Bannon's War Room - June 14, 2024


Episode 3684： Trumpism Abroad; Populists Lead In Europe


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Stephen K. Bannon and J.D. Vance join me in the War Room to talk about President Trump's trip to Florida and his meeting with the House and Senate delegations. Steve and I also talk about the latest in the Democratic response to the president's trip.

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00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:07.440 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:12.700 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:16.960 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:18.900 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:20.320 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:22.060 but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:23.000 It's going to happen.
00:00:24.260 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:27.660 MAGA media.
00:00:28.560 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.460 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.200 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.540 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:53.920 It's Friday, 14 June, the year of our Lord, 2024.
00:00:57.080 The day after Kumbaya on Capitol Hill, of course, Nancy Pelosi,
00:01:03.120 Hakeem Jeffries, and others are not particularly happy about it,
00:01:06.500 but President Trump met with the House delegation.
00:01:10.760 They sang him happy birthday and talked about the program going forward,
00:01:14.400 also for 2025.
00:01:16.440 He met with the Business Roundtable, talked about his economic plan,
00:01:19.500 how he intends to stop the madness and turn things around.
00:01:22.560 He also talked about getting his supply-side tax cut from 2017 back,
00:01:28.460 reinitiated, maybe even with a slightly bigger corporate tax cut,
00:01:34.160 the Business Roundtable, who you know are not exactly fans of the populist
00:01:38.860 nationalist right of President Trump's movement.
00:01:41.880 It seemed like they were on board, welcomed him with open arms.
00:01:45.280 And then later, Mitch McConnell came in complete, total capitulation.
00:01:51.780 He actually showed up.
00:01:53.000 He did a fist bump.
00:01:54.100 All the senators were there.
00:01:55.960 It seemed like it went great.
00:01:57.880 Like I said, everybody in the boat as we get off the amphibs to go down the ropes
00:02:04.320 into the landing craft to converge on the beach.
00:02:07.640 We'll figure out the fights afterwards.
00:02:09.980 Everybody's got to be concentrated now on the convergence on the point,
00:02:12.800 the point of attack that we call it here in the war room.
00:02:16.240 Senator J.D. Vance is going to be with us as soon as we work out some technical issues
00:02:20.980 to get him up.
00:02:22.140 He's going to talk about he's led this effort to block everything Joe Biden's doing
00:02:27.700 and Schumer are doing on Capitol Hill.
00:02:29.440 Because remember, in the Senate, it's a lot different.
00:02:31.080 One or two people can make a huge difference.
00:02:32.880 And so he has pledged with other MAGA senators like Tommy Toverville, Mike Lee, others to
00:02:39.180 really say, no, we're not going to go forth anymore, any more madness.
00:02:42.500 And there's a lot of madness going on.
00:02:45.640 So I think President Trump's trip, absolutely incredible yesterday.
00:02:49.560 He's back.
00:02:50.360 He's back in Florida.
00:02:53.020 Just some programming notes.
00:02:54.180 We're going to be live from Detroit as soon as our set gets totally set up and everybody
00:02:59.740 gets in.
00:03:00.260 We're going to be live in the five o'clock hour, six o'clock.
00:03:04.620 I'll take it back over, it looks like.
00:03:06.360 And we're going to go live down to Club 47 in Florida, where President Trump is going
00:03:12.020 to address the 47 Club.
00:03:13.420 He's also going to be back in Detroit tomorrow.
00:03:16.340 I'll be there anchoring live the morning show.
00:03:18.440 Senator J.D. Vance joins us.
00:03:21.360 Senator, can you just give us overall?
00:03:22.820 It seemed like an incredibly successful meeting yesterday.
00:03:26.080 You've been really President Trump's man in the Senate, right?
00:03:30.680 It seemed like it was very successful.
00:03:32.220 You actually, you and others, I think, had Mitch McConnell come over and do a fist bump,
00:03:38.180 have everybody kind of have a good meeting and say, hey, we're going to fight this one
00:03:41.160 together, get more seats in the Senate.
00:03:43.780 Can you tell us what it was like?
00:03:44.780 Yeah, really good energy in the room, Steve.
00:03:48.220 And you had, you know, a number of folks, of course, who were allies of the president.
00:03:51.040 You also had some folks who were more skeptical and been critical in the past who recognized
00:03:55.680 that, look, the voters have decided Trump is our nominee.
00:03:59.120 And whether, like me, you were sort of on the team early in this cycle or it took you
00:04:04.060 a while to come around, it's time to actually get on the team and help elect Donald Trump
00:04:07.660 as president.
00:04:08.600 There's also broad recognition in that room, Steve, you have to recognize that if you look
00:04:12.840 at our Senate polling across the country, there are a lot of really close and very winnable
00:04:16.640 Senate races in Montana, Ohio, Nevada, a bunch of other places as well.
00:04:22.500 But every single one of our Senate candidates right now is running behind Donald Trump.
00:04:26.340 So there's a sort of recognition in the room that the MAGA movement has a certain amount
00:04:30.640 of political potency.
00:04:32.460 And we've got to figure out how to tap into that, not just for Donald Trump, but also for
00:04:36.380 our Senate candidates.
00:04:37.600 And so there was a really good, I think, conversation just about, well, how do we narrow that gap?
00:04:42.840 Right.
00:04:43.740 Fine.
00:04:44.240 If Trump runs a couple of points ahead of these Senate seats, we'll still win most of
00:04:47.520 them.
00:04:47.960 But we can't have these Senate candidates running five, six, seven points behind Donald
00:04:52.080 Trump.
00:04:52.460 And so it was really interesting that these guys now realize, I'm sure some of them for
00:04:57.360 pure self-interest, that they need to get on the team and they need to figure out how
00:05:01.580 to close that gap between Trump's movement and their voter base.
00:05:06.000 And I think that's fundamentally a good thing.
00:05:07.840 The other point I make, Steve, is you just compare the United States Senate of 2024 and
00:05:12.600 hopefully of January of 2025 against the United States Senate of January of 2017.
00:05:18.480 You just have way more people who are open to restricting immigration at a large scale,
00:05:24.740 way more open to people who are sort of skeptical of globalization and trade, of the entire globalist
00:05:32.000 movement, of the free movement of labor and people and goods.
