WarRoom Battleground EP 532: The Making Of A Banana Republic
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Summary
On today's show, we speak with Mike Davis, the man tapped to be Donald Trump's attorney general if he wins in November and later we'll be speaking to Ronna Shanan Shah, a Republican commentator and political strategist who has worked as a senior advisor in congress.
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this is what you're fighting for I mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
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people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the authoritarians
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get total control and total power because this is just like in Arizona this is just like in Georgia
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it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations
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this is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is the fight
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all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's your host
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stephen k bannon mike davis the man tapped to be trump's attorney general if he wins in november
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and later we'll be speaking to rena shah republican commentator and political strategist who has worked
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as a senior advisor in congress mike davis thank you very much for joining us um you know let's let's
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ask you first of all what do you make of the trial and how damaging do you think you'll have heard
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anthony zurcher there perhaps how damaging could it be to donald trump well first of all i'm not going
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to be trump's attorney general i've been trolling people and i've made that very clear i would say
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the fact that this this woman you just had on us did you say that she was a porn star and no i said
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she was an adult i said she was an adult film star she's a friend of stormy daniels who you will have
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heard said that she was in the room that night she was uh on the phone that night when stormy daniels
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called her and donald trump spoke to her so she was commenting on how stormy how the trial was going
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but i wonder how you think the trial is going well i think it's perfectly uh fitting that a porn star
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would be on your show and talking about a alleged sexual encounter that was trying that they were
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trying to arrange in 2006 this is complete and total nonsense this is garbage this is about trying to
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humiliate president trump and to interfere in the 2024 presidential election this alleged encounter that
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stormy daniels says happened was in 2006 there was a settlement of a nuisance claim and put in the
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books in 2017 and somehow that interfered in the election in 2016 with this 2017 accounting and somehow
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that was a bookkeeping misdemeanor that president trump's accountants booked in his his books as a
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legal expense and and this is all what's being uh uh debated in court um but you said on fox news two
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weeks ago that um the court's an illegal clearly there is an illegal unconstitutional gag order here
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why do you think that's true i mean do you think any defendant should be able to speak out
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about the judge yeah in the in the united states of america we have something called the constitution
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and we have the first amendment and the sixth amendment and the 14th amendment and if there's
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anyone on the planet who should have the constitutional right to speak out against the judge
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the prosecutor their stabs the witnesses their biases the process it is a criminal defendant going
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through the criminal process uh you don't gag criminal defendants in america i don't know what
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you guys do with you in the united kingdom but in america we have constitutional rights and they've
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turned the constitution on its head by gagging a criminal defendants while this judge whose adult
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daughter lauren michon is raising millions of dollars off of this case requiring her recusal under new york
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statute as allowing stormy daniels and michael cohen stormy daniels a porn star who's raising money off
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this trial on her pen twitter profile on her pen tweet on twitter on x and you have michael cohen
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who's a disbarred attorney and a convicted perjure raising money on tiktok and now you just had
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this bimbo porn star say that i think i think calling a bimbo porn star is pretty offensive and i'd like to
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ask you um what you make of the trial in terms of the possibility that actually in a way that donald trump
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could benefit you know from his certainly from his base but benefit uh because you might have heard
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anthony zurcher saying that it is having an impact on the campaign it may not be a negative one
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you just had a bimbo porn star come out and accuse president trump of trying to have a threesome with
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stormy daniels this woman is so credible that the prosecutor doesn't want to call her in to be a
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witness i mean let's just be quite clear let me just ask you a question you think it is totally
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outlandish that donald trump would ever have a threesome i just want to ask you that totally
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outlandish would never happen it's not relevant at all to this criminal prosecution and that's the
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point of stormy daniels's testimony not only is it not relevant under rule 401 of the rules of evidence
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it is unfairly prejudicial under rule 403 and the fact that this judge has president trump gagged or
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he can't respond to michael cohen and he can't respond to stormy daniels and this bimbo porn star
