Nov. 15, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| As Secretary Hegseth has announced, Operation Southern Spear, I can tell you, Latin America is totally up for grabs. | ||
| You have the left-wing alliance of Cuba, Venezuela, increasingly Colombia and Honduras. | ||
| And then you have the populist nationalist vision for Latin America led by the president of El Salvador, Naibukele. | ||
| Melee is in that light, Marino and Panama in that light, also the president of Paraguay. | ||
| And there is a great battle of ideas going on here. | ||
| Now, my sources tell me that the battle over Venezuela may not even have to go kinetic if the United States is able to force Maduro into a number of decisions. | ||
| And those decisions could divide his coalition, weaken the extent to which military generals are reliant on him. | ||
| And here's what's interesting. | ||
| I'm watching it down here now, Steve. | ||
| The Honduran election at the end of this month could very well be a test case for whether or not the military in Venezuela turns against the people because we expect a lot of Venezuela's tactics to be used by the political left in Honduras, where we think the populace would prefer a center-right government, but there's a left-wing government in power now. | ||
| Usually, when a regime is under siege, like Maduro is, they try to bring their military in closer. | ||
| They try to centralize whatever control they have over a capital or a jurisdiction. | ||
| But here we've seen Maduro take a very different tactical stance. | ||
| He's actually moved the military out into the country, hoping that if there were strikes on Caracas, he could create chaos and violence in the outer areas of Venezuela, and that that would give them some place in the hinterlands to control and occupy. | ||
| So, as he makes that decision, there are going to be a number of these key military leaders and generals who question it, who maybe leave Maduro's side, and he could be very vulnerable in Caracas, not to direct kinetic U.S. military intervention, but to simply the people there realizing that his days may be numbered. | ||
| This morning, the United States is conducting new military drills in Trinidad and Tobago amid tensions with Venezuela. | ||
| Now, the military exercises start tomorrow and will last for five days. | ||
| That's according to the Caribbean island nation. | ||
| The last several weeks, the U.S. has built up its mobilization of forces in the Caribbean. | ||
| That includes the U.S.'s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford. | ||
| The Marines have also already been deployed to fight illegal drug trafficking, according to the Trump administration. | ||
| Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is now appealing to the American public. | ||
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It is to the people of the United States that I speak to at this moment before these 100 jurors from 34 countries to say, stop the insane hand of those who ordered bombing, killing, and bringing war to South America to the Caribbean. | |
| Stop the era. | ||
| The U.S. has launched at least 20 attacks in the Caribbean, claiming they were targeting illegal drug boats, though no proof has been offered publicly. | ||
| At least 80 people have died in those attacks. | ||
| But where do people on Capitol Hill stand with this as far as they've been briefed about kinetic activity? | ||
| Because I hear there's a number of plans that the Pentagon has laid out and Heggs has laid out as a range of options, kinetic options for President Trump, sir. | ||
| That is the job of the Department of War. | ||
| My understanding is that there is very strong support on Capitol Hill for the operations you're currently seeing to take out narco-traffickers on their way to the United States. | ||
| Similarly, there's not a lot of love for Maduro. | ||
| There's not this sense that Maduro is never going to be a problem for the United States. | ||
| Look, you know me. | ||
| You know I'm not an invade everywhere, invite everyone Republican, but I care a lot more about what's going on in the Gulf of America than I do the Black Sea. | ||
| I think it's a lot more consequential to people in our country what's happening in Brazil and Honduras and Venezuela rather than what's happening in Bavaria or the Balkans or the hills of eastern Ukraine. | ||
| And President Trump has reinvigorated that interest with his renewed focus on the Monroe Doctrine. | ||
| I think that that is going to pay dividends for our country for many years to come. | ||
| Of course, you and I know there is a latent resentment in Latin America over U.S. involvement that dates back to the days of United Fruit and Standard Fruit. | ||
| Now, you know, they're very well-known brands of Dole and Chiquita. | ||
| But this is a different day. | ||
| And with populist nationalist leaders like Naeb Bukele rising in Latin America, this may be an opportunity to defeat the left. | ||
| And then here's what that means for the United States. | ||
| More countries here with strong borders, strong laws, not just a total playground for thugs and bandits and narco-traffickers. | ||
| And when our neighborhood is stronger, our country will be stronger. | ||
| This indeed is America first, and it brings our attention closer to home. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies because we're going to medieval on this 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 try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
| 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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Waru, here's your host, Stephen K. Battle. | |
