Bannon's War Room - Episode 3103： Countdown To Votes For Speaker Of House

00:00:00.000 The sentence before what you just played, I said, in fact, that this was for now and that it could all change.

00:00:08.080 And the two threats that I identified that were the most acute on my mind at the time were tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, as I mentioned, and the threat from Iran.

00:00:19.640 And so, yes, it is true that those two threats remained a real challenge to the long term stability of the Middle East region.

00:00:28.580 And we've just seen this absolutely tragic attack.

00:00:31.240 But at no point did the Biden administration take its eye off the ball of the threats to Israel.

00:00:37.380 In fact, President Biden saw Prime Minister Netanyahu just weeks before this attack to discuss the security challenges facing the state of Israel.

00:00:46.360 And we've continued to support them to as significant or greater an extent than any previous administration.

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00:01:31.780 I mean, a little bit, but honestly, it's like 80-20.

00:01:42.880 So, I mean, the way my voters feel, they look at the country, they look at the direction that we're going,

00:01:48.900 and they don't think that we get out of this without pain or discomfort, and neither do I.

00:01:52.740 I didn't come up here for status quo.

00:01:54.160 I came up here to try and change the way this town works, and that's what they wanted.

00:01:58.320 So, therefore, they're not too worried about it.

00:02:00.940 So, the big question is really what is next if Jim Jordan does falter?

00:02:05.220 There potentially could be other candidates who have made their intentions known privately that they could run if Jordan falters,

00:02:12.680 or do they decide to prop up the interim speaker, Patrick McHenry, give him more power,

00:02:17.660 things that he does not currently have, at least it's not clear under the law, to allow legislation to move forward in his position,

00:02:23.720 but it just shows you the desperate position Republicans are in,

00:02:27.020 as no legislation can be acted upon until they elect a speaker of the House.

00:02:31.380 Still so many questions about how Republicans resolve this mess of their own making.

00:02:35.960 Let me ask you about Iran, Senator, the broader region, of course.

00:02:40.240 You said this week that the only way to keep the war from escalating is to hold Iran accountable, 0.89

00:02:45.300 part of what you're talking about now, and that it might mean bombing their oil refineries.

00:02:49.600 Have you had any discussions with the Biden administration about this?

00:02:52.760 A bit.

00:02:53.420 I want to applaud President Biden for his strong statement in support of Israel.

00:02:58.360 I just got off the phone to the Israelis.

00:03:00.920 Their goal is to destroy Hamas in the south and try to save as many innocent Palestinians as possible

00:03:08.100 to prevent escalation north from Hezbollah.

00:03:11.080 Here's my message.

00:03:12.620 If Hezbollah, which is a proxy of Iran, launches a massive attack on Israel, 0.52

00:03:18.440 I will consider that a threat to the state of Israel existential in nature. 0.84

00:03:25.340 I will introduce a resolution in the United States Senate to allow military action by the United States 0.88

00:03:30.940 in conjunction with Israel to knock Iran out of the oil business.

00:03:35.160 Iran, if you escalate this war, we're coming for you. 0.89

00:03:39.400 Are you effectively poised to declare war on Iran?

00:03:43.040 That's very strong language.

00:03:44.380 I am poised to use military force to destroy the source of funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:03:51.400 The idea that Iran read about this operation in the paper or on television is laughable.

00:03:58.860 93% of Hezbollah and Hamas' money comes from Iran.

00:04:04.300 They're the source of the problem. 0.97

00:04:05.920 They're the great evil. 0.62

00:04:07.000 So if Hezbollah escalates against Israel, it will be because Iran told them to. 0.87

00:04:13.520 Then, Iran, you're in the crosshairs of the United States and Israel.

00:04:16.960 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:04:24.600 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:04:29.820 You're going to say I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:04:34.060 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:04:35.980 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:04:37.400 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:04:40.100 It's going to happen.

00:04:41.140 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:04:44.680 Mega media.

00:04:45.700 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:04:51.600 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:04:55.300 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:05:01.520 War Room.

00:05:02.520 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:05:04.580 Bannon.

00:05:09.100 It's Monday, 16 October, in the year of our Lord, 2023.

00:05:12.800 We've got a lot to go through today.

00:05:13.960 We're going to start.

00:05:14.820 We're going to go to work right off the bat.

00:05:16.560 Congressman Matt Gaetz joins us.

00:05:19.780 Walk us through what's happened since, I guess, Thursday night or Friday with Jim Jordan.

00:05:25.620 We were kind of shocked that Congressman Jordan had an affirmation vote privately, anonymously, right after the speaker nomination.

00:05:38.820 Now, Jake Sherman and the team at the Punchbowl reported this morning that McCarthy did that.

00:05:46.080 They said McCarthy put up that he wanted to do and had the affirmation vote.

00:05:50.020 Why would that be done and where do we stand over the weekend?

00:05:52.400 Well, I think we can safely say, and with breaking news just from before we came on the air regarding some of the holdouts now switching over to Jordan,

00:06:01.980 that the wind is at the back of speaker-designate Jim Jordan.

00:06:05.600 And I want to spend our time walking through what that means, what that doesn't mean.

00:06:09.860 I don't believe that Jim Jordan is some messiah here to deliver the War Room posse every single dream that it could possibly envision from the speakership.

00:06:19.100 I think we go into this with a good dose of realism and sobriety, but the wind is at our back, and here's why.

00:06:26.660 We went into a contest between Jim Jordan and Austin Scott, and in that contest—

00:06:32.660 But Scott was just a placeholder for the opposition.

00:06:34.700 Well, he wasn't someone who had been long campaigning for the job but had become in a lot of these struggle sessions we've been having behind closed doors a leading voice for a good contingent of the caucus that was critical of me and some of my efforts.

00:06:51.680 But that's not to say that their opinions should be discounted.

00:06:54.740 I'm there in the struggle sessions to listen to people's criticisms of me and to try to be a better lawmaker for my constituents, for the country, and certainly for the Republican caucus.

00:07:05.620 I want us to win.

00:07:06.520 So Austin Scott had really taken a leadership role in a lot of those discussions.

