Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 611： Remembering September 11th And Making Sure We Never Let It Happen Again

00:00:00.000 this is what you're fighting for I mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing

00:00:11.360 people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the

00:00:18.360 authoritarians get total control and total power because this is just like in Arizona this is just

00:00:24.260 like in Georgia it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and

00:00:29.020 misrepresentations is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is

00:00:33.300 the fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's

00:00:40.340 your host Stephen K Bannon uh welcome to war room battleground I'm Brad Thayer in for Steve Bannon

00:00:49.340 and Steve's orders were next man up and that's what we're doing here and we do every day

00:00:53.440 uh while Steve is away I'm very pleased to be hosting uh today 9-11-2024 on a day that we have

00:01:02.300 and pause and remember the horrific terrorist attacks on 9-11-2001 when 2,977 Americans were killed

00:01:11.320 in attacks uh in New York City of course and then Pennsylvania uh sadly and then lastly of course

00:01:18.400 the attack on the Pentagon uh on that occasion uh so much though to cover today we want to obviously

00:01:26.100 look at 9-11 and reflect on that and but also to look at China and to look at the Middle East

00:01:32.420 really have a great uh strategy session tonight uh to look at all of those issues and I'm very

00:01:39.640 pleased to have if you will something akin to the 1927 New York Yankees murderers row where instead of

00:01:46.920 having Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig uh and Mark Koenig and uh of course uh Earl Combs we've got Sam Faddis

00:01:56.040 long career in the CIA and as a regular on the program Jim Fennell who had a career in the Navy

00:02:03.280 also is a great friend uh of mine and uh regular on the program and of course uh Colonel uh Derek Harvey

00:02:09.900 uh to review some issues and to look at uh what's happening in the Middle East

00:02:14.600 uh where there's never obviously uh any let up in terms of the intensity of the action which is

00:02:20.760 happening there but I'd like to first start with 9-11 uh we have on this day uh the Americans should

00:02:28.380 pause uh to reflect on what happened why it happened and the consequences of what was happening uh as a

00:02:36.080 result of the attack and its aftermath we really have uh the upon reflection of the attack we can

00:02:43.260 identify that this is an attack the left wants to disappear 9-11 many of us will remember years

00:02:51.140 afterwards there was a surfeit of American flags everybody was flying the surge of patriotism of

00:02:57.420 course which echoed around the country uh and was warmly welcomed year after year there were fewer flags

00:03:04.320 flying uh until there were just uh occasionally a few still here in the DC area at least in northern

00:03:11.180 Virginia there are still some American flags on the overpass put in place by America uh the

00:03:16.360 Fairfax firefighter department and police department but it really has attenuated it really has drawn

00:03:22.880 down and that's not by accident so it's an event that the left wants to memory hole and convert into

00:03:29.320 something else a patriot's day or something along uh those lines and in that they're joined by

00:03:35.180 Hollywood right you can think in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack John Ford made December 7th

00:03:41.460 in the immediate wake of that and Franklin Delano Roosevelt said every American should see

00:03:46.240 he wanted every American mother to see December 7th by John Ford his great film

00:03:51.140 to understand what had happened there it's curious that Hollywood hasn't made many films you can count

00:03:58.100 on the fingers of one hand the films that Hollywood's made about 9-11 and that's not an accident you'd

00:04:04.040 think that this is an issue which is rife dramatically it's exactly what they want right the horrific

00:04:09.540 attacks the dramas uh you'd think that the screenwriters of course and actors would would uh uh want to

00:04:16.960 explore those issues but they don't and again that's not by accident right that's an issue of 9-11

00:04:23.420 because of the nature of the attack and who attacked us on that day again they won a memory

00:04:28.640 hole in an Orwellian uh fashion 9-11 is salient though today because of a critical issue and that

00:04:36.840 is it showed how individuals groups states the terrorist attacks of course al-qaeda in that instance

00:04:44.020 exploited the seams in our defenses the seams in our society to conduct such an unconventional attack

00:04:50.860 against the united states uh and um that's something about which we need to be aware today as we move

00:04:57.820 into the election november 5th uh we need to be aware of course that other adversaries whether that's the

00:05:04.500 people's republic of china or other terrorist actors uh or other groups are going to also want to exploit

00:05:11.800 those seams in our societies to bring about an equally dramatic attack uh to impact uh the american voter 0.99

00:05:18.940 american society so i'm very pleased to be joined by sam faddis again sam war room regular war room

