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The virus has now killed more than 100 people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world.
So 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.
Broadly 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.
anthony fauci
Because if you don't, then the worst happens.
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War Room.
Pandemic.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
You look around the country and what are you seeing?
You're seeing a rise in all of these smash and grab, looting, theft.
It's happening everywhere.
And liberals look around and they wonder why.
You and I know it's really simple.
When you defund the police, when you attack the police, you get a rise in violence.
The homicide rate has risen faster than any time in the history of the United States of America.
What we have to do is stand strong for our communities, support our police officers, and say no to this leftist nonsense.
steve bannon
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Okay, I want to start off with Eric Grein.
He's got so much to get to.
We've got Fauci talking about the forced vaccines that are coming, the vaccine mandates and the forced vaccines.
His words, not mine.
We're going to get to all that.
But I had to bring in Commander Gritens because of the gimmick.
There's going to be a vote tomorrow.
And by the way, fantastic ad there, Commander Gritens, and I think no one can deliver like you can about law and order and about what's happened to these cities with the defund the police.
But Mitch McConnell, you were the first one to show any courage about this throwdown with Mitch McConnell and said, hey, when you're in the Senate, there's no chance you're committing to right now to the MAGA base and to America First, that there's no chance that you would support this guy as leader.
And he's got this gimmick.
That he's letting letting Biden off the ropes, the Biden administration.
We're going to have Bianca Gracia and Boris on here in a little while to go through some polling of the Hispanic community.
The Biden administration has imploded before your eyes, as we told you it would, if we can just continue to put the hammer on this every day.
And now Mitch McConnell threw a gimmick, not having enough guts to come in front of the American people and walk through our financial crisis.
What he's done is given the Democrats with this gimmick vote they're going to have tomorrow.
And we had Russ vote this morning, the last Director of Office of Management and Budget under President Trump in his first term, to explain a gimmick vote.
To give Democrats 2.5 trillion dollars, raise the debt ceiling for 2.5 trillion dollars for one year, basically for one year, just past the 22 midterms, because they think you people are idiots.
So, Commander Gritens, tell us, when you're in the Senate, how are you going to sort this out?
How are you going to sort out Mitch McConnell?
eric greitens
Well, first of all, Steve, you're exactly right.
I was the first candidate in the country who came in and said that when I'm in the U.S.
Senate, I'm voting for new America first leadership.
Look, we got to recognize this is President Trump's Republican Party.
And frankly, President Trump's policies work.
They work here at home.
They work overseas.
The peace through strength policy works.
Bringing American jobs works.
Being an energy leader works.
Supporting the police works.
Everything that Joe Biden is doing is failing.
And everybody sees how crazy the left's agenda is.
But the problem is that time after time, President Trump was stabbed in the back by rhinos.
Everybody saw it in the 2020 election.
And I've been very clear.
No more rhinos.
And when I'm in the U.S.
Senate, I'm voting for new America First leadership, not for Mitch McConnell.
steve bannon
Tell us about this.
First of all, they're pushing two things overnight.
One, they want to go, you know, Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi is telling Neil Cavuto he wants, and he's on Armed Services Committee, so he's got a security clearance.
He's been briefed on this.
They want combat troops on the ground in Ukraine, and he wants to keep on the table first strike nuclear weapons.
Uh, capability.
Not capability, the option for first strike nuclear hit.
As he said, rain down terror on him.
Um, and then Mitch McConnell with the 2.5 trillion.
Talk to us about the neocon, if you ever had the combo platter of neocon neoliberal policies, that would be it.
Military forces in Ukraine and another 2.5 trillion dollars.
Trillion dollars for one year.
So they said it's never going to happen again, it's for money we already spent.
No, we're letting them off the hook now for 2.5 trillion dollars.
Mitch McConnell is allowing this to happen.
Don't forget that.
And Mitch McConnell wants to shovel it with the Democrats.
No.
McConnell, you've did it.
You've done this.
You're responsible for it.
Eric Greitens.
eric greitens
Yeah, well, and keep in mind, Steve, and you've pointed this out before, when President Trump first came into office, you talk about spending, right?
You could have had a real infrastructure bill, which would have funded the border wall, but instead the rhinos stabbed President Trump in the back.
And then what do they do?
They align with Joe Biden and his absurd Green New Deal policies.
Now they're pushing this $2.5 trillion monstrosity All of this is destroying the working class in the United States of America.
This socialist agenda is wrong and we need to stand up and to fight it.
And yes, when you look abroad, it's pretty simple.
President Trump put an end to endless wars.
And that's what the American people want.
I served as a Navy SEAL.
I've served in Iraq.
I served in Afghanistan.
Served in Southeast Asia.
Served in the Horn of Africa.
The American people want an end to endless wars.
And because President Trump was willing to stand strong, kill Qasem Soleimani, defeat ISIS, he has achieved historic peace deals in the Middle East.
But what you have time and time again is that the neocon establishment prevents, they are pushing more and prevented President Trump from taking strong action.
