Bannon's War Room - Episode 4926： Fighting For Everyday Americans; Sleepwalking Into 2026

00:00:00.000 Congressman Swalwell, thank you for joining us. You put out a statement shortly after this,

00:00:06.200 after this was made public, saying, of course, I will not end my lawsuit against him.

00:00:11.420 You also, your statement seemed defiant. You were resolute on that. You are not afraid. You have no

00:00:17.440 fear. And I know earlier this year, you noted that you knew you could be a target. Now that

00:00:24.200 this is out there and it's been out for a couple of hours, just take us inside your strategy

00:00:29.700 going forward, sir. And have you actually heard from the Justice Department?

00:00:34.440 Well, first, of course, these allegations are false, just like the allegations against Adam Schiff

00:00:40.680 are false and Letitia James are false and Lisa Cook are false. And a spoiler alert for you,

00:00:46.220 there will be allegations next week against somebody that will be false. No, the Justice

00:00:49.920 Department has not said anything just through leaked media reporting. But this is really about

00:00:56.400 Donald Trump going after his political enemies. And no one has been a more vocal critic than me.

00:01:02.040 And as you mentioned, I have one of the only remaining lawsuits against Donald Trump for his

00:01:06.560 role on January 6th. I don't wake up every day going to work to fight Donald Trump. I fight for

00:01:12.740 Californians. He just happens to get in the way. All he had to do was smash the oligarchy. 0.99

00:01:17.380 He's become the oligarchy. And all Trump has done this week is basically shill for the government

00:01:22.020 and for big business. Let me tell you something, baby. If somebody used to work for me, get a

00:01:27.960 podcast and they let people get on there and bash the hell out of me talking about an oligarch

00:01:32.560 and whatnot, I would have a problem. But Steve Bannon sat there and didn't say anything because he

00:01:36.980 agrees with what his guest was saying. If you remember earlier in the administration, it seems

00:01:42.640 like eons ago, but remember when Elon Musk said, we got to bring, we got to support the H1B1,

00:01:48.520 what is it? The H1B visa program, because we do need to bring in that talent. And Steve Bannon took

00:01:56.000 Elon Musk to task and the president to task and said, the president, you're walking away from what

00:02:00.360 you said you wanted to do for us. What are you saying? Donald Trump saying we don't got the talent?

00:02:05.200 Sounds un-American. Sounds unpatriotic. Why does he hate America? Why does the president hate

00:02:09.580 Americans? I need the president to speak up. Mr. President, why do you hate hardworking Americans in

00:02:14.800 this country? Folks, from where I'm from, the Midwest, what's going on? I mean, Trump has been

00:02:19.700 briefed on military options for inside Venezuela. That's on top of strikes against what the

00:02:26.160 administration says are boats carrying drugs in the region. Additionally, the Defense Department

00:02:30.640 is using very specific language while talking about this action, which is raising a lot of

00:02:35.400 eyebrows. Put up our full screen on what the H1B visa program actually is. The top applicants come 1.00

00:02:41.480 from India and China. It was established in the 90s to encourage talented people from around the

00:02:46.100 world to come here to the United States. You can see the number of new visas, 65,000 each year,

00:02:51.680 20,000 additional visas available for workers with master's degree or higher. He has cross pressures

00:02:57.200 now, Vaughn, which is, yes, he has the nativist wing of his party, but he also has all the tech bros

00:03:02.200 who are saying, hey, I need these workers. We're learning that President Trump just this week was

00:03:06.900 briefed on a range of military options that, as you mentioned, include conducting military strikes

00:03:11.800 inside Venezuela itself. Now, obviously, if the president decides to move forward with an option

00:03:17.540 that includes military strikes inside Venezuela, that would be a dramatic escalation of the ongoing

00:03:22.580 military campaign in Latin America. Our understanding is at this stage, Donald Trump has not made a

00:03:27.900 decision, though, how he intends to proceed. We also know that in the past, he has voiced some

00:03:32.720 reservations about conducting strikes with the intention of ousting Venezuelan leader,

00:03:37.900 Nicolas Maduro. At the same time, the Trump administration has gone to great lengths to

00:03:41.640 try to connect Maduro to drug trafficking and drug traffickers that they have since declared to be

00:03:47.500 enemy combatants and terrorists. And those have been the targets of these 20 strikes, these 20

00:03:52.640 military strikes that we've seen in international waters to date. And those strikes continue even as

00:03:56.660 Trump is mulling military options, potentially for Venezuela itself. And we're also learning that behind

00:04:02.440 closed doors, the Pentagon and military officials are really going to great lengths to try to

00:04:07.660 connect these drug traffickers to this theory that they are effectively the same as terrorists and

00:04:14.560 thus can be summarily killed without legal review. In a recent classified briefing, they were using

00:04:19.480 phrases like enemy KIA to describe the some 80 individuals who have been killed in these strikes.

00:04:25.180 And as you mentioned, that's really raising some eyebrows with lawmakers who remember that phrase being

00:04:30.360 used repeatedly in the war on terror to describe those individuals and terrorists described killed in

00:04:36.460 airstrikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obviously, some lawmakers wary of conducting an operation under a

00:04:43.260 similar pretense. But still, that does seem to be the way the Trump administration is couching and casting this

00:04:49.740 ongoing military operation in Latin America.

00:04:51.360 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:04:57.460 Pray for our enemies, because we're going to medieval on these people.

00:05:02.460 I got a free shot of all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.

00:05:09.460 I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:05:13.260 But you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

00:05:15.360 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:05:18.260 MAGA Media.

00:05:20.260 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:05:25.260 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:05:29.260 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:05:35.260 Save.

00:05:36.260 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:05:42.260 Friday, 14 November in the year of earlier, 2025.

00:05:46.260 Want to start off by signal, not noise. Let's go to the Treasury Department.

00:05:50.260 Joe LaRoyne, one of the special assistants to the Secretary of Treasury.

00:05:54.260 Everything is about, we're going to have some folks on later, Raheem Kassam, Roger Kimball,

00:05:59.260 two of the towering public intellectuals of the MAGA movement to talk about where we are right now.

00:06:04.260 As a movement and kind of looking down range to the talking about our institutions,

00:06:10.260 how we're doing on seizing them and looking down range to the midterms.

