On this episode of The War Room, we have Congressman Tim Burchard (R-TN) join us to discuss the Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Waltz. We also discuss the Chinese influence on our political system, and why we should be worried about it.
00:00:00.000this is what you're fighting for I mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
00:00:11.280people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the authoritarians
00:00:19.040get total control and total power because this is just like in Arizona this is just like in Georgia
00:00:24.760it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations
00:00:29.880this is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is the fight
00:00:33.660all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth
00:00:37.800war room battleground here's your host Stephen K Bannon
00:00:41.960good afternoon Stephen K Bannon should be here but this is Brad Thayer sitting in for him
00:00:49.360on August 28th the year of our Lord 2024 we've got a lot to cover on the show we have some excellent
00:00:56.780guests including Congressman Tim Burchard of course from the great state of Tennessee
00:01:00.860and we'll be joined later by Jim Fennell and Derek Harvey two of our great national security experts
00:01:08.360who are going to talk us through key national security threats that are facing the U.S. and its allies
00:01:14.500now and certainly in the months to come much is happening as we used to say of course lots happening
00:01:22.000in international politics and business is always good and our enemies always ensure that there's
00:01:27.340never a shortage of problems or issues really to touch base on but I'd like to toss to Congressman
00:01:34.680Burchard sir if you're with us there's a lot to discuss
00:01:38.120great to be on the show with y'all thank you again
00:01:42.900wonderful to have you sir your your favorite of course of the audience the posse loves you
00:01:48.460uh Congressman Burchard I'd like to really start off with talking about the vice presidential pick
00:01:54.280uh Tim Waltz uh who's uh democratic vice presidential pick of course sir
00:01:59.260uh who's uh spent a lot of time in China it seems maybe too much time in China some would say
00:02:06.200uh having made over 30 visits since 1989 uh having gone to Macau many many times and have had business
00:02:14.360interests uh as well with uh uh uh PRC people's republic of China's uh entities uh there so sir what can you tell us about uh this vice presidential pick uh and what are your thoughts uh really on on what he's up to uh in the years that he's had before uh uh obviously Kamala Harris picked him
00:02:36.360him well if you want somebody with a questionable past questionable past abortion on demand up to
00:02:43.440up to and maybe even after birth um if you want somebody who wants an open border
00:02:49.180uh who said that you build that wall I'm gonna be down there selling ladders um then this is your guy
00:02:57.020uh and of course the communist Chinese influence to me scares the daylights out of me they are the ones
00:03:03.640that you know have worked um they're magic with another member of our uh former member I guess of
00:03:10.560the intelligence committee that speaker Pelosi would not put on the committee all right that would put on
00:03:16.380the committee would not remove him and um he couldn't get a security briefing to a boy scout
00:03:22.580meeting um and it was of course had a long-term relationship with a communist Chinese lady so you know
00:03:32.840they have a long-term plan they get involved in people's lives early I was told by um Mike Pompeo at
00:03:41.620a breakfast one time he said Tim he said you know they um they're down to the level of PTA meetings
00:03:47.460I mean in in areas that's their influence and they they cast the net very deep and they're playing
00:03:53.980the long game and I you know my father I'm saying I was pointing to the excuse me these guns behind me
00:04:00.440um those were guns my dad took off of uh folks that he killed in in the Pacific and um I got three of
00:04:09.680them as a matter of fact but he uh um after the war he went to China for a short while and he got in
00:04:15.240some limited combat against against um some Chinese communists left a group of them in a field as a
00:04:21.360matter of fact uh that's for another story though another day but you know the thing that he said
00:04:27.300about the communist Chinese was that they don't value people they don't value anything but the
00:04:33.660ruling class and um and they'll do anything to succeed and and that scares that scares the heck
00:04:41.500out of me you know the Manchurian candidate we know they're involved in these things they are at
00:04:47.520major colleges major institutions um are research institutions and you know and what they do is
00:04:55.380a lot of these folks are just are very patriotic Americans of of Chinese descent but they still
