Transcripts. Bannon’s War Room. Jack Posobiec Reacts To Lloyd Austin& Disappearance. U.S. Military Leaders in Comatose. January 8, 2024.
Topic. Secretary of Defense Llyod Austin Disappearance. January 8, 2024.
Transcripts from Bannon’s War Room on Rumble: Jack Posobiec Reacts To Lloyd Austin's Disappearance: U.S. Military Leaders In "Comatose"
January 8, 2024.
Steve Bannon
Posobiec, I was an aide or special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations when I came out of sea duty back in 1981, I showed up on the day of Reagan's inauguration. It is inconceivable, brother Posobiec, I mean it's inconceivable and it's by law that and the audience you're not up to speed on this Lloyd Austin was in ICU. And never told anybody, including the President of United States, I think for five days. And three days hard down and nobody knew about it but so but give me your perspective before I get Clark in here.
Jack Posobiec
Well, Steve, what we're seeing is not only obviously a massive violation of US National Security, it's a massive violation of US laws, pertains to the National Command authority and also as pertains to the militaries Personnel Readiness program. Keep in mind, this guy is somebody who's part of the nuclear weapon chain of command, the nuclear response.
The idea that he would be in the ICU, we don't know whether intubated or what, but unconscious for a period of days. The president didn't know, we're told that his own aides may not have known, potentially just his chief of staff knew about this, but she was out as well and didn't inform anyone. You got an Under Secretary now of policy, essentially running our military. And this is at a time where and Steve, I've talked to people who are deployed right now. You see what the Navy's doing in the Red Sea, where they're picking off with the drones every other day.
We're talking to people that are having Iranian drones fired at them and rockets fired at them across Syria and Iraq. And keep in mind that Taiwan has an election this Saturday. Steve, the service secretaries did not know. Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, they did not know about the Secretary of the Air Force. The combatant commanders, the Co Coms did not know about this. So, if you've got an operation that needs authority up at that level. You've got the entire military potentially in deadlock.
And Steve, I'll just throw one thing out there, that this is what the media has been saying about the Russians since the start of the war in Ukraine. They said that Putin's comatose, that Shoigu, comatose, they died, they've been replaced by body doubles. But it turns out, Steve, that it's not the leaders of the Kremlin that are actually comatose and lying about it. It's actually the leaders of the United States Government and the United States military.
Steve Bannon
Okay, it's the ACT itself that the cover up. Real quickly before I get Clark and Jack’s going to stick around until we get this sorted. We're bringing other guests the next seven. So we'll stay with us. The National Command Authority, this is by law. There's only two people. It's the commander-in-chief, which is the president and the Secretary of Defense. Like on the nuclear codes. The President has the codes and can order the strike. The mechanics of actually doing the strike has to be the Secretary of Defense because the combatant commanders nor all of them report directly to them. It's just a way of.. This is black letter law.
My point is laws were broken and crimes were committed. Crimes were committed in in failing to defend the United States of America. And this doesn’t even deals with the carrier battle group under attack last week, taking incoming in Iraq basically a non-nuclear situation. But this is is this is the biggest darkest mistake I've seen a U.S. government make. Since I was a naval officer in my early 20s.
Jack Posobiec
Look, I've never seen anything like it. You talk about the fact that this is someone who's supposed to be there authorizing these operations. God only knows what operations couldn't get authorization because he was gone. Then if and keep in mind that we know the Iranians have Intel assets all throughout the Pentagon and the State Department.
We know that the Chinese are all over the US government. We know the Qataris are all over DC. So, here's the real question did our adversaries know about this? And did our because you got China all over Twitter all weekend laughing about this, making fun of us. So, they're talking big because Taiwan's election comes up this Saturday. This Saturday, Taiwan's got an election.
China knows we've lost our secretary of defense. The Chinese Minister of Defense, he’s saying, oh, that's interesting. The Russian minister of defense, he’s saying, oh, that's interesting. North Korea is out there popping off their shelves at YP Do and PY do. Up there on the on the northern limit line, you've also of course got the carrier battle group under strike in the Red Sea, which by the way, U.S. military, if you noticed or I should say the US government in this case not able to put together a naval coalition in the Red Sea.
