. | |
| I think they all want to carry forward. | ||
| He wanted a church that turned with a merciful face toward the world, that was the friend of the marginalized, the friend of the poor, and the forgotten. | ||
| And I think that's the great legacy of Pope Francis. | ||
| As far as I'm concerned, they all want that to continue. | ||
| It's in regard to some other issues that I think they will find greater division. | ||
| But, you know, conclades often involve, you know, taking what they consider the best of the previous papacy and then maybe trying to correct difficulties in the previous papacy. | ||
| And it's a it's a playing out of those those issues. | ||
| There's also the question of the personalities involved. | ||
| So one thing is the position. | ||
| What kind of person is he? | ||
| Even his age? | ||
| Even his health? | ||
| Even your personal interactions with him. | ||
| Often at the general congregations, the cardinal will say, that guy gave a speech, or I just sensed something in him that I thought was, you know, worthy of a pope. | ||
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So all those factors are at play, as in any political reality. | |
| And this one on a very small scale. | ||
| We've got 133 electors, and they're weighing all these different elements. | ||
| 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 on all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
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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. | ||
| War Room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| War Room. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of War Room. | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon out on assignment, yet Jack Posobiec here covering down live from Rome, Italy. | ||
| We are just steps away from the Vatican itself, where the world awaits the selection election of the next pope. | ||
| Today is May 8th, 2025, year... | ||
| And yet, the news goes on. | ||
| So earlier today, we just saw the second of the votes that came in, so third votes overall, black smoke, puff of black smoke from the Sistine Chapel, that ceremonial chimney that's put above. | ||
| A lot of talk about what is going to come out later, possibly a pope today. | ||
| Possibly a Pope tomorrow. | ||
| And we have Catholics for Catholics. | ||
| We're really thanking them for sponsoring my portion of this trip out here. | ||
| John Yepp, we're hoping to get him on possibly in the second hour. | ||
| But what people need to understand is that we are hoping and praying, number one, that the Holy Spirit, of course, goes into that conclave, but also that the conservatives, that Cardinal Burke, that so many others, hold the line. | ||
| And we're praying and calling for all of the conservative cardinals to hold the line. | ||
| We know they've held the line thus far because Cardinal Parolin and some of the other progressives have not been able to get in on three. | ||
| So that means for three ballots, they have held the line. | ||
| Now, we're going to continue monitoring this chimney, the most watched chimney in the world, because at... | ||
| In about 30 minutes, the Cardinals will return to the Sistine Chapel. | ||
| The Sistine Chapel itself, got to talk to the guys over at Silence. | ||
| Maybe they worked with them, I don't know. | ||
| But they have turned the entire Sistine Chapel into a Faraday cage. | ||
| And they're doing so in order to keep all signals from going in. | ||
| Or coming out so that no influence from outside, also no eavesdropping, no subversion, nothing else will be able to get in. | ||
| Of course, the news of the day continues. | ||
| President Trump very soon will be speaking from the White House and we'll cut to that directly when he does. | ||
| Huge trade deal with the UK. | ||
| Also, I've got to show this just ridiculous clip from earlier today because there wasn't just black smoke coming out across the. | ||
| I was looking across the rooftops at one point and I said, is that some pink smoke coming up? | ||
| Is that pink smoke? | ||
| Let's play the clip and see what happened. | ||
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Smoke out sexism! | |
| A woman's place is in the conclave! | ||
| Smoke out sexism! | ||
| We are doing this because we know we've got a little window of time before the cardinals are sequestered inside that Sistine Chapel with no access to their social media and their phones that they will see the pink smoke over the Vatican and they will know that women are sending a clear signal that they cannot go in with 133 men deciding the future of the Catholic Church without half of that Catholic Church. | ||
| They are going to talk about all sorts of issues. | ||
| They will not talk about the ordination of women priests and the equality of women. | ||
| This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. | ||
| Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| you Absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| Well, as my brother Kevin actually tweeted earlier today, sorry, ladies, as it turns out, Vatican City is a place where women don't vote. | ||
| And this is ridiculous. | ||
| What you're seeing is the influence of the progressives. | ||
| They're trying as hard as they can. | ||
| Look, these are the people that want to change the church. | ||
| They are the people that want to come in and say, oh, Christianity should be more open. | ||
| Christianity should be more inclusive. | ||
| We want to be more touchy-feely. | ||
| We want to go out and be more worldly. | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| We need to embrace tradition. | ||
| We need to have more of the traditions of the church, the traditions. | ||
| The early Christians, the traditions of the faith, that is the faith upon which all is built. | ||
| That is the rock upon which, of course, St. Peter's Basilica right there, the church was built. | ||
| The keys handed over by Christ to his royal stewards, the apostles, to maintain the church until the return of the king. | ||
| And now, the next successor of St. Peter, perhaps... | ||
| In just a couple of moments, perhaps just in a couple of hours, we'll see that white smoke. | ||
