June 15, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is what you're fighting for. | ||
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians, get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. | ||
| It's another element that backs them into a corner and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | ||
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It's Friday, June 14th in the year of the Lord 2024. | ||
| It's Flag Day. | ||
| We're getting to that in a moment. | ||
| I want to thank the Real America's Voice team for the great live coverage we've had in Detroit at the People's Convention. | ||
| Charlie Kirk and the team really thank it. | ||
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
| I want to continue on. | ||
| I've got Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Ben's going to join us. | ||
| I've got some Things we got to get on the table, what's happening in Europe, the foaling here, the convergence, and Patrick O'Donnell, the great combat historian, is going to join me in a moment. | ||
| Ben, we left the discussion today, I really want to talk about Nigel and the surge of Nigel Farage. | ||
| You've seen the continent, you see what's happening in, you see what's happening in You see what's happening in Germany. | ||
| The Schultz government I think is going to be replaced for the epic fail they've had | ||
| about the migration situation, the invasion of Europe. | ||
| You've seen the dissolution of the French parliament. | ||
| Macron, the post-war, he was kind of the, he took the baton from Obama. | ||
| He was the post-Obama, you know, the globalist, you know, rising star. | ||
| He's been crushed. | ||
| And you got Front National, Bardella, or National Rally, their current name, on the rise about this issue of illegal alien invasion and the losing of civilization. | ||
| But the United Kingdom, I just am so stunned Of how Nigel has brought the Reform Party to the point that to early today saying, hey, look, I could see where we could actually merge with the Tories post post election. | ||
| And I would head up, of course, I would have to head it up. | ||
| I would head up this combined conservative movement, which right now with them in 19 would be what, 37, 38 percent. | ||
| Not not not great, but not bad, particularly when the Tories are 18. | ||
| Just give me your assessment. | ||
| Oh, because this is setting up just like Brexit was in 26. | ||
| Give me your thoughts. | ||
| Oh, well, let's come back to that point. | ||
| I mean, in 2016. | ||
| Let's come back to that point about combining the two, because that's exactly what really has happened. | ||
| The Tory party used to get around, I think, I think Thatcher used to get around 44%. | ||
| I think she might have got that in 87, the 87 general election. | ||
| 44% gives you a very, very strong majority in the British House of Commons. | ||
| So that basically, the Tory party is divided literally into two. | ||
| I would suggest If these two movements, the Tory party to call them that, the Tory party and Reform UK get their act together, and this is important, under Nigel Farage's leadership, I think the first thing you're going to see, if they bring those two groups back | ||
| Together, they'll pick up 5% on top of that, if they can show the country that they are credible. | ||
| They are now credible, united around Nigel's vision. | ||
| Like Boris Johnson is a figure who has huge popular appeal, even outside his political family in the UK. | ||
| I think he'd pick up a few percentage basically within a month. | ||
| So we wouldn't be talking about 37, 38 percent. | ||
| It'd be up into the early 40s, certainly if the Labour Party, if Keir Starmer wins. | ||
| Obviously, because of the realities of governing, his own popularity will fall. | ||
| And I would suspect it would fall quite quickly once the left in the Labour Party takes over. | ||
| No, I think that would be a very interesting dynamic to watch. | ||
| And of course, Nigel himself has already sort of mentioned on numerous occasions that he's intimated that he'd be willing to work with someone like Boris Johnson. | ||
| So if you brought those two figures back as a partnership, Under Nigel's leadership. | ||
| No, no, that's a real dominant force. | ||
| Interesting looking at the UK, by the way, Steve, talking about this general, the undercurrent towards nationalism that is taking place right across the world, but certainly across, as we saw last weekend, the European Union. | ||
| The UK itself is going in the opposite direction. | ||
| This is a very interesting dynamic of what's happening on the right, because right now Reform UK is taking over. | ||
| It's taking over as the centre-right, to use the term, the centre-right, right-wing opposition from the Tory party, but as a more nationalist version of the opposition than the Tory party. | ||
| But the country itself is moving leftwards to the Labour Party, whereas in other countries the actual full momentum has been moving over to the right, like for example in France. | ||
| And we're going to see that really more clearly, more explicitly in the French general election in July. | ||
| But hold it. | ||
