What began as a spy balloon has become a trial balloon testing President Joe Biden s strength and resolve. Unfortunately, the president failed that test, and that s dangerous for the American people. Stephen K. K. Lee is back in the War Room.
00:00:28.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:33.000Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.000If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:43.000War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Back.
00:00:52.000This was a moment of impact, courtesy of a single missile from an F-22 Raptor.
00:00:56.000Senior administration officials tell NBC News that not only was this the safest way to do it for the balloon to pass over water,
00:01:03.000but that it also improves the likelihood of collecting all of the intact material for the sake of our intelligence gathering.
00:01:10.000At the same time, those officials said that knowing where the balloon was going helped them adequately protect against potential Chinese intelligence gathering.
00:01:19.000Predictably, however, Republicans who spent the better part of the last week, they finally had one demanding the balloon be blown out of the sky to protect Americans.
00:01:30.000They proved they wouldn't be happy with any outcome, turning the incident into another one of their partisan food fights.
00:01:37.000They can now message to Taiwan, our allies and others that on top of Afghanistan, America is a declining power and they can't even stop one of our most basic surveillance tools, a balloon.
00:01:52.000The president taking it down over the Atlantic is sort of like the quarterback, sort of like tackling the quarterback after the game is over.
00:01:59.000What began as a spy balloon has become a trial balloon testing President Biden's strength and resolve.
00:02:06.000Unfortunately, the president failed that test.
00:02:09.000And that's dangerous for the American people.
00:02:50.000Just remember, everything's happy talk until we get all we want to see is the timeline.
00:02:56.000When it came across the Aleutian airspace around the 28th, it hit into the Idaho Canadian border into the lower 48 on the 31st.
00:03:07.000We don't think that Austin was brought into the loop to the first or the second.
00:03:11.000At least he says so. Adam out of he was in Manila, I think.
00:03:15.000Talked about this, you know, late night in the middle of the night conference call with Millie and these folks.
00:03:20.000It was all Tom Cotton got to. It was all to keep it suppressed, make sure nothing nobody knew anything until Blinken got on the plane on Friday afternoon to get to Beijing, which would arrive essentially Sunday morning.
00:03:34.000Right. Sunday morning, their time to start to have his meetings before the laptop from hell investigation starts next week with Comer.
00:03:44.000The first group he's bringing in is FBI.
00:03:47.000You know, Baker, the former general counsel of the FBI to talk about why they suppressed the laptop from hell in in at Twitter.
00:03:55.000Again, the story out because they want to sit there and they rub up on each other and say what the great relationships are.
00:04:01.000I've shown you the Financial Times headline from Friday morning, which they lied to the Financial Times on Thursday afternoon.
00:04:07.000Didn't tell them they got caught. They knew this was there. They knew it.
00:04:12.000And that that's got to be the same. Those are the important issues.
00:04:15.000When the gang of eight in the house and cotton, these guys get briefed.
00:04:19.000What we need to do is have them come forward and tell us exactly when they saw this in the Aleutian Islands and why did they keep it quiet?
00:04:25.000I think they kept it quiet even from Austin.
00:04:28.000You know, we're going to have Boris and Posobik on here in a little while about this whole thing with Trump.
00:04:33.000Let's find out that Milley know this. They say Mattis.
00:04:36.000I don't think Mattis. I think it's a different timeline than Mattis.
00:04:38.000And somebody said it was because they didn't want that Trump was too strong against the Chinese, the CCP.
00:04:44.000We got to get to the bottom of all of it. If you impeach Trump over a perfect phone call with the poison dwarf liar at the Ukraine all day long now, just inundated from the morning show.
00:04:56.000You know, one story after the other of what's happening in eastern Ukraine around Bakbo.
00:05:01.000You know, people are tired. The troops are worn out. It's freezing cold.
00:05:05.000There's no power. They get pounded by the Russians.
