Dec. 10, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| It's an empty threat, and he can't credibly threaten jail time, right, for members of Congress for having done, been part of this investigation. | ||
| If that's something that he's going to threaten, but he's not going to be able to carry out. | ||
| But he is going to be able to carry out his, the other side of this threat, which is to set free all the people who committed crimes and were convicted of crimes, even including violence, on January 6th. | ||
| What do you think the effect of that will be on the country? | ||
| What does that do to us as a polity, as a democracy, as a country? | ||
| What does that do to us? | ||
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Trump is not a believer in the rule of law. | |
| We know that from all of his activities. | ||
| And that you would pardon people who committed this violence, who were either convicted or pled guilty of really violent acts, really undercuts the rule of law. | ||
| I mean, you know, clemency is for people who have... | ||
| We see people who have mended their ways. | ||
| Right now, we've got rioters in court saying that they don't care. | ||
| Trump is going to pardon them anyhow. | ||
| It's a really very destructive suggestion that we would pardon these criminals and try and threaten people who aren't criminals, the January 6th committee members. | ||
| Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, last night attempting to soften comments he has made about women's ability to fight on the front lines, but he didn't. | ||
| He just separated from it. | ||
| Hegseth will be back on Capitol Hill today to meet with Republican senators. | ||
| He says he is meeting with Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska today and with Senator Susan Collins of Maine tomorrow. | ||
| It comes after he sat down for a second time yesterday with a key lawmaker. | ||
| Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa. | ||
| Last week, she was hesitant to support the former Fox News host, who has been accused of sexual assault, abusing alcohol, and financial mismanagement of two nonprofits dedicated to veterans. | ||
| All of which he denies. | ||
| But yesterday, Senator Ernst had a different tone about Hexeth, releasing a statement praising him for his responsiveness and respect for the process and calling their conversations encouraging. | ||
| Here's what she had to say about the meeting when pressed by reporters. | ||
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Doesn't that say you're supporting me? | |
| So I am supporting you through this process, and I'll just refer you back to the statement. | ||
| Is that a yes note on the floor? | ||
| It was a very productive meeting, though. | ||
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I think we're just moving through the process. | |
| but he does respect that I'm taking the time. | ||
| Did you talk about the allegations? | ||
| Thank you, guys. | ||
| Did you talk about the allegations as well, Senator? | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I'll report back to my statement. | ||
| Did he commit? | ||
| He said supporting the process. | ||
| It doesn't sound like a yes yet. | ||
| Is that fair? | ||
| I am supporting the process. | ||
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Did he commit to keeping women in their current roles in the military? | |
| He is very supportive of women in the military. | ||
| It is one thing that we've discussed. | ||
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He's changed his position on that? | |
| 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. | |
| I got a free shot of all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Tuesday, 10 December, year of our Lord, 2024. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| You're in the war room. | ||
| A lot to go through today. | ||
| I want to talk right at the bat with the, obviously, the nominations. | ||
| New York Times kind of... | ||
| Dory, and this is about what this audience accomplished, 100% about what the audience accomplished. | ||
| It's a headline at this morning's New York Times. | ||
| It talks about... | ||
| How MAGA and the MAGA right and the grassroots movement were able to get Senator Ernst's attention. | ||
| And she had a great meeting yesterday. | ||
| Cash Patel also met with her beforehand. | ||
| Cash has a very strong relationship with her. | ||
| And Cash is up there today. | ||
| So you got Cash up there today. | ||
| You've got Pete Hexeth again today. | ||
| Tulsi, I think, is going around starting. | ||
| I think Scott Besson is going to be back up there today and tomorrow. | ||
| Winning for Bobby Kennedy. | ||
| Remember, we're a big believer in Flood the Zone. | ||
| The lesson taken from the New York Times piece Is that the power player in this endeavor is not Fox News and the Murdochs. | ||
| It is you. | ||
| It's this audience. | ||
| The activist audience. | ||
| When the activist audience rears up and gets focused and lets their direction be known... | ||
| What they would like to see is the outcome and their outcome here right now is that President Trump took a bullet to the head and four months later won a landslide in that, you know, the Republican Senate should advise him but then consent to his choices. | ||
| I think Tom Cotton was last night. | ||
| It was on Fox. | ||
| I think we'll pull that one. | ||
| Tom Cotton was saying, you know, it's very rare for a Republican Senate not to go against the choice of an individual who just won the presidency, including the fact that he held the House and he took the Senate on his shoulders. | ||
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So he should get his choices. | |
| And Pete Hex is his choice. | ||
| It talks about specifically this last week, this nomination being in the hanging by a thread on late Thursday afternoon, as it was. | ||
| And remember, President Trump had not come in at that time and really said much. | ||
| He was going to, I think, let Pete see. | ||
| And for President Trump... | ||
| The key value, the key virtue is resilience. | ||
| Resilience. | ||
| His movement is resilient. | ||
| He is resilient. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| You can take a punch and you can punch back. | ||
| That you can dust yourself off and punch back and eventually win. | ||
| He likes winners. | ||
| And he understands in winners, in the process of winning, you don't win every day. | ||
| Look at our movement. | ||
