Bannon's War Room - Episode 4691： Trump Honors Purple Heart Recipients; Rise Of The Digital Demons

00:00:00.000 The President of ISIS in record time.

00:00:06.380 They said it was going to take four to five years.

00:00:08.380 He did it in four weeks.

00:00:10.080 That's when I said, if I get into this again,

00:00:12.080 I'm going to make him the chairman of the Joint

00:00:13.780 Chiefs, and that's what happened.

00:00:15.680 Great job.

00:00:16.380 And he did an incredible job in Iran.

00:00:18.320 I want to thank you very much.

00:00:19.420 Great job, General.

00:00:26.620 Deputy Secretary of Energy and Purple Heart

00:00:29.240 recipient, James Danley.

00:00:31.940 James, thank you very much, James.

00:00:34.340 We have a hand of honor recipient,

00:00:38.920 Captain Paris Davis.

00:00:41.760 Thank you.

00:00:42.480 Where are you?

00:00:43.420 Where might he be?

00:00:45.160 Oh, look at you.

00:00:47.100 You're better looking than I am, I'll tell you that.

00:00:49.120 Thank you very much.

00:00:54.860 We're also joined by the Marine Corps veteran who

00:00:58.160 co-managed my 2024 campaign, a fantastic talent in

00:01:02.060 many ways after he was wounded in battle for our

00:01:05.360 country in Operation Desert Storm.

00:01:08.440 Chris LaSevera.

00:01:09.840 So, where is Chris?

00:01:10.900 Thank you very much for being with your father.

00:01:22.380 It's very nice.

00:01:24.020 Every Purple Heart tells a story of courage, sacrifice, and

00:01:27.280 purpose.

00:01:28.220 It speaks of a price paid for the soldier beside you, the

00:01:32.320 country behind you, and the generations of Americans yet to

00:01:36.460 come, and we have some great generations to follow.

00:01:40.060 It's going to happen.

00:01:41.460 Those who wear this mantle ran into bullets, faced ferocious

00:01:44.700 bombs, and shed their blood on the field of battle.

00:01:48.500 We will never forget what they did.

00:01:50.580 We will always use them as an example of bravery and courage

00:01:54.980 and strength.

00:01:56.640 And we will also always think, when we look at them, of our

00:02:00.180 great American flag.

00:02:02.660 We want our great American flag to be strong, and it's

00:02:05.760 stronger than ever.

00:02:07.560 Since day one, my administration has used every

00:02:10.100 power we have to fight for those who have fought for

00:02:13.040 America in six months.

00:02:15.040 We have reduced the backlog of veterans' waitings.

00:02:18.640 And that waiting list was very long, Doug, wasn't it?

00:02:22.440 For the benefits, and by — it's 37 percent.

00:02:25.780 So it's just — is that all you did, Doug?

00:02:27.660 Thirty-seven?

00:02:28.860 I don't know, huh?

00:02:30.480 That's incredible, actually.

00:02:31.780 They gave — you're getting tremendous marks, and we

00:02:34.820 appreciate it very much.

00:02:36.880 We process more than two million disability benefit

00:02:39.660 claims this fiscal year on track for the most ever.

00:02:43.700 In fact, not even close.

00:02:45.060 We're slashing wait times at the VA medical centers, and

00:02:48.560 we're bringing back VA choice and VA accountability.

00:02:52.300 As you know, we had it.

00:02:54.100 And then the previous administration — let's go

00:02:57.540 with the Biden administration — they decided to get rid of it.

00:03:01.780 And, you know, choice is where if you wait in line for an extended period

00:03:06.880 or you're not going to see a doctor for a while,

00:03:09.660 you have the right to go out and get a doctor, and we'll pay for it.

00:03:12.660 And you get yourself all fixed up real fast.

00:03:15.200 You don't have to wait six weeks, eight weeks, months, like they were doing.

00:03:20.160 And VA accountability — I'm very proud of those.

00:03:22.560 We got them passed.

00:03:23.460 Actually, Doug, you were a member of Congress when we did.

00:03:25.760 You helped us a lot.

00:03:27.440 But we got them passed in the legislature, so they're with us forever.

00:03:33.040 And yet, Biden found a way to not use them.

00:03:36.740 But VA accountability, that's when we have bad people in the Veterans Association

00:03:41.140 that were taking advantage of people, hurting people.

00:03:45.080 And they weren't in prime time.

00:03:46.240 In prime time, they wouldn't have touched them.

00:03:48.340 But they weren't quite in prime time.

00:03:50.120 And they were doing bad things.

00:03:51.420 They were sadists. 1.00

00:03:52.180 They were thieves. 0.99

00:03:53.680 And some bad people — we had 9,000 of them. 0.99

00:03:55.760 We fired every one of them.

00:03:57.660 And it was a great thing.

00:03:58.660 And then he put some of those people back.

00:04:01.520 I don't know why they did that, but they did it.

00:04:03.460 But we got them out again, I think, Doug, right?

00:04:05.500 So it's good.

00:04:06.840 So we had VA Choice, VA accountability, something we're very proud of.

00:04:11.500 I'm also working to keep my promise to end Veterans Homelessness in America in May.

00:04:17.180 I signed an executive order to open the National Center for Warrior Independence

00:04:21.880 in Los Angeles, California, which will house up to 6,000 homeless vets.

00:04:27.560 It's going to be beautiful.

00:04:33.460 And just last week, I signed the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act, a big deal, to help ensure

00:04:40.740 no veteran is kicked out of their home for a late payment.

00:04:44.140 If you're a little bit late, don't worry about it.

00:04:47.140 And frankly, if you're a lot late, you don't have to worry about it either.

00:04:50.140 You just — you just get it in when you can.

00:04:52.140 Put it in when you can.

00:04:53.140 The veterans have done their duty for us, and under the Trump administration, we are

00:05:02.560 doing our duty for you.

00:05:04.160 Okay?

