Bannon's War Room - May 17, 2024


Episode 3618： Will Democrats Pay The Price For The Crumbling Of America

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Donald Trump Steve Moore Josh Hammer Natalie G. Winters Scott Besson George Soros Hunter Biden Scott Bessett Representative Jasmine Crockett Janet Yellen Jamie Dimon J.P. Morgan Pamela Carlin Mike Lindell Aaron Zars Brad Raffensperger Philip Patrick Patriot Mobile Michael Cohen Jason Trenert and 43 more
Episode 3616： Bloodbath In The Courtroom Episode 3621： The Patriot Economy And Hedging Against Economic Collapse

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On today's show, Steve talks about the Cohen hearing, the House Freedom Caucus, the Ukraine crisis, and much more. Plus, the latest in the Biden/Biden saga, and a possible deal between the Northern Star and the Islamic star.

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00:00:33.980 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.680 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.080 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:49.600 Friday, 17 May, Year of Our Lord, 2024.
00:00:52.680 Of course, we started today in the cold open,
00:00:54.860 and the tale of two cities, the firestorm yesterday in the courtroom.
00:00:58.640 Not just the chopping up of Michael Cohen by Todd Blanche, the president's lawyer,
00:01:04.940 but also the show of force of the House Freedom Caucus under Congressman Bob Good and others up there, Jeff Clark.
00:01:10.900 Then that total fiasco last night as they try to do the markup.
00:01:14.780 You see how the Democrats, everything's a misdirection play.
00:01:17.620 They're trying to get the attention off of Biden in this classified documents.
00:01:23.040 But there's something that stinks to high heaven there.
00:01:24.980 We've got to get those audio tapes.
00:01:26.180 They should have videotaped it.
00:01:27.680 We don't know why.
00:01:29.180 But a lot of this is to cover, hey, this Ukraine situation, we're getting sucked in day by day by day,
00:01:36.340 as we've warned, and somebody in the House is going to have to step up.
00:01:40.400 And I mean step up now.
00:01:42.180 They're in the appropriations process, and this is why we're not going to agree to a CR.
00:01:46.060 You heard the other day, love Chip Roy, not going to happen.
00:01:48.380 They need the single-subject appropriations bill.
00:01:52.160 People ought to be working.
00:01:53.120 I don't know why these committees are not going nonstop.
00:01:56.280 Midnight on the 30th, and hey, my argument is shut down the frickin' government. 0.57
00:02:00.680 If it's not ready, shut it down.
00:02:02.340 And they're going to say, oh, you're only 30 days away from election.
00:02:04.460 Hey, you've got to get hands on this spending,
00:02:07.600 and you've got to get hands on the defense contractors, the military-industrial complex,
00:02:13.400 and exactly what's going on here.
00:02:15.480 There's a massive effort underway to make this Vietnam number two, Iraq number two, Afghanistan number two.
00:02:25.360 New York Times reported today NATO is prepared and preparing to put 150,000,
00:02:30.720 and they're combat troops.
00:02:32.380 Hey, you can say they're advisors.
00:02:34.500 You can say they're technical, they're for training, and what they say,
00:02:38.060 oh, we just want to take the training in Poland and kind of move it up to the front.
00:02:41.360 That is a bald-faced lie.
00:02:43.880 These will be special forces.
00:02:45.300 They will be operators.
00:02:46.460 These will be combat troops.
00:02:48.400 And it's coming because they don't have the 500,000 Ukrainian young men and women are not there
00:02:54.660 and not going to be there.
00:02:56.860 And Kharkiv is going to fall.
00:02:58.860 And I do disagree with Ben Harnwell.
00:03:00.740 I think that this is of the top order.
00:03:03.040 It's obviously not like Kiev falling.
00:03:05.040 But if Kharkiv, the number two city in Ukraine, falls, all hell is going to break loose over there.
00:03:10.160 And you're going to hear they're going to make a big push.
00:03:12.720 The warmongers are going to make a big push to get American combat troops. 0.99
00:03:16.840 Remember, the 101st Airborne has got a brigade right there in Romania, right on the border.
00:03:21.620 And that's what's been reported.
00:03:23.160 And that's why we want to hear what Mike Johnson heard in these classified documents.
00:03:27.120 Okay.
00:03:27.560 Our classified hearings that he says changed his mind, yet he won't come forward with what it is.
00:03:33.620 And he won't tell the conference what it is.
00:03:35.200 Mike Lindell, people are bugging me.
00:03:36.980 They don't want you to leave until you give them a deal.
00:03:39.520 You either got an Islamic star, eight-point Islamic star flying over the capital of Minnesota.
00:03:46.100 And Jackie Torberoff has shown it.
00:03:47.480 There's 15 or 20 of these coming.
00:03:48.940 This is the cultural.
00:03:49.860 This is what happens.
00:03:50.760 And this is not the Northern Star.
00:03:53.140 Don't give me the Northern Star.
00:03:54.320 This is the eight-pointed Islamic star versus your five-pointed American star on the pillows. 0.98
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00:06:07.460 We'll see you this afternoon, brother.
00:06:09.160 Keep fighting, and we'll talk to you before you see the president today.
00:06:12.200 I'll be live, Steve, from the event with the president here.
00:06:15.360 So I'll come on live this afternoon.
00:06:17.380 We'll see you then.
00:06:18.160 The president is right now at his son's graduation.
00:06:22.760 Later this afternoon, he's going to fly to Minnesota for an event.
00:06:26.320 Tomorrow he's at the NRA.
00:06:27.980 We're going to do a pregame on that on Real America's Voice.
00:06:30.900 Scott Besson joins us.
00:06:32.340 Scott, I've got a lot to talk about the economy, the inflation.
00:06:34.560 But, you know, we're sitting here, and of course the deep state forced,
00:06:40.220 because President Trump wanted to kind of have some sort of rapprochement with the Russians
00:06:43.920 to keep him out of some alliance with the Mullahs in Tehran
00:06:47.300 and the Chinese Communist Party criminal syndicate in Beijing.
00:06:51.200 Of course, our betters forced that alliance together, that axis of evil.
00:06:57.180 Now Jamie Dimon.
00:06:58.120 I can't figure out Jamie Dimon.
00:06:59.340 One day Jamie Dimon's saying, yeah, I agree with Scott Besson.
00:07:02.660 We're driving over a cliff on the debt, and we've got to take it seriously.
00:07:05.960 He's talking to the central bankers.
00:07:07.240 I think it was over in Amsterdam or in London.
