Bannon's War Room - December 31, 2025


Episode 5034： WarRoom New Years Eve Special 2025


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Learn English with Donald Trump. President Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Philadelphia on immigration reform and the need for a border patrol agent on every street corner in America. He also talks about the China flexing its muscles and how to deal with it.

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00:00:00.000 Folks, we are in the kinetic part of the Third World War.
00:00:04.580 We have to get focused.
00:00:06.700 We can't let the Mitch McConnells and all these people that brought us here
00:00:10.280 with policies that have led us to disaster,
00:00:12.980 that have allowed China to actually do a flex on the, think about that,
00:00:18.500 everything the United States of America did on a war they never wanted to get involved in.
00:00:25.520 Everything we did, all the blood, all the sacrifice,
00:00:28.840 all the resources, all the toughness, the firebombing of Japan, 1.00
00:00:36.900 the bombing of Germany, the submarine warfare,
00:00:39.900 the landings in North Africa, Normandy, all of it.
00:00:44.040 The guys who fought in China, of which President Trump said,
00:00:46.420 hey, wouldn't you just give us a little thank you for that?
00:00:49.740 Of all the sacrifice, they choose the 80th anniversary to get in your grill
00:00:54.760 and convince the world that was our victory.
00:00:58.840 And the Americans are nothing. 0.99
00:01:02.220 So we're in it.
00:01:04.220 And we don't have a choice.
00:01:06.120 We have to shut them down now.
00:01:07.900 They're an existential threat to the Lao Ba Jing, the folks in China. 1.00
00:01:13.300 They're a threat to East Asia. 1.00
00:01:15.480 They're a threat to all our allies.
00:01:17.120 And they're a threat to the people of the United States. 0.71
00:01:18.920 It's what they've done in this country to co-op Wall Street,
00:01:22.200 to co-op the tech oligarchs.
00:01:24.580 And that's what America First is, putting our citizens, our sovereignty,
00:01:28.540 our country first.
00:01:29.560 If we do that, we're going to win.
00:01:31.020 There's no doubt we're going to win.
00:01:32.200 But if we flinch on that at any time, we could lose this.
00:01:38.640 Because an individual like Donald Trump comes along maybe once in a country's history.
00:01:45.800 We've had three.
00:01:47.660 Washington, Lincoln, and Trump.
00:01:49.580 But with all his imperfection, in fact, his imperfections,
00:01:54.180 his rising above his imperfections is his true greatness.
00:01:57.580 It's just OK.
00:01:58.360 But hang on.
00:01:58.800 Just do the timing.
00:01:59.720 Here's what the timing is going to be.
00:02:02.200 We pass the bill.
00:02:03.340 We get more money.
00:02:04.200 We start standing up sheriffs.
00:02:05.480 We start standing up ICE.
00:02:06.380 We start standing up all of it.
00:02:07.480 And build the logistics, change the camps, everything.
00:02:09.980 Boom.
00:02:10.360 We're doing that from the summer of 2025, right?
00:02:13.900 We then go.
00:02:16.060 You stand it up more.
00:02:17.260 And we start the 1.6 million final deportation orders.
00:02:20.680 And then the other 2 million as they burn off on the phony permission we gave them to be here, right?
00:02:30.520 That's all coming essentially in a year called 2026.
00:02:35.600 And what happens in November that year of 2026, the midterm elections?
00:02:39.500 And what you're going to have, if you think the intensity,
00:02:43.780 this is what I just want the audience to understand,
00:02:45.400 because we're prepping the battlefield here, folks.
00:02:49.200 The media attention on the savages that President Trump as commander-in-chief sent out of here in the court cases.
00:02:58.020 And now you've got a judge in Washington, D.C.
00:03:01.380 who's out of control, who has found President Trump, or excuse me, his advisors may be guilty of criminal contempt
00:03:10.100 and him coming in the middle of a decision as commander-in-chief.
00:03:14.220 And I might add, folks, take your number two pencil out right down. 0.95
00:03:18.380 Bannon went to prison for criminal contempt.
00:03:21.020 That's what the judge did yesterday.
00:03:22.980 They're coming.
00:03:23.700 They're coming as hard as you've ever seen anything come in your life.
00:03:27.920 So if you want to deport the 10 million illegal aliens in this country that have to go or you don't have a country, 0.84
00:03:35.580 and you're not going to have a concept of a country, your sovereignty, your territorial integrity, anything about that,
00:03:41.500 and we know that working-class Hispanics and working-class blacks and working-class whites want this more than anything,
00:03:49.620 if you don't do that, and we're going to hit a firestorm, folks.
00:03:53.080 I said this back in Pinehurst, North Carolina, in a speech I gave at the North Carolina Country Club two years ago.
00:04:00.040 The convergence of budget cuts for social programs and the convergence of the deportations when it would happen in 25,
00:04:08.900 and it looks like it's going to happen now in late 25 or early 26, is something people ain't prepared for.
00:04:15.100 They're going to have the cameras everywhere.
00:04:17.400 You're going to have to have a spine of steel.
00:04:20.540 And besides Trump, show me these guys up on Capitol Hill who's got a spine of steel.
00:04:23.960 I got Tom Homan, I got Donald Trump, I got Benzman, I got Chrissy Noem, I got a handful.
00:04:31.280 I got no more Tom 10 Kratos who I saw back in Colorado when I was out there.
00:04:38.700 So Benzman, walk me through.
00:04:40.660 You see what's coming.
00:04:42.200 And this is going to be – this is either going to have a country or not going to have a country.
00:04:46.540 Bottom line, they all got to go.
00:04:48.900 You got to do it humanely.
00:04:50.600 You have to do it with respect and dignity, but they got to go.
00:04:54.100 And if we don't want the Chinese Communist Party to be competitive, there are methods to do that.
00:04:59.400 Number one, you don't let Jensen Wong talk you into selling high-end chips.
00:05:03.560 They're a couple of years behind us right now.
