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Nov. 22, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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WarRoom Battleground EP 658: The Primrose Path To WW3
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katy tur ▲ ● ▼
We had nothing to do with and had no idea who was involved with Project 2025. Donald Trump's picks for his new administration, they suggest otherwise.
At least six of Trump's nominees or appointees have ties to Project 2025, either as advisors, authors, contributors, or in promotional videos.
Why did they show up?
unidentified
Well, Katie, I can tell you what the FBI and DHS are saying publicly, and then I'll tell you what committee sources think is going on.
The FBI and DHS are saying that the threat picture right now is so sensitive that they feel they can only talk about the big issues in a closed hearing, in a classified, closed session.
And one of the issues that they don't want to talk about publicly is the fact that China has successfully hacked a bunch of telecom companies and they may have gotten access to classified information.
That's very sensitive.
So that's understandable.
But there's nothing that would prevent them from having both an open hearing and a closed hearing.
And what committee sources I talk to are concerned about is they feel like here are two top officials who are not long in their jobs.
Mayorkas obviously leaving as a political appointee.
And Chris Wray, the FBI director, were reporting Donald Trump wants to replace him.
He may leave as well.
And the feeling is that they decided they didn't want to sit for another grilling on the Hill.
These hearings are not pleasant.
They get yelled at.
They get asked tough questions.
Some people view it as a circus.
But it's an important function where taxpayers get to see these top officials answering hard questions.
And sometimes there are good questions and we learn things.
And so we're not going to have that opportunity.
And it's not clear at all that these open hearings will be rescheduled before these two men leave their jobs, Katie.
katy tur ▲ ● ▼
Could they possibly be rescheduled to earlier next year when there's a new CIA director or a new FBI director and new Homeland Security head?
unidentified
Absolutely.
I don't think this is the end of worldwide threat hearings and open hearings.
I just think these two gentlemen have decided that they don't need to do this anymore and they are leaving, and so the taxpayers lose out on this opportunity.
katy tur ▲ ● ▼
All right, Ken Delaney, thank you very much.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, they're just sitting there.
You know, I've never heard of this.
The FBI director and Homeland Security has been impeached.
FBI director is going to be under investigation.
They just say, no, we're not going to do this.
Talk about checks and balances.
And all they scream about is democracy.
MSNBC right there.
Oh, yeah, okay, well, fine.
You know, people on the committee said they don't believe them.
What the agency is saying, well, it's so sensitive.
It's so sensitive.
Maybe should the threat environment so sensitive.
I thought the threat environment was all...
Right-wingers.
Her mom's going to school boards.
Her father's trying to get the pornography out of the libraries with the blue-haired Marxist librarians.
I thought that was it.
Oh, the threat environment.
Unreal.
Welcome to the 6 o'clock hour.
The Attorney General of the great state of Texas joins us, Ken Paxson.
Attorney General Paxson, thank you for joining us.
Rumor has it you're shortlisted...
To be talked to by the President of the United States, that would be Donald Trump, to be Attorney General of these United States.
Do you have interest in that job, sir?
unidentified
Yeah, I think I could do a really good job.
I've obviously been a Texas Attorney General for 10 years, have operated a big agency, but I also know what it's like to sue the DOJ, and I know what state AGs are going to do, what the Democratic AGs are going to do.
I know how to deal with them.
I've also obviously been targeted by DOJ and the FBI, and I know what that's like.
And so I do have a mission that I think needs to be accomplished, which is we need to make sure that the DOJ is about justice and not injustice.
And I think there's some huge issues that need to be resolved there.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Talk about being battle-hard.
You know, we spent, when you got impeached, kind of illegitimately impeached, and we had to go to the trial, you had an uprising, a populist uprising of just average common citizens that said, hey, Ken Paxson's our guy.
We don't care what the elites want to do down there.
He's our guy.
We'll have his back.
But what lessons did you learn about being targeted?
By the state power, the FBI and the Attorney General, and also all the elites down in Texas that, quite frankly, wanted you out of the way, sir?
unidentified
I think a couple of things.
One is that the truth matters, and you can't always get that out very easily, but you have to battle to get the truth out and get the truth out so that people understand what's really going on.
That's really hard with the left-wing media.
It's why we're fortunate to have shows like yours.
And the second thing I'd say is you've got to be persistent.
You cannot give up to fight Because sometimes it feels overwhelming.
You have to keep the fight up every single day and not give in and get up the next day even if you got beat the day before, and you've got to fight them again.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
What would be your priority, sitting there, if you're talking to the President, and obviously you can't give us the confidential, total inside baseball, but what is your pitch?
How do you present President Trump with, hey, I know you've known me a long time, I know you've seen me in action, you've had my back, but as your Attorney General, here's what I think needs to be done, and here's what I am going to do, sir.
unidentified
First of all, I think I'm battle-tested.
I've proven that I can do the job in Texas, which is The largest Republican state, so it's definitely the closest ground to DOJ. I'd tell them, obviously, I have a lot of experience dealing with DOJ, both on a personal level and on just the state level, having sued them, you know, over 100 times.
