Bannon's War Room - December 17, 2022


Episode 2381： The Breakdown Of The RNC And Ukraine Spending


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Join Steve and Jack as they kick off the first day of AmericaFest in Arizona with a special guest Jack Posobiec and an update on the race to be the next Speaker of the House, and a look ahead to the weekend's events.

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00:00:01.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:06.000 Pray for our enemies.
00:00:08.000 Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:11.000 You're just not gonna free shot all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:15.000 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:17.000 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:19.000 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:21.000 but you're not gonna stop it. It's going to happen.
00:00:23.000 And where do people like that go to share the big line?
00:00:26.000 Mega Media.
00:00:27.000 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:32.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:36.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:43.000 Warren, here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.
00:00:48.000 Saturday, 17 December in the year of our Lord, 2022.
00:00:52.000 We've got a packed show today for the next couple of hours.
00:00:56.000 Of course, it's the kickoff for AmFest.
00:00:59.000 We also have an update on the range war that is the race to be the chairman of the RNC.
00:01:05.000 Also about Speaker of the House.
00:01:07.000 Everything about the omnibus.
00:01:09.000 Money, power.
00:01:11.000 How do I say this?
00:01:13.000 The nastiness of politics.
00:01:15.000 All of it.
00:01:16.000 Finance.
00:01:17.000 We're gonna get to all of it.
00:01:18.000 Also Russia and Persia or Russia and Iran.
00:01:21.000 I guess this is referred to announcing a strategic partnership this morning.
00:01:25.000 So we've got a lot to go.
00:01:26.000 CCP on the move again in the Eurasian landmass.
00:01:32.000 So we've got everything rolling.
00:01:34.000 I want to start with Jack Pasovic.
00:01:35.000 Jack, you're actually out at AmFest.
00:01:38.000 Give us a highlight of what's going to happen.
00:01:40.000 Then I've got to talk to you about the revelations overnight on the FBI's involvement in Twitter and the silent coup of the FBI and DOJ and taking out Donald J. Trump.
00:01:53.000 Jack Pasovic.
00:01:54.000 Give us a kickoff.
00:01:55.000 Give us an overview of the weekend at AmFest.
00:01:58.000 I like that, Steven.
00:01:59.000 The silent coup.
00:02:00.000 Yeah.
00:02:01.000 Was it silent coup three or four?
00:02:02.000 I'm not sure how many of the FBI counts on that one.
00:02:05.000 But with AmericaFest, it will be kicking off tonight, Steve.
00:02:09.000 We've had a massive influx of tickets sold just in the last couple of days.
00:02:16.000 People who live locally saying, you know, I always meant to come, but I didn't buy the tickets yet.
00:02:21.000 We've had over a thousand tickets sold just in the last three or four days.
00:02:25.000 Four days were the latest numbers I've got from Charlie.
00:02:28.000 And it's got to the point that we've had to go to the convention center and tell them, look, we need to open up more space.
00:02:34.000 We need to open up a wing. 0.67
00:02:35.000 Show us what you can do here.
00:02:37.000 But what people need to understand about this thing is it's not just about the speakers on the stage.
00:02:43.000 This is an immersive experience.
00:02:45.000 We've got workshops going on.
00:02:46.000 We've got places where you can meet people.
00:02:48.000 And then number one, people need to know that Turning Point does the student summit.
00:02:53.000 That's over the summer.
00:02:55.000 This is an all ages, all patriots event.
00:02:58.000 And that's why everyone's attendance is requested at this working meeting.
00:03:03.000 No, this is very important, particularly for the folks that came to the to the the great reset loved it.
00:03:12.000 People should know, you know, obviously, Turning Point started as for younger people.
00:03:18.000 But this America Fest, particularly is now it's it's in Arizona.
00:03:23.000 This is for all ages.
00:03:24.000 In fact, I want all the war and posse. 0.97
00:03:26.000 We're going to do live shows Monday and Tuesday.
00:03:29.000 We're also going to do meet and greets, breakouts, all of that.
00:03:32.000 It's also an immersive experience.
00:03:33.000 You get to meet the entire crew.
00:03:35.000 And and we're looking forward to me and the live shows.
00:03:38.000 We're going to have people like Jack Posobiec, like Natalie Winters and many, many of the personalities that are there.
00:03:46.000 So you get to meet all of them, too.
00:03:47.000 And anybody that went to CPAC and saw our live show or the shows in New Mexico or the shows in in Arizona that we've done in California know that know that it's a it's totally different experience.
00:04:00.000 And you guys are going to love it.
00:04:01.000 So make sure that in Missouri, there's live shows we did in Missouri all that weekend.
00:04:04.000 Some people are going to absolutely love it.
00:04:07.000 In fact, you go to tpusa.com slash war room right now.
00:04:12.000 Go there.
00:04:13.000 I got to get that before Poso throws out his his code.
00:04:16.000 The I've got.
00:04:20.000 No, but two things here.
00:04:21.000 One, I've got Rebecca Coughlin Harnwell.
00:04:23.000 Huge news out of Europe.
00:04:25.000 OK, and it's about the economy.
00:04:27.000 It's about the Ukraine war.
00:04:28.000 Ukraine war.
00:04:29.000 It's about paying for the Ukraine war.
00:04:31.000 Citizens in Germany, an absolute revolt today.
00:04:33.000 Huge, huge crowds.
00:04:35.000 Ben Harnwell.
00:04:36.000 Russia, Jack, announced a announced this partnership.
00:04:41.000 They're working on a military partnership with Persia, with Iran.
00:04:45.000 The CCP just got just left the Middle East, just left the Gulf, the Saudi Arabia.
00:04:51.000 They already have a 40 year output deal with Iran for oil.
00:04:54.000 They're cutting a 40 year deal with Saudi Arabia.
00:04:57.000 Big story we've got up on Getter right now about how Russia, Iran, China are working nonstop to take the dollar down as the world's reserve currency.
00:05:07.000 They're going to make all these old deals, you know, convertible into some sort of basket of their currencies.
00:05:12.000 Give us your as a naval intelligence officer.
00:05:14.000 Give us your thoughts about what Biden regime has done from Brazil to to Peru throughout the Caribbean.
