Bannon's War Room - Episode 5374： China Summit Ends As Redistricting Efforts Continue In The States

00:00:00.000 Thank you very much. This has been an incredible visit.

00:00:03.500 I think a lot of good has come of it.

00:00:07.620 We've made some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries.

00:00:12.960 He's a man I respect greatly. He's become really a friend.

00:00:16.700 We've known each other now 11 years, almost 12 years. That's a long time.

00:00:21.000 And we've settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn't have been able to settle.

00:00:26.440 And the relationship is a very strong one.

00:00:30.000 We've really done some wonderful things, I believe.

00:00:35.320 We did discuss Iran.

00:00:37.460 We feel very similar to Iran. 1.00

00:00:39.840 We want that to end. 1.00

00:00:41.720 We don't want them to have a nuclear weapon.

00:00:44.440 We want the straits open.

00:00:46.740 We're closing it now.

00:00:47.860 They closed it, and we closed it on top of them.

00:00:50.520 But we want the straits open.

00:00:53.480 And we want them to get it ended, because it's a crazy thing.

00:00:57.640 they're a little bit crazy and it's no good can't have it they cannot have a nuclear weapon

00:01:03.160 but we discussed a lot of other things also and i think we're very much on agreement we're going

00:01:08.000 to have some further discussions now with the group but i just want to thank president chi

00:01:13.300 and all of his representatives and we've become friendly with all of them great people and it's

00:01:19.400 an honor to be here and we'll be back and i believe in september 24th or thereabouts and

00:01:24.220 President Xi is going to be coming to the United States and we will be reciprocal, like reciprocal trade.

00:01:31.000 The visit will be reciprocal.

00:01:33.060 We're going to lay it on the line and we're going to have, you're going to walk away hopefully very impressed like I'm very impressed with China.

00:01:41.980 And I just want to end by saying thank you very much.

00:01:44.960 It's been really a great couple of days.

00:01:47.600 Thank you very much.

00:01:48.300 We have a lot of questions around the China trip, but just first on Iran, have you rejected the latest proposal?

00:01:54.220 from Iran, or where does that stand?

00:01:56.020 Well, I looked at it, and if I don't like the first sentence, I just throw it away.

00:02:01.760 What was the first sentence?

00:02:03.500 An unacceptable sentence.

00:02:06.120 Because they have fully agreed, no nuclear, and if they have any nuclear of any form,

00:02:11.100 I don't read the rest of them.

00:02:12.380 So 20 years is not enough for you?

00:02:14.260 It's got to be a perfect...

00:02:15.060 No, 20 years is enough, but the level of guarantee from them is...

00:02:21.220 In other words, it's got to be a real 20 years, not a big thing.

00:02:25.440 You've got to get all the fuel out and no more production.

00:02:28.540 You have to get everything, but we're not even talking about the nuclear dust.

00:02:33.600 I came up with the term, which seems to have gone on.

00:02:36.000 You're talking about it because they would not remove the...

00:02:38.260 Yeah, they said that they can't remove it because they don't have the technology to remove it.

00:02:42.240 They don't have the type of tractors.

00:02:44.820 They say the only one, they told me directly, they said the only one that can remove it is China or the U.S.

00:02:50.620 were the only ones with the equipment they said you were right it is a complete obliteration with

00:02:56.220 that being said i want to get it uh and they agreed to it but then they took it back but

00:03:01.800 they'll agree to it eventually about the arms sales to taiwan uh i'll make a determination

00:03:07.760 over the next fairly short period but you're not necessarily going to go ahead it was your

00:03:11.480 proposal make a determination i'm going to say i have to speak to the person that right now as you

00:03:16.440 You know who he is that's running Taiwan.

00:03:19.040 Would the U.S. defend Taiwan if it came to it? 0.94

00:03:21.340 I don't want to say it.

00:03:22.340 I'm not going to say that.

00:03:24.700 There's only one person that knows that.

00:03:26.620 You know who it is?

00:03:27.300 Me.

00:03:27.940 I'm the only person.

00:03:29.400 That question was asked to me today by President Xi.

00:03:32.960 I said, I don't talk about that.

00:03:34.880 He asked you today.

00:03:36.920 He asked you if you would send troops, if you would do it.

00:03:39.520 He asked me if I defend them.

00:03:40.760 I said, I don't talk about that.

00:03:42.380 She told him that.

00:03:43.320 I don't talk about that.

00:03:44.160 And the relationship is a very strong one.

00:03:49.160 We've really done some wonderful things, I believe.

00:03:54.160 We did discuss Iran.

00:03:56.160 We feel very similar to Iran. 1.00

00:03:58.160 We want that to end. 1.00

00:04:00.160 We don't want them to have a nuclear weapon.

00:04:03.160 We want the straits open.

00:04:05.160 We're closing it now.

00:04:06.160 They closed it, then we closed it on top of them.

00:04:09.160 But we want the straits open.

00:04:12.160 and we want them to get it ended because it's a crazy thing.

00:04:16.960 They're a little bit crazy, and it's no good.

00:04:19.760 Can't have it. 0.89

00:04:20.820 They cannot have a nuclear weapon. 1.00

00:04:22.580 Other countries, Bahrain.

00:04:24.960 It also helps China.

00:04:27.140 We're actually, I told them today, I said, you know, we're helping you, 0.99

00:04:30.140 and we're helping you in another way because I don't think they want,

00:04:33.960 I don't think China wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon either. 0.96

00:04:37.320 I said, they're stone cold crazy. 0.82

00:04:40.460 You don't need them having a nuclear weapon. What did he say? Well, he's not going to respond too much. 0.96

00:04:46.460 He's a pretty cool guy. He's not going to say, oh, gee, that's a good point.

00:04:50.080 I think he might. What's he going to do? What a wonderful point. You think he agreed?

00:04:54.340 Yeah, I think. That was the impression. I don't think he wants him to. No, he would like to see it end.

00:04:59.260 I heard him out. I didn't make a comment on it. I heard him out. I have a lot of respect for him.

00:05:06.380 On Iran, it's very interesting.

00:05:08.380 He feels strongly they can't have a nuclear weapon.

00:05:11.380 He said that very strongly.

00:05:13.380 They cannot have a nuclear weapon, and he wants them to open up the strait.

00:05:17.380 But as he said, they closed it, and then you closed them with a smile. 0.74

00:05:22.380 And it's true.