| It's Saturday, 15 November in the year of our Lord 2025. | ||
| Okay, we're going to put aside all the noise and we're going to focus on signal, what President Trump and the second Trump term is looking at geopolitically as he tries to unwind all this mess he was handed, plus at the same time, pivot to hemispheric defense to then make sure that he spends a great bulk of his time focused on the American economy. | ||
| We laid parted that out yesterday about the bet we've made on the economy and treasury and commerce and other people that are working on it, National Economic Council. | ||
| Today we're going to go through the chessboard of what President Trump and I think these will be activities and actions that'll be potential coming this week. | ||
| At the same time, a pretty disturbing story out of the Times of Israel talks about a partition of Gaza, that a U.S. deal is being put together, and the missing name in that deal is Israel. | ||
| They talk about the Arab states, the Muslim states, Turkey, all of this. | ||
| Quite interesting. | ||
| We'll get into that. | ||
| The Saudis come this week. | ||
| It's going to be a two-day trip by MBS, who's essentially the crown prince, but he's the head of Saudi Arabia to sign off on a new architecture for defense of the Middle East. | ||
| We're going to get to all that. | ||
| But first, I want to talk about what we have to keep our eye on here as we're doing all this in Latin America and this big pivot to Central America and hemispheric defense from the Arctic and Greenland to Panama down to Argentina and, of course, Central America. | ||
| And that is what is going on in what's going on in New York City and what is going on particularly in the state of Texas. | ||
| I want to put an alarm out. | ||
| I'm telling you, in Texas, we've got a big, big, big problem. | ||
| Before I get into Latin America, and we've got Dave Bratt, we've got Ben Harnwell. | ||
| I've got Brandon Weickert, one of the great geopolitical thinkers. | ||
| Dr. Bradley Thayer is going to be with us. | ||
| Jack Pesobic, Steve Cortez, just got back from Argentina about the bailout down there, all of it. | ||
| But McAlvana, you have a piece up in Jim Hoff's Gateway Pundit that's very disturbing. | ||
| It's about the state of Texas. | ||
| And in a couple of days you spent down there, I think 100 hours. | ||
| The reason that it's disturbing, you know, besides Rahim and the guys we've been working with for years, you've been warning both on your show and in your writings about what happened to your beloved United Kingdom and particularly what's happened to London. | ||
| And you are sending out a warning to the American people that couldn't be clearer: that if we don't get our act together and start to focus on what's happening in Texas right now, everything we're doing in the rest of this hemisphere, everything we're doing in the rest of the world is not going to matter because you're seeing an active effort of the Islamification of the great state of Texas. | ||
| Peter McAlvini, walk us through it, sir. | ||
| Well, Steve, I was blown away by what I saw in Texas. | ||
| And you're right. | ||
| It was literally 100 hours since I landed and took off and was back in London on Monday. | ||
| And I've seen the Islamization of London, 15% Muslim, Muhammad being the most popular boy's name in the UK for the last three years running. | ||
| We have seen the number of mosques. | ||
| Get this, Steve, since 2000, for the last 25 years, we have seen the amount of Anglican churches, the state church, fall by 6%. | ||
| So a slight decline. | ||
| We have seen the number of mosques triple, triple, up from around 650 to 2,000. | ||
| So there's a radical, absolute change in the religious fabric and the social fabric of the UK and of London and many of the towns in the north of England. | ||
| We've seen the same in Paris, you can see them in Brussels. | ||
| Brussels are 30% Islamic, the political center of Europe. | ||
| So all of that is happening in Europe. | ||
| And I went over to the U.S. to talk about this, kind of thinking in one way that this was possibly a European problem and you simply had up in Michigan. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I was frightened by what I saw, but I will end on the positive side of lawmakers actually engaged on this issue. | ||
| And what I saw was Texas, by the end of the decade, will have more mosques than any other state in the U.S. At the moment, California, I think, has got around 400 mosques. | ||
| Texas is around 350. | ||
| But Texas added 50 mosques over the last 24 months, and that is rapidly increasing. | ||
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Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, slow down. | |
| They've added how many mosques in the last 24 months? | ||
| How many? | ||
| 48 mosques in the last 24 months. | ||
| And that is rapidly increasing. | ||
| rapidly increasing. | ||
| Hang on, they're opening multiple mosques per month in the state of Texas? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And this is not an epic city issue, which is one area that everyone is focusing on. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| This is across. | ||
| And this is primarily in the Dallas-Houston area. | ||
| And of course, down in Austin. | ||
| This is in the urban areas. | ||
| I think there are a huge amount of, I need to look at my figures, but there are around 200 mosques, 215 mosques, I think, that are now in the Dallas, Houston area, and around 100-plus mosques in Austin. | ||
