Bannon's War Room - Episode 4194： Recapping The Hegseth Hearing

00:00:00.000 and to understand where we are.

00:00:02.140 Vital context for what happened today

00:00:04.780 at the confirmation hearing for a very different person,

00:00:10.180 a man named Pete Hegseth,

00:00:12.020 who went before the Senate Armed Services Committee today.

00:00:15.340 Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth,

00:00:18.080 to put it mildly, is no Jim Mattis.

00:00:21.280 No, not even by Trump standards.

00:00:23.260 If anything, the through line of Trump's picks

00:00:26.500 to lead the Pentagon from General Jim Mattis

00:00:29.160 to Mark Esper to Pete Hegseth

00:00:30.920 represents and perfectly encapsulates

00:00:34.180 the complete erosion of standards

00:00:37.460 that, ironically, Pete Hegseth likes to complain about.

00:00:41.920 And I think this is a new low.

00:00:44.360 This is our new normal.

00:00:45.640 But I also think the Democrats failed to score any knockout blows.

00:00:48.900 They beat them up a little bit.

00:00:50.140 Cain was effective.

00:00:51.360 Gillibrand was effective.

00:00:52.540 But a lot of it missed.

00:00:54.280 And right now, Hegseth is in good standing.

00:00:56.500 But we've got a couple days left.

00:00:58.640 And I think in 2025, we have to be ready for anything to come out

00:01:01.740 because the FBI report was not comprehensive,

00:01:03.900 didn't talk to his two ex-wives, didn't talk to his accuser.

00:01:06.860 And I think now comes that moment where there's kind of a race between the vote

00:01:10.000 and whether or not anything else or anyone else will come out.

00:01:13.240 Is it sustainable, though, to have only one party care?

00:01:16.980 No.

00:01:18.260 No.

00:01:18.760 And this is the most important position, in my view, in the Cabinet.

00:01:23.200 And that's why Trump is leading with it.

00:01:24.600 He knows that if he can take the Pentagon and he can shift culture there

00:01:27.700 and he can block the guardrails and put his loyalists in,

00:01:31.040 then everything else becomes easy.

00:01:32.740 So it's obviously a defining point for the Republicans and for the Democrats.

00:01:36.540 But I think for kind of two years, we've been holding our breath on both of them,

00:01:39.660 and both of them have failed.

00:01:40.500 So this is a true crisis for our democracy and, most urgently, for our national security.

00:01:45.700 This nominee's sort of troubled past came in the opening statement by Senator Jack Reed,

00:01:51.480 the military veteran himself, been around the Senate a long time,

00:01:54.640 very reasonable, very objective.

00:01:57.000 And it surfaced all the reasons why you could or should vote against this nomination.

00:02:02.920 And it's a provocative nomination.

00:02:04.980 By the way, not half as provocative as the incoming commander-in-chief.

00:02:09.160 And having said that, look, this guy's Princeton-educated, he's smart, he's articulate,

00:02:15.100 he does know a ton about national security issues as a commentator on TV,

00:02:21.140 and he conducted himself very well in this four-hour-plus hearing,

00:02:27.360 I think, to the point where all he needed was to lose one Republican senator

00:02:32.240 and it would be killed in committee.

00:02:34.480 And I think a lot of Republican senators probably hoped that would happen.

00:02:37.820 It didn't happen. This guy's going to get confirmed.

00:02:42.200 You have not said much about what he hadn't said, but now that he's at this hearing,

00:02:45.900 do you have any concerns about these allegations from his past, the sexual assault allegation?

00:02:51.640 And if not, how quickly do you plan to move his nomination to the floor?

00:02:55.380 I think he's addressed those allegations, and I didn't see all of it.

00:02:59.620 I saw pieces of it, but every report I've had, the readout from the hearing this morning is that he quoted himself extremely well

00:03:06.940 and made a strong argument for why he ought to be the next Secretary of Defense.

00:03:11.620 If he's reported out of the committee, we will work quickly to get him across the floor, obviously,

00:03:17.620 because that is a key, critical, important national security position that needs to be filled.

00:03:23.480 I think the strategy on both sides, which I think was pretty consistent, played out.

00:03:28.820 Yeah, it was interesting. I was searching for what exactly the Democratic strategy was.

00:03:33.280 I think they know as well as anybody that Joni Ernst is the key here.

00:03:36.620 If Joni Ernst goes south on this nomination, it could spell trouble.

00:03:39.860 If she backs him, I think it's very clear that he'll be the next Secretary of Defense.

00:03:45.140 And they were clearly leaning in on that issue of women in the military.

00:03:50.040 And the problem for Democrats is he just readily conceded he changed his views on this.

00:03:54.820 He changed his position. He no longer holds that view.

00:03:57.280 And it made it hard for some of that to stick.

00:04:00.140 Eventually, these hearings, they tend to devolve into a little bit of shirts and skins.

00:04:05.040 And I think that actually works very well to Hegseth's favor.

00:04:07.760 If Democrats are looking as though they are being performative and just trying to score points, frankly, against Donald Trump more than they are against Pete Hegseth,

00:04:17.600 that makes it really easy for them to sort of rally together and come together.

00:04:22.040 I would be very surprised at this point if he is not the next Secretary of Defense.

00:04:26.180 Joni Ernst definitely was not too confrontational with him.

00:04:30.500 And that may be the whole ballgame here.

00:04:32.180 There are still a few people off this committee we need to think about.

00:04:34.680 But he performed extraordinarily well, didn't back down, perhaps other than changing his position on women in the military,

00:04:42.900 didn't back down from a lot of the more confrontational questioning.

00:04:47.660 And I think that's exactly what a lot of Republicans wanted to see today.

00:04:51.140 I mean, because I take your point about the performance of the Democrats today,

00:04:54.140 but our system isn't set up for only the Democratic Party to care about who leads the United States military.

00:04:59.460 I agree. But who are we holding out hope for here?

00:05:02.380 I mean, Mark Wayne Mullen's not going to be the guy.

00:05:04.560 Tom Cotton's not going to be the person.

00:05:06.360 I do think that there's still a chance that Joni Ernst and Murkowski and Collins are keeping their powder dry.

00:05:12.100 They're waiting to see if someone will come forward, if someone will come out publicly.

