Feb. 26, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| 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've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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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. | ||
| Wednesday, 26th February, Year of Alert 2025. | ||
| Another historic day-to-day forecast. | ||
| First cabinet meeting, official cabinet meeting of President Trump, be 11 o'clock. | ||
| Also, to make sure you know you get action, action, action, Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Doge subcommittee will also meet at 11. We expect kind of fireworks there as the Democrats are not happy with the direction of Doge. | ||
| I want to go to the White House. | ||
| Brian Glenn. | ||
| Brian, first. | ||
| I want to explain to people, yesterday, historic, I don't know if we get that clip, maybe we'll play it later. | ||
| Caroline Levitt, yesterday from the podium, and for the audience, this is a nuance which is actually massive. | ||
| She said that, hey, in the future, the White House Press Corps, the White House Correspondents Association that puts on the White House Correspondents Dinner that I've... | ||
| I've boycotted since I partnered with Andrew Breitbart. | ||
| Andrew loved it. | ||
| Going and giving those guys hell. | ||
| I couldn't stand them, so I've never gone. | ||
| You have the clip from Caroline? | ||
| Let's play. | ||
| Brian. | ||
| First of all, Brian, come in. | ||
| Let's talk about the cabinet meeting. | ||
| Then I want to talk about who's actually going to cover it. | ||
| We'll play the clip from Caroline. | ||
| Today, first cabinet meeting. | ||
| What do you anticipate, sir? | ||
| Put us in the room. | ||
| Set the table. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, this will be the first time. | ||
| By the way, good morning, Steve. | ||
| Good morning, War Room Posse. | ||
| Today will be the first day that they're going to let an alternative, I would say Newsmax, be kind of a secondary pull camera in that room. | ||
| That's the first time that Newsmax, from what I understand, will be a pull. | ||
| So this is kind of the new step in this administration, and you laid it out perfectly. | ||
| The WHCA, which has really controlled the seats in the briefing room and also who flies on Air Force One. | ||
| They will no longer have the authority or power to do that. | ||
| It's the Trump team. | ||
| The Trump press team has taken over those responsibilities. | ||
| So today, for the cabinet meeting, you will have the typical poll. | ||
| And I'll have to check with Tony exactly who the first poll is. | ||
| But the second poll is Newsmax. | ||
| I believe the new media is the blaze, which is nice. | ||
| And, of course, who is it? | ||
| ABC. ABC will be the poll one for the feed today, Steve. | ||
| This is, okay, I want to, can we have the Caroline Levitt? | ||
| Let's go ahead and play this. | ||
| This is monumental, and particularly for the audience. | ||
| This is President Trump taking direct control, and I wanted to do this in the first term, but we were too bound by convention. | ||
| President Trump just really going off the chain on this. | ||
| Let's go ahead and hear Caroline Levitt yesterday. | ||
| I am proud to announce that we are going to give the power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen to your radio stations. | ||
| Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team. | ||
| Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed to join, fear not, but we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility. | ||
| Just like we added a new media seat in this briefing room, legacy media outlets who have been here for years will still participate in the pool. | ||
| But new voices are going to be welcomed in as well. | ||
| As part of these changes, we will continue the rotation amongst the five major television networks to ensure the president's remarks are heard far and wide around this world. | ||
| We will add additional streaming services which reach different audiences than traditional cable and broadcast. | ||
| This is the ever-changing landscape of the media in the United States today. | ||
| We will continue to rotate a print pooler who has the great responsibility of quickly transcribing the president's remarks and disseminating them to the rest of the world. | ||
| And we will add outlets to the print pool rotation who have long been denied the privilege to partake in this experience but are committed to covering this White House beat. | ||
| We will continue to rotate a radio pooler and add other radio hosts who have been denied access, especially local radio hosts who serve as the heartbeat of our country. | ||
| And we will add additional outlets and reporters who are well-suited to cover the news of the day and ask substantive questions of the President of the United States, depending on the news he is making on that given day. | ||
| This administration is shaking up Washington in more ways than one. | ||
| That's what we were elected to do. | ||
| As I have said since the first day behind this podium, it's beyond time that the White House press operation reflects the media habits of the American people in 2025, not 1925. A select group of D.C.-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the White House. | ||
| All journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table. | ||
| So by deciding which outlets make up the limited press pool on a day-to-day basis, The White House will be restoring power back to the American people who President Trump was elected to serve. | ||
| This is monumental in information warfare because in the press pool, what this is is that particularly when you see these press avails, and let's take Macron yesterday because we're trying to teach you the rhythm of the White House. | ||
| When Macron comes for a bilat, They meet on the West Wing. | ||
| They go into the Oval. | ||
| They have a few minutes to themselves. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Then the president always invites the media. | ||
