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00:16:46.000And Monica, before we had to jump to break, we were talking, well, I guess I was talking about the Bob Menendez situation.
00:16:52.340That's a euphemistic term to describe it.
00:16:54.160But I'd love to get your thoughts, like I said, primarily on the timing of all of this, just how Democrats seem to be so darn good at inflation, of course, but also corruption.
00:17:06.320Yeah, well, I grew up in the state of New Jersey, and my mom is still there.
00:18:05.620So, of course, he felt like he could continue going.
00:18:09.940The kind of corruption, the bribery with nearly $500,000 in cash, you've got gold bars, you've got a Mercedes Benz.
00:18:18.740Like, it's easy to kind of laugh at that kind of corruption.
00:18:22.160And the truth is, in New Jersey, it's kind of garden variety corruption for Democrats in Jersey.
00:18:28.020But, you know, the bigger point about this is twofold.
00:18:32.100Number one, the timing on this is absolutely critical.
00:18:36.760He is critical of the administration's approach toward Cuba and also to Iran.
00:18:42.880Very critical of the Iran deal and the fact that Joe Biden is working around the clock to resurrect that.
00:18:49.680It's a horrendous deal for our national security, the security of our ally Israel, regional security in the Middle East, and, of course, global security.
00:18:59.100But Joe Biden, Barack Obama, they are gung-ho on reinstating the Iran deal.
00:19:04.740And Menendez has been one of the very few Democrats to stand up and say this is not a good idea.
00:20:07.900Guys like Biden and Menendez continue to engage in this kind of corrupt activity because they can.
00:20:16.080Democrats and the left have total institutional control and they have the protection of the propaganda press.
00:20:24.220So they can literally get away with all of this as they have for years until they don't.
00:20:31.800And the only reason that they don't is when the left's power brokers decide, like they have with Menendez, and as they apparently have had with Joe Biden, the moment they decide that they have outlived their usefulness,
00:20:46.200they have someone younger, fresher, hotter, more communist, ready to fill those positions, and then it's lights out for you.
00:20:55.160And that's what you're seeing going on with Menendez and Biden.
00:20:58.320Well, they get away with it because the best that House Republicans can do is tweet, like Steve said this morning, I kid you not, I think on Sunday evening, accountability is coming.
00:21:15.640Our best and brightest can put out a tweet like that.
00:21:17.720Meanwhile, Joe Biden walks free, Mayorkas walks free, Merrick Garland walks free when they all should have been impeached, frankly, in my opinion, on day one of that illegitimate regime.
00:21:27.320And if accountability looks like what this Mike Gallagher China Committee has done on taking down the Chinese Communist Party,
00:21:34.740then I think we may have differing definitions of what exactly accountability is.
00:21:41.200And I think, frankly, I'd take the Democrats' definition of it.
00:22:30.560And we have a cold that I want to play for our next guest, Joe Kent.
00:22:36.760So, Denver, if you want to roll those two 60-minute clips, let's hit it.
00:22:40.340American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons.
00:22:45.700We discovered the U.S. government's buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers and covering the salaries of Ukraine's first responders, all 57,000 of them.
00:22:58.380That includes the team that trains this rescue dog, named Joy, to comb through the wreckage of Russian strikes looking for survivors.
00:23:09.680And the U.S. also funds the Divers, who we saw clearing unexploded ammunition from the country's rivers to make them safe again for swimming and fishing.
00:23:21.440Russia's invasion shrank Ukraine's economy by about a third.
00:23:25.160We were surprised to find that, to keep it afloat, the U.S. government is subsidizing small businesses.
00:23:32.500Where would the Ukrainians be right now without U.S. weapons?
00:23:36.400How much of their country would they have lost?
00:23:38.520Without that sort of aid, I think Ukraine would have been probably overrun, defeated, certainly would have lost a lot more.
00:23:47.720Lieutenant General Ben Hodges served as the commander of the U.S. Army in Europe.
00:23:52.560He retired in 2017 and is now an advisor to NATO.
00:23:57.980Hodges told us the Biden administration has failed to explain to Americans what they're getting for their dollar in Ukraine.
00:24:06.020If you think about it, Russia has been for decades and still is an existential threat for Europe and the United States.
00:24:13.680I mean, just listen to what their leaders say.
00:24:15.760Look at the thousands of nuclear weapons.
00:24:17.400They clearly will keep going if they're not stopped.
00:24:19.900Sounds like you're saying stopping Vladimir Putin in Ukraine directly benefits every American.