00:05:37.040 And look, it's a good thing.
00:05:38.360 It is fundamentally a good thing, I think, for Trump's governing agenda to have people
00:05:41.520 who are allies in the United States Senate.
00:05:43.340 I'm, of course, proud to be one of them.
00:05:44.740 But there are others, too, Steve.
00:05:46.000 And I think it's only going to grow.
00:05:46.920 Just real quick, I've got other things going on, but this is just such a brilliant point.
00:05:52.980 Talk to us about this theory of the case, that Trump's running five to seven points ahead
00:05:56.960 because of the MAGA movement in some of these states.
00:06:00.080 And these states are a lot of, some of these are red states.
00:06:02.380 You've got Ohio, you've got Montana, Arizona.
00:06:07.400 Walk us through that, the fact that, and was there a consensus with Steve Daines and these
00:06:12.100 guys on the team now to say we've got to embrace MAGA, we have to embrace President Trump
00:06:15.860 here, if we're to take, and to get to 53, 54, maybe 55 seats in the Senate?
00:06:21.380 A hundred percent, Steve.
00:06:22.720 And when I talk to Steve Daines, who I think is doing a good job as an RSC chairman, I have
00:06:26.780 to say, they recognize that there is this gap between the top of the ticket and some of
00:06:32.400 these down-ballot Senate races.
00:06:33.660 And there's just a recognition here that Trump has tapped into something that is not just
00:06:38.040 a Republican phenomenon, of course, OK?
00:06:39.900 There are independents, there are Democrats who are traditionally loyal to those parties who
00:06:44.860 will turn out for Donald Trump, but they may not turn out for other Republicans.
00:06:48.640 And so the big question for us as a party, Steve, is how to take that movement and make
00:06:53.780 it durable and make it something that benefits our Senate candidates too, especially the Senate
00:06:59.360 candidates who are actually aligned with the agenda.
00:07:01.920 And I think what you're going to see in the Senate side, Steve, over the next six months
00:07:05.200 is a lot of heightening the tension between the Trump movement and what the Democrats have
00:07:11.940 actually done as a governing agenda.
00:07:13.960 You're going to see a lot of people talk about the wide-open southern border.
00:07:17.660 A lot of people talk about mass deportation, which until a couple of years ago, frankly,
00:07:22.080 until Donald Trump was considered a complete taboo in American politics.
00:07:25.840 And you're going to hear a lot of people, especially in the industrial heartland, the Michigan,
00:07:29.740 Ohio, Pennsylvania races, you're going to hear people talking about tariffs and about
00:07:33.940 protecting American manufacturing and really leaning into that.
00:07:36.940 So this is not your granddaddy's Republican Party, Steve.
00:07:40.380 This has in many ways been totally transformed by the last six years of American politics.
00:07:45.680 And really the question for us Senate candidates, and I'm not a candidate myself, of course,
00:07:49.340 but I'm helping a lot of Senate candidates, is whether we can actually get over the finish
00:07:55.200 line, closing that gap by at least a few points.
00:07:58.680 Because if we do, Steve, you are right.
00:08:00.680 We're going to have 53, 54, 55 Senate seats.
00:08:03.540 But if these guys run six or seven points behind DJT, then we're in for a deep, deep set of
00:08:08.440 problems in the United States Senate.
00:08:12.700 Let's talk about that.
00:08:13.680 You've been the leader in the Senate on this forever wars issue, particularly Ukraine.
00:08:19.720 Biden, who hasn't actually presented that well in Italy at the G7, yesterday was up with
00:08:27.300 a, talking about a 10-year, signed a 10-year security agreement with Ukraine.
00:08:31.660 And then part of that's underwritten by essentially stealing or taking the interest of $300 billion
00:08:38.920 of the Russian people's assets and funding it because Europeans don't want to step up
00:08:43.160 to the plate to pay it.
00:08:44.920 And as you know, the people in the United States are fed up with putting money into Ukraine.
00:08:49.360 Stories are coming out overnight.
00:08:51.220 There's complete failure of raising any of these troops, the 500,000 fresh troops.
00:08:55.840 It's a non-event, even with this new draft law.
00:08:57.880 So put that in perspective, and what are you in the Senate going to do between now and the
00:09:02.680 time President Trump gets in to thwart?
00:09:05.760 Because I thought to sign a 10-year security agreement, I kind of thought that was a treaty.
00:09:09.300 I thought the Senate might have something, two-thirds of the Senate might have to opine
00:09:12.640 on that, sir.
00:09:14.880 Well, Steve, you're right.
00:09:16.000 It is a treaty, and there's no way that that is binding unless the United States Senate
00:09:20.260 signs on to it.
00:09:21.500 And I'm going to do everything I can to prevent the United States Senate from doing that.
00:09:24.560 Look, we have to remember, Steve, that the entire argument for this posture towards Ukraine 0.94
00:09:31.440 is that if we acted like the tough guys and sent the Ukrainians a lot of weapons, the Russians 0.92
00:09:36.280 would respect us.
00:09:37.180 Well, now we have Russian warships off the coast of Cuba.
00:09:40.660 Where is the respect that we were supposed to have earned?
00:09:43.580 I'll tell you where it is, Steve.
00:09:45.080 It's reflected in Joe Biden going on the world stage and embarrassing the entire country.
00:09:50.260 You can't have respect when you're led by a guy like Joe Biden.
00:09:54.000 It's one of the strongest arguments for re-electing Trump in 2024.
00:09:57.840 Here's the other crazy thing about all this, Steve.
00:10:00.160 We have no plan, no pathway to victory in Ukraine, and the president cannot stand there
00:10:07.020 and articulate what we're trying to accomplish over the next 12 months, much less the next
00:10:11.520 12 years.
00:10:12.540 So this is a preposterous policy, Steve.
00:10:14.780 It's one of the great failures of the globalists of the last three or four years.
00:10:18.380 I've, of course, been proud to fight against it.
00:10:21.100 But we have to be asking ourselves, what is the exit strategy?
