Feb. 6, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Athletes have been forced onto the front lines, and men claiming to be girls have stolen more than 3,500 victories. | ||
| That's a lot. | ||
| And invaded more than 11,000 competitions designed for women. | ||
| Last year, a male cyclist posing as a woman competed in the 800-mile Arizona Trail Race, a very big deal in cycling, and obliterated the woman's course record by nearly five and a half hours. | ||
| Sounds like a lot, doesn't it, huh? | ||
| Five and a half hours. | ||
| But you have to hear the weightlifting records. | ||
| You think that's bad. | ||
| The weightlifting's worse. | ||
| In 2023, a man in women's power lifting broke two world records and outlifted his closest female opponent in one event by 440 pounds. | ||
| And they continue to defend themselves. | ||
| Mr. Congressman, you know that, right? | ||
| They continue to defend themselves. | ||
| We hope they continue onward because I don't think we can lose a race. | ||
| This was one of the big reasons that we all won, and it's one of the big reasons that we had a record, a landslide like they haven't seen before, very often anyway. | ||
| And who could forget last year's Paris Olympics where a male boxer stole the woman's gold medal after brutalizing his female opponents so viciously that she had to forfeit just after 46 seconds. | ||
| And she was a championship fighter. | ||
| And actually, they had two women or two people that transitioned and both of them won gold medals and they won them very convincingly. | ||
| But all of that ends today because with this executive order, the war on women's sports is over. | ||
| Heather Higgins, Andy Botner, Victoria Coley from From Independent Women's Forum, it's a fantastic group of people that fought very hard on this issue. | ||
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Watch what I do, and then I'm going to give you some pens, okay? | |
| You ready? | ||
| What a nice picture this is, huh, Governor? | ||
| You ready? | ||
| We'll do a good job. | ||
| Wait, let me press that. | ||
| I want to make this a really good signature. | ||
| Because this is, you know, this is a big one, right? | ||
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Oh, I think we have a 10. | |
| We have a 10. | ||
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God bless you, Mr. President. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| huh? | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Now you're going to go out and win those events, right? | ||
| Nice to see you all. | ||
| Great going, everybody. | ||
| Thank you, kids. | ||
| Here. | ||
| Take a pen. | ||
| I'll give some of these out, okay? | ||
| Take a pen. | ||
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Take a pen. | |
| Thank you so much. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| This one's not 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've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It's Wednesday, 5 February, Year of the Lord 2025. Welcome to the late afternoon, early evening edition of the War Room. | ||
| We're going to get down. | ||
| We've got a lot to go through this afternoon and early this evening. | ||
| We're going to go to the White House a little while to our own. | ||
| Natalie Winters want to start. | ||
| The War on Women is drawing to a close because of President Trump. | ||
| Want to bring in Carrie Sheffield, Independent Women's Forum, Independent Women's Voice. | ||
| Carrie, I think, if memory serves me correctly, years ago, you're the very first person to come on War Room and highlight to our audience. | ||
| This situation with men playing women's sports, I remember talking beforehand, I go, is this actually a thing? | ||
| And then you shocked the MAGA movement by telling us it actually was a thing. | ||
| How big a day was this for you, ma'am? | ||
| Steve, I am not tired of winning. | ||
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This was an earthquake. | |
| This was the restoration of women's rights. | ||
| This was... | ||
| The moment where the left was exposed. | ||
| Even you heard the president in that clip you played. | ||
| He said, keep doing this, please. | ||
| Left, keep doing this because we're going to keep. | ||
| Winning in elections because you don't care about women. | ||
| You don't care about the bodily safety, the bodily autonomy of women. | ||
| You don't care that women are beaten to pulps. | ||
| She mentioned the boxer during the Olympics. | ||
| She had to forfeit after just over 40 seconds because she knew she could die or get a concussion from a man. | ||
| That is a party, the Democratic Party, the leftist Marxism. | ||
| They do not care about women. | ||
| That's what this is about. | ||
| And so this was a phenomenal day. | ||
| And thank you, Steve, and Captain Bannon and your whole team for years for supporting us in this cause. | ||
| It was a momentous day. | ||
| And I just, it's truth wins. | ||
| Carrie, I want to go back. | ||
| I want to do two things. | ||
| Number one, people would think that the Democratic Party was, you know, You had these feminists that came out of the 60s and 70s. | ||