00:05:05.040 There are certain aspects they may be ahead, but if you cut them off from equity capital,
00:05:09.780 you cut them off from debt capital, you cut them off from all the capital markets in the United States,
00:05:14.020 you cut them off to how to build the ecosystem.
00:05:16.100 And what I mean by the ecosystem, the training, the know-how, the expertise, the knowledge,
00:05:22.280 training these Chinese engineers in our own colleges and then have them go back to compete with us. 0.96
00:05:27.140 Who does that?
00:05:28.560 Who does that?
00:05:29.180 Would the Chinese do that for us? 0.59
00:05:30.500 No, they wouldn't.
00:05:31.160 Would the Chinese ever sell these chips to us if they had and we didn't? 0.98
00:05:34.180 No, they wouldn't.
00:05:34.820 So the message that is being projected behind us right here, right now, it says don't let AI buy the government.
00:05:43.300 It's going, it's sequencing through and hopefully many thousands, tens of thousands of people will see this stop SACS AI preemption.
00:05:53.520 As this message is going out, as it's going out to the war room posse, what do you hope to see tomorrow?
00:06:00.320 And what do you hope to see long term in this fight against these companies and the people who are facilitating it here in Washington, D.C.?
00:06:07.580 Sure.
00:06:08.120 I mean, we're looking for common sense legislation that would protect kids.
00:06:12.440 We're looking for safety by design and no preemption.
00:06:15.500 That is a non-starter.
00:06:17.380 I would encourage all of your viewers to call their congressperson tomorrow morning, ask them to support a strong COSA and stand against preemption.
00:06:26.240 This is not about speech.
00:06:27.960 It's not about deplatforming.
00:06:29.260 This is about power politics and what Charlie Kirk believed in, to the core of his being, that America makes decisions for America and Americans make decisions for America.
00:06:43.880 That was Charlie Kirk.
00:06:46.540 Why the hell, why the hell do you think they assassinated him?
00:06:50.160 Why do they put the poison all over this place?
00:06:52.420 Why do they mock and ridicule?
00:06:53.660 James Carville said yesterday that Rob Reiner's done a hundred times more than Charlie Kirk.
00:06:58.420 They hate Charlie Kirk because Charlie Kirk brought victories.
00:07:03.780 And with victory after victory after victory, that's when we can re-Christianize this country. 0.98
00:07:09.220 What was Charlie Kirk's lesson?
00:07:10.500 That we were a Christian nation that got off the rails.
00:07:14.160 We have to re-Christianize this country. 1.00
00:07:25.340 You are in the shadows of a giant, not just an American patriot and an American hero.
00:07:34.060 Charlie Kirk is a Christian martyr, and Charlie Kirk is a Christian saint.
00:07:42.600 That is your legacy that you take up.
00:07:45.220 The day I went into prison, the day I went into prison, we passed the show to Charlie Kirk,
00:07:50.500 as we did oftentimes in the three and a half years that Charlie Posobiec and I had that block at Real America's Voice.
00:07:55.980 And what Charlie said, I said to Charlie, next man up.
00:07:59.640 Charlie said, I got it.
00:08:01.060 Next man up.
00:08:02.160 Are you next man up?
00:08:04.000 Are you going to fill the shoes of Charlie Kirk?
00:08:06.460 Do you have the stones to do it?
00:08:08.840 Do you have the guts to do it?
00:08:11.520 Ask yourself that, because I'll tell you what.
00:08:14.240 That's what's going—you in this room right here are going to decide whether we win in 26.
00:08:19.380 And if we don't win in 26, they're going to bring holy hell down on us.
00:08:25.060 We have to win.
00:08:26.560 Charlie Kirk knew that, and you know that.
00:08:29.900 Thank you very much.
00:08:30.800 Next man up.
00:08:31.640 Should old acquaintance be forgot and never want to buy?
00:08:45.260 Should old acquaintance be forgot and old lands sigh?
00:08:57.820 For old lands sigh, my dear, for old lands sigh,
00:09:11.380 We'll take a cup of kindness yet for old lands sigh.
00:09:23.660 I'm sure you'll buy your drink cup, and surely I'll buy mine.
00:09:35.660 And we'll take a cup of kindness yet for old lands sigh.
00:09:47.900 For old lands sigh, we'll take a cup of kindness yet for old lands sigh.
00:10:12.900 For old lands sigh, we'll take a cup of kindness yet for old lands sigh.
00:10:42.880 For old lands sigh, we'll take a cup of kindness yet for old lands sigh.
00:10:49.880 And we'll take a cup of kindness yet for old lands sigh.
00:10:51.880 And we'll take a cup of kindness yet for old lands sigh.
00:11:01.880 And there's a cup of kindness yet for old lands sigh.
00:11:03.880 And there's a cup of kindness yet for old lands sigh.
00:11:04.880 And there's a hand, my trusty friend, and there's a hand, my trusty friend, and needs a hand of thine.
00:11:16.880 We'll take a right good, we'll draft for old and side. 0.95
00:11:30.680 For old and side, my dear, for old and side, we'll take a cup of kindness, yet for old and side.
00:11:56.480 We'll take a cup of kindness, yet for old and side.
00:12:10.480 We'll take a cup of kindness, yet for old and side.
00:12:22.480 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:12:28.480 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:12:33.480 You're just not going to get a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:12:37.480 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:12:39.480 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:12:40.480 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:12:43.480 It's going to happen.
00:12:44.480 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:12:48.480 Mega Media.
00:12:49.480 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:12:54.480 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:12:58.480 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:13:05.480 War Room.
00:13:06.480 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:13:10.480 It's Wednesday, 31 December, the year of our Lord, 2025.
00:13:18.480 And of course, that is the last time we'll be saying that, the 2025.
00:13:21.480 This is the last day of the year, our traditional New Year's Eve special,
00:13:25.480 where we're going to go through the victories and defeats,
00:13:29.480 particularly where we use the big muscles in 2025, a historic year,
00:13:34.480 the first year of the return of President Trump's second term,
00:13:38.480 and the days of thunder, the flooding of the zone.
00:13:41.480 But as you saw right there, man, that's pretty good.
