Feb. 17, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| Here's one time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It's Monday, 17th February, Year Overlord 2025. Okay, on the legal side, I want to push out all those articles. | ||
| We got to get the politics right. | ||
| That means we got to get up and the Supreme Court's got to understand that these are massive issues that have to be addressed and got to be addressed now as President Trump rolls them out because they're going to try to stop him in the courts because the courts are what they've always – their default position is always the courts. | ||
| That's where all these radical leftists are. | ||
| Tom Homan, by the way, is up on Fox this morning. | ||
| He said only 229. Touches. | ||
| Only 229 folks identified, come across the border, I think in 24 hours, back from the 11,000 to 15,000 a day under Biden. | ||
| President Trump, by sending the army down there, getting focused down there, we told you the border could be secured, now build the wall. | ||
| Also, Tom Holman over the weekend, I'm telling you, is talking, he's raising the stakes. | ||
| He's talking about a total and complete destruction of the cartels. | ||
| We're going to have Benzman. | ||
| Benzman's traveling in Texas. | ||
| We're going to have him on at five to go through the whole thing. | ||
| This is big. | ||
| The war we've got to be fighting is against the failed anarchy state, drug state in Mexico. | ||
| And hey, Donald John Trump's going to do it, and that's going to be a war he's going to win. | ||
| The other ones he's going to shut down, like the Third World War. | ||
| We're going to get to that in a moment. | ||
| I've got to go back to Natalie. | ||
| Natalie... | ||
| You talked for years about regulatory capture and about elite capture by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Regulatory capture is where the industries capture the regulators. | ||
| They go back and forth, and this is what's happened in our country. | ||
| This is why you kind of have state capitalism. | ||
| You were also, in your teen years, as you were one of the top investigators, talked about the CCP having elite capture. | ||
| Jack Posobo is coming in a moment. | ||
| He said, hey, that devolved into elite merger. | ||
| Here, what you're seeing, and this is the Zuckerberg situation. | ||
| You're seeing oligarch capture. | ||
| They're trying to. | ||
| President Trump's being surrounded by this constantly. | ||
| And we have to be the vanguard. | ||
| We have to be the watch. | ||
| We have to be on the watchtower. | ||
| All along the watchtower, we have to defend the MAGA movement and President Trump from being surrounded by this. | ||
| I want to go back through. | ||
| Zuckerberg's a criminal. | ||
| What he did in 2020, this is why we must adjudicate 2020, what he did in 2020 were crimes. | ||
| They knowingly rigged, he was part of it, they knowingly, knowingly, consciously rigged the 2020 election. | ||
| His was one aspect of it, not the whole thing, one aspect of it. | ||
| And now you see what they do behind closed doors is to do all of these anti-Trump, anti-MAGA groups. | ||
| Millions and millions of dollars. | ||
| And then when they get exposed by Natalie Williams, they want to run and hide and rip them off a thing. | ||
| These are bad people. | ||
| They are not good people. | ||
| They do not believe in our cause. | ||
| They do not believe in the American worker. | ||
| They do not believe in the working class. | ||
| They do not believe in the middle class. | ||
| You're just a bunch of chodes. | ||
| You're just floats them and jets them that they can use and then discard. | ||
| Zuckerberg is the perfect example of the road to Damascus. | ||
| Was between 10 and 11 o'clock, Eastern Standard, PM, Eastern Standard Time, on the 5th of November, when he realized the MAGA movement delivered a death blow to the deep state and their functionaries in the media, the enemies of the people. | ||
| That's when they all came aboard. | ||
| They are not to be trusted at all. | ||
| Natalie Winters, am I wrong in anything I just said there, ma'am, on your investigative reporting? | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| And accountability is found in prison sentences, not strongly worded letters or tweet threads by our members of Congress, which they seem to deem satisfactory when it comes to engaging with Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| You bring up my background in Chinese Communist Party for an infiltration. | ||
| Frankly, I think the tactics that the sort of oligarchic tech class is using right now is sort of reminiscent of what the CCP has done to infiltrate the United States. | ||
| In other words, it's infiltration as opposed to invasion. | ||
| Why do I say that? | ||
| I think the first iteration of a Trump administration, you saw invasion on sort of the personnel front, right? | ||
| They tried to sort of tank the Trump admin by putting in sort of controlled opposition people. | ||
| You saw it with the first sort of derivation of PPO. But now, because they know the MAGA movement, frankly, I think if you look what the learned lesson was from Trump won and from that sort of interregnum period, it was not just that personnel matters, but it was the lengths and the extent that the deep state, the Republican apparatus will go to to actively sabotage. | ||
| That personnel sort of node. | ||
| So now you see the whole tech class saying, well, I guess if we can't beat them publicly, we're going to have to at least pretend to join them. | ||
| But I also think, too, Steve, it's much deeper than this. | ||
| And you hit the nail on the head, right? | ||
| I'm all for big tents. | ||
| But what we're not building right now is a big tent. | ||
| It's an attempted hostile takeover and sort of a retrofitting, for lack of a better word, of the MAGA movement, right? | ||
| Forward U.S. was created. | ||
| To advocate for more mass immigration to destroy American tech workers jobs. | ||
