00:30:43.200Once you accept that idea, it won't be so tough.
00:30:47.200Now, if any man here can't buy that, if he rates himself as something special, with a special kind of hide to be saved, he'd better make up his mind about it right now.
00:31:01.200Because I don't want him in this group.
00:31:08.200I'll take Colonel Batten for it any day.
00:31:13.200I want to warn you of a huge change that could be coming to our money and our bank accounts.
00:31:24.200First, think back to 9-11, shortly after the government pushed through the Patriot Act.
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00:31:36.200Now, Jim Rickards, editor of the independent financial newsletter Strategic Intelligence and New York Times bestselling author, is warning about a coming event that could elevate this governmental surveillance to a terrifying new level.
00:31:50.200In fact, some of the guests I've had on The War Room believe that the government will soon expand their powers to track our every move.
00:31:58.200If we say the wrong things on social media, donate to the wrong causes, buy firearms, or even vote MAGA, the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts.
00:32:08.200I can't say for sure if this will happen, but it's an interesting and dire warning.
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00:32:38.200On a lonely windswept point on the northern shore of France.
00:32:44.200The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.
00:32:56.200At dawn on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.
00:33:06.200Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion, to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns.
00:33:16.200The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here, and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.
00:33:24.200The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers at the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades, and the American Rangers began to climb.
00:33:34.200They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up.
00:33:39.200When one Ranger fell, another would take his place.
00:33:42.200When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again.
00:33:47.200They climbed, shot back, and held their footing.
00:33:51.200Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe.
00:34:05.200After two days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms.
00:34:10.200Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs, and before me are the men who put them there.
00:34:22.200These are the men who took the cliffs.
00:34:35.200These are the champions who helped free a continent, and these are the heroes who helped end a war.
00:34:42.200Gentlemen, I look at you, and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem.
00:34:49.200You are men who in your, quote, lives fought for life, and left the vivid air signed with your honor.
00:34:57.200Honored to be back in the war room with Stephen K. Bannon, and great honor to bring in one of our great friends, Patrick K. O'Donnell.
00:35:10.200And before we get there, Reagan's speech, just hugely inspirational, always lifting our souls up, lifting everything up to the heavens, to God, to America, to what made this country great in the first place.
00:35:25.200The men who made this country great in the first place, calling special attention, men who climbed the cliff, put their hooks in the cliff, seized the cliff, seized the land.
00:35:35.200And that's a metaphor for what Bannon et al. here at the war room are calling all of us to do.
00:35:42.200Seize this land, take this land back for God, country, family, restore it, make America great again in all of the highest senses of the word, and to seize this continent and to end all the wars that are going on right now in the world we currently live in.
00:35:57.200And no better person to give us a summary of World War II and the meaning of it for Americans than our special friend, Patrick K. O'Donnell, who's no stranger to this show.
00:36:26.360You know, many of the things that are going on today are inextricably linked to the past.
00:36:32.060You know, I'm just honored by the fact that many of those boys in Pointe-de-Hoc were my closest friends.
00:36:37.360And I started interviewing the boys of Pointe-de-Hoc and World War II Rangers and Special Operations Forces from World War II in 1992, and I've interviewed literally thousands of men that I've interviewed.
00:36:51.300Only one Ranger officer is still alive from D-Day that I know, close friend, General John Rahn.
00:36:58.400But it's those stories that are so powerful in that generation that did so much for us.
00:37:02.900And, you know, I think what's important to note is in 1941, in 1940, the United States did not possess a single special operations forces or even the concept of special operations.
00:37:16.960It would be in 1940 that Wild Bill Donovan, Colonel Donovan at the time, who was an ambassador to President Roosevelt, recognized the absolute need for special forces and special operations forces, which would have a crucial – would play an absolutely decisive and crucial role on D-Day, which I'll get to in a minute.
00:37:38.240But he writes a letter to President Roosevelt that is compelling and powerful.