| That's the press pool. | ||
| You see all the cameras come in, but there's also a handful of reporters that are selected as the press pool of the day. | ||
| Those are the ones asking questions. | ||
| This will be in the cabinet room today. | ||
| The cabinet room, if you have the Oval, You have a very small workstation space for the secretaries or the assistants that are right there outside the Oval. | ||
| Then you walk into the cabinet room. | ||
| The cabinet room is very historic. | ||
| Obviously so many important meetings there, but that's where essentially you've seen it probably in movies, mostly around maybe the Cuban Missile Crisis. | ||
| That's where the Cuban Missile Crisis team, a lot of photographs, a lot of black and white photographs of Kennedy. | ||
| Curtis LeMay and Bobby Kennedy, all of them, President Kennedy, working through that. | ||
| That's the Cabinet Room. | ||
| That is right next to the Oval as you walk through the Secretary's station. | ||
| The windows on the Oval, kind of to the right, and in the Cabinet Room, look onto the Rose Garden, okay? | ||
| The Cabinet Room is actually not that big, and the table is magnificent, right? | ||
| The Oval Table. | ||
| And it's jammed with the president's assistants sitting in back and all the cabinet officials around it. | ||
| The press has really got to cram in there. | ||
| So you'll have a pool and we'll take the pool feed. | ||
| It's not enough for all the cameras. | ||
| What Caroline Leavitt is saying in this situation too, you'll have a handful of reporters that can actually toss questions to the president because he is doing more than any president ever getting information out to the people and disintermediating. | ||
| The mainstream media. | ||
| And Brian Glenn, this is the biggest, one of the most important disintermediations of all. | ||
| And that's a fancy Harvard Business School word for taking out the middleman. | ||
| The intermediation. | ||
| You're disintermediating. | ||
| The ability of ABC and CBS and NBC, these haters, that for years have just been able to... | ||
| Just close down and structure the message coming out of the White House. | ||
| President Trump's not having it, Caroline Levitt, and I really admire Susie Wiles, the entire comms team, Terrell Botowich, all of them, for quite frankly having the backbone to do this. | ||
| We wanted to do it the first term, and to be blunt, we just didn't, you know, the folks there, we essentially caved. | ||
| We should have done this in the first, and I'm really proud of the team doing it. | ||
| How big a deal is it, Brian, for someone like you that covers it day-to-day, wall-to-wall, sir? | ||
| It was a moment. | ||
| And like I said yesterday on the show, I'm humbled to be able to walk in here every day and do what I do. | ||
| Now, I will say this. | ||
| When she made that announcement yesterday, I could feel the oxygen being sucked out of that room. | ||
| And there was absolutely no denying that that was a complete shock. | ||
| You know, when you have an administration that has so many news things happening every day, to lead with that says a lot as far as the magnitude of what they want to accomplish here. | ||
| The HCA has been in charge of this for a long time, and they broke that apart yesterday. | ||
| And we'll see how that moves forward. | ||
| But today does mark the first day that you're going to see this new change in pool structure here, with Newsmax being basically the second pool. | ||
| We're going to bifurcate Brian Glenn today. | ||
| We're actually going to pick up the pool feed and I'll tee up the cabinet. | ||
| We're going to try to get in there for as much as possible. | ||
| Brian is going to take off for Capitol Hill because at 11 o'clock we're going to have to juggle this. | ||
| There's also this very important Doge subcommittee. | ||
| First of all, the cabinet, Elon Musk is coming. | ||
| The president just put out a thing of how all the cabinet officials love him. | ||
| I'm sure behind closed doors they're going to have a frank conversation about what's going on in these emails. | ||
| Up on Capitol Hill, Marjorie Taylor Greene chairs the subcommittee. | ||
| What do we expect today? | ||
| You think fireworks? | ||
| Or is this going to be going through more information like her first subcommittee meeting? | ||
| Well, Republicans are going to bring out the information, and Democrats will show up and make it a clown show like they did the first time. | ||
| They're not taking this subcommittee, this doge thing, serious at all. | ||
| And I can't believe they can't, because the American people, when we found $2.7 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid and Medicare, you should take that pretty serious. | ||
| But I do expect fireworks. | ||
| It will be, like I said yesterday, it's on the Capitol Hill now. | ||
| It was in the Rayburn building. | ||
| that room was simply too small. | ||
| It was kind of an intimate space, if you will. | ||
| This is a much bigger room. | ||
| They're expecting more media, more people. | ||
| Perhaps protesters might make their way into the audience there, which will likely happen. | ||
| But I do think... | ||
| Fine. | ||
| As logistically these members are forced to sit further away from each other, that's when they get a little braver when it comes to trying to start any type of feuds or any type of controversy. | ||
| The previous room was tight, and I really think that limited their, let's see how proud they are and how brave they are today. | ||
| Because that does play a part in it. | ||
| They don't take this serious at all, Steve. | ||
| You're going to see anti-Trump, anti-Elon narratives. | ||
| All morning long. | ||
| But the American people are watching. | ||
| And as this fraud and this abuse, USAID has got so much of it. | ||
| The American people are watching. | ||
| And this is how we win the midterms. | ||
| We talked about this yesterday. | ||
| This is how we win the midterms. | ||
| We must be the responsible party in charge. | ||