| And now all of a sudden they're funding these extremely radical open borders immigration groups. | ||
| And it shows you, frankly, how dumb they think MAGA is that they can just, what, delete, shall we say, evidence that should be used in criminal trials from their website. | ||
| And that's gonna suffice. | ||
| And frankly, Steve, last point. | ||
| The buried lead in all this is that when they attacked me in the New York Times, if you look at how they described me, first of all, the fact that they're using the New York Times shows you the media playbook they're using. | ||
| But they described me as someone, Natalie Winters, the appositive, who works for Steve Bannon, as if that would be something that would detract from my legitimacy and credibility. | ||
| And that shows you the crowd that they're still pandering to and the fact that they think that that would be an insult. | ||
| I don't quite think they understand what the MAGA movement is about, but I'm happy to keep reminding them and keep exposing them because the MAGA movement is not dumb and you can't delete your grants because we're still going to find them. | ||
| Okay, you're going to head over to the White House, and we'll see you there. | ||
| And no other reporting to do. | ||
| Fantastic job on this. | ||
| Do not let up on this. | ||
| Using the New York Times showed you that they went to DEFCON 1. They went to DEFCON 1 immediately. | ||
| They understand what a mortal threat Natalie Winters is to them, right? | ||
| And that's why they went to the New York Times. | ||
| They didn't play around with the politicos. | ||
| They didn't play around with the Daily Beast. | ||
| They went right to the big kahuna, right, thinking they could blow you up. | ||
| It didn't work. | ||
| In fact, your investigations even got more ammo after that. | ||
| So, Natalie, where do people go on social media to get you, ma'am? | ||
| Natalie G. Winters. | ||
| On all social media platforms, you can check out the long-form Twitter thread. | ||
| It goes into detail about all of these dozen-plus groups that Zuckerberg is funding. | ||
| Share it. | ||
| Tag Zuckerberg. | ||
| Maybe give the Chan Zuckerberg initiative a phone call. | ||
| Let them know what you think. | ||
| Well, what are you looking for from Zuckerberg? | ||
| Do you have any endgame here, ma'am? | ||
| I think a sit-down interview. | ||
| But you know what I really want? | ||
| Instead of attacking us, this show, me, condemn these groups. | ||
| You have given over several billion dollars to the entire left-wing dark money apparatus. | ||
| And you sit there and you act like you have no control over what these groups are doing. | ||
| Condemn them instead of attacking this show in the New York Times. | ||
| Withdraw your funds. | ||
| And frankly, you should be exposing what these organizations are doing if you're actually so concerned about America's sovereignty. | ||
| Nothing about his response to the story that we put out indicates that his MAGA conversion is anything legit other than just a PR play. | ||
| So condemn it, withdraw the funds, and sit down for an interview on War Room. | ||
| And then maybe we can talk about if your MAGA conversion's legit. | ||
| As my beloved mother used to say, when hell freezes over. | ||
| Okay, baby. | ||
| Thank you, Natalie. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| The lesson there is we need it shared. | ||
| Everybody get up and push this hard. | ||
| Push this hard. | ||
| It's another one we've got to get the politics right on this. | ||
| It means you've got to get up in people's faces. | ||
| Do I have a cold open? | ||
| Okay, I've got Ben Harnwell. | ||
| We're searching for Jack Posobiec. | ||
| Jack Posobiec is down actually in Palm Beach. | ||
| We're going to get him. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play the cold open. | ||
| We'll bring those two guys in. | ||
| Ukraine is the subject matter. | ||
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I think he wants to end it, and they want to end it fast. | |
| Both of them. | ||
| And Zelensky wants to end it too. | ||
| The president adding that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be involved in the negotiations. | ||
| But Zelensky says he hasn't been invited to the first round of talks. | ||
| Two U.S. officials telling NBC News the White House wants to host separate meetings before bringing Russia and Ukraine together. | ||
| Zelensky sitting down with NBC's Kristen Walker. | ||
| Can you accept any peace deal that is cut without Ukraine? | ||
| No. | ||
| And do you feel like you have a seat at the table right now? | ||
| I not only count on it, I'm sure that we have to be there. | ||
| On his first trip to Israel as Secretary of State, Marco Rubio saying the Ukraine talks set to take place in Saudi Arabia are a starting point. | ||
| Vladimir Putin expressed his interest in peace, and the president expressed his desire to see an end to this conflict in a way that was enduring and that protected Ukrainian sovereignty. | ||
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The secretary is expected to attend, in addition to the president's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, who has been speaking with Putin after helping to broker the Gaza ceasefire deal. | |
| White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz will also attend. | ||
| He has laid out four priorities driving the negotiations. | ||
| A permanent end to the war. | ||
| A diplomatic end to the war, economic integration, and changes to U.S. aid for Ukraine. | ||
| And in terms of long-term military security guarantees, those have to be European-led. | ||
| Questions remain about whether Ukraine will be expected to give up some of its territory seized by Russia. | ||
| Maybe Russia will give up a lot. | ||
| Maybe they won't. | ||
| From there, your latest piece for the Post is titled At Munich, Trump's chaotic approach has allies rattled. | ||
| So what did you see in reaction to J.D. Vance? | ||