00:07:09.780 Today he's saying we need full engagement with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:07:13.420 I thought we were in the process of trying to smartly decouple.
00:07:16.700 Scott Besson, your thoughts.
00:07:19.880 Good morning, Steve.
00:07:21.640 Look, Jamie Dimon has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders of J.P. Morgan,
00:07:28.600 and he's done a fantastic job, the best performance of any large bank
00:07:33.980 during and since the financial crisis.
00:07:36.620 But part of that is being flexible with your moral beliefs versus what's good for business.
00:07:46.400 And what is good for the business of J.P. Morgan is maintaining robust connectivity
00:07:53.340 to the People's Republic of China, and that can only be done by making nice noises to the CCP.
00:08:03.760 So J.P. Morgan has assets on the ground.
00:08:07.440 They're large lenders in Asia.
00:08:09.140 They have a big capital markets business.
00:08:12.300 So on one hand, he is right.
00:08:16.460 And it's easy to say that we have a debt crackup coming in the U.S.
00:08:22.500 And I'll point out J.P. Morgan is also a primary dealer.
00:08:27.340 So the more debt that gets sold, the more they benefit.
00:08:31.220 But I salute him for that.
00:08:33.420 But this full engagement with China is—it's not where history is.
00:08:42.180 It's not where the American people are.
00:08:44.140 And from what I can tell, it's not even where the Biden administration is.
00:08:48.780 They've done a gigantic Me Too in terms of tariffs.
00:08:53.980 Joe Biden, who was criticizing Donald Trump's tariffs on China,
00:08:58.540 has now kept all of them on and is trying to buy votes in Michigan by throwing on these EV tariffs.
00:09:08.020 Talk to me about—you're the first person—I'm going to tie that to the producer price index and the CPI that came out this week.
00:09:16.880 But I believe you're the first person of any heft that came out and you said,
00:09:24.280 hey, we've got to start thinking of this deficit as percentage of GDP.
00:09:27.720 You said it's close to 7 percent.
00:09:31.020 And that's simply not sustainable.
00:09:33.160 Now, you've got to worry about obviously kicking into a deep recession or worse by, you know, two radical cuts.
00:09:40.200 We're all for a balanced budget, but we say cuts got to be down and downloaded.
00:09:43.900 But you've got to have a plan.
00:09:44.960 And right now there's no plan.
00:09:46.600 We know now from people in the House that they have no intention of finishing the budget by September 30th.
00:09:55.220 Right? Not going to happen.
00:09:56.340 And there's all kind of kicking around about how to do that.
00:09:58.520 And we're very concerned about handcuffing the next administration, President Trump's next administration, his second term,
00:10:06.980 but particularly his financial team with—they want to, quote-unquote, clear the deck,
00:10:11.460 so it's basically lock-in spending for the next couple of years.
00:10:14.120 And we've heard that the top-line number is really no different than what they've just passed and maybe even increased.
00:10:21.300 What is your thoughts about what would be a logical—you would say a logical percentage of deficit?
00:10:29.740 Because you can't get to the war room balanced budget.
00:10:31.620 We understand that.
00:10:32.540 But what would be the percentage that you think should be a target?
00:10:36.860 But at least we can start making progress to that because right now I think we're going in the opposite direction.
00:10:42.920 We were at 6.
00:10:43.880 I think we're close to 7.
00:10:45.120 And I don't see it getting any better.
00:10:47.000 Scott Besson.
00:10:47.680 Yeah, well, so, Steve, the Biden administration has created this very unstable equilibrium.
00:10:55.860 And, you know, they pushed up asset prices for the top 20 percent of Americans.
00:11:00.580 And they've done that with this massive borrowing, you know, 6, 7 percent of GDP.
00:11:06.640 And then to make things worse, they're financing it on the short end.
00:11:11.560 You know, like if your viewers and listeners want to think about a household balance sheet, you know, if you have a long-term 30-year mortgage, you know what your debt payments are and the rate's locked in.
00:11:24.420 If you have a bunch of credit card debt, then the credit card debt is variable and it's high cost.
00:11:31.340 And Janet Yellen has taken long-term fixed debt and she's turned it into overnight credit card debt. 1.00
00:11:40.940 So, you know, you've got high deficit, high borrowings, and then the high borrowings are moved to the short end, which are the most expensive.
00:11:53.940 And, you know, to get to your question, you know, I think that if President Trump did not create these deficits, I have said, you know, on your show, on other media, I've come out from behind my desk
00:12:10.560 and my, you know, nice, quiet life here in the investment business, that I think 2024, 2025 is our last chance for a growth strategy out of this debt.
00:12:24.800 You know, if we look, the Steve Moore, Larry Kudlow, Art Laffer model of a growth strategy, it still works, but barely, with the level of debt we have.
00:12:37.000 So, what we could shoot for over a Trump 2.0 is to try to cut the deficit in half.
00:12:46.160 And I think markets would respond very favorably to that.
00:12:50.580 I think it can be done, but, you know, it's going to be difficult to land this plane.
00:12:56.180 You know, this is landing a plane on an aircraft carrier in a Cat 2 or Cat 3 hurricane.
00:13:02.860 And it's not going to be easy, but it can be done.
00:13:07.340 And I think if there is a plan for debt reduction, then the interest rate market will respond well to that, and you can start getting rate cuts.
00:13:19.960 The reason we can't get rate cuts now is because we're running these big deficits.
00:13:24.220 You know, I call it two-footed driving.
00:13:28.420 You know, in Grand Prix race cars, you drive with both feet, so you can take the curve really fast.
00:13:33.780 You have one foot on the accelerator, the other foot on the gas, and, you know, you're wearing down the engine.
00:13:41.540 And that's what we're doing now is Federal Reserve has slammed on the brakes, which is killing the bottom 50 percent of wage earners.
00:13:51.320 The Biden administration is hitting the accelerator, and I've never really seen anything like this.
00:14:00.980 And, you know, this is also the reason we have this inflation.
00:14:06.100 I want to hold you through the break because I want to go back to this.
00:14:11.680 When you say that this is the last shot, the traditional has been – this is when President Trump came into office in 17 and got the tax cut and the deregulation.
00:14:20.240 They gave us the monster year of 19 with low inflation, low interest rates, low unemployment, wages increasing with blue-collar workers, wages increasing with non-college graduates.
00:14:32.680 It was, quite frankly, as close as you can get to nirvana, I think it was also 3.5 percent growth in the face of Janet Yellen's Fed, which I agreed with, actually restricting – doing quantitative tightening on the balance sheet.