00:05:21.000 Now into the Eurasian landmass to put us to jam us up, sir.
00:05:25.000 Well, Steve, what we're seeing here is a confluence of the Meersheimer warning along with Mackinder's world island theory.
00:05:34.000 And this is what they're both working together.
00:05:37.000 If you look at it from the CCP perspective, as well as the Russian perspective and Meersheimer's warning just two weeks ago now that the United States is escalating a global conflict on two fronts.
00:05:50.000 He says there are three great powers in the world now, the United States, there's Russia and there's China.
00:05:56.000 Obviously, Russia with their nuclear arsenal, China with their military might and their army, which we have been funding through our financial deals and our finance, our our elite economic coupling and the joint merger, the elite merger at the highest level of one percent.
00:06:12.000 Our great reset meets their CCP, the China model. 0.98
00:06:16.000 And so what we have done is we've driven every anti-American, every or I should say non-American entity into a force together against us by trying to poke them and prod them and instigate them in every which way.
00:06:32.000 So, of course, you're going to have Iran working with Russia. 0.70
00:06:35.000 They're building they're building and supplying the drones Iran at this point, by the way, Steve.
00:06:39.000 They're talking about building manufacturing centers in Russia to build the drones that are going into Ukraine.
00:06:45.800 Meanwhile, Erdogan and the Turks are building the drones they're fighting for on the Ukrainian side, the Bayraktar drones.
00:06:53.220 And so those are going up to there, this entire thing.
00:06:55.380 And, of course, Victor Booth, he's coming out on, you know, and all of this saying, we're great.
00:06:59.140 Where can I get a bite? You know, where can I get a little taste of it?
00:07:01.620 And he's going to Afghanistan. Of course, he's going to pick up all the material that we left back there.
00:07:05.620 We don't have any politician in the United States that is standing up right now saying we need to deescalate.
00:07:13.840 We need to pump the brakes. We need to slam on the brakes because our government has turned into a runaway train, a runaway train down the mountain.
00:07:23.360 And there's no one in the country except maybe one man, maybe one man who has stood up and said, we need to seek peace.
00:07:31.840 We need to seek deterrence, not trust, but we need rapprochement.
00:07:35.800 We do not need a two front global conflict.
00:07:39.500 And, of course, this chairman Xi Jinping goes over with full military escort, full People's Liberation Army Air Force escort to Saudi Arabia.
00:07:48.160 Of course, he does all of this. He's throwing it in our faces, and we need to understand that the CCP is underwriting all of this.
00:07:55.260 And that is why, after Christmas, we've been recording, Steve, a series, a four-part series, the entire history of the CCP and the entire biography of Xi Jinping that will be released the week after Christmas
00:08:10.200 because people need to understand who these individuals are.
00:08:13.960 They need to understand this transnational cartel.
00:08:15.960 We talk about the CCP, but we're going to go back all the way to the 1920s.
00:08:19.660 We're going to go all the way back to Xi Jinping.
00:08:21.680 We're going to talk about the purges.
00:08:23.200 We're going to talk about how he operates and how he has systematically picked apart every person who has stood in his way.
00:08:30.800 Jack, we're looking forward to that.
00:08:32.080 That's going to be fantastic.
00:08:33.860 We call it the China files, by the way.
00:08:36.480 The China files. I love it.
00:08:37.860 Well, I want to talk about the Twitter files here for a second.
00:08:40.540 By the way, Rebecca Koffler and Ben Harnwell are going to be later.
00:08:43.900 This is the reason this stop the omnibus is so important.
00:08:48.560 And President Trump came out yesterday and put that great spot on Truth Social about this.
00:08:54.180 We've got to stop this.
00:08:55.400 There are $37 billion more of your money to go to Ukraine, and we're going to have Anthony Aguero here from El Paso in a moment.
00:09:05.320 El Paso is literally out of control.
00:09:06.980 They're coming up through the sewers.
00:09:08.360 It's now spread to Yuma.
00:09:09.900 We're the runaway train, and that omnibus bill, it's them taking the coal and just still funneling it into the engine.
00:09:16.540 They're just throwing it as fast as possible into the engine of the runaway train.
00:09:20.080 That's what that is.
00:09:20.700 And given Nancy Pelosi another year. 0.93
00:09:23.220 They're giving her another year of speakership.
00:09:24.640 It's not acceptable.
00:09:25.400 It's totally unacceptable.
00:09:26.420 By the way, the number is 202-224-3121 to the Senate, 202-225-3121 for the House.
00:09:34.760 That one change number, 224-Senate-225-House.
00:09:38.780 Call them.
00:09:39.300 Let them have your opinion.
00:09:41.840 I want to go back to the Twitter file, but I want to connect some dots.
00:09:45.680 The CIA refuses, essentially refuses to release 25%, I think, of the documents on the Kennedy file, claiming sources and methods about their involvement with Oswald, particularly in Mexico and in Cuba.
00:10:00.420 You've got Nixon.
00:10:02.840 They've taken out the Praetorian Guard of the CIA, FBI, have taken out three presidents in 60 years.
00:10:09.540 Let's just be blunt about what we've allowed the administrative state and their rogue element, the deep state, to do.
00:10:15.360 They took out Kennedy, they took out Nixon, and they took out Trump.
00:10:19.260 Jack Posobiec, talk to me about the Trump part of it, as now released, as blockbuster releases of Matt Taibbi over at working with Elon Musk at Twitter.
00:10:30.420 Well, look, RFK Jr. said, I think, last night that these files show, the JFK files show, that the CIA murdered my uncle.
00:10:42.400 That's what RFK Jr. said.
00:10:44.540 And you can take everything about the vaccines aside, but obviously this is a man whose own father was assassinated, whose uncle was assassinated, who was closer to this than any story he's lived with his entire life.
00:10:56.040 And he's unequivocally stated that this was a CIA operation to take out my uncle.
00:11:00.420 And then he goes a step further, and this is what people need to understand.
00:11:03.940 He said they fundamentally changed our government that day.
00:11:08.240 They fundamentally changed the way our government works.
00:11:10.980 And what he's saying there is that any president who gets in power, sure, maybe you get voted, maybe you get into an electoral college, fine.
00:11:18.300 But once you get in office, you get sat down, and there is a briefing.
