The War Room is back in Portland, Oregon with a special guest, Ben Burkwam, to talk about the ongoing ICE raid on an immigrant detention center, and what it's like to live in a city that's been turned into a war zone.
00:01:26.000We're pressed for time, but I want to go back to citizens of this country, regardless of their politics,
00:01:32.000regardless of the liberals and progressives, can't live besieged by terrorists and the people that support them.
00:01:40.000Because remember, Ben, one of the reasons President Trump had the victory for four years, actually for five, we did it even during President Trump's presidency,
00:01:49.760but then ramped it up when the invasion started on the southern border.
00:01:53.140And you were so eloquent in what you said yesterday.
00:01:56.080This is not chaos, not disorganization.
00:01:57.880It's highly organized by Antifa and the NGOs, just like the invasion was highly, highly choreographed and coordinated.
00:02:06.180It was not, as Todd Bensman, who's now in the government working over with Homan, used to tell us every day.
00:03:06.040Rick, walk us through what the last nine months has been like living here with this insanity.
00:03:11.740Basically, every single day I come out here, I walk my dog four times a day, I get called Nazi, they scream at me, they give me a hard time.
00:03:24.060They say they're peaceful, but they're not peaceful.
00:03:28.200They're very aggressive, especially at night.
00:03:31.240I mean, the day crew is not so bad, but at nighttime, I can't even come out here.
00:03:35.280My neighbors, you know, most of the females that are in here, they're terrified to even come out.
00:03:41.860So they have to text me so that I can come out and help them.
00:06:39.780We're going to get back to Ben Burquam.
00:06:41.100If you saw that footage, Andy Nose got it up, and Ben Burquam, of course, he was with the ICE guys last night.
00:06:49.500When, Rick, the citizen, says, hey, the building's empty, it's because they surrounded every night, and heretofore, federal officials, et cetera, have not wanted to force the subject.
00:07:03.640I really think that's going to change.
00:07:04.940I think President Trump is coming down to the conclusion that, hey, it's not going to change until we make a change, and that's what we saw, federal officials last night.
00:07:13.460Look at those arrests in some of that footage.
00:07:16.480At least seven people arrested last night.
00:07:18.340You've got to clean the whole thing up, and I would go to the NGOs and roll them up, too, just like they were at the border.
00:07:24.320Look, look, nobody wanted to cover this, and I really appreciate Robin Parker-Sig and Real America's Voice giving us the platform and actually helping assist us to get the investigative reporters down there.
00:07:37.620But Oscar Blue Ramirez, Ben Burquam, and others, dozens and dozens of others reported this for years and years and years and showed you the entire thing and all the lies of the Biden regime.
00:07:48.340This is one of the reasons people said, we've had enough of this.
00:09:09.780And you see what's happening here in Portland, and you see what's happening in places like Chicago with the crime being out of control and the gangs being out of control.
00:09:15.540And soon it's going to happen in New York City because you're about to have the red-green alliance, neo-Marxist with jihadists, control New York City.
00:09:29.580In fact, I just went through a personal situation where somebody was remote and had the Internet and the wireless communications down for four days.
00:09:40.560And, man, did they need a satellite phone.
00:09:58.140Just when we had the last UN meeting, what we saw was the Secret Service managed to take down a network of over 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards that were set up within 35 miles of the UN to basically flood the cell towers with messages.
00:10:13.100And that network of servers had the ability to send up to 30 million messages a minute.
00:10:19.220And what that does is that overwhelms the cell towers and therefore effectively takes them offline.
00:10:24.540And this was focused around the UN, Steve, but this can happen across the country.
00:10:28.940In the last week, we've seen huge attacks on software infrastructures for ticketing systems, for airlines, both here in the U.S. and around the world, that causes chaos for flights.
00:10:39.120And this is a pattern that we've been seeing for the last several years of bad state actors basically testing out how they can influence and disrupt our communications networks and our infrastructure in general.
00:10:52.520And so we have to be prepared for this.
00:10:55.100And the only way to do that is to have a communication system that does not rely on these cell towers and the power grid.
