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Feb. 13, 2025 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 4267: History In The Making Because Of MAGA; Senate Vote To Confirm RFK. JR

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unidentified		Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
		Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I am deeply concerned that we are headed towards a government shutdown, which is on March 14th.
		And it's not about whether Democrats or Republicans would win politically, because we know the American people will lose.
		But let me tell you why I'm deeply concerned that we are headed to a government shutdown on March 14th.
		The 12 individual spending bills, the way we should fund the government.
		In fact, the promise that was made by my Republican colleagues on how we would fund the government.
		Republicans have made the argument that the last election was about the status quo disappearing.
		It can't exist.
		People are fed up.
		They created Doge, right?
		Doge, which is going through the federal government and finding Fraud, waste, and abuse, so they say, so they claim.
		But if that's true, Mr. Speaker, if Elon Musk and Doge has found all this fraud and waste and abuse, hundreds of billions of dollars, as they claim, well then, Mr. Speaker, we can't fund the government by CR anymore because the CR would refund all of that waste, fraud, and abuse that Doge has found.
		Which means the only way to fund the government is to fund it by individual spending bills.
		But we're running out of time, Mr. Speaker.
		We have a month before the government shuts down.
		We've got to get back to the process of individual spending bills.
		If we don't, if we don't, then the Speaker will be the one who will have closed the government for the American people.
		And so I'm concerned.
		I'm here to work with the Speaker on the 12 individual spending bills.
		Democrats are at the table to do that.
		But we have to be honest.
		We can't tell the American people we're for reducing fraud, waste, and abuse.
		We're for government efficiency.
		Look at all these things we have found.
		And then say, but we're going to refund them all with a clean CR. And so, Mr. Speaker, I rise to say, I'm here.
		I'm willing to stay weekends.
		I'm willing to work for the next month so that we can fund the government appropriately by the 12 individual spending bills.
		A promise that my Republican colleagues made.
		But the Speaker's got to start getting that train moving.
		Otherwise, he will close the government.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Can we go on the Hill today?
		They had Johnson open to, and I don't think I got it to you, but if we can get Johnson's open to a...
		A clean CR for the rest of the year.
		And we'll dip back into this budget hearing.
		Jody Arrington has been probably one of the guys up there trying to cut the budget most.
		But they do these 10-year bills, and one Congress can't bind another.
		They do these 10-year bills.
		It's really a theoretical exercise.
		We're in a financial crisis.
		It's a turnaround.
		In a turnaround, the only thing that matters is the here and now.
		I need to know what action we're taking today.
		What did Churchill put on the top of the memo?
		Every day they would send him stuff, do this, do that, bing, I got this, action this day, action this day, action this day.
		Take action on it.
		You have Doge running around, and look, it is a blunt force instrument, and you can already tell the blunt force trauma.
		Now, I would like to codify some of this and see, because you have things coming out.
		And like USAID, people have worked on that for years.
		It's great.
		It's being exposed now.
		It should have been exposed to all these committees.
		And remember, we ran these committees under Paul Ryan.
		We ran these committees under Kevin McCarthy before McCarthy was turfed out.
		We lost those fights.
		The Republicans are the ones that helped cover it up.
		Democrat money laundering operations.
		It's all over the place.
		The cash is all over the place.
		But like I have said on this show since, I don't know, December when DOGE was kind of announced, you have to merge the processes.
		And I recommended that DOGE be a part of OMB. Guess what?
		It's part of OMB. Office of Management Budget is what works through and has to manage what the Appropriations Committee comes out with.
		But Russ Vogt and those guys are deep into the details programmatically.
		What you have to do, and I said this, you had to merge the processes, the Doge process with the appropriations process.
		That's Moskovitz.
		His staff is obviously watching the show.
		Fine.
		I love it.
		I'd love to have a Democrat up there saying it.
		Now, he's trying to do it from political points, but that's fine.
		That's okay.
		He laid out the MAGA case.
		He laid out what we fought McCarthy about in January of 2023. Remember that?
		Single subject appropriations bills.
		Why do we fight so hard for that?
		Because theoretically, that's where you see in USAID all the nonsense, all the crap.
		You can argue that at a subcommittee level, even before you go up to a committee level.
		It's about the process.
		They say, oh, they're not institutionalists.
		They want to burn it to the ground.
		No, we actually are the ones that got into the system to work the system.
		But since the system's protected, and Hawley just told you, you think Hawley's job's a popular job in the Senate?
		The guy gets grief every day.
		That's one of the reasons I like having him on here.