They tried to, but remember, President Trump had to stand up and fight against the Republican establishment to move the American embassy to Jerusalem.
The neocon establishment has been wrong time after time after time.
We need to get back to President Trump's America First agenda, both here at home and abroad.
steve bannon
OK, I got it, Ash.
I don't know if we've got the audio booted up, but, you know, Salem Radio is ready to go.
I'll tell you what, let's play the clip from Hugh Hewitt this morning in his interview with President Trump.
Let's play it.
eric greitens
Yeah.
No, I'll endorse at some point.
unidentified
It's a very interesting race and the Missouri race also very interesting race.
And Pennsylvania's going to be very interesting.
A couple of people are getting in there now that are excellent.
Please don't endorse Eric Greitens.
That's a nightmare, Mr. President.
boris epshteyn
We'll lose that seat.
unidentified
But that's Hugh Hewitt's opinion, not yours.
steve bannon
Well, that's an interesting opinion.
unidentified
That's true.
eric greitens
He's right now leading by quite a bit.
unidentified
I know, but we'll lose the seat.
boris epshteyn
We will lose the seat.
unidentified
I understand that.
Okay.
Most people feel that.
steve bannon
Okay, let me tell you about Hugh Hewitt and Salem Radio.
First off, Salem Radio purports to be conservative.
They were the home of the Never Trump.
Every guy on there, Medved, all of them.
It's super Never Trump.
Never Trump, the radio network of the Never Trump crowd.
Hugh Hewitt, who's got like five listeners, was the leader of this, the morning talk show host.
Absolute, total disaster.
Everything he's ever said to do, For the Republican Concern it's trying to be a total loser, you know huge war supporter another warmonger another Cheney Bush guy Complete disaster and Salem radio terrible Mike Lindell had to put pressure on him.
So Mike Gallagher the great Mike Gallagher Actually interviewed Sharona Bishop the other day, first time, because they won't cover, they won't cover anything about the voter fraud.
That's like verboten, right?
Won't touch that.
Until Mike Lindell threatens to take away the MyPillow ads, and then all of a sudden they're going to find old-time religion, the old Christian broadcaster of Salem.
Their religion is money, okay?
So Hugh Hewitt, and Hugh Hewitt is the running dog of Mitch McConnell.
He's the running dog of Mitch McConnell.
He's been out there anti-Greitens from day one.
And he's really anti-Greitens because Greitens had the stones to stand up as the first guy out there.
And remember, there's a penalty to this.
When you stand up and do that, Mitch McConnell's not going to take all that fat cat money, all that lobbyist money, all the war machine money, and he's not going to let you run against him.
So then it could be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Oh, Greitens couldn't win in Missouri because they're going to cut him off from money because He's saying, I ain't voting for Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell, note to you, we're going to have every guy running in the Senate that wins the primary is going to have to commit, wait for it, not to vote for Mitch McConnell for leadership.
What you've done here, McConnell, you think you're so tricky, and oh, the Democrats are going to own it, we're going to take ads out, the American people know what's going on.
You caused the $2.5 trillion, and I don't know if it's because you've been compromised By the Chinese Communist Party.
Your wife's been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party.
Remember, she tried to get the Chinese Communist Party into a heritage foundation at the turn of the century.
I think to the tune of $80 million before they ran her out.
So I don't know if you've been compromised, but your games are now going to be exposed at every level.
Eric, you're too classy.
To really say anything to Hugh Hewitt, but I would just like to have your, I mean, for a guy to go on there, for the President of the United States is talking to him about Senate races and on open radio to beg him not to endorse a guy.
What are your thoughts?
eric greitens
Well, look, the fact is they're afraid of me and they're afraid of the America First movement.
unidentified
You're exactly right.
eric greitens
These are never Trumpers.
This is a guy who before President Trump's historic victory in 2016 was saying that the president should drop out.
When President Trump was going to the GOP convention, he was begging the GOP to change their rules to deny President Trump the nomination.
And what I love about President Trump is that he keeps proving the rhino elitists wrong.
He proved them wrong in 2016.
He proved him wrong in 2020.
And yes, we are going to continue to dig in and get answers about all of the election fraud in 2020.
And President Trump is exactly right.
He proved him wrong in this race.
unidentified
You know, we're dominating this race.
I'm the MAGA candidate in this race.
eric greitens
And President Trump's pollster has us up 30 points in the primary.
And we're up 13 points in the general election because people recognize that I'm a fighter.
I'm a fighter for the president.
I'm a fighter for the America First agenda.
I fought for my country as a Navy SEAL, and I'm willing to not only take on the left, but also to take on the rhinos.
And it drives the establishment nuts.
unidentified
But you know what, Steve?
eric greitens
We're winning, and we're taking our country back.
steve bannon
Remember Hugh Hewitt, the head of the Never Trump, he said early in the interview, I'm the first guy to ever ask you about your personal life.