| It always puts itself forward as that Republicans or the populist nationalists are heartless. | ||
| Conservatives are heartless. | ||
| They're nurturing and they're forgiving and they're the easy ones. | ||
| They're always there to have someone lean on their shoulder. | ||
| Why do you say that they're the ones driving the war on women? | ||
| That would be counterintuitive, wouldn't it? | ||
| Well, when someone can't even define what a woman is. | ||
| They're unable to defend who that person is. | ||
| You can't define it. | ||
| You can't defend it. | ||
| And so the complete unmooring from reality, from biology, from truth, that's really what this is about. | ||
| It is a fundamental unmooring from the truth. | ||
| And the transgender stuff is just one issue. | ||
| We see this everywhere else, that darkness and disorder versus truth and order. | ||
| That's really what this is about. | ||
| And that's what I love about your work, Steve, and with War Room, that you understand that this is not just a superficial political fight. | ||
| This is a fight over what is right and wrong, evil and good, light and dark, truth and lies. | ||
| And what was very telling, the Washington Post News Alert about this, I'll read the wording here. | ||
| It says, the new order threatens to deny federal funds for schools that allow transgender athletes to compete in K-12 college and sports. | ||
| It's the latest salvo in President Donald Trump's attack on transgender rights, another that will ricochet through schools across the country. | ||
| As the president delivers on another contentious culture war promise. | ||
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My goodness, Steve, like the language here. | |
| An attack on transgender rights. | ||
| To completely ignore. | ||
| What Joe Biden and the woke left did to women's rights, women's rights who are vulnerable. | ||
| Newsflash, women are physically smaller. | ||
| We're not as strong as men. | ||
| That's supposedly what the feminist left fought for, was to acknowledge we are- Different from men. | ||
| That's what Title IX was. | ||
| Title IX, which was signed by a Republican, by the way, Richard Nixon, but it was a bipartisan bill because it was a Democrat Congress. | ||
| Title IX was under threat by Joe Biden, who wanted to completely rewrite it. | ||
| He put out ridiculous regulations toward that effect. | ||
| We challenge it in the courts at IWF. And credit to my colleague, May Melman, who wrote that executive order also that President Trump issued on day one as well. | ||
| So if this is the tack that the language that I just read from the Washington Post, if that's the language they want to take to say that this is an attack on transgender's rights instead of the restoration of women's rights, Steve, we're going to keep winning. | ||
| So, Kerry, I want to go back from when you first started coming on the show and the guys started to have the march and Captain Bannon would go and the march was huge and you guys were kicking up a storm. | ||
| I thought certain things were being done. | ||
| I knew in the courts, but I thought even at the state level, the House was passing stuff. | ||
| I'm trying to put stuff out there. | ||
| Did none of that work? | ||
| And that's why you had to have the order the other day and the executive order today. | ||
| Did all those things we worked at the state level, were they just not? | ||
| Powerful enough to kind of punch through this because these folks kept rolling and that's why you needed President Trump to sign an executive order? | ||
| Well, we took it as a full-court press. | ||
| We took it as our strategy was let's flood the zone. | ||
| We do state, local, federal. | ||
| We do all of the above. | ||
| And I think that's partially what's worked is because it's raised the issue. | ||
| And yes, we won state. | ||
| But Steve, we didn't win state fights in every state. | ||
| We only won it in some states. | ||
| I mean, our goal is to win it in every state. | ||
| But we wanted the federal protections as well, because this is about federal money going to these schools. | ||
| And so whether you're talking about state or federal dollars, state or federal enforcement, we need an all-of-the-above approach. | ||
| And again, I think one of the most powerful ads that we saw last cycle was when the Trump campaign released the ad saying, Biden, or I guess it was by that point, Kamala. | ||
| Kamala is for they, them. | ||
| Donald Trump is for you. | ||
| And this is something that is, it's far reaching beyond just sports. | ||
| You know, some people on the left like to say, oh, well, these are a bunch of whiny suburban rich girls crying about their lacrosse team. | ||
| No, this is far beyond just sports. | ||
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We're talking also about prison. | |
| So at Independent Women's Forum, we've... | ||
| Put out a documentary series about prisons, women's prisons. | ||
| This affects not only prisons, it affects battered domestic violence shelters. | ||
| It affects anywhere where a woman's bodily safety and vulnerability is exposed to a man. | ||
| This is the new left. | ||