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you just had on who made that malicious smear against president trump he can't respond to that
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or he goes to jail that just proves what a kangaroo court this is this is democrat lawfare and election
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interference and frankly the bbc should be ashamed of itself that you just put a bimbo porn star on
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i think we get i think we get the message i think we get the message about how you're addressing her
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uh i'm thank you very much what would you call what would you call her i would call her a woman who
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happens to be either a film star or uh she has a job i don't think you know that you've any
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she definitely has a job well let's talk to alana because she is still here do you think uh alana
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david you think that stormy daniels ever regrets speaking out absolutely not in fact i would imagine
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she was more frustrated that she had to sign a non-disclosure agreement in the first place that
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stopped her from speaking out in trump's more head than he's ever been more fewer people think
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january 6th was there any kind of what it was as a an assault on the temple of democracy the
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constitution i don't know what you want to say it's going the wrong way it's not working
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everything that we're throwing is spaghetti at a wall and none of it is sticking me included
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and it's it's hard when you start in your 80th year and you you know like anybody else i have
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opinion of myself and the opinion i've come to is i don't matter it doesn't matter you can you can
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prepare you you can be on tv or you can write pieces you can have a youtube channel you can have a podcast
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and nothing nothing and you know we gotta like try to think of something different because what we're
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doing is really really not working what we're doing is really really not working it is friday 10
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may year of lord 2024 thank you for being here for the second hour of our late afternoon early
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evening edition we got josh hammer josh um i you've got two amazing pieces up in newsweek one about the
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uniparty the other about us becoming a banana republic i kind of teased your piece today when i had scott
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besson on one of the smartest guys on capital markets and we talked about what they're doing on
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the financial side which scott says hey look reminds him of developing countries he said this
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is banana republic stuff and i teased uh that we're going to have you on a day but i have to have you
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uh respond to you have the bbc uh the the anchor for the bbc supposedly the most uh prim and proper
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broadcast throughout the world the kind of the the the uh the lodestone or the uh the the platinum of
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what you know msnbc and cbs and edward r murray walter cronkite always aspired to and always um
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informed by and you have a anchor with the question uh isn't uh are you saying that donald trump would
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never want a threesome and they have a porn star in there and mike davis goes what are you talking
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about voice delay the anchor goes you keep calling us porn star and davis goes what are you going to
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call it goes a film star a film star actress brother josh where are we in in this world when
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bbc is promoting oh that trump on a witness that was not called on something not relevant the bbc in
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their prime time has on somebody that says that donald trump uh called him for a threesome your
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thoughts sir you know steve mike davis is a very good friend of mine and i'm also now senior counsel
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at the article three project so he's not just a friend he's also my colleague and you know i i'm
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happy that we opened with that interview that he did with the bbc because i mean i i could not have
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said any better than mike said there i mean what else to call this woman she's a porn star bimbo i mean i
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mean she is an adult film actress a porn star whatever i mean at some point the words don't matter this is
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someone who you know back back in the old country you know my jewish ancestors would say that they
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stood up they stood up for a living on camera like they're literally copulating on camera these are
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discredited disgraceful people these are blatantly unserious people this is kind of the scum and the
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filth of society and i mean not to put too fine of a point on it and you're totally right i mean i
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lived in london for about three to six months or so i actually had a great time there i think it was
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before all the mass islamic immigration ruined that city i'm kind of scared to go back to it's been
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15 years i had a great time there i'm not so sure i'd have the same experience today but i remember
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back when i lived there british people talked a big game about the bbc the bbc is the gold standard
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there i mean this is and look at this stuff so it's really unbelievable but it does just underscore
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bringing it back home here how ridiculous the narrative is how ridiculous the plot line in the
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united states of america and the western world is in the year 2024 steve there are major issues
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facing the united states of america i don't have to be the one to tell you you cover it every day
