Bannon's War Room - Episode 3273：A Boxing Day Special

00:00:00.000 this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on

00:00:11.300 these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have

00:00:17.900 had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do everything

00:00:21.660 in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and where do

00:00:25.040 people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these

00:00:32.740 people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to

00:00:40.300 save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k bann

00:00:48.260 warm new york christmas welcome to the 45th 46th and 47th president of the united states of america

00:01:05.360 president donald jay trump

00:01:09.400 raheem kasam raheem where is raheem what a good job you do

00:01:32.000 here i am back in the driver's seat welcome to a very special war room edition a boxing day

00:01:46.880 special traditional the way we used to do it gosh for many many years now from the old breitbart

00:01:52.900 news radio show right until the beginning of the war room war impeachment war pandemic the boxing day

00:01:58.900 special i think goes down in history and i'm very very appreciative for all of you

00:02:04.800 joining us on what is a very special day the day after christmas day boxing day as we call it in the

00:02:13.340 country where i'm from and we'll get into a little bit about that i know a lot of you have learned over

00:02:17.900 the last several years what boxing day means what it means uh to me especially but we'll get into some

00:02:23.060 of that and some more specifics around the christmas period especially uh concerning uh how much we're

00:02:29.820 forgetting actually uh in the in the miasma of all of the commercialization all the sales all the travel

00:02:36.360 i think we forget too easily sometimes some of the more traditional elements of the christmas period i

00:02:43.280 hope you are all well fed and well rested um i certainly know that over christmas i tend to indulge

00:02:49.960 just a little bit more than usual so i hope we can hold your attention i hope nobody's too

00:02:54.780 sleepy from all the turkey uh we've got a great show lined up for you uh today uh we've got some of

00:03:02.180 the uh special guests over the course of the program from my outlet the national pulse and over the next

00:03:09.180 two hours i'm going to try and say the national pulse as many times as humanly possible but i'm

00:03:14.760 appreciative also for all of you guys out there who already make the national pulse your day-to-day

00:03:19.140 reading diet and who have chosen to sign up to support uh the real news operation that we are

00:03:26.000 building there i had to open with that clip of president donald j trump walking into the room

00:03:34.160 at the new york young republicans i think 111th annual gala and what amazing amazing work that organization

00:03:42.860 does not just by the way against the headwinds of living in an extremely far left increasingly

00:03:52.360 dilapidated city run into the ground uh by the progressive left run into the ground by the

00:03:59.400 globalists but also because the new york young republican club isn't exactly popular amongst the

00:04:06.960 political right uh in new york the the establishment political right in new york either so even against

00:04:12.960 all of that backdrop they managed to pull off something that was really quite extraordinary

00:04:17.260 downtown wall street cipriani uh the 45th 46th and 47th president of the united states as you heard me

00:04:25.540 introduce him to the room at the top of that uh at the top of that segment there um and then just an

00:04:31.460 entire night's worth of not just revelry but also policy and also networking and also pulling together

00:04:41.020 i think the apparatus that really needs to be pulled together if if you are serious about taking back some

00:04:46.460 of the parts of your country that you may have thought originally ah we'll just let them go they're

00:04:51.580 not worth it they don't want to be saved you can say that very very easily about some of the some of the

00:04:57.320 nicest parts of this country some of the most culturally impactful parts of this country but if

00:05:03.600 the nyyrc and especially given donald trump's presence there uh if he believes uh that somewhere

00:05:11.180 like that can be saved then i think it's uh it's worth putting our shoulders to the wheel on all of

00:05:15.560 those things 10 points is the difference between donald trump and joe biden in new york state and i don't

00:05:22.620 think that's anything to sneeze at i don't think any of the previous republican candidates would have even got

00:05:26.940 anywhere close i don't think anybody else who proclaims candidacy in this primary and stands up

00:05:33.080 there claiming that they can be better than trump somehow would come that close in somewhere like

00:05:38.200 new york no i think it is the sheer force of will that is donald trump and the mugger movement

00:05:43.800 that is creating a much more stable environment for people to come out as conservatives and come out as

00:05:51.020 america first types and say even in new york city even in new york state even in in on the left coast we

00:05:58.520 have had enough of it i believe that some people say a skin full of it right and that's what you'll see 1.00

00:06:05.360 it that's what you saw uh as as almost as iconic i think as the as the escalator ride was the walk

00:06:13.500 into cipriani that night to say no you know you may be persecuting me in this city but i will still

00:06:20.560 turn up with my entourage and we'll have a thousand people in that room cheering on president donald j trump

00:06:29.300 and i have to tell you this as well a pitiful and paltry uh presence from any protesters outside

00:06:39.400 cipriani that night of the gala because i think a couple of things right number one you have to take

00:06:44.340 into the account the logistics it was a freezing cold night and we know that the lazy types don't

00:06:49.020 want to stand out there in the freezing cold shouting at people like me a couple of them did

00:06:52.360 but it wasn't the throngs and throngs and i think the reason behind that is so many new yorkers i've been

