Bannon's War Room - Episode 5024： WarRoom Boxing Day Special 2025 With Raheem Kassam

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 I got a free shot 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 Mega Media.

00:00:29.000 I wish in my soul, 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, this country will be saved.

00:00:44.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:00:50.000 Welcome to a very special episode of The War Room.

00:00:56.000 It's Boxing Day.

00:00:59.000 And you know what that means for the regulars in this audience.

00:01:03.000 My name is Raheem Kassam.

00:01:05.000 I am one of the founders of The War Room.

00:01:08.000 Some of you will not even know me.

00:01:10.000 It goes back so long.

00:01:12.000 Back to the days of War Room impeachment.

00:01:15.000 But here I am outside the U.S. Capitol here in Washington, D.C.,

00:01:20.000 bringing you a very special episode of The War Room today.

00:01:25.000 It's been a long time.

00:01:26.000 It's been six, seven, eight years since all of this started.

00:01:32.000 And before that, we had the Breitbart radio show on Sirius XM.

00:01:37.000 Some longtime Stephen K. Bannon fans, and some, the very few Raheem Kassam fans, will know about that.

00:01:45.000 And it's been since back then that we've done these Boxing Day specials.

00:01:49.000 And the Boxing Day specials allow me to catch you up on what's going on a little bit here behind the scenes,

00:01:55.000 a little bit of what's going on in the media world.

00:01:58.000 I am, of course, the editor-in-chief of thenationalpulse.com.

00:02:02.000 I urge you all to get there.

00:02:04.000 Subscribe.

00:02:05.000 Check it every day.

00:02:07.000 I believe that we are the best place for you to get the news all day, every day.

00:02:12.000 The things you really need to know, thenationalpulse.com.

00:02:15.000 And I'm honored that Steve has today again allowed me to host this very special edition of The War Room.

00:02:23.000 We're not going to be broadcasting just from here outside the U.S. Capitol,

00:02:27.000 but I'm going to bring you some of the things.

00:02:29.000 Some of you will have noticed that over the course of the last year especially, I've been a little AWOL.

00:02:34.000 I've been away from The War Room.

00:02:36.000 I've been away from most television interviews, and there are a couple of reasons for that.

00:02:40.000 One is personal, health-wise, and I'm working through some of those things.

00:02:44.000 And for those of you who know about them, thank you for your thoughts and your prayers throughout all of that.

00:02:48.000 But the second one is I wanted to get back out there.

00:02:52.000 You know, when we were doing the Brexit stuff back in 2014, 15, and into 2016, we were out there all day every day.

00:02:59.000 The same thing happened in 2017 and 18.

00:03:01.000 We were flying all over Europe, getting to see exactly what was going on on the ground.

00:03:07.000 In the last couple of years, I found myself a little too tied to the desk, a little too tied to the screen.

00:03:15.000 And so for the last year, I've been out there rebuilding a couple of things.

00:03:19.000 And I want to take you, over the next couple of hours that we have together, on this very important Boxing Day, on that journey.

00:03:27.000 On the journey of what's been going on in the media.

00:03:31.000 What's been going on with the National Pulse.

00:03:33.000 What's been going on with Butterworths.

00:03:35.000 What's been going on, well, in our own movement.

00:03:39.000 And I think a lot of you, while I hope you had a wonderful and restful and peaceful Christmas, I think a lot of you understand that we really do stand at a really, really strange and awkward and uncomfortable position in this movement right now.

00:03:57.000 So I'm going to take you across the Atlantic for some of this episode to the Reform Party Conference.

00:04:01.000 Show you how Nigel Farage is doing over there.

00:04:04.000 Going to bring you some interviews from people I want you to hear from.

00:04:07.000 Take you inside, behind the scenes at the Kennedy Center.

00:04:11.000 You know, they don't really let that many people film in there.

00:04:14.000 But I have some fantastic footage for you over the course of this show.

00:04:18.000 And some great, great interviews.

00:04:21.000 So, I'll start off by telling you why Boxing Day is so important to me.

00:04:26.000 And that's because the history of Boxing Day, I'm sure some of you will have learned it over the last couple of years of me doing this.

00:04:33.000 It goes back to the idea of putting things together, boxing things together and giving them to charity.

00:04:40.000 Being charitable about your time, about your efforts, especially after the Christmas period where so many people have a lot of excesses to actually think about the others who don't have so much.

00:04:51.000 And Boxing Day stems from that tradition.

00:04:54.000 And I think it's something that we should all remember today.

00:04:57.000 The first thing in terms of when we think about charitable traditions and when we think about giving back that comes to my mind this year is precisely where I was and what I was doing and who I was around.

00:05:15.000 When I heard the news that Charlie Kirk had been assassinated and I was coming back from the Reform Party conference in the United Kingdom.