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obviously you have a very informed audience they're well aware of what's going on out there
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we have regimes all around the world that are doing lots of stuff that are hostile to american
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interests the southern border is a complete and utter disaster it is artificially suppressing
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working class wages illegal alien crime is the worst it's ever been we have an unprecedented lawfare
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crisis we have increasing depression anxiety childlessness decreasing church attendance and
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godlessness things are not going well and there are a lot of issues out there and the american people
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deserve something remotely approximating a normal presidential election year where you have two
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people who can go up there and the challenger to the decrepit debilitating doddering incumbent can get
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up there and challenge his policies and then get on the campaign trail and rile up the crowd as donald
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trump is very good at doing and make the argument against the horrific policies of the incumbent that is what
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the american people deserve they are not getting it because donald trump is physically chained to this
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dinghy courtroom in downtown new york city four days of the week wednesday is the only weekday that he
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can get out to actually be on the campaign trail so they're physically depriving the voters of the
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actual argument that they deserve all in the name of this ridiculous legally incompetent case for at least
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five different reasons there's a glaring statute of limitations problem here a local prosecutor is
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trying to bring federal charges on campaign finance violation dubious at best whether he can even do that
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and then you're bringing in a porn star a convicted felon michael cohen i see i mean i've just had it i
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mean that's why i just had to write this column i mean this is truly third world sub-saharan africa
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banana republic stuff okay i'm gonna get to that but i and i loved your first piece too the reason i played
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the carvel is that and you know we're outgunned we're on streaming services we have podcasts we're on
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radio but the they they have all the institutions they have all the federal power they've got the
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uniparty uh they they they have all media all our cultural and yet you hear carvel going it ain't
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working i mean it ain't right in fact let me show you another one do we have the clip i want to show
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the polling clip the msnbc meltdown on the cnn poll if we can play that uh for josh right now
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interesting in this polling was more independent said that they worry about president biden
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weakening democracy than trump 53 to 42 percent what do you make of this i find it shocking
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honestly i i can't i can't you know make sense of that number i wish i could i wish i kept some
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really great insight to it but it i i don't know if it's an outlier or not because the other numbers
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with independence and biden are going in the right direction so that may be it but also just one
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thing i wanted to add on to what basil said you know this trial is not on tv you guys do a great job
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reporting what's happening but if there aren't those images coming out of the courthouse people feel like
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they know this so they're losing the whole case for democracy that trump is this uh it's a autocrat
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we're heading to autocracy uh because josh hammer and bannon and all these other media guys are
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pushing this and and fighting the will of people you see in the polling it's not sticking part of the
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reason is what mike davis did on bbc mike davis on bbc hit him in the mouth with a full punch he wasn't
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just going to let the bbc anchor sit there and and frame it their way you when you fight back you get
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that poll when you fight back you get the meltdown on msnbc when you fight back you got carville who's
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a very smart guy particularly about politics and retail politics and delivering votes in a full and
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complete meltdown josh six months before election day but about four and a half months before we
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actually start voting your thoughts so this poll that we just saw and we watched the msnbc reaction
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to it it actually takes me back to an event that i did in new york city a few weeks ago so there's an
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outlet called tangle they do this daily newsletter they try to be a non-partisan across the spectrum
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thing it's actually very similar to what newsweek opinion was doing when i was the op-ed editor
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there for three years and we're still doing that today under abadia's leadership as well so anyway
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so i flew to new york for this tangle event where they wanted one conservative one liberal and one i
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guess libertarian on stage i was a conservative obviously and the liberal was the washington post
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columnist by the name of katherine rample i believe was her name and she's up there and you know
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there's probably about 200 people in the audience or so and she's trying to make the argument that
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donald trump is a unique threat to democracy basically this poll that we just saw the msnbc
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reaction to and i turned to her and i said can you answer me one very simple question which of the two
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major candidates for president right now is literally prosecuting and trying to throw in jail