Dude, people were talking about President Trump and interviewed about his personal life back in 13 or 14.
So it's all nonsense.
Salem is the flagship radio network for the Never Trump crowd.
Now they cleaned out a lot of that rat's nest.
But it's still not good enough, quite frankly, not good enough, OK?
And they refuse to discuss 3 November and the illegitimacy of Joe Biden, OK?
Until they're forced to economically, going to lose their biggest sponsor, their biggest advertiser.
That shows you the class of Salem Radio.
And to have an announcer in the morning with the President of the United States begging him on radio not to do it is outrageous.
And the management of Salem should take corrective action.
And if they don't take corrective action, I think our audience ought to cut off and click off Salem Radio until they do take corrective action.
Commander Gritens, how do folks get to you?
eric greitens
Well, Steve, look, we love everybody who's a MAGA fighter, everybody who believes in the America First agenda.
Come and join us, right?
Let's take on the establishment.
Come on out to ericgritens.com.
unidentified
It's E-R-I-C.
eric greitens
G-R-E-I-T-E-N-S dot com.
Come out, donate, support our campaign, get all the updates, and we're going to keep fighting every single day.
steve bannon
Thank you, Commander, and thank you for the support on taking down Mitch McConnell.
unidentified
I really appreciate it.
steve bannon
Okay, short commercial break.
We're going to talk about this tectonic plate shift of the Hispanic votes and Latino voters throughout the country.
unidentified
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Massive if you watch MSNBC, they're in total meltdown at CNN 24 hours Washington Post New York Times all of it on People getting engaged in populism at the school board level at the precinct strategy and make sure you go there precinct strategy calm to join become a precinct commitment for the Republican Party and And and and to particularly become election officials, either poll watchers or election officials inside where you volunteer, sometimes run for county clerk to make sure that you supervise are involved in the county of ballots.
It is they're saying this is the anti-democratic forces.
That's the beginning of fascism.
This is like Mussolini's March to Rome.
Right.
And there is complete.
And total meltdown.
And the whole time is this a shrinking party.
They have to do this to win elections.
You know, they totally don't look at what happened on November 2021.
They won't look at Virginia or New Jersey or Connecticut or Long Island or anywhere across the country, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the judges.
They just repeat this mantra.
There's a white nationalist party, white supremacy.
It's a shrinking party, shrinking base, etc.
Except for when numbers come out and we keep telling you, you know, the working class Hispanics, middle class Hispanics and Latinos, they're coming to our side where it fits to the vote.
The Wall Street Journal has a blockbuster poll out that has shaken them to their core.
Because it shows you that not traditional Republican Party, but Trump and Trumpism and Trump populism is winning the day.
And I want to bring in Bianca Gracia.
Bianca, you're head of Latinos for Trump.
You've been working, you've been laboring in the vineyard for many years, ma'am.
Tell us about that and tell us the impact and power of this poll.
And what do you think the most significant numbers are?
bianca gracia
Well, actually, thank you, Steve.
I always enjoy coming on with our War Worm audience.
First of all, I've been preaching this.
I've been, you know, telling people exactly that the Hispanics, you know, we are the majority minority, and we've been on the move, and we've been on the move since 2016.
I really believe, and I've been saying this over and over, based on what I've seen on the ground, I think these numbers existed long before they started to... I saw this already trying to evolve in 2016, 2017, 2018.
By the time we got to 2020, I know that this was the numbers that we were looking at.
Now, they wouldn't report it, but I knew there was just no way that you could have 5,000 cars in a deep blue area, you know, packed with Hispanics and tell me that there wasn't a voter turnout.
So this is this is starting there.
They don't have anywhere else to run.
They're gonna have to start reporting the truth.
And this is we're about right.
I think I think we're a little bit off on the women.
I'm seeing that the that they're still like they have a more percentage of women on the Democrats.
I don't think so.
Not when it comes to congressional support.
I think that where I'm really championing is the 56% that Trump gets with Hispanic men in a 2024 election.
And I'm gonna tell you why, Steve, because I have been saying this from the beginning.
What people do not understand with the Hispanic community is that Trump is a luchador.
He is a fighter for the people.
This is a, it's kind of like a machismo thing without it being a machismo thing.
He speaks the truth.
This is what we've seen in him.
We've seen in him to be what we grow up with, with the boxing, with the wrestling, with the, you know, needle mascaras, you know, he's a guy who you just throw down and he gets right back up and he comes at you with 10 uppercuts and a knockout, right?
And that's exactly how he connects with our Hispanic community.
He didn't have to buy us out.
He earned our vote because of his policies, his strength in policies and what he believed in.
He put money in our pockets.
We were prospering with our, in our communities, our children were prospering and we were deregulated.
It's just resonating.
And now with the Biden administration, the Hispanics are even waking up even more.
They're seeing, they're like, wait a minute, I had to pay $80 for a turkey.
I'm paying $150 for a brisket when I was paying $60 for a brisket.