00:05:27.000 I was actually on the plane when I was actually on the plane when it happened.

00:05:30.000 And thank goodness I had pretty good Wi-Fi because I had to run the news desk, jump into our live chat at the NationalPulse.com and actually run the news desk and get our team together so that we could actually do a very dignified send off for my friend Charlie Kirk.

00:05:47.000 And I, before coming out here and doing this episode, I started to look back at some of the conversations that he and I had had over text message in the final months.

00:05:58.000 And it started to occur to me that, you know, what he really wanted more than anything else, more than these fights that you see, more than this scrapping that you see, more than his own philosophy and ideology being out there and front and center was actually giving back.

00:06:16.000 And so through this boxing day, I want to focus a little bit more on that.

00:06:21.000 I think it's very important. I think a lot of the noise that we're hearing at the moment is a little undignified and a lot of you will have some problems with me saying that stuff.

00:06:33.000 I didn't go to America Fest in Phoenix for that particular reason. I knew that the stage would be full of people sort of tussling and that's not what I think that conference was ever about.

00:06:47.000 I don't think that was what Charlie was ever about. And so for me, rather than get involved in all of that,

00:06:54.000 I wanted to bring you some of my thoughts and memories and some of the things that I think can help not make us fight, but move us forward.

00:07:04.000 I think it's so important that we not lose sight of the grander issue at play here.

00:07:11.000 There are demonic forces at work here in the world. There are demonic forces at work here behind me every single day.

00:07:20.000 And Charlie would have wanted us to work together, not apart, not separately, not hating on each other, not screaming at each other to fix those things.

00:07:37.000 Let me take you now to where I went right after I landed back in the United States from the Reform Party conference.

00:07:47.000 And that was inside Charlie Kirk's memorial.

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00:08:24.000 I'm the only friend who we let her know, and came back to Charles Kirk's matthorough.

00:08:28.000 We'll be right back.

00:08:58.000 Oh, good morning, world. It is the morning of the Charlie Kirk Memorial down here in Phoenix, Arizona. It's not a light-hearted occasion, not a joyous occasion, obviously.

00:09:19.060 There's going to be tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people in attendance. And it is currently 7 o'clock in the morning. We're already cutting it a bit fine.

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00:12:04.020 Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States of America, J.D. Vance.

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00:16:30.700 Well, one of the things that I've really enjoyed over the last year

00:16:43.760 is putting together a small YouTube channel

00:16:47.260 that takes people around and behind the scenes of the places I go to.

00:16:53.160 And I think the reason I really wanted to do that is,

00:16:57.780 you know, I've been one of the people who have been involved

00:17:00.480 with this populist nationalist movement for a long time.

00:17:03.520 And I think there are so many things here that are exclusive,

00:17:09.060 that try and keep people out, keep people away.

00:17:11.660 And I don't want people to feel like that.

00:17:13.440 I actually want people to feel like they're here, like they're involved.

00:17:17.340 And so even just walking around here around Capitol Hill right now

00:17:21.760 and filming it, you know, a little bit amateurishly,

00:17:25.880 I like to bring people to places like this.

00:17:30.020 This is the Library of Congress.

00:17:32.020 And isn't it stunning?

00:17:33.520 Especially all decorated out for Christmas.

00:17:36.440 And one of the things I wanted to make mention on this show today

00:17:39.260 was that you can look behind the scenes at a lot of stuff,

00:17:43.820 some of it political, some of it not,

00:17:45.620 on my YouTube channel.

00:17:48.760 It's at Raheem Kassam on YouTube.

00:17:51.920 And one of the first things I did when I started this endeavor

00:17:55.400 was take a tour around Washington, D.C.

00:17:59.720 under President Trump as he started cleaning it up.

00:18:03.620 I want you to have a little look at that.

00:18:06.580 We're going to go up here, stay a little quiet

00:18:09.400 because it's more of a place of respect more than anything else.

00:18:13.580 But it's great that they've built this.

00:18:17.460 I'll show you some of the inscriptions they have.

00:18:20.940 So this is a memorial specifically to General Pershing,

00:18:31.600 who's the general of the armies.

00:18:36.900 Fantastic statue here.

00:18:38.140 It's funny.

00:18:40.760 So I've got this great camera that I just got in one hand

00:18:45.220 and my cell phone in the other.

00:18:46.820 It occurred to me as I was walking down here

00:18:49.520 that there are a lot of parts of London

00:18:50.960 that I just would not feel comfortable doing that.

00:18:53.480 Having my phone in one hand,

00:18:55.740 having this expensive camera in the other.

00:18:57.440 And, you know, thanks to President Trump

00:19:02.180 and the recent cleanup of Washington, D.C.,

00:19:05.360 it really does feel just about fine

00:19:08.720 to be out here doing this.

