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Dec. 20, 2024 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 4140: House Argues Over CR While Johnson Squabbles

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unidentified		I come from a deal is a deal, and your word is your word.
		Currently, Republicans have a very different thing.
		And I said this yesterday, I said it again today, and I wish to speak to Johnson.
		This is pathetic.
		And again, you know, we haven't seen, we don't even know what's happening.
		I mean, have you seen any text or anything?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I don't even know what they're going to do.
unidentified		With a number of Senate Republicans leaving a closed-door lunch, and there is no plan yet on how to move forward.
		And J.D. Vance was at this lunch.
		People like Senator Susan Collins, who will chair that Senate Appropriations Committee, said, I truly don't know What the plan is.
		Others criticizing the talk of a government shutdown.
		Chuck Grassley told me it was stupid to shut down the government at this point.
		Rand Paul said that getting rid of the debt limit would be fiscally irresponsible.
		And then there are the Democrats.
		Democratic votes will be essential, not just in the Senate, but also in the House.
		And talking to a number of those House Democrats today, they said, we had a deal.
		They don't want to cut a new one that Trump is demanding.
		This is ridiculous right now.
		What he's trying to do is insert something that is a negotiating tool into an already negotiated agreement to keep the government open.
		I've got to get my community prepared for what is likely to be a government shutdown.
		I have border patrol agents, CBP officers, TSA, air traffic controllers, a lot of federal employees.
		A lot of public servants who depend on their paychecks.
		Now, meantime, Trump has continued to dig in and said that a debt limit increase must be part of this negotiation.
		And that is what the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, is now trying to deal with behind the scenes.
		There have been a flurry of meetings to try to get Republicans on board behind one plan.
		There is no consensus yet, which is why there are major fears right now in the Capitol of a government shutdown, a potentially prolonged one as well.
		And you know, once Musk came out swinging and whipping people into a frenzy, I just think it was really, really going to be difficult for Johnson to sort of put everyone back into a calm place and to be able to pass that.
		That being said, I had talked to some sources who said they think they could have put this bill on the floor ultimately last night and actually passed it.
		Obviously, it would have been with the support of a lot of Democrats, probably nearly all Democrats.
		But the reason why Johnson didn't do that is because he is thinking about his own speakership right now.
		He was getting threats from numbers.
		I was talking to a number of lawmakers yesterday who said they were no longer going to support him for speaker if he followed through with this.
		And so I think that was a major calculation here in his decision to yank this at the very last minute.
		He still could face problems in January.
		We're hearing people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had up until this point been in his corner saying she was going to vote for him.
		Now, letting the idea of Elon Musk for speaker.
		That is just never going to happen, but it does show how members are starting to sour on Johnson.
		So he's got a lot of different factors at play here.
		He needs to keep Trump and Elon in his corner if he wants to keep that speaker's gavel, and that's why you're seeing him try to kowtow to some of these demands.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
unidentified		Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		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.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
unidentified		MAGA Media.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified		Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified		War Room.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
		Yo! Yo!
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It's Thursday, 19 December, year of our Lord, 2024.
		We are live here at AmFest at the Phoenix Convention Center, downtown Phoenix, How y'all doing?
		Man, happy hour.
		Hadn't even started.
		They're rowdy.
		Hold it.
		I've got the watchword for today.
unidentified		Shut it down!
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Shut it down!
		So hold it.
		This is where Johnson's got us now.
		He's got us in the corner.
		They have to suspend the rules tonight.
		They have to do it on a suspension of the rules.
		I think you need two-thirds of Congress to vote this through, so think about it for a second.
		This guy, with President Trump on a complete and total roll, right?
		Total momentum.
		You know, President Trump, after the huge victory, by the way, the victory that you guys from day one, right?
		Day one.
		No, no.
		Remember y'all that watched the show back then when he was on the, after we fought so hard after November 3rd of 2020, the election he won with 74 million legitimate votes, right?
		When he left the tarmac, remember Andrew's Air Force Base, and they were playing the Frank Sinatra song, right, My Way, and Boris is out there, and you had, you know, there's one or two other officials, but it's basically Boris seeing President Trump off and reporting for War Room.
		And think of those months back in, remember Mar-a-Lago in January, in February, in March, in April 2021?
		They were pretty grim.
		Except, and outside the war room, there was 100 National Guard troops up armored.
		Nancy Pelosi had all at Capitol Hill.
		She had no troops there on January 6th.
		But afterwards, for 100 days, just to rub our nose in it, that we were insurrectionists.
		She had all the National Guard there.
		President Trump had very few people ahead of his back, except for y'all, right?
		The war...
		Because you guys understand the logic of American history.
		You understand that to complete this story, Donald Trump was going to come back, he was going to win the primary, then he was going to take on Biden and win in a landslide, hold the House, take the Senate, win the presidency, right?
		Think about it for a second.
		How many pundits came on Fox and CNN and all the haters over those four years Trump can't do it?
		Remember that?