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the other guy because it's probably not the one that you think it is and you know she has no answer
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for that because no one can answer that question you want to talk about democracy steve i mean that
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was the poll that the msnbc people just just reacted to there one of these guys as we just
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discussed is taking the political opposition off the campaign trail for the five weekdays of the week
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in an attempt to throw him in jail before november they tried to remove him from the ballot in this
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absurd case from colorado that thankfully lost nine to zero at the u.s supreme court hard to get much
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more anti-democratic than that literally trying to deprive the guy of ballot acts as a former president
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of the united states for goodness sake but you have to punch back here and jimmy carville to his credit
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you're totally right he actually is historically one of the more reasonable sane liberals he's not a huge fan
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of all the woke identity politics stuff the oppressors the press critical race theory any of that
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so if any if even jimmy carville is is recognizing that there is a problem here that is a golden
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opportunity for republicans this fall to kind of hit him where it's going to hurt which is you try
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to make inroads with the democratic coalition you try to peel away more of those millennial gen z voters
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more of those black voters i mean you really need also need to peel in steve to the remaining white
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working class voters in the rust belt many of whom actually are still registered democrats it goes back
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to kind of the 1970s 1980s a lot of them are instinctual trump voters are still registered democrats
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these are all the various places where republicans i think have a golden opportunity given the horrific
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policies of this current president joe biden so josh you are um i think one of our leading and i think
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it's pretty much consensus one of our leading public intellectuals i want to go through both pieces and
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we can put them individually i want to take the uniparty piece first and then i want to go to the
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banana republic because i think they're kind of inextricably linked let's take your first piece
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and walk us through it yeah so tyranny of the uniparty i wrote this essay in response to this
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long essay that was written by glenn elmers and ted richards they're both claremont institute folks
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and they took a classic essay that was written probably 40 50 years ago or so which has six
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factors that identify that you whether or not you are in a totalitarian regime and in this essay glenn and
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ted basically argued that yes under this classical definition of what it means to be a totalitarian
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regime america in the year 2024 qualifies and i thought they made a very sound argument so what i was
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doing was responding to one very specific element of those six elements there which was this notion
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of a uniparty so one of the classic one of the classic identifying traits of an authoritarian or
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totalitarian regime is you only have one political party i mean nazi germany is obviously a good example
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there's plenty of other examples throughout the past 200 years of history and what i basically argued in
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this essay is that america in the year 2024 whether we realize it or not actually does have only one
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party which is this idea of a uniparty sure on paper we technically have a democratic party we
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technically have a republican party but they are two sides of the exact same coin there are two sides of
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the exact same liberal coin you have left liberals and you have right liberals they're ultimately operating
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within the same paradigm and to put some teeth on that and to put some concrete terms on it they are both
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operating in a foreign policy mentality that believes that america has a moralistic need desire
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and a frankly kind of an indispensable intrinsic desire to go ahead throughout the world is toppling
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regimes in in the name of global peace freedom it's kind of this bush second inaugural address
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january 2000-esque mentality that has tangible ramifications for the war in ukraine which i've
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been a skeptic of basically since the get-go for at least two years now on the domestic front both
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parties are spending like absolute drunk sailors they have no inclination whatsoever to to trim the
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sales of the administrative state whatsoever which is an existential threat to individual liberty and
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constitutional separation of powers they they are all in for for all sorts of horrific causes there
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and every time that you see someone donald trump being a good example jd vance josh holly folks like
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this who come from fairly elite backgrounds i mean josh holly and jd vance both went to yale law school
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donald trump obviously grew up wealthy went to an ivy league school himself when you have people who are
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class traitors that's the word that i use in the concluding paragraph for that essay when you have
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people who are class traitors who come from the upper echelons of society whether it is their
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upbringing or whether it is their institutions their degrees their credentials and then they turn on the
