Jan. 27, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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...this week and began our conversation by asking him about the role of the U.S. military. | |
| We got military on the border, not only helping us with the departure flights on military planes, but helping to build infrastructure. | ||
| They're putting them in Constantinople. | ||
| They're down there to create a secure border and lock that border down. | ||
| And DOD's helped administrations before, but not at this level. | ||
| So it's a force multiplier, and it's sending a strong signal to the world our borders closed. | ||
| You know that this creates fear in the immigrant community. | ||
| The chair of the U.S. Conference of Bishops Committee said, turning places of care, healing, and solace into places of fear and uncertainty for those in need while endangering the trust between pastors, providers, educators, and the people they serve will not make our community safer. | ||
| Well, here's what I think. | ||
| Congress has a job to do. | ||
| We're enforcing the law as Congress enacted and the president signed. | ||
| If they don't like it, change the law. | ||
| I find it hard to believe any member of Congress is telling us not to enforce the law, that they enacted, and they fund us to do. | ||
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But opening up to anyone who's in the country illegally and going into schools and grabbing them, does that kids, adults? | |
| The message needs to be clear. | ||
| There's consequences when entering the country illegally. | ||
| If we don't show there's consequences, you're never going to fix the border. | ||
| Deport all of those people. | ||
| Well, you go up to Congress. | ||
| You know, I think Congress, the president has a mandate. | ||
| This is the number one issue that people voted on. | ||
| I think Congress has a mandate to give us money we need. | ||
| What price do you put on national security? | ||
| More detention centers? | ||
| What price do you put on all these young ladies that have been raped and murdered and burned alive? | ||
| What price do you put on that? | ||
| What price do you put on Lincoln Riley's life? | ||
| What price do you put on national security? | ||
| Like I just explained, when you have a surge like this, we don't secure that border, that's when national security threats under the country. | ||
| That's when sex trafficking goes up. | ||
| That's when, you know, that's when the fentanyl comes in and kills a quarter million Americans. | ||
| I don't put a price in that. | ||
| I want to go back to those military flights going south. | ||
| As you said, we have never seen that before. | ||
| Is that going to be a constant commitment from the U.S. military every single day to take deportees out? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So is this what we will see every single day ending in what the president has promised is millions and millions being deported? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But you can see the numbers steadily increase, the number of arrests nationwide as we open up the aperture. | ||
| Right now it's concentrating on public safety threats, national security threats. | ||
| That's a smaller population. | ||
| So we're going to do this on priority base, as President Trump promised, but as that aperture opens, there will be more arrests nationwide. | ||
| When you talk about the aperture opening, the estimates of perhaps those who have been convicted or arrested in the past 700,000 to over a million. | ||
| So after you do that, Then you go after everybody who is there illegally. | ||
| If you're in a country illegally, you're on the table. | ||
| Because it's not okay to violate laws of this country. | ||
| You've got to remember, every time you enter this country illegally, you violate a crime under Title 8, United States Code 1325. It's a crime. | ||
| So, if you're in a country illegally, you've got a problem. | ||
| And that's why I'm hoping those who are in a country illegally who have not been ordered removed by the federal judge should leave. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot 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. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
| War Room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Monday, 27 January, in the year of our Lord, 2025. We've got so much ground to cover today. | ||
| The president is down in West Palm Beach. | ||
| He's going to be addressing the Republican conference. | ||
| We've got to get sorted what this legislation and what the legislative agenda is. | ||
| Because I think they're totally corn-fused down there. | ||
| President Trump, he's going to speak, I think, at 7 at night. | ||
| We'll cover that live on Real America's Voice. | ||
| We'll do the pregame of that in the 5-7 hours. | ||
| Also, meltdown. | ||
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Global... | |
| Stock meltdown around Deep Seek coming out of nowhere from the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| They now dominate social media with TikTok. | ||
| And now it looks like they may dominate AI with Deep Seek. | ||
| Having a big impact on global equity markets. | ||
| We're going to have Joe Allen's going to join us. | ||
| Also some other folks. | ||
| Is this a Sputnik moment or is this a PSYOP? Tough to figure out right now. | ||
| We'll get to all that as this AI is driving so much of the underpinnings of what's really going on, the signal, not the noise. | ||
| I've got to start with Ben Berquam. | ||
| Ben, Columbia, we had the situation over the weekend, military flights not being accepted by certain countries. | ||
| President Trump threw down beyond hard, came all in, tariffs, restrictions, sanctions, all of it. | ||
| These guys collapsed in about, I don't know, 15 minutes. | ||
| But the Central American countries are saying they're getting together right now and binding together and they're going to come back to Trump with all types of caveats. | ||
| I strongly recommend to people in the administration, you've got to sit down with these folks now and lay it on the table now of what Columbia got and what they're going to get, and let's just full and complete cooperation. | ||
| You have been riding shotgun with Tom Homan's doing a magnificent job. | ||
| Walk me through that, sir. | ||
| Yeah, well, first off, I just want to tell you where I'm at. | ||
| So I'm standing next to the MCC, Metropolitan Correction Center here in Chicago. | ||
