Bannon's War Room - August 30, 2025


Episode 4745： Trump's Power And The Rule Of Law Steve Bannon Exclusive


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

173.29227

Word Count

9,378

Sentence Count

686

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

On this episode of War Room: In the Year of Our Lord, 2025, host Stephen K. Bann sits down with the man who has been with us since the very beginning of the Trump administration to talk about what it was like to live through the early days of President Trump's administration.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:07.000 Pray for our enemies,
00:00:09.000 because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:12.000 Here's one time I've got a free shot
00:00:14.000 at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:17.000 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:19.000 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:20.000 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:22.000 but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:23.000 It's going to happen.
00:00:24.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:27.000 MAGA Media.
00:00:29.000 I wish in my soul,
00:00:31.000 I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.000 If that answer is to save my country,
00:00:41.000 this country will be saved.
00:00:44.000 War Room.
00:00:45.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
00:00:48.000 Welcome, it's Saturday, 30 August in the year of our Lord, 2025.
00:01:00.000 Welcome for my favorite show of the week.
00:01:03.000 I love them all.
00:01:04.000 They're all our children, but our favorite is the Saturday show.
00:01:08.000 It reminds me of, I tell folks working around the house with my dad,
00:01:13.000 my brothers and I, back when we were kids.
00:01:15.000 Every Saturday morning was turn two.
00:01:17.000 Of course, I had a paper rod and grass and stuff like that,
00:01:19.000 but you still had turn two for the house maintenance.
00:01:24.000 We had a house that was built at the turn of the 20th century,
00:01:28.000 so I always needed a lot of upkeep and a lot of work.
00:01:30.000 My dad was very much into the TLC.
00:01:32.000 We're doing something quite special today,
00:01:36.000 and I wanted to do it at kind of the end of the summer
00:01:39.000 where we're now getting ready to fire up the football
00:01:42.000 starting the next week when everybody gets back on Capitol Hill
00:01:46.000 and everybody's back from whatever vacations or holidays
00:01:49.000 they're able to tuck in at the last.
00:01:51.000 Like I said, I've never seen an August like this
00:01:53.000 where even the Augustes that we stayed in
00:01:56.000 and had fights over budget, et cetera,
00:01:58.000 I've never seen an August like this
00:02:00.000 and just the intensity of it.
00:02:02.000 And we want to pull the camera back today
00:02:04.000 and kind of go through something
00:02:05.000 that I think is good to prep the war room posse
00:02:08.000 and the audience for the fights going forward.
00:02:13.000 Remember, we've never had as action-oriented a president
00:02:17.000 or presidency than President Trump's.
00:02:20.000 Now, how'd this come about?
00:02:21.000 Of course, most of you were here with us
00:02:24.000 when the 2020 election was stolen
00:02:26.000 or even before they went to the pandemic,
00:02:28.000 the impeachment, the pandemic, 2020 election stolen,
00:02:31.000 and then went to the whole fight
00:02:33.000 in the illegitimate Biden regime.
00:02:36.000 But it's those four years in the wilderness
00:02:38.000 starting in January of 2021
00:02:41.000 when you had the Russ votes of the world
00:02:44.000 and the Dr. Kevin Roberts over at Heritage
00:02:47.000 and you had Stephen Miller
00:02:49.000 with the America First Legal Policy Group
00:02:52.000 and you had America First Policy,
00:02:54.000 all these different think tanks along with the political operation
00:02:58.000 of the precinct strategy and the grassroots
00:03:01.000 and getting grassroots organized.
00:03:03.000 That kind of, in that providential four years
00:03:06.000 after the election was stolen,
00:03:07.000 was able to kind of build through and think through
00:03:10.000 and get some depth to what saving the country meant
00:03:14.000 and what a second Trump term would be.
00:03:16.000 And that term's gone into...
00:03:19.000 We've broken that down into certain things.
00:03:21.000 You know, you had the networking of the kind of Project 2025
00:03:25.000 or all these different groups.
00:03:27.000 You had the networking and you had the policy.
00:03:29.000 And we had a structure of how that was going to roll through
00:03:32.000 with President Trump's presidency.
00:03:34.000 And if you think about it, just the immense,
00:03:36.000 what I call flood the zone of the executive orders
00:03:38.000 and all of it to begin, but it had a greater purpose
00:03:41.000 and a greater meaning, which was take on the administrative state
00:03:44.000 and to destroy the deep state and put the policies in
00:03:47.000 that would save the country.
00:03:48.000 Everything from closing the border, right?
00:03:51.000 To taking on the law firms and the universities and all that.
00:03:54.000 So, it's come together.
00:03:56.000 Now, Frontline, the PBS guys, and Frontline historically
00:03:59.000 have just done these amazing documentaries.
00:04:00.000 Now, they're always center left or rooted in the left
00:04:03.000 because that's PBS and these filmmakers,
00:04:05.000 but they've always been very powerful films.
00:04:08.000 Of all the ones, and many of you people
00:04:10.000 watch Frontline documentaries on all the topics.
00:04:13.000 This one they did is so important, and it came out.
00:04:18.000 Remember, they made it in February, March, April, May of this year.
00:04:24.000 It was put out just, I think, four weeks ago.
00:04:27.000 We played it in an evening edition over two evenings
00:04:30.000 in the six o'clock hour on War Room to, I mean,
00:04:34.000 rave reviews from the audience who obviously sees the leftward slant
00:04:38.000 but sees how they've come about this topic.
00:04:42.000 That documentary, Trump's Power and the Rule of Law,
00:04:45.000 is more relevant today on the 30th of August
00:04:49.000 than when it was even released.
00:04:50.000 Why? You're now seeing President Trump go next level,
00:04:53.000 whether that is with what's happening in Washington, D.C.,
00:04:57.000 with, you know, using the military to reinforce the police,
00:05:01.000 what's happening with the Federal Reserve, what's happening in all these,
00:05:04.000 what I call, seize the institutions.
00:05:06.000 And, as you know, our beloved maximalist strategy here at the War Room,
00:05:11.000 which is, hey, we're burning daylight.
00:05:12.000 You've got to put the pedal to the metal.
00:05:14.000 You cannot back off. You've got to go, go, go.
00:05:17.000 So this documentary, Trump's Power and the Rule of Law,
00:05:23.000 which has, you know, probably two-thirds liberal voices
00:05:26.000 and one-third Steve Bannon, Megyn Kelly, etc.,
00:05:28.000 it's made up over going all those people you saw in the,
00:05:32.000 I think it's a two-hour documentary.