| But when you say moving to the left, they're moving to the right on the key topic of their sovereignty and immigration, this invasion. | ||
| What they're rejecting is American rhinoism. | ||
| The Tories are not a conservative party. | ||
| The Tories are a center or center-left party. | ||
| If you look at everything on culture, if you look at everything on climate change, if you look at everything on the pandemic with Boris Johnson, they cratered and caved and basically supported all these essential center-left and sometimes left-wing policies. | ||
| People just don't know what they want. | ||
| This is why Nigel is rising in the polls because Nigel is a very clear voice on the sovereignty and particularly immigration. | ||
| That's why he says this is the immigration election. | ||
| I want to address Keir Starmer mano-a-mano and trust me folks, if he ever got on TV and BBC and everybody will fight this, if he ever got mano-a-mano with Keir Starmer on a nationally televised debate, Nigel Farage would be the leader of the country the next day in the polls. | ||
| Labor goes out of their way not to talk about migration because they understand they're left-wing, open borders, neo-Marxist, the core of that party. | ||
| Am I mistaken in any of that, Ben Harnwell? | ||
| No, I mean it's to do with terminology. | ||
| You know, for laziness, though I do clarify myself, I do qualify myself basically every time I use these terms. | ||
| For laziness, I refer to the Tory party as the centre-right party and the Labour party as the centre-left party and that the sceptre, if you will, of governance is going to pass from the Tories to the left. | ||
| To the Labour Party. | ||
| I think that will happen at this general election. | ||
| But you're absolutely right. | ||
| The Tory party, I mean, it's only a nomenclature which has fallen out of use. | ||
| I mean, it doesn't really describe the reality. | ||
| Because as you say, the Tory party is a left, centre-left political party in and of itself. | ||
| It's just it has the heritage of being something more, being more Thatcherite. | ||
| But that's only in name. | ||
| Just like the Rhinos. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's exactly the same. | ||
| We've got to bounce. | ||
| We've got to bounce, but I think we're looking at a, I believe, having done 16 and done all the work with Rahim and the guys on Brexit, as Breitbart was very, very involved in that, Breitbart London particularly, that we're seeing the absolute predicate laid out, set up for President Trump's sweep in November. | ||
| Now, we have to execute. | ||
| If you don't execute, we're going to get smoked because they're going to try to steal it. | ||
| But there's something, there's a tectonic plate shift in the world that's shifting right now and you can see it in Europe. | ||
| Ben, where do people go to get all your assessment, all your analysis, everything on this? | ||
| Because now more than ever, our International Bureau is the tip of the spear. | ||
| Steve, thank you very much. | ||
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| Yeah, look, I just want to just give me 10 seconds to finish up on what you were saying. | ||
| I mean, there is absolutely something transformative taking place right across the political world in the West. | ||
| And I would crystallise it as this. | ||
| With the invention of the social media, of the internet, we no longer have the establishment legacy media to tell us what we have to think. | ||
| We can communicate directly. | ||
| You have citizen journalists. | ||
| You just go to an event, record it with their phone, and stream it to their account. | ||
| They can no longer control the narrative. | ||
| That's fundamental, I think, to this transformation that we're now seeing. | ||
| Of course, you have issues like immigration, which is at the bottom of this. | ||
| But fundamentally, I'll distill it like this. | ||
| People on the right, on the central right, are no longer prepared to accept bullshit platitudes from the establishment hacks. | ||
| But that is fundamentally the issue here. | ||
| It's enough of it. | ||
| Enough of the lies. | ||
| Enough of the platitudes. | ||
| Enough of the fake going through the motions. | ||
| Enough of the, we'll show you a bit of ankle, throw you a few bones before an election, and then betray everything we said we were going to do after the election. | ||
| That is now, I think Steve, that is consigned to history. | ||
| This is all we're going to see now over the coming election cycles are people actually manifesting the change that they want to see. | ||
| And this is an irresistible force. | ||
| It is actually going to happen. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Catch you tomorrow. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, just magnificent. | ||
| Thank you so much for this, sir. | ||
| President Trump had a lot to do with that, pushing that forward, that now people are tired of it. | ||
| They want to see action, action, action. | ||
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| States of America North America in 1776 I think was 1777 14 June 1777 we announced Flag | ||