00:11:22.320 The agency comes by, and everyone comes by, and they say, this is the way the world works.
00:11:26.920 And here's the limited range of options that we are going to give you to work within.
00:11:30.500 This is the framework.
00:11:31.540 And you do not step out of this.
00:11:33.260 And if you talk about turning down one of these wars, if you talk about changing back one of these things, and by the way, that is the essential thread that goes to remember.
00:11:43.700 Nixon, before Kissinger gets in, Nixon ran on an anti-war platform prior to Kissinger.
00:11:49.240 Then Trump gets in, first president in modern history to not get us into a modern war.
00:11:54.300 Go back to Kennedy.
00:11:55.500 Kennedy wanted what?
00:11:56.580 He wanted to normalize relations with Castro.
00:11:58.640 He didn't want to go toe-to-toe with Cuba. 0.90
00:12:00.360 He had already pulled back our nuclear missiles in Turkey and Italy, by the way.
00:12:04.800 Nobody even talks about that one, our long-range ballistic missiles.
00:12:07.780 And then Trump is there saying he doesn't want more Afghanistan.
00:12:11.500 He holds the line on Syria. 0.96
00:12:12.900 He turns off Operation Timber Sycamore.
00:12:14.980 This is the arms running that was going from Benghazi into Libya, or excuse me, into Syria for the quote-unquote, remember the beautiful phrase, Steve, the moderate jihadis.
00:12:24.520 The moderate jihadis.
00:12:25.640 And that was who? Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Kinzinger, Klobuchar.
00:12:30.160 That was all of it.
00:12:30.620 By the way, the same group of people that was going over and funding, quote-unquote, the rebels in Ukraine, 2014.
00:12:37.240 So you have this cabal out there, and Trump is one of the people that comes up against it.
00:12:42.100 So what do you see in the Twitter files?
00:12:43.600 You see exactly what you'd expect to see, 80 FBI agents, Steve, 80 FBI agents that come up and are told, going to Twitter, that they need to censor this.
00:12:54.960 RSBN, the great network over there, is specifically targeted by the FBI for censorship.
00:13:01.720 And last week, a week ago today, when I gave that speech in New York City, and I declared that Yoel Roth, the head of Twitter Trust and Safety, the Ministry of Trust and Safety, was an intelligence asset, and the entire media freaked out.
00:13:15.660 All the left-wing Twitterati freaked out.
00:13:17.580 Well, guess what?
00:13:18.160 Here we are one week later, and everything I said was proved exactly correct.
00:13:21.720 No, it's huge.
00:13:23.700 Jack, how do people get to your social media?
00:13:26.680 How do they follow you, particularly all the updates on AmFest?
00:13:29.740 And we still need people.
00:13:30.620 We've still got some tickets.
00:13:31.560 I want everybody to hit it, particularly in the metro Phoenix area.
00:13:34.000 It's going to be an experience you will not forget.
00:13:36.920 How do they get you, Jack?
00:13:37.760 You must come to AmericaFest.
00:13:39.320 This is the working meeting.
00:13:40.720 There's going to be events, and there's going to be live shows and interviews going on all the time, interactions.
00:13:46.400 You get to meet with us.
00:13:47.320 You get to interact.
00:13:48.020 We've got the kids coming.
00:13:49.100 We've got Tanya, my brother, flew in last night.
00:13:52.180 We're all going to be there.
00:13:53.260 We're all going to be on the ground, a great post-millennial.
00:13:55.880 And actually, tomorrow, we're going to be doing a massive episode all about JFK.
00:14:00.380 We're diving in.
00:14:01.380 We're going full grassy knoll.
00:14:03.140 We're going all the way in, hour-long episode, the fingerprints on the old bolt-action rifle,
00:14:08.440 the book depository with Harvey Oswald actually in the building, the whole nine yards.
00:14:12.620 Come to AmericaFest.
00:14:13.860 You will not want to miss this.
00:14:15.060 And you can find me, of course, Twitter and get her, Jack Posovic.
00:14:17.160 Are you on Twitter?
00:14:19.880 No, I'm just kidding.
00:14:20.940 Jack Posovic.
00:14:21.880 Get him on Getter.
00:14:22.820 Not current.
00:14:23.520 I'm on the phone with you.
00:14:25.420 Exactly.
00:14:25.900 Okay.
00:14:26.100 We'll let you go.
00:14:26.680 Jack Posovic, thank you very much.
00:14:27.920 Look forward to seeing you out there tomorrow.
00:14:29.860 Thanks, Steve.
00:14:30.220 See you soon.
00:14:31.520 The great Posovic.
00:14:32.620 This thing's going to be amazing.
00:14:33.640 Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break.
00:14:37.400 Red State's Jennifer Van Lair, the managing editor of Red State, joins us next with her
00:14:45.620 latest article about the finances of the RNC.
00:14:48.360 In the war room next.
00:14:49.140 Spread the word all through Hong Kong.
00:14:51.960 We will fight till they're all gone.
00:14:54.520 We rejoice when they're no more.
00:14:56.420 Let's take down the CCP.
00:14:59.640 Host, Stephen K.
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00:15:50.440 There's many, many struggles in this town right now over money and power, right, in the direction of the nation.
00:15:56.960 And you guys are doing an extraordinary job.
00:15:59.140 But it's very buzzy here about the impact you've had already.
00:16:04.040 We had Mike Howell on yesterday from Heritage.
00:16:06.240 Remember, amnesty off the table, debt ceiling off the table.
00:16:10.500 They have passed the defense authorization, but they haven't funded it yet.
00:16:15.280 That'll come in the omnibus bill.
00:16:16.920 That is the big fight right now in the omnibus bill.
00:16:19.320 Here's the thing on omnibus, too.
00:16:21.300 This is how gutless they are and how screwed up this process is.
00:16:24.080 Do you understand none of your congressmen have seen it yet, right?
00:16:26.660 I'm not even sure leadership is the only appropriators.
00:16:29.700 I'm pretty sure even McCarthy and these guys, Scalise has said, hey, we haven't seen it.
00:16:33.320 We're not going to see it.
00:16:34.020 They're not going to, they're going to drop it.
00:16:35.640 They're talking Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, because they don't want us to go through it.