00:05:15.760 I almost thought Cain was going to present something after that.

00:05:18.360 It felt like he was leading up to something new, but they don't have anything new.

00:05:22.280 But I do think that Hegseth was also in part chosen to set the tone.

00:05:25.620 Trump wants to show that he's going to try to run the table.

00:05:28.380 He's going to push the Democrats.

00:05:29.560 He's going to own the narrative.

00:05:31.480 And in this battle, at least, I think the Democrats have lost.

00:05:48.520 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:05:53.700 Pray for our enemies.

00:05:55.620 Because we're going medieval on these people.

00:05:58.980 You're just not going to get a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:06:03.240 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:06:05.160 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:06:06.600 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:06:09.280 It's going to happen.

00:06:10.540 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:06:13.940 Mega media.

00:06:15.300 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:06:20.640 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:06:23.860 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:06:30.820 War Room.

00:06:31.380 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:06:33.760 Bannon.

00:06:34.120 Tuesday, 14th, January, Year of Our Lord, 2025.

00:06:43.320 The Days of Thunder started off with a bang today.

00:06:46.720 I want to thank Mike Cernovich.

00:06:48.100 That at the end was Mike Cernovich's tweet.

00:06:50.840 That was a great composition or consolidation of today.

00:06:54.020 Democrats' massive face plant.

00:06:56.060 It's obvious from today they still don't quite get why they lost.

00:07:03.700 The Heritans on the – and man, they got a lot of women on the Armed Services Committee. 0.98

00:07:07.880 You notice that?

00:07:09.360 Don't know if the women over there think that's a path to power or whatever, but there's a lot of women on the Armed Services Committee, Democratic senators. 1.00

00:07:16.840 Not that I have any problem with that, but they don't get why they lost.

00:07:26.440 They're harping and harping on Pete Hegseth.

00:07:29.220 Just one after the – made it so that even – that's General Barry McCaffrey.

00:07:36.180 General McCaffrey is a hater.

00:07:38.380 Hates Trump. 0.95

00:07:38.900 Hates MAGA. 0.85

00:07:39.560 Hates Pete Hegseth.

00:07:41.180 We were able to cut that kind of tight right there.

00:07:43.120 He starts off with all the bad things.

00:07:44.500 Pete Hegseth is, I don't know, misogynist, abuser, on and on, drunk, never run an organization, all this kind of litany of things.

00:07:51.700 And then he goes, oh, by the way, he's going to be – he's going to be – he's going to be approved. 0.76

00:07:56.700 Is that Colonel Waltz?

00:07:58.340 Yeah.

00:07:59.200 I want to introduce Colonel Mike Waltz, Colonel Waltz Green Beret.

00:08:03.500 He's the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States.

00:08:06.120 He's just stepped out of a meeting to join us, and I'm going to talk to him for a minute while we get teed up his magnificent open.

00:08:12.440 Colonel Waltz, you mentioned today, and this was kind of the theme, the warrior ethos.

00:08:17.060 Talk to me.

00:08:17.840 What is the warrior ethos?

00:08:19.600 Why did you on your mark start with that?

00:08:22.780 And Pete kind of leaned into that during his testimony.

00:08:28.220 Can you walk us through it, sir?

00:08:29.200 Well, yeah, number one, that's what our soldiers, our sailors, our Marines have been begging for and missing.

00:08:38.320 Number two, that's what Pete embodies.

00:08:41.280 Number three, that's what our – and most importantly, that's what our enemies respect and fear.

00:08:47.800 And we haven't had that.

00:08:49.800 We certainly don't see that exuding from the White House right now.

00:08:53.640 And we haven't seen it from the Pentagon.

00:08:55.340 When you have a Pentagon that promotes, for example, West Point teaching, having a lecture on how to understand your whiteness and white rage. 0.66

00:09:05.600 When you have an Air Force Academy that tells new cadets, don't say mom and dad, and that colorblind is offensive.

00:09:11.760 Heck, when you even – Steve, when you have a chief of staff of the Air Force that puts a memo out and says we need so many Hispanic females as pilots, 1.00

00:09:19.160 rather than just the best pilots, the best shooters, the best sailors that America can possibly have, we've got to get back to that.

00:09:29.620 And that is, in my mind, what Pete Hegseth embodies.

00:09:33.420 And that's why you're seeing so much overwhelming support from the troops from him, because they miss it.

00:09:40.340 And they joined the military to kick in doors, jump out of planes, sail ships, and fly fighter jets or be a cyber warrior.

00:09:47.460 And I think the point that Pete very articulately made today was that his comments have been about standards.

00:09:55.860 You either hit the standards to do the job or you don't.

00:09:59.940 Your race, religion, socioeconomic background, whatever, doesn't matter.

00:10:03.560 That's the military that we came up in, the military he's going to lead us back to under the leadership of Donald J. Trump.

00:10:13.160 It seems that President Trump, with yourself, with Tulsi Gabbard, with Pete Hegseth, many of the other picks,

00:10:19.220 these are people who have actually fought in these wars, been frontline leaders of men and women in these wars.

00:10:24.860 What message is President Trump trying to send us by the selection of you guys kind of as a group?

00:10:30.140 Well, look, those were the wars of our generation.

00:10:35.720 And on the one hand, we've got the dust on our boots.

00:10:39.220 As Pete said, we've got the dirt and the blood and the sweat and the tears on our fingernails.

00:10:43.860 But we've also been downrange, Steve, to see the policy drift, to be looking at our fellow squad mates,

00:10:52.120 or in my case, my fellow Green Berets, and saying, who the hell thought this was a good idea?

00:10:57.120 And that led to the tremendous cost in national treasure, in lives, in geopolitical positioning vis-a-vis China

00:11:05.860 that have led us now to where we have a hollowed-out military that we've got to rebuild.

00:11:12.400 We've got to get back to recruiting, to readiness, and to lethality before it's too late.

00:11:19.140 And, you know, now is the time for reform.

00:11:22.180 And the point that I wanted to make today in my introduction is I looked at all those senators and said,

00:11:27.440 you all know that you've been sitting here for hearing after hearing, you know, for year after year,

00:11:35.700 talking about everything that costs too much, takes too long, and delivers too little at the cost of billions to the taxpayer.

00:11:41.800 Enough is enough.