| I don't know, since 2008, before then, some of the Ross Perot element, other elements that were out there. | ||
| But since the Tea Party movement, its resilience, we haven't won everything. | ||
| In fact, some of our victories have turned into the law of unintended consequences have turned into have the seeds of defeat in them. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| This is all a process. | ||
| This is all a process. | ||
| Just keep driving it forward, and victory begets victory. | ||
| And you're going to have some reverses. | ||
| You're going to have reverses of fortune. | ||
| This is what military history shows you. | ||
| You're not going to win everything, but you're going to directionally start to win enough and start to move down the path and get to your key objectives. | ||
| President Trump, that Pete was out there. | ||
| I think maybe some stuff he didn't fully understand. | ||
| I want to see how Pete did, how Pete Hegseth did. | ||
| And if Pete Hegseth is going to get into the Defense Department and get the woke out. | ||
| But remember, also the woke to the warfighting. | ||
| Don't let the woke be a shiny toy. | ||
| Don't let the woke be a shiny toy. | ||
| Because Fox, they want you to totally focus on the woke. | ||
| All they want to do is focus on the woke. | ||
| Don't let it be a shiny toy. | ||
| Yes, we must get the woke out. | ||
| We must get back to warfighting. | ||
| It has to happen. | ||
| It's not going to be easy. | ||
| But it's doable. | ||
| The bigger element is how do you actually reorganize and reorient the Department of Defense so that it actually not just wins wars but defends the United States and prevents our real interest, pushes forward our real interest at a manageable cost. | ||
| It shouldn't be lost on anybody. | ||
| If you're a follower of the war room, what is the biggest thing happening today? | ||
| The biggest thing happening on Capitol Hill today is not Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard wandering around the United States Senate in the offices. | ||
| That is not. | ||
| That's what they want you to focus on 1,000%. | ||
| Remember, the nominations are the easy part. | ||
| Then it gets down to what you're trying to accomplish. | ||
| The nominations, to a degree, are a shiny toy. | ||
| We focus on them because you have to engage, because we know some of these are controversial, and this audience is going to have to be engaged, and you were engaged. | ||
| There were 20,000 hits just from the Article III project through you, 20,000. | ||
| And there was tens of thousands through Bill Blaster and others, hundreds, 100,000. | ||
| And somebody in cycle, like Senator Ernst, That will get them attention. | ||
| John Cornyn wasn't the first person that Cash went to yesterday for random. | ||
| This was not a random selection. | ||
| John Cornyn is in cycle. | ||
| He's up for re-election. | ||
| He does not want a Ken Paxton MAGA challenge from his right. | ||
| So he's the first one. | ||
| He says Cash Patel is going to be the FBI director. | ||
| He's saying, hey, I understand MAGA. I understand President Trump. | ||
| This is what they want. | ||
| This is what they're going to get. | ||
| The most important thing, and Axios... | ||
| I haven't had a chance to put up on Gary yet. | ||
| Axios' lead story, and if... | ||
| It's about the billionaires in the, I think, the Defense Department. | ||
| If we can please poll that. | ||
| I have not, because I've been engaged in other topics this morning. | ||
| The most important thing that's happening right now is the NDAA. The National Defense Authorization Act. | ||
| And you would say, Stephen, Brother Bannon, why... | ||
| I don't know, with Syria on fire and Ukraine blowing up and launching missiles into Russia and, you know, you got the Chinese in the South China Sea. | ||
| You've got all this going on. | ||
| And, of course, you got the shooter. | ||
| He's gunning down a CEO in cold blood shooting him in the back and putting out a manifesto. | ||
| He's kind of a mini-me Unabomber, right? | ||
| Unabomber had a manifesto, which we always recommend everybody read. | ||
| You should read this young man's manifesto. | ||
| With that and with Daniel Penney, you got all this, so much going on, but you got to, boom, what is the most important? | ||
| Most important thing happening right now is the National Defense Authorization Act. | ||
| You say, well, what does that got to do with anything? | ||
| This sets, the way the cartel runs here, it's about money and power. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| The reason they don't like you is you've intruded upon their garden party to say, you know what, I think this thing has to go in a different direction. | ||
| I think it has to go in a different direction. | ||
| And number one, we can't keep spending like this because you're bankrupting us. | ||
| But more importantly, you got to spread all over hell's half acreage. | ||
| They just put the other day, the tweet, we have 113,000 troops in 140 locations throughout the world. | ||
| Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. | ||
| The framers warned us about becoming an empire. | ||
| The framers warned us about going in search of dragons to slay, of monsters to slay. | ||
| The framers were so about treaties that it made two-thirds of a vote in the Senate. | ||
| Two-thirds. | ||
| Two-thirds votes in the Senate ain't easy. | ||
| They knew that would have to unite the country to do it. | ||
| So they didn't want a lot of alliances. | ||
| They didn't want a lot of treaties. | ||
| If they had wanted a lot of treaties, they said, hey, just we'll do it on a voice vote for 51% or maybe, hey, get a third. | ||
| Get a couple of guys show up and say, and then we'll have another treaty. | ||
| They didn't want treaties. | ||
| They didn't want alliances. | ||
| If you're going to get them, you've got to earn them. | ||
| It's got to be big. | ||
| It's got to be important. | ||
| You've got to kind of bring the country together for a debate and then vote. | ||
| The NDAA is the apparel. | ||
| Now, authorization. | ||
| You say, well, Holly, it's not a budget. | ||
| What is this authorization? | ||
| This is what it is. | ||
| And folks at the Justice Department and the FBI and all these people running to us right now and saying, well, he doesn't have the constitutional power to do this. | ||
| He doesn't have to do that. | ||
| This is why we're merging the DOGE and the OMB. That's why Russ votes so important to one process about appropriations. | ||
