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July 4, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 4608: WarRoom July 4th Special Cont.
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patrick k odonnel
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steve bannon
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diane taraz
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joe meacham
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unidentified
Very well.
the congress will now vote on virginia's resolution on independence Thank you for coming, Caesar.
god bless you sir The secretary will call the roll.
And I'd remind you, gentlemen, that a single nay vote will defeat the motion.
Mr. Thompson?
New Hampshire.
New Hampshire says yea.
New Hampshire says yay.
Massachusetts.
Massachusetts says yay.
Massachusetts says yay.
Rhode Island.
Rhode Island says yay.
Rhode Island says yay.
Connecticut.
Connecticut says yay.
Connecticut says yay.
New York.
The Secretary, New York abstains.
Curtis May.
New York abstains.
New Jersey.
New Jersey says yay.
New Jersey says yay.
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Secretary, Pennsylvania is not ready.
Please come back to us later.
Pennsylvania passes.
Continue.
Just a moment.
Delaware.
Delaware.
By majority vote.
I say yay.
Delaware says yay.
Maryland.
Maryland says yay.
Maryland says yay.
Virginia.
Virginia says yay.
Virginia says yay.
North Carolina.
North Carolina yields to South Carolina.
South Carolina?
Well, Mr. Adams.
Well, Mr. Rutledge.
Mr. Adams.
you must believe that I will do what I promised to do What is it you want, Rutledge?
Remove the offending passage from your declaration.
If we did that, we would be guilty of what we ourselves are rebelling against.
Nevertheless, remove it, or South Carolina will bury now and forever your dream of independence.
john i beg you consider what you're doing Mark me, Franklin.
If we give in on this issue, posterity will never forgive us.
That's probably true, but we won't hear a thing.
We'll be long gone.
Besides, what will posterity think we were?
Demigods?
We're men, no more, no less, trying to get a nation started against greater odds than a more generous god would have allowed.
First things first, John.
Independence, America.
If we don't secure that, what difference will the rest make?
Jefferson, say something.
What else is there to do?
Well, man, you're the one that wrote it.
I wrote all of it.
Mr. Adams.
There.
There it is, Rudland.
You have your slavery.
Little good may it do you now, fool.
Damn you.
Mr. President, the fair colony of South Carolina says yay.
South Carolina says yay.
North Carolina says yay.
North Carolina says yay.
Georgia.
Georgia says yay.
Georgia says yay.
Pennsylvania, second call.
Mr. President, Pennsylvania regrets all of the inconvenience that such distinguished men as Adams, Franklin, and Jefferson were put to just now.
They might have kept their document intact for all the difference it will make.
Mr. President, Pennsylvania says I ask the delegation be polled.
Dr. Franklin, don't be absurd.
A poll, Mr. President, is a proper request.
Yes, it is.
Call the delegation, Mr. Thompson.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
Yea.
Mr. John Dickinson?
Nay.
Mr. James Wilson.
George Wilson?
There it is, Mr. Wilson.
It's all up to you now.
The whole question of American independence rests squarely on your shoulders.
An entirely new nation, ready to be born or to die at birth, all on your say-so.
Which will it be, Mr. Wilson?
Every map maker in the world is waiting for your decision.
Come now, James.
Nothing has changed.
We mustn't let Dr. Franklin create one of his confusions.
The question is clear.
Most questions are clear in what someone else has to decide.
It would be a pity for a man who's handed down hundreds of wise decisions from the bench to be remembered only for the one unwise decision he made in Congress.
James, you're keeping everybody waiting.
The secretary has called for your vote.
Please, don't push me, John.
I know what you want me to do.
But Mr. Adams is correct about one thing.
I'm the one who'll be remembered for it.
what do you mean I'm different from you, John.
I'm different from most of the men here.
I don't want to be remembered.
I just don't want the responsibility.
Yes, well, whether you want it or not, James, there's no way of avoiding it.
Not necessarily, John.
If I go with them, I'll just be one among dozens.
No one will ever remember the name of James Wilson.
But if I vote with you, I'll be the man who prevented American independence.
I'm sorry, John.
I just didn't bargain for that.
And is that how new nations are formed?
By a non-entity trying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves.
Revolutions come into this world like bastard children, Mr. Dickinson.
Half improvised and half compromised.
Our side has provided the compromise.
Now Judge Wilson is supplying the rest.
