Dec. 11, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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There are still some very controversial picks. | |
| Tulsi Gabbard, certainly in light of her meeting with ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. | ||
| Some of her comments on Russia. | ||
| You've got Kash Patel and what's going on with that. | ||
| We haven't even gotten to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. What's your read on that strategy? | ||
| Yeah, and I'd also just like to add to that list, Linda McMahon chosen to run the Department of Education. | ||
| You can't help but think of schoolchildren and the allegations she's been involved with. | ||
| It's unfortunate. | ||
| I think what is surprising, I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but what is clear is seeing how Trump, as president-elect, is coming in and strong-arming his way through these I think we're | ||
| really asserting his dominance over these people by either, as Politico reported, making their life uncomfortable by having these MAGA activists make their life hell by dragging them online or, as Sahil was reporting, threatening potential primary challenges in the future, or by making them seem like they're threatening potential primary challenges in the future, or by making them seem like they're beneath him in when really they are two world leaders or two part of these two world leaders and they should be treated as equals. | ||
| And And he's coming in with no clear strategy other than, I think, knowing that he has sort of carte blanche to do whatever he wants this time around. | ||
| Congresswoman Jayapal, there's no better time to talk to you than right now. | ||
| What is the mood inside the Democratic caucus as you have the incoming president literally name-checking members of the House, former members of the House, saying they should be thrown in jail? | ||
| Yeah, well, Alex, it's always good to see you. | ||
| You know, I think the mood is we are ready to have this fight. | ||
| We are ready to take it to the American people. | ||
| And we are strategizing around all the different ways that our caucus will work together, stay united, and make sure that we push back on these outrageous things that Donald Trump is saying and that he is perhaps going to get his cabinet to do. | ||
| I also think that they did some cleanup after that interview. | ||
| Some of his people started saying, oh, he's not really going to set those people to jail. | ||
| I just think that we are in a situation where we should wait to see what attacks he actually levies and be ready to go after them completely together and make the contrast to the American people. | ||
| I'm not sure that everything we hear is going to be what he's going to do, but we have to be ready for it, and that's what I think we're doing right now. | ||
| I'll ask you one question. | ||
| James Carville has been on the air with my colleague Ari Melber, saying that he thinks, you know, the person that has the most influence right now over Trump's staffing decisions and broadly the administration's agenda is former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. | ||
| And then everyone from Elon Musk to J.D. Vance, a lot of these picks, Kash Patel, are straight from the mind of Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Do you have any sense of the role he's playing behind the scenes, or do you have a thesis or a hypothesis on kind of who's pulling the strings right now? | ||
| You know, when you think about the right-wing media, you basically had Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, and Rush Limbaugh had the narrative. | ||
| Everybody was really, okay, he had a worldview and he was a storyteller. | ||
| When he died, few people actually stepped into that void. | ||
| The two that stepped into that void were Tucker Carlson, He had a narrative that he was driving that would filter down into the others. | ||
| The other would be Steve Bannon. | ||
| And so, to James' point, he's right about one thing, and that's that Tucker Carlson's worldview and his narrative and the story that he's telling about America and the rest of the world, and it's not a good story, that a lot of the picks and the personnel and the policies and sort of the vibe of MAGA, of what has become the professionalization of MAGA, is coming from Tucker's worldview, but I wouldn't discount the worldview that Bannon is sort of pushing out there as well. | ||
| I think they each are people that have a narrative. | ||
| They're dependent, they are related, but I think that's where Tucker's influence really is. | ||
| I don't think he's picking individual people, but I think he's actually telling a big story that only certain characters can be casted for. | ||
| 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. | |
| Here's one time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| 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 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. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| We're pretty packed today and this evening already because there's so much going on, you know, between the transition, what's happening down in Mar-a-Lago and West Palm Beach, then up here in Washington, D.C., transition offices. | ||
| Also, the fighting for the Trump agenda and President Trump's cabinet and other picks on Capitol Hill. | ||
| Other nonsense going on at Capitol Hill, not much of a productive, I might add. | ||
| And then geopolitically, remember the three lines of work, let's go back to the basics every day we frame it around this, is the beginning stages of the Third World War, what we call the kinetic part of the Third World War happening and being the center, although the main thing And the dispositive question is always geopolitically in the 21st century, who's going to win the Chinese Communist Party or the American Republic? | ||
| Everything should be thought of in that context. | ||
| The arc of instability going from Russia... | ||
| Particularly southern Russia, we've turned into kind of a battlefield around Kursk and other places that are famous from the Second World War on the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| Now all the way down through Romania, Ukraine, Romania, the Balkans, Greece and Turkey. | ||
| Tom Barrack, a close friend of mine and a warrior who was also imprisoned unjustly and had the courage to go to court, took a trial and won acquittal. | ||
