Bannon's War Room - Episode 4260： Constitutional Crisis Comes From Across The Aisle

00:00:00.000 That category, the big kahuna, is the attack on the courts. 1.00

00:00:07.040 You may have seen the headline tonight.

00:00:08.660 We had a federal judge block the big cuts they just imposed on scientific and medical

00:00:14.460 research.

00:00:15.500 The amount of scientific and medical research funding and the way that funding is structured

00:00:19.780 is set up by law.

00:00:21.580 And to cut it unilaterally is to violate that law.

00:00:24.260 So those scientific and medical research cuts have been blocked tonight by a federal judge.

00:00:30.400 We've also had a federal judge block the resign or else threats against millions of federal

00:00:36.700 workers that are trying to induce them into quitting their jobs.

00:00:40.320 That has been blocked by a federal judge.

00:00:42.060 We've had a federal judge block the Elon Musk improper access to the Treasury's payment

00:00:47.800 system.

00:00:48.760 That has been blocked by a federal judge.

00:00:50.700 We've had a federal judge block their efforts to send three Venezuelan men to Guantanamo.

00:00:56.160 We had a federal judge block the release of the names of FBI agents who worked on January

00:01:00.180 6th cases.

00:01:01.340 We've had three different judges block the effort to overturn birthright citizenship, the

00:01:06.540 American principle enshrined in the Constitution that says, if you're born here, you're American.

00:01:11.100 We have had two federal judges now block the government funding halt.

00:01:15.220 We have had a federal judge block the shutdown of USAID and the order that everybody at USAID

00:01:20.560 has to be fired or put on leave.

00:01:23.880 We've had judges stop thing after thing after thing that they've been trying to do. 0.95

00:01:30.040 And all of those losses in court, I mean, we're only three weeks into the administration.

00:01:33.560 How have they lost in court this many times already?

00:01:36.220 Well, it's because they're doing a lot of things all at once that seem, at least at first

00:01:39.780 glance, to be quite illegal.

00:01:41.240 And so judges are stopping them from doing these things as fast as lawsuits can be filed. 1.00

00:01:47.460 You're right.

00:01:48.340 We've got our toes right on the edge of a constitutional crisis here.

00:01:54.240 But here's the thing.

00:01:56.480 It may be the case that Donald Trump is so full of confidence that he thinks he can wave

00:02:01.820 his wand and whatever he wants to happen will happen.

00:02:05.920 And in many cases, he will be right. 0.86

00:02:08.480 For example, the Republicans in the Senate just go ahead and confirm people for jobs

00:02:14.700 that they know they are not qualified for.

00:02:17.300 So they will kowtow to him.

00:02:19.520 But I don't think that's going to happen with the courts.

00:02:22.140 And here's the next part.

00:02:24.120 They may not be able to force Donald Trump to do something, but Donald Trump isn't actually

00:02:29.680 the guy who puts in the orders and cuts people's paychecks.

00:02:33.520 There's somebody else in the system who does that.

00:02:37.420 And they're a click down from Donald Trump and a click down from that and a click down

00:02:41.300 from that.

00:02:42.520 And when a federal court issues an order and then gets people in front of them and says,

00:02:49.700 you either follow that order or find yourself in contempt.

00:02:55.460 Now we're going to see whether or not those are people who are going to say, oh, but Donald

00:03:00.380 Trump told me and a judge is going to say, I don't care what Donald Trump told you.

00:03:03.720 I'm telling you what the law is.

00:03:06.620 You follow the law.

00:03:08.900 And, you know, my view right now is the courts are where we are hanging on to our constitutional

00:03:16.580 structure.

00:03:18.080 They still have the power to hold everybody else in this country in contempt if they do

00:03:24.720 not follow lawfully issued court orders.

00:03:27.640 So the fact that they're defying the court orders directly has bad consequences.

00:03:33.620 USAID still being shut has bad consequences.

00:03:36.540 Those those funding halts still have bad consequences.

00:03:41.860 But categorically, the most important thing here is their willingness to defy the courts, because

00:03:49.040 that is the ultimate autocratic breakthrough.

00:03:51.520 A declaration that the rule of law does not apply to them, that it cannot constrain anything

00:03:57.940 they want to do.

00:03:59.620 That is worse than any one outcome, right?

00:04:02.520 That that is a forever decision.

00:04:04.460 That means nothing anyone else wants.

00:04:07.300 And no court ever rules will ever again have any impact on what our government wants to

00:04:13.820 do to us.

00:04:16.220 That is a category of its own.

00:04:19.720 That is the key to autocratic breakthrough.

00:04:22.220 And that is where we find ourselves on the precipice, looking over the edge tonight.

00:04:31.740 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:04:37.040 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:04:42.240 I got a free shot.

00:04:43.540 All these networks lying about the people.

00:04:46.540 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:04:48.440 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:04:49.620 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop

00:04:52.380 it.

00:04:52.580 It's going to happen.

00:04:53.840 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:04:57.240 MAGA media.

00:04:58.580 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:05:03.980 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:05:07.800 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:05:13.980 War Room.

00:05:15.000 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:05:17.060 Bannon.

00:05:19.620 Good morning.

00:05:24.220 Welcome to the War Room.

00:05:25.160 Dave Bratt sitting in with the great Stephen K.

00:05:27.780 Bannon.

00:05:28.320 We've got a heck of a show for you.

00:05:30.320 Rachel Maddow saying we're going over the precipice.

00:05:34.060 We're going over the edge.

00:05:36.500 We've got Mike Davis first to respond and to give us an overview of what does this really

00:05:41.800 mean, right?

00:05:42.400 We can go over the details on USAID.

00:05:45.180 We've been covering all that, the grotesque spending.

00:05:49.200 They'll never tell you that the people sent to Guantanamo may have committed heinous crimes.

00:05:53.900 And then they talk about misinformation.

00:05:56.260 The left, everybody knows the timeline going back to Trump 16.

