After being released from prison, Steve Bannon will have a renewed sense of self and a greater sense of power. Ahead of that day, he has been telling everyone that will listen that he has promised nothing short of brutal revenge against, quote, deep state players who stand in Donald Trump s way.
00:06:06.440But nonetheless, people who have been working for the past couple of years to make sure that Donald Trump
00:06:12.160didn't serve any time in prison and was able to get away with it.
00:06:19.120So really what we're seeing is a new sort of cadre of folks being put into positions of power.
00:06:26.460Is he more aligned with this second Trump administration than the first?
00:06:30.540So is he likely to be more powerful now than he was the first time?
00:06:34.920Is he going to be a voice that's going to be listened to and seen less as a threat,
00:06:39.500but more as a as a guidepost this time around than he was before?
00:06:44.540I mean, let's think about who was, you know, in the White House when when Bannon was pushed out,
00:06:50.160you know, John Kelly, you know, and other sort of people,
00:06:54.400people who consider themselves to be institutionalists who wanted to kind of cut down on the chaos that,
00:07:00.540you know, surrounded Bannon and others at all times in the White House during the first six or eight months of the of the first administration.
00:07:09.360You know, I think it's fairly clear whose side Donald Trump is on or, you know, who it's been resolved,
00:07:16.480you know, where Donald Trump is going to going to cast his lot.
00:07:20.120He's going to cast his lot with the with the with the bomb throwers.
00:07:23.720And and so in that respect, Steve Bannon is is is somebody who is a voice that Trump listens to.
00:07:31.380He's a voice that shapes opinion on the right.
00:07:34.540And so therefore, somebody that is is worth paying attention to.
00:07:37.940This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:07:45.660Pray for our enemies because we're going to the evil on this people.
00:08:30.020It's Wednesday, 20 November, year of our Lord, 2024.
00:08:32.720That was MSNBC last night, the readout with the professor sitting in for Joy Ann Reed and, of course, Andrew Rice that did the profile of us over at the War Room show over at New York Magazine.
00:09:11.000Number one, Senator Tuberville is going to join us at the bottom of the hour to talk about DOD and the senior military, but also the situation with the judges.
00:10:25.460To wit, a great piece in the paper of record, the New York Times today on the front page, broke, dismayed and distrusting of Democrats.
00:10:33.900I'm going to repeat that, broke, dismayed and distrusting of Democrats from hope to cynicism for minority voters in working class.
00:10:46.020Two-thirds, and I keep telling you about the, at Danbury Prison where I taught the course with the young African-American right there if you can pone in.
00:10:53.960One of the lead stories on the front page above the fold.
00:10:58.420Populism and economic nationalism reaches these folks and touches them, that they're American citizens.
00:11:07.760And we're putting the interests of American citizens first, America first and her citizens first.
00:11:13.180Everything has to come through that, that framing.
00:11:15.780If we do that, and President Trump has led this effort, and that's why we have to have these investigations, not about Trump personally, not about Steve Bannon personally, or Tucker Carlson, or Peter Navarro went to prison, or even Tina Peters.
00:11:32.360We have to do it because we have a fiduciary responsibility to make sure this is never done again.
00:11:40.600And to take control, which you have to, we have to reassert civilian control over the Pentagon.
00:11:46.340Look, I was four years at sea and came back as a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations in 81.
00:11:52.960The things that the uniformed services do today, and particularly did in President Trump, was inconceivable back in the 80s when Cap Weinberger came over as Secretary of Defense.
00:12:56.640They're fairly hapless, as you can tell from the African-American, Hispanic, working-class folks in the New York Times article.
00:13:03.580They've taken them for advantage for decades and decades and decades.
00:13:07.720The opposition here is part of this media complex backed by the money and the power and the muscle of the oligarchs on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.
00:13:19.740And you have this kind of puppet political class here.
00:16:39.900That's the book that came out in April from Post Hill, the great guys over Post Hill.
00:16:43.560They also have written an incredible piece in the New York Post about, I guess, the de-woke-ification of the Pentagon and how Pete Hegseth is the best guy to do it.
