Oct. 24, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| You're just not going to free shot 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're trying 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. Band. | ||
| Just today, 100 public figures signed a letter that they want to ban on super intelligence, but But is that really going to do anything? | ||
| I mean, two years ago, Elon Musk signed a very similar letter that did nothing. | ||
| Of course, he did not sign it today, but these letters are worth. | ||
| Well, it is notable that Steve Ann and Glenn Beck signed that letter. | ||
| So 800 of the world's most prominent figures spanning the political spectrum are calling for a ban on developing super intelligent AI. | ||
| New polling shows that 64% of Americans agree super intelligence shouldn't be developed until it's proven safe. | ||
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More than 28,000 people have now signed an online petition calling for a ban on the development of AI super intelligence. | |
| As we've been reporting, the list includes hundreds of public figures, Prince Harry and Megan, Duchess of Sussex, Virgin Grew founder Sir Richard Branson, actor Joseph Gordon Levitt, and conservatives Glenn Beck and Steve Bannon have all signed. | ||
| Several prominent AI pioneers have also joined the call. | ||
| And the petition says the prospect of superintelligence raises concerns over, quote, losses of freedom, civil liberties, dignity and control to national security risks and even potential human extinction. | ||
| Friday, 24 October, the year of Laura 2025. | ||
| What I'm really proud of the war room, and I'm really proud of the war imposse, and I'm particularly proud of our editor, Joe Allen. | ||
| I hate to say it's another decision I made that proved outright because I knew this was going to be massive. | ||
| Because I've gotten some feedback from different media types, people like that. | ||
| And here's the thing. | ||
| In most of the mainstream media, Joe Allen, they're just now coming upon this in like the issue of artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, super intelligence, artificial superintelligence, the singularity, the convergence of things, Homo sapiens, homosexuality. | ||
| They have no clue because they haven't covered it. | ||
| What's so shocking for four years and in the interim, not just did Joe Allen put up amazing content all the time. | ||
| We have him on every couple of days, except when he's out crossing the country or writing a book. | ||
| And you wrote a book, a book that's now being looked at as one of the definitive books to kind of kick this hall off, Dark Aeon. | ||
| And the Warren Posse is up to speed of this. | ||
| I mean, we can talk to people in shorthand. | ||
| The other mainstream media people come to me and go, how do we even address this? | ||
| It's something we don't know if our audience is going to understand it. | ||
| Joe Allen, so let's talk about that first. | ||
| I tell people, oh no, they'll understand it. | ||
| I said, we have a middle class and working class audience, and they understand it fine. | ||
| I said, all you got to do is lay out some material. | ||
| And not only do they understand it, they're outraged that, and these are not Luddites. | ||
| These are not people who say, we just got to go back to the 17th century or 16th century. | ||
| These are people that are active entrepreneurs, innovators, working class people that are getting it done every day, action, action, action. | ||
| But they understand the depth of the problem here. | ||
| And they're, like with us, searching for answers. | ||
| So let's talk about that for a minute, just how your education program. | ||
| And as you go around the country, I think you and I talk all the time. | ||
| When you go around the country, talk some of these other groups or even some of the highfalutin conferences. | ||
| You can talk to the war room posse in shorthand because guess what? | ||
| You brought them up the learning curve, just like we've done in capital markets and gold and debt and deficits and geopolitics and all of it. | ||
| If you make information accessible to a working class and middle class audience, they thirst for this knowledge. | ||
| They thirst to raise the bar. | ||
| You know, we raise the bar and they jump on and grab it. | ||
| And then you got to raise the bar again. | ||
| Joe Allen, your thoughts about all of this. | ||
| Steve, I got to say, the war room posse has not only surprised me, but a lot of the people I talk to, even say techies in San Francisco, don't really understand exactly how astute this blue-collar audience really is. | ||
| People talk to me on social media, of course, but they email me. | ||
| I'm in contact with people in person very, very often. | ||
| These guys that have lived life, not in a book, not in universities, and not at the upper echelons of corporate life, know that everything from artificial intelligence to the various brain interfaces, the surveillance mechanisms that have been put in place. | ||
| They know that the rise of automation and the intention to put humanoid robots in every job position imaginable, and of course, the quest to improve humanity biologically, whether that's phenotypical or straight to the genome. | ||
| Working class people know two things. | ||
| One, they understand that the promise, the so-called promise of AI and everything downstream of it is in fact a threat. | ||
| It is a threat to their way of life. | ||
| It's a threat to their economic value. | ||
| And they understand that it is a threat to the very concept of what it means to be human and what it means to worship God. | ||
| They also understand that these tech companies are not out for their own good. | ||
| They are out for power and they are out for profit up to the point of the intention to create a digital God to create super intelligence. | ||
| The war room posse understands this because they have lived life and they've seen similar predatory actions from corporations and governments all their lives. | ||