00:06:15.260 But all of this is going to revolve around the bets we made earlier in the year.

00:06:19.260 The big, beautiful bill, as Scott Besson, Secretary of Treasury now has said on this show for years,

00:06:25.260 it's the last chance for a supply side tax cut that really focuses on bringing in capital to manufacturing.

00:06:32.260 The entire trade policy, commercial relationships with the world.

00:06:38.260 The tariff policy now before the Supreme Court is also based upon bringing manufacturing jobs back here in the United States.

00:06:44.260 The entire thrust of President Trump's second term is returning America as a manufacturing hegemon.

00:06:51.260 Joe, give us Treasury because everybody's talking about affordability, affordability,

00:06:57.260 affordability obviously important.

00:06:59.260 But growth, jobs, GDP growth, all of it's the most important.

00:07:03.260 What's your perspective from Treasury, sir?

00:07:05.260 Thank you, Steve, for having me.

00:07:07.260 You know, you had a perfect lead in because what you want to do is create a supply side productivity boom,

00:07:14.260 because that does a few things which address head on the affordability issue.

00:07:19.260 Which, number one, is if you get a productivity-led supply side boom, because you have 100% expensing of CapEx,

00:07:25.260 and you've got this innovative, novel 100% expensing for factories, which is going to be for the next three-plus years,

00:07:31.260 that is going to encourage tremendous investment.

00:07:34.260 What that investment becomes encouraged is rising productivity.

00:07:38.260 When you have rising productivity, profits go up, and what we learned from the first Trump administration

00:07:42.260 and from the Reagan era is that when you have that CapEx boom occur, you get rising wages.

00:07:47.260 So nominal wages are going to surge as they were surging this year and as they surged under President Trump's first term.

00:07:55.260 Also, Steve, because you're increasing the supply side capacity of the economy,

00:08:00.260 not only is your nominal wage rate going to rise, but you're going to lower the cost of living

00:08:05.260 because the economy can produce more with the same resources it had before.

00:08:10.260 So you get a supply-side CapEx disinflationary boom.

00:08:16.260 That's the key part.

00:08:17.260 That's how you're going to improve affordability.

00:08:19.260 Your workers are going to get paid more nominally because of higher productivity,

00:08:23.260 and then inflation is going to come down, so the real wage is going to increase.

00:08:26.260 And then the icing on the cake is workers after-tax wages are going to surge next year

00:08:32.260 because of the one big beautiful bill which has substantial tax cuts for middle- and lower-income households.

00:08:37.260 Upwards of $200 billion in tax refunds is going to hit working-class Americans' accounts next year.

00:08:43.260 That's going to make things more affordable.

00:08:44.260 It's great.

00:08:45.260 It's just absolutely great news.

00:08:47.260 See, I don't think people, and my strongest recommendation is Treasury

00:08:51.260 ought to be out just banging on this every day.

00:08:53.260 Like, for instance, the tax refunds that happen around from the beginning of the year to April.

00:09:01.260 Walk me through again.

00:09:02.260 What kind of infusion into Americans' pockets will that be?

00:09:06.260 Infusion of cash?

00:09:08.260 And this was—and I give President Trump, with obviously Secretary Besson's help,

00:09:13.260 tremendous credit to getting that bill done on July 4th because you have to write these guidelines

00:09:18.260 so that the policies can be in place so that everyday working Americans can benefit from it.

00:09:23.260 So this past fall, the IRS wrote the guidelines for who is responsible for getting these no-tax on tips.

00:09:31.260 And it's really 21st century stuff.

00:09:33.260 So it's not just hardworking waiters and waitresses and bartenders and people who get tips,

00:09:38.260 but it refers to podcasters, social influencers, you know, these newfangled jobs that have been created.

00:09:44.260 They are not going to be paying tax on their tips effectively.

00:09:49.260 Additionally, overtime—you talk about a re-industrial manufacturing boom—

00:09:53.260 why are we taxing that extra marginal dollar that people want to work for overtime? 0.81

00:09:58.260 So when you add this all up, there are many private sector estimates that say we could have upwards of $200 billion in refunds

00:10:05.260 because the people who are going to benefit from this clearly have—you know, they didn't know the guidelines.

00:10:09.260 They weren't sure of the rules.

00:10:10.260 But now that it's in place, they're going to get a big refund when they file their taxes next year.

00:10:14.260 Then they'll change their withholding.

00:10:16.260 But we're talking potentially seven-tenths of GDP just from this one policy alone.

00:10:21.260 And again, Steve, as you know, it's money that goes directly into these hardworking Americans' pocketbooks.

00:10:27.260 You know, the supply-side tax cut on the capital expensing that drives investment in plant and equipment to return us to be a manufacturing superpower

00:10:38.260 with all those high-value-added jobs, good-paying jobs that then drive in communities all the services—the coffee shop, the dress shop,

00:10:46.260 the store where you get the gifts for the children, sporting goods, all of it, the real estate prices.

00:10:51.260 Then in addition, you have the commercial relationships in which President Trump is redoing all the commercial relationships around the world

00:11:00.260 to make sure that people have an option.

00:11:03.260 You can either move your manufacturing here to the United States, which we saw last Friday when we had the secretary on in Sumter, South Carolina,

00:11:10.260 at the magnets plant with the rare earths, or you can pay a fee.

00:11:15.260 You can pay a tolling fee.

00:11:16.260 Now, the Supreme Court is going to have something to say about that.

00:11:19.260 But do you believe right now—because you're seeing the beginning of the capital expenditure in the big, beautiful bill—

00:11:26.260 are you concomitantly seeing that at least the factories come back from this international investment?

00:11:33.260 I see a lot of headlines about international investment.

00:11:36.260 But is Treasury confident that that's happening and happening at the pace that eventually will have some sort of positive political impact, sir?

00:11:45.260 Yes, Steve, we're confident.

00:11:47.260 It's starting to happen.

00:11:48.260 On the CapEx side, it's important because it's not—everybody thinks it's just AI.

00:11:52.260 It's not.

00:11:53.260 Transit equipment, business equipment, industrial equipment, this transcends—this incipient CapEx boom transcends the AI story.

00:12:02.260 So that's already occurred.

