May 8, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Oh, white smoke! | |
| We have a pope! | ||
| We have a pope! | ||
| The cheers are coming up! | ||
| Do we hear the bells ringing? | ||
| One of the things that has happened is that because it was difficult to tell white smoke from black smoke, they instituted the ringing of the bells. | ||
| But now, on day two of this conclave, the Catholic Church, 1.4 billion Catholics. | ||
| We have a new pope. | ||
| Bishop. | ||
| Habemus Papam. | ||
| Habemus Papam, Bishop. | ||
| What's your reaction? | ||
| Well, I'm surprised that it came so early. | ||
| This was like it was 12 years ago with Francis. | ||
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It's telling me, I'm just guessing here, that maybe one of the people that really was predicted did get elected. | |
| Because if it became more of a contested conclave, it would have gone on for another day or so. | ||
| That's what it's telling me. | ||
| So I'm guessing maybe a... | ||
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Cardinal Peraline, but who knows? | |
| I'm a little surprised it's come so soon. | ||
| So one of the things that we had been looking for in this is exactly, and that was a question I was about to ask Susan, would it tell us something about what was going on? | ||
| Oh, look at the people jumping up and down. | ||
| Susan, I'm going to come to you in a minute, but because you can see it, Claudio. | ||
| Tell us what you're seeing, what you're hearing in that square right now at 6:09 p.m. | ||
| Rome time. | ||
| Well, the St. Peter's Square has exploded. | ||
| You can probably see it behind me. | ||
| Everybody's screaming. | ||
| There's a lot of applause. | ||
| There are a lot of singing. | ||
| There are flags waving. | ||
| And of course, you know, it's a surprise for everyone. | ||
| I was just saying five minutes ago that I thought that or we thought that the first vote wasn't successful. | ||
| You can hear it now. | ||
| Now the bells of St. Peter's Basilica are... | ||
| We are now ringing. | ||
| That is yet another sign, the confirmation that a pope has been elected. | ||
| What's going to happen now, probably as it happens for every time a Pope is elected, hundreds of thousands of people are going to run to the Vatican from all over Rome. | ||
| Because in less than an hour, we're going to see on that balcony, the Pope appear. | ||
| We're not going to know who it is until he appears on the balcony. | ||
| Well, until his name is announced on that balcony. | ||
| And the first words we're going to hear, of course, is Habemus Papam. | ||
| We have a pope. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| you you All right, welcome to War Room. | ||
| Huge day. | ||
| We have news. | ||
| We have a great show for you. | ||
| Liz Yor is up on Habemus Papam. | ||
| We have a new pope along with Jack Posobiec reporting from Rome. | ||
| We have Patrick K. O'Donnell because it's also VE Day victory in Europe. | ||
| This is Dave Bratt sitting in with the great Stephen K. Bannon who's out on assignment. | ||
| He'll be back shortly. | ||
| And then we have... | ||
| Also, Mike Lindell and Mike Davis to weigh in on the latest D.C. political news with the Senate on very controversial issues related to Washington, D.C., its governance and all that position entails as well. | ||
| So today we have a new Pope, Robert Prevost, as you heard on The War Room months ago from Stephen K. Bannon and Liz Yore. | ||
| And Ben Harnwell reporting from Rome, and Jack, of course, as well. | ||
| We've been reporting the main names in contention and what they all mean. | ||
| And so today we're going to get to Liz Yor, but I'll just offer up a couple comments early. | ||
| It's an interesting irony, I think, if I'm reading the tea leaves right here. | ||
| VE Day, victory in Europe, we're going to cover. | ||
| That's huge in American history. | ||
| And then right after that, not right after it, but a few decades, we have the fall of the Iron Curtain brought to you by Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan and Thatcher. | ||
| People with strong wills who fought against tyranny, fought for all the basic American principles. | ||
| And so now with the new Pope... | ||
| Things have been in question. | ||
| I've been meeting with a few ambassadors from around the world over the past years. | ||
| China has a bucket full of money. | ||
| They've been doling out around the world. | ||
| And so all eyes are now, right, we had Doge in the United States that cleaned house, right, and showed us where the money is, USAID. | ||
| Funding major media outlets, funding China, funding leftist political programs. | ||
| All this is not conjecture anymore. | ||
| Now we have the receipts. | ||
| The War Room's been on this forever. | ||
| All political views are my own. | ||
| But now we have an expert in, Liz Yore from Your Kids, Y-O-R-E, Your Kids, a fighter for the kids, for the people. | ||