00:06:01.100 The Washington Post was doing disinformation.

00:06:03.920 51 intelligence officers with the Steele dossier putting up false information.

00:06:09.900 Judges, Steve Bannon in jail.

00:06:12.080 Peter Navarro in jail.

00:06:13.420 Trump assassination attempts.

00:06:15.400 And Rachel's just now noticing that there may be a few issues with our legal system and our

00:06:21.660 justice system.

00:06:23.060 And later in the show is some interesting commentary from Joe and Mika this morning on

00:06:28.900 their show about the decline of religion and that some people are replacing religion with

00:06:34.180 politics.

00:06:35.440 On the conservative side of the ledger, all political views are my own.

00:06:40.160 There's a bit of truth than that.

00:06:42.140 But I'd love to know what the religion of the left is.

00:06:44.540 They didn't quite get to that.

00:06:45.760 Hey, Joe, for tomorrow's show, please let us know what the religion that they had Douthat

00:06:50.500 on and Douthat's Catholic.

00:06:51.920 And so that was good to hear.

00:06:53.020 And he said, I'd suggest you take a peek first at the mainstream religions, you know,

00:06:57.940 in the creeds and all that kind of stuff, which is nice.

00:07:00.080 That's good.

00:07:01.360 But I'm dying to know, Joe, over there on the left, I know you claim to be an Alabama 0.96

00:07:06.200 Baptist or something like that.

00:07:08.300 But what's the left?

00:07:09.320 What's the religion of the left?

00:07:10.360 That all has to do with the moral framing of the issues we're going to talk about all

00:07:15.360 day today.

00:07:16.040 And it's Stephen K.

00:07:16.740 Bannon covers all day.

00:07:18.640 And so with that, I want to go over to Mike Davis.

00:07:24.420 Article.

00:07:25.580 He's just doing unbelievable work.

00:07:27.540 I saw him yesterday with one of our friends working on antitrust.

00:07:31.920 I'm trying to come up with that acronym as well.

00:07:33.900 But just incredible work.

00:07:36.820 But Mike, give us an overview of where do we stand?

00:07:40.380 These courts just, you know, back a year ago when we were we didn't have the presidency,

00:07:46.680 we're, you know, putting our folks in jail.

00:07:51.020 Now they're talking about justice.

00:07:52.660 And now their judges just seem to be able to after the most grotesque violations of USAID

00:07:59.180 have been shown, they're blocking the chief magistrate, as you and Steve Bannon put it.

00:08:05.720 And I want to know, where is the pushback against these rogue judges if they do go rogue?

00:08:11.640 Mike Davis.

00:08:12.660 Well, they have gone rogue.

00:08:14.060 They've become activist judges who think it's their job to resist President Trump and the

00:08:20.800 American people.

00:08:21.520 President Trump campaigned on the fact that he's going to set up Doge, bring on board Elon

00:08:28.760 Musk and bring much needed reforms to the executive branch, cutting waste, fraud and abuse.

00:08:36.700 And the American people like what they heard.

00:08:39.620 And they elected President Trump with an overwhelming electoral mandate.

00:08:44.420 312 electoral votes, all seven swing states.

00:08:48.580 And President Trump is doing the unthinkable in Washington, D.C.

00:08:52.380 He's actually doing what he said he would do in the campaign.

00:08:56.320 And you have these activist judges trying to stop President Trump from exercising his core

00:09:03.900 Article II executive powers.

00:09:06.680 President Trump is not trying to steal legislative powers from Congress like Joe Biden did with

00:09:13.340 his student loan forgiveness illegal plan.

00:09:16.140 President Trump is not trying to steal judicial power from the judiciary, from federal judges.

00:09:21.820 President Trump is exercising his core constitutional powers under Article II.

00:09:28.180 And that includes, for example, telling foreign service officers at USAID serving overseas that

00:09:35.740 they have to come home within 30 days.

00:09:38.140 That is absolutely within his power as the chief executive officer and especially the commander

00:09:44.260 in chief under Article II.

00:09:46.320 And you have this activist judge, even a Trump-appointed judge, Judge Carl Nichols on the D.C.

00:09:51.180 district court, a uniparty judge, a big mistake by President Trump in his first term, telling

00:09:56.420 the president that 30 days is not long enough for Carl Nichols.

00:10:00.400 So he has to give these USAID employees six or nine months or whatever Carl Nichols thinks is the

00:10:07.100 appropriate time because apparently Carl Nichols thinks he's the commander in chief instead of a

00:10:12.060 district court judge in D.C.

00:10:14.080 You have a judge telling the president and his secretary of the treasury they can't look at payments in the

00:10:22.620 treasury system.

00:10:23.420 They can't look at the money being spent at the Department of Treasury so they can find waste,

00:10:28.760 fraud and abuse.

00:10:29.700 That is clearly unconstitutional if the president of the United States, his White House staff,

00:10:35.800 including Elon Musk, and especially his treasury secretary, can't look at payments at the

00:10:41.200 Treasury Department.

00:10:42.060 Hey, Mike, stop, stop, stop on that one right there.

00:10:45.780 Let's go slow-mo on there, right?

00:10:48.340 So Article III project, Article I, II and III, co-equal, co-equal branches of our government.

00:10:55.680 The courts go rogue and say the secretary of the treasury can't do the treasury, can't do his job,

00:11:04.320 like you just said.

00:11:05.700 What is the recourse right there?

00:11:07.800 Without having to wait years of litigation, where does the co-equal part come in here?

00:11:15.180 Yeah, I mean, you have federal judges trying to sabotage the president, exercising his core

00:11:23.240 executive power under Article II of the Constitution, looking at treasury payments for waste, fraud

00:11:29.460 and abuse.

00:11:30.000 That is clearly within the president's not only constitutional powers, his constitutional duty

00:11:35.360 to take care that our laws are faithfully executed.

00:11:39.120 And that includes appropriations, making sure that money is not being misspensed.