| Because remember, appropriations is a bill. | ||
| It's a law. | ||
| It's a law. | ||
| It's a contract. | ||
| Just like you have a contract. | ||
| You have a contract right now on Social Security and Medicare. | ||
| And you're not prepared to give up that contract. | ||
| I would tell you as your representative in negotiating like Goldman Sachs 101, no, you're not going to agree to anything. | ||
| You have a contractual obligation with these guys. | ||
| You're not going to back off anything until you get more than what you want. | ||
| There's also a contract here on authorizations. | ||
| These departments are supposed to be authorized every five years. | ||
| The Defense Department, they do it every year. | ||
| Why do they do it every year? | ||
| They want to make sure there's never any question, never any question about spending the money. | ||
| It's a trillion dollars, baby. | ||
| It's every congressional district. | ||
| They're taking care of everybody, just like Fauci and Collins take care of them over at NIH and over at HHS. They spread this money in every congressional district. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because that's bipartisanship. | ||
| They can then be... | ||
| Collins is bipartisan. | ||
| Fauci is bipartisan. | ||
| The Defense Department is bipartisan. | ||
| Your guys are bought and paid for. | ||
| The NDAA, it's a trillion dollars. | ||
| And it wraps us up into a continuation of the American empire. | ||
| Why are they doing it now? | ||
| Why can't that wait until Donald Trump's here? | ||
| Why can't that wait until the 20th? | ||
| At least wait until a new Congress, and why can't it wait until Trump? | ||
| I'm asking for a friend. | ||
| Why can't it wait? | ||
| Can't wait because they want to jam it in now and lock in that trillion dollars. | ||
| The dispositive question of the 21st century, only one, who wins? | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party, the United States of America. | ||
| That question, you answer that question, you go down that decision tree. | ||
| That's where you start driving the answers. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Eric Bolling is going to join us. | ||
| The War Room. | ||
| The entire universe of Justice Department figures or intelligence figures that could have left their jobs and said, "I'm not going to go along with Russiagate," which really involved not "I'm not going to go along with Russiagate," which really involved not just the FBI, but many He was really the only one who raised his hand and said, yeah, I'm willing to put my name out there as somebody who is going to look at this from a different direction. | ||
| He went to go, you know, to work with Devin Noons, who at the time was the head of the House Intelligence Committee that Republicans still controlled the House Intel Committee. | ||
| When Trump was in the early part of Trump's presidency, which was fortunate because that meant they had subpoena power to look at the origins of Russiagate. | ||
| And so while the rest of the country was completely focused on the Mueller investigation and hanging on every imagined and real development with that investigation, Patel had his own team. | ||
| Actually, there were two teams investigating how Russiagate got started, how the whole investigation happened. | ||
| And nobody was interested in that. | ||
| You have to remember, most of the people who actually run the FBI don't have a lot of field experience. | ||
| They haven't put cases together. | ||
| They haven't done real investigations. | ||
| They've overseen them in the past, but they haven't done them. | ||
| Cash actually has. | ||
| He's worked as a prosecutor. | ||
| I think he's got a criminal justice degree. | ||
| He's been a public defender. | ||
| And the report that he put together about Russiagate, with the help of Devin Nunes, turned out to be like 100% on the money. | ||
| I mean, I had my doubts about the guy when I first came across him. | ||
| But that report, you know, turned out to be completely right. | ||
| And everybody was against them. | ||
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So the report you're mentioning is the Nunes memo and you've written about this and you've gotten covered this many times. | |
| If you could just remind us of basically how the Nunes memo came about. | ||
| It was kind of competing with, at the time, a shift memo that he put out to, if I'm remembering correctly, preemptively Preemptively rebut the Nunes memo, but the Nunes memo, which is dismissed by the media offhand as a joke, has been mostly validated as my understanding, Matt, since we've had the Durham report, the Horowitz report, the Horowitz IG report, the Durham special counsel report. | ||
| It sort of seems like he did get it right. | ||
| Oh yeah, he got it absolutely right. | ||
| I wouldn't even say mostly validated. | ||
| I would say, unless there's something small that I can't remember, the main points of the Nunes memo were that the warrant To conduct secret FISA surveillance on the former Trump aide Carter Page, which was incredibly important for a couple of reasons, and people forget this. | ||
| The FBI sought surveillance on this guy Carter Page in September of 2016, before the election had taken place. | ||
| At that time, the FBI's crossfire hurricane probe into Trump and Russia had basically already stalled. | ||
| The original focus of their investigation was a guy named George Papadopoulos and that story turned out to be a nothing and they basically dropped it except as a you know a lying to investigators case. | ||
| It didn't have any juice as an actual conspiracy case. | ||
| So they were looking for somebody else to investigate so they could keep the probe into Trump And his possible connections to Russia going. | ||
| And they picked this guy, Carter Page, who there's a long backstory here that's not important to get into. | ||
| The important thing is the FBI essentially lied to the FISA court in its warrant application. | ||
| I used the Steele dossier as evidence to support the idea that Page was some kind of cutout for the Russians. | ||
| And that was, of course, paid opposition research. | ||
| And then they did some other incredibly unethical things, like citing as supporting evidence a Yahoo article That itself was quoting Steele. | ||
| So they were citing the same evidence twice, like, you know, a major no-no to do in a court application. | ||
| But the main thing is they lied in the FISA application and they used the Steele dossier in the FISA application. | ||
