Bannon's War Room - December 27, 2025


Episode 5025： WarRoom Boxing Day Special 2025 With Raheem Kassam cont.

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Daniel Bart Hutchins Rick Grinnell Getter Raheem Kassam Trump Taylor Strift Roma Dharavi Brexit Reid Hoffman George Soros Stephen K. Vann Stephen K. Mann Queen Elizabeth Jack B. Montgomery Chris Tomlinson Kelsey Grammer Rick Lockrey Charlie Kirk Jack Posobiec Tom Sietzema and 14 more
Episode 5023： WarRoom Christmas Day Special 2025 cont. Episode 5029： What Is Really Happening With Ukraine Negotiations

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Stephen K. Vann is joined by Ambassador Rick Grinnell, Roma Dharavi, Taylor Strand, and Rick Lockrey at the Kennedy Center Honours to honor the late actor-comedian Kelsey Grammer.

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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. Vann.
00:00:50.000 Well, one of the things that I've been taking some time,
00:00:54.000 I wouldn't say out this year to do,
00:00:57.000 because certainly it's been an incredible commitment,
00:00:59.000 is to help build this place.
00:01:02.000 Butterworth's here on Capitol Hill has become somewhat of a go-to.
00:01:09.000 If you believe the media, for a lot of MAGA world people,
00:01:13.000 certainly become a very political hangout here in Washington, D.C.
00:01:17.000 But it might surprise you just how many Democrats,
00:01:20.000 how many liberal media people actually walk through these doors.
00:01:25.000 And we'll get into a little bit of Butterworth's and what it is later.
00:01:29.000 I'm always very, very touched when members of the War Room Posse
00:01:33.000 come in and stop by.
00:01:35.000 We always have a great time together.
00:01:37.000 And of course, if you are going to the Kennedy Center,
00:01:40.000 the Trump Kennedy Center, I should say,
00:01:42.000 you also can present your ticket here and get a bit of a discount off your meal.
00:01:46.000 So that's just another cool thing that we are building, that we have built.
00:01:49.000 So stick around, stay tuned.
00:01:51.000 We've got a great interview with our executive chef later on in this show,
00:01:55.000 just to talk you through a little bit of the why and the how this all came together.
00:02:00.000 But now speaking of the Trump Kennedy Center,
00:02:03.000 I wanted to take you behind the scenes a little bit there.
00:02:08.000 The amazing team, Ambassador Rick Grinnell, Roma Dharavi, Taylor Strand,
00:02:13.000 Rick Lockrey and all of the others who are involved there.
00:02:16.000 You know, they have treated me like family since day one.
00:02:20.000 And I think it's so important that we help restore that once great cultural institution to greatness.
00:02:29.000 So let's enjoy a little bit of behind the scenes from the Trump Kennedy Center.
00:02:36.000 Here we are back again at the Kennedy Center,
00:02:39.000 just two days after the FIFA World Cup draw event.
00:02:44.000 We are here for the Kennedy Center Honours this evening.
00:02:49.000 So this is the intermission.
00:03:14.000 So this is the intermission and we're not allowed to film inside to protect the integrity
00:03:23.400 of the broadcast which is on CBS on December the 23rd, but let me just tell you something
00:03:30.660 the show has just been phenomenal so far, I mean actually one of probably the best
00:03:39.440 performances that I've seen in a long time, it's amazing, and everyone's so impeccably dressed,
00:03:57.640 my favourite so far has been the appearance of Kelsey Grammer, he's kind of my favourite
00:04:04.000 sitcom actor ever.
00:04:34.000 Thank you.
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00:05:06.000 Christ, the Savior, is born.
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00:06:14.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Terry McRae.
00:06:24.000 Oh, when I start brightly shining,
00:06:34.000 is the night of our dear sails were.
00:06:41.000 God of God loves pure light.
00:06:51.000 Holy stream from heaven upon.
00:07:01.000 Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia.
00:07:11.000 Christ, the Savior, is born.
00:07:21.000 Christ, the Savior, is born.
00:07:33.000 Merry Christmas, everybody. God bless you. Thank you so much.
00:07:38.000 Where are we? What are we doing here?
00:07:42.000 We're here because we're all about Raheem.
00:07:46.000 This is Raheem's 25th birthday party.
00:07:50.000 No, it's not my birthday or let alone my 25th birthday.
00:07:54.000 In fact, we were at the Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.
00:07:58.000 to watch Opera in the Outfield,
00:08:00.000 which is a Kennedy Center program that they do every year.
00:08:04.000 And I thought I would take you along with me.
00:08:06.000 So here we are at Nats Stadium with Ambassador Rick Grinnell
00:08:10.000 and his team at the Kennedy Center.
00:08:12.000 Let's have a look around.
00:08:21.000 So, yeah, the idea is that families can come along,
00:08:24.000 bring their kids, hang around in the Outfield,
00:08:27.000 have some fun, play some games, and learn about the Opera.
00:08:30.000 It's pretty good. It's free.
00:08:32.000 And people seem to have a good time.
00:08:36.000 O'er the land of the free
00:08:45.000 and the home of the free
00:08:59.000 Alright, here we are at my 25th birthday party
00:09:01.000 at Nationals Park.
00:09:03.000 Thank you for renting Nationals Park for me, Roma.
00:09:05.000 You're welcome.
00:09:06.000 I'm sorry the crowd wasn't what you were hoping for.
00:09:08.000 There are lots of kids here, Raheem.
00:09:10.000 You know.
00:09:11.000 Not a big fan of that.
00:09:12.000 I think the next generation has to learn to celebrate my birthday also.
00:09:15.000 It's one of those things that will just be passed down from generation to generation.
00:09:18.000 Yeah.
00:09:19.000 A special shout out to Mars for ruining my tea today.
00:09:22.000 Mars.
00:09:23.000 You know.
00:09:24.000 Sponsoring.
00:09:25.000 Sponsoring the birthday.
00:09:26.000 Pretty good.
00:09:27.000 And you're showing Gershwin.
00:09:28.000 I love Gershwin.
00:09:30.000 I went to the record store last week and I bought an entire Gershwin record.
00:09:34.000 So, I'm pleased you found one of my favorite artists for my birthday.