| Day we asked the best combat historian we know because of the best combat historian | ||
| of his generation Patrick K O'Donnell. | ||
| Walk us through, why do we commemorate Flag Day? | ||
| How did it come about? | ||
| And talk to us about some of these great American flags, sir. | ||
| Transformative event, the American Revolution, which changes the world, Steve. | ||
| And it begins in 1775 with Lexington and Concord. | ||
| And as we roll forward in the weeks after Lexington and Concord, You have the Battle of Bunker Hill, which is approaching, but it's June 1775 that the Continental Congress authorizes the Continental Army on this day, on June 14, 1775, where there are six regiments of riflemen that are formed. | ||
| And that's important because Washington comes to Boston And as Bunker Hill is occurring, there are multiple flags in the Continental Army. | ||
| The first one is the Appeal to Heaven flag, which has got a long history in the United States, which is a pine tree flag. | ||
| It says an appeal to heaven on a white background. | ||
| And this is important because In the summer of 1775, there's a massive supply problem in the Continental Army. | ||
| They don't have gunpowder. | ||
| And it's Washington that comes up with the idea of creating a Navy. | ||
| It's Washington's Navy. | ||
| Without authorization from Congress, he outfits the first ship, which is John Glover's fishing boat, the Hanna. | ||
| And, I mean, this is an extraordinary operation. | ||
| A small, tiny fishing boat is going to go after the greatest Navy on Earth at the time. | ||
| But they're going to try to go after the unarmed Commerce ships that are bringing in gunpowder to steal gunpowder from the British. | ||
| As they start to create a small, tiny fleet of boats, they need an ensign or a flag on those boats. | ||
| And this is a massive step in sovereignty and independence, Steve. | ||
| Because at this point, we're still trying to maybe reconcile with Great Britain. | ||
| There are many elements in the United States that believe that the king may actually be on our side. | ||
| It's a difference between subjects and citizens, though, and it's a step towards independence to have your own fleet and also your own flag. | ||
| And it's Joseph Reed, who is one of Washington's adagents, that suggests that they fly a peel to heaven on Washington's first cruisers. | ||
| And this is a massive step towards sovereignty and independence. | ||
| Why did they say, Patrick, why did they say it's an insurrectionist flag? | ||
| I mean, MSNBC, Joy Ann Reid, everybody going after Justice Alito, they say this, it's not an insurrectionist flag, it's a revolutionary Navy, it's the American Revolution, right? | ||
| They say it's like a negative. | ||
| It's absurd. | ||
| This is an incredibly powerful symbol of our young country, which still is yet to be totally independent. | ||
| We still have many, many months to go. | ||
| And it's Washington's cruisers that go out and change the course of the early revolution. | ||
| They seize powder ships that are absolutely vital to the cause, and they're flying a peel to heaven. | ||
| And what you have then is a series of flags are then flown by Washington's army. | ||
| There's no real uniformity. | ||
| You have the Gadsden flag, you have the Culpeper flag, which is also a rattlesnake, which is join or die. | ||
| And it's a series of the 13 colonies that are segmented in a rattlesnake. | ||
| And that's a story about unity, where these disparate colonies are to come together to fight the greatest power on earth. | ||
| And it's then it evolves and they have something called the Grand Union Flag, which is really it's a it's a it's a tinier version of the British Union Jack superimposed on the red and white stripes. | ||
| Which also are very important in American history, too, because those red and white stripes are the stripes of the Sons of Liberty, which begin in the 1760s. | ||
| And they fly these red and white stripes on liberty poles. | ||
| Which the British hate. | ||
| They try to cut them down at any point, but that's a sign of defiance as well. | ||
| And it's as we move forward, it's in 1777, which is remarkable. | ||
| It's 11 months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence that there is an authorization put forth by the Naval Committee The flag resolution which states that the flag of the 13 united states will be 13 stripes alternate red and white and that the union will be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation what they don't say is how those stars should be you know specifically aligned there's a lot of um | ||
| Legend around Betsy Ross. | ||
| There's not a lot of documentation, but she was providing flags for that young Navy. | ||
| And she was also very close friends with Washington and Robert Morris, the financer of the Revolution. | ||
| So she may have been one of the first people to create the flag that we now associate most with the Revolution, which is a circular format of the Stars and Stripes. | ||
| But this flag, Steve, is so important to our independence, our sovereignty, and then it can't be overstated enough how important a battle flag is in combat, not only in the American Revolution, | ||