00:05:26.160 battleground regular and a great fan of uh obviously of uh of uh all of his writings where he writes at

00:05:33.260 and magazine sam you've had a piece up on 9-11 uh would you tell the audience what you're arguing

00:05:40.580 uh and offer any reflections that you have today uh on the 9-11 terrorist attack

00:05:46.740 yeah well i i think the first thing when i when i think about 9-11 now today

00:05:56.720 the first thing that comes to mind i mean in addition to the the horror of the event is

00:06:03.500 as i look at the world around us i feel like i've seen this movie before and what do i mean by that

00:06:12.320 i was at the time of 9-11 i was an undercover cia operations officer and i was working a lot

00:06:20.260 of counterterrorism and i had been working against al-qaeda for some time and myself i don't want to

00:06:28.000 claim i had some sort of unique insight but for those of us who were working that target and there

00:06:34.380 were a number of very brave guys and gals doing so it was crystal clear to us where we were headed

00:06:43.160 i don't mean in the sense of knowing the exact details of the plot obviously but about every five

00:06:49.880 minutes bin laden told us his intentions and he had already blown up two of our embassies

00:06:55.280 and he had already almost sunk the uss coal and there'd been a previous attack on the world trade

00:07:01.700 center and so you could see this uh looming in the future this sense of dread while we refused we as a

00:07:14.620 government refused to do what was necessary so i mean i i recruited sources with access inside al-qaeda

00:07:24.700 that i was forced to terminate because they were technically citizens of friendly countries and

00:07:31.840 that was more important to us than acquiring intelligence other officers proposed ops going

00:07:37.820 back as far as when bin laden was in sudan to go in on the ground and destroy his operations

00:07:43.920 permission denied a guy who ultimately became my deputy in iraq put together a very detailed specific

00:07:51.480 plan to go in to tarnak farms when bin laden was there and uh and end the threat then permission

00:08:00.860 denied and so now once again we're looking at afghanistan as a safe haven al-qaeda completely

00:08:10.380 reconstituted completely embedded with the taliban growing in strength with all the same

00:08:16.820 intentions they had then and uh not only are we not doing anything about it we're actually probably

00:08:23.880 we're we're in a worse posture because now we have dismantled our borders and made it impossible to

00:08:31.900 control at all who's coming in and and the other thing i would just throw out at this juncture is

00:08:37.360 9 11 was never conceived by al-qaeda

00:08:41.480 to be the end of anything nor was it conceived to be the worst attack they would launch they were

00:08:51.240 they tried on they had very advanced weapons of mass destruction programs and some of the details of

00:08:58.560 that still can't be discussed because it's classified but i mean nuclear chemical and biological

00:09:03.200 and their intention was to kill a lot more people than 3 000 in an attack and it it's not that they

00:09:11.680 just didn't get around to it they were stopped over and over and over so we're not just looking at a

00:09:19.140 repetition of 9 11 we're looking at something even more horrifying than 9 11 and right now

00:09:27.600 we're not doing anything to stop it sam i think that's a very important point and uh you obviously

00:09:38.180 have spent a career in the intelligence community um the 9 11 commission report right to reform the u.s

00:09:45.700 intelligence community so that this could never happen i mean would you offer your reflections really

00:09:50.520 on what those reforms did and whether they left us in a better place or a much much worse place

00:09:56.080 yeah they left us in a worse worse place i mean first of all the central conclusion of the 9 11 1.00

00:10:04.840 commission with all due respect to the to the men who worked on was that the problem was a lack of

00:10:10.980 communication amongst agencies i'm not suggesting that communication was perfect that was not the

00:10:16.500 central problem the central problem was we were not collecting the intelligence we needed we weren't

00:10:21.840 running the sources we needed and we weren't being nearly aggressive enough in going after some guys

00:10:27.600 who fully intended to kill us in large numbers so what did we do post 9 11 we created the department

00:10:34.320 the director of national intelligence an entire additional layer of bureaucracy to sit on top of the

00:10:41.320 existing agencies you know more people in office buildings in dc in front of flat screen computer

00:10:48.340 monitors moving message traffic doesn't do anything in terms of collection or going after the enemy

00:10:56.840 so and and now we of course have layered on top of that politicization and you know we're obsessed

00:11:03.260 with diversity equity and inclusion and running i mean i i tell you right now if anytime you look at

00:11:10.300 an assessment on afghanistan and al-qaeda from the intelligence community um you know the first question

