Episode 4470： Day 2 Of The Conclave; Trump Bridges Monumental Trade Deal With UK
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On today's show, we discuss the latest developments in the papal election process, including the announcement that Pope Francis was elected on the fifth ballot, and what that means for the future of the Catholic Church and the world.
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yet selected a new pope the second vote of the day just wrapped up just before the show started
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with black smoke rising from the top of the Sistine Chapel the ballots are only burned after
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two rounds of voting unless a selection is made yesterday we also saw black smoke rise above the
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Sistine Chapel if we see white if we see white smoke it signifies there is a new leader of the
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Catholic Church a two-thirds majority needs to be reached in order for that to happen two more votes
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will be held today out of the more 250 cardinals in Vatican City only 133 are eligible to vote under
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those the age of 80 can cast a ballot your sense of how you believe the church may go after Pope
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Francis in terms of its choice of a new pontiff well right that's the big question
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in terms of the electoral process things are kind of going as you'd expect we'd be very surprised if
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there was white smoke either last night or today now possibly the end of today Pope Francis was
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elected on that fifth ballot my guess is tomorrow I think it might be a little more divided conclave
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we heard during the general congregations those discussions before the conclave that there were
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disagreements about the direction of the church some wanted to go you know very much with the
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Francis momentum others felt this was problematic one of the difficulties in talking about the church
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is we tend to look at it through our western lens and so we have certain preoccupations usually around
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questions of sexual morality but go to Africa for instance where the church is burgeoning but also
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under great persecution go to the church in Asia and you see the inter-religious dialogue is of huge
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importance so they're considering all these different dimensions of the church's life and there's
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something you know happening inside the walls of that uh Sistine Chapel right now and uh we'll see
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my sense is it might be a little more divided than it was last time also I'd say speak politically last
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time the the more liberal faction was better organized this time I know the conservatives were better
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organized going into the conflict that could lead to a little more of a deadlock they focus on one small
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set of of issues and you were talking about uh sexual morality sexual issues whether it's abortion
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whether it's same-sex marriage um um but but for most of the world especially in this we keep talking
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about the south uh they talk about that but you're right the focus is on religious persecution it's on
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those matthew 25 issues where jesus talks about feeding the poor uh clothing the naked bringing hope to the
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hopeless underline that fact for us and explain to americans that are watching right now this is
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this isn't just about what uh somebody's position on abortion is going to be or uh or or on same-sex marriage
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right and that's the beautiful part of the francis papacy i think they all want to carry forward
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he wanted a church that that turned with a merciful face toward the world that was the friend of the
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marginalized the friend of the poor and the forgotten and i think that's the great legacy
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of paul francis as far as i'm concerned they they all want that to continue it's in regard to some
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other issues that i think they will find greater division but i you know concrete is often involved
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you know taking what they consider the best of the previous papacy and then maybe trying to correct
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difficulties in the previous papacy and it's a it's a playing out of those those issues there's also the
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question of the personalities involved so one thing is the position the cardinal holds the other one is
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the cardinal himself what kind of person is he even his age even his health uh even your personal
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interactions with him often at the general congregations the cardinal will say that guy gave
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a speech or i just sent something in him that i thought was you know worthy of a pope so all those
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factors are at play as in any political reality and this one on a very small scale we got 133 electors
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and they're weighing all these different elements
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these
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people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
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had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do everything
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in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and where do people like
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that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these people had a
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conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to save my country
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this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k bannon
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well ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard today's edition of war room stephen k bannon out on
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assignment yet jack basobiec here covering down live from rome italy we are just steps
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away from the vatican itself where the world awaits the selection election of the next pope today is
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may 8th 2025 year of our lord and yet the news goes on so earlier today we just saw the second of the
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votes that came in so third votes overall black smoke puff of black smoke from the sistine chapel that
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ceremonial chimney that's put above a lot of talk about what is going to come out later possibly a pope