| This is what the left wants. | ||
| And it's the twilight zone. | ||
| I can't believe that we're at this point. | ||
| But again, it's because our culture has fallen so far from our Judeo-Christian roots that the idea that there is an objective truth has been thrown by the wayside. | ||
| And it's so beautiful that President Trump is reminding us that the truth does exist. | ||
| And we're not crazy, Steve. | ||
| We're not crazy. | ||
| We will not be gaslit anymore. | ||
| Terry Schilling. | ||
| Kerry, hang on, because I want to hold you through the break and into the next block. | ||
| Terry Schilling, I remember when you first came to me about this, like with Kerry, and it was like, are you kidding me? | ||
| Is this a real thing? | ||
| Go back in that time. | ||
| I mean, this kind of came out of—I think it came out of nowhere. | ||
| I know as we've gotten more experts on here, the Brandon Shorewaters, they said, no, no, no, this has been years in the building. | ||
| What shocks me is how the party supposedly of— Well, Steve, this is something that, you know, took a lot of work, a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, a lot of getting made fun of and laughed at. | ||
| But, you know, today was a great day. | ||
| It was a great day of victory. | ||
| The real reason why the feminists on the left... | ||
| Have been so egregious and terrible and absent at best on this issue of gender, transgenderism, is because they seek to eliminate all differences between men and women. | ||
| They want to destroy gender by using gender. | ||
| And that's not something I came up with. | ||
| They told us that. | ||
| Judith Butler has written multiple times and said in multiple interviews that on the issue of transgenderism, their goal... | ||
| Is to use gender to destroy gender. | ||
| So what they want to do is overload the system, introduce all this stuff that doesn't make any sense, confuse children at the youngest grades. | ||
| Their goal is this, like... | ||
| Disgusting, unappealing, androgynous world where there are no more men. | ||
| There are no more women. | ||
| It's just androgyny. | ||
| And reproduction is controlled by the state because we can't handle it. | ||
| We produce too many people. | ||
| We cause climate change. | ||
| We create all types of social problems. | ||
| They want all of this to be controlled and mandated by the state. | ||
| That is the real goal of... | ||
| At least the third or second wave feminists, they want to destroy gender. | ||
| They don't like that men exist. | ||
| They don't like that women exist. | ||
| They want something in between to where they can control it. | ||
| And now you've got this insane gender industry now, Steve, that's mutilating adults and children. | ||
| It's $4.5 billion right now. | ||
| Most of that comes from our tax dollars, Medicaid and state funding. | ||
| It's forced to be covered by our health insurance premiums now. | ||
| President Trump's erasing all of that, though. | ||
| So I think that Trump's right. | ||
| This whole gender madness is going to go away very quickly. | ||
| He's instructed the DOJ, for example, to investigate doctors and clinics who perform these surgeries on children. | ||
| It's a beautiful day in America, and it wouldn't be here without War Room and President Trump's enormous victory this past fall. | ||
| It was President Trump, but it's here because of War Room Posse and Carrie Sheffield and Terry Schelling. | ||
| And others, so many others. | ||
| Dozens and dozens we have in the show, but the work, the labor in the vineyards. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break and return to this topic. | ||
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Another victory today in days of thunder. | |
| President Trump is coming in hot in the Oval Office. | ||
| Johnny Kahn takes us out. | ||
| Johnny Kahn from Breitbart. | ||
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Short commercial break. | |
| Back in the morning. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann. | |
| Okay, I have Terry Schilling from American Principles Project and the great Carrie Sheffield from Independent Woman's Forum. | ||
| Um, Two of the leaders at the tip of the spear of getting this done. | ||
| Quite amazing. | ||
| I remember they came on the show. | ||
| It's got to be four years ago on this topic. | ||
| And people, I didn't believe it at first. | ||
| I go, come on, is this a thing? | ||
| Man, I didn't know anything about this. | ||
| As I told Terry all the time, this is not my line of country. | ||
| I told Brandon Showalter, but it was darker and more bizarre the more you get into it. | ||
| Schilling, what's exactly in the executive order? | ||
| President Trump signed this and it didn't come first day because they had been working on this one. | ||
| What is in this executive order and why is that important? | ||
| So this executive order is very similar to the anti-DEI executive orders, which is essentially saying that Allowing males to compete against women by identifying that is a violation of civil rights law. | ||
| So it's basically going back to the original definition of sex under Title IX and all of civil rights law. | ||