		You hear it all the time.
		Hawley's out on the limb.
		Hawley's on an island.
		Because he's trying to stand up for working class people in this country.
		You don't come, there's not a lot of...
unidentified		Cash vote.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Cash vote's about to start right now.
		Let's go to, I'll continue this rant after a cash vote.
		Let's go.
unidentified		Just to put in a box.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You know, we're trying to do this in live television.
		Let's put it in a box right there.
		So, Cash, this is the committee level.
		If they talk, let me know.
		We'll go to it.
unidentified		The vote of 12 to 10. The nomination will be favorably reported to the floor.
		Do you want to speak?
		Yeah, please do now.
		And will some...
		I've got to go vote.
		Will some senator...
		On my side, stay.
		Thank you.
		Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
		I believe that this country in this Congress is in the midst of what has been a slow-moving but rapidly accelerating constitutional crisis.
		It began most visibly on January 6th of 2021, when the two norms of this republic, the peaceful transfer of power and the renunciation the peaceful transfer of power and the renunciation of violence were breached.
		And where many members of the House and Senate voted against certifying the election of the person chosen by the American people.
		President Trump then, and President Trump today, continues to assert that the 2020 election was stolen.
		Stop the steal.
		He won the 2024 election.
		His election was certified.
		He's entitled, as president, to vigorously use the powers of the presidency to implement the policies that he advocates.
		He's not entitled to violate the Constitution in his effort to do so.
		Mr. Chairman, in my view, the beginning of the The Trump administration is showing a contempt for the Constitution and a lawlessness that is dangerous to the future of our Republic.
		Freezing federal spending, clearly unconstitutional.
		Shutting down agencies created by Congress with no authority to do so.
		Removing leaders of agencies, including inspector generals, against the clear requirements of law.
		Firing government employees subject who have civil service protections.
		Threatening to deport people based on their political views.
		Revoking, by executive authority, birthright citizenship.
		These are just some of the actions that the president has taken where he has no authority to do so.
		On Monday, a federal judge said that the White House defied his order to release billions of dollars in federal grants, marking the first time a judge has expressly declared marking the first time a judge has expressly declared that the Trump administration is disobeying a judicial mandate.
		This country is headed into a situation where individuals, in addition to acting without authority, the president is indicating he will defy rulings from the third branch of our government, the judiciary.
		Vice President Vance has made very clear his point of view on this.
		Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate powers.
		Of course, under our Constitution, since Marbury v.
		Madison, the court is the final arbiter of what is constitutional or what is not.
		My colleagues, my view of this is that the administration is showing maximum contempt We have a dilemma here.
		There are many in this committee that are fully in support of the policies that President Trump is pursuing.
		That's a course Your right and his right.
		But the unique responsibility each of us as a United States senator has is to guarantee that in pursuit of those policies, it is done within the constitutional boundaries.
		This is not just to talk about civic aspiration.
		It's a recognition.
		That the separation of powers, that the system of checks and balances, that the concept that ambition in the executive should be matched with ambition in the legislature, has held this country together for 250 years.
		We have fierce debates about important public policy matters.
		But what allows us to resolve those, despite disagreements, intense disagreements, is the pushing and the shoving, the engagement, the winning and moving forward, losing a fight and falling back, but all within the norms of the Constitution.
		That's being threatened, and I don't say that lightly.
		But what has happened on January 6th is continuing.
		And where we saw the stop the steal, the renunciation of the decision that the American people made in 2020 in that election, and the candidates, many of them who came before us, including Mr. Patel, unable to simply say who won the 2020 election.
		2020 election, continuing to stop the steel narrative, and then with President Trump in his first weeks in office acting in ways that challenge the constitutional order.
		I'm voting against Mr. Patel.
		Because he is clearly an instrument in that effort to continue eroding the precepts of the Constitution on the separation of powers.
		My colleagues, this is a very difficult time, particularly for my colleagues on the Republican side.
		You support many of President Trump's policies, and as I say, that's your right.
		But it is so essential to each of us as a U.S. senator to make our own judgments about whether the manner in which power is being used on the executive branch is a threat to the power of the legislative branch, the Article I branch.
		We, each of us, must be custodians of that constitutional order in our role as the legislature in it.
		Tough judgments that have to be made.
		My judgment is that the president is showing absolute contempt for the United States Congress.
		And the next stop is contempt for the United States judiciary.
		I cannot vote for a person who signed on to that agenda.
		I yield the floor.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Right there, that's Senator Peter Welch.
