Bannon's War Room - Episode 4607： WarRoom July 4th Special

00:00:00.000 The President recognizes Mr. Adams of Massachusetts.

00:00:12.000 Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, measures which will affect the lives of millions, born and unborn, are now before us.

00:00:42.000 We must expect a great expense of blood to obtain them.

00:00:50.000 But we must always remember that a free constitution of civil government cannot be purchased at too dear a rate, as there is nothing on this side of Jerusalem of greater importance to mankind.

00:01:12.000 My worthy colleague from Pennsylvania has spoken with great ingenuity and eloquence.

00:01:21.000 He has given you a grim prognostication of our national future.

00:01:27.000 But where he foresees apocalypse, I see hope.

00:01:33.000 I see a new nation ready to take its place in the world.

00:01:41.000 Not an empire, but a republic.

00:01:44.000 And a republic of laws, not men.

00:01:48.000 Gentlemen, we are in the very midst of revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of the world.

00:02:06.000 How few of the human race have ever had an opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children.

00:02:25.000 I am not without apprehensions, gentlemen.

00:02:33.000 But the end we have in sight is more than worth all the means.

00:02:38.000 I believe, sirs, that the hour has come.

00:02:50.000 My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it.

00:02:56.000 All that I have, all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready to stake upon it.

00:03:11.000 While I live, let me have a country.

00:03:20.000 A free country.

00:03:41.000 A free country.

00:03:46.000 A free country.

00:03:52.000 A free country.

00:03:56.000 A free country.

00:03:57.000 A free country.

00:03:59.000 A free country.

00:04:00.000 A free country.

00:04:01.000 A free country.

00:04:03.000 A free country.

00:04:06.000 A free country.

00:04:09.000 Oh, this is something altogether unexpected.

00:04:28.560 Not only a declaration of our independence, but of the rights of all men.

00:04:39.000 No, this is, this is, this is well said, sir.

00:04:43.940 Very, very well said.

00:04:46.740 The Christian king of Great Britain has waged cruel war against human nature itself in the 1.00

00:04:54.080 persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery 0.63

00:05:00.020 in another hemisphere.

00:05:01.120 Yes, you lay the evils of slavery at the feet of the king, but you say nothing of slavery

00:05:09.700 itself, sir.

00:05:10.720 Now, surely, if the trade is outlawed but ownership is not, then those unfortunate Negroes still 1.00

00:05:17.720 in servitude will become a more lucrative commodity.

00:05:22.320 Well, that's not what I intended, Dr. Franklin.

00:05:30.060 Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that neither

00:05:34.820 I nor any man has any immediate solution to the problem.

00:05:40.240 Oh, but it is no matter.

00:05:42.260 The issue before us is independence and not emancipation.

00:05:45.720 Dr. Franklin, this document is...

00:05:47.320 This is something, something our friends in the Congress will debate, but I would be very

00:05:52.700 surprised if they will countenance an attack on slavery.

00:05:59.180 No.

00:06:02.920 We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal, etc.

00:06:11.560 Sacred and undeniable.

00:06:20.600 Smacks of the pulpit.

00:06:24.780 Does it?

00:06:26.720 Ah.

00:06:29.800 These truths are self-evident, are they not?

00:06:38.380 Perhaps.

00:06:41.560 Self-evident, then.

00:06:47.720 Self-evident?

00:06:49.200 Self-evident.

00:06:50.300 Self-evident.

00:06:50.880 Self-evident.

00:06:55.600 Do not mistake me, sir.

00:06:57.340 I...

00:06:57.940 I share your sentiment.

00:07:02.840 Every single word was precisely chosen.

00:07:05.660 I assure you of that, Dr. Franklin.

00:07:09.220 Yes, but yours will not be the only hand in this document.

00:07:14.060 It cannot be.

00:07:16.100 They will try to mangle it, and they may succeed.

00:07:20.200 There may be expressions which I would not have inserted if I had drawn it up, but I will

00:07:25.700 defend every word of it.

00:07:27.340 Well, it's what I believe.

00:07:32.020 This is a marvelous invention, Mr. Jefferson.

00:07:39.820 Yes, I went through a number of variations.

00:07:43.120 This is by far the most successful.

00:07:46.060 Simplest is always the best.

00:07:47.500 It's two seats, and the top one swivels on rollers made from the window sash pulleys.

00:07:56.440 Oh, most ingenious.

00:07:58.060 Hmm.

00:07:58.520 Ha ha.

00:08:01.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:08:06.120 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:08:11.340 Here's the reason I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:08:15.540 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:08:17.540 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:08:19.020 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:08:21.660 It's going to happen.

00:08:22.940 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:08:26.340 MAGA media.

00:08:27.660 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:08:33.100 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:08:36.880 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:08:43.160 War Room.

00:08:43.700 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:08:46.160 Bannon.

00:08:54.200 It's Friday, 4th of July, the 4th of July in the year of our Lord, 2025.

00:08:58.640 It's Independence Day.

