Episode 2247： The West Continues To Put Italy In A Box With The New Sworn In Prime Minister; Kristina Karama Throws Down Against Velshi's False Claims
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The Vatican has a secret deal with the Chinese Communist Party, and the Church in China is outraged. We talk about the deal and why it s a betrayal to the Catholic Church, and why Cardinal Zen is on trial in Hong Kong.
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This has now killed more than 100 people in China, and new cases have been confirmed around
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the world. You don't want to frighten the American public. France and South Korea have
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also got evacuation plans. But you need to prepare for and assume.
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Wrongly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China.
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That this is going to be a real serious problem. France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore,
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Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. Health officials are investigating more than 100
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possible cases in the US. Germany, a man has contracted the virus. The epidemic is a demon,
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and we cannot let this demon hide. Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. Coronavirus has
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killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. We have to prepare for the worst
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always. Because if you don't, and the worst happens. War Room. Pandemic. Here's your host,
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Stephen K. Vanna. Okay, welcome back. It's 22 October in the year of our Lord, 2022. I got that
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right. I blew that in the open. But now we're here. It's Saturday. There's a lot going on. President
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Trump's in Texas. There's people all over. Today, we got Christine Karamo coming to the bottom of the
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hour. We're honored to have Maria Luisa Rossi-Hawkins, the US, I guess, head of news and
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correspondence for one of the most powerful media arms in all of Europe, and that's Mediaset.
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A lot going on. First off, Roy is just announcing, I don't know, you probably haven't caught, just came
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across a wire. The Vatican has extended for two years, I think, the secret deal with the Chinese
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Communist Party. How does that work? The guy who runs Policy Sonar did an amazing book of how, and it
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didn't get a lot of play internationally, but his book really talked about the CCP infiltrating every
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aspect of really Italian corporate life. And people should remember, in the pandemic, the first
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hotspot was in Northern Italy because of the fashion industry, everything like that. The CCP,
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this secret deal with the Vatican is outraged. I want to talk on Sunday at 6 p.m. here in Real
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American Voice, have a one-hour special, if we can get that artwork up, with Bishop Schneider,
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from, we did it here in the worm itself. It'll play 6 p.m. on Sunday night, an entire hour
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with this amazing, amazing man who is a thorn in the side of the Vatican. How can the Vatican be signing
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a secret deal with the Chinese Communist Party? Well, it's a capillary penetration of the Italian
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state, the Italian government, I guess the religious realm, and the Italian public opinion.
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Through a capillary campaign of being there quietly, I believe that the CCP was able to
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penetrate every aspect of Italian society and the church, and we've seen it. We've seen it in the
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last, in the latest years, and it's quiet, and it's not sudden. They made a big deal about One Belt,
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One Road being anchored in Venice. Marco Polo was there. This is the reverse Silk Road. And when you
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say, have they penetrated deeply into Italian business and the rest of society, not just in
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northern Italy where the fashion industry is? Absolutely. They penetrate where the state,
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the government is weaker, Steve. And it's easier to corrupt. It's easier to buy. It's easier not just
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to buy goods, but to buy off politicians. It is easier to make a campaign effective enough so that
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public opinion will stand with you. And this is exactly what they're doing, and this is exactly
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what they have done. Now, as far as the Catholic Church is concerned, you were the one who first
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talked about this and the close or too close relationship. And evidently, here you have it.
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Well, it's a secret deal, too. Remember, being a signatory to the United Nations, as Vatican is,
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you can't have secret deals. I mean, this just flaunts everything. It's a secret deal. The reason
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it's a secret deal is obvious. There's money changing hands, but more importantly, there's
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a path to recognition by the Vatican and a throwing of Taiwan under the bus. There's no doubt about that.
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Remember, the CCP actually has the ability to pick the bishops, and Cardinal Zen is on trial. How do you
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sign this document with Cardinal Zen on trial in Hong Kong? This is a total and complete betrayal.