| And that's important because without that, the FBI probably doesn't get the FISA warrant and the investigation probably dies at that point. | ||
| There was no more there there for them to pursue. | ||
| Also, that surveillance authority didn't just cover Carter Page. | ||
| It covered everybody who talked to Carter Page and everybody who talked to those people who talked to Carter Page. | ||
| It's what they call a two-hop warrant. | ||
| So they got a window into the entire Trump universe through this one moment, and they did it by lying. | ||
| That is Matt Taibbi, formerly Rolling Stone, now has his own operation. | ||
| We'll make sure. | ||
| And he's a guy like Glenn Greenwald and others. | ||
| That's the reason Tulsi Gabbard's DNI. This is the coming together. | ||
| We're coming together as a group. | ||
| On economic policy now, but against the administrative and deep state, we have been essentially working as one, although we don't know each other and don't, you know, socialize or don't, you know, I've never had Matt on the show, directionally. | ||
| That right there in a very succinct, I think, three minutes lays out the beginning, the foundational element of For Kash Patel's FBI director, and this is why they're going crazy. | ||
| And Kash Patel's going to get... | ||
| If we can pull that, we'll play it later, Cornyn. | ||
| Kash Patel's going to be confirmed as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | ||
| Yes, he will. | ||
| As I said, and I repeat, Kash Patel not only knows where the bodies are buried at the FBI, he knows how much dirt's on top of each one. | ||
| The FBI is a thoroughly corrupt organization and incompetent. | ||
| And this is coming from a kid when I was a kid growing up in our parish in Richmond, Virginia. | ||
| St. Paul's Catholic Church and then St. Benedict's later. | ||
| The most revered guys and dads in the parish were not the doctors or the lawyers. | ||
| My dad essentially had just come from being a former at the phone company. | ||
| He was kind of the lowest rung of management. | ||
| Great guy. | ||
| But the revered guys, we had a couple of two FBI agents. | ||
| Field agents. | ||
| They were revered. | ||
| The FBI. J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. For a Catholic back in those days, couldn't have been a higher position in the government. | ||
| Even with Kennedy becoming president, the FBI guys were kind of the permanent... | ||
| And they worked for Hoover, who even then was still revered as being the anti-communist. | ||
| The guy was the anti-communist. | ||
| That's not the FBI today. | ||
| The FBI today is thoroughly incompetent and corrupt. | ||
| It has to be taken apart brick by brick. | ||
| And Kash Patel is the guy to do it. | ||
| And they understand it. | ||
| That's where they're fighting him. | ||
| Also, Kash Patel, and that's Taibbi, just going through the very basics. | ||
| That story continues on when we won and they went into shock. | ||
| In December, you know, later with Nunes in cash, that's where I first started meeting cash. | ||
| Because Nunes became the head of the intelligence committee. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because we made Pompeo, who I think Mike Rogers had it. | ||
| They rotated it. | ||
| Pompeo was going to take it and we named Pompeo the head of the CIA. And he was very upfront with us later. | ||
| He couldn't control the CIA. He couldn't take it apart. | ||
| Cash Patel was the chief investigator. | ||
| I think Derek Harvey was the chief investigator and Cash was the general counsel for House Intel when this whole thing started. | ||
| And I got over $2 million of legal bills that I paid myself as Shifty Shift grilled me for, I don't know, 20, 25, 30 hours and Don McGann and Reince Priebus and everybody in essentially a tribunal, a witch hunt. | ||
| To prove everything about the Steele dossier, which were all lies. | ||
| And Comey leaked to BuzzFeed after he showed it to the president. | ||
| Totally illegitimately and illegally. | ||
| This is the kind of operation you have. | ||
| These people are criminals. | ||
| They are criminals. | ||
| They've done criminal activity and lots of it. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| They're going to be investigated. | ||
| It's going to be adjudicated. | ||
| They're going to be tried. | ||
| And then a jury of their peers will figure out what happens to them. | ||
| I assume... | ||
| Given the facts that I know, and I don't know them all, I know enough of them, but I'm a long way from knowing them all, but that's what an investigation is for. | ||
| They will go to federal prison for many, many, many years and or decades. | ||
| McCabe and Comey and that whole crowd. | ||
| It's not about retribution. | ||
| I don't have time for retribution. | ||
| Trump doesn't. | ||
| None of us have. | ||
| You have to do this for the country. | ||
| We have a moral obligation to do this. | ||
| The country sat as a jury on the 5th of November and they've rendered their verdict. | ||
| Their verdict is we don't want any more of this. | ||
| We can't have this. | ||
| We don't fully understand it. | ||
| We don't know the players, these names or all this stuff. | ||
| It makes their brains hurt. | ||
| They don't have time to know it and they don't have to know it. | ||
| We have to know it because we sat there and watched Rachel Maddow every night with shifty shift coming. | ||
| We got big things breaking. | ||
| He's a communist. | ||
| He's a part of Putin. | ||
| That is a bald-faced lie and crimes were committed. | ||
| And Matt Taibbi is not MAGA. Glenn Greenwald's not MAGA. They're the farthest things from MAGA. They're not part of our program. | ||
| They hate a lot of what we do. | ||
| But they understand one thing and we're united in one cause. | ||
| Is that the administrative state's rogue element, the military, intelligence, quote-unquote legal and justice system that's merged into one to basically make sure that they make a determination on who runs this deal? | ||
| This is why Brennan sits there and goes, no, they have to have FBI checks, and he's sitting on them, they have to have FBI checks, and, you know, intelligence has to be comfortable with these guys. | ||
| Intelligence has to be comfortable. | ||
| I want you to be uncomfortable, because, Brennan, you're the lead dog, bro. | ||
| Because Comey and these guys are kind of bozos in a cave. | ||
| They're not that impressive. | ||
| These kind of clowns. | ||