		The reason I played that in its entirety was, I think it sums up perfectly.
		Remember, this show, this audience, you, the Warren Posse, we're the railhead of this.
		That the 2020 election was, I keep saying, and people want to, you know, the Republican rhinos and all the Fox News, they just want to kick the, no, no, no, let's not talk about it.
		Let's not talk about it.
unidentified		Welch just laid it out right there.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It is too different.
		The 2020 election was stolen.
		Obviously it was stolen.
		And look at everything that's happened since then against America.
		Just think about what's happened here over the last 24 hours.
		Harnwell is going to join me in a second from Rome.
		We've got to get into this.
		The Ukraine, the geopolitics of Europe, Harnwell in the last, you know, been with us three, four years, or I guess four years or longer, almost five years.
		Since the show started, it's, it's, and everything's come to fruition in the last 24, 48 hours in Europe has been historic.
		Everything we've talked about in the show, 100%, 100%, not 99, 100%.
		And Welch laid it out there.
		And I respect him for it.
		I can understand if you're not with us on the 2020 election being stolen.
		I got that.
		You're wrong, but you can have your opinion.
		It's a wrong opinion, but that's fine.
		That's what country's about.
		They can't tell people what their opinions, what they should think.
		That's what we fought a revolution over.
		But that revolution continues.
		And Kash Patel is an instrument.
		He is an instrument.
		He's going to be an instrument.
		To clean out what has been allowed to deteriorate and become a weapon against the American people.
		And that's the American Gestapo, the FBI, which has almost no support among the American people today.
		I think the vote was 12-10.
		At the same time, Bobby Kennedy.
		This is living history.
		The show now, and we're glad to do it because I think we're only people to do it, we will cut in and out of these lives.
		And the show will be a tad choppy as we do it on live TV. But you're seeing history in the making.
		It's actually like you could be there during the American Revolution.
		And remember, you're just not sitting there with your channel changer.
		What is happening on Capitol Hill today?
		Bobby Kennedy's vote.
		Kash Patel's vote.
		It's because of your agency.
		That's why I wanted Stern up beforehand.
		Your agency.
		The New York Magazine, New York, not the New Yorker, New York Magazine, which is another, you know, it's a left-wing, very intelligently edited and written, has a great piece up today and what Democrats could learn from the war room, from me.
		And it all boils down to...
		A populist movement versus the oligarchs in Silicon Valley, the techno-feudalists.
		And the key point, the buried lead he's got all the way down towards the end of the article, it's about human agency.
		The oligarchs in AI want to take your agency.
		They want to take your job.
		Remember, your job isn't a job.
		It's the way you manifest yourself, your being in the world.
		It's what you dedicate yourself to do.
		Some people hate their jobs.
		You shouldn't do that, but some people do.
		Some people think they're boxed in.
		Many, many people, and I think most people love their jobs because it's what they do.
		It's one of the ways they manifest themselves, manifest their being.
		The oligarchs and artificial intelligence and the whole singularity want to take that from you.
		They're going to give agency to the algorithm in the algorithmic age.
		It's about your agency.
		Your agency in this show Today, on Capitol Hill, in the Senate, which is the Human Resources Department by the Constitution, advice and consent, they just consented to Kash Patel at the Committee of Jurisdiction, the Judiciary Committee, 12 to 10. It will now go to the floor, and Kash Patel will win the vote on the floor and become the next FBI director.
		Think about that for a second.
		Kash Patel, who you've known for years on this show.
		Or if you've gone to Trump rallies or read his books or seen him on other of these great podcasts or interviewed by people, seen him on other Real America Voice, Bobby Kennedy the same way.
		The first time Bobby Kennedy was ever introduced to a MAGA audience was on this show years ago.
		Why?
		The book.
		Brought to me by Tony Lyons.
		Called The Case Against Anthony Fauci.
	It's about that dick.
	And it's published like on paper, the old yellow pages.
	It's like a phone book.
	It looks totally inaccessible.
	It's just page after page.
	And it's mesmerizing.
	The audience love it.
	Remember, we had him on for a couple hours years ago on a Saturday.
	People couldn't get enough of it.
unidentified		RFK. RFK. We have a final vote?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		51-46.
		51-46.
		Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
		This is historic.
		Mark the time.
		At 1120...
		A.M. Eastern Time on the, what, the 13th of February.
		Here I put, I was thinking 13 May.
		I said, hopefully I didn't open the show without.
		13 February 2025. I was thinking May when somebody had contacted me for the show.
		Historic day.
		Historic 24 hours.