00:05:23.380 We control the strait.

00:05:25.380 And they've done no business.

00:05:27.380 Literally, they've done no business in the last two and a half weeks,

00:05:31.380 which is approximately $500 million a day.

00:05:35.380 so we have uh we're doing very well on all fronts we don't we don't need it at all we don't need it

00:05:43.460 at all fair enough so i mean you could make the case you know like why are we even we're doing

00:05:49.320 it to help israel and to help saudi arabia and to help uh qatar and uae and you know kuwait and

00:05:57.880 other countries bahrain it also helps china we're actually i told him today i said you know we're

00:06:04.880 helping you and we're helping you in another way because i don't think they want i don't think

00:06:09.620 china wants iran to have a nuclear weapon either i said just don't go crazy you don't need them

00:06:17.000 having a nuclear weapon either what did he say what did he say well he's not going to respond

00:06:21.040 too much he's a pretty cool guy he's not going to say oh gee that's a good point i think he might

00:06:25.960 what's he going to do i mean what a wonderful point you think he agreed yeah i think that was

00:06:30.700 the impression i don't think he wants him to know he would like to see it end but he's been good

00:06:37.340 about it you know it'll come off so we had a lot of you know we were in there for a few hours right

00:06:42.100 long time do you think you made progress did you feel like that the give the give and take

00:06:48.720 like well for example you're not going to sign this big agreement after

00:06:52.060 hours meeting but do you feel the foundation was late for great success better than last time you

00:06:59.480 last time we signed like 36 deals. This time it's much bigger than that. Talked about soybeans for

00:07:07.260 our farmers. They're going to do a lot of soybeans for our farmers. They're going to be buying a lot 0.61

00:07:13.980 of our farm product, which is great. You know, they have an unlimited appetite, as the expression

00:07:19.920 goes. They can buy as much as when you have that many people. They need it. And we have the best

00:07:25.580 product. We're the best, sort of the best of everything. And they'll be doing that. Very

00:07:30.700 farmer to me is very, you know, I must've gotten 95% of the farm vote. And by the way,

00:07:35.720 we just signed the farm bill or we just approved the farm bill in Congress, which a lot of people

00:07:39.760 thought was not going to happen. You know, the Democrats are against farmers. You believe it?

00:07:45.040 I say, how can they be? Because add that to the men and women's boards. The Democrats are against

00:07:50.940 farmers can you believe it so anyway they're defective I would assume I'm in

00:07:57.840 Beijing if I wanted to buy property near one of their military installations I

00:08:03.600 don't think president yeah I don't look it's not that I love it you want to see

00:08:09.000 farm prices drop you want to see farmers lose a lot of money just take that out

00:08:12.900 of the market but they've had a lot of land for a long time

00:08:18.360 Obama did nothing about it. They bought a lot of it during the Obama

00:08:22.980 administration. He did nothing about it. As far as the students, it's 500,000

00:08:29.820 students they come, good students. I could tell them I don't want any students.

00:08:37.960 It's a very insulting thing to say to a country. They would then immediately go

00:08:44.220 out and start building universities all over

00:08:46.280 China. But if you don't have

00:08:48.280 those students, good students, by the way,

00:08:50.660 if you don't, and we do another

00:08:52.200 thing, you know, if they're good and they want to stay in America,

00:08:54.280 we won't give them a green card and things

00:08:56.380 like that.

00:08:58.100 Not only them, but other

00:08:59.960 countries. But

00:09:02.020 if you want to see a university system

00:09:04.520 die, take a half a million

00:09:06.540 people out of it. And 1.00

00:09:08.400 you know, the ones that won't be hurt are the top

00:09:10.500 schools. The top schools will do fine, but

00:09:12.360 your lower schools, your lower, the ones that don't do quite as well, those two, they'll be

00:09:19.020 dying all over the place. I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries 1.00

00:09:25.400 and they learn our culture and many of them want to stay here. I think it's good. Not everybody

00:09:31.140 agrees with me. And it doesn't sound like a very conservative position. And I'm as conservative,

00:09:37.020 I'm a conservative guy. I'm really a common sense guy, I think, more than a conservative guy. I

00:09:42.180 think MAGA is common sense. You know, people understand we want strong borders. We want strong

00:09:47.860 military. We want good education. We want low interest rates. You know, we want. But I think

00:09:52.880 people would argue they worry about do they have nefarious intentions. I know. And we worry about

00:09:56.920 that. And honestly, you know, they do things to us and we do things to them. It's it's it's a very,

00:10:05.420 very fine line, the whole thing with students. So they have 500,000 students. And

00:10:12.560 our university system does great. It does great. You want to screw it up, take a half a million

00:10:21.800 students out. And you're going to see bankruptcies at the lower end of good colleges, but they're

00:10:28.100 not known or whatever. You're going to have a lot of problems. So it's something I'm always

00:10:32.800 looking at. But it's a very insulting thing to tell a country, we don't want your people 0.99

00:10:39.580 in our schools. I mean, it really is. Now, I'll have people say, oh, that's a terrible thing. 0.97

00:10:44.400 It is a very insulting thing. And it's very interesting. It's something that didn't come

00:10:53.300 up today. It came up last time. It came up last time. But I will tell you that school systems

00:10:58.640 don't want that to happen because you won't have much of a school system.

00:11:02.320 All right, Mr.

00:11:03.020 And you bring Russia into it also, but the concept of that is something that would be

00:11:08.880 very good.

00:11:10.580 Can I ask you about the political prisoners in China?

00:11:14.540 Did you bring up with President Xi and the political prisoners in China?

00:11:17.820 Are you going to be released?

00:11:18.900 Any progress?

00:11:20.560 I think he's giving very serious consideration to the pastor.

00:11:23.860 The pastor said he's giving very serious consideration to that.

00:11:29.860 What about Jimmy Lyons?

00:11:31.860 What about Jimmy Lyons?

00:11:32.860 It's a tougher one.

00:11:33.860 I did bring it up.

00:11:34.860 It's a tougher one.

00:11:35.860 For him, it's a tougher one.

00:11:36.860 What did he say about it?

00:11:37.860 I understand.

00:11:38.860 For him, it's a very...

00:11:40.860 He told me, I don't want to mislead anybody.

00:11:42.860 He said, Jimmy Lyons, it's a tough one for him to do.

00:11:45.860 He went through a lot.

00:11:47.860 And right or wrong, they went through a lot.