| Just behind me... | ||
| It's the ICE office right there, that building right there. | ||
| And we had the opportunity, the honor, really, of being able to ride with Tom Holman on the first mass deportations in Chicago. | ||
| I've waited four years for this, Steve. | ||
| You talked about what Brian Glenn and our network got to do with President Trump down in North Carolina. | ||
| This is an addition to that, the work that Real America's Voice News has done to expose what's happening on our border, the honor of being able to be with them the first time. | ||
| I can't overstate that. | ||
| We're going to be showing the American people what the fake news that you just played in your open doesn't want them to see. | ||
| The bad guys that these guys are arresting, the criminals, and really tying it back to the government that invited this in. | ||
| She's making a big deal about flights going out every single day. | ||
| Well, guess what, lady? | ||
| You had flights coming in every single day. | ||
| We had millions of people being brought in. | ||
| We've got to have millions of people taken out. | ||
| And right now, the biggest problem in that fight... | ||
| It's the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois and all of these sanctuary cities and states that are blocking them. | ||
| Every single person that we picked up yesterday had an ice hold when they were in jail or in prison. | ||
| And those ice holds were not complied with by the state prisons or by the local jails. | ||
| And so these guys, ice had to go out into the community to get these guys. | ||
| Okay, well, we heard about the mayor said it's a sanctuary city. | ||
| You're not going to get anybody. | ||
| We've heard Pritzker's running for president in 2028. Now that Newsom has imploded in the firestorm that hit the Palisades, he said they're not going to comply either. | ||
| So what happened yesterday and last night and today? | ||
| Are they complying? | ||
| Are we actually getting the prisoners out of the local, out of the city and state prison, city jails, and putting them on a tarmac and then putting them on a plane, sir? | ||
| Well, we are, but we're having to go into the communities. | ||
| We're not getting them out of the jails. | ||
| They're not letting them out of the jails. | ||
| So the jails and the prisons, the city, the county jail here, they're not letting ICE. They're not cooperating with ICE detainers. | ||
| So what that means is ICE then has to go find these guys in the community. | ||
| And it endangers everything that the left, the media, is talking about. | ||
| Everything the Democrats are talking about. | ||
| All the fear-mongering these guys are talking about is created by them. | ||
| Okay, hang on. | ||
| But there's two different things. | ||
| My point is, Homan's going into the community to get bad guys and actually take them to the tarmac, put them on a plane, and they're heading south. | ||
| You're telling this audience that in the city jails and in the state prisons in Illinois, which they already have bad guys who are foreign nationals, that the mayor... | ||
| And the police commissioner and the corrections commissioner and Pritzker, the governor, they're not letting ICE go in and round up the... | ||
| They already have a collection of bad guys you could take out right away. | ||
| They're not allowing ICE agents to go in and get those folks? | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| They are not letting them in the jails. | ||
| They're releasing them to the public so that they can go commit more crimes and make ICE go try to find them in the community. | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| Wow, this is going to be quite a showdown, is it not? | ||
| We've got, I want to hold you, but I want to take care of some other business, the monumental, and we had footage all weekend of the Army Corps of Engineers out in western North Carolina, Ben Burquam, but can we try to get Tyler up? | ||
| What's the situation with Tyler Burleson? | ||
| Yeah, I believe we do. | ||
| I believe we have him up. | ||
| And speaking of salt in the wound, as these Democrat sanctuary cities and counties are letting illegals out onto our streets, Tyler Burleson, as we speak, is still sitting in the Unicoi County Jail. | ||
| I believe we have him on the line. | ||
| So, Tyler, they're holding you without, you have not been, have you been arraigned or not been arraigned? | ||
| What's your current status? | ||
| Are they holding you legally or illegally? | ||
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Well, I haven't been to an arraignment yet, and I thought it was supposed to be 72 hours after your arrest. | |
| And, you know, it's been 72 hours, so... | ||
| Are you scheduled to go into court today or tomorrow? | ||
| Is anybody giving you a heads-up of what's going on? | ||
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I had an attorney reach out to me, because I still can't get a hold of my attorney that I actually paid. | |
| But through you all, you know, I had some people reach out. | ||
| An attorney reached out to me yesterday, and he got on the phone with the court system this morning, and they said that I had a court date for Thursday. | ||
| It should be the 30th, I believe. | ||
| Well, hold it. | ||
| That means you're being held? | ||
| You're being held then for over a week without being arraigned on what they say is a bad check charge? | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
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Yeah, and the funny thing is, you know... | |
| The leasing company that I wrote the check to never actually reached out to the sheriff's department, and they're not even pressing charges against me. | ||
| So who are the folks down here? | ||
| Let's name some names. | ||
| Who's the judge? | ||
| Who's the sheriff? | ||
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Let's get some names of them. | |
| He's always, I don't know, for some reason, he's always had it out for me. | ||
| Every time I turn around, he's harassing me. | ||
| He's trying to get something going, you know, to try to hand me up, especially after we started the distribution center down there when I shut down my business. | ||
| He actually posed as code enforcement and called the owners of the property. | ||
| And when they called back to call code enforcement back, surprisingly, it was Tony Buchanan, the detective. | ||
