Episode 2819： The Mocking Of American Values; Rise Of The Second Opium War;
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Summary
Stephan K. Bannam joins us to discuss his column in the New York Times on the impeachment of Donald J. Trump and why evangelicals are so complicit in his crimes and crimes, and what went horribly wrong with our tribe.
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
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these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
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had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do everything
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the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and where do people
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like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these people
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had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to save my
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country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k bannam
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after we read read your column in the from the atlantic that that you know these same people
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are people that were hounding me uh in in 99 to vote against uh bill clinton on all four articles
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of impeachment right i said well we probably need to listen to the evidence first they freaked out
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yeah and said he said the man is not fit morally to be there america's in decline it's the end of
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our constitutional republic because he's immoral so let me just say of course this has all changed
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i don't have to name you know the payoffs to the porn stars and all the other things that they're just
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turning a blind eye to it's accepted i mean you say in your column the majority of trump enablers still
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know right from wrong but let me ask you something it's our tribe right so if donald trump has a disorder
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if he's a sociopath what went so horribly wrong with our tribe whether we're talking about
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our republican tribe our conservative tribe or our evangelical tribe why weren't there more
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tim kellers out there why weren't there more pete wainers out there why weren't there more russell
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moores out there yeah and and joe scarborough's and and and others look it's a question that i've
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wrestled with for a long time uh one way i think about it is how many of these dark impulses
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existed pre-trump in the republican party that i wasn't as alert to as i should have been uh you
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know if you go back over my writings i called the republicans out now and then looking back i probably
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didn't do it nearly um enough apart from that what's gone on is the uh you had a situation in
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which i think there were deep feelings of grievance and resentments that trump tapped into
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and you saw this psychological accommodation because once they threw their hat over the wall
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in 2016 when he got the nomination it was one thing after another after another and if you study
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human psychology the capacity of human beings to rationalize and justify what they do in order to
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to mitigate what's called cognitive dissonance that is a sense that your values are at odds with what
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you stated is enormous i think there was power longing for power because as president i think there was
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fear of the base i think there was cowardice i think there was a hollow moral core and this sort
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of self self-deception but it is an unbelievably puzzling thing i think particularly for people
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like you and i joe and and others who are republicans it's probably why we've had the energy that we do
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on this issue because this is a party we belong to and to see what it's doing the kind of wrecking
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ball a civic wrecking ball a political wrecking ball a moral wrecking ball uh it's disturbing for
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anybody but particularly from from people uh who were who were formerly associated with the
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republican party they should have seen this it was obvious that this guy was going to be what he was
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turned out to be and pete i would guess for you people that grew up in the evangelical church you
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listened to tim keller some of the last things he said with tim tim tim said you know being an
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evangelical used to mean you turned your back on sort of the pentecostal approach uh the sort of
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this this this build the wall around your church and the idea of evangelicals and i saw it growing up
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i saw growing up was to throw the door wide open look outward and try to figure out how to connect
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how to make difference in your community how to be there for people who were hurting and people that
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were in need being good samaritans that's what they taught us at least every sunday of course we all
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fell short of the mark i'd fall short of the mark still all the time but that was the idea but tim one
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of the last things tim said was that the word evangelical it's become associated with politics
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instead of faith they've not only these trumpers have not only taken over and twisted and distorted the
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republican party they've done it to conservatism and they've done it to evangelicalism yeah i would
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just say as a person of the christian faith that's been the most personally painful thing to me uh to
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see uh not just the damage to the country but to the damage to the faith which i think is almost
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incalculable i think what's been revealed among other things joe is that faith turned out to be
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subordinate secondary to certain core identities whether they were partisan and political
