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Feb. 21, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 4286: Live From CPAC 2025 Day 2
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del bigtree
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steve bannon
They know that.
You don't think in Berlin they know that.
The righteous indignation of the American people, just like every patriot grave, just like the revolution, the Civil War and World War II, they understand when the American people, with its common sense, isn't what President Trump say a revolution of common sense?
unidentified
Right?
steve bannon
It's also a revolution of common decency.
unidentified
The decency, the grit.
steve bannon
The determination, the courage of the American peoples on parallel in world history.
This is why we have our best and brightest on every battlefield all throughout the world, from the South Pacific to Europe to North Africa.
What other nation on earth has ever done that?
None.
What other people have ever done that?
None.
Only you.
And you rose up.
And you rose up and you said, you know what?
Trump is our guide.
Is President Trump perfect?
No, he's far from perfect.
He's an imperfect instrument.
But I will tell you, George General Washington was an imperfect instrument.
Abraham Lincoln was an imperfect instrument.
And he's the third.
These come along about every hundred years.
Leaders that take us in a new direction.
And that's what Trump has done.
It was divine providence that won 16. And it was Divine Providence Hand that let them steal 2020. Because we had to see how depraved they were.
We had to see how demonic they were.
unidentified
We had to see what they were prepared to do to this country.
And what did you do?
Did you ever falter?
No, you did not.
Did you ever doubt?
No, you did not.
Did you ever question?
No, you did not.
steve bannon
And you know what it brought us?
unidentified
A glorious, glorious, glorious victory.
steve bannon
The reason these phonies in the mainstream media who are nothing but the propaganda department for the ruling class in this world, right?
unidentified
They fear you.
steve bannon
They fear you because they understand you're not beatable.
You're not beatable.
They've had every shot.
And right now, I want people to celebrate and to come together.
We're going to do it the next couple of days.
But understand the toughest part of this war is ahead of us.
I've never promised you.
Anything.
I've never promised you sunlit uplands.
unidentified
I said it's ahead of us.
steve bannon
Maybe decades.
But it's times in American history that people have to lay it all down.
You're expendable to get to bridge to the other side.
You know that.
You're not asking for a handout.
You're not asking for a pat on the head.
Right?
unidentified
You're not asking for a thank you.
All you're asking for is, where is my musket?
steve bannon
Where is my bayonet?
unidentified
And where do I go over the top?
And the J6ers are here at CPAC. All of them.
From the medium-high security prisons to the U.S. Penitentiaries to the men who got diesel therapy.
All of them are here.
Right?
They don't like that up there.
You don't like the J6ers being here.
The J6s are here.
steve bannon
Hey.
unidentified
And let me tell you something else.
steve bannon
I talked to Ambassador Rick Grinnell last night, and the J6ers, I think, the J6 choir, is going to play the Kennedy Center for a night in honor of their families.
unidentified
In fact, I got an idea.
steve bannon
The night that they play...
The J6 choir plays and opens the new, you know, the new with Rick Rennell and President Trump as chairman.
We have the J6 choir, right?
And we invite all the families.
They try to destroy the J6ers.
And they get to sit in the boxes where the elites sit, right?
And we take the elite for just one night.
unidentified
and we take them down to the D.C. Gulag, right?
For one night.
Think they can handle that?
I don't think so either.
steve bannon
Question, they're all running around.
unidentified
They're all running around.
What's the future of MAGA? What's the future in 2028?
steve bannon
We ain't worried about 2028. We're worried about today and tomorrow and the next day.
unidentified
That's how we won.
steve bannon
We didn't go back in 2021. Well, what's going to happen in 2024?
No, it's every single day.
You report for duty and we get it done.
Action!
So media, you don't have to come up and ask me.
I'm going to tell you right now.
The future of America is MAGA.
Okay?
unidentified
In the future of MAGA is Donald J. Trump.
We want to...
We want Trump in 28. That's where they can't stand.
A man like Trump comes along only once or twice in a country's history.
Right?
We want Trump!
God, I love you.
Nothing's gonna work them up like that.
steve bannon
No, no, no, no.
They want to say, Trump's a lame duck.
Trump's this.
Trump's that.
Trump's not around 28. Trump is here.
unidentified
He's the leader of this movement.
steve bannon
When they record the history of this age, they ain't going to remember me or Elon Musk or Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity.
They're going to remember two things.
Donald Trump and MAGA. Okay?
And you know why?
unidentified
You know why they know they can't beat you and why they're so upset?
steve bannon
Your agency.
Your human agency.
You did this yourselves.
unidentified
You came.
steve bannon
You worked through it.
You said, I'm going to put aside fear.
I'm going to put aside questions of concern.
I'm going to put aside my anxiety of the 2020 election being stolen.
I'm going to get together.
We're going to fight.
We're not going to back off any day.
Your agency.
Your human agency.
Right?
They can come up with all the algorithms in Silicon Valley they want.
They can take away half the economy as far as labor goes.
Human agency.
It's what drives this world forward.
Right?
This is the Holy Spirit working through us.
unidentified
Your agency.
steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies.
unidentified
Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon
I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of it.
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
unidentified
MAGA Media.
jake tapper
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K.
Back.
Yo!
steve bannon
We're live at CPAC 2025. It's Friday, 21 February, in the year of our Lord, 2025. Welcome to War Room Posse's all here!
My wingman Dave Bratt's with me.