00:14:45.560 People forget she took almost a trillion dollars off.
00:14:48.160 The headwind that created in Trump's economic plan still had growth.
00:14:52.720 Scott Besson, we got the hammer from Newsweek, Josh Hammer, all next in the war room.
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00:17:25.600 Scott Besson, I keep laying out this about the year of decision.
00:17:29.100 I don't know if this is the most important election in American history, but I can tell
00:17:32.880 you the next 12 months are one of the most important years in American history.
00:17:36.320 You had the run-up to the election, and we're about to go in the middle of a constitutional
00:17:39.940 crisis now over the exertion of executive privilege on these tapes of Biden.
00:17:45.580 You've got the run-up to 5 November and everything they're going to try to do to steal it.
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00:17:56.000 and Jamie Raskin are going to be at it nonstop, if not to steal it from Trump, then at least
00:18:00.220 to make it seem like his legitimacy is questioned in front of the world and the nation.
00:18:05.160 And then you've got the 100 days, which would end probably last week.
00:18:09.680 But the first 100 days of President Trump's second term, which is all important, because
00:18:14.140 that will just set the tone and the tempo.
00:18:17.520 The single most important thing he's got to do with all the geopolitics, the invasion of
00:18:21.840 the southern border has got to be stopped, all of it, but if you don't get this financial
00:18:25.860 situation, a grip on it and directionally point it downrange, we're not going to turn
00:18:32.100 this around.
00:18:32.740 And you've said, hey, look, we've got about a year, and you've got to get this right.
00:18:38.060 If you're going to do the classic American kind of Reagan-esque growth strategy to try
00:18:42.540 to grow your way out of this, if you don't do that, you're going to be at best Japan. 0.79
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00:18:52.520 better than what could happen, because you could be Europe.
00:18:54.680 Your thoughts, Scott Besson.
00:18:57.660 So, Steve, as I mentioned, I am very concerned, and the Trump financial team needs to come out
00:19:06.720 swinging with a plan.
00:19:09.260 And I was working on a letter to my investors that we're going to send out in the next couple
00:19:15.780 of weeks.
00:19:16.720 And I was talking about, to me, one of the great challenges over the next year, two, three
00:19:24.000 years, is going to be this continued disengagement between the U.S. economy and the Chinese economy,
00:19:31.420 you know, a lot of it for security reasons, others for maybe the bad behavior by the Chinese 1.00
00:19:40.140 in terms of funding the Russian war machine.
00:19:44.400 And, you know, I was sitting and I was thinking, how do we do this?
00:19:49.000 How do we keep our economy going because they've become so interlinked?
00:19:53.380 And what are the first steps?
00:19:54.900 And then it just hit me like a freight train, is we can't do anything unless we get our own
00:20:02.600 house in order, is this high national debt and deficits are a national security issue.
00:20:11.660 So this year, for the first time, interest on the debt is going to be more than we spend
00:20:18.540 on defense.
00:20:19.200 We are going to spend $1.1 trillion, with a T, in interest on the debt, and our defense
00:20:27.420 budget is approximately $900 to $950 billion.
00:20:32.720 The interest on the debt, if there are no interest rate cuts this year, will mechanically
00:20:38.400 go to $1.6 trillion next year.
00:20:42.320 So we have to get this under control to, in the name of national security, you know, forget
00:20:51.360 financial security, forget any of this.
00:20:55.180 So if we-
00:20:56.280 Hang on one second.
00:20:56.940 Hang on one second.
00:20:57.700 Hang on.
00:20:58.080 I just want to make for the audience to connect two dots here.
00:21:02.080 You said in the last segment that Yellen's made a conscious decision to finance short 90
00:21:08.560 day bills, et cetera, essentially using a credit card type financing instead of a mortgage,
00:21:12.880 she's not going to, she's not selling 10s and 30s. 0.84
00:21:15.440 That is one of the reasons that you're going to get to 1.1 and go to 1.6.
00:21:20.440 The Biden regime has consciously, to try to hide things, gone short, and that's one of the
00:21:27.200 reasons that you're seeing the explosion, because of the gross face amount of it, but also the
00:21:33.040 conscious decisions they're doing in trying to finance this, sir.
00:21:36.360 Am I incorrect there?
00:21:37.260 Steve, you're 100% correct that this is, everything with the Biden administration has been a decision
00:21:46.360 and a choice.
00:21:47.500 The great inflation of 21, 22 that we're still suffering through, that was a choice.
00:21:53.700 To blow out the deficits and, you know, spend to constrict the supply side via enhanced regulation,
00:22:02.580 that's a choice.
00:22:03.840 To move the debt profile to the short end is a choice.
00:22:10.380 And I would send all of your audience to the Wall Street Journal today.
00:22:15.460 There's a fantastic piece by a fellow from the Manhattan Institute, Dan Katz, and he explains in great detail,
00:22:23.720 in very understandable terms, exactly what Professor Yellen has done, and, you know, it is shocking.
00:22:32.280 So, you know, we think of financial markets, are you fragile or anti-fragile or robust in the financial markets?
00:22:43.880 And as we go into this great power conflict with China, we have been made more fragile.
00:22:50.480 So we have to really start working to become more anti-fragile, more robust, and, you know, that's going to require terming out a trillion dollars of debt probably next year.
00:23:03.360 Unbelievable. Scott, we've got to bounce. Looking forward to having you on next week.
00:23:10.160 The big story in Bloomberg today, we'll push out to all the audience about you and Paulson and some others on the short list for President Trump's Secretary of the Treasury.
00:23:18.940 Where do people go to get your thinking, your thoughts, all your writings?
00:23:24.540 Good. And, you know, Steve, I'll say about that article, there are no service positions in the administration if Donald Trump doesn't win.
00:23:32.900 So we should all focus on that before we worry about musical chairs.
00:23:39.020 Anyone who wants to contact me, I'd love to hear from you. It's I-R at K-E-Y-S-Q dot com. 0.78
00:23:47.080 I also, the other, there's also another small mistake. You've been a supporter of President Trump for many, many years.
00:23:53.080 I've known you for a long time, and you've been, and people don't understand, you're a MAGA.
00:23:57.280 You did not, Scott Bessett was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
00:24:01.840 You're from, I think, near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Is that it, sir?