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or cultural or socioeconomic or psychological and what happened is a lot of people had a certain
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preconceptions they they started at a point and they used the scriptures to justify where they were
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you know shakespeare said devil can quote scripture for his own purposes and in fact did uh in in the
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second temptation and i think we're seeing that happen and look you have in donald trump the person who
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probably most embodies the antithesis of the sermon on the mount the person of jesus and the teachings
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of jesus and this guy is a rock star and has been for year after year now you could have made an argument
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in 2016 that they didn't know what he was dealing with but not as the years unfolded and by the time we
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got to 2020 it was so obvious what he was and yet they stayed and it's tremendous indictment of them
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and it raises really deep issues i know tim was a close friend of mine we talked a lot about this
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and it really raises a lot of questions about the evangelical movement and what's happened what
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went wrong and what can be done to get it right i mean you you go through the beatitudes and that's my
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challenge always my challenge to to those who talk about this it go through every single beatitude in
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the sermon that every single one blessed are the merciful blessed are the meek blessed are those who hunger
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and thirst for righteousness blessed are the i mean i can go blessed are the merciful those who
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shall mercy i can go through them all he is literally the antithesis of every single one
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blessed is maga for they shall save this republic um they're coming they're coming right there
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you're indicted uh evangelical christians traditional catholics as i've told you you're the problem
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right you're the problem because you're the support function for trump you're the problem you're indicted
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what you've by and i want to remind you this is by the crowd that stood by and let the country get in
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this situation get in the shape do you think that this as we had brandon show walter and others on last
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evening show do you think this just all appeared out of nowhere this was all done uh was a dryer um
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scarborough that entire crowd the the bush fact totems the app bush apparatus the controlled opposition
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the controlled opposition allowed the mark atheistic marxist um elite culture
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well remember it has not nothing to do with economics they're going to keep all the cash
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right they're going to keep all the capital just like the chinese communist party does which we're
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going to get into in a moment because that's their role model but they're going to have struggle
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sessions with you destroy the nuclear family turn your children against you where were these big
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talkers where are these guys during that all the stuff that's that's come up the cultural the social
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the loss of sovereignty the um the um sending your sons and daughters to foreign battlefields to die
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just for the extension of the american empire where were those guys then no no no no no but donald trump
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stands athor the sermon on the mount well i would refer uh was it we're going to call him pastor scarborough now
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pastor scarborough um he ought to read the gospel according to mark with jesus as exorcist
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to drive out the evil ones right the the gospel they don't teach anymore in um in theology schools
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because it's a jesus a christ that comes back or comes to drive out the devil right
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how about this maga blessed is maga for it will save this republic suck on that joe scarborough
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in atlantic magazine uh we've got a lot going on today and we're going to get to it it's tuesday
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20 june in the year of our lord 2023 in the uh project to save this republic and turn it around
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and make sure it is a force for prosperity and good that the new jerusalem and this promised land um
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would get it sorted and get it in the right direction because right now the um the apparatus and
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the people control the apparatus are bound and determined not to do it i was going to start
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with tony blinkens because we've got to get into china and ukraine and what's happening there because
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they're setting the framework here for um what they want as a new global order where the the united
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states of america kowtows kowtows to the ccp after taking over their business models kowtows to the ccp
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um and at the same time make sure that you're pouring billions of dollars tens of billions of
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dollars hundreds of billions of dollars into this fiasco in uh in ukraine uh which is just killing
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more ukrainian civilians and ukrainian military okay um i want to bring it we got a bunch we got
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senator josh hawley's going to join us at the bottom of the hour i want to start with dr bradley thayer
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and and i don't want i can't play the cold open because i'm kind of pressed for time i had a
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whole thing of blinken and biden saying what a great job blinken's doing and we were going to play
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the uh um the um neville chamberlain at munich maybe that's a little too on the nose but hey you're
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in the war room um dr bradley thayer i'll start with you and i've got ben harnwell with us i think
