On this episode of War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon is joined by Jason Miller and Eduardo Verastegui to discuss the screening of the new film, The Sound of Freedom, at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
00:03:26.520Now, obviously, Sound of Freedom is a very hot movie right now.
00:03:29.040If I'm not mistaken, I think they are about to hit or have surpassed $100 million.
00:03:34.240That might be some breaking news that we're talking about here on War Room.
00:03:37.720But the reason that Donald Trump isn't inviting them isn't just because they're doing a great job in theaters, right, and they're having an amazing run.
00:03:45.500And it's really the hot film of the summer, much to the mainstream media's dismay.
00:03:50.940There's much greater significance, I think, to the invite, right, to the reception that the Sound of Freedom cast and crew and people involved with the film have been here.
00:03:58.700So can you maybe just sort of walk the audience through why you think, I know you're a senior advisor to him, but why it was so important and really just, I think, a wonderful decision for him to invite the Sound of Freedom crew here for a screening and why he did it?
00:04:14.080Well, it's important because this is a movie that really cuts across.
00:04:17.340It's really a counterculture movement in its own.
00:04:20.260It's a movie that the big studios tried to ignore.
00:04:22.740It's a movie that a number of the theater chains have tried to ignore.
00:04:26.160It's a movie that the mainstream media has tried to silence or to suppress.
00:04:47.320For them to take this risk with this movie, I think, is big.
00:04:50.380And just the fact that even though all of the chips were stacked against everyone who's been a part of this movie, they've succeeded.
00:04:57.600And that's because of people, including the war room community, who've been out there talking about this, who've gone to the theaters, who've seen this, who've supported it, who've talked about it, the word of mouth.
00:05:06.640And I think events such as tonight, with what President Trump is doing here at Bedminster, and that word of mouth will be equally as important.
00:05:13.560In some ways, I think this is sort of a grassroots victory, not just at the ballot box like we saw in 2016, but in the movie theaters, right?
00:05:20.480The numbers are just absolutely amazing.
00:05:22.360And the movie's seen, I think, similar difficulties that the Trump campaign saw in the 2016 days and have obviously continued to face.
00:05:29.860But the censorship, the suppression, the getting branded and cast as agents of misinformation and movies for dads with brain worms.
00:05:37.100That was one of my favorite articles that I saw about the film.
00:05:40.140But I just want to sort of take a step back because, you know, obviously this show, we focus a ton on the administrative state and how they're, I think, weaponized is almost an understatement.
00:05:50.420I think that's too euphemistic a term.
00:05:53.140But the reason that they go after Donald Trump, right, is because at the end of the day, they're really going after the American people.
00:05:58.040And they go after him because with really an uncanny ability and really, I think, an unparalleled level of understanding and intelligence has gone after a lot of the, I would say, allies of the administrative state.
00:06:09.440Me, you know, I'm an investigative reporter.
00:06:11.340The Chinese Communist Party is my main focus.
00:06:13.920But I think you also see that particularly on this front with the human trafficking.
00:06:17.960In other words, the mainstream media has sort of had their head and tailspin about this film because they don't want, just like Disney didn't want to release the film, they didn't want the uncomfortable realities of this film to actually be released.
00:06:30.440Much like they don't want Donald Trump back in office because he wants to close the southern border, which is probably really a death knell to the trafficking business.
00:06:38.120So could you sort of walk us through what exactly it is about Donald Trump, specifically on the human trafficking front and the open border, the southern border, what he wanted to do with restricting immigration that you think has made the political ruling class in this country but really even globally so upset at him and really weaponizing against him?
00:06:58.640Well, that's a really good perspective because ever since going back to when President Trump came down the escalator, he's been that symbol of standing up against TPP, of standing up against the World Economic Forum, of standing up against the Davos set, the Wall Street set.
00:07:14.860He's dared to challenge all these orthodoxies that we saw in 2020 with Hunter Biden's laptop and the censorship of when people decide, hey, we're going to come together, there's kind of this media and leftist center political conglomerate when they come together and say, no, we don't want something covered.
00:07:30.640We saw what happened with the laptop and keep in mind that post-election polling from 2020 so that one out of every seven Biden voter would have switched their opinion and got a different direction if they knew about the Biden family alleged corruption.