00:16:38.300 It's going to be 9,000 pages long, and they don't want people to go through it to see of all their, all their crimes.
00:16:44.600 That's what this is, is a crime.
00:16:46.020 In particular, because you've got, you know, tightening monetary policy, increasing interest rates.
00:16:53.020 The head of the New York Fed yesterday says, well, you know, it may be go to six.
00:16:57.120 I don't know.
00:16:57.900 Hey, maybe, right?
00:17:00.180 You got a tightening monetary policy of the Fed, and you have another, this is what it is, a massive Keynesian stimulus package.
00:17:08.480 Reason Magazine, I have it up on Getter.
00:17:11.140 They go and extrapolate out off of the November number of this year, remember the second month of the fiscal year.
00:17:17.840 Fiscal year goes to October through the end of September, the way the government does their accounting.
00:17:23.460 At $250 billion, and they go and look in the details because, as we said, the stock, the taxes are plummeting.
00:17:31.680 Spending's going up.
00:17:32.980 Taxes are plummeting.
00:17:34.380 Why is spending going up?
00:17:35.480 Well, number one, it's bolted in there, but the interest expense is going up.
00:17:41.480 The interest expense is skyrocketing.
00:17:43.020 Remember, we've been at zero interest rates for a decade.
00:17:45.340 It's starting to explode and becoming a major lineup.
00:17:48.400 And because the Fed is tightening, we're going into a recession.
00:17:52.560 We're already in a depression for the little guy.
00:17:55.520 Tax revenues, obviously, are plummeting.
00:17:58.900 This is pretty basic finance.
00:18:01.220 This is kind of paint by numbers.
00:18:02.560 And yet, Biden and these guys are going to sit there and lie to your face.
00:18:05.180 The greatest deficit reduction, that's just stopping from the emergency measures of the COVID situation.
00:18:11.980 This, and we called it, remember on this show, we said $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion.
00:18:16.900 They're saying now it's going to be $1.7, but that doesn't include all the interest charges.
00:18:20.820 So you're going to have $3.5 trillion of transfer payments, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare.
00:18:27.080 You're going to have another $3.5 to $2 trillion on top of that, then additional interest charges.
00:18:32.140 You're going to have $6 trillion.
00:18:32.880 So Reason Magazine comes out, and they think the deficit, this year, will be $1.9 trillion with the full carrying cost on it.
00:18:43.080 We're going to get to more of that.
00:18:44.980 I want to go to the managing editor of Red State, wrote a blockbuster expose, I guess you would call it the other day, Jennifer Van Laar.
00:18:51.940 And Jennifer is going to be at AmFest, I want to announce, and she will be a guest on the show either sometime Monday or Tuesday.
00:18:59.100 We'll make sure that we track her down.
00:19:01.620 Jennifer, you've put out another, and let me know, the crack production team, when we have the clip, because I want to make sure, you know, I got lit up yesterday, not just by our audience, and that's fine.
00:19:13.140 Hey, the war room, we're all family.
00:19:14.840 I got it, right?
00:19:16.320 I got lit up yesterday, but also by some people in the conservative movement that, you know, should know better.
00:19:22.220 As I've gotten all the people on here, and the morning show was, you know, and Ronna said she was a punching bag. 0.98
00:19:27.640 I mean, we had Kurt Schlichter, and we had Amanda Milius, and baby, they can deliver it. 0.98
00:19:33.520 They can give it.
00:19:34.160 They can punch her. 1.00
00:19:35.080 Kurt was in Nevada.
00:19:37.560 He went out there, and he had a lot to say about that.
00:19:40.100 Amanda is kind of from Nevada now. 0.98
00:19:42.800 She's an L.A. kid, but she's spent a lot of time in Nevada.
00:19:45.620 Plus, she knows a lot about the RNC.
00:19:48.160 She was in the White House for President Trump, and they gave it, and we're polite.
00:19:51.840 We asked tough questions like we asked of you the other day, and we let Ronna, and Ronna, and now Mediite saying Ronna committed to do a debate with Harmeet and Mike Lindell to the one.
00:20:03.260 I'm not sure I quite interpreted it.
00:20:05.420 I didn't quite interpret it like that, but hey, if Mediite, they're one of the biggest sites out there.
00:20:10.020 If the guys at Mediite, I think it's Kip Jones.
00:20:12.060 I think it is.
00:20:12.620 If Mediite saying it, hey, I'm all good.
00:20:14.180 I didn't quite hear it that way, but when you play it again and you see it typed up, maybe, but it gets back to what Ronna said, and she had, you know, Susie Wiles has done a fantastic job.
00:20:28.420 She won Florida for us in 2016.
00:20:30.920 You remember we replaced the person that was there with Susie, did a fantastic job.
00:20:38.880 Susie's now essentially chief of staff, I guess you'd call her. 0.97
00:20:41.600 She put out a statement, but your article, and I just want to make sure we have categorization, because Ronna, if we can get that, just let me know when it's, you heard what I heard.
00:20:52.680 She came out and said, hey, look, there's been a misunderstanding, right?
00:20:57.420 The contextualized has been misunderstanding, and that misunderstanding is that the jets, the limos, and particularly the tchotchkes, right?
00:21:06.340 The $17 million for the donors, that's all basically supporting Trump and the Trump White House, and very specifically, the $17 million was to pay for 13 Christmas parties per year for four years, plus three Hanukkah parties.
00:21:23.940 And in addition, the congressional, you know, picnic, the Easter egg roll, and other sort of things related to the White House that the government can't pay for.
00:21:33.780 In addition, Air Force One.
00:21:35.520 But I want to start the $17 million.
00:21:37.280 Now, your article today takes, you don't agree with that, and I want to make sure you have time to lay out, because you're the person that's gone through the numbers.
00:21:45.680 Lay out your assessment of that.
00:21:47.640 So, on $17 million, there are some expenditures in there for, like, the White House Historical Association.
00:21:56.820 I've got this up on my screen.
00:21:59.640 For donor mementos, they paid $2 million to various federal government entities, like the White House Historical Association, the White House Gift Shop, the Executive Office of the President, that kind of thing.
00:22:15.180 They also paid $1.6 million, or $1.675,000 in event production.
