Bannon's War Room - January 10, 2025


Episode 4185： Knowing What The Real Objective Is


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

173.57079

Word Count

9,584

Sentence Count

952

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

Stephen K. Banno and Captain Steve Kambain discuss the latest in the confirmation process for the Supreme Court, and why Pete Hegseth is the best choice to replace Brett Kavanaugh as Justice. Also, Steve talks about the latest on the Russia scandal, and what it means for the future of the country.


Transcript

00:00:01.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:06.000 Pray for our enemies,
00:00:08.000 because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:11.000 You're just not going to get a free shot
00:00:12.000 at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:15.000 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:17.000 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:19.000 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:21.000 but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
00:00:23.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:26.000 MAGA Media.
00:00:28.000 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:33.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:43.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:53.000 It's Friday, 10 January, Year of the Lord, 2025.
00:00:57.000 10 days from now, we'll be into the ceremony.
00:01:05.000 President Trump will take the oath of office, high noon.
00:01:08.000 It's a change of command.
00:01:10.000 And trust me, we're going to fire off the football.
00:01:12.000 A lot going on.
00:01:14.000 We'll develop more of this over the weekend, afternoon show today.
00:01:18.000 I'll be back five to seven, then tomorrow, and then all week.
00:01:21.000 A lot of stuff going on next week.
00:01:23.000 We're going to try to get the World Posse engaged in some of it.
00:01:26.000 So we'll be making big announcements, myself and Captain Bannon,
00:01:29.000 who Captain Bannon is kind of running this deal.
00:01:31.000 So we'll have her engage with you people.
00:01:34.000 One thing we have to do, and I want to remind you, we got to man the ramparts today.
00:01:41.000 Why?
00:01:42.000 These confirmations are very important.
00:01:44.000 Now, the pressure you put on already has pulled up.
00:01:47.000 I think Hegseth, and I think particularly Pam Bondi, has pulled up.
00:01:51.000 I think Cash is going to get pulled up.
00:01:53.000 Maybe Tulsi Gabbard, I think if she's ready or not.
00:01:56.000 Heard some of the briefings may not have gone perfectly well, but the other ones are on fire.
00:02:00.000 I want to put it in perspective here.
00:02:03.000 I don't know.
00:02:04.000 It was three weeks ago, four weeks ago.
00:02:06.000 Remember, it was a Thursday, and Pete Hegseth was an hour away from being replaced by Ron DeSantis.
00:02:15.000 And we just said, no, it's not going to happen.
00:02:18.000 And we went live on the five o'clock show.
00:02:21.000 Once again, we went fixed band nets.
00:02:23.000 I said, Pete Hegseth is our guy.
00:02:24.000 I said, but it was bad enough.
00:02:26.000 And this audience and this show did not agree with the Matt Gaetz situation, letting Gaetz go.
00:02:32.000 Worst case, we said Gaetz would draw all the fire, right?
00:02:35.000 Best case, Gaetz would be there.
00:02:37.000 And I'm telling you, if we had hung with Gaetz, if people had hung with Gaetz, Gaetz would be on a path to be Attorney General of the United States.
00:02:47.000 Pete Hegseth, they want to take him.
00:02:48.000 I said, hey, you know, Pete Hegseth is great.
00:02:51.000 He's perfect to be sec deaf.
00:02:52.000 I've known Pete for a long time.
00:02:53.000 He's a warrior.
00:02:54.000 I think you need a junior officer in the now.
00:02:57.000 We've tried a couple of generals and that has not worked out.
00:03:00.000 Pete's the exact type of warrior that can inspire the guys that are actually kicking down the doors and actually at the tip of the spear in these wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
00:03:10.000 Understand modern combat.
00:03:11.000 They understand one thing is how to motivate people and get warriors back and clean out this crap and nonsense that's been happening over the Pentagon.
00:03:19.000 You want to see the results of that?
00:03:21.000 Look at Pacific Palisades.
00:03:22.000 You want to see woke?
00:03:24.000 You want to see incompetence?
00:03:25.000 You want to see hardcore left-wing politics?
00:03:28.000 Just look at Pacific Palisades.
00:03:30.000 It looks like Kyoto in March of 1945.
00:03:33.000 It looks like Tokyo after a firebombing.
00:03:35.000 That's how bad it looks.
00:03:37.000 Pete Hegseth is the guy to do that.
00:03:39.000 That's the guy to do that.
00:03:40.000 But remember, there were people around prepared to abandon Pete Hegseth.
00:03:44.000 This is just like I want to go back in time to Kavanaugh and Mike Davis.
00:03:49.000 I was in Rome at the time and got pulled on a call.
00:03:52.000 There were, you know, the Republicans always want to surrender.
00:03:57.000 That right now, with Trump and this thing to say, you got to move on.
00:04:00.000 You got to move on.
00:04:01.000 No, we ain't moving on.
00:04:02.000 And Coney Barrett, you should be ashamed of yourself.
00:04:05.000 And if you had any class, any principle, you would tender your resignation to President Trump on the afternoon of the 20th of January.
00:04:12.000 That's what you would do.
00:04:13.000 And let him fill that seat with a real Supreme Court justice.
00:04:19.000 We're not going to move on.
00:04:21.000 You don't win by moving.
00:04:23.000 Remember, when they back down, we double down.
00:04:26.000 Right?
00:04:27.000 When they retreat, we advance.
00:04:29.000 When they surrender, we fight on harder.
00:04:32.000 It's the only way you get any progress in this.
00:04:35.000 None of this is going to stop until you make it stop.
00:04:38.000 If you don't make it stop, you can't wish it away.
00:04:41.000 This is what's called controlled opposition in this type of politics.
00:04:45.000 This is what the Republican Party, this is what Fox News, this is what they've been for decades and decades and decades.
00:04:51.000 To always surrender, to go along, to get along.
00:04:54.000 And yesterday, yesterday, you had Bush sit there to try to embarrass and humiliate President Trump by acknowledging his presence.
00:05:06.000 Acknowledging his presence.
00:05:09.000 That's the dividing line right there.
00:05:11.000 It's not Obama.
00:05:12.000 And by the way, all the influence sitting there saying that Obama and Trump are broing out and laughing.
00:05:16.000 No, no, no.
00:05:17.000 That came later when President Trump engaged Obama.
00:05:20.000 Look at Obama when he first walked in.
00:05:22.000 He big leagued President Trump.
00:05:24.000 So don't tell me.
00:05:25.000 Don't say, oh, they're broing out.
00:05:26.000 That's because President Trump went out of his way to engage Obama.
00:05:30.000 And anybody sat there and took the later clip, said, oh, yeah, they're like, they're like bros.
00:05:35.000 Look at this.
00:05:36.000 They're hanging out.
00:05:37.000 No, no, no, no, no.
00:05:38.000 Inappropriate.
00:05:39.000 He big leagued him.
00:05:40.000 Didn't acknowledge his presence.