Listen, at the end of the day, if you don't got money in your pocket, there's something wrong with the policy.
And this is what they understand.
You took away our work when we were in the oil and gas industry.
We took that pipeline.
Listen, that hurt Hispanic communities.
The invasion at the border is hurting Hispanic communities.
We have been on this now.
It's just the proof is there.
We've got the numbers now showing up.
And I am ecstatic because this is what I've been trying to tell the RNC and all these pundits out there.
You know, we don't talk to those people.
Well, how are you not going to turn a Hispanic community because we are conservative if you're not having conversations with us?
You know, this this mentality of we don't go down in a blue district is long gone.
We've proven it.
And we're going to prove it again in this upcoming 2022 election in San Antonio.
I spoke and I said, you're going to see a record amount number of his conservative Conservative constitutional Hispanics on the ballot this upcoming 2022.
And we're seeing it.
Hispanics are literally taking on positions.
They're signing up to run from local all the way to Congress.
And they're activated, Steve.
I am excited about our Hispanic community.
They're gonna show up and show out.
That's been my logo is you gotta stand up, stand out, and we are the movement of the people, el movimiento de la gente.
I say it over and over.
And Steve, and I don't know if you've been told, but even I'm throwing my name in the ring.
I'm gonna run for Texas State Senate.
The fight is here in Texas.
And I am tired of these politicians that go and tell us that they're doing something, and I know that they're not.
When I'm down there on the ground and it's time for us to take Texas back, other Hispanics are joining me in the fight, and we are ready to go.
We are motivated.
We are organized.
steve bannon
The reason we want to have you on, I'm a huge advocate of you throwing your hat in the ring.
We need more Bianca Gracias.
In the Texas Senate, I know they're doing the redistricting right now, but where do you think you'll end up?
What will be the Senate seat you'll run for?
bianca gracia
Well, I'm running for the Texas State Senate District 11.
My Texas Senator is no longer seeking re-election. And so it's going to be an open seat. I'm going to go up against the establishment and the RNC legitimately. But I got this. I got this. This is my area. This is my backyard.
I got mama bears already activated. I got I got listen, I got it's just I'm telling you, this is mine. And we are going to turn things around and I'm not going to be bought out.
You will not corrupt me. You know, people tell me, well, you know, do what endorsements you got?
Listen, I'm not worried about it. I have the endorsement of God almighty, the first of all, and I have the endorsement of the people. We the people by the people.
This is who's going to get me elected is the people of my district will speak out.
And that's what I'm going to do is I'm going to be their champion.
I'm going to go fight for them.
And I'm going to as I fight for my district, Steve, I'm going to fight for all of Texas and I'm going to fight for the country as goes Texas goes the nation.
steve bannon
But Bianca, how do people follow you on your social media, how they get to your website?
bianca gracia
So they can follow me at Bianca for Texas.
It's always been that Bianca for Texas.
And my media group is fixing to launch the Bianca4Texas.com.
So just go to my social media right now and you will get a link to where to go find me on my website.
I am excited, Steve.
You know, we're taking back our country.
We're taking back state by state, municipality by municipality.
We're getting activated.
steve bannon
You have called this for years, Bianca, and your work's paying off.
Thank you very much.
Honored to have you on.
bianca gracia
You're welcome.
steve bannon
Love you, Steve.
That's a fighter.
Love you too, ma'am.
Fantastic.
Okay, Boris, you've seen it from the beginning.
We've talked about this all the time.
The great Steve Cortez has been in back of this.
I got so much to get to you.
I want to talk about Texas redistricting, but talk to me about this Wall Street Journal poll.
You know Fabrizio very well.
What a great pollster he is.
This is a blockbuster.
It's been a long time in coming.
Remember, The Economist had the article about Hispanics are moving to Trump's populism.
It's going to be terrible news.
They knew something was going to come up, or it's coming out in polling.
But how big a deal is this?
boris epshteyn
It's a huge deal, Stephen.
It's an honor to be with you, with the War Room Posse, to talk about it.
So if Denver could put up the numbers, we could walk through them a little bit.
The bottom line here is, here's the beauty in these numbers from the Wall Street Journal, is that they line up perfectly with the numbers we're seeing from other, let's say, liberal outlets, YouGov economists.
So, where there's no longer an advance—thanks to the fecklessness of Joe Biden, the pathetic nature of the Democrats, and the strength of the War Room Posse, the MAGA movement under the leadership of President Trump, there's no longer an advantage with Hispanics and African Americans for the Democrats.
Let's go to the videotape.
Right from the top right there, you've got which candidate would you support for Congress?
Even split between the Republicans and Democrats, 37% each.
With Hispanic men, by the way, look at how they do the, look at how Wall Street Journal does the numbers.
It's 29%, but somehow the 29% for those on the podcast, the blue dwarfs the 45% red.
Okay, Wall Street Journal, let's take it easy a little bit here and stop trying to help Democrats.