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ruling class and they come to identify with what the late great angelo codavilla called the country
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class the people what hillary clinton called the deplorables when you have these class traitors that
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turn on the ruling class and become a voice a ap and a tribune of the people that is the unique
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threat and donald trump in many ways obviously is that threat steve that's why they feel such a need
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to take him out uh then it's absolutely brilliant piece i want to make sure grace mo uh carly bonet over
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at uh midnight writer if we can uh get an assist from the great carly bonet and the folks over there
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also elizabeth and our telegram owner push this out everywhere it's a must read as joshua's material
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is then you pivot and it actually gets even darker in your second piece i think that you talk about us
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becoming the united states of america becoming a banana republic we talked about a little bit in
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the morning show about financially how we're definitely doing between the fed and treasury as
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scott besson said he's seeing things that are only done in developing nations uh walk us through uh this essay
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sir so the new york city case steve i mean as we heard mike talk about in the bbc there a little bit
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and you know as i've been talking about you've been talking about this new york city case is just orders
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of magnitude insane so obviously there's four criminal prosecutions against donald trump they are all
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legally deficient for for various reasons they are obviously all coming from a grossly politicized
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election interference vantage point here the new york city case is a particularly extreme example
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of a case that anyone who has any sense of the law any person who who went to law school and becomes
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a prosecutor if you have a morsel a morsel of integrity in your bones you would never ever bring
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this particular suit and in fact alvin bragg who is obviously a george soros funded hack who literally
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campaigns for office to be the new york county new york district attorney he literally campaigned on a
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platform of getting trump and prosecuting trump by any means necessary his own predecessor cy vance jr who's a
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pretty liberal guy himself very much looked into this charge and ultimately said no this is too
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frivolous i can't justify using prosecutorial resources to do it same thing for the federal
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prosecutor's office there the sdny the southern district of new york they did the exact same thing
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alvin bragg has no such compunctions because he's a soros funded hack so okay so their theory of the case
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is basically that these 130 000 in payments from the trump organization to michael cohen on the eve of the
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2016 election were incorrectly put in the accounting books in the ledgers of the trump organization's
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accounting books and whatnot because they call them legal services whether it is a when it should be a
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campaign finance violation okay so there's multiple problems here one is the fraudulent bookkeeping
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charge the actual state crime has a two-year statute of limitations now alvin bragg tries to get around
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this very clear-cut statute of limitations by tacking on this in furtherance of an additional
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an additional crime that's the federal campaign finance violation thing however he's a local da i
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mean what gives alvin bragg the right to even tack on a federal crime to begin with especially when the
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own federal prosecutor's office looked into it and said that they weren't going to do it then that
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has its own statute of limitations problem as well here but in order to prove this case steve in order
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to prove this case as even the bill clinton nominated fec federal election commissioner brad smith has
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explained in order to prove this case in order to prove any campaign finance violation
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case you have to prove that the sole and exclusive motive for a payment was unambiguously for the
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sole and exclusive reason of getting that candidate across the finish line in other words in other
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words if trump and his lawyers can show that there was any other possible motive for this payment that
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was made from the trump organization to michael cohen any motive whatsoever they win the case because
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the prosecution has not met anywhere close to its beyond a reasonable doubt burden and you know i can think
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of any number of other reasons why maybe these payments were made you know perhaps president
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trump didn't want baron trump to find out maybe he wanted to do it to preserve integrity of his
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marriage with the first lady melania trump i mean there are so many other reasons why maybe these
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payments were made in the first place and then obviously kind of the most important point which we
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discussed a little bit earlier it's just the grand spectacle of it all the fact that the president
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is in the courtroom four days a week he's not on the campaign trail they're trying to incarcerate
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the political opposition this unconstitutional gag order the judge is openly threatening to throw him
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in jail because these thousand dollar fines in his estimation are not having a sufficient deterrent