		Yesterday we finally gave the word to Europe, which we tried to many times.
		Trump first term, we try to on this show all the time, that you're not a vassal state.
		You're not a protectorate.
		You have to stand up and be, you know, we're your ally, but we're not there to wet-nurse you.
		And because you don't pay for your defense, you can give your citizens full health care, free college, pensions at 50, eight weeks off in the summer fully paid.
		Our people don't have that.
		And that's not right, that we're underwriting your defense, and you're skiing up in Castade, and you're hanging out in Tuscany, in Provence, in the West End of London.
		The elite's living high on the hog.
		You go over there, and you go to London, and you see what used to be one of the greatest nations on Earth, what's happened to London, the city, with all the wealth from all over the world and not an Englishman in sight.
		Is that what you want your country to turn into?
		Will the world's global elites just come and do what they wilt in your own country?
		And you as a countryman, you as someone that's been there for generations and generations and generations, and the families that fought the wars and gone to work and built a society and done everything on the civic society to build it, that you're just cast aside and mocked and ridiculed?
		Is that what a country is about?
		Is that sovereignty?
		I don't think so.
		That's what this fight's about.
		That's in the house today.
		In the house where they have these conferences.
		They're doing a budget markup.
		And until somebody can convince me in something basic, and I used to do this and go into companies that needed turnarounds, restructuring, debt restructuring.
		They get in there and every guy's got a different thing and three years is going to be fine and everything.
		I go, stop.
		Just stop.
		Just stop.
		That's not relevant because you're not going to be here in three years.
		You need to get focused on today and tomorrow and the next day and how you're going to make it through.
		And how you're going to make it through is get down and preserve cash and figure out how you can use the little bit of cash you got and the cash flow you got to get through so you can see better days.
		What's happening here is no penalty.
		It's been obscure.
		One of the things of the show is to make things not obscure.
		This is what we spend the time doing.
		Why?
		Because we understand if we give information that the American people can then take on board and think about and mull over and chew on and think about and they'll come to their own decision.
		And we make a bet.
		We are long.
		We don't short.
		We are long the common sense and decency and hard-headedness and grit.
		And determination of the American people.
		You know why?
		Because I look back over history, I can see pattern recognition.
		If you go along the American people, you turn out, things turn out okay.
		Things turn out okay.
		Because why?
		Because they're decent, hardworking, hard-headed, grit, with an attitude.
		And that's why they've freed more people than any nation on earth.
		They've created more wealth than any nation on Earth.
		They've done more good than any nation on Earth in the history of the Earth.
		But what we've had and we've allowed to deteriorate is that we've allowed in becoming a hegemon this political class with the sociopathic overlords on Wall Street and now this apartheid state that they created among progressive Democrats out in Silicon Valley.
		That is, quite frankly, out of control.
		And it's coming through, and it's going to come through a Sith through grass.
		And the only, it's not a disagreement with Josh Hawley.
		It's an addition.
	The jobs, the first wave of jobs artificial intelligence is coming for that are going to be massive and big are not blue-collar jobs.
	Yes, there will be factory automation.
	You can see that happening already.
	You can see in the automation of the cars and all that, there will be blue-collar jobs or non-managerial or administrative jobs that will take it.
	But the big swath is going to come from lower-tier managerial, administrative, and technical jobs.
	So as the people under 35 years old who don't always have all the pressure in the world on them because the economy is structured against them, their country works against them, Now they've got to add this.
	All those entry-level jobs which you go into the workforce in your 20s, in your early 20s, and you understand how the world works as you press through into your 20s, those are by and large going to go, and they're going to go pretty rapidly.
	Elon Musk is saying, and I don't agree with unless it's reviewed and somebody checks it, Putting artificial intelligence into these apparatuses unless we sign off on that.
	But his direction, he's saying, I'm putting artificial intelligence into these different communications and technology and systems because we can cut costs, we can cut manpower by 50% minimum.
	And that goes basically from the two and a half million bureaucrats, I don't know, down to a million, two, five, or a million.
	Why?
	Because of artificial intelligence.
	Why?
	Because many, many, many administrative managerial positions will just be completely, totally automated.
	And you'll pay for the people that have the judgment, although they'll come for the people paying the judgment eventually.
	Because they'll have 10 billion computers at one time, interconnected, and so even the judgment of what you're paying a senior part in a law firm or a senior part in an investment bank.
	Most trading, if you notice, in the New York Stock Exchange, remember you used to go down there and you have the guys like on the movie Wall Street and everybody's yelling in the pit and they're yelling, they've got a price, they've got a bid and they're asking.