00:13:44.480 You would think that was ripped from this morning's headlines.
00:13:48.480 It was not.
00:13:49.480 That is the things we've talked about and discussed and worked on in your victories over this past year.
00:13:54.480 So I've got Ben Harnwell in Rome.
00:13:56.480 He's going to join us, the head of our International Bureau.
00:13:59.480 And of course, our own Dave Brat, riding shotgun with me this morning as we're going to go through the year,
00:14:04.480 but do it as a prep for the springboard for what's to come in the coming year.
00:14:10.480 Today, you know, Tehran is in absolute chaos, as I've told you time and time again.
00:14:17.480 Don't need to go in and bomb them. Don't need to send troops in.
00:14:20.480 If you just pay attention in Jerusalem and focus on what to cut them off economically, 1.00
00:14:26.480 they'll overthrow the Moulas themselves. 0.99
00:14:28.480 They're in the streets today.
00:14:29.480 Of course, last night, I think they were actually firing on the crowds.
00:14:32.480 In Minneapolis, the Somalians are bringing kids back, scrambling to bring kids back to the to these phony childcare centers. 1.00
00:14:41.480 And in New York City, they're preparing for a the inauguration of the mayor.
00:14:48.480 And for the first time in history, they're going to use the Koran. 0.98
00:14:51.480 Hmm. I think I see a common theme there. Short commercial break.
00:14:54.480 We'll be back in the warm New Year's Eve special. Just a moment.
00:14:59.480 If you could make one holiday wish, would you wish to be free from your credit card and other debt?
00:15:04.480 Let's see if we can help you with that.
00:15:07.480 If we could give yourself one gift this holiday season, would it be finally to get some relief from your credit card and other debt?
00:15:14.480 I might have a solution.
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00:15:29.480 That means if you have credit card debt and unpaid bills, lenders may be more open to negotiating and settling your account before you're in.
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00:16:30.480 The day today.
00:16:31.480 Day.
00:16:32.480 許 Bx for God.
00:16:37.480 brought to mind, should old acquaintance be forgot, and days of auld lang syne.
00:16:54.240 For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
00:17:16.240 for auld lang syne, we do have a boot, a bridge that blew the government's mind,
00:17:38.600 with old and early a weary foot, sing auld lang syne.
00:17:52.680 For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
00:18:14.660 for auld lang syne, and here's a hand, my trusty friend, and here's a hand of...
00:18:33.240 We want to have a little contrast to start the morning.
00:18:35.360 That was opening with the Coral Scholars of University College Dublin, a women's contention.
00:18:42.740 Can't get more beautiful than that, and of course, Robert Shaw.
00:18:46.200 Back in the 1950s and 60s, these amazing corrals put together by so many different composers,
00:18:53.780 but Robert Shaw, one of my favorites right there.
00:18:55.500 So compare the female version and the male, both of them pretty great, right? 1.00
00:19:00.580 Ringing out the old and ringing in the new here in the war room this morning.
00:19:05.900 We're live Wednesday, 31 December, Year of Our Lord, 2025.
00:19:09.140 A lot of news, and a lot of news revolving around one topic.
00:19:15.320 Ben Harnwell, on 9 January, we're going to go to Texas, the great state of Texas,
00:19:23.040 and we're going to have an event.
00:19:24.240 We're bringing over Gert Wilders.
00:19:26.240 I'm going to be there.
00:19:27.200 Others, and we're going to spend, I think, a couple of days down in Texas
00:19:29.600 meeting people, helping to organize, or I should say not helping to organize,
00:19:34.320 but driving forward the organizing that's going on, it's about this topic of Islamification.
00:19:43.240 And you can see it taking place in Texas, and we're seeing the results of what's happened
00:19:49.020 in Europe over the last couple of decades, and it's not pretty.
00:19:54.600 In fact, it's very scary.
00:19:56.560 You're seeing Paris has fallen, London has fallen.
00:19:58.420 Tomorrow, the Koran is going to be used for the first time in the city's history.
00:20:04.820 As you guys remember, let's go back to the combat history of Christmas, 0.81
00:20:09.900 where we go through that first Christmas of the United States in 1776,
00:20:15.480 and we talk about the centrality of New York City in our revolution
00:20:19.000 and how it was probably the most key, so more important even than Boston and Philadelphia.
00:20:23.120 It was the center, it was the key that picked the lock and fought over or fought around forever.
00:20:30.000 Founded by the Dutch and then the Americans, and now a Ugandan Marxist jihadist 0.92
00:20:38.540 is going to take the oath of office tomorrow on a Koran.
00:20:43.120 Ben Harnwell, the reason we're going to Texas is to stop that happening in the great state of Texas
00:20:47.840 because there's actually a very well-thought-through plan by the forces of Islam in this world.
00:20:54.580 And you see, and this is this year, you start to see it perk up.
00:20:57.680 You know, we've been all over it, but it's coming to, not coming to a head,
00:21:01.300 but getting more and more in your grill, as we can see up in Minneapolis.
00:21:04.540 Your thoughts about all of it, sir, you've been particularly focused on this,
00:21:08.440 like Rahim has, for many, many, many years.
00:21:11.680 Your thoughts, sir?
00:21:12.460 What is it, 48 mosques that they're opening or have opened down in Texas,
00:21:21.260 what might once have been called Bible Belt and now becoming Koran Belt.
00:21:26.020 I was particularly interested to see the New York Times.
00:21:30.820 If Denver, I don't know if you've got the article, you might splash it up on the screen as I'm talking.
00:21:35.500 I'd be grateful for that.
00:21:37.120 And the New York Times, I think, is always the thanks very much, guys.
00:21:40.280 I love the way they frame this, Steve.
00:21:45.820 They're falling over themselves to say how natural and appropriate it is
00:21:52.600 that Mamdani will be the first mayor to swear in with his hand on the Koran.
00:22:00.220 Or let me put it, you called him a Ugandan Marxist jihadist.
00:22:04.140 As the New York Times put it slightly differently, they said Mr. Mamdani's faith was a defining feature of his campaign.
