July 2, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Probably warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| Now, this carnage, it was almost entirely of our own making because allowing China to enter the WTO back in 2001 on those terms favorable to Beijing represented a bipartisan failure of epic proportions in Washington, D.C. | ||
| That move was highly championed by then Senator Joe Biden. | ||
| And here he is again 10 years ago as vice president. | ||
| There's a debate here in the United States and quite frankly throughout most of the West is whether a rising China was in the interest of the United States and the wider world. | ||
| As a young member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I wrote and I said and I believe then what I believe now, that a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America and the world writ large. | ||
| Really Joe? | ||
| China's rise has been good for the United States? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| He also wrote a New York Times editorial titled, China's Rise is Not Our Demise, in which he stated, quote, I remain convinced that a successful China can make our country more prosperous, not less. | ||
| Okay, there you see the great Steve Cortez. | ||
| We're live today on many different locations. | ||
| We're having a slight technical problem because of some of the big storms yesterday. | ||
| Oh, we got a team. | ||
| Okay, looks like we just worked it out, as we always do. | ||
| Want to thank Denver? | ||
| Not quite? | ||
| Okay, thanks for that heads up. | ||
| We're going to go to D.C. | ||
| as soon as we can. | ||
| But that was Steve Cortez. | ||
| Last night on his great show on Newsmax TV, talking about the major problem that we've got, the major problem we've got with the rise of, not China, it's the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| So today we're going to go through everything. | ||
| We're going to talk about voter fraud, we're going to talk about the Wuhan virus, this new variant that's here that they're trying to scare the bejesus out of you and say that the only solution to this is, the only solution to this is Is to get vaccinated. | ||
| We've got also, Jason Miller is going to join us about this new social media platform. | ||
| But I think we've worked out a problem. | ||
| I want to go back to the DC studio if we're connected to Rahim and to Steve Cortez. | ||
| Steve, in this first segment, I want to cover the fundamental problem. | ||
| The fundamental problem with our elites is that they didn't see the difference between the transnational criminal organization that was the Chinese Communist Party and the nation of China and the people of China. | ||
| The Chinese people are a natural ally to the folks in the United States. | ||
| We've had a long relationship with them. | ||
| They were a great ally in World War II, taking on the Imperial Japanese Army. | ||
| But the Chinese Communist Party, their 100th anniversary, we're connecting that to American independence this weekend over the whole weekend, including live shows tomorrow and live shows on Monday. | ||
| But what the elites in this country Uh, didn't think through, or if they did it's because they're business partners, is that the Chinese Communist Party is a transnational criminal organization. | ||
| And that's what really Joe Biden exacerbated and helped the rise of the Chinese Communist Party get total control of not just China, but really get control of much of the world's economy. | ||
| Steve Cortes. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Steve, I'm glad that you're juxtaposing our Independence Day. | ||
| You know, July 4th of 1776 is one of the greatest days in all of human history, not just for the United States, but for the world, because no institution other than the United States has done more for the world for the cause of freedom and prosperity than the United States of America. | ||
| And then if we compare that to July 1st of 1921, that is literally one of the worst days in world history. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because no institution has inflicted more harm and misery upon the world for a century. | ||
| A century of misery. | ||
| than the Chinese Communist Party. So diametric opposites. | ||
| But to your point, Steve, let's not give the elites too much credit of just saying, oh, they didn't see it, or they weren't discerning enough. No, they were bought off. They were co-opted because they too, there are two groups of people who are benefiting from the misery and harm of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| It's the party elders themselves, the junta, the regime in Beijing and other Chinese cities. | ||
| And then it's also Western elites. | ||
| It's the Davos crowd, including a lot of Americans. | ||
| Joe Biden is one of them, the president of the United States, a lot of corporate CEOs. | ||
| Elon Musk yesterday, which really shocked me, by the way, because I think generally he's a really interesting, sensible guy. | ||
| Even Elon Musk kissing up to the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| So the elites of the United States, it's not just that they missed it here or that they got it wrong in terms of policy. | ||
| It's that they were business partners of the CCP, and both they and the CCP benefited from decimating American workers. | ||
| Thankfully, Donald Trump shook this country awake regarding China. | ||
| And I will say this about Donald Trump, even if he never gets back into politics again, and of course, I hope he does, but let's say he doesn't. | ||
| That was his one term. | ||
| To me, his most enduring legacy will be shifting the paradigm entirely regarding China to the point where the average American now understands how much they have been abused by China and is at least considering how do we confront China from here. | ||
| He shifted the entire political paradigm in America and it's critical for our future. | ||
| I know we're going to be talking later. | ||
| You've got a major analysis coming out about how we get back to the holy grail of economics, which is really how we get an economy, bring back manufacturing jobs to support one earner in a family, supporting a family of four. | ||
| And I know we're going to talk about that. | ||
| But, you know, President Trump went to the border the other day on the same day of the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's foundation in 1921 in Shanghai. | ||
| President Trump was at the border. | ||
| He was at the border talking about American sovereignty. | ||
| I got to tell you, Steve, I think that the The interview with Hannity afterwards, where he not just went after Mitch McConnell and said he was too feckless to be a leader of the Republicans in the Senate, he's actually told Hannity, I've made up my mind what I'm going to do in 2024, and I just know Donald Trump, when he makes up his mind he's going to do it, I think it's not even a question that he's running in 2024. | ||
