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June 5, 2024 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 3662: What It Means To Serve This Country

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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Pray for our enemies.
unidentified		Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
		The people have had a belly full of it.
		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?
unidentified		MAGA Media.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		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.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It's Wednesday, 5 June, Year of the Lord 2024.
		It's the eve of the Normandy landings.
		As you know, we always do specials.
		We'll have a special tomorrow, hopefully.
		Patrick K. O'Donnell, I think, is going to join us right tomorrow, the great combat historian.
		We'll get to all of it.
		Honored now to have in studio.
		One of my favorites, Senator Tommy Tuberville, a real fighter.
		I'm going to get to all the fighting and everything about President Trump, but the reason we're so honored to have you here on the eve of our specials and the coverage we do on Normandy and the Battle of Normandy is the story about your dad and the fact that you're actually leaving here after the show this afternoon and you're going to go for the first time.
		So walk me through, first off, Your father's involvement in the Normandy.
unidentified		Yeah, young farm boy, age 16, grew up in Chittister, Arkansas.
unidentified		And I asked him why he joined the Army and lied about his age at 16.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		He lied about his age?
unidentified		Lied about his age, as a lot of them did.
		And he said, I was tired of following that plow behind the mule.
		I wanted to get off the farm.
		And he said he'd never had a new pair of boots, which he got when he went in the Army.
		He trained for a short period of time, and then, as you said, at age 18, he drove a tank the first day of the fighting at Utah Beach.
		And he said, I lost a lot of my friends because we were only trained to take the beach.
		I didn't realize we were going to go for another year fighting battle after battle.
		But he lost a lot of his friends because these carriers that took them from the ship To the shore.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		The landing craft.
unidentified		Yeah.
		They had the tanks on them, and he said that some of the brave ones would get close, like my guy was brave.
		He said, just keep going.
		Bombs are hitting everywhere.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You mean the actual operator of the landing craft.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Please get us close.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Because you were getting an intense fire.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		Intense fire.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		A lot of guys rethought it.
unidentified		Yeah.
		And a lot of the drivers stopped short.
		The tanks went off the end, and they drowned.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It was a big problem.
unidentified		A lot of his friends died.
		He said, I was fortunate.
		My guy had enough nerve to get us close.
		We went on and it was like he said it was a nightmare.
		It's like a dream.
		And just people dying everywhere.
		Bullets, bombs going off.
		And you know, I couldn't get my kids out of bed at 18 years old.
		And here's my dad at 18 and only been in the military just a year or so just short period of training, and all of a sudden, he'd never been out of the state of Arkansas, and all of a sudden, he's landing in Normandy, Utah Beach.
		So, I'm anxious to go.
		We leave this afternoon.
		Several senators.
		It'll be my first time ever.
		I wish he was still alive.
		My daddy actually died 25 years later on active duty in the Army on a training mission for Vietnam, and died at 53.
		So, he would have been 98 years old this year.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		How old were you when your father died?
unidentified		I was 21.
unidentified		21?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		21.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		So your dad stayed in as a career?
unidentified		Stayed in the career military.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Enlisted man or officer?
unidentified		No, he was enlisted.
unidentified		He was first sergeant.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		First sergeant.
unidentified		Yeah, and he loved it.
		But he told me back then, we're losing our discipline, you know, that things are changing in the military.
		But he still loved it because it represented our country and it defended our country.
		But totally different group of young men and women back then.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Let's go back to one of the things we do here in War Room that I'm not just proud of because people have gotten into it so much.
		If you ask young people today about World War II to the degree they know anything, it's Pearl Harbor.
		It's Normandy, the Holocaust, and dropping the atomic bomb, right?
		They don't really understand.
		Like, for instance, on the bat of Normandy, you could argue it's the greatest and bloodiest battle in the history of the American military, because it went for so long.
		I mean, they didn't really get it.
		Normandy, I think, went all the way to, like, July, right, before they got the road to Paris.
		And they hadn't gotten Patton and some guys out of the breakout.
		They couldn't, because they didn't... All they trained for And they trained for a year, was to hit that beach and make sure you hold the beach and then drive in from the beach.
unidentified		Yeah, they landed at what, June the 6th and August the 25th he said he drove his tank under the order of Trump in Paris when they freed, freed Paris.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		So he actually got actually to Paris and was part of that?
unidentified		Oh yeah, he was in the parade, he said his gunman Shot a small shell into the heart of Trump.
		I said, what did he do that for?
		He said, we're celebrating.
		We couldn't believe we survived.
		We couldn't believe we lived.
		But that was just the beginning of it.
		And then he went to the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge.
		I mean, just one fight after another.
		And he said, it's just, again, he says, a nightmare.
		We froze to death.
		We didn't have coats to really fit us or shoes or boots.
		We're old.
		We didn't have enough food.
		We slept underneath tanks.
		And one thing you did when you woke up, whenever a couple hours of sleep you got, you didn't know who was alive and who was dead because you didn't have time to take care of the people that were wounded.
		It was this continuous battle one after another.