00:05:34.000 Or maybe it's just under an hour documentary.
00:05:38.000 It's made up of all these voices you see in these snippets,
00:05:42.000 but those come off hours-long interviews.
00:05:45.000 And I granted these guys to come to the War Room
00:05:48.000 because I knew the quality of their filmmaking to come
00:05:51.000 and they just do a no-holds-barred interview.
00:05:54.000 We haven't, I think, had the opportunity.
00:05:56.000 I think we put it up on our Getter account and Rumble and others,
00:06:01.000 but I haven't had a chance to break it down
00:06:04.000 and actually show it to you guys.
00:06:06.000 And that's what we're going to do this morning.
00:06:08.000 We're going to break this down into pieces
00:06:10.000 and you actually see the raw material.
00:06:12.000 Well, like I said, we invite these people in.
00:06:14.000 It's no-holds-barred.
00:06:15.000 I didn't give them any limitations on questions,
00:06:17.000 how snarky they could be, how they try to trip you up, all of it.
00:06:20.000 You get to see the raw thing.
00:06:22.000 But I also think you get to see kind of the thinking
00:06:26.000 that goes into this process that's taken multiple years
00:06:32.000 to kind of manifest itself.
00:06:34.000 And that's what's manifesting.
00:06:35.000 And this is what, you know, Weigel and the guys at Semaphore
00:06:39.000 announced this poll that came out that showed that 53% of the Republicans
00:06:44.000 want to see President Trump run for the third term.
00:06:46.000 Now, I know some people are going to be offended by that, et cetera.
00:06:48.000 But, hey, that is what it is.
00:06:50.000 It's the power of this personality.
00:06:52.000 It's the power of the individual that's driving this.
00:06:55.000 But these ideas are powerful also.
00:06:58.000 That's why they need a powerful delivery system.
00:07:01.000 I'm very proud of this interview.
00:07:04.000 Number one, it is a, although it's very straightforward,
00:07:07.000 when PBS comes, these are very smart people,
00:07:09.000 and they've got their own angle of attack just like we do.
00:07:12.000 Don't, you know, we're not Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm here.
00:07:15.000 When we go and do an interview or you come on the war,
00:07:18.000 and we've got an angle of attack.
00:07:19.000 You guys know that.
00:07:20.000 And you're going to see it here.
00:07:22.000 So what we're going to do this morning is we're going to break this down.
00:07:25.000 We're going to see the interview from PBS in all its glory and basically the entire thing.
00:07:31.000 We'll see it, and I'll come back at certain times during the next couple of hours
00:07:35.000 and break it down for you.
00:07:36.000 What I want you to do is to take away from this what we need,
00:07:40.000 because starting Tuesday when everybody's back, we're going to be, it's going to be constant fight.
00:07:46.000 There's so many massive issues, starting from the budget deficits and how we finance the government
00:07:53.000 before the clock runs out on the midnight on the 30th of September,
00:07:57.000 all the way through all these different fights on the National Defense Authorization Act,
00:08:03.000 everything's happening in Ukraine and Israel, plus President Trump seizing the institutions.
00:08:09.000 Remember, first it was flood the zone, now it's seize the institutions.
00:08:12.000 Seize the institutions in a maximalist, maximalist strategy.
00:08:17.000 I'm very proud of this.
00:08:18.000 This is what you're about to see is the underlying interview
00:08:21.000 of which they extracted certain pieces for Trump's power in the rule of law.
00:08:28.000 And I remember Megyn Kelly and everybody else, Mike Davis, the viceroy,
00:08:32.000 everybody else went through this exact same thing to have these interviews.
00:08:35.000 So I'm very proud to present this.
00:08:38.000 We're going to be with you for the next couple of hours.
00:08:40.000 Make sure you take your number two pencil out.
00:08:42.000 Jot down any notes you have, get them up in the live chat.
00:08:45.000 And now we present Trump's power in the rule of law.
00:08:51.000 One place we're thinking of starting the film is the moment
00:08:55.000 when President Trump goes to the Justice Department to speak in the Great Hall.
00:09:00.000 I'm going today.
00:09:01.000 Tell me about what was going on on that day.
00:09:04.000 What was he doing?
00:09:05.000 What did you see?
00:09:06.000 What was the point?
00:09:07.000 Well, that's one of the keys to the unitary theory of the executive,
00:09:11.000 that in the office of the president is executive power of being the chief executive officer
00:09:18.000 of the United States government, being the commander in chief of the military,
00:09:23.000 the uniformed armed services and everything to do with national security in the military.
00:09:26.000 And third, which has really been lost since the Watergate, is he's the chief magistrate and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.
00:09:39.000 And the attorney general reports directly to him.
00:09:42.000 The FBI director reports to him.
00:09:44.000 And there's not this kind of it was hived off for 40, 50 years because of, quite frankly, the judicial insurrection that took place that removed Nixon from office.
00:09:57.000 When you look at Watergate and you think of Woodward and Bernstein, that's all kind of nonsense.
00:10:02.000 It was judicial insurrection.
00:10:05.000 A guy named Jeff Shepard, who was there, really has taken a couple of books and documented this quite well.
00:10:10.000 Afterwards, they tried to—the radical left essentially separated the attorney general, that entire system, particularly from Republican presidents.
00:10:23.000 And President Trump, I think that was a historic day, a very meaningful day to basically assert that the chief executive,
00:10:30.000 the officer of the president, is the chief magistrate and the chief law enforcement officer in the country.
00:10:35.000 That's sort of the theory of what he was doing.
00:10:39.000 Was it also personal for him?
00:10:40.000 Because he talked about that Justice Department being weaponized against him.
00:10:44.000 He's talked about lawfare.
00:10:47.000 Of course.
00:10:48.000 Look at it.
00:10:49.000 Look at it.
00:10:50.000 He said 92 indictments.
00:10:52.000 Jack Smith, the indictments around Jack Smith, I think, were 300 years in prison.
00:10:56.000 They wanted to put President Trump in prison.
00:10:58.000 Remember, they wanted Trump to die in prison.
00:11:00.000 They want Trump still to die in prison.
00:11:02.000 This game's not—this fight and battle is far from over.
00:11:06.000 If Hakeem Jeffries raises $2 billion, and this all comes down to a handful of seats in California and New York in 2026,
00:11:15.000 and if somehow we don't hold on to the seats, this very thin majority, the first action Hakeem Jeffries will take will be to move to impeach Donald Trump.
