Bannon's War Room - February 21, 2023


Episode 2533： The Coming Escalation In Ukraine

Topics
emergency preparedness
Hosted by
Steve Bannon
Mentioned
Steven Crowder Joe Biden David Ignatius Putin Donald Trump Zelensky Michael Patrick Leahy Rebecca Koffler James O'Keefe Ronald Reagan Richard Nixon Ron DeSantis Getter Stephen K. Band Jordy Rose McCarthy Kennedy Pfizer DeWine Verdun and 19 more
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54 minutes

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800

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8

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Toxicity

24

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25

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Summary

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James O'Keefe's exit from Project Veritas was supposed to have been handled internally, but was leaked to the media by the board of directors in order to protect the company from public scrutiny. Instead, it was leaked publicly to the press.

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00:00:01.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:06.000 Pray for our enemies.
00:00:08.000 Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:11.000 I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:16.000 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:18.000 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:19.000 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:21.000 but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:22.000 It's going to happen.
00:00:23.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:26.000 MAGA Media.
00:00:28.000 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:33.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:43.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:00:52.000 We don't measure our success only in terms of how much money we bring in.
00:00:56.000 We measure our success in terms of our impact.
00:00:58.000 Remember Acorn?
00:00:59.000 I don't think I raised a single dollar off that.
00:01:01.000 I had a stack of media coverage to the ceiling.
00:01:04.000 We measure our success in terms of what we produce.
00:01:08.000 Not just in terms of our wallets.
00:01:11.000 That was a pretty fundamental conflict, I felt.
00:01:14.000 The day prior, I had informed him in front of his colleagues that if he wasn't willing to follow my lead,
00:01:19.000 he'd be shown the door.
00:01:21.000 I tried to deal with it privately, but I was unsuccessful, and the disagreement boiled over publicly in a staff meeting.
00:01:28.000 The next day, this individual refused to resign, so I fired him.
00:01:32.000 Later that same day, that's Thursday, February 2nd, a few days after the 50 million viewed visor videos,
00:01:40.000 I was informed by a different officer of Project Veritas that he would go to the board in a few hours from that moment
00:01:47.000 and have an emergency vote to restructure this company.
00:01:50.000 Receiving an agenda in my email while I was sitting on an airplane tarmac with the doors closing,
00:01:56.000 the meeting was scheduled for the moment that my plane landed in Nashville.
00:02:00.000 It became clear to me in that moment I would be removed from my position at Project Veritas by the time I landed at my destination.
00:02:09.000 I bet you didn't know that.
00:02:11.000 I have a copy of the emergency meeting here for you guys to take a look at.
00:02:15.000 It's in writing. You could read it. You don't have to be there. You can read the minutes.
00:02:20.000 They're official board minutes. They're written by a lawyer.
00:02:24.000 My first question on the phone to this guy, my colleague, as I was staring at this agenda,
00:02:30.000 when the stewardess was asking me to get off the phone, was, quote,
00:02:35.000 what are we going to tell our supporters if I'm removed from my position?
00:02:39.000 I think that's the first question. I haven't had a hundred questions, but that was the first one.
00:02:43.000 My colleague, who is an officer of Project Veritas, responded by saying,
00:02:47.000 our supporters wouldn't have to find out.
00:02:52.000 Sounds like something you would get in the Claire McCaskill campaign. 0.99
00:02:55.000 It sounds like something you would expose.
00:03:00.000 I was so shocked by this, and again, the stewardess was asking me to get off the phone.
00:03:05.000 I guess you could say that I was in a state of complete shock.
00:03:09.000 How would our supporters not be informed of such an enormous thing?
00:03:13.000 It was a lapse in judgment so severe that it was itself a fireable offense to make a statement like that.
00:03:21.000 It was a lapse in judgment so severe it was impossible to hide my removal from my position at Veritas to anybody.
00:03:28.000 As the CEO and chief fundraiser, I have to explain the context of my role to thousands of people 300 days a year on the road while soliciting them for funds so that I can pay you.
00:03:42.000 And I knew many of our supporters and donors would not like that change.
00:03:46.000 If I was removed from the chief decision-maker at the organization I founded, I share who we are, our vision, our structure, our strategy with everybody.
00:03:55.000 In fact, hiding something so fundamental from people is something that we stand against in principle, particularly with the amount of scrutiny that we're under.
00:04:03.000 The doors closed, the plane took off, but somehow, over the next few hours, I was able to convince the board to push this emergency meeting to that Monday, February the 6th.
00:04:14.000 The very next day, and this is where things get really bizarre.
00:04:21.000 So fasten your seat belts.
00:04:24.000 The very next day, on Friday, this is now Friday, February 3rd, a board member reached out to one of our journalists and stated, quote,
00:04:35.000 You get a raise if there is a restructure without James O'Keefe at Project Veritas.
00:04:40.000 I have a copy of the text message, and I'll give it to all of you.
00:04:45.000 I redacted the name of the journalist.
00:04:49.000 The board member deleted the message, but not before our journalists took screenshots.
00:04:56.000 Good job, journalist.
00:04:59.000 On Sunday, February 5th, now that's Sunday, two days after the Friday, a board member requested my presence at his home.
00:05:09.000 He informed me, quote, you had nothing to do, James, with this Pfizer story, unquote.
00:05:18.000 Perplexed by this, I took out my iPad and showed him a video of myself confronting the Pfizer executive, which had 11 million views on YouTube.
00:05:28.000 He responded, quote, but that was after the undercover video had already been done, unquote.
00:05:34.000 I pointed out that the brave journalist, and many of you know who this person is, I'm not going to name anyone, who recorded the interaction was someone that I had to sit down over a year prior.
00:05:44.000 Remember? Over dinner? For hours.
00:05:47.000 Talking off the proverbial ledge.
00:05:49.000 Insisting he take the long, arduous road to get the story about Pfizer.
00:05:54.000 And indeed he did.
00:05:56.000 The board member responding to me saying that said he did not know that.
00:06:01.000 And admitted that another board member was persuading him to the contrary.
00:06:06.000 In the meeting, that's now the, we're fast forwarding to Monday, two weeks ago.
00:06:11.000 On the sixth, I offered an apology letter to the board for my tone of voice in the office at the leadership meeting the week before.
00:06:19.000 That I intended to also share that apology for my tone of voice with our staff.