00:09:38.000 Did you go back in time to when Corgi and Bess occurred?
00:09:42.000 I did.
00:09:43.000 In order to visit the record store?
00:09:45.000 I did.
00:09:46.000 I got my DeLorean.
00:09:47.000 I went back in time.
00:09:48.000 Do you like Back to the Future?
00:09:49.000 Have you seen Back to the Future?
00:09:50.000 Are you familiar with Back to the Future?
00:09:51.000 We've got Back to the Future coming to the Kennedy Center.
00:09:53.000 That.
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00:09:55.000 I will kill people to see that. 1.00
00:09:57.000 Like, that's one of my... 0.99
00:09:58.000 You're not allowed to do that in D.C. anymore.
00:10:00.000 Well, okay.
00:10:01.000 All right.
00:10:02.000 If I need to, though.
00:10:03.000 Didn't you hear?
00:10:04.000 Law and Order has taken over the city of Washington, D.C.
00:10:07.000 It's true.
00:10:08.000 Well, I'm excited about the upgrades to the Kennedy Center.
00:10:11.000 I think it's going to be fantastic.
00:10:13.000 It's going to be huge.
00:10:14.000 Bigger.
00:10:15.000 Better.
00:10:16.000 More beautiful.
00:10:17.000 A little less gold, though.
00:10:18.000 The gold pilings are going away.
00:10:20.000 That's true, which is strange.
00:10:21.000 You would have thought Trump would be more gold.
00:10:23.000 Maybe he's moving all the gold into the White House.
00:10:26.000 I think there's enough gold to go around.
00:10:29.000 In the golden age.
00:10:31.000 We love an upgrade.
00:10:32.000 It is the golden age.
00:10:33.000 Well, thank you for having me here at Nationals Park for Porgy and Bess for Opera in the Outfield.
00:10:38.000 Opera in the Outfield.
00:10:39.000 This is one of our favorite days of the summer for the Kennedy Center for Washington National Opera.
00:10:46.000 And this year, we have a lucky coincidence that Porgy and Bess, which was just on our stage a couple months ago, is here at Nats Park.
00:10:55.000 It's amazing.
00:10:56.000 We're watching it right now.
00:10:58.000 And I've seen, thanks to your amazing generosity, Mozart and Les Mis, and you guys just knock it out of the park every time.
00:11:09.000 Knock it out of the park.
00:11:11.000 Oh, gosh.
00:11:13.000 Yeah.
00:11:14.000 Thank you for having us.
00:11:15.000 Anytime.
00:11:16.000 Come to the Kennedy Center.
00:11:17.000 Dude, I go all the time.
00:11:18.000 It's great.
00:11:19.000 Okay.
00:11:20.000 So, here we are.
00:11:21.000 This is the Kennedy Center.
00:11:22.000 This is the Kennedy Center.
00:11:23.000 Yeah.
00:11:24.000 Thank you for having us.
00:11:25.000 Anytime.
00:11:26.000 Come to the Kennedy Center.
00:11:27.000 Do.
00:11:28.000 I go all the time.
00:11:29.000 It's great.
00:11:30.000 Okay, so here we are.
00:11:42.000 This is the Kennedy Center.
00:11:43.000 This is one of the exhibition halls upstairs at the terrace level.
00:11:50.000 This is a VIP reception for the FIFA World Cup draw.
00:11:56.000 I have my ticket here.
00:11:58.000 The final draw in the theater, which will start shortly.
00:12:02.000 But they have a bar here, which looks absolutely fantastic, but I'm not sure I should be drinking this early.
00:12:07.000 It's 10 o'clock in the morning.
00:12:09.000 Pastries.
00:12:10.000 VIPs.
00:12:11.000 And here she is.
00:12:12.000 Welcome to the final draw.
00:12:13.000 The VIP.
00:12:14.000 How are we all doing?
00:12:15.000 Hello.
00:12:16.000 Are we excited?
00:12:17.000 Absolutely.
00:12:18.000 It's all branded out.
00:12:19.000 Music is bumping.
00:12:21.000 Look at this swag.
00:12:23.000 Hey.
00:12:24.000 Look at the swag here.
00:12:25.000 Amazing.
00:12:26.000 Look at the world cup.
00:12:27.000 The replica, I'm excited.
00:12:28.000 Look at the swag.
00:12:29.000 It's all branded out.
00:12:30.000 Music is bumping.
00:12:31.000 Look at the swag.
00:12:32.000 Hey.
00:12:33.000 Look at the swag here.
00:12:34.000 Amazing.
00:12:35.000 Look at the world cup.
00:12:37.000 The replica.
00:12:38.000 The replica.
00:12:39.000 Look at this swag.
00:12:44.540 Hey, look at this swag here, amazing.
00:12:50.160 Oh, look at the World Cup.
00:12:52.500 It's a replica, obviously.
00:12:54.220 The real one will be in the theater shortly.
00:12:59.220 Ah, this is where they had the actual World Cup on display last night.
00:13:09.220 It's gone now because they moved it into the theater.
00:13:12.220 But as you can see, it's packed in here.
00:13:16.220 It's all decked down.
00:13:18.220 So, on the other side now of the Kennedy Center, and you've got more commentators doing work over here.
00:13:35.220 And you can also see all of the security popping up their heads for all the boxes,
00:13:43.220 which is where the presidents and the prime ministers and all of that who are in attendance are hanging out.
00:13:51.220 And back here you've got more televisual stuff.
00:13:56.220 Yeah.
00:13:57.220 It's a massive, massive operation.
00:14:01.220 Absolutely stunning.
00:14:04.220 And, you know, I always say it when I come to the Kennedy Center,
00:14:08.220 but such massive credit to Rick Grinnell, his whole team.
00:14:13.220 Roma, who's right here. 0.99
00:14:15.220 Yeah.
00:14:16.220 And Taylor.
00:14:19.220 Just, they work so hard, and they get so much s**t,
00:14:25.220 especially from the political left,
00:14:28.220 who have tried to make this their explicit political space.
00:14:33.220 Thank you so much.
00:14:34.220 Thank you.
00:14:35.220 And they just can't stand that now it's the people's space again.
00:14:42.220 So, as I always say, make sure, I'm quite crazy here,
00:14:45.220 make sure you get down to the Kennedy Center.