| Tom Barrack announced yesterday as the ambassador to Turkey. | ||
| Of course, KG, a dear friend of the show and a dear friend of mine, announced as the ambassador to Greece. | ||
| That shows the importance of President Trump. | ||
| These are two people very close to President Trump. | ||
| Greece and Turkey all the way through Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, you know, Babylon, Mesopotamia, the Tigers and Euphrates. | ||
| You've heard a couple of those names before, maybe from like the Old Testament, all the way through You know, Saudi, Persia to the North Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Red Sea. | ||
| That arc of instability is now at the forefront. | ||
| But Soviet's going to join us later. | ||
| Overnight or yesterday, $50 billion of your money, and they're going to try to hide it. | ||
| Well, it's not totally your money, it's World Bank. | ||
| No, it's your money. | ||
| $50 billion. | ||
| In an administration, once you lose, it's not like you're finishing out your eight years. | ||
| It's not like President Reagan when you finish out your eight years and you're passing on, in his case, to Bush, kind of his third term. | ||
| You should just stand down and allow the watch to be relieved. | ||
| Like in the military. | ||
| That's not what we're seeing here. | ||
| On the three lines of work. | ||
| The kinetic part of the Third World War. | ||
| Finances and debt. | ||
| And then everything to do with the southern border. | ||
| So we got Burquam in Mexico. | ||
| We have EJ and Tony. | ||
| Inflation numbers today, terrible. | ||
| Rising his head back up. | ||
| Bidenomics to be foisted upon you. | ||
| And of course the Third World War. | ||
| If you look at the three big lines of work. | ||
| That President Trump has to sort out to get to. | ||
| Remember, we want to get through this to the sunlit uplands of peace and prosperity. | ||
| How does President Trump get there and how does he get there with the team? | ||
| And so the resistance has started. | ||
| The resistance, obviously. | ||
| And the resistance you should look at as two sides of the same coin in the... | ||
| The way the apparatus is run, it's a neoliberal, neocon aspect of that. | ||
| That's the conventional wisdom. | ||
| That's kind of the railhead of the thinking. | ||
| And then you've got a progressive, particularly radical side of that on the – with the congresswoman who's up there saying, we're ready for this fight. | ||
| We're getting ready for this fight. | ||
| These nominations, we're going to – these policies, particularly on mass deportations, all of it, they're going to fight it. | ||
| And when I say neoliberal, neocon, remember FDR saved capitalism from itself. | ||
| A lot of people argue that, but, you know, oh, you could have let markets go. | ||
| Well, you would have had, you know, mass, you know, deprivation. | ||
| Coming from a working class family, I just remember my dad's stories. | ||
| He died at 100 years old, but he was, I guess, nine years old when the stock market crashed. | ||
| And then he would talk about the early days of the Great Depression and how bad it got, you know, 50% of the men died. | ||
| In their area, Norfolk, were unemployed. | ||
| And it's real nice to talk about theoretical, hey, here's what capitalism can do, but it's another thing when you ain't putting food on the table and you've got five hungry kids, right? | ||
| So the neoliberal was the regulatory apparatus that came in that became and metastasized into the administrative state. | ||
| The other part of that, the neocon part, was the beginning of the American empire. | ||
| At the end of World War II, we were the arsenal of democracy, and then we sold out the Russian people to their Bolshevik overlords, and we sold out the Chinese people to the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And so here we are. | ||
| Now you have a populist nationalist uprising in the United States led by President Trump, and he's being thwarted at every angle. | ||
| In talking about narrative in media, because this is, and one major element of it, it is an information war. | ||
| And you are the hoplites or the cadre at the tip of the spear in becoming force multipliers in that war, watching the show, listening to the show, sharing our content, pushing it out, becoming conversant in the topics we talk about and making sure that when you go to the precinct strategy and when you start to use your agency, volunteering, becoming involved, becoming engaged, even just having morning coffee. | ||
| If you've got friends over for coffee or at the water cooler, In the company or just in the bullpen when you're talking, just putting forward these ideas and the backup to these ideas. | ||
| It's an information war. | ||
| And that end right there was an interesting piece, and we hopefully may play some clips if we have time, although we're already pretty overwhelmed on this show. | ||
| We're going to go from North Carolina all the way to Syria and talk about what's going on and everything in between. | ||
| Right there, the end was, and this is the difference between the old and the new. | ||
| The old is kind of James Carville, and you see these guys all the time, you know, from the Clinton-Obama administration up there. | ||
| Let me just talk smack. | ||
| You know, Carville, if you look at Carville before November 5th, he was sitting there, but Trump doesn't have a chance. | ||
| Trump's a fascist. | ||
| Trump's a dictator. | ||
| Trump's people are garbage. | ||
| They're nothing but brown shirts, you know, on and on and on. | ||
| So a line of demarcation. | ||
| And it's one of the reasons that MSNBC's ratings have imploded. | ||
| And CNN's kind of a CNN didn't have much of our audience anyway. | ||
| MSNBC, the really other side of us on the information war, have imploded. | ||
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Why? | |
| They oversold. | ||
| Two-thirds of their audience is still in shock. | ||
| They were told flat out, Trump's a fascist, Trump's a dictator, the American people don't support him. | ||
| This thing's over. | ||
| So when North Carolina flipped late in the evening, I'm not so sure because we were doing our own show. | ||
| I'm not so sure Rachel Madden and this guy stayed past midnight. | ||
| I think they got out of town before Trump was deemed the winner. | ||
| But their audience is like sitting there going, they're finally awakening to the fact that they were lied to. | ||
| They were lied to. | ||
