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WarRoom Battleground EP 474： The Government Silencing The American People


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Summary

On this episode of War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon sits down with former Georgia State Rep. Donna Brazile (D-Atlanta) to discuss the importance of keeping money in your house, and why you should always have at least six months worth of cash with you.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is what you're fighting for.
00:00:14.660 I mean, every day you're out there.
00:00:17.360 What they're doing is blowing people off.
00:00:20.800 If you continue to look the other way and shut up,
00:00:23.480 then the oppressors, the authoritarians,
00:00:26.040 get total control and total power.
00:00:27.680 Because this is just like in Arizona.
00:00:30.640 This is just like in Georgia.
00:00:31.820 It's another element that backs them into a quarter
00:00:34.660 and shows their lies and misrepresentations.
00:00:36.920 This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged.
00:00:39.200 As we've told you, this is the fight.
00:00:41.100 All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
00:00:44.980 War Room, Battleground.
00:00:46.780 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:50.060 Fort Worth County and the state of Georgia both pay me direct deposits.
00:00:53.440 Okay, so the cash that you would pay him,
00:00:55.700 you wouldn't get it out of the bank?
00:00:56.500 I have money in my house.
00:00:58.200 You have money in your house.
00:00:58.940 So it was just money that was there?
00:01:01.960 When you meet my father, he's going to tell you as a woman,
00:01:06.140 you should always have, which I don't have,
00:01:08.760 so let's don't tell him that,
00:01:10.180 you should have at least six months in cash at your house at all times.
00:01:14.220 Now, I don't know why this old black man feels like that, but he does.
00:01:18.100 When we were growing up, my daddy had three safes in the house.
00:01:20.500 So my father's bought me a lockbox, and I always keep cash in the house.
00:01:25.340 Now, I don't do it to the degree that my father would do it,
00:01:28.820 so he would probably be ashamed with me, but I always have cash at the house.
00:01:34.500 That has been, I don't know, all my life.
00:01:38.400 If you're a woman and you go on a date with a man,
00:01:40.740 you better have $200 in your pocket.
00:01:42.740 So if that man acts up, you can go where you want to go.
00:01:45.560 So I keep cash in my house, and I don't keep cash as good in my purse like I used to.
00:01:51.220 I don't go on many dates, but when you go on a date, you should have cash in your pocket.
00:01:56.760 So my question was, where did that cash originally come from, if it didn't come out of the bank?
00:02:00.500 Cash is fungible.
00:02:03.460 I've had cash for years in my house.
00:02:05.960 So for me to tell you the source of where it comes from,
00:02:08.540 when you go to Publix and you buy something, you get $50, you throw it in there.
00:02:12.040 It's been my whole life.
00:02:13.980 When I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that.
00:02:18.640 Like, to tell you I just have cash in my house.
00:02:22.480 I don't have as much today as I would normally have, but I'm building back up now.
00:02:27.840 You just put money in.
00:02:29.020 It's a very good practice.
00:02:30.040 I would advise it to all women.
00:02:32.440 So you can't identify when you came into this cash or where the cash came from?
00:02:36.280 I didn't say I couldn't identify it.
00:02:37.900 Nobody gives me anything.
00:02:39.920 I am sure that the source of the money is always the work, sweat, and tears of me.
00:02:45.060 What you asked me for is, when did the money go in there?
00:02:48.860 What I am trying to tell you is, so I got divorced in 2005 from my husband.
00:02:54.100 No, no, no.
00:02:54.820 It's important.
00:02:55.320 You said, where did the money come from?
00:02:56.880 And I need to tell you where the money came from.
00:02:58.580 And so for many, many years, I have kept money in my house.
00:03:03.540 That money in my worst days has probably only been $500 or $1,000.
00:03:08.120 At my best days, I probably had $15,000 in my house of cash.
00:03:12.700 At all times, there's going to be cash in my house or wherever I'm laying my head.
00:03:17.620 The money that you paid, Mr. Wade, the cash, in October of 2022, you do not know where that money came from?
00:03:24.280 I do know where it came from.
00:03:25.360 It came from my sweat and tears.
00:03:27.440 Do you know which job it came from?
00:03:29.340 Did it come from Fulton County or did it come from a private job?
00:03:31.700 It came from, I don't, I'm not, what are you talking about?
00:03:34.280 So it could have come from a private job because before I was DA, I was in private practice.
00:03:40.140 So I earned money during that time period that's probably in there.
00:03:42.980 You don't know where it came from.
00:03:43.980 What do you mean I don't know where it came from?
00:03:45.640 I understand the situation.
00:03:47.220 We can move on.
00:03:47.820 Okay, thanks.
00:03:49.260 Same with Aruba.
00:03:50.200 You don't know where that cash came from either, right?
00:03:52.120 Ma'am, you are mischaracterizing my testimony greatly.
00:03:55.920 I'm not going to allow you to mischaracterize my testimony.
00:03:59.440 I know that I keep money in my house.
00:04:01.360 The amounts of money I gave Mr. Wade, it was never that serious.
00:04:05.960 I don't think I've ever handed him more than $2,500 in a reimbursement.
00:04:09.380 So we're not talking about $20,000 in cash.
00:04:12.380 I don't have $20,000 in cash right now.
00:04:15.640 The most I ever gave him, I know I gave him $2,500 when we went to Belize
00:04:19.700 because we went to one hotel and then we went to a second hotel.
00:04:26.080 That $2,500 I actually gave him while we were still in Belize.
00:04:29.120 If you could ask a more precise question.
00:04:31.640 Yes, please.
00:04:32.080 Give me the time period.
00:04:33.160 Mr. Wade visits you at the place you laid your head.
00:04:36.060 When?
00:04:36.840 Has he ever visited you at the place you laid your head?
00:04:39.400 Well, let's be clear because you lied in this.
00:04:41.340 Let me tell you which one you lied in.
00:04:42.620 Right here?
00:04:43.500 I think you lied right here.
00:04:45.160 No, no, no, no.
00:04:45.980 This is the truth, Judge.
00:04:47.260 It is a lie.
00:04:49.160 It is a lie.
00:04:50.280 Ms. Willis?
00:04:51.240 Mr. Sainal, thank you.
00:04:52.260 We're going to take five minutes to do that in five.
00:05:02.160 Out of a courtroom, we all know what professionalism looks like,
00:05:05.660 what decorum looks like,
00:05:07.500 and devoting ourselves to the rule of law and proper advocacy.
00:05:11.460 I would urge everyone to keep those principles in their mind,
00:05:17.280 starting with the fact that we won't talk over each other.
00:05:22.080 And from there, we'll get through this.
00:05:25.740 Ms. Merchant.
00:05:28.360 Thursday, 15 February, in the year of our Lord, 2024,
00:05:31.780 a complete and total humiliating fiasco for the people of Georgia,
00:05:38.220 Georgia, the great city of Atlanta, and the state of Georgia.