00:22:13.800 Folks, we'll get the link out.
00:22:15.540 You know, you've got to read this article because it illustrates everything that's wrong with the left
00:22:20.040 and just how closely integrated they are, the nexus between the left and the Koran.
00:22:27.080 And I know Dave Brat is waiting in the wings.
00:22:29.560 He's going to come on and say a few things as well.
00:22:32.040 There is something fundamental here.
00:22:34.000 And we can expand on this in the show, right?
00:22:36.080 It is appropriate that Mamdani does put his hand on the Koran 1.00
00:22:39.720 because that's programmatic of his intentions.
00:22:43.140 This represents something new, Steve.
00:22:47.000 They're not sneaking this in anymore.
00:22:49.880 This is full frontal, in your face.
00:22:52.460 They are telling you what they are doing now as they are doing it.
00:22:56.200 There's no more duplicity.
00:22:58.460 Look, I'll say this.
00:23:00.120 We said this on the War Room for many years.
00:23:03.880 There is, you know, as separate notionally as the left and its LBGQ agenda is from Islamia,
00:23:16.920 as much as the left is attached to feminism, which is not part of the Islamic agenda,
00:23:22.920 obviously you have all these issues on which there is an antagonism.
00:23:26.920 The most fundamental point between the two of them is the alignment in their opposition to Jesus Christ and his kingdom.
00:23:36.540 That is what unites the left and Islam.
00:23:39.700 That's why they're so compatible right across the West.
00:23:43.660 You see this affinity between the left and Islam.
00:23:46.700 It's for that reason.
00:23:48.080 Fundamentally, Steve, history is driven by supernatural factors, right?
00:23:53.900 The Holy Spirit, the battle between Ephesians 6.12, that our fight is not against flesh and blood, right?
00:24:03.620 There's a spiritual dynamic to human history, and you see that in the ever more overt coming together of the left and Islam. 0.97
00:24:12.520 And you can see this with the placing of the hand on the Koran tomorrow by New York's mayor.
00:24:18.920 It's appropriate that he does that.
00:24:20.740 They're telling you what they're doing.
00:24:22.060 The response, Steve, and you're leading the way in Texas next week, is what we're going to do about this from this scenario.
00:24:30.980 We've been led in by our own complacency and our own willingness to be distracted over many decades.
00:24:38.580 Now the fight is taking back.
00:24:41.480 Perhaps I'll go into more detail tomorrow on this, on the New Year's show.
00:24:46.340 But I would suggest that the approach for every Christian who is opposed to what they are doing is to pray, to discern,
00:24:55.280 and then to act and do everything within one's power, within the realm that Christ has put us,
00:25:01.980 within which the Holy Spirit has put us, to effect that gospel change in our immediate lives.
00:25:07.940 That's what we can do, and I think that's what you're going to be doing in January.
00:25:16.480 In the next block, in fact, I want to give enough runway for Brett.
00:25:19.720 Brett's got a great way to compare and contrast this.
00:25:22.320 It's for this audience.
00:25:25.320 And looking back over this year.
00:25:26.740 And this is why we say, and in fact, at the bottom of this block, we've had traditionally for the last, I think, year or two,
00:25:36.340 Modern Day Holy War by Nicole Negrady, because I just think it's a fantastic song.
00:25:41.960 This is, even if you're not particularly religious, even if you're not spiritual,
00:25:47.540 as Ben said, this is a bigger, bigger drama that's playing out on a bigger scale.
00:25:52.560 And that's why I continue to say Donald Trump, for all his faults, and look, this year, you know, has it been perfect?
00:26:00.080 No.
00:26:00.940 It's never going to be perfect for the simple reasons that these are human institutions and we're all humans.
00:26:06.780 But directionally, it's pretty damn good, with some big exceptions.
00:26:12.340 We understand that.
00:26:13.140 And that's why the Warren Posse is here, to make sure that, you know, people can stay focused and we can, you know, hammer things out.
00:26:20.400 But this is providential.
00:26:21.840 This is why the return of Trump in 2024, that amazing come from behind victory, which was on your shoulders, the grassroots.
00:26:29.460 And that's why you're going to drive things more than ever.
00:26:32.040 And these massive fights really about the salvation of Christendom, the Christian West, and by two forces,
00:26:41.180 one, this massive force of Islam, right, with the money and power behind it, and also transhumanism, 0.89
00:26:50.260 which kind of inextricably are linked.
00:26:54.220 And it's a huge fight before us.
00:26:56.660 We've had many, many, many victories here, right?
00:27:00.220 And all of them haven't been massive victories.
00:27:01.820 They're not all going to be massive victories.
00:27:03.480 Victory begets victory.
00:27:04.720 And that's why you, this working class and middle class audience, are to hammer through 2026. 0.94
00:27:15.780 I've said time and time again, I believe that President Trump, the economic plan of Bessett and Trump, is really going to start kicking in.
00:27:22.620 I realize everybody haven't seen the benefits of this, and that economic plan is not perfect, far from perfect.
00:27:28.080 There are many aspects of it that I don't particularly care for, but generally and directionally, about bringing manufacturing jobs here back,
00:27:35.960 high-value-added manufacturing jobs.
00:27:37.640 When that starts to kick in, as I said, they're going to get more and more vicious.
00:27:44.260 And the buried leader, what Ben Harnwell just said, is that they're not hiding it anymore.
00:27:48.540 They're not hiding it anymore.
00:27:50.200 They're not trying to sneak in here on cat's paws.
00:27:52.880 They're coming in and rolling in up in your grill.
00:27:56.080 And the question is going to be, are you going to defend this and start pushing back and making sure that our country is what it was founded on, a Christian country,
00:28:06.140 part of the Judeo-Christian West underpinnings of our civilization, but a Christian nation.
00:28:11.540 That is going to be one of the big fights before us in 2026 between transhumanism and the Islamification of the United States of America. 0.95
00:28:21.040 Short commercial break.
00:28:22.220 Dave Bratt's got a thing or two to say about this.