Let's give it up for Dave Bratt!
Did y'all like that speech yesterday?
You like that speech?
We gave them the old what for, right?
Here's the reason, and from the audience at home and saw it streaming yesterday, look, they get enough Elon Musk, they get enough Steve Bannon, they get enough J.D. Vance, and hey, they get more than enough of Donald John Trump, right?
Today, he's going to have them back in the Oval Office, he's going to be signing the executive orders, their heads are blowing up.
The reason the world's media is here is very simply, because of you, right?
They don't understand you.
They can't destroy you until they understand you.
So that's why they're here.
But they understand one thing right now.
You can't be bought.
Right?
So, God bless you.
It's been a great CPAC so far.
We're going to get in the audience today.
We've got a lot of guests.
We're going to run through a lot in the next two hours.
We're going to cut to the main stage.
I think our own Carrie Lake is going to be up there momentarily.
So we'll hear what Carrie has to say.
Jane Zirkle, who do you got?
unidentified
Tell me your name and where you're from.
Good morning, America.
Here I am from New York City and my name is Maria.
I'm here because I'm supercharged.
I do I do not for Trump in Whitestone And I want to tell everybody that the Democratic Party in New York City sent my family Registration forms to register for the Democratic Party Wow!
steve bannon
Your name or where you're from?
unidentified
Kim from Tennessee.
And I just wanted to say, Elon who?
Oh.
steve bannon
Oh, hang on, hang on.
unidentified
Hang on!
steve bannon
Hang on!
Bring her up!
Bring her up to the stage!
unidentified
Bring her up!
Right over here!
Bring her up.
Come on, bring her up.
steve bannon
Here we go!
Right there!
unidentified
In the middle!
steve bannon
In the middle!
unidentified
Yeah, yeah!
steve bannon
A rose between two thorns!
I want to introduce you to my new agent.
Now speak up.
I wanted the whole world to hear that.
Say it again.
unidentified
I said, Elon who?
Steve stole the show last night.
He was so great.
He had everybody riled up and he knew why we were here.
We want Trump to get his message out.
steve bannon
You want his agenda executed.
You've been through some dark days here in this movie.
unidentified
Oh, gosh.
steve bannon
2021. Remember January, February, March of 2021 before he went to CPAC? Those were pretty dark days, right?
unidentified
Yes.
steve bannon
When you guys knew he won the 2020 election, right?
unidentified
Yes.
steve bannon
You see, this is what's so key.
This is what they try to gloss over in history.
That he didn't win 2020. That's right.
Right?
That was the innervating spirit.
We knew he'd won, but people were crushed.
They said, hey.
If they can steal it from a guy as strong and tough as Trump, what do I have to do?
I'm just a little person.
I can't do anything about this.
That's why the last four years was the steal was providential because God wanted us to see how demonic they were, right?
What they were prepared to do to our country.
unidentified
Yes.
And he never wavered.
He just stayed the course.
Everything they put him through, I mean, it just...
It hurt my heart, and I know it hurt everyone else that were Trump supporters as well.
steve bannon
So what was the moment?
You said you were in the fetal position.
What was the moment that you started to get your sea legs, that you could feel your energy coming back?
unidentified
It took a couple months.
It took a couple months.
I have a very dear friend of mine who's with me here, Dee, and we just kept talking and trying to work through it.
It was hard.
steve bannon
Where are you guys from?
unidentified
I'm from Tennessee, but she actually still lives here in Virginia.
steve bannon
Virginia?
unidentified
So, yeah.
steve bannon
Tennessee's a good state.
unidentified
We love Tennessee.
I had to move from here to Tennessee.
steve bannon
You moved from D.C. to Tennessee?
unidentified
I did.
Believe it or not, I worked on Capitol Hill for 30 years.
That's why we left.
steve bannon
One more time.
What's your name again?
unidentified
Kim Proctor.
steve bannon
Kim Proctor.
unidentified
Yes.
Okay.
steve bannon
Kim Proctor.
Hang on.
Before we give it up for it, Kim Proctor, one more time.
What did you say when you came up here?
unidentified
Elon who?
Oh, yeah.
Give it up for Kim Proctor from the Volunteer State of Tennessee.
Love you.
steve bannon
We're gonna give her our first outlaw hat right here.
What's your friend's name?
Hey D. How you doing, hon?
Love you too.
Thank you, honey.
Thank you.
Ben Burquam, who you got for us?
unidentified
Hey, this is what it's all about, the future of our country, guys.
What's your name?
Where are you from?
My name is Will.
I represent the University of Virginia College Republicans.
We're one of the biggest chapters in the country.
We've got about 100 members.
That's it.
That counterculture is now the culture.
Hold on.
steve bannon
Hang on.
unidentified
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
steve bannon
UVA, the Wahoos, in the Republican Party, they're like massive rhino land.
unidentified
It is not.
We are all MAGA. All MAGA? Hold it, hold it, hold it.
I was just at Harvard two weeks ago.
steve bannon
Harvard is going MAGA with these young guys just like that.
unidentified
Is UVA going MAGA? UVA is absolutely MAGA. That's Trump.
steve bannon
Now, why?
Why is it gone from a place that was so progressive?
I mean, Mr. Jefferson's university got so bad, they never mentioned Mr. Jefferson.
unidentified
What is it that's making young men and women become MAGA? We had some great role models in the club four years ago during the dark Biden years.