00:06:58.300 spending a lot of time there over this past year so many new yorkers quietly whether you're sitting

00:07:03.980 next to them at the bar whether you're talking to them in the in the metro or talking to the cab

00:07:08.380 drivers or what have you say to each other you know the country was kind of better with trump

00:07:15.040 you know they whisper these things to each other in in hushed tones and i've seen it happen a number

00:07:21.280 of times i mean the number of people that come up to me and go i i know what you do i i work it you

00:07:26.760 know i won't out these people but you know big hedge fund types or big media types corporate media

00:07:31.700 types and they say yeah you know what i think you guys might be right about this and um i think that

00:07:36.940 is something that we are increasingly experiencing i'm sure you all have your own stories about that

00:07:42.560 where maybe your neighbors maybe family maybe friends they might even be a little bit embarrassed

00:07:47.420 about it right because the the political class and the media class has told them for years now that

00:07:51.240 it's an embarrassing thing you must be a low iq rube if you believe in donald trump or you believe

00:07:58.400 in america first but increasingly i find that people are willing to be more honest about not just what

00:08:04.300 this country look like under donald j trump but actually what the world look like uh under donald

00:08:09.660 j trump and and you know something that's really struck me over the last i'm just sort of doing

00:08:16.840 this off the top of my head now but something that's really struck me over the last six months eight

00:08:21.760 months is a lot of the abuse that we've taken especially from gop primary candidates and their fans

00:08:31.240 on the internet you know they said oh of course you know you you just you're sick of fans you can't

00:08:37.000 say that anything is wrong you can't point out when anything hasn't worked right that is

00:08:42.260 fundamentally incorrect from this very table and from this very studio especially the viewers of this

00:08:48.820 who are long-term long-time viewers of this show will know when something ain't right we are the

00:08:55.040 first people the national pulse the war room and others the first people to call it out but what

00:09:01.300 we're not going to do is delude ourselves into believing that there is another superstar another

00:09:07.120 mega star that can propel the america first movement in any way shape or form close to what

00:09:13.460 donald trump has done and i think it takes actually humility to recognize that because people

00:09:18.800 and i won't name any names but they know who they are people are very quick to say i could do that

00:09:26.320 better i would have written it differently this way i would have walked out to this different music

00:09:31.160 i would have spent 30 seconds more shaking hands i would have spent two days more in iowa i wouldn't

00:09:37.220 have flown here or there for that i wouldn't have had necessarily raheem kassam go and interview

00:09:42.680 the former president of the united states and the future president of the united states everybody

00:09:47.340 is a critic but i think again if you look at the team that he has around him and you look at a lot

00:09:54.320 of the machinations that they have to deal with on a day-to-day basis court cases showing up for rallies

00:10:00.340 caucus events speeches all of this stuff i am genuinely of the belief that the well-oiled machine

00:10:08.600 is precisely that and it is precisely where it needs to be and i think donald trump by the way has shown

00:10:15.040 that across a number of instances over the last few months especially when it has come to the life

00:10:22.120 issue especially when it has come to talking about abortion increasingly what all the data is showing

00:10:30.000 us and what all the election results are showing us is that yes americans are in favor of life but

00:10:36.300 they are also in favor of that being talked about in a certain way they are fair-minded people they

00:10:43.160 understand people go through things in their lives and while the ultimate goal of course is that no

00:10:47.840 child is ever murdered americans understand that because you've come here from a 50 year long process

00:10:55.580 that the that dobs ain't going to be the be all and end all of it you actually have to have these

00:11:01.720 conversations at a state level you have to have these conversations at a dinner table level they're

00:11:07.080 moral conversations they're conversations about your that your family care about the conversations

00:11:12.020 that communities care about and i think donald trump understands that as as i i don't think anybody can

00:11:17.640 object to the single most pro-life uh politician in action in generations and that's why i opened

00:11:25.820 with that clip of me i was very lucky and a great thank you to the new young republicans and gavin wax

00:11:31.520 and the whole team there to let me you know be the voice of god as they say in in in media circles to

00:11:36.920 introduce uh president trump to the room at cipriani that day and it was also a great honor to be called

00:11:43.120 out by president trump from that stage but and and and as if that wasn't enough you know to say

00:11:49.180 that made my year obviously did but there was another moment uh that i think that really defined

00:11:57.080 this year uh for me and for a lot of us i think who have who have battled the same battles now for

00:12:04.220 years and years and years and that was being given the opportunity to interview him and to speak to

00:12:09.700 him one-on-one and really try to get to the bottom of not just where we're going politically over the

00:12:16.020 next year but really try to get more in the head of president donald j trump and i want to just roll

00:12:21.880 if we can the trailer from the national pulse interview uh with president donald j trump that

00:12:27.720 aired uh just a few months ago let's roll it mr president thank you so much for joining us here

00:12:35.280 on the national pulse thank you asking about mike pence he's being a bit of a dick about you at the