00:05:42.000 Judas Pence barely acknowledged his presence.
00:05:46.000 Bush went out of his way to try to humiliate the President of the United States.
00:05:51.000 That's the fight we got.
00:05:54.000 These nominations of President Trump seem, hey, remember a couple weeks ago.
00:05:58.000 They got Gates and the Hegsethers on the ropes.
00:06:01.000 Tulsi Gabbard's on the ropes.
00:06:02.000 Bobby Kennedy's on the ropes.
00:06:04.000 Cash Patel's on the ropes.
00:06:05.000 They ain't on the ropes now.
00:06:08.000 All they're leaking.
00:06:09.000 They're leaking.
00:06:10.000 All the Republicans are going to vote for them.
00:06:11.000 They're making progress.
00:06:12.000 Now we got to do it quicker.
00:06:13.000 Why is that?
00:06:14.000 Because of this audience.
00:06:15.000 You wouldn't back down and you put these guys on notice.
00:06:18.000 It's the only way you got to do it.
00:06:20.000 You can't play nice.
00:06:21.000 You have to get on the phone with them.
00:06:23.000 Send the email.
00:06:24.000 Send the text message.
00:06:25.000 Hey, look.
00:06:26.000 President Trump wants Cash Patel.
00:06:27.000 He's going to get Cash Patel.
00:06:28.000 President Trump wants Tulsi Gabbard.
00:06:30.000 He's going to get Tulsi Gabbard.
00:06:31.000 President Trump wants Kristi Noem.
00:06:32.000 He's going to get Kristi Noem.
00:06:34.000 And President Trump wants Pete Hegseth.
00:06:35.000 He's going to get Pete Hegseth.
00:06:37.000 You know why he's going to get Pete Hegseth?
00:06:38.000 Because the country needs a warrior like Pete Hegseth in the Department of Defense right now.
00:06:45.000 And President Trump will put around, you know, Pete has not managed an organization of that complexity.
00:06:55.000 But tell me who has.
00:06:57.000 Did Leon Panetta?
00:06:58.000 When they had these congressmen that came into Secretary of Defense and didn't hear any,
00:07:03.000 had those guys any managed anything?
00:07:05.000 Leon Panetta?
00:07:06.000 What did Leon Panetta ever manage?
00:07:09.000 Right?
00:07:10.000 No.
00:07:11.000 Pete Hegseth is going to get a team around him.
00:07:13.000 And he'll do just fine.
00:07:14.000 He'll be a great Secretary of Defense.
00:07:17.000 Lieutenant Commander Kaj Larson joins us now.
00:07:20.000 Who knows Pete Hegseth?
00:07:21.000 Well, he's a Navy SEAL from SEAL Team 1 in the University of California at Santa Cruz.
00:07:26.000 You know, Commander, I've got to ask you right at the bat.
00:07:29.000 When I think of recruiting grounds outside the Naval Academy that are recruiting grounds for Navy SEALs,
00:07:35.000 Santa Cruz does not hit, does not hit.
00:07:38.000 I thought that was a surfer, kind of a Grateful Dead hangout, a surfer hangout.
00:07:43.000 It's a little chill.
00:07:44.000 It's probably the most chill of all the UC campuses, correct?
00:07:48.000 How does a guy go from University of California at Santa Cruz wearing a tie-dye Grateful Dead t-shirt
00:07:54.000 to be a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy SEALs, sir?
00:07:58.000 Well, you nailed it, Steve.
00:08:00.000 I'm a study in contrast, right?
00:08:02.000 I actually grew up in Santa Cruz.
00:08:03.000 It's my hometown.
00:08:04.000 And in Santa Cruz they actually have an incredible tradition of being a great waterman,
00:08:10.000 which is a great precursor for being a Navy SEAL.
00:08:13.000 So I spent my youth playing water polo, surfing big waves,
00:08:17.000 and that turned out to be a great testing ground to go into the SEAL teams and serve my country.
00:08:23.000 Yeah, a frog band.
00:08:26.000 We forget at the beginning you guys were the underwater demolition of the frog band.
00:08:30.000 That's the tradition the SEALs come from.
00:08:32.000 Pete Hegseth.
00:08:34.000 This show, myself personally, I've known Pete for over a decade,
00:08:38.000 and so I've had no Pete.
00:08:40.000 I've waited measuring him for a long time.
00:08:42.000 He's a great guy, good man, and a great warrior.
00:08:45.000 This audience is 1,000 percent back of Pete Hegseth,
00:08:48.000 and we were the guys that said, hey, when this thing started,
00:08:50.000 Pete Hegseth was going to step down, Ron DeSantis said, no way.
00:08:52.000 Pete Hegseth's the guy.
00:08:54.000 Trump wants him.
00:08:55.000 He's got to have him.
00:08:56.000 Tell us about your relationship with Pete Hegseth,
00:08:58.000 because you've kind of taken the lead on making sure there's a number of,
00:09:01.000 I would say, younger warriors, right?
00:09:05.000 Not the field-grade generals, but younger warriors going to have Pete's back.
00:09:09.000 Tell us about Pete Hegseth.
00:09:11.000 Yeah, Steve, I really think you nailed it at the top of this segment.
00:09:15.000 This is about creating a culture of warriorship, and this really is about those of us who have been warfighting over the last 20 years and making sure that the focus and the emphasis of our military culture is on the warfighter and being the most lethal military we can be.
00:09:33.000 Everything else is a distraction, and Pete understands that at his core.
00:09:37.000 So what we've done in the special operations community, a series of us veterans who know Pete, have gone together.
00:09:44.000 You have almost an unprecedented event, a hundred Navy SEALs gathering in Washington on the 14th to support Pete during his nomination hearing.
00:09:54.000 And the reason we're doing that, I know Pete through service to the veteran community, through media, and through an annual philanthropic swim that we do, swimming around the Statue of Liberty to honor those who have served every year.
00:10:10.000 And what I've learned over the years of getting to know Pete is that his first principle is on warfighting.
00:10:19.000 And those of us who fought the wars of the last two decades really believe that we need to course correct and return to a culture that's focused purely on warfighting.
00:10:29.000 We concur with you that Pete is the right man for the job, and we're grateful to your audience for stepping up.
00:10:37.000 You know, we started to gather traditionally as a community, we don't actually engage in this kind of activity.
00:10:44.000 We focus on the mission.
00:10:47.000 But like you and like your audience, when we started to see all of the ad hominem attacks that were coming towards Pete, we felt that we had to rally and organize this community and embark on this mission to support him.
00:10:58.000 So next Tuesday, the 14th, hundreds of veterans who have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be meeting at the Vietnam Memorial carrying American flags just because we're those who have worn the cloth of the country and will be there to support Pete.
00:11:15.000 Someone who, as you say, understands what it's like to be boots on the ground during combat.
00:11:22.000 Commander, how did we get so far off that?
00:11:29.000 You know, I was in the Navy from, what, 76 to 83, right after Vietnam.