00:05:07.000And now, hey, besides instead of this big let's go liberate Crimea, the talking is so big today.
00:05:13.000It's about, you know, the defense minister just came out and said, no, no, no, I'm not fired.
00:05:17.000I'm not fired that, you know, Zelensky spinning that story, but I'm not fired.
00:05:20.000Everything's fine. People around him are fired for corruption and stealing the weapon systems and selling them to bad guys, taking the cash or just stealing the money right off the top.
00:05:30.000No, but I'm the defense minister still there.
00:05:32.000So he says people around Zelensky says he's gone. He's going to be fired.
00:05:36.000So total chaos. Does this remind you? Let me think.
00:05:40.000What does this remind me of is Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam.
00:05:44.000Yep. You ever read the best of the Bryce are reading the books in the Vietnam, Vietnam.
00:05:49.000Well, I told Zelensky when he came to Davos last year, we went to Davos in the first couple of first month of his where Davos is in the spring, went to Davos in what Jonathan Swan interviewed him.
00:06:01.000And what did he say? But people don't know this. Haven't don't have not read the memoirs of the Second World War.
00:06:07.000Well, sir, yes, I have. And I told you, you should read one of the memoirs of Vietnam, the best and the brightest.
00:06:14.000And you should study a guy named President Dime. When the when the when the Kennedy administration was finished with him, they assassinated him.
00:06:24.000They threw it. They overthrew him. And then, you know, lo and behold, the CIA assassinated.
00:06:29.000So, Zelensky, you better get focused because this thing is in cash right now, your lies and misrepresentations.
00:06:37.000And I'm sure tomorrow we've got Congressman Andrew Clyde with us. Congressman, what do you expect to see?
00:06:43.000You're going to be there tomorrow night for the State of the Union from the Biden regime.
00:06:47.000What do you anticipate you're going to hear, sir?
00:06:50.000Well, Steve, thanks for having me on War Room.
00:06:54.000Honestly, I don't think there's anything that I'm going to hear there that I really want to hear.
00:06:58.000I want to hear accountability. I want to hear answers.
00:07:01.000I want to hear the truth. And I don't think I'm going to hear any of that.
00:07:05.000So I think that I can set the bar as low as I possibly can.
00:07:09.000And I don't even think the president's going to meet it.
00:07:12.000What do you have to and by the way, I've got to bring up this Daily Caller before I want to get back to the CCP in the balloon.
00:07:22.000But my staff showed me a piece in the Daily Caller exclusive about you and what you're trying to do with Senator Haggerty down in Tennessee about home rule here.
00:07:33.000I mean, D.C.'s about as lawless as you can get right now.
00:07:37.000Maybe only New York City is more lawless.
00:07:40.000Well, tell me what's happening right here. This is the most lawless.
00:07:43.000This is the most lawless capital. Right.
00:07:49.000What are they trying to do right now to make it even more lawless, sir?
00:07:52.000Well, the D.C. Council actually passed a law, the Revised Criminal Code Act.
00:07:58.000And what they're doing with that particular piece of legislation is they are reducing the mandatory and maximum minimums for violent crime.
00:08:06.000Every violent crime on the books except for first degree murder is being the sentences are being reduced.
00:08:12.000And it's absolutely terrifying that the citizens of Washington, D.C.
00:08:17.000You're right. Washington, D.C. has a huge crime problem.
00:08:23.000The mayor vetoed it. The city council overrode the mayor's veto.
00:08:27.000You know, for once, Mayor Bowser and I agree on something, and that is that this law does not need to go into effect.
00:08:33.000So now it's up to Congress to save Washington, D.C. from itself.
00:08:37.000And that's just an inexcusable thing that the city council has done.
00:08:43.000So Congress is going to this Thursday, I believe, we're going to have this bill up.
00:08:47.000It's a it's a joint resolution of disapproval.
00:08:51.000And that means that we are going to strike down this law.