| We must cut the budget. | ||
| We must get everything approved. | ||
| Which, by the way, yesterday with that vote passing, Thomas Massey being a hard no on it, we knew that was going to happen. | ||
| That just set the framework up. | ||
| For the no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, we have a long fight ahead of us. | ||
| If it took us that hard to get this done, I don't even know what March 14th looks like. | ||
| I really don't know. | ||
| It's actually kind of scary, to be honest with you. | ||
| It's going to be. | ||
| Like I said, we're going into the grind. | ||
| Brian Glenn, what's your social media? | ||
| People got to be dialed into Glenn today. | ||
| Brian Glenn, because he's either at the White House. | ||
| Hustling to break stories and get insights or he's up on Capitol Hill. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We've got to get a replicant of you, Brian Glenn, to be able to cover both because today's a typical day. | ||
| We want to cut you in half and have you at the cabinet and have you at Capitol Hill. | ||
| Well, I guarantee some of these protesters outside this... | ||
| White House and Capitol Hill probably want to cut me in half. | ||
| I'll document all of this as I travel over there. | ||
| You can follow me at BrianGlennTV, Instagram on X, and at Brian on True Social. | ||
| As always, Steve, it's a pleasure to come on here on War Room, and I will continue to update you as the details come out on both here at the White House and on Capitol Hill. | ||
| We'll try to get a stand-up. | ||
| We'll have to juggle. | ||
| This is going to be a producer-driven show today to get all the action. | ||
| So, Brian, we'll hopefully see you back up here at 11 at Capitol Hill. | ||
| Doge subcommittee. | ||
| The bill did pass last night. | ||
| The budget resolution starts the process either for one big, beautiful bill or two on reconciliation. | ||
| Still a lot of questions on all of it. | ||
| The spending, it's very ephemeral, I would say. | ||
| What's not ephemeral is the numbers for this year that's going to take place on the 14th of March and or before. | ||
| Watch for the Ides of March, the 15th. | ||
| Now more than ever, one of the things we try to do on the show is to give you a framework of how to think through your agency politically here. | ||
| And obviously you've done a magnificent job, but also to think through things personally. | ||
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Short break. | |
| I think there still may be some seats available. | ||
| The Tarrant County. | ||
| And you know, if you came to CPAC or get in the chat rooms, talk to people coming to CPAC or came to Denton County a couple weeks ago, I really try to make sure that I can visit with as many of you as possible, get selfies, catch up, hear what you're working on. | ||
| CPAC, I think, turned out very well. | ||
| We had a couple of meet and greets that went for a couple hours, but I think I got to see everybody. | ||
| It was fantastic and appreciate your all's support at CPAC. It was great. | ||
| Patriot Mobile, their PAC is one of the people who's putting this on. | ||
| Remember, Tarrant County is the battleground of Texas. | ||
| They tried to turn Texas blue years ago, put hundreds of millions of dollars, just the source deal. | ||
| Got to where, I'm not saying it's purple, but it was getting, you know, pink, not hard red. | ||
| And then just through the work of the Warren Posse and the MAGA movement and President Trump and his team and others, Brad Parscale and Brad's down in Texas now, did an amazing job. | ||
| President Trump, I think, won by 14 points. | ||
| Ted Cruz by 9 points. | ||
| Big sweep in the House races. | ||
| Can't understand and very disturbing how the Texas House, who tried to impeach, went to all that effort to impeach General Paxton, Ken Paxton, Then it's just a debacle down there, given all the MAGA. So I'm down at Tarrant County with the Patriot Mobile and others. | ||
| Posobiec's going to be there. | ||
| Amanda Milius is going to be there. | ||
| It's a whole evening of kind of incredible speakers. | ||
| You don't want to miss this if you're in the area. | ||
| Like I said, Jack and I, and I'm sure Amanda, will be doing meet and greets and meeting everybody. | ||
| So go check it out. | ||
| Today, we want to make sure. | ||
| I think they've already sold out all the tickets, but they're adding some general admission. | ||
| I think the tickets for the dinner are sold out, but you can get general admission. | ||
| If you're so inclined, we'd love to see you guys there. | ||
| And we'll be throwing down hard. | ||
| Make sure also you go to Patriot Mobile, the mobile company that supports your values as part of this Patriot's economy that we've been in back of because we want alternatives. | ||
| And people say, well, hey, Steve, we won and all the DEI. You can't trust these corporations at all. | ||
| And we lose the midterms. | ||
| They're all going to bail. | ||
| So just understand that this is very tenuous. | ||
| Our grip on corporate America, they fear us now, but that doesn't mean it always lasts. | ||
| PatriotMobile.com, put in Bannon, you get even more free service. | ||
| I think the first month is free, so go check it out today. | ||
| The guys at Patriot Mobile. | ||
| Why is this important today? | ||
| You got a cabinet meeting. | ||
| President Trump, and you got Sir Keir Starmer is coming tomorrow. | ||
| The Prime Minister. | ||
| Of Great Britain. | ||
| And then Zelensky, I think it's official, I think Zelensky's coming on Friday. | ||
| At least he's announced that. | ||
| He's beaten his chest. | ||
| He's coming before Putin, but that's not really relevant. | ||
| President Trump is doing a massive geostrategic reset. | ||
| Something, this is historic, has not been seen since World War II. In fact, there's an article in the New Statesman today with yours truly. | ||
| We'll try to push that out with Grace and the team because I talk about this. | ||
