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Feb. 28, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 3423: Road To Damascus: Shutdown The Government Or Shutdown The Border
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mike johnson
Thank you all for staying.
We had a couple of meetings there.
It was frank and honest.
I think we need more frank and honest conversations on Capitol Hill, so I was happy to participate in this.
We did that as a group, and then I had a one-on-one for a period of time with the President, just he and I in the Oval Office.
Let me say this.
When I showed up today, my purpose was to express what I believe is the obvious truth, and that is that we must take care of America's needs first.
When you talk about America's needs, you have to talk first about our open border.
I've been, I believe, in maybe 20-something states over the last several weeks, going around the country, appearing at events with my colleagues, and we're hearing from the American people of all parties and all persuasions in all cities and all states
who feel this acutely they understand the catastrophe at the border is affecting everyone and it is top of mind for all the american people for that reason so i brought that issue up repeatedly today in that room and and again one-on-one with the president i think that's our responsibility uh... to bring that up the other big priority for our country of course is the funding of our government and we have been working in good faith around the clock every single day for months and in weeks and over the last several days
Quite literally, around the clock, to get that job done.
We're very optimistic.
I hope that the other leaders came out here and told you the same.
We believe that we can get to agreement on these issues and prevent a government shutdown and that's our first responsibility.
You also heard, I'm sure, that there was discussion about the supplemental spending package.
And I was very clear with the President and all those in the room that the House is actively pursuing and investigating all the various options on that, and we will address that in a timely manner.
But again, the first priority of the country is our border and making sure it's secure.
I believe the president can take executive authority right now, today, to change that.
And I told him that again today in person, as I've said to him many times, publicly and privately over the last several weeks.
It's time for action.
It is a catastrophe.
And it must stop.
And we will get the government funded, and we'll keep working on that.
unidentified
So we'll have more information.
Would you think at some time it's safe to say that that would be one of your goals?
ron desantis
I would only do stuff if I thought there was a rationale for me to accomplish things on behalf of the people.
So it's all substance-driven about whether I could serve or not serve in a variety of capacities.
But I'll tell you, as governor, and if you're a determined executive, you can make things happen, and we've done that in Florida.
unidentified
When can we expect the big announcement?
ron desantis
Depends how good we do in this legislative session.
unidentified
Trump or Joe Biden?
Joe Biden.
Trump or Joe Biden?
Joe Biden.
Trump or Joe Biden?
Joe Biden.
Trump or Joe Biden?
Joe Biden.
We're asking for Joe Biden to help us to help us accomplish our dreams here and so we can get ahead.
And they're going to see the Biden t-shirts that were in his first six months of his administration, and they're going to see clips like this.
Well, I think both candidates have to realize this, that if on the left, if Joe Biden listens to the squad, he loses.
And I think if Donald Trump listens to Matt Gaetz and Steve Bannon, he loses.
They have to understand that most of the people are not on the extremes.
And if you could understand that, you're gonna win.
The first one to understand that, and does what they think they should do, and now what the extremists are bullying them to do, is gonna be successful.
They stole the 2020 election.
Media, I want you to suck on this!
I want the White House to suck on this!
You lost in 2020!
2020, Donald Trump is the legitimate president of the United States.
Trump won!
steve bannon
His fate and destiny is to have the greatest political comeback in American history, and on November 5th, to drive the vermin out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
unidentified
Biden, you and your crime family are nothing but trash, okay?
And on the 20th of January of 2020.
steve bannon
It is Tuesday, 27 February, the year of our 2024.
We could go in and continue that.
Number one, let's start with the basics.
There were conference calls immediately after, a bunch of conference calls immediately after this meeting today over at the White House.
Now you had the following in the room.
You had Schumer, you had McConnell, you had Hakeem Jeffries.
These are sharks.
I mean huge sharks that have been around this town a long time and know how to devour minnows.
And then you had Speaker Johnson.
And he came out and he says one thing, and you know, but his priority is, we have to make a priority of securing the country, we have to make a priority of securing the border, but then he says, we've got to get the government funded.
Funding the government's a priority, our number one priority.
Then he says we've got to get the government funded and keep working on it.
No, sir.
You are once again confused.
You need extreme clarity.
Extreme clarity in this.
And that clarity is, That if they don't secure the border now with the executive actions he has available to him, and they are manifold, then the government doesn't get funded.
It doesn't get funded on the interim basis on the 1st, and it certainly doesn't get funded for the entire shutdown on the 8th.
Full stop.
There's no worming away from this.
There's no bobbing and weaving on this.
In the meeting, we heard Schumer brought it up when you mentioned it.