00:12:03.260 The factory building will occur.

00:12:05.260 And coming back to the affordability issue, the fact that we've secured our borders and removed illegal immigrants will help affordability in two profound ways, Steve. 0.98

00:12:15.260 Number one, market wages will not be substandard.

00:12:18.260 They will not be below market because there's artificial depressant on the wage rate.

00:12:22.260 So wages will also rise because of that.

00:12:25.260 That will help affordability.

00:12:26.260 But also, because there was self-deporting and illegal immigrants removed because the president secured the border,

00:12:31.260 you were getting rents.

00:12:33.260 Rents are collapsing in price.

00:12:34.260 So shelter costs next year will come down.

00:12:37.260 You take the tariffs which are in place, and we believe that the Supreme Court rule in our favor,

00:12:41.260 you are going to get all of that capital to come in.

00:12:44.260 It's going to take some time because these trade deals were just written,

00:12:47.260 but everything is informed to make it work in a holistic, robust way.

00:12:52.260 And 26 should be a very strong year for growth.

00:12:55.260 Joe, thank you for coming on.

00:12:58.260 As I tell people, affordability is key.

00:13:01.260 You've got to focus on it.

00:13:03.260 But one of the ways you focus on affordability is you continue to focus on growth and particularly growth in jobs and growth in wages.

00:13:11.260 I know this is one of the top priorities for Scott Besson, Secretary of the Treasury.

00:13:14.260 Joe, social media, where do people track you?

00:13:17.260 At Lavornianomics, and the Secretary could be found at SEC, Scott Besson, and of course, at U.S. Treasury.

00:13:24.260 Thank you again, Steve.

00:13:25.260 Thank you, brother.

00:13:26.260 Appreciate you.

00:13:27.260 I always like starting off Friday with something very serious.

00:13:34.260 We have two of our best are going to follow.

00:13:38.260 We've got Roger Kimball.

00:13:39.260 We've got Raheem Kassam.

00:13:41.260 And look, I'm very proud over the last couple of days that we've had people like Richard Barris

00:13:47.260 and people like Mark Mitchell and others that are on here saying, hey, something looks like we're a little off track here.

00:13:53.260 But this is the platform for the leadership of the MAGA movement.

00:13:59.260 This is a platform for the grassroots.

00:14:01.260 This is a platform for the vanguard of this populist, nationalist, traditionalist revolution.

00:14:09.260 That's why people listen.

00:14:10.260 That's why people take action because we allow the folks that drive this.

00:14:14.260 And quite frankly, you can't sugarcoat it.

00:14:16.260 It's easily correctable.

00:14:18.260 Number one is just messaging.

00:14:19.260 Some of the hardest work has been done.

00:14:21.260 It's just not talked about.

00:14:23.260 It's lost in some of the, you know, maybe some of the foreign issues, some of where the focus has been, et cetera.

00:14:29.260 But we've made some bets here, folks, and these bets cannot be unwound.

00:14:34.260 Now they're working.

00:14:37.260 You've got to show people how they're working, not promote them, but show them how they're working.

00:14:43.260 The supply side tax cut in this massive, massive reorientation of the world's commercial relationships around the United States as a manufacturing superpower.

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00:16:37.260 Okay.

00:16:38.260 Welcome back.

00:16:39.260 We are fortunate enough that we're going to have Sam Tannenhaus actually in studio at the

00:16:46.260 War Room.

00:16:47.260 I'm going to try to do it so we can show it tomorrow, a part of it tomorrow.

00:16:50.260 Hope to do it for a couple of hours because it's his new book on Buckley, The Life in the

00:16:54.260 Revolution that Changed America.

00:16:56.260 So we're going to talk about the revolution.

00:16:59.260 Also, he wrote an incredible book on Whitaker Chambers and starting in 2009 when I first,

00:17:05.260 because he's a, he's, I think I would say a liberal Democrat who used to, I think it

00:17:10.260 was New York Review of Books, he was the editor.

00:17:12.260 He wrote The Death of Conservatism back in 2008 or 9, which was really a book that got

00:17:18.260 me thinking about very much how the Republican Party had been an absolute total failure after

00:17:24.260 the financial implosion and of course the Iraq, Afghan wars and the other disasters of

00:17:30.260 standard stock Republicans.

00:17:31.260 So Tannenhaus will be here and we're looking forward to that.

00:17:35.260 I think he can explain a lot.

00:17:37.260 Books are magnificent.

00:17:38.260 The Buckley book is great, although it weighs in at a thousand pages.

00:17:42.260 The Whitaker Chambers book, best biography of Whitaker Chambers ever.

00:17:46.260 And if you have a deep rooted Christian faith and you're always concerned about atheistic

00:17:53.260 communism or atheistic Marxism, it's a fantastic book to reinforce your beliefs.

00:17:58.260 And Death of Conservatism I think is one of the most brilliant books written about conservative

00:18:03.260 politics.

00:18:04.260 So Sam Tannenhaus.

00:18:05.260 In that same, we talked Buckley, Roger Kimball.

00:18:08.260 Roger, you're one of the smartest guys I think around and certainly the MAGA movement, one

00:18:13.260 of our top public intellectuals.

00:18:15.260 The pieces you have on, we have you on all the time.

00:18:18.260 But you wrote something that I think gets to the moment where we are.

00:18:23.260 It was about heritage.

00:18:24.260 I would like you to take the floor and walk me through the argument of one Roger Kimball,

00:18:29.260 sir.

00:18:30.260 Well, a few weeks ago, Kevin Roberts caused a storm when a very short video that he taped

00:18:43.260 was released.

00:18:44.260 He was supporting Tucker Carlson, saying heritage is and will always be a friend of Tucker Carlson.

00:18:53.260 And this caused great unhappiness.

00:18:58.260 Personally, I've written this.

00:19:00.260 I think that video was ill-judged.

00:19:03.260 Whoever wrote it, I think I know who wrote it, but I think he should have, as I put it,

00:19:09.260 run a kind of rhetorical Geiger counter over the script of that brief video because it offended

00:19:18.260 a lot of people.

00:19:19.260 And I don't think Kevin, who's a friend of mine, has done as well as he might have done

00:19:27.260 in cleaning it up.