00:22:21.740 So, that's not even, that was not included in the $17 million, because event production is a different category.
00:22:27.880 Then they also paid $3.447 million for event production slash staging.
00:22:33.840 I don't know what the difference between those two are.
00:22:36.020 They seem to have a lot of categories.
00:22:37.760 So, that's $4 million, $5 million that they've spent for event production.
00:22:45.280 That could be what she's referring to with the Christmas parties, the Hanukkah parties, and that kind of thing.
00:22:49.980 But that is not included in the $17 million.
00:22:53.620 The $2 million of donor mementos.
00:22:55.340 Hang on.
00:22:55.860 So, that's $15 million still.
00:22:57.820 Slow down.
00:22:58.500 Okay, sorry.
00:22:59.440 Hang on.
00:22:59.920 Hang on.
00:23:00.320 No, I just want to make sure we can keep this clear.
00:23:02.380 So, what you just announced, what went to the Park Service, or went to the government entities, what went to the production staging, whatever you call it, all that aggregates up to over $5 million, correct?
00:23:16.160 $6 million, roughly, my math.
00:23:18.580 Some more in there, yeah.
00:23:19.660 I would say I'm a writer, not an mathematician.
00:23:22.880 You're not doing bad on math.
00:23:24.680 Not doing bad on math.
00:23:25.940 Big shout out for Red State, for the managing editor.
00:23:28.000 Normally, managing editors, people should know, are kind of, you know, yelling at people for not, their reporters for not having it, right?
00:23:33.860 You actually roll your sleeves up.
00:23:37.040 You're saying that those are charges that are there on the FEC reports, but what you're saying, that is not included in the $17 million, correct?
00:23:46.920 That is, those are side pockets or other categorizations, ma'am?
00:23:51.480 That's other categorizations of event planning and staging.
00:23:54.460 So, why would she say, did the staff not brief her properly?
00:24:00.100 Because you're saying, essentially, she was wrong, in so many words, right?
00:24:05.180 That's what the records I'm looking at say.
00:24:07.500 I hate ever, like, saying that someone, you know, went out and intentionally said something that's not correct.
00:24:14.780 But according to the records that I'm looking at, that's a separate item, and that is not within the $17 million.
00:24:20.400 But the $2 million to the White House gift shop, that kind of thing, that was included in my 17, 17.1 calculation.
00:24:29.000 So, even if you take that out, that's still $15 million.
00:24:32.080 Okay, fine.
00:24:32.940 So, she's correct in that the RNC does have, it looks like, support for President Trump's White House, whether these parties, events, whatever.
00:24:42.720 She's correct in that.
00:24:45.440 Yes.
00:24:45.560 But you did not really include that in the 17 million, maybe $2 million to the White House gift shop, and we'll put a pin in that.
00:24:52.340 But $15 million is not, as you can see the FEC reports, are not tied to support of Trump's White House.
00:25:02.580 Is that a correct statement?
00:25:05.320 Generally, yes.
00:25:06.160 And I had said on Twitter yesterday, there's about $500,000 in other donor memento expenses, one to an Anne Hand company, which she's a jeweler that makes these pins that they give away as commemorative pins, and then Beacon Designs that does the White House Christmas ornament.
00:25:24.440 So, they maybe do other Christmas ornaments, too.
00:25:27.560 So, there were some expenditures there that total of about $500,000.
00:25:31.840 So, that could have been at Trump's direction, too.
00:25:37.300 Okay.
00:25:37.780 The reason this is important, and I'm not trying to nitpick, right, because you said that they've raised $1.5 billion, there is this issue of transparency, this issue of communication with people, this issue of not simply the 168, but the little guys that are a big bulk.
00:25:55.360 Remember, the donors and the big donors do put in a lot of money, but still the bulk of this stuff, particularly the Trump stuff, and that joint venture with Trump, is the little guys.
00:26:04.080 This audience hit them with $50, right?
00:26:06.600 Or like my dad used to, you know, hit them with $100, right?
00:26:09.640 It's the little guys.
00:26:10.780 And that needs to be transparent.
00:26:12.240 And these numbers aren't big on a relative basis for the money raised, but on an absolute basis, obviously, it's gotten people's attention.
00:26:21.060 And it's not just that.
00:26:22.280 It's about communications.
00:26:23.440 And so, your article today is saying, hey, hard $15 million is just not correct.
00:26:30.440 Tell you what, let's take a commercial break.
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00:27:01.860 I mean, there's ample time to reach out and say, what is this?
00:27:10.020 The building expenses.
00:27:11.600 Yes, we have security in front of our building.
00:27:13.360 You know why?
00:27:13.880 Because there was a bomb in front of our building on January 6th, which a lot of people forget.
00:27:17.640 But that was the first thing that happened that day was a bomb right outside the RNC, which, by the way, they've never caught the perpetrator of that.
00:27:25.180 Yeah, I'm going to make sure my staff's secure.
00:27:27.840 Everybody should be doing that.
00:27:29.220 And, again, the vast majority of those expenses were support of the White House and President Trump.
00:27:35.240 So, you know, Harmeet sits on exec committee.
00:27:37.660 She votes on these budgets.
00:27:38.780 We file an FEC report every single month.
00:27:41.520 She had ample opportunity to ask these questions and clarify.
00:27:44.680 And I think that's what's upsetting to members of the 168 who are grassroots.
00:27:48.580 These are not Washington insiders.
00:27:50.640 These are door knockers.
00:27:52.120 These are people who are volunteers.
00:27:53.860 They give to their state.
00:27:54.820 They're elected at conventions.
00:27:57.140 We'll get into the – by the way, did you go back to them with the second report and ask them for any clarification?
00:28:02.860 Or are you guys just at war now?
00:28:04.240 So you're just going to drop it and they get to deal with it?
00:28:06.480 Is that where we are, Red State?
00:28:07.780 Is that where we are, Red State?
00:28:08.600 Well, I mean, hopefully we're not at war.
00:28:10.140 I mean, we don't want to be at war with the RNC.
00:28:12.160 We want to have things working well and we want Republicans being elected.
00:28:16.700 And so, no, I did not go back to them because I was actually replying to emails that she and Glenn McCall sent to the 168 and got leaked to everyone in the media.