| Now you hear them say, well, you know, the Harris campaign knew they were behind, all these geniuses, oh yeah, we knew we were behind, etc., etc., but they never informed their people of that. | ||
| We played like we were behind the entire time. | ||
| One of the things I'm so proud of this audience, look, I was in federal prison up until a week of it, and we didn't miss a beat. | ||
| You know, Mo's here riding shotgun with me for a couple days. | ||
| We had the annual Christmas party of the War Room last night. | ||
| I have a talk out there. | ||
| It's a clip. | ||
| We're going to set new lows. | ||
| All I know... | ||
| Is that the restaurant that we took over and provided, I think they ran out of hard liquor at like 11 o'clock. | ||
| It was a savage crowd, right? | ||
| It was a savage crowd. | ||
| As people know, I don't drink and partake in anything like that. | ||
| So I shook a few hands, took some selfies, had a great time. | ||
| I want to thank everybody that showed up. | ||
| But Mo and these folks are dragging a little bit this morning, so I thank you. | ||
| I've lost my voice because I actually... | ||
| When I'm off the show, I actually don't like to talk that much. | ||
| People know I'm kind of a hermit. | ||
| I have a monkish... | ||
| Because I get so much going on. | ||
| I get so many things going on. | ||
| And I don't like to talk that much. | ||
| Off of the show... | ||
| We get plenty of it here, right? | ||
| But I did lose my voice a little bit last night because so many old friends, new friends, a lot of staffers, a lot of people that make things work here in Washington, D.C., that are helping us on many, many projects. | ||
| But right there, Angela Carzone, I think is that, Carzone, from Media Matters. | ||
| And Media Matters was an old enemy under David Brock of Andrew Breitbart. | ||
| It's totally changed. | ||
| We give Madeline Peltz over there. | ||
| We give her a hard time of being our marketing director. | ||
| We hope she's in good health, Madeline. | ||
| But Carzone shows you it's a much more sophisticated look at media and the information war than the standard stuff you just see with Carvel and these guys. | ||
| Much more sophisticated. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in the worm in a moment. | ||
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The episode even prompted one of Murdoch's daughter's representatives to write a succession memo intended to help avoid a real-life repeat of the TV show. | |
| you can't make it up or i mean maybe you actually can there is real drama surrounding what happens to fox and the murdoch media empire when the 93 year old rupert murdoch the real life one eventually dies the real life succession plan of the media empire is based around an irrevocable trust | ||
| one that would divide control of the media empire equally among rupert's four eldest children lachlan james elizabeth and prudent um What is the name of it? | ||
| The show is not Suspicion. | ||
| What's the name of the show? | ||
| Succession. | ||
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Succession. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I've never watched it. | ||
| I don't have time to watch TV. This is college football. | ||
| And or MSNBC news that we have to break down. | ||
| By the way, speaking of MSNBC, I was at dinner the other night with some people who are progressive lefties, hardcore. | ||
| And they have a very different take on things. | ||
| I think Mika is the star of Morning Mika. | ||
| They can't stand her, which I found. | ||
| I made my pitch that it should be Morning Mika and it should be she should get paid more than Joe Scarborough. | ||
| They weren't buying. | ||
| These are long-time Morning Mika fans. | ||
| They actually think Joe Scarborough is intelligent, which I found shocking because I think he's an airhead. | ||
| Stephanie Ruhl's show, though, if you're up late at night, like at 11 o'clock, she's got a fantastic show. | ||
| The late show she took over from Brian Williams a couple years ago. | ||
| She's a former investment banker. | ||
| And, of course, she's a lefty and can't stand Trump. | ||
| But if you want to see a good breakdown of the news from a left-winger's perspective and people are going, Bannon, what the hell are we doing? | ||
| We've got enough of that in our life. | ||
| Succession. | ||
| So here's the thing. | ||
| The Murdochs are in a jam. | ||
| And they say, oh, it's conservative. | ||
| It's not conservative. | ||
| Murdoch, old man Murdoch, the demon, the head devil, and the son are neoliberal neocons. | ||
| All they are is for the wealthy, tax cuts for the wealthy, more money and power for the wealthy, more American troops. | ||
| And this is one of the reasons I really cannot stand Murdoch. | ||
| Not being an American, he was the biggest cheerleader and used Fox to cheerlead the Iraq War. | ||
| And clearly not just covered up or promoted Dick Cheney, a war criminal's worst elements on the lies we were told about the weapons of mass destruction. | ||
| We invaded. | ||
| Then you had the fact that we didn't take enough troops in there. | ||
| We couldn't hold it. | ||
| We had this nightmare for years. | ||
| You had the surges. | ||
| You had all this. | ||
| Anbar Province. | ||
| I don't know, what, 8,000 combat casualties, tens of thousands of other casualties led to PTSD, suicides, the horrible situation of folks back here. | ||
| And Murdoch at some point in time just got tired. | ||
| And they got Tony Blair in England and the Australians into the war with us. | ||
| And then when they just tired of it and they realized it was a political albatross because Bill Kristol, remember all those stooges they would have on Fox at the time? | ||
| Bill Kristol said they're going to throw roses in the feet of the soldiers and it's going to be amazing and the troops are going to be incredible. | ||
| And then he had that thing with the blue fingerman. | ||
| Remember, they voted. | ||
| It's just all a sham, all a joke. | ||
| They're not Jeffersonian Democrats. | ||
| One of the issues up in Syria right now, we've got to face facts. | ||
| The Muslim Brotherhood, yes, the Muslim Brotherhood and these massive organizations of Islamic supremacism and Islamic fascism that we would hope go away is not going away. | ||
| Erdogan in Turkey, he wants to reinstate the Ottoman Empire in the Caliphate out of Constantinople, which they still think is the biggest, since they didn't take Vienna, which Napoleon said when he said to take it, take it. | ||