00:19:30.260 That said, the attack on him has been, I think, really unhinged.

00:19:38.260 The Wall Street Journal, I've lost count of how many pieces against Kevin they've written.

00:19:45.260 Initially, I thought it was fine.

00:19:48.260 Everybody is, you know, susceptible to criticism.

00:19:52.260 Nobody's perfect.

00:19:53.260 And another friend of mine, Dominic Green, wrote a robust critical piece about Kevin.

00:19:59.260 I thought, although I didn't agree with every single thing he had to say, I thought that

00:20:04.260 was okay.

00:20:05.260 But then it's just peace after peace after peace.

00:20:09.260 And it occurred to me that actually the issue is not Kevin Roberts or Tucker Carlson or Nick

00:20:18.260 Fuentes, somebody who I only recently became aware of.

00:20:24.260 The issue is Donald Trump's agenda, the Make America Great Again agenda.

00:20:31.260 Heritage under Kevin Roberts has been pretty closely aligned with that agenda on trade, on foreign

00:20:42.260 policy, on social issues, pretty much across the board.

00:20:50.260 And I think that what we're watching now is a kind of proxy war where Kevin Roberts and Tucker

00:20:59.260 and others are just kind of cutouts for the unhappy denizens of what people call conservative ink.

00:21:12.260 And they are hoping to stage a comeback by using the rhetorical moral cover of anti-Semitism to

00:21:29.260 further their own anti-MAGA agenda.

00:21:33.260 The idea that Kevin Roberts is somehow anti-Semitic is calm, really.

00:21:40.260 I mean, immediately after October 7th, after the Moss massacre in Israel, he established a task

00:21:50.260 force to battle anti-Semitism.

00:21:54.260 Victoria Coates, a scholar at Heritage, has been leading some of those efforts.

00:22:02.260 It's very robust.

00:22:04.260 And I would say that it's a kind of gigantic misunderstanding, but it's not a misunderstanding.

00:22:15.260 This is the next front of the battle between the deep state and the Donald Trump agenda,

00:22:28.260 the Make America Great Again agenda.

00:22:33.260 Someone during Trump's first term talked about the need to deconstruct the administrative

00:22:42.260 state.

00:22:43.260 I believe it was one S.

00:22:44.260 Bannon.

00:22:45.260 And that indeed is the task before us.

00:22:49.260 But when I read things like I read just the other day that Mike Pence is considering a

00:22:55.260 20-28 run.

00:22:56.260 Now, that's not going to happen, I believe.

00:22:59.260 But that just tells you what we're up against.

00:23:02.260 And the real battle here is not between Kevin Roberts and his support for Tucker.

00:23:11.260 The real battle is between the Make America Great Again agenda.

00:23:17.260 I like to spell out the acronym because often these days people use the term, the acronym MAGA,

00:23:25.260 as a term of abuse.

00:23:27.260 But if you think about it, if you say the whole thing, Make America Great Again, then it sounds

00:23:32.260 a little different, doesn't it?

00:23:34.260 So that's sort of my, in brief, that's my take on the issue.

00:23:40.260 Well, it's brilliant.

00:23:41.260 I'm not sure.

00:23:42.260 Let's put a pin in the deep state part of it because I think it's just the neoliberal,

00:23:46.260 neocon mentality of the Murdochs in the Wall Street Journal.

00:23:49.260 Those pieces in the Wall Street Journal, you're right.

00:23:52.260 Paul Gijo, every other day, has some piece.

00:23:55.260 That's not for the masses.

00:23:57.260 Those are for the donors.

00:23:58.260 They're telling the donors that you donors have to move on, Kevin.

00:24:03.260 Rahim, I want your comments.

00:24:05.260 Listen, it wasn't the length of the video.

00:24:11.260 The video had a phrase, he said the quiet part out loud, the venomous coalition.

00:24:16.260 Let me repeat that.

00:24:18.260 The venomous coalition that drives so many decisions and is so toxic, right?

00:24:24.260 And we're going to have Laura Loomer on at 11 o'clock. 0.89

00:24:26.260 And her courage and what she's done this week in Israel about the sovereignty of Israel is quite remarkable.

00:24:33.260 And this is why I've always been a big fan of Laura Loomer's.

00:24:36.260 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:24:37.260 The venomous coalition.

00:24:38.260 And then what you saw, and I think the people at Heritage will never wash this shame off because the camera was on you. 0.94

00:24:46.260 The struggle session they put Kevin Roberts through was revolting, was revolting and disgusting.

00:24:54.260 And I say this as someone who volunteered.

00:24:57.260 I volunteered with Kurt Mills to go debate these guys, Victoria Coates and whoever they had. 1.00

00:25:02.260 Bring the best you got.

00:25:03.260 They chickened out.

00:25:04.260 They backed off.

00:25:05.260 Because they can't sit on an open stage and debate the Israel First movement.

00:25:10.260 It's obscene. 0.99

00:25:11.260 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:25:13.260 It's not even at a level that adults should consider it. 0.92

00:25:16.260 The evidence that backs up, oh, no, it's not Israel First.

00:25:19.260 It's a joke. 1.00

00:25:20.260 And for Kurt Coates, who I think is dumb as a brick. 1.00

00:25:22.260 I thought she was dumb as a brick in the first thing. 1.00

00:25:24.260 She just Ted Cruz's lackey. 0.99

00:25:26.260 So Raheem, your thoughts on Roger Kimball and his piece today.

00:25:31.260 Yeah.

00:25:32.260 Well, you know, Roger is a very kind person.

00:25:36.260 And Roger is also far more polite than I am.

00:25:41.260 I have had my times going to war with Heritage over the last decade or so specifically.

00:25:48.260 I think they actually refused to allow me in the building for reporting on the fact that they were taking a lot of money from the big tech firms some years ago.

00:25:59.260 So I have longstanding animosity with them.

00:26:02.260 But on the other hand, as people know, you know, I was I was a vocal supporter of their project.

00:26:08.260 Twenty twenty five effort.

00:26:09.260 I'm a vocal supporter of Paul Dan's and the effort he is currently undertaking in South Carolina, by the way.

00:26:15.260 And everybody should get behind him there against Lady Lindsay.

00:26:18.260 So so, you know, swings and roundabouts for me on Heritage right now.