00:11:36.000 And we took, I was the first wave of kind of the all-volunteer force, right?
00:11:40.000 And it was pretty jagged there for a couple of years, right?
00:11:43.000 People had had the opportunity.
00:11:44.000 I was on a Navy destroyer, but a lot of my guys had the opportunity to jail or the service.
00:11:49.000 And these, they were the salt of the earth.
00:11:51.000 They were the greatest guys and pulled together because they never really had a break or, you know, the system was just stacked against them.
00:11:57.000 But once you put them to work, they were magnificent.
00:12:00.000 But back then, we didn't have the problems, I mean, particularly after fighting these wars.
00:12:05.000 How did, after the valor and the sacrifice and just a good old grit and able to take on an enemy in these kind of ill-defined wars, how did the overall apparatus get so woke?
00:12:19.000 This is what's always befollowed me, sir.
00:12:22.000 Well, Steve, I think you know that sometimes when you're serving in a peacetime military, you lose focus on your North Star and you lose focus on what the mission actually is.
00:12:34.000 And the mission is war fighting.
00:12:36.000 And that has to be the first principle of everything that you do.
00:12:41.000 And sometimes when we are privileged enough to have this peace dividend, people start to focus on other things that are not mission related.
00:12:49.000 And as you know, culture flows from the top.
00:12:52.000 And over the last several years, we've had a culture where we're downscaling from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:13:01.000 We have civilian control of the military, which is always a positive thing.
00:13:05.000 But the priorities were not necessarily focused on war fighting.
00:13:09.000 And whenever we have these peace dividends, we forget what actually matters.
00:13:13.000 And we focus on stuff that's extraneous and irrelevant, you know, haircuts and uniform standards and DEI and all of all of this stuff that's not relevant to what our actual mission is, which is defending the United States and being the most lethal fighting force in the world.
00:13:32.000 So you see this kind of mission creep.
00:13:35.000 And I think it speaks a little bit to something you were talking about at the top of the segment.
00:13:40.000 And part of the reason why Pete is actually going to be an outstanding sec deaf.
00:13:45.000 Traditionally, we've had secretaries of defense that have come up through the system.
00:13:51.000 You know, they're four star generals, their flag officers, and those folks have a role in the Pentagon because they understand how the system works.
00:14:01.000 But this time requires someone who can be disruptive to the system.
00:14:07.000 And I think you talk to any body who's been on the front lines.
00:14:11.000 We are at what we call in the national security world a revolution in military affairs.
00:14:18.000 War fighting is fundamentally changing.
00:14:20.000 And we actually need outside agitators who are not who haven't spent 30 years taking orders or being complicit in the current system.
00:14:29.000 And Pete is that guy.
00:14:31.000 We need an outsider who can help.
00:14:33.000 He's a guy.
00:14:34.000 Yeah.
00:14:35.000 Commander, hang on for one second.
00:14:37.000 I'm going to hold you through a break.
00:14:39.000 Commander Kaj Larson, a colleague from SEAL Team 1, a colleague of Pete Hexas.
00:14:48.000 We're going to pick this up after a short commercial break.
00:14:52.000 Jim Rickards and Ben Harnwell from Rome.
00:14:54.000 Jim Rickards is going to join us to talk about Ukraine and Greenland next in the world.
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00:16:13.000 Stephen K.
00:16:14.000 Back.
00:16:15.000 So, Commander Larson, can you walk us through the logistics on the—and by the way, this audience, putting your shoulder to the wheel already, got this confirmation hearing moved up.
00:16:29.000 Because we're not waiting.
00:16:30.000 They were trying to drag these things to after President Trump to the committee.
00:16:33.000 So it's not acceptable.
00:16:34.000 They got to get these next week.
00:16:36.000 The committee's got to vote to meet at the end of the week, get them right to the floor.
00:16:40.000 They got to join President Trump immediately after he takes the oath of office.
00:16:44.000 We need Hegseth.
00:16:45.000 We need Pam Bondi.
00:16:46.000 We need Kash Patel.
00:16:47.000 We need Ratcliffe.
00:16:49.000 Tulsi Gabbard, that may take a day or two.
00:16:52.000 It may take a little bit longer.
00:16:53.000 But the other's got to be standing tall, blank swinging on Monday the 20th.
00:17:01.000 So, Commander, walk us through the 14th.
00:17:03.000 What's the order of battle here?
00:17:06.000 And how can this audience participate, either online now, over the weekend, or on Tuesday itself?
00:17:13.000 Yeah.
00:17:14.000 Well, first off, I just want to say how grateful I am to this audience for supporting Pete.
00:17:20.000 We, in the Special Operations community, the ones who are organizing around Pete, are absolutely grateful and recognize the contribution of helping get Pete's nomination back on track after all of these ad hominem attacks started to come out.
00:17:36.000 On Tuesday, the 14th, for Pete's confirmation hearing, any veteran, any supporter can meet at the Vietnam Memorial at 9 a.m.
00:17:48.000 We'll be carrying American flags.
00:17:49.000 Anyone who's worn the cloth of the country is welcome.
00:17:52.000 Anyone who supports Pete is welcome.
00:17:54.000 These are absolutely peaceful demonstrations.
00:17:59.000 We don't wear masks.
00:18:01.000 We're SEALs.
00:18:02.000 We're proud of who we are.
00:18:03.000 And we're proud of our support of Pete.
00:18:05.000 These are peaceful.
00:18:06.000 This is a peaceful gathering in honor of Pete and to support what an excellent Secretary of Defense we think he will be at a time of incredible change and volatility, not just around the world, but within the U.S. military.
00:18:21.000 There's emerging threats, both technological and the information battle space, and we think Pete's the right man to lead that mission.
00:18:29.000 So we invite you to join us at 9 a.m. on the 14th meeting at the Vietnam Memorial, which we think is appropriate.
00:18:40.000 Okay.
00:18:41.000 We'll talk to our review.
00:18:42.000 We'll have the morning show, but we're going to open War Room down there at 10 with you guys, and we're going to follow live Pete's hearing throughout the day.
00:18:50.000 Commander, what's your social media handles, and then what website do people can go to to get more information and make sure we get organized?
00:18:58.000 Yeah.
00:18:59.000 So I am at Kaj Larson on all of the socials, and that's K-A-J-L-A-R-S-E-N, just like you have up on the screen.
00:19:09.000 We also have a website that's run by – there are two fellow SEALs who are organizing, three fellow SEALs who are organizing with me.
00:19:18.000 That's William Brown, who organizes the Navy SEAL swim, which Pete participates in every year.
00:19:24.000 He's a true warrior dragging himself around the Statue of Liberty with a bunch of SEALs.
00:19:29.000 There's Jason Redman, another frogman colleague of mine who's helping organize.
00:19:34.000 And then Rob Sweetman, who runs sleepgenie.us, and he's put all of the information for our gathering on his website there.