00:05:41.460 And Governor Kemp and Attorney General Carr,
00:05:44.480 she's stepping immediately and shut this thing down.
00:05:46.640 It's going to go on to continue tomorrow.
00:05:48.220 Went to up to five o'clock today.
00:05:52.140 That is the district attorney for Fulton County.
00:05:56.860 And this thing was a fiasco.
00:05:58.240 Mike Davis, good assessment.
00:06:00.540 In the previous hour, we're going to have more to say about this,
00:06:03.140 more analysis.
00:06:03.980 And of course, Catherine Engelberg,
00:06:05.160 they're in their own firefight in Georgia.
00:06:08.080 She'll be joining us momentarily.
00:06:10.260 But I want to start in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
00:06:12.920 Naomi Wolf with Senator Bo Benton and Senator Tim Salazar join us.
00:06:19.340 Naomi, thank you very much.
00:06:20.520 Tell us what is Naomi Wolf doing out in with with two two hard hitting conservatives
00:06:26.660 out in Cheyenne, Wyoming, ma'am.
00:06:29.100 Thank you.
00:06:29.880 Well, it all started with the war room when we put out the call for people to sponsor this
00:06:36.440 clean elections bill that we drafted Daily Clout and American Voters Alliance, and that
00:06:41.760 you've been such a stalwart champion in getting out to the public.
00:06:46.400 Representative, I'm sorry, Senator Tim Salazar to my left was the first in the country to
00:06:52.340 reach out to me and invite me to the state house.
00:06:55.260 And his colleague, Senator Bo Bightman, is co-sponsoring the bill.
00:07:00.480 And so we're so thrilled and honored to be able to announce that on war room today.
00:07:05.500 Not only has it a sponsor and a co-sponsor, but both of these wonderful leaders have been
00:07:12.300 introducing me to their colleagues, passing out the bill, advocating for the bill.
00:07:18.140 And they've both been working hard on election integrity issues even before the bill showed
00:07:22.360 up.
00:07:24.460 Guys, let me start with you, Senator Salazar, and then I'll go to Senator Boeckman.
00:07:28.160 I've got following you, we're going to go to New York with with Elise Stefanik, one of her
00:07:33.720 senior people, NRCC, about this fiasco in New York state, which is now out of control, but
00:07:39.240 the mail-in ballots and the bad voter rolls.
00:07:41.560 Then I've got Catherine Engelbreck and Greg Phillips from True the Vote on another fiasco in the
00:07:46.600 state of Georgia.
00:07:47.260 I had always assumed that places like Wyoming, we already had it sorted out and squared away.
00:07:55.180 So what is the problem?
00:07:56.540 What level of problem do we have that it takes Naomi and the hard work that Daily Cloud has
00:08:03.580 done, the war and posse, to help try to sort things out there?
00:08:06.660 Why are you even on top of this initiative?
00:08:10.060 First of all, it's a pleasure to be with you, Mr. Bannon.
00:08:12.260 My constituents want, they want to know that their vote counts.
00:08:17.480 They want to know that there is voter integrity.
00:08:20.520 And one of the things that's so great about this draft legislation is that we want paper
00:08:26.320 ballots counted by human beings.
00:08:28.680 We don't want drop boxes.
00:08:30.260 And Senator Bightman and I want to be involved in Wyoming being the first state in the union
00:08:37.740 to pass this legislation.
00:08:39.120 But to answer your question directly, it's to give integrity, transparency for the people
00:08:45.860 of Wyoming.
00:08:46.760 And for many of my constituents, they want to know that their vote counts and that it was
00:08:50.840 counted correctly.
00:08:52.280 And that's why this legislation that we received from Wyoming is so attractive.
00:08:56.760 Senator Bightman, before we come to you, I just want to go back to Salazar.
00:09:01.580 Just explain to me, this is, just want me to do the basic pieces.
00:09:04.940 This will be paper ballots, hand counted.
00:09:07.640 Is it the same day counting?
00:09:08.880 Are we going to wait for two weeks until we hear from Wyoming?
00:09:12.040 Or will you guys structure this so that we get a count that night?
00:09:16.760 No, it'll be, it is same day counting.
00:09:19.320 And that's what's so great about this is that we get the decisions as quickly as they are
00:09:24.920 counted rather than waiting for two weeks, as some states do.
00:09:29.700 This is really great legislation.
00:09:32.860 And as I said before, it's going to give confidence to our constituents that their vote counts.
00:09:41.140 Senator Bightman, I guess what you're throwing down is saying if France can do it, the great
00:09:46.660 patriots in Wyoming can do it?
00:09:49.240 Absolutely, Mr. Bannon.
00:09:50.480 In Wyoming, we've been trying to piecemeal election integrity together for the last few
00:09:55.220 years.
00:09:55.580 We've tried to ban Zuck Bucks.
00:09:57.320 It failed.
00:09:58.060 I've ran a ballot harvesting prohibition two years ago.
00:10:02.000 It passed the Senate, died in the Wyoming House.
00:10:04.740 We've been fighting to clean up our primary elections because in Wyoming, we just have a
00:10:09.040 primary, right?
00:10:09.880 We're a Republican state.
00:10:11.840 The primaries were at that, but we had Democrats picking our nominees for decades.
00:10:15.900 We finally closed our primaries last year.
00:10:17.980 So we're way behind on election integrity.
00:10:21.120 And this bill, this model legislation is the best I've ever seen.
00:10:25.260 This takes everything we've been working on and puts it all in one package, and it's
00:10:29.680 exactly what we need.
00:10:33.120 Senator Salazar, what's the process from here?
00:10:36.000 Walk us through how we're going to track this in Wyoming and make it a model for the
00:10:39.900 rest of the country.
00:10:40.580 But what is the process you guys will do right now?
00:10:43.420 Thank you for tracking us.
00:10:45.420 So we are going to introduce this legislation in 11 months.
00:10:48.820 We're in the middle of our session right now, so our deadlines have passed.
00:10:52.700 But we will be introducing this bill in January for the state Senate.
00:10:59.820 Hopefully, we can get that passed in the Senate.
00:11:01.940 It'll go to the House of Representatives in our state legislature, and then to a conference
00:11:07.260 committee, and then hopefully to the governor of Wyoming for his signature.
00:11:10.600 And we will definitely keep you in the war room, apprised of our progress.
00:11:19.020 Let me ask you, is there, do you believe, Senator Biden, let me go to you, do you think
00:11:22.500 there's a big groundswell out there of folks in Wyoming that'll say, hey, we should have
00:11:26.220 had this a long time ago, and we'll be in back of this?
00:11:28.720 Absolutely, Mr. Bannon.
00:11:31.180 We've heard from our constituents.
00:11:33.800 The problem is, this legislature, Wyoming is a deeply red state, but the legislature is
00:11:40.260 not.
00:11:40.800 And we're the bluest red state in the union when it comes to that.
00:11:43.660 You'll see it across a lot of these western red states, where it's really tough to get
00:11:47.560 common sense, America first, conservative bills through.
