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July 10, 2023 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 2865

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steve bannon

20:24

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abby phillip

01:23

donald j trump

02:00

mike rothschild

02:37

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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
unidentified		Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		The people have had a belly full of it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I know you don't like hearing that.
		I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
		It's going to happen.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified		Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified		War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I'm proud to be the most pro-farmer president that you've ever had in the White House.
unidentified		Thank you guys.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We did more for American agriculture than any administration in history by far.
		And that's been pretty much acknowledged.
		It's been nobody disputing it.
		Under my leadership, our Department of Agriculture cut seven old regulations for every one new regulation, saving farmers and taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
		We cut As you know, regulations at a level that nobody's ever seen before.
		Cut more regulations, generally speaking, beyond the farms.
		cut more than any president in history by about five times.
		Back to the train.
		Bring it back.
unidentified		Anybody want one back there with you?
		I think they need.
		Thank you, Donald.
		As you might expect for International Pride Week, a lot of people are in the building, but no one needs more security than the former president of the United States, obviously
		when he gets rid of Dana White.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We're going to deport the criminal illegal aliens that have come into our country.
unidentified		Quickly. We're going to obliterate the deep state.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We were doing a good job.
		I fired Comey.
		I fired that sleazebag Comey.
unidentified		We got rid of him. It was bad news.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And very early on, somebody said, oh, why didn't you do it?
		I did it right at the beginning.
		You know, he has a long-term contract.
		I fired Comey.
		That was a good one. That's when we found out about the insurance policy, just in case that she lost Hillary.
		You know, we call her beautiful Hillary now, right?
		We changed her name because she's a beautiful woman.
		We call her beautiful Hillary. You know why?
		Because I'm using the word crooked.
		I don't like doing the same word for two people.
		We're using the word crooked for Joe Biden because Joe Biden...
		Is the most crooked president in the history of our country by a factor of hundreds.
		He's a crook. We're going to end all of the things you see and ban critical race theory and transgender ideology.
		From our schools.
		From our university.
		We're banning it. We're banning it.
		What they do. What they do is so horrible.
		And you know, one of the things that I've been talking about, you have to say before anybody, we are going to end men joining women's teams.
unidentified		Let's play. Let's play.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		No more men and women's.
unidentified		So we got the man.
		As you might expect for International Flight Week, a lot of people are in the building, but no one needs more security than the former president of the United States, obviously a really good friend of Dana White.
		Oh, my word.
		I'm going to.
		Wow.
		Wow.
		Thank you for watching.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		you Okay, welcome.
		It's Monday, 10 July in the year of our Lord, 2023.
		I want to thank you. What an open, what a weekend.
		President Trump gives a policy speech in Iowa to the farmers that could have been a rally because there was standing ovation after standing ovation after standing ovation.
		Then he goes to Nevada, out to Vegas.
		He talks to a group of evangelicals.
		They had to remove the chairs.
		This is a volunteer center.
		Evangelical Christians, they had to remove the chair, so many people, they're standing and they're packed and they're waiting for, you know, because security for hours, they get their standing, you know, obviously they're standing, ovation after ovation after ovation, as he talks about the 2024 campaign.
		And then to top it off, he goes to the fight was at UFC that night.
		They've got Mel Gibson, Mark Wahlberg, Joe Rogan.
		He's just big foots them all.
		He is the center of attention.
		Who in this country culturally, forget politically, who culturally can do that?
		Nobody. And this is why we're going to get into more of this today.
		We're pretty packed. We got Rudy.
		We got Carrie Lake. We got Charlie Kirk.
		This afternoon, I'm here with you for all four hours today.
		This afternoon, we got Raheem, Colonel West.
		We've got from Eagle Pass, Texas, Todd Benzman is going to wear this.
		Mark Jephtovic. We have not spent enough time on this central bank digital currency.
		We're getting all that gold, everything, all the geopolitics, NATO. So we're packed.
		It's back to work for all you folks that took off the 4th of July, Monday, 10 July, year of Lord, 2023.
		But I want to start with, as big as President Trump, bigfooting the political process and just showing what a joke this primary is.
		And we've got to get beyond it as I said on the John Fredericks radio show today and just get to the start focusing on the general.
		And as importantly, what we're going to do on day one after President Trump returns for a second term.
		Jason Millis pointed out, he just tweeted out that The New York Post, Wall Street, they had a huge article.
		Nikki Haley's now the Iron Lady.
		They're going to try to rejuvenate Nikki Haley because the Ron DeSantis thing is just not working out for them.
		We'll get into a lot of that, polling all of it.