00:07:10.540 He mounted a campaign.

00:07:11.640 He got 81 votes.

00:07:12.780 So there were 81 votes against Jordan.

00:07:14.800 Then just about 30 minutes later, there were only 55 votes against Jordan.

00:07:19.280 So you could see the more we're voting, the more the momentum kind of builds for the eventual Speaker of the House, Jim Jordan.

00:07:27.760 Now, I believe we should have gone right to the floor, and that 55 in an anonymous secret ballot in the basement of the Longworth building probably would have dwindled to about 12 or 15.

00:07:39.860 And then I think we could have had that vote if people needed to get a no vote on Jim Jordan out of their system.

00:07:45.800 They could have gotten it out of their system.

00:07:47.080 And then we should have come right back on Saturday, Sunday if necessary.

00:07:50.900 You want to stay all weekend.

00:07:52.220 Just pound it out.

00:07:53.100 Here's what I know.

00:07:54.620 The closed-door struggle sessions are only going to get you so far where people can hide behind their anonymity on behalf of their favorite lobbying group or interest group or special interest PAC or super PAC group or billionaire donor.

00:08:09.260 When you've got to go on the House floor in front of all the lights, you cast your vote and you make your argument.

00:08:16.080 And by the way, if people want to stand in the way of Jim Jordan, the way I stood in the way of Kevin McCarthy back in January, they should have to do it just like I did.

00:08:24.180 On the floor, risking your political career, risking your committee assignments, risking all your capital.

00:08:30.520 And I went and made the argument about the things that had to change in Washington, D.C.

00:08:35.160 And the people came to my side and ultimately McCarthy came to my side.

00:08:39.220 Now, turns out we saw over the last nine months he didn't really mean it with all of the commitments he had made.

00:08:44.360 And so now we have to move forward with Jim Jordan.

00:08:47.920 We just got news before we came on the air.

00:08:51.500 Is it OK to go into that?

00:08:53.320 It's blockbuster because all weekend we've been putting up that – and you had led the charge on this – that there was these old bulls, particularly from the south, these Armed Services Committee, Appropriations Committee that had locked together and were actually cutting a deal with the Democrats.

00:09:09.580 Well, here's what I was worried about.

00:09:11.280 I was worried that you'd get some of these defense hawks, my friends, my colleagues on the Armed Services Committee, and some of the appropriators particularly lashed into kind of the defense vector of appropriations.

00:09:26.720 And you'd get – you had those folks actively talking.

00:09:28.980 I just want to make sure the audience understands this.

00:09:30.940 You're a defense hawk and you come from probably one of the most heavily defense areas, districts in the nation.

00:09:36.400 Yeah, I don't know if it makes me a hawk, a dove, or an eagle, but I think we should have a strong military, the most capable military in the world, a military able to vanquish any foe, and then we should use it strategically, not for the benefit of someone's quarterly profits, not to answer some geopolitics question at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, but to actually advance the interests of Americans.

00:09:56.720 So some people say that makes me a hawk, some say it makes me a dove, but I believe in spending on America's defense because I'm not here to have my grandkids speak in Mandarin. 1.00

00:10:06.040 So that I think created a coalition and those people were publicly saying over the weekend that they were willing to work with Democrats in a coalition government rather than working with Republicans.

00:10:19.200 Now, that deeply troubled us.

00:10:21.720 It deeply troubled a lot of state party leaders.

00:10:24.940 That coalition, McHenry, would stick around or would this bring McCarthy back?

00:10:28.000 Well, I think that this is what we might have been facing today, that at the beginning of the struggle session, some of the defense hawks could have stood up and said, we've made a deal with the Democrats.

00:10:37.240 And the choice for all of you is whether or not we're going to take McCarthy back like some sort of jilted X or we're going to go into coalition government with the Democrats and that that would be a way to block our ability to even have the first floor vote on Jim Jordan.

00:10:54.380 Because they would say Scalise had 60 votes against him or 40.

00:10:57.240 Jordan's got 40 against him.

00:10:59.200 Gates only had eight against us.

00:11:01.020 We're the least worse of the alternatives.

00:11:03.700 Right.

00:11:03.920 That would have been the conceivable argument.

00:11:06.120 Now, the math problem there is my eight doesn't look like eight.

00:11:10.340 My eight is way more than eight, and we could demonstrate that.

00:11:14.180 Because they've had a belly full of that over the last week or so.

00:11:16.260 And don't take my word for it.

00:11:17.360 To Kevin McCarthy's credit, he stood up before the conference when Tom McClintock attempted a resolution to re-nominate McCarthy, and he said, you all deserve to know that I've lost way more than eight, and it would be a higher number.

00:11:31.660 So he not only knows that, he acknowledged it to our Republican colleagues.

00:11:36.020 And so I don't want to hear Kevin McCarthy saying anymore this 96 percent, 4 percent talk because he stood up and said himself that there were more than eight people that would stand against any attempt for him to return to the speakership.

00:11:48.780 Now, all of that, that was what we were working against.

00:11:50.540 That was the battle space as we saw it, and so we had a lot of state party leaders, local activists really trying to encourage our friends and colleagues on these defense committees and on the Appropriations Committee to back the Republican nominee for speaker, Jim Jordan.

00:12:06.060 So the Warren Posse worked all weekend on this on social media.

00:12:08.740 People weren't taking a lot of phone calls, but it was social media.

00:12:11.340 Do you believe that – because –

00:12:13.420 Oh, they knew about the phone calls.

00:12:15.360 Trust me.

00:12:16.000 Trust me.

00:12:16.420 Even if the phone calls aren't getting answered, they know when the lines are burning down.

00:12:20.580 Crenshaw came out yesterday, though, and said he was supporting Jordan.

00:12:23.360 However, our efforts were too over the top and were counterproductive.

00:12:27.400 Well, I will not share that opinion.

00:12:30.840 I think sometimes hearing from constituents can be a very encouraging experience.

00:12:35.240 That's certainly what I found, and it seems as though Congressman Rogers has been sufficiently encouraged because just before –

00:12:41.840 Mike Rogers.