James.
I'm sorry, John.
My vote is yay.
Mr. Secretary, Pennsylvania says yay.
The count being 12 to none, with one abstention, the resolution on independence is adopted.
It's done.
It's done.
Mr. Thompson, is the declaration ready to be signed?
It is.
Then I suggest we do so.
And the chair further proposes for our mutual security and protection that no man be allowed to sit in this Congress without attaching his name to it.
I'm sorry, Mr. President.
I cannot, in good conscience, sign such a document.
I will never stop hoping for our eventual reconciliation with England.
But because, in my own way, I regard America no less than does Mr. Adams.
i will join the army and fight in her defense even though i believe that fight to be hopeless Goodbye, gentlemen.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
gentlemen of the congress i say ye john dickinson From 1776, a dramatic recreation of the event itself.
Patrick K. O'Donnell is with me.
It is the 249th commemoration of the birth of this nation on 4 July, 1776.
Patrick K. O'Donnell, Dickinson there, volunteered, went to the Army.
How tough, brother, was this fight that they were about to get engaged in?
The storm clouds were there in Staten Island and New York Harbor, and they had basically a list of the signers of the Declaration they were going to round up.
How tough was this fight to get, sir?
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
One of my favorite accounts is from a rifleman named McCurtain, who's in an outhouse, as all of a sudden he looks up and he says all of London seemed afloat.
The mast of the Royal Navy suddenly shows up in New York Harbor, hundreds of ships.
And, you know, it's just this awe-inspiring sight where they're there to destroy the early United States.
And, you know, this is where they have the fight of their lives on their hand.
You know, right before the landing at Long Island, there's a portentous, ominous sort of beginning to, you know, where there's lightning everywhere.
Literally, it hits one of the Americans and it literally fries his sword and melts coins.
And, you know, the Royal Navy then begins landing at Gravesend Bay on August 22nd, 1776.
You know, the waters are emerald, green, and blue, but there's a massive invasion coming.
And they literally have, in some cases, landing craft-like barges that the front door opens and allows cannon to come out as well as men.
And this is the beginning of a massive invasion.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
No, it's absolutely incredible.
They sent an expeditionary force.
I also tell people, you saw that in that dramatic recreation.
By the way, that's from 1776.
It is a musical, but it's quite stunning kind of dramatic presentation of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and its promulgation.
It will be on Turner Classic Movies, TCM, tonight at 10.30 Eastern Daylight Time.
If you have not seen it, or particularly you haven't seen it with the kids, I strongly recommend it.
It's a quite brilliant presentation of what happened in a musical format.
And I've had the opportunity to see it live on Broadway a couple of times, and also just obviously a big fan of the film.
So make sure you see it tonight.
We always take clips of that on Independence Day.
And of course, If you haven't watched the mini-series or the series John Adams, I think that's now 15 years old or such.
It's absolutely stunning about the revolutionary generation, and it takes the life of really John Adams and Jefferson all the way through.
And it's amazing, just an absolute classic.
We're going to have some, we have out music here.
We always do our Revolutionary War music during our 4th of July special.
Very pleased to do this.
We love the, in fact, we'll put this up online.
Grace, if you push it out, get the music.
You can get John Adams, watch that.
You can see 1776 Tonight Free on Turning Classic Music.
You can get that on your cable.
Tons of great content out there about the Revolution and about the Revolutionary War.
I think Ken Burns, who I realized is some people's not their cup of tea, although even as a Southerner, I think the Civil War is an objective work of art.
His documentary series, he's coming out with a new one on the American Revolution.
I think they're going to tease it over the weekend, and I think it comes out in the fall.
Short Commercial Break, our finest combat historian who wrote two books on combat of the American Revolution, Patrick K. O'Donnell, joins us.
Short commercial break back in the war room on the 4th of July.
diane taraz ▲ ● ▼
Never be a zaza for free America.
Some future day shall crown us the masters of the main.
Our fleet shall speak in thunder to England, France, and Spain.
Nations o'er the ocean spread shall tremble and obey.
The prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America.
We are headed as a nation.
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We know where we've been.
joe meacham ▲ ● ▼
Well, we do know where we've been, and that can, I think, guide us, or at least give us some sense of what's ahead.
History is not a GPS.
You can't just type in coordinates and take a turn here and there, and you know where you're going to be.