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frank gaffney's going to try to join us this morning uh we've got and just just so we set it up
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before we pivot to china the reason they're coming in remember the the um the left the marxist
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left the the atheistic marxist left which will try to now clothe itself into into religion because
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they understand traditional catholics and evangelical christians are one of the backbones
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of this movement that um it is the faith and freedom conferences this week ralph reed's group
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is in dc president trump will address that you've got the one-year anniversary of the dobbs decision
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there's a huge um uh commemoration celebration of that on um on saturday so you've got a lot of this
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you got many of the evangelicals and faith-based are coming to dc and they're going to be uh
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participating in this tonight the sounds of freedom the movie uh premieres here in washington dc
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jim cavisa right now as we schedule it's all subject to how these uh you know to get the
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celebrities around dc where they're meeting with all the the the uh the high muckety mucks uh jim
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cavisa is going to join us right now we are scheduled for an hour with jim in the six o'clock show so you
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got the sound of freedom you've got the faith and uh of freedom um conference with ralph reed you've got
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uh the one-year anniversary of dobbs that's what they're now going to pile in for uh trump is the
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antichrist trump's the antichrist he's opposed to every one of the of the tenets uh of the sermon
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on the mount right so he's the antichrist trump is antichrist so this week we're gonna go through
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trump is antichrist so we'll make sure we deconstruct that for you and and to make sure
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that you have a full understanding as you think it through that you're actually on the side of the
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angels okay you're on the side of the angels uh and not uh with the um and not with the evil ones
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as they remember joe scarber and this crowd and that guy they're the ones that they're the ones to
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support uh this group of guys with beards dressed up as nuns that are there to uh mock the family
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to mock the crucifixion of our lord and savior jesus christ to mock american traditions to mock
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american values joe scarborough and his and his wingman there every day are supporting what they're
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doing in the schools to your children and here's who's revolting against it and they're not gonna the
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armenian dads right that we're gonna we're trying to get on here in the next couple days the uh the
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5 000 folks that showed up to protest the desecrators that were there to protest the
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desecrators was a 80 or 90 percent hispanic crowd and 50 percent of them were men hispanic men
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that's who's standing up to this and right now it's kind of just coming together and it's a little bit
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ill form but it's self-organizing that's fine it's powerful it's more powerful to be self-organizing
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so we're gonna get to all that and we're gonna chop a lot of wood on that this week to make sure you
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understand as they as they now present that trump's the antichrist and because you support trump
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or you're a populist or you're a populist nationalist and you are here to defend the
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sovereignty of this nation the new jerusalem that you in fact are uh you're one of the you're the
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problem that you are the problem your faith is the problem what you believe is the problem what
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your core values are you're the problem you you you you you you're the problem you know why they say
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that because they understand you have power and they have to destroy that and take it from you
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next in the war room well congress once again allowed itself to be pushed into appeasing the
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administration and raising the debt ceiling for the 79th time paving the way for continued reckless
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spending and further devaluation of the u.s dollar as our national debt continues to skyrocket
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that action today host stephen k back okay philip talk to me about the inflation talk to me about
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why the bricks nations remember these people are being rational we are forcing this upon them we're
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forcing this upon them because of the irresponsibility the financial and economic irresponsibility
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of the uniparty wall street the elites in our nation sir it's absolutely correct right it's it we
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have mishandled almost every situation this administration is an abomination quite frankly so
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to touch upon the inflation quickly just to give the update so bureau of labor statistics came out last
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week headline inflation four percent year over year the problem with that core inflation or as i call it
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sticky inflation five point three percent year over year rise so it's the same thing we've been talking
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about for a while the only meaningful reduction we're seeing in inflation is coming from energy
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prices down almost 12 percent everything else volatile food up over six percent everything else we spend
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our money on is basically either holding firm or increasing now the reality is energy prices cannot fall
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forever right they skyrocketed we're seeing a decline but inflation is not handled by the
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federal reserve essentially core inflation is the same as it was 18 months ago and hasn't even