00:12:42.240 Yes, just before we came on the air, Mike Rogers, who had said publicly that he was contemplating working with the Democrats, is now endorsed Jim Jordan for speaker of the House.

00:12:53.180 He said they had multiple positive, cordial conversations about the need to pass defense bills, the need to meet the functions of government, and Mike Rogers is now a yes on Jim Jordan.

00:13:05.000 That thoroughly deflates this effort from Red District Southerners to serve as a ballast against Jordan. 0.86

00:13:13.040 I think that is far less likely to happen.

00:13:15.300 Can you just repeat that because this is huge.

00:13:17.120 This has been a big focus.

00:13:17.960 Yeah, I mean Mike Rogers is an incredibly well-thought-of senior member, a chairman.

00:13:22.640 He's a chair of armed services.

00:13:23.760 Yeah, it's arguably one of the most powerful, not the most powerful of all the committees.

00:13:27.720 A made guy in Washington, D.C., by far, and he's a friend of mine, and we work closely together on a lot of priorities I care about.

00:13:35.000 Look, the reason we have a great defense bill that really uproots a lot of the wokeness is because Mike Rogers was bearing down on it.

00:13:41.780 Mike Rogers knows that this DOD is trying to take mission out of states like Florida and Alabama and Mississippi and move them to states with abortion on demand and that they care more about whether or not your third-grade teacher can identify the gender of your kid than whether or not we're putting military members and materiel in places to defend the country and advance our interests.

00:14:04.040 So I'm not here to criticize Mike Rogers.

00:14:07.100 I think it's a great thing, but to catch the signal here, if you're one of these other old bull made guys in Washington sitting in a ruby red district south of the Mason-Dixon line, I think that this is a message that holding out against Jordan is ultimately a fool's errand.

00:14:26.540 It is not going to be productive.

00:14:28.140 The Jordan train is coming.

00:14:30.000 You need to get on board or you could be run over.

00:14:33.200 Let's take a short commercial break.

00:14:34.640 Congressman Gates is going to stay with us into the next segment.

00:14:37.760 We've got a lot to go through on this topic of the rise and ascension of Jim Jordan.

00:14:44.400 Also, we're going to get a take on Congressman Gates' thoughts on the current geopolitical situation in the world.

00:14:51.460 All next in The Word.

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00:16:43.120 For people who have been doing this for a while, particularly maybe some people who have been doing this when you were in short pants,

00:16:55.820 I'm just kidding you.

00:16:57.360 But Jim Jordan is a historic figure for many people in this movement.

00:17:02.140 You think, you've got to remember, we took out Cantor with Bratt, we took out Boehner, we took out McCarthy the first time,

00:17:08.840 then Paul Ryan quit, now McCarthy and your amazing first time in history with a speaker.

00:17:15.600 So much of this audience has been, you know, doing this for 10 or 12 years with us.

00:17:20.640 Remembers the foundation of the Freedom Caucus and a fire breather that was Jim Jordan.

00:17:25.040 I take them all on, you know, armor-piercing shell.

00:17:28.900 It appears to some of our audience that as he's ascended to, you know, in office, and particularly in January,

00:17:38.060 there were people who were incredibly disappointed that he was not a stronger voice in backing the hard eight or the magnificent six at that time.

00:17:46.680 Also, since then, they just haven't seen it on judiciary.

00:17:49.440 Many people come back and say it's like Trey Gowdy all over again.

00:17:53.720 That's the Jordan that is beloved is Jim Jordan 1.0.

00:17:58.740 It is what can we do on this Jim Jordan 2.0 to getting back to the 1.0?

00:18:03.800 I want people to bookmark this discussion we're about to have because I don't want to pretend to this audience or anyone

00:18:10.000 that Jim Jordan entering the speaker's office is going to mean we get everything we want.

00:18:14.800 It's a panacea.

00:18:15.420 Yeah, on all fronts.

00:18:17.140 It's quite different.

00:18:18.080 And what I've seen in Jim Jordan is someone who will make the principal objective of his speakership,

00:18:26.100 uniting a disparate caucus with a lot of people who really dislike one another and do not have muscle memory of working together.

00:18:33.160 That's going to mean everyone's going to have to give,

00:18:36.620 and that's going to mean there are going to be things that Jim Jordan says and does that I'm not going to like,

00:18:42.540 that this audience isn't going to like, and that you aren't going to like.

00:18:45.740 Jim Jordan as speaker will not be the same as Jim Jordan as Judiciary Committee Chairman,

00:18:52.520 and you've already seen that Jim Jordan as Judiciary Committee Chairman is different than Jim Jordan, Freedom Caucus founder.

00:18:59.680 So let's acknowledge that.

00:19:01.540 Let's put that out.

00:19:02.840 But here's what I will say.

00:19:04.440 Jim Jordan is as good of a man as I have ever met in this process.

00:19:08.660 He is godly, he is humble, he is loyal, he is honest, and he is conservative.

00:19:16.700 All of his conservative wishes, dreams, and fantasies aren't going to come through in a speakership with a four-seat majority.

00:19:23.700 You see people like Mike Lawler and Nicole Maliotakis and Dusty Johnson and Brian Fitzpatrick endorsing Jim Jordan,

00:19:33.340 not because they agree with his ideology or his viewpoint on particular things throughout the years,

00:19:39.780 but they believe in his leadership style.

00:19:42.200 So that's what you're getting, an honest leadership style that is not beholden to the lobbyists and special interests.

00:19:48.660 You see, there's something about breaking the fever here and breaking the D.C. cartel and the swamp

00:19:54.620 that comes with dislodging Kevin McCarthy and moving to someone who hasn't sold shares of themselves their entire political career.

00:20:03.780 Now, do I think that McCarthy will still be a figure in Jordan world?

00:20:07.520 I do.

00:20:08.500 I don't think he'll be.

00:20:09.540 Because of the staff?

00:20:10.560 I think that there will be staff that will be common to both men.

00:20:15.180 I don't know the extent of that, but that would not surprise me.

00:20:18.120 As a matter of fact, it would only surprise me if there weren't staff that were common to both men.