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You're... | |
| You, sir, are the evil one. | ||
| And, sir, you will... | ||
| As sure as the turning of the earth... | ||
| You're going to go to prison. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| They know it up on Capitol Hill. | ||
| You think they're sitting there with cash? | ||
| Corning and these guys are coming out. | ||
| Grassley's coming out. | ||
| Grassley, Grassley, you can't get a straighter guy than Grassley. | ||
| These Iowa guys, you can't get straighter guys than that. | ||
| He comes out yesterday and says, Ray's got to go. | ||
| I've had enough of it. | ||
| I've seen enough of it. | ||
| Time's up. | ||
| Grassley, no fire breather. | ||
| They understand the corruption. | ||
| They understand the incompetence. | ||
| It's incumbent upon him. | ||
| This is why Kash Patel's been in the trenches from day one and never wavered. | ||
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When they try to destroy him. | |
| Just like Navarro. | ||
| Just like Rudy. | ||
| Just like Grinnell. | ||
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You're either with us or you're Guinness. | |
| We are not backing off. | ||
| We didn't back off in 2021 in January. | ||
| We ain't backing off now. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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So I am supporting him through this process, and I'll just refer you back to the statement. | |
| Is that a yes note on the floor? | ||
| You could change your mind? | ||
| It was a very productive meeting, though. | ||
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I think we're just moving through the process. | |
| But he does respect that I'm taking the time. | ||
| Back up, back up. | ||
| Can you talk about the allegations? | ||
| Guys, thank you. | ||
| Can you talk about the allegations as well, Senator? | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I'll report back to my statement. | ||
| Did he commit to supporting the process? | ||
| It doesn't sound like a yes yet. | ||
| Is that fair? | ||
| I am supporting the process. | ||
| Did he commit to keeping women in their current roles in the military? | ||
| He is very supportive of women in the military. | ||
| You see the way these jackals are? | ||
| See the way these jackals are? | ||
| That's the jackal media. | ||
| This is the media we broke. | ||
| The streaming services, the podcasts. | ||
| We broke these folks. | ||
| That's what they do. | ||
| They gang up on them. | ||
| It's like a bunch of hyenas. | ||
| You see these videos on YouTube. | ||
| They've got the lion and they've got the hyenas coming around. | ||
| They're attacking them and everything. | ||
| That's a bunch of jackals. | ||
| They wonder why nobody respects them. | ||
| They're all over her now. | ||
| It's her turn in the barrel. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Colonel Ernst is going to be okay. | ||
| She's going to be fine. | ||
| Eric Bolling joins me. | ||
| Eric, you're one of the original gangsters in this entire movement. | ||
| Give me your thoughts. | ||
| Let's talk about first the process of supporting the president's selections, his picks, his nominees. | ||
| You got Cash. | ||
| You got Pete Hegseth. | ||
| I know you know Pete well. | ||
| You've got Tulsi. | ||
| You got Bobby Kennedy. | ||
| You got some people outside the box as He wants, because it's not just he's a disruptor, he wants to take apart the administrative state and reform this government in something that gets done what the people need to have done, and is at a cost that it's not putting us in bankruptcy. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
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Steve, first of all, really good to be with you. | |
| You know, the monologue and that setup, I'm probably not the only one who had a hand up going, amen, because you were preaching. | ||
| You were preaching, sir, and I think so many people feel exactly the way you do. | ||
| And we really learn as a group from you, Steve. | ||
| You and I, call me original gangster. | ||
| That makes you the Don, my friend. | ||
| That makes you the original Don of the gangster crew. | ||
| Going back to Andrew Breitbart and Steve Bannon on radio. | ||
| Anyway, so to answer your question, Steve, You and I kind of briefly chatted a little bit in the hallway over here at RAV yesterday. | ||
| And my feeling, probably like yours, is that Donald Trump has been given a mandate by the American people, maybe even the world, but certainly by the American people. | ||
| No one saw... | ||
| All seven of the swing states go Trump if you listen to mainstream media, including Fox. | ||
| And I include them for a reason. | ||
| We can talk about that in a minute. | ||
| No one saw a popular vote win. | ||
| No one saw 312 electoral college votes if you're watching mainstream media. | ||
| They saw if they're watching Bannon's War Room. | ||
| They saw if they're watching- I used to be part of that media, that disgusting- Horrible group of people who everything that hits that screen, Steve, is filtered through a corporate boardroom. | ||
| Is this going to be okay? | ||
| And then yet another filter through the advertising department. | ||
| Any advertiser is going to get ticked off about us saying this. | ||
| And then finally, you watch. | ||
| Fox, you watch Morning Joe, you watch them and they measure every single word out of their mouth because they're not sure if what they say, what they're feeling, is gonna be okay for the bosses. | ||
| You come over here and you get the real thing. | ||
| You get the real thing. | ||
| So the American people gave Donald Trump the mandate. | ||
| Whether you like Pete Hegseth or not, it doesn't matter. | ||
| I happen to like them both. | ||
| I happen to think both of them are going to be phenomenal cabinet members in working with Donald Trump. | ||
| It doesn't matter if you like him or not. | ||
| What you did, what we did, was we gave Donald Trump the right. | ||
| We gave him the right to pick who he wants for these various groups. | ||
| You are so right. | ||
| Spot on. | ||
| Steve, when did the FBI become so incompetent Yes, so effective, so political, but incompetence on top of it. | ||
| When did that happen? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm 60 years old. | ||
| I remember just having this exalted feeling about the FBI. They're the baddest of the bad over there in law enforcement. | ||