| And so, Liz, welcome to the War Room. | ||
| As always, you're a great friend of the show. | ||
| Everybody loves you. | ||
| And so give us your understanding of what we're seeing and what our future holds. | ||
| Well, the first American pope, Dave, from Chicago. | ||
| What could go wrong, right? | ||
| Not unlike the first American president from Chicago. | ||
| And as a lifelong Chicagoan who was weaned on the Chicago Democratic political machine, I'm very curious about this election. | ||
| This young man, you know, he's only 69 years old for a cardinal that's young. | ||
| He's only been a cardinal for a year and a half. | ||
| So he was barely known to the 133 Cardinals electors who barely knew each other. | ||
| And yet, in four quick, fast votes, he's elected. | ||
| There's very little that's known about him except he's been active on Twitter and active in his pushback on the Trump administration, both with J.D. Vance and the deportation program by Donald Trump. | ||
| Frankly, I think they've hid Prevost in the Vatican Witness program, and they launched him at the right moment. | ||
| I am very concerned that he is going to carry on the legacy of Jorge Bergoglio. | ||
| He was a favorite. | ||
| Of the Francis, and he is also, according to a tweet by Father James Martin SJ, the Jesuit radical activist, he's also a favorite of... | ||
| James Martin. | ||
| So, you know, we're going to be watching six months of mainstream media mania that, oh, this man is so humble and he's a tennis player. | ||
| But frankly, let's talk politics. | ||
| This is a masterstroke from the Chicago Cardinal Cupich and also Pope Francis. | ||
| Based on what we know, and we don't know everything about him, but he is made in the image and likeness of Jorge Bergoglio. | ||
| You know, he wants to let Donald Trump know, and I think Donald Trump has got now an American pope, speaks English, very pro-immigration, anti-deportation, along with now a cardinal in D.C. who is pro-immigration, anti-deportation. | ||
| It's obvious that there's a full court press coming from the Catholic Church to lift up the globalist agenda with respect to... | ||
| deportation and migration. | ||
| But look, the new Pope Leo has got to worry about the disastrous China deal that's sitting on his desk. | ||
| He has to worry about the sexual predators roaming the halls around He needs to attend to immediately the corruption in the Vatican Bank, the looming Vatican bankruptcy, and start enforcing the zero-tolerance policy against priests and bishops. | ||
| Who are preying on children. | ||
| So this is kind of the classic Obama playbook, plucked out of obscurity, lived most of his career, clerical career in Peru, but grew up in Chicago. | ||
| And so we'll see what we're going to give him the benefit, the doubt. | ||
| But Dave, we're not going to take our eyes. | ||
| We are going to immediately watch him like a hawk. | ||
| And I think all you need to know about this man, Robert Prevost, the new pope, is that he sacked what we call America's cardinal, America's bishop, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, one of the most devout, holy, kind, humble, Bishops we've had in America for a long time. | ||
| And I hold Prevost and I hold Francis responsible for what I consider the corrupt ousting of Bishop Strickland. | ||
| And also, he placed the notorious Cardinal McElroy in Washington, D.C. So, again, this is a warning to Trump. | ||
| This, I think, is the curse of Ted McCarrick and Joe Biden. | ||
| They've had their final mark. | ||
| I'm really asking people to take a very close look at this man. | ||
| Watch what he does. | ||
| Fulton Sheen's birthday. | ||
| And Fulton Sheen was famous for saying it's the Catholic laity that are going to save the church. | ||
| So I think it's appropriate and kind of ironic that on this day we have a new pope elected. | ||
| So I'm hoping that he will grow in the job, mature in the job, and realize that he should let the border of the United States. | ||
| Be the ultimate responsibility of Donald Trump, because after all, 56% of American Catholics voted for Donald Trump and support his policies. | ||
| So I think Robert Prevost needs to concern himself with all the problems at the Vatican that will be nipping at his heels immediately. | ||
| Thank you, Liz. | ||
| We're going to go to Jack in the next segment. | ||
| A couple minutes left. | ||
| I just want to make it clear, you know, Catholic doctrine, a lot in common with Protestants, Nicene, Creed, Apostles, Creed, our Jewish friends as well. | ||
| It's not hard to connect the dots going from the Bible and the Word of God and every person on this earth created in the image of God to being able to stand up in public and say, China. | ||
| This is not a controversial stand. | ||
| It's a communist, totalitarian, surveillance state. | ||
| Marxism, by definition, does not believe in human rights. | ||
| They don't have any human rights. | ||
| They're atheists. | ||