00:06:25.000 But the board refused to accept my apology, nor believe that it was sincere.
00:06:32.000 They also did not support my sending it to the staff.
00:06:35.000 I imagine many of you didn't even know that I drafted an apology.
00:06:40.000 Then I was subject to a six and a half hour listing of grievances, which included taking black cars to meetings.
00:06:50.000 I don't know the significance of the color of the vehicle.
00:06:55.000 And taking a few charter jets over the years to pack multiple PV meetings in a day.
00:07:00.000 One of those jets, I think we had a meeting in New York, Wisconsin, and California in the same day.
00:07:05.000 And Bennett raised $2 million.
00:07:09.000 But the revenue part was omitted.
00:07:13.000 There was also some truly bizarre grievances, including my failure to record audio in one encounter at a bar in upstate New York.
00:07:22.000 And an allegation that I stole a pregnant woman's sandwich in federal court.
00:07:29.000 There were also discussions from a few staffers with donors in the boardroom.
00:07:34.000 Donors were listening to some of this.
00:07:36.000 And some of these were sent directly to donors without my consent.
00:07:39.000 Donors who have no knowledge of my personal life and have no business asking questions about my personal life about girls I've dated in the past.
00:07:48.000 A fundraising colleague relayed, and again, this is going to start getting really strange, but I'm...
00:07:57.000 This board meeting was video recorded.
00:08:00.000 We'll get to that in a minute.
00:08:02.000 A fundraising staffer relayed, quote, concerns about my behaviors regarding videos where I, quote, literally chased a Twitter executive around New York.
00:08:14.000 By acclamation from all of you, in 2022, that video about the Twitter chase was one of the most successful videos.
00:08:23.000 But yet, your colleagues in a boardroom were expressing concerns about it.
00:08:29.000 Every board member previously communicated their love of that video, but none pushed back in that moment when the staffer criticized it.
00:08:38.000 Why?
00:08:39.000 The attacks were so severe against me personally in that boardroom.
00:08:45.000 And again, this is all video recorded, and I suggest that you ask for that.
00:08:48.000 I will not provide that to you.
00:08:50.000 The attacks were so severe that one board member asked, quote, is there anything James O'Keefe is good at?
00:08:58.000 That's what your board member said.
00:09:03.000 Oh, and by the way, this meeting was video recorded.
00:09:06.000 I'm going to keep saying that.
00:09:07.000 You may want to ask existing board members if they want to share that entire video with you.
00:09:12.000 I suggest you request the entire seven hour or so video to see for yourself what actually happened.
00:09:20.000 You don't have to have been there.
00:09:22.000 You simply need to watch the video and hear all of the testimony.
00:09:26.000 After the six hours, I was asked what I had to say for myself.
00:09:30.000 I was given about 10 seconds to respond.
00:09:35.000 And then I was dismissed.
00:09:38.000 Then, and I'm reading from board minutes drafted by lawyers who are taking a record of what the board members said and did,
00:09:48.000 a vote was called to strip me of all of my authority and decision making at this organization for half a year.
00:09:54.000 That's 180 days.
00:09:57.000 Again, it's in the board minutes.
00:09:59.000 You'll have a copy of it.
00:10:00.000 It says, quote, the CEO's ability to make these decisions suspended for 180 days with such power transferred to the executive director.
00:10:09.000 The executive director reports to the board.
00:10:11.000 The CEO is placed on leave for two weeks and the CEO's access to donors is restricted.
00:10:16.000 So I can't talk to donors.
00:10:18.000 I can't raise money.
00:10:22.000 Let's see.
00:10:24.000 Okay.
00:10:25.000 My first question before I was dismissed, I asked how the remaining team will manage the company and what the plan was.
00:10:33.000 That's something you had said.
00:10:34.000 What's the plan?
00:10:35.000 But they didn't provide one.
00:10:37.000 It was clear they didn't actually have one.
00:10:41.000 Then I was dismissed.
00:10:43.000 So I went off the grid as requested, went hiking with Kennedy in the mountains.
00:10:52.000 Within a few days of going off the grid, I started receiving missed calls and texts from the same board members and officers who demanded I be gone.
00:11:00.000 They informed the staff that they're waiting to hear from me.
00:11:03.000 I found that odd.
00:11:05.000 There was a corporate resolution demanding that I be gone for two weeks.
00:11:12.000 I was a little worried about violating the corporate resolution.
00:11:15.000 Wouldn't you?
00:11:17.000 This was while I was commanded by a motion of a board to be literally gone on paid leave for two weeks.
00:11:24.000 And then an officer at Project Veritas took a screenshot of my red receipts of text messages and distributed them to you saying, quote,
00:11:33.000 You owe your team a response.
00:11:35.000 Please allow communication.
00:11:37.000 This was during the time when I was required by the board to be gone.
00:11:43.000 Then, it's going to get stranger.
00:11:48.000 Then, and again, I'm going to give you copies of all this.
00:11:51.000 Then, on February 10th, you guys don't know what I'm about to tell you.
00:11:56.000 Another board meeting occurred.
00:11:58.000 Again, I'm gone.
00:12:00.000 With the meeting's minutes reflecting that they had indefinitely suspended me from the board, by this time, they had stripped me of all of my authority as CEO.
00:12:11.000 During the time I was on leave, they kicked me off the board.
00:12:14.000 So, I can't be a CEO if I have no authority.
00:12:17.000 I can't make any decisions.
00:12:18.000 I'm not allowed to access any donor names.
00:12:20.000 I wasn't even sure what my job was or if I even had a job.
00:12:25.000 Right now, I actually don't.
00:12:27.000 I'm not sure what my job here is.
00:12:31.000 In the board minutes, it says that I no longer have a paycheck and I'm indefinitely suspended from this organization.
00:12:41.000 When I left the office, and this is where I'm going to get emotional, so please forgive me.
00:12:45.000 When I left the office on February 6th, after being stripped of all my authority, I saw my father and gave him a hug.
00:12:52.000 Realizing just how honest and real of a man he is.
00:12:57.000 Both my parents are as genuine and down to earth as a son could ever have.
00:13:02.000 It's true you never really know someone until you go through hell with them.
00:13:05.000 You see, back in the carriage house 13 years ago, the feds would come to my home to make sure that I was inside my house administering random drug tests and rifling through my expenses to make sure I wasn't lying about the strawberry ice cream I bought at 7-Eleven.