00:14:48.220 If I may, take a stand.
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00:16:30.220 The War Room.
00:16:32.220 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:16:39.220 Right.
00:16:40.220 Welcome back.
00:16:41.220 Here we are inside the now infamous Butterworths on Capitol Hill for the very special Boxing Day edition of The War Room.
00:16:52.220 I'm joined now by my business partner at this dear place and our executive chef and our sommelier and the guy who, when push comes to shove, scrubs everything in here from top to bottom and fixes everything.
00:17:08.220 And his name is Daniel Bart Hutchins.
00:17:12.220 What's going on, guys?
00:17:13.220 Better known as Bart, if you come in here and you're looking for him, especially if you're a terrorist, ask for Bart and ask for me.
00:17:21.220 I won't be of any use to you.
00:17:24.220 And, you know, there's been so much that's happened here, Bart, over...
00:17:28.220 Firstly, thank you for being here.
00:17:29.220 Yeah, of course.
00:17:30.220 Thank you for being here.
00:17:31.220 Thanks for having me.
00:17:32.220 There's been so much that's happened here in this space that for so very long, I think, you know, has been a thing of law to people.
00:17:42.220 A lot of this audience haven't been here, haven't even seen inside here, don't know what it's all about.
00:17:48.220 They may have read a thing or two.
00:17:51.220 But let's, before we get into the craziness, let's talk a little bit about how this came together because you're kind of not the sort of person that we would have thought would put together a place that has become known as a quote unquote MAGA hangout.
00:18:08.220 Sure.
00:18:09.220 Now, as I've already said on this program, I kind of repudiate that description.
00:18:14.220 I think it's definitely a hangout.
00:18:17.220 But all sorts of people come through those doors.
00:18:19.220 Wow.
00:18:20.220 But you were one of those people once upon a time at least staring through the windows of this place, window licking, some might say, when it was something else.
00:18:29.220 Yeah.
00:18:30.220 So tell us about you and how this all worked.
00:18:32.220 Oh, God.
00:18:33.220 So this building was empty for years.
00:18:36.220 It's a 200 year old building.
00:18:38.220 So it's been all kinds of things.
00:18:40.220 I think you figured out that it was a photography studio at some point.
00:18:43.220 Yeah.
00:18:44.220 A couple hundred years ago.
00:18:45.220 A couple hundred years ago.
00:18:46.220 So it's been a lot of things.
00:18:48.220 But when I was a young chef, three blocks down the road, I was working at this tiny restaurant and I was low on the totem pole.
00:18:55.220 I wasn't the guy.
00:18:56.220 It wasn't my show.
00:18:57.220 I was just, you know, the chef.
00:18:58.220 I just executed the thing.
00:18:59.220 And so I would get off work and I would come down.
00:19:01.220 I lived right behind here.
00:19:03.220 And I would I would stare and there was a little scrap in the paper.
00:19:06.220 There was a little tear in the paper and I could see inside the building.
00:19:09.220 And you could see these these ceiling tiles were here.
00:19:11.220 You could see the floor the way it is.
00:19:13.220 And it was this beautiful space.
00:19:15.220 And if you look around the capitals right down the street.
00:19:18.220 And mainly what they have to eat or have to go to lunch meetings or have to go out after a long day is like a hamburger place and like a taco place.
00:19:27.220 And I sort of found that just incredibly embarrassing.
00:19:30.220 Because like when you think about a country that has its own culture and has its own people, one of the first things you have to figure out how to do is eat.
00:19:40.220 And you see this in like in some of the sort of great countries of the world.
00:19:45.220 Like France has an incredible eating culture.
00:19:47.220 Japan has an incredible eating culture.
00:19:49.220 England has a great eating culture.
00:19:52.220 Yeah, exactly.
00:19:53.220 It does.
00:19:54.220 It really does.
00:19:55.220 Despite the jokes, it really does.
00:19:57.220 And so when you're forming a nation, like have you figured out how to eat?
00:20:02.220 And it was incredibly embarrassing to me that the people who sort of quote unquote run this country had no idea how to eat and ate so poorly.
00:20:08.220 And so the idea of building this like beautiful dining room in this place where people could gather right here on the hill was so obvious when you looked at the building.
00:20:15.220 Like it was built to be this.
00:20:17.220 I'm not sure how it was ever anything else.
00:20:19.220 And so I would stare in this window.
00:20:21.220 This was almost 10 years ago now.
00:20:23.220 And so now here we are.
00:20:25.220 We've built this place and it's doing exactly that.
00:20:27.220 So it's just it's sort of phenomenal that it happened that way.
00:20:30.220 Yeah, I certainly think it's phenomenal.
00:20:32.220 And I'm the one who gets to eat and drink here.
00:20:34.220 I don't sort of have to do a lot of the run around.
00:20:37.220 Yeah.
00:20:38.220 The run around the things that you have to do dealing with, I mean, all sorts.
00:20:41.220 If you if you sort of take a look at this whole operation, I mean, for a smaller space as it is, it's a giant operation.
00:20:49.220 Yeah.
00:20:50.220 And, you know, one of the things I'm not very good at that I'm pleased you exist for is pleasing people.
00:20:55.220 Sure.
00:20:56.220 Sure.
00:20:57.220 Because, you know, when when somebody even when they text me, let alone I was going to say when they walk through the doors.
00:21:03.220 Actually, when somebody texts me of an ordinary evening and says, hey, are you open?
00:21:07.220 You know, my first instinct is to reply, go find out yourself.
00:21:12.220 Google it.
00:21:13.220 Yeah, right.
00:21:14.220 You know, this is not this is a family show.
00:21:15.220 Oh, right.
00:21:16.220 Right.
00:21:17.220 But Google it.
00:21:18.220 Yeah.
00:21:19.220 Sure.
00:21:20.220 Sure.
00:21:21.220 Or go on Open Table and try and book.
00:21:22.220 And if you can book, it means we're open and that sort of thing.
00:21:23.220 Right.
00:21:24.220 I don't have the temperament of a hospitality person, which is funny because my father was, this is probably why, my father was in hospitality for so long that I've kind of shunned it as a concept.
00:21:35.220 Sure.