He says, oh, that's a non sequitur that you can't fund Ukraine and the border.
We already gave you the greatest border bill and you guys turned it down.
unidentified
You only bring it to the floor.
steve bannon
That's a bald-faced lie.
You should have called him a bald-faced liar in the Oval Office, and you did not.
This is not a time for comedy.
This is not a time for group hug.
You have all the leverage.
You have all the leverage.
Let me repeat this.
You have all the leverage.
And the country will be on your side.
The nation will be on your side.
We have never had the nation more focused on the invasion.
It's not immigration.
We don't have an immigration issue.
We have an invasion of the country issue.
It could not become a more high relief.
Today, in New York City, Eric Adams, one of the worst of the worst, changed the wording of the sanctuary city to say, Oh, we're going to actually deport, you know, criminals because President Trump's come out for the last couple of weeks and called migrant crime, migrant crime, migrant crime.
I actually think it's illegal alien crime.
You got the situation in Northern Virginia with the guy, you know, um, being a pedophile.
You have it in Atlanta where they murdered, brutally murdered the nurse.
Excuse me, in Athens, liberal Athens, with all the progressives down there at the University of Georgia on the faculty and the liberal and the progressive mayor, they're lighting him up now.
We've never had more momentum because people see with their eyes, and Biden has done nothing.
Biden has done nothing.
All they've done is control the optics.
You see when President Trump goes to Eagle Pass, which we respectfully think he ought to go to Lukeville, because Eagle Pass, they pull the thing to clean it up.
Del Rio and Eagle Pass because they understood the optics were so terrible.
You have the leverage.
Right now, people in the House, Speaker Johnson, are looking for you to call the play.
Call the play and run the play.
And the play you call is the following.
You've run out of time and you're knocking a crater to a bunch of stuff that are trying to come up.
Mini-buses, maxi-buses, omni-buses.
All they want is more time to tap you along.
There's no more time.
You ran out of time.
You need, you have the vote to secure the border.
CNN, everybody, they're all pressured.
It all sits in your hands to save democracy in Europe.
It's 60 billion dollars.
The Europeans are wealthier than the Americans.
It wasn't come down to the American people.
Got to write a 60 billion dollar check.
Let the Europeans do it.
If it's such a crisis in Europe, European democracy is going to crater.
They got it.
Go the Norwegians.
They got a trillion and a half dollars sitting in the Sovereign Wealth Fund.
All the Sovereign Wealth Funds are massive.
Go to France.
Wealthy country.
Go to Italy.
Wealthy country.
Giorgia Maloney, she wants to be a big shot in NATO.
Go to her.
You couldn't even put, the 50 billion euros is a lie, all these guys sitting there, they're all puffed up on, you know, McFall and Stavridis and all the great thinkers, you know, the big thinkers, they're sitting there, yes, the Europeans already put 50 billion up, they didn't put 50 billion up, that's a lie!
That was 12 billion per year, 12 this year, 12 next year, and then an option for the third and fourth.
Think they'll use that option?
No, they won't.
Go to the Europeans right now.
Go to the, just go to Switzerland, they got 50 billion.
Go to the ski resort, just go to the ski, ah, go to Davos.
They're all skiing up there, they're all drinking champagne and, you know, having hors d'oeuvres.
All the Europeans have full pensions, they're taking it 50.
They have six, I don't know, they take the summer off, they take August off and plus a couple weeks on either side.
They have full medical care.
They have free college.
You got any of that?
Do you have any of that?
No, you don't have any of that.
And yet they want you to pay.
It's such a crisis.
This is, oh, Johnson, the fate of democracy and ultra-MAGA and the MAGA Republicans, you guys are the problem.
You are the problem.
You are, this is your Neville Chamberlain moment.
Well, screw you.
It's not our problem, it's their problem.
Write the check.
If it's such a big deal, if the whole of Europe is going to crumble, write the check.
The Europeans, write the check.
We're tired of writing the check, particularly for another loser situation, just like Afghanistan and Iraq and Vietnam.
And thank God, so far, they haven't gotten their hands on our young men and women, and they want to.
Macron's trying to be a big shot.
Oh, we're going to send troops.
You're not going to send troops.
You've got a civil war in your own country.
You've got the farmers, you've got everybody else protesting, you've got the Muslims all over the place burning everything.
You're not going to send any troops.
They'll toss you out, you'll lose the Le Pen, worse you're going to lose now.
The Germans and the Swedes thought that was a great idea.
They came out immediately and said, no way.
We're going to have, we're actually going to have Ben Harnwell on next, in the next hour, excuse me, to talk about that.
This is where, this is, this is the moment of decision.
You've kicked the can down the road far enough.
