Pro-Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil have been out in the streets for almost three months to protest the election of Jair Bolsonaro, a man who is on his way to becoming the next president of Brazil.
00:00:00.000He was also strategizing with Steve Bannon and former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller.
00:00:06.000In late November, Eduardo Bolsonaro tweeted this video of Bannon speaking at CPAC Mexico.
00:00:15.080Look in the streets of Brazil. Look at the great patriots in Brazil that had a lot of danger to themselves have come forward in the streets of Brazil.
00:00:24.500And quite frankly, as much as I love the Bolsonaro's and Eduardo, I think, is going to speak tomorrow.
00:00:28.800And there's no better man on this globe than Eduardo Bolsonaro or his father.
00:00:33.580In Brazil, it's gone beyond the Bolsonaro's. This is the people saying, no, you didn't follow the Constitution.
00:00:39.300You use these machines, use the judiciary to shut us down in the media, and we're not going to tolerate it.
00:00:44.920It's going to be very interesting to see how that plays out. Same in the United States.
00:00:48.920You know, the people like Carrie Lake are not going to give up.
00:00:51.160And I use as a warning in the great fight that you guys have in front of you, both for the cultural issues,
00:00:56.900for the political issues and the economic issues, once they start taking and digitizing the elections,
00:01:04.660once they start going to machines where you can't get paper ballot, you don't have proof of ID,
00:01:09.280you take it away from the precincts and they start to centralize it in collection centers.
00:03:52.260Now, we actually, after 240 years of exporting democracy from this country,
00:03:58.480Jeffersonian democracy from this country around the world.
00:04:01.160Well, we're now with through Donald Trump, we've we've we've got people exporting fascism, election denialism,
00:04:10.740hatred of the press, hatred of the courts, all the things that Bannon was saying right there and that that the people of Brazil picked up on.
00:04:18.180Well, let's be very clear about what you say, CPAC and other pro-Trump organizations are promoting.
00:06:38.300This is the guy that Michael Bloomberg flew to Singapore a couple of years ago and introduced him at the Bloomberg Conference in Singapore and said,
00:06:44.740this is the most powerful and most important guy in the world.
00:06:48.580He was hanging out with Lula just a couple of days ago down there plotting exactly how they're essentially going to make Brazil living space for resources for the Chinese Communist Party.
00:07:00.560And the people in Brazil, what they want, they want answers to the audit that the constitutionally required that the military did.
00:07:08.980I got Jack Posobiec on Taiwan in the Ukraine.
00:07:14.000We got Steve Cortez, big editorial in the Washington Post this morning by two deadbeats from, guess what, the Bush administration calling for massive increased involvement in the Ukraine.
00:07:34.700We're going to explain it all to you, at least give the information you make decisions.
00:07:37.640Morning Mika failed to talk about our exercise in democracy last week.
00:07:41.040We had a great exercise in democracy where we thwarted the cartel.
00:07:45.540We could have put them out of business or at least ahead of the apparatus out of business, but weren't able to pull it off at the 11th hour, but got a lot of wins.
00:07:55.540Today, there's a lot of consternation of Nancy Mace, Tony Gonzalez, and some of these moderates are going to support the rules package.
00:08:28.260Take out a number two pencil and just jot down some notes.
00:08:31.400If you had followed the show closely on Brazil over the last couple of months and if MSNBC had had the guts, you would have seen the million people in the streets.
00:08:40.380Matthew Tierman, I want to go back in time because this talks about democracy.
00:08:45.960Democracy only works when you have transparent, free, and fair elections.
00:09:12.380You've got to start running interference for that one right now because Jim Jordan is coming for you.
00:09:16.240But to get to the bottom of January 6th, you've got to get to the bottom of 3 November.
00:09:21.100We ought to have national – we ought to have congressional investigation and full testimony by both sides, bringing the guys to say, no, this election is fine because we've never heard on MSNBC actually batting back any of the actual facts of the case.
00:09:38.620We want the Morning Mika crowd, particularly Mika who kind of runs the show, take out your number two pencil, get your paper and pad, and just jot down some notes here.