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effect trump can't even criticize the daughter of the judge who's raising 90 plus million dollars
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for her her crappy company authentic campaigns which is just a democratic fundraising consultancy firm
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he can't trump can't push back against the porn star stormy daniels herself it's just it just stinks to
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high heaven i don't want it just would you really it's it's pure but now before we go we know you
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got to bounce question should president trump i've been arguing call the bluff of the judge in the gag
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order even in means to go to jail would you recommend to trump if you were on the legal team
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or the political team to press the case on the gag order and get even more up in the court's face sir
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if i was his lawyer and i i i as a political commentator yes i would love to see that if i was
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literally his lawyer in the courtroom hard to hard to say but i mean my heart totally agrees with you
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i'm trying to think about my legal brain as well honestly but he should i mean like he definitely
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should because he's clearly bluffing there's no way mershawn's gonna do that steve you don't think
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mershawn is if trump calls his bluff you think he backs down i do i do think that i think i i actually
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do think he's bluffing on that josh hammer you're one of the smartest guys i know josh how do we get to
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early in a friday evening in may okay we're going to pivot in a second we're going to talk about one
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of my favorite topics ukraine but much much more has been harnwell joins us okay this is a fourth
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you see what i mean if lazlo's presence in a cafe can inspire this unfortunate demonstration
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what more of his presence in casablanca bring on i advise that this place be shut up at once
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but everybody's having such a good time yes much too good a time the place is to be closed
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everybody's to leave here immediately this cafe is closed until further notice clear the room at once
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how can he close me up on what ground i'm shocked shocked to find that gambling is going on in here
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okay welcome back a classic scene from one of the great classics casablanca michael curtis
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one of the greatest uh directors ever hungarian uh ben harnwell why is that appropriate for what
00:32:19.000
we're going to talk about sir steve you know we play that clip so often on the war and we might as
00:32:24.720
well substitute it for the opening credits of the show um steve i prepared to put your shocked face on
00:32:31.920
because there were more stories coming of corruption out of ukraine and it's very topical we're going
00:32:38.060
to come to to a development from a couple of hours to go but let's first dig down on on the we've got
00:32:44.220
a whole stack of corruption stories coming out of ukraine um so first off one of uh president
00:32:50.280
zelensky's members of parliament uh in the servant of the people's party this is a guy called andrei
00:32:56.260
klochko um he's been hauled in before the ukraine special specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's
00:33:03.980
office um because he had uh around 200 um and 70 000 worth of income that he couldn't explain on his
00:33:16.060
parliamentary salary and i know i'm going to recite this now steve because it sounds a little bit like
00:33:21.440
um the the the 12 days of christmas but according to the the the the corruption um office he had
00:33:29.580
five flats in kia of three plots of land two other premises a tesla and a mercedes bend nothing about
00:33:37.260
a partridge in a pear tree but it's almost getting there now the thing about that this that most
00:33:41.820
surprised me was that these developments were tied to another corruption sacking um and this time
00:33:48.860
it's the head of um the cyber security office of the um the sbu ukraine's um cia basically why this
00:33:59.840
is important i'm gonna i'm gonna tie this together it's because it's the intelligence services whose
00:34:04.860
hand is behind a lot of these corruption allegations and this is a director within the um the intelligence
00:34:12.260
now this guy had been dismissed last week um because of uh sort of backhanders being filtered
00:34:19.780
into his wife so basically this is a question that the very people that are being entrusted
00:34:24.760
to tamper down supposedly steve you know this is a shock shock that there's corruption going on here
00:34:31.720
the very people who are being um entrusted to to tamper down on corruption and those people are
00:34:37.720
taking the largest by candace how do we know this because we covered this on the show a couple of
00:34:42.860
weeks ago but it's always worth repeating this anglo-german businessman called arnulf damara who's
00:34:49.300
the 10th largest taxpayer um in ukraine he had an issue where members from and this is the ft the financial
00:34:58.560
times okay and i quote them directly members from zelensky's administration and the country's secret
00:35:06.720
services were filmed by this anglo-german businessman in vienna tapping him um for a proportion of his
00:35:14.660
company to be held in an offshore trust steve how much uh were they hitting him for because we always
00:35:20.780
called president zelensky 10 percent ski right because that's like the standard there is as it is in
00:35:28.260
russia that's like the standard kickback these guys wanted an eye-watering 50 percent now
00:35:34.900
but hang on just for the audience let's not bury the lead i just want to hit rewind for a second and
00:35:42.720
this is why the casablanca uh clip that we play a lot is so important here remember we'll get to in
00:35:51.700
a second they're actually i'm not making this up folks the 61 billion is not good enough they're
00:35:57.460
ramming through another 400 million dollar 400 million dollar uh another supplemental to come
00:36:04.520
like asap let's go back the intelligence mike uh johnson tells us that the reason that they've put
00:36:13.280
this forward so quickly in the 61 billion dollars mtg informs us that although they agree to forensic
00:36:19.840
audits they agreed to audits as you reported ben harnwell i think it's burns the cia director
00:36:26.720
flew to kiev to have a sit down with zelensky and his top guys say the corruption you're stealing with
00:36:35.040
both hands so obvious and so blatant that we're not going to be able to protect you on capitol hill
00:36:40.180
because now everybody and i talked to so many people about these stories it is an open secret in
00:36:46.020