With Hispanic men, a Republican member of Congress leads a Democrat member of Congress by 16%. 16%!
That is absolutely staggering, Steve.
Absolutely staggering.
And then for President Trump—and by the way, I'm not even buying this.
I will bet you that if this were a poll on truth serum, President Trump would be up on Biden by at least 10.
Here they have him effectively even with Hispanics, 44-43.
Can we get the number back up, please?
44-43 for Hispanics.
With President Trump versus Joe Biden.
With Hispanic men, President Trump trounces Joe Biden 56 to 33.
The bottom line, the bottom line is the next one.
That's the approve, disapprove.
Joe Biden is upside down, 42 to 54.
He's getting annihilated with Hispanics, annihilated with African Americans, annihilated with all Americans.
steve bannon
Boris, hang on one second.
Short break.
We're back with Boris Epstein and his analysis of the Wall Street Journal poem.
unidentified
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Okay, let's go back to Boris.
Boris, real quickly, Fabrizio.
This was a joint venture between Fabrizio and a prominent Democratic pollster under the auspices of the Wall Street Journal.
Absolutely tectonic plate shift.
The Hispanic folks, we've been telling you this for years.
The Economist had the story about it a month ago.
Hispanics are embracing, not country club, Republican khakis, loafers, and a blue blazer.
But populism, nationalism, traditionalism, they're all in.
Give us that number one more time.
I think you're drowned out by the music.
And then I want to tie it to the redistricting in Texas.
This is central.
And this is why the guys in Texas have got a man up.
The Attorney General down there, Paxson, got a man up against Merrick Garland.
In this collection of clowns up here in the Justice Department, right?
You don't see them in Maryland, you don't see them in Illinois, you don't see them in New York, and there's no whining in the war room.
They shouldn't.
Democrats should play Smash Mouth.
Take the seats back in Maryland.
Take the seats back in New York.
Take the seats back in Illinois.
Because those are shrinking states.
We don't care.
Take it.
It's yours.
You got it.
Okay?
You got it.
You own it.
We're taking Texas, Florida, Tennessee.
We want our seats in Georgia.
And we need these state legislators to start playing Smash Mouth.
The only thing they understand is Smash Mouth.
Boris Epstein.
boris epshteyn
Steve and Denver, just real quick, I want just the end of that previous graphic.
And the bottom line here is this.
Among Hispanics, Joe Biden is upside down, 42-54, approved to disapprove.
42-54, down 12 with Hispanics.
Harken back to yesterday, go back to what we talked about yesterday, where with Undecideds, again, with Hispanics, approved 42, disapproved 50.
With Hispanic men, approved 38, disapproved 61.
And then remember yesterday, when we talked about Undecided voters, where it was strongly approved with 6%, Versus 37 strongly disapproved.
So this all ties together.
My dad's an applied math PhD.
He goes, you don't need to understand math.
Six percent strongly approved is within the margin of error.
That is zero.
So this guy is a zero strongly approved Joe Biden with independence and and undecided.
He's upset.
steve bannon
This is arithmetic.
We're not even to math yet.
This is arithmetic.
This is arithmetic.
This is not even math.
boris epshteyn
My five-year-old gets this.
His dad is zero.
Okay.
steve bannon
This is okay.
unidentified
This is What this means, and we tie it to Texas this year, is this.
boris epshteyn
Yeah.
Is, you know, Merrick Garland has the gall to stand up there and say, oh, Republicans are disenfranchising Hispanic Americans and African Americans.
Well, listen to me, you idiot.
Take a look at this poll.
Take a look at the polling!
It is the Democrats that are trying to disenfranchise Hispanic Americans, who are down on Democrats, down on Joe Biden by 12 points.
They're disenfranchising them in Maryland, in Illinois, in New York.
steve bannon
Let me give you a leading indicator.
We've also preached this gospel.
Understand this.
Look at that delta between Hispanic men, okay?
Pro-Trump now, right?
56-42, I think, if the election was held.
Blockbuster number.
African-American men are the next.
That's the next that's going to break, going to break our way.
I've said this now for 50% in 2022, in the midterm.
More than that in 2024.
So, stand by.
That's why they're in meltdown on MSNBC.
They can't take populism.
They can't take and empower people, whether you're at a school board, whether you're an election official, whether you're a precinct committee man, whether you're Hispanic in these hardscrabble counties in the Rio Grande Valley.
That's why the tough guy down in Rio Grande Valley is retiring.
The nine Democrats have stood up against Nancy Pelosi.
Three of them are from the Rio Grande Valley.
Why do you think that is?
Because Trump populism is on the march.
boris epshteyn
And that's why, Steve, we've got MSNBC and CNN, they try to change the American people's perspective and distract them, but that's not working out so well either, because some people are winning.
steve bannon
Okay, real quickly, Hugh Hewitt going after Greitens, begging President Trump.
This is the king of the never-Trumpers, okay?
From the radio network that was the radio network, it was Radio Free Trump, you know, get rid of Trump, Radio Never Trump.
