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Jan. 31, 2025 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 4236: Seizing Of The Institutions From The Bureaucrats

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jack posobiec

07:12

steve bannon

32:06

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03:10

mike lindell

01:19

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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Pray for our enemies.
unidentified		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.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It's Friday.
		31 January, year of early, 2025. 11 days into the 47. Days of thunder still going on.
		So many things happening every night.
		I want to get Josh Hammer on this afternoon.
		He wrote an amazing piece of Newsweek overnight about the birthright citizenship.
		Quite amazing.
		So there's so many verticals, so many things happening.
		Two things I'm going to address is we're going to finish up with the confirmations because remember...
		It's three things.
		It's executive actions and executive orders, right?
		Boom, you hit those, right?
		But of course, they're not laws, but they're effective and you've seen those.
		Amazing.
		Then the second is your personnel, right?
		That's the cabinet secretary.
		He's got to get them through.
		The big push to get the top guys because you get 1,000 that have to be confirmed, 3,000 going right away.
		And the last is the big legislative stuff and the financial stuff and all that.
		And that is, you know, They're coming out of Doral.
		They've been down there playing golf, hanging out there.
		Only 170 showed up at the 218th house.
		That right there is a signal.
		And some of the biggest cost cutters didn't go.
		And, in fact, Chip Roy's not there.
		Eli Crane's not there.
		I don't think Andy Biggs is there.
		And they're saying, you know, why are we doing this?
		Why are we spending time here?
		We've got to be back passing a budget because March 20th, I think it is, we run out of money.
		So it's process.
		And we'll get down to process.
		202-224-3121.
		You've done an amazing job.
		You lit the phones up yesterday.
		You put people unnoticed.
		I want to thank Dr. Ralph Abraham for being here and really giving RFK Jr. a shout-out.
		And I hope Senator Cassidy and others on the Republican side pay attention.
		And also to President Trump.
		We need to get these committee votes done.
		And we need them to break cloture.
		And we need to get, you know, we've got to get vote in.
		We've got to get Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi.
		Cash.
unidentified		All of it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It's got to be done now.
		Shouldn't be leaving for the weekend.
		Should be up there 24 hours a day.
		Just go.
		Do it.
		Do it.
		Action.
		But so, but Cash Patel, FBI, and he's also two-thirds of the FBI is counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, all of it.
		One-third is, you know, cops or investigative service.
		Your thoughts yesterday on Cash, and particularly things like, you know, January 6th, all of it.
		What did you think?
jack posobiec ▲ ● ▼		Well, Steve, what was interesting about Cash's nomination was how he just dominated the space.
		And this is a guy who, look, with plenty of reps in the war room, probably as many reps in the war room as any of the nominees up there combined.
		This was a guy who was not only prepared for the questioning, but he actually at one point...
		took the initiative away from them and he said, look, Senator, you got two minutes to ask your question.
		He's flipping it back on them.
		And this is someone who, look, January 6th, he was in the room.
		He was in the room prior to January 6th.
		He was in the room when President Trump gave the order.
		To Chris Miller to have the 10,000 National Guard there, the order that Milley disregarded, not the first time that Milley has disregarded the chain of command.
		And I think we're going to be looking into that as well as Milley's staff and his aides and his mill aides and everybody else who is there.
		But what was interesting about Cash, I think, was probably the lack of controversy that really came out of this.
		Look, the Democrats were trying to bloody him up.
		They were trying to make him look like some kind of kook, some kind of extremist.
		They were not able to.
		This is a guy who's done the work and they were not prepared for that guy.
		So I would say out of all of the nominees yesterday, Cash is probably the one that I would put at the top of my list in terms of confirmation.
		I think Cash has got the votes.
		Bobby and Tulsi, they'll get them.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		No, we'll get them, and that's why 202-224-3121.
		Take time, do one at a time.
		Tulsi and Bobby definitely got it.
		I think Tulsi's actually coming up better than they thought, but it's still work.
		We cannot falter.
		It's on your shoulders today, audience.
		You've got to do it.
		Step up.
		Fixed bayonets.
		You guys are the best.
		You saved Pete.
		We got Pete.
		You would have saved Gates.
		I want to go to...
		Here's how I know we're winning.
		Morning, Joe.
		I think the first two hours, at least the six that Lemire runs, and seven, which I consider the first two hours.
		Two hours, Jack Posobiec.
		I don't think they spent a second.
		I don't think they spent a second, but they didn't spend much time.
		They didn't emphasize the hearings yesterday.
		That shows you...
		They're not in a good place.
		It was all the helicopter and his press conference, the thing about the water.
		It was President Trump, Elon Musk, and the FAA go.
		It was all that.
		They didn't want to touch the hearings.
		They didn't want to go there.
jack posobiec ▲ ● ▼		They don't want to go.
		The mainstream media, the corporate media in this country, does not want to hear all of the truths that were said by boom.
		Bobby Kennedy up there putting out all the truth about Maha and blowing up Bernie Sanders for all of his money from Pharma.
		They don't want that out there.
		Tulsi Gabbard telling the truth about what really went down in Syria, what really went down in Iraq.
		They don't want that information out.
		Ukraine, all the rest of it.
		They can't play those clips.
		And then Kash Patel tells you the truth about January 6th.
		So you've got two options, right?
		America realizes they had two options and one won at the ballot box and one went down in flames.
		The one that went down in flames was the corporate media.
		The one that won was podcasts, was X, was new media, was truth.
		That's what came forward.