the capital city of the united states about how much money is being stolen by these crop oligarchs
00:36:51.820
it's the intelligence guys that are in there it's the intelligence community that that's in capture or
00:36:58.440
captured little mike johnson polly pockets and has him wetting himself about all the things are going
00:37:04.840
to happen that putin's going to roll across the north german plane into poland that putin's going to go
00:37:09.100
uh into germany that putin is is like the avant was it the von molke plan and world the guns of august he's
00:37:15.600
going to be heading to paris and we're going to have a second verdun right to stop them at the what
00:37:19.880
the marne river all of that it's the intelligence services and not only are they working together
00:37:25.200
they're stealing together ben harnwell i couldn't be better steve not only they're working together
00:37:33.320
they are stealing together that is that is the literal truth of this i just want to follow on
00:37:38.000
because look in a regime this is like in china when someone is sacked for china in china for high
00:37:43.920
normal corruption they have execution for this um in china um and yet the whole regime the whole
00:37:51.700
regime has its hand in the till so what is clearly the case and of course the one belt one road
00:37:57.200
initiative is under a certain perspective just a massive opportunity for institutional grift at the
00:38:04.040
highest level in which everyone is participating so what happens in china when you hear about in the
00:38:09.520
store in the newspapers it occasionally happens that someone's been dragged off they've put in
00:38:13.920
been put in prison or they've been executed for um for corruption it's really because they've fallen
00:38:19.620
out with the regime um and the regime wanted to get rid of them and corruption is obviously a great
00:38:25.880
excuse before their own people to be using because of course it looks as if they're drilling down on it
00:38:30.480
and i would suggest that the same dynamic is taking place in ukraine because they are all you know all of
00:38:36.680
these this herd of pigs has its snout in the trough when you hear for example like yesterday when the
00:38:43.680
when the ukrainian parliament dismissed mikola salisky who was the agriculture minister who couldn't
00:38:50.080
justify about 10 million dollars worth of land acquisition on his ministerial salary when you hear
00:38:57.120
people sort of falling out of grace like this it's really because they've because of internal dynamics
00:39:02.540
and internal power plays just coming back to that we did hit yesterday on the show
00:39:06.700
in the latest the the the ukrainian parliament in a second reading yesterday um approved a bill which
00:39:14.460
has yet to be signed by president salisky where they can draft people convicts in uh in prison to the
00:39:20.840
to the front line i just want to hit this point again because we did hit this yesterday very important
00:39:25.480
here they when they were drafting this bill they put in a carve out specifically exempting whom from
00:39:33.480
the uh immobilization hi you're you're people hold it hornwell's doing this hold it we we covered this
00:39:41.900
yesterday i did want to cover today but folks you got to understand something the way hornwell knows
00:39:46.000
how to troll me better than anybody he knows this will trigger me but go ahead wait for it tell me who
00:39:51.160
the higgs this is hang on this is a group that actually had their two most revered generals
00:39:57.920
cashiered because they talked about the lack of man powers not the lack of weapons at the 500 000
00:40:04.100
troops at about 27 years old they need not 42 years old of course they go through all these
00:40:09.540
perturbations and they're going to draft prisoners they're going to put the poor uh guys that have
00:40:13.900
already lost limbs back to the front everybody because the parents are getting guys out of the country
00:40:17.740
but they have this big thing and what what are the one group that they put in as an exemption as
00:40:23.520
they push this uh they push the new draft through the uh through zelinski's legislature
00:40:29.640
steve i quote i can only quote former high-ranking officials who held important political positions
00:40:38.420
and were convicted of serious corruption that's basically any potential ukrainian cabinet minister or any
00:40:45.800
potential ukrainian member of parliament would fall in that um in that category if they got their hands
00:40:52.080
uh caught in the till so as they're drafting and mobilizing basically everyone else and now they're
00:40:57.200
press-ganging uh people i i i saw something dated three days just on the streets um in in an intimidation
00:41:04.980
effort to try and get them to go to the front line the one category of prisoner but so excuse me
00:41:10.100
there's a second category right there's a serious murderers who've killed more than two people um
00:41:16.880
but the one more than two more than two but the one category that's that's got the carve out here
00:41:24.440
from from the latest mobilization drive are basically parliament uh ukrainian officials
00:41:31.020
absolutely astonishing um and of course i want to hang on hang on but i want to go to something i want
00:41:37.620
to go back because we talk about rational actors like we talk about the invasion of the southern border
00:41:42.500
the rational actors are the people coming across the border because they realize it's a one-time good deal
00:41:48.040
under biden and the cartels which are making more money than than ever the rational actors
00:41:52.820
the most rational actors that are looking reality in the eye and acting upon it are the parents
00:41:59.620
of particularly young ukrainian men it's men and women particularly young ukrainian men
00:42:04.680
that are sitting there going hang on for a second these americans are financing this entirely corrupt
00:42:11.660
regime because those people are patriotic the ukrainian people are very patriotic they love their country
00:42:16.740
right but they understand what's going on now and they see what the grift is and what's happening and
00:42:22.880
they look around and they say because if this is really about defending their country if this is really
00:42:28.640
about ukraine those people being patriotic would have their young sons at the front would have
00:42:34.880
their young sons going into the military they don't the biggest problem they have is the manpower and
00:42:40.680
that's on capitol hill they don't want to talk about why the parents are doing anything possible in
00:42:45.880
fact i think you report the other day the average pay is like 650 bucks to 900 bucks 950 bucks
00:42:51.560
for for an average ukrainian they're paying 5 000 to 10 000 to get them out of the country and to get
00:42:58.300
them to ireland or get them get them to hungary or to get them to poland to get them out of the
00:43:02.500
country and to get them out of the ability of zelinski and these people to basically press gang them
00:43:07.260
and this is because they understand that this is not about the defense of ukraine this is not about
00:43:17.220
their country this is something more and they see the corruption all around them they say hey look
00:43:21.980
if my son has got to go serve his country and die in service of country that's one thing
00:43:27.060
but if they're going to take my son and send him to the front lines to support this to hell with it
00:43:32.620
right i'll go into hock i'll go into bankruptcy i will do whatever it needs to be done to get my boy