00:11:51.020 It's going to take an election cycle to cycle some of these people out, but the people are
00:11:56.040 demanding this, and it's going to happen.
00:11:58.860 The grassroots are activated.
00:12:00.700 So many people in Wyoming watch your show every day, and I'm really excited about this.
00:12:08.600 Explain that to our audience, because we just had this fiasco in the Senate where the red
00:12:12.660 estates, North Dakota, South Dakota, some of these great states up there in the American
00:12:17.560 Redoubt, you saw Idaho, two senators.
00:12:20.000 People just don't understand.
00:12:21.060 They said, I look at the demographics, I look at the voting, and they've got these senators,
00:12:27.160 U.S. senators, that are voting all the time with McConnell, and really the collaboration
00:12:32.720 is to the Democrats.
00:12:34.480 How is that the state legislators?
00:12:35.860 How do you have these patriotic, hardworking red states, and you say the state legislatures
00:12:41.760 are basically blue, and that's the big problem.
00:12:44.600 That Wyoming is the bluest of the red states.
00:12:48.400 Yeah, because for the longest time, we've allowed Democrats to vote in the Republican
00:12:52.980 primary.
00:12:54.000 They'll cross over on the election day, vote for the most liberal Republican on the ballot,
00:12:59.300 and then they'll cross over the very next day, and they laugh about it.
00:13:02.800 It took us forever to fix that, but we still have a huge problem with that.
00:13:07.440 And honestly, voter apathy is a big deal out here.
00:13:10.740 People often vote for a candidate because they have an R by their name, and they're not Republican
00:13:15.800 whatsoever.
00:13:17.200 And so our state legislature reflects that.
00:13:19.780 And Tim and I, Senator Salazar and I, are actually minorities within our own party, if
00:13:24.720 you can believe that, as patriotic conservatives.
00:13:27.620 So the fight is real, even in red states like Wyoming.
00:13:33.200 Senator Salazar, I'll finish with you.
00:13:34.880 Just, I want to ask a national question.
00:13:37.320 As the good folks in Wyoming look out, as we're in a run-up now, what, nine months away from
00:13:41.840 election day for the president and for Congress and for one-third of the Senate, what's the
00:13:47.660 sense out in Wyoming or where the nation is right now?
00:13:49.800 Senator Salazar, I think that in Wyoming, Congress is broken.
00:13:55.620 And 70% of the population of Wyoming loves President Trump.
00:14:01.160 And I think Wyoming will overwhelmingly go for President Trump, and that's good news.
00:14:07.020 But out here in the West, Congress is broken.
00:14:10.180 And so they're looking to their state legislatures to try and fix their everyday problems.
00:14:14.720 And that's what Senator Bightman and I are trying to do.
00:14:18.620 But we are a pro-Trump state.
00:14:25.020 Naomi, thank you for doing this.
00:14:27.400 This is fantastic.
00:14:28.800 This is your first kickoff, and we've committed to sending folks around, and we're going to
00:14:33.840 follow you in all 50 states, because we know nobody can stop Naomi Wolf.
00:14:37.900 So thank you, Naomi, for doing this.
00:14:40.420 Thank you, Steve, for helping me do this.
00:14:43.000 Thank you.
00:14:43.680 So the two senators, Bightman, let's go with you first.
00:14:46.020 What's your social media?
00:14:47.000 We know a lot of people are going to want to follow you now, since you're telling the
00:14:49.600 folks out there, hey, just because this is a red state, doesn't think a lot of blue
00:14:52.880 action is happening.
00:14:54.320 Where do people follow you?
00:14:56.380 I mostly am on X now, Twitter, because Facebook sucks.
00:15:01.080 At Bo Bightman, B-O-B-I-T-E-M-A-N, free speech all the way.
00:15:08.660 Perfect.
00:15:09.120 We'll put it up on our, we'll put it in the chat rooms, and Grace will push it out.
00:15:12.540 Senator Salazar, are you?
00:15:14.960 I just have a Facebook page, and I'm probably going to go with Senator Bightman to the X,
00:15:21.160 but it's simply State Senator Tim Salazar on Facebook.
00:15:25.720 Thank you so much.
00:15:26.760 Naomi, where do people go to Daily Cloud?
00:15:28.460 I know they're going to want to follow closely your new initiative.
00:15:31.140 Sure.
00:15:32.740 Well, I'm putting out the word formally to ask 47 other state legislatures to invite me
00:15:38.540 to do what these gentlemen led the charge in doing.
00:15:41.660 And you can go to dailycloud.io to download the bill, download it and send it to your state
00:15:47.340 representative, and also send it with support or comments to Senator Salazar, Senator Bightman.
00:15:54.860 And that helps them.
00:15:56.140 And if you're in Wyoming, you need to reach out to them to ask how you can help.
00:16:01.080 And that's me.
00:16:02.500 And I've written about this on Outspoken as well.
00:16:07.120 Guys, thank you so much.
00:16:08.460 Naomi, great job.
00:16:09.920 Bightman and Salazar, thank you for joining us.
00:16:12.080 Two fighters out there in the West.
00:16:15.160 God, love Wyoming.
00:16:16.440 What a fabulous state.
00:16:17.960 Fabulous state.
00:16:18.680 Mark Elias.
00:16:22.080 Do I have DeGrasse?
00:16:23.500 Okay, now we're going to get down into it.
00:16:26.420 We got the two fighters at True the Vote, Catherine and Greg are going to join me here in a second,
00:16:31.960 but I want them to hear.
00:16:33.240 Mark Elias just tweeted out, I guess I'm living rent-free in Bend, and said, look, I'll give
00:16:38.060 the devil his due.
00:16:38.820 You're totally demonic, but I like fighters, and you're a fighter.
00:16:43.580 I want a Mark Elias on our side.
00:16:45.200 We keep looking for our Mark Elias, because Mark Elias is everywhere.
00:16:48.920 DeGrasse, join me here for a second, because he took umbrage with the fact that you came
00:16:53.260 on here the other day and said, hey, look, we don't hear any happy talk.
00:16:55.940 It's the voter rolls.
00:16:57.440 It's the mail-in ballots.
00:16:59.240 It's the ballot harvesting.
00:17:01.040 The Democratic Party, let me tell you how it works.
00:17:03.220 They have two central kind of core areas.
00:17:06.460 They have the university everywhere.
00:17:09.420 I don't care if it's in Ann Arbor, if it's in Madison, if it's in Charlottesville, Virginia,
00:17:14.180 if it's in Chapel Hill or Austin, Texas, you pick it.
00:17:17.220 They have these big universities that Arizona State up in Tempe and University of Arizona,
00:17:22.700 all of it.
00:17:23.560 OK, these Boulder with Colorado, they have these university and college towns, and then
00:17:28.900 they have the big urban areas.
00:17:31.000 And that's where, in particular, they know they can ballot harvest there.
00:17:33.840 The mail-in ballots help them.