00:19:46.000 So I'll be posting about it on my socials at Kaj Larson.
00:19:51.000 That's a great place to get information.
00:19:54.000 Or on the sleepgenie.us, we'll also have some of the organizational information.
00:20:01.000 Okay.
00:20:02.000 If Mo and Grace can get that in the live chats, we'll make sure that we get big participation.
00:20:06.000 And we'll see you on Tuesday, sir.
00:20:08.000 Thank you for doing this.
00:20:09.000 We'll be humping over the weekend, brother.
00:20:10.000 Appreciate you.
00:20:11.000 Commander Larson.
00:20:12.000 Awesome.
00:20:13.000 By our side, Steve.
00:20:14.000 Thank you.
00:20:15.000 Thank you, brother.
00:20:17.000 Okay.
00:20:18.000 Next week, I'm telling you, you got Pam Bondi.
00:20:22.000 You're going to have Pete Hegseth.
00:20:25.000 There's going to be a bunch of them.
00:20:26.000 And we're going to be, this audience, we're going to be all over them.
00:20:29.000 President Trump, you know, AmFest, he's going to get the team that he picked.
00:20:33.000 Ben Harnwell, Ben, you've been amazing here, staying on top of this Ukraine situation.
00:20:40.000 Jim Riker is going to join us in a second.
00:20:43.000 I want everybody to understand, the opening gambit in the Ukraine negotiations is Greenland.
00:20:51.000 Okay.
00:20:52.000 Step back and just think of what's going on.
00:20:55.000 President Trump, President Trump is starting his, the winding down of the Ukraine war.
00:21:00.000 Because, well, I'll let you, Ben, you're the one that found it and alerted everybody to what's going on here.
00:21:06.000 Walk me through what you found in the Financial Times and other things.
00:21:09.000 Take it away, sir.
00:21:10.000 Steve, good morning to you.
00:21:12.000 Well, look, the war room is, as far as I'm aware, even to this day, the only news organization in the world that has been repeating the point from the get-go.
00:21:22.000 Do not allow the United States to be pivoted into the security guarantees hoax by the neocons.
00:21:32.000 And as I say, we're the only people pushing this.
00:21:35.000 Every time it comes up, we're on this.
00:21:37.000 There's no real scope for Ukraine to join NATO.
00:21:41.000 That's just a negotiating, something that the Ukrainians can give away in negotiation.
00:21:46.000 The fundamental point is that they want the United States to underwrite Ukraine's guarantees, territorial integrity, after the peace negotiations, on the successful conclusion of peace negotiations.
00:22:00.000 America will be more tied into Ukraine than if it simply lets Ukraine join NATO under that.
00:22:08.000 Okay.
00:22:09.000 So with that said, the Financial Times had an article yesterday, and the same themes were actually picked up in Politico this morning.
00:22:18.000 And this is basically the pitch, is that Donald Trump, having said on numerous occasions in the campaign, that he was going to...
00:22:33.000 Did he freeze?
00:22:35.000 Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, brother, we got to reboot you, because you're freezing up on us.
00:22:45.000 I hear Ben Harnwell, unexpurgated.
00:22:48.000 Did I use that correctly?
00:22:50.000 I think so.
00:22:51.000 Let's reboot Ben.
00:22:53.000 I want to thank the engine room of the war room, brings up that the act in White Christmas was Wallace and Davis.
00:23:06.000 Not Kelly and Davis, Wallace and Davis.
00:23:09.000 What is it?
00:23:10.000 Danny Kaye and Ben Crosby.
00:23:13.000 Thank you.
00:23:14.000 So they bring up the fact we did get a big, we did get a big scalp the other day with Larry Fink saying that BlackRock's not going to be any part of ESG.
00:23:26.000 They're dumping that.
00:23:27.000 In fact, Jim Ricker is going to come on.
00:23:29.000 I've got geopolitics to talk with, but I've got to open with...
00:23:31.000 And BlackRock, there's huge developing news in Texas.
00:23:35.000 We're going to have the Texas folks on this evening about this speakers race, I think on Tuesday also.
00:23:42.000 Boy, the 14 is going to be a big day.
00:23:44.000 We're going to be live with the Pete Hexeth confirmation.
00:23:47.000 I think Pam's at the same time.
00:23:48.000 I'll check it out.
00:23:49.000 Tuesday.
00:23:50.000 Next week.
00:23:51.000 All next week in the run up, folks.
00:23:52.000 Get ready.
00:23:53.000 Get your Warpath coffee.
00:23:55.000 Get a big old pot of it.
00:23:57.000 A show's going to be on fire because we've got work to do next week.
00:24:00.000 President Trump, when they hit, they've got to hit hard and they've got to hit meaningful.
00:24:04.000 And he needs his team.
00:24:05.000 And so next week, starting on Tuesday, I think it's Pam Bonney and definitely Pete.
00:24:09.000 We're going to get you all associated with the special operators and the Navy SEALs.
00:24:12.000 We're working on that over the weekend.
00:24:13.000 Also down in Texas, speakers race.
00:24:16.000 Larry Fink turns out BlackRock's all over that too.
00:24:19.000 Jim Rickers.
00:24:21.000 Before I talk geopolitics, capital markets, this huge announcement that Larry Fink,
00:24:26.000 who was at one moment going to be the master of the masters of the universe.
00:24:31.000 His ESG, this was his, he's a progressive lefty.
00:24:34.000 This was his whole thing to change the whole world using capitalism or using woke capitalism
00:24:41.000 to basically, it was ESG, it was DEI.
00:24:45.000 He had it all.
00:24:46.000 He's raised the white flag.
00:24:48.000 Why has he done that, Jim Rickers?
00:24:50.000 Well, there's one problem with the ESG, Steve.
00:24:52.000 Leaving aside, you know, wokeness and political correctness and all that stuff.
00:24:56.000 It doesn't work.
00:24:57.000 There, there's, there's a ton of data at this point.
00:24:59.000 There wasn't originally, but there is now.
00:25:01.000 That ESG oriented funds underperform general market indices.
00:25:06.000 They underperform other, you know, exchange traded funds or other stock allocation strategies.
00:25:11.000 It's just a really bad strategy.
00:25:13.000 And, you know, there's a whole industry around it.
00:25:15.000 You go to Bloomberg analytics, you got Reuters, got a couple different sources.
00:25:20.000 And they have these ESG scores.
00:25:22.000 I'm looking at market cap or stock prices and so forth.
00:25:25.000 I'm like, what's this?
00:25:26.000 I mean, I know what it is, of course, but I ignore it.
00:25:29.000 But companies that bent their corporate policies to get a good ESG score have done very poorly
00:25:36.000 for their stockholders.
00:25:37.000 So there's a little bit of reality sinking in.
00:25:39.000 Of course, you know, with the Trump administration, it's like Zuckerberg.
00:25:42.000 You know, he's, he censors us for five years and all of a sudden he's Mr. Free Speech.
00:25:47.000 Okay.