00:24:05.660 Yeah, we don't have a lot of silver spoons in Little River, South Carolina. A lot of shrimp boats. 0.99
00:24:10.140 Little River. A scholarship kid to Yale, and you've done good, but you're a deplorable at heart. 0.67
00:24:16.640 Scott Bessett, thank you so much. Honored to have you on here.
00:24:19.480 Good. Thanks, Steve.
00:24:20.260 Thank you. It's always a good hour. We got Scott Bessett, I got Josh Hammer, I got Natalie Winters, three of the most powerful thinkers around.
00:24:29.920 Josh Hammer, I think this is a sequel to your piece the other day. Walk me through this.
00:24:35.580 Quite powerful about, you've talked about a judiciary system in meltdown, like the kangaroo courts.
00:24:41.520 You've talked about us becoming like a banana republic. Your piece today is, is anybody going to be held accountable for this? Your thoughts?
00:24:50.440 Yeah, Steve, look, I mean, like many of us, I have been sounding the alarm on the law affair for a very long time now.
00:24:57.100 I mean, after Alvin Bragg dropped his first indictment over a year ago now, I wrote a column called The Point of No Return,
00:25:04.240 saying that this was a crossing of the Rubicon as a moment, an inflection point in American history that we will never get back.
00:25:09.880 And then last week I was on with you talking about just the outrageous nature, specifically of the New York City trial,
00:25:16.000 where Donald Trump is chained down to this courtroom, this dingy 13th, 14th floor, whatever it is, courtroom for the five days of the working week,
00:25:24.360 instead of getting out there to host these massive rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin, all the swing states there.
00:25:29.720 But this week, and you're right, it is something of a sequel to what I wrote last week.
00:25:32.720 I wanted to zoom out a little bit and make sure that we're on the same page about what the Democrat lawfare complex, as I call it,
00:25:40.260 what they have been trying to accomplish here for the past year now.
00:25:43.560 So Alvin Bragg was first out of the gate last year, and then it wasn't very long after that that you had the federal indictments from Jack Smith.
00:25:49.860 You had the classified documents case here in Florida, where I live, and then in Washington, D.C., you had the Crown Jewel case,
00:25:55.820 the January 6th case from Jack Smith.
00:25:57.800 That was the case that the entire DNC was probably most excited for.
00:26:01.120 And then you had the Fonny Willis case in Georgia, which, from my perspective, at that time when they dropped it,
00:26:06.280 I thought it was legally meritless, but I actually was the most scared about it from just the possible ramifications.
00:26:12.320 Who might testify?
00:26:13.800 Are they going to get Brad Roffensperger and Kemp on the stands?
00:26:16.780 Who knows there?
00:26:17.860 At this point now, in May 2024, this thing is a joke. 0.90
00:26:22.580 This has turned into a pathetic, disreputable, burning dumpster fire of an excuse of a lawfare election interference campaign. 0.57
00:26:32.640 And at this point, I think we need to start asking some questions. 0.96
00:26:35.200 Obviously, we don't want to start counting the chickens before they hatch.
00:26:38.480 We'll see what happens in the New York City case.
00:26:40.360 Michael Cohen had a disastrous day on the witness stand yesterday.
00:26:43.340 At this point, the prosecution's case is totally falling apart.
00:26:46.100 They're going to have a very brief window of opportunity on Monday on redirect to try to reestablish credibility for their so-called star witness.
00:26:53.440 Good luck with that.
00:26:54.280 It's not going to happen.
00:26:55.520 But at this point, I think it's probably time for some of us to start asking, is there going to be accountability like this?
00:27:00.760 Or like COVID, is it going to be just another accountability-free mass crisis that was foisted upon a citizenry with republic-ending tactics?
00:27:09.780 As my Article 3 project colleague Mike Davis likes to say, that is what they have done with this series of prosecutions here.
00:27:16.340 91 criminal accounts trying to prosecute and incarcerate their political opposition because they know that their senile octogenarian of a candidate cannot possibly make it across the finish line absent these extraordinary efforts.
00:27:28.860 So is there going to be accountability for it, Steve?
00:27:30.900 That really is the question.
00:27:32.020 And the good news, the good news is that the polling right now is actually really good.
00:27:36.500 This New York Times-Siena College poll that we saw earlier this week has Trump ahead in five of the six leading swing states.
00:27:42.080 He was down by one in Michigan, well within the margin of error.
00:27:44.980 Michigan, who knows what's going to happen there with all the radical jihadi sympathizers in Dearborn and the war in Gaza.
00:27:50.380 A lot of variables there in that state.
00:27:52.080 But as of now, it's looking like we're on track for some accountability.
00:27:55.840 But I want our side to just start talking about accountability because we cannot possibly overstate the destruction that the Democrat lawfare complex has foisted on our republic in the past year.
00:28:08.580 This is one of the reasons Josh Hammer is one of the most important public intellectuals.
00:28:12.360 I'm going to hold you, Josh, to the commercial break because I want to ask you.
00:28:15.020 We just heard what Treasury is doing to our financial structure.
00:28:19.660 We just read this morning, New York Times, about Ukraine and combat troops.
00:28:24.240 Should there be accountability in more than just the judicial and legal system?
00:28:30.040 Short commercial break.
00:28:31.000 Josh Hammer on the other side.
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00:29:50.900 These members of Congress saying, we're here to support him and the American legal system
00:29:56.660 is illegitimate and corrupt. 0.95
00:29:59.180 And the judge is corrupt. 0.99
00:30:01.660 And let me tell you about the judge's family. 0.93
00:30:03.360 And that is just a wholly different thing.
00:30:07.860 It is a hard thing to have people in very high office committing crimes in this country.
00:30:12.020 It was hard with Nixon.
00:30:12.800 It was hard with Agnew.
00:30:13.840 It's hard with Trump.
00:30:14.960 There's a reason that sitting presidents can't get prosecuted.
00:30:17.660 Like, it's all very difficult.
00:30:19.540 But when instead you've got a political party saying the American legal system should be gotten
00:30:26.060 rid of because it's corrupt and the people involved in it are corrupt and bad and evil
00:30:31.580 and persecuting you and me, that is something totally different that is corrosive to the
00:30:38.780 legal system at a minimum.
00:30:40.380 So corrosive.
00:30:41.420 Josh, are you saying that?
00:30:42.720 Are you saying get rid of the American legal system or putting the blowtorch to the ones
00:30:47.160 that have corrupted it?
00:30:49.320 No, it's clearly the latter.
00:30:50.660 Steve, look, I'm a lawyer by background.
00:30:52.360 I clerked on the U.S.