And I understand exactly the model that the Democratic AGs will use against the Department of Justice once it's controlled by the Trump administration.
So I think I know how to do this job, and I also believe that the inside I'm used to that as well inside of the bureaucracy.
I've had to deal with it in my own agency and dealing with people that are not on board with what I want to do.
This can be no different at DOJ, and some of those people are going to have to be moved around and taken out of their positions.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
General Paxton, it shouldn't be lost on you.
It's not lost on our audience that If the president was to nominate you, you would have to go start that tour that Matt Gaetz started yesterday.
And John Cornyn's up there.
John Cornyn, he's not exactly a friend of the war room.
He's definitely not a friend of the war room posse or the MAGA movement.
We think he's a total phony and a blowhard.
But he would go out of his way, would he not, sir, to make sure that, although you're fellow Texans, that you were not Attorney General of the United States?
Am I correct in that?
unidentified
Well, I don't know.
He's not stated his position on me.
Hopefully he would give me a fair shot.
He knows what I've accomplished in the state.
But, you know, Sean has his leanings.
And, you know, he's definitely been appalled on many of our issues.
So, yeah, I have some concerns about that.
But let's see what he says first.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You think he'd be a good Attorney General for President Trump in the nation?
unidentified
I can tell you this, I've worked my butt off, and I think I've got the experience and I know what needs to be done.
It's not going to be an easy job because of the internal, what's going on internally at DOJ and how it's been set up over the last, you know, many, many years.
But I do think I have the idea of what needs to be accomplished, and I think I know how to do the job.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Attorney General Paxton, any social media people can follow you on?
Because I know the President thinks incredibly highly of you, sir.
unidentified
Yeah, at KenPaxsonTX and then KenPaxson.com.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Sir, thank you very much.
Good luck in this endeavor.
unidentified
Hey, thanks a lot, Steve.
Good to have you back.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thank you, brother.
We have some good news.
We've got Poso, who's over at Charlie Kirk's show.
As soon as he frees up, we're going to get Poso on.
And we're looking to track down Scott Pressler.
Because the folks in the Commonwealth, and this is a hat tip to every member of the War Room Posse, either from the Commonwealth or all those volunteers.
That helped work because I believe Bob Casey has just conceded.
So Mark Elias and all that thieving and stealing and counting everything that comes across, I think Bob Casey finally said he had enough and I think he's conceded right now.
The Senate seat to Dave McCormick in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Folks, that is a big victory for those people in this audience that put their shoulder to the wheel in the Commonwealth.
I know there were tons of people there and also Folks throughout the country work in phone banks, all of it.
So great victory.
We need that extra seat more than ever.
You can tell this on the Gates thing.
You could only lose three with J.D. being the tiebreaker.
And Matt will tell you, I think Congressman said, hey, there were four hard no's and he thought he had another four that were solidifying his hard no's.
He just thought it was going to be too big a struggle for the president to go through and do this.
I honestly don't agree with that, but hey, I'm just one voice in the choir.
I think you've just got to gut it through and things can change.
He's never charged with any of this stuff.
It's all just conversation.
And Gates had the power through it.
But hey, decisions were made and we are where we are.
But we're looking for next man up.
Ken Paxson, pretty good candidate.
I think Kobach out in Kansas.
I heard Bailey.
I don't know a lot about him, but I heard he's very strong.
I think some of these state AGs, although...
A state AG kind of fleeting up to this role is not particularly easy.
But we've got to get that.
We've got to reboot.
I don't know if the president needs to announce somebody tomorrow.
I would say everybody take a deep breath.
Let's think this thing through a little more in detail.
I do think that the team down there has got to do some checkings on this.
Not so much for Gates, but you've got to do some checkings on this.
Particularly, there's a couple things that have come to our attention.
We'll probably...
Drill down on those over the next couple of days and maybe have some comments and observations on them early next week.
But we've got to get this team across the goal line.
And let's recap.
Gates is out.
He pulled his nomination.
I told the president he wanted his nomination pulled.
The president has done that.
Just technically, so we're on top of things, Gates has not just resigned his seat in Congress now, but he has informed people he is not going to take the oath.
I think I saw that this morning.
He's not going to take the oath on January 3rd.
So he's out.
He's out in the next Congress, and there will be a special election down in his district.
We did have a win today, a huge win.
Russ, vote.
I don't know if that's been...
Has that been formally announced yet?
I know they...
The media has been all over that.
But it looks like from media reports, Russ Vogt has been named Office of Management and Budget, and that will be the glue that kind of pulls together all these different strands of how you get your arms around Leviathan, this out-of-control federal government, and how you not just cut spending, but you start to take the programs out that really lead to the spending.
And in that, they will be the lead horse in this whole DOGE effort.
Right now, the Doge executives and their team are consultants and advisors, senior advisors and consultants to the Office of Management and Budget.
And you can't get the financial house in order until you take care of this.
Speaking of the financial house, by the way, birchgold.com.