| They know instinctively and in many cases, very intellectually, that what is happening right now is a call for radical change. | ||
| And they understand that you have to ask who's going to benefit from this change. | ||
| And they know that is not working class America. | ||
| In the box, by the way, I just want to add, I don't know if we have it in the box. | ||
| Let's get it up in the box. | ||
| There's Letitia James going to be arraigned in a Virginia, outside of Virginia courthouse. | ||
| If she actually is making it done, the mini PurpWalk, we'll go to it. | ||
| I don't think she is, but we're going to go to, let's get that up in a box. | ||
| Joe, here's one of the things that concerns me is that the opposition here is all-encompassing. | ||
| The opposition here is the most powerful people on the planet. | ||
| They're already the wealthiest people on the planet. | ||
| And they see that they have, you know, they have like what people have been going for, the fountain of youth, right? | ||
| Because it's all about living, this is all about eternal life at the end of the day for these guys. | ||
| They believe they're close to getting the fountain of youth and nothing's going to stop them. | ||
| They think we're going to stop them, but in their mind is that they can't be stopped because they're masters of the universe and nobody will actually try to stop them. | ||
| And in addition, they understand that the price here is so huge that they won't allow anybody to come in their way. | ||
| Your thoughts about that as we now get this organized to actually slow down and get some consensus on AGI and then superintelligence, sir. | ||
| Steve, I think this is, it should be said that this is not a one-and-done fight. | ||
| This is going to be a lifelong fight. | ||
| It's not going to end in our lifetimes. | ||
| That has to be said and understood. | ||
| There's not going to be some moment of victory in which everything's just going to be okay. | ||
| But what we do have, we have the will of the people on our side and not just bread and butter, flyover America conservatives. | ||
| People across the board and across the planet see this as not only dangerous, but just explicitly predatory. | ||
| The greater replacement of all human beings for everything, whether it be economic or human value. | ||
| Also, this superintelligent statement put out by the Future of Life Institute, it's looking at the most dramatic vision of where this goes. | ||
| You have a being or a pantheon of beings that are supposedly more intelligent than human beings, meaning that in a godless universe, they are the apex predators or apex parasites, as it were. | ||
| And everyone must look to them as the highest authority. | ||
| Machines, look to the machines as the highest authority. | ||
| Downstream from that, though, you have all the economic impacts of lost jobs or jobs that are made unbearable by forcing people to turn to AI as some sort of mentor or guide. | ||
| And then, of course, we've been covering what people have been covering, even the New York Times. | ||
| Kevin Roos, I think, deserves a lot of credit for what he has done to show how these bots, just on a day-to-day basis, are driving people insane. | ||
| You see it already. | ||
| AI psychosis, the more extreme cases of suicide. | ||
| So the future of life statement, the super intelligent statement, is not an opening salvo. | ||
| They've been at it for a while, but it's an important gunshot across the bow to let these guys know that the people are not on their side, that they don't want the future that the tech oligarchs are dreaming up. | ||
| And it's a lifelong fight. | ||
| It's one that I'm here for. | ||
| And I think it's one the posse is 100% here for. | ||
| Any other updates? | ||
| I'm going to let you bounce. | ||
| I want to go through your schedule right now, particularly where people can get you. | ||
| If you get a chance to see Joe live, please take advantage of that. | ||
| One, it's tremendous information, great feedback, but then you can maybe pull him aside. | ||
| And when you're trying to get a selfie, talk to him about your thoughts on this topic. | ||
| We're looking for the American people's thoughts. | ||
| That's part of the reason we put this proclamation out. | ||
| We want the American people to sign off on it because they have to. | ||
| This has to be a national conversation and we have to do it now. | ||
| So give me your schedule, Joe, and then any closing thoughts. | ||
| Yeah, the petition is right at the top of my social media on Twitter and Getter. | ||
| So anyone who wants to sign it can and absolutely should. | ||
| Signature is very low effort, high reward. | ||
| It lets them know you are not on board with this. | ||
| My next stop is Naples, Florida, New Hope Church with the Florida Citizens Alliance Panel on AI and Education. | ||
| That is be flying out to that in just a moment. | ||
| And I encourage anybody, please, you already are not shy, but come and tell me what you're experiencing with all this because I think that human-to-human communication has probably been the most important element of all of this. | ||
| After that, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with Doomer Optimism. | ||
| Fantastic gathering. | ||
| After that, I have St. Louis with a talk on AI and politics. | ||
| That is November 7th and 8th for the Doomer Optimism, November 15th for the St. Louis talk. | ||
| And then Dallas, Texas, November 23rd at the Angelica Theater right near downtown Dallas, November 23rd. | ||
| Tickets will be available very, very soon. | ||
| All of this, top of social media, full schedule there. | ||
| And I encourage anyone, like I say, come up and just tell me what you are seeing in all this. | ||
| Again, you're not shy, I know. | ||
| But my website is j-o-e-b-ot-t.xyz, joebot.xyz, and my social media at j-o-e-b-ot-t xyz. | ||
| Steve, I really, really appreciate everything, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And look forward to the talks and then getting you back. | ||
