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June 6, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 4541: Smoke And Mirrors Behind Musk; Russia Strikes Back
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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. Van.
steve bannon
Okay, it is Friday, 6 June, the year of Elor 2025.
We are going to get to...
Posa's going to join us here in a second.
Overnight, the Third World War is expanding, another big hit into Kiev.
But I want to go back.
Two things.
Number one, the great Gavin Wax.
Turns out Symington, who we had on here, the FCC commissioner, has stepped down for a business opportunity.
He's going to leave.
There's an opening, and I don't think they could do better.
They're getting Gavin Wax.
Gavin Wax is one of the most extraordinary young men I've ever met, and with that slot open, I don't think anybody would represent the country and make sure I'm in this.
Caroline, you know, all this madness with the broadcast networks, their news coverage, you know, they get these licenses, and they're supposed to provide a public service and coverage of news, and what they did in the old days is nothing compared to what they do now, and that's why you need people like Gavin Wax.
Who are kind of these young fire breathers that you need to kind of rejuvenate these alphabet agencies.
I don't think we can do better than having Gavin Wax as the new FCC commissioner to really replace Simonton, who's leaving.
I think he's Simonton's deputy right now.
And, of course, you've been all over the FCC, Caroline.
But I want to go back to Sergio Gore and particularly – They all talk big.
You got David Sachs in this crowd.
And I think David Sachs has got to watch himself because he's on pretty thin ice.
Okay, pretty thin ice.
And going after Sergio Gore and going after core people around President Trump, not going to hack it, okay?
Sergio Gore is one of the most loyal people working with President Trump and has kept us out of so many messes, like the situation with Isaacman.
And this shows you All they're trying to do is leech off the MAGA movement.
They've done nothing to support the MAGA movement.
They all joined us after Trump won.
They're nothing but leeches, right, and parasites.
What they're trying to do is draft off this for their own betterment, not for the country, for their own self-interest.
And they're all tech bros, and they're going to do this, and they're going to do that.
They're nothing.
They're absolutely just a bunch of geeks, okay?
They run away.
The first thing, like, you got Elon Musk, big tough guy.
He's begging.
They're all over Trump, begging.
We need a phone call.
He's so apologizing.
I'm not going to have a phone call.
They're all over.
You got to de-escalate.
You got to de-escalate.
Hey, this guy started.
He crossed the Rubicon.
But let's talk about Sergio.
There's five or six articles out today.
And I think Sergio looks like a star because he did what the president wanted to get the information that this guy's another, just like the All In podcast and David Sachs and all those guys.
They're all left-wing Democrats.
They're all – when they saw the MAGA movement taking power like a leech, they all want to get a leech off it, right?
Like the parasites they are.
We got it.
But you got to watch them every second because it's always their self-interest just like Elon.
It's always about this.
Elon, as soon as the EV mandate doesn't go and so he's not going to get his way and as soon as people start looking at the data that he stole.
Right?
We've got to make sure everything that Doge did, they didn't take anybody's personal data because you've got this Palantir situation right now.
That's what MAGA supported.
We're not for the surveillance state.
We're not going to have it.
Okay?
We're free men and free women.
We believe in liberty and freedom.
But Caroline, President Trump makes a decision.
President Trump wanted to check these things out of things that people had come through the system before he had in place kind of controls.
And this guy at NASA – You can take a stick and hit 20 of these guys, right?
But he's their guy.
That's what's important.
He's their guy.
He reports them.
Why?
He's a progressive Democrat.
All of his donations until after we won is to left-wing Democrats.
I mean, Schumer and Rosen, all of them.
These are hardcore anti-Trump, anti-MAGA people.
That's what he is.
And he's had a Damascene moment.
They've all had a road to Damascus.
They've all had a road to Damascus because President Trump and MAGA's in power.
That's why you have to watch them.
You can't trust them as far as you could throw them.
You have to watch them 24-7 because they're greedy.
And it's all about them.
It's all about just money, money, money.
And this is why you've got to watch them.
Caroline Brown about Sergio Gore, ma 'am.
caroline wren
Well, you know, I've known Sergio actually since 2006 when I was the college Republicans president at Auburn.
