July 1, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the final scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| Here's not 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 lie? | ||
| MAGA Media. | ||
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
| 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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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It's Monday, 30 June, Year of Our Lord, 2025. | ||
| Of course, the Big Beautiful Bill is trying to get, they're trying to move this through the Senate today, already kind of revolt in the House. | ||
| You got one group of people saying, hey, it's cutting too much money, and another saying it's not cutting enough. | ||
| Clarity, the debt ceiling, the $5 trillion debt ceiling is in this, so that gives you some indication of direction of at least of some of the debt that we'll run up over the next couple of years. | ||
| We're going to get some details. | ||
| We're trying to get Dr. Stephen Myron. | ||
| He's the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, which I would say along with Scott Besant, the Secretary of Treasury, and Dr. Hassett over at the National Economic Council, that Stephen Myron is the third of the top three economic advisors to President Trump. | ||
| I would toss in Peter Navarro there on trade. | ||
| We're going to get him over and do something a little different, I think, that other shows have done, which I've been spending the afternoon talking to certain officials that the CBO, and I think this is very important for the audience to understand because Elon Musk is out and he's not that I told you this was going to happen, | ||
| but he's out lighting up the president and lighting up MAGA and claiming that it's time for a third party and that this is, he calls it, I think, in all his maturity, the porky pig bill. | ||
| He's going on about the spending, hammering it, hammering it. | ||
| And this is what galls me about this. | ||
| This was the guy that told the president he was going to get $2 trillion of waste fraud and abuse cuts. | ||
| Then he backed it off to $1 trillion. | ||
| And this was on an annual basis. | ||
| This wasn't over 10 years. | ||
| This was a trillion dollars because we asked him, I made sure the question was asked very specifically. | ||
| And he said it over and over again, a trillion dollars. | ||
| And at the end of the day, I don't know, folks, I know some of you fanboys said we got $160 billion. | ||
| We haven't seen the $160 billion. | ||
| What we do is have a $9 billion recision. | ||
| And all of that is programmatic. | ||
| I haven't seen anything specifically fraud and abuse put forward from the Pentagon anywhere. | ||
| So we're going to take this a little different tack. | ||
| If you've got CBO that has one set of scoring, the administration has its own set of numbers, has its own financial forecast. | ||
| It's a little more dynamic. | ||
| And we've asked Dr. Stephen Myron to join us, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. | ||
| Dr. Myron, thank you so much for joining us today. | ||
| The CBO is running around and saying this thing's going to add trillions of dollars to the debt and bigger deficits. | ||
| You've got Elon Musk now has weighed in and he's hammering the administration and actually calling for a third party. | ||
| You know, I spent the afternoon talking to certain officials in the administration about the models you guys are looking at and how you're doing dynamic scoring and taking into account the supply-side tax cuts nature of this, a lot of the business elements you're bringing in on capital equipment. | ||
| Can you just walk the folks through? | ||
| Because the CBO is, I think, saying you're going to have 1.8% GDP growth. | ||
| IMF is a 1.7%. | ||
| Can you just take a second and walk us through, as you guys look at it, how this thing rolls out and what you think the right model of people ought to be focused on? | ||
| Sir? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So first of all, you know, look, thanks for having me. | ||
| It's great to be here. | ||
| Look, CBO does a really bad job of incorporating economic growth as a result of tax provisions that are strong incentives to increase production, right? | ||
| And so there's a number of incentives in the bill that are really important. | ||
| There's the full expensing on equipment and manufacturing and R ⁇ D and new factories that are huge incentives to invest. | ||
| That means that companies get huge tax rate-offs if they build a factory. | ||
| Companies get huge tax rate-offs if they add more equipment to an existing factory, right? | ||
| It's really strong investment incentives. | ||
| And of course, investment means more jobs, it means more economic activity, it means more productive capacity, it means more manufacturing and national security as well. | ||
| And that's super important, right? | ||
| There's also very strong incentives for more labor supply. | ||
| Things like no taxes on tips or overtime, tax benefits for seniors, right? | ||
| These are very, very what economists would call elastic, but you should just think of as responsive segments of the labor supply. | ||
| These are folks that already respond very well to increased economic incentives to work, and providing tax benefits just increase their willingness to work. | ||
| And so that increases labor supply, which again boosts the economy. | ||
| Better economic growth means more revenue because it means more income that gets taxed. | ||
| Now, in President Trump's first term, GDP growth was 2.8% until the pandemic. | ||
| And of course, it's difficult to blame tax policy for the pandemic, but 2.8% GDP growth. | ||
| What we've got from the similar set of policies also works out to about 2.8% GDP growth over the course of a decade. | ||
| That alone brings in $4 trillion of additional revenue from better economic growth due to this full suite of economic policies, including the tax incentives and the one beautiful bill, but also huge amounts of deregulation, cutting red tapes that companies can invest and hire when they want instead of begging Washington for permission, spending years begging Washington. | ||
