July 20, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies. | |
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| President Trump got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
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I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | |
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Dave Brat in the War Room with Stephen K. Bannon, out of respect and honor, | ||
| and we want to highlight Steve's predicament every single day on this show. | ||
| We open with Steve in mind. | ||
| He's got the sign of the cross behind him in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. | ||
| This country's going through rough times, but with the armor of God, we will get through it. | ||
| We'll survive. | ||
| We are all seeing on all fronts now just an attack on freedom, right? | ||
| And I'm going to get into the economics a little bit later, but these monopoly firms have immense power. | ||
| The information from Mike Benz is coming out, the Tucker interview, a hundred million acts of censorship back in the last election. | ||
| If you mentioned anything about an election, if you mentioned anything about the COVID virus, etc., that wasn't viewed properly from the heights above the federal government, And the state DHS was made the quarterback of that. | ||
| Congress changed the law. | ||
| I was there. | ||
| I didn't even know about it. | ||
| They changed the law so that tweets would now be considered a cyber event. | ||
| That's the new universe we live in. | ||
| We have a political assassination in the near rear view mirror. | ||
| We have President Trump saying, but for the grace of God Almighty, he would not be with | ||
| us. | ||
| So we live in momentous times. | ||
| We have a legal mind joining us right now who can hopefully provide some resolution | ||
| to these two worlds, both at the state level where he's been a leader, and maybe that gives | ||
| us some insights on this national nightmare we're going through as well. | ||
| So Abe Hamaday, welcome to the show. | ||
| I think everybody out there knows who you are. | ||
| And why don't I just give you the floor? | ||
| Let us know what's going on in your state right now. | ||
| What fight you're fighting and how we can all join you in that fight. | ||
| Well, absolutely. | ||
| And a great intro, David. | ||
| I want your listeners to know, the viewers to know that, you know, these Marxists are not just going to hand over the keys of power so easily. | ||
| We have to fight them. | ||
| We can't get complacent. | ||
| You know, they're trying every tool in the toolbook to stop this movement. | ||
| And here in Arizona, we had somewhat of a good victory just yesterday, where The ninth circuit ruled that, you know, in Arizona, we have these, uh, we have in the state law, we require proof of citizenship. | ||
| However, if they don't provide proof of citizenship, they are added to the federal only ballot so that they can vote in the federal elections for president for Senate and for Congress. | ||
| And in 2020, we had about 11,000 of those, and now in 2024, there's 33,000 people on those rolls. | ||
| So these are people who can vote without providing proof of citizenship, Dave. | ||
| And so this was an important ruling because it put a stop to that. | ||
| So now everybody who fills out a state registration form, if they don't provide proof of citizenship, they're not going to be automatically added to the federal voting rolls. | ||
| So that was a pretty big victory for us. | ||
| You can see the Mark Elias and the Democrat machine right now. | ||
| They are not happy about that one. | ||
| But you know, elections here in Arizona are a mess. | ||
| Just yesterday with the outages all across the globe, it affected the election here in Arizona while we have early voting going on. | ||
| A lot of people, a lot of the polling locations were closed. | ||
| So this is why I tell your viewers we have to be on guard at all times. | ||
| Don't get complacent. | ||
| You know, I know With President Trump's assassination attempting, you know, thank God he was saved by a miracle. | ||
| But these people, they are after the American people and we have to be cognizant of it and awake to all of the tactics they're going to try to do to stop this movement. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I heard a great interview yesterday. | ||
| They were interviewing a former CIA operative, scholar, etc. | ||
| And they said, you know, and all political views are just my own. | ||
| But, you know, what are the Republicans doing? | ||
| You know, surely they got a plan. | ||
| I was back in Congress in 14 to 18. | ||
| We promised for seven years to get rid of Obamacare and all these other great things. | ||
| They said, wait till you have the Senate, then wait till you have the White. | ||
| We had all three and we did nothing. | ||
| There was no plan. | ||
| And so, it's up to us, and you, Abe, have been working it, right? | ||
| Through the law, when you say we, that's nice and humble of you. | ||
| You've been at the center of winning those legal fights. | ||
| But if you were giving advice to the President of the United States, to the leadership in Congress, what would be the three big things you would push for the freedom agenda, right? | ||
| We're not pushing back against the three-letter agencies at all. | ||
| We're not fighting against these big, you know, magnificent seven firms who have monopoly power to crush individuals. | ||
| What would be the two or three big things you would want to address to really solve some of these problems with freedom? | ||
| Yeah, well that's a great question. | ||
| Thank God I'm not going to be the only good guy in Congress, Dave. | ||
| I know the ranks have grown since the time you were there. | ||
| But honestly, if you look at election integrity for me, there's nobody better in a country that knows about election integrity than what I've had to deal with here in Arizona. | ||
| I know when President Trump's in office and Carrie Lake's in the Senate, all three of us know what to do. | ||
| That's why I want to introduce legislation to ban rank choice voting. | ||