I met him at a college Republicans event, a national event.
He was at GW.
And the next year I texted him and said, are you coming to the conference?
And he said no because he had actually, he thought the college Republicans at GW were too big of neocons in establishment.
So he had left the organization, started the Young America's Foundation chapter at GW to challenge the Republican Party's establishment on campus.
That's who Sergio Gore is.
He is someone who is not only brilliant, but loyal, and he has been against.
He truly, I mean, he's been a MAGA before anyone else was MAGA.
I remember when I was off, you know, working for Lindsey Graham, he was forcing me to watch hours of footage of Rand Paul filibustering Montenegro joining NATO on the Senate floor telling me, Caroline, you're a neocon and your boss is a neocon.
You need to learn.
I mean, truly, I learned about the MAGA movement because of Sergio Gore.
So for these Elon and the All In Podcast Bros to be going after Sergio the way I've seen them, it's quite obvious they're doing it today.
They're trying to oppo dump on him because Sergio didn't bend the knee to the tech oligarchs and instead served at the will of the president and recommended people that should be.
steve bannon
He keeps attacking Sergio Gore and other people around there.
He's going to be held accountable.
And I don't think he wants to be held accountable.
He's not a guy that does well in the public glare, if you know what I mean.
And as you know from the war room, bro, we will go there.
Just like we went there in Elon.
Okay, we're not going to let these guys come in and grift off this movement and destroy people and try to destroy the president.
Yesterday, not just the Epstein thing, calling for the president to be impeached.
Everything we've gone through with the president of the United States, these two impeachments, trying to put him in jail.
And this guy, and right now, Susie Wiles, breaking news even as we speak here in the war room.
Susie Wiles, who's a pretty steady Eddie, a safe pair of hands, she says, You've got to understand, they are all over the president and every member of the staff.
Please, oh please, take a phone call.
You're big talkers yesterday, but as soon as somebody punches back and saying, hey, we're going to take your security clearance, we're going to take these companies and put them under government supervision under management until the investigations of you are done, because he knows these investigations are going to get tossed.
He knows they're going to get tossed out of the country.
So now, from the big talk yesterday of challenging President Trump Threatening him with impeachment.
Threatening him with this bogus thing on the Epstein.
Threatening him, oh, he's only here three and a half years.
I'm here 40. Threatening him, I'm going to start a third party.
Yo, you ain't talking so big this morning, bro.
You're crawling on your belly with all the, you know, all the all-in bros, the all-in.
That's a really tough crowd, a group of pencil necks.
And you're all sitting there whining and yammering.
And, oh, Sergio's terrible.
He's terrible.
Sergio Gore ain't going anywhere.
And what he's doing for the president is screening people exactly like you that should not be around power.
You're dangerous people.
And here's why you're dangerous.
You're immature.
You're narcissistic.
It's all about you.
It's not about the country.
The MAGA movement is made up of veterans.
It's made up of people that have dedicated themselves to this republic.
That's the backbone of the Trump movement.
And they're not impressed by your wealth.
They're not impressed by your technology.
We think it's quite dangerous.
And we think you are quite dangerous.
So if they want to continue on to Sergio Gores and others, hey, all I'm saying is you're going to be held accountable.
And I don't think you guys will hand up.
I don't think you'll stand up well to your moment in the sun.
So better back off.
Sergio Gore is not going anywhere.
Caroline Rand, Sergio Gore was just doing what the president said.
And it turns out, once again, President Trump's right.
He didn't feel right about this guy.
And he went and got the research and came back.
It was nothing but left-wing Democrats who do nothing.
They're never Trump.
They're never MAGA.
They want to put Trump in prison.
They're the biggest haters.
And he's sitting there going, why should I get a guy in here that's underwriting the haters?
And now, oh, now he's all MAGA after Trump won and after the inauguration, ma 'am.
caroline wren
This is all smoke and mirrors, truly.
I mean, if Elon wants to go form another party, great.
It'll be Elon and then the three, four all-in podcast bros.