00:11:43.820 There's not waste, fraud and abuse.

00:11:45.140 That's the president's job to take care, right, under Article II.

00:11:49.380 And you have these judges saying that the president can't look at payments from the treasury.

00:11:54.840 That is absurd.

00:11:56.280 And what needs to happen is the Trump Justice Department needs to seek emergency relief from

00:12:02.760 the Court of Appeals, ASAP, and give the Court of Appeals a deadline that if you don't respond

00:12:08.720 to this by a date certain, we're going to the emergency docket of the Supreme Court of the

00:12:14.420 United States.

00:12:15.040 And I would tell the Supreme Court justices that this is a constitutional crisis that these

00:12:21.820 activist judges have created.

00:12:24.820 And if the Supreme Court of the United States-

00:12:27.020 What's the time frame on that?

00:12:28.540 What's the time frame on that docket?

00:12:30.200 I would give this less than a week.

00:12:34.280 This is such an abuse of the president's powers.

00:12:37.920 He can't move overseas foreign officials back to the United States.

00:12:41.800 He can't look at treasury payments.

00:12:43.760 These activist judges are doing resistance.

00:12:47.520 So the Supreme Court-

00:12:48.300 Hey, let me ask you another-

00:12:50.320 Yeah, go ahead.

00:12:50.940 I got a similar question.

00:12:53.540 You know, JFK, back when the technocrats actually had a conscience and wanted to do some

00:12:59.980 good in the world, set up USAID, right?

00:13:03.580 And so no problem with a president setting up USAID.

00:13:07.780 But when it goes corrupt, for some reason, now the president can't take down USAID, right?

00:13:14.060 How do you explain that logic where the president has enough power to set up an agency, but the

00:13:18.760 presidency, Article 2, doesn't have the power to take down an agency?

00:13:21.900 And there could be a reason.

00:13:24.700 Did it become law in the meantime?

00:13:26.740 Did Congress and the Senate put it into law?

00:13:29.300 What's the logic there?

00:13:30.860 So the USAID was created by executive order.

00:13:35.060 Now they say this executive order was carrying out a statute.

00:13:38.560 I don't read the statute that way.

00:13:40.100 I think that USAID was created by executive order.

00:13:42.940 So if you can create something by executive fiat, you can take something down by executive

00:13:48.220 fiat.

00:13:48.720 But separate from that, even if the issue is not whether you can take down USAID, the

00:13:55.220 issue is, is this judge said the president can't recall USAID foreign officers back to

00:14:01.340 the United States within six or nine months, whatever Carl Nichols, Commander-in-Chief Carl

00:14:06.180 Nichols thinks is the appropriate time.

00:14:07.760 That is a clear sabotage of the president's core Article 2 powers under the Constitution.

00:14:15.180 It is wholly unacceptable.

00:14:17.220 It is extraordinarily dangerous to hobble the Commander-in-Chief like this.

00:14:22.580 And so the Supreme Court has to fix this.

00:14:25.000 And if they don't, Congress needs to take a sledgehammer to the judiciary.

00:14:29.560 Go do oversight, cut their funding.

00:14:33.600 Yeah, very good.

00:14:34.160 Back with Mike Davis after the break.

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00:17:45.880 I want to go back to Mike Davis.

00:17:48.140 Any summary comments on the courts?

00:17:50.540 But then also notes on our superstars going through the Senate process.

00:17:56.300 Right now, Tulsi Gabbard, boy, are they sweating bullets.

00:18:01.780 They do not want her to be the voice of truth in front of President Trump on NSC.

00:18:07.240 They're sweating.

00:18:08.620 And Rachel Bovard, I forgot to give her a shout out yesterday. 0.57

00:18:12.100 She's another truth teller, right?

00:18:13.940 Our side, we've got so many great people.

00:18:17.240 And then, of course, RFK Jr. and the health revolution, right?

00:18:22.120 The kids are sick.

00:18:22.900 There's incredible rises in disease.

00:18:26.300 And they want to pay attention on the left to asterisks and details in the past or whatever instead of the healthy American people.

00:18:33.320 And then, finally, our very own Kash Patel, right?

00:18:36.460 His writing and unearthing of the crimes committed by the government gangsters are stunning.

00:18:44.800 And so, Mike, where do we stand with these three superstars?

00:18:47.760 Well, I would say this.

00:18:49.420 The summary on the courts, I would tell these activist judges that if you try to block the president's Article II executive powers,

00:18:58.060 if you try to block the electoral mandate president received on November 5th, you are going to feel a backlash from the Article III project.

00:19:06.740 We're going to make sure that Congress does aggressive oversight, including using the power of the purse.

00:19:13.080 And if you think that you're going to meddle with the president's staffing of the executive branch, maybe you can do your jobs without law clerks, for example, if Congress cuts off your funding.

00:19:24.500 When you lose your legitimacy with the American people, you're going to lose your political support.

00:19:29.860 You're going to lose your funding.

00:19:31.380 So you should think long and hard about that, activist judges, if you want to keep poking the bear.

00:19:37.020 And it's not going to turn out well for the federal judiciary.

00:19:40.340 And I would have a message to the Chief Justice John Roberts.

00:19:43.100 I know you care very much about the legitimacy of the federal judiciary.

00:19:48.380 And so in your job as the Chief Justice with oversight, caretaking authority over the federal judiciary, it's time for you to step up.

00:19:57.200 It's time for the Supreme Court to use the emergency docket when the case comes to the court and end this radical assault by these activist judges on the president's core Article II powers.

00:20:10.460 So that's what I have to say to these activist judges.

00:20:13.900 As for these confirmations, we have done a very effective job on the war room, teaming up with the Article III project to give these senators an attitude adjustment, a much-needed attitude adjustment.

00:20:29.100 When President Trump came into office and wanted to nominate his cabinet, some of these senators thought it was their job to pick the president's cabinet, and it is not.