00:21:36.220 But tell us a little bit about, you know, it's it's it's been a year plus now.
00:21:40.220 Yeah.
00:21:41.220 Everybody said it couldn't happen.
00:21:42.220 Yeah.
00:21:43.220 Everybody said you'd be run out of town within three months.
00:21:45.220 Yeah.
00:21:46.220 And must have been galling to you because.
00:21:48.220 And they tried.
00:21:49.220 You're you're a Democrat.
00:21:50.220 I mean, you come from the populist left.
00:21:52.220 Yeah.
00:21:53.220 Right.
00:21:54.220 Yeah.
00:21:55.220 Yeah.
00:21:56.220 And what's it been like?
00:21:57.220 I was going to say, what's it been like being in business with me?
00:21:59.220 I don't want to hear that.
00:22:01.220 Yeah.
00:22:02.220 What's it been like getting to over a year in this place?
00:22:06.220 And what are the kind of standout moments for you?
00:22:09.220 Yeah.
00:22:10.220 Yeah.
00:22:11.220 I mean, like the the the the the politics of America are changing rapidly.
00:22:15.220 And so part of the part of the comfort to me of doing this thing that this that we get protested for and certain members of the media really hate us for and whatever it may be,
00:22:25.220 is that the the the dining establishment from the Roman Empire till now is a is a sort of populist thing.
00:22:32.220 Right. This is not a private club.
00:22:33.220 This is not a this is not a country club.
00:22:36.220 It's it's there's there's no closed doors.
00:22:38.220 Anybody who wants to come eat and drink can come here.
00:22:40.220 And so what we're seeing right now is this this populist shift on the left and the right.
00:22:45.220 Right.
00:22:46.220 I remember very distinctly in 2016, right after Trump took office the first time, I remember reading a tax plan by Steve.
00:22:55.220 And I was a Democrat at the time and I took it to my then girlfriend.
00:22:59.220 And I sort of was like, have you read this?
00:23:01.220 Because we this huge chunks of this are copy and pasted from the Bernie campaign that we had just worked on.
00:23:06.220 And so this idea that there's there's these like sort of this rich establishment that is that is hellbent on ruining our lives affects you whether you're a Democrat, whether a Republican really doesn't matter.
00:23:16.220 These oligarchs are here to take our money regardless. 1.00
00:23:19.220 And so and your agency and your agency and your freedom and your and your and your way of life, to be perfectly honest.
00:23:26.220 And they want to replace it with things that make them money.
00:23:28.220 And so and so the the interesting thing about this place, I have a very distinct memory early on of you and one of Bernie's former campaign staffers holding court at the end of the bar for almost an hour.
00:23:42.220 And and if you and if you didn't know who you were, you didn't know who she was, you guys agreed on almost everything.
00:23:47.220 I mean, it was very obvious that like there were there were there was a certain a certain populist bent to the whole thing.
00:23:53.220 And so this place has always had some of that. Right.
00:23:56.220 Like as long as as long as you can hold a conversation about those things, like you're you're welcome here and you're more than happy to be here because that's where that's where politics are headed.
00:24:05.220 The left right thing is getting destroyed.
00:24:07.220 It really is like, are you part of this ruling class or are you not?
00:24:11.220 And we're all going to find ourselves together and we're all going to hang together, so to speak, if we don't win.
00:24:16.220 And so and so that's been amazing. Steve was an earlier supporter.
00:24:20.220 That was huge for us.
00:24:21.220 I've always been a fan of his, but but it's been nice to get to know him this year.
00:24:24.220 That makes one of us.
00:24:25.220 Yeah, right, right.
00:24:26.220 It's been it's been nice to get to know him this year.
00:24:28.220 Yeah.
00:24:29.220 And it's been it's been nice.
00:24:30.220 He's a huge fan of yours, I'll tell you.
00:24:32.220 And he's a huge fan of your food.
00:24:34.220 And I want to move on to that a little bit if I can.
00:24:37.220 I think for the audience who kind of lament me playing a Steve role here and interrupting.
00:24:43.220 I keep trying to convince Bart that we need to have our own podcast out of this building and talk about not just like who comes in here and the conversations that happen here and all that fun stuff as well.
00:24:54.220 But it's about what you're talking about.
00:24:55.220 It's culture making.
00:24:56.220 It's change making.
00:24:57.220 It's setting the tone.
00:24:58.220 And from a populist perspective.
00:25:00.220 But but let's talk about the food a little bit, because that is an integral part of this place.
00:25:05.220 A lot of you know, the audience brings the politics.
00:25:08.220 Yep.
00:25:09.220 We bring them as beauty.
00:25:10.220 You bring them especially is is a palette that I have scarcely reckoned with anywhere else in the world.
00:25:19.220 Tell us about your favorite things on the menu and how you got there.
00:25:24.220 Yeah.
00:25:25.220 And don't be afraid to talk about how brilliant British food is.
00:25:29.220 Well, this this is going to be a long winded way of getting there.
00:25:32.220 But sometime after World War Two, the sort of ruling powers that that be decided they could replace our food with with with fake food with with food that has no nutrients, no calories whatsoever.
00:25:46.220 And what we did was we decimated the American farm.
00:25:48.220 We decimated the American farmer and we replaced it with a global supply chain where we get shrimp from China and we get beef from Argentina and we get corn from Brazil and we get all these things and they're shipped to us.
00:25:58.220 And in that shipment process, they die.
00:26:00.220 And they're number one, they lose all nutrients and they lose everything that's good for you and eating food.
00:26:05.220 But more importantly to me, because I'm not the healthiest guy in the world, they lose flavor.
00:26:10.220 They just don't taste as good, period.
00:26:11.220 There's no way to ship something hundreds of thousands of miles.
00:26:14.220 And they and they did this to make an extra 50 cents on whatever it was that they were doing.
00:26:18.220 And they did it in some regards to strip us of our way of life.
00:26:21.220 And so part of how we design a menu here is we work with local farmers who are within 200 miles of this place.
00:26:26.220 Like if something has to get on an airplane, we're not selling it.
00:26:29.220 What I prefer is on Monday mornings when we work with these Amish farmers up in Pennsylvania, when they drop off the vegetables, if you're here early enough, you'll see a guy with the hat and the beard. 0.66
00:26:39.220 And he drove in on a truck that's 30 years old and he drops off the vegetables that he grew himself.