00:08:54.000Congress has that authority under the Constitution.
00:08:56.000We have exclusive legislative authority over the city of Washington, D.C., our nation's capital.
00:09:01.000We want the capital to be a safe place where the constituents of all the members of Congress can come and visit their representative.
00:09:08.000And that's not the case. That's not what's happening.
00:09:11.000And this particular RCCA Act will only make things worse.
00:09:15.000So we've got to stop it. Congress has to stop it.
00:09:19.000But that doesn't show you how out of control and detached from reality the D.C. government is that wouldn't then you guys want to step in and take even since we pay for it.
00:09:32.000Shouldn't somebody insert themselves and say we've got to make this place has to be rationally run because it's a disaster and it's a disgrace?
00:09:42.000You're absolutely right. To me, this is just the first step that we need to to go to take back the city from the liberals that have been running it, the socialists that have been running it for the last 40 years and making it an absolute disaster.
00:09:56.000I was just on the on a call with some of the D.C. residents just about an hour ago and they're saying, hey, bring back, you know, capital punishment here, bring back the death penalty because we don't have it.
00:10:08.000You know, bring back. Give us constitutional carry so we can protect ourselves.
00:10:13.000You know, this is the issue here in Washington, D.C., where citizens are fearful of just going out and walking in the streets. Carjackings, you know, the sentences for carjackings, violent crimes are being drastically reduced.
00:10:28.000It's all that does is send the wrong message to criminals that says, you know, it's OK. Violent crime is OK.
00:10:35.200The city council is soft on crime. It's OK in Washington, D.C.
00:10:40.940And that's not that's not right. And we're going to stop it.
00:10:47.000Don't they are they also trying to move to have illegal aliens vote?
00:10:51.100I mean, every aspect of the imperial city's governance is out of control.
00:10:56.360Aren't they even trying to get illegal aliens to vote in that one aspect of one of the things they're trying to push?
00:11:02.000That's another law that they passed that Congress is going to have to deal with.
00:11:06.200You're absolutely right, Steve. Think about it.
00:11:08.660Would you want Russia or China or North Korea or Iran, those people who are here, just the diplomatic folks who are not citizens of the United States,
00:11:19.420but but but, you know, allegiance to foreign nations to have influence and to be able to vote in our capital city,
00:11:25.180much less the the illegals that are pouring across our southern border.
00:11:29.200You know, last month, over a quarter of a million of them, those that are coming up here to Washington, D.C.
00:11:34.360now have an opportunity to vote in our nation's capital.
00:12:36.540This is an embarrassment as a nation's capital with the beautiful architecture we have and all the beautiful buildings and the parks and all that.
00:13:04.360So that's something we're going to have to tackle, too, in my opinion.
00:13:07.280This is going to have to be step after step after step.
00:13:09.900And whether it's going to be through funding, whether it's, you know, the appropriations process to to bring them back onto the right course.
00:13:18.520But all of this has to be looked at and Congress is going to have to, in a very strong way, reassert itself into the governance of the city of Washington, D.C.
00:13:29.340Before I let you go, the Congress are going to you're going to get briefed about the spy balloon, all of it, the details of it, the timeline of it.
00:13:38.180You anticipate that will happen the next couple of days.
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00:16:37.220President Trump's going to speak today.
00:16:39.580I think they released, it was Carrie Lake and Lauren Boebert.
00:16:43.080We know Nikki Haley's going to be there, so President Trump's going to give the big wrap-up speech, I think, on Saturday afternoon before the poll.
00:16:49.800So we're going to be there, Real America's Voice.
00:16:52.640We're going to be broadcasting nonstop.
00:18:58.480You've got Hunter Biden, who's proven, based on their laptop from hell, proven to have been in business, to be in business with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:19:08.560You've got to prove it, that there are payments being funneled from the Chinese energy company, the Hunter, and now evidently going as rent for the Wilmington House at almost $50,000 a month to Joe Biden.