00:37:42.100America needs guerrilla bands of bold and daring men organized to sew the dragon's teeth behind the lines, men calculatingly reckless with disciplined daring who are trained for aggressive action.
00:37:55.340It will mean a return to our old tradition of the scouts, raiders, and rangers.
00:38:00.620And that's part of the story that I tell in the book, The Unvanquished.
00:38:04.760They had no template in 1941 and 1940, so they had to look back at our first modern war, which is the American Civil War, and they look back at the Jesse Scouts, Mosby's Rangers, and the Confederate Secret Service for a template on how to put these men together.
00:38:25.320I mean, the bureaucracy of the Army doesn't want anything to do with special operations forces.
00:38:31.380They create something called the special activities section or branch, which then morphs into the special operations branch within the coordinator of information or OSS, which then changes.
00:38:43.480Even the president's son is with General Donovan or Colonel Donovan at the time, and he breaks off to be the executive officer of the 2nd Raider Battalion for the U.S. Marine Corps.
00:38:55.960And then the rangers are formed in 1942 under the direction of then-Colonel Lucian Truscott.
00:39:04.780And it's these rangers that will play a key role at D-Day.
00:39:09.800Let me take you and the audience back in time, Dave, to June 6th.
00:39:15.980Hey, Patrick, let me pull a bannon on you.
00:39:22.780Before you make that transition to D-Day, you just said there was no special operations back at this point in history.
00:39:31.340And just a quick question for you, Pat, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
00:39:34.920There's a book by Gannon, I think, called National Security and the Double Government, which contrasts the Trumanites, the three-letter agencies, with us naive people who believe in, you know, Madisonian government, the separation of powers.
00:39:50.140Now the debate is the three-letter agencies and special operations folks have taken over the government.
00:39:55.900Any short commentary there before you go on to D-Day?
00:40:01.660Well, I mean, the United States has had a very rich history of irregular warfare since the beginning of our country, even prior to it, in the 1600s.
00:40:21.280It's how we defeated the British in the Revolutionary War.
00:40:26.160You know, the question you have is a good one.
00:40:29.500I mean, unfortunately, some of this legacy does translate into, you know, what we have today, which is unfortunately an encroachment in some cases of the Constitution and what the founders envisioned.
00:40:44.220And, you know, I mean, it's the American Revolution in our founding, which is so important today.
00:40:52.160But it's also about the dispersion of power, which is incredibly important.
00:40:58.620But I would add that, you know, many operators today are very much, you know, follow the Constitution and are true patriots.
00:41:07.220You know, this this is a but on D-Day, this is a situation where America needed these brave men and they were they play a very, very critical role, Dave, because, you know, let's go back in time to June 6, 1944, where, you know, these men are disembarking from the motherships that they have that are out in the English Channel.
00:41:33.380Well, it's roughly 6 a.m. in the morning and the seas are stormy.
00:41:38.640They're climbing down these rope ladders.
00:41:42.640They've got to go about 30 feet down into the landing craft.
00:41:45.540If you slip and fall on these wet ropes, you could literally die by, you know, just breaking your neck.
00:41:51.640They get into the landing craft and they make their way towards they make their way towards Point de Hoc.
00:42:00.980And why it's important is this is a rocky peninsula that is basically between Omaha and Utah Beach in a top, you know, Point de Hoc are six big guns.
00:42:14.860At least they think they're there in the casements.
00:42:17.820And the Rangers are broken down into three task forces and things go wrong immediately at the beginning.
00:42:27.480The major force, which is Point Group A, Ranger Force A, which is under the command of Colonel Rudder, is is is suddenly is going in the wrong direction to a place called Point de la Poise,
00:42:42.400which is on the extreme on the extreme flank of Omaha Beach.
00:42:48.040And this is a very fortuitous mistake, because what happens is they're put off course and they're delayed by about 40 minutes at the time that the Rangers are supposed to hit the cliffs.