It wasn't so hot.
But we had some very great role models, very great leaders that transformed the club into the MAGA club and MAGA volunteer organization that it is today.
steve bannon
Do we have those guys?
Did those guys graduate?
Are they on Capitol Hill?
unidentified
A lot of them have graduated.
steve bannon
Are you guys going to come to Capitol Hill and pitch in and help Trump here?
unidentified
Some of us did graduate and go to Capitol Hill.
But some of them were just in it for Trump and now are in not even political jobs.
Business?
steve bannon
That's perfect.
Let's hear your other comment.
What's the other guy's names?
unidentified
Hi there.
I'm Eli.
You know, my first vote ever was for Donald J. Trump.
And, you know, I do not regret it.
And I never will regret it.
steve bannon
Let's speak, by the way.
In the mics, you've got to speak up.
Let's project.
unidentified
Yeah, I know.
My name's Aiden Shirky.
Proud Republican my whole life.
Thankful to be here.
My name is Patrick Schroeder.
I'm from Texas, and I'm glad to be with College Republicans here.
Hold it.
steve bannon
A kid from Texas went to UVA? Oh, man.
I don't know.
unidentified
I don't know.
steve bannon
Good.
Good on you guys.
Thanks for doing it.
Okay, short commercial break.
We're going to be back live at CPAC 2025 with the most important people in the world.
The War Room Bossy!
unidentified
American Horror Room I got American, babe In America's Horror Room Here's your host, Stephen K. Van. man.
steve bannon
Welcome back to CPAC 2025. Here at the War Room Posse, Dale Bigtree joins us.
Make America healthy again!
Dale Bigtree, you were head of comms for Bobby Kennedy's campaign?
del bigtree
I was.
It was a heck of a journey.
We started as Democrats, became independents.
And then ultimately decided I think our best route forward is joining President Donald Trump.
unidentified
You talk about a heavy lift.
steve bannon
Bobby Kennedy's comm director.
del bigtree
That is.
You know, I want to take a second, Steve, because a lot of people don't know.
I don't think we'd be here without you.
You were one of the first people to ever really introduce this idea.
You brought Bobby in.
I know this behind the scenes.
I don't know if it's a big secret, but I'm outing it right now.
All the way back the first time that President Trump ran, you understood this topic before anyone ever did.
You were bold about it.
You made President Trump bold about it.
And we are here today because people like you planted a seed.
You had vision.
And I just want everyone out here to know that.
steve bannon
I want to say just one quick thing.
In late November, early December 2016, two people came up to see President Trump.
We were doing the transition.
He was doing it all out of his offices on Trump Tower.
We brought Tulsi Gabbard up immediately to work, try to be the UN Secretary against Nikki Haley.
And I was pushing Tulsi hard.
She got eviscerated by the Democratic Party even for coming for a meeting.
And she was ten times more qualified than Nikki Haley, right?
She was pure America first.
She was leaning towards MAGA. You could see her was coming.
She was a combat vet.
I mean, she had everything.
And then a week later, and I think it was Jared who actually set the meeting up.
Bobby Kennedy came to see the president.
unidentified
I go, oh my God, Bobby Kennedy's coming up here.
steve bannon
So it was unbelievable.
I sat there for two hours.
President Trump canceled a bunch of stuff on his schedule.
And Bobby Kennedy sat there and walked him through everything.
And President Trump was like mesmerized.
I said, this guy is so knowledgeable.
President Trump actually wanted Bobby to have some role in his first administration, but the rhinos went absolutely nuts.
And I will tell you, with Dale Bigtree and Tony Lyons, Tony Lyons at Sky Horse Press, who was head of the PAC, I was a very early advocate for Bobby Kennedy being the vice president, right, on the ticket.
Now, it worked out.
J.D. turned out to be perfect.
Bobby's, and I think Bobby's actually in a better role.
del bigtree
I think he's exactly.
unidentified
Don't you think?
steve bannon
I think it worked out better because Bobby's in the right role.
He's going to raise holy hell with him, right?
unidentified
Absolutely.
del bigtree
You know, I was standing at the Oval Office when he was signing in, and I actually thought...
I think this is even better than if he won president.
If he won president, people could have said, well, it was really on his foreign policy.
Of course, he's well-read.
But we landed him at the most powerful job in the world, which is health.
HHS secretary means the WHO is going to follow him.
And, you know, NHS in England, everybody follows America.
steve bannon
The WHO is going to have a hard time following him because we're shutting it down.
del bigtree
Yeah, well, that too.
That too.
steve bannon
Hold it.
Bobby Kennedy just wants two things.
Radical transparency.
You want that too, of all the big pharma and everything?
You can make your own mind up when you see the information?
unidentified
That's right.
steve bannon
And he wants gold standard science, right?
Those two things.
del bigtree
Yeah, people, we really don't.
You have no idea how bad the science has been over the last couple of decades inside of our regulatory agencies.
You cannot be doing science where you know what end result you're going for and then design the study to get to that end result.
That is not the scientific method.
You've got to be challenging everything you're looking at, asking is this truly safe?
We have chemicals in our food now, we know about it, that are destroying our children's lives.
Those same chemicals are illegal in Europe.
Why are we being treated, you know, and put in harm's way more than other countries?
You know, this vaccine, these vaccines, they're great.
They have their place.
But how many of them?
How many is too many?
Are there combinations?
This is the truth.