| So I don't know how they went on to tell him about the check, but they didn't say anything about pressing charges against it. | ||
| But we made the check whole the day that I got arrested, before I even went in front of the judge. | ||
| And then Justin Eyrick is the DA. He sits there and says that the county is better off with me in jail than out there, that I'm exactly where I need to be. | ||
| Okay, well, we're going to get that sorted this afternoon. | ||
| Has there been any meaningful impact over the weekend of Army Corps of Engineers or anyone in your part of North Carolina? | ||
| I've seen footage from Georgia and other places. | ||
| Are we already starting to see an impact of the local community after President Trump came down there, kind of ran the riot act? | ||
| Are people heaving two on this? | ||
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Is that a question for me? | |
| Yeah, that's for you, Tyler. | ||
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We don't have the strength. | |
| Well, I wouldn't know because I'm in jail. | ||
| You're not allowed to see any of your people? | ||
| You haven't had any visitors? | ||
| No phone calls? | ||
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No, we don't have visitation here. | |
| They have a camera, like a screen pod, a kiosk that you can do visitations on. | ||
| You have to set it up with 24 hours. | ||
| Before you do it, and I was just hoping, you know, I haven't set one up because I'm hoping that somebody can do something to pull some type of string to get me a bond or just to get them to drop those charges because the check was made whole. | ||
| You know, nobody's pressing charges against me and they have no reason to hold me. | ||
| I mean, they're taking it upon themselves to press charges against me to keep me in here for no other reason than they don't like me or that they want to shut our distribution center down. | ||
| You know, the county does not like what we're doing. | ||
| The mayor himself, Glenn White, said, we don't want anything to do with you all because you didn't ask our permission to open up as a distribution center. | ||
| I didn't know that I needed permission to open up as a distribution center. | ||
| You know, I'm a grown man. | ||
| I made a long decision. | ||
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I wanted to help the community. | |
| I was doing what's right. | ||
| What our county would not do, I set up to do. | ||
| Along with other organizations that helped us do the same thing. | ||
| Yeah, you don't need to ask permission. | ||
| Tyler, I'm going to talk to Ben. | ||
| We'll get this sorted out after the show. | ||
| We'll be back to you. | ||
| Tyler Burleson still held without charge. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| A bounce check. | ||
| They didn't want him around President Trump. | ||
| That was obvious. | ||
| We're going to find out. | ||
| We're going to make some people famous down there. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Geopolitics, finance. | ||
| We got it all today. | ||
| President Trump's down, and look, this gets to be signal, not noise. | ||
| We've got to get the legislation rolling. | ||
| It's either one bill or two bills. | ||
| We're a huge advocate of two, if any work's been done. | ||
| Because you saw Raditz and these people all over us about, do you actually have the cash? | ||
| Where is the cash coming from? | ||
| From the deportations. | ||
| And the deportations just can't be the criminals. | ||
| The buried lead on his interview, Tom Homan's interview, if you are here illegally in this country, quote, you are on the table, end quote. | ||
| There's $12 million to $15 million just on Biden's watch. | ||
| And I think we need to be very clear. | ||
| And precise. | ||
| We're mixing up a lot of stuff. | ||
| And even the administration is mixing up a lot of stuff. | ||
| I keep saying, you have to delineate. | ||
| All we should be focused on right now is every single person that came in here on Biden's watch. | ||
| That's 12 million. | ||
| Or north. | ||
| That would be from the afternoon of 20 January 2021 when he reversed all of Trump's executive orders. | ||
| That's more than enough work. | ||
| To keep us occupied for a while. | ||
| And I don't mean just the criminals, the bad guys. | ||
| I mean everybody. | ||
| Because a lot of them will just go home and say, okay, they're coming to get me, so I'm going to get out of here. | ||
| They also should immediately, and Secretary of State Rubio should do this, because you saw, I think it was Honduras today, they're trying to kick up dust down there. | ||
| You've got to get the frontline nations and get them in a room and say, okay, here's the drill. | ||
| These are your people. | ||
| We're prepared to work with you. | ||
| Maybe we're even prepared to throw a couple of bucks your way to make sure we got some development down there. | ||
| But if you try to stop this, if you get mouthy about it, you're going to end up like Columbia. | ||
| So they're going home. | ||
| So we need to do it the easy way as partners or we'll do it the hard way. | ||
| You pick them. | ||
| But that, to me, shouldn't be, you know, now you got social media, get them in a room and tell them what it is. | ||
| Take them down to McAllen, Texas and say, hey, here's what we're going to do. | ||
| And then do it. | ||
| President Trump, they're doing it. | ||
| They're taking action across the board. | ||
| More actions last night and now today on the COVID veterans. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| They're hammering, hammering, hammering. | ||
| But you see, let's go back to Ben Burquam. | ||
| Ben, first of all, we're going to get the title situation. | ||
| We're retaining a lawyer. | ||
| We're going to get on top of this, right? | ||
| Because it's impossible for a guy from jail. | ||
| And for a bounce check, a guy doesn't get arraigned for a judge until Thursday? | ||
| Am I correct on this? | ||
| To Thursday? | ||
| Don't understand it. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| And I've got the numbers, Steve, if you want the names and the numbers, if you want people to start calling these guys, because this is outrageous. | ||
| Not yet. | ||
| Not yet. | ||
| Calm down. | ||
| Calm down. | ||
| We'll get there. | ||
| Let's get this organized. | ||
| And I want to make sure we get all the information, right? | ||
| Having been in prison, I can tell you guys have, you know, there's stories and there's stories. | ||