00:05:05.160 That's the way it's supposed to be.

00:05:06.860 One of our brave soldiers with us today is Army Veteran Specialist Kevin Jensen.

00:05:12.100 In 2008, Specialist Jensen was a gunner in a Humvee, racing to support a platoon ambushed

00:05:18.940 by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

00:05:21.440 His vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, flew 10 feet — he flew 10 feet up into the air

00:05:26.880 and exploded in flames.

00:05:28.960 The whole place was on flames, including, unfortunately, Kevin.

00:05:33.560 But he suffered deep third-degree burns, and all over his body, he was in trouble — big

00:05:38.060 trouble.

00:05:39.060 Despite the agony, he selflessly ran to the aid of his platoon leader, who was engulfed

00:05:44.780 — or just absolutely — everyone thought he was gone.

00:05:48.840 He was engulfed in fire.

00:05:50.440 Sir, I've got you.

00:05:51.440 I've got you, sir, Kevin shouted and pulled his friend to safety.

00:05:58.040 Specialist Jensen earned the Purple Heart, and he's here today with the platoon leader

00:06:02.840 whose life he saved and our newly sworn NVA Undersecretary for Medical Affairs, Captain

00:06:08.540 Sam Brown.

00:06:10.040 Kevin and Sam, please stand.

00:06:12.340 And I know Sam very well.

00:06:14.340 Sam is great.

00:06:15.640 Thank you.

00:06:17.440 Thank you.

00:06:18.520 Thank you very much.

00:06:19.800 You got to really, you did a great thing because I got to know him and his really beautiful

00:06:44.800 wife.

00:06:45.800 I don't have to say beautiful anymore.

00:06:46.800 It's political suicide, they say.

00:06:49.800 But I'll say it anyway.

00:06:51.800 And the most beautiful family you've ever seen.

00:06:53.800 And I just want to thank you for having done, and you for your great bravery.

00:06:57.800 It's really great.

00:06:58.800 Thank you both for being here.

00:06:59.800 I appreciate it.

00:07:00.800 Thank you.

00:07:05.800 Also announced was 24-year Army veteran Brian Ouellette.

00:07:08.800 In 2010, Staff Sergeant Ouellette was conducting a resupply mission in Afghanistan when his

00:07:14.800 vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb.

00:07:17.800 You know who did the roadside bomb, right?

00:07:20.800 Salameni.

00:07:21.800 Where is he?

00:07:22.800 Where is he?

00:07:23.800 Where is Salameni?

00:07:24.800 He was the father of the roadside bomb. 0.95

00:07:29.800 They say 92 percent of the people who got either killed or badly hurt.

00:07:36.800 It was Salameni.

00:07:37.800 He was the one that did it more than anybody else by far.

00:07:42.800 Leaving this person very seriously injured seven months later, Brian's teenage son, Private

00:07:49.800 Kevin Ouellette, who was also deployed to Afghanistan with standing guard when insurgent

00:07:55.800 forces attacked with heavy fire.

00:07:57.800 The grenade knocked him out and knocked him right to the ground.

00:08:01.800 He was in big trouble.

00:08:03.800 But Kevin rose to his feet and successfully repulsed the attack on his camp, earning both the

00:08:09.800 Purple Heart and Bronze Star for valor.

00:08:11.800 And I'd like to ask Brian and Kevin to please stand, wherever you may be.

00:08:16.800 Hi.

00:08:17.800 Good job.

00:08:18.800 Good job.

00:08:19.800 Good job.

00:08:20.800 Good job.

00:08:21.800 Good job.

00:08:22.800 Good job.

00:08:23.800 Good job.

00:08:24.800 Good job.

00:08:25.800 Good job.

00:08:26.800 Good job.

00:08:27.800 Good job.

00:08:28.800 I would say these are different types.

00:08:29.800 Right?

00:08:30.800 These are different types.

00:08:31.800 Right?

00:08:32.800 But same blood.

00:08:33.800 That's all we care for.

00:08:34.800 That's very good.

00:08:35.800 You both look great.

00:08:36.800 Thank you both very much.

00:08:37.800 Appreciate it.

00:08:38.800 We're also joined by Marine Corps veteran Staff Sergeant Thomas Mateo.

00:08:40.800 Wounded six times during two tours in Vietnam.

00:08:51.800 At the end of his first tour, shrapnel sliced open his abdomen and he was left bleeding and

00:08:56.800 they thought he was gone.

00:08:58.800 He was on the jungle floor for a long period of time, but he recovered and chose to go back

00:09:03.800 and fight.

00:09:04.800 Thomas later continued to protect our citizens as police chief of Hialeah Gardens and Inverness.

00:09:11.800 That's two good places.

00:09:13.800 We love those places.

00:09:15.800 We love Florida.

00:09:16.800 Every time I ran there I won, so I got to love it.

00:09:19.800 Right?

00:09:20.800 He sent records.

00:09:21.800 We have the all-time record, Thomas, and he was one of the very rare six-time recipients

00:09:25.800 of the Purple Heart.

00:09:26.800 Boy, you got hit.

00:09:27.800 Where's Thomas?

00:09:28.800 Six times.

00:09:29.800 You got to be kidding.

00:09:30.800 That's pretty tough stuff.

00:09:32.800 And look at you.

00:09:33.800 You look fantastic.

00:09:35.800 So did it have any negative impact on you, would you say, now that you're recovered,

00:09:38.800 fully recovered, would you say?

00:09:40.800 Do you get any extra aches and pains or anything?

00:09:43.800 Two prosthetic knees, sir.

00:09:45.800 That's it.

00:09:46.800 That's called an ache and a pain.

00:09:48.800 That's right.

00:09:49.800 I know.

00:09:50.800 I have the whole list.

00:09:51.800 It's amazing.

00:09:52.800 And you look great.

00:09:53.800 Thank you very much.

00:09:54.800 It's amazing.

00:09:55.800 It's amazing.