00:20:38.800 The president is entitled to the cabinet nominee he wishes to have so long as they're qualified.

00:20:45.280 Every one of these cabinet nominees are qualified.

00:20:48.680 If someone says that they're disqualified because of personal misconduct, it's their job to come forward with clear and convincing public testimony, right, and other evidence to prove that someone is disqualified from personal misconduct or for another reason.

00:21:04.240 That's not happening. They tried to do that Me Too presumption of guilt, that political drive-by shooting like they did to Kavanaugh.

00:21:11.440 They tried to do it to Pete Hegseth. It did not work.

00:21:14.160 And it's not going to work from any of these nominees because the Article III project and the war room posse is on high alert.

00:21:20.180 And we need to finish the job. We have been very successful in getting the war room posse to call home state senators and email home state senators by going to article3project.org, article3project.org, and taking action.

00:21:34.940 We have three more big nominees we have to get over the finish line. 0.60

00:21:38.660 We have to get Tulsi over the finish line for a director of national intelligence.

00:21:42.900 We have to get RFK over the finish line for health and human services, and we have to get Kash Patel over the finish line for the FBI.

00:21:50.720 These are bold, bipartisan reformers, and we need to get them in office.

00:21:55.340 Everyone said they were dead on arrival when President Trump nominated them.

00:21:59.880 And then three days after the war room lit up the Senate with Article III project, they said, when can they start?

00:22:07.000 And so let's run them through the finish line. 0.93

00:22:10.160 Go to article3project.org and contact your senators on all three of these great bipartisan nominees.

00:22:17.920 Yeah, Mike, hey, I want a little commentary from you.

00:22:21.240 Wall Street Journal has an article out.

00:22:23.200 But the headline is, OK, Steve Bannon's freewheeling show is the hottest stop on D.C.'s media circuit.

00:22:32.440 I think you were up in the tent when they wrote this on Inauguration Day by Maggie Severins.

00:22:38.580 But then she kind of gets a little flippant through this thing.

00:22:41.680 And she says, you know, Steve just, you know, rants and it's random and it's a bunch of 20-year-olds.

00:22:48.480 Why don't you give a little correction to Maggie on her reporting so she can get it? 0.90

00:22:54.500 You know, why is it that U.S. senators all want to come by the show like she notes?

00:22:58.940 And U.S. congressmen and world leaders and Steve's got on every secretary that's now in the administration coming out.

00:23:06.200 How can this be on just this freewheeling thing she describes?

00:23:09.600 And then also I just want to give a shout out to you, Cameron, the producer.

00:23:14.560 She just treats it like a bunch of 20 – he's the producer of one of the biggest political podcasts in the country.

00:23:20.540 Bannon is a genius.

00:23:23.020 Natalie Winters has been doing China research.

00:23:25.760 Euron, Mo, Grace, everybody, right?

00:23:28.920 These so-called 20-year-olds have somehow produced something magical and powerful and valuable to the American people, and that's why it's become a powerhouse.

00:23:42.000 So give a couple words and receipts as to what you think – what has Bannon put together here?

00:23:47.440 And why does the Wall Street Journal feel need to be a little flip about these things?

00:23:51.280 Well, I would say to Cameron Wallace, don't worry.

00:23:54.520 Grace will come and protect you.

00:23:55.980 She's tough, so she'll come and fight you, Cameron.

00:23:58.920 But I would say this about the War Room.

00:24:00.860 I am probably the biggest media whore on the Trump side of the aisle.

00:24:06.200 I've done over 4,500 media hits supporting and defending President Trump since the Mar-a-Lago raid.

00:24:12.900 I've gone on CNN.

00:24:14.060 I've gone on BBC last night.

00:24:15.960 I've been on Fox.

00:24:17.340 I've been on just about every program.

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00:25:18.940 Yeah, Mike, thanks for being with us.

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00:25:58.540 Great.

00:25:59.160 Thanks, Mike.

00:25:59.840 Thanks.

00:26:00.300 Thanks very much.

00:26:01.340 Mark Mitchell, you with us, Mark?

00:26:03.760 Yeah, I'm here.

00:26:05.240 Absolutely.

00:26:05.860 There he is.

00:26:06.420 Man, I have some good news for you, too.

00:26:07.880 I'm telling you what, the public opinion is lit right now.

00:26:10.480 Things are changing faster than I ever expected.

00:26:13.980 That's what I want.

00:26:14.820 I've been seeing some polling.

00:26:16.280 That's why I wanted to talk to you today.

00:26:18.220 I've been seeing 70% approval for Trump on keeping his promises and some things like that.

00:26:24.500 But you're the expert.

00:26:26.020 Lead us through for a minute, and then I'm going to read a couple ads, and then we're going to bring you back after the break.

00:26:31.460 Yeah, what's incredible is that number you cited actually came from a legacy media outlet.

00:26:36.180 That's what's incredible.

00:26:37.000 Once you cut off their USAID funding, mysteriously, all of a sudden, the numbers look like Rasmussen reports.

00:26:44.100 And I'll tell you what, Donald Trump's approval rating is pretty good right now.

00:26:47.040 It's 53% today, and it's on the upswing.

00:26:49.660 And that's incredible because people are watching what the legacy media is calling chaos, and they don't see it.

00:26:55.520 This is what they voted for.

00:26:56.920 People are happier now than at almost any point in time in our polling as measured by right direction.

00:27:01.260 And so people are watching this, and they are happy.

00:27:06.180 Yeah, that's good.

00:27:07.400 Give us the next couple bullet points you'll share so people can think about them over the break.

00:27:12.860 What are the next couple bullets?

00:27:15.540 Well, so what we're bringing out today is favorability of Doge and Elon Musk because it looked like everything they threw at Donald Trump over the last eight years hasn't worked.

00:27:25.960 His approval rating is higher than ever.

00:27:27.480 And believe it or not, there were more people that strongly disapproved of Donald Trump back in January of 2017 than they do today.