00:20:22.380 Some of the people who work in McCarthy's office now used to work for Jordan, you see?

00:20:26.840 So there's a little cross-pollination there.

00:20:30.040 But what I have committed to this audience is to upgrade the position of Speaker of the House.

00:20:36.980 Jim Jordan isn't the only man that could have upgraded the position.

00:20:39.880 I believe maybe differently than you and some watching that Steve Scalise would have been a substantial upgrade to Kevin McCarthy.

00:20:47.900 And maybe the distance between McCarthy and Scalise is larger than the audience really knows.

00:20:54.040 I could tell you McCarthy, I mean, he did everything he could to undermine Scalise.

00:20:58.920 And Scalise knew that, and he was probably going to be more anti-McCarthy than Jordan would be.

00:21:04.680 But it's not really about the personalities.

00:21:06.940 It's about can we get the Republican conference back into a productive fighting force?

00:21:11.780 I believed that every day under Kevin McCarthy was just another day of slower surrender.

00:21:17.260 That we were never on the balls of our feet, getting into the fight, doing what had to be done.

00:21:22.340 Jim Jordan is a fighter.

00:21:23.840 And if there is anyone who can bring along some of these America last Republicans that do make up our majority, it's going to be Jim Jordan.

00:21:31.480 And the fact that he's now got so many folks who were hard against him just days ago publicly announcing their support for him means that we certainly have got a lot of momentum in upgrading the position.

00:21:43.740 But there are going to be things like big tech where we don't agree with Jordan on.

00:21:47.720 There are going to be things like January 6th that we don't – well, I don't think that's – I don't think it's that he's close to Google.

00:21:53.300 I think that Jim Jordan has a neoliberatarian perspective on those things that is sincerely informed by his viewpoint.

00:21:59.800 I have more of a neopopulist viewpoint on those things.

00:22:03.100 So we're not getting someone who agrees with us on everything.

00:22:05.260 But when it comes to the oversight, I do believe that there were people in Kevin McCarthy's operation who were putting a chokehold on some of the subpoenas and document requests and witness demands that I wanted to get out, that Mike Johnson wanted to get out, that Dan Bishop and Jim Jordan and Chip Roy wanted to get out.

00:22:24.080 And so with Jim there, I think we're going to have a lot more runway and we're going to see a green light more than we see a yellow light.

00:22:30.060 I want to get back to the CR and other things in a second, but I want to go back to something that – because I think this weekend is very important.

00:22:35.920 And this audience, this is another victory for you when it happens because people went to the ramparts on social media for the phone calls and went to – as I kept saying, the biggest disappointment I've had is that block of southern Republicans in the south.

00:22:53.520 And there's still some there.

00:22:54.680 It's not over.

00:22:55.380 Not over.

00:22:55.800 It's deflating for them to have Mike Rogers now on the team, but Mike Rogers noted in his statement he's historically a team player.

00:23:03.620 He was going to be a guy who was going to be with the team after this flirtation with the Democrats.

00:23:07.840 Did we learn from the grassroots getting up in people's grills this weekend?

00:23:11.700 Is this a way also to unite the conference?

00:23:13.840 It's one of the things because we have a disconnection between the voting base of this party, right, the Trump populist, nationalist, America first voting base and the representatives of Washington.

00:23:25.200 Is a way to do it what happened this weekend?

00:23:27.040 Is that one way to help Jordan bring the conference together?

00:23:30.480 We will unite the conference or we will cleanse the conference because if they come at us with some sort of bluff that these old guard Republicans in ruby red districts are going to go cut a deal with Democrats or force McCarthy down our throat, here's what I'm going to go tell them.

00:23:46.980 Go cut your deal with Democrats and see what happens to you.

00:23:49.900 And you know what, in a weird way, if these guys go cut a deal with Democrats, the Democrats were governing us all along anyway, right?

00:23:57.320 And the veneer of a Republican majority was just an illusion the whole time.

00:24:02.180 And you know what, if they go do that deal with Democrats and in the upcoming election, it results in us wiping out 6, 8, 12, 20, 30 of the Republicans who stand in the way of the America first agenda.

00:24:14.440 That might be the greatest blessing of all of this.

00:24:16.760 Let's talk about the critical path going forward.

00:24:20.660 There's going to be a conference meeting tonight.

00:24:22.980 Yes, another struggle session.

00:24:24.140 Another behind-closed-door struggle session.

00:24:26.420 And another one tomorrow morning before you go to the Florida Round New, I anticipate.

00:24:31.380 I hope, yes.

00:24:32.420 And then we'll start voting.

00:24:34.460 I think that there will be one final play by the McCarthy folks to try to delay a Jordan vote, to try to reinsert McCarthy in some sort of double backflip.

00:24:46.160 I'm not going to stand for it.

00:24:48.240 I think we need to proceed going forward with Jim Jordan.

00:24:51.260 But this is not a time to uncork the champagne and to celebrate the victory.

00:24:56.820 We have to see this thing through the floor vote.

00:24:59.120 202-225-3121.

00:25:01.100 You know what you have to do.

00:25:02.860 So let's get up on the ramparts.

00:25:04.300 Because going forward, the 17th's here.

00:25:08.200 The Senate's back today.

00:25:09.900 And the Senate, their first-order business is not passing appropriations bills.

00:25:14.080 They're dealing on Jack Lew as ambassador to Israel.

00:25:18.720 Have the Senate done anything on appropriations?

00:25:23.040 And where do we stand?

00:25:23.820 Because Jim Jordan is actually talking about another CR already, which, as you know, this audience's head is going to blow up.

00:25:28.560 So just practically in governing, where are we?

00:25:30.860 You know, we have passed funding for over 70 percent of the government, including our defense, including our Department of State and Foreign Ops.

00:25:38.960 I mean, we made some deep cuts to Department of State and Foreign Ops.

00:25:41.960 We took it back to 2014 spending levels.

00:25:44.560 But that forced people to actually make zero-sum choices about how we deploy America's resources and which interests have primacy.

00:25:53.140 So we've sent that over to the Senate.