| And now I look at them like they're clowns. | ||
| They're political clowns. | ||
| Tools, Strzok and Page saying we're not gonna let Trump win. | ||
| I don't know how it happens so fast. | ||
| The American people are probably just shocked at the speed at which it's happening. | ||
| So here's the point. | ||
| Let Trump pick who he wants. | ||
| Trump wants to clearly break down the institutions that are deep state, that are corrupt, that are incompetent. | ||
| And rebuild them. | ||
| I mean, if nothing else, we have to trust Trump. | ||
| Look what he's done. | ||
| He's changed the world. | ||
| He's over in France and Macron and Maloney and they're all just want to get near Trump. | ||
| Jill Biden's staring at him like she's got a crush on him. | ||
| Let the guy rebuild. | ||
| Steve, and I gotta tell your audience, you don't know me, but I know Steve Bannon is a big part of what Trump is doing. | ||
| A major part of what Trump is doing. | ||
| That's off to you, my friend. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| He was like Charlemagne, but I want to go back to the FBI because you've been there. | ||
| I don't know if it was 9-11 or what led up to 9-11, but they're kind of misfocused. | ||
| The other thing about the way they're presenting this... | ||
| I would argue that Kash Patel, and that's why I had to have Taibbi open this in the cold open. | ||
| Kash Patel may be the most qualified of any director we've had recently. | ||
| Here's the reason. | ||
| I think that, Eric, 60 to 65 percent of their budget now is on counterterrorism and counterintelligence, which is two different things. | ||
| 35% to 40% is on traditional law and order, you know, cops and being an investigator for cops. | ||
| Cash has got much more experience in the counterintelligence and counterterrorism than I think, you know, Ray and these guys, they all came from kind of the criminal division of the Justice Department, the criminal, you know, working in the FBI, the criminal division, you know, the standard kind of law enforcement. | ||
| Cash is not a law enforcement guy. | ||
| He's more of a counterintell, counterterrorism. | ||
| But he knows this. | ||
| He'll also know how to take it apart. | ||
| Eric, remember, to me, one of the most enlightening of all the emails and text messages going on for everybody is Strzok's. | ||
| I think it's Peter Strzok's to his girlfriend about MAGA, about the Trump supporters. | ||
| I can smell the Walmart on them. | ||
| I can smell you. | ||
| Hey, let me tell you something, Strzok and McCabe and, you know, Kay's crying on CNN and Comey, all you guys. | ||
| Smell the Walmart on them? | ||
| That smells like Chanel No. | ||
| 5 to us, okay? | ||
| When you say they smell like Walmart, that's Chanel No. | ||
| 5. No, sir, that's Chanel No. | ||
| 5. That's the difference in us and you. | ||
| You're the credential class. | ||
| Eric Bolling, your thoughts? | ||
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Yeah, we're garbage, right, Steve? | |
| See how that worked out for them? | ||
| We're the American people. | ||
| You know, we're the real people. | ||
| You know, the funny thing is, the liberal class thinks that they're of the people, by the people, and for the people, and they're not. | ||
| They've become a celebrity, elite, limousine liberal class, and they're getting their butt handed to them in voting. | ||
| You know... | ||
| They're getting punished, Steve. | ||
| So the media, and let's really bring this in for a second. | ||
| So the FBI is corrupt. | ||
| They became a deep state. | ||
| They're going after Trump the same way the Department of Justice used lawfare to go after Trump on every single level, on the state level, on the federal level, on the local level. | ||
| But now, because the media was complicit, and the media portrayed it as like, oh, Trump's bad. | ||
| Look what they're doing. | ||
| They're gonna put Trump in jail. | ||
| Trump's a bigot. | ||
| Trump's a racist. | ||
| Trump's a rapist, whatever. | ||
| They're doing it now to all his picks, but the point was that the media was complicit. | ||
| They didn't do journalism, Steve. | ||
| They did what they were told to do. | ||
| They had marching orders from the White House, from the Democrats, likely Barack Obama, and they followed and they did what they, they worked with the deep state, with the FBI. 51 FBI agents said the Russian, the Hunter laptop was BS, and it wasn't. | ||
| I mean, the media was working hand in hand with the deep state to take down the Republicans, to take down Trump, to take down the right. | ||
| They got punished. | ||
| The media is getting slaughtered right now. | ||
| MSNBC down 38% after Morning Joe decides to go to whatever reason to Mar-a-Lago, bad mistake. | ||
| CNN getting hammered. | ||
| Rachel Maddow's taking pay cuts, and they're getting hit. | ||
| And now, as you point out accurately, Kash Patel, for me, it doesn't matter if he's qualified His qualification is Trump wants him to do it. | ||
| He wants him to break down the FBI. | ||
| At one point, Cash said, I'm going to eviscerate the J. Edgar Hoover building on Constitution Avenue right there and rebuild it. | ||
| And that's the mandate Trump has been given. | ||
| So these institutions that have become corrupt and biased and political when they're working for the American people and shouldn't have any of those need to be torn down. | ||
| And that's how it's like. | ||
| That's why Hexas is going to be great. | ||
| You point out woke and you're right. | ||
| Woke's got to go. | ||
| It hurts us. | ||
| It's embarrassment on the world stage. | ||
| But people also come in and he knows exactly what you're talking about. | ||
| The Defense Authorization Act, it's so important. | ||
| And you're right, it's annual because it's a trillion dollars and the rest of the world is watching what we're doing. | ||
| Pete's the right guy to do that, too. | ||
| He knows exactly... | ||
| There's some discussion about some people are pushing back on Pete, some traditional MAGA people pushing back on Pete. | ||
| And Pete will clean up, for example, the $150 billion we've been sending to Ukraine against the American people's wishes. | ||
| That's gonna stop. | ||
| And so some of the people who are pushing back on Pete are gonna have to suck it up, buttercup, and vote for him in the Senate level because Trump will take the senators out that push back on Trump's picks. | ||
| No question about it. | ||
| Tell us about Pete. | ||
| Give the audience some insight on Pete Hicks as a man, as you know him. | ||