And this is all that Robert Kennedy Jr. and I have ever talked about.
Vaccine injury is real.
Every year, kids die and are maimed by vaccines.
Not all of them.
This isn't about everybody that's having a great reaction.
Don't worry about it.
Your life isn't going to change.
But for all those kids whose lives were destroyed, we're going to study those kids.
We're going to study these products.
And we're going to figure out why are they having such a severe...
And bad reaction.
That's all that's going on.
So if anyone that's worried about it, your vaccines aren't going anywhere.
We care about those people that are having a bad reaction.
Why are they?
They can't be forced to take a product that's gonna end their life or maim them for life.
Every vaccine has a warning label wrapped around it.
You never see it.
You don't see that warning label.
It's like every other drug you take.
But you've been told, oh, it never happens.
It's a lie.
It's unscientific to say that.
And now you're going to see how many injuries there are, why they're happening.
And maybe you even say to yourself, I didn't know that that was an injury from vaccine because my child's had that issue their whole lives.
That's what you're about to discover.
Real transparency.
You're smart enough to handle it.
America to make their own decisions.
steve bannon
Okay, we talked to you yesterday about putting the Maha and the MAGA movement together.
Where do people go?
You're starting this new thing.
I want everybody to understand where Dale, you can get him.
He's going to be a major component of the show going forward.
But where do people get you?
Your podcast, your show, the new website?
del bigtree
In about a week, we're launching the Maha podcast.
One of our first interviews is Dr. Robert Redfield, former head of the CDC. He says things that you can't imagine he knew the whole time.
So those kinds of conversations.
We're going to be doing a lot of political work through our C4, which is MahaAction.com.
And I'm building Maha.io.
In the next couple of weeks, we are going to have a directory where you can find doctors that don't lean on drugs first, actually have other ways to heal you before drugging you.
So we're going to create a whole new system in this country.
steve bannon
Make America healthy again.
Hard welded into make America great again.
Unstoppable.
That's right.
We run this country for the next 50 years, right? - Thank you.
Let's give it up for Dale Bigtrade.
del bigtree
Thank you, everybody.
steve bannon
Make America healthy again.
unidentified
All right.
del bigtree
Appreciate it.
unidentified
Dale, thanks.
steve bannon
Thank you.
Ben Burquam, you've got the Patriots of J6. What do you got for us?
Who's there?
ben bergquam
Yeah, and before I get to that, at Peace Circle, 1 o'clock today, they're having a J6 event out there, Memorial.
unidentified
You got Joe Biggs.
You got Enrique Tarrio.
All the guys are going to be out there.
A lot of these guys, too.
steve bannon
Okay, I want to announce, we're going to cover that live.
One o'clock.
unidentified
One o'clock.
Peace circle.
steve bannon
One o'clock Eastern Time.
People at home.
We're going to cover live.
It's a press conference on Capitol Hill.
There's another press conference going at the same time, I think, one o'clock at the National Press Club.
They had a bomb scare last night at the Kennedy Center.
It has nothing to do with me saying the J6 choir was going to play there early in the day, right?
They had a bomb scare, but it was about our Chinese colleagues.
The Shen Yun people had their performance last night.
They tried to scare it and shut it down by a bomb scare.
They're gonna come up.
We're gonna cover you guys live at 1 o'clock.
Who do you got for us, Ben?
unidentified
Well, I'm gonna walk through here.
Tell me your name, where you're from, your charges, all of that.
Sure, so my name is Bobby DeGregoris.
I'm a father of four from Loudoun County, Virginia.
First off, I want to say, Steve, you are 100% one of us.
They locked you up for your beliefs, for standing up for what you believe in.
I want to thank you for giving us a voice.
We've been silenced for so long.
We've all had gag orders.
We couldn't tell our stories.
We couldn't say what was going on.
So, you know, Steve, War Room, Stephen's family embraced us with open arms, made us feel welcome.
So we're looking forward to getting the word out there, letting you guys know the stories about J6 you haven't heard yet, and ensuring that this never ever happens again to anyone. - And I just noticed my friend, Steve Coy Griffin from Cowboys for Trump over here, he got Three weeks in solitary confinement for praying.
Didn't even go in.
That's right.
Trespass charge.
I stayed outside of the Capitol.
But not only that, I also got removed from my commission seat in New Mexico on grounds of insurrection.
So I'm the only man in America since the Civil War that's been removed from office on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
And I'd appreciate Steve to bring that to light one of these days.
It would be grateful.
And now they're attacking your mom, too.
It's unbelievable.
steve bannon
They're attacking your mom.
unidentified
They just recently removed my mom.
steve bannon
The reason we have you guys here, you're all convicts.
You scare the hell out of me, so that's why we're giving you our time.
unidentified
I'm just an inmate.
I'm just an inmate.
You're convicts.
steve bannon
That's the difference.
You guys don't like the mediums, right?
People have to understand, these guys are going to help us.
Jared, Peter Navarro.
Jared was the architect of the First Step Act, which was brilliant.
I didn't actually totally understand the brilliance.
Peter Navarro, myself.
We're working on prison reform.
All the J6 guys are going to help us.
Our prisons need to be reformed, right?
I'm telling you.
I'm telling you.
And there's some bad guys that don't.
But you can't treat human beings like animals.
If you treat them like animals, because they're all going to come out.
And the other thing we've got to get into is these judges give people these sentences.