Stand up for America.
Stand up for the sovereignty of this country.
Let's stand up for what they say.
We're giving, we're shoveling all this cash over to Ukraine.
The sovereignty, the self-determination, the territorial integrity.
We don't control the southern border.
We don't control our border.
The cartels do.
God knows who down there is on the payroll.
Yes, I said it.
I said the quiet part out loud because you know it's true.
There are people on this side of the border who are officials who are taking cash money, law enforcement, judges, city officials.
Yes, let's go there.
They're taking cash money from the cartels, whether the cartels are gold or lead.
Gold or lead.
And we have to reinforce down there to make sure those people don't have to make that choice.
It's totally and completely out of control.
Biden, since this whole thing's come up, Biden has not lifted one finger to do anything.
He has not lifted a finger to do anything.
Talking about, yeah, you know, over there, if we can get it past the squad and some progressives, we ought to, we got to really take, we got to really take, you know, what we got to do is, you know, maybe think about doing some of this stuff.
They're not going to do it until you force them to do it.
Your country's not going to get saved because you went over to the Oval Office and you had a meeting.
And, of course, it was very intense.
This is what the leaks are.
Very intense.
It was a lot of urgency and intensity and, you know, knitted brows and finger pointing.
Because they got Johnson in the room and said, hey, we can roll this guy.
Those guys are sharks.
Schumer, McConnell.
Boy, they take time away from trying to get McConnell's endorsement of President Trump.
Hey, here's the endorsement I want from McConnell for President Trump.
We don't want anything else.
All I want out of his lips is not that we support President Trump.
You'll show us you support President Trump.
You support MAGA.
You support the American Republic.
Your endorsement is the following.
Shut down the border or shut down the government.
We don't want anything else from you.
You've done so much damage.
You've done so much damage.
Just do that.
Start your path, start your road to Damascus with one step, one tiny step, McConnell.
Because if you care about your legacy, which everybody tells me that's all you care about, which I commit to you, we will put a blowtorch to.
Start your road to Damascus with one step.
Just say the following.
Shut down the border or we will shut down the government.
Have Johnson's back.
Take the load off him.
Take the weight off him.
Can you do that, Mitch?
Will the donors that own you do that?
Will your buddies at the CCP?
Will they let you do that?
Can you at least, uh, you know, you can still, I'll tell you what, you can still let your PLA divisions in here.
Can you shut down the rest?
unidentified
short break back in a moment Would you think at some time it's safe to say that that would be one of your goals?
ron desantis
I would only do stuff if I thought there was a rationale for me to accomplish things on behalf of the people.
So it's all substance-driven about whether I could serve or not serve in a variety of capacities.
But I'll tell you, you know, as governor and if you're a determined executive, you know, you can make things happen and we've done that in Florida.
unidentified
When can we expect the big announcement?
ron desantis
Depends how good we do in this legislative session.
unidentified
Trump or Joe Biden?
Joe Biden.
Trump or Joe Biden?
Joe Biden.
Trump or Joe Biden?
Joe Biden.
Trump or Joe Biden?
Joe Biden.
We're asking for Joe Biden to help us to help us accomplish our dreams here and so we can get ahead.
And they're going to see the Biden t-shirts that were in his first six months of his administration, and they're going to see clips like this.
Well, I think both candidates have to realize this, that if on the left, if Joe Biden listens to the squad, he loses.
And I think if Donald Trump listens to Matt Gaetz and Steve Bannon, he loses.
They have to understand that most of the people are not on the extremes.
And if you could understand that, you're going to win.
The first one to understand that and does what they think they should do and now what the extremists are bullying them to do is going to be successful.
American Revolution so no more talking.
steve bannon
Hang on for Rachel Maddow. Hang on to Rachel. Let's go back to this.
Let's talk about the Murdochs. Because kill me doesn't matter.
I mean, he's a he's a actually brands of I think a pretty nice guy and I'm a fan of his books, but he's he's apparent trick.
He's just getting paid.
So he's told what to do, you know, how they run the system over there and how they run it, you know, starting at the couch in the morning bouncing up and down and then go all the way through the evening shows.
Murdoch, did I mention they were foreigners?
Actually, somebody was very interesting with the New York Post over the weekend at CPAC.
I finally got confirmation that it's getting to the Murdochs about calling them foreigners.
Something specifically about the New York Post.
I heard that, well, the address is over there.
Remember, Bannon says we're owned by foreigners, so it doesn't sit very well.
Sorry about that.
That's just reality.
They're foreigners, and they're not good foreigners.
They're bad people.
Trump, because Trump is ascendant, MAGA is ascendant, Trump is now in the real clear politics poll.