00:11:25.000 And if somehow the election's stolen in 2028, like they stole it in 2020, the first thing they're going to do is—it's all going to go back again to try to indict Trump and to try to indict people around Trump and put Trump in prison.
00:11:41.000 I say this all the time. It's quite evident. This is a long war.
00:11:45.000 It took as many, many decades to get here. It's going to take as many, many decades to get out.
00:11:49.000 And the Trump, particularly the phony Republicans that kind of say they're with President Trump, et cetera, are not in for this long fight.
00:11:57.000 This is a long, tough fight.
00:11:59.000 The left understands it's a long, tough fight. You see the way they organize around it and how they embed into these institutions.
00:12:05.000 This entire process we're going through now is to purge these institutions of this.
00:12:10.000 And it's a long, tough fight, and it's far from over, and it's going to last—to actually get it done will take decades.
00:12:17.000 When he's there, one of the things when you talk to Justice Department lawyers or former Justice Department lawyers that are sort of shocked by is that he's at the Department of Justice.
00:12:28.000 He's naming individual people, like Norm Eisen is one of them who he calls scum.
00:12:32.000 Absolutely. But that's just right there.
00:12:34.000 See, even in your question, they're—you just said it—they're shocked that he's there.
00:12:39.000 Now, think about that. And they are shocked. But you just—and just that question, you've answered for the American people exactly what the problem is.
00:12:46.000 The president of the United States, the chief executive, the office of the president, okay, who is the chief executive officer, the commander-in-chief, and the chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer,
00:12:57.000 they are shocked that he's in the sacred temple of the Justice Department. F**k them, right?
00:13:03.000 This is—this is what democracy is about. These are anti-democratic forces. They have to be broken.
00:13:08.000 They are shocked because the president of the United States, and worst of all, Donald Trump, actually soiled their temple by going in there.
00:13:17.000 I happen to think President Trump should go there every week and give a talk about lawfare.
00:13:22.000 This country, what they did is so radical in turning the apparatus of the government against its people.
00:13:30.000 It was almost like East Germany. We used to, on the show, in the years 21 and 22, tell people a film they should watch is the lives of others.
00:13:41.000 This amazing film about the Stasi in East Germany. It's in German.
00:13:46.000 And the war room posse, who are blue-collar, lower-middle-class audience, took to this film and loved it and could see exactly what was going on in turning citizen—
00:13:57.000 government turning citizens against each other. So, no. You're exactly right. They were shocked.
00:14:02.000 And they're going to be more shocked, because we are going to tear apart what they have done in the justice system.
00:14:10.000 And this is one of the big reasons of going after the law firms. We're going after the actual mechanics, right, the structure.
00:14:17.000 That's why what President Trump is doing and the team around him is so fundamental to basically get back to being a constitutional republic.
00:14:25.000 So, I suggest you take a look inside. Because I think you've changed already. You went and lost your pride.
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00:16:51.000 So the reaction though that he's doing what he's accused the other side of doing,
00:16:55.000 that he's weaponizing it, that he's...
00:16:57.000 Hang on, he's exactly the opposite. He's not weaponizing it.
00:17:00.000 He's doing the exact opposite. He's actually opening it up
00:17:04.000 and making sure and guaranteeing we don't weaponize it.
00:17:07.000 You haven't seen any weaponization of this Justice Department.
00:17:11.000 You haven't seen a huge, which, hey,
00:17:13.000 I think there should have been named massive investigations already.
00:17:16.000 I think the House should have named massive investigations.
00:17:18.000 I think we should have impaneled grand juries to the criminals
00:17:22.000 that we've driven out of here.
00:17:24.000 I'm a maximalist.
00:17:26.000 President Trump, I think, is being very even-handed on this.
00:17:29.000 He's going to go out of his way not to weaponize it.
00:17:31.000 I think you actually have to purge out the criminals that were there.
00:17:36.000 I think you shouldn't panel grand juries now. It'd be going hard.
00:17:39.000 I don't think we're going nearly hard enough.
00:17:41.000 And I think President Trump...
00:17:43.000 The left and the people that hate Trump should understand one thing.
00:17:47.000 In our movement, President Trump is a moderate.
00:17:49.000 He's somebody that balances every part of the equation
00:17:53.000 in thinking through what action should be taken.
00:17:56.000 And he makes, I think, decisions that are like Solomon, right,
00:18:01.000 very even-handed, if you see what he's doing,
00:18:03.000 compared to elements around President Trump.
00:18:07.000 And I consider—I'm proud to say I'm to the right of President Trump on this,
00:18:10.000 and always to the maximalist of what we should do.
00:18:13.000 We have to.
00:18:14.000 The system was so out of control and so dangerous to the American system.
00:18:18.000 American people, it has to be purged so it never happens again.
00:18:23.000 Let's go to the first day in office, signing the executive order,
00:18:27.000 starting at the Capital One Arena, going on to the White House.
00:18:31.000 He signed a lot of executive orders the first time when you were with him.
00:18:35.000 Was this different, the beginning of this term, the types of executive action?
00:18:38.000 It's no comparison, but here's why.
00:18:41.000 In the first—the first time we came from behind at the last minute
00:18:45.000 and closed and won, you know, a come-from-behind victory,
00:18:49.000 probably the greatest come-from-behind victory ever,
00:18:51.000 we had no time to do a transition.
00:18:53.000 It was a very small team.
00:18:55.000 And Chris Christie, the transition team, the books and the announcements,
00:18:59.000 it was a total joke.
00:19:00.000 He just had to throw it out. He had to start over again.
00:19:02.000 Also, we didn't have a deep bench.
00:19:03.000 There hadn't been—you know, there were a lot of Republicans,
00:19:06.000 but when you take over the government, everybody,
00:19:09.000 whether it's President Obama or President Trump,
00:19:12.000 you essentially have about 4,000 or 5,000 executives you put in.
00:19:17.000 3,000 to 4,000 you put in right away.
00:19:19.000 Another 1,000 have to be Senate-confirmed.
00:19:21.000 So you can hit the deck plates running with 3,000.
00:19:23.000 We never had more than 1,000,
00:19:26.000 because you just didn't have a deep bench of training.
00:19:28.000 The second time—and this is why the big steal stealing the 2020 election was providential.