00:11:01.600And that's, of course, satphone, Steve.
00:11:03.140So sat123.com, we still have the free satphone with activation.
00:11:07.460And right now we're doing the free satellite phone with the free bulletproof backpack.
00:11:14.280Obviously, a lot of places in this country are getting more and more dangerous.
00:11:18.420But a free satphone and a free bulletproof backpack, you're paying just $95 a month.
00:11:26.920But this satphone will enable you to stay in touch.
00:11:29.920If the cell towers get taken down, if the power grid gets taken down, you are not going to be without communication, just like your friend discovered there.
00:11:36.740You don't want to be without communication before that.
00:11:39.260I was in a situation, five days, no comms.
00:11:44.540I had to go down, had to drive down to a local village and get comms.
00:11:50.760This whole thing with the airports being shut down and this whole cybersecurity attacks, some in Europe, some here in the United States, is that directly tied?
00:12:00.020Do you think that's directly tied to what happened in the UN?
00:12:02.200And just take a second, because we haven't had a chance to cover it.
00:12:05.160This massive thing the Secret Service and other federal agencies found about in New York, what was that specifically?
00:12:13.580Well, it was this network of servers was designed to cause what they call a denial of distributed denial of service attack.
00:12:20.600We're used to websites being attacked like this, but there's kind of a new development of this equipment being used to disrupt cell towers.
00:12:27.960And that very clearly, I think, is tied to what's going on with other cyber attacks around the world.
00:12:34.040Because the end result is that our infrastructure is taken offline, and that is designed to cause chaos in the U.S.
00:12:41.700And look, if I was looking to attack a country, the first thing that I would do and others are doing is figuring out how they can cause chaos so that everyone's looking the other way and nobody can communicate.
00:12:55.880And, you know, if you're out of communications for five days, a lot can happen in that time.
00:13:01.040You don't want to be in that situation.
00:13:02.980Either we as a country or you as an individual with your family, you do not want to be left without any kind of communications.
00:13:09.520But, Steve, I certainly believe that all of these attacks are part of a bigger plan to disrupt, you know, the infrastructure here in the U.S.
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00:23:15.900We're going to be spending a lot of time on this because of the simple fact that this credit card debt situation, because they fed credit cards to everybody, the credit card companies.
00:23:27.760I'm not saying they're the villains here, but they're the villains here.
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00:25:58.900Let's not forget the governor of Utah is in the midst of an investigation and now trial of a political assassination of Charlie Kirk.
00:26:10.500And he is now on the media spreading this dignity index, which is a pilot program of his, which basically is suppression of free speech.
00:26:22.680I have two points of the policy that he's pushing.
00:26:26.760You know, we are not allowed to mock and attack others, their beliefs, their commitment, their competence, which we should, because this assassination happened in the state of Utah.
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00:29:46.760So, Senator Hawley, Russ Vogt's going to come up today and, I think, brief people on what the plan is for deconstruction of the administrative state in the Schumer shutdown.
00:29:58.780Leader Thune, I think the strategy is pretty good.
00:30:01.720Make them, particularly now it's a bipartisan vote since Nevada and Maine kind of threw in with the Republicans.
00:30:08.800Are you guys going to vote every couple hours on this until you break the Democrats?
00:30:12.320Well, it sounds like that's the plan, Steve.
00:30:14.740I just don't understand what the Democrats think they're accomplishing here.
00:30:17.700I mean, you're going to shut down the government and have a fit over what?
00:30:54.140But here's the thing, and you've pointed this out in your efforts to reverse all this defund the police madness.
00:31:02.780New York's, the vote in New York City with the Working People's Party and the DSA, the combination of neo-Marxism and jihadist,
00:31:10.320it's the same thing we just saw out with trying to stop law enforcement officers from implementing the mass deportation programs around ICE.
00:31:21.720The radical left is even more radical than ever.
00:31:23.800And they are winning in certain polling in certain Democrats' strongholds away from what used to be modern Democrats, which don't even exist anymore.