		So they're still playing their old games, going after these guys, and they realized they couldn't land a finger on them.
		So they won't play the clips.
		They'll talk as a contentious hearing, attack the hearing, and then they'll go and say, oh, President Trump said something about DEI and we don't like that.
		And they won't actually show you what went on.
		That's why their ratings are in the tank.
		That's why our ratings are ascendant.
		That's why our movement is ascendant.
		Because America does want that common sense back again.
		America, by the way, agrees with President Trump on DEI. They agree with Pete Hegseth.
		You want the best person for the job, period.
		It doesn't matter the color.
		It doesn't matter the background.
		It matters the merit.
		Can you do the job and are you best for the job?
		And that's why they're terrified because they don't have the power to be able to dictate the narrative anymore.
		Look, Tulsi was fantastic yesterday.
		Bobby Kennedy is probably the most popular figure in America right now, period, full stop.
		President Trump, we know he has his detractors and his supporters.
		Bobby Kennedy, look, you go anywhere.
		And I was down there.
		A couple of days ago, my brother, of course, spent the entire day at the hearings.
		The Maha people have come to D.C. and they're not leaving.
		See, they're not leaving.
		Nicole Shanahan's thrown down.
		The entire movement is massive.
		There were people from my wife's mom's group that have never done anything in politics before that were showing up to the Hill saying, hey, we want Bobby Kennedy to get in there.
		Why?
		Not because we hate anyone.
		It's because we love our kids.
		It's as simple as that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is...
		The mainstream media, and this is why MSNBC and people, they're so discouraged and they've lost so much.
		They think the people that listen, don't think they lie to them.
		They didn't catch the Maha-Maga fusion.
		They didn't understand it.
		Mainstream media...
		Elon got it.
		That's why he backed our play.
		He got it.
		Now, what you're seeing now is seizing the institutions of Maha and MAGA. That's what the established order hates.
		And what they're going to try to do, if they can't defeat them, they're going to try to box them in.
		Well, Keshe, you said you're not going to do this.
		Tulsa, you're not going to do this.
		Bobby, you're pro-vaccine, all that.
		Forget that.
		Let's just get to votes and move on.
		But you're seeing now the seizing of the institutions.
		They don't like it.
		Before I let you go, I've got to address this situation at Reagan.
		Airport, particularly, you know, it doesn't make any sense.
		They have not released the name of the last pilot, but it doesn't make any sense.
		But this Black Hawk, or the Apache, excuse me, the Apache, doesn't make any sense.
		How it has the visual that long, and you've got all the equipment, but it's just even the visual.
		And I don't want to hear how it's so confusing.
		Come on, man, these are the best helicopter pilots in the world, next to Navy helicopter pilots.
		My kid brother being one.
		Your thoughts, Jack Posovic?
jack posobiec ▲ ● ▼		Well, Steve, yesterday I actually had the opportunity to be invited by Secretary Kristi Noem of the Department of Homeland Security to go down there to Reagan, and we conducted a northern border visit, but we also went to, and we were right there as the NTSB and working with the Coast Guard, Coast Guard, of course, being an agency under the Department of Homeland Security, working with them for a very quick briefing on what went down that day, and there's so many questions, but look, we were right there.
		I got to see the fuselage in the water, the helicopter.
		Helicopter, by the way, actually upside down in the water.
		So one of the issues that they have to be able to recover that as well as understanding the channel and the depth of the Potomac and everything that's situated in there.
		You know, really everything that we've learned and everything that's coming out, Steve, it's giving us more questions than answers.
		Because look, if this thing was flying at night, if they're flying on knots, if they were doing this night vision training, who was this third pilot?
		Why are we not getting that basic information out there?
		It's really simple stuff.
		The American people need to know because there were kids on this plane.
		There was the ice skaters.
		They were just coming from the development.
		I mean, you had 11, 13-year-old kids on this plane.
		It's absolutely horrific.
		And the American people need to know what was going on.
		Who was in that air traffic control office?
		Why was it that supposedly someone at the tower went out early?
		They left early.
		So whose decision was that?
		Why did they leave early?
		There's so many questions as to why this was going on.
		Look, we're here in the district.
		We see helicopters going around all the time.
		There's plenty of air traffic.
		This should have been a routine situation.
		And then even President Trump tweeting this morning that the helicopter is flying much higher than it had been approved.
		It was flying away from been approved.
		And that new angle that came out today, and I'd seen the reconstructions.
		But when you watch that new video that came out this morning, it looks very much like the helicopter is flying directly at the aircraft.
unidentified		Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This makes no sense.
		These are the best pilots.
		These helicopter pilots are amazing.
		You know the Navy helicopter pilot.
		Look, the fighter guys off the carriers are incredible.
		But you put one of those helicopters in the back of a frigate or a destroyer?
		In a certain sea state, on a closed night with no visibility, these guys are the best, and the Army guys are very good.
jack posobiec ▲ ● ▼		The Seahawk is the same version of a helicopter as the Blackhawk for the Army.
		So the same one, you're landing that on the back of a frigate, you're landing that right on...
		You're landing that right on the aircraft, whatever it is, or conducting the underway replenishment, the UNREP. So, I mean, these are incredible pilots, and that isn't even, by the way, the VIP level, which this was supposed to be.
		That's your routine operations for one of these helos, not to mention fast ropers and everything else they do and conducting the underway assessments and all the rest of it, interdiction operations.
		So I've never seen anything like this.
		This is supposed to be the best of the best.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And Jack's right.
		This is a Blackhawk, not Apache.