| We just got to get our arms around the facts, okay? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| But I want to go to this thing. | ||
| Okay, when are we going to get a showdown? | ||
| To me, the mayor and the governor at home is doing an amazing job. | ||
| But we're doing onesies, twosies. | ||
| And this is great. | ||
| You saw Raditz. | ||
| I can't believe you've got planes leaving every day. | ||
| Now their big complaint on the media is, oh, it's taking away resources from national security. | ||
| No, this is national security. | ||
| And you didn't even mention when they brought them into the country by planes. | ||
| You never mention that. | ||
| They're leaving. | ||
| Raditz, understand it. | ||
| Man, is she a mean one? | ||
| Woo doggy. | ||
| CBS and ABC, you guys have major turnarounds over there. | ||
| It's a disaster. | ||
| I saw the two beauties they got to replace, was it the O'Donnell woman? | ||
| They got two losers now, two new losers, and they got Brennan, who tried to get nasty with J.D. yesterday. | ||
| J.D. put her in her place. | ||
| Hey, we don't care. | ||
| We don't care what you like or don't like, Margaret Brennan. | ||
| Margaret Brennan reminds me, having gone to Catholic school, of those, you know, the goody two-shoes that sat down in the first rows, and you could not, she was obnoxious at six, seven years old in kindergarten, right? | ||
| Just as obnoxious today. | ||
| Hasn't changed. | ||
| So, Ben, this is what I understand. | ||
| The mayor is essentially, right now, and I realize Holman's out there, kind of calling our bluff, because not letting him go into city jails and get the holds, and they're releasing him into the streets. | ||
| He should be able to go to city jail and do him by, let's get a grunch of him. | ||
| And the state prisons. | ||
| And Pritzker's, you know, he's walking around preening. | ||
| That's a big victory. | ||
| He's standing down home in Trump. | ||
| What's your forecast? | ||
| Since you're riding shotgun out there, what's your forecast on this? | ||
| Well, yesterday was the kickoff of this, and I had the opportunity to ride with the acting deputy attorney, Emile Bovee, and he was there with me. | ||
| I was actually in the car, had a long opportunity to talk with him, and he was there to see just how bad it was, and he was shocked. | ||
| He was absolutely shocked. | ||
| So you're going to see the federal government come after these cities and states in a way we've never seen before. | ||
| I think we're going to see defunding of sanctuary communities that don't allow these ICE officers into their jails. | ||
| Just to give you an idea, The ICE agent that I was with yesterday said there's 300 being held with detainers right now that they will not let have. | ||
| They will not give to ICE. So they should be picking these guys up by the hundreds. | ||
| And we spent millions of dollars yesterday to get a few of these guys off the street. | ||
| Repeat that. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Repeat that to the audience. | ||
| How many? | ||
| 300 as of yesterday, just in Chicago, is what the ICE agent I was riding with told me. | ||
| Folks, you gotta understand, I think Danbury's got 10% for our nation. | ||
| These are bad hombres. | ||
| They scare the convicts. | ||
| They gotta go. | ||
| They gotta go back to their point of origin. | ||
| Gotta go. | ||
| Folks, you know, don't bury the lead. | ||
| Bovey's the number three guy in the Justice Department. | ||
| He's one of President Trump's lawyers. | ||
| This guy's a heavy hitter. | ||
| You're telling me he was shocked? | ||
| It's tough to shock him. | ||
| You're telling me he's shocked? | ||
| He was shocked. | ||
| He was... | ||
| I would even say outraged. | ||
| He was... | ||
| He could not believe what these guys... | ||
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Look, look! | |
| Steve! | ||
| These guys are ICE agents. | ||
| They're not, you know, they're not able to go down, bust down doors and get most of these guys. | ||
| They're getting administrative warrants to go. | ||
| They have to knock on the door and wait for the people to walk out of the door. | ||
| We had one guy looking out the window, refusing to come to the door, and we had to leave. | ||
| I mean, that's how insane this is. | ||
| So they wanted to test the waters and see how bad it was. | ||
| And Bovee and Holman, these guys got to see. | ||
| It is catastrophic. | ||
| And what we have to have, you have to defund these guys, you have to go directly after Johnson, you have to go directly after Pritzker, and then, again, dragnet and start rounding them up. | ||
| Because you're right, it's a drop in the bucket of what we have to do to secure this country. | ||
| But go back to what Holman said originally, and I agree with this 100%. | ||
| If you're a government official, or a city official, or a state official, and you're getting in the way of the ICE agents and the federal government to get these criminals, a national security risk out of our country, That's a crime. | ||
| Lock Pritzker up. | ||
| Lock the mayor up. | ||
| You've got to throw down now. | ||
| Folks, you understand. | ||
| Bovee and Holman are as tough as boot leather. | ||
| I told you Chicago was going to be the place you're going to go, and Chicago is emblematic of what's going to happen otherwise. | ||
| But we picked a fight. | ||
| And Ben, to know they've got to get an administrative warrant, you've got to tap on, can you please come out? | ||
| The guy says, no, I don't feel like it. | ||
| I don't think I'm going to do that. | ||
| walk outside, I'm going to end up in Ecuador, so I'll just stay right here. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And watch the football game. | ||
| I want to catch the Chiefs' bills. | ||
| That's what they're doing. | ||
| They're laughing at you. | ||
| And this is the job. | ||
| This is what President Trump is confronting in every part of the government. | ||
| That's why he let go 17 inspector generals blown out on Friday. | ||
| Goodbye. | ||
| The one I thought he'd take, Horowitz at Justice, he kept because he liked the Comey Report. | ||
| The Comey Report was okay. | ||
| I would have gotten rid of Horowitz anyway. | ||
| I think he's terrible. | ||
| But President Trump got rid of 17 others. | ||
| So, Ben, as you're riding with Homan, what's the spirit out there with the ICE agents? | ||
| What's the spirit with Homan? | ||
| Where do we stand? | ||
| Are people pumped up? | ||
| Are they depressed? | ||
| Where do we stand with all that? | ||