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I mean, the holiest man in the Catholic Church, Cardinal Zen, 90 years old, who stood up to the
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CCP, head of the underground church in mainland China, head of the church in Hong Kong, is on trial
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in Hong Kong. And they sign and announce the secret deal, which is CCP during the 20th Party Congress
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on the last day, where Xi's going to announce tomorrow, he's out for flight. Do we have the clip?
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Do we have the clip of Hu Jintao? Okay, I'm about to show you something.
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Yeah, yeah, get the CCP. This is one of the most brutal things I've ever seen. Have you had a chance
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to see it yet? No, I haven't. Okay, you're gonna be looking forward to it. This is okay. This is on the
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day before. This is the last big event they've got. There are 2500 communist authorities there.
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And they just let the media in. And they're about to begin the big speeches. The person you're
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going to see Perp walked out on live global television is the former head. It's who Xi took
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over from, Hu Jintao. Okay, let's go ahead and play it. And you watch what happens here. Here's
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What you're seeing there, that's the former head of all of it. They literally drag him off. He didn't
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want to go because he understands where he's going is not a good place. This is a power move.
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If you're concerned about Taiwan, if you're concerned about the South China Sea, if you're concerned
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about where Xi's going in this power move, become emperor for life, which will be anointed tomorrow,
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right there is he's showing the old power in China. I am supreme. On the global stage,
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they drag the guy off, the older guy. Now, what I'm hearing is that the older guy had some words to
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say he was going to warn the Chinese people about Xi's consolidation of power. They knew he was going
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to say that he was going to have a few minutes to speak as the former head of the Chinese Communist
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Party, the former chairman. They sent the security officials in and took him. He didn't want to go.
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You can see that right there because he understands where he's going is a quite a dark place.
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That's where the left wanted Steve Bannon to go yesterday. Trust me. Okay. That's how they roll.
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That's how these totalitarian states roll. When you see this and you see that Xi now has supreme
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ultimate power, right, and how weak Europe is overall and the nations of Europe with this bitter winter
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coming. Give me your assessment. Two things, Steve. The first thing that I think about is how can
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you be concerned about the rise of fascism in Italy when you see this? And this is what I've
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been reading about Italian newspapers, about American newspapers, even people that I meet
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and see in the buildings in New York or on the streets. Oh my God, I am so worried. You guys are
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fascists, aren't you? You got that. You've got bigger problems. Second, I really want to go back to
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talking about Georgia Maloney. In the nomination of her ministries yesterday, I think she's sending
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a message. And she's sending a message to China. When you're naming agricultural or food sovereignty,
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you're saying you're not buying us off. Hold on. Tell people what this means because this was a
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power move. What did she say yesterday about food sovereignty? We have ministries, as you would
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have it in the United States, departments. But she renamed a few of them. One of them being the
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agriculture department was renamed agriculture and food sovereignty. A word very close to you,
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Steve, and one that you might appreciate very much. What does that mean? It doesn't mean superiority.
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It means sovereignty. It means we take over our own food and agricultural chain. Instruction and
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educational merit. We will not be a nepotistic state. We will not be bought off. We are going to
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run with the Western merit chain of events and command. Environment and energy security. It is not
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the Department of Energy. It is the Environment and Energy Security Ministry. And then we'll have a
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ministry of the sea going back with the ports idea that you brought up. Ministry of the sea.
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What does that mean? It's not just about immigration. It is not just about
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stopping or avoiding the flood of immigrants in the Italian ports. But it's about taking control of
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the ports of Italy. And then the last one is family natality and equal opportunity. Family natality,
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birth. So all these things are not just a name change. These things are a clear message to China
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and to those that believe that they could conquer Italy through a milieu of institution,
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international and not, and laws. This is why she's so important to the United States,
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because it's God, homeland, and family. That's the motto of what she's trying to do, right?