00:31:32.420So how can you deal with a party that is becoming radicalized and, quite frankly, pushing the escalation in political violence, sir?
00:31:41.320I mean, this is the question of the day, Steve, and I just look at the Democrats, the elected Democrats, and I think they've got a choice to make.
00:31:47.500You know, I mean, are they actually going to represent the middle of the road, normal constituents, the working class people?
00:31:53.560Well, Democrats are always saying, oh, we're the party of the working class.
00:32:58.280They're like, why are the Democrats doing this?
00:33:00.700I mean, why are they closing everything?
00:33:02.240By the way, every Missourian is still getting taxed to pay for this government that now is not working.
00:33:07.600You know, this is a basic we the people moment.
00:33:09.700Does the government work for us or are we just here to fund this government no matter what it does?
00:33:14.800You know, is the government just going to be shut down for months on end, but we're going to keep paying our taxes because we really serve the government?
00:33:20.900That seems to be the Democrats' message.
00:33:22.900I don't think that's what the people in my state believe.
00:33:24.820And they want people up here in D.C. to get to work, you know, get off their butts, get to work, start solving some problems here, start getting jobs back, get wages up, get inflation down, get the cost of health care down.
00:33:36.340Put power back in the hands of working people.
00:33:40.160Democrats are going in the opposite direction.
00:33:43.700Russ Vogt, I think, is going to go up to the hill today and brief people on one of the alternatives they've got.
00:33:48.540Since the government has been shut down by the Democrats, he's got a couple of different alternatives of how you get into either mass layoffs, rifts.
00:34:14.340You can't whine and fuss and say, oh, the president is acting like a dictator.
00:34:18.580When you shut down the government and now, frankly, put onto the president the decision of designating who's essential, who's non-essential, who's going to work.
00:34:26.100I mean, to be honest with you, Steve, what I would urge the president to consider doing is just paying people anyway.
00:34:37.460Just because the Democrats don't like Trump, they're not going to get paid.
00:34:39.900I think the president ought to say, listen, I'm paying the military, and if you want to stop me, take me to court.
00:34:45.320I think the president should say for essential services that the American people have paid for and rely on, he's just going to keep them open.
00:34:52.480And if the Democrats want to stop that, take him to court.
00:34:56.160Get on the side of the people, which is, I think, where the president is.
00:34:59.260But I just say again, the Democrats on this are out to lunch.
00:35:09.900Senator, you've been one of the voices of reason about the situation with artificial intelligence.
00:35:14.660And I think people in the Senate, even across the aisle, who normally you can't reach, are starting to understand that we have a big problem here.
00:35:21.480If this thing's totally unregulated and just allowed to have the oligarchs in Silicon Valley run the deal.
00:35:27.200Can you get us up to speed on your latest work in this area?
00:35:31.280Yeah, well, I mean, here's a sample of this, what's going on right now, Steve.
00:35:34.740Just this morning, there's news reports now that AI chatbots are out there saying that Charlie Kirk was not actually assassinated.
00:35:42.960That this was a, quote, right-wing terrorist incident.
00:35:51.640I mean, of course, it's total propaganda.
00:35:53.080But this is the kind of thing, it's going to be censorship on steroids if we allow these AI companies to control all of the news, all of the data, all of the information.
00:36:14.980While the oligarchs make billions of dollars.
00:36:16.820What we need to do is put power back into the hands of normal, everyday working Americans.
00:36:22.680We need to allow Americans who are harmed by these AI companies, whose kids kill themselves or harm themselves because of these chatbots, to be able to sue these companies.
00:36:33.320It's a basic American right, the right to defend your own individual rights.
00:36:38.540We need to make sure that that remains good and true in this AI age.
00:36:45.140You know, AI doesn't wipe out the U.S. Constitution.
00:36:48.120The Constitution protects the rights of the individual.
00:36:50.660And we need to double down on that and protect that from these companies who want to come after our kids, want to come after our rights, want to come after our jobs.
00:36:58.700And I got no sympathy for the oligarchs.
00:37:00.520I just have to tell you, you know, I mean, they're going to do fine.