| Because I've heard some reports that you had Europeans saying, OK, at least we now know where the Americans stand, that they're being clear about this. | ||
| And maybe it is time for Europe to stand up for more of its own defense. | ||
| So, Cady, I think there has been a two-stage reaction in the hall when he was speaking. | ||
| There was what I've described as a stunned silence. | ||
| The German defense minister was heard muttering, this is unacceptable. | ||
| And I think that was the feeling of the audience in general. | ||
| Here, an American vice president had come to Munich and essentially insulted the European audience, lecturing them about democracy. | ||
| There are so many questions about democratic values being observed and upheld in the United States. | ||
| It seemed particularly inappropriate. | ||
| But I think the second reaction has been, for Europe, understanding that it's threatened from the East by a very determined, warlike Vladimir Putin. | ||
| To know that it has to stand together. | ||
| Zelensky, in a clip that you played earlier, said, let's be honest. | ||
| America may not come to the rescue. | ||
| America may stand back. | ||
| And it's us Europeans, Ukraine and the European countries. | ||
| That have got to defend ourselves against this strong, advancing Russia. | ||
| And I found across Europe agreement that they do need to spend more for defense, which Trump has been lecturing them to do for years. | ||
| And he was right about that. | ||
| But more fundamentally, to stand opposed to Putin and Putin's expansion, because America may not be prepared to play that role anymore. | ||
| CIA spokesman, spokesmodel David Ignatius tells us what it is. | ||
| We only got about a minute on this side. | ||
| Poso, your general thoughts about what you just heard. | ||
| Well, Steve, as the person who just came back from Ukraine from that meeting with Secretary Besant and Zelensky, what can I say? | ||
| This is not where... | ||
| President Zelensky thought he would be this week. | ||
| Obviously he thought that he would be in the room. | ||
| Obviously he thought that he had a lot more leverage than it turns out with the president. | ||
| President Trump, of course, releasing. | ||
| The public statement originally, just as Secretary Besant and I were walking out of the presidential complex there in Kiev, that he had had the one-on-one discussion with Vladimir Putin, and that has really set all of these events into motion, completely upending the entire table with NATO, Ukraine, and everything that Joe Biden and the previous administration put together. | ||
| Pretty stunning. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| Poso's with us. | ||
| Harnwell's with us. | ||
| President Trump is trying to end rapidly the kinetic part of the Third World War. | ||
| That's what he's doing. | ||
| That's what this is about. | ||
| On the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| From Ukraine to the Middle East. | ||
| And hey, let's throw in the Red Sea. | ||
| And that's when we get our carrier battle groups back home. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| And not going down well with the people that have sponged off the American people for decade after decade after decade. | ||
| That would be the European elites. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Harnwell and Post on the other side. | ||
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America's home. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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| That'll be another thing to get you up to speed. | ||
| We're trying to get you up to the learning curve so you understand the pattern recognition of what is happening here in capital markets. | ||
| I'm not even going to have time this morning to play what I had the whole show built around last night and earlier today. | ||
| That is the fiasco around spending in Medicaid and the two reconciliations. | ||
| Did I not tell you, did we not tell you months ago that this was going to be two reconciliations and not one big, beautiful bill? | ||
| The Hill newspaper today has got it out there. | ||
| Lindsey Graham talked to the president over the weekend and hurtling forward with the two reconciliations. | ||
| And why are they doing it? | ||
| He's told the president, hey, we've got to get $175 billion to seal the border and send the $10 million back. | ||
| We need to get that money, and we need $100 billion more in defense. | ||
| That would top off for a trillion. | ||
| Told you. | ||
| And he says, you've got to do it before the 14th of March, because the 14th of March, you're going to be all over us on the spending. | ||
| Hello? | ||
| I told you. | ||
| And you look at these reconciliations, all this number of the budget meetings coming out, it's all tax cuts and spending now, goodies now. | ||
| And I understand you need that. | ||
| The working class and middle class need the restoration of the 17. Tax cuts, I mean, the continuing fort, got that. | ||
| You need no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on security. | ||
| So I got that, 100%. | ||
| It's still a goodie, but I got it. | ||
| Actually, it may be a requirement now. | ||
| But all that, tax cuts and spending all down front, and you got these very ephemeral over 10-year, yeah, I'm going to get to that, and we're going to take this out of that, and we're going to do this out of that. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| You either understand you're in a crisis or you don't. | ||
| Either understanding you're in a crisis or you don't. | ||
| And hey, I'm not a gold expert. | ||
| I don't purport to be. | ||
| I put you over to gold experts. | ||
| I'm going to get Philip Patrick up because you got, I don't know, Bank of England a week late on settling up. | ||
| You got gold shipping back and forth to the United States. | ||
| We're going to do an audit of Fort Knox. | ||
| I'm going to get Philip Patrick up. | ||
| He's saying, hey, calm down. | ||
| It's not the end of the world. | ||