I'm in prison, and they've got these young black and Hispanic kids on nonviolent drug charges in Danbury, which is a very tiny prison.
They're there for 20 years.
And it just can't...
I mean, they start doing drugs.
Because you almost have to to get through the time, and that's what happens.
But these guys, these men and women that went to mediums or medium highs, that's gladiator school, right?
I mean, every day is a prison politics.
You've got to represent every day.
The mediums are...
Because the penitentiaries, you're kind of locked down.
The mediums and medium highs are the most dangerous places in this country.
unidentified
Hi, I'm Jenny Heinle.
I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
And I'm a goalie mom, and I was thrown in prison because I wasn't apologetic enough to Matthew Graves.
So I had a parading charge.
Yeah, so I'm here today to thank Steve.
I've been watching you since you've been on the War Room, and I so appreciate you and what you've been doing for us.
steve bannon
Thank you.
unidentified
Hey, my name is Robert Abraham Morris.
I'm an Airborne Ranger, deployed to Afghanistan three times on three combat deployments.
And on my first deployment to Afghanistan...
steve bannon
Hang on, three combat deployments?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
So on my first deployment, though, is when I realized that the wasteland that I was walking through would follow me home if the next generation didn't know how to keep this republic.
So that's when I dedicated my life to becoming a high school history teacher, to teach real history in the classrooms instead of that CRT garbage.
So...
I dedicated my life to that, and that's why they locked me up.
Two weeks after I graduated from Penn State, I was at the Capitol.
Not because of Trump, but because they stole the election, and because of the pandemic, and because they were putting other countries over our own kids.
That's why we had the guts to show up.
And I gotta tell you, Mr. Bannon, when we were in the D.C. Gulag, we tuned into War Room all the time.
I have this book written in prison that I want to give to you.
Me and Kelly Meggs wrote that in prison.
It's smuggled out of prison.
Available on Amazon now.
It's called One Question Remains.
That will dissect how January 6th was indeed a lobster trap.
To trap the MAGA movement, Donald Trump, and everybody willing to fight for this country, we're not giving up.
steve bannon
You're saying, understand this.
That threat is still out there, right?
unidentified
Without a doubt.
steve bannon
But we're a long way from victory.
We just won a huge victory, but we're a long way from victory.
They're laying traps all the time.
unidentified
We're only one generation away, my friend, and you know that better than anybody, and so do I, so we're never giving up.
There's 1,500 men and women that are now personally invested in making America great again forever.
steve bannon
Okay, hang on one second.
We've got to go to a short commercial break.
Short commercial break.
Jane, you can jump in here anytime you want.
Okay, short commercial break.
unidentified
We got the one and only Jack Brewer up here.
Give it up for Jack Brewer.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
steve bannon
Okay, welcome back to the Roll Room.
We have Jack Brewer right here, and NFL Greg joins us on Prison Reform.
Hey, Ben, right before we come back to Jack, I want...
unidentified
I want our hero from the wars.
steve bannon
Did that, sir, when they gave the warning to you and the charge on you and they tried you in your trial, did your service to your country on foreign battlefields, three combat tours, did they take that into consideration in your trial and they take it into consideration in your sentencing?
unidentified
They not only took it into consideration.
They took it into consideration in a negative way.
They used it against me.
They said that I was a weapon against the people, that I weaponized the training that the government gave me, that I was a danger to society.
And in fact, it gets even worse because as my career as an educator, they used that against me as well and said that in the classroom I was teaching students how to become domestic terrorists.
And the judge nodded on.
He let that happen.
steve bannon
You see that?
You see, you serve your country, you go in harm's way.
And they usually against you.
How many years did you get in prison?
unidentified
I was behind bars for three and a half years, sir.
Wow.
steve bannon
Unbelievable.
Thank you, brother.
We'll be back in touch with you guys.
Talk to me about prisons.
unidentified
Well, you know, in that same spirit, so we run prison programs across the United States of America and in many countries.
Right now, as we all sit here free, we have over 180,000 veterans that have served the United States of America in our prison system.
180,000 veterans in our prisons today.
That is criminal within itself.
And so our organization, man, we work to go in and penetrate the hearts and minds, but we try to give dignity back.
So my whole thing is I want to be able to advocate for these folks in prison that have been over-sentenced, these guys that have...
You know, fell victim to this two-tiered justice system.
And so when we go in there, we actually start to understand who they are and we reach out to their families.
We help provide their families.
You know, we have a fatherlessness crisis in our country, Steve.
We have almost 18 million of our kids.
I just spoke on the CPAC stage about this.
18 million of our babies growing up in our country with no active father in their lives.
So why do you think we have the educational gap that we have?
Why do you think that we have the poverty gap that we have?
You're five times more likely to live in poverty if you're fatherless.
71% of every American student that drops out of high schools across America has no father in the house.
What else are we looking at?
We have to do something and do more to protect our families and get the men back in the house and go against this leftist philosophy of baby mamas running the house and get the dads back to paying taxes, paying their child support, and being there for their kids.
Hey Jack, what's the best source of human dignity?
You know of in the universe.
I carry this sword with me and it's the Holy Bible.
This is the training manual right here?
That's the training manual right there, Steve.
And I'll tell you, if you don't know, the last verse in the Old Testament.
It's Malachi 4 and 6, and it says, He shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
The curse that we're living in, this leftist curse that we're taking on right now, it's biblical, it's spiritual, and it can only be solved by putting the Ten Commandments back in our schools and standing for the Word of God.