| And of course, what happens immediately after that? | ||
| The new pope will come out from the balcony. | ||
| And of course, we're monitoring it as much as possible. | ||
| When we look to this election of a new pope and people say, well, what if I'm not Catholic? | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| And I had an interview with Charlie Kirk yesterday, and he's evangelical. | ||
| So he was saying, what is it? | ||
| And I pointed it this way. | ||
| $1.5 billion. | ||
| Catholics in the world and in essentially also... | ||
| A major world leader and major figure in his own right. | ||
| That's what the Pope is. | ||
| Historically, the Pope has been a benchmark for all of Western civilization. | ||
| And the question is, where do we want Western civilization to go? | ||
| Do we want another globalist? | ||
| Do we want another globalist leader pushing these ideas of no borders, of no barriers, of no nations? | ||
| We're all going to mix together. | ||
| We're going to have this globalist state like Klaus Schwab, the former. | ||
| Klaus Schwab wanted. | ||
| That was Soros' open society vision. | ||
| That's why they're against borders. | ||
| That's why they're against the wall. | ||
| That's why they said refugees everywhere, the migration settlement. | ||
| That's what was being pushed. | ||
| And you saw that being pushed from the Vatican itself. | ||
| That's what needs to change. | ||
| Not to mention... | ||
| What have I always said here on War Room and on my own show, Human Events Daily? | ||
| The issue, of course, is the elite merger. | ||
| Not elite capture, elite merger of the West and the corrupt Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party, which signed a deal, signed a blood deal with the previous pontificate. | ||
| And by the way, that deal was worked on by three people. | ||
| Pope Francis. | ||
| Former Cardinal, Cardinal McCarrick, he went down over crimes with kids. | ||
| And who was the third in on that? | ||
| Cardinal Parolin. | ||
| Cardinal Parolin, who is currently the Progressive's number one man for the papacy. | ||
| He's the one that they're pushing as hard as possible. | ||
| Well, as it turns out, these were the three guys that were working on that deal with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Complete sellout and betrayal of the Catholics and Christians all across China, the underground Christian churches, Cardinal Zen, everyone who's working so hard to spread the word of God and spread scripture throughout the Chinese mainland so that people there can know the truth about God. | ||
| I remember when I was living in China and I would go to Easter services or I wanted to go to church, you had to show a passport to prove that I wasn't a Chinese citizen so that I could go to church. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they might be saying things in there that are unapproved by the party leadership. | ||
| Well, you know what, folks? | ||
| That's not what we're going to be doing around here. | ||
| We're going to be doing lots of things and saying lots of things and spreading lots of truth that's not exactly approved by party leadership. | ||
| Because that's what we do here on The War Room. | ||
| And so, we pray. | ||
| We're praying here, and of course, we are putting and exerting whatever influence we can from... | ||
| Our position here, from having our voice, and from even going down there, Kevin Posobiec is right now on his way to St. Peter's Square. | ||
| We're going to get him up in a minute. | ||
| We know President Trump's speech will be imminent, but we're going to have people there and interview. | ||
| Because when you talk to Gen Z, when you talk to the youth right now, the faithful youth, they don't want this namby-pamby, shallow, substanceless faith. | ||
| They want the real thing. | ||
| They want the orthodoxy. | ||
| They want the tradition. | ||
| They want the veils. | ||
| They want all of it. | ||
| And they want to be able to do so knowing that the head of the church is back And of course, as we talk about the changes in world leaders. | ||
| In tumultuous times, turbulent times, you want to be able to have that beacon. | ||
| So go text Birch, text Bannon, 989898, Birch Gold. | ||
| We will be back very, very soon. | ||
| We're here live at the Vatican in Rome, Italy. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, double duty, Stephen K. Bannon, out on assignment. | ||
| I'm here live doing my show, Human Events Daily, and right now... | ||
| Covering down on the war room. | ||
| Let's send it out. | ||
| Vatican City. | ||
| We're praying that Christ himself through the Holy Spirit will be present. | ||
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So I suggest you take a look inside. | |
| Because I think you've changed already. | ||
| You went and lost your pride. | ||
| But I'm American made. | ||
| I got American part. | ||
| I got American faith. | ||
| In America's heart. | ||
| Oh Judges and the judiciary is a co-equal branch of government separate from the others with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law and strike down, obviously, acts of Congress or acts of the President. | ||
| And that innovation doesn't work if the judiciary is not independent. | ||
| Its job is to obviously decide cases, but in the course of that, Check the excesses of Congress or of the executive, and that does require a degree of independence. | ||
| What do you think of these calls for impeachment of judges based on the decisions that they've made? | ||
| Well, I've already spoken to that. | ||
| Impeachment is not how you register disagreement with decisions. | ||
| That's what you're for, right? | ||
| That's what you're there for. | ||
| That's what we're there for, yeah. | ||
| What do you think of these calls for impeachment of judges based on the decisions that they've made? | ||
| Well, I've already spoken to that. | ||
| And, you know, impeachment is not how you register disagreement with decisions. | ||
| That's what you're for, right? | ||
| That's what you're there for. | ||
| That's what we're there for. | ||
| All right, folks, Jack Posobiec here. | ||