| And to your point, I think one of the big things, the unfinished work he knows he has to do, is actually the takedown, the confrontation and the takedown of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Rahim, I want to go back to you. | ||
| You and Pasovic the other day in the studios, I think, made some of the most profound analysis of this situation. | ||
| You said, you know, there's only 90 million communists in China, in the Chinese Communist Party, of a nation that's got 1.4 billion people. | ||
| It's under 1%. | ||
| And of that, as we know, it's only a couple thousand that really matter. | ||
| And of that, there's only a few families or factions, and those factions were all out in display Yesterday, when Xi, the new emperor, Emperor Xi was there with the Mao, complete Mao regalia, everybody else in a business suit, he's dressed like Mao Zedong to become the new helmsman. | ||
| But you and Prosobic made the analysis. | ||
| It's the 1% in the United States, in the West, in the Party of Davos, partnered with the 1% in China. | ||
| That's the current situation in the world today. | ||
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And quite frankly, that's why this does not work for the deplorables, and this is why it does not work for Lao-Beijing, which the deplorables Yes, Steve, you know, I think it's really important for us to understand where somebody like Charlie Munger gets off going in front of CNBC and saying, hey, you know, I wish we had the financial system that the Chinese Communist Party does. | |
| I mean, he almost said, I wish we have the entire system. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party does. | ||
| But you are seeing that now. | ||
| You're seeing a marriage between those two. | ||
| The marriage between the upper 1%. | ||
| I mean the 1% of the 1% almost in the United States and the 1% of the 1% in Communist China. | ||
| That is something that needs busting apart. | ||
| That is something that we have to have. | ||
| I will bang on about this and I don't care if media matters and whoever wants to You know, speak ill of it, but there has to be an investigation into this, a political investigation into this. | ||
| How is it that we have a political investigation into a 48-year serving Trump finance chief for the Trump Organization, but we can't have an investigation into how almost every single major corporate in the United States has been bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
| How almost every politician has been bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
| You know, we're putting a list together now on the National Pulse. | ||
| It should be up hopefully today. | ||
| We may get it up tomorrow. | ||
| But about Berkshire Hathaway. | ||
| Not just Berkshire Hathaway itself or its brands, but its sub-brands and the sub-brands of those sub-brands. | ||
| Who you, the American public, need to know not to fund. | ||
| Not to buy from. | ||
| Not to adhere to. | ||
| Not to give any sucker to. | ||
| When you do your weekly shop, There are so many brands and so many different things that that company owns and what are the heads of those companies saying? | ||
| I wish we were persecuting people who went against the government in the United States of America like the CCP does. | ||
| Alright, well, we'll let the public decide where they want to spend their money. | ||
| Yeah, but Cortez, let me bring you in on this. | ||
| The great reporting of Natalie Winters and the National Pulse to unearth this Charlie Munger interview with the great Becky Quick, and you could tell in the interview she was shocked what he was saying. | ||
| He was basically saying, I want to disappear, guys. | ||
| They're disappearing Jack Ma. | ||
| Jack Ma looks no day at the beach. | ||
| He's a CCP member and he's actually a front For a real CCP operation that created Alibaba. | ||
| So he's no day at the beach. | ||
| But they essentially disappeared him when he tried to get into the financial aspects of the business. | ||
| Munger, who's one of the most revered, and quite frankly, people will tell you, they think he's the brains of the operation in back of the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, that Charlie Munger's really the deal guy. | ||
| You got Charlie Munger on CNBC saying, yeah, I like their system. | ||
| I like the fact they tell, hey, Sonny boy, we're going to disappear you. | ||
| I think we need that system. | ||
| And more importantly, he says, I'd like the finance system. | ||
| I like the financial system of China. | ||
| And I think we ought to replicate it here in the United States. | ||
| And people should know, you know, Rahim or Boris Epstein are saying, hey, the guy's 97 years old. | ||
| He is considered one of the smartest brains of all the Wall Street guys. | ||
| He's somebody that's revered and somebody's been modeled after by many, many young people on Wall Street. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
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Oh, 100%. | |
| And listen, this is why we have to recognize that America right now is slipping into an oligarchy. | ||
| And these oligarchs who are ruling over us, whether it's the oligarchs of finance, people like Buffett and Munger, or the oligarchs of Silicon Valley, they are absolutely, totally wedded to the CCP against the interests of the American people. | ||
| Now, the good news is it's not too late. | ||
| It's not too late for us yet to reclaim our power. | ||
| How do we do it? | ||
| In 2022, we need to elect not just a Republican majority, But America First Republican majority, not one full of Liz Cheney's and Paul Ryan's, but one's full of a lot more people like Jim Jordan and MTG. | ||
| We can do that in 2022, which will set the stage for 2024 to elect an America First president, whether it's President Trump again, as I hope it is, or somebody similar of that ilk. | ||
| It's not too late for us to get it back, but we need to realize the gravity of the situation right now and just the degree of malice that these people have For regular working-class Americans. | ||
| I think we have to be aware of that. | ||
| You cannot defeat an enemy that you're unwilling to acknowledge. | ||
| So it's critical for us to be real and to be realistic about what we're facing right now. | ||
| And that's just the reality of our country. | ||
| We'll talk with Steve Cortese about the 3 November movement. | ||
| There's a lot of us think it could be a restoration before. | ||
| You can't focus on 2022 and 2024. | ||
| We've got to take care of the business ahead. | ||
| Raheem, we've got a couple minutes. | ||
| I want to put this in the perspective of the weekend. | ||