00:16:56.660So, first off, how deep is the problem, really?
00:17:00.860Is this just, you know, the Fox guys and Bannon and, you know, Dan Bongino just talking smack?
00:17:10.440Or is there a serious problem at the Pentagon in this political correctness, DEI, all of it, ma'am?
00:17:17.060Oh, it's absolutely insidious throughout the Department of Defense.
00:17:21.080So, we have worked a long time with the military.
00:17:24.480We were military prosecutors and defense counsel.
00:17:27.320We represent military members now in our law practice.
00:17:30.980The DEI policies have basically totally infested the entire Department of Defense.
00:17:37.000There's—I think people would be shocked to learn how much time, money, resources is put into investigating and essentially dealing with these so-called issues that come up because of the DEI programs.
00:17:50.480We're losing really seasoned and honorable military members because of these trivial infractions that have been prioritized by the current White House and by the Pentagon.
00:18:01.920So, it is vital, in my opinion, that we completely reverse course.
00:18:09.740Andrew, is this—is it just some bad actors or is this systemic?
00:18:15.640And did this start after President Trump left office or has this been going on for a while?
00:18:21.860And my point is, are the roots of this deep in the Pentagon or is this—can we replace a couple of three bad actors and it'll be solved?
00:18:31.120No, it's catastrophic and it needs a total reshaping.
00:18:35.040The Pentagon and the DOD at large have become a social welfare program.
00:18:38.700And when we talk about woke issues or leftist agendas, we have to look at the military because they have employed virtually every single one of the left agenda items in a particularly broad and successful manner.
00:18:54.860I mean, we can talk about the trans issues that have hit the front headlines about what's going on with drag shows and transgenderism within the military as kind of the big red siren.
00:19:06.280But it has—it started really, I think, in the Obama administration.
00:19:10.640The really first issue that hit and swept the military was the Me Too movement.
00:19:16.760Before it was even a national Me Too movement, it really eliminated so many of the more masculine-leaning and more masculine ideology-type ideas of the military and started to totally deconstruct what the military is all about.
00:19:33.660Now you go to a military base and there's Me Too posters everywhere you go, in the hundreds, every time you walk onto a base.
00:19:42.200But then you get into the money of it and you look at the environmental programs that they have taken on in defense of global warming, spending—having $3 billion packages to curb global warming, where President Biden has said that global warming is the biggest threat to planet Earth, not nuclear warfare, which is obviously the biggest threat that we face.
00:20:09.420And if we're not defending ourselves and ensuring that we're protecting the world from nuclear war, that's the big problem that we have.
00:20:19.340So we have to go deep into the roots of the military, the ideology, the education that goes on, and totally reframe what the military is about and go back to a much older mindset of what it means to protect the nation and ensure safety throughout the world,
00:20:37.800not try to build some sort of social program through the misguided kind of idea that we're trying to protect our nation, but we're doing it in the course of just spending an unbelievable amount of money and resources to do so.
00:20:52.260So, Katie, you guys make a very compelling case.
00:21:00.140He's a great guy and a true warrior and a man's man.
00:21:03.560But he comes at things with a junior officer's perspective that's been on the battlefield.
00:21:10.900You make the case that he's the right guy.
00:21:13.120So how does a junior officer control the biggest industrial complex in mankind's history that's so complicated?
00:21:23.220And at the same time, to manage that, to increase our war fighting, takes on this cultural rot in the Pentagon.
00:21:30.180How do you put that on a guy who, as brave as he is, as tough as he is, as charismatic as he is, is still a junior officer, ma'am?
00:21:39.100Well, I think that big picture here, the military's mission is really quite simple.
00:21:43.360It's to defend our nation and win its wars.
00:21:46.140And I know that Pete Hexeth has obviously also written a book about the wokeness in the military and understands that a lot of what we're focusing on is just a huge distraction, not to mention the dollar figures that go into it.