		Yeah.
		This is a Blackhawk.
		And I remember when we did the coverage last week that we got the premier coverage they gave us from the White House, we did North Carolina, Appalachia.
		And then when they went to Palisades, they were met at LAX by the helicopters, the Marine helicopters.
		I talked about the training.
		Those pilots, these VIP pilots.
unidentified		This is supposed to be the best of the best.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You take the best of the best, and then you get the bestest.
		It's something that's not right on this.
		We'll figure it out.
		Jack Posobiec, where do people go to get you?
		You're on fire, brother.
		Where do they go?
jack posobiec ▲ ● ▼		We'll be up here at 2 p.m.
		We're going to give a full update.
		We've got Nick Sortor, who's going to be on.
		He spent pretty much the entire week down there, and it's going to be an incredible episode.
		So make sure everybody comes in.
		It's going to be white hot, and you know they're going to be very upset at everything that we say, because they always are.
		Human events, 2 p.m.
		here on Real America's Voice.
		Perfect.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		There's going to be a presser at 1 o'clock.
		We'll be covering that on Getter and on Brumble.
		Natalie will be there.
		Brian Glenn will be there from Real America's Voice.
		I don't know if Amanda's back yet.
		We've got three correspondents over there.
		One o'clock.
		Presser.
		I don't think the president's going to drop in.
		That'll be our own Caroline Lovett.
		Is she fantastic?
		Blowing these folks up every day, putting them on notice.
		It's just amazing.
		Talk about these young people, how much they've grown and gotten so much better because it's about reps.
		Just like playing football.
		Just do reps.
		Repetition, repetition, repetition.
		Learning curve is amazing.
		Johnny Kahn takes us out with American Heart, the anthem of the Tea Party movement.
		John Kahn, whose house is nothing but ashes in Pacific Palisades.
unidentified		All his music, everything, photos.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Unbelievable.
		He'll take you out with American Heart.
		We'll be back in the war room in just a moment.
unidentified		You changed already.
		You went and lost your pride.
		But I'm American made.
		I got American part.
		I got American faith.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		By the way, Jack's a naval intelligence officer.
		I love him, but no, we don't land on the foc'sle.
		I was in the Little Beaver's Dejeron 23. That's Arlie Burke's old squadron in the 7th Fleet.
		My kid brother later was in...
		Helicopter pilot, Lamps pilot, and Desron 23 also.
		I think he was on the Reasoner.
		I was on the Paul F. Foster.
		He was on the Reasoner.
		I was on the new experience class.
		He was on the older one.
		There were tiny decks in the back on the stern.
		These helicopter pilots are unbelievable.
		I would think I'm going to do more on the helicopter today at 5 to 7. It's very disturbing to me what happened.
		And I just, when you look at it, and now there's more.
		Evidence coming in on the footage.
		There's something that doesn't make any sense.
		It just does not make sense.
		Maybe I'll break down and go through.
		The air traffic controller did not give the bearing, which I think she made a mistake when she said, do a visual.
		You got CGR. You got the commuter jet.
		She didn't give a bearing, and there was another jet there.
		I don't know.
		It seemed to me enough separation would be a problem, but it's quite disturbing.
		Quite disturbing.
		And they were on a training mission.
		Night vision goggles.
		They may have had total just instruments for the pilot.
unidentified		Maybe the co-pilot lost the plot.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We'll get into it.
		Elon Musk and Doge.
		I've been the biggest supporter, as you know, of Elon Musk and the Doge effort.
		Because to deconstruct the administrative state, you kind of need that type of consulting group.
		Because here's what you have.
		And they have, you know, you get Russ Vogt in the OMB. Russ is not confirmed yet.
		I want to make sure everybody understands fully.
		Russ just sent out a memo the other day.
		Let's talk about these two memos real quickly.
		So we'll set the stage for this.
		President Trump, in days of thunder, as we go through, is issuing executive orders and taking executive actions.
		Everything he doesn't have to issue an order, the cabinet guys report to him.
		And remember, you have the unitary theory, the unitary theory of the executive.
		He's the chief executive of the United States government.
		He is the commander-in-chief of the military.
		And he's also the chief magistrate and the chief law enforcement officer of...
		The United States.
		And those three things.
		So you can take either actions or you can take executive orders as one.
		Legislation too.
		But those are the kind of things to get things going.
		Get guys in the head.
		Bang, bang, bang.
		And he's signing executive orders.
		For instance, there's a couple.
		We had the headlines the other day from the Financial Times.
		Like on the Green New Deal.
		He says, hey, I want the whole Biden thing stop immediately.
		And it's $300 billion.
		And he says, look.
		I believe in impoundment.
		I'm going to take that $300 billion.
		I'm going to pay for the wall.
		I'm going to pay for all kinds of things.
		I've got other priorities.
		And our theory is that's the max.
		He passed it.
		We can take it.
		I want to stop.
		And he gets out of the World Health Organization.
		He's doing this.
		He's doing that.
		He's doing the other thing.
		And he picks up the next day the Financial Times.
		Because President Trump reads a stack of newspapers.
		Very well read.
		And he's old school.
		He's not online.
		He's reading the paper.
		He's flipping through the Washington Post and the whole front page.
		Trump's saying this, but it's not really effective.
		Picks up the Wall Street Journal.
		He's got $300 billion.
		All's going to be spent.
		Nothing happened.
		Picks up New York Times, World Health Organization.
		They're still spending 80 percent.
		So he says, yo, I'm signing executive orders and I'm the president and the chief executive in the unitary theory of government.