There's two narratives they're pushing.
The Democrats are doing one to try to get their base worked up and try to get some enthusiasm for Biden.
That's this whole false narrative that Trump is not, you know, he's not winning these primaries enough.
You're going to be overwhelmed with this.
That Trump's not pulling in the establishment Republicans or the independents, all of it.
Nikki Haley won with, not won, but she had the Democrats and the Democrat-leaning independents voted for in South Carolina.
She's getting blown out in the enthusiasm for Trump.
Couldn't be higher in this building.
But remember, the establishment wants to do with President Trump what they did to President Reagan and partially part of President Trump's first term.
And that is to get the incubus, get the virus in there so that President Trump does not hit all the marks he wants to hit in his second term.
So the Nicky part of it is to, and that's why Murda comes in, this is where we started the Kilmeade, because they sent Kilmeade down to, you know, the first, they fanboyed on DeSantis.
And what did we say on this show from the very beginning?
And what did I tell people privately?
To say DeSantis is never going to be President of the United States.
This is just a fantasy.
And right now, even if he was, now is the wrong time.
Because President Trump is going to be the nominee.
He's going to be the next president.
We need to get around him.
Oh, by the way, this was on the afternoon of the 20th of January of 2021.
As you know, followers of the show know we were dug in and dug in hard at the same time that Murdoch sent the email out that became evidence in the in the machine trial The Dominion trial, where he said in those first couple of weeks, after Biden was in, that they, the network, were going to make Trump a non-person.
A non-person.
And the first person they fanboyed on is DeSantis.
You know, Younkin.
And then now Nikki.
They're the ones that keep giving her a platform.
They just had town hall work through the other day.
You don't see Fox attacking Nikki at all.
You certainly don't see them attacking her positions as positions that are stone-cold losers.
Why?
Because it's their positions.
They are neoliberal neocons.
They fully support the concentration of wealth in this nation.
They are foreign.
It's a foreign billionaire family.
That does not have the best interests of the United States in mind, except as a market where they happen to own media assets, including a television network, I believe, illegally, and I believe we could show that in the next Trump administration.
He gun decked his citizenship in the middle of trying to buy Fox Broadcasting, because guess what?
You're supposed to be an American citizen.
Well, they took care of that so he could buy it.
It was completely illegal.
This is the way so many of the world's elite laugh at us.
It's not you.
It's not the inherent power of this nation from its people.
It's not its decency.
It's not its civic society.
They mock us because our leaders are for sale.
The Wall Street crowd, the Silicon Valley crowd, do you ever think, don't take it from me, see what you see, just look at yourself.
Do you ever see them putting the nation first?
Do you ever see them putting American citizens first?
They never put the nation first, except to how to rape her.
And they certainly don't put you first, you're always dead last.
Right now they're guilt tripping you constantly.
The Wall Street Journal constantly, the Murdoch's Wall Street Journal constantly on the editorial page.
Oh, you've got to do Ukraine, you have to do Ukraine, you have to do Ukraine.
Have you ever seen more of an obsession about one topic than this, an obsession?
Because they realize they're losing their grip, that you've stood in the breach, the little guy, and you've told them no, not going to happen.
Not like this was supposed to be done by conservatives and limited government conservatives before, who, hey, you just didn't get it done and you got rolled up in the fox and became controlled opposition.
That's why there's not only been no changes, we're in worse shape than ever.
The only reversal of fortune we've had in this entire thing is Trump.
Those first three years before you get hit with the bioweapon.
Because they knew they had to do something.
And then the summer of love.
Look at that.
Remember it all.
And yes, they stole it.
And no, Kilmeade, your network was in on it.
You guys came in in Arizona.
There's no chance they won Arizona by 8,000 votes.
Impossible, bro.
Sorry.
And here's what upsets them.
67%, I think it is, 65% of folks that voted in the South Carolina primary agree with the war room.
That's what irks them.
They can't talk about it and won't talk about it because they signed a thing that says they're not going to talk about it.
So they won't have anybody talk about it.
But they were in on the thing from the very beginning.
Wouldn't be in the shape if they hadn't called Arizona.
That was able to trigger the whole deal and shut down everything later.
Oh, you know, wow.
Biden won.
They called Trump's own network, called it for Biden.
Oh, wow.
So if we can stop counting and go home with Trump up in these other states, just like Mark Elias said, Mark Elias laid it all out for you.
Raheem Kassam went around and Bill McGinley went around and Steve Bannon went around and walked you through exactly how they were going to steal it.
And Fox was in on that.
The Murdoch News was in on that.
And now they're all in.
And what is Gates arguing for?