00:19:34.000 We were able to—the two things we started right away was the political effort,
00:19:38.000 the precinct strategy to actually get some traction,
00:19:41.000 to build the MAGA movement, particularly with low information and low propensity voters,
00:19:45.000 so that President Trump could have a political wave to come back on,
00:19:49.000 and not just win the primary, but win the presidency.
00:19:52.000 The second part—and this is what was so powerful—public intellectuals,
00:19:56.000 who heretofore had been at places like Heritage and these other places,
00:20:00.000 bought into the idea that if we were coming back,
00:20:05.000 we had to actually have a policy prescription.
00:20:08.000 And so there you had, in the years 21,
00:20:11.000 you had coming up things like the America First Policy Institute,
00:20:15.000 under Brooks Rollins.
00:20:16.000 You had Stephen Miller's America First Law Institute.
00:20:20.000 You had Russ Vogts Center for Renewing America.
00:20:23.000 You had the Heritage Organization start to look at an umbrella,
00:20:27.000 maybe this thing called Project 2025,
00:20:29.000 which everything would come together.
00:20:31.000 It was twofold.
00:20:32.000 Number one, to build cadres, to actually build networks
00:20:35.000 and people working together that were subject matter experts
00:20:38.000 so that we could hit the deck plates running on an inauguration day
00:20:42.000 with as close to 3,000 people as you can get.
00:20:44.000 And I think we were the fastest.
00:20:46.000 Sergio Gore kind of heading up that operation, became very involved in it.
00:20:50.000 I think we hit 1,000, 2,000, and now it's close to 3,000 in record time
00:20:56.000 because we'd had years of going through and working with people.
00:20:59.000 On the policy side, you had all of this come together,
00:21:02.000 actually got published in a book, you know, mandate—I think mandate for leadership.
00:21:07.000 But it was many, many different elements of coming together.
00:21:11.000 One of the central aspects of that was the thesis of deconstruction
00:21:16.000 in the administrative state.
00:21:17.000 And in deconstructing the administrative state, first off,
00:21:20.000 you have to anchor that into a who's in charge, right?
00:21:23.000 And that's why you get to this unitary executive theory
00:21:26.000 of which it all comes together in the office of the president.
00:21:29.000 And so this time, I think I did your show years ago where I said,
00:21:33.000 hey, we're going to flood the zone and, you know, we're—
00:21:36.000 and I said, there you go, we're going to do two or three things a day.
00:21:39.000 If you go back in time, that was a huge deal.
00:21:41.000 It was a huge effort for us.
00:21:43.000 And if you look at some of our executive orders,
00:21:45.000 except for the travel ban, some of the executive orders
00:21:48.000 were a little shambolic, right?
00:21:50.000 Because you just didn't have the time.
00:21:51.000 Here, you've had years in major public intellectuals.
00:21:54.000 And the hidden story here is how many public intellectuals
00:21:58.000 we had that bought in to the fact that Trump was actually
00:22:02.000 coming back politically.
00:22:04.000 There was a buy-in by 22, right?
00:22:07.000 By 22, early 22, I think when Project 2025 came together.
00:22:10.000 But all these other elements had taken that first year,
00:22:13.000 along with Mark Meadows' group CPI.
00:22:16.000 So four or five of these came together in that year 21
00:22:19.000 and bought into 22 that we were actually going to win
00:22:22.000 and come back.
00:22:23.000 That is historic.
00:22:24.000 Because these people, I think, realized by throwing in
00:22:27.000 with kind of the MAGA movement and President Trump,
00:22:30.000 they were going to be excluded from the Ron DeSantis'
00:22:33.000 or Nikki Haley, more of the traditional Republican Party.
00:22:36.000 That effort's led to what this is.
00:22:38.000 This is why, on the very first day, you know,
00:22:41.000 they had a meeting with President Trump in Mar-a-Lago
00:22:43.000 around New Year's.
00:22:44.000 And I think Susie and the team walked through
00:22:47.000 and Stephen Miller walked through kind of a program of,
00:22:49.000 hey, we're going to do this.
00:22:50.000 And Trump goes, no, I want to sign 100 on day one, right?
00:22:53.000 I want to hit it and just overwhelm the system
00:22:56.000 with action, action, action.
00:22:58.000 And it came close to that.
00:23:01.000 They were a little more spread out,
00:23:02.000 but that's what we call it days of thunder.
00:23:04.000 And we monitor this every day in the war room.
00:23:07.000 I mean, at its height, there were 10 or 12
00:23:09.000 either executive actions, executive orders,
00:23:11.000 or other things he was doing, pushing legislation
00:23:14.000 or being Commander-in-Chief
00:23:16.000 and taking certain actions as Commander-in-Chief.
00:23:18.000 There were a dozen a day.
00:23:19.000 It overwhelmed the system.
00:23:21.000 I say all the time, there are six to eight major stories
00:23:26.000 or major things going on that even the mainstream media
00:23:29.000 can't cover.
00:23:30.000 The editors are too overwhelmed on assignments.
00:23:32.000 And to be blunt, they kind of bit,
00:23:35.000 because the mainstream media is kind of lazy.
00:23:37.000 They always want to go either to the court intrigue
00:23:39.000 or to the horse race.
00:23:41.000 They bit right away on Elon Musk.
00:23:43.000 And I kept saying this was like in the confirmation hearings.
00:23:46.000 A guy like a Matt Gaetz or Pete Hegseth
00:23:49.000 serves a purpose, and you draw all the fire?
00:23:52.000 You can get a Bobby Kennedy and a Tulsi Gabbard,
00:23:55.000 you know, because the media has a tendency
00:23:57.000 to want to focus on one big thing to tell the story.
00:24:00.000 The Elon Musk part of it essentially gave tremendous cover
00:24:04.000 for so many other actions that were taking place.
00:24:06.000 So Elon Musk, whether you like him or hate him
00:24:08.000 or think he's doing a good job, strategically,
00:24:11.000 he was perfect for what he did as far as media narrative,
00:24:14.000 because it all centered on Elon Musk in the Doge effort
00:24:17.000 where so much other stuff was going on.
00:24:19.000 Was that effort, was all of those executive orders,
00:24:23.000 were they part of an intentional attempt
00:24:26.000 to test the limits of executive power
00:24:29.000 to push forward what the president could do?
00:24:33.000 I think if you talk to President Trump,
00:24:35.000 when he talked to President Trump,
00:24:36.000 he's not looking at testing.
00:24:38.000 He's flat on, this is the way it is.
00:24:40.000 This is the unitary theory, right?
00:24:44.000 It works.