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budged in the last seven months the federal reserve try and dress this up we're handling the problem
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headline inflation is coming down but they're bypassing the issue and it really isn't right the core
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inflation is two and a half times the federal reserve's target now to quote federal uh federal reserve
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chairman powell he said without price stability the economy just doesn't work for anyone and he's
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exactly correct it makes it impossible for people to plan for the future that's true for us as
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individuals but like i said it's also true for central governments around the world the federal
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reserve are stuck between a rock and a hard place right now they don't know what to do right they want to
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raise interest rates but they can't right now so the federal reserve decided for the first time in 10
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consecutive meeting to keep the federal funds rate the same but it wasn't a pivot right they're not
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suggesting that we have a handle on inflation they said in the same meeting we still have a long way
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to go right so some are calling calling this a hawkish porch which i think at best is what it is
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it's not a pivot certainly because the fed are predicting uh two more interest rate hikes by the end of
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this year so essentially we're stuck between a rock and a hard place they want to combat the inflation
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problem but they can't do it because if they raise the interest rates it's going to put a squeeze on the
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banks right right now there's still 600 billion dollars in unrealized losses across the banks
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so the fed right now have their hands tied behind their back and it's just a tough situation but
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here's the reality we got to stop taking the federal reserve's predictions so seriously right
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two years ago they predicted by the end of this year the interest rate would be at 0.6 percent
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by the way two years ago inflation was at 5.4 percent so we've just got to understand the fed have
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consistently underestimated inflation they've stayed behind this the curve this has been a reactive fed
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not a proactive fed and they've got just a terrible record of forecasting even their own decisions so
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for me it's a very very tough situation the fed right now quantitative easing with the one hand
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quantitative tightening with the other and we're going nowhere and this is all being driven by an
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administration that just don't have a clue what they're doing they're forcing massive spending
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packages down our throat at a time when the nation can't afford it we all know how this ends but it's
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now a time to put a stop to the spending because to the spending because i don't think the federal
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reserve can get us out of this here's what this is classic stagflation you have
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core inflation over five percent you have economic growth as projected by currently and also as
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projected by both the world bank the imf the leading banks on wall street of about 1.1 percent
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very low growth falling tax revenues because on your tax structure you're just going to get
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lower and remember ladies they've juiced this baby they juiced this baby with nine trillion dollars
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off the books on the side of uh of all this additional spending now that we're coming in as the
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deficit hawks and the debt hawks and guys say we got to stop this they've already they've already primed
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the pump as much as the keynesians can they're gonna be coming back and saying oh no you guys are
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terrible because you want this is we're in a conundrum and this is why remember every person
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i don't care if they're from a third world country they all have brilliant they send brilliant people to
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harvard they all can work the hb12c they're they're doing the discounted cash flows and they're saying
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hey how about this how about we keep since you're since you're doing a devaluation on us 15 percent
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decline in purchasing power in two years and 18 months how about this how about this western elites
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suck on this how about we start charging you higher prices for our commodities and we're going to go to
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an alternative basket of currencies and maybe we back it we'll trust what the hedge has been for
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five thousand years we'll do gold and let's see who's standing at the end of the day this is a
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continuation of western arrogance the elites davos the city of london wall street sit there you think
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it can ram it down everybody's throat and i'm telling you somebody's got to wake up and say hey
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the world is not biden's run his business plan up the flagpole and nobody saluted philip patrick
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uh you're absolutely spot on look there's one thing that's clear we need a change in leadership
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and we need it now because you said it right they are sensing the weakness of the west they think of
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us as fat and oversaturated and they are making moves now i think biden forced the hand listen to
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upset the world order to change the global reserve currency it involves hardship for for these nations as
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well we forced their hands we alerted china and we've put ourselves in an impossible situation the
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fed are trying desperately to combat it but like i said it's it's a it's a very difficult task there