| Joe's working 24-7 on this joke. | ||
| The great Joe Allen, our editor of All Things Transhumanism. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Johnny Kahn's going to take us out. | ||
| One of my favorite songs, American Heart. | ||
| Couple things going on. | ||
| Two on the downside I want to make sure that you guys are on top of. | ||
| One is about we had solid economic news today. | ||
| I'm a little concerned about numbers in the fourth quarter. | ||
| I just am because I think we've posted some pretty good numbers so far. | ||
| I know President Trump is pivoting and spending a ton of time on the economy. | ||
| Today's numbers, I think, were excellent, particularly the fact that real wages are up once again. | ||
| If you, the IRS, though, under Scott Besson and other, it's future leadership, they need to get every penny they believe they're owed. | ||
| It's that difference between the bid and the asked that a lot of people get in problems. | ||
| If you've missed a filing, if you've forgotten a file, if you think there are problems with some of your filings, if you got a letter from the IRS, just avoiding it is not going to solve the problem. | ||
| Here's how you're going to solve the problem. | ||
| You have to engage Tax Network USA, TNUSA.com, or 89581000. | ||
| Tell them Bannon Center or War Room Center. | ||
| They give you a free consultation. | ||
| What's that consultation? | ||
| They've solved a billion dollars worth of the stuff before it. | ||
| And there ain't nothing you can tell them they have not heard before. | ||
| So open up to them. | ||
| Great team over there. | ||
| I'm going to take care of the problem. | ||
| Also, Home Title Ock now more than ever. | ||
| I think there's three or four trillion dollars of equity, home equity, and homes, residential homes in the United States. | ||
| These cyber guys, the AI people, they're all looking at this, how to do it, particularly if you're a little older in the scale, maybe not as sharp as you used to be, not as on top of things. | ||
| HomeTitleLock.com, promo coach Steve. | ||
| Talk to Natalie Dominguez and the team. | ||
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| Okay, Dr. Thayer joins us. | ||
| Dr. There, I had Michael Walsh on last night. | ||
| Can you give me a quick summary? | ||
| My beloved Ireland is voting today. | ||
| Of course, there's no populist nationalist candidates on the ballot. | ||
| I don't know how that works, but hey, since the hammerhead mix are one of the foundational elements of the MAGA movement here, I don't know how that works, but you're starting to see people have hit their tripwire on this immigration thing. | ||
| They're raping young women. | ||
| They're tired of it. | ||
| Just put in perspective what's going on in Ireland today on this national election. | ||
| Sure, Steve. | ||
| It's great to join you again. | ||
| So you have Tweetly Dumb and Tweetly D, really. | ||
| You've got the two major parties who are running candidates, and then you have a socialist who likely may win. | ||
| Again, this is the president of Ireland. | ||
| The elections are today. | ||
| We'll know the results probably tomorrow. | ||
| And as you mentioned, and as Walsh mentioned too, of course, yesterday, people are fed up with the inability of the parties to solve the immigration problem. | ||
| They're recognizing that the parties themselves are causing the immigration problem with no intent to address it, but to force immigrants on these communities throughout Ireland. | ||
| And they're spread throughout Ireland, although this incident is concentrated, of course, in Dublin, the horrific rape of the 10-year-old girl by a migrant. | ||
| So there's the spoil the vote campaign, and we're looking closely to see what the numbers are going to be for that. | ||
| The way to send a protest message is to spoil the vote by writing in another candidate or simply marking as many people are, my vote is spoiled or spoil the vote to see what those percentages are so that we can see really what the resistance is to the establishment. | ||
| And again, as you mentioned, as Walsh mentioned, this is a revolution from above that the Irish state is executing against the Irish nation, driven by Brussels, of course, and others. | ||
| And the Irish people are fed up with it. | ||
| You know, they're up to the teeth with it, and they want change. | ||
| But the elites have got them in a headlock. | ||
| It's a familiar story, isn't it, Steve? | ||
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Well, it's also, no, but they can't break out of it. | |
| We help them break out. | ||
| If somebody calls them a racist or a nativist or a xenophobe, they melt down. | ||
| You got to get through that. | ||
| It doesn't matter what they call you. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| If you can't get past that, you're not going to make any change. | ||
| We'll follow this more. | ||
| I want to go. | ||
| Wall Street Journal actually has a very good piece. | ||
| China's new strategy for Trump. | ||
| Punch hard, concede little. | ||
| For Xi, Rare Earth's bombshell signaled a new toughness while TikTok was spiritual opium that could be turned into a low-cost bargaining chip. | ||
| Your assessment, Dr. Thayer, is President Trump's going to leave, I don't know, sometime late this evening to head to Asia for really one of the longest trips he's ever taken. | ||
| I think it's going to be like a week or 10 days, meeting Xi actually in South Korea next weekend. | ||
| Walk me through the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| It's a really great piece. | ||
| It is a great piece, and it's really identifying what's been clear to so many, of course, to this audience in particular, that Xi is using economic, waging economic warfare and has been waging economic warfare against the United States. | ||
| It's out in the open now, increasingly. | ||
