Bannon's War Room - February 13, 2023


Episode 2513： Fourth 'Unidentified Object' Shot Down; What Working Class Think Of Joe Biden


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00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:07.020 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:12.240 Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:16.500 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:18.440 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:19.840 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:22.540 It's going to happen.
00:00:23.800 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:27.200 MAGA Media.
00:00:28.100 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:33.980 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.740 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.080 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:52.640 There's been a total of four objects shot down now.
00:00:56.160 So, what is going on?
00:00:58.100 What are your concerns?
00:00:59.300 Please explain to us.
00:01:01.740 I think you're seeing the confluence of two things.
00:01:05.240 The first thing is what General Venner, my old commander, referred to as intelligence gaps that existed with our systems of detection across North America.
00:01:15.700 As he said in his briefing after the initial shoot down of the Chinese attributed balloon, that they have since closed those gaps.
00:01:23.760 And it's been referred to as to adjusting the filters on those systems.
00:01:28.520 I think there's maybe a little bit more to that.
00:01:30.860 But what it does is it allows these systems to be seen more often.
00:01:36.520 The second thing, and this is just conjecture from my perspective, I think you're also seeing the confluence of distinctive activity by our adversaries to test our systems.
00:01:48.500 And I think it's the confluence of both of those things that we're producing these number of events.
00:01:53.820 Does that mean you think it's China?
00:01:56.780 No, I do not.
00:01:58.500 And I think that General Van Erk's prudence with respect to attribution of these last three is well-sounded.
00:02:05.800 Especially when we think of the tensions that already exist in the relations between China and the United States particularly.
00:02:15.400 But let's just say China and the Western world over the Straits of Taiwan, over its economic dealings, over its flouting of international laws.
00:02:24.800 Canada has been demarched by them in the past for a number of things.
00:02:28.960 So his prudence in making sure that we can recover the objects before attribution is smart.
00:02:35.420 But what I'm saying is it smells to me, as the guy who was directed to conduct operations to defend North America, I'd be very suspicious and I'd be on high alert to make sure that all of our adversaries are being countered.
00:02:50.440 Can you just follow up on something you said?
00:02:51.680 You said distinctive what to test our system and why now?
00:02:56.180 Why so?
00:02:56.720 Well, I think that's what we're trying to get out of the recovery and analysis of the payloads of the devices that have been shot down.
00:03:10.700 It's not just where they were.
00:03:13.500 It's not just the critical infrastructure or defense infrastructure, nuclear fields that they flew over.
00:03:22.060 It's also the type of sensors that they had on board.
00:03:25.420 And then finally, what you're really trying to ascertain is what was the overall intent of doing this with these devices at this time?
00:03:34.820 It looks to me to be a concerted effort because you have any more than one object.
00:03:41.320 Then it looks like a coordinated effort and it might not be over even the infrastructure that you fly over.
00:03:49.280 You might fly over infrastructure attempting to see inside of our networks or command and control systems the reactions so that you can play out those reactions for the future.
00:03:59.100 We're going to continue to share as much information with the American people as we can as we learn more about these objects.
00:04:05.740 The truth is that we haven't been able to gain access to the three that were shot down Friday, Saturday and yesterday, in large part because of the weather conditions.
00:04:14.200 And the third one yesterday was shot down over Lake Huron.
00:04:17.520 So it's underwater.
00:04:18.480 So we're going to do everything we can to recover them.
00:04:20.380 And as soon as we do that, we'll learn more about them and we will absolutely share what we can learn with the American people.
00:04:27.380 Hour or two, the foreign ministry there has accused the United States since the start of 2022 of flying balloons 10 different times over Chinese airspace.
00:04:39.080 Can you respond to that accusation?
00:04:41.960 Not true.
00:04:42.720 Not doing it.
00:04:43.780 Just absolutely not true.
00:04:45.180 So the U.S.
00:04:45.800 Let me just push you a little further then.
00:04:47.140 So the U.S. is not using these balloons technologies at all over China?
00:04:51.840 That is right.
00:04:52.620 We are not flying balloons over China.
00:04:55.280 That is absolutely true.
00:04:56.540 OK.
00:04:56.780 And then lastly, then, just as will there be will that viewpoint be expressed directly to Beijing beyond here on the friendly confines of Morning Joe?
00:05:04.440 When when do the next conversation start between Washington and Beijing over a matter that's clearly inflaming tensions between the two countries?
00:05:11.260 Well, two points there, Jonathan.
00:05:12.460 First of all, we still have diplomatic relations with China.
00:05:14.700 We still have an embassy there.
00:05:15.780 It's not like all communications between us and the PRC have shut down.
00:05:19.760 Obviously, there are certain vehicles like military to military vehicles, which are not open to us right now.
00:05:23.980 And that's unfortunate.
00:05:25.220 But we do have the ability to communicate directly with the Chinese leaders.
00:05:28.360 And we have in private settings about our concerns over that that spy balloon.
00:05:33.280 Monday, 13 February, in the year of our Lord, 2023, you're in the war room and we're here to be your nerve center for the Third World War.
00:05:44.500 Reuters just reported that the United States government has called for all U.S.
00:05:50.600 citizens to leave Russia immediately.
00:05:52.680 Let me repeat that.
00:05:54.320 The United States government has put out a warning.
00:05:56.660 Reuters just reported that all U.S.
00:05:59.020 citizens should leave Russia immediately.
00:06:02.180 And obviously, no one should travel to Russia.
00:06:04.360 Put a travel warning on that.
00:06:06.440 But all U.S.
00:06:07.080 citizens should leave Russia immediately.
00:06:10.440 A domain awareness gap.
00:06:13.420 You're not going to have that in the war room.
00:06:15.040 All you've heard all weekend is spin, obfuscation, happy talk.
00:06:20.300 I got Kash Patel, Steve Cortez, Seth Keschel in in the second hour.
00:06:25.460 We're going to load up today with experts and tie this to the economy.
00:06:28.580 And what exactly is going on here?
00:06:30.560 Kash Patel, the head of NORAD, the head of NORAD, a four-star general, also, I think, head of Northern Command.
00:06:39.160 Right.
00:06:39.360 NORAD reports him.
00:06:40.280 Northern Command.
00:06:40.700 Northern Command basically has his – he's a combatant commander, and they have responsibility for the continental United States and Alaska.
00:06:50.840 They have – they are responsible for the defense of this country as a combatant commander.
00:06:55.880 He says yesterday on the Lake Huron situation, which looks like it might have been from Montana to Michigan to Lake Huron, they – he said that they could not rule out this being an alien aircraft or something he would not say is either CCP, Russian, or something normal.