Wow.
steve bannon
Jane Zirkle, who do you got down there in the war room posse?
unidentified
Can you please tell me your name and where you're from?
Sure.
Greg Smith from Melbourne, Australia, home of the world's longest lockdowns, from 10pm to 5am, and during the day we're allowed outside for an hour a day.
And what brings you to CPAC? Well, I'm back again.
Well, not to CPAC, but back to America.
I was here in 22, 23 and 24, particularly helping Turning Point in Phoenix for...
For the midterm elections when I first met Steve, I said we need to...
You asked, why was I here?
I said it was to save America before we could save Australia.
steve bannon
Wow.
unidentified
Thank you.
Now, Trump winning, don't rest on your laurels.
There's still work to do.
The war has only begun.
Neil McCabe, what brings you to CPAC? Yo, Neil!
Hey, Steve.
Steve, I have here a photo of your spiritual cellmate.
James Michael Curley, the legendary mayor of Boston who was sentenced to Danbury Prison in Connecticut and pardoned by Harry Truman so he could finish his term.
steve bannon
Wow, this is one of the most famous Irish politicians.
He also went to Danbury, right?
Yeah, was there before me.
A fellow graduate.
We love this.
unidentified
This is a hard Irish mick right there.
steve bannon
Thank you so much.
Now, where are you writing for right now?
unidentified
I'm at Red State now, but I do want to tell you, Steve, my dear father loved James Michael Curley.
I appreciate everything you do, because I miss my father every day, and I especially miss that he never saw you come on the stage.
steve bannon
Wow, thank you so much.
By the way, James Michael Curley, one of my heroes, too.
Let's give it up for Neil McCabe from Red State.
unidentified
Neil McCabe!
Your name and where you're from?
Patty Gosling from the Republic of New York.
We are here to hear the plan moving forward of action, action, action for this great movement that we are in.
And we don't want to lose the momentum.
We've got to keep the foot on the gas.
Keep fighting.
Keep fighting.
steve bannon
Hang on one second.
Ben Berkman, what do you got for us?
unidentified
Speaking of the fight...
Education.
Board of Education.
Talk to me.
North Carolina.
What's your name?
Your fight.
It's Michelle Morrow, and I ran for superintendent, but now I am the executive director.
Hold it.
steve bannon
Is that Michelle Morrow?
You ran for education down in Carolina?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
I did.
Hold it.
steve bannon
Hold it.
You were going to bring...
God's word back into the schools in Carolina.
unidentified
That's right.
Get the boys out of the girls' bathrooms.
steve bannon
That election was stolen, was it not?
unidentified
Yes, sir, it was.
steve bannon
Tell me about that.
unidentified
Yeah, so we saw President Trump won a victory bigger in 24 in North Carolina than in 20 or in 16. But there were a lot of us.
They spent $8.3 million in a superintendent race to take me out.
steve bannon
$8.3 million?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
And I only lost by two points.
steve bannon
Is that how afraid they are, the word of God, getting back into those?
unidentified
Well, they're scared of truth, and that's why they went after you, and that's why it is such an incredible fight that we have.
We cannot sit back, as they just said, because we have to fight harder for President Trump's agenda to get into every one of the 50 states.
And I would say this, the only way to save the Constitutional Republic is to save our children, to expose, to defund, and to destroy the education cabal that has destroyed our children's minds, bodies, and made them pharmaceutical guinea pigs.
Amen.
That's right.
Not only a fighter, but she's smiling.
You can see the faith, all of you.
The people, I get to meet all of you.
The sisters down there.
You're all smiling while you're fighting.
What a way to go.
Look at your lanyards.
It says Liberty University on there.
Bringing faith.
Jack Brewer's been working with Liberty.
We got a project going.
We're going to go into the jails to juvenile detention centers.
Work with the National Guard, Junior National Guard.
Jack, why don't you describe that for a minute?
So we actually have a fellowship, and we talk about our youth and our universities.
Well, at Liberty University, I came in as their partner.
We have a biblical justice fellowship.
You know, we hear about criminal justice and social justice, all of these things dividing people up between skin color and gender.
Well, it's really about biblical justice.
We don't have to look any further than that.
Because this Word of God says that we are all one blood according to Acts 17 and 26. And I think that's what's so important about this work is to make sure that our children are armed with this Word of God.
See, the Word of God doesn't need us.
It works itself through the Holy Spirit.
And it gets in your mind.
And the Word of God says that it shall never return void.
Brewer, preach it.
He has been a role model for me.
He came on and listened to me a little because I was in Congress.
He wanted to learn about the swamp.
But now I'm learning from the preacher, and he's changing the country.
Hold it.
steve bannon
Where are you living?
You still live in Minnesota?
You're a Minnesota guy, right?
unidentified
Well, we have an office in Minnesota.
I actually live in Florida because it's cold up there now.
Okay.
steve bannon
Hold it.
When is Jack Brewer going to run for office?
unidentified
Yeah.
steve bannon
We want to see that, don't we?
These are the kind of guys, these are the men and women, we need Maura, we need Jack Broad, these are the kind of people we need in office, right?
When are you going to do it?
unidentified
Well, Steve, you know, they came after me.
I don't know if you guys remember, but I made a comment that went viral across the world.
I called President Trump the first black president.
And everybody went crazy.