00:05:03.040have kinfolk back in um in China and they'll be contacted about a member or something a member of
00:05:10.440their family who who could just disappear and they say oh man I don't want that to happen and they
00:05:16.520said well that's good that's fine why don't you um we just need a little information you know maybe
00:05:21.440you work in a in a um maybe you're a member of the navy or something have a little influence or in
00:05:27.620um information on a on a naval um on a missile that we have or something or a sub and that's the way
00:05:34.580they've operated in the past they got two um democrat excuse me two um that's Freudian they got two um
00:05:42.340um Chinese members of our navy um of Chinese descent and basically I think one of them's mom was
00:05:50.900promised a position in the Chinese party I you know I don't know what that entails probably having
00:05:55.960uh at least one meal a day which is something that a lot of people in China do without but um you know
00:06:02.900it goes very deep with these folks and they have a long game and you know I uh do they have compromising
00:06:09.820information on this on him I don't know I would I suspect they don't but they do have some influence
00:06:16.140and they have a contact with him and that scares the daylights out of me and that should scare every
00:06:21.480American because currently right now our national media media outside of uh when I say the national
00:06:28.520media I mean the the historical ABC NBC CBS CNN um they're not doing any research on these folks
00:06:35.640they are they're coronating them is all they're doing and that should scare the hell out of Americans
00:06:40.360indeed it should uh and and anybody who's gone to China 30 times so well he wouldn't be coming back
00:06:47.560if he at least didn't uh get the approval of the Chinese Communist Party uh because he's not allowed
00:06:54.460to just come and go uh as he wants we should talk to our missionaries we should we should talk to some
00:07:00.780of our Christian missionaries that go over there and ask them about the um the process to get over there
00:07:07.440and what they have to do and have they have to be very careful and then to say that this guy just
00:07:12.800has free reign to walk all over China 30 different times to me and bring young students to me it doesn't
00:07:19.860make your mind uh doesn't have to wander very far to figure this thing out yes sir and he had a
00:07:26.420business too which really seems to be opaque uh and what actually was this business doing in China
00:07:32.300I think there's uh there Congressman Burchett there are going to be a lot of shoes yet to drop I think
00:07:38.320in Tim Waltz uh and his activities with uh uh the Chinese Communist Party uh the time that he spent in
00:07:46.140Macau for example uh there's a lot there and it's up to him of course to come clean uh he's very unlikely
00:07:53.180to so it's up to Congress and other good folks uh to do what they can to get information uh about him
00:08:00.100I know your committee uh the Chairman Comer's committee has attempted uh to send a recent
00:08:06.080letter to the FBI Congressman could you talk a little bit about that please uh for the audience
00:08:11.380yeah um I I guess the letter you reference is is is just how how deep his influence is um and and where
00:08:21.200it goes and and I don't expect to get anything back um we've we've seen this time and time again that
00:08:29.060our alphabet agencies uh just do not respond or as we saw with the Secret Service um after
00:08:37.060President Trump was shot just how they stonewalled and how our FBI's is I mean they allowed the body to
00:08:44.540be uh cremated and then they washed they couldn't wash off that root fast enough um if these folks all
00:08:52.760these agencies aren't involved in some sort of conspiracy they sure don't do a heck of a lot
00:08:57.320to um to bring anything to light to dispel those rumors so I'm I'm very concerned and I do not expect
00:09:04.980any response uh I expect stonewalling and then and hoping that they will have the majority in the
00:09:11.820House the Senate and the White House because when they do God help us they will they will destroy this
00:09:18.000country because what's your these radical radical views and programs and you know our transportation
00:09:24.740bill or 85 percent of it is it funds non-transportation uh this that will just be the tip of the iceberg
00:09:32.980and they will wreck this country and they will rebuild it in some sort of woke utopia as my buddy
00:09:38.720Matt Gates calls it and we um you know we will we will lose our country as we know it I I fear that
00:09:46.360completely with this and these to think that the the ruling body uh that I serve on um and Chairman
00:09:57.220Comer does a good job he he goes after him but you know I know I see the frustration every time I see
00:10:02.880him in the gym every morning uh before seven o'clock usually and he you can tell he's just frustrated