00:09:56.800 It's amazing.

00:09:57.800 Last year, after an assassin tried to take my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thomas generously

00:10:09.800 mailed me one of his Purple Hearts.

00:10:11.800 Many of the other veterans showed me the same unbelievable gesture of kindness, including

00:10:17.800 three-time Purple Heart recipient John Ford and Gerald Enter Jr., who also came along

00:10:24.800 with us and did us a great, great favor.

00:10:26.800 Gerald, John, and Thomas, I want to thank you very much.

00:10:29.800 What a great honor to get those Purple Hearts.

00:10:32.800 I guess, in a certain way, it wasn't that easy for me, either, when you think of it.

00:10:37.800 But you went through a lot more than I did, and I appreciate it all very much.

00:10:41.800 Thank you.

00:10:42.800 Thank you.

00:10:43.800 Oh, where are you?

00:10:44.800 Stand up, please.

00:10:45.800 Please.

00:10:46.800 Thank you very much.

00:10:47.800 Thank you very much.

00:10:52.800 That was some day we had together.

00:10:57.800 That was some day we had together.

00:10:58.800 Thank you both very much.

00:10:59.800 Thank you all.

00:11:00.800 From the very beginning, our nation's fate has depended on heroes like those in the room,

00:11:06.800 who placed their bodies between the enemy fire and, really, that fire and the American

00:11:13.800 freedom that we all love so much because of their sacrifice today.

00:11:17.800 Our flag is still waving proudly, and our freedom is still safe and secure, and our future

00:11:23.800 is looking brighter and greater than ever.

00:11:25.800 Our country is doing really well.

00:11:26.800 We're very proud of our country.

00:11:28.800 We had that mission.

00:11:30.800 I watched those B-2 bombers with those pilots.

00:11:33.800 We had them in the Oval Office celebrating their incredible bravery and talent.

00:11:38.800 Pure talent.

00:11:39.800 Every single bomb hit its mark perfectly.

00:11:41.800 And then we had tomahawks coming in, 30 of them coming in from submarines that were 300 miles

00:11:48.800 away.

00:11:49.800 They all hit their mark, too.

00:11:50.800 Look at his smile on you.

00:11:51.800 You think that's your boy.

00:11:52.800 Look at his smile.

00:11:53.800 But pretty good, right?

00:11:54.800 Pretty good.

00:11:55.800 We had them, and we celebrated all together.

00:11:56.800 We actually had 52 tankers.

00:11:57.800 Can you imagine?

00:11:58.800 We had a lot of the people over to the White House, to the gardens, and it was an incredible

00:12:08.800 day.

00:12:09.800 It was a day of celebration.

00:12:10.800 They've been looking to do that for 22 years.

00:12:12.800 One of the pilots came up and said to me, you know, we've been waiting for 22 years.

00:12:18.800 My predecessors, because he was a young guy.

00:12:21.800 But he said, we've been practicing this three times a year for 22 years.

00:12:25.800 Who knew that, Pete?

00:12:26.800 And I said, you mean you knew exactly what to do?

00:12:29.800 He said, every single year, three times a year, we'd practice for that specific event.

00:12:34.800 And you were the one that had the guts to do it, send us on our way.

00:12:38.800 And I said, were you happy or unhappy about the fact that I said to you?

00:12:42.800 He said, we couldn't get into the planes fast enough, right?

00:12:45.800 And he said, well, you guys are different.

00:12:47.800 But they're really talented people and special.

00:12:49.800 We've had some incredible success.

00:12:52.800 But I want to give a very special thanks to all of the Purple Heart recipients that are

00:12:57.800 with us today and all over the country and all over the world, frankly.

00:13:01.800 I will now sign the proclamation, officially declare this as National Purple Heart Day.

00:13:07.800 Very special day.

00:13:08.800 Thank you very much, everybody.

00:13:09.800 Thank you.

00:13:10.800 Thank you.

00:13:11.800 Thank you.

00:13:12.800 All right, brother.

00:13:17.800 I know who I'm giving this back to.

00:13:22.800 Six times.

00:13:27.800 Okay.

00:13:29.800 The President is at a ceremony honoring the Purple Heart recipients.

00:13:36.800 He's now going to sign a number of executive orders.

00:13:39.800 We'll pick up the show after this.

00:13:42.800 And that is not done by a note of that.

00:13:44.800 And I think Pete takes this new talk.

00:13:45.800 So we're going to play it by ear here.

00:13:47.800 Let's go back and listen to the President of the States.

00:13:50.800 Let's go,

00:13:56.800 Go up, go up, go up!

00:14:02.800 Woo! 0.99

00:14:03.800 How are you is my chant?

00:14:05.800 Go up, go up, go up, go up.

00:14:07.800 And I'm got here.

00:14:09.800 You're going to interrupt to a little bit.

00:14:11.800 Thank you, everybody.

00:14:41.800 Thank you.

00:15:11.800 Yeah, gotcha.

00:15:26.800 Thank you.

00:15:32.800 Okay, the president is working in the room as he normally does, an event commemorating Purple Heart and honoring Purple Heart recipients.

00:15:50.800 This is one of the president's naval aides right there.

00:15:55.800 The president working, shaking hands, making himself available as he always does at events like this.

00:16:02.140 You heard the music of the Marine Corps Band.

00:16:04.080 Can we go ahead and crank that music up a tad, guys?

00:16:06.960 We're going to stick with this for a few minutes.

00:16:10.960 You get to see the president.

00:16:11.960 His work day does events like this, meets people, makes decisions.

00:16:16.960 A lot going on.

00:16:18.960 Of course, members of the media don't ask a few questions.

00:16:21.960 There goes the president.

00:16:23.960 I believe we're going to have a press availability.

00:16:26.960 I think he may be going to the Oval Office.

00:16:29.960 Pete Hegseth and the team, I think, spoke beforehand.

00:16:34.960 Right there.