| So if you interpret that to mean men who claim to be women, you are now violating the law. | ||
| It's illegal. | ||
| And now you're at risk of losing federal funding for any of your education programs. | ||
| Title IX is all about educational opportunities for women. | ||
| And so it instructs... | ||
| DoJ and the Department of Education to interpret Title IX as only regarding biological sex and none of these made-up categories in between. | ||
| So, Kerry Sheffield, what does that mean practically from what you've been focused on? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| How do you guys use this executive order to make sure that we get men out of women's sports? | ||
| Because you understand, ma'am, probably better than anyone. | ||
| They're just not going to respond. | ||
| In executive order, they're going to be, yeah, that's Trump. | ||
| That's Carrie Sheffield. | ||
| She's a radical. | ||
| Terry Schilling, we don't care about him. | ||
| What does this mean practically? | ||
| Well, in practice, I mean, yes, the left responds to raw power. | ||
| And that's what this is. | ||
| This is the power of the purse. | ||
| This is the power of denying funding by designating people who violate this executive order as a violator of civil rights. | ||
| And practically, this, as in that clip you played earlier, This has affected more than 11,000 competitions designed for women and 3,500 victories where men stole. | ||
| Men and boys stole prizes, scholarships, victories that should have gone to women and girls. | ||
| And so you're talking about tens of thousands of events already just in the last few years. | ||
| And so imagine how many generations, we're talking generations forward of millions of women and girls, as long as this is made permanent. | ||
| And the question I know we were talking earlier about... | ||
| This—what he signed today as an executive order, and we know those are here today, gone tomorrow. | ||
| The silver lining, though, is that President Trump also signed into law a piece of legislation, which is H.R. 28, and that was signed into law last month. | ||
| I was there for the press conference with Speaker Mike Johnson right after the House had passed that bill. | ||
| And you know what was fascinating was that only two House Democrats passed or supported that bill. | ||
| I was shocked. | ||
| I was so disappointed. | ||
| One of them was Cuellar from Texas, who is the only pro-life Democrat left in Congress. | ||
| And the fact that only two—and they were both men—that no Democrat woman stood up for women's rights in the entire United States House of Representatives is a sad commentary on the state of women's rights in this country. | ||
| Terry Schilling, what are currently the politics of this? | ||
| You guys have changed the arc of this. | ||
| President Trump has changed the arc of it. | ||
| But where do we stand right now, given there's no doubt on the cultural side this is one of the more important of the cultural issues? | ||
| Because I think it woke people up to how radical these people are. | ||
| As Kerry just said, when you had the bill, only two Democrats, and one, I don't think the Democrats consider Cuellar even a Democrat given a stance on immigration. | ||
| What is the politics of this right now, sir? | ||
| So now that we've won with this executive order, we've got to drive this home through the House and through the Senate. | ||
| We have to bring votes on this. | ||
| And here's where I'm concerned, Steve, is that McConnell, when he was in the Senate, he didn't want to bring up any votes that weren't going to pass. | ||
| And that is not how things should be done. | ||
| We need to hold these guys accountable, get them on the record, force every single Democrat in the Senate to vote yes or no. | ||
| Do you think that men who claim to be women should be allowed to play in girls' sports? | ||
| And see what I'll tell you is, and you know this better than most, we're going to be spending $5 million in the Virginia governor's race this year. | ||
| We just got out of the field with two of our focus groups testing this issue in Virginia. | ||
| And what we found, this is with swing voters, what we found is that this issue isn't going away. | ||
| It's actually much more powerful and stronger than it was before the election. | ||
| Because now it's much more real in the minds of voters. | ||
| When this issue wasn't that real and when people still dismissed it, saying that this isn't happening, but it's good that it is, it wasn't as powerful, but it was still powerful. | ||
| Now that voters see that it's actually happening and President Trump has shined a spotlight on this for the whole country to see. | ||
| Now it's even more powerful and effective. | ||
| So we've really got to drive this home in campaigns and elections from now up until we get this law passed. | ||
| Because if we don't, we will lose momentum and it will run out and they'll eventually sneak this thing through. | ||
| But we've got to get votes in the Senate. | ||
| That's the next big play here, Steve. | ||
| We've got to hold these guys accountable. | ||