		And so when I sign it, it's supposed to be over.
		Done.
		It's like a papal bull, is it not?
		Because the Office of Legal Counsel told me it was constitutional.
		We're all good here.
		Right, guys?
	And they're saying, yeah, yeah, but you've got a system, and this is where OMB comes in.
	They kind of manage it.
	You have a system.
	And remember, this is 10 million people.
	You have 2.5 million bureaucrats or federal employees.
	You have 2.5 million military, roughly.
	You have 5 million contractors that are some sort of executive level.
	So it's 10 million people.
	You have 3,000.
unidentified		You've only got 1,000 in there.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		So President Trump, the OMB guy said, well, here's what we do.
		And we do this, I think, in every administration.
		We'll just send a memo out and say, hey, Wherever you are in the system, wherever cash is, let's just hold on for a second.
		Let's have a pause so we just know where this money is.
		And then the president will be signed.
		And then we'll think it through, what are we going to do here?
		This is not talking about a cut.
		It's not talking about a suspension of a program.
		It's not talking about anything except we're going to have a momentary pause so we can get our sea legs.
		And they go to full meltdown.
		Full meltdown.
		They're calling the guys down at Doral.
		They're at the conference and they can say, hey, the head start and the meals on wheels and everything.
		And you get to see the level of participation of federal money back through the system to pay for it.
		And a lot of MAGA people, and they're saying the Medicaid and all that, and they got that.
		Now, I would posit as a populist nationalist, the reason we have all this federal spending is that these are the corporations and the donors.
		Shluffing off the responsibilities of the corporations maybe to not take in foreigners and maybe pay people more.
		Maybe we have a little restrictive labor market and you have to pay more for people.
		And so people then can afford.
		They don't need Meals on Wheels and they don't need these programs.
		These programs and the spending, and this gets back to, do you give them tax cuts or do you give them tax increases?
		And when you've got to get cuts, are you going to be able to pressure people for cuts?
		Maybe.
		We'll see that.
		But more importantly, it's the corporatists and Wall Street and the wealthy.
		They're the ones who control this.
		They're the puppet masters.
		Put the gun to their head.
		And say, hey, all these programs and all this spending, we want to stop it.
		But the way we've got to stop it is we've got to pay people more.
		We have to pay people called American citizens more money.
		You've got to pay them more money.
		Then you're not going to need all these programs.
		Look at the programs.
		And everybody's sitting there going, hey.
		I think the community hospitals now and rural things for Medicaid.
		Don't think Medicaid's inner city.
		I think it's, I don't know, two-thirds.
		Somebody told me Idaho is like 80% of the babies.
		My point.
		These cuts are not going to be easy.
		It's going to be quite tough.
		It's going to be very tough.
		Need serious people to think this through because this, as we think through the geoeconomics, as you see President Trump doing, right, the golden market and the 25% tariffs and thinking about the external revenue service, not just the internal revenue service.
		And you've got the geostrategic rethinking, maybe hemispheric defense, maybe we don't need $900 billion to be all over hell's half acre everywhere, sticking our nose in everybody's business.
		What'd they say in the transition?
		What was the army secretary came out?
		We have 130,000, 125,000 troops.
		We have essentially 150,000 folks in uniform spread out over hundreds of military installments and bases and carry battle groups and all of it throughout the world.
		Spread all over hell's half acre.
		For what reason?
		The propagation of the American empire?
		I didn't sign on for that.
		You didn't sign on for that.
		The revolutionary generation certainly didn't sign on for that.
		That's why we have to have a national debate and national discussion.
		Now, we've got this process here, and as you know, you hate CRs, right?
		You have been the ones that turfed out Kevin McCarthy because you promised you 12 individual appropriations.
		But why is that important?
		Because that's where you actually see the sausage getting made.
		You know, they're on MSMC. Everybody wants cuts in government because it comes down to the, you know, Meals on Wheels and Head Start and everything like that.
		But in the appropriations process, you guys can see it.
		Remember, you stayed up all night in the summer of 23, I think it was, all night long in those debates.
		And quite interesting, you see MTG, you see Andy Bates, you see these budget cuts, deficit cuts.
	They said, no, we've got to cut this, cut this, cut this.
	And then you have a Republican.
	I don't know, Joyce of a height.
	Have all these Republicans come up there, all these rhinos.
	And they said, no, we've got to do this.
	One of the Democrats.
	It was the rhinos, the established order.
	So now we've got Elon, and Elon put out a tweet last night.
	And this is what I've been saying.
	I don't know if he didn't fully understand the tweet or whatever, but it's there.
	If we can put it up, he says, look, I'm going to cut a $2 trillion deficit.
	I'm going to take a trillion dollars out.
	Brother, we're with you.
	This is what I'd like to hear.
	The trillion dollars you promised right there.
	But it says fiscal year 26. Well, fiscal year 26 starts, I don't know, next October.
	We need those cuts now.
	It's 25. It's not 26. The only thing that matters is right now.
	26 doesn't matter.
	25 matters.
	And here's my point.
	We're going to go through this exercise of appropriations and all that, and somehow we're going to get to some jam.
	Trust me.
	They're going to back you into a corner.
	And sometime around March 19th, we're going to have a big old either kick at the can down the road for a one-year CR, or there'll be some omnibus.
	It's going to be something.
	You're not going to like it.
	So let me tell you right now, you're not going to like it.
	And you're going to be lighting guys up not to vote for it.
	We're going to have this whole thing.
	They're counseling Freedom Caucus and the War Room Posse, a bunch of troglodytes over there.