00:16:35.960 Okay, let's bring it in.

00:16:37.960 In fact, keep the shot for bringing it to the world.

00:16:39.960 Okay, we're going to a lot of activity this afternoon in the White House and decisions made.

00:16:48.960 The new temporary governor of the Federal Reserve, the chairman of the Council on Economic Advisers has been named.

00:16:58.960 We're going to get to that.

00:16:59.960 Philip Patrick is going to join us.

00:17:01.960 Also, Joe Allen, a big event in the world of artificial intelligence.

00:17:06.960 Let's go ahead.

00:17:07.960 I tell you what, we're going to hold Stephen Mirren for Philip Patrick.

00:17:11.960 Let's go ahead and play the cold open.

00:17:13.960 Let's play the cold open for Joe Allen, and I'll bring Joe Allen in.

00:17:18.960 Hi, everyone.

00:17:19.960 I'm Casey Hunt.

00:17:20.960 Welcome to the arena.

00:17:21.960 It's wonderful to have you with us on this Thursday.

00:17:22.960 Right now, breaking news as we come on the air.

00:17:25.960 President Trump has just decided who he will nominate to fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.

00:17:32.960 That news happening as a sweeping new set of tariffs comes into effect.

00:17:38.960 The markets just closed.

00:17:39.960 The Dow and the S&P both closing down, with the Dow down almost 300 points.

00:17:44.960 The NASDAQ up just barely.

00:17:46.960 So, who is this person?

00:17:47.960 What do we know about them?

00:17:49.960 Well, he currently is the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

00:17:53.960 He has become really close to President Trump, an advisor, but also a media personality in some ways.

00:17:59.960 He was communicating to the public.

00:18:00.960 He was doing TV constantly during the pushing of the big, beautiful bill, quote, unquote, big, beautiful bill.

00:18:06.960 He was also meeting with lawmakers, a top economic advisor.

00:18:10.960 But the real thing to point out here is that this seems as though it's going to be somewhat of a shadow position on the board.

00:18:16.960 We know that Mirren is a loyalist.

00:18:19.960 Even Mirren is his name.

00:18:20.960 This is a temporary position.

00:18:22.960 It's only going to be through January.

00:18:24.960 And we were expecting something sort of like this because of all the criticism that the Federal Board has gotten.

00:18:30.960 The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, particularly from President Trump, his team, and from, really, Mirren himself.

00:18:38.960 We have heard him be critical of the fact that there have not been lower interest rates, among other things.

00:18:43.960 So now you're going to see this loyalist who's going to sit in this position on the board, at least just temporarily through January,

00:18:50.960 when he's going to be re-upped and they're going to find someone to fill that role permanently.

00:18:55.960 Just to be very clear, a part of this whole thing is really based in President Trump's intense dislike and anger at the Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell.

00:19:07.960 We know that he has wanted to replace him, but he has been advised that that is a bad move, particularly for the markets.

00:19:13.960 Wall Street would not go for something like that.

00:19:15.960 But now you're seeing him be able to have an opening to put at least a loyalist on the Board of Governors to have readbacks on everything that is going on there

00:19:24.960 and to have a voice in the room who believes what President Trump believes.

00:19:28.960 Okay, welcome.

00:19:31.960 You're in the War Room.

00:19:32.960 It is Thursday, 7 August, Year of Our Lord 2025.

00:19:35.960 Thank you for being here for at least the next hour and a half.

00:19:39.960 Although that may be truncated also since the president, I think, is going back to the Oval Office.

00:19:43.960 He's running approximately two hours behind on his schedule.

00:19:47.960 So he's got much more to do.

00:19:49.960 I think he has more executive orders assigned.

00:19:51.960 I'm pretty sure he's going to do a press avail.

00:19:53.960 But anyway, obviously, with our coverage wall to wall from the White House,

00:19:57.960 Brian Glenn is over there right now running around.

00:20:00.960 Big announcement today.

00:20:02.960 Philip Patrick is going to be here in a few minutes to address this.

00:20:04.960 This is Dr. Stephen Marin.

00:20:06.960 He's been on the show a bunch of times.

00:20:08.960 He is the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.

00:20:11.960 This is where Hassett had that job in the first term.

00:20:15.960 It's really the collection of economists and White House economists that do a ton of modeling.

00:20:20.960 He was very important during the big, beautiful bill.

00:20:24.960 As you remember, we had him on the show.

00:20:26.960 He talked about the supply side nature of the tax cut, et cetera.

00:20:29.960 Very good guy.

00:20:30.960 Safe pair of hands.

00:20:31.960 This is only an interim appointment.

00:20:34.960 He does have to get Senate confirmed.

00:20:36.960 But this is only last, I think, until January.

00:20:39.960 The other governor stepped down.

00:20:41.960 I think she was in kind of disagreement with some of the policies, I think, of President Trump.

00:20:47.960 I'm not so sure of Jerome Powell, but she went out in kind of a huff.

00:20:50.960 So Marin will be here.

00:20:53.960 As you know, we pushed the great Judy Shelton. 1.00

00:20:57.960 We think it's very important to have a voice on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

00:21:02.960 that really understands gold and makes the case for gold

00:21:06.960 and makes the case for a solid currency and something that's got some backing to it.

00:21:11.960 Judy Shelton didn't make it. 1.00

00:21:13.960 Like I said, this is interim.

00:21:14.960 They're going to name the more permanent one, I think, probably in November, December.

00:21:18.960 That will also have to go through Senate confirmation.

00:21:21.960 And we are continuing because, really, ours wasn't about Judy being the interim.

00:21:25.960 It was about being the full time.

00:21:26.960 So it's still open.

00:21:27.960 The president said I think he looked at 10 potential candidates and chose one that he knew very well.

00:21:32.960 A big announcement today in artificial intelligence.

00:21:34.960 We do have, I think, a short cold open for Joe Allen.

00:21:38.960 Let's go and play that.