	You've got these guys that are able to process it and kind of manage the markets.
	You notice when CNBC goes there, you don't see it.
	It's like it's quieter than a church.
	Or it's as quiet as the empty Catholic churches in Midtown Manhattan.
	Why?
	Because all the trading's done computer to computer.
	You look at most of these hedge funds, it's all computer-to-computer trading.
	It's all trading on who's creating the best algorithm.
	We live in the algorithmic age.
	Where is man's position in the algorithmic age?
	And the people that are driving the algorithmic age, you've seen this.
	Look at the young Doge guys.
	Don't know if you'd be hanging out with those guys in college, right?
	Don't know.
	I certainly wouldn't be.
	Not my style, bro.
	But good on you.
	Glad that's working out for you.
	That's the future.
	Unless you exert your human agency.
	Human agency, you're seeing it at every place on Capitol Hill today, and you're seeing it the way it is.
	President Trump is going to have, he couldn't be more excited, today's reciprocity on tariffs.
	All that work, all that thinking, boom, personified in Peter Navarro.
	Peter Navarro is President Trump's wingman on this.
	You ever seen Peter Navarro?
	Oh yes, I'm on War Room.
	Day in and day out, day in and day out, day in and day out.
	That today happens in the Oval Office and happens because of you.
	Your power is unlimited.
	Once you understand, you actually have the power.
	It's manifested today.
	51, I think 47. I think Mitch McConnell, just to stick it to President Trump, he's a no.
	Bobby Kennedy is Secretary of HHS. Cash Patel has got a committee 12 to 10. Just remember, folks, it was only weeks ago they told you all that was impossible before this audience fixed bayonets and said, I don't know about that.
	I think it's not just possible, it's probable.
	History.
	In the making, because of you.
unidentified		Short break.
unidentified		Back in a moment. - It only lets you indoctrinate the mind. - Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		- Okay, CPAC, it's gonna be very special Tons of extras for you guys to come.
		We're going to be all over.
		All the team is going to be back.
		Mo, Grace.
		Jane, everybody.
		Natalie, we're going to try to get over there, but she will be covering the White House simultaneously.
		Don't know.
		But everybody.
		Huge round of parties, get-togethers, all of it.
		$76.
		CPAC.org.
		Is it Bannon?
		I think War Room.
		War Room.
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		Go there.
		$76.
		With that receipt for that ticket, then you can get in.
		We're going to a force multiplier event.
		You do not want to miss this.
		In fact, we're working right now.
		Outside the studio, Real America's Voice is building for all of us at this location.
		It's great because we can let it rip.
		We don't have to worry.
		Remember, we can't disrupt what's going on in the main hall.
		Now we're going to let it rip.
		Last year at National Harbor, so we're kicking out all the jams.
		CPAC.org slash War Room.
		76 bucks.
		Get your ticket.
		Once you get that, you're into the force multiplier.
		Force multiplier is going to be fabulous.
		Fantastic.
		Better than last year.
		Last year was great.
		And you get a free lunch.
		Parties, free parties, all of it.
		But you've got to sign up.
		I need you to be there.
		It's going to be exciting.
		Also, I'm speaking on the 28th of Friday, the 28th of February in Tarrant County.
		That's the home of Fort Worth.
		It's one of the ones always in play down in Texas.
		Texas is no longer purple.
		It's MAGA country.
		I think it may be sold out, but go more if you can put it up.
		I would love to see everybody there.
		Pasova's going to be with me.
		Amanda Milley's going to be with many other.
		Stalwarts of the MAGA movement.
		Great event.
		Looking forward to it.
		28th.
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		Glenn Sterling, the team.
		Fantastic.
		Also, hey, if you see what's going on in the budget committee, I'm watching this with one eye.
		Don't take it from me.
		Just go.
		I need you to go talk to Philip Patrick and the team.
		Look at the pattern recognition here.
		Don't look at the price of gold.
	Look at the process and back of what makes gold a store of value.
	Learn that.
	We're here to teach you.
	Learn that.
	Learn that.
	Then you can make your own decisions.
	Don't give what was Christ.
	Don't give people fish.
	Teach them how to fish.
	That's what we're trying to do here.
	Teach you how to fish.
	Birchgold.com.
	Check it out.
	Or go to Bannon, B-A-N-N-O-N, 9-8-9-8-9-8.
	The reason we want to do that, they get a great brochure, Investing in Gold in the Age of Trump.
	Very important.