00:28:24.760 He'll have a lot of runway in the next segment of The War Room. 0.95
00:28:31.200 And his highly anticipated inauguration will kick off just moments after the New Year's Eve ball drop.
00:28:36.740 The 34-year-old Democratic Socialists will be surrounded by progressive heavyweights throughout the day.
00:28:42.340 Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Letitia James.
00:28:46.780 Gloria Pasmino is out front with the latest.
00:28:48.860 On January 1st, I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City.
00:28:56.800 Zora Mamdani, the 34-year-old Democratic Socialist who stunned the political world in November,
00:29:03.100 will be sworn in as New York City's 112th mayor at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
00:29:09.640 Mamdani, who will be New York's first Muslim and South Asian-American mayor,
00:29:14.240 will be introduced by progressive Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and sworn in by Senator Bernie Sanders.
00:29:21.340 Mamdani, who previously served in the state assembly and once moonlighted as a rapper,
00:29:27.580 will take over the reins of America's largest city, overseeing 300,000 public employees and a $116 billion budget.
00:29:37.180 I will fight for a city that works for you, that is affordable for you, that is safe for you.
00:29:43.460 Mamdani's win against former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary shocked the political establishment.
00:29:49.160 The night was not our night.
00:29:52.000 He cruised to victory again in November with promises to make the city affordable for the working class.
00:29:57.920 There are promises to freeze the rent, to make buses fast and free, to deliver universal child care.
00:30:03.920 To pay for his ambitious agenda, Mamdani wants to raise taxes on wealthy residents,
00:30:08.920 an ask Governor Kathy Hochul has so far rejected.
00:30:12.060 But the governor, heading into her own re-election year in 2026, has said she'll work with the incoming mayor.
00:30:19.380 He and I have had many meetings individually and with our staff to find a path forward,
00:30:25.520 something that's reasonable, that we can get started on universal child care.
00:30:30.620 Mamdani, who has called President Trump a fascist, says he is willing to work with him if it'll help his agenda.
00:30:36.960 Last month, he traveled to D.C. for a high-stakes meeting with Trump in the Oval Office,
00:30:42.140 who went from calling Mamdani a lunatic to this.
00:30:45.620 We agree on a lot more than I would have thought.
00:30:47.540 I want him to do a great job, and we'll help him do a great job.
00:30:50.640 Trump even reportedly remarked,
00:30:52.760 Wow, you are even better looking in person than you are on TV.
00:30:56.760 So far, Mamdani has made appointments to New York City's core service agencies,
00:31:01.760 including keeping NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in charge of the department.
00:31:06.120 I will demand excellence from my team, from myself,
00:31:09.740 and also I will ensure that we create the conditions where that excellence is possible to deliver on.
00:31:14.700 But some of his hires have garnered controversy.
00:31:17.560 A day after naming his director of appointments,
00:31:20.060 Mamdani accepted her resignation after it was revealed
00:31:23.380 she had posted a series of anti-Semitic posts online more than a decade ago.
00:31:28.060 We are currently underway at making changes in our vetting process.
00:31:31.000 As he prepares to take office, Mamdani is also getting a major real estate upgrade.
00:31:36.120 He and his wife, Ramaduwaji, will leave their one-bedroom,
00:31:39.500 $2,300-a-month apartment in Queens and move into Gracie Mansion.
00:31:44.100 Mamdani will be sworn in during a private midnight ceremony
00:31:47.180 at the old, now-abandoned City Hall subway station.
00:31:51.020 A public inauguration is scheduled for the afternoon,
00:31:53.800 planned in part by a star-studded committee,
00:31:55.860 including children's YouTuber Ms. Rachel and actress Cynthia Nixon.
00:31:59.860 And he'll do that on the Koran. 0.93
00:32:06.820 As I said, the National Conservative speech I gave, I think it was back in June.
00:32:12.960 Might have been July.
00:32:16.160 The Israel First crowd that brought you a two-state solution. 0.92
00:32:22.940 You know, they had this thing the other day about what went on in Mar-a-Lago.
00:32:28.520 And Netanyahu is making the argument,
00:32:30.020 oh, we'll never agree to a two-state solution.
00:32:31.860 Yo, dude, what do you think is happening in Gaza right now?
00:32:35.420 There's kind of this separation from reality.
00:32:38.220 You've got Qatar that's got money in everywhere,
00:32:41.220 including the New York City public school system.
00:32:44.180 You've got Qatar underwriting it, 0.99
00:32:46.520 and the Turks are going to provide security.
00:32:48.720 That's a two-state solution.
00:32:51.180 That's a Palestinian state.
00:32:54.300 As I said, don't focus on bombing Tehran.
00:32:59.240 Don't focus on sucking, doing a regime change war from the top,
00:33:03.640 decapitating the top,
00:33:05.400 and having America get involved in another endless war in the Middle East.
00:33:11.460 And if you watched Posobiec's specials this week,
00:33:14.860 they were breathtaking about the Iraq War
00:33:17.520 and about how we got sucked into other Middle East wars.
00:33:21.360 We're tired of it.
00:33:22.260 It's irrelevant.
00:33:23.380 As I said at the time and told these guys,
00:33:25.600 what's relevant is what's happening in New York City.
00:33:28.560 And so now we have the Israel First crowd
00:33:30.660 has visited upon us a two-state solution in Israel.
00:33:36.020 And this is why I argue we have to have a third state.
00:33:38.740 We have to have a Christian state.
00:33:40.800 We're going to actually be bringing people on,
00:33:43.120 starting on Friday and Saturday, to discuss that.
00:33:47.960 We have to do that.
00:33:49.840 And number two, this mess,
00:33:52.380 and this is a huge, huge, huge wound in the United States.
00:33:58.220 And if you connect what's happening in Minneapolis
00:33:59.980 with what's happening in New York City,
00:34:02.660 with what's happening in Texas,
00:34:03.940 this is exactly what I told this conference of neocons
00:34:08.140 in Washington, D.C. back, you know,
00:34:11.720 they're talking about national conservatives.