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today possibly a pope tomorrow and we have catholics for catholics we're really thanking them for
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sponsoring my portion of this trip out here john yep we're hoping to get him on possibly in the second
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hour but what people need to understand is that we are hoping and praying number one that the holy spirit
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of course goes into that conclave but also that the conservatives that cardinal burke that so many
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others hold the line and we're praying and calling for all of the conservative cardinals to hold the line
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we know they've held the line thus far because cardinal powerland and some of the other progressives have
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not been able to get in on three ballots now so that means for three ballots they have held the line now we're
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going to continue monitoring this chimney the most watched chimney in the world because at in about 30
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minutes the cardinals will return to the sistine chapel the sistine chapel itself got to talk to the
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guys over at silence maybe they had maybe they worked with them i don't know but they have turned the entire
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sistine chapel into a faraday cage and they're doing so in order to keep all signals going from going in
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or coming out so that no influence from outside also no uh no eavesdropping no subversion nothing else
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will be able to get in of course the news of the day continues president trump very soon will be
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speaking from the white house and we'll cut to that directly when he does huge trade deal with the uk
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also i've got to show this just ridiculous clip from earlier today because there wasn't just black smoke
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coming out across the vatican i was i was looking across the rooftops at one point and i said is
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that some pink smoke coming up is that pink smoke let's play the clip the clip and see what happened
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smoke out sexism a woman's place is in the conclave smoke out sexism we are doing this because we know
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we've got a little window of time before the cardinals are sequestered inside that sistine chapel
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with no access to their social media and their phones that they will see the pink smoke over
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the vatican and they will know that women are sending a clear signal that they cannot go in with
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133 men deciding the future of catholic church without half of that catholic church they are going
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to talk about all sorts of issues they will not talk about the ordination of women and priests women
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absolutely ridiculous well as my as my brother kevin actually tweeted earlier today sorry ladies
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as it turns out vatican city is a place where women don't vote and and this is ridiculous what you're
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seeing is the influence of the progressives they're trying as hard as they can look these are the people
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that want to change the church they are the people that want to come in and say oh christianity should
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be more open christianity should be more uh inclusive we want to be more touchy feely we want to go out
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and be more worldly no absolutely not we need to embrace tradition we need to have more of the traditions
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of the church the traditions of the early christians the traditions of the faith that is the faith upon
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which all is built that is the rock upon which of course saint peter's basilica right there the church
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was built the keys handed over by christ to his royal stewards the apostles to maintain the church until
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the return of the king and now the next successor of saint peter perhaps in just a couple of moments
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perhaps just in a couple of hours we'll see that white smoke and of course what happens immediately
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after that the new pope will come out from the balcony and of course we're monitoring it as much
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as possible when when we look to this election of a new pope and and people say well what what if i'm
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not catholic who cares and i was uh had an interview with charlie kirk yesterday and he's evangelical so
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he was saying what is it and i pointed it this way 1.5 billion catholics in the world and in
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essentially also a major world leader and major figure in his own right that's what the pope is
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historically the pope has been a benchmark for all of western civilization and the question is where do
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we want western civilization to go do we want another globalist do we want another globalist leader
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pushing these ideas of no borders of no barriers of no nations we're all going to mix together we're
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going to have this globalist state like uh like klaus schwab the former klaus schwab wanted sources that
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was soros's open society vision that's why they're against borders that's why they're against the wall that's
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why they said refugees everywhere the migration settlement that's what was being pushed and you
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saw that being pushed from the vatican itself that's what needs to change not to mention what
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about what have i always said here on war room and on my own show human events daily the issue of course
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is the elite merger not elite capture elite merger of the of the west and the corrupt chinese communist
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party the chinese communist party which signed a deal signed a blood deal with the previous pontificate
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and by the way that deal was worked on by three people pope francis former cardinal cardinal mccarrick
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he went down over crimes with kids and who was the third in on that cardinal parolin cardinal parolin
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who is currently the progressives number one man for the papacy he's the one that they're pushing as hard as
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as possible well as it turns out these were the three guys that were working on that deal with
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the chinese communist party complete sellout and betrayal of the catholics and christians all across
