Bannon's War Room - January 17, 2023


Episode 2448： On The Ground Reports From DAVOS


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

175.66072

Word Count

9,633

Sentence Count

773

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

Learn English with Warren Buffet. Warren Buffett is a billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and former World Bank chief economist. He was in Davos, Switzerland this week, attending the World Economic Forum and attending a round table discussion on the state of the world economy.


Transcript

00:00:00.960 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:05.860 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:11.080 You're just not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:15.380 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:17.340 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:18.720 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:20.480 but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
00:00:22.680 And where do people like that go to share the big line?
00:00:26.080 Mega Media.
00:00:26.980 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:32.860 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:36.620 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:42.940 Warren, here's your host, Stephen K. Vannan.
00:00:46.220 We are confronted with so many crises simultaneously.
00:00:57.940 They fear you.
00:00:59.660 They understand you're not defeatable.
00:01:02.160 We're going to get to a point where you're going to have human 2.0.
00:01:08.040 What the world economic form and the Great Reset's about.
00:01:10.600 They're all godless.
00:01:12.160 They all want to live forever.
00:01:14.060 They want to be immortal.
00:01:15.360 This is what we have to stop.
00:01:16.820 And this is coming from Christ himself.
00:01:18.580 He said there's only one unforgivable sin.
00:01:22.020 To blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
00:01:24.440 Do you think that taking that biology and saying it's programmable and I can create man 2.0, it's gone off the rails.
00:01:31.920 And the only way we pull it back is you.
00:01:34.720 In your innermost voice.
00:01:36.060 Ask yourself, why did divine providence put me here and now in this place?
00:01:40.460 Because you're going to be judged for that.
00:01:42.100 You're going to be weighed in measure for that.
00:01:43.600 And every generation coming down the road is going to look back at this time and say who stood up and who fought and who rolled over.
00:01:50.940 This is not only about making America great again.
00:01:53.520 This is about making man great again.
00:01:55.600 Are you prepared to have them in some lab that you're paying for?
00:01:59.140 In some weapons lab?
00:02:00.700 To have them do a man-machine merger?
00:02:02.800 Are you prepared to have edited human beings?
00:02:04.800 Are you prepared to let these facts go and have enhanced human beings?
00:02:07.960 Are you prepared to accept that?
00:02:09.580 No!
00:02:10.400 This is an army of the awakened and you're the cadre.
00:02:13.340 You're the tip of the spear.
00:02:14.800 You need to put your whole being into this fight.
00:02:17.680 Everything.
00:02:18.560 You've got to leave it all on the battlefield.
00:02:24.440 Patriots, the global elites, they're gathering in Davos, Switzerland to toast each other.
00:02:29.200 But the globalist system that they create, it's been a miserable failure for everyday citizens all over the world.
00:02:35.480 Let's look at the numbers in a chalk talk.
00:02:37.260 Communications giant Edelman does a worldwide survey every year since the year 2000.
00:02:42.260 They ask a simple question.
00:02:43.480 Are you going to be better off in five years than you are today?
00:02:46.860 Sadly, in the United States, only 36% of Americans say yes.
00:02:51.200 That is the lowest in the history of the survey.
00:02:53.800 But the U.S. is hardly alone.
00:02:55.460 In fact, in the 28 countries surveyed, 24 of them hit new lows for this century on this key topic of economic optimism.
00:03:03.260 Now, this pessimism, unfortunately, is well-placed.
00:03:06.900 If we look at an Oxfam study that was just released, all of the wealth created in the world since the lockdown, since the year 2020, two-thirds of it has gone to the top 1%.
00:03:18.640 This concentration of economic and political power is a key pillar of the globalists.
00:03:24.180 And it's why the future is all about patriotic populism.
00:03:28.960 Well, I think it was fascinating to listen to you talk.
00:03:33.760 I think it's not yet really big on people's radar screen here at Davos.
00:03:38.100 It's not top of mind yet.
00:03:39.420 But there are definitely people beginning to ask, what are these crazies going to do in the U.S. House?
00:03:44.300 And do we need to take it seriously this time?
00:03:45.880 Because people have been here before, right?
00:03:47.400 We've seen this play out in the United States.
00:03:49.500 And in the end, you know, reason prevails.
00:03:51.600 And I think there's a kind of assumption that that will happen.
00:03:53.800 But as things play on and if this becomes the drama you've been describing, it is going to be a real worry.
00:03:59.840 Because it is, however small you think the risk is, the consequences could be so cataclysmic, it will shoot up the agenda.
00:04:06.280 But right now, it's not top of mind here.
00:04:08.800 So, Zandi, let's talk about what is top of mind at Davos right now.
00:04:12.200 We're hearing the term inflation.
00:04:13.960 We're hearing the term recession.
00:04:15.900 What are the concerns there?
00:04:17.760 Slow growth is another term that we're hearing about.
00:04:20.120 What is the topic of discussion there primarily at Davos?
00:04:26.540 Actually, all of the above.
00:04:28.020 So, inflation, recession, and I'd add Ukraine.
00:04:30.880 They're, of course, the sort of three immediate topics.
00:04:33.140 But there's two things that have really struck me while I've been here.
00:04:35.460 One is the charm offensive that the Chinese government is beginning to start.
00:04:39.720 Vice Premier Liu He is here.
00:04:41.240 He gave a speech this morning.
00:04:42.840 He talked about how keen China was in international cooperation.
00:04:46.040 He mentioned it several times.
00:04:47.360 There is very clearly a big push by the Chinese government.
00:04:50.280 And there's a lot of talk here about what happens after the terrible wave of COVID deaths pass.
00:04:55.240 And China's opening means its economy bounces back.
00:04:58.360 Does that mean, you know, a boom in China?
00:05:00.180 That's a stall.
00:05:01.340 Mindless.
00:05:02.560 That's just a word salad.
00:05:04.060 Mindless.
00:05:04.840 That's the mindless, you know, the MSNBC, CNNs of the world.
00:05:08.480 Just mindlessly repeating the same ridiculous, not even talking points, just throwing out word salad.
00:05:16.540 The defeat of globalization.
00:05:19.220 Remember, this audience did it.
00:05:20.940 Now Ferguson, the historian, is there.
00:05:25.060 And he talks about, I'll get Cortez up here in a minute.
00:05:27.360 He talks about the, that globalization is just taking a break.
00:05:34.220 That's actually not true.
00:05:35.860 Globalization.