00:07:44.860I say alleged just because I'm like, I think the lawyers forced me to say alleged, but we know what's going on.
00:07:50.960We're all seeing what's happening on Capitol Hill today with the IRS whistleblowers and such.
00:07:55.660But if you dare to challenge authority, as you so smartly put it, if you dare to call out the CCP, if you dare to talk about these, whether it be the groups like the Club for No Growth who want to outsource all of our farming jobs, all of our manufacturing jobs, if you dare to challenge any of the authority, they come for you.
00:08:14.220And something as critical as child trafficking, which, by the way, has got to be the most sickest, most disgusting thing ever.
00:08:20.620I mean, President Trump talks about death penalty for drug dealers.
00:08:23.880I mean, there should be automatic death penalty for anyone involved in the child trafficking.
00:08:30.020And I don't see where anything is controversial about that.
00:08:32.940I mean, it's such a terrible, horrific thing to be involved in child trafficking.
00:08:37.740Why isn't this crisis being dealt with by the Biden administration?
00:08:41.240And we saw what President Trump did with securing our southern border, with telling different law enforcement agencies, you have to put the enforcement, these anti-child trafficking measures, you have to put that at the top of what you're trying to pursue and prosecute.
00:08:57.540And there hasn't been that focus with Biden.
00:08:59.700And this movie, Sound of Freedom, with what it's doing to put it back front and center, it shows that there's a big counterculture movement going on, whether you see it with President Trump, you see it with RFK Jr., you see it with Jason Aldean with his music, the way that he's being attacked.
00:09:15.600People are sick and tired of the images they see on TV and are being forced on their throat by the mainstream media.
00:09:20.680And even when we talk about how people consume their news and their content, shows like the War Room are places where people can get the real news and not the indoctrination.
00:09:29.580You know, it was Rep. Nancy Mace, who is by no means, you know, a MAGA fire breather type, who said on War Room that the thickest packet of information that they have from the wire transfers that Hunter Biden and the Biden family was receiving, the most damning information has to do with human trafficking, which again, coming from Nancy Mace really is a bombshell.
00:09:51.460Of course, the mainstream media ignored it, but while we have you here, because I know Steve wanted me to get into all the fun political stuff too, not to detract from today, but you know, if we don't win in 2024, none of this really matters because Joe Biden sure as heck isn't going to do anything to combat child trafficking, human trafficking.
00:10:11.020An interesting thing that they've been doing on the Department of Justice's website about international sex trafficking of minors.
00:10:17.440Apparently, they don't think it's a problem, but I just am curious your thoughts.
00:10:21.720You brought up the investigations that we have going on.
00:10:24.680Of course, we have the weaponization committee oversight.
00:10:27.520We got the China subcommittee, the coronavirus subcommittee.
00:10:30.700Now, War Room's outlook on it is sort of, I would say, lukewarm.
00:10:34.420We think they could be doing a lot more, not just putting together timelines and holding press conferences, but really getting together evidence to make actual indictments and criminal charges against these people.
00:10:47.660What's your sort of assessment of a lot of the investigations going on on the Hill right now?
00:10:52.460So this one, kind of watch what I say a little bit, because now that I'm back working for President Trump, I got to obviously take it from the perspective of not to cause him any new enemies.
00:11:30.500We see a lot of dust, a lot of smoke that's coming up, but we haven't seen necessarily a lot of action beyond these couple of folks.
00:11:37.200And we have to go and prosecute this now because they, meaning the Democrats, the deep state, the media, are going to pull out every single stop to try to beat us in 2024.
00:11:47.520You know, last night with President Trump's town hall, he said that this election is the most important.
00:11:54.100But this one is different because we've seen what will happen.
00:11:57.200Everything with taking away your freedoms, we will suppress certain aspects of information, the way that the rich are going to get richer by all the backroom deals that they're cutting.
00:12:05.900If we don't go and get this back, we're not going to have a country, and it's going to be a pretty scary situation.
00:12:11.440Now, I know the war room posse would be mad at me if I didn't ask you this because it is really the issue itself when it comes to election integrity.
00:12:18.900So when you're talking about 2024, now I know you talk about this a lot and we cover this a lot on the show, but can you just sort of maybe give a quick rundown for the audience about all the steps that the campaign is currently taking to make sure that the election that we are slated to have in 2024 is actually deserving of the title election?