| We cannot allow our elections to go in the hands of the Uniparty and the corporations where they want a California style elections all across our country. | ||
| So that's one of the first things. | ||
| You know, look at the border. | ||
| The border is completely open, Dave. | ||
| And I think that for me, I'm a former intelligence officer in the U.S. | ||
| Army. | ||
| And you look at what's happening. | ||
| It's a national security threat. | ||
| You have 30,000 communist Chinese across our southern border in the last six months. | ||
| My district here in Arizona is a huge target for these communist Chinese because of all the semiconductor microchip manufacturing that's having the economic development in my district. | ||
| But then you look around, you know, I've talked to Kash Patel and Mike Davis about this, you know, some real strong patriots. | ||
| These are people who are going to go into the administration. | ||
| They're going to clean up house. | ||
| There needs to be accountability for what they've done here in Arizona. | ||
| And I think so many other jurisdictions. | ||
| I want to make sure that we have a strong U.S. | ||
| attorney appointed. | ||
| for the District of Arizona, for instance, we have to start tackling corruption, | ||
| no matter the party and no matter the level. So I think President Trump, he needs backup in | ||
| Congress and that's what I'm looking forward to doing the most. | ||
| Yeah, that's a great two or three bullets right there, Abe. | ||
| When I was in Congress, you will find out, I was on the Budget Committee, for example, and they walked in at the beginning of the cycle and said, here's the number that you will reach at the end of your six months on the Budget Committee. | ||
| You're a U.S. | ||
| Congress member, right? | ||
| You're treated like a child. | ||
| And so what I found was also our side of the football, the Republicans, we don't message, right? | ||
| Right now we're not running on anything. | ||
| There's no agenda except for what President Trump has laid out in the party platform, which is his big three, right? | ||
| What you just said, border security. | ||
| The overspending, the deep state and the endless wars, right? | ||
| So there's the big three from the president. | ||
| But the Speaker of the House back when I was in there would never lay out a Newt Gingrich style contract with America. | ||
| And a result of that, you're left on your own, right? | ||
| And so if the big donors are told not to back you, you won't get any backing and you'll have to run to the microphone to try to grab some national press. | ||
| And so along those lines, what have you learned being in a key state like you are? | ||
| You guys seem to be able to get your message out nationally even. | ||
| Maybe you could share some of those lessons to other congressmen, how they might grow a backbone and how they can share some of the tips you'll share with us right here about how do you get the message out to save this country. | ||
| I think it's all about speaking the truth, you know. | ||
| running for politics at a young age, it's allowed me to no longer care | ||
| what some 24 year old journalist with blue hair who doesn't know what gender they are writes about me. | ||
| I truly don't care. | ||
| I think we have to stand for truth. | ||
| We know our elections are a compromise. | ||
| I was in DC, Dave, and I was meeting with some congressmen, | ||
| some pretty good conservative congressmen. | ||
| They said, Abe, you know, you talk a lot about elections. | ||
| And I say, well, absolutely. | ||
| Here in Arizona, you know, it's top of mind. | ||
| My district was hit hardest in 2022. | ||
| And he told me it's a very taboo subject in Washington. | ||
| Well, I say, well, it's not. | ||
| I'm going in there to represent my people. | ||
| So it's having the ability and the courage to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done is really important. | ||
| But you're exactly right about the messaging. | ||
| The Democrats are brilliant at it. | ||
| You know, they've somehow messaged that abortion is women's rights. | ||
| They've somehow messaged that genital mutilation is gender affirming care. | ||
| So we have to just call it for what it is. | ||
| Push back. | ||
| Don't bend the knee to them. | ||
| And I think so many Republicans now, they're awake. | ||
| They're no longer just going to believe the fake news anymore. | ||
| So this is where we have to stand for truth. | ||
| So many people are desperate for that. | ||
| And Carrie Lake, you know, she's a good friend of mine. | ||
| She's one of the best communicators in the Republican Party. | ||
| And I hope when she's in the Senate, she can give a good lesson to all of Republicans in Congress. | ||
| Yeah, that's great. | ||
| Give the War Room posse some tips out there for the most effective, you know, action, action, action. | ||
| What's the most effective steps they can take? | ||
| I heard Kirk Cameron interviewed a couple days ago on Brave Books, right? | ||
| He wanted to share some Christian books and just read them in the library about life lessons, about goodness and being polite and following the law and just good citizenship tips. | ||
| And this is a library that was sponsoring all of the crazy drag queen trans book readings, and the library said no. | ||
| And he just calmly and constructively said, you know, just call up the library and ask them, but no, that's not acceptable. | ||
| And he is having a huge effect across the country by just sharing his brave books. | ||
| Across libraries, right? | ||
| Parents call in, especially in the libraries which are on the offense against parents. | ||
| And so what are some other effective tips you can share with your AG legal hat on? | ||
| Well, if you look at, you know, I think getting involved at the school level, school board level is so important too, Dave. | ||
| I mean, the school boards, you know, here, George Soros was such a genius about 10 years ago when he started taking over some of these local races, like the DAs, like the AGs, you know, he understood that if the laws are not being followed, that, you know, that's a victory for him. | ||
| So getting involved in the school boards are vitally important. | ||