		And he said that the general that took care of them the most, and he fought a little bit with Patton, And he said, and he was a horse's ass.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		But he was a tank guy.
unidentified		Oh, he was a tank guy.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Amen for your father and those tanks.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		That's what got us out of there.
unidentified		Well, and he said that... Get to open country and they were rolling.
unidentified		Yeah, he said he spent most of his time making sure that we had fuel for the tanks.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Logistics.
unidentified		Yeah.
		You know, he was a, he pushed us and pushed us.
		And he said, and my dad got, got wounded in Battle of the Bulge.
		caught a piece of scrap metal in his back. I said, Dad, you got hit in the back. He said,
		yeah, I was running like hell. My tank was on fire. And he stayed gone just a few weeks. And
		nowadays they'd call it a million dollar injury that's in your home. And he said, heck, they sent
		us to the hospital and sent me back. And I was back fighting just a few weeks. But again, it was,
		he didn't talk about it a whole lot other than the fact that he just wanted me and my brother to
		understand. Because my brother was right in the middle of Vietnam thinking whether I'm going to
		enlist or whatever.
		I missed it.
		The reason I'm here in the Senate is I missed the military, so hey, this is my giving back to the country.
		I grew up in a patriotic family.
		I don't really believe in this country, my God.
		What would he and his friends say today about what we've turned our country into?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Look, I want to go back and stay focused on your dad.
		The comment you made, that generation virtually never talked about it, right?
		Your father, there's not a conversation at the dinner table every night.
		It was you and your brother and certain occasions when he would tell you about it.
unidentified		Yeah, my brother, it's about 70, 71, right in the middle of Vietnam.
		And my brother said, you know, I'm getting out of high school.
		I'm not going to go to college, Dad.
		This was the supper table one night.
		He said, I'm going to just destroy the army.
		I'm going to get my two years over with real quick.
		And my dad said, son, put your fork down.
		We're going to have a talk.
		And he led into him, you don't know what war is like.
		Let me tell you what I went through.
		Let me tell you what you would go through.
		You wouldn't last five minutes.
		I was lucky I survived.
		And I was a hell of a lot tougher than you because I grew up poor, hungry.
		But even before I went over there.
		And, you know, it was an interesting conversation.
		The length of about 30 minutes there was the most he had ever talked about being in World War II.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And that is almost 25 years after it was over.
		You never heard him any of that.
		The whole generation was very silent.
		One of the things people don't like to talk about is that the commemorations... Did your father ever go back for a Normandy?
unidentified		Never got to go back.
unidentified		I would have loved for him to be going back today, being 98.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It wasn't even that big a thing back then.
unidentified		Not until it got to be about 50, you know, we started celebrating.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Well, Reagan went when Reagan went.
unidentified		And not really understanding, you know, what What those young men and women did back then, they saved the world, you know, from Nazism.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It's interesting that, particularly the first couple of years after Normandy, the five-year and ten-year, there were not really commemorations and celebrations.
		In fact, a lot of people in Normandy a couple years after the war, because France went through a horrible depression after the war ended, a lot of people in Normandy, because they're taciturn, they're farmers down there, A lot of them were saying, you know, we had it better under the Germans, right?
		This whole thing, what was it for?
		So it's very, it was very controversial.
		A lot of people didn't say, you know, oh, this is fantastic.
		A lot of the myth that's come up for, in fact, in Normandy itself.
		There was maybe a third of the population that were excited to see him.
		A third that was in the middle.
		A third were saying we're kind of anti the Americans and the British coming.
		They weren't helpful and they almost acted as partisans.
unidentified		You know, you've been to Europe.
		I've been to Europe and been around people from Britain and France and Italy and some places they don't like Americans.
		You know that.
		I'm anxious to see going to... We'll fly to Paris tonight.
		We'll get on a military helicopter tomorrow morning and fly to Normandy.
		I'm anxious to see the people around, you know, that area of how they treat Americans.
		I think I've heard it's good.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's fantastic.
		In Normandy today, yes.
		One, it's a huge event, etc.
		But it's terrific.
		Utah is amazing for the fact That even letting them out, they were blown down by the currents about a mile from where the original beach was.
unidentified		Yeah, nobody was on line with what the war plan was.
		You know, even the 101st Airborne that fell behind the lines, we've all seen those movies.
		Hell, they didn't know where they landed.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Your father died in what year?
unidentified		He died in, what year, 1977.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Did the movie Patton actually come out yet?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Do you remember him ever seeing that?
unidentified		I can't remember that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		People didn't really know.
		They knew Patton but for slapping the guy and he was a hero but he was an anti-hero.
		But the film really changed.
		And also in Normandy because remember he was sidelined.
		He did the fake position because of slapping the kid in Sicily, slapping the two soldiers.
		And he had been sidelined by... He was a decoy, too.
		His thing was, I think it was Operation Fortitude, I believe it was.
		He was the decoy because the German staff said, it's got to be Patton, right?
		Patton's got to lead this.
		And so they focus on that.
		But Eisenhower and Bradley, at Bradley's recommendation, said when they were stuck They got off the beach at Normandy, but they couldn't get any farther because of the thing.