So, compare that now if you're talking about the US. The reason that we have, the stated reason that we have for U.S. military power projection around the world is for keeping open the sea lines of communication, keeping open the sea lanes. We're preserving freedom of the sea. Well, here's the problem. If the US Navy and the US government can't politically get their act together to put together a coalition to defend the Red Sea, you're seeing the fall part of this in off the Strait of Babel Mandeb when it comes to Somalia. And then the question is, all right.
So, if China is now looking at this situation and say, do we want to make a move on Taiwan. They could say, well, it looks like the US is failing to meet their diplomatic obligations. They're failing to put together coalitions. Yeah, they're bogged down in Ukraine, and they don't even have a Secretary of Defense. Lloyd Austin lied. The government lied. They don't know if this guy is conscious or not. The White House doesn't know. Every single person involved with this needs to be fired starting with Lloyd Austin and then proceeding to the White House.
Steve Bannon
Jack, just hang on for one second. By the way, when we talk about the Red Sea that's just a proxy for the Suez Canal.
Jack Posobiec
Fired and prosecuted, by the way.
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CNN Host
Abigail Spanberger, who's on the Intel Committee, former CIA officer Democrat, say it's not appropriate how this was handled. Do you agree?
Guest Speaker Lt. General Mark Hertling (Ret)
I do agree with that. I think Secretary Austin did make a mistake or his staff made a mistake in not notifying the correct people, but I think we'll learn more about this when he is released and he's allegedly going to be released today. What happened on the 23rd? and he was on leave during that period. He took leave specifically to do a medical procedure and then came back and was readmitted due to from my understanding pain. I fault them for that. Any commander knows that they have to notify their boss when something serious is going on that might take them out of the loop. But it appears that the right procedures were put in place. He named his deputy, Kathy Hicks to take over for him and from what I understand, and I've talked to senior administration officials, he was always in communications with the people at the Defense Department and the White House.
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Steve Bannon
Wow, that's new information. That's not what these stories are talking about, but that's why we got to drill down, I think. I think you get 5 or 6 scalps on this thing. Posobiec Tom Nichols is a former instructor of the Naval War College and one of the leading Trump haters. He writes for the Atlantic Magazine, which as you know, is the intelligencia’s, the unit party.
The elite Intelligentsia's platform for pure Trump hate every day. He wrote a piece yesterday in the Atlantic that called these guys out and said, hey, this needs to be answered immediately and all the details, but he gave an example on 9 November of 1979 at 3:00 in the morning, Mika Brezinski's father, Doctor Brzezinski, who is national security advisor to Jimmy Carter, got a call from Major General William Odom, the head of NORAD, at 3:00 in the morning and said there's been a massive launch from Russia.
There's hundreds of nuclear weapons headed to the United States. It will hit DC and everywhere within 20 minutes. Can you notify the President? And as he put it, he didn't even wake his wife up because he said, hey, we're going to be incinerated in about 18 minutes. As he sets up to call the White House and wake up the President. Odom calls back and says stop, stop, stop. It's a massive mistake. Somebody booted into a computer or training exercise. This is not really happening.
The point Nichols makes is that immediately, if he had called Carter, the person that actually would execute on the firing of nuclear weapons in retaliation to the Russians would be Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, and you don't have a second to mess around. You have to know where Brown is where the Red Phone is, the command structure. All of it. There can't be any question whatsoever of what's going on, how big a violation do we have and now the lies in spin you just heard. They're trying to do a limited hangout right there. But saying, hey, I talked to administration officials. He was always conscious and always in communication. Jack Posobiec.
Jack Posobiec
Yeah, he's in the ICU with the... What did he bring the red phone into the ICU with him? Did he make sure that was that a SCIFF? Is that he's got access to all that community. It's a joke. Steve, this is a complete joke. We are living. We've become the LGBT version of the Soviet Union because we're running around up there with the White House and this Pentagon running around with their heads cut off, the chickens with their heads cut off lying out of both sides of their mouth. You got the White House didn't know what was going on.