| And also the president's energy abundance policies that lower gas prices, put more money in consumers' pockets every month, and also create better ability to reshore manufacturing, better ability to build factories in manufacturing United States because energy goes into everything. | ||
| Let's go back. | ||
| I want to go back to the reshoring for a second. | ||
| We see every day another announcement of $500 million here, $50 billion there, a trillion dollars. | ||
| And I'm taking out the sovereign wealth funds. | ||
| I mean companies that are publicly reporting, that have made very specific announcements about capital equipment they're building, new plants they're building, how they're resharing. | ||
| I think in Kentucky over the weekend, I think it was GE bringing washing machines back or refrigerators. | ||
| But every day it seems like you're having another announcement. | ||
| Is that all been factored in, the growth that's going to come from just either lower energy, deregulation, tariffs, whatever, that ends up being companies just want to be inside in the golden door and not have to deal with the tariffs? | ||
| Is that how you get to the 2.8%? | ||
| Or could that be potential even more upside? | ||
| Well, look, it's definitely part of it. | ||
| So we didn't go in and count every single deal as part of those numbers, but the present suite of policies aim to make America the best place on earth to do business so that anyone opening a factory, opening a new site, hiring workers is America is the obvious place to do it. | ||
| Not China, not somewhere else, America is the place to do business. | ||
| And all that does is boost the GDP growth, which helps bring in revenues. | ||
| And that comes from tax incentives that we were just discussing a moment ago. | ||
| You need tax incentives to create an environment in which people want to invest here. | ||
| It comes from cutting red tape. | ||
| It comes from cutting regulations that deter business. | ||
| You know, you may have a situation in which somebody wants to build a factory and build something like, say, jet engines or something, but they can't do it because somebody finds a snail, right? | ||
| You know, we want to prevent that from happening so that people can actually build the factories to increase production capacity here as opposed to elsewhere. | ||
| And it comes from energy abundance. | ||
| It comes from all those things. | ||
| And that boosts the economy. | ||
| That boosts growth. | ||
| That boosts revenues. | ||
| But we're not getting revenues just from better growth alone. | ||
| There's an additional $1.5 trillion of discretionary reductions in waste, fraud, and abuse that the government will be doing, the administration will be doing, that the Office of Management and Budget made public a few weeks ago. | ||
| And there's an additional $3 trillion of revenue from tariffs. | ||
| The idea of taxing foreigners to cut taxes on Americans seems like a no-brainer to me. | ||
| I can't believe it took this long for us to figure it out, but that's what President Trump's policy is, and he knows it's the right policy. | ||
| And then finally, because we're borrowing all this less stuff from the deficit reduction from growth, from tariffs, from deregulation, from cuts to waste-friendly abuse, that means you've got less interest to pay too. | ||
| And that's an additional $1.5 trillion of lower interest expenses. | ||
| So you add all this up, it comes to about $8.50 to $11 trillion of deficit reduction relative to where things would be if we had the big tax hike as in the CBO baseline. | ||
| So this is what I want to, by the way, let's go back to the tariffs for a second. | ||
| I have been calculating $400 billion a year off of numbers. | ||
| You're saying even, hey, you'll even take a cut that $300 billion a year over 10 years, $3 trillion, additionally tariffs, and it looks like you're going to blow through that number in the first year, right? | ||
| Just to make, just to show people, hey, they're not throwing up pie-in-the-sky numbers. | ||
| They're already going to hit this number or beyond in the first fiscal year, correct? | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| There's tens of trillions of dollars of revenue coming in from tariffs every month already. | ||
| And that number is only going to go higher as month-to-month volatility smooths out and we settle into the new reality of tariffs. | ||
| But yeah, we've got about $3 trillion over 10 years, or as you point out, about $300 billion per year. | ||
| But of course, you know, rates could change. | ||
| We're coming up on this July 9th deadline. | ||
| And there's a lot of countries that are, I think, doing a really good job of negotiating and doing a really good job making the concessions they need for the president to keep their tariff rates relatively low. | ||
| But there are other countries that are proving to be a bit intransigent and not really moving forward. | ||
| And for those countries, it wouldn't be surprising to me if tariff rates snapped back up. | ||
| So there's upside risk for sure to the tariff revenue number I gave you before. | ||
| I just want to make sure everybody knows, so the CBO, if you take the CBO score, which is not dynamic, but more than that, it also doesn't add everything up you're going. | ||
| They're at a negative $3 trillion. | ||
| You're actually saying the reverse. | ||
| You're kind of a positive $8.50 to $11 in deficit reduction. | ||
| So the spread is anywhere from $10 to $11 to $14 trillion. | ||
| I mean, there's a big spread here how the two institutions look at it, right? | ||
| CBO, which has a history of miscalculation, and you guys, which are putting this together, say, hey, here's a real snapshot of what this is going to look like given the convergence of all our policies, correct? | ||
| It's yes, but not exactly right. | ||
| So I gave the $8.50 to $11 trillion relative to the tax-hike baseline. | ||
| But the bill itself in the CBO scoring costs about $3.5 trillion. | ||
| So the spread is $3.5. | ||
| You would subtract $12 from the 8.5 to 11 numbers that I gave you. | ||