00:09:00.820 And of course, here, always on Independence Day and our other great civic holidays, we try

00:09:06.840 to get the music and the tempo right.

00:09:10.940 We're live today and honored to be doing this and thanking Real America's Voice and the complete

00:09:17.020 staff of Real America's Voice for making this happen.

00:09:19.120 We always open these days with footage or film or music that tries to bring back and so you can

00:09:30.220 commemorate actually what happened today throughout the morning commemoration.

00:09:35.040 We'll be playing clips from, I think, two masterpieces, HBO's series John Adams that was starring Paul Giamatti as John Adams.

00:09:44.820 The late and great Tom Wilkerson, a great British actor as Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

00:09:50.440 And of course, Stephen Delaney as Thomas Jefferson, who I think absolutely steals it.

00:09:56.780 And I don't say that as a Virginian.

00:09:58.520 Just an unbelievable performance.

00:10:00.380 All of them.

00:10:01.380 That's a masterpiece.

00:10:02.260 If you have not watched John Adams, I strongly recommend that you do it and do it with the family.

00:10:08.680 Also, we'll be taking clips from the Broadway classic and film, I think, from 1972, 1776.

00:10:19.900 We'll play that throughout the morning also.

00:10:22.700 Patrick K. O'Donnell will join me.

00:10:25.360 The simple reason is that I think it's what's lost in thinking about Independence Day and thinking about the 4th of July.

00:10:35.700 And John Adams brought it up there in his – that was his response at the beginning to John Dickinson of Pennsylvania.

00:10:45.780 Dickinson was a Quaker.

00:10:48.020 He was also what we call a loyalist.

00:10:50.020 He's the one in the deliberations that tried to make the case that they were Englishmen and they should try to work out some accommodation with the king and that negotiation and compromise were best.

00:11:02.420 Of course, they got it thrown back in their face by the crown consistently.

00:11:06.920 And that's John Adams saying, hey, we absolutely have to make a break.

00:11:09.580 And that led to the committee that was – drafted the Declaration of Independence.

00:11:15.640 That's really the lead writer was Thomas Jefferson, and there you see in the beginning of the editing process of which Dr. Franklin and John Adams helped him, they felt, clean it up a bit before put before the entire body.

00:11:31.640 Of course, there were many more edits after that, but the core of it is Thomas Jefferson's.

00:11:38.920 One thing to remember, it was a declaration of war.

00:11:42.020 It's a declaration of independence, but when you're part of an empire and you're saying, hey, upon further review, we're independent, you're going to war.

00:11:50.800 And Adams knew this.

00:11:52.120 All of them knew it.

00:11:52.780 But what is often lost in the teaching of the Declaration of Independence and our birthday on the 4th of July, 1776 is that that was a tremendous debate in a document that's lived through the ages and inspired people of all nations.

00:12:10.640 As Dr. Benjamin Franklin says right there, it's for all men.

00:12:14.400 And John Adams also says this is for all mankind, just not for the English colonists in North America at the time.

00:12:22.780 But the largest expeditionary force in history to date was actually landing in New York City at that time.

00:12:32.140 I believe they had already landed at Staten Island.

00:12:34.780 The beginning of it had already landed at Staten Island on the 2nd of July.

00:12:39.400 This would turn out to be over, I think, a couple of hundred warships and transport ships from the Royal Navy, which was an institution that England really rose to power around, its navy.

00:12:53.220 The British Army also was landing.

00:12:56.700 And in fact, just a couple of weeks after the signing of the Declaration, basically by early to mid-August, they were ready to get it on and essentially destroy the Continental Army and really take America back and beat down and crush the revolution.

00:13:12.320 In the first 90 days after the signing of the Declaration, my point, the founders and the founders of the revolutionary generation understood that this was going to have to resort to a fight.

00:13:26.940 And this fight would cause a river of blood.

00:13:30.100 And they were bound and determined to lead their countrymen in that fight.

00:13:34.720 And it wasn't just going to come from a bunch of smart lawyers and people that knew rhetoric writing a flowery document to inspire people.

00:13:43.640 They understood that this would have to stand the test of a long and brutal war, that war did not end until 1783.

00:13:55.380 And there were days, as I tell you, in our struggle, there were days that you could not see the sunlit uplands in the revolution.

00:14:06.760 In fact, in the first, from the time the British landed in Long Island and swept through, through the American Thermopylae that took place in Brooklyn, all the way to the American Dunkirk that took place at Brooklyn Heights, pushing us off Manhattan, then to New Jersey, and all the way back till we crossed the Delaware River back into Pennsylvania.

00:14:30.040 Those first 60, 90 days of battle looked very grim.

00:14:34.140 And Patrick K. O'Donnell, the greatest combat historian of his generation, will join us at the bottom of the hour.

00:14:40.740 It's Independence Day in the war room.

00:14:43.640 Stick around.

00:14:44.240 We're going to have music, film, clips, history, all of it, to commemorate the birth of this nation.

