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Feb. 25, 2026 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 5167: The Legacy Of Angel Moms And Need For Strong Immigration; Pre Game To State Of The Union

Donald Trump’s White House lunch with "new media" anchors like Matt Boyle and Alex Marlowe previewed bold economic moves—potential tax cuts via executive action—and Iran negotiations in Geneva, framing his 2024 agenda around border security and sanctuary city opposition amid rising crime tied to illegal immigration. Boyle highlighted the emotional Angel Moms event, where families of victims like Joshua Wilkerson and Javier Vega Jr. demanded action, contrasting it with mainstream media’s alleged avoidance of hard truths. With tariffs under Supreme Court scrutiny threatening U.S. dollar stability, Patrick urged Trump to balance growth with debt discipline despite record GDP, employment, and energy gains. Mike Lindell’s Minnesota gubernatorial bid tied election fraud claims to economic revival, offering Warroom-exclusive discounts on MyPillow products while pushing the Save America Act—a strategy linking voter distrust to policy priorities. Texas primaries and State of the Union reactions will follow, with Bannon anchoring later coverage. [Automatically generated summary]

Participants
Main
m
matthew boyle
12:46
s
steve bannon
r 14:02
Appearances
b
ben bergquam
00:43
d
david french
00:56
d
donald j trump
admin 00:46
j
jonathan karl
abc 00:42
k
katy tur
msnow 00:31
m
marie vega
00:48
m
mike lindell
r 02:42
p
phillip patrick
04:11
s
stephanie ruhle
msnow 02:35
t
tim miller
01:30
Clips
a
allyson phillips
00:11
e
ethan curreri
00:21
j
jake tapper
cnn 00:09
j
jody jones
00:12
l
laura wilkerson
00:08
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Speaker Time Text
Big Announcement on Tax Cut 00:15:12
katy tur
You got a little bit out of the president today regarding an announcement he's going to make tonight regarding a new tax cut.
What did he say?
stephanie ruhle
We did.
I just joined a number of other anchors from a variety of networks, and we had a long lunch with the president, most of which was off the record.
But as you just said, the president is polling very poorly as it relates to the economy.
Well, he is definitely not hearing that because tonight, get ready, he plans to announce that we are going into what he believes will be the three greatest years in our country's economic history, and we're just getting started.
We should expect he is going to announce some sort of tax cut proposal that will be both corporate and personal, but it's not going to be a traditional tax cut, meaning he's not going to have to get Congress involved.
So they said, get ready.
It'll be in a different format.
Obviously, Iran was a very hot topic.
All of us have been saying we're going to get a big announcement.
We're going to get a big announcement.
It doesn't seem like something immediate, but what he did say was, Iran wants a deal more than we do.
However, they're unwilling to say the magic phrase, which is, we will stop producing nuclear weapons.
And for him, that's what this whole thing is about.
Besides the tax cut announcement, there will be a few other economic announcements.
And he also hinted at this rate payer protection plan, which he's most likely going to announce with a bunch of tech companies tonight.
Remember, these are the tech companies building the huge data centers around the country.
And you've reported on it.
Many of the communities where these data centers are being built are fighting back against it.
Just last week, there was a community in New Jersey that fought and won to not have a data center be built there.
Well, tonight they're going to announce some sort of agreement with these tech companies that once these data centers are complete, they will be responsible for paying their own electricity bills for those areas because that's the big issue.
That the amount of electricity that they use is a huge drain on the community and it's jacking up everybody's electric bills.
So I believe what we're going to hear is some sort of an announcement that those companies who are building those AI centers will be covering the costs.
katy tur
State of the Unions tonight, and the president is going to try to address the economy.
He's going to come out with some proposals, including another tax cut, which I'm sure anybody who's a deficit hawk is going to be so excited about.
But as we were talking about, he's everywhere.
He's everywhere all the time.
So how much does a state of the union from the president really matter?
tim miller
It doesn't matter at all.
Sorry.
I know that's not what you're supposed to say on cable news, probably as a pundit, but it doesn't matter at all.
There is not any evidence recently that there have been state of the unions that really mattered.
I think you go back to George W. Bush and the Axis of Evil, basically, probably is the last State of the Union speech that had any real impact at all because it had a real impact on policy going forward and foreign policy in a pretty negative way.
So look, he's going to talk for a very long time tonight.
So I'm going to try to get comfy watching it.
But like the only thing that he could do to improve his political standing is improve the lives of people.
People are moving away from him.
This is where I do kind of quibble with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I don't really think people are moving away from him because he's tweeting too much and shouting too much.
Most people are used to that.
Like people are moving away from him because they don't like the policies.