00:19:11.560 And for all of the conniptions that D.C. residents had,

00:19:16.380 the liberal D.C. residents had,

00:19:18.780 I don't think you can argue with this.

00:19:20.820 It's really, really nice out here.

00:19:23.360 I used to tell people, never come to D.C.

00:19:26.500 Don't waste your time.

00:19:27.980 Don't waste your money.

00:19:29.200 Don't waste your effort.

00:19:30.860 Even though there are some great things to see,

00:19:32.580 some great buildings, a lot of history,

00:19:34.460 monuments, museums, so on and so forth,

00:19:37.320 it just all went so downhill so quickly.

00:19:40.480 You know, right after the BLM riot.

00:19:43.380 And there was a time where you just thought

00:19:44.680 it wasn't really going to ever recover.

00:19:46.480 That was it.

00:19:47.120 It was a city in decline.

00:19:49.100 And interesting, isn't it?

00:19:50.220 How if you put your shoulder to the wheel

00:19:53.380 on something, like President Trump and his team have,

00:19:55.900 you can actually resolve it pretty bloody quickly.

00:20:04.360 Right here, you see the back of the St. John's Church,

00:20:08.120 if you remember, where President Trump

00:20:09.420 held the Bible up right there.

00:20:10.760 And right here, we found suitcases full of projectiles.

00:20:17.840 All of this was blocked off at the time.

00:20:21.000 Not blocked off like this, but, I mean,

00:20:23.340 huge, ten-foot-high barricades

00:20:27.800 that had been plastered in Marxist stuff

00:20:31.140 and BLM stuff and all that kind of thing.

00:20:34.620 I mean, it was really, really ugly and horrible,

00:20:39.580 a terrible time in this city's history.

00:20:45.720 And, of course, the White House is through there.

00:20:50.120 Speed up a little bit here.

00:20:53.860 Show you.

00:20:55.580 And from a performative sense,

00:20:58.200 you know, they put the BLM stuff up in the road here,

00:21:02.780 the BRICS, and they spelled it out on the road

00:21:04.820 on 16th Street, right here.

00:21:07.340 It's now been taken down.

00:21:10.320 And then they used to also call this

00:21:14.300 Khashoggi-we, 0.98

00:21:17.400 after the journalist who was murdered

00:21:21.540 by the Saudis, I guess.

00:21:24.060 It was a long time.

00:21:25.400 For a long time,

00:21:27.500 you would not want to go to this park.

00:21:30.380 You would not want to walk through it.

00:21:32.780 This is very, very recent.

00:21:35.540 I wouldn't say this administration recent,

00:21:38.240 but the last maybe year or two

00:21:40.620 that they've really tidied this up.

00:21:42.900 I mean, this was basically a homeless encampment

00:21:44.820 at one point,

00:21:45.660 and it wasn't safe.

00:21:47.940 Even as a bloke,

00:21:49.200 you didn't necessarily feel safe

00:21:50.520 walking through here.

00:21:51.800 But credit where it's due.

00:21:53.840 And Mayor Bowser does get some credit here

00:21:57.040 because she has cleaned up some of these areas.

00:21:59.520 The park over there,

00:22:00.840 down that side as well,

00:22:02.280 outside the Washington Post building,

00:22:04.140 completely cleaned up,

00:22:05.480 completely, you know,

00:22:06.260 she kicked the homeless out of that park, 1.00

00:22:09.480 tidied it all up.

00:22:10.860 And in fairness to her,

00:22:12.300 the Metro as well.

00:22:13.940 The DC Metro now

00:22:15.360 is nothing like it used to be.

00:22:17.060 One day I'll do a video down there for you as well.

00:22:19.960 Make sure you're subscribed to this channel,

00:22:21.680 by the way,

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00:22:32.340 that really helps the process.

00:22:34.780 And of course,

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00:22:40.680 I'm not being funny.

00:22:43.460 I'm really not trying to overstate the case here.

00:22:46.600 But I just can't believe

00:22:48.240 how much cleaner and tidier and safer

00:22:51.960 it feels around here now.

00:22:55.500 You know,

00:22:55.860 slap bang in the middle of downtown.

00:22:58.540 It used to be really quite gross.

00:23:01.880 So one of the highlights,

00:23:07.060 I think,

00:23:07.380 of the year

00:23:08.100 was flying over to London

00:23:10.660 and attending the Reform Party conference

00:23:14.160 in the United Kingdom.

00:23:15.540 That's Nigel Farage's party,

00:23:17.360 populist right-wing party

00:23:19.720 that is topping

00:23:20.920 and has topped,

00:23:21.700 I think,

00:23:22.520 over 150 polls in a row.