00:13:24.000 I didn't have any money, but they went through my debit card statements and tried to get me to sign things to prove I wasn't lying.
00:13:33.000 There were federal agents showing up at my parents' house.
00:13:36.000 There were no donors, there were no supporters, and I was not trending on Twitter.
00:13:43.000 My father went through this hell with me and stood up to those bullies on the front lawn and told them to stop harassing our family.
00:13:52.000 And at that point, that's all I had was him.
00:13:58.000 I was otherwise completely alone.
00:14:01.000 I will never forget that.
00:14:05.000 Now the good news, we're no longer alone.
00:14:10.000 We have millions of Americans who do, who also know who I am.
00:14:13.000 In fact, sorry.
00:14:17.000 In fact, you have, and we all have watched their overwhelming support.
00:14:28.000 They see the truth.
00:14:30.000 They know who I am.
00:14:33.000 I also know many of you know who I am, and you know what's right, right?
00:14:39.000 You know, you're people of principle here.
00:14:42.000 People in this room.
00:14:46.000 And this now may be your moment of truth.
00:14:48.000 You're in the war room.
00:14:51.000 We stand with James O'Keefe, and we'll be back in a moment.
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00:16:32.000 After 2014, we began helping Ukraine build the military that is succeeding, and creating a mid-level corps of non-commissioned officers was a big part of it.
00:16:44.000 Ukraine had had a Russian-style army in terms of tactics, in terms of the ways it used armor, in terms of under-resourced middle commanders, and that began to change.
00:16:58.000 The centerpiece of that was our training of Ukrainian special forces.
00:17:02.000 We're dispersed now around the country and doing all kinds of extraordinary things.
00:17:07.000 Same time, we began to develop new ways to use technology and to integrate our ability to see the battle space with extraordinary fidelity and update it constantly through AIs.
00:17:19.000 You know, understand what a target looks like, feed it into the system, use it for intelligence analysis, use it for targeting.
00:17:26.000 And if you wonder why the Russians are always on their back foot, why they never seem to make much progress, it's because we have applied technologies for modern warfare that have never been seen. 0.91
00:17:39.000 That's changed since 2014.
00:17:41.000 And my own judgment is Russia.
00:17:42.000 That's changed since 2014.
00:17:43.000 So it evolved.
00:17:44.000 2014 began it, and then they kept adding new.
00:17:48.000 General Milley was a key person when he was Army Chief of Staff in getting this rolling.
00:17:53.000 So I wrote a few months ago when I went to Ukraine to look at this.
00:17:56.000 I don't think Russia can win this war against the technology that it's facing.
00:18:02.000 I don't think it's possible.
00:18:03.000 I want you to understand what was just said there.
00:18:08.000 That is David Ignatius, he's the lead national security columnist for the Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Washington Post.
00:18:15.000 He is the conventional wisdom.
00:18:17.000 If Morning Joe is the morning show of the conventional wisdom among our sociopathic overlords, as Ben Harnwell would say,
00:18:24.000 David Ignatius is the running dog columnist for the national security state.
00:18:29.000 He just said the quiet part out loud.
00:18:31.000 I want everybody in this audience to embrace that.
00:18:33.000 Since 2014, we've been arming these people.
00:18:36.000 This goes back to the Captain Maureen Bannon.
00:18:38.000 Instead of going to Afghanistan, they redeployed her to take those Abram tanks to the Baltics and to Poland, wait for it, in early 2014. 0.83
00:18:47.000 Right?
00:18:48.000 That's when we started getting this whole deal ready.
00:18:50.000 And he just said right there, Steve Cortez, how stunning and shocked are you?
00:18:54.000 I mean, just right there.
00:18:56.000 And using AI and that technology, I keep telling people we're actually doing the acquisition targeting for the Ukrainians. 0.95
00:19:04.000 This is why that the Republicans got to get off their ass and they have to get Biden to come to Congress and lay out a War Powers Act. 0.95
00:19:11.000 Right there, we're an enemy combatant. 0.99
00:19:13.000 David Ignatius is bragging about it.
00:19:15.000 It's one of the reasons that they've held off the Russians to date. 0.98
00:19:18.000 You know, Steve, what Ignatius described there, I think, unfortunately, accurately, this is not a Cold War.
00:19:25.000 It's not a proxy war.
00:19:27.000 It's actually America deeply involved on the ground in Ukraine, effectively right now at war with Russia.
00:19:34.000 But to your very important point, without any resolution from Congress, certainly without a declaration of war.
00:19:41.000 And without even the decency to come to the American people and make the case dispassionately with facts and data to the American people why this regional struggle matters so much to the United States.
00:19:56.000 You know, when David Ignatius talks about the way U.S. technology is being used, U.S. targeting about the high fidelity view of the battle space.
00:20:04.000 All of that sounds like a nation that is very much at war.
00:20:07.000 And in fact, I think that is the reality that this war has already begun.
00:20:10.000 But it's not too late for us to draw it back, particularly now that we control the U.S. House of Representatives.
00:20:15.000 Also, I'm glad you played those completely hyperbolic tapes of MSNBC trying to compare this ridiculous staged drive-by visit of Biden to JFK and to Ronald Reagan.
00:20:30.000 JFK, who, whatever you think of his domestic policy, when it comes to foreign policy, was a fierce fighter for America both personally in World War II and then politically in the earliest days of the Cold War.
00:20:42.000 Ronald Reagan, the man who brought the Cold War to a culmination.
00:20:46.000 OK, these are two absolute statesmen and they should never, ever be compared to the feckless Joe Biden who staged a photo op complete with the ridiculous canard of air raid sirens that just coincidentally happened to ring for the first time in days and days at the moment that he stepped outside. 0.96
00:21:06.000 The American people, of course, are not going to fall for this foolishness.
00:21:09.000 Also, one other point, you mentioned that Xi is going to Russia.
00:21:13.000 On this very date, Steve, in 1972, this is the anniversary today of Richard Nixon going to Beijing to visit China.
00:21:22.000 Why did he do that after two decades of complete isolation between the U.S., almost no interactions between the U.S. and China?
00:21:28.000 Why did he do that? Not because he had any admiration at all for Mao, quite the opposite.
00:21:32.000 He did it because we were in an existential struggle then with the Soviet Union and he did not want the two greatest powers, both of which were communists.