You had Hugh Hewitt begging Trump today on an interview, a President of the United States, not to endorse Eric Greitens, because Hewitt is the pulling guard for everything Mitch McConnell.
And here's what Mitch McConnell gave us last night, $2.5 trillion on the debt ceiling for one year.
The neocon neoliberals are all over it.
They got, they want to go to war.
You know, you got Wicker that wants to drop nuclear tactical nukes in Ukraine with your sons and daughters following up as combat troops.
And the neoliberals want to give Hugh Hewitt represents an absolute bygone of the MAGA movement, of the Republican Party.
boris epshteyn
He's a never-Trumper, let's just be honest.
Hugh Hewitt did everything he could to go up against our campaign in 2015 and 2016, and now he's going up against MAGA champions like Eric Graines.
No conspiracies, no coincidences in the war room, but also signal, not noise.
Eric Greinz is the first major Senate candidate to come in and say, hey, I'm MAGA, I'm for Donald Trump, and I am not going to vote for Mitch McConnell.
And by the way, to those who actually watched the interview with Hugh Hewitt, or saw the transcript, when President Trump said it, he goes, hey Hugh, some people have got that opinion, but Eric Greinz is up by a lot in Missouri.
And you know why he's up by a lot?
And by the way, Tony Fabrizio's polling showed this.
Erdogan's up by 30 points, and part of it is because he's come in strong and opposed establishment Republicans and said he's not going for Mitch McConnell.
steve bannon
Boris, give me your social media.
You're red hot on Getter.
Give us your social media.
boris epshteyn
Brad Howe.
We're coming in super hot all over the place.
The website boriscp.com.
Go sign up right now.
We're going to have an email go out tomorrow morning.
Super hot on Getter at Boris CP.
Twitter at Boris CP.
And of course, super, the hottest on the gram, Boris underscore Epstein.
God bless.
Stay strong.
I'll see you tomorrow.
steve bannon
Okay, you're on fire.
Okay, Denver, I got something extraordinary.
Thank you, Boris.
Extraordinary.
I got something special.
Can Denver please play the trailer right now?
This is something you're going to want to watch.
unidentified
So we're on the road to Syria.
It's not a place where you want to take a wrong turn.
If you watch the news, you understand that religious persecution is a major problem in countries around the world.
In planning for this, I received an email wherein I was referred to as a known high-value target.
I'm flattered.
It's more dangerous today than it was two months ago.
Multiple deadly bombings in the last month.
I would argue it's good policy that every person has the right to live in the land where they were born and practice the faith in their heart without fear.
Amnesty International accuses Taliban forces of torturing and killing nine men from Afghanistan's Hazara minority.
Without the need to move.
Nearly 600,000 Rohingya have crossed the border with limited food and water.
Leading human rights groups say what's going on in Nigeria to Christians is a genocide.
Without the condemnation of others who may not share their opinions.
Another disturbing story.
A pregnant Jewish woman has just been assaulted in London.
I believe that there's a role for people of faith to create governance.
But there is never a role for government to create people of faith.
American Congressman Thomas Garrett, who traveled alone to Sudan, is being credited with securing the release of the imprisoned Christians.
I studied history and education in university.
I served six years in the United States Army.
I served as a member of Congress in the United States.
So these guys have been here... Six years.
Six years.
So you remember your home and you miss your home.
So why does he have to come here?
steve bannon
Because Isis Okay, Denver, thank you That's incredibly moving.
It's a trailer for the new docuseries, Exile, and I've got the two filmmakers, Matt Whitworth and Congressman Tom Garrett.
Matt, I know you did this Swamp, right, for HBO?
About the corruption and all the deals that are cut here in Washington, D.C.?
unidentified
Yeah, and that started as a Facebook Watch series back in 2018, and then somehow HBO picked it up, so we did it as a feature doc for them.
steve bannon
So what inspired you guys to make this?
This is incredibly powerful.
It couldn't be better that it's coming out now.
So I'll start with the Congressman.
What inspired you guys to go and do this series?
unidentified
So there was a series of events in my life that was kind of looking for a life, and I think like you, looking for a life that mattered.
To do something that left the world a little bit better than what it was when I found it.
And sort of got cubby-holed on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House so I wouldn't make trouble.
Truly.
Tried to get on the committee.
First day I'm there.
Your listeners, watchers will appreciate this.
First day I'm there, I go to get on a committee.
I say, what do I need on your committee?
Here's why I should be on it.
They say, well, you have to promise to vote for such and such bill.
True story.
I said, well, let me take a look at it.
steve bannon
Right from the swamp.
Right from the pages of the swamp.
unidentified
This is where we met.
Let me take a look at it.
I'll try to find a way to get to yes.
And the chairman goes, well, we haven't written it yet.
And needless to say, I didn't end up on that committee.
steve bannon
Welcome to the National Football League.
unidentified
Right.