| The Pacific will be up here. | ||
| The Poles helped defend it. | ||
| They didn't take Vienna. | ||
| Constantinople is the biggest thing they took. | ||
| They took the eastern side of the Roman Empire, the one that lasted for a thousand years past Rome. | ||
| Hello, folks out there. | ||
| The Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| You heard of this one? | ||
| Donald Trump shows up in Notre Dame. | ||
| Looks like Charlemagne. | ||
| Got all these munchkins running around. | ||
| Pepin the Short. | ||
| Macron the Short. | ||
| Macron the Short. | ||
| And the two elves, his wife and Jill Biden making goo-goo eyes at Trump. | ||
| She definitely voted for him. | ||
| The information war is much more sophisticated. | ||
| So Carville... | ||
| Gives you the standard stock, Clinton, and those guys are increasingly irrelevant and they're being treated as irrelevant now in the media. | ||
| You'll see all those guys fade. | ||
| Those decisions are being made right now by these channels and these networks. | ||
| They're going to have tons of populist shows. | ||
| They're going to have left-wing. | ||
| There are so many progressive populists. | ||
| Populism is going to just pop out of everywhere. | ||
| In fact, if we can cut it, Elizabeth Warren had the chutzpah. | ||
| But this is kind of what you need. | ||
| She had the chutzpah last night to come forward. | ||
| She's put forward a bill. | ||
| This bill is from 2018 when she ran for president the first time. | ||
| The bill is a bill of, she says, working-based capitalism or gentle capitalism. | ||
| It's got all these things that shareholder value, the maximization of shareholder value should not be the primary concern of a corporation. | ||
| Hey, you know, there's an argument that maybe that goes overboard sometimes. | ||
| When I was at Harvard Business School, that you're stamped in that. | ||
| Two things. | ||
| Maximization of shareholder value and globalization. | ||
| Maximization of shareholder value, globalization. | ||
| You get your union card. | ||
| Because I went to Harvard. | ||
| I didn't get educated. | ||
| You get educated, quote unquote, at the college. | ||
| Maybe not anymore because it's a propaganda factory. | ||
| If you go to the law school or if you go to the medical school, if you go to the business school, it's just that you're learning a trade, okay? | ||
| You get a union card, okay? | ||
| Globalization, right? | ||
| Maximization of shareholder value. | ||
| Globalization, maximization of shareholder value. | ||
| She countered that, but it's a bill from 18, and the question I put up on Getter is, yo, lady, Focahontas, baby. | ||
| Where were you in the beginning days of the Biden regime? | ||
| You had the House, you had the Senate, you had Nancy Pelosi running her big mouth, right? | ||
| You had Chuckie Schumer. | ||
| Where was your bill then? | ||
| How come it wasn't passed overwhelmingly? | ||
| Why didn't you raise taxes on the wealthy then? | ||
| The working class African-Americans and blacks realize it's a scam, it's a con. | ||
| The Democratic Party plays the long con. | ||
| On the working class people. | ||
| That's why right now there ain't many working class supporting them. | ||
| It's the credential class. | ||
| You got all these people that go to these universities, get all these degrees. | ||
| You have no earthy idea. | ||
| They don't learn anything and they don't know anything. | ||
| You talk to them for two minutes. | ||
| They never read a book. | ||
| They have no idea of the Western canon. | ||
| It's all grievance kind of these degrees and they're not relevant. | ||
| So when DEI was bigger, DEI departments, all these people running around as DEI, it's all blown away. | ||
| And hey, if you don't think the corporations are responsible and they're the worst, Because look how they turned on you. | ||
| Everybody for years, give them tax cuts, deregulate, unleash these corporations. | ||
| I'm not saying her way's right, but the way that we went is not right either. | ||
| Because they turned on you. | ||
| The most powerful weapon against MAGA was in a tie. | ||
| The weaponization of state power, like the Stasi, that's what we became under Ray, under McCabe, under Comey, and by the way, Paul Sperry, the great Citizen Kane over at Citizen Free Press put up again what Sperry came out with years ago about McCabe actually surveilling illegally Kash Patel. | ||
| This is why they don't want Kash Patel back in. | ||
| This is why McCabe knows he's going to prison. | ||
| So this all revolves around, the big aspect of this, the fight of this, is disinformation war. | ||
| And they're getting more, they've been sophisticated, they kind of got lazy, but you have sophisticated people out there. | ||
| Angelo Carzon from The New Media Matters, because it's very different than when Andrew went head-to-head with David Brock. | ||
| And those were, David Brock versus Andrew was alien versus predator. | ||
| I mean, that was big. | ||
| For those days, that was big. | ||
| Because Andrew is the first guy on Twitter. | ||
| First major personality on Twitter was Andrew Breitbart. | ||
| And Andrew Breitbart with Go with Brock. | ||
| It's changed now. | ||
| Media Matters is different. | ||
| It monitors us, monitors other people. | ||
| But they're very sophisticated and smart in saying, hey, these are narrative engines. | ||
| This is narrative framing. | ||
| Because they understand, you know, politics is upriver for culture. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Culture is upriver from politics. | ||
| Culture is upriver from politics. | ||
| When we get to politics, the information warfare narrative part is upstream from the part of elective politics and volunteer politics. | ||
| You have to set the narrative framework. | ||
| You have to get, you know, boom, here's our strategy. | ||
| Here's where we're going and we're going to move down this path. | ||
| And everything then reinforces that narrative. | ||
| That's information warfare. | ||
| That's why Onion's trying to buy Alex Jones and turn it into a parody site. | ||
| It's quite evident. | ||
| Let's go to, I got Burquam and I got, so the third line of work, the invasion, Holman saying shock and awe, we're going to be thrilled. | ||
| Trump says, first thing I'm going to do, day one, the reconciliation bill, the reconciliation bill that's going, it's supposed to be reconciliation first, is all on The border, all on mass deportations, I understand now, to give you some inside baseball, they're trying to move the tax up to that or do it together. | ||