They don't like the tariffs that raise prices.
They don't like the aggressive immigration enforcement, the murdering of U.S. citizens.
They don't like that he seems to care more about a new ballroom in the White House than about the costs that are affecting regular people's lives.
I don't think they want war with Iran, which he is planning.
So that's his problem.
I don't think it's the fact that he is annoying everybody.
I mean, he is annoying me personally.
unidentified
I don't know.
tim miller
To me, I thought the Marjorie Taylor Greene argument that Donald Trump was betraying the America first base by not focusing enough on the concerns of Americans.
I thought that was a much more salient critique of Trump than this one that you displayed.
katy tur
Did you get the sense of leaning toward a strike or something more?
stephanie ruhle
I got the sense that he's ready.
Do I feel like it's imminent?
I definitely cannot answer that.
But listen, they were positioned and ready to go in Venezuela for quite some time.
And I think when we think about what the president's going to talk about tonight, I'm sure he's going to talk about the strike on Iran last year, which he would say was extraordinarily successful.
I think we're going to see a similar sentiment when he talks about what happened in Venezuela.
And while I don't think and we don't know that we're going to see something happen in the next 24 hours in Iran, he made it clear they want a deal more than he wants a deal, but it's all about nuclear.
And unless they are willing to say no new nuclear, there's no deal to be had.
david french
What we saw in Trump 1.0 was Americans got tired of it by the end.
Trump 2.0 has been more exhausting than Trump 1.0 because he's so much less restrained.
Trump 1.0, had he not had a cadre of people in the administration that were constantly throwing their bodies in front of his worst instincts, then there would not be the nostalgia that a lot of people had for that first Trump term.
But now he's unrestrained.
He's surrounded by sycophants.
He's surrounded by yes men.
And nobody's throwing their body in front of his worst policy instincts.
And so now we're looking at a situation where even on his best issues, he's now getting close to 20 points underwater.
But asking him to do anything different is like just asking him not to be Donald Trump.
This is what we are stuck with.
This is what we are going to deal with absent impeachment and conviction, which isn't happening for another three years.
So it's incumbent upon us to hang on as best we can during the remaining three years of this ride.
jonathan karl
Hey, I just left the White House or I'm just leaving now.
The president did a lunch with network news anchors and offered a bit of a preview of his speech.
One notable thing, we did talk about Iran.
He said that Iran wants a deal more than I do, but they just can't say the magic words, which he said was that they won't build a bomb.
The president said he's going to talk a lot about the economy, and he's going to call for new tax cuts tonight.
And he's going to say that the next three years in America will be the best years economically that we've ever had.
And he's going to say, or he told us, it's already begun.
So that's here at the White House, just leaving lunch with the president and network anchors.
steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on this people.
Here's not got a 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 try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big line?
MAGA media.
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
steve bannon
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon
It's Tuesday, 24 February, year of our Lord, 2026.
Tonight is the really technically the first State of the Union address of the second term.
Of course, he had an update to Congress last year, a couple of weeks after the inauguration.
Breitbart's chief national political editor, Matt Boyle, the famous Matt Bull, joins us.
Matt Bull, rumor has it we want to break some news here in the war room.
Rumor has it that you were actually in the broadcast anchors lunch today at the invitation of the president of the United States.
Is there any truth to that rumor?
matthew boyle
Yes, it is true.
Alex Marlowe and I were there from Breitbart.
We were the only two journalists in the room who do not work at a television network.
Breitbart has many things, but we are not a television network.
So it was a historic moment.
And I think a major commitment by President Trump, Vice President Vance, and the entire White House team, including Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt and Communications Director Stephen Chung, as well as White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and everybody else on the team to something we've seen throughout this first year back in his second term, that they are working with the new media.
And we weren't the only new media outlets there.
Newsmax was there as well, and so was NewsNation.
So it was great to see an expanded room.
The president, presidents of both parties have traditionally done this on the afternoon before they deliver a State of the Union address.
They host the nation's top journalists and broadcast anchors and whatnot for a lunch at the White House where they go through the speech.
And, you know, oftentimes it's entirely off the record.
Sometimes pieces of it will come out and they'll talk about issues of the day.
It tends to be a very free-flowing discussion and whatnot.
I've heard about these for a long time.
I've never been to one.
So it was an honor.
And I want to thank the president and his entire team for inviting us.
It was quite an experience.
I sat right across the table from the president and talked to him about a number of different things.
So did everybody else in the room.
You know, the reports you just played from like Stephanie Ruley there at MS Now, I guess is what they call it.
It used to be MSNBC.
And Jonathan Carl, those are accurate reports, I would say, of what happened in the room and what he talked about.