| I go, fine. | ||
| But let's do it. | ||
| But go to Birch Gold right now, check it out. | ||
| 5,000 years of mankind's history. | ||
| This has been a hedge against times of turbulence. | ||
| Note to self, strap in. | ||
| I hope you've taken the first hour and 15 minutes of the show that there's going to be some turbulence, folks. | ||
| And I'm going to show you some more turbulence. | ||
| First off, Poso, who's a naval intelligence officer, speaks perfect Mandarin, has served his country, one of the smartest young men I know, an absolute hammer. | ||
| He goes with Pete. | ||
| And we're really with Besant, the Secretary of Treasury. | ||
| They tie him to Pete. | ||
| The media has a meltdown. | ||
| You know, radical influencer, radical activist goes over. | ||
| When you have all these people in these newspapers been lying to you, would we be in a situation you had a million frickin' dead Ukrainians and 750,000 dead or wounded Russians, almost 2 million? | ||
| And I tell people, don't tell me about World War II. From the time they invaded Poland to the time Paris fell, there weren't these type of casualties. | ||
| This is worse than the beginning stage of World War II. By far, by orders of magnitude worse. | ||
| Until the Germans and the Russians started getting it on in June of 1941. And now throw the Blitz in there. | ||
| This is big numbers. | ||
| And look at it, it's like Dresden. | ||
| President Trump's saying, Poso, why is it so controversial that you go over, sir? | ||
| Well, Steve, I, of course, just have to thank Secretary Hegseth for his invitation to accompany him on his first trip. | ||
| An honor and a responsibility. | ||
| Also, special thanks to Secretary Besant for his invitation to accompany him on also his first overseas trip. | ||
| Again, an honor and a responsibility. | ||
| Now, unfortunately, due to the security and the logistics of traveling into Kiev in wartime, I was unable to meet up with Secretary Hegseth on the back end of it. | ||
| It required... | ||
| Secretary Besson and myself traveling directly to Poland and then take an overnight train both there and back. | ||
| Slept on the train nine hours in, nine hours out on the way to the Ukrainian capital. | ||
| And so because of that, we unfortunately were not able to make the Brussels meeting, but it did make it over to Munich. | ||
| By the way, don't bury the lead. | ||
| Don't bury the lead. | ||
| You've taken that train ride before, have you not, sir? | ||
| As a witness to what was going on and reported back on this show. | ||
| Exactly what in the hell was going on, was it not, sir? | ||
| Steve, this was the second time I've taken the night train in Ukraine about three years ago. | ||
| My brother and I traveled on the night train down to Odessa and recorded an entire, it was a podcast, but really what it was, was a wartime dispatch. | ||
| Describing what we saw, describing conditions in the cities. | ||
| We got all the way into Mikolaev, recorded all that, reported back for war room and human events as to what was going on. | ||
| And I'm here to announce that I actually recorded another dispatch from the train this time on the night. | ||
| Again, on the way with Secretary Besant. | ||
| We're going to be releasing that later this week on human events. | ||
| We're putting some of the finishing touches on it. | ||
| But it's the night train. | ||
| To Kiev now three years later. | ||
| So we were there at the very beginning of this thing in May of 2022. We are now here at hopefully what is the beginning of the end of this thing. | ||
| In February 2025, they're accompanying Secretary Best. | ||
| And so the first time, by the way, let's just say the accommodations were a little bit more austere than the train that they give the Secretary of the Treasury with nice cabins, nice birthings. | ||
| In fact, at one point with the conference room, they said that that was the same room that Jake Sullivan and... | ||
| Joe Biden had used when they traveled to Ukraine just a couple of three months ago here back when they did that trip to Zelensky where they had the air raid siren going around. | ||
| So they said we were in the very same car at one point for the conference where that was held, which was sort of the caboose of this thing. | ||
| Very palatial. | ||
| And then, of course, my birth was not not as nice, but a little bit nicer than than my sleeping accommodations in the Navy, as I'm sure you can attest, Steve. | ||
| And we've put together an entire package on this. | ||
| It's going to be coming out later the night train to Kiev and describing the entire situation there there without. | ||
| But, Steve, again, as we saw, there was actually a an airstrike on Kiev on the very morning that Secretary Besson and myself arrived only. | ||
| About 10-15 minutes from the hotel that we were using. | ||
| We were only on the ground for about 12 hours. | ||
| But this airstrike, which hit, and it was, again, one of those ones that had been deflected by Patriot missiles. | ||
| President Zelensky brought that up later when we went to the presidential palace. | ||
| Then the deflections went down and hit some residential areas, and people were hit. | ||
| And look, this thing is still very real. | ||
| This thing is still going on. | ||
| There are still people being killed, not just in the eastern regions, by the way, but there's blowback that's going on in the west, in Lviv, in Kiev and other spots. | ||
| Odessa has been bristled down. | ||
| Odessa did not see the fighting that we thought was going to happen. | ||
| They did. | ||
| I will give the Ukrainians a lot of credit here because they did successfully deny the use of Odessa for an amphibious assault, which we know that the Russians really wanted to do a number of times that Putin wanted to go to Odessa. | ||
| Odessa, this being their key port for economic purposes as well for strategic military purposes. | ||
| denying that. | ||
| Two, the Russian advance for an amphibious assault, which, of course, had been very bloody. | ||