00:07:16.500 Is that – you were chief of staff in the defense department under President Trump.
00:07:23.720 Is that highly unusual for a four-star NORAD Northern Command commander whose specific responsibility is the military defense of the homeland to actually say, I can't rule out aliens, sir?
00:07:38.640 Hey, Steve, it's great to be with you, and you set it up beautifully.
00:07:42.240 Look, as the guy who was chief of staff at DOD, Van Herc used to work for me.
00:07:46.620 I know the guy.
00:07:47.540 And you're right.
00:07:48.380 NORTHCOM is responsible for the geographic territory that is the United States of America in North America.
00:07:54.880 And for the military's leader at NORTHCOM to come out and say we are maybe talking about space aliens is the most hyperbolic statement that a military uniformed officer could make, and one that he no doubt made in conjunction with the White House so that the internet and the media could set itself ablaze talking about aliens.
00:08:14.220 The only thing we should be talking about is China, the CCP, and Russia and what they've been doing to our country and in terms of intelligence intrusion operations since Joe Biden took over.
00:08:25.680 That is the one glaring thing that his deputy didn't talk about.
00:08:29.300 Of course he didn't say, well, no, no, I don't think it's all from China or Russia.
00:08:33.360 That's exactly where it's coming from.
00:08:34.840 And it's very telling, Steve, that you have John Kirby from the White House saying explicitly, I think they're going to eat their words, that we have no coverage over CCP mainland China and Russia.
00:08:47.360 I want to go to – because we're going to connect a few dots here.
00:08:50.620 I want to go to all the happy talk we've been told about the Russian army and what's happening because we're sending tanks over, battle tanks because we're about to pivot for a big spring offensive.
00:09:00.940 A big spring offensive to – we're going to leave Bakhmut and we're going to have a big spring combined arms offensive to liberate Crimea.
00:09:11.520 We report this morning, Reuters, BBC, everybody, there's a 12-point – 12 different village on a broad range front outside of Bakhmut shelling those people back into the Stone Age.
00:09:24.400 It's an escalation.
00:09:24.940 An escalation – does the United States just normally tell people to leave a country, particularly a major country like Russia?
00:09:31.320 Is that an escalation where the government comes out and says, leave, all U.S. citizens must leave immediately, sir?
00:09:38.600 An escalation is an understatement, Steve.
00:09:40.880 It's the very last thing our government tells our citizenry overseas when they are in harm's way or when they know they're about to be in harm's way because their counterpart government has escalated things to basically one level below calling out for full-fledged conflict.
00:09:56.200 So having the Russians expel – that's the word – or basically they're saying to America, you better get your guys and gals out of here because we have had it with you.
00:10:05.720 This has been a continuous uptick because of the Joe Biden administration's failure on the national security front because they have no respect from Putin or Xi Jinping in mainland China.
00:10:16.700 And now we are returning the disastrous consequences of those actions, one, two, three, four, five balloons and objects flying over our skies.
00:10:25.920 And you have, disgustingly, our military walking it back saying, oh, it's an intelligence gap.
00:10:31.800 That is incredibly offensive to the men and women of this country who serve in uniform to protect our nation.
00:10:37.880 There's no intelligence gap.
00:10:39.180 There's a leadership gap.
00:10:40.140 Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on.
00:10:41.640 But hang on, hang on.
00:10:42.740 We spend $848 billion, and that doesn't include the $80 billion for Intel.
00:10:47.500 So it's at $900 billion, and I round it up to a trillion dollars for intelligence defense.
00:10:52.940 Explain to the audience the term – we love getting concepts out here so the audience can start thinking about them.
00:10:58.060 Domain awareness gap.
00:11:00.800 That is Pentagon speak – that domain awareness gap is my new hook.
00:11:06.780 What is – because you've got to be master of your own domain, right?
00:11:09.140 Your domain awareness gap.
00:11:11.520 What does that mean?
00:11:13.280 It is Pentagon-created verbiage to say we are retroactively covering our hides because this White House has screwed up the military operations of this country so much that what they want to do is say, oh, no, this was happening in the Trump administration.
00:11:28.860 No, the difference is these countries, Russia and China, would never do this in the Trump administration because they know we would take them out.
00:11:36.560 In this administration, the Biden administration, they don't care.
00:11:39.380 So what do they come up with this clever verbiage, domain awareness gap?
00:11:42.560 What do they somehow go through the intelligence again retroactively and say, oh, actually, there's a picture of the UFO that we should have seen but we didn't see?
00:11:50.220 It's an absurdity and this is what happens when you weaponize and politicize the national security apparatus of our country.
00:11:56.640 And when you have four-star generals and, of course, the likes of Mark Milley and company going out and theorizing about what they could have done in the past, about things that maybe happened, we now know how far our DOD has fallen from protecting America and how much of a political tool it has become.
00:12:14.400 It might as well be just another extension of the White House and Joe Biden and John Kirby telling us more lies.
00:12:22.160 Cash, I've got a couple of minutes.
00:12:23.620 I'd love to hold you for a minute or two on the other side.
00:12:25.400 I know you're jammed for time.
00:12:26.300 We've got Steve Cortez on deck.
00:12:27.960 But I want to go back.
00:12:28.740 Mike Gallagher, the great Mike Gallagher, a Marine Corps officer, now head of the China Select Committee, was on the John Katzenmaty show.
00:12:38.440 He went full war room.
00:12:39.460 He said we talked about domain awareness gap.
00:12:41.720 He said they knew about it on the 28th or earlier, but they hid it from the American people, knowingly hid it from the American people until the Billings Gazette because they wanted Blinken to go to China and kowtow to Xi Jinping.
00:12:56.560 Do you see any domain awareness gap?
00:12:58.680 We actually picked it up where you should have picked it up, maybe over mainland Russia, but you definitely – or China, but you definitely picked it up outside the Aleutian Islands.
00:13:06.840 There was no awareness gap.
00:13:08.260 There was a transparency and truthfulness gap.
00:13:11.280 Was it not, sir?
00:13:12.760 You're absolutely right.
00:13:13.760 The detection occurred.
00:13:15.240 We allowed it to traverse the United States for seven days before shooting it down.
00:13:19.400 And so there was no actual gap.
00:13:21.000 If you go to the field level operators, I bet you they saw this thing from miles and miles away, thousands of miles away.
00:13:27.100 But the domain awareness gap is from political brass and leadership like Millie and Austin and this Van Herc guy coming in to cover Joe Biden's failures on the national security front.
00:13:38.200 This domain awareness gap is nonsense.
00:13:40.480 It's political garbage recycled through the Pentagon to give them top cover at the White House.