| We're spending the entire weekend juxtaposing The Chinese Communist Party, what they've done throughout the world in their business partnership with American elites versus what the Patriots in 1776. | ||
| You're an Englishman. | ||
| Talk to us about that. | ||
| Talk about the revolutionaries here, what they had to go up against, the greatest empire in mankind's history at the time, and what they had to fight, sir. | ||
| I don't know what you're talking about this weekend. | ||
| I don't recognize the... No, look, I mean, this brings me back to something that Steve just said a moment ago here in studio. | ||
| He said, you know, we're moving towards an oligarchy here in the United States. | ||
| I'm afraid I think you already have an oligarchy, or at least they recognize themselves as an oligarchy, and therefore they behave like an oligarchy. | ||
| And that is the very same thing, effectively, that the higher echelons of the British Army and the colonists Uh, who, uh, who are loyal to the crown, you know, they behaved in a manner that really, frankly, if I may say so from my side of things, you may see it as tyrannical and so on and so forth. | ||
| I just think it wasn't befitting of the conduct, wasn't befitting of the struggle that had come before them to create an environment of liberty for Englishmen. | ||
| And of course, what the revolutionary war is to me was actually British fighting other British because those British decided they wanted to be an all powerful oligarchy who may not be questioned, who could levy the taxes. | ||
| I mean, look at this, look at this. | ||
| We're on July the fourth weekend and the White House is putting out videos about how they've managed to save the American family 16 cents on a hot dog, right? | ||
| On a hot dog. | ||
| Meanwhile, you know, lumber prices up, petrol prices up, you know, across the board. | ||
| And the White House- That is the very essence of the arrogance that led to the revolution in 1776. | ||
| It's that kind of mindset, Steve. | ||
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That video was salt- Okay, go ahead. | |
| No, we're going again. | ||
| Let's- I want to hold that until we get to your economic part, because you and Navar are the first ones that hammered on stagflation. | ||
| Okay, Arlen Oligarchy. | ||
| Our original co-host, Jason Miller, is back. | ||
| He's got a new social media platform. | ||
| We're going to talk about how you break the oligarchs in Silicon Valley. | ||
| Jason Miller joins us in the War Room in a moment. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Very exciting day here in the Big Apple, where we had the kind of the teaser announcement for Getter, the new social media program that we're formally going to launch Sunday at around 10 a.m. | ||
| So let me tell you some of the really cool features with Getter. | ||
| Number one, we're calling it the marketplace of ideas. | ||
| This is really the place where ...won't be canceled for their political beliefs. | ||
| You're not going to be deplatformed for simply saying that you're conservative and you're not ashamed about it. | ||
| But even within the app itself, posts can be as long as 777 characters, so much longer than some of the competition. | ||
| Videos can be up to three minutes. | ||
| You can also edit videos within the app. | ||
| You don't have to go toggle back and forth. | ||
| And get this, we also have a feature where you can import All of your tweets into your getter post history so all of your intellectual property all of your hard work that you've put in your sense of community will come right in there with a simple click of a button to opt in. | ||
| So we're really trying to build a community. | ||
| This is a place where folks, again, won't be deplatformed, won't be canceled simply for expressing their political beliefs. | ||
| And the other thing that's great about it is I think too often, and you kind of hit on this on the intro, Jen, too often I think conservatives get sidelined and you know what? | ||
| You need to have an inferior product. | ||
| This is cutting edge technology. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Our original co-host with Rahim Ghassam and myself, Jason Miller is now the CEO of new social media platform, Getter. | ||
| Amazing interview last night on Steve Cortez and Jen Pellegrino's show on Newsmax, just incredible. | ||
| Jason, I want to bring you in. | ||
| And first off, Raheem's taking notes about how his next gig is going to be a CEO of some big social media platform, so make sure you're helping him out here. | ||
| We brought Cortez in because the interview was so great last night. | ||
| One of the things that Cortez talked about and Raheem talked about in the first block Well, it's about the oligarchs in Silicon Valley. | ||
| So actually, before we talk about your apparatus, I want you to lay out to the audience, because you were comms director for us in 16, you were the chief strategist in 20, walk through the power these social media oligarchs in Silicon Valley have over not just the conservative movement, the people of the United States, but actually had over President Trump. | ||
| Yeah, and Steve and Raheem and Steve, great to be with you. | ||
| You know, Bannon, every time I see the picture of you and Raheem up there, it kind of reminds me of, you know, it's almost like I was a bad prom date. | ||
| You know, 10 years later, just, you know, cut out with Jason from the picture. | ||
| Like, where was the third guy? | ||
| You know, you know, then at one point you guys, like, swapped in Jack Maxey, you know. | ||
| It's an honor to be back. | ||
| Just show his head on your body. | ||
| We started off with War Room Impeachment, now here we are with War Room Pandemic, Steve. | ||
| You and Rahim have done well over a thousand episodes, very impressive work, and Cortez, absolutely love your show on Newsmax every night at 9, in case folks aren't watching every night. | ||
| But here's, going back to the question, Steve, here is the issue at hand, is these big tech oligarchs, not The Hunter Biden story. | ||
| They control banking. | ||
| They also control anyone who, they also control many of the levers of government and the way that they go and put their political foot on the scale at every single opportunity. | ||
| I don't think people realize the hidden hand. | ||
| And actually, it's not even really the hidden hand. | ||
| They just do it blatantly. | ||
| Look, President Trump would not have won in 16, I think he says this all the time, or won the primary in 15, leading into 16, if it had not been for his ability in social media, particularly Twitter, and obviously the posse on Facebook, but he had tweeted to disintermediate The mainstream media that tried to block him out. | ||
