Former CIA Director David Petraeus joins the show to talk about his career, the Deep State, and why he thinks we should all be worried about the deep state spying on our every move we make in our everyday lives.
00:05:05.000They will, they will deny that they're keeping records.
00:05:09.000But what they will do is they'll say, well, we have to have files on congressmen because we're going to engage with them.
00:05:17.000And they've got a government affairs element that engages and prepares people to go meet congressmen.
00:05:23.000And what they start to do is they drive a Mack truck through what should be a, you know, a very, you know, limited approach by them to prepare people to come over.
00:05:42.000What do you do when you go on a trip that they observe?
00:05:45.000What types of information are you aware of that they can get from open source as well as from anybody that interacts with you?
00:05:52.000And they compile all that information and then they share it.
00:05:56.000And every step of the way, year after year, they continue to build on that.
00:06:00.000Now, a lot of that information, for example, sexual orientations or things that might be in the closet, they keep that until they can use it.
00:06:10.000And when they just think what you can do if you go after everyone's emails, every search that was done on home computers under a person's name, and you just get all that personal data.
00:06:23.000And it's far beyond any rational justification.
00:06:27.000And this is what happens all the time.
00:06:31.000We came up with recommendations for how to do domestic counterterrorism evaluations.
00:06:37.000And they've driven a Mack truck through that because the people who write the legislation and then administratively interpret that in FBI and DOJ are lawyers that are on a side that want to find the most expansive way to interpret anything.
00:06:55.000And the people that are writing the legislation quite often go along with it.
00:07:04.000But the people that actually write the bill to correct it are often compromised, whether it's the Boehner's or the Paul Ryan's or the Adam Schiff's.
00:07:28.000We asked both Democrat and Republican for DNI and the IC to give us the information of who were the outside experts that they relied upon to come up with the COVID-19 decision or conclusion that it was almost certainly of natural origin.
00:07:48.000And then for other factors dealing with COVID.
00:07:52.000Still to this day, they have not provided that information to the HIPC, which has every security badge that you can have.
00:08:03.000And they're saying, we can't trust you.
00:08:05.000What are they going to do with a January like six committee run by Jim Jordan?
00:08:11.000What are they going to do on the weaponization committee?
00:08:14.000What are they going to do if we're going after, you know, the FBI and otherwise?
00:08:19.000They're just going to pull up the drawbridge and you're not going to get across the moat.
00:08:23.000The J6, you're going to have the J6 element of this on judiciary under Jordan.
00:08:29.000You're going to have the weaponization of the government, the Frank Church type committee as a subcommittee chaired by Jordan.
00:08:33.000This is why I didn't want to be speaker.
00:08:35.000You then got the CCP, which is all about the infiltration and Gallagher.
00:08:54.000Even we both worked for at CENTCOM together, for example.
00:08:59.000He, in my view, is his heart's in the right place on national security issues.
00:09:05.000He does not understand what we're up against with the deep state.
00:09:08.000He doesn't understand the motivation and inclinations there.
00:09:13.000And he's going to focus on this in a very traditional neocon like way, which is good.
00:09:18.000We need to deal in some ways with China in strategic military ways.
00:09:23.000But we have to move beyond that to understand what they're doing with Wall Street and how we're financing their military capabilities over there.
00:09:45.000And Gallagher would be perfect for that.
00:09:47.000But there's an element here of the influence of peddling, the ownership, the partnership on Wall Street and big tech.
00:09:53.000And you see it is personified by Sequoia.
00:09:57.000Sequoia Capital ought to be exhibit one in the in the Chinese Communist Party effort in the investigation until you get to the bottom of how one of the most powerful venture capital firms.
00:10:08.000Right. What their ties are to the Chinese Communist Party, how they're funding U.S. capital into mainland China to support CCP people they have working for them that are CCP assets until you take on the biggest and the most powerful.
00:10:22.000This that committee is not that committee is not going to get to the thing itself.
00:10:26.000It's going to be another Benghazi type.
00:10:35.000That's where we need to focus that effort.
00:10:37.000And that was target number one for Devin Nunes on China, Chinese influence operations at state and national level, mainly and going after elites through money making venture access to Chinese markets and, you know, access to American markets to finance them.
00:12:25.040We just passed a historic, monumental rules package for we the people that fundamentally changes the way in which the United States Congress is run.