00:10:24.600 OK, you know, I don't I don't want to claim a victory lap and say, you know, I was right
00:10:28.720 for the last three years, even though that I was.
00:10:31.160 I want to know what the exit strategy is so that we don't escalate this thing into a nuclear
00:10:35.980 war where the guy with his finger on the button doesn't know where the hell he is.
00:10:39.620 So we've got to be careful here.
00:10:41.360 And the Republican Party in particular, we need to be statesmen over the next six months,
00:10:46.500 enough bumping our chests and talking about how tough we are.
00:10:50.520 We need to be careful about the next six months so that we hopefully set the next president
00:10:55.000 up for success.
00:10:56.400 And, Steve, you know, we've talked about this in other contexts.
00:10:59.060 One of the biggest problems with some of these funding packages is not just that we've
00:11:03.060 been funneling a lot of money to Zelensky.
00:11:04.980 It's that they've explicitly tried to tie Trump's hands when he wins the presidency and
00:11:11.140 becomes president in January 25.
00:11:13.060 So we as Republicans need to make sure that the next president is set up for success and
00:11:19.640 not failure in Ukraine.
00:11:21.300 Everything that Biden is doing is designed to tie Trump's hands.
00:11:25.080 We can't let that happen.
00:11:27.860 That is you're seeing this then you consider this part of this de-Trumpification movement
00:11:33.380 for the second term, understanding he looks like if it was held today, he'd win and win
00:11:37.380 big, take the Senate, add seats to the House. 0.98
00:11:39.880 This is a de-Trumpification movement to de-Trumpify the second term, sir?
00:11:44.320 Oh, sometimes they say this explicitly in private, that they want to make it harder for the next
00:11:48.900 administration.
00:11:49.780 And what they mean, of course, is Donald Trump, because a lot of people expect he will win.
00:11:53.540 They want to make it harder for the next administration to do anything diplomatically with that
00:12:00.060 conflict.
00:12:00.560 Well, look, we shouldn't roll over on anything, Steve, but diplomacy is part of the job of
00:12:05.860 being president.
00:12:06.840 And you have to have both the carrot and the stick to do diplomacy successfully.
00:12:11.120 They're trying to take away both of those tools from the next president of the United
00:12:15.200 States.
00:12:15.920 And they're trying to do it because they know Trump's going to win and they don't want
00:12:18.940 him to be able to conduct diplomacy successfully.
00:12:21.800 I mean, look, it's like a joke, right?
00:12:24.180 That Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize like six months into his presidency for doing absolutely
00:12:29.680 nothing.
00:12:30.340 If Trump is able to come in, guarantee Ukrainian neutrality, guarantee Ukrainian independence
00:12:36.720 and actually bring this war to a close, it'll be the most successful piece of public diplomacy
00:12:42.280 in at least a generation.
00:12:44.240 I really think they want to deny that from Donald Trump.
00:12:47.400 And most importantly, they want to deny that kind of victory from the American people.
00:12:50.740 We can't let that happen, Steve.
00:12:52.140 We've got about two minutes.
00:12:55.100 I know you've got to bounce, but we keep saying the show, people got to take the burden off
00:12:58.560 President Trump now, both in the House and the Senate.
00:13:00.540 We can't, everybody just can't wait till he comes in on 20 January, 2025.
00:13:05.040 You've actually taken the lead on that in the Senate.
00:13:07.480 You're saying, hey, you're getting a couple of Tuberville, Lee, Hawley, a couple of the
00:13:12.420 populists and more of the big Trump backers and saying, hey, we're going to throw down and
00:13:16.340 we're going to block everything Biden's going to try to accomplish.
00:13:19.200 Can you give us some details of that?
00:13:21.560 Yeah, very briefly, Steve, procedurally, the details kind of matter here because to block
00:13:26.200 something in the United States Senate, to block a nomination, effectively to force Schumer
00:13:30.080 to take up days of floor time to bring this thing up to a vote, you have to be willing
00:13:35.000 to hold a nomination, but then you simultaneously have to be willing to fight for that hold on
00:13:39.800 the floor of the Senate.
00:13:41.300 And so I've gotten a number of my colleagues together.
00:13:44.180 They're all great guys.
00:13:45.720 And we're all joining hands and saying, look, there are 44 nominations that Biden has brought
00:13:51.920 forward that are fundamentally connected to the lawfare against Donald Trump and the entire
00:13:56.540 Republican Party, not just Trump.
00:13:58.040 Of course, you've got the pro-life activists, the J6ers and so forth. 1.00
00:14:01.280 So we're not letting Biden have additional foot soldiers, at least not for free.
00:14:06.860 If they want to do it, they're going to have to use the Senate procedures, force a vote on
00:14:11.220 this stuff and actually fight for it.
00:14:12.820 And we're going to fight back.
00:14:14.220 And this is important, Steve, because look, our voters don't expect us to win every fight.
00:14:19.040 They don't expect us.
00:14:20.140 They know that we're Senate Republicans are in the minority, but they expect us to do more
00:14:24.360 than treat the Senate as a high class debating society.
00:14:27.340 Even from the minority, there are things that we can do to deny Joe Biden foot soldiers for
00:14:32.700 his lawfare.
00:14:33.640 And that's exactly what these people are.
00:14:35.780 It's foot soldiers for the deep state.
00:14:37.680 And we know what those people have been used for the last three years.
00:14:41.000 We've seen it.
00:14:41.720 So why would we give them a glide path?
00:14:44.140 Me and a few of my Senate colleagues are saying, we're not going to do that anymore.
00:14:47.140 And we're going to fight back.
00:14:50.540 We'll put your social media up.
00:14:52.320 We'll get everybody to your website.
00:14:54.020 Thank you for joining us, sir.
00:14:54.940 Honored.
00:14:55.540 Great.
00:14:56.280 J.D. Vance, President Trump's man in the Senate.
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00:16:18.740 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:16:24.220 We're going to go, I believe, at 11 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time, 10 o'clock Central.
00:16:31.160 We're going to go live to outside of a federal courthouse in Houston, Texas, where they're trying to liquidate InfoWars today.
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00:16:46.000 So we're going to go there at 11 o'clock in the second hour of the show and get updated.