There was definitely a lot of discussion about Iran and what a potential thing would look like if we did engage in a strike and what the negotiations are like back and forth.
There's a lot of focus on upcoming on Thursday.
There's big negotiations happening in Geneva.
It's true.
He did say he believes that Iran wants a deal more than he does, but he also would like to see a deal work.
But also he's not sure if Iran can agree to the big picture question, which is no nuclear weapons.
So what a potential action looks like, how that would shake out, et cetera.
You know, all kind of TBD.
In addition to that, he also told us, the president did tell us that he intends to push for more tax relief.
There was one little detail there that I think that Stephanie Rule said about not going to Congress with it.
They were kind of unclear, both he and the White House staff, about exactly what the package would look like, if it would be another reconciliation or if it would be a tax bill or something like that before Congress or if it would be an executive action.
I'm not entirely sure if what that's going to look like.
But he did say that it would be much more of a focus for individuals than corporate tax rates, but it would also be something that helps corporations as well.
So exactly what that looks like, we'll see.
We'll put it this way, there's likely to be a lot of surprises and a lot of focus on particular individuals who have served the country well tonight as well.
So I think that's going to be interesting.
One other thing he mentioned to us, I think, is that he, You know, I don't know if this will end up being the case or not because Trump tends to go very long in speeches, but he mentioned something about going shorter.
So, um, so we'll see if that ends up being the case or not.
So, um, uh, who knows?
That was right at the very outside of the lunch.
steve bannon
So, we're gonna, I know everything in this confidential, and it's really stunning that you were invited because this is always just the broadcast.
This is not guys that working broadcast TV.
These are like the anchors.
It's it's supposed to be the biggest.
It's always been, you know, Walter Cronkite going over or Tom Brokaw or Huntley Brinkley, right?
Or Eric Severite, people like that at that level.
Um, the president yesterday, we're going to talk about this in the next block after we finish with this, that, you know, he's shaking his head saying, I don't know how these people, the media doesn't support us taking out the bad ombres.
When you're in the room, the contentious relationship of President Trump and the media is at an all-time high.
This is not the days when Cronkite could go over and advise, you know, Jack Kennedy what was happening.
matthew boyle
Just put us in the room, and I don't want to give him a confidence, but it was a cordial atmosphere without revealing any particular things or particular people or discussions or anything like that.
I will say it was a very cordial atmosphere, right?
I talked to many of the people personally in the room.
I mean, these are folks that, you know, I mean, we've had contentious stuff with Breitbart over the years, but they were all very nice to me.
I was trying to be nice to everybody, and they were all very nice to President Trump.
So I don't know if that's just a nature of like the historic, you know, setting and whatnot.
This was in the state dining room at the White House, right?
Like, and they took us up the, you know, normal, I've never been in there before, right?
Like, I know, I've been to the White House, you know, dozens of times over the years, Trump's first term and now in his second term.
I've never been in the state dining room.
So that was really cool, like going in that door.
But it was a very cordial, happy, you know, uplifting meeting.
Nobody was really nasty to each other, to the president or his team.
It was all very, you know, nice.
And so now, look, we'll see how that's reflected in coverage later down here.
unidentified
Yeah.
I'm sure it won't change.
steve bannon
President Trump was nice and gave him a good lunch in a classy, in a classy historic room, but it won't change.
Anyway, Matt, hang on.
We're going to get more into this.
Your thoughts on the State of the Union.
Also, the Angel Moms.
They're going to go back and revisit it because Matt Boyle was there at the beginning.
And there is a story to be told.
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Short break.
Boyle on the other side.
unidentified
Here's your host, Stephen K. Battle.
steve bannon
Matt, I know you're running a live blog tonight over Breitbart.
We'll be following it.
Give us your assessment.
Give us a couple of minutes.
White House Welcome? 00:06:58
steve bannon
You know the president better than anybody, any reporter out there.
You went to the lunch.
What's your assessment of what's going to happen at the State of the Union tonight?
matthew boyle
Yeah, well, he's going to strike a chord with the economy here, right?
So he, you know, there's a lot of good signs out there in the economic data at a macro level.
GDP numbers, jobs numbers, the wages numbers, the inflation's down and cooling, right?
Like, and there's a lot of good big picture signs economically, but how does he convince the American public that the economy is coming back and doing strongly now?
And, you know, yes, he's right that he, when he always says that he inherited a massive mess.
But, you know, how does he connect the dots here for the average American and get them on board with that?
So I think you heard Stephanie Ruley talk about how he's going to talk about how the next three years are going to be the best economic years we've ever had as a nation.
And he's got to convince people that's the case.
And so I think you're going to see him make specific policy announcements this evening.