00:21:59.540And so in terms of streamlining the focus of the military and getting rid of a lot of these programs, a big part of the leadership of the Pentagon really needs to be more focused on how to get rid of a lot of things,
00:22:11.660not so much managing all of these things that have come up that are totally unnecessary, unwarranted, and are undermining the mission.
00:22:18.880So I think in terms of the top leadership there, and I know he'll have a lot of wonderful people supporting him in terms of getting a lot of the work done,
00:22:26.840he understands from a deep philosophical standpoint, from his own experience being in the military and then also just being a supporter for so long from his public persona,
00:22:38.100I think that he is the right person because he has that deep understanding and understands that it's not just as simple as overturning a DEI policy.
00:22:47.080It is so deep in the culture of the military.
00:22:49.940These programs have been essentially now weaponized by the folks that are at the lower levels.
00:22:56.540They know that they can just simply file complaints against their leadership that leads to full-scale distractions.
00:23:02.500It just takes us off course from that very streamlined and primary mission of actually defending the nation and winning its war.
00:23:10.400So somebody that understands that and appreciates how insidious the problem is,
00:23:15.020I think that they are absolutely the right person to lead the Pentagon through this.
00:23:19.600Andrew, what is your thing you tell Pete?
00:23:23.880If you were advising him that one or two things he's got to focus on day one, if he's to get to the systems part of it,
00:23:29.820if he's to get to start to drive it out of the system, where does Pete Heseth go on day one, according to Katie and Andrew, sir?
00:23:38.100Well, the DOD instructions, as well as the individual service branches, instructions and regulations that deal with DEI and equal opportunity
00:23:47.800and the massive distraction that has been caused by all of that, virtually all of that can be withdrawn.
00:23:55.300All of it really is under either the DOD's authority or under executive order and can be immediately withdrawn.
00:24:03.400Now, there's a lot of money that's on the line.
00:24:05.180The National Defense Authorization Act often has Congress conditioning a lot of its money on the execution of these various programs.
00:24:14.080But those programs can go by the wayside and you can revisit the funding and the money on the tail end of that, dealing with that.
00:24:21.320I think the next thing is to root out the individuals that are at the top of the DOD that push these leftist agendas so vigorously and so relentlessly.
00:24:34.520I mean, we have dozens of people sitting on commissions and boards that go on for years and years being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate with incredible depth,
00:24:45.460things like the racial makeup of court martial panels and the intricacies of exactly what a woman can or can't do in combat.
00:24:56.260In that example, they get back reports that say that women are not effective in combat, and instead of actually acting on that information, they ban doing future studies of that sort so that they can find a way to put women in combat.
00:25:11.840That's one of Pete Hegseth's talking points about how to reshape the military.
00:25:16.740But getting rid of the leadership that has pushed that in the academies and the institutions as well as through the lower rankings for years and years now, those folks have to be gone.
00:25:26.420The regulations have to change, and the savings and the money will flow from it as a result, almost instantaneously.
00:25:33.880Katie, they started MSNBC did a big segment last night on the show, and they led with my calling for General Milley to be recalled to active duty and court-martialed.
00:25:47.880And MSNBC, The New York Times, Washington Post are all over this show and myself that this is so outrageous even to bring it up.
00:25:54.460You've been a prosecutor, and you've also now defend people in the UCMJ world.
00:26:02.220Given the facts that you've seen, is it too outrageous that I've called for Milley to be recalled to active duty and face a military tribunal on a court-martial, ma'am?
00:26:12.560Well, the reality is that retired military members are still subject to the criminal jurisdiction of the UCMJ.
00:26:19.400And so it does happen. It's not unprecedented, and people are recalled from retirement to face accountability for misconduct.
00:26:28.220So certainly that is something that I think should be explored, and I think that the accountability at the highest levels is very important.
00:26:35.540Now, that aside, I think what Andrew had said about removing people and actually moving forward with progress is the more significant portion of that.
00:26:43.880But accountability is still something that should absolutely be looked into,
00:26:47.440and I think that General Milley is probably at the top of that list, along with a lot of others.
00:26:51.980Secretary Austin himself have pushed these agendas and have really sacrificed our operational readiness.