| This tax bill's way, way, way not ready. | ||
| One of the reasons it's not ready is that I'm kind of adamant about this. | ||
| I'm just some schmendrick talking in a microphone. | ||
| However, we can have our opinions here in the war room. | ||
| I just don't see how, and this tax bill's not ready because of the votes, I don't see how you can reinstate The tax cuts of 17 are Trump as they were. | ||
| The tax cuts now have to be, take the tax cuts of Trump in the middle class and the working class, which are magnificent. | ||
| But then you have additions. | ||
| That President Trump committed and promised to on the campaign trail that got us this big coalition. | ||
| No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, and other things that are going to, guess what? | ||
| Decrease revenue, so therefore we're going to have a bigger gap of a deficit. | ||
| How do we close that? | ||
| Let me think. | ||
| Let me think. | ||
| Oh, maybe taxes on corporations and taxes on the wealthy. | ||
| Ooh, he said it. | ||
| He said it. | ||
| Yes, yes, yes. | ||
| Corporations, since you have the lobbyist, and you force, the reason this government's so big, and so, the Leviathan's so huge, and the deconstruction of the administrative state continues, but has to be hammered every day, is the corporations and the wealthy. | ||
| They have allowed this to happen. | ||
| In fact, they've supported it many times. | ||
| So guess what? | ||
| Until we get to a balanced budget, we have to have cuts. | ||
| Lots of cuts. | ||
| And they have to support us. | ||
| But there's still going to be a gap. | ||
| And what do we do there? | ||
| We've got to raise revenue. | ||
| We're not going to do it in the middle class. | ||
| We're not going to do it in the working class. | ||
| Today's inflation, the lived experience of American people still sucks. | ||
| We've got to make it better. | ||
| So somebody's got to pay more. | ||
| Who's that going to be? | ||
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Maybe the people that have more, just to be fair. | |
| I know that's heresy. | ||
| But we're going to have to work it through. | ||
| We'll look at some math and some numbers. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| Mexico, North Carolina, Syria, all of it next. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| Okay, on Capitol Hill, I'm going to get back to the NDAA, I'm going to get back to the CR, I'm going to get back to the reconciliation, all the inside baseball you guys love, because there's a lot going on, and I think we're seeing a resistance build up from the established order of the Republican Party against, I think, Doge. | ||
| And even OMB and this Doge-OMB partnership, of which you know many of the players that have been on the show for years, I think any chop block. | ||
| And some people say, no, no, no, the NDA is not that bad, but we'll lay out the case and let you make the decision. | ||
| So we've got some work to do on this. | ||
| I'm going to North Carolina in a moment. | ||
| Huge fight in Carolina, which was central. | ||
| Remember when North Carolina was called for Trump late in the evening on the 5th? | ||
| That's where you saw the long faces. | ||
| Rachel Maddow and that crowd knew it was over right then. | ||
| Carolina is always the key. | ||
| But when we go to Mexico, we got Oscar Blue Ramirez and Ben Burquan. | ||
| Ben, in the third line of work here, they're flooding the zone, sir. | ||
| They're trying to get as many illegal aliens as possible across the border before President Trump and Tom Homan and Steve Miller show up. | ||
| Ben? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, that's right, Steve. | ||
| Just so you know, I've reported from here before on the other bridge, Matamoros Bridge. | ||
| We just got word. | ||
| This is breaking news. | ||
| They've moved it to this bridge that you can see behind me. | ||
| The group you see behind me was just flown in. | ||
| They were just flown in from Mexico City to Matamoros, and they're taking them. | ||
| They're taking them to a hotel right now, and then what they do, the new operation, is they bring them in the morning. | ||
| They put them on vans. | ||
| They take them across so that we don't see it, so that the media doesn't see it. | ||
| The whole group behind me, all CBP1. It is in full Swing, Steve. | ||
| I can't believe... | ||
| You're telling me CP1, the app is still... | ||
| The American people are not going to tolerate this. | ||
| You're telling me that app is still up, having lost the election, as President Trump said with Kristen Welker, it was the border and immigration and groceries. | ||
| And today we know groceries are on fire again, folks. | ||
| E.J. and Tony is going to join us and walk through the CPI number. | ||
| They're not good. | ||
| And so right there, you're telling me, are you telling the American people right now that Biden going out the door still has the app and the app is active to the fact they're flying folks up from Mexico City to the northern border and then get them across early in the morning so the media can't see it, sir? | ||
| That is exactly right. | ||
| And we're starting here in Matamoros. | ||
| We're going to make our way to every CBP-1 port of entry from here to Tijuana to show the American people the truth. | ||
| It's treason. | ||
| It's treason and they know it. | ||
| Ben, just hang on. | ||
| I'm going to come back to you and Oscar in a second. | ||
| I want to go. | ||
| Folks, when you sit there and we report every day, they're leaking to the media. | ||
| They're working on blanket preemptive pardons. | ||
| This is one of the lines of work on the invasion of the southern border. | ||
| We're going to get every email, every text message, go through every meeting, see what backed up, every executive orders. | ||
| There was never chaos at the border. | ||
| This is a very well thought through plan. | ||
| And look at here, the days, look, they're supposed to lay down their pencils and do nothing but coordinate with President Trump, and particularly with Homan and Miller got to do, and Kristi Noem have to do on the mass deportations. | ||
| You understand the logistics and the work to be humane and empathetic, but they got to go. | ||
| Look what they're doing right now. | ||
| They're just throwing gasoline in the fire. | ||