00:13:45.820 What should happen is the intelligence should be publicized immediately, and our intelligence committees at Congress should demand it and subpoena it and then put these guys on blast.
00:13:54.860 And oh, by the way, Mark Millie and Austin, how come the CCP's leadership isn't taking your phone calls?
00:14:00.100 I thought you were the guys that were going to warn them about if the U.S. were going to war, you'd call them in advance.
00:14:05.040 And now all of a sudden they won't even pick up your phone?
00:14:07.900 That is a gap in leadership that is striking and is the only gap we should be talking about.
00:14:14.680 Cash, we're going to hold you for a minute.
00:14:16.280 Cash Patel joins us.
00:14:17.500 He's the author of this blockbuster book, Government Gangsters.
00:14:22.020 It couldn't be more perfectly timed.
00:14:24.080 We're going to talk about government gangsters.
00:14:25.500 The gangsters are going to punch back.
00:14:28.160 Who tells us that?
00:14:29.440 The Hill newspaper this morning.
00:14:30.940 They're getting to weaponize.
00:14:32.320 They're going to get anti-weaponization on the Weaponization of Government Committee.
00:14:37.020 They're coming hard at the members, anybody that testifies, all of it.
00:14:41.440 Next, in the war room.
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00:16:28.420 Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
00:16:34.920 That's the new Pentagon nomenclature, so remember that.
00:16:38.540 Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.
00:16:41.460 An alien craft or UFO or something we don't know.
00:16:44.900 You had NORAD, the head of the warning system, and I guess he doubles as, or reports to him,
00:16:51.080 he's also Northern Command, which is the combatant commander that's in charge of protection,
00:16:57.420 the military protection of the United States of America, the continent, and also Alaska.
00:17:04.440 Cash, you were chief of staff.
00:17:06.020 Did it come in to you on a Sunday afternoon to NORAD?
00:17:08.220 You shot this thing down.
00:17:10.580 You had pilots, and we know the pilots said different things about what it looked like.
00:17:15.840 Also, we know they tried to jam or, quote-unquote, interfered with their communications and their radars.
00:17:21.660 At least this is what the pilots were saying.
00:17:23.900 If that had come in to you on a Sunday afternoon, would you regroup in the Pentagon and maybe say,
00:17:29.060 hey, look, maybe we had the Super Bowl, maybe we don't, but would you talk about going to, like, DEFCON 2,
00:17:34.860 if this had come across your desk, if he actually said it and meant it?
00:17:40.580 I mean, look, it would have been handled so differently.
00:17:43.100 I know how the conversation would have gone with President Trump.
00:17:45.480 A, this would never have happened.
00:17:46.700 B, if it did, take him out.
00:17:48.020 And also, let's just highlight the buffoonery that is the collection effort, the recollection effort that these guys are talking about.
00:17:53.420 They're shooting things down, and they're like, oh, it went underwater, so we don't have the ability to go take it.
00:17:57.300 Why weren't our men and women staged on the shores of Lake Huron, ready to go recover this thing,
00:18:02.340 and out in the waters off the coast of South Carolina?
00:18:04.760 It's as if they had no idea where this object was going to come down and land.
00:18:10.000 They are overhyping the situation because they want to escalate the political apparatus in this country to say,
00:18:16.120 look at what we did to defend America.
00:18:18.320 And that's the sheer difference, Steve.
00:18:19.840 We did less escalation when we took out Baghdadi from the Situation Room in the White House where I was at with President Trump
00:18:27.060 than these guys are doing with the balloon from the CCP.
00:18:30.180 They are overhyperventilating, and they are causing the American public to do so.
00:18:36.020 And by doing that, they are weakening our global footing even further.
00:18:39.580 And that's why you see the likes of Russia and China and the CCP issue dire warnings,
00:18:44.040 and now our government is all of a sudden withdrawing American citizenry from around the world.
00:18:48.360 That can only happen when you have people who don't do the reps and sets like Chris Miller and I did to protect this nation.
00:18:54.780 These are things that we know how to handle, and we do it internally.
00:18:57.820 We don't set the world ablaze because it's a good political headline to then say, look at what Joe Biden saved us from.
00:19:05.020 This is what Joe Biden led us right to.
00:19:07.060 You have a lot of bad narratives going right now for the regime.
00:19:13.260 You've got the CCP's humiliating you.
00:19:16.440 You've got all the bad – the panels last week investigating in the House was fantastic.
00:19:23.400 Weaponization of government, the oversight, the Hunter Biden, all of it.
00:19:27.280 The social media was terrible for the regime.
00:19:30.040 You've got the cratering situation in Ukraine.
00:19:33.060 All their lies and misrepresentations are coming up as the people in Ukraine get pounded by the Russian military.
00:19:38.420 You've got the situation in Ohio that Pete – what me worry, Pete Buttigieg is not down there having a press conference
00:19:45.540 and actually telling us what's the tradeoff between doing a controlled burn of those 24 cars versus some other way,
00:19:51.700 maybe getting it out, sweeping it up and getting it out before putting it in the atmosphere.
00:19:56.820 They're trying to – is there any doubt in your mind that they're trying to change the narrative?
00:20:01.340 If they weren't, if this was real, you would have a heightened military alert?
00:20:05.700 They would put everybody on heightened military alert by going to a higher DEFCON status, Kash Patel?
00:20:11.660 My fear, Steve, it's even worse than that.
00:20:15.100 They've put so many political hacks into leadership positions of national security in the Department of Defense
00:20:19.820 is they don't know how to go to a heightened DEFCON position if it were required.
00:20:24.320 And that's the ultimate test of an administration.
00:20:27.040 Not can you operate on a Monday morning when you have balloons in the sky,
00:20:30.960 but can you operate in the dark of night when you have your adversaries not just tacking you operationally,
00:20:36.660 but coming at you with cyber offensives.
00:20:38.560 And mark my word, Steve.
00:20:39.500 I bet you mainland China and the CCP in Russia are running buck wild on our cyber systems as we speak
00:20:44.820 because we're looking left and they're coming in and looking in from the right.
00:20:48.000 And this is the biggest problem that is my greatest fear.
00:20:50.580 People are over-hyperventilating and the Biden administration is grasping for victory by saying,
00:20:56.260 look what we did.
00:20:57.480 And all the while, our adversaries are coming in hard and fast
00:21:00.800 and our inability to be prepared for an actual DEFCON situation from our military brass
00:21:06.200 because you know who's leading it, Millie and Austin.
00:21:08.720 They're more worried about climate change than they are worried about terrorist actions, the CCP, and Russia.
00:21:13.580 That's my greatest fear.
