Bannon's War Room - Episode 4916： Bringing Help To NC

00:00:00.000 Well, first let me say that President Trump has appointed an ambassador nominee for NATO,

00:00:04.940 which clearly indicates his role to engage in that.

00:00:09.200 Second is the law is what it is.

00:00:11.180 Obviously, as you've mentioned, I was a co-sponsor of the law,

00:00:13.780 and so it's tough to say I'm not in support of a law that I hope to pass,

00:00:16.600 and that I think it's an important role for Congress to play,

00:00:18.580 because, frankly, it's not just about the withdrawal piece of it,

00:00:21.360 it's the contributions you make towards the power of the purse still resides with the Congress.

00:00:25.780 Now, maybe, as if confirmed, moving towards the executive branch,

00:00:30.720 I'll forget that lesson a little bit.

00:00:33.680 I hope not, but ultimately I still recognize and understand that the power of the purse is with Congress,

00:00:38.280 and it's an incredibly important power.

00:00:40.760 Let me point on NATO one thing, and I think there's a misunderstanding about it.

00:00:44.020 The NATO alliance is a very important alliance.

00:00:46.160 I believe that.

00:00:47.100 I believe alliances can be, and it's been very useful.

00:00:49.280 Without the NATO alliance, there is no end to the Cold War.

00:00:51.900 In fact, without the NATO alliance, it's quite possible that much of what today, at the time,

00:00:57.120 today we know as Europe would have fallen victim to aggression.

00:01:03.080 But what's important for the United States is not just to have defense allies.

00:01:06.260 It's to have capable defense allies, allies who are capable of defending their region.

00:01:11.220 And I think there is a question to be asked.

00:01:13.000 I'm not stating a public policy position.

00:01:15.040 I'm stating a question to be asked, and that is,

00:01:17.140 should the role of the United States and NATO in the 21st century be the primary defense role

00:01:22.100 or as a backstop to aggression,

00:01:24.520 with countries in the region assuming more of that responsibility by contributing more?

00:01:28.620 Now, look, in fairness, and I think the further east you move in Europe,

00:01:31.720 the more money you see spent on the military as a percentage of GDP.

00:01:35.000 But I think there's been broad acknowledgement across Europe and across multiple administrations,

00:01:40.960 both Republican and Democrat, that our NATO partners, these are rich, advanced economies,

00:01:45.420 need to contribute more to their own defense and ultimately to the NATO partnership as well.

00:01:50.680 And that's a demand that's been made by multiple presidents across the years.

00:01:54.420 And the fact that that is true has been revealed by what's happened with Ukraine. 0.60

00:01:59.980 Look at the ramp-up in defense spending and the industrial capacity of multiple countries in Europe

00:02:04.460 as a result of an armed conflict.

00:02:06.460 Imagine if that capacity had been there before,

00:02:08.980 it quite possibly might have had a deterrent effect as well.

00:02:11.820 So I think it's important that we have alliances,

00:02:14.000 but we have to have alliances with strong and capable partners

00:02:16.660 and not those who sort of have viewed the U.S. and the NATO defense agreement

00:02:22.440 as an excuse to spend less on defense and more on some domestic needs. 0.82

00:02:26.120 We have domestic needs too.

00:02:27.220 These advanced and rich countries in Western Europe have enormous safety nets programs that they fund.

00:02:33.640 We have domestic needs as well, but they've been able to divert or grow those programs 0.87

00:02:38.300 because they don't have to spend as much on defense as we do as a percentage of our overall economy.

00:02:42.840 And that dynamic needs to change.

00:02:44.360 And I expect that President Trump will continue to forcefully make that point.

00:02:47.440 And as you know, this committee and the Senate NATO Observer Group,

00:02:52.780 which I co-chair, has made that point repeatedly,

00:02:55.500 and we are now up to 23 of the 32 NATO nations who are meeting their 2 percent of GDP,

00:03:01.180 and we have a number of them who are going beyond that, and it's appropriate.

00:03:05.640 We're going to shift back to Justice and Pam Bondi, Amy Klobuchar's question.

00:03:11.040 Let's go to it.

00:03:12.380 It will be my job, if confirmed, as Attorney General, to make those decisions.

00:03:18.200 Politics will not play a part.

00:03:21.140 I've demonstrated that my entire career as a prosecutor, as Attorney General,

00:03:26.240 and I will continue to do that if you confirm me as the 87th Attorney General of the United States of America.

00:03:33.140 And in an earlier question, some of my colleagues talked about China and the risk,

00:03:39.480 yet you have a nominee from this incoming administration, Kash Patel,

00:03:45.040 the pick to head the FBI of serious concerns about him,

00:03:48.480 has referred to the FBI's intel division,

00:03:51.160 which is responsible for protecting us from foreign adversaries like China.

00:03:56.660 As, quote, the biggest problem the FBI has had,

00:04:00.360 and he said that he wants to, quote, break that component out of the FBI.

00:04:05.120 Do you agree?

00:04:06.560 I have not seen those comments from Mr. Patel.

00:04:09.800 I would review them, but we have to do everything we can to protect our country.

00:04:14.960 Again, Mr. Patel would fall under me and the Department of Justice,

00:04:19.780 and I will ensure that all laws are followed, and so will he.

00:04:23.600 Okay.

00:04:23.800 There are many decisions made by the FBI director,

00:04:28.660 having seen a number of them do their work, that can be made.

00:04:32.360 While I agree you would be the boss of Kash Patel,

00:04:35.520 I'm not sure that you would be able to intervene with every decision or position that he had

00:04:39.740 or know what he's doing.

00:04:40.780 So let's continue.

00:04:41.740 Do you agree it is a duty of the Justice Department to defend the laws Congress passes,

00:04:46.700 and will you commit to do even when the president may disagree with an act campaigned against its passage

00:04:53.120 or called for its repeal?

00:04:55.860 President Reagan's AG, William French Smith, said the department policy was,

00:05:01.640 the department has the duty to defend an act of Congress whenever a reasonable argument can be made in its support.

00:05:07.760 So I am specifically referring to the 2022 law that I long led that we passed to empower Medicare to negotiate drug prices,

00:05:16.200 major savings for seniors.

00:05:18.060 Will you commit to defend the law against the lawsuits from Big Pharma?

00:05:23.620 Senator, I was involved in Big Pharma cases when I was Attorney General of the state of Florida,

00:05:28.600 and I will commit to protect the laws of the United States of America.

00:05:34.740 Okay, thank you.

00:05:35.820 That would also, same question, with the Supreme Court is going to be hearing a challenge to the Affordable Care Act's

00:05:42.420 coverage of preventative services, and despite the fact that you twice joined suits to have the entire Affordable Care Act

00:05:50.700 invalidated, will you commit to defending this law?

00:05:54.480 Yeah, I believe this is very different.

00:05:56.680 It's a very isolated, it's different.

00:05:59.160 It's not the entire Affordable Care Act, but I will, it's pending litigation, of course, within the department.

00:06:06.440 Since the 1990s, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act has protected patients,

00:06:12.880 providers, and facilities that provide reproductive health services.

00:06:17.420 Will you commit to continuing to enforce the FACE Act to address violence and threats

00:06:21.960 against those providing reproductive health care services?

00:06:25.240 Senator, the FACE Act not only protects abortion clinics, but it also protects pregnancy centers

00:06:34.300 and people going for counseling.

00:06:36.540 The law should be applied even-handedly.

00:06:39.100 Yes, Senator.

00:06:40.220 So you'll uphold the enforcement of that law?

00:06:42.360 I'll uphold the enforcement of the law, Senator.

00:06:45.640 Okay, and I will ask my antitrust questions in the next round.

00:06:49.620 We had a good discussion.

00:06:50.720 We're going to go back to Rubio, talking about Ukraine.

00:06:53.820 Let's hit it.

00:06:56.360 Unless both sides have leverage.

00:06:58.640 Putin's goal now is to have maximum leverage so that he can basically impose neutrality on Ukraine,

00:07:04.200 retrofit, and come back and do this again in four or five years.

00:07:06.800 And that's not an outcome I think any of us would favor.

00:07:09.880 By the same token, I think it's important that the Ukrainians have leverage,

00:07:13.360 but they also will have to make concessions to reach this agreement.

00:07:16.160 It's going to be very difficult.

00:07:17.240 This will not be easy.

00:07:18.520 Conflicts of this nature that have historical underpinnings to it are going to require a lot of hard diplomacy and tough work.

00:07:25.380 But that's something that needs to happen.

00:07:27.320 This conflict needs to end.

00:07:28.480 Well, I'm out of time, but I appreciate your last comment about the importance of leverage.

00:07:35.440 And it's important for the United States to do what we can to help provide that leverage to Ukraine

00:07:40.880 so that they can be in the best negotiating position possible with Russia.

00:07:44.920 Thank you very much.

00:07:46.260 Thank you, Senator Shaheen.

00:07:47.500 Senator Ricketts.

00:07:49.040 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:07:50.420 Well, Senator Rubio, congratulations on your nomination to this very, very difficult job.

00:07:55.120 I want to thank you for your previous service in the U.S. Senate and your willingness to take on this job, should you be confirmed.

00:08:02.260 And I also want to thank your family as well for their support for you to be able to be a U.S. Senator

00:08:09.380 and to apply for this job as Secretary of State.

00:08:12.620 And I want also to express my gratitude to all the members of the State Department.

00:08:19.380 We have a lot of people who choose to serve our country overseas, spend time away from their friends and family,

00:08:25.000 and I can't think of a more noble calling.

00:08:26.760 You're taking over a department that's very, very important to us.

00:08:31.060 On Sunday, Jake Sullivan, the President Biden's National Security Advisor, said, quote,

00:08:37.140 The American people are safer and the country is better off than we were four years ago.

00:08:43.320 Let me repeat.

00:08:44.200 The American people are safer and the country is better off than four years ago.

00:08:48.460 I don't know who believes that.

00:08:51.520 I don't believe that.

00:08:54.360 I think the election results demonstrate the vast majority of Americans don't believe that.

00:09:00.960 We don't believe it at home.

00:09:03.440 Inflation has hurt average American's pocketbooks.

00:09:07.400 Open border policies have put Americans at risk.

00:09:11.240 And I don't believe we see it overseas.

00:09:16.320 In fact, Senator Rubio, should you be confirmed,

00:09:22.040 you're being handed a job at a time when this country is in the most danger we've been in since World War II.

00:09:32.060 It's a very dangerous time in the world, and your opening remarks demonstrate that you know that.

00:09:37.340 We're not better off, and we're not safer.

00:09:43.300 President Biden started this with a disaster withdrawal from Afghanistan, that projected weakness.

00:09:50.480 And an incomprehension of what it means to have a policy of deterrence.

00:09:58.000 Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and started the largest war in Europe since World War II after that withdrawal.

00:10:04.420 I believe it was because he saw weakness in this Biden administration.

00:10:10.380 It's been the president's fear of helping Ukraine that has contributed to putting them in the untenable position they are today

00:10:18.580 by slow-rolling the weapons that Ukraine needs to be able to defend themselves.

00:10:24.420 His incomprehensible and incoherent policy has caused him to handcuff American liquid natural gas exports

00:10:32.500 while delaying tough sanctions on the Russian oil and gas industry,

00:10:36.400 which, as you know, is the lifeblood of the Russian war machine.