00:43:00.400A massive aerial bombardment from hundreds of bombers plaster Point de Hoc and they would have been they would as the Rangers were getting off in on the prescribed schedule,
00:43:12.620they would have been killed by the bombs of these bombers, our own men are by the of our own bombs.
00:43:18.180But they're delayed. And then they redirect because the rudder understands that they're they're going in the wrong direction.
00:43:25.160They go they get back on course and they're about 40 minutes behind schedule and they start to climb.
00:43:32.260They get off the landing craft and it's it's like, you know, saving Private Ryan.
00:43:37.260There's one scene where they jump off the craft and they literally go underwater under their heads.
00:43:42.660You know, the water goes over their helmets because the bombers had created massive shell holes in the front of the point.
00:43:51.280And they go underwater, many of these guys, and then they start to scale the cliff and they're peppered by MG 42 machine guns.
00:44:00.940These things can put out about twelve hundred to fifteen hundred rounds.
00:44:05.700Many of them are hit in the craft. It's it's a, you know, bloodbath.
00:44:10.020And they're being, you know, grenades are being thrown down upon them.
00:44:13.780And then the side of the cliff, the Germans have actually put IEDs or improvised explosive devices,
00:44:20.080which are shell that are one hundred fifty five millimeter rounds of artillery that are suspended that can be detonated remotely.
00:44:27.580And so they have to go through this entire gauntlet to get to the top.
00:44:32.440And my main character in the book I wrote, Dog Company, which captures this story, is Leonard Lamelle.
00:44:39.980He was one of my closest friends. And he is he is hit on the side by a machine gun bullet as he's climbing.
00:44:47.640And this guy just shrugs it off and keeps pushing.
00:44:51.440Many of his men in Dog Company aren't even able to make it to the cliff.
00:44:55.180One landing craft literally capsizes by an artillery shell that lands near it and they make their way to the top.
00:45:02.700And what they see on top of Point de Hoc, Dave, is a maze of bunkers and tunnels and trenches.
00:45:15.940They have a anti-aircraft gun that is firing, you know, 20 millimeter shells directly at these rangers.
00:45:22.300They're hit by machine gun fire, but they still press on and they get up to the top and the casements themselves are empty because they have a telephone poles that are their dummy guns that are put there because the Germans knew that the allies would plaster Point de Hoc with, you know, the greatest amount of ordnance.
00:45:44.560It would be, you know, thousands of bombers would hit the point.
00:45:47.860There was, you know, naval artillery that shelled it, but it would be one man or two men, really, that would take out D-Day's toughest objective.
00:45:58.740They get to the top and then they start to fight through this maze of bunkers.
00:46:04.180And Len LaMelle is leading with this small group of men, including Jack Kuhn, and they find a set of tire tracks, which they think may have been, you know, the guns themselves that had been moved.
00:46:17.100And they follow these tracks for about 500 or 600 yards, and they come upon the guns, which are in an apple orchard that are under nets.
00:46:26.700Patrick K. O'Donnell, let me hold you right there and we'll finish the rest of the story after 30 seconds to one minute break.
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00:48:20.500And with that, I'll turn you all back to Patrick K. O'Donnell, one of the foremost combat historians in our country, a great patriot, and someone who can teach us about how we can restore America by going back to what our heroes at World War II have taught us.
00:48:39.380And so with that, Patrick, take us back to your story.
00:48:44.700We left off with Len Lamell and Jack Kuhn, this small group of rangers following a set of tire tracks.
00:48:53.460And they make their way about 500 yards to an apple orchard, and they find five of the guns under a canopy of nets.
00:49:05.240Nearby is a group of artillerymen that are manning those guns, and they're at attention.
00:49:11.640But they're ready to go and ready to fire.
00:49:15.080And Lamell, you know, without orders of any kind, does – he accomplishes the emission of all of those bombers, thousands of bombers that try to plaster Moindach, the Navy bombardment.
00:49:30.080One man will change the course of history by disabling the guns.