Because look, yesterday Elon instructed his 20 million ex-followers to call their representatives and kill the bill.
I was reading a news story this morning that they said that the reporter called around to different offices and one office said they got one call.
When Grace Chung goes on X and says, call your representative, the war room posse literally shuts down the Capitol switchboard.
They flood the zone with so many calls.
That's because we're an army of a movement behind President Trump.
We leave 77 million Americans and growing.
And Elon has a following of three, maybe four.
One phone call when he But also, I want to say, the audacity of Elon Musk to say that without him, Trump would have lost, and then to say that Trump has such ingratitude.
Like, are you kidding me, Elon?
You just got to spend six months working in the West Wing, serving our great nation, perhaps one of the highest honors any individual could be granted, sitting next to our commander-in-chief every day.
Your way of thanking him is to call him ungrateful?
No, Elon, you are ungrateful piece of scum.
And I hope that you are never allowed back into the West Wing again.
It was an honor to get to do that every day and to serve this president.
And how dare you?
How dare you say that he is ungrateful to you?
steve bannon
By the way, I met Sergio 15 years ago this summer.
I made a film about Michelle Bachman and Schlafly and Palin called Fire from the Heartland, the women of the Tea Party movement.
And by the way, he was a Grundoon.
He was on the staff of Michelle Bachman with another young fire breather, Stephen Miller.
These guys, they were MAGA before MAGA.
They were Tea Party MAGA, and these two guys were fire breathers, then went to the Senate, went to Rand Paul, went to Jeff Sessions.
Look, and there's other people out there like Sergio that serve the president every day, and you talk about ingratitude.
Carolyn Wren's point is that President Trump is not donor-friendly.
He'll take the money, but it doesn't come, he's not going to sit there and do their bidding.
And people that may give the money and think that, they're up for a rude awakening.
President Trump's going to do what's right.
One of the worst things about the Elon situation was the buried lead in the Josh Dossie story of the Wall Street Journal.
Number one, President Trump looks around and says, hey.
Is this Doge thing all BS?
He says, where's those cuts?
Where's the trillion dollars of cuts?
Not the stuff Russ Vogt's working on that we see up there in the rescission bill.
Like, where's the trillion dollars of fraud?
He said, I spent three and a half minutes in the State of the Union talking about Social Security.
He says, like, where's the fraud there?
The guy's coming with nothing.
He promised a trillion dollars, and this is why he and Besson got into it.
So the president is not at the beck and call of donors.
Certainly he's going to take the money, and you've seen this all the time, Caroline.
When these people think they got it, and not only did he get the Doge gig to serve his country, but then he wanted other things, particularly he wanted to stick around.
I mean, the president's the one that brought that up.
The White House is the one that got that information to Mark Caputo, that, hey, your time's up, you're kind of wearing thin, and we think you ought to move on.
Dave, you got a comment?
dave brat
Yeah, just one minute of moral philosophy.
I stole this from another public philosopher.
One asked to test for these guys, right?
You said these tech bros are going to draft off the president, Magapher.
It'll be precisely for three years, you know, until we see what happens next.
And we all know that's the case, right?
All of a sudden the winds are going to change and they're going to do what they're going to do.
Here's your test, right?
Just look at good and evil, literally making a Faustian deal with the devil.
It's portrayed in Lord of the Rings, right?
The Sauron, the eye, the giant all-knowing evil eye.
Solomon makes a deal with Sauron, the evil in thinking, in Judeo-Christian terms, that if I, you know, I make a deal with the devil, I'm going to get something out of it.
The characteristic of evil is it never shares.
It never lets you come on board.
Versus the war room.
Grace Chong, Steve Bannon.
When you join the mega, you get something out of it.
That's the acid test of good versus evil.
And it's Darth Vader.
It's good and evil in the Western canon.
Make sure when you join and make your deal, you're making a deal where you're on a team that's going to give back to you.
And if you're not getting something out of it, there's something wrong with that story.
steve bannon
Okay.
We got Jack Pesoba coming up.
Caroline Wren's going to stick around.
We got Jack Pesoba coming up.
We got some updates on the war.