		Also, a revolt against the Catholic bishops and what they've been doing as an NGO and to support these NGOs on all this radical, all the radical elements are going through the country, particularly the invasion of the southern border.
		Michael Voorhees will join us.
		So we're packed today, but I want to start with Something that is one of the most important markers in our culture in the 21st century.
		And that is the biggest studios with the biggest...
		The summer is where they make all the money.
		With these massive films that come out.
		And now these films are $100 million, $200 million, $300 million to make.
		And then a couple hundred million dollars to market globally.
		So you have capital commitments Of $400, $500, $600 million with these massive apparatuses of these studios that have all these different touchpoints, all these different ways to market, all these relationships with the theater owners, with the mainstream media, because they put out film after film after film, and these are franchise films.
		The Indiana Jones film and the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible.
		And in that came The Sound of Freedom.
		This film has been blocked.
		This film has been blocked by the studios to be released for three years until the team at the Harmon Brothers and Sisters at Angel Studios got involved.
		This picture was never going to see the light of day.
		You might have seen it on some streaming service or something like that, but it never got in theaters.
		And they had the courage to step up, commit their company, get it into a couple thousand screens, make some commitments.
		Then with Worm and other groups, push this thing hard.
		It got it to over, I don't know, 4,000 screens.
		And last week it did announce last night, $40 million.
		This is against Indiana Jones and against the Tom Cruise movie.
		It beat Indiana Jones $14 million to $11 million on July 4th.
		Sends shockwaves through Hollywood and, of course, through Disney.
		Heads are going to roll over there because of what this film's done.
		And it's two things.
		One, it's a cultural moment.
		About this type of content and entrepreneurs, courageous entrepreneurs like Angel that would go out there and do it.
		And the thirst of the audience when I see this, but also even deeper in this regard, is what this film is about and why it's being suppressed.
		I want to bring in Jordan Harmon. Jordan, when I first met you, what, a month ago, a month and a half ago, I would have never envisioned...
		I had a long talk.
		I said, brother, you're putting it out in the most competitive time against two films that the studios have to have work.
		They have to have the Indiana Jones film work.
		They have to have Tom Cruise work.
		They will put in any amount of money, and they'll scare the exhibitors to death not to take you.
		Tell me, and I've got to give you a hat tip, and people have to understand.
	That Angel Studios, as big as The Chosen was, which was just enormous and is a cultural moment, this may be actually bigger for what you guys accomplished.
	And you guys are now, you've put Hollywood on notice.
	Jordan Harmon, tell me about it.
unidentified		Oh man, it's been a, I keep saying it's astonishing work but miraculous outcomes.
		Because the amount of miracles it took to do this is, I can't even count them all.
		The fact that we have almost 3,000 screens in the hot of the summer, like the most busy time, we are so grateful for our theatrical partners with AMC and Regal and Cinemark and all these different groups.
		They've stepped up to the plate, they've given us locations, and that's what made this all possible.
		And so, you know, as of right now, you know, we have that goal of let's get 2 million people to represent the trafficked 2 million children every year and get as much awareness to this as possible.
		And we were absolutely blown away.
		We felt like we could hit that 2 million mark.
		And obviously, Steve, you've been such a huge proponent of this since we launched this initiative.
		But we hit 2 million by Friday.
		And we were like, holy smokes.
		It was like Friday late evening.
		But we're like, this is incredible.
		We've already passed 2 million tickets.
		We kept reaching out to all these different influencers and people who had massive followings.
		And little by little, people started watching the movie and they started experiencing the impact of this movie.
		And they started rating the movie.
		And it's got 99% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which is just unheard of.
		It's got an A-plus cinema score.
		It's the highest-rated movie of the summer.
		And even the critics, there's some, you know, there's obviously some negative ones, but even the critics have it rated in the high 70s and low 80s, depending on, it's kind of bounced around.
		But that being said, we have now officially, as of this morning, I got the numbers back, we are at 3.8 million tickets that were sold during week one of the release of Sound of Freedom, almost doubling the goal.
		I am just, I'm blown away.
		The miracles that happened, you know, obviously the 89-hour weeks of everybody on the team, And all the people who courageously put their name out there and then were slandered and slammed by the mainstream media and different people.
		It's been amazing to watch the audience step up to the plate and say, no, this isn't about all those things that you're saying it's about.
		This is about the children and this...
		Awareness is going to hopefully, like we said when we chatted a month ago, be the start of the end of this atrocity of child trafficking.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I want to go back.
		Also, IMDB, which is an industry kind of a rating in an app, it's rated 8.7 out of 10.
		At 8.7...
		You're now in the top 15 highest IMBD ratings movies ever.