00:28:26.700 I'm sure you've seen both of the emails, too.
00:28:29.040 And so I felt like I needed to respond to that.
00:28:31.500 And so I don't think that requires any contact.
00:28:33.400 Let me just make an observation.
00:28:35.760 You're at war.
00:28:36.860 I'm just throwing that out there.
00:28:38.980 Just understand that.
00:28:41.860 So you saw right there.
00:28:43.160 I want to go back to the – and I'm not trying to nitpick here, but I want to go back to the jets, the private jets situation.
00:28:51.780 She said that that was all to underwrite their personnel on the Air Force One.
00:28:57.280 And people should understand that.
00:28:58.560 When you have people on Air Force One, you've got to pay for them, right?
00:29:01.380 The people that work for the government on Trump's staff and in the White House and Congress, they get to go.
00:29:06.880 But other people, you've got to – I think it's equivalent to a first-class ticket.
00:29:10.500 Also, any food you get on there for anybody has got to be paid for.
00:29:12.920 So there's no freebies.
00:29:15.300 What about the $3 million for the jets?
00:29:17.440 Is that – is there another category for what they put in for Air Force One?
00:29:22.520 So what I did was I went through their travel expenses.
00:29:25.640 They have them categorized both as transportation, services, and travel expenses.
00:29:31.260 And I only counted up the ones that were not things that, like, paying the government for flights.
00:29:38.020 So they did pay over $2 million over Ronna McDaniel's tenure to federal government agencies for travel expenses.
00:29:46.020 But the $3.1 million that I calculated were to private jet charter services, like NetJet, like exclusive charter services, that kind of thing.
00:29:57.260 Merlin Aviation, Advanced Aviation.
00:29:59.780 It wasn't the federal government.
00:30:01.300 And it wasn't travel expenses to candidates either because that was categorized separately.
00:30:05.400 Okay, so she is right in that there was money that the RNC raised and paid to support Trump's White House and Trump's program.
00:30:15.380 That's not included.
00:30:16.620 But the big miss is that – and hey, no offense.
00:30:20.640 Their staff – and this may speak to bigger issues.
00:30:24.060 Her staff should have told her that.
00:30:25.700 That's not good.
00:30:26.780 That's not a – that's not – and maybe she comes back and says, hey, I'm sure they're going to come back and say,
00:30:32.280 Jennifer has no earthly idea what she's talking about.
00:30:36.160 But as you laid it out today, it's a new Red State piece.
00:30:40.060 You're saying, yes, she did – they did – RNC did support both the White House parties, these things, and they supported them on the flights.
00:30:49.140 But those were in different buckets, and you didn't include that.
00:30:52.540 So the 3.1 in the 17 – why is this a big deal, do you believe?
00:30:58.100 Because Red State is probably as grassroots as you can get.
00:31:02.280 Why do you think this is important for the people that are not in the 168?
00:31:07.180 That the people that actually – of the 1.5 billion, I'll guarantee you half of that or more came from the little guy.
00:31:16.000 Right.
00:31:16.220 How did the – why is that important to them, ma'am?
00:31:18.440 Well, like Ronna said, they're not in Washington.
00:31:22.340 They're all around the country.
00:31:23.660 And, you know, I'm not in Washington either.
00:31:25.460 And I've been doing grassroots work in this party for over 20 years, both in North Carolina, back on the Dole for Senate campaign, and here in California,
00:31:34.460 was one of the very underpaid people that got Steve Knight elected to Congress in 2014, despite being outspent 4 to 1.
00:31:41.960 And so I resent any characterization she has about grassroots work and that.
00:31:47.480 And Red State's readers are grassroots.
00:31:49.460 They're around the country.
00:31:50.720 I received an email from one woman this morning, Marcia, and she's in her 60s. 0.84
00:31:56.820 A stock clerk in the grocery store makes $20 an hour.
00:31:59.640 And she thanked me for this work because she wants there to be stewardship over this money she worked very hard for and still sends money to Republican candidates.
00:32:09.680 And a lot of the people that read Red State hugely support President Trump.
00:32:14.180 They sent in lots of money after the 2020 election.
00:32:17.360 And we did a huge series on how they could not have won honestly, how the Biden administration could not have won honestly, going precinct by precinct, pointing out all of the problems and just the statistical anomalies.
00:32:31.640 And so these people gave to the RNC, believing they were going to fight for Trump, and then to have it spent at West Elm and Pottery Barn instead of going to something that really can help.
00:32:42.500 Like, we're in a battle for this country, for its existence and survival.
00:32:47.320 We don't have even $100 to waste.
00:32:51.380 Do you think – I know you've got to go.
00:32:53.120 You're going to AmFest, and Jennifer is going to join us in studio at AmFest on Monday.
00:32:58.280 Jennifer, do you think that given the size of money that was raised and the types of resources they had to put to work, do you believe you're nitpicking them?
00:33:06.120 Do you think that this is – you're getting into micro details that are an overall grand picture and not important?
00:33:12.500 Or do you believe that this work had to be done and it's got to be not just accounted for, but it's got to be defended?
00:33:18.100 I believe that it's crucial work, and I believe there's probably a lot more waste because I've been able to really go through all 140,000 transactions with a fine-toothed comb.
00:33:28.720 But it's over $6 million of waste that I identified in the first piece.
00:33:33.160 And one national committee person told me, we sent California so much money this cycle.
00:33:38.520 We sent them $6 million.
00:33:40.160 So if it's a lot of money to be able to – that's what you send to an entire state, then, yeah, we need to be not – it's not nitpicky to bring up if it's being wasted.
00:33:50.220 Jennifer, if we could get somebody from the RNC maybe in studio on Monday or maybe when we get back sometime next week, would you be open to – I asked this question to Rana about Harmeet and Lindell.
00:34:04.000 But if we could get a financial person on and do the show and go through this stuff and they could pick out where you're wrong and you could pick out where they're hiding stuff, in your opinion, would you be open to that?
00:34:14.380 Yeah, I want them to give me the information before we go on so I can review it.
00:34:19.980 But absolutely.
00:34:22.320 Jennifer, what's your – how do people get to Red State?
00:34:24.920 It's one of the great grassroots publications out there, news sites.