00:25:48.000 You know, let's give him a chance.
00:25:49.000 But I don't take a lot of this to face value because they're just, they're just doing what's
00:25:53.000 convenient and kind of sucking up to the new Trump administration.
00:25:55.000 I would keep them at a distance, but, but it is good news.
00:25:58.000 It's good news for stockholders.
00:25:59.000 Hold on.
00:26:01.000 Hold on.
00:26:02.000 Hang on for a second.
00:26:03.000 This is the key point.
00:26:04.000 Only Rickards can give you this.
00:26:05.000 This guy's savvy.
00:26:07.000 They're going down as supplicants now.
00:26:09.000 They got their million dollar checks.
00:26:10.000 You got Zuckerberg.
00:26:11.000 They're dropping their, they're dropping the thing that was crushing us before all of
00:26:16.000 it from Jim Rickards.
00:26:18.000 The, the, the brain you're saying, Hey, I don't want to hear it from Fink.
00:26:21.000 I don't hear it.
00:26:22.000 They still are going to do what they're going to do.
00:26:24.000 But, and so you're saying, don't trust them.
00:26:26.000 Don't let them inside.
00:26:27.000 Cause they're all trying to either get cabinet appointments or get their guys around the
00:26:31.000 cabinet appointments or talk to Trump directly about policy.
00:26:34.000 You don't trust any of them, Jim?
00:26:36.000 No.
00:26:37.000 And what, what they're really concerned about, it's not what they're talking about.
00:26:40.000 They're worried about antitrust enforcement.
00:26:42.000 They're worrying about these, all these companies being broken up and they, they should be broken
00:26:46.000 up.
00:26:47.000 I have no question about that.
00:26:48.000 But once the justice department and I trust division kicks in, I mean, what they do there,
00:26:53.000 America's innovative.
00:26:54.000 We've got great technology, great engineers.
00:26:56.000 I know there's an educational problem on average.
00:26:59.000 But when you look at the high end or math, science, technology, engineering, graduates
00:27:03.000 are the best in the world.
00:27:05.000 Maybe we need a little more, but, but they're great.
00:27:07.000 But with these companies, again, I'm speaking specifically about Facebook or meta, Google,
00:27:13.000 and a few others.
00:27:15.000 There's, when they see a hot company coming on, they just buy it.
00:27:18.000 They don't want to wait until that company, you know, creates a threat.
00:27:22.000 You know, Schumpeter said the monopolist doesn't worry about the competition.
00:27:27.000 He worries about the future, the unknown competitor coming out of the blue.
00:27:31.000 So there's solutions just to buy them.
00:27:32.000 Amen.
00:27:33.000 Let's just break them up.
00:27:34.000 Hang on for one second.
00:27:36.000 I love it.
00:27:37.000 That's populist nationalist economics right there from the great Jim Rickards.
00:27:42.000 Make sure you go to Rickardswarroom.com.
00:27:44.000 You can get access to all his newsletters.
00:27:47.000 I can tell you, with Trump 2.0, Rickards is going to be at the tip of the tip of the spear.
00:27:55.000 Amazing.
00:27:56.000 Short commercial break.
00:27:57.000 Ben Harnwell from Rome.
00:27:59.000 Jim Rickards from the United States of America.
00:28:01.000 Next.
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00:29:15.000 Use your host, Stephen K. Vance.
00:29:19.000 We've rebooted Ben.
00:29:24.000 So Ben, tell us about this buried lead, what you found, and how important it is to kind of strategically how we're thinking about this.
00:29:31.000 Steve, thanks very much.
00:29:33.000 So look, the FT and Politico between them are setting up this scenario where Donald Trump isn't going to follow through on his promise to disengage America from the Ukrainian war within the first 24 hours.
00:29:45.000 But this could conceivably take six months.
00:29:48.000 And they've based this on statements that Donald Trump himself has said that he hopes to have six months on what Colonel Kellogg has said, General Kellogg has said that he hopes to get this done within 100 days.
00:30:02.000 They're citing, of all people, Georgia Maloney, who's setting herself up in the press as being something of a Trump whisperer, saying that, you know, Trump's not going to abandon Ukraine.
00:30:13.000 That would be an error.
00:30:14.000 Look, in the same way, Steve, that the war with has been the only voice talking about the hoax that is security guarantees, I'd like to suggest something else.
00:30:23.000 So Donald Trump should not obviously not be drawn into this for six months.
00:30:30.000 If he's drawn into this for six months, he will own whatever catastrophe the neocons prepare him in exactly the same way as they did to Biden on the disengagement from Afghanistan.
00:30:42.000 My belief that America should disengage within 24 hours of the inauguration, within 24 hours, unilaterally.
00:30:54.000 No, don't wait for negotiations.
00:30:56.000 I'm going to explore this point later on in the show.
00:30:59.000 There is no need.
00:31:00.000 America has nothing to negotiate for because it has no interests in this war.
00:31:05.000 It never did.
00:31:06.000 It was brought in by deception.
00:31:08.000 So I'll give away now because I know that Jim Rickards has got some more points to make.
00:31:12.000 Yeah.
00:31:13.000 No, but here's –
00:31:15.000 No negotiations.
00:31:16.000 Pull out straight away.
00:31:17.000 Go ahead.
00:31:18.000 That's it.
00:31:19.000 Pull out straight away.
00:31:20.000 No, we got to take – we have to take a hard line here because you're already seeing mission creep.
00:31:25.000 The T was this Kagan article.
00:31:27.000 Kagan's the same guy back in January 23 wrote the article – well, it may have been January 1st of 24 – wrote the article looking for the – you know, Trump is Caesar.
00:31:37.000 And looking for the Brutus, right, that led to kind of gave the moral justification for these assassination attempts.
00:31:44.000 Kagan has written this piece.
00:31:45.000 It's called Trump's Biggest Defeat or Strategic Defeat.
00:31:49.000 And I'm going, what the hell?
00:31:50.000 I look at it and he lays Ukraine – the military defeat in Ukraine at Trump's problem.
00:31:56.000 Steve.
00:31:57.000 Well, there's one way to avoid that.
00:31:58.000 This is not Trump's problem.
00:31:59.000 This is Biden, 100 percent Biden.
00:32:01.000 And that's why we got to cut – we got to cut bait here.
00:32:04.000 The negotiators have to be quick, to the point.
00:32:07.000 TASS is reporting today that Putin's prepared to sit down with no preconditions, Ben Hornwell.
00:32:12.000 Steve, look, Robert Kagan is who?
00:32:15.000 Who is he?
00:32:16.000 Victoria Newland's husband.
00:32:18.000 This is the guy who, 20 years ago, lied and connived the United States into the war in Iraq.
00:32:23.000 There's nobody more toxic, more neo-com to the core than this guy.
00:32:28.000 What he says – don't read the article.
00:32:30.000 Look at the headline.
00:32:31.000 Look at the byline.
00:32:32.000 Do the exact opposite.