		You're tied with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Matrix, Star Wars Empire Strikes Back, and Goodfellas.
		Here's my point.
		This film... For what it is, is a Hollywood thriller, is a minor masterpiece.
		One of the things I've gotten from people over the weekend that went to angels.com slash war room, get your ticket, get a bunch of tickets, take your friends, have a coffee afterwards and talk about it.
		What I'm so proud about, Jordan, is the people that contacted me said, the content's tough, but the movie is stunning.
		The photography, the script, the production, the music.
		You've made a film that people have been going, because look, a lot of times, and we're huge supporters of Christian filmmakers, a lot of times it's not up to the standards of Hollywood.
		This film is not up to the standards of Hollywood.
		In IMBD, you're among the top 20, and 8.7 is unheard of.
		I tell you, Jordan, hang on for a second.
		We're going to take a short commercial break.
		Sound of Freedom. We're going to talk with Jordan Harmon about where do we go from here, because I can tell you, these guys only know one way, and that is pedal to the metal.
		It is extraordinary. I think they've only been involved in the film for 100 days or three months.
		An absolute cultural benchmark has been set.
		Also, the content of the film.
		And where do we go here to stop this scourge of the demand for sex with children in this nation, which is an absolute total disgrace.
		Jordan Harmon will join us after the break.
unidentified		We will fight till they're all gone.
		We rejoice when there's no more.
		Let's take down the CCB. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, welcome back.
		Two articles about the show.
		Agency Free Press over the weekend talked about that Brookings report about War Room.
		I'll talk more about that later, but you remember we won the award from Brookings.
		For News Service of the Year, not.
		They don't like our content.
		And Agency Free Press, which is the Associated Press of Europe, likes it even less.
		Also, the New York Times had a very interesting story about the fourth turning, this concept of the fourth turning.
		And the writer who wrote a play about it, and he said it was based upon research about yours truly, he had done research on me and found out I had...
		I think it's a construct of how one can start to think about history.
		It turns out he's also the chief writer for Succession.
		He was the showrunner for Succession, which is the Murdoch film.
		The Murdochs, by the way, are trading out Ron DeSantis, even as we speak, for Nikki Haley, Kemp, Youngkin, whoever.
		The next instrument to come after President Trump is pretty obvious.
		Big articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post about Nikki Haley trying to be the new Iron Lady.
		She's polling at 3%, but they're about to offload Governor DeSantis because it's just not happening and shift to Haley.
		We'll talk more about that as we go on.
		There wins and then there wins.
		This is one of the most important wins, the MAGA movement, the people of this country, because this was a topic.
		Owen Gleiberman, the reviewer for Variety.
		And remember, Variety is kind of the Bible of the industry.
		It's all the professionals, actors, producers, writers, studio executives, everybody reads Variety.
		He had a review that was quite frankly a rave about the film, the quality of the film.
		He said it's actually better than the Liam Neeson type films like The Take-In.
		He also said there was Jim Caviezel's best role in his career second to The Passion of the Christ.
		He talked about the quality of the film and Variety always talks about the box office because it's the professional's newspaper.
		And he said he thought this thing could do some real business and it was interesting that Because he said, and this is basically paraphrasing him, it was a topic, this trafficking of children for sex, it was a topic that obviously Hollywood did not want to touch.
		That came from Variety.
		Jordan, that was part of the heroics of Angel to get involved here, particularly after this thing had been suppressed for so many years.
		And here's what I love about you guys.
		General MacArthur...
		Once said, you're only going to be remembered for the rules you break.
		You broke every rule that this industry is set up to think about on the theatrical distribution of movies.
		You broke it and you won.
		But this is just the top of the first inning for this film.
		Walk me through what Angel, you know, tell us how you got here, how we had this enormous breakout, and where do you guys go from here with this movie?
unidentified		Yeah, I think, and to your point about winning, I think this is a win more than anybody for the people who stepped up and said, this is our movie, right?
		And they started defending the film all over.
		And then it's a win for the filmmakers who have been here for eight years.
		You look at Eduardo Verasigi and you look at Alejandro Monteverde and Rod Barr who helped him write it and all that they've done for the last eight years.
		This win, I mean, and then during, you know, the press circuit, I don't think Eduardo's probably slept in like three weeks, four weeks, but that being said, this win for the people, for the filmmakers and for Angel, we're so grateful because it means a lot, but it's important that people realize that every day counts when it comes to theatrical distribution.
		Now, there was an incredible film last year called Top Gun that went on for months and months and months in the theaters.
		And it was such a good movie, but it carried and carried and carried.