00:21:40.000 He did not want the two greatest powers of the Eurasian landmass to be in any way aligned.
00:21:44.000 So he very smartly, very strategically drove a wedge between China and Russia.
00:21:50.000 OK, that was brilliant by Richard Nixon and it set the stage for Reagan to later win the Cold War.
00:21:56.000 We now have the exact opposite scenario where we are practically begging China and Russia to form an ever stronger alliance because of our needless escalation against Russia.
00:22:08.000 Russia is not a material threat to the United States as long as we take a realpolitik view of Russia.
00:22:16.000 China is the existential threat versus the United States. 0.99
00:22:19.000 But again, we're practically begging them to form an ever closer alliance.
00:22:23.000 This is the antithesis of a Nixonian approach in every way.
00:22:28.000 It's the opposite of Trump's too.
00:22:31.000 What we're trying to do is make sure Russia and China never partner.
00:22:34.000 Russia and China partners with Iran.
00:22:37.000 First off, these are ancient civilizations.
00:22:41.000 You've got a civilization.
00:22:42.000 You've got Persia. 0.98
00:22:43.000 You have China. 0.71
00:22:44.000 You have Russia now forming a new axis.
00:22:46.000 Throw in Turkey. 1.00
00:22:47.000 Throw in the House Assad because of the output deals. 0.94
00:22:51.000 Let's kick in Pakistan. 1.00
00:22:53.000 Let's give them North Korea, mini-me, and then throw in a couple of the stands in Central Asia. 0.96
00:22:58.000 And let's kick in Brazil and some activity in the Caribbean.
00:23:02.000 CCP controls the Caribbean.
00:23:04.000 You've got all you want, ladies and gentlemen.
00:23:07.000 You've heard it here first.
00:23:08.000 This is no more storm is coming.
00:23:11.000 The storm is here.
00:23:12.000 And right there, David Ignatius laid out to the American people what McCarthy and these Republicans and McCall and these guys don't get.
00:23:19.000 We're an active combatant in this war.
00:23:21.000 In a high-tech cyber war.
00:23:23.000 We're target acquisition.
00:23:25.000 And they're talking about we're using artificial intelligence.
00:23:27.000 We're using the state of the art.
00:23:29.000 Now, we're removed somewhat.
00:23:30.000 We're in Poland or in some of these other territories, Romania, doing it, right?
00:23:35.000 But this is a high-tech war.
00:23:37.000 And it goes right there about how the Ukrainians have held them off. 0.86
00:23:40.000 Look, we have got to get to the negotiating table.
00:23:44.000 And we've got to get to the negotiating table quickly.
00:23:46.000 And Zelensky, and this is why Biden gives him an open checkbook, however long it takes and whatever you need.
00:23:52.000 Right?
00:23:53.000 And what they did and what Kamala Harris did on purpose to tee this up was to go to Munich and sit there and say, we have definitive proof.
00:24:00.000 We have formally determined.
00:24:02.000 Have they come forward now in 72 hours and shown us one scintilla?
00:24:06.000 Have the Republicans been hounding for this?
00:24:08.000 If McCarthy and McCall and these neocons think they're going to get off the hook there, you're not going to get off the hook.
00:24:13.000 And let me tell you how important this plays.
00:24:15.000 Ron DeSantis, who's a neocons neocon, was in that fire station or wherever he was in Staten Island, the police station, giving this talk yesterday to the first responders and to the police.
00:24:28.000 He gave a talk to Fox and Friends.
00:24:31.000 He sounded almost to the right of Trump on this.
00:24:33.000 And then Trump's thing last night.
00:24:35.000 Trump and the movement have moved everybody.
00:24:37.000 Ron DeSantis is saying, look, I don't know why we're in Ukraine.
00:24:39.000 We've got the southern border.
00:24:40.000 I mean, he's given the Trump mantra.
00:24:42.000 And this was a guy who was a neocons neocon.
00:24:45.000 So right now, the base of the Republican Party, the MAGA base, who are made principally of veterans, are parents of people who are serving.
00:24:54.000 We're not pacifists.
00:24:55.000 We're not peaceniks.
00:24:56.000 Right.
00:24:57.000 We're not the traditional anti-war crowd.
00:24:59.000 What we are is the anti-national suicide crowd.
00:25:02.000 Okay.
00:25:03.000 We will not let this happen.
00:25:04.000 We're not going to sleepwalk into this.
00:25:07.000 All these costs.
00:25:08.000 I'm a constitutional conservative.
00:25:10.000 Okay, constitutional conservative.
00:25:12.000 Where are you in getting Joe Biden instead of being over in Kyiv?
00:25:16.000 Why is he not on Capitol Hill laying out?
00:25:19.000 Let him come to the nation and let the vote be the vote.
00:25:22.000 If the country wants to vote for that and the representatives want to vote for that, hey, vote for it.
00:25:26.000 We're a constitutional republic.
00:25:28.000 But we need Biden immediately to come to Congress and lay out exactly what the plan is.
00:25:34.000 And we need hearings immediately about what our involvement is.
00:25:38.000 What are we doing already?
00:25:40.000 I realize the Armed Services Committee is traditionally the War Committee.
00:25:43.000 So most of the people on there are pro-military industrial complex.
00:25:46.000 I got that.
00:25:47.000 But we need hearings immediately.
00:25:50.000 What Gates and what MTG and these others are trying to do is too little.
00:25:55.000 They're trying to do it.
00:25:56.000 It's fine.
00:25:57.000 But there's too few voices of the Republican Party.
00:25:59.000 This has got to be a gut check.
00:26:00.000 You've got Nikki Haley blowing around Iowa. 1.00
00:26:03.000 And she's still sitting there saying, Steve Cortez, why are we in Ukraine?
00:26:07.000 Because this is about liberty.
00:26:09.000 This is about liberty and freedom.
00:26:10.000 Are you buying that, Brother Cortez?
00:26:12.000 I'm not buying it.
00:26:13.000 And most importantly, Republican voters aren't buying it.
00:26:15.000 So let me put some numbers on this.
00:26:17.000 And I posted this on my social media.
00:26:19.000 Brand new poll out from ABC News, Washington Post.
00:26:22.000 Not our kind of polling company, but nonetheless, it shows us the trend.
00:26:25.000 Our friend asked, are we doing too much in Ukraine?
00:26:29.000 Ten months ago, among Republican voters, only 22 percent thought we were doing too much.