00:32:34.000 America has no interest in Ukraine unilaterally without sitting around with Putin, without waiting for negotiations.
00:32:41.000 America should announce – President Trump should announce on day one we are disengaging.
00:32:46.000 We are withdrawing from this conflict.
00:32:49.000 We have no interest to preserve.
00:32:52.000 We are out.
00:32:53.000 If this goes on for six months and we're still negotiating, they're going to blame this all on Trump.
00:32:59.000 It's going to be Trump's war.
00:33:00.000 They're going to say, well, Trump messed it up.
00:33:01.000 You know, we were all – we were sitting fine until Trump came along.
00:33:04.000 This is Trump's defeat.
00:33:06.000 Brother Rickards, you're a pro at this.
00:33:09.000 You're a geo-strategic expert.
00:33:12.000 I realize it's quite complicated.
00:33:13.000 I think the opening gambit of this was Greenland, but I'll let you take it from here.
00:33:17.000 Your thoughts on the Ukraine situation, what Putin just said about there's no preconditions to have a meeting, Greenland, and the Ukraine.
00:33:25.000 Robert Kagan saying it's – Trump is ready for his biggest strategic defeat already, sir.
00:33:30.000 But first of all, Ben is exactly right.
00:33:32.000 And by the way, this is not something recent or – this has been in the works for over a year.
00:33:36.000 All of the money, all of the weapons, all of the escalation that Biden has pursued was never done to win the war because Ukraine was never going to win the war.
00:33:45.000 It's a war of attrition.
00:33:46.000 You know, Russia's resources, population, technology, the Russian missile, which makes tactical nuclear weapons obsolete.
00:33:53.000 That's how destructive it is.
00:33:54.000 Russia was always going to win the war, but they take their time.
00:33:57.000 It's the Russian way of war.
00:33:58.000 They don't work on our tempo.
00:34:00.000 So what the Biden administration did is give them all the weapons, give them all the money, and make sure the war continues into the Trump administration so when Ukraine falls, you can blame Trump.
00:34:10.000 And this article by Kagan, this is just opening the curtain on something that has been planned all along.
00:34:16.000 I'm a little concerned about General Kellogg and Walsh.
00:34:21.000 They seem to be drinking a little bit of the neocon Kool-Aid.
00:34:25.000 And Ben's exactly right.
00:34:26.000 Hang on.
00:34:27.000 Hang on.
00:34:28.000 Hang on.
00:34:29.000 Hang on.
00:34:30.000 Hang on.
00:34:31.000 Keith Kellogg's a friend.
00:34:32.000 I revere General Kellogg.
00:34:33.000 Mike Walsh looks like a good man, but we've got to address this right now.
00:34:35.000 I mean, you're hearing some statements.
00:34:37.000 When you say 100 days, you've got Walsh and some of the guys that are getting in the National Security Council.
00:34:42.000 This should be a flashing – this should be the – this is urgent right now to get on top of this.
00:34:49.000 Senator Rubio, the people around President Trump on the national security side, General Kellogg, Rick Grinnell, maybe even throw another guy.
00:34:57.000 I would love to see Boris, who's done such a great job, who is of Russian descent and done such a great job for President Trump on the legal side.
00:35:04.000 I'm concerned about Kellogg and Walsh right now, Jim, to be brutally frank about it, sir.
00:35:10.000 Yeah, let's be clear.
00:35:11.000 I respect them both.
00:35:12.000 They've got great records, and General Kellogg in particular because of his military experience.
00:35:18.000 No question about that, but they are walking into a trap, and I think Ben outlined it correctly.
00:35:23.000 But the trap has been a year in the making, a year in the making.
00:35:26.000 This isn't, oh, gee, we didn't win the war.
00:35:27.000 Let's see what happened.
00:35:29.000 They knew they were going to lose the war.
00:35:30.000 It's been obvious for a very long time.
00:35:32.000 So they're just saying, okay, let's extend it.
00:35:35.000 Let's give Ukraine enough money, enough weapons.
00:35:37.000 Let's just get this thing of the summer of 2025, and it'll be Trump's war.
00:35:41.000 And so if Trump, by the way, all these negotiations, there was a big Swiss peace conference six, eight months ago.
00:35:48.000 There have been other conferences, NATO, Munich security conferences, et cetera.
00:35:52.000 All we do is talk to each other.
00:35:54.000 NATO members talk to each other.
00:35:56.000 U.S. talks to, again, NATO, Germany talks to Kiev, Poland, et cetera.
00:36:03.000 Nobody's talking to Putin.
00:36:05.000 The White House hasn't spoken to Putin in, I believe, almost three years, certainly more than two years.
00:36:11.000 So that's the way to do it.
00:36:13.000 Putin's conditions have never changed.
00:36:15.000 From before the war, he said, demilitarization, denazification, neutrality, and no NATO.
00:36:23.000 Those conditions have not changed.
00:36:25.000 The only thing that has changed is that Russia's taken more territory at a very high cost in blood and treasure.
00:36:31.000 They're not going to give it back.
00:36:32.000 Why should they?
00:36:33.000 I mean, some of this is simple, Steve.
00:36:35.000 If you win wars, you get to keep stuff.
00:36:37.000 I'm not making a value judgment.
00:36:39.000 I'm just saying that's what happened.
00:36:40.000 So the lack of reality, the lack of coherence, the lack of diplomacy, period.
00:36:47.000 So, look, Kellogg's a seasoned, brilliant individual, probably a good delegate.
00:36:53.000 But I'm just basing this on his public statements.
00:36:55.000 I'm not inferring anything.
00:36:56.000 Just things that he said kind of line up with what Ben warned about, which is,
00:37:00.000 hey, drag it out, you know, et cetera.
00:37:03.000 I think the best thing is just say done.
00:37:06.000 You know, January 21st, we're done.
00:37:08.000 You know, keep what you got.
00:37:10.000 Good luck.
00:37:11.000 And for the reason Ben mentioned.
00:37:13.000 Wow.
00:37:15.000 Let's go.
00:37:16.000 I want to talk about Greenland as part of this, the kind of Panama, the jutting forward of the fortress America or the Western Hemisphere, the strategic designs.
00:37:25.000 Is that Trump's opening gambit?
00:37:28.000 Or am I overthinking this?
00:37:29.000 Is that related?
00:37:31.000 Because, you know, the NATO's all worried about land power.
00:37:34.000 We're worried about the Russians coming out of Murmansk.
00:37:37.000 It's this fast attack and the boomers coming through the Greenland, Iceland, UK gap.
00:37:42.000 That is our concern.
00:37:43.000 Is Trump upending the strategic apple cart here by saying, hey, Putin, we'll negotiate on Ukraine quickly, but we're going to actually advance American interest near the Arctic, sir?
00:37:56.000 Yeah.
00:37:57.000 You're right, Steve.
00:37:58.000 Those ideas are not mutually exclusive.