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was a quote from harry truman years ago and he said you know what i desperately need is a one-handed
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economist and it's sort of ringing very true today but it let's know make no mistake it's this
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administration have escalated this timeline at some point we were going to lose global reserve
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currency right it's the nature of it it always circles in history we have brought that timeline
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forward it is under threat and we now need something dramatic to change this if we can
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yeah well we got to change our spending we're going to lose global reserve currency as for the dollar
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we're going to have to change our spending uh philip how do people get to you over at birch gold so i
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know the audience is going to want to say hey if they're going to these gold-backed securities and
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buying gold at record amounts maybe i'd maybe i'd read some of the free information kits you guys are
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putting out now's the time and by the way we did the dollar we did the death of the prime reserve
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currency the end of the global dollar empire we started two years ago in the same we got the fourth
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installment coming up and make sure you get the first three for free where they go philip so it's
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really easy by the way i say to people all the time you can take everything i say with a pinch of
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salt if central governments around the world are buying more gold than any year in history
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it means more than anything i have to say so it's very simple to get information and information is
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key birchgold.com slash bannon again birchgold.com forward slash bannon that's going to give them
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access to a free information kit information is key and you can reach me directly at philip patrick
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on getter but for free information birchgold.com slash bannon amazing work philip thank you very
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much appreciate it thank you as always steve okay people sitting there going well they're just a
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bunch of third world countries they're in russia that's kind of the non-aligned movement from the
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60s or 70s here's one of the problems we have many aspects and attributes of a third world country
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uh dave walsh the grid it's very hot down in texas tell tell us that people are panicking now
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is the grid going to be able to withstand it and how did we get in this situation dave walsh
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well the texas public utility commission chairman pete lake was indicating as late late may that texas
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no longer has enough dispatchable generation to meet demand of the air caught system this is now
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going to have to rely on wind and a little bit of solar to make up the delta in the worst times
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peak demand this year is going to be 82.7 000 megawatts last summer it was 80 now why is it
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up so much well of course it's going to be warm it's warm now that's very normal for this time of
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year but one of the things that's happened is four million additional people have come into texas in
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the last 26 months a 13.5 percent population rise which would call for about 11 and a half thousand
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megawatts of new generation that's when you admit more people walking across the rio grande you need
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more infrastructure electricity is one of the things you need a lot more infrastructure for for
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the delta four million people just arriving from that from that set of issues so we're looking at
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reserve margins in the first place were low as anywhere in the country at 8.6 to 10 percent now with
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this population boom and the normal summer heat we're looking at service curtailments and brownouts
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according to the puc chairman uh... and ericott's peak load not being able to be met from time to
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time this summer they're forecasting it now at the macro level nationally the uh... commissioner mark
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phillips indicated in a may hearing before the senate uh... committee on energy that the u.s. is headed for a
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catastrophic situation in respect to all reliability so this problem is not unique to texas any further
00:26:38.520
states and of course this is this has happened same reason we've said in this forum the premature
00:26:43.560
close down of baseload energy sources being coal nuclear and some gas and not being displaced with
00:26:50.140
anything but part-time intermittent solar and wind are resulting in this catastrophic situation of not
00:26:55.880
enough electricity in the system nationally to meet peak demand in the summer so no this is it's a texas
00:27:01.880
issue very pointedly now and it's a national issue texas did pass some legislation to get very
00:27:08.240
diluted in the end they wanted to have a capacity payment structure to incentivize more
00:27:13.760
gas-fired baseload plant building they've stretched out to two thousand twenty nine ten thousand megawatt
00:27:19.800
incentive of higher bonuses being paid to generators who are online within four hours
00:27:25.500
notice and a interest rate cap they're going to subsidize some plant build cost with a three percent
00:27:31.620
interest rate cap but it's pretty diluted versus what they originally talking about it goes out to two thousand twenty nine so
00:27:37.560
it's not going to result in anything for the next two or three years
00:27:40.220
to augment the texas hang on for one second i've got a bunch of questions about texas
00:27:46.760
then want to broaden out to the catastrophic situation nationally remember full energy full
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spectrum energy dominance is the basis and foundation of the trump economic miracle that we saw that occurred in
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2019 full spectrum energy dominance not independence dominance we've taken the reverse tack over the
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last couple of years and we're about to pay the piper in the summer of 2023 dave walsh joins us on the