00:27:34.780 But guess what?

00:27:35.440 Elon Musk is almost as popular as Trump.

00:27:38.120 His net approval is only two points less right now.

00:27:40.700 And when we asked whether people support or oppose Doge going in and cutting government waste, it's plus 11, plus 11.

00:27:48.600 They're more popular than the Walt Disney Company is.

00:27:51.880 Unbelievable.

00:27:52.360 His favorability is high while cutting spending.

00:27:56.920 That is a cultural sea change.

00:28:00.400 Back with Mark in a minute.

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00:28:16.500 So $2 trillion extra debt every year for 10 years.

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00:28:22.180 $24 trillion more, actually, according to CBO.

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00:31:35.480 All right, we are back with Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen Polling.

00:31:39.240 Mark had courage back a couple years ago to be coming on the War Room as a pollster when everyone else was hiding under their desks.

00:31:49.160 And not only did he have courage, he comes on with a smile and everybody likes him and he's got the story straight.

00:31:55.700 He was correct in the polling and that's why we love having him on the War Room.

00:31:59.500 So, Mark, just keep us up to date.

00:32:02.160 I ran, you know, on debt and deficits and whatever, 10, 12 years ago.

00:32:06.500 And, you know, it was like pulling teeth and going to the dentist.

00:32:09.240 What's changed with Elon and Doge and all this stuff that Americans now know something?

00:32:16.520 What are you reading in the tea leaves there in the polling data?

00:32:20.760 The entire political context in America that we've had for the last 50 years has changed in the last month.

00:32:27.500 We are now at the end of the fourth turning.

00:32:30.140 We thought it was going to be World War III.

00:32:32.120 We thought it was going to be war with China.

00:32:33.560 But it looks like it might be the geopolitical and domestic implications of our entire government being corrupt.

00:32:39.560 I mean, we knew it was bad.

00:32:41.260 I don't think anybody had any idea how bad it was.

00:32:45.000 And just think about people like Mitt Romney who ran as a debt hawk.

00:32:49.400 And every time they talk about, well, are we going to be able to make meaningful budget cuts?

00:32:53.420 It was always like, well, you know, gee, we're probably going to have to talk about entitlement reform.

00:32:58.340 Turns out they stole my kid's Social Security in order to fund an entire massive network of grift and kickbacks and funding black operations. 0.98

00:33:08.880 It's evil.

00:33:10.120 It's disgusting and evil.

00:33:11.980 And all of those people are silent right now.

00:33:14.340 And so we're in a new wave of independent journalists because I didn't ask for this job.

00:33:19.040 I'd rather be polling.

00:33:20.060 But our videos brought in more money than our polling did this presidential cycle.

00:33:24.440 It's absolutely incredible.

00:33:25.780 And that's because people have been lied to so long.

00:33:27.980 So what I think the future is going to be, this is a lot for the snake to choke down.

00:33:33.380 Americans are happy right now.

00:33:34.740 I think what's happening is it's like the meme where the guy's standing in the corner and then everybody's dancing and ignoring him.

00:33:40.980 The guy standing in the corner is the Democrat Party in the mainstream media right now, and Americans are dancing.

00:33:46.160 But the problem is, is like we probably have to get into a future where a significant number of these people go to jail or it's going to happen again.

00:33:53.260 There needs to be major structural reforms so that there's accountability and an oversight.

00:33:58.080 And again, going back to the fourth turning, it's all playing out.

00:34:02.160 One of the key figures is that there will be a passing of a torch to a new generation.

00:34:07.420 And I'll tell you, the people in D.C. are just not prepared for what this new normal is.

00:34:12.240 Just a year ago, two years ago, you know, they'll be negotiating these debt deals and it'll be behind closed doors.

00:34:18.040 And it's like, oh, it's 3,000 pages and there's a whole lot of pork in it.

00:34:22.280 Well, guess what?

00:34:22.940 Every single one of those people, their pork projects are going to be highlighted all over Twitter.

00:34:27.300 They're going to be absolutely blasted in the face by Vox Populi on Twitter.

00:34:33.260 Nicole Shanahan is going to run primaries against them. 0.84

00:34:36.680 We're going to know how much money they got through USAID.

00:34:39.880 We've seen nothing like this yet.

00:34:41.600 I was joking that I think the people do need some way to grasp at the enormity of what they've been witnessing.

00:34:48.980 And it was kind of like an offhand joke.

00:34:50.660 But I think out of that CBS legal case, Trump should negotiate taking over 60 minutes as prime time slot.

00:34:58.040 And they should run the Doge Prentice, a highly produced show exploring the depths of corruption in the U.S. government.

00:35:06.160 I mean, think about all of the countries who we were conducting color revolutions with this money.

00:35:11.020 And all of a sudden, the spigot gets cut off and is laid bare.

00:35:14.080 Laid bare for all to see.

00:35:15.480 And now they're going to try and focus it like – I'm telling you they're trying to screw themselves up into a rebellion.

00:35:21.460 You can see searches for the word constitutional crisis.

00:35:24.220 Just in the last day, tick up.

00:35:25.740 They're trying these psyops again, and it's not going to work on people.

00:35:28.800 And what they're going to try and do is the kabuki theater with the government shutdown.

00:35:32.080 And I can tell you this.

00:35:33.720 Here is my message to Republicans in D.C. today.

00:35:39.020 Americans want you to shut down the government.

00:35:41.420 Now, we don't have numbers from like this month, but we've asked this over and over and over again.

00:35:45.920 Which would you prefer?

00:35:47.140 Congress avoid government shutdown by authorizing spending at a higher level, kick the can, or a partial government shutdown until they can agree to cut spending and it's 56 percent cut to 34 percent kick the can.

00:36:00.860 And this was like a year ago.

00:36:02.360 Things are much more dire than now.

00:36:03.940 And we're talking Republicans at 73 percent to 22, and independents at 56 to 30.

00:36:09.820 Even Democrats are roughly split.