00:26:44.220 And number one, those things are better for you.
00:26:46.220 But number two, they taste significantly better because they're not dead and they're not sitting in a thing.
00:26:50.220 And number three for me personally, I get to know that like his family is going to take the money that I give them and they're going to spend it to have more kids and keep their farms and do whatever it may be.
00:26:58.220 And so we focus on those things.
00:27:01.220 And that's a very specific way of eating that honestly we've had to do some education on.
00:27:08.220 Right.
00:27:09.220 Because we're used to things tasting like the Cisco bag.
00:27:12.220 We're used to things tasting like a chicken finger out of a plastic bag.
00:27:15.220 All of us are.
00:27:17.220 I am to some extent.
00:27:18.220 You have to sort of like retrain your palate around those things.
00:27:21.220 But it's one of the ways that we have to sort of take back our agency in these regards is like you retrain your palate because those things do taste better.
00:27:27.220 They might taste better the first time you try it because we're not used to it anymore because for 70 years now we've been fed junk.
00:27:34.220 But sort of that's the way we make dishes.
00:27:37.220 You have things on the menu that scare a lot of people.
00:27:40.220 Sure.
00:27:41.220 And I must congratulate you, by the way, because, you know, we're hot off the back of you guest chefing in the White House.
00:27:48.220 Yeah.
00:27:49.220 In the Navy mess.
00:27:50.220 Yeah, that was huge.
00:27:51.220 And we should talk about that.
00:27:52.220 It was fun.
00:27:53.220 But you'll have to tune in to the podcast when we launch it to get that whole thing.
00:27:58.220 And by the way, I'll also say this.
00:28:00.220 If you want that to happen faster, go to thenationalpulse.com forward slash war room.
00:28:04.220 Sign up and we can put something together much faster.
00:28:07.220 There you go.
00:28:08.220 I'm the hospitable one, but you're the salesman.
00:28:11.220 I feel like this thing wouldn't work if you didn't sell it because I can't sell for sure.
00:28:14.220 That's exactly how it works, quite honestly.
00:28:16.220 But I can't sell bad products.
00:28:17.220 I've never been able to do that.
00:28:19.220 It's not something that, you know, I get in the back of the Brexit campaign because it was a good thing to sell.
00:28:24.220 I get back in the Trump stuff because it was a good thing to sell.
00:28:27.220 The war room, easy to sell, right?
00:28:29.220 Yeah.
00:28:31.220 Sell America's Voice family.
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00:29:01.220 It's, you know, it is one of those things where it's, I know that it's better.
00:29:06.220 So whether they know what it is or whether they've tried it, I know once they do try it, they're going to be way happier than whatever it is they're usually eating.
00:29:13.220 And these things are not, they're new to us, but they're not new to the country and they're not new.
00:29:19.220 Like our grandparents would be really happy with this menu.
00:29:22.220 Like these are things that they ate.
00:29:23.220 So like the oyster thing, for example, like, you know, in New York in the Bay, it was full of oysters during the sort of Ellis Island import of new Americans.
00:29:34.220 And so one of the things you would do if you were an Irishman or an Italian coming over during that time is you knew that if you got to New York, like this, this had spread back to the old country. 0.89
00:29:42.220 You knew that if you got to New York, you could survive off of just grabbing oysters out of the Bay because there's so much protein and so many nutrients long enough to get a job and to sort of become an American and to become part of this.
00:29:51.220 And so those, those, those, those things that we eat, the bone marrow, that's, that's a way of not wasting cows, right?
00:29:57.220 Like we were once one of the greatest cattle countries in the world and hopefully we'll return.
00:30:01.220 And we got there by not throwing away the bones of the cow.
00:30:04.220 We figured out a way to eat them.
00:30:05.220 We figured out how to make sauces out of them.
00:30:07.220 We figured out all these things.
00:30:08.220 And so, and so I know if I can get people to eat these things, number one, they're going to enjoy them because they're, they are delicious.
00:30:15.220 There's zero doubt about that.
00:30:16.220 We're a year in now and no one's ever said the food was bad.
00:30:19.220 They've said a lot of things about us, but they've never said it was bad.
00:30:22.220 Yeah.
00:30:23.220 In fact, you have rave reviews from the New York Times Magazine, from Tom Sietzema at the Washington Post, from virtually from the New York Times Magazine.
00:30:30.220 From virtually from the Wall Street, I mean the Wall Street Journal front page.
00:30:33.220 Yeah.
00:30:34.220 Right.
00:30:35.220 You have rave reviews across the board.
00:30:36.220 And listen, I think one of the things that people need to realize is this was never opened as a MAGA place.
00:30:42.220 No.
00:30:43.220 Like that wasn't in the business plan.
00:30:44.220 It wasn't in the business model.
00:30:45.220 Yeah.
00:30:46.220 And it, it sort of just became that, right?
00:30:48.220 A lot of it because of, you know, who I am and, and, and bringing Steve in and Steve hosting so many parties here and then it just sort of snowballs, right?
00:30:56.220 Yeah.
00:30:57.220 That, that level of, um, that, that, that type of person coming in.
00:30:59.220 Yeah.
00:31:00.220 Um, so you've been sort of thrown in at the deep end because, you know, I don't think, I think most people in MAGA, maybe MAHA is different.
00:31:08.220 Sure.
00:31:09.220 But most people in the OG MAGA movement.
00:31:11.220 Yeah.
00:31:12.220 Don't really bone marrow.
00:31:14.220 Don't really try it.
00:31:15.220 Don't really oysters.
00:31:16.220 And that's not the only stuff that's on the menu, but that's, you know, and, but you've become known for your tallow fries as well.
00:31:22.220 Yeah.
00:31:23.220 But, but, but you were MAHA, as I always say, I was MAGA before Trump, right?
00:31:27.220 Sure.
00:31:28.220 Because we were doing the Brexit stuff and that in, in, in the years before.
00:31:31.220 Um, but you were MAHA before MAHA.
00:31:33.220 Yeah.
00:31:34.220 Yeah.
00:31:35.220 Big time.