00:05:36.500 We're in the process of defeating globalization.
00:05:38.260 The economists, the destructive logic that threatens globalization.
00:05:43.320 They're completely panicked about this in Davos.
00:05:46.160 And now they're pivoting to climate change and to artificial intelligence, which underpins everything, is their new control mechanism.
00:05:53.060 You don't see them.
00:05:54.260 The key thing is what they're not talking about.
00:05:56.060 They're not talking about Build Back.
00:05:57.120 They're not taking a victory lap on Build Back Better or Great Reset.
00:06:00.360 The Great Reset they're talking about is the 300 trade and debt.
00:06:04.200 Let's go to Noor bin Laden.
00:06:05.780 A lot of victories in Davos for us.
00:06:09.340 But also, you've got to keep punching every day because these people are demonic.
00:06:14.280 The one thing, there's a big story.
00:06:16.980 If we can get that up, if Denver has it, as I bring up Noor, there's a big story in Daily Mail about, they say prostitutes are, I guess, called prostitutes are all over Davos.
00:06:32.340 It's one of their biggest weekends of the year, I guess, in Europe.
00:06:35.320 And I put up there, the prostitutes are the attendees.
00:06:38.700 Please, the men and women that are there for sex work are just simply sex workers.
00:06:45.620 The prostitutes are Davos, man.
00:06:48.940 Noor bin Laden, can you give us an update on really the first opening kickoff day for it?
00:06:53.480 I couldn't have put it better, Steve, than what you just said.
00:06:59.840 The prostitutes are very much everybody who is behind me in that Congress hall, having all these discussions and these panels.
00:07:08.780 The kickoff really started this morning with the opening remarks between Klaus Schwab and the president of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset.
00:07:19.700 And they just laid out the whole agenda for the week.
00:07:23.540 So I'll start with that and then I'll just highlight a few of the panel discussions that have taken place already and that are going to continue throughout the day here on Tuesday, the second day here at Davos.
00:07:36.940 So it's always the same framework.
00:07:40.340 They talk about these crises.
00:07:42.040 They talk about these challenges, these unprecedented and multiple challenges, to quote Klaus Schwab this morning.
00:07:49.580 And again, they talk about the problems.
00:07:52.800 Then they talk about the solutions and they portray themselves as the saviors, as those who want to cooperate in order to make the world a better place and for the benefit of humanity.
00:08:05.140 It's the same playbook.
00:08:06.920 It's the same PR trick.
00:08:08.880 But in fact, we know that it's the exact opposite that they intend to implement with their globalist agenda.
00:08:16.940 And so, again, we mentioned yesterday the theme of the conference, which is cooperation in a fragmented world.
00:08:24.400 And so, Klaus Schwab, to quote again from his opening remarks, talked about the fragmentation of powers and the need for cooperation.
00:08:32.820 So we really are in this realm of the coordination of the different entities that make up the globalist architecture in order to move towards, as I mentioned yesterday on your show, the centralization of power.
00:08:46.040 And Alain Berset further made this point when he said, quote, the world needs strong multilateral platforms because the greatest present-day challenges are transnational.
00:09:01.080 Climate change, pandemic, war, migration, proliferation.
00:09:05.880 So, as you said in your open, climate change very much features heavily in the agenda for this week because we know that this is the Trojan horse that they are using in order to digitize our society, to implement social credit score systems with carbon rations.
00:09:23.740 We can expect probably climate lockdowns in the future as well, all in the guise of protecting the planet.
00:09:31.580 So, we had a preview of certain of the policies with the so-called pandemic.
00:09:38.020 They tested the lockdowns with that.
00:09:41.380 They tested the digital IDs with that as well.
00:09:45.060 They kind of prepared the public for a sort of acceptance of the digitization of our society with the so-called pandemic.
00:09:55.260 And now they're going full throttle with climate change in order to digitize all aspects of our lives.
00:10:03.560 And remember, underpinning this is all artificial intelligence.
00:10:06.620 We're going to have Joe Allen and Mark Jefftovic on to talk about this very topic in the second hour.
00:10:10.500 The concept – I want to get a word out there for the – you know, a nomenclature.
00:10:16.140 One of the things we do here is make sure the audience understands nomenclature.
00:10:19.400 The concept of polycrisis, the convergence and conflation of economic, social, climate, and geopolitical into a massive global crisis.
00:10:31.300 Is that also – in all my reading and talking to people that are actually there, this is a new watchword,
00:10:38.060 the Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum team have come up with, ma'am?
00:10:43.020 Yes, I was actually going to mention it because it just makes no sense.
00:10:46.400 Can we just say crises?
00:10:48.080 Why do they need to come up with polycrisis?
00:10:51.080 I mean, it makes absolutely no sense.
00:10:53.540 But we come back to the point that I was making on the show yesterday afternoon is that they are very much aware of the nomenclature,
00:11:03.040 as you mentioned, and the wording that they're using.
00:11:04.920 And I'll say it again, I mentioned it yesterday, but it's very important for people to understand that this is one giant press conference.
00:11:12.860 It's the controlled reveal of their plans.
00:11:14.960 They're very happy for us to know about what's going on here.
00:11:19.360 These decisions at the end of the day were made behind closed doors decades ago.
00:11:26.720 And again, I couldn't agree with you more.
00:11:29.180 The people behind us here in this congress are prostitutes.
00:11:32.060 They're minions, they're mouthpieces.
00:11:34.640 Klaus Schwab isn't the leader of this globalist movement.
00:11:39.040 He is the minion-in-chief heading one of their many international organizations, namely the WEF.
00:11:46.480 It's one of the many entities and vehicles that they use to roll out the agenda.
00:11:51.700 So, yeah, I have very little respect for the people behind me.
00:11:57.000 He's the proverbial world's tallest midget.
00:12:01.160 How do people follow you during the day during heavy back on?
00:12:04.140 Go ahead.
00:12:04.700 Sure.
00:12:05.040 Yes, ma'am.
00:12:05.580 Just, Stephen, one thing I'd like to say is, you know, these people, they portray themselves, and they're so drunk on their power.
00:12:11.720 But, in fact, they're just like these little, like, again, minions that are clinging on to the little scraps of power that the real people making the decisions behind closed doors are willing to give them to just be the front of all this operation.
00:12:28.100 Yes.
00:12:31.500 How do people follow you during the day?
00:12:33.280 We'll have you back on the evening show for your evening wrap-up.
00:12:35.780 She's live from Davos.