00:11:17.480 would be what's the source of your information and i can guarantee you that there are virtually no

00:11:24.080 sources for that information so you're you're effectively looking at speculation as to what is

00:11:29.120 happening yeah wonderful sam sam if you'll stay with us uh next up is is my friend and frequent writing

00:11:38.340 partner uh jim finnell and i do uh a weekly column at american greatness and we've published a book

00:11:44.300 together uh embracing communist china america's greatest strategic failure uh so u.s navy captain

00:11:51.480 james finnell is uh served as a career navy intelligence officer uh he's had uh very senior

00:11:58.340 positions with the seventh fleet with u.s uh with uh jtf-70 and he retired with the from the navy in

00:12:06.020 2015 and is currently a government fellow at the geneva center for security policy appropriately enough in

00:12:12.840 geneva switzerland where he's forced to eat chocolate and a lot of fondue right jim um it's a great honor to

00:12:19.540 have you today jim i'd like to ask you uh to reflect uh and to evaluate and offer your keen assessment on what

00:12:27.400 the people's republic of china is doing now uh against uh the philippines uh this hyper-aggressive 0.66

00:12:34.520 state uh has been uh ramming vessels at sabina shoal and sabina shoal is a is about 75 nautical

00:12:41.680 miles from palawan it's in the philippines exclusive economic zone uh but it's what the people's

00:12:49.300 republic it's within what the people's republic of china calls illegally uh has been has been

00:12:56.020 noted of course by the international uh essentially permanent court of arbitration

00:13:00.900 within what the prc calls it's uh essentially the uh uh it's a nine dash line or now 10 dash line

00:13:09.180 i'm waiting for the 11 dash line i'm fearful about what that's going to entail jim what's happening

00:13:14.780 uh in the south china sea well brad good evening and uh it's a it's a you know obviously a somber day

00:13:23.880 to remember what happened on 9 11 and i just want to echo uh the assessments that uh sam made regarding

00:13:31.620 the the kind of the assessment we took from 9 11 and this idea that we weren't working together in

00:13:38.320 the ic which is partially true but the real issue is we created bureaucracies and we didn't get down

00:13:44.720 to basics and so we are missing key intelligence indications and warning signals obviously in the in

00:13:51.960 in the arena that sam talked about but also in the pacific as you just mentioned so over the last

00:13:57.620 four or five months uh china has been really ramping up its campaign of intimidation against the republic 0.95

00:14:03.940 of the philippines which is our mutual defense treaty ally and uh going back to june 17th of june

00:14:11.160 the chinese started harassing or ramping up their harassing tactics into actual violence and so there 1.00

00:14:17.760 were collisions and violent acts uh initiated by the chinese coast guard and their other forces there

00:14:24.480 against the filipinos who were trying to resupply a grounded uh ship a world war ii ship that they

00:14:31.000 grounded over 25 years ago at second thomas shoal and filipino uh sailor lost a thumb and now for the

00:14:38.740 third time in two weeks at sabina shoal as you referenced which is about 30 kilometers 18 miles away

00:14:45.940 from second thomas shoal uh the chinese coast guard has now rammed a filipino coast guard ship that's

00:14:53.900 been at anchor there and uh they've done it three times now and these are these are direct provoc

00:14:59.780 provocations or acts of war if you will against our treaty ally and that they're intense upon this is

00:15:06.680 as i said the third time in two weeks uh and again the china the filipino vessel is sitting at anchor yet

00:15:13.740 the chinese in their press says that the filipino ship rammed the chinese ship so this is really uh

00:15:20.100 obvious an obvious lie but this is the kind of propaganda that the chinese communist party puts

00:15:25.980 out and so we're seeing a an intensification of china's uh campaign to take total control of the south

00:15:34.240 china sea uh and they have essentially done that over the last decade uh building seven islands in the

00:15:41.640 south china sea and the spratleys that they've turned into military bases three of which are the

00:15:46.040 size of pearl harbor three have 10 000 foot runways and are large enough to put their aircraft carriers

00:15:52.660 and other warships that are constantly working there along with their coast guard and maritime militia

00:15:58.600 so the chinese now have not only de facto claimed uh they've ignored the the rule of law and the

00:16:06.740 permanent court of arbitration's ruling in 2016 that said they had no claim to this but now they are

00:16:12.100 physically taking possession and they're ramping it up against the republic of the philippines