So what I did do was have the opportunity to go into Sudan against the wishes of the Foreign Affairs Committee chairman and a bunch of people on my own time, on my own money, and snatch a couple of pastors out of prison who were there for aiding rebels, which meant giving food and medicine to displaced people.
And thought, wow, I just did something that mattered.
And so then announced I wasn't running for re-election, had a lot of personal turmoil in my life that I had to come to grips with and have done really well with that, thanks to God.
And got asked by a former Marine if I'd go into Syria to meet with the Yazidis, the Kurds, the moderate Muslims and Christians who were fighting ISIS at the time in Baghouz, Darzur.
You know, it's like, it's hot.
It's not over yet.
And I said, yeah, why me?
Like, I'm not running again.
He said, nobody else will go.
And I said, Oh, yeah, no, I mean, like, if I get to tell these stories, I'll do it.
Like, I want to be used for something that matters.
And I do that.
And the people who used to call me, Steve, they don't take my calls, right?
Because I'm not running and I'm useless.
And Matt calls me up and goes, Hey, will you go back to these places?
and ExileSeries.com was born. Why am I going back? To tell the stories, to give a voice to the voiceless.
Why are we doing that? Because, and you've done this, because as soon as you start showing the American people what's really going on, they demand that something be done differently, and we're going to save lives. We're going to change how we do business.
steve bannon
And that part of the world, has the church been shattered?
Because I think it's kind of, you get small bits of it, but you don't, we have Jason Jones and other guys, Father Keeley, who continue to go back over there, but it's never knitted together in one whole fabric.
Has the church been shattered?
unidentified
So yeah, I would love, I'm not kidding, I would love to put you on a plane and take you in through Erbil and take you to Al-Khash, to the monastery, to St.
Matthews Monastery outside Mosul, where the cornerstone was laid in the year 351.
There were 4 million Christians in Iraq and Syria, and I would love to take you, in 2003-2004, there are about 400,000 left.
Now I served in the army, I lived in a tent for the better part of a year, because Muslim men were murdered in Srebrenica by Serb Orthodox Christians.
And I'm glad I did, it needed to be done.
steve bannon
How did we go from there?
But nobody told the story to those people.
The church is a desert church.
We were formed in the deserts of the Middle East.
Syria, you know, you read the Testament, Syria is such an important part of the church.
How did we go from 4 million Christians in 2003 to 400,000 a day?
We've got a minute, we're going to hold you guys over the break, but how did that happen?
unidentified
So we have, as a nation, said, what's our strategic goal?
Our strategic goal was to oust Saddam Hussein after 9-11, and we set aside all the collateral damage, and it started with al-Qaeda, and then ISIS came in and sort of finished the job.
Praise God, most of these people were displaced and not murdered, but many were murdered.
There are 32 Christian villages in the Kaaba River Valley in Syria that have been Christian villages for 2,000 years.
They're gone.
steve bannon
They're gone.
unidentified
2000.
Well, since Christ.
steve bannon
Yeah.
No, no, but how many villages?
unidentified
32 villages.
steve bannon
32 villages have been there for 2000 years.
All those Christian villages are gone.
unidentified
I mean, there there are pockets of Christians, but these people are amazing people, courageous people.
But but the question is, do they have the numbers to continue their own existence?
steve bannon
Short commercial break.
We'll be back.
The series is called Exiles.
unidentified
I was going to get into how you can see it next in the War Room.
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steve bannon
Okay, we're here with the filmmakers Whitworth and Garrett about the docuseries Exiles.
The Federalist has an amazing piece that's up.
We want to put it up in all our chat rooms.
You can see it just came out.
So, walk us through it.
This is broader than just the church in the Middle East.
You've got an epic vision for this thing.
Where do you stand in making it?
How can this audience, this is the most activist audience in the world, how can this audience help?
unidentified
So Tom and I met on the Swamp because he was one of the original cast members.
When he got back from Iraq and Syria, he was showing me the pictures of what it was like there, right?
And I was blown away by the images.
And he goes, I don't think people realize how pervasive of a problem religious persecution is around the world.
And I was like, well, what do you mean?
Because maybe I don't even know.
And Tom started sending me some articles, right?
There's a UK government came out with a report in 2019.
Persecution of Christians is approaching genocide levels around the world.
You have a million people displaced in Southeast Asia.
Anti-Semitism rising in Europe.
steve bannon
And so... It's worse than the first century Rome.
Yeah, it is.
If you throw China in there, it's worse than first century Rome.
unidentified
Absolutely.
And so I said to Tom, would you be willing to go back to Iraq and Syria if I can get a film crew over there and let's see You know, if we have the goods to turn this into a series.
And so we went back to Iraq and Syria.
We were embedded with the Peshmerga Special Forces, spending the night on concrete floors, filming incredible interviews, and just realized, look, this is a documentary series that we could do where we go into Africa, we go into Asia.
Because Tom was on Foreign Affairs Committee, I think we have a level of access to some of these places that no one else has.