00:12:46.560Is there some funny business that could be afoot from Democratic secretaries of state or different measures to try to keep President Trump off the ballot anywhere?
00:12:57.580There are no shenanigans or funny business they can pull that would be successful in keeping President Trump off.
00:13:02.300But then as we talk about these rules, as we talk about making sure that we're in there early on the legal side, also that where it's legal, we're beating the Democrats at their own game.
00:13:12.120So whether I talk about the early voting, whether we talk about the ballot harvesting, things of that nature, President Trump has made it very clear, as have Steve and others, we should have election day voting, same day voting, paper ballots, voter ID.
00:13:25.900Some places we're not going to have that.
00:13:27.340Some places it's because they've gone and changed it in an unconstitutional format outside of the state legislatures.
00:13:33.140Some places, like Nevada, with what they did with AB4, which is legislation they did back in 2020 where they went in a constitutional manner to do every terrible, horrible thing that we can imagine.
00:13:44.620We have to beat the Democrats at their own game here, doing it legally, and because we have to make sure that we bank those votes in advance.
00:13:51.380So say, for example, if someone gets sick or they get called out of town for work or things of that nature, well, they've already voted.
00:14:10.620They're weaponizing CISA and all of these election monitoring agencies to censor and target conservatives.
00:14:16.880And, you know, as Steve says, the true sound of freedom will be in 2025 when Donald J. Trump wins again and has his hand on the King James Bible.
00:14:25.180We've got Jason Miller joining us here.
00:16:47.400But don't go anywhere because we still have wonderful guests who are going to be talking all things Sound of Freedom
00:16:53.420and all the ways that the administrative state and the mainstream media complex are covering up for the evil people who are, of course, exposed in this film.
00:17:02.360But before we continue on with our discussion of that and have on some other guests who, like I said, played a very close role in the production,
00:17:10.320even I think Jim Caviezel, who starred in the film, will be with us later,
00:17:13.980I just wanted to give a quick story, quick background,
00:17:17.840because last week on the warroom.org website, which you guys should all check out and sign up for the newsletter,
00:17:22.800I broke a story that I think dovetails with this film quite nicely.
00:17:28.100And frankly, the complicit nature of the Biden regime in human trafficking,
00:17:33.240particularly the child sex trafficking crime and criminal syndicate that we see unfolding
00:17:39.420and, of course, exposed so brilliantly in this film.
00:17:42.820So Donald J. Trump, a man who, as you know, Jason, really was a staunch enemy of people who are involved in human trafficking,
00:17:49.300had revised the website of the Department of Justice to include subheadings
00:17:54.380on what were basically the areas of focus for their child exploitation department
00:17:58.000to focus on child sex trafficking, the international sex trafficking of minors,
00:18:03.100the domestic sex trafficking of minors, and child prostitution for very specific subheadings.
00:18:09.300And on May 28th of this year, someone, some crazy deranged apparatchik in the Biden regime,
00:18:17.260went on to that website and revised entirely the web page,
00:18:23.680deleting those last three subheadings that I said that was international sex trafficking of minors,
00:18:29.360domestic sex trafficking of minors, and child prostitution.
00:18:32.480They entirely erased them from the website and they reformed what exactly they defined child sex trafficking is.
00:18:39.480So just curious, your thoughts on the significance of the Biden regime choosing to do that?
00:18:45.840Well, someone has to go out of their way to go and do that.
00:18:48.740And we know there are a lot of weirdos.
00:18:50.460They have the whole cross-dressers and the people identifying-
00:19:36.300That may have been kind of beginning to end for our good former vice president.
00:19:39.780But anyway, so that's the reason why if you see us acting a little skittish like Hunter on the balcony at the White House, that's why there's a fly here.
00:19:49.120And I think that, you know, for someone to go through and do that, again, like I said, that's a conscious decision.
00:19:55.000But the indifference that we see from President Biden, Vice President Harris towards the southern border, towards any aspect of law enforcement, dealing with whether it be the crime in the big cities, we see the smuggling aspects, whether it be drugs or with the human trafficking.
00:20:13.660And I can't believe that they would allow this to go.