00:11:50.860 So he told me that would be a tough one.

00:11:53.860 he's going to strongly consider the best. And on President Xi, a couple of years ago,

00:11:58.980 when President Biden met him in San Francisco, he was asked if he thought President Xi was a

00:12:04.180 dictator. Do you think President Xi is a dictator? I think that President Biden was an incompetent

00:12:10.100 president. He gave us the Iran nuclear deal, which allowed Iran to have a nuclear weapon within a

00:12:15.460 matter of years from the time they said, I terminated it. If I didn't terminate that, 0.77

00:12:20.820 Iran would have a nuclear weapon that they would have used it with it probably two years ago, 0.98

00:12:25.220 three years ago. If I didn't go in with the B-2 bombers nine months ago, 0.93

00:12:29.620 Iran would have a nuclear weapon and nobody would be able to talk to them. 0.98

00:12:32.980 By the way, they would have used it already. Do you think President Xi is a dictator or not? 0.97

00:12:38.180 I don't think about it. He's the ruler. He's the president of China. I don't think about it.

00:12:44.740 You said they would have had to deal with what you have.

00:12:47.500 I respect him.

00:12:48.900 He's very smart.

00:12:49.980 He loves his country.

00:12:51.000 I respect him.

00:12:52.120 Whether he's a dictator, that's for you to figure out.

00:12:54.640 You're talking about the cyber attacks that he's done in the United States or the MSS.

00:12:59.360 I did.

00:12:59.960 And he talked about attacks that we did in China.

00:13:03.180 You know, what they do, we do, too. 0.60

00:13:05.140 It's like the spying.

00:13:06.860 They're talking about, oh, the spying.

00:13:08.240 I said, well, we do it, too.

00:13:09.760 Spying for the infrastructure.

00:13:10.660 Look, no, I'm talking about spying.

00:13:12.200 I think the question was asked to me yesterday, I guess, what about the fact that China is spying in the United States?

00:13:19.660 I said, well, it's one of those things, because we spy like hell on them, too.

00:13:24.380 What about the fact that China is putting in the U.S. infrastructure code that they could use if you ever decided to come to the United States?

00:13:31.940 Well, you don't know that. I mean, I'd like to see it, but it's very possible that they do.

00:13:36.780 And we're doing things to them. I told them we do a lot of stuff to you that you don't know about.

00:13:41.440 and you're doing things to us that we probably do know about.

00:13:45.420 But we do plenty.

00:13:46.380 It's a double-edgedness.

00:13:48.440 What does he want from the U.S.?

00:13:50.440 A lot of things.

00:13:53.600 We talked about a lot of things.

00:13:55.800 Too many things to discuss, but a lot of things.

00:13:58.380 We had a very good meeting, but the country's decimated.

00:14:01.080 They're charging tolls.

00:14:02.200 Where's the money going?

00:14:03.720 Do you think President Xi and China have the ability to influence the Iranians

00:14:10.480 considering they are one of their biggest customers.

00:14:13.260 Yeah, probably, but look, he's not coming in with guns.

00:14:20.100 He's not coming in with rifles.

00:14:21.580 They're not coming in shooting.

00:14:22.960 You know, somebody said he's been very good.

00:14:27.240 They get a lot of their oil, 40% of their oil from that location.

00:14:31.680 So what has happened, and one thing I think that we're going to make a deal on,

00:14:35.220 they've agreed they want to buy oil from the United States.

00:14:38.640 They're going to go to Texas.

00:14:39.740 We're going to start sending Chinese ships to Texas and to Louisiana and to Alaska. 0.90

00:14:45.440 And I think that was another thing that was agreed to.

00:14:47.900 That's a big thing.

00:14:49.060 What about liquefied now?

00:14:51.240 OK, Friday, 5 May, Euroboard 2026.

00:14:54.460 I want you to contemplate that and we will be back in a moment.

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00:16:33.860 here's your host stephen k bann okay there's a obviously we had two great live evening shows

00:16:43.180 while the president was in china i want to thank robin parkinson the entire real america's voice

00:16:48.160 team um of course all of our you know from sam faddis and dr thayer and brian t kennedy and

00:16:54.320 uh captain finnell finnell is going to join us this morning cleo is going to join us pascal

00:16:59.220 she's out in the pacific right now the chinese did have a press conference talking about the

00:17:03.880 solomon islands and the island chamber get to clear we're going to do all that uh i went and

00:17:08.240 there's a lot to chew on as you know i could hear i could feel the temperature rising

00:17:12.200 i'm talking of purchasing american farmland and investments in american companies and 500 000

00:17:18.080 students and we have to save this tremendous educational system that's just cranking out

00:17:22.580 marxist every day so i know there's a lot to chew on and we're going to have people on here post is 0.99

00:17:27.760 going to join the second we're going to get to all that but we got to get to the business at hand by

00:17:32.440 the way the president i think may actually arrive in alaska during our show scheduled from sometime

00:17:37.600 between 10 a.m eastern daylight time and one they're going to refuel and then head back i'm

00:17:43.000 sure the president may talk to the even take more media while he's there so we're going to cut to

00:17:47.980 that um want to thank and want to thank the audience huge audiences very active you guys

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00:17:58.660 going to do more of it we have us committed to bring you all the cutting edge information around

00:18:03.400 the MAGA movement the country and the world Caroline Wren is with us uh DeGrasse gave us

00:18:09.460 a great assessment last night but hang on Caroline Wren I got a cold open just for you

00:18:14.100 We're going to play a cold open, and then I'm going to bring in the Caroline Wren.

00:18:18.100 All right.

00:18:18.720 Louisiana state senators have advanced a new congressional map that would eliminate one of the state's two majority black districts.

00:18:28.240 Democrats condemned the proposal as racial gerrymandering and a major rollback of black political representation in a state where black residents make up roughly one third of the population.

00:18:40.880 The plan would dismantle Louisiana's 6th District, currently represented by Democratic Congressman Cleo Fields, and redraw it into a Republican-leaning seat.

00:18:53.600 The proposal now heads to the Louisiana House, where Republicans hold a supermajority.

00:18:59.660 This isn't the only place, Simone, where we've seen this happening.

00:19:02.760 Do you think voters are tuned into this issue?

00:19:06.160 Yes. In Louisiana right now, there's actually a recall effort to recall Governor Landry over this very specific thing, calling this special session to redraw these maps.

00:19:16.340 What exactly are they doing?