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I have no idea. I have no idea. But I think the idea of fascism is a nostalgic idea by American
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intellectuals to pretty much put Italy in a box that they have read about and known about. And there
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is a very significant, Steve, historic mistake about calling Georgia Meloni fascist, which they're not
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doing anymore, by the way. And that is fascism was an interruption of democracy. Nobody elected
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Mussolini to the Italian government. They marched on Rome on a dictator's mandate. But Italy was a
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democracy interrupted by the fascist regime. This is a government elected by the Italian people,
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a legitimate government elected, where Georgia Meloni got 26% of the Italian vote. One Italian out of
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voted for her. And that, to me, is the quintessential democratic mandate.
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It's action, action, action. She's always been somebody who takes action. Food sovereignty and
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energy security. Is this because the rest of Europe, we hear about famine, we hear about higher
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food prices, empty shelves, and of course, a cold, bitter winter. Is this because she's getting ahead
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I believe so. I believe she's sending a message and she's going to deal with, I bet, the worst
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period in post-World War II Italy and Europe. When we're talking about energy security, what she's
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saying is we have been dependent on Russian oil for so many years that we have to do something about
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it. Energy independence is mandatory. It is crucial. It is essential to Italy and to Europe. And it hasn't
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been so. Not that Italian politicians or European politicians didn't know this, Steve, but there was
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And we all know that. So energy security, the independence of the Italian government.
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How bad is the food situation going to be there?
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Inflation is high. Inflation is high. I would argue that the food situation is probably worse here in the
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United States and nobody's talking about it. And you and I talk about this all the time.
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I think inflation is a serious problem. It is worse and more.
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But I think the energy situation or the energy crisis is worse.
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A lot of her biggest fans here are very concerned about how she put together this government, all the
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things she was saying about Ukraine and NATO and EU. Has that changed her? Did she have to play the game
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to get the government together? Or are the Italian people going to be shoveling billions of dollars
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I don't know that she is a non-Atlantist. I think she's pro-America. She will definitely
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follow the U.S. guidelines. She will be an ally to the United States, but she will have her own voice.
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Her biggest challenge is probably going to be at home with the anti-war movement in her own
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coalition. But I think Georgia Maloney has me to stand.
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But you're in an economic crisis right now. If she doesn't solve the economic crisis you have,
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it will be a short-lived government. What do you think her policies on that are?
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I think her policies are going to be energy independence. I think her policies are going to be
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Is she going to junk the sustainability in the Green New Deal? Because that's what's killed the U.K.
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That's why you have a new government in the U.K. They're in fantasy land on net zero carbon. What is she going to do about that?
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I believe that. I believe she's going to be very realist about the costs of the Green New Deal
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and its declination into European policies. But she'll have to go to Europe. She'll have to go
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to the EU. She'll have to say, we stand our ground.
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I noticed you didn't inform the government until on the 15th that you got your cash from the EU.
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Wait until you got your cash and informed the government.
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Real quickly, Salvini, a real role? A meaningful role?
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A real role, but under control. Definitely under control.
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He's lost a lot of – he's partied too much, lost a few steps here.
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I don't know about the parting. I think the Italian people really have gone through hardship,
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and I think Georgia had played the coherence card.
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Right, and the toughness and the focus. Okay, short break. We're going to come back.
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You're going to see a very special from Jake Tapper last night about yours truly.
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We're going to have one of the smartest political minds in media in the world,
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Maria Luisa Rossi Hawkins. Comment on what she's seeing on CNN all next in the war room.
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Just watch and see. It's all started. Everything's begun.
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In the same investigation, Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon,
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was sentenced to four months in prison for defying his subpoena from the committee.
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And Bannon looked like he loved every second of it.
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The federal judge, a Trump appointee we should note,
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said that Bannon has shown, quote, no remorse for his actions.
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Bannon's one of the main forces that spread those deranged lies about the 2020 election.
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Bannon seemed to know that this was all a scam.
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Here he is behind closed doors before the last election.
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And what Trump's going to do is just declare victory, right?