00:38:00.000 Greenland makes sense on its own, independent of Ukraine.
00:38:03.000 But sure, if you put Greenland in play, that's one more bargaining chip vis-a-vis Russia.
00:38:08.000 But the reason we're on Greenland, obviously, is because of improved icebreaking technology, the Arctic ice pack, you know, ebbs and flows, et cetera.
00:38:18.000 The so-called – well, the Northwest Passage is real and also routes closer to the Russian coast.
00:38:24.000 You know, just look at a polar projection on a map.
00:38:26.000 I don't know why we stopped teaching geography, but it's pretty clear.
00:38:29.000 If you're China and you want to get goods to Europe, you've got two choices.
00:38:34.000 You can go through the Panama Canal, take the long way, or you can go past Greenland.
00:38:39.000 There are two choke points, and Trump is going for both of them.
00:38:43.000 This comes down to naval power, always has.
00:38:46.000 We've got to build up the U.S. Navy.
00:38:48.000 That's a separate issue.
00:38:49.000 But you've got to control the choke points.
00:38:51.000 There's this idea of the island barrier.
00:38:53.000 You just go from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, down to Indonesia, Singapore, Malacca Straits.
00:39:03.000 You can't get in or out of China without going through one of those choke points.
00:39:06.000 And the U.S. has a pretty good handle of good allies on all of them.
00:39:09.000 So if they create a new one, which is Greenland, then control Greenland.
00:39:14.000 And by the way, the status, as I understand it, well, these are facts.
00:39:19.000 Greenland was kicked out of the EU.
00:39:20.000 They tried to get back.
00:39:21.000 He said, no, get lost.
00:39:23.000 There's a Greenland independence or nationalist movement.
00:39:26.000 They're forming their own government.
00:39:28.000 We could buy Greenland.
00:39:29.000 We could negotiate for it, or we could just make them a treaty partner.
00:39:32.000 But either way, you need that choke point.
00:39:35.000 It's like the Straits of Hormuz.
00:39:38.000 Unbelievable.
00:39:39.000 Trump's taking the classic Athens-Mahan strategy with the Mackinder being the Chinese Communist Party and the Russians.
00:39:49.000 Jim, before I let you go, the 10-year Treasury is getting up to five.
00:39:54.000 The British guilt is blowing up.
00:39:56.000 What's the bond market telling us now about the overall financial situation and also the questions they're going to have about President Trump's program?
00:40:04.000 The bond market's starting to scare me, sir.
00:40:08.000 Right.
00:40:09.000 Well, again, look at the whole yield curve.
00:40:11.000 You're absolutely right about the 10-year Treasury note.
00:40:13.000 Yielded maturity is pushing closer to 5%.
00:40:17.000 That's the liquidity concern.
00:40:18.000 But at the short end, one-month bills, three-month bills, six-month bills, et cetera, that's crashing, meaning rates are crashing.
00:40:26.000 So the yield curve, this is called a steepener, where the long end gets higher interest rates, the short end gets lower interest rates.
00:40:34.000 That's a very clear sign of probably the US going into a serious recession.
00:40:38.000 In a recession, the short-term rates should plunge.
00:40:41.000 The Fed is not leading the economy.
00:40:42.000 They never do.
00:40:43.000 They're following the economy.
00:40:45.000 The Fed is following the market.
00:40:47.000 Get rid of the idea that the Fed is leading the market.
00:40:49.000 The Fed is following the market.
00:40:51.000 The Fed's interest is at the short end.
00:40:53.000 But meanwhile, at the long end, the market is saying we don't see much relief in terms of debt and deficits.
00:40:58.000 You're going to have to issue a whole pile of 10-year Treasury notes.
00:41:01.000 So we want a higher yield to maturity.
00:41:03.000 But that kind of steepener is a very bad sign for the economy.
00:41:08.000 Is it going to make Besson – Besson's job is going to be hard enough.
00:41:11.000 He's coming in.
00:41:12.000 He's going to have to refinance, I think, $7 trillion next year.
00:41:16.000 Is the bond market telling you that they may be – their appetite may be limited for all this?
00:41:23.000 There's a global dollar shortage going on, and people find that hard to believe.
00:41:28.000 Hey, the Fed printed $10 trillion.
00:41:29.000 How could there be a dollar shortage?
00:41:31.000 All that Fed money printing, so-called, doesn't go anywhere.
00:41:34.000 The Fed buys bonds from Wall Street.
00:41:36.000 They pay for it with printed money.
00:41:37.000 That's true.
00:41:38.000 But then Wall Street banks give the money back to the Fed, stick it on the balance sheet.
00:41:42.000 The money doesn't go anywhere.
00:41:43.000 It doesn't do anything for the economy.
00:41:45.000 The money that does drive the economy comes from commercial banks, not central banks.
00:41:49.000 And there is a liquidity crisis going on.
00:41:51.000 Chinese holdings of 10-year treasury notes have declined.
00:41:54.000 And people look at that and say, oh, they're dumping their treasury notes.
00:41:57.000 Well, they are selling them.
00:41:58.000 I mean, they did decline.
00:41:59.000 But the reason is they're desperate to get dollars.
00:42:01.000 They're desperate to get the currency to prop up their own banking system.
00:42:04.000 So we're on the brink of a global liquidity crisis.
00:42:08.000 I think Scott Besson's going to have a job cut out for him.
00:42:11.000 By the way, I have a very quickly a pro tip for him.
00:42:15.000 The treasury can pull $700 billion out of thin air without printing money and without increasing
00:42:22.000 the deficit or the debt.
00:42:24.000 And the way you do it, the Fed has an asset on this balance sheet.
00:42:27.000 This goes back to 1934.
00:42:29.000 So in FDR, FDR took the money, sorry, took the gold from the Federal Reserve and gave
00:42:34.000 it to the treasury.
00:42:36.000 Federal Reserve is privately owned under the Fifth Amendment.
00:42:38.000 You can't take private property without giving compensation.
00:42:41.000 So what was the compensation?
00:42:43.000 It was a piece of paper.
00:42:44.000 You can market to market and get $700 billion without increasing the debt.
00:42:49.000 Hey, inside baseball right there.
00:42:52.000 Jim, hang on for one second.
00:42:53.000 Jim Rickards, Ben Harnwell in Rome.
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00:44:14.000 Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:44:18.000 Ben Harnwell in Rome.
00:44:21.000 Take a bow, sir.
00:44:22.000 I know you got a punch, but great work on this on digging up this thing about people talking
00:44:26.000 about saying this can't be extended, cannot be extended.
00:44:28.000 They're setting up and you're right.
00:44:30.000 You're right.
00:44:31.000 Kagan and Victoria Nuland, to me, they're war criminals, right?
00:44:35.000 They got us into this mess with the color revolution.
00:44:37.000 We're going to be deconstructing that over the next couple of weeks.
00:44:39.000 Ben, where do people go to get you on social media between now and tomorrow when you're
00:44:43.000 joining us on the Saturday show?