00:16:51.980 I want to make sure everybody – Senator Vance is in this dogfight in the Senate to basically, you know, get a pound of flesh from Schumer and the radical Democrats as they try to increase the apparatus of lawfare.
00:17:05.160 However, it's quite brilliant, and you have some of the best people in the Senate, the Hawleys of the world, the Mike Lees of the world, the folks that are very, very focused on, you know, taking lawfare out of the system, trying to get pay a letter.
00:17:19.780 But Hakeem Jeffries, his discussion of Associate Justice Alito today was just – not just over the top.
00:17:28.880 It was inappropriate.
00:17:29.600 Calling him an insurrectionist.
00:17:30.680 I mean, these people are playing hardball.
00:17:32.820 Remember Mike Lees' theory of the case?
00:17:34.300 It's to shrink the court and to have them trim their sails. 0.99
00:17:37.880 I'm not saying the 9-0 ruling yesterday was because of this.
00:17:41.340 I think that may be for other issues.
00:17:43.080 But to trim their sails, particularly on the Fisher decision that now looks like it's going to come in the next week or two, which I think will be monumental.
00:17:51.440 Also, the immunity hearing and the pressure on the Supreme Court is incredible.
00:17:56.600 Mark Paoletta and the team over at CRA is doing the best of giving some air cover for that.
00:18:01.380 But that's why J.D. Vance and his team are really taking the lead on this in the Senate.
00:18:06.840 Also in Ukraine, yesterday what happened – and this is after reports now overnight that the – they're putting in the draft in Ukraine, which they fought for a year.
00:18:20.920 It's been an epic fail.
00:18:22.340 There's essentially 500,000 minimum combat troops short.
00:18:26.840 They need those combat troops from young men, and they don't have them.
00:18:30.600 Why?
00:18:31.660 The parents of the young men, the young men themselves, had decided they're fighting for the sociopathic oligarchs in Ukraine that control the country and steal the money.
00:18:42.160 Oh, and MTG just lost an amendment on the floor.
00:18:44.960 The same 74 to 80 to 100 of the same people in the House that are fighting against any more Ukraine funding.
00:18:53.680 Another kind of fiasco in the House just a little while ago, Mike Rogers saying, hey, the money was already taken out.
00:18:59.160 MTG and Matt Gaetz saying that's not true.
00:19:01.560 They're putting up documents.
00:19:02.920 Anyway, she lost the amendment, the fight. 1.00
00:19:04.500 This is an ongoing fight, and it's got to stop.
00:19:06.620 What they've done now, because the nations of Europe, the Europeans are saying, hey, we can't go back to our people and say they've got to have – they can't retire at 50.
00:19:17.000 They can't take six weeks off, seven weeks off in the summer with August.
00:19:21.580 They can't have free health care because they've got to fund the war in Ukraine.
00:19:26.260 So they've essentially stolen the Russian people's assets, the interest from it, $50 billion, and they're going to use that to arm Ukraine. 0.58
00:19:37.180 Putin's already said, hey, you're just not going to take our money.
00:19:40.140 The world doesn't work like that.
00:19:41.980 Jim Rickards is going to join us and Dave Bratt in the second hour.
00:19:44.480 We teed this up last night with Philip Patrick, but this is monumental, particularly if you're concerned about your retirement, if you're concerned about the purchase power of the dollar.
00:19:53.160 One of the reasons the dollar has the purchase power it has, and it's 20 percent down under Biden, is we're the prime reserve currency.
00:19:59.820 Every transaction in the world has to be converted into dollars.
00:20:03.000 That gives the dollars a certain strength.
00:20:06.400 The fiscal mismanagement, the monetary mismanagement, the insanity is getting the world led by the Saudis who announced yesterday, 1.00
00:20:14.340 a kind of back channel announced that they're going to cancel the petrodollar deal we've had since the Arab oil embargo,
00:20:20.200 and President Nixon taking us off the gold standard in the early 1970s.
00:20:26.200 That has been the foundational element since we kind of shattered Bretton Woods back then.
00:20:31.560 This means the end of the dollar empire.
00:20:34.480 Eventually, these BRICS nations that have all the resources, and if you don't think BRICS have stroke, 0.53
00:20:42.840 look at this weekend.
00:20:43.760 There's going to be a peace conference in Switzerland about, wait for it, Ukraine.
00:20:48.660 Who's not attending?
00:20:50.240 The BRICS nations.
00:20:51.260 CCP is not attending.
00:20:52.600 I don't think India is going.
00:20:53.520 The global south is sitting there going, no.
00:20:55.720 Let Western Europe and the United States talk about that.
00:20:58.020 When you're ready for a real deal led by Turkey, as Ben Harnwell told us almost two years ago,
00:21:03.320 that they will be the guys at the end to actually cut the deal.
00:21:06.380 The BRICS nations are starting to flex their geopolitical strength.
00:21:09.720 They're also working 24-7 of how to make sure they can take the financial power of the dollar
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00:21:58.100 I've got a cold open now for Ben and Raheem.
00:22:01.140 We're still trying to track down Raheem, but I think we'll land him.
00:22:03.840 Let's go and play the cold open.
00:22:04.840 I'm going to bring in brother Ben Harnwell.
00:22:06.800 But we begin tonight with chaos at home and chaos abroad.
00:22:10.920 As President Biden met with nervous world leaders for the G7 summit amid the renewed
00:22:15.600 rise of European fascism and what many are calling global Trumpism,
00:22:21.200 Donald Trump was rallying his sycophantic troops in Washington, D.C.
00:22:25.440 Biden and top global allies took action today to reinforce their solidarity with Ukraine
00:22:29.880 as it fights off Russia's invasion,
00:22:32.180 clearing the way for a $50 billion loan package for Kyiv.
00:22:35.820 Still, Biden is in the beast of European chaos.
00:22:40.540 In Rome, tensions in Italy's lower house erupted into a fistfight, sending an opposition
00:22:45.940 lawmaker to the hospital over a controversial government proposal that critics say will further
00:22:50.540 impoverish Italy's south.