| And so therefore the spread of the difference between us and CBO is going to be about 5 to 8, 3.5 or something. | ||
| So the spread is less wide. | ||
| But other than that, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But it's a big, but it's a significant spread. | ||
| One group's going to be right here and one group's going to be wrong. | ||
| That's, you can't deny. | ||
| I mean, you guys add everything up, which is logical. | ||
| These are all the activities. | ||
| These are all the things you're working on that are coming. | ||
| They're real. | ||
| They're happening right now. | ||
| CBO kind of has a very static way they look at this, correct? | ||
| They do. | ||
| And let me just give an example to make it really obvious to everyone listening, which is that if there's, so there's an incentive in this bill, the full expensing on new factories. | ||
| So if I build a new factory, it's completely tax deductible immediately, right? | ||
| So that's a very, very powerful and profound tax incentive from the government to get me to build a new factory, right? | ||
| Obviously, there's going to be more new factories as a result of that, right? | ||
| As the government gives away money to people to build factories, you will get more factories. | ||
| CBO, you know, and those more factories means more investment, more economic activity, more income. | ||
| More income means more tax revenue, right? | ||
| CBO doesn't account for those increased incomes and those increased tax revenue that come from the fact that people are building more factories than they would without this incentive. | ||
| And by the way, you know? | ||
| Yeah, go ahead. | ||
| A truck record. | ||
| No, I was going to say that. | ||
| President Trump's first term. | ||
| I think. | ||
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| a great track record on this. | ||
| Revenues as a share of the economy before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, before the 2017 tax cut that everyone said was going to blow such a big hole in the deficit, right? | ||
| Such a big hole in the national budget. | ||
| 17.1% of GDP was revenues before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. | ||
| Still, 17.1% of GDP. | ||
| So there is no long-term hull as a result of the tax cuts of 2017. | ||
| And corporate tax revenue went from 1.6% of GDP to 1.8% of GDP. | ||
| So we cut corporate tax rates, and yet corporate revenue grew as a share of the economy. | ||
| So we've got a fantastic track record on this. | ||
| Now, in the fourth quarter, I think, of 2019, actually we got to 3.3%. | ||
| He averaged 2.8, but got to 3.3. | ||
| Dr. Marin, where can people go? | ||
| Myron, where can people go to find out more about this? | ||
| Your social media, you have a website. | ||
| I want people to get fully up to speed on what reality is. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So we've got the research paper on our website as well as a chartbook about the deficit. | ||
| It's the Council of Economic Advisors page on the White House website. | ||
| You can just search on the internet for White House CEA. | ||
| I've also got a, you know, we've got a Twitter handle, sorry, an X handle at CEA47. | ||
| I'm also at Steve Myron. | ||
| But yeah, you'll be hearing more from us. | ||
| Doctor, yes, go on offense. | ||
| You guys have a great story to tell. | ||
| Let's tell it. | ||
| We're here at the war room to be your platform. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| Absolutely love it. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us today. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| President Trump's got some pretty smart guys working for him. | ||
| Myron's one of them. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to be back talking about the big, beautiful bill that's engulfing Washington right now. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| Okay, in breaking news, the Senate just failed to remove illegal aliens from Medicaid programs because the parliamentarian changed the vote requirement to 60 votes from 51. | ||
| She said it basically couldn't go into a straight reconciliation. | ||
| You're seeing this happen a lot on various things. | ||
| I think Planned Parenthood, the defunding is only for a year, not for 10 years. | ||
| Caroline Wren, I thank you for taking time. | ||
| I know you had other things planned, but for jumping in here. | ||
| Just on the Votarama, it's still going on, but there, you know, you've got guys like Tony Perk. | ||
| And I'm not talking about Elon Musk. | ||
| Elon Musk is just coming out to attack. | ||
| This is his vengeance on the president, right? | ||
| Once again, calling for a third party. | ||
| This is after he tried to slime back in there and say he was sorry and wanted to be the president's friend again. | ||
| Now he's calling for a third party, a new party. | ||
| He's just land blasting this bill with a blunder bust, right? | ||
| Not even looking at it in a sophisticated manner. | ||
| And don't get me wrong, I have big issues with the lots in this bill. | ||
| But then you have things like the parliament, you got Tony Perkins and others saying, hey, look, we've been working on this. | ||
| We think it'd get through the House, but you just can't do a one-year cut on Planned Parenthood. | ||
| The whole thing's got to go. | ||
| That's what we voted for. | ||
| And now you see kind of just out of nowhere, the parliamentarian makes a decision. | ||
| It can't go for the 51, you know, just the majority, the majority vote. | ||
| It has to get to 60, which is really break a filibuster, which you're never going to do on the illegal aliens Medicaid. | ||
| And that throws the whole thing off because that's one of the biggest cuts for Medicaid. | ||
| And that's one that virtually all the Republicans back. | ||
| So can you give us a sense in the Senate first? | ||
| Where do you think this thing stands? | ||
| I understand there's deal making going on and Thune's got to, look, I don't, you know, Thune's got a very tough job trying to wrangle all these folks. | ||
| Give us your sense on the Senate side of where we stand. | ||