		Trump can't do it.
		All of it.
		All of it.
		Day in and day out.
		Did you guys believe any of that?
		This is what populism is.
		Populism is the sovereign will of the people.
		You guys have more...
		Listen, it's the same from the revolution all the way through the age of Jackson, all the way through the Civil War, to the end of the 19th century, World War II, the Great Depression, all the way to today.
		The story of America has always been its people and Although we go through some course changes, always coming to the conclusion of having common sense and doing the right thing.
		That's what populism is, and that's why you have leaders like Ronald Reagan and President Trump that kind of come forward and step forward and lead.
		You guys knew from the beginning Trump was going to win, right?
		When the whole world told you no.
		What lesson did that teach us?
		Never to compromise, right?
		To hell with them!
		Screw them!
		They all think they're smarter, they all think they're better, they all think they know everything, right?
		Do they know it?
		Is Donald Trump the President of the United States when they mocked and ridiculed him back in January and February and March of 2021?
unidentified		You were right and they were wrong.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		That's a lesson.
		Why are we here tonight?
		Why is Congress tonight going to crawl up there and vote on some suspension when you need a bunch of Democrat votes?
		And why are we up there like supplicants?
		Why are we up there instead of the winners that we won on November 5th?
		Because Mike Johnson and the traditional Republicans do not believe what we stand for.
		Johnson went up there, he went to Hakeem Jeffries and negotiated, or had Hakeem Jeffries just tell him, a 1,500-page bill that had nothing but stuff that Democrats want in there.
		Number one, we hate CRs, do we not?
		We hate, and I want to thank, you know, Jane Zirkle and Mo and Grace Chung and Natalie Winters.
		You know, think of these young women, right?
		They are fire breathers.
		And because of Liz Cheney and Nancy Pelosi, I was in a federal prison.
		I couldn't be here.
		But it was the same war room.
		It's next man up.
		You guys carried it with these young women, right?
		And...
		You know, Chip, Roy, and the guys, they got to me in prison through different people and said, man, oh man, these women are vicious, right?
		I go, hey, if you want a CR, man, you're going to have to fight it.
		So we hate CRs.
		Now, the only reason we even agreed to this at all, to think about it, and we wanted a two-liner, Well, it's because President Trump takes over in January and we want Russ Vogt and Scott Besson and Peter Navarro and Hassett and all of his economic team and President Trump to have them do.
		And then he brings in Vivek and he brings in Elon and the team of the Doge guys.
		He brings those guys in, and we start doing, you know, deconstruct the administrative state, start to take this thing apart brick by brick.
		And so that's why we do it.
		Now, that alone, and we don't love that, because remember, the spending stays the same, and we want to cut spending.
		So that alone is about $500 billion.
		Okay?
		$500 billion.
		Johnson did a deal that added $300 billion on top of that.
		Right?
unidentified		Right?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Almost all Democrat programs, besides a little bit for the farmers and some money for FEMA, and I'm not so sure, the FEMA money, no, it's $100 billion, I'm not so sure FEMA doesn't have money right now.
		I have no idea what's going on over there, because you can't trust anything Biden's doing, right?
		You've seen everything that's come out about Biden and the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
		You know, it's amazing about the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
		We come out with something like on the pandemic and they say, oh, we're conspiracy theory guys and everything, Wuhan lab, right, a bioweapon, everything.
		We nailed the pandemic from the very beginning.
		And of course, two or three years later, they'll come out with it, right?
		So what did we say?
		We called the Biden, when Biden came in office, we would never call him president.
		It was always the illegitimate Biden regime, right?
		Remember?
		Right?
		Now, part of that is psychological warfare.
		Because we had to break through the white noise and make sure people that are low-information voters, or even Democrats or independents, and maybe people against us, a lot of the rhinos, would eventually start thinking about it and would go, hang on.
		Let me look at the math here.
		Maybe Trump actually did win this, right?
		So maybe this is not legitimate.
		The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are reporting, and the Daily Mail's got the lead story, from day one, In his regime, they knew he was mentally impaired.
		Right?
		They knew he was mentally impaired.
		Joe Biden knew it.
		The cabinet knew it.
		Guys making decisions.
		He was falling asleep.
		Wasn't even there from half the national security meetings.
		Now go back in time.
		Think about it.
		The laptop from hell It was given to Barr and to Chris Wray in November of 2019. Okay?
		And I got called up by Rudy to look at it in the summer, in July of 2020, when it had come to Rudy through the guy who ran in the computer store.
		And it took me about 15 minutes Because in one area, I'm an expert about the Chinese Communist Party and their state-owned industries.
		And you could see that the Bidens had taken an awful lot of money and had set themselves up to take more money.
		It was pretty straightforward.
		And then you had the parts about Hunter.
		The videos and the photos.
		You know, young Jane Zirkle, Calamity Jane.
		That's where I met Calamity Jane.
		She worked for Rudy as an intern.
		And I got up there when I saw the laptop from hell.