| Every Democrat, every Republican needs to tell us, do you think that men should be able to compete against girls' sports? | ||
| That's the first step. | ||
| So you're saying this is still live. | ||
| This is a live fire exercise. | ||
| It's hotter than it's ever been. | ||
| It was the number one issue for swing voters. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And now it's hotter. | ||
| This was the number one issue for swing voters in the election. | ||
| For swing voters, not talking about motivating the base, not talking about motivating the Democratic base. | ||
| This is the number one issue for people that were having a tough time deciding who to vote for. | ||
| And it's a gateway issue, Steve. | ||
| You said this just a little bit ago. | ||
| This opens people's minds to seeing just how freaking crazy the Democratic Party is. | ||
| They actually think that men can become women through chemicals and surgeries. | ||
| No one in their right mind, no sane person. | ||
| We've got to continue to drive the wedge. | ||
| And here's the beautiful thing, Steve. | ||
| We forced the votes on this and you're going to start to have more Democrats defecting. | ||
| The more times you force them to vote, and you know what? | ||
| See, we don't stop at women's sports. | ||
| We've got to get these guys to vote on whether or not we should ban sex changes for minors. | ||
| You think women's sports is a hot issue for these people? | ||
| Just wait until they find out how many sex changes for minors they're doing in this country and that taxpayer dollars are paying for it. | ||
| Sorry, I'm outside the White House. | ||
| We just left, and there's cops all over. | ||
| But yeah, this issue is hotter than it was before, and it was the number one issue for swing voters, so we've got to keep driving this. | ||
| I will say, Terry, just to reinforce what you're saying, I live in Virginia. | ||
| I live in Arlington. | ||
| And there is a high school, Washington and Liberty High School, not too far from where I live. | ||
| And they just removed an individual who had a sex crime history who was claiming to be a female and was exposing himself in the girls' locker room. | ||
| So it's a shared, it's a high school pool, but it's open to the community. | ||
| They have a separate entrance for the general public. | ||
| And so this dude was going in and exposing himself to young girls and women. | ||
| And it's been this scandal here in Arlington. | ||
| And the guy tried to claim the defense that, well, I'm, you know, I'm transgender, so I can go in here if I want to. | ||
| Well, you can't if you are... | ||
| A pedophile, basically. | ||
| As I understand it, he has a criminal record for something involving underage girls. | ||
| And the same thing happened with Loudoun County, where you had A father, you know, he saw that video, just angry because his daughter was assaulted by a boy wearing a skirt and allowed in the girls' bathroom. | ||
| So this is a hot issue for Virginia. | ||
| And Winsome Sears is, you know, she's been endorsed by Glenn Youngkin to be the designated candidate. | ||
| She is not shy on this issue, which is great. | ||
| Terry, you said it became real in voters' minds. | ||
| Is that because of President Trump and his McLuhan-esque understanding of mass media? | ||
| Was it Donald Trump that made this real in people's minds? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| And look, when a politician starts talking about an issue, they force conversations. | ||
| They force conversations not just in the media and in the press. | ||
| They force conversations at the dinner table, at the Rotary Club, at the breakfast clubs that these guys go to. | ||
| And that's been what's... | ||
| That's how we, APP and myself, that's how we operate in politics. | ||
| It's not, politics isn't downstream of culture, it's part of the culture. | ||
| And we can use this to drive uncomfortable conversations around the Democrats' insane policies. | ||
| But yes, this issue would be dead without President Trump. | ||
| So President Trump, I know you watch this show sometimes. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| God bless you for saving our kids and saving our girls' sports and being a leader on this. | ||
| Schilling, where do people get you? | ||
| You're on top of this and on fire, sir. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| It's just AmericanPrinciplesProject.org or you can follow me across every social media platform at shilling1776. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Carrie Sheffield, your fight continues. | ||
| Where do people go to follow you and where they get the book? | ||
| Oh, thank you, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, so we're at IWF.org, Independent Women's Forum. | ||
| And yeah, no, I've got my book. | ||
| Thanks for sharing it. | ||
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Here it is. | |
| And folks want to check my story out, Motorhome Prophecies. | ||
| It actually explains a big part of why I do what I do, why I'm fighting this fight, because it gets into much deeper topics around spirituality, good and evil. | ||