		They said, we need Patton.
		Right?
		And that's when Patton came back.
		And Patton's thing was your dad.
		It was the tanks.
		He was going to use tank warfare like it had never been used before.
		He's a cavalryman.
unidentified		Yeah.
		Wouldn't stop.
		He said he just wouldn't stop.
		And he said, we were siphoning gas and diesel out of trucks that had been, you know, torn up.
		Tanks that the Germans had just abandoned, you know, they had rubber hoses with them, just trying to get any kind of fuel they possibly could.
		It was a logistics nightmare.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Nightmare.
unidentified		Yeah.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Your father, in that generation, and what they gave and what they died for, you said it was 72,000 in his division over time, and it was horrific.
		The battles there were incredible, because the Germans were very, very well trained, right?
		In particular, they were focused on the tanks.
		They knew they'd take the tanks out.
		What would your father say today about modern America?
unidentified		Oh my goodness, you know what he'd say.
		First of all, let's start with military.
		Again, he was 100% military.
		That's where he got his education.
		He quit school, what, seventh, eighth grade, basically, and joined the military.
		He was so proud of himself that he got his GED somewhere about six years before he died.
		He actually started studying and And getting a high school diploma.
		He was just one of that generation that most of them didn't get an education.
		They were denied that.
		But he'd be disappointed of what we've done around the world.
		You know, with our allies and how we've let them stray off from democracy and go different directions.
		But it's caused by leadership and he'd be the first to take it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Well, I want to get to NATO and all that in a second, but I want to go back.
		Would he have supported, because people I don't think fully understand, when you stood up To the military and to the Pentagon.
		It wasn't just about abortion and other things.
		You had deeper issues about the wokeness about all of it.
		Would your father, as somebody that fought on D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, went all the way there, the Battle of the Bulge, and then was career in the Army.
		Would he have supported you, his son, in your fight against the military?
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
		Yeah, he'd have been 110 percent behind me in keeping politics out of the military.
		That's our problem with the military.
		We've turned it political, you know, with the gay rights groups and the transgenders and the social justice groups that want to be involved in the military, which I'm fine.
		But when you go into the military, you go by everybody else's rules that they go by in the military.
		But everything's kind of Coalescent around, you know, what you believe in, what you think of.
		When you go into, to me, and he would say this, when you go into the military, you go in representing United States of America, everybody's got the same rules, you go by the same rules, and you have to build respect.
		Right now we don't have the respect that they had back then.
		He was scared to death, number one, of the people that were Can you imagine the drill sergeants back then, if they had a group of young men and women going into Fort Polk, Louisiana, being a drill sergeant under them today?
		I mean, it's totally different.
		I keep telling in hearings and being on the Armed Services Committee, I tell them every time I talk to one of the generals or secretary or whoever, listen, we don't need a social justice club.
		We need a killing machine.
		Because this is a more dangerous world now than it was when my dad and when you and I grew up.
		It is a more dangerous world today.
		And we have just downgraded our military.
		We've got good machinery.
		We've got good weapons.
		But Steve, we can't put together a group of people to fight.
		If we had to fight a ground war, it'd be over.
		We're going to have to fight from the air in a missile war until we can get people interested back in the military.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Say that again.
		You're saying because all the...
		Everything that we do is combined arms.
		I mean, the missiles and the aircraft are really in support of ground troops.
		Are you saying you don't think the infantry training of the Army is... I mean, Maureen Bannon, our captain, won the 101st when she was in, I think would agree with you where it is today.
		But to hear you say it, it's pretty shocking.
unidentified		Well, I've been to military bases all over the world.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You were Army brat growing up?
unidentified		Army brat.
		I've been, of course, I'm on armed services now.
		I've talked to Marines, Army, Navy.
		I talked to people that, Coach, I've been in 22 years.
		I'm getting out.
		I'd like to go my full term, but I'm getting out and I've got two boys that are becoming military age.
		They will not join the military of the United States because it does not represent Uh, what it used to, it does not represent the United States.
		It represents social justice ideas, DEI and all the woke stuff.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		The backbone of our military is always been, the backbone of it has always been people from the South, right?
		It's when I went in, you know, I was from Virginia, but there's so many Southerners on the Navy, so many Southerners, um, of, of all races, right?
		It's, it's in the South, the recruiting in the South has basically imploded, dropped off.
		Why is that?
unidentified		Well, it's because they're not wanted.
		And it starts up here in Washington, D.C.
		I can remember when my first day here in the city was January 6, 2021.
		We had the protest, and there were no National Guard people.
		Well, the next day, we bring in 25 National Guard people.
		Nancy Pelosi did.
		And the first thing they did is they went through all of them and said, are you a Trump supporter?
		If you were, they sent your butt home.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		No way.
unidentified		Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
		They did not want...
		White supremacists, black supremacists, anybody that believed in our country, they want you to believe in the federal government.
		And that's not what this is about.
		They weeded out the Trump supporters from the National Guard?
		Yeah, sure they did.
		There was 25,000 of them and we spent a half a billion dollars.
		We broke, by the way, the National Guard.
