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Oct. 27, 2023 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 3133: Crippling The Manufacturing Of The United States

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unidentified		He sees this as a moment of a test of integrity of character.
		His dad standing a thwart history, yelling stop, right?
		Which is funny to borrow that conservative terminology because actually Mitt Romney, I think, inherited from this experience a distrust, a suspicion of movement conservatism.
		Right, right.
		It always existed outside of it, whether it was in the 1960s with the rise of the radical right of the Goldwater Republicans, or, you know, right now with the rise of the pro-Trump MAGA Republicans.
		He is, like you said, he's a conservative, but when it manifests in this right-wing populist movement, he's repelled by it, and he's afraid of it in some way.
		I mean, Mitt Romney is repelled at a cellular level by populism of any kind.
		He has this riff, he's said it a hundred times to me, that, you know, for every question there's a populist answer that is popular and wrong, right?
		No, he is.
		He's not a populist figure, but there's something specific about right-wing populism and especially in this Trump era.
		I think he sees in the rise of Donald Trump an echo of what his dad went through.
		And yet he made his pact with it.
		He made his own pact with the devil in 2012, and of course he did the event with Trump, quite famously.
		And he had to court that right wing, right?
		He had advisors who taught him, you know, you need to start reading the National Review, you have to start paying attention to what Fox News says, you need to learn the language of the right so you can try to win them over.
		Okay, welcome back.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We'll get into more on that, Mitt Romney.
		By the way, If you, the right-wing populists will always give you an answer that's popular and wrong.
		I'd like to match up our policy beliefs with Mitt Romney's.
		One of the reasons we're in this financial debacle is Mitt Romney's been one of the big promoters of Biden.
		He's one of the collaborators.
		One of the collaborators.
		So Mitt and all your brilliance, Right, you founded Bain Capital after consulting.
		And by the way, the founding of Bain Capital is quite smart, because you saw the consulting business, they're in there screwing up every company in the world, but management basically turns over, throws the keys to them.
		Why don't we raise private equity and start buying some of these things out, because management's idiotic, and our advice is idiotic.
		And why don't we buy it, and then we just strip all the manufacturing, we send that overseas, we keep the marketing here in the United States to tap into the big market, and that's a business model.
		Hey, that is a business model.
		That's what private equity and the oligarchs on Wall Street did.
		And Mitt Romney's the head of it.
		Remember, there's a 22-minute film done about that, came out in January.
		It's Brother Meath.
		I think bossing those guys, they put it out in January, if you remember this, of 2012, and for a moment, Mitt Romney was on his back feet about what Bain Capital, the King of Bain I think it was called, about what Bain Capital had done to the country, and particularly manufacturing jobs in, oh, I'm going to pick some random places, like Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
		He was on his back foot, couldn't have an answer to it.
		And for a minute, remember, Newt became a populist, and actually won in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich, for one small moment in time, was a populist.
		Then, of course, he went back to his neoliberal, neocon ways and got smoked in Florida.
		And that was that was Katie Bar the Door.
		You have to remember, going back to 2012, Romney and Paul Ryan, because of their They're polling on election night all the big fat cat billionaire donors all went in they were all flying in And to celebrate victory their numbers Paul Singer all the Mercer's all of them were up there at the Ritz Carlton in Boston They had the polling they thought they were gonna win They were there celebrate Paul Ryan had done the first hundred day plan.
		They were all ready to go and I think it was in May when the Wall Street Journal later talked about how Obama had, you know, Obama had pivoted to really the weakness of Mitt Romney that he did not connect with the Tea Party movement.
		He did not connect like Trump would eventually.
		And they had one of those group things.
		I was on Hannity and they asked for the hands to go up of who thought Romney would not win.
		I was the only hand that went up.
		I'll get the clip.
		We should play that clip one day.
		And they're like, oh, because this guy, you know, Obama's terrible.
		I said, yeah, Obama may be terrible, but you have not convinced people that you're an alternative.
		Romney has not and did not.
		That is festered with him forever.
		That's festered with him.
		Not my raising hand.
		What's festered is that the Tea Party movement and other elements of the populist movement did not respond to his call because he never reached out to him.
		He didn't speak.
		He spoke in this weird nomenclature that he still has today.
		He says the right-wing populism, McKay-Coppins, Romney repeats to him all the time, but it's popular and wrong.
		I'd like to tell us what's wrong on the invasion of the southern border, on capital markets, and about the economy, and about the debt.
		Would you have been a driver with Biden on national security policy?
		We'd love to see your prescriptions, which we see every day, that is kind of weird, neoliberal, neocon, that clearly is not working and destroying the nation.
		This is the problem.
		This is what happened when we first had, when we won and we had Romney.