Remember, January of a year ago, oh, it's going to be anarchy, it's going to be all this?
You finally got to somebody, and here we are, the single subject bills, they still haven't pushed through.
You know why?
Because they don't want to make the cuts.
They never talk about, and Fox Business never talks about, the real issue with the debt and the deficits.
It's the deficits.
It's just not the face amount of the debt.
That's bad enough.
It's the deficits in perpetuity.
And here we are, midnight on Friday.
The government runs out of money, and we have a discussion about how to cut $500 billion.
Are we talking about going back and rethinking the military?
Are we going back and talking about, hey, this Medicaid and the welfare and the part of Social Security with disabilities is all exploding or out of control?
How do you rethink these?
Are you doing any of that?
No, no, no.
This audience sat up and looked at the single subject bills, appropriations in the middle of the night, big audience, 10, 15,000 people watching at two in the morning, seeing Republicans vote down the amendments of people like Andy Biggs and Matt Gaetz and others.
Matt Gaetz gave you a pathway to your freedom here.
Has it worked out perfectly?
No, it has not worked out perfectly.
Because we have people still in there that don't, just don't have the backbone and the stones to do it.
That's okay.
It's a process.
You'll find them.
Leaders will arise.
Study the revolution.
It didn't, it didn't, it wasn't, it was, it was bumpy.
Very bumpy.
It had a lot of things, you know, turbulence, air turbulence, lots of turbulence.
That was a fourth turning.
Lots of turbulence.
Lots of turbulence.
It's those that can see it through, those that are, wait for it, resilient and tough and have grit and determination and won't back down, that are going to win.
When the other side just gives up or quits, this is one of the things they've got, all of the issues they have with their enthusiasm levels.
And yet this is Fox already.
They got Nikki out there and this is Fox already.
Oh, you got these radicals.
You have these radicals.
You have these radicals.
Don't please don't.
You can't listen to these radicals.
Can't listen to these radicals.
I want to talk about not getting into war.
Everything Fox stands for, we stand for the opposite.
You know why?
We're populist nationalists and they're neoliberal neocons.
The same folks that gave you Iraq and Afghanistan and the financial crisis.
The same folks that gave you the concentration of wealth that supported all the bailouts, the same folks.
Their track record is in front of you.
You see the damage to this nation by controlled opposition.
And they're going to come at Trump now and try to surround him.
If you watch, it's already happening.
Already happening.
Short break.
Back to the worm in a moment.
Get Bill Blaster.
No need to light people up today or this evening, because they're not really back.
It's really tomorrow.
There was actually discussion, maybe not even bringing them back.
That's how, I don't want to say disunited, but how there's a lack of a plan.
And here's the thing, just here's the plan.
Every time you shut the government down for a purpose and a reason, you explain to the American people, and you got the purpose.
In fact, I think Carnival, in getting ready for the next hour, just sent me the Axios has just got a new poll out.
Immigration service is the top concern for Americans.
28 percent.
You've got to list everything.
28 percent.
The number one issue, by far, is immigration.
It's up 8 points.
It's up 8 points versus what?
Almost 8 or 20.
It's almost, you know, up 40 percent.
Or 30% since January.
Hello?
Because people can see it in their towns now.
Deficit and federal budget deficits are down to 3%, only a slight increase.
The reason, they don't want to talk about it.
Because once you do that, the con is over.
Right?
They know what the con is, which is just continually printing the money of the Federal Reserve.
And there's a bunch of stories that, oh, the dollar's on fire because they're spending more and everybody's coming here because the rates are going to stay the same, they're not going to cut rates.
That's all part of the Ponzi scheme.
So I'm going to have Bratt and Navarro.
Navarro's going to join in studio.
Bratt's going to join, maybe even get EJ.
Because this is all just a part of, productivity's not going up, nothing that is real is going up.
Everything that's related to the massive spending, and that's why they're not even having a discussion on this.
On the CR, there's no discussion.
The most they can have is Massey and these guys saying, let's do the year-long CR for the remaining part, and it's $100 billion.
That's what will cut $100 billion.
And of course, Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are going crazy on that.
A hundred billion dollars on a two trillion dollar deficit.
They're going to tell you right now, oh, no, no, Bannon's wrong.
It's only a trillion and a half.
It's only 1.25.
Hey, when it gets to the end and you got to round up all the accounts, and it always comes back to two trillion.
Oh, we didn't realize that.
Were the tax revenues down?
Yeah, maybe the tax revenues are down.
Tax revenues are down because, number one, you don't have a structure that makes the billionaires pay what they should pay.
Number one.
And even more importantly, the economy's just slowing down.
You're contained to print money.