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china the underground christian churches cardinals and everyone who's working so hard to spread the
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word of god and spread scripture throughout the chinese mainland so that people there can know the
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truth about god i remember i remember when i was living in china and i would go to easter services
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or i wanted to go to church you had to show a passport to prove that i wasn't a chinese citizen
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do it so that i could go to church why because they might be saying things in there that are unapproved
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by the party leadership well you know what folks that's not what we're going to be doing around here
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we're going to be doing lots of things and saying lots of things and spreading lots of truth that's not
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exactly approved by party leadership because that's what we do here on the war room and so
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we pray we praying here and of course we are putting and exerting whatever influence we can
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from our position here from from having our voice and from even going down there kevin
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posovic is right now on his way to saint peter square we're going to get him up in a minute we know
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president trump's speech will be imminent but we're going to have people there and interview because when
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you talk to gen z when you talk to the youth right now the faithful youth they don't want this namby
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pamby shallow substanceless faith they want the real thing they want the orthodoxy they want the
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tradition they want the veils they want all of it and they want to be able to do so knowing that the
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on assignment i'm here live doing my show human events daily and right now covering down on the war room
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let's send it out vatican city we're praying that christ himself through the holy spirit will be
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co-equal branch of government separate from the others with the authority to interpret the constitution
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as law um uh and strike down obviously acts of congress or uh acts of uh uh of the president
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and that innovation doesn't work if it's not the judiciary is not independent uh its job is to
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uh uh obviously decide cases but in the course of that uh check the excesses of congress or of the
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executive and that does require degree of independence what do you think of these calls
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for impeachment of judges based on the decisions that they've made well i've already spoken to that
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and you know impeachment is not how you uh register disagreement with decisions uh that's what you're
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for right that's what that's what you're there for that's what we're there for yeah what do you
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think of these calls for impeachment of judges based on the decisions that they've made well i've
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already spoken to that and you know impeachment is not how you uh register disagreement with decisions
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Uh, that's what you're for, right? That's what, that's what you're there for. That's what we're
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there for. Yeah. All right, folks, Jack Posobiec here. We are back live in Rome, Italy. We're at
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the Vatican waiting to see whether white or black smoke will appear from the top of the Sistine
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Chapel, the ceremonial chimney, which has been erected. But folks, I watched this interview
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with chief justice, John Roberts, and my blood started boiling. I immediately started firing
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off texts to the viceroy, Mike Davis. Do you hear John Roberts up there? Now this guy doesn't usually
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give interviews. So when the chief justice gives an interview like that and sits down and speaks
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candidly like this, which is something that you've never done that, you know, he's going to say
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something serious and you know, he's going to say something that he wants to get out there.
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And what are the things that he's saying? First of all, he comes out and says that we shouldn't be
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impeaching judges for disagreements. No, John Roberts, chief justice Roberts. We're not impeaching
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judges or talking about impeaching judges for disagreements. It's for dereliction of duty. It's
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for failure to perform. Your job is not to play games with the law and the constitution. Your job
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is to implement them. Your job is to make sure that the laws are followed faithfully and, and that the
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laws are in line with the constitution, which perhaps might even be something that's up for discussion.
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It is not your job to sit there and say, oh, well, it's a disagreement. No, it's not a disagreement.
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It's not that we lost a case. It's because you are not following the law because you won't do your
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job. And we've seen this from judge Boseberg to so many others out there that they are simply not
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willing to stand up with this. Now, when it comes down to the next piece of it, he says, what is the
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role of judiciary? So the role of the judiciary is to, and I just want to say this, this is exactly what
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he said. I'm going to read it word for word to check the excesses of Congress or the executive
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to check the excesses of Congress or this notice John Roberts never said anything about the excesses
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of Congress or the executive during the time when Joe Biden's regime, the illegitimate regime of Joe
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Biden was in office when they were locking up Patriots, when they were locking up pro-lifers,
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many cases, the J sixers being held without even a trial, but that wasn't an excess. That wasn't a
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problem at all. So many unconstitutional acts by that administration, yet he didn't have a problem.
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He didn't come out and speak. John Roberts, you are up there making policy decisions. You are making
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policy statements. You're giving your opinion on policy and politics. Let me tell you something.