Slash Bannon, the end of the dollar empire.
But go to Philip Patrick and the team.
Because you've got two things going on.
Number one, I think it's incumbent upon you or important to get knowledgeable, as knowledgeable as possible, on precious metals as a hedge against times of financial turbulence.
You've got to, I think, understand that and learn that.
It's very important for you.
And Philip Patrick and the team can do that.
We've written a multi...
Part installment, Totally Free, The End of the Dollar Empire, that talks about what the elites in this country have done to the dollar by this vast spending regimen they've had and how that's destroyed the purchasing power of the dollar.
I think you understand that.
You talked to Philip Patrick.
If you buy off the fact that, hey, this could be a hedge, then there's all types of technical ways for you to actually own gold besides just the outright purchase.
That's a possibility.
We've got 401ks, IRAs, all types of instruments, instrumentality of how you do it.
And Philip Patrick and those guys in the team are the best to help you out.
Also, Glenn Story just had Ken Paxton on.
You remember, man, we had a dogfight for Ken Paxton when they came after him and impeached him in the trial in the Texas Senate.
Folks were up there every day.
Hey, one of the leaders was the political action arm of Glenn Story and this great team down at Patriot Mobile because, look, they have a very simple thesis of the country.
They are committed Christians in the company of Patriot Mobile, and they believe very strongly in the values of the Judeo-Christian West.
And Glenn, those guys fight for it in the kind of pack they've got off to the side.
But the company is absolutely fantastic.
It's a mobile services company that kind of layers onto the existing wireless services.
And they tie X amount back to certain charities and certain activities that support, you know, first responders and the Second Amendment, all that.
PatriotMobile.com.
Go check it out today.
PatriotMobile.com.
You will be incredibly happy.
I got Scott Pressler or Chuck Posovic?
Jack Posovic.
Jack Posovic joined.
Poso, I got you on here for Gates and Ukraine and all that, but I got to talk to your beloved Commonwealth that you spent so much time up.
You and Pressler, hat tip, into the War Room Posse, into the Charlie Kirk, the Charlie Kirk turning point and the Poso show.
Huge victory.
Casey finally threw in the towel.
unidentified
Look, let me tell you something.
So Bob Casey just posted his video up on X announcing that he is conceding that he will be leaving the United States Senate.
And, you know, I've talked about this a couple of times, but I've been waiting for this day for a long time because Bob Casey was one of the very first campaigns that a very young Pennsylvania guy who was involved in politics and wanted to get involved with was...
The Senate race in Pennsylvania in 2006, and that was the first one I ever had a paid gig working in politics for.
Right there in the southeast of Pennsylvania, I was the Temple College Republican chairman, then I became the executive director of Pennsylvania, and of course everyone knows That was the year that Casey won by simply doing nothing and having the name ID of his father.
That is it.
And Casey proceeded to do nothing between that day and this day.
So I responded to him on Twitter simply with this.
You will be remembered for nothing and nobody ever wants you to come back.
So Bob Casey, I'm going to say this to you again.
You'll be remembered for nothing.
Never come back.
What lobby shop is even going to hire this guy?
What Rolodex does he have?
He's done nothing.
He can't point to a single thing that he's done in 18 years representing me in the United States Senate and my entire family and all the rest of us.
Well, everything's going to crap in our country and everything's going to crap in Pennsylvania.
What has Bob Casey ever actually done to show for it?
Not a single thing.
Not a thing.
So, Steve, I love it.
I love the fact that he's up.
Now, Dave McCormick, all right.
All right, Dave McCormick, let's go.
Let's go.
We've got confirmations we need to get done.
We've got President Trump's agenda we need to get done.
So I'd love to hear where Dave McCormick is on this because, look, work does not start in January.
Work stocks right now.
Hold it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Hold it.
Don't be beating yourself on the chest, didn't McCormick, when the great Benny Johnson leaked the whip count?
Was McCormick not with Thune, I think, that was standing for McCormick?
If memory serves me correctly, I might be wrong, but it was for Thune.
unidentified
I saw that on Benny's list as well.
I saw that on Benny's list.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I saw that.
unidentified
I saw that in John Thune.
And really, when it comes to the United States Senate and the Senate majority, we saw what happened today.
We saw what happened.
Could not whip the votes.
For A.G. Gates.
That's number one, John.
That's number one right there.
And so, look, you're going to be a majority leader.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Don't give this what happened.
This is not even whipping the votes.
This was one trip to Capitol Hill.
This is, look, we threw the towel in.
And my point, I love Matt Gates.
He is a warrior's warrior.
I am all in on Matt Gates.
But even if you're going to punch out...
You've got to grind this baby now a couple of weeks.
You've got to drive it and say, well, they're taking time away from other people.
Right now, Poso, you know this.
There's something up there laughing.
They're rubbing their hands.
They go, hey, Trump, all this big talk, and Poso, and Charlie Kirk, and Bannon, all these big talkers, hey, we took their boy out.
He was going to be the lead guy, attorney general.
He's going to do this.
He's going to do that.