00:12:34.520And so I was in touch with my friends, Matt Gaetz, Ana Polina Luna, many of them who stood strong.
00:12:39.140And there were great legislatures on the other side, right?
00:12:41.980Marjorie Taylor Greene, my former boss, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.
00:12:44.840At the end of the day, it proved that the GOP is the party, the diversity of thoughts.
00:12:54.220And I think the American people are going to see that the people's house will hopefully be restored over the next several months as we watch this GOP majority take over.
00:13:02.260But there's no doubt in your mind that if they had not, you know, if we had not thrown down hard and those 20 stood tall in the hard six, nothing would have happened.
00:13:12.880Is there any doubt in your mind about that, ma'am?
00:13:24.440And so it was puzzling to me why the conservative media, the conservative establishment was going after these 20 members like they were a threat to democracy when that's exactly what they were trying to preserve and protect.
00:13:37.040And so there would have just been another uniparty vote, unanimous decision for Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker of the House.
00:13:42.360Now he is Speaker of the House, but some of these changes were instrumental, particularly the fact that McCarthy cannot use the power of his major super PACs and special interest groups on K Street to play in primaries like he did in mine.
00:13:57.280CLF spent more than $4 million against me in my race.
00:14:14.360And I hope that will never happen to any anti-establishment candidate again moving forward.
00:14:20.180Can you please hold through the break?
00:14:22.140We're also going to get Hermie Dillon up.
00:14:23.680I just want people to understand that a young woman that was a fire breather for democracy, a fire breather for representing her district, a fire breather for opening things up and getting away from the status quo,
00:14:33.760$4 million in a late primary to destroy her character, her reputation, her family's reputation.
00:14:41.960That's the type of people you're dealing with.
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00:16:57.360What does Caroline Leavitt see as the most important things in the coming days and weeks ahead in the House?
00:17:04.540Yeah, so many important issues, obviously, to help the people who have been just destroyed by Joe Biden's agenda.
00:17:11.140But I believe the yet most priority of this Congress needs to be looking into the weaponization of our federal government.
00:17:17.740Don't forget, we had a DOJ that labeled parents as domestic terrorists.
00:17:22.020We have big tech companies that were colluding with the federal government to interfere in the 2020 election when I was working in President Trump's White House.
00:17:30.000The American people want accountability.
00:17:31.680Everywhere I go, people say, I'm so sick of these Democrats lying and cheating and engaging in corruption and getting away with it.
00:17:38.520Now is the opportunity for this Republican majority to really use the power of the subpoena, which our founding fathers granted them.
00:19:07.700There are a lot of echoes between that race and my race.
00:19:10.400And so you saw a lot of Republicans in the House criticize the 20 resistors who were holding out for America First policies and fair procedures in the House.
00:19:21.400And I'm glad that they stood the course and they insisted on these rights because at the end we have a much stronger Congress overall,
00:19:30.420although the party leadership is a little bit weakened in its ability to unilaterally punish people.
00:19:35.960And I think what Caroline was just talking about is exactly what we see at the RNC.
00:19:40.380You see that people who aren't, quote unquote, with the program of the current leadership,
00:19:45.120they get candidates recruited to run against them for party leadership positions at the RNC and things like that.
00:19:50.920And so at the RNC, I'm being criticized by some members who support the current leadership saying, oh, why are you disrupting everything?
00:19:59.640But the unity that we're being asked to support at the RNC is unity around cycles of loss and simply patting ourselves on the back for walking precincts,
00:20:09.600raising money, attempting to contact voters.
00:21:09.760They're trying to make sure that they're there.
00:21:12.040They're like they try to drop the dime on on the 20 last week.
00:21:15.640They're doing that at the state level.
00:21:17.000Anybody who put their head up and say, hey, I'm for Harmeet Dillon or I'm from Michael and Michael and Del or I'm just for change.
00:21:23.300I just don't like the program the way it is.
00:21:24.820Is that what we're seeing now, the kind of the same efforts they made last week against the 20 you're seeing, not just simply against you,
00:21:32.420but also against the people that would potentially vote for you come a lot of part of January in in Dana Point?
00:21:40.060Well, I think the opposite is true at the state level, to be honest, because it's much harder to control tens of thousands of patriots.
00:21:46.080And I'm talking about the party leadership around the country.
00:21:48.960So, for example, in California, we have fifteen hundred delegates in our state party and others like I think Texas has over two thousand.