00:12:40.020 moment to sanctimonious when you first used it a lot of people kind of didn't get it you already love

00:12:45.080 it now people don't care whether or not he was loyal to you i said i think it does matter i think

00:12:50.080 most of the media is quite hostile towards you they're globalists who knows why they put everything

00:12:56.220 against the sanctimonious and he's not he's not a talented person our country's going down and if we

00:13:01.940 don't win this election if this election's not won by us i don't think our country makes it

00:13:06.540 who do you miss the most my other brother robert i was very close to passed away

00:13:12.020 two years ago he was so proud of the fact that i became president do you look in the mirror and see

00:13:18.200 you know the most famous man in the world or you've just always been the same guy i'm not

00:13:22.400 the most famous person of the world

00:13:25.020 well i am sure that some of you can guess what the answer to that last question was but it was a real

00:13:37.560 tree is not the right word it was a real honor uh to be sat in that room at mar-a-lago and to talk

00:13:44.320 to that man about not just again what's going on in politics but what's been going on in his life

00:13:49.640 you know who he misses the the people who are passed on the things that kind of impact him and and i got

00:13:55.980 the chance also not just to do that but also to ride on on trump force one on the plane with him a

00:14:00.800 couple of weeks prior to that interview and really talk you know in an off-the-record sense

00:14:05.700 about who he is and what he's thinking about what his day-to-day routine is like and we'll talk about

00:14:11.240 all of that uh over the course of the next uh couple of hours here on this um war room boxing day

00:14:17.400 special uh in the next segment i'm going to bring on one of our excellent writers over at the national

00:14:22.700 pulse.com that's jack montgomery and we're going to talk a little bit about you know why is it called

00:14:27.500 boxing day and what does boxing day mean for us what should boxing day mean for you there are lots

00:14:35.360 of parts of the christmas period that are i think left a little bit by the wayside and we're going to

00:14:39.920 try and try and re-inculicate those things into popular consciousness here so make sure that you're

00:14:46.180 going to the national pulse.com forward slash war room you're signing up we do wonderful pieces of

00:14:50.960 analysis written by great writers like that all the time uh stick with us jack montgomery joins us

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00:16:23.080 welcome back to the war room for this boxing day special hosted by yours truly rahim kassam editor-in-chief

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00:20:07.500 special now jack montgomery is an old friend of mine he's a writer of ours at the national pulse he

00:20:12.440 was with us in new york for that uh young republicans gala it was first trip i believe to the east coast of the

00:20:19.400 united states of america jack thank you for joining us on the show today it's a real pleasure to be here

00:20:25.440 raheem and it was a pleasure to be on the east coast with you for the gala as well

00:20:28.600 yeah i just wanted to ask your your impressions of that because obviously it's different where we're

00:20:35.540 from it's different in europe um it's certainly a way away from from european politics and the small

00:20:42.180 scale nature i think that you and i have both lived um in westminster and and in and in you know

00:20:47.600 conservative party politics in the united kingdom just give the audience uh your impressions you were

00:20:53.980 front row in front of the as i say 45th 46th and 47th president of the united states any takeaways

00:21:00.960 well in the united kingdom top level politics national conferences attended by the prime minister and all

00:21:09.180 ministers are really comparatively small scale affairs you know it's bournemouth conference hall

00:21:17.060 it's little village hall meetings this was a massive event and it was put together by gavin wax and an

00:21:23.080 all volunteer team at the new york young republican club it was a really an amazing achievement and the

00:21:29.220 impression my strong impression of trump himself when i was there was uh just how much he has left in

00:21:35.360 the tank you know you see this some comments from some quarters that maybe he's not who he was in

00:21:40.600 2016 maybe he's lost a step he went for two hours he was feeding off the energy of the crowd the crowd

00:21:46.480 was feeding off him i can tell you as we closed in on 11 p.m i was starting a flag you know i was feeling

00:21:51.380 a little tired and he looked like he could have kept going all night all night so there's a i'm afraid

00:21:57.060 there's uh going to be no respite either from his gop either for his gop rivals or for the democrats

00:22:03.900 and uh the coming year it's uh it's all still there and he's rearing a goal

00:22:09.180 yeah it's such a great point jack because i think you know so many so many weird and unfair

00:22:15.920 allegations get leveled at him you know the the guy is pushing 80 and and like you said just to

00:22:21.860 underscore that i think i would join you in saying that he clearly stepped off that stage

00:22:28.260 with probably more energy than you and i put together at that point in the evening right and

00:22:33.880 and that is just something extraordinary uh to behold and ladies and gentlemen you do not have

00:22:38.500 to take our words for i always say that right don't take our words for it go and look at it for

00:22:42.520 yourselves if you haven't seen that speech from that night yet it's available on on the internet you

00:22:46.840 can go and find it uh go and watch every single second of it you know like like natalie winters

00:22:52.480 i am a i am a two times two and a half times speed uh viewer and listener of most things uh if you go