00:43:39.120
out of this country ben harnwell well look we're going to talk around neighboring countries in a moment
00:43:45.000
and i i'll queue up denver now um we'll go for the footage on the on the polish farmer
00:43:50.120
protesting them at the moment in a moment because that has a strong ukrainian dynamic in it but the
00:43:55.960
the horror of of what you're saying steve about the parents basically selling the farm as it were
00:44:01.000
to get their their kids their sons out of ukraine and away from the firing line is that the neighboring
00:44:06.240
countries for example lithuania are rounding these kids up and they're going to send them back
00:44:10.560
right and the astonishing thing is and the astonishing thing is we're we're under an invasion
00:44:17.160
capital letters invasion of third world illegals across the european continent for the last six or
00:44:23.480
seven years and you can't send people back to war zones right this is what we've been told we've
00:44:29.620
been hit over the head with this you can't send refugees back to war zones but you can if it will help
00:44:36.960
to stop trump that's that's the cynicism steve the utter evilness of these people because they're
00:44:43.940
going to take these kids you know as you said the parents have sold the farm to get their to get their
00:44:48.960
kids out we're going to round them up and send them back why because europe has been cajoled by
00:44:55.000
washington dc to give joe biden a foreign policy victory before november let's talk about the polish
00:45:02.180
farmers and link that back to what's happening in ukraine okay um can i cue now the uh the footage
00:45:10.720
and i will talk over this if den's very kindly able to play this so thousands of polish farmers
00:45:16.880
have gathered now according to some reports steve they have actually occupied yesterday the polish
00:45:22.640
um parliament the lower house the same um because they were demanding to see the the prime minister
00:45:29.300
in the event they saw the speaker of the house and both sides said they had a very productive
00:45:35.420
meeting but what specifically is the claim here of the polish farmers what has specifically got them
00:45:41.320
angry thank you very much denver um is is the is a two-fold um issue here there's the zero carbon
00:45:48.720
aspect um of on behalf of the eu policies that have been pushed on agriculture which we've spoken about
00:45:55.620
so many times the the so-called green deal and also the fact that unchecked products are coming out
00:46:01.780
of ukraine and flooding the um especially in the agricultural sector and flooding the polish domestic
00:46:08.580
market and this is creating massive social unrest in in neighboring poland so so what's happening now that
00:46:17.400
for political motives that i was just touching on for a moment this is creating shock waves now
00:46:21.880
right across um continental europe because obviously these these these farmers protests have been
00:46:28.440
rolling on for the last 12 months or so well we we will see we will see the consequences of this anger
00:46:35.580
um in less than a month's time in the um in the european it's almost exactly a month's time now steve
00:46:41.940
um in the european elections um the uh this is spreading throughout the farmers revolt
00:46:50.360
although not all of it's tied to ukraine it's all tied to climate change this farmers revolt
00:46:55.340
throughout europe has been an air agrarian populist uh add-on or kind of it's converging
00:47:01.720
with the populist and the sovereignty movement tell me how deep sea is it this is all about this over
00:47:06.720
the top crushing by the climate cult how deep and how big is the agrarian revolt we haven't quite seen
00:47:13.440
it here in the united states we're actually lagging on that but you've seen the farmers who have
00:47:17.860
obviously uh history of millennia of being very productive farmers revolting about that your
00:47:23.100
thoughts ben what i find most interesting about this steve is there is a connection a political
00:47:29.360
connection between um between the farmers the protest the popular support behind these protests
00:47:37.160
and those political parties that the mainstream media sort of slow with the the the the the term far
00:47:44.340
right and extreme right there is a connection and i would draw this parallel the consequences of trying
00:47:51.440
to impose radical green pseudo-marxist policies on on a country has the effect of driving ordinary
00:48:01.760
non-political citizens into such a strong reaction against that because it's hitting their own
00:48:09.260
interests uh the hardest it's actually making ordinary people i itself identify as being far right
00:48:17.340
uh so astonishingly counterproductive if the if the european elites really are afraid really you know
00:48:25.040
are terrified as they claim that europe is is on the verge of being subsumed by the far right these are
00:48:33.240
the very people that not only have caused that to take place but are continuing to cause it to take place
00:48:38.880
there's a hubris behind our social uh sociopathic overlords and back back to with with with a pride that
00:48:47.700
refuses to let them back down and they are going to create the very phenomenon they claim to be most scared
00:48:54.060
they're not they're not going to back down because they understand they have the power now but like
00:48:59.080
in the godfather right we're gaining power this is they want to hit them what they want to hit us
00:49:03.380
while they're still strong that's why they're coming after and this is what's turning your point is so
00:49:07.720
well taken it hasn't spread the the the farmer aspect has not spread yet to the united states but
00:49:13.800
you're going to see that there's things happening all over the country about climate change and shutting
00:49:17.360
down the farmers then we got to bounce where do people go your engagement over getter is quite
00:49:22.860
frankly breathtaking it's because of the amazing lead-ins you do to your pieces where do people go
00:49:29.380
thank you so much steve for that kind um comment it's simply my social media platform of choice
00:49:37.220
getter um and just tap in in the search box my surname harnwell and my my uh my feed will come up
00:49:43.820
right at the top there it's not i'm not saying it's it's nice i'm insanely jealous i'm all over the
00:49:50.980
team here why why is harnwell got such engagement i'm like some schmendrick ben harnwell love you
00:49:55.720
brother thank you for staying up tonight god bless okay lou dobs is going to follow us a couple things
00:50:01.320
you see right there the turbulence european parliamentary elections the sovereignty movement
00:50:06.720
now engage also we have this populist agrarian revolt about farmers who families have been doing
00:50:14.660
this for millennia the farmers of europe and now in revolt that's going to lead a right-wing movement
00:50:20.860
in this european parliamentary elections in early june we're obviously going to cover that wall to
00:50:26.160
wall because we are the global platform for the sovereignty movement the populist nationalist movement
00:50:30.940
uh of course the great philip patrick is going to join me tomorrow lou dobbs is next tomorrow
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war room go there today you need if you're going to be part of the posse you need a strong heart you
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need a lion's heart how we're going to do that is with salty go there do it today check it out