00:21:56.120It's hard to control that many people.
00:21:58.860And in fact, those people who elect the three representatives in each state to the Republican National Committee are overwhelmingly in favor of my candidacy, overwhelmingly in favor of change.
00:22:09.780In fact, every time we're able to get a state party leadership vote, executive committee, what have you, to convene and take a vote on these issues, they're voting votes of no confidence in the current leadership at the RNC.
00:22:25.320Just in the past week, we saw it happen in Louisiana.
00:22:28.620In Alabama, where our chair very, very aggressively lobbied to prevent that vote from occurring or going my way, it went my way overwhelmingly.
00:22:38.460And so actually at the grassroots level, and I'm talking about the grassroots leadership level, there is tremendous support for change.
00:22:44.640And I want to go back to one thing you said, Steve.
00:22:47.040Now, imagine if these members of Congress campaigned on a balanced budget, campaigned on cut programs and pay for them as you go, campaigned on weaponization being a priority and all of the other things that ended up being in the package.
00:23:03.180We might not have had a five vote majority.
00:23:05.360We might have had a 20 or 30 vote majority.
00:23:11.560And it's amazing that a few people in the party leadership really value their own power and control over a failed machine as opposed to winning with less power for the individual at the top.
00:23:23.940Is that one of your bigger takeaways also from the data to say that there are a lot of people there on the Cuskers?
00:23:29.740Because remember, a lot of these ratios are so close.
00:23:31.440A lot of polling shows that people said, well, they say in Biden, the Democrats are terrible, but I didn't see an alternative plan.
00:23:38.440And now you see the support of these things.
00:23:40.520If you had been head of RNC, would you have pushed them to actually have an agenda that's got some meat into it?
00:24:13.360What do we think at the party that candidates should be emphasizing?
00:24:17.660In fact, we had a vacuum on that issue despite spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on so-called messaging consulting at the RNC.
00:24:24.780Our own messengers, our messenger, our main messenger, did not talk about the Dobbs decision in a way that explained it for voters or amplified the importance of life to our party.
00:25:23.500Walk us through the process from here on in, and how can people in this audience participate in support?
00:25:29.380Well, there's been an overwhelming grassroots support, but I think the most effective support is actually what I just talked about at the beginning, namely state parties taking votes and calling for no confidence or calling for support of my candidacy.
00:25:42.720That puts pressure on the three members of the Republican National Committee.
00:25:46.020So what we're seeing right now is quite a few members are saying to me, well, yeah, we need change.
00:25:52.940And, you know, the chair should have left two years ago after we lost the White House.
00:25:56.060But I like her, and I also like what she's done for me personally or for the party.
00:26:00.520These leaders need to be reminded that they represent the people in their states, and their job is not to vote for what is personally pleasing to them or benefits their ability to chair this committee or that committee, but rather what's better, not just for the party, what's better for the country.
00:26:17.160And I, you know, Kevin McCarthy, after winning the speakership, said exactly this, and I applaud him for that.
00:26:23.460He reminded us what's important here is what's best for the country.
00:26:27.860And the country needs a winning, vibrant, organized, and effective Republican National Committee.
00:26:34.860And I think there's only one candidate in this race right now who can deliver that.
00:26:39.080I'm a member for six years, and I have all the experience necessary to do that.
00:26:43.700So in conclusion, I will say that the vote is in about two and a half weeks at Dana Point, California, and it's going to be down to the wire.
00:26:52.480So we're continuing to talk to our members and gather votes.
00:26:55.540We're continuing to do a lot of media around these issues, and votes are flipping our way because people are seeing the absolute sort of house of cards that we have there, and America cannot afford that.
00:27:09.080How do people follow you? How do they get to your website?
00:27:12.800My website is dylanforrnc.com. That's D-H-I-L-L-O-N-F-O-R-R-N-C.com.
00:27:19.140And also they can follow me and all the media interviews on Twitter at P-N-J-A-B-A-N, same handle on Instagram.
00:27:27.100And I appreciate the tens of thousands of messages I've received in support of my candidacy and all the members who are brave enough to step forward and support me and support change and winning strategies at the RNC.
00:27:59.520We rejoice when there's no more. Let's take down the CCP.
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00:28:18.980That's why so many people are stocking up on emergency food right now.