| They don't believe in God. | ||
| And without God, I'd fail to see how you get human rights. | ||
| And so I don't think it's asking too much, right? | ||
| And the Protestants and the Jewish friends and the Catholics have all taken money through NGOs, right? | ||
| So this is not speculative, right? | ||
| Steve Bannon, Natalie Winters has documented all of this. | ||
| And so, you know, at a minimum, two minutes to go, Liz, what does the Catholic Church have to say vis-a-vis being Catholic? | ||
| Prevost is an Augustinian. | ||
| He was the provincial of the Augustinian order, based on the teachings and life of the great doctor of the church, St. Augustine. | ||
| And, you know, he was famous for saying, our hearts are restless until they rest in thee, Lord. | ||
| And, you know, that's what we have been preaching and talking about to our... | ||
| And one of the things that Augustine always said is, if you really want to be kind to a person, lead them to the truth. | ||
| And we have been harping on the truth of atheistic communism. | ||
| And it's important to articulate... | ||
| Really what's going on in China, because with the censorship in China and with the persecution, and we haven't had, frankly, as we've talked about, Dave, the moral voice of the Vatican telegraphing the persecution in China. | ||
| And so the truth has... | ||
| Got to come out of the moral voice of this new pope. | ||
| And he's got the bully pulpit. | ||
| And with all the persecution that's going on in the world, not only in China, but all over the world, it is his number one duty to speak on behalf of religious freedom and to protect those Christians who want to pursue a life following Jesus Christ. | ||
| It's absolutely spot on, Liz Yor. | ||
| Thank you for being with us. | ||
| We're going to pivot to Jack Posobiec. | ||
| The truth is fairly simple, right? | ||
| Love God. | ||
| You've got to first find out who God is and then love your neighbor as yourself. | ||
| And Liz Yor just told you what it means. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| All right, Dave Bracco. | ||
| Back in the war room, we certainly live in times of instability. | ||
| New Pope, China in decline. | ||
| There's a debate on who's racing to the bottom fastest. | ||
| All the evidence. | ||
| Just go out to YouTube and click on China economy and you'll see people out in the streets. | ||
| $37 trillion in debt. | ||
| The bond market getting jittery. | ||
| Congress continuing to do $7 trillion budgets. | ||
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| And so now back to the show. | ||
| We're going over to Jack Posobiec, Jack Liz Yore. | ||
| Invoked St. Augustine, and St. Augustine was about 400 A.D. right at the fall of Rome. | ||
| Where you're standing today, he said the source, the cause of that was not Christianity. | ||
| Some people were laying the fall over the feet of Christians. | ||
| He said precisely the opposite. | ||
| It's precisely the cause was moral decay and spiritual crisis. | ||
| And that sounds a lot like today in the European West and even in the United States of America. | ||
| We need to wake up. | ||
| In particular, he talked about the fall of man and said that was due, right? | ||
| The fall of man, right? | ||
| Genesis 2 and 3, rejection of the Logos, the Word. | ||
| And in the Christian tradition, that Logos is Christ. | ||
| And that fall of our attention to the Word, China now is working on rewriting the Logos, rewriting the Bible for Christians. | ||
| And so a lot on the plate. | ||
| Jack, give us your analysis of what we should expect from the new pope and the way forward for the Catholic Church and the traditional church. | ||
| I know you're a fan, and I am too. | ||
| Jack Posobiec. | ||
| Well, Dave, thanks again so much for having me on. | ||
| I'm here in Rome, Italy. | ||
| You can see, I don't know if they have it in the shot, but you can see right over my shoulder is the dome of St. Peter himself, right where St. Peter was martyred and is buried on Vatican Hill, and where the church in Rome was founded, Peter the First Bishop. | ||
| And today, I was there in the square, and we were covering it live on first Charlie Kirk's show, and then my show. | ||
| The election of this new pope, a shock to many, but not to Steve Bannon, who actually correctly predicted when he was on Piers Morgan last week that, in fact, Cardinal Prevost of Chicago would be elected. | ||
| And what I've been doing in the interim now is going through, apparently, Prevost, and sure, I'll throw a caveat out there that it may not have been him, but he's got a Twitter account that appears to be him and is extremely active, particularly on issues involving open borders, migration, these migration compacts from the United Nations. | ||
| And attacking J.D. Vance and President Trump. | ||
| In fact, there's a tweet up there from just three weeks ago spreading the Maryland man hoax and attacking President Trump and El Presidente Naive Bukele from El Salvador regarding the deportations of the worst of the worst, these criminals down to Seacott. | ||