00:19:17.600 In Louisiana, you need 500,000 signatures across the state.

00:19:21.260 And in the local reporting and the folks that I talked to just yesterday said that the lines were literally out the door at these petition sites to sign the petition.

00:19:30.880 Now, will they get the 500,000 signatures?

00:19:33.000 I've talked to some voting rights advocates that believe they will.

00:19:35.300 will the recall effort be successful? Probably not. But it is a good organizing tool. And the

00:19:41.200 reality is that this is an attack not just on black elected officials. This is an attack on 0.97

00:19:45.720 black voters, black people, black political power across this country. In Tennessee, we've talked 0.95

00:19:50.280 about the district that they carved up. The district was represented by Steve Cohen. Steve

00:19:54.560 Cohen is not a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. He is a white man. He just happened to be

00:19:57.840 a Democrat. But what they did to the district is dilute the voting power of black voters. 0.89

00:20:02.160 I know people like to talk about my Republican friends. It's not about race, but I just I can't help but see that when given the opportunity, these states from Florida to Alabama to Georgia, they're looking at it now to Tennessee to Louisiana.

00:20:18.960 They went directly to carve up the districts of black voters. 0.96

00:20:22.280 It's about it's an attack on black political power. And that's why folks are organizing this weekend. 0.96

00:20:26.380 There's a big march that's being planned, but protest is fine.

00:20:31.200 What are you going to do about it?

00:20:33.280 And those conversations are currently happening.

00:20:35.320 I don't want to say that.

00:20:39.720 I'm looking at it very slow.

00:20:41.140 I like them both.

00:20:42.040 I mean, I'll tell you what I do think.

00:20:43.760 I think the Democrats have a weird, a weird candidate. 0.99

00:20:49.360 Six genders, a real hit on Jesus. 0.98

00:20:52.740 I mean, this guy is bad news with his mask from relatively recently. 1.00

00:21:00.100 He's a vegan.

00:21:01.200 He's a vegan.

00:21:01.820 All of a sudden, he's not a vegan.

00:21:03.080 He was a vegan.

00:21:04.140 Now, all of a sudden, he's not.

00:21:05.520 Texas doesn't like vegans.

00:21:07.600 I do believe either one of them will easily win the race.

00:21:11.380 I think that the candidate the Democrats have in Texas is a very flawed, very weak, very 0.99

00:21:18.380 I think he's a pathetic candidate, especially for Texas. 0.99

00:21:24.580 Caroline Wren joins us. 0.99

00:21:26.100 So, Caroline, with all your Herculean efforts, I want to get to South Carolina.

00:21:30.160 I want to think, but we got last night, Mississippi, we've still left one on the table.

00:21:36.380 Georgia, we're leaving two on the table.

00:21:38.640 Alabama, we're leaving one on the table.

00:21:42.540 Louisiana, we're leaving one on the table.

00:21:44.380 Now, that's from the DEI Supreme Court.

00:21:46.460 And Missouri won and Ohio won. There's seven, seven seats, five of those unconstitutional.

00:21:53.540 The other two obviously should be redistributed. We're leaving on the table.

00:21:58.000 And Indiana.

00:21:59.720 And Indiana, too. Indiana, too. That gets to nine.

00:22:04.940 So walk me through, where do we stand with how many of these?

00:22:08.680 Because they all say, oh, no, you can't do it. It's impossible, impossible.

00:22:10.840 Those nine, how many do you think, through your Herculean efforts, we can shift over to the column that is a changed district and redistricting, ma'am?

00:22:23.580 Well, stepping out, I want to focus on, it's hard to overstate just how screwed the Democrats are moving forward, given both the redistricting that's been done, that is left to do, and then the 2030 census.

00:22:35.100 Because by 2032, we could be operating with as many as 235 safe congressional seats.

00:22:40.560 Remember, it takes 218 for the majority.

00:22:42.600 So right now, Cook Political Report, House ratings.

00:22:45.200 They have the Republicans' floor right now at 210.

00:22:48.280 You know, I think we'll pick up only three more, which is very frustrating.

00:22:51.240 It should have been nine, but three more, one in Alabama, one in Louisiana, one in South Carolina.

00:22:56.220 And so that brings us to 213 as our floor, 18 toss-up seats.

00:23:00.520 So then really we need to just win five of those 18 toss-up seats to retain the majority.

00:23:07.320 But let's look even past 2026.

00:23:10.180 where it gets much more bleak for Democrats.

00:23:12.100 In 2028, when you do the additional redistricting,

00:23:16.080 we could easily be at 222 seats as our floor.

00:23:20.060 That's when you pick up, we'll pick up a seat in Alabama,

00:23:22.580 a seat in Louisiana, a seat in Mississippi,

00:23:24.620 a seat in Utah, a seat in Nebraska, Kansas,

00:23:28.240 New Hampshire, one or two in Georgia.

00:23:30.440 So even if the Democrats try and erase

00:23:32.480 those redistricting pickups by doing redistricting

00:23:34.820 on their own in New York, Colorado,

00:23:36.800 California, Illinois, or Maryland,

00:23:38.540 we could still wipe those out by doing additional redrawings and maps like texas and florida

00:23:43.520 and even if they move against to redistrict in those states it wouldn't change the fact that

00:23:47.960 our floor in 2028 would be 222 then you fast forward to 2032 you know after this 2030 census

00:23:56.360 where there'll be a there's been a flood of people from blue to red states republicans are projected

00:24:00.780 to add 12 to 15 congressional seats in states like texas and florida each probably getting four

00:24:06.960 new seats than Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Utah, and that would put the GOP's floor and get

00:24:12.800 it 235. And this is why the Democrats are melting down right now. For them, it is now or never.

00:24:19.060 They have to win the House right now. They have to win the Senate, and then they have to win the

00:24:23.480 presidency in 2028, and then they have to nuke the filibuster and just change the rules, or else

00:24:29.400 they are not a party that will exist after 2032. There's no way. Even after the census, not to

00:24:36.000 mentioned the Electoral College shift that is coming in 2032, shifting 8 to 10 votes in blue

00:24:41.580 to red states, such as just the exodus from California, New York to Florida and Texas.