00:11:42.720 Status quo is not acceptable.

00:11:44.320 It's time for change.

00:11:45.460 That's what President Trump knows, and that's what Pete represents.

00:11:50.820 Last question, Colonel Walts, because I know you're busy.

00:11:53.720 You stepped out of a skiff to do this for us.

00:11:55.760 We're thankful.

00:11:58.100 Why did the Democrats, having the one opportunity to question Pete Hicks and his confirmation,

00:12:04.440 why did all the questions kind of just be attack questions?

00:12:07.440 I didn't see one serious policy question the entire afternoon.

00:12:10.280 Do you have any idea what drove that?

00:12:12.120 Yeah, it's just the anonymous smear campaign that's been there since he was announced.

00:12:19.300 Schumer has said the quiet part out loud.

00:12:22.540 Everybody go after Trump's nominees, no matter what you have to say or what it takes.

00:12:28.320 And it's just, you know, thank God for, you know, real fighters and lawyers like Senator Mark Wayne Mullen,

00:12:33.640 who called out the hypocrisy.

00:12:35.600 Are you kidding me?

00:12:36.300 You know how many politicians run around here and drink and cheat and don't behave and comport themselves that's worthy of the trust of the American people have given us?

00:12:48.020 And yet you're going to try to kind of throw that dirt at a nominee.

00:12:51.980 And look, why so many veterans who are sitting in that audience identify with him is many of us do come back scarred from war.

00:13:00.440 Many of us have to go through stuff to get to a better place.

00:13:03.580 Pete embodies that, and I think they respect him for it.

00:13:07.400 And it's, you know, who the troops want to see leading them into the charge of the 21st century.

00:13:16.600 Colonel, can we get your social media?

00:13:18.280 People want to, now that you're the senior national security advisor in the White House,

00:13:21.640 you head of the National Security Council for the President, people want to keep up with you.

00:13:24.640 Can you give us your handle?

00:13:25.920 Yeah, sure.

00:13:27.520 You can follow me at Michael G. Waltz across all the platforms.

00:13:32.400 And you're flashing up there a book, Hard Truths, thinking lead like a Green Beret.

00:13:36.700 I'm proud to say the proceeds go to a Gold Star family.

00:13:40.340 And that's the painful lessons that I and people like Pete and others have learned in combat

00:13:46.160 and how we're applying it now to fighting the swamp, Steve.

00:13:50.840 And I've got to tell you, sometimes the tribes of Washington, D.C. are a lot tougher than the tribes overseas, that's for sure, as you well know.

00:13:58.360 And sometimes even more legal.

00:14:00.160 In the Ambar Privacy. 0.96

00:14:03.200 Colonel, thank you for stepping out.

00:14:04.460 We're going to play your opening comments here later in the show.

00:14:06.900 Thank you, sir.

00:14:07.360 Appreciate you.

00:14:08.560 Thank you.

00:14:10.040 Colonel Mike Waltz, Green Beret, Hard Truths is the book.

00:14:13.440 He's the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States.

00:14:16.520 We're going to take a short commercial break here.

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00:16:19.560 And look, I have no doubt that he is going to get the Pentagon back to its primary mission, lethal readiness.

00:16:27.180 That warrior ethos is what our enemies will respect.

00:16:31.440 That warrior ethos is what our enemies will fear.

00:16:34.440 And it's that warrior ethos that will keep the peace.

00:16:37.440 And look, ladies and gentlemen, in my humble opinion, our military deserves better than it's getting.

00:16:47.460 Our country faces a devastating recruitment crisis.

00:16:51.040 Men and women are not volunteering to serve at the levels required.

00:16:55.360 Our readiness is down.

00:16:57.260 Our costs are up.

00:16:58.480 And it seems like nearly every major weapon system, again, often discussed in this very room, is costing too much, delivering too little, and taking way too long.

00:17:09.520 The bottom line is the status quo is unacceptable.

00:17:16.300 It's not working.

00:17:17.420 Lethal readiness.

00:17:23.080 Mike Waltz laid it out today.

00:17:24.840 Pete Hegseth delivered a home run.

00:17:26.720 He was relentlessly attacked.

00:17:28.800 Waltz teed it up of what the problem is.

00:17:32.120 We don't fight wars to win wars.

00:17:35.080 You have the junior officers.

00:17:36.680 You know, I made a bunch of films about the—in one big one on the Iraq war.

00:17:41.520 The last 600 meters that talks right to the valor and courage of the tip of the tip of the spear.

00:17:47.940 Some of the combat in Afghanistan and Iraq is as tough as, you know, we've seen since Vietnam, World War II, Korea.

00:17:55.920 I mean, ranked right up there.

00:17:58.940 The officers and non-commissioned officers that led that, to me, it's a natural evolution to have them lead now.

00:18:07.180 The Pentagon, the intelligence services, all of it.

00:18:10.960 And, you know, we have this massive recruiting problem.

00:18:13.240 Why do we have a massive recruiting problem?

00:18:14.840 Because of the woke nature of the military.

00:18:18.040 Yes, Pete Hegseth is a cultural warrior, but he's also a warrior, embodying the warrior ethos.

00:18:24.140 Captain Bannon, Maureen, you were there today actually in support of Pete Hegseth.

00:18:29.800 You were out there earlier, and then you sat in.

00:18:31.620 Tell me, put us in the room.

00:18:32.840 Just give us your impression of having sat in there, which is supposed to be a confirmation hearing.

00:18:37.840 What I was shocked is that we didn't hear the Democrats the entire time, and we played the entire first round of questions on the morning show

00:18:46.720 and didn't hear one significant real policy question from any of the Democrats, just tearing at him on all these personal issues.

00:18:56.820 So, Mo, put us in the room. 1.00

00:18:58.380 How was it?

00:18:58.860 You're correct.

00:19:01.140 It was truly an honor to be in that room in support of Pete Hegseth.

00:19:05.680 And you're correct with regards to the Democrats.

00:19:07.940 Honestly, the female Democrats on the Armed Services Committee were trying to outdo themselves, one after the other, 1.00

00:19:15.000 on who could be the most unhinged with their line of questioning or lack thereof,

00:19:19.500 because all they wanted to do was attack Pete Hegseth and mistakes that have been made in the past, or even potential mistakes.