| Never happened. | ||
| Now President Trump sends Besant over, with the term sheet, 50% of rare earths in Ukraine, as well as a number of other minerals and potential economic deal moving forward. | ||
| Zelensky, of course, declined to sign that, said that perhaps he would meet with J.D. Vance later in Munich on Friday of that week for a potential further follow-up on the discussion. | ||
| Meets with JD Vance. | ||
| Goes to Munich. | ||
| Rubio's there. | ||
| The rest of the team's there. | ||
| Mike Waltz. | ||
| Doesn't sign the deal as well. | ||
| Turns around and goes to media. | ||
| Tells to Washington Post that he's not going to sell it, that he's not going to sign this thing, that he's not going to give over the rare earths. | ||
| And now it seems as though this Saudi Arabia meeting tomorrow in Riyadh, that's where all eyes are. | ||
| You've got Rubio going down there. | ||
| You've got Waltz going down there. | ||
| Steve Wyckoff is going down there who just successfully negotiated the release of this American prisoner from Russia. | ||
| So he's just been with the Russians. | ||
| And then the Russian team sending their minister of... | ||
| Their foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, as well. | ||
| So we're going to be seeing all eyes on that in Riyadh tomorrow. | ||
| So, Ben Harnwell, Kellogg, Playbook's mentioning Kellogg, a guy we love, but is a little off track on this thing. | ||
| He's talking about blowing stuff up and sending troops in everywhere. | ||
| The meetings... | ||
| Are you trying to convince me, Ben, that it's just a random occurrence that Zelensky will be in UAE today and Saudi Arabia tomorrow, sir? | ||
| Yeah, I think that's a coincidence. | ||
| In addition to the two principal meetings that Jack just outlined, the European emergency summit gathering together in Paris and the Riyadh conference tomorrow, Zelensky is in the area. | ||
| He is in the UAE, United Arab Emirates today, going to be in Riyadh tomorrow, and then Ankara on Wednesday, for what Arabian Press is calling a long-planned visit. | ||
| Obviously, as he's going to be in Riyadh tomorrow, he's tried to muscle in to the US-Russia meeting, and he's been... | ||
| Particularly even diplomatically or elegantly rebuffed from that. | ||
| So, Steve, you obviously say, well, hang on. | ||
| Is it a coincidence that he's there? | ||
| I would suggest that it is a coincidence. | ||
| And as much as we're looking to this important conference tomorrow in Riyadh, I'm also looking at what's happening in Paris today. | ||
| And I can't quite decide whether it's a performative thing. | ||
| Because the Europeans have been humiliated, especially by General Kellogg saying on Saturday that they're effectively not going to be consulted at this stage of the peace process when America has a bilateral conversation with Russia. | ||
| And so the European leaders have been humiliated. | ||
| Their noses are out of joint. | ||
| So they basically said, you know, Steve, how you used to have the anti-CPAC conference sort of 10, 15 years ago. | ||
| Well, the Europeans have decided to. | ||
| They've organized their own conference of the non-invited, of the excluded. | ||
| The uninvited. | ||
| It is a conference of the uninvited. | ||
| I know we've got a break coming up. | ||
| You've got Georgia Maloney there who set herself up as a bridge. | ||
| Keir Starmer is now talking about wanting to be a UK-EU-US bridge. | ||
| Hang on, hang on, hang on. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| Back on Ukraine Watch, next in the war room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| Okay, watch us at 5, because we've had two or three big stories we're trying to get to this morning. | ||
| We can't. | ||
| They're going to be at 5 o'clock, so make sure you're back for that, including spending, cartels, politics, all of it. | ||
| Poso, and also Bridge Colby. | ||
| Poso, at 2 o'clock on Human Events, you've also got footage, and you're going to continue coverage about these negotiations. | ||
| Essentially, President Trump's saying, hey, look, my team, we're going to sit down with the Russians, figure out how to put guns down, and stop the Connecticut part of the Third World War, and we'll make Zelensky and the Europeans an info-addee. | ||
| So the Europeans, realizing that we finally, you know... | ||
| Are cutting them off, like we should have done decades ago, because they've been drafting off the American people, having their own massive meeting tomorrow, which is vitally important, and Ben will tell us about that. | ||
| Poso, where do people go? | ||
| What are your closing thoughts, and where do people go to get all your coverage on this? | ||
| Well, Steve, thanks so much. | ||
| And I've written up an op-ed that's discussing all of this. | ||
| So that's going to be coming out later, either today or this week on Human Events at 2 p.m. | ||
| today. | ||
| We're going to be releasing some of the first footage from the train, from the trip itself. | ||
| And look, President Trump and the White House understand that new media is where the American people and the people of the world are. | ||
| And I know there's been some talk. | ||
| Why did Secretary Hegseth want to bring Posobiec along? | ||
| Why did Secretary Besant want to bring Posobiec along? | ||
| And it's simple. | ||
| This was the same strategy that they used throughout 2024. You bring in new media. | ||
| You bring in podcasts. | ||
| You bring in independent producers. | ||
| You bring in independent voices. | ||
| You go to X. That's where the people are. | ||
| That's how you can give people. | ||
| By the way, it's the most transparent thing that I've ever seen done in war negotiations in history. | ||
| Could you imagine if you had had X or a podcast or the war room sitting right there in Yalta or in Tehran during World War II? We would never believe it and probably wouldn't have given all of our Eastern Europe away because we would have actually blew the whistle on the secret negotiation side that was going on there. | ||