You got the Pentagon lying about what went on. Okay he's not fully hospitalized. Not intubated, but he's in Walter Reed. OK, but is he in Walter. Is he in Walter Reed? Now, do we know if he's in Walter Reed? They won't even tell you what his current status is. And honestly, Steve, I think it's because they didn't know.
What I've been told as well from White House staffers, is that this is a situation that's been that really bleeding over since Biden has a massive, massive rift that's open between Biden, the State Department and the Department of Defense after Afghanistan and the failures of Ukraine. He's on the outs with Blinken. He's on the outs with Austin clearly. And then after October, they said Austin barely even talks to the White House anymore. He barely even goes over there. And this, of course, after the brutal Hamas attack in southern Israel. And so, the fact of the matter is these guys don't even want to talk to Biden now. Now I'm sure, by the way, that a lot of Biden senior staff knew. But here's the problem. They didn't want to tell Biden about it. So that's why they're all lying publicly to protect themselves.
Steve Bannon
Well, that's the case. The House Armed Services Committee to meet tomorrow and go behind closed doors and start to get facts here.
Jack Posobiec
I have a question, did the Speaker of the House know about this? Was the speaker of House informed? Did he know about this? We need to know this.
Steve Bannon
He's only second in the train to come in. He's only he's only the 2nd train commit Jack but so. But I know you got to bounce. You've been all over this from the very beginning. Give me your closing thoughts. I take it Human Events Daily is going to be all over this this afternoon.
Jack Posobiec
Steve, we are and we've got Matt Boyle and Natalie Winters on. So, it's really going to be kind of the hour three of the War Room on Human Events Daily today. This is a horrific day for the US, the United States prestige, certainly in terms of the United States military force readiness around the world.
But Steve, we also have to people need to know that the Secretary of Defense isn't just some employee of the Pentagon. This guy has around the clock military support in terms of the detail. He's got military staff, he's got E4s. He's got an entire command center around him. They all had to know about this and that means they lied to the White House.
Also, we need to know now what orders came down from the Sectary of Defense Office over. But we haven't even gotten the actual dates when this really started or ended. I'm not confident that they're telling us the truth in any which way. And so, we're going to have to go look at the last set last several weeks of every single order that came down or signed out by the Secretary of Defense's office to figure out what's going on. And we're not going to stop because that means that these all came down without the authority or the informed consent of the National Security Council.
Steve Bannon
Let's set the command of nuclear weapons to the side. That's massive. We had 2 carrier battle groups in the Red Sea because we can't put together a coalition to keep the seas open of the Suez Canal. That's what it's about. They were under attack by the Houthis last week, not backing off. We just have announcement that a Hezbollah leader has been killed in in Lebanon by the Israelis. We had the guys in Iraq under attack, your sons and daughters are in harm's way and they're pulling this crap. No, no, no, no. we need 10 scalps on this thing. At least just at the start of this is that they should have enough honor to handle.
Jack Posobiec
And by the way, Steve, those, they haven't targeted the ships themselves yet. They can take out our destroyers. OK, go. Go look at what happened to the Moskva last year in the Black Sea. Every single Navy in the entire world should pay attention to that because if these drones or water-based drones, underwater drones, UAV's can take out a a Russian destroyer, then guess what, boys and girls, they can take out an American destroyer. That means our men and women at sea are at risk right now.
Steve Bannon
In harm's way and the Secretary of Defense, not even around. And people covering it up. Jack, where do people go to get Human Events Daily in you, particularly your Twitter feed, which is a little spicy.
Jack Posobiec
Yeah, people can find out my Twitter about, you know, professor, the Ivy League professors are finding out about Twitter. They started coming. They dip their toes in and they're already getting burned. They got the swifties dipping their toes in now. They're getting burned. Of course, we're up there on X.com everywhere else, Truth Social GETTR and then of course, we'll be up 2:00 PM every single day. Rumble, YouTube, GETTR wherever they let us up and we will be live and we will be alive as opposed to the current secretary of defense.
Steve Bannon
All over it. OK, thank you.
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