		We bankrupted the National Guard over the country because of Nancy Pelosi's shenanigans after that.
		But that being said, we've got a lot of good people.
		We've got way too many flag officers.
		We're top heavy now.
		It needs to have a total readjustment.
		I've talked to President Trump about this.
		He understands it.
		Got a good plan.
		You know, we've talked a plan about military down the pipe.
		You know, when he gets elected, not if.
		Because we have to turn this ship around.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		When he's elected, would you step in as Secretary of Defense?
unidentified		Oh, you know, I'm not qualified for that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I think you're an Army brat.
		You had a dad fought in Normandy, and you know the military backwards and forwards.
		What do you mean, not qualified?
unidentified		Well, but we got qualified people, but I just want to help him.
		I want to help him What do you mean by that?
		probably more from the Senate because you know we we need numbers in the
		Senate you know that's going to back him right now we're even split in Republican
		side about whether we should back President Trump which is the biggest.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		What do you mean by that? Well there's actually senators over there you think
unidentified		that don't back Trump? Well I mean they don't not been been very supportive
		since I've been here.
		And, you know, he's not a politician.
		You know, Trump doesn't represent politicians, he represents people in our country.
		And that's the reason he was elected the first time, they recognized that, and that's the reason they cheated him out of the second one.
		Because they knew he represented the people, not the politicians.
		He will be put back in by the people of this country, and not the politicians.
		And people need to understand that we work for the people.
		We don't work for politicians, and that's the reason President Trump won the first time.
		He actually won the second time, but he will win this time, you know, hands down.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Morning, Joe.
		There was a total meltdown this morning about the allies, NATO, you know, the return of Trump.
		They had actually, McKay Coppins, we don't have time to play today, McKay Coppins at the Atlantic Magazine went over for two months, talked to everybody about the populist right in this European parliamentary election, but he talked to all the existing guys, to a person.
		They said Trump's going to win.
		And they also said it's the end of NATO.
		President Trump's never wanted to end NATO, but he wants an alliance.
		Right now they're a vassal state.
		Nobody ever envisioned that, right?
		We didn't envision that in World War II, although most of the NATO members didn't exactly fight.
		Remember on D-Day we had the Canadians, we had the British.
		We had a division of, I think, De Gaulle with France, we had some Polish paratroopers, and we had the United States of America.
unidentified		My dad fought with most Canadians.
		He said Canadians were, they trained together.
		And they were good.
		People this world, not this country, are looking for leadership.
		We have zero leadership in this country.
		We have almost zero in Europe.
		I haven't met most of them, but, I mean, they couldn't lead their way out of a paper bag.
		You know, we're losing, you know, and people need to understand that we're losing.
		But even the Europeans understand, my God, we got to have somebody like Trump that will step up and tell the dang truth to people.
		You might not like it.
		But he will tell you that, and he's going to try to correct it.
		And again, I'm excited about that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You were one of the leaders in this debacle we had, the last one we had on Ukraine.
		Ben Harnewell from Rome is going to follow you with us.
		We've got a bunch of new analysis.
		The situation in Ukraine gets worse every day, but the mainstream media won't talk about it.
		And the Ukrainian people are being destroyed there right now.
		They need 500,000 combat troops coming from men age 25, 27.
		They can't get them.
		And now they're passing laws that you can't leave the country.
		I mean, is the truth being talked in the Senate?
		Because I'm shocked in this town how it's all happy talk when you can see the combat reality of Ukraine right now.
		And it's just destroying the Ukrainian people and their country.
unidentified		Yeah, we've said this all along.
		I mean, they're way above their heads.
		We said we'd support them and we've, the neocons, I'm not me, I put Republican and Democrats have put 200 billion in this. We
		don't know where the money's gone.
		Byrne actually went over to the CIA director and told him, hey, you're stealing too much money.
		Too obvious. Yeah, it's a little obvious. Slow down a little bit.
		But they can't win. You know, we've actually helped Russia, we've helped China.
		And it all started when Biden cut off the oil and gas here and made the oil go up to $80, $90 a barrel.
		It made a fortune for Iran and for Russia.
		It enabled them to do what they're doing right now.
		People need to understand that.
		But we're, and the neocons here, the people, and Biden and them, they are embarrassed.
		They can't get out of this.
		Now they're stuck.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		So they are stuck up there.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		They know that they're in a jam.
unidentified		Oh yeah, they're in a big jam.
		And, you know, Zelensky's coming over tomorrow and meeting with meeting with Biden. You know, Zelensky is not a
		constitutional president.
		His term ran out. He stopped the election. He stopped media attention.
		He stopped churches from meeting. I mean, this guy's a dictator.
		And here we're backing him. But you know the whole story.
		NATO, if you're Putin, you don't want our missiles in Ukraine pointing at him.
		We wouldn't want it in Mexico.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Are you afraid that now they've had some sort of secret deal to use U.S. arms and maybe
		even technicians to fire into, actually into Russia?
		The American, last time I looked, the American people, the Russians were our ally.
		The reason your father's division was not destroyed on the beach by Rommel and more
		The Wehrmacht was getting chewed up by the Russian people.