00:44:45.000 Steve, I want to promise the war room posse that we're going to be following these developments
00:44:50.000 like a hungry eagle tracking a rather fat mouse.
00:44:55.000 I'm on Get Us, my social media platform of choice, under my profile, Harnwell.
00:45:01.000 I encourage the posse to look at the war room posse to look out for this.
00:45:04.000 There are a number of hoaxes going on on this front.
00:45:07.000 And well, as you said just a few moments ago, Steve, that the trick is to lure President Trump
00:45:13.000 in and stay in for six months and then they can pin this disaster on him.
00:45:18.000 And Jim is making the same point.
00:45:20.000 That is not an inauthentic move on behalf of the neocon establishment.
00:45:24.000 It will to some degree be a legitimate act to make because President Trump will have been
00:45:30.000 president for six months if he does not want to get covered with the incoming on this.
00:45:36.000 He has one simple thing to do, and that's exactly what he said he would do in the election campaign.
00:45:40.000 Thanks, Steve.
00:45:41.000 God bless.
00:45:42.000 Catch you tomorrow.
00:45:43.000 Thank you, brother.
00:45:45.000 Jim, you brought up something.
00:45:46.000 I'll get you back on early in the week because I want to talk about this liquidity crisis,
00:45:51.000 the signaling of a liquidity crisis, what I consider the biggest margin call in world history.
00:45:56.000 But in the time I got remaining, I really want people to go to your site.
00:45:59.000 I know already from the chat, people love your stuff.
00:46:01.000 They love the geopolitics.
00:46:02.000 They love the capital markets.
00:46:04.000 So where do they go to get access to your newsletters, your books?
00:46:08.000 I became acquainted with you with Currency War.
00:46:10.000 I think it's 10 years old now, but it reads like you wrote it yesterday.
00:46:14.000 So where do people go, sir?
00:46:16.000 Thanks, Steve.
00:46:17.000 We have a landing page.
00:46:19.000 It's at RickardsWarRoom.com, at RickardsWarRoom.com.
00:46:23.000 It's R-I-C-K-A-R-D-S, so at RickardsWarRoom.com.
00:46:27.000 You go there, you can get our newsletter, Strategic Intelligence.
00:46:30.000 But we also have a new book offer.
00:46:31.000 It's a free, if you sign up for the newsletter, you get a free book.
00:46:34.000 It's my new book, MoneyGPT.
00:46:36.000 It talks about the artificial intelligence in the relation to capital markets and also nuclear war fighting.
00:46:42.000 There's a chapter on that.
00:46:43.000 It explains how artificial intelligence can sink the stock market, destroy the stock market.
00:46:48.000 I'm not talking about AI stocks or Nvidia and all that.
00:46:51.000 I'll leave that to the Wall Street analysts.
00:46:53.000 But artificial intelligence itself embedded in trading systems can actually destroy the markets.
00:46:58.000 And people say, oh, is it going to malfunction?
00:47:00.000 It's not a malfunction.
00:47:01.000 It will work exactly as intended.
00:47:03.000 It's the interaction with human nature that will cause a collapse.
00:47:06.000 So I hope people enjoy it.
00:47:08.000 But it's RickardsWarRoom.com.
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00:47:13.000 Jim, honored to have you on here, brother, as one of our top contributors.
00:47:17.000 Appreciate you.
00:47:19.000 RickardsWarRoom.com.
00:47:20.000 Go check it out.
00:47:22.000 What the world was not prepared for was a working class and middle class audience that had the same information you get if you're a CEO and chairman.
00:47:29.000 That's one of the things we commit to you from my Pentagon days and days at Goldman Sachs and my own firm to make sure that you're briefed as well as any corporate CEO or chairman.
00:47:42.000 There is so much going on and so much fight.
00:47:44.000 Make sure 202-224-3121.
00:47:46.000 You already saw the power of this audience having Pete Hexas back four weeks ago when they were our way of shifting out for Ron DeSantis.
00:47:54.000 You guys stood up, stood in the breach.
00:47:56.000 Also, this demand that these be pulled up and come forward.
00:48:00.000 A lot of these are trying to, you know, sloughing around.
00:48:03.000 Going to be the 17th or 18th.
00:48:04.000 Oh, hey, maybe be into the next week.
00:48:06.000 Then the committee hearing.
00:48:07.000 Then the next thing you know, you're in mid-February, late February.
00:48:10.000 Not acceptable.
00:48:12.000 Have to move.
00:48:13.000 And that's this audience.
00:48:14.000 202-224-312.
00:48:15.000 And just tell the Senate, hey, President Trump's got to get his team.
00:48:18.000 We need these hearings to take place next week.
00:48:20.000 We need to quickly move through.
00:48:22.000 They should ask all their questions.
00:48:24.000 They can take all day if they want.
00:48:25.000 Call them back for another day if they have to.
00:48:27.000 But just expedite.
00:48:28.000 Get to a committee vote.
00:48:29.000 Let's get it to the floor.
00:48:31.000 Let's get these votes.
00:48:32.000 And let's roll.
00:48:33.000 Got to move out.
00:48:34.000 We are burning daylight.
00:48:36.000 Jack London had a great book by that title.
00:48:39.000 It had that phrase from the 19th century.
00:48:42.000 Burning daylight.
00:48:43.000 That's what they were doing.
00:48:44.000 And we're not going to do it here.
00:48:45.000 202-224-3121.
00:48:47.000 Or get to Grace Chung on Bill Blaster.
00:48:50.000 Or make sure you go over and check out Article 3.
00:48:53.000 They're all over this, too.
00:48:54.000 Mike Lindell.
00:48:56.000 Lindell, you're such a great page.
00:48:58.000 People don't know behind the scenes.
00:49:00.000 They're coming for Lindell every second of every day.
00:49:04.000 I mean, they got the radical Attorney General.
00:49:06.000 You think the guys in New York are bad?
00:49:08.000 The guy in Minnesota is almost as bad.
00:49:10.000 He's just slightly below the insanity.
00:49:13.000 They're after Lindell all the time.
00:49:15.000 So, Mike, talk to me about the product.
00:49:17.000 Talk to me about the people.
00:49:18.000 Talk to me about the offers for the war room posse.
00:49:21.000 Yeah, and Steve said it right there.
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00:49:31.000 And that attack started about a month ago.
00:49:35.000 The IRS is attacking us now.
00:49:37.000 It absolutely doesn't stop.
00:49:40.000 Because they want me to stop talking.
00:49:42.000 They want my voice going.
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00:51:14.000 You guys, we've been so thankful to the war room, Steve,
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00:51:20.000 One of the reasons we had such a big victory is Mike Lindell.
00:51:23.000 Four years laboring in the vineyard with all the Steve Stearns of the world.
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00:51:30.000 Trust me.
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00:51:35.000 Some of the down ticket, I'm not so sure about looking at North Carolina.
00:51:38.000 Mike, you're a hero.
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