| So with the announcement October 9th by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce that they're cutting off essentially rare earth magnets targeting the magnets in particular, which is so important for our industry, as well as rare earths, they have that as a weapon against us that they're employing. | ||
| And so President Trump has a very dicey situation to address when he's in ASEAN meeting in Malaysia this weekend. | ||
| And then as he moves on to a meeting with a new Japanese prime minister in Japan and then the APEC summit in South Korea, President Trump recognizes we've got a window of vulnerability with rare earths. | ||
| And what he's trying to do is really employ, to my mind, a ropedoke, like Muhammad Ali going up against Joe Foreman, right? | ||
| A ropedope strategy where he's just got to allow Xi Jinping to pound away at him while he does his utmost to ensure that we close that window of vulnerability by having our own capabilities in the West and elsewhere. | ||
| That's why the agreement with Australia was so important. | ||
| The agreement on Monday that was reached with Prime Minister Albanese on Monday is very important for closing that window of vulnerability. | ||
| Rare earths are not the only window that we have, though. | ||
| Pharmaceuticals, active pharmaceutical ingrivance is another one that we've got to address well. | ||
| From Xi's perspective, Xi's coming off fourth plenary, which was a tremendous success for him, right? | ||
| So he's got muzzle velocity. | ||
| And that's in part why this meeting is going to be so difficult, because Xi Jinping is on a high, having secured basically his position with the Chinese Communist Party and sent some very powerful message that he's in control of the party. | ||
| He's confronting Trump, and he's the only one who can do so. | ||
| So the meeting is going to be contentious. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| Let's put a pin. | ||
| I'm going to come back to you. | ||
| Let's bring in Captain Finnell. | ||
| Captain, on Dr. Thayer's point, there are a lot of folks that we know and respect were saying, no, this is kind of a coup against Xi. | ||
| He's got military projects, all these problems. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, sir. | ||
| You've put the BDI on this. | ||
| Is Xi coming out of this thing stronger than he's ever been, sir? | ||
| There's no question about it, Steve. | ||
| He came out of the plenum with total control, despite the rumors ahead of time. | ||
| We've got to address the issue of rumors about his position. | ||
| But you read the plenum and the final notes, it says, all of us in the party must acquire a deep understanding of the decisive significance of establishing Comrade Xi Xi Ping's core position on the party central committee and in the party as a whole and establishing the guiding role of Xi Japing thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era. | ||
| That has been for 12 years his vision, and it came out of this plenum. | ||
| He is still in charge, despite 11 central committee members being removed and replaced like they did in 2017. | ||
| So a lot of folks have wishful thinking, but the reality is Xi is firmly in control. | ||
| And we see the evidence of that by the things that Brad just mentioned with his position on rare earth elements and magnets and what we see with the PLA and their operations in the Indo-Pacific. | ||
| They have, okay, the Wall Street Journal's piece about punch hard and concede little. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, Captain, and Brett, I'll come right back to you. | ||
| They have the knife to the, we've got to cut to the chase here. | ||
| And they have a knife to the throat of American manufacturing industries, the guys actually make things and run production lines because of these heavy rare earths, which we've warned people about for years. | ||
| But the elites allowed all the processing to be sold to the Chinese Communist Party in treasonous activity. | ||
| Now they've got it. | ||
| With President Trump goes, we have other things too, because their economy is in the depression. | ||
| I mean, we've got a lot of tools in our toolbox, but he's coming out of the plenum. | ||
| One of the reasons is his strategy to the Chinese Communist Party appears to be working. | ||
| They hate the foreign devils, right? | ||
| They don't want any accommodation. | ||
| They want to decouple, but what they want to do is destroy us. | ||
| And so they love the TikTok situation. | ||
| They love the fact that Xi's got the knife to the throat of President Trump. | ||
| Am I incorrect on that, sir? | ||
| No, the people of China support, for the most part, the Chinese Communist Party, the large majority. | ||
| Now, I know there's a lot of protests and people that are not happy about it, but he has popular support in many ways. | ||
| And he certainly has it inside the party. | ||
| And that's the most important thing. | ||
| And the party controls the PLA, which is the gun. | ||
| And so he is in a position of strength. | ||
| And we are at risk in this area of national security and the rare earth elements and the pharmaceuticals, also in our food industry. | ||
| We have an issue with our beef and cattle industry and the suppressed economy there. | ||
| We have a lot of areas where we are at risk as our strategic petroleum reserve. | ||
| And we need to get these things back in order. | ||
| And it's going to take a national effort. | ||
| It can't be a sideshow. | ||
| This has to be the main thing. | ||
| As I always say, and you repeat, this is the main thing for our national security. | ||
| Where do people get your writings, Captain? | ||
| I write sometimes for American Greatness. | ||
| I had a piece up this week about the Defense War Department and award systems that you can look at. | ||
| And you're going to be with us nonstop as President Trump leaves late tonight for Asia for the longest trip I think he's ever taken with so many huge elements happening over in Asia and huge events. | ||
| Thank you, Captain Finnell. | ||
| Brad Thayer, where do people get you? | ||
| I'm going to try to get you tomorrow, Brad, talk about Ireland. | ||