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I've worked with Pete over at Fox. | |
| I was at Fox for 11 years. | ||
| I think we overlapped three or so. | ||
| And I will tell you, this is really weird, Steve. | ||
| When I was in the mainstream, when I was on the cable world, I really, I don't know if it's a jealousy or competitive thing. | ||
| I just never liked the male talent. | ||
| I don't care who you are. | ||
| I just didn't really like, besides Hannity. | ||
| Hannity's my close friend. | ||
| Other than that, I kind of didn't trust, Pete's just a good guy. | ||
| I mean, he's just a good guy. | ||
| You may not like the way he, you know, he socializes. | ||
| Okay, but he's not a bad guy. | ||
| He's a smart guy. | ||
| I think he's a great pick. | ||
| And if you want to talk about qualification, I mean, really, Lloyd Austin, wildly qualified. | ||
| Yeah, sure, he screwed up the Afghan withdrawal, lost 13 soldiers. | ||
| Horrible, terrible, most qualified defense secretary maybe in our history screws that up. | ||
| More importantly, that SOB, when he got sick, left his post and told his subordinate, don't tell anyone I'm in the hospital. | ||
| Do you know how much risk he put America in by doing that? | ||
| I mean, qualified is BS now. | ||
| Right now it means Trump is smart in bringing people in who will break down and rebuild these structures in his vision. | ||
| Tell us about... | ||
| I want everybody to get access to your new show. | ||
| Tell us about the new show. | ||
| Where can people get it? | ||
| And what do you focus on? | ||
| Because when I say this man is a wild man. | ||
| This is one of the original... | ||
| No, you're one of Ailes' guys, I think, when Fox... | ||
| You know, I'm a big critic of the Murdochs. | ||
| I'm not fans of the Murdochs, but you were there when Ailes was really running the place. | ||
| And you were one of his picks, one of his top draft picks. | ||
| Tell me about the new show. | ||
|
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Yeah, I was over at CNBC doing finance, and they all said, get over here, I need you in politics. | |
| And yeah, the new show Bowling, it's the same, we tape it right here at Rab, but it airs Rumble, YouTube, and others, and it's a We just got the numbers for this month. | ||
| We're 205% up from our original month on the podcast. | ||
| And Steve, it's what we've done. | ||
| It's Steve Bannon. | ||
| It's Andrew Breitbart's legacy. | ||
| It's bowling. | ||
| It's what the things that you saw. | ||
| Listen, I'm not blowing smoke up your dress, Steve. | ||
| Your audience needs to understand where you came from. | ||
| You are one of the original thought... | ||
| The OG thinkers in this whole populist movement that is just sweeping the world right now. | ||
| I mean, I don't know why he's not grabbing you by the jacket and saying, Steve, get back in here. | ||
| I need you. | ||
| And hopefully you have this here, right? | ||
| No, God, no. | ||
| Don't do that to me. | ||
| I hope so. | ||
| You can't have been there. | ||
| Check that box. | ||
| Been there, done that. | ||
| Where do people get the show, Eric? | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
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Everywhere, Rumble, YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, everywhere digitally. | |
| Again, thank God I'm off the airwaves because now we can say what we feel. | ||
| So that's where we are. | ||
| But Steve, love to have you on and love to come back here and join us sometime. | ||
| I'd love to be. | ||
| In fact, I'm going to do Don Jr.'s podcast today. | ||
| I think he's going to show on Thursday. | ||
| My show today, I'll give everybody a heads up. | ||
| You know, Rob Sigg and Parker Sigg, like, we don't have enough crazy people. | ||
| You got Pasova, you got Charlie Kirk, you got Bannon. | ||
| We don't have enough crazy people. | ||
| You got to have Eric Bolling in the house doing the podcast. | ||
| They got to throw a net over West Palm Beach. | ||
| I don't know what the decision is. | ||
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If Steve Bannon says it, if Steve Bannon says it, then... | |
| Sorry. | ||
| Give me your social media. | ||
| Where do people go to follow you on Twitter? | ||
|
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Yeah, Twitter at Eric Boling. | |
| Just E-R-I-C-B-O-L-L-I-N-G. But damn, Steve, you and I need to have a drink sometime, sit down and talk again. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| Okay. | ||
| We've got a lot to get to. | ||
| We've got to get to the geopolitics of all. | ||
| I want to go back to the NDA. I want to make sure. | ||
| So put this in your... | ||
| Get your number two pencil out and let's put this down for a second. | ||
| In fact, this ties into the birchgold.com. | ||
| The great guys are at Birch Gold. | ||
| Go talk to Philip Patrick and the team today. | ||
| We're going to go through some turbulence, as I'm sure you know. | ||
| The world's on fire right now. | ||
| The arc of instability that goes kind of from the bloodlands up in Russia near Kursk and Stalingrad. | ||
| I'll just throw out a couple of random names where we are lobbying long-range missiles that are American-made with American technicians into Russia. | ||
| Go all the way down through Ukraine. | ||
| Let's go all the way through the Balkans, Romania, where we have a brigade of the 101st Airborne forward deployed on the trigger, ready to go into Ukraine at a moment's notice. | ||
| Who knows how many sorties they made in there? | ||
| I'm not one to say that that's happening, but hey, who knows? | ||
| They just canceled the remaining election because a right-wing populist was leading the source candidate by 10 points that's... | ||
| That's just random. | ||
| They canceled the judicial system, threw it out. | ||
| He's a Putin asset, so they're going to do it next spring. | ||
| That's democracy in action. | ||
| All the way through the Balkans to Greece, you got Turkey, you got Erdogan. | ||
| Erdogan is set, he's an older guy now, he's set on one thing. | ||
| He wants to be like bigger than Ataturk as far as his image in the minds of the Turkish people. | ||
| He wants to reinstate the Ottoman Empire and have the caliphate, have the caliphate not be in Iraq, not be in Saudi Arabia, but reconstitute the caliphate like ISIS tried to do. | ||
| Under Obama and try to do that out of Turkey, restart the Ottoman Empire and eventually take over the two holy sites, Mecca and Medina. | ||