| And where I was in Irving, which is kind of between Fort Worth and Dallas, just by the airport by DFW, there are two Sharia courts operating. | ||
| And I know that your viewers and listeners, Steve, will think because of the rhetoric coming out from the Republican Party that actually there's a stop on any Sharia courts. | ||
| That is not happening. | ||
| There's a stop on Epic City. | ||
| This is not happening in Texas. | ||
| But yet there are two Sharia courts. | ||
| One of them has, I think, ruled on 200 cases in the last year. | ||
| The other one ruled on 100. | ||
| And these are voluntary. | ||
| Oh, hang on. | ||
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Hang on. | |
| You can't have Sharia courts here in the United States of America. | ||
| How do we have two Sharia courts that are actually handing down decisions and verdicts in the great state of Texas, sir? | ||
| Because, as in the UK, we have moved away as natives from certain areas because the police are too busy, the courts are too busy, the local authorities are too busy. | ||
| And if a community will deal with their issues, then we will accept that. | ||
| Now, these verdicts are not legally binding. | ||
| Just as in the UK, in the 85 Sharia courts, they're not legally binding, but they are binding for those communities because these women, they don't speak English. | ||
| They don't have any clue that there is a world outside. | ||
| They may live in Texas, but really they live in 7th century Arabia. | ||
| That's all they know. | ||
| So positionally, they're in the USA, but mentally, emotionally, legally, they are back in the Middle East. | ||
| That is my concern. | ||
| So Islam enters in the back door and we lock the front door and it's not enough. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| This is why the Saudis are coming here this week in a new architecture. | ||
| But my point is you take their money, you're going to take their religion. | ||
| John Guandola, the FBI, the former, I guess the former FBI guy who's one of the leaders of this anti-Islamic task force and one of the best experts, if Denver can put it up as we go to break, he's, and I'll try to track John down, but for all the Texans, it shows that the Texas government, I guess, over the last couple of years has given $90 million in taxpayer money to underwrite some of these activities. | ||
| We cannot have hemispheric defense. | ||
| We cannot settle down and end the Third World War as we're in, right? | ||
| On the battlefield in Ukraine, in the Middle East, which President Trump's doing a Herculean effort to do. | ||
| If at the same time, we're allowing right now to happen in New York City and Texas, exactly what's happened in Paris, in Brussels, in Germany, and particularly the United Kingdom. | ||
| Brussels is 30% Islamic. | ||
| You don't come back from that. | ||
| You do not come back from that with the birth rates of the local Belgians. | ||
| You don't come back from that. | ||
| This is a warning. | ||
| This is pure signal. | ||
| And McAlvini, he was shocked because he didn't realize how far I was shocked. | ||
| I spent four days down there. | ||
| I went down. | ||
| The principal reason I went down was this topic. | ||
| We report, you know, we did shows on other topics. | ||
| It was this. | ||
| I was stunned. | ||
| When I heard McAlvini was going down, I was looking for the report. | ||
| And when he's stunned, that shows you how far down the road this is. | ||
| Short break, back in the worm in a moment. | ||
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| The last two clips I wanted in there because they are Florida, but the same thing's going to Texas. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| CARE, I believe, has been designated a terrorist organization in the UAE and in Saudi Arabia. | ||
| CARE. | ||
| And I believe they were also named in the Holy Land Foundation trial, what, decades ago about terrorist activity in the financing of terrorist activity. | ||
| The Muslim Brotherhood are very smart. | ||
| While your enemy is diverted, while their attention is diverted, trying to stop the Third World War and now hemispheric defense in Latin America, and we're making tremendous strides in that, this is the five-alarm fire we got to focus on here in the United States. | ||
| If we don't get this right, it doesn't matter what happens in Latin America. | ||
| It doesn't matter what happens in Ukraine. | ||
| It's not going to matter what happens in the Middle East. | ||
| This is when I gave the speech of the National Conservative to a principally kind of neocon Jewish audience. | ||
| I told them, I said, look, it ain't Tehran is the existential problem to Israel or the Jewish people. | ||
| It's Mamdani. | ||
| And they didn't pay attention. | ||
| In fact, 33%, I think, of Jewish voters voted for Mendami of all voters. | ||
| 67%, I think, or 65% of young Jewish voters below the age of 35. | ||
| You see what's happening in Texas. | ||
| Those two things of care, what they're doing in Florida, they're grassroots activists. | ||
| And they'll work. | ||
| They'll work. | ||
| So you see what's happening. | ||
| Plano, Texas. | ||
| McOvini, MacAlvano, you have seen what's happening to your United Kingdom. | ||
| And I tell people there, hey, unless something happens, if Nigel Friser gets in and even Nigel's got to get tougher, you know, he's now come our direction, not his direction, on mass deportations as a solution. | ||
| So Nigel's getting tougher as we go along. | ||
| The two other political parties over there, Labor and the Tories, are pathetic. | ||
| But I just want your assessment. | ||
| I know you got a bounce of your hunt. | ||
