On this episode of War Room, Stephen K. Bannon and Mike Davis discuss the latest in the ongoing case against Jack Smith, a former Democratic National Committe member of Congress, who was acquitted in a corruption case brought by the Obama administration.
00:03:35.960Particularly one of the things we're talking about, and we're going to talk about tomorrow, you can't join us, you're coming in on Thursday, but your new Action Center, Article 3, can you tell people where to go?
00:05:12.680I mean, we'll show you in the documentary.
00:05:14.640And by the way, there are very conservative Christian evangelicals, pastors, very respected people in the Christian community that are frightened of this Christian nationalist movement.
00:05:27.120Because it's not, they're not only frightened about it, hurting democracy, but Christianity itself.
00:05:34.120And we show in the film that this movement was the foundation for January 6th.
00:05:39.760They were the moving elements that made January 6th and the insurrection happened.
00:05:44.080And now we have a Speaker of the House who is an avowed Christian nationalist.
00:05:49.060He even says that the teachings of the Bible and what he believes, whatever he believes God's will is, overtakes the Constitution.
00:06:00.500And that all decisions have to be made based on his thinking.
00:06:03.740So we have this now inculcated in our government, and Donald Trump is more than happy to be their mouthpiece.
00:06:13.700And we see this connection, and it's brought out in the film.
00:06:17.280And it's very scary because there's a possibility, and we talk about it in the film, that we could slip into an autocracy very easily.
00:06:26.580You hear this all the time, and on your show and many other shows, that the fight right now is between whether or not we preserve our democracy or we slip into a theocratic autocracy.
00:10:00.640The point of attack, and from the French Revolution all the way through the Bolsheviks, the Mao Zedong, the Red Guard, the point of attack, and you see it now, is the family.
00:11:03.480And in just a generation, you will be gone.
00:11:06.960And this will be the only community they've ever known.
00:11:09.780Noah Webster told us that every government is built on some religion or political philosophy, and the education of that nation, that is the teaching of children, will propagate the religion of that nation.
00:11:25.640And the United States of America has that as their foundational philosophy, Christianity, and it's been sewn into the hearts of children for centuries through the home and the schools, public and private.
00:11:35.860And that is where we get our prosperity and our freedom, and our future liberty and success depends on teaching our children these right principles.
00:11:48.580You supplant the values of children, and you usurp the authority of parents, and you control the future by getting them in your schools.
00:11:57.100Tell us, audience, you've dedicated your life to really this kind of movement or to make sure that these values are put out in whatever media, in television and film, but also in libraries and books, et cetera.
00:12:10.240But why have you – you could have been enormously successful just going down the path of Hollywood.
00:12:15.140Why did you – what was the cathartic moment that revealed itself that you changed and did something else?
00:12:22.380Well, they're incredibly personal for me.
00:12:34.440And then I'm just incredibly grateful for living in this country.
00:12:38.940I think that the United States is a miracle that has happened.
00:12:42.960There's been nothing like it in thousands of years, and those who have experienced freedom around the world to a large degree have copied what happened over here.
00:12:49.660And when our forefathers and foremothers before the founders got a hold of principles that they saw in the ancient state of Israel, and they pulled those out of the scriptures, the division of powers, representative government, everyone equal under the law, the ability to choose your own leaders and to limit powers of the government.
00:13:15.080And all of this has led to the freest, most prosperous nation and generous nation in the whole world.
00:13:22.420I'm grateful for that, and I understand that if we don't pass this stuff on to our children, we lose it.
00:13:28.840Liberty is one generation away from extinction.
00:13:31.540I think that's true, and I want to do my part because many people are just thinking that the sky is falling.
00:13:39.240And we've had world wars, and we've also had great awakenings, and the revivals of first principles often happen when things are the worst.
00:13:50.040During times of political corruption, moral decline, spiritual apathy, great awakenings take place, and I think we're due for another one of those right about now.
00:14:07.440What if, Steve, this isn't the end of the United States?