Hey, boom.
Suck on that.
Right?
Gates is gone.
What do you got to say about that?
This is a big, big, big defeat.
And we better learn some lessons here.
We better go up the learning curve.
Because if people think this is going to get easier, you are wrong.
You have the wrong idea about how this city rolls, Jack Posobiec.
Your thoughts?
unidentified
Well, Steve, I think that's exactly right because you've now set up, you've now set the parameters for the ability for the media, for the neocon establishment, for the uniparty to be able to knock down President Trump's nominees.
And so they're not going to sit there and say, oh, we're satiated.
Oh, we're done.
Oh, no, no, no.
They got a taste for blood now.
They have a taste for blood now, and they're going to be looking at who else can we get?
Who else can we go?
And so all that energy that was focused on Gates, well, now we're going to go, let's go look at Pete Hegseth.
Let's go see a Pete Hegseth.
What about Tulsi Gabbard?
And you saw the opening salvo on Tulsi Gabbard from Nikki Haley yesterday.
That was a message.
Wait, now, I know a lot of people were laughing about it, and a lot of people in the pod say, oh, Birdbrain, she's so dumb, and nobody pays attention to her podcast, et cetera, et cetera.
No, listen to me.
That was a message from the neoconservative wing of the Senate Republican Caucus to Tulsi Gabbard and to President Trump and to the rest that we are going to drag up every single thing that you have said, maybe when you said when you were a Democrat, before you had your conversion to a Republican, maybe things that you said years and years ago, and we're going to use this completely against you.
It's like we do Miranda rights.
Everything that you say can and will be used against you in the court, in this case of public opinion.
And so they're going to now take that energy and they're going to use it as a weapon on someone else.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's not just that.
They're coming for Tulsa.
You see the angles of attack.
And Fox Signal today, this is where we started the show, right?
We had the great Carly Bonet on from Midnight Rider.
And she says, hey, she's noticed because she watches Fox all day long.
She asked you to pull the clips.
She noticed a sea change.
unidentified
With her three phones up all at once.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I had to tell her, three phones up at once, I had to tell her no smoking in the war room.
The smoking lamp is not lit in the war room.
I think she also had a morning cold beer, right?
Just a cold beer and a smoke.
Okay, Posobiec.
Here's the deeper problem.
They think right now in the follow-on...
A pick for the Attorney General with all the plans we have, what the AG has to do, and that great team put around them.
They think that they're going to frame who that's going to be.
You wait.
They're going to say, oh, Trump, you need a safe choice.
You need somebody that can get confirmed.
You need somebody that's acceptable to the established order.
Trump, you need to be a good little boy.
You had your temper tantrum, you threw your toys out of the pram, but the gates and the gates types are not going to be acceptable here, and we control this, not you control this.
Posobiec, your thoughts?
unidentified
Well, it is about control because ultimately it's about who controls the future, who controls the destiny of the United States of America.
Look, President Trump and the MAGA movement and all that he's done and all that we've done and all that you, Steve, have done and the Patriots and the posse have done and Charlie Kirk and my brother running up and down Pennsylvania.
Look, Look, for all we've done, we've established a beachhead, okay?
We've established a beachhead.
This is how populist movements crash against the beach.
Time and time again, when you look at history, when you realize that's real power, that's real power the MAGA movement came up against today.
Real power.
And that is what Mike Tyson says.
Everybody's got a plan until you get punched in the face.
Well, guess what?
A punch got thrown at MAGA today.
The question is, what are you going to do?
Are you going to get back up?
Are you going to throw a punch of your own?
I'm going to keep throwing punches because that's all I know how to do, Steve.
I'm just going to keep throwing punches, politically speaking.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Hang on, hang on.
This is the key to our movement.
It's resilience.
When people on the other side that hate what we stand for but admire our fight, they always say we're resilient.
We took a punch today, and guess what?
We buckled.
Flat out.
And I love this guy.
We were the first and hardest in.
But that's why we got to pick, and we cannot get a quote-unquote acceptable, safe choice for the established order.
If we do that, and even in these meetings of what media is reporting off Politico, that Gates had to concede investigations into MSNBC and they're part of this vast criminal conspiracy, or Fauci, or Cheney, That's not worth the victory, and the candle's not going to be worth the game.
We have to get someone in and not concede those points, Posobiec.
unidentified
No, no.
You've got to get someone in there that's willing.
And again, again, we're not talking about retribution.
We're not talking about revenge.
We're talking about justice.
We're talking about evening the scales so that we can go from this multi-tier system of justice to a one-tier system of justice where it's the same laws for everybody.
That there's not some...
Jussie Smollett just got left out today, by the way, right?
Our justice department is a joke.
It is the just us department.
And I think everybody kind of knows that.
And that's why they want someone from the good old boys club.
And by the way, to all those senators...
Who said you weren't going to vote for old Matt Gaetz.
Let's go pull your votes up from Merrick Garland.
So you voted for Merrick Garland.
You voted Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and I know the guy from old Mitt Romney clone there in Utah wasn't there yet, but Curtis.