| But you know, I really want to hit home after the assassination attempt, every single America First Republican should be wearing their MAGA hat with pride. | ||
| You know, they shouldn't feel the need to hide their beliefs. | ||
| You know, I think at this moment in time that everybody You know, who can criticize you for wearing a MAGA hat right now, for standing with President Trump, who is nearly killed? | ||
| So this is where we need courage more than anything. | ||
| I know for so many people, they just don't want drama, or they don't want controversy, but it's really important for you to show courage so that the other people, you know, who may just go along to get along, they allow them to speak their mind more freely. | ||
| So I think that's what's really happening. | ||
| Electorally, you know, President Trump has encouraged people to write, vote for Trump, no tax on tips, on receipts. | ||
| I think that's another sign of I have a good thing for electorally. | ||
| But I really want people to know this is a spiritual battle that we are fighting. | ||
| I think it's pretty obvious at this point. | ||
| And just know that as long as we stick together and speak the truth and fight for justice, we will be victorious. | ||
| But there's going to be a lot of bumps in the road. | ||
| And just be cognizant. | ||
| And this isn't over. | ||
| That was a black swan type of event that happened against President Trump. | ||
| And there may be many more of them coming soon. | ||
| We have to be very careful and aware of these people are not going to give up power easily. | ||
| Just know that. | ||
| So don't get complacent. | ||
| Go register 10 of your friends to vote. | ||
| If you're willing to volunteer to go sit on the polling locations and make sure that they're counting the votes accurately, I encourage them to do that. | ||
| But this is a fight of our lives to save our republic that has been stolen from us by these Marxists. | ||
| Yeah, I agree 100%. | ||
| We're just getting started. | ||
| We're on the 10-yard line, right? | ||
| We got another 90 yards to go. | ||
| And even if we win, that just gives us the right to start to fix things. | ||
| One of the biggest things that, you know, our side's like the Cub Scouts. | ||
| I'm friends with all the guys on Judiciary and Oversight and all that. | ||
| They're all the Freedom Caucus guys and they're super guys. | ||
| But in your mind, you know, 45 seconds left, but what are the most effective steps? | ||
| Our side never seems to be able to get the receipts. | ||
| Do we have a decades-long fight to turn that ship around? | ||
| I mean, the left is in full control. | ||
| The head of the CIA says, no, I'm just not coming forward. | ||
| DHS is in charge of that. | ||
| Nope, we're just not going to do it. | ||
| And our guys can subpoena. | ||
| That takes two years if it goes through the courts. | ||
| And so how do we get the receipts from them? | ||
| We always give them up, except for Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro when it's a crooked committee set up, and they shouldn't have. | ||
| But how do you recommend we get the receipts in closing? | ||
| About 30 seconds to go, Abe, and great job. | ||
| There has to be consequences for what they've done. | ||
| If you look at it, it's pathetic that Congress couldn't even you know, fine Merrick Garland $10,000 a day and support, | ||
| you know, Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna's bill for that. So it is, it's, we need toughness. There | ||
| needs to be consequences for these, for these Marxists, for what they're doing. | ||
| If you look at Bannon and Navarro, how they're serving prison time, and thank God Navarro just got out, but Merrick Garland is running free and is ahead of the DOJ, and Republicans can't understand that. | ||
| This is simple psychology. | ||
| If you don't punish the other side, they're going to continue to do it at a much more aggressive rate. | ||
| So this is where we have to understand. | ||
| America. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Dave Brat in the War Room with Stephen K. Bannon, opening every show in the name of | ||
| the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. | ||
| Religion, the faith, the Judeo-Christian tradition seems to get stronger when times get tougher. | ||
| We had Bill Federer on a few weeks ago. | ||
| A lot of you just gave him rave reviews and loved that content. | ||
| Then we had Eric Metaxas on his letters to the American church. | ||
| Where he just gave a blistering critique of the period with Bonhoeffer in Germany where the Protestant churches in the north and the Catholic churches in the south were silent. | ||
| I see nothing. | ||
| Just the church did not behave as the church. | ||
| No strength, no standing up to evil, and we'll see what the church is going to do in the days to come. | ||
| President Trump, after the assassination in the speech, gave more than a few comments, right? | ||
| I would not be here but for the grace of God Almighty, and several other allusions, more than allusions. | ||
| Every politician knows it's useful and utilitarian to mention God if you want to win elections. | ||
| But what you saw the other day, everybody got a different feel there. | ||
| Something new is going on. | ||
| There's something deep and spiritual going on in this country. | ||
| And so with that as the backdrop, I brought in probably the expert on the American history, dealing with the founding fathers and the faith. | ||
| He could wax eloquent for hours. | ||
| And I've asked him to come on and kind of Share his feel for what's going on in the country right now. | ||
| What's the duty of Christians? | ||
| Why does it seem like, you know, in the Bible, sometimes God hardens the hearts of some folks. | ||
| It seems like the eyes are being opened right now. | ||
| And so welcome to the show, David Barton, American treasure. | ||
| Thanks for joining us today. | ||
| And Dave, if you just want to share some thoughts on how you see things right now, because you have the best historical Uh, narrative in mind to enlighten us. | ||
| Thank you very much for being with us. | ||
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Hey, great to be with you, Dave. | |
| Thanks. | ||
| Yeah, there's definitely some stuff going on. | ||