00:30:53.540 Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
00:30:54.740 I clerked for a federal judge.
00:30:56.040 I'm still a barred lawyer.
00:30:57.100 I mean, it pains me greatly that this is what has happened to the American legal system and
00:31:02.120 to the American judicial system.
00:31:03.520 The remedy, though, the remedy is for the right to be clear-eyed about what we face.
00:31:07.940 It is to be clear-eyed about the fact that they are trotting out these bogus prosecutions
00:31:12.080 trying to incarcerate their political opposition.
00:31:15.680 And it's time for our side, Steve, to wake up and try to respond in kind, to fight fire with
00:31:20.600 fire within the confines of prudence and reason.
00:31:23.480 Put another way, we need to start getting more aggressive prosecutions on our own side,
00:31:28.620 some, you know, enterprising entrepreneurial district attorneys down in the Texas panhandle
00:31:33.440 or places like that who are going to try and get Hunter Biden and Anthony Fauci and people
00:31:37.700 like that, trot them into court.
00:31:39.320 Try to do some fire with fire just to try to rebalance the pendulum here.
00:31:42.680 So in order to try to move on, we first have to be very clear about what it is that we are
00:31:47.600 fighting.
00:31:47.960 But the broader point here, the broader point is, you know, it's not just the judicial system.
00:31:52.820 The rule of law right now in this country is in existential danger.
00:31:56.280 No doubt about that whatsoever.
00:31:57.540 But what your previous guest was saying about what's happening to the national debt and the
00:32:01.480 deficits every year, you know, just yesterday, there was actually a very unfortunate ruling
00:32:05.100 of the U.S. Supreme Court when it came to the CFBP, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
00:32:10.640 which is the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren.
00:32:12.500 They upheld the constitutional structure of this by a seven to two count.
00:32:16.060 I was kind of shocked to see that very powerful dissent by Sam Alito.
00:32:20.080 This is unconstitutional as well.
00:32:22.100 You know, it's this bogus left wing agency that's essentially drawing on unlimited funding
00:32:26.880 from the Federal Reserve.
00:32:28.100 They're coming at us essentially from all directions.
00:32:30.380 And that's and that's even to hold aside the uniparty hubris and conceit when it comes
00:32:34.920 to foreign policy and the Ukraine boondoggle hundreds of billions of dollars into this
00:32:38.920 unwinnable war against the world's largest nuclear hegemon, the Russian Federation, utterly 0.95
00:32:43.520 insane stuff.
00:32:44.600 So we have a massive, massive problem on our own side about just seeing clearly what it
00:32:50.000 is we are up against.
00:32:51.220 You know, Steve, they say that if you're ever going to make inroads, if you're ever going
00:32:54.180 to claw back from the abyss, you have to be clear eyed about the threat.
00:32:57.820 And that is what I'm trying to get our own side to do is just to wake up.
00:33:01.800 Do you think we're even if we get clear out, do you think there's enough guts and gumption
00:33:08.580 and stick to it and grit on the right to hold people accountable, whether it was in Treasury
00:33:13.920 of what they did, the military industrial complex and the Pentagon of what they did, the national
00:33:19.280 security, you know, the Michael Benz with their hammer and every day national security and
00:33:24.060 intelligence, obviously the legal system.
00:33:26.700 Do you see leaders out there on the right?
00:33:30.360 They're prepared to take the tough steps that you have to take to hold people accountable.
00:33:35.560 So, yeah, I mean, there definitely are some right.
00:33:38.280 But there's one thing that I will say.
00:33:40.100 So there was one thing about the Tea Party movement that I actually liked a lot.
00:33:43.700 In many ways, the movement was very flawed.
00:33:45.280 It had way too strong of a libertarian tendency.
00:33:47.500 That's really, really not the direction when it comes to nationalist populism that we need to
00:33:51.500 go in many ways. But one thing that the Tea Party era of activists on the right that I think
00:33:56.160 really got right, Steve, was getting really involved at the grassroots level in primaries
00:34:01.020 and trying to hold congressmen accountable when it comes to political primary. 0.78
00:34:04.300 I very rarely hear about Republicans and conservative grassroots activists today talk about the
00:34:09.900 importance of trying to primary weak and feckless incumbents, those who are trying to sell out
00:34:14.640 the American taxpayer when it comes to offshore manufacturing jobs to the Chinese Communist Party,
00:34:19.240 when it comes to trying to fund this endless, unwinnable war in Ukraine, the Treasury,
00:34:24.000 as you were just discussing.
00:34:24.940 We need to hold our own elected officials accountable.
00:34:27.920 And that's one thing that I think a prior generation of conservative activists actually
00:34:31.580 did a lot better than the president.
00:34:33.020 So maybe that's one thing that we could try to bring back, frankly, from the not-so-distant
00:34:36.700 past, actually.
00:34:38.740 Josh, where do people – you're one of our leading public intellectuals.
00:34:41.660 Where do people get all your writings and podcasts?
00:34:45.200 Yeah, Steve, thanks so much.
00:34:46.140 So on Twitter, Josh underscore Hammer, Instagram, Josh B. Hammer, my show,
00:34:50.540 The Josh Hammer Show, and also America on Trial with Josh Hammer.
00:34:53.760 I have two shows everywhere you get your podcasts, and then I write a weekly syndicated column
00:34:57.420 on Newsweek and a whole host of other right-of-center websites as well.
00:35:01.080 You see, Josh is like – he's a recovering lawyer, but he's like the Pacino in Godfather 3.
00:35:05.660 He just gets out and then they pull him back in, right, Josh Hammer?
00:35:08.660 Love your brother.
00:35:09.760 Keep pounding.
00:35:11.080 You too, Steve.
00:35:11.560 Thank you.
00:35:11.860 Okay, my co-host now joins us, Natalie Winters.
00:35:17.380 Natalie, before – I keep saying it, this is the most important year.
00:35:20.840 I don't know if it's the most important election.
00:35:22.020 The next 12 months, broken down into three sections, the run-up to the 5 November, then
00:35:26.740 what they're going to try to do between 5 November and Inauguration Day, and then the
00:35:30.100 first 100 days of Trump's second term.
00:35:32.520 You've got a pretty – how do I say it?
00:35:36.000 Scary piece up.
00:35:37.200 Scary piece.
00:35:37.700 He's talking about Soros.
00:35:39.100 These people, they understand – this is why I wanted you to follow, Josh, about holding
00:35:43.040 folks accountable.
00:35:44.820 You've got to get there.