00:31:36.220 This is part of the, this is, this part of the thing that I was talking about earlier, which is we like the, the, the canola oils and the, and the seed oils that, that we usually cook with or most restaurants usually cook with, they're not made in America.
00:31:47.220 Mm.
00:31:48.220 Um, they're made largely in South America these days, largely in, uh, Asian countries these days.
00:31:53.220 Um, and, and so if you want them, you have to bring them in.
00:31:56.220 Number one, they're, they're gross.
00:31:57.220 They don't taste good.
00:31:58.220 But, but number two, you have to bring them in from far, far away. 0.81
00:32:01.220 And that's just like, not part of what we do.
00:32:03.220 It's not part of what I've ever done as a chef.
00:32:05.220 Um, primarily from a flavor perspective, right?
00:32:07.220 Because they don't taste good.
00:32:08.220 Um, but it's been interesting to watch the politics develop around this because people are all of a sudden are interested in this sort of nationalism that says like, no, no, no.
00:32:16.220 The things we make are just as good as every other country in the entire world.
00:32:19.220 Um, and so we, we, we grow amazing cows.
00:32:22.220 Um, they have fat on them.
00:32:23.220 You can use that fat to fry things.
00:32:24.220 Why are we not, we, we make the best French fries in the world.
00:32:27.220 France will have an argument with that, but, but they're wrong.
00:32:29.220 We make the best French fries in the world.
00:32:31.220 Yeah.
00:32:32.220 The French are wrong about most things to me. 1.00
00:32:33.220 Yeah.
00:32:34.220 It's fair.
00:32:35.220 Not from, not from wine and, you know, and most food, most food.
00:32:37.220 Um, uh, but, but we make these cows. 1.00
00:32:40.220 Why would we be, why would we not be making our French fries in, in the fat that comes from these cows instead of importing seed oils from China?
00:32:46.220 Right.
00:32:47.220 What, what, what are we, what are we doing here?
00:32:48.220 Um, and so that's, that's just sort of primary to cooking.
00:32:52.220 And that, that, that goes across the political spectrum in a huge way.
00:32:55.220 Uh, every chef that I respect and that I know has been doing that for 10, 15, 20 years now.
00:33:00.220 And they would never pitch it as like a Maha thing.
00:33:02.220 They would never pitch it as, they would, they would not even say it's a nationalist thing.
00:33:05.220 Even though when I go to these other chef conferences and I meet a chef from Spain per se, he'll go, no, no, no.
00:33:10.220 We make the best pigs in Spain.
00:33:12.220 And I'll be like, no, no, no. 0.99
00:33:13.220 We make the best pigs in America.
00:33:14.220 So there's this like nationalist, uh, uh, um, bent to all chefs because we're proud of the products that come from where we are.
00:33:21.220 Sure.
00:33:22.220 And all of a sudden now, but, but is it weird to vote that way?
00:33:25.220 It shouldn't be.
00:33:26.220 But, but you know, that's sort of the question that we're having now.
00:33:28.220 And this place answers it a lot.
00:33:29.220 I mean, the, the food critics would come in and they would, they, they would read about how it's a MAGA hangout before they would have the food.
00:33:34.220 Right. 0.99
00:33:35.220 And then they would taste the food and they'd go, oh crap. 0.82
00:33:37.220 Like this is actually, this is actually really good. 0.96
00:33:39.220 We have to deal with this.
00:33:40.220 And it's forcing them to answer questions.
00:33:42.220 We've, we've done this with, with almost all the journalists that have reviewed us.
00:33:45.220 We've kind of become friends with them to some extent because they're like, wait, this is really good.
00:33:49.220 I have to wrestle with these questions.
00:33:51.220 If I want good food, do I need a little nationalism in my, in my politics?
00:33:55.220 Maybe.
00:33:56.220 Right.
00:33:57.220 Cause that's what good food is.
00:33:58.220 I mean, the, the, the French are renowned for their good food.
00:33:59.220 Um, and they're, they're wrong about a lot of things and they, and they, they've got some strange things going on, but they've never imported food ever.
00:34:05.220 Right.
00:34:06.220 Ever.
00:34:07.220 And they're like, this like sort of far right country by any stretch of the imagination.
00:34:10.220 But you will not find a Frenchman eating a steak from Spain to save your life because they make cows in France and their cows are better because they're proud of their country. 0.69
00:34:17.220 And, and they're allowed to be in a way that Americans really never have.
00:34:20.220 It's funny.
00:34:21.220 You should say that.
00:34:22.220 I, I, I was watching this clip from the show, you know, the show Emily in Paris.
00:34:25.220 Mm.
00:34:26.220 And I saw this clip of, in the first season, um, they get asked to go to a, a Spanish place and the, the very snobby French professor says, sure.
00:34:35.220 I love Spanish wine.
00:34:36.220 And I just thought, no, you've got this wrong.
00:34:38.220 You would never hear a snobby French person say something like that.
00:34:41.220 No, you wouldn't.
00:34:42.220 Even if they do love it, they will hide the fact that they love it and say, oh, sure.
00:34:46.220 It's almost as good as French wine.
00:34:47.220 I think it's like, it's as high of a compliment as they would give you.
00:34:49.220 Right.
00:34:50.220 Right.
00:34:51.220 Well, um, over a year in, I mean, I wish we could spend more time talking about this.
00:34:54.220 I wish I could dedicate the whole episode to this, but I'm sure people will be fascinated by you, who you are.
00:35:00.220 And they will be surprised when they follow you on social media, um, because you speak quite differently on there than you do here.
00:35:06.220 I don't know if you want to.
00:35:08.220 Am I less polite or more polite?
00:35:09.220 You're different.
00:35:10.220 Yeah.
00:35:11.220 You're a different man on the internet, but then so am I.
00:35:13.220 So, um, it's funny.
00:35:15.220 You become far, yeah, no, I think we both become far less amenable online.
00:35:21.220 And I think a lot of people have that problem right now.
00:35:23.220 Yeah, most people do.
00:35:24.220 Is that we're different people there and it's, and it's slightly stranger, but tell them,
00:35:28.220 tell them your, um, your handles anyway.
00:35:29.220 Yeah.