		I said, young lady, get over here.
		You're going to the war room.
		You're getting away from this.
		No more laptop from hell.
		No, but the laptop was very clear that they had taken money.
		Ray and the deep state and the administrative state and Bar and these people knew it in 19 when Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the whole deal from the beginning was to get Joe Biden to be the front guy.
		And it's evident now in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, they knew at the time he was impaired.
		They knew he was going to be a puppet.
		But they knew he was the prop they could put in front for the phony mail-in ballots, right, to steal it from President Trump.
		Now, it's providential, though, that it was stolen.
		Because all of America got to have their nose rubbed in how radical these people are, right?
		What they intend to do to the country.
		And, think about it, we got four more years of President Trump, otherwise it would have been the finish of his term right now.
		Let me do some weapons-grade trolling of the liberals right now.
		At least four years of President Trump.
		Are you all down for Trump 2028?
unidentified		MSNBC suck on that, okay?
unidentified		Oh, my God.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break.
		Really appreciate you all being here.
		We're having a good time.
unidentified		And the drinking lamp is not even lit yet.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Really, really appreciate y'all coming out.
		We're going to have three or four days.
		President Trump's not here until Sunday.
		Hell, we've extended this thing a day.
		We're going to have four days of good times here, some celebration.
		We're going to get some work done.
		Short commercial break.
		We're going to return in the war room.
		Just a moment.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.
		Yo!
		kalime Yo!
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, some admin, I'm going to speak tonight, so I do have some meetings.
		I've got to get organized for the speech tonight.
		Everybody's going to come to the speech?
		I want the war room posse to really represent.
		I'm going to give you a shout-out tonight.
		Some of the congressmen are texting me, so I'm in communication with them.
		We don't love this CR, right?
		Right?
		The only reason we're doing it or even prepared to even think about it is President Trump and to give him the ability to do this.
		But man, this is a bitter pill to swallow.
		And why it's a bitter pill, to go back to the first segment, is President Trump had total momentum.
		And this is what really upsets me.
		Because this is about a coordination thing.
		You all get it because we've been talking about it.
		And look, our show is not an entertainment show.
		You've got to do work.
		But we try to make sure that you get all the inside baseball they get up on Capitol Hill, and that's empowered you.
		You can tell that over the last couple of years.
		This is the reason we had this tremendous turnout of people that were going door to door.
		This is the reason we had this tremendous turnout and folks that worked with Scott Pressler that changed the whole architecture of these states, particularly Pennsylvania.
		That's changing New Jersey right now.
		Pennsylvania's the new Ohio, and New Jersey's the new Pennsylvania.
		Once you get those blocks in, they can never win another national election, and they understand that.
		That's where they're freaking out.
		So we get you inside baseball.
		I understand it's a lot of work sometimes, but what concerns me is that if you got your three lines of work, One is this war, right, the beginning stage of the Third World War, which President Trump is going to have to obviously go in and negotiate and calm things down in Ukraine and figure out a deal there.
		The Biden administration, that regime is every day making it harder for President Trump to do that, right?
		If you look at the southern border, look at Ben.
		Ben Burkwam's here.
		Ben will be around tomorrow.
		You may see him tonight.
		Ben Burquam, that's a piece of work.
		But think about the harm's way of Oscar Blue Ramirez and Ben Burquam and Todd Benzman over the last four years.
		You guys got information because of those heroes and patriots down the Darien Gap that BBC and the New York Times, they got it like in the last six months, right?
		But if you look at the border, Biden is once again, they're trying to get more folks across here to make it more difficult for the deportations.
		And what does Axios report this morning?
		The Senators, these moderate Senators are all working with each other to try to come up with a deal.
		They're trying to come up with a border deal.
		Like President Trump needs a border deal right now.
		He doesn't need a border deal.
		He's got his own.
		He's got Tom Holman.
		He's got Steve Miller.
		He's got his own border plan, right?
		But as hard as those are, and those are very hard, as hard as it is to stop a war in Ukraine, as it is to stop with Syria collapsing, to stop this expanding war in the Middle East, to stop the Persians getting a nuclear weapon and coming from Israel, to stop what's going on in the Red Sea with the Houthis, to stop the CCP in the South China Sea in the Straits of Taiwan, that's doable.
		The border, as hard as it is to deport 12 to 15 million people, including a million criminals, that's hard.
		President Trump can do that.
		The hardest one and the one that we have to make sure that we're lined up and we do it, and this is why you have Scott Besson.
		This is why you've got Hassett, that's the NEC. This is why you have Peter Navarro.
		You have to line up And make sure that everything is in line for the economics and the finance.
		The government in the United Kingdom, the government in France, the government in Germany, the government in Canada, these are major countries.
		They all got turfed out for one reason.
		They had too much debt, and they're trying to cut the debt.
		They tried to put it on the back of the working class people, and they got thrown out.
		President Trump's going to say, this is one of the reasons Biden lost.
		Inflation is now embedded into the system because of the size of the debt.