And some of them you've already started seeing, like I mentioned, the tax stuff that we're going to probably see.
You're also going to see them really focus on what they're calling a ratepayer protection plan.
This came out in the Wall Street Journal and several senior White House staff confirmed this to us as well as we were leaving a few hours after we got there.
And particularly what that is, is that as they're building these data centers, they understand there are huge electricity costs on this.
So they have apparently worked out a deal with the tech companies where the tech companies have agreed to cover the entire cost of all the electricity that's going to be needed for their data centers in their communities.
So people's electricity bills do not go up.
And I think that that's a huge deal.
I think you'll also see him really focus on energy.
Everybody I'm talking to across the administration, whether it's these folks we were with today or other folks, you know, I was just in Greece last week, as you know, where we did a big event with Ambassador Guilfoyle.
She's here in Washington this week.
I know that they're very much focused on energy, expanding the exportation of American energy, energy dominance in every respect.
I know the president is very happy with his entire cabinet.
And so I think that particularly people like Secretaries Wright and Bergham and their focus on energy and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as well.
So I think that you will very likely see a big focus on energy tonight and also on immigration.
I think that immigration, never forget that immigration is the central issue on why Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and again in 2024.
It's the heart of this, the beating heart of this movement is that people want to have a country with secure borders where people won't get killed by illegal aliens who shouldn't be in our country to begin with.
And this is, you saw the White House do a massive event yesterday with the Angel families.
I'll tell you this, it came up during the lunch, again, without revealing any individual people and specific things.
I know the president was very happy with the places that did cover that event, and he was a little perplexed with some of the outlets that didn't.
And so it's a huge part of the story.
And I agree with the president and his team wholeheartedly that covering these angel family stories is very important.
What happened with those folks, it's just disgusting that these people are in this country to be able to do this.
You saw this last year where he brought Lake and Riley's family to the joint address last year.
And I think Jocelyn Nungare's family, right?
So I think you're going to see more of a focus on that from this administration because this is a real human cost of illegal immigration and crime.
And by the way, that's another thing.
I wouldn't be surprised.
We didn't talk about it at the lunch today.
Nobody really brought this up.
But I wouldn't be surprised.
One of the biggest successes of this administration is that crime statistics are down significantly, like violent crimes, et cetera.
I've done a bunch of stories with the FBI on this, and I think that I wouldn't be surprised.
Now, again, I have no inside information about this in particular, because again, we didn't address this today, but I wouldn't be surprised if you don't see a big focus on crime and particularly illegal immigration in the speech tonight, because those are some of the big successes of the Trump administration.
steve bannon
Now that you mentioned a couple of networks did cover the beginning of the event and all the way through the president's remarks and then cut away, Real America's Voice was the only network that covered the reading of the names and then this magnificent singing of Amazing Grace.
And the president really almost being too choked up, he went up and I think he was going to say a few closing words and then he just waved to the audience and went back to be commander-in-chief.
Matt, since you know the beginning of the story, I want to go ahead and play this and I would ask, since we're producing in real time here, we're going to have to blow the brake because I want to play this in its entirety.
Let's go ahead and play a kind of a summary composition of yesterday's.
And it was such an important moment for President Trump because it goes back to the beginning of this movement that he's still talking about it today.
As Matt said, they even brought it up at the broadcast lunch because it's top of mind with him.
Let's go ahead and play it in its entirety.
We'll blow the break and bring Matt Bull back in.
ben bergquam
I'm going to be joining angel families who have had their family members killed by illegal aliens.
And today we remember and celebrate them.
unidentified
Good morning.
Welcome to the White House, right this way.
donald j trump
Throughout this hall, I am joined by heartbroken Americans who have lost parents, siblings, children, grandchildren, and treasured loved ones too.
The scourge of illegal immigration.
Lacan Hope Riley went out for a run.
Lacan was viciously attacked, brutally beaten and murdered by an illegal alien gang member.
allyson phillips
If you've lived the nightmare that we have lived, you understand the importance of the job that he's doing and securing our nation because this could be any family.
This happened to my family.
This could be any one of your families.
ethan curreri
While serving the New York City Police Department, I personally arrested Jose Ibarra for endangering the welfare of a child.
A few months later, I saw his face again in the news after he viciously murdered Lake and Riley.
I did my job.
I put him in custody.
The system failed.
A Family's Nightmare 00:03:57
ethan curreri
We owe it to you and every American family to enforce our laws, secure our border, and protect innocent lives.
unidentified
We will now light a candle in honor of the victims in solidarity with their families.
Katie Abraham Chad Eistru.
marie vega
Austin Babcock.
Megan Elizabeth.
Ida Baz.
Jesse Bird.