| And Terry touched on it a little bit on the ideological fight here, because this is part of gender ideology. | ||
| And gender ideology is part of critical gender theory, which is part of critical theory, which is... | ||
| Part of the Marxist school that we saw over in Germany, you know, the Frankfurt School, trying to completely obliterate what they say, you know, race or gender, any differences. | ||
| God created differences. | ||
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God created us in his image, male and female. | |
| He created races as well. | ||
| And they want to destroy all that. | ||
| And so the book gets into my testimony of how I went from a bitter, angry agnostic to now a Christian who is Thank you, Steve. | ||
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God bless you. | |
| Keep up that amazing fight. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| This is what's so satisfying. | ||
| You see these folks come on years ago. | ||
| Years ago. | ||
| Years ago. | ||
| Against the longest of long odds. | ||
| Tenacity, grit, determination, relentlessness. | ||
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Paid off today in the Oval Office. | |
| Short break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
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| Samantha Powers is going to... | ||
| He's going to be on Rachel Maddow defending. | ||
| She's a former head of USAID, if that tells you anything. | ||
| Natalie Winters. | ||
| Next hour in the war, I'm going to be going through a lot of specifics that have been put up all afternoon on MSNBC about the resistance and about their meltdown over things like USAID. But Natalie Winters, you've been ahead of the curve from the beginning. | ||
| What do you got for us? | ||
| Well, look, I think we've been really right in terms of triaging and sort of, I think, reverse engineering the resistance's response to what is going on at USAID and why it's so critical, why it's such a linchpin in all of their sort of resistance 2.0 efforts. | ||
| And I will say, Steve, it's quite interesting. | ||
| Obviously, one of the, I think, most important reasons that we're here in the press briefing room is because the idea that civil society, the media, is how they're going to push back. | ||
| So we have, you know, the insight, the ability. | ||
| To report on basically, I guess we can watch the watchers. | ||
| But all up and down media row, every legacy media outlet, in the same way that you know they would be pointing to every example when they can undermine President Trump on any narrative on any issue. | ||
| It's not like they're putting a bunch of USAID contractors up or recipients of grants, you know, doing the sort of sad fear porn propaganda about how wonderful all of these USAID grants have been. | ||
| And you know why? | ||
| It's because they're not wonderful. | ||
| It's because they're not about, you know, helping foreign countries, which even I reject that premise. | ||
| It's about, frankly, destroying this country. | ||
| And someone like Samantha Power has understood the weaponization of apparatuses like the USAID for so long. | ||
| The weaponization against the American people, the destruction. | ||
| Frankly, you talk about de-dollarization. | ||
| I think USAID is a prime example of that. | ||
| But to that point, I think this whole exercise has been really interesting because some of the staunchest defenders now of USAID, that being institutions like the Brookings Institution and basically all of the think tanks here in Washington, D.C., well, despite coming out with all the hit pieces, all the articles about how USAID is so critical and so important, we must defend them. | ||
| It's quite curious, Steve, because they never disclose in any of their stories that they've actually been multi-million dollar grant recipients from USAID themselves. | ||
| It's quite interesting. | ||
| Obviously, the Politico story, in addition to BBC, the New York Times, I think really is sort of a mask-off moment. | ||
| Caroline Levitt today during her press briefing saying, yeah, about that $8 million grant, that's canceled, that's done. | ||
| We love to see action being taken from that podium right then and there. | ||
| But this really shows you, and Steve, I think to sort of contextualize this story. | ||
| To wrap it all up, people may recall in 2023. It was October. | ||
| The Biden White House started leaking to Politico. | ||
| They were weaponizing and local media outlets saying that the way we're going to get the American people to support aid for Ukraine, despite faltering, cratering support for it, wasn't by doing audits, wasn't by showing us where, I guess, just $77 billion in taxpayer dollars were going. | ||
| But what they were going to do was lie and deceive the American people and say that Ukraine aid was actually really, really wonderful for the American industrial base. | ||
| Actually, it was great for American taxpayers. | ||
| That's the same exact playbook that you're seeing come from the mainstream media right now. | ||
| They don't want to audit it because they know it's a deep, dark, depraved underbelly. | ||