00:27:00.320I think that there's really no question when you're putting so much time and money and hours of training into these alternate issues and not on the actual mission itself,
00:27:10.380how could you possibly claim to be as prepared as if you were not focusing on these distractions for so long?
00:27:17.620So certainly something that can be explored.
00:27:19.920It's very viable, legally speaking, and maybe sets an example for future reference for folks that want to push the military so far from its actual mission.
00:29:41.360Katie, Senator Tuberville is a big part of your writings, the book, all of it.
00:29:46.160Just tell us before I bring in Senator Tuberville, what has been his role in getting the Pentagon and the military back to warfighting and with no woke ma'am?
00:29:57.180Well, we do talk a lot about Senator Tuberville in our book.
00:30:01.240We have a chapter talking about the war of attrition and essentially how conservative politicians are bullied into concessions on some of these issues.
00:30:09.700And Senator Tuberville really stood his ground blocking military promotions because of the issues with the abortion access in the military.
00:30:17.840So we really appreciate that he stood up for that because a lot of times people can be essentially bullied into conceding things without understanding the significant impact.
00:30:30.120Andrew, social media, where they get the book, where do people follow more of your writings?
00:30:34.100We're pushing out this New York Post piece nonstop.
00:30:35.840But your understanding of the problem, you and Katie and Senator Tuberville and his critical role to get back to warfighting, our audience is all over.
00:30:43.860So where do folks go today to find out more about you?
00:30:46.640Well, our book, Woke Warriors, available on Amazon, How the Left is Destroying America's Ability to Fight and Win Its Wars.
00:31:15.580And we're often on Fox News and we're pushing our message out there as much as possible because this administration has such a rare opportunity to reshape the military, but the entire government.
00:32:14.340And they wheeled in in wheelchairs 200 of our last veterans of D-Day.
00:32:19.620And they made them sit there for an hour and a half in the wind and the cold because they were an hour and a half late.
00:32:24.600And they come in in helicopters and all this stuff.
00:32:26.440But that being said, you can expect that.
00:32:29.240But it was a it was a moving experience for me to just look at the cliffs and the things that we had to overcome, you know, in that terrible week where we lost 50,000 of our great Americans.
00:33:40.600They're there to fully stop Donald Trump and hopefully take – their plan is to take the House in two years and impeach him, right?
00:33:46.320Yeah, and their plan was accelerated because they stole the election from President Trump, and they were able to get four years with a bedridden dementia patient, basically, at the end of the day.
00:33:57.380I hate to say that, but that's what it was.
00:34:00.400No doubt in your mind that 2020 was stolen.
00:34:03.220Listen, I've been up here four years, and I saw him maybe four or five times in the Capitol, and somebody's got to hold his arm, and he shuffles his feet around.
00:34:09.520I'm thinking, this guy's making decisions about our country.
00:34:12.660You know, he's over there birdwatching the last week in the Amazon, and we're shooting long-range missiles into Moscow.
00:34:20.080I mean, these people should be arrested for what they're doing.
00:34:23.120You agree that there should be, with total transparency and all that, investigations to see what's happened in the last four years of this criminal conspiracy, and particularly in things even like Ukraine, of what's going on?
00:34:52.120You guys are going to bring that up, I think?
00:34:53.700Yeah, we're going to bring it to the floor, but he forgave $5 billion of it, and some of the senators around said, oh, we'll make that back into minerals.
00:35:10.020I told you this right before it started with Zelensky, and the guys, I mean, it'd be like me being president.
00:35:15.420I had to have no business being president of the United States, and he has no business doing that because he's being controlled over there.
00:35:22.120I think people feel a lot more comfortable with you as a president of the United States versus some other alternatives that are out there on the Democratic side than Zelensky was just a comedian, told puppet.
00:35:53.380I'm not going to take a head coaching job and not have my people around me that's going to know as much or more about the position that they're in to make us better.
00:36:00.420You've got to bring people in you can trust.
00:36:02.460The loyalty part got him the first time.