| Yeah, they're pumped up to be able to do their job. | ||
| But, you know, one of them said it's like drinking out of a fire hose, you know, going from what they had to do before, what they were forced to do, not do their jobs. | ||
| Now, the task that's in front of them, it almost seems insurmountable. | ||
| That's why it's so critical that we get the 287G program rolling out in all the conservative areas. | ||
| Now, obviously, in a state like Illinois, communist state like this, that's giving their state over to illegals, 287G doesn't apply. | ||
| But everywhere else across the country, it does. | ||
| We've got to empower our sheriffs. | ||
| You see what's happening in some of the states. | ||
| Mississippi and Louisiana are talking about doing some bounty hunter operations. | ||
| You've got to come from all directions on this. | ||
| But first things first, we've got to go after these... | ||
| Governors, mayors, everyone who's running these sanctuary cities and hold them accountable. | ||
| And talk about salt in the wound, Steve. | ||
| Governor Pritzker not only is not allowing these guys in the jail to get these guys, he just announced that they're able to change their names. | ||
| They're getting driver's licenses and able to change their names so that they can hide more easily from ICE. These guys are traitors. | ||
| That's what they are. | ||
| They need to be arrested as traitors to this country. | ||
| I think, I hope, because I know this is in the Palisades out in Southern California. | ||
| You're having a red pill moment where a lot of these progressives now realize what they brought on themselves and how, you know, when you see Bass and Newman, how disastrous, and they're not going to change. | ||
| And you're going to see a lot of MAGA. I hope folks, I know downstate Illinois is MAGA territory, but I hope folks in Chicago see exactly what's going on. | ||
| People there for your public safety, trying to get the worst of the worst out and being absolutely confronted and thwarted. | ||
| By the mayor, people around the mayor, and the governor. | ||
| And they're doing it for political reasons. | ||
| This is why Chicago is so important. | ||
| You've got to force it here. | ||
| And Ben, what you said is so important for the audience. | ||
| Every tool in the toolbox President Trump's going to use. | ||
| Every tool in the toolbox. | ||
| Burquam, how do we get you throughout the day, brother? | ||
| You're doing the Lord's work out there. | ||
| At Ben Berkwam on all my social media, I'll be catching a flight to Brussels tonight. | ||
| I missed the one last night. | ||
| I was supposed to be there today, but I'll be there speaking at the Make Europe Great Again conference tomorrow and working on getting Tyler out at the same time. | ||
| But at Ben Berkwam on all social media, I'm releasing videos that nobody's seen yet from yesterday, just getting them edited up. | ||
| So stay tuned. | ||
| Okay, get them up and we'll have you tomorrow from Brussels. | ||
| The Make Europe Great Again is a fantastic conference put on by great people. | ||
| Okay, everything's converging. | ||
| You see, what Homan and Miller are working on, they didn't think this up overnight. | ||
| This is my whole point about this is four years in the making. | ||
| The political comeback of President Trump, four years in the making, but also to return America to her former greatness. | ||
| Worked on by Project 25. Worked on by Stephen Miller and Brooks Rollins at America First Priorities. | ||
| Worked on by Russ Vogt, now head of OMB, Mark Paoletta, Jeff Clark, and others. | ||
| Over at Center for Renewing America. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| Big surprise next. | ||
| Special guest. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Back of the Worm on a Monday. | ||
| On fire. | ||
| In the Imperial Capital. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| We have a very special announcement, but it's got to be held for a couple of minutes because we have, as the Worm usually does, some breaking news. | ||
| Just like we had there with Burquam and with Tyler in North Carolina. | ||
| Burquam on this deportation effort by Emil Bovee from the Justice Department, number three guy, and of course the great Tom Homan. | ||
| Eli Crane joins us. | ||
| Eli, the conference today, we've got Brian Glenn down there. | ||
| We're going to have President Trump. | ||
| I think he speaks at 7 if they're on schedule. | ||
| Real America's Voice will cover it to the degree it can be broadcast, which I think it is. | ||
| I hope it is, because I think he ought to go and talk to the nation about what's happening with the conference and what direction it's going legislatively. | ||
| You know, I'm still, I'm kind of adamant. | ||
| We've got to do two bills, and you've got to get one up now, because we've got to get money for the immigration, for the deportations, for the wall, for everything related to national security in that regard. | ||
| Also energy, because if we don't get the energy thing and some dollars in the back of it now, now, now, You're not going to have a turnaround in the economy. | ||
| It's all predicated upon that. | ||
| Do you know where we stand, Eli Crane? | ||
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Yeah, hey Steve, thanks for having me on. | |
| I asked to come on your show today to talk about the reconciliation process. | ||
| I know you've been hammering this. | ||
| I know your audience knows that it's going to be either one bill or two bills. | ||
| Unfortunately, it seems as if the conference, the Republican conference... | ||
| And even President Trump are leaning towards one big, beautiful bill. | ||
| There's a couple big problems with that, and you just highlighted one of them. | ||
| Number one, we need to be banking wins as quickly as possible, and I think the president has done a good job of that. | ||
| But if we do not get Tom Holman, the borders are the money that he needs. | ||
| My question is, how many more Americans are going to lose their lives to people that aren't supposed to be here? | ||
| In the first place, okay? | ||
| The second big thing that I don't think a lot of people are really thinking about, Steve, is if we do this one big, beautiful bill, and keep in mind you can only lose a couple votes in the House, which means it's going to be very complicated to get it done, and it takes five, six, seven, eight months to accomplish, Steve. | ||
| That gives the mainstream media... | ||