| Where do people get you in all your writings on the Chinese Communist Party and what we face? | ||
| And quite frankly, these critically important negotiations. | ||
| Well, I'm at Brad Theron X and Bradley Theron and Truth and Getter. | ||
| And Jim, and my book, Embracing Communist China, America's Greatest Strategic Failure, calls attention to this. | ||
| It explains how we got into this situation through the disastrous policy of engagement and the threat deflation that accompanied it. | ||
| And so it explains how we got in this situation and what we need to do to get out of it. | ||
| Engagement and threat deflation. | ||
| Coming home to Roosh right now. | ||
| The reality of what our elites have done to us to box us into a corner of this. | ||
| Dr. Thayer, Captain Finnell, thank you so much. | ||
| Dave Brad still with me. | ||
| We've got more to talk about on artificial intelligence and the oligarchs. | ||
| And then we have a very special guest. | ||
| And quite frankly, it's such a pleasant surprise what he's going to talk about. | ||
| I didn't see this one coming. | ||
| Out of deep left field. | ||
| Next in the War Room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| The negotiations with China are obviously AI is going to be a big part of this. | ||
| Remember, in signing this proclamation, one of the central things I said is we have to slow down because the oligarch's using the Sputnik moment in the race for AGI and superintelligence as against us, saying, oh, we have to because of China. | ||
| Well, we can stop China dead in its tracks, hopefully as part of these negotiations. | ||
| I think President Trump and the team are going to get a reality check of how hard the Chinese Communist Party is going to be because they think they've got tremendous advantages right now. | ||
| They just do. | ||
| So as part of that, artificial intelligence, Brad, you've done a little work on job creation versus job. | ||
| And the reason I asked this is yesterday, Target let go 1,000 executives, executives in Minneapolis in their headquarters. | ||
| And when you work down, they didn't want to say it, but when you look down the buried lead in their press release or one of their quotes to the business media was that new ways of using data and technology, i.e. | ||
| artificial intelligence, led to these are not blue-collar workers in the driving the storage stuff around. | ||
| This is executives, 1,000 in headquarters gone, multiple layers gone. | ||
| So the AI jobs apocalypse is heading. | ||
| Brad, what do you got for us? | ||
| Yeah, well, first of all, I just want to say Finnell and Thayer, right, they're showing the logic of global capitalism there with this race, right? | ||
| Everything's characterized in terms of a race, an investment race to be first for generative artificial intelligence. | ||
| And that's scary. | ||
| So we're in a race. | ||
| Xi in the plenum says, you know, socialism with Chinese characteristics. | ||
| But in the last plenum, a couple of years back, he said there's no Chinese characteristics. | ||
| So it's full-on war, and we need to decouple, like you've been saying on the show. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Well, here's some of the statistics. | ||
| By 2030, right, according to McKinsey, 2017 report, jobs lost between 400 million and 800 million individuals worldwide could be displaced by automation. | ||
| These numbers are all over the place, right? | ||
| Nikita Joe Bott and his analysis is we're reliant upon what these evil geniuses are telling us about generative AI. | ||
| We're relying on information of when it really comes out. | ||
| These firms have gotten very clever, too. | ||
| They don't want to announce any more of these job losses. | ||
| But Xbox Studios down 50%. | ||
| Microsoft just did $80 billion, right? | ||
| That's like the size of the Virginia economy. | ||
| $80 billion investment in artificial intelligence only. | ||
| In the U.S., conservatively, 200,000 AI jobs lost, right, to high-tech sector. | ||
| So that's 200,000. | ||
| At times, these people are making 200,000 conservatively. | ||
| So that's another $40 billion down the drain. | ||
| Intel losing $36,000. | ||
| Accenture, $11,000. | ||
| Meta, Workday, Salesforce. | ||
| The line goes on and on and on, but there's no real sophisticated national conversation going on about the threat from China getting this first. | ||
| Our guys are just getting us to buy into their race to be dominant. | ||
| And there are other countering studies that say, you know, only five MIT had a study a month or two ago saying only about 5% of firms have implemented, implemented AI in their workforce. | ||
| And so we'll see that traditional authors on U.S. economic productivity out at Northwestern that I always refer to, they're very skeptical of this. | ||
| And so be careful, everybody, with all the stats out there. | ||
| And just a point of clarity, the Virginia economy, my beloved Commonwealth is about $700 billion. | ||
| But I understand what the Edie Binger talked about. | ||
| Just hang over a second, Dave. | ||
| I'm going to come back to it. | ||
| Yeah, I mean the budget. | ||
| Sorry, the entire budget. | ||
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| Yes, yes. | ||
| Budget, budget, budget, which is too high, as we say in Virginia. | ||
| So we've got Leland Vitter from News Nation, one of the anchors is in the war room today. | ||
| Leland, thank you for changing your schedule and coming by. | ||
| I got a copy of this book. | ||
| I guess it's your memoir. | ||
| And it's shocking because it talks about you and autism and how you are an autistic child. | ||
| But it's one of the most thoughtful books I've ever had a chance to come across about a journey of a father. | ||
| I mean, this shows a father's love more than I think any book I've ever read. | ||
| Talk to me about it. | ||
| This is your personal story about how your dad essentially gave of his entire life to make sure that you as a young autistic child could kind of face the world. | ||