00:14:51.000 This July, there is a global summit of BRICS nations in Rio de Janeiro, the block of emerging superpowers, including China, Russia, India, and Persia, are meeting with the goal of displacing the United States dollar as the global currency.

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00:16:27.040 To celebrate our country's 249th birthday, we are getting new insight into what Americans think about where the country stands.

00:16:35.540 A new NPR PBS News mayor's poll found three-quarters of Americans feel that democracy is under serious threat.

00:16:43.120 And see politically motivated violence as a major problem.

00:16:46.260 You know, monarchy is easy.

00:16:48.280 Democracy is hard.

00:16:50.300 A monarchy is, okay, let's have daddy or mama take care of this. 1.00

00:16:55.920 And I don't have to think so much about it.

00:16:59.920 Democracy is incredibly difficult because it's about all of us.

00:17:04.840 You're a better person than I am, which is not hard, so don't get too cocky about it.

00:17:09.180 But think about it.

00:17:10.420 If we do the right thing 51% of the time, that's a pretty good day in terms of human nature.

00:17:18.240 And so why would a democracy be any different since it's the fullest expression of all of us?

00:17:23.800 Without meeting this test of citizenship, we will sacrifice so much to the rule of the strong. 0.91

00:17:34.320 And that's what democracy was supposed to protect us from doing, is falling prey to the whims and appetites of somebody who just happens to be stronger than we are in that particular moment.

00:17:46.780 And so when the founders, however flawed they were, when they gathered tomorrow in 1776, they knew they were signing their death warrant, that they were committing treason, that they could end up in the tower and worse.

00:18:04.820 And yet they fixed their names because they believed in that sentence that Jefferson had written, again, did not apply to everybody.

00:18:17.220 And we continue to work on to fulfill that promise that all of us are created equal.

00:18:23.880 And I believe we can judge every era of American life by the degree to which we have lived into the declaration or the degree to which we have fallen from it.

00:18:35.160 And I worry that we're moving away from it in this hour as opposed to toward it.

00:18:40.680 The good news is we can change course.

00:18:43.600 It just requires enough of us to decide to do the right thing.

00:18:47.340 Okay, this is after – we're a constitutional republic.

00:18:54.820 And you have to bifurcate because the left has a tendency to jam it and merge it all together.

00:19:02.780 The declaration of independence, the war itself, and then the post-war, what happened, and then bringing the country – doing the – drafting the constitution and having a structure that's become the permanent structure of the United States.

00:19:21.980 That took place over a broad swath of time in the lead-up to the revolution, post the French and Indian War, everything that led up to it that told Americans that we're not really represented by commons, we have a corrupt crown, that the crown, that the monarchy had corrupted commons.

00:19:40.980 That's much like people are saying, hey, corporations, big donors have corrupted what is the replica of the House of Commons, which is the House of Representatives, and of course the House of Lords being the United States Senate.

00:19:56.920 That many of us say that the grip of money of Wall Street and big tech has taken too big a grip into the imperial capital.

00:20:06.940 In fact, we call – I don't call it the imperial capital. It would be funny.

00:20:10.980 We have created an empire, something that the revolutionary generation and the founders, right?

00:20:17.540 If you take that broad swath of those, what, 10 or 20 years, warned us about and basically said we broke off from that.

00:20:27.340 We didn't want to be a part of that, and we don't think this country is relaying out a constitutional republic more structured after the Roman Republic

00:20:38.180 than the direct democracy of the Athenians, although the inspiration came from both, but we're a constitutional republic.

00:20:49.380 Those that keep saying democracy, democracy, democracy.

00:20:52.240 If you go back and look at the Bolshevik Revolution, you actually even look at elements of the French Revolution.

00:20:57.200 This is what the revolutionaries always toss out, democracy, democracy, democracy.

00:21:02.260 Of course, at the end of the day, they're not going to have a democracy for anybody.

00:21:06.200 The Bolsheviks were all very big in democracy at the beginning until they took control, a small minority by the way that took control,

00:21:13.040 and then led Russia into decades and decades and decades of just horror until they fell in 1989.

00:21:25.400 We have the same fight today, but Meechum and these guys, they're never going to admit that the tools of democracy are very powerful in the MAGA movement.

00:21:37.680 In fact, it's the way we came back from having an election stolen.

00:21:41.180 We came from behind, just to make sure that the history is at front of mind.

00:21:46.480 We came from behind out of nowhere to beat the Clinton mafia and the globalists in 16.

00:21:53.320 And they couldn't cotton to that.

00:21:57.680 They immediately started what I call the nullification project.

00:22:00.580 And now we know from CIA leaks and from things coming out, and I hope the Justice Department and the FBI are all over this,

00:22:07.960 that the whole Russian hoax was completely manufactured, totally manufactured, as we knew it was, 0.89

00:22:14.520 and actually spent millions of dollars individually, many of us being a drag through, not just the Mueller commission,

00:22:23.340 but also the House intelligence was Swifty Swift and Swalwell, Senate intelligence, all of it.

00:22:30.580 On something that was a total hoax because they were trying to nullify MAGA's first win.