00:25:55.300 Today the Senate could take up and pass our state and foreign ops bill, which, by the way, includes a bunch of Iron Dome money in partnership with Israel.

00:26:03.300 For all those that are worried we aren't doing enough in that front.

00:26:05.260 They could have 70 percent of the government ready to be funded and wouldn't need to be included in a CR.

00:26:09.860 You could go forward in conference and try to hammer it out.

00:26:12.120 So the Jordan doctrine, which I've got to say I don't particularly agree with.

00:26:17.380 I'm voting for the man more than the plan, and he knows that, and this audience should know that.

00:26:22.080 But Jordan's plan is to pass this 1 percent cut CR and then to use that as leverage against big spending senators to try to get some of the policy from our single-subject appropriations bills woven in.

00:26:36.420 You're saying he'll take the policy wins and give up the actual money?

00:26:40.000 Well, no, it's quite the opposite.

00:26:41.320 I think he'll surrender more policy wins in exchange for bending the curve down on spending.

00:26:47.300 But just the 1 percent.

00:26:48.700 Right, which is, to me, low energy.

00:26:51.780 Yes.

00:26:53.080 And what about an omnibus?

00:26:55.120 Well, I mean, this strategy is omnibus defense.

00:26:58.540 Yes.

00:26:58.740 But it's using as defense for the omnibus the prospect of a CR.

00:27:03.040 I don't believe in governing by CR or omnibus.

00:27:05.680 I know you've got to bounce.

00:27:06.940 Can you hang for one more second?

00:27:08.100 Sure.

00:27:08.300 Can we do that?

00:27:08.940 Because I want to get into it.

00:27:10.040 But in this regard, we've still got about a minute here.

00:27:12.660 In this regard, there was also discussion of Ukraine and all the border and all the, you know, the invasion of the southern border.

00:27:19.320 Ukraine.

00:27:19.740 New York just announced they had 4,000 illegal aliens show up last week.

00:27:23.820 It's getting worse in New York, not better.

00:27:26.380 Where does Jordan stand on Ukraine right now?

00:27:28.800 Well, Jordan and Scalise and Austin Scott, all these people who've run for speaker, have had to answer pointed questions about that.

00:27:35.600 And the real challenge politically is you've probably got about 20 members who don't want to vote for anyone who would send one more dollar to Ukraine.

00:27:42.740 And you've probably got about 20 members who don't want to vote for anybody who wouldn't give Ukraine a blank check.

00:27:48.260 So we've got nuanced answers.

00:27:49.960 Jim Jordan has been voting with the America First agenda on Ukraine for a good majority of this.

00:27:58.320 I don't think it really matters, though, because if we abide by the Hassert rule, which Jim Jordan says he believes binds him, you can't put that.

00:28:06.500 So the administration is going to try to lash border to Ukraine, to Israel.

00:28:10.560 We've got to be against that deal.

00:28:12.080 OK, a short commercial break.

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00:29:57.520 The lead story in the Sunday New York Times, three columns, right-hand side, was about how the IDF and Mossad and Israeli defense military intelligence not just got caught unawares strategically,

00:30:21.620 but also tactically, but also had the idea of there weren't troops up there for eight or ten hours.

00:30:28.420 I mean, it is, in fact, they had a line in their buried lead that said, you know, could this have happened just from incompetence, or was there infiltration into intelligence?

00:30:37.440 I mean, that's how bad the peace was.

00:30:41.260 Where do we stand right now?

00:30:42.640 What are your thoughts on what's happening over there, particularly not so much what Biden's doing, but the whole region?

00:30:48.760 Because we can get sucked into a vortex here that you're going to be another 10 or 20 years.

00:30:54.080 You've been the number one voice.

00:30:55.880 You're not an isolationist, but you've been the number one voice of we've got to stop these forever wars, and we have to put America's national security interests as paramount.

00:31:05.020 Yeah, I think the risk of a forever war here is pretty limited based on the military operations that are going on and the extent to which Israel is just laying siege to Gaza right now.

00:31:16.660 I think this is what got us to this position.

00:31:21.520 Iran is becoming increasingly isolated in the Middle East because a lot of these Persian Gulf monarchies are run by guys my age in their 40s who were educated in London and New York and Los Angeles.

00:31:35.840 And they want to turn westward, and particularly they want to get all their cash into Western real estate markets, Western financial markets, into other Western asset classes.

00:31:47.280 Those asset classes are being closed off to Iran as a consequence of these sanctions.

00:31:51.580 And then them being a player within Middle Eastern economies is diminishing as those assets are moving into Europe and moving into the United States.

00:32:01.500 So I believe Iran caused this attack in southern Israel in order to get Israel to lay siege to Gaza so that Iran would then have some twisted moral justification to launch strikes in Israel. 0.78

00:32:18.580 And then when Israel responds by launching strikes at Tehran, which I think is where this thing could be going, then you could see a lot of pressure from within the populace of these Gulf monarchies because while the leaders in Bahrain and Saudi and Qatar want to turn westward, their citizens don't want to.

00:32:41.020 You hooked me at the beginning saying it's not going to be a forever war of the implication.

00:32:44.380 It could be it could be nasty, but short.

00:32:46.620 Yeah.

00:32:46.820 Now, also, you're telling me that we could be doing bombing runs.

00:32:50.240 Well, I'm not saying we.

00:32:51.160 I'm saying Israel.

00:32:52.700 I think that that Israel would respond to any missile strikes.

00:32:57.440 The last time I look, brother, the naval aviators that are trained in your district are sitting on two carrier battle groups right now in the eastern med as a warning to Hezbollah or anybody else.

00:33:08.120 Right, and I actually think that's the right move because right now you're in an asymmetric war, and I think that having those carrier groups in the eastern med is the greatest deterrence for Lebanon or Syria or Iran or Iraq entering this war.

00:33:22.860 But the deterrence is if you strike, we'll be there.

00:33:26.140 The deterrence is actually that we will give combat air support to Israel if Hezbollah strikes. 0.82

00:33:33.400 Not necessarily.

00:33:33.860 Not necessarily the destroyers that are out there right alongside those carrier groups can launch cruise missiles.