00:23:26.660 Now,

00:23:27.240 the next UK election

00:23:28.960 isn't scheduled

00:23:30.120 until 2029.

00:23:32.620 So there's a long way to go.

00:23:34.140 But there's also a long way

00:23:35.920 that they've already travelled.

00:23:37.780 And I wanted to go for myself

00:23:39.160 and to show you all this year

00:23:41.580 just how far this party has come along

00:23:44.620 and what its chances really are

00:23:46.600 of taking power

00:23:47.520 at the next election.

00:23:49.100 Why is it so important for you,

00:23:51.040 a predominantly American audience?

00:23:53.540 Though I understand

00:23:54.220 that the international audience

00:23:55.780 of the war room

00:23:56.420 is growing and growing,

00:23:58.360 your American audience

00:23:59.060 might be scratching their heads

00:24:00.040 and saying,

00:24:00.400 well,

00:24:00.480 why do I need to watch

00:24:01.380 a conference from Birmingham

00:24:03.160 in England this year?

00:24:04.860 Well,

00:24:06.060 I think the Vice President,

00:24:07.400 J.D. Vance,

00:24:08.060 said it correctly 0.57

00:24:08.760 when he said,

00:24:09.840 look,

00:24:10.640 there is a chance

00:24:11.680 that in the next couple of decades

00:24:13.620 we are not going to be able

00:24:15.300 to rely on the United Kingdom

00:24:16.940 as a partner.

00:24:18.240 It will be,

00:24:19.040 perhaps,

00:24:19.740 a majority Muslim nation

00:24:21.800 in our lifetimes.

00:24:22.920 And I think

00:24:23.360 when you bear things like that in mind,

00:24:25.940 it really,

00:24:27.160 really

00:24:27.500 makes it all the more important

00:24:29.420 that we pay attention

00:24:30.780 to what's going on

00:24:32.000 in the mother country

00:24:33.400 of the United Kingdom.

00:24:35.440 So let's go and have a look

00:24:37.040 at what Nigel Farage

00:24:38.560 put together

00:24:39.200 at the Reform Party conference.

00:24:41.000 It was really,

00:24:42.180 really

00:24:42.680 quite stunning.

00:24:44.380 There's a lot of people now

00:24:46.560 that I don't recognise

00:24:47.560 at these things.

00:24:48.600 People getting interviewed

00:24:49.740 and, you know,

00:24:50.740 these are

00:24:51.260 counsellors

00:24:52.980 and

00:24:53.320 influencers

00:24:54.980 and things like this

00:24:55.940 that have been,

00:24:57.540 I guess,

00:24:59.380 in the ten years

00:25:00.600 that I've been away,

00:25:02.040 making their way

00:25:03.540 to

00:25:03.980 their own

00:25:05.460 famed political scene

00:25:06.720 here.

00:25:07.600 The long walk

00:25:08.240 for the

00:25:08.600 main stage.

00:25:10.780 Going through

00:25:11.360 you get another

00:25:12.000 anti-run

00:25:12.560 here.

00:25:13.320 Hopefully

00:25:14.040 he should be there soon.

00:25:19.520 Here we go!

00:25:27.300 So we finally got here.

00:25:31.740 The Conservative Party

00:25:34.540 are

00:25:34.960 in fact,

00:25:37.180 the deep dollar

00:25:37.800 is set overnight.

00:25:39.100 The Conservative Party

00:25:40.240 are

00:25:40.660 dead. 0.90

00:25:41.120 Deservedly

00:25:43.260 found.

00:25:45.000 Deservedly

00:25:45.900 found.

00:25:47.820 And they will not

00:25:49.080 be forgiven.

00:25:50.580 They will not be forgiven

00:25:51.560 for their betrayals

00:25:52.760 over the course

00:25:54.080 of the last five years.

00:25:55.860 Mass

00:25:56.100 migrations,

00:25:57.720 illegal immigrants

00:25:58.420 crossing the channel,

00:25:59.980 sky-high taxes

00:26:01.500 and much else.

00:26:03.180 For election,

00:26:04.100 and we will take

00:26:05.000 that seriously

00:26:05.880 as we get ready

00:26:07.720 to have a memorable

00:26:09.200 candidate

00:26:09.700 so that we can beat

00:26:11.380 Sadiq Khan.

00:26:12.920 Let's go!

00:26:13.520 APPLAUSE

00:26:14.000 Thank you.

00:26:44.000 Thank you.

00:27:14.000 Thank you.

00:27:44.000 Come on.

00:27:45.000 Thank you.

00:27:46.000 Thank you.

00:27:47.700 So, on the way out of Nigel Farage's speech, I met Alex, who is a viewer of the War Room from here in the United Kingdom, from Wales, in fact. Alex, thank you for being here. Your thoughts on the conference so far and the leader's speech?