00:26:22.260 The the underlying part of this for me, which I cannot stand, you know, I was walking by their building the day before yesterday.

00:26:30.260 And there are leftists just clad like homeless people shouting through megaphones at anybody that they perceive to be a heritage staff or a heritage visitor or a heritage guest or somebody who's in the neighborhood who happens to be a conservative.

00:26:51.260 And I look at that happening on their doorstep and I look at the way that they allow their staff to be under siege and allow anybody who is a conservative in the neighborhood to be under siege.

00:27:02.260 We know who these people are. We know who these protesters are. We know who's paying them.

00:27:06.260 And yet we spend all of this time doing what?

00:27:09.260 Forcing the president of the organization to look down the barrel of a camera and atone for a sin that he never committed in the first instance.

00:27:16.260 This is this is the remarkable thing about the conservative incorporated movement that you and I and Roger and so many others we have witnessed firsthand.

00:27:27.260 You guys, unfortunately, for a little longer than I have.

00:27:30.260 But but I have been there with you as long as I could have been.

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00:28:51.260 Roger Kimball, one of the things that shows is that as much as the MAGA movement, we've brought new voters in, we've turned this to a working class, working class party, middle class party from the country club establishment.

00:29:05.260 It was. But that when you really look on Capitol Hill, there's really just a couple. I mean, they fear Trump and they'll kowtow to Trump like Lindsey Graham will kowtow to Trump to get the endorsement.

00:29:15.260 But he's the farthest thing from MAGA. He's a neoliberal neocon to the ultimate extent.

00:29:20.260 So that when you really look at people up here that are elected, you have very few. The RNC is not MAGA at all. I mean, it's a little more when Laura Trump is on top of things.

00:29:30.260 But Watley's not MAGA. And one of the reasons he's running so poorly in North Carolina, if you talk to the MAGA folks down there, they're just not they're just not enthusiastic about it.

00:29:39.260 And, you know, you do have these new institutions. Kevin Roberts is trying to change heritage. He tried to do it in 2025 in the years in the wilderness.

00:29:50.260 The reason they hate him is because of that. But conservative Inc. and the Republican donor establishment think we're going to revert back to neoliberal neocon.

00:30:00.260 Yes. The Daily Telegraph and Robert Crowley, who's one of the best reporters in D.C., he's a Brit who used to be the Daily Mail is now the Daily Telegraph.

00:30:08.260 He had a brilliant piece. Ted Cruz kicked off his campaign a couple of weeks ago because he goes to RJC.

00:30:13.260 He's going to get all the big Jewish donors in back of him. He's going to run his Israel first candidate. 0.67

00:30:18.260 Mike Pence is kicking tires. All the Republican establishment, you know, little Marco, we got this situation in Venezuela that, you know, everybody's trying to figure out exactly what we're doing.

00:30:27.260 But the reality is they hate Trump. They hate MAGA. They hate populism. They hate economic nationalism. They hate every aspect of it.

00:30:36.260 They'll give us a few things in the cultural side and pat you on the head.

00:30:39.260 And they love the fact that you bring out working class voters that they can never get to. 0.99

00:30:44.260 But they they would rather as they've done for years, they would rather be in the minority where they're feeding off the carcass in the managed decline of the country than to fight.

00:30:55.260 These people don't want to fight. They don't want to be turfed out of their private clubs.

00:30:58.260 They want to be not accepted to the literary societies they belong to.

00:31:02.260 They don't they don't want to be kicked out of the with the kids to be kicked out of the whiffing poofs at Yale. 1.00

00:31:07.260 It's all of it, sir.

00:31:09.260 Yes.

00:31:10.260 Yeah.

00:31:11.260 Well, I think a little more highly of Ted Cruz than you do, but I believe that to one side.

00:31:16.260 And Marco Marco's been, you know, he he has surprised me.

00:31:20.260 I think he's been he's been a good spokesman for Donald Trump.

00:31:24.260 All I'm saying about Ted Cruz, whether you think Ted Cruz is great, because the constitutional conservative guys are going to get Ted Cruz is not MAGA.

00:31:33.260 Ted Cruz never lifted a finger on the invasion of the southern border.

00:31:37.260 My point is he's a classic.

00:31:38.260 He's a classic Republican, but he's already started his 28 campaign because they know that, hey, once Trump's gone, you know,

00:31:47.260 the Raheem Kassams and the Roger Kimbles and the Steve Bannons, this is all this is all floats him and jets him.

00:31:53.260 Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead, sir.

00:31:54.260 Yeah. I was talking to I was talking to someone else recently.

00:31:57.260 I don't think that's going to happen myself.

00:31:59.260 Ted Cruz in 28.

00:32:00.260 But I think it's going to be J.D. Vance or possibly Marco.

00:32:06.260 But I myself, I prefer J.D., but we'll see.

00:32:11.260 It's it's it's that's a law.

00:32:12.260 And, you know, Harold Wilson said a week is a long time in politics.

00:32:16.260 And three years is is an eternity.

00:32:19.260 So a lot.

00:32:20.260 About 28.

00:32:22.260 First off, we have to get by 26, which Raheem's going to get on this.

00:32:25.260 Yes.

00:32:26.260 But however, I will tell anybody in that administration, J.D., Marco.

00:32:30.260 Yeah.

00:32:31.260 If you're not if you're not blowing the tech bros right now, they're owned by the tech bros.

00:32:35.260 They're owned by the broligarchs and owned by David Sachs in this crowd. 0.96

00:32:38.260 The big fight coming for for MAGA is not really conservative because they're not as powerful they were.

00:32:44.260 Powerful they were. But the tech bros are they believe they're dominant.

00:32:48.260 They believe they're taking over the Maha movement.

00:32:50.260 They're taking over the MAGA movement.

00:32:52.260 They got guys, this guy, Isaacman, whoever at the White House.

00:32:55.260 And I know who you are.

00:32:56.260 They got Isaacman back in his head at NASA.

00:32:59.260 Right.

00:33:00.260 Who's just going to give contracts to Elon that whole game of the tech bros is going to come to crashing down in an end.

00:33:07.260 OK, it's going to be brutal, but it's got to be done.