00:12:37.500 Nora bin Laden, one of the smartest political commentators and observers in the world, lives in Geneva.
00:12:44.360 Nora, how do people follow you during the day?
00:12:47.540 You can find me on Twitter and on Getter at Nora bin Laden.
00:12:53.240 And, Stephen, if I just may say one thing, there are so many things we can highlight this evening with regards to the panels, but there's one in particular that we really need to look out for.
00:13:03.900 And your viewers can look at my last, my latest post on Getter from the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mikhail Fedorov, who put out last year a very PR, like, slick video on Ukraine 2030.
00:13:22.100 So we get back to that date of 2030.
00:13:24.980 And basically they laid out the plan for the entire digitization of the country, of all their public services.
00:13:33.100 And this is where part of American taxpayer dollars are going towards.
00:13:38.420 They want to make Ukraine as this kind of model for this new digital nation or system where we're all hooked to grids.
00:13:49.220 And so this Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Fedorov, will be doing a press conference later today.
00:13:56.240 So this very much ties into everything that we're trying to denounce.
00:14:02.720 Perfect.
00:14:03.260 Nora bin Laden, look forward to having you on the evening show.
00:14:05.460 Good luck today.
00:14:06.220 I want everybody to follow her on Twitter and Getter.
00:14:08.460 She'll be posting all day.
00:14:09.740 Thank you very much.
00:14:11.140 Honored to have you on here.
00:14:12.180 In fact, we've got to talk to Charlie Kirk.
00:14:13.600 She'll be on with Charlie Kirk and Basovic today on the Populist National Show that follows us.
00:14:18.280 OK, we're going to take a short break.
00:14:20.900 Steve Cortez is going to join us.
00:14:23.160 Remember, we first started doing Pandemic.
00:14:26.700 We talked about an economic crisis driven by the drop in aggregate demand.
00:14:31.020 Also, the supply chain crisis by the supply chains all shipped overseas.
00:14:36.960 That economic crisis would lead to a capital markets crisis that then would lead to a geopolitical crisis.
00:14:42.460 That is polycrisis.
00:14:45.020 Now they're trying to bundle it up for control of you.
00:14:50.140 Make sure we all understand this next in the war room.
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00:16:07.780 Okay, let's get right to Cortez.
00:16:14.940 Cortez, Davos, globalization, Great Reset.
00:16:19.620 Look, they had their opportunity on the Build Back Better Great Reset.
00:16:22.460 They leveraged up the world to $300 trillion.
00:16:24.800 They now have a massive problem.
00:16:26.420 The Great Reset they're talking about is the deleveraging of that.
00:16:29.020 They concentrate the wealth.
00:16:30.380 $36 trillion of wealth created.
00:16:32.320 Two-thirds go to the top 1%.
00:16:34.260 But they are on their back.
00:16:37.380 They're jammed right now, and they know this, correct, Mr. Steve Cortez?
00:16:41.580 No, absolutely.
00:16:42.360 Look, the globalists have made a mess of the world, and you're exactly right.
00:16:46.320 They are on their heels.
00:16:47.480 They are on the defensive, as they should be.
00:16:49.600 So it is time for us to continue to press the case.
00:16:51.840 And by the way, that's not just my opinion.
00:16:53.160 That is the opinion of thousands and thousands of regular citizens the world over.
00:16:57.480 I really encourage the audience to check out this new survey.
00:17:00.560 I mentioned it there in the Chalk Talk.
00:17:01.980 I also link to it in my new article on my substack, The Failure of Globalism, a global survey from Edelman.
00:17:09.400 If you don't know Edelman, folks out there in the audience, they are a global communications powerhouse.
00:17:13.820 Edelman is very intertwined with the global elite ruling class.
00:17:17.200 So believe me, I don't think the executives of Edelman are very happy with the results of their own survey.
00:17:22.060 But thankfully, they've been doing this survey every single year worldwide since the year 2000.
00:17:27.260 And one of the very just primary questions they ask is, are you going to be better off in five years than you are today?
00:17:33.180 And historically, strong majorities of people the world over believe that they're going to be better off in five years, particularly in the United States.
00:17:40.860 Unfortunately, that number has crashed globally.
00:17:43.560 Only 40 percent of the people in the world now believe they will be better off in five years.
00:17:48.200 That's a low for the survey.
00:17:49.500 For the United States, it's even lower than that, only 36 percent of Americans.
00:17:53.280 Again, a low for the survey going all the way back to the year 2000.
00:17:57.640 But we are hardly alone.
00:17:59.260 Unfortunately, of the 28 countries that were surveyed, half of them, Steve, saw a double-digit decline in just the last year on that basic question about,
00:18:09.080 are you going to be better off economically?
00:18:10.880 I mean, think about that.
00:18:11.740 A double-digit decline in just one year's time.
00:18:15.460 That shows you what slow growth or, in many countries, no growth, combined with massive inflation, has done to the well-being and to the optimism or lack thereof of regular citizens.
00:18:26.840 So globalism is clearly failing.
00:18:29.880 It has been wonderful for the connected crony elites, the people who are toasting each other at the FET parties in Davos right now.
00:18:37.220 But it has been miserable for regular, working-class people.
00:18:40.360 The future is not globalism.
00:18:42.240 Niall Ferguson, you mentioned him.
00:18:43.880 He gave a speech over there in Davos, and he says that patriotic populism is a mirage.
00:18:48.900 This is not a mirage.
00:18:50.180 It is a movement.
00:18:50.940 It is a movement that is already starting to dominate politics and is going to even further dominate politics in the coming months and years and decades ahead.
00:18:59.800 This is the proper revolt, the proper political populist revolt against globalism and what it has done to the health, to the pocketbooks, and to the spirits of regular citizens.
00:19:12.840 But he says the quiet part out loud.
00:19:14.660 I want to go to his speech.
00:19:15.500 Niall Ferguson is a very, very smart guy, but he's one of the maestros of globalism, right?
00:19:21.680 The Ascent of Money, all of his books.
00:19:23.160 He says the quiet part out loud when he breaks down the history, he goes, you had a populist revolt from 2016, Trump, to 2019, but that the pandemic did away with that.
00:19:36.380 The pandemic has broken that.
00:19:37.760 They're now – and globalization is just in a hiatus.
00:19:40.800 You're going to see it's just – it's hit a plateau.
00:19:43.300 It's going to regroup.
00:19:44.200 It's going to get strengthened and come back.
00:19:45.760 Why is the years 2016 to 2019 when he points out populist protectionism – well, the year 2016 was the rise and the breakthrough of Trump as the head of this movement.