00:24:27.180Absolutely. This war is about so much more than just Ukraine.
00:24:31.580Is this a high point for American foreign policy?
00:24:35.560It will be after Russia has been defeated.
00:24:39.380The regime media, I guess, is hard at work.
00:24:45.520That's a masterclass in crafting a narrative.
00:24:49.640I want to draw a parallel here because what you just watched on 60 Minutes, it's like the same exact thing, the same parallel to Hunter Biden only getting charged for gun crimes.
00:24:59.380And meanwhile, the whole family is making millions of dollars engaging in bribery, corruption, treason, human trafficking, fair violations, you name it.
00:25:41.920I'm glad 60 Minutes exposed a little bit of the grift going on.
00:25:44.960But you guys know what they're covering up, what they're trying to get ahead of is large scale, industrial scale, corruption, money laundering, grift, however you want to call it going on in Ukraine.
00:25:58.440And, of course, they're couching it in the academic discourse of Russia being our greatest existential threat.
00:26:09.300You, of course, have always been, I think, on the right side of history on most things.
00:26:12.560But especially when it comes to Ukraine, you understand the sacrifices that we make when we get ourselves into these endless forever wars.
00:26:21.160Your reactions to what I would argue is just more narrative spin from the 60 Minutes type medias of the world on Ukraine.
00:26:31.320Yeah, this was really just rinse and repeat.
00:26:35.640I mean, basically, you could substitute Vladimir Putin for the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and this exact same propaganda could have been rolled out basically with the same actors, retired U.S. generals or current U.S. generals saying, hey, we have to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban over there so we don't fight them over here.
00:26:53.220This is an existential threat to America.
00:26:57.380It's the exact same talking points and then with the exact same mainstream media fluff where they say, hey, it's not just weapons and combat power that we're supporting over here.
00:27:15.400Your taxpayer dollars aren't being wasted on corruption and graft.
00:27:19.060They're really going to these bold freedom fighters.
00:27:21.240We've been hearing this nonsense as long as I've been an adult.
00:27:23.920I joined the Army in 1998 and fought in the war on terror, and we were told these same lies over and over again.
00:27:31.200Retired General Hodges they had on there, he's been regurgitating this nonsense since he was one of the deputies in Iraq commanding that war, asking for one more troop surge, one more combat system, one more commitment from the American taxpayers.
00:28:04.220I want to drill down more on this, how it links, of course, to the CR.
00:28:07.700And really what I think their ultimate plan is, which is to make Ukraine the next forever war abroad so the military industrial complex can get their profits.
00:28:16.820If only they cared about the southern border as much as they did Ukraine.
00:28:20.900Probably make a lot of money there, too.
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00:30:14.160Oh, wait, no, they were on recess for over a month.
00:30:16.080But it's going to be important that you guys are well-rested and ready to fire up those phone lines as you guys have been doing and continue to do.
00:30:25.260It's helping to move the needle so you've got to go to mypillow.com slash war room to make sure you get a good night's sleep so you can make the best case you can when you call your congressman to make sure that we hold the line.
00:30:37.320And don't get a CR, an omnibus, 30 days, 45 days, 8 percent, none of it.
00:30:42.880We want single-subject spending bills like Congressman Matt Gaetz has been outlining from day one.
00:30:50.000Also, you've got to go to Birch Gold to get the latest installment of the End of the Dollar Empire, birchgold.com slash Bannon.
00:30:58.840If you want to get all the, say, lingo, understand the vernacular, not just what Steve is talking about, but when they talk about fiscal policy on the Hill, sometimes I'm even like, what are they talking about?
00:31:10.580But you can learn a lot from the wonderful book that is The End of the Dollar Empire that Steve helped write with the guys over at Birch Gold.
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00:31:21.600But without further ado, we still got Joe Kent with us while Darren Beatty joining us after him.
00:31:27.960But, Joe, I'd love if you could just pick up where you left off, but particularly you tweeted something that made me laugh, saying that foreign aid is basically just money laundering.
00:31:36.520And I wholeheartedly agree with you, but if you could sort of walk us through that paradigm and how it really affects what's going on with the Ukraine situation.
00:31:48.300Look, I mean, what Washington, D.C. loves more than anything is these massive foreign aid projects, or even better, is a war, a proxy war or a hot war, because it allows them to move billions and billions, if not even more, more money overseas where it really can't be accounted for.
00:32:04.500And then it's much easier for that money to just sort of randomly find its way back into the coffers in Washington, D.C.