| You see with president Trump, uh, there, you know, someone at his level with his experiences, background, it's really easy to have two reactions when you have a near miss. | ||
| One is I'm bulletproof. | ||
| See, nothing's going to take me down. | ||
| I'm destined for this. | ||
| And the other is humility back off and say, wow. | ||
| God must have something going on here, because that was super close. | ||
| You know, I kind of think an angel kind of flipped his chin and turned his head when that bullet went by, because there was nothing logical in the way it happened, and had it been, you know, split-second either way, he wouldn't be here. | ||
| So I think it's very providential, and that's a term I'd use, and I'd even go back to what happened with George Washington. | ||
| The reason that George Washington was available to do what he did as commander-in-chief, as president, help with the Constitutional Convention, etc., went back to a battle that he was in back on July the 17th and 18th of 1755. | ||
| It's called the Bulletproof George Washington. | ||
| But at that point, they singled him out. | ||
| There were some 85 officers in the battle and he's the only one on horseback who was not shot down off his horse and it wasn't because they didn't try. | ||
| He had four bullet holes through his jacket. | ||
| He had bullet fragments in his hair and he talked about how God preserved him. | ||
| And he understood that sense of destiny. | ||
| When God preserves you, okay, then now I'm on borrowed time. | ||
| My life belongs to God. | ||
| What does He want me to do? | ||
| What does He want to get done here? | ||
| And when you get in that perspective, it really brings you back into a healthy position for reestablishing our documents. | ||
| I think a lot of people are not aware, for example, the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| That's our philosophy of government. | ||
| It starts with 161 words saying, this is how government is to think and operate in America. | ||
| And for the six principles in the Declaration of Independence are clearly God-centered. | ||
| It's very hard to make this country work right if you leave out those principles. | ||
| And I think President Trump now is very cognizant and very aware of that aspect, like George Washington, if you will, that providential intervention that happened. | ||
| He's got a whole different view on life, and I think that's going to affect his behavior going forward. | ||
| Yeah, well good, and hit rewind there just a little bit, or give us any other receipts. | ||
| When you say, you know, four or five biblical principles are there in the Declaration, you always hear, right, no, the Constitution, there's nothing about God in there, and even the Declaration, and then what you do hear about is the separation that Jefferson mentioned in a note to a friend. | ||
| And so, why don't you share with the folks, you just have a breadth of knowledge here and a depth, some of the most significant bullet points that show very clearly this republic was formed under godly principles. | ||
| I think what was the book of Deuteronomy, one of the most cited sources and that kind of thing. | ||
| Share your knowledge base with us, Dave. | ||
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Yeah, Dave, just respond to what you just said there. | |
| The University of Houston said, hey, we have a document that's lasted longer than any other. | ||
| We're 237 years old. | ||
| There's been 5,800 years of recorded history. | ||
| There's been thousands of nations, hundreds of constitutions. | ||
| What's the average length of a constitution? | ||
| Cornell University Law School said the average constitution lasts 17 years. | ||
| So we're 237. | ||
| So University of Houston said, so where did our founders get their ideas? | ||
| Because all these other nations had access. | ||
| They didn't do anything. | ||
| Where'd it come from? | ||
| And according to the University of Houston, they did a 10-year study. | ||
| They collected the writings of the Founding Fathers and the Founding Era, 15,000 they used, and they found in those 3,154 direct quotes. | ||
| They said, all right, now let's see who the Founding Fathers quoted. | ||
| The number one source for their quotes was the Bible. | ||
| 34% of all those political quotes came out of Bible verses, and the number one Bible book quoted was, as you mentioned, the book of Deuteronomy. | ||
| So this is not hyperbole. | ||
| This is a 10-year study from the University of Houston. | ||
| No question that faith is important, but you hit something really significant, because today we're told, wait a minute, I take an oath to uphold the Constitution. | ||
| I didn't take an oath to uphold the Declaration. | ||
| You don't understand the Constitution. | ||
| The Constitution dates itself to the Declaration. | ||
| There's seven articles in the Constitution. | ||
| Article 7 goes directly to the Declaration. | ||
| And even President Obama, as he signs acts to this day, when he signs an act, it dates itself to the Declaration of Independence, not to the Constitution. | ||
| The Declaration is our founding document. | ||
| It set forth the philosophy of government. | ||
| It had six points that it made really clear, and everything in the Constitution goes back to those six points. | ||
| And you'll never understand the Constitution if you first don't understand the Declaration. | ||
| Those six points, 161 words, that set it up, and then it gave 27 examples of what are grievances in the Declaration. | ||
| And the Constitution said, oh, grievance number 9, let's fix this over here in Article 1, Section 10. | ||
| And grievance number 11, let's make that Article 2, Section 3. | ||
| Everything in the Declaration, they pulled into the Constitution. | ||
| So, back to the philosophy of the Declaration. | ||
| They start saying really clearly, there is a Creator God. | ||
| And then they say the Creator God gives every person God-given inalienable rights. | ||
| Talks about the laws of nature. | ||
| Nature's God is a moral stand. | ||
| This is how we know what's right and what's wrong. | ||
| By the way, I'm sitting out here in my ranch in Texas. | ||
| Got cattle all around me. | ||
| Natural law is real simple. | ||