00:14:13.000What if this isn't the last days of planet Earth, even as some of my Christian brothers and sisters would like to think?
00:14:20.400What if we are in the early days of a golden era of liberty and blessing and prosperity, and now events are happening to wake us up, to give us a reality check, to remind us of what's important?
00:14:34.800What if this national setback is really a divine setup for a spiritual comeback led by the family of faith?
00:14:42.740I believe that it is, and I want to be there at the center of it.
00:14:46.940We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:18:17.000No, actually the American Library Association was giving instructions to librarians on how to bar the doors to their own community members.
00:18:26.500Who wanted to come in and sing and pray and read good books to their kids of virtue and value.
00:18:31.780So, no, the book burners I think are on the other side.
00:18:35.100But to be fair, all of us think that there are harmful materials out there.
00:18:38.400But isn't the Library Association, isn't that run by an avowed Marxist?
00:18:48.000And I always remember that somebody's values are going to reign supreme in the White House, in the American Library Association, in the schools.
00:18:57.080And so we just have to decide what are the values that are going to lead to blessing and liberty and protection.
00:19:02.160And going after the children really is the key.
00:19:06.040And the progressives have done such a great job of that.
00:19:10.600And you look at the clip that we just saw.
00:19:13.640New Jersey has had a 4,000% increase in non-binary children in Gen Z.
00:19:23.180Gen Z now has 30% of its children identifying as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, queer.
00:19:31.900And the powers of stories, either through the written word or through screen stories, like all those cartoons we just saw.
00:19:41.820You have Sesame Street characters saying that they're non-binary.
00:19:45.240You have all of this stuff going on because that is how you infiltrate the mind of children is you transport them to another realm of reality.
00:19:56.940And then you create characters that the children want to identify with.
00:20:01.080And as we're undermining the family, as marriage is falling apart, as everything is uncertain in their life, they then take on these identities and feel there's some security and community and all of that.
00:20:11.880And this is where we've got so much work to do.
00:20:13.780So I'm leaning deeply into telling the right kinds of stories with the right kind of values.
00:20:19.920Brave Books and I have been working on not just children's books but now a new television show for kids.
00:20:27.120Imagine a show that has the kind of timeless, biblically-based moral values of a Mr. Rogers neighborhood, only greatly modernized with beautiful animation.
00:20:38.940Guest stars at every turn, hilarious dialogue.
00:20:44.100This is the kind of show that's going to combine both live action with me and other stars from former Disney shows like Lee Allen Baker from Good Luck Charlie and others with beautiful animation.
00:20:56.180And Jim Henson Muppet puppeteers who are making these incredible animals that fit into Freedom Island and the stories that Brave Books has been telling about the sanctity of life, warning against socialism and CRT, celebrating the fruit of the spirit.
00:21:15.040The show is called Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk.
00:21:18.040Iggy's the iguana who lives in Mr. Kirk's treehouse in his backyard, and this show is coming out this summer.
00:21:25.380We're hoping to have the audience themselves create the show with us, much like The Chosen did with Angel Studios.
00:21:34.200Are you doing this in conjunction with Angel Studios?
00:21:37.280We're not doing this in conjunction with Angel Studios.
00:22:07.680And we're giving people an opportunity to help us make this show and all kinds of great prizes and rewards and things for people to come in and support.
00:22:15.740This fundraiser that Brave Books has put on.
00:22:19.200And they can find out more about that if they go to watchbrave.com.
00:23:00.200I think that we need a resurgence of first principles and values or bust.
00:23:05.280And nobody is going to do this but us, the audience, the people, the people who love this country, love our families, and love God.
00:23:12.320Why are you – so when you do a Mr. Rogers, you're clearly going for a certain age and demographic – what is the age that you're going for?
00:23:23.320Yeah, I would say this show is going to appeal to kids who are like four to five on up to like eight and nine.
00:23:32.040And it's the same reason that Sesame Street and Blue's Clues and Cocomelon are going after those kids because that's when their values are shaped.
00:23:43.080That's when their morals are formed at these very, very young ages.