But you do have a sense, I think, that the country has a deficit of trust, a rising distrust in democracy.
The question is, what do they think of when they say democracy?
What I think of is the rule of law, the Constitution, and that you can't be for the system, you can't have faith in the system only when you prevail.
And what I fear is that there is too many of us who are supporters of President Trump are inclined to defer to one man, one party, one interest,
to the exclusion of using something that was so vital to the American Revolution and which informed the document that we're commemorating tomorrow, the signing of the document, which is that reason is supposed to at least have a fighting chance with passion in the public arena.
And so what we're facing is a test of citizenship.
Are we willing to call balls and strikes as we see them, or are we going to only call them balls or strikes depending on who's pitching?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I know you can make an argument of why would we soil our commemoration of the birth of this nation with someone like John Mesham at MSNBC?
But I think it's very important to see the mindset of the elites in this country.
Right there.
Patrick Donald, come in.
It was the very unreason.
This is why you have to, and they don't teach it like this, and they don't teach it like this for a reason.
They don't teach that the war was not just inextricably linked.
The war was upon them.
They understood this.
It took a lot of time for that expeditionary force to get from, I think, Halifax up in Canada down.
They knew it was coming.
When this document was drafted, when this document was debated, when this document was then read and is final, when the document was signed, the revolutionary generation understood they were putting it all online because the British were already here and they weren't going to give it up.
And they knew they weren't going to give up.
Not just the British crown, but you had the monopolistic power of the British East India Company and other powerful economic forces, which they also don't teach.
It was here.
They landed on the 2nd of July.
This great fight for America, I think, started in mid-August.
And it was a rout at first, an absolute route as the British envisioned it would be.
They would put this thing down in the first 90 days and hold that up for the world to see.
You, part of the British Empire, you want to break off.
This is what's going to happen to you.
And they would have hung them all.
They would have hung them all.
And John Meacham was sitting there pontificating, oh, the reason, no.
As we know from history, only about a third of the people backed up that document.
One third, of which Dickinson was one of the best, but a third were hardcore Tories.
They were Englishmen.
This is what Dickinson kept arguing.
We're Englishmen.
What are we doing here?
The Tories, who a lot of it, not all of it, but a lot of it was the wealthy class, fought with the British.
They were tremendous, particularly down south.
Actually conscripted in and volunteered for the British Army to put down the rebellion.
One-third were in the middle.
That's always human nature.
This is what you have here in the United States.
You have MAGA, you have the hardest core opposition to MAGA, and you have a lot of people kind of in the middle scene in which way.
The buffoon, Elmo the MOOC, formerly known as Elon Musk, Elmo the MOOC, he's today in another smear, and this only a foreigner could do this.
Think about it.
He's got up on Twitter right now a poll about starting an America party, a non-American starting an America party.
No, brother, you're not an American.
You're a South African.
And if we take enough time and prove the facts of that, you should be deported because it's a crime of what you did among many.
But the audacity today with President Trump on a roll using democratic procedures, as messy as they are, and they're messy, and the compromises you have to make, because you have to make compromises, I know which many in the audience here don't like, including myself.
But hey, that's the way it is.
Let's push forward what we got.
And we'll get more later.
And President Trump dropped a bomb.
I'm not going to discuss it today.
I'll discuss it tomorrow about his friends on the radical right.
Thank you, President Trump, for acknowledging the war room and the war room posse.
Yes, we are your friends and colleagues, and we are the radical right.
If that means standing up for this country and the deportation and repelling the illegal alien invasion, then so be it.
It was unreason that won the revolution.
Reasonable men, reasonable people, people who are compromised and said, hey, we're part of the greatest empire on earth that they're building.
They're our kindred spirit.
They're our mother country.
Look at what they're doing in India.
They got all of North America.
You have Canada.
We're going to be the ground floor.
We're going to make so much Elon Musk.
We're going to be taking something, right?
We're going to be making money.
We're going to be the exalted.
Hell, if they have a parliament, we'll run it.
If they let us in commons, we'll be the delegation.
If not, we'll figure out something.
Reasonable men have said, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me.
Unreasonable men said, hey, screw you.
We're out.
We're going to fight.
And if, hey, if we lose and you hang us, big deal.
We'll spit in your eye before the gallows fall.
It's unreason, Meacham.
That's why we're free.
That's what MAGA is, and that's what you hate about it.
We're not reasonable.