		It took 35 million casualties.
		The Russian people have always been our ally.
		Why are they trying to force the American people to go to war with the Russian people?
unidentified		Well, Sullivan and Blinken are running our country along with Obama, with Biden trying to get his way through a speech.
		But we all know that.
		But isn't it kind of interesting that That we're going to allow Zelensky to start shooting long-range missiles that we make into Russia, killing civilians when we're complaining about what Israel's doing over there trying to protect themselves in Gaza.
		Now we're getting ready to okay civilians being killed in Russia and The only way Joe Biden, and I think they're going to get to this point, and I don't know this for a fact, but if you just look at it logically, you'd say, well, the only way Joe Biden is going to have a chance is to get us in the middle of a fight.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		To wag the dogs.
unidentified		Yeah.
		And people are going to say, we can't make a change here.
		Folks, these people are insane.
		You know, they love power so much they would sell their mother, you know, to continue this power which they have right now.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		So I've said that the three things they're going to try to do is lawfare, which put President Trump in prison, steel, which they're obviously working at every place, the big steel, and number three is wag the dog.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You actually believe That logically, that they will do anything to hold on to power, including getting us into a combat situation?
unidentified		I don't think there's any doubt of it.
		You know, it's just that there's no common sense used in any of this stuff that we do now.
		Look now, the The G7 is getting ready to meet.
		Biden is going to go to that.
		That would be interesting.
		And then you've got Kamala Harris is going to go to the peace hearings.
		You know, she's going to represent us with peace talks.
		What a mess that would be.
		But, you know, it's just they don't stand up for the people.
		They stand up for the elite of this country.
		We dictate from the top down.
		This country normally, and used to be run from the bottom up, you know, from county, city, state, And the federal government helped.
		Now it's just totally top-heavy, just like our military is, but that's the way they like it.
		The elites control everything we're doing, and they want to remain with that power.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You're understanding a military history of geopolitics, what's happening in imperial capital.
		Is there any logical way, when they talk of this peace conference and all that, That the Russians are going to give up Donbass and the Eastern-speaking Russian provinces or Crimea or things that they feel that they fought for and control those territories, is that?
		Because Zelensky's guy said, we can't even have a meeting or can't even really go forward to a peace conference if that's on the table for Russia.
unidentified		Well, it's obvious in the number one, the Biden administration have zero diplomacy skills.
		There should have been a summit with With Vladimir Putin, you know, right after this thing started, they had a done deal.
		We all know that.
		But we talked to them.
		Hey, we'll give you any, whatever it takes, we're going to give you, you're going to be able to fight these Russians and knock them back.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Whatever it takes for however long it takes.
unidentified		Yeah.
		I mean, how many, how many TV clips have you sent of a scene of a battle in Ukraine?
		Zero in the last six, seven, eight months.
		It's one-sided.
		Putin just kind of sitting back watching what's going on, wondering, hey, when y'all going to come over and we'll We'll draw a line here.
		He doesn't want Ukraine.
		He doesn't want Europe.
		He's got enough land of his own.
		He just wants to make sure that he does not have United States weapons in Ukraine pointing at Moscow.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, a couple thousand, moving a thousand miles east.
		You're the theory that, because when I was in the military, when I came back to the Pentagon
		for sea duty, everything was about the Red Army coming across the North German plane,
		very much like World War I, the Van Schlieffeling plane, combined arms.
		Reagan got Pershing nuclear missiles.
		But that army is not the army that they have today.
		It's totally different.
		You don't see Putin coming across through Warsaw and Berlin to Paris?
unidentified		No.
		No.
		Heck no.
		He can't get to Kyiv!
		How in the world is he going to get to Paris?
		And he doesn't want to do that.
		I mean, here's a guy that wants to control what he's controlling, but again, we've made him rich because we've run the price of oil up.
		But it's just unfortunate, you know, how all this has gone down with Zelensky, who, by the way, you know, there was a coup to put him in.
		You know how many coups that we've had in my lifetime in this country to overthrow government, Steve?
		Sixty!
		CIA in the United States has overthrown 60 governments in our lifetime to try to change our way of thinking.
		We need to worry about our way of thinking and our country first, and that's the reason President Trump says this.
		We better take care of us first, then we can help other people.
		Right now, we can't help anybody.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		The America First is not an isolationist movement, but it's a movement to focus on this country first, inner citizens, and what the priorities are for our country.
unidentified		Yeah, we're dead broke.
		People in this country don't know what day it is when it comes to climate change and We've got about a minute.
		uh...
		everything else is going on we're trying to worry about
		everybody else we'd better start taking care of the american taxpayer american
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		citizen we get about a minute as you go over there today for the first time to
		see where your father fought how would your what do you think how would your
		father in those heroes like to be remembered
unidentified		you know that they were remember back during those days we jumped into the korean
		war then we jumped into the vietnam war
		I mean, there was really, there was a celebration, but they didn't have time to celebrate.
		They all went back and tried to start a family and get a job.