| But also in the Civil War, as I bring out in The Unvanquished, it's over and over and over that the flag takes on this enormous importance. | ||
| For instance, at the Battle of Five Forks, it's Philip Sheridan who is in charge of the Jesse Scouts or Lincoln Special Forces, and the line is faltering and wavering at Five Forks. | ||
| And it's Phil Sheridan that picks up the colors himself. | ||
| and waves it over his hand and has a clenched fist and then rallies the men to drive home | ||
| the nail in the coffin of the Confederates at Five Forks, changing the course of the Civil War, | ||
| which causes Robert E. Lee to retreat over a, you know, almost a month, maybe three weeks before | ||
| he was planning to at Petersburg. And it precipitates this massive retreat and it's | ||
| the Jesse Scouts that are pursuing him to Appomattox and it's here again that they | ||
| capture Confederate flags. | ||
| You know, an amazing story is how they impersonate, they're impersonating Confederates, and they capture one of the first Confederate generals during the Appomattox campaign, a guy by the name of Rufus Barringer, who they ride up to, And, you know, they say, good day, General, and good day to you. | ||
| You have the advantage over me. | ||
| And it's Henry Young that puts a Colt pistol right to Barringer's face and forces him to surrender. | ||
| And the fascinating story is, it's a Union Jesse Scout who was a former Confederate that is in the command of the Jesse Scouts that seizes the colors of Barringer's colors. | ||
| And those colors now reside at the North Carolina Historical Society. | ||
| And it's just one of the little vignettes in the Unvanquished. | ||
| No, that's why I want to make sure everybody gets the Unvanquished. | ||
| We'll tell people how to get it in a minute. | ||
| I want to go back to, because I want to put it on timeline. | ||
| This is what's so great about this country. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Combat Historian, but on 14 June of 1777, It's not like we had had a big string of wins. | ||
| The declaration is July 4th of 1776 or the second or third, but it's announced on the fourth. | ||
| That's our collective holiday. | ||
| That's where Ben Franklin tells people, it's a republic if you can keep it. | ||
| They've already sent a flotilla as you and we do it every year at Christmas. | ||
| We have a string of defeats. | ||
| You've written these great books about it. | ||
| We've had a string of defeats until the Christmas night, you know. | ||
| Across the Delaware by General Washington. | ||
| We then went to Princeton. | ||
| But the great thing, the chutzpah of our nation, the spirit of our nation, is to announce Flag Day on 14 June 1777 when we're not exactly on a winning streak, right? | ||
| I mean, the British Army and the Royal Navy still think, hey, we got this. | ||
| In Parliament, they're saying, we got this. | ||
| That's what I love. | ||
| That's exactly when you announce your official flag, is it not, sir? | ||
| It is! | ||
| I mean, they're the masters of propaganda as well. | ||
| Our early founders knew exactly how to spin a story, especially if you look at Lexington and Concord, and that is a masterpiece of information warfare and how we control the narrative. | ||
| And we were the first ship that, you know, we had affidavits from all the soldiers, both sides, And we also point out we did not fire the first shot. | ||
| We get the fastest ship in the Continental Navy at the time and make our way to To London, you know, almost three weeks before Gage's official report. | ||
| And it creates a sensation in the newspapers around the world of who fired the first shot. | ||
| But yeah, this is exactly what you're saying. | ||
| The flag announcement comes out at a low point because, oh, by the way, the massive British | ||
| fleet is basically uncoiling itself and they're about to land at the head of elk and they're | ||
| about to take out Philadelphia a few months later, which is the capital of the Continental | ||
| Congress. | ||
| Capital. | ||
| And they already control New York. | ||
| I know you've got to bounce. | ||
| I want, first off, the two books on the Revolution, which are extraordinary, and then I want to talk about your new book, The Unvanquished, on the Civil War. | ||
| I want to make sure everybody gets to them. | ||
| By the way, you've got all the wars. | ||
| It's just you're the best combat historian of your generation. | ||
| Our audience loves you. | ||
| But on Flag Day, find out about the combat history of Flag Day by reading the books of Patrick O'Donnell. | ||
| What are the two books on the Revolution? | ||
| The two books are The Indispensables, which is on the Marbleheaders. | ||
| And then there's a story about freedom and liberty and how, you know, it changes the world. | ||
| And it's American ships that export that freedom and liberty. | ||
| You know, I mean, it's about an idea, right, Steve? | ||
| The idea of America is so powerful that it changes the world. | ||
| It destroys empires. | ||
| It creates new democracies. | ||
| And it's, you know, it's one of our greatest strengths. | ||