| We are back live in Rome, Italy. | ||
| We're at the Vatican waiting to see whether... | ||
| White or black smoke will appear from the top of the Sistine Chapel, the ceremonial chimney which has been erected. | ||
| But folks, I watched this interview with Chief Justice John Roberts and my blood started boiling. | ||
| I immediately started firing off texts to the Viceroy, Mike Davis. | ||
| Do you hear John Roberts up there? | ||
| Now, this guy doesn't usually give interviews. | ||
| So when the Chief Justice gives an interview like that and sits down and speaks candidly like this, which is something that you've never done. | ||
| You know he's going to say something serious, and you know he's going to say something that he wants to get out there. | ||
| And what are the things that he's saying? | ||
| First of all, he comes out and says that we shouldn't be impeaching judges for disagreements. | ||
| No, John Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, we're not impeaching judges or talking about impeaching judges for disagreements. | ||
| It's for dereliction of duty. | ||
| It's for failure. | ||
| Your job is not to play games with the law and the Constitution. | ||
| Your job is to implement them. | ||
| Your job is to make sure that the laws are followed faithfully and that the laws are in line with the Constitution, which perhaps might even be something that's up for discussion. | ||
| It is not your job to sit there and say, oh, well, it's a disagreement. | ||
| No, it's not a disagreement. | ||
| It's not that we lost a case. | ||
| It's because you are not. | ||
| Following the law because you won't do your job. | ||
| And we've seen this from Judge Bosberg to so many others out there that they are simply not willing to stand up with this. | ||
| Now, when it comes down to the next piece of it, he says, what is the role of judiciary? | ||
| The role of the judiciary is to, and I just want to say this, this is exactly what he said. | ||
| I'm going to read it word for word to check the excesses of Congress. | ||
| Or the executive. | ||
| To check the excesses of Congress. | ||
| Notice John Roberts never said anything about the excesses of Congress or the executive during the time when Joe Biden's regime, the illegitimate regime of Joe Biden, was in office. | ||
| When they were locking up patriots. | ||
| When they were locking up pro-lifers. | ||
| Many cases, the J6ers being held without even a trial. | ||
| But that wasn't an excess. | ||
| That wasn't a problem at all. | ||
| So many unconstitutional acts by that administration. | ||
| Yet he didn't have a problem. | ||
| He didn't come out and speak. | ||
| John Roberts, you are up there making policy decisions. | ||
| You are making policy statements. | ||
| You're giving your opinion on policy and politics. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| If you want to weigh in on that... | ||
| If you want to legislate, if you want to be the executive, John Roberts, then why don't you be a man and step up and run for office? | ||
| Why don't you be a man and put your name on the ballot? | ||
| Come on, 2028's coming up. | ||
| Or maybe there's a Senate seat. | ||
| Maybe there's a House seat you want to go for. | ||
| Why don't you have at it? | ||
| Throw your hat in the ring. | ||
| But if you're going to be a judge, be a judge. | ||
| Don't sit there and say that you get to determine what are the excesses of Congress or the executive or the president. | ||
| We know what this is about. | ||
| And I don't think for a second that I've forgotten, by the way, John Roberts, that you were the one who screwed up President Trump's inaugural address, the inaugural... | ||
| You didn't wait for First Lady Melania Trump to come up there with the Bible so he could have his hand on it. | ||
| You were fine when it was J.D. Vance. | ||
| Totally fine for that. | ||
| No, you did it on purpose. | ||
| It was deceitful. | ||
| It was deliberate. | ||
| We know you did this on purpose. | ||
| And now we can all see your bias completely worn on your sleeve. | ||
| I guess, Justice... | ||
| Isn't quite as blind as she used to be, is she, John? | ||
| Not quite as blind as she used to be. | ||
| This is ridiculous. | ||
| And look, when we talk about bad justices out there, folks, this is what we're talking about. | ||
| Oh, the excesses. | ||
| This is the same mentality, by the way, that Washington, D.C. had when President Trump was in office the first time. | ||
| Only, where did you hear it? | ||
| Not from the Supreme Court. | ||
| Of course, they were obviously saying this behind closed doors. | ||
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No. | |
| You would hear it from the chief of staff when John Kelly was the chief of staff. | ||
| You would hear it from Mad Dog Mattis. | ||
| Remember Mad Dog Mattis? | ||
| He was such a mad as a dog. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| You would hear it from all of these. | ||
| H.R. McMaster, and they would have daily calls every morning. | ||
| How are we going to defend the country from Trump? | ||
| Defend the republic from Trump as they were working to subvert him day in and day out? | ||
| We know about the subversion. | ||
| We know about all of it. | ||
| No. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| It is a joke and is a big, big problem because they believe that they are the ones who are in control of the country. | ||
| They believe that it's their decision. | ||
| And when I got into it with Jamie Raskin a couple of weeks ago, I guess last week now, he said, we're the voice of the people. | ||
| We are the voice of the people. | ||
| We are the representatives of the people. | ||
| No, Jamie Raskin, you're not the voice of the people because the people didn't vote for you. | ||
| The popular vote and seven out of seven of the swing states, including the Electoral College, was won by Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump is the voice of the people because he's who they voted for. | ||
| Do you understand that? | ||
| Why don't you get that through your little skull, Jamie Raskin, okay? | ||
| He's the one who's the voice of the people. | ||