	Elon, and he's talking about $4 billion a week.
	Hey, I got it.
	I can do the math.
	$4 billion a week adds up to September 30th.
	I got it.
	I like it.
	I like directionally.
	Whatever you want to do is great, but I need it now.
	Can't wait till next year.
	In fact, it's intellectually absurd.
	To even think of it.
	Why would we pass an appropriations now that has a trillion dollars of things you want to cut next year and we just do it this year?
	Just give me some top line.
	Just give me some basics.
	Just right now.
	Get the Doge guys.
	They're smart.
	They work all night.
	Just give it directionally.
	Just show me where you're going directionally.
	In 25. Now, now, now.
	We're not waiting.
	Can't wait.
	I love the fact it's a trillion.
	You're getting there.
	You committed to it.
	I want to see that now.
	And just as a free advice and take it for what it's worth, let's go back to the firestorm of the other couple of days.
	And look, whether President Trump in the White House blinked or they didn't blink, whether they rescinded the memo but didn't rescind the content of the memo, that's not relevant.
	What is relevant is that the left thinks they've got to win.
	They think for the first time they stood up.
	And here's how they stood up.
	Every congressional district, you got Meals on Wheels, you got this program, you got that program, that program, that, ba-bing, ba-bang, ba-bung.
	And there are certain members of the working class that, you know, that are MAGA supporters, voted for President Trump, that are, you know, use those programs.
	It's just the way it is.
	There's going to be some consternation.
	So you have to have the $4 billion a week.
	It's interesting because it adds up to a trillion, but the world doesn't work like that.
	I like the fact, and the math adds up, and I'm all good so far, but it doesn't work like that.
	Let me go back.
	It's programs and billets, not individual people.
	You did a buyout of government employees the other day.
	It may be legal, it may not be legal.
	I kind of like your rattle in the cage.
	I like it.
	I kind of dig that.
	But let me make a recommendation.
	Where do we got to start?
	As we just passed in NDAA, it's $900 billion.
	President Trump's talking about a hemispheric defense.
	We're talking about a new order, a new geostrategic order, a new geoeconomic order.
	We're dumping 25% tariffs on our two biggest trading partners, or two of the three.
	There's new thinking.
	Let me toss out an idea.
unidentified		I think I'd start at the Pentagon.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Because I think if you start at the Pentagon, you might be able to then get buy-in.
		On the discretionary spending on social services.
		Let's start at the Pentagon.
		If you don't start at the Pentagon, the math of four billion a week is not relevant.
		And it has to happen now, now, now.
		Short break.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Palisades.
		Washington Times has a...
		Quite frankly, it's a wake-up call to the folks in the Palisades.
		And since I'm very familiar with property in the Palisades, the most beautiful, quaint place, just incredible, very classy, understated.
		Now the people there, that's where Reagan used to live with Nancy.
		It was that kind of crowd because he was not a big, he was not a flashy Beverly Hills type or Holmby Hills type or Bel Air type.
		And as we talked about the show when the president went out there.
		Washington Times has got a thing.
		Because of laws in California, they have to have Section 8 housing now.
		Low-cost housing.
		That's going to rock the world, these progressives.
		And they're still talking about 18 months.
		I think dumpsters got in there.
		President Trump, Rick Grinnell, and others are trying to...
		I know a bunch of buddies of mine that are working with Grinnell now because they want to move out smartly.
		Chris Hoare is joining us.
		Chris, now more than ever, I think you need a satellite phone.
		I keep telling people, get them.
		You need them.
		But you might need power generation more.
		Tell me about your store and what you provide.
		You always come in with a great special, and I appreciate it.
		I asked you, I said, hey, we got people that are hurting right now.
		What do you got for us?
		So talk to us today.
chris hoar ▲ ● ▼		Well, yeah, Steve, you're absolutely right.
		Satellite phones were key to saving many lives in these terrible fires we had in the Palisades and around the L.A. area because satellite phones work when the cell towers go down.
		And, of course, the cell towers were down, the power's down.
		And people were not able to use their cell phones to call for assistance.
		But the satellite phones and our sat phone customers were able to use their sat phones to get assistance because they work regardless of what's going on on the ground.
		And they always have and always will.
		And so that's just another reminder, Steve, why you need a sat phone.
		But something else that's come out of this is the need for power.
		Some friends of ours have actually been without power now for Two weeks so far and counting.
		But they have one of our solar-powered power banks.
		So they actually have power.
		They're one of the few up there who do.
		And look, this has been a problem for a while.
		And we've seen attacks on the power grid.
		And just the other day, Cash Patel, soon-to-be FBI director, I guess, we hope, was talking about the vulnerability of the power grid.
		So look.
		Yes, after a disaster, a portable solar power bank is absolutely essential.
		But given the ongoing threats and increasing threats from around the world to our utility services, it's something that everyone should have.
		You know, some people have the propane-powered ones, and that's fine if you can get propane.
		But if you can't, then the sun is always going to be there.
		Yeah, no, absolutely.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		How many of these do you have?
		Because I want to tell the audience, your phones, when you come up with these offers for us, exclusively for the war room, they go quickly.
		How many power packages do you have?
		How many generators?
chris hoar ▲ ● ▼		Well, we're running pretty low after the fires.
		We had a ton of...
		Of units going up there to LA County area.
		But Steve, despite that, you know, we don't try to cash in on these things.
		We try to help.