	Last, I'm trying to get Jim Rickards on tomorrow.
	We need geopolitics.
	We'll have Ben here in a second.
	Rickards War Room.
	If you haven't gotten strategic intelligence, if you like capital markets and geopolitics, Rickards, the way he writes is fantastic.
	Strategic intelligence.
	Go to RickardsWarRoom.com and they throw in a free book.
	His book on chat, GBT, is fascinating.
	AI. You want to get a more sophisticated understanding, read his book.
	And he throws it in for free.
	Rickardswarroom.com, Rickards with an S, warroom.com, all one word.
	For Jim Rickards, I'm trying to get Rickards on here tomorrow.
	For Capital Markets and Geopolitics, Ben Harnwell, we have maybe the shortest cold open in the history of the war room.
	It clocks in at 10 seconds, but let's go ahead and play it.
unidentified		To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine.
unidentified		Kaboom!
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		War room.
		Ben, tell me about this whole thing, because now it's evolving.
		Zelensky, we've been laying out a framework for the president that the president thinks knocking it down.
		And he's kind of through the chase.
		He's not going to talk to Zelensky.
		He's going to talk to Putin and figure this thing out, as he should.
		There's been enough nonsense from the Boris Johnsons of the world.
		The NATO guys have gotten people killed.
		A country looks like Dresden.
		And they're not putting up any money.
		Trump stunned him.
		He said again, reiterated, when Pete Heggs has said, hey, Europe's just not at the top of the list for American security concerns.
		There's not.
		Panama Canal to Greenland.
		You know, maybe in the South China Sea and Taiwan, because 25% of our economy deals with it.
		Got an ally in the Middle East and Israel.
		It's got issues.
		But what you guys doing in Europe, it's not number one, and you guys are going to have to deal with it.
		Oh, by the way, President Trump says 5% of GDP should go defense.
		Ben, you've lived over, you've been in England, English, you were at the European Parliament, a big player there.
		You've been in and out of Commons.
		Now in Rome, the Eternal City.
		What would happen to the European elites if they actually had to pay 5% of GDP for the defense, given that America pays about 3.5% and it's way too much, it's outrageous, it's obscene, because the Europeans have been deadbeats and kind of leeched off us for years, the elites.
		What would happen if they had to go to 5%, sir?
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼		Steve, good morning.
		Brilliant question.
		The whole of continental Europe would go populist, nationalist, the subsequent election, whatever country it is, because they know that Russia is not the threat that the elites are claiming it is.
		Look, Warren Posse, good morning to you.
		I was going to start off, Steve, quoting one of your favourite philosophers about there being decades when nothing happens.
		When in the last few hours, years have happened, literally in the last 24 hours, the political needle on Ukraine has moved more than in the last three years.
		We had in the shortest cold open ever.
		So much moving in those 10 seconds.
		Pete Heggs finally saying what had been leaked.
		I think probably on deep background about the day before that.
		But then he came in at this meeting of defence ministers and went straight on the record with that.
		Look, Steve, I have to pay tribute to the war room posse here.
		This show was the first and pretty much the only voice talking about security guarantees, the binding and the entrapment of the U.S. security guarantees.
		We've been the only voice, and I think it's the pressure of this audience that has actually got the Secretary of Defense to come out there and say explicitly U.S. provided security guarantees will not involve U.S. boots on the ground because nobody was talking about it.
		Apart from this show.
		And then those people in the media who follow this show.
		The other thing, Steve, so we have Pete Hegson, finally.
		And that will make a lot of people that follow this show very, very happy.
		President Trump, this to some extent is saving the best to last on his social media platform Truth, said yesterday that he had spoken to Vladimir Putin.
		They spoke for about 90 minutes.
		And he said that they had agreed to have their respective teams start negotiations immediately.
		Now, in and of itself, that's not what has got the European press in meltdown from this morning onwards.
		Every single European newspaper has been writing about this.
		It's not the fact that he had this phone call.
		It's the fact, I think he said the president is sending a message, and we'll go into that.
		It's the way he rolled out the fact and the in-your-face lack of consultations about that phone call that has got all the European chancellors panicking.
		Specifically, on one point, Steve, Vladimir Zelensky had been bitching repeatedly to the president that he thought Potos should speak to him first before Putin.
		And if you'll notice in the statement in his President Trump's He said, I've spoken to Putin, we're going to start negotiations immediately, and I will be having a phone call.
		The next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to have a phone call with President Zelensky and brief him about it.
		For those, Steve, who have eyes to see, that was a massive cutting down to size of President Zelensky publicly.
