Ben Harnwell, Natalie G. Winters, Ken Paxton, Catherine O'Neill, and more join host Stephen K. Bannon in The War Room to discuss the Ukraine crisis and why we should all be paying our fair share.
00:05:48.000Whilst this civil war is taking place within the GOP in the United States and the constant pushing,
00:05:54.000the urgent pushing for $60 billion is continuing, what is the view here in occupied Europe with regards to this war?
00:06:04.000Well, there was an article today in The Guardian which says that barely 10% of Europeans believe Ukraine can still defeat Russia.
00:06:14.000Now, this is as we're moving up to the second anniversary, Natalie, on the 24th of February, which is in three days' time.
00:06:21.000This is a very symbolic point for us to be in over this anniversary.
00:06:26.000There will be a lot of taking stock going on in not only the European capitals, but all of the Western capitals who are constantly being asked to give more.
00:06:35.000And here, I think, are the key takeaways from this poll that was conducted over 12 of the 27 European Union member states.
00:06:43.000Barely 10%. That's not even 10% believe that Ukraine can still beat Russia.
00:06:51.000That is down, Natalie, from a year ago when the figure was over 50%.
00:06:55.000So that proportion in just the space of 12 months has absolutely fallen through the floor.
00:07:00.000Now, moving on, because here's the point I think that's going to directly concern American taxpayers the most.
00:07:06.000Is this issue here that 41% of Europeans said that the EU should either increase its support or maintain its current level if the US were to halt its military aid to Ukraine under a Trump presidency.
00:07:25.000So this debate, we've been having this here on the war room, I think, now for around six months.
00:07:30.000The point is, if, in the eventuality, Trump wins in November of this year, and then says, that's it, no more money to Ukraine.
00:07:40.000Only 41% of Europeans, these are your great allies, Natalie, only 41% of the European continent wants to step up and fill the gap left by the United States.
00:07:53.000That basically means that when we're talking about European capitals right across the European continent and how much support they're willing to give to the United States, they're very happy for Ukraine to win if American taxpayers are paying for it.
00:08:08.000They're not so happy to step up and cough up the money should America not do that.
00:08:13.000And I think that needs to be in the calculus of Americans at this moment as they're deciding just how much and when to give forward to Kyiv at this point.
00:08:25.000Well, they know it's a scam, and it's so interesting that you bring up the first part of your statement talking about this new narrative that, you know, foreign aid packages for Ukraine are actually great for the United States.
00:08:38.800That was a talking point that was sort of war-gamed by the White House back, Politico reported it, in October of last year, that they knew support was declining for Ukraine.
00:08:51.800So they were like, how can we spin this? How can we euphemistically couch this?
00:08:56.260So the dumb American people, the Christian nationalists, the domestic terrorists, the same people that were throwing into jail for exercising their First Amendment rights, so they'll support this.
00:09:05.680And they came up with the idea that Ukrainian packages were great for America's industrial base and for our manufacturing jobs, and we tracked it.
00:09:15.620I did a story for warroom.org where this narrative ended up all the way down into local papers.
00:09:22.060Of course, the mainstream media ran with it.
00:09:24.440But I really think that that story is so interesting because it gives you such good insight into how our ruling class views foreign policy.
00:09:31.020In other words, instead of realizing that American people are not supporting this war because there's no demonstrable benefit for them in it, it's just, you know, bleeding, hemorrhaging money, they're like, how can we lie to them even more?
00:09:42.100And then, of course, they set up the Office of Influence, Perception, and Management, which historically had been used to influence international propaganda campaigns and misinformation.
00:09:52.400But they turned it inward, and within one week after Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, which I know we're coming up on that second anniversary, they launched, they relaunched that office and they started it with a domestic program to basically wage, of course, Obama basically legalized propaganda, but to wage information warfare on American people.
00:10:10.820So I'm just curious, your, you know, unfettered, I'm sure the deep state would say misinformation, riddled take on where we stand now, I believe we're approaching two years, I think it's February 24th, that all of this chaos began.
00:10:25.320What do you think is the honest adjudication of where it stands?
00:10:33.520I have to just tie up what you were just saying beforehand, before going into this.