00:33:09.260 We cannot allow these guys who are all progressive Democrats.

00:33:12.260 They're all progressive Democrats hiding.

00:33:15.260 They're the wolves in sheep's clothing.

00:33:17.260 So if you're in the White House not standing up to it, then you're part of the problem.

00:33:21.260 And that's all going to get exposed.

00:33:23.260 But do you do agree that the conservative ink that you talk about, it's a long way from dead.

00:33:30.260 They just they just think we're a passing summer storm.

00:33:33.260 That's right.

00:33:34.260 Well, they are hoping to wait Trump out.

00:33:36.260 But three and a half years or a little less than that now, that's a long time.

00:33:41.260 And the I think everyone is even I was astonished at the alacrity with which Trump has moved.

00:33:47.260 I mean, he's been a positive whirlwind of activity and he's gotten, you know, a lot done.

00:33:53.260 There's a lot more to do.

00:33:54.260 People are very impatient.

00:33:56.260 Why, you know, why hasn't this person been indicted or why hasn't this this promise been fulfilled?

00:34:01.260 But Trump has actually fulfilled a lot of promises.

00:34:04.260 And, you know, people say, well, if you get 70 percent of what you want, you should be happy.

00:34:10.260 I think we're we're batting a little higher than that.

00:34:13.260 And, you know, one of the things I worry about, frankly, is internecine squabbling.

00:34:21.260 I think that for us to continue to win, we need as far as possible to be able to stick together.

00:34:28.260 We're not going to agree on every issue.

00:34:30.260 But, you know, we need each other and those people who are who are on our side.

00:34:38.260 And I think we want to have a, you know, pretty, pretty big tent as far as we can.

00:34:44.260 Yes.

00:34:45.260 And I'm, you know, I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'm I've it wasn't just heritage, by the way.

00:34:51.260 There is a very similar event happened at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute a couple of days ago when their chairman of the board and and I think president or some other board member suddenly resigned saying this is terrible.

00:35:09.260 Well, they've let in all of these these post liberal people who are people like Steve Bannon.

00:35:16.260 They're listening to Curtis Yarvin.

00:35:18.260 That's terrible.

00:35:19.260 We have to we have to kick the the the current president out and start over again.

00:35:25.260 I wonder whether it was that an accident that had happened just days after the heritage blow up or was it somehow coordinated?

00:35:35.260 I don't know.

00:35:36.260 Was it the invisible hand of of the zeitgeist moving so that the the the people who are on the board at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute somehow felt moved to to make these objections?

00:35:51.260 I don't know the answer to that, but I think it's it's kind of a bad sign.

00:35:55.260 I think we should insofar as it's possible, you know, stick together and we've got we're going to have a lot of battles in front in front of us to maintain.

00:36:05.260 Let's not even call it the Trump agenda.

00:36:07.260 It's you know, that's make the make America great again agenda.

00:36:11.260 Well, it is Trump agenda.

00:36:12.260 Anyway, Roger, where can people get you social media?

00:36:15.260 Oh, yeah.

00:36:16.260 Criterion at the books.

00:36:17.260 Yeah.

00:36:18.260 Yeah.

00:36:19.260 At at Roger Kimball dot com.

00:36:21.260 As I think I said to you the last time we spoke, I'm just about to start a sub stack column.

00:36:26.260 So, wow, it's shortly you'll be able to see that, too.

00:36:29.260 That'll be cool.

00:36:30.260 We the day you launch your sub stack.

00:36:32.260 We want to have here.

00:36:33.260 We want to drive a bunch of traffic to it.

00:36:34.260 We think sub stack is fantastic.

00:36:36.260 You do it.

00:36:37.260 Let us know.

00:36:38.260 We'll do.

00:36:39.260 Roger Kimball brother.

00:36:40.260 Thank you.

00:36:41.260 Take care.

00:36:42.260 Raheem Kassam, your thoughts?

00:36:44.260 I have a sub stack also.

00:36:47.260 I don't use it as much as I'm sure Roger will.

00:36:50.260 He's no way.

00:36:51.260 Hold it.

00:36:52.260 I thought we were supposed to be dry.

00:36:53.260 I thought we were supposed to be driving traffic to National Pulse.

00:36:55.260 National Pulse is still one of the best reads out there.

00:36:57.260 It's all part of the same system.

00:36:59.260 Wherever wherever you sign up to your Raheem Kassam content, you'll get all of it, whether you want it or not.

00:37:05.260 The National Pulse.com and so forth.

00:37:08.260 You've written his brain.

00:37:09.260 You've written his brain.

00:37:10.260 Yep.

00:37:11.260 Now, listen.

00:37:12.260 Seriously.

00:37:13.260 The funny thing about all of this is it occurs to me and listening to Roger, and he's such a gentleman, and so are you actually.

00:37:19.260 People don't realize this about you. 0.79

00:37:20.260 I'm kind of far more of a thug than you are. 0.94

00:37:23.260 And I'll just, I'll say it outright.

00:37:25.260 You know, the thing about this movement is so many people just don't even like each other.

00:37:30.260 I mean, I can count on kind of one hand how many people I actually enjoy spending time with in this movement.

00:37:35.260 But we park our differences and we put them aside for the greater good.

00:37:39.260 And it really sticks in my craw when these old, stuffy, fusty, con ink people who, you know, lost. 0.97

00:37:45.260 They lost.

00:37:46.260 Let me talk to them.

00:37:47.260 You lost.

00:37:48.260 You lost really bad, in fact.

00:37:49.260 You lost with 17 candidates on that stage.

00:37:52.260 You lost over and over again.

00:37:53.260 You lost when you sided with the Democrats, trying to get rid of Trump, trying to stop Maga. 0.98

00:37:58.260 You lost when you were trying to perpetuate the Russia hoax.

00:38:01.260 You lost after J6 when you were writing columns in CNN talking about how Trump needed to be removed from office immediately.

00:38:07.260 You lost when you backed Mike Pence for the 50th time.

00:38:11.260 You know, all of these things happened over and over again.

00:38:13.260 And some of these people are just deciding in their late 70s and early 80s to take another run at stopping the Maga movement in its tracks.

00:38:21.260 And they will use whatever they can do.