And I did that not to push at anyone else.
Because in my mind, as a black man, they treated him the same way as they treated Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and throwing the government at him and weaponizing.
He was persecuted as black men were in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
steve bannon
Amen.
unidentified
And so that's what my statement was about because you've seen what's happened.
Now he's overcoming.
And what happened in the election?
They thought I was crazy.
I told them that he'd get 25% of the black male vote and he did it.
steve bannon
All right.
unidentified
Jack, what's your title?
What's your title under President Trump right now?
So I was appointed to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, actually on the Commission for the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, which I serve very proudly on.
I was appointed during 2016, and actually the Biden administration kept me on.
They didn't get rid of me.
So I guess I was doing something all right.
I try to bring people together.
I think that's important.
And just my last message for everyone is, I just took a trip to Guatemala.
And I watched those families come off those planes from being migrants.
I looked those kids in the eyes and I looked those people in the eyes and you know why I did it?
I wanted to make sure that they knew that America loved them.
We're Christian people.
We know many of them were not criminals in the sense of being violent.
They broke the law because they didn't know and they were victims of poverty.
So I ask all of you, pray for those families as we send these people back that should be sent back because they broke the law.
Let's continue to pray for those families around the world so we can get policies in place where these countries can fix their sales instead of sending their people to us.
To fix their problem.
steve bannon
Jack, where do people go to get your social media, website, all of it?
unidentified
Jack Brewerfoundation.org.
Look me up.
You can Google it.
But I think the most important thing before I leave is Steve Bannon just committed to coming into the prison with me.
steve bannon
Yes, amen.
unidentified
And he doesn't understand how much that means to me and all the men.
And I tell my men this, Steve, when I talk about them.
Guys, in the prisons, I know you're going to see this.
You got people like this who understand your story, that have your back, and the American people love you.
steve bannon
Hang on, Jack.
Pull that camera in.
That's my prison ID right there.
unidentified
Yeah?
steve bannon
That's nothing but a federal prisoner.
Now, I'm an inmate.
These guys over here go to mediums.
They're convicts, man.
That's a whole different deal.
I tell you, these prisons are dangerous.
They treat people like...
I haven't had beef.
I haven't had meat since the day I showed up to prison.
People ask why.
I go simple.
They treat you like an animal in these prisons, right?
They feed you like they feed animals.
The prison conditions, and this just breeds more criminality.
It's got to be changed.
And I'm telling you another thing.
When I was there, those people are looking at Trump as a leader.
And when he got assassinated, the assassination attempt, they said, that's my guy.
This is why almost 45% of black men in this country voted for President Trump, right?
And I'm telling you, if we get that to 65% or 70%, With Jack Brewer and others we can do, we're unbeatable.
The math works.
They cannot beat us.
We've governed for a hundred years.
Jack Brewer, give it up.
unidentified
God bless you guys.
The operating manual of Jack Brewer, the Holy Bible.
Hey, Ben Berquan, what do you got, brother?
Hey, just one real quick.
You just made a comment.
How do they determine the size of the prisons?
By the percentage of kids that are reading at grade level in third grade, which is why we've got to redeem the education system, because we just found out almost 70% of our kids across the United States are not reading or doing math at grade level.
How do people find you?
They can go to my website at forbettered.org, forbettered.org.
God bless you.
steve bannon
Okay, has everybody got that?
Thank you, ma'am.
You're a fighter.
Okay, hey, ma'am, we've got to go to commercial break.
Birchgold.com, take your phone out.
By the way, President Trump, after war room yesterday, I'm not saying it's any connection.
Far be it from being any connection.
But Philip Patrick's up here and we were just going back and forth about the gold in Fort Knox.
President Trump said in the afternoon, he's going to Fort Knox.
unidentified
He wants to lay his eyes.
He wants to lay his eyes on that gold.
steve bannon
First gold, back in a moment.
unidentified
Here's your host, Stephen K. Van.
We have Ambassador Carla Sands with us.
steve bannon
The tip of the spear of buying Greenland.
I'm just kidding.
Pardon, Greenland.
Let's go to the main stage for a second.
We have our own Matt Boyle, one of my protégés over at Breitbart.
He's with James Blair.
James Blair is the political director in President Trump's White House.
Let's go to the main stage for a moment.
unidentified
Presidents always lose the midterms.
Often true, but not always.
In the last hundred years, there's only two midterms where a president...
has added seats to both chambers of his party.
One was 2002, and obviously that was post 9-11, kind of a unique time for our country, very patriotic, rallying around President Bush.
And the other was 1934, which was after the New Deal passed.
And that really set in motion a hundred-year realignment of politics, and it came out of what they did.
And I think that needs to be the model we're looking at, where we're not looking for incremental change, and we need our Republicans in Congress to help us with that.
We need to look for big change.
And I think if we enact big change, which the President campaigned on, we'll be rewarded politically for a long time.
I couldn't agree more.
It feels like we have a different...
Look, I've been doing this for a long time at Breitbart.
I've been at Breitbart for 12 years.
I've been reporting in the conservative movement for 15. It feels like the Republican Party is a different Republican Party now.
And this is in large part thanks to President Trump and his endorsements.
We've got new, incoming, exciting senators.
People like Jim Banks from Indiana, who I think we heard from yesterday.
Bernie Marino from Ohio.
Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania.
Tim Sheehy from Montana.
I mean, these are exciting young voices that are, you know...