But we also knew very quickly that this wasn't a series that Hollywood was going to make, right?
So we asked, right?
We went to them and they said, can you do this series without trashing China because money?
And my knee jerk was doing a human rights series without talking about China is like doing a doc on the Beatles without talking about John.
steve bannon
Yeah.
unidentified
You can't do it, right?
steve bannon
Well, particularly because of what they're doing.
The Underground House Christians, the Underground Catholic Church, the Falun Gong.
I mean, they're the most materialistic Marxist atheists in the world.
So Hollywood said, we love it, but we can't do it.
unidentified
Yeah, and they were like, actually, this guy Tom Garrett's a pretty interesting character.
That's an understatement.
steve bannon
He literally had his road to Damascus in this series.
unidentified
Yeah, he did.
And so we, you know, with what we were able to capture in Iraq and Syria, by the way, first day of filming, I looked at Tom and I'm like, wow, you have this like Anthony Bourdain style, you know, quality to you when you're behind the scenes.
So I think we have an incredible opportunity to expose just how pervasive of a problem this is around the world.
It's also a story of heroes, right?
We were in this small military installation in Syria.
And these female soldiers are coming in off the front lines.
steve bannon
Peshmerga.
unidentified
Peshmerga.
And they're taking off their vests and putting their rifles down, and they're sharing all of these stories about battling ISIS.
And I'm like, how old are you?
And the one girl goes, I'm 20, she's 22.
Right?
The contrast between millennials in this country who post TikTok videos when their feelings get hurt, right?
And so these stories... Microaggressions.
Yeah.
These stories are happening around the world.
steve bannon
ISIS will give you macroaggressions.
How can people help?
Where do you guys stand right now?
You have the trailer, which is amazing.
We want to make sure everybody sees that.
You've got tons of footage.
You're trying to edit it.
Hollywood has no interest.
The problem in the church, and the church has got so many issues here, they're not really focused on the persecution of Christians throughout the world.
It's just not a top priority.
unidentified
Well, that and not a lot of people are willing to go to these places, right?
So we said the most successful crowdfunded media project of all time is a scripted series about Jesus and his disciples, the Chosen, right?
So we said if we can capture a little bit of that Chosen magic, we could do well.
So the idea is we're going to launch it as a crowdfunding campaign.
And so that's what we did.
Exileseries.com.
The trailer's there.
And that's how you can get to them.
steve bannon
So how do you get to the crowdfunding?
When you go there, you see the background of what you're trying to do or trying to accomplish.
unidentified
The whole story is there.
Yep.
Exileseries.com.
steve bannon
Exileseries.com.
And you need the money because you've already shot most of the series.
This is the edit the first couple of hours?
Walk people through the critical path of what that is.
unidentified
We've spent about eight days in Iraq and Syria.
We have enough footage for that episode.
Now we want to go to Africa, Asia, Europe, and sort of show that this is happening on a global scale.
So that's what we're trying to do.
Everything that we've done so far has come out of our pockets.
steve bannon
The turn of the century, the 20th century, is what, 20% of the Middle East was Christian?
And then at the turn after the Iraq War, it's down to, was it 1% or 3%?
unidentified
Right, and you've got countries where there are still Christians, where literally the government's declared that there are none.
But there's so many redemption stories here.
The Ottomans used the Kurds to help cleanse areas of Christian populaces, periods adjacent to the Second World War on either side – I'm sorry, the First World War on either side.
And when ISIS rose, the Christians were such small pockets that they couldn't defend themselves and the Kurds had murdered their grandparents, so that it – and the Kurds came in and said, hey, we'll help you, right?
So this is sort of that group that doesn't trust the other group and then learns that, like, we got some commonality here.
So we wanted to tell these stories.
You know, ExileSeries.com, I actually kind of am perversely excited by the fact that Hollywood won't do it because I believe America can.
steve bannon
Yeah, because they would try to take the edge off, and you guys clearly got some edge.
Are you guys either on social media besides that?
unidentified
Yeah, so it's at ExileSeries on Facebook and Twitter, at ExileDoc on Instagram.
steve bannon
Okay, fine.
You guys already get up on Getter, too.
Tom, how did they get to you, Congressman?
unidentified
I got nothing.
I'm going to reactivate on some of these platforms.
steve bannon
This is a wild man, right?
No, this series is going to be incredible.
I think it's a great example.
It's a great analogy.
Okay, we're going to be back here at 10 a.m.
tomorrow.
I want everybody, let's get everybody on all the chats, all the forums to take a look at this.
Go visit their site.
Give them a look.
We're going to do a lot more on this as we go forward to see how this thing develops.
Witwer's a fantastic filmmaker.
The thing on the Swamp was incredible.
Really incredible.
Need to be done.
unidentified
Okay.
steve bannon
See you tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.
Gates.
Matt Gates is going to be in the house.
We've also got Amanda Milius, the great director, is going to be here to join.
She's going to co-host the second hour.
See you tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.
in the War Room.
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