| Not this idea of you and your union thugs. | ||
| I don't care how many union thugs you want to send out, by the way, Jamie Raskin. | ||
| Send them all. | ||
| Send every single one. | ||
| And so I don't want to hear it. | ||
| I don't want to hear it at all. | ||
| The excesses, John Roberts wants to say, the excesses of... | ||
| The executive in Congress. | ||
| We know what this is about. | ||
| This is the full court press now on Trump's agenda. | ||
| And notice, he doesn't say anything, by the way, because they've overturned a number of these lower court rulings. | ||
| They've overturned them. | ||
| So if you're going to overturn the lower court rulings, wouldn't you say it's the excesses of your own judiciary, John Roberts? | ||
| Wouldn't you say that's the excesses? | ||
| Wouldn't you say that's the problem? | ||
| Wouldn't you say that's what? | ||
| They want you to focus on? | ||
| Couldn't you come out and say, well, you know, there's been some issues with these judges. | ||
| They're legislating from the bench. | ||
| They're becoming activist judges. | ||
| They're the ones who are putting it. | ||
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No. | |
| No, it's not that at all. | ||
| You're not saying it. | ||
| What you're doing is you're putting your own bias first. | ||
| That's why we're seeing these decisions where Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, ACB, are siding with the liberals. | ||
| We know what this is about. | ||
| This is because you don't want the people's agenda, the MAGA agenda, President Trump's agenda to go through. | ||
| And so you'll sit there. | ||
| No, I get it. | ||
| You'll color within the lines. | ||
| You'll vote when you have to. | ||
| But deep down, that's what John Roberts is telling you, folks. | ||
| He's telling you that even after all of this, what does he care more about? | ||
| His own legacy. | ||
| He cares about his Wikipedia page more than he cares about doing his job. | ||
| He cares about what the Atlantic. | ||
| Talks about him. | ||
| Says about him. | ||
| Oh, The Atlantic. | ||
| By the way, gotta love The Atlantic where they're running headlines now talking about the threat of the woke right. | ||
| Oh, the woke right. | ||
| They come up with these terms every couple of years. | ||
| You know, remember it was, what was it? | ||
| Ultra MAGA and the woke right and all the rest of this because they can't quite figure out a way or a new pejorative. | ||
| So the new pejorative just dropped. | ||
| New label just dropped. | ||
| We gotta attack the far right, the woke right. | ||
| The MAGA, Ultra MAGA. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| It's Americans who love their country, who decided to stand up and say, this is our home. | ||
| This is our nation. | ||
| These are our families. | ||
| These are our children. | ||
| We're going to live for them. | ||
| And we don't care about your establishment parlor games anymore. | ||
| We don't care what names you call us from the swamp. | ||
| You've already called us, certainly for me, you've called me every name that you could think of already. | ||
| So what do you think I'm going to do? | ||
| You think I'm going to sit there and say, oh my gosh, no, another label. | ||
| Oh no. | ||
| Oh darn. | ||
| But you know what I will do? | ||
| I'm not going to sit there and cry about your little labels. | ||
| What I'm going to do is I'm going to take that energy and use it to win. | ||
| And then I'm going to win some more. | ||
| And then I'm going to keep delivering wins for President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| And he is going to roll over every single one of you. | ||
| So say what you want about his Wikipedia page. | ||
| I don't care about Wikipedia pages as much as you do. | ||
| I don't care about whatever ink the scribblers over at the Atlantic are wanting to write. | ||
| Because at the end of the day, they will be gone. | ||
| They will be absolutely gone. | ||
| And as we're here in Rome... | ||
| We are thinking about the eternal. | ||
| We are thinking about the transcendent. | ||
| This is why, by the way, believers and Christians and anyone who has that firm, deeply rooted belief in God as their creator is such a threat to their program, such a threat to their agenda. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because we don't care what you say about us. | ||
| We will be judged once by our Heavenly Father. | ||
| And that is the only judgment that we are worried about. | ||
| So we don't care what the New York Times says. | ||
| We don't care what the Atlantic says, New York Magazine, or all the rest of it. | ||
| Although I believe Ben Harmwell is doing a sit-down with New York Magazine right now. | ||
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And as I've been, New York Magazine, those guys are out there, man. | |
| They are not some guys you want to hang out with. | ||
| But whatever. | ||
| Folks, we are awaiting President Trump. | ||
| He is going to be speaking imminently. | ||
| Trade deal with the UK, representatives of the UK. | ||
| The British invasion is here in Washington, D.C. Well, I am here in Rome, Italy, covering down on the Conclave. | ||
| So we're going to be watching for that white smoke. | ||
| That pearly white smoke. | ||
| In just a few minutes, the Cardinals will begin voting again. | ||
| It is currently 10.30 Eastern Time, but it is 4.30 p.m. here in Rome, Italy. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, guest hosting War Room. | ||
| we'll be right back with break President Trump has set off what could end up becoming a full-blown trade war. | ||
| As we go down this path, it's worth keeping something firmly in view. | ||
| Tariffs don't work. | ||
| I'm not spouting free market theory. | ||
| I'm simply making a practical observation. | ||
| There have been many efforts in recent decades to help industries in decline in America. | ||
| I can think of no case where tariffs have worked to reverse that decline in Except temporarily. | ||
| Take the most recent example. | ||
| Before Trump, tariffs on tires put in place by President Obama. | ||