00:21:15.280 And unfortunately, we're seeing it play out.
00:21:17.040 And if there is a serious escalation, I don't know that America's military leadership is prepared to take it on
00:21:23.620 because they've been doing reps and sets that revolve around buffoonery in politics
00:21:27.740 rather than protecting the men and women of this country.
00:21:31.700 Should McCarthy in the House right now get much more aggressive?
00:21:34.680 I don't think we've had a Gang of Eight briefing yet on the original timeline of the 28th.
00:21:38.920 At least it has been, maybe it's been hodgepodge, but you haven't heard any.
00:21:42.520 They would be touting this all over.
00:21:44.760 Should the House get much more aggressive, and they're gone for two weeks,
00:21:48.080 come back, at least send the intel guys back, and demand the White House come.
00:21:52.160 When you talk about aliens, wouldn't you think that would say,
00:21:55.020 hey, maybe we get together in a skiff and you run that by me for a second?
00:21:58.240 I'd like to talk to the pilots, right?
00:21:59.780 I'd like to see the footage.
00:22:01.520 Are we just, once again, completely passive in this,
00:22:04.880 talking to Fox News, talking to the news outlets, but not demanding immediate action, sir?
00:22:11.940 We are.
00:22:12.560 So two things need to happen.
00:22:13.760 One, subpoenas need to go out the door for McCarthy and leadership on intel
00:22:16.940 and the Armed Services Committee immediately.
00:22:19.540 The documentation must be presented to leadership.
00:22:22.300 And you talk about Gang of Eight.
00:22:23.440 Just for your audience, most of it's familiar,
00:22:25.020 but that's the eight senior leaders in the Congress and the House and the Senate
00:22:27.960 that oversee the intelligence community and a check on presidential actions.
00:22:32.320 But, Steve, the Gang of Eight briefings are done by this director of national intelligence,
00:22:36.600 by this secretary of defense, by this attorney general.
00:22:40.480 I don't have any faith in their delivery of a Gang of Eight briefing
00:22:44.020 because they are going to piece together intelligence that they want to provide
00:22:47.600 and not necessarily the actual intelligence so we can see the gaps
00:22:51.460 that we actually know exist versus the gaps in leadership that we talk about.
00:22:55.600 I agree with you 100%, but it gets them on the record.
00:22:57.660 It gets them on the record for their lives.
00:22:59.460 It's like when we demanded that they give it to the Russian collusion.
00:23:02.180 When they show up, they got nothing.
00:23:04.020 Okay?
00:23:04.320 It's all talk.
00:23:05.020 It's all stuff that leaking the shifty shift and going on.
00:23:07.180 You put them on the record.
00:23:08.540 By the way, that Gang of Eight came about because of, wait for it,
00:23:12.680 the church committee back in the 70s.
00:23:14.840 Right now, the Hill newspaper lead story is how all the forces of evil,
00:23:19.540 all the forces of the left are going to go on an anti-weaponization of government tirade,
00:23:23.980 and that means, Kash Patel, they're coming after you.
00:23:26.060 What is your sense?
00:23:27.440 They're very nervous about what they saw last week, correct?
00:23:29.700 That's why all of a sudden the Hill newspaper, they're going to weaponize the –
00:23:33.380 they're going to go weaponization against the weaponization committee, Kash?
00:23:38.320 You know, that's a very astute political point, Steve.
00:23:40.360 You're right.
00:23:40.700 We need to get them on record.
00:23:41.900 We need to get our government gangsters, the leadership on record,
00:23:44.700 when they're caught lying in the future.
00:23:46.360 So I think it is smart to get those folks in immediately and not just brief the Gang of Eight,
00:23:52.000 but put them under oath and demand questions and answers be recorded so that they can be shown
00:23:56.500 to the American people at the appropriate time.
00:23:58.660 These people don't have a collective narrative straight because they are running away from the truth.
00:24:03.820 They are trying to get their story straight in the media rather than actually basing intelligence
00:24:08.840 decisions to protect this country on actual facts.
00:24:12.280 They are actually talking – you have the head of NORAD talking about UFOs and aliens
00:24:16.940 instead of talking about how we protect against China and Russia.
00:24:20.480 And if that is not the biggest failure of this administration when it comes to the last two weeks,
00:24:25.040 I don't know what is.
00:24:27.840 By the way, we are in World War III, the early phases of it, OK?
00:24:32.300 And the first casualty of war is the truth.
00:24:35.560 Kash Patel, how do we get to all your writings, all your podcasts?
00:24:38.580 How do we get to this great new book that hopefully comes out and every page is not totally redacted, sir?
00:24:45.060 Yeah, thanks, Steve.
00:24:45.960 Go to fightwithcash.com, fightwithcash.com with a K, and check out my new book, Government Gangsters.
00:24:51.540 You can also get it at governmentgangsters.com.
00:24:53.840 Steve's right.
00:24:54.420 The manuscript's done.
00:24:55.280 The book's done.
00:24:56.360 We, as President Trump called it two weeks ago on Truth Social,
00:24:59.540 it is the blueprint for how we take back the White House and restore our agencies and departments
00:25:03.560 to serve the American people.
00:25:04.600 I call everyone out by name, how they failed us, and how we can succeed.
00:25:08.760 And I'm on Truth Social at Cash.
00:25:10.520 Follow me, Truth Social at Cash.
00:25:12.380 Only place to fight.
00:25:13.520 I want that book.
00:25:14.900 I want everybody to preorder that book.
00:25:16.740 The day it actually comes out, because the wood chippers are out in back of the Pentagon.
00:25:20.080 They're shredding.
00:25:21.040 They have the shredding machines out there right now for Kash's manuscript.
00:25:25.080 It's beyond redaction.
00:25:26.180 Kash, thank you so much for taking time to join us to kick it off.
00:25:29.280 Thanks so much, brother.
00:25:30.320 Have a good one.
00:25:30.840 Thanks so much, brother.
00:25:31.760 Hey, Cortez, you're just some dumb kid from Southside Chicago, a boxer, a football player.
00:25:41.080 But you've been pretty spot on about Ukraine.
00:25:45.320 Tell me, is this an escalation when the U.S. government kicks off?
00:25:48.500 You know, it's supposed to be a new holiday.
00:25:50.080 Monday after Super Bowl, half the people got a food hangover.
00:25:53.400 The others got a real hangover.
00:25:54.560 They say, flash, immediately, leave the Soviet, you leave Russia immediately.
00:26:00.600 You're just some kid from the Southside of Chicago.
00:26:02.580 You've kind of been right on this Ukraine thing.