00:24:45.000 It's about in the office of the president,
00:24:47.000 give me the action.
00:24:49.000 I'm going to take these actions.
00:24:51.000 So make sure that we do it in a proper way.
00:24:53.000 Make sure we do it with executive orders
00:24:55.000 that are cleared by Office of Legal Counsel.
00:24:57.000 Make sure we've gone through all the process.
00:24:59.000 But it's action, action, action.
00:25:01.000 And if you look at every different element,
00:25:03.000 remember, for your viewers, of the 4,000,
00:25:06.000 let's say 4,000, 3,000 non-confirmed,
00:25:08.000 1,000 Senate confirmed,
00:25:10.000 of the 4,000 roughly individuals,
00:25:13.000 you get to staff a government,
00:25:14.000 whether Obama, Bernie Sanders,
00:25:16.000 or President Trump.
00:25:18.000 You're managing an apparatus that spends
00:25:20.000 about $6.5 to $7 trillion a year,
00:25:23.000 has assets, I don't know,
00:25:25.000 of, they say, $80 to $100 trillion, right?
00:25:29.000 And has people.
00:25:30.000 You have essentially 2.5 million civilian employees.
00:25:34.000 You know, people call bureaucrats
00:25:35.000 the civilian employees.
00:25:36.000 You have about 2, 2.5 million, let's say, military
00:25:39.000 or in the military.
00:25:40.000 But you also have contractors.
00:25:43.000 Now, there are 18 million contractors.
00:25:45.000 They've done a lot of this,
00:25:46.000 so they can get out of the pension situation
00:25:47.000 and healthcare.
00:25:49.000 But they have contractors.
00:25:50.000 About half of those contractors are the people that do the,
00:25:53.000 you know, clean the buildings,
00:25:55.000 do all that type of work.
00:25:56.000 About half of them are actually do administrative work.
00:26:00.000 Of that, about half, let's say 5 million,
00:26:02.000 are actually kind of executors are at that level.
00:26:05.000 So, essentially, if you add it up,
00:26:07.000 you have about 10 million people that,
00:26:09.000 individuals or billets that run the government.
00:26:12.000 And this is what you,
00:26:14.000 in deconstructing the administrative state,
00:26:15.000 this is what you want to radically take down,
00:26:17.000 kind of programmatically,
00:26:18.000 and make sure that the people,
00:26:20.000 the billets go with it.
00:26:21.000 In the case, in the court case that we're involved in
00:26:24.000 about the foreign, with USAID,
00:26:26.000 the controversial 2 billion.
00:26:28.000 Remember, the 2 billion,
00:26:30.000 the argument about the 2 billion,
00:26:31.000 it's paid to contractors, right?
00:26:33.000 Who did an executive action or actually took action.
00:26:36.000 They're not employees of the government.
00:26:37.000 They're not military.
00:26:38.000 It's that bucket of contractors.
00:26:42.000 And so, that is what the deconstruction
00:26:44.000 of the administrative state, right?
00:26:46.000 To basically take the bureaucracy,
00:26:48.000 but take it apart brick by brick,
00:26:50.000 is all about and the focus of it.
00:26:53.000 And many times it's with monies being paid to contractors.
00:26:55.000 And President Trump, I believe he doesn't,
00:26:58.000 when you talk to him,
00:26:59.000 he doesn't think of this as some theoretical exercise.
00:27:01.000 He says, hey, the office of the president
00:27:04.000 is endowed with this power,
00:27:05.000 and I'm going to take executive action around it.
00:27:07.000 And hey, just like he said on the travel ban,
00:27:10.000 if they want to take us to court,
00:27:11.000 let them take us to court,
00:27:12.000 but we'll win in court.
00:27:13.000 That's what I was wondering.
00:27:14.000 I mean, does he know unitary executive theory?
00:27:16.000 Does he know these ideas that lawyers around him have,
00:27:20.000 or is this an instinct for him?
00:27:22.000 Well, for one, it's obviously an instinct of an executive.
00:27:25.000 Remember Hamilton said in the federal,
00:27:28.000 the key when they were debating the constitution,
00:27:31.000 the key about the executive is that's where the energy's going to be.
00:27:33.000 That's the driving motive force of the government.
00:27:35.000 The framers of the constitution wanted a strong executive
00:27:39.000 and wanted an executive that drove the action.
00:27:42.000 It had that urgency of the moment.
00:27:44.000 That's President Trump.
00:27:45.000 I mean, he's all about action,
00:27:46.000 all about getting things done.
00:27:47.000 And you know, all gas, no brake.
00:27:49.000 So does he—yes, he understands the theory of it,
00:27:52.000 but President Trump's not going to sit there
00:27:54.000 and spend a lot of time with constitutional lawyers
00:27:57.000 debating the finer points of the constitution.
00:28:00.000 He sees the plan.
00:28:01.000 The office of the president is endowed with these powers.
00:28:05.000 Let's get on with it.
00:28:06.000 And when we get on with it,
00:28:07.000 let's look at the verticals that what we want to do
00:28:09.000 and make sure that we've got actions and executive actions
00:28:12.000 that can do that and executive orders that can do that.
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00:29:30.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:29:38.000 People should understand this.
00:29:39.000 Just because a guy sits in the Oval Office and signs things,
00:29:43.000 it doesn't mean it's happened.
00:29:44.000 This is the thing about the administrative state,
00:29:46.000 and then its rogue element, the deep state.
00:29:48.000 You have a massive bureaucracy that—
00:29:50.000 and they think whether the president's AOC or Bernie Sanders
00:29:54.000 or Donald Trump, they're the permanent government,
00:29:57.000 and they're just going to wait out anybody that's there.
00:30:00.000 They got their own way of doing things, right,
00:30:02.000 and their own processes.
00:30:03.000 It's called the interagency process, right?
00:30:05.000 It's this kind of apparatus of interchangeable players,
00:30:13.000 but an apparatus that's just going to wait people out.
00:30:15.000 You have to hit, with motive force,
00:30:18.000 anything to get it done in the bureaucracy
00:30:20.000 and make sure it actually gets done
00:30:22.000 so that on the deck plates of America,
00:30:24.000 where the citizens actually live,
00:30:26.000 those actions actually go all the way through.
00:30:28.000 That's what President Trump's focus on,
00:30:30.000 not some theoretical debate about this.
00:30:32.000 But you think about players that have had this.
00:30:34.000 It's actually pretty well thought through.
00:30:36.000 Mike Davis is a key player.
00:30:37.000 Now, why is Mike Davis a key player?