00:16:16.760 because they don't like the president marcos who has come back into the orbit of the united states and

00:16:24.520 for security uh issues and so china is trying to essentially break the philippines and they know that

00:16:31.780 if they break the philippines it will send a shockwave through the pacific that america is no longer

00:16:37.940 uh somebody that has to be dealt with in the pacific and that puts at risk america's trade

00:16:44.260 in the pacific and five to seven trillion dollars a year of goods and services transit through these

00:16:50.660 waters of the south china sea and those are things that affect the lives of americans whether it's things

00:16:57.380 that you buy and need or whether it's the price of the things that you need or or the the companies

00:17:03.300 that we have that make things in america or it just it will it'll have a devastating impact on america

00:17:09.540 if they shut that down and that's what they're threatening to do and they're picking on the republic

00:17:14.900 of the philippines to make it an example and it also gives them a strategic advantage to the underbelly of

00:17:21.220 taiwan the southern approaches to taiwan so there's a lot of reasons why uh china is doing this uh and

00:17:27.860 i'm not sure how much time we have but there's some other things that china's doing right now

00:17:32.260 that we can talk about maybe in the next segment but china right now is on a campaign to break the

00:17:37.540 philippines to split them off from the united states to demonstrate america's weakness and that does 0.82

00:17:43.220 have a direct impact on america and they're trying to also spread and uh put more pressure on the

00:17:51.540 already uh critically underfunded and under-resourced united states navy and the u.s pacific fleet

00:17:59.700 and this is really a dangerous time

00:18:05.140 they are indeed and it's uh again there's never a dull moment uh with this hyper aggressive state led

00:18:11.140 by xi jinping uh very dangerous situation uh next up in our murderer's row batting order uh is

00:18:18.900 a u.s army retired colonel derrick harvey again a great friend of the program of war room uh and of

00:18:25.620 the uh admiral steve bannon and uh who's had a long career of course in intelligence and worked on

00:18:31.860 the hill of course and the national security council uh colonel harvey welcome uh i'd ask you to uh

00:18:38.660 first uh offer any reflections you have on on the somber day 9-11 uh and then i'd like to ask you

00:18:45.860 about uh what's going on of course with israel uh and uh the defense minister gallant uh saying they're

00:18:53.140 wrapping things up in gaza before moving north uh to deal with hezbollah so uh colonel harvey uh please

00:19:00.580 any any reflections you have on 9-11 yes well thank you so much for having me and i'd like to pivot off of

00:19:07.860 what sam talked about and you know one of the challenges we had you know before 9-11 and since

00:19:15.940 then and we continue to have it was the biden harris administration is leadership both in the military

00:19:22.340 and the civilian side of of the department of defense and the intelligence community and for the

00:19:27.540 most part multiple administrations you know before and after president trump's administration

00:19:32.900 and that is you know a lack of an of an ability to fully grasp and understand the nature of war

00:19:40.820 and when you engage in war or you're in a conflict with a group like osama bin laden

00:19:47.300 or hamas for that matter a great many of those individuals that you're dealing with

00:19:52.260 are not ones that you can negotiate with they're ones that you have to kill or capture

00:19:58.740 um they're not amenable they're not you know reconcilable um they have you know ideological goals

00:20:07.060 that you know are beyond the ability of of us and others to give into because they will just come back

00:20:13.300 with more demands um an inability to understand the nature scope goals motivations of of these threat

00:20:21.780 groups but also you know not just these threat groups like osama bin laden and al-qaeda but you know hamas

00:20:29.060 and palestinian islamic jihad or even you know the theocracy in iran today um there's too much mere imaging

00:20:37.860 a a desire to not really believe you know your eyes about you know what you're actually seeing

00:20:44.820 you know the actions you know speak very loud um sinwar in in in gaza is you know just playing this

00:20:54.900 out the iranians are playing out this struggle that's been going on almost a year now uh coming

00:21:00.660 up on it october 7th um they want to extend this and they believe that if they just continue to fight

00:21:08.180 and not give in the biden harris administration will continue to do what they have done which is

00:21:14.260 has put more pressure on prime minister biden i'm excuse me prime minister notanyahu and the unity

00:21:20.580 government and also you know just you know give more aid and support you know by doing so to hamas

00:21:29.860 and palestinian islamic jihad and the iranians the theocracy is counting you know in iran the

00:21:36.820 theocracy there is counting on the biden harris administration restraining