00:09:46.440But Tierman, go back in time for me from the first round and the second round, the massive issues that you showed.
00:09:53.100They turned up in the military's constitutionally required audit, which they said they couldn't finish, sir.
00:10:01.240Well, first, great point on the weaponization of government.
00:10:31.920They live under a judicial tyranny, an autocracy of judges who were not elected, but they were appointed by politicians.
00:10:39.260And, obviously, the greatest example is Lula appointed many of them, and they let him out of prison.
00:10:45.360Edson Foxheen is a Supreme Court justice on the Supreme Court, the STF, who signed him out of prison so he could run,
00:10:54.220and annulled and vacated his judgments and sentences and expunged his record in violation of the public act on those who have felonies, cannot run for public office.
00:11:07.400It's absolutely gross what's going on there.
00:11:10.300And where's Morning Mika and Joe when they talk about fascism, fascism, fascism?
00:11:15.980Yesterday, in the press conference that Lula gave ad hoc in his, you know, cigar roller shirt, he's a man of the people,
00:11:24.440he said, these fascists, these thugs, these Stalinists.
00:28:22.420It was billions of dollar cut to defense, which I think is a horrible idea.
00:28:28.260When you have aggressive Russia in Ukraine, you've got a growing threat of China in the Pacific.
00:28:34.620You know, I'm going to visit Taiwan here in a couple weeks.
00:28:36.900How am I going to look at our allies in the eye and say, I need you to increase your defense budget, but yet America is going to decrease ours?
00:28:44.460That's the dumbest – okay, dude, you've got to be more sophisticated in unrestricted warfare about how we're going to fight this conflict.
00:28:53.240It can't just be continue to fund the defense industry on kinetic warfare.
00:28:57.780If we've got to match up against the world on kinetic warfare, we're not going to win.
00:29:02.360You've got to cut the defense budget, but you need to get into unrestricted warfare, okay, just like the CCP does.
00:29:09.880Terman and James Erhol are going to give back to Brazil.
00:29:12.600So in Brazil, just remember, one of the central tenets of these communist regimes is legitimacy, legitimacy.
00:29:21.200They have to be able to prove, given everything they're going to do to people, that they're legitimate.
00:29:24.560This is why Juan Xishan, for the last couple of years, has been kind of maniacally focused on this issue because they understand internally the CCP is quite shaky.
00:29:33.980This is what the connect is with Lula.
00:29:36.380Lula, if you want to solve all the problems, just open up the machines.
00:29:39.320Just go back to the report of the military in the audit, the constitutionally required audit.
00:29:44.600Look at the report, the code, the tabulator, the machines.
00:30:01.660Well, he's not voting for the – understand the rules.
00:30:04.320We're getting into a dogfight today on Capitol Hill with our exercise in democracy last week, which we had him at 1030 at night, 1130 at night.
00:30:12.860We had him exactly where we wanted him, and I don't want to talk about interventions, but people are bragging about it.
00:30:18.940Well, I'll have more about the thing about that later.
00:30:20.900I said it on the John Frederick's radio show.
00:30:22.940It is what it is, but now is there a real deal?
00:30:47.300So brand-new op-ed in the Amazon Washington Post, the Jeff Bezos Washington Post, from none other than Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates.
00:30:56.720Condoleezza Rice, of course, Bush's national security advisor and secretary of state.
00:31:00.920Robert Gates, secretary of defense for Obama.
00:31:04.180So you really couldn't come up with two better examples, exhibit A and exhibit B, of the failure of the foreign policy establishment of the United States that dragged America into constant wars that served well the defense contractors, served well the power of the Washington Beltway, but were disastrous for the world and particularly disastrous for middle America.
00:31:25.240By the way, speaking of that disaster, let me just give you quickly a few of the stats.
00:31:28.040These are from Brown University, believe it or not, from an Ivy League school.
00:31:31.380They do a very good investigation of the costs of war, both the financial and the human costs in their Watson Institute.
00:31:36.920They said that in total, the wars that were created by these two, by Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates, who are now lecturing to us that we need to escalate Ukraine.
00:31:45.160Over 7,000 Americans killed, more than that killed if you include contractors, more than double that amount, in fact.