00:24:47.540 That will mean that we could lose Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and the Electoral

00:24:52.900 College and still win the presidency. They have got to figure out some type of way to compete

00:24:58.600 in Florida, Texas. And right now I'm seeing none of that. All they do is run against Trump. There

00:25:03.780 is zero vision from the Democrats, zero strategy, zero plans, zero persuasion. So I just, I wanted

00:25:09.260 to take a moment just to pull back further and show just what a good place Republicans are headed

00:25:14.460 into and how bad the Democrats are. But right now, we have to focus on the next two years of Trump.

00:25:20.360 Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Okay. I agree on math. You're kind of going Old Testament on me because

00:25:27.280 I feel like Trump's Moses and you're giving me the promised land and baby, I got it. I love it. And

00:25:32.780 And if we had been allowed to do the correct census that Miller and I crafted back in the first term until it was stopped by the Commerce Department and establishment Republicans, the problem with your theory is the Republicans can screw anything up.

00:25:49.880 Here you have a massive demographic shift by the people of the United States.

00:25:54.220 All that Matthew just told me, Republicans have nothing to do with.

00:25:57.820 That is literally the people of the United States voting with their feet, right, to change.

00:26:03.260 And also us in the MAGA movement and President Trump had enough guts not to include illegal aliens for apportionment into the census.

00:26:12.040 But right now, Trump is Moses.

00:26:15.080 I want to make sure he didn't get stopped at the river and have to send Aaron right across to lead the MAGA chosen people into the promised land of 2028, 2032.

00:26:25.920 to how do we lock it down now? Because if we lock it down now, you literally break. The Democratic

00:26:32.180 Party will shatter if they do not take the House. Forget the Senate. If they don't take the House

00:26:37.460 this time, that party will not exist in November, December. The civil war that they will have at

00:26:43.740 their throat will make the Tea Party and the establishment of fight that we've had for a

00:26:48.300 decade look like a garden party, right? Because these Marxist socialists will say, hey, we had

00:26:53.920 Trump, we had him in the crosshairs, and the abundance, you know, the Ezra Klein abundance

00:26:59.760 movement of the corporate Democrats and the oligarchs that are still in back of the Democratic

00:27:03.760 Party screwed it up. Give me your thoughts. I'm going to hold you through the break and then talk

00:27:07.900 about what's before us and work we got to do. Your thoughts about that, ma'am? Yeah, the current,

00:27:13.040 you know, there's nothing really to be done anymore in Alabama, Louisiana. I was yelling

00:27:17.740 at everyone about this. They each went for one. It is ridiculous and stupid, but that's where we

00:27:22.080 are. South Carolina is not a done deal. Governor McMaster did call the special session, but we 1.00

00:27:26.660 still have to get it passed. Now, when they lost that vote a few days ago, that was, you had to

00:27:31.380 have two thirds. We really just need a simple majority, but there are some procedural games

00:27:35.360 that the state Senate and South Carolina are going to try and play to delay and keep this

00:27:39.460 from happening, which is so insane. These are Republican, allegedly Republicans, who are going

00:27:43.660 to play these games. So that fight's not over. The war room posse needs to be all over South

00:27:47.780 Carolina over the next few days to get this done because that seat is going to matter because

00:27:52.420 you're right I'm very I want to give President Trump he needs to keep a Republican House and

00:27:57.880 Republican Senate for these final two years to truly get done what he wants to do and also

00:28:02.260 we just cannot give these to the Democrats and then God forbid if they win in 2028 they will

00:28:07.760 nuke the filibuster and do all the things that actually this is why Trump is yelling about 0.93

00:28:11.220 nuking the filibuster now it is so dumb Republicans won't nuke the filibuster now but it's just we're 0.95

00:28:16.580 operating in a party with a lot of people that are unwilling to fight. Caroline, hang on for 0.98

00:28:22.060 one second. Caroline Wren. We've got Neil McCabe at the White House, Captain Fennell, Cleo Pascal,

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00:29:56.640 and do it today here's your host stephen k bann one of our

00:30:03.180 uh ufc members of uh the reducing wars caroline ran a warrior always in pits so caroline this is

00:30:12.000 why i can't get i don't think the audience can get too excited about 2028 house in 2032 and here's

00:30:18.340 why um you're right the math and the debt but that's the american people making decisions that

00:30:23.380 are going to be manifest in this when it takes this hapless feckless party those nine that were

00:30:30.380 not done you're saying steve don't get you've got one that's still a possibility and that is south

00:30:35.960 carolina and that's going to take a major push from us correct that's right and so uh the mississippi

00:30:43.240 seat that extra seat we're not going to get this time correct correct the governor just came out

00:30:49.480 He canceled the special session that was supposed to start on May 20th to do

00:30:53.320 redistricting.

00:30:55.820 And what reason did he use? They'd already, they already had the primary.

00:30:59.700 Is that it?

00:31:01.100 Yes. And they're, they're going to,

00:31:02.640 they were going to redraw based off of the special session he said was to

00:31:06.140 redraw for Supreme court races and that didn't manifest itself.

00:31:09.680 So that's why he canceled it. So I got this,

00:31:11.420 I got the feeling he was never actually going to redraw because the primary

00:31:15.420 primary had already happened in Mississippi. It happened in March.

00:31:18.820 I still thought they should have gone for it, but that's officially closed.

00:31:23.000 Georgia, too, we're not going to get that's done.

00:31:25.620 And what was Kemp's excuse for that?

00:31:28.600 Kemp's excuse was the voting it started and that there's no way to start an active primary,

00:31:33.520 of which I pushed back and said, no, no, no, you stopped an active primary in 2020 during COVID.

00:31:39.240 And he tried to use procedural play.

00:31:40.860 The governor doesn't have the ability.

00:31:42.180 I'm like, well, you have the ability when you declared an emergency with COVID.

00:31:45.660 And so that's not true.

00:31:47.300 But he then went ahead and called a special session, but he wanted to just get some good headlines.

00:31:52.680 I saw a bunch of good headlines for Kemp a couple of days ago saying he's calling a special session.

00:31:56.760 He called it for 2027.

00:31:58.580 So don't get too excited.

00:32:00.240 He is leaving those on the board for this cycle.

00:32:03.180 We'll pick them up in 2027, but they should have gotten them now.

00:32:07.080 Alabama, we're leaving one on the table.

00:32:09.140 Why is that happening, ma'am?

00:32:11.640 There's a lot of reasons, but it was really the Speaker of the House just refused to draw for two.