I think Jack also may have an observation or two of this fight between Elon Musk and the president.
Not really a fight.
Elon got a standing eight count.
That's why his team is all standing there.
unidentified
Please, please, please, please, please take a phone call.
He's sorry.
He's so sorry.
steve bannon
He's sorry.
Yo, bro, you crossed the Rubicon, right?
You don't get a chance to go back.
This call crossed the Rubicon for a reason.
There ain't no going back.
You went there.
Ain't so tough talking today when SpaceX and these may be under new management.
Not talking so tough this morning.
We are going to go back to St. Patrick's Cathedral at the end of the Requiem Mass to pick up our coverage with David Zier and the Real America's Voice team.
And we're going to get Patrick O'Donnell in here.
To talk about June, the 6th of June, 1944.
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steve bannon
Yeah Okay, Jack Posobiec joins us.
Jack, a massive raid overnight.
Ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, state-of-the-art drones.
Really a bombardment like the 1940 Blitz of London.
I think five, the Ukrainians are telling us at first reports five dead, but I hear there are many, many more dead and wounded, and they did go after civilian targets.
Is this the beginning of Putin's payback for the, quite frankly, the audacious and brilliant assault by the Ukrainians on the strategic bombing assets of the Russian Air Force?
jack posobiec
Well, Steve, thanks again for having me on.
Last night, Russia launched one of the largest attacks on the war in Ukraine that we've seen, deploying at least over 400 drones, many of these, the one-way drones, also known as kamikaze drones, at least 44, 45 missiles, as you mentioned, the ballistics and cruise missiles, mostly Iskanders and Calibers, across almost every single region of Ukraine.
I'm at a loss to see.
And even President Zelensky came out and said that Every single region of Ukraine was hit last night.
Obviously, this is being described by Russian sources as retaliation for those attacks on the Kerch Strait Bridge, on the civilian train that Ukraine bombed, killing Russian civilians, and of course on the strategic bombers.
Some of the key targets that we're seeing a lot, as you say, many cities, Kiev itself, but also cities in the far west of Ukraine.
Kiev is central, and then south-central you had the attacks along the Dnieper River, the city of Kherson, the city of Mykolaiv, which I visited, which has key shipyards.
These were struck last night.
But then far west, you also saw strikes in places like Lviv, Lutsk, Turnipil.
These are all in western Ukraine.
And what are they hitting?
They're hitting power substations.
They're hitting electrical infrastructure.
They're hitting water infrastructure.
So all of this, of course, going into the summer.
And a lot of these key places, by the way, that they're hitting include those NATO supplies that are coming in from Poland, that are coming across the train there.
They wait and they track these supplies as they come across the border.
And then once they enter Ukraine at these various depots that they have them in the West, that's when Russia commits their strikes.
And really what you're seeing is a setup for Russia to, I think, and a lot of analysts have said they are setting themselves up for a major breakout in the eastern provinces on the border.
Soldiers.
And so you're ready to see the Russian army push forward this summer and really set themselves up for a massive summer offensive.
steve bannon
Hold on, hang on.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
steve bannon
Hit rewind on the last minute of that.
What are you saying?
Because the air attack, And, you know, artillery and armor and infantry, that kind of combined arms is the Russians' model, right?
They just come and grind you down.
What are you seeing here now that may lead to a bigger summer campaign?
jack posobiec
Well, Steve, as we know, this has been a war of attrition, and a war of attrition is one where the Russians predominantly Have the advantage because they have the ability to call up reserves as they have again and again and again.
Whereas Ukraine, no matter how many weapon systems, no matter how much artillery, how many shells, how many guns, the U.S. and NATO forces, the various NATO members of the alliance can provide, what they aren't providing is manpower.
So Ukraine is at that manpower disadvantage.
This is where the Russians have the key advantage here.
And so they've been sitting back and just grinding.
Grinding, grinding in the eastern Russian-speaking provinces.
But now they're at a point where, because you're seeing this predicate of striking the weapons themselves, striking key elements of infrastructure, where they could be positioned for some major salient breakouts into these regions in the Russian-eastern-speaking provinces.