		You remember at Bedminster, we had everybody come in President Trump had him come in, and we invited Romney in to talk about being Secretary of State.
		And in the first meeting, he didn't know anything.
		He's that kind of guy that's got to go back.
		You've seen him since you've been going to school.
		The kids have got to do the 50 hours of homework, where maybe in junior classes, some of us may have been phoning it in.
		He had to go back, and he has to memorize everything, and then he has a worldview.
		It's not like he It knows it.
		Tulsi Gabbard was 1,000% more impressive in the initial interviews.
		1,000%.
		Knew so much more about the world in a deep, deep understanding.
		Mitt Romney's kind of a clown.
		It's kind of a clown.
		But that's what's been put up because he looks like a president.
unidentified		He's, you know, he's got this aristocratic bearing.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It's an empty shell.
		It's a nothing.
		It's nothing there.
		Nothing there.
		And we're in a nation in a crisis.
		You can't, you can't go back to this.
		This is why they, one of the reasons they hate Trump is Trump's style.
		Trump is UFC.
		Trump is Fight Club.
		Trump got some sharp edges on him.
		You see him walking out of the court in New York.
		He's throwing down.
		A guy's trying to gag him.
		Trump doesn't care.
		Gag this.
unidentified		$10,000 fine.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		He doesn't care.
		They're trying to put him in prison for 700 years.
		Would the established order ever try to put Mittens Romney in prison for 700 years?
		They don't fear him.
		He's a collaborationist.
		This is all those Republicans for you, the unmasking that's gone on the last couple weeks and Fox as a major problem.
		They're a major problem.
		They're a problem.
		Don't look at me.
		Just go back from January.
		Look at everything they tried to do.
		You would not be here with Mike Johnson in a biblical worldview and a new change of leadership not owned by the cartel.
		If Fox had had their way, you would have had the exact same thing.
		Oh, it's chaos, it's chaos.
		No, no, no, no, no.
		What you had was chaos and what you supported was chaos.
		Mike Johnson and the team he's putting around him and what Gates have done and these folks have done.
		We're going to have Eli Crane on here in a little while.
		That's the still point in a turning world, the anti-chaos.
		The chaos is what you provided, and you lied to people, and you just repeat over and over again, like propaganda, the stupid RNC talking points.
		Well, people are not buying it anymore.
		They can't buy it.
		They're not going to buy it.
		They've been awakened.
		And one of the big awakenings is to that.
		The Murdochs are evil people.
		They just are.
		They're evil people.
		Evil people.
		They do not support your biblical worldview.
		They just don't.
		I hate to be blunt like that, but we're fighting for our country.
		So it's take no prisoners.
		Let me bring in Mike Lindell, another guy they're trying to liquidate.
		Mike, tell me, you've had your own tussles with Fox, but we'll leave that for another day, right?
		No need to pile on.
		Tell me about how we're doing on the factory floor.
		What we care about is full capacity and the operators that are working are not being shut down by the IRS.
unidentified		Yeah, and Steve, I just got word here.
		I have one of our few retailers that are left, everybody, cancelled their P.O.s.
		We already had their product made, their pillows made.
		They cancelled this morning.
		I don't know why yet, so I'm not going to throw their name out there yet, but believe me, everyone will hear about this.
		We also been attacked by Artificial Intelligence on my Lindale Offense Fund site, so they're under full attack.
		But we're getting through.
		We're fighting back by giving the War Room Posse a sale, Steve.
		We're going to extend that flash sale for the Giza Dream Sheets.
		You guys, this has been huge.
		They're on sale for $89.98.
		The queen size, we're putting them an extra $30 off for the War Room Posse, $59.98.
		And there's the king size, they're regularly $159.98.
		These are the sheets that made my pillow famous.
		The sale price, $99.98 for the War Room Posse, $69.98.
		Get them before they're going on TV on the commercials for those higher prices, 800-873-1062.
		You guys have kept all the operators busy yesterday and in spite of these cancellations, we're getting through because of you.
		I wanna thank each and every one of you that used that promo code war room at mypillow.com.
		You also get the MyPillow 2.0.
		We put those on sale there.
		That's what my employees were making for these box stores and that we just had one cancel on.
		So we have those on sale for you too, lower than what they are on TV, 39.98 for the Queens, $5 more for the King size.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Well, when they come back now, I mean, we know Walmart and the big box early on, but even the existing retailers, is it because you're still fighting?
		Because, look, Mike Johnson, and Fox has got to hate this, the Murdochs have to hate this, Mike Johnson was the chief intellectual architect, along with Ken Paxton and those guys, but at the congressional level, of writing the amicus brief and getting guys on board because Mike Johnson knew the election was stolen.
		That's got to be quite, besides his biblical worldview, that's got to be quite uncomfortable for old man Murdoch, right, who surrendered.