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00:29:25.600Congressman Goldman, Jonathan Lemire, staying with you because, indeed, of your background with investigations and as a prosecutor.
00:29:37.640Shifting gears with the House, we heard from Jim Jordan and other Republicans yesterday that there's a new effort to investigate what they deem the weaponization of the federal government.
00:29:46.980And it seems like trying to look into some of the probes into former President Trump and his allies.
00:29:53.500What is your assessment of that and what concerns do you have that that power may be misused?
00:30:01.400John, it's an outrageous abuse of power.
00:30:04.820Never before has Congress put in a resolution that it has the authority to investigate ongoing criminal investigations.
00:30:17.480It's Donald Trump, although that is part of it.
00:30:20.000It's also an investigation that includes many of them.
00:30:23.900Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, had his cell phone seized pursuant to a court-ordered search warrant based on a finding of probable cause that he committed a crime.
00:30:34.880And yet he says that he would like to serve on that committee.
00:30:38.140The purpose of it is to interfere with ongoing investigations.
00:30:42.120And that's why I've called it the Republican Committee to Obstruct Justice.
00:30:48.060So let me ask you, Congressman Torres, what what can you do?
00:31:00.020What can the president do to stop House Republicans from from, first of all, undermining the efforts of the FBI, undermining the efforts of the Department of Justice and actually trying to get into a position where Jim Jordan and and some Republicans can get their hands on the most classified,
00:31:24.960top secret documents that that that that we have to protect.
00:31:33.300Look, we're going to make every effort to resist.
00:31:35.540But, you know, make no mistake, the odds are stacked against us.
00:31:38.100The new House Republican rules are an unconditional surrender of Congress as an institution to the far right of the Republican Party and the far right are arsonists who are intent on burning everything down,
00:31:49.900including the leadership of their own party and the full faith and credit of the United States.
00:31:54.140You know, I have concerns about the Holman rule, which would enable House Republicans to weaponize the federal government against particular federal employees.
00:32:02.580It would enable House Republicans to zero out funding for a criminal investigation into Donald Trump.
00:32:08.380And as Dan noted, under the rules, a representative like Scott Perry, who's being investigated by the FBI, could investigate the investigators investigating him.
00:32:18.120So the Republicans, instead of draining the swamp, are filling it to an extent never seen before.
00:32:25.720Can Denver and my crack staff here at the War Room production team just take Torres because he's a very smart guy.
00:32:32.980That's Dan Goldman, who's a former prosecutor, super rich kid, you know, heir to a lot of wealth, bought his way into, bought himself a congressional seat.
00:32:40.900He ran for, I think, attorney general in New York against Leticia James.
00:32:46.500And I think he had in the polling like 0.0%.
00:32:49.960So he decided to drop out and buy a congressional seat.
00:34:01.080This is why we're going to cut back and forth in the show to the degree that, uh, that we're going to, um, to make sure we get stuff live from the house.
00:34:10.020Actually, I want to know Matt Gaetz is going to be here tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and Matt's going to walk you through, uh, a lot of how we got here, the victories and most important with Matt Gaetz, uh, going forward.
00:34:21.940I want people to hear this from one of the smartest guys on the Democrat side.
00:34:25.360Let's, let's go ahead and just hear Torres is where we stand today.
00:34:28.020Look, we're going to make every effort to resist, but, you know, make no mistake, the odds are stacked against us.
00:34:35.580The new house Republican rules are an unconditional surrender of Congress as an institution to the far right of the Republican party and the far right are arsonists who are intent on burning everything down, including the leadership of their own party and the full faith and credit of the United States.
00:34:52.200You know, I have concerns about the Holman rule, which would enable house Republicans to weaponize the federal government.
00:34:58.020Against particular federal employees, it would enable house Republicans to zero out funding for criminal investigation into Donald Trump.
00:35:05.480And as Dan noted, under the rules, uh, a representative like Scott Perry, who's being investigated by the FBI.
00:46:27.800Look, as a traditional Catholic, I want to say the lead sled dog is the evangelical movement.
00:46:33.100I have so much respect that throughout the world, in China, and look, Xi and Wang Xi Shan are as brutal a dictator as I ever walked the face of this earth.
00:46:42.520Their biggest fear is essentially evangelical Christianity.
00:46:46.680The 100 million, they think, evangelical Christians and Catholics.