		And theaters will keep a movie in as long as people are willing to watch it.
		And so it's important that people realize that although what we did week one was unprecedented, that you guys helped us accomplish, it's critical that we continue to put our foot down on the pedal to the floor.
		I remember going to church yesterday and someone coming up to me from, a couple people coming up to me from our congregation and basically just saying, How can we help?
		What can we do? How can we continue this movement?
		And it's sharing with your friends and family, helping people go to the theater for people who can't afford it, help them realize that there's free tickets that they can use to go watch the movie.
		And then they can share the word that way.
		And so we don't want people to let up or think that the work is done.
		We have an opportunity right now to continue this movement and what has become really a cultural phenomenon And what I'm most excited about is that it's bringing all these people from all sides of the spectrum in the aisle to say, we want to stop this.
		We don't want this to exist anymore.
		This needs to end. This is horrendous.
		And that allows for us to unite as a country around something really, really important.
		I remember Eduardo giving this example that was really, really powerful.
		He said, So many times we look at the controversies, the things that we have, the differences we have, and it's like if there was a fire on the city limits or county limits of some area and there's a bunch of children in this fire and these fire departments come from all angles.
		They're like, no, this is my jurisdiction and this is my jurisdiction.
		They're all fighting and then the thing burns to the ground and all the children die.
		And he's like... What if they just spent time putting out the fire, saving all the children, and then turning around and saying, okay, now let's talk about our differences.
		That's what's happening right now.
		You have people from every angle, every walk of life watching this film, and that's what I would encourage people to do is invite people to watch the film, to judge it for themselves, what it is, and let them feel that burning desire in their heart to share it and to unite in this mission together.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Jordan, how do people, you can go right now to angel.com, get your tickets.
		Remember, take your friends.
		If you've seen it before, take your friends and then have a discussion after.
		There's going to be a lot of things that are announced over the coming weeks about how people are going to come together, as Jordan said, to unite the country to eradicate this epidemic of pedophilia in our nation and the trafficking of children for sex.
unidentified		This should be the most important topic.
		Yeah, I mean, go to angel.com, but this should be the most important topic in the world right now.
		Like, we're talking about our children and the future generations and our culture needs to change to where this is more talked about, more discussed.
		And more properly handled.
		And we're giving the resources to the organizations that have the aptitudes to help solve these problems.
		And so, yeah, the fact that there's even any discussion blows my mind around the film.
		But at the same time, we want discussion.
		We don't particularly love it when people are trying to throw egg at our faces when we're trying to help with child sex trafficking.
		But that being said, we know this film speaks for itself.
		The producers, the director, the writers...
		They have created something that is an absolute masterpiece and I believe is one of the most important films of our entire time.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And if it had not been for a studio like yours and everybody else turned it down to get it out in the theaters, it would have never happened.
		Amazing work for the Harmon family, Angel Studios.
		Jordan, one more time, your social media, where do people go?
unidentified		Yeah, just Angel Studios all on any social platform and then you can go to theangel.com to watch any of our content and also download the Angel app.
unidentified		But again, let's keep our foot down on that gas pedal and let's spread awareness throughout the world.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Foot down, another 40 this week at least.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Jordan Harmon, thank you very much.
unidentified		Appreciate it. Thank you, Steve. Appreciate it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		They'll be having those discussions with the theater owners today and tomorrow about increasing the screens.
		Trust me, a theater owner is going to want this.
		Let's go to Eduardo Vestagay, the producer.
		Sir, give me your first thoughts.
		When we talked years ago, did you ever think that after being suppressed by every studio in Hollywood and all the media, that you'd ever have an opening week that you basically topped Indiana Jones, came out third overall, but beat Indiana Jones, had its up on July 4th and got $40 million at box office, sir?
unidentified		No, I never imagined that, Steve.
		Oh, man.
		This is a...
		I'm living a dream.
		I'm living the American dream.
		So many memories are coming to me.
		Right now, I was listening to you.
		You know when I moved to America I didn't speak English And You know, it's just perseverance
		Never give up. When you believe in something bigger than yourself, When you are involved in projects that are designed to save lives, you just don't care about how many people say no to you.
		Yes, it's painful, of course.
		I mean, we're human beings. You know, when someone closes the door in your face and tells you, no, this is not a business for us, no, this is not...
		You know, this is not for us.
		Of course, it's painful, but at the same time, you know, you have two options.
		Either you give up or you don't give up.
		And Alejandro and Leo Severino and the whole team, we choose not to give up.
		We choose to fight until the end.
		We choose to fight with our lives.
		We choose to fight for freedom.