00:22:52.100 In fact, it's all eyes on Italy, which is hosting the summit of the group of seven industrialized
00:22:57.860 nations in the wake of the European Parliament election that saw victories for the far right
00:23:02.620 in places like G7 countries, France and Germany.
00:23:05.580 And just like here in the US, abortion has returned to the spotlight in Italy decades after it was
00:23:11.540 legalized. Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Malone, a hardline conservative, is reportedly trying to
00:23:17.400 eliminate a reference to guaranteeing access to safe and legal abortions in the text of the G7
00:23:23.100 summit's final declaration. It's another sign of Europe's far right marching, Europe's far right
00:23:28.780 marching steadily into the mainstream as hostilities grow over immigration, climate measures and
00:23:34.300 globalization. Over the weekend, center right and far right parties made huge gains in the European
00:23:40.180 Parliament elections, meaning they will occupy close to a quarter of the 720 seats.
00:23:47.240 A conservative populist backlash to progress should sound familiar to voters on this side of the
00:23:52.020 Atlantic, but it's happening all over the world and could very much reorder Europe's political
00:23:56.480 landscape. The far right is on the rise over here and over there. I think that's the thing is that
00:24:02.020 Americans tend to think that this is just us. But this is a global phenomenon that is happening in
00:24:07.380 Europe, too. And it's all the same markers. They want women back in traditional roles. They want 0.98
00:24:12.380 all white access to things like education and opportunity, economic opportunity. They want to drive 0.99
00:24:18.640 immigrants and non-white immigrants out. It's what Brexit was. It's all the same thing. 1.00
00:24:23.000 Is there any point in trying to get Americans to sort of think more globally about this as they
00:24:28.440 think about the election in November? Well, I want to take a deep breath here. I'd take 25% in
00:24:36.060 Congress by just being MAGA. I mean, 25% is not a majority. It's nowhere close to the majority. I get
00:24:42.740 it. They made gains. But I do think we need to go, OK, let's look at this. What's going on in the UK
00:24:49.440 right now, Joy? What's going on in the UK right now? The conservatives are about to get their lunch
00:24:53.780 handed to them. Yes, they are. They are going to be taken out of power for the first time in a long
00:24:58.440 time. Yeah. And the Labour Party is surging now. So what what does what do these two things have in
00:25:04.100 common? It's the folks that are in power now. People want something different. People want change. 0.67
00:25:11.180 The worst thing you can be in government right now is in government right now. And that really is what
00:25:17.040 I think a lot of what's going on here. I don't want to discount the fact that they're trying to
00:25:21.880 back up some basic freedoms. But, you know, as I said earlier today, you know what? America needs
00:25:27.760 to ask a simple question. Are you OK with a dictator who wants to go into a neighboring democracy and
00:25:35.300 change the borders of that country by force?
00:25:40.860 The worst thing now to be running for government is to be in government. Why is that? Because the
00:25:46.080 neoliberal neocon policies of the West have not worked. It's quite simple, ma'am. If you understood
00:25:52.720 that, maybe you'd still be a senator from Missouri. But you don't. So you're you're a B-level talking
00:25:59.200 head on MSNBC. Joy Ann Reid. But Ben Harnwell, that's the first time I think I've ever seen MSNBC
00:26:05.520 actually embrace the reality that the world right now is going through a the populist nationalist
00:26:12.920 sovereignty right, whether you call us far right, right wing. But it's certainly right of the
00:26:19.240 would have been the conservative Christian Democrats or the Republican Party or the Tory
00:26:23.500 Party. Right of that, because this is conservatism with punch. It's the first time I've seen them
00:26:30.080 actually go to the thesis of the war room, sir.
00:26:33.560 Well, you because I was about to say something different, Steve. Good. Good morning to you. I was
00:26:37.760 about to say, we don't even need to do this show anymore, the war room. Just cut to Joy Ann
00:26:42.000 Reid and Claire McGaskill and say, not this. Right. Not that. Not what they're saying. Right.
00:26:48.820 And then we can just go to the beach. On this occasion, on this occasion, however, they have
00:26:55.420 intuited something. And it's not as Joy Ann Reid hysterically says, and hysterical in the sense
00:27:03.140 of sort of a mental breakdown rather than anything amusing in her paranoia that there's a rise of
00:27:16.180 global fascism around the world. I mean, that's just that's just a delirium. That's the word I
00:27:20.000 wanted. It's a delirium. What is taking place is a movement and it is a globe. It is taking a place
00:27:25.700 across the globe. It is a movement where people and it's not just on the right either in quotation
00:27:32.440 marks because people are coming at this movement historically from all areas of political persuasion.
00:27:40.660 It's a movement of people saying that their sociopathic overlords do not represent them
00:27:46.060 nor their interests and they want change. They don't want to hear happy talk anymore. They're
00:27:51.640 not going to be fobbed off with a few pre-election platitudes. They want change. That's the essence
00:27:56.860 of this movement. Ben, hang on. Perfect. Well, we're not going to the beach, but I love the idea.
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00:33:23.480 Ben Harnwell, we've had the cold open.
00:33:26.540 You see what's going on in Europe.
00:33:28.940 MSNBC now finally greases the war room's theory of the case that they're inextricably linked,
00:33:34.320 just like, and they said the magic B word, that would be Brexit.
00:33:37.320 That came out of Joy Ann Reid, right?
00:33:39.500 You knew it had to help.
00:33:40.480 You know, I think Joy Ann, we're going to blow her head up so much on what's going to 1.00
00:33:43.900 happen in Europe in the next couple of weeks in the United States, and maybe she gets a
00:33:46.880 new wig.
00:33:47.960 So, Ben, your thoughts.
00:33:49.160 A lot going on.
00:33:50.820 Raheem's going to join us.
00:33:51.800 Nigel Farage is now, the Reform Party is polling ahead of Labour.
00:33:57.380 I don't know what they say about Labour surging.
00:33:59.520 I think the surging party there is the Reform Party under Nigel Farage, who's talking about
00:34:03.820 a merger of Reform Party and Tories.
00:34:07.800 What remains of the rump of the Tories to have a single party in opposition in Parliament.
00:34:14.260 Your thoughts about France and about your beloved United Kingdom, sir?