But okay, he was there, Mitch McConnell.
So...
So these people would vote for Merrick Garland, who locks up grandmothers praying, who locks up the pro-lifers from outside of the Planned Parenthood clinics when they're praying out there, praying the rosary, who sends FBI agents to go and target traditional Latin Mass Catholics.
You'll vote for that guy.
And all of the things that he's done, not only that, but also what he's done to President Trump, you're fine with that.
But a guy like Matt Gaetz is too much.
That's a bridge too far.
We can't go for Matt Gaetz.
No.
Look, we have not given up.
Steve Bannon did not spend four months in jail for some establishment pick to be brought in at main justice at DOJ, someone who's going to be another bill bar and do nothing and say nothing and maybe look the part but not actually fight.
You have to have someone who's going to fight.
We didn't come this far.
And by the way, That's not what the American people voted for.
And if the administration is like this, then guess what?
You can kiss the midterms goodbye.
And you can kiss all these plans about, oh, and J.D. Vance is going to run again, and it's going to be 12 years.
It's not four.
It's not eight.
It's 12. You can kiss all of that goodbye if we don't deliver all of it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, I've only got you.
I get you about two and a half minutes.
Ukraine update.
You've been on top of this thing.
And I'm telling folks, unless we get on top of it and start forcing some answers, this is spinning out of control.
And they're trying to jam up a guy named Donald J. Trump.
So there's no possibility he can bring peace to the Eurasian landmass.
Because right now, this shooting war is metastasizing Jack Masovic.
unidentified
Well, Steve, you remember that when I was on the show this morning in the 10 a.m.
hour...
Right around 1030, 1045, I said that was not an intercontinental ballistic missile that struck in Ukraine.
I didn't know what it was, but Ukraine is saying it's an ICBM. We've never seen one of those used in combat before.
Russia's saying it's not, but we couldn't tell what that was because I've seen that video of the battle damage assessment I was looking at said, this is something new.
This is something we haven't seen before.
So I was still kind of keeping my powder dry.
Then what do we have just a couple hours that Putin throws down and says, this is a brand new experimental hypersonic missiles, medium range, but this was the operational test of the vehicle.
They hadn't even tested this thing yet.
The IC was caught completely flat footed.
We are sleepwalking into world war three.
And I haven't heard the speaker talk about this.
I haven't heard all of these designees, you know, Where are our people that we just elected coming out there and talking about this when you've got Jake Sullivan and Joe Biden, and by the way, and Keir Stalmer, this complete nut job of Keir Stalmer, someone who's going to be a huge thorn in everyone's side of the Five Eyes community.
They are walking us down the primrose path to World War III, and someone has to stop it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Jack, your Twitter account is really our live intelligence apparatus.
Where do people go, sir?
unidentified
Sure, it's at Jack Posobiec on X, on Instagram, on Truth, on Getter.
That's where we hang it.
Human Events Daily, of course, is a show that people can get the updates every day.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
We need to use the resource of Jack Posobiec, why we have him.
You never know where he may end up.
Hint, hint.
Pasovic, you're a fine young man.
One day we're going to be celebrating your Senate victory in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate you.
unidentified
Be careful, Steve.
Be careful.
God bless, man.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Great young man right there.
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, welcome back.
Do we have any clips from last night?
I was at the book launch party.
I was only able to go and give a short speech.
The place was packed when I think everybody showed up.
I went over to CPI and gave a barn burner and then immediately had some meetings afterwards.
I would have loved to have gone back, but it's just we're in a grind here right now with everything's going in transition, everything going on Capitol Hill, the Senate fight, etc.
So, Is the speech good enough?
I gave a little talk, kind of a little pep talk last night.
Oh, Dan Fluett joins me.
Dan is the...
Hold the book up.
So, Dan, we have been together for 20 years.
unidentified
20 and counting.
21 about...
No, 2003. 2003. Late 2003, we started.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
So 21. So we count all my marriage and double it.
And double it.
Dan...
And it's a relationship.
You've had ups and downs.
Dan's my producer.
He's produced all my films.
By the way, he's got a great eye.
We get all the great camera work.
The films always look magnificent.
We got a bunch of big announcements in early December on War Room films.
We got a ton of big announcements.
We're going to ramp up production in a big way.
I want to hold the book up.
But what I'm so proud about this is that this is a true work of art, plus it's amazingly fascinating.
You came to me and said, hey, there's so many interesting characters.
So it's Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws, The Pictorial History of the War Room.
And it's all the contributors and our producers, the behind-the-scenes people, Mo and the open-mouthed imbecile.
No, I'm just kidding.
Grace Chung.
Did Grace Chung trademark that yet?
I'm expecting to see her merch line before too long.
I'm losing my stuff right here.
So all the contributors, everybody that's come on the show, the things are true work of art.
And the writing is spectacular, right?
You put this together and said, let's do it.
Tony Lyons, our partner, loved the idea.
But normally these coffee table books don't sell.
This thing's been number one in photography every time it's gone.