		So President Trump's got the one or two reconciliations.
		You've got the Doge guys, the appropriations program.
		It's enormously complicated, but with Russ's vote and a team like that, you can see right there how you get it.
		But it has to be what the British call, A close run thing.
		Tight.
		Not loose, but tight.
		And Johnson shows up with Trump going to Notre Dame and having all those guys in Europe, you know, trying to touch, you know, trying to touch his coat.
		He walks in like Charlemagne.
	All these munchkins are running around, right?
	And Jill Biden's getting in goo-goo eyes.
	Is there any doubt?
unidentified		Hold it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Is there any doubt?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		She voted for him.
unidentified		Hold it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Did Jill Biden vote for Trump?
		Hell, the look.
		Is Brian Glenn here?
		I can say this.
		Brian's not around.
		Otherwise, he'd punch me.
		He's a big guy.
		But Jill Biden's look to Trump is as bad as MTG's look to Kevin McCarthy, right?
unidentified		Going down memory lane.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		President Trump's on a roll.
		You see what happened at the Army-Navy game?
		You see those cadets and midshipmen?
		Don't tell MTG that.
		Brian Glenn.
		Do you see the response he got from the midshipmen and the Corps of Cadets?
		That's true love.
		And somebody said, some people around Trump, they said, oh no, we want to show unity.
		They wanted to invite Biden.
		I go, good Lord.
		Biden would have been so booed if he walked out there, right?
		He'd been booed off the field.
		That's why in four years he never went.
		It'd be like, yes.
		He'd be like, he would be like Mike Johnson coming here to AmFest, right?
		Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
		The voice of the people is the voice of God, right?
		Because God speaks to your agency.
		The hardest thing, and so Johnson, President Trump's on total momentum, a total roll.
		We're coming into Christmas.
		Then you're going to come back, elect a speaker, put the new Congress in.
		President Trump's going to show up, a new sheriff in town, take over on the 20th.
		We got momentum, right?
		He gives a 1,500-page document.
		Now, here's the problem.
		Just like they want to have, just like they want to have your very cruel, just like they want to have Biden at the Army-Navy game with Trump to show unity, Johnson in their mind says, oh no, we want to have a group hug with the Democrats, right?
		We want to show unity.
		We want to hear what they have to say.
unidentified		I don't give a damn what they got to say.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		They lost.
		We won.
		Did Nancy Pelosi ask anybody what they had to say there was a Republican when she ran the deal?
		No.
		It's very simple.
		You get unity through victory because we know, as we put more of our policies in, and President Trump gets out there more, blacks, Hispanics, African Americans, more people, more working class people vote for President Trump, right?
		They've had a belly full of what the Democrats offer.
		Now, as we go through these investigations, this retribution is nothing personal.
		Nothing personal, but it must be done.
		We have to go back now and we have to investigate the entire Biden administration.
		Don't you agree?
		Look, we don't want to do it.
		There's other things that have to happen that are going to be happening, but we can never allow again for an election to be stolen like that.
		We can never allow again for an illegitimate guy to sit as President of the United States and Commander in Chief.
		It can happen.
		And here's the strength.
		All we have to do is have 100% transparency and do it out in daylight, right?
		My recommendation to President Trump, we ought to take five million documents that are classified and declassify them at one minute after noon.
		The power that the CIA, the power that the intelligence services, the FBI have of you, is they keep this information to themselves.
		And only you can have a security clearance.
		This is why I told the transition team, don't sign a transition document.
		Don't go on their computer system.
		Don't let the deep state see what you got to do.
		And whatever you do, don't get the FBI involved in any clearances.
		Why would you possibly have them?
		Get a private service to do it.
		The only thing the deep state should sue the Trump administration is the business end of it, which is shutting it down.
		There should be no compromise.
		This is why there should be no compromises, not just on policy and investigation.
		There should be no compromise on people, right?
		Matt Gaetz, we should never let Matt Gaetz go, right?
		Was that a mistake?
		We should never let Matt Gaetz go.
		We love Matt Gaetz, and I don't care what ethics committee, I don't care what they made up.
		Hey, Merrick Garland, as much as they hate Matt Gaetz, they hate him.
		And the FBI hates him.
		They didn't indict Matt Gaetz.
		You know why they didn't indict him?
		They had no evidence about it.
		I don't care what some ethics report said, drummed up by a bunch of guys in Congress, trying to smear Matt Gaetz.
		Matt Gaetz is one of the greatest young warriors in our movement.
		Pete Hexas, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy.
		President Trump picked his team.
		That team's got to get in there.
		And I don't care what a bunch of rhinos in the U.S. Senate have to say about it.
		Okay, we love you guys.
		I've got to split here in a moment because I've got to go to a meeting and then I've got to speak tonight.
		I'm going to be here all day tomorrow, all day Saturday.
		We are going to figure out, particularly people in line, we're going to figure out, if not tomorrow evening, Saturday afternoon, we're going to figure out how to have some sort of get-together in a breakout room, have some refreshments.