| And the other book is Washington's Immortals with John the Marylanders and the men that saved our country with an hour more precious in our history than any other and then would fight for eight years including down south. | ||
| But yeah, the latest book is The Unvanquished. | ||
| It's the perfect Father's Day present. | ||
| It's at the front of the store at Barnes and Noble or you can go to Amazon.com and look at all the reviews that are out there. | ||
| And I'm super grateful for the posse in particular for really propelling this book. | ||
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By the way, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a massive bestseller. | |
| And I want to say that, uh, I was really, when I was down at Palatine at the Freedom Caucus and the Bob Good rally, uh, I think it was a couple of weeks ago now, uh, people came up out of the audience that had met you at Appomattox and had dinner. | ||
| It was just your, your personal appearances Uh, Patrick, it's the books are amazing, but your personal appearances and going around the country and talking about these amazing, uh, amazing stories of the, of the combat, uh, courage, uh, of, of, uh, the American soldier and American sailor, and also how many times it's ordinary people | ||
| Doing extraordinary things, one after the other. | ||
| People absolutely love it. | ||
| So where do they, where do they go? | ||
| By the way, the Indispensables, what I love, or it's the Immortals, what I love about it, it's the American Thermopylae. | ||
| I mean, you've got so many incredible insights, all first person accounts. | ||
| You've got, you go back to the, to the, you get the receipts. | ||
| There's no made up dialogue. | ||
| It's no kind of anonymous quotes. | ||
| You've, you've got research, you research years of these books and they read like novels. | ||
| That's why I think people love them so much. | ||
| One more time. | ||
| Where do they go, Patrick? | ||
| On my Twitter handle, or getter, it's at Combat Historian. | ||
| You can go to Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com, which has got the book at the front of the store at the new release day, or even on the Father's Day table. | ||
| But as you said, Steve, it's all about personal agency. | ||
| It's about people doing extraordinary things. | ||
| It's about leadership. | ||
| It's about what you've done, Steve, and how you have created and changed things. | ||
| You've been on some of the great inflection points of history. | ||
| You understand them. | ||
| And, you know, look at the things that you've accomplished in just a short period of time with this little war room alone. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I got the easiest job in the world, the greatest audience, and we just give them access to great people like yourself. | ||
| Brother, thank you so much for commemorating Flag Day with us. | ||
| Remember your country on 14 June 1777. | ||
| It was not exactly on a roll. | ||
| The British fleet, the most powerful Navy in the world, had already taken New York Harbor. | ||
| We already had the disasters through New Jersey in 1776. | ||
| We fought back, but they were about to unload and come down and start to take Philadelphia. | ||
| It was a moment when we were kind of on our back heels, coiling to continue to fight what the revolution was, what, seven, eight years? | ||
| Finally ended in the South. | ||
| But right there, that's where they had Flag Day. | ||
| 14 June of 1777. | ||
| Don't ever forget that. | ||
| Okay, we're going to turn over now and we come back from a commercial break, a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to turn it over to Real America's Voice. | ||
| They're live coverage. | ||
| They're down in West Palm. | ||
| Well, first off, they're going to be in Detroit with the team up there, Brian, Glenn, etc. | ||
| Live from the People's Convention, Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA. | ||
| They're going to go live to Trump 47, an amazing group in West Palm Beach, Florida. | ||
| President Trump is going to commemorate Flag Day and his birthday. | ||
| By giving a speech that you do not want to miss. | ||
| We'll have live coverage of all that. | ||
| Tomorrow, I'll be live in Detroit. | ||
| It's going to be one you don't want to miss. | ||
| We're going to have live audience participation. | ||
| We're going to have many, many of the speakers there. | ||
| We're going to get down to the bottom line of what we need to do between now and 5 November to win and secure this election. | ||
| Tremendous grassroots support. | ||
| I want to get everybody to watch this tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. | ||
| We'll be back in the War Room. | ||
| When we come back after commercial break, Brian Glenn and the team at Real America's Voice will pick it up from Detroit, Michigan, and they will flip it to West Palm Beach, Florida, when President Trump takes the stage at Trump 47 on a flag day and a birthday. | ||
| We'll see you tomorrow morning, 10 a.m., when you'll be back in the War Room. | ||
| See you then. |
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