		I have to say, I think it was even basically a public humiliation.
		And it was a long time coming.
		And I'll say this, Steve, because on this show, we've been sort of, since the inauguration on January the 20th, every time I've been coming on the show, I've been expressing a slight amount of impatience with the way things were going.
		And we said, Steve, I think the president hasn't made his mind up on how he wants to do this.
		And I think that's the case.
		And in the end, I just think POTUS had had enough of Zelensky's posturing and continuing to say day after day, because this is something that we text about in real time constantly, Zelensky is constantly pushing out the United States to be paying for its security guarantees.
		And I think President Trump basically said, you know what, I'm done.
		I've had enough.
		I'm not going to wait for General Kellogg to fly to Kiev.
		On, I think, the 20th of February, the third anniversary.
		I'm not going to wait for it.
		I'm not going to wait for Vice President Vance to sit down with General Kellogg in Munich.
		I'm done.
		I'm done.
		I've had enough of being hectored and badgered by Ukraine because they have not shown the United States or President Trump the respect that I think was due.
		Hence, in the last 24 hours, Steve, we have seen more.
		We've had this statement from President Trump.
		And if you want, I can go into just how the European capitals are melting down on this.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Please, please.
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, okay.
		So one of the things that President Trump has said is that there'll be no NATO membership for Ukraine.
		And we've been sort of mentioning this repeatedly, that this was really a negotiation tactic of Zelensky's.
		Okay, I'll relinquish NATO membership, but I want the U.S. provided.
		He's not going to get either.
		But you had this absurd scenario where, for example, Sweden came out this morning saying, oh, look, hang on, you know, nothing's being closed down.
		It's still possible that Ukraine can join NATO, which is a direct countering of what President Trump has just said.
		And, you know, you think to yourself, well, hang on a minute, hang on.
		Sweden hasn't even been in NATO for 12 months yet.
		It spends just a little over 2% of its, 2.2% to be precise, of its defence of GDP. That's slightly over the minimum target.
		Do you know how much that is?
		It's $12 billion equivalent a year on its defence.
		Massive free ride.
		Massive free ride at American taxpayers' expense because, like for like, no one is going to invade the United States.
		But Sweden's risk isn't zero.
		So Sweden, with its £12 billion of defence, I think the US racks it up in a couple of days in terms of interest payments on its own debt.
		Sweden will make no difference whatsoever to any incident that takes place in the United States.
		But the United States is a big gift to Sweden.
		So there they are, in NATO for less than 12 months.
		And they're directly cutting across what President Trump has said, America being by far the largest donor to NATO. I know we're coming up to a break, but I'll say this, Steve, it is time.
		I would desperately say to President Trump, I think for the health and safety of NATO and the United States, it is to be considered withdrawing America from the alliance and let the Europeans pay for NATO themselves.
		I think there'd be less risk involved in that.
		And finally, on the paying of NATO and the European strategy, I'll close with this and hand back to you.
		The whole strategy of the last three years was to isolate Russia.
		And in the last 24 hours, far from Russia being isolated, it would now seem to be that Europe is the geopolitical entity which is now broadly isolated in the world.
		And it has isolated itself.
		Come back to your question at the beginning.
		If the European capitals tried to do what Higgs had formerly said now, which is that they should increase their defence spending to 5%, there will be revolutions across Europe.
		No doubt whatsoever.
		Italy can't even do 2%.
		It's at 1.5%.
		There's no money.
		These countries are bankrupt.
		And the European peoples know that the whole Russia thing, the Russia, Russia, Russia thing, sweeping into...
		Ukraine sweeping into Europe was a hoax, and all of these governments will be wiped out if they even try to get anywhere near that 5%.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Ben, where do people go on social media?
		Great, great summary.
		Where do people go?
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼		Getter, Steve.
		I've got some great posts up there.
		My surname, at Harnwell, and I'll be updating that as these developments continue to roll out.
		Thanks, Steve.
		God bless.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, sir.
		Decades with nothing happening.
		Weeks with decades happening.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, your agency manifests itself.
		Bobby Kennedy is now Secretary of HHS. We'll track down getting Bobby's swearing in.
		Make sure we're on top of that.
		Tulsi's already en route to the Munich Security Conference.
		Feel pretty good about that.
		Kash Patel moves.
		Out of the Committee of Jurisdiction, you just heard Senator Welch there and the folks over at the Judiciary Committee moving it forward, 12 to 10 vote.
		They're going to try to delay cash as long as possible.