00:21:41.780 the idf and prime minister notanyahu so you know an inability to understand the human nature what

00:21:50.740 war is really about um what radical islamic terrorism is about and what their goals are

00:21:58.180 and how the enemy sees victory you know we just don't want to accept that or recognize it so coming

00:22:04.420 out of 9 11 we entered into two very long-term wars brad you know afghanistan and iraq where we never had

00:22:12.580 any intention of winning no intention at all so i'll pause there and maybe you have a question on it

00:22:21.540 i do derek and and thanks we have about two minutes left i i wonder those are very important

00:22:26.900 reflections in terms of the the consequences of 9 11 for uh for us uh and really our misguided

00:22:35.220 statesmanship uh during that uh period uh but derek if we just pivot uh briefly and we'll have you of

00:22:42.900 course after after the break uh what's going on in israel with galant's uh argument for pivoting now

00:22:50.100 uh that uh israel is going to be or is wrapping up uh uh the gaza operation and is now moving against

00:22:57.860 uh uh hezbollah what do you make of his remarks yesterday well i think it's an important signal um

00:23:04.580 surely the conflict in in gaza is not done they've had to conduct a couple of strikes surgical strikes

00:23:11.780 one in a refugee camp was that you know took out three commanders and another one i think overnight

00:23:18.100 uh that took out some commanders in gaza in a separate strike at a school this is going to go

00:23:24.100 on because that's the nature of insurgency and you're going to need to have you know a continued

00:23:29.220 presence there along with intelligence driven operations that are going to you know try and keep

00:23:34.980 hamas and the others off guard and you know unable to strike israel with you know long-range missiles 0.54

00:23:43.460 and drones and things that said um they've been trying to reposition and posture themselves

00:23:50.260 in order to be able to be uh fully capable of taking on the threat from hezbollah and iran

00:23:56.100 in the north and they're just about there it has not been an easy task for the idf uh and that's

00:24:02.580 going to be quite a challenge it is indeed and and uh i think you're right that it's uh really the

00:24:11.300 elements of of wars of attrition uh here and uh a long struggle uh well thank you very much uh

00:24:18.660 colonel harvey and we'll have you back after uh the break i'd just like to take a moment to announce

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00:30:54.020 war room battleground with stephen k bannon

00:30:57.220 well welcome back to war room battleground i'm brad thayer sitting in as the next man up receive

00:31:04.900 bannon uh and i'm very pleased to have as i've said our 1927 new york yankees murderers row in terms of

00:31:12.180 the batting order with sam faddis and james finnell and colonel derrick harvey all three heavy hitters

00:31:20.580 that are guaranteed to knock it back out of the park in terms of their strategic insights

00:31:25.460 on the critical issues that we're talking about today 9 11 2024 but of course we remember the horrific

00:31:33.700 events of 9 11 2001 and it gives us pause to think about what we did correctly as well as the mistakes

00:31:42.900 that we made in our terms of our statesmanship and in other uh policies uh colonel harvey before the

00:31:49.780 break we were touching on the middle east and i wanted to uh ask you to uh offer your comments your

00:31:56.260 reflections on a very interesting development is as you know that there have been reports of iran

00:32:02.660 sending ballistic missiles to russia that the iranian foreign minister has vociferously uh denied

00:32:09.780 tehran and moscow of course have a very close relationship uh work hand in glove on so many

00:32:15.540 issues uh colonel harvey can you tell us or offer your reflections on on what's happening there

00:32:22.580 well the relationship between moscow and tehran has grown immeasurably since the ukraine war began and

00:32:30.900 you know russia was always in a supportive role diplomatically and you know economically you

00:32:38.020 know related to iran um so it's an interesting development the intelligence that might be showing

00:32:46.260 that is really not you know out here in the in the media for us to you know make any any solid judgment

00:32:53.620 about uh the degree or scope of you know military support as far as new ballistic missiles uh quantity

00:33:03.220 or quality that may have been shipped there um you know i think it's it's an open question i think tehran

00:33:10.260 has some you know near term fighting issues that it's going to have with israel i would be surprised if

00:33:17.300 they're going to ship a lot there um because they have uh competing demands

00:33:25.220 indeed they do uh and uh the uh uh attention with it with israel is only worsening and as

00:33:31.780 israel pivots to the north hezbollah uh tehran's ally obviously uh proxy in so many respects that's likely

00:33:39.220 to worsen uh captain finnell uh i'd like to uh return to you on on the issue of uh what's happening in the