		They did more damage.
		They did more damage by giving these guys a billion dollars in surrendering than anything could have possibly be done.
		I mean, you could argue, and Mike, I know this goes to your core, but you could argue the machine companies are winning in a huge way because Fox wrote him a billion dollar check and kind of groveled to him on an apology.
unidentified		Yeah, I think that's like giving money to yourself, Steve.
		I believe Fox was in on it all along.
		I'm going way back to calling Arizona early.
		I mean, they did things that don't make sense, and I think they're all part of the unit party, and we've got great things going on now, and we are winning.
		And that's why they're attacking me the last two months.
		Since the summit we had to secure our election platforms, I've been under full-blown attack, and what a better way than to try and destroy my pillow so you take away my voice, but it's not happening.
		We are winning.
		You're not going to see it on Fox News that we're winning, Steve.
		They're not going to tell anybody the good things that are going on.
		Having new leadership is going to change everything.
		You guys are going to see over this next year so many great things happening.
		I just want everybody to keep the faith and keep the hope.
		See, if you know me, I'm the most optimistic person you'll probably ever see.
		But there's a lot of reason to be optimistic right now.
		The dominoes are going to fall and we're going to get our country back.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		What do you think about having someone like a Mike Johnson who's a very devout Baptist and has a very profound understanding and belief in the tenets of the Judeo-Christian West and puts his faith, his Christianity as the centerpiece that everything revolves around?
unidentified		That's what we had to have, everybody.
		This is a gift from God.
		This is God giving us grace.
		This is part of God's plan.
		I don't think you could have picked anyone better.
		We couldn't have gotten anyone better.
		Obviously, they'll finally look into our election platforms, and when you base things on your faith with Jesus Christ, and you're basing stuff I pray every morning about what I'm going to do.
		I pray for discernment.
		I pray for answers, wisdom, and everyone can say, well, boy, you make some bad decisions, Mike.
		You've made some bad decisions.
		No, that was in the past when I used to be an addict and I was making very bad decisions.
		Now, you might not understand the decisions that are made, but we can be proactive in prayer now, and they line up beautifully with God's Word.
		So I think it's going to be amazing, and I think it's what our country needed.
		And having the War Room Posse and them all out there and everybody putting pressure on On Congress and it's, you know, we're winning and it's because all of us, it's not just a few now.
		Everybody, courage is contagious and everybody's stepping up and that's awesome.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Mike, the number is 800-873-1062.
		MyPillow.com.
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		Thank you so much, brother.
		Look forward to having you back on here tonight.
		Tell everybody, the factory full, 100% capacity is our goal.
		That's our goal.
unidentified		Yep.
		And thank you, everybody.
		You guys, I don't know where we'd be without you over the last two months, everybody.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		More retails canceling.
		Mike, thank you so much.
		Look forward to having you back.
		They've got to take Trump out.
		That's what they're trying to liquidate his business.
		They've got to take Lindell out.
		It's obvious.
		Their plan's quite obvious.
		This is not quantum mechanics.
		Pretty simple.
		Short break.
		Back in the warm in a moment.
		Eli Crane coming up.
unidentified		Okay.
		Let's take down the CCD!
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
		Okay, welcome back.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Um, we got a lot...
		We got a lot of Eli Crane is hopefully going to join us.
		We're going to have him on yesterday.
		Hopefully he's going to join us here in a few minutes and we'll be able to get a complete breakdown of everything that's going on with Eli.
		Remember, one of the reasons, and I guess we'll have to play it on the afternoon show or play it maybe to welcome Eli.
		I'm talking to my production team now.
		I've got to play some of this morning, Joe.
		A complete and total meltdown.
		Here's why.
		Let's pull the camera back for a second and make sure We know where we are.
		They were so shocked and stunned that Trump came out of nowhere in 16 and won the presidency.
		And then they had the nullification project right away, the Russia, all of it, to try to nullify his victory and to make sure he couldn't govern and couldn't shift the country back to America first.
		Then in 20, when he won 74 million votes, 74 million votes, just still breathtaking.
		And they stole the election, because we know they stole the election, and they know we know they stole the election.
		That's why there's no evidence, no evidence.
		Just with your own eyes and your own experience of the evidence you've seen, I'll leave it to that.
		I don't need to preach that gospel.
		After Trump left, remember, Fox News will not do a live interview with President Trump right now, but that was reported the other day.
		They won't take him live.
		They will not take him live.
		A guy that has crushed their candidates.
		Remember, their boys have been McCarthy and Jordan.
		Let's face it, Jordan is on there every night, every night, every night, just like Lindsey Graham, every night, every night reporting, just going over and over again, the talking points over and over again, the talking points, no subpoenas, no real advance.