00:10:40.960 The Middle East is equally disastrous. 1.00

00:10:43.660 Instead of enforcing sanctions on Iran,

00:10:46.440 Biden naively tried to resurrect the Iran nuclear deal,

00:10:49.060 enabling the regime to generate $100 billion in oil revenue.

00:10:54.920 And I want to point out that during the Trump administration, because of sanctions,

00:10:59.380 Iran's foreign reserves fell from $122 billion to less than $14 billion.

00:11:05.540 That hampered their ability to be able to fund terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis.

00:11:11.420 What the Biden administration has done is allowed the Iranian regime to enrich enough weapons-grade uranium

00:11:19.280 to be a week or two away from having a nuclear weapon.

00:11:25.420 And since October 7th, President Biden has not supported Israel in the way he's needed.

00:11:32.060 And because of the previous mentioned money that he's allowed the Iranians to have 0.84

00:11:36.400 that has funded the terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah,

00:11:40.520 our allies, like Israel, have been attacked.

00:11:43.360 And we've been attacked directly.

00:11:46.080 Thankfully, Israel's had the courage to stand up to these terrorists

00:11:49.540 and take matters into its own hands.

00:11:51.580 And it's led to the decimation of Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:11:55.320 But no amount of revisionist history could change the fact that...

00:11:58.400 Interesting speech by Pete Rickards.

00:12:02.240 Rickards don't know exactly what it is.

00:12:04.940 It's supposed to ask questions.

00:12:06.040 We want to hear from Rubio, Senator.

00:12:09.860 Whatever.

00:12:11.660 We're going to go to Pam Bondi.

00:12:12.820 We also have...

00:12:13.640 I am going to cut into this.

00:12:14.780 We have the situation down in Western North Carolina and Tennessee.

00:12:18.080 And I'm going to cut away in a moment and go to Ben Burkwam.

00:12:24.600 But let's go back to Pam Bondi.

00:12:25.860 Can we go to Pam Bondi?

00:12:27.180 I'd like to get a question out of Rubio.

00:12:28.860 But hey, if Pete Rickards is going to give a speech,

00:12:30.460 if he's going to filibuster, we'll go to Pam Bondi.

00:12:32.100 Private communications that have been intercepted and stored through incidental collection

00:12:37.620 have been searched without those safeguards being met,

00:12:41.620 including instances where people just wanted to check on, to cite one example,

00:12:47.280 whether his father was cheating on his mother,

00:12:49.880 or in other instances doing background checks on someone looking to lease an apartment that he owned

00:12:55.660 and was looking to rent out.

00:12:57.360 This is unacceptable, and we've got to fix it.

00:12:59.940 Speaking of unacceptable,

00:13:01.880 we have seen over the last few years the weaponization of government,

00:13:07.300 specifically within the Department of Justice,

00:13:09.740 against law-abiding Americans.

00:13:11.320 Law-abiding Americans whose offense was something along the lines of,

00:13:15.400 you know, them exercising their constitutional rights,

00:13:18.220 ranging from Catholics attempting to practice their faith,

00:13:22.320 to parents showing up to school board meetings,

00:13:25.800 to people showing up to engage in peaceful protesting outside of abortion clinics.

00:13:31.240 As Attorney General,

00:13:32.540 how will you prevent the weaponization of the Department of Justice against Americans?

00:13:37.300 And, Senator, you just gave the classic example of what's been happening regarding the weaponization.

00:13:44.920 Going after parents at a school board meeting has got to stop.

00:13:49.320 For practicing your religion,

00:13:52.100 sending informants in to Catholic churches must stop.

00:13:57.400 What about branding parents as domestic terrorists

00:13:59.880 or trying to incarcerate one's political opponent as a sitting president of the United States?

00:14:04.600 Will stop.

00:14:05.640 Must stop.

00:14:06.440 Your senator.

00:14:08.460 It is exactly the sort of answer I was hoping and expecting to receive from you,

00:14:12.860 and I look forward to doing everything I can to help get you confirmed.

00:14:16.280 I've been pleased with your answers thus far.

00:14:18.520 I've enjoyed knowing you,

00:14:21.000 considering you a friend for many years,

00:14:22.460 and look forward to the great things you will do as Attorney General of the United States.

00:14:26.000 You have my emphatic support and my vote.

00:14:29.260 Thank you, Senator.

00:14:31.340 Senator Coons.

00:14:32.460 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:14:33.680 Welcome, Attorney General Bondi, and to your family and supporters.

00:14:37.420 Thank you for your service, and I look forward to our conversation today.

00:14:40.560 I have a simple three-factor test when considering the executive branch nominees before us.

00:14:45.900 Do you have the qualifications and experience to do the job, policy views to do the job in the best interest of the American people,

00:14:51.780 and the character and integrity to conduct your job, and yours in particular, with the independence that the role requires?

00:14:58.700 You demonstrably have the relevant experience.

00:15:01.520 I understand we will not see eye to eye on some or even many policies,

00:15:05.780 but we had a constructive conversation last week about our shared interest in fighting the opioid epidemic,

00:15:11.460 countering human trafficking, criminal justice reform, and supporting law enforcement.

00:15:15.840 But I need to know that you share a core value,

00:15:19.460 ensuring the Department of Justice remains free from partisan or political influence,

00:15:23.880 in particular by the White House.

00:15:25.480 So I look forward to our discussion about that today.

00:15:28.700 As Attorney General, if confirmed, who would be your client?

00:15:33.600 My oath would be to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

00:15:39.460 The people of America would be my client.

00:15:42.580 And it is also my job to advise the President.

00:15:46.380 My client are the people of America.

00:15:49.700 A simple question of constitutional interpretation.

00:15:53.320 Is President-elect Trump eligible to run for another term as President in 2028?

00:15:58.700 No, Senator, not unless they change the Constitution.

00:16:04.220 Thank you.

00:16:05.480 One of the concerns I've raised with you is safeguarding the Department of Justice's independence

00:16:10.820 in the face of some promises on the campaign trail by then-candidate Trump

00:16:16.040 that he would use the Department to target his political adversaries

00:16:19.520 or that he might interfere with prosecution.

00:16:22.980 What would you do if your career DOJ prosecutors came to you with a case to prosecute,

00:16:29.720 grounded in the facts and law, but the White House directs you to drop the case?

00:16:34.940 Senator, if I thought that would happen, I would not be sitting here today.

00:16:39.980 That will not happen, will not happen.

00:16:45.660 Every case will be prosecuted based on the facts and the law that is applied in-

00:16:53.180 Okay, let's go back to Marco Rubio.

00:16:54.840 Senator, against Uyghur Muslims as an example.

00:16:58.980 One of the most horrifying things happening on the planet.

00:17:01.380 And for years, no one talked about it, which, by the way, not just has a human rights component to it,

00:17:06.140 it allows them to use slave labor to produce goods at the expense of the rest of the world.

00:17:11.900 Talk about not just a horrific humanitarian crisis, but an unfair trade practice as well.

00:17:16.800 We've allowed them to get away with things.

00:17:18.160 And frankly, the Chinese did what any country in the world would do given these opportunities.

00:17:22.380 They took advantage of it, and so I think now we're dealing with the ramifications of it.

00:17:27.180 I agree 100% what you said, but I remind you, and I remind everyone, I guess I want to make this point,

00:17:32.060 that much of what we need to do to confront China is here at home. 0.90

00:17:35.600 It's not just abroad, it's also here at home.

00:17:37.620 We have to rebuild our domestic industrial capacity,

00:17:40.280 and we have to make sure that the United States is not reliant on any single other nation

00:17:43.820 for any of our critical supply chains.

00:17:46.320 And with four seconds left, how are you going to explain that to your average American,

00:17:51.300 that we need this all-size society approach, and to your point exactly,

00:17:54.580 that it needs to begin here at home,

00:17:57.200 so that people from my state, Nebraska, will understand and get on board?

00:18:01.660 If we stay on the road we're on right now, in less than 10 years,

00:18:06.100 virtually everything that matters to us in life will depend on whether China will allow us to have it or not.

00:18:10.840 Everything from the blood pressure medicine we take to what movies we get to watch,

00:18:15.380 and everything in between, we will depend on China for it.

00:18:18.220 They have come to dominate the critical mineral industry supplies throughout the world.

00:18:23.600 Everywhere in the world they've now established critical mineral rights.

00:18:26.440 Even those who want to see more electric cars, no matter where you make them,

00:18:29.400 those batteries are almost entirely dependent on the ability of the Chinese,

00:18:33.300 and the willingness of the Chinese Communist Party to produce it and export it to you.

00:18:37.360 So if we don't change course, we are going to live in a world

00:18:40.140 where much of what matters to us on a daily basis, from our security to our health,

00:18:44.440 will be dependent on whether the Chinese allow us to have it or not.

00:18:48.220 That's an unacceptable outcome.

00:18:49.860 Thank you, Senator Rubio.

00:18:54.460 Next is Senator Merkur.

00:18:57.860 Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Senator Rubio.

00:19:00.620 And I've enjoyed working with you on the Congressional Executive Commission on China,

00:19:04.320 which engages in many issues related to their treatment of folks from the Tibetans to the Uyghurs,

00:19:12.040 to their position regarding Hong Kong and Taiwan.

00:19:17.100 But let's talk about Taiwan.

00:19:18.520 I had the chance to go to Taiwan in 20, well, the year 2000.

00:19:22.180 It was the second presidential election there,

00:19:24.020 and it was the first one where people were becoming convinced

00:19:25.900 that they actually might be able to hold a democracy.

00:19:28.900 I believe they've earned the right to have a voice in international affairs,

00:19:33.400 and I also believe that they are at great risk right now

00:19:37.300 with mainland China Xi's plan to be aggressive militarily towards them,

00:19:42.920 as my colleague, Senator Ricketts, just noted.

00:19:47.080 Will you support your role as Secretary of State?

00:19:50.480 Taiwan's right to have a voice in international affairs,

00:19:53.700 participate in international forums.

00:19:55.340 And will you support the porcupine strategy,

00:19:59.460 providing that we will supply them with defense articles

00:20:05.060 and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary

00:20:09.220 to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability?

00:20:12.980 By the way, that phrase is from the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.

00:20:16.500 It's in our current law.

00:20:18.540 Yeah, let me just point out that on the Taiwan Relations Act,

00:20:21.340 and I believe that the year 2016 I was the lead Republican sponsor

00:20:24.860 in reauthorizing and reinvigorating it.

00:20:27.040 I think that the multiple or consecutive presidential administrations

00:20:32.960 of both parties have made clear

00:20:34.340 that the policy of the United States towards Taiwan is encapsulated

00:20:37.600 not just in the Taiwan Relations Act but in the six assurances

00:20:40.200 that multiple administrations, including the Trump administration

00:20:43.200 and now the Biden administration, have made clear our policies.

00:20:46.120 With regards to your second point about international forums,

00:20:49.200 ASEAN is a great example of one in which that's being tested.

00:20:54.560 Last year at their conference,

00:20:57.260 the Chinese were able to prevent participation

00:21:02.520 by any mention of Taiwan in the memorandum.

00:21:07.340 And then this year they're working very hard

00:21:08.640 to make sure that no one associated with Taiwan

00:21:10.380 is anywhere near it.