00:26:34.000 There was almost unanimity last spring that we should escalate, that we should be intervening in Ukraine.
00:26:41.000 Now, I think there were some brave America first patriots.
00:26:44.000 You were absolutely one of them standing up saying, wait a second.
00:26:47.000 What's our U.S. vital national interest?
00:26:50.000 Making the case for de-escalation against intervention.
00:26:53.000 Well, let's fast forward to the present day.
00:26:55.000 In 10 months, what has happened?
00:26:57.000 That number has more than doubled.
00:26:59.000 It is now today, among Republican voters, 51 percent.
00:27:03.000 A majority and climbing, I believe, of Republican voters believe that we are doing too much in Ukraine.
00:27:09.000 So we are winning the argument for an America first approach of realism and restraint for a foreign policy of non-interventionism and de-escalation and diplomacy.
00:27:20.000 We are winning the hearts and minds of all Americans.
00:27:23.000 By the way, the number even of Democrats also more than doubled.
00:27:26.000 It's lower than Republicans, as you might figure.
00:27:28.000 But it also more than doubled.
00:27:30.000 The trend is our way here.
00:27:32.000 People are waking up to just how dangerous this is, but not just dangerous, Steve, how expensive it is.
00:27:38.000 And we can't afford it.
00:27:42.000 You know, Todd Benzman is over right now.
00:27:44.000 We're so jammed for news.
00:27:45.000 He's given his live press conference in the National Press Club about, wait for it, the invasion on the southern border.
00:27:50.000 That's the border that's in the national security interest of the United States, not the eastern Russian-speaking border of two Slavic nations.
00:27:57.000 They've been fighting over that for 5,000 years.
00:28:00.000 They're going to fight 5,000 years in the future.
00:28:02.000 Have at it.
00:28:03.000 In Europe, all the guys in Europe, all the people in Davos, those nice Swiss chalets, start forking your money over.
00:28:09.000 Start sending your sons and daughters over there. 1.00
00:28:11.000 Let's see Europe stand up for once.
00:28:13.000 Stop being a vassal state of America.
00:28:15.000 Stop being a protector of the United States.
00:28:17.000 Step up to the plate.
00:28:19.000 Short break.
00:28:20.000 Koffler-Cortez next.
00:28:22.000 The CCP.
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00:29:25.000 Okay, we want to see everybody at CPAC.
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00:29:51.000 I actually think the 24 campaign kicks off tomorrow in East Palestine, Ohio.
00:29:57.000 And here's why.
00:29:58.000 The Michael Patrick lays me at the top of the hour.
00:30:01.000 The EPA.
00:30:02.000 Remember talking about the EPA?
00:30:03.000 The administrator canceled the trip to Africa.
00:30:04.000 He's now flying back.
00:30:05.000 He's going to go to East Palestine. 0.94
00:30:07.000 They're the ones that have the authority.
00:30:09.000 The local coordinator, the on-scene commander for that area, has gotten back to Michael Patrick Leahy, who's writing up right now, a reporter on this show at 11 o'clock, that they are saying, wait for this one, who gave the authority for the controlled release and the controlled burn?
00:30:25.000 They're blaming it on the fire chief.
00:30:28.000 You can't make this up.
00:30:29.000 They're blaming it on the fire chief of East Palestine, Ohio.
00:30:33.000 The fire chief of a 4,000-person village, Hamlet.
00:30:38.000 They're blaming him that he gave the authorization.
00:30:42.000 Hey, no to EPA.
00:30:44.000 No to Governor DeWine.
00:30:46.000 No to Governor Shapiro.
00:30:47.000 And most importantly, note to Norfolk Southern, the chairman and CEO.
00:30:51.000 No, no, no, no, no.
00:30:52.000 You're not going to.
00:30:53.000 The folks in East Palestine are not going to be blamed for this.
00:30:57.000 And particularly, you're not going to blame the fire chief.
00:30:59.000 OK.
00:31:00.000 Nice try.
00:31:01.000 Not going to work.
00:31:02.000 War room is going to be all over you. 0.88
00:31:04.000 We need Yost, the attorney general of Ohio, supposed to be a good man in MAGA.
00:31:09.000 Sir, what you need to do immediately is to impanel a criminal grand jury to start to get the timeline and testimony and start with nothing sovereign.
00:31:20.000 But, hey, you can expand it out.
00:31:21.000 You can expand it out to the EPA.
00:31:24.000 You can expand it out to Governor DeWine.
00:31:27.000 You can expand it out to Shapiro and all that credit.
00:31:30.000 Anybody you want to.
00:31:31.000 Even bring the fire chief in.
00:31:33.000 Bring the poor fire chief. 1.00
00:31:34.000 You're not going to blame this ecological and human humanitarian disaster on a fire chief in East Palestine, Ohio.
00:31:44.000 That dog won't hunt. 0.99
00:31:46.000 OK, so you can do all the spinning you want.
00:31:49.000 But this is why you have to keep pressuring these people because they're going to come forward with their lies.
00:31:52.000 Right there.
00:31:53.000 Let's get them on the record with their lies.
00:31:55.000 Yost, the attorney general of Ohio, step up to the plate.
00:31:59.000 Empanel a criminal grand jury and empanel that criminal grand jury today.
00:32:04.000 OK, we shouldn't let this thing go long any any longer.
00:32:08.000 Show the nation that Ohio, the rule of law works in the little guy's voice is heard.
00:32:14.000 You're now going to dump now the EPA, the Biden regime is going to try to dump this responsibility on the folks on the decent, hardworking folks in East Palestine.
00:32:24.000 And they're going to say, oh, it's your fire chief.
00:32:27.000 Give me a frickin break.
00:32:28.000 The fire chief, the fire chief. 1.00
00:32:30.000 This is how stupid they think you are. 1.00
00:32:32.000 This is what contempt they hold you in. 1.00
00:32:34.000 That's a good.
00:32:35.000 The guy's going to Africa for a seven day boondoggle on climate change with a bunch of celebrities.
00:32:41.000 And we finally shamed him on coming.
00:32:43.000 He's heading to East Palestine because Donald Trump showing up.
00:32:46.000 DeWine's going back there because Donald Trump showing up.
00:32:48.000 And now they're starting to cough up.
00:32:50.000 Oh, yeah. Well, here's who did it.
00:32:51.000 It was the fire chief.