| You know, the couple of days you spent in Texas, you were shocked. | ||
| You didn't think it was far as long as it is, sir? | ||
| I didn't. | ||
| And Steve, you realize that we have to fight every day for the freedoms we have. | ||
| And my big concern is that those in Texas think we're Texans. | ||
| Surely this cannot happen here. | ||
| And when I posted that article, someone said, no effing way this can happen here. | ||
| This is Texas. | ||
| Well, it is happening under your very noses. | ||
| And this is no criticism of what's happening in Texas. | ||
| This is a understanding of where we are in the UK, where we are in Europe. | ||
| And this seems to be repeated over in Texas. | ||
| And you mentioned the Holy Land Foundation. | ||
| You also mentioned about CARE and their 5013C status. | ||
| There's so many issues that have happened in the past that are happening currently that we need to wake up and be aware. | ||
| And even in, because in Texas, you've got a 15% increase in halal food market year on year. | ||
| In Dallas, it's 20% increase. | ||
| We in the UK only have 9%. | ||
| Dallas is double what we have in the UK. | ||
| There is something sinister happening in the US and especially in Texas. | ||
| And I've looked at documents going back to show that actually different Islamic organizations have targeted Dallas specifically and have pushed that. | ||
| And you see now the rewards of their efforts in that being ruled out. | ||
| You see Sharia courts coming. | ||
| You see Epic City being rebranded as the Meadows. | ||
| I mean, it sounds like an English village. | ||
| And yet it's an Islamic center, a purely Islamic area that's going to drive Islamic values. | ||
| And just because it's been rebranded does not mean it's gone away. | ||
| It just means they are smarter with their tactics. | ||
| And we need to be smarter, being aware of that and deciding what we stand for, what freedoms we stand for, what values we stand for, and for opposing this. | ||
| So the fight is on, Steve. | ||
| It's not going away. | ||
| And just another thought was I met with probably a dozen Texas legislatures and I actually came away feeling there actually is hope because there were so many that are aware of the issue that are wanting to push back on this. | ||
| And it may be too late. | ||
| Like we never know what time scale we have to actually stand up and fight these issues. | ||
| But I believe that for Texas, there is a current opportunity. | ||
| There is a time with the concern politically to fight back on this. | ||
| Peter, when I first got and started getting involved in politics, I guess after I made the Reagan film back in 2004, 2005, but it was really 2008, 9 after the financial crash where Dayby started making other films. | ||
| I realized that in doing analysis of what was happening in the United Kingdom, and I was trying to put together a film that never came about because I couldn't get financing for it on the Islamification of the United States, like I saw happening in England. | ||
| And this is when I met Raheem. | ||
| And Raheem was one of the great firebrands of this. | ||
| That's what he really became known for. | ||
| People laughed at us about London, laughed in our face. | ||
| Never happened here. | ||
| It's not going to happen here. | ||
| This is just something we're taking in from the empire. | ||
| This will never happen. | ||
| They'll never have any power. | ||
| People, some of the smartest people in the city of London, looked at me and laughed in my face. | ||
| Some of the smartest people in media over there in politics laughed in my face. | ||
| And look at Sadiq Khan in London today. | ||
| And that is an example. | ||
| That's the exact example that ma'am Donnie uses in what they're trying to do to they're going to turn New York into something worse than London. | ||
| But they're always wrong. | ||
| And yes, some people are waking up in Texas, but it's really the grassroots. | ||
| And the politicians haven't done enough. | ||
| If this thing, I'm going to get Guandolo over the weekend. | ||
| This $90 million in taxpayer money going to fund this, this has to be stopped. | ||
| If you don't stop this now, if you don't stop it now, history shows us. | ||
| And look at Paris, look at London, look at Brussels, look at Germany. | ||
| If you don't take Poland and you don't take Hungary as an example, if you don't have the courage to say, we're not going to let this happen, and we don't care what you call us, we don't care what you do to us, we don't care about any of it, we're going to stop it. | ||
| Texas is a target. | ||
| Why is Texas a target? | ||
| Why do we spend so much time in the world in Texas? | ||
| Why? | ||
| As Texas goes, so goes the nation. | ||
| And as the nation goes, so goes the world. | ||
| And Texas is a jewel. | ||
| You know, it's a jewel of a state and people with resources and talent and determination. | ||
| That's why they've targeted. | ||
| They've got New York City. | ||
| They've got New York City. | ||
| They've taken New York City like they've taken London. | ||
| And now they're going for the hinterland of this country, the beating heart of what it means to be an American. | ||
| And that is the great state of Texas. | ||
| Peter, I want everybody to read this article over at Jim Hoff's Gateway Pundit. | ||
| I want to thank Jim for having the courage to put it up. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| You got your show, media, you got all your social media. | ||
| Where do people get you? | ||
| So then go at Hearts of Oak UK on X and Hearts of Oak everywhere else. | ||
| And follow me as the wonderful Brad Thayer. | ||