00:21:39.960 OpenAI is offering its ChatGPT enterprise products to federal agencies for just a dollar.

00:21:46.960 It will be available to the executive branch for an entire year.

00:21:50.960 This comes after OpenAI was among several tech firms approved for a federal artificial intelligence vendor list.

00:21:58.960 This is the orb.

00:21:59.960 It looks very cool, but it's basically just a fancy camera that's able to look at you and tell whether you're a real human or not.

00:22:06.960 In a world of deep fakes and online bots snagging the best deals, this shiny chrome white ball or camera could help prove that you're a human.

00:22:16.960 We wanted a way to make sure that humans stayed special and central in a world where the internet was going to have lots of AI driven content.

00:22:24.960 Then the photo and eye scan.

00:22:28.960 The orb is right now verifying your humanity.

00:22:31.960 32 months ago, we launched ChatGPT.

00:22:33.960 And since then, it has become the default way that people use AI.

00:22:37.960 About 700 million people use ChatGPT every week and increasingly rely on it to work, to learn, for advice, to create.

00:22:46.960 Today, finally, we're launching GPT-5.

00:22:50.960 GPT-5 is a major upgrade over GPT-4 and a significant step along our path to AGI-5.

00:22:56.960 Now it's like talking to an expert, a legitimate PhD level expert in anything, any area you need on demand that can help you with whatever your goals are.

00:23:05.960 This is an incredible superpower on demand that would have been unimaginable at any previous time in history.

00:23:12.960 You get access to an entire team of PhD level experts in your pocket, helping you with whatever you want to do.

00:23:18.960 Okay, one of the things we try to do on the show is to make sure that you get the underlying trends and things that are, you know, we do news of the day and you've got to be up to speed on that, but things that are more signal and less of the noise.

00:23:33.960 And this is one of them. That's why we started the morning show with Alex DeGross about the converging forces that are coming together in modern American politics actually redo the House of Representatives in which the Democrats are full meltdown.

00:23:46.960 This is another one. Joe Allen, our expert on all things transhumanism, particularly artificial intelligence.

00:23:53.960 Joe, first off, this is another huge people should understand. These are now increasing at accelerating at an accelerating rate. This is GP five.

00:24:03.960 We launched. It was a two Davises ago was two and a half years ago that you launched. I think the first GPT, I believe. I don't think it was three years ago.

00:24:12.960 I think it was two years ago. Anyway, I'll let you remind me. And what the buried lead here, 700 million people a day or a week.

00:24:21.220 I think they said use chat GPT. That is that is 700 million. That is just under what, 10 percent of the world's population.

00:24:31.220 But if you take adults, right, it's got to be what, 15, 7, 16, 17, 18, 19 percent of adults.

00:24:37.600 So pretty, pretty, pretty stunning. What do you think about this launch today?

00:24:42.600 Was this ahead of schedule, behind schedule? Has it been the upgrade that a lot of people on in this area were talking about?

00:24:52.660 Well, Steve, the reaction right now to GPT five as various experts are allowed to play with it and from some of the people who were given the preview, it's pretty subdued.

00:25:05.720 People are pretty disappointed, mainly because they've been working on this for nearly three years, maybe a bit longer with billions of dollars going in.

00:25:15.500 So people expected a bit more. Now, the real question isn't is this AGI, is this artificial general intelligence, nor is it will GPT five replace all coders and white collar workers?

00:25:31.640 The answer to both of those, no. The real question is, where does this model stand on the graph of increasing capabilities for AI?

00:25:44.000 And that's a question that will be answered over the next few days as more and more people rake it over.

00:25:49.260 Looking at the internal benchmarks is definitely an improvement over GPT four and most other models with some some domains accepted.

00:26:00.600 The most important, Steve, is encoding, especially how long it takes to code.

00:26:06.760 So there's an organization meter, for instance, that tracks how long it takes for an AI model to perform a task.

00:26:15.580 This represents a major increase in efficiency and speed.

00:26:20.820 GPT five is about 50 percent faster than its predecessor.

00:26:25.840 And there's other elements to the reduction in hallucination, again, from their internal testing.

00:26:31.440 We'll just have to see over the next few days if it really holds up to that claim.

00:26:35.900 But maybe more important even than its capabilities is how quickly and easily artificial intelligence is saturating all these different sectors of society from school to medicine to government.

00:26:51.980 You heard Sam Altman during his presentation today, during the launch presentation, pitching GPT five as a reliable medical expert to help guide you through whatever medical condition or issues you're dealing with.

00:27:08.940 Musk has pushed Grok for similar purposes.

00:27:11.900 Greg Grok, Greg Brockman from OpenAI, similar things.

00:27:15.540 And more and more doctors are relying on it.

00:27:17.680 Remember, Dr. Oz believes that a physician will be negligent in the near future if he doesn't refer back to an AI.

00:27:25.460 So the saturation of the federal government with AI models, as you heard there, OpenAI is offering GPT for a dollar, basically for free, to the entire executive branch.

00:27:39.200 Other models are being incorporated.

00:27:40.800 All of these critical areas, from education to medicine to governance itself, are being just completely inundated with AI as a source of valid information and oftentimes as an authority, a PhD-level authority on this information.

00:27:59.080 And just to tie it all up with a real bright and shiny bow, you also saw there the expansion of what's now known as World, used to be known as WorldCoin or WorldID.

00:28:10.680 This is an enterprise for digital identity that Sam Altman initially invested in and continues to boost.

00:28:18.740 And the idea is that as the online environment becomes more and more suffused with bots, Forbes recently reported that over 50% of online activity and traffic is consisting of bots, that you will need some sort of biometric identity to prove your humanity to the world.

00:28:39.580 If you look at the entire system as a whole, it undoubtedly looks like the digital prison that the most paranoid observers often call it to be.

00:28:52.620 I need you to hang on because I've got a bunch of questions from that.