| All they want to do is try to euphemize and whitewash the legacy of USAID. That's what you saw the presser going on outside the steps tomorrow. | ||
| But I will say, Steve, today there was another press gaggle of a bunch of Democratic senators outside of the Capitol, not on the steps of USAID. And if you look at the reporting, the coverage of it... | ||
| They were getting booed and heckled, shouted down. | ||
| So it's not really all that popular. | ||
| I think Doge is a pretty popular idea among the American people. | ||
| But make no mistake, Democracy Forward, these resistance groups are still suing. | ||
| There's an article from AP we can flash on screen talking about the avalanche of litigation that they're now sort of, I guess, they're taking the flood the zone approach in their own resistance mindset. | ||
| And they're now suing every agency. | ||
| It's metastasizing, just about an hour ago, Democracy Forward, whose CEO... And met with Chuck Schumer this morning to talk about how they were going to use litigation to, you know, defeat President Trump. | ||
| So that's a buried lead right there. | ||
| But they're now suing the Department of Labor, saying that, oh, you know, Doge is trying to do what they're doing there. | ||
| So it's really, I think, an interesting sort of reframe back and forth over the idea that what they're trying to do with Doge is some, like, authoritarian, as Jen Psaki says, hostile takeover of the United States. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's what President Trump was elected for. | ||
| And it's not just the cutesy waste rot. | ||
| Yeah, I want to go back to that for a second and have you explain that one more time for the audience, because there's a lot of stuff on the internet, and today I think, particularly with USAID, I would strongly recommend, don't go into the heading, it's too good to check. | ||
| Some of the things that are coming up are, when they sound too good to check, you better check them, because there's some crazy stuff coming out. | ||
| But... | ||
| Traditionally, conservatives, Republicans, ourselves have gone, you know, they've got the drag queen story hour or they're funding, you know, a gay, you know, wicked in sub-Saharan Africa, things like that, right? | ||
| Hey, I love wicked. | ||
| I know. | ||
| You're saying, I want you to make the case why that is not what we're talking about here. | ||
| That USAID... It's much deeper, and quite frankly, even deeper than I think being a CIA cutout overseas. | ||
| There's deeper stuff on the suppression of information, the suppression of conservative voices here. | ||
| Also, the funding with the NGOs for the invasion of the country. | ||
| I mean, this is an incredibly well-organized, incredibly smart people that essentially had a kitty every year of $50 billion, and it shows you you can go a long way in destroying America, man. | ||
| Look, the musicals, I think, are sort of the limited hangout version of it. | ||
| But to that point, it is curious to me that even the mainstream media is not trying to, you know, have those people, right, on their programs pumping the airwaves saying, look, what we're doing is so great. | ||
| I've yet to see a bunch of USAID contractors or grant recipients, right? | ||
| That would be interesting messaging that I would think they'd be wanting to push. | ||
| But, Steve, here's the issue. | ||
| As someone who has spent... | ||
| Hours of my life, days of my life in the USAspending.gov database, in the Farrah filings, looking at how sort of all this funding works. | ||
| The problem is systemic in the sense that all the American people get to understand about the billions, if not trillions of taxpayer dollars that we are hemorrhaging to these foreign countries or these U.S.-based NGOs is like the start date, the end date, and maybe 50-word summary. | ||
| And who it's going to. | ||
| And the summary is typically something along the lines of countering disinformation. | ||
| And the group that it's going to, sometimes it's an undisclosed foreign recipient or undisclosed domestic recipient, and there's nothing we can do to understand who that money's going to. | ||
| But more precisely, and this was reporting that Raheem Kassam and I had sent over at the National Pulse years ago, we had looked up on Google Maps dozens of the addresses of the so-called fact-checking grant recipients or the misinformation grant recipients. | ||
| They're shacks on the side of the road. | ||
| They're non-existent entities. | ||
| It is clean and simple, pure and simple money laundering. | ||
| Moreover, Steve, when you talk about the misinformation kind of censorship industrial complex angle to it, the grants to combat misinformation, if you itemize them, which I had done, they all start, I'm talking upwards of 95% of them, post-2016. | ||
| Now, this idea that misinformation has always been an existential threat, that's not true. | ||
| The government only started responding to it after President Trump won, but more acutely and more precisely, there was a populist wave surging. | ||
| And if you look, there were grants that specifically talked about debunking and pre-bunking populist sentiment, but they've always used misinformation as a tool, right, to suppress our movement. | ||