| It's something that we wanted to do in the first term, but it was because of all the Russia nonsense, the Russian hoax brought on by Shifty Shift in those folks. | ||
| And to me, those folks should be investigated, right? | ||
| All those people came out of there, particularly Shift. | ||
| So I came out of a... | ||
| Skiff and, you know, he came out of Skiff. | ||
| It was all Russian intelligence. | ||
| There was nothing. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| The null set. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| And at the time, geo-strategically, it was very important to not have on that Eurasian, if you think of the map of the Eurasian landmass with Beijing, the criminals there, then you've got the Mullahs in Persia, you've got the KGB in Russia, you've got Erdogan in Turkey. | ||
| As I predicted years and years ago, he's going to try to reestablish the Ottoman Empire and really the caliphate. | ||
| And eventually, with Qatar, his banker, Erdogan's banker, tried to take over the two holy sites. | ||
| That's his plan. | ||
| That's a dangerous combination. | ||
| You throw in Pakistan and North Korea, you've got a very lethal mix there that can cause a lot of trouble. | ||
| And the way you've got to stop that... | ||
| It's somehow you have to have a rapprochement or understanding because the Russian people have been one of the greatest allies we've ever had, the Russian people. | ||
| And I spent my youth in my 20s on a destroyer as a junior officer, an ensign, Lieutenant J.G., and ultimately a lieutenant. | ||
| I think I was still a J.G. when I left the ship. | ||
| On an ASW ship, you know, hunting Russian submarines, Soviet submarines. | ||
| That was our task and our purpose. | ||
| And then when I got back to the Pentagon, it was all about, you know, as President Reagan had shown up, I got there the same day that he did. | ||
| Actually went to the inaugural as a Grand Dune and then showed up the next day. | ||
| That you have a strategic realignment, a rapprochement. | ||
| The Ukrainian situation has to be seen in that. | ||
| That's one of the things we're going to talk about at the cabinet today, and President Trump's got a terrific team. | ||
| Working on this with Scott Bessent, who's been the lead on the Ukrainian deal. | ||
| Steve Witkoff, a close associate of his from the real estate days, has just done an incredible job of negotiating deals under President Trump's guidance. | ||
| I think he's the tip of the spear with Russia. | ||
| Marco Rubio, Senator Rubio, now Secretary of State, very involved. | ||
| Pete Hexeth, very involved. | ||
| The Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, very involved. | ||
| Commerce Secretary is thrown in, too. | ||
| He and Peter Navarro working on the tariff. | ||
| So you have a total geostrategic realignment. | ||
| And if we can get the beginnings, because we could have done it the first term, but it's too messed up by the Atlanticists and the warmongers. | ||
| If we could get a break of this very dangerous and very serious strategic alliance between Russia and China, if we can start to break that off, which I think we're in the process of doing. | ||
| That's monumental. | ||
| You're seeing the end of the post-war international rules-based order, as Secretary of State Rubio said in his confirmation. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| Because that system that was established essentially by the United States with concurrence of its quote-unquote allies has been used and turned on the American people and the American middle class and the American working class. | ||
| Buy your betters to enrich themselves, to impoverish you at the same time that you would, you know, that your sons and daughters, not only do you pay for it with your taxes, but your sons and daughters are the folks that man the national security apparatus in the uniformed military services. | ||
| President Trump's overall goal is peace and prosperity. | ||
| How do you get there? | ||
| You work through some different strategic alliances and at the same time you refocus on defense of the homeland. | ||
| That would be what he's doing in the Monroe Doctrine 2.0 from Panama to Greenland and putting a kind of a forward thrust of extending essentially the defensive borders of the United States from the Arctic all the way down to Central America and really a naval strategy to make sure the Chinese Navy, the PLA Navy, can never connect with through the Panama Canal, the Russian Navy and the Caribbean. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| Take control of the Panama Canal, which he's in process of doing. | ||
| And I can tell you, Michael Yan is saying, hey, the Chinese are still down there. | ||
| They're still building some stuff down there. | ||
| But he's seeing, quite frankly, the remigration or the the self-deportation of of huge groups of people going back the other way through the Darien Gap. | ||
| So President Trump's message is getting out there quite boldly. | ||
| On the situation in the Arctic, you've got all this consternation in Canada, whereas President Trump talks about that or discusses that as the potential 51st state in Greenland. | ||
| Looks like I think that they're working towards a plebiscite to get their independence from Denmark and then potentially some sort of arrangement with the United States. | ||
| He's also looking at the three island chains, right, that we've had so many of the smart people on the Committee on the Present Danger come and talk about. | ||
| Using the Great Ocean Desert of the Pacific as a natural strategic barrier to the United States when President Trump says there's two oceans. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| That means eventually this gets back to the budget last night, gets back to the tax cuts, because all this is inextricably linked. | ||
| It is the way to get our defense budget down below a trillion dollars. | ||
| Also on social services. | ||
| On social services and the safety net and all that. | ||
| Medicaid for the income security, what they call it, the food stamps and all that. | ||