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madam president senator missouri is recognized madam president in the last 20 years in the state of
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missouri oh i'm sorry i i call it my amendment number 93 and i ask that it be reported by number
00:30:02.540
start with that clerk will report senator from missouri mr holly proposes an amendment number 93
00:30:07.760
madam president in the last 20 years in the state of missouri we have lost 60 000 jobs to the people's
00:30:16.120
republic of china that number nationwide is almost 4 million our trade deficit with china as we
00:30:22.900
stand here tonight is at near record levels and every dollar of that deficit represents blue collar
00:30:30.640
jobs destroyed industry shuttered manufacturing capacity withering away i'd submit to you that it is
00:30:38.420
the most important deficit that we face and we can talk about budget reforms and we can talk about
00:30:44.660
savings here and there but until we do the work of bringing back productive capacity to this nation
00:30:50.500
and good paying blue collar jobs you can raise a family on we will not put our economy on the basis
00:30:56.660
that we need to address the economic challenges that we face so my amendment does something very simple
00:31:01.860
it imposes across the board tariffs on china for every year in which we have a trade deficit
00:31:07.420
until that deficit is zero bring back jobs to this country the financial times of london the lead
00:31:17.680
story today uh she help hails progress after blinking talks as u.s and china attempt to mend ties
00:31:26.140
we just talked about that in the first uh half hour of the show i want to bring in now senator josh
00:31:31.520
hawley senator hawley uh you're taking a quite serious approach to this walk us through your
00:31:38.420
assessment of uh blinken's kowtow to the chinese communist party over the last 72 hours sir
00:31:45.520
well as near as i can tell tony blinken's whole objective was to go and just go ahead and kick off
00:31:50.260
the chinese century i mean he just basically said america's done it's all going to be china what can we do
00:31:55.280
for you what would you like you know do you want a listening post in cuba here you go you want taiwan
00:32:00.240
go ahead you want the rest of our jobs just take them i mean that basically was the tenor of the
00:32:04.780
meeting and then joe biden says oh it was a great deal it was a great meeting it was a terrible meeting
00:32:09.500
it was a total groveling embarrassment we've got to get serious about getting tough on china and we can
00:32:16.120
start with the trade deficit why are we financing their military because that's what's going on they're
00:32:21.560
building their military on the backs of our middle class every dollar of that trade deficit
00:32:25.640
represents our financing of their security state and their imperialism so let's get that down to
00:32:31.980
zero that's what blinken should have said he should have said we're not going to let you have any more
00:32:35.320
jobs and we're not going to let you have any more of our cash we're going to get our trade deficit
00:32:39.280
down to zero we're not going to finance you anymore and we're going to get serious but he did just
00:32:43.540
the opposite senator we talk about 60 000 good paying jobs in missouri and talk about four million
00:32:50.520
overall do the folks in missouri the working class and middle class kind of the backbone of this
00:32:54.900
country in in a state of patriots like missouri do they understand what's at stake here uh with this
00:33:01.220
kind of undeclared war that the chinese communist party has against america and the american people sir
00:33:06.160
yes they do yeah they really do steve i mean you can go talk to them ask them who's the number one
00:33:12.100
threat china ask them who they think is is the the focus of evil you know to borrow reagan's old phrase
00:33:17.380
who's the focus of evil in the modern world right now it's the communist regime in china and they
00:33:22.300
know they're taking our jobs i mean people that working people all across the country not just in
00:33:26.460
missouri but i know missouri best and working people know they're taking our jobs they're ripping us off
00:33:32.240
on trade they're stealing us blind they know that and they're tired of administration after
00:33:37.860
administration you know reaching back to the clentons and then the bushes and now biden uh being soft on
00:33:44.020
china rolling out the red carpet for china and making china rich while america gets poor why why
00:33:49.400
would we want to do that we need to be doing the opposite senator you've gone to some of the finest
00:33:54.780
schools in our nation and now you're a senator a very young senator here in the nation's capital
00:33:59.200
why is it that our institutions and because your amendment was voted down what doesn't this capital
00:34:05.460
in in the elites in this country get that the working class folks in missouri do about our
00:34:10.480
existential threat of the chinese communist party sir well the elites are totally insulated steve
00:34:15.780
because they can buy their way out of this economic pain they're not the ones who've lost their jobs
00:34:20.460
you know i mean china they've china's been great for wall street let's tell the truth i mean there's
00:34:24.200
a reason that the fat cats on wall street and there's a reason that big pharma and the big
00:34:28.840
multinational corporations they love all of this china stuff they love cheap labor in china right these
00:34:33.960
are the same people who have shipped our jobs over to china they would rather pay slave wages in
00:34:38.860
china to be honest slave wages in china then pay good upstanding american workers an honest wage
00:34:45.240
so they love this arrangement they're all for it they benefit from it and while the rest of america gets
00:34:50.280
poor and loses their jobs and loses their families and loses their communities and gets addicted to
00:34:55.580
opioids then the elites say all is so so too bad i mean those poor people in middle america they just
00:35:01.320
don't have any moral fiber you know what a bunch of bs it is the people on the coast the elites
00:35:06.680
the rich people who have had a great deal with china who are ripping off and scamming the rest of
00:35:12.080
the country and this has got to stop it is time to make the heartland of this country strong again
00:35:16.760
and we've got to stand up to china to do it let's go i'm going to play a clip the coastal elites the
00:35:23.340
atlantic magazine and joe scarborough today took a direct shot at the faithful the hard-working
00:35:29.000
working class and middle class in missouri that are faith-based let's play this i would like your
00:35:33.140
response let's play the clip and that's my challenge always my challenge to to those who
00:35:38.060
talk about this i've got through every single beatitude in the sermon mouth every single one
00:35:43.000
blessed are the merciful blessed are the meek blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness
00:35:49.600
blessed or the i mean i could go blessed are the merciful those be show mercy i can go through them
00:35:55.440
all he is literally the antithesis of every single one
00:36:01.260
they tie it in a few minutes we don't have time to play the whole thing they tie it back to trump's
00:36:07.380
supporters that the the maga movement america first the working class in this nation the populist
00:36:13.060