00:20:17.080And I don't know if in their mind they think this is, you know, we'll just go and try to brand these people as extremists and wackos.
00:20:23.440But you look at the fact that Sound of Freedom is now approaching, or if they haven't already surpassed, $100 million in box office revenues.
00:20:32.400We were chatting with some of the producers of the movie before the show, and they haven't even taken it yet to other countries.
00:20:38.840When they take it to the U.K., when they take it all around the world, this could be huge, huge numbers on this movie.
00:20:46.260But I think what we're seeing right now with the way that people are standing up and cutting through and say, you know what, we're not just going to listen to the media.
00:20:53.620We're not going to take these negative attacks.
00:20:56.360We're actually going to go and see it, the word-of-mouth aspect.
00:20:59.200That's really speaking truth to power.
00:21:01.520And that's why it's so, I think, energizing to see a movie like this succeed.
00:21:06.460It's great that we have President Trump promoting it this evening.
00:21:08.920And I think it really will have this rocket effect of taking off and bring a lot more attention to the problems.
00:21:45.960We see our jobs not only getting outsourced to China, but then this massive influx of cheap labor.
00:21:50.480But on the other side, when you have an open border, that's, of course, you know, really a fantasy for anyone who's involved in human trafficking, especially child trafficking.
00:21:58.160Child trafficking, you see, you know, 85,000 unaccompanied minors being entered into the United States and the Biden regime effectively nuking policies that were implemented by Border Patrol, the DNA testing to make sure that people, when they said they were family members, that they actually were.
00:22:13.900So if you could just sort of walk us through, at least this year, when the Trump campaign talks about immigration, obviously part of it is the economic issue aspect to it.
00:22:23.320But how does human trafficking, you know, when you're talking about when you guys put out the Agenda 47 videos specifically on immigration, you know, is that a big component of what you guys are trying to do on the southern border?
00:22:35.300Can you sort of walk the audience through what you think Trump's policies 2025 on will look like at the southern border?
00:22:43.100The southern border was something that was big for President Trump from even when he first announced that he was getting into politics.
00:22:49.040And so much of it is because people are frustrated about the economic implication we see as far as coming on and competing for American jobs, even if they're going below what the standard wages are and undercutting American workers, taking jobs away from Americans.
00:23:04.540We remember going back to 2016 when this was a really big deal back before President Trump secured the border about what was happening with the victims of crime.
00:23:13.880Obviously, the angel moms had a very big presence with President Trump in the 2016 campaign.
00:23:19.520And then as the President Trump that frequently talks about it, the border wasn't as big of an issue in 2020 because he did such a good job of securing it.
00:23:27.500I think one of the things for 2024 and when we talk about kind of the team in addition of President Trump, the speechwriters and policy folks, Ross Worthington, Vince Haley, Steve Miller is running his own organization but still volunteers and helps out with some different things.
00:23:42.940But the fact that so quickly we went from having a secure border to having a completely unsecure border, I think it's a good reminder to people that all of the dire predictions that President Trump had about what would happen if Biden were declared the winner of 2020 have come to fruition, have been absolutely true.
00:24:02.280Literally, when people were showing up at the southern border with the Biden t-shirts saying, let us in.
00:24:07.620Because when Biden got up on that debate stage in that Democratic primary, said, if you get here, we're going to give you amnesty.
00:24:13.900If you get here, we're going to pass something to allow you to become permanent citizens in the United States.
00:24:41.640It's one of those interesting scenarios where Trump is vindicated because he was right.
00:24:46.160And if we had a dollar for every time Trump was right, we'd be very, very, very wealthy.
00:24:51.080But you don't want Trump to be right, right?
00:24:52.800Trump doesn't want to be vindicated on the issues of what he was talking about with the southern border.
00:24:56.600Now, I can't believe we've made it about, what is it, 26 minutes into this interview, and I haven't even asked you about, you know, third time is the charm.
00:25:03.880The third indictment or forthcoming indictment of Donald J. Trump specifically coming out of Georgia in the election.
00:25:09.480I'm just curious your thoughts on all of that.
00:26:20.780People are, I think, quite frankly, are sick and tired of hearing about J6 and the Democrats and the media's attempt to go and try to put all this blame on President Trump.