00:23:46.240Because that's where they understand that if they can insert themselves between the parents and the children with shows that babysit these kids, they can upend their values and they can turn them into little Marxist lemmings very early.
00:24:35.980And you have these others that were done by Disney or whatever.
00:24:40.380Have you, why is it an absurd proposition that you would first take this to PBS and say, hey, I want to do this series and or go to Disney?
00:24:55.000Why wouldn't you, why wouldn't you, is it even in the realm of possibility that a PBS, seeing that you're making a wholesome 21st century Mr. Rogers with you as Mr. Rogers, who's a pretty known entity, or Disney understands, you understand the commercial aspect.
00:25:09.460Why would those two groups not embrace this project?
00:25:17.660Because it's diametrically opposed to the apparent agenda of those types of places.
00:25:23.980So perhaps they would like to, and I would like to politely decline because I don't want to be bought.
00:25:32.340I don't want to be beholden to people who are the gatekeepers.
00:25:35.580I mean, Henson and these guys, didn't they have kind of full reign creatively and they just delivered the, the episodes to PBS or does PBS actually have a role in, in crafting or let me say it a different way.
00:25:46.800If you went and pitched this at PBS, do you think you would be laughed out of the room?
00:25:50.980And if you were, doesn't that get to the heart of why are we funding this?
00:25:54.920Why is this audience writing checks and they're part of their taxes to fund that?
00:25:58.980I wouldn't think that they'd be interested in this unless they could just buy it to shut it down, unless they could have it so that they could just stuff it in a box somewhere.
00:26:28.280That has become the juggernaut that it is and significantly altered the landscape because the audience made the show themselves.
00:26:35.980And if we could do the same thing, which I know that we can, um, brave books is, uh, wants to raise two and a half million dollars in order to produce 20 episodes of this show.
00:26:45.940And we have so many professionals, world-class puppeteers and songwriters and authors and actors, uh, from the mainstream that are dying to get out of those, uh, of those prisons, those ideological prisons.
00:26:59.940And come to some place where there is fresh air and hope and, uh, the cool breeze of, of, of liberty and biblical values that can, uh, give them, uh, a way to utilize their gifts and talents in a way that's going to make a positive difference for the kids.
00:27:15.500One of the hits when, uh, one of the, the, uh, assaults when people on the right do things is that they're not at the artistic level of, of Hollywood or the television industry because the great talent feels there'll be either one doesn't agree with it, or if they do, they're afraid they'll be ostracized.
00:27:35.460No, there's people that are in, we have, we have good people who love God, love this country and, and love these values who are in all of these industries, right?
00:27:46.980Um, George Soros, it doesn't, uh, Karl Marx doesn't, uh, it's not limited to that, but, but they don't have the opportunity because there's only often only one, one game in town.
00:27:57.540Now there are alternatives and brave books is providing more and more.
00:28:00.840That's why I'm excited to be working with them.
00:28:02.240Okay. Um, we're, can we hold you a few minutes on the other side?
00:28:06.140I'm going to do one more time to pass through and tell people where to go.
00:29:48.320So I guess the theory of the case is you're saying that Mao Zedong, from the French Revolution to the Bolsheviks to Mao Zedong to the modern neo-Marxists, they've always focused on the family and on getting to the children.
00:30:02.220Yeah, you've got to take out the family and the church.
00:30:04.540And, you know, what we see in our day is we talk about pluralism and we talk about democracy.
00:30:11.120Our founders were not about democracy.
00:30:44.620So you usurp the power of parents, and that's what we're seeing with the government now and in schools and gender transformations and all this stuff without parental consent.
00:30:54.600And then you replace the ultimate authority in their life, which is no longer God but civil government.
00:31:02.740Government is a tool that should be a servant to bring about good blessings for people, not the tyrant God that enslaves people.
00:31:13.820How long did you work in the television industry in Hollywood until it dawned on you one day that, hey, maybe this is not my home?
00:31:23.540Because that kind of talk right there.