Many of the ones that, of course, they're talking about right now in Istanbul regarding the peace talks that have been ongoing.
But, of course, with these trading major attacks back and forth, it seems that those peace deals are really only focused on some some prisoner swaps.
Both sides putting out their demands for a ceasefire, but really nothing that I think either side is willing to go along with.
So instead, what you're probably going to see in the face of this is a major Russian advance coming soon.
And they're probably going to have that decision by by July.
steve bannon
By July.
Strategically, then, a bigger infantry and combined arms?
jack posobiec
Well, Steve, remember, there are a lot of members of the Kremlin, a lot of members of the Russian military infrastructure that don't want peace talks.
They're not interested in peace talks.
They look at the United States and they say, you know what?
It doesn't matter who's president.
It doesn't matter who gets in there because the deep state is the ones in control.
You've got these Brennan and Clapper people running around, as you and I have talked about, that clearly knew something about this attack but didn't brief it up to the White House.
So from the Russian side, they don't care what President Trump says on the phone.
Not these types.
They're saying, we don't care what President Trump says.
We're going to push in.
We don't want peace.
And it's actually been the policy.
Of Putin and others to say, let's see what kind of deal we can make in the meantime.
But you've got, there's these folks that I always see on the left and they say, oh, well, just get rid of Putin and everything's going to collapse.
I say, no, don't forget, you've got people like Purgosian who had been over there.
You've got people who want to go all the way in and they say, let's glass this place.
And Steve, this is a reminder.
This attack is a reminder that Russia has the ability to strike deep into Ukraine and all across Ukraine whenever.
They want to.
Not to mention the Oresnik weapons system, the hypersonic missiles that they have, all of these delivery platforms that they could have at their disposal.
And I don't know where the Financial Times of London or all these analysts were from the Institute for the Study of War and Kagan's Place and all of them saying, oh, the Russians are going to not be able to wage war into year two, into year three.
Guess what?
We're at three plus years.
Three plus years into this thing.
And guess what?
The drones are keep coming off the line.
The missiles, ballistics and cruise missiles keep coming off the line.
The tanks keep coming off the line.
Why?
And by the way, there's an interesting corollary here to what's going on in the United States regarding the domestic policy because Russia never divested of their manufacturing.
They were able to maintain their domestic manufacturing base using the leveraging, of course, the natural resources which Putin nationalized.
I think, Steve, you were having an interesting conversation yesterday about nationalizing industry.
So he nationalized those resources, stood up.
Gazprom and Rostam.
And guess what?
He's been using that to fuel the domestic industry and fuel the Russian war machine, which they still have and have the ability to wage war.
When all these analysts, Steve, all these analysts said that Russia would be out of guns and out of bullets and they wouldn't have anything.
And guess what?
Three plus.
And they're striking every single region of Ukraine just last night.
steve bannon
OK, we're going to go back to the funeral here in a second.
Just one thing.
I'm getting this from Patrick Webb, his Twitter feed.
And it's referencing the Reuters story, but I don't have the click-through, but I'm just going to repeat it.
It says Russia offers political asylum to Elon Musk over his Trump feud.
Jack Posovic, you're our expert in this area.
You're both the Elon Musk feud and offering him asylum.
Your thoughts, sir?
jack posobiec
Well, I don't know exactly if Russia is a bastion against political persecution, but I don't think Elon is going to face that level of reprisal by the United States.
But look, the Russians are watching this, and that's exactly what I've been saying.
The Russians are watching our internal politics.
The Russians are laughing at us.
the Chinese are laughing at us.
They're saying we know The United States isn't serious.
The Trump administration isn't serious.
That's the way they're looking at it.
That's the way they're looking at it right now.
And they're saying we're just going to go steady on with the fight because that's what we want.
And the same way that the Chinese who just knocked off – and Steve, as you've talked about this, they just knocked off the government of South Korea.
So now South Korea is going the way of Hong Kong in 97 or at least in the 1980s and 90s leading up to the 97 handover.
And they're just moving along.
They're moving along on their axis because what we're seeing is the depletion, right, the depletion and the end of the international liberal order, the rise of multipolarity.