| Isn't it incredible how they could pass Obamacare through reconciliation? | ||
| But for some reason, we cannot roll back any of the provisions that made into Obamacare through reconciliation. | ||
| The parliamentarian strikes it out. | ||
| Like, that's why people are frustrated with this parliamentarian is because it is just so duplicative what she's doing. | ||
| And so it's extremely frustrating to watch. | ||
| There's no way the House is going to vote on a bill that includes funding illegal aliens healthcare. | ||
| I'm telling you that right now. | ||
| And so that is going to definitely be something that's going to stall this Senate bill a little bit. | ||
| They do have some more time. | ||
| They were, I think, hoping to have the final passage today, but due to some members being on code els and different things on the House side, I think there's no way really to vote on this on the House side until Wednesday. | ||
| But it's certainly an imperfect bill. | ||
| In fact, the House Freedom Caucus just came out and said that the Senate version adds $651 billion to the deficit. | ||
| Y'all promised us it wouldn't add anything to the deficit, and that was before special interest costs, which nearly doubled that total. | ||
| So, you know, I've talked a lot with Congressman Andy Harris, the head of the Freedom Caucus, who's been incredible. | ||
| But the Senate bill that they're currently voting on right now is not going to be acceptable for the House. | ||
| There's no possible way to get it through. | ||
| So they will have to make changes once it goes back over to the House side. | ||
| But more importantly, I mean, I'm hoping that this bill gets done and over quickly, quite frankly, because, you know, having campaigned as hard as we did, especially with you, Steve, as populist, we have to realize that we've spent the past few months promoting a new war in the Middle East and talking about cutting Medicaid. | ||
| And these are not successful things where these are not things that I know the MAGA base wants us to be talking about or focused on. | ||
| In fact, the only successful bill I've seen get through was some sort of crypto bill, another like carve out for the tech industry here. | ||
| So I hope that the House will make the changes and we can get this done. | ||
| Because if I were the Democrats, there is a lot of messaging I could do against us right now. | ||
| Well, but if the bill passes in its form, I mean, you saw what happened. | ||
| And people should take New York City. | ||
| And I'm not talking about his radical solutions, but the ground game he put together and how he got to low-information voters, you've got to take that into consideration when you do this. | ||
| I mean, there's some terrible messaging here. | ||
| And look, I've been an advocate from day one, and the reason I don't like this bill, although I support the President trying to get it done, is it should raise taxes on the upper bracket. | ||
| That's one of the ways that we can get the math to work better. | ||
| And of course, the Republican Party, parts of that are just absolutely opposed to that. | ||
| So when you say pass it, I mean, it has to have a balance between, like, for instance, in the old days, cutting Medicaid with the Meat Acts, we can't do it anymore for the simple reason that so many jobs have been shifted overseas, so few people have medical insurance, so few companies are paying for it or even paying decent salaries that there's a lot of MAGA on Medicaid. | ||
| At the same time, you've got to take illegal aliens off 100%. | ||
| And the able-bodied have to work. | ||
| And I don't think, as it's in there, a bed check once every six months is enough. | ||
| I think it's got to be much more frequently that. | ||
| And if they can't make the bed check, they got to, you know, there's not a problem with working people, able-bodied people having, you know, having Medicaid. | ||
| But if you're, you know, you don't have a job, you're not searching for a job, you're not doing community work, you're not going to college, you know, you got to check that frequently. | ||
| If they're not going to do that, they got to drop off the rolls. | ||
| Those types of things I think have to be in there, right? | ||
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You have to take care of the rural hospitals, I believe. | |
| Although Tom Tillis also has, some of the Tillis guys and Rand Paul also have make sense in some of their saying. | ||
| So this thing, I think, needs to be refined more. | ||
| And we have to get the messaging right on this or we're going to get crushed on this thing. | ||
| I mean, I see it right now. | ||
| And there's too many things slid in here or they're trying to slide in here for the tech industry. | ||
| One is the artificial intelligence, right? | ||
| The 10-year moratorium about any state having any say-so at all. | ||
| And, you know, the issues have cropped up on artificial intelligence all the time. | ||
| Also, the fact that the bottom line is it takes you 10 times more regulation to open up a nail salon in Washington, D.C. than any regulation on artificial intelligence right now. | ||
| And essentially, they just want to take all regulation off it and have another big win for tech, ma'am. | ||
| Yeah, when I say just pass, I mean the Senate side is, I think, an unacceptable bill. | ||
| But in the House, they can go back to a lot of the House provisions, which included the things that you're talking about right now. | ||
| And so that's what I'm hoping is when it gets kicked back over to the House side, then the House can actually let the House Freedom Caucus take the lead on these things and go back to fixing those. | ||
| The AI thing that you just mentioned is horrible. | ||
| But back to what you're talking about in New York City, Mondami. | ||
| I know you and I have been talking a lot about this. | ||
| Now, things that Mondami has said in the past are absolutely insane. | ||
| I have no doubt that the man is a Marxist, socialist, nutjob, but he did not campaign over the last four months as that. | ||
| He campaigned essentially as Steve Bannon. | ||
| And there's a reason why he resonated the way he did. | ||