00:22:36.140 Then in 2020, the big steal, absolutely stolen, not a question about it.

00:22:42.460 Now, it turns out, just like our win in 16 was providential, the big steal in 2020 was also God's will.

00:22:49.820 Why?

00:22:51.860 Because we then had to prove our resilience, our belief in this, our belief in Trump and Trumpism, in the MAGA movement,

00:23:01.100 and as importantly, President Trump's belief in himself, in this movement, and the basic foundation of America to come back.

00:23:11.240 Because he understood better than anyone, in January, in February, in March, and April of 2021,

00:23:19.640 when Rupert Murdoch sent out the email, said we're going to make him a non-person,

00:23:22.840 when Fox News, including Tel Aviv Levin and Hannity and all his buddies over at Fox,

00:23:28.960 basically kicked him to the curb to raise up Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley or whoever the next, 0.94

00:23:34.080 whoever they thought were going to be the next second coming of the neoliberal neocon,

00:23:41.540 of which they're still going to do.

00:23:42.620 That's still with us.

00:23:43.360 You can see this in this fiasco of the fight in the Senate and the House over the last couple of days.

00:23:49.020 That hasn't left.

00:23:50.480 That, in fact, I would argue is actually our biggest obstacle, the MAGA movement's obstacle.

00:23:57.040 But then the greatest comeback in American political history,

00:24:01.820 I would say the greatest comeback in all political history as far as democracy goes,

00:24:07.040 and if you look at the Pew study that just came out and broke it all down,

00:24:12.580 basically every demographic except for, wait for it, college-educated women, right, 1.00

00:24:18.560 are shifting to the MAGA movement, including African-American men, Hispanics, citizens,

00:24:24.060 are coming to the cause of Trump and coming to the MAGA movement.

00:24:27.540 That's democracy, and that's a constitutional republic, but you can't – you're not going to live with it

00:24:36.740 because you're trying to destroy it.

00:24:37.740 Let's just go to what's happened the last couple of weeks.

00:24:39.960 Are the MAGA movement 1,000 percent ecstatic and skipping around about the big, beautiful bill?

00:24:45.380 No.

00:24:45.640 Well, there's many flaws to that bill, but the power to unlock American capitalism – and you give it a shot.

00:24:55.160 And Scott Besson said it best on this show back in early 2024.

00:24:59.720 We have one last chance to have a supply-side tax cut to see if we can unlock the animal spirits of American capitalism.

00:25:06.880 And the big, beautiful bill had to take on a lot of deal baggage to get there. 1.00

00:25:13.420 But now we've got it, and we have to drive it.

00:25:15.600 We have to execute on that, all of it, from the trade policies and the tariffs to the ceiling of the border,

00:25:21.380 the deportation of illegal alien invaders to stop the competition of wages of the folks and the low-skilled wages. 0.70

00:25:29.960 Also, I think stopping all immigration for a while, including these HB1 visas and all these scams, all of it. 0.59

00:25:39.860 We just won through democracy.

00:25:41.200 That is democracy.

00:25:42.920 You saw the sausage being made.

00:25:44.780 The reason we played so much of it, we wanted to make sure the MAGA movement saw it in all of its kind of ugliness.

00:25:52.500 But that's democracy.

00:25:54.920 Democracy kind of down in the dirt, and you're doing your horse trading.

00:25:57.940 In some of the horse trades, you're not going to win every trade.

00:26:01.340 We didn't win every trade.

00:26:03.360 We didn't.

00:26:04.000 You know that.

00:26:06.060 But he got it done, even if it took the vote of the vice president, and we couldn't even get a majority of his own party,

00:26:11.660 but he got the vice president through the Constitution, through the geniuses of the foundation of the country, post-revolution,

00:26:19.980 that had gone through the revolution, had gone through the war, had seen how weak the Continental Congress was,

00:26:24.760 to see how weak the assembly we had post the war, how we needed something else.

00:26:32.260 And so we won in the Senate, and then the Senate bill not being perfect, guess what?

00:26:36.520 A lot of representatives hated on the bill and wanted to make changes, wanted to get it back to the House version.

00:26:42.680 They actually compromised at the end, because there were other things put forward that are going to happen.

00:26:48.660 Executive orders, rescissions, impoundments, everything that plays into the Constitution will be challenged by the courts, but will win.

00:26:56.280 And so that, they were not happy, but they were good enough to go ahead and say, let's go ahead and get this done.

00:27:01.900 Not one sentence, not one comma in the Senate bill was changed.

00:27:05.020 That's how it could get done yesterday.

00:27:06.940 And guess what?

00:27:09.160 Hakeem Jeffries.

00:27:10.460 The Democrats are a little bit getting their footing.

00:27:13.020 Hakeem Jeffries took, what, eight and a half or nine hours, set a record, laying out their case.

00:27:18.360 In the magic minute, fine.

00:27:20.780 That's part of the process.

00:27:22.960 But Meacham and these guys, oh, this is imperial, this is a king, we have no kings.