00:33:46.820 south china sea and elsewhere uh admiral uh paparo who's the commander of indo-pacific command so

00:33:55.380 obviously a very senior figure uh had a video tell essentially a vtc with um the head of a pla general

00:34:04.180 people's liberation army general uh in terms of their southern command right so a major figure

00:34:09.780 uh to address the issue of of conflict or tensions in the south china sea uh jim can you give us your

00:34:17.300 reflections on the value of that call uh and what it entailed yes uh brad uh in the last uh 20 48 hours

00:34:28.020 admiral paparo the commander of the u.s indo-pacific command has conducted the first uh commander's call

00:34:35.300 with his counterpart in the southern theater command so it's not really a counterpart to my mind

00:34:40.260 but that's how they're classifying it uh with general wu and in that conversation admiral paparo

00:34:46.580 did advise the chinese that he wished they would back off their provocative actions in the south china 1.00

00:34:52.500 sea but the chinese have characterized the call and most of the press has characterized the call as

00:34:58.340 admiral paparo calling for the necessity of having these talks to reduce the risk of miscalculation

00:35:05.220 between the united states and china unfortunately uh the risks continue to rise and one area that's

00:35:12.980 rising is with china and russia and over the last 48 hours both the russian and chinese ministries of

00:35:19.220 defense have announced uh that there would be a major uh naval exercise the largest in 30 years since i was

00:35:27.380 a young officer almost uh called ocean 2024 or ocean 2024 and this one will have uh some 400 warships

00:35:38.100 submarines and auxiliary craft and 120 uh warplanes that will be operating from the arctic uh out in the

00:35:47.220 you know up in the uh north of norway in the baltic in the mediterranean in the caspian sea and in the

00:35:54.100 and in the pacific and the chinese concurrently announced that they were going to be conducting

00:35:59.780 exercises in the sea of japan and the sea of okhotsk the sea of okhotsk is that major water space between

00:36:06.260 vladivostok and the kamchatka peninsula that basically fronts alaska and in that water space

00:36:13.460 during the cold war with the soviet union is where the soviets would send their ballistic missile 0.62

00:36:18.100 submarines so we don't know what uh units the chinese will send in terms of submarines there's

00:36:23.860 already five ships that have headed in through the tsushima strait into the sea of japan intelligence

00:36:29.460 collection ship cruiser destroyer frigate and resupply ship but it's very possible that the

00:36:34.420 chinese will be sending submarines and even ballistic missile submarines to operate in the bastion of the 1.00

00:36:39.700 sea of okhotsk which would allow chinese ssbn's or ballistic missile submarines to fire

00:36:45.540 intercontinental ballistic missiles at the continental united states with advanced warning of less than 35

00:36:51.860 minutes like we had during the soviet uh period and like we have today with the russians so this is

00:36:57.140 a major exercise and it reconfirms the alliance between china and russia so while we are asking china

00:37:06.340 to have calls with us china continues to threaten war in the south china sea with the republic of the

00:37:12.260 philippines and they're ramping up their physical kinetic ramming activities which i i i wouldn't 0.99

00:37:18.660 have thought it but after this week i am very concerned that china may start some kind of military 0.98

00:37:24.260 conflict in the south china sea before five november major exercise with the russians and there's reports

00:37:31.860 today that indian pla not indian but chinese army troops are 60 kilometers or 40 miles into arushinal

00:37:42.420 pradesh which is northeastern india southern tibet as the chinese call it uh and we don't know all the

00:37:48.980 details of that yet but every year since 2020 where the chinese killed 20 indian soldiers uh along the line

00:37:56.180 of control in the galwan valley we now see china acting again so china and russia are working to spread 0.93

00:38:03.780 and crush america's defense department and we just had an aircraft carrier leave uh the the middle east

00:38:11.700 after a long long deployment well over the the typical six month deployment period more closer to 12.