00:20:00.100 2019, Steve Cortez, summarize, would the people in the globe rather have the world of 2019 and Donald Trump in charge of the economy or January of 2023, sir?
00:20:10.300 No, amen.
00:20:12.000 2019.
00:20:12.620 And it's interesting.
00:20:13.280 You're exactly right.
00:20:13.960 Niall Ferguson, who I think is generally a pretty sharp guy, has some interesting insights.
00:20:18.100 In this case, I think he's blinded to reality largely because of his positions, I think, unfortunately, as a faculty member of Harvard and part of the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
00:20:26.520 I don't think he understands really what working class people are facing right now.
00:20:30.460 But to answer your question, it's interesting that he disparages that period of 2019.
00:20:34.240 2019 was, by many metrics, the best year for workers in all of American history.
00:20:41.220 We saw massive wage increases, 6.8% wage growth overall with about 2% inflation.
00:20:48.400 So you're talking about roughly 5% real wage gains.
00:20:52.800 Contrast that to today, where we are suffering from 21 straight months of real wages, meaning incomes adjusted for inflation, crashing.
00:21:02.000 The longest, worst streak in all of American history.
00:21:06.160 And by the way, back in 2019, everyone was doing well.
00:21:09.020 But the people who were doing the best were blue-collar folks, were minorities, people who had not participated previously in the prosperity of America.
00:21:17.180 They leapfrogged to the front of the income gains in 2019.
00:21:21.000 Blue-collar workers saw above 9% gains in the year 2019.
00:21:25.300 And again, with minimal inflation.
00:21:27.320 So the gains were real.
00:21:28.520 They were impactful.
00:21:29.280 They meant something to people's lives.
00:21:31.100 They could afford things they couldn't afford before.
00:21:33.020 Why did this happen?
00:21:33.900 Well, part of it was tax and regulatory relief, which was important.
00:21:36.940 But a bigger part, in my view, was trade protectionism.
00:21:40.160 Was Donald Trump finally pivoting the United States to a place of strength?
00:21:44.700 You know, at the global poker table of trade, Steve, the United States has always acted like it holds a pair of eights.
00:21:50.240 When, in fact, we have a royal flush.
00:21:52.200 And what I mean by that is the entire world wants access to the U.S. consumer market, the biggest and richest and most powerful market in the world.
00:21:58.700 We have given that away.
00:22:00.260 And we've not demanded reciprocity and fairness in trade.
00:22:03.540 Donald Trump started to change that, unfortunately, rudely interrupted by the China virus, by the CCP virus.
00:22:09.160 But it is time for us to, once again, resurrect protectionism.
00:22:13.080 That's considered a bad word by a lot of folks in Republican circles, in establishment circles.
00:22:17.420 And it shouldn't be.
00:22:18.480 We should protect the American people.
00:22:20.560 And we should protect American industries against predatory globalist trade practices that have been ruinous for American workers and American communities.
00:22:30.480 And we proved in 2019, albeit for too short a period of time, but we proved that it works, that it's efficacious.
00:22:38.180 We need to prove it again, starting, by the way, with this GOP House.
00:22:41.960 That is part of the agenda.
00:22:43.520 We don't have enough power in Washington, D.C., but we have power.
00:22:46.260 We do have a significant lever with control of the House.
00:22:48.740 We need to start fighting against this globalism.
00:22:50.900 And I don't mean just a Davos, OK, because obviously there's just a lot of symbolism really going on there.
00:22:55.620 I mean fighting against globalism in Dayton, in the United States, in the heartland of the U.S., demanding fairness in trade, reestablishing sovereignty over our border.
00:23:05.620 The globalists don't want borders.
00:23:06.800 The globalists are perfectly happy with the situation right now with the U.S. southern border because they don't believe in nationhood.
00:23:13.220 They don't believe in nationalism and in populism.
00:23:16.200 We believe in all of that.
00:23:17.660 We need to reassert it.
00:23:19.060 Thankfully, because of the failure of globalism, particularly economically, the political field is ripe for us to make significant gains if we can stick to our agenda of patriotic populism.
00:23:30.620 And, again, that's not my view.
00:23:32.460 If you look at this Edelman survey, which, again, thousands and thousands of people surveyed all over the world annually since the year 2000, this survey is collapsing.
00:23:42.540 It is a collapse in economic confidence right now.
00:23:45.200 That was actually the word used by the Edelman CEO, not by Steve Cortez.
00:23:48.880 And, by the way, I'm sure they're not thrilled that their survey has given plenty of ammunition to people like Steve Bannon and Steve Cortez.
00:23:55.400 But that's the reality.
00:23:56.500 This is the reality of the world the globalists have created.
00:23:59.800 Yep.
00:24:00.760 No, this is why, by the way, it's very important when you said 219, now Ferguson's right.
00:24:06.300 Because, remember, now Ferguson's clients are the biggest companies in the world, right?
00:24:11.020 He's a smart guy, but he knows where he's getting his cash, right?
00:24:14.020 That's why he's trashing the, what does he call it, the populist protectionism.
00:24:18.540 Oh, that era's faded with the pandemic.
00:24:21.000 And now, because it's when workers did the best and the global elites did the worst.
00:24:26.820 Now you've had a complete flip of that, right?
00:24:28.820 Because you've got globalists like the Biden regime, all that.
00:24:32.580 Talk to me.
00:24:33.220 I've got a couple of minutes here.
00:24:34.660 We're going to have a very special guest on next segment.
00:24:38.100 And, Steve, I hope to hold you to after that because I want your comments on it.
00:24:41.320 But talk to me about this polycrisis.
00:24:42.760 The new thing they're pushing is polycrisis with climate change at the lead and AI as your god that's going to solve it all, sir.
00:24:51.180 Right.
00:24:51.660 Well, listen, I'm certainly not going to borrow their terms.
00:24:54.360 But I will say this.
00:24:55.280 They're on to something in this regard.
00:24:57.180 What we do have right now is economic recession the world over.
00:25:00.960 The United States, I believe, already in recession.
00:25:03.320 Most economists say it's about to tip into recession.
00:25:05.680 You have Europe in recession and China in reality, not according to their official numbers, but in reality, tipping into recession.
00:25:12.480 That has not happened yet since China's emergence as a global economic power, beginning with their admission into the World Trade Organization in 2001,
00:25:21.300 which unfortunately was was wildly pushed with bipartisan fervor here in the United States.