00:19:27.520 You know, a lot of them are false allegations.

00:19:31.780 However, they didn't have a lot of questions, like you said, about policy and what he's going to do as the head of the Department of Defense, as the SECDEF.

00:19:41.980 That's where their line of questioning should have been.

00:19:44.260 And we saw that from Republicans, and a lot of them, you know, they asked him different questions regarding policy and even different questions regarding what it means to be a warfighter.

00:19:55.980 And we saw just how strong and qualified Pete Hegseth is to be the SECDEF by his answers to Republicans' questions.

00:20:09.020 What is this whole thing about women in combat? 1.00

00:20:11.640 I mean, you served, you went over to Iraq, you deployed, you know, I think it was 2010, 2011.

00:20:18.120 What is this whole thing about this controversy, women in combat, combat arms? 0.99

00:20:24.060 What's the difference?

00:20:25.080 Walk us through it.

00:20:25.980 So the Democrats today, as we saw from the hearing, had a lot of questions regarding the comments that Pete Hegseth has made regarding women in combat.

00:20:40.140 And they held on to women in combat. 1.00

00:20:42.880 They claim that he doesn't want women to deploy.

00:20:45.980 That is a false statement.

00:20:48.120 Pete Hegseth would be in support and is in support of what I did when I deployed to Iraq.

00:20:52.940 I was in combat, but I was a combat support position.

00:20:58.020 I supported those on the front line.

00:21:00.080 And that's what Pete Hegseth is saying when he makes that statement.

00:21:03.860 He is saying that women should deploy.

00:21:06.920 They should be in combat.

00:21:08.540 Support.

00:21:09.560 We should not be on the front lines in combat arms.

00:21:12.460 And I agree with Pete Hegseth in that statement.

00:21:15.320 Okay, but for a civilian audience, you have civilian affairs, intel, I think you were logistics.

00:21:25.180 You have the medical, not just the doctors, you have the medical support guys.

00:21:29.040 Is that what you're talking about?

00:21:29.660 Then combat arms, you have artillery, infantry, cavalry, or the tanks.

00:21:35.040 Is that the difference that the women, he believes, are not qualified to actually be in the combat arms part of it?

00:21:45.340 That's correct.

00:21:46.200 Those branches like armor, infantry, especially in the Army, where we are seeing that we are lowering standards in order for females to meet requirements to be in those specific branches.

00:21:58.240 You know, when I deployed, like you said, I was a logistics officer, so I was combat support.

00:22:04.600 I did a significant role in Iraq to make sure that those combat arms, infantry, you know, armor, had their bullets, their food and water so they could survive.

00:22:18.200 The things that they need to be successful in their missions, combat support roles, such as logistics officers or logistics branches, do those positions to make sure that those service members on the front lines can survive.

00:22:33.040 Support as in medics, that is a support position, doctors, things like that, things that aren't infantry, armor, engineers, things of those natures, those are not combat arms.

00:22:48.200 So, walk us through, were you surprised by the intensity?

00:22:52.120 I mean, we watched it here, obviously, on television, and we really focused more on the Democrats.

00:22:58.060 It was surprising how the women came after him, the female senators, and also Senator Cain, I mean, all of them did, but the females particularly, and I guess Senator Cain also.

00:23:08.900 In the room, did it feel that that intensity, was that intensity coming through nonstop?

00:23:13.740 It was, and it also, you know, a lot of the veterans in that room noticed how unhinged the Democrats became in their line of questioning.

00:23:26.660 And it was six out of the seven females, you know, the last female senator wasn't as unhinged as the rest of them. 0.99

00:23:34.920 But Senator Tim Cain took the cake on that one.

00:23:39.600 The fact that he brought an innocent seven-year-old child, dragged her into the hearing in his line of questioning is despicable.

00:23:48.700 And just, I believe he topped the females in his line of questioning.

00:23:54.700 Mo, what's your social media?

00:23:57.140 I want you to hang around, by the way, because I know you've got to go.

00:23:59.760 You've got to bounce your representing tonight.

00:24:01.060 Mo's representing us tonight at a dinner, since I couldn't get back.

00:24:07.060 Mo, what's your social media handle?

00:24:10.540 You can follow me on Twitter at Maureen underscore Bannon, and also on Instagram at RealMaureenBannon.

00:24:17.700 I was coming in very hot during the hearing on Twitter, but you'll have to do a little digging to find my tweets on Twitter right now,

00:24:24.800 because I might be being a little suppressed at the moment.

00:24:28.300 Oh, you're thinking you're being suppressed over at Twitter?

00:24:32.540 You fall into the Laura Loomer category? 0.93

00:24:37.120 I believe some of my tweets are not appearing on people's feeds.

00:24:41.240 I think that I'm not getting as many views on some of my tweets, yes.

00:24:47.380 Okay, well, you always get together on the other social media.

00:24:50.260 Mo, thank you very much.

00:24:51.060 Thank you for going over there today and for supporting Pete Hegseth.

00:24:53.940 Good luck tonight at the dinner.

00:24:55.240 Represent us well.

00:24:55.980 Thank you.

00:25:01.340 Eric Prince and some of the other friends of the show having a dinner tonight for the new incoming staff of President Trump.

00:25:08.080 Mo Bannon and Natalie Winters are going to represent us over there.

00:25:12.260 I couldn't make it back.

00:25:13.840 Certain things came up, but did the Polico interview this morning.

00:25:18.380 Okay, we got a lot to get to today.

00:25:20.140 We haven't had a chance to actually go through and look at some of the cuts of Pete Hegseth.

00:25:23.280 I'm going to save that for a little later.

00:25:24.340 Let me say, it was everything I expected.

00:25:30.260 I want folks to kind of wake up with this and understand that this is just their first day.

00:25:35.140 This is President Trump's days of thunders, and Pete Hegseth was magnificent.

00:25:39.320 There's no doubt to me, and particularly when a guy like Barry McCaffrey, who's a true hater,

00:25:43.140 when General McCaffrey says, hey, Pete Hegseth is going to get confirmed, you know, you can take that to the bank very much.

00:25:51.060 Unless they come up with some new witness, somebody can come forward.

00:25:54.040 They shot him down already for actually having a second day or a second round,

00:26:01.060 and I thought that that was very, very, very impressive.