00:32:11.100And it's not always as obvious as it is with Senator Menendez and gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in his house.
00:32:19.240It goes through these NGOs overseas, and then it comes back into the form of buying political capital in the form of super PACs.
00:32:26.500That money gets laundered back into the coffers of politicians who subsequently vote for the wars, or really, even better, just approve the massive omnibus packages, the CRs that allow the president to continue just to give these countries a blank check.
00:32:40.680When you think about it, we spent about $8 trillion in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:32:44.220We got absolutely nothing for that in return, and it's hard to account for where all that money went.
00:32:51.000Really, you don't see Iraq or Afghanistan being better off for all the money that we spent, regardless of all the different nation-building hype that you heard.
00:32:58.240But what you did see is you saw a bunch more mansions built along the Potomac River that now are inhabited by defense contractors.
00:33:06.820When you wonder why your infrastructure in your state, in your home, why our bridge here in the Pacific Northwest and Washington 3 is falling apart, why we can't get money for our first responders, we're funding the first responders in Ukraine, but we can't get enough wildland firefighters out to fight the forest fires in our backyard.
00:33:23.080Well, it's because Washington, D.C. prioritizes foreign aid in wars over everything else.
00:33:29.120And you've seen that when they say, hey, we can't fund any of the disaster relief in America until we fund Ukraine.
00:33:35.660And that's why I think it's really important what Matt Gaetz and the rest of the Freedom Caucus are doing by holding the line and saying, hey, we owe it to the American people to debate these issues separately and transparently.
00:33:48.940Yeah, walk us through your logic on that.
00:33:50.920Obviously, I think the posse knows very well you're running for Congress out in Washington's beautiful 3rd District.
00:33:57.300But just run us through your approach to the concept of CR versus single-subject spending bills.
00:34:02.380Because omnibus is this, you know, what Matt Gaetz always says, is this just the muscle memory of Washington, D.C.
00:34:08.220doing what it does best, putting you guys up against a wall so you have no choice but to just fund the entire government.
00:34:14.940You don't have time to do the single-subject spending bills because, you know, apparently September 30th, sometimes it's confusing.
00:34:21.860It does always seem to fall on September 30th, hence the date.
00:34:25.740But I guess in Kevin McCarthy's universe, maybe it doesn't come.
00:35:17.060So if we're going to continue to go down this road, we're basically kissing the republic goodbye.
00:35:21.560And right now, the dollar, as you guys point out here on The War Room, it is not strong enough because of what's happening geopolitically, what's happening with BRICS, what's happening with OPEC.
00:35:33.840So I believe that it is the fiscally responsible thing to do.
00:35:37.380It is the conservative, small government-minded thing to do is to stop and say, hey, we're going to break it down individually on what we spend our money on.
00:35:45.180We're going to be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars.
00:35:47.080We're going to lay it out for the American people.
00:35:48.680And we're going to have these robust debates.
00:35:50.420If there's people on the other side of the aisle or even Republicans that are fans of what's happening in Ukraine, then that should be debated individually.
00:35:58.540And they should say, hey, this is how much this Ukraine aid is going to cost.
00:36:02.740And we should have a robust debate about that that the American people can see and they can weigh in on, as opposed to just lumping everything together and saying, hey, if you peasants out there in regular America want any kind of table scraps from your government, then first thing you've got to do is approve Ukraine aid and then also fund the woke and weaponized government.
00:36:20.740Another big issue, too, is we have a very limited amount of power in Washington, D.C. right now.
00:36:25.640It's with this thin majority in the House of Representatives.
00:36:27.940If we're worried about what Biden's doing at the border with the corruption of the Biden regime, then we've got to use the appropriations process and the power of the purse strings to actually hold them accountable, because it's one thing to have a hearing and yell at them.
00:36:41.240It's quite another to say we are going to defund these individual programs until we see actual change come about.
00:36:47.900So I think it's the responsible thing to do.
00:36:50.220And then in terms of actually holding this regime accountable, it's our only option.
00:36:59.000I think we'll have Darren J.B. joining us shortly with some new developments on the Ray Epps front.
00:37:05.940Speaking of a weaponized, as I say, foreign government certainly feels that way sitting in Washington, D.C., but federal government.
00:37:12.220I would assume I know the answer to this, that you are obviously a no on more money for Ukraine.
00:37:17.920But you see leadership sort of flip flopping, saying, oh, we're going to take the Ukraine aid out, then putting it back in and taking it out again.