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If you want to weigh in on that, if you want to legislate, if you want to be the executive John
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Roberts, then why don't you be a man and step up and run for office? Why don't you be a man and put
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your name on the ballot? Come on, 2028 is coming up, or maybe there's a Senate seat. Maybe there's a
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House seat you want to go for. Why don't you have at it? Throw your hat in the ring. But if you're going
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to be a judge, be a judge. Don't sit there and say that you get to determine what are the excesses
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of Congress or the executive or the president. We know what this is about. And I don't think for
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a second that I've forgotten, by the way, John Roberts, that you were the one who screwed up
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President Trump's inaugural address, the inaugural oath of office, when you rushed the oath. And that's
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what you didn't wait for First Lady Melania Trump to come up there with the Bible so he could have
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his hand on it. You were fine when it was J.D. Vance. Totally fine for that. No, you did it on
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purpose. It was deceitful. It was deliberate. We know you did this on purpose. And now we can all
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see your bias completely worn on your sleeve. I guess justice isn't quite as blind as she used to
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be, is she, John? Not quite as blind as she used to be. This is ridiculous. And look, when we talk about
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bad justices out there, folks, this is what we're talking about. Oh, the excesses. This is
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same mentality, by the way, that Washington, D.C. had when President Trump was in office the first
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time. Only, where did you hear it? Not from the Supreme Court. Of course, they were obviously
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saying this behind closed doors. No, you would hear it from the chief of staff when John Kelly
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was the chief of staff. You would hear it from Mad Dog Mattis. Remember Mad Dog Mattis? He was such a
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mad as a dog. Yeah. You would hear it from all of these. H.R. McMaster, and they would have daily calls
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every morning. How are we going to defend the country from Trump, defend the republic from Trump
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as they were working to subvert him day in and day out? We know about the subversion. We know about
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all of it. No, no. It's ridiculous. It is a joke and is a big, big problem because they believe that
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they are the ones who are in control of the country. They believe that it's their decision. And when I got
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into it with Jamie Raskin a couple of weeks ago, I guess last week now, he said, we're the voice of
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the people. We are the voice of the people. We are the representatives of the people. No,
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Jamie Raskin, you're not the voice of the people because the people didn't vote for you. The popular
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vote and seven out of seven of the swing states, including the electoral college, was won by Donald
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J. Trump. Donald Trump is the voice of the people because he's who they voted for. Do you understand
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that? Once you get that through your little skull, Jamie Raskin, okay? He's the one who's the voice of
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the people. Not this idea of you and your union thugs. I don't care how many union thugs you want
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to send out, by the way, Jamie Raskin, send them all. Send every single one. And so I don't want to hear
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it. I don't want to hear it at all. The excesses, John Roberts wants to say, the excesses of
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the executive in Congress. We know what this is about. This is the full court press now
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on Trump's agenda. And notice he doesn't say anything, by the way, because they've overturned
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a number of these lower court rulings. They've overturned them. So if you're going to overturn
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the lower court rulings, wouldn't you say it's the excesses of your own judiciary, John Roberts?
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Wouldn't you say that's the excesses? Wouldn't you say that's the problem? Wouldn't you say
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that's what they want you to focus on? Couldn't you come out and say, well, you know,
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there's been some issues with these judges. They're legislating from the bench. They're
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becoming activist judges. They're the ones who are putting it. No, no, it's not that at all. You're
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not saying it. What you're doing is you're putting your own bias first. That's why we're seeing these
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decisions where Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, ACB, are siding with the liberals. We know what
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this is about. This is because you don't want the people's agenda, the MAGA agenda,
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President Trump's agenda to go through. And so you'll sit there. No, I get it. You'll color within
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the lines. You'll vote when you have to. But deep down, that's what John Roberts is telling you,
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folks. He's telling you that even after all of this, what does he care more about? His own legacy.
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He cares about his Wikipedia page more than he cares about doing his job. He cares about what
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the Atlantic talks about him, says about him. Oh, the Atlantic, by the way, got to love the Atlantic,
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where they're running headlines now talking about the threat of the woke right. Oh, the woke right.
