Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are running against each other in the Democratic primary battle for the 2020 Democratic nomination. What better way to defeat them than to attack them with clips from their past statements and statements that prove they veered far outside the mainstream?
00:00:28.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:33.000Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.000If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:43.000War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:47.000Hey, Peter K. Navarro sitting in for Stephen K. Bannon this August 16 day of our Lord in the year 2024.
00:01:00.000We are now officially about 80 days to the election and roughly one month to the start of early voting in some states like the Battleground of Pennsylvania,
00:01:12.000which begins early voting on September 16th.
00:01:16.000At least early voting starts after the first debate.
00:01:21.000If we lose this election, we will lose this country.
00:01:24.000I simply don't want to live in the America of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
00:01:29.000And Kamala Harris is twisted version of JFK's Camelot.
00:01:39.000It's Camelot of inflation, Camelot of bordered chaos, Camelot of crime and a whole lot of Camelot of woke.
00:01:50.000You see that Time magazine cover where America's latest political saint is canonized.
00:01:57.000The headline should have been Joan of woke rather than Kamala's moment.
00:02:04.000At any rate, you know what we have to do here.
00:02:08.000We have to take the airbrushed, sanitized fantasy of Kamala that has been created by a fawning corporate media into the reality of a Kamala Harris
00:02:20.000who provides a remarkably catastrophic combination of radical wokeness, supreme incompetence and unparalleled inexperience.
00:02:32.000It's our job here in the war room to break down the Maginot line that the likes of CNN and MSNBC and newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post have drawn in front of her.
00:02:45.000If you know your military history, the obvious way to defeat any Maginot line is to strike hard on the flanks.
00:02:52.000And this is what I have been proposing this week that we do.
00:02:57.000To refresh from Monday and Wednesday, I'm advocating that the best way to attack both Kamala Harris and her running mate, tampon Tim Walz.
00:04:28.000Banning of fracking in general and the defracking of Pennsylvania in particular.
00:04:34.000So step one in the Kamala takedown protocol is to simply play the clip.
00:04:42.000So let's see, Denver, do we have a fracking clip here?
00:04:46.000I'm committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all.
00:04:54.000There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking and starting with what we can do on day one around public lands.
00:05:03.000Right. And and then there has to be legislation.
00:05:06.000But yes. And this is something I've taken on in California.
00:05:08.000I have a history of working on this issue.
00:05:10.000OK, so so so you immediately get to a crossroads if if Kamala Harris somehow tries to walk away from banning fracking, then it becomes a character issue.
00:05:35.000She'll do anything to get elected character issue.
00:05:39.000She's consistent with her rise to power in California.
00:05:43.000And she brings all that Willie Brown stuff back into play.
00:05:46.000But if she sticks to, yeah, she's going to ban fracking, which would be the ethical and moral position if she's taken it.
00:05:55.000Then what you do in the Kamala takedown protocol is you next explain the actual harm banning fracking will do.
00:06:05.000And this is where it gets both interesting and interestingly complex.
00:06:10.000And what I want to do is I want to introduce a concept here of first order effects, second order and third order effects.
00:06:17.000It's kind of when you do economics and look at how things ripple through an economy.
00:06:25.000It's like the immediate and then the knock on effects that you do.
00:06:30.000So the first order effect here when Kamala Harris says she wants to ban fracking in the state of Pennsylvania is the obvious casualties in Pennsylvania.
00:06:42.000The Kamala is the fracking policy is the folks who make their living in the fracking industry.
00:06:49.000And that's not just the roughnecks at the front lines of the drilling, but it's also those who transport the oil and gas that may come out of the fracking site.
00:07:35.000So families, not just in Pennsylvania, but across America, wind up paying more to heat their homes, fill up their cars with gas and even cook their hot dogs and hamburgers on propane stoves.
00:08:08.000These are the broader geopolitical dangers that arise when the U.S. loses its energy independence and winds up once again being a supplicant to an OPEC oil cartel,
00:08:23.000which is now controlled not just by a predatory Saudi Arabia as it used to be, but also controlled by a hostile Imperial Russia, which, as it turns out, is the world's third largest petroleum producer behind Saudi Arabia and the United States.
00:08:45.000So once you make those economic and national security arguments, the first, second and third order effects, step three in the takedown Kamala protocol is to simply highlight the difference between Kamala Harris's blunt force ban on fracking.
00:09:11.000And the policies of Donald Trump during the four years of his administration in which oil prices were more than 40 percent below those in the Biden years.
00:09:26.500In those years of Trump, frack petroleum was plentiful, and the United States did indeed enjoy strategic energy, dominant strategic energy independence.