So, tomorrow we'll get on it and make sure we get to the ramparts.
Tonight, think about it.
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But we got a fight.
There's only one good conclusion that can happen this week.
And that is you force these liars to the table, you force them to the table, and you get a resolution that begins to seal the southern border.
Nothing else, Matt, right?
Boom.
You would also like to be able to cut the budget, but that's just not going to happen.
We have the ability to do this.
You do actually have the capability of doing the other, but I don't want to get into fantasy land because that's not going to happen right now, given how deeply the lobbyists are into the appropriations process.
But you do have all the leverage to force Biden and to expose him for the liar he is, to expose him to the two or three things he could do with executive powers to begin to seal the border.
This is how phony it is.
This is how totally phony he is.
Phony the whole thing is.
It's all performative.
In the great bill that they sit there, you know, you had in MSWC, they had the strongest bill ever in the Democrats.
It didn't even have Remain in Mexico in there.
They're still letting the evaders in the country.
And once they're in the country, they ain't going back.
All the other stuff was just, you know, Langford.
That's a beauty.
Langford.
You know, he was sitting there.
Run, run, he couldn't sell that.
He was a broken man at the end.
Should have understood that.
If you're not gonna fight, and you're gonna play, if you're gonna, you know, let Mitch McConnell tell you what to do...
If you're going to let Mitch McConnell say that, that's what's going to happen to you.
You've got to stand up to him.
They didn't have Remain in Mexico, and then said, well, Steve, the Mexican government would agree that.
Hey, do you think they sat there with Trump when Trump was talking about that, when Miller and Navarro put that in there?
Do you think they said, hey, what a great idea, why don't we think of it?
No, no, we'll have Navarro in here tomorrow.
What did they do?
They went right there and said, hey, we're going to put tariffs all over the place.
Right?
We're going to put tariffs.
We're going to slow walking, getting across the bridges.
We're going to make your life uncomfortable.
Very uncomfortable to the seven families that own the country.
That would be Mexico.
We're going to make it tough.
We're going to make it hard.
They didn't go down and say, Oh, President Trump, what a brilliant idea.
Why don't we do that?
No, they had to be forced to do it.
And Trump forced them to do it.
Just like Trump would have forced peace into Ukraine, you wouldn't have 500,000 dead Ukrainians.
Just like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas would have never ever in a million years done what they did in Gaza.
I was there.
I saw it with my eyes in the transition.
I sat in the briefings.
I heard what they had to say, the Obama thing.
This is generational.
I'm talking about the physical caliphate, which at the time had more territory than either Syria or Iraq.
The physical caliphate is a generational problem.
It will be here forever.
Donald J. Trump got with Mattis.
That's why he made Mattis Secretary of Defense.
As bad as Mattis was on everything else, as far as a warfighter, if you told him exactly, hey, here's what we need to do, he got on it.
18 months later, no physical caliphate.
Gone.
Done.
ISIS crushed.
Not recruiting in Europe anymore.
What did that take?
That took a determined man, a focused man, a man who people understood is not going to back down.
Oh, by the way, the mentioned guy was Donald Trump.
Was that extreme kill me?
Was the Muslim, was the travel ban extreme?
You guys hated that.
You wet yourself over that.
You wet yourself over that.
Supreme Court upheld it and we didn't have a terrorist attack.
So I don't need, I don't need Goombas like you.
Oh, these extremists, Gates and Bannon, these people.
I understand you got to do it because your paymaster tells you have to do it.
But you're not going to get free shots on goal here.
Your paymasters are not.
If you look around at where this nation is with the debt, if you look at where this nation is with the invasion of the southern border, if you look at where this nation is in the geopolitical crisis it finds itself in, if you look at where this nation is with the Chinese Communist Party, everywhere, infiltrated everywhere, money everywhere.
If you look at that and go back and see what Fox is focused on, they're always putting up shiny toys.
And they went out of their way.
Remember, it was the old man who put in an email, we're going to make Trump a non-person.
This is not we disagree with President Trump.
We disagree with the policies.
Maybe he was wrong.
We really think he didn't lose the election.
You know, but we'll cover him and obviously we'll make, we'll have coverage for some of these young aspiring politicians like Governor Sanchez.
No, you did not do that.
You think you can take that apparatus and you can take these people and treat them like sheep?
Well, they're not sheep.
Here they come.
It's like a graduate course.
We don't make it easy for people.
This show has limited entertainment value.
I get that.
There's a lot of people saying, hey, I just can't watch War Room.
It's just too much.
Too intense.
Too much.
Bannon's a nutcase.
He's crazy.
You get these people.
He's always screaming.