Liam Cantu.
Michael Clayton.
Gail Clayton.
Sander Cohen.
Pierce Corcoran.
Ronald DeSilva.
Jackson Davis.
Christopher James DeLeon.
unidentified
Joseph Di Tommaso, Marshall Dova, Brady English, Shaley Estes Lacey, Marie Ferguson, Laura Garrity, Tristan Gray,
Kayla Hamilton, Aaron Joshua Hampton, Brady Heiling, Susan Hine, Haley Helgeson, Kyler Holbein, Gregory Hamala,
Gabriel Kaleshi, Isiguzzo Jr, Rocky Paul Jones, Shane Jones, Stephanie Kaufman, Haley King, Amy Cortling, Ryan White,
Brian Moss, Robert Mopin, Lisbeth Medina, Brandon Mendoza, Brandon Michael, Dominic Montoya, Jonathan Moody Jr,
Ruben Morfin, Rachel Morin, Krisha Odette, Nicolay Osocken, Rocco Pitrow, Laken Riley, Grant Ronebeck, Matthew Russell.
Shattered Lives 00:11:48
unidentified
Kayla Santiago, Danielle Nikki Shermock, Fred Schlosser, Tiara Stansbury, Kate Steinley, Joseph Story, Timmy Tarnowski,
marie vega
Brian Terry.
Anya Barfalomeev.
Javier Vega Jr.
Joshua Aaron Wilkerson.
Carlos Wolf.
Joseph Zhang Jr.
My husband, Javier Sr., was shot in the back.
Remember you all?
Children were there fishing with their friends.
And they just kept shooting.
You could hear the bullets just whizzing past you.
laura wilkerson
Our youngest son, Joshua, was brutally beaten, tortured, strangled to death, and his body set on fire.
jody jones
Democratic politicians stand up on these podiums and say how sorry they are for seeing these criminal illegal aliens being ripped apart from their families.
What about us?
What about the American family?
What about us?
donald j trump
My administration will do everything in our power to end the scourge of sanctuary cities once and for all.
They protect criminals.
unidentified
Why do people fight?
donald j trump
They protect criminals with a vengeance.
They fight for these criminals like murders, protecting murders.
They fight for them so hard.
I can't, there's something wrong with them.
So I'm going to go sign the proclamation.
ben bergquam
On behalf of the media, I just want to apologize to the angel moms and dads for the fake news media out there.
Even today, that cutaway while the names were being read.
How disgraceful.
How disgraceful.
If anyone we should be honoring, it's the American citizen, law-abiding American citizens who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, lost their family members to people that should have never been here in the first place.
phillip patrick
Tell their stories.
steve bannon
Matt, I want to thank Parker and Rob Seag, the entire Real America's Voice team.
One to let us blow the break there, but two, to show that in its entirety yesterday as we did.
Matt, I no doubt Stephanie Rule and Jake Tapper and Jonathan Carl and all the big shots of the mainstream media, they would have no earthly idea what the angel moms are or what this whole thing is.
You do, because I want to mention some other names.
Michelle Moons, Brandon Darby, Tony Lee, Matt Boyle, that back in 2013, when Breitbart first started covering the story and a little loan, and Joshua Wilkinson's mom became a major player in 14 in the victory of Dave Bratt over, because she just stood up at a microphone and told her story, and people were just as shocked as they were yesterday.
Her son beaten, tortured, strangled, then put a set of fire alive, burned to death, and then his charred remains thrown into a dumpster, and she has to live with that.
President Trump, as you remember, Matt, you cut forward a couple of years.
We've been covering this.
President Ford, after he announced for president, had that first debate.
I think it was in September 2015.
Not one Republican politician would step forward and take up their cause, and he did it.
And that's why they love him.
He got in the room, you remember.
He got in the room that day and just listened to their stories and they poured their hearts out.
And he didn't have any time.
He just moved everything off.
He wanted to hear this because he was so shocked about what he had heard.
He had just said two months before and he came down the escalator, we have to close the border.
We have to stop the rapists from coming.
You have to stop the murders.
And Don Lemon and CNN and everybody was mocking ridiculously.
unidentified
Who's this?
steve bannon
No one's ever spoken like this.
Who is he to talk like this?
He took up the cause of the angel moms.
Why?
Because he's a good and decent man.
And this is what drove him to the presidency.
Bush wouldn't talk about it.
Cruz wouldn't talk about it.
None of them.
All 15 guys on that platform because it wasn't socially acceptable to bring this into the political conversation.
It took Donald Trump.
That's what he shattered.
He shattered this prison we had set upon ourselves as conservatives and Republicans and the populist nationals wouldn't tolerate it.