00:26:04.280 Tell us, are they trying to change the narrative here, brother?
00:26:07.680 Yes.
00:26:08.160 And, you know, Kash is right, as usual.
00:26:10.300 This is beyond just escalation.
00:26:12.740 This is typically the very last move before all-out war.
00:26:16.740 And you're exactly correct.
00:26:17.560 We're already at war with Russia, a very dangerous war, a war that doesn't involve a discernible, definable, vital U.S. national security interest.
00:26:25.940 But we are at risk of that war becoming an absolute all-out war, a conflagration with the greatest nuclear rival in the world.
00:26:34.380 Steve, we are right now, I believe, at the most dangerous point in terms of national security, the most dangerous point for the United States since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:26:43.340 Because we have never been closer to war, to all-out war, with what was the USSR and what is now Russia than we were then.
00:26:51.020 But here's the crucial difference.
00:26:52.440 At least back then, while it was very dangerous, and those were precarious times, we had in the Oval Office John Kennedy, who on national security matters was an absolute hawk, was a steeled anti-communist.
00:27:04.160 And I think mostly a fantastic leader.
00:27:06.020 You also had in the military a leadership, the brass of the Pentagon, a bunch of warriors who had just won World War II and had effectively won Korea.
00:27:16.800 What do we have now?
00:27:18.000 We have a CCP-compromised, addled, cognitively impaired Joe Biden as commander-in-chief.
00:27:26.180 And then we have a military leadership, people like White Rage Millie, who are more concerned with talking about the latest social justice warrior agenda rather than confronting the CCP and defending the United States.
00:27:39.540 We have generals out there who are talking about aliens.
00:27:43.180 I mean, please, it's – unfortunately, the brass of the U.S. military is absolutely laughable at this point.
00:27:49.300 And they answered to a commander-in-chief who is even more laughable, and not just because he's incompetent, Steve, but because he's compromised by the CCP.
00:27:56.640 Okay, we're going to – Cortez is here for one reason.
00:28:03.020 He's going to show you why they want to change the narrative.
00:28:06.940 The American people got pretty good common sense.
00:28:09.700 We're going to connect the horrible polls, even in the Democratic Party, among the working class and middle class to Joe Biden, to Biden's lived reality in his economy.
00:28:19.960 All next, in the war room.
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00:29:42.860 There is a debt bomb, and the clock is ticking right now.
00:29:47.020 You, the taxpayers, are on the hook.
00:29:49.460 Why is it getting so much worse right now?
00:29:51.580 Well, let's look at the data in Chalk Talk.
00:29:53.300 Biden's inflation.
00:29:54.480 When Biden took office, 10-year yield, the benchmark interest rate was just above 1%.
00:29:59.320 It is now 3.74%.
00:30:01.480 Crude oil was only $48 a barrel.
00:30:03.880 It is now $79 a barrel.
00:30:05.740 As interest rates soar, so do your costs to service the staggering federal debt.
00:30:11.700 In 2022, you spent $475 billion just on interest payments.
00:30:16.960 That was up 35% versus Biden's first year in office.
00:30:20.880 But the trend is getting even worse.
00:30:22.720 So far in 2023, interest costs are up 41% versus that terrible comparison of 2022.
00:30:29.540 Consequently, looking forward, interest costs are going to exceed what we spend on national defense by 2026.
00:30:38.220 Patriots, it is imperative that the House GOP hold the line in these upcoming debt ceiling negotiations and get this madness under control.
00:30:47.880 This is the signal.
00:30:51.260 This is what they want to – they're going to wag the dog here.
00:30:54.400 They've got to get away from the lived experience of the American people.
00:30:58.560 And Steve, when you and Navarra talk about how many months in a row, what, 21 or 22 months in a row we've had declining real wages.
00:31:10.600 Right.
00:31:10.720 They never talk about – what you do is you add on top of – I think Heritage is the only one that's done it, but they haven't pushed it enough.
00:31:16.500 You add on top the interest charges that you're having to pay everywhere.
00:31:21.560 Right.
00:31:21.960 And particularly now on your credit card just to live just a minute.
00:31:24.700 You add that, the American people are getting sucked out to sea on this, particularly the working class and the working poor, sir.
00:31:31.600 No, exactly.
00:31:32.280 And by the way, just a very tangible kitchen table reality for Americans regarding the costs of higher interest rates.
00:31:38.900 Cars have never – in all of American history, cars have never been less affordable than they are right now.
00:31:45.460 I think the best metric for that is look at how many weeks of work does it take to buy a new car.
00:31:50.860 It has soared by eight weeks under Joe Biden.
00:31:54.040 You have to work an additional two months to buy a car right now than you did during the Trump administration.
00:31:59.660 Well, the same is true on a much grander scale, of course, for the federal debt, for the gargantuan federal debt.
00:32:04.960 You know, for a long time, I think we were lulled into a complacency.
00:32:08.180 You know, we talked before.
00:32:09.300 Too many Americans, I think, are lulled into complacency on the national security side about how dangerous it is, how precarious this situation is.
00:32:15.600 We're playing with fire with Ukraine while China is very clearly testing us in a significant way here in the U.S.
00:32:21.660 Well, there's a similar kind of complacency, I think, unfortunately, regarding the federal debt.
00:32:26.620 Because of artificially low interest rates that were suppressed by central banks around the world, but especially here in the United States by the Fed, we effectively got away with borrowing and spending far too much.
00:32:37.860 We got away with the profligacy for a time.
00:32:40.500 But the bill always comes due, and the bill has come due.
00:32:43.640 Why?
00:32:44.320 Because of Joe Biden's massive inflation, as I detailed there briefly in the Chalk Talk.
00:32:48.940 I think this also, Steve, isn't getting enough attention.
00:32:51.460 Just because oil prices aren't as bad as they were last summer at those truly horrific levels, they're still staying at really high levels, okay?
00:32:59.200 Very stubbornly staying in the 70s and even into the 80s.
00:33:03.920 Massively elevated above where they were when President Trump unleashed American energy to its full spectrum dominance.
00:33:11.040 So the reality is inflation is still very high.
00:33:13.220 Because inflation is still very high, interest rates continue to tick materially higher.
00:33:18.740 And as they do, Steve, this debt bomb, the clock is ticking, okay?
00:33:23.720 That projection, by the way, is being conservative that by 2026 we're going to spend more on interest on the debt than we are on defense.
00:33:31.480 I mean, it could happen even sooner than that because right now in this current year, we're on track to spend more than $700 billion.
00:33:37.940 More than $700 billion just on interest, Steve.
00:33:42.720 I mean, think about that.