00:09:40.500In Trump's America, the U.S. will, with Trump as 47th president, build more pipelines, including the Keystone pipeline, and lift Kamala Harris's ban on drilling on public lands.
00:09:58.700And, by the way, the bottom of the hour, we're going to have an amazing guest on.
00:10:05.220He's the former Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, and he was the guy who was in charge of managing the leasing of public lands to make sure we had plenty of oil.
00:10:18.740So, with just these changes, Trump comes in, and he goes back to the old policies, which worked well.
00:10:30.300Trump will strike a big blow against inflation, even as he's able to build back his geopolitical wall against the likes of Saudi Arabia and Russia.
00:10:44.660In fact, Saudi Arabia never would have abandoned the U.S. dollar, as it has done during the Biden years, if Donald Trump had been president.
00:11:00.540Saudi Arabia's realignment with the likes of Russia and Communist China has literally been the result of an abusive Joe Biden, with respect to Saudi,
00:11:14.660and an arrogant and clueless Harris pushing Saudi Arabia into the arms Russia, Communist China, and all those folks out there who hate us.
00:11:26.780Okay, so that's the first pass of the Kamala takedown protocol.
00:11:33.840It's pretty straightforward and simple.
00:11:36.640You show Kamala saying something radical and or stupid, ban fracking.
00:11:41.340You show who gets screwed by her stupidity and wokeness.
00:11:45.980And then you show how smart policy from Donald Trump will make it all right.
00:11:54.000And look, there's no personal meanness in any of that.
00:11:58.540It's simply fair game to show how Kamala Harris, with her lack of understanding of even the most basic of economics, is simply not good for America.
00:12:15.680Now, let's take a variation on the Kamala takedown protocol with a little bit more complexity.
00:12:28.120In this iteration, we're not just going to show Kamala's woke, radical agenda in her own words, rather than simply talk about it.
00:12:37.740We're actually then going to show some of the victims of Kamala Harris' policy agenda, and one riddled by radicalness and punctuated by her own inexperience and incompetence.
00:12:55.720Remember here, with her law degree from a mediocre law school at that, I'm a bit of a snob on these matters,
00:13:03.800but it matters where you go to school a lot because it's a signal of your underlying competence.
00:13:11.960You have to remember here, mediocre law school, all she's ever done in her life is to be a prosecutor.
00:13:20.240And in the White House, she's demonstrated absolutely no interest in learning about anything, whether it be economics, foreign policy, or building combat readiness at the Pentagon.
00:13:31.100In fact, I think she spent most of her time plotting the overthrow of Joe Biden.
00:13:38.700And at least, you know, Machiavelli 101, there's no wonder Biden's wife hated Kamala Harris because Kamala did stick the knife in.
00:13:50.000My side point here is that Kamala Harris is easy to attack, not just on a radical agenda, on issues like energy and the border and all things woke.
00:13:59.360She is even easier to attack, invoking the twin dimensions of incompetence and experience on policy issues that touch on even the most basic economics and the most simple of foreign policy goals.
00:14:14.660When we come back, we're going to continue this.
00:14:18.080What I'm doing now with the Kamala takedown protocol is show you the second, more complex version of how to go about using her own words, her own words, and then the words of her victims.
00:14:33.960That's where it gets a little more complex to illustrate why you're better off in Trump's America than Kamala Harris's America.
00:17:30.820Let's get back to where we were in the takedown of Kamala Harris with policy, the Kamala takedown protocol.
00:17:38.540As I was saying, she's easy to attack, not just on a radical agenda on issues like energy and the border and all things woke.
00:17:46.640She's even easier to attack, invoking the twin dimensions of incompetence and inexperience on policy issues that touch on even the most basic economics and the most simple of foreign policy goals.
00:17:59.580In fact, I'd match my own record in the White House as an assistant to President Trump, moving policy actions through the deep state pipeline to create jobs and, during the pandemic, save lives to anything Harris has managed to achieve as vice president.
00:18:15.140In this, J.D. Vance was right to say Kamala Harris hasn't done a damn thing.
00:18:21.200But it's also important to point out that there are some very damnable things Harris has done that likewise reflect both on her radical nature and incompetence.
00:18:31.580I'm referring, of course, to the two tie-breaking, damnable votes on the two budget-busting bills that have been acting like gasoline on an inflationary fire, with one of those bills ironically called the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:18:46.920As John McEnroe might say, you can't be serious.
00:18:53.480The more complex version of the takedown of Kamala Harris that I'm offering, feel free to use this, Jesse Waters, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, or anybody else in the conservative media.