Hey, I got it.
It's not for everybody.
It's not supposed to be for everybody.
It's self-selective.
It's self-organizing.
But hey, The people that self-select are on point.
They use their agency.
They're not passive, sitting there listening to ridiculous RNC talking points day after day after day after day.
Oh, next up, Lindsey Graham.
Next up, you know, some other non-entity is going to spew the same thing.
And this is how the country gets it, because you don't, you never really had an opposition to the system until A guy named Donald Trump showed up.
He knows all the scams.
He was part of the system.
He knows when they're lying.
He knows how they deal.
He knows how they deal.
There's a famous story that when President Trump and Ivanka, there was Ivanka and then Mr. Trump, went and had a meeting early on with Rupert and said, hey, let's think about it.
Rupert told him flat out, no, you're not.
Told him, there's no respect.
Doesn't respect him.
Thinks it was a fluke?
It's not a fluke.
They also think you're going away.
They think you're going to go back to foxing on the couch, or you're going to sit there with the channel changer and just with your mouth open, hear more dumb RNC talking points.
That's never going to happen again.
The genie's out of the bottle.
It's never going back.
MAGA's ascended.
Why do you think they had all these, you know, all the fox guys have quit, all the chairmen.
You've had 21 just throw it in, including their new superstar, Gallagher.
Gallagher totally performative over there on the China thing.
Yeah, he did some okay stuff.
It's okay.
But we're in a war with him, bro.
Shouldn't have to tell a Marine that.
I know you went over to Taiwan.
That's all great.
But it's not the geopolitics of it right now.
It's the money and the technology.
You want to shut him down and not fire a shot?
We can shut him down.
Committee on the present danger.
We got indictment.
Shut them all down.
Starting to indict a few people.
They're working with them.
They'll run for the hills, expose all the money they got over here.
Get all the hedge funds, get Larry Fink and all these guys in business with them.
Expose how much the Chinese Communist Party, the heads of the Chinese Communist Party, the families, I think it's five families that run the deal, that run it, or the factions always fighting amongst each other.
They're wealthier than the sheiks.
You take all the sheiks in the Gulf Emirate, Qatar, Throw in Kuwait.
Toss in UAE.
Hey, I'll take Saudi Arabia.
Add them all up.
Not as rich and powerful.
Not as rich as the Chinese Communist Party.
They're not communists.
It's just another imperial dynasty there to destroy Lao Baijing.
This is Murdoch all over.
That is Murdoch all over.
You're all talking.
You got all your guys, your military guys, the freedom and democracy.
You got Birdbrain on there all the time doing her town talk.
Freedom and democracy for the Ukrainian people.
Freedom and democracy for Europe.
You got to be NATO, NATO, NATO, NATO, NATO.
Have to be NATO.
Got to be NATO.
Any one word about 1.4 billion people from probably one of the two or three most ancient civilizations, That are slaves?
Forget about it.
And everybody's in business with it?
Any mention of that at all?
One iota?
unidentified
No.
steve bannon
Every now and then you have a China expert going, this is bad, this is bad stuff.
No.
No, it's a mortal enemy.
It's got to be taken down.
They're not legitimate.
They're not a legitimate government.
Oh, by the way, Murdoch, the guy you supported, Bush 41, did the deal with Deng Xiaoping that enslaved the Chinese people even longer.
unidentified
Oh, but then we made the business deals with the Clintons.
steve bannon
And of course, Bob Rubin and the Goldman Sachs guys.
Oh, and Bush came in and Steve Friedman, another Goldman Sachs guy.
That's the system, folks.
That's what Trump disrupted.
That's why they hate him.
And now that he's running, you're going to see it.
It's all, it's all coming.
He's not going to, he's not going to fall in this trap, but it's all coming.
They're all going to get around.
You got the Gates, you got Bannon, you got all these, you got all these, you know, these guys want to ship, to deport.
You can't deport them.
Heck, it's baked into the CBO budget.
CBO's got it in.
The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, actually put the illegal aliens into the model.
Well, you can't do it.
They're buying Tide.
They're buying consumer products.
They're driving down wages.
What don't we like about this model?
Maybe it's destroying the United States of America.
Oh, that's just collateral damage.
Short break.
unidentified
back in a second.
Okay, um...
steve bannon
I can't pull it up right now.
I don't know where it was.
Okay, number one, Newsmax is breaking on this McConnell endorsement of Trump.
Quote, this is from the article, a McConnell endorsement would give Trump a vital party endorsement while signaling donors and anti-Trump Republicans that getting behind him in the idea of defeating President Biden, who is far ahead of Cash, is acceptable.
Screw Mitch McConnell.