00:38:18.900 and and and what did they do they did not stop the houthi rebels from shutting down

00:38:25.700 uh global traffic through the red sea and the suez canal and so we we are being stressed as the we

00:38:32.740 had for the since world war ii america guaranteed global shipping around the world we were the the

00:38:38.580 beat cop for the world to allow the global economy to work and now it's being threatened and if this is

00:38:44.980 shut down and china is able to take this over they will control who gets to buy and sell they will can 0.77

00:38:50.900 control uh how you're threatened from their ballistic missiles and so it's a very very dangerous time

00:38:56.420 and it reminds me of 9 11 i remember 9 11 when i was in hawaii at the time and i remember seeing reports

00:39:02.740 like sam even though i was nothing to do with that but there were reports about this guy osama bin laden

00:39:08.260 and we were told hey this guy's something to be concerned about and nobody did anything well now we're

00:39:14.020 in a similar situation right we have lots of reporting about china and people are not doing

00:39:19.460 anything except saying let's have talks because that will reduce the risk of miscalculation very

00:39:24.660 naive very dangerous absolutely it is it's a it's a hyper aggressive state as we've stressed uh and uh

00:39:33.060 it's uh we certainly can be on the cusp of a conflict between the philippines uh and china which

00:39:40.100 would involve the united states because the philippines is a treaty ally of the united states

00:39:45.060 or partner like taiwan or uh directly with the united states so the audience needs to understand the

00:39:52.500 the uh china is a very dangerous state like cops investigating a car crash right they look at the

00:39:58.100 driver if the driver is okay they look at the car and if the car is okay they look at the road

00:40:02.420 conditions when we look at the people's republic of china we look at the driver we see that xi jinping 0.99

00:40:08.580 is a driver is a driver and he's horrific he's like a 14 year old behind the wheel

00:40:13.540 who's hyper aggressive incredibly risk accepting and doesn't understand the consequences of his

00:40:19.540 actions secondly the car the car is a soviet knockoff the chinese communist party it's a threat 0.75

00:40:26.660 to every other vehicle on the road as well as every other pedestrian uh on the road it's a very

00:40:32.500 dangerous ideology that they possess and it feeds the aggression that xi jinping is driving and then 1.00

00:40:39.220 lastly the road conditions right that this is a country which has grown in power very quickly that

00:40:46.100 power has clearly gone to its head and they have many issues that they want to resolve uh through the

00:40:53.860 coercion applications or threats of force and perhaps even conflict taiwan is

00:40:59.860 there but it's also the south china sea but fundamentally it's the united states because

00:41:04.660 the united states is the only power that can check them and keep them from their global ambitions

00:41:10.100 achieving their global ambitions very dangerous situation we got a crazy driver very dangerous car

00:41:17.540 and horrible road conditions it's a recipe for great trouble and that trouble can come now can come

00:41:22.900 today certainly before november 5th uh and as jim finnell is stressed it's looking like things are getting

00:41:29.540 much worse very quickly sam faddis next up in the batting order you're going to knock it out of the

00:41:35.620 park of course uh because you are on murderer's row sir i'd ask you to offer your reflections really on what

00:41:43.140 we've seen uh what uh the uh uh events that have been happening uh with uh 9-11 the reflections that we've had

00:41:51.860 with 9-11 today uh the ceremony that we had uh in new york but sam most importantly if you could give

00:41:59.540 us your assessment of trouble that we're likely to have between now and november 5th uh and its aftermath

00:42:08.820 yeah well i feel like maybe the central issue here for people to absorb is when we talk about all of the

00:42:17.460 threats we've been talking about today and and more um we end up a lot of times saying something to the

00:42:26.020 effect of if we're not careful one of these days something really bad is going to happen eventually

00:42:34.820 one day something really bad is going to happen right and even in intelligence work you can fall into this

00:42:43.540 this trap of assessing that there's a threat out there and it's not getting better it's growing

00:42:52.740 but still it seems that it that the horizon is continuously receding so we're worried but what

00:43:01.780 we've failed to accept is the immediacy that it's no longer one day or someday and i think when you look

00:43:10.980 at everything we've talked about here today and and and other things that's the essence for me the iranian

00:43:18.900 nuclear program which we haven't touched on is one of those every assessment that we see is always

00:43:26.180 announcing that they're almost there we we i mean let's just be blunt we don't know that they weren't

00:43:35.380 there some time ago you don't know that you're not going to just turn around tomorrow and discover that

00:43:40.660 in this confrontation they have a dozen functional nuclear weapons mated to delivery systems so it

00:43:48.020 is the immediacy of this that as jim's been talking about uh we could be looking at a shooting war in

00:43:56.180 the philippines today that the chinese could blockade taiwan tomorrow uh at that we could have terrorist 0.54

00:44:05.140 attacks by al qaeda on u.s soil any day there's nothing to stop them that that to me is is the

00:44:13.940 the central issue we need to grab a hold of this this administration has been the most disastrous