00:32:52.000 Yeah, I think one of the fire.
00:32:54.000 Yeah, it was the fire chief.
00:32:55.000 Fire chief did that. 0.98
00:32:56.000 Screw you. 0.99
00:32:57.000 Not going to hear you. 1.00
00:32:58.000 You can hold.
00:32:59.000 You're not going to hold people in contempt for too long because we're going to start banging heads.
00:33:03.000 OK, it's unacceptable what you allowed to happen.
00:33:06.000 And you're sitting there lying now and trying to blame it on some local fire chief in a 4000 town village.
00:33:13.000 And what you've done to the country, what you've done to the nation and particularly what you've done to this poor folks there. 0.98
00:33:20.000 They're not disposable garbage. 0.99
00:33:23.000 OK, and we're not going to let you treat them like trash. 1.00
00:33:26.000 You people make me sick to my stomach. 1.00
00:33:29.000 You make me sick. 1.00
00:33:30.000 You're you're there's no term. 0.95
00:33:32.000 This is the administrative state.
00:33:33.000 Why do you think we're fighting this thing?
00:33:35.000 They're just in their arrogance.
00:33:37.000 Right.
00:33:38.000 Look what David Ignatius just told you.
00:33:40.000 Did anybody in this room, anybody in this audience, this massive audience vote to start arming Ukraine with advanced technology?
00:33:47.000 Anybody know what was going on from 2014?
00:33:49.000 David Ignatius just told you from 2014.
00:33:52.000 Did you know they're doing all the target acquisition for for Ukraine?
00:33:55.000 Did you know that?
00:33:56.000 Did you know that?
00:33:57.000 No, nobody knew that.
00:33:58.000 I didn't know that's called sleepwalking, ladies and gentlemen.
00:34:01.000 And right now you have to take personal responsibility.
00:34:04.000 You know enough from the war room.
00:34:06.000 You can't.
00:34:07.000 No more hiding.
00:34:08.000 No more hiding.
00:34:09.000 OK, it's your responsibility.
00:34:11.000 It's my responsibility.
00:34:12.000 It's Cortez's responsibility.
00:34:13.000 It's Koffler's responsibility.
00:34:15.000 It's Trump's responsibility.
00:34:16.000 It's DeSantis.
00:34:17.000 It's Tucker.
00:34:18.000 It's all of it.
00:34:19.000 We know enough.
00:34:20.000 Now what's going on?
00:34:21.000 We can't just sit there.
00:34:22.000 Oh, it's Biden and the Democrats.
00:34:23.000 No, this can all be stopped, can all be stopped by this audience alone.
00:34:29.000 Enough pressure on these feckless, gutless, spineless Republicans.
00:34:34.000 Right.
00:34:35.000 You put enough pressure on them.
00:34:36.000 We can bring this whole thing to a halt.
00:34:38.000 We can save humanity from getting because, hey, you don't think Putin would light this thing up. 0.50
00:34:43.000 This is a criminal. 0.80
00:34:44.000 You got.
00:34:45.000 Here's what we got.
00:34:46.000 We have the worst of all nightmares.
00:34:48.000 You have a merger.
00:34:50.000 You remember the godfather of Cortez?
00:34:51.000 You have a merger of the worst criminal elements in the world.
00:34:55.000 The Mexican drug cartels are like junior varsity compared to these guys.
00:34:58.000 You got the but you got the murderous criminal regime in Beijing that have killed hundreds of millions of their own people and could care less.
00:35:06.000 You've got the criminal element in Moscow with Putin and the KGB FSB guys, right, who are the follow-ons of Stalin and these guys could care less how many they're killing.
00:35:16.000 And you've got the Ayatollahs and Mullahs in Persia and Tehran who could care less of how many people they're killing. 0.83
00:35:23.000 Right.
00:35:24.000 You're going to throw in Erdogan.
00:35:25.000 He's a lovely piece of work.
00:35:26.000 You're going to throw in the House of Saud. 0.95
00:35:28.000 They're fantastic.
00:35:29.000 They're humanitarians.
00:35:30.000 Right.
00:35:31.000 They're so great.
00:35:32.000 Let's kick in the Pakistan guys and let's throw in mini me up there in North Korea. 0.99
00:35:35.000 That's a lovely group right there. 0.96
00:35:37.000 That's all criminal element.
00:35:39.000 And we've allowed to come together.
00:35:41.000 Cortez, this ain't a storm that's coming.
00:35:43.000 This is a storm that's here.
00:35:45.000 Isn't it, brother?
00:35:46.000 Right.
00:35:47.000 No, it is a storm that has started.
00:35:48.000 But again, it's not too late to pull back from the precipice.
00:35:52.000 And we, the deplorables, the America First Movement, earned the right to an incredible lever of power in Washington, D.C.
00:36:01.000 That is the House of Representatives.
00:36:03.000 And particularly as it pertains to this debt ceiling, this showdown, which is upcoming, it's an enormous pressure point.
00:36:09.000 And it can be used to achieve and demand accountability on issues like the border, the border that matters, the southern border of the United States, not the eastern border of Ukraine.
00:36:19.000 And now on issues of, if you want to continue this escalation, Joe Biden and the Washington war machine, the defense contractors, K Street, all of it.
00:36:29.000 If you want to continue this escalation, you are going to have to come to Congress and you're going to have to dispassionately make your case to the American people, A, why this matters so much to the United States.
00:36:42.000 And then B, if it does matter, what is the actual plan?
00:36:45.000 And lay it out for us in detail.
00:36:48.000 What is the plan in terms of timeline, in terms of American commitment and in terms of the finances?
00:36:54.000 How are we going to pay for it?
00:36:55.000 Because this is a critical point that I've repeated often, but I think it bears repeating.
00:37:00.000 The reality is we are borrowing the mountain of money that we are sending over to Ukraine.
00:37:05.000 So it's an incredibly dangerous situation from just a national security perspective.
00:37:10.000 But on top of that, adding insult to injury, it is also making our economic predicament, which is dire, especially for middle class people,
00:37:19.000 it is making our economic crisis all the worse here at home because we are borrowing the money to needlessly stoke a battle which should be regional
00:37:31.000 and unfortunately is becoming ever more at risk of becoming a global conflagration because of the escalatory tactics of Joe Biden.