00:10:08.860because there's there's no um apparatus to back it up you know we don't have we've got a majority but
00:10:15.960we don't have enough members with the guts to do something we just are well we ought to just say
00:10:19.800we're going to cut your money off and defund these these agencies and let them fall into something
00:10:25.280else but and that's what we need to do and I think the American public at least I know the posse would
00:10:29.900support that and um but we're just being overrun and and the arrogance they just thumbing their nose
00:10:37.000at this committee and they sure wouldn't do it under the Democrats if the Republicans uh were in
00:10:42.800in charge and um or in the White House as you saw they over they they ran over our Constitution
00:10:49.260continuously uh when Trump was in and they had um and they they had the power in the House so um
00:10:57.700I don't think much is going to come from it brother I guess I should have just said that I saved us a lot
00:11:03.280of time well it's important to say that uh I think Congressman to I think to convey uh to the audience of
00:11:10.760course what's actually happening but also potential roads ahead uh uh too I think one thing that we
00:11:17.760could see is that they're also it's not an accident there's so little time to investigate Waltz or
00:11:23.080Harris uh of course too uh since we only have a few months voting starts in North Carolina and
00:11:29.700Pennsylvania in September uh so they're doing everything they can to minimize the time that
00:11:35.020anybody has to look at uh these candidates uh and what they've been up to sir don't you think
00:11:40.040oh 100 percent they're gonna stonewall us minimize as you said that's a great word and the national
00:11:47.900media will be will play a part in it uh I hate to do this but before I go to bed I flipped on the
00:11:54.600television usually to get over to YouTube to watch some video on how to do something here that I need
00:12:00.580data hey if you need if you need cataract surgery I'm your guy by the way I saw a video on it I'll
00:12:06.000probably be working on that later today outside of rebuilding carburetors but but no I was I saw CNN
00:12:14.040some round table and you know they had the token Republican I guess I didn't know who he was that's
00:12:20.720thought that's kind of odd that I wouldn't know who the guy was but it's just a round table of far
00:12:26.980leftists just berating everything we stand for and and making excuses for Kamala Harris and and her
00:12:35.680vice president um you know from the you know after it came out that now she's in favor of a border wall
00:12:42.020of course she's in favor of a border who wouldn't be you know and it's all of a sudden this talk
00:12:46.840and she was for defunding the border uh our border police our border patrol excuse me and
00:12:54.200and she fought every every ounce of uh of effort to build a wall she is a liar this is a hoax we are
00:13:03.280being this is uh being pushed upon us somebody else is pulling the strings I I dare say she is not
00:13:10.500gonna be if she were elected God help us but if she were she would not be running anything but I do I
00:13:18.780do take her serious when she says she's gonna immediately have a have an immediate gun ban and
00:13:24.660start and start seizing weapons I believe she'll try to do that with and and I believe that this
00:13:30.920this gutless Congress will um enough of them will stand you know will compromise some way on our
00:13:38.080Constitution then it is all over well yes Congressman you'll remember of course that Joe Biden
00:13:44.500just as he was sworn in right had so many executive orders ready to go so uh there's no doubt that uh
00:13:51.600if she were elected uh she'll uh be off to the races uh and guns are just the start of it sir as you
00:13:57.620uh certainly it's going to be the remaking of a continuation of the remaking of American society
00:14:02.980uh which is uh the objective here and uh there's so much uh obviously to be done
00:14:10.180uh but how are we going to be able to get the information about her Congressman I think that
00:14:15.740the letters are important the interviews to which she's uh going to sit down it's going to be up to
00:14:20.620President Trump uh certainly at the debate or at least one debate uh potentially more to try to draw
00:14:27.740this out you referenced the media of course our inner camp aren't going to do anything uh so sadly it
00:14:34.400falls to uh President Trump at the debate to do his utmost uh to try to draw her out uh on this issue
00:14:42.240other than that she's just going to be a Biden hiding the basement strategy and the media will
00:14:47.060provide top cover for her sir don't you think they're it's a huge problem again 100 percent you
00:14:53.040ought to be doing the um the press for the Republican caucus or or just or just um Americans that have
00:15:00.240some common sense and and I want to stress this with Americans because these are the people that