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They come up with these terms every couple of years. Remember, it was what was it? Ultra MAGA
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and the woke right and all the rest of this, because they can't quite figure out a way or a
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new pejorative. So the new pejorative just dropped, new label just dropped. We've got to attack the far
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right, the woke right, the MAGA, ultra MAGA. It's nonsense. It's Americans who love their country,
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who decided to stand up and say, this is our home. This is our nation. These are our families.
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These are our children. We're going to live for them. And we don't care about your establishment
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parlor games anymore. We don't care what names you call us from the swamp. You've already called us,
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certainly for me, you've called me every name that you could think of already. So what do you think
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I'm going to do? You think I'm going to sit there and say, oh my gosh, no, another label. Oh no.
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Oh, darn. But you know what I will do? I'm not going to sit there and cry about your little labels.
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What I'm going to do is I'm going to take that energy and use it to win. And then I'm going to
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win some more. And then I'm going to keep delivering wins for President Donald J. Trump. And he is going
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to roll over every single one of you. So say what you want about his Wikipedia page. I don't care
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about Wikipedia pages as much as you do. I don't care about whatever ink the scribblers over at the
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Atlantic are wanting the right. Because at the end of the day, they will be gone. They will be
00:26:47.260
absolutely gone. And as we're here in Rome, we are thinking about the eternal. We are thinking
00:26:52.600
about the transcendent. This is why, by the way, believers and Christians and anyone who has that
00:26:59.500
firm, deeply rooted belief in God as their creator is such a threat to their program, such a threat to
00:27:06.040
their agenda. Why? Because we don't care what you say about us. We will be judged once by our
00:27:12.580
heavenly father. And that is the only judgment that we are worried about. So we don't care what
00:27:18.040
the New York Times says. We don't care what the Atlantic says, New York magazine or all the rest.
00:27:23.580
Although I believe Ben Harmwell is doing a sit down with New York magazine right now. And as I've been
00:27:28.220
New York magazine, those guys, those guys are out there, man. They are, they are not some guys you
00:27:32.620
want to hang out with, but whatever. Folks, we are awaiting President Trump. He is going to be
00:27:38.320
speaking imminently trade deal with the UK representatives of the UK. The British invasion
00:27:44.960
is here in Washington, DC. Well, I am here in Rome, Italy, covering down on the conclave. So we're going
00:27:56.720
to be watching for that white smoke, that pearly white smoke. In just a few minutes, the Cardinals
00:28:03.200
will begin voting again. It is currently 10.30 Eastern time, but it is 4.30 p.m. here in Rome,
00:28:12.060
Italy. Jack Posobiec, guest hosting War Room. We'll be right back with break.
00:28:26.720
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President Trump has set off what could end up becoming a full-blown trade war. As we go down
00:29:45.900
this path, it's worth keeping something firmly in view. Tariffs don't work. I'm not spouting free
00:29:53.580
market theory. I'm simply making a practical observation. There have been many efforts in
00:29:59.560
recent decades to help industries in decline in America. I can think of no case where tariffs have
00:30:06.800
worked to reverse that decline, except temporarily. Take the most recent example. Before Trump,
00:30:14.180
tariffs on tires put in place by President Obama. In 2009, after complaints from American companies
00:30:20.640
about cheap Chinese imports, the Obama administration slapped a 35 percent tariff on Chinese tires.
00:30:27.540
shall we call them tariff downers? Because as you know, we are awaiting a historic press conference
00:30:35.520
coming from President Trump, believed to be with the United Kingdom. And of course, Chinese negotiations
00:30:43.840
are forthcoming, too. It's Natalie Winters. Jack Posobiec, I think, is adjusting part of his set,
00:30:49.800
but we'll have him back. I think we got some people over at the White House, too, that we may
00:30:53.380
go to. I guess the White House is running a little behind schedule, though I guess we'll give him
00:30:57.600
a little bit of grace when you're upending the entire global trade order. But I want to pick up
00:31:03.660
on something that Posobiec was mentioning before we get into, I think, just how historic today is.