		And that's been our story from day one with Bella, with Little Boy, and now with one of the most important films, I can speak for Alejandro Monteverde as well.
		This is the most important film of our lives.
		And yes, eight years, I mean, it doesn't matter if it would be nine years, 10 years, 20 years.
		You know, again, when you're trying to save lives, especially children, man.
		Since I met Tim Ballard, he inspired me so much that I told him, brother, I want to become like you.
		I want to become a hero like you.
		And I will do whatever it takes.
		And I started like literally not sleeping the same way after I heard what these children are going through.
		And what I'm sorry.
		Hang on one second.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We're going to take a short commercial break.
unidentified		We're going to return with a producer who's worked on this for eight years.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		The Magnificent Success Week 1 talks about a nation that is thirsty to find out about this, to learn about it, and at the end of the day to stop it.
		The epidemic of trafficking of children for sex into the United States of America.
		The movie's The Sound of Freedom.
		The producer's Eduardo Vesegue.
unidentified		He'll join us on the other side.
		We rejoice when there's no more.
		Let's take down the CCP!
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		And you seem pretty familiar with him, because he doesn't really hide his association with this real wild plot that involves, you know, drinking the blood of children and things like that.
unidentified		Bye!
mike rothschild ▲ ● ▼		No, he doesn't hide it at all.
		And you have a lot of people who are in this world of QAnon who say, oh, they don't know what that is.
		They've never heard of it. They're just asking questions.
		With somebody like Jim Caviezel, he is openly embracing it.
		He's openly using its catchphrases and its concepts.
		He's speaking at QAnon conventions.
		And this film is being marketed to either specific QAnon believers or to people who believe all of the same tenets as QAnon but claim they don't know what it is.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		And The Sound of Freedom does focus on a real issue of sex trafficking.
		But that theme, it's sort of like that kernel of truth that feeds the QAnon conspiracy theory.
		Tell us how those two things work together.
mike rothschild ▲ ● ▼		Sure. And the most durable and the most believable conspiracy theories are not entirely false.
		There's something in them that is true and the rest of it is false.
		But the believers point to the one true thing and they say, oh, you don't believe that this particular thing is true.
		In terms of child trafficking, we know trafficking is real.
		We know it has real victims.
		No one is denying that.
		But these films are created out of moral panics.
		They're created out of bogus statistics.
		They're created out of fear.
		And with something like Sound of Freedom, it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings that are run by the high-level elites and only people like Tim Ballard and only people like Jim Caviezel, and by extension, only people like the ticket buyer can help bring these trafficking rings down.
		So there's a very participatory element.
		You're not just going to see a movie, you're just killing two hours on a hot day.
		You are helping bring down these pedophile rings and save children.
		Now, it's not true, But it's a very comforting and it's a very warm feeling to have.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Edward, I just want people to understand.
		They're not hiding it anymore.
		They're just up right in your grill, right?
		That is CNN on the opening weekend.
		They will do anything.
		Look, the studio system, and I've had many people, pros in the business, see the film and they say, look, the film, qua film, is a minor classic, right?
		So think about it. With as much crap as Hollywood puts out, and you know this, Edward, films that just don't work, films that are just a mess, to suppress this movie for three years, they went out of the way.
		Now that it's out, and it didn't die when they tried to kill it right in the box office, they're non-stop.
		This is QAnon, this whole guy...
		This film, Eduardo and you guys worked in this film years before this QAnon thing even started.
		This is not marketed to QAnon.
		This is not marketed. This is marketed to the American people.
		And the American people have responded, not just in going, but in, although a tough topic, loving the film and saying, hey, how do I get involved?
		Eduardo, your response to CNN, sir?
unidentified		Well, you know, I'm glad that at least they're in your face.
		So there's evidence who wants to support a movement that is designed to end child trafficking and who doesn't.
		So it's right there in your face.
		And people know what's going on.
		And they know that there's a lot of people involved in this crime.
		I mean, when we talk about more than $150 billion business, that means that there's a lot of people involved in this crime.
		And for someone to say, you know, don't go and see this movie, don't waste your time.
		I mean, come on.
		For someone to say, you know, this is just Tim Bader and Gene Caviezel.
		No, that is not true. There's thousands of people involved in this movement.
		Hundreds of thousands. I mean, three million people.
		More than three million people went to see this film this week.
		And I've been getting calls from Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Argentina, every day.
		My phone is like, you know, it's hot right now.
		So many phone calls. When is it coming out here?
		I mean, Asia, Europe.
		I mean, this is a global movement and CNN is not going to stop this.
		I'm sorry, but, you know, CNN is not going to stop this movement.
		There is no way. They're going to stop this movement.