| And he was with me just a few days ago on our show. | ||
| But can I just make that this is economic jihad? | ||
| The halal food industry is worth $4 trillion worldwide. | ||
| The Sharia finance is worth $5 trillion. | ||
| Those are both growing at between 10 and 15 percent. | ||
| This is economics. | ||
| And this is what we can't just face this on a religious angle, but we need to face it on an economic angle. | ||
| And that is key. | ||
| The supply meets the demand, and the demand is there. | ||
| What did Lennon say about the capitalists and the Marxists? | ||
| He said they'll sell us the rope with which we'll hang them. | ||
| The exact same thing here. | ||
| The exact same thing here. | ||
| Peter, thank you so much for being with us to kick us off on a Saturday morning, my favorite show of the week. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
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| We're now going to pivot to the hemispheric chessboard of what it means, where we stand, and what's going to happen potentially over the next 72 to 90 hours. | ||
| Also, President Trump's efforts to stop the Third World War. | ||
| We're going to get into domestic policy in the second hour. | ||
| But President Trump was handed a mess on the economy, but particularly the Third World War. | ||
| And he's trying to work through it all in the war room. | ||
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| Yeah, for the last 50 years in U.S., K-12, and higher education, we've been taught all religions are the same. | ||
| And so the American people are a generous people of the mind, and they bought into that. | ||
| The fact is, that's not true. | ||
| Christianity is the only major religion that encapsulates human reason. | ||
| To prove that, it's fairly simple. | ||
| Name an Islamic University right now. | ||
| Why does this matter? | ||
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| Plato turned into Augustine. | ||
| Aristotle turned into Aquinas. | ||
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| The Catholics gave us human rights language in the 13th century. | ||
| Islam did not, and they do not. | ||
| Instead, what does Islam offer us? | ||
| You had it on your show. | ||
| They offer us Islamic advocacy hubs. | ||
| They're offering us a political and aggressive political agenda, and that's it. | ||
| What are they offering us as Americans that's good for us? | ||
| Are they offering an expansion of education, of human reason, of democracy? | ||
| And the answer is no across the board. | ||
| And so the American people better get on this. | ||
| Also, to realize philosophy is dead, right? | ||
| You cannot name a modern philosopher of any note at Harvard, Yale, Princeton. | ||
| That's a tragedy. | ||
| And so if there's no philosophy, then guess what? | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| The only game left in town is, and it is religion. | ||
| So you better choose your religion very carefully. | ||
| Christianity, we do not view as an ideology. | ||
| We believe it is the truth. | ||
| And upon that truth, we've established American greatness. | ||
| And just in closing, if you fail to choose that greatness, which Europe has through England, the churches, France, Germany, et cetera, you see the economic decline, the political decline, and the rise of political Islam and the loss of all the institutions that made them great. | ||
| Only Poland, only Poland, Hungary, and the nations they've inspired are holding the line. | ||
| This is why they're free and they're happy and they're safe. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Because they held the line. | ||
| Paris and France, a disaster. | ||
| England, a disaster. | ||
| Brussels, a disaster. | ||
| Germany, a disaster. | ||
| Italy getting to be a disaster. | ||
| All for the same reason. | ||
| Gutless elites who would not sit there and say, no, this is not going to happen on our watch. | ||
| That's why we need to get focused and focused on this now. | ||
| Let me pivot now. | ||
| I want to go to the hemispheric defense. | ||
| President Trump understands and is pivoting here to make sure that we're not just on endless wars on the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| Unfortunately, he got dumped on him. | ||
| That would have never happened on his watch. | ||
| They didn't happen in his first term. | ||
| was all Biden and the globalists. | ||
| Let's play the, I got a clip of Cortez in Argentina. | ||
| I want to talk about that first before we talk about all Latin America and particularly what's happening in Venezuela. | ||
| Let's go ahead and hit it. | ||
| Argentina just got a backstop from the United States. | ||
| And this is not charity. | ||
| It's a smart strategic bet on a rising ally in our own backyard, our hemisphere. | ||
| President Trump and Treasury Secretary Besant, they know exactly what they're doing. | ||
| Besant, he's not some Beltway bureaucrat. | ||
| He's one of the sharpest capital markets minds on the planet. | ||
| So if he's backing Argentina, pay attention. | ||
| This isn't Zelensky. | ||
| It's not some tyrant who's constantly begging for ever more handouts from America into a black hole halfway around the world. | ||
| This is Argentina in the Americas. | ||
| This is a pan-American beachhead for prosperity. | ||
| Now, America First doesn't stop at our borders. | ||
| It starts with stabilizing our hemisphere. | ||
| And we don't need another failed Latin state exporting chaos and caravans to the United States. | ||
| Here's also what a lot of Americans don't know. | ||
| Argentina at one time, it was richer, wealthier than the United States. | ||