00:17:35.020 The voter rolls are completely corrupt, and they'll never let anybody get to it.
00:17:39.900 Do you stand by your contention that this was a major factor?
00:17:43.260 Look, I'm not going to defend the candidate or the Nassau County executives that picked
00:17:47.540 her because, hey, she was not MAGA.
00:17:50.220 She's anti-Trump.
00:17:51.600 So just that that's just you got to deal with it.
00:17:54.480 But there was something structurally wrong with this.
00:17:56.760 Am I incorrect?
00:17:58.260 Brother DeGrasse.
00:17:59.260 I did make major news on the hit, what was this, yesterday.
00:18:05.180 But this was the first election under the new unregulated mass, we believe, unconstitutional
00:18:12.560 and illegal mail-in-ballot system.
00:18:15.960 You know, Elise Stefanik had filed a lawsuit as well with other Republicans to try to stop
00:18:20.780 it.
00:18:21.200 We filed for an injuncture to try to prevent it in the case of this specific special election.
00:18:26.780 And just like with 2020, Steve, they had the same playbook.
00:18:30.000 They said, oh, it's too late.
00:18:31.520 Mail ballots have to get out the door.
00:18:33.100 The election's coming up.
00:18:34.360 There's no standing.
00:18:35.760 You know, whatever they said, they just they didn't take the case.
00:18:39.360 And then they dismissed it, of course.
00:18:41.080 So we're still challenging that and appealing it up to the highest court in regards to the
00:18:45.320 2024 general election.
00:18:47.000 They didn't take the case.
00:18:48.020 They didn't take the case because the New York courts are as corrupt as anything.
00:18:50.900 Look, Big Tish James is a she's like Boss Tweed.
00:18:56.200 She's the one.
00:18:57.480 Ladies and gentlemen, Trump was in that court today.
00:19:00.260 That judge is this is a Tish James deal.
00:19:05.760 Alvin Braggs is an intermediary.
00:19:07.680 He's just a guy walking back filing papers.
00:19:10.040 This is Tish James and Tish James controls controls the entire election.
00:19:16.560 Now, talk about this law they passed in September 20th of this year.
00:19:20.980 Does she not become El Supremo on elections?
00:19:23.420 Have they not gun decked this state law that's right underneath federal law that she is the
00:19:28.840 czar?
00:19:29.440 She she's she's the ref.
00:19:30.920 She's calling everything.
00:19:31.900 Is that what happens in New York state?
00:19:33.820 And if it happens, how are we going to win these house seats, brother?
00:19:38.000 Yeah, that is what happens.
00:19:38.860 It is even worse.
00:19:39.660 They've even restricted where we can go to challenge elections in the certain courts,
00:19:43.840 specifically the ones 100 percent controlled by Democrats in the big city.
00:19:49.140 So if you are in a rural part of New York state, which is a Republican held and you have
00:19:54.480 an issue with the election and you want to go to court, you actually have to file your
00:19:58.760 case either in the city of Buffalo, Albany or New York City.
00:20:02.380 So we think that's unconstitutional.
00:20:04.520 We've been looking at that.
00:20:05.920 It's very tough at the state level in terms of kind of what you're able to do.
00:20:10.480 And I think New York, it's such a wake up call for everyone to see what these maniacs
00:20:15.620 can get away with, because what they do in New York and what they get away with, they
00:20:18.620 bring elsewhere, Steve, as we know.
00:20:20.540 So New York is really the tip of the spear for MAGA.
00:20:23.940 That's that's their testing ground.
00:20:25.780 That's their testing ground.
00:20:26.640 They put the bacillus in everywhere.
00:20:28.040 We know what Mark Elias, how he rolls.
00:20:29.800 Hang on for one second, because I want to get the other the other media narrative is that
00:20:34.800 immigration, the border works for them in this New York election.
00:20:38.600 Nothing could be more false.
00:20:41.940 NRCC did a great job.
00:20:43.460 I want to hold because I want to bring in Catherine and Greg right now on the election
00:20:47.280 piece.
00:20:48.480 Catherine, I want to start with Greg.
00:20:50.080 Thank you for joining.
00:20:50.980 We got them up.
00:20:54.060 OK, Catherine and Greg.
00:20:55.540 There we go.
00:20:56.860 So, Catherine, I'll start with you.
00:20:58.720 I'll start with you, Greg.
00:20:59.700 Thanks for joining us, too.
00:21:01.280 Catherine, it's pretty simple.
00:21:02.800 I have never seen a more organized media hit in my entire life than what get dropped
00:21:08.560 on you guys today with the start of the Fannie Willis trial.
00:21:11.220 Just totally random.
00:21:12.760 But I went on the sites last night and then early this morning.
00:21:16.520 True.
00:21:16.720 The votes got no no evidence, no facts.
00:21:20.100 Engelbrecht's a liar.
00:21:21.600 Greg's a nutcase.
00:21:23.460 You know, the judges said it.
00:21:25.860 Raffensperger said it.
00:21:27.120 So tell me what I know.
00:21:28.300 I saw the cast of characters against you.
00:21:30.220 So I know something's cooked up when the Raffensperger is sitting there going, they
00:21:33.220 had nothing.
00:21:34.100 What exactly did they say?
00:21:35.520 And what is your response?
00:21:36.560 Catherine, I'll start with you.
00:21:38.160 Well, I mean, we have we've first approached the Georgia Bureau of Investigations with our
00:21:43.860 information with the assistance, mind you, of the FBI back in 2021.
00:21:49.040 This has been going on ever since we we the subpoena that is now being thrown about in
00:21:57.640 all of these specious news stories focuses on very specific questions that the SEB asked
00:22:04.880 that that don't don't connect to the facts of the case as as a reader that hasn't been
00:22:12.560 involved in this might think they're asking us for identities and contact information.
00:22:18.360 And that's simply not what happens in geospatial analysis.
00:22:22.160 You are you are working with device IDs.
00:22:25.740 And this was well known to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
00:22:29.840 And so when the SEB asked us for things that we don't have, that doesn't mean that we don't
00:22:34.480 have evidence.
00:22:35.100 It means that we don't have what they're asking for.
00:22:37.560 But we have provided time and time and time again, everything that is needed to conduct
00:22:43.520 an investigation.
00:22:44.420 They simply don't what this is a cat and mouse that just continues on and they pull
00:22:50.340 it out whenever it's convenient, like today, to try to obfuscate the otherwise, you know,
00:22:56.680 scurrilous acts of Fannie Willis.
00:22:58.440 No, there's so, Greg, the also the headline they put out there is that 2000 mules is completely
00:23:06.300 untrue, that they had nothing and that all these people that are going up there were just
00:23:11.140 dropping them.
00:23:11.700 I think I think one of the stories that they were just dropping them for close family members.
00:23:17.000 What's what's the truth here?
00:23:18.500 Absolute, absolute BS.
00:23:22.240 Every single thing that we have said from the outset is true.