00:10:38.060About four or five months ago, if memory serves me correct, the person who, on the Republican side, who was saying almost the very word what Biden was just saying about the funds really, sort of the investment really taking place in the United States is not going to Ukraine, was our old friend Mitch McConnell.
00:10:54.600There's no clearer evidence, I think, of the true brazen nature of the uni party than when you see these two people, supposedly in different political parties, parroting exactly the same policy position towards the same end, which is not to represent their various constituencies, it's to represent the U.S. military industrial complex, which drove this, you know, as Professor Mearsheimer said, has been saying from at least 2014 onwards.
00:11:23.600They've been driving this all the way.
00:11:25.380So what is the position here, Natalie, at this point as we head into the second anniversary?
00:11:31.260Well, it's not going too well, but don't take my word for it.
00:11:35.940One in Bloomberg, which says that the war in Ukraine is turning in Putin's favour after months of stalemate.
00:11:43.460And the second article, this was in the French Associated Press news agency, as I say, this is another one of the big three, with the headline, Russia versus the West, is Putin winning?
00:11:58.440Now, I took a screenshot this morning.
00:12:14.620They've got the most evil photo that they could possibly find of him.
00:12:17.540Just to sort of put this question across at this two-year anniversary, the war, Natalie, is not going well.
00:12:24.980And one of the reasons it's not going well, let's just look at the simple numbers, is the actual numbers that they still have.
00:12:31.480Well, there's one of these articles that I just mentioned, which had an anecdotal report that said that compared to this point last year, the Ukrainian forces are reduced to about 60% of what they were two years ago, excuse me, one year ago.
00:12:48.740Whereas the Russians in the past 12 months have increased their frontline forces by about 750,000, taking it over to, I think, about two times.
00:13:02.300The ratio is about two to one that the Russians have compared to the Ukrainians on the frontline.
00:13:09.440It has been a war of attrition since the collapse and implosion of the counter-offensive, the famous spring offensive, then summer offensive.
00:13:19.520Since that collapse, it's basically been a war of attrition.
00:13:22.220Well, who, Natalie, is going to win a war of attrition?
00:13:53.260I don't know whether Denver had time to process them.
00:13:57.820One of the reasons, because you mentioned the Munich Security Conference earlier.
00:14:00.160Ben, I'm going to hold you there because I want to hold you through the break, and we're coming up against the break.
00:14:05.700So we'll save the articles for after the break.
00:14:08.240But I'd say that the buried lead of the lies that the Ukraine war is great for America, if they wanted to go the route of, oh, well, it's great for jobs.
00:14:20.980Why don't you guys do a meaningful, comprehensive audit if you actually wanted to garner U.S. support for what's going on in Ukraine and have us see that where our funds are going are actually supporting something worth supporting.
00:14:32.860But I think you guys know if we did an audit, I think support would fall probably below zero percent, if that's even possible.
00:14:39.580But War Room Posse, you can still go cpac.org slash war room if you're in the DMV area or if you're a journalist on one of those outlets that's not invited.
00:14:49.760Rumor has it Madeline Peltz is attending our Force Multiplier Academy.
00:18:57.640I think, you know, you know what a media event only it was, because most of the coverage was based around the fact that Alexei Navalny's wife was there,
00:19:06.900and she addressed the conference shortly after her husband had been announced, had died.
00:25:10.860So that being the case, I think the pressure will be on Ukraine to – the moment has passed, the window has closed.
00:25:21.180What it should have done was, before the counteroffensive, will sat down with Putin and negotiate terms that would have –
00:25:29.540when Ukraine was still in a position of maximal positioning to be able to negotiate for its own interests.
00:25:37.160But really now, it's in a very strongly weakened position.
00:25:41.400There are soundings coming out from Russia that Putin is ready to draw this thing to a close.
00:25:48.060I'd be surprised if this kinetic war is still in place in November.
00:25:51.640If it's not – excuse me – if the war is still going on, if there hasn't been some kind of ceasefire negotiation by November.
00:26:00.660Well, our sociopathic overlords will be looking – I think they'll be – I don't know, I'm going to throw straight in to the next war, to the next phase of the forever war.
00:26:13.880For appearance's sake, they might leave a gap, I don't know, like a few weeks or something, since the withdrawal from Afghanistan before the start of this.
00:26:27.320I don't know. They will obviously be working on something.