		You know, our country wasn't in the best shape.
		that it could have been in. But you know my dad was very fortunate he went and got a
		kind of a mandatorial job because he's in the military and he never made over 15,000 a year
		in his entire lifetime. And we didn't know we were poor but we were poor. But there were thousands
		of those like that of people coming back from the military just wanting the opportunity to
		live in this country and and be free again.
		But we just kept jumping from war to war.
		As I've said, that's all we try to do.
		And it's just unfortunate that they didn't get to live a life of, hey, they didn't want to be heroes, but they should have been considered heroes of what they did.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Coach, we want to check in with you while you go.
		This is historic.
		What social media and where do people go?
		Because people aren't going to follow you on this trip.
unidentified		Well, Tommy4Senate.com, basically.
		That's how you can get me.
		But I'm going to send you some pictures from Utah Beach.
		Absolutely.
		And I'm going to say, this is where my dad landed.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		OK, and we'll come back and do a whole thing.
unidentified		That'd be great.
		All right.
		Thank you, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Coach Turnerville.
		Senator Turnerville.
		I always call you Coach.
unidentified		Yeah, call me Coach.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I think that's a higher title than Senator.
unidentified		Yeah, I would think so.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Thank you so much, sir, for dropping by.
		Good luck on the trip.
		Short commercial break.
		I'll be back in the warm in a moment.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		How special was that?
		How special was that?
		Welcome back.
		Coach Tuberville.
		And I mean that.
		I think particularly what he did as a coach.
		I think it's a higher title than the Senator.
		They so debased the situation up here.
		And Tommy Tuberville, he talks truth to power.
		To go back for the first time when your dad was one of those tank drivers at Utah Beach, that's extraordinary.
		It was the whole thing with Patton's army and going up to take in Paris and then the Battle of the Bulge.
		Hard and far, just incredible.
		Ben Harmon is going to join me in a minute.
		People, I think we have to Understand the situation the country's in these are dark days You know that's why I think Tim Scott I say this all the time a great guy But I think his campaign for you try to do morning in America too early We can't even see it's it's it's the dark of night now now the dawn is gonna come if we continue to fight That's what the whole first hour was about that the second hour with coach Tuberville is about what we're fighting for the legacy of those patriots that bequeath this constitutional Republic to us
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joe rieck ▲ ● ▼		Hey, good morning, Steve.
		Happy to be here.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Take that example out in Iowa.
		Pretty stunning.
		And you don't have to be a prepper.
		Remember in the old days, hey, you had to be a prepper.
		Those people turned out were ahead of the curve.
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joe rieck ▲ ● ▼		They don't sound so crazy today, do they?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		They don't sound so crazy at all.
		A little bit like Noah's Ark, I think, maybe?
		Right?
		Don't sound so crazy at all.
		Joe, one more time, you guys are the leader in the industry.
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		So just give the number and where can people go and who can they talk to?
		I think it's the most important thing.
joe rieck ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, give us a call.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Joe Reek.
		Thank you for doing this.
		My patrons probably go check it out today, talk to one of the specialists.
		We'll get Moe and Grace will push the website and the number.
		Thank you, brother.
		On the eve of the commemoration, Ben Harnwell, you join us from Rome.
		I want to go, I want to start, I know you got a lot of report and we got a limited time to do it, but I want to start with the lead story in Politico today about all the stuff in Time Magazine and all the stuff on Morning Joe and the Atlantic Magazine and Joe Biden's this, Joe Biden, we're the world power, we're a hegemon, this, that, the other thing.
		Politico today, lead story, Democrats are panicked.
		Because of his national security and foreign policy, the forever wars is not sellable to the American people and the numbers are killing him back here in the United States.
		Ben Harnwell, your analysis.
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼		Morning, Steve.
		Very interesting article.
		And this is rather like that red light that flashes on a cockpit when it's heading into the side of a mountain and you have the automatic voice saying, pull up, pull up, pull up.
		That's, I think, the purpose of this article.
		It's citing mainly democratic operatives, democratic pollsters, democratic It's not going down well with the voters and could actually be a massive hindrance to the Democrats, to Joe Biden specifically, in November.
		So I think we have another Allied article from Time magazine as well, which is not serving the same purpose, though it comes to the same conclusion.
		This article here in Politico is really like an exorcist missile aimed directly at democratic strategists to try and give them, I think, the material that they need to change this debate.
		Of course, Steve, whether it's going to be effective enough to that end, it's an open question.
		But let me just come up with one of many, many quotes here in this article.
		Which is one anonymous Democratic strategist.
		Foreign policy is a problem for Biden because it undermines the central tenet of his 2020 candidacy when he said he would restore America abroad and return us to normalcy.
		And the whole article is basically saying that America hasn't had its reputation restored abroad, nor has it returned to normalcy.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And worse, I want to go, we only got five minutes, but the two, the one about that they can't get the combat troops, but the bigger explosive story in Daily Mail right now is a plan of Biden.
		This is where the numbers are killing him right now.
		The real numbers here in the presidential race.
		That's what the election was held today, folks.
		Trust me, I've looked at all the numbers in the crosstabs, all this time, all the secret polling.