00:44:19.300 from a national security perspective in american history and the scope of the damage they've done

00:44:24.260 i think is breathtaking certainly an open border for years sam as you well know and have stressed many

00:44:32.740 times uh not knowing who's coming over that border uh certainly folks who don't wish the united states

00:44:39.460 well or the american people uh well but to wish to do us great harm and then the disaster of the biden

00:44:45.940 administration which has got the midas touch in reverse everything that they touch just turns to

00:44:51.540 a nightmare for them whether that's afghanistan or whether that was going back into the who or

00:44:57.620 uh essentially paris climate accords or their actions uh that they've taken uh for example pledging

00:45:06.180 at uh bali in 2022 that they were going not they were they pledged to xi jinping himself that they

00:45:13.300 weren't going to work to overthrow him which they've stressed time and time again so this uh administration

00:45:19.620 is well past its sell-by date uh and will be um i think um uh perhaps little remembered and and uh

00:45:28.580 certainly um uh well forgotten but the damage that they've done and the damage that they're going to

00:45:34.340 continue to do remains with us and we're going to have to deal with those consequences between now

00:45:39.620 november 5th and then after november 5th into a new administration and if trump is returned uh to

00:45:46.420 office then there's prodigious work the auction stables have got to be cleared uh in every respect

00:45:53.380 what biden gave trump if trump does come back into office is so much on his plate uh and a mess in

00:46:01.860 almost every area as colonel harvey is stressed in the middle east and jim finnell is stressed and

00:46:07.300 obviously in the indo-pacific area and sam fattis has stressed every other area including the homeland

00:46:14.180 dealing with terrorists and the threats that we face uh it's a very dire situation that we face

00:46:20.260 i'm going to have to address but there's so much to address i'm very pleased we had such a illustrious

00:46:26.740 audience again our murderers row uh uh today one final announcement i'd like to make is that um

00:46:34.580 paul berkowitz who's a colleague of ours of many of ours on the committee on present danger china

00:46:39.780 has been pressing the idea of uh releasing uh presser in congress to pressure the intelligence

00:46:48.580 community uh which is charged which is tasked with generating a report on the wealth of the

00:46:55.060 leadership of the chinese communist party their senior leadership from xi jinping on down

00:47:00.500 their family members uh and others and these folks have money squirreled away everywhere from switzerland

00:47:06.660 to london to hong kong new york and who knows where else but congress ordered the intelligence

00:47:13.380 community to produce an open source report essentially so available to the public the

00:47:19.700 intelligence community has not done it so it's important to call your representatives call your

00:47:25.220 senators and pressure them to get that report released because that's a very important issue we've

00:47:32.020 been talking a lot about being on the back foot what the chinese communist party is doing to us

00:47:37.940 in terms of its support for iran support for russia its actions in the indo-pacific but it's time to 0.69

00:47:44.980 take the fight to them and to show this group of thugs to be that odious and contemptible and illegitimate

00:47:52.100 group that they are these are communists who are billionaires and that's a little bit cameron like 0.86

00:47:57.380 being a married bachelor right you can't be one uh just doesn't work together if you're a communist

00:48:03.300 you can't be a billionaire it's time to find their wealth to show to the chinese people what they've 0.99

00:48:08.900 stolen from the chinese people uh so that they can understand in just one more and very poignant

00:48:17.060 and cutting way uh that they're ruled by an illegitimate group of thugs uh that need to be 0.54

00:48:22.820 shown the door and sent into the dustbin uh of history and that report is going to reveal a lot

00:48:29.380 of issues as well about folks who've worked with them in terms of our businesses as well as wall

00:48:34.980 street silicon valley and others who've worked with the chinese communist party to help them squirrel away 0.99

00:48:41.780 their untold uh billions of dollars uh around the world well it was my great pleasure to have the

00:48:49.700 opportunity to host war room battleground today i was very pleased to be joined by uh sam faddis

00:48:56.420 former cia operative uh and uh captain u.s navy captain jim finnell uh who's just an outstanding

00:49:04.100 individual and of course uh u.s army uh colonel retired uh derrick harvey who's expert on the middle

00:49:10.580 east so many other aspects of the behavior of the u.s intelligence community and steps that need to be

00:49:16.980 taken to right the ship uh if you will so look forward to seeing you next time on war room

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Bannon's War Room - September 11, 2024

WarRoom Battleground EP 611： Remembering September 11th And Making Sure We Never Let It Happen Again

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