00:34:13.140 We're popular.
00:34:13.600 It's all a front.
00:34:14.320 It's all a front for neocons.
00:34:16.120 And they should be ashamed of themselves
00:34:17.840 of how they've left this world right now,
00:34:20.180 of which you have to fix.
00:34:22.860 You, this audience, we're going to have to fix this.
00:34:25.480 We're going to have to fix it.
00:34:26.180 We're not going to have a country.
00:34:27.100 Dave Bratt, you've got some thoughts about this, sir.
00:34:33.320 You've got runway, and the floor is yours, sir.
00:34:37.360 Yeah, thanks, Steve.
00:34:38.520 Yeah, not happy about this.
00:34:40.420 The New York Times, as we've gone over on this show for years,
00:34:44.260 has just been constantly putting down evangelicals,
00:34:48.000 Protestants, Catholics, on and on and on. 0.98
00:34:51.240 And yet, in today's New York Times,
00:34:53.840 you know, Mandami will be the first NYC mayor
00:34:55.840 to use the Quran it is swearing in. 0.97
00:34:57.800 I'm going to flesh out what the New York Times is saying.
00:35:00.680 There's no way they can defend intellectually
00:35:04.480 what they're saying.
00:35:05.320 Hang on.
00:35:05.740 Let me, hang on, hang on.
00:35:07.280 I'm going to turn over you and do it,
00:35:08.620 but Laura Loomer, I got the thing to her early this morning.
00:35:11.280 She put up the, she says,
00:35:12.500 New York Times gushes, gushes.
00:35:15.380 Yeah, yes.
00:35:16.320 The audience, we've made it so you can read it.
00:35:18.460 You must read this.
00:35:19.420 They're glazing Mandami.
00:35:22.440 They're glazing the Quran.
00:35:24.220 They're glazing Islam. 0.91
00:35:26.520 And this is the paper of record in this country.
00:35:29.120 They are gushing all, it's sickening.
00:35:31.000 You will want to throw up as you read this piece.
00:35:34.460 Dave Brad, it's yours.
00:35:36.280 Yeah, and it's shocking what they've admitted.
00:35:39.420 Mr. Mamdani will join a small group
00:35:41.400 of prominent elected officials in the U.S.
00:35:43.300 to use a Quran for their swearing in.
00:35:45.520 Keith Ellison, Minnesota's attorney general,
00:35:48.940 became one of the first American elected officials
00:35:50.840 to put his hand on the book
00:35:51.920 when he swore into Congress in 07.
00:35:54.360 Representative Ilhan Omar in Minnesota,
00:35:57.680 who succeeded Mr. Ellison,
00:35:59.320 also put her hand on a Quran for her swearing in.
00:36:02.860 So this tees up the basic question,
00:36:05.560 what is going on here?
00:36:06.840 The trend line is not looking good here
00:36:08.580 for the Quran swearing in folks in government.
00:36:12.100 Then, second paragraph in on this story,
00:36:15.400 but for New York's hundreds of thousands
00:36:16.560 of Muslim residents who have taken pride
00:36:18.140 in seeing one of their own rise to the mayoralty,
00:36:20.740 comma, his inauguration will bring another special first
00:36:25.360 rooted in tradition and piety.
00:36:30.220 Boy, that's what I'm going to dig in here
00:36:32.000 just for a few minutes.
00:36:33.320 What tradition are you talking about, New York Times?
00:36:36.040 And which piety?
00:36:37.660 What are you saying?
00:36:38.980 Please, we want to know this, right?
00:36:40.920 We really do.
00:36:41.760 We're serious on ideas.
00:36:43.580 The Christian faith is rooted in knowledge.
00:36:45.920 So let me just get to a few contrasts, right?
00:36:48.020 First, the United States Constitution.
00:36:50.100 Let's cite that.
00:36:50.760 The thing that gives Muslims 1.00
00:36:52.800 their minority rights in this country
00:36:55.160 and the full rights to everything,
00:36:57.340 even rights they're making up.
00:36:59.100 So the U.S. Constitution,
00:37:00.740 the primary document used most by our founders
00:37:04.960 when they wrote the U.S. Constitution
00:37:06.660 was the book of Deuteronomy in the Christian Bible.
00:37:09.820 And of course, in the Hebrew scriptures.
00:37:13.360 The Koran, by contrast, 0.96
00:37:16.180 show me the lines, connect the dots between the Koran 0.98
00:37:18.800 and any significant document
00:37:20.240 that shows me democracy or human rights.
00:37:23.160 And the plain fact is,
00:37:24.840 if you look, and all of this is just mainstream, right?
00:37:27.100 No one wants to talk about it because it's not polite.
00:37:29.460 All political views are my own always.
00:37:31.300 But there is no Muslim country 0.99
00:37:34.440 that's a functioning full democracy.
00:37:37.260 There is no Islamic country 1.00
00:37:39.240 that has a human rights record at all
00:37:41.320 because human rights language
00:37:42.420 does not exist in the Islamic tradition.
00:37:46.360 Back in about 1300,
00:37:47.840 they had some great philosophers.
00:37:49.400 Now you cannot name a great Islamic university.
00:37:53.260 I wish there were.
00:37:55.160 Let's go to other,
00:37:56.780 and this is why the New York Times is,
00:37:58.600 it's not puzzling.
00:37:59.440 It's on purpose, right?
00:38:01.240 They do not like Christianity 1.00
00:38:03.100 because it keeps them
00:38:04.660 from their globalist ambitions
00:38:07.160 and big government ambitions.
00:38:08.600 That's what is going on here, right?
00:38:10.640 The Protestants believe in largely capitalism
00:38:13.820 versus Mamdani socialism.
00:38:16.060 There's another contrast.
00:38:17.780 In capitalism, properly construed, free markets,
00:38:21.140 you have to make what I want
00:38:23.240 or I won't buy your product.
00:38:25.080 It's self-regulating.
00:38:26.400 It's self-discipline.
00:38:27.340 If you don't make good stuff that I want to buy,
00:38:29.640 you fail.