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It's unclear if Bannon will actually end up going to prison.
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The judge is letting him remain free while his appeal process plays out.
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We're going to talk to his lawyer in just a second.
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Separately, Bannon is also facing charges of money laundering and conspiracy and fraud
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related to that online scheme to raise money to build Trump's border wall.
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But even before he met Trump, Bannon was a man who wore many hats, or in his case, shirts.
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Bannon seemed drawn to odd projects such as the 1993 science escapade known as Biosphere 2.
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The structure houses seven small-scale versions of the Earth's various zones.
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Here, crew members monitor plant, animal, and atmospheric changes in an attempt to understand real-life biology.
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It's been referred to in the past as a planet in a bottle.
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Bannon has a real eye, a keen eye for opportunities.
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For instance, he bought a stake in royalties for a little show in the 90s that maybe you heard of.
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But in addition to that quality, seeing opportunities,
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Bannon has also long been drawn to a hostile, radical nationalism.
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Bannon became a founding member of the board at Breitbart.com,
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where Bannon eventually assumed the helm and helped turn it proudly into a website for the so-called alt-right.
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At the time, even right-wing talk show host Glenn Beck thought Bannon extremes.
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By taking orders from a political candidate and reworking your entire site
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to promote the lies of a specific candidate without any kind of truth behind these things,
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Tough talk for a fellow conservative from Glenn Beck.
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But you probably first became aware of Steve Bannon when he was chief executive officer of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign,
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and then chief strategist and senior counselor at the Trump White House.
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Many in the public were afraid because of the bigotry on Breitbart and the accusations against Bannon
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of domestic violence and anti-Semitism, accusations from his ex-wife.
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Bannon's spokesman denied the allegations, but Bannon was focused on putting his plans into high gear,
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such as the so-called Muslim ban or purging the Republican Party of anyone remotely disloyal to Donald Trump.
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They're going to be held accountable if they do not support the president of the United States.
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Bannon brought that hostility into the White House.
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One senior Trump White House advisor told me today that Bannon at the White House was abusive
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and foul to the extreme to everyone on the staff.
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And President Trump was jealous that Bannon was getting more credit with the base than he was.
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So it was only a matter of time before Bannon was ousted.
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And after Bannon was quoted attacking Donald Trump Jr. in a book the next year,
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Trump publicly went after the man that he called Sloppy Steve.
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Bannon's long game is to tear down the GOP from the inside out and turn it into a nationalist party.
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And that's why you should care about Sloppy Steve,
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because he's using his podcast now to go after Republicans and to go after the Republic.
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Called The War Room, it's regularly one of the most popular podcasts on Apple.
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Some of the figures he studied closest and admired from the past are actual propagandists, like the Nazi propagandists.
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Bloomberg's Josh Green wrote a whole book on Bannon.
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And he reports that Bannon has studied the work of Nazi propagandist Lenny Reifenstall.
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He showed me once, shot for shot, how he was copying in his own films what she had done in her films.
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So it gives you an idea of the depth of his belief in propaganda.
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Steve Bannon has taken that War Room audience and turned it into what he calls an army.
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It's an army he's been quietly mobilizing to fight on the humblest of battlefields.
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And that action is we're taking over school boards.
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We're taking over the Republican Party through the precinct committee strategy.
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There's nothing wrong, of course, with getting the public involved in their political process.
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The problem here is what this Bannon army might do on those election boards,
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on these precinct committees, inside polling places.
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We're going to take over the election apparatus.
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What are these people going to do once they're in charge of the election apparatus?
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Who are these precinct committeemen and women going to elect in county and state parties?
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How are they going to do their jobs, if elected, to count votes on the local level?
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When Drew Griffin and CNN's investigative unit sat down with members of Bannon's army on the state level,
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And Steve Bannon was the one that I heard say exactly what Jody just said.
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It was also clear that members of Bannon's army had been fed lie after lie after lie.