| Walk us through it because if people, if you're feeling down, if you think that all the issues we face every day are so overwhelming, get this book because this will kickstart you in optimism. | ||
| Talk to me about it. | ||
| Yeah, Steve, thank you. | ||
| This is Born Lucky. | ||
| So yes, it is, I guess you could call it my memoir. | ||
| Really what it is, is it's a love letter to my father. | ||
| And it is the story of how when I was diagnosed with what we now know to be autism as a little boy, he gave up his career and he set about trying to adapt me to the world, change me to the world and sort of how the world interacted rather than adapt the world to me. | ||
| So Born Lucky is hope for every parent, as you pointed out, Steve, every parent of a kid who's having a hard time. | ||
| And it shows the power and agency that every parent has to help their kid be more and to fulfill their full potential in a way that the experts don't always talk about. | ||
| And this is the story of what my dad did, what one parent did, what any parent can do in terms of helping their kid and not taking the adversity away of childhood, Steve, but holding a kid's hand through adversity. | ||
| Okay, so this is why it's so shocking kind of came out of left field. | ||
| I watch a lot of News Nation. | ||
| We curate a lot of you guys. | ||
| We're close to Chris Cuomo and Bacci over there. | ||
| I think that channel is a new emerging powerhouse in news. | ||
| When I see you, I don't see, I mean, you're one of the more aggressive anchors out there of any major news show on cable. | ||
| Autism is not the first word that comes to my mind when I think of Leland Vitter. | ||
| So walk us through how you were diagnosed, what it was as a small child, and why did your dad feel it was important enough to basically give up his career, change his life to basically nurture you? | ||
| Yeah, well, basically, who I am today is a product of an enormous amount of hard work and dedication by my dad. | ||
| When I was about six years old, my parents were told they needed to have me evaluated, which is the worst thing any parent can hear. | ||
| So in Born Lucky, you go to the evaluation with my parents. | ||
| They take me to one of those old medical testing buildings, right, with the linoleum floor and bad magazines, stale coffee, whatever. | ||
| They sit there for a couple of hours and the woman comes back and says, he's got a lot of problems. | ||
| Number one, behavior problems. | ||
| Forget going to birthday parties or play dates. | ||
| I couldn't be around kids my own age. | ||
| If somebody touched me, I'd turn around and slug them because the touch was so sort of foreign and harmful to me or scary to me. | ||
| Sensory issues. | ||
| If I had socks I didn't like or a jacket I didn't like, whatever it was, I would melt down. | ||
| And learning disabilities. | ||
| So they gave me an IQ test. | ||
| IQ is the two halves of a test averaged together. | ||
| Learning disability is a 20-point spread. | ||
| The woman says to my parents, he's got a 70-point spread, biggest spread they'd ever seen. | ||
| So my dad, like any father, goes, what do we do? | ||
| And she goes, well, there's not much to do, and it's pretty hard to understand what's going on inside his head, meaning my head. | ||
| So my dad goes, is there anything we can do? | ||
| And she says, generally not. | ||
| Kind of have to meet him where he's at. | ||
| And what my dad decided to do was begin to teach me the social emotional fabric that I didn't understand naturally. | ||
| So started, how does Lucky get self-esteem? | ||
| He's not going to be good at school. | ||
| He's not going to have friends. | ||
| He's not going to be good at athletics. | ||
| So dad started me with 200 push-ups a day to try to teach me self-esteem. | ||
| You know, every push-up gets you closer to a goal to earn something. | ||
| So if you do 200 push-ups a day, five days a week, you get some kind of reward. | ||
| Then he tried to teach me social interaction. | ||
| So I couldn't be around kids my own age. | ||
| My dad said, when I interviewed him for the book for Born Lucky, he goes, I knew you wouldn't have any friends. | ||
| I'm going to try to be your friend. | ||
| So he would take me to lunch. | ||
| I would have loved nothing more than to go to lunch with Mr. Bannon because dad talked about politics and current events and these kinds of things. | ||
| And so we would get to lunch and I would just start hammering you with questions. | ||
| You know, how do you book your guests for war room? | ||
| How do you come up with your segment ideas? | ||
| How do you sell your ads? | ||
| On and on. | ||
| And my dad would tap his watch. | ||
| And that was my cue to stop talking. | ||
| And then also to remember that moment. | ||
| And then we'd be in the car. | ||
| He'd go, okay, so when Mr. Bannon was talking about his weekend and you interrupted him to ask about whatever, what could you have asked to connect with him? | ||
| What would have been what he was interested in? | ||
| How can you follow the conversation? | ||
| And that began teaching me in thousands of lessons like that to try and teach me the discipline of interacting socially. | ||
| How did he know this? | ||
| I mean, your father, you know, you have a therapeutic society today. | ||
| Like you went to the people that, you know, analyzed you or assessed you. | ||
| And they called the public school system, the private school system, they have all these, and now therapy is a huge industry. | ||
| People get degrees. | ||
| Your dad didn't have any training in this, correct? | ||
| What was his background? | ||
| No, none. | ||
| He was a door-to-door salesman and an entrepreneur. | ||
| And I think it was that that gave him this idea. | ||
| You know, he had, as he would tell it, and in Born Lucky, you're there at the lunch when he's 18 years old. | ||
| Someone hands him the book. | ||
| His best friend handed him the book at this little diner called How to Win Friends and Influence People, the great Dale Carnegie book. | ||