00:26:30.640I don't think they're going to go straight away with it, but the appetite now in the West, in the democracies, is really that I think we're all warred up for the time being.
00:26:39.140But they will be plotting underhand, as they usually do, what the next incursion can be.
00:26:44.580With regards to Israel, I think we just have to wait and see on that.
00:26:49.360What is interesting to see, I would say, with regards to the West approach to Israel and Gaza, is just how large the – this is unprecedented, I think, since the foundation of the modern secular state of Israel, how large and uniform the opposition to Israel is right now.
00:27:12.540And that's not really – I don't think –
00:27:14.360And Ben, we're coming up against a break, so I got to let you go, but if the audience wants to follow you, get your analysis on all things, not just Ukraine, where can they go to do all that?
00:27:26.320They can on Getter, which is my social media platform of choice, at Harnwell, my surname.
00:27:33.420Ben, I look forward to being able to have you on, and we don't have to talk about what's going on in Ukraine, because no more of our taxpayer dollars are going over there to continue what's going on over there.
00:27:48.180Ben, thank you so much for joining us.
00:34:59.820Hi, I'm Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
00:35:01.380Did you know that even though I'm the highest-ranking law enforcement official in the state, I cannot go after those who commit voter fraud?
00:35:08.860That's because two years ago, in an 8-1 vote, judges on the Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that local county district attorneys will handle that.
00:35:16.620That's crazy, because in the blue counties of Texas, liberal district attorneys received massive amounts of cash donations from left-wing extremists like George Soros.
00:35:24.960Prior to that ludicrous ruling, I had over 900 cases of voter fraud in Texas.
00:35:29.560Join me in supporting these judges who will return election integrity to the Court of Criminal Appeals.
00:35:34.420We'll get into the illegal immigration and their NGO aiders and abettors lawsuit after that.
00:35:50.820But you saw in that video, of course, endorsing some judges down in Texas.
00:35:54.980But A.G. Paxton, I'd love to just get your thoughts.
00:35:56.980The number one question that I hear from viewers of the War Room audience is, what have we done since 2020 and 2022 to secure the election going into 2024?
00:36:07.820And it sounds like you're trying to do something, but of course, your hands are tied, probably by George Soros-linked prosecutors.
00:36:13.920So I'm just curious, your kind of answer to that question, your thoughts.
00:36:17.220Well, first of all, I'm sad I don't have real red meat like your past guest.
00:36:26.300Now, we actually have passed some good election reform bills in our House and Senate, finally, after years of ignoring that in the Texas House.
00:36:35.840The problem we have now is that we have our Court of Criminal Appeals struck down a statute that was passed in 1951 that directed the Attorney General of Texas to prosecute voter fraud.
00:36:44.480And that now leaves local district attorneys who are funded by George Soros and the big counties to prosecute voter fraud.
00:36:51.540So we know that in like Austin, Houston and Dallas and San Antonio, that those cases are not going to be prosecuted.
00:37:00.340So if the Attorney General of Texas can't step in with concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute, Texas is on its way to becoming a democratic state.
00:37:10.040So I'm hoping that we're going to elect these three new challengers and we can move our way back towards prosecuting voter fraud in the state of Texas.
00:37:18.220Now, I think all of these issues that you're attacking are sort of intertwined.
00:37:24.280I know it was I think it was Milton Friedman who said, you know, an open border doesn't coexist quite nicely with a welfare state.
00:37:31.240I would add an open border doesn't coexist quite nicely with elections that are conducted without IDs or verification.
00:37:38.020And I think the Democrats probably know that pretty well.
00:37:42.200But I know you just filed suit, I believe, yesterday or pretty recently against some of these NGO groups, one in particular that you claim are basically helping to facilitate this mass migration invasion.
00:37:55.700However, however you want to couch it, I think mass migration is maybe too euphemistic a term.
00:38:00.440But if you could sort of walk the audience through that lawsuit, sort of the the scope, the boots on the ground perspective of how these NGOs are really intricately linked to what is going on at the southern border.
00:38:12.780Yeah, I'd be happy to answer. I wanted to say two more things about the court of criminal appeals.
00:38:15.980That really matters to the entire country, because if we can't protect our elections in Texas, Texas will become a democratic state, I believe, in the next four to six years.