So you've got to go to Amazon.
If you want to get a Christmas gift for someone that's a Warren Posse member that will absolutely love and be proud of, this book is it.
You can put it out there on the table.
You flip through it.
It's really, really incredible because it kind of goes through The history of the war room through the personalities we've had on here.
And when you see the over-the-top personalities we've had on, many of whom are going into the Trump administration, of course.
Last night we had more cabinet members than we have today at 6 o'clock.
Dan Floyd.
unidentified
It's one of those things.
Yeah, Steve, thank you very much.
Yeah, we're back at Ground Zero.
This thing started like almost five years ago, almost right after War Room started.
And it is.
It's a celebration and an exploration of...
It's not just the people that come through War Room, because I tried to go a little bit deeper than that, than just taking pictures of them.
And really try to capture their personality, their essence, and what is it about them that gives them a rebel spirit, right?
What is it about them that makes them a fighter, that makes them effective, even outside of the war room?
And how all these people cumulatively have helped to usher in what we saw a couple weeks ago up on the balcony of the Willard Hotel with Donald Trump's third victory.
And it was...
It just really was an incredible project to put together.
I'm so happy.
We had our book release party last night, and it was fascinating.
The response was just...
I mean, it was really quite humbling.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Let me just break in here for a second.
President Trump has just tweeted out, we have a new nominee for the Attorney General.
Now, remember my advice...
Catch your breath.
unidentified
Natalie Winters.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Let's think this through for a couple days.
But he went ahead and announced it.
It's Pam Bondi, the former Attorney General.
We know Pam for many, many years.
Former Attorney General of Florida, the great state of Florida.
I will say, I did not have that one on my bingo card.
But, hey...
You never know.
Maybe we don't take a couple days.
Maybe we just hit the next man up.
Let's roll, baby.
unidentified
That could be an inspired choice.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It could be an inspired choice.
We will find out.
We're looking for inspiration here in the war room.
Fixed bayonets.
Everybody down the trench.
Let's get ready to grow.
It's that scene in Paths of Glory when they're walking down the trench and the dust is all over the guys.
It's in the movie American Dharma.
Tell me about last night.
It was inspired.
I want to thank everybody that turned out here in Washington, D.C. A ton of War Room Posse members showed up.
Sorry, I only had time to meet and greet at the beginning.
I did have this obligation to Give a speech afterwards over with Mark Meadows and Senator DeMint and the folks over at CPI, some of the staffers.
And then I got caught up after this meeting, but I was blown away by the size that showed up.
And Butterworth, Raheem's...
And his partner's new restaurant is just absolutely extraordinary.
And the space there is fantastic.
People had a great time.
People I hadn't seen in years were there.
unidentified
It was beautiful.
I had gone to the restaurant a couple of weeks ago and he gave me a tour of the place and I just said right immediately, that's the place where we have to have it.
It was amazing.
Yeah, it was a packed house.
It was super hot eventually.
There was a lot of heat up there.
It was a great crowd.
And we had a lot of the people that were in the book that showed up.
We had people come from Los Angeles and Dallas.
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How many people do we have?
All over the country came to this.
unidentified
Well, I'm not sure I want to say because I think we want to avoid trouble with the fire marshal.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
No, how many people in the book?
No, no.
The fire marshal, hey, hey.
But it is Capitol Hill.
You know, it's the D.C. fire thing, so you never know when it's going to show up or not.
So, Mahim, that means they're definitely showing up to shut you guys down.
How many people in the book, portraits?
Who in the book actually showed up?
unidentified
Oh, there's, gosh, probably 10 or 15. We had Frank Gaffney, Seb Gorka, and Doctors Malone and Hatfield.
It was great to see them.
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Malone looks like a million bucks.
unidentified
Dude's a movie star.
Yeah, dude's a movie star.
I knew it when I first shot him.
The only thing I wanted to get out of him was, every time you see a picture of him, his eyes, he looked like raccoon eyes, are just so deep-set and intense.
And I really wanted to bring that out in him.
But yeah, it was like embarrassing almost, because it's impossible to take a bad shot of the guy.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
People, and I appreciate the War Room engine room is already lighting me up.
Bannon, stop giving your money.
You're the driver of the patriot economy.
Stop giving your money to people who hate you.
Go to Skyhorse to order it.
unidentified
Where do people actually go if they don't want to go to Amazon?
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The reason we like Amazon, it counts to the numbers.
Amazon, this thing goes up, and it was the number one book in photography, but at one time it got to 21 on the list of all books in the country, and other publishers see that and they go, hey, who are these guys over there?
Because pictorial books don't go that high.
unidentified
Absolutely not.
No, they just don't.
It was number one in three different categories.
It's just the response has been incredible.
And we've gotten really great reviews up on Amazon talking about them.
The reviews are just like, even those are humbling.
It's just amazing that the response that we've gotten from this book, I think...
You know, look, because it's not your average coffee table book.
It's not.
What I want to do is capture the spirit of these people.
It's not just pictures that I put in a book.