And they're saying, look, we don't care about these peace talks.
We're going to do it on our own.
And Putin just gave his interview to all of the oligarchs.
He brought all the oligarchs to Russia and came in and he said, look, The sanctions aren't going away.
The sanctions are not going away.
And in Russia, they have a situation where the oligarchs work for the Kremlin.
And they have a variety of methods of making sure that you continue to work for the Kremlin because if they don't like you, they get rid of you.
And this is where.
They've been planning this for years and years on end.
And I don't think, I really don't think that a lot of people in Washington, D.C. have paid attention to this or even understand what they're up against.
steve bannon
Jack Posobiec, your social media, you're all over the Elon situation.
You're all over the Third World War.
We're going to have so much to report this evening.
I'm going to Georgia to give the keynote address, but Dave Bratt and Natalie Winters are going to be anchoring.
There's so much going on.
Where do people get you on social media today, sir?
jack posobiec
Well, of course, you can follow me at Jack Posobiec.
Haven't been banned on X ever, and I don't intend to be, but I'm up on True Social and Telegram just in case anything changes.
I mean, I'm in all these Steve Bannon clips that keep going viral, getting me in trouble, Steve, but I'm still maintaining my good standing for now, for now.
But you can follow us up there at any time.
steve bannon
Okay, here we go right now.
Let's go back to live coverage.
We've got David Zier.
Let's go back to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
The end of the service in honor of Police Commissioner Bernie Kerrick.
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For everlasting powers gone, too endless is the same.
A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening.
Gone, short as the watch, the dance, the night before the rising sun.
Time like an ever-rolling stream bears all this sun's away.
They fly forgotten as a dream dies at the opening day.
Oh God, I have been in ages past, our hope for years to come.
Be thy God, our troubles last, and our eternal home.
Oh God, I have been in ages past, our eternal home.
Here we go.
Let's go.
Detail, attention!
Let's go.
Thank you.
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Rudy Giuliani and Kash Patel in that shot as a guard of honor for the body.
steve bannon
return now to St. Patrick's.
St. Patrick's.
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Dave Brat, observations.
dave brat
Yeah, just a great day.
We need days like that, just good for the heart.
I got to meet Rudy Giuliani a few times.
The guy is just your best friend when you meet him.
He's just a friend of America.
He's the mayor of New York City.
He's a friend of the war room.
And it's just great on these days like that.
Kash Patel's out there.
Democrat side, the current mayor helps to make this thing happen.
He's, you know, he's in flux right now, too.
So it's interesting times.
But, you know, at most serious days, look upstairs.
Look to the heavens.
Look to the church.
And great markers.
Great to just remind you of what's important.
Great symbols.
steve bannon
Yep.
Let's, is David's, can I get David's ear?
Is he visible audio?
Got the beautiful shot right there.
Is David's ear available?
Maybe pulled the shot back.
Can I get a sweeping shot back at St. Patrick's?
Overflow crowd, of course, New York Police Department, other representatives of the Fire Department, first responders, Bernie Carrick, have been head of corrections, police commissioner, under Mayor Giuliani, and someone who so many times, days and days and days after 9-11, would come to this very spot to honor.
The fallen of the police department of New York City and, of course, the fire department.
David Zier, observations and thoughts, sir?
david zere
We're standing atop the police barrier truck, kind of a deuce-and-a-half-looking truck here with the leadership of the New York City Police Department, Mayor Adams, in front of us here, along with Kash Patel.
I think I saw Ray Kelly.
But we're looking directly at Mayor Giuliani across the street saying goodbye to family and friends of Bernie Carrick as they await their procession to return for Bernie Carrick's final resting place in New Jersey.
I just wanted to add it was a very emotional scene as the New York City police officers in their dress blues filed out of the mass and lined up the streets along Fifth Avenue here across from Rockefeller Center in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
And I just wanted to add, you know, Bernie Kerik, while I'm looking at Rudy Giuliani here, Bernie was upset about New York City's slide backwards after Giuliani.