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Lies that clearly would cause anyone to be concerned about how they might do their jobs.
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To see how there's no way that Biden could have ever won an election.
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And there's just some, if you believe that that was a safe and fair election, then I mean, I just can't help you.
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And it's playing out at such a local level, we might never even see what it means.
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So this is where Bannon's combination of traits, savvy exploiter of opportunity,
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Well, one former German ambassador to the United States puts it this way in CNN's special report airing tonight.
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Looking back over the last 70 years, over the post-World War II period,
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in my view, Steve Bannon was the single most dangerous American who came our way.
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The single most dangerous American who came the Germans' way.
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Not to belabor the point, but the Germans know from bad guys.
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And even if Steve Bannon does end up in a prison cell, four months is not a long time.
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Moreover, his insidious influence, that cannot be locked up.
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Okay, I turn now to Maria Luisa Rossi Hawkins, one of the sharpest political minds around.
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I don't know whether I should be scared of honor to be in your presence, sir.
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The tone is risible, but the accusations are serious.
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And the first impression that I have, Steve, is how scared are they?
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How scared are and is the Democratic Party to put on such a show so much that they need you as their enemy
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to go through the midterms without an agenda, without policy, without perspective for the future,
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that they need once again to recreate, create and recreate and go over the construction of an enemy
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so that they can actually go forth in their campaign.
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It is serious and, as I say, risible in tone because...
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As you report what's going on in the States to the people in Italy,
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what are you laying out as where America stands today?
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I am trying to give the fairest view possible, but I don't have much leeway at that.
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There is a president who is definitely not in full charge of his capabilities, but a cynical president.
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It all comes back to me, to the Afghanistan debacle.
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It reminds me that the image that comes to mind and that I remind everybody of is the Afghan falling off the planes
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It is an image of America that cannot withstand the pressures of its own leadership.
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Europe and the United States are tied into this crisis together,
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but the energy crisis, the food crisis, the housing crisis, the crime crisis this country has,
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How do people get to you on social media and all that?
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No, you don't post a lot, so we just got to watch your broadcast.
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You have followed the rise of Georgie Maloney from the beginning,
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and you were one of the earliest to say there's something special here.
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So today she's appointed, takes the oath to be the first female prime minister in the history.
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Can I say, Steve, we're proud of the generational change.
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We're proud of the fact that she's a woman, the first right-winged woman.
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All those women on the left have always been pretty much ancillary figures to Italian politicians.
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Okay, short commercial break to going to Michigan.
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Christine Caramo, another fighter on the right, next in the war room.
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There are currently 291 Republicans on the ballot across the country
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who have denied that Biden is the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election.
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They're running in 48 states for congressional and state offices.
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Of those, more than half, 171, they're the ones in the, is that orange or red, whatever,
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the dark color on the top, are favored to win their races.
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Nearly 50 more are in races that are likely going to be extremely close.
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And here in Michigan, the Washington Post counts that there are nine election deniers on the ballot.
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The other four races should be very close, including the race for the attorney general.
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The Republican challenger in that race is Matthew DiPerno, who is currently under investigation
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by the state for allegedly tampering with voting machines in 2020.
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Here in Michigan, for instance, the Republican candidate for secretary of state, Christina Caramo,
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She rose to prominence specifically because she unabashedly repeated lies about the 2020 election
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She went as far as to claim that she witnessed misconduct in the processing of absentee ballots
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Those claims, unsurprisingly, have never been corroborated or substantiated.
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But now she is the Republican Party's candidate to be Michigan's top elections administrator,
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who would be in charge of overseeing the 2024 presidential election.
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Joining me now is Michigan's current secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson.
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She's the Democrat running for re-election against Christina Caramo in this year's midterm.
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She's also the author of an important book, Secretaries of State, Guardians of the Democratic Process.
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I can't take too much of the – by the way, they're in full meltdown.
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We are honored to have Christina Caramo join us.