00:26:29.340So I think most people are saying, you know what?
00:26:31.140You know what I'm really concerned about when I go to the store?
00:26:33.220I can't afford even what the weekly food bill is or the monthly food bill.
00:26:40.160Why are the car payments, the interest rates going up the way they are?
00:26:43.820People are saying, hey, these are the real issues, but you're still trying to relitigate the past.
00:26:47.860When they say to President Trump, you've got to quit litigating 2020, it's the Democrats who are the ones who are trying to litigate all the elections and litigate a future election because they're worried about Trump beating them at the ballot box.
00:27:02.780I remember when you were doing war room impeachment, you were talking about the same things.
00:27:06.200People care about the ability to put food on the table.
00:27:08.900They don't want these political witch hunts.
00:27:10.400And frankly, they tried to kneecap and really what Steve called the nullification project of Donald J. Trump.
00:27:15.600They tried with one, two impeachments, and now they're doing that with indictments because Trump really has, I think, like you say, Godzilla only gotten stronger and they know they have to keep coming after him with just brute political force.
00:27:26.620Well, I think we're going to let you go in the next segment.
00:27:28.380We've got about a minute before we've got to jump to break.
00:27:31.160But if people want to follow you and find you on social media and get in touch with the campaign, if they want to volunteer, get involved, where can they go?
00:27:39.620Well, I'm a pretty ubiquitous force on social media.
00:27:42.360So whether it's on Twitter or on Getter or on True Social, at Jason Miller in D.C., I'm even on Instagram for all of our international friends.
00:27:51.960I even opened up an account on Threads.
00:36:17.820You see the way the mainstream media is coming after the film, calling people like you, people like us, conspiracy theorists, for promoting it.
00:36:23.840Meanwhile, like you said, you know, real American people, and I hear you guys are getting ready to go global,
00:36:29.180really, really enjoy and appreciate the film.
00:36:31.560It's amazing to see, like I said, it's a grassroots victory really at the ballot box.
00:36:35.880But it is funny because, you know, our ruling class here in the United States,
00:36:39.340I don't think they've ever found a country that they haven't wanted to export freedom and democracy to, right?
00:40:14.020But right now, go and see Sound of Freedom.
00:40:15.660There are a lot of parallels, and I think it shouldn't be lost on anyone that Donald Trump is hosting this screening.
00:40:21.240In other words, you talk about how this film helps to start discussions about topics that the ruling class doesn't want to get into because all you find is guilt and culpability on their end.
00:40:30.400And that's frankly what Donald Trump did in his 2016 campaign, right?
00:40:33.220He started talking about issues like free trade, issues like immigration that real American people have always been talking about.
00:40:39.180But up with the Davos elites, up in Washington and New York, they don't care because they're profiting off of it or they're directly involved with the selling out of this country and really just what is moral, absolute moral decay.
00:40:52.040But to sort of bring back, obviously, when they come after Donald Trump with the indictments, the impeachments, the political personnel subversions, the pandemics, it really only doubles and triples down his resolve to fight back.
00:41:03.880So you talk about how this movement is just beginning and what you guys are going to be doing going forward.
00:41:09.180Despite Disney's best efforts to quash the production and really spread of this film.
00:41:15.180So we got a few minutes before I got to let you go.
00:41:17.480And for the War Room Posse who's listening now, Steve Bannon is in the house, so he will be joining us next block.
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00:46:12.240It's Natalie Winters hosting, and it's a rare occurrence where it's actually me and Steve co-hosting, even though I am the co-host, I always say.
00:46:20.020It's an interesting application of the term.
00:47:16.840Years ago when I met you, when the film had been finished, you guys hadn't finally put it together, what, two or three years ago.
00:47:22.060It was tough to think then we'd be in a situation where President Trump would be at Bedminster, this beautiful facility, magnificent facility, be hosting a special screening for the members of the club and, of course, other people, the other VIPs who got up here.
00:47:37.940I remember, like yesterday, when Tim Ballard and I visited you in that office in New York and we were just talking about, you know, we have this movie and, Steve, you know, we want you to see it because, you know, I think this movie has the potential to start a movement.
00:47:53.000I know it's going to be very difficult because we're the outsiders, the underdog.