00:46:49.300I think the Catholic part of that is maybe 20 million, right?
00:46:52.62025 million of true traditional Catholics, not the ones that the CCP controls the bishops.
00:46:57.440I'm talking about the true Catholics with the underground Catholic Church.
00:47:01.740And I'm not denigrating the people that are part of the patriotic church.
00:47:04.800There's many devout Catholics there, but that is run by the state, and the Vatican's got a secret deal with them.
00:47:10.120But if you look at Brazil and if you look at China, and this is for people in the United States,
00:47:14.560the persecuted churches that are more persecuted than the first-century Christian church,
00:47:20.140it is evangelical Christianity that has people's hearts on fire and prepared to be fearless in that.
00:47:27.220And what we want, Ben Harnwell and I hope, that traditional Catholics, right now we're obviously in a major conflict with this kind of progressive left secularism that is,
00:47:38.020and I mean radical left, that's taken over the Catholic Church.
00:47:43.060But I can't say enough about evangelical Christianity and what the evangelical Christians have done throughout the world in a time of great persecution.
00:48:35.320I just want to bounce off what you were saying, though, about the evangelicals and the importance they're having.
00:48:41.580Not only is that absolutely true, it's what makes the current situation so tragic, Steve.
00:48:45.420Because if anybody is not just offended, if anyone is scandalized by the Catholic Church's current descent into secularism, the stripping of all the Christianity from the Catholic Church, the stripping of Holy Scripture and a biblical base to the Catholic faith.
00:49:04.080If anyone is really scandalized by that, it's the evangelicals.
00:49:08.460Because the evangelicals have a long history and a long tradition of thinking, basically, that this building behind me is the seat of – it's talking of the Antichrist.
00:49:15.560It's the seat of the Antichrist in the end times.
00:49:21.940And nothing more confirms evangelicals in that viewpoint than the secularism, the Marxism, the communism, the atheism, the syncretism, the modernism that is coming out and has been coming out of the Vatican for recent years.
00:49:37.360That is the tragedy of this, and that's why I can only add my own voice to what you just said about the absolute importance of traditionalist Catholics who reject, basically, everything that is coming out of the Vatican now.
00:49:49.940And conservative, biblical evangelicals come together as far as they can, not to discuss, not to try to compromise on the faith.
00:49:58.240Nobody wants to – no one wants that, right?
00:50:00.960No one's going to be stronger by compromising on the elements of the faith.
00:50:05.440But what we can do – I mean, I'm a traditionalist Catholic.
00:50:10.000Conservative evangelicals have their points to it.
00:50:12.840What we can do on the areas in the political sphere where we have a common enemy and an ability to combine together, what we can do is work together on that front.
00:50:22.400And that is exactly what hashtag notmypope is most opposed to.
00:50:27.260Yeah, the common – by the way, let's do Cardinal Pell.
00:50:34.280The Cardinal Pell thing is so important.
00:50:36.120But I want to comment on this is that it's modernity.
00:50:40.520This is what the most traditional elements of the church and the intellectuals weren't about in the 19th century.
00:50:45.440They saw what was coming in the 20th century.
00:50:47.960And today with transhumanism and the technologies available on the oligarchs in Silicon Valley, the way that they can even get you on the internet and they get you with the phones and all that, and then the transhumanism thing, that modernity itself is the common enemy.
00:51:05.700And we're not going to convert the evangelical Christians.
00:51:09.620These people are on fire right now, as they should be.
00:51:13.400And it's inspiring to see, and it's inspiring when you deal with the world as we know it and people we deal with, and you hear consistently from places like the Lao Ba Jing in China, the persecutions going on there.
00:51:27.180In modern times, the Christian faith today is under more assault by the apparatuses of government than first century Rome, than first century Roman Empire.
00:51:39.200The persecutions we all look back to that formed the hard reality of the church and really inspired it and gave it the muzzle velocity for a millennia.
00:51:48.280That today you're seeing in China, and you're going to see it in Brazil.
00:52:02.840I'm simply on at Harnwell, which is my surname, on Getter, at Harnwell.
00:52:07.500I just have a quick name check also to at Jack Posobiec, who's going to have these two articles up on his feed a little later today, if anyone wants to check them down and find out what was said in the spectator.
00:52:19.100I'm going to try to talk Ben into joining us maybe later.
00:52:21.300We've got to get to this Cardinal Pell situation.
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