00:27:27.640 Keep arguing that.

00:27:28.900 I want you to continue that line of attack, because it's going to lead nowhere.

00:27:33.640 It's going to lead to a bigger win in 26.

00:27:35.220 It's going to lead to a bigger win in 28.

00:27:38.880 What Meacham and company should be focused on is what's happening to you, Meacham, and your other elites in a place called New York City, of something that you have created.

00:27:52.640 The Red-Green Alliance, in all its glory.

00:27:56.740 Islamic Neo-Marxism. 0.79

00:27:59.240 Right there, up in your grill.

00:28:00.840 And for the New York Post, when people say, oh, you can't talk about the Islamic party, just talk about socialism.

00:28:05.160 No, Murdoch, we're not taking the, we're not going to take the bit there.

00:28:09.100 This is a red-green alliance, and it's quite dangerous. 0.82

00:28:12.460 However, do not dismiss it.

00:28:15.000 And don't say, oh, we hope it wins, because we'll run against it.

00:28:19.360 As I said in the Financial Times today, there are more tears shed for answered prayers than unanswered.

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00:29:47.160 In the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them.

00:30:06.740 A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

00:30:15.580 We hold these truths to be self-evident and that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain un...

00:30:24.740 What's that word there?

00:30:32.980 Unalienable.

00:30:36.700 With certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

00:30:43.680 That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is in the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new government.

00:30:56.620 The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.

00:31:09.660 In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms.

00:31:14.280 Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.

00:31:17.620 A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

00:31:26.860 We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states.

00:31:43.680 That they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown.

00:31:47.980 And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

00:32:00.080 Bless you.

00:32:01.840 God save our American states! 0.99

00:32:04.920 God save our American states! 0.99

00:32:07.540 The Secretary will now read the report of the Declaration Committee.

00:32:37.540 Mr. Thompson.

00:32:39.280 A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America and General Congress assembled.

00:32:45.640 When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,

00:32:52.960 and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitled them,

00:33:00.120 A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

00:33:07.380 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights,

00:33:17.980 that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights...

00:33:23.340 Jameson! 0.51

00:33:24.220 Jameson! 0.51

00:33:25.080 We're back!

00:33:26.100 And we've got Maryland!

00:33:27.640 That is, we will.

00:33:28.360 As soon as Chase gets through telling the Maryland Assembly what we saw in New Brunswick, huh?

00:33:32.600 He's in Annapolis right now, describing a ragtag collection of provincial militiamen who couldn't drill together, train together, or march together.

00:33:41.140 But when a flock of ducks flew over, and they saw their first meal in three, four days, sweet Jesus, could they shoot together!

00:33:48.100 It was a slaughter!

00:33:49.440 A slaughter!

00:33:50.800 They're reading the declaration.

00:33:52.660 Good God!

00:33:54.100 How far have they gotten?

00:33:55.460 To render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.

00:33:59.600 Independent of and superior to the...

00:34:02.100 Nothing to fear.

00:34:09.260 It's a masterpiece.

00:34:11.100 I'm to be congratulated.

00:34:13.720 You! 0.99

00:34:15.820 For making him write it.

00:34:16.980 Oh, of course.

00:34:20.000 It's a masterpiece, I say.

00:34:23.480 They will cheer every word, every letter.

00:34:27.580 I wish I felt that way.

00:34:30.720 I believe I can put it better.

00:34:34.240 Now then attend, as friend to friend, our Declaration Committee.

00:34:39.220 For us I see immortality.

00:34:42.200 A farmer, a lawyer, and a sage.

00:34:54.800 A bit gouty in the leg.

00:34:57.900 You know, it's quite bizarre to think that here we are, playing midwives to an egg.

00:35:04.900 Egg, what egg?

00:35:07.580 America, the birth of a new nation.

00:35:09.680 If only we can be sure of what kind of a bird it's going to be.

00:35:12.980 Tom, there's a point.

00:35:14.120 What sort of bird shall we choose as the symbol of our new America?

00:35:17.760 The eagle.

00:35:18.440 The eagle.

00:35:19.440 The dove.

00:35:21.120 The turkey.

00:35:23.840 The eagle.

00:35:26.080 The dove.

00:35:27.100 The eagle.

00:35:29.940 The eagle.

00:35:31.120 The turkey.

00:35:31.640 The eagle is a majestic bird. 1.00

00:35:35.440 The eagle is a scavenger, a thief, and a coward. 0.84

00:35:38.300 A symbol of over ten centuries of European mischief. 0.99

00:35:42.080 The turkey.

00:35:43.260 The turkey is a truly noble bird.

00:35:45.600 Native American.

00:35:46.600 Sauce of sustenance of our original settlers. 1.00

00:35:48.820 An incredibly brave fellow who will not flinch at attacking a regiment of Englishmen.

00:35:52.700 Single-handedly.

00:35:54.200 Therefore, the national bird of America is going to be...

00:35:57.020 The eagle.

00:35:58.160 The eagle.