We're not going to be reasonable.
We're going to fight for this country.
The same country that the revolutionary generation created has been passed down to us through every patriot's grave.
It'd be so easy.
This audience, the precinct strategy, all the work you've done, going door to door, texting congressmen, and all the times when he sees last week, you know, the no-cuts, the frustration, and I can't do it anymore, Steve.
I go to the precinct strategy.
I've got a bunch of rhinos there, and all they're doing is backstabbing us.
The easiest thing in the world, the reasonable thing to do, it just say, let's go play golf.
Let's go play tennis.
Let me get on a yacht.
Let's just go do something.
Let's hang with the kids.
Let's just go enjoy ourselves.
What it was, the Roman philosopher, just give them bread in circuses.
Was it juvenile said, just give them bread in circuses and they'll never rebel?
That's what the whole 20th century is.
That's where they're trying to lull you to sleep.
They're trying to lull you to sleep.
The easiest thing to do is stay asleep, to not awake.
You've awakened, and in that awakening, you have a responsibility that you will going to be weighed and measured by future generations.
But more important, God himself, divine providence himself, because this is a providential movement.
Trump's not particularly churchy.
He sees that.
He feels that.
You see it now.
Not for his aggrandizement.
Aggrandizement, the most reasonable thing in the world is when Trump had the election stolen and went back to Mar-Lago, when Murdoch's trying to make him a non-person.
And McConnell, all these guys are going to impeach him and be rid of him, never hear from him again.
We got DeSimp and we got Nikki Haley.
We got them all.
What's to say, let me just go make some money.
Let me restore my wealth that they've stolen from me.
Let me spend time with the family.
My bed mister will be back at the PGA.
They'll get in the PGA tournament.
They'll let Turnberry be in the open rota of the open championship.
Everything will be fine.
All I got to do is be reasonable.
He wasn't reasonable.
No reasonable man would do what he did to come back.
That's why he's in the pantheon of Washington and Lincoln and Trump to the reclamation of the nation.
What has happened over the last couple of weeks would have never happened.
It wasn't just Biden.
They were going to pass it down, just like stopping Clinton.
This is the whole deep state and what they represent, the globalists, that have suck the blood and the vitality out of this republic.
And look at Mondami.
Just watch his campaign.
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Look at that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
They hate the United States of America.
They are anti-American.
And this has come from the finest institutions and the finest schools.
This is not some revolution that was among the poor, came out of some traveling group of gypsies in some camp.
It came from the finest institutions in this republic.
No, we're totally unreasonable.
We're totally unreasonable.
And we have not yet begun to fight.
We will never, ever, ever quit.
That's why I told the Financial Times this interview today, I said, Trump is going to be in the minds of the elites and the opposition to them until the end of time.
Because we are never going to quit.
Are we going to have speed bumps?
Yes.
Are we going to have defeats?
Yes.
Are we ever going to be beaten?
No.
Is that not the lesson of the revolution?
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They had many losses.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
They had many, many defeats.
Patrick K. O'Donnell can walk you through in the first 90 days a fiasco of defeat and retreat, defeat and retreat.
diane taraz ▲ ● ▼
But they were never beaten.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
That's the MAGA movement.
That's our place in American history.
Today, today, today.
We'll go out with some beautiful music from Diane Terraz.
Please get her album.
diane taraz ▲ ● ▼
And we will return in the War Room in just a moment.
Some future day shall crown us, the masters of the main.
Our fleets shall speak in thunder to England, France, and Spain.
Nations o'er the ocean spread shall tremble and obey the prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America.
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Matt.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
All the writing right now is what a role President Trump's on.
He is on quite a role.
We're going to break down a lot of that tomorrow, where actually we stand, And we're going to talk about the implementation of the Big Beautiful Bill across the board of many different aspects of it.
Also, Philip Patrick is going to join us.
Philip's going to join us from Rio.
He's there with the Global South in the BRICS conference.
He's been talking to central bankers.
He's been talking to finance ministers.
So we're going to get caught up with the team at Birch Gold.
Really proud of the fact that they went down to Rio because such a big deal on the de-dollarization movement throughout the world.
And, folks, it's a big movement because they back it up by controlling the resources in the world.
So they got some stroke, particularly as they unite together.
And many of them are quite anti-American, right?
We have a few friends in the BRICS movement, particularly India.