00:28:00.960 Yeah, big fan of the War Room. So, yeah, thanks, William. Good to meet you. Speech was fantastic. Very timely. Nigel brought it forward because of the announcement about Angela Rayner. So, I think that was very timely that he came on. Strike while the iron's hot, so to speak. But myself and a good friend came to this conference last year. I would say it's probably five, six times as big as it was last year. So, I think that shows the direction of travel. There's one kind of direction this country's going in at the minute.

00:28:29.740 Thank you.

00:28:30.740 Thank you.

00:28:31.740 Thank you.

00:28:32.740 Thank you, family.

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00:29:02.740 Well, I'm here in New York now. And for those of you who are listening to this, I should say, via a podcast, you really will want to get the visuals.

00:29:18.740 Because I was in New York earlier this year as well.

00:29:22.740 And like I've done for the past five years now, I ran the Tunnel to Towers 5K.

00:29:30.740 And that starts in Brooklyn and it goes under the bridge into Manhattan and you emerge up at the World Trade Center.

00:29:40.740 What was the World Trade Center now? The Freedom Tower.

00:29:43.740 And every year I do that and raise money for originally it was the victims of 9-11 families.

00:29:53.740 And now Tunnel to Towers as an organization has expanded their remit and now they raise money for military families, especially those of which have had limbs blown off and require special kinds of disability housing.

00:30:13.740 They've even built a veterans village.

00:30:17.740 And I can think of no better thing to spend some time on every year than running that race, bringing attention to it, helping Tunnel to Towers to charity.

00:30:28.740 And this year I did it right after Charlie Cook's assassination, I did it wearing the Charlie Cook Freedom T-shirt.

00:30:38.740 So I wanted to bring you some of my highlights from that day.

00:30:43.540 I'm not in the best shape that I've been in my life.

00:30:46.440 So even though it was just a 5K, some of it was still a struggle.

00:30:51.180 You'll have to forgive me for that.

00:30:53.400 But we still did it.

00:30:54.540 We still made it through and we raised over $20,000 this year.

00:30:59.880 I think that puts us at about $100,000 over the last several years raised.

00:31:05.720 So thank you to everybody who was a part of that.

00:31:08.360 Thank you to the Tunnel to Towers team.

00:31:10.640 Thank you to Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a lot of people who were involved in that charity very early on.

00:31:18.000 And thank you to everybody who supported and donated.

00:31:22.060 And I think if you can, you should go to Tunnel to Towers website yourself and chip in.

00:31:29.940 And we've made it.

00:31:32.300 Welcome back to Moynihan Train Hall where I spend an inordinate amount of time.

00:31:37.780 For somebody who doesn't live here.

00:31:39.620 But very nice station, recently rebuilt.

00:31:42.160 It's in the old post office or something.

00:31:45.720 Beautiful skylight.

00:31:48.260 Wonderful lounge up there.

00:31:50.600 Let's go get a cab.

00:31:51.540 Pick up our run packet.

00:31:53.300 You free?

00:31:57.420 Hey brother.

00:31:58.460 Going to the Conrad downtown please.

00:32:03.380 Butterworth hat.

00:32:04.420 Trump jacket.

00:32:05.480 Tunnel to Towers bag.

00:32:06.540 You know, you can't really get all that much more patriotic than that.

00:32:12.680 Can you?

00:32:14.680 Well, good morning.

00:32:17.060 It's morning of the run here in Manhattan.

00:32:22.320 And I have my Charlie Coke Freedom t-shirt on.

00:32:27.060 I definitely look and feel a mess.

00:32:33.180 And right now we head to the water taxi to take us over to Brooklyn.

00:32:37.560 I hope they're still available.

00:32:38.520 I'm running a bit late actually.

00:32:39.520 So, we're loaded onto the boat last year again.

00:32:48.960 It was extremely rainy and cold.

00:32:52.320 So, I'm delighted that the sun is out.

00:32:58.100 Not a big boat person.

00:32:59.220 Not a big water person, honestly.

00:33:01.020 But, it's alright.

00:33:03.160 Sun's out.

00:33:04.900 We'll live with it.

00:33:05.760 Yes.

00:33:06.020 Yes.

00:33:06.320 Yes.

00:33:06.520 Yes.

00:33:07.020 Yes.

00:33:07.520 Yes.

00:33:08.020 Yes.

00:33:08.520 Yes.

00:33:09.520 We're only one more hour, and then we'll try to tell them.

00:33:11.900 Yes.

00:33:12.040 Oh, no.

00:33:12.840 This is a rush.

00:33:14.020 Thank you.

00:33:18.520 She said it's on the road.

00:33:20.020 Wow.

00:33:20.520 Yeah.

00:33:21.020 Yeah.