00:38:23.260 And, you know, credit to people like Nick Fuentes because he's kind of a nobody from nowhere who's come along and has had this entire movement up in arms talking about him and worrying about him. 0.97

00:38:32.260 And he's just this kind of performative theater guy who says stupid things on air for clicks.

00:38:37.260 And he gets the attention of these people and they go, oh, my goodness, isn't this crazy that somebody might interview him and talk to him and whatever. 1.00

00:38:45.260 And it's just absolute nonsense.

00:38:47.260 Actually, I will say this as well, Robert Draper, somebody, one of the very few people in this town who I can bear to spend time with over at The New York Times, wrote a very interesting profile piece about Nick Fuentes a couple of months ago.

00:38:59.260 So, you know, if you want to control the narrative, if you want to control where politics goes, if you want to control the culture, then it is incumbent upon you to be interesting, to be a leader, to be thoughtful, to challenge the status quo.

00:39:13.260 And the problem these people have and have always had is that they are vacuous.

00:39:19.260 They are vacuous people. They are devoid of ideas and they deserve the irrelevance in history that they are soon to find themselves with.

00:39:26.260 You know, Rahim, the first couple of years we were working with each other, you were very much about Brexit.

00:39:33.260 You talked about Brexit. Nigel talked about Brexit. You guys pulled it off.

00:39:36.260 It was enormous. You were a critical factor here in the rise of MAGA in this country, kind of from the Tea Party.

00:39:42.260 But I say about Fuentes, if you want to see the new versus old and you just see the facts is watch.

00:39:51.260 And I should play it here on Word. We've got to figure out when to play in the six o'clock hour.

00:39:55.260 Alex Jones had a debate with Nick Fuentes and Dinesh D'Souza.

00:40:00.260 And you cannot you see right there the laziness, the lack of argument, the just that they their attitude that they just own this.

00:40:11.260 Fuentes takes this guy apart brick by brick. It's a full takedown.

00:40:15.260 It's a full takedown because the kid shows up. He's prepped. He's ready.

00:40:19.260 Now is he on point and he's always on attack. He happens to have something called facts and he just overwhelms Dinesh.

00:40:26.260 Dinesh goes back and it shows you this old guard who has nothing.

00:40:31.260 None of their policies have worked. If the policies had worked, why do we have so much?

00:40:36.260 Why do we have so much debt that's out of control? And they were part of the problem.

00:40:40.260 Why we spread off a hell's half acre and spent nine trillion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:40:44.260 Why we had a foreign policy and a commercial policy that allowed and paid for the rise of China.

00:40:50.260 They were all part of that. They said they're Democrats. That's not just Democrats.

00:40:53.260 It's the Uniparty and conservative ink is kind of the clapping seals of the Uniparty.

00:40:58.260 They did nothing. They had no fight. They never fought back.

00:41:01.260 You go back to that stage where Raheem said at the beginning of the 16 or 17 candidates they had up there against Trump.

00:41:07.260 None of those. You can combine all that and they couldn't have beaten Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:41:11.260 Their arguments are vacuous. It's really from a land that time forgot.

00:41:15.260 This was the problems in New Jersey and in Youngkin's campaign for Sears in Virginia, in the Commonwealth, in the in the governor's race in New Jersey.

00:41:24.260 They're running on a playbook that's 1990s. It doesn't work anymore.

00:41:29.260 The world has changed because they allowed it to change against America and American workers. 0.98

00:41:35.260 Remember, H1B is all this. Everything we have up here.

00:41:39.260 We had Natalie up last night about all the research is still being paid for by the United States and China.

00:41:44.260 The Republicans know all that and they're good with it.

00:41:47.260 Conservative Inc's good with it. They might write an editorial in the Wall Street Journal,

00:41:51.260 but there are talk about it in some salon in the Upper East Side of New York.

00:41:55.260 But that's all they're going to do. They're going to chit chat about it.

00:41:58.260 Raheem, can you stick around for the next block, brother, that's yours?

00:42:01.260 I want to get into very specifically this piece that you wrote is a warning.

00:42:06.260 And remember, we need a mid-course guidance here to get focus and to double down.

00:42:11.260 We started with Treasure Day, Joe LaVornier.

00:42:13.260 President Trump has done the hard work to date to make possible to return America to be a manufacturing superpower

00:42:21.260 with high-paying, high-value-added jobs and economic growth.

00:42:26.260 You just got to see it through.

00:42:28.260 You got to hunker down.

00:42:29.260 We have to finish what we started.

00:42:32.260 If we do that, it's all going to be fine.

00:42:35.260 Raheem Kassam's with us from the National Pulse.

00:42:38.260 Excuse me. It is daily, but it's also national.

00:42:41.260 Short break. Back in a moment.

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00:44:32.260 Raheem, you wrote this amazing piece over at National Pulse.

00:44:36.260 Walk us through it, sir.

00:44:38.260 Steve, so, yeah, let me conclude on the last segment as well for people based on what we were saying.

00:44:45.260 Because, you know, I don't want people getting the wrong idea either.

00:44:48.260 You know, all of this performative Nazi and neo-Nazi stuff that these guys are doing online, like,

00:44:56.260 obviously we don't care about that.

00:44:58.260 But here's the thing.

00:44:59.260 And we know this because we were the guys once, and still are really,

00:45:03.260 that were decried as the fascists and the extremists and the crazies and the nut jobs and, you know, whatever.

00:45:10.260 Is that there's a reason that people, and, you know, I'm aware that people are put off by a lot of the performative elements of this stuff.

00:45:18.260 I am too.

00:45:19.260 And by the same with Tucker, by the way.

00:45:22.260 A lot of the stuff that is purely performative and he goes, oh, I never knew about that.

00:45:25.260 And you know he knows about it.

00:45:26.260 And they go, oh, that's their little shtick.

00:45:30.260 You've got to look past the shtick.

00:45:32.260 And you've got to understand why these people have the audiences they have.

00:45:36.260 And that's because there are still so many people out there who are left behind, who are feeling more left behind than ever.

00:45:44.260 And that brings me on to my piece because we are now a decade in to this populist nationalist project proper, right?

00:45:53.260 The things, the balls that we started rolling back in 2012 and 2013 through, you know, from your side of the pond here, Steve, to mine over in the United Kingdom.