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These people, they do know how to win, but it's lacked leadership. | |
| Now, it has Millay, bold, relentless, an economic realist, a true disruptor. | ||
| Can he make, can Millay make Argentina great again? | ||
| Well, it's already happening. | ||
| And this time, America is betting on the right horse here in Argentina. | ||
| Okay, Besson, our good friend and former colleague and contributor, gets a little testy when we call this a bailout. | ||
| Why is this? | ||
| I'd love what you said, but back it up. | ||
| Why is this just not a bailout for the failed economic policies of one of these libertarians that has all these crazy ideas, sir? | ||
| Yeah, it is not a bailout because it's a backstop. | ||
| It is essentially a bet. | ||
| And I don't know if Secretary Bessing would want to use that term, but that's really what it is. | ||
| A bet to say we are going to provide liquidity, use the faith and credit of the United States to step into a moment where there is legitimate fear that hedge funds around the world may attack Argentina in a critical moment because of political instability, and that they could perhaps disrupt the recovery, which is extremely strong. | ||
| Inflation, finally, which has been the scourge of Argentina for decades. | ||
| Inflation is finally getting under control because of what Millet is doing there. | ||
| So for both strategic reasons, but as well as the angle of a smart economic bet, the United States is saying we will provide a backstop. | ||
| This is not a transfer of funds. | ||
| This is not a charity giveaway. | ||
| This is nothing like what we're doing, for example, with Zelensky. | ||
| And so far, by the way, the bet is working. | ||
| Not only are we not losing money, we're actually making money on it by providing stability there. | ||
| And, you know, and looking at the geopolitics here, Argentina is the most significant major nation right now in all of Latin America, a place where things are starting to go our way because of President Trump and because of America First foreign policy. | ||
| But things went disastrously against us during the Biden administration. | ||
| You now have radical leftist regimes, of course, in Venezuela being the worst of all, but also in Brazil, in Chile, in Colombia, in Honduras, in Mexico, all over Latin America. | ||
| And you might say, well, wait, why does this matter to us as America First people? | ||
| Well, it matters critically because we know that when Latin states fail, inevitably it ends up in a migrant crisis for the United States. | ||
| For example, if you look at the illegal alien crimes across America, many of the worst ones are Venezuelans because Maduro emptied his mental institutions, his prisons, sent the worst hombres possible here to the United States. | ||
| So both because we should care about our hemisphere, I think a modern Monroe doctrine makes sense, but also out of pure self-interest, we want to have allies, friends, stability in Latin America. | ||
| That's what Argentina brings right now. | ||
| And I really believe it is the beachhead at the other end of the Americas from the United States to begin what's really going to be, I think, a sweeping revival of patriotic populist nationalism across Latin America, where the populist right is ascendant but needs some help, some push from the United States. | ||
| Okay, this is what the Gates Gates is in El Salvador, and he made the case, I think he's in El Salvador last night on the show in a brilliant kind of breaking it down. | ||
| Just make the case, I know you get a bounce, make the case why President Trump looks at hemispheric defense. | ||
| His security architecture is what I call Monroe Doctrine 2.0 with testosterone. | ||
| And specifically, you're of Colombian descent, specifically about this situation in Venezuela and what we could be looking at in the next 72 to 90 hours, sir. | ||
| Yes, and when we look at Colombia, for example, my ancestral homeland, unfortunately, their leftist radical President Petro, who, you know, by all accounts is personally unstable, involved probably in substance abuse, certainly rules from the presidential palace in a horrific way for the Colombian people, increasingly becoming allied with the Maduro regime, even though the refugees from Venezuela are one of the biggest problems that he faces at home in Colombia. | ||
| We're going to have a chance to beat him in about six months. | ||
| He can't run again, but beat his party in about six months at the ballot box. | ||
| And I'm confident that will happen. | ||
| But again, that's why I'm saying stabilizing Argentina will also lead to victories in places like Colombia at the end of this month, perhaps a victory in Honduras. | ||
| And all of this matters to the United States. | ||
| And regarding President Trump and his bombing of these boats, which I think is both strategic and legal and smart, he is telling the narco-terrorists across the region that you are in danger when you engage in your activities. | ||
| And not just if you happen to come into the United States, you are in the open waters and perhaps even within countries like Venezuela. | ||
| So he's taken a very aggressive posture, which I think is necessary. | ||
| Unfortunately, what Biden did was a massive transfer of wealth and power to some of the worst organizations on earth, particularly the narco-gangs, the cartels in Mexico, but really all over Latin America. | ||
| And President Trump is taking, and you're exactly correct, a muscular stance and saying, not only are we not going to stand for this, but you're going to start feeling the wrath of the United States when you are inflicting pain and misery upon our people. | ||