		It's a great honor to meet everybody, and I get tremendous feedback from you folks about what works on the show and what doesn't work on the show, so I really appreciate it, okay?
		Birch Gold, by the way, now more than ever, hey, we're going to go through some times of turbulence.
		You saw the turbulence you've just gone through.
		Tonight, I'm not so sure the CR gets through, and the reason is I'm not so sure they're going to get suspension, but we'll see.
		We'll cover it live.
		Natalie's going to be here.
		Moe's going to be here.
		Jane Zirk, let's give it up for Calamity Jane right there.
		For the next couple of days, we're going to be interviewing all you guys.
		All the war and posse that couldn't make it here to AmFest is going to be there.
		Birchgold.com.
		We've got a new thing of Birchgold coming out that I need all you guys to read over the holidays.
		It's about modern monetary theory, right?
		Modern monetary theory, the idea that broke the world.
		So think about it for a second.
	You guys are going to be smarter than all the guys on Wall Street as we start talking about the debt and the deficit and all of it.
	Love you guys.
	I will see you all tonight in my speech.
	You're going to get a very special shout out.
	Okay?
	Natalie Winters takes over.
	Let's have a big hand for Natalie.
	back in a moment.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. .
		You're back live at AmFest, coming at you from the Phoenix Convention Center.
		It's Natalie Winters.
		I know you guys who stayed, you're the super loyal ones who went...
		Thank you, thank you, thank you.
		I had the honor of filling in for Stephen K. Bannon.
		He was in jail for four months.
		And you know what I have to say to all the members of Congress who last night tried to get, what, a 40% pay raise?
		No one on the war room team took a pay raise when Stephen K. Bannon went to jail.
		And you guys now want to give yourself a pay raise for putting Stephen K. Bannon in jail?
		Hell no!
		You know what else I have to say?
		It's kind of wild.
		We're talking right now, right?
		Like President Trump is already the president?
		He's not, yet.
		But you know what that confirms?
		Something that this audience knows all too well.
		Joe Biden lost the 2020 election, right?
		And look, I know you guys, I have the honor and privilege to speak to you guys, the best of the best when it comes to the grassroots MAGA audience.
		And you guys stopped this steal in 2020. But you guys are about to stop another steal that's going on right now.
		And that's of your taxpayer dollars when it comes to all things CR, which I said yesterday and I maintain stands for one of two things.
		Cucked Republicans and controlled Republicans.
		But you know what's even more interesting?
		Is what's contained in that bill text, right?
		And what's going on?
		Because you're stopping the steel of Donald Trump's second, should be third, term.
		Politico had a headline up today.
		I want to read it.
		Trump was gliding into his inauguration.
		Now he's facing a big mess.
		Of course, they want to blame you guys.
		But you guys know, had you not made your phone calls, had this show not been around, had Stephen K. Bannon maybe been back in prison, They would have jammed President Trump with a 1,547 page CR. And you know what was so funny about that CR, right?
		All the pork that was in there, choose your enemy.
		Ukraine, big pharma, take your pick.
		You know how many times the border was mentioned in that CR? Four times.
		1,547 pages, four mentions of the border.
		So that's how you are representing you up on Capitol Hill right now.
		But here's the thing, right?
		I asked Steve before the show if I was allowed to say this.
		I think sometimes we sound a little passive, right, in the way we come and support government shutdowns.
		We are fully in support of shutting down this illegitimate weaponized regime.
		Right?
		Shut it down.
		And do you know why?
		Because you want to know what Politico and your bettors at MSNBC and the mainstream media are saying to you about why we can't shut down the government?
		Because, oh, the transition team, they're not going to be able to work with President Trump.
		You mean the same people who are shredding documents as we speak and demanding blanket preemptive pardons?
		You think they're going to give us the keys to the kingdom?
		I say shut the government down and shut the paper shredders off because that's exactly what's going on right now.
		Right?
		The MAGA movement did not come this far to get stopped by Speaker Johnson, who I always say, he's the new Mike Pence.
		Right?
		He has no political courage.
		I always know these people like to talk about the transgender bathrooms on Capitol Hill.
		Well, maybe we should make sure that our House Republicans actually have some balls to begin with because they have no fight.
		They have absolutely no fight.
		And I was honored and blessed and privileged to have stood in the breach and hosted Steve's show when he went to prison.
		But think about it.
		Stephen K Bannon was sent to prison for four months.
		Peter K Navarro was sent to prison for four months.
		Donald Trump was shot at.
		His three words were fight, fight, fight.
		Collectively, that's more fight than Speaker Johnson has ever put up in his entire political career.
	So I'm not just for killing this crappy CR, but we need a motion to vacate.
	And Speaker Johnson should not be speaker come January 3rd.
	You know, they tell us, they say, oh, war room, Steve, Natalie, you guys are causing chaos.
	Us.
	Yes.
	Well, just like, what is it, John Lewis Good Trouble?