| Now, at the same time, I'm also hearing folks who know him from Chicago. | ||
| I've been reaching out to them, such as Gabe Guardini, who is the current... | ||
| Currently the chair of the Ohio YRs. | ||
| He went to school up there. | ||
| And he says, look, this guy is not with us on the borders, but he is better when it comes to issues such as LGBTQ, the gender issues, and pro-life. | ||
| So kind of a mixed bag there. | ||
| The way that I look at it is very clear. | ||
| It's very clear to me that the choice of an American pope for the first time ever in church history was meant as a reaction and a response to President Trump. | ||
| So mark this down in with your number two pencil that this, or excuse me, number two pencil that this choice of the American cardinal was done as a response and a message to President Trump. | ||
| Now. | ||
| Pope Leo XIV. | ||
| Hey, Jack, Jack, hang on one second. | ||
| You invoke the great Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| We got a one-minute clip of Stephen K. Bannon's prophetic ability to see in the future along with you and Liz Yore. | ||
| Let's play that quick and then you respond to it. | ||
| Denver, you want to roll, Steve? | ||
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I do think one of the dark horses, and I think unfortunately he's one of the most progressive, is Cardinal Prevost. | |
| I don't think he's getting enough play. | ||
| He is certainly on the shortlist as being, and I think it's pretty shocking given the contempt they hold the American church. | ||
| The American church gives so much money, they're afraid it has too much power. | ||
| So they've never really wanted to have an American pope. | ||
| But my understanding is Prevost is one of the ones closest to Francis ideologically. | ||
| He's also had tremendous experience in Latin America. | ||
| And so he's one of the ones on the short list. | ||
| I'm a big believer that Cardinal Seurat... | ||
| From Africa would be a perfect selection right now for this moment in the church. | ||
| But I will tell everybody, this is anybody's game right now. | ||
| Between Paralon, one of the traditionalists, you have no earthly idea how this is going to turn out. | ||
| That's why I think this time, this run-up is so important. | ||
| It's interesting that it's ironic. | ||
| It's going to take place. | ||
| It's going to kick off, I think, on either the day of or the day before the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe. | ||
| Very symbolic of what's coming together here in the first part of May. | ||
| You're only going to find that on the war room with Bannon, Posobiec, and Liz, Jack, I cut you off on a point you were making, but if you want to respond to Stephen and keep going. | ||
| Well, I would respond to Stephen, and of course it... | ||
| It is the most on-brand thing ever for Steve Bannon to have called who, and when no one else in mainstream media would tell you, when people were saying Pizza Bala, people were talking about Parolin, people were talking about Teagle from the Philippines, Cardinal Zupi, it was Stephen K. Bannon, the lone voice, who was exactly right on Piers Morgan one week's time ago, proving and predicting. | ||
| That he was correct on who the next pope would be. | ||
| What I would suggest, and this is my call for President Trump, the call to action, and J.D. Vance, by the way, who we remember was the last world leader to meet with the immediate predecessor of Pope Leo, Pope Francis. | ||
| Call on the pope to visit the White House immediately. | ||
| Get ahead of the entire relationship because I guarantee you what they want in... | ||
| With the Jesuits, with the leftist leadership in the Vatican right now, what they want is someone to be an antagonizer of Trump. | ||
| We've elected someone from America who speaks your own language, who is an American citizen. | ||
| By the way, Pope Leo's president is Donald Trump. | ||
| Have Donald Trump, have President Trump invite him to the White House first, make it a state visit, but also use that... | ||
| As a negotiation to set the relationship forward. | ||
| And what do we need? | ||
| We need protections for the traditional church. | ||
| As you mentioned, you knew I was going to say that. | ||
| We need protections for the Latin Rite Mass and for everyone who believes in the traditional order of the church, which was prevalent for 2,000 years. | ||
| And by the way... | ||
| to the elect, the elect, the leaders who are elected by the people of their nations, like president Donald Trump is. | ||
| And by the way, It was American Catholics in those swing states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, that proved to be a huge edge. | ||
| And everyone knows those are massively Catholic states. | ||
| And where was their swing? | ||