00:28:56.520 We're going to take a short commercial break.

00:28:58.380 And, of course, Philip Patrick is going to join us.

00:29:00.560 Joe Allen is here, a major release, Years in the Making on Artificial Intelligence.

00:29:05.480 I know you said from the experts, they're not blown away, but, man, just some of the stats you gave there kind of, I think, blows me away.

00:29:13.920 But, anyway, Joe Allen will stick around.

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00:34:14.580 So, Joe Allen, first of all, tell people the hallucinations thing is a very big deal.

00:34:19.620 Tell them what that means because hallucinations is one of the things that scares people the most about artificial intelligence, sir.

00:34:28.040 Yeah, Steve, the hallucinations are basically the system simply lying to the user.

00:34:34.240 When an AI is asked a question, its job is to fill in an allotted amount of space with words.

00:34:43.040 And oftentimes, it will just veer off course and begin to invent things and present them with full authority.

00:34:49.800 When you look at some of the earlier models that GPT put out, some of the streamlined models,

00:34:54.840 you would get as much as 18%, even up to like 40% plus hallucinations out of those models when they were doing the testing.

00:35:04.740 It doesn't mean every single interaction is going to produce that, just when they're doing the testing.

00:35:09.860 With the new model, with GPT-5, at least with the internal testing, they've reduced this dramatically,

00:35:16.680 like 5x on the various benchmarks so that O3, for instance, would hallucinate, say, 5% of the time on a specific benchmark.

00:35:27.200 Apparently, and again, we'll have to see over time, GPT-5 has reduced that to roughly 1%.

00:35:32.680 The reason it's really important, aside from accuracy in the models, is that if corporations are going to adopt this en masse, and they are,

00:35:42.360 and if educational institutions and government agencies are going to adopt it,

00:35:48.600 there has to be a sense of trust that it's not just going to be spitting out invented facts or entire narratives that were invented whole cloth.

00:35:56.280 Well, these are very, this is a very thing, you could go in and say, hey, I got migraine headaches, and ask it, I need, what are some cures,

00:36:04.140 what are amazing cures or great cures for migraine headaches?

00:36:07.860 In hallucinations, the AI would come up with just makeup studies, makeup reports.

00:36:14.060 You could actually be taking poison, and you don't know, it's hallucinating.

00:36:17.040 It was doing things that people would do when they're on drugs or an LSD or whatever, just creating stuff out of thin air.

00:36:23.380 And a lot of people early on, when these things were first released, would take everything as the gospel truth.

00:36:28.720 It's quite, now they've reduced it dramatically, but it's quite far from being the gospel truth, correct?

00:36:34.840 Yes, absolutely.

00:36:35.800 And again, these are internal tests, so it's quite possible that the hallucinations are maybe even as bad as they ever were.

00:36:43.720 It's just going to take time for a large number of people to work through the system's outputs to see exactly how it's performing.

00:36:52.400 And these massive models that require all these data centers and all this energy,

00:36:58.960 and these guys aren't even talking about climate change anymore because it's the rush to transhumanism, right?

00:37:04.700 To go past homo sapien.

00:37:07.800 You talk about a 50% increase in computing power, computing time.

00:37:12.200 Dude, in any other industry, that would be like jaw-dropping, yet you kind of downplayed it.

00:37:16.880 Is it because other metrics mean more that they're compared to?

00:37:21.860 And the people are, I'm not saying it's a yawn, but it's kind of like, okay, but it's not everything.

00:37:26.140 And did they over-promote AGI?

00:37:29.300 Like people thought since they, as we said, hey, something must be happening in the next 48 hours because they're talking about AGI a lot, sir.

00:37:35.620 Yeah, Steve, I think you really hit it there, that Sam Altman has really been out there for the last month kind of seeding this idea of an expert in every pocket,

00:37:47.240 seeding this notion of superintelligence as a goal, but maybe one that is right within the reach of the company.

00:37:54.300 That doesn't seem to be the case at all.

00:37:57.400 And that's one of the issues with overselling is that once something is actually presented, it better live up to something like that.

00:38:05.040 The whole notion of transhumanism is, one hopes, a massive oversell.

00:38:10.560 But that adoption rate is really, really important because if a huge number of people, right now it's 700 million, not to mention all the people who use, say, Grok or Meta's AI or Claude from Anthropic,

00:38:27.700 all of the people using this have put their trust in it.

00:38:31.500 And all of these investors have poured billions of dollars in under the assumption that something like the promise of AGI is going to be spat out the other end.

00:38:41.620 Right now, not so much.

00:38:43.560 But again, the really important thing isn't necessarily where it's at right now, but where it is going, what it's telling, what this release tells us about where it's going.

00:38:53.760 Just to mention one thing, Steve, you'd ask, like, are there other metrics?

00:38:58.140 There's one key test that a lot of people look to as is essential to sussing out whether a general intelligence is emerging.

00:39:07.620 It's known as ARC-AGI.

00:39:10.020 It was produced and developed by the team head by Francois Chalet, if I'm pronouncing that French name correctly.

00:39:18.500 And the idea is a kind of puzzle, right?

00:39:21.500 You have a reasoning puzzle that shows certain patterns that the computer or human has to complete.

00:39:30.740 Grok, Grok 4, actually performs better, apparently, than GPT-5.

00:39:35.420 So you can, it's complicated, but you can see how on certain metrics, such as the time horizon,

00:39:41.000 such as how efficiently or how quickly it can code, say, a two and a half hour long task,

00:39:47.200 the reasoning capability falls behind.

00:39:50.120 But again, if everyone is adopting this, in some ways, all of these statistics matter less

00:39:55.800 than the fact that human beings en masse are simply turning to machines for better answers than humans.

00:40:04.840 700 million people a week.

00:40:07.780 Joe Allen, we've got to bounce.

00:40:09.120 Where do people go to get all your content, brother?

00:40:11.640 Because it is cutting edge, and there's no hallucinations.