00:30:39.000 We call him the viceroy now, but he was absolutely unknown.
00:30:43.000 When I got to know him, he's the guy that put Gorsuch.
00:30:46.000 So we had a list of judges initially in the spring of 2016
00:30:51.000 to try to show that President Trump was actually a conservative.
00:30:55.000 Remember, they put the—
00:30:56.000 and I think Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society put it together.
00:30:59.000 Later, after I took on the campaign, we expanded that list.
00:31:03.000 I think another—I think we got it up to like 22 or 23 people,
00:31:06.000 to show this is in the heat of battle as we're moving forward to say,
00:31:10.000 hey, look, Trump is a conservative.
00:31:12.000 It's the only time it's ever been done.
00:31:14.000 These are who we're going to pick these judges from.
00:31:17.000 And it looks like there could be a couple of judges,
00:31:19.000 because Hillary Clinton was not forcing the issue
00:31:23.000 about Garland taking the Supreme Court role.
00:31:25.000 They wanted somebody more progressive.
00:31:27.000 And so this whole thing of the Merrick Garland billet or slot became quite big.
00:31:33.000 Mike Davis, who had worked for Grassley, and I didn't even know at the time,
00:31:37.000 he fought to get this young judge that nobody really knew, a guy named Neil Gorsuch.
00:31:42.000 Gorsuch is absolutely central to the entire thing, because Gorsuch, in the transition,
00:31:46.000 he kind of comes out of nowhere.
00:31:48.000 He sat on the five-man committee to select the next Supreme Court justice,
00:31:52.000 with Don McGahn and Mark Paoletta, right?
00:31:56.000 Who people—these are guys who are very focused on this theory of the deconstruction of the administrative state.
00:32:01.000 And Gorsuch was looked at as the young intellectual jurist about the Chevron deference.
00:32:06.000 And this is this policy or this court ruling that's gone on for 50 years,
00:32:10.000 that by law—by the interpretation of law, you defer to the administrative state to kind of govern itself.
00:32:17.000 He was—he had this theory that he had to go back to the courts.
00:32:21.000 He had to take away—strip away the power of actually the bureaucrats to govern themselves,
00:32:26.000 to manage themselves, to basically set law for themselves.
00:32:29.000 It was absolutely fundamental.
00:32:31.000 Gorsuch then became the first selection.
00:32:33.000 And I will tell you, it wasn't all that competitive.
00:32:36.000 Gorsuch is by his intellect and his opinions.
00:32:38.000 And the focus then was not so much on social issues.
00:32:42.000 Roe v. Wade, those things were considered kind of subtle law.
00:32:45.000 It was—the focus was going after the administrative state.
00:32:47.000 That's the legal aspect of what you see every day coming out of the Oval Office in this unitary executive theory.
00:32:55.000 And like I said, President Trump doesn't have time and patience.
00:32:59.000 I mean, he'll hear it. He understands it. Don't get me wrong.
00:33:01.000 We've been working on this for years.
00:33:03.000 But he's not sitting there looking for a debating society of constitutional scholars.
00:33:07.000 He's a man of action and said, hey, this is why he went after the—ran for the presidency in the first place.
00:33:13.000 This is why in his first term he understood the block—you know, blocking.
00:33:16.000 Just because you're president and sitting in the Oval Office and signing things and talking to the media
00:33:21.000 doesn't mean that your actions are actually flowing through this apparatus and having impact on people's lives, the American people.
00:33:28.000 What did he learn from the first term? I mean, we know about his frustration when Jeff Sessions recused himself.
00:33:34.000 We know Bill Barr was not cooperative in his attempts after the election.
00:33:40.000 There were clashes with White House lawyers.
00:33:43.000 What did he learn about lawyers from the first term that informs him the second term?
00:33:49.000 I think he learned that if you see the Mike Davises of the world and the lawyers that are there today, right,
00:33:58.000 and particularly people at the Justice Department, and look at one of the things that I think all of us learned,
00:34:05.000 because all of us used, you know, name brand law firms and white shoe law firms.
00:34:10.000 And, you know, we have the legal bills to show it.
00:34:14.000 After President Trump left in January 2021, your audience should understand that President Trump and the core team around him,
00:34:22.000 we were deplatformed by big tech. We were debanked.
00:34:26.000 All my banks I've been business with for 40 years—I was debanked by every bank.
00:34:30.000 I had all my credit cards cut off, as President Trump did—debanked, deplatformed.
00:34:34.000 All of our law firms fired us. My law firm—one of the top two and three law firms I used came to me and said,
00:34:41.000 hey, we love you. We have no problem with you.
00:34:43.000 But because you're associated with Trump, our corporate clients are saying,
00:34:47.000 if you're retained by Bannon, we're out.
00:34:51.000 So this is—and this is one of the reasons I detest corporations.
00:34:54.000 They're inherently—the people in them are inherently evil, right?
00:34:58.000 And you saw this in the whole DEI and the woke, but what they did to people, they were—they're a—
00:35:03.000 and this is this consolidation of power. This is why I'm such a neo-Brandeisian,
00:35:08.000 that this concentration of corporate power and governmental power combined can create oligarchs,
00:35:15.000 like you've seen on Wall Street in particular, like you've seen in Silicon Valley.
00:35:18.000 I think, President Trump, the years 21 and 22, which are never really looked at,
00:35:23.000 are the central ground of really taking the experience from the first term, but really thinking through.
00:35:30.000 Because people have to understand, there was never any doubt with his inner team and himself that we were coming back and winning.
00:35:40.000 That's what I think is lost on people. They sit here today and say,
00:35:42.000 well, this stuff's so overwhelmed. You know, Rachel Maddow's now doing the show every night a hundred days for the first hundred days,
00:35:47.000 because she's got to be the anchor. And they're like overwhelmed by these actions.
00:35:51.000 This gets back to the fact he had a core group around him and drew in public intellectuals,
00:35:57.000 and he had working class people in the precinct strategy. That team 100 percent, not just believed, but knew that Trump was returning,
00:36:06.000 Trump would win the primary, Trump would win the presidency, and that we had, starting on January 20th of 2025,
00:36:14.000 would have a mandate to make these changes, to basically get America back to being a constitutional republic.
00:36:21.000 Those years of 21 and 22, when we were deep, all our banks were gone, our credit cards were gone, no law firms.
00:36:27.000 What Boris Epstein did, I think is underrated. He put together a team, kind of a pickup team of lawyers, right?