00:35:30.220 You can follow me on x.com at, um, at white guy Fieri, um, or Instagram at at Bart is new,
00:35:37.220 uh, more importantly at butterworth stock club on Instagram.
00:35:40.220 Um, give us a follow, make a reservation, come eat the food, come be a part of this, um,
00:35:45.220 because it's really fun.
00:35:46.220 It's exciting.
00:35:47.220 Well, thank you so much.
00:35:48.220 Yeah, thanks for having me.
00:35:49.220 Cheers.
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00:36:09.220 And then in the afternoon on Capitol Hill.
00:36:11.220 Well, I documented it all for you.
00:36:13.220 Our regular protesters, a little weird one in the middle is very strange.
00:36:16.220 No matter how much she shakes her arm, she doesn't seem to be able to lose those bingo 1.00
00:36:17.220 wings.
00:36:18.220 And the one on the right is especially special.
00:36:19.220 He does appear to me like he might have been an attempted school shooter at one point,
00:36:24.220 But they put a little message out to their group chat and they actually started to attract a lot more attention.
00:36:28.660 Here you see the police rolling up and doing absolutely nothing.
00:36:32.140 And then a lot more of their friends coming in and joining the equation.
00:36:36.420 I especially like the ginger one.
00:36:39.740 He actually does seem to have a sense of humor.
00:36:42.140 At one point, I think they decided they were too white and they demanded one of their black friends come down.
00:36:46.140 So here he is with the American flag and immediately gets in trouble because he's getting in people's way and harassing them.
00:36:50.920 They were all doing that all night, by the way.
00:36:54.220 But you'll see in a second that when somebody tries to counter-protest them, the police don't allow them the same free speech that they allow these far-left paid protesters.
00:37:04.920 So here I am outside the pub, dinner and a show for me.
00:37:10.340 And I sat there with this cacophony of noise for three whole hours just to show them they don't bother us.
00:37:19.400 But we clearly bother them.
00:37:20.640 I don't know if it's the foie gras or whatever, but they seem to be taking out their anger on Capitol Hill's animals.
00:37:27.720 This dog was particularly perturbed by what they were doing.
00:37:30.120 Most of the residents who were walking past objected to what they were doing.
00:37:33.900 And so I put on a little protest of my own.
00:37:36.260 Grabbed our Queen Elizabeth portrait from inside the bar and, you know, danced around.
00:37:41.200 Pretty perplexing to them, I think.
00:37:42.760 I don't think they've ever had somebody get in their face like that.
00:37:44.940 And make a mockery of them.
00:37:48.040 It did seem to upset them.
00:37:49.200 And it especially seemed to upset the police.
00:37:50.940 Again, they are allowed.
00:37:52.420 These far-left paid protesters are allowed free speech.
00:37:55.180 But apparently I'm not.
00:37:56.580 Even outside, out front, on my own easement of my own restaurant.
00:38:01.620 And that's Washington, D.C. for you, ladies and gentlemen.
00:38:04.420 Nevertheless, I hope they come back.
00:38:06.620 The fact that the restaurant gets protested is a sign that we are getting under their skin.
00:38:11.500 And it makes more and more people come to Butterworth's on Capitol Hill.
00:38:15.180 I'll see you there.
00:38:15.840 I'll see you there.
00:38:45.840 I'll see you there.
00:39:15.840 I'll see you there.
00:39:45.840 I'll see you there.
00:40:15.820 So that was a couple of hours.
00:40:35.980 I don't know how we got through it that quickly of what's gone on in the last year.
00:40:41.520 A lot of it in and around my life.
00:40:44.820 But I wanted to show you the things that I think a lot of people don't get to see.
00:40:49.420 Especially things that I'm really excited about, like the takeover of the Trump-Kennedy Center.
00:40:57.300 I think it is important.
00:40:58.660 I think it is imperative that in addition to dominating the politics, that MAGA learned to dominate the culture too.
00:41:08.480 And, you know, in a lot of ways, it doesn't just mean imposing our will or our view onto the rest of the city or indeed the rest of the nation through those things.
00:41:18.760 The same can be said, by the way, for the Smithsonian institutions.
00:41:23.160 And I think you'll hear a lot more about that stuff in the year to come.
00:41:27.760 There's a lot of things that, you know, I can't tell you that I know is coming in the next year.
00:41:32.560 Because it would give the opponents of these things a little bit too much of a heads up.
00:41:39.000 But there is so much coming down the pipeline that the president is working on, that Ambassador Grinnell is working on, that Secretary Hegseth is working on, that the MAGA crowd is working on.
00:41:54.540 And that, indeed, Stephen K. Bannon, the War Room, and myself, we've all got big plans for 2026.
00:42:04.640 So don't go anywhere.
00:42:07.140 We want you to stay engaged, stay tuned.
00:42:11.080 And, you know, on that note, you know, it's been a pretty apolitical show.
00:42:16.660 We got into some policy in the first hour, but I've kept it a little bit more cultural.
00:42:24.540 We rejoice when there's no more.
00:42:27.860 Let's take down the CCP.
00:42:30.580 War Room.
00:42:31.720 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:42:37.580 We are at this, I hate using this phrase, but we are at this crossroads in the conservative movement right now.
00:42:44.900 I think a lot of people see it and a lot of people know it.
00:42:46.920 A lot of people who went to America Fest get it.
00:42:49.640 And a lot of people who spend, I think, too much time on websites like X especially get it at this point in time.
00:42:58.260 I actually deleted that app off my phone because it was just too much drama, too much emotion,
00:43:05.760 not enough getting stuff done all day, every day, and too much for my blood pressure, quite frankly.
00:43:12.360 And I think as a movement, we have that ability.
00:43:16.280 We can choose at this point in time to keep fighting each other, to keep harassing each other,
00:43:23.220 to keep insulting each other, to keep warring with one another, to keep floating theories and ideas,
00:43:30.420 and just all of these sorts of things that will only serve to separate.
00:43:36.280 And those of you who know me will know that for the past 20 years now, working in politics,
00:43:44.720 I have done almost nothing but strive towards the truth, towards what is right, what is moral, what is correct, what is beautiful.
00:43:55.060 And I think all of those things are intrinsically linked.
00:43:57.240 So what I'm not saying is that people shouldn't be striving for the truth.