00:35:45.680 And they understand when we win, we will hold them accountable.
00:35:49.480 And you're saying, yo, not so fast.
00:35:52.520 They're going to pull everything – you haven't seen anything yet of what they're going to
00:35:55.280 try to do, the amount of money, the interference, all of us.
00:35:58.040 Walk us through Soros and your new piece.
00:36:00.220 Sure.
00:36:00.520 Well, look, it's not just the most important election in American history.
00:36:03.560 I think you could say it's really in world history, and I think part of the reason is
00:36:07.360 that so many of these global agendas, whether it's the United Nations, the World Economic
00:36:11.840 Forum, the Chinese Communist Party, but they're kind of ambitious global plans, right, whether
00:36:16.300 it's the Sustainable Development Goals made in China 2030, are set to culminate in the year
00:36:20.760 2030.
00:36:21.460 So if President Trump –
00:36:22.400 Converging on that.
00:36:23.440 Yeah.
00:36:23.640 So if President Trump were to get back into office, that is a major, major impediment,
00:36:28.020 right, to the rollout of so many of those initiatives.
00:36:30.400 And I think it's why you see kind of the George Soros-type donors of the world really
00:36:34.800 plowing in ridiculous amounts of cash.
00:36:37.280 You're talking tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to control the outcome
00:36:41.660 of this election.
00:36:42.440 And one of the ways that they're doing it, they just announced yesterday – now, there
00:36:46.020 are a lot of buried leads to this story – but there's a group called Power the Polls.
00:36:50.720 They always like to come up with these innocuous-sounding names.
00:36:53.400 Exactly.
00:36:53.700 They're very good at branding.
00:36:54.820 We'll give them that.
00:36:55.540 I guess when you have tens of millions of dollars, you can hire all the consultants.
00:36:58.520 You have the Donnie Deutsches of the world, right?
00:37:00.620 They have – they don't have the aesthetics of the war room, like, you know, but they
00:37:03.780 have some kind of –
00:37:04.500 They don't have full guns, though, right?
00:37:06.020 No, no, no.
00:37:06.920 But they do have collaborative efforts ongoing with state election offices to select poll
00:37:13.680 workers.
00:37:14.340 So this group, Power the Polls, which if you dig through, not only is it through kind of
00:37:19.200 a Russian nesting doll situation, a project of the New Venture Fund, which is linked to
00:37:23.300 Arabella Advisors.
00:37:24.360 It's funded by George Soros, even Politico admits in an article that they were doing about
00:37:29.180 it, that it was basically set up by the Open Society Foundations.
00:37:33.080 Of course, that's George Soros' hub of left-wing activism and political donations.
00:37:37.940 But this group just announced yesterday – you know when they say bipartisan, that's when
00:37:42.540 the red flags go off – but a new committee that ahead of the 2024 election is going to
00:37:47.800 be recruiting poll watchers.
00:37:49.760 Now, the people who are leading this effort, I kid you not –
00:37:52.920 And this is the counter to us and the precinct strategy and Lara Trump saying we're recruiting
00:37:57.060 100,000 coming from MAGA.
00:37:59.280 And the mules, the people who are sitting outside the ballot boxes and got –
00:38:03.000 So this is a counter to that.
00:38:04.520 Remember, Pamela Carlin sent the letter to the DOJ saying that those people were –
00:38:08.260 We love Pamela Carlin.
00:38:09.340 We love Pamela.
00:38:09.540 She's been on the show for so long.
00:38:10.900 No, but the person who leads this new Soros-backed effort, the co-chair of the advisory board is
00:38:17.640 Representative Adam Kinzinger and some Hollywood elites, Kerry Washington.
00:38:22.860 But I think the most concerning part about this story is that Brad Raffensperger, Gabe
00:38:28.040 Sterling – those are, of course, infamous names from the 2020 election in addition to
00:38:32.100 the Georgia Secretary of State.
00:38:33.760 The Nevada Secretary of State is involved in the effort too, and three or four people from
00:38:38.160 organizations that have also been funded by George Soros.
00:38:40.860 But you're saying these Quislings, Raffensperger being a perfect example, Gabe Sterling, 1.00
00:38:45.540 Kinzinger, these Quislings are giving their – are putting their name to this so that the 0.98
00:38:51.900 Soros radical left can say, hey, you got bipartisan, it's just not the hardcore cult
00:38:56.520 of Trump.
00:38:57.200 Yeah, there are no pro-Trump people on it, but they love to be able to spin it as bipartisan
00:39:01.160 probably just to keep the 501 C3 status.
00:39:03.900 But I think when you take a step back, when you see all these polls coming out, how President
00:39:06.780 Trump is dominating – make no mistake, he is, right, obviously producing a much more
00:39:11.420 salient message with the American people.
00:39:13.820 But that is a very naive, I think, belief to think that because President Trump is polling
00:39:18.040 better, that that is going to translate on election day.
00:39:20.540 I think 95 percent of this audience will say the exact same thing.
00:39:22.400 A hundred percent.
00:39:23.380 The polls show us directionally.
00:39:25.240 We understand the message, and people are awakening to this, that people are being red-pilled. 0.95
00:39:29.420 But it's a long way from a poll to victory.
00:39:31.680 We went through this in 2020.
00:39:32.740 Well, I think what they learned from 2016 is that the key factor in deciding elections
00:39:38.140 now in the kind of social media age is really how much you can mobilize and have voters actually
00:39:43.320 show up, right?
00:39:44.120 It's the politics of persuasion and passion.
00:39:47.400 And I think that the way that they are sort of trying to reverse engineer, or at least go
00:39:50.740 up against that, is they're making the actual political battle not so much on the issue of
00:39:55.340 candidates.
00:39:55.700 That's why Joe Biden can hide in his basement.
00:39:57.440 But that the actual politicking is happening on the election administration level.
00:40:02.340 In other words, from the poll workers to the machines to the way that your votes are
00:40:07.600 cast, right?
00:40:08.120 There's a distinction between votes and ballots.
00:40:10.240 And this is just another form of lawfare, right?
00:40:13.080 The Never Trump movement didn't go away.
00:40:15.480 And you know they always have backup plans and contingency plans because they know if President
00:40:19.460 Trump wins that they will be going to jail.
00:40:21.320 So even though there's, of course, the ongoing cases against Trump, they have backup plans.
00:40:24.680 Also, backup plan to backup plan.
00:40:27.060 If lawfare fails, right, they got the backup plan to steal it.