00:34:18.340 Well, let's start off with my beloved homeland.
00:34:22.700 The news is that a YouGov survey, for the first time now, has placed Reform UK one point
00:34:31.420 ahead of the British Conservatives.
00:34:34.220 The Times of London calls this a crossover moment.
00:34:38.580 I prefer the term, I think Nigel Farage used this himself, the expression, the tipping point
00:34:43.480 himself.
00:34:44.200 I think that's what this is now.
00:34:45.340 It's a tipping point in British politics.
00:34:49.820 And what you might have expected in the run-up to a general election is that a protest vote
00:34:55.260 party, when faced with the reality of perhaps a collapse change in government or something
00:35:01.600 like that, one might have thought conventionally that the votes, the protest votes that have
00:35:09.040 been sustaining, if I can use the term, a protest party, a protest movement, would start to dissipate
00:35:17.700 and converge around one of the two established political parties.
00:35:25.320 That's not what's happening in the UK, Steve.
00:35:27.420 As we get closer to the general election, the people are taking a long, hard look and they
00:35:32.840 are definitively leaving the British Conservative Party and they're coming over.
00:35:36.800 Even though, by the way, in this two-point leap for reform, it's actually left the Tories
00:35:43.820 unchanged on 18.
00:35:45.120 I think that's right.
00:35:46.000 Unchanged on 18.
00:35:47.160 Whereas reform is now on 19.
00:35:48.660 So reform is actually picking up votes not only from the Conservative Party, but also from
00:35:53.840 the rest of the political spectrum, from the undecideds, which is an unusual and very encouraging
00:35:59.640 dynamic to look at.
00:36:00.920 That's not the only poll, Steve, I wanted to look at.
00:36:05.080 Because, and this is, the context is, you know, what I like about the war room here is
00:36:09.080 that we, in the run-up to the European elections, we said there is something, and not just in the
00:36:14.200 run-up to the European elections, we said there is something taking place in Europe.
00:36:19.340 In terms of populist nationalism, the rest of the mainstream myths, the mainstream media
00:36:24.660 looked towards the election weekend as basically the end of a certain news cycle when they
00:36:31.300 were then going to pivot on to something else.
00:36:33.320 We were, in Accra, which we were laying the analysis, the background for something that
00:36:37.940 wasn't the end of a particular news cycle.
00:36:40.400 It was really the start of this news cycle.
00:36:42.160 And what's happening in the UK, what's happening in France, the total meltdown of their political
00:36:49.260 establishment, these are consequences of what happened when the people themselves spoke
00:36:54.820 in the European Parliament.
00:36:56.440 So quickly to have a look at France now, because this is a very interesting and important poll
00:37:04.740 that that's just been published ahead of their general election, which I think the first
00:37:09.560 round is on June the 3rd, and the second definitive round, and I think it's like July the 6th or
00:37:18.260 7th or something like that.
00:37:19.360 So presently, the national rally has 89 seats in the National Assembly, and it's forecast to
00:37:28.480 leap up, get this, from 89 to 200, between 235 and 265.
00:37:34.300 I'll repeat that.
00:37:35.240 They're forecast to go from 89 to between 235, 265.
00:37:40.340 That's an absolute explosion.
00:37:42.360 Macron's party, on the other hand, is set to go from 249, where it is now, to down between
00:37:49.400 125 and 165.
00:37:51.720 So that is a real dynamic that you can see, a real, what we call an undercurrent towards
00:37:56.980 nationalism.
00:37:58.060 It wasn't dissipated that people's anger at the abuse of their political elites wasn't
00:38:04.300 dissipated when they voted in the European Parliament elections.
00:38:09.280 It's actually, the results have actually encouraged and fortified them to seek realistic change.
00:38:17.920 And as we say always, the issue here, this is the point that Joy and Reid and Claire McGaskill
00:38:23.240 don't want to, never wanted to confront.
00:38:26.140 In fact, the reason for this isn't just happening in a vacuum, you know, because people, you know,
00:38:32.000 they've just woken up one morning and said, oh, you know what, today I think I might vote
00:38:35.080 for a party I've never voted for in my entire life.
00:38:37.040 Why not?
00:38:37.600 No, there's something, there's a massive wall of anger and disgust behind this change,
00:38:43.920 and it is principally tied to the immigration crisis.
00:38:47.820 And that is another thing that links continental Europe politics to American politics.
00:38:53.860 The other thing, you know, one more is that, particularly if you take into Germany, a new article
00:38:59.780 in the Guardian, which is no fan of the worm, as you guys know, that it's the youth.
00:39:05.760 Axios had this story the other day of how the youth vote, when I'm saying youth, I don't
00:39:09.140 mean the under 35s, I mean the 18 to 29s are coming to Trump, hurtling to Trump, I think
00:39:13.920 he lost him by 30 points in, it lost, in quotes, lost him by 30 points in 2020.
00:39:20.260 He's now tied, and the trend line is that Trump's going to take the youth vote.
00:39:23.620 I think 24% of the youth in Germany voted for Alternative for Deutschland.
00:39:29.440 This is where the establishment is really in shock, that with all the propaganda and
00:39:36.080 all the Greens, the Greens are imploding across Europe as young people sit there and go look
00:39:41.140 at this invasion of their country, the stealing of their culture, the stealing of their society, 1.00
00:39:46.440 the crime out of control, and sit there and go, hey, I think I want the country my grandparents
00:39:51.360 had, right, I don't want this, and they're coming, exactly what's happening here in the
00:39:55.660 United States.
00:39:56.300 One other thing, Ben, you mentioned protest vote, these things are a process, we try to
00:40:01.440 teach process here, go to Pat Buchanan, to Perot, to the Tea Party, then to MAGA, then
00:40:10.120 the arrival of Trump, and the formation of MAGA, you go from a protest vote, to boom, now in
00:40:16.320 power, right, and that's what you're seeing here in Europe as they start to galvanize around
00:40:21.160 some of these leaders, the Bardello, which I think is a great pick, he'll probably, if
00:40:24.880 the French parliament goes along the way that the alliances look like they're working out
00:40:31.160 and the polling shows, he'll be prime minister at the age of 28, right, and this guy's as
00:40:36.480 far right as you can possibly get.