| In 2009, after complaints from American companies about cheap Chinese imports, the Obama administration slapped a 35% tariff on Chinese tires. | ||
| Shall we call them tariff downers? | ||
| Because, as you know, we are awaiting a historic press conference coming from President Trump. | ||
| believed to be with the United Kingdom. | ||
| And of course, Chinese negotiations are forthcoming, too. | ||
| It's Natalie Winters. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, I think, is adjusting part of his set, but we'll have him back. | ||
| I think we got some people over at the White House, too, that we may go to. | ||
| I guess the White House is running a little behind schedule, though I guess we'll give them a little bit of grace when you're upending the entire global trade order. | ||
| I want to pick up on something that Posobiec was mentioning before we get into I think just how historic today is. | ||
| And there's some interesting, shall we say, voter fraud investigations, accusations, actually in this case indictments. | ||
| You know, here in the war room we speak in prison sentences and not strongly worded letters. | ||
| Those coming out of Texas will get into all of that and how the New York Times is, I guess, predictably running cover trying to make you feel bad for ballot harvesters and people who tried to rig elections. | ||
| But I want to bring your attention. | ||
| I can't think this all really, frankly, merges and meshes quite nicely with the tariffs, the trade imbalance, reorientation, restructuring that President Trump has undertaken. | ||
| That individual by the name of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick that Jack Posobiec had mentioned. | ||
| Well, he's a quite interesting character, because if you can believe it, he actually has deep ties to none other than Hunter Biden. | ||
| I had broken the story years ago. | ||
| But McCarrick had actually spoke at several events hosted by CEFC China Energy. | ||
| You may recall that is the Chinese Communist Party paramilitary influence organization that's chaired by a man by the name of Patrick Ho, who boasted about being the effing spy chief of China. | ||
| Now, I know we're called China hawks here in the war room, but I think even Democrats would agree that maybe that rises just marginally to a national security threat status. | ||
| Nonetheless, like I said, the lead negotiator on this China-Vatican deal was McCarrick, who repeatedly spoke at these CEFC events where Hunter Biden was listed as the managing director, including but not limited to one of their events in 2012, the New York Forum on World Civilizations, and in 2013 core values and world order. | ||
| But it gets even worse. | ||
| And why am I bringing this up? | ||
| Because I think there's a striking, if not deafening, parallel to so many of the trade deals that we've seen go on between this country and the PRC and the common thread, the common variable there being that every person who was involved in negotiating them You never did. | ||
| And now all the people who are apoplectic over what President Trump is doing to rebalance these trade deficits, the actual abuses and abusive relationship that the CCP, but of course all their proxies, right, the Belt and Road, Made in China 2025, take your pick. | ||
| But the way that they've been able to score these deals, I think there's a very interesting... | ||
| Microcosm and sort of representation of what happened in this one China Vatican deal with our trade deals more broadly. | ||
| And it's so interesting because McCarrick, I guess he just loved the PRC so much that he actually wrote several articles for their quarterly journal that they would publish, talking and praising, like I said, the spy chief of China, Patrick Ho, quote, I do not have the brilliance or the learning to match Patrick. | ||
| He even calls him brilliant again. | ||
| I guess he really thinks a Chinese Communist Party spy is brilliant. | ||
| That should tell you all you need to know. | ||
| He goes on to actually draw parallels between, catch this, Xi Jinping and the Pope, many paragraphs about how they're so similar in saving the world, before, I guess, his final act in this one article, talking about how there are connections that exist between doctrines of Catholics and the communist doctrine. | ||
| Now, I don't know about you. | ||
| I've been around long enough to know what Chinese Communist Party, not just compromise, but merger looks like. | ||
| And this is a telltale sign. | ||
| Yet again, another called shot for the war room, though, like I always say, and I'm sure you share my feelings in this, we don't necessarily want to be right, right? | ||
| I wish COVID-19 weren't a bioweapon launched by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but unfortunately, that's what the evidence, despite the CCP's best efforts to stonewall every single ounce of all of that, gain-of-function research aside, that's obviously where it came from, but yet another called shot, which I think dovetails quite nicely. | ||
| With this whole idea that President Trump, the MAGA movement, Trumpism as an ideology has been right from day one. | ||
| There's an article from the New York Times today, let's toss it up, about a Ken Paxton indictment, alleged investigation. | ||
| People may recall, what was it a few months ago, the LULAC organizers. | ||
| Of course, the New York Times was melting down because I guess they were in their 80s. | ||
| I would like to introduce them to all the dead Democratic voters then, I guess, on their voter rolls. | ||
| But it's quite interesting if you read this article. | ||
| I'll read you a paragraph of it and you tell me who you think they think the victim is. | ||
| Now, five people all with ties to Democratic candidates are accused of illegal vote harvesting, which usually involves knocking on doors and asking if volunteers can deliver completed absentee or mail-in ballots to voting centers or ballot drop boxes. | ||
| The piece goes on. | ||
| I don't think they have even one paragraph sentence or a positive phrase mentioning that voter fraud is real, that the people who were indicted were caught harvesting ballots illegally. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They demean and paint Ken Paxton as an absolute lunatic. | ||