| You're going to have to show that you're serious about looking at defense. | ||
| And we just can't be paying 3.5% of our GDP for defense. | ||
| It's just the math doesn't work. | ||
| Not given the fact that we've spent money for years and years and years, and particularly during the Biden regime. | ||
| That has been outrageous. | ||
| And a breach of fiduciary responsibility. | ||
| So this is what President Trump is doing. | ||
| Part of the cabinet meeting today, I'm sure, is to get caught up in that and make sure that it's organized and organized with domestic policy also. | ||
| I can tell you my feel for what they're doing today is much tighter. | ||
| We got the confirmations done tighter. | ||
| I think it's much tighter. | ||
| Much better organized than it was in the first. | ||
| And not just that, you have people, I think, that have signed off and buy into the direction President Trump's heading. | ||
| And he is, you know, it's like every day, like Zeus throwing lightning bolts when you hear this rumbling thunder. | ||
| It's days of thunder and years of lightning right now. | ||
| And every day it's another major... | ||
| Another major aspect of this. | ||
| Then he's got his cabinet secretaries. | ||
| I think it's, hey, I think it's the best cabinet since Lincoln's work cabinet. | ||
| I do. | ||
| Because what he's doing is not normal course of business. | ||
| Most of these, like Republicans particularly, is controlled opposition. | ||
| Just get in there and just buy into the system. | ||
| The way the system runs. | ||
| They're systems players. | ||
| President Trump's doing the exact opposite. | ||
| but they are going to be looking for tax revenue on these big deficits. | ||
| TaxNetworkUSA, TNUSA.com. | ||
| Put in Bannon, and you'll get a discount. | ||
| Don't let that letter... | ||
| If the IRS has sent you a letter, you've got a problem. | ||
| You can either answer it yourself immediately or you can talk to experts. | ||
| My recommendation, because it's a free consultation, totally free, talk to the experts. | ||
| TNUSA.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Run it by him, but do not let it sit in that middle drawer of that desk. | ||
| That's a cancer, a financial cancer that is metastasizing in your life. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Back to the White House next. | ||
| Okay, so you've got to bifurcate this. | ||
| You have two things going simultaneously. | ||
| You have the cabinet meeting, and I'm sure President Trump's going to get everybody up to speed on what he's doing geo-strategically. | ||
| Shouldn't be lost on anybody that the tariffs in Mexico and Canada right now, and President Trump's reinforcing this, so unless it's waived off somehow, 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada. | ||
| Now that gets to the geoeconomic part of it. | ||
| Once again, these are not tariffs, as people think, like putting a 25% tariff on an avocado coming from... | ||
| From Mexico or some sort of part for the automotive industry because a bunch of the under-the-hood components for the automotive industry are made in Canada. | ||
| He's thinking of it differently. | ||
| This gets back to the vote last night on the budget. | ||
| Remember, there's several ways we can close this budget deficit. | ||
| Number one, we talked a little bit about it yesterday. | ||
| When we had... | ||
| The guy on from CRA, Tetzel, right? | ||
| Kind of one of the guys ever since. | ||
| So many of the CRA guys have been in the administration. | ||
| Russ Vogt, Mark Paoletta. | ||
| I think we may have big news on Jeff Clark today. | ||
| Cortez's daughter, she's over at the Pentagon from CRA. She's a deputy press secretary over there doing a great job for Pete and Sean Parnell. | ||
| It's about growth rates. | ||
| The underlying growth rate of your economy, the CBO says right now it's 1.8%. | ||
| The Trump administration is saying 2.5%. | ||
| Those numbers make a huge difference. | ||
| Actually, I think they're saying 2.8%. | ||
| Huge difference about revenue generation. | ||
| So you have the Internal Revenue Service, and we're going to go extend the Trump tax cuts. | ||
| Whether they get extended for the wealthy, I think, is still up in the air because you've got to close this gap. | ||
| You've got then the ability to have tariffs, fees, duties. | ||
| And he looks at this very differently. | ||
| He looks at the United States as a premium market. | ||
| Access to that market is like you buy a skybox for a sporting event or a front row ticket to a concert. | ||
| There's a premium you've got to be paid to get in here. | ||
| And you have two choices. | ||
| One, you can shift your manufacturing here. | ||
| And that's one of the reasons President Trump continues to talk about the Japanese is going to put a trillion dollars in. | ||
| The Arabs last week, they had this thing down at Doral that he spoke at. | ||
| One in Miami, too, I think he spoke at, where they are investing. | ||
| I think that was at Doral. | ||
| The Saudi Arabia and others are coming here to put hundreds of billions of dollars in. | ||
| I'm not a huge fan of foreign capital, but I understand and see his logic. | ||
| He wants essentially, I think, a trillion dollars coming from the outside. | ||
| Even in this first term, to build manufacturing plants here, to put capital equipment in here, and therefore jobs, and you would avoid the tariffs. | ||
| But if you don't do that in Mexico, and remember, Mexico, Canada, and China are our three biggest trading partners. | ||
| He's already said 10% on China, on the CCP. This is another revenue stream to try to close. | ||
| So one, you have natural growth. | ||
| You get bigger revenues at the tax structure you currently have. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You then get tariffs, or what he calls external revenue, and I love, obviously, we helped dream up the name with John Gardner, the manufacturing guy, external revenue, so it's not just all internal revenue on companies domiciled in the United States and American citizens and or foreign nationals living here. | ||