| There's only two genders. | ||
| And if you doubt that, come to my ranch, I'll put you behind my cattle, and it's not going to take you long to figure out how many genders there are. | ||
| It's not going to be very hard to find out that there's only two. | ||
| Our helpful professors in the United States right now are teaching 81 genders. | ||
| If you happen to be over in Europe, the BBC just had a training, and Global Butterflies does a training in Europe. | ||
| They say there's 150 different genders. | ||
| Come to my ranch. | ||
| I'll show you natural law. | ||
| The laws of nature and nature's God. | ||
| There's two genders, real simple stuff. | ||
| So they say there's a Creator God. | ||
| He gives rights and wrongs, natural law. | ||
| Creator God gives us certain inalienable rights, the right to self-defense, the right to property, etc. | ||
| And it's government's duty to protect those rights. | ||
| Those are the first four points in the Declaration. | ||
| They're all centered on God. | ||
| That's where you have to start. | ||
| Yep, a couple minutes left in this segment. | ||
| Give us a little bit when you say they, right? | ||
| I was in economics and I had some Marxist advisors, for real, real Marxist, 35 years ago. | ||
| I tried to stick religion in my economics dissertation. | ||
| Boy, I got hit like a ton of bricks. | ||
| You're supposed to be kind of boring, right, working on a constitution, declaration, and you got a target over you. | ||
| They do not like what you're doing. | ||
| Who is the they, right? | ||
| And the they, the Marxists, the Neo-Marxists, right? | ||
| The Marxists used to separate by class, now they're doing it by race and everything else under the sun like you just mentioned. | ||
| But how do you trace the attack, right? | ||
| It's clear they're trying to get rid of all the things we love. | ||
| Love of God, love of country, love of the truth, love of family. | ||
| They're winning, right? | ||
| All of those things are under direct attack and we're losing ground. | ||
| How do we, first of all, find out who's doing the attacking and how do we fight back, Dave? | ||
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Yeah, the way you fight back is with knowledge. | |
| You overcome knowledge with better knowledge. | ||
| And at this point, Americans are not very knowledgeable. | ||
| We do so much across the United States. | ||
| We work all over the nation with legislatures. | ||
| We monitored 152,000 pieces of legislation last year at the state level. | ||
| We have about 1,000 legislators in our network. | ||
| So we see what's going on across the nation. | ||
| And it starts with knowing what the document says. | ||
| And by the way, you need to understand the Declaration is the core document. | ||
| That's all the values. | ||
| Constitution shows how it works. | ||
| Right now, we have only 62% of Americans that can name the three branches of government. | ||
| And grab this. | ||
| You'll love this, Dave. | ||
| You probably knew some of these guys. | ||
| Only 48% of elected officials can name the three branches of government. | ||
| Now, if you're only half of elected officials can name the three branches, how do you get separation of powers? | ||
| How do you have checks and balances? | ||
| How do you keep the fourth branch from taking over what's supposed to be the first branch? | ||
| We don't know, because we don't teach civics anymore. | ||
| We don't teach government anymore. | ||
| We teach action civics, BLM, DEI. | ||
| So we no longer teach the documents. | ||
| And you've got to teach the documents, and you've got to teach declaration So it goes back to that, but if you don't see the God factor in this, it's not going to work well. | ||
| We'll be like France, we'll be like Italy and Portugal and Spain and all the other nations that left God out of their stuff. | ||
| It doesn't work well, and we're not a theocracy. | ||
| We don't want to be a theocracy, but at the same time you have to know God's principles. | ||
| I know that there's a right of self-defense because I look in my horse barn, if I try to mess with a colt that belongs to a young mare, I'm going to have a hoof print right in the middle of my forehead. | ||
| I can pass every law in the world that says you can't kick me in the forehead and it's not going to make any difference because it's the laws of nature and nature's God. | ||
| I have a right to self-defense. | ||
| I have a right to all sorts of things. | ||
| That's God-given rights. | ||
| And if you don't recognize that God gives you those rights and implants it in nature, it's visible for all of us, we'll never get this nation back. | ||
| So it starts to going back to a God consciousness. | ||
| Now, I'll just close with this thought. | ||
| George Washington, on the day we finished the Bill of Rights, and the Bill of Rights was so important for our rights, always, Washington called the nation to a time of prayer. | ||
| And he said, a nation has a duty to do four things. | ||
| He said, you have to acknowledge God, you have to obey His will, you have to be grateful for His benefits, and you have to implore His grace and favor. | ||
| So Washington said, we just finished the Bill of Rights, let's go to God and thank Him. | ||
| And I'll point out that by 1815, the Founding Fathers had called the nation to prayer on 1,400 separate occasions by 1815. | ||
| Unreal. | ||
| Unreal. | ||
| Dave, we're going to be back with you after the break, and we're going to say, where's the church? | ||
| Why aren't we doing these things? | ||
| Back with Dave. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| They brought in a war room with the great Stephen K. Bannon on it. | ||
| All prayers lift up for Stephen K. Bannon, for our great country, for President Trump and his family as we all go through tough times. | ||
| No one better to have on the show with us than David Barton to reflect on the deep, deep issues. | ||
| The left, in a way, does have an advantage on conservatives. | ||
| A lot of us are out there, you all working in small, medium-sized businesses, coming | ||
| home to the kids, taking care of them, doing all the hard work. | ||
| The left has taken advantage of that, and they have taken over the universities. | ||