| Well, I think my critique, honestly, something we've been hammering for these past few days, would go all the way back to people like Senator Tillis. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They can talk so tough, so tough, so much so that they can't vote to confirm Ed Martin because of, what, the debatable nuance between a three-day prison sentence or a three-year prison sentence over some January 6th, I guess, violent offenders who entered a building where the door was open for them? | ||
| Do you ever hear these people talk that tough about, I don't know, Zelensky? | ||
| I mean, he canceled elections, came after Christianity, and imposed martial law. | ||
| You never really hear that. | ||
| Do you ever really hear these people actually do anything tough against the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
| No, the only time they'll talk tough on them is so they can justify a trillion dollar defense budget that seems to only be expanding every single year. | ||
| Oh, but you say you want to delist them from the stock market. | ||
| Oh, no, no, no. | ||
| That's the, what, fourth, fifth, sixth rail. | ||
| Can't go there. | ||
| Well, I would say yet another called shot for the war room, so much so I believe we were talking about this last night at about 6.30 p.m. | ||
| There's been an absolutely massive bombshell expose coming out of Stanford, which of course is home to the Hoover Institution, one of the leading conservative think tanks. | ||
| But I'd also just flag before we get into the CCP espionage that's been going down there. | ||
| Remember someone by the name of Pamela Carlin? | ||
| Well, she was, I think, the dean or some very high up position at Stanford Law, then became Biden's DOJ kind of head honcho apparatchik, saying that if you dared to question the results of the election, that you would probably have the full force of Biden's DOJ hurled against you and you could potentially end up in jail. | ||
| I wonder what she had to hide with that one. | ||
| We'll get into that, I guess, another time. | ||
| But this investigation shows not just run-of-the-mill Chinese infiltration on the Stanford campus, but so much so that they have actually been using people who aren't even students and having them act as spies and leveraging their families overseas in China, trying to convince them to leak secrets about highly classified, in some cases, military-applicable research and bring it back to the homeland, to the motherland. | ||
| So for all these people who want to talk so tough on the Chinese Communist Party, I would suggest that maybe you start with revoking the visas, frankly all the H-1Bs, but we can get to that at another time, but of these Chinese foreign students. | ||
| I'll read you the direct quote from this one report. | ||
| Quote, many Chinese nationals have handlers. | ||
| The CCP wants to know everything that's going on at Stanford. | ||
| This is a very normal thing. | ||
| They just relay all the information they have. | ||
| Quote, parents and relatives were brought in for a talk with the police to encourage Chinese international students to overturn information. | ||
| That's what we have. | ||
| You want to talk about the enemy within? | ||
| Now, I know typically when I say enemy within, I'd probably throw a few rhinos in there. | ||
| Some Democrats, probably Hillary Clinton and Jake Sullivan for good measure. | ||
| Jake Sullivan, who what, now wants to be a primetime commentator on MSNBC insinuating that it's the Trump administration. | ||
| That killed all the wonderful accomplishments that Joe Biden had. | ||
| I'm struggling to come up with any, unless you think what happened in Afghanistan is one. | ||
| These people are such national security experts, yet they're... | ||
| Concurrently advocating for Chinese Communist Party, spies at best, kinetic actual foot soldiers at worst, to be here, 350,000 strong, in the borders of the United States of America, excluding the Chinese nationals that entered this country under Joe Biden. | ||
| Now, when I say I'm all for the mass deportations, yes, we all are in this audience. | ||
| I think that's probably the prerequisite chromosomal thing to be a member of the War Room Posse. | ||
| You've got to be for the mass deportations. | ||
| But when we talk about accountability, it's not just for the Venezuelans and the Hondurans and the Nicaraguans and the Mexicans. | ||
| It's for the Americans, though I'm sure they probably hate my use of that term, who orchestrated this invasion. | ||
| And by the way, to that point, It's breaking in Politico today that Joe Biden is busy hiring. | ||
| Now, I would suggest it should be lawyers and lawyering up. | ||
| That may be the preemptive pardon sort of gets you ahead of that one. | ||
| But tapped a guy named Chris Meager, who's a former deputy press secretary for Joe Biden and a defense department spokesperson to essentially run sort of PR cover for Joe Biden. | ||
| It's how he ended up on The View. | ||
| Don't know how they... | ||
| Got him there in one piece. | ||
| All I'm saying is I don't think at this point in the Trump administration that Joe Biden should be hiring comms experts and appearing on The View. | ||
| I think he should be lawyering up, preserving his documents, and more or less on trial, or at least in paneling some grand juries. | ||
| And I don't think the fact that people like Senator Tillis are sabotaging Ed Martin's confirmation, effectively handing that seat over to someone whose morality consists of turning mid-air flights around full of illegal immigrant migrant... | ||
| Gangbanger, criminal thugs, who I think we have new reporting on Kilmar Garcia, that he was, I think, a taxi driver for some human trafficking ring. | ||
| Diversity is our strength, I guess. | ||
| But he's going to get to choose who the new D.C. attorney is. | ||
| Senator Tillis doesn't want to budge on that one. | ||
| Senator Tillis, who's, what, number one donor, as I reported, I think, two days ago, is none other. | ||
| Then BlackRock and the financial services industry. | ||
| And here's the important point in all that. | ||