00:21:11.640 So this is just one more example of how they're being excluded.

00:21:13.960 I would also point to the Western Hemisphere.

00:21:15.820 I know that sounds like half a world away,

00:21:17.580 but you understand this issue.

00:21:18.720 The majority of nations on Earth that continue to recognize

00:21:21.480 and have relations with Taiwan,

00:21:22.720 the vast bulk of them, or the plurality,

00:21:24.820 are within the Western Hemisphere.

00:21:26.380 They've undertaken a very aggressive action

00:21:28.180 in just the last seven, eight years

00:21:29.840 to get these countries to flip.

00:21:31.640 They got Panama to flip, 1.00

00:21:33.180 then they got Panama to convince the Dominican Republic to flip.

00:21:36.040 They've targeted multiple other nations,

00:21:37.860 and Nicaragua most recently to flip.

00:21:40.100 So I think that's an important thing for us to keep in mind

00:21:43.060 and make a priority.

00:21:44.180 And I also think it's important to recognize allies in the region

00:21:47.640 like Paraguay that have not flipped

00:21:49.040 and others who have stayed strong in that regard.

00:21:51.720 On the porcupine strategy,

00:21:53.280 because I know it may sound weird to people

00:21:54.700 or if anyone's watching this,

00:21:57.100 I know what the ratings are,

00:21:58.360 but hopefully not high.

00:21:59.880 But let me just say that on the porcupine strategy,

00:22:03.300 what it really means is

00:22:04.480 you want to make the cost of invading Taiwan 0.98

00:22:07.540 higher than the benefit.

00:22:09.740 We want to discourage that

00:22:11.240 by the Chinese believing that,

00:22:14.080 yes, could they ultimately win an invasion of Taiwan,

00:22:16.380 but the price would be too high to pay.

00:22:18.340 It's basically deterrence.

00:22:20.180 And I think that's critical,

00:22:21.240 not just to defending Taiwan,

00:22:22.860 to preventing a cataclysmic military intervention

00:22:26.020 in the Indo-Pacific.

00:22:28.560 And that's what it would be.

00:22:29.840 And I would make one more point,

00:22:31.160 and again, I don't mean to want to be alarmist about it,

00:22:34.480 but if you listen to Xi Jinping,

00:22:36.560 and it's important when you listen to him,

00:22:38.540 and I say, listen, read,

00:22:40.200 don't read the English translation that they put out

00:22:42.240 because the English translation is never right.

00:22:43.980 You have to read the real translation

00:22:45.680 on what they actually said in their native tongue.

00:22:50.400 What they're basically saying

00:22:51.860 is that this is a foundational

00:22:53.600 and definitional issue for Xi Jinping personally.

00:22:56.760 And as a result,

00:22:57.640 I think we need to wrap our head around the fact

00:22:59.460 that unless something dramatic changes,

00:23:01.580 is like an equilibrium

00:23:04.140 where they conclude that the costs

00:23:05.820 of intervening in Taiwan are too high,

00:23:08.560 we're going to have to deal with this

00:23:09.600 before the end of this decade.

00:23:11.060 And so strongly support for the porcupine strategy.

00:23:15.320 Thank you.

00:23:16.180 And I know people in Taiwan...

00:23:17.460 I just don't like saying porcupine, but yes.

00:23:20.040 You know, when I went to Taiwan in November

00:23:22.620 and I met with the president and other leaders,

00:23:26.400 they are extremely nervous right now.

00:23:29.040 And part of the reason they're nervous

00:23:30.220 is they're concerned about

00:23:32.120 how things play out in Ukraine

00:23:35.440 as possibly create an incentive for China.

00:23:38.680 And I take your point about the current stalemate

00:23:42.540 and the fact that there is a range of objectives

00:23:45.040 that are out of reach for other side.

00:23:47.520 But I do feel like our partnership with NATO

00:23:50.980 and our continued supply of war material

00:23:54.240 that enable Ukrainians to keep fighting

00:23:56.340 until that resolution is done

00:23:59.000 is extremely important

00:24:01.560 because if Ukraine collapses,

00:24:03.600 it will say a lot to China

00:24:06.900 about whether we will stay the course

00:24:09.460 in assisting Taiwan.

00:24:11.500 Not to mention it will be a catastrophe

00:24:14.120 for democracy and a catastrophe for the Ukrainians.

00:24:17.420 I don't know if you share that view.

00:24:19.620 Well, I think, first of all, our goal,

00:24:21.740 as President Trump has stated,

00:24:23.380 is he wants the dying to stop.

00:24:24.720 He wants the killing to stop.

00:24:25.940 So it's very difficult to reach an accord

00:24:28.320 or an agreement that begins with a ceasefire

00:24:30.680 and ends with a peace agreement

00:24:32.680 unless both sides have some leverage.

00:24:34.700 Now, there is some leverage

00:24:35.460 that exists beyond military capabilities as well.

00:24:38.300 We have a significant number of sanctions

00:24:39.960 on the Russian Federation

00:24:41.580 and they continue to grow and expand

00:24:43.940 and other nations do as well.

00:24:46.100 And that will have to be part of this conversation

00:24:47.740 in terms of bringing about a peaceful resolution.

00:24:50.660 And then there's the question

00:24:51.500 of the long-term security and stability of Ukraine.

00:24:55.620 Beyond the, even if the conflict were to end,

00:24:58.780 there needs to be the capability of Ukraine

00:25:01.340 to defend itself.

00:25:02.080 And it's a point that I made back as far as 2014

00:25:04.160 when the United States under the Obama administration

00:25:06.620 chose not to provide weapon capabilities

00:25:09.960 and I think we lost the turn.

00:25:12.220 Thank you.

00:25:12.680 I want to keep, I'm going to keep rolling here

00:25:14.800 for a few other questions.

00:25:16.680 One of the things China is doing 1.00

00:25:18.520 is deeply engaged in transnational repression,

00:25:21.000 which means threatening people here in the United States 0.51

00:25:23.660 that they will disappear or kill 0.99

00:25:26.060 or harm their family members back in China

00:25:28.780 if they exercise their free rights here in our country.

00:25:32.220 And also they're seeking to repatriate Uyghurs 1.00

00:25:34.900 who have escaped China.

00:25:36.900 And right now there are 48 Uyghurs 1.00

00:25:38.700 that are in Thailand

00:25:41.880 and Thailand is on the verge of repatriating them

00:25:44.700 back to China.

00:25:46.540 Will you lobby for Thailand

00:25:50.780 to not send these Uyghurs back 1.00

00:25:53.080 to the horror they will face

00:25:55.720 if they're returned?

00:25:58.040 Yes.

00:25:58.380 And the good news is that Thailand 0.99

00:25:59.800 is actually a very strong U.S. partner,

00:26:01.840 a strong historical ally as well.

00:26:03.700 And so we,

00:26:04.300 that is an area where I think diplomacy

00:26:06.040 could really achieve results

00:26:07.900 because of how important that relationship

00:26:09.340 and how close it is.

00:26:10.200 I think it's also one more opportunity

00:26:12.040 for us to remind the world

00:26:13.320 of what exactly we're talking about here.

00:26:14.780 This is not some obscure issue.

00:26:16.240 These are people

00:26:16.860 who are basically being rounded up

00:26:18.580 because of their ethnicity and religion.

00:26:20.540 And they are being put into camps.

00:26:23.300 They're being put into

00:26:24.060 what they call re-education centers.

00:26:25.940 They're being stripped of their identity.

00:26:27.560 Their children's names are being changed.

00:26:30.160 It's one of the most horrifying things

00:26:31.580 that's ever happened.

00:26:32.300 And they're being,

00:26:33.380 they're being put into forced labor,

00:26:35.560 literally slave labor.

00:26:37.060 And I will say our work together

00:26:38.260 on the Forced Labor Prevention Act.

00:26:40.140 The U.S. forced labor was tremendous.

00:26:43.140 Thank you for championing that.

00:26:44.440 We have a situation in,

00:26:47.300 you know,

00:26:47.520 people are talking about Los Angeles

00:26:48.780 and the debacle out there

00:26:51.420 with the criminal negligence

00:26:52.560 of the government officials.

00:26:53.580 We have a very serious problem

00:26:55.200 in Western North Carolina,

00:26:56.560 Georgia, and Tennessee.

00:26:57.860 Ben Burquam.

00:26:59.060 We'll break into this coverage.

00:27:00.260 Ben Burquam,

00:27:01.280 tell me what you got, sir.

00:27:02.380 It was quite disturbing last night.

00:27:04.560 Members of the audience

00:27:05.520 were very upset

00:27:06.260 about how people in Appalachia

00:27:08.180 in these states

00:27:09.440 the backbone of the MAGA movement

00:27:11.340 have been forgotten.

00:27:12.340 What do you got, sir?

00:27:14.860 Yeah, Steve.

00:27:15.620 So we're coming to you.

00:27:16.840 We've got four different groups

00:27:18.000 that are impacted by this.

00:27:19.280 The geographic area

00:27:20.160 of this disaster

00:27:21.340 that happened

00:27:22.280 almost four months ago

00:27:23.240 is really hard to quantify.

00:27:25.480 It's really hard

00:27:26.440 to really wrap your brain around

00:27:27.640 until you get down here.

00:27:28.680 And I'm telling you, Steve,

00:27:30.300 it is shocking.

00:27:31.100 We were driving.

00:27:31.660 I was just down here.

00:27:32.200 I'm here with Tyler Burleson.

00:27:35.260 He runs M&T Imports.

00:27:38.760 He's a small business owner

00:27:39.940 down here

00:27:40.500 and who's created this.

00:27:42.000 He's basically,

00:27:42.560 for the last four months,

00:27:43.600 has turned his business

00:27:45.040 into helping the people

00:27:46.420 of his community here

00:27:47.400 in Irwin, Tennessee.

00:27:50.420 Now, we've got Irwin, Tennessee.

00:27:52.040 We've got where we were at

00:27:53.120 last night

00:27:53.660 in Waynesville, North Carolina.

00:27:56.480 We've got a couple other groups.

00:27:57.860 There are groups like this,

00:27:58.820 hubs like this,

00:27:59.600 all over down here

00:28:00.560 that have been completely abandoned

00:28:02.460 by Joe Biden, by FEMA,

00:28:04.540 by this administration.

00:28:05.920 I just want to hand it over

00:28:07.120 to Tyler and then the others.

00:28:08.840 Steve, I'll let you take it.

00:28:10.140 With the other,

00:28:10.700 we've got Mandy

00:28:11.220 and Jason's out there.

00:28:13.180 Tyler?

00:28:14.500 So, like he said,

00:28:16.520 four months into this,

00:28:18.420 it still looks like

00:28:19.280 the flood happened yesterday.

00:28:21.020 You know, we don't have

00:28:21.900 any assistance

00:28:22.460 from any federal government,

00:28:24.220 any entity at all.

00:28:25.920 And it's just kind of

00:28:26.960 left up to us

00:28:27.780 to fend for ourselves

00:28:28.980 and help our communities.

00:28:30.860 You know, we're doing everything

00:28:32.220 that we can

00:28:32.960 from toiletries

00:28:34.020 to food

00:28:34.820 and trying to put people

00:28:36.100 in campers

00:28:36.820 and get their houses repaired

00:28:38.460 and every other thing

00:28:39.400 that you can think of

00:28:40.260 with cars.