00:33:38.940 So it's not – don't just read a carrier group as U.S. participation in air operations.

00:33:45.200 Hang on.

00:33:45.320 It can also mean –

00:33:46.320 That was one of those destroyers back the first time we took on Tehran in 79 in the North Arabian Sea in the Persian Gulf.

00:33:53.880 That did not end well.

00:33:56.380 Well, no.

00:33:57.340 The whole point is to deter any type of state-on-state conflict.

00:34:01.420 Do you believe that the – and this is why I'm so opposed to even special forces going for hostage rescue.

00:34:08.500 As soon as any direct American involvement militarily in support of Israel in the region, the whole place gets lit up from Egypt all the way to our allies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia that all of a sudden the intrusion – you bring Turkey in. 0.95

00:34:25.960 You've obviously got Persia in, but then you've got Egypt and everybody has to. 1.00

00:34:28.900 It's 67 all over again.

00:34:30.640 The Arabs, the Turks, and the Persians all have to unite to drive the infidel out. 1.00

00:34:35.880 I don't believe that's the case because I think that presupposes this belief in a separation between the United States and Israel that doesn't exist now.

00:34:45.940 When it's U.S. equipment and materiel and U.S. planning, I mean you go to these bases in Israel, there's U.S. forces all over that are woven into the IDF tactically and operationally.

00:34:58.580 I've been to those bases.

00:34:59.740 I've seen it.

00:35:00.400 So I think if Israel is engaging in those – 0.66

00:35:03.200 Hang on now.

00:35:03.220 We're getting out of brass tacks.

00:35:04.760 Let me ask you.

00:35:06.360 Do we even need – walk through the mechanics.

00:35:08.920 Do we even need a supplemental to the budget for Israel?

00:35:12.560 Don't we have automatic increases that we have nothing to do with?

00:35:15.940 Great question.

00:35:16.400 I see no evidence currently that we need to pass a supplemental for Israel because the billions of dollars that we have invested in Israel has given Israel such a qualitative military edge that is central to U.S. foreign policy.

00:35:32.900 Israel can exercise their will in Gaza, in the Golan Heights, in southern Syria. 0.89

00:35:38.660 They can do that now without us.

00:35:40.220 When you say exercise their will, this is a nation that could not defend their borders.

00:35:45.440 First off, this has been two years in the planning at max and maybe a year, training, exercising, recruiting, all that, which they didn't see.

00:35:54.100 Not just that.

00:35:54.780 And synchronizing.

00:35:55.460 That's what really –

00:35:55.960 Synchronizing.

00:35:56.540 By the way, air, sea, land over a huge geographic area.

00:35:59.480 But even when the assault started, it was six or eight hours before the IDF even responded.

00:36:05.320 And let's be blunt.

00:36:06.580 The IDF's response was, have you seen the IDF?

00:36:09.620 This is not – this is not – I think people are living in a fantasy land.

00:36:13.320 This is not 67.

00:36:15.360 Israel used to be the Jewish Spartans, 67 and even in 73. 0.91

00:36:20.560 Is that – this looks awfully like a woke military that you've been fighting here.

00:36:26.060 Are you absolutely convinced that this IDF, the reality of it, can actually take on the enemies that they're trying to take on right now?

00:36:35.160 Yeah, and I base that principally on their air superiority, advanced munitions, and far superior special operators, far superior.

00:36:45.920 And I watch this area of the world pretty closely.

00:36:48.480 It's one of the areas of the world I've been working for seven years.

00:36:52.080 And I believe that if Israel wants to lay siege to Gaza, that they will be able to do that. 0.99

00:36:58.200 And it will come at a tremendous cost in human life.

00:37:02.840 And it is heartbreaking to see.

00:37:04.740 How do you win the information war there when you have two million – I mean they order a million people out within 24 hours?

00:37:09.920 Well, I think we need to be putting more pressure on Egypt. 1.00

00:37:12.240 I think that – I think there's a deal to be done here.

00:37:14.600 You know what Egypt wants more than anything? 0.79

00:37:16.180 MQ-9 predator drones on cash flow financing to be able to do anti-terrorism stuff in the Sinai.

00:37:21.340 And we have not been willing to give that to them yet in part because the Egyptian government engages in some extrajudicial killings of the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:37:28.500 So if we cut that deal with Egypt –

00:37:30.040 Is that a bad thing?

00:37:30.500 Well, I mean there are some who view that differently, I'll say.

00:37:36.300 But if we did the MQ-9 deal and we did it on cash flow financing –

00:37:40.400 But those drones are taking out the Muslim Brotherhood that actually have the bases out in the Sinai.

00:37:43.760 Well, sure, under the best possible interpretation of that scenario, that's what they'd be used for.

00:37:49.400 But I also think that that could get Egypt in a better position regarding the Rafa passage, regarding refugee camps, humanitarian assistance.

00:37:59.680 Because I'm not for any of these Gaza refugees coming to the United States. 1.00

00:38:03.360 You're with the Santas on that, 100 percent.

00:38:05.820 No, not one refugee.

00:38:07.780 There is no reason for the United States to be taking refugees from Gaza. 0.77

00:38:11.040 You're a practical man.

00:38:13.040 Are we going to underwrite the – it's too many people have to go somewhere.

00:38:18.320 They can't clearly stay in Gaza because it's going to be taken apart brick by brick and particularly the underground tunnels and not just tunnels, cities underground. 0.87

00:38:28.280 Do they go to refugee camps in the Sinai?

00:38:31.100 Yes.

00:38:31.620 I think that is where –

00:38:32.580 And the American taxpayer is going to underwrite that?

00:38:34.420 No.

00:38:35.360 What?

00:38:36.160 That's crazy.

00:38:37.080 A lot of the – you should have a coalition with the Saudis and the Qataris and the Emiratis footing the bill for a lot of this.

00:38:45.700 And by the way, that might help those folks work together a little bit better and not blockade one another and cyber attack one another.

00:38:51.900 Biden is coming out this morning and saying this is the beginning of a two-state solution.

00:38:55.640 You have – the Palestinians have to have a state.