00:23:25.920 We started with seven.
00:23:27.140 Excuse me.
00:23:28.640 We started with one point seven million cell phones that were potential involvements in
00:23:35.820 it.
00:23:35.980 We whittled it down to 242 people that went to 10 or more drop boxes during our target
00:23:40.740 period and three or more of the NGOs.
00:23:43.620 It's just true.
00:23:44.740 They can piss and moan and whine all they want, but every single time they bring this
00:23:49.620 up, we slug them in the mouth with the truth.
00:23:51.620 They go back in their hole and they'll come back out with some way to target Catherine because
00:23:56.260 they're afraid of me.
00:23:57.680 And it's just insanity.
00:23:59.360 In this case, they subpoenaed both of us last year.
00:24:03.060 Then they dropped all the ones about me and tried to make it about Catherine this time.
00:24:08.020 And who knows what's going to happen next time?
00:24:10.000 These people are absolute trash.
00:24:11.620 Steve, they're no different than Eugene, you and the Connick people.
00:24:15.260 All that they want are they want the whistleblower's name so that they can either kill them or make
00:24:19.760 their lives miserable.
00:24:21.340 You know, Raffensperger's connections to the CCP and China are well documented.
00:24:25.940 We've got pictures of him speaking in fluent Mandarin Chinese.
00:24:29.440 And the guy is just a piece of trash.
00:24:31.700 And I just have no use for him.
00:24:33.540 And the fact that he's such a coward and decided to target Catherine instead of me.
00:24:38.640 Come on, bro.
00:24:39.600 You want to fight?
00:24:40.140 Come fight.
00:24:40.680 Come fight me.
00:24:42.260 It's ridiculous.
00:24:43.640 I don't know.
00:24:44.460 Catherine's pretty tough.
00:24:45.420 I think I think I think I take you on before I take Catherine's.
00:24:49.280 And you're not easy.
00:24:50.660 I'm in a completely separate room right now.
00:24:55.140 So.
00:24:56.580 But but but Greg brings up he gets to the heart of it.
00:24:59.080 He gets to the heart of it.
00:24:59.980 So, Catherine, what about you've had these whistleblowers.
00:25:02.820 Isn't this an exercise and trying to force you guys to serve up the names of these whistleblowers
00:25:07.660 so they can actually try to intimidate these folks?
00:25:11.020 We we.
00:25:12.040 Yeah.
00:25:12.260 Well, 100 percent.
00:25:13.260 Yes.
00:25:13.560 But we started out with this when we came to them in twenty twenty one, explained what
00:25:18.100 had happened and asked for whistleblower protection or some kind of immunity or security.
00:25:23.420 And they wanted no part of it.
00:25:25.740 All they wanted was the name.
00:25:27.980 And then after we explained that and we said all of this in in in confidence and in what
00:25:33.000 we thought was in a professional environment.
00:25:35.380 Clearly, it's not.
00:25:36.500 But we we explained that this that this individual had been hurt, that he had been hospitalized.
00:25:43.140 They they trot all of this out into a subpoena.
00:25:46.540 And it's and it's meant to send a number of messages, certainly to organizations like
00:25:51.340 ours, that you best not ever push back because this is what could happen.
00:25:55.400 But also to any other would be whistleblower who would ever think to come and trust the
00:26:01.820 state now with any kind of sensitive information when they are watching this play out in real
00:26:06.280 time, it's all a setup to keep to keep the know the people who know what's going on as
00:26:12.120 silent as they can through twenty twenty four.
00:26:15.420 Here's the deal, Steve.
00:26:16.620 Can we start there?
00:26:17.720 Yeah, go ahead, Greg.
00:26:18.460 There are four hundred there are four hundred and thirty thousand ineligible voters on the
00:26:23.460 voter rolls right now in Georgia, four hundred and thirty thousand.
00:26:28.040 We know it.
00:26:28.720 They know it.
00:26:29.280 In fact, they're in a hearing right now trying to explain all the reasons why they can't clean
00:26:33.880 the rolls, like literally right this second, why they can't clean the rolls.
00:26:38.380 The fact of the matter is, by the time the election happens in November, they've already
00:26:42.420 said we're not cleaning the rolls again until twenty twenty five because we're afraid to.
00:26:47.520 So there's going to be five hundred thousand people, ineligible voters on the rolls in
00:26:51.600 Georgia on Election Day.
00:26:53.740 Hang on one second, guys.
00:26:54.960 I'm going to hold you through the break.
00:26:55.960 Alex DeGrasse is going to hang with us from New York.
00:26:59.040 Talk about this.
00:26:59.980 These voter rolls.
00:27:01.180 This is the predicate.
00:27:02.240 This is what they this is what Elias and these guys know they can rely upon.
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00:31:13.760 Okay, before I go back to Alex DeGrasse, let me give – let's get Catherine and Greg back up here.
00:31:19.400 Catherine, once again, what's happening in Georgia today, and how can we be four years after they stole it in 2020
00:31:25.220 and still be arguing about the same 430,000 non-Georgians on the voter rolls, ma'am?
00:31:33.420 Yeah, the Senate Ethics Commission is having – in Georgia is having a hearing right now
00:31:38.140 where the Secretary of State's team is explaining why they can't clean the voter rolls.
00:31:43.560 And the truth of the matter is Georgia cleans its rolls every other year in odd years,
00:31:50.120 only the first six months of the year,
00:31:51.900 which means that Georgia cleaned its rolls early in 2023 to some degree,
00:31:57.120 and they won't do anything again now until 2025.
00:32:02.160 And between now and then, as Greg rightly said before the break,
00:32:05.480 the numbers will continue to grow.
00:32:07.860 We know that there are already over 400,000 ineligible records currently in the Georgia voter rolls.
00:32:14.280 That number we expect will swell to over 500,000,
00:32:17.300 and that's plenty, plenty of gray area for them to play in,
00:32:22.780 as we saw in 2020 when 67,000-some-odd voters went on to vote,
00:32:28.260 not living in Georgia, went on to vote in the 2020 election.
00:32:32.860 And that's – in our observation, that's another piece of what this cover-up against us is all about,
00:32:39.380 is they don't want it to be known that Raffensperger knew that the rolls were in the shape that they were in
00:32:45.840 and yet tried to pass it off on that call with Trump and act as though nothing was wrong.
00:32:51.480 The Secretary of State and the election process in Georgia is out of control.
00:32:57.480 Greg, then what's to be done?
00:33:01.620 I mean, we'll send people to true the vote, but how could this thing be such a fiasco?
00:33:05.560 And Raffensperger is going on TV all the time and Kemp's going on TV all the time and saying everything's great.
00:33:11.180 Are we going to have another situation where it's going to be stolen from Trump in 2024?
00:33:15.600 Never – no, sir.
00:33:17.440 Never in my lifetime have there been more eyes on the situation than there are right now,
00:33:22.260 not just in Georgia but everywhere.