00:19:04.540You first use Kamala Harris' own words to show her radical mess, incompetence, or inexperience.
00:19:10.380And you show another video clip or montage that features real victims harmed by Harris.
00:19:17.600So let's test our producers there, folks in Denver.
00:19:22.560Let's try this one now in the realm of economics.
00:19:25.660I'm going to start with a clip montage of Harris in support of Bidenomics, claiming that inflation has been solved.
00:19:32.260Then we're going to use a now widely clever clip of an African-American mother to sit down for him in Philly, talking about how inflation is battering her family.
00:19:45.240I'm pretty much not going to have to say anything after this thing.
00:19:48.420You'll get the picture of the Kamala takedown protocol.
00:35:18.340So while we're waiting for David Bernhardt, the issue here is how much drilling you can do safely.
00:35:34.360And when Donald Trump reduced, dramatically reduced regulations in Denver, let me know as soon as you get David Bernhardt back, dramatically reduced regulations.
00:35:47.160But it was never at the expense of environmental protection or efficiency.
00:35:54.060It was simply we went in there and it's like there was just so many layers of regulation that slowed things down but really didn't offer any incremental protection.
00:36:05.520And the statistic that jumps out at you from David Bernhardt is that the Department of Interior accounts manages one out of five acres, one out of five acres in the entire United States.
00:36:21.540It's like if you live in cities, you think everywhere is as crowded as cities, but it doesn't take long, and that's why they call it flyover country.
00:36:35.080When you get up in a plane and you start flying, there's like these vast expanses of land, and a lot of that is managed by the federal government for stewardship.
00:36:47.420Okay, so let's bring David back in, sorry for the technical delay, but David, come on back here, resume where you left off if you can possibly do that.
00:37:02.800Well, here's the bottom line, just to cut to the chase.
00:37:05.320The federal government controls a large amount of land that is available and accessible for energy development.
00:37:15.000And essentially, the Biden administration's policy and the Harris's policy is essentially as little involvement and utilization of those lands as possible.
00:37:31.060Trump took a very different approach, and they have systematically, over the last three years, tried to undo virtually everything President Trump did.
00:37:47.340And now, you know, as they move into campaign season, they're committed, you know, they're trying to modulate their thinking.
00:38:17.120If you look at Harris, what you see is she even actually sued the Obama administration because she thought their energy policies were too aggressive as an attorney general.
00:38:33.440She pushed back on every initiative that President Trump initiated when she was in the Senate.
00:38:42.380She signed, as a co-sponsor, the Green New Deal.
00:38:47.020And she said under no uncertain terms, she would ban fracking.
00:38:53.900And the truth of the matter is the innovation associated with fracking on first state and private lands and then federal lands is what drove the energy revolution that we saw from the mid-2000s until today.
00:39:12.540And it's what drove tremendous economic growth.
00:39:17.200Now, for the next 82 days, she'll probably say, hey, I'm much more moderate on these issues.
00:39:26.260Both Xi and President Trump have specific track records, have specific visions, and have specific outcomes.
00:39:33.540And the contrast simply could not be greater in terms of, one, delivering higher energy and gasoline prices for the American people, and another, actually delivering savings, substantial savings, over his tenure.
00:39:52.340And I think that's what we ought to be focused on.
00:39:56.700You said something that's really important about fracking, that it was an innovation.
00:40:03.220People, particularly younger folks, don't understand that fracking didn't exist.
00:40:08.140And just as a little personal history, I actually got my start back at Harvard on the policy issue when, after the oil embargo in the 70s, we were basically exposed to threats from Saudi Arabia, the OPEC cartel.
00:40:28.160And the first job I was ever given as a doctoral student was to figure out how to reduce our oil import dependence and thereby reduce our social security threat.
00:40:45.240Never, ever did I ever dream at that point in time that we would be able to be strategically energy dominant.
00:40:53.880It was like, that would have been a fantasy if I had said that.
00:40:57.380If I got up and say, yeah, we could do that, I would have been laughed out of Harvard.
00:41:03.160They probably would never have given me a friggin' degree.
00:41:07.500And so the fracking thing is a really big deal.
00:41:11.920I want to come to that in the next segment we're going to do, but I want to finish up and turn the floor back to you for the next 60 to 90 seconds.
00:41:20.260How much oil comes from federal leasing in terms of the whole for the United States?
00:41:27.640How important is federal leasing, sir?
00:41:30.000Well, federal leasing represents, depending on the time, over 20 to 24 percent of the oil produced in the United States.
00:41:41.160And that's a very big, very big number.
00:41:44.800And then when you take and recognize that, you know, under Trump's vision, there'd be additional leasing, which means that that percentage would go up over time, that's a very important component.