00:15:05.060are watching this show if I could brother if I could branch out a little bit absolutely absolutely
00:15:10.500when you're at thank you when you're at lunch or you're at your garden club or you're in your
00:15:15.580Sunday school class or you're at the you know getting a getting a cold drink at work and people are
00:15:21.440talking and and they're saying something that you know is not right you should correct them you don't
00:15:27.200have to be a jerk about it but you should correct them you should stand up for this country the left
00:15:32.260is taking it full advantage of us on Facebook on Twitter or X or whatever for too long and we're too
00:15:39.600afraid to take it up take them on um I would direct people to a a Twitter a thing I just posted um
00:15:47.880somebody that's always attacking me every week in our late in our our daily newspaper here in Knoxville
00:15:54.260every week and I I ignore it because coming from the source I know what it's about they want to try
00:16:00.640to control me and they held a fundraiser for me and so now they think they can tell me what to do which
00:16:05.620they can't and then they write this horrible um opinion piece every week about me well this week
00:16:11.600though or last week they took after they said some unkind things and some downright lies actually about my
00:16:17.580father who actually fought in this for this country and it was in the Marine Corps went in the Pacific
00:16:22.820and and I corrected them and I put it out I didn't send it to the paper because you know they limit you
00:16:30.000to 160 words or something and they edit it out and they make you look like a bigger make me look like a
00:16:35.500bigger buffoon than I actually am and then they'll post it like in the corner of the obituary page and
00:16:40.520nobody reads the paper anymore anyway so I posted it to Twitter and as of today I've gotten over 300,000
00:16:48.260people that have viewed that thing and that's across the country and granted people a lot of the
00:16:53.900local they're not all local people but national people have said I'm glad I don't know who this
00:16:59.440is but I'm glad you stood up to them and we've got to do that and we've got to encourage our preachers
00:17:05.620in the pulpit to quit being afraid to preach the gospel for goodness sake because a lot of this stuff
00:17:11.060remember I don't want to be proselytizing I'm trying to win any souls but dadgummit a lot of
00:17:16.860this stuff is is is basics uh it's it's scripture and it's sound and it and it's like our constitution
00:17:23.280it's not a a moving document it is a stone put in place for a purpose and and and when we don't back
00:17:32.840our preachers up and we don't back our community leaders up and you know I dare say I'm the people in
00:17:40.040the posse are great I'm out knocking on doors in my counties out in the rural areas people are
00:17:45.080coming up to me I see on the posse I was I was vacationing down in Florida a couple weeks well
00:17:49.920actually I went down for um for Matt Gates actually and um we took a couple days I took my girls down
00:17:55.680there with me and the guy who was playing the guitar and the little little honky-tonk we go to
00:18:00.620every time and um I'll think of his name about the time I hang up here but he um uh I think
00:18:07.220LaMonica I believe is his name yeah um LaMonica anyway he's a good guitar player I sent him a $10
00:18:12.760tip on Venmo or whatever and y'all know how cheap I am and but he came off the stage and said hey
00:18:19.300brother I've seen you on the posse I just saw you today as a matter of fact because I was wearing the
00:18:23.340same dadgum shirt and he said and and you know and that meant more to me because he he talked about
00:18:30.280things I was for and he encouraged me but we need to do that of our elected officials take every
00:18:36.440advantage you can blast them all you want and they need to be blasted but when they do something
00:18:40.480right dadgummit let them know I've been in this game most of my life I don't need any pats on the
00:18:45.880back but a lot of these guys and gals do I used to say if you get three phone calls on an issue
00:18:50.580it was a groundswell I voted against the um the Tennessee Titans stadium I just didn't think
00:18:57.020government ought to be in that business it's such a great deal for all these billionaires
00:19:00.760then dadgummit they ought to just pull all their money and not make the taxpayers pay for it and I was
00:19:05.820one of three people in the house in the senate at that time in Tennessee to vote against it
00:19:10.800but I had I had three or five or six maybe but I had three people from my district had called me
00:19:19.140specifically about that said hey I can't even get books in our kids schools and those kind of things
00:19:23.620and you gotta man we gotta we gotta back these people up but we also gotta encourage people to