00:36:35.000 Because none of the big law firms would represent Trump. And so in the years 21 and 22, of which the tremendous legal pressure came on President Trump.
00:36:44.000 And that's where he saw the power of these law firms. These law firms combined with these private equity institutions are too powerful.
00:36:52.000 They've actually taken on a life that the American people quite understand.
00:36:55.000 They're not like law firms when I was at Goldman Sachs about Sullivan and Cromwell,
00:36:58.000 or how powerful Sullivan and Cromwell was back in the 1950s and 60s with John Foster Dulles and his brother.
00:37:05.000 These are Bennett Williams in DC. This is more than being fixers. These are apparatuses that actually control the imperial capital
00:37:12.000 and are the linkage between the capital markets in New York and control of the political class in Washington DC,
00:37:19.000 which your audience should understand. These votes and people running around, that's all kind of pro-wrestling.
00:37:26.000 The decisions and the power are behind the scenes, right? And these politicians, because they have to raise so much money.
00:37:33.000 Look, $100 million was just spent in a race for a Supreme Court slot in Wisconsin.
00:37:40.000 Over $100 million in one state election. The size of the money that has to be raised in the power makes Wall Street
00:37:47.000 and the lawyers actually—and the corporatists actually more powerful against the people.
00:37:51.000 So this was many years in the making. In those years of 21 and 22, when the entire world was against President Trump and his team,
00:37:59.000 and it looked like the odds were so incredibly long. For the people inside, we didn't think there were long odds.
00:38:04.000 We said, hey, this is how it's going to play out. This has to be ready. And that's why you've seen so much action in the first 100 days.
00:38:13.000 I mean, quite frankly, more than I ever thought we'd be able to pull off. To wit, he's—and if you look at it, these are major things.
00:38:20.000 They're not minor things. He's totally redoing the geostrategic structure of the post-World War II world, right, from the post-war international rules-based order,
00:38:31.000 of which the American—you know, we essentially underwrite due to commercial relationships and trade deals, which were upside down in our security guarantees.
00:38:39.000 This is why our defense budgets are trillion dollars. This is why we basically provide the defense of Western Europe, the Gulf Emirates and the Middle East,
00:38:48.000 around the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea, and all the way up to Japan and Korea, around the rim of the Eurasian landmass.
00:38:53.000 President Trump is totally shifting that back to hemispheric defense, from the Panama Canal to Greenland in the Arctic,
00:38:59.000 in the Pacific, all the way to the island change to kind of hermetically seal the United States.
00:39:04.000 That, in and of itself, on any one president's term, would be monumental. That's one of a dozen things he's doing.
00:39:10.000 The trade—the trade situation he's done totally—geoeconomically, totally rewrites the wiring, the hard wiring of the international trading system.
00:39:21.000 Everything he's doing, whether it's on—look, we've sealed the border. The New York Times admitted the other day that the border's essentially been sealed.
00:39:28.000 And we were told by Republicans, when they tried to pass that legislation, this will take 20 years. You have to basically give amnesty.
00:39:35.000 You have to give this huge bill, which we were criticized. We fought tooth and nail against Lankford, and McConnell said it's not done.
00:39:41.000 It's proven now it didn't need to be done. President Trump sealed it. I call it all quiet on the Southern Front.
00:39:46.000 Right now, you still have the problem with deportations. My point is that these things he's doing are not small things.
00:39:53.000 This is not Bill Clinton's putting uniforms on kids in school. He is taking on the most fundamental issues, dealing with the sovereignty of this country,
00:40:04.000 and particularly putting not just the country first, but putting American citizens first in this entire globalist network.
00:40:10.000 The things he's doing are breathtaking, and the depth of what he's doing. And quite frankly, the media is only covering the very superficial nature of it because, one, just the staffing of the media.
00:40:22.000 I can understand editors sitting there going, hey, what are we going to do? What are we going to cover today?
00:40:27.000 The other aspect that I think is very powerful is he is doing something extraordinary, and he's trying to disintermediate the media.
00:40:35.000 And the way he's doing it is just about every day or every other day, when he has a signing, he'll just open up the Oval Office and invite the media in.
00:40:44.000 And he will give sometimes kind of a stream of consciousness of what he's thinking about, whatever he's signing or just what's going on.
00:40:51.000 And then he'll open up the questions and take all comers. I can tell from our audience, which is the tip of the spear of the Trump movement,
00:40:58.000 how much they're learning every day as president, because we covered all live. We'll drop any program and go live.
00:41:05.000 And they're the people most engaged, and they're learning every day. So I think it's just incredibly powerful.
00:41:10.000 It's totally changing what the office of the president is as far as the American people, the access to it, but the power that can be generated from it.
00:41:19.000 And we understand the people who he appoints to the top of the Justice Department, the top of the FBI, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and the critics who say they're chosen for personal loyalty.
00:41:30.000 They see themselves as his lawyers rather than lawyers for the United States.
00:41:35.000 What do you make of that, of who they are, how they're chosen, and that criticism?
00:41:40.000 Jack Kennedy chose his brother.
00:41:43.000 You know, Ronald Reagan chose his personal lawyer.
00:41:48.000 What, William French Smith?
00:41:50.000 Obama chose Holder, his bestie, right?
00:41:53.000 So I think those criticisms are just, it's just going to be the criticism, whoever you choose.
00:41:58.000 I think the team he chose, and at Justice, I love Pam Bondi, but Matt Gaetz was our guy, and I'm the huge advocate.
00:42:04.000 We sort of stuck with Gaetz, and Gaetz would be over there right now, and even be more aggressive.
00:42:09.000 I think the team's fantastic.
00:42:11.000 We made a decision at the show in War Room, and really the audience, that everybody had to be confirmed.
00:42:18.000 You know, there was a moment there they thought they were going to pick up, particularly when Gaetz stepped aside.
00:42:22.000 They thought they were going to lead with Pete Hegseth, and Pete Hegseth came within 30 minutes, I think, of having his nomination,
00:42:28.000 or maybe an hour of having his nomination pulled.
00:42:31.000 And our audience let it be known, it was all or nothing, and we were going to go up onto the ramparts,
00:42:38.000 and whether it's Joni Ernst or Tom Tillis or whoever's going to get in the way, you're going to pay a political penalty for that.
00:42:44.000 President Trump wants his team, he's going to get this team.
00:42:46.000 I think the team has just been terrific so far.
00:42:49.000 I think it's been great.