00:37:39.000 By the way, too, one quick point because MSNBC and most of corporate media, they made a big deal overnight and this morning about how brave this was of Joe Biden to go to Ukraine.
00:37:48.000 Give me a break.
00:37:49.000 OK, there has been a carousel of Hollywood celebrities posing with Zelensky.
00:37:54.000 OK, one of the I think the darkest figures in the world right now, Zelensky.
00:37:58.000 And that doesn't make Putin any better than him, by the way.
00:38:01.000 But let's just be honest about who Zelensky is.
00:38:03.000 Yes. But there's been a carousel of Hollywood celebrities in and out of Ukraine, a carousel of Vogue photographers in and out of Ukraine to take pictures.
00:38:13.000 I'm just glad, by the way, that Biden apparently he was able to get some time on Zelensky's schedule in between his photo shoots.
00:38:19.000 But spare me the ridiculous hyperbolic talk about how brave this was. 0.92
00:38:26.000 It's ridiculous. 0.96
00:38:27.000 No, no. First off, first off, we asked permission of Russia. 0.94
00:38:30.000 They notified Putin right before they even left D.C.
00:38:33.000 We asked. Let's be blunt.
00:38:34.000 We asked permission.
00:38:35.000 We kowtow everywhere.
00:38:37.000 Rebecca Koffler, to this audience, how dangerous is this right now, given the fact that you know Putin and his cronies around him, these gangsters in Moscow as well as anyone?
00:38:52.000 We're in uncharted territory.
00:38:54.000 As they look at the world, how dangerous is this next couple of months?
00:38:58.000 It's one thousand percent dangerous, Steve.
00:39:03.000 Here's why.
00:39:04.000 I agree with Steve that this was pure theatrics, but it was also extremely reckless for Biden to go into the combat zone.
00:39:15.000 Yes, they did have to ask the Russians because the Russians own airspace over there.
00:39:22.000 But remember, the Russians actually took down MH17 airliner, and back during the Cold War, they also took down KL007.
00:39:36.000 And when Putin hears the rhetoric, this man can no longer remain in power, and U.S. wants to strategically defeat Russia, what do you think some of the hotlines think?
00:39:50.000 What do you think?
00:39:52.000 I think it is extremely reckless for Biden to show up in that combat zone and do all of his, you know, he's almost as theatrically skillful as Zelensky at this point.
00:40:04.000 Remember the big hug and kiss, the handwritten note, the tie that he wore, and then, of course, that siren.
00:40:14.000 But going back on how extremely dangerous the situation is right now, I want to follow up on something very important that Steve Cortez just said.
00:40:26.000 But I want to zero in on the second part of his statement.
00:40:30.000 He said, Russia is not a material threat to the United States.
00:40:35.000 I agree with that statement, especially with the caveat that came after that.
00:40:41.000 So long as the United States does not further erode Russia's strategic security perimeter, which the United States has done, as you just yourself articulated.
00:40:57.000 Well, what's his name? Ignatius did. And by the way, Ignatius, he he's a spokesperson, a publicist for the CIA.
00:41:07.000 I have personal and direct knowledge that he is, you know, in the roller decks of the CIA people.
00:41:13.000 And this guy knows what he's doing.
00:41:15.000 They leak information to him, including classified information.
00:41:19.000 And sometimes they even use him.
00:41:21.000 So Ignatius acknowledged that we're doing target acquisition.
00:41:25.000 So as Steve said, we're already at war.
00:41:27.000 But so since the Russians have concluded that we are seeking the strategic defeat, that's when Russia presents a threat. 0.85
00:41:38.000 And here's here's the threat.
00:41:40.000 You started talking in the first segment about tactical use.
00:41:43.000 We are now in the strategic ground because that's what a start is.
00:41:48.000 And if you couple Putin's action, right, with suspending start with the situation that we had last week when Russian strategic nuclear capable bombers breached the air defense identification zone in North American airspace.
00:42:11.000 We are flying close to Alaska.
00:42:15.000 And they did that eight times in two days.
00:42:18.000 What do you think they're doing there?
00:42:20.000 They're practicing their operationalizing concepts of first strike.
00:42:26.000 They won't do that.
00:42:28.000 They won't strike the United States out of the blue.
00:42:31.000 The doctrine is there's no longer, you know, the man and the strike out of the blue sky like we had during the Cold War.
00:42:39.000 But they do have the first use doctrine, meaning if they assess that the United States is about to defeat Russia and do any kind.
00:42:51.000 And I and it doesn't need to be defeated.
00:42:53.000 Nuclear weapons are unconventional or it could be in a cyber attack.
00:42:57.000 They will absolutely.
00:42:58.000 And that's how Rebecca, hang on for one second. 1.00
00:43:05.000 We're gonna take a short commercial break.
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00:43:09.000 Join us.
00:43:10.000 Let's take down the CCP.
00:43:11.000 Spread the word all through Hong Kong. 0.81
00:43:14.000 We will fight till they're all gone.
00:43:16.000 We rejoice when there's no more. 0.95
00:43:18.000 Let's take down the CCP.
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00:45:06.000 Okay, welcome back.
00:45:09.000 Rebecca Koffler, can you give your coordinates?
00:45:11.000 I know you're the new starlet on Fox & Friends in the morning, and congratulations on that.
00:45:16.000 You're giving great information.
00:45:18.000 But can you give your information on how people get the book?
00:45:21.000 Because it's still the best insight on Putin and how they think.
00:45:24.000 Also, which the title sounded a little over the top when you first came out with it.
00:45:29.000 But more and more, as scary as it is, it sounds like we're sleepwalking into a major punch right in the face.
00:45:35.000 How do people get the book?
00:45:36.000 How do they get to your writings?
00:45:38.000 Sure.
00:45:39.000 The book is available anywhere, really, on Amazon or in any bookstore.
00:45:44.000 The title, I disagreed with the title that was chosen by my literary agent.
00:45:51.000 But if you understand the premise that Steve Cortez just talked about and I amplified, as long as we do not erode Russia's strategic security perimeter, then Russia will not attack us.
00:46:06.000 What we're doing right now, as you just pointed out, we have become effectively a direct party to war with the world's most powerful nuclear state, Russia. 0.61
00:46:19.000 And so that will give, the Russians believe that will give them the right. 0.87
00:46:23.000 So I'm on Getter, Twitter and Truth Social at Rebecca0132.
00:46:29.000 Thank you for having me and God bless to everyone.