		You know, he and Comer all the time.
		We're going to do this.
		We're going to do that.
		We're going to nothing happening because McCarthy behind the scenes didn't want it to happen because the donors don't want it to happen.
		You gotta remember when Trump went back to Mar-a-Lago, think about that day, the 20th of January 2021.
		Those folks are watching this show.
		Remember we had Boris at the, Boris was at Andrews Air Force Base.
		We saw the plane take off.
		And we were, this show was the rally point.
		You, the audience, the hardcore, the hardest core of the Trump followers, who knew that he had won the election and who knew if we rallied, he would come back and win again.
		Do you think there were many believers back then?
		Was Fox, no, no, no, no.
		They immediately went to murder DeSantis all the time.
		Every other day there was another town hall in Florida.
		It turned out all to be for naught.
		What Fox does does not help.
		It hinders because look at DeSantis.
		It's terrible for him because it was all phony.
		He wasn't prepared and they didn't help prepare him by asking tough questions or coming in and doing the tough things you have to do.
		That's why he's flopped.
		It's a historic flop.
		Failure.
		The amount of money, what, $150 million for nothing.
		He's running fifth in New Hampshire.
		He's barely hanging on in Iowa where they've put their whole staff.
		He's a non-event in South Carolina.
		It's just not happening.
		Why?
		Because of them, just like McCarthy.
		By saying that we were the agents of chaos and saying that McCarthy's the villain, we have to get back.
		Remember, we have to get back in January.
		We have to get back to work.
		We're not getting to work.
		We have to get back because we have to impeach Mayorkas.
		Remember they made that pitch that you're going to slow down all the impeachment, you're going to slow down everything if you do this?
		Remember when they came back, when McCarthy came back and went on Maria Bartiromo back in September and tried to sell the fact, we can't, we can't have a, we have to have a C.E.R., you can't shut down the government because then we're going to slow down the impeachment thing.
		They put a shiny toy out thinking you're a moron.
		You're not morons.
		Now, because Trump's up in all the polling and he's building momentum every day and he's never on Fox and they won't do a live interview where they will sit there and slobber all over Nikki Haley and slobber all over Tim Scott and slobber still over DeSanctimonious.
		Trump's still a pariah.
		They'll have them on when they have to have them on.
	And the RNC's putting all their money with these donors to still look for an alternative.
	They're having NBC News and Hugh Hewitt, the most established of everybody, onto NBC down in Miami on another huge waste of money as a diversion.
	But you prevailed.
	You prevailed.
	No one else, you.
	Not Gates, not Bannon, not Mace, not Eli Crane, not Rosendale, not Boebert, not the Hard Eight or the Magnificent Six that were the instrumentality of this victory.
	If it had not been for you, none of it would have happened.
	Impossible.
	And you scared them.
	Here's how much you scared them.
	Oh, the pressure campaign is not working.
	The pressure campaign is not working.
	When they're saying that, double down, triple down.
	The only way we're going to save the country is smash mouth.
	I hate to say it.
	It's not that you're going to get in fist fights with people, but you can't back off an inch.
	Not an inch.
	Look at today.
	They went through a ten minute meltdown on Mike Johnson.
	Why?
	And Vanity Fair had a huge like a cover story.
	Why?
	Because Mike Johnson is a devout Christian.
	When I say devout, I mean, his whole life revolves around his belief in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
	That is something in the modern world.
	And he's a good man, and he's a solid man.
	And he's a tough man.
	He fought these fights in these courts with no money.
	A guy like that could be making so much money, no money, fighting, defending the Constitution, defending the Christians.
	And now, remember, what we warned you about is that domestic terrorism is going to go to Christian nationalism.
	That's what they really fear.
	This is what they really fear.
	This is what they really fear.
	That we would actually get back To the biblical worldview that founded this nation and built this nation into the greatest nation in the history of the earth, freed more people, created more prosperity for working people, not just the wealthy, for working people, and to have it devolve into what it's devolved in, an oligarchy?
	With the Federal Reserve and the entire system that enriches them at your expense and to add insult to injury, then to protect their empire, to send your sons and daughters on the foreign battlefields, not for victory, not for victory, but to defend their post-war international rules-based order.
	Which is just a system set up to enrich themselves and to allow in the most brutal dictatorship in the history of mankind, the Chinese Communist Party.
	They kissed the Chinese Communist Party's ass with their new, their post-war international rules-based order.
	Rules based to make you wealthy and to allow in murderous dictatorships into the game and to be able to, the murderous dictators, to make money and everybody else be suppressed.
	Well, guess what?
	We don't want that world order.
	We reject that out of hand.
	We reject the fact that Europe's a protectorate of the United States of America.
	If they're going to be an ally, stand up and be an ally.