00:31:09.620
And there's some interesting, shall we say, voter fraud investigations, accusations, actually,
00:31:14.680
in this case, indictments. You know, here in the war room, we speak in prison sentences and not
00:31:19.100
strongly worded letters. Those coming out of Texas, we'll get into all of that and how the New
00:31:23.260
York Times is, I guess, predictably running cover, trying to make you feel bad for ballot
00:31:28.220
harvesters and people who tried to rig elections. But I want to bring your attention. I can think
00:31:33.440
this all really, frankly, merges and meshes quite nicely with the tariffs, the trade imbalance,
00:31:39.960
reorientation, restructuring that President Trump has undertaken. That individual by the name of
00:31:45.840
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick that Jack Posobiec had mentioned, who was essentially the envoy,
00:31:50.120
the lead negotiator for a lot of these Vatican and China negotiations. Well, he's a quite interesting
00:31:56.740
character, because if you can believe it, he actually has deep ties to none other than Hunter
00:32:02.080
Biden. I had broken the story years ago, but McCarrick had actually spoke at several events
00:32:08.200
hosted by CEFC China Energy. You may recall that is the Chinese Communist Party paramilitary
00:32:15.540
influence organization that's chaired by a man by the name of Patrick Ho, who boasted about being the
00:32:21.820
effing spy chief of China. Now, I know we're called China hawks here in the war room, but I think
00:32:28.120
even Democrats would agree that maybe that rises just marginally to a national security threat status.
00:32:34.520
Nonetheless, like I said, the lead negotiator on this China Vatican deal was McCarrick, who repeatedly
00:32:41.440
spoke at these CEFC events where Hunter Biden was listed as the managing director, including but not
00:32:47.380
limited to one of their events in 2012, the New York Forum on World Civilizations and in 2013,
00:32:53.220
core values and world order. But it gets even worse. And why am I bringing this up? Because I think
00:32:59.460
there's a striking, if not deafening parallel to so many of the trade deals that we've seen go on
00:33:04.860
between this country and the PRC and the common thread, the common variable there being that
00:33:10.220
every person who was involved in negotiating them, though, I don't even like the term negotiating
00:33:15.460
because that implies that you had a seat at the table. You never did. And now all the people who
00:33:20.520
are apoplectic over what President Trump is doing to rebalance these trade deficits, the actual abuses
00:33:26.440
and abusive relationship that the CCP, but of course, all their proxies, right? The Belt and Road
00:33:31.520
made in China 2025. Take your pick. But the way that they've been able to score these deals, I think
00:33:36.300
there's a very interesting microcosm and sort of representation of what happened in this one China
00:33:42.020
Vatican deal with our trade deals more broadly. And it's so interesting because McCarrick, I guess he
00:33:47.300
just loved the PRC so much that he actually wrote several articles for their quarterly journal that they
00:33:53.200
would publish talking and praising, like I said, the spy chief of China, Patrick Ho, quote, I do not have
00:33:59.580
the brilliance or the learning to match Patrick. He even calls him brilliant again. I guess he really
00:34:04.960
thinks a Chinese Communist Party spy is brilliant. That should tell you all you need to know. He goes
00:34:09.460
on to actually draw parallels between, catch this, Xi Jinping and the Pope, many paragraphs about how
00:34:16.720
they're so similar in saving the world before, I guess, his final act in this one article, talking
00:34:22.440
about how there are connections that exist between doctrines of Catholics and the Communist
00:34:26.640
doctrine. Now, I don't know about you. I've been around long enough to know what Chinese Communist
00:34:32.920
Party, not just compromise, but merger looks like. And this is a telltale sign. Yet again, another
00:34:40.720
called shot for the war room, though, like I always say, and I'm sure you share my feelings in this, we
00:34:45.520
don't necessarily want to be right, right? I wish COVID-19 weren't a bioweapon launched by the Wuhan
00:34:51.160
Institute of Virology. But unfortunately, that's what the evidence, despite the CCP's best efforts to
00:34:56.620
stonewall every single ounce of all of that, gain-of-function research. Aside, that's
00:35:02.880
obviously where it came from. But yet another called shot, which I think dovetails quite nicely
00:35:07.720
with this whole idea that President Trump, the MAGA movement, Trumpism as an ideology has been right
00:35:14.180
from day one. There's an article from the New York Times today, let's toss it up, about a Ken Paxton
00:35:19.740
indictment, alleged investigation. People may recall what was it a few months ago, the LULAC
00:35:26.160
organizers. Of course, the New York Times was melting down because I guess they were in their
00:35:30.800
their 80s. I would like to introduce them to all the dead Democratic voters that I guess
00:35:35.920
on their voter rolls. But it's quite interesting. If you read this article, I'll read you a paragraph
00:35:42.420
of it and you tell me who you think they think the victim is. Now, five people all with ties to
00:35:48.220
Democratic candidates are accused of illegal vote harvesting, which usually involves knocking on
00:35:52.960
doors and asking if volunteers can deliver completed absentee or mail-in ballots to voting centers
00:35:57.860
or ballot drop boxes. The piece goes on. I don't think they have even one paragraph sentence or a
00:36:04.720
positive phrase mentioning that voter fraud is real, that the people who were indicted were caught
00:36:09.840
harvesting ballots illegally, right? They demean and paint Ken Paxton as an absolute lunatic.