00:33:21.520 No.

00:33:22.020 We're off.

00:33:22.520 No.

00:33:23.520 No.

00:33:24.020 No.

00:33:24.520 No.

00:33:25.020 No.

00:33:25.520 No.

00:33:26.060 No.

00:33:26.520 No.

00:33:27.520 No.

00:33:28.020 No.

00:33:28.520 No.

00:33:29.520 No.

00:33:30.020 No.

00:33:30.520 No.

00:33:31.020 No.

00:33:31.520 No.

00:33:32.020 No.

00:33:32.520 No.

00:33:33.520 No.

00:33:34.520 No.

00:33:35.020 No.

00:33:35.520 No.

00:33:36.020 No.

00:33:36.520 No.

00:33:37.520 No.

00:33:38.520 Okay, start line's behind us, but because we're so bunched up, you can't run yet.

00:33:53.260 And if you are trying to get a good time, it's not good.

00:34:01.120 I'm going to try and work my way through here and get a little jogging.

00:34:05.760 There we go, got some open road.

00:34:14.800 This is where we enter the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel.

00:34:19.620 This is where Steven Siller and so many of the people who perished on 9-11 walked toward

00:34:30.320 the fire, grabbed their gear, went back through this tunnel, all the firemen with the gears

00:34:39.360 on their back and tried to help people.

00:34:46.400 And there are just thousands of people in this tunnel now.

00:34:51.400 It's the hardest part, it gets so hot and people weave in and out.

00:35:00.440 Alright, still in the tunnel, coming up to the part now where it stops being downhill into

00:35:14.520 the tunnel, starts being uphill out of the tunnel, you can imagine how much fun that is.

00:35:23.560 We get a little bit of a roadblock here as people slow down going uphill in the tunnel.

00:35:36.600 I'm really starting to sweat last night's Guinness off now.

00:35:51.640 It's about this time in the run, just over halfway through the tunnel, you start to feel

00:35:59.600 a bit cocky.

00:36:00.600 You're like, ah yeah, fine, no problem.

00:36:04.600 Until you realise you've got another mile and a half on the other side of the tunnel.

00:36:11.640 Sweaty in here, humid, gross.

00:36:13.640 People are starting to walk and give up, but your boy doesn't know the meaning of give up.

00:36:27.640 It reminds you of that scene out of Independence Day.

00:36:32.640 Okay, big uphill coming, big uphill coming.

00:36:37.640 Alright, there's light at the end of the tunnel, and there's noisy boys behind me.

00:36:47.640 Once we get out of the tunnel, I'm going to walk a little bit so I can show you what you're

00:36:51.640 looking at when you come out of the tunnel, also so I can walk a little bit.

00:36:56.640 But it's not easy.

00:36:58.640 People think it's easy.

00:37:00.640 There are people in far better shape than me who are struggling.

00:37:05.640 It's the heat, it's the closeness, it's the humidity, it's the uphill nature of it.

00:37:11.640 You can't just walk up here.

00:37:14.640 Or you can walk up and walk.

00:37:17.640 Get chased over here.

00:37:18.640 Alright, we're out of the tunnel.

00:37:19.640 And now when you come out, you have all of these policemen, firefighters, holding banners

00:37:36.640 of the people who gave their lives.

00:37:41.640 And it's always so moving, no matter how much you do it.

00:37:46.640 Everybody here, sir.

00:37:47.640 Everybody here, sir.

00:37:48.640 We vote for that team vote.

00:37:52.640 There's a long, long way tomorrow.

00:37:56.640 It's a long, long way to go.

00:37:58.640 With an anxious point, the endless frequency, by the treacherous growth.

00:38:03.640 Younger men better shape than me going up this hill. And then of course you've got spectators

00:38:11.260 on the bridge, the World Trade Centre in the distance and everyone's stripping off now.

00:38:20.140 There's a breeze outside but it's still hot. It's still in the 80s. A little bit of shade

00:38:31.240 under the bridge here, some water stations if you fancy it, some bagpipers and just more

00:38:38.200 and more of these moving portraits. They say to you when you get to this part, they always

00:38:46.360 say, go on, you're almost there. You're not really almost there. It's probably another

00:38:52.560 mile to go. Now the pipers have just started playing. So you've got to start weaving in

00:38:59.360 between people here. And now you come up at the World Trade Centre. Freedom Tower. To

00:39:09.360 match my shirt. Or Charlie's shirt.

00:39:11.360 But yeah, we're back at Brookfield Place. Where we were yesterday.

00:39:27.360 And it wasn't the run route yesterday. It was the children screaming at me route yesterday.