00:37:26.620What do you think fundamentally is driving again, like Steve always says, you know, make it make sense.
00:37:36.520Right. There's something not right here when it comes to the Ukraine issue.
00:37:40.380Do you really think it's fair to just chalk it up primarily to the military defense contractors, to the defense industry?
00:37:48.040Or do you think there's another part of it, too, which sort of circles back to that 60 minutes clip, which is just this unending, unceasing appetite from the regime, sort of the academic think tank crowd that Russia is the enemy.
00:38:03.960Russia is the existential threat. And we know they're not good guys.
00:38:06.720We're not, you know, hardcore pro-Russia here in the war room, but we're also not ridiculously pro-Ukraine to the point where we want to bankrupt the United States to the detriment of our own southern border.
00:38:19.640So in order to, I think, combat this, you have to sort of understand the evil forces that are making Ukraine such an issue, right, to begin with.
00:38:27.980So if you really had to distill it down, what do you think it comes down to that Ukraine is just so on the forefront of these people's minds?
00:38:36.720Well, number one, after Afghanistan and Iraq ended, they needed another war.
00:38:41.760But Ukraine and really having to push the expansion of NATO and NATO security agreements, that really, that and keeping our manufacturing base over in China kind of underpins what they call, you know, the post-war liberal rules-based order that we provide the security guarantees for.
00:38:57.900So we have to spend trillions on the defense of NATO.
00:39:01.160We have to spend trillions on securing the high seas to make sure global commerce can still happen.
00:39:06.040We have to spend all of this money, and that includes everything that happens on Wall Street, that also includes sending our sons and daughters off to go fight and make sure these security agreements are upheld with our blood and our treasure.
00:39:20.440But also, this really just underpins the entire U.S. system that gives power just to the Washington, D.C. elite, to Wall Street.
00:39:28.360Because if we were to actually prioritize Americans, the last thing we would do is scatter our forces out throughout the entire world, getting involved in all these conflicts that don't really involve American interests.
00:39:45.000So then the Chinese Communist Party, if we kicked them out of our capital markets and we stopped relying on them from manufacturing, we simply wouldn't even need them as much.
00:39:53.420And we also wouldn't need to provide the security guarantees in Europe anymore.
00:39:57.880And we'd be able to actually focus and prioritize for once on the American people.
00:40:02.520So I think that this is the last grasp of the old school rules-based international order to keep their interests first and foremost, because the last thing they want is for the American people to be put first and for us to be back in the driver's seat.
00:40:20.040And this is another reason why President Trump and the America First movement is such a threat to these people, because if we start putting Americans first, then all of it crumbles and they lose their power and their control.
00:40:30.960So they're going to continue to push this NATO expansion and this war and all these different security agreements.
00:40:37.180And they will continue to prioritize the American people last until we vote them out of office and take back power.
00:40:45.200I think that's what we call the primal scream of a dying regime, to quote the intro of War Room.
00:40:51.920Joe Kent, if people want to follow you, stay up to date with the campaign and support you, where can they go?
00:40:56.900Yeah, please go to joekentforcongress.com.
00:40:59.400I'm up against millions of dollars coming from Nancy Pelosi's Democrats.
00:41:15.340It really is sick that House Republicans took, what was it, a six-week recess when every single day the U.S. southern border was getting breached, destroyed, dare I say, I mean, raped with migrants entering this country.
00:41:33.220Meanwhile, the Democrats were sitting back saying, hey, every day we don't do something.
00:41:55.060But someone who does care about the Fed's insurrection is Darren J. Beattie.
00:41:59.300Now, we've got about two minutes before we've got to jump to break, but I'll let you take a crack at it.
00:42:03.640You can start on the latest developments, at least an exclusive story from you guys at Revolver when it comes to Ray Epps.
00:42:09.220Indeed, well, I think many people have heard Ray Epps has been slapped on the wrist with a sham, bungling, too little, too late, singular misdemeanor indictment for, wait for it, disorderly conduct.
00:42:27.000So we go through the statement of offense and line by line, and we show just what an absolute sham it is coming from Merrick Garland in this latest piece from Revolver.News with very rare footage of Ray Epps that will, I think, shock people.
00:42:46.060So I encourage everyone, let's read along, go to Revolver.News, and we can look at the video together.
00:42:54.260And when you come back from break, we can go over what the video means in context.
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00:46:33.340So Ray Epps was hit with a singular misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in a restricted area.
00:46:40.880He was hit with this misdemeanor charge nearly three years after January 6th.