| And eventually, though, you have to get down to the hardest part, and that is spending cuts. | ||
| And my concern, even for last night, is that the budget resolution, all these budget resolutions and the reconciliation process, because we have to talk like adults, we should act like fiduciaries. | ||
| President Trump, the power of President Trump's political movement is that in Washington, D.C., not in the room, not in the deal. | ||
| In fact, if you're not in the room, you're probably getting carved up. | ||
| President Trump, in his MAGA movement, It puts you not only in the room, it puts you at the head of the table. | ||
| It's kind of the chairman of what we call the creditors committee. | ||
| So he empowered you, and obviously you empowered yourself through your agency in making the phone calls, doing the precinct strategy, canvassing, backing Scott Prenzler, everything that needed to be done to have this massive grassroots victory. | ||
| Now it's going to come time to be fiduciaries and talk about the reality of the budget. | ||
| And that's, to me, the reality, the acid test, is what's happening to finance the rest of this year. | ||
| And that takes place at midnight, the stroke of midnight, on the 14th of March. | ||
| There are two things going on. | ||
| Remember, as we've instructed you over the last couple of years, in negotiations, it's very important to have what we call forcing functions. | ||
| Things that actually have to force a decision, have to force... | ||
| The people negotiating to actually not just come to the table, but to start making agreements that actually can stick. | ||
| We have two forcing functions. | ||
| The debt ceiling, and we have the actual September 30th deadline from last year that we've kicked the can down the road with several continuing resolutions, or CRs. | ||
| That game's kind of over on the 14th of March. | ||
| Yes, we could kick it down for 30 days and 30 days and 30 days. | ||
| But since we already kicked it down from right before Christmas, and we understand how much you hate CRs, and you should hate them, to give President Trump and his team 90 days or 100 days to basically get ready, that game ends on the 14th. | ||
| And what we're hearing from everybody is they intend to do a full year, an end of year, following six months to September 30th, CR. And there's a couple of big problems with that that people have not addressed yet. | ||
| And we keep hammering that it's got to be addressed. | ||
| The debt ceiling doesn't have to be done immediately. | ||
| It doesn't. | ||
| Scott Besson's in what's called emergency measures. | ||
| There's plenty of cash coming in right now to pay everything, particularly government securities, the interest payments. | ||
| Nothing's in default or a chance of a default. | ||
| No Social Security payments are being missed. | ||
| No Medicare payments are being missed. | ||
| That will have to stop eventually. | ||
| We'll have to get some guidance. | ||
| They'll have to get some relief on the debt ceiling. | ||
| A proposal has been put out there. | ||
| Two years at $4 trillion. | ||
| And that tells me it implies $2 trillion a year deficit. | ||
| If you look at the CR, what they're talking about right now to kick it down, there are three problems with that. | ||
| Because these are up or down votes. | ||
| There's three problems. | ||
| Problem number one, it's Biden's numbers. | ||
| It's Biden's budget. | ||
| It's actually Biden's budget with a lot of Nancy Pelosi in there. | ||
| Yep, it's Biden's numbers, Biden's budget. | ||
| Number two, it has a $2 trillion deficit in there, baked in. | ||
| And we know because they update it every 30 days, we're on a record path right now for actually over, I think, a $2 trillion deficit. | ||
| Two trillion at minimum. | ||
| And we on this show are the first to call that. | ||
| We've called that every year correctly for the last three or four years. | ||
| We're the first one to also say, oh, by the way, we're adding about a trillion dollars every hundred days because this is not advanced mathematics. | ||
| This is not like differential calculus. | ||
| This is just good old arithmetic. | ||
| The third thing that's hard, you can't get your head around it, is that if you do the CR as existing, the CR you have to do first, I think, before you do any of this budget reconciliation because this is for out years. | ||
| Is that none of the doge cuts come in. | ||
| It's an up or down vote on existing Biden's budget. | ||
| So none of the – let's take – let's assume for purposes of this discussion that the $55 billion that Elon has said they found, and Scott Besson has kind of backed that up, the $55 billion of waste, fraud, and abuse and or the shutting down of things like USAID. That would be fully financed for the year. | ||
| Not only would you not get the cuts, it would be awful. | ||
| It would be that you're actually paying for it through the end of the year. | ||
| So those three things, to me, make a CR for the rest of the year a non-starter. | ||
| And that we should do, what they wanted the other 90 days to do, is finish the individual appropriations bills, negotiate with the Senate, and come up with something. | ||
| As bad as it would be, then you would get the doge cuts in there and at least make some attempt. | ||
| To try to lessen the deficit, and it'd be President Trump's priorities. | ||
| Now, what's the solution? | ||
| The solution, and you heard it last night, this is why we had CRA on here, Tietzel, is that they're going to do this, and this gets back to the unitary theory of the executive. | ||
| That, in their interpretation, and it's my interpretation also, I agree with this 100%, that the appropriations, that number is the ceiling. | ||
| That the Constitution says that the President's the Chief Executive Officer of the United States government, and that means he can make decisions like Chief of Executives. | ||
| He can either, if programs are not being hit, he can either hold back or impound the money, and or he can kind of reprogram. | ||