| But make that, look, Argentina, we're using the economic power of the United States. | ||
| And Scott Besson's doing a very smart deal there. | ||
| It's a backstop, not a bailout, although people are saying we're your backstopping some of these hedge funds, but it looks like it turned around. | ||
| Particularly, the guy won the election and Millet is in a better strategic position. | ||
| You've got the narco-terrorists. | ||
| Some people are saying, yeah, but Maduro is a nation state, whether he stole the election or not, right? | ||
| Which he obviously did. | ||
| It's a nation state. | ||
| And you've got a carrier battle group, carrier strike force off the coast. | ||
| Plus, you've got an amphibious ready group with 4,000 sailors and fleet Marines. | ||
| You're not down there just to take out speedboats. | ||
| Make the case about how do you go after a sovereign nation? | ||
| As bad as that sovereign nation is, sir. | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, listen, I'm not trying to make the case for all-out war against a sovereign nation. | ||
| And I, for one, believe that that requires going to Congress to do that properly. | ||
| But strategically taking out narco-terrorists, even if they are domiciled within a sovereign nation state, I think that is absolutely smart, strategic, and permissible by the law. | ||
| I would give you as an example what we did to Osama bin Laden, who was certainly being harbored by at least some elements within the Pakistani authority structure, but we didn't hesitate. | ||
| We didn't ask permission from anybody in Islamabad or Karachi to go after him. | ||
| So I would think it's a similar kind of construct here. | ||
| If there are known terrorists who are direct dangers to the United States, who are poisoning the people of the United States, and we can effectively take strategic shots at them, that makes sense. | ||
| I'm not talking at all about wholesale nation versus nation fighting. | ||
| Before you leave, you got a minute. | ||
| Make the case, hemispheric defense, of really the Monroe Doctrine 2.0. | ||
| Why is Argentina like a jewel, one of the jewels in the crown, sir? | ||
| Yeah, I'll tell you, so I got to spend the whole week there. | ||
| It's an incredible place. | ||
| Anyone who's been there knows this, that it reminds you a lot of Europe. | ||
| The streets of Buenos Aires largely look like Paris or Madrid. | ||
| There's great human capital there. | ||
| But in addition to that, and this is perhaps even more important in today's era, are the minerals and resources that they have in the ground, but particularly critical minerals. | ||
| So Argentina is a perfect opportunity for both that country, but also for the United States to leverage and to fully employ the strategic minerals that we need for a modern digital economy and separate ourselves from China. | ||
| It's a fantastic opportunity to both benefit our country, benefit the Argentines, and at the same time, end our reliance and dependence on China. | ||
| So critical minerals, the natural resources, the human capital of that country employs. | ||
| It has all the ingredients to become incredibly successful again as it was over a century ago. | ||
| I think it just needs a bit of help from the United States. | ||
| Steve Cortez, where do people get your films, your coordinates on social media, all of it? | ||
| Yeah, please find me, Cortez Investigates, Cortez with an S at the end, CortezInvestigates.com. | ||
| All of my docs and information are there, including my new Maha documentary. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Okay, let me go to Rome. | ||
| I'm going to get Harnwell in a little bit later about what's happening in Ukraine in the Middle East. | ||
| But Ben, you and Brother Cortez had a bounce. | ||
| I take it you disagree quite strongly with Steve Cortez, sir? | ||
| I do, Steve, because you're sort of tickling out to me my inner, I hate to say it, but my inner libertarian instincts on this one. | ||
| You know, Steve Cortez says that this is a backstop and not a bailout. | ||
| And that might be true technically. | ||
| My main problem here is that it fundamentally seems to me to be setting up what was called in political philosophy as a moral hazard. | ||
| So if you have the United States here backstopping the Argentine peso for 20 billion, the whole point of having a free-floating currency is that it's a single hazard. | ||
| Full stop, full stop, full stop, full stop. | ||
| Moral hazard was a term in Generation Zero I put out when I made the film. | ||
| It's about 2008 and the financial crash. | ||
| Explain to the audience what is moral hazard. | ||
| Moral hazard is where you, in this case, it's where you socialize the risks but privatize the profits. | ||
| The best example would be, Steve, if you were at a casino and I said to you, look, bet all the money you want. | ||
| Any losses you make, I will underwrite them. | ||
| I, Ben Hahn, will underwrite your losses. | ||
| But any winnings you get on the blackjack table, you get to keep those. | ||
| The consequence of moral hazard is that it encourages more risky behavior. | ||
| And that's fundamentally the issue here. | ||
| And also as you get involved, you start to own it. | ||
| Once you do this with the whole Bear Stearns-Lehman Brothers. | ||
| Of course, of course. | ||
| You bail out Bear Stearns. | ||
| Well, you got to bail out Lehman Brothers. | ||
| They can still be risky. | ||
| And you just sit there and go, no, we got to stop the merry-go-round. | ||