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Ma'am, why is the whole NBC News operation in Michigan today in a full meltdown because of you and Tudor Dixon and Matt DiPerno, ma'am?
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Because we are pushing into their spaces and they're terrified.
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I mean, if you look at his opening remarks, he makes self-refuting claims.
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He said that I made false statements about what I witnessed but then said my claims haven't been corroborated.
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How can you say my claims are false if they haven't been corroborated?
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So these individuals are fully vested in suppressing the truth and that when the truth is on your side, you win.
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And they're just simply terrified of us getting to the bottom of what not only happened in 2020 but the current corruption we see right now.
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As a matter of fact, Steve, my opponent was slapped down by a judge for the fifth time two days ago.
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So as this guy boasts how she wrote a book about the Secretary of State, she clearly doesn't know what she's doing because she keeps getting slapped down by judges for breaking the law.
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She attempted to suppress poll challengers from seeing what's going on in our election, trying to prevent who they can talk to.
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Benson tried to prevent our poll challengers from being able to talk to the local clerk about concerns they had.
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And they are terrified that we'll be successful because, as you know, Steve, there's going to be a massive red wave because the Democrats have totally lost their mind.
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There is a rising of parents in Dearborn, which is a typically Democratic area, who will be voting Republicans because they're trying to sexualize their children.
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There are people who can't afford to feed their families.
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And when they look at the election system, the same people who are creating a scenario where you can't afford to feed your families don't want you to even scrutinize the election process.
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People are putting two and two together, and that's why we're going to win.
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So Ali Valci, they didn't randomly select him to go out to Michigan.
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Michigan, it's because of the Dearborn situation.
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Talk to me about what happened in Dearborn and what the mainstream media is literally in meltdown over this.
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And they're particularly upset about any of your involvement.
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So, you know, what happened is it's in Dearborn, Michigan, because Dearborn is a typically vote Democratic.
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A lot of their school board members are Democrats.
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And these individuals put books within the school library that were very sexually explicit.
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Steve, I was on an Arabic-speaking television show on Monday that was recorded in Dearborn, and one of the women on the show with me had brought the actual books.
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Steve, I wouldn't even repeat these to you in private conversations.
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That's how vulgar, I mean, just extremely vulgar with graphic pictures in these books teaching students how to have sex,
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how to meet strangers on the Internet for sex, and then these people turn around and lie and say, oh, you guys are just anti-LGBT.
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And what's important to also note, that it's very insulting to individuals who identify as LGBT to assume that the only way to teach our children how to be kind to them is by exposing our children to explicit sex acts.
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And so the thing about it is parents obviously are up in arms.
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And then a lot of the speakers who spoke in favor of the books when I was there two weeks ago, actually last week, they were actually insulting them for being Muslim directly.
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And then continued to insult the people and said that they were just being held captive by right-wing ideology, and this is more white supremacy.
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That's why when the left throws around the word white supremacy, it's not about white people.
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It's a demonization tactic of anybody who is pro-America, pro-family, that they just want to slap that label on people,
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even though these are Arab-Americans, in order to get people to look down upon these folks for speaking truth about we don't want our children sexualized.
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So now you're seeing the parents in Dearborn are not backing down.
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And not only are they pushing harder, now they're pushing for everyone to vote Republican.
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Because they're like, wait a minute, the Democratic Party has been taken over by people who aren't liberal.
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They're authoritarians, and they're trying to sexualize their kids.
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So now they're being more vocal about voting Republicans, so they send this clown in to try to suppress that effort.
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They're not going to sexualize people's kids, and they're just going to go for it.
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You talk about demonization because we keep, as you know, micro-attention on all these racists.
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You have been particularly demonized by the mainstream media and by the Democratic Party to almost a lathered-up basis.
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More than anybody, maybe Carrie Lake, but I've got to tell you, they're coming after Christina Caramo.
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Is that man because you're a person of not just a Christian faith, but you live your Christianity?