00:38:58.660 Doesn't that mean by definition they're not going to leave Gaza? 0.94

00:39:01.240 Well, that's insane because who do you cut that two-state deal with, right?

00:39:05.780 There is not a leadership structure within the Palestinian Authority to be able to manage this.

00:39:10.420 You are going to have to have –

00:39:11.460 We've just seen that.

00:39:11.820 We are a regional multinational coalition led by Arab countries and the United States should not be dead money at the table.

00:39:19.160 We are not the world's policemen.

00:39:20.680 We are not the world's piggy bank, OK?

00:39:22.680 And I think that this is an Arab problem that needs to be resolved by Arabs and frankly, I don't – I think where you miss it is this notion that there is this desire of the Arab world to unite against Israel on this.

00:39:37.440 There is a lot more interest, I think, in preserving domestic politics for those monarchies.

00:39:43.440 I strongly believe to the core of my being, having worked on this, that that is all totally, completely superficial.

00:39:50.300 I think that's all –

00:39:51.260 You think that the Red to Dead Sea water project is superficial.

00:39:56.260 You think that the Qataris working with the Israelis on liquefied natural gas is superficial.

00:40:00.600 I think the Qataris – 0.99

00:40:01.260 You think that they're working with the Saudis on capital markets is superficial.

00:40:05.160 I think the Bedouins – I think the Bedouins – I'll flip on you in a second.

00:40:08.180 I wouldn't – I don't trust any of those guys as far as I could throw them.

00:40:11.100 Yeah, but they're not the Bedouins of yesteryear. 0.99

00:40:13.940 These are Ferrari Bedouins.

00:40:15.200 Okay, these are Bedouins who wear Gucci suits. 0.98

00:40:19.260 No, just because they live in Belgravia, right?

00:40:22.620 Just because they bought up the west of London, it's still – you watch.

00:40:27.400 It's totally – I believe it's totally superficial.

00:40:29.600 We're making a –

00:40:30.200 I think that these guys are trying – I think that these guys are trying to manage their domestic politics while at the same time not cutting off their future in the west.

00:40:37.660 Just walk the audience through.

00:40:38.780 You are an expert in this area.

00:40:39.980 What should we be looking for over the next couple of days?

00:40:42.540 What is Matt Gaze going to be sitting there saying?

00:40:44.480 The number one thing is to keep this an asymmetric conflict and to not have this a multi-state conflict.

00:40:49.800 Like a Democrat –

00:40:51.060 But how do you keep Hezbollah? 0.99

00:40:51.920 How do you keep –

00:40:52.580 Deterrence.

00:40:53.160 I think the Biden administration made the right move moving those carrier groups into the Eastern Med.

00:40:57.180 I think the reason you have not seen Lebanon enter this war yet, the reason you haven't seen Syria enter this war yet,

00:41:02.640 is precisely because you have those destroyers and those carriers out there, not to be bombing Arab countries, but to set deterrence.

00:41:11.180 And I think right now that's what I'm watching because once this thing turns into some state-on-state action,

00:41:17.120 then I do think the doomsday scenario, the dominoes falling around the Arab world is considerably more likely. 0.99

00:41:24.380 If the deterrence doesn't work, what would be your recommended course of action?

00:41:28.300 Let's assume that – for this part, let's just say that Hezbollah comes in from the north.

00:41:32.800 Or is it enough back and forth of shooting that something happens in Hezbollah?

00:41:36.160 Well, hold on.

00:41:36.880 I think you have to create some distinction between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government.

00:41:42.100 I understand that Hezbollah is a political party there.

00:41:44.640 They have a lot of authority there.

00:41:45.940 But we have sent billions of dollars to the Lebanese army.

00:41:50.040 We're on every side of this trade.

00:41:52.640 We're on every side of this trade from Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Qatar to Lebanon to Turkey.

00:41:57.820 We're on every side.

00:41:59.340 And Persia too.

00:42:00.300 We've given them – we gave them $6 billion.

00:42:03.100 Turkey is very – 0.89

00:42:03.840 And Hamas. 0.82

00:42:04.320 You've mentioned Turkey and I think that we've seen from Turkey that they behave very differently when they turn west than when they turn east. 0.81

00:42:12.780 So Turkey that decides to be a part of this European crusade in Ukraine, very different than Turkey.

00:42:19.880 Is there any doubt in your mind that CCP – because they've got a long-term relation with Persia and the output deal – that somehow they're in back of this with Persia to say let's suck the Americans into the Middle East and away from Taiwan?

00:42:29.580 I was in a briefing with Republican colleagues yesterday about that very question, the extent to which Iran's animating of Hamas is really buttressed by Iran's growing relationship with the CCP, with China.

00:42:43.600 And the case was made to me that while I'm looking – while a lot of the world right now is looking at the relationship between Iran and Hamas, the relationship between Iran and China is actually more dispositive as to what's going on here.

00:42:55.860 Exactly.

00:42:56.760 Can we keep it one more?

00:42:58.260 I think I got to roll.

00:42:59.200 How do people get to you?

00:43:00.980 At Matt Gaetz, at Rep Matt Gaetz.

00:43:03.020 My podcast is called Firebrand.

00:43:04.760 It's on fire.

00:43:05.720 Thank you.

00:43:06.180 Hang on.

00:43:07.000 People should call today.

00:43:08.440 Stay on top of this.

00:43:09.540 Yeah, we want all Republican representatives voting for Jim Jordan.

00:43:13.020 And the way you know this is going well is if there are no more delays.

00:43:16.680 The way you know this is turning south is if for whatever reason, whatever cause, this thing starts to creep back and back further.

00:43:23.140 More struggle sessions.

00:43:24.780 I've had enough of those.

00:43:26.040 Congressman Gaetz, thank you.

00:43:27.080 We're going to take a short commercial break.

00:43:28.240 Back Derek Harvey.

00:43:29.460 We got Natalie Winters and a special guest in the next hour. 0.97

00:43:32.300 Thanks, brother.

00:43:32.780 Appreciate it.

00:43:33.320 Thank you.

00:43:34.700 Bring it on and now we'll fight to the end.