	And you see right now, from Slovakia to all of them, they don't want to put in any more money and they don't want to send any more arms.
	And the people are waking up to that.
	In the Middle East, where we've had nothing but protectors.
	How that worked out for us?
	We're on every side of the trade in the Middle East.
	We're on every side of the trade.
	We're given almost as much money as we give Israel.
	We're underwriting the Saudis' defense.
	They say, oh no, they're putting out money.
	Yeah, but we're underwriting the defense.
	Trust me.
	And UAE.
	And Kuwait.
	And Bahrain.
	Where they're skimming their money, and they're putting their money into the West End of London.
	They're living over there in Belgravia.
	You go to Belgravia, the most expensive, or Mayfair, you go to Mayfair or Belgravia over in London, you got Russian oligarchs, you got Ukrainian oligarchs, you got the Arabs, right?
	They're living high on the hog.
	The property prices, you don't see Englishmen there.
	Don't see Englishmen there.
	It's all the oligarchs' money flowing in there.
	That's the world that they've created.
	That's the world we reject because, and you can reject it.
	Here's the fear.
	This is why Johnson said, here's the fear and you can smell the fear now.
	You're now the wide awake.
	You're awakened and you're bringing more people to be awakened because upon you, the entire system rests on your shoulders.
	You underwrite it all with your taxes, your hard labor and your taxes, but also your insurance and your savings and your private equity.
	They use that to ship the jobs off and to fight these forever wars.
	And it takes your sons and daughters to be expended on these foreign battlefields.
	Yep, that's the system.
	As they enrich themselves every day and mock, don't even have the common courtesy to even fake it, like your values are okay and we'll play along and let the breathing through the mouth Christians, we'll toss them a few cents.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	That's the thing that drives them the most because they're demonic.
	That's the thing that drives them the most.
	Drives them crazy the most.
	If they were smart, they'd play along, let the Christians have their little things, let them have prayer in school, let them have all this, let them go do their thing because they're the proletariat that are underwriting the system.
	So we don't want them to get up in arms.
	But no, they want the whole thing.
	That's why they come after the nuclear family.
	That's why they come after the kids.
	That's why they come after every value that you hold dear.
	That's why Mike Johnson enrages them.
	The concept of Mike Johnson enrages them.
	This is a good Christian man with a good family and has sacrificed in the material world to defend the Constitution.
	And I mean defend it.
	To defend the basics of our society, the underlying values.
	To defend it and give up material gain to do that.
	They hate that.
	He represents everything they hate and detest.
	And now it's taking power in the imperial capital.
	And it took power for only one reason, and never forget this.
unidentified		You.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		The foreign anti-christian Murdoch clan fought this tooth and nail.
		They had all the power with the lobbyists.
		All the power.
		And you beat them.
		And don't think behind closed doors they're not working on how they're going to rewire that.
		Because they've made a blood pact never to let Trump return.
		Because in Trump returning, you then have the House, you have the White House, and you will soon have the Senate.
		And that means you are in the driver's seat.
		And they will fight that to their dying breath.
		Short commercial break.
unidentified		Back to the warm in a moment.
		It's actually for the posse, but really anyone that wants to get engaged, you know, especially with what happened with the speaker election of calling all your representatives and congressmen.
		And right now it's just been so difficult because you have a general line and you have to like talk to a switchboard, but we created an app.
		Where it's a list of all your representatives, your senators, based on your location.
		If you want to turn off the location part, you can look up any state, any representative, and it's all in one app.
		You can also click on their website to email them.
		And this is just another tool for us to just really hound them and to make sure that the representatives hear their constituents Did you say the name of it yet?
		Oh, it's called Build Blaster.
		Right now it is only available on Apple.
		It was a passion project that was created by myself and my friend who will remain nameless because he's in the tech industry and, you know, the whole cancel culture thing.
		But this is just a tool because It actually started when the debt ceiling, Steve, Steve Bannon, my boss, he wanted me to like put all these lists together of who voted yes and no.
		And it just became this whole Excel spreadsheet.
		I love Excel because I'm, you know, in accounting and finance.
		And then, um, it ended up being like a 40 page PDF of like people all like I had the Twitter handles or X handles their, their websites and everything.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Grace, it's Bell Blaster, which Grace has worked on.
		By the way, Grace was magnificent last night on Tim Pool.
		I'm going to have to work on her and Mo about co-hosting the show.
		She was fantastic.
		We'll play clips from that later, and I want to thank everybody that's watching the simulcast.
		Timpo was great last night.
		Grace was great.
		Bill Blasser, this is the app.
		It's going to make it so much easier.
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		Eli Crane, we couldn't have a better guest.
		Eli's in studio in The Worm.
		We couldn't have a better guest today about biblical worldview.