00:19:23.320Prove it, that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were on trips to China when Biden was vice president.
00:19:28.520And you're telling me all of that has no impact on Joe Biden trying to hide the fact that there's a Chinese spy balloon flying across the United States of America from the American people and from the Department of Defense?
00:19:52.480We have a compromised, pathetic, hopeless man as the illegitimate, yes, I said illegitimate president of the United States.
00:20:02.600And his crime family is profiting off America.
00:20:05.380And we are absolutely being positioned as a weak little brother to the big brother of China.
00:20:13.500And if that's what Americans want, they keep voting for Biden and his comrades and the Democrats.
00:20:19.240But if you want strength, if you want America being put first, let's get President Trump back in the Oval Office the latest, Jan 20, 2025.
00:20:28.240If it's shown after these briefings that they knew about it when it crossed the Aleutians on the 28th of January and never even told anybody until forced to because the Billings Gazette guy walked out back.
00:20:43.800He took a picture, then they put it out on the Internet, is would that if they suppress this in order, as Tom Cotton said, to let Blinken get on the plane without telling the American people about this situation and go to China?
00:20:57.100Is that and do you believe that's the level of impeachment, sir?
00:21:00.880A thousand percent, because take it one step further.
00:21:03.500The reason they suppress it is to not get into a confrontation with China, which means they did not want to face up to China on this, which is, to me, effectively treason.
00:21:16.360The role of the executive is to serve and protect the Constitution and the American people.
00:21:23.420And if you're allowing a foreign craft, if you're intentionally allowing for it to go across the United States, across the whole continent of the United States, what else do you call that?
00:21:36.220It is absolutely an impeachable and removable offense.
00:21:40.140That is a violation of the number one right and duty, number one duty of the chief executive, to protect the people of the United States.
00:21:52.060They want Blinken to go have a nice trip.
00:21:53.960They want to go have a nice trip, so the Chinese are nice to them.
00:21:56.820So they are, once again, selling our country down the river to the Chinese Communist Party, and it is unacceptable.
00:22:03.040Right now, in Ukraine, they're talking about either the defense minister has got his job, he's about to be fired for corruption.
00:22:13.400New York Times just reported, right when we came on, that the troops around Bakhmut in the east are beaten, tired, cold, no food, no heat, no electricity.
00:22:24.200What's your latest assessment of Ukraine, sir?
00:22:26.280I thought we gained tanks and we're going to go liberate Crimea.
00:22:29.880My assessment continues to be consistent from just about a year ago to the day.
00:22:38.320This was a huge mistake by Vladimir Putin to go in, and it is a huge mistake for the United States of America to now effectively be engaged in a hot war in Eastern Europe.
00:22:48.960Because that region, if you go back hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years, that region is not one that you want to throw powder into.
00:24:58.380This is something that was kept as a secret from the American people because, of course, they saw this thing.
00:25:05.280And you can go look at some of the new assessments.
00:25:07.000There was just a back brief by a Pentagon official later today that the size and scope of this weapons platform, or I should say spying platform, is much larger than I think people realize.
00:25:19.420The payload was as large as a skyliner.
00:25:23.640And the fact of the matter is that the Pentagon is now saying that this may have had explosives on it.
00:25:29.940Explosives flying over and that were allowed to fly over American houses, allowed to fly over American military installations for the potential of self-destruction.
00:25:38.140But the amount of explosives you'd need for something that large would be quite considerable.
00:25:42.700So we're talking about potentially a weapons platform.
00:25:57.960These are areas, even by the time it got to where people could find it, it was only, remember, go back to the timeline, it was only because of the good people of Billings, Montana, the deplorables out there, who looked up one day over their backyards, over their ranches, and they said there's something in the sky that doesn't look right and our government is lying to us.
00:26:22.040That's why they had to come clean and for no other reason.