00:36:12.140 And then we also asked the last time the government was shut down, how much of an impact did it have on your personal life?

00:36:17.320 And almost nine in ten Americans say little or no impact.

00:36:20.540 So I'd say bring it.

00:36:22.200 You have Chuck Schumer out there holding the shutdown over Republicans' heads.

00:36:26.520 Chuck Schumer should be going to sleep at night in a cold sweat thinking about what would happen if the government got shut down.

00:36:34.860 Because I think that what should happen is doors should just be in there behind closed doors ripping things out, branch and stem.

00:36:40.840 So I think the landscape's changed.

00:36:44.220 Yeah.

00:36:45.020 Yeah.

00:36:45.580 Let me ask you a follow-up to that because I agree with the analysis 100 percent.

00:36:50.380 And then, you know, Joe Scarborough, you know, they're semi-clever in the morning.

00:36:55.020 They're catching out of this thing called religion on the left.

00:36:58.680 They know they got a huge problem with religion, right?

00:37:02.020 Black, brown, Hispanic, blue-collar workers, cultural issues.

00:37:06.920 And so, you know, I did economics my whole life.

00:37:09.860 And the Judeo-Christian West, all the countries in European West grew first and fastest and led the world, right?

00:37:18.540 Due to rule of law, private property rights, the Protestant work ethic, et cetera, right?

00:37:25.900 Moral values and virtues that all of our founders took for granted.

00:37:29.640 So Doge is cool because Elon's cool.

00:37:32.520 And there's all this cool stuff attached to it right now with the big tech titans.

00:37:37.160 But the question is, what do you see from the poll?

00:37:42.060 Are Americans going to be able to withstand this, right?

00:37:44.860 I just went over the debt, right?

00:37:46.060 The debt's going to be $60 trillion in 10 years.

00:37:48.920 And so this isn't some cute little thing that we're just going to do for a year, right?

00:37:53.560 This is going to be longstanding pain that you have said is evil.

00:37:58.200 The kids in Chicago are reading at the 12 percent literacy rate, third grade, poor kids, right?

00:38:03.540 No human capital, capital we sent abroad.

00:38:06.560 We have huge structural corrections to make to avoid a lost decade or two.

00:38:12.380 Hopefully, that's the good scenario.

00:38:14.580 And so what are you seeing in the data?

00:38:16.520 Do you see anything about our ability to sustain this long run?

00:38:22.200 Well, what I can tell you now is I think Americans are hungry for this.

00:38:25.960 You brought it back to religion.

00:38:27.820 And let me first tell you that Americans are a very religious people.

00:38:32.080 And even though you've heard a lot of headlines about de-churching, in my opinion, we ask questions.

00:38:38.700 And 72 percent of Americans would agree with this statement.

00:38:41.480 Say yes, like literally not somewhat agree, but like they say yes, that Jesus Christ is the son of God who came to earth to forgive our sins.

00:38:48.940 And so maybe less people are coming to church.

00:38:51.220 And maybe the problem is one we have of institutional rot or cultural decay.

00:38:55.860 But it isn't religion.

00:38:57.200 And I would say this to the Democrats or the swamp creatures.

00:39:00.700 John 2.15.

00:39:02.340 So he made a whip out of cords and drove all of them from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. 0.99

00:39:06.960 And he scattered the coins and the money changers and overturned their tables.

00:39:10.500 This is – listen.

00:39:12.600 Justice is a very big part of Christianity.

00:39:16.520 This is righteous fury.

00:39:19.560 This is righteous fury because you're an economist.

00:39:23.120 You've heard time and time again how every election is about the economy.

00:39:27.000 30 years ago it was about the economy.

00:39:28.700 40 years ago it was about the economy.

00:39:30.180 Well, this one was about the economy as well.

00:39:32.780 But it was also about the fact that 64 percent thought our Department of Justice was weaponized.

00:39:37.840 60 percent said the media was enemy of the people.

00:39:40.260 Only 30 percent trust the federal government.

00:39:42.360 I think we had a number close to 70 percent that thought the FBI was weaponized at the top starting in D.C.

00:39:49.020 And only 27 percent of people say they were safer than they were four years ago.

00:39:54.460 Only 35 percent of Americans say that today's children will be better off.

00:39:58.900 This is literally our taxpayer money stolen and weaponized against us.

00:40:03.540 And then they pissed on us and told us it was raining.

00:40:06.280 They built an entire multibillion dollar, multi-hundreds of billion of dollars.

00:40:12.360 This is a mechanism to oppress the masses, to literally lie to us.

00:40:17.540 And unfortunately it corrupted the minds of many people.

00:40:20.340 But I think thankfully that number is shrinking.

00:40:22.860 I think a lot of people's will were broken.

00:40:26.500 Good.

00:40:26.880 Hey, I love it.

00:40:28.120 I could stay on this theme all day.

00:40:30.480 The Judeo-Christian West. 0.58

00:40:32.080 And, you know, people get confused.

00:40:33.260 Jesus, people need to read the good book again.

00:40:35.520 He was not, hey, buddy, let's go out for a Starbucks.

00:40:39.620 He was tough on his disciples, tough on his friends.

00:40:42.360 And in the tradition, he's the son of God, right?

00:40:46.100 He was preexistent with God the Father in the Old Testament, too.

00:40:50.320 People get confused and put him only at 30 AD.

00:40:53.600 He was with us from the creation to the end of time.

00:40:57.900 And so we'll get into that deeper a little later.

00:41:01.040 But Mark Rasmussen, thanks for sharing the polling and tying it all together like the War Room loves to do.

00:41:07.880 Thank you, brother.

00:41:09.480 Happy to be here.

00:41:10.100 All right.

00:41:11.780 I think we have the Federal Reserve chairman.

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00:42:47.060 ...rates, particularly the Treasury, the 10-year Treasury, 30-year Treasury, for example.

00:42:50.620 And those are high for reasons not particularly closely related to Fed policy.