		We started the show by the complete meltdown of Morning Mika and all these progressives.
		They're losing it about Johnson because in his interviews he's saying, hey, you want to know what my point of view is?
		Everybody in town, all the lobbyists, everybody, go read the Bible.
		Your assessment, sir?
unidentified		Well, Steve, thanks for having me on.
		And I did want to come say thank you to the War Room audience, the posse, for all your support.
		Last couple of weeks have been kind of difficult for the eight of us.
		You guys have been so uplifting, so encouraging.
		We get your messages, your emails, your social media, and it means a lot when everybody else in this town is against you.
		But Steve, when you're talking about Mike Johnson, his worldview, and the left, And the mainstream melting down, it is of no surprise to me at all.
		I want to read you this scripture real quick from Ephesians 6, 12.
		It says, For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.
		And you know, it's been something that I talk about with my voters on the campaign trail all the time.
		Everything that you see going on around the world, and one of the reasons you see chaos around the world, all of it has spiritual foundation to it.
		And this whole spat with Mike Johnson threatening, you know, their plans, their agenda, it's just another chapter in this spiritual war.
		And it's why it's so important that this audience and that the American people pray for Mike Johnson, pray for his staff, Pray for, you know, their representatives and the men and women that are waging war on the front lines, because it is all spiritual, brother, and you know it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I want to go back to Ephesians, to the spiritual war.
		You've been called, and people don't understand what you see happen to these guys in public and on Fox News, the other thing with Karl Rove near the Wall Street Journal, is one one-hundredth that's happening behind the scenes, where they're being attacked relentlessly.
		You've been called An agent of chaos you personally because of your stand you're one of the mag six in the heart eight you were both Yet you delivered by standing your ground you delivered really the beginning of a change in leadership that puts a Biblical worldview at the center of American power, and that's why they're freaking out tell me about there for a second tell me about they're the agents of chaos, but they blamed you on being the agent of chaos and
unidentified		Absolutely.
		I referenced it a second ago, Steve.
		This has been going on since I got into Congress, just because of how my start into Congress started with the Speaker fight back in January.
		Having guys like Newt Gingrich sit there on Fox News and call me a traitor, After I dropped out of school my senior year to enlist the week after 9-11 and go fight for my country, that's rich, Newt.
		And for all the other minions on Murdoch News that have the audacity to say something like that to me, hey, let's go compare resumes any day of the week.
		Let's go compare how much you've sacrificed for this country, how many friends you've lost for this country, and what you were willing to put on the line for this country.
		I'll do it with any of you.
		But it is so important that we remember what this fight is about.
		And, you know, just some inside baseball, Steve, as you know, I've been cussed out, threatened, you know, I've been prayed over multiple times here, people trying to cast the demons out of me.
		And it's just, it's rich because it's like, I know that the American people do not, are not represented up in this town.
		And so, you know, common sense tells me, Steve, if you come to this town and you're hated, And they can't stand the sight of you, that's probably a good thing.
		You're probably over target.
		And so I'm honored to serve with some patriots that aren't willing to back down, that are willing to go toe-to-toe and fight every single day.
		You guys know who they are.
		You know, you got the Andy Biggs's, the Matt Rosendale's, the Matt Gates's of the world.
		You know, we had Tim Burchett in this last one.
		Nancy Mace, you know, stood up with us in this last one.
		You know, all of them, you know, and one of the coolest things, Steve, when Mike Johnson got the nomination in conference, one of the things that really, you know, I don't know, I didn't know Mike really well, but it really piqued my attention, brother, when he got up to the mic.
		And he, the first thing he did was he started talking about his faith.
		And he said, he said, we are, God has put us all here for a reason.
		And he quoted a scripture that I've, that I have heard and I talk about before.
		And it says, you know, the Lord, you know, tears kings down.
		And he puts them in place.
		And I do believe that Mike Johnson is here for a reason.
		I don't know, you know, how well he's going to do as a speaker, but I'm willing to give him a chance.
		I'm willing to get behind him.
		And from everything that I see so far, there's no doubt in my mind, Steve, that you, your audience, and everybody that stood on the front line of this fight made this conference better and has given this country a better chance to prosper.
		And I know that's what we all want.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Eli, you're a man of very deep and abiding faith, and as I've gotten to know you better, I understand that that faith is to the core of your being.
		I think people are shocked, like when we opened the day with Morning Journey's people just losing it on Mike Johnson being a devout Christian.
		Because most people, particularly lower information people, would think, well, hold it, we're the United States of America.
		We're the beacon of religious freedom.
		We're the main part of the Judeo-Christian West and we were founded as a Christian nation.
		How could this be different?