00:22:59.060 and watch that you will want to slow it down just a so you can keep up quite frankly because he's

00:23:04.020 jumping around from topic to topic he's so good at that obviously uh but also to internalize the

00:23:09.040 things that he's saying because he got into a lot of topics on that night jack that that i think

00:23:13.560 he doesn't usually get into when he's standing on a stage in iowa or when he's doing a rally speech

00:23:18.460 or anything like that and i think that was i think that was a real real honor and a real treat for all

00:23:22.720 of us there is kind of you got to see a little bit more than just politician donald trump's you know

00:23:27.920 doing a stump speech you really got to see him enjoying himself up there right absolutely absolutely

00:23:34.240 almost felt as though it was um he wasn't quite expecting it to be what it was you know um i think the

00:23:39.460 line was that it turned out to be a black tie rally i think he perhaps been expecting a smaller scale

00:23:44.860 affair and a smaller scale speech but as he got up there and he saw how big it was and how enthusiastic

00:23:51.960 people were it really i think it fueled him up energized them and so much of the speech was a

00:23:58.800 completely off script a lot of it directed to uh steve you know uh shall we go off script a bit here

00:24:03.840 steve shall i tell the story steve it was uh it was incredible really funny uh a real just such a

00:24:09.880 strong rapport with the entire crowd with the room yeah yeah no it was it was such an excellent moment

00:24:17.140 jack i i really appreciate your thoughts on that and i you know i always find it interesting to bring

00:24:21.960 in people who who are not from the united states like myself um who who are subject to these grand

00:24:28.940 occasions in american politics i still remember being in the room at the uh at the rnc convention

00:24:34.380 in 2016 and watching the you know watching the ticker tape fall from the sky and it almost just

00:24:39.440 felt completely and utterly surreal it felt like being in a movie and and i just like to bring the

00:24:45.340 audience into those moments because they are such historic occasions and there's i mean i think that

00:24:51.220 between between tucker carlson's speech at the american principles project gala two nights before

00:24:57.600 the young republican one and then listening to donald trump i think i probably had uh you know and i'm

00:25:03.520 i'm 37 now so sometimes i sometimes i forget and i think oh you know all my formative years are in the

00:25:08.500 past i think i had one of the most formative political intellectual weeks of my life as a result of

00:25:17.100 those moments and and credit to those people those organizations and those those men up there giving

00:25:22.420 those speeches um who could make that happen jack i wanted to bring you on to talk about the importance

00:25:28.880 of uh the traditional christmas period and the traditional things that often get uh left by the wayside

00:25:35.720 nowadays when we when we when we celebrate christmas you know and and i think we try our best to to give it

00:25:41.860 the due reverence and for for christmas's position uh not just as a time away from work all right and not

00:25:48.360 even just as a time uh with your family and friends but as as explicitly as a religious time explicitly

00:25:55.660 as one of the most uh uh you know the the most important uh religious periods that you can have

00:26:03.880 and and and we forget it so easily so you have this analysis up at the nationalpulse.com in our

00:26:10.340 analysis section we only publish uh the best things jack just before we go to a break give us give us like

00:26:16.460 a minute and a half of a preview and then when we come back from the break we'll get into it in detail

00:26:21.200 well one of the things a lot of people forget when it comes to christmas is that there's more to

00:26:27.440 christmas than just christmas day you know a lot of us will be familiar with the nursery rhyme you

00:26:31.740 know on the first day of christmas my true love gave to me and it goes all the way out to 12 but now

00:26:37.140 even among conservatives a lot of us don't quite recall what those 12 days are perhaps we think it's the 12

00:26:42.460 days leading up to christmas but that's not really the case christmas day is really the start it's the

00:26:47.940 start of christmas tide and that includes a whole range of different feast days and traditional

00:26:54.380 holidays leading up to epiphany uh sometimes known as little christmas or three kings day which is still

00:27:01.640 observed in some parts of europe although even there to a much lesser extent than perhaps it was in the

00:27:06.800 past and i think you know for conservatives who are so keen that people remember the reason for the

00:27:12.260 season and that we remember our customs and our traditions and traditional western culture

00:27:16.960 that we take the time to sort of school ourselves and what that involves what that entails

00:27:21.700 and try maybe to if not hold on to then maybe revive some of the

00:27:26.040 traditions that are fading away a little

00:27:28.420 yeah i think that's right jack and i think it's such an important thing when you when you

00:27:34.560 when you first pitched that to me as a as the idea for an analysis um on the site you know i think

00:27:40.680 at least mentally jack knows by the way and we'll ask him in the next segment what it's like to work

00:27:44.780 for me as well but jack knows that sometimes my response can be a bit a bit muted but uh at least

00:27:49.840 internally i jumped at the idea of that because i just think i find the flaws in myself in that regard

00:27:56.500 and and and like you say we we we we have christmas day and we we work ourselves up to christmas day

00:28:02.120 but uh but so much of the season otherwise is is left for other things and we're going to bring those