00:42:56.400 They may remain high.

00:42:57.900 I think, you know, there's a...

00:42:59.940 Once we lower rates and kind of rates return to a lower level, mortgage rates will come down.

00:43:04.700 I don't know when that will happen.

00:43:06.780 And even when it does happen, we're still going to have a housing shortage in many places.

00:43:11.080 Thank you.

00:43:11.500 Chairman Powell, thank you again for being here.

00:43:14.340 Thank you, ma'am.

00:43:15.660 Next will be Senator Kennedy.

00:43:18.780 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:43:19.940 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for being here.

00:43:23.720 Okay, great.

00:43:25.200 My friend, our ranking member, said that you are knuckling under to the big bank lobbyists.

00:43:34.180 Is that true?

00:43:35.580 No.

00:43:36.040 It seems to me that the big picture should not go unnoticed.

00:43:47.960 Do you recall a year or two ago when inflation was raging?

00:44:00.820 I think its peak was by 9%.

00:44:03.100 Many economists and other experts, based in part on history, said that you were going to have to provoke high unemployment

00:44:21.200 and put our country into a recession in order to get inflation down.

00:44:29.840 Do you recall that?

00:44:31.360 Very, very well.

00:44:32.380 Are we in a recession?

00:44:36.080 Are we in a recession?

00:44:36.640 We are not.

00:44:39.660 Would you as an American trade places right now with Germany in terms of the economy?

00:44:47.600 No, I sure wouldn't.

00:44:50.320 How about China?

00:44:52.520 No.

00:44:53.440 Wouldn't trade places.

00:44:55.080 How about France?

00:44:57.380 No, thanks.

00:44:58.180 Things aren't perfect.

00:45:05.200 Inflation is obviously still sticky.

00:45:08.620 And loan rates are too high, which I want to talk about in a second.

00:45:15.160 But the fact is, knock on wood, we have experienced a soft landing, haven't we?

00:45:24.360 Not for me to say, really.

00:45:25.900 Well, have we experienced a hard landing?

00:45:30.200 No, we sure haven't.

00:45:30.880 Are we in a recession?

00:45:32.240 No, we're not.

00:45:33.160 I call that a soft landing.

00:45:38.800 And it seems to me that you and some of the ladies and gentlemen who are your colleagues at the Federal Reserve behind you deserve some credit for that.

00:45:49.600 Thank you.

00:45:50.240 I don't know why you don't take the credit.

00:45:57.160 Everybody else in Washington, D.C. does.

00:45:59.180 Again, I'm not saying things are perfect, but I never imagined that our landing could be this soft, albeit not perfect.

00:46:16.280 And I wanted to thank you and your colleagues for that effort.

00:46:21.340 You sure didn't get any help from Congress and our president on the fiscal side.

00:46:30.860 I don't expect you to comment on that.

00:46:32.520 You and the Federal Reserve can, to a large extent, control short rates, can't you?

00:46:39.360 Yes.

00:46:40.560 Through the Open Market Committee.

00:46:45.700 You can't control long rates, though, can you?

00:46:48.500 No, we can't.

00:46:49.400 Why is that?

00:46:52.680 So a lot of things go into long rates.

00:46:55.460 And one of them is the expected future short rate of Fed policy.

00:47:00.140 But many, many other things go in.

00:47:01.880 Expectations of inflation in the longer run, the sort of risks around the economy and around the budget deficit go into something called the term premium,

00:47:12.460 which is the part we can't explain when we do these decompositions.

00:47:17.720 And so, you know, it's set by supply and demand in the bond market at the long end.

00:47:21.980 And we're not particularly – we have some influence, but mostly not.

00:47:29.480 Many Americans are looking at short rates and looking at the Fed's behavior and how you reduce inflation,

00:47:37.360 but they don't seem – they don't see the long rates going down.

00:47:42.620 And obviously that –

00:47:43.540 All right.

00:47:44.220 There's Senator Kennedy, who I usually enjoy giving the Fed a little credit for a soft landing after printing $9 trillion.

00:47:52.860 So you start the fire, you put out the fire.

00:47:57.500 You got a supposedly this soft landing.

00:47:59.620 But we're running $2 trillion government spending deficits to make that soft landing happen.

00:48:07.840 So we're stealing from the kids, as Mark Mitchell just said.

00:48:11.960 Steve Bannon says the debt bomb is the nut.

00:48:15.980 It is the big thing.

00:48:18.180 And so let's go over that.

00:48:19.880 I agree with him, but I'm going to add one other big thing.

00:48:23.280 It's called economic growth, which we do not have.

00:48:26.200 I'm just going to give a few charts real quick to give an overview here of what's going on.

00:48:31.840 There is our debt.

00:48:32.900 To the far right, you see that dotted line going up?

00:48:35.780 That's where we are right now.

00:48:37.600 We have basically the same debt percentage level as during World War II over there to the far left,

00:48:44.240 except no World War II.

00:48:46.780 We've had to go out of our way with a deep state to create a disaster in the Ukraine, 0.99

00:48:52.100 which explains part of this just our terrible debt spending.

00:48:59.620 Let's go on to the next chart, Denver.

00:49:04.060 Here's CBO, right?

00:49:05.380 So they just came out with a debt explanation, right?

00:49:07.920 We're at $36 trillion in debt and at $24 trillion additional over the next 10 years, so $60 trillion.

00:49:14.660 And you got some folks saying we're going to grow our way out of this.

00:49:17.300 Well, here's CBO, and you know I've been putting up charts on productivity growth slowing for the past 70 years.

00:49:24.020 I put that chart up every time.

00:49:25.860 I'll probably show it at the end here real quick.

00:49:27.700 But here's CBO saying we have 2% growth, 2% GDP growth, 2% our economy growing at 2% for as far as the eye can see.

00:49:38.320 So something radical has to change that, right?

00:49:40.960 On this show, I've gone over the Nobel Prize-winning solo growth model.