| They have no intention of having the watch relieved in any kind of organized fashion. | ||
| And you can tell it right there. | ||
| We're going to go back to Ben in a second. | ||
| Another huge fight. | ||
| We have the Speaker of the House, Tim Moore from North Carolina. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| I'll tell you two things people can't understand. | ||
| Number one, how does President Trump do so well? | ||
| And I understand the gubernatorial candidate had some issues. | ||
| But you had quality candidates, the rest, the undercard just did not, it just kind of shocked people about the performance. | ||
| And then you've got a fight down there where the House, you guys are in a fight to make sure that there's not a mess, that the new folks taking over are not going to turn this thing into a circus. | ||
| And there's a huge, I guess, resistance even for some Republicans. | ||
| So walk us through, because Carolina's key. | ||
| I told President Trump in 16, when Carolina goes, I think we got this thing. | ||
| And on the 5th in the evening, you saw the long face of Rachel Maddow, man, hadn't stopped crying since Carolina got called. | ||
| So tell us what's going on there, Mr. Speaker. | ||
|
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Yes, sir. | |
| Good morning. | ||
| Good to be on the show with you today. | ||
| Yeah, so we have a vote this afternoon on an override. | ||
| Of course, we have an outgoing Democratic governor. | ||
| We have an incoming Democratic governor. | ||
| And the big fight right now, we passed an aid package to help get aid to Western North Carolina after this massive hurricane hit. | ||
| We had $227 million. | ||
| We have regulatory relief to get people temporary housing. | ||
| I don't even need to tell you how, you know, it's amazing your other story about how, you know, they've just opened the gates to allow illegals, the Biden administration. | ||
| At the same time, You know, the terrible job they've done in getting aid to people, our people here in North Carolina, who need this aid after the flood. | ||
| The thing we did in this same bill was we put in some election integrity legislation to move the Board of Elections from the governor to move it under our state auditor because, frankly, I think we need auditing of the elections. | ||
| There are a lot of questions. | ||
| One race, for example, our Republican Candidate for state Supreme Court. | ||
| Steve, on election night, he was 10,000 votes ahead. | ||
| Today, after all these other provisional ballots and everything, he's underwater. | ||
| 700 votes. | ||
| A lot of questions about that. | ||
| And so we've got some good election integrity to improve that accountability. | ||
| And another thing, you know how you get these state attorneys general that are joining all these woke lawsuits around the country, whether it's pushing You know, this radical environmentalism, whether it's pushing this transgender thing, all this stuff. | ||
| We've got legislation to clip the wings of the Attorney General so that they can't be out here pushing these crazy, woke ideologies. | ||
| And so that bill is on the floor today to override the governor's veto. | ||
| And we got a few Republicans that are questionable. | ||
| And I think they're going to come around. | ||
| But it's a big deal. | ||
| It's a big vote. | ||
| And, you know, we need everybody calling The North Carolina legislature encouraging the Republicans to stay strong and vote for this override. | ||
| So it's critical. | ||
| We're a critical state in the presidential race. | ||
| We've got key races coming up, and we need to do things to further expand election integrity and to make sure that votes count. | ||
| And this is a bill that will get that done. | ||
| I tell you how important it is. | ||
| I think it's Rachel Maddow's been all over this, Alex. | ||
| The key primetime line at MSNBC have been hammering this thing in Carolina, so you know they're concerned about it. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| We have an activist base here of folks that want to use their agency. | ||
| So, Mr. Speaker, what's your recommendation? | ||
| The votes this afternoon, what do they do? | ||
| What's the call to action here? | ||
|
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The main switchboard number is 919- 733-4111. | |
| The website is ncleg.gov, but they can call and send emails to all of the Republican members. | ||
| We know no Democrats are going to vote for this, but we need our Republicans to stay strong on this. | ||
| They're getting a lot of pressure. | ||
| All these radical groups are going to be there today to protest. | ||
| They've made a full-on assault. | ||
| We've got all these All these woke folks that like to wander around creating mischief and protest for the sake of protesting are descending on our state capitol today, and we need the MAGA world to step up and remind our Republicans to stand strong and to demand that this be signed into law, that it go into law by overriding this veto. | ||
| I'm really proud that President Trump carried our state. | ||
| I'm proud we've maintained Republican majorities in our legislature disappointed. | ||
| We saw some losses in those council state races. | ||
| But, you know, the best thing we can do is do all we can to make sure there's election integrity. | ||
| And this is a bill that will get that done. | ||
| And it will provide needed relief to people of Western North Carolina who have been impacted in such a significant way in this legislation. | ||
| If folks want to go find the bill, they can go to the legislative website. | ||
| That's at ncleg.gov. | ||
| And the Senate bill is S-382, that's the bill. | ||
| And they can look at it and see the reading of it there. | ||
| It's very important. | ||
| And for a state our size, there's some folks that need to call today. | ||
| The boat will be today at 3 o'clock. | ||
| 919-733-4111 in North Carolina. | ||
| Make sure we want to light those phones up. | ||
| Make sure people know they've got to vote for this. | ||
| The Republicans. | ||
| I want to give an appreciation. | ||
| Of what they're doing in Carolina, particularly folks working on this, putting it under the audit. | ||
| And here's why. | ||
| You just talked about the situation there in your race. | ||
| In California, we lost three seats because they just keep manufacturing ballots. | ||
| I mean, it's four weeks after the thing, and you got provisional. | ||