| And if the Democrats campaign like this, they will crush us in the midterms. | ||
| If the Democrats stick to the talking points of the cost of living is too high and Americans need a raise, the American healthcare system is broken and insurance companies are corrupt and evil, no new wars, and protect Social Security and Medicaid. | ||
| Those four things are the people. | ||
| That is what people care about back at home. | ||
| Anyone that I talk to outside of Washington, D.C., those are the talking points that they want to hear. | ||
| And that's really what Mom Dani was talking about on the campaign trail. | ||
| Now, the places where I differ with him massively are regarding immigration. | ||
| He's so far out there. | ||
| And also, you know, when we're talking about Israel, you know, he is also way too far out there on that. | ||
| But on the campaign trail, when you're asked in a debate, where would you travel first? | ||
| And every candidate says Israel. | ||
| And he says, I wouldn't travel anywhere. | ||
| I'm running for mayor of New York. | ||
| So I'm going to be right here in New York City. | ||
| That resonates with folks. | ||
| So, you know, the talking points that he had over the last four campaigns were actually, they were extraordinarily effective and they were smart. | ||
| And I'm curious to see how the Democrats will follow there. | ||
| But they were talking about things that you've talked about, Steve, and that I did on this show and what Republicans should be focused on. | ||
| Well, what he did is took a form of populism. | ||
| His radical ideas like the free transportation and the food stores, he tried to play down, he tried to take and steal as much of President Trump's platform as possible, understanding the Democrats have not put forward a legitimate populist left platform. | ||
| And this guy is a jihadist. | ||
| He's a neo-Marxist. | ||
| It's the Red-Green Alliance. | ||
| You can see what's happening in New York City. | ||
| But the sophisticated level that he ran, I mean, this is kind of Obama 2.0. | ||
| Because Obama was a total radical, right? | ||
| This guy's a beyond a radical. | ||
| He's beyond Obama. | ||
| But the way that they're running, they understand that populism and populist policies are the solution. | ||
| That's why the House version, I mean, this is going to be a big fight. | ||
| I don't see this right now, and maybe I'm wrong. | ||
| I don't see this on the president's desk on 4th of July for a signature unless the House gets back here quickly and they're able to hammer some of this out with the Senate, ma'am. | ||
| You know, I think that deadline is looking more and more unlikely as well. | ||
| And so, which I have no problem. | ||
| If they pass that deadline, you know, fine. | ||
| I just want this bill fixed and made in the most America-first model of what it is. | ||
| This is supposed to be President Trump's agenda in this bill. | ||
| And so I am really hoping that the House can get in there and truly fix it. | ||
| And then I hope that the House and the Senate and then President Trump's team focus on the campaign promises that they made to Americans. | ||
| And that is to focus on lowering the cost of living in this country, which he really has. | ||
| He's been doing, I mean, the price of gas has gone down. | ||
| Inflation is going down. | ||
| They've got to cut rates. | ||
| But these are all things that we need to be talking about and not just constantly talking about these confusing languages in the bill and Iran and Israel. | ||
| Now Netanyahu is coming next week. | ||
| That's a whole nother lost week of messaging talking about Netanyahu's visit. | ||
| Talk about America. | ||
| Talk about the problems that Americans are having that they want fixed, that President Trump promised he would fix, and which he actually is. | ||
| But we are getting distracted looking at these, you know, just constant overseas problems. | ||
| And right now we need to focus on the wins that President Trump can deliver and has delivered. | ||
| And not just that, the Netanyahu, the New York, people understand this. | ||
| I spent four days up there looking at the data. | ||
| It was a referendum on Netanyahu. | ||
| You better understand this because bringing Netanyahu to the White House next week is horrible, horrible, particularly if we're in the middle of this, horrible messaging, because they still are bound and determined to do regime change. | ||
| The American people have zero interest in this. | ||
| They just want to, hey, we got it done, took out the nuclear program. | ||
| President Trump ended the 12-day war with a catastrophic strike. | ||
| Game over. | ||
| Let's take the win and move on. | ||
| Caroline, where do people get you on social media? | ||
| People want to follow you, particularly as this works up in the Senate and you're hearing a lot of guys in the House, a lot of people, members of the House starting to say, hey, this is going to be tough to swallow in the House. | ||
| So it's going to be a big fight this week. | ||
| Where do folks go, ma'am? | ||
| It is at Caroline Wren on Twitter, Getter, and Truth Social. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Philip Patrick, even as we speak, is heading to LAX, the airport. | ||
| He's going to be heading to Brazil for the BRICS nations. | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| They just passed. | ||
| So, for instance, the parliamentarian is saying now you can't do the illegal aliens, yet we just did pass, I think they blocked funding Planned Parenthood. | ||
| Now, I'm not sure if that's for the whole 10 years of the one year. | ||
| I think it's just for the one year. | ||
| The U.S. Senate has just blocked a measure that required the Big Beautiful bill to fund Planned Parenthood by a 49-51 vote. | ||
| That's positive today. | ||
| Also, you should note, and this is one of the reasons we're not going to the floor all the time. | ||
| Normally we have these voter ramas. | ||
| It's one after the other, after the other. | ||
| You know, they go all night and they go for a couple of days maybe, and it's completely jammed with amendments, debate on the amendments. | ||