| And when you see them funding to the tune of millions of dollars, combating misinformation initiatives in Bangladesh or in Uzbekistan or in Kazakhstan or in Armenia, and the only thing you get is a 50-word synopsis that we're going to empower journalists to counter misinformation in this. | ||
| It really begs the question of what's actually going on there. | ||
| And like you said, Steve, the media wants to look at this issue through the paradigm of autocratic hostile takeover of the United States foreign government. | ||
| How about the fact that it's actually just giving radical transparency to the American people, but the issue is that radical transparency would expose the fact that USAID is, and frankly always has been, Probably the agency that is most responsible for building those beautiful mansions along the Potomac, developing all of K Street, all of this town that I'm standing in right now, because there's no auditing going on. | ||
| But it's not a mistake. | ||
| It's by design. | ||
| And they're melting down. | ||
| Frankly, it's probably their donors calling them saying, run to the steps of USAID because I'm about to be exposed for what I am. | ||
| And that's a grifter, a liar, and a fraud. | ||
| All at the expense of U.S. taxpayer dollars. | ||
| Natalie, the White House, I know they're full. | ||
| They've got the no men and women sports. | ||
| He's dealing with the tariff situation. | ||
| Gaza was a big thing today. | ||
| I'm talking about his idea about the redevelopment of Gaza. | ||
| It seems to me... | ||
| That the White House and the comm shop has taken a real kind of hand. | ||
| I know Caroline mentioned it today, but it doesn't look like they're all in on pushing this. | ||
| They're letting outside groups and people that really know the math here drill down on it. | ||
| What is their strategy? | ||
| Because tonight, bringing Samantha Powers back from the beach to go on Rachel Maddow and Primetime MSNBC specifically talk about this and to push it all afternoon shows you what a big pushback they're going to get. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| Well, look, I would take the Doge brainiacs and the Twitter researchers, independent researchers over Samantha Power any day, and I think the American people would co-sign on that. | ||
| That's a bet. | ||
| I would definitely bet on the former. | ||
| But no, I mean, I think Elon Musk and his team of just general influencers really has been doing... | ||
| A wonderful job of exposing the waste, fraud and abuse and also nefarious activities that are going on at USAID. I think the White House, when I got here, it's so busy. | ||
| I will say it was really a feeling of jubilation. | ||
| I think there are so many cute young girls walking around who are just really, really excited about what President Trump had done with his executive order, bringing in a bunch of influencers to sort of cover it. | ||
| So they're obviously firing on all verticals. | ||
| And I think it's nice that, you know, even our audience, I think, is sort of chipping in to the whole investigative reporting aspect here and just exposing USAID for the fraud that it is. | ||
| Obviously, they're taking action on it, right? | ||
| She was asked about the eight million to Politico. | ||
| Yes, sort of in the form of subscriptions. | ||
| But from the podium, she said canceling that, that's done. | ||
| I'd also cross apply that to the BBC and the New York Times. | ||
| But they're responding to the evidence that the American people are putting forward, which I think is truly revolutionary and a testament that this is the people's president, right? | ||
| We can create a whole news cycle and a whole really takeover of a just absolutely backwards government institution that's called USAID just from a couple of tweets. | ||
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Amazing. | |
| Natalie, where do people get you on social media? | ||
| Natalie G. Winters on all social media platforms. | ||
| Thank you for having me and thank you, the audience, for giving me the opportunity to always come here and do these hits from the White House. | ||
| We know you're freezing, so get warm. | ||
| Natalie Winters. | ||
| Very cold. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in the warm in a moment. | ||
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| You've led us through some very troubling times. | ||
| Lindell, when you see today President Trump in the Oval with the little girls and you see him with the men and women that fought this, you know, the transgender thing about men and women's sports and fought so hard and were kind of looked as outsiders four years ago when they did it. | ||
| Four years ago when we met, almost five years ago I guess now, in the darkest days of the Trump movement, when the 2020 election, it was getting clearer and clearer it was going to be stolen, and that President Trump will return to Mar-a-Lago with the nation really in a crisis, and now in a constitutional crisis, he was going to be out and they controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House. | ||
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