| The man who had potentially helmed the investigations over D.C. putting him directly under the purview of the FBI with everything that's been going on through Doge, ActBlue. | ||
| It's quite interesting to me that a senator who is bankrolled by some of the most I was going to say leading, I'll say sinister financial institutions that are probably on the receiving end of most of that waste, fraud, and abuse, though I would put emphasis on abuse, and I still think that's an understatement, that he does not want an investigation going on. | ||
| If you follow the money, you can reverse engineer what these people are hiding. | ||
| And this all runs together, whether it's the Chinese Communist Party, these horrific trade deals. | ||
| There are a lot of stones that have been left unturned, and we need people like Ed Martin, because they are proven fighters to be able to turn them over, not Chinese Communist Party sellouts or listless vessels for entities and corporations like BlackRock or cardinals like Theodore McCarrick, who don't even care about their faith, but would rather take funds from the Chinese Communist Party and shill on a stage next to Hunter Biden and the spy chief of China. | ||
| I guess that's what it means to be a DC ruling elite. | ||
| And that's why we are proud to be the War Room, home of, I guess, the counter-elite insurgency. | ||
| We'll be right back after this short break. | ||
| Jack DeSobis, so much more. | ||
| Victory Day, World War II, May 8th. | ||
| And just by happenstance, we have the Prime Minister on the phone, and we were great allies in that. | ||
| And it's very unusual that the trade deal comes due, and we signed it up on the same day that we had a great victory, the greatest victory of them all. | ||
| We are talking more and more about Victory Day, because we were a big part of it, and so was the UK. | ||
| And it's just, I guess, I don't know what you call it. | ||
| It's just incredible that that day is the same day that we signed a tremendous trade deal for both countries. | ||
| So I'm going to begin by just adding that we just concluded the Rare Earth deal with Ukraine. | ||
| That's been fully ratified and approved by their legislative branches. | ||
| And so we appreciate that. | ||
| And I'll be speaking with the president in a little while, a little bit later. | ||
| And we appreciate that. | ||
| But the deal is all now signed up and ratified. | ||
| And we have access to a massive amount of very, very high-quality rare earth. | ||
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Good. | |
| I'm thrilled to announce that we have reached a breakthrough trade deal with the United Kingdom, a credible country. | ||
| Today is a victory day for World War II. | ||
| We won the war together exactly 80 years ago, so there could be no more perfect morning to reach this historic agreement. | ||
| And it's beautiful weather out. | ||
| I will tell you that, Kir. | ||
| Beautiful weather. | ||
| It's so perfect outside. | ||
| But it's really, in particular, the agreement with one of our closest and most cherished allies. | ||
| And we're so happy that that's the way it worked out. | ||
| I want to thank Prime Minister Starmer and his very talented team for their outstanding work and partnership. | ||
| Today's agreement with the UK is the first in a series of agreements on trade that my administration has been negotiating over the past four weeks. | ||
| With this deal, the UK joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an essential and vital principle of international trade. | ||
| The deal includes billions of dollars of increased market access for American exports, especially in agriculture, dramatically increasing access for American beef, ethanol, and virtually all of the products produced by our great farmers and our secretary, as you know, of agriculture is here, Brooke. | ||
| Thank you very much for being here. | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| You'll let the farmers know. | ||
| In addition, the UK will reduce or eliminate numerous non-tariff barriers that unfairly discriminated against American products. | ||
| But this is now turning out, I think, really to be a great deal for both countries because it'll be really great for the UK also. | ||
| So they're opening up the country. | ||
| Their country is a little closed and we appreciate that. | ||
| They'll also be fast tracking American goods through their customs process. | ||
| So our exports go. | ||
| To a very, very quick form of approval, and there won't be any red tape. | ||
| Things are going to move very quickly both ways. | ||
| The final details are being written up in the coming weeks. | ||
| We'll have it all very conclusive, but the actual deal is a very conclusive one. | ||
| We think just about everything's been approved. | ||
| So good for both countries. | ||
| And we'll also receive new market access for American chemicals, machinery, and many other industrial products that weren't allowed. | ||
| And they'll end up getting products that they'll be able to price. | ||
| And if they like them better and we make great products, they'll be buying those products, but they were not available online. | ||
| We have a big economic security blanket, and that's very important. | ||
| We feel very, very comfortable with that because it's been a great ally, truly one of our great allies. | ||
| I mean, a lot of people say our greatest ally. | ||
| I don't want to insult people by saying that, but I can say it's certainly one of our greatest. | ||
| And right at the top, and they're the first one we're talking about. | ||
| And by the way, we have many meetings planned today and tomorrow, and every country wants to be making deals. | ||
| And we have a... | ||
| The meeting, as you know, Scott, will be going over to Switzerland on Saturday, and that'll be very, very interesting. | ||
| We'll find out, but I think they want to make a deal very badly, too. | ||
| Both countries have agreed that the economic security is national security and we'll be working together as allies to ensure that we have a strong industrial base, appropriate export controls and protections for key technologies and industries like steel. | ||