Don't need it.
Anybody on that campaign working on his endorsement?
The donors, no, browbeat them.
Say, hey, you're either on the team now or you're off the team.
And being off the team is going to have, I don't know, repercussions.
It's time to start banging some heads.
You don't need to be a supplicant to Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell hates Trump.
Mitch McConnell will try to thwart everything President Trump does.
I can't pull it up this second.
I would like to, but I can't.
They have Jake Sherman, as usual, who's got the inside scoop.
They're in the Oval Office, and McConnell's dismissive of Johnson.
He says, no, the only thing you focus on is the bill that's there.
You've got to focus on that.
You're not going to focus on the border.
It's only Ukraine.
Focus on the supplemental and the bill.
Boom.
That's in your face.
They don't care.
In fact, not only that they don't care, they want it opened.
It's working for the donor class.
So now's the time to stand up for your country.
Are you a patriot or are you not?
Are you comfortable?
More importantly, now are you comfortable?
I want you to ask yourself tonight, because we'll get back to this tomorrow, ask yourself the following.
Go back as many generations as you can go back in your family and think about it and think of the sacrifice and think of what they did and think of what they worked and how hard they worked.
And you ask them, is it okay for them, ask their permission, is it okay for us to allow the invasion of this country and allow 10 million illegal aliens to be here on this quote-unquote usurper's watch?
Is that okay?
Is that okay with you?
And listen to their response.
If they tell you down from time immemorial, if they tell you it's okay, then fine.
Then you're with Mitch.
If they tell you, I got a problem with that, I didn't help build this country, I didn't sacrifice for future generations to allow that to happen.
And to know that even today, with all the executive power they have, and they have, that they won't do anything.
And understand that fetish they've got, the fetish they have in Ukraine has got a dark, dark underpinning to it.
Let me give it to you again, Mitch and Sherman, so do some math.
If the 60 billion is so big and the whole world depends on it, all democracy, all of the middle class came here for years and now we can vote after centuries of living under, you know, kings and princes and all that.
Then have the Europeans write the check.
60 billion, is that hard?
Call the Norwegians.
Call the Swedes.
The Swedes just got into NATO.
Call them up and say, hey, we just realized something.
We got a 60 billion entry fee.
They're a wealthy nation.
The Germans are wealthy.
The French are wealthy.
The Italians are wealthy.
Not the people so much, but the guys that run the deal.
If that's so big, if they're so afraid of the Russians and the KGB, then call them up.
They weren't a lot of help in World War II, I understand that.
They weren't a lot of help in World War I, I understand that.
Take it back, the French were great.
They weren't a lot of help in the Cold War.
They just weren't.
But write a check now.
That's what it is.
If it's so urgent.
If, you know, Collison's thing in CNN, the whole fate of democracy is on the shoulders of Johnson and he's gotta not listen to these radical ultra-MAGA.
That's what Kilmeade's saying.
You can't listen.
You cannot listen to Gates and Bannon.
You can't do that.
Well, don't listen to it.
Just call the Europeans and ask for the frickin' money.
You know why?
Then the whole line, the whole scam is exposed.
The Europeans, oh gosh, we've already put up 50.
You didn't put up 50, you put 12 this year and 12 next.
Hell, you got the whole things combined.
You got a $15 trillion economy, a 60 when you add it all up.
There's plenty of money.
Don't think there's money.
Fly over there and check it out.
There's more than $60 billion floating around Belgravia.
It's a scam.
It's a lie.
It's all performative.
It's all funny.
It's not even that intelligent.
You're boring me, McConnell and Schumer and Biden, in the news.
It's boring because it's so brazenly stupid.
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I need good news from my pillow.
We're going to the mattresses tomorrow, baby, so sell me a mattress.
mike lindell
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unidentified
$29.98.
mike lindell
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Fantastic.
I want to do that.
We'll organize this.
Mike, by the way, remember the number 800-873-1062.
Mike, thank you.
I want to do that.
Tomorrow morning, everybody live from the factory.
Steve, we might even have a couple of employees down there.
Maybe you can come on your show and tell about the MyStore.
steve bannon
Oh, fantastic.
I want to do that.
We'll organize this.
Mike, by the way, remember the number, 800-873-1062.
Mike, thank you.
I want to do that.
I'll call you afterwards to do the, after the next hour, I'll call you to organize this.
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unidentified
Talk to the experts about gold as a hedge.
steve bannon
Okay, next hour we're going to get into it.
It's a talk I gave at CPAC.
I'm going to come in for commentary right after.
Harnwell's going to join me.
You do not want to miss the next hour of The War Room.
We're going to the mattresses, folks.
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