00:28:06.980 things back we're going to make christmas great again right here on the war room boxing day special

00:28:12.700 we'll return with jack montgomery raheem kassam and more of this boxing day special in just a minute

00:28:18.660 war room here's your host stephen k van

00:28:22.020 welcome back to this uh war room boxing day special broadcasting from capitol hill your nation's

00:28:37.380 capital where i am i actually recently toured around uh an old friend of mine an old scottish

00:28:44.340 friend of mine from uh from back in european politics days gosh that feels like such a long

00:28:50.220 time ago jack your um your impressions of your time in new york and your time in washington dc

00:28:55.400 a lot of this audience will know them as as absolute hellholes a lot of this audience wouldn't set

00:29:00.160 foot um in the capitol uh uh anymore quite frankly especially not uh not after the the

00:29:07.200 occupation of the capitol after the last election but but tell us uh just very briefly before we jump

00:29:12.980 back into uh the christmas period your uh your perspective on it all

00:29:16.940 well of course i've got strong family ties in america and i spent some time there growing up

00:29:23.360 fairly regularly but always on the west coast never on the east coast and never in a great city

00:29:28.620 like uh like new york or washington now of course they do have that hellhole reputation now but for me

00:29:35.980 coming there as an outsider and um looking past maybe some of the the rough edges what's really

00:29:41.920 striking was the sort of vision of um american greatness you know really what was still there

00:29:46.840 you know even up on a new building like the uh freedom tower you know we went up there together

00:29:51.800 we had a look down on uh new york you know you could see old new york the chrysler building

00:29:56.460 the empire state the incredible memorial at ground zero and there was so much energy so much life still

00:30:02.940 in that city and in dc as well you know the beautiful neoclassical government buildings

00:30:08.200 the uh the great shrine to lincoln the beautiful painted sort of rotunda inside the capitol building

00:30:15.640 and it shows you know it really shows you there's so much here in america there in america the

00:30:21.720 flagship of a democracy of the west that's worth saving and worth preserving and it's just so important

00:30:27.440 that really everyone whether you're in britain or europe or if you're a western man anyone who

00:30:33.500 believes in the west you need to want america to succeed you need to if you can to help to fight

00:30:39.340 for it because we need it we really do need it you know and it's uh it would be a terrible loss

00:30:45.220 to civilization uh if it faded away as sadly it's maybe been fading in recent years

00:30:52.120 yeah it's such a great point and and you know a lot of people ask me what are you doing here

00:30:59.400 right what what is your involvement in in in america in american politics and i i usually give

00:31:04.600 the same answer look you know i grew up in a in a declining united kingdom we watched it happen

00:31:09.800 at the same time jack we watched our our communities uh disappear away from us we watched

00:31:15.740 our politics being wrestled away from us by by globalist corporates and and you know i i

00:31:21.860 i almost feel i always feel a little sense of the paul revere about it right running through

00:31:29.540 raheem running through america saying the corporates are coming the corporates are coming

00:31:33.660 and i think so much has been done i think to to to wake people up to a lot of what's been going on

00:31:42.500 over the last several decades in compact into the last few years but there's a long way to go and you

00:31:49.080 talk about the architecture you talk about the imagery and there's a reason that they try and

00:31:54.220 capture these institutions right there's a reason they lock down the capital with all of the beauty

00:31:58.960 inside and statutory hall and all of this stuff there's a reason they want to build up uh you know

00:32:04.060 ghastly new museums around the washington monument to to to block its uh view all of this is an attack

00:32:12.320 it's a cultural attack it's an attack on the morale of the nation um everybody who is dissuaded from

00:32:17.920 going to places like um new york city and everybody who is dissuaded from going to washington dc and and

00:32:23.920 lobbying your representatives in person right i think they are being dissuaded away from being active

00:32:28.420 participants in in what should be what should be uh some of the greatest monuments to to american prowess

00:32:37.220 right to the to the heavy lift that people have done over several decades and centuries now uh to build

00:32:44.200 this nation up and to make it to make it the the powerhouse that it is and the powerhouse externally

00:32:48.720 short but the powerhouse internally more important and it's the innards that are rotting the worst it's

00:32:53.960 the innards that are that are that are subject to the greatest assailment by uh the alphabet agencies by

00:32:59.920 the you know the political class by uh frankly even people who have who have tried to make a name for

00:33:07.500 themselves over here and you look i think of i think of the piers morgans and the medi hasans and

00:33:12.200 and all these people who come to america and try and tear it down from the inside out um and i'm here

00:33:18.000 to tell this audience that i know if i speak for you jack i'll try uh but certainly for myself we are the

00:33:24.140 people who are on the opposite side of that and trying to trying to come in from somewhere else and

00:33:28.420 say hey you have something you had something magnificent and great and we loved it and we love it and we want

00:33:34.800 to be a part of it but you have to preserve it you have to protect it and all of this goes hand in

00:33:39.420 hand with the subject matter at hand here jack which is which is christmas time right let's talk