00:33:43.620 Folks in the audience out there, you get nothing for that, okay?
00:33:46.940 You don't get a road.
00:33:48.420 You don't get medicine for grandma, okay?
00:33:50.360 There is no return other than to the bank, effectively, to the bondholder, okay?
00:33:54.960 We are on track for a nightmare scenario.
00:33:58.800 That's the reality with rising interest rates.
00:34:00.720 And it's why it's absolutely imperative on Kevin McCarthy.
00:34:03.940 And I believe he's going to do this, but we have to keep the pressure on from the right to hold the line when it comes to these debt ceiling negotiations.
00:34:10.720 It's also why, Steve, to connect this discussion to the prior one, it's another reason why we shouldn't be escalating unnecessarily wars overseas.
00:34:17.460 Not just because it's dangerous, but, Steve, we also can't afford it, okay?
00:34:20.980 We can't afford our own priorities here at home.
00:34:24.060 Forget about sending $100 billion and counting to the corrupt oligarchs of Ukraine.
00:34:29.120 We can't afford that nonsense for even a second.
00:34:31.560 It's time to focus at home, protect the homeland, get our fiscal house in order.
00:34:38.600 You know, this is why, you know, down at C&P over the weekend, and I'm hearing, you know, they are going to hold the line, but there's very, you know, we're the dead-enders.
00:34:48.060 Not one penny increase in this debt ceiling.
00:34:50.580 This is the ultimate form of leverage.
00:34:52.340 And you still have the Federal Reserve cranking out fiat money like crazy.
00:34:56.700 The elites are getting wealthier.
00:34:58.300 Working class and middle class people are getting crushed every day.
00:35:01.560 This has got to be tough.
00:35:02.620 We can't have any gimmick here to kind of like kick the can down the road, so we're not going to burden – the new buzzword to watch out for, they don't want to burden a presidential candidate with any kind of tough calls.
00:35:13.120 We're going to have to have some tough calls.
00:35:14.540 You've already put Social Security and Medicare off to the side.
00:35:17.740 We're going to have to have some tough calls.
00:35:19.320 This is not going to be easy.
00:35:20.160 The first thing you've got to do is get all over this defense budget.
00:35:23.140 When they say, well, Bannon, how can you do that when in the beginning of the Third World War?
00:35:26.620 I could bring the CCP to its knees in 100 days, break their back in 100 days, and never go kinetic.
00:35:32.960 You never want to go kinetic.
00:35:34.200 And Steve –
00:35:34.720 On that point, two aspects of economic retaliation against the CCP, which I think are 100 percent warranted.
00:35:44.000 First of all, regarding these incursions into the United States, violating our sovereign airspace, why aren't we at least threatening, if not actually following through, on closing our West Coast ports for some period of time to Chinese goods?
00:35:57.000 I mean, do you realize what that would do to the CCP if we said, hey, guess what, CCP?
00:36:01.920 Because of what you just did for the next three days, ports are closed to Chinese goods.
00:36:06.780 Now, listen, admittedly, it would create problems for the U.S. and for our supply chain.
00:36:10.360 It would, near-term problems.
00:36:11.660 But it would create massive cataclysmic problems for the CCP.
00:36:16.020 That kind of action, that kind of retaliation has to be on the table.
00:36:19.720 It certainly would have been if we had Donald Trump an office.
00:36:22.160 There's no way it's on the table with Joe Biden.
00:36:23.900 But here's another thing.
00:36:24.980 Economic nationalism.
00:36:26.540 Yeah.
00:36:27.000 Hold on.
00:36:27.560 Before we leave that point, though, we also need a wake-up call.
00:36:29.740 Well, hold on.
00:36:30.140 We also need a wake-up call for the unawakened American people to force their political officials and companies to get the supply chains back here.
00:36:39.460 Yes, it would be quite uncomfortable here in the U.S.
00:36:42.220 And you'd hear a lot of people squealing.
00:36:43.800 It'd be quite uncomfortable.
00:36:44.760 But it's a death blow to the CCP.
00:36:47.180 Okay?
00:36:47.360 It's a death blow to them.
00:36:48.520 But this would reinforce we must get the supply chains back, not talk about the supply chains.
00:36:53.800 Cortez.
00:36:54.560 No, correct.
00:36:54.980 And, again, there would be pain for us.
00:36:56.640 But it would be a cut to us while it would be a decapitation for the CCP.
00:37:00.920 And, again, I think it's necessary given their threats to our sovereignty, their incredible disrespect for the American people.
00:37:07.300 And remember, these balloons, these objects flying over the United States, I don't believe they're really about gathering intelligence that they can simply get from satellites.
00:37:14.760 They are about humiliating and testing the United States, humiliating the American people, about showing the greatest republic in history, the strongest military in the world, that we can effectively do what we want.
00:37:25.680 And you can even watch it up in the sky, and we're going to humiliate you.
00:37:28.900 But here's the second aspect connected to the debt.
00:37:30.880 We still are not really having a serious discussion in this country, which amazes me, about reparations from the CCP for the virus, about biological war reparation.
00:37:42.600 Peter Navarro did a fantastic analysis where he believes the total reparations due from a reasonable fact-based analysis around $20 trillion.
00:37:49.880 I think he's probably right.
00:37:51.540 But at the least, at the least, as a down payment on reparations, we owe the Chinese a trillion dollars, a little more, trillion dollars in Treasury debt.
00:38:00.340 OK?
00:38:00.640 That number should go to zero as a down payment on biological war reparations for the epidemiological Pearl Harbor that they unleashed upon the United States.
00:38:12.000 That doesn't solve the debt problem.
00:38:13.560 We have $31 trillion of debt.
00:38:15.540 But it's a nice start.
00:38:16.620 It's a nice start to try to get that number under control.
00:38:20.380 And it makes sense from an economic perspective.
00:38:22.880 It makes sense from a perspective of justice for the American people.
00:38:28.640 Cortez, you saw at the State of the Union, Joe Biden literally just lifted pages of Navarro's speeches used to craft for President Trump, right?
00:38:36.960 Economic nationalism.
00:38:38.260 But the numbers and the polling doesn't show that it's getting traction.
00:38:41.660 Let's play – I want to play Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo.
00:38:44.360 Let's play the clip and have Cortez respond.
00:38:47.240 Boy, I mean, look, Kansas is a pretty conservative state.
00:38:50.160 So in itself, I'm not sure there's a huge mystery.
00:38:53.260 But, yeah, I think, you know, you mentioned or in – Dowd mentioned that Barack Obama was supposed to be the transformative one.
00:39:00.940 It's really Joe Biden who had – for how democratic politics works in this country right now.