| Their swing went from Democrat to Republican to the red column, or perhaps I should say the orange column, when the orange smoke popped up in November of 2024, with not only the popular vote win for President Trump, but the Electoral College. | ||
| I think this will be the single animating effort going forward for the United States and the papacy, the Vatican right now. | ||
| Bring him in. | ||
| Bring him into the White House. | ||
| Yeah, you got it, Jack. | ||
| Hey, we're going to talk about VE Day, victory in Europe, with Patrick K. O'Donnell, you know, one of Steve's favorites. | ||
| He's coming in next, but a couple minutes to go. | ||
| Pope John Paul II, along with Reagan and Thatcher. | ||
| And kaboom, the wall of communism comes down. | ||
| The Catholic Church, the Protestants, our Jewish friends, where are their voices on the same thing? | ||
| China, atheism, totalitarian communist regime, and silence, because China's cutting checks. | ||
| Give us two minutes. | ||
| Well, I would also just add, by the way, today is VE Day 80 years ago, and in fact, my grandfather, John Posobiec, Was right here in Rome in World War II. | ||
| He was actually here in 1944, so 81 years ago. | ||
| But he played a huge part in that, in the 1st Armored Division, coming up through North Africa, fighting Rommel up there, then into Sicily, and with the landings in Anzio, and then up through Rome, chasing the Germans up north until they eventually receded. | ||
| So we've got some incredible photos of my grandfather right here at St. Peter's. | ||
| From World War II, just incredible history, and it's incredible to be following in his footsteps as being here as well, although in different capacity. | ||
| Look, you know, as Catholics, as Christians, and as conservatives, we call upon our leaders, stand by what you believe. | ||
| What do conservatives call for? | ||
| We call for our politicians to follow the Constitution. | ||
| That's all we say. | ||
| We say day in, day out. | ||
| Brad, you teach courses on this. | ||
| We tell people we just want the Constitution followed as written. | ||
| It's as simple as that. | ||
| It's the left that are the revolutionaries. | ||
| They are the ones who want to erect all of these superstructures on top of it. | ||
| We just want that. | ||
| And when it comes to the papacy, it's no different when it comes to Christianity. | ||
| We want the Bible, and we want the Word of God. | ||
| We want canon law in the church followed. | ||
| We don't want these changes. | ||
| Why? | ||
| It's not because we don't care about the world. | ||
| It's in fact because We care about the salvation of the world, that the church and Christianity must be that solid rock, that beacon of truth. | ||
| And I would much rather have a church that is a beacon of truth than a church that is running around worried about getting the esteem and friendship of the world and the mainstream media. | ||
| No. | ||
| As Pope John Paul II once said, and we visited his tomb earlier, if the church has to go back down to 12 again, then so be it. | ||
| Yep, you got it. | ||
| Jack Posobiec. | ||
| Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. | ||
| That's the original deal. | ||
| Let's keep it rolling. | ||
| Thanks, Jack. | ||
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We have a new pope and it is VE Day. | |
| Victory in Europe. | ||
| Probably the most significant date in early modernity here. | ||
| The left is always talking about fascism. | ||
| We had fascism. | ||
| And as always, the American people come through. | ||
| The American people against Hitler, Mussolini, fascism. | ||
| Just to redefine what fascism is, is monopoly government with monopoly business in bed together. | ||
| Sound familiar? | ||
| Conservatives, we are against F with every... | ||
| Fiber of our being, fascism. | ||
| We want to bring down the big firms. | ||
| We want to bring down big government. | ||
| And that's what Steve's been talking about for the past year, these big seven, magnificent seven in the arms of government, censorship, 20 million people, Facebook censored, on and on and on. | ||
| So we need to go back to our roots and gain the pride that we do share. | ||
| We fought the fight. | ||
| And so we have the best of the best, one of Stephen K. Bannon's best friends, Patrick K. O'Donnell, with us. | ||
| But we have a clip to frame it. | ||
| And so let's go to the clip and then Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
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So. | |
| Yesterday morning, at 2.41 a.m., At General Eisenhower's headquarters, General Jodl, the representative of the German High Command, and of Grand Admiral Dönitz, | ||
| the designated head of the German state, signed the act of unconditional surrender of all German land, sea, and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Forces And simultaneously to the Soviet High Command. | ||
| Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight, Tuesday the 8th of May. | ||