		Trump wins in a landslide.
		And Politico is putting that up there as kind of, as he said, it's an exocet missile, right?
		But it even gets worse.
		Talk to me about the Daily Mail, this explosive story about Biden's plan to get combat troops, troops into Ukraine, sir.
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼		Steve, this is an article in the Daily Mail.
		I don't know if the guys in Denver can put this up.
		It leads heavily on original research in the UK's Daily Telegraph.
		Now listen to this.
		Here's NATO's plan.
		It's committed around 300 And the article here breaks down, there are five effectively land corridors from five ports, and it goes through and lists all of them.
		One of them, by the way, is Italy, which would then come in via Slovenia, Croatia, eventually Hungary into Ukraine.
		No conversation, national conversation about that in Italy, by the way.
		But here's this article which says, and I'm listening to coach Tiberville before talking about his father and the D-Day landings.
		The plan here is to get these American troops, these US troops, into Ukraine via landings at five ports.
		And you're sitting here listening to this and you're thinking, my God, history is about to repeat itself.
		The thing is, this is a secret plan.
		It's come out now.
		There's been no conversation about this.
		And by the way, Steve, if I quickly must mention this story here, which I think pieces it all together.
		This is from the Kiev Independent here, highlighting that the U.S.
		Embassy has told Americans with dual Ukrainian-American citizenship, not to try to enter Ukraine, because once there, they're likely to be drafted.
		And he says, but your citizens who are there in Ukraine should shelter it in place.
		The article does not mention this.
unidentified		Hold it, hold it, hold it.
unidentified		Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Hit rewind on that again.
		Give me 30 seconds.
		That's another bombshell.
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼		This is a huge bombshell.
		The embassy has advised Americans not to travel to Ukraine because Ukraine does not recognize dual citizenship.
		So basically, it's just looking at Americans with Ukraine citizenship coming into the Ukraine as Ukrainian citizens who can be drafted and sent to the front line.
		The point here, this article doesn't mention it, but it's absolutely clear.
		I think the reason the U.S.
		embassy is putting out this This notice is because it would be horrific, absolutely
		horrific to have Americans being killed on the front line before November.
		After November, now to come back to the Telegraph Daily Mail expose about the secret NATO plan
		to get US troops into Ukraine, everything is open for grabs.
		But up until then, it's, it cannot have escalation one way or the other, because coming back
		to the point in Politico and Time magazine, this is not selling.
		Biden's war of choice in Ukraine is not selling with the American public.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And you heard Coach Tuberville wag the dog.
		We'll spend more time on that.
		Ben, where did everybody get all your great analysis?
		Where do they go to get you?
		You got the greatest engagement on social media.
		Where do they go?
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼		Thanks, Steve.
		Getter at Harnwell is my profile.
		And I've got some great posts at the top of my feed for you right now.
		Thanks, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		They are great because of your engagement.
		You're giving yourself reviews.
		They're great.
		They are great.
		People are engaged in these things.
		I'm jealous.
		Coach Tuberville said it.
		As I've said, the three things, you know, you've got that, you've got the stop the steal.
		You've got, but the wag the dog.
		He's got law firms stop the steal, but wag the dog and Tuberville saying right there, Hey, something's going to happen.
		They're going to do something.
		Two things.
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		What did he eat?
		He cut the shark open and ate the liver!
		The top of the predatory food chain knows what they're looking for, liver, grass-fed.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I want to make sure people don't miss this on sacred human health, the grass-fed beef livers.
		The oracle whale, I think, is the key predator, right?
		In the top of the food chain.
		Great white, nothing.
		Tore him apart and he went for the liver.
		He knows where the energy is.
		Greatest concentration.
		Noon to man.
		Those livers.
		He went to it.
		I don't know, maybe that shark liver, probably not as good as a grass-fed beef.
		But the orca knows.
		Maybe you should know too.
		That's why I go over there and you see all the endorsements from folks.
		Also, by the way, trying to get Eduardo up.
		About Mexico?
		Vestigate?
		Probably do that this afternoon, because I don't think we've got enough time.
		Did we get him up?
		Didn't get him up, so... He's down in Central America, I think, and so I want to get him up and talk about it.
		This is a bad situation in Mexico, folks.
		Bad, bad, bad situation.
		It's going to get worse now.
		It's a failed state.
		About to be a bigger failed state.
		So we don't need to go searching all over the world for crisis.
		The thing Biden did yesterday was a joke.
		He can't even get any media traction on it.
		It's offensive.
		But also, the coffee.
		How do we get so jacked up here early in the morning?
		Of course, we have a whole regimen.
		Part of it is, of course, now what I've done.
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		Put my economist.
		I keep that in front of me.
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		That's what they think of Trump.
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		Obviously, this is going to be an intense day, an intense week.
		We're going to have a commemoration tomorrow of the Normandy landings.
		Of course, we take it the entire time, all the way through the Battle of Normandy with updates every couple of days of what the men that fought that horrific battle went through and the lives that were sacrificed.
		Biden and the globalists to be over there showboating and talking about all the big deals they're going to do.