But you've got the KGB, Russia, you've got China, the CCP, the head gangsters, and of course you've got the Moolahs in Iran.
And President Trump's pretty adamant.
He didn't, that was not a good call yesterday with Putin.
Putin essentially said, yeah, we don't really need your involvement in this working out of a deal with Ukraine.
That's between us.
It's a bilateral between us and them.
And of course, I think last night Russia unleashed a brutal attack upon Kiev, upon the capital.
President Trump, I'm sure, is not too happy about that.
Might want to talk about programming.
Today, the war room will be back live.
I don't know if at 4 o'clock or 5 o'clock.
As soon as we find out, has it been my cracked staff?
It was up in the air whether President Trump's going to sign it at 4 or 5, the big, beautiful bill, but it's going to be a big deal.
President Trump's going to sign the big, beautiful bill.
We will be back live for commentary and observations.
Also, to show it, I think David Zir will be anchoring our coverage from the White House today.
We have our camera crew there.
And I just want to give a hat tip to the coverage yesterday from Iowa from the state fair.
Ambassador Monica Crowley put on with America 250.
It was an absolutely unbelievable, just event and just packed.
The crowd was incredible.
People entered.
The weather was great.
President Trump's speech, for the most part, was great.
Had a few speed bumps.
We'll talk about that.
Let's talk about that tomorrow or Monday.
But incredible speech.
He was on a roll.
His administration's on a roll.
Things are coming together.
And I don't think anybody's ever had a more successful first six months of an administration than what President Trump is doing in the reclamation of our nation and returning her to her greatness.
So we'll be back here live on the 4th of John.
Normally, we don't do an afternoon show, and we're just doing this.
Rob Sig and Parker Sig are making it available because I think everybody realized it's very important to cover the live signing.
I'm sure President Trump, as he is wont to do, may have a couple of three comments, right?
And he disintermediates the mainstream media and talks right to the people.
So we'll try to catch all of that.
I don't know if it's locked in for four or five.
My crack staff is going to tell me here in a minute or two.
Patrick K. O'Donnell, I don't want to, because I don't have you tomorrow.
Normally we do a couple days of coverage on this, but you wrote two amazing books on the combat history of the Revolution, both the Indispensables about the guys from Marblehead that were actually kind of the crew for both the American Dunkirk and, of course, crossing the Delaware.
And they were there for so many other key elements.
Also, Washington's Immortals, which you really get the American Thermopylae right there in Brooklyn.
Why don't you tell me about that?
Because Americans don't understand there were some, because it's not taught, there were some epic battles in the first, I don't know, 90 days of the formation of the Republic after the 4th of July.
They're among the most important battles in American history and just have not gotten the coverage until guys like you.
In fact, the American Thermopylae is the heroes of it are buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Brooklyn, sir.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, this is one of the greatest battles in American history that nobody knows about until I wrote Washington's Immortals, which is about the Maryland 400 or the Bayonets of the Revolution.
This is the Marylanders that make an epic stand that it's an hour in our history more precious than any other, as one contemporary historian of the time said.
And the British were about to destroy much of Washington's army had it not been for the Marylanders, though, that they charge near a house that is manned by troops from Earl Cornwallis.
And the men make a series of charges under the command of Lord Sterling or General Sterling in the American Army, that they form up into ranks several times.
They're one of the few units to actually have bayonets, an American unit to have bayonets, and they charge the house.
And as they do this, they open up a gap in the line and allow much of the army to retreat towards the heights of Brooklyn.
But in the process, they sacrifice themselves.
These are the sons of the South, some of the greatest families within Maryland that are, as Walt Whitman would say, were blown to atoms by Cornwallis' cannon that were there and musket fire.
But they sacrificed themselves for the good of the army.
But in the process, they're forgotten.
And I came across their sign nearly 15, 20 years ago, 15 years ago or so.
And it said, here lie 256 Continental soldiers, Maryland heroes.
And I wanted to know the story behind that.
You know, what's a sign doing on a VFW post, American Legion post, where there's these American heroes, and they are buried somewhere in Brooklyn.
Many of the men were also captured and were put on prisoner ships in New York Harbor.
And these were kind of floating concentration camps where the men were not fed.
You know, disease ran rampant, and most of the men died on the ships.
And then their bodies were just thrown overboard.
And the bones would just wash ashore at Gravesend Bay and also other parts of Long Island.