| But in the interest of saving lives, the ceasefire began yesterday to be sounded along all the fronts. | ||
| The German war is therefore at an end. | ||
| We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing. | ||
| Today is Victory in Europe Day. | ||
| Truman announced the official surrender. | ||
| This is a solemn but glorious hour. | ||
| I wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to see this day. | ||
| General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations. | ||
| The flags of freedom fly all over Europe. | ||
| For this victory, we join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity and into light. | ||
| Much remains to be done. | ||
| The victory won in the West must now be won in the East. | ||
| The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed. | ||
| All through the day, the king and queen had answered call after call, so it was again at night. | ||
| Thousands upon thousands went to the palace, for this is the way we have in Great Britain. | ||
| The family and the head of the family rejoice together. | ||
| It was at nine o 'clock on VE Day that the King had broadcast his message to the people of Britain, the British Empire, and the Commonwealth of Nations. | ||
| But today, we give thanks to God for a great deliverance. | ||
| Speaking from our empire's oldest capital city, for all batters, I would never for one moment... | ||
| Daunted or dismayed. | ||
| Germany, the enemy who drove all Europe into war, has been finally overcome. | ||
| Music Cheers bridged the English Channel. | ||
| Britain's, impatient for the official signal to celebrate, jumped the starting gun on Monday night. | ||
| When notice of capitulation waited upon Whitehall, Washington and Moscow. | ||
| VEE began it. | ||
| And for days afterwards, Londoners packed city streets and squares. | ||
| The idea was to make a noise. | ||
| And this is it. | ||
| You measured the crowds by the acre in this bubbling over of a nation's joy and thanksgiving. | ||
| *music* | ||
| What a great clip. | ||
| Thanks to the War Room team. | ||
| Denver for putting that together. | ||
| Just unbelievably powerful. | ||
| Churchill, Truman, speaking of God's providence, certainly the case. | ||
| And then the King's Speech. | ||
| If you haven't seen that movie, the King's Speech, just very moving. | ||
| And then you see the joy of the people because they were in peril of losing their freedom. | ||
| We've got the best guy on the planet to help bring this into perspective. | ||
| He's interviewed thousands of people from back in the day, from World War II itself. | ||
| So it's our honor, privilege to have Patrick K. O'Donnell to frame things. | ||
| There's a lot of young kids who don't know any of this. | ||
| So Patrick K. O'Donnell, bring us up to speed. | ||
| What is the meaning of VE Day? | ||
| Dave, it's a pleasure and an honor to be with you today. | ||
| It's Victory in Europe Day. | ||
| This is one of the most consequential events in Western history. | ||
| This marks five years of war with Nazi Germany, and they were the most dangerous Axis partner, if you will. | ||
| Much more dangerous than Italy or Japan. | ||
| Their technology was, in many cases, second to none with rockets and jet power. | ||
| They were in the race for a nuclear weapon along with the United States. | ||
| And this is the conclusion of a war in Europe, which is a brutal war. | ||
| World War II claims the lives of 4% of the entire planet Earth. | ||
| That's how dangerous, deadly, and widespread the conflict is. | ||
| And it's in Europe that it ends on May 8th. | ||
| It ends an hour later in Moscow time on May 9th. | ||
| And there's some interesting chronology on the surrender of Germany. | ||
| The OSS actually gets the German forces in Italy to surrender one week before with something called Operation Sunrise, where they contact the SS general there, Karl Wolf, and he's able to negotiate a separate surrender of German forces in Germany. | ||
| But within that sphere of negotiations, which was behind-the-scenes cloak-and-dagger stuff with the OSS and Allen Dulles, the Soviets were constantly paranoid of a separate peace with the West, that the Germans would have a separate peace with the West, and they would continue to fight. | ||
| And this is exactly what happens on May 7th, where the Germans officially surrender at Reims. | ||
| They sign all the documents, but the Soviet representatives there are very concerned because there's still German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front, and they demand some additional, you know, minor points to the surrender documents, and that they also demand that they be signed in Berlin on May 8th. | ||
| So this marks the official victory in Europe Day. | ||
| But it's only, there's still, you know, there's still many months of war still to go against the Japanese, but it's victory in Europe that really has, you know, it's an incredibly important date. | ||