00:33:43.820 about boxing day for a minute because it's boxing day uh that phrase is not often used by americans

00:33:49.220 although this audience has become a little bit more aware since we've been doing these these boxing

00:33:53.400 day specials uh of what it means to me jack i've always i've always represented boxing day as

00:33:58.740 kind of the giving day right the generosity day the charity day the day that some of us who have

00:34:04.420 more than others it's time for us to recognize that it's time for us to spend that day uh putting

00:34:09.440 things together working out what are what our charitable endeavors for the year will be

00:34:13.320 and and i've certainly made an effort to do that over the last uh over the last couple of years

00:34:17.920 especially with work with more charities the run that i do each year with tunnel to towers this year

00:34:23.720 we raised i think near on 35 000 to help to help veterans and their families and 9-11 survivors families

00:34:31.040 as well but tell us a little about the origins of boxing day and the rest of the christmas period

00:34:35.840 well you're exactly right about it being the giving day the exact origins of the term boxing day are a

00:34:43.760 little obscure the two main theories are that it either comes from the alms boxes the poor boxes that

00:34:51.000 used to be kept in the churches that the uh would people would donate to there'd be collections

00:34:55.940 and then they'd be distributed on boxing day or thereabouts to kind of people who were less well

00:35:01.420 off people who were in need you know one of the real key central tenets of uh christianity and the

00:35:08.100 christian faith the other theory is that it came from the christmas boxes the gift boxes that people who

00:35:15.640 worked in domestic service uh back in the day you know when there were lords and ladies and uh

00:35:20.340 people of uh great estates to work for they uh you know they would have to work for those families

00:35:26.600 on christmas day and they would be allowed to return to their own families the following day on boxing day

00:35:32.300 and with them they would take a box which would have some gifts from the master's family maybe some uh

00:35:38.440 some food and some other uh goodies you know so it was an idea although it's a little bit of an elite

00:35:43.800 idea it was an idea certainly of giving back of remembering that christmas is not really a time

00:35:49.740 just for taking which is maybe some which is sadly has perhaps been lost a bit for a boxing day in

00:35:57.040 particular boxing day in britain is a bit like black friday it's strongly associated with sales

00:36:03.620 you know the family time is over uh the christmas time is over now you're meant to be back in the

00:36:09.120 shops back in the stores trying to snatch up what you can for yourself maybe for your own immediate

00:36:14.740 family but uh you're not thinking about giving alms and giving unto others which is a great shame

00:36:22.080 you know so you're sort of course so sort of like jack the the idea that you might let one of your

00:36:29.560 staff you know have one of your shirts is it sort of like that i'm not sure what you could be

00:36:37.620 referring to him i'm not quite but it would certainly be a generous jack is jack is wearing jack is

00:36:42.560 currently wearing from the rahim kassam collection we'll just put it that way

00:36:46.580 now there's perhaps some context tell us tell us more about the other days

00:36:53.140 tell us more about the other days of the christmas period and why you think we should

00:36:57.840 pay attention to them absolutely to finish on boxing day of course it's not only boxing day it is

00:37:03.580 also saint stephen's day so it commemorates saint stephen who was the first martyr the first

00:37:09.820 christian to be killed for his faith in the book of acts stoned to death for really for refusing to 0.78

00:37:16.560 renounce his faith for standing against the religious authorities of his day and that was

00:37:22.560 marked on the 26th you know conterminus with boxing day there's certain other traditions that go with it

00:37:28.540 in finland it's been traditional to drive through the streets on horse drawn as opposed to reindeer drawn

00:37:35.860 sleighs uh but of course then you come right away into december the 27th and that is the feast of

00:37:42.020 saint john the evangelist you know uh the disciple jesus loved john the apostle the by tradition author

00:37:51.240 of both the gospel of john or certainly its source and the book of revelation you know a real key the

00:37:56.560 longest lived apostle and a real key figure in early christianity and a living link between the

00:38:02.600 disciples themselves and the early church fathers people like saint polycarp come after that to

00:38:08.980 the feast of the holy innocence now if anyone here has been to paris to see notre dame before the terrible

00:38:15.640 fire there was a great centerpiece there used to be in that church sadly now burnt to ashes depicting

00:38:21.920 the massacre of the innocence that is the uh the poor little children all the boys aged under two years

00:38:27.700 who were put to death by king herod when the magi the wise men the three kings came uh uh to speak to

00:38:36.020 him of the uh the newborn king and wanting to come and find him there's a and you know and there's many

00:38:42.380 days like this in the period reading uh in the christmastide period the 12 days of christmas

00:38:48.060 leading up to 12th night and 12th night for a long time was uh if christmas day was a period a time for

00:38:55.600 children and what have you 12th night was uh an adult oriented holiday you know it was all about

00:39:01.220 feasting drinking uh in england it was traditional for a long time to name a lord of misrule

00:39:08.260 to uh preside over the the sort of unruly events of the day and for a period the dutch the church in