| This is the most radically transparent thing that the Trump administration has ever done, showing people actually the nuts and bolts of the real-time front-row seat to the negotiations that are ending the kinetic part of the Third World War. | ||
| You're seeing the sausage being made. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| It's quite, quite amazing. | ||
| Jack, social media and where they go at 2 o'clock. | ||
| We'll be up at X at Jack Posobiec. | ||
| And then, of course, 2 o'clock, Human Events Daily. | ||
| If you missed any of that, just go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and hit subscribe, Human Events Daily. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, you've covered this better than anybody. | ||
| Is even Ben Harnwell surprised how quickly... | ||
| They are moving to regroup in Europe. | ||
| The meeting tomorrow in Paris, you got Maloney, you got Macron, you got Starmer, and Starmer's talking about sending troops. | ||
| Has it shocked you a little bit about how organized they look like they are now that we've cut them off? | ||
| Well, let's rephrase that question, Steve, and say they're about to have a huge performance in Paris this afternoon. | ||
| Am I amazed or surprised at how quickly European leaders can gather? | ||
| No, Steve, sadly I am not at all surprised. | ||
| These are world experts at performative actions. | ||
| Let me just tell you two things that run in slightly different directions and the War Room audience can decide for itself which line it thinks Paris is going to go on. | ||
| Now the first thing to say is one indication that they are serious about taking the slack is that Ursula von der Leyen has already started to talk about having... | ||
| Effectively, the European Union's constitution amended to allow the EU as an entity to take on debt in order to finance filling the gap, filling the American gap in Ukraine. | ||
| And that indicates a certain degree of seriousness. | ||
| You can see this reflected by the fact that this morning when... | ||
| The stock markets opened across Europe. | ||
| There's been a jump, a lift of the EU-based arms industries. | ||
| So they're very much reacting in expectation that the EU might deliver on this. | ||
| On the other hand, that's why I said there are two counter-currents here. | ||
| On the other hand, going against that, is if you look at Europe's largest economy by far, which is Germany, by the way, Steve, this is not... | ||
| An insignificant point. | ||
| They have elections, federal elections, on Sunday of this week. | ||
| Looking at Germany and Olaf Scholz, he's actually said, you know, we're not going to be sending, Germany's not interested in sending troops to Ukraine. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because he knows that that's not a vote winner in Germany. | ||
| And also Poland has said, Poland, that technically shares a border with Russia via the Kaliningrad Oblast. | ||
| They said, we're not interested in sending troops. | ||
| We might help up with a bit of cash. | ||
| So you're thinking, well, hang on. | ||
| If Poland, right, is this country which has had an antagonistic relationship with Russia going back centuries, isn't interested in sending troops to Ukraine. | ||
| That sort of gives you an indication as to the level of seriousness that the Europeans are confronting with the project. | ||
| Ben, I got to bounce. | ||
| Your one-minute summary is taken forward, but I got to go because I'm jammed. | ||
| But I'll have you back on tomorrow, and you're following this. | ||
| Where do people go for your social media? | ||
| On Getter, Steve. | ||
| simply my surname at Harnwell. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| Fabulous. | ||
| Get on top of it. | ||
| The closing chapter in the beginning part of the kinetic part of the Third World War happening in real time. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| Explosive story over the weekend. | ||
| Liz Yor, whose hair is never on fire, hair is on fire. | ||
| Liz, what is going on? | ||
| It's a book coming out from a guy that we know. | ||
| He's been on the show a bunch. | ||
| But talk to me about the deeper context of what is coming out now. | ||
| And we need to come out more with dumping and more files. | ||
| Liz, you're... | ||
| Yeah, as J.D. Vance said, there's a new sheriff in town, and Jorge Bergoglio and the U.S. bishops have walked right into the impenetrable force of the four horsemen of the Ecopolis. | ||
| That's Trump, Vance, Homan, and Bannon. | ||
| And the receipts are dropping so fast, Steve, it's very difficult to keep on top of it. | ||
| Let's focus on 2014, when the ecclesial special advisor to Biden, to Obama, none other than the demon, Cardinal Ted McCarrick, was involved in the initial Unaccompanied minor children invasion in the southern border. | ||
| He worked with the Vatican, with the bishops in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. | ||
| Flood the southern border with about 60,000 children. | ||
| We don't know where those 60,000 children went. | ||
| But it gives me great concern that the mastermind behind this was Obama's ecclesial chief of staff McCarrick. | ||
| Imagine a global sexual predator, the architect and managing this entire global. | ||
| Mostly from Central America, invasion of unaccompanied minor children. | ||
| Fast forward, Steve, that happened in 2014. Bishops of the United States doubled from 20 million to 45 million so that they could make this happen, this invasion. | ||
| Now, we are now seeing for the last 20 years over nearly a billion dollars going to the US bishops for the unaccompanied minor children program. | ||
| That doesn't include all the other migration programs that are going on. | ||
| We are calling for Catholics Around the country and frankly around the world are calling for a defunding of all NGO grants and over migration. | ||
| Secondly, now we know thanks to Mike McCormick's book, The Insurmountable Evil, where he brings the receipts to show that Francis and McCarrick were involved in many of the color revolutions from 2013 on. | ||