00:26:25.140Jack, it maneuvered around the Air Force Base in the ICBM field for a day or two, did it not, sir?
00:26:33.340Or at least we've seen from that blue, from the analysis that was done with the blue tracer, correct?
00:26:40.100I would say that's currently something that's being considered, that's under investigation.
00:26:44.620We're not entirely sure if it was being blown around or if it had its own self-propulsion or some sort of minimal propulsive type of threat.
00:26:55.140Thrusters or some kind of rockets or something like that on it, we honestly just don't know.
00:26:58.760We honestly just don't know at this point.
00:27:00.600And because it was taken down at sea in a place where it's not recoverable, at a place where we were not able to even gather information based on the remnants of this thing when it was taken down, that we're not able to find out.
00:27:12.740But the bottom line, Steve, is that for people saying this thing was jammed, for people saying that this thing was prevented from collecting any information, that's just a lie.
00:27:21.520I mean, it's a lie on top of all the other lies that we've seen in terms of this because we know this thing was not followed.
00:27:27.160It was not shadowed for its entire trajectory.
00:27:29.660And so we don't know quite how long it operated before it was able to be jammed.
00:27:34.320And even then, when the jamming did come or when some of these electronic warfare Air Force platforms were able to go up, that if this thing has burst transmission, obviously they were not there for 100% of the trip.
00:27:44.780So it was certainly able to send signals back.
00:27:47.280And we don't even know what type of signals, whether it was going after.
00:27:50.560Obviously, military would be your top priority.
00:28:02.420You can't get a better analysis of the Third World War in real time than the Human Events Daily with Jack Besovic every night at 10 o'clock and on all the social media.
00:29:48.620Welcome back to The War Room, Real America's Voice.
00:29:51.760We're going to momentarily go, as soon as Kevin McCarthy steps to the microphone in the Capitol and starts talking about the dead ceiling, we'll jump there.
00:29:57.840We've got Jack Posobiec from Human Events Daily, a guy, intelligence officer, intelligence officer.
00:30:03.340Jack, we're going to bounce in a second, but I've got a question.
00:30:05.580Given your intel background, isn't it odd that Millie and these guys are saying,
00:30:10.880we only knew about this, Austin, we only knew about this on the first.
00:30:14.560In fact, we had this huge conference call from Manila with Austin over in the bases when we know for a fact it came across the Aleutians as late as the 28th, maybe even earlier.
00:38:13.980No drawing lines in the sand or saying it's my way or the highway.
00:38:19.900No policy gimmicks or political games.
00:38:23.940But most of all, no blank checks for runaway spending.
00:38:29.000Just sensible, responsible solutions to our growing national debt.
00:38:35.100First, we will continue to sit down and negotiate, just as President Biden did in the past.
00:38:44.880Second, we must commit to finding common ground on a responsible debt limit increase.
00:38:52.320Finding compromise is exactly how governing in America is supposed to work, and exactly what the American people voted for just three months ago.
00:39:03.740Third, we must move towards a balanced budget and insist on genuine accountability for every dollar we spend.
00:39:17.640A responsible debt limit increase that begins to eliminate wasteful Washington spending and puts us on a path towards a balanced budget is not only the right place to start, it's the only place to start.
00:39:34.100My fellow Americans, I cannot stand still in the face of a growing national debt and diminishing economic opportunities.
00:39:42.880My colleagues and I in Congress were elected at this moment in time to restore your voice in Washington and to deliver the bright future you want, need, and deserve, not only for you, but for your children and their children.
00:40:29.940That was Kevin McCarthy on a brief talk about the debt ceiling.
00:40:36.080Of course, he started off with the purchase of Chinese land and the purchase of that, and he also started off with invasion on the southern border.
00:40:43.520Now I'm talking to the chair of the creditors committee, and that would be the boardroom policy.
00:40:49.500We have to dig in here, and we have to help Speaker McCarthy be the great speaker that he can be, and the way we do that is we are the dead enders.