00:25:27.200 The Washington Uniparty was all in for Beijing getting into the World Trade Organization on terms that were incredibly beneficial and generous to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:25:36.400 But since then, what we have not seen is a synchronized slowdown, a synchronized recession in the three major economic centers of the world, China, the U.S. and Europe.
00:25:46.580 We are seeing that right now.
00:25:48.060 So in some respect, you know, the folks at Davos are on to something.
00:25:52.040 They look, they realize, I think, that their movement is in peril.
00:25:55.860 You know, they're not dumb people.
00:25:57.380 They're malevolent, but they're not dumb.
00:25:59.080 Right.
00:25:59.640 And I think they recognize that the tide is turning significantly against them all over the world.
00:26:04.840 And again, I'm not focused on the global part of it.
00:26:06.980 I'm focused on the American part of it.
00:26:08.920 And in the United States, we know that the concentration of economic power has been disastrous for regular people in this country.
00:26:16.200 And it's a consequence of globalism.
00:26:19.260 Steve, hang on for a second.
00:26:20.520 By the way, Cortez is going to hang with us.
00:26:22.500 We got a very special announcement happened on Fox and Friends this morning.
00:26:25.860 We're going to turn that out here momentarily.
00:26:27.460 But when we get Cortez back after the next block, Janet Yellen, the debt ceiling comes due on Thursday.
00:26:34.880 She's traipsing around Africa.
00:26:37.880 Curious minds want to know all about it.
00:26:40.220 We got a very special announcement that happened this morning.
00:26:42.560 Yes, it was Congressman Jim Banks has announced that he's running for the United States Senate in Indiana.
00:26:49.400 Let's go ahead and play the – let's go ahead.
00:26:51.380 Am I a little early on that?
00:26:52.420 I got to hit my marks.
00:26:53.720 Let's go ahead.
00:26:54.180 Let's go ahead and hit it.
00:26:55.340 We'll play a little music.
00:26:56.220 Here we go, Jim Banks this morning.
00:26:58.520 Congressman, you are Congressman Jim Banks, but you feel as though you want a career change.
00:27:03.240 Mike Braun is going to run for governor of Indiana.
00:27:05.580 What has that prompted you to say today?
00:27:09.000 Well, Brian, it's not about me.
00:27:10.520 It's about the great state of Indiana.
00:27:12.520 And I've had the incredible opportunity to serve in the House of Representatives for northeast Indiana the past six years.
00:27:19.020 But my senator, Mike Braun, is running for governor.
00:27:21.980 It opens up the Senate seat.
00:27:23.280 And today, here on Fox & Friends, I'm announcing that I'm running for the United States Senate.
00:27:28.820 Indiana is a conservative state.
00:27:31.440 And Indiana deserves a conservative fighter in Washington, D.C. and the United States Senate.
00:27:36.900 I've been that fighter in the House on issues like holding China accountable, fighting to keep girls' sports for girls.
00:27:43.500 I have three young daughters.
00:27:44.900 This matters deeply to me.
00:27:46.520 I'm fighting for fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets.
00:27:49.960 I've been one of the most fiscally conservative members of the House.
00:27:53.240 It's that type of attitude and that type of fighting spirit that we need in the Senate to shake it up.
00:27:59.960 And that's why I'm announcing I'm running for the Senate today.
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00:29:24.400 Okay, welcome back.
00:29:25.740 We are very honored to have Congressman Jim Banks.
00:29:28.580 Big announcement this morning.
00:29:29.820 Congressman Banks has announced he's running for the United States Senate from Indiana.
00:29:33.860 Congressman Banks, first off, given that you're such an important player in where we're heading after the big fight we had a couple weeks ago about the direction of this Congress,
00:29:44.920 why would you determine now that the House is not – because you're one of the smartest people about the Chinese Communist Party, about the administrative state,
00:29:55.280 so many things that are at the top of the pile in the inbox for this Congress.
00:30:01.360 You're a – you know, you're in the vanguard of that.
00:30:04.900 You've done such an amazing job with the Republican Study Committee.
00:30:07.580 Why now would you pivot to run for the Senate, sir?
00:30:09.900 Well, thank you, Steve.
00:30:11.560 Good to be with you.
00:30:12.660 Not a decision that my wife and I take lightly.
00:30:16.360 When Mike Braun, our current senator, who, by the way, has been a reliable conservative, has fought the fight for the America First cause in the Senate in his term,
00:30:25.740 announced that he's running for governor.
00:30:27.620 It opened up an open Senate seat in Indiana.
00:30:29.860 We spent the last couple of months praying about it, thinking about it, talking to our friends about it.
00:30:34.680 I just believe the United States Senate needs a shakeup, and Indiana deserves a conservative fighter fighting for them in the United States Senate.
00:30:42.960 I've been doing that, as you said, in the House.
00:30:44.940 And the House is a much better place today than it was when I first got there six years ago under Republican leadership the last time we had the majority who failed to live up to their promises.
00:30:55.260 This Republican majority currently, I believe, is going to do what we said we were going to do and address the issues that matter.
00:31:02.380 I just think we need that kind of leadership in the Senate.
00:31:04.720 I've seen over and over again Republican senators go along to get along with the radical left and the Democrats and not enough fight.
00:31:13.680 And I want to take the fight to the United States Senate.
00:31:15.740 That's why today I announced that I'm running for the Senate to be the next senator from Indiana.
00:31:22.220 Well, look, that's the thing.
00:31:23.540 You are one of the fighters, and the House is kind of structured to have more fighters in it.
00:31:28.600 Is it a structural problem in the Senate?
00:31:32.380 And we have seen a number of people that we admire that have been fighters, and once they get to the Senate, they seem to get captured by some invisible ray, and they become relatively passive.
00:31:44.120 Look, this whole thing, you know, we're in this debt ceiling fight.
00:31:46.800 You're all over this.
00:31:47.680 And one of the reasons we're here is that you had, and I call them the collaborationists.
00:31:52.620 If you look at every big thing that Biden got passed in the last couple of years, it's because of these folks in the Senate that went along with it.
00:32:04.240 Are you comfortable that's the proper place for your skill set?
00:32:08.560 Well, there are some fighters in the Senate who I'm looking forward to joining, like Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz.
00:32:16.760 That's why I'm inspired to go there, because I see a lot of activity there.
00:32:20.760 J.D. Vance is going to be one of the most exciting senators in the United States Senate.
00:32:25.520 So one thing I learned, Steve, I got elected to Congress in 2016, the same cycle Donald Trump got elected to president.