| Also, McCarrick was deeply involved in managing the placement of Jorge Bergoglio as the purported Pope of the Catholic Church. | ||
| We now are demanding both Doge as well as the government of Trump to audit all records relating to the What they call the Catholic Spring, which was the color revolution, to displace and get rid of the globalist's worst nightmare. | ||
| And who was the worst nightmare? | ||
| That was Ratzinger, Pope Benedict, because he was against migration. | ||
| In Europe, he was against the climate change. | ||
| He was against the China deal. | ||
| He was against the mass UN Sustainable Development Goals. | ||
| The entire New World Order agenda was being stopped by Ratzinger. | ||
| Francis knew that. | ||
| Obama, Biden knew that. | ||
| Biden and Ted McCarrick are as thick as thieves. | ||
| They have always been. | ||
| And this needs to be uncovered. | ||
| I believe that the receipts are in the National Archives Records Administration. | ||
| I believe that we have to get to the bottom of it. | ||
| Because, Steve, if we can show, which I've been saying since 2017, if we can show that This demon, this global sexual predator, and the Obama administration conspired to put pressure on Benedict, along with other governments, I'm sure, to step down and to put in place this globalist tool McCarrick. | ||
| Then we have totally delegitimized the papacy of Francis. | ||
| And interestingly enough, as I said, receipts are falling quickly. | ||
| Yesterday, Archbishop Vigano, who we all know on the show, called for the CIA to investigate these charges. | ||
| So we're going to have more on this, Steve. | ||
| I have receipts with respect to what went on in 2013. John Henry Weston, and by the way, I think it's not just the CIA investigate, but us investigate the CIA to find out exactly what happened. | ||
| John Henry Weston from Lifeside News. | ||
| How big a deal is this, sir? | ||
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Well, this is a huge deal because already in 2022, Archbishop Vigano had issued this. | |
| And Vigano is the one to know. | ||
| Remember, before he came to the U.S. as the representative of the Vatican in the United States, he was in charge of overseeing internal operations at the Vatican itself. | ||
| He was particularly noted there for his rooting out of financial corruption, which got him into trouble, which got him moved. | ||
| Now, we already knew... | ||
| That right before Benedict retired, the Swift banking system shut down. | ||
| Right after he resigned, oh, it started working again. | ||
| We also knew that the Podesta emails happened in 2012, right before. | ||
| Remember, right now, we're in that time. | ||
| Benedict gave his resignation on February 11th, and then it was official on February 28th. | ||
| So we're right at this time of year, in the midst of that time. | ||
| And here, Vigano calls now for an investigation by the CIA, basically the releasing of documents. | ||
| If they're going to release the Epstein files, they can at least release this. | ||
| And as Liz just said, you will undermine... | ||
| The papacy of Francis, this nightmare for the whole church, if it could be shown that Benedict was forced to resign under pressure, that would invalidate his resignation and therefore invalidate the Francis papacy. | ||
| So this whole joke of a papacy, which has so destroyed the Catholic Church in a way that was unfathomable before? | ||
| Would just be a blip and people would understand, oh, that was fake. | ||
| I thought so because it was so horrible. | ||
| Otherwise, there's almost no way of understanding this papacy in light of Catholic teaching. | ||
| But think about the timeline. | ||
| You have the swift banking system go down just before, reinstated, just after Benedict resigns. | ||
| You have the Podesta emails coming out in 2012 saying that, yeah, this is why we got these two fake Catholic groups going, Catholic United and the other group, so that there could be a Catholic springtime and then... | ||
| And of course, Podesta, as the chief of staff to Clinton, as the councillor to Biden, he was running Hillary's campaign. | ||
| And then even under Biden, he's involved in the climate change office. | ||
| Also, remember, right at the time when Benedict would have been considering his resignation, you had that Italian panorama report about the NSA, the U.S. National Security Agency. | ||
| Doing listening in to Vatican conversations and emails and so on. | ||
| That dropped from Panorama showing that the NSA was involved in listening to the Vatican, what they were doing. | ||
| And that's why Vigano is coming out now saying release the files. | ||
| Hang on for a second. | ||
| Liz, your John Henry Weston from LifeSite News on the other side. | ||
| You're in the war room. | ||
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We will fight till they're all gone. | |
| We rejoice with them no more. | ||
| Let's take down the CCP. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| . you Okay, Charlie Kirk's going to follow us noon to two, then you got Poso. | ||
| Back here at five, I'm going to talk about the Bridge-Colby confirmation about why that's important on this pivot to Asia. | ||
| Bridge is not perfect, but he's pretty damn good, and we need him in there right now. | ||
| And he's got some controversy about the Middle East and about particularly this thing with Persia, which we've got to get sorted, right? | ||
| We can't be going off, starting wars everywhere. | ||
| Just can't. | ||
| President Trump now in the middle of trying to shut two of them down. | ||
| And people got to get realistic about this. | ||
| And we got to start to focus on hemispheric defense. | ||
| Hemispheric defense plays directly in line with what this story is coming out of the Vatican and Washington, D.C. and the capitals of Europe and Latin America. | ||
| Because right now... | ||