Eight years ago, President Trump had a rough time of getting his cabinet through.
This time around, he's actually beating with a smaller majority of his party, Barack Obama, from 2009 when he was confirming his cabinet.
Trump's cabinet is almost all confirmed now.
How has the party changed in a better way?
steve bannon
We're going to take it back now.
We're going to play the tape of Matt later this afternoon up there with James Blair.
Ben Burkwam, what do you got for us?
unidentified
Real quick, you guys are talking about injustice.
I just got word, you guys...
We're following the story.
ben bergquam
Tyler Burleson was working down there in Tennessee after the hurricanes when they were ignored, when abandoned by former administration Joe Biden regime.
unidentified
He is still in jail.
Tyler Burleson is still in jail.
His entire business has been lost.
They've kicked him out of his business.
They've had to move everything out.
Everything.
And Tennessee, North Carolina are still screwed after being abandoned by Joe Biden.
And real quick, Neil Pinkston has taken over that case, former DA. He's going to be helping Tyler.
He's going to come on the show next week.
But in the meantime, if you guys can help...
The legal fees that Tyler has to try to get him out of jail, it's give, send, go, help Tyler Burleson, Tyler Burleson legal fees.
He really needs it.
It's absolutely unjust what's happening.
steve bannon
Ben, hang on for one second.
Ambassador Carla Sands.
Ambassador Sands, because she's too humble and too self-effacing, you're one of the key people in Pennsylvania.
Tell us what you did in Pennsylvania to help the ground game, to support the ground game that led us to victory.
unidentified
Well, there were many, many loving hands.
Elon Musk literally came to my own church, Life Center in Harrisburg.
It was tremendous.
We had such a great ground game from America First Works at AFPI, from so many as Scott Pressler never left Pennsylvania for the entire season, and I was speaking at the rallies for President Trump and J.D. Vance, and then just going everywhere, talking to the grassroots and working that, taking the campaign tour bus.
With many folks who you now know are in President Trump's cabinet.
It was such an amazing groundswell of support for President Trump because Pennsylvanians are MAGA country.
It is America first there.
steve bannon
What do we need done in the future?
You're doing a call to arms for young people.
What do we need?
unidentified
I am.
I'm calling all of the young coders and creators.
The Democrats have better voter turnout and voter communication than we have.
Their database is better.
Their engagement is better.
steve bannon
And why is that?
unidentified
Their turnout, the vote, they just have done it better.
We have many different platforms.
And our great conservative organizations, whether it's AMAC, Moms for Liberty, Moms for America, AFW, we're on different platforms.
We need a great platform that leapfrogs over what the Democrats are doing.
So we win in 2026 and hold the house and...
Implement President Trump's agenda for four years, not two.
So I'm asking you coders, you creators, I'd like us to crowdsource, to work together.
steve bannon
How do people get to you?
You're doing a call to arms here.
Where do people go?
unidentified
So we'll create something.
We're going to create something.
We're going to get you together.
Dave Brad has offered to host it at Liberty University.
You can come there or not.
Let's get this platform where we engage with voters, get out the vote, get their data, and have great walkbooks so all our candidates, whether it's school board or the Senate, they're going to win because they reach their voters and they get them to turn out.
steve bannon
Okay, give us a minute.
By the way, so you're going to come back.
You'll be in studio.
You'll have a site.
unidentified
We'll go.
steve bannon
Okay, last thing.
President, you were the ambassador to Denmark, correct?
unidentified
Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands.
steve bannon
And the Faroe Islands.
Tell us about, is this a wild goose chase with President Trump, or is this well thought through about some sort of partnership or something to do with Greenland?
Ma'am.
unidentified
President Trump is going to secure Greenland.
Denmark can't afford to do it.
steve bannon
Why is that important?
Why is that important for the United States?
Don't we have too many problems?
Do we need the problems of Greenland?
unidentified
Greenland is going independent.
If it's not us, it's Russia or China.
steve bannon
Wow.
One more time.
Ambassador Sands, where do people get you?
Where are you on social media?
unidentified
So I'm at Carla H. Sands on Twitter, on X. I'm a little bit on Instagram and Facebook.
And I love what you're doing.
Unbelievable.
The posse won this election.
The posse won the country.
steve bannon
Ambassador Carla Sands, let's give it up for her.
Jane Zirkel, what do you got?
unidentified
The youngest members of the war room posse.
Can you guys please tell me your names?
I'm Blackwell.
Farrah Papsi.
And I'm Valentina Papsi.
And what are you guys here at CPAC for?
We think God, Trump, and Steve Bannon.
God, Trump, and Steve Bannon.
Oh, we love it.
We love it.
Your name and where you're from.
Mikhail Alterman, Beachwood, Ohio.
Here for the next MAGA steps.
And also bring it to attention.
Deconstructing administrative state as far as...
501c3 statuses of all these left-wing organizations and National Science Foundation grants that finance a lot of left-wing infrastructure.
All right, all right.
Your name and where you're from.
Hi, I'm Jerry Bond.
I'm from Baltimore, Maryland, and I'm here to witness history.
Witness history.
We are living in history, for sure.
Oh, what's your hat say?
It says, uh, Trump the sequel.
The sequel.
What brings you to CPAC? I am Joanne and I'm from Richmond, Virginia, Ginner Park.
And I'm here to find a way around the...
Okay, guys.
steve bannon
Hang on one second.
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