00:49:46.000 If you don't change your capital stock, your human capital, meaning real capital and technological growth,

00:49:52.740 you will not change that GDP figure you're looking at right there.

00:49:55.960 It'll stay flat as a pancake.

00:49:57.800 So President Trump is doing what he can to bring manufacturing capital back to this country,

00:50:03.640 and it's a Herculean effort it will take.

00:50:06.940 Next chart, Denver.

00:50:08.120 This one just shows you kind of the rule of 72.

00:50:12.960 I don't know if you can read it all, but if you take the number 72 and divide it by a 2% growth rate,

00:50:19.120 it'll tell you how many years it takes for you to double your economy, right?

00:50:24.160 So 72 divided by any number you pick, say a 2% growth rate.

00:50:28.780 So that'll take about 35 years for our economy to double.

00:50:32.200 If you look down a bit to the 4% number there, and if you take 72 divided by 4, that gives you about 18.

00:50:42.220 So it only takes 18 years for your economy to double in size.

00:50:47.840 And so that's just called the rule of 72, and it works, right?

00:50:51.140 If you divide 72 by 7, it takes 10 years for your economy to double.

00:50:54.520 If you take 72 divided by 10, it takes only 7 years for your economy to double in size.

00:50:59.140 We're not going to hit those numbers.

00:51:00.660 It would be great to aim at 4% growth.

00:51:03.960 I doubt we get there, but with President Trump, we'll see.

00:51:07.260 If we get the animal spirits kicking.

00:51:08.880 All of this to show you how difficult this project is.

00:51:12.480 So say we're growing at 2%.

00:51:14.700 We double our economy in 35 years.

00:51:19.300 That means the economy right now is $25 trillion.

00:51:22.020 So you get another $25 trillion, right?

00:51:24.100 So you're up to $50 trillion, but the debt is currently $36 trillion.

00:51:28.160 So you could take all that additional growth and put it toward the debt,

00:51:32.700 and you still wouldn't pay off the debt.

00:51:34.180 And that's assuming you're not running $2 trillion deficits forever, right?

00:51:39.940 Even if you grow at 4%, right?

00:51:42.320 It takes you 18 years to double.

00:51:44.380 So your economy gets to $50 trillion in 18 years, which is certainly better.

00:51:49.460 But you're starting to see how difficult this is.

00:51:51.980 And so that's, I just wanted to give a slow-mo, right, on this idea.

00:51:56.160 Anyone is selling you, say, we're just going to lower taxes a little bit,

00:52:00.540 get regulations under control, and we're going to be growing at 4%.

00:52:04.180 Good luck.

00:52:06.000 We got a long, hard project in front of us.

00:52:09.700 It's doable, but we got to kick in on the spending, Doge.

00:52:13.320 That's why Steve's been going nuts on the spending reductions that are necessary

00:52:17.900 from Doge and from the Congress and Senate.

00:52:21.480 Wait till you see the budget reconciliation coming up.

00:52:25.580 Next chart, Denver, is just to show you in the next 10 years where interest payments fit in.

00:52:32.960 They're number two.

00:52:34.180 Social Security is up at the top.

00:52:36.120 And for the next decade, interest payments are second.

00:52:39.540 The second biggest spending category bigger than Medicare, bigger than non-defense discretionary,

00:52:45.720 bigger than Medicaid, bigger than defense.

00:52:49.160 So that's just money.

00:52:50.920 You all know how frustrating it is to see your mortgage payment and the principal you're paying

00:52:54.860 versus the interest payments just flying off into the air.

00:52:58.700 Next chart is productivity.

00:53:02.940 There's the leader of the world on productivity studies out at Northwestern, Bob Gordon.

00:53:09.620 Not sure if he likes being made famous on this show, but he's famous for a good reason.

00:53:13.640 There's productivity going from 5% or 6% way on the left.

00:53:17.080 Productivity is growing pretty good 70 years ago.

00:53:19.160 Now it's down to 2%.

00:53:21.480 And that's the chart I've been showing over and over and over.

00:53:26.500 So when productivity is down to 2%, guess what that gets you?

00:53:30.560 It gets you that number I just showed you from the CBO.

00:53:33.100 We're only going to grow at 2% for the next decade unless we change that productivity chart.

00:53:40.240 In the past, what has changed that?

00:53:42.920 Let's go to the next chart.

00:53:44.960 Folks don't seem to realize, but even the Democrats are bringing up the religious conversation.

00:53:50.680 What got us growth up to World War II?

00:53:54.940 What brought us those people with the long-run perseverance, the work ethic, the rule of law,

00:54:00.960 sacrifice for your family, the iconic African-American church, Hispanic faith, et cetera,

00:54:07.840 the war room posse right now, it's the Christian religion.

00:54:11.820 If you look on this chart, all of human history made $1,000 a year for all of human history.

00:54:18.380 Look at this chart by 1981.

00:54:20.200 All those yellow balls are what you call the Judeo-Christian West. 1.00

00:54:25.480 It's Western Europe along with the United States of America.

00:54:29.180 Predominantly Protestant and some Catholic countries in there.

00:54:32.620 The odds of that occurring randomly are 1 in 10,000.

00:54:37.140 That's Bradford DeLong at Berkeley University.

00:54:40.700 I doubt he's a Presbyterian.

00:54:42.340 I hope he is.

00:54:43.440 I doubt he's a Presbyterian, but he's one of the leaders in the growth field.

00:54:47.220 This is from a serious paper years ago, but nothing's going to change on that date, 1981.

00:54:54.280 So I'm just trying to put into context what this country has to do.

00:54:58.200 And getting back to religion, which is really getting back to faith, right?

00:55:02.200 It's not religiosity.

00:55:04.380 It's faith in God.

00:55:06.100 And that faith has done great things in this country.

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Bannon's War Room - February 11, 2025

Episode 4260： Constitutional Crisis Comes From Across The Aisle

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