| You don't know where these things are coming from. | ||
| In Carolina, we lost three house seats. | ||
| We almost lost the majority in the house. | ||
| It hadn't been for North Carolina, sir. | ||
| You know, I'm not so sure Brother Johnson, Speaker of the House, I think Hakeem Jeffries might be. | ||
| So Carolina is absolutely central to everything we're trying to do here. | ||
| And I think it's magnificent you guys are putting it under the audit. | ||
| I just want to thank you. | ||
|
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100%. | |
| And in fact, I'm actually one of the newly elected members of Congress. | ||
| So on January 3rd, I'll be a new member of Congress from North Carolina. | ||
| So I've been there a while and, you know, getting the swing of things. | ||
| But, you know, we've done good things in North Carolina, Steve. | ||
| We really have. | ||
| We've now got to turn the country around. | ||
| But again, this action item today is going to be critical to making sure North Carolina continues to be able to do what it can to deliver victories for Republicans up and down the ticket and move this country in the right direction. | ||
| Yeah, I can't imagine folks in Carolina, Republicans, have been put in there by folks with their hard work and walking precincts and doing phone banks and canvassing and stuff that would vote against us. | ||
| It's 919-733-4111. | ||
| We'll get it up in all the social media chats. | ||
| One last thing, Mr. Speaker, before we go. | ||
| What is the pitch? | ||
| Give me the elevator pitch. | ||
| What are folks supposed to say when they call? | ||
|
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They need to ask that all Republicans override the veto today of the Democratic governor on Senate Bill 382. Sir, I want to thank you. | |
| Thank you for all the work. | ||
| Look forward to seeing you up here in the Imperial Capitol. | ||
| We can't wait to get you in the war room and introduce folks to you here. | ||
|
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Absolutely. | |
| Looking forward to it. | ||
| Thanks for having me on. | ||
| You guys have a good day. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| That's Tim Moore, Speaker of the House, current Speaker of the House in Carolina. | ||
| Everybody, get up on the ramparts. | ||
| We've got to pocket this. | ||
| Hey, if you don't do this, and this has got the great relief in Western North Carolina, and no one's explained, this is going to be a huge investigation. | ||
| How those folks in kind of MAGA country in Western North Carolina, which is so beautiful out there, how they've just been thrown to the wolves and no relief. | ||
| You've got private groups. | ||
| I did Don Jr.'s show. | ||
| I'll be up on the podcast on Thursday. | ||
| Don Jr. has been down there with Samaritan's Purse. | ||
| Your aunt has been involved in this. | ||
| All these folks living in Carolina. | ||
| It's a mess down there, and there's no rationale and excuse what's happening. | ||
| I might add, at the same time they're having to pass a bill in a state to get resources out to the folks of this natural tragedy. | ||
| That we're doing a $50 billion loan package. | ||
| Basically, you're cash money. | ||
| You're the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. | ||
| Cash money of $25 billion infused to the bunch of criminal oligarchs over in Ukraine. | ||
| Mo Bannon, give me a minute on that before we go to break. | ||
| Well, it just shows you that this administration that currently is occupying the White House is all about America last. | ||
| The fact that we're sending money over to Ukraine again and again and again, and that we're also taking care of illegal immigrants. | ||
| And let me rephrase, let me repeat that, illegal immigrants. | ||
| That we're sending money to make sure and opening our border for them to come across, to house them, feed them, and not supporting American citizens is completely disgusting and disgraceful. | ||
| This administration should be ashamed of themselves, and that's why we, resounding victory for Donald J. Trump on November 5th, we knew, the American people knew that we needed change, and that's why we re-elected, put him back in the White House, Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| That's a great hot take. | ||
| You're getting pretty good at this. | ||
| Great hot take. | ||
| Birchgold.com. | ||
| Times of turbulence. | ||
| We're going to go into turbulence. | ||
| I can tell you the game's already been played up here. | ||
| President Trump won this mandate, and the first thing, you had Elon Musk, and the brother wrote, and look, I got a lot of differences with Elon. | ||
| He knows that. | ||
| I got a lot of differences with him. | ||
| But hey, he stepped up and wrote a quarter of a billion dollars. | ||
| Cash money. | ||
| Starting, I think, about June. | ||
| Most of that went to get out the vote efforts, the pick and shovel work that got President Trump across the goal line. | ||
| Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
|
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| How do we get jacked up here early in the morning in War Room, Mo? | ||
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| Why is that? | ||
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| On Army-Navy weekend, with Army on a roll, you just won the conference championship, you could have a big bowl, you might even be in the playoffs, who knows, if you beat Navy. | ||
| How are you pushing a Navy SEALs coffee? | ||
| I mean, in all fairness, when it's Army-Navy week, we're rivals. | ||
| But other than that, it's a family. | ||
| You don't bash any other service. | ||
| Now, Army can bash Navy. | ||
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| I know that I was talking about the Mariner's Blend, but I really also like the flavored coffee Warpack has, especially the vanilla hazelnut. | ||
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| You're like in the old Today Show when you just jump in and do the reads? | ||
| In a hot take every now and again? | ||
| I've been told I'm a great infomercial. | ||
| I might be a little bit better. | ||
| Natalie said while you were gone that I'm in competition with Mike Lindell, so watch out, Mike. | ||
| No, I got so many compliments last night. | ||
| What a great job you did during the thing of holding the thing together. | ||
| Grace and then Natalie stepping up and being an on-air personality was just fantastic. | ||