00:28:41.320 And it's left up to us.

00:28:44.200 No administration

00:28:45.240 has helped us.

00:28:46.500 No government,

00:28:47.140 local government,

00:28:47.800 has helped.

00:28:48.600 It's just,

00:28:49.160 they're just

00:28:49.720 fending for ourselves.

00:28:51.200 So, it's four months into it.

00:28:55.020 Ben, hang on one second.

00:28:57.220 Hang on one second.

00:28:58.120 Here's what I don't understand.

00:28:59.000 I think the audience

00:28:59.620 is confused too.

00:29:01.300 We can understand,

00:29:02.360 or we can't understand,

00:29:03.580 but it's reprehensible

00:29:04.980 that the Biden regime

00:29:06.280 hasn't done

00:29:08.000 what they should do,

00:29:09.180 the basic stuff

00:29:09.920 with FEMA.

00:29:11.000 That's unforgivable.

00:29:12.560 But what's confusing

00:29:13.620 is that the parts

00:29:14.940 of Georgia,

00:29:15.880 North Carolina,

00:29:16.660 and Tennessee

00:29:17.240 are MAGA strongholds,

00:29:19.540 and we would assume

00:29:20.440 that local officials,

00:29:21.840 county officials,

00:29:22.880 state officials

00:29:23.720 would be all over this.

00:29:25.480 Why is it even

00:29:27.080 at the local level?

00:29:28.740 Because President Trump

00:29:29.560 will take care of the federal,

00:29:30.700 and he's going to,

00:29:31.240 I believe,

00:29:31.860 move very quickly.

00:29:33.060 But what about the rest

00:29:33.980 of the chain of command?

00:29:34.860 Why has there been

00:29:35.380 no movement there

00:29:36.080 when there's obviously

00:29:36.880 these massive problems?

00:29:38.120 your guess is as good

00:29:41.160 as mine.

00:29:41.720 I mean,

00:29:42.440 we're the only place

00:29:44.900 in Irwin right now

00:29:45.900 that's still open

00:29:47.520 for distribution,

00:29:48.660 for families to come in

00:29:49.820 and get what they need.

00:29:50.720 You know,

00:29:51.380 there's not any other

00:29:52.580 organization down here

00:29:53.600 doing what we're doing.

00:29:55.160 So your guess

00:29:56.020 is as good as mine.

00:29:56.880 I don't know why

00:29:57.940 the local government's

00:29:59.200 not helping.

00:29:59.980 They're not doing more

00:30:01.260 than what they should.

00:30:02.360 I mean,

00:30:02.960 there were places

00:30:03.880 right down the road

00:30:05.000 where they came in,

00:30:06.400 you know,

00:30:06.740 two, three weeks later

00:30:07.740 and said,

00:30:08.260 we're not doing

00:30:08.800 any more airdrops

00:30:09.620 if you want to get out,

00:30:10.700 you know,

00:30:10.980 because their roads

00:30:11.700 were cut off.

00:30:12.400 They couldn't get,

00:30:13.120 you know,

00:30:13.300 they couldn't access

00:30:14.260 the rest of the world.

00:30:15.180 They were just isolated.

00:30:16.280 So they said,

00:30:18.140 we're not going to drop

00:30:22.280 any more food.

00:30:22.900 We're not going to pick you up.

00:30:23.780 If you want to get out,

00:30:24.500 get out now.

00:30:25.360 This is your last chance.

00:30:26.780 You're kind of left up

00:30:27.880 the creek without a paddle.

00:30:29.040 It's going to be two years

00:30:29.900 before you get water.

00:30:30.960 It's going to be two years

00:30:31.700 before you get a road.

00:30:33.220 You know,

00:30:33.460 it's there.

00:30:35.180 I can't tell you

00:30:36.240 why they're not helping.

00:30:37.460 We are.

00:30:38.860 We're not a Democratic state.

00:30:41.140 We're a Republican state,

00:30:42.300 but it's.

00:30:44.380 We really don't know

00:30:45.620 why they're not helping,

00:30:46.500 why they're not sticking

00:30:47.040 their neck out for us.

00:30:48.020 And it's it's people like us

00:30:49.340 that are sticking our necks out

00:30:50.600 and trying to help

00:30:51.600 as many people as we can.

00:30:54.560 Can you can you describe

00:30:56.040 for the audience?

00:30:56.980 Because we have a both

00:30:58.280 obviously nationwide

00:30:59.400 and a global audience.

00:31:00.260 Just give us exactly

00:31:01.780 what happened

00:31:02.480 and what's the current status

00:31:04.460 of your community.

00:31:08.320 Current status,

00:31:09.580 it still looks like it

00:31:11.160 and feels like it

00:31:12.300 happened yesterday.

00:31:13.880 I mean,

00:31:14.220 nothing's really changed

00:31:15.820 since it happened.

00:31:19.540 Other than just individuals

00:31:20.980 coming in to help

00:31:21.860 assist clear debris,

00:31:23.460 other than individual churches,

00:31:25.500 smaller organizations

00:31:26.460 coming in to help,

00:31:27.940 you know,

00:31:28.200 the families clear

00:31:28.900 their properties

00:31:29.440 so that they can possibly

00:31:30.280 get their permits

00:31:31.100 for their septic permits

00:31:32.020 and their septic letters

00:31:32.920 that they have to have

00:31:33.800 before they can even

00:31:34.720 do any rebuilding.

00:31:36.020 You know,

00:31:36.160 if the water came in

00:31:36.960 and even touched

00:31:37.600 an electrical outlet,

00:31:38.580 they've got to have

00:31:39.180 an inspection completed

00:31:40.300 before they can move forward.

00:31:41.240 And there's been individuals

00:31:42.100 on the ground doing that.

00:31:43.220 It's not been large organizations.

00:31:48.120 And Steve,

00:31:48.720 by the way,

00:31:49.140 just so you know,

00:31:49.700 we're standing.

00:31:50.340 This was this was a showroom

00:31:51.740 for for high end vehicles.

00:31:53.620 I just want to show you

00:31:54.220 what this is.

00:31:55.080 This one one company here,

00:31:57.420 Tyler and his team.

00:31:58.440 This was a showroom

00:31:59.420 with Ferraris and Lambos

00:32:01.460 and high end vehicles

00:32:02.340 that now has diapers 0.94

00:32:03.540 and toiletries and clothing

00:32:05.320 because the federal government

00:32:07.940 wouldn't do its job.

00:32:09.420 And just like here,

00:32:10.540 we've got Mandy down there 0.99

00:32:11.960 with Haven on the Hill

00:32:13.640 and we've got Jason Ward

00:32:14.780 and we've got Jason Seidel

00:32:15.780 and we've got all these groups

00:32:17.180 like this

00:32:18.080 that have come together,

00:32:19.020 American citizens,

00:32:19.820 because the federal government

00:32:20.900 will not do their job.

00:32:22.540 Well, it doesn't seem

00:32:27.280 like the federal government.

00:32:28.080 I mean, FEMA should be

00:32:28.720 taking a lead here,

00:32:29.440 but it seems like any local.

00:32:30.940 I mean, what shocking is that

00:32:32.180 in these Republican states,

00:32:33.960 you don't have the governor

00:32:34.780 all over the state.

00:32:36.080 They have state

00:32:37.020 disaster coordinators,

00:32:38.620 it seems.

00:32:39.680 But this is what

00:32:40.340 why do you think

00:32:41.020 they've abandoned you?

00:32:42.120 I mean, it has to be

00:32:42.940 there has to be some reason.

00:32:44.340 There's there's not

00:32:45.420 enough economic growth there.

00:32:46.900 They just forgotten

00:32:47.600 about you guys.

00:32:48.340 It has to be some reason

00:32:49.380 that even the local officials

00:32:51.180 are not down there.

00:32:52.540 Well, FEMA came in

00:32:55.240 and they said

00:32:56.740 they didn't have any money

00:32:57.560 to give us.

00:32:58.500 They had we can offer

00:32:59.900 you 750 bucks.

00:33:01.260 You know, they didn't.

00:33:02.060 That's all they offered.

00:33:03.300 So they spent

00:33:05.420 all their money elsewhere,

00:33:06.520 legal immigrants

00:33:07.120 or whatever you want,

00:33:07.920 whatever they spent

00:33:08.520 their money on.

00:33:09.100 Who knows?

00:33:09.580 Because we haven't

00:33:10.180 audited them yet.

00:33:10.980 So, you know,

00:33:11.860 who knows where

00:33:12.440 that money went?

00:33:13.260 And they sent

00:33:14.280 National Guard down here

00:33:15.420 to help out.

00:33:17.040 They rescued some people

00:33:18.340 during the flood,

00:33:19.360 but they didn't really

00:33:20.920 do anything else.

00:33:22.120 You know, they had

00:33:22.640 equipment down here,

00:33:23.640 but they just kind

00:33:25.820 of sat idle.

00:33:26.820 You know, people would

00:33:27.400 the soldiers were

00:33:28.640 sitting in the machines

00:33:29.520 just, you know,

00:33:30.600 idling fuel away

00:33:31.560 and not doing anything,

00:33:32.520 not getting any work done

00:33:33.700 because they were

00:33:34.800 waiting on orders

00:33:35.760 from their their

00:33:36.820 higher ups,

00:33:37.600 you know, to tell

00:33:38.360 them what to do

00:33:38.960 when they know

00:33:39.600 what to do.

00:33:40.120 You can kind of

00:33:40.600 look around

00:33:41.140 and it's the National Guard,

00:33:42.620 the Army Corps of Engineers.

00:33:44.260 You know, we've got bridges

00:33:45.420 down.

00:33:45.920 We've got debris

00:33:46.460 everywhere.

00:33:46.900 They're it's kind

00:33:47.800 of common sense

00:33:48.460 that you when you're

00:33:50.380 trained to do things

00:33:51.380 like this, you should

00:33:52.080 know what to do

00:33:52.760 when you come in.

00:33:53.300 You shouldn't have

00:33:53.720 to wait on higher

00:33:55.120 ups to come in

00:33:56.220 and say, hey,

00:33:56.920 this is what you've

00:33:57.760 got to do, you know,

00:33:59.000 start cleaning up.

00:34:00.380 So they've just

00:34:01.360 kind of they act

00:34:03.920 like they don't

00:34:04.300 know what they're

00:34:04.660 doing.

00:34:05.040 So any other reason

00:34:06.220 you think why

00:34:07.140 even the locals

00:34:08.020 wouldn't?

00:34:08.540 I mean, I know

00:34:08.960 there's you were

00:34:09.680 saying that idle

00:34:10.280 minds give you

00:34:11.680 lots of thoughts.

00:34:12.340 Any any reason why

00:34:13.360 you guys think even

00:34:14.560 the locals that

00:34:15.180 should be on your

00:34:15.740 side aren't doing

00:34:16.300 it?

00:34:17.360 Well, I want to say

00:34:18.140 something on the FEMA

00:34:18.780 thing like we have

00:34:19.720 had we had a meeting

00:34:20.660 last week with FEMA

00:34:21.700 here locally and I

00:34:23.240 sat down and was

00:34:24.340 like, what is your

00:34:24.860 process?