| A ton of time to not only craft, but to execute this anti-deportation narrative that they are going to run with. | ||
| And it is going to weaken many of the most moderate members of our conference. | ||
| And it is going to beat them into a position where they're not going to be willing to vote for any substantial border security deportation from the president. | ||
| And this big, beautiful reconciliation package. | ||
| And so, Steve, I think that if we don't do two reconciliation packages and get the president and Tom Holman the money that he needs immediately, we're not going to get much border security in this big, beautiful package. | ||
| And we're not going to get the deportations that we need as well. | ||
| Okay, so I showed you the headline the other day, audience, from the Financial Times of London. | ||
| The 300 billion, this is what President Trump talked about at Davos, and this is what they're doing, and Russ's vote has not been confirmed that should be this week, although they're putting up a firestorm about that. | ||
| They hate Russ's vote more than anybody because they understand he's kind of the key that picks the lock. | ||
| This impoundment situation, the theory of the case right now, Eli, is they're going to use the impoundment of the... | ||
| It's not the total theory, but part of it. | ||
| They're going to use cash money from the impoundment of the Green News scam to fund border. | ||
| Well, folks, I got news for you. | ||
| That might just draw a couple of three legal challenges, right? | ||
| That might have to go all the way to the Supreme Court. | ||
| So I don't think we can count on that money. | ||
| This gets back to the two bills. | ||
| The other thing about the one bill, which we told the audience, is something this complicated. | ||
| Remember, we're supposed to be out of the omnibus business. | ||
| Why are we out of the omnibus business? | ||
| Because they're 10,000 pages deep of arcane legalese that normally bad things happen because of that. | ||
| This is going to be one of the most complicated bills. | ||
| It's the entire President Trump reiteration of the entire tax cut of 17. And just think what a heavy lift that was by itself. | ||
| Then you're going to have all other thousands of things in there. | ||
| Every lobbyist is in here. | ||
| And this is what, to me, gets me about Johnson. | ||
| You don't have the two bills right now because no real work's been done on the first bill on immigration to get up. | ||
| It just hasn't been. | ||
| There's been no drafting. | ||
| That's not really even an option unless we force it right now. | ||
| The one bill, Eli, correct me if I'm wrong, you've been around here long enough. | ||
| They say April. | ||
| Now they're saying Memorial Day. | ||
| This thing is going to get delivered in August, July or August. | ||
| They're going to take a break. | ||
| We're going to come back and have the mother of all fights in September and October, one year away from the midterms. | ||
| Is that not the real schedule, sir, the reality check and not the happy talk you hear coming out of some of the house guys, sir? | ||
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That's what I'm hearing, Steve. | |
| I've even heard from some of our best strategists. | ||
| There's a possibility it could go longer than that just because of the complexities and how many people you can lose to get 218 and over the finish line. | ||
| When I think about Americans who are being set on fire, pushed onto subway tracks, murdered, raped, a lot of my colleagues are looking at this solely from an economic, financial standpoint, Steve, but we owe it to the American people to get Tom Holman. | ||
| And the president, the money that they need as quickly as possible to make sure that more Americans aren't being killed, raped, you know, etc. | ||
| And many of us believe that they're doing, one of the reasons they're doing one big, beautiful bill is so that, you know, they can leverage the conservatives in the House who continue to want to bend the curve of this fiscal insanity up here, get some real savings, real spending cuts with leverage. | ||
| From, you know, a border package. | ||
| And so this is why many of us continue to push for two bills in the reconciliation package where we can bypass, you know, the Senate and their, you know, they're not needing, we don't need 50, we don't need over 60 votes with the Senate to get this thing through. | ||
| And we just feel this is the best way for the president to bank some wins early and to actually get the funding that he needs to carry out these deportations. | ||
| And Steve, I've heard from some good authorities that Tom Homan's already operating in the red. | ||
| So the guy needs money, and if he's pushed, Steve, go ahead. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| He needs cash, and you know the way these departments are. | ||
| They're going to sit there and go, we have no money. | ||
| They're not going to be looking around, scraping for money to give Homan, because the administrative state and deep state is opposed to what President Trump's doing. | ||
| There's an example right now. | ||
| I think Ben Shapiro's brought up that, you know, Hexeth outlawed DEI in the first moments of Eli, you know, in the Pentagon. | ||
| And the first thing they did was, like, pull all the books on the Tuskegee Airmen just to make it – and that's not what we're talking about. | ||
| But my point is the deep state and the administrative state are going to fight Hexeth and DEI in the Revolution of Military Affairs. | ||
| Holman, they're sitting there right now. | ||
| He says, we have no money, no people. | ||
| We can't do anything, Holman. | ||
| They're trying to stop this, and they're going to stop it unless we get them some backup. | ||
| Am I incorrect on that, sir? | ||
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No, you're right. | |
| And another friend of mine, you know, a friend of the War Room Posse, Cameron Hamilton, is the acting... | ||
| Director of FEMA right now. | ||
| One of the very first things he did as well in FEMA, he crushed DEI. He got rid of it. | ||
| So a lot of departments are doing the same thing. | ||
| And you're right, Steve. | ||
| The deep state hates it. | ||
| They're going to do everything they can to block it. | ||
| But think about the mainstream media. | ||
| Steve, if you were in charge of running the media for the radical left... | ||
| You would go immediately. | ||