00:49:35.360They have something called a thermite grenade, and this is a grenade that produces hot molten metal, you know, almost 2,000 degrees.
00:49:44.600And he places the grenades on the gears and working systems of the guns.
00:49:49.080And it doesn't make noise, but it melts the gears and renders them inoperable.
00:49:53.260And, you know, this is where I think the great story here is how personal agency, how a single person can change the outcome potentially of an entire evasion.
00:50:08.160I mean, this is the history of – the books that I've written are all about a small group of men or women that can change history by their actions or their agency.
00:50:23.100And he is – he's able to disable the guns.
00:50:26.340Another group of rangers take out the six-gun.
00:50:30.600But this is the beginning of their war on top of Pointe du Hoc.
00:50:37.380There are still hundreds of Germans in these bunkers and tunnels that they are, you know, desperately fighting the rangers to try to repel them from the cliff.
00:50:46.720And they also have to set up their secondary objective, which is to cut the coastal road atop Pointe du Hoc, which links Omaha and Utah Beach.
00:50:57.740This is crucial because if that road is accessible, the Germans can ferry reinforcements to either beach.
00:51:04.860So they set up in sort of an L-shaped set of foxholes atop Pointe du Hoc.
00:51:13.880And in true German fashion, Germans attack and counterattack.
00:51:18.480Hundreds of men are hitting Dog Company and the men of Lamell's platoon, what's left of it, as well as E and F companies, which are part of this assault force.
00:51:30.240There's something else that's really important about this operation that is absolutely crucial, and it has to do with a mistake because the 5th Ranger Battalion was to follow on along with A and B Company, the 2nd Ranger Battalion.
00:51:47.420Once the men in Lamell's group, these three companies, the assault force, the 225 that President Reagan talked about, captured the point.
00:51:57.520What happens, though, is as they scale the cliffs and secure the top, they send a radio message to the secondary force, the 5th Ranger Battalion.
00:52:12.300And what happens is instead of reinforcing Lamell and the other Rangers in the 225, they proceed to their secondary objective, which is Omaha Beach.
00:52:23.780And this is an amazing moment because at roughly 6.45 a.m., Omaha Beach is a charnel house.
00:52:34.640There's elements of a German division there that are dug in, and they are repelling the 1st Division, the 29th Division.
00:52:43.820And there's one company of rangers at Pointe de la Proce, but the invasion at Omaha Beach is going nowhere, and there's actually talk about taking the men off the beach and coming back to the boats.
00:52:59.100It's at this point in time that, you know, at the exact point in time in history and inflection point that the 5th Ranger Battalion and A&B Company are landing, and they will change the course of the war.
00:53:12.900The A&B Company, it's hit on Omaha Dog Green.
00:53:18.740This is the scene from Saving Private Ryan where it's a bloodbath.
00:53:23.120Ray Ulm, one of the men that I interviewed, a good friend from Chicago, said that the water was dark red because there were so many casualties and bodies floating around.
00:53:33.500It's at this point, Max Schneider, the commander of the 5th Ranger Battalion, orders the landing craft to go a little bit over to the left to Dog White Beach, and here they change the course of history.
00:53:45.680A ranger battalion is at exactly the right time and place to alter the invasion and Omaha Beach, and they lead the breakout.
00:53:55.520And this is an extraordinary, you know, an extraordinary moment in time.
00:54:14.620I'm going to hold you over the break after 11 as well.
00:54:17.840But I just want to give people some hope right now how their own individual actions in the military or otherwise can change history.
00:54:25.220What lessons have you gleaned from all of your writing, all your work?
00:54:29.480And if you want to throw in how the hand of God is also at work in these individuals, giving them hope and courage, light it up for us a little bit there.
00:54:38.300And then I'll take you through the break and we'll start up again.
00:55:41.420And this is a situation where it's quite extraordinary that, you know, they have to somehow cross a mile of river across the East River in some manner and forward way with the British fleet staring down upon them.