00:34:25.480 You know, if somebody

00:34:26.080 wants to get rental

00:34:27.200 assistance or they

00:34:27.900 want to get, you

00:34:28.520 know, displacement

00:34:30.040 coverage or what are

00:34:30.940 the steps?

00:34:31.600 And the first thing

00:34:32.840 they said was they

00:34:33.380 had to submit an

00:34:34.000 application and then

00:34:34.760 they had to have an

00:34:35.580 inspector come out

00:34:36.400 and actually inspect

00:34:37.400 their property and

00:34:38.100 then within seven to

00:34:38.820 ten days they should

00:34:39.520 have their benefits.

00:34:41.000 We have people hand

00:34:42.460 over fist that have

00:34:43.560 done all the steps

00:34:44.440 that they've asked

00:34:44.940 them to do and they've

00:34:45.960 never heard back from

00:34:46.700 anybody.

00:34:47.420 We have a gentleman

00:34:47.860 that came in here

00:34:48.440 earlier that has done

00:34:49.720 everything he could

00:34:50.380 possibly do.

00:34:50.820 He's been to the FEMA

00:34:51.340 office multiple times

00:34:52.500 and he has a

00:34:53.580 legitimate, a tree fell

00:34:55.060 in the middle of his

00:34:55.620 house, split his house

00:34:56.360 in two.

00:34:57.040 He's done all the

00:34:57.680 steps, he's sent all

00:34:58.420 the pictures, he's

00:34:59.700 done everything he's

00:35:00.320 supposed to do.

00:35:00.920 The inspector came out

00:35:01.720 and inspected and then

00:35:02.780 he's heard nothing,

00:35:03.740 nothing from them after

00:35:04.520 that.

00:35:04.740 We have FEMA trailers

00:35:05.920 on the Bristol Highway

00:35:06.840 over here sitting at a

00:35:08.040 car lot not being placed

00:35:09.420 on people's properties.

00:35:10.700 We have people down in

00:35:11.320 Bumpus Cove right now

00:35:12.180 that were eligible for the

00:35:13.300 longer term FEMA housing

00:35:15.140 and haven't gotten it

00:35:16.280 and so I can't really

00:35:17.640 answer why they're not

00:35:18.620 helping.

00:35:19.500 Every single thing that's

00:35:20.460 been done on the

00:35:21.340 Tennessee side I can speak

00:35:22.420 for and that has been

00:35:23.800 from churches, from

00:35:24.820 organizations from all

00:35:25.860 over the country that

00:35:26.520 have came.

00:35:27.320 It's been from mom and

00:35:28.260 pops, it's been from

00:35:29.020 neighbors helping

00:35:29.580 neighbors, neighbors

00:35:30.460 rolling up their sleeve

00:35:31.280 and saying okay we're

00:35:32.340 going to clear my house

00:35:33.060 today, we're going to

00:35:33.740 clear your house

00:35:34.300 tomorrow.

00:35:35.040 That is what's made the

00:35:36.220 biggest difference for as

00:35:37.040 far as the debris.

00:35:38.040 Even down in Bumpus Cove,

00:35:39.760 the debris that was

00:35:40.640 cleared out there, the

00:35:41.520 county gave them a

00:35:42.240 certain amount of time

00:35:43.000 to get that debris

00:35:43.640 cleared or they were

00:35:44.440 going to start charging

00:35:45.140 them.

00:35:46.240 So when you take away

00:35:47.220 somebody's home, you

00:35:48.080 take away their income,

00:35:49.120 you take away their

00:35:49.640 vehicle, you take away

00:35:50.600 the ability to help

00:35:51.620 themselves, they have to

00:35:53.080 run the equipment, they

00:35:54.040 have to have fuel, they

00:35:54.900 have to have money to run

00:35:55.760 that equipment, they

00:35:56.480 don't have anything.

00:35:57.740 And then you've got

00:35:58.440 county officials saying

00:35:59.860 we're going to clear the

00:36:00.540 debris now but we don't

00:36:01.520 know how long we can

00:36:02.160 clear it for you for free.

00:36:04.400 I mean I don't know how

00:36:05.960 to respond to that.

00:36:06.940 I don't know why that is

00:36:08.480 the way that it is.

00:36:09.520 What I was saying before

00:36:10.480 is like, you know, we

00:36:11.900 have, for example, the

00:36:13.560 California fires right

00:36:14.520 now and we have people

00:36:15.760 that are desperately needing

00:36:18.140 aid and needing care and

00:36:19.300 we're seeing that on the

00:36:20.020 news every single day and

00:36:21.620 those people need that

00:36:22.440 help and our prayers go

00:36:23.380 out to them.

00:36:24.260 But we needed that same

00:36:25.740 recognition here in

00:36:27.040 Tennessee, here in North

00:36:27.980 Carolina, here in the

00:36:28.720 flood area.

00:36:29.320 We needed that same media

00:36:30.360 coverage so that we could

00:36:31.600 get the support that we

00:36:32.420 needed here.

00:36:33.380 And I don't know why our

00:36:34.700 government hasn't stepped

00:36:35.680 into our area but I will

00:36:37.240 tell you that there's some

00:36:38.060 ulterior motives that we

00:36:39.280 think are happening behind

00:36:40.220 the scenes.

00:36:40.760 We have land that's

00:36:41.480 valuable, we have uranium,

00:36:42.780 we have all kinds of

00:36:43.660 mineral, lithium sources

00:36:45.420 here.

00:36:46.400 And even if that's not the

00:36:47.820 case, because we've had no

00:36:50.080 response and no help and

00:36:51.660 no answers to the questions

00:36:53.240 that we've asked, we want to

00:36:54.340 know why they're not

00:36:54.880 helping.

00:36:55.540 But because they've not

00:36:56.340 answered those questions,

00:36:57.240 it leaves a lot open for

00:36:58.340 interpretation.

00:36:59.360 It leaves a lot for your

00:37:00.280 imagination to run with a

00:37:01.620 story and say, well, maybe

00:37:03.200 they are trying to land grab.

00:37:05.080 Maybe they are trying to take 0.86

00:37:06.260 advantage of our situation

00:37:07.240 because we're a lower-income

00:37:08.620 community or a lower-income

00:37:10.600 area.

00:37:12.000 We don't know.

00:37:13.220 We really don't.

00:37:17.180 I tell you, Ben, hang on for

00:37:18.400 one second.

00:37:18.920 What we're going to do is go

00:37:19.660 to commercial break and then

00:37:21.280 I'm going to come back and

00:37:22.060 we'll come back to you and I

00:37:22.980 also will go to the North

00:37:24.100 Carolina Haven on the Hill and

00:37:25.800 the others that we have.

00:37:27.640 I mean, that's the reality.

00:37:28.760 You see the hearings and you

00:37:30.300 see people getting confirmed and

00:37:33.700 you see the imperial capital.

00:37:36.520 Then you see the reality.

00:37:39.680 In this California situation,

00:37:42.540 you know, Newsom's got money

00:37:45.900 set aside for illegal aliens.

00:37:48.240 He's got a big fund he's set

00:37:49.420 aside to fight the sanctuary

00:37:50.840 cities.

00:37:52.000 Hey, not just strings attached.

00:37:53.600 It's got to be, we got to sort,

00:37:55.280 we got to get things right there

00:37:56.700 about what this deal is going to

00:37:59.260 be going forward before they

00:38:00.300 should get a penny of federal

00:38:02.780 funds.

00:38:03.660 You see those people in North 0.56

00:38:04.700 Carolina, in Georgia, in

00:38:07.320 Tennessee, that's what they 0.97

00:38:09.480 think of MAGA. 0.99

00:38:11.300 You're deplorables. 1.00

00:38:12.380 You're just garbage. 1.00

00:38:13.220 You're just trash. 1.00

00:38:13.980 You can be just thrown out, 1.00

00:38:15.280 cast aside.

00:38:16.080 Well, that's not the case.

00:38:18.040 You're the biggest political

00:38:19.220 power in this nation right now.

00:38:20.800 Not the tech bros, you.

00:38:22.700 Short commercial break.

00:38:23.620 Back in a moment.

00:38:27.200 Big victory on 5 November.

00:38:29.580 Now the work can finally start

00:38:31.100 on the big issues facing the

00:38:32.660 country.

00:38:33.160 One of the biggest is the

00:38:34.760 national debt and the deficits

00:38:36.760 that drive it.

00:38:38.200 Hey, you think the country's

00:38:39.440 broke?

00:38:39.740 The country is broke.

00:38:40.760 We're just printing money to

00:38:42.480 keep this house of cards going.

00:38:45.080 The strategy remains the same

00:38:46.720 for you.

00:38:47.120 You got to diversify,

00:38:48.200 diversify your savings.

00:38:49.500 That's why I buy gold from

00:38:51.220 Birch Gold.

00:38:52.180 So many things are out of your

00:38:53.940 control, out of the president's

00:38:55.600 control.

00:38:56.220 It's important to have a safe

00:38:57.660 haven for your savings.

00:38:59.580 Birch Gold Group, my gold

00:39:01.060 company, will help you convert an

00:39:03.320 IRA or 401k into an IRA into

00:39:06.220 physical gold.

00:39:07.400 Let me repeat that.

00:39:09.000 Convert your IRA or 401k into an

00:39:11.680 IRA in physical gold.

00:39:13.960 And the best news, it doesn't cost

00:39:16.300 you a penny.

00:39:18.320 Text BANNED to 989898.

00:39:20.440 Get your free info kit.

00:39:21.660 Plus, right now, through Black

00:39:23.440 Friday, you receive a free one-ounce

00:39:26.360 Silver Eagle for every $5,000 you

00:39:29.780 purchase.

00:39:30.640 Let me repeat that.

00:39:31.480 A free one-ounce Silver Eagle for

00:39:34.140 every $5,000 purchase.

00:39:36.220 Protect your savings with Birch Gold.

00:39:38.620 Text BANNED to 989898.

00:39:41.600 And claim your eligibility for your

00:39:44.680 free silver today.

00:39:47.380 It's obvious.

00:39:48.740 The unthinkable continues.

00:39:50.200 As most Americans know, something is

00:39:52.100 very, very wrong.

00:39:54.520 The people in charge keep telling you

00:39:56.120 that everything's fine and to stop

00:39:58.200 noticing.

00:39:58.720 But you know better.

00:40:00.160 That's why self-reliant folks are

00:40:02.240 investing in emergency food storage.

00:40:05.040 And you should, too.

00:40:06.240 My Patriots Supply, the nation's

00:40:07.620 largest emergency preparedness

00:40:09.360 company, are the ones you can trust.

00:40:12.280 Go to mypatriotsupply.com and secure

00:40:14.240 their best-selling three-month

00:40:15.560 emergency food kits.

00:40:16.980 Each contains tasty breakfasts, lunches,

00:40:20.320 and dinners, averaging over 2,000

00:40:22.280 calories per day.

00:40:23.960 My Patriots Supply also sells solar

00:40:25.760 generators, gravity-powered water

00:40:27.640 filters, off-grid room heaters for

00:40:30.620 when the power goes out.

00:40:32.420 They also sell heirloom seeds and

00:40:34.560 survival gear.

00:40:35.940 Order by 3 p.m. and your items ship

00:40:37.860 that same day and arrive quickly on

00:40:39.720 your doorstep in unmarked boxes.