00:36:04.460You know, people just backstabbed him and did all those things, but you know that as well as anybody.
00:36:08.380But, you know, we've got a Republican Party now that's about a third MAGA, a third Republican, and a third RINO.
00:38:04.140That Merrick Garland, as much as the FBI and the DOJ hate him, they dropped anything going forward because there was not any evidence.
00:38:13.040Are people talking about that in the Senate, that he's never really been – that they were after him for this and then walked away from it as much as they hate Matt Gaetz?
00:38:56.940And instead of coming back and relaxing and they have to go into this training, we have lost our military leadership has absolutely run us over the cliff.
00:39:08.000I don't know whether they even know better, to be honest with you.
00:39:10.900Well, do you agree that we should recall Milley and also look at the Afghan – the senior leadership about the Afghan withdrawal situation?
00:39:19.740The 13 families don't have justice yet.
00:39:21.820Do you think that we have to start holding the uniformed military services to account here for what they've done?
00:45:12.140One is to have ride around in one of these black SUVs with somebody driving them.
00:45:17.020I mean, the whole goal is to save the United States of America.
00:45:22.060Steve, this is going to be our last chance.
00:45:24.700There's no doubt in your mind about that.
00:45:26.220No doubt, because they have ingrained the media.
00:45:30.260And the deep state so deep that it takes a guy like President Trump, and he's even going to take a lot of backlash from people that go, I don't know whether we need to be that tough.
00:45:47.900I've seen every day up here that we have to fight and we have to beat them back so far that it's going to take them forever to get back on their feet.
00:45:56.480But the massive victory we had four years in the making on 5 November, because a lot of people are saying they're drinking the champagne, and they should.
00:47:06.580President Trump has done that to put the media and the Democrats back on their back foot with all these great announcements of disruptors.
00:47:12.560And people are going to take the system and restructure it.
00:47:15.160The second time – my theory of the case is to say, hey, in early January, when the House and Senate are back in, you're sworn in for the new Congress,
00:47:23.460you've got to roll up as a group with these confirmation hearings before the 20th of January.
00:47:28.740And then on the 20th, you hit them with a third wave of flood the zone with executive orders and everything the president's going to do.
00:47:34.920Would you be supportive of that to get the confirmations of at least these front-line big things starting right after you guys are sworn in?
00:49:06.900Your point right now, if Gaetz is not charged with a crime and Merrick Garland and the FBI hate him had years to do this and dropped it, then –
00:49:14.280Do you see – did you – Steve, did you look at the qualifications of some of their people they put in that we – some of our people voted for?
00:49:54.400For the – number one, your advice to President Trump in this current situation, knowing what's going on in the judges, knowing what's going on in the confirmation, what is your recommendation to President Trump right now?
00:50:21.380And he has got to come in and throw a stink bomb in every one of these agencies, and we've got to get these people out of here, number one, that don't go to work, that have two or three other jobs making money off the federal government.
00:50:32.520We've got to put people in positions that can make good decisions for our country and get this debt down because the debt is one of the biggest things going.
00:50:44.220Number one, you came here very open-minded, coming out of a career of coaching and teaching young men and developing young men to come here.
00:50:50.580You are convinced that there is a deep state.
00:51:46.980I don't know what all is going out there, but I do want to go by the heart and feel of the people of Alabama, and everybody should do that.
00:51:53.800It just amazes me, some of these people up here, well, I don't know about this.
00:51:58.860What does the people in your state say?
00:52:00.680Oh, by the way, they just 65% voted for Donald Trump, okay?
00:52:04.900And they want him to run this show, not you.
00:52:08.420You just get up there and follow his lead and do what you can do to help him in our country.
00:52:13.820But, again, you've got a lot of people up here that think they're rocket scientists, and they know better.
00:52:19.240And I guess that's ingrained in them, but not me.
00:52:22.420I want our country to be what you and I had a chance to grow up in back in the 70s and 80s and 90s and not go back to this trash of social justice, identity politics, just all this nonsense.
00:52:36.680Social media, where do people get you and follow you?
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