00:32:15.940 and he said it was because the courts technically they had redrawn with one pickup and that it's

00:32:22.640 just the easier move was to revert to that map and then they could redistrict to the other one

00:32:27.040 they were just lazy they don't want to go through the process and that is what a lot of this comes

00:32:31.800 down to so Alabama left a seat on the table we'll gain one yeah governor governor Landry in

00:32:40.020 Louisiana. We're leaving one on the boards. Why? Yeah, and that one I can't figure out. But yeah,

00:32:46.080 they drew this very weird district that kind of stretches from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. So

00:32:51.160 they're leaving one Democrat seat there. And I want to stress, too, in states like Alabama,

00:32:56.820 Louisiana, how dumb this is. These are states that Trump won by massive margins. By comparison, 0.99

00:33:02.980 look at a state like Massachusetts. You know, Trump gets 38 percent of the vote in Massachusetts,

00:33:07.460 and they have a 9-0 map.

00:33:09.420 In Alabama, Harris got, I think, 37% of the vote or something,

00:33:14.560 less than even what Trump got in Massachusetts,

00:33:16.300 and we still won't do what needs to be done in these states.

00:33:19.920 And so that is why it is so frustrating.

00:33:23.180 Indiana, we were 8-1.

00:33:24.960 Now we're 7-2.

00:33:25.960 We left two on the table.

00:33:27.960 That's totally done and finished, correct?

00:33:31.080 Yeah, and I think that can be redrawn as a 9-0.

00:33:33.860 They refuse to even do the weak proposed map.

00:33:37.160 Yes.

00:33:38.000 They took that away from us.

00:33:39.720 Missouri, we leaving one on the table, ma'am?

00:33:43.180 No, Missouri was in a court case.

00:33:45.420 So Missouri, we won that court case a couple days ago.

00:33:49.380 So that's now solid pickup for Republicans.

00:33:51.220 They redistricted like a year and a half ago.

00:33:53.200 It was challenging courts.

00:33:54.360 I think we can go back and potentially get another one there,

00:33:57.160 but that's not what we left on the table this cycle.

00:34:00.240 Utah.

00:34:00.760 Okay, fine.

00:34:02.280 Okay, Utah won.

00:34:03.960 Ohio.

00:34:04.620 We're still one in Ohio, correct?

00:34:07.320 Ohio, I just don't love the map that they did.

00:34:09.720 And so, yes, we picked up.

00:34:11.300 They redistributed like a year and a half ago.

00:34:12.860 I think they could have gone and still could go further than they did.

00:34:17.240 And then you add Utah, which is another debacle.

00:34:20.600 Of course, the judge there, I think, has been thrown off the Supreme Court because she's sending love letters. 0.86

00:34:25.820 She's sexting the attorney that she agreed with that took away this outrageous ruling.

00:34:32.320 So my point is we still got one, but that's going to take a lot of work.

00:34:36.400 But this is why I can't get excited about the land of milk and honey, because if anybody can can can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,

00:34:45.040 when the Supreme Court of these United States comes in on a six to three decision and these guys aren't prepared and don't have a plan, it shows you they don't care.

00:34:55.280 OK, they got their own deals in these state capitals and they don't care.

00:34:58.780 I don't care. They're going to have a main and one excuses. That's just an excuse not to get the job done.

00:35:03.740 And this is why I think we got to put all the focus now on this.

00:35:08.300 And if we got in these seats, it would have been a blowout.

00:35:11.380 Hakeem Jeffries would have no chance of being Speaker of the House.

00:35:15.160 And now he's still got a chance, although it's not the chance they thought they had.

00:35:19.260 And we're going to have trench warfare between now and in November, man.

00:35:24.240 That's right.

00:35:24.880 And also, don't forget how much Trump had to do to even get this done.

00:35:28.900 Like, this is why you need a fighter and a head of your party as a fighter.

00:35:31.860 Trump had to beg the governor of Tennessee to do this.

00:35:34.600 He had to beg the governor of Alabama and be calling them and say, do this right now.

00:35:38.580 Same, you know, Louisiana, that was different.

00:35:40.300 That was a court case that sparked it.

00:35:42.140 But like Trump, he was having to call the governor of South Carolina and put pressure

00:35:45.820 in the White House, having to put all this pressure on these states to do what is obvious

00:35:49.360 to you and I and to lay up.

00:35:51.400 And it was really like that Trump is even having to waste any of his time, like cold 0.94

00:35:55.160 calling Republican governors in states he won by 15 plus points is ridiculous.

00:36:00.400 And so I worry for what a party looks like without Donald Trump as the head of our party. 0.93

00:36:05.080 And if we just revert back to these weak, feckless Republicans and these governors who wouldn't even move on something so simple unless Donald Trump insists they do, that's where we are.

00:36:15.300 And remember Texas and Florida, actually.

00:36:17.520 Texas, I think, got another three.

00:36:18.960 Florida's got a couple, three more, though DeSantis has done a very good job here.

00:36:22.600 My point is it's not just the hammer.

00:36:24.900 He's got enough going on.

00:36:26.000 Look, a lot of us are not particularly thrilled with a lot that went on in China.

00:36:29.240 However, the guy's got the weight of the world on his shoulders, and here he's whipping votes in these states with guys who wouldn't even be in politics if it was not for his coattails.

00:36:40.140 That's the madness of this.

00:36:42.020 They wouldn't exist without Trump, and yet Trump has got to take the time as president of the United States to also be the chief whip for the redistricting effort.

00:36:51.000 This is what drives me insane.

00:36:53.040 Nobody picks up the burden for this guy on anything, Caroline Wren.

00:36:57.000 i know it is true he was having to like he called the uh senate president in south carolina two

00:37:04.320 times and the guy wouldn't even return his phone call finally on the third time he called he took

00:37:09.320 the call and then gave the most absurd speech i've ever heard about why it were stronger with

00:37:13.960 a strong democrat party like you're the head of the republican party senate caucus what are you

00:37:18.940 what planet am i living on right now but that's that's the reality of these guys okay what are

00:37:25.780 our marching orders for South Carolina we got to get every you don't want to wake up on the morning

00:37:30.980 after the election in November and know Hakeem Jeffries because folks understand something

00:37:35.180 Hakeem Jeffries is the speaker by one member by one vote they're going to run it like they got a

00:37:41.180 50 seat majority they're going to ram it down your throat right as much as people say what Trump's

00:37:46.300 done this from yeah I got it it ain't perfect but these are Marxists on the other side these

00:37:51.700 a radical Marxist on their side, and Hakeem Jeffries is letting these guys run wild, so

00:37:55.880 every seat is important. What do we have to do? What's your guidance today? It's a work day. What

00:38:01.960 do we have to do in South Carolina? In South Carolina, these legislators have got to hear

00:38:08.300 from their constituents saying, we want this. You need to redistrict now. It's very important. We'll

00:38:13.140 be putting up emails, phone numbers for people to be calling into. They need to really, really hear

00:38:18.220 for people to know the importance of this because we have the votes, but if they try to procedurally

00:38:23.660 delay, we can't let them just do that and get away with it. All eyes need to be on South Carolina

00:38:29.000 until this is on the governor's desk for signature. And we need to be loud about it and making sure

00:38:34.620 they know you can't just procedurally keep delaying this and think nobody's going to notice.