00:40:42.460 Go to mypatriotsupply.com today.

00:40:45.060 Hope is not a plan.

00:40:46.980 My Patriot Supply is a plan.

00:40:50.120 Time is running out to prepare for

00:40:52.300 what's coming.

00:40:53.760 mypatriotsupply.com.

00:40:55.520 Go there today.

00:40:56.580 Action, action, action.

00:40:58.860 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:41:01.000 Bannon.

00:41:03.980 We're interrupting our live continuous

00:41:06.420 coverage of the confirmation here

00:41:07.860 because there's a situation down in

00:41:10.020 God's country that is just not right.

00:41:12.780 It's got to be sorted out.

00:41:14.220 We'll go back to Ben Berkholm.

00:41:15.460 We've got Tyler Burleson and Misty.

00:41:19.560 Tyler, Misty, just give us a punch list 1.00

00:41:22.720 right now.

00:41:23.240 If you had President Trump and you were

00:41:24.800 talking to him, what in kind of rank

00:41:27.180 order needs to be done immediately?

00:41:28.740 We need help to rebuild houses and put people back in their homes. 0.75

00:41:35.820 We still have people living in tents and makeshift shelters.

00:41:40.660 It's going to be six degrees this weekend down here.

00:41:42.960 It's been below 20 for the past seven or eight days.

00:41:47.080 We've had, you know, not in this past, but we've had kids die and, you know, people are

00:41:54.660 freezing to death because it's cold.

00:41:56.700 They don't have anywhere to go.

00:41:58.540 They don't have the FEMA campers that were supposed to be given out.

00:42:01.200 We need FEMA campers down here. 1.00

00:42:02.800 We need shelters for people.

00:42:04.800 We need a way to keep people warm and keep people fed.

00:42:09.020 You know, we need fuel for generators because you can only run a generator for so long with

00:42:14.500 on a gallon of gasoline.

00:42:17.160 We need kerosene for heaters.

00:42:19.220 We need literally everything that we needed when it first happened.

00:42:22.600 I mean, it hasn't gotten any better since it started.

00:42:26.820 We thought it was going to slow down.

00:42:28.100 We thought it was going to, you know, taper off a little bit.

00:42:30.860 Four months into it, we're still serving 60 to 120 people a day.

00:42:35.180 And that's just this center.

00:42:38.560 That's just our organization that's helping that many people.

00:42:42.320 There's hundreds of thousands of more people out there that need it.

00:42:45.720 I mean, we've lost between 140 to 180,000 houses between North Carolina and Tennessee.

00:42:50.760 So, we need rebuilding efforts.

00:42:53.900 We need money to rebuild houses.

00:42:55.900 You know, if you apply for FEMA and you even get money, you're getting $40,000.

00:42:59.900 They have a cap of $43,000.

00:43:01.880 $43,000 is a slap in the face for a total lost house that was, you know, that would cost

00:43:07.340 you $250,000 plus to rebuild it.

00:43:10.140 So, those are the type of things that we need.

00:43:12.800 Misty, if President Trump was watching this, what's priority one, two, three?

00:43:17.260 Priority one, two, three is vehicles, replacing vehicles so people can stand on their own

00:43:22.340 two feet and get transportation to work.

00:43:24.960 Priority number two is housing.

00:43:27.240 We have 418 people right now just on our list on the Tennessee side alone that needs some

00:43:32.340 sort of repair, some sort of rebuild.

00:43:34.400 Maybe we have 125 that are just complete rebuilds that are completely demolished and cannot repair.

00:43:39.180 And then, probably long-term care for finances to be able to get on their feet.

00:43:45.260 When you lose everything, it's more than just like a shot in the arm for an injection.

00:43:50.260 You need support for 90 days.

00:43:51.840 You need support to be able to get back on your feet.

00:43:54.440 You know, helping with utilities, money for, you know, groceries, things like that.

00:43:59.240 People don't take into consideration what it costs to live if you have to start from scratch.

00:44:04.140 And when you take away somebody's employment, you take away their vehicle, you take away

00:44:07.840 their house, and already you're in a lower-income area, people can't pull their bootstraps up 0.99

00:44:12.820 from that.

00:44:13.200 They have to have additional assistance.

00:44:15.720 And most of these people, because we're going into our four-month, even the people that had

00:44:19.520 complete devastation that took the buyout for the $40,000, they've had to live on that

00:44:23.220 money for the last, you know, going into our fourth month now.

00:44:25.980 They're not going to have enough money to put a deposit down on another house to buy a house.

00:44:29.840 There's, we have a lack of houses to buy in our area to begin with.

00:44:33.040 And when you have a housing, you lose 300 jobs in an area.

00:44:38.220 We have over 1,000 homes just on the Tennessee side, I think, that were damaged or lost.

00:44:42.160 And so there's, you've got to have something more than just putting a Band-Aid on something.

00:44:47.480 You've got to have some care come in, and you've got to have people that are skilled to do this.

00:44:51.280 We were not meant to be long-term care.

00:44:53.380 We were meant to be help, a hand up, and an injection into the community to help the larger

00:44:58.340 organizations to pick up where they should have picked up at and we should have left off at.

00:45:03.040 We've got to get your help.

00:45:04.200 We've got to get people in here.

00:45:07.060 Misty, where do people go for you and Tyler?

00:45:09.760 Where do they go to find out more about the efforts that you guys are doing?

00:45:13.460 Do they want to find out, get more information?

00:45:14.960 You can go to theaui.org.

00:45:18.420 Our address is 901 North Main Avenue, Irwin, Tennessee, 37650.

00:45:23.160 You can come by and see us directly.

00:45:25.860 You can reach out to us on Facebook, the Appalachian United Initiative.

00:45:30.460 Like I said, go to theaui.org.

00:45:32.900 That's our website.

00:45:36.240 A few different avenues of getting in touch with us, Instagram, TikTok, every social media

00:45:41.840 platform out there, you can reach us.

00:45:43.700 Appalachian, Appalachian what?

00:45:48.000 United, what is it?

00:45:50.660 Appalachian what?

00:45:51.460 Appalachian United Initiative.

00:45:54.760 Appalachian United Initiative.

00:45:55.740 Hang on for one second.

00:45:58.140 Perfect.

00:45:58.660 Hang on.

00:45:59.040 Grace, let's get that in the chat.

00:46:00.520 Let's go to, is it Mandy and James are not up there?

00:46:03.660 They're good.

00:46:04.480 Mandy and James, Haven on the Hill.

00:46:05.920 We saw you last night in the dark of night.

00:46:07.780 Give us an update.

00:46:09.420 Tell us exactly what the problem is down there and how can this audience help and how can

00:46:13.960 President Trump help?

00:46:17.320 Well, you helped last night.

00:46:19.320 I got reached out to this morning by a lady that's going to donate some property to put 0.98

00:46:24.380 some more people on in Buncombe County.

00:46:27.000 So, yeah, you've already started to help.

00:46:30.260 As far as the other, I'm looking forward to Monday.

00:46:33.740 Yeah.

00:46:33.920 So, Mandy and James, tell us the punch list for President Trump.

00:46:40.820 What is President Trump's team, his new FEMA team?

00:46:43.040 What do they need to focus on with you guys?

00:46:47.240 Replace them.

00:46:48.220 We need replacement homes. 0.97

00:46:50.840 The campers are wonderful.

00:46:52.140 We can kind of move back and let you all see.

00:46:54.200 There's over 50 campers up here and over 100 people.

00:46:57.560 And I've linked you with multiple hubs and camps that are very much similar.

00:47:01.320 But ultimately, it's replacement housing.

00:47:05.000 We talked about, you know, a 12 by 16 structure that when you get up in the middle of the night

00:47:09.320 to use the restroom and you open the door and all the heat escapes and you have to start

00:47:13.100 all over again with your wood stove or whatever your heating source is before you can even

00:47:17.020 go back to bed.

00:47:18.300 If you have children in the home and you have to use the facilities, let's say, for something

00:47:22.400 a little more serious, you know, one, two, and are you doing that in a bucket in front

00:47:26.880 of your family in a shed?

00:47:28.320 I mean, we need replacement housing that is sufficient for families to live in, not one

00:47:35.120 room sheds.

00:47:36.000 This is difficult.

00:47:36.920 This is just very difficult.

00:47:38.200 And the campers, again, are great.

00:47:39.820 But in James's situation up here at Haven on the Hill, you know, they're boondocking.

00:47:43.960 I took a video this morning.

00:47:45.780 You got two gentlemen at 55-gallon drums, hand-pumping fuel into gas cans to go put in

00:47:53.200 their neighbor's camper so that they can start the generator to start their coffee.

00:47:57.180 That's how they start their day.

00:48:00.780 Where did people go to—we had good luck last night with some folks.

00:48:05.180 We got a huge national audience this morning.

00:48:07.100 Where do people go for Haven on the Hill?

00:48:09.260 How do they reach out to you guys?

00:48:10.420 How do they make contact?

00:48:12.500 Patricia, you want to tell them that?

00:48:13.600 So I have Mighty Fortress Ministries, which is a 501c3 up here.

00:48:18.980 You can go to my phone.

00:48:22.980 I put mine out there for everybody, which is 865-296-8805.

00:48:27.840 I answer every phone call.

00:48:29.780 We have a website as well.

00:48:32.180 Mighty Fortress Ministries is our website.

00:48:35.160 Or we have a Facebook, Haven on the Hill.

00:48:37.020 We answer every message, every phone call.

00:48:40.080 It might take a little while.

00:48:41.240 It may take us a little while because our phones are always ringing, but they reach

00:48:45.080 out and we do whatever we can to help them, and we answer every phone call.

00:48:49.980 It may take us at the end of the day to get back to them, but we make sure that every

00:48:53.120 need is met.

00:48:53.720 Is that on Facebook?

00:48:56.640 You said you go to Haven on the Hill on Facebook, or is it a website?

00:48:59.760 Yes, sir.

00:49:00.320 Yes, sir.

00:49:01.560 Yes.

00:49:02.980 On Facebook.

00:49:04.640 Okay.

00:49:05.060 Can we have the phone number one more time, slowly this time, so people can jot it down?

00:49:09.060 865-296-8805.

00:49:17.220 Okay, folks.

00:49:18.020 Thank you very much.

00:49:18.700 We'll make sure something happens.

00:49:20.400 Can we go to Jason Ward at Swannanoa?

00:49:22.980 That's near Asheville.

00:49:24.320 Is Jason there?

00:49:25.780 I'm here.

00:49:27.300 Jason, can you tell us your situation in Swannanoa?

00:49:30.480 We, right now, are currently running a hub out of Swannanoa, North Carolina, Black Mountain

00:49:37.880 at Silverado's.

00:49:39.300 It's Valley Strong Disasterly.

00:49:40.780 We started IR501C directly after this happened.

00:49:44.580 We were in one of the hardest hit areas, but whenever you say hardest hit, you look around,

00:49:49.240 somebody's hit worse.

00:49:50.440 But we have been running a hub out of there, Valley Strong Disasterly, for the last 111 days

00:49:56.180 now, I think.

00:49:57.380 And the need has been so great.

00:49:59.740 We have people in campers.

00:50:02.580 We have people that are being supplied by the people.

00:50:05.720 It's every day.