| You would task your reporters to follow around ICE agents and to get that shot, that video of a family being loaded onto a bus, kicking and screaming, and they are going to play that nonstop. | ||
| If they can play that nonstop on their networks, and they will for, you know, five, six, seven months, I know for a fact that many of these weak Republicans... | ||
| Are going to flip, and they are not going to budge and give President Trump the border security, the deportation money that he needs, and that's why it has to be two bills. | ||
| Let me, Eli, it's so great you called in. | ||
| I have you, sir. | ||
| Let's take another piece of business. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| The government runs out of money on the 20th of March, I think it is, roughly. | ||
| So there's no more CRs. | ||
| We have to actually get the president's budget, and then we have to do appropriations. | ||
| The Doge guys are going to come in and tell us how they're going to cut. | ||
| But all of that, the process of all that, somehow has to be voted on around the 20th because there's no more CRs. | ||
| The Freedom Caucus, of which I think you're a member, the Freedom Caucus proposed something to President Trump in a memo last week that said, hey, since we had the debt limit problem and Janet Yellen screwed us, We're prepared to work with you, President, because you guys are the biggest deficit hawks to say, hey, we'll support an increase to the debt ceiling for two years to take it past the 26th midterm for two years, and that would be $4 trillion. | ||
| Now, in my simple mind, I look at that and I go, well, that's two fiscal years, two budgets. | ||
| That's even the House Freedom Caucus. | ||
| The hardest deficit hawks we have, guys that have Andy Biggs and Eli Crane in their ranks, they're essentially signaling to the lowly war room posse that we're going to have $2 trillion deficits per year. | ||
| Am I thinking about this correctly or incorrectly, sir? | ||
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No, you're thinking about it correctly, Steve, and we understand that we are a very small majority of the conference. | |
| We also understand that President Trump made it one of his first priorities. | ||
| He put it out publicly that he doesn't want to deal, you know, with this debt ceiling increase with Chuck Schumer. | ||
| And so a lot of people, as you know, Steve, say that we're obstructionists, you know, we're unwilling to compromise. | ||
| That is not the case, and we are showing it, but we are trying to deliver for the president. | ||
| We're trying to get him what he needs, but we're also trying to do it. | ||
| In a manner with spending cuts attached. | ||
| And we think that that's one of the, like I said, one of the biggest reasons that the conference is pushing one big beautiful bill so that they can roll House conservatives by saying, oh, look, these guys don't want to support the president, his agenda, and his border security policies as they strip away any of the cuts that... | ||
| You know, we're trying to put in there. | ||
| And, Steve, I'll tell you this right now. | ||
| There's a group of Republicans that, you know, many of them aren't even House Freedom Caucus guys. | ||
| Jody Arrington's been really good in fighting, you know, for major spending cuts, as have many that are outside of the House Freedom Caucus. | ||
| We know how important it is to start to bend the curve of the fiscal irresponsibility up here in Washington. | ||
| We know we can't get everything that we want. | ||
| We're trying to work with the president, but we could really use the help from the war room audience to push the rationality and responsibility of two bills. | ||
| Let's bank some wins. | ||
| Let's get home in his money immediately. | ||
| Let's get the president what he needs. | ||
| And then let's handle the tax cuts and everything else in the second reconciliation bill. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Eli, social media, people are going to want to follow you starting today on this kind of how we're doing this minute by minute. | ||
| So where do they go, sir? | ||
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Rep Eli Crane, thank you so much for having me on, Steve. | |
| And thank you to the War Room Posse for, you know, just being the ground troops and the support that we need up in Washington to help, you know, create some of these reforms and changes that are... | ||
| Definitely needed. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| You're a patriot and a hero, Eli. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
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Okay. | |
| The bond market gets a vote. | ||
| And the equity markets, but they get a vote too. | ||
| We're going to get into all of it about the deep seek. | ||
| Is it a Sputnik moment? | ||
| Or is it a CCP PSYOP? But a special announcement before that. | ||
| Stick around in the war room. | ||
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Cabinet Room. | |
| You saw Donald Trump's next cabinet make waves at CPAC. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| For those that listened to this on the podcast, you saw basically every important cabinet officer speaking at CPAC. | ||
| Mercedes Schlapp joins us. | ||
| Mercy, the timing of CPAC this year couldn't be better because it's going to be after the first month. | ||
| It starts around the end of the first month. | ||
| It's going to be action, action, action. | ||
| Talk to us. | ||
| It's at National Harbor again this year. | ||
| Talk to us about what we can anticipate and why. | ||
| It is almost required that people attend. | ||
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Yeah, well, you know, we, Steve, after this inauguration, and God only knows a lot of great patriots weren't able to get very close to the president because it was so cold here and obviously the security measures that were in place. | |
| And so CPAC is going to provide that venue for thousands of Americans, patriots, to come together and to be able to get close to these cabinet members, to these members of the White House that are going to be attending as well, top congressional. | ||
| Members as well. | ||
| I mean, Steve, really, quite frankly, I think your face was the only one that was missing there in terms of that video. | ||
| You know, who knows? | ||
| Maybe you'll become a cabinet member at some point in the Trump administration. | ||
| But wouldn't that be great? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Don't jinx Trump. | ||