nationalist movement is the problem and and particularly the evangelical and traditional
00:36:17.040
catholic it ties back directly to i think the lessons of your book manhood the masculine virtues
00:36:23.400
american needs and i think it it it illuminates the firestorm that this book has caused by folks
00:36:31.180
like at the editorial desk at atlantic magazine your thoughts senator holly well i you know it's quite a
00:36:37.180
lot to be lectured by the most holy reverend joe scarborough and and his episcopacy his priesthood
00:36:43.560
you know who want to who first of all spend all their time denigrating faithful christians conservative
00:36:49.260
jews orthodox catholics you know they normally want to hear nothing from these people and
00:36:53.240
then then it's all about how we're not following our true faith and give me a break i mean i noticed
00:36:57.960
the beatitudes don't say blessed are the idiots you know i mean might it be that christians out
00:37:03.840
there decided you know what donald trump says he's actually going to stand up and put pro-life judges
00:37:08.780
on the bench donald trump says he's going to do something for our families by bringing jobs back
00:37:13.020
from china maybe that was what we would call good sound strategic voting you know but oh no you're
00:37:19.100
supposed to do what the elites tell you to do and if you don't then you're not a real christian
00:37:23.120
i mean it's just and then these people wonder why is it that christians don't want to have anything to
00:37:28.720
do with them and don't listen to anything they say this is why i mean my gosh it's just the sanctimony
00:37:34.240
here is unbelievable steve but let's get back to your point which is that the working people of this
00:37:39.820
country they've had enough they know what their true interests are and they've had enough of these
00:37:46.000
lectures from the elites i don't know the book is fabulous and i've i've pushed this to everybody
00:37:53.880
i know that's a must read i gotta ask you i don't know if in the title if it's manhood or the subtitle
00:37:59.460
the masculine virtues that's triggered the progressive left the most what are your thoughts because they
00:38:05.940
they hate this book i mean hate and they are on a jihad against you personally uh senator holly your
00:38:13.520
thoughts yeah well i think it's all of the above they they hate the whole concept of manhood and
00:38:19.040
womanhood as we know they want to erase women they want to erase men these are the people who say there
00:38:23.860
is no such thing as gender you know i mean the links that they've gone to the craziness they've gone to
00:38:28.780
they hate that part they hate talk about virtue and character because they're opposed to all those
00:38:33.700
things they hate the bible the book is full of talk about the bible they hate that for the reasons we
00:38:38.680
were just talking about they detest faith talk they look down on as we just saw the clip you just saw
00:38:44.380
we they look down on people of faith especially if they're working class people they think we're
00:38:49.900
stupid so i the whole book is a massive trigger and i think it really lays bare the battle lines the
00:38:56.100
dividing lines in this country are we going to protect the working class and the faith and the values
00:39:01.140
of working people in this country or are we going to become a nation of secular androgynous
00:39:06.880
consumers because that's what the left wants you saw in uh in glendale california a week or so ago
00:39:14.660
uh the armenian dad standing up at this at this school board meeting that's going to happen again
00:39:19.200
we're going to have some of those guys on trying to end of the week because school board's going to
00:39:22.840
meet i think next week you also saw a dodger stadium 5 000 folks show up to protest the desecration
00:39:29.580
event that was taking place 80 to 90 percent hispanic 50 percent of the crowd hispanic men
00:39:35.380
what is your message to men out there for right now what what is josh hawley's call to action
00:39:42.140
as we sit here in june uh in the year of our lord 2023 where the nation is where it is what's your
00:39:47.800
call to action i just say that men if you want to change this nation it depends on you you can change
00:39:52.600
the destiny of your family you can change the destiny of your neighborhood and you can change
00:39:57.440
the destiny of this nation but it's going to take you no amount of electing this or that politician
00:40:02.860
or passing this or that law listen we need better laws for sure and we need better politicians no
00:40:07.500
doubt but it's going to take you standing up for your family standing up for your faith standing up
00:40:14.340
for your work your job your community if you'll do that if the men of this country will do that
00:40:18.540
we'll change the direction of this country no doubt about it but we're really we're right on it we're
00:40:23.060
down to it it depends on the men stepping up how can we one of the issues we hear from men we go
00:40:29.900
in the nation and and how can you provide air cover here one of the reasons the moms have been
00:40:35.540
so active in this parental rights movement and the dads now we see the armenian dads and what
00:40:40.960
happened with the hispanic fathers the other day people are saying hey i'm afraid for my job i'm
00:40:45.980
afraid this woke culture i will get canceled at work and i will i'll be let go and i got to put i get in
00:40:51.640
my rank order i got to put food on the table what do you say to those men and what do you say uh for
00:40:57.180
folks like yourself that are here provide air cover for them well i think your point about air
00:41:02.000
cover i mean it is vital and my commitment to them is i will do everything that i can to stand up for
00:41:06.720
you and to fight your fight and to drag this into public you know i mean it's my job to drag this fight
00:41:12.760
into public and make the people in the biden administration and elsewhere who are pushing
00:41:16.740
this radical anti-gender anti-man anti-woman agenda make them account for it in public so i'm
00:41:23.960
going to do everything i can to keep fighting on that front but i just say to men that this is a
00:41:27.760
time to be bold you don't have to be controversy seeking you know i mean listen it's important you
00:41:32.000
provide for your family but i think that taking a stand when you're pushed you got to defend your
00:41:36.860
family and part of defending your family is saying no i don't want biological men in my girl's locker
00:41:42.460
room you know let's not say for her i don't want that one other point on this steve though this gets
00:41:46.320
back to the economics and you know this part of what the left has done in this country is one of the
00:41:51.140
reasons they wanted to send blue-collar jobs overseas is that the more they get rid of our
00:41:56.440
critical workers the more they get rid of those blue-collar men who are the backbone of our economy
00:42:01.020
the more they can control the professional elites right because the corporate types always have to
00:42:07.660
answer to hr they always have to eat the corporate line workers in this country have historically been
00:42:12.940
independent and the left wants to kill their independence the book is manhood the masculine
00:42:19.200
virtues american needs senator josh hawley his second one the first tyranny of big tech i want
00:42:23.800
to compliment regnery and the team for having the courage to publish this book senator hawley how do
00:42:28.240
people find out more about you how do they follow you on social media hey you can follow me at