		Can you just compare and contrast the worldview of yourself and the Mike Johnson's of the world and people that are committed Christians that live their Christianity every day versus the worldview that actually runs our nation's capital?
unidentified		Yeah, you know, absolutely, Steve, and many of them still won't say it out loud.
		The opposition to, I think, Christianity, they won't say it out loud because I think they still understand that that would maybe hurt their polling numbers or that the American people are still...
		very protective of religious liberty, freedom of speech, etc.
		But, I mean, you see it everywhere you look, right?
		When I opened my Bible, and I know Mr. Johnson reads his, you know, in the very first book, the Lord says, I created them male and female.
		What does this world say, Steve?
		No, this world says, there's 3,000 genders now.
		We're just going to go ahead and We're just going to go ahead and make up whatever we want, and it's in complete opposition to everything that God has designed and everything that He has created.
		And that's why I read Ephesians when I opened up, because this is a spiritual war.
		And I'm going to give you a couple other scriptures, Steve, to kind of paint the context, you know, for, and I know many of your listeners understand this, but John 10.10 says the thief has come to steal, kill, and destroy.
		I see a lot of destruction.
		I see a lot of things being killed.
		I see a lot of things, you know, being destroyed.
		A lot of families.
		I see our culture being destroyed.
		1 Peter 5.8 says, be alert and of sober mind for your enemy the devil prowls the earth like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
		Tell me that's not happening, Steve, in America right now.
		It absolutely is.
		This is a spiritual war.
		And, you know, it's really, you know, Steve, when I was in, when I was in the SEAL teams, I was, towards the end of my career, I was a sniper and we had four sniper rifles, each sniper did.
		And then I had, I think, you know, in my custody, I probably had eight or nine different weapons that were checked out to me.
		And you know what, brother?
		Not one of those weapons would do a damn thing in this spiritual fight that we are engaged in right now.
		But I tell you what, knowing the Word of God is effective.
		And that is the truth.
		And in my opinion, that's the bedrock that many of the men and women that you see up here in Capitol Hill fighting for the American people, that's what we rally around.
		We are constantly praying, Steve.
		You know, we are constantly talking about, you know, the Word of God.
		And I know the enemy, oh man, their heads are blowing up right now, brother.
		They just cannot stand it.
		And I'm going to tell you this, Steve, right now, like, I know there's a lot of people probably listening to this show that don't believe, you know, agree with my faith or believe with anything that I'm saying, and that's okay.
		I'm glad you have the right to believe whatever you want.
		I fought for your right to believe whatever you want, and I'll defend your right to believe anything you want.
		And I'm going to tell you something else.
		I'm going to take this one step further as we go into geopolitics.
		This spiritual war that I'm talking about, this Bible that Mike Johnson, you know, is talking about, reads and has the left's head blown up, the one I read, this whole thing is, the whole Bible is Jerusalem-Israel centric.
		And there's a reason that that piece of that piece of ground in the Middle East is the most contested piece of ground in the history of the world.
		And it's why you saw an attack so demonic And so sadistic that most people can't even wrap their heads around.
		Why would people, why would people go and do that to innocent civilians, babies, families?
		And then why would you see, why would you see massive protests all over the world, all over this country, you know, supporting that type of stuff?
		Make some sense of that to me without understanding the spirituality of it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Eli, I want to, if I can hold you through, Congressman Crane, if we could just hold you through the break.
		We're going to take a short commercial break.
		Congressman Crane, we're going to talk geopolitics.
		He's a practitioner of the tough arts of freedom.
		He's dedicated his life in the Middle East for many, many, many years in defense of freedom.
		And he's got a very unique take on where we are today geopolitically.
		Short commercial break.
		We're going to return with Eli Crane in just a moment.
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unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bass.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, there's been an announcement.
		I think the Palestinians are saying that the big hospital there, the Israelis are saying, IDF saying, there is a massive tunnel underneath and maybe one of the command posts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and they're going to attack it.
		So today, trust me, this is going to get ramped up.
		Eli, people look to you because you've not just talked the talk, you've walked the walk.
		In your defense of this country, and our liberties in the Middle East, and some of the nastiest, gnarliest times that we've had.
		I want to get to Ukraine in a second, but I definitely want to get your take on, and people should understand, and listen to Eli, I understand that two-thirds of our audience wants no money to Ukraine, and they're questioning this commitment to Israel, what it really means, etc.
		Walk me through your take on things.
unidentified		Well, yeah, and I totally understand that perspective as well, Steve.
		I mean, I think that when you are in the spot that you were in as a country when you're $33 trillion in debt and you have a $2 trillion annual deficit and, you know, it seems like every single time something kicks off around the world, you know, America, we get front-site focus on it and we send all of our resources and our treasure, you know,
		there and and yet we could care less about you know our own citizens that we could care less about the southern border we could care less about the families dying of fentanyl and so
		I totally understand that perspective, and it's something that I've said multiple times now, you know, publicly, since this war in Israel has kicked off, that we need to be very cautious in how we proceed, and we need to make sure that our focus and our priority is still the American people, as it should be, as it always should be.