That's what Trump did.
He shattered political speak and said, we're now going to talk the truth to the American people.
Matt Boyle, you were there at the beginning, sir.
matthew boyle
Yeah, well, I remember the Gang of Eight Amnesty Bill and that whole debate in 2013 after Mitt Romney lost the election in 2012, an inherently winnable election.
It's why I came to Breitbart after Mitt Romney lost the election.
I remember negotiating the deal with you, Steve, in the weeks after the 2012 election.
And the reason why I came over here from Daily Caller, I had offers from across the establishment media, by the way.
I could have went anywhere I wanted, right?
Like, and the reason why I came here was to tell these stories because I thought that the rest of the media and the Republican establishment, et cetera, were getting the read of this wrong, right?
Like, I really did.
And I wanted to be the one to get it right.
And it was a huge risk and a gamble for me to do that, right?
Like, I could have just played it safe and, you know, gone like any of these other folks.
And then by the time I'm in my 40s and 50s, probably be, you know, where some of these other people are, it's TV anchors and whatnot.
But I took a major risk.
I came to Breitbart to go out there and tell these immigration stories in particular.
And that we saw that debate play out in 2013.
And then in the years afterwards, right?
And you mentioned Eric Cantor going down, Dave Bratt beating him.
That's where I first heard the story of Joshua Wilkerson.
It was one of the names read there, where I heard his mother, Laura Wilkerson, she was at a rally in Virginia in the 7th district where Dave Bratt was running against Eric Cantor.
And she went out and she spoke and told the story.
And it was like, I was floored by it when I heard it.
And then I started getting to know the other angel moms and telling their stories.
And we started doing individual pieces on it.
I really encourage people to go back and look at that stuff.
It's more than a decade old, but we still have the stories up on Breitbart.
We'll have to go back and refine them and tell them again.
But, you know, in those names you heard there that were read, I mean, those are the ones we know about.
They get a lot of publicity and whatnot.
There are hundreds, maybe thousands more of these.
There's another one every day, right?
There are drunk driving illegal aliens killing people.
There are illegal alien truck drivers killing people, right?
You know, that Gavin Newsom and other Democrat governors are giving CDLs to, right?
They shouldn't have that if they can't speak English, right?
And so there are more crimes.
These are crimes that shouldn't have happened.
If we enforced our immigration laws, these illegal aliens, that's what's so heinous about this.
They wouldn't have been here to commit these crimes and the people they killed would still be alive today.
steve bannon
We wouldn't have had, and this is what I think touched President Trump because I think it, you can see when he's sitting there, how can these media and how can these politicians, it can't, it's almost incomprehensible.
And I think yesterday was a very emotional connection to something that is the very beginning, the railhead of the Trump movement.
This is why he's president of the United States.
This is why he won in 20.
This is why he had the great years in the wilderness and came back in the greatest political comeback ever.
He's had one of the greatest years ever, probably the greatest year you could argue.
And now we're up against it.
He's coming to Texas on Friday because once again, we are called to go to the ramparts.
That's just the way it is.
We're fighting these people that we're fighting want to destroy the country.
You don't think they want to destroy the country?
Ask the angel mobs.
Don't ask Matt Boyle and don't ask Steve Bannon.
Ask them.
unidentified
Ask them.
matthew boyle
And Steve, I'll never forget when he delivered his speech at the bottom of the escalator.
It was a really short speech for Trump terms, right?
Like when Trump announced his presidential campaign the first time in the summer of 2015, right?
He came down the golden escalator there with Melania.
I was standing there at the bottom of this, this escalator, and he got up there and he talked about rapists and murderers being coming into the country.
And the whole media was shocked, right?
I remember standing there.
Do you remember Ed Schultz from MSNBC?
unidentified
Right?
matthew boyle
Now MS Now, okay, Ed Schultz is standing there next to me and the two of us are looking at each other.
And like he was just shocked, flummoxed that you know, kind of laughing a little bit.
But when I started hearing Trump talk about this, I was blown away.
I was like, this guy's the guy, right?
Like he's going to be the one.
steve bannon
The mainstream media was talking about after the speech, the nightly broadcast, Trump was done at the very opening of his thing.
This is what people forget.
They thought they were burying Trump that day.
He said, you can't talk like that.
You can't say rapists and murderers.
Nobody does that.
He went, they did a flash poll.
He went to number one and never looked back.
Ben Carson came close in October for a day or two, but Trump never looked back because he shattered political nomenclature.
He shattered the prison that we had self-imprisoned ourselves to see what you see and to say it.
And people said, I want that guy, right?
unidentified
I don't want that guy.
matthew boyle
You want to know why Ben Carson came close?