00:38:39.840 Caroline, where do people go? Your bomber command today, your Twitter feed. So where do they go

00:38:44.180 for your Twitter feed to get the action of what they're supposed to do today?

00:38:48.220 ma'am it is at caroline wren on x truth social and getter thank you ma'am appreciate you

00:38:56.440 of course vengeance was was dealt on um in um indiana of course i do think some of the heavy

00:39:04.260 handed nature some of this stuff is what caused that we should at least had the one seat that we

00:39:08.000 had that banks and degrasse delivered remember we did that conference out there just gets me no end

00:39:14.440 of how these things are however particularly folks from the south in mississippi and georgia

00:39:21.720 and alabama and louisiana and in south ground but today we still got one in plain south ground

00:39:27.220 but those other states you should let your representatives know it's not acceptable what

00:39:31.900 they did here it's not that it's unacceptable they were not prepared for this and not prepared

00:39:37.000 to move out with all alacrity i don't want to hear excuses oh we had this court case no

00:39:41.420 your job is to find a solution particularly when the the supreme court

00:39:46.640 says it's unconstitutional in a six-three decision and it's been suppressing and oppressing

00:39:54.440 the south for decade after decade after decade after decade that's what's so frustrating here

00:40:00.560 okay let's pivot let's go to the white house and uh neil i'm more on this and more on this

00:40:06.300 obviously in the five o'clock show neil mccabe uh talk to me what happened we left last night

00:40:12.080 you were at the white house till 10 32 you got the boot we stayed till midnight uh the event had

00:40:17.640 just started there wasn't a lot of footage from it you called it though sir beforehand he said hey

00:40:23.160 if he gets a walk into the if he gets a walk on the island that means there's a little something

00:40:27.400 special going on here what's your assessment uh today as they're heading back and i guess they're

00:40:31.160 going to try to land in Alaska shortly, and we will cut to if there's any footage or if there's

00:40:37.200 any president talking to the press, we'll cut to or goes to the sticks. We'll cut to that.

00:40:42.160 Neal McCabe, your thoughts as you await the president at the White House.

00:40:48.320 Yeah, good morning, Steve. The walk in Yangtai Island was highly significant on his second

00:40:56.380 trip. Obama got that walk. Putin has gotten that walk. George W. Bush got that walk. It's sort of

00:41:04.220 there's a complex called the Jonan High complex, which is three lakes. And it's sort of the

00:41:13.020 hideaway with the grace and favor apartments for the communist leadership. And when people talk

00:41:17.620 about, say, the Pentagon or the White House in the U.S. to mean like, you know, sort of that

00:41:21.780 collective noun. When people talk about the Beijing government, they sort of refer to this

00:41:26.880 compound as sort of that, is that the collective noun for the government. And so the question was,

00:41:33.040 you had tea, you had lunch, would he get a walk on the island? He did not get the walk on the

00:41:38.380 island. And so, you know, you can read into it what you will. The president is heading home.

00:41:43.760 This summit was not a disaster. The summit was successful because he established that

00:41:50.700 T and G have a working relationship. The world can take a breath. There were some kind of

00:41:55.900 rumblings when he mentioned, you know, the U.S. as a declining power when he was name checking the

00:42:02.200 Thucydides trap. But, you know, the foreign ministry sort of cleared that up. And the

00:42:08.420 president cleared that up on his gaggle at Air Force One, saying that China doesn't.

00:42:13.220 What do you how do you define? And I know you're reading the White House,

00:42:19.460 the white house uh readout how do you define success

00:42:23.600 well i my expectations for this summit were maybe not as high as everyone else's

00:42:31.720 i think that they just needed to properly execute a summit they got along the uh the chinese

00:42:38.540 government xi accepted trump's framework for the iran war and of course you know trump came into

00:42:45.820 this thing without hold it we haven't we haven't seen we haven't seen we haven't seen we haven't

00:42:53.480 seen any and on their readout or their foreign minister talk today i think at a press conference

00:42:58.720 i haven't heard anything but the most i haven't heard anything from them on have you heard from

00:43:02.740 them or in their readout about iran what have they said about iran what have they said they've

00:43:07.300 committed to an iran i i take your point uh the president said that i think the answer i think

00:43:15.680 hang on i think the answer i think the answer from listen we raise them up to be like a co-equal

00:43:22.620 they're not a co-equal okay we're the dominant power militarily financially morally the in our

00:43:30.620 250th year of which they took a shot at us and said hey you know we're good we're celebrating

00:43:35.280 our 5 000th year of civilization how are you guys doing as a country in 250 years

00:43:42.160 how the kids how's the kids table doing anyway neil you're a good man neil okay if you stick

00:43:49.020 around we got cleo pascal we got captain finnell jack pasobic we're gonna get into it and get into

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00:45:21.160 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:45:24.660 When the president arrives in Alaska, I assume that he is going to talk to the media.

00:45:30.600 And what Neil was talking about there is the kind of framing from the White House.

00:45:34.400 I want to go to Captain Finnell.

00:45:36.000 captain you've been at this a long time um your give me your over your thoughts

00:45:43.020 when we last left you we were we were having the um facilities trap about the decline of the of

00:45:50.620 the hegemon the declining power of the hegemon and the strength of the rising power uh being

00:45:56.840 china of course the president came out very specifically yesterday and said hey that's not 0.60

00:46:01.020 me on my watch that's biden on his watch but i've turned this around of course the wall street journal

00:46:05.520 And many of the major papers picked up on our discussions, I think, Thursday morning and really went into this.