00:33:23.620 Steve, what they're really afraid of and what's starting to leak out is that Catherine and I have spent the last four years
00:33:30.820 amalgamating the largest election integrity database in the history of the country.
00:33:36.140 We have 211 million voting records.
00:33:38.340 We have a billion data elements on each single voter.
00:33:42.500 The entire thing is geocoded.
00:33:44.680 We have 20 trillion cell phone pings.
00:33:47.360 We know everything about everything.
00:33:49.840 We even can stream video now.
00:33:51.780 We have AI-based video streaming capabilities.
00:33:56.300 So all of the things that they tried to pull off and that they were able to pull off in 2020,
00:34:01.500 given not just Catherine and True the Votes team but the technical support that we're able to give.
00:34:07.220 We're supporting now apps like one of Catherine's apps that we've helped build for, IV3, IV3.us.
00:34:13.580 It allows citizens to go in and help clean up their voter rolls.
00:34:16.620 We're relaunching it next week.
00:34:18.780 We're ready this time, Steve.
00:34:20.220 They aren't going to get away with it.
00:34:21.640 And in the end, what they're trying to do right now, of course, they want Trump ultimately.
00:34:26.460 But what they're trying to do right now, they know this is coming.
00:34:30.060 And now they're trying to discredit us again.
00:34:32.280 So they can have it anywhere they want it, but they aren't going to get away this time.
00:34:37.400 Catherine, where do people go to learn everything about True the Vote, what's happening in Georgia,
00:34:41.860 and particularly the good news that Greg just gave us?
00:34:47.040 Absolutely.
00:34:47.720 You can go to truthevote.org.
00:34:49.700 And I would encourage everyone to sign up because as we begin to launch these new projects,
00:34:55.100 I'm going to be starting live webinars to explain all of the opportunities and ways that citizens can get involved.
00:35:02.220 And there are so many important ways.
00:35:04.080 We don't need to just be spectators and watch as the weeks click by and be concerned about things that should be happening that aren't.
00:35:15.060 In states like Georgia, citizens have opportunities to file challenges on those ineligible records,
00:35:20.640 and that's what we intend to help citizens across the state and not just in Georgia but across the country do.
00:35:25.720 Go to truthevote.org.
00:35:27.540 Sign up.
00:35:28.140 Get plugged in.
00:35:28.980 And we'll keep you busier than you can imagine in the next four months, next few months.
00:35:34.040 That's fantastic.
00:35:35.260 Greg, what's your social media?
00:35:36.420 How do people follow you?
00:35:39.060 I'm mostly on True Social, at Greg Phillips.
00:35:43.680 And we're on – Catherine and I have a joint account called Onward Social on Twitter.
00:35:51.440 Fantastic, guys.
00:35:52.480 Great work.
00:35:53.220 Look forward to going over there and checking it all out.
00:35:55.200 Thanks.
00:35:56.820 Thanks, Steve.
00:35:57.480 Two fighters.
00:35:58.980 Threw them in jail and couldn't break them.
00:36:02.220 I don't know.
00:36:03.040 I don't know.
00:36:03.300 What's the over and under on Catherine versus Greg?
00:36:05.260 I have to think about that one.
00:36:06.940 Two pretty tough hombres.
00:36:08.580 Another tough hombre, DeGrasse.
00:36:11.420 You see what's happening down in Georgia.
00:36:14.100 Do we have any shot of cleaning up the voter rolls in certain counties in New York or in New York City or in any part of New York State?
00:36:23.940 Or is this just – we're just whistling past the graveyard there?
00:36:27.320 Well, I think New York is probably the worst in the country.
00:36:30.480 New York, California.
00:36:31.600 I mean, the stuff that we've seen in New York, I think you've had some of the folks on the show, New York's version of sort of True the Vote, Audit the Voter, I believe.
00:36:41.760 It's really, really bad, Steve.
00:36:43.540 You have ballots being mailed out.
00:36:45.920 You have Democrat commissioners in New York who have been caught on video talking about their illegal harvesting.
00:36:51.200 And now they're obviously illegally putting in the rules to allow harvesting, so it's a whole other sort of frontier.
00:36:59.120 But, no, the rolls are really bad in New York.
00:37:01.600 Like they're pretty much the worst in the country, yeah.
00:37:06.180 There's no fail-safe.
00:37:07.260 Tell us – I want to go – yeah, go ahead.
00:37:10.100 I mean, they tried to register illegal immigrants to vote, and local Republican students stopped that.
00:37:17.360 But that's where their intentions are.
00:37:19.260 They want illegal immigrants – I mean, they passed that as a law in New York City, and it got overturned in the courts.
00:37:27.040 But they're coming back on other angles.
00:37:29.760 I mean, you've already got them, Steve.
00:37:31.080 I mean, you've got billions and billions and billions of dollars and line items in New York State's budget for welfare and driver's licenses and everything for these illegals.
00:37:41.180 It's out of control.
00:37:42.340 But anyway, that's a whole other thing.
00:37:44.640 I guess that goes –
00:37:45.460 Well, let's talk about – we talk about – yeah, it pivots right into – so if I'm listening to Morning Joe, I don't have time to play his rant.
00:37:52.800 But he's sitting up there holding the paper, and Joe Scarborough and that crowd is saying they think they got the magic bullet to take out MAGA, and that's the border.
00:38:04.500 And they think Sousa is a Sousa, a Sousa, that he actually showed them the way forward on the invasion of the southern border.
00:38:12.940 The NRCC, you guys did some work on this.
00:38:15.140 Your colleagues over there did some great work on this.
00:38:17.380 Tell me what their line of thought is.
00:38:19.660 Yes, Sousa, it's a good Italian name, which played dividends for him in the district.
00:38:25.340 So this narrative nationwide, Steve, this is part of a play to try to break Republicans in the House when they take another pass at this Ukraine deal.
00:38:34.480 So remember I said that.
00:38:35.860 But that's really what's going on from the Biden White House, and they're looking to kind of make – it's all lies, of course.
00:38:41.600 So let's just start from the beginning of this seat.
00:38:43.900 Tom Sousa represented this seat, was reelected in a landslide over and over again,
00:38:48.700 did not run for reelection in 2022 because he tried to run for governor to the right of Kathy Hochul.
00:38:55.860 So he's already sort of staked very conservative positions on crime and immigration.
00:39:02.140 He does have a more past liberal record of which we tried to litigate.
00:39:05.380 But this guy comes into the race, Steve, with like a 55, 52 percent approval rating and only about 25 percent disapprove.
00:39:14.000 So right there, you're talking about a very – he's an incumbent Democrat.
00:39:17.800 That's sort of what we're dealing with here on top of the fact that they had more than double the amount of money we had.
00:39:23.360 So the NRCC and House Republicans, they came in hard in January, and they get a lot of credit.
00:39:29.260 We get a lot of credit.
00:39:30.940 And we made this single issue, immigration.
00:39:33.800 We went up with an ad.