| The Pope is doubling and tripling down on support for open borders and really getting up in the grill of President Trump and the MAGA movement and yours truly, this show, about our defense of the sovereignty of the United States and the territorial integrity of the United States. | ||
| He's got a radical card, another radical card, not as bad as McCarrick. | ||
| This guy's terrible. | ||
| McCarrick was a demon, demonic. | ||
| And I know because I had personal interaction with him. | ||
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I tell the guy just oozed evil. | |
| Liz, where's this story going? | ||
| We're going to have you guys on a lot because this is big. | ||
| It's got Vigano. | ||
| It's got the CIA. It's got NSA. It's got some deep, dark secrets of the American government, the globalists, and the deep state, ma'am. | ||
| Yes, Steve, as we know, federal grants have been the lifeblood of a bankrupt Catholic Church. | ||
| And the one who made that happen was Ted McCarrick. | ||
| He put it in motion. | ||
| So this is a one-two punch we're requesting. | ||
| One, that all these grants get audited. | ||
| And frankly, Steve, you brought up a really good point. | ||
| Why is Francis such in a frantic state about these grants being dismissed and defunded? | ||
| I'm gonna ask this question of OMB and Doge. | ||
| Is 10% going to the big guy? | ||
| I wanna know that. | ||
| And so do a lot of Catholics. | ||
| Secondly, in this global coup that was, I think, orchestrated by Obama and Ted McCarrick to create a tool. | ||
| A moral voice for the New World Order for globalism in the Vatican. | ||
| You can't imagine a better dream come true for the globalists. | ||
| We have got to get to the bottom of it, not only for the people in America and the Catholic Church, but the Catholic Church in China, who has gone underground and suffered terribly because of McCarrick and Francis. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| Your social media, where do people get you, ma'am? | ||
| Your Children is my website. | ||
| I'm Elizabeth You're Everywhere, and I would encourage people to go to defundimmigrationngos.com, sign the petition. | ||
| We've got to make this happen. | ||
| We're going to get all the documentation to Doge and to the administration, as well as the receipts with respect to the color revolution and the Catholic Church. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Liz, we'll have you back on. | ||
| Huge. | ||
| John Henry, we've only got a minute. | ||
| Where do people go to get you at LifeSite News? | ||
| I know you're working on this nonstop, sir. | ||
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Go to LifeSiteNews.com for everything. | |
| Our videos are up there because we're canceled everywhere else. | ||
| You can also find us on X at LifeSite and then at JHWeston for my own. | ||
| Right now, it's a very interesting time because Francis is near death. | ||
| Everybody knows that right now. | ||
| So there's all sorts of forces in the Vatican, and maybe some of those, the good guys, want to see this come to light so they can bring some sanity back into the church. | ||
| So keep following us at LifeSiteNews.com. | ||
| Huge. | ||
| Great reporting, John Henry, and we love LifeSite News. | ||
| Thank you, guys. | ||
| This is a big one. | ||
| We'll be all over it with you, so thank you. | ||
| Decades in which nothing happens, and there are weeks, ladies and gentlemen, in which decades happen. | ||
| I think we're in one of those weeks. | ||
| And as Congress is out, there's so much going on throughout the entire world. | ||
| Geopolitically, capital markets, investigations, there is an age that is ending in something yet that's aborning. | ||
| And you're going to be critical about what that is in the form of it, in the structure of it. | ||
| And it's ironic, it's taking place right on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord. | ||
| That takes place in, what, 60 days? | ||
| Just saying, divine providence works in mysterious ways. | ||
| It's not for man to know his ways. | ||
| It's just that we understand we're in the theater of God's judgments. | ||
| Remember that. | ||
| Always and everywhere. | ||
| And thank God every day that you live in a time like this, that you can reward the sacrifice or give proper notice and proper recognition. | ||
| And the acknowledgement of the sacrifice of the Revolution and the Civil War and World War II and the Great Depression. | ||
| This is the fourth great turning in American history. | ||
| You can tell it. | ||
| You can feel it. | ||
| And hopefully this show is a platform you can see a little bit of it in advance. | ||
| You've got to come to CPAC. CPAC.org slash war. | ||
| I want all of you there. | ||
| We're going to have a partner's discussion about the way forward. | ||
| That's what it's going to be. | ||
| A partner's discussion on the way forward. | ||
| Also, I'm speaking on the 28th. | ||
| In Tarrant County. | ||
| Down in Fort Worth. | ||
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| Don't come any better. | ||
| Look forward to coming down there. | ||
| Like we did at Denton for that. | ||
| And just got a chance to meet everybody like we'll do here in D.C. this week. | ||
| Mike Lindell, is your throat better, sir? | ||
| Can I actually have you live? | ||
| By the way, your tape, you're not bad. | ||
| Live, you're better. | ||
| What do you got for me? | ||
| What do you got for me? | ||
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Yeah, thanks for covering for me this week. | |
| Yeah, everybody, my voice is strong, and I'm looking forward to speaking at CPAC and being there. | ||
| I'll be there tomorrow night and stay the whole week. | ||
| But today, I want to get on. | ||
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You guys get all the products today that you love. | |
| Mike, we'll see you back here this evening. | ||
| Mike Lindell is back, standing tall. | ||
| Charlie Kirk is next. | ||
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