| This is going a little, you know, catch-as-catch-can, a little Sarah Ferris. | ||
| I want to report that there is zero rush by the Senate to move along with these amendments. | ||
| The last amendment vote for Murray was open for 45-plus minutes. | ||
| It just failed. | ||
| This is not your average voter rama, usually overnight and much, much faster. | ||
| I think the reason is that they're still debating things that are going into this bill. | ||
| Now, my understanding is that the reporting this morning on the show about Marsha Blackburn actually working on some compromise with Ted Cruz turns out it was essentially wrong. | ||
| Marsha Blackburn is down and she's kind of dug in. | ||
| Particularly, the parliamentarian is not going to say that they can get any compromise language he thinks protects children and content creators on the bill on artificial intelligence. | ||
| And right now, my understanding is the parliamentarian just came back and said they can't make those changes. | ||
| And so as it stands right now, and we are a big advocate of calling your congressman, calling your senator and saying, hey, there should be no compromise in this. | ||
| It should be the states, you know, that they should not block the states for 10 years. | ||
| This moratorium against the states for 10 years is absolutely outrageous. | ||
| And my concern is not a lot of these people, and Mike Davis and others are putting up this issue about content creators and the ability to make sure that they can't take all of your information, like President Trump's book, Art of the Deal, and take it and use it for machine learning and make people smarter and not have to pay for it or not have to compensate for it. | ||
| So they're just taking all this as free content. | ||
| Certainly, I have an issue with that. | ||
| As a content creator, that's the type of thing to get worked out. | ||
| My bigger problem is that the states may be our bulwark here about what's going on with artificial intelligence. | ||
| Like I said, you've got more regulations on getting a nail salon set up or a hairbraiding salon set up than you have on artificial intelligence right now. | ||
| And this is another bill passed by big tech. | ||
| You heard Caroline Wren, the only thing I think has really been passed of any substance was this Genius Act on cryptocurrency that was really pushed by the tech bros. | ||
| And you see right now you've got a tech bro. | ||
| You've got Joe Allen by Bo. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| You've got the tech bros that are pushing here. | ||
| You see they're hiding behind Elon Musk where they're ripping on President Trump right now, calling for a new third party. | ||
| I don't think it behooves us in the efforts we're trying to do here to try to get this all put to bed. | ||
| And look, nobody's in love with this bill, the entire thing. | ||
| It's got issues to it. | ||
| It's also got great benefits. | ||
| You heard Dr. Stephen Myron at the very top with the economic growth that could come out of this. | ||
| And that's the bet that's being made, a supply side. | ||
| Joe Allen joins us. | ||
| And Joe Allen, I think we're going to try to get some other people as the show goes on. | ||
| But right now, I did have a chance to talk to Senator Blackburn. | ||
| She's pretty dug in that she's not enthusiastic about any compromise on this unless it's the only possible way out. | ||
| But right now, she says the parliamentarian, she doesn't think he's going to prove anything that would be on any compromise, so there's not going to be a compromise. | ||
| Do you have any update on that, sir? | ||
| No, Steve, other than I have heard from a reliable source that Blackburn is planning to stand up to this, that she is not planning on compromising. | ||
| I think that her constituents should give her all the support that she needs and make sure that she understands that they do not want this federal preemption. | ||
| They do not want to have the federal government be the sole bulwark against the various downsides of AI. | ||
| I mean, you know, we've covered this for four years. | ||
| The war room audience understands that everything from AI addiction with kids becoming kind of brain dead due to reliance on it, all the way out to the dangers of AI-powered weapon systems and even having potentially some sort of artificial general or super intelligence that would just be as civilization-shattering transformation. | ||
| You want to have, at the very least, whether it's the most mundane algorithm or some dreamt of godlike AI, you want to Have the legal systems in place to hold these companies liable to actually insist on transparency so that the systems are being tested consistently, | ||
| so that we know that if you hand a child a laptop and say, This is your teacher, this is where you will learn about reality, that the child is not going to be fed hallucinations constantly and have their mind warped all the way out to the medical industry, | ||
| where right now they're talking about a kind of new medical ethics where one is considered to be negligent, one is considered to be basically malpractice as a doctor for not consulting AI as some sort of justification for any diagnosis, any sort of treatment. | ||
| So, yes, Marcia Blackburn 100% needs to stand up. | ||
| She's got Josh Hawley on her side. | ||
| She has Rand Paul on her side. | ||
| And of course, she has most of America on her side. | ||
| The latest poll from the Institute for Family Studies conducted with YouGov shows that Trump voters, just isolating, selecting for Trump voters, that 55% do not want an AI moratorium. | ||
| 55%, I'm sorry, 55% want their states to be empowered to make their own decisions and conduct themselves into the future as they choose. | ||
| So, yeah, Steve, I think that Marcia Blackburn, if she has the spine to do this, she's going to come out a winner at the end. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know why Ted Cruz, and this is another thing that concerns me about Texas. | ||
| It's a great state of Texas why Ted Cruz is doing the bidding of the tech bros here. | ||
| Hang on for a second. | ||
| We got Mark Beale joins us. | ||