| They are in complete control, except for a few. | ||
| Obviously, Liberty University and some other great ones are in there, still upholding the faith. | ||
| But Dave just got done mentioning education as being a key, right? | ||
| that we have to have better knowledge of our founding documents, of the Bible, of our own | ||
| tradition, and that's a heavy lift right now, right? | ||
| The K-12 system, public schools are failing. | ||
| In Chicago, this is both economic and spiritual. | ||
| If you can't read the word, it's hard to build a life around the word, right? | ||
| And it's interesting, right? | ||
| Logos, the Word, Christ, the Logos, the Word. | ||
| 12% of the poor kids in Chicago can read at grade level, in third and fourth grade. | ||
| 12% of the kids can read at grade level. | ||
| And if you can't read at third and fourth grade, you can't go on and learn the instructions, etc. | ||
| So, the left has destroyed our school system. | ||
| But conservative Christians, we have not built enough cities on a hill. | ||
| And so we need to look in the mirror, too. | ||
| Just because the left has failed doesn't mean we can't still take control of certain spheres of our lives. | ||
| And so, Dave, what should the church be doing on education, on spreading the word? | ||
| Is a revival possible? | ||
| The statistics say we're losing patriotism. | ||
| And the faith, but there's something going on out there. | ||
| And so what can the church do right now? | ||
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Well, they first need to become students of their faith or students of the book. | |
| If I take you, you know, you mentioned earlier that you got in trouble with the paper you were doing economics. | ||
| I'll point out that historians agree that the single greatest influence in the economic policies of the Constitution came from John Witherspoon. | ||
| Now, who's he? | ||
| John Witherspoon's a signer of the Declaration, ratifier of the Constitution. | ||
| He's a clergyman. | ||
| He is a pastor. | ||
| He was the president of Princeton University, a seminary that trained pastors. | ||
| So you have a pastor that's your number one economist in America. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| Read his economic writings. | ||
| He quotes the scriptures throughout. | ||
| As a matter of fact, we in America pride ourselves on being the great free market of the world. | ||
| We started that in the last thousand years back in 1627. | ||
| The Pilgrims did that. | ||
| They quoted five Bible verses on why they needed to move away from socialism and government control of economics. | ||
| They needed a free market. | ||
| They adapted the free market system in 1627 in Aptucket, Massachusetts. | ||
| Their governor, William Bradford, said after they switched to the free market system, their prosperity went up sevenfold and they never again had a time of want in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, or the Plymouth Colony, which merged with Massachusetts Bay later. | ||
| So economics, that's a religious topic, if you will. | ||
| And the great economists, the 1400s, 1500s, 1600s, were theologians. | ||
| So first thing we got to get is, hey, the Bible isn't just for Sunday morning. | ||
| This is for education. | ||
| It is for criminal justice. | ||
| Even Stephen Breyer, who's off the court now, but he was the most secular justice, In my opinion, on the Supreme Court, I was involved in 13 cases of the U.S. | ||
| Supreme Court. | ||
| Even Stephen Breyer said, we all know the due process rights of the Constitution came out of the Bible. | ||
| Do we really? | ||
| Yeah, the right to confront your accusers comes out of John 8-10. | ||
| The right to compel witnesses on your behalf comes out of Proverbs 18-17. | ||
| The right to speak in your own defense, Acts 22-1. | ||
| If you don't know scriptures, you're not going to understand how the Constitution works, how economics works, how education works, etc. | ||
| So what we're trying to do right now with education is we're trying to put a band-aid on something that's been blown apart by a howitzer cannon. | ||
| It's not going to fail. | ||
| You have to have a fundamental systemic reform of education. | ||
| And that goes back to in the 1920s, we moved from teaching kids how to think to teaching them how to learn. | ||
| They're now learners. | ||
| So whatever we tell you, you repeat it back to us. | ||
| Let's have a multiple... Did you know there was no multiple choice test until the 1920s? | ||
| Progressive said, did we tell you A, B, C, or D? | ||
| And so that's where multiple choice filmed the bank. | ||
| True, false. | ||
| August started with progressives. | ||
| We've got to get back to a thinking system. | ||
| So to do that, you've got to get back into this. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I go on. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| I want you to do more on that because it's funny. | ||
| There's like two competing schools of thought, and I think they're both missing the boat on something related to what you just said. | ||
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Right. | |
| Some people say you just need to learn a ton of knowledge. | ||
| Well, of course you do. | ||
| That's the data. | ||
| That's the receipts. | ||
| And you need that. | ||
| And then other people say, no, you just need it. | ||
| The kids don't need to know anything. | ||
| All they need to do is learn critical thinking, whatever this is. | ||
| But what's missing in my view is what you're pointing out, which is systematic theology. | ||
| All the great thinkers, going back to Aristotle, had systematic metaphysics, ethics, the sciences, the rhetoric, all of it, and it all had to explain the same thing. | ||
| And now it's a joke, right? | ||
| The economists were examining the same social world that the sociologists and the anthropologists who were all left to study. | ||
| We have different answers. | ||
| You can't have different answers when you're explaining God's one world, right? | ||
| And so give us a minute or so on the systematic part, why the Bible is so crucial. | ||
| Hero, Israel, the Lord our God is one, right? | ||
| There's a unity that matters. | ||