00:36:17.780
Well, I think my critique, honestly, something we've been hammering for these past few days,
00:36:21.900
would go all the way back to people like Senator Tillis, right? They can talk so tough, so tough,
00:36:28.860
so much so that they can't vote to confirm Ed Martin because of what? The debatable nuance between
00:36:35.680
a three-day prison sentence or a three-year prison sentence over some January 6th, I guess,
00:36:41.040
violent offenders who entered a building where the door was open for them? Do you ever hear these
00:36:45.900
people talk that tough about, I don't know, Zelensky? I mean, he canceled elections, came after
00:36:51.260
Christianity and imposed martial law. You never really hear that. Do you ever really hear these
00:36:56.080
people actually do anything tough against the Chinese Communist Party? No, the only time they'll talk tough on
00:37:03.040
them is so they can justify a trillion dollar defense budget that seems to only be expanding
00:37:07.320
every single year. Oh, but you say you want to delist them from the stock market. Oh, no, no, no,
00:37:14.420
that's the, what, fourth, fifth, sixth rail, can't go there. Well, I would say yet another called shot for
00:37:19.880
the war room, so much so I believe we were talking about this last night at about 6.30 p.m., there's been
00:37:25.120
an absolutely massive bombshell expose coming out of Stanford, which, of course, is home to the
00:37:32.040
Hoover Institution, one of the leading conservative think tanks, but I'd also just flag before we get into
00:37:36.700
the CCP espionage that's been going down there. Remember someone by the name of Pamela Carlin? Well, she
00:37:42.940
was, I think, the dean or some very high up position at Stanford Law, then became Biden's DOJ kind of head
00:37:49.240
honcho apparatchik, saying that if you dared to question the results of the election, that you would probably have
00:37:54.920
the full force of Biden's DOJ hurled against you and you could potentially end up in jail.
00:38:00.660
I wonder what she had to hide with that one. We'll get into that, I guess, another time.
00:38:05.820
But this investigation shows not just run-of-the-mill Chinese infiltration on the Stanford campus,
00:38:10.580
but so much so that they have actually been using people who aren't even students and having them act
00:38:17.400
as spies and leveraging their families overseas in China, trying to get them, trying to convince them
00:38:23.360
to leak secrets about highly classified, in some cases, military applicable research and bring it
00:38:30.120
back to the homeland, to the motherland. So for all these people who want to talk so tough on the
00:38:37.080
Chinese Communist Party, I would suggest that maybe you start with revoking the visas, frankly, all the
00:38:44.900
H-1Bs, but we can get to that at another time, but of these Chinese foreign students. I'll read you the
00:38:51.100
direct quote from this one report, quote, many Chinese nationals have handlers. The CCP wants to
00:38:56.280
know everything that's going on at Stanford. This is a very normal thing. They just relay all the
00:39:00.880
information they have. Quote, parents and relatives were brought in for a talk with the police to
00:39:06.800
encourage Chinese international students to overturn information. That's what we have. You want to talk
00:39:15.260
about the enemy within. Now, I know typically when I say enemy within, I'd probably throw a few rhinos in
00:39:21.240
there. Some Democrats, probably Hillary Clinton and Jake Sullivan, for good measure. Jake Sullivan,
00:39:26.020
who what now wants to be a primetime commentator on MSNBC, insinuating that it's the Trump administration
00:39:31.580
that killed all the wonderful accomplishments that Joe Biden had. I'm struggling to come up with any,
00:39:39.440
unless you think what happened in Afghanistan is one. These people are such national security experts,
00:39:46.760
yet they're concurrently advocating for Chinese Communist Party spies at best, kinetic actual
00:39:53.900
foot soldiers at worst, to be here, 350,000 strong in the borders of the United States of America,
00:40:00.700
excluding the Chinese nationals that entered this country under Joe Biden.