00:40:38.540 So, Ben, there are direct connections, there are demographic connections, there's issue
00:40:42.380 connections between what's happening in Europe and what's happening here in the United
00:40:46.200 States, sir.
00:40:46.720 Let's look at the youth thing, right, let's break that down, and, you know, periodically,
00:40:51.540 every few days, Steve, there's an article in the press that details this, and I always
00:40:56.220 send you the text, and I always say the kids, I have a standard tagline for this now, which,
00:41:01.360 you know, probably wearing thin, if it was ever funny, the kids are alt-right, which is
00:41:06.960 the thing that I always send to the company.
00:41:10.000 But this is a growing thing, right, let's break this down, for all the reasons that you
00:41:13.820 said, people, kids are starting to have a certain nostalgia for a way of life, for a
00:41:19.760 civility, for a way of living, for a civilisation, that perhaps, you know, their parents might
00:41:26.600 only just remember.
00:41:28.000 There's something else I want to suggest, however, in addition to your point, kids,
00:41:33.340 kids are rebellious, right, kids more than adults, because when you grow into adult, you start
00:41:42.520 to seek out, to conform socially.
00:41:46.120 Kids don't have that. 1.00
00:41:47.080 Kids are trying to establish their personality, establish their identity by rejecting, you
00:41:52.540 know, and this has been, I think, a phenomenon since probably the 50s, rejecting, as it were,
00:41:58.360 their parents and their parents' values.
00:42:01.880 The kids have been, for the generation Z, right, the millennials, they have had a certain
00:42:07.580 form of woke propaganda.
00:42:10.280 They've been hit with that so intensively over the last, say, 15 years, 10, 15 years in
00:42:17.200 schools.
00:42:18.120 That is the monoculture now, that if they want to establish their identity and their personalities
00:42:22.360 and their uniqueness and their individualness, that is what they have to rebel against, because
00:42:29.880 that is their omnipresent monoculture that has been hit on them so hard.
00:42:34.340 So ironically enough, Steve, ironically enough, the very thing where we might have thought,
00:42:39.980 looking at this externally, that the left, and I even mentioned this on the show a few
00:42:43.500 days ago, where the left was omnipowerful, omnipotent, in terms of its sort of forming
00:42:50.620 and shaping kids' minds, they've actually gone so far on that, kids are starting to rebel
00:42:56.920 against it.
00:42:57.900 And that's a very interesting and positive development.
00:43:00.680 Really, it is.
00:43:03.940 Ben, stick around.
00:43:05.100 Raheem's going to join us.
00:43:06.220 We've got Jim Rickards, Dave Bratt.
00:43:07.700 We're going to go a lot to do capital markets, geopolitics, also politics.
00:43:10.720 In France, the meltdown right now is that the French right-wing parties, or the French
00:43:16.820 farther from the center-right, are starting to work together in alliances.
00:43:20.860 You see this happening in the United Kingdom, where Nigel said, hey, I have no problem merging
00:43:26.560 with the Tory party, potentially, after the election, to be a bigger opposition, and I
00:43:30.540 would lead that.
00:43:31.660 It's the same thing you saw on Capitol Hill yesterday, the kumbaya moment with President
00:43:36.500 Trump and many of his biggest critics on the Hill.
00:43:38.980 Short commercial break.
00:43:40.220 We'll break it all down next.
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00:45:15.740 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:45:18.220 Let's go.
00:45:22.380 Thank you.
00:45:22.960 Welcome back.
00:45:23.380 Let's go to Houston, Texas, outside the courthouse there.
00:45:26.640 I think a federal court in Houston.
00:45:29.340 Chase Geiser from InfoWars.
00:45:33.200 Chase, tell us what exactly is going on.
00:45:35.380 Where's Alex Jones?
00:45:36.860 What's happening?
00:45:37.740 Why are you guys in Houston?
00:45:38.680 Absolutely.
00:45:40.160 So we are standing outside of the court building right now.
00:45:44.960 Alex is about ready to go into his first hearing.
00:45:46.900 He did speak to the press briefly before walking into the building.
00:45:50.820 But basically today we have a couple of hearings going on.
00:45:53.400 One for Alex Jones' personal bankruptcy and another for the bankruptcy for free speech systems.
00:45:59.580 And free speech systems, of course, is the parent company for InfoWars.
00:46:02.160 We anticipate that his personal bankruptcy is going to be moved from a Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7, which will basically remove his ownership of InfoWars today.
00:46:10.760 We're not sure what the fate of InfoWars specifically is going to be, but it seems very likely that the judge is going to dismiss the bankruptcy, which will give the company technically back to Alex, but remove the bankruptcy protection.
00:46:22.120 We anticipate the plaintiffs will then move to liquidate at the state court all of InfoWars' assets.
00:46:27.040 And we don't know what the process is going to be like fighting that from this point forward.
00:46:31.420 But it's definitely a very pivotal moment in InfoWars history and in the free speech argument.
00:46:38.200 Was this something that Alex and his lawyers worked on to take away the bankruptcy protection, or is this something that happened with court pressure, or is this pressure from the families?
00:46:48.260 How did we get to this place that the bankruptcy protection is being taken away?
00:46:52.740 Yeah, that's a really good question.
00:46:54.400 And to be totally honest with you, Steve, some of these answers are a little bit too nuanced for me in terms of bankruptcy law.
00:47:00.980 This is something that is part of the legal strategy for Alex Jones.
00:47:04.420 This is not Alex Jones giving up.
00:47:06.060 This is just the beginning of this next fight.
00:47:08.220 But for several reasons, they did make this decision.
00:47:10.660 However, we have been backed into a corner to the point where it seems like every week that goes by, Steve, our options are fewer and fewer as to what we can do to keep InfoWars on the air.
00:47:19.720 We're doing the best we can.
00:47:20.420 Is InfoWars after the days?
00:47:25.300 Can we still anticipate that InfoWars is going to be on?
00:47:28.540 Alex's show that goes from noon, I think it's three, four, five hours sometimes.
00:47:32.500 And you've got these other great shows up there with folks.