00:46:32.000 Rebecca, thank you very much.
00:46:35.000 Honored to have you on here.
00:46:37.000 Cortez, we're going to move off of this topic and onto economics, et cetera.
00:46:41.000 But any closing thoughts you've got as we're sleepwalking into this and the demand has to be the MAGA Republicans have got to step up and all those people that didn't want to come to the defense on the five days that changed the country in early January have got to step up.
00:46:55.000 Now, what we need is a commitment, by the way, the Associated Press is reporting under 50 percent.
00:47:02.000 NBC had it on the other day.
00:47:03.000 Only 48 percent of the people, according to the Associated Press, support this program in Ukraine right now.
00:47:08.000 The numbers are coming our way.
00:47:10.000 And you can tell this.
00:47:12.000 DeSantis was not born last night.
00:47:15.000 He's a neocons neocon and he's preaching old time religion here on this Ukraine situation.
00:47:20.000 Just, you know, I've got it up on on Getter right now.
00:47:23.000 He gave a Trumpian MAGA response to Ukraine the other day.
00:47:28.000 Right. No more.
00:47:29.000 We're fighting for freedom.
00:47:30.000 We're fighting for liberty.
00:47:31.000 No more nonsense coming out of Nikki Haley and the rest of the neocons.
00:47:34.000 Your thoughts and observations on this.
00:47:37.000 Look, the stance on Ukraine was a significant issue in the twenty twenty two Republican primaries.
00:47:43.000 And there are some candidates.
00:47:44.000 J.D. Vance probably being the best example.
00:47:46.000 Some candidates who prevailed, I think, largely because they took a very brave, non-interventionist stance on Ukraine.
00:47:53.000 But now that the situation has escalated so much because of Joe Biden, I think it's going to be a primary issue, not just an important one,
00:48:00.000 but a primary issue into twenty twenty four primaries, whether for president or any other federal office.
00:48:06.000 Right. Because of the danger that you're talking about.
00:48:08.000 I think it's also important for us to draw this contrast, of course, because these ridiculous comparisons from corporate media are going to persist,
00:48:14.000 pretending that Joe Biden is somehow Reagan-esque or that he's Kennedy, either one of them going to Berlin.
00:48:21.000 It's very important to draw this contrast.
00:48:23.000 The Soviet Union was a powerful empire and a global menace that was on the march all over the world. 0.97
00:48:31.000 OK, an empire that put missiles 90 miles away from the United States.
00:48:37.000 That's the kind of existential struggle we faced in the Cold War, which required such extraordinary means from the United States.
00:48:44.000 When we look at Russia today, markedly different, of course, from the Soviet Union.
00:48:49.000 Russia today has trouble even controlling its near influence, its near border influence.
00:48:56.000 OK, it is not on the march all over the world.
00:48:58.000 It is a struggling and fading power.
00:49:00.000 Now, they do have an ultimate weapon in powerful nuclear weapons.
00:49:04.000 But other than that, they're really not very potent and they don't need to be an adversary of the United States.
00:49:10.000 If we if we take a realpolitik view and if we follow that kind of foreign policy agenda of realism and restraint, Russia is largely immaterial to the United States,
00:49:22.000 whereas China is now what the Soviet Union used to be.
00:49:25.000 China is the existential threat to the United States economically, militarily, cyber, you name it in every single sense. 0.99
00:49:34.000 And again, to just reemphasize this point on the anniversary of Richard Nixon's overture to China, which was brilliant in 1972.
00:49:41.000 On this day, we are pursuing an exactly opposite of the the anti Nixonian policy of practically compelling Beijing and Moscow to form an ever more powerful alliance because of this recklessness.
00:49:57.000 You know, let me throw in one other unfortunate anniversary today, Steve, about the consequences.
00:50:02.000 Right. Of a rush to war and of a lack of seriousness and of a of a unfortunately a rush to escalation today in 1916 began the Battle of Verdun,
00:50:14.000 one of the most brutal and bloody battles in all of human history.
00:50:17.000 It lasted almost the entire year of 1916 during World War One.
00:50:22.000 Three hundred thousand people were killed in the Battle of Verdun, ultimately seven hundred fifty thousand total casualties.
00:50:30.000 One of the gravest mistakes in world history, World War One. 0.62
00:50:34.000 Let's think about that as we sleepwalk toward potentially a global war because of an eastern border of a country that is not relevant to the national security of the United States.
00:50:47.000 That's the reality here. I implore the American people to think about this in a very sober and dispassionate way and realize that our problems are not five thousand miles away.
00:50:56.000 Our problems are here at home economically and regarding our very own border, which is totally unguarded.
00:51:03.000 We're going to get to all that here momentarily. We're going to take a 90 second break.
00:51:07.000 We've got Joe Reese going to join us. Cortez is going to go through some economics everybody has to hear.
00:51:11.000 We're going to go to East Palestine. We've got we've got Michael Patrick Leahy with breaking news there.
00:51:17.000 To Cortez's point, as a young naval officer in the mid to late 70s, I was on a destroyer in the 7th Fleet, the Western Pacific Fleet.
00:51:25.000 We were an anti-submarine platform to defend the carrier, the carrier battle group.
00:51:30.000 Our task and purpose with Soviet submarines in the Western Pacific, South China Sea, Straits of Taiwan, East China Sea, Indian Ocean, all that.
00:51:39.000 OK, not Chinese submarines, Soviet submarines. They were a global power and a global enemy. 0.80
00:51:45.000 OK, and now we're sleepwalking right into a war where people are throwing around these terms like tactical nuclear weapons like this is some sort of garden party talk.
00:51:55.000 OK, short commercial break, 90 seconds. We're going to come back. We've got Joe Reese going to join us for my Patriot Supply.
00:52:01.000 We've got Cortez. We've got a bunch of economics to go through. We're going to get Michael Patrick Leahy and Jeff Clark.
00:52:06.000 The EPA has announced they found the culprit. They have found the villain.
00:52:11.000 And the villain is the fire chief of East Palestine, Ohio.
00:52:18.000 Does he have the authority? Does he have the authority?
00:52:21.000 Does he have the authority with a $6 trillion federal budget in the EPA, the Nazis over the EPA? 0.83
00:52:27.000 Echo Nazis? Does he have the authority?
00:52:30.000 That's where they're trying to stick it on. All next in the war room. 0.64
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