00:43:36.940 Just watch and see.

00:43:38.120 It's all started.

00:43:40.400 Everything's begun.

00:43:42.100 And you are over.

00:43:44.800 Cause we're taking down the CCP.

00:43:48.760 Spread the word all through Hong Kong.

00:43:51.080 We will fight till they're all gone.

00:43:53.640 We rejoice when there's no more. 0.95

00:43:55.420 Let's take down the CCP.

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00:45:22.620 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:45:27.440 Okay, welcome back.

00:45:28.560 Colonel Derek Harvey joins us now.

00:45:30.440 By the way, everybody get up to the ramparts.

00:45:33.700 We're ascendant right now.

00:45:35.340 I understand many of this audience may have reservations about Congressman Jordan, but you heard Matt Gaetz.

00:45:46.140 This is about as good as we're going to do, and we can make it great.

00:45:51.280 Here's what you did over the weekend that is extraordinary.

00:45:54.080 You started to break these, what I call the old bulls from the South on these committees. 0.99

00:46:02.820 And you were lighting them up all weekend.

00:46:04.640 The stuff we heard from the grassroots and the precinct strategy people and the local state parties is just incredible.

00:46:10.380 So people stepped up here.

00:46:11.600 And this is the way you unify the Republican Party is have people start acting like America first.

00:46:17.980 Start acting like MAGA with the principles.

00:46:21.860 So a lot more work to do today.

00:46:23.420 Do not, you know, don't leave the ramparts.

00:46:25.480 We're a long way from victory, but at least like in football, you want momentum.

00:46:30.400 And we have momentum right now.

00:46:31.580 2-0-2-2-2-2-5-3-1-2-1.

00:46:33.320 And Colonel Harvey, your assessment, you're the guy, you're my go-to guy for the region.

00:46:39.120 And Matt and I disagree on that, and that's fine.

00:46:42.420 Matt has spent a lot of time and is very informed on this.

00:46:46.620 I'm just, from having been there for the first time as a young lieutenant junior grade in 79,

00:46:52.440 I look at the entire area with a jaundiced eye.

00:46:58.160 Colonel Harvey, can you give us an assessment of where we are?

00:47:02.280 Yeah, Steve, I, you know, I really appreciate Matt Gaetz being on ahead of time.

00:47:06.940 And, you know, the focus needs to be on American interests, our economic interests, our security interests and the like.

00:47:14.780 And I think those right now are tied to a successful effort by Israel to destroy and emasculate the Hamas in such a way that the world knows that it happened. 0.77

00:47:30.820 Okay?

00:47:31.080 And it has to be clear to everyone in the region and internationally that the IDF was successful.

00:47:38.620 Let's keep in mind as we think about this that we've shifted into another gear here.

00:47:44.560 We've gone from the administration saying they stand strongly with Israel to being focused on and talking about baby's heads being chopped off to saying,

00:47:54.280 oh, the poor Palestinians, and we're barely over a week into this. 1.00

00:47:59.500 And this is because our administration does not understand the stakes at play here.

00:48:06.800 If we are not successful, if the IDF is not successful, then it will rebound against our stature and our influence,

00:48:15.680 and it will increase our problems, not just in the region, but internationally.

00:48:20.880 And there's a tie-in, and I think you touched on it in the previous segment, to what China and Iran are doing.

00:48:27.600 Why would Hamas go through with this, knowing that it would be almost committing suicide?

00:48:33.260 They were probably told that it was, they're going to take one for the team, Steve.

00:48:38.080 And, you know, they've been operating an open-air prison.

00:48:41.140 They don't care about human rights.

00:48:42.860 And they're willing to go down in flames because they've got these extremist agendas.

00:48:47.120 But if they're successful in undermining the U.S., there's an outcome here that, you know,

00:48:53.540 is not one that Israel needs to reestablish deterrence and to show that they actually won,

00:49:02.040 then that will impact us.

00:49:04.580 And it will open the door for Iran, China, and take pressure off of Ukraine.

00:49:10.220 And then that will then be to the benefit of Hamas eventually because a weakened U.S. in the region. 0.52

00:49:19.340 Has a CCP, Janet Yellen's telling us this morning, the Secretary of Treasury,

00:49:25.200 who's having a very difficult time selling the bonds that financed this fiasco

00:49:30.700 because China's not buying them anymore,

00:49:33.020 and the Fed has got to start doing some quantitative tightening.

00:49:36.040 They can't keep doing the quantitative easing.

00:49:38.020 So the Fed, it's tough for them to buy them.

00:49:40.540 We're having a very difficult time selling the bonds.

00:49:42.580 That's why the rates are continuing to go up.

00:49:45.100 So we're financially crippled that the U.S. government's having a tough time.

00:49:49.380 She comes out today and says we've got plenty of capacity,

00:49:51.400 plenty of capacity to fund both the Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas war.

00:49:56.520 Has the CCP, and Derek, I want to know if you can stay through the break.

00:49:59.980 Is the Chinese Communist Party working with Persia?

00:50:02.860 Have the Persians and the CCP laid a trap here for the United States and laid that trap in Gaza? 0.93

00:50:10.820 Well, in part, yes.

00:50:13.080 And I'm not sure if it was intentional from the Chinese perspective.

00:50:17.760 The Iranians were clearly coordinating with this and supporting it.

00:50:20.880 But I just have to believe that there's some strategic, scenario-driven wargaming that's been done

00:50:29.260 to take a look at opportunity analysis through a conflict like this.

00:50:34.300 And it's not just, you know, the buying of U.S. Treasuries.

00:50:40.960 It's in what denomination our oil purchase is made in.

00:50:46.100 And they've been going after the use of the U.S. dollar as the reserve for the world.

00:50:52.720 And this is another part of that attack.

00:50:55.160 We can always provide more money by printing it, Steve.

00:50:59.140 And that's what we'll wind up doing.

00:51:00.360 Yep.

00:51:00.560 But, Colonel Harvey, just hang on for a second.

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Bannon's War Room - October 16, 2023

Episode 3103： Countdown To Votes For Speaker Of House

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