Because he went to the border and I went up in a helicopter with Ben Carson at the border down in Arizona, where he was up there talking about illegal alien crimes and drugs and stuff coming across.
I'll never forget it, right?
That's why Ben Carson came close.
So the message to any Republican out there running for office, period, and frankly, any Democrat, I'm shocked the Democrats haven't learned from this and tried to hijack it from the Republicans as an issue because they would be very smart too.
But the point is, the message to anyone running for office in America is talk about this issue, right?
Like, because it is the number one thing on people.
steve bannon
No, we have to act upon it.
Now, the reason the Democrats don't, they got their 25 million in here.
They think that saves them demographically.
Matt, amazing job.
I'm so proud of the fact that you sat in the chairs that people like Walter Cronkite and Eric Severide and those folks sat over the years, although we don't agree with their politics.
They were giants in media to be in the White House talking to the president of the United States in the day of State of the Union historic.
And you've come a long way from your days at Daily Caller, your days of being first off kicked out of every decent university that was out there.
Your days at Daily Caller under Tucker, your days at Breitbart under Andrew and myself, and then now as one of the leaders in conservative media and particularly populist nationalist media, you and Alex today.
It was a great, I just'm so proud of you guys being there with all the grand poo-bahs in the media.
You're twice as smart, twice as hardworking, twice as informed, and 10 times more beloved than those folks.
So where do people go to get your coverage night, sir?
matthew boyle
Yeah, just go to Breitbart.com.
State of the Union Update 00:14:00
matthew boyle
We'll be doing live updates on the website.
Also, my social media at MBOL1 on X, Twitter, and at RealMap Boyle on True Social.
So we'll be on all of those places and more.
And yeah, so that's going to be the, it's going to be fun tonight.
steve bannon
We'll look forward tonight and look forward to seeing what you got to say.
Thank you, sir.
unidentified
Yep.
matthew boyle
Thank you, Steve.
steve bannon
John Salma's going to, John Salma's got some big breaking news going to follow us.
We're going to do Warren, Texas.
We're doing a State of the Union update with some folks in Texas, their thoughts of what has to happen.
And then I'll be back for the coverage.
Stinchfield is going to be at seven.
Grant's going to take it from seven.
We got the lads in Studio 6B.
It doesn't get any better than that.
And then I'll jump in at the end of their broadcast to pick it up for nine o'clock all the way in.
going to have all the RAV team after the speech to make sure we're doing the breaking analysis and observations.
And then, of course, tomorrow morning also.
Philip Patrick, gold's been on fire again.
Crypto's tanking, President Trump, a big part of this is going to be tariffs, his ideas about the economy, tax cuts.
First off, what are you looking for as one of the top financial analysts around?
And then what impact do you think it's going to have on gold?
phillip patrick
Look, what am I looking for from the president in the State of the Union?
steve bannon
Yes.
unidentified
Yeah.
phillip patrick
Look, I think he should and will highlight the progress that he's been making.
It's been quite incredible.
We've got to remember he's been in for 13 months and the turnaround has been quite frankly astounding.
Inflation is down from the peak.
We forget it was over 9% under Biden.
We're at 2.5% today.
The economy overall has recovered and is growing.
He needs to highlight that.
GDP expectations beat anyone's predictions.
The president has secured, as we know, huge investment into the country, $5 trillion and as much as $18 trillion coming in new money.
Employment remains historically strong.
Manufacturing output has increased.
Energy production has reached record highs under President Trump.
So I think he needs to stress the success that he's had.
However, I think you need to understand and he needs to sort of let people know.
He knows families are still feeling the pressure from the cumulative damage done under the Biden administration over the last few years.
Economic uncertainty at the moment is pervasive.
And I think Trump needs to acknowledge that and let people know both that progress has been made in his grand economic plan, but there's work yet still to be done.
For me specifically and for markets, I think the important message needs to be growth with discipline.
The big economic question today isn't whether the economy is growing.
It clearly is under Trump.
The big question is whether we can accomplish his plan without losing control of the debt.
We have to remember we are still printing and spending $9 billion a day.
The stakes at the moment could not be higher.
And that's where I think the markets are really focused.
As we've said many times, interest payments are now the number two item on the federal budget.
Markets want to know how we can manage that without spiking inflation.
Confidence was decimated under Biden, which has made the problem more difficult for President Trump.
So I think he needs to go out there and create confidence.
He's doing a fantastic job.
And I think it's just a case of getting that message across.
steve bannon
What should obviously Friday historic kind of opinion of the Supreme Court, I argue that they closed the front door, but they open up Kavanaugh gave you a path to continue on redoing global commercial relationships.
A, what do you think about that?