00:40:15.340 Zero.

00:40:16.520 Zero.

00:40:17.700 Where do you go, sir?

00:40:18.400 I certainly hope not, Steve.

00:40:20.460 You can find everything at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z, jobot.xyz.

00:40:26.620 And I will see everybody in D.C. very shortly.

00:40:32.500 Thank you, brother.

00:40:33.340 Appreciate you.

00:40:34.680 Thank you, Steve.

00:40:35.300 Philip Patrick joins.

00:40:36.140 Philip, I had you on here.

00:40:37.160 I want to talk about the temporary governor at the Fed Board, Steve Merritt, but I got to ask you.

00:40:41.300 I become more convinced of this every day, and I've never asked you this, but I got to throw it out.

00:40:45.480 The more we cover artificial intelligence, the more you see the crypto, the more you thank God for good old gold, don't you?

00:40:53.020 I mean, it has a certain anchor to human experience, right?

00:40:59.580 And you've got all this.

00:41:01.240 It's so hard to think through where artificial intelligence is going.

00:41:04.600 It's so hard.

00:41:05.240 We see the complexity of artificial intelligence.

00:41:07.340 You add CRISPR.

00:41:08.620 You add all these other things on it.

00:41:09.840 But I think gold is going to be more popular.

00:41:13.000 And I'm not predicting about a price, but I think it's going to be more popular or looked at by mankind as something that's absolutely stable as you go to all these cryptocurrencies.

00:41:23.840 And fiat currency kind of turns into a digital fiat currency.

00:41:27.840 Your thoughts, sir?

00:41:28.580 Yeah, I think you're absolutely correct.

00:41:31.240 And it is a frightening world we're heading into.

00:41:34.360 But even more than that, gold throughout history has shown itself to be a safe haven asset.

00:41:40.180 It's a contrarian asset, and it performs during tough times.

00:41:43.220 We're not seeing that with crypto.

00:41:45.100 We're seeing explosions there for sure.

00:41:47.320 What we don't understand with cryptocurrency is its relationships with other asset classes.

00:41:52.360 And at least for now, things like Bitcoin seem to be moving in lockstep with the NASDAQ.

00:41:57.760 What we're talking about here is a contrarian asset with thousands of years of history.

00:42:03.040 We understand how it moves in relation to other assets.

00:42:06.380 It's the opposite end of the spectrum.

00:42:08.380 I'm a gold guy, and I will remain a gold guy.

00:42:13.220 I mean, it kind of makes sense because since we came off gold in, what, 1971 with Nixon,

00:42:23.060 you see the deterioration of these fiat currencies and the printing of these fiat currencies.

00:42:28.380 You would almost think the human aspect, even the digital side, is going to be the same.

00:42:32.740 This is why gold's always been.

00:42:34.040 We say it's a hedge.

00:42:35.280 It's a kind of an anchor to win word, is it not?

00:42:38.280 It's exactly it.

00:42:39.300 An anchor is the best word to use.

00:42:41.800 Listen, when we were on a gold standard, things like runaway inflation just didn't exist.

00:42:47.640 I mentioned last time I was on, prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve,

00:42:51.720 inflation had averaged 0.4% a year.

00:42:55.540 Since the Fed have got involved, cheap money, juicing the markets,

00:42:59.520 we've created bubble after bubble after bubble, each one bigger and more perilous than the last.

00:43:05.480 So the evidence is there.

00:43:07.680 It is clear to see.

00:43:08.860 President Trump announced today, and it kind of makes sense.

00:43:14.480 You had this interim period of, I think, seven months, right, for a governor.

00:43:18.880 But they still have to get confirmed.

00:43:20.680 And he picked Steve Mirren, right?

00:43:22.840 He keeps his job because you can be dual-hatted if you have a government job.

00:43:28.100 You can't have a private sector job.

00:43:29.260 So someone like Larry Kudlow would have been ruled out.

00:43:31.940 As you know, we've been very much pushing Judy Shelton twofold.

00:43:37.800 Number one, because of what happened to her the first time.

00:43:39.700 But really, because I think it's very important, very important to have at least someone as a governor

00:43:46.920 that actually I think not just understands gold but makes the case for gold as a stabilizing influence in our currency.

00:43:55.200 Your thoughts, sir?

00:43:55.860 I couldn't agree more.

00:43:59.300 And it goes deeper than that.

00:44:00.760 She's been a critic of central bank secrecy and unaccountability for years.

00:44:05.940 She has been, as you mentioned, an open defender of sound money.

00:44:09.560 She's floated the idea essentially of a modern gold standard.

00:44:13.600 She's talked about the Fed's balance sheet.

00:44:16.380 And I love the term that she used, a weapon of mass distortion, meaning she understands very well the dangers of easy money.

00:44:25.360 She's also, and I like this as well, she's skeptical of the Fed's dual mandate.

00:44:30.840 She said she wants to focus back on stable prices instead of chasing full employment.

00:44:36.860 And this is sort of a tricky point, right, because we're talking about people's jobs here.

00:44:41.640 But ultimately, it's been this sort of prioritizing of full employment that has led the Fed, in my mind, to sort of stimulate and fuel these bubbles.

00:44:51.160 Look at the Bank of England as an example.

00:44:52.900 They have a dual mandate as well, but they prioritize stable prices.

00:44:57.560 So I think she's a very good pick for Fed chair. 1.00

00:45:01.340 Ultimately, the issues that we have at the moment would have been mitigated with sound monetary policy.

00:45:07.800 And she's a believer in that.

00:45:09.640 I think it's going to be a tough one, though.

00:45:12.460 Wall Street and the globalist crowd have hated her ideas for years.

00:45:17.740 But if she follows through and can get the nomination, I think we could see more discipline in monetary policy and more transparency in how decisions are made.

00:45:27.220 And I think it's very important if we want to reshape the Fed and create more trust.