00:32:31.800 And I thought, I naively thought I could go to Washington, work with the other side to get things done, count on Republican leadership to do what they said they were going to do.
00:32:42.260 I thought the media would give me a fair shot.
00:32:44.240 I was very naive.
00:32:45.100 And for four years, I saw how the radical left operated, how they tried to block Republicans, block the America First agenda that the American people elected Donald Trump to fight for.
00:32:56.500 I thought I could go there and would see something different, but I saw how the radical left operate.
00:33:02.300 And I learned a lot of valuable lessons from that.
00:33:04.680 And it's that type of attitude, that type of shakeup that we need in the United States Senate.
00:33:10.560 What you talked about, the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, which wasn't just about spending.
00:33:16.240 It was about spending on left-wing socialist causes.
00:33:20.500 And it passes the Senate when Republicans could have blocked it.
00:33:24.100 Almost everything, every piece of the Biden agenda that's been passed over the last two years that has turned this country upside down could have been blocked by Republicans in the Senate.
00:33:34.860 And for too long, the Republicans have gone along with it.
00:33:37.480 So I want to go there to be one of the new fighters, a part of a new generation of conservative fighters in the Senate.
00:33:43.300 That's what I'm pledging to Hoosier voters as I kick off my campaign.
00:33:47.300 I'm excited about the campaign ahead.
00:33:51.400 Given Indiana and how it's so much of the backbone of the country, the Hoosiers and the great folks out there, patriots and great Americans, hardworking Americans, give me your perspective.
00:34:03.820 Right now, as you see the country, and then particularly Indiana, what are the two or three biggest issues you think facing the nation?
00:34:12.600 And how does that inform your thoughts about what faces Indiana and what you would do as their representative in the Senate, sir?
00:34:21.900 Yeah.
00:34:22.120 You know, I've got to start with the drug epidemic.
00:34:25.280 I mean, I come from a rural community, a small town.
00:34:30.200 Almost every family I talk to in my district has been affected in one way or another by the fentanyl epidemic.
00:34:37.380 That's a direct result of the Biden administration opening the border wide open.
00:34:42.320 Fentanyl, now the leading cause of death of Americans my age.
00:34:46.220 And I look at that issue in and of itself and what this administration has done to open the border, to radically change America and the severe consequences that that's had.
00:34:57.840 That's where we have to start.
00:34:59.440 But also immigration policies that put American workers first.
00:35:03.160 I'm worried about going back to an era where Republicans folded and supported amnesty rather than block amnesty.
00:35:10.600 And that's the type of commitment that I'm making to the voters.
00:35:12.780 I will never vote for amnesty.
00:35:14.820 I won't go back to a Republican Party that advanced the cause of amnesty.
00:35:19.160 I will always vote for immigration policies that put American workers first.
00:35:23.200 So that's where we have to start.
00:35:26.420 I'm the son of a factory worker.
00:35:28.120 My dad made axles all of his life.
00:35:30.680 A union man through and through, blue collar as they can come, working class, which is what most of Indiana reflects.
00:35:37.720 And those are the values that I want to take to the United States Senate to fight for the working families of my great state who are counting on new and better leadership in the United States Senate to fight for that.
00:35:48.860 When you talk about, you know, working class families and coming from a working class family, the one thing, having come from a blue collar family, too, you have to do is you have to live within your means.
00:36:01.620 There's nobody there going to bail you out.
00:36:03.580 How does this debt ceiling and just this mentality that we can have this what I call fiscal domination that you continue to vote for these over plus trillion dollar deficits that is just financed by the Federal Reserve just prints the money.
00:36:19.060 And we just increased the debt.
00:36:21.540 You got nine and a half trillion dollars in the balance sheet of the Fed.
00:36:24.460 We got 30, almost 31 trillion on the, over 31 trillion on the balance sheet of the Treasury.
00:36:29.920 Then you've got another, I think, 30 trillion when you really count up Social Security and Medicare, the real number you have to meet.
00:36:37.000 And you've got a hundred trillion dollars of unfunded liabilities, which are contingent liabilities that some of them are not that contingent.
00:36:45.400 What is your goal and objective?
00:36:47.720 Because the Senate has been the worst in this huge fight we're going to have right now.
00:36:52.180 It's the Senate and Mitch McConnell, these guys, going to put pressure on reaching some sort of compromise.
00:36:56.560 So what where did the folks and where the Hoosiers stand first in your mind about this issue?
00:37:02.880 And where do you expect to exert leadership to get us out of this mess?
00:37:08.060 Yeah, I mean, you look at the one point seven trillion dollar omnibus bill and hardly hardly a fight against it in the Senate.
00:37:14.020 When House Republicans were unified in voting against it and trying to stop it in the House, which we couldn't do because Democrats, after the lame duck, after the election, they passed out of the House, went to the Senate, and there wasn't much of a fight by Senate Republicans against it.
00:37:31.980 And you can kind of see that on the horizon here again, Steve, the debt limit fight.
00:37:35.560 If Senate Republicans fold on this and try to convince us that voters are going to forget about it in a year and a half when we get to the next election, the presidential election, the next election, Republicans are going to pay a price for that.
00:37:47.360 Because you're right, Hoosiers expect us to address the debt, address deficit spending and cut wasteful spending.
00:37:55.880 And that's the type of senator that I'm going to be, just like it's the type of representative I've been, never voting for bloated spending.
00:38:03.540 Republican Study Committee, the conservative caucus that I chaired, we were the only group in town that put out a budget.
00:38:11.680 And it was a budget that balanced in seven years without touching entitlements that seniors rely on today.
00:38:17.140 And there are simple ways to do that, there are simple solutions, but we have to use the leverage of this upcoming debt limit fight to advance balanced budgets and spending reforms that can set us down that path.
00:38:30.800 So I hope Senate Republicans don't forsake us again.
00:38:34.520 I hope they fight back hard and use the leverage that they have in the debt limit fight.
00:38:40.480 I can guarantee you that's what the House Republican majority is going to do.
00:38:43.480 The Republican Study Committee, you guys were also at the tip of the spear.
00:38:49.640 And I think, quite frankly, the reason we even have this China Select Committee is because of your guys' work.
00:38:54.800 You mentioned fentanyl.
00:38:56.640 Do you think there's enough focus in the Senate right now on really – you've got this concept that they're a strategic competitor.
00:39:04.000 I mean, you're a naval officer.
00:39:04.920 They talk about a strategic competitor.