00:50:07.380 The debris is everywhere.

00:50:09.700 There's been no pickup hardly other than just by independent sources.

00:50:14.760 You pretty much name it.

00:50:16.200 It's a nightmare situation here.

00:50:19.680 Jason, why is no one?

00:50:21.680 I mean, this is one of the most beautiful parts of the country, Black Mountain.

00:50:25.100 Why have no federal officials or no state officials been all over this?

00:50:29.740 Yes, sir.

00:50:31.120 Well, that's kind of been the question.

00:50:33.860 I mean, you know, you can answer that as well as us.

00:50:36.580 Everywhere that we go, it's done by the people.

00:50:40.280 Everything we do is done by the people.

00:50:42.400 And thank God for the people.

00:50:44.620 Or we would be way worse than what we are right now.

00:50:47.760 And that's a pretty bad situation to be in.

00:50:50.920 Jason, no, it's untenable.

00:50:54.060 It's inexcusable.

00:50:55.620 Where do people go to find out more about your hub and to find out more about how they

00:51:00.220 can assist you?

00:51:01.880 We are at valleystrongdisasterrelief.org.

00:51:05.160 You can go there to our website.

00:51:07.120 You can come volunteer.

00:51:08.380 We are open.

00:51:08.960 Our hub is open five days a week right now.

00:51:13.500 We have volunteers from 9 a.m. to 11.

00:51:16.140 And we're just supplying food, propane.

00:51:20.060 Or 11 to 6, I'm sorry.

00:51:21.620 We provide propane, all kinds of the needs that the people are looking for.

00:51:28.620 So, man, no excuse for this, but this will change next Monday, but between now and then.

00:51:37.780 One more time, Jason, where do they go to find out more about your situation?

00:51:42.980 valleystrongdisasterrelief.org.

00:51:47.520 Jason Ward and Swannanoa, thank you very much, sir.

00:51:50.600 Thank you.

00:51:53.400 I realize everything falls back on this audience, but this is just not acceptable.

00:51:58.620 I mean, and you see Los Angeles, and the thing in Los Angeles is horrific, but the thing

00:52:03.040 in Los Angeles is not just simply a natural disaster.

00:52:06.920 The situation in Los Angeles is criminal negligence by government officials.

00:52:10.900 I mean, the coasts will get from all over.

00:52:13.040 You had Josh Pettit on the other day talking about that, this interlinking environmental

00:52:17.320 groups and commissions that have locked things in.

00:52:20.420 You've got a governor that should be recalled immediately and replaced.

00:52:23.300 You've got a mayor that just ought to be fired. 0.89

00:52:24.780 And, you know, the Justice Department, there shouldn't be a penny that goes out there in

00:52:30.500 disaster relief until we get some things right and find out, you know, particularly

00:52:34.760 the arrogance of California officials about sanctuary cities and being a sanctuary state.

00:52:40.680 Got to get right with that.

00:52:41.920 Not one penny can go into California if they're diverting money for sanctuary cities and they're

00:52:47.320 diverting money.

00:52:48.000 I think they got a $50 million fund to resist President Trump.

00:52:50.400 Sorry.

00:52:51.940 Sorry, not sorry.

00:52:53.260 Can't happen.

00:52:54.440 Let's go to Jason Seidel.

00:52:55.840 I think, Jason, are you on the Virginia side of North Carolina and Tennessee, sir?

00:53:01.140 We're actually, we have folks that are working up in that area.

00:53:04.920 We're covering all of Western North Carolina.

00:53:07.740 But we're headquartered out of McDowell County or Marion, North Carolina.

00:53:13.480 And tell us what the situation is down there.

00:53:15.380 Well, so the situation, just like everybody else described, it's bad, right?

00:53:19.720 We're not getting what we need.

00:53:21.300 It's all, it's a matter of, you know, neighbors helping neighbors, right?

00:53:25.520 The only thing we get is what we can provide for ourselves, what people are willing to bring

00:53:28.780 us from other parts of the country, whether it be canned goods, whether it be campers,

00:53:32.860 whatever it is, that's the only way that we're surviving down here.

00:53:38.040 Now, I'm going to ask you, why, this is what's so shocking on, you know, these three,

00:53:42.280 four states are the heart of MAGA country.

00:53:45.480 Forget, I mean, FEMA's terrible.

00:53:47.500 That's Biden, and I'm sure that's payback from the Biden folks.

00:53:51.540 But what about local officials?

00:53:53.080 What about local, what about the state governments?

00:53:56.060 Well, you know, unfortunately, I believe there's a lot of people that are still playing politics

00:53:59.260 and they're not prioritizing their own people.

00:54:02.180 I think it's coming down to the fact that, you know, from the scarcity that we've witnessed,

00:54:08.200 they're just not doing what's right.

00:54:12.140 They're doing what's right for them.

00:54:16.520 Jason, where do people go to find out more about you, your efforts, your organization,

00:54:21.040 and about your specific needs now?

00:54:23.760 Yeah, go to projectyourhome.com, or you can go to Project Your Home on any of the social

00:54:30.740 media platforms.

00:54:31.920 And we even have an app, Project Your Home app, where you can apply for housing and get

00:54:36.020 other resources, perhaps being updated almost daily with additional resources for everybody

00:54:41.760 that's been affected by the hurricane.

00:54:43.640 Project Your Home.

00:54:46.720 Jason Sadell, thank you very much.

00:54:48.580 Honored to have you guys on here.

00:54:49.900 Short commercial break.

00:54:50.880 Back to wrap it up in the Worm in the Morning edition.

00:54:53.480 Next.

00:54:57.740 Are you tired of progressive corporations that continue to further alienate conservative Americans,

00:55:03.280 all the while eroding the future of the American dream?

00:55:07.060 Companies like Starbucks, strong army customers to support abortion, or PayPal canceling accounts

00:55:13.700 over political views, Maybelline making a mockery of women by supporting transgender models,

00:55:19.240 and Bud Light forcing gender ideology on you when all you want is to enjoy a cold beer? 0.96

00:55:25.700 But thanks to Public Square, you don't have to fund companies like this any longer.

00:55:30.300 Public Square connects you to tens of thousands of businesses that share your value for life,

00:55:35.360 family, freedom.

00:55:36.960 Whether you're looking to buy coffee, find a new athletic brand that knows what a woman 1.00

00:55:41.240 is, shop for clean skin care, or just find a restaurant in your community that won't lecture

00:55:46.820 you about your political views.

00:55:49.720 PublicSquare.com is your resource.

00:55:52.260 It's free to join.

00:55:53.500 Plus, you get discounts to many of the high-quality businesses on the platform.

00:55:57.180 Start spending your hard-earned money on companies that don't hate you.

00:56:02.320 Let me repeat that.

00:56:03.380 Start spending your money on companies that hate you.

00:56:08.000 Join me and millions of patriotic Americans who love truth, our country, and our constitution

00:56:12.920 at PublicSquare.com.

00:56:15.220 Download the app now or visit the site at PublicSquare.com.

00:56:19.240 That's PublicSquare.com.

00:56:21.180 Take action today.

00:56:23.160 Action, action, action.

00:56:24.640 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:56:27.660 Bannon.

00:56:33.920 Okay, I guess we're going to come to me.

00:56:35.300 I was going to go to, is it Ted Cruz with Pam?

00:56:37.800 Let's go to Ted Cruz with Pam Bondi real quickly. 0.98

00:56:40.520 We'll come back and wrap up and tell you what we're going to do during the day and tonight

00:56:43.780 when you come back and see us.

00:56:44.840 Four separate times.

00:56:47.640 And two assassination attempts, Senator.

00:56:49.880 I have to say Javert from Les Mis would be chagrined at the efforts of Democrats to do anything

00:56:58.760 possible to take him down.

00:57:01.040 And I believe the real target in this was not President Trump, but it was the American people,

00:57:05.560 that these prosecutions were brought because partisan prosecutors were terrified that the

00:57:13.480 American people would do exactly what they did in November of 2024 and vote to re-elect Donald J.

00:57:19.100 Trump.

00:57:19.640 By 77.3 percent.

00:57:22.780 Million Americans.

00:57:24.040 77.3 million Americans.

00:57:26.100 Will you commit every day as Attorney General to follow the law, to follow the Constitution,

00:57:40.860 to uphold the rule of law without favor and without regard to the partisan position of any

00:57:49.440 criminal defendant?

00:57:51.380 Yes, Senator.

00:57:52.660 That's what we should all expect from an Attorney General.

00:57:55.520 Thank you.

00:57:56.100 We'll now recess for a 30-minute lunch break.

00:58:00.520 That means we'll be back at 1225.

00:58:03.320 Let me have it back.

00:58:04.040 And when we resume...

00:58:05.880 We're going to go back.

00:58:06.580 As soon as you tell me about Rubio, we'll go back to him.

00:58:08.680 Okay.

00:58:10.380 We're going to conclude our coverage here in about five or six minutes.

00:58:13.720 We're going to pass right over to the Charlie Kirk show.

00:58:15.600 There's not going to be any break.

00:58:17.400 Real America's Voice, Parker and Rob Sieg, have worked this out.

00:58:21.700 Charlie will be covering a lot of this this afternoon.

00:58:23.380 And then Jack Bosovic.

00:58:30.060 Somebody's giving me a signal right here.

00:58:31.320 Can we go to Rubio real quickly?

00:58:32.940 Let's go to Rubio.

00:58:33.600 13 years to Turkmenistan or Tajikistan.

00:58:37.860 Very important strategically.

00:58:39.840 One of the first goals of the caucus that Senator Gary Peters and I created of Central Asia is to repeal the Jackson-Vanik label on the region and extend permanent normal trade relations with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

00:58:51.540 I realize you have a lot of priorities on your plate when you will be confirmed as our secretary.

00:58:57.480 But I would say rescinding it would be a good faith indication of the Jackson-Vanik requirements that Central Asia needs right now to grow.

00:59:05.080 My question is, would you work with me and Senator Peters to have your team work with us to remove this designation?

00:59:12.380 Yeah, and I believe the permanent removal will require legislative action.

00:59:16.340 I don't think Senator Murphy has a bill on that as well.

00:59:18.600 Yours is three countries.

00:59:20.120 Look, I think this is a relic of an era that's passed.

00:59:22.540 There are some that argue that we should use it as leverage for human rights concessions or leverage to get them to go stronger in our way as opposed to Russia and the like.

00:59:30.320 But I think in some cases it's an absurd relic of the past.

00:59:35.500 I think it's Kazakhstan, who the Department of Commerce has already said is a market economy.

00:59:40.080 In fact, I think they hosted the WTO ministerial just a couple years ago.

00:59:45.980 So they've met the conditions.

00:59:47.960 So we will work with you on this because I think it's important.

00:59:50.380 I think it's a neglected part of the world.

00:59:52.140 I look forward to working with Senator Murphy on this.

00:59:54.600 You know, that C5 plus 1, which is Central Asian countries, plus the United States.

00:59:57.920 I hope we can work with President Trump, actually, to think about maybe hosting some kind of a summit there.

01:00:03.000 Very strategic after the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

01:00:05.360 You see the tragedy.

01:00:06.620 You know, it's Rubio doing fine.

01:00:08.800 Pam Bondi's holding her own.

01:00:10.580 Ratcliffe's holding her own.