	I call this good chaos.
	Because where the heck has unity gotten us?
	You guys enjoying unity when you go to the grocery store and you look at your checkout prices?
	That's the sweet taste of unity, right?
	What's going on in Ukraine?
	What's going on in Israel and the Middle East?
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Every single second that this government is allowed to continue on, They are packing it with not just more pork and CRs and continuing resolutions and omnibus spending bills, but they are working to sabotage President Donald J. Trump.
unidentified		Do you guys know the CBP1 app?
		What do you guys think about the CBP1 app?
		I've always said the person who developed that app should go to jail for treason.
		That's not a joke.
		But you know what they're doing?
		They're actually still ramming through illegal aliens into this country using that application.
		And the state of New York decided to make their own version of it so they could ram through even more into New York.
		That is what we're up against.
		And look, I always say, our conspiracy theories were so damn good that they now require blanket preemptive pardons from Joe Biden, right?
		I was told everything that we said about Hunter Biden was totally fake.
		I'm pretty sure our show, what, got ripped off of YouTube, Spotify, and demonetized for even daring to say the word Burisma.
		Now what, all of a sudden the pardon goes back to 2014, right?
		But you know what they're calling for now?
		They want amnesty.
		Norm Eisen.
		Do we like Norm Eisen in this crowd?
		It's a little niche.
		Only the true War Room audience knows what that's about.
		But look, you guys know we've tracked the resistance, we've tracked the opposition on this show.
		And I know a lot of other outlets like to just give you the happy talk and say that President Trump is going to have a wonderful turn.
		But let's be very clear.
		Accountability is found in prison sentences and trials, not strongly worded letters and tweets.
		And I don't think maybe old guard Republicans understand that, but the MAGA movement in this audience does.
		And because I love this audience so, so, so much, I would love to do a little crowd work with the wonderful Jane Zirkle.
		You can give us where you're from and why you're here.
		What's your name and where you're from?
		I'm Linda Wow.
		I'm from Seattle.
		I got in there.
		I got in this morning, actually, and they were rushing illegals through the airport with no ID, no luggage, no anything making us move like this.
		And they just Went right through like...
		Wow, Joe Biden's America.
		Your name and where you're from.
		Hi, I'm Christine Figueroa from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
		I'm here because I spoke out against the corrupt Bucks County commissioners at their meeting when they admitted to counting illegal votes and they said they didn't care.
		What's your name?
		Dean Montana.
		And what does your hat say?
		Make America great again.
		Did we make America great again this November?
		Yes!
		I think I found my replacement in that one.
		Your name and where you're from?
		Linda Santana, Arizona.
		And what brings you here?
		I'm a Trump Force 47 captain, a precinct committeeman, a state committeeman, and I've knocked on a bunch of doors for Trump.
		Your name and where you're from.
		Keep America great.
		Brett Culver, Cedar City, Utah.
		State delegate and chairperson.
		Action, action, action.
		Your name and where you're from.
		Hi, Margo Jaramillo from New Mexico.
		And I was a campaign butler, I'm a war chair, state central committee, just whatever we could.
		Oh, I see we got some nuns for Trump over here.
		Come on up, guys.
		What brings you to Turning Point?
		So I came to watch the War Room, I came to see President Trump, and I came to be with like-minded people.
		Was this a spiritual war, this election?
		It is a very spiritual war.
		Right down bottom line, it's good versus evil.
		And we've got to stand in the gap for the people.
		Amen, amen.
		Oh, I see some dark MAGA. Step on up, sir.
	Your name and where you're from?
	Charlie from Libby, Montana.
	How did you help get President Trump elected?
	I voted for him and he's the best president and Joe Biden is absolutely the worst.
	So we're going from the worst to the best.
	It's wonderful.
	Your name and where you're from?
	I'm Leslie Musser from Cody, Wyoming.
	How did you help President Trump get elected?
	Voted and wore my Trump gear.
	I mean, it's Wyoming.
	Lots of Trump gear.
	Oh, I see some great Trump gear.
	Is that a flag shirt?
	Yes, it is.
	Oh, we love the flag shirt.
	Your name and where you're from?
	I'm Jay from Scottsdale, Arizona.
	Oh, is Arizona MAGA country?
	Oh yeah, at least in our house.
	We turned it around from 2020, that's for sure.
	Step on up.
	Your name and where you're from.
	Sandra Sals from Houston, Texas, Harris County.
	And I actually say, my first thing I say is shut it down, but you know what?
	We all do what we have to do.
	How did I help him get...
	Oh, okay.
	It was so cool.
	I wrote a report.
	It's just kind of stuff that I do.
	I make observations and I'm going, there's something wrong here.
	Anyhow, it got sent to the state GOP, Texas.
	It got sent all over the place.
	Do you know what?
	When I went to the next election judge meeting, I'm an election judge.
	For the first hour of our meeting, it was all about the results of the report that I wrote.
	And I'm sure that, you know, the lawyers, of course, did their deal.