		And so today, if you pick up a sat phone, an iridium sat phone, normally $2,000 just for $499 and prepay for 3,600 minutes, you get a free solar powered battery power bank EcoFlow River Max Plus.
		And Steve, this unit kicks out up to 720 watt hours.
		It provides up to 1800 watts of continuous power.
		You can plug anything into it from USB to a standard wall plug up to nine units at a time.
		And this unit retails for up to $1,000 elsewhere.
		We're giving that for free.
		When you pick up a discounted smartphone at sat123.com forward slash Bannon or call us at 941-841-0844.
		That's 941-841-0844.
		But Steve, we've also got up to a 40% discount on all of it.
		EcoFlow power banks and solar panels.
		Even the units that can power your entire house.
		They are a bit more expensive.
		Normally $6,500 today.
		I think they're only $4,200.
		But yeah, SAT.com.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		So you get the Iridium phone.
		You get the minutes.
		The minutes can roll.
		If you don't use them, minutes roll over.
		And you get the free power pack, which is $1,000.
		Okay, where do people go to call and talk to like a human being and walk through this?
		Because you know how the war on posse is.
		And they've been working the Senate all day, right?
		They've been working the Senate.
		They need to talk about a deal.
		So where do they go?
chris hoar ▲ ● ▼		To get a great deal to talk to one of our great sales reps, just call 941-841-0844.
		That's 941-841-0844 or sat123.com forward slash Bannon.
		Steve, I think we have about 50 of these units left and then when they're done, they're done.
		And then we'll get new units in.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		First 50 callers, let's get up on it now.
		You can take a break from calling the Senate and beating them up.
		Call and walk through and make sure you understand the offer.
		Chris Hoare, thank you, brother.
		Appreciate you.
		Always.
chris hoar ▲ ● ▼		Thanks.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Appreciate it.
chris hoar ▲ ● ▼		Cheers.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Chris cuts these.
		They get these special deals, get the stuff in, and then it moves out quickly.
		These things always go, I don't know, 10 minutes.
		So get on it.
		I want to go back to one of the engine room, guys.
		So to get to the balance, I'd love the trillion dollars.
		So directionally, you're heading in the right direction, Elon.
		Good on you.
		We need it now, not a year from now.
		Because generally, we're not going to get it all, but generally, you know, we can't pass a thing and spend it and then go through a year saying we should cut it.
		That's redonkulous, so we don't need to do that.
		That's why we have very smart people over at Doge, and you've got even smarter people at OMB. They know what they're doing.
		But to go back, this is my defense budget.
		So we have roughly, we take in, I don't know, four and a half or five trillion dollars now.
		And we're going to have a bigger gap, because remember, that does include the tax cuts on, No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and the big kahuna, no tax on Social Security.
		But we roughly take in $4.5 to $5 trillion.
		Corporate tax is only $500 billion of that, just saying.
		We spend about $6.5 trillion, roughly.
		These are rough numbers, but it's about a $3.5 to $2 trillion deficit.
		Of the discretionary spending, the entitlements...
		Add up to X amount, but discretionary spending is about $1.75 trillion.
		$900 billion of that, let's say a trillion for Roundup, make this easy, is defense budget.
		$500 to $750 is social services.
		That's the Meals on Wheels, all this other stuff.
		You have Social Security and Medicare, and I keep telling these guys, and when somebody, some politician says, we can't do this because you've got to get to entitlements, they're lying to you.
		They are lying to you.
		They're lying to you.
		We're never going to get into entitlements and to the American people.
		The little guy's got one thing.
		He works all his life.
		He's got a contract.
		That contract, he's got a little bit of Social Security, $1,200.
		He's got that.
		He's got Medicare.
		That's what he's got.
		And he's got leverage.
		And I tell him as a populist, hey, you hold on to leverage.
		You don't change it.
		You don't agree to it.
		You don't even have a conversation.
		We're not even interested in talking about entitlements.
		Until...
		We see the corporate welfare and these welfare queens and these corporations, and that's what they are.
		We've got to see some cuts, and the cut we've got to start with is defense.
		And I'm a hawk.
		I served for seven and a half or eight years.
		Mo did too, West Point, and then she went to the Middle East.
		I was three and a half, four years.
		So I'm a hawk.
		I'm pro-defense, but I'm not pro-stupidity.
		We can't continue to do this.
		And I'm tired of asking nations around the world, hey, can you pay 2%?
		No, we're paying way too much for way too little.
		And it's not thought through.
		We're not going to have any more land wars in the Eurasian landmass that we're involved in.
		Not going to happen.
		You see this with, wait for it, hemispheric defense.
		Got that?
		Secure the homeland and things around the homeland and let's have a fortress America and extend the fortress from the Arctic down to the Darien Gap.
		And then we have our partners down in Brazil and Argentina take care of the rest.
		And that's pretty good.
		That's Monroe Doctrine 2.0.
		Manifest Destiny.
		You get Canada in there, get a partner up with Canada, Manifest Destiny 2.0.
	Fortress of America 2.0.
	Throw in an Iron Dome, and hey, an Iron Dome's not going to be cheap.
	Throw in an Iron Dome, and Bob's your uncle.
	Don't need to be around the world.
	Don't need this apparatus.
	Don't need Morning Joe talking to us.
	Oh, you got the Atlantic Council.
	Screw them.
	Let Europe pay for it.
	Let the people come off Stade.
	Let them come off the ski slopes.
	Let them get to the West End of London.
	Let's go to Provence.
	Let's go to Tuscany.
	Cough up.
	Pay up.
	You're so worried about the Russian army?
	That's your problem.