00:38:30.880 In socialism, it's you give me more stuff, period.
00:38:35.700 Or otherwise, I'm going to use the state,
00:38:39.260 and the definition of the state
00:38:40.640 is that which has a monopoly on violence.
00:38:44.240 I'm going to use a monopoly on violence
00:38:45.860 to force you to overcome your liberties
00:38:48.520 to your own money and to your own freedom
00:38:50.200 to give me what I want.
00:38:52.120 That is socialism.
00:38:53.220 So now you see why the New York Times
00:38:55.240 and the power crew is being a little glossy
00:38:57.880 about the tradition and the piety of Islam.
00:39:01.320 I skipped over the major piece right off the bat
00:39:03.720 in theology.
00:39:05.080 Harnwell struck it just right.
00:39:06.580 This is a war, a spiritual battle.
00:39:08.680 And so you've got to do your theology, New York Times.
00:39:12.520 Allah, the God in Islam, is so sovereign
00:39:15.600 that there can't be a human rights tradition.
00:39:17.680 It's totally top-down.
00:39:19.360 And that's why when you see the logic, it's top-down.
00:39:23.040 The major priority in Islam is complete submission to Allah. 0.94
00:39:28.140 There is no bottom-up populism.
00:39:30.760 There's no bottom-up revolution or populism
00:39:34.140 in Islam anywhere as there was.
00:39:36.700 When Christmas, we just got done with Christmas,
00:39:39.500 Jesus comes in the flesh as a baby, right?
00:39:42.700 And so the logic right off the bat,
00:39:45.340 the initial logic of the Christian theology
00:39:48.100 versus the Islamic theology is just stark.
00:39:52.500 I want to say a little bit more on this rights,
00:39:56.200 the rights theme.
00:39:58.380 We gloss over it like it's just, you know,
00:40:01.380 hear Brad talking about the constitution rights,
00:40:03.480 but our rights to liberty, right?
00:40:05.340 It's the first one, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
00:40:08.820 Our rights are being infringed by a group
00:40:11.380 who wants to get rid of our right to liberty.
00:40:14.160 They want to force us, as I just said, on socialism.
00:40:17.800 And I'll just close with one of my pet peeves.
00:40:21.780 The minority groups in this country have been successful
00:40:24.700 in getting the Bible out of K-12 schools.
00:40:28.680 Well, why is that a problem?
00:40:30.680 Because the Bible is the document
00:40:32.620 that gave us the minority rights in the first place.
00:40:36.120 That's the stunner,
00:40:37.360 the very book that originates our right language,
00:40:40.440 of which free market system, private property rights,
00:40:44.460 and the rule of law,
00:40:46.120 all of those come straight out of the Catholic tradition
00:40:48.920 in the 1300s and through our founders
00:40:51.180 and Protestants at the founding.
00:40:53.600 And so a huge set of contrasts.
00:40:55.420 I look forward to a response by the New York Times.
00:40:58.260 And I'm dead serious.
00:40:59.440 I would love to hear how they adjudicate
00:41:01.260 the piety and tradition they refer to glowingly
00:41:05.080 while they mock evangelicals, Protestants, and Catholics.
00:41:09.220 They mock everything about the Christian faith. 0.99
00:41:13.840 Everything.
00:41:14.580 Yeah.
00:41:14.840 And they look to undermine everything
00:41:16.560 about the Christian faith.
00:41:17.940 But today, in full view,
00:41:20.260 they're glazing Islam and glazing Mondawmi. 0.99
00:41:24.000 The Mondawmi situation may should be taken head on.
00:41:26.320 President Trump's got a different idea.
00:41:28.000 President Trump's the president.
00:41:29.240 And he's, you know, he's the master negotiator.
00:41:31.960 I think this thing has to be confronted head on.
00:41:34.220 Head on.
00:41:34.740 Because you see in his selections,
00:41:36.260 he's got all these guys, lawyers who defended Al-Qaeda.
00:41:39.740 It's very obvious.
00:41:41.380 You're going to see the Islamification of New York City. 1.00
00:41:44.600 And if New York City falls,
00:41:47.140 folks, the United States of America
00:41:49.920 are going to have a big problem.
00:41:51.720 Texas and New York City, they're coming for it.
00:41:54.380 And as Ben Harnwell said,
00:41:56.100 they're not coming in on cat's paws.
00:41:58.520 This is up in your grill.
00:42:01.240 Up in your grill.
00:42:02.720 Short commercial break.
00:42:03.640 We'll return to the warm in just a moment.
00:42:04.800 Because you may live on earth.
00:42:08.860 You live on earth.
00:42:11.680 You live on earth.
00:42:15.320 I live on earth.
00:42:20.180 I live on earth.
00:42:27.180 I live on earth.
00:42:29.800 I don't know.
00:42:31.740 I live on earth.
00:42:33.240 Welcome back.
00:43:03.240 It's very appropriate we have backpipes because I'm going to bring Harnwell in.
00:43:07.040 So for edification, as we come to this end of this year, and now you've got all this
00:43:11.760 explosion about the Islamic problem in the United States, and it's a problem. 0.95
00:43:19.720 How is it?
00:43:22.460 Christianity as we know it is the Gentile church, not the Christian Jewish part of it for many
00:43:30.140 reasons.
00:43:31.180 Didn't get traction.
00:43:32.260 The church in Jerusalem did not get traction, right?
00:43:35.140 James, the brother of Jesus historically, was the head of that church.
00:43:40.760 But very quickly in the apostolic age, there was a shift to Rome and to Greece and to other
00:43:47.700 places where there were Gentiles and the Gentile churches where it got traction.
00:43:51.560 How is it that kind of what became the Christian West out of Europe with all the art and all 1.00
00:44:00.520 the music and all the celebration, the Reformation, trying to reform the church, the counter-Reformation,
00:44:07.640 trying to reform or counter the Reformation, all of that.
00:44:11.200 Why was it Christian Europe that the elites failed to take a stand?
00:44:16.980 Because Europe is in dire straits right now.
00:44:19.300 I would say Paris has fallen.