| And they're saying, well, you don't have a line on veto. | ||
| This is all nonsense, and we'll fight that. | ||
| We'll go to court right away. | ||
| The people oppose the President. | ||
| So they will start some sort of movement on impoundment, not rescissions. | ||
| Rescissions will be even more complicated. | ||
| I think that would come later, and we'll get that term and explain it all to you at another time. | ||
| But the impoundment they'll do immediately. | ||
| So they'll say, don't worry, Steve. | ||
| It's not going to be Biden's budget. | ||
| We're going to do impoundments. | ||
| We're going to go. | ||
| Well, I'd love that. | ||
| It's probably the best of a bad lot of alternatives is this one hang-up. | ||
| And this is what I have been very concerned and been very vocal about this from the beginning. | ||
| Because I don't totally trust the Supreme Court. | ||
| I particularly don't trust people like John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett. | ||
| Roberts is a very political chief justice, although this is the Thomas Court, and we talk about that all the time. | ||
| Roberts is technically the chief justice, and he gets to set the agenda. | ||
| It shouldn't be lost on you. | ||
| That what we thought and was proposed is a no-brainer, and that's the situation with the president having the executive authority under the unitary theory of the executive as chief executive to terminate individuals that work in his government. | ||
| The special counsel, the Brahmin that President Trump wanted to get rid of, as we said, you're going to go to federal court, you're going to then ask for the immediate expedited... | ||
| Hearing at the appellate level and then get on the emergency docket for the Supreme Court. | ||
| Well, step one, they went to federal court. | ||
| Obviously, these radical judges agreed. | ||
| The president couldn't fire the guy. | ||
| Then we went to appellate court and then go to the emergency docket. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| It's not picked up. | ||
| Now, that's still being adjudicated. | ||
| But first glance, they said, hey, not for us at this time. | ||
| Same court. | ||
| That passed on, I think, 92 possibilities in this 2020 stolen election. | ||
| And we know the 2020 election was stolen. | ||
| That is irrefutable. | ||
| They didn't want to get involved. | ||
| They never gave anybody standing. | ||
| So this budget fight, which is inextricably linked with an interpretation of the Constitution, is going to get pretty gnarly. | ||
| And folks, we're not saying man the ramparts yet because we've got to work through a bunch of this stuff. | ||
| Today, I think at the cabinet meeting, I think this is one of the things President Trump is going to talk about. | ||
| It's not just Doge, as we've said for so long. | ||
| Doge has to be put into more of a formal process, right? | ||
| More of a formal process like OMB and like the appropriations process to actually make sure that the cuts that are found on the waste, fraud, and abuse stick. | ||
| Then it's having Elon and this team working with the cabinet officials, which is the harder part. | ||
| Which is actually programmatically in billets. | ||
| Billets stand for a slot for a body. | ||
| It's not just getting rid of a person. | ||
| You're taking away the billet. | ||
| We don't need this anymore. | ||
| And you do it programmatically. | ||
| That is where the big and significant cuts are going to come. | ||
| That's like Medicaid. | ||
| We're going to have federalism. | ||
| We're going to block granted back to the states. | ||
| Or we're going to require stringent work requirements. | ||
| Or we're going to say that no more... | ||
| No more illegal aliens on Medicaid. | ||
| This is all part of the cutting to try to get under a trillion dollars of deficit because our financial model right now as a country is unsustainable. | ||
| One thing that shouldn't be lost to you is the 10% tariffs on China. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Okay, we're getting ready to go back to the White House, top of the hour, and we're going to split that with Capitol Hill. | ||
| So we've got the Doge meeting, I understand, from NTG. That'll be very, very interesting. | ||
| Got some pretty smart people going to testify. | ||
| Could be some fireworks. | ||
| Democrats not excited about this, as you can imagine. | ||
| And then we've got the first cabinet meeting of President Trump's second term, and Elon Musk, I think, is being invited. | ||
| To the cabinet meeting today, and I'm sure they're going to have a discussion of the emails and the firings and all of it behind closed doors. | ||
| They should be a press avail on both, so we'll be cutting back and forth between both. | ||
| Shemaine Nugent joins me. | ||
| First of all, Shemaine, that is a very unusual name. | ||
| Is that a nickname, or is that your given name, ma'am? | ||
| That's my given name, and it comes from the movie El Cid with Sophia Loren and Charlton Heston. | ||
| Ah, that's the Sophia Loren. | ||
| That's the English spelling of her name, correct? | ||
| My parents spelled it with an S-H because the C-H, the Spanish that was used in that movie El Cid, they thought people would have a hard C-H sound like church. | ||
| So they spelled it S-H-E-M-A-N-E. So they saw the film, and by the way, it's one of my favorite films about Rodrigo Diaz, the warlord. | ||
| That drove the Moors, or at that time the Muslims, out of Spain, the great warlord. | ||
| In that film with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, you realize what epics are and you realize what movie stars are. | ||
| Those are two movie stars, not like we've got today. | ||
| Is that your parents fell in love with the film and named you after, as a baby named you after the Sophia Loren character? | ||
| Yeah, it's on my birth certificate. | ||
| Yeah, I think they thought I would be more voluptuous and dark-haired, but yeah, no. | ||
| It turned out okay. | ||
| It's not Sophia Loren, but it passes muster, as we say. | ||