00:46:12.460 Your assessment overall, and particularly in this three island chain, you know, Besant left early to go see Japan, the finance minister and the finance minister of South Korea, two of our great allies, to talk through the whole issues of the dollar, what they're going to do for support, the situation with oil, all of it.

00:46:33.420 your assessment of all of that strategically and particularly regards to Taiwan, sir?

00:46:43.220 Steve, I think there are two ways to look at this. There's a short term. There are some short term

00:46:49.560 gains, some benefits, but there are some negatives. And then there's a strategic view that we need to

00:46:55.800 take, a strategic trend line view of it. So I've compiled in my mind some of the benefits Neil

00:47:01.640 mentioned the vernacular that the president used on the Strait of Hormuz and controlling it and

00:47:08.220 the no nukes for Iran. Yes, the Chinese haven't reiterated that in their press or by any official

00:47:13.820 statements, but the president seized on that and got that narrative control, if you will.

00:47:18.860 He also was very clear. He never said the word Taiwan while he was in China publicly. He said

00:47:24.660 in this Air Force One press gaggle, he said he was asked about it and he was very strong saying,

00:47:29.700 I'm not going to say anything about this. I don't talk to you about it. I'm not going to discuss it

00:47:34.660 with you. So I think that's a, you know, a strategic ambiguity at its finest. And that

00:47:40.880 leaves Xi having to wonder what we'll do. Some will see it as, well, we've turned our back on

00:47:45.720 Taiwan, but clearly we haven't. And I think the president also didn't commit to saying anything

00:47:50.720 about arms sales because he was asked in the context of talking to Xi and the Taiwan Relations

00:47:56.040 Act is very clear. You can't speak with China about what we're going to do with Taiwan. So

00:48:00.780 I think the president distanced that. I think on the negative side, the issues that you raised

00:48:05.680 earlier about students and Chinese students in America is very problematic. Selling farmland

00:48:11.720 to Chinese is very problematic. Not getting a commitment on Jimmy Lai or even the pastors, 0.91

00:48:17.380 very problematic. So there's some pluses and minuses, I think, in terms of military strategic

00:48:24.020 security in the Far East, the statements about or the no statements about Taiwan are reassuring.

00:48:30.740 And I think that's the best thing that came out of this. But I would like to submit another

00:48:35.260 thought, which is the strategic trend line. And if you look at in 2014, when Xi came to

00:48:41.820 Sunnylands in California, Xi Jinping was a brand new leader of China and he met with Obama and he

00:48:49.060 had his team create this phrase, new type, great power relationship. And at the time, many of us

00:48:55.540 said no U.S. government official or anybody should be reiterating that and using Chinese vernacular.

00:49:02.120 And unfortunately, the Obama administration and Biden administration repeated that at selected

00:49:07.480 times, kind of endorsing it. Now what we have from the Chinese 12 years later is a new phrase

00:49:14.700 that the Chinese have unloaded with President Trump's visit. And it's called the Constructive 0.78

00:49:19.120 China-U.S. Relationship of Strategic Stability. And so what does that mean? Well, we're not really

00:49:26.420 sure, but it seems to be that it's a continuation of what was created in 2013, 2014. And I've passed

00:49:34.000 a graphic to your team, if we can pull that up. In the great arc of the last 37 years,

00:49:39.820 What we've seen in June of 1989 was Tank Man, when the world watched as the Chinese Communist Party led by Deng Xiaoping murdered their people in Tiananmen Square and ran tanks over innocent civilians.

00:49:53.900 And that's all the world talked about 37 years ago.

00:49:57.460 What are the Chinese talking about today in this visit?

00:50:00.240 They're talking about their airplane man. You can see on the right the picture of a Chinese soldier standing in front of Air Force One as they said, wow, not flinching, not moving, standing there showing the power of China.

00:50:13.240 So in the space of 37 years, the Chinese Communist Party has erased our feeling, visceral feeling about the evilness of the Chinese Communist Party to where we now are meeting with them, talking with them, saying nice things about them and engaging with them. 0.84

00:50:30.060 And as I've said on the show, and Brett there and I have said in our book, embracing communist China is America's greatest strategic failure. 0.90

00:50:39.800 And I understand that President Trump wants to bring jobs home to farmers and to Boeing workers and to other Americans. 0.86

00:50:46.400 And I get that. And he's the president and he has to do that dance.

00:50:50.260 But I'm warning and I'm advising as best I can respectfully that we've got to be very, very careful about engaging with communist China. 0.99

00:50:59.040 It's a very dangerous thing. And that habit has put us in this position over the last 40, 50 years 0.98

00:51:06.320 of doing that has made us in this weakened position. The only thing that they understand

00:51:11.080 is strength. And the president was strong with Xi. He didn't compromise on some things. But in terms

00:51:17.080 of the rhetoric and the references to how good a person he is and things like that, it's problematic.

00:51:24.060 On the plane, he said, if you want to call him a dictator, you have to figure that out. So he didn't deny that he was a dictator, but he didn't come out and say it. And I think that's the president's internal way he rolls. He doesn't want to be openly rude to people. And maybe he doesn't have to be, but we have to be very, very, very careful about what we agree to, what contracts we have.

00:51:46.720 and we should not be bringing in Chinese AI into America, Chinese automobile manufacturing into 0.98

00:51:53.200 America. And we certainly shouldn't have 500,000 Chinese students here, which some percentage of 0.95

00:52:00.280 them are Ministry of State Security spies that are all over the country. We've just had another 0.98

00:52:06.160 event in Arcadia, California, with elected members of the city council and the mayor 0.93

00:52:13.840 being chinese spies it's happening around the world norway in the last 24 hours announced 0.66

00:52:19.180 they've had a chinese spy breakout the chinese are stealing from us they want to take our 0.99

00:52:25.640 technology and they're turning that into a pla people's liberation army that is designed to 1.00

00:52:31.720 sink american naval vessels and shoot down our aircraft and kill american soldiers 0.92

00:52:37.560 hang over a second i'm gonna hold you into the second hour 0.99

00:52:41.620 okay take your number two pencil out write this down constructive strategic stability

00:52:49.520 it's a construct it's a construct that's premise is there like equal to us and we've got to kind

00:53:01.000 of work together and figure this out. How about this? The answer is no. You cannot buy into that

00:53:10.720 premise or you will have many dark days ahead. Short commercial break. Poso will join us on the

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Bannon's War Room - May 15, 2026

Episode 5374： China Summit Ends As Redistricting Efforts Continue In The States

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