00:44:20.840 London has fallen.
00:44:21.780 Brussels is a horrible story overnight coming out of Brussels.
00:44:25.460 So, Ben, as we look at this as a Christian nation here, based upon the Judeo-Christian West, our civilization,
00:44:33.680 how are we supposed to look at this when you have a perfect example of the elites in this country?
00:44:38.560 That's why this New York Times article is so important to read today.
00:44:42.080 The elites in this country are choosing a side, right?
00:44:44.920 And in that article, they're choosing Islam.
00:44:47.620 They talk about the piety of it and how Solomon is and how, you know, what a deep meaning it has for the Ugandan Mandami.
00:44:55.440 If the elites are not prepared to defend it, is it worth defending, sir?
00:45:00.920 Well, I don't think post-Christian civilization is worth defending. 1.00
00:45:05.160 I don't think it's worth defending remotely.
00:45:06.980 I'm interested in defending Christian civilization because that's founded on the true revelation of God to humanity through Jesus Christ
00:45:15.580 and through the prophets, through the Old Testament prophets before that.
00:45:18.640 That is something worth fighting for.
00:45:21.320 Post-Christian civilization, in inverted commas, is just a make-it-up-as-you-go-along project, 1.00
00:45:27.560 which has been failing since the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
00:45:33.300 Look, so many things you said in your question, right?
00:45:36.860 Let's start off.
00:45:37.660 I think we're going to need more than one block to handle this
00:45:40.060 because you're also going to get to the point of where we're going now.
00:45:43.360 So, firstly, on the issue of the Jewish church, I need to push back on you from memory here.
00:45:52.300 I need to push back on you something.
00:45:54.220 It's not quite true to say that the Jewish element of the church collapsed pretty quickly
00:46:00.420 as momentum went over to the Gentile side via St. Paul.
00:46:06.160 Because, really, what actually happened was that Judaism at the time was split into two factions,
00:46:11.480 Greek-speaking Judaism, which followed the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament,
00:46:20.440 and then the Hebrew faction, which was basically being promoted by the Pharisees.
00:46:28.400 What actually happened at the time of Christ, after the death of Christ,
00:46:32.940 in that period between, what, 33 AD and the collapse of the temple?
00:46:38.240 When was that? 69, 70 AD?
00:46:41.060 66.
00:46:41.460 Almost the entirety of the Greek-speaking Jews came over.
00:46:50.100 It's not that they...
00:46:51.220 That is what the first century church grew out of.
00:46:54.660 They all converted to Christianity.
00:46:56.900 And what you had left is basically the Pharisaical movement, 0.85
00:47:00.140 which is, via various stages, what the Jewish community is descended from today.
00:47:05.460 That's the first thing.
00:47:06.240 And the important thing about that is the fact that the Jews out of which the first church emerged
00:47:14.560 was Greek-speaking, because that comes into the point now of how influential Christianity was in Europe
00:47:22.540 as it moved westward with the inspiration of Greek philosophy at its wind.
00:47:27.740 That's something absolutely lacking in Islam, which is the importance of rationality. 1.00
00:47:32.600 Now, I am the first person who will queue up and criticise Pope Benedict on so many fronts.
00:47:40.580 But if you want one positive thing to identify in his pontificate,
00:47:45.940 which was actually the important thing about his Regensburg speech,
00:47:50.440 he was making precisely this point,
00:47:53.920 that Christianity as a religious force developed from three principal streams,
00:48:00.600 where our three principal cities, which is Jerusalem, Rome, and Athens.
00:48:06.220 And the importance of rationality,
00:48:08.640 and obviously Dave Bratt can speak far more eloquently to this than I can,
00:48:12.420 but the importance of rationality as being a tool given to mankind
00:48:16.380 for discernment by God,
00:48:18.960 and in understanding the world and revelation,
00:48:21.980 is there in Christianity,
00:48:23.060 and it's absolutely not there in Islam.
00:48:26.620 You know, as Dave was saying,
00:48:28.120 there are no really great Islamic universities for this reason,
00:48:31.860 because the whole point of Islam is contained and limited in the Koran,
00:48:39.080 and rationality has no place in that,
00:48:41.020 whereas obviously it does in Christianity.
00:48:43.460 Let me give way to the break now,
00:48:46.600 and then I want to come back and explain exactly what's going wrong now in the West following this.
00:48:52.440 Yeah.
00:48:53.060 We're going to continue on with this with Bratt and Ben Harnwell.
00:48:57.880 And remember that Regensburg speech,
00:49:00.260 once again the New York Times and the mainstream media picked out one or two elements,
00:49:04.300 and they tried to put,
00:49:06.300 they tried to tar and feather Pope Benedict
00:49:08.520 and run him out of town about this one.
00:49:10.540 It was actually one of the deepest and most meaningful speeches I think any Pope has ever given,
00:49:14.660 to lay it out.
00:49:16.260 And man, is it relevant in America on the 31st of December,
00:49:22.120 in the year of our Lord, 2025.
00:49:23.920 We're going to take a short break.
00:49:25.600 We're going to continue with great music.
00:49:27.320 Joe Allen's also going to join us.
00:49:30.120 The victories and defeats of 2025,
00:49:33.740 two of the biggest transhumanism,
00:49:36.900 artificial intelligence,
00:49:37.800 and the Islamification of the West,
00:49:41.980 and now the target.
00:49:44.280 As Ben Harnwell said,
00:49:46.800 they're not coming in on cat's paws.
00:49:48.400 This is not,
00:49:49.080 they're not sneaking in here.
00:49:50.720 From New York City to the great state of Texas
00:49:53.560 and everywhere in between,
00:49:55.700 coming for you.
00:49:57.620 Short commercial break.
00:49:58.980 Return to the warm in just a moment.
00:50:00.080 We'll take a cup of kindness yet
00:50:10.400 for all thine sign.
00:50:18.180 And here's the hand,
00:50:22.360 my trusty friend,
00:50:25.580 and here's the hand of the...
00:50:30.220 You can do this.
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