| It collapses. | ||
| The whole system collapses. | ||
| Is that your problem with Argentina? | ||
| Look, yes. | ||
| But let's go back to, I think it's the 16th of September 1992. | ||
| This is an event scarred on every Briton's heart. | ||
| And that's when the United Kingdom was humiliatingly ejected from the exchange rate mechanism, which is the precursor to the single currency, the Euro. | ||
| The British government, the British Treasury, sacrificed billions and billions of sterling to try to defend the pound at an unsustainable rate. | ||
| And you know who the primary beneficiary? | ||
| This is the irony, right, of where we are now. | ||
| The primary beneficiary of that who gambled against the pound and made, I think that was where he really made his millions was George Solos. | ||
| And who was his principal fund advisor then? | ||
| Scott Besant. | ||
| If America is going to do this, right? | ||
| If America is going to do this. | ||
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| Well, look, if America is going to do this, Steve, there is no one I would rather have at Treasury than Scott Besson, because he lived through that. | ||
| I think he made a lot of money out of the humiliation of Sterling himself. | ||
| So Scott Besson is definitely a guy who knows how these things work. | ||
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But I wouldn't go anywhere near it for the whole thing. | |
| I'm not a big Millay fan, but because I'm not a libertarian. | ||
| However, it was a strategically determined, strategically important by the Trump second term that we had to have this guy continue. | ||
| He did win. | ||
| It looks so far looks like a brilliant move, but you're right. | ||
| Scott was very involved on the trading desk, breaking the British pound and the Bank of England. | ||
| Stick around, Ben. | ||
| We're going to get into more of this. | ||
| Mike Lindell, understand you've got some personal things you got to deal with today. | ||
| We're going to get you on a little early. | ||
| The war room posse is sitting there going, we want to talk Black Friday. | ||
| We want our deals for Christmas and we want them now. | ||
| What do you got for us? | ||
| Yeah, Steve, I wanted a quick pull over here to give the weekend war room posse the same deal they got all week with the other with the other other days. | ||
| And this is an early Black Friday special. | ||
| We're only doing it for the War Room posse. | ||
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| You guys, there's five different kinds of blankets from throw blankets, every size for your bed, cashmere, police blankets, you name it. | ||
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| Steve, thanks for letting me on. | ||
| Letting the war room weekend warriors get these specials. | ||
| We're not going to allow that radical Muslim attorney general in Minnesota to shut down a company based on Christian principles. | ||
| Not going to happen. | ||
| Not going to happen on our watch. | ||
| I don't care how hard you come after Lindell. | ||
| And not going to let these demons are always trying to take him down. | ||
| People, it's a company built upon Christian values. | ||
| Mike Lindell was a, he was a mid, a degenerate until he met, to take God and Jesus Christ as his savior. | ||
| He turned around his life. | ||
| He took an idea and made it into a great company. | ||
| And now you've got all these demons, particularly this Attorney General, Minnesota, is one of the most evil guys in the country trying to take you down. | ||
| Not going to happen on our watch. | ||
| We don't care what we have to do, Mike, to support you. | ||
| We will support you because the people at your company are too good and you're too good a man, sir. | ||
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| And my employees, thank everybody at the war room. | ||
| You guys, they've attacked my pillow with Arctic Frost. | ||
| And like Steve said, the Attorney General of Minnesota now coming at us in full force. | ||
| He does, he wants to shut us down. | ||
| They don't want my pillow here. | ||
| They don't want our values and they don't want my employees to continue on. | ||
| And this USAID company and they don't want your Christian network, your network of therapy centers that's Christ-centered about turning people's lives around from drugs and alcohol. | ||
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| We can fight back by helping someone in your family get off addiction and get to our Lord and Savior, Jesus. | ||
| Christ. | ||
| Good lesson today, Mike. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Thanks, Mike Lindell. | ||
| Brandon Weichert is with us, a geopolitical thinker, one of the smartest guys around. | ||
| Dr. Bradley Thayer is with us. | ||
| Jack Basobic is going to join us. | ||
| We got Harnwell in Rome. | ||
| We got Dave Bratt here in the United States. | ||
| We're going to get our hands around all of this as President Trump pivots to domestic policy and economics. | ||
| But he's got to deal with. | ||
| You just can't look away from the Third World War you got and also the pivot to hemispheric defense. | ||
| And oh, by the way, we have a ticking time bomb in New York City and in Texas. | ||
| Remember this. | ||
| Can't look away. | ||
| If you look away now, you're going to lose the country. | ||
| Look at Poland and look at Hungary. | ||
| We'll talk to Basobic that in a second hour. | ||
| Very short commercial break, like 120 seconds. | ||
| Then we're back in for the second hour of a Saturday war room. |
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