00:45:32.000 So if it was my pick, I'd pick Shelton as well for whatever it's worth.

00:45:35.920 Let's say this.

00:45:40.020 Wall Street, when War Room pushed it, Wall Street did not stand up and salute.

00:45:44.860 OK, they are not.

00:45:46.080 The last thing they want is Judy Shelton in their life. 1.00

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00:47:49.720 So, Philip, Lula, instead of trying to take the temperature down, he's throwing more gasoline on this because he understands, folks, I can tell you, if you want a trigger word for the president of the United States, it's de-dollarization.

00:48:05.360 That's when Philip, remember, Philip, he spent a week in Rio, and they went out of their way not to mention it.

00:48:10.940 They were doing bilat deals, everything in the world to basically de-dollarize, but they would never say it.

00:48:16.520 Now, Lula, since there's a big fight about the Bolsonaro situation, tariffs, all of it, he's out today, I think, saying that he wants another round of bricks about actually driving the process of de-dollarization.

00:48:28.860 Your thoughts, Philip Patrick?

00:48:31.020 Yeah, he is just refusing to shut his mouth, and I can hear China cringing, but now he's formally initiated a WTO dispute consultation to challenge the 50% tariffs on Brazilian exports.

00:48:47.800 He's trying to frame it as a violation of global trade norms.

00:48:52.180 He is now refusing to engage directly with Trump, which I don't think is going to work in his favor, knowing President Trump.

00:49:00.420 But the concerning part is he's now pushing a coordinated block-wide response, planning calls with Modi, with China's Xi, to try and craft a joint strategy.

00:49:13.960 And this is what we've been talking about, right?

00:49:16.480 Initially silent, but now the calls are getting louder and louder and louder.

00:49:20.820 You know, it's no surprise to us, but like I said, if I'm China, they need a little bit more time.

00:49:27.040 Lula needs to quiet down, but he is refusing to do it.

00:49:34.440 You know, we partnered with you guys four years ago.

00:49:37.340 You and I talked about how do we help people understand this?

00:49:40.900 How do we help them understand as a hedge?

00:49:42.220 And we decided that people didn't really understand.

00:49:45.280 In fact, many people in business economics don't understand the concept of the prime reserve currency and how important the dollar is to the global system.

00:49:52.500 And so we started on the end of the dollar empire because we said, hey, whether we should be the prime reserve currency, it should be a national debate because it comes with all types of responsibilities.

00:50:02.120 However, you just can't come off it.

00:50:04.600 If you come off it, it could be like the British after World War II where the economy just kind of collapses.

00:50:10.560 And so we've done now seven installments on the end of the dollar empire.

00:50:14.240 Just go to birchgold.com, promo code Bannon.

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00:50:17.280 We're working on number eight and nine because Philip and the team took an entire team down to Rio and I think gave better wall-to-wall coverage than anybody.

00:50:25.220 Where we really understood how the world and particularly the world that is anti-Western and particularly anti-American, you know, the Chinese Communist Party, the Brazil are under Lula, not Bolsonaro.

00:50:37.800 But even people like although India's pledged, you know, field team, we, you know, India is a major strategic partners.

00:50:44.020 We're getting crossways with those guys now.

00:50:46.160 Of course, Russia is going to have this summit.

00:50:49.360 I just want to talk about how people work with you.

00:50:51.640 I think a great way to do it is come in and get information like the ultimate guide for investing in gold and silver totally free or end of the dollar empire where you learn the nomenclature, you understand debt, deficit, what's happened to destroy the value in the dollar.

00:51:05.120 Philip Patrick, how do people work with you guys at Birch Gold to talk about the ownership of physical gold?

00:51:11.660 And I'm telling you, folks, the more we go down the AI rabbit hole, the more you're going to want some physical gold, sir.

00:51:18.380 I couldn't agree more.

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00:51:44.680 It's also a free guide on how and why to invest in gold under a Trump administration.

00:51:50.240 So birchgold.com forward slash Bannon or text Bannon to 989898.

00:51:55.760 People have to understand how important this is today.

00:51:59.420 You know, I speak to people a lot and they feel like, you know, a bet on gold is a bet against the Trump administration.

00:52:06.740 And I want to make very clear that is not the case at all, right?

00:52:11.280 Gold has, in my mind, transcended politics in an era of huge deficit spending debt.

00:52:17.660 It has.

00:52:18.380 People need to remember under Trump's first administration, gold grew 50 percent.

00:52:23.160 And that was in a climate where the economic fundamentals were very strong.

00:52:27.140 Trump's got a tougher job in front of him today.

00:52:29.320 And I think gold will continue to perform through this administration and the next.

00:52:33.860 So birchgold.com forward slash Bannon.

00:52:36.520 Just get the information.

00:52:39.160 I mean, you think of the forces out there.

00:52:40.920 As long as these central banks are buying at record rates, as you know, the first six months of this year, this is after three, I think, two or three solid years of record rates of buying gold.

00:52:50.200 The Chinese central banks, all these central banks are buying at gold.

00:52:53.220 And I'm telling you, at record rates.

00:52:54.480 And with Lula stirring up the pot, they're going to be buying even more.

00:52:57.860 Philip Patrick, thank you for joining us on the day that we announced the interim governor over at the Federal Reserve.

00:53:04.000 Thank you, sir.

00:53:05.320 Thank you, Steve.

00:53:07.960 Judy Shelton should have that permanent seat. 1.00

00:53:11.400 She's a perfect pick for right now.

00:53:13.240 And President Trump picked her before.

00:53:14.460 We're going to get into all that, I think, early next week to go through the whole history of Judy Shelton and why people,

00:53:20.140 why Wall Street wants to keep people that have a great affinity and knowledge of gold off of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve.

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00:53:53.600 President Trump is actually quite on a roll right now.

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Bannon's War Room - August 07, 2025

Episode 4691： Trump Honors Purple Heart Recipients; Rise Of The Digital Demons

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