00:26:04.880 So what you saw today was the Armed Services Committee.

00:26:08.220 I guess they're kind of adjourned to not adjourned.

00:26:10.680 They're going to see if there's anything else they need to come back.

00:26:13.080 I think they're working that through.

00:26:14.260 But Pete Hegseth was absolutely magnificent today and represented well, represented President Trump well,

00:26:21.820 the administration, all of it.

00:26:23.560 We've got a lot of things to go through.

00:26:25.240 I was at Politico this morning, gave an interview.

00:26:28.360 We want to break that down, particularly the economic parts of it.

00:26:32.000 Philip Patrick is going to join.

00:26:34.160 It's still a revolt in the bond market.

00:26:35.600 We're going to talk about gold as an alternative here

00:26:37.960 and also what it means for the biggest event that President Trump has,

00:26:42.120 and that's getting through these budgets, getting through the spending bills,

00:26:45.400 getting through everything he wants to do, the tax cuts.

00:26:47.720 That's still the beating heart of his peace and prosperity mission.

00:26:51.840 We're going to go through with Philip Patrick with that, and then we've got a lot more.

00:26:56.720 I want to break down the Pete Hegseth because I think in Pete Hegseth and breaking it down

00:27:00.760 and talking about the line of attack, you'll get to understand how what's going to happen in the next couple of days.

00:27:06.200 Have more intense hearings tomorrow.

00:27:09.000 I don't know if anything will be as intense as Pete's because that was just pure personal attack for hour after hour after hour.

00:27:14.640 We are going to have a lot more confirmation hearings this week.

00:27:19.700 I think there will be some that's pretty intense.

00:27:21.520 Bobby Kennedy is going to be up.

00:27:24.060 Pam Bondi has got two days already. 1.00

00:27:26.220 I think schedule.

00:27:27.020 Scott Besson is going to be up.

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00:29:24.160 The drivers I would love to see in the executive orders has set up an external revenue service

00:29:29.020 that we wouldn't just look at tariffs, because tariffs paid for everything up until the early 20th century.

00:29:34.980 But you wouldn't just look at tariffs.

00:29:36.500 You look at everything about how you can charge fees, essentially, whether that's on investment,

00:29:42.820 whether that's on other things of access to this country.

00:29:45.320 America's behind the golden door, okay? 0.90

00:29:49.440 And this market's the most robust, lucrative market in the world, and we shouldn't just let people have access.

00:29:54.380 We shouldn't let foreigners have access to this market and to the American people and American citizens for free. 1.00

00:30:00.260 So I think I would love to see something that set up an external revenue service in Treasury

00:30:05.300 that eventually took the burden off people on internal revenue services.

00:30:09.060 There's no reason the American people, American corporations, even the donor class has to pay for everything.

00:30:14.720 And I think we have to rethink that.

00:30:18.560 Okay, that's this morning.

00:30:20.840 I want to thank the Politico people that had me in today.

00:30:26.580 Dasha Burns and the team that had us over there today to basically talk, hooked up by Skype.

00:30:34.240 It was great.

00:30:35.780 Very great questions.

00:30:38.800 Gave the responses.

00:30:40.280 Got a little traction.

00:30:41.620 This, the external revenue service.

00:30:43.900 You heard that over the weekend we had John Gardner here.

00:30:47.140 This is this concept that, you know, up to the early 20th century and really the earthquake in San Francisco

00:30:54.960 and then the Great Fire that burned San Francisco essentially to the ground,

00:30:58.220 you had the financial panic that came after that.

00:31:00.960 And J.P. Morgan and others had to step in, but principally J.P. Morgan kind of set right the bond market

00:31:06.300 and the stock market essentially saved the country from what looked like a kind of a default.

00:31:11.040 After that, they went to an internal account of, you know, tariffs up at that time had paid for people trying to get into the products into the country.

00:31:17.460 After that, they set up an internal revenue service.

00:31:20.700 And so the question, President Trump's asking, hey, why is everything on the shoulders of the American people?

00:31:26.080 Corporations, LLCs, the American people individually.

00:31:31.880 Why is the whole burden for paying everything on them?

00:31:35.080 Maybe think of tariffs more broadly as a maximization of external revenues.

00:31:40.080 This is the most lucrative market in the world.

00:31:43.380 And the Chinese Communist Party and so many other people get in here and get for free.

00:31:48.440 Look, I'm quite opposed or not enthusiastic, let's say, maybe put a nicer face on it,

00:31:53.860 on really foreign capital coming into the country to invest in the country.

00:31:58.360 Right now, I actually think we ought to take a hiatus on that, take a hiatus on at least a moratorium,

00:32:04.100 you know, shortly on all types of immigration until we work out what these visa programs are

00:32:07.980 and what they really are benefiting and how they're helping the American citizen.

00:32:12.860 Everything's got to be in back of help taking the country forward, taking the American citizens forward.

00:32:18.540 And so I think you need to take kind of a rethink of all that.

00:32:21.220 President Trump, I think, afterwards, can you put that up, put out a true social,

00:32:26.160 announcing he's going to set up an external revenue service that focuses on maximizing revenues coming into this country,

00:32:33.540 people trying to get access to this country?

00:32:35.920 I think you can think of this broadly.

00:32:37.280 I even think in buying stocks and bonds, I believe you can charge a premium because,

00:32:41.920 listen, the reason the liquidity that our markets are so liquid, people want to put money into the United States.

00:32:47.140 Why? The investments are safer than anywhere else in the world.

00:32:49.940 And if you're starting the kinetic part of the Third World War and the Eurasian landmass,

00:32:54.340 and the rest of the markets are in turmoil all over the place,

00:32:57.280 if you want to invest here, if you want to get access to this market with products or services,

00:33:02.380 it seems to me you should pay a toll for that.

00:33:04.240 You should pay a toll for that.

00:33:06.280 And that's how we start to kind of underwrite a lot of the spending that goes on in this country.

00:33:10.700 It's just a thought.

00:33:11.440 But, hey, we used to do it from the time before the Revolution all the way up to the early 20th century.

00:33:18.500 Everything we kind of paid for came externally, right?

00:33:21.660 Came externally.

00:33:22.380 That whole concept of internal revenue was a 20th century, early 20th century kind of line of thinking.