00:40:30.420 It's also, he's a good proxy.
00:40:33.940 Source is a good proxy because, look, money can buy you smart people.
00:40:39.560 He did the DAs, right?
00:40:41.460 The corrupt DAs.
00:40:42.940 He was the first guy to really get into the Secretary's estate.
00:40:46.280 He understands.
00:40:47.100 He sees our movement here to do this.
00:40:49.700 He's going to get ahead of it by actually putting more money in it.
00:40:52.280 These are, these are, you may not like these people and particularly not like what they
00:40:57.080 stand for, but they're quite smart and cunning.
00:40:58.980 Well, the number one thing that I think the war room posse that, you know, people who watch
00:41:01.880 the show always say is that the left works in lockstep, right?
00:41:05.540 They are always united on the issue.
00:41:07.740 You can see it in the way they vote.
00:41:09.040 You can see it in the messages that they promote.
00:41:10.740 And that's because when you take a step back, it's not that there's actual ideological cohesion
00:41:14.840 among these people.
00:41:15.660 It's that they're all funded by the same people, right?
00:41:17.960 And that's, I think, Tides Foundation, Soros, Arabella, what's going on on these college
00:41:22.600 campuses, right?
00:41:23.860 There's this weird affinity.
00:41:25.220 You're saying that people are putting America on fire or actually in back of financing that
00:41:29.200 too.
00:41:29.680 They're financing that.
00:41:30.940 Yeah.
00:41:31.080 I mean, the Tides Foundation funded some of the people who are on this new, you know,
00:41:35.320 a poll worker initiative.
00:41:36.740 The Tides Foundation, of course, being behind Black Lives Matter, though, I guess they're
00:41:40.160 getting sued now.
00:41:41.200 They're also behind the college protests.
00:41:42.720 So I think you don't really need to look at these groups or these individual efforts
00:41:47.640 as, you know, isolated incidences, right?
00:41:50.600 They all work together to, I think, with the goal that they espouse when they're protesting,
00:41:55.180 you know, on the lawn in Colombia, death to America.
00:41:57.700 You don't have to go to Iran to hear them say that.
00:42:00.380 These are people who I think in collusion with foreign governments who don't like the
00:42:04.420 United States.
00:42:05.060 But the reason why the left always has a cohesive viewpoint and they march in lockstep is because
00:42:10.600 they're all being bankrolled by the same people.
00:42:14.340 Natalie is going to take the six today.
00:42:16.980 I'm going to take the five.
00:42:18.500 The six is going to be pretty explosive.
00:42:20.340 You've got to do a lot of prep work to get ready for it.
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00:45:15.700 Ms. Crockett.
00:45:16.560 I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling.
00:45:19.400 If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built,
00:45:25.480 butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?
00:45:29.020 A what now?
00:45:29.840 Chairman, I make a motion to strike those words.
00:45:35.100 I don't think that's a part of it.
00:45:36.980 I'm trying to find clarification on what quality.
00:45:39.320 Chairman, motion to strike those words.
00:45:40.840 I have no idea what you just said.
00:45:42.380 We're not going to do this.
00:45:44.020 Look, you guys earlier literally just said that.
00:45:46.200 You just voted to do it.
00:45:48.280 I did it first, so you don't want to talk about it.
00:45:50.820 Order, order.
00:45:51.820 I'm trying to get clarification.
00:45:53.120 Look it.
00:45:53.480 Calm down.
00:45:54.540 Calm down.
00:45:54.880 No, no, no, no.
00:45:55.580 Because this is what y'all do.
00:45:56.980 I'm trying to get clarification.
00:45:58.380 Hey, Ms. Crockett, you're not recognized.
00:46:00.140 Ms. Crockett.
00:46:00.360 I can't hear you with your yelling.
00:46:01.960 Calm down.
00:46:03.420 Natalie, professionally, you cover a lot of hearings.
00:46:06.720 You cover the background, talk to staff in the investigations.
00:46:10.160 Last night, on a very serious topic, it was an absolute throwdown.
00:46:13.560 Your thoughts?
00:46:14.520 Reminds me of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo.
00:46:17.100 I think that's how they run things there.
00:46:19.000 I know.
00:46:20.240 Not quite.
00:46:21.800 Yeah.
00:46:22.340 No, it's absolutely reprehensible.
00:46:24.600 We were talking in the break.
00:46:25.760 We were like, I think that the way that Representative Crockett, I think that's her name, says that
00:46:31.260 MTG has a, quote, butch body, she's saying it like it's a pejorative thing.
00:46:36.020 I think GLAAD and all of the homosexual organizations should be— 1.00
00:46:40.000 We think that's a compliment, right?
00:46:41.140 Exactly.
00:46:41.800 So there's maybe some issues on the intersection.
00:46:43.540 We're trying to make it as a dig.
00:46:44.800 But I also think, too, all jokes aside, although there are a lot of jokes that could be made
00:46:49.440 from that clip, I think it shows the lack of not even just respect for anybody that is
00:46:55.760 Congress, but I think they knew yesterday's hearing was serious, right?
00:47:00.520 Going after Merrick Garland, that's sort of like a kingpin in the swamp, right?
00:47:04.260 So they want to do anything they can to make the hearing unserious, and that's why we're
00:47:08.560 talking about it now.
00:47:09.580 So your point, to make it unserious, does this play into the Ray Dalios of the world?
00:47:13.320 They're saying we're heading to our civil war.
00:47:15.000 Do you think this is the performative nature of the Democrats, particularly in the House?
00:47:18.520 Well, I think the most common refrain that you heard against President Trump, which is, 0.72
00:47:22.420 I mean, pretty hypocritical, and I would say projection at its finest, was that, you know, 0.83
00:47:26.560 he was not the adult in the room, right? 0.93
00:47:28.240 We need to trust the experts.
00:47:30.040 And empirically, the record of the Biden regime suggests otherwise.
00:47:34.020 I'd say that video is almost as cringe as Antony Blinken playing the guitar in Kiev, maybe
00:47:38.960 less so.
00:47:40.120 But these are not the experts, right?
00:47:42.120 They, they, it's funny, I think they get off on the idea of being, you know, intellectually
00:47:46.260 superior to us.
00:47:47.520 They've graduated from, you know, the Harvard Kennedy School.
00:47:50.340 They think that makes them something.
00:47:52.280 But in reality, you look at who funds all these organizations.
00:47:55.860 It's groups that hate America.
00:47:57.800 It's the Chinese Communist Party.