00:31:51.860But in terms of regular uniformed military, over 7,000 killed.
00:32:01.720And, of course, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of veterans who are wounded for life, whether it's physically or mentally.
00:32:08.680Our partners in the war, mainly Afghan and Iraqis who were fighting alongside us, 177,000 killed, according to Brown University.
00:32:17.380And that's not counting the hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of civilians killed.
00:32:21.200So that is the human toll of the disastrous mistakes of Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates.
00:32:27.340And yet they have the temerity to come to the United States and to write this op-ed before the American people and put it in the Washington Post and advocate for a massive further escalation.
00:32:36.540Forget about what we've already done to escalate this war.
00:32:40.660And, Steve, one final point on the financial cost of what we're already doing in Ukraine, even without this escalation that they're proposing.
00:32:46.840We are now spending, as a country, just the United States in Ukraine, a country thousands of miles away that does not matter to us strategically nor economically.
00:32:55.300We are now spending more, significantly more, than the entire defense budget of Russia, our adversary in this war.
00:33:02.160We are spending more than Russia is spending on what should be a regional conflict in Ukraine.
00:33:17.200Let me play the cold open for Russ's vote and just give me a thumbs up when he's up.
00:33:21.440Go ahead and play the Bloomberg package.
00:33:22.880The focus for you, I know, is in Mexico City and for perhaps Joe Biden, but for everybody else, people want to understand what the aftermath is from the C-SPAN ratings bonanza, which has been the negotiations over the Speaker of the House.
00:33:35.900There is a question of what the ramifications are for some of the concessions that we saw from Kevin McCarthy in order to get to become the House Speaker.
00:33:45.600What is the sort of projection of what this gridlock will look like, the internecine gridlock among Republicans?
00:33:52.880Well, you could even talk to Republicans like Representative Gonzalez, who on Face the Nation over the weekend talked about the fact that C-SPAN ratings is going to continue.
00:34:02.960Even little procedural, I would call maybe the plumbing of Congress, the plumbing of democracy, electing a speaker.
00:34:10.160They're going to have a vote on the House rules.
00:34:12.460All of this usually just evaporates from the headlines and it's pretty much American public ignores it.
00:34:19.120Now, this is prime time, days spent on this and the next big fight.
00:34:24.120I mean, we should note they're meeting at 10, some of these GOP leaders to discuss who's going to get top positions on committees and who is also going to staff those committees.
00:35:44.220A lot of the 72 hours to read a bill is in there.
00:35:46.560But a lot of these things are the decisions that the steering committee makes to execute the agreements to put people on rules committee and things like that.
00:35:59.180And the quality of the people who then get those slots is how this is going to actually be a force multiplier for the underlying underpinnings of a transformational agreement.
00:36:12.360And it's really important as well that the members themselves begin to act muscularly as if they are part of a coalition government and to make decisions based on that and not them being previously rank-and-file members.
00:36:25.820That's my biggest concern over the next 24 to 48 hours.
00:36:42.940And I want to make sure that the next 10 or 30 or the next 10 makes that 20 number 30 so that the size of coalition government continues to increase week in, week out.
00:36:53.880That'll make it so that the moderates get back in their lane and just ensure that they're part of their rank-and-file member now to make sure that they vote for what the team does and let these things play out.
00:37:04.540I love the fact that people are tuning in to C-SPAN.
00:37:35.080We'll get into the 20 – and Politico has got a magnificent story from Rachel Bade up that I put on Getter called The 28 Minutes That Saved McCarthy's Speakership.
00:37:44.120What happened basically around 11 o'clock on Friday night that included the kind of fracas or fist fight, whatever you want to call it.
00:38:08.560And then what has to happen to make sure it's fully executed of the quote-unquote deal that's on the table, sir?
00:38:16.040Well, to be clear, we wouldn't be in this position without those 20 heroes.
00:38:19.180So they deserve all the praise for achieving what I think is a historic agreement.
00:38:24.520And I love people who think we didn't get as far as we could have.
00:38:28.600That's what makes this place – that's how you know you have a thriving grassroots MAGA movement.