| 80th anniversary of it. | ||
| And, you know, it's, it's significant that we, um, we honor this date and we honor the generation that fought there. | ||
| I think one of the great, you know, problems with the United States is that we don't honor our heroes in many cases. | ||
| And we don't take, uh, we don't, we don't actually remember, uh, The importance and significance of these events, such as BE Day, like other European countries and elsewhere. | ||
| Yeah, no, I think you're right on that. | ||
| Our elitist, globalist institutions these days, in fact, want to tear down the fabric of the West. | ||
| They want to bring the U.S. down a notch. | ||
| So the last thing they want to do is invoke the providence of God, Churchill, Truman, the King's speech we just saw. | ||
| The men that you've interviewed and documented and studied, what kind of faith, what was in their souls that they knew that freedom was something worth fighting for? | ||
| Why should we honor them? | ||
| Dave, this is a remarkable generation. | ||
| I've had the pleasure and honor of saying that many of the great heroes of D-Day and Normandy, as well as World War II in general. | ||
| We're some of my friends. | ||
| I began interviewing World War II veterans shortly after college, almost 35 years ago. | ||
| And I have interviewed thousands of veterans, about 4,000 from the elite units, beginning with the 82nd Airborne, going to the 101st, the Rangers, First Special Service Force, Merrill's Marauders, the OSS. | ||
| The elite units, if you will, the precursors to special operations forces in the United States, as well as I interviewed the Axis rivals that many of these men faced. | ||
| And in some cases, they were some of the hardest core units in the German army, such as the SS. | ||
| And the common theme is that these were very hardened individuals, men and women. | ||
| In many cases, it was the Great Depression that hardened them because they had to endure the economic hardships, in many cases starvation, lack of employment. | ||
| And through that, that was a crucible that toughened these individuals. | ||
| And they formed the men that I interviewed. | ||
| Formed, for instance, the airborne, the parachute troops. | ||
| They were an elite. | ||
| They were told very few men were able to get through the training. | ||
| It was a weed-out process that would get rid of most men that weren't hard enough and tough enough. | ||
| And they were told that they could be five regular soldiers. | ||
| Many of these guys believed it. | ||
| And the OSS operatives that were commandos that I interviewed, truly extraordinary individuals. | ||
| That didn't understand, you know, their limitations. | ||
| And they pushed things to the absolute limit. | ||
| Many of the stories, the Brenner assignment, for instance, is a book that I wrote about, you know, a commando team, the German operational group. | ||
| They all speak German. | ||
| And they go back to fight Nazi Germany. | ||
| And many of these men were also Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. | ||
| And they went back. | ||
| Because their families were languishing in the camps. | ||
| And two of those individuals, Dave, were able to affect the surrender of thousands of German troops. | ||
| You know, single individuals are able to shape and bend history by their actions. | ||
| And that's extraordinary. | ||
| Tremendous. | ||
| I'm going to hold... | ||
| Patrick O'Donnell overthrew the break so he can share some resources with you parents, grandparents, kids. | ||
| We've got to get this into our souls and our minds so that we do honor those who fought so honorably for this country and gave us freedom. | ||
| And we need to do the same. | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon's fighting every day. | ||
| It's an honor to be a part of this show with Patrick O'Donnell and the heroes who come on every day. | ||
| And so right back after the break, stay with us. | ||
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All right, what a day. | |
| We open with a new pope, Habimus Popham. | ||
| We talked about the entrance of the word, Jesus. | ||
| God himself came as the word, the logos. | ||
| Words matter. | ||
| We have Patrick Kaye with us, and he is sharing the words of reason and history, and these words matter. | ||
| So, Patrick, please share with us, how do people follow your words? | ||
| Where do they connect with you? | ||
| My Twitter account is at CombatHistorian as well as Getter. | ||
| PatrickKO'Donnell.com is my website. | ||
| You can find my books at Barnes& Noble, The Unvanquished, which covers Mosby and the Rangers, which Wild Bill Donovan World War II used as a template. | ||
| And it was Mosby that guided a young George Patton in maneuver warfare. | ||
| My books are at Barnes& Noble and stores everywhere. | ||
| And I'll end with a quote. | ||
| Poor is a nation that has no heroes, but poor still is a nation that having heroes fails to remember and honor them. | ||