	But we...
	Awesome.
	Awesome.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Back up here.
	It's been so long.
	You know, this is Steve's first, well, was, event since prison.
	So it's very nice to have him back.
	I will say, if we can toss up, I think, our lovely, lovely House Republicans are busy debate.
	Boo!
	Can we boo for them, please?
	Thank you.
	Okay, that was not good enough.
	You need to boo much louder for these people.
	Thank you.
	And you know what's the best part?
	I feel like the Jeopardy girl, that so many of these, well, not him, but so many, yeah, boo!
	Indeed, and then some.
	But you know what's the best part?
	Are you guys sick and tired of these people insulting your intelligence?
	What was it last week?
	They all took the pictures and selfies with Elon and Vivek and they told you, we're gonna cut government spending, right?
	We're gonna make government more efficient, right?
	Doge, doge, doge.
	And what did they all try to do?
	They tried to pull a fast one on you and cram through tens of billions of dollars in government spending for the worst of the worst programs and pandemic protocols that would have allowed vaccine mandates, mask mandates, vaccine passports and gain of function research.
	What do you guys have to say to people who want to stand up there and in one week tell you that they're all about Doge, they're all about government efficiency, and the next week vote to continue to sell this nation down the river to the tune of trillions of dollars in debt?
	Primary.
	As you should.
	Because you know what I have to say to all the Doge hacks?
	I don't know about you guys, but I don't really think that the problem is efficiency.
	Because this government seems to be pretty damn efficient on destroying the lives, destroying the economy, and destroying basically the entire world order on behalf of people that they absolutely detest.
	I don't know about you, the government was pretty efficient when they tried to destroy Stephen K Bannon's life.
	The government was pretty efficient when they tried to go after President Donald Trump with the lawfare, with the assassination, with the stolen election, and with the personnel subversion.
	And yes, I intentionally included the assassination in that list too.
	And we know they're trying to hide all the information on that.
	Right?
	Okay, I think we got about a minute left, but I'm still gonna be here.
	We're gonna have some guests come on.
	I think more Captain Maureen Bannon is somewhere around here, but I just want to send a message to these...
	I don't ever want to share a screen with him.
	I have some words for him, as you could imagine.
	But I don't know.
	I might get a FCC find if I said what I really think.
	But let's hear it.
	I want to send a message to their Senate counterparts, to all of the nominees that President Trump, whether it's you guys clap if you like them.
	Pete Hegseth.
	Yeah!
	Kash Patel.
	Yeah!
	Pam Bondi.
	Yeah!
	RFK Jr. I'm going to throw out Kash Patel one more time because I just think he's that great.
	So hear that Senate, hear that MSNBC and suck on it because MAGA is here and we're not going anywhere.
	We'll be right back.
	Here's your host, Stephen K. Van.
	You guys like the rants?
	Thank you guys for staying here.
	We're also going to be doing the 6 p.m.
	live from here as well, which will give you the perfect segue because then I believe Steve will be speaking after.
	But I just want to keep on the terror of triggering MSNBC and all these open borders apparatchiks just a little bit more.
	And you know what I realized I haven't even brought up yet?
	What do you guys think about the mass deportations?
	All right, I'm gonna start throwing out numbers, and I want you to, you know, let me rephrase.
	15 million?
	That's what we're going for, right?
	We're not, it's not just the criminals, right?
	It's everyone.
	You can suck on that, MSNBC. So, like I said, Steve's going to be speaking at 7.15, I believe, in...
	Do we know what hall?
	In that hall.
	I believe Raheem, Jack, and I will be doing a breakout on Saturday at 10. So make sure you catch warm there.
	Like I said, we'll be doing a war room sort of hangout at some point.
	But in true war room fashion, we don't know when exactly that's happening.
	Fun fact behind the scenes.
	Steve still owes me the phone call.
	As to what we were going to do in terms of planning when he went to prison, how I was going to do the shows.
	So we run a little delayed here in the war room.
	But I want to bring on Justin from Angel Studios.
	Do you guys like the sound of freedom?
	Yeah!
	Jarrett, okay.
	I already messed up.
	Jarrett LeMaster is my name.
	I'll ask you your pronouns.
	Yeah.
	He, him.
	Alright, so you've got a new film coming out from Angel Studios.
	I do.
	It's called Homestead.
	I'm sure you guys have seen the posters.
	You actually are in the movie, so you're kind of famous.
	Well, I'm in the movie.
	I have a character in the movie, yes.
	His name is Rick...
	And he's a survivor.
	If you guys don't know the plot of Homestead, it's a very cool movie.
	It's a post-apocalypse.
	A bomb, a nuclear bomb happens outside of San Pedro.
	Everybody scatters.
	What happens when that goes down?
	How does society fall apart?
	So to get into character, you really didn't have to do all that much method acting because it's sort of like the lived experience, right?
	It is.
	Well, I live in LA, so I didn't.
	And I have four kids, and I don't have that much of a plan.