| It's always mattered, except for the last 50 years, it's all blown up. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, if you go back to the Declaration and those first four points that are God-centered, there is a Creator God. | ||
| He establishes natural law. | ||
| Those are things that we ought to be able to understand and think through. | ||
| And that's not, I guess we might call it theology today. | ||
| They never called it theology. | ||
| That was a philosophy of life. | ||
| And if you take someone even like Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine, who is the most anti-religious guy in the American founding, look at what he did in France when he went there and he helped in France serve in their legislature. | ||
| And in 1787, he has this piece where he takes on the public schools in France and said, guys, you're not teaching that there's a creator God. | ||
| If you don't teach a creator God, your kids will never understand anything and you'll never have freedom. | ||
| Now, that's the most anti-religious guy in America, which he's not completely anti-religious. | ||
| He didn't like Christianity, but he did think that God was key to being taught. | ||
| And if you don't get back into that type of thinking where that even as a Very strong anti-religious guy. | ||
| He's a very strong pro-God guy, pro-principles of God guy. | ||
| If you don't understand those basic thinking principles, and I'll just, we have two museums, world-class museums here in Texas. | ||
| We have 100,000 or more documents from Founding Fathers. | ||
| One of the coolest is what I just got just a few weeks ago. | ||
| It's a four-page letter from John Quincy Adams. | ||
| He's an 18-year-old. | ||
| He's at Harvard. | ||
| He's about to enter a two-hour debate. | ||
| And the two hour debate, and he's once, half the debate, he's got a friend that's the other | ||
| half of the debate, they're going to debate for two hours whether God intended you to | ||
| eat the green end of asparagus first or the white end of asparagus first. | ||
| How do you have a two hour debate? | ||
| Because it's all about thinking. | ||
| What's his reasoning? | ||
| Where's he weak? | ||
| That doesn't make sense. | ||
| And it's all about learning how to think, and we don't teach thinking anymore. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| In the rabbinic tradition, there are no strangers to that either, right from the beginning as well. | ||
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That's right. | |
| And so in closing, Dave, let's get back to the church. | ||
| What's your shout-out? | ||
| A lot of the young evangelicals say, Jesus didn't do politics. | ||
| Politics is sinful and dirty. | ||
| I'm not gonna do that. | ||
| What's your response to the young kids who have that worldview right now? | ||
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If you think that politics is evil and dirty and Jesus didn't do politics, I urge you to read your Bible more, because you've not read it very much. | |
| If you read the Bible more, you'll find it was God who created the institution of government way back in Genesis 9-6. | ||
| That's the first civil laws we ever have. | ||
| And it starts from there. | ||
| Look at the book of Deuteronomy, which is the foundation of the Hebrew Republic. | ||
| 613 civil laws given by God. | ||
| Look all the way through Romans 13. | ||
| If you think that God is not involved in government, it is His institution. | ||
| is the second he created the government before he created church. | ||
| That says something. So if you think that you're not to be involved in government, | ||
| you're not reading your Bible with the right mind. You're reading the Bible with indoctrination. | ||
| You're letting what people have told you affect you. Read the Bible, look at what it says, | ||
| approach it the way it says, let it talk. It's its own best interpreter. And that's the best | ||
| thing you can do is get into that Bible like the founding fathers did, like we had in schools. | ||
| Get back into that. And it's an economic book. It's an everything book. It's everything you | ||
| need right there. Let me, let me get you on that Romans 13, because this has turned into | ||
| a doctrine of passivity. | ||
| You're the founding scholar, right? | ||
| And so, okay, in the past, you know, skip it. | ||
| We'll skip over all that. | ||
| But right now, our declaration, the Constitution, we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people. | ||
| It says, we the people, in order to form a more perfect union. | ||
| So when Romans 13 says, obey the government, is it your view today that we are the government? | ||
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Yeah, we are the government, and that's one of the things the founders dealt with, because when they conducted the revolution, they went through and they read lots of theological books on, man, what do you do with Romans 13? | |
| What is the government? | ||
| What is the king? | ||
| Is it us? | ||
| And so John Adams actually has great writings on that, how they handled that. | ||
| But yes, we are the government. | ||
| We are the ones. | ||
| And people who take Romans 13 to say we shouldn't be involved in government or we do what our government says, No, the whole Bible is filled with government verses. | ||
| You don't take one and hang your hat on that. | ||
| And there's a lesson of history that's really, really clear. | ||
| And this is where America is, I think, right now. | ||
| You'll either have a big God or a big government. | ||
| If you can't control yourself by the standards God says in the scriptures and self-govern yourself, then government is going to govern you. | ||
| And I saw a factoid recently in USA Today that if you were to take the U.S. | ||
| Code right now and read it, and everybody needs to because you're responsible for what's in it, they can come arrest you if you violate that. | ||
| Right now, if you would read 700 pages a week of the U.S. | ||
| Code, it will take you 25,000 years to read the U.S. | ||
| Code. | ||
| So, how about Ten Commandments? | ||
| That's pretty easy. | ||
| Go back to the Ten Commandments. | ||
| Louisiana just did that. | ||
| Louisiana just passed a law putting them back up in their classroom. | ||