	Last time I looked, we're in a continental power.
	We bailed you out.
	Oh, World War I. We bailed you out World War II. We bailed you out Cold War.
	Three times the charm.
	Done.
	This is why Ukraine's got to be done today.
	No more.
	No more killing.
	No more money.
	Nothing.
	What we should do.
	No money.
	President Trump's ceasefire immediately.
	And then we want a forensic accounting on Zelensky.
	We want to see how much those oligarchs stole from the Ukrainian people and from you, the American taxpayer.
	No more money.
	No more troops.
	Not part of a security guarantee.
	Nope.
unidentified		Nope.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Not our problem.
		The border we're interested in, remember, is the territorial integrity, the self-determination, the sovereignty of Ukraine.
		Well, that's two Slavic entities slugging it out over there on, you know, ill-defined somewhere around Stalingrad.
		I don't care.
		I could care less.
		That's between them.
		Figure it out.
		One we care about is down the Rio Grande.
		That's down Star County, Texas.
		And you know what?
		Starr County, Texas, 97% Hispanic, most Hispanic county in this country.
		In 2016, we lost as good a job as I thought I did.
		President Trump lost that by 60% to the ultimate globalist, Hillary Clinton.
		2024, hard-bitten Starr County, Texas, 97% Hispanic.
		President Trump wins by 16 points.
		They're listening.
		They get it.
		That border is what we're concerned about.
		Those people are who we're concerned about.
		Their sovereignty.
		Their self-determination.
		Their territorial integrity of the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas and Arizona and California thrown to Mexico, too.
		And the territorial integrity of Midtown Manhattan in Chicago, in Denver, in Los Angeles.
		All of it.
		Because every state's a border state.
unidentified		Every city's a border city.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Chemical warfare.
		We're over in Ukraine.
		Hell, we're losing 100,000 people a year on fentanyl.
		That's a chemical.
		This is the opium war, too.
		This is the chemical warfare.
		We've had a biological attack.
		Who says we had a biological attack?
		Not just the war.
		We've been preaching that gospel since 15 January 2020. You know you were here.
		You know who's preaching it now?
		Central Intelligence Agency.
		First day of the job, Radcliffe.
		They leak.
		Oh, you know what?
		The lab leak, Wuhan lab leak is...
		Yeah, that was something.
		That's real.
		And now they're saying, step two, they're leaking out that, hey, the Chinese Communist Party might have either inadvertently let it out of there or let it out of there.
		Cy Hirsch, and you can take Cy Hirsch with a grain of salt.
		He's saying, hey, they had actual, we actually had trained scientists in there.
		The United States, the CIA, had two informers right in there that were telling them.
		And they told them when it came out in, wait for it, November 2019. Heard that date before?
		November 2019. So we know who the enemy is, right?
		It's time to get on with it, get focused.
		And we've got to go back to that defense budget.
		Look, you want to bring down the Chinese Communist Party?
		Remember, I'm the only civilian in the history of this country fully sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party one minute after high noon on 20 January 2021. Matt Pottinger, Mike Pompeo, Peter Navarro, and your own Stephen K. Bannon.
		That wears a badge of honor.
		Because, yes, I support Lao Ba Jin.
		We can't overthrow the Chinese Communist Party.
		We cannot take down the Chinese Communist Party.
		Only Lao Ba Jin can do it.
		And they will do it.
		Because they're living under the most murderous dictatorship in the history of mankind.
		Hell, make Stalin and Hitler look like pikers.
		Hell, they killed 250 million of their own people.
		Didn't bat an eye.
		Mao said, yeah, they'll replicate.
		They're not a problem.
		People are not a problem.
		Too many people are a problem, they thought.
		Not so much today.
		This is the situation.
		It's the defense budget.
		You cut the Chinese Communist Party off of capital.
		Access to capital in the United States of America.
		Loans and equity.
		You cut them off from that.
		You cut them off from technology.
		Because trust me, as good as they've gotten to take on the oligarchs of this Faustian pact we made, they stole most of that.
		And or they were trained here in American universities.
		You know what I think about this whole thing with foreigners in American universities?
		No.
		If they come here...
		They get an exit visa.
		Not a green card.
		Exit visa.
		Go home.
		We want you to make your country great again.
		In making your country great again, you'll make the world great again.
		It'll make it easier for the United States to be prosperous and peaceful.
		That's what we're aiming for, isn't it?
		Stop the forever.
	Stop the invade everywhere.
	Invite everybody in.
	Short break.
	Back in a moment.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Van.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, welcome back.
		Mercy Schlapp joins us.
		We have a huge gathering at CPAC. Was it on the 19th, Mercy?
		We're going to do a War Room Force Multiplier Academy.
		The first, I think, 500 or 1,000 people of War Room Posse can show that you get the ticket with the discount price.
		You get a seat and you're going to get a free lunch.
		How about that?
		And all day we're going to be doing the rave reviews.
		We love it.
		So, Mercy, tell me about the rest of it.
unidentified		Well, you know, we're starting off on February 19th with the CPAC International Summit.
		You were with us last year, Steve, on the fact that you had different, basically, leaders from across the globe where we were able to tackle the wokeism issue, the globalism issue, the Marxism issue, and come up with the best practices in terms of what we can do to support each other in the different continents.
		It's just amazing.
		And that event itself.
		Has grown substantially and we're going to be expecting a lot of these international leaders to return.
		And part of this is that they're feeling very invigorated right now.