		They're saying, oh, it could be 30 days, it'll be less than that.
		But they are pushing to try to, the Democrats trying to delay this.
		The Republicans obviously know the message of President Trump, get on it.
		These votes show us that is most important.
		Besides all the articles read, yes, you know, people behind the scenes, you know, talking to people and trying to convince them, hey, that wasn't convincing anybody.
		Those arguments held no, but the only thing they responded to is political muscle, and that is the turning point people over at the Human Events Daily, the War Room Posse, others of these grassroots groups, with us being either the biggest or one of the biggest, getting up on it.
		On text messages, emails, phones, etc.
		So, lesson learned.
		We need the Warren Posse as a strike force when necessary.
		We don't want you to have anxiety to be off the reservation focused on something else.
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		Reciprocity tariffs.
		President Trump, this may be his baby of all babies.
		This is the one they've been working on.
		This is top of his list.
		Big signing today.
		We will cover it somehow by hook or crook.
		We're also going to cover the Modi by hook or crook.
		Real America's Voice is also going to be there.
		No other channel nor the network gives you such immediacy into the command center, which is the White House, where the thunderbolts are coming in the days of thunder.
		We've got, what, Amanda Head, Natalie Winters, Brian Glenn, producers, all of it over there to give it to you just nonstop for Natalie to do the analysis and get all the scoops about how the resistance, how they're trying to strike back.
		On these tariffs, this is why Jace Medical is so important, President Trump, 10% tariffs right now in China, but hey, as the Financial Times said the other day, there could be a trade war brewing.
		And President Trump's not going to back down from the CCP. He understands he's got, he's clearing the decks to focus on that, but the CCP's going to use every element, including they control 100% of active pharmaceutical ingredients and 100% of generics, or I guess India has 20%, but they still get the API from China, so they still control it.
		JaceMedical.com.
		Go check it out.
		J-A-S-E. Jace.
		J-A-S-E. Dr. Sean and the team.
		Took Rosemary Gibson's, and I think we're going to have Rosemary on the show tomorrow.
		God, I love her.
		She's amazing.
		Going to have her on.
		She's got some other stuff she's working on that's going to shock you.
		Just like when she exposed that 100% of the supply chains for generics and API were controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
		She nailed it years before it came out during the pandemic, when it became a national crisis.
		JaceMedical.com.
		Go check it out.
		Get the Jace case.
		For your emergency use, but also talking about how you get ahead of the curve in case anything happens in this trade war with the Chinese Communist Party.
		Last but not least, the taxes.
		The budget...
		I didn't want to dip back into the budget thing because it made me too angry on live television.
		Until somebody can convince me otherwise, it's totally performative.
		I want to know...
		Elon promised a trillion dollars in cuts.
		I understand he's just been on the job, so hey, you promised two, then he went back to one.
		Hey, I got it.
		If you can't get to one right now, you're forgiven.
		Give me what you got.
		That's got to be in here.
	And we can't work off Biden's numbers.
	And this budget process going through is mostly performing.
	If somebody can convince me that these $1.5 trillion in cuts are actually happening, anything's happening this year, that between now and September 30. And or next year, which is the budget they're working on, show me where the cuts are.
	Show me the beef.
	Because I don't buy it.
	I'm just not.
	And all I see is in the House Freedom Caucus goes to the president.
	Debt ceiling is $4 trillion in two years.
	Let's do the math.
	$2 trillion.
	Oh, deficits added to the debt.
	That's what CBO is saying.
	That's what their long-term forecast says.
	That's what their short-term forecast about this year says.
	Well, hey, I think I have convergence.
	I think I see pattern recognition.
	This is definitely not quantum mechanics.
	They try to make it quantum mechanics, but it's not quantum mechanics.
	Cash in, cash out.
	Let's just get down to basics.
	Because if we have a gap in cash in and cash out, then we have to create the thing called the fiat currency that keeps depreciating of value, and that's why the BRICS nations are upset.
	That's why they're buying gold.
	That's why golds continue to go to an all-time high.
	Over and over and over again.
	You're addicted.
	Somebody needs an intervention.
	Interventions, as people know, they have to do it in people's personal lives.
	They're not pleasant.
	They lead to pleasant things, but they're not pleasant.
	They're not pleasant.
	They're not pleasant.
	Okay, we're going to end with Mike Lindell still on the sick list.
	We're going to go to Mike Lindell.
	I'll see you.
	Charlie Kirk is next.
	We'll be back at 5 p.m.
	tonight.
	Let's let it rip.
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