| So how does this platform, walk us through this platform, and Rahim, you're the social media expert, jump in, and Cortez, you know this better than I do, but walk us through what you guys have created, why is it an alternative, and why particularly for the MAGA movement and for everybody in the Trump movement, should they be loading into this thing? | ||
| Well, thanks for that setup. | ||
| So what Getter is, is cutting-edge technology, a marketplace of ideas. | ||
| It's a place where we do not cancel people because of political speech. | ||
| You're not going to be de-platformed because of political speech. | ||
| We want there to be a place where the social media oligarchs cannot come in and say that your voice is not allowed. | ||
| And so, some really cool features with it. | ||
| And again, it goes live at about 10 a.m. | ||
| on Sunday. | ||
| There's a beta version that's currently up on the App Store. | ||
| Which, by the way, yesterday we hit number four for social media apps in the ranking, and number 23 for downloaded apps overall. | ||
| So, a lot of interest in this thing. | ||
| Hang on, hang on. | ||
| You're four already in the Apple Store for social media, and you're, what, 23 for all apps? | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
| Yeah, and we don't even officially launch until Sunday, Independence Day, by the way, at around 10 a.m. | ||
| So that's the level of excitement. | ||
| That's the energy that we're seeing around the getter technology, and folks are really blown away. | ||
| Posts can be up to 777 characters long. | ||
| There's also in-app video editing. | ||
| Also, the pictures are about 25-30% more clear, and a really cool You can import all of your tweets at the beginning, and so your entire history, your intellectual property, comes with you. | ||
| So walk through, by the way, Rahim, guys, just jump in if you want, but how do people get in? | ||
| What's the process for actually onboarding? | ||
| What's the process for getting onto this? | ||
| Is it going to cost people any money? | ||
| Is it all free? | ||
| Do they give up their data? | ||
| I mean, what's the catch? | ||
| It sounds too good to be true, so there's got to be a catch. | ||
| Well, there's no catch. | ||
| I mean, the fact of the matter is you can go and sign on for free and go and use it. | ||
| We are going to be expanding into certain e-commerce areas that we think will be a great benefit to consumers as we move into later on into Q3 here and into Q4. | ||
| Probably bring in some advertising as we round the corner into next year, but whether it be the Apple Store or Google Play, it's Getter, G-E-T-T-R, free to download, free to use. | ||
| This is really exciting. | ||
| Hey Jason, it's Cortez. | ||
| Can I ask you then, you know, you're not going to be censored or kicked off this platform for having an unpopular political view, but tell us what would get you censored or kicked off the platform in terms of the moderation of content? | ||
| Can you go over those basic ground rules? | ||
| Yeah, and this is something I think that's really important for people who are advocates of free speech, is there's a difference between free speech, excuse me, the AC is down in the hotel, so I picked a real winter. | ||
| So there's a difference between free political speech, but then going into speech that I think is infringing on other people's safety or their ability to enjoy the platform. | ||
| And so we will never kick someone off for their political beliefs. | ||
| If you want that, you can stick with some of the competitors who are out there doing that. | ||
| But we do believe that people should not be on our platform using hate speech, or they should not be on the platform threatening physical harm to others, or physical harm, or acts of illegality. | ||
| Those are the types of things. | ||
| Obviously, there are various stages, whether it be an email warning, whether it be something that we need to take more serious. | ||
| But in order for conservatives to have a platform that we can use, where they won't get kicked off, whether it be the Apple Store, or they'd be kicked off of other distribution methods, we have to be responsible within the platform. | ||
| That means we can't go into anything illegal. | ||
| And also, we want to be a good experience for everyone. | ||
| We want people to have this marketplace of ideas to debate things, and you can't do that if you have people out there with hateful things that literally could be threatening to someone's safety. | ||
| you Jason, you used a phrase there that I think is a red flag for a lot of people, so I just want to help unpack that. | ||
| Hate speech is obviously used as a means by which to persecute people's political opinions. | ||
| Saying that transgender people shouldn't be participating in girls' sports is considered hate speech by some of the other social media platforms. | ||
| I take it that's not what you mean? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| We're talking about something that could be threatening to somebody, could be threatening their physical well-being, that could be taken as an act of illegality, whether that's against them or against somebody else. | ||
| That's what we're talking about here. | ||
| This is, again, this is a place where you can come on and voice your political opinion, no issues. | ||
| But obviously, we have to make sure it's an environment where people can come on and, again, push things that are illegal or inflict, say that they're going to put harm on somebody. | ||
| All the enemies of the MAGA movement... Yeah, go ahead, Brian. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Continue on. | ||
| So, just real quick as a corollary to that. | ||
| A lot of these social media platforms, you know, routinely allow not just pornography, but, you know, are used for sex trafficking and human trafficking. | ||
| We've seen that. | ||
| There's a case against Facebook at the moment where that's being discussed. | ||
| There's a lot of this on Twitter. | ||
| What is Getter's approach going to be to that? | ||
| Yeah, so we're gonna have a strict policy on no pornography on the platform. | ||
| And again, because we want this to be an environment where people come on and have these robust political discussions. | ||
| And that's not something that we want on our site. | ||
| That's not something that we want on our platform. | ||
| That's not political speech. | ||
| If you want that, there are other places that you can go for that. | ||
| This is for debating political ideas. | ||
| And to have, again, we want folks from the left to come on as well. | ||
| Love to have them join. | ||
| Love to have them debate. | ||
| You know, give you an example, Rahim, of Things that we'd prefer not be there would get to really graphic images such as, say, like a live depiction of a beheading or something like that. | ||