		It's too late, Steve. It's too late.
		You know what? They tried, but it's too late, man.
		I mean, they can take me. They can take Tim.
		They can take Gene. They can take you.
		They cannot take millions and millions of people that are tired.
		They already said, enough is enough.
		No. Don't mess with the children.
		You know? And people are angry.
		And I'm just so glad that, you know, that it's a privilege for me that God used broken instruments, broken Instruments like me and like Alejandro, like you, were being used by him.
		Because I, as I mentioned the other day, Steve, I picture, you know, before I go to sleep, every night, in my mind, I picture these children around the world praying to God, please rescue us, please send an army.
		And you know what? God heard those prayers.
		And he's sending right now a huge army.
		More than three million people saw this film.
		This week only.
		And we're just beginning.
		We haven't even started fighting yet, brother.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, almost 3.8...
		Over 3.8 million tickets were sold just in the first week.
		I want to go back when they talk about organized...
		We know from a whistleblower there's 87,000 at least children they can't track or can't identify that have come across the border in this invasion of the United States.
		One of the things that you've committed your life to, you say, hey, I'm Mexican.
		I'm proud of my nation.
		I'm proud of my people. I'm proud of my culture.
		I'm proud of my heritage. I'm proud of my religion.
		And it is on us because we're the number one provider of this to this huge demand, insatiable demand coming from the United States, which is the humiliation of folks here that we have to sort out.
		But you're saying on the production side and the trafficking side...
		And as you know, between the cartels, that just doesn't happen.
		It's an industrial process.
		This is an industrial process of trafficking children for sex.
		It's not just a couple of bad guys in the mountains of Mexico doing it.
		It's an organized process.
		That's what you're going after, correct?
unidentified		I mentioned to you that the other day.
		I mean, this is the globalist.
		This is, I mean, they have a perfect distribution of drugs, human trafficking.
		These guys, I mean, they're powerful people.
		And that's what they told me from the beginning.
		Are you sure you want to do this, Eduardo?
		And I remember when Tim Ballard said to me, Eduardo, before you commit to this, I have to be very honest with you.
		I have, you know, we have a lot of friends.
		Thank God we have a lot of friends, but we have a lot of enemies.
		And those enemies will be yours.
		We'll share them with you.
		Are you sure you want to fight this with us?
		It was a calling, man.
		When God asked you to do something, you can't say no.
		You have to go.
		You have to say yes.
		And you know what? Regardless of the consequences, it doesn't matter.
		So, yes, we're fighting against these big, big, powerful people, but God is more powerful.
		And God's children are not for sale.
		And I know his hand is in this movement.
		And I, you know, if I had any doubt in the beginning, when I saw that almost four million people went to see this film this week with...
		I mean, our budget, brother, was like nothing.
		I think maybe there's ten billboards in the country.
		Ten billboards. I was driving on Sunset.
		I'm in Los Angeles right now doing a lot of interviews.
		Thank God for so many journalists who are, you know, helping us and they're part of the movement now.
		But I was on Sunset and I saw a big billboard, like huge, huge, like it was like, I look at it and I was like, wow, that was Indiana Jones, right?
		And I told my publicist, you know, the budget of this billboard, maybe it's the entire budget of our movie and our marketing P&A, And they have thousands of those.
		And I just can't believe that on July 4th, for Mexican filmmakers like Alejandro and me who moved to this country without speaking the language and we immersed in the culture, in the language, and we want to, you know, we want to conquer the American dream.
		I can't believe that that day, July 4th, Thanks be to God, of course.
		All the glory to God. All the glory to God.
		I just want to make sure that I say this before anything else, you know?
		But thank be to God for Tim Ballard, for Gene Caviezel, for you, for so many people that are involved in this movement.
		We beat Indiana Jones.
		I never dreamed that. I mean, I grew up watching those movies, you know?
		And now for me to be here at my 49-year-old, after 20 years of fighting to To one day produce a film that will have the potential to entertain, but at the same time to make a difference, not only in America, but in the world.
		Man, that was like, if that's not the American dream, I don't know what it is.
		And this is not going to be only, you know, bringing this light to the darkness here in America.
		Because this is a global problem.
		This movie is going to go All over the world.
		No one can stop this movement.
		And these guys, I don't know how powerful they are, and I'm sure they're very powerful.
		They can't stop this movement.
		Actually, CNN, thank you for the free marketing.
		Thank you for the free marketing.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Eduardo. In the couple minutes we've got left, tell people, where do we go from here?
		We want more people to see this.
		We want particularly people to discuss it.
		One of the things I was most moved about this weekend were people coming to me and saying, hey, we went to the site, angel.com.