And many of them are gathered at a memorial in Brooklyn.
Just bones.
We don't know many of the names of these individuals, but somewhere near the stonehouse park, which is still there, where they've recreated the actual stonehouse that Cornel Wallace's men were in from the original stones.
This is where this really this incredible action takes place by the Marylanders.
And I detail this in great detail in Washington's Immortals, as well as in my other best-selling books, The Indispensables.
And that hour prevents the combined weight of 20,000 British soldiers as well as Hessian soldiers from uniting and crushing the United States, most of the army, which is in the heights of Brooklyn.
This is why it's so important, because had they been able to unite, Washington's army, much of it would have been destroyed, and even Washington himself would have been captured, probably.
And the rebellion or the United States, as we know it, probably would cease to exist.
But it leads up to really the second thing that you mentioned, which is the American Dunkirk State.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
And tell me about, so you had Thermopylae, and then a few days later, they had to make a decision.
Remember, the Army was virtually shattered.
And the whole strategy of General Washington, that you had to have an army in being, that you had to have to keep intact the American, as small as it was, the Continental Army, so that you actually had something, the militias would have something to rally around.
And you at least have some sort of professional, as stragglers as they were, you have some sort of professional army.
You had to keep the army intact.
And that's why when they got backed up to Brooklyn Heights, and those who are familiar with New York, Brooklyn Heights, the tip of Brooklyn, looks right across the East River, right there to lower Manhattan.
It's where the Brooklyn Bridge is, or just south of where the Brooklyn Bridge is today.
They got backed up.
They got their backs up there.
And Washington, there was, I think Lord Sterling and others wanted to take a stand and just dig in against redoubts and take on the British.
But General Washington made a decision that he was going to extract the army and try to get across, which was, as you know, one of the most dangerous things to try to, on amphibious, try to get troops across any body of water is always dangerous, particularly when you have the Royal Navy is right there in New York Harbor, right off the battery with warships.
So talk to us through how did we actually extract ourselves out of there and save the army, sir?
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
This is American Dunkirk and American Miracle, because you have a massive army of over 20,000 British troops in front of you, along with their Hessian allies.
And then behind you is this massive British fleet that could potentially sail up the East River behind the fortifications at Brooklyn Heights and destroy the army.
And as Washington decides to evacuate, and it falls upon the shoulders of the Indispensables or the Marblehead Mariners, who are the most experienced sailors in the entire Continental Army.
And they're only given a few hours to assemble all these small boats that they can find and then begin this operation to transport the wounded, the cannon, the horses, everything over.
And initially, Steve, it's an absolute disaster because the tides in the river, the river is a torrent.
It's raining out.
There's a nor'easter that's taken place over the last two days that hits the armies.
And the East River is very swollen.
There's lots of currents that are very strong, which prevents, in some cases, the British fleet from actually moving up behind the Americans.
But it's also very challenging to cross.
And the Marbleheaders aren't getting anywhere initially.
And they try to find Washington to call off the operation.
Can't be found, thankfully, because they continue to press on and they start to move people off Brooklyn over towards Manhattan.
And this is not a one-time thing.
They have to do this 12 times, crossing the river in the middle of the night and with a massive army in their front and with the British fleet off to their side.
And it's a race against time, Steve.
There's all of these elements, the variables that the Continental Army has to somehow overcome in the Marbleheaders in particular.
They're fighting these currents and tides, but then suddenly the wind changes and allows them to move more men back and forth.
But dawn is coming, and with it, the prying eyes of the British, as well as a 20,000-man or more army that's ready to pounce on the entrenchments, which are not manned, but only just a small force as the men are evacuating.
And it's here really that, you know, the hand of God finds America and a fog sets in at exactly the right time and right place, which screens the movement and allows the army to evacuate and the marbleheaders to move the army across to Manhattan safely.
One of the greatest evacuations in military history.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
And the hand of Providence, which was not lost on General Washington and his staff and the troops.
That fog, that fog had not come in and if the fog had not been so thick, no chance that the Army could have been extracted without massive casualties from the Royal Navy.
The hand of God in the early days of the Revolution.
By the way, those folks that were fighting there on Brooklyn Heights and extracted, they were quite unreasonable.
The reasonable thing would have been to work with the British and work some deal out.
One-third of their countrymen were doing that.
And particularly, it was infested in New York and particularly lower Manhattan.