00:39:10.580 They're, you know, free trade, kind of technocratic stuff.
00:39:14.540 It's much more labor-oriented.
00:39:16.640 It's much more economic populism.
00:39:18.560 And I think that's something that, you know, there's a lot – there's – when we talk about blue collar, that can be a pretty loaded word.
00:39:26.480 But reconnecting with a part of the electorate that the Democratic Party hasn't, you know, connected with in the last generation.
00:39:35.520 But, you know, you have to say there's – you look at, you know, where Democrats get their votes on the income scale and stuff.
00:39:43.860 You know, Dowd's comment about the elite is a little questionable.
00:39:47.660 You know, most working people, most low-income people vote for Democrats.
00:39:52.300 That's still the case.
00:39:53.080 I don't know if you can back that up, brother.
00:39:58.180 Maybe the poor, but I'm not so sure the working poor or definitely the working class.
00:40:03.500 Cortez, they're whistling past the graveyard, but they know what they got to do here, right?
00:40:07.180 But the numbers – your economic analysis, I think, shows you why Biden's real numbers are so horrific.
00:40:14.220 Am I incorrect on that, sir?
00:40:16.560 No, you're not incorrect at all.
00:40:17.920 And, you know, you mentioned earlier that heritage analysis, which was fantastic.
00:40:21.060 And when you put it all together, the loss of real wages plus the increased debt service costs on things like mortgages or a car loan,
00:40:28.480 the median American household has lost $7,000 per year, not total, per year since Joe Biden took office, okay, in real, real disposable income.
00:40:40.100 That is unprecedented in American history.
00:40:42.900 What's also unprecedented is right now 21 straight months of decline in real wages.
00:40:47.080 We're going to get inflation numbers out tomorrow, and we'll see if, sadly, we go to 22 months.
00:40:51.120 We probably will.
00:40:52.360 A couple of quotes there that I found almost comical of the situation weren't so serious.
00:40:57.060 First of all, in the chyron, they continue to want to call him Scranton Joe, which is such an absurdity, okay?
00:41:03.260 He is Corporatist Joe.
00:41:04.940 As you correctly point out, he was in some ways the perfect senator for Delaware, the home of corporatism, of multinational conglomerates.
00:41:11.680 This guy left Scranton, by the way, in the 1950s, okay, before most of the audience was even born, this guy left Scranton.
00:41:20.720 He does not represent Scranton literally or figuratively in any way.
00:41:24.440 And that commentator also said that Joe Biden is very labor-oriented, labor-oriented.
00:41:30.040 Look, take a look at the trade deficit.
00:41:31.720 You don't have to take my opinion for it.
00:41:32.860 Take a look at the trade deficit, which was thankfully starting to improve in 2018, 2019, particularly with China, because of finally the United States realizing that we have the strong hand to play when it comes to global trade.
00:41:45.760 Every country in the world, but particularly China, wants and needs access to the U.S. consumer.
00:41:50.700 It is the gold mine of the world in terms of markets.
00:41:53.920 As I've said before, if it were a poker game, the United States acted for decades like we had a pair of eights when we had a straight flush, okay?
00:42:01.960 That's the reality.
00:42:02.760 Finally, we started to play that way.
00:42:04.300 The trade deficit was getting better.
00:42:06.280 Not enough, but it was getting better.
00:42:07.920 Now the trade deficit is exploding again.
00:42:10.940 An exploding trade deficit with China combined with crashing real wages, and that's labor-oriented?
00:42:16.260 Only on the sets of MSNBC and in the newsrooms of The New York Times can that somehow be spun into a reality.
00:42:25.140 Now, listen, the America First movement, which is all about cultural conservatism combined with economic populist nationalism,
00:42:31.960 has effectively taken over the GOP in a friendly way, in the right way.
00:42:36.880 It is a friendly takeover of the Republican Party.
00:42:39.360 And because of that, the Republican Party has now become the home for workers in the United States.
00:42:45.120 And that is statistically true.
00:42:46.720 It is a trend that is pronounced, and it is continuing.
00:42:49.380 It continued all the way into 2022.
00:42:52.300 Even though we didn't do as well as we wanted to do, clearly, in these elections last November,
00:42:55.900 we still won the House by a 51-47 margin nationally in terms of the popular vote.
00:43:02.100 Steve, Republicans are not used to winning the national popular vote by 4%.
00:43:05.700 The reason that the Republicans did that is because it's becoming a workers' party.
00:43:11.240 It is broadening out in every way.
00:43:15.260 Six million votes, I think, a difference.
00:43:18.400 Brother Cortez and I may disagree on just one small point.
00:43:22.260 I kind of think it's a hostile takeover.
00:43:23.920 We're going to have the precinct strategy guys in the next.
00:43:26.340 I think we've got to get, I think when Cortez becomes a precinct committeeman out there
00:43:30.640 in the great volunteer state of Tennessee, short break.
00:43:34.300 Cortez on the other side.
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00:45:36.080 We're going to try to get some reporting on this, about this controlled burn that they did on the railroad incidents.
00:45:41.520 Remember also that railroad derailment.
00:45:46.060 This is what we had the railroad union guys on before.
00:45:49.020 This is the big thing they're fighting for.
00:45:50.500 They want to have, at the end of the day, just, you know, these 10,000 feet or yard collection of tanks going across with hazardous material with a computer and one guy at the front.
00:46:03.640 That's where they want to go.
00:46:06.560 And I noticed, you know, Cortez, I noticed Alfred E. Buttigiegs was not there in front of them.
00:46:12.360 You know, he's always running to a microphone over at MSNBC Studios.
00:46:15.380 I noticed he's not there in a hazmat suit in front of the school where the kids, by the way, they put the kids back in school day.
00:46:21.620 They will give the kids a year off because of CCP COVID-19, but you put, and they did this controlled burn.
00:46:30.300 I think the question is, how do they come up with this controlled burn?
00:46:33.720 Why would they put that in the atmosphere?
00:46:35.040 Because it changes, you know, it changes into a whole different chemical.
00:46:39.060 And then there was virtually no media coverage of this.
00:46:41.880 It's been virtually suppressed.
00:46:43.280 I call people in high school.
00:46:44.340 I said, hey, you know what?
00:46:45.060 Even local TV is not really talking about it.
00:46:47.060 Cortez, your thoughts on that?
00:46:48.900 Yeah.
00:46:49.340 Regarding the media coverage, by the way, a reporter arrested, pretty violently arrested, for simply trying to ask questions from News Nation, which I think is a pretty straight news organization, not some fringe element, you know, trying to cover that.
00:47:01.180 And regarding Buttigieg, you know, I think this part is important.