| Not too shabby. | ||
| One of the ways you do that, you're a health freak, right? | ||
| I mean, you're all about health, correct? | ||
| Well, define the word freak, but yes, I am. | ||
| Mostly because I got sick and almost died when I was about 20-some years ago from toxic mold. | ||
| And I've just worked so hard to stay healthy, and it's not easy. | ||
| I mean, I like pizza and Fritos and things like that. | ||
| And most people don't end up making changes until they have a health scare like I did, and they're forced to. | ||
| But I want to tell you, Steve, about a product that Ted and I use, Field of Greens. | ||
| And it was created for those of us who, let's face it, we don't always eat perfectly. | ||
| And here's the good news. | ||
| One small change can make a big difference. | ||
| And it's so easy. | ||
| Just one scoop, one drink, once a day, and you're on your way to better health. | ||
| And it's like, you know, we talk about wearing the armor, the full armor of God. | ||
| This is like nutritional armor for those of us who don't eat perfectly. | ||
| You know, when I say freak, you take it very seriously. | ||
| You did have this thing, and you take it very seriously. | ||
| People like me, I'm in and out. | ||
| But the field of greens, I get an energy boost off it. | ||
| I understand it's perfect, and they do it organically, and it's not like the other brands that are kind of powdered. | ||
| They take a long time in their process. | ||
| But I get an energy boost off of this. | ||
| Do you also? | ||
| I do, too. | ||
| And you know how I know that it's working? | ||
| We were at Mar-a-Lago last week. | ||
| Ted got the Defender of Freedom Award. | ||
| And we didn't take it with us. | ||
| And when we got back, we were just, like, tired. | ||
| And it takes a couple days to get back in schedule and routine and didn't feel good. | ||
| And we're all, you know, bloated and not sleeping great and everything. | ||
| Started taking field against and felt... | ||
| Great. | ||
| And that's how you know that it's working. | ||
| And, you know, Ted and I pretty much live off the land, but during the winter months, we don't get fruits and veggies as much, and we rely on field of greens. | ||
| And every fruit, like you said, every fruit and vegetable is doctor-selected for specific benefits like heart, liver, health, kidney, lungs, and metabolism, and even healthy weight. | ||
| Do you guys do it first thing in the morning? | ||
| What's your schedule on taking your field of greens? | ||
| Well, coffee first, and then field of greens, yes. | ||
| Yeah, and you know what? | ||
| It's one of those things where a lot of times in the morning, I don't want to eat a breakfast, but if I have field of greens, I get... | ||
| I get a little bit more full. | ||
| It keeps me going throughout the day. | ||
| And then I eat a healthy lunch and dinner. | ||
| And I'm one step closer to being healthier. | ||
| And it makes me feel better, have more energy, better digestion. | ||
| And yeah, like you said, it's just a great product. | ||
| Overall, we get an energy boost. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I do the same thing, the coffee first and the field of greens. | ||
| I'm not a big breakfast guy during the work week. | ||
| Only the weekend. | ||
| Shemaine, how do people follow you on social media and how do they get to the Field of Greens? | ||
| We love the fact that, like all our sponsors, they get a website and access to the senior people because our audiences, they want the receipts, right? | ||
| They want to dig down on this. | ||
| So where do folks go? | ||
| Well, they can go to fieldofgreens.com, Brick House Nutrition, and check it out. | ||
| And I'm all over social media except... | ||
| Steve, I just got banned or hacked on Facebook. | ||
| So don't go to my Facebook page because somebody else... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I just came out with a book that's available on Amazon and I'm on Instagram. | ||
| And my show, Faith and Freedom, on Real America's Voice. | ||
| What's the title of the book and where do folks go, Shemaine? | ||
| It's called Abundantly Well, and it's available on Amazon, as is my book, Killer House, and the book I co-wrote with Ted, the New York Times bestseller, Kill It and Grill It. | ||
| Steve, come on. | ||
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You've got to kill it first, and then you can grill it. | |
| Living off the land, Charmaine and Ted Nugent. | ||
| Ma'am, thank you so much for joining us here on a Wednesday morning. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
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God bless. | |
| Shemaine does it the same way I do it. | ||
| You get the coffee first, I get the warpath fired up, and then take my field of greens. | ||
| I get the energy boost. | ||
| And I need it. | ||
| Right stuff's going to take us out. | ||
| Second hour, we're juggling some stuff. | ||
| I've got Terry Schilling. | ||
| We can fit him in here about this NSA-CIA chat room. | ||
| It's obviously revolting, but we're not doing it for the salacious nature of it. | ||
| It gets to something quite dark and unnerving about the deep state. | ||
| And we have to address this, because the deep state is just not going to sit there and toss the keys to MAGA. It's a fight. | ||
| Every day. | ||
| Talk to Cash. | ||
| Talk to Ratcliffe. | ||
| Talk to Tulsi. | ||
| Tulsi's already dropping the hammer over there. | ||
| So yeah, start the day. | ||
| Get a Warpath coffee. | ||
| If you haven't done it, they've got over 7,000 five-star reviews. | ||
| Go check it out. | ||
| It's a War Room favorite. | ||
| You'll see all your colleagues over there. | ||
| The reviews are amazing. | ||
| Warpath.coffee. | ||
| Put in War Room. | ||
| You get a 20% discount. | ||
| The right stuff's going to take us out. | ||
| We're juggling next from Capitol Hill to the White House, from the Doge subcommittee to actually Doge in the Cabinet Room. |
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