00:41:21.420We pay Medicare and Social Security, and then we prioritize the payments.
00:41:25.300Look, it's going to be – I think it's projected to be $5 trillion.
00:41:27.400What Speaker McCarthy has to do now – by the way, I thought it was a very good T.F. speech and what I really liked about it, he did it.
00:41:34.660He big-footed Biden's State of the Union because this is what everybody will be talking about now, that he big-footed Biden's State of the Union.
00:41:46.200He needs to hammer and say, look, we're not going to get into these negotiations until you give us the financial model.
00:41:52.400You have to come forward to the American people and actually explain mathematically Janet Yellen's – her letter that they sent me that said June 5th is going to be run out of cash.
00:42:04.320Also, Yellen has been wandering around.
00:42:06.760If you go from my Getter page right now, she's been wandering around saying the United States have to pay all their bills.
00:42:42.340The way to stop the loose talk is to get the financial model.
00:42:47.180But Kevin McCarthy kind of – they had the meeting last week and biting these guys and they're all rubbing up on each other here on MSNBC.
00:47:17.580It's out of control because this is how the administrative state pays for itself and how it pays its puppet masters and its pay masters by using the Federal Reserve to basically increase asset values.
00:47:33.840And this is why you've had the concentration of wealth in this nation.
00:47:37.620And, oh, by the way, this is the reason the concentration of wealth around the hedge funds and others, the oligarchs, as I refer to them,
00:47:44.020this is you have the Kochs over the weekend at this big soiree they had out in Palm Springs.
00:47:50.280Trump's the enemy that we're going to get into the primary and we're going to defeat Trump.
00:47:54.900Okay, we don't care how much money we spend.
00:47:56.500The biggest oligarchs, the Kochs, you've got Ken Griffin, you've got Schwartzman, you have Singer, you have that entire crew, right?
00:48:08.520They're all sitting there, anybody but Trump.
00:48:10.680And the reason is they don't like you being the creditors committee.
00:48:15.000They don't like what you've got to say.
00:48:16.680And listen, because of the five days that changed the direction of the country, that you had the back on the Andy Clyde's of the world, the 20, and particularly the Magnificent Six,
00:48:27.860this is why we're even here today with starting these investigations this week, with even having a tough debt negotiation.
00:48:35.440Remember, McConnell wanted to stick it into the bill on the omnibus bill.
00:48:39.360If they thought they could get away with it, they were talking about putting the debt ceiling in there.
00:48:45.140And their sponsors, the lobbyists, their corporate paymasters from Sequoia Capital all the way to the global corporations, they get a payday, and you end up paying for it.
00:49:23.080This happens all the time, reorganizations, restructurings, bankruptcies, because that's what this is.
00:49:28.960It's essentially a bankruptcy, except the bankrupt entity has got this special magic machine over there.
00:49:35.620We're going to just continue to print fiat currency, a currency that's been, what, degraded 90 percent, devalued 90 percent since we went off the gold standard.
00:50:19.260And they know that they've put themselves into an untenable corner, that even the American people, that most have very little understanding of this.
00:51:13.700You're going to find the system warned them about it immediately is they made a conscious decision to hide this from the American people so that Blinken could get on a plane.
00:51:22.940So he could go to Beijing for a previously scheduled meeting to kowtow as a tributary state to Xi to have the Monday papers and the Tuesday papers say, this is just amazing.
00:51:45.640And the evil Navarro and Bannon and Pompeo, all these guys, the evil ones are gone and we're rubbing up on each other.
00:51:51.600And, you know, it's all peace in the valley.
00:51:54.960To get ahead of the Hunter Biden laptop from hell, we see the compromise and you see the perversion of Hunter Biden, who was raised by a pack of wild dogs.
00:52:05.540Yes, that would be Dr. Jill Biden and the guy that refers to himself as the president, the illegitimate president.
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