00:34:28.420 How do people get to it and how do people follow you on social media?
00:34:31.940 Redstate.com and on Twitter at Jen Van Laar, V-A-N-L-A-A-R, and Getter and Truth Social as well.
00:34:39.660 Jen Van Laar, Managing Editor, Red State, thank you very much for taking time away when you should be heading towards AmFest.
00:34:47.200 We'll see you out there.
00:34:48.340 See you there.
00:34:49.660 Thank you, ma'am.
00:34:53.580 We're going to get more into this.
00:34:54.900 And by the way, Breitbart, the great Matt Boyle, and Matt had – Tucker was his mentor, Andrew was his mentor, and I was his mentor.
00:35:04.860 He is, I think, the single best reporter, at least conservative reporter, I think top two or three in all of D.C.
00:35:14.260 He's got an incredible interview with President Trump that only a guy like Matt Boyle can do.
00:35:23.420 And I've got it up on my Getter account.
00:35:27.120 Whatever, you should go to Breitbart and read it.
00:35:29.140 President Trump comes out and endorses McCarthy.
00:35:31.220 So, you know, some things you've got to live with, some things you can put your two cents in and say, hey, maybe we let this thing play out.
00:35:39.100 But President Trump makes it pretty straightforward.
00:35:42.540 And I think this gives substance to the New York Times article that came out earlier in the week said he was whipping for McCarthy.
00:35:48.300 But I want everybody to read that and to chew on it and come to your own assessment.
00:35:52.700 But I've got it up on – I've got it up on Getter, but you can go right to the Breitbart site under Matt Boyle.
00:35:57.600 I think it's up at the top of their page.
00:35:59.680 I've got Rebecca Koffler and Ben Harnwell.
00:36:03.660 In your life, for the audience and for the direction of the country, this whole situation of getting sucked in – because this is like – this is starting to feel like the 1930s.
00:36:15.760 And what I mean by the 1930s, you're going to have a number of governments and leaders that in hindsight and in the long view of history made every bad decision they could possibly make that eventually the world got sucked into a large kinetic conflict, the Second World War, given all the horror that they saw in the First World War.
00:36:38.820 But the Second World War is different.
00:36:42.180 It's like you're inexorably drawn to this massive conflict.
00:36:48.720 We're on that path right now.
00:36:50.720 You can see it clear as day.
00:36:51.980 And you can see what's happening is because the ruling elites of our country in coordination with the ruling elites of Europe and Brussels and the City of London and the World Economic Forum are making one horrible decision after the other.
00:37:13.760 And we are on a world stage against very smart, very tough, very dangerous people.
00:37:21.040 The people in Tehran are smart, tough, and dangerous.
00:37:24.940 Don't think – these people dismiss our enemies as stupid or they are not.
00:37:29.360 These guys are going to the top universities.
00:37:31.120 It's like they are tough and they're smart.
00:37:34.020 At the KGB in Moscow, they're tough and they're smart.
00:37:37.520 In Beijing, they don't come any tougher and any smarter.
00:37:40.260 However, we have world-class enemies, and those world-class enemies are making massive moves right now.
00:37:47.440 And you have a feckless and hapless regime in charge here in Washington, D.C. that's all about escalation for some unknown reason.
00:37:56.760 All about escalation.
00:37:58.640 And they're having moves made on this.
00:38:01.140 There's an announcement today I want to bring in Rebecca Koffler. 1.00
00:38:03.500 Rebecca, you've got a story we'll get into maybe on Monday or Tuesday why the CIA is not going to assassinate Putin.
00:38:10.840 They're too busy plotting assassination.
00:38:13.220 Oh, that's a topic for another day from Kennedy to Nixon to Trump.
00:38:19.120 But I've got to ask you about Putin in Iran because you're seeing the moves that China is making with Iran.
00:38:24.980 You're seeing the moves China is making in the Gulf.
00:38:26.780 Walk me through the importance for the United States of America of a Putin, KGB, Moscow, Tehran, Mullahs, hardwired military alliance, ma'am.
00:38:40.400 Yes, Steve.
00:38:41.620 This strategic partnership between Moscow and Tehran presents a strategic threat to the United States. 0.93
00:38:50.540 And unfortunately, our Washington establishment, quote-unquote experts, are pursuing a nonsensical and even schizophrenic policy.
00:39:02.760 They're right now all focused on Ukraine, right?
00:39:06.160 And we're pumping in billions of dollars into Ukraine.
00:39:12.320 We have provided now over 50% of Ukraine's GDP, okay, about $100 billion.
00:39:24.780 And comparatively, in 20 years, we provided in Afghanistan $2.2 trillion.
00:39:33.920 So we're already in 10 months provided more than we provided in 10 years in Afghanistan.
00:39:38.900 And more people are killed right now, the Ukrainians, about 140,000, right?
00:39:47.980 And comparatively, in Afghanistan, 6,000 Americans were killed.
00:39:53.420 But instead of focusing on the strategic picture, which is the threat that presented to the United States by the Iran-Moscow partnership,
00:40:06.080 they're focused on Ukraine and are worried about how many drones, how many ballistic missiles could Iran provide to Ukraine.
00:40:14.840 Well, what we should be worried about, the nuclear know-how provided by Russia, which has the world's largest nuclear arsenal and the most robust and in-depth know-how in the world.
00:40:29.960 How about we pay attention to that?
00:40:33.020 And yet, you know, they are completely illogical.
00:40:37.000 So, on the one hand, you know, Millie is great.
00:40:40.680 Rebecca, hang on one second.
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00:41:58.340 Germany, the German people, looks like a lot of them had a belly full of this. 1.00
00:42:02.300 Talk to us about what's going on.
00:42:04.560 Good afternoon, Steve.
00:42:05.560 Well, the story of this weekend is really one of protests and strikes.
00:42:12.000 We've had protests throughout continental Europe over today and yesterday.
00:42:16.560 We've had protests, some 15,000 people protesting in Brussels, the capital of the European Union.
00:42:24.560 And the footage here is from Brussels.
00:42:27.820 There are tens of thousands of people out protesting in Berlin.
00:42:32.780 And essentially, the gripe is the same.
00:42:35.520 With the massive hit that incomes have taken due to inflation and the cost of living crisis,
00:42:43.520 people cannot afford to live.