00:46:48.680Those two things are really important to understand as the regime media characterizes this as a refutation of all of the damning, burning questions surrounding Ray Epps' involvement on January 6th.
00:47:02.880And so what we do in this latest white-hot bombshell revolver piece is we dissect Merrick Garland's statement of offense, this sweetheart, bizarre plea deal that Ray Epps has given almost three years after the fact.
00:47:20.220We look at their characterization of Ray Epps' behavior on the 5th and the 6th, and we compare it with video that we've obtained.
00:47:30.580Some of this is very rare video, not the standard now iconic stuff that people have seen circulating on Twitter, very rare video, just comprehensively documenting Epps' behavior on the 5th and the 6th.
00:47:45.700And I encourage everyone, go to the site and read through it yourself.
00:47:50.200Some of the highlights in the video is a clip of him seeming to say we're here to storm the Capitol.
00:47:55.800We document how invasive he was going to all different groups, redirecting their attention from Antifa and BLM to this bizarre mission of going into the Capitol.
00:48:10.680In fact, at one point he bizarrely states the Capitol is our enemy, as though he traveled all the way across the country to vent out some grudge on neoclassical architecture.
00:48:24.440We have a really remarkable exchange between Ray Epps and a kid who thinks he's full of crap, and the kid says, you're not going to storm the Capitol, you're full of BS.
00:48:37.580And Ray Epps looks at him, this is such a good video, people need to see him.
00:48:41.440Ray Epps looks at him, he grins, and he does talk to the hand, like, wait and see, kid.
00:48:54.900So there's really remarkable footage there that, you know, is interesting in its own right, but contextually it shows that the characterization of Epps' behavior in this ridiculous plea deal is nowhere close to what his actual behavior was in terms of how it was documented, how committed he was, and just how egregious his behavior was.
00:49:18.340And I should point out as well, as we've reported on this very early on, the FBI put him on their most wanted list two days after January 6th.
00:49:27.780So it's not like they're just learning about Epps and decide to hit him with a misdemeanor charge.
00:49:31.660They've been sitting on this for a long time, and if they think that this is going to repair their utterly shattered narrative as it pertains to Epps or January 6th, they're sorely mistaken.
00:49:45.500In fact, desperate attempts like this to salvage the narrative just make them not only look more guilty, but even worse, far more incompetent than we ever could have imagined.
00:49:58.660So that's the story here, and I'd like to just address one thing that's sort of a breaking issue that's really shocked me in many ways.
00:50:09.540People who have been following our research on January 6th know that I've spoken about this individual fence-cutter Bulwark as one of the people that I'd love to be identified,
00:50:19.300who we've shown him on videos methodically cutting down fencing in advance of the crowd going to the Capitol and so forth.
00:50:30.060Well, bizarrely, he's come out of the woodwork, and he's doing an interview with these people I've never heard of, punk rocker patriots.
00:50:40.480And I'm suspending full commentary and judgment until I see the interview, but I just find it very interesting that just not even a week after this bizarre Ray Epps misdemeanor slap on the wrist thing,
00:50:56.860now all of a sudden one of the most curious characters in the whole J6 saga of the fence-cutter is crawling out of the woodwork for an interview with these people that nobody's ever heard of.
00:51:08.000It seems like someone behind the scenes is trying to put out all the conspiracy fires and tie a nice little bow on January 6th and move on
00:51:18.440and hope people forget about all these questions that we've been asking for years that get to the core of just what a lie the fence-erection is.
00:51:26.320So this is, I would say, one of the most important developments in the J6 research in a very long time.
00:51:35.640So I look forward to seeing who this guy is, what he says.
00:51:40.020I don't know much about it, but it's a big deal, and I wanted to make sure your audience has it on their radar,
00:51:47.500because I'm going to have a big response after the interview airs.
00:52:27.400So Revolver.news for the video, and we've got a series of really, really hard-hitting pieces coming throughout the week.
00:52:35.340So check Revolver.news, or WhiteHot is always on Gitter, at Revolver News.
00:52:40.140And I am on the esteemed platform known as X, at Darren J. Beattie, formerly known as Twitter.
00:52:49.200And if I'm not mistaken, Darren, all those videos that you're talking about, we certainly don't have Kevin McCarthy to thank for those, right?
00:53:05.980And War Room Posse, in the meantime, if you want to give your congressman a nice call, depending if they're on the good side or the bad side.
00:53:13.940I'm from California, so I won't even try.