		We got a bunch of tickets.
		We went, and then afterwards we were so moved.
		We went and had a coffee or a drink or even dinner and talked about it with people.
		The movie stuck with us.
		Tell us this second week.
		What's the plan? What's the call to action?
unidentified		This is very important, Steve.
		I mean, because this is just the beginning.
		I mean, yes, thank God for this week.
		Okay, next.
		What's next? You know, today's Monday.
		Mission Impossible is coming out this week.
		Okay, so another big, big, big Goliath, you know.
		Nothing wrong with, you know, Mission Impossible.
		I'm sure it's a great movie. But with all respect, right now, Mission Impossible is not going to save one life.
		Sound of Freedom has the potential to raise awareness, to end child trafficking in the world.
		This is the biggest evil that is happening right now to our children.
		So please go and see the movie.
		Bring your friends. Keep buying tickets.
		Go to angel.com slash freedom.
		And keep praying the rosary for those who pray the rosary.
		For those who don't pray the rosary, just pray.
		For those who don't know how to pray, just pray.
		Have great intentions and great desires to angel trafficking and do something.
		For those who are watching the movie at the end, this is amazing what people are doing.
		They take their phones out in a selfie style and they take a video and show the video.
		There's hundreds of thousands of videos right now in social media.
		I mean, the movement is amazing.
		This is just the beginning. Again, God's children are not for sale.
		I love Mexico. I love United States.
		Together we're stronger.
		We're not just neighbors.
		We're brothers and sisters. And I think if we work through this bilateral effort, the good people of Mexico and the good people of America together, no one would stop us.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Ever. Ever. Eduardo, honored to know you and the work you've done, the eight years of your life you've committed to this, and now the seeds have come together.
		And like I said, this is going to be the railhead of a movement to eradicate this epidemic.
		And honestly, it is a disgrace.
		To our country that the demand side of the equation is in the United States, but I know you're doing everything down in Mexico to stop the production and distribution side.
		Eduardo, how do people get to you on social media?
unidentified		Where do they go? 40 seconds really quick.
		I want to do the most powerful thing that we can all do.
		Of course, follow me on social media, Eduardo Verastegui, Twitter, E. Verastegui.
		But the most important thing right now, I'm Catholic.
		Everything that is happening, it's all God.
		All glory to God. I'm here with my mother, Our Lady Guadalupe, and I just want to say a quick help of memory for all the children of the world and for all the heroes that are fighting with their lives during child trafficking.
		So this prayer is coming from my heart, for you, brother, for your family, especially for all the children of the world.
		We're coming. We're coming to rescue you.
		In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
		Amen. Let's go, brother.
		Que viva la libertad! Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much, brother.
		Talk to you after the show.
		Eduardo, the producer of this film.
		Short commercial break. Michael Voorhees from Church Militant is going to talk to us about the connection of the NGOs, the Catholic bishops, and this scourge in the United States of America.
		next in the war room.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		♪ Taking down the CCP ♪ ♪ Spread the word all through Hong Kong ♪ ♪ We will fight till they're all gone ♪ ♪ We rejoice when there's no more ♪ ♪ Let's take down the CCP ♪ Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann ♪♪♪ And you seem pretty familiar with him because he doesn't really hide his association with this real wild plot that involves, you know,
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		drinking the blood of children and things like that.
mike rothschild ▲ ● ▼		No, he doesn't.
mike rothschild ▲ ● ▼		he doesn't hide it at all. And you have a lot of people who are in this world of QAnon who say, oh, they don't know what that is. They've never heard of it. They're just asking questions with somebody like Jim Caviezel. He is openly embracing it. He's openly using its catchphrases and its concepts. He's speaking at QAnon conventions. And this film is being marketed to either specific QAnon believers or to people who believe all of the same tenets as QAnon, but claim they don't know what it is.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		And the Sound of Freedom does focus on a real issue of sex trafficking.
		But that theme, it's sort of like that kernel of truth that feeds the QAnon conspiracy theory.
		Tell us how those two things work together.
mike rothschild ▲ ● ▼		Sure, and the most durable and the most believable conspiracy theories are not entirely false.
		There's something in them that is true and the rest of it is false, but the believers point to the one true thing and they say, oh, you don't believe that this particular thing is true.
		In terms of child trafficking, we know trafficking is real.
		We know it has real victims.
		No one is denying that.
		But these films are created out of moral panics.
		They're created out of bogus statistics.
		They're created out of fear.
		And with something like Sound of Freedom, it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings that are run by the high level elites and only people like Tim Ballard and only people like Jim Caviezel and by extension, only people like the ticket.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		The ticket buyers, yes.