	So that's like, if you guys need a plan, do you guys have a plan?
	Anyone have a plan?
	Yeah, I bet you do.
	I look at you, and I said, that guy's got a plan.
	My plan is to shut down the government.
	How about that?
	You guys have to keep cheering because we have to keep triggering MSNBC. That's good.
	Because this is the thing.
	This is why it's so important, right?
	Because they stand up there, right?
	And they obviously, what?
	I'd invoke the Smith-Munt Act, but we'll pause on that for a second.
	It's all propaganda, right?
	But the point is, is that they try to say that it's Elon and Trump who single-handedly torpedoed the CR, right?
	They never mention you guys, but in reality it's you guys burning down the phone lines.
	It's the grassroots.
	But do you know why they do that?
	Because they have to chop you guys off from being the supporters, right, of President Donald J. Trump because the whole dictator narrative only works if they don't understand that he derives his power from the fact that 77 million of you guys voted for him.
	It's not Donald Trump illegitimately nuking a bogus CR in the same way when they meltdown about Donald Trump appointing, what, loyalists to his cabinet?
	I'm sorry it's so radical to have people who are loyal to the United States of America and not the profit margins of Boeing and Lockheed Martin running this government or foreign nationals or foreign countries, right?
	Why is it so ridiculous to have quote-unquote loyalists?
	Running the United States government, it's absolutely absurd.
	Now, I realize I just...
	That's okay.
	I like to riff.
	I like to, ever since Steve went to prison, I always say my prefrontal cortex developed.
	I'm 23, so I grew up.
	I just say, like, Elon, they don't want billionaires running it unless it's, let's see, George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg and everybody else that runs.
	Our billionaires are better than their billionaires.
	Yeah, we got billionaires.
	They got billionaires.
	I also work for the Babylon Bee.
	If you guys don't want, there's a really great article about this.
	Go check it out today.
	We love the Bat Bomb.
	Okay, so is it angelstudios.com slash war room if people want to go?
	You said it, angelstudios.com slash war room.
	Go get tickets tonight.
	It's out, and actually you can go see it tonight, tomorrow, this weekend.
	Please go support it.
	It's a great story, and it's something that you guys really want to see.
	Have you seen it?
	Yes!
	Okay, we have somebody that's seen it, and you like it.
	Okay, what's your name?
	Okay, Sandra says it's great.
	Sandra's agree.
	It's a great movie.
	Thank you so much for joining us.
	Thank you.
	We will have you back on.
	Congratulations on the movie.
	Thank you guys so much.
	All right.
	Let's hear it.
	All right, we've got a few minutes left, but like I said, we'll be rolling over into the 6 p.m.
	Give you the perfect segue to Stephen.
	You've got extended warm room programming tonight.
	We're only live for, what, four hours a day, I know.
	I hear some of you want more.
	Please, please don't.
	No, don't take any more of my life away, no.
	But here's what I want to say, as you can hear, I'm losing my voice, but we'll make it through.
	There's an article today in NBC talking about how you guessed it.
	Apparently, you can't go for retribution.
	That's the bad word.
	It's the new R word, right?
	Well, how about this, MSNBC? Do you guys want retribution?
	Yes, I want retribution because it's not retribution.
	It's justice.
	It's accountability.
	But here's the thing, they're talking about how they're now prepping behind the scenes lawyers, accountants, therapists, PR and branding experts for every person who may be targeted by the Trump and MAGA agenda.
	I would say, if you didn't do anything wrong, then what do you have to hide?
	What, they only said that and crammed that down our throat for what?
	Four years?
	These people are lying traitors, and you guys know I don't mince my words whenever I host War Room, but it's absolutely true.
	And I've always been honored and blessed to host the show.
	You guys are the single-handed, best, and most powerful audience.
	And shame on MSNBC for not giving you guys due credit.
	How about that?
	You guys are the most powerful lobbyists in all of Washington, D.C. You guys single-handedly killed 1,547 pages of Deep State and Big Pharma in America last year.
	BS. No audience in the history of this country has ever done that and has been such a moving and such an important and pivotal political force.
	A show that was started in the basement of a townhome a few blocks, I'm sorry, a few doors down from the Supreme Court with a man that they tried to throw in jail.
	And you know what's the best part about that, Nancy Pelosi?
	You laughing right now?
	I don't think so.
	This show has only become stronger.
	You guys have only become stronger, but we're gonna need to double down.
	Like I said, you guys worked to stop the steal in 2020, and you're gonna need to muster those same forces.
	Because those same people are trying to steal President Trump's third legitimate victory from you again.
	And right now, I wish I still had my buddy Hakeem Jeffries behind me.
	Be like Vanna White.
	Or maybe if I were Vanna White, I would write out mass deportations.
	Maybe we'll have to work with Steve.
	We'll have to get that going.
	But like I said, we'll be coming at you back for the 6 p.m.
	And can we get a little bit of cheer going for retribution?
	Because that's what you lying hacks deserve.

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