00:39:34.360 And here we've hit a bottleneck. So we have to slash get to walk again. Just so many people

00:39:42.360 doing this now. Back in, back when they started in 2002, there was, oh, I don't know, 1500

00:39:56.360 people, I think, that were doing it. And now there's about 30,000 plus. So you can appreciate

00:40:04.360 how the, the narrow streets of Manhattan. Struggle to deal with it. And we're off again.

00:40:19.360 About 1500 feet to the finish line here. So stick with me. We'll get there together. We're

00:40:26.360 pushing the, we're pushing the very last stretch. I'm not wearing a time chip this year. Because

00:40:34.360 I knew I wouldn't get a good time. I didn't want to put that in. They're all public. I

00:40:40.360 didn't want people to see. I probably timed at about 40, 45 minutes this year. Whereas

00:40:46.360 previously, last year I did 30. My idea is to get under 30. I've also never done it without

00:40:54.360 headphones and I've never done it while talking the whole way. So, you know, you've heard

00:40:59.360 all my excuses today. That's, that's where we are. Oh, I can smell the cheeseburgers.

00:41:03.360 All right. That means, that means we speed up, speed, speed up towards the cheeseburgers.

00:41:10.360 Come. We've earned it. We have almost there. We turn this corner and you'll see the finish

00:41:25.360 line. Stay with me. Like and subscribe and comment. If I have to go through this, so do

00:41:32.360 you. At least, at least you don't have to run it. Here we go. Finish line. Yeah. We're done.

00:41:53.360 Another year in the book. Woo. Woo.

00:42:03.360 The games you want to play. Bring it on and I will fight to the end. Just watch and see.

00:42:10.360 It's all started. Everything's begun. And you are over. Cause we're taking down the CCP.

00:42:20.360 Spread the word all through Hong Kong. We will fight till they're all gone. We rejoice when 0.89

00:42:27.360 there's no more. Let's take down the CCP. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:42:36.360 All right. So, one of the really important things I think we need to know about is these

00:42:41.360 massive changes in media. We do this every year for the Boxing Day Special. Assess exactly

00:42:47.360 what is going on in media world and what is about to change. We know that a lot of people

00:42:53.360 have put their shoulder to the wheel in the last decade plus. I mean, I remember back when

00:42:59.360 Stephen K. Bannon flew to London and hired me to run the Breitbart London Bureau. And honestly,

00:43:06.360 I mean, on the back of what happened with Brexit and all of that, Nigel Farage, the Brexit leader,

00:43:10.360 said at the time, you know, without a Breitbart London operation, they may will have been no

00:43:16.360 Brexit at all because of the different line that we took against all of the longstanding

00:43:22.360 media institutions. And the longstanding media institutions in the United States, despite

00:43:28.360 becoming less and less popular, are still running the roost in terms of dominating at least

00:43:34.360 broadcast networks and how they behave on local levels too. One of the people I wanted to bring

00:43:41.360 into the conversation here for this special today is Daniel Sir, the President of the Center of

00:43:47.360 American Rights, who has been involved in a battle against big tech and the big corporates in media

00:43:54.360 for a while now. Daniel, thank you so much for joining us here on The War Room.

00:43:58.360 Yeah, of course. Thanks for having me on The War Room. Daniel, there is this big thing being

00:44:03.360 discussed, but perhaps not out there in the country as much as it should be, but certainly in

00:44:07.360 Washington DC, certainly in New York, and certainly in the offices of those big Hollywood

00:44:13.360 and tech firms. And that is how much you get to have in terms of broadcasting ability,

00:44:20.360 what percentage of the public you are able to reach. And I think it's a fascinating conversation

00:44:26.360 to have because, again, for so long, these guys have had it all their way. And now the

00:44:31.360 market is drastically changing, of course, with things like YouTube and YouTube TV. So very

00:44:36.360 briefly, I know it's one of those policy issues that I think would probably quite easily make

00:44:41.360 somebody's eyes glaze over. But just very briefly, would you expand on that? Let us know

00:44:46.360 what exactly is happening and what you think the Trump administration needs to do going into

00:44:51.360 2026 to level the playing field?

00:44:54.360 Yeah, absolutely, Raheem. And really, it is an important issue for every American.

00:44:58.360 So many of us rely on local television for things that we care about, local news, local

00:45:04.360 sports, even if maybe we use a streaming service for our news, our national news like this.

00:45:10.360 The reality is that more Americans tune in to the evening news at like five or six o'clock on their

00:45:17.360 local TV news than any watch a big cable show like The Five, for instance. And so really,

00:45:24.360 how Americans learn about what's happening in their communities, it starts with local news.