00:44:01.000 But what I am saying is that I think we can all do a little better at treating one another a little better,
00:44:07.640 at not presuming bad intent, at not assuming negative connotations at every juncture.
00:44:14.800 That is what the left wants.
00:44:16.960 They want us fighting amongst each other.
00:44:18.600 They want us tearing chunks out of one another.
00:44:20.280 If anything in the last sort of 8 to 12 years in this world has taught us,
00:44:27.160 it's that actually, in addition to the left not being able to meme,
00:44:31.360 the left can't actually win without us letting them win, without us tearing ourselves apart.
00:44:40.340 And those are some of the things that I think we need to reconcile and we need to avoid in the new year.
00:44:45.520 This is the perfect time to start thinking about it.
00:44:48.800 Between today, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day, we've got some time to prey on this stuff.
00:44:57.160 And to make sure that when we go into next year, with incredibly important midterms ahead of us,
00:45:03.080 and incredibly important presidential elections within just a couple of years of that,
00:45:10.960 that you're going to have to once again put your shoulder to the wheel.
00:45:15.660 Just when you thought you were out, we will indeed be pulling you back in.
00:45:21.000 And one of the things that I wanted to close this show out on,
00:45:25.380 I haven't spoken directly to the camera explicitly for this show a lot over the last two hours.
00:45:32.800 But one of the things I wanted to mention to you is when you see us building things,
00:45:38.180 and whether it's institutions, spaces, events, news, websites, membership things,
00:45:47.080 where people can come together, communities, when you see us building those things,
00:45:53.440 you know, when the left wants to do something like that,
00:45:56.020 they have big corporations who throw in hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in behind them.
00:46:03.880 The Reid Hoffmans of the world, the George Soros of the world, the CNNs of the world.
00:46:07.980 I'm talking about billions upon billions upon billions.
00:46:13.020 And while there are conservatives who are very wealthy and who support conservative institutions,
00:46:21.200 mine in particular, I'll especially talk about the National Pulse.
00:46:26.620 You know, we, from the outset, took a decision for that website to be crowdfunded,
00:46:32.660 because strings come attached to big checks.
00:46:37.200 Always has been the case, always will be the case.
00:46:41.120 This is my experience over the last two decades.
00:46:43.560 And so when we relaunched the nationalpulse.com a couple of years ago,
00:46:47.720 and I still think it is one of the best resources out there.
00:46:52.920 And I don't say that about any of my work on there.
00:46:55.600 The team over there, Jack Montgomery, Will Upton, Chris Tomlinson, Anne Lutie,
00:47:03.720 the whole team that keep that place running all day, every day,
00:47:09.020 with all the latest breaking news in formats that are easily digestible.
00:47:14.340 They do just an amazing job, but we are 100% crowdfunded.
00:47:18.320 And what I'll say is this, if you take something like Wikipedia as an example,
00:47:24.100 they do a big fundraising drive every year,
00:47:27.200 and they make tens of millions of dollars over the course of two or three days.
00:47:32.220 Well, we don't run off budgets like that.
00:47:34.900 We run off very small budgets, but it is up to people like you at home
00:47:40.360 watching this to chip in and get involved.
00:47:43.020 And so if you join up now at thenationalpulse.com forward slash warum,
00:47:48.660 that's thenationalpulse.com forward slash warum, it's $9 a month.
00:47:56.580 I mean, it is less than most of your Netflix or NBCs or ESPNs
00:48:02.660 or any of those subscriptions out there.
00:48:05.820 $9 a month funds real news.
00:48:08.540 It really does.
00:48:09.360 And it has done that since our inception.
00:48:13.020 It helps underwrite the site, the staff, the server costs.
00:48:17.160 Believe it or not, we get a lot of DDoS attacks, especially from China, 1.00
00:48:22.380 where we do a lot of reporting on the Chinese Communist Party,
00:48:25.280 and they don't like that.
00:48:26.900 So that's all on our backs, and that's why I have particularly high blood pressure.
00:48:30.660 So I'm asking for your support.
00:48:33.140 At the moment, thenationalpulse.com forward slash warum, $9 a month.
00:48:37.640 Or if you don't want to do that, if you don't want to,
00:48:39.800 and there are discounts if you do annually, by the way, too.
00:48:41.900 But if you don't want to do that, you can also just do a one-off donation
00:48:45.100 at thenationalpulse.com forward slash donate.
00:48:48.980 And every penny, every dollar counts.
00:48:53.620 I don't do asks like this very often.
00:48:56.740 I think probably once a year on this show,
00:49:00.040 on the Boxing Day special is when I do these asks in particular.
00:49:03.400 But at this point in time, I will be quite honest with you.
00:49:06.600 We desperately need it.
00:49:08.920 After President Trump won, a lot of people dropped off.
00:49:11.860 A lot of people have stopped paying attention.
00:49:13.400 A lot of people think that we don't need to keep fighting these fights.
00:49:16.760 You know, we're in power now.
00:49:17.800 Why do I need to keep donating to these sites?
00:49:19.540 And that is a particularly wrong-headed way of looking at these things
00:49:25.120 because especially in American politics, you know,
00:49:27.800 the election cycles as well as the news cycles are constant, are consistent.
00:49:33.500 And we continuously need to be fighting the right fights
00:49:37.100 and putting the right information out there.
00:49:39.040 And I'm grateful to all of you for all of your support,
00:49:42.680 the donors and the members who have been involved from early days.
00:49:47.480 I cannot thank you enough.
00:49:49.760 And to the people out there who are considering joining,
00:49:53.580 just go and look at it right now.
00:49:54.960 It's not going to cost you anything to look at it.
00:49:56.980 thenationalpulse.com forward slash war room.
00:50:01.200 Every single penny helps.
00:50:03.580 So it's been a pleasure for me to put this episode for you together.
00:50:09.040 I hope you subscribe at YouTube, Raheem Kassam,
00:50:12.620 Raheem Kassam on all the social media platforms,
00:50:15.100 the Nat Pulse and the National Pulse on all social media platforms.
00:50:19.160 And of course, make sure you support Stephen K. Bannon and the war room
00:50:23.020 all day, every day.
00:50:24.680 Have a great boxing day.
00:50:26.580 I will see you next year.