00:38:33.820And I think what I'm seeing – and I can just give you the facts – what I'm seeing is that we've got something that we haven't had in 60 years, which is an independent rules committee.
00:38:44.300Now, it matters a lot as to who those people are.
00:38:47.040We're going to see that in the next 24 to 48 hours.
00:38:50.260And those conservatives need to put on their shoulders the weight of being able to deliver on behalf of the country in this late hour that we find ourselves in.
00:43:00.700And by the way, the majority of the Democratic Party, I think we're going to support, hey, we can't have defense cuts because they're all bought by the, except for the anti-war wing, they're all bought by the defense industry.
00:43:12.600Listen, I thought that it was a wonderful week for our republic, a great week for the U.S. Congress last week.
00:43:18.100You know, we haven't seen the House act like that in that kind of principled manner, impassioned manner, probably since the 1990s, since the earliest days of the contract with America.
00:43:27.280So we had a lot of patriots who were arguing passionately on principle and came to, I think, a far better place with a far better rules proposal, assuming it passes today, far better than we had previously.
00:43:39.080So I think all sides on the Republican side should be congratulated.
00:43:42.640Now, that said, we also need to realize that within the Republican caucus, even on the House side, there are some House members like Gonzalez, unfortunately, who you played this morning, who are a lot like Mitch McConnell is on the Senate side.
00:43:54.720What I mean by that is that he is firmly a member.
00:43:57.200Gonzalez is firmly a member of the Washington Uniparty.
00:44:00.620He is firmly under the thumb of firms like the defense contractors in favor of a globalist vision that is far more in line with the Democrats than it is Republicans.
00:44:09.300So there is still a lot of work to be done.
00:44:12.100But I'm really optimistic this House and particularly this news about Jim Jordan, that this House is going to get real work done.
00:44:19.400Jim Jordan in charge of that select committee is so necessary to have a modern day Frank Church committee to investigate and hold accountable this parallel government.
00:44:30.560We have a parallel government right now, the Intelligence Committee of the United States, that is operating, that is almost totally unaccountable, certainly unelected, not chosen by the American people.
00:44:39.300And wields enormous power, often in conjunction with big tech, big business, corporate media.
00:44:45.740All of that needs to be thoroughly investigated.
00:44:48.180Jim Jordan is the perfect person to get to the bottom of it.
00:45:00.940Patriots, sky high inflation and rising interest rates.
00:45:04.420They are crushing working class Americans right now.
00:45:07.540Most of the blame properly belongs with the White House and Joe Biden, but a lot of it also belongs to the Republicans, particularly in the Senate, collaborationists like Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton, who helped pass the omnibus monstrosity, which is only going to make this situation worse.
00:45:22.280Now, let's get to the numbers in a chalk talk.
00:45:24.600New data out from the Census Bureau shows that over one third of Americans are using dangerous high interest credit card debt to pay for the necessities of life for the basics.
00:45:35.400Last spring, that number was only 21 percent.
00:45:38.500So it has risen by two thirds in just a matter of months.
00:45:43.520The interest rate on credit cards right now above 19 percent, the highest in almost 40 years.
00:45:49.480So if you have an average balance in America, which is unfortunately $5,000 and you're only making minimum payments, it's going to take you over 15 years to pay off that balance with a total interest cost of over $6,500.
00:46:03.200Patriots, fixing this mess is a primary task of the incoming House GOP.
00:46:33.080This is where the rubber meets the road.
00:46:34.360OK, and it's understandable that a lot of media, even good media, has been very distracted between the election into these fights over the speakership.
00:46:42.260Let's remember the economic reality that is faced by working class Americans.
00:46:46.400And they are only getting by via credit card debt right now, Steve.
00:46:50.140And not for luxuries, not for discretionary items, credit card debt for the essentials of life.
00:46:56.000The fact that more than one third of Americans are using credit card debt to pay for the basics with credit card debt at an almost 40 year high interest rate.
00:47:53.460You, the American people, you, the American people, have an obligation to increase legal pathways for illegal aliens and get them in here quicker.
00:48:02.300You have an obligation, according to Admiral Kirby.
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