		Hey, here's what we need.
		We need Europe to understand you're not a vassal state.
		We were never supposed to be an empire.
		Biden said we're the sole world power.
		We're a hegemon.
		I don't think that's correct now.
		And we can have peace if we take leadership, and we don't need to be a hegemon to do that.
		In becoming a hegemon, you gutted this country.
		You hollowed out this country.
		You just heard Coach Tuberville.
		Coach Tuberville is telling you right there, Coach Tuberville is telling you, hey, they're going to try to do a Wag the Dog.
		This is why I keep saying, in the last four years they've been a sponsor, you're going to get times of turbulence like you haven't seen.
		They will do anything.
		The Lawfare.
	This is why we're going on offense.
	This is why the New York Times and other people are picking it up.
	Nadler yesterday did a mashup of just war room hits.
	Maybe we'll have time to play that at 5 o'clock today.
	Hits you're very well known on the Lawfare.
	They're going to try to steal this thing everywhere.
	The only way they can win is if they steal it.
	You know that.
	And we've got a great lawsuit.
	I think we're going to get the folks in Nevada, Gina Sobota in Arizona, and Seagal Chadda in Nevada to come on today and talk about on-offense lawsuits that they're taking to the Democrats to make sure this thing can't get stolen.
	And the last one I said is wag the dog.
	And Coach Tuberville, look, he's a common sense guy.
	He's sitting there going, hell yes, Steve.
	They're going to try to do something, no doubt.
	I just keep warning folks, you haven't seen turbulence like we're about to go through.
	They're going to sentence Trump to prison on July 11th.
	Okay?
	You have not seen turbulence like is coming before us.
	Things that are unprecedented in American history.
	That's why I just go to Birch Gold.
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	Michael and Del, we've got a very tough road ahead of us, although if the election was held today, it'd be a blowout.
	And they know that.
	And what they're really freaked out about, when they're putting advertisements in Politico as the lead story, and these are all Democratic operatives, all Democratic people, they're saying, His forever wars, Biden's forever wars are not working.
	The American people don't want it and that's his big crowning achievement in Time Magazine where he's beating himself on the chest.
	There's a huge disconnect and the American people are fed up with the whole thing.
	Mike Lindell, your thoughts on that and then I want to go to deals because people are blowing my phone up.
	They've loved the deals you put up the last 24 hours.
mike lindell ▲ ● ▼		Well, Steve, I've said it before, these last three years with this whatever-you-want-to-call-administration has done more to help the cause than anything, because people are pouring into the Donald Trump bucket of common sense, this new Republican Party.
		And they're coming in from both sides.
		That's why I've got my Flipping Democrats program going on, where I'm going into these swing states.
		And it's very easy to talk to them and they're coming into this bucket and all the destruction that they're doing to our country.
		It's opening people's eyes.
		So I think it's you got to look at the silver lining and everything.
		And you're right, Steve.
		If you had this election today, it'd be 70 percent Donald Trump.
		If you had a fair election.
		And that's why we're out there every day trying to secure our election platforms.
		And that's why this is so important that we get one shot at this.
		And the more they attack, the more the polls go up and the more the more this bucket gets
		fuller and fuller.
		So educate people, let people you have the best arguments in the world for your Democrat
		friends or your liberal friends and say, hey, look what's going on around you.
		And uh, so I think it's a good thing.
		I've got, uh, by the way, I've got CNN coming in here.
		I've got CNN coming in here this afternoon to my factory and we're going to show them that the war room posse, that the war room posse made this all possible, that my pillow's going nowhere.
		And so the deals we have today, we're going to keep the one with the American flag and you get the MyPillow 2.0 absolutely free with any purchase, everybody.
		And we've got that up and there it is.
		This is a roll and go, go anywhere MyPillow, $59.98 value.
		If you buy anything on the website or from my call center, we're going to send you absolutely free.
		This is exclusive to The War Room.
		Go to the War Room website.
		We've got the towels.
		All new colors came in, too.
		$25 for the four-piece, four-pack towels.
		Those MyPillow Premiums you see there that I'm holding in my hand, we're going to be down at the factory and we're going to show them.
		The War Room Posse made it possible.
		That's why they're $25 for the king or the queen.
		We keep hiring more and more employees.
		By the way, we left the mattress toppers This is exclusive to the War Room.
		You guys, the mattress sale's gone, but the toppers, we're going to keep the mattress topper sale on for the War Room posse.
		50% off is what we're giving them, Steve.
		And it's going to be an interesting outfit.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		On the 5 o'clock show?
		Yeah.
		No, no, hopefully still at 5, they're still there, because 4 o'clock, your time.
		We want to be on CNN.
		We want to be part of it.
		We'll get you on.
		Mike Lindell, MyPillow.com, promo code War Room.
		Thank you, brother.
		Charlie Kirk is on fire.
		He's next to Real America's Voice.
		Poso after that.
		Then you've got Miranda Khan.
		Tara Dahl with Tara Dahl's new show this weekend, which I'll be a part of.
		We're back here 5 to 7, and I commit to you, we will be lit.

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