00:35:58.940 We're waiting for the chirp, chirp, chirp of an eaglet being born.

00:36:06.740 Waiting for the chirp, chirp, chirp on this humid Monday morning in this congressional incubator.

00:36:17.320 God knows the temperature's hot enough to hatch a stone, let alone an egg.

00:36:23.740 We're waiting for the scratch, scratch, scratch, of that tiny little fellow. 1.00

00:36:32.100 Waiting for the egg to hatch on this humid Monday morning in this congressional incubator.

00:36:42.040 God knows the temperature's hot enough to hatch a stone, but will it hatch an egg?

00:36:49.320 The declaration will be a triumph, I tell you, a triumph.

00:36:55.140 If I was ever sure of anything, I'm sure of that.

00:36:57.460 A triumph.

00:36:58.020 And if it isn't, we've still got four days left to think of something else.

00:37:04.100 The eagle's going to crack the shell of the egg that England laid.

00:37:10.960 Yes, so we can tell, tell, tell on this humid Monday morning in this congressional incubator.

00:37:20.020 And just as Tom here has written, though the shell may belong to Great Britain, the eagle inside belongs to us.

00:37:31.160 And just as Tom here has written, we say to hell with Great Britain, the eagle inside belongs to us.

00:37:42.260 The great William Daniels there, who just I think recently passed away, I believe at 90 years old, as John Adams, Howard DaSilva as Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and of course Ken Howard as Jefferson.

00:38:06.040 Interesting, Howard DaSilva was, I think, blackballed or banned in the entire 1950s because of his alleged association with the Communist Party.

00:38:15.560 So very interesting.

00:38:16.340 That is from the classic 1776.

00:38:18.760 For those of you that are thinking ahead tonight at, I believe, 1030 on Turner Classic Movies, they always wrap up the 4th of July with a showing with no commercial interruptions of 1776.

00:38:31.780 If you have not seen it, tonight may be a chance, absolute classic.

00:38:36.960 Patrick K. O'Donnell joins me.

00:38:38.980 Patrick, as you know, the reason you and I do these 4th of July specials is, one, to talk about the document and everything that went into the lead-up to the Continental Congress and to the Congress to actually draft the Declaration of Independence.

00:38:53.720 But the British had already landed an expeditionary force from the most powerful institution probably in the Christian West, and that would be the Royal Navy and the British Army.

00:39:06.380 So the signers of the Declaration, I think 56 of them, knew that they were signing potentially the death warrant.

00:39:14.400 Were they not, sir?

00:39:15.040 They were, Steve.

00:39:18.480 I wrote the Indispensables a few years ago, which still has a five-star rating on Amazon with nearly 2,000 reviews.

00:39:27.720 But in there, one of the main people that the signers was Elbridge Gerry, who's a Marblehead Mariner.

00:39:35.480 And he jokes to several of his fellow signers that he's going to swing for a long time at the gallows because he's so light in body and weight, whereas others would probably just die immediately.

00:39:53.500 But they realized that this is a death sentence because they signed it, and they're parting ways with the greatest imperial power on Earth.

00:40:02.600 And they had, prior to that, destroyed all insurrections within the British Empire, and they put them down quite forcefully.

00:40:10.800 For instance, in an insurrection that took place in Ireland, nearly at the same time, they've drawn and ordered individuals just completely violently put down insurrections and always won.

00:40:27.660 So this is an unprecedented move on the part of Americans to go against the greatest power on Earth at the time.

00:40:35.860 They also knew that the crown, Dickinson's proposal is let's go to the crown one more time.

00:40:45.040 That's what he convinced the Congress of.

00:40:46.660 Let's go one more time, and let's try to get a negotiated deal here, whether we get our own parliament, whether we get seats in parliament, some type of representation.

00:40:56.340 Let's figure it out, and the king came back, the crown came back and said, not only no, but anybody even has these thoughts or even agrees with this letter is guilty of high treason.

00:41:07.600 He told them that that's what led to the whole committee coming together to draft the declaration because most of the colonies at the beginning were not for this.

00:41:15.000 Also, the smarter members or the ones that had more wisdom understood that this was not going to be a 90-day conflict, that the British crown was just not going to roll over to a bunch of colonists that wrote a magnificent document on a piece of paper.

00:41:31.500 They were just not going to sit there and turn it over.

00:41:33.920 In fact, the expeditionary force that arrived in New York Harbor and at Staten Island was the greatest expeditionary force ever put together at that time.

00:41:44.560 I think in mankind, they were sending a signal.

00:41:47.540 This – North America is ours, right?

00:41:50.200 Not yours.

00:41:50.960 We're the crown, and it's not yours.

00:41:53.220 Your thoughts?

00:41:53.660 We've got about a minute, Patrick, before we go to commercial break.

00:41:56.140 What do you got?

00:41:57.280 That's right, Steve.

00:41:58.180 I mean, they assembled two-thirds of the British Navy and most of the Army, along with over 10,000 Hessian mercenaries.

00:42:07.660 These are German soldiers that are assembled, and there's many more that will follow them.