00:39:15.360 the netherlands actually banned it because it all got a little bit out of hand but uh you know that

00:39:20.160 was something that was really an alternative to i suppose today's new year's eve or what we call

00:39:24.840 hogman a in scotland and then on the first of january you know the first day of the new year

00:39:32.140 that was dedicated to mary to the blessed virgin that was the solemnity of mary celebrating her

00:39:39.300 motherhood the motherhood of uh of christ of jesus and there's many other sort of a less noticeable

00:39:46.940 less notable little customs and traditions and days for commemoration and memorialization

00:39:52.100 all scattered through those 12 days which are uh you know there's so many of them are

00:39:57.980 much forgotten today you know the christmas period is defined by really you know the advent period

00:40:04.320 sales christmas day and then the after christmas sales and that's not what it was supposed to be

00:40:10.200 you know it was really meant to be a long pause a long 12 day pause leading into epiphany you know

00:40:15.400 what i already mentioned to you uh three kings day little christmas which was another day for gift

00:40:20.780 giving commemorating the magi coming and giving their gifts to the baby jesus a really important

00:40:27.380 day in the christian calendar because it was the first manifestation of the incarnation you know the

00:40:33.160 god made man to the gentiles you know uh gaspard melchior and balthazar the magi were uh were not jews

00:40:40.680 they were gentiles like like ourselves um come to see the newborn king to see jesus and you know there

00:40:49.020 was all so many traditions associated with that amazing baking epiphany cake so much there's so

00:40:54.360 much to uh yeah to delve into and i hope that we'll be able to cover it for our readers at the

00:40:58.940 national pulse in the coming days yeah absolutely jack i mean that's one of the things that i wanted

00:41:05.040 to make mention of before we before we let you go here is is let people know where they can find

00:41:09.960 you on social media uh because jack's going to be pumping out a bunch of this content that i think is

00:41:14.540 is extremely important um and you're going to want to not just share it with us but print it out and

00:41:19.640 share it with your family in person jack tell tell the audience where they can find more from you

00:41:23.720 you can find me at um at jack b montgomery on a x or twitter as it once was

00:41:33.320 yeah yeah jack and thenationalpulse.com all of his work will be up there in the analysis section you've

00:41:41.420 got to go and check it out and find out more about all of these things i know i am aware that a lot of

00:41:45.200 the audience uh will have some some view into this but i think for a lot of people it's too easily

00:41:50.140 forgotten jack montgomery thank you so much for joining us here on this war room boxing day special

00:41:55.440 a great pleasure a merry christmas time to everyone for the next uh 11 days

00:42:00.480 there you go jack montgomery there you can see why here at the national pulse we uh we try and

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00:43:50.100 action war room here's your host stephen k band

00:43:55.720 well you're back in the war room for this boxing day special i'm raheem kassam editor-in-chief of

00:44:06.800 thenationalpulse.com make sure you are going to thenationalpulse.com forward slash war room you

00:44:12.320 sign up support real news support our staff our writing staff there you saw jack montgomery talking

00:44:19.520 us through uh the christmas christmas tide and the christmas period and the importance of all the

00:44:24.360 different occasions you find therein or you should find therein but unfortunately aren't currently

00:44:30.460 eclipsed uh in a lot of quarters of not just america but the widened western world by the

00:44:37.740 commercialization of it the um honestly the the degradation of it in so many in so many senses

00:44:43.660 and you've seen that i'm sure you've seen that and lamented this taking place over the last several

00:44:47.980 weeks where you've seen you know satanic baphomet heads being erected in state capitals and and so on 0.98

00:44:54.420 and so forth it is always under assault your your your spirit is always under assault christianity

00:45:01.400 is under assault um the the the foundations of what created this nation constantly under assault

00:45:07.400 you will not get to a time i'm sorry to tell you this i'm sure stephen k bannon tells you this all the

00:45:12.380 time too but you will probably not see a time where any of that goes away no you will likely live

00:45:17.440 through a time where it gets worse and worse we are seeing that ratcheting up every single day but

00:45:21.880 in amongst all of it right the reason that i am so passionate about this this stuff and especially

00:45:27.280 over the last few years you know throwing my my shoulders to the wheel on so much of this stuff

00:45:32.060 is is you start to realize and i don't want this to sound like a lecture if anything it's a lecture

00:45:38.580 at myself you're just here for it but you start to realize that in addition to pushing back against

00:45:45.180 the evil which we do on a day-to-day basis in addition to shining a spotlight on it in addition to

00:45:50.220 trying to to disinfect the corruption that takes place just yards away from where i sit right here

00:45:56.240 and is writ large you know all over the western world in addition to the fight back you also have

00:46:02.560 to give back charitable endeavors the the generosity of spirit all of these things are are not just

00:46:10.540 imperative but they are a duty over the last couple of years i've been um honored to take part in the

00:46:17.140 tunnel to towers 5k run it's not a lot for all of you who are avid uh fitness freaks and runners out

