Transcripts. Bannon’s War Room. We Have A Figurehead There Fight Now Col. Derek Harvey On Biden & Secretary of Defense. January 8, 2024.
Topic. Secretary of Defense, Llyod Austin Disappearance. Guest. Col. Derek Harvey. January 8, 2024.
Transcripts from Bannon’s War Room on Rumble: "We Have A Figurehead There Fight Now": Col. Derek Harvey On Biden's Sec. Def.
January 8, 2024.
Steve Bannon
Colonel Derek Harvey, have you worked? You've worked for a couple of secretaries of defense. Give me perspective about how big a deal this is, Sir.
Colonel Derek Harvey
Well, Steve, everyone's been on point with this this morning. The key thing here is there's tremendous amount of high intensity key decisions being made every day in the Pentagon. There was an absence of leadership and that means there was lack of coordination. What I see and I'm concerned about the national security implications here is either the leadership team in the Pentagon and civilian leadership team has become irrelevant. They're not talking to others, they're not involved. People don't notice that they're gone, as we've heard already, or there's dysfunctionality. And both of those are of significant concern.
It also reflects, I think, poor leadership and competency of General Austin and you know, Secretary of Defense Austin, and that's of concern too. We have a team there at the Pentagon that people didn't even know that they were not engaged. Where was Jake Sullivan? You know you you've got lots of interagency stuff going on. You've got operations, critical operations throughout the world and as others have said, we've got potential threats in Taiwan. So, this is of significant concern. This would not have happened under Dick Cheney, who I worked for when he was Secretary of Defense. And it wouldn't have happened during the Rumsfeld time when I was there too.
Steve Bannon
What should happen here? I might ask you and Frank that, Russ Voight is going to come on 2nd and get into this budget, situation. And about folks, we're going to do this in detail every day because this is an outrage. You put troops in harm's way, you know Biden all they do is hammer us that we're the Hitler youth and they're so squared away, and they care about democracy. This is an out of control, illegitimate regime, and it's spinning out of control.
They won't fire Austin because they can't take a confirmation hearing. If they had a confirmation hearing, Frank Gaffney, the Committee of Present Danger guys would have..It would put the Biden regime’s disastrous foreign policy and national security policy on trial. That's why they won't fire these guys. They have to be forced out. Derek Harvey, what should happen here?
Colonel Derek Harvey
Well, let's talk about what they're doing already. They've moved to a cover up stage where they're going to hunker down, and you've seen that already on CNN, where they have references to administration spokespersons saying that people were in the loop. It wasn't as bad as it's being characterized. The key thing here is we have a situation where the Pentagon leadership team, in my view, has become irrelevant, although they have statutory and legal authorities. Decisions are being made elsewhere.
It seems in what I know about General Austin now Secretary Austin is he's always been a person who just takes orders. And he's the person in the room, but he's not an impactful person. He's not a significant leader. He's not the brightest light bulb is what I would say.
We've had far better four-star generals, and I could go down a list. And we've had far better secretaries of defense that were engaged intellectually, had leadership, had vision. We have a figurehead there right now and that's the problem. And they're going to place a figurehead in to replace him if that opportunity should come because of pressure and they don't want to go through that. So, they're just going to ride this out.
Steve Bannon
Colonel Harvey, how do people get to? Well, we got to make sure they can't ride it out. How do people get to you?
Colonel Derek Harvey
First of all, Derekharvey.org is my web page and then I'm on Twitter at Colonel D. Harvey. And on Truth Social at Derek Harvey.
Steve Bannon
By the way, at 6:00 tonight, we're going to be live. We got a live show from Taiwan. We're going to have, we got John Mills over there. The new federal State of China has an entire team. We're kicking off wall to wall coverage on this massive election coming up this week in Taiwan.
Brian Costello is also going to join us so you can see what the money that's pouring in to assist the CCP. Into major institutions in America, financial institutions, it will make your head blow up. So that's all at 6:00 today. Colonel Harvey, thank you very much for changing your schedule coming on here brother. Appreciate it.
Colonel Derek Harvey
OK, good to see you. Bye.
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