00:42:13.600 And they land in Staten Island around the same time.

00:42:16.880 And they are there – this is a statement, a statement of force that they will crush all opposition.

00:42:28.180 And we're starting the music.

00:42:30.280 It's going to take us out.

00:42:31.040 Patrick K. O'Donnell, our finest combat historian, has written two amazing books on the revolution, The Indispensables.

00:42:38.380 This is The Men of Marblehead.

00:42:40.460 And Washington's Immortals, this amazing regiment from Maryland.

00:42:45.700 It's just incredible.

00:42:46.460 If you read both of them, you get a real flavor of the combat and the ferocity of the combat.

00:42:52.160 In fact, Ken Burns is coming out, I think, with a new 12-part series or he's going to issue a new – just like the Civil War on the revolution.

00:43:01.380 In the interviews with Ken Burns, the one thing he says that shocked me as we went back and started doing archival research, as you did, Patrick, is the violence of the American Revolution that's really never been talked about.

00:43:13.800 What a violent, violent fight and war it was and how the Americans just would not give up.

00:43:21.120 They just would not quit.

00:43:22.320 One of our mottos here in the war room for the MAGA movement, if you don't quit, you're going to win.

00:43:29.140 It applies today to the Trump movement, to the MAGA movement, to what we're doing right now every day to save our beloved republic.

00:43:37.180 And trust me, folks, it's a fight.

00:43:39.360 If you don't think so, you're in the wrong game.

00:43:41.280 Short break, back with Patrick K. O'Donnell on Independence Day 2025.

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00:44:56.300 A little 15-second spot there from Getter.

00:44:58.440 I'm up on Getter all the time.

00:44:59.800 As folks on Getter know, putting up articles, sharing my thoughts, talking about it, and putting up a lot.

00:45:05.540 I put up a lot of articles just like cold opens to make people's blood boil.

00:45:11.340 But think about what you always need to know what the opposition is saying.

00:45:13.820 Roy, you join us now.

00:45:15.740 You're running Getter.

00:45:17.860 All the different applications, everything happened.

00:45:20.180 Tell us what you guys are doing to make Getter even better.

00:45:22.980 We're trying to expand the audience over there, getting up pertinent information all the time.

00:45:27.540 The people up there that I follow, I've got in my news feed, I get incredible news, memes, artwork, all of it, clips.

00:45:35.880 Incredible.

00:45:36.560 What do you got going on over there, Roy?

00:45:39.260 Yeah, first of all, happy Independence Day, sir.

00:45:41.800 And this is the fourth anniversary of Getter platform.

00:45:45.740 I want to really say thank you to Steve and Warren Posse, Real American Voice, and also the New Federal State of China folks to build this such a strong community.

00:45:55.060 We see high engagements, likes, reposts.

00:45:58.600 And also, like, I want to mention about the history of Getter.

00:46:01.920 We launched in the darkest time of the United States, we believe, in 2021.

00:46:06.020 When people got canceled, and when they say something, they got canceled, they got persecuted.

00:46:12.320 Born in communist China, myself, I really understand how important it is free speech.

00:46:18.640 And 1.4 billion people in China, they're dreaming of the life we live right here as Americans, right? 0.70

00:46:25.580 So, and we understand how destructive it is, like, communism and socialism is.

00:46:31.740 So, that's why, like, I think this platform is so important.

00:46:35.580 And feature-wise, as you mentioned, we have new features, Express sign-up.

00:46:40.500 People can just sign up with one click without asking for emails and phone number and even your birthday and everything.

00:46:48.000 No personal information.

00:46:49.820 It's totally safe.

00:46:50.900 And then you just one click and get an account.

00:46:53.200 And also, we have breaking column, breaking news, and Getter News.

00:46:56.320 Like you said, sir, you have your post.

00:46:59.000 You post 20 times a day.

00:47:00.400 And people can go on and see.

00:47:02.160 And also, daily news, see those breaking news and exclusive intelligence.

00:47:07.740 And also, live stream feature, of course.

00:47:09.980 Last year, on election night, we have 3 million concurrent viewers of the RAF show.

00:47:17.420 And people can go there.

00:47:19.140 You don't even need an account.

00:47:20.300 And there's no ads.

00:47:21.280 You can just enjoy a live stream, especially a warm live stream.

00:47:24.260 And most importantly, we will launch this monetization program where creators and even users can monetize on their content.

00:47:33.300 And I believe Warren Posse and Steve's user are going to enjoy that first.

00:47:37.420 Yeah, the live stream feature, let me go back to that because, you know, Grace and Mo put up so much on my account and the Worm account.

00:47:46.520 If we see, you know, congressional hearings or interesting news or President Trump's rallies, all of it, it's extraordinary.

00:47:52.660 On that part of it, it's actually much more advanced than Twitter, I believe, and much easier to use.

00:48:00.180 And so the live stream is extraordinary.

00:48:01.720 Some of the technology on Getter, and particularly for me, I mean, I'm a tech simpleton.