00:46:23.040 there but it was certainly a lot for me when i first did it three years ago and i think i was about

00:46:28.900 50 pounds heavier um was probably smoking about a pack a day uh would probably sink about three or

00:46:36.420 four martinis followed by three or four pints a night and then one day i woke up and said you know

00:46:41.480 what i'm gonna run this 5k you can imagine uh what that ended up looking like the first year i think um

00:46:48.260 i think i probably ended up with a with a 55 minute uh finish time now i'm only a small guy by the way

00:46:54.820 i'm only about five seven and a half and so you know the strides aren't that long but we have

00:47:00.460 significantly improved on the run time over those couple years we've significantly improved

00:47:04.580 on the health uh over those couple of years as well and and i like to think we've significantly

00:47:08.880 improved other people's lives along the way as well last year was the first year that i actively

00:47:13.560 raised money while being part of the run and we raised 25 000 last year uh this year we raised

00:47:20.160 35 000 for tunnel to towers and that's money that's going to help uh the survivors of 9-11 and their

00:47:28.060 families it's money that goes to help uh veterans especially those who are uh physically impaired those

00:47:34.260 who have you know lost uh limbs those for those who can't actually get around and about anymore and

00:47:40.120 hold down you know a day-to-day job like like those of us who are who are blessed with with you know

00:47:46.160 everything that that god gave us from birth and and it's that that sort of tragedy uh that you see

00:47:53.000 and the sacrifice that you see that kind of spurs me on especially this boxing day uh to make sure that

00:47:58.520 more and more people are taking part in that and there's an open offer by the way for anybody that wants

00:48:02.100 to come and run the tunnel to towers 5k with me next year you are more than welcome they do it every

00:48:07.120 year thousands upon thousands of people uh and i want to make sure that we're playing that some of

00:48:12.320 the video as well that i took from the run myself um that you can see uh on the uh on the broadcast here

00:48:19.520 because because it's not just raising the money either and it's not just the um the people that

00:48:26.880 you're going to help it's the it's how iconic that run is it's how moving that run is and for

00:48:36.960 those of you who are unaware of the the history of that organization tunnel to towers named you know

00:48:43.620 and really founded for a man who on 9-11 put all of his gear on and ran into the tunnel towards the

00:48:51.920 towers as they were collapsing to try and help people there you know every time i start that race

00:48:58.820 and you go through that tunnel you run through that tunnel and you emerge out and you you see the

00:49:05.000 freedom tower now right in front of you and the road is flanked with policemen and firefighters and

00:49:12.660 servicemen of all kinds uh holding up pictures uh hundreds and hundreds of their of their colleagues

00:49:19.360 who who gave the ultimate sacrifice right who perished on that day in the days um hence

00:49:25.940 to try and save other people um and and they just do an amazing job at tunnel to tower so i wanted to

00:49:33.660 make sure that for those of you uh who are feeling generous today uh who have the ability uh that you

00:49:39.540 go to the tunnel to towers website i make sure that i give every month uh in addition to raising them the

00:49:44.880 money every year and this year i was also lucky enough to be invited to one of their

00:49:48.600 one of their pre-run we'll have to have a word about this but their pre-run gala dinners which i

00:49:54.760 think is the best time to load up on food is the night before the run or maybe it is but uh but i

00:50:01.560 certainly struggle the next day as a result of it um it's just it's just an amazing thing uh to take part

00:50:07.720 in it's an amazing thing to to feel and they do these all over the country by the way they do them all

00:50:13.420 around the country so if you can't descend on on on manhattan on downtown manhattan for the next one

00:50:18.280 next year they try and find one uh in your state in your local community and be a part of that too

00:50:23.600 and i i also got the new york young republican club involved in this so you've got a lot of them now

00:50:30.960 who run in this in this 5k and i'm delighted to say that this year by the way you see from the video

00:50:36.080 that we we're playing um this year was the first year i think in many that it rained and i don't mean

00:50:43.900 it was drizzling it was pouring down with rain but then you get into the tunnel itself and the

00:50:52.220 tunnel's dry uh but it's boiling hot as a result because you can see i'm just sweating going into

00:51:01.080 that tunnel and then you emerge out the other side and it's raining again so you go from freezing

00:51:05.540 cold in the rain boiling hot in the tunnel uh with all the other runners around you and then back into

00:51:11.480 the rain again so i had hoped i had hoped i said 30 i said over 30k that i wanted to raise um and

00:51:18.840 under 30 minutes in time unfortunately because of the rain i'm blaming the rain uh it was it was

00:51:25.200 under it was over 30 minutes in time but it was over 30k raised so uh so we got half of that done

00:51:30.280 we'll do it better again uh next year we'll get that run time down a couple of weeks later by the

00:51:35.980 way i did another near 5k just by myself and i was down to under 30 minutes on that it's a long way

00:51:42.140 from the 55 minute first year stick around stay tuned we're bringing on another of our writers in

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Bannon's War Room - December 26, 2023

Episode 3273：A Boxing Day Special

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