| And dad read it twice that night, he said. | ||
| And it was those lessons that he wanted me to understand as he did and as it helped him be successful, but I couldn't understand him by reading him. | ||
| He had to teach him to me over and over and over and over and over again, you know, for 15 or so years. | ||
| And he had to be there for me emotionally. | ||
| You know, by the time I was in seventh grade, I'd been to three schools that I'd been taken out of. | ||
| One, he came to see me at and goes up to the PE fields to find me one day at school. | ||
| And the PE teacher says, you know, Lucky's doing better today. | ||
| He's out playing. | ||
| My dad says, let's go see him. | ||
| And the PE teacher goes, I don't think that's a good idea. | ||
| My dad goes, why not? | ||
| And the PE teacher says, well, I've had to put him with the girls for the past couple of months because the boys bully him so badly. | ||
| So get pulled out of that school. | ||
| Seventh grade, get taken in to this new school. | ||
| Two weeks in, my parents get called in. | ||
| They're thinking things are going to be great. | ||
| The principal calls my parents in. | ||
| So they're sitting there nervous. | ||
| And the principal goes, you know, everybody at this school thinks Lucky's very weird. | ||
| And frankly, I do too. | ||
| So two arrows through my parents' heart. | ||
| And you're right, Steve. | ||
| Born Lucky is the story of what my dad did. | ||
| There was no therapy or no therapists. | ||
| There was no extra accommodations. | ||
| There was no extra time on tests. | ||
| There was no behavior modification plan. | ||
| Dad decided I would have to get through the real world if I was going to operate now as I do in the real world. | ||
| I want people to buy this book. | ||
| I want to read it because it's in the details and the journey that's so stunning. | ||
| If you ask your dad today, was it worth it? | ||
| What would be his response? | ||
| You know, Steve, it's a great question. | ||
| Born Lucky is something dad didn't want to do. | ||
| And he has been really reluctant to take a look at it. | ||
| Leland, hang on, Leland. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| I'm going to hold you through the break. | ||
| Just cut live to Letitia James. | ||
| We're going to go from the sublime to the ridiculous here. | ||
| Let's go to Letitia James. | ||
| We'll come back to Leland. | ||
| I want to. | ||
| I want to thank all of you. | ||
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I want to We stand with you! | |
| We stand with you! | ||
| So I want to thank all of you. | ||
| I want to thank each and every one of you. | ||
| I want to thank you for your prayers. | ||
| I want to thank you for your emails. | ||
| I want to thank you for your support. | ||
| It has strengthened my spirit and has and it has anchored my souls. | ||
| And so I want to thank you. | ||
| But this is not about me. | ||
| This is about all of us. | ||
| And about a justice system which has been weaponized. | ||
| A justice system which has been used as a tool of revenge. | ||
| This justice system which has been used as a tool of revenge and a weapon against those individuals who simply did their job and who've stood up for the rule of law. | ||
| And a justice system which unfortunately is nothing being used as a vehicle of retribution. | ||
| But my faith is strong. | ||
| And my faith is, I have this belief in the justice system, in the rule of law, and I have a belief in America and all of its individuals who have stood with me, not only in New York, but all across this nation. | ||
| I've heard from just about every jurisdiction in this nation who have said, stand up and be tall and never ever cow down or back down or break or bend. | ||
| So there's no fear today. | ||
| No fear. | ||
| No fear. | ||
| Because I believe that justice will rain down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. | ||
| And I'm here to say that my work and my job and all that I do all throughout my public career, I've stood up for the rights of New Yorkers and Americans and I will not be deterred. | ||
| And I will not, I will not be deterred. | ||
| I will not be distracted. | ||
| I will do my job each and every day and that's why I'm headed back to New York because there's work to be done standing up for the rule of law. | ||
| God bless you and thank you all. | ||
| And I appreciate you. | ||
| Leticia James on en route to prison for a number of years, multiple as we've had. | ||
| We've had Joel Gilbert on go through all the different. | ||
| There she is right there. | ||
| Letitia, when all the charges, all the superseding indictments are going to come out, you're going to go to prison for many, many years, ma'am. | ||
| Couldn't happen to a better person. | ||
| Let's go back to Leland Vitter. | ||
| Leland, your father. | ||
| This story is so incredible because he essentially gave up his career, gave up really his life to save yours. | ||
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What would he say today? | |
| Well, Steve, you know, he never told anybody. | ||
| He never told his friends. | ||
| He never told extended family what we were going through, what he was going through every day with me, trying to put me back together every day during middle school and high school from the bullying and the social isolation, everything else. | ||
| I didn't know that I was diagnosed with what we know as autism until I was in my 20s. | ||
| I learned writing the book that every night after I would spend a couple hours in my room with him and he would talk me through why I was getting beat up, why emotionally I was just getting killed every day at school. | ||
| He would go downstairs by himself. | ||
| My mom would be asleep, dark living room in our house in St. Louis, and he'd just start crying himself because of how painful this was. | ||
| So you asked, what would he say now? | ||
| He never wanted to tell this story. | ||
| As we were writing the book, I said at every story, he would start. | ||