| Joe, stay right there because I want to ask you about the conference you went to and what the sense of the folks at the conference was. | ||
| Mark Beale, can you help us on this? | ||
| People are pretty worked up about looking at keeping the states and any kind of involvement in the states at all and any type of oversight or regulations on AI. | ||
| This is getting to be a very big deal in the Senate right now. | ||
| And they're talking about compromise, but we now know that some people are saying, no, we don't want to compromise. | ||
| We want, you know, no, we're not taking 10 years. | ||
| We're not taking five years. | ||
| We want no years. | ||
| We want zero. | ||
| Can you give us an update? | ||
| Yeah, it's a pretty dynamic situation now, Steve. | ||
| It's funny that this one little line in the big beautiful bill has attracted so much attention. | ||
| And I think it's right that it is attracting this much attention. | ||
| You know, all the industry leaders, people are saying this is going to be one of the most transformative technologies in human history. | ||
| And it's probably worth a national dialogue on how we need to be thinking about it. | ||
| And the idea that we're going to put this provision in, the big beautiful bill, and slow down the president's agenda and give kind of the tech industry a freebie seems a little bit kind of dissonant to me, at least, when it comes to what good policy should look like. | ||
| Well, this is why it was done. | ||
| This bill's 900 pages long. | ||
| You see the fights, and right now, Twitter's blowing up with these votes and where Republicans are coming down on these votes right now. | ||
| And it looks, I think Shakir Kapoor over at Sahil Kapoor over at CNN is saying, hey, the whole thing looks far from a done deal. | ||
| And we already know this is not moving at the kind of pace you normally have voter Ramas. | ||
| The reason is Thunes having to put together almost an amendment by amendment, a different coalition. | ||
| How did this, and the parliamentarian, I think, is sitting there going, this thing should have never been in here in the first place. | ||
| This is a pure policy. | ||
| You know, this is a pure policy change and a massive policy change, and it shouldn't be in a budget reconciliation, right? | ||
| That's why she's coming back and, you know, enforcing kind of what the rules are for these reconciliations. | ||
| But this shows you that people like Ted Cruz and those that are doing the bidding of the oligarchs are going to slip a one page in with one paragraph, two paragraphs that could change American life, sir. | ||
| You know, it would be one thing if the president of the United States came out and said, personally, this is a big, important priority for me, but we didn't even see that AI policy appear once in his statement of administration policy. | ||
| And so it's not clear to me that the president himself is really focused on this. | ||
| I think he's got a big agenda in the big, beautiful bill. | ||
| And at this point, we're slowing down the implementation of what the American people elected the president to do over this kind of very bespoke issue. | ||
| And I think Joe or someone else mentioned some of the polling. | ||
| And the American people don't want to see a freebie to the industry just to let it do whatever it wants. | ||
| And it's not, you know, I saw Secretary Luttnick today tweeted that it's concerns about just California and the liberal agenda. | ||
| But as you pointed out, it's Texas, it's Utah, Georgia. | ||
| There are plenty of Tennessee, plenty of good conservative states out there trying to get their arms around this. | ||
| And it's a bit of a head scratcher why we're trying to undo all that hard work. | ||
| Well, let me ask you, I think people in briefing the president, the president understands that we're in a, part of this because of DeepSeek, we are in a race with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| I think his, you know, he comes down and says, hey, I want us to be a leader in artificial intelligence. | ||
| I don't want us to fall behind the Chinese. | ||
| The artificial intelligence industry, in particular, the four guys that are at the lead of it, including Elon Musk and one, they're using that as kind of we've had this button in moment. | ||
| We can't have any regulations at all. | ||
| It's a matter of life and death to do this. | ||
| Do you agree with that or do you think that's oversell? | ||
| I think it's all about the relative velocity of the United States and China. | ||
| You know, I think the tech industry has been selling to the Chinese all the capabilities they've needed to be successful and to catch up to us over the last three to five years. | ||
| We've been hemorrhaging our capabilities to the Chinese. | ||
| And so the idea that some folks in industry want to say, oh, we're scared about China, and at the other end, turn around and then sell them our most sophisticated capabilities, there's some logical questions that we might have in that. | ||
| So I do, I am, I am appreciate the concern that a patchwork regulatory regime might impact our industry and may slow us down. | ||
| And That's why I think it's really urgent that the Congress get itself together and start to focus on this. | ||
| And then also sort of slow down the flow of our stuff over to the Chinese and so that their military is not weaponizing American tech against us. | ||
| I think both those two things would happen. | ||
| This would help increase the lead between the United States and China in a helpful way that also allows us to think more deeply about the impact of this and powerful technology on the American people. | ||
| Can you hang on for a second, Mark? | ||
| And I'm going to get Joe Allen back in here in a moment. | ||
| We're going to take a break. | ||
| We've got Jackie Torboroff and Dave Ramaswamy. | ||
| What happened in New York, I think particularly below the surface, has tremendous lessons to the MAGA movement and to where this country's heading because it's quite dangerous. | ||
| Also, Dave Ramaswamy is going to join us to talk about the education industrial complex. | ||