And B, how do you believe the president should address that tonight?
phillip patrick
Look, I think with caution, tariffs were incredibly strong.
I mean, the revenue they generated was fantastic and it's revenue we need.
I don't think that's going to be affected.
As you said, they found another path to keep generating that revenue.
I think overall is just about, you know, this backwards and forwards tariff policy, then getting struck down by the Supreme Court, finding a workaround.
This is creating more instability.
And I think it's not the president's fault, right?
This is coming from the Supreme Court.
But I think at the end of the day, it just needs to be about stability, about caution, and making sure the world knows we have a well-thought-out plan that is working.
We just need a little bit of time.
steve bannon
Can you hang on?
I want to just hold you through the break and get some closing thoughts.
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The president is coming to Texas on Friday, the last day of early voting.
And I think to motivate people and get them jacked up for game day next Tuesday, because as Texas goes, so goes the nation.
The president understands.
You're going to see some real, I think, very smart analysis coming up on Warroom, Texas at the top of the hour.
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Waroom.
Use your hoofs.
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steve bannon
Philip, we talked about this a lot.
The reason the president is coming to Texas, and we're going to talk about this in the next hour at War Room, Texas about these seats, these five seats that came up.
We got to win these seats.
Right now, your mantra to me is that, Steve, we need stability.
We can't go back and forth, particularly can't reverse back to the Biden years.
If we lose the House, it's just more chaos and anarchy.
Give me a minute on that, sir.
phillip patrick
It's absolutely correct.
Stability is key.
If we want to make the dollar attractive again, we can't, you know, the Supreme Court decision, tariffs backwards, forwards, it creates confusion and instability.
If we lose the House come November, it's going to be the same thing again.
Policies being reversed.
It's the last thing the world wants to see.
President Trump's job coming in, and I've said this so many times, it was the most difficult job for any president in history.
The job he's done is absolutely incredible, but it's very difficult.
He is walking a tightrope.
We have a world running away from the U.S. dollar.
That alone is the biggest problem we face.
Without clear economic policy, without stability, it's going to be very difficult, if at all possible, to put that genie back in the bottle.
And I think for our long-term prospects, that's the most important fight we have.
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steve bannon
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phillip patrick
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steve bannon
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Philip, once again, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
I'll text you tonight after the speech, but looking forward.
Thank you for coming on, sir.
phillip patrick
Thank you, Steve.
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Mike Lindell, you're going to watch the State of the Union night because you're one of President Trump's closest colleagues and friends.
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The other as one of the top entrepreneurs that has built a company from the truck of his car with proprietary product.
Give me your thoughts on what you're looking for in the State of the Union with both hats.
mike lindell
Yeah, well, with the State of the Union, I'm hoping he brings out, you know, the tariffs were working.
You guys, just in my industry alone with the MyPill, there were weavers and spinners that were finally going to come back to the United States.
Now, I don't know where that's sitting now, but it was this was working because we were looking at there's no weavers or spinners left to make these certain thread count of sheets, just things you don't even know that you don't see behind the scenes.
But one of the biggest things, Steve, is that I really want him to focus on is the Save America Act.
You guys, I have fought five years to secure our elections.
Everything's come from our elections.
And this is the most important midterm election in the history of our country coming up.
It is actually, you know, I'm involved to say Minnesota running for governor against Amy Klobuchar.
What Amy Klobuchar has done for fraud and what I'm done for fraud are two worlds apart.
Remember, Amy was all about, let's go to paper balance hand counting.
And I'm all about, we agreed on that.
I went in and pursued fraud for five years.
Amy's over here.
What did she do?
Took all this money from our government for these welfare programs.
And she's not a very good steward of her money because it's gone.
It's gone.
The biggest crime, biggest fraud in American history.
I really believe the president needs to focus on the 2020 election, the stuff that's pouring out now, like Georgia and other states to show the public that, yes, the election was stolen.
And this is how important the Save America Act is.
He's got to use this, Steve, to leverage that.
It's so important.
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steve bannon
We'll see you on the show tomorrow, and we're going to ask you about the State of the Union, what you think, and what direction we're headed.
Mike Lindell, thank you for the deals.
Okay, here's what's going to happen: Natasha Owens is going to take us out with her hit, number one hit, The Boss.
We're going to continue on with Warroom Texas.
You don't want to miss it.
We're going to break it down where this race stands for the primaries, the voting, a lot of concern about the scale of the voting.
Also, people's thoughts down here about what the State of the Union they hope President Trump addresses.
John Solomon's going to stay on with his show.
You got Grant Stinchfield starts off the official coverage.
Then Studio 6B, I will be back during that show to take her from there at nine o'clock.
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