| I got so many compliments about you and Grace holding things together. | ||
| Of course, Jane Zirkle was with us. | ||
| Grace couldn't join us. | ||
| She's working her way out on the West Coast. | ||
| Natalie did join us. | ||
| Had a great showing of the War Room Posse. | ||
| I guess Noah was there. | ||
| Donovan was there. | ||
| Carrie Donovan. | ||
| Carrie Donovan had a whole great show. | ||
| I think Raheem kicked them out at 1 o'clock. | ||
| Typical War Room crowd. | ||
| When the liquor ran out, they went home, right? | ||
| Oh, we're just here to celebrate. | ||
| Glad to see you guys. | ||
| Where's the bar? | ||
| Where's the free bar? | ||
| So typical. | ||
| And we had some great members of Congress stop us. | ||
| We had a lot of congressional members, senators. | ||
| But the key thing, look, the way the city works is that it's the staffs. | ||
| The guys are so busy coming and going, and we know them personally. | ||
| But we did this to get the staffs and some war members that are out there. | ||
| I want to have something bigger next year. | ||
| I just got to figure out how. | ||
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| We're going to do some great, fun things out there. | ||
| Get you ready for the coming year, the battles ahead, but also do some celebration for Christmas and the Christmas season. | ||
| So I'm looking forward to that, Charlie Kirk. | ||
| I think I'm speaking the night with Tucker. | ||
| You are to kick it off. | ||
| So kick it off. | ||
| It just shows you that Angela Karzan, brother, you got the two narrative engines, according to you, sitting there opening night at AmFest. | ||
| Let's go back to Mexico. | ||
| Ben Burquan. | ||
| Ben, is Oscar with you also? | ||
| Do we have Oscar? | ||
| Yeah, he just finished up doing some interviews. | ||
| Steve, we're out here. | ||
| The last group is waiting to get picked up. | ||
| They're getting taken back to the hotel. | ||
| And then these guys, just to show you what's happening, they're getting flown in every single day. | ||
| They're getting dropped off, and then the next group, they get taken to the hotel, and then this group right there that you're looking at was this morning's group. | ||
| They're waiting for the immigration buses to come pick them up, and they're going to get a private charter bus ride over the border into America, right across that bridge into America on your dime. | ||
| This is happening. | ||
| I think the worst part about this is how well-oiled this machine is. | ||
| I've never seen it like this. | ||
| When my work is talking about controlled flow, this is it. | ||
| Talk to us about that. | ||
| You and Oscar have been there from the beginning. | ||
| Folks, they were supposed to put pencils down on the morning of the 6th, or the late in the evening of the 5th, and the exact opposite. | ||
| I want you to embrace this, and I want you to share these clips of Ben Burkwong. | ||
| When you say well-oiled machine, it's not chaos down there. | ||
| This is very well thought through. | ||
| Think of the people that are doing this. | ||
| And I'm telling the NGOs, and I'm telling everybody, and my York is a crowd in the White House. | ||
| These are crimes. | ||
| The American people have told you this is an invasion, and they don't want it, and they want it reversed. | ||
| You've heard what President Trump has said, day in a day, Tom Holman said, and still you're exacerbating this invasion. | ||
| This is a crime. | ||
| Ben Burkham is 100% correct. | ||
| This is treason. | ||
| We're going to get to the bottom of this. | ||
| I don't care how much the media whines about this and how they throw their toys out of the pram. | ||
| We're coming for you guys. | ||
| You're trying to destroy this country and you're using these people whose lives are going to be destroyed anyway. | ||
| So Ben, walk me through that again about how this is a well-oiled machine. | ||
| Well, so every point along the way, whether you're coming from Venezuela or from the Middle East or from China, now you can apply for CBP-1 wherever you are. | ||
| And then as soon as you get to one of these State Department processing centers, one of these intake centers, they will then, you are now part of the system, and then they will fly you from that location, whether that's Mexico City or Tapachula or down in Panama or Guatemala, Right up to the border or sometimes into the United States. | ||
| Now, what we just witnessed this morning, it's the first time I've ever seen it. | ||
| They were actually, we saw the group that was flown in this morning. | ||
| They were brought into the secure area, an area we can't go to. | ||
| They were dropped off. | ||
| They were given their instructions. | ||
| They simply walked across over to here. | ||
| That's when we started interviewing them. | ||
| Then they were picked up. | ||
| I'll let Oscar tell you about who's picking them up, taken to a hotel. | ||
| From that hotel, the next day, their appointment is to go across the bridge. | ||
| They're brought back to this point. | ||
| They're handed off to the immigration officials in Mexico, and then they're brought across the bridge, handed off to the United States, sent to any country they want after they're handed off again to an NGO on the United States side. | ||
| And every point along the way, U.S. taxpayers are paying for it, and the NGOs are getting rich off of it. | ||
| And, Steve, if I can hand it off to Oscar, what we're witnessing on the people that are involved Hang on, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben. | ||
| Ben, hang on one second. | ||
| Oscar, hang on one second. | ||
| We've got to go to break. | ||
| You guys stick there and we'll come back to you. | ||
| 90-second break. | ||
| We're going to go in the second hour of the morning edition of The War Room. | ||
| Jack Posobiec is going to join me. | ||
| We've got a lot to go about the surveillance of the FBI on Kash Patel and others in President Trump's inner circle. | ||
| We're going to talk about the geopolitics and the reality of the implosion of Syria and the rise of the Ottoman Empire with the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| Back to Mexico, Oscar Blue Ramirez, Ben Burquam from Real America's Voice, the investigative reporters. | ||
| Got Captain Mo Bannon on Army-Navy weekend riding shotgun with me. | ||
| E.J. and Tony on the increasing inflation. |
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