| So Kathy Griffin might not be too psyched, but we want people to come on and feel free to talk about their thoughts on the election or their thoughts on, say, for example, hydroxychloroquine. | ||
| How many people were kicked off Facebook or Twitter for advocating for hydroxychloroquine, which, by the way, turned out to be a success? | ||
| How are you going to avoid, you talk about people want to debate, but how are you going to avoid those enemies of the MAGA movement globally, the CCP, but also here in the United States, they're going to try to load up with hate speech and white supremacism, all that. | ||
| How are you going to moderate that? | ||
| Yeah, we've already seen a little bit of that yesterday. So we have both an AI component and a human moderation component where we go through and we make sure that we eliminate some of those bot accounts that are coming in trying to be disruptors. | ||
| And when you think about it, it's almost kind of a sign of respect. The fact that the, whether it be the liberals, who knows if we have some, you know, hidden hands with big Democrat funders, or some of the enemies like the CCP coming in trying to be disruptive, that shows they see us as a big threat. | ||
| Jason, I know you're jammed for time. | ||
| Could you stay through the commercial break? | ||
| We got one or two more questions to ask you and we want to once again go through how people actually get on the site. | ||
| So if you could just hang on. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Cortez, Raheem Kassam, Steve Bannon with Jason Miller. | ||
| They're launching on Independence Day. | ||
| They're launching this major new social media platform called Getter. | ||
| It's kind of in the, I would say, the category of Twitter. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
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Jason Miller will return with us in just a moment. | |
| War Room Pandemic with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It's Independence Day weekend and Jason Miller, a former chief strategist of the 2020 campaign and of course our comms person in 16 and in the transition, is CEO of a company now that's taking on the oligarchs. | ||
| It's called Getter. | ||
| It's a direct shot across the bow of Silicon Valley. | ||
| We've got a couple more questions. | ||
| I know he's got to run. | ||
| Rahim, you've got a question. | ||
| I know Steve Cortez, you do, so I'll toss it back to DC. | ||
| Jason, we've got a lot of questions coming in from the live chat, so I hope you'll be able to join us again pretty soon, and maybe take some of those as well. | ||
| I know we only have you for a short period of time, so I just want to ask you this, because of course, so many people are already trying to join it, and I know it's not quite ready for so many people to join it, but Sunday's the day. | ||
| How are you going to deal with, you know, probably millions of people that'll be trying to join at 10am on Sunday, on Independence Day, on July the 4th? | ||
| Is it going to be stable? | ||
| Is it going to be up all day Sunday for people to join? | ||
| Yeah, great question. | ||
| This is something we put a lot of time into. | ||
| What I would say is number one is redundancy when it comes to both our server space and what we have set up for backups to make sure that that's not an issue. | ||
| So we do feel that we have the capacity to handle a massive amount. | ||
| And in fact, on day one, this is getting a little bit technical in the weeds, but we'll be at the point essentially where Twitter was in say 2013, 2014, for their server space when they had already been functional for what, five, six years there. | ||
| And so we will be able to take millions and millions of people at the same time, so we feel good about that. | ||
| Now, the one thing, some of the folks, again, we're in the beta phase, we don't technically launch until Sunday at 10 a.m., although you can go on the app store and get it right now. | ||
| Again, that's getter on the app store. | ||
| But when we talk about the signups, there had been a little bit of a delay in some folks getting their verification code. | ||
| So what we've done that'll be effective with the update, and again, this is why it's in the beta phase, you go through some of these, you'll be able to do a quick signup that does not require then the confirmation code to come back to you. | ||
| That'll be implemented later today so people have immediate signup and be able to get into it. | ||
| So these are things we've talked through. | ||
| Rahim, I wanna go back to one other point real quick that you brought up in the last break. | ||
| I just wanna make sure I'm not glossing over, people have a good understanding of our core philosophy on free speech, that we want getter to be the marketplace of ideas. | ||
| When I use the word hate speech, let me just tell you exactly what that means. | ||
| That means you can come on getter and you can talk about your political beliefs all day long. | ||
| That is what this is for. | ||
| If it's not popular in Silicon Valley, if it's not popular with the libs in New York or with the libs in the bureaucrats or the politicians in Washington, that's too bad. | ||
| This is the mega movement and we believe in free speech and the freedom of ideas. | ||
| This is not a platform where you can come on and, for example, use the n-word to attack somebody or to attack people based on their religious affiliation or something like that or threaten harm to people. | ||
| That's not allowed. | ||
| That's not political speech. | ||
| That's what I mean. | ||
| And so you can come on We're going to have a robust platform of ideas here. | ||
| And we love it. | ||
| We want people to mix it up and do it. | ||
| But guys, we're going to be smart with this platform because we want to keep this space so conservatives can come on and have a voice. | ||
| Because if you lose us, guys, there's nobody else. | ||
| You know, Jason, I can't tell you how invigorated I am into Independence Day weekend that you are doing this and that you're launching it on July 4th. | ||
| I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that you are a warrior for the First Amendment right now, and this country needs you to succeed. | ||
| Now, part of that success, though, is going to be convincing the Michael Jordan of social media, Donald John Trump. | ||
| Another great question. | ||
| So I have real Donald Trump. | ||
| The handle itself, it's in my safe, in my office. | ||
| It is all ready to go. | ||
| President Trump, if you're watching, we're ready. | ||
| media ever. What do you see ahead for getting Donald Trump on the platform? | ||
| Another great question. So I have real Donald Trump. The handle itself, it's in my safe, in my office. It is all ready to go. President Trump, if you're watching, we're ready. But here's the one thing that I learned having worked for President Trump over two campaigns. Let him go, let him make his own decisions. | ||