00:41:56.880And it's a critical component when you look at the development of our national security, our economic opportunity.
00:42:07.020And it also allows communities to thrive that may not have other resources.
00:42:15.400And I think that that's something to really be cognizant of.
00:42:19.880There are communities throughout the West that depend on the development, the responsible development of natural resources for their hopes, their futures, and their dreams.
00:42:31.800And having the ability to move forward with projects is very important to those communities and those people.
00:42:39.040And we can't forget that as we think about these lands.
00:42:42.380All right, sir, when we come back, we are going to delve into the world of fracking in a little bit more detail.
00:42:51.040I'm with former Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt.
00:42:55.080He's one of the co-authors of The New MAGA Deal at newmagadeal.com.
00:42:59.800I'm Peter Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon.
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00:46:02.040The bulk of fracking is done in the state of Pennsylvania.
00:46:08.920When Kamala Harris banned fracking, it's a direct attack on the state of Pennsylvania.
00:46:14.760It's not surprising that she wants to back away from that, given that Pennsylvania may well determine the outcome of the election.
00:46:22.240But fracking is critical to the economic and national security of this country.
00:46:30.240Secretary Bernhardt, tell us what fracking is, and am I right or wrong?
00:46:34.740Well, first off, you're absolutely right from a political perspective.
00:46:39.980Pennsylvania is key for energy development, and it happens to be key for the presidential election.
00:46:47.080The truth of the matter is the innovation of fracking unleashed energy resources in Texas, in the Permian, in New Mexico, and then obviously throughout Appalachia and even in areas like North Dakota.
00:47:04.440But from a political reality, Pennsylvania, given its importance politically, is absolutely central, in my opinion, to her newfound thinking.
00:47:15.400But essentially what fracking does is allow for an opportunity for resource extraction to be done at a higher, a greater utilization by creating fissures in the underground resource that allow for greater extraction of natural gas or oil.
00:47:40.040And as a consequence to that, we have seen a dramatic increase in our ability to develop these critical natural resources.
00:47:52.600And that is what led to the energy revolution that we've seen.
00:48:02.040And as a consequence to that, there's a longstanding effort by the environmental community to move to concepts called basically keep it in the ground to prevent fossil fuel development.
00:48:15.500And she is from a line of thinking, her entire political history is aligned with this notion that the critical resources we have should not be utilized for the greater good of our country.
00:48:33.500I mean, that's been her position throughout her political career.
00:48:38.740And so recently she's claimed that she's seen the light and she no longer supports a ban, according to her campaign staff.
00:48:50.280Now, but what that doesn't tell you is what is she actually for?
00:48:54.960You know, in the earlier segment, Peter, you mentioned your experience at Harvard and the thought that there might be an innovation for, you know,
00:49:07.860greater national security through the invention of fracking.
00:49:15.840Well, I actually was in the White House in the Bush administration, and I can tell you,
00:49:20.260at one point, the gasoline hit $4 a gallon.
00:49:25.560And everybody was looking around saying, what are we going to do?
00:49:28.380And at that time, Alan Greenspan's view of the future of energy was wall-to-wall LNG import facilities on both coasts.
00:49:39.960And that was the future of our energy in theory.
00:49:44.500But at that time, at that moment in time, innovators were developing, entrepreneurs were developing this new technology that would dramatically change our energy policy picture.
00:50:00.860And what President Trump did is took that innovation and began to apply it on federal lands to blossom our energy portfolio.
00:50:10.740And what Biden and Harris have done is taken that future, and they're trying to constrict it, constrain it, limit it.
00:51:04.860You can't advance in the state of California unless you're adamantly opposed to things like fracking and even just basic standard traditional oil development.
00:51:28.800In terms of the Keystone Pipeline, and I think we're going to have to carry this over just to the start of the next hour,
00:51:37.640but I want to get your quick take on what the Keystone Pipeline means and why we have this repeated battle.
00:51:45.440And one of the first things I did in the White House, David, literally, was help write an executive order to get the Keystone Pipeline not only going,
00:51:54.680but to be built with U.S.-produced iron and steel, right?
00:52:01.540That was one of the coolest things we did in the first week when we were in office.
00:52:06.360So when we come back, let's spend a few minutes on that, and then we'll let you go fight the battle out there.
00:52:14.840But David Bernhardt, co-author of The New Maga Deal, newmagadeal.com.
00:52:20.320I'm Peter K. Navarro in the War Room for Stephen K. Bannon.
00:52:24.580We'll be right back, the top of the hour, to talk a little bit about the Keystone Pipeline and Kamala's crashing of it.
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