00:47:35.860 Can we anticipate, at least for right now, nothing will change after the day?
00:47:40.460 The shows will still be on?
00:47:42.840 The website will be on?
00:47:45.080 Yeah.
00:47:45.480 Worst case scenario would be that this will be shut down this afternoon.
00:47:48.640 We don't think that's likely.
00:47:50.300 I think there's probably a greater than 50% chance that we see a shutdown sometime next week.
00:47:55.380 Best case scenario would be that Alex is able to work out some sort of a deal that allows us to stay on air for the next three to four months while we liquidate and sell our inventory ourselves.
00:48:04.240 Now, based on the actions of the legal team that's been in opposition to us over the course of the last year, I don't anticipate any goodwill whatsoever.
00:48:11.480 I think they want to aggressively shut this operation down as quickly as possible, similar to how they're shutting you down in as many ways as they possibly can.
00:48:18.360 Because they don't want the truth being broadcast up as this election approaches on November 5th.
00:48:24.480 I really think that what this is truly about is preventing any pro-Trump voices from having a large audience in the coming months as this election heats up.
00:48:31.500 Yeah, that's what I wanted to ask you.
00:48:35.560 The possibility that the folks that are owed the money could get paid back, you would have to be on air.
00:48:41.680 Alex would have his sponsors be selling advertising, doing the things that you guys do to generate revenue.
00:48:46.900 From that cash flow, they would get it and eventually – one and a half billion is kind of hard to ever see it getting paid down, but at least some money starts coming in.
00:48:55.580 To move to liquidation and just to sell for your property, plant, and equipment as pennies on the dollar, they would never get paid back.
00:49:03.460 So it would lead one to believe that this is all about silencing Alex Jones in the run-up to the all-important 2024 election.
00:49:11.760 Is anything in my logic incorrect there, sir, as you see it?
00:49:16.020 I think your logic is totally sound.
00:49:18.440 There have been a couple of junctures during this process where we thought we were going to be able to settle with the plaintiffs.
00:49:24.460 One settlement that was offered was for over $80 million.
00:49:26.880 There was another counteroffer for over $50 million.
00:49:29.020 We understand that our assets are somewhere less than $10 million, so they're making substantially less by liquidating us than they would by keeping us or allowing us to be on the air to continue to operate and settle with them and make payments to them over the course of five to ten years.
00:49:41.740 But there's several reasons, and I won't bore you with the logistics or the details of the reasons why we didn't accept some of the settlement offers in the past, trying to silence and control speech.
00:49:50.200 They wanted a board of directors basically to run the company, which is something that was an untenable position for Alex personally.
00:49:57.600 But they made over $70 million suing Remington already.
00:50:00.760 They're making a lot of money, raising money for nonprofits and other organizations based off of depicting Alex as this perpetual villain.
00:50:07.540 So I think in their eyes they want to, A, shut him down, and, B, they anticipate that they're going to be able to generate revenue for themselves in other ways by taking the trophy that is Infowars in the freedom of speech space.
00:50:21.040 What I didn't understand, they actually went after his social media.
00:50:24.160 They went after his Twitter account last night in federal court.
00:50:26.680 How does that work?
00:50:27.500 How do you take someone's Twitter account?
00:50:30.280 And do you anticipate that will be given to them over the next couple of days?
00:50:33.400 Great question.
00:50:35.480 So we heard this news break yesterday.
00:50:37.540 Reuters covered it.
00:50:38.960 And they did file a motion for Alex's at Real Alex Jones Twitter account to be explicitly listed as an asset in this Chapter 7 bankruptcy because they want to take it.
00:50:50.980 And they tried to make some silly arguments for why they should.
00:50:53.600 But this is something that I've never heard of or seen before.
00:50:56.740 I've never witnessed anyone have their personal Twitter account removed in a bankruptcy.
00:51:01.340 Even in examples of Tucker Carlson being fired from Fox or Don Lemon or Brian Stelter, it's unprecedented that when somebody leaves a major news organization that they have to forfeit in any way their personal Twitter presence.
00:51:14.460 So this is something that they're just trying to do without any law to back it up.
00:51:18.520 It doesn't seem like it's going to go through.
00:51:19.920 I think this judge is actually fairly reasonable.
00:51:21.740 I don't think it's something that's really going to happen.
00:51:23.460 But the fact that they're trying to do it is just another example among a litany of examples of why it seems like they're actually trying to just shut him down rather than get what's in the best interest economically, financially for the plaintiffs in this case.
00:51:40.820 Chase, what is your social media?
00:51:42.560 Where do we go to follow you?
00:51:43.780 We're going to hopefully come back maybe late in the second hour if Alex is out or if you're still up and we have an update.
00:51:48.260 But where do people go in the interim?
00:51:50.440 Best way to find me is at RealChaseGeyser.
00:51:52.900 That's C-H-A-S-E-G-E-I-S-E-R on X. 0.96
00:51:55.760 But I encourage everybody before they follow me to follow Alex Jones, which is at RealAlexJones on X.
00:52:03.700 Fantastic.
00:52:04.280 Chase, we'll come back to you.
00:52:05.220 Great report.
00:52:05.920 Appreciate it.
00:52:06.660 Thank you.
00:52:07.180 Appreciate you.
00:52:10.000 Chase Geyser down there in Houston.
00:52:11.640 Man, oh man, they are coming after Alex Jones like nobody's business.
00:52:15.320 Been pretty amazing.
00:52:17.120 Fighting a good fight.
00:52:18.060 That's a voice they definitely want to shut down in the run-up to the 2024 midterm.
00:52:24.220 Trust me.
00:52:25.520 We're going to take a 90-second break.
00:52:28.120 Harnwell is going to stick around.
00:52:29.740 I think we're going to try to track down Raheem.
00:52:31.800 We've got Jim Rickards, Dave Bratt.
00:52:33.860 We're very packed here on Flag Day.
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00:52:42.040 I think they're going to be live.
00:52:43.080 They're finally sub.
00:52:43.680 They're going to be live from Detroit.
00:52:45.180 We'll be live from Detroit at 5 o'clock.
00:52:49.920 Also, we're going to stream on our other channels.
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