It's like I've got the layout and the way the typeset is and the way that the stories unfold.
It's all integrated into the piece.
It's not all separated where you just gloss over the writing.
You know, you want to engage in it because it feels like it's part of the entire story.
I like to say that these are a cross between a high fashion shoot and a mug shot.
That's kind of how they look.
As you go through it, you're like, okay.
Mine's more mug shot than fashion shoot.
Which is great because some of my favorite photographers...
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Who's your inspirations?
unidentified
Well, it was...
Please don't tell me helmet...
Helmut Newton, number one.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Is that your number one inspiration?
unidentified
Not number one, but he's one of them.
I love his style.
And Annie Leibovitz, of course, she takes gorgeous portraits.
And there's a guy that you probably know, Steve.
You know Ouija from the 1930s in New York City?
The guy, he would go around to crime scenes and take crime scenes.
He'd beat the cops there.
And he's taking crime scenes.
And they're really raw and beautiful, beautiful stuff.
Stunning.
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So the first two, this is one thing we don't have on the right.
We've never really had, and maybe I'm missing it, but kind of right-wing, amazing photographers.
Photographers that just didn't take the regular pictures, like people like Helmut Newton and Annie Leibovitz, right?
unidentified
Do you believe that you're the...
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
The photographer for the right?
unidentified
Well, thank you, Steve, for that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
No offense.
I've known this guy for 21 years.
I remember his son was a tiny baby.
And what he did to raise his son is one of the most heroic things I've ever seen.
And the young man is now in college as an athlete and just a great young man.
And we went through a couple of three years there.
We had to make sure that...
No, but when I saw, because we've worked so close together as you're my producer, and when I say producer, Dan does all the technical and work of pulling all the films together.
There were a couple of years that we were doing film after film with the air, but I knew you had a creative side.
When you showed me the photographs, and I first saw guys coming back, and we put a little makeshift, and it's just a makeshift studio.
I mean, it's nothing fancy.
Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani, they would come with these photographs and go, wow, this stuff's amazing.
Then when I saw what you wanted to do, he said, can we say, do you think we do a book?
I saw like Loomer.
I mean, some of these are like the most stunning fashion photography I've ever seen.
Others look like...
Highly stylized mug shots.
Honestly, I just said, man, I didn't know he had this talent.
It's something you've been developing over years, but I think you are on the right.
I mean, Andrew Breitbart would be so proud of you because he was always about culture.
He kept saying, we've got to get into culture.
We've got to get into films.
We've got to get into television.
We have to do art.
You've got to be poets.
You have to do all that.
Because Gramsci told us, the Marxists told us, that's upriver from politics.
Politics...
It all flows down from that and informs our politics.
And we're not going to really take back this culture or take back the society until we also have the artistic arm of this.
unidentified
Yeah, absolutely agree with that.
And, you know, one of the things that I wanted to accomplish with this was, you know, I was overcoming my own demons and fears and stuff as I was doing it.
And I was like, I really went through a couple of dark years.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Dan went away for a while.
unidentified
Back better than ever.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
To the jungles of Central America.
He's doing what?
unidentified
That's for another show.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
This was therapeutic.
unidentified
I don't want to say that, but it was in a way helpful for me because when I was doing it, again, remember, this was never a It was people coming through the thing.
It was just for me to get back into photography.
You never knew me as a photographer because we never did that.
That's what I went to school with.
It was really my first passion.
I've always had a passion for image and text and putting them together, which is how I landed in the film business, which is actually how I paved my way through school when I was doing film work on the side.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You were at LA Art Institute.
unidentified
I was at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles over by the airport.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
No, I go by that all the time.
You're the first...
I mean, that's a high-end, super avant-garde art school.
unidentified
Yeah, it was great.
And so really, it was just really coming back home for me.
And it wasn't intentionally to do anything other than just to give me a creative project to do on the side.
And it actually was real meditative for me.
I really just...
Got into the whole thing about it and setting up the shots and doing the lighting, trying different setups and all that.
And it just sort of all clicked after one time.
And I think it was actually the Peter Navarro one that we did, which was really early on in the process.
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Beautiful.
Stunning.
It was Navarro.
You got the spirit of Navarro.
unidentified
Yeah, and it was at that point where I thought, like, you know, there might be something a little bigger here and something that could really celebrate the—I'll call them heroes.
You know, I think they are heroes, all of them.
And it's not just the big names like the Tucker Carlson's and the Steve Panin's and, you know, the RFK's.
Some of the most inspiring stories are from the people who are, you know, up-and-comers.
Which I think is really going to be interesting over the years to watch how they...
Yeah, absolutely.
As they develop over time.
The Jack Posobics, right?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Or the guys that may be a little in background.
I think Russ Vogt's in there, right?
unidentified
Russ is in Volume 2. Volume 2. Oh, we took his photograph.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
He'll be Volume 2. These guys are coming forward in this term because they're working on Volume 2 right now.
We were going to try to do that last night, but we couldn't get the studio set up there.
It was too nutty.
How do people get the book?