		But, you know, that being said, as a man of faith, and Steve, when I talk about my faith, one of the reasons I am a man of faith is because, and one of the reasons I'm a Christian is because I'm a sinner.
		That's just a fact, man.
		So I don't think I'm holier than thou or anything like that.
		As a matter of fact, I accepted Christ into my heart because I wanted Him to do for me what I couldn't do for myself.
		I wanted him to trade his perfect, sinless life for, you know, my sinful one.
		And so, please, when I talk about my faith, please understand that, you know, there's a lot of humility there, and, you know, I needed that salvation.
		But when I look at what's, as a man of faith, when I look, and when I opened my Bible, and we've been talking about that a lot on this little segment, one of the very, the very first book of the Bible, It says that God says that I will bless those who bless Israel, and I will curse those who curse Israel.
		Okay?
		So, you know, Steve, if I'm on the right path, and I'm right about my faith, and one day I meet God at the end of it all, I think that will be one of the most terrifying days of my life.
		And you know what, brother?
		I want the Lord to say, you know, Eli, son, you cared about the things that I cared about.
		And you fought for the things that I care about and the things that I love.
		And, you know, like I said, the whole book is based around and centered around Jerusalem and Israel and God's love and His covenant for His people.
		Now, I know a lot of the Western church, you know, there's replacement theology out there and a bunch of other doctrines and theories that basically say, oh, those covenants don't matter anymore.
		You know, God's replaced, you know, Israel.
		You know, with Americans or Western culture or whatever, I don't buy it for a second.
		But that's okay.
		I respect everybody's opinion.
		But Israel is different to me than anywhere else on the face of the earth.
		And I'll tell you why.
		Because I think it's different to God than anywhere else on the face of the earth.
		And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
		Because I'm a man of faith and because I believe the scriptures that I read, I think that God still has a covenant and a concern and even a controversy with Israel.
		And so I think we need to be cautious and we need to be very level-headed and we need to count the cost, which we're not very good at.
		But I also think, and we have supported Israel, we're supporting Israel right now, and I do believe we will support them in the future.
		I would love to see that be material support resources, but I'm not a big fan of us going in there and putting boots on the ground and trying to escalate this thing, and I've been clear about that from the beginning.
		Because as this thing kicks off and escalates this has the potential to turn into You know something that we've been concerned about with the Ukraine-Russia War and that that's World War three and many of the people that are pushing that and Champions for that Steve have never gone to war themselves.
		They they've never lost loved ones They've never seen a family destroyed.
		They've never seen little kids grow up without their dad and And that's, uh, it's very unfortunate.
		And, you know, it's, I think it's, I think it's a problem when you have, you know, these people that we call war hawks or neocons that are constantly pushing the next, you know, the next fight, the next fight, the next fight.
		And, and you know, how many layers there are to it, Steve, when you look at some of the, you know, how the defense contractors are funding many of their campaigns and stuff like that, it's, it's pretty disgusting.
		Um, But this is one of those interesting times where, you know, for me personally, there is a conflict because of my faith and being an America First candidate, you know, and so I think we need to be cautious and level-headed, but I do support Israel.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Real quickly, we've got to bounce.
		Is there going to be a big, intense debate inside the conference on Ukraine, on Israel, on the defense of the southern border?
		Are we now going to have a real debate internally with you guys and not just have McCarthy jamming stuff down people's throats?
unidentified		Yeah, Steve.
		I mean, there's always a debate.
		We've always been on the short end of the stick just because of our numbers.
		The posse has definitely helped with that in blowing up people's phones.
		And I'm so proud of Grace and her friend for developing that app.
		I think it's going to be huge.
		And making sure that the American people are heard on it.
		And, you know, I don't know, you know, how radically this conference is going to change under the leadership of Mike Johnson, Steve, but I'm already seeing positive signs and I think it's going to change, you know, by a couple degrees here and there.
		And, you know, I'm pretty grateful that I think that we got an upgrade for the American people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Eli, real quickly, your social media, where do people go to find more about you?
unidentified		Rep Eli Crane and Steve, I just wanted to say thank you so much, brother, for all that you do.
		Thank you to the posse for throwing down every day, manning the ramparts, getting on those phones, getting on your social media.
		It does matter.
		And the people up here feel the pressure.
		So keep it up, please.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We commit to you, we will, Eli.
		Thank you.
		One of the toughest, hardest guys up there.
		The best.
		Eli Crane.
		We'll be back.
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		We're back 5 to 7 tonight.

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