00:33:28.180 So I now think President Trump's broadened it out.

00:33:30.860 Philip Patrick, a team on the first section, I don't have my journal in front of me, but section B1 today,

00:33:37.400 a huge article, Philip Patrick, about, wait for it, the global bond market is surging.

00:33:42.900 Why, when President Trump is sitting up now thinking about this economic plan,

00:33:48.220 and you've had Janet Yellen, you had the Lords of Easy Money on Wall Street, you've had the Fed,

00:33:53.180 why now, when he's sitting here looking to put forward this plan,

00:33:57.460 why is all of a sudden the bond market surging, which, as everyone knows that watches the show,

00:34:02.940 is going to make it much more difficult for President Trump to actually enact his plan?

00:34:07.200 Philip Patrick.

00:34:07.740 I mean, it certainly is.

00:34:10.680 Government bond yields are increasing significantly, and it's not just here in the United States.

00:34:15.720 It's happening worldwide, and it's affecting markets around the world,

00:34:20.460 especially countries, obviously, with higher debt levels like we have here in the United States.

00:34:25.780 What happens is the increase in yields makes borrowing more expensive,

00:34:29.560 and despite central banks' efforts to lower short-term interest rates,

00:34:34.720 debt levels are skyrocketing.

00:34:38.600 That's going to work against President Trump's plan, right?

00:34:42.900 We've got strong employment data that came out of the Federal Reserve,

00:34:47.000 which means higher for longer in terms of interest rates.

00:34:51.240 With bond yields being higher, with debt service being higher,

00:34:55.980 it's going to add to the problem, it's going to add to deficit spending,

00:34:59.620 and it's just making the job a lot more difficult for President Trump to grow the economy out of the mess that we're in currently.

00:35:10.040 You've been with us now for, I think, three years.

00:35:12.380 We've talked about this, and one of the things under the Biden regime,

00:35:15.760 with these massive commitments of spending,

00:35:18.500 and I mean massive, the Recovery Act,

00:35:21.060 all these infrastructure actually had massive, massive, I mean, trains of dollars.

00:35:25.360 And the deficits kept building because the mindset was still this kind of internal revenue,

00:35:30.820 tax rates, you know, going to charge on maybe financial transactions,

00:35:34.680 all types of different ways to tax people,

00:35:37.760 to increase taxes on corporations, to increase taxes on people.

00:35:41.320 The Democrats have been yammering about increasing taxes on the wealthy,

00:35:44.680 which I don't mind if they don't put their shoulder to the wheel to bring down spending.

00:35:49.520 But President Trump today kind of came in back of and has put up now this concept of external revenues

00:35:56.540 that kind of go back to the old days when we fully financed everything from fees,

00:36:03.220 tariffs coming from outside the country.

00:36:07.280 In addition, you actually think of doing it to financial transactions.

00:36:10.420 How is that a game changer?

00:36:11.980 My phone's been blowing up all day of people that really have followed,

00:36:15.620 and some of the writers and economists that are all over the trade issues,

00:36:19.600 all over the tariff issues are saying,

00:36:21.420 gosh, we're really putting 25% on Canadian goods coming in.

00:36:26.760 Why is this a game changer for President Trump saying,

00:36:28.840 hey, we just don't need to look for people in the United States to pay for everything,

00:36:33.140 the Internal Revenue Service.

00:36:35.060 Let's just change the thing.

00:36:36.560 It's like, it's almost like, let's look at Greenland, right?

00:36:39.440 This is the economic equivalent of it.

00:36:41.260 Your thoughts, Philip Patrick?

00:36:42.340 Look, the reality is we have to do something, right?

00:36:47.500 It's not, we're not going to fix the problem here in the US by raising taxes.

00:36:52.360 And I think external revenues are a good idea.

00:36:55.640 That's ultimately how the government was financed for a decade.

00:36:59.400 But what it does do is ultimately it penalizes global trade, right?

00:37:04.840 We went from a protectionist nation to a free trade nation.

00:37:08.520 And I think we're starting to feel the effects of that with huge trade imbalances around the world.

00:37:13.920 So we need to start protecting the domestic economy.

00:37:17.320 And I think tariffs will be a way to start doing that.

00:37:21.420 Ultimately, they're going to incentivize manufacturing here in the United States.

00:37:25.220 You know, short-term benefit for long-term cost is how we've been doing things.

00:37:31.540 And I think it's time to turn it on its head.

00:37:34.020 Look, you know, Trump's policies are...

00:37:38.740 It's like adding eight shots of espresso to an economy.

00:37:43.600 There is a lot of changes on the horizon, but they're necessary.

00:37:47.320 And ultimately, they can work.

00:37:49.480 Talk to me about, you know, you just talked about trade balances.

00:37:55.640 I think we hit a record in November as over $110 billion or something just with China.

00:38:02.100 Is that because the one way to look at it is that they know tariffs are coming.

00:38:07.480 And so they try to front-run this and get in front of it.

00:38:10.500 And people even try to get in front of it.

00:38:12.260 Although, folks, in 18 and 19, prices did not go up at all.

00:38:16.640 And we had the strictest, I think, tariff regime that we've ever had against China.

00:38:23.800 Is this big trade deficit now that people are just more comfortable with Chinese goods?

00:38:28.260 Or is it something about the tariffs that got them to front-run it before the...

00:38:31.480 Before really...

00:38:32.560 Or during, I guess, during the Christmas season?

00:38:35.180 Yeah, I think it's probably a combination.

00:38:38.040 At the end of the day, people that have close ties with China are now stocking up on inventory,

00:38:43.340 expecting tariffs on the horizon.

00:38:45.720 We have China as well looking at new trade partnerships.

00:38:50.120 They know that it's going to be a little bit more difficult with President Trump in the White House.

00:38:54.480 And they're expanding trade partnerships.

00:38:57.440 But China right now are in a real mess. 0.88

00:39:00.620 Tariffs will affect them significantly.

00:39:03.460 For every dollar that we gain from Chinese tariffs, China lost $3.

00:39:08.280 And that's exactly what we're trying to do.

00:39:10.360 We're trying to focus on the domestic economy and address trade imbalances.

00:39:15.060 But listen, we have to do something.