And even Bloomberg helped bring crime down to 20-year lows in New York City today as a reminder of the legacy of Bernie Kerik, a larger-than-life figure, someone to put his money where his mouth is, and he will be missed by New Yorker.
dave brat
Yeah, very nice, Dave.
I just wanted to also add...
Prayers do matter.
They go up to God.
I made the little sermon earlier in the thing, but God always gives, right?
God gives back.
That's the sign of good versus evil.
When you pray to God, the Almighty God, the Father, He gives.
He gives the Son.
He gives the Spirit.
He gives hope.
He gives love to everybody on a day like this, even a day of loss.
Good can come out of it.
And Dave Zier, we're just so happy to have you on the scene.
You can hear your heart.
You got the biggest heart ever, man.
Love hearing from you.
steve bannon
No, that's why I really, Parker and Rob Sig and the entire Real America's voice team Harry our great producer and everybody to do this we were set to do it all but we got the very moving arrival of the remains of Bernie Kerik and the Honor Guard and the NYPD
And of course, we'll see the entrance and David Zier, who's always our man on the scene in New York City, been there for President Trump, all the trials of President Trump.
And of course now, about the prayers of David Zier, people should know this caught the family and his friends totally by surprise.
Bernie's only 69 years old.
And to know him as a guy that's in incredible shape, works out every day.
I mean, this guy is a beast.
He was just a strong individual.
So for the prayers, I know the family's still in shock.
His friends are still in shock.
It just happened so, so quickly.
David Zier, now I guess some of the other family, the cars are getting up and they will go down Fifth Avenue for a while, sir.
david zere
Yes, the security detail is leading the way, the hearse to follow, and the rest of the procession with friends and family will be leaving New York City, probably going through the Lincoln Tunnel, back to the cemetery.
You know, Bernie Kerik was raised in Patterson, New Jersey, in a single-family home, raised himself, you know, pulled himself up by the bootstraps, excelled.
And by the way, Bernie was a black belt.
I just wanted to add, God closes a window and opens a door, and I hope Jessica Lynch, the new police commissioner in New York, who did a good job with murders and shootings so far, but has to clean up the other areas, can take Bernie's message forward and help the people of New York.
steve bannon
You see the police escort, the honor guard, marching with the hearse as it moves very slowly.
This is the follow-up of the family and people going to the...
I might know for those of you who are not familiar with New York City, St. Patrick's is right there at Rockefeller Center.
So you're in the heart of Midtown Manhattan and you're at the heart of really the grandeur of Midtown Manhattan.
And so a funeral like this, which is essentially a state funeral in New York City, this is the highest you get along with the mayor of police commissioners, is – It will tie up the city for a good while.
They block off all the streets.
Rockefeller centers blocked off.
David Zier, thoughts?
david zere
Well, I would just add...
And he always hoped, and my interviews with him, he always said that New York led the way across the country in quality of life crimes, broken windows.
We had a 72% increase in misdemeanor arrests.
You know, this is about quality of life, Steve.
I was coming home from the American Miracle at the Kennedy Center.
Red carpet interviews the other night.
steve bannon
Hey, David, let's try to catch the background.
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steve bannon
Can we put the honor of the New York City?
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steve bannon
Does Dismissed.
You heard there the bagpipes for the Christian, the old Christian hymn, Going Home.
Very moving.
That's traditional to play with the police.
David Zier, we're about to wrap up our coverage.
I just want to thank Real America's Voice once again.
And, of course, Rob Sigg, Parker Sigg.
We try to bring as many of these things live to you as possible so you can see it and not talk too much so you let the camera in the – David Zier, we've got a couple minutes.
Thoughts on Bernie Kerik, a great man.
A great man and a good man.
Those often don't come together.
Who did everything, put his country first, his family first, his religion.
Just a prototypical good American.
Sir.
david zere
He had respect from his peers.
He went undercover in Times Square, made arrests while he was the police commissioner.
And I don't know if we're going to see anybody like him again, but we'll always remember Bernie Kerrick in our hearts.
He was here at our darkest time in New York City, 9-11, most significant event in our modern history.