00:42:32.480
hawley mo on twitter josh hawley mo on instagram and facebook and you can get the book wherever books
00:42:37.940
are sold amazon books a million you name it the masculine virtues american needs senator hawley
00:42:44.820
thank you for uh fighting the fight against the chinese communist party standing up for american
00:42:49.060
workers in missouri and throughout our great nation sir appreciate it thank you for having me
00:42:54.120
this is what it's going to take right in this new thing that's coming together this is what it's going
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to take people standing up for the traditional values of this country the working class families
00:43:07.100
working class people the middle class we need people to step up to the plate now because this is a
00:43:12.900
defining moment this is that hinge of history it's the reason this audience is so powerful it's reason
00:43:18.980
people want access to you they understand you're doers you're action oriented you want actionable
00:43:24.180
information okay we continue on today we got a lot of wood to chop and chop it we shall in the war room next
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now uh and by the way i'm going to have more to say about the jose garber situation uh but i want to
00:46:19.700
bring in frank gaffney frank uh give i want your assessment of tony blinken the financial times of
00:46:26.540
london lead story tells me uh hails progress she hails progress in blinken's ability to try to
00:46:34.100
stabilize the relationship your thoughts sir steve i agree with josh holly and my colleague brad thayer
00:46:42.060
um this was a debacle and uh predictably so i mean this guy uh tony blinken is not only uh way way
00:46:52.460
uh that's the peter principle uh in terms of his competency for a job of this kind of uh importance
00:47:00.080
but he's a controlled asset of the chinese communist party on top of it and consequently i think what's
00:47:07.500
uh been demonstrated is that we're under the biden administration at the direction of their
00:47:15.120
masters in beijing on a trajectory that i characterize as the end of pox americana
00:47:23.620
kind of golden age in which you know our benign generally leadership in the world has benefited
00:47:32.140
countless billions of people in favor of a post america model in which it's all about global
00:47:44.280
governance with chinese characteristics and just to give you a couple of examples of this i mean global
00:47:50.920
governance is one of the terms that is much uh in favor in beijing at the moment and and geneva and
00:47:58.680
new york and in some quarters in washington too global stability was something that they were touting
00:48:06.420
out of this uh event of blinken's uh global health of course is this driving uh agenda of the world
00:48:14.760
health organization a chinese communist party controlled international organization that is as you know
00:48:20.500
steve seeking to um give it the authority to tell us when we have a public health emergency of
00:48:28.100
international concern and what we have to do about it then there's global digital ids which is an
00:48:33.860
infrastructure that's part of that world health organization gambit and then there's global taxes
00:48:39.100
i mean it goes on and on it's all about one world government and that happens to be the agenda of
00:48:46.640
the chinese communist party lincoln is advancing it as is his boss nominally at least joe biden or more
00:48:54.460
to the point i think i call it the obama biden 3.0 this has been really the game plan of barack obama and
00:49:04.900
his minions who staff largely this administration and when you throw on top of it the deliberate efforts
00:49:12.840
they're making to end the reserve status of the dollar which you've written about and talked about
00:49:19.120
a lot and the dismantling let's be honest the dismantling of our constitutional republic here at
00:49:27.180
home freedom by freedom by freedom over the side um what we're looking at really is a post-america
00:49:34.820
environment and and i just have to say nobody gave joe biden a mandate to undertake such a fundamental
00:49:42.080
transformation i don't think they gave joe barack obama one either to be honest but nonetheless
00:49:48.260
that's what they're working towards and the question before the house at the moment is will
00:49:55.000
the cumulative effects of all of the damage that they're doing be irreversible before we can finally
00:50:02.720
get joe biden out of office i'm prayerful that that's going to happen sooner than november 2024
00:50:09.240
but it has to because the country's going to be gone by then we have to we have to fight this at
00:50:14.820
every every step of the way right now in the house every tool that we have available real quickly
00:50:18.880
when you say controlled asset will you describe that a piece of nomenclature for our audience
00:50:24.540
sure it's a term that our colleague sam fattis has applied based on his two decades of as an
00:50:34.040
undercover asset himself agent of the officer of the central intelligence agency recruiting and running
00:50:42.460
people in foreign countries for our government he says in the terminology of the trade a controlled
00:50:49.580
asset describes what joe biden is and it basically means they do what they're told he said you don't
00:50:56.840
have assets that are uncontrolled if they don't work for you if they're not reliably going to do what
00:51:04.020
you tell them to do when you tell them to do it they're not your assets they're not your uh you
00:51:09.760
know uh partners in the enterprise you're about which in our case is trying to preserve freedom
00:51:16.540
in our own country most especially in the chinese communist case it's trying to take it down
00:51:21.960
and they're hard at it and if they've got it steve i just keep bringing people back you know we've
00:51:27.680
done the book the indictment with your help i keep bringing people back to this fundamental question
00:51:33.220
if as a result of all of this and i think it's further in evidence after this meeting all the
00:51:39.040
talk about dialogue and so on notwithstanding we are at the cusp of a shooting war with the chinese
00:51:44.800
communist party it is unimaginable that we could have as the commander in chief of the united states
00:51:52.300
military in such a moment a guy who is working for the chinese communist party our mortal enemy
00:51:58.660
yet that's where we are it's as i say an intolerable situation it has to be changed
00:52:04.080
frank how do people get to the book and how do they get to all the great work you're putting out
00:52:09.740
uh the indictment book.com for the book present danger china.com for the work that went into it
00:52:18.400
from the committee on the present danger china secure freedom.org our work at the center for security
00:52:22.860
policy and of course securing america.tv you can find our show and uh radio and commentaries all
00:52:29.400
there thank you steve and that you have to immerse yourself now in this different uh frank thank you
00:52:35.420
very much honor to have you on here this has to be fought at every step it has to be fought at every
00:52:42.100
step because this plays into the Thucydides trap this is where they acknowledge that china is the
00:52:49.320
rising power and blinking these guys say we're the declining power if you buy into that thesis
00:52:55.320
only bad things happen and they've bought into it hard okay short break 90 seconds back for the
00:53:02.240
second hour of the war room morning edition next
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