| Cicero, 43 BC. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| Closing with Cicero. | ||
| That's what my work has been all about, is honoring those heroes and remembering them. | ||
| Yeah, and putting them on paper. | ||
| Putting them on paper, brother. | ||
| Thank you for your heroic work. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| All right, now we're going to Mike Davis on the Ed Martin story. | ||
| Breaking news today. | ||
| The Senate is out of control, as usual, doing nothing. | ||
| They always contrast the show horses, us in the Freedom Caucus, with the workhorses in the Senate and the House mainstream who get nothing done for this country. | ||
| And so thank God for the show horses and the people that make some noise like Mike Davis. | ||
| Mike, bring us up to speed. | ||
| Yeah, Ed Morton is a good man. | ||
| He's a good friend of mine. | ||
| He's a good friend. | ||
| Of Steve Bannon and yours, Dave, on the show. | ||
| We have our weak Senate Republican sisters who just couldn't handle Ed Martin's political past, and so they were very dug in. | ||
| I know the president is a huge fan of Ed Martin's. | ||
| He pushed very, very hard. | ||
| But sometimes these weak Republican sisters, you just can't get them to change the tampons. | ||
| And so here we are. | ||
| Ed Martin is now going to be utilized by President Trump in another high-impact job. | ||
| He's not going away. | ||
| And people are going to remember this. | ||
| I'm hearing Judge Jeanine Pirro is being floated for D.C. U.S. Attorney now. | ||
| And I think that would be phenomenal. | ||
| So if you guys thought that if the ladies in the Senate Republican caucus thought Ed Martin was too tough for them. | ||
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Just wait until Judge Greene gets there. | |
| Yeah, it's too good. | ||
| I'm smiling. | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| But yeah, just give us one minute to go. | ||
| We got Mike Lindell coming up, and he's in a good mood lately, so I want to share his smile. | ||
| But these senators, give us a litany of the names of folks they did approve, by contrast. | ||
| And then we got a guy who's fighting for the Constitution of American freedom on a key day like this. | ||
| It's just stunning. | ||
| Mike, go ahead. | ||
| Yeah, I think we need to. | ||
| I think Tom Tillis should invest in Tom Tillis tampons because I think he would sell a lot of those things. | ||
| And look, I get along with Tom Tillis. | ||
| He's a good guy. | ||
| I think that we need to be smarter on our side about getting bold, fearless people into this position, into these positions. | ||
| Remember, Senate. | ||
| Democrats put Rachel Rollins as the Boston U.S. Attorney under Joe Biden. | ||
| She was a radical lunatic who got chased out of office very quickly. | ||
| But the Senate Democrats didn't budge. | ||
| They brought in Vice President Kamala Harris. | ||
| I think our side needs to get a hell of a lot tougher than we are. | ||
| They think that they're principled. | ||
| They are the controlled opposition. | ||
| I'll say this on your show. | ||
| I'll probably get you in trouble. | ||
| Senate Republicans are giant pussies. | ||
| And they need to stop being giant pussies and start understanding what we're up against. | ||
| President Trump has four years and about a 30% chance of saving this country. | ||
| And these cowards in the Senate, Senate Republican cowards, the ladies of the Senate, Men and women, the ladies of the Senate, need to grow a backbone. | ||
| Yeah, my fighting words, all political views of my own. | ||
| It's the Pope's day. | ||
| We look to the heights, but in other spheres, we're at war. | ||
| And that D.C. slot is a war zone. | ||
| And if you want to maintain the rule of law in this country, you need fighters. | ||
| As Steve always says, they're not going to give you the keys. | ||
| And we keep giving them the keys. | ||
| Our Senate leaders, our House leaders, we're letting them keep the keys. | ||
| We have two years to make these changes. | ||
| Mike, how do people get you? | ||
| And then we're going over to the other Mike. | ||
| Yeah, there's black smoke coming out of the White House. | ||
| They haven't picked a D.C. U.S. attorney yet. | ||
| But maybe we'll get white smoke for Judge Jeanine Pirro if the tampon caucus among Senate Republicans can tolerate her. | ||
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| All right, brother, keep up the fight. | ||
| Let's get the rule of law back at play in the United States of America. | ||
| After this whole show, that is our foundation. | ||
| Mike Lindell is with us. | ||
| Mike has been in a great mood over the last few weeks. | ||
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| He's got a lot of good news. | ||
| Mike, you've got about a minute and a half. | ||
| Fire away. | ||
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