00:40:03.980
Now, when I say I'm all for the mass deportations, yes, we all are in this audience. I think that's
00:40:12.880
probably the prerequisite chromosomal thing to be a member of the war room posse. You got to be for
00:40:18.320
the mass deportations. But when we talk about accountability, it's not just for the Venezuelans
00:40:23.080
and the Hondurans and the Nicaraguans and the Mexicans. It's for the Americans, though I'm sure they
00:40:28.460
probably hate my use of that term, who orchestrated this invasion. And by the way, to that point,
00:40:37.400
it's breaking in Politico today, that Joe Biden is busy hiring. Now, I would suggest it should be
00:40:44.580
lawyers and lawyering up. That may be the preemptive pardon sort of gets you ahead of that one.
00:40:50.200
But tapped a guy named Chris Meager, who's a former deputy press secretary for Joe Biden and a defense
00:40:56.400
department spokesperson to essentially run sort of PR cover for Joe Biden. It's how he ended up on
00:41:03.700
The View. Don't know how they got him there in one piece. All I'm saying is I don't think at this
00:41:11.000
point in the Trump administration that Joe Biden should be hiring comms experts and appearing on
00:41:16.060
The View. I think he should be lawyering up, preserving his documents and more or less on trial
00:41:21.020
trial or at least in paneling some grand juries. And I don't think the fact that people like
00:41:25.260
Senator Tillis are sabotaging Ed Martin's confirmation, effectively handing that seat
00:41:29.960
over to someone whose morality consists of turning midair flights around full of illegal
00:41:35.480
immigrant migrant gangbanger criminal thugs, who I think we have new reporting on Kilmer
00:41:40.960
Garcia, that he was, I think, a taxi driver for some human trafficking ring.
00:41:47.300
Diversity is our strength, I guess. But he's going to get to choose who the new
00:41:56.100
Senator Tillis doesn't want to budge on that one.
00:42:00.460
Senator Tillis, who's what number one donor, as I reported, I think two days ago, is none
00:42:06.140
other than BlackRock and the financial services industry. And here's the important point in all
00:42:13.600
that. The man who had potentially helmed the investigations over D.C. putting him directly
00:42:20.580
into the purview of the FBI with everything that's been going on through Doge, ActBlue.
00:42:29.760
It's quite interesting to me that a senator who is bankrolled by some of the most, I was going to say
00:42:38.040
leading, I'll say, sinister financial institutions that are probably on the receiving end of most of
00:42:42.900
that waste, fraud and abuse, though I would put emphasis on abuse. And I still think that's an
00:42:47.420
understatement that he does not want an investigation going on. If you follow the money, you can reverse
00:42:52.260
engineer what these people are hiding. And this all runs together, whether it's the Chinese Communist
00:42:57.360
Party, these horrific trade deals. There are a lot of stones that have been left unturned, and we need
00:43:05.540
people like Ed Martin, because they are proven fighters to be able to turn them over, not Chinese
00:43:10.340
Communist Party sellouts or listless vessels for entities and corporations like BlackRock or
00:43:15.940
cardinals like Theodore McCarrick, who don't even care about their faith, but would rather take funds
00:43:20.220
from the Chinese Communist Party and shill on a stage next to Hunter Biden and the spy chief of China.
00:43:27.360
I guess that's what it means to be a D.C. ruling elite. And that's why we are proud to be the war
00:43:33.480
room, home of, I guess, the counter-elite insurgency. We'll be right back after this short break. Jack is
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