00:47:04.540 Secretary of Transportation, let's face it, in most administrations isn't all that important or all that high profile.
00:47:10.240 But in the last couple of years, so many of the crises, created crises of Joe Biden that face this country have involved transportation.
00:47:18.900 All of the supply chain issues, all of the recent issues with airline flights around the country, now this crisis in Ohio, all very much transportation focused.
00:47:29.640 And yet we have a totally unprepared, totally, I think, distracted and disoriented political charlatan in that office who was only put there for one reason, because he's gay and he can constantly post on social media about his husband.
00:47:45.160 OK, that is the reality. He is. There's a lot of terrible diversity hires in the Biden administration, but he's right up there.
00:47:52.160 OK, in the running for the worst diversity hire of the Biden administration.
00:47:56.540 Two other things I want to make sure we get and put out there so we can develop it more this week, close to your heart.
00:48:04.280 Number one, the CDC, and we're going to have all the team, you know, Naomi, everybody back on tonight and then starting during the week.
00:48:10.560 The CDC put the put our favorite vacs for kids on the permanent list of 30 or 40.
00:48:16.600 How does that happen? How does that happen, Cortez?
00:48:19.680 Yeah, well, listen, and first of all, the entire list is far too large, but that's another topic for another time.
00:48:25.260 Here's the reality. And this came out last week late.
00:48:28.540 And, you know, and look, we knew it was on the way because the committee had already, unfortunately, unanimously recommended that this happen.
00:48:33.820 But it is now official from the CDC, the word that this is going to be on the recommended list.
00:48:39.620 But here's the thing. You know, don't put too much credence in that word recommended,
00:48:42.680 because for most blue states and most blue jurisdictions in the country, believe me, they just rotely take the CDC list and say this isn't recommended.
00:48:52.060 This is mandatory for your children. And so this is something I talked about going into the election, that this was a real danger.
00:48:57.720 Now it's here. And I believe in places like California and Illinois and New York,
00:49:01.920 you are going to very soon see those governors, as well as local officials who have been dying to do this,
00:49:07.920 say that, yes, for children, for a six-year-old who wants to go into first grade, it is going to be mandatory that you get these vaccines.
00:49:16.160 These vaccines that have no track record of being seriously tested, particularly for children,
00:49:20.800 for a group of people, children, who are not vulnerable to the dire effects of the virus anyway.
00:49:25.880 It's absolutely unprecedented in American history. It's a crime. It's a total injustice.
00:49:31.160 And it's yet another reason, Steve, why public trust in the public health authorities of this country,
00:49:37.360 particularly the CDC, but all of them, NIH, you name it, all the alphabet soup,
00:49:41.380 public trust in those institutions has completely eroded.
00:49:45.860 And I would say to anybody out there with children, school-age children,
00:49:49.120 especially if you happen to live in a blue city or a blue state, please be on guard about this.
00:49:53.380 Please be organizing to get ready for this, because believe me, for next school year, this is coming your way.
00:49:58.940 Oh, no, no. Eric Adams, on cue, Eric Adams came out yesterday, said because of the explosion of the new COVID strand,
00:50:07.160 he wants to go back to mandates, vaccine mandates, which they still have.
00:50:12.060 Wherever judges haven't thrown them out, they still have, and the mask mandates.
00:50:15.080 That's all coming again. Something close to your heart.
00:50:17.800 Now he's asking for a bailout because it's a sanctuary city.
00:50:21.760 People are dumping the illegal aliens there, and he can't afford it.
00:50:25.140 They want a multibillion-dollar bailout from American taxpayers from around the country.
00:50:29.080 Something close to your heart, as you say, is one of the linchpins to the economy imploding,
00:50:34.400 is the invasion of the southern border.
00:50:36.380 Mayorkas, on Friday, announces he lawyers up on taxpayer money, by the way.
00:50:40.880 He lawyers up on taxpayer money on a white-shoe law firm.
00:50:43.740 Hey, Steve, I got a question for a Colombian kid, half Colombian and half Irish.
00:50:48.140 Man, what a combo. What a combo platter that is.
00:50:50.980 From the south side of Chicago, I noticed when Mayorkas got to save himself an impeachment,
00:50:57.540 he goes, pure white shoe, doesn't he?
00:50:59.060 He gets devil's wallet in Clinton.
00:51:00.480 You can't get any more country club than that.
00:51:04.480 Tell me about it.
00:51:05.520 Exactly. The waspiest, most establishment firm that you could take.
00:51:09.080 And by the way, obviously not a cheap firm in any sense, right?
00:51:13.040 Don't think you're going to be getting a deal there.
00:51:14.720 And we are paying for this, okay?
00:51:16.620 I'm so glad you made that point, because I didn't see this much in media.
00:51:19.580 I think a lot of the reports almost made it sound as though Mayorkas was getting a private attorney,
00:51:23.700 which he probably also needs for himself personally.
00:51:26.380 But that's none of our concern.
00:51:27.700 What is our concern is that, and this came out from The Hill, you showed the headline there,
00:51:31.440 is that they are hiring this firm for the DHS, okay, on taxpayer time.
00:51:36.820 Here's the actual quote.
00:51:38.020 The contract signed with a New York-based firm comes a week after the second article of impeachment
00:51:42.380 was filed by Representative Andy Biggs
00:51:44.160 and represents a change in approach for an agency that had not previously assigned any staff to the topic.
00:51:50.800 Well, they are now assigning staff to the topic, and they have hired an incredibly expensive,
00:51:55.880 incredibly sophisticated New York firm to help them, because thankfully, they know what's coming, okay?
00:52:01.340 And this is one of the wonderful outcomes of winning the House in 2022.
00:52:06.280 What we're going to is that, and look, it's not enough.
00:52:08.600 We can't only do the investigations, okay?
00:52:10.440 I believe we have to use the debt ceiling to get the border closed now,
00:52:14.000 because we don't have time to wait with tens of thousands of people crossing every day.
00:52:18.240 We don't have time to wait.
00:52:19.160 But we should be doing both concurrently, and we can, okay?
00:52:21.760 It's not binary.
00:52:22.500 It's not either or.
00:52:23.460 We should be doing both.
00:52:24.840 Use all the leverage we have to shut the border now and pursue these investigations.
00:52:28.560 Stop the invasion.
00:52:31.800 Unleash energy.
00:52:32.800 Real quickly, what's your social media?
00:52:34.180 How do people get to you, Cortez?
00:52:35.500 Yeah, please find me on the Twitter.
00:52:36.820 I am at Cortez Steve, Cortez with an S.
00:52:40.720 Thank you, brother.
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