00:38:25.040And that affects the entire country, because without Texas, we don't have competitive elections and it's going to be a one party country.
00:38:31.780So I wanted to encourage people. We're in early voting that right now that goes through March 1st election days, March 5th vote for these people, Gina Parker, Lee Finley and David Shank.
00:38:41.540And those are those are very important votes. I think it's the most important election I've been involved in.
00:38:45.140So, again, Gina Parker, Lee Finley and David Shank to answer your question.
00:38:49.060Yes, we just filed a lawsuit because we've been doing an investigation on all of these nongovernmental organizations, often called NGOs, who are aiding and abetting the Biden administration or being funded by the Biden administration to help basically illegals cross the border and then they hide them.
00:39:07.260We think they've created stash houses. They're participating in human trafficking.
00:39:12.680And it's devastating to the people that are involved in that. And it's also devastating to our state.
00:39:18.040And the impact that it has on children is immense. And so we are trying to stop these illegal activities and the criminal activities being funded by our taxpayer dollars in the Biden administration.
00:39:26.880I'm just curious, speaking to the previous video, you know, where you obviously endorse that that slate of judges.
00:39:35.060But do you feel like you have adequate backup, whether it's in the legislature, just even from just a personnel staffing perspective, Border Patrol, you know, the leaders there, of course, you're not getting that from the federal government with Joe Biden or the executive branch.
00:39:49.820But, you know, do you do you need backup? What is sort of the missing part here that's making it so difficult for the southern border to actually be secured?
00:39:58.800One of the challenges we've had is the Texas House has been difficult to get anything good passed because our speaker, Dave Phelan, is largely, even though he's a Republican and everybody in the media covers him as a Republican,
00:40:10.220the media knows he's actually elected by the Democrats. The Democrats block vote with their 65 votes. He only needs 10 Republicans.
00:40:16.480He typically gives those 10 Republicans the best committees and shazam, he becomes the speaker and does what the Democrats want.
00:40:23.500So we don't get good election bills. We don't get good border security bills that we get instead them doing bad things like trying to impeach me.
00:40:31.500That's that is a Democratic initiative that was pushed forward by our Republican speaker.
00:40:36.300And people often think, well, Republicans are doing this. But the reality is, no, the Republicans are commiserating in the Texas House.
00:40:43.680And we're in these elections now to try to defeat not only the Court of Criminal Appeals, but also some of these House members and the speaker who have gone off track and have been helping the Democrats.
00:40:56.700Surely a lot of these, you know, corporate establishment Republican types, they're so weak on immigration because that's, of course, what their their big backers, their donors want.
00:41:05.420They love the cheap labor. And frankly, I don't think they really believe in American sovereignty.
00:41:11.140They they I would say adhere to this global government. Right. The concept of a global citizen.
00:41:16.340So, hey, why do we care if the southern border is not secure?
00:41:20.300Sure. But on on the NGO front, you know, do you think that it's something as simple as the reason why Republicans, you know, aren't really down to actually fight on this is just because of their donors?
00:41:31.400Or do you think speaking to the video we played, there's something more nefarious?
00:41:35.820And I'm just curious with your investigations into these NGOs, you know, who is funding them?
00:41:41.160Where is the the drive to basically allow the the invasion of the United States?
00:41:45.340Where is that precipitating from? Where is that coming from?
00:41:48.980Well, I know in Texas, it's the same people were fighting on all these other issues.
00:41:53.020It's it's the Texans for lawsuit reform that was designed initially to stop abusive lawsuits in Texas.
00:41:59.760But it's it's mushroomed into a woke corporate group that Karl Rove's involved with a guy named Dick Weekly of Dick Weekly Homes.
00:42:07.160And of course, they want cheap labor. So they want illegal immigration.
00:42:10.340So you get Dick Weekly and Dick Trabolsi in this Texans for lawsuit reform, along with their strategist who recently got out of federal prison, a guy named Dennis Calabrese, who does a lot of the strategy for this group.
00:42:21.320And so it is big corporations funding these elections.
00:42:25.480And then these supposed Republicans won't pass border reform, election reform and other important things because all their money is coming from Texans for lawsuit reform and groups associated with Karl Rove.
00:42:37.320A.G. Paxton, if I could hold you briefly through the break, I got just one or two more questions for you.