| Don't jinx Trump. | ||
| We can't do that. | ||
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We're not jinxing him. | |
| No, God is on his side. | ||
| So look, it's really been truly an amazing phenomenon here because we are celebrating the victories of Donald Trump. | ||
| He knows that the political capital that he has right now, he's got to work aggressively every day. | ||
| And it's so impressive to see what him and his team has been able to do. | ||
| With that being said... | ||
| This battle, we cannot take the foot off the pedal here. | ||
| As you know, Steve, you do this every single day. | ||
| We've got to stay focused on ensuring that the president's priorities are completed, that we know that the enemy is always at bay, and we've got to fight back against this legacy media. | ||
| And these Democrats who will seek to reorganize, they seem very chaotic right now, but they are going to try to reorganize and push back on what President Trump is doing. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| They're reorganizing now. | ||
| The key thing is that after the first 30 days, we have CPAC, and you talk about it. | ||
| We've got to get this done in six months. | ||
| They're already coming around. | ||
| People say a year. | ||
| This is why I'm so opposed to the one bill, and I'm sure it's going to be a huge topic of conversation. | ||
| Talk to me about the themes. | ||
| You guys have done such a great job. | ||
| I think Matt still oversees such a great job in organizing the world. | ||
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What is the basic theme this year of CPAC? Well, the basic theme of CPAC is America is winning. | |
| America is back. | ||
| We are what I think has been one of the biggest phenomenons is that CPAC and really MAGA has taken a hold across the globe. | ||
| CPAC, we know, is in places like Hungary, which you've been to. | ||
| We just came back from CPAC Argentina, CPAC Japan, CPAC Australia. | ||
| The list goes on and on of the type of work. | ||
| CPAC Brazil, CPAC Mexico. | ||
| And so we've had a foothold in these countries because what are we doing? | ||
| We're helping these countries. | ||
| We're supporting these countries in basically organizing their conservative movement, finding these conservative leaders so that they can run for office and really have their own Almost MAGA-based, like Argentina first, Mexico first. | ||
| They want to make sure that these woke policies, these globalist policies, and that communism is stopped in their countries. | ||
| And many of these countries have seen the horrors of communism and what they've done to destroy their nations. | ||
| And they want to take their nations back. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| They are so inspired by Donald Trump. | ||
| They see him as a man of strength. | ||
| They see him as a man on a mission. | ||
| That they know when America is strong, their countries are strong. | ||
| They are inspired by what he is doing in America, and they want to do the same. | ||
| So we really launch our CPAC with the CPAC International Summit. | ||
| We did it last year where we had members from over 40 countries bringing delegations in to CPAC. And we have these conversations of best practices, of how can they find their own Steve Bannon in their own country? | ||
| Basically compete against these leftist media organizations in many cases where they are being censored. | ||
| How can they get their message to the masses and how can they get organized? | ||
| The priority obviously for CPAC is always America first in making sure that we're able to support the president and support the Republican leaders of Congress, these conservative leaders, in making sure that President Trump's agenda is implemented and implemented quickly. | ||
| So our goal again is to bring Not only the Americans here, the conservative patriots, but those across the globe that are coming together. | ||
| It's kind of like the conservative United Nations, but we're actually going to be effective in fighting back globalism, fighting back communism, and ensuring that we can do the work of President Trump and support his efforts. | ||
| Now, you guys have given the Warren Posse this big discount. | ||
| Moe's going to be on the second hour. | ||
| I think $76 to attend CPAC, which is absolutely extraordinary. | ||
| It's just breathtaking. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| I want to send everybody to the site today, and you've got to put in promo code WARROOM to get the discount. | ||
| But where do folks go? | ||
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Well, I promise you it's going to be a lot warmer because you'll be indoors. | |
| doors. | ||
| You'll be able to be a lot closer to these incredible leaders that are going to be coming. | ||
| And obviously, with President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, go to cpac.org slash war room, cpac.org slash war room. | ||
| It's $76 per ticket, which is really just a steal We've had these great sponsors coming in and really being supportive of CPAC's efforts. | ||
| So please come join us. | ||
| It is going to be not only a celebration, but it is also getting back to work so that we can win. | ||
| government so we can win at the state levels as well. | ||
| Mercedes Schlapp, what is your, what's your personal, we always have Matt on here, he gives his, his Twitter runs a little hot. | ||
| You're the calming influence, but what's yours? | ||
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Calming influence. | |
| I don't know, I've become fiery in my last couple of years. | ||
| It's at Mercedes Schlapp, and you can also follow us at CPAC, and we provide you with the top news that's going on, and very supportive of what you all do on War Room, because God only knows you're part of the heart of this movement, which is critical to make sure that we get the job done. | ||
| Not a day. | ||
| We cannot rest a day, Steve Bannon. | ||
| Not a day. | ||
| Love you, Mercedes. | ||
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Love you too. | |
| Mercy Schlapp. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| CPAC, we're going to have a massive turnout. | ||
| Huge announcements for the War Room. | ||
| We're going to be broadcasting live. | ||
| You're going to be part of it. | ||
| Plus, the War Room, the Force Multiplier Academy. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| All at CPAC in February. |
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