| That's where they head up to World War I for, I don't know, a thousand years. | ||
| World War I with Lawrence of Arabia and the Bedouins. | ||
| And the Bedouins were on the side, Allenby, marching to Jerusalem, marching to, I'm going to name a random place, Damascus. | ||
| Oh yeah, that's Syria. | ||
| I think I remember that. | ||
| Wasn't that St. Paul, Damascus? | ||
| Yeah, I get this Damascus thing kind of important, right? | ||
| So they're there, keep going through the ark, all the way through Babylon. | ||
| That would be Iraq. | ||
| Mesopotamia, that would be the river that's down there, right? | ||
| The Euphrates. | ||
| All the way through, you know, you got Persia to the North Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf. | ||
| I don't know, let's throw the Red Sea in there. | ||
| I think I remember the Red Sea. | ||
| Pharaoh's army, they didn't turn out too well, right? | ||
| All of it. | ||
| Palmyra, just go up in Syria today. | ||
| Palmyra, U.S. troops, we took over, I don't know, a thousand yards away. | ||
| Persian troops on the other, kind of where the Roman Empire and the Persians were, I don't know, 2,000 years ago. | ||
| Okay, 2,000, maybe 2,500 years ago. | ||
| Things never change. | ||
| You got kind of the West, the Romans, and now the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| And they're trying to suck us into doing 75-mile bomber runs over there. | ||
| Birch Gold, now more than ever. | ||
| Here's what I recommend. | ||
| Understand it. | ||
| I'm a great believer in the common sense of the American people. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I come from the common man. | ||
| The Bannons are about as standard stock American folks, Irish or a little German. | ||
| Out there. | ||
| The common sense of the family, my mom and dad and others, my uncle, my dad's beloved younger brother just passed away the other day. | ||
| He had been a monk, right? | ||
| Because one of them's got to go into priesthood. | ||
| The common sense is pretty good. | ||
| And that's just the common sense of the American people. | ||
| If you give the American people access to information... | ||
| They're going to weigh and measure it. | ||
| Lincoln tells us this. | ||
| They'll weigh and measure it. | ||
| They can take a while. | ||
| They've got to weigh and measure it. | ||
| You've got to think about it. | ||
| The whole thing of this experiment is that. | ||
| That's why you go over to Europe. | ||
| It's just a different feel. | ||
| It's a different deal. | ||
| Got some very good people over there. | ||
| Great people over there. | ||
| But it's a different deal. | ||
| They're still tied down to the customs and traditions of thousands of years. | ||
| It holds them back. | ||
| Here you're not held back. | ||
| It's a new deal. | ||
| I tell people, you know, Mo became an Irish dancer. | ||
| She was an Irish dancer, Southern California, Irish dancer. | ||
| And her mom and I, they would go every week and have the hair and the dresses and they got the Irish music. | ||
| You know, playing for eight hours straight and they're dancing around and just amazing Irish culture and all that. | ||
| She knew more about Irish culture and Irish society and Irish dancing and where it came from and all that. | ||
| Back in the, I guess in the 90s, 80s and 90s. | ||
| I don't remember ever, as my kids, ever folks pining for the old country. | ||
| Old country wasn't that good a deal. | ||
| We got, you know, as Bill Murray said, we got kicked out of, the people from America got kicked out of every decent country in the world. | ||
| But tremendous common sense, given information, and this is why, on Birch Gold, just we give you access to Philip Patrick, we give you access to all this free information. | ||
| You have to make the decision. | ||
| That's what this deal's about. | ||
| Self-determination. | ||
| You. | ||
| You make your own decisions. | ||
| Nobody comes in and tells you what to do. | ||
| You're an American. | ||
| You're not going to tell me what to do. | ||
| You're not the boss of me. | ||
| That's that cussedness that comes back from the revolution. | ||
| Hell, if we wanted to take orders and want to just fall in line, they would have fallen in line and been part of, just like in India, they've been a base. | ||
| You had India, you had North America. | ||
| Boom, the two basics, the two foundational, the two footings of what was going to be the greatest empire on earth since the Romans. | ||
| We opted out. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Didn't want to take the deal from the worthless aristocracy that had already corrupted commons. | ||
| Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| We're coming out with a whole thing on modern monetary theory. | ||
| The idea that broke the world. | ||
| Because your bettors bought into it. | ||
| You didn't. | ||
| Your bettors did. | ||
| There's something not right in Denmark here, folks. | ||
| We got Doge. | ||
| We got SmartGash. | ||
| You got Elon. | ||
| You got Vivek. | ||
| You got my boys over at OMB. They just announced Payaletta. | ||
| Another contributor to the show we're not going to be seeing anymore. | ||
| I think Jeff Clark's going. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You got Vogt. | ||
| I'm going to have to do a lot more work. | ||
| I've taken it easy. | ||
| I've really relied upon just great contributors. | ||
| Just sit there, ask a few questions, drink a cup of coffee. | ||
| I listen like the audience said, I'm learning. | ||
| I actually got to do work now. | ||
| This NDAA, I don't understand. | ||
| Here's the question. | ||
| No one's explained this to me. | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| Why are we locking in a trillion dollars on an authorization? | ||
| We got the appropriation. | ||
| But that's just spreading it out. | ||
| That's how the pot gets split up. | ||
| That's how the pirates split up the pot. | ||
| The pot's set at a trillion. | ||
| Don't believe the 840. It's a trillion. | ||
| Let's just round up. | ||
| How do we have doge, and we've got to start in discretionary spending, and we've got to start in discretionary spending with the Defense Department. | ||
| How does that do it if you're locked in now? | ||
| Oh, I get it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| Maybe it does lock it in. | ||
| This deal up here in the Imperial Capital is as crooked as you could possibly get. |
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