And he was right at Rudy Giuliani's side, a very special time in a very dark time.
steve bannon
David Zier, what's your social media?
People can follow you.
You do such a great job doing all our live coverage in New York.
The greatest city in the world.
david zere
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
At Dave Zier on X, at David Zier on Getter and the others, David W. Zier on Instagram.
I want to always thank you, Steve, for the war room.
This country's better off for it.
steve bannon
Thank you, brother.
Give your mother a hug.
She's a big fan and a big war room fan.
We love her.
Raised a pretty good son.
david zere
She loves you.
steve bannon
Not too shabby.
david zere
Thank you.
steve bannon
Patrick K. O'Donnell.
We're going to get Patrick K. tonight.
At 6 o 'clock with Dave Brat.
We never miss D-Day without the appropriate commemoration.
I want to thank everybody today for just the very power we see right there.
We were going to try to get interviews with Eric Prince and Mo Bannon and others, but I do believe that Mo and others are actually in the vehicles going to the cemetery.
No, I think Mo went to the Christian week last night.
Jane Zirkle also.
Our own Jane Zirkle's there.
Mo's there.
Eric Prince is there.
Cash Patel.
Rudy Giuliani.
Boris Epstein.
Boris made it.
So a great turnout.
Really want to thank and a great honor to anchor this coverage today.
To try to coordinate this.
Like I said, we're going to try to get in and show the live stream, but maybe we get it later.
We'll show some of the packages maybe tomorrow on this.
Dave, Brad, we've got a minute or two.
Closing thoughts.
dave brat
Yeah, I just want to thank, like you did, Rob and Parker Sig again.
Thank you, guys.
You put your money where your mouth is, your values, you're living them out.
This is a treat for you to share.
You just shared this with us and with the country.
So thanks for that.
And then secondly, just some good news.
Look at the economic news.
Wages are up 3.8, outpacing inflation, which is only 2.3.
That means you're getting real wage increases.
Government jobs are down.
Your jobs are up.
Payroll jobs are up.
They beat the expectations.
That's good news.
I just want to share a one-minute newsflash.
I'll share more with you at 6 p.m.
But that's some good news, and I'll get a little into the weeds with you on Fed policy.
steve bannon
I'm sure there's going to be other breaking news throughout the day.
Like I said, there's a lot of pressure coming on President Trump from – I want to move on, but I'm not taking phone calls.
I'm not going to be playing games here.
We'll see how that plays out during the day.
A lot of pressure on President Trump.
Of course, he's only trying to stop the Third World War, build the American economy.
The numbers out today, though, were incredibly impressive.
dave brat
Good news.
Very good news.
steve bannon
Very good news.
Patrick O'Donnell will also join you.
Natalie's going to have a bunch of breaking news and scoops in the 5 o'clock hour.
I'm going to go down with our good friends in Georgia.
There was a point in time where we were going to take Brett with us, but Brett, we felt, was better anchoring the coverage.
This is such a big news day.
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High Atlanta.
dave brat
I'll say it from here.
High Atlanta from Brett.
steve bannon
Love you guys.
I think we're in Dalton tonight.
We're down with the people.
Georgia.
We're not messing around here.
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dave brat
He's a good man, too.
Philip Patrick.
steve bannon
Philip Patrick does a great job.
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Very good man.
steve bannon
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Okay.
Charlie Kirk's up next.
Poso after that.
A lot going on.
The team's back here at 5 o 'clock.
You never know, I may call in, particularly some breaking news on the You never know.
I may drop in and call in from Georgia.
Make sure you're sticking around all afternoon.
Gruber after that.
Bowling after that.
Back here at 5 o 'clock at Natalie Winters.
And the Dave Bratt.
Dave Bratt.
dave brat
With a missile.
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With a missile.
steve bannon
My cruise missile.
Dave, love that.
Dave Bratt hanging around here.
You know, he's like a church mouse, right?
He's always in the food.
He's in the coffee.
He's like a warm bath coffee.
We love you guys.
Bernie Carrick, you're a great man and a good man.
The funeral service of Bernie Kerr.
I want to thank everybody today.
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Amen.
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