| He'll go at his own timetable. | ||
| He knows that the second that he joins, oh, and guys, almost buried the lead here. | ||
| Yesterday, over 300,000 signups. | ||
| One day, and we haven't even officially launched. | ||
| That's coming up on Sunday. | ||
| So by the time President Trump, and again, we hope that he joins at some point, he'll have millions of people who are like-minded when it comes to free speech and this marketplace of ideas. | ||
| This independent political thought will be there waiting for him. | ||
| We hope that he comes and joins us. | ||
| I know he has a lot of options and I also know when it's smart to say, let President Trump answer for himself, but we'd love to have him. | ||
| Wow, 300,000 in one day. | ||
| Okay, just one more time. | ||
| By the way, you're going to be all over Meteor all weekend, so Independence Day, you guys are not taking off. | ||
| You're going to launch at 10 o'clock on Sunday. | ||
| By the way, the War Room's going to be up on Getter. | ||
| Of course, all of us will be up on Getter also. | ||
| Jason, one last time. | ||
| What's your media schedule? | ||
| I know the Gateway Pundit guys have already reached out to me about having you on on Saturday on their platform. | ||
| I know there's all other platforms that are going to be working over the weekend and going to have you on. | ||
| I just want to make sure everybody's attuned to follow you about what your latest media is. | ||
| But once again, how do people get to this? | ||
| How do they get access to it? | ||
| And if it's a little slow today and they're signing up, what should they do about it? | ||
| Just know that that's gonna come in make sure to check when we go live officially at 10 a.m. | ||
| On Sunday, and we believe everything will be at full speed and ready to go by then again That's why we're in the the beta testing phase to go and work these kinks out. | ||
| So once it's official I'll be all over the media this weekend later today I'll be joining Todd Starnes on his radio show Sep Gorka a good friend of war room. | ||
| I think I'll be on with Sean Spicer on Newsmax, everyone's favorite cable TV channel. | ||
| They'll be today. | ||
| I joined Steve last night, so I can't do Steve Cortez every single night. | ||
| Otherwise, they'd throw a challenge. | ||
| But I would, you know, if you want to make it Cortez. | ||
| That's great, Jason. | ||
| Thank you so much, Jason. | ||
| Raheem, you got something else, yeah? | ||
| Jason, hang on, just real quick, one thing. | ||
| I gotta ask this because somebody raised this point, I didn't know how to address it. | ||
| Somebody said, what's it called, like when you send a message on Getter? | ||
| It's not called a tweet? | ||
| I mean, what is it? | ||
| What's it called? | ||
| It's a post. | ||
| Yeah, it's a post. | ||
| And so we kicked around this idea and like, do we come up with, you know, some goofy name? | ||
| And here's the thing. | ||
| Think about the commonality of a number of these social media platforms. | ||
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| Let's use language that folks are used to using. | ||
| And so a post is good. | ||
| And join Getter. | ||
| We'll be excited to have you. | ||
| Okay, go to the Apple Store and download. | ||
| Jason, thank you so much. | ||
| Look forward to having you back on. | ||
| Do we have a... I think, Denver, we got a cold open for the next segment. | ||
| I know, Raheem, we've got a big piece coming out about... by Steve Cortez. | ||
| It's one of the things Steve Cortez worked on about this. | ||
| Do we have a cold open in this segment? | ||
| If not, I'll just go right to Cortez for this. | ||
| I thought we might have something from his show. | ||
| If not, let's go right to Cortez and talk about this. | ||
| Steve, let's pull the National Pulse homepage so we can see it. | ||
| But Cortez, walk us through this major piece you've just done. | ||
| We're a solutions provider, right? | ||
| And you've come up with something. | ||
| You've been thinking about this. | ||
| We've talked about this for months and months and months. | ||
| You're starting to roll it out today on Independence Day weekend. | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| So, Steve, this is the agenda for American families to again thrive on one income. | ||
| It's something that we had as a commonality, as something that was almost expected in America not that long ago, Steve. | ||
| That one income could comfortably support a middle-class lifestyle for a wife and a couple of kids in the United States. | ||
| By the way, it might not always be the wife who stays home. | ||
| That's up to people's personal choice, of course. | ||
| But in most cases, that will be the option. | ||
| And here's the thing, Steve. | ||
| This isn't just some sort of religious traditionalist who says, I want to return to the 1950s. | ||
| No, current polling today of Americans, and specifically of women, tell us that they want this option. | ||
| Now, not everybody's going to choose it, of course. | ||
| We're not telling people how to live. | ||
| But we want to empower them economically so that they can make the choice that they are telling us in polling that they want to make. | ||
| And to get specific here, Gallup Poll, the majority of women with kids said that when their children are younger than 18, they would rather be home with them than working. | ||
| Even women who do not have children in that same Gallup poll, 39% said that they would like the option to be a homemaker rather than be at work. | ||
| A very recent American Compass poll that was done, I found this fascinating, Steve. | ||
| Among working-class Americans, 71% of them said they do not want to have children. | ||
| They do not want both parents working. | ||
| 71% of them. | ||
| So there's an overwhelming preponderance that both parents working full-time is simply not the aspirational goal for Americans. | ||
| But it is unfortunately the economic necessity for many Americans. | ||
| So what do we do? | ||
| You know, as you said, we're a solutions movement. | ||
| We are practical. | ||
| The American people have told us, overwhelmingly, what they want. | ||
| They want this option to go back to a time where a single income can comfortably support a family. | ||
| So, what are the agenda items to get there? | ||
| And how can the America First Populist Economic Nationalist Movement get us there? | ||
| And by the way, Steve, whatever movement figures this out, and whatever candidates figure this out, are going to dominate American politics for decades ahead. | ||
| I'll be talking about on my show tonight. | ||
| I'm going to have on J.D. | ||
| Vance, somebody who cares a lot about these issues. | ||
| But these are my four proposals. | ||
| And I'll just name them now. | ||