		This could not go on.
		Remember, we're adamantly against conspiracy theories.
		But we also say there are no coincidences.
		You could not possibly, possibly have this scale of the problem of which, they all admit it, the scale of this, and this insatiable demand from the United States of America, and the industrial process in Central America, and particularly in Mexico, to provide the source of it.
		This is one of the issues with the invasion of the southern border.
		Remember, we had a couple of specials on this.
		I think it was last spring.
		We had people that dealt in this every day that are not any part of conspiracy.
		They're the people trying to stop this trafficking.
		And they talked about the limited resources, the way that L.A. County and other places are pulling back resources when it's only being exacerbated by the invasion of the southern border.
		And yes, see what they don't want there?
		What they absolute fear, remember, this is across the board in anything that we do.
		They fear you.
		They go, they make the ticket buyer part of the process.
		Yes, this is what populism is.
		That's exactly right. Because the elites in this country are not going to stop it.
		If the elites in this country were going to stop it, they would have already stopped it.
		They would have already stopped it.
		Jim Caviezel is one of the best men I've ever met in my life.
		Jim Caviezel has sacrificed his career.
		He could have been a big A-listed Tom Cruise type movie star.
		Harrison Ford type movie star.
		Eduardo down in Mexico could have been the top Mexican movie star.
		These are men that went a different direction on their careers as creators of content.
		To focus on issues like abortion and child trafficking.
		Child trafficking for sex.
		Not child trafficking for slave labor, which is bad.
		This is worse. And it's organized.
		It's very organized.
		It's an industrial process.
		And there's a lot of money being made.
		And if people in high office and people that are in these operations in these organizations were either not participating or at least looking the other way, it would not happen.
		It would not happen.
		This is why there's a populist revolt in this country across many areas.
		From the mutilation of children to what's the propaganda that's put into these old kids' minds in school with these monster liberties.
		These are all people that other things are doing their lives.
		This is not what they wanted to do in this life.
		Who in their life wants to have to think about this and have to stop it?
		It's so outrageous.
		But you can't look away.
		You have to get involved.
		And this is what CNN, remember, this is the mainstream media.
		They're going to sit there, well, you know, there is some truth, there is some trafficking thing, but no, this is a moral panic.
		How can it not be moral panic when you look at the scale of this?
		And you particularly look at the government who can track everything.
		They can track anything.
		The federal judge has said you've got to shut it down.
		They can track everything and shut everything down on the Internet.
		And here they can't track what we've lost, admitted 85,000 children.
		And it's worse than that.
		The people on the board of the Border Patrol tell you it's worse than that.
		One of the groups exacerbating it is the Catholic Charities.
		As a Catholic, it hurts me to say this, the Catholic Charities, we've had Heritage, we've had all these people on that said time and time again, this thing at the border is organized.
		This is just not a random, this is not self-organizing.
		This is quite organized.
		And one of the big parts of it is the NGOs.
		Michael, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm going to keep you through the break because I've only got a couple of minutes here.
		But finally, and this show is built as a platform to take action, to let you use your agency.
		And that's why I love worries because this guy's a fighter.
		Tell me church militant and these other groups, you're throwing down hard against these feckless Catholic bishops in this Catholic bishops organization.
unidentified		What are you doing, sir? Thanks very much, Steve, for having me on.
		Good to see you, brother. This group of Catholics have organized a coalition and a press conference next Thursday, July 20th, at the National Press Club.
		We're going to be presenting exactly how to the secular political media.
		And because of that, conservative political media, because of that, it's a first-time-ever type event ever in the Catholic Church in the United States.
		And we're just going to unveil for our goodwill brothers and sisters who are not necessarily Catholic, but look at the disaster that we have in America right now because of political decisions that are being made.
		And we're going to reveal the U.S. bishops' involvement, their fingerprints on all of this.
		I saw the movie, by the way, two times this weekend.
		And took a bunch of friends each time to go see it.
		And that whole horrible, horrible sex trafficking of children.
		I mean, my gosh, how could you look at something like that and not be angry, disturbed, like just outraged inside?
		It was just awful.
		And the movie was great.
		I'm talking about the topic obviously being awful.
		Well, the environment in which that kind of thing is allowed to happen, all these kidnapped foreign children being smuggled into the United States, tens of thousands of them, that environment is owing directly to the involvement of the U.S. bishops who are getting hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. Congress, and it needs to end. Michael, hang on.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to hold you through the break. We've got Rudy Giuliani, Carrie Lake, Charlie Kirk, Michael Voorhees.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		How about that for an hour?

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