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Do you believe that's why they've singled you out to really come at you the hardest of virtually anybody running in this country?
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Yeah, you know, to your point, Steve, being consistent in my Christian faith requires me to reach out and to care about other people.
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And they do not like the fact that I won't stay in a safe Republican bubble.
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And as we go to communities like Flint and Detroit and Dearborn that are typically Democratic cities, we're winning people over by just simply telling the truth.
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And a lot of the Democratic Party leadership, they stay in power by deception.
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For example, it's like we have an initiative Proposition 3, but they will be legalizing children to get – children will be able to get sterilized behind their parents' back.
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A girl can go get a hysterectomy without her mother knowing about it.
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This is the type of stuff these people are trying to legalize in Michigan with Proposal 3.
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And so when we speak truth about that stuff, people's eyes are just open and they go, oh, my goodness, this is horrible.
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But one of the problems is that for a very long time, conservatives have just looked at communities that are typically Democratic and will go, well, this is a D plus 10 city, so we're not going to waste our time campaigning in these spaces because they're not going to vote for us anyway.
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And my philosophy is, well, why would they vote for you if you don't talk to them?
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And so oftentimes we go into communities and they'll say, you're the first Republican candidate I've ever spoken with.
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Or they've just never been exposed to the conservative perspective on real issues that we're dealing with.
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And then I stay true to my conservatism, but just effectively explain it, people agree with us.
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We're taking from their power structure, because one of the, it was interesting, a publication here in Michigan, who typically is more liberal, wrote an article about me.
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And we were at an event when Southwest Detroit, which is typically a Mexican city and Mexican portion of Detroit.
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And one of the women they interviewed was saying that she's a socialist.
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But yeah, I'm the first Republican should be ever voting for.
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Because I'm not what she assumed a conservative is based on the stereotypes they make about us, Steve.
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And so when people talk with folks like you and myself, they realize that we're not these crazy monsters that they make us out to be.
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We're actually reasonable people who want to do right by our fellow neighbors.
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And so naturally, if someone, they live off narrative.
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They need false narratives to maintain their power.
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And so when a candidate is breaking their narrative, it breaks their power structure, and they lose, and they're scared.
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Christina, how do people find out more about your campaign?
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I want everybody that can to go check it out and see what they can do, and volunteers, whatever.
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You're one of the key races in this country, Secretary of State in Michigan.
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You know, she's outed all the time by these courts about what she's not doing, what she is doing.
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So how do people find out more about your campaign?
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And also, Steve, we have our series, Benson's Dirty Deeds, where we're going over all the illegal activities that's been going on in the state.
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Like, we have this company in Michigan where the guy who owns the company was arrested because he was storing data from our election systems on servers in China.
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And our governor gave them $300,000 of taxpayer, Michigan tax dollars.
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There's just so much corruption going on in Michigan.
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And this is why the Democrats around America are pouring millions of dollars into my opponent's race that says Michigan is a top-tier influence over presidential election outcome.
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Irrespective of political affiliation, I'm a rule-of-law candidate, and I want to ensure that your voting rights are protected, and they're terrified of that prospect.
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So they're pouring millions of dollars into the state in order to protect election corruption that my proponent manages.
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And share the content with your friends who are liberals.
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Thank you very much for coming to the War Room today.
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By the way, people are deployed all over the country.
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Make sure you go to warroom.org or go to my getter feed or Grace Chong or, of course, Captain Bannon.
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Right now, if it's too late in your district, become a get out the vote.
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But you've also got to get to the ramparts, right, because this is historic.
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Tell us how we're doing, getting ready for the Trump rally.
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People that left California, escaped California, now live in Texas.
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And the main story we keep hearing all over the place here is most people used to be Democrats.
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They've woken up to the lies of the Democrats, and now they're MAGA, and even ultra MAGA.
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Well, you used to be a Democrat a long time ago.
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What pulled me away from the Democratic Party was mainly the pro-life issues.
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And then from there, everything just kind of snowballed.