00:39:34.780 I sent it to Cameron.
00:39:35.560 I don't know if you guys can play it or not.
00:39:37.200 But this one ad moved his numbers from a 26 percentage favorable advantage to a net, to an equal, one-to-one.
00:39:45.660 And we drove him under 50, and you don't see numbers move like that in a few weeks, especially while we're being outspent two to one.
00:39:53.300 And Swazi has a lot of institutional advantages that other candidates across the country are not going to have.
00:40:00.340 This seat voted for Joe Biden by eight percentage points.
00:40:03.440 Every Democrat president has won the seat, and there's a 65,000 voter registration advantage for Democrats in the seat.
00:40:10.300 So this was really a must-win for them.
00:40:12.340 The reason why we were able to flip this seat in 2022 was the work we did to turn out Republicans at a historic level across New York State and really pump MAGA, pump the base, and, well, win independence as well with the governor's race and everything else going on.
00:40:27.360 So it's very complicated.
00:40:28.920 But the reality is the immigration issue is a disaster for them.
00:40:33.180 Steve, we used to talk about economy being a top issue when about 25%, 28% of voters were saying that's their top issue.
00:40:40.480 I mean, that's when you combine, like, inflation, cost of living, and everything else like that.
00:40:44.860 By the end of this race, we had over 40% of voters in a district that Joe Biden won saying immigration is their top issue.
00:40:53.180 I mean, that's on our own.
00:40:54.700 Hang on.
00:40:55.980 Let me show this ad that drove these numbers.
00:40:58.240 Let's go ahead and play the ad.
00:40:59.480 Illegal immigrants arriving by the busload.
00:41:02.120 Why?
00:41:02.520 Because Tom Swasey repeatedly weakened America's borders.
00:41:07.340 Swasey supported allowing illegal immigrants charged with violent crimes to be released back into our community.
00:41:13.280 He even bragged about getting rid of immigration enforcement.
00:41:16.700 When I was county executive of Nassau County, I kicked ice out of Nassau County.
00:41:20.700 Tom Swasey helped create our immigration crisis.
00:41:23.560 In Congress, he'll make it worse.
00:41:26.260 Congressional Leadership Fund is responsible for the content of this advertising.
00:41:28.780 Another murder committed.
00:41:31.280 Another illegal immigrant arrested because of open-border radicals like Hochul's hand-picked candidate, Tom Swasey.
00:41:38.480 Swasey opposed penalizing sanctuary cities, voted against notifying authorities when an illegal immigrant attempted to purchase a firearm.
00:41:46.140 And Swasey even bragged that he kicked ice out of Nassau County.
00:41:50.020 A crisis on our border.
00:41:51.640 Murder in our streets because of radicals like Tom Swasey.
00:41:55.300 The NRCC is responsible for the content of this advertising.
00:42:00.320 Yeah.
00:42:01.760 They were.
00:42:02.460 Let's focus group.
00:42:03.340 Those are both powerful.
00:42:04.540 Which was the one that you guys went with that drove the number down so hard?
00:42:08.200 The radical one.
00:42:09.260 But both were key.
00:42:10.300 The other one was CLF.
00:42:11.580 They came in big, critical.
00:42:13.160 That radical one is what we went up with first.
00:42:15.820 And it was key, that last ad.
00:42:17.760 And, I mean, Steve, other Democrats don't have the type of built-in advantage that Swasey has that was sort of unique to the special election.
00:42:26.120 Democrats own this crisis.
00:42:27.840 Crime is rampant when you look in New York State.
00:42:30.480 You've got rapes.
00:42:31.720 You've got what just happened across the board in Kansas City.
00:42:34.320 People are looking at that.
00:42:35.140 You know, there's all types of horrific tragedies and Joe Biden owns it and all these Democrats that are not just complacent, but they are willing conspirators in this crisis.
00:42:45.580 And we will litigate that.
00:42:46.900 We've never.
00:42:47.920 I've never seen numbers move like this, Steve, and I do it for a living.
00:42:50.920 No.
00:42:51.800 No.
00:42:52.160 I've got to tell you, you see tomorrow when they take President Trump's business from him in this New York state court.
00:42:58.000 The reason is, is what they've allowed to have happen in these elections there.
00:43:02.900 It's outrageous.
00:43:03.540 DeGrasse, you guys are fighting a tough fight up there, but a good fight.
00:43:06.000 Where do people go to get all your information?
00:43:09.420 Well, follow me on X, DeGrasse81.
00:43:11.980 I'm on TruthGetter at DeGrasse.
00:43:13.800 I appreciate it.
00:43:14.300 But what we really need is these state courts.
00:43:17.140 Pay attention to what's going on because what's happening in New York is coming to your state next.
00:43:22.660 A hundred percent.
00:43:23.720 That's what we're going to do.
00:43:24.720 We're going to rub people's nose in it tomorrow.
00:43:26.780 That's what we covered funny.
00:43:28.340 Willis all day.
00:43:29.340 It's, hey, it's coming to a, it's coming to a state near you.
00:43:32.020 Don't think anybody can hide from it.
00:43:33.900 Alex, thank you so much.
00:43:34.960 You're one of the great fighters out there.
00:43:36.480 The new generation.
00:43:38.560 Thank you.
00:43:41.620 One of my favorite, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
00:43:45.540 I mean, these are tough, focused people.
00:43:48.040 Cleo Pascal.
00:43:49.520 Cleo, I want to make sure because it's kind of the 80th anniversary of our, of all the, the blood and treasure we spent in the,
00:43:57.020 in the mid Pacific.
00:43:59.580 You've been fighting a good fight to make sure that's not forgotten and not just historical memory, but in living memory.
00:44:05.620 Walk me through what's going on and how people are kind of overlooking this.
00:44:08.880 Thank you very much.
00:44:10.440 Yes, the February 17th and 18th will be the 80th anniversary of Operation Hailstone, which was the Battle of Truck Lagoon, where a good chunk of the Japanese Imperial fleet was sunk and really made a big difference as the U.S.
00:44:25.580 forces were moving across the Pacific.
00:44:28.080 And the zone that they were moving across was a zone that Japan controlled from 1914 until U.S. forces came through in 1944, about 80 years ago, as you said.
00:44:37.840 This is a zone that is larger than the continental United States, and it includes the countries that are now Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, where Truck Lagoon is, and Marshall Islands.
00:44:48.680 And those three countries were administered by the U.S. after the war, and then they became independent.
00:44:56.820 But they became independent in the context of the Cold War, and the relationship that Reagan personally got involved in to negotiate with them gives the U.S.
00:45:08.520 exclusive control over their air and seas.
00:45:12.660 So this is the bridge that gets you from Hawaii all the way across to the Philippines and up to Guam and the Marianas.
00:45:20.760 It's this whole central zone of the Pacific that allows the first island chain defense, the second island chain defense, getting the troops to Taiwan, getting the troops to Japan, getting the troops to South Korea.