00:19:29.120get out and vote because the left has perpetuated this myth and they've used this because we think the
00:19:34.800the elections were stolen and they said what what does my vote matter folks we got to put so many
00:19:40.180dadgum points on the board they can't steal it from us we got to reinforce this thing this man this
00:19:46.180country is a gift from God if you travel overseas brother you'll see it it is all these countries
00:19:51.980are oh you got to go here you got to go there man I wouldn't trade any of them any of them for right
00:19:58.560here in this beautiful country I got a 48 star flag on the wall in my office in Knoxville and that was
00:20:06.460the flag that was on my uncle's casket too old to go fight died a few days after D-Day he's in his 30s
00:20:12.540my mama would cry every time they played the national anthem you know and I think about that
00:20:17.420the sacrifices people have made let's not throw it away let's you know I I'm often I had a preacher
00:20:25.500one time tell me he was uh there's a story and I love this story because the guy's on his roof and
00:20:31.640he um um uh and he's falling off and he says lord help me and a nail catches his his overalls you know
00:20:39.200and and he says never mind lord I got it and you know knowing that God if he knows when a sparrow
00:20:44.960falls from the sky dadgum he put that nail there so man he's put a lot of things out there we just
00:20:50.680we cannot we got to quit turning our head to him and swatting his hand away I think when President
00:20:56.960Trump turned his head a quarter of an inch and that bullet grazed him that was a signal we should
00:21:03.960all be aware and quit swatting God's hand away Trump Trump is not perfect he is a he is a just like
00:21:12.420the rest of us he's a broken vessel and but that gamut he he's gonna he's gonna straighten this
00:21:19.200thing out we just got to give him the opportunity to do it that's right sir and we want to keep in
00:21:25.340mind even Ted Williams didn't get on base every time he came up to bat right so nobody's perfect
00:21:30.440333 or something yeah yeah but a third you know a third of the time he got on base the rest of the
00:21:36.700times he just struck out absolutely and so President Trump has a batting average even better than Ted
00:21:43.200Williams but as Steve always says we can't put it on President Trump's shoulders as you said at the
00:21:48.860beginning sir that it's up to every one of us to work to make sure that the election obviously goes the
00:21:57.780right way on November 5th there's so much to be done and again early voting starting in September in
00:22:03.160North Carolina and Pennsylvania so sir we're off to the races here in just a matter of weeks
00:22:09.840and that's something that the audience I'm sure will keep in mind sir is there anything just we've
00:22:18.540got about two minutes left just your final thoughts really on the events of today and on the vice
00:22:25.560presidential pick well I would just how far to the left they are how far to the left and I think they
00:22:34.980understand they're in trouble with the left because the they if they got to shore that bunch up then we
00:22:42.240know they're in trouble with them I think I think victory is within our grasp if we could just we just
00:22:48.640close our hands and and pull it in and I would encourage people people ask me what can they do for our
00:22:54.320country pray for our country and vote and please pray for our buddy Steve Bannon yes this ain't no
00:23:00.820cakewalk where he's at and you know he's a tough guy don't who we we can't go see him and I get that
00:23:06.960he doesn't want anybody to write him letters but I I'd encourage people to pray for his safety because
00:23:12.320if this this is just the start of this nonsense this is the start of this nonsense and this is what
00:23:18.220they're doing with a Republican majority can you imagine what they're going to do with a Democrat
00:23:23.100majority we might as well lock it up might as well lock it up they will tax us regulate us
00:23:29.120and and bureaucrat us to to non-existence and I and I worry about the the world I'm gonna leave my wife
00:23:39.020and my daughter and we all should because this is our opportunity this is going to be our last chance
00:23:44.600I feel like for forever because the amount of ammo and the amount of media that they have stocked up
00:23:56.720and the backing they have stocked up from the left and and again they're not I said before they're not
00:24:02.880gonna take us without a shot well dadgummit they took a shot a few days back on President Trump we better
00:24:08.960wake up about what's going on in this country we better take her dadgum country back in election
00:24:14.160days today to do but enough points on the board so they can't stay but thank you thank you war room
00:24:19.620thank you very much indeed thank you Congressman great pleasure to have you today thanks