That was one of the worst parts of Tories.
In fact, they tried to, I think, a couple of times during the Revolution, actually try to break off.
Short commercial break, Independence Day, the 249th anniversary of the birth of this, the greatest nation in the history of mankind, next in the world.
diane taraz ▲ ● ▼
America.
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Matt.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
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Patrick K. O'Donnell, thank you so much for changing your day up to join us here live on our 4th of July commemoration.
People already know my phone's blowing up.
The chat's blowing up.
Where do we get your books?
I know you're working on your third installment of your trilogy on the revolution that'll be out in a year or so.
But where do they get the first two books on the revolution, sir?
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
Best place to go is amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com.
They're the front of the store at Barnes and Noble in most cases, at least Washington's Immortals and Instenzels, always covered in the military history section.
You can find me at Combat Historian on Getter, as well as X or my website, patrickkodonnell.com.
It's always an honor to be on the show, Steve.
It's always great to celebrate our independence with you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Well, it always is, particularly the way you bring reality to it.
So not just flowery words, but the deeds.
It was words and deeds.
And the deeds, as powerful as the words were, the deeds are what got us through.
Absolutely, Steve.
Revolutionary War.
Patrick A. O'Donnell.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
It's about individuals that were willing to put it all on the line, their fortune, family, and honor.
And it's a small group of individuals that will change history.
And that is, it holds today as much as it did then.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Ordinary men and women doing extraordinary things.
Write that down.
Take your number two principle out.
Does that remind you of yourself?
Write it down.
Ordinary citizens doing extraordinary acts to really get our freedom and guarantee our freedom and passing on our freedom to future generations.
Thank you very much, Patrick.
Honored to have you on here.
We're going to be back today at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
If that changes, keep an eye open for mouth-breathing imbecile Grace Chong, MBI.
What a great.
That's a brand.
She's got to start merchandising that brand.
Grace, as you know, comes with a little edge.
Make sure you follow Grace today.
We may change up at 4th White House telling us right now 5 o'clock.
We're going to be back at 5 o'clock live to cover the signing of the big, beautiful bill, President Trump on a roll.
I'm sure he'll have a few observations for the media.
We want to be there when he does.
Make America Healthy Again.
Trevor Comstock, what do you got for us on a big 4th of July sale, sir?
trevor comstock ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, thank you so much, Steve.
So, of course, I wanted to quickly mention that we still have our 4th of July sale running all the way through tomorrow for 15% off all products.
So just make sure to use code JULY at checkout for any one-time order.
And of course, happy 4th of July to everyone.
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And we've been getting a good amount of messages recently in regards to why someone should take a product like this and what it does for you.
But in short, beef liver is arguably one of the best sources of highly bioavailable nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, coenzymes, amino acids, as well as peptides.
And I would just like to make the analogy that beef liver is essentially nature's multivitamin.
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And then on top of that, it also contains many vitamins and minerals that most people are deficient in.
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But on top of that, I think what most people love most about the beef liver is just the natural energy boost that they get after taking it.
So that's always something that people give us great feedback on and a nice little value add.
And then on top of that, what's nice, aside from it being 100% grass-fed and natural, is that the human body can much better absorb these nutrients as opposed to taking like a man-made synthetic multivitamin.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Trevor, Comstock, you're doing an amazing job.
Make America healthy again.
Make sure everybody goes to Sacred Human Health and look at the reviews.
And then you can contact Trevor and the team individually and chat about it.
Thank you so much, sir.
Appreciate it.
Happy 4th of July.
Independence Day.
Become independent from bad health.
How about that?
Mike Lindell, somehow they let you out of the White House.
I thought we had you cornered.
Who allowed Mike Lindell?
The first day anybody can make a mistake, Secret Service.
Anybody make a mistake?
The second day, that's when he hit my tripwire.
Mike Lindell at the White House two days ago.
Mike, what do you got for me?
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On Independence Day, sell me some sheets.
mike lindell ▲ ● ▼
Right on, man.
What a great time it was in DC, everybody.
I'm back from happy 4th of July to the warm room posse.
We wait all year for this great sale.
What a difference a year makes, by the way.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Mike Lindell, happy Independence Day, sir.
You are independent, and you kept your independence by fighting.
Thank you, brother.
So honored to do this show, given the gravity of this day, and what it means, not just for American history, for human history.
We're back here at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time in the war room.
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