00:39:06.860 I mean, they're at war with us.
00:39:08.640 They're at fifth-generation war, unrestricted war.
00:39:11.460 It hasn't slipped to kinetic war yet in the straits of Taiwan or around Taiwan, but it's getting close.
00:39:19.440 As a senator, what would you do about the Chinese Communist Party?
00:39:24.060 In fentanyl, in the second opium war they're running against us, also in the confrontation that's clearly coming, sir?
00:39:31.080 Yeah, we just created the Select Committee on China in the House.
00:39:35.640 We passed it.
00:39:36.880 About half of the Democrats, by the way, voted against it.
00:39:39.580 But it did get bipartisan support.
00:39:41.900 So it's being set up at the moment.
00:39:44.720 That's what the Senate needs, too.
00:39:46.160 The Senate, Steve, doesn't have the same focus on China as America's greatest threat, as the greatest existential threat to America's – to our way of life, to us economically, to us militarily.
00:39:57.920 I don't see the same focus there.
00:40:00.280 I see it from a few.
00:40:01.440 I hear Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton and J.D. Vance and a few others talking about it.
00:40:06.300 But when I get to the Senate, I'm going to take that same type of intensity I brought to the House with a focus on addressing the China threat and do everything that we can to position America in a better place to fight back against it.
00:40:19.040 So set up a Select Committee in the Senate.
00:40:21.540 Have senators working with the Select Committee in the House to develop that whole-of-government approach.
00:40:27.420 China has a civil-military fusion approach in how they want to dominate the United States of America.
00:40:34.760 Let's have the same type of focus in the Congress across the House and the Senate to do the same thing to confront the biggest challenge that we face.
00:40:41.680 So let's walk through this rollout.
00:40:45.620 How can people find out more about this?
00:40:47.540 Are you doing events?
00:40:48.640 Are you going to – right now, you're going to keep your seat in the House?
00:40:51.840 Walk us through the mechanics of your campaign so people can find out more about it and get engaged.
00:40:57.580 Yeah, we're kicking off the campaign today.
00:40:59.380 I'm talking to Hoosiers all over the state about why I believe I'm best positioned to be the conservative senator from Indiana.
00:41:09.000 BanksForSenate.com, you can go visit that.
00:41:11.580 The establishment, as you know, Steve, you could predict this.
00:41:14.980 The moderates and the establishment, they're already trying to recruit a candidate against me.
00:41:19.400 I'm the first in the race.
00:41:21.080 I have a proven track record.
00:41:23.000 I'm a part of the next generation of conservative leadership.
00:41:25.960 They don't want me in the Senate.
00:41:27.580 So go to BanksForSenate.com.
00:41:29.820 You can get involved.
00:41:30.800 Help me out.
00:41:31.480 I won't let you down.
00:41:32.560 I'll go to the Senate and keep up the same fight and intensity in the Senate as a conservative fighter that I've done in the House for the past six years.
00:41:42.100 Well, I'm sure they're going to try to – the establishment.
00:41:44.940 I mean, that's the problem with the Senate today.
00:41:46.780 So you're committed to the Hoosiers.
00:41:49.160 You're committed to the folks in Indiana, this fantastic state that's done so much for our country
00:41:54.400 and really is emblematic throughout the world for Hoosier values.
00:41:58.260 You're committed to say, hey, I'm going to be the same conservative, the same populist nationalist as I am in the House.
00:42:06.200 You're going to get that in spades in the Senate, correct?
00:42:09.840 You got it.
00:42:10.560 My dad will hold me accountable to that every single day, Steve, as part of that new working-class coalition of populist Republicans that are part of our party today because of what you've done,
00:42:22.020 because of what Donald Trump did for the Republican Party and for our country.
00:42:25.280 That's what Hoosiers are hungry for.
00:42:27.340 They want a conservative fighter in the Senate.
00:42:29.760 It's not about me.
00:42:30.840 There are some possible candidates who are talking about how they want to have a voice in national politics.
00:42:38.480 This isn't about me having a voice.
00:42:40.420 This is about me giving Hoosiers a voice in the United States Senate to be their conservative fighter, and I take that personally every day.
00:42:48.400 Congressman Banks, thank you for joining us on the day that you kick off your run for the United States Senate from the great state of Indiana.
00:42:54.660 Thank you very much, sir.
00:42:55.480 Honored to have you on here.
00:42:56.120 Thank you, Steve.
00:42:56.560 Jim Banks' hat is in the ring to get in and shake up the United States Senate.
00:43:04.060 My Lord, do we need to shake it up.
00:43:05.880 Okay, short commercial break.
00:43:07.180 We're going to be back in the war room in just a second.
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00:43:13.440 Let's take down the CCP.
00:43:16.840 They have all died for too long.
00:43:19.140 We will end what they do wrong.
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00:45:56.740 Some are very enthusiastic.
00:45:59.700 Some think need a lot more MAGA.
00:46:01.680 Your analysis, Steve Cortez.
00:46:05.720 Well, listen, Steve, I'm always in favor of more MAGA.
00:46:08.920 You know that.
00:46:09.720 But I also do believe that Jim Banks is exactly the kind of fighter that we need in the United
00:46:14.160 States Senate because that body is full of far too many squishes, many of them who have
00:46:18.260 an R after that name.
00:46:19.360 And I'm not just talking about the obvious ones like Mitch McConnell or Mitt Romney or
00:46:23.420 Lisa Murkowski.
00:46:24.120 I mean, for example, this omnibus disaster that we are suffering from right now and which
00:46:29.200 will continue to inflict misery, economic misery on this country throughout this year, that
00:46:33.800 was voted on by Tom Cotton.
00:46:35.300 OK, by somebody that we generally regard as an ally, by somebody who at least talks the
00:46:40.380 talk of MAGA, of patriotic populism.
00:46:42.880 But when the rubber hit the road, what did he do?
00:46:45.280 He voted with Joe Biden and with the establishment, both senators from the state of Arkansas, for
00:46:49.640 that matter.
00:46:50.120 Which brings me back to Indiana and Jim Banks.
00:46:52.680 Indiana is the literal and figurative heart of America.
00:46:56.620 But like many red states where the Republican Party is dominant, Steve, the establishment
00:47:01.820 is very powerful and largely dictated to from powerful corporate interests that are headquartered
00:47:07.620 there.
00:47:08.140 We see this certainly, for example, in the state of Georgia, where the Atlanta headquartered
00:47:11.980 companies like Coke and Delta and UPS have enormous sway, inordinate power over the Republican
00:47:16.700 Party.