00:45:29.360 You know, one of the interesting things, there's been polling out there, and it consistently says two

00:45:34.360 things. It says Americans don't trust the national legacy media for good reason, right? They've been

00:45:41.360 burned by the Hunter Biden laptop, by COVID-19, all these things, they've been burned. And so they

00:45:47.360 don't trust the national media, but they still trust, especially local television news. And so it's

00:45:53.360 important that our policymakers kind of encourage local TV. And the reality, as you point out, is that local

00:46:02.360 TV is subject to these antiquated regulations that have been around for decades. And our media

00:46:08.360 marketplace doesn't look the same as it did decades ago. Decades ago, there was no Google, there was no

00:46:12.360 YouTube TV, there were no these Silicon Valley giants who were dominating the media landscape.

00:46:18.360 And so it's really important for the Federal Communications Commission, the regulatory authority

00:46:23.360 over these issues, to look at these rules and I think provide greater free markets for local

00:46:29.360 broadcasters to grow and survive in the coming years.

00:46:33.360 Yeah, so all makes sense. I mean, all checks out, no fake news there.

00:46:38.360 But what is the current policy? Like what is this 39% cap that I keep hearing of?

00:46:45.360 And who really serves to benefit from what you call these antiquated rules?

00:46:50.360 Yeah, I'll tell you who benefits. It's Silicon Valley and the national networks, right?

00:46:55.360 It's the people, frankly, who don't share our values as conservatives. It's the people who aren't fans of

00:47:00.360 President Trump. They're the ones who are benefiting from the current rules

00:47:04.360 because it's essentially handicapping the competition, right?

00:47:07.360 It's the government coming in and putting a huge thumb on the scale in favor of streamers

00:47:13.360 and in favor of Silicon Valley and in favor of the national networks like ABC and NBC.

00:47:18.360 President Trump has said over and over again that we need to push back on the power of the national networks.

00:47:24.360 One way to do that is for the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC,

00:47:29.360 to repeal these rules that have been around for decades that are hampering local broadcasters

00:47:35.360 so they can be a more effective counterbalance to these national networks and to Silicon Valley.

00:47:40.360 So the question I always get asked, I'll throw it your way, is what do you mean?

00:47:47.360 We're in charge. We should be able to do whatever we want.

00:47:49.360 Why hasn't this been fixed already? And Daniel, this is an activist audience.

00:47:54.360 These are not people who sort of just sit and listen to this stuff and go,

00:47:58.360 oh, OK, really interesting, and then kick their feet up.

00:48:01.360 They will want to know what they can do, where they can go, how they can take action to stop this, I imagine.

00:48:08.360 And I think, firstly, they want to learn more. They're not the kind of audience that will just take mine and your word for it.

00:48:14.360 So where can they go and learn more about this issue?

00:48:18.360 And then I'm going to ask you a little difficult question.

00:48:21.360 You know, there are people on the, presumptively, on the political right in the media world

00:48:27.360 who appear to be in favor of the way that these things have been for so long.

00:48:31.360 So how do we address that? And then where can people go to learn more and take some action?

00:48:36.360 Yeah, absolutely. So you're right. There are isolated voices that are conservatives who have come down on this differently than I have.

00:48:43.360 I would say the vast majority of conservatives.

00:48:45.360 There's a coalition letter of 18 major conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation and Center for Renewing America

00:48:53.360 who've come out in favor of reforming this.

00:48:55.360 But you're right. There are isolated voices who disagree with that consensus.

00:48:59.360 Frankly, I think it's often a matter of business interest that empowering local broadcasters creates more competition for the networks,

00:49:07.360 but it also creates more competition for cable.

00:49:09.360 And so if there are folks who are heavily invested in the cable industry, you know, maybe this isn't good for them in that they like having rules,

00:49:18.360 having government regulations that hamper the competition. Right.

00:49:22.360 And really the point here is that we want to open up a free market.

00:49:25.360 We want to open up greater room for capitalism, frankly, to stop these government interventions in the market and instead allow broadcasters to grow in a natural way in line with what capitalism dictates.

00:49:40.360 That's all we're asking for. And so if you agree with that, if your viewers agree with that,

00:49:44.360 I'd encourage them to visit our website. It's americanrights.org backslash lift the cap.

00:49:50.360 And you'll find their fans of this show will know people like Mike Davis from Article Three Project, people like Sean Spicer,

00:49:57.360 other important MAGA leaders who have aligned with us and joined with us in this fight to provide greater flexibility and freedom for local broadcast.

00:50:07.360 So it's americanrights.org backslash lift the cap and a bunch of great resources from, as I say,

00:50:13.360 MAGA leaders like Mike Davis and Sean Spicer and others that your folks can tap into.

00:50:19.360 Well, Daniel, I really appreciate that. And as somebody who's only sort of recently come to get to grips with this issue,

00:50:25.360 I will happily declare myself on your side as well.

Bannon's War Room - December 27, 2025

Episode 5024： WarRoom Boxing Day Special 2025 With Raheem Kassam

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