01:00:12.240 Numbers 202-224-3-121.

01:00:14.760 Make sure your voice is still needed.

01:00:16.260 Let's get these over the top, get them confirmed.

01:00:18.800 Democrats are trying to take shots, cheap shots.

01:00:21.900 But I can tell you all three are hanging in there.

01:00:24.400 This is not a Pete Hexin.

01:00:25.540 You don't see the – what they're trying to do is chop Pam up on reporting to the president. 0.97

01:00:30.780 They're trying to chop her up on the 2020 election. 1.00

01:00:33.620 They're trying to chop her up on J6, particularly the party. 0.94

01:00:36.500 They're trying to chop her up on Cash Patel. 1.00

01:00:39.100 But she's holding her own.

01:00:41.260 Marco Rubio doing a solid job.

01:00:42.880 Great introduction.

01:00:44.980 He's handling – you see right there, he's handling these questions like a pro.

01:00:48.560 And he's put out a very America First policy.

01:00:51.180 They're going to try to get him on NATO and other things.

01:00:53.080 But I'm sure Senator Rubio holds his own Ratcliffe hanging in there also.

01:00:57.340 But the CIA needs almost as big a reorganization and deconstruction as the FBI.

01:01:02.940 So I hope these – I know what it takes to get confirmed, but I hope these people are still focused on mission.

01:01:08.080 You see the situation in – where the deplorables are, where MAGA is, in Georgia, in North Carolina, that part of Virginia, Appalachian part of Virginia, and also Tennessee?

01:01:20.020 Not acceptable.

01:01:20.880 So we're going to get with Ben after the show, figure out what we can do.

01:01:24.200 And look, this should be the federal and state government.

01:01:26.800 People rely upon you guys, and the charity you give is unbelievable.

01:01:29.980 But this is what's carried these people so far is individual charity, right?

01:01:33.940 When governments should have stepped in, this is why you pay taxes.

01:01:36.340 This is why you have these emergency measures.

01:01:39.000 Mike Lindell, I want to go to you.

01:01:40.580 Mike, they're coming at – now, listen, they're coming after Lindell.

01:01:43.000 They've got these audits going on.

01:01:44.180 They're trying to chop him up every way possible.

01:01:46.060 Now they're getting on him, folks.

01:01:48.080 Guess why?

01:01:49.200 Because he's selling these crosses that are selling out nonstop, so they're all over him on that.

01:01:53.860 Tell me about that, Mike, and then tell me what else you got for the audience today.

01:01:58.020 Yeah, I just – I'm reading an article here.

01:02:00.100 Cash Strap Mega Pillow Entrepreneur Mike Lindell is now selling my cross necklaces.

01:02:05.020 It goes on, and this is the only place – remember, this has been a War Room exclusive, everybody.

01:02:10.560 And then it goes on to say that I'm a conspiracy theorist and bash me through the article.

01:02:16.340 But it's not a bad article.

01:02:17.460 It's getting good advertisement for our crosses that I put on sale for the War Room posse.

01:02:22.340 You guys are 30% off.

01:02:25.320 The women's has the Mother of Pearl look on one side, and then the black is reversible.

01:02:31.100 Black on the other side, it's adjustable.

01:02:33.620 Sterling silver made in the USA.

01:02:36.880 I went all in for these.

01:02:38.220 I helped design them.

01:02:39.940 But the media has been calling me all morning.

01:02:42.260 What better thing to do than attack me for selling a cross? 0.92

01:02:46.100 I mean, it's just unbelievable.

01:02:47.580 But you saved 30% promo code War Room.

01:02:51.680 You guys have been our greatest supporters at MyPillow.

01:02:54.520 And if you go to the website, you go and scroll down – oh, and there you go.

01:02:59.540 By the way, I did not get the flannel sheets changed, so you guys get them.

01:03:03.860 We're going to – I found out that as I was coming on air here.

01:03:07.480 So they'll be on sale yet today.

01:03:10.340 It was supposed to end yesterday.

01:03:11.520 I didn't get that done, so you guys still get the queens, $59.98, kings, $69.98.

01:03:17.980 This is it, though.

01:03:18.860 Let's get those while you can.

01:03:20.880 But get the MyCrosses.

01:03:22.440 There you have the beds and all the stuff we have on sale that we leave on sale every day for the War Room Posse.

01:03:28.600 Get what you can get.

01:03:29.820 Now do all your shopping there.

01:03:31.760 And I call my operators, 800-873-1062.

01:03:36.340 They're downstairs telling me you want one of the great MyCrosses.

01:03:39.420 And, Steve, I can't believe the media.

01:03:42.600 I mean, if they picked a – I think they've crossed a line here.

01:03:46.240 I really do, but they don't care.

01:03:48.360 The Independent was the first one that called me this morning to attack.

01:03:53.160 I wondered how they were going to spin this attack.

01:03:54.860 Independent from the United Kingdom.

01:03:55.600 Every time I come on the War Room show, they attack me.

01:03:58.160 What's up with that?

01:04:01.960 Hopefully it serves about our reach.

01:04:03.500 But I know the Warren Posse and the Cadres, everything, love the Crosses.

01:04:07.240 One more time, how do you get the Crosses?

01:04:09.520 I know people are very appreciative of you doing it.

01:04:12.080 Where are they going?

01:04:12.380 Yeah, you guys, go to MyPillow.com.

01:04:15.580 Scroll down until you see Steve and click on Steve.

01:04:19.000 There's all your War Room.

01:04:20.100 Promo code War Room only.

01:04:21.840 Only promo code War Room is going to get you 30% off on these Crosses.

01:04:26.580 Men's and women's, they're beautiful Crosses.

01:04:29.100 I wear my Cross every single day.

01:04:31.100 And then you have the flannel sheets still on sale, everybody, for right now.

01:04:36.220 We didn't get them taken down as low as $44.98.

01:04:38.980 All the colors inside, this is it.

01:04:41.040 The last few hours of that, King $69.98, Queen $59.98.

01:04:47.500 We're going to be coming out with the new commercials for the Crosses,

01:04:51.760 but they're going to be a lot higher.

01:04:53.660 This is a War Room exclusive.

01:04:57.060 Yeah.

01:04:58.140 Thank you, Mike.

01:04:58.940 Appreciate you.

01:04:59.540 Thanks, Steve.

01:05:00.100 See you this afternoon.

01:05:02.200 Very sobering down there in the heart of MAGA country.

01:05:06.060 We're going to get to the bottom of all that.

01:05:09.900 This FEMA situation, the quote-unquote running out of cash,

01:05:13.540 tomorrow you're going to have Scott Besant up on his confirmation hearing.

01:05:18.340 This is why I go to Birch Gold now to get the birchgold.com slash Bannon

01:05:22.440 to get the end of the dollar empire.

01:05:24.980 You're seeing the constraints on the U.S. government.

01:05:27.640 Everybody's crying.

01:05:28.280 You're going to have a quarter of a trillion dollars, $250 billion out in California.

01:05:32.740 Got to think this through.

01:05:34.000 And first, you got to get off this radical theory of modern monetary theory.

01:05:37.760 It got us into this place because the lords of easy money, the oligarchs in Silicon Valley,

01:05:42.820 the political class in D.C. wanted it.

01:05:44.900 They wanted it.

01:05:45.560 It's on your shoulders to get us out of here, folks.

01:05:50.020 I hate to put another burden on you, but that's just reality.

01:05:52.880 And you know why?

01:05:54.500 Because you've got the right stuff.

01:05:56.420 I'm going to end with that beautiful theme song from Conte.

01:05:59.400 It won the Academy Award.

01:06:01.380 The film is a magnificent masterpiece based on a book that's a masterpiece by Tom Wolfe,

01:06:06.700 filmed by Philip Kaufman.

01:06:08.820 Charlie Kirk's going to pick it up.

01:06:10.020 We'll be back 5 o'clock this afternoon, Eastern Standard Time.

01:06:13.660 See you then.

01:06:14.020 I want to warn you of a huge change that could be coming to our money and our bank accounts.

01:06:26.040 First, think back to 9-11, shortly after the government pushed through the Patriot Act.

01:06:30.040 This gave the government power to spy on innocent Americans by monitoring our phone and email

01:06:35.780 and tracking our movement across the Internet.

01:06:38.900 Now, Jim Rickards, editor of the independent financial newsletter Strategic Intelligence,

01:06:43.460 and New York Times bestselling author, is warning about a coming event

01:06:47.660 that could elevate this governmental surveillance to a terrifying new level.

01:06:52.120 In fact, some of the guests I've had on The War Room believe that the government will soon

01:06:56.260 expand their powers to track our every move.

01:06:59.600 If we say the wrong things on social media, donate to the wrong causes, buy firearms, or even vote MAGA,

01:07:06.620 the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts.

01:07:09.860 I can't say for sure if this will happen, but it's an interesting and dire warning.

01:07:16.060 Fortunately, Jim Rickards, an American patriot and friend of mine,

01:07:19.060 has made it his mission to educate us on what he believes is coming

01:07:22.800 and how to protect yourself from the possibility of programmable money.

01:07:28.560 Watch Jim's warning video now before it's censored like I've been in the past.

01:07:33.820 Go to RickardsWarRoom.com. That's RickardsWarRoom.com now to see the video.

01:07:40.020 It's Sacred Human, really trying to fill this gap of quality supplements,

01:07:44.080 and of course the beef liver being our flagship product.

01:07:47.200 For those who don't know, beef liver is loaded with highly bioavailable ingredients

01:07:51.920 such as vitamin A, B12, zinc, CoQ10, etc.

01:07:56.360 And because it is 100% grass-fed and natural,

01:08:00.760 your body is able to absorb these nutrients far better than taking any other synthetic multivitamin

01:08:06.180 or any other synthetic vitamin in general.

01:08:09.440 So we have some other amazing products, but if you'd like to check us out,

01:08:12.860 you can go to SacredHumanHealth.com and cheers to your health.

01:08:16.560 700,000 Americans every year.

01:08:19.920 Yes, heart disease is the number one killer every year, year in and year out.

01:08:23.640 Heart disease builds over time. Hypertension, high blood pressure, bad cholesterol, diabetes,

01:08:28.600 all of it affects our heart.

01:08:31.040 A healthy heart is key to being energetic as we get older.

01:08:35.500 It is never too early to take care of your heart.

01:08:39.660 You see, heart disease sneaks up on us.

01:08:41.780 You can start in your 30s, and when this happens, you're at serious risk by the time you turn 60.

01:08:45.460 If you want to take care of your heart and those you care about,

01:08:49.480 please go to WarRoomHealth.com. That's WarRoomHealth.com.

01:08:54.660 All one word, WarRoomHealth.com.

01:08:57.240 Use the code WARRoom at checkout to save 67% of your first shipment.

01:09:01.980 That's code WARRoom at checkout to save 67%.

01:09:05.000 Do it again. WarRoomHealth, all one word, WarRoomHealth.com.

01:09:09.800 Go there today.

01:09:11.320 If you're going to be part of the posse, you need a strong heart.

01:09:14.340 You need a lion's heart.

01:09:16.080 How we're going to do that is with Salty.

01:09:18.400 Go there. Do it today. Check it out.

Bannon's War Room - January 15, 2025

Episode 4916： Bringing Help To NC

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript