Bannon's War Room - November 11, 2026


Episode 5800： Patrick K O'Donnell Revolutionary Snipers

Episode 5796： Massie Moves On Hegseth Impeachment

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00:00:00 Anchors away, my boys, anchors away!
00:00:18 Farewell to God's joys, we sail and bring away!
00:00:24 Thank you.
00:00:54 CHOIR SINGS
00:01:24 CHOIR SINGS
00:01:54 It's Wednesday, 11 November in the year of our Lord, 2026.
00:02:18 It is Veterans Day, or as we used to refer to it for many, many years, Armistice Day.
00:02:23 I still refer to that in Europe, the 11th hour, the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns went silent and ending the Great War.
00:02:32 The war to end all wars. I guess it didn't turn out like that.
00:02:35 So today we're going to be playing all the music from the different services, uniformed services.
00:02:40 And we start with the Navy, obviously. We have to. We're going to get to all of it.
00:02:46 President's going to head to Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate, I guess, Patrick O'Donnell's riding shotgun with me today.
00:02:53 our finest combat historian, about his new bestseller book.
00:02:57 But the president's doing that because we did it, the Tomb of the Unknown,
00:03:01 although we commemorate that on Memorial Day,
00:03:04 the very first time it was interned was on Armistice Day in 1921.
00:03:08 In 1921, and it's President Harding that presides over the ceremony
00:03:13 to intern the unknown soldier from the Great War.
00:03:18 And he's escorted to the tomb by six body bearers.
00:03:23 that were hand selected by general pershing and they represented each branch of the services the
00:03:29 navy the army as well as the marine corps and even combat specialties within them they were
00:03:34 some of the most decorated soldiers and the book i wrote called the unknowns captures that story
00:03:39 bringing them home so today we've got revolutionary snipers we're going to talk about one of my
00:03:43 favorite topics the invasion of canada uh with benedict arnold aaron burr general montgomery
00:03:49 The one that the one that came very close to working. The Canadians have been with us.
00:03:54 We also got Jim Cavisa on his new movie that opens today. So Cavisa will be here later.
00:04:00 The president will be at Arlington. We're pretty packed. I want to start with David Zier and Neil McCabe.
00:04:06 David Zier, an after action report, because it's the first look, it's a mini victory, but it's a victory nonetheless, because we held the line yesterday.
00:04:16 There were seven Republicans that wanted to throw in. And I guess with absentees, it became maybe not as urgent as we see now at the time, but became pretty urgent.
00:04:27 Your sense of the Pentagon, you know, Pete, pretty well. What's your take on things and where do we go from here?
00:04:35 Good morning, Steve. I reached out to the Pentagon for comment.
00:04:39 They referred me back to Sean Parnell's quote on X yesterday, basically saying that this was a total victory for Secretary Hegseth and the American warfighter, and that this has been a political exercise devoid of merit, evidence, or seriousness, and it collapsed under the weight of Hegseth's record of restoring the warrior ethos, delivering results, and putting the mission first.
00:05:03 The American people see through it. You know, Democrat Congress people are, you know, castigating the – yeah, they're castigating the Democrats who didn't show up for the vote.
00:05:16 Some claim they couldn't get there in time. CNN reported that they would have lost the impeachment vote even if the 11 members who didn't make it were present.
00:05:25 But I think we're living in a very different country right now, Steve.
00:05:29 75% of our governors are Democrat for the first time in a really long time.
00:05:34 And that Senator-elect Abdul Syed gets the way in.
00:05:37 And he says, can you imagine Pete Hegseth right now?
00:05:40 Like, why are you still on the job?
00:05:42 I mean, it's an open question.
00:05:43 Like, Pete, like, really just an open question.
00:05:45 Why are you still doing this job?
00:05:47 You are really bad at this.
00:05:48 You are failing your responsibility of mishandling this war.
00:05:52 I think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.
00:05:55 Next year is going to be very volatile, but at least it'll be on the Democrats watch, not on the Republicans.
00:06:01 Well, we still got to watch as far as the executive branch is going to be they're going to come with war powers.
00:06:06 They're coming after Pete again. So that's where we got to hunker down on this.
00:06:09 McCabe, your thoughts. We picked McCarthy and Jeff Miller's swamp to be the to be the house side.
00:06:18 That's Jim Jordan and kowtowing to the oligarchs of big tech.
00:06:21 They didn't learn their lesson the first time. And of course, it's even worse in the Senate.
00:06:25 I mean, people don't even want to talk about the Senate because they reinitiated John Thune.
00:06:29 Your sense of the fight yesterday. And what do we have? We're going to go through a shredding machine here.
00:06:35 I'm not sure we got tough people that are going to have going to have our flanks in the House of the Senate.
00:06:43 Yeah, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
00:06:46 You know, yesterday on Capitol Hill, there were things hopping all over the place.
00:06:51 You know, just to go to back to Thune, you know, Ron Johnson proposed a delay in the leadership vote so that conservatives could sort of center, get a challenger to go up against Thune.
00:07:04 That motion lost 31 to 15.
00:07:08 And then Ron Johnson left.
00:07:10 He didn't stick around to have John Thune, you know, unanimously voted in as the new minority leader of the Senate in the next session.
00:07:18 And so, you know, we'll see how that plays out.
00:07:21 Uh, Jim Jordan is notorious for having fantastic, uh, theatrics at hearings and, uh, he gives
00:07:30 speeches and, you know, maybe he's perfect to be a minority leader because he won't have
00:07:35 any power to do anything, which is kind of his superpower anyway.
00:07:39 And so, you know, that, that he beat down Scalise.
00:07:43 It was, uh, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't close, but it wasn't unanimous either.
00:07:47 Let's hang on.
00:07:48 Let's hang on here.
00:07:49 Let's be blunt.
00:07:50 Scalise didn't put up any effort. There was no effort behind the scenes to get this.
00:07:54 It was really a very half-hearted effort like a lot of this is, half-hearted and just for theatrics.
00:08:00 I mean, Jim Jordan's a nice enough guy, but he had his heyday back in the Obama situation.
00:08:05 You get a lot of theatrics. You get a lot of going on Hannity.
00:08:08 That's not going to hack it. Schumer won overwhelming.
00:08:12 I mean, they had overwhelming victories in the Senate, and they tried to remove Schumer yesterday.
00:08:17 They had a revolt with Bernie Sanders and, of course, the CIA agent operative from Michigan.
00:08:24 But they're moving on. They're trying to move on Schumer and they won.
00:08:27 We lost. And what do you get? Unanimity on John Thune.
00:08:30 That shows you this is why the Senate lost. Nobody wanted to put their shoulder to the wheel.
00:08:35 There was no enthusiasm for anybody. Anyway, McCabe, I'm going to come back to you when the president president, I think, is going to leave.
00:08:42 Right. Going to be at Arlington remarks at 1130. All this is kind of a moving target, as we say, until that time, McCabe, where do we get where do we follow you?
00:08:57 You can follow me on all the socials at Reporter McCabe and my groundbreaking columns are at the South Shore Press, sir.
00:09:04 people are saying that's people are saying that that's the hottest media place right now i'm just
00:09:10 i have just i'm passing on what i've heard from the white house is that that's the hottest like
00:09:14 trying to land on the sun it's so hot it's so hot david zier brother uh where do we go where
00:09:22 do we follow you sir yeah i just wanted to add steve that only two impeachments in history
00:09:27 and neither one was convicted by the senate let's pray that even if things go south next year for
00:09:32 Hegseth, that there will not be a conviction and the Republicans will stand fast on this.
00:09:38 And I would just hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. That's why I just
00:09:43 gave this little mini rant on Thune. All those guys, 90, 80 percent of them over there hate Trump
00:09:50 and hate MAGA. This is my point going in and going into next year with Thune stepping up,
00:09:56 who did nothing on any important piece of legislation and has never really had the MAGA's
00:10:01 back or the president's back i think it's an open question i think the democrats see this
00:10:05 that's where they're going to be bobby kennedy and pete hegseth are right in the gun sights of
00:10:10 the democrats and they understand that bobby kennedy trying to trying to shake up uh big
00:10:16 pharma and all this other crap that's going on here it has has very little support from the uh
00:10:22 from the the corporate pack senate of uh the republicans and of course pete hegseth they'd
00:10:28 roll on Pete Hexas in the second. Is there a doubt in your mind on that, Zier?
00:10:33 Well, Trump continues to praise John Thune. Maybe this is his chance to show that he's not for the
00:10:39 total demise of the U.S. military and our posture in the world. I do have some confidence that there
00:10:45 won't be a conviction, but time will tell. But in that environment coming up, I think the Republicans
00:10:50 will have no choice but to stand fast. So let's see and see people can follow me at Dave Zier on
00:10:56 Axe and David Zier on everything else.
00:11:00 Zier, thank you. Great, great coverage.
00:11:03 People at the Pentagon do so highly of your coverage. Amazing.
00:11:08 I know you don't want to get too political, but just your sense of this impeachment.
00:11:12 We've had impeachment of Belknap, what, back in the Grant's administration, right,
00:11:16 over the controversy about Fort Sill and some of the Indian contracts and, you know, guys taking some kickbacks.
00:11:22 He was, but he resigned before they went to trial in the Senate.
00:11:27 Pete, your sense right now with the military, and I'm not asking about the strategy,
00:11:33 do we support Israel first or do we support the Persian War, but just the troops themselves and where they are,
00:11:39 how do you view these, how do you view impeachments of the guys running the deal during times of war?
00:11:46 They're going to come after them with hammers and tongs.
00:11:49 it's going to be intense uh especially next year and you know that's an unfortunate thing when we
00:11:55 have troops in the field it's just going to undermine morale and uh unfortunately help the
00:12:00 other side you've got a thing up on fox today you have a piece in fox it's one of my favorite topics
00:12:05 yeah the you have to understand we talk about the revolutionary generation a lot we talk about the
00:12:11 We talk about the builders of the nation that came right after that.
00:12:18 They were obsessed, obsessed with getting Canada, making Canada part of the United States of America, were they not?
00:12:27 This was the 14th colony, and there was a major concerted effort in 1775 to take Canada.
00:12:36 And today's piece—
00:12:37 Well, 1775 is like the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
00:12:41 The War of Independence started.
00:12:42 The war begins at Lexington, the kinetic portion, at Lexington and Concord.
00:12:48 You can even argue it begins a little bit earlier in 74 at the Powderville Summer Raid.
00:12:52 But it's really, it's stealing the powder, disarming Americans.
00:12:57 It's Gage's whole plan because there's the Achilles heel.
00:12:59 But we're ready to fight.
00:13:01 People realize that this is not going to be, this is not going to be some debate that,
00:13:06 and signing documents you're gonna if you want your freedom you're gonna have to take a musket
00:13:09 and you're gonna have to fight they saw what happened to scotland and in ireland later on
00:13:14 the the crown crushes everybody especially if you're not armed if you don't have weapons
00:13:19 doesn't matter how um you know what your ideals of liberty and freedom are you're you're gonna
00:13:24 get crushed and they recognize that they they recognize that they're in mortal peril and they
00:13:29 were willing to fight for their freedom and uh it was not only freedom but also their safety and
00:13:35 And part of that, we're going to take your commercial break and we're going to come back.
00:13:37 Part of that, here's what I love about it.
00:13:39 When they're thinking about it and organizing troops and militias and troops around it,
00:13:45 it's not just we're going to play defense.
00:13:46 It's just not we're going to fight a guerrilla war in Lexington and Concord and hit them on the way back.
00:13:52 We're going to go on offense.
00:13:53 And by offense, we mean to set up a major expeditionary force and march through a vast wilderness.
00:14:02 And when I say vast wilderness, the Maine woods.
00:14:06 This is an epic story of death and starvation.
00:14:09 It's an incredible story of human endurance, which is in Fox today.
00:14:13 Yeah, it's in Fox.
00:14:14 Let's show the article.
00:14:16 When you go to Maine, first time you go to Maine,
00:14:18 they have the L.L. Bean store it used to right across the state line.
00:14:21 They get a huge L.L. Bean.
00:14:22 You walk in as somebody who's not from Maine,
00:14:25 and they used to have a huge bin of books that had orange covers.
00:14:29 in the so you hear some tour you know you're going up there and you look in the orange covers
00:14:35 you pick it up it goes lost in the main woods that's and i think it was a freebie from from
00:14:40 ll bean at the time you open this thing up and it's a horror story they said hey the woods are
00:14:44 so thick here if you go five feet in the woods you'll get disoriented you'll look around do not
00:14:51 panic what you should do is just sit down gather yourself because otherwise no one will ever find
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00:17:12 That those kids' arms are rolling along
00:17:16 Okay, welcome back.
00:17:21 One of my favorite.
00:17:24 Armies.
00:17:25 Maybe we'll play Yellow Ribbon later. 0.54
00:17:30 She wore Yellow Ribbon, the Calvary song.
00:17:32 This is the field artillery song.
00:17:35 United States Army.
00:17:36 Okay, invasion of Canada, one of my favorite topics.
00:17:38 I think it's President Trump's favorite topic.
00:17:40 But we've got five minutes.
00:17:43 Go ahead and roll through it.
00:17:44 And is this out of revolutionary?
00:17:46 This is right out of revolutionary snipers.
00:17:48 Give me the background.
00:17:49 This is like your 20th bestseller in a row?
00:17:52 14th.
00:17:53 14 in a row. 1.00
00:17:54 Damn. 0.99
00:17:55 But it's on the story of the riflemen, 0.99
00:17:57 the first members of the Continental Army who were riflemen,
00:18:00 10 companies, June 14, 1775.
00:18:03 it's the backwoodsmen of america that will be they'll form the core of the continental army
00:18:09 they are they march from virginia from pennsylvania and maryland all the way up to boston on foot
00:18:15 the beeline march and it's here that that's the type of people we had they knew it was going to 0.98
00:18:20 be a fight they were bad asses because they could they could kill at three or four hundred yards 0.97
00:18:26 and british had never seen nothing like it and the first thing that washington does is put them 0.97
00:18:32 on in the entrenchments to keep british heads down or take them off um and they're doing that
00:18:38 and he and he literally puts on a demonstration in spyglass range and these guys put apples on
00:18:44 the friends of their head their heads i i hate to be the rifleman that that they put the apple on
00:18:49 at 100 yards and they as they said the book one of the correct correct quotes was we wasted a lot
00:18:54 of apples that's practice yeah that was and this is like the harlem globetrotters but instead of
00:18:59 basketballs right it's long rifles but they're masking a critical shortage there's no gunpowder
00:19:04 in the continental army and they have to to mask this shortage by keeping the heads down
00:19:09 because the british came out we couldn't stop them there was nothing not enough about who conceived
00:19:14 because we're going to take time to do this do the thing i got mark lewis we're going to talk
00:19:18 about this veterans bill in a moment who conceived early on that we're going to go on offense we're 0.65
00:19:24 just not going to play defense and have the brits here burning our cities and doing sieges we're
00:19:28 gonna we're gonna we're gonna take canada now the then the operational thing is oh we're gonna walk 0.97
00:19:33 march 400 miles through the through a primordial forest but what's who conceived of let's go take
00:19:40 it's largely benedict arnold who who goes on the offense to begin with at ticonderoga yeah and he
00:19:46 seizes that and the gunpowder there in the cannons and then these will later become used by henry
00:19:51 knox to take boston or to prevent it to force the british retreat benedict arnold is a total badass
00:19:57 He's a total badass. He's a military genius. He's a man like Hannibal that's with the troops.
00:20:02 He is a true leader in combat and does everything with his men.
00:20:08 And he's a great strategist with no military training whatsoever.
00:20:11 None.
00:20:11 And this guy is incredible.
00:20:14 And it's, you know, he comes up with a plan to go to take Canada with one of the prongs.
00:20:18 It's a two-pronged attack.
00:20:20 Montgomery kind of goes up the center toward Montreal.
00:20:23 and then it's benedict arnold that thinks that there's a route that's only 200 miles that's
00:20:28 what he thinks it turns out it's nearly 400 350 but it's not just the the miss on the distance
00:20:34 it's they had no they start off i guess on the road but they're five miles into this and they
00:20:39 realize this is a disaster how are we going to do well it's they realize that there's an american
00:20:45 civil war raging when the the people that sell them the rafts sell them rafts made out of green
00:20:49 wood and they start to warp and fall apart as they're in the in the water and it's in many
00:20:55 cases it's treacherous white water that they have to circumnavigate down different rivers they got
00:21:01 to go over waterfalls they got to carry these heavy rafts and it is torture steve and they're
00:21:07 running out of rations and as the the winter comes the snow falls and this they're starving to death
00:21:14 This is where the other one, Aaron Burr, is also on this as a young officer, and he's another badass, right?
00:21:21 But later, these guys were twisted because they were so ambitious.
00:21:26 They were so amazing, and that ambition we needed to harness for the War of Independence later on, even in the war.
00:21:33 But later on, Aaron Burr, guys like Benedict Arnold got their own ideas of what they should do with normally they're in charge.
00:21:40 Well, it's also that in the case of Benedict Arnold, he was disrespected.
00:21:45 He's a great hero of the Battle of Saratoga, which is in Revolutionary Snipers.
00:21:49 And it's a series of things, disrespected, not given credit.
00:21:54 So this book has the, of all your books, I haven't had a chance to take this one because everything's going on, but I'm going to do it this weekend.
00:22:01 This book has both the invasion of Canada and the Battle of Saratoga?
00:22:05 It's got everything.
00:22:07 And it also goes all the way to Yorktown with some of these guys.
00:22:10 It's a band of brothers on these guys.
00:22:12 Some of these guys survive all the way to Yorktown?
00:22:14 timothy murphy and others and it's all about the enlisted men that are the badass snipers that are
00:22:19 the first commandos or first special forces that um the amazing the amazing thing between uh this
00:22:28 is the third element of the revolution of doing the uh maryland regiment of the trilogy that the
00:22:34 american thermopoly to then do the the watermen the indispensable indispensable who do the american
00:22:40 Who do the American Dunkirk at Brooklyn, but also come back across the Delaware, take him across the Delaware from the bases of kind of, I would say, at least the Brownwater Navy.
00:22:51 And then you've got here revolutionary snipers, which are the riflemen.
00:22:56 Yeah, and just think of this, Steve.
00:22:57 It's wetness.
00:22:58 It's snow.
00:22:59 They have dysentery because they're drinking contaminated water, and they're starving.
00:23:04 They literally have to boil their belts and shot pouches, the leather, and they eat the leather.
00:23:10 they're that they're that starving and the one of the final scenes is benedict arnold brings cattle
00:23:16 from canadians that are friendly to him they they purchase the cattle and they slaughter the cattle
00:23:21 alive and men are eating the raw flesh because they're so hungry and several die from just the
00:23:27 raw flesh think of like concentration camp victims this is what haven't eaten this is what veterans
00:23:32 day is about so true we're true suffering and sacrifice we're gonna get back into that because
00:23:37 I'm going to get to the Montgomery, General Montgomery.
00:23:39 We came this close from taking Canada, that close.
00:23:44 I mean, it was fate.
00:23:47 Mark Lucas, United States Army, Veterans Day.
00:23:51 Knowing the heritage you have from 1775, what do you got for us?
00:23:57 Well, I'll tell you, my service really pales in comparison to what you guys are talking about.
00:24:01 And I've got such a great admiration for like our Vietnam veterans or Korean War veterans.
00:24:06 You know, I tell people that true leadership shows up when you're starved, when you're sleep-deprived, and when you're hungry.
00:24:13 And, you know, our generation warfighter and the post-9-11 generation, we did some great work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:24:20 Unfortunately, the politicians failed us, but my men and I, we never lost a battle on the battlefield.
00:24:25 And I was just very honored to serve in the 34th Infantry Division, the Red Bull Division, which had a storied history of World War I and World War II.
00:24:33 But as a member of the Iowa Army National Guard, we were deployed more times per capita than a lot of other states across the country.
00:24:40 And we used to say that big army loved the Red Bulls from Iowa because we brought a violence of action to the battlefield that wasn't typical.
00:24:48 And I'm just very thankful that I was able to deploy in 2010 to Afghanistan.
00:24:52 It was the deadliest year of the war.
00:24:54 My men kept me alive.
00:24:56 In fact, we never took a direct hit from an IED.
00:24:58 We never lost a single soldier.
00:25:00 I can credit that to God Almighty, but also our violence of action.
00:25:05 I wanted to be the most dominant predator on the battlefield, and we brought it every single day to the enemy, and that's why we were able to bring everybody home alive.
00:25:12 But to pivot to today on Veterans Day, you have a lot of politicians.
00:25:17 When this day comes around, they talk about how much they care about our veterans.
00:25:21 They wave the flag.
00:25:22 They have social media posts.
00:25:24 But oftentimes after Veterans Day, they don't do anything for us in Washington, D.C.
00:25:28 They use us to get out the vote. They want us in their campaign ads, but they don't pass policy.
00:25:34 And today on this Veterans Day, we have a great opportunity in the House of Representatives to pass the Take Care of America's Veterans Act.
00:25:41 It's a 62-bill package, bipartisan. There's Democrat bills in there. It's very popular.
00:25:48 I pulled the Take Care of America's Veterans Act with Mark Mitchell, who was the most accurate pollster in the midterm cycle.
00:25:54 We found that midterm voters said that they were six to one times more likely to vote for a candidate that supported the Take Care of America's Veterans Act.
00:26:03 So we're anticipating a vote this afternoon.
00:26:05 I encourage the War Room Posse to go on Bill Blaster, go to VeteranAction.org, click on the Take Action button.
00:26:12 We were able to recruit close to 1,500 volunteers yesterday.
00:26:16 It was our largest day in history because of the War Room Posse to defend Pete Hegseth.
00:26:21 but now we have to rapidly transition to that next 50 meter target that's a take care of america's
00:26:26 veterans act we have to vote for that today and politicians y'all promised us especially speaker
00:26:32 johnson these republicans they said hey we will vote for this bill after the election well now
00:26:37 we're in the lame duck fulfill your promise to our nation's heroes and vote for the take care
00:26:41 of america's veterans act it hasn't by the way it's a kind of a miracle we're even getting a vote
00:26:47 right? They've tried to slow walk this thing. Uh, am I correct in that? Yeah, we're fighting
00:26:53 for precious floor time and we're anticipating maybe a vote last night, but that sham Massey
00:26:58 impeachment delayed it until today, which may be providential. I think this could be the greatest,
00:27:03 uh, one of the greatest things that we could deliver to veterans on this day. But yeah,
00:27:07 we have a lot of business in DC with a limited legislative calendar. So I was very happy to see
00:27:14 Scalise put this on the calendar today to vote for this. And this will help codify what President
00:27:20 Trump accomplished in his first term because it has the VA Mission Act. It will help codify those
00:27:25 measures that we passed there. So it's a very important bill. We need to get it done. And
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00:34:00 And this is the end. This is the third in the trilogy. It is.
00:34:04 We've got the Maryland regiment with just incredible.
00:34:07 You've got you've got the men of Marvel head kind of the Navy part of it or the amphibious part of it.
00:34:15 Incredible. And now you've got you've got the American Thermopylae.
00:34:17 You got the American Dunkirk. And now you've got it all from the beginning all the way to Yorktown.
00:34:22 right exactly i would say one thing that you've done that i think is great is that you've
00:34:28 reinforced that we have we come from people that are total and complete badasses right
00:34:34 nothing nothing will defeat these people no they may die in battle but they are going to fight on
00:34:40 the grit and determination of the war of independence that's what's got our freedom
00:34:44 declaration of independence was a great thing to start it off with and kind of hey this is what
00:34:48 we're fighting for we want our freedom and told the the crown this is what we're going to do but
00:34:53 at the end of the day that's a bunch of lawyers writing great prose and having meaning this had
00:34:58 to be fought for for a long time in the british where as you said you look at what they did in
00:35:03 scotland you look at what they did in ireland you look what they did other if you did if you
00:35:07 weren't up to it you were going to get eviscerated right exactly and these guys are on the bleeding 1.00
00:35:12 edge of the frontier where life hangs on the thread um you know you're burned out by native 1.00
00:35:17 Americans. You have to deal with the elements. There's nobody there to help you. And it's all 0.97
00:35:22 about rugged individualism and freedom and liberty. Well, the Native Americans and the Indians are
00:35:25 amazing because they're strategically, they're cutting deals, alliances. I mean, a lot of them
00:35:29 are with the British. Yeah. Because the British are their allies, right? Exactly. Well, there are
00:35:34 some Native Americans that fight for us, but it's like, for the most part, yes. And it's like,
00:35:38 they're wisely looking at their sovereignty and, you know, in China. They're very strategic.
00:35:43 They're not passive. They're not passive witnesses. This is not Dances with Wolves.
00:35:47 No, no, no. They are active participants. In fact, we'll go back to the French and Indian War in a moment because that's kind of the preamble for what the goal was to get to the Plains of Abraham.
00:35:56 Let's have a big battle, decisive battle, and we own Canada.
00:35:59 Eric Bolling. Carney ought to be on watch here because we've invaded Canada a couple of three times because we were obsessed about owning it.
00:36:10 So I'm very concerned about the capital markets right now, particularly concerned, not just with this NVIDIA thing is going to end in tears.
00:36:19 I will tell you that. I think there's going to be more revelations.
00:36:22 And, you know, you've got all these issues over the Commerce Department on these licenses.
00:36:27 I think you could have multiple honeypots.
00:36:30 I'm not buying the fact that it's just one.
00:36:32 And by the way, they're trying to divert the story to some like, oh, he cheated on his wife.
00:36:36 That's cheating on his wife is like the 10th in the thing here.
00:36:41 The guy's a agent of influence for the Chinese Communist Party and actively working with people he knows are Chinese spies.
00:36:48 The reason this thing was not disseminated is because and they didn't go to the company as they thought he was.
00:36:55 They thought that Jensen Wong is dirty and that's why they didn't want to tip him off.
00:37:01 That's just a brutal fact.
00:37:03 Talk to me about Anthropic because the whole tech oligarchs with all their big talk, right?
00:37:10 You know, Elon had to have Isaacman back over at NASA, right, to get these contracts to even get public.
00:37:17 That's why he was so fanatic about it.
00:37:19 You had to get him back over there because you couldn't get the IPO done for SpaceX.
00:37:23 Now, Anthropic, give us the inside baseball on this.
00:37:26 Are they going to pull this, which they should?
00:37:28 Are they going to pull this IPO?
00:37:30 Are they going to try to jam it through?
00:37:31 First of all, we'll salute you, Commander, should I say Commander-in-Chief Bannon.
00:37:37 Thank you for your service on this Veterans Day.
00:37:39 Very quickly, before we go to Anthropic, this whole, I don't know if you saw it just moments ago,
00:37:44 Axios reporting that Scott Besson confronted Lutnick, Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary,
00:37:48 and said, why the hell haven't you put Megaspeed, which is the company that Alice Wang,
00:37:56 or Alice Wong, however you want to pronounce it, who was sleeping, Chinese spy allegedly sleeping
00:38:01 with Jensen Wong, no relationship. So why didn't you put them on this watch list or don't do
00:38:07 business with list? And Lutnick said, I'll look into it. Apparently the Undersecretary of Commerce
00:38:14 about six months ago, before in May, before the trip to China was asked what's going on with this,
00:38:21 They turned down the investigation into Megaspeed.
00:38:24 They put it away.
00:38:25 They threw it in a dark closet, never to be found again for some reason.
00:38:30 Now, your conditions on what was going on make a lot of sense, Steve.
00:38:35 Hold on. Hang on. Hang on. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down.
00:38:38 Because this is a bomb show.
00:38:39 This has been the rumor that it's out there.
00:38:41 Just hit rewind and go through this because this is starting to metastasize, okay?
00:38:47 There's something deeply wrong.
00:38:48 What have we argued on the show from the beginning when I took the stage after Bernie Sanders?
00:38:53 But every talk I've given everything I keep saying that we talk about, oh, we've got to make all these decisions.
00:38:59 We have to do this. We can't put any controls on the oligarchs because the Chinese kind of party is only six months behind us. 0.99
00:39:04 They're only six months behind us. We have to go because they're only six months behind us. 1.00
00:39:07 We've got to throw out any kind of controls because they're only six months behind us.
00:39:10 why are they six months behind us? Because Jensen Wong and his group of CCP aligned people
00:39:16 have been feeding them the most advanced chips full stop. And now we know inside the government,
00:39:22 you've got all these issues. I have argued this. I've argued with those people. Why are we doing
00:39:27 this? The Chinese Communist Party would never allow us to get those chips if the roles were
00:39:32 reversed. Why are we doing it? Because there's something deeply wrong. What is deeply wrong?
00:39:37 the Chinese Communist Party, as they've done in every industry, have industrial espionage, 0.85
00:39:41 and now it's a national security problem, right, with Jensen Wong, who is, let me repeat,
00:39:47 a Chinese Communist Party agent of influence. He knew exactly what was going on. They were
00:39:53 using these shell companies. And now we're finding out the Commerce Department, and I know that Scott
00:39:59 Besson has been bitching about this for months and months and months, is what is commerce doing?
00:40:03 So hit again what the scoop is in Axios, sir.
00:40:07 So the Axios scoop is that today, just moments ago, Scott Besson apparently confronted Howard Lutnick in the White House or wherever they were and said, why the hell wasn't Megaspeed on a list of further, more in-depth investigation, certainly on a list of do not do business.
00:40:26 Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. But slang on. Hang on.
00:40:30 Megaspeed is what? What does that mean?
00:40:31 that doesn't mean anything. Get this, get this, Stephen K. Banning. Megaspeed is a company
00:40:37 came from nowhere. It was out of the blue, almost a shell company that this Alice Wong took over in
00:40:45 2023 when she knew not a damn thing about technology. She wasn't even in the technology
00:40:51 business. She was a new, a newcomer to it. She became the CEO of this somehow makes her way
00:40:57 close to Jensen Wang. Now, here's some theories that's floating around right now. Jensen Wang
00:41:04 knew all about this. He didn't care that she didn't know about technology. It wasn't even
00:41:08 about Megaspeed, the $7.5 billion of the best of the best chips in the world going to China,
00:41:14 which is illegal. He didn't care about that because he was somehow in contact with the CCP
00:41:20 to feed them the best chips because they weren't allowed to take the NVIDIA top-level chips
00:41:25 directly to anyone doing business with the CCP or CCP-related entities.
00:41:30 So he goes through this girl who he says he's having an intimate relationship.
00:41:36 You know, maybe there wasn't even a sexual relationship.
00:41:38 Maybe this was all, maybe that's the shiny object that they want to say,
00:41:41 oh, Jensen Wang cheated on his wife.
00:41:44 And possibly, possibly, he could have been shipping $7.5 billion of the best chips to China
00:41:50 when that is completely illegal.
00:41:52 That is the caveat here.
00:41:55 The scoop is is that Besant confronted Lutnik in the situation room when they were talking about this situation.
00:42:03 His question was, why is this company not on the how did they get a license?
00:42:08 Why are they not on the list? And Lutnik essentially blew him off.
00:42:11 That's essentially the story, right?
00:42:14 He said, I quoting, I don't know. I'll look into it.
00:42:18 You didn't have to look into it, Howard Lutnik, for a long time, Stephen, since since he was named Commerce Secretary.
00:42:22 I said, this guy is slimy. He's just a bad, bad choice for Commerce Secretary.
00:42:28 He made $250 million last year himself, by the way. We'll put that aside for a second.
00:42:33 But Lutnick says, I don't know. I'll look into it. How about this?
00:42:36 They had been looking into it from late 2025 through May of 2026 when Trump went to China.
00:42:42 And they stood down on the investigation right before that China trip.
00:42:47 Right before the China trip, the Commerce Department steps down as announced by the Deputy Commerce Secretary.
00:42:56 We're stepping away from this investigation.
00:42:58 No idea why.
00:43:00 Turns out this company was at the heartbeat of a $7.5 billion transfer of money and chips to where?
00:43:06 Megaspeed?
00:43:06 Who the hell's Megaspeed?
00:43:07 No one ever heard of Megaspeed before two and a half years ago.
00:43:12 Wow.
00:43:13 There'll be much more in this.
00:43:14 This thing is going to be very nasty.
00:43:15 It's going to get peeled back one layer at a time.
00:43:19 And people better get on top of this thing because this has nothing to do.
00:43:24 The misdirection play. Don't be a mook. 1.00
00:43:27 The misdirection play is the is the and anybody in any right wing influencers are pushing the the mistress and the affair. 0.99
00:43:35 It doesn't matter. It's not about his personal life. I can give a damn about his personal life.
00:43:40 He's probably got 20 ministers. Who cares?
00:43:42 This about American national security on the most important topic of the time, which is to make sure that the Chinese Communist Party can't catch up with us on artificial intelligence and doing that through the most advanced chips of which Jensen Wong has been adamant. 0.58
00:43:57 Remember, he said, I don't care. It doesn't matter what country wins. It doesn't matter what company wins. 0.64
00:44:02 Well, we beg to differ. Talk to me. How's this going to impact now? This this this IPO is that you can smell the desperation of the artificial intelligence oligarchs need the cash.
00:44:17 They need anthropic to get 60 billion dollars because there's all kind of payments going throughout this opaque system.
00:44:23 And this is outrageous that they're jamming this through. And why is it outrageous?
00:44:27 You and the audience are going to suck on this because it's going to be in your pension fund. 0.94
00:44:31 It's going to get stuffed into your pension fund, whether you like it or not. 0.99
00:44:35 What do you got for me, Bowling?
00:44:36 So let me take you through this.
00:44:38 I've been doing this a long time, Steve.
00:44:40 I remember the SpaceX IPO, they tried to sell me IPO stock, and I took a nibble, but I said, no, I don't want all that.
00:44:47 Everyone in the world wanted it.
00:44:48 Everyone wanted that stock.
00:44:50 And I said, no, I don't like these valuations.
00:44:52 What I realized at the time and in hindsight of that IPO, smart move, I waited and bought it cheaper than the IPO price, which is unheard of.
00:44:59 I realized that the game has changed.
00:45:01 It's not just the audience anymore who are going to pay the price.
00:45:04 We're going to pick up the tab of these hundreds of billions of dollars of money being raised for these companies.
00:45:10 It's high-level investors like me as well now.
00:45:13 They were using just the public, John Q. Public.
00:45:15 Now it's everyone, everyone they can get their hands on so that the investment banks and the one or two oligarchs who own the company are paid hundreds of billions of dollars to their own private accounts, trillions of dollars in Elon Musk's case.
00:45:29 And we're stuck holding the bag.
00:45:30 Here was what I say.
00:45:31 Anthropic was offered to me two weeks ago.
00:45:34 I said, what valuation?
00:45:35 They said, it's $1.7 trillion to $2 trillion.
00:45:37 They said, goodbye, hung up the phone.
00:45:39 I get another call.
00:45:40 It's about $1.5 to $1.7 now.
00:45:43 Goodbye, hung up the phone.
00:45:45 They're down to 1.4.
00:45:47 I'm questioning whether this new security leak that happened, they announced yesterday,
00:45:52 is part of their attempt to push back the IPO further so they can bring the valuation down.
00:45:58 Hang on one second.
00:45:59 We're going to get into that.
00:46:00 Eric Bolling with a reality check on our capital markets.
00:46:06 Now, maybe more than ever, you should talk to Philip Patrick.
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