		Because the Trump effect is not just here in America where we've seen just a change in how Americans are basically not only- Feeling, but living their lives and seeing the fact that he's been able to do so much in just a few weeks.
		But this Trump effect is also having a huge impact internationally, where they themselves are saying, look, we gotta get organized.
		We gotta get our conservative movements stronger.
		We need the Steve Bannons in their world as well to be able to make sure that their message of freedom, their message of capitalism and hope, and the nationalistic message there.
		Also resonates the fact that they wanna be, for example, Italy first or Argentina first or Japan first.
		And they're inspired by what we have done here in America.
		And so that's going to basically kick off our CPAC conference, followed by that.
		Then it's full blown red, white and blue.
		As you know, we'll have the top speakers as we're seeing these confirmations come through.
		We're working with their staff to get these cabinet members to come join us and give their vision of what they're going to be doing in their departments.
		And then, of course, J.D. Vance and President Donald Trump were there invited.
		And as we know, President Trump always loves to close the CPAC conference where he knows and he's always said it.
		He said, look, that year of 2021, when everyone thought that he was done politically, CPAC brought him right back up to that stage the next month following that January and said, you know what?
		We love you, Mr. President.
		We're never going to back down.
		We will fight for you.
		And of course, now we're going to be able to really be part of this.
		What I would say would be the second inaugural address, the victory speech at CPAC this year.
		Wow.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
		Amazing.
		Mercy, one more time, where do people go?
		I'm going to talk about this in depth at 5 o'clock.
		We've got a lot to go through on the Academy and all of it.
		Where do we go, Mercy, today?
		We want thousands of Warren Posse like normal show up to this.
		Very important.
unidentified		We need it.
		CPAC.org slash war room.
		That's CPAC.org slash war room.
		Thank you so much for supporting what we're doing at CPAC. The tickets right now, $76, which is just amazing.
		We've had great sponsors coming in so that we can keep these prices low so we can make sure that y'all can join us here at CPAC February 19th through the 22nd at the Gaylord Hotel in Maryland, right outside Washington, D.C. So if you got snowed out or- We're cold out in that inauguration, Steve.
		You want to make sure American patriots to join us at CPAC. We're going to be cheeked by jail.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Mercy, thank you so much.
		I'll talk about this more today.
		I want a huge turnout like we've had the last couple of years, thousands of people.
		And I will meet and greet all of you.
		Over the couple of days, we're going to have special events, get-togethers, etc.
		Also, we'll be putting up this afternoon on February 8th, on Saturday, I will be speaking at Harvard University.
		And we'll get you more details on that at the Conservative Republican Student Conference 2025, I think over at the Charles Hotel, right there in Harvard Square, which is a fantastic place.
		Spent a lot of good time there in Harvard Square.
		We'll get that up, and we'll get more on the CPAC. More on the budget, more on geopolitics, more on economics, more on the conference process, all of it.
		But remember today, between now and today, we're at the presser at 1 o'clock.
		We'll be streaming that.
		I'll be back at 5. Charlie Kirk follows us next.
		Poso after that.
		202-224-3121.
		You've had an amazing, massive impact so far.
		Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Bobby Kennedy.
		President Trump wants him.
		Our movement needs him.
		The country needs him.
		Let's get him over the top.
		I think things are going very well.
		No need to hit the panic button yet.
		We need constant and continuous pressure.
		Action, action, action.
		I want to thank everybody.
		It's been so great.
		Yesterday was magnificent.
		The feedback I got was tremendous.
		202-224-3121 or get Bill Blaster or go over to Mike Davis' Article 3. Mike Lindell, I want to finish today.
		I don't know.
		Pillow, cross, sheets, towels.
		What have we got?
		It's the Mega Mega Sale.
		It's Mega Mega.
		Is that what we got?
mike lindell ▲ ● ▼		The Mega Mega.
		And by the way, everybody, Lindale TV is a big sponsor of CPAC now, and I want you all getting there because I'm going to be speaking, and it's going to be amazing.
		So I look forward to that every time they have it.
		But in my pillow, this is the mega, like Steve said, the mega MAGA sale.
		It's the biggest sale of the year, and it's the crosses you see me wear.
		For over 20 years, just like that.
		And we have the men's and women's, and they're amazing.
		It's a warm-room exclusive.
		You save 30%.
		Then the My Towels, get all the My Towels.
		These are the six-packs.
		They all came in.
		Two more just came in.
		Two more big loads came in, so all the colors are there again.
		If you guys get them now, because they go fast at the $29.98.
		And then the flannel sheets.
		Once they're gone, they're gone.
		And those are as low as $44.98.
		The War Room Posse gets the queens for $59.98, kings $60.98, the lowest price ever.
		And so go to the website, use promo code WARROOM, or call, and you get free shipping on your entire order.
		So we've combined every sale we have into one for the War Room Posse.
		That's why it's the mega sale.
		The clearance event is still online there at MyPillow.com.
		Go down to your seat, Steve.
		Click on it.
		Use that promo code.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And it's free shipping for everybody that uses the promo code WARRUM. MyPillow.com, promo code WARRUM. Michael and Dell, go back to the factory floor.
		We'll see you this afternoon, 5 o'clock.
		Off a masterpiece, Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff.
		A masterpiece of a film from Philip Kaufman with Conte doing the score.
		Won the Oscar.
		For best score and I think best music, best song.
		The right stuff.
		The grit, determination, you can't even define it.
		But you know it when you see it.
		That's the MAGA movement.
		We will see you back.
		Charlie Kirk next.
		Post after that.
		We'll be back 5 to 7 tonight.

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