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The biblical principles that Trump embraces is what I really like about him.
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I've never heard another president invoke the name of God and Jesus more than I've heard President Donald J. Trump.
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And that's the main thing for me is that he's embracing biblical principles.
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And you've got the kids out here, young man, 16 here, rocking his MAGA hat.
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He says he doesn't care if he gets the attacks from the left and from the haters.
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Strong men and strong young ladies down here standing up for America.
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You were a Democrat, and it was actually the Sandman story.
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Yeah, so the Nick Sandman story, I was outraged.
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And then my boyfriend said, chill out, give it seven days, and the truth would come out.
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And then I started questioning everything prior, and everything was a lie.
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I don't know if you want to jump in with the question.
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We're going to Texas at the Trump rally next in the war room.
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The new social media taking on big tech, protecting free speech, and canceling cancel culture.
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The platform for independent thought has arrived.
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It's time to say what you want, the way you want.
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In Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada, we know that the polling changed radically after President Trump's had these huge rallies.
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One in Texas a day, tons of important congressional races up.
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Hey, real quick, though, I just want to have everybody start by saying we're praying for you, Steve.
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Who stands with Steve Bannon against the corrupt, lying?
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Hey, so they think they think they're going to take out the tip of the spear, Steve, but they don't realize we got arrows in the quiver, and they're all coming for it.
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The American people stand with you, and this is it.
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What they mean for evil, God is going to use for good.
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Speaking of good, look at what's going on here.
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So we got legal immigrants that have come over.
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I'm Audrey Johnson Shepard, and God has brought me to America, 196 countries in the world, and I came from Europe, British, Guyana, and we became socialists.
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We are here because we are warriors, and we're here to save America.
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And yes, President Trump is our president, but he's not God.
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God has positioned each of us from North, South, France, Germany, wherever we come from.
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This is my husband, and he stands strong with me.
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We are Americans, and we're going to save America.
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We could end it there, but there's so much more.
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When he kept saying the fake news, the fake news, and I kept saying, how can it be fake news?
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And it wasn't until I started listening to his speeches, what's going on, and I started paying attention to what's going on.
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And I realized the news would say something, and I'm like, that's not what Trump said.
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Oh, by the way, by the way, how many people are paid to be here?
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This is one of the other lies that the Democrats say.
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By the way, guys, if you feel led to say something, we're just going to bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.
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He's with you, and that's one you've got to depend on.
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Also, if Donald Trump had done nothing for four years while he was in office, except if he had stayed in bed for four years,
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except open the people's eyes to the corruption in this government,
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he did more than any president in the history of this country.
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Now, we also have another immigrant from France originally.
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Now, you're running the Republican Party here locally.
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Well, even originally, I fled Hungary when it became communist.
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And then I was raised in France, who became totally socialist and came to America to find freedom.
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So it's time, thanks to Trump, to try to get it back.
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All over the world, they are losing their freedom.
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Look, I'm a combat veteran, 22 years in the military.
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Which president has never been lobbied, been paid for, has had been in all these programs to be already anointed?
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When you think about Trump, y'all stand for Trump.
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Steve says, pray for our enemies and victory in November.
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We pray against the principalities and powers of darkness.
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They don't fear Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis.
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Okay, 6 p.m. Sunday, 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
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I want to thank Real America's Voice, Bishop Schneider and myself, for one hour.
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We'll be back here at 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, a Monday morning.
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We're going to be up posting nonstop the entire posse.
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All I contributed is a bunch of big announcements on Monday.
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By the way, so make sure you get the President Trump's.
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They're absolutely freaking out, particularly out in Arizona.
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We've got a lot going on next week as we drive towards this massive victory.
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Now, we know we can win if we get the vote out.
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The only way the Democrats can win is if they cheat.
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Particularly, we're going to go to Las Vegas for the great one.
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And stick around for President Trump's incredible rally.
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Remember, he changes the dynamics every time he goes.
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