This is...
I can guarantee you, if you give this as a Christmas gift to someone that watches this show under the tree, they will give you a hug.
Because this thing, you'll sit there and flip through it, and you can go through it all the time.
It's just one of those things that's special.
So how do people get it?
unidentified
So we talked about Amazon.
It's easy.
Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws.
Barnes& Noble, of course.
And then there's, if you can remember this, it's a bookshop.
It's a bookshop.org.
It's an independent store that I like to use.
Of course, you can go to Sky Horse Press as well.
It'll be there.
But really, yeah, you can just Google search it and it'll pop up and buy where it makes you happy.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
What's the title again?
unidentified
It's called Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws.
And it really is a celebration of all three of those.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I should sign a bunch of these and we sell those also.
unidentified
Let's do it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, fine.
unidentified
Let's do it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I want to show this photograph.
This is how good this guy is.
But I want to go to government gangsters.
Okay, everybody's on tenterhooks about Cash.
I think you're going to see Cash as either the director of the FBI or maybe the deputy director of the FBI. And obviously we're pushing hard to be director.
But one of the reasons, I've known Cash for years and just a great guy, but we made a film off his book.
You produced it, wrote it, co-wrote it.
Or you actually wrote it.
You and I co-produced it.
unidentified
Matthew and I wrote it.
Matthew had a steady hand there.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
This film, as it's gone around the country, has blown people away.
And it's now more important than ever.
unidentified
I'm glad you said that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Now that Pam Bondi's kind of stepped into the breach here, we need to go through.
Because when you hear that Gates was forced...
To say, well, I'm not going to look into MSNBC. I'm not going to look into Fauci.
I'm not going to look into Cheney.
This gets back to the basic thesis that what these guys did in the deep state was criminal.
These are gangsters, government gangsters, and this film is so powerful.
And I want to make sure everybody in the audience knows how to get access to it.
unidentified
Yeah, absolutely.
The best way to get it is go to warroom.film.
It's our maiden project on War Room Films.
We wanted to have a platform where people could go and find content that is appropriate for our audience, something that will fire them up and everything.
And that's our first one.
War Room.film is the best place.
And like I said, Steve, I'm glad that you said that because, you know, when we were going around the country over the summer doing screenings, People want to think of this as an election year film, but I'm going to tell you right now, we're going back in to the ending, and we're going to make that current, because what it shows you is the tactics and the strategies and the underhanded things that they do.
It's criminal.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
They're gangsters.
unidentified
Yeah, to go after the political enemies.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
And we name about eight to ten of them.
unidentified
And beyond that, it gives people a blueprint, not just to understand what it is and what's going on, but also how to take action and to fight against it.
And also to recognize as it's unfolding, like I've seen that before.
That's a dirty trick.
I know that one.
We can't do that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
They can't pull that playbook anymore.
unidentified
Absolutely.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
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unidentified
Sure.
Well, first of all, Steve, this was essentially the moment Pennsylvania was called for Donald Trump.
This was election night.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
This is when we actually knew that Trump had won the presidency.
unidentified
It had just happened.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
That moment.
unidentified
And you were the staff photographer that night.
I just happened to be there to capture it, but I don't know if we can see it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Can we just put it up on the thing?
Because it's one of my favorite photographs.
This thing's amazing.
unidentified
I call it John the Baptist.
Can we see that?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Can you put it up on the table?
So this is one of my producers.
This is producer Cameron, the lead producer.
That's Noah, who does the graphics.
All the great graphics.
That's the very second of this.
Dan, when you caught it in the moment, it's absolutely incredible.
It's one of my favorite photographs.
I'm going to figure out how to...
We're going to figure out how to do that.
It just shows you, you've got an amazing eye for this stuff.
Incredible.
unidentified
Cool, thank you.
What a fun night that was.
Incredible.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Great turnout.
unidentified
It was so cool to be able to see that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Dan has been at those, ever since the first one we did was in 2016, you were with me in Trump Tower.
unidentified
Didn't we do 12?
We've been doing it for years.
We've been doing it for years.
Usually in the cold.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
12, we actually did it for Breitbart.
Very first, we did it for Breitbart Radio at the time.
We did it for Breitbart.
unidentified
And then 16, I was in the campaign.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You were with me in the tower.
You guys went to the Hilton.
unidentified
Another amazing night.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Then 20, we sat there and it was victory, a thing, but at the time Trump came up at 2.30, we said, hey, this thing's going to be stolen.
unidentified
Amazing.
Okay.
Well, you talk about divine providence.
I think the best thing that ever happened was that he didn't win in 2020. Because now we see exactly what they're going to do.
Absolutely.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Where do people go to get you on social media?
unidentified
At DoItFluet, D-O-I-T-F-L-U-E-T, on Insta and on X. We're going to be back here tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Eastern Standard Time.
It's going to be a wild Friday.
That I will commit to you.
We're going to leave with Billy Strings, a cover of The Great Johnny Cash when a man comes around.
Tomorrow morning we will be lit when you return in the world.
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