| They're doing that in Oklahoma. | ||
| So, get back to God stuff, and you don't need near as much government. | ||
| It's a whole lot better. | ||
| You got it, David Barton. | ||
| The reason I bring these smart guys on, they're not going to give you all the answers in 15 minutes, but he just told you where to go, right? | ||
| He just gave you all the sources. | ||
| Go look up David Barton, all his books. | ||
| They're so numerous, I couldn't go through them all. | ||
| But David Barton, you're a national treasure. | ||
| God bless you and all your work and keep at it. | ||
| Thank you for joining us on The War Room, brother. | ||
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Thanks, Dave. | |
| Appreciate you, brother. | ||
| Bye-bye. | ||
| You too. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Good. | ||
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| She's been a force in government, in politics, in the private sector. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| I had some economic charts I was going to share with you today, but David Barton was so good, and I think it's so timely after the assassination attempt on President Trump and his words about God Almighty. | ||
| And the grace shown to him. | ||
| Just powerful moments, and so I wanted to focus there today. | ||
| But I am going to go into economics just for a few minutes, and I'll post these slides at warroom.org. | ||
| It's a PowerPoint deck with some slides that best of the best over the years. | ||
| I think the most important for our country. | ||
| But I want to start off with what the War Room can do. | ||
| Action, action, action on the economics. | ||
| Economics is just not economics. | ||
| It's about freedom, right? | ||
| Today, when you see the magnificent seven, Right, and Twitter, thank goodness, has come over now to the, you know, transparency side. | ||
| But the other big firms, right, Microsoft made the big news, Facebook, Google, etc., right? | ||
| Just huge monopoly power. | ||
| I cannot tell you what that means, right? | ||
| The market cap of those seven firms is bigger than all the European markets, right? | ||
| It's just Huge. | ||
| And so the power they have, it's not just economic power, it's political power, right? | ||
| As we've said, they censored a hundred million tweets, a hundred million views of American citizens a few years ago. | ||
| And they still have that power. | ||
| And the government made them do that. | ||
| That's fascism. | ||
| The combination of corporatism and government working together with just several firms is the definition of fascism. | ||
| The left calls us fascism. | ||
| Who's in jail? | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Peter Navarro, thank God, is out, and I just want to say welcome back, brother. | ||
| I hope you're watching the show. | ||
| Peter Navarro is a national treasure. | ||
| When he gets back in the White House, we are going to restructure, and he's going to lead the restructure of this economy to break up these gigantic firms because they are keeping us from freedom. | ||
| So one of the books you can read is right here. | ||
| I posted National Security and the Double Government. | ||
| Glennon in this book showed the absolute weakness of the Madisonian architecture that Dave Barton just shared with you. | ||
| We're supposed to have three articles, Congress, Judiciary, and the Executive, the | ||
| Presidency. | ||
| We have one. | ||
| It's the fourth branch of government underneath the Executive, the DOJ, CIA, FBI, etc., and | ||
| National Security State. | ||
| And so, believe it or not, probably one of the most important things we can do is get | ||
| on the horn with your congressmen and women and tell them where are you on antitrust, | ||
| making up these gigantic companies. | ||
| Where are you on breaking up these gigantic entities under our federal government? | ||
| They have to be broken up. | ||
| And if they don't have an answer, when I was in Congress, we didn't have a plan. | ||
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Right. | |
| Paul Ryan was in there and I was assuming, right, well, these guys are smart. | ||
| They've trained their whole lives. | ||
| They must have a plan. | ||
| No plan. | ||
| And so right now, boy, I hope we got a plan. | ||
| There's a few plans out there. | ||
| But let me go just quickly take a peek at the first slide we got coming up. | ||
| Denver, if you want to go there, that's education spending going straight up. | ||
| Guess what's at the bottom? | ||
| Test scores flat as a pancake. | ||
| Go to the next one. | ||
| Denver, this is the biggie. | ||
| For 70 years in a row, and just go to the next one and I'm going to close out, but I just want to show you what's in this deck. | ||
| There's productivity. | ||
| That's the real economy going down for 70 years in a row. | ||
| And the CBO has productivity going down for another 30 years. | ||
| And so what are we leaving President Trump with? | ||
| All political views are my own. | ||
| A disaster coming up. | ||
| The markets are already starting to tremble. | ||
| I think they're going to crack before the election. | ||
| That's not good news, but it's just the inevitability of waiting till the last minute. | ||
| And so go check out these slides at warroom.org. | ||
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| Mike, you're with us. | ||
| What deals you got for us today on the War Room? | ||
| Thanks for being with us, brother. | ||
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| And so on that note, everybody in the country, right, lift up prayers today for this great country. | ||
| And then after you pray, ask for God's guidance and then call your congressmen and women and ask them, what's the plan? | ||
| And if they say we don't have a plan, that's not good enough. | ||
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| To scale back these federal agencies the fourth branch of government and these govern these monopolies in the private sector which are out of control All right, you can see put up by Denver if you want to put up the slide We've got a live Trump coverage today 1 p.m. | ||
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