00:42:45.720 These are people on basically on union incomes, fixed incomes, that is to say,
00:42:50.980 that don't respond to fluctuations in the market.
00:42:53.520 And this whole section of society has been cut out.
00:42:58.660 Those are the strikes that we've been talking about.
00:43:01.180 Protests, however, we've had protests not only in continental Europe, Steve,
00:43:06.800 but Jordan and Bangladesh.
00:43:09.420 And there's an election, a general election in Tunisia today,
00:43:12.800 where the cost of living crisis, here's Berlin, right?
00:43:15.720 The cost of living crisis in Tunisia is the primary issue on the agenda.
00:43:21.000 So these are all consequences that arise out of the decisions our various governments have taken,
00:43:28.880 specifically to do with their support and their constant support of President Zelensky in Ukraine.
00:43:37.140 There's a huge article today.
00:43:39.000 I think it's NBC talking about, or CNN talking about people starting,
00:43:43.380 you know, there's still huge support in the United States among the political elite.
00:43:46.240 But that buried down about 20 paragraphs, they're saying that Europe is starting to have second thoughts.
00:43:52.520 They don't know really if they have the cash, the open checkbook to keep shoveling cash into Ukraine.
00:43:57.660 Give us your assessment of that.
00:43:59.620 That's absolutely right.
00:44:00.360 And if you listen to what these protesters are saying on the streets,
00:44:03.800 they're explicitly citing the amount of money going through to Ukraine that's leaving this country,
00:44:10.160 or whichever country protesters will be talking about without the basic funds to continue essential services.
00:44:18.620 So people are making the absolute connection.
00:44:21.260 I have to say, however, against what I've just said,
00:44:24.960 the one country where people aren't making that direct parallel just yet is Italy.
00:44:29.180 And I think the reason because of that is here in Rome, we've had an extremely mild winter.
00:44:34.900 Whereas if you head towards the north of continental Europe, you know, I spent five years in Brussels.
00:44:42.160 The winters there are absolutely blisteringly cold.
00:44:45.760 They'll peel the skin off the back of your knuckles.
00:44:48.540 People there are saying, why are we sending so much money through to Ukraine when we need money here in this country?
00:44:55.560 And this is the thing I think what we're seeing here in continental Europe,
00:44:59.220 we're going to start seeing ever more explicitly in the United States too.
00:45:03.400 Because it's the same motivation.
00:45:05.900 And if people don't have, you know, you can push people and browbeat people and gaslight them and say,
00:45:11.660 you know, you have a vital national interest in supporting President Zelensky.
00:45:16.680 And they'll just get bombarded with propaganda and they won't know they're left on the right.
00:45:22.020 But one thing that they will know is when they don't have the money to put down,
00:45:25.880 to put food down for their kids and they can't afford to put the central heating on.
00:45:30.460 That is something that no amount of government lies can deceive people's tensions on.
00:45:35.140 And they can't pay the heating bill.
00:45:36.080 I mean, here we're having an explosion on the southern border.
00:45:38.500 Ben, how do people get to you and how do they get to your daily show?
00:45:43.140 Thanks, Steve.
00:45:43.660 It's on my Ghetto profile, at Harnwell.
00:45:48.820 There we go.
00:45:50.280 The programme that we do there comes out with English subtitles the day after on my personal feed.
00:45:57.080 We're working on, you can, but folks, go to it now.
00:46:00.400 Register for it now.
00:46:01.260 It's at War Room Rome.
00:46:03.160 If you go to that, you'll get the live broadcast in the original Italian as it goes out the very day that we do it.
00:46:10.660 So those are the two accounts, at War Room Rome for Italian and my own feed, which I'm updating constantly, at Harnwell.
00:46:19.980 Ben Harnwell, thank you for joining us.
00:46:21.620 Appreciate it.
00:46:22.920 Thanks, Steve.
00:46:23.380 Rebecca, you see the United States, the leaders of our regime are in the escalation camp.
00:46:29.640 People throughout the world, particularly in Europe, are saying, hey, how are we going to pay for this whole thing?
00:46:33.520 You're starting to get that here.
00:46:34.540 That's one of the big debates that's going to take place.
00:46:36.380 This is why they're tucking the $37 billion into the omnibus bill.
00:46:41.440 Give us a couple of minutes here.
00:46:42.520 We'll hold you through the break.
00:46:44.040 What's your assessment right now?
00:46:45.620 Or more importantly, Russia was supposed to be defeated six months ago.
00:46:49.340 It looks like they're not.
00:46:50.460 What's the current strategic assessment of Ukraine-Russia?
00:46:53.380 There's no amount of money, either American or European, that's going to defeat Putin.
00:47:01.560 Unfortunately, Steve, the Biden administration has decided to use Ukrainians as cannon fodder to defeat Putin.
00:47:12.920 You know, 140,000 Ukrainians are either dead or injured.
00:47:18.180 And this war is going to continue on and on.
00:47:21.580 We are on the escalatory path because Putin is not going to give up control of Ukraine because it's his version of the Monroe Doctrine.
00:47:32.000 And so we would be doing the same and we would be using everything, including nuclear weapons, to prevent China, Russia or Iran to encroach upon our territory.
00:47:42.540 And so, unfortunately, the Biden administration is pursuing a schizophrenic policy.
00:47:48.960 On the one hand, General Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has stated about three to four weeks ago that the military path to Ukrainian victory is unachievable.
00:48:01.920 On the other hand, they're continuing pumping in money and they're continuing lying to the American people that they are protecting democracy in Ukraine.
00:48:11.540 It's a complete nonsense because President Zelensky is just like Putin.
00:48:17.500 He has outlawed all opposition.
00:48:20.240 It's not a democracy.
00:48:21.480 He also is using KGB tactics right now to raid churches, to prevent orthodox churches in Ukraine, who are ostensibly robbering citizens.
00:48:37.720 That is nothing.
00:48:39.820 Hang on one second.
00:48:41.320 We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:48:42.680 Rebecca Koffler.
00:48:43.540 We've got our own Natalie Winters who's going to join us. 0.99
00:48:47.860 Also, Jeff Shepard about the judiciary removing presidents from office.
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