| We can get into more detail later. | ||
| The first is educational choice. | ||
| Empowering. | ||
| Instead of funding school systems, let's fund families. | ||
| Let's fund the parents and the student. | ||
| Parents will be far more likely to have more children and to stay home and raise them. | ||
| If they know that their tax money is going to support their children going to a wonderful school rather than being required to go to the monopolistic government school, many of which don't train them academically and indoctrinate them with all kinds of leftist nonsense. | ||
| Number two, financial incentives. | ||
| I think we should borrow a lot of what's going on in Eastern Europe in terms of forgivable loans for married women who have children. | ||
| In Hungary, a woman who has four children is tax-exempt for life. | ||
| I think those kinds of proposals are worth considering here in the United States. | ||
| Also, the child deduction, the dependent deduction, needs to be massively bigger. | ||
| I think at least $10,000 per child as a deduction. | ||
| We Republicans, we in the America First movement, we have to stop treating protectionism as if it's a dirty word. | ||
| It is not a dirty word. | ||
| The American worker does need to be protected, protected against the CCP, protected against oligarchs in the United States. | ||
| And so there, what I mean is that within trade, Donald Trump got the ball rolling, but we have a lot more work to do. | ||
| We need even higher tariffs, for example, against Chinese goods, and we need to Aggressively punish firms that offshore the easiest way to do that Steve is to Massively tax their overseas revenues if they choose to offshore whether or not they repatriate those revenues by the way We can still tax them and punish them effectively for offshore from the United States And then the fourth one and I think this might be the most important of all it'll probably the most controversial is immigration control You know, this country right now is almost 14 percent foreign-born. | ||
| That's very near an all-time high. | ||
| The highest in U.S. | ||
| history in the late 1890s was 14.8 percent foreign-born population. | ||
| But massive difference between now and then, Steve. | ||
| There was no social safety net then. | ||
| It was literally sink or swim for immigrants who were coming here. | ||
| In addition, in those days, assimilation was fully expected and even enforced, quite frankly. | ||
| Neither is true now. | ||
| We have an extremely generous progressive paternalism social safety net and and increasingly immigrants are not assimilated. | ||
| So I believe an immigration moratorium is in order. | ||
| I'm not against legal immigration. | ||
| I'm saying a pause is in order while this country heals in all ways, physically, socially, economically, and then we figure out it once again, how to do immigration better, how to filter it better. | ||
| And in the meantime, I believe that that pause, restricting the labor force, will lead to a massive gain in wages in the United States, which once again, will allow families, if they want to make that choice, and the majority do want that choice, will allow them to raise a family on a single income. | ||
| I think, Steve, put together these kinds of agenda items could be transformational for this country and could take us back to a place of stability and family structure where this country needs to be again. | ||
| Raheem, you're a part of the American Principles Project, the centerpiece on the American family. | ||
| Give me your observations before we go to break, because we're going to come back in more detail with Steve in the next segment. | ||
| Give me your first-cut observations about centering this around the American family. | ||
| I think this is exactly right. | ||
| It was pitch perfect. | ||
| I didn't have to change absolutely anything in Steve's article. | ||
| Not even a comma or a full stop. | ||
| And that's how on the money this is. | ||
| What Steve is talking about is actually what people across the America First platforms are talking about behind the scenes. | ||
| How do we empower the most Um, the strongest weapon in the United States of America against both domestic and foreign adversaries. | ||
| That weapon is the American family. | ||
| It is the single strongest unit. | ||
| It is the single most, um, you know, fierce unit, I think, uh, that I've ever seen in, in, in my life. | ||
| And, and this is how you, you know, you weaponize this, you put the power and the control in their hands and you protect them. | ||
| Against the, you know, the vultures that come in from outside. | ||
| I think it's a wonderful op-ed. | ||
| I implore people to read it. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| I want to juxtapose it. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution, their target? | ||
| Destroy the traditional family of the Chinese people. | ||
| The left understands what they're doing. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Back with Cortez Rahim Ghassan in the War Room. | ||
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| I gotta tell you, I'm so proud of National Pulse. | ||
| I'm so proud of Steve Cortez. | ||
| Jason Miller's new social media platform is called the Marketplace of Ideas. | ||
| I've said for a long time, Cortez, that the Republican Party is run out of ideas. | ||
| The MAGA movement, the Trump movement, the America First movement is the driving force and big ideas that are going to turn this country around, and you're absolutely correct. | ||
| I'm going to toss it back to you. | ||
| Whoever comes up with the solution for the American family economics is going to govern this country for a hundred years. | ||
| Steve Cortes, take it away. | ||
| They will govern the country, and they will deserve it, Steve. | ||
| And it can be the America First movement, I believe, if we seize this. | ||
| And I think there's a groundswell to do so. | ||
| By the way, in the article, I quote G.K. | ||
| K. Chesterton, who is my favorite author of all time, and he said this about the family, the most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. | ||
| It's a great quote, I think. | ||
| Well, listen, there's a lot of extraordinary American families. | ||
| Many of them right now have to have two full-time workers instead of a parent in the home with children. | ||
| We can reverse this. | ||
| It wasn't that long ago that we had this as the accepted norm in America. | ||
| We can get back there. | ||
| Globalization is by far the number one culprit in terms of stealing that reality away from us. | ||
| But globalization is not a given. | ||
| We don't have to simply submit To the party of Davos and to the CCP. | ||
| And so what I lay out here in this article at National Pulse, and I credit Rahim for his fantastic website and all the great work that publication does, I encourage people to please go read it. | ||