00:31:24.960Look, Rob Reiner and people say he's a – look, and I realize the audience is going to melt down, but people that know him say he's a decent guy.
00:31:58.900I wanted to be like Ben Carson and this thing.
00:32:00.860So I slipped into it, got on Growing Pains, and by the time I was 20, I had this great big career and I got married.
00:32:07.400After that, I wanted to just be about right things and good things.
00:32:13.140Whether it was in acting or not, it didn't really matter to me.
00:32:15.780So I started becoming a student of history and understanding how principles work out in real life through education and family and civil government and things like that.
00:32:27.260And let me just say with regard to Rob Reiner and anybody else who's really triggered over some of these labels that people are putting on others.
00:32:37.400Many people have just been duped by other people's description of their own opponents, and they make them look like they're these freaky weird – I mean this is the news all the time, right?
00:32:50.300You make your opponents look like complete crazy people who don't know what they're talking about, and you get everybody to worry about them.
00:32:57.720And so he may be legitimately concerned about this anyway.
00:33:01.240Like Joe Scarborough this morning referred to MAGA as freaks, weirdos, insurrectionists, and a death cult.
00:33:30.200I don't think they – they're smart folks.
00:33:31.660I don't think they lacked understanding of what this movement is.
00:33:34.900Yeah, but what I'm saying is that there are moles planted within the good groups that are then used to distract everybody and represent the good group, and it's a bogus group.
00:33:48.660There may be – there's freaks and psychos out there for sure, but they don't represent me and my ilk.
00:33:53.980I mean I'm all about – I'm hanging with Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and William Wilberforce and William Bradford.
00:34:02.300I mean – and I know millions of other people who are too.
00:35:10.240But hey, I say that from the warrior crazy wing of this movement.
00:35:14.220So that's supposed to be – that's supposed to be – that's what we do.
00:35:17.800But I don't think – I just think it's – you're not going to talk this out.
00:35:20.800The country has gone through these things before, three times previously, where there's just an unbridgeable gap in the way forward.
00:35:28.520One side ultimately wins and the country goes to the next level and we move on.
00:35:32.040And we're – I think right now in an inflection point of the constitutional republic that was bequeathed to us, it's all out there right now.
00:35:40.420One side is going to win this debate or the politics of this, the movement of this, and one side is going to lose.
00:35:45.660And the side that wins is going to take it to the next level and the side that loses is going to go figure out what they do next.
00:35:51.960And I don't think you can talk it out.
00:35:53.280I think particularly Rob Reiner, he's a very smart guy.
00:35:55.840The Kennedy – his Kennedy assassination podcast is quite brilliant and it's interesting.
00:36:01.620He's kind of a conspiracy theorist in that.
00:37:38.860Where do people go to find out more about the TV project and also more about Brave Books?
00:37:43.460Because you're still doing the – you're still – Brave Books is still doing the library.
00:37:47.340Are you guys going into the libraries to have days when families can actually go?
00:37:52.180Yeah, library story hours are still happening.
00:37:54.220Brave Books is writing a new book every month for their Book of the Month Club.
00:37:57.160And so families are continuing to teach their children all these pro-God, pro-American values.
00:38:03.000You can find out more about that at bravebooks.com.
00:38:07.200You can then find out how you can be a part of creating this new TV show that I'm making, The Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk, by going to watchbrave.com.
00:38:22.140Like you can get one of your own children or grandchildren in one of the episodes of the TV show if you'll help support at a certain level.
00:38:29.760Or you can come to the red carpet premiere of the television program in Nashville.
00:46:04.560The Bushes are as guilty or maybe even more guilty than the Clintons, given the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the financial crisis of 2008 and 9-11.
00:47:22.140Yeah, you go to MyPillow.com, everybody, and get the – anything you ordered today from the War Room Posse, you're going to get a free copy, autographed copy of my book.
00:47:32.360And everything you're talking about, Steve, is really in the book.
00:47:35.220This is a battle we're in of epic proportions.
00:47:37.720This is evil versus good, and there is no compromise when it comes to that.
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