00:39:18.840 Like I said, this economy needs an injection.

00:39:22.120 And I think President Trump is the man to do it.

00:39:24.540 And I think we don't have to look that far.

00:39:27.740 Look at what Millet has achieved in Argentina in such a short space of time.

00:39:32.660 He cut government spending significantly, gutted useless government departments.

00:39:37.520 And for the first time in over a century, Argentina now have a surplus.

00:39:42.240 So, you know, the people are suffering shorter term, but longer term, the economy is looking much healthier.

00:39:48.700 We need that same aggressive move today for the U.S. economy because we're at the point of no return.

00:39:54.400 Walk me through how do people now more than ever, how do they get access to you, how do they get access?

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00:40:37.780 Make sure you understand about the modern monetary theory.

00:40:42.040 That's one you definitely ought to understand.

00:40:43.540 And you can get in touch with Philip Patrick and his team.

00:40:45.660 Philip, I think Days of Thunder started today with Pete Hegseth, kind of the preamble.

00:40:51.700 It really kicks off next Monday when President Trump's probably going to sign, I don't know, 50 executive orders just to kick things off.

00:40:57.520 It's going to be pretty wild.

00:40:59.180 This audience is ready and they're ready to talk to you guys.

00:41:01.420 So I really want to thank you guys for having our back here and helping us with all the free installments so people can understand macroeconomics, sir.

00:41:09.680 Thank you so much.

00:41:10.820 It's an honor to be with you, Steve.

00:41:12.560 Thank you.

00:41:14.700 Thank you, brother.

00:41:16.100 Make sure you go to Birch Gold.

00:41:17.580 I think it's now more than ever.

00:41:18.980 First off, I want you to read all the – it's not a textbook because we've made it very, very accessible.

00:41:23.700 But read all five free installments and particularly read the latest one, Modern Monetary Theory.

00:41:29.760 You know, it always shocks me.

00:41:30.920 And this is one of the things we try to do in War Room all the time to make sure that you guys are ahead of the curve,

00:41:35.660 whether it's transhumanism or pandemic or, in this case, global capital markets and really the concepts and back of it.

00:41:43.040 This idea of modern monetary theory, it may be new to a lot of folks that haven't watched the show for a while,

00:41:47.860 but it's a pretty radical idea set down to its essence, is that deficits don't matter.

00:41:51.740 You can have massive deficit spending for years and years and years, and if inflation ever gets up,

00:41:56.460 you can just all of a sudden increase taxes across the board and it'll take care of it.

00:41:59.260 And that's kind of it in a nutshell.

00:42:01.300 Not perfect, but that's the general gist of it.

00:42:03.680 Of course, it's a fallacy, but Wall Street, the federal government, both political parties kind of believed it.

00:42:11.980 These massive deficits led to this huge debt, $36 trillion, adding, I don't know, a trillion dollars every hundred days.

00:42:18.120 That is what's narrowed the range of what President Trump has to do.

00:42:22.140 He doesn't have unlimited – he doesn't have a broad spectrum of alternatives.

00:42:26.840 This is why this whole thing about one versus two reconciliation bills, about, you know,

00:42:31.940 are these people's taxes going to increase, are these people's taxes going to be cut?

00:42:35.520 Are corporate taxes going to be increased or corporate taxes going to be cut?

00:42:38.480 How big a deficit can we have?

00:42:40.500 Is Doge going to get in there and do work that takes costs to deconstruct the administrative state to take cost away today,

00:42:46.180 or is it going to be down the road five, six, seven, eight years?

00:42:49.300 These are the questions today, and this is our free installments with Birch Gold about debt and deficits.

00:42:56.520 It's the gold standard, what Richard Nixon did, President Nixon did, and now modern monetary theory.

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00:43:03.280 So many of the debates we're going to have going forward is going to be bracketed by how you pay for it.

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00:44:59.240 Okay, Days of Thunder.

00:45:01.500 Do we have, has Denver gotten our logo for that yet?

00:45:05.140 If, I think if Noah can get it to you guys.

00:45:07.900 I think it finally signed off on it.

00:45:09.860 So next Monday is the official kind of kickoff of Days of Thunder.

00:45:15.380 That's President Trump.

00:45:16.300 I think it's bigger than shock and awe.

00:45:18.720 It's going to really, I think, surprise people.

00:45:20.560 I said today in the Politico that it's going to be to the power of 10 as intense as it was in 2017 because now they've had a lot longer to work on it.

00:45:31.020 You've got these teams that have been working together for a long time.

00:45:33.180 They're really going to hit the, there we are right there.

00:45:35.540 That's the, that's the Politico headline for the interview this morning.

00:45:39.720 Very thankful of the Politico people to have me over there.

00:45:45.380 It was very nice.

00:45:47.380 Dasha was fantastic.

00:45:48.560 Really great questions, tough questions.

00:45:52.960 But this week is going to kind of be the preamble to that.

00:45:56.040 And you saw today.

00:45:57.460 So don't think that Democrats have learned anything from their defeat.

00:46:00.380 They have not.

00:46:01.460 They've become more bitter.

00:46:03.680 They've become more recalcitrant.

00:46:08.140 You know, we had Rob Bleuie on the founder of Daily Signal yesterday with this poll they did.

00:46:13.000 It said 50% of the administrative state and 50% of the deep state employees at a senior executive level and executive level are going to resist President Trump and his administration as they come in and try to make some changes, turn this country around.

00:46:29.040 American people are saying it two-thirds, one-third, two-thirds still think the country's on the wrong track.

00:46:34.340 President Trump's going to try to turn that around.

00:46:36.100 He's got a team there of agents of change.

00:46:38.340 You saw Pete Hegseth today.

00:46:40.160 It wasn't Pete Hegseth.

00:46:41.420 And he's flat out just magnificent.

00:46:43.060 Bravo, Zulu, Pete.

00:46:44.240 I have never seen that type of intensity focused on anybody in a hearing.

00:46:51.760 They just came off the chain, particularly these female Democratic senators. 1.00

00:46:56.640 They were just attack, attack, attack.

00:46:59.900 There was no enlightenment at all for what Pete's going to do as Secretary of Defense, no enlightenment at all for really what his policies are going to be.

00:47:08.780 It was just personal attack after personal attack after personal attack.