| I'll post it on my Twitter for now. | ||
| I'm at Cortez Steve, Cortez with an S. I will post it on Getter starting on Sunday onward. | ||
| And I hope and believe that that is soon going to replace Twitter for me and for a lot of people out there. | ||
| But again, Getting to this issue, Steve, this isn't just some pipe dream of traditionalists. | ||
| This is what polling tells us a clear majority of the American people want, particularly American women. | ||
| People need to at least have this option. | ||
| Now, is it for everybody? | ||
| No. | ||
| But it's for the preponderance of Americans. | ||
| I mentioned, Steve, that American Compass polling. | ||
| Really fascinating when I said that among working-class Americans, over 70% of them say they do not want both parents working full-time. | ||
| This is fascinating, though. | ||
| Only 14% of them said that they definitively do want Both parents working full-time. | ||
| Only 14% of working-class people. | ||
| But in that same poll, people with an advanced degree, this is a fascinating chasm in American society. | ||
| People with an advanced graduate degree, 35% of them say their preferred, their number one choice, is both parents working full-time. | ||
| So it's fascinating. | ||
| I think one of the reasons that a lot of people in politics and business and media, that they're not paying attention to this issue, is because within their social circles, they don't aspire to this. | ||
| They do want both parents working full-time and paid childcare. | ||
| They don't realize, though, that for the preponderance of America, for working-class people, for everyday Americans, for deplorables out there, this is what they aspire to. | ||
| This is one of those, I think, emblematic divergences between where the Acela crowd is and where regular America is. | ||
| It's Davos versus Dayton. | ||
| But I think we need to convince enough leadership out there. | ||
| And again, I'm going to speak to this tonight on my show with J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| I think he's one of the people Who, while he's a very sophisticated guy with an Ivy League law degree and an incredible business pedigree, I think he's one of the guys who also understands, partly because of his background. | ||
| He's the author of Hillbilly Elegy. | ||
| He understands what working class people want and what they aspire to. | ||
| Let's give them the policy prescription to get there. | ||
| Let's be a solutions-oriented movement. | ||
| And I believe that protect... Above all, you know, I laid out those four points, but really one word, I think, encompasses all of it. | ||
| Protection. | ||
| If we protect the sovereignty of the United States, if we protect the prerogatives of the American worker, if we protect the sanctity of children and their minds by allowing parents to choose to do what rich people can do, which is send them to private schools. | ||
| Many of them will choose to go to religious schools. | ||
| Protection, I think, is the overarching theme here, and government needs to protect the American family. | ||
| If it does so, it's going to empower a lot of families to make the decision they want to make, which is to have one breadwinner. | ||
| Raheem Kassam. | ||
| Look, this is a major step. | ||
| It's a major step because, as I was saying to Steve in the break, a lot of people in Washington, D.C. | ||
| talk about this stuff behind closed doors. | ||
| They don't talk about it very publicly, and I think one of the reasons they don't talk about it very publicly is there aren't necessarily, at the tips of their fingers or at the tip of their tongue, the answers to hand, and Steve Cortez is presenting many of these in this op-ed. | ||
| Very simple things. | ||
| uh... but very firm things measures that can be taken uh... to ensure the future the american family and that's not just keeping out the threats it's also how do you actually grow the family how do you convince people in a world where they're constantly being bombarded you know scrolling through instagram this morning uh... and i saw this uh... | ||
| What do they call it now? | ||
| Reels, right? | ||
| They have these reels. | ||
| It's like, it's like Instagram's version of TikToks. | ||
| So this reel of this, you know, young lady and she's dancing around and she's saying, I'm not going to get married. | ||
| I'm not going to have kids. | ||
| I'm going to be the fun one that people say is a real badass, you know? | ||
| And I thought to myself, nobody's going to say that about you in 10, 15 years. | ||
| They could call you a sad ass. | ||
| Is what they're going to think of you. | ||
| They're going to call you burned out. | ||
| Nobody wants to hang out with you. | ||
| All your friends are going to have families, and you're just going to be the one that shows up to the barbecues drinking boxes of wine. | ||
| And so there isn't necessarily this aggressive tone that we take on this stuff, and we do need to do that. | ||
| We do need to remind people that America wasn't built, Western civilization wasn't built on hyper-individualism. | ||
| Right? | ||
| I'm sorry to the libertarians in the audience, but it just wasn't. | ||
| Western civilization was built on the family unit. | ||
| Western civilization was built on the fact that the family unit then healthily took part in their communities and created stable, secure communities. | ||
| Those communities then decided and chose to interact with others. | ||
| And I think we forget that. | ||
| Now everything is Anthony Fauci, top-down centralization, I am the science, so on and so forth. | ||
| The American family is everything. | ||
| To get practical about that, let me talk about one aspect that I've certainly experienced in my job. | ||
| We got about 30 seconds. | ||
| Okay, we'll identify with this. | ||
| I went to a very middle-class Catholic school. | ||
| Almost all of the kids there had a stay-at-home mom. | ||
| The mothers were incredibly involved in the school. | ||
| Incredibly! | ||
| Always at the school, always volunteering. | ||
| Lunch lady, teacher's assistant, teacher's aide. | ||
| That was a very fundamentally different school from the kinds of schools that we have today, even private ones. | ||
| My point is we can get back to that type of environment if we provide the right economic structure. | ||
| We have to get back to it. | ||
| We're going to take a break, start the second hour. | ||
| Steve Cortez, thanks so much. | ||
| I want to emphasize the radical nature, though, Steve, of this from a Republican orthodoxy. | ||
| Those four points. | ||
| We're going to go back over this over the weekend. | ||
| Steve Cortez's plan for the American family. | ||
| Short break. |
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