00:46:05.260 When we went around to the little town halls and the little seaside towns all across the United Kingdom and we looked at what people were going through.

00:46:14.260 And we talked to understand, not to talk to create content, but to actually understand and to create a policy platform based on the struggles of these ordinary people's lives.

00:46:27.260 And not just ordinary people, right, but people whose families and whose grandparents and great grandparents and great great grandparents and whose entire family lineages have been sacrificed day upon day.

00:46:42.260 Whether it's in the mines, whether it's in the wars, you know, wherever it was and whenever it was that have created the world that we live in today and that we take for granted every day.

00:46:54.260 And what happened was we saw that they had been shunned, disparaged, spat upon by an establishment who said, yeah, thanks.

00:47:02.260 We'll take it from here. You know, thanks for all the hard work of your bloodline, but we'll take it from here.

00:47:07.260 We got this now. We don't need you. You know, retire out to a little terrace somewhere off, you know, in some Newcastle suburb.

00:47:15.260 We don't need you. And along with the information age came this ability for people like you and I and for those to engage with those people.

00:47:23.260 We did it every single morning, remember, for three hours on the old Breitbart News radio show where we had a cross section of society, a cross section of America calling in.

00:47:31.260 And I still remember it off the top of my head. Line one, Lewin, Connecticut. Line two, Vinny in New York. Line three, Marianne in Delaware.

00:47:38.260 You know, all of these people and they stick in your mind. And there's a reason they do because they told us that ordinary stories of their ordinary lives and how much trouble they were being put in because of the factlessness and the carelessness, the wastefulness of the people who were supposed to be not just their elected representatives, but their leaders to the people, whether they will admit it openly or not, want leadership.

00:48:01.260 And as we walk and stagger in to the midterms next year, I'm afraid that we are lacking in this leadership now.

00:48:11.260 Well, there is leadership in America, in fact, that leadership is coming from a corporate class that have managed to capture so much of what I call MAGA Inc now.

00:48:20.260 Now, people who are not involved in this movement, who weren't there, by the way, when we were in 2013 and 14, building this thing from the ground up, let alone 2016, right, let alone the Brexit movement, let alone going through what you went through, let alone people who have not been, you know, they've not been persecuted for what they've done and what they believe, but they're here now.

00:48:39.960 And what are they doing with the power that they have, whether they're working in the administration or whether they're consultants or whatever it is, they are just making moolah.

00:48:47.320 They're just in it for the big bucks. And believe me, the bucks are big.

00:48:51.600 You know, every single day on Capitol Hill, I go through several different phone calls of people just trying to throw cash around.

00:48:58.140 Oh, we need the support for this. You know, we're trying to stop the antitrust people at the DOJ from looking into this, that and the other.

00:49:05.480 And they take the cash and they run and they run for the movement. They sell out the people who started this movement.

00:49:11.580 And I'm not talking about you and I here. I'm talking about ordinary people again, right, who really started this movement.

00:49:18.180 They are really the true inheritors of the Make America Great Again, of the America First movement.

00:49:23.200 And so I started to talk in the last couple of days to friends of mine back in Europe.

00:49:27.940 And I said, look, we know we went through 2016 together. We're coming on to a decade of this.

00:49:32.520 Are you watching the midterms?

00:49:33.820 And I think I spoke to like 15, 16 people at length about this, you know, political practitioners, reporters, smart people who have been there a long time, who I've known for a decade plus.

00:49:45.900 Almost every single one of them. I think only one of them told me, I'm not really concerned about this.

00:49:51.800 Almost to a man, every single one of them said, hey, listen, as goes America next year, as goes the MAGA movement, as goes the Republican Party's successes or failures in the midterms.

00:50:01.680 So goes Europe, you know, when I spoke to people from France, I spoke to people from Hungary, I spoke to people from Italy, I spoke to people from the United Kingdom, people all across the continent.

00:50:12.100 They all said the same thing is we are very worried that you guys are sleepwalking into a shellacking.

00:50:18.480 And as 2016 maybe began with Brexit, you know, in a pure sense, in a pure electoral sense with Brexit and then bounced over and you had you got the Trump wave over here worried.

00:50:32.260 They're now worried about it bouncing back over in a negative sense.

00:50:36.240 And the problem with it is that whether it's the 50 year mortgages or the $2,000 checks or the bankers or the bank bosses or the big pharma bosses hanging out in the Oval Office.

00:50:49.140 People just don't feel like that we're walking into next year in a position of strength.

00:50:55.840 And I happen to agree with them.

00:50:58.020 People who have followed us for a long time and have followed my work for a long time will probably realize much perhaps to Roger Kimball's chagrin is that I actually do like inter-Nissan warfare. 0.81

00:51:07.340 I actually shine when it comes to pointing the light on our side and saying we're getting this wrong.

00:51:12.780 We're getting this wrong.

00:51:13.660 We need to smarten up.

00:51:14.480 We need to sharpen up on these things.

00:51:16.960 And that's where we are now.

00:51:18.340 I rarely make an appearance on this show anymore for a very good reason.

00:51:21.320 It's because I'm particularly focused on what we're doing wrong.

00:51:26.300 Everybody can criticize the left.

00:51:27.900 It's very easy.

00:51:28.720 They make it easy for us.

00:51:30.160 And we take the fight to them every single day.

00:51:32.380 But the fight against the negative elements and the nefarious elements on our side is something that I will always be proud to fly the flag for.

00:51:40.540 And this is what this piece is really about.

00:51:42.380 They have almost taken over the whole thing.

00:51:44.660 And it is upon us to grasp it back, to wrestle it back.

00:51:48.880 We're going to push it out.

00:51:49.620 Otherwise, we're going to get killed next year.

00:51:53.340 Raheem, social media.

00:51:54.580 Where do people go to National Pulse?

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00:51:58.260 So we're pushing this article out hard today from the National Pulse.

00:52:01.600 Yeah, everything is at Raheem Kassam on social media.

00:52:05.080 I have a new YouTube channel as well.

00:52:06.860 You can find it there.

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00:52:23.760 Thank you, brother.

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Bannon's War Room - November 14, 2025

Episode 4926： Fighting For Everyday Americans; Sleepwalking Into 2026

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