00:47:59.100 It's Iran. 0.91
00:47:59.720 It's far left organizations that, frankly, probably love to watch videos like that.
00:48:04.040 Because when the Chinese Communist Party sees that, you think the People's Liberation
00:48:08.120 Army says, oh, my goodness, those are the people who are, you know, controlling the funding
00:48:12.260 of the military industrial complex and the Department of Defense.
00:48:16.060 Okay, you're going to get ready for the six.
00:48:17.620 The six is going to be pretty explosive.
00:48:19.240 I don't want to give any tips away.
00:48:20.580 So you're going to follow me at five, but it's going to be pretty explosive.
00:48:23.160 Natalie, Natalie's in, going to go get ready for it.
00:48:25.500 Natalie, thank you so much.
00:48:26.500 Thank you for coming by here in the Palm Beach studios.
00:48:29.800 Aaron Zars here.
00:48:30.900 Aaron, walk me through why you need silent.
00:48:33.440 The Faraday bags now more than ever since we've not just expanded or not extended FISA,
00:48:40.080 we've expanded FISA so they can spy on the American people, sir.
00:48:45.080 Hey, thanks for having me on.
00:48:46.780 Just want to say hello to the war room posse and that I hope that the kickoff 0.98
00:48:50.580 to summer's going well for everyone.
00:48:53.320 We make Faraday bags, plain and simple.
00:48:55.520 We all have these beautiful devices that we carry around that give us ultimate freedom
00:49:00.520 and convenience, but the freedom's really sacrificed because you're being tracked,
00:49:05.920 you're being hacked, you're being located.
00:49:07.680 So I'm a big believer in peace of mind, and one way to enjoy that more is to have a Faraday bag.
00:49:13.360 We have this backpack right here, for example.
00:49:17.740 Inside, you drop in all your electronics from your laptop to your phone,
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00:49:25.420 So it's the time, you know.
00:49:28.820 It's been the climate of the world.
00:49:30.700 Hang on.
00:49:32.740 Besides non-state actors, foreign powers, how concerned are you about our own government
00:49:38.460 listening to citizens now that you've had the FISA, you know, enlargement and extension?
00:49:44.860 How concerned are you?
00:49:46.100 You're a professional in this.
00:49:47.260 You do this for a living.
00:49:48.120 How concerned are you?
00:49:49.860 Highly concerned, and thank you for the tee-up question, but I think what we saw when 9-11
00:49:55.440 happened and the signing of the Patriot Act was really the big erosion to our privacy
00:50:01.600 and our civil liberties.
00:50:03.300 We are being harvested.
00:50:06.000 We are the product.
00:50:07.480 You know, I don't know how else to put it.
00:50:08.740 Like, everything that we use is embedded into the government, and while silent supports military,
00:50:13.740 and we're very proud of that, for signal management and operations, the American people are suffering
00:50:19.840 because we're underneath a regime that is out to collect every bit of data on us,
00:50:24.900 and they know more about us, and they could predict what we do, and it could be used for
00:50:29.020 nefarious purposes.
00:50:30.200 So state actors, yes, but the government is to be watched as well, and I think you know
00:50:35.260 that all too well.
00:50:37.980 So tell me about when people go.
00:50:40.000 Our audience loves to immerse themselves in information and find out about products.
00:50:44.420 When they go to your site, help us navigate around.
00:50:47.040 What are they supposed to do?
00:50:47.780 How do they find out more about a Faraday bag?
00:50:49.560 How do they find out more about the different types of Faraday bags that you have?
00:50:54.260 What goes for their own devices?
00:50:55.760 Where do they go, and how do they learn more?
00:50:58.340 Yeah, sure.
00:50:59.820 SLNT.com.
00:51:01.060 Use code BANNON at checkout for an exclusive discount, but the images that you're seeing
00:51:06.060 right now are these are our flagship beautiful backpacks.
00:51:10.660 We make phone sleeves, and what you want to really do is understand that the culprit
00:51:15.940 is your phone.
00:51:16.780 That's the starting point.
00:51:18.380 And if you protect your phone in a time and a place, then you're going to have more control
00:51:22.540 over your freedom.
00:51:24.060 So protecting your phone is a starting point.
00:51:26.620 But then think about your laptop.
00:51:28.240 Think about your family.
00:51:29.240 Think about car keys that are remotely hacked, and your car gets stolen out of your driveway.
00:51:34.740 These are all real threats that every American faces every day.
00:51:39.220 So having a tool as simple as a Faraday bag where you can block cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth,
00:51:43.660 GPS, RFID, EMP, all in one simple little bag or sleeve or case, it's a beautiful thing.
00:51:54.080 It's just ownership of your own data, and that's just become a requirement these days.
00:51:59.300 And I think, you know, the War Room Posse is a big fan of protecting freedom, and that's
00:52:04.060 what Silent is all about.
00:52:06.220 Own your digital self.
00:52:08.240 Do it today.
00:52:08.800 Sure.
00:52:09.340 SLNT.com.
00:52:10.380 Silent.
00:52:10.880 Where do they go?
00:52:11.500 One more time, Aaron, where do they go?
00:52:13.700 I think everyone needs to go to SLNT.com.
00:52:17.080 Check out the products.
00:52:18.180 We make really beautiful stuff.
00:52:20.520 You don't have to take a big leap to have this sort of privacy and security in your life.
00:52:25.280 We make good-looking products where you can drop in any device and walk around with more
00:52:30.000 freedom.
00:52:30.680 It's really to protect your business, yourself, your family, and whatever profession that you do.
00:52:35.740 So, again, SLNT.com.
00:52:38.100 Use code Bannon at checkout.
00:52:40.280 And I'd like to see the War Room Posse rally and get some of these products because it's
00:52:44.640 perfect.
00:52:46.620 Let's do it.
00:52:47.360 And we really appreciate your family starting this company.
00:52:49.560 It's been amazing.
00:52:50.580 Yeah, thank you.
00:52:51.440 Thank you, brother.
00:52:52.700 Thank you, brother.
00:52:54.260 Okay, Charlie Kirk Show is going to follow us here on Real America's Voice.
00:52:57.120 You got Posobiec later.
00:52:59.100 Then you got Miranda Kahn and the Tara Dahl.
00:53:02.080 We're back here at 5.
00:53:03.360 Natalie's going to take you home at 6 on a pretty wild ride today.
00:53:08.120 Be back here at 5 p.m.
00:53:09.380 You're going to be in the War Room.
00:53:10.400 See you then.
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