00:48:05.660 So it's got to be very, very easy for me to use, and I can use all the features and posts, although I do still need some assistance every now and again from Grace and Mo and Elizabeth.

00:48:16.180 But it's just extraordinary.

00:48:17.600 That's why I want everybody, particularly the Warren Posse, to sign up.

00:48:21.440 You get to – and it's interesting.

00:48:22.740 People get on there.

00:48:24.000 They start posting a few things.

00:48:25.280 Next thing you know, they've got a couple thousand followers.

00:48:27.860 But then you've got people that are really interested in what you have to say and really interested in the clips you're putting up.

00:48:32.980 So you can build a pretty big following pretty quickly because of so many like-minded people.

00:48:38.920 And people say, well, you're just talking to the echo chamber.

00:48:41.960 Hey, you want to build some confidence?

00:48:43.860 You want to build a base for narrative warfare?

00:48:46.420 You've got to start by actually getting – building the narrative inside a like-minded group.

00:48:54.140 In a Getter, you get a like-minded group, although besides some bots, you've got some people in there coming and criticize every now and again, which is positive.

00:49:00.300 That's always healthy.

00:49:01.480 But I can't recommend it more.

00:49:03.240 How do people – you've got two ways to do it.

00:49:05.120 One, you go download the app.

00:49:06.400 The other, I still think you can go just up on your computer.

00:49:09.520 How do people get access to this, Rory?

00:49:11.020 Yeah, people can just go to getter.com.

00:49:14.100 That's G-E-T-T-R.com on any browser.

00:49:17.580 And also you can search that on Android or iOS store.

00:49:21.320 And also you put up this beautiful 15-second spot.

00:49:25.020 You can just scan the QR code.

00:49:26.720 It will automatically jump to the app store and download that, and it's totally free.

00:49:31.760 And thank you for this.

00:49:35.640 No, it's the fourth anniversary.

00:49:37.520 Jason Miller was our original CEO.

00:49:39.260 And as you know, he's a senior advisor to President Trump today, and Jason's very involved in helping us think through issues.

00:49:47.300 So I want to thank everybody associated with Getter that's helping us take this to the next level and make sure it's a platform built for the MAGA movement, built for the war and posse.

00:49:57.600 It's easy to use.

00:49:58.780 I'm always up there.

00:49:59.960 Go check it out today.

00:50:00.920 Roy, what's your handle on Getter so people can click to you and make sure they follow you?

00:50:07.120 Yeah, my handle is R-O-Y-G-U-O Roy at Getter.com.

00:50:13.760 And don't forget to follow Steve Bannon.

00:50:17.220 This is the only platform Steve Bannon is using.

00:50:19.500 And also the New Federal State of China, NFSC Speaks.

00:50:22.120 We put up really beautiful shorts and also real micro voice.

00:50:25.960 And thank you so much.

00:50:28.740 And that daily news thing you have is absolutely incredible.

00:50:31.480 I'm always reposting that.

00:50:32.400 Thanks, Roy.

00:50:33.860 Have a great 4th of July, Independence Day.

00:50:40.680 We're going to continue.

00:50:41.740 Patrick O'Donnell is going to stick with us today.

00:50:45.020 Patrick is also going to stick with us tomorrow.

00:50:47.980 Tomorrow also we're going to have Philip Patrick come in from Brazil.

00:50:52.220 He's at the BRICS Nation.

00:50:53.520 The Global South is meeting, and their focus is on a de-dollarization effort to make sure they can get off the U.S. dollar.

00:51:01.200 They may not launch a new currency.

00:51:03.260 They may not launch a new goldback currency.

00:51:05.360 But, hey, they are bound and determined to break the U.S. dollar.

00:51:10.440 So we're going to have Philip Patrick live from Rio.

00:51:12.540 Patrick O'Donnell will join me because we'll talk more in depth as we will the next hour of the fight.

00:51:18.860 The Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War are unstrictly linked.

00:51:23.500 Why is that?

00:51:26.060 Two-thirds of the documents – I'll ask Patrick when I get back.

00:51:28.800 Two-thirds of the actual Declaration of Independence was basically a bill of indictment against the crown to say, yo, we're going to throw down, but we're going to list out.

00:51:39.380 We're going to take the moral high ground and list out everything you've done to suppress liberty, and we're going to fight.

00:51:44.820 We're going to fight to get our independence, and we're never going to give it up.

00:51:49.900 And the question you have to ask yourself today, are we on the cusp of giving up our independence, even with as great a president as President Donald J. Trump?

00:52:01.760 We're going to talk about the connection between General Washington from the revolution and the founding of the nation, Abraham Lincoln at the rebirth of the nation, and now President Trump at the rejuvenation of the American nation.

00:52:15.280 All next on Independence Day in the war room.

00:52:18.980 I speak in thunder to England, France, and Spain.

00:52:23.820 Nations o'er the ocean spread shall tremble and obey.

00:52:29.380 The prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America.

Bannon's War Room - July 04, 2025

Episode 4607： WarRoom July 4th Special

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