00:47:12.220 But this is how it's going to go.

00:47:14.880 Pam Bondi's going to be the same way. 0.99

00:47:17.160 Cash Patel's going to be the same way.

00:47:20.040 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is going to be the same way.

00:47:22.880 You're going to see the plus Christy Noem.

00:47:24.940 You're going to see attack after attack after attack.

00:47:27.220 No, we're going to figure out how to juggle because tomorrow, starting Wednesday and Thursday, there are going to be multiple going on at the same time.

00:47:33.420 Obviously, some will be less intense, but still, their whole mode is not to really be advice and consent, which the Constitution says.

00:47:40.800 Their whole mode is attack, attack, attack.

00:47:44.400 And what I'm really proud of is with Real America's Voice, we played this kind of uninterrupted today.

00:47:49.880 We didn't take any commercial breaks in the first two hours.

00:47:52.000 I'm sure I really want to thank Rob Sig for doing that because I thought it was very important not to have any break to see it in continuity.

00:47:57.860 And we really focused just on the Democrats so that you could see the intensity of, let's be blunt, their hatred.

00:48:04.660 Their hatred of Pete Hegseth, the hatred of the warrior ethos, the hatred of what Pete Hegseth stands for, right?

00:48:13.220 The MAGA movement, President Trump, it all kind of came out.

00:48:15.720 I thought it was very important today because today is really the first day of kicking off getting things done.

00:48:22.680 Remember, we talked about the three things that, you know, the beginning of the Third World War, the kinetic part, President Trump's got to take off.

00:48:29.440 And then it's got to be the deportation, securing the border deportation of the 15 million illegal alien invaders. 0.53

00:48:35.200 Other things to do with immigration, a lot of that will be executive orders.

00:48:38.540 The one in the middle that's the most important, right, the one that's existential is how you handle the deficits, the financing of it, this massive debt that we have.

00:48:47.260 How do you actually handle that?

00:48:49.120 And then you've got three ways to do it.

00:48:50.620 You've got the executive orders.

00:48:51.680 You have your team led by your cabinet officers plus legislation.

00:48:55.300 The executive orders, a lot of them have been done and gone through LLC.

00:48:59.200 I hope they have up to 50 next week.

00:49:01.020 But this is when the days of thunder really start, when President Trump takes his hand off the King James Bible and gives his address.

00:49:08.120 And then immediately kind of goes to work.

00:49:09.900 It's kind of a big signing ceremony in the afternoon at the White House.

00:49:12.620 We're going to cover this wall to wall next week.

00:49:15.180 In fact, from now all the way through Inauguration Day, Real America's Voice, we're going to be up talking about this and all the different shows.

00:49:24.200 You're going to get a ringside seat to everything that's happening.

00:49:27.540 Mike Lindell joins us.

00:49:29.300 Mike, as good a buddy, you know Pete Hegseth well.

00:49:32.620 You're one of the biggest supporters of President Trump in the MAGA movement, one of the leaders of the MAGA movement.

00:49:36.960 But you're too busy today dealing with all the issues you're dealing with at MyPillow, even to watch a second of it.

00:49:43.380 Tell us, what's going on at MyPillow that's taken the total concentration of Mike Lindell?

00:49:48.000 Well, a couple things.

00:49:49.400 But one is our big audit.

00:49:51.100 The IRS has come after MyPillow.

00:49:53.120 The Attorney General, Keith Ellison of Minnesota.

00:49:59.100 He's came after our charities, our Lindell Recovery Network.

00:50:03.240 So I spend all day with the lawyers going through and accountants going through stacks of stuff.

00:50:09.640 They want to just attack before.

00:50:11.760 What have they got?

00:50:12.220 Two weeks left here, it seems like.

00:50:13.780 They're just doing one last, let's shut Mike Lindell up.

00:50:17.540 And it's not working, Steve.

00:50:18.980 I'm louder than ever, okay?

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00:50:36.620 And you've got the, it's reversible and adjustable.

00:50:39.520 We've got the crosses came in.

00:50:41.220 So we're doing commercials for that.

00:50:42.600 But remember, we put it for a special for the War Room Posse exclusive, 30% off on the crosses.

00:50:49.340 And then, you guys, I wanted to get on.

00:50:51.200 I know because of the hearing today that I couldn't get on this morning.

00:50:54.420 But I wanted to tell you, this is the last few hours for the flannel sheets.

00:50:58.480 I know the War Room loves the flannel sheets.

00:51:00.420 The flannel sheets, the queen size, $59.98, king size, $69.98.

00:51:08.560 This is a War Room exclusive.

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00:51:12.340 I just want to get on here and tell you that as low as $44.98 for the twins and ends.

00:51:18.560 But all the colors that are there, this is it.

00:51:21.280 Go to the War Room site, the MyPillow, scroll down to see Steve and click on that.

00:51:26.500 This is the War Room's exclusive here with promo code War Room.

00:51:30.420 There's the MyCrosses.

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00:51:32.900 Right next to that, the flannel sheets.

00:51:35.240 And then we have that clearance event.

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00:51:39.360 All that stuff, you guys, check it out.

00:51:41.640 It's still winter.

00:51:42.500 It's plenty cold.

00:51:43.280 All the MyPillow clothing, everything is over there.

00:51:46.240 That's a War Room exclusive.

00:51:48.300 All the new towels are in.

00:51:50.380 We've got the classic collection still on sale for the War Room Posse.

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00:51:58.360 And don't forget, get yourself.

00:51:59.740 Well, we've left those on sale, the beds, the mattress toppers, Steve.

00:52:03.860 And so it's what I do.

00:52:05.680 I spend all day working on products and commercials and working on defending myself against this corrupt administration that's leaving.

00:52:13.940 Mike, we'll see you.

00:52:16.880 They're leaving shrouded in not glory.

00:52:21.620 Let's say that.

00:52:22.200 Mike Liddell, we'll see you tomorrow morning in the 10 a.m. hour.

00:52:25.600 Thank you, brother.

00:52:26.520 Appreciate you.

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00:52:36.320 Short commercial break.

00:52:38.480 We'll be back for the second hour of the afternoon show of The War Room in just a moment.

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Bannon's War Room - January 15, 2025

Episode 4194： Recapping The Hegseth Hearing

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