00:42:50.000 And yet, clearly, anybody wants to pick people who are in sync with what you're trying to accomplish,
00:42:56.000 particularly President Trump has a sense of urgency.
00:42:59.000 You know, Churchill had this thing in World War II when he took over as prime minister.
00:43:05.000 He'd get reports and things like that, typical bureaucracy, the administrative state then.
00:43:10.000 And he would write at the top in red, action this day.
00:43:14.000 He wanted action, right?
00:43:16.000 He wanted to make the apparatus work.
00:43:17.000 He knew he was in a wartime situation.
00:43:19.000 We feel the same thing.
00:43:20.000 I think President Trump feels the same thing.
00:43:22.000 So he wants people, not simply that are loyal, but also understand exactly what his program is going to be.
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00:44:48.000 War Room.
00:44:49.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Banff.
00:44:56.000 It's one of the things of having four years to get ready and to actually, you know,
00:45:02.000 refine, you know, particularly on the personnel side, you don't have some of the mistakes we made in the first term because we just didn't have time and we didn't have a bench.
00:45:11.000 Now we have a bench.
00:45:12.000 I think the team is really working in sync.
00:45:14.000 I think it's been terrific so far.
00:45:15.000 Early on, the attorney general sends a memo and says, basically, you know, I'm interpreting the law.
00:45:20.000 The president interprets the law.
00:45:21.000 And if you don't want to sign a brief, if you don't want to sign something, it's time for you to leave.
00:45:25.000 There's a big fallout around the Eric Adams case when the acting attorney-
00:45:30.000 I don't think there's been enough of that.
00:45:31.000 Once again, I'm a maximalist, but I think it's better to get it done at the beginning.
00:45:36.000 I would have requested all the resignations of the U.S. attorneys immediately.
00:45:39.000 And then I would have gone in, and this is something that's now a big controversial.
00:45:42.000 Can you actually get rid of the working prosecutors like SDNY or the Eastern District or Washington, D.C. or any U.S. attorney's office?
00:45:51.000 The answer to that is yes, and it should be done.
00:45:53.000 It should have been done immediately, and many more should be done.
00:45:56.000 They serve at the pressure—this goes back to Watergate.
00:46:01.000 This goes back—Watergate was a judicial insurrection.
00:46:05.000 The true story of Watergate is written by Jeff Shepard.
00:46:08.000 It is not Woodward and Bernstein.
00:46:10.000 It's not Deep Throat.
00:46:11.000 It's Deep Throat, people should understand, was the deputy director of the FBI, Mark Felt.
00:46:16.000 Think about that for a second, right?
00:46:18.000 The apparatus turning on a president.
00:46:23.000 It was a judicial revolt by the House Legal Committee, the Justice Department,
00:46:28.000 these radical lawyers of the Justice Department at the time, and Judge Sirica in the same corrupt court you've got down here in Washington, D.C. right now.
00:46:36.000 And that's the confrontation.
00:46:38.000 The confrontation that's going on in these courts with the president's actions goes back to Sirica in Watergate.
00:46:44.000 And this is—so when President Trump goes to the sacred temple of Maine justice, and Norm Eisen, these guys are shocked and they're upset.
00:46:52.000 And you have Weissman up there, you know, you know, on MSNBC, oh, this is horrible.
00:46:57.000 Fuck you.
00:46:58.000 He's president of the United States.
00:47:00.000 He's the chief magistrate and the chief law enforcement officer by the Constitution.
00:47:04.000 I think he should go to the Justice Department every week and make sure he has a talk with the lawyers and make sure he's—and make sure that they're in sync with the president of the United States.
00:47:14.000 People—the left is in very dangerous territory here because the same thing will happen to an AOC or Bernie Sanders, whoever comes in from the left.
00:47:22.000 If the apparatus doesn't like it, they're not going to do it.
00:47:25.000 And that's why the Constitution, the founders of the nation understood that.
00:47:29.000 They put executive power in the office of the president, regardless of whether it's Donald Trump or AOC.
00:47:36.000 It's the office of the president, and President Trump is going to fulfill that, and you're going to have some massive court cases about this because it's working its way up right now.
00:47:45.000 And this is a showdown.
00:47:46.000 One side is going to win and one side is going to lose on this, and our side is going to win.
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00:47:54.000 The guys do a good job, and they beautifully shot, I might add.
00:47:58.000 Of course, that's the billion dollars they just got cut out of their budget.
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00:49:13.000 I should say the late Billy Joe Shaver.
00:49:15.000 Get the behind me Satan.
00:49:18.000 That'll take us out.
00:49:20.000 And that is not implying PBS were satanic.
00:49:23.000 They were not.
00:49:24.000 They were real.
00:49:25.000 They were gentlemen and women and did, I think, a fantastic job.
00:49:28.000 And you see the answers right there.
00:49:30.000 Back in a moment for the second hour.
00:49:32.000 And I'll be breaking it all down for you at the top of the hour.
00:49:35.000 Short commercial break.
00:49:36.000 Billy Joe Shaver takes us out.
00:49:37.000 I'll be back in a moment.
00:49:38.000 I was headed straight for hell.
00:49:41.000 But I couldn't for my life figure how to help myself.
00:49:47.000 And I said, get deep behind me sitting.
00:49:51.000 For I command it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
00:50:00.000 The moon and stars were hidden by the shroud that clouded round.
00:50:15.000 By the shroud that clouded round.
00:50:18.000 I could see my loved ones weeping as they lowered me in the ground.
00:50:25.000 No word was spoken over me.
00:50:28.000 I almost thought I'd die.
00:50:30.000 Then I knew I wasn't dead.
00:50:33.000 And I had been buried alive.
00:50:36.000 I said, get deep behind me sitting.
00:50:40.000 For I command it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
00:50:49.000 I couldn't see my hand in front of my face.
00:51:06.000 I knew that I was buried in the deepest, darkest place.
00:51:09.000 I knew that I was buried in the deepest, darkest place.
00:51:13.000 The deeds I had done put me in this awful place.
00:51:19.000 Then I felt a stir inside me.
00:51:23.000 And a smile came across my face.
00:51:26.000 And I said, get deep behind me sitting.
00:51:30.000 For I command it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
00:51:39.000 Get deep behind me sitting.
00:51:42.000 For I command it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
00:52:04.000 Get deep behind me sitting.
00:52:07.000 For I command it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
00:52:14.000 Amen.
00:52:15.000 Amen.
00:52:16.000 Amen.
00:52:17.000 Amen.
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