| That complex is the taproot of what happened in New York City. | ||
| And you're going to be pretty shocked at how the recruiting was done, how tax dollars were paid for it, what has really happened to these school systems, and what it's visited upon you. | ||
| The situation in New York is, it ain't DEF CON 1, but it ought to be DEF CON 2.5. | ||
| It's that serious. | ||
| So Jackie's going to join us, Dave Ramaswamy. | ||
| We're also going to get Philip Patrick. | ||
| Philip Patrick and the team are heading to Brazil today. | ||
| They're going to get there to get ready for the conference. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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| That gap's got to be closed when they do it as Dr. Marin talked about it. | ||
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| Joe Allen. | ||
| Joe, you went to a conference this weekend. | ||
| I know I'm going to get you up on Skype one day to get a better view, but just give us a quick overview. | ||
| How I couldn't make it out there because I was in New York City trying to figure out how not to have a radical take over the mayorship, and that's going to be quite difficult. | ||
| But tell us about the conference. | ||
| Well, Steve, first and foremost, I got to say that I was at two conferences back to back between Bozeman, Montana, and somewhere in the wilds of Wyoming. | ||
| And both of them, they insist that you come out and at least say hi, but hopefully come out and share your wisdom on stage. | ||
| So the first was NEFCON with Timothy Alberino. | ||
| And I've got to say, you know, I spoke at his birthright conference two years before. | ||
| Of course, that audience is going to be much more primed towards ideas of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, artificial superintelligence. | ||
| But just in the last two years, you can see this dramatic change because people are now interacting with AI. | ||
| Their jobs are insisting that they use it. | ||
| Their schools are starting to roll it out as teaching tools. | ||
| It's becoming just the norm. | ||
| And of course, you're seeing it in the military. | ||
| You're seeing it being pushed into the government with Palantir and Doge. | ||
| So the awareness is just so much keener now than it was two years ago. | ||
| And, you know, statistically, if you look at the polls, if you look at the surveys, Americans, by and large, don't want to incorporate AI into their lives. | ||
| They don't want to have AI as some sort of tool that they're forced to use all the time in their jobs. | ||
| So, you know, when it gets to the legality of it, the ability of states to regulate it or the federal government incorporating it, most Americans are not comfortable with this. | ||
| And I hope that politicians in Congress and in the administration are starting to see that this is not something that is for the people. | ||
| This is something that is being pushed by a very, very tiny minority of billionaires and their technologists and the smaller camp of transhumanists. | ||
| The second thing I just want to say, though, with Wyoming, I can't really talk about who was here, but I will say that a number of people who are deeply involved in the tech industry and also writers, a lot of artists, the same sort of sentiment, even among technologists, this extreme discomfort at the very least that you have a small handful of tech oligarchs determining all this. | ||
| Nobody wants it. | ||
| And that's really the point. | ||
| Americans don't want it. | ||
| The tech companies do. | ||
| The politicians really need to reflect our interests, not theirs. | ||
| Joe, how do people get to you? | ||
| We'll get you back up when you get to a location in the next couple of days. | ||
| Where do people go in the interim, sir? | ||
| At J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z on social media and joebot.xyz substack. | ||
| Thank you very much, Steve. | ||
| I will talk to you soon. | ||
| Thank you, and I'm glad you represented us well at the conference. | ||
| It's really proud of you. | ||
| Mark Beale, this is one we should, this, what they try to slip in on one page, we should have a national debate over, correct? | ||
| What would you recommend that the audience do right now in order to make sure their voice is heard about this AI moratorium? | ||
| The state's got to take a tenure, a decade, and not do anything, no regulations on artificial intelligence. | ||
| What are your thoughts? | ||
| This is the most important issue of our time, and the American people have to have a vote, have to have a say. | ||
| You know, some of the arguments that they're making right now sound awfully like the arguments they use with NAFTA. | ||
| And, you know, that disenfranchised a lot of people. | ||
| And the most important thing that we need to do now is get active, get on the phone, call your congressman, call your senator, let them know that you care about this issue and you care about it deeply. | ||
| And I think that's the way that we're going to move the needle. | ||
| We need a grassroots uprising to start engaging and picking up the phone and making sure these politicians understand that the people have an interest and have a say and they want their voices heard. | ||
| Mark, you're leading an organization now. | ||
| You dedicate yourself to this effort. | ||
| Where do people go, sir? | ||
| Our organization is called the AI Policy Network, and you can find us online at aitheaipn.org. | ||
| Brother, thank you, and thank you for jumping on here this afternoon. | ||
| We're going to get you. | ||
| This one's a dogfight. | ||
| It's going to go through the night and probably tomorrow. | ||
| So we'll be hunting you down in the morning, sir. | ||
| Get you on the street. | ||
| All right, Steve. | ||
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| Mark Beale. | ||
| Do I have Lindell? | ||
| I've got the Mike Lindell. | ||
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| They love the fact that you're back and they love the fact that you live to fight another day, sir. | ||
| Well, thank you, Steven. | ||
| Thank you, War Room Posse. | ||
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