00:47:17.260 Same kind of phenomenon in the state of Indiana.
00:47:19.980 Largely Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical giant in Indianapolis.
00:47:23.280 So the establishment there, although it is Republican in name, is not an alliance with
00:47:29.280 our way of thinking and our ideology and our patriotic populist approach.
00:47:32.900 But Jim Banks, thankfully, is very much of that worldview and very much of that fighter
00:47:38.320 mindset.
00:47:39.200 So I think he would be fantastic in the U.S.
00:47:41.920 Senate.
00:47:42.160 I'm also partial to him because my family on my mother's side, the Irish immigrants came
00:47:47.140 over and farmsteaded a farm in his district near Fort Wayne.
00:47:50.620 So I think he is just a salt of the earth, incredible patriotic populist fighter.
00:47:55.420 And by the way, let me say something about his likely opponent, Mitch Daniels.
00:47:58.200 On the other hand, he's currently a former governor, currently the president of Purdue
00:48:01.580 University, seems to be doing a reasonably good job in that function as university president.
00:48:06.880 But I think he has spent too much time at the faculty lounge at Purdue because he's absorbing
00:48:11.340 some of their terrible ideas.
00:48:13.540 He said recently, for example, that we should have a detente in the culture war, which, of course,
00:48:18.020 to me, is the same thing as saying that we're going to surrender in the culture war.
00:48:22.800 And here, by contrast, here's what Jim Banks said when he made his announcement, taking
00:48:26.500 at least an implicit shot at Mitch Daniels.
00:48:28.420 He said, I'll never be calling, this is a quote, I'll never be calling for a truce on
00:48:33.000 social issues or cultural issues.
00:48:36.320 So he is very much of the opposite mindset of Mitch Daniels.
00:48:40.380 Mitch Daniels ought to stay at Purdue.
00:48:42.220 That's where he belongs.
00:48:43.220 We don't need another Mitt Romney, certainly not coming from the great state of Indiana
00:48:47.520 in the U.S.
00:48:48.180 This guy's worse than Mitt Romney.
00:48:51.340 This guy was rolled out by the Bush apparatus.
00:48:54.560 Remember, this guy was going to be president of the United States.
00:48:56.240 They wrote in the National Review, George Will, all these guys.
00:48:59.680 This was their candidate, right?
00:49:01.800 And he lasted, I think, less than a week because there's some issues.
00:49:07.100 We won't go in.
00:49:07.940 It's a family show at 10.50 in the morning.
00:49:10.920 It's a family show.
00:49:11.840 We won't go into the issues, but he stayed in the race less than a week.
00:49:16.500 If Mitch Daniels is the best they've got, the establishment to put up there, it's a joke.
00:49:22.780 But they're pushing, already pushing hard.
00:49:24.800 He's a globalist.
00:49:26.220 He's from the Bush junta.
00:49:29.300 He was the OMB guy, supported everything Bush did.
00:49:31.760 All the warmongering, all the waste of the $9 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:49:39.260 It wasn't all done on his watch, but a lot of it was done on his watch.
00:49:42.140 It's a paper tiger.
00:49:44.860 This is what you get from the National Review and the faculty lounge at the National Review, George Will, all your betters in conservative media.
00:49:53.600 They're going to be pushing this guy big.
00:49:55.840 A paper tiger is Mitch Daniels.
00:49:58.080 Not a chance.
00:49:58.740 Because there's still so many, how do I say, these personal issues, right?
00:50:03.660 There's kind of unseemly that we can't mention in a, we can't talk about during a family show early in the morning.
00:50:10.260 Steve Cortez.
00:50:11.740 You know, Steve, we see this kind of gap between the legacy elected officials and a lot of the donors, frankly, and then regular voters in many of these red states.
00:50:19.060 You certainly see it in Indiana.
00:50:20.620 I was very involved in 2022 in Indiana politics, helping to elect Diego Morales to Secretary of State at a position he now occupies.
00:50:27.260 We knocked off an establishment, incumbent Republican Secretary of State, something that is damn near impossible to do.
00:50:34.240 We did it.
00:50:35.100 And at the state convention, rather than a primary for state office holders, they have a convention.
00:50:39.560 I will tell you, at that convention, being there in the room, in the auditorium, it was really palpable, the difference between the elected officials who were largely on the stage
00:50:47.380 and then the delegates, the activists who were in the crowd and on the convention floor.
00:50:52.640 They were thoroughly MAGA, all of them War Room fans, by the way, all of them animated by patriotic populism, by the urgency of saving this country,
00:51:01.360 of changing things dramatically, not tinkering around the edges, anti-globalist, proud Hoosiers, proud Americans,
00:51:08.660 and then contrast that with this very corporatist Indianapolis set.
00:51:12.400 It was fascinating to watch.
00:51:13.920 Thankfully, the rabble-rousers won, used their electoral power to win that race for Diego Morales,
00:51:20.380 who was validated and endorsed by Jim Banks.
00:51:23.720 And I believe that that same crew, that same movement, is now going to elevate Jim Banks in the Republican primary
00:51:29.200 and put him in the U.S. Senate where we need him.
00:51:31.780 Look, you often say courage is contagious.
00:51:33.900 It is.
00:51:34.280 In a lot of places, I think it will be in the U.S. Senate.
00:51:36.680 I think there are a lot of senators there, people like Tom Cotton, who sort of want to agree with us but need their backbone to be strengthened.
00:51:44.140 And they need it to be strengthened by colleagues like J.D. Vance, who we just sent there, who I think is going to do that and going to be that kind of fighter,
00:51:50.420 and people like Jim Banks.
00:51:51.980 I think there's going to be strengthened numbers in the U.S. Senate.
00:51:54.680 Yeah, I agree.
00:51:57.240 And Hawley's one of the leaders.
00:51:59.740 Cotton's got to drop the neocon.
00:52:01.480 We need a 10% increase to the defensive budget.
00:52:03.660 We don't need to be the world's policemen, and we certainly don't need to be everywhere in the world looking for the next kinetic war
00:52:11.800 and shoveling all that cash where Cotton's been 1,000% wrong in Ukraine.
00:52:16.520 Okay.
00:52:17.440 Steve Cortez, real quickly, how do people get to you, sir?
00:52:20.660 Yeah, please read my new article on Substack.
00:52:22.580 I'm at Cortez Steve on the Twitter.
00:52:26.940 Thank you, brother.
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