00:45:29.940 And it's up for renegotiation. A section of it is up for renegotiation. All the countries have agreed, all four countries, the U.S. and the three compact states.
00:45:39.880 So on this map, we're talking about the three light blue countries in the middle.
00:45:45.280 The darker blue country, just above Micronesia, that's the United States. That's Guam and Marianas.
00:45:52.500 The problem is that they've been caught up in this congressional battle.
00:45:57.500 The amount of offset money that's required for these three countries to continue this relationship, to continue this exclusive access, is $2.3 billion for the three countries for 20 years.
00:46:11.920 So it comes out to about $40 million a year for the U.S. to be able to push its defense perimeter all the way out to the Philippines and all the way up to Japan.
00:46:20.900 And 100,000 men died for this over 80 years ago.
00:46:27.240 And today, it's just being forgotten in Congress.
00:46:32.460 Okay. I want to go back. I was honored to be a member of the Pacific Fleet and the Southern Fleet, so we've sailed this.
00:46:38.940 I want to go back to this about the scale of it and the size of it.
00:46:41.660 People cannot, that have not been there, it's very hard to understand the immense scale of the Pacific Ocean.
00:46:48.000 It is, and this is one of the reasons that there's a great piece in the Financial Times today about how the United States is so privileged to have kind of the continental power we are.
00:46:57.580 But one of the reasons this is true and that we're defended is that we've got now, different than 1941, we've really got a perimeter that goes quite far.
00:47:07.940 It goes tens of thousands of miles out, and that's why this can't be forgotten.
00:47:12.040 To take that back was some of the bloodiest fighting in American history.
00:47:16.200 And it may not have gotten some of the reportage or the coverage of places like the Battle of the Bulge or D-Day or some parts of the European War.
00:47:27.900 But between Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Tokyo was a three-year bloody campaign that we don't want to ever have to go through again.
00:47:37.520 This is actually the bridge to East Asia.
00:47:42.040 Walk through again. What is the issue?
00:47:43.880 What do you need the war on posse to do?
00:47:45.120 It's $2.3 billion over what? Over 20 years? Over 40 years?
00:47:49.840 Is it? Is that over 20 years?
00:47:51.020 It's $2.3 billion over 20 years to cover three countries.
00:47:55.400 And so I don't know what to say.
00:47:59.580 And Grant Newsham, who's been on your show, estimated, did sort of a technical calculation, estimated without those three countries, it would cost $100 billion a year just to have presence, the same level of presence in the area.
00:48:13.380 So if you're a fiscal conservative, this is definitely a very good deal.
00:48:17.560 What's the holdup?
00:48:22.560 Is the holdup you need offsets?
00:48:24.340 Because we just had an $840 billion defense budget.
00:48:29.420 You think that this has been tucked into that.
00:48:31.360 Are people looking for specific offsets?
00:48:33.600 Or what's the hangup on this?
00:48:35.200 It was tucked into that.
00:48:38.160 It was tucked into that until three days.
00:48:41.120 Well, we know on the Friday it was in it.
00:48:43.600 And then when it published officially on the Sunday, it had been taken out.
00:48:48.120 It had been taken.
00:48:48.720 There was a meeting between Murray and Collins and Schumer and McConnell.
00:48:53.440 And in that process, it got taken out.
00:48:57.160 And we don't know, you know, whether they were trying to cut a little bit of money off of it or whether there was something else going on.
00:49:04.040 But it was in there.
00:49:05.460 So now it goes.
00:49:07.160 But now that's obviously heading to the House if the House picks it up.
00:49:10.640 So now the question is.
00:49:12.100 But Cleo, Cleo, this would make no sense.
00:49:14.380 The Chinese Communist Party, the CCP would want to take our defense down.
00:49:17.460 They would want to make the defense of Taiwan with those chips, the support of our true ally in Japan much harder, and the Philippines.
00:49:25.480 How could this just magically, I mean, there's got to be something that went on here, some deal that got cut to take this out and then make it kind of go away so that we lose access to this geographic area.
00:49:39.280 You don't have any idea how that happened?
00:49:40.980 So what I can tell you is the Chinese have been on the ground in all three countries spreading around literally hundreds of millions of dollars to try to two of the three recognize Taiwan.
00:49:50.360 So to try to pull those two away from Taiwan and to break the compacts.
00:49:54.100 This has been an ongoing effort for years.
00:49:57.040 And this is the window, this 20-year renewal window, where if China can get the U.S. not to renew this portion of the compacts, they have a chance of doing what Imperial Japan tried to do and successfully did for a while, which is push the U.S. all the way back to Hawaii.
00:50:13.620 The East Asia co-prosperity sphere started with the CCP.
00:50:18.960 Okay, we're going to spend a lot more time with you because the audience loves when you come on and kind of describe this.
00:50:23.120 Where do people go to get to the foundation?
00:50:25.920 Where do they go to get you?
00:50:26.920 What's your social media?
00:50:28.460 Thank you.
00:50:28.880 The foundation is FDD.org.
00:50:31.080 For me, it's just my name, Cleopascal.com.
00:50:33.680 I've posted letters from President Whips of Palau and President Heine of the Marshals describing the PRC political warfare on the ground.
00:50:40.620 And I think at this point it's a matter of letting Speaker Johnson know that this is important to the posse and important to the U.S.
00:50:46.780 and to the memory and the souls of the 100,000 men who died making this relationship possible.
00:50:54.460 Yeah, the 80th anniversary of this, we should commemorate it with making sure they didn't die in vain.
00:51:00.800 Cleo, thank you so much.
00:51:01.880 Honored to have you on here.
00:51:03.620 Thank you, sir.
00:51:05.220 The quality of people we get on here just blows me away.
00:51:07.960 This is a big one.
00:51:08.740 We'll spend more time on it, break it down for you.
00:51:10.540 She's doing a fantastic job.
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00:51:15.580 I think you saw that today in our two hours.
00:51:18.320 Lou Dobbs is going to follow us.
00:51:19.780 We're back at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
00:51:21.320 The show is already insanely crazy.
00:51:24.180 But Ben Burkwam is going to be in East Palestine.
00:51:28.340 Joe Biden is going to traipse out there tomorrow.
00:51:31.320 We're going to make sure that we hear from the folks in East Palestine and they give Joe Biden their unexpurgated opinions.
00:51:38.940 So make sure you go to Birchgold.com slash Ben.
00:51:42.080 Not just the end of the dollar.
00:51:43.180 I'm probably you get that.
00:51:44.060 You got the third installment we redid called The Debt Trap because, folks, when they get back, firestorm on March 1st.
00:51:51.740 Another fight, another time to the ramparts.
00:51:55.480 We'll see you at CPAC.
00:51:56.480 We'll go through all of this in detail.
00:51:58.200 CPAC.org slash War Room.
00:52:00.280 Go check it out today.
00:52:03.280 We'll be back here 10 a.m. tomorrow morning.
00:52:05.380 See you then when you're in the War Room.
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