| Steel is a big factor. | ||
| Both countries will become stronger with steel. | ||
| And things necessary for military. | ||
| You know, we used to build ships and other things, literally at a level that nobody's ever seen. | ||
| And we haven't, we've eased up, and I would say that the UK certainly eased up, but now we're going to be uneasing both, and we work together. | ||
| Once again, I want to thank Prime Minister Starmer. | ||
| He's been terrific for his partnership in this matter, the special relationship and external bond. | ||
| It's really an external and an internal bond. | ||
| Between our two countries, we'll soon be stronger than ever before. | ||
| And we really do. | ||
| We have a great relationship. | ||
| I want to just say that the representatives of the UK have been so professional. | ||
| And it's been an honor doing business with all of them, and in particular, the Prime Minister. | ||
| And I'd like to introduce him now to say a few words. | ||
| Mr. Prime Minister, please take it away. | ||
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The Prime Minister: Thank you, Mr. President Donald. | |
| This is a really fantastic, historic day in which we can announce this deal between our two great countries. | ||
| And I think it's a real tribute to the history that we have of working so closely together. | ||
| Can I pay tribute, Donald, to your negotiating team as well, particularly Howard and Jameson, who've done an incredible job, a very professional job, and my team as well. | ||
| Two negotiating teams have worked at Pace now. | ||
| For a number of weeks to bring in this deal today. | ||
| Really important deal. | ||
| This is going to boost trade between and across our countries. | ||
| It's going to not only protect jobs, but create jobs, opening market access. | ||
| And as you say, Donald, the timing couldn't be more apt because not only was it 80 years ago today that victory came for Europe. | ||
| After and at the end of the Second World War, but of course on that day, the UK and the US stood together as the closest of allies. | ||
| And Donald, I think, even down to the hour, because you may or may not know that it was about this time of day, exactly 80 years ago, that Winston Churchill announced victory in Europe. | ||
| And that led to great celebrations. | ||
| Across Europe, across America, but particularly in the United Kingdom. | ||
| Literally people going out into the street, putting bunting up, going up to the palace. | ||
| And so to be able to announce this great deal on the same day, 80 years forward, almost at the same hour, and as we were 80 years ago with the UK and the US standing side by side, I think... | ||
| Is incredibly important and makes this truly historic. | ||
| That close relationship has endured over those 80 years. | ||
| As you know, Donald, when it comes to defence and security and intelligence sharing, of course, there are no two countries that are closer than our two countries. | ||
| And now we take this into new and important territory by adding trade and the economy to the closeness. | ||
| of our relationship. | ||
| It is built, as you say, on those notions of fairness and reciprocal arrangements. | ||
| We've always had a fair and balanced arrangement between our countries. | ||
| This builds on that. | ||
| Hugely important for sectors like car manufacturing and for steel and aluminium and so many others. | ||
| And yes, we can finish hiring out some of the details, but there's a fantastic platform here, including, of course, on the tech side. | ||
| Where I think I'm right in saying we're the only two Western countries with trillion-dollar sectors when it comes to tech. | ||
| And in the end, it comes down to, as you say, Donald, economic security is national security. | ||
| On national security, we've been absolutely the closest of allies for so many years, keeping the peace through that close alliance, that friendship. | ||
| And now we add to that this... | ||
| Deal on trade and the economy. | ||
| And I want to thank you for your leadership on that, Donald, and for the way in which your team have negotiated this. | ||
| I'm so pleased that we've got this deal, we've finalised it, and we've built an incredible platform for the future. | ||
| So thank you so much. | ||
| Donald, I'm now going to go and do a press conference. | ||
| I think you have your press in with you. | ||
| But on the details, I think if you've got Howard, we can deal with that through one of my team. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| Well, Mr. Prime Minister, thank you very much. | ||
| It's an honour. | ||
| We're going to have a continued, maybe a better relationship than ever before. | ||
| You know, I don't know if the media knows, but the US and UK have been working for years. | ||
| To try and make a deal. | ||
| And it never quite got there. | ||
| It did with this Prime Minister. | ||
| So I want to just congratulate you. | ||
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Well, with this President, this Prime Minister, we've managed to achieve what many people have tried to achieve for many years. | |
| And I'm really pleased. | ||
| And it feels completely historic and on a special 80-year anniversary as well. | ||
| So, Donald, thank you so much. | ||
| It's really good to have got this deal over the line. | ||
| Tribute to both teams, tribute to our countries, and tribute to your leadership. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, it really is a great thing. | ||
| And you go do your press conference, and I'll see you soon. | ||
| Maybe speak to you later. | ||
| But thank you very much. | ||
| An incredible thing. | ||
| I can't tell you that for so many years, even as I sat, everybody talked and talked and talked about a deal with-- it just seemed like a natural deal, but it was not done, but now it was done with us. | ||
| So I feel very proud to have been a part of it. | ||
| Keir, thank you very much. | ||
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Thanks, Donald, and we'll speak again soon. | |
| Very good. | ||
| So long. |
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