| you know, asking, well, do we want to tell this story? | ||
| You want to tell about the teacher who, you know, said in front of the entire class, you know, Vitter, if my dog was as ugly as you, I would shave its ass and make it walk backwards. | ||
| I was in eighth grade. | ||
| He said that in front of the entire class. | ||
| And my dad would want to argue about this. | ||
| And I said, look, dad, you're going to be as raw as you can be with me. | ||
| We're going to go through every story. | ||
| I'm going to write the book. | ||
| If you don't like the manuscript, I won't turn it into HarperCollins, which I didn't have a plan if he said no, because I had a book contract. | ||
| But when I gave him the manuscript, he says, gee, I don't know. | ||
| And I said to him, hey, Dad, you know, if in that exam room, that little conference room where they came back and they said there was no hope for me and there was nothing you could do and just meet me where I was, if instead of saying that, they had handed you Born Lucky and said, this isn't a prescription. | ||
| This isn't a cure. | ||
| This is just a story about what one father did. | ||
| What would you have done? | ||
| He said, I would have read it every single week because it would have been the only hope I had. | ||
| And with that, I convinced him to publish the book. | ||
| And since then, Steve, the response has been overwhelming. | ||
| Hundreds of emails I've gotten from families, not just on the autism spectrum, ADHD, anxiety, people who have kids have had nut allergies, all sorts of stuff, bullying, these unbelievable stories of parents who now say, I'm not alone and I have hope. | ||
| And I've sent those stories to my dad and he just revels in them because it means that all of his hard work is helping other people. | ||
| Dave Brad, comments, observations. | ||
| Yeah, Leland, God bless you. | ||
| I think your story about, you know, conforming to the real world, I think you've all showed us a deeper reality of what the real world is. | ||
| And that is God the Father has given himself also for us through the Son. | ||
| God has given up His own self through the Son for us. | ||
| That metaphor rings true in your story. | ||
| And so I'm just thankful you shared it with us. | ||
| Love is the true story. | ||
| That's the biblical love letter from the Father to the Son and the Son to the Father. | ||
| So God bless you, brother. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Very powerful. | ||
| Leland, where do people get the book? | ||
| Where do they, are you going to have any book signings? | ||
| Can you give the Warren Posse a schedule or we'll get it up? | ||
| Where are you going? | ||
| Yeah, we got book signings in Tallahassee and Tampa this weekend. | ||
| We've got some events in St. Louis. | ||
| Bornlucky.com. | ||
| So that gets you to all the signings and the events. | ||
| And obviously, it's available right now on Amazon, wherever you get your books. | ||
| But if you go to Amazon, I think we're putting the link up there. | ||
| But Born Lucky is the book, bornlucky.com, bornluckybook.com for all the events. | ||
| Love to see anybody. | ||
| It's been so amazing at the events we've had to have parents come out and just say how happy they are that there's hope because so many people who are going through this, Steve, no matter what their kid's going through, they feel so alone. | ||
| And my parents felt so alone. | ||
| And Born Lucky is proof of that hope for every parent and the power that every parent has. | ||
| And I think that's what you were getting at when you talked about this culture of therapy and everything else. | ||
| Parents aren't told how much power they have, how much agency they have to help their kids. | ||
| Leland, what's your social media? | ||
| Where do people follow you in the show? | ||
| Oh, at Leland Vitter on social media. | ||
| We're sharing some of the great stories about parents helping their kids be more a really profoundly autistic kid whose dad saw that he likes splashing around in the pool. | ||
| And now he's swimming a mile and a half every day. | ||
| And it's helping him physically and helping him emotionally and mentally and all these things. | ||
| And the therapist and everybody else, like, just let him splash. | ||
| It's no big deal. | ||
| He'll be happy that way. | ||
| And his dad said, no, no, I'm going to give my kid purpose. | ||
| I'm going to give him a goal. | ||
| And now he swims a mile and a half every day. | ||
| So that is, I've been calling it the born lucky journey as people are joining it and coming on and learning that. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| And your father is a giant. | ||
| Leland Vitter. | ||
| Thank you so much from News Nation. | ||
| Thank you for being in the war room. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Thanks for the welcome. | ||
| Go get this book. | ||
| Read this book. | ||
| Share this book. | ||
| Brad, I know you got a bounce. | ||
| Thanks for being with us, Ryd Shaka in this morning. | ||
| Where do people track you down, sir? | ||
| Yeah, Brad Economics, Getter, and on X. And from a fallen world to a redeemed world, there's always hope. | ||
| Go get Leela. | ||
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| Leland's dad shows you the power of human agency. | ||
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Agency. | |
| You have it in this audience. | ||
| Dave Brad. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| And all political thoughts are your own. | ||
| Always, that's right. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Mike Lindell. | ||
| It's been a grind this morning in the war room. | ||
| So much stuff going on. | ||
| The war posse is on top of it. | ||
| And of course, Leland Vitter gave us just a very inspirational story at